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23580353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunesh%20Gankanda | Dunesh Gankanda | Dunesh Harsha Gankanda is a Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka (born 16 March 1972).
References
Living people
United National Party politicians
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Deputy ministers of Sri Lanka
1972 births |
26721361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postup | Postup | Postup is wine growing region on Croatia's Pelješac peninsula just to the east of Orebić. It takes its name from the small village that sits at the center of it.
The main grape harvested in Postup is Plavac Mali and, like the grapes from the region of nearby Dingač, the grapes grown here are held in high regard. Postup was the second Croatian wine region, after Dingač, to be registered for state protection (today Protected Geographical Status) in 1967.
Postup straddles the Adriatic Sea with views across the Pelješac Channel to the islands of Korčula and Badija as well as across the Mljet Channel to the islands of Mljet and Lastovo. The region can be accessed via the road leading from Orebić to Ston (the D414) on a smaller route leading to the villages of Borje and Podubuče.
The wines grown in Postup are typically crushed, bottled, and aged in nearby Potomje where most of the main wineries for Pelješac are located. While they don't approach the robust character typical of Plavac Mali-based wines from Dingač, they are still able to develop a fuller body than those grown in the interior due to the slope of the vineyards as well as the sunlight reflected from the Adriatic Sea. The grapes are also considerably easier to harvest than those of Dingač due to a more established infrastructure.
Notable producers of Postup region wines include: Vinarija Dingač, Bura-Mokalo, Indijan and Bartulović among others.
References
Croatian wine |
44507001 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Marquis%20of%20Granby | The Marquis of Granby | The Marquis of Granby is a public house at 2 Rathbone Street, Fitzrovia, London, W1. The pub is named after John Manners, Marquess of Granby. He is popularly supposed to have more pubs named after him than any other person - due, it is said, to his practice of setting up old soldiers of his regiment as publicans when they were too old to serve any longer.
The poet and playwright T. S. Eliot is associated with the pub. According to Time Out, the poet Dylan Thomas was a regular visitor, who frequented the pub to meet guardsmen who were cruising for gay partners, and then start fights with them.
The pub appears on chapter XXVII of the Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens.
In 2013 it was reported by the "favourite pub" of British politician Nigel Farage.
References
Fitzrovia
Pubs in the City of Westminster |
26721380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20George%20Thomas%2C%203rd%20Baronet | Sir George Thomas, 3rd Baronet | Sir George Thomas, 3rd Baronet (c. 1740 – 6 May 1815), was a British politician.
Life
Thomas was the son of Sir William Thomas, 2nd Baronet, and he succeeded to his father's baronetcy in 1777.
In 1780 he create Dale Park near Madehurst by buying up separate pieces of land and joining them together into an estate. He married Sophia Montagu, daughter of Admiral John Montagu and Sophia Wroughton, on 20 December 1782. The lived in Madehurst Lodge during the 1780s whilst their new house was constructed by the architect Joseph Bonomi. The house is thought to have still been under construction in 1791.
He sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain as the Member of Parliament for Arundel between 1790 and 1797.
References
Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain
British MPs 1790–1796
British MPs 1796–1800
Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
1740s births
1815 deaths |
26721401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirinyaga%20Central%20Constituency | Kirinyaga Central Constituency | Kirinyaga Central Constituency, formerly known as Kerugoya/Kutus Constituency is an electoral constituency in Kenya. It is one of four constituencies in Kirinyaga County. The constituency was established for the 1997 elections.
Members of Parliament
Wards
References
Constituencies in Kirinyaga County
Constituencies in Central Province (Kenya)
1997 establishments in Kenya
Constituencies established in 1997 |
6910562 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.O.%20Experience | X.O. Experience | X.O. Experience is the fourth album by West Coast hip hop group Tha Alkaholiks, released under their nickname Tha Liks. Released four years after their third album Likwidation, X.O. Experience was not as acclaimed as their past work, and received moderate sales. The cover is an homage to that of the 1967 album Are You Experienced by The Jimi Hendrix Experience. The album's lead single, The Neptunes-produced "Best U Can", became a minor hit in 2001, peaking at #64 on the R&B/Hip Hop charts.
The album features guest appearances from Xzibit, Busta Rhymes, Defari, Pharrell, King Tee and Kurupt.
Recording sessions
The recording sessions for X.O. Experience were filled with much partying and fun. The group consumed a considerable amount of alcohol and cannabis, sometimes wasting studio time. When asked about the track "Bully Foot" featuring Busta Rhymes in an interview, Tash described the track's recording:
Track listing
Charts
Singles
References
2001 albums
Tha Alkaholiks albums
Albums produced by DJ Scratch
Albums produced by the Neptunes
Columbia Records albums |
44507008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic%20Soul%20Surfer | Sonic Soul Surfer | Sonic Soul Surfer is the seventh studio album by American blues musician Seasick Steve. It is the follow-up of his previous album Hubcap Music in 2013. It was released on 23 March 2015 worldwide. Three singles were released from the album : "Bring It On" was the lead single on 25 November 2014, "Summertime Boy" was the album's second single on 10 February 2015, and music video was shot, featuring Seasick Steve surfing. Another single and music video were released on 12 April 2015 : the album's opening track "Roy's Gang". A "Sonic Soul Tour" started in April 2015, with concerts in the US, and across Europe.
The album was his most acclaimed to date by critics, with an average score of 70/100 according to Metacritic. It also was a commercial success, peaking at number 4 on the UK and Scottish Albums Chart, 16 in the Netherlands, 17 in Belgium, 25 in Ireland, and 64 in Australia, its best peak since his 2009 album Man From Another Time. It has been certified gold.
Critical reception
Sonic Soul Surfer received critical acclaim, receiving an average score of 70/100 on Metacritic, based on nine critics.
Mojo gave the album four out of five stars, stating "Sonic Soul Surfer mostly trades in toe-tapping slide-guitar riffage". Q magazine also rewarded the album with four out of five stars. The website "The Metropolist" rewarded the album with three out of five stars, picking lead single "Bring It On" as a "stand-out on Sonic Soul Surfer", but criticizing "Roy's Gang" as "falling a bit flat".
Calum Slingerland of Exclaim! acknowledged that the record was more about lateral movement as opposed to breaking new musical ground, writing that Sonic Soul Surfer "reassures listeners that the California native's desire to write and play is still very much alive."
French website Stillinrock also gave a positive review of the record, but however criticized it in these words : "it's a fact : Sonic Soul Surfer won't be a rock'n'roll revolution. However, only a few musicians dare playing this kind of music [...]. If "powerful" is the word that comes to our mind when we think of Sonic Soul Surfer, it might be because Steve is an artist that lies neither to himself nor to his audience".
Track listing
Charts and certifications
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
References
External links
Official website
2015 albums
Seasick Steve albums |
17342308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973%E2%80%9374%20Boston%20Celtics%20season | 1973–74 Boston Celtics season | The 1973–74 Boston Celtics season was their 28th in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Celtics won their 12th title, as well as their division for the third consecutive season. This was their 13th finals appearance, and first since 1968–69.
Roster
Regular season
Season standings
Record vs. opponents
Playoffs
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| March 30
| Buffalo
| W 107–97
| Jo Jo White (24)
| Dave Cowens (18)
| John Havlicek (12)
| Boston Garden14,300
| 1–0
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| April 2
| @ Buffalo
| L 105–115
| Jo Jo White (27)
| Dave Cowens (16)
| John Havlicek (7)
| Buffalo Memorial Auditorium17,507
| 1–1
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| April 3
| Buffalo
| W 120–107
| John Havlicek (43)
| Dave Cowens (19)
| John Havlicek (8)
| Boston Garden14,656
| 2–1
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| April 6
| @ Buffalo
| L 102–104
| Don Nelson (24)
| Dave Cowens (14)
| John Havlicek (8)
| Buffalo Memorial Auditorium18,119
| 2–2
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| April 9
| Buffalo
| W 100–97
| John Havlicek (25)
| Dave Cowens (12)
| Art Williams (8)
| Boston Garden15,320
| 3–2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 6
| April 12
| @ Buffalo
| W 106–104
| John Havlicek (30)
| Dave Cowens (17)
| John Havlicek (7)
| Buffalo Memorial Auditorium18,257
| 4–2
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|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 1
| April 14
| New York
| W 113–88
| John Havlicek (25)
| Dave Cowens (13)
| John Havlicek (12)
| Boston Garden14,101
| 1–0
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 2
| April 16
| @ New York
| W 111–99
| John Havlicek (27)
| Dave Cowens (18)
| Jo Jo White (6)
| Madison Square Garden19,694
| 2–0
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| April 19
| New York
| L 100–103
| Dave Cowens (28)
| Dave Cowens (22)
| Art Williams (5)
| Boston Garden15,320
| 2–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 4
| April 21
| @ New York
| W 98–91
| John Havlicek (36)
| Paul Silas (14)
| Jo Jo White (9)
| Madison Square Garden19,694
| 3–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 5
| April 24
| New York
| W 105–94
| John Havlicek (33)
| Dave Cowens (14)
| John Havlicek (5)
| Boston Garden15,320
| 4–1
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|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 1
| April 28
| @ Milwaukee
| W 98–83
| John Havlicek (26)
| Dave Cowens (17)
| Cowens, White (7)
| Milwaukee Arena10,938
| 1–0
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 2
| April 30
| @ Milwaukee
| L 96–105 (OT)
| Jo Jo White (25)
| Dave Cowens (11)
| Dave Cowens (6)
| Milwaukee Arena10,938
| 1–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 3
| May 3
| Milwaukee
| W 95–83
| Dave Cowens (30)
| John Havlicek (12)
| Jo Jo White (8)
| Boston Garden15,320
| 2–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 4
| May 5
| Milwaukee
| L 89–97
| John Havlicek (33)
| Paul Silas (12)
| Jo Jo White (9)
| Boston Garden15,320
| 2–2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 5
| May 7
| @ Milwaukee
| W 96–87
| Havlicek, Cowens (28)
| Paul Silas (16)
| Dave Cowens (6)
| Milwaukee Arena10,938
| 3–2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 6
| May 10
| Milwaukee
| L 101–102 (2OT)
| John Havlicek (36)
| Havlicek, Silas (9)
| Jo Jo White (11)
| Boston Garden15,320
| 3–3
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 7
| May 12
| @ Milwaukee
| W 102–87
| Dave Cowens (28)
| Dave Cowens (14)
| Havlicek, Westphal (6)
| Milwaukee Arena10,938
| 4–3
|-
References
Celtics on Database Basketball
Celtics on Basketball Reference
Boston Celtics
Boston Celtics seasons
Eastern Conference (NBA) championship seasons
NBA championship seasons
Boston Celtics
Boston Celtics
Celtics
Celtics |
44507019 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragoons%20of%20the%20Imperial%20Guard | Dragoons of the Imperial Guard | The Empress's Dragoons of the Imperial Guard () was a heavy cavalry unit formed by Napoleon I through the decree of April 15, 1806. The "dragoon" regiments of the line had distinguished themselves in the German Campaign of 1805, and therefore Napoleon decided to reorganize the cavalry of the Guard and create within it a regiment of dragoon guards. This regiment was colloquially known as the Dragons de l'Impératrice (Empress' Dragoons), in honor of Empress Joséphine. Following the Bourbon Restoration, they were renamed as the Royal Dragoon Corps of France (Corps Royal de Dragons des France) but were disbanded shortly afterwards. The Empress' Dragoons were reformed during the Second Empire (1852-1870).
Composition
The regiment was made up of three squadrons, headed by 60 officers personally selected by Napoleon. The first squadron was to have 296 men, and be made up of "vélites", while the other two were regular squadrons of 476 horsemen. To complete this new unit, each of the 30 dragoon regiments of the line provided 12 men, each with 10 years of service; the brigadier, chasseur, and dragoon line regiments provided the sous-officiers.
The unit's numbers rose to 1269 in 1807 with the addition of two new squadrons, and on December 9, 1813, it was attached to the Guard's 3rd regiment of éclaireurs.
Campaigns
The Dragons de la Garde Imperiale distinguished themselves at the battle of Friedland (1807), and at the battle of Wagram (1809). They suffered heavy losses at the battle of Maloyaroslavets and at the battle of Berezina (1812). They participated in the battles of Leipzig and Hanau (1813) and captured 18 guns at the battle of Saint-Dizier (1814). Their last battle was Marshal Ney's charge at Waterloo (1815).
Uniform
The dragoons' uniform and weaponry was the same as those of the Guard's horse grenadiers, only in green rather than blue, and (in place of the bonnet à poil) a copper dragoon helmet with a hanging mane in the Neo-Greek Minerve style, with a red plume.
The trumpeters wore a light blue tunic with white lapels and crimson turn backs and collar. The mane on their helmets was white and the plume was light blue. They rode grey horses. They also had a white uniform for parade, consisting of a white coat with light blue lapels and collar lined with gold.
The Dragoon Guards wore green coats with white lapels and red turnbacks. They also wore aurore (light orange) aiguilettes and epaulettes. They wore brass helmets with a long black mane, a simulated leopard fur turban and a red plume (white plume for the highest officers). They rode chestnut horses.
References
External links
Uniform of the Empress' Dragoons, in 1815, on "Les uniformes pendant la campagne des Cent Jours"
Regiments of Napoleon I's Imperial Guard
Dragoon regiments of France
Military units and formations established in 1806
Military units and formations disestablished in 1815 |
6910578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytoplasmic%20male%20sterility | Cytoplasmic male sterility | Cytoplasmic male sterility is total or partial male sterility in plants as the result of specific nuclear and mitochondrial interactions. Male sterility is the failure of plants to produce functional anthers, pollen, or male gametes.
Background
Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter was the first to document male sterility in plants. In the 18th century, he reported on anther abortion within species and specific hybrids.
Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) has now been identified in over 150 plant species. Male sterility is more prevalent than female sterility. This could be because the male sporophyte and gametophyte are less protected from the environment than the ovule and embryo sac. Male-sterile plants can set seed and propagate. Female-sterile plants cannot develop seeds and will not propagate.
Manifestation of male sterility in CMS may be controlled either entirely by cytoplasmic factors or by interactions between cytoplasmic factors and nuclear factors. Male sterility can arise spontaneously via mutations in nuclear genes and/or cytoplasmic or cytoplasmic–genetic. In this case, the trigger for CMS is in the extranuclear genome - (mitochondria or chloroplast). The extranuclear genome is only maternally inherited. Natural selection on cytoplasmic genes could also lead to low pollen production or male sterility.
Male sterility is easy to detect because a large number of pollen grains are produced in male fertile plants. Pollen grains can be assayed through staining techniques (carmine, lactophenol or iodine).
Cytoplasmic male sterility
Cytoplasmic male sterility, as the name indicates, is under extranuclear genetic control (under control of the mitochondrial or plastid genomes). It shows non-Mendelian inheritance
, with male sterility inherited maternally. In general, there are two types of cytoplasm: N (normal) and aberrant S (sterile) cytoplasms. These types exhibit reciprocal differences.
Cytoplasmic-genetic male sterility
While CMS is controlled by an extranuclear genome, nuclear genes may have the capability to restore fertility. When nuclear restoration of fertility genes is available for a CMS system in any crop, it is cytoplasmic–genetic male sterility; the sterility is manifested by the influence of both nuclear (with Mendelian inheritance) and cytoplasmic (maternally inherited) genes. There are also restorers of fertility (Rf) genes that are distinct from genetic male sterility genes. The Rf genes have no expression of their own unless the sterile cytoplasm is present. Rf genes are required to restore fertility in S cytoplasm that causes sterility. Thus plants with N cytoplasm are fertile and S cytoplasm with genotype Rf- leads to fertiles while S cytoplasm with rfrf produces only male steriles. Another feature of these systems is that Rf mutations (i.e., mutations to rf or no fertility restoration) are frequent, so that N cytoplasm with Rfrf is best for stable fertility.
Cytoplasmic–genetic male sterility systems are widely exploited in crop plants for hybrid breeding due to the convenience of controlling sterility expression by manipulating the gene–cytoplasm combinations in any selected genotype. Incorporation of these systems for male sterility evades the need for emasculation in cross-pollinated species, thus encouraging cross breeding producing only hybrid seeds under natural conditions.
In hybrid breeding
Hybrid production requires a plant from which no viable male gametes are introduced. This selective exclusion of viable male gametes can be accomplished via different paths. One path, emasculation is done to prevent a plant from producing pollen so that it can serve only as a female parent. Another simple way to establish a female line for hybrid seed production is to identify or create a line that is unable to produce viable pollen. Since a male-sterile line cannot self-pollinate, seed formation is dependent upon pollen from another male line. Cytoplasmic male sterility is also used in hybrid seed production. In this case, male sterility is maternally transmitted and all progeny will be male sterile. These CMS lines must be maintained by repeated crossing to a sister line (known as the maintainer line) that is genetically identical except that it possesses normal cytoplasm and is therefore male-fertile. In cytoplasmic–genetic male sterility restoration of fertility is done using restorer lines carrying nuclear genes. The male-sterile line is maintained by crossing with a maintainer line carrying the same nuclear genome but with normal fertile cytoplasm.
For crops such as onions or carrots where the commodity harvested from the F1 generation is vegetative growth, male sterility is not a problem.
In hybrid maize breeding
Cytoplasmic male sterility is an important part of hybrid maize production. The first commercial cytoplasmic male sterile, discovered in Texas, is known as CMS-T. The use of CMS-T, starting in the 1950s, eliminated the need for detasseling. In the early 1970s, plants containing CMS-T genetics were susceptible to southern corn leaf blight and suffered from widespread loss of yield. Since then, CMS types C and S were used instead. Unfortunately, these lines are prone to environmentally induced fertility restoration and must be carefully monitored in the field. Environmentally induced, in contrast to genetic, restoration occurs when certain environmental stimuli signal the plant to bypass sterility restrictions and produce pollen anyway.
Genome sequencing of mitochondrial genomes of crop plants has facilitated the identification of promising candidates for CMS-related mitochondrial rearrangements. The systematic sequencing of new plant species in recent years has also uncovered the existence of several novel nuclear restoration of fertility (RF) genes and their encoded proteins. A unified nomenclature for the RF defines protein families across all plant species and facilitates comparative functional genomics. This nomenclature accommodates functional RF genes and pseudogenes, and offers the flexibility needed to incorporate additional RFs as they become available in future.
References
External links
Biological approaches to preventing gene flow - Co-extra research project on coexistence and traceability of GM and non-GM supply chains
Plant reproduction |
6910591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgianni | Giorgianni | Giorgianni is an Italian surname, derived from the given name Giorgio (George). Notable people with the surname include:
Edward J. Giorgianni (born 1944), American imaging scientist
Sal Giorgianni, American saxophonist
Italian-language surnames
Patronymic surnames |
23580355 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.%20E.%20W.%20Gunasekera | D. E. W. Gunasekera | Don Edwin Weerasinghe Gunasekera (born 4 March 1935) is a Sri Lankan politician, former Member of Parliament and former cabinet minister. He is the current leader of the Communist Party of Sri Lanka (CPSL), a member of the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA).
Early life
Gunasekera was born 4 March 1935 in Kivula in southern Ceylon. He was educated at Rahula College in Matara. After school he joined Vidyalankara University in the 1950s, graduating with a degree in economics.
Gunasekera joined Ceylon Law College in the early 1970s but was expelled for attempting to cheat.
Career
After Vidyalankara Gunasekera worked at the Inland Revenue Department for many years.
Gunasekera joined the Communist Party of Ceylon in 1958. He wrote for the party's newspaper Mawbima and was a youth leader. He later became a member of the party's central committee and eventually the party's general secretary.
In 1988 the CPSL, Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP), Nava Sama Samaja Party and Sri Lanka People's Party formed the United Socialist Alliance (USA). Gunasekera was one of the USA's candidates in Matara District at the 1989 parliamentary election but the USA failed to win any seats in the district. On 20 January 2004 the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) formed the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA). The CPSL and LSSP joined the UPFA in February 2004. Gunasekera was appointed as a UPFA National List MP in the Sri Lankan Parliament following the 2004 parliamentary election. Gunasekera was put forward as the UPFA's candidate for Speaker but was defeated by opposition candidate W. J. M. Lokubandara after three dramatic rounds of voting in Parliament. Gunasekera was appointed Minister of Constitutional Reform in May 2004. He was given the additional portfolio of National Integration on 28 January 2007.
Gunasekera was re-appointed as a UPFA National List MP following the 2010 parliamentary election. He was appointed Minister of Rehabilitation and Prison Reforms after the election. He was promoted to Senior Minister of Human Resources in November 2010. He lost his cabinet position following the 2015 presidential election.
At the 2015 parliamentary election Gunasekera was placed on the UPFA's list of National List candidates. However, after the election he was not appointed to the National List.
Electoral history
References
1935 births
Alumni of Rahula College
Alumni of Vidyalankara University
Cabinet ministers of Sri Lanka
Communist Party of Sri Lanka politicians
Living people
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
People of British Ceylon
Sinhalese civil servants
Sinhalese politicians
Sri Lankan Buddhists
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians |
17342309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%20Ocean%20in%20the%20Air | An Ocean in the Air | An Ocean in the Air is the second EP of San Francisco-based indie rock band LoveLikeFire. It was released in 2007. The album received critical praise from Spin magazine.
The music video for the song "I Will" was chosen as an Official Selection of SXSW 2008 Film Festival. The video was shot on 16 mm film and is "carnival-themed".
Track listing
"Unlighted Shadow" – 3:03
"From a Tower" – 4:21
"Broken Shapes" – 4:21
"S.O.S." – 3:48
"Skin & Bones" – 4:36
"Wish You Dead" – 3:48
"I Will" – 3:47
References
2007 EPs
LoveLikeFire albums |
26721409 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council%20of%20Baptist%20Churches%20in%20Northeast%20India | Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India | The Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India is a Baptist Christian denomination in North East India. It is a member of the Asia Pacific Baptist Federation.
It is also a member body of the North East India Christian Council, the regional council of the National Council of Churches in India. The Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India has six Baptist conventions, 1,431,417 members in 8,245 churches. Its presently led by Mr. Norbu Lama as President and Rev. Prof. Akheto Sema as General Secretary.
History
The first American Baptist missionaries reached North East India in 1836. Nathan Brown and O.T. Cutter, along with their wives, came to Assam hoping to find access to China through the Shans territory to Northern frontier of Burma and Assam. The group sailed up the Brahmaputra river and arrived in Sadiya on 23 March 1836, and there confronted them with dense jungles, hostile tribals and rugged hills. Yet, believing they had been led to a fruitful place they began to learn Assamese language, set up their printing press, and gave themselves to the task of translating, publishing and teaching. Thus began the work of the Baptist in the north-eastern corner of India-the beginning of CBCNEI.
Beginning from Sadiya, the work moved down the Brahmaputra river to the leading towns of Assam plains, for example, Sibsagar, Nowgong and Gauhati. Then the first Church in Garo Hills, was established at Rajasimla in 1867. The first thrust among the Nagas came from the small village of Namsang in Tirap.
Miles Bronson and family settled a short time in that village, but the work was abandoned due to illness in the family before the end of 1840. The next move in Nagaland was by Godhula Brown, an Assamese convert, and the Rev. Edwin W. Clark. The first Church among the Nagas was organized in 1872, at Dokhahaimong (Molungyimjen) village in Ao area. Rev. William Pettigrew started the Baptist Mission work in Manipur in 1896. The work among the (Mikirs) Karbis was started quite early but it did not gain much progress because of the influence of Hinduism among the people. So the work in this area has been restricted to the fringe areas adjoining the plains of Assam.
The field work in North-East India was largely the responsibility of the American Baptist Mission until 1950. In fact, the Mission could not handle the full obligation of the area and so in the 1940 the area on the North Bank of Brahmaputra river was handed over to the care of the Australian Baptist Mission (for Goalpara district) and to the General Baptist Conference (for Darrang and North Lakhimpur districts).
From the early days of the missions in North-East India there were joint meetings of missionaries and nationals to plan the work. In 1914, the National Churches formed themselves into Assam Baptist Convention (ABC). This organization grew in its stature, and finally in January 1950, the Council of Baptist Churches in Assam (CBCA) was formed by the amalgamation of Assam Baptist Missionary Conference under the leadership of its First General Secretary, Rev. A. F. Merrill. Later the name was changed to CBCAM, and finally, the Council of Baptist Churches in North-East India on geographical grounds. Almost all the Baptist Churches in Assam, Arunachal, Manipur, Meghalaya and Nagaland were brought within the Council. So since the year 1950 the field works has been brought under the ministry of the Council of Baptist Churches in North East India (CBCNEI).
Over the years the CBCNEI has grown to now over 7000 Churches in 100 organized Associations. They are administered under six regional Conventions namely, Assam Baptist Convention, Arunachal Baptist Church Council (ABCC), Garo Baptist Convention (GBC), Karbi Anglong Baptist Convention (KABC), Manipur Baptist Convention (MBC), and Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC).
Member organizations
The Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India ("CBCNEI" or the "Council") is a conglomeration of Six Baptist Conventions, namely: Arunachal Baptist Churches Council, Assam Baptist Convention, Karbi Anglong Baptist Convention, Garo Baptist Convention, Manipur Baptist Convention, and Nagaland Baptist Churches Council and their Associations and Churches.
Conventions
Assam Baptist Convention
Arunachal Baptist Church Council
Garo Baptist Convention
Karbi Anglong Baptist Convention
Manipur Baptist Convention
Nagaland Baptist Church Council
Theological Colleges of CBCNEI
Eastern Theological College (ETC)
Founded in 1905 by the Rev. S.A.D. Boggs, sent by the American Baptist Mission Society now called the Board of International Ministries of the American Baptist Churches in the USA, Eastern Theological College, Jorhat, Assam celebrates 100 years of its ministry in Northeast India and hosts the Senate of Serampore Convocation on 12 February 2005. Eastern Theological College (ETC), the premier theological and training institute of the Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India has been catering to the ever-growing and diverse needs of the region and even beyond in the field of leadership development for the last 100 years. Today ETC boasts of more than 2500 graduates working in various fields of Christian ministry, including more than 800 serving pastors in rural areas.
Affiliated seminaries
Baptist Theological College, Nagaland
Clark Theological College, Mokokchung, Nagaland
Harding Theological College, Tura, Garo Hills
Manipur Theological College, Kanggui, Manipur
Oriental Theological Seminary, Chümoukedima, Nagaland
Shalom Bible Seminary, Kohima, Nagaland
Trinity Theological College, Dimapur, Nagaland
Hospitals
The Council has Six hospitals which are providing healthcare to the sick and the suffering. They are located in four states in the region.
Babupara Christian Hospital, Garo Hills
Impur Christian Hospital, Nagaland
Jorhat Christian Medical Centre, Assam
Kanggui Christian Hospital, Manipur
Tura Christian Hospital, Garo Hills
Satribari Christian Hospital, Assam
Missions
Mission Desk coordinates mission activities not only of the evangelists from the conventions, but it also functions as a facilitator for mission partnerships between other mission agencies and the local church associations and conventions. The department also organizes community development works among the poor and needy areas of the Northeast region.
Conference centre
Located on the flush green cool campus of the CBCNEI, the Conference Center caters the needs of the Council’s program activities and other Christian Organization program.
Student ministry
The Council runs three hostels for college students. Through these institutions the boarders have the opportunities to attend Bible camps, vesper services, theological lectures, Bible studies, games and sports.
White Memorial Hostel Ministry
Lewis Memorial Hostel Ministry
Shillong Tyrannus Hall
Christian Literature Centre (CLC)
CLC is the literature wing, of the Council of Baptist Churches in North East India in order to cater to the needs of the churches in North East India having various languages and dialects. It was established in 1969.
CLC Guwahati
CLC Dimapur
CLC Imphal
CLC Senapati
CLC Ukhrul
Statistics
Churches and Membership figures as reported to the Baptist World Alliance as of 2016.
See also
Baptist World Alliance
Boro Baptist Church Association
Boro Baptist Convention
Rabha Baptist Church Union
Lower Assam Baptist Union
List of Christian denominations in North East India
North East India Christian Council
References
External links
Site of the Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India
Baptist denominations in India
Christianity in Manipur
Affiliated institutions of the National Council of Churches in India |
6910629 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20Southland%20College | Northern Southland College | Northern Southland College (NSC) is a secondary school for students from year 7 to 13 in Lumsden, New Zealand.
NCS has students from Mossburn, Balfour and Five Rivers. Most pupils travel to school via bus.
Notes
Secondary schools in Southland, New Zealand |
44507022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald%20Holz | Harald Holz | Harald Holz (born 14 May 1930, in Freiburg im Breisgau) is a German philosopher, logician, mathematician (autodidact), poet and novelist.
Life
Holz studied philosophy from 1953 to 1957 in Pullach im Isartal/Germany (lic. phil. schol.) and from 1959 until 1961 Catholic Theology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt/Germany (bac. theol.). He continued his study of philosophy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University Bonn/Germany. There he received his research doctorate in 1964 with Gottfried Martin with the thesis Transcendental philosophy and metaphysics.
Since 1964 he was assistant professor at the Institute of Philosophy at Ruhr University Bochum/Germany. In 1969 he published his Second Book with the university entitled Speculation and Facticity. On middle-aged and late Schelling's concept of freedom. Since 1971 he was Research Associate and Professor with Ruhr University Bochum. Since 1976 he was Chair Professor and Director of the Institute of Fundamental Philosophical-Theological Questions at the Westfalian Wilhelm University Münster/Germany. In 1979 and in 1983 he was visiting scholar at George Washington University in Washington D.C. Further he was director, together with E. Wolf-Gazo, implementing the first Inter-national Congress on the Philosophy of A. North Whitehead 1981 at the University of Bonn, then director of the congress: ‘Kant in the Hispanidad’, together with J. E. Dotti and H. Radermacher 1983 at the university of Cologne, and further director, together with H. Radermacher and A. Engstler, of the congress: ‘The liberation of Hispano-America, Philosophical contexts’ 1984 at the university at Münster/Westfalia.
Philosophy
As a systematic basic concept he replaces substance metaphysics totally by relation subsistence: Relationality is no longer an addition to existing concepts, but its reasoning and in the first place constitutes terminativity.
References
Further reading
A. Engstler, H.-D. Klein (Hg.), Perspektiven und Probleme systematischer Philosophie. Harald Holz zum 65. Geburtstag, Fft/M u.ö. (P. Lang) 1996.
Porträt: Harald Holz wird 70, in: Wiener Jahrbuch für Philosophie XXXII (1999), 285-292.
Xavier Tilliette, Rezension: Spekulation und Faktizität, Zum Freiheitsbegriff des mittleren und späten Schelling, Bonn (Bouvier) 1970, in: Archives de Philosophie 34 (1971) 314 – 316.
Fernando Inciarte, Rezension: Thomas von Aquin und die Philosophie, Ihr Verhältnis zur thomasischen Theologie in kritischer Sicht, Paderborn/München (Schöningh) 1975, in: Theologische Revue 74 (2/1978). 3 pp.
Friedrich Wallner, Rezension: System der Transzendentalphilosophie im Grundriß, 2 Bde. Freiburg/München (Alber) 1977, in: Philos. Literaturanzeiger 34 (1/1983) 72 -80, bes.: 78 – 80.
Hans-Dieter Klein, Rezension: System der Transzendentalphilosophie im Grundriß, 2 Bde. Freiburg/München (Alber) 1977, in: Wiener Jahrb. f. Philosophie XIII (1985) 218 – 221.
Hans-Dieter Klein, Rezension: Metaphysische Untersuchungen, Meditationen zu einer Realphilosophie, Bern u. a. (Lang) 1997, in: Wiener Jahrb. f. Philosophie XXI (1998) 204 – 206.
Thomas Weiß, Rezension: Geist in Geschichte, Idealismus-Studien, Würzburg (Königshausen & Neumann) 2 Halb-Bde., in: prima philosophia 8 (1995) 448 – 450.
Heinrich Euler, Rezension: Der zerrissene Adler, Eine deutsche Geschichtsphilosophie, Münster (Lit) 1995, in: Mitteilungen der Humboldt-Gesellschaft (Mannheim), 34 (Oktober/1999) 168 – 171.
Gregor Paul, Rezension: Ost und West als Frage strukturologischer Hermeneutik: Zur Frage einer 'Brücke' zwischen abendländisch-europäischer und chinesischer Philosophie; East and West as Theme of a Structurological Hermeneutics: The Question of a 'Bridge' between Occidental-European and Chinese Philosophy, Essen (Die Blaue Eule), 1998, in: Deutsche China-Gesellschaft – Mitteilungsblatt 42 (2/1999) 58 – 60.
Wolfram Schommers, Rezension: Kosmische Polarität und Transformation. Traktat über kosmologische Logik und Erkenntnistheorie nebst kritisch-alternativen Reflexionen zur sog. 'Supergravitation', Münster (Lit) 2001, in: Mens agitat molem, Mitteilungen der Humboldt-Gesellschaft (Mannheim), hrsg. v. D. Haberland, 36 (2003) 190 – 191.
Karen Gloy, Die Kosmologie von Harald Holz, in: Wiener Jahrb. f. Philosophie XXXVII (2006), 293 – 305.
Alexander Ph. Grundorath, Transzendentale Kosmologie – Harald Holz’ Beiträge zum Entwurf einer alternativen Idee von Humanexistenz, Universität Wien 2010, 244 pp. (doctoral thesis).
External links
Detailed biography and bibliography
Short bibliography
On Ultimate Justification (Letztbegründung)
20th-century German philosophers
1930 births
Living people
German male writers
Scientists from Freiburg im Breisgau |
23580359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitanjana%20Gunawardena | Gitanjana Gunawardena | Gitanjana Gunawardena is a Sri Lankan politician and former member of Parliament of Sri Lanka and former minister. He is a Chartered Engineer by profession.
Personal life
Born 24 February 1952 as son of Philip Gunawardena and Kusuma Amarasinha, and brother of Indika (Ex-Cabinet Minister), Prasanna (Ex-Mayor of Colombo), Lakmali (State Award Winner of literature), & Dinesh (Cabinet Minister & Leader of the House – Parliament).
See also
List of political families in Sri Lanka
References
Living people
Sri Lankan Buddhists
Mahajana Eksath Peramuna politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
1952 births
Members of the 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Deputy speakers and chairmen of committees of the Parliament of Sri Lanka |
17342311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakkading%20district | Pakkading district | Pakkading (ປາກກະດິງ , literally 'mouth of the (river)', is a district (muang) of Bolikhamsai province in central Laos. It is home to the 1,690 km2 Nam Kading National Biodiversity Conservation Area (NBCA).
References
Districts of Bolikhamsai province |
20484516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unattached%20Companies%20Massachusetts%20Volunteer%20Militia | Unattached Companies Massachusetts Volunteer Militia | The Unattached Companies of Massachusetts Volunteer Militia were units of infantry raised for the defenses of the eastern coast of
Massachusetts during the American Civil War. Twenty-six companies were mustered into the Union Army during 1864-1865, several of them reorganizing for additional terms of service.
History
Beginning in April 1864, companies of infantry were needed for guard and garrison duty along the coast of Massachusetts; to be stationed at the numerous military posts located there for a ninety-day period. With the Independent Division of Militia, a home guard militia organization, already established in the state in 1863, eight companies were recruited from their ranks, and mustered into United States service. Five other companies were detached from existing regiments of the Massachusetts Militia to finish the required roster.
Their term of enlistment soon ending, a call for 100-day companies was then ordered in July and August 1864 to fill the soon to be vacant positions at the coastal forts. Again, the state militia regiments were used to fill most of the quota, with a need to only recruit two new companies.
In late October 1864, the office of the Adjutant General released orders to the commanding officers of the "Companies of One Hundred Days Troops belonging to Massachusetts, now doing garrison duty at the forts on the coast", to reenlist their commands for one year, and to fill with new recruits any positions held by those men not choosing to rejoin. Six of the 100-day companies were re-mustered, including the 2nd Unattached Company now beginning its third term. None of the one-year companies finished a full term, as the war had come to an end, and all were mustered out by July 1865.
Unattached Companies
No 14th Unattached Company was mentioned by Higginson, Bowen or Adjutant General records. The 90-day companies numbered 13, and the 100-day ones started with #15, the reenlisting 2nd Unattached numerically the 14th.
Massachusetts Volunteer Militia
Many of the new Unattached Companies were organized from companies previously in, or detached from, regiments of volunteer militia infantry units in Federal service from Massachusetts. They included:
3rd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia
Co A = 22nd Unatt., Co E = 15th Unatt., Co H = 18th Unatt., Co I = 23rd Unatt.
4th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia
Co E = 20th Unatt.
6th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia
Co I = 8th Unatt.
7th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia
Co K = 17th Unatt.
8th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia
Co C = 27th Unatt., Co E = 2nd Unatt., Co I = 11th Unatt.
42nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Co G = 7th Unatt.
50th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
Co A = 13th Unatt.
Citations
References
Online version of Higginson data at CivilWarArchive.com, from Dyer's Compendium
See also
List of Massachusetts Civil War Units
Massachusetts in the American Civil War
Units and formations of the Union Army from Massachusetts
1864 establishments in Massachusetts
Military units and formations established in 1864
Military units and formations disestablished in 1865 |
23580361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarath%20Kumara%20Gunaratna | Sarath Kumara Gunaratna | Arachchige Sarath Kumara Gunarathne is a Sri Lankan politician, a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a government minister. He is the Negombo MP from Gampaha district and is a long-standing member of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP). Prior to his current appointment as the Deputy Minister of Fisheries, he has been appointed deputy minister for state resources, and as deputy minister of aviation. He is currently the acting minister of Fisheries and Aquatic resources following the defection of former Fisheries Minister Rajitha Senaratne to the opposition. minister Sarath Kumara Gunaratne, arrested by the CID on charges of misappropriating Rs.12 million belonging the Negombo Fisheries Harbour Corporation, was today remanded till January 9 by Colombo Chief Magistrate Lal Bandara.
Sarath Kumara Gunaratna was born in Dungalpitiya, a village close to Negombo. His father was a local school principal. Mr Gunaratna first contested the Negombo seat in 1989, but was not able to get the required preferential votes to get elected. After a stint overseas in Italy, Mr. Gunarathne returned to Sri Lanka to enter active politics. He contested the 1999 Provincial council election representing the Wattala seat and entered the Western Provincial Council. In 2006, he entered Parliament as a 'next in line' MP when one MP resigned due to illness. He was elected in 2010 general election as an MP from the Gampaha district under the ruling UPFA coalition.
Mr Gunaratne describes his politics as progressive and people-oriented.
References
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=lfIJpx8oRzM&feature=emb_logo
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Sri Lankan Roman Catholics |
6910649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Lamping | Mark Lamping | Mark Lamping is the current team president of the Jacksonville Jaguars. He was formerly CEO of the MetLife Stadium. Prior to his stint in New York, he was president of the St. Louis Cardinals Major League Baseball team, a post he held from September 1, 1994 until March 13, 2008. Lamping is now a non-executive director of English association football team Fulham, which is owned by Jaguars owner Shahid Khan.
Life and career
A graduate of St. John Vianney High School in the St. Louis area, Lamping was a prominent sports-marketing executive at Anheuser-Busch before his job with the Cardinals. On Thursday, March 13, 2008, he resigned as president of the Cardinals to become chief executive officer of the New Meadowlands Stadium Company, where he oversaw the opening of The "Meadowlands," the new New York Giants and New York Jets football stadium. Lamping is a graduate of Rockhurst University in Kansas City, MO where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
Notes and references
Rockhurst University alumni
St. Louis Cardinals executives
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Major League Baseball team presidents
Major League Baseball executives
Jacksonville Jaguars executives
National Football League team presidents
Continental Basketball Association commissioners |
44507032 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avram%20Moiseevich%20Razgon | Avram Moiseevich Razgon | Avram Moiseevich Razgon (; 6 January 1920, Yartsevo – 3 February 1989, Moscow) was a Russian historian and a prominent Soviet theoretician of museology, Doktor nauk (1974), and university professor (1986).
Career
A. Razgon graduated from Lomonosov University in 1948. He was a student and later an associate of N. Rubinstein, a renowned Soviet historian and specialist in the historiography of Russian history.
He worked as a Senior scientific officer (1952-1962) and later as the Deputy Director for Science (1962-1972) in the Research Institute for Museum Studies in Moscow.
Razgon was the head of the Museum Studies sector at the Museum of Revolution from 1972 to 1974. He headed the Department of cartography of the State Historical Museum, Moscow, from 1974 to 1988. In 1984, he founded the Department of Museum Studies at the All-Union Institute of improvement of professional skills of workers of art and culture, and was the head of the Department until 1989. He was also lecturing on Museology in the Faculty of History at Lomonosov University and in the Department of Museum Studies of the Moscow State Historico-Archival Institute. In the USSR, he was the first academic to attain the rank of Professor in the Department of Museum Studies (1986).
Razgon was one of the founders of ICOM’s International Committee for museology (ICOFOM) and from 1977 to 1983 was ICOFOM’s Vice President. He participated in the creation of the international Glossary of museum terms Dictionarium museologicum published in 1983 and 1986.
Together with museologists from the GDR, Razgon led an international project to write the book “Museum Studies: Historical museums” which was published in 1988 and which was, for many years, the main textbook on museology. In the last decades of his life, Razgon put a lot of energy into the development of the theoretical and methodological foundations of the education of professional museologists.
The State Historical Museum and other heritage institutions have organized a number of conferences to commemorate his work and ideas for the purpose of the further development of museum theory and practice.
Research interests
Razgon authored over 100 scientific papers on economic history and museology. His research was based on both printed and archival sources as well as on objects from museum collections, and his writings were devoted to the history of historical, archaeological, military and local lore museums and to the protection of monuments of history and culture in the context of the history of society and development of scientific knowledge. Summarizing these observations, his doctoral dissertation "Historical museums in Russia in 1861-1917" (1973) became an important work in the historiography of Russian museology. He directed the preparation of collective writings on the history of museum work entitled: “Essays on the History of museums in Russia and the USSR” (1960-1971) and were among those Razgon published about the state of historical museums and monuments from the 18th century to the year 1917.
Since the mid1970s, Razgon’s scientific interests lay mainly in the field of history and the theory of museum work. Razgon considered that museology was showing “features of an independent scientific branch” that was studying the processes of the preservation of social information, a knowledge of the world and the transfer of knowledge and emotion through museum objects. Razgon was promoting the idea of “museum sources studies”, i.e. museum objects analyzed as a source of information. He was also interested in determining the place of museology in relation to other sciences and fields of knowledge and in the improvement of museological terminology.
Razgon’s idea of “museum sources studies” as a separate area of knowledge was later developed in the writings of Nina P. Finyagina (1930-2000) and Natalia G. Samarina (1958-2011). From their point of view, the main difference between the “museum sources studies” and “historical source studies” lay in the emphasis on semantic information that a museum object carries.
Works
Finjagina N. P., Razgon A.M. Izučenie i naučnoe opisanie pamjatnikov material’noj kul’tury. Moskva : Sovetskaja Rossija, 1972, 271 p.
Razgon A.M. Research work in museums: its possibilities and limits, in Possibilities and Limits in Scientific Research Typical for the Museums. (Les possibilités et les limites du travail et de la recherche scientifiques dans les muses, in Possibilités et limites de la recherche scientifique typiques pour les musées). Brno, Musée morave, 1978, p. 20–45, 99–127.
Razgon A.M. Contemporary museology and the problem, in Sociological and Ecological Aspects in Modern Museum Activities in the Light of Cooperation With Other Related Institutions. (La muséologie contemporaine et le problème de la place des musées dans le système des institutions sociales, in Aspects sociologiques et écologiques dans l’activité des musées modernes en coopération avec les autres organisations sœurs). Brno, Moravian Museum, 1979, p. 29–37.
Razgon A.M. Museological provocations 1979, in Museology – Science or just practical museum work? MuWoP 1, 1980, p. 11–12.
Razgon A.M. Multidisciplinary research in museology. MuWoP 2, 1981, p. 51–53.
Works about Razgon
Slovo o soratnike i druge. Moskva : Gosudarstvennyj Istoričeskij Muzej, 1999, 152 p.
References
Museologists
Museum people
1920 births
1989 deaths |
26721413 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20L.%20Watson%20%28singer%29 | John L. Watson (singer) | "Mississippi" John L. Watson was an American singer who fronted English rock band The Web in the 1960s. He would later record solo in the 1970s and 80s.
History
Around 1963, Watson was a member of The Hummelflugs which later became John L. Watson & The Hummelflugs. Later on he formed the progressive rock group The Web. In their earlier days they were a soul outfit.
He left The Web after recording two albums with them, Fully Interlocking 1968 and Theraposa Blondi 1970. He was replaced by Dave Lawson.
He also recorded as a solo artist in the 1970s with the album White Hot Blue Black. Also backed by the group White Mouse, he recorded Let's Straighten It Out in 1975.
In the late 1990s Watson would go on to front The Odyssey Blues Band.
As of 2007 Watson was living in Bristol.
Watson died early in 2014.
Discography
Singles
7"
"A Mother's Love" / "Might As Well Be Gone" – Deram 285 – 1970
"Lonely For Your Love" /"Into My Life You Came" – EMI 2061 – 1973
"You're The Song" / "Let's Straighten It Out" – Spark SRL 1137 – 1975 (John L Watson & White Mouse)
12"
"Don't Blame It on Love" / "What We Need Is Truth" – Satril ST 9153 – 1985
LP
White Hot Blue Black – Deram SML-R 1061 – 1970
Let's Straighten It Out – Spark SRLP 119 – 1975
References
External links
http://www.discogs.com/artist/John+L.+Watson
American expatriates in the United Kingdom
American soul musicians
1941 births
2014 deaths
20th-century American singers
20th-century American musicians
20th-century American male singers |
17342316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20of%20Laity | House of Laity | The House of Laity is the lower house in the tricameral General Synod of the Church of England legislature. They are responsible for representing the laity of the Church of England in the legislature. They are indirectly elected every 5 years by members on the Church of England's electoral roll via the representatives on the Diocesan Synods.
History
The concept of giving the laity a voice in the governance of the Church of England dated back to the English Reformation when King Henry VIII of England broke the Church of England away from the Roman Catholic Church. The doctrine of lay supremacy was one of the rationales for the breakaway. Initially the Members of Parliament in the House of Commons were used as the lay representatives as all Church of England legislature had to go through Parliament. However during the 20th century, Parliament focussed little time on Church of England matters. When the Church Assembly (predecessor to the General Synod) was established, it was decided that normal churchgoers would replace the House of Commons as the representatives of the laity; thus creating the House of Laity.
The House of Laity, along with the House of Bishops and House of Clergy, hold a veto over Church of England Measures and reports. An example of this was in 2012 when the House of Laity failed to reach the two-thirds majority needed to approve the ordination of women bishops despite the other Houses of the Synod approving it.
Election
Members of the House of Laity are elected every five years. Despite their name, they are not directly elected by the Church of England's members. To be eligible for election a person has to be on the electoral roll of a Church of England parish church and be elected by their church's members or co-opted onto the parochial church council, then selected to represent the parish at the deanery synod. From there, they have to be selected to represent the deanery at the diocesan synod, from whose numbers the diocese's representative to the General Synod is elected. There has been criticism of this method of election with suggestions that it leaves the system open to influence from special interest groups. There is no maximum age limit to sit in the House of Laity however some members have voluntarily chosen not to stand for re-election when they reach 70 on the grounds that Church of England clergy are obliged to retire at that age.
All dioceses of the Province of Canterbury and the Province of York are represented with two representatives in the House of Laity. The Diocese of Sodor and Man is not represented in the House of Laity. However, the duties of the House of Laity insofar as measures extend to the Isle of Man are taken on by Tynwald.
References
Church of England |
17342325 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canning%20Club | Canning Club | The Canning Club is a gentlemen's club based in London, formerly named the Argentine Club, founded in 1911, and is for those with a particular link to, or special interest in, Argentina and other Latin American countries.
As the previous name suggested, it was originally established as a club for nationals of Argentina, and much of its income was derived from Argentine-based British businesses. When these businesses were nationalised by Juan Domingo Perón from the 1940s, the club was deprived of its main source of revenue. Adapting to the situation, it redefined its remit more broadly to Latin America in general, and in 1948 was renamed as the Canning Club, in honour of George Canning, who had strong links to Latin America.
The club was based in Hamilton Place, Mayfair, until 1970, when it began sharing the premises of the Naval and Military Club, first at Cambridge House, 94 Piccadilly, and from 1999 at 4 St. James's Square.
See also
List of London's gentlemen's clubs
External links
Gentlemen's clubs in London
1911 establishments in England
Organizations established in 1911 |
6910655 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire%20chief | Fire chief | A fire chief or fire commissioner is a top executive rank or commanding officer in a fire department.
Nomenclature
Various official English-language titles for a fire chief include fire chief, chief fire officer and fire commissioner. The latter can refer to a fire chief or to an overseer who works for the local government. "Chief fire officer" is the usual title in the United Kingdom. Traditionally, a fire chief in Scotland was known as a "fire master", but this was changed in 2006.
The definition of the term fire officer varies by country, but generally refers to all firefighting personnel who have some command duties. This is comparable to the usage of "officer" in the military, rather than the term police officer. In fire departments of the United States, fire officers who are part of an engine company or other unit (lieutenants and captains) are company officers and those ranked higher (e.g. battalion chiefs) are chief officers.
Appointment
A fire chief is usually appointed by the authority who oversees the running of the fire department, such as the mayor for a municipal fire department.
It varies among countries as to whether it is the norm or not for fire chiefs to be former frontline firefighters. This is the case in the United States. It is also the norm in the United Kingdom, though in recent years there have been exceptions. By contrast, in France, fire officers and frontline firefighters are recruited separately in a similar way to the military.
Duties and functions
A fire chief's role varies considerably depending on the size of the department. Some countries have a single national fire service, such as Israel and New Zealand. Conversely, some countries, like the United States and Germany, have autonomous fire departments even in small towns. Others organize their fire services based on subdivisions such as regions, counties, provinces or sub-national states.
The larger the fire department, the more ranks will exist in between the chief and regular firefighters, such as assistants or deputy chiefs. The chief of a small volunteer fire department is likely to be the main incident commander for the majority of their call-outs and is nearly always a volunteer as well. However, the chief of a large fire department is employed in a mostly administrative role, and will only be called out to the largest incidents.
Administrative
The fire chief is responsible for carrying out the day-to-day tasks of running a firefighting organization. Such tasks include supervising other officers and firefighters at an emergency scene and recruiting, training, and equipping them for their respective duties. Depending upon local needs and organization, the chief may also be involved in fire prevention, fire inspection, disaster preparedness, emergency medical services, and related disciplines, as well as administrative duties such as budgets and personnel issues, research into safety and regulations, and liaison with other agencies. The chief is answerable to the local or national government that oversees the fire service. As well as the position of Chief of scheduling.
Incident command
During an emergency incident, the first fire officer on the scene must "establish command", which can then be transferred to more senior officers such as the chief. The chief may delegate some statutory powers to qualified officers, such as the ability to enter or use private property as reasonably necessary to stop a fire, or to order people or property seized as may be essential to preserving safety or investigating the cause of an incident.
A fire chief's vehicle is not only a means of transport, but can act as an incident command post and a contact point for media reporters.
See also
Firefighting
Chief of police
Incident commander
References
External links
Official website of the National Fire Protection Association
Official website of the International Association of Fire Chiefs
Fire Chief magazine for fire protection officials
Firefighter ranks |
20484521 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savoir%20aimer%20%28album%29 | Savoir aimer (album) | Savoir aimer is a 1997 album recorded by French singer Florent Pagny. It was his fifth album oversall and was released on 1 November 1997. It achieved huge success in France and Belgium (Wallonia), where it remained charted respectively for 84 and 64 weeks, including two weeks atop. To date it is Pagny's best-selling album, with over 1,5 million copies sold. It was led by the single "Savoir aimer", a number-one hit in both countries, and followed by "Chanter" (#16 in France, #15 in Belgium), "D'un amour l'autre" (#83 in France, limited edition) and "Dors" (#29 in France, #28 in Belgium). French artists Pascal Obispo, Zazie, Art Mengo and Jean-Jacques Goldman wrote at least one song of the album.
Track listing
"Savoir aimer" (Lionel Florence, Pascal Obispo) — 4:40
"Dors" (Erick Benzi) — 3:58
"Sierra Cuadrada" (Jacques Veneruso) — 5:30
"Mourir les yeux ouverts" (Didier Golemanas, Obispo) — 4:13
"Loin de toi" (Veneruso) — 5:12
"Une place pour moi" (Benzi, Jean-Jacques Goldman, J. Kapler) — 4:17
"Protection" (Bruno Jardel, Peter Kingsberry, Dimitri Ticovoi) — 4:14
"Combien ça va" (Zazie) — 3:44
"Chanter" (Florence, Obispo) — 3:48
"Sólo le pido a Dios" (Léon Gieco) — 4:17
"D'un amour l'autre" (Patrice Guirao, Art Mengo) — 2:49
Source : Allmusic.
Charts
Certifications and sales
Releases
References
1997 albums
Florent Pagny albums
Mercury Records albums |
23580362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio%20State%20Route%20211 | Ohio State Route 211 | State Route 211 (SR 211) is a north–south state highway in the eastern portion of the U.S. state of Ohio. Though physically it runs in a northwesterly–southeasterly direction, according to the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) and signage on the route itself its southern terminus is located north of its northern terminus. The unusual directional signage is a vestige of when SR 211 traveled further south acting as a bypass of New Philadelphia and Dover. The highway runs from its signed southern terminus at a signalized intersection with SR 39 on the border of the city of Dover and Dover Township, just one block east of exit 83 off the Interstate 77 (I-77)/U.S. Route 250 (US 250) freeway, to its signed northern terminus at a signalized intersection with SR 800 near downtown Dover.
Route description
SR 211 almost runs entirely within Dover in central Tuscarawas County. The highway begins at an intersection with SR 39 in Dover Township, about east of its interchange with I-77 and US 250. This intersection is surrounded by numerous commercial businesses including gas stations and fast food restaurants as a part of its closeness to the Interstate. It heads east and after crossing into the city and an R.J. Corman railroad at-grade, SR 211 follows Tuscarawas Avenue towards the southeast through a residential neighborhood of Dover. In addition to houses, it passes numerous churches, small businesses, and schools (including Tuscarawas Central Catholic High School and Dover High School). Before crossing the Tuscarawas River, SR 211 turns left to head northeast on Front Street for three blocks. At Wooster Street, SR 211 ends at a signalized intersection with SR 800. SR 800 heads to the southeast on Wooster Street over the river and northeast on Front Street.
The route is two-lanes in width for its entire route with the exception of turning lanes at some intersections and a center turn lane between SR 39 and Slingloff Avenue. SR 211 is not included as a part of the National Highway System.
History
Since it was created in 1923, SR 211 has existed in the Dover vicinity. However, the original routing is much different than how it runs today. In 1923, SR 211 traveled from SR 20 later US 21 (now the intersection of SR 39 and Stonecreek Road) east of New Philadelphia north along the west banks of the Tuscarawas River and Sugar Creek before crossing Sugar Creek into Dover on Third Street ending at Tuscarawas Street (at the time carrying SR 39). In 1937, the route was extended south along the Tuscarawas River's bank to the community of South Side at SR 16 (the community is now a southern annexation of New Philadelphia and the intersecting state highway is now SR 416). The entire road was a dirt road until 1941 when the portion south of US 21 became a gravel road and an asphalt road to the north.
Around 1964, with the construction of I-77 commencing, SR 39 was relocated to bypass downtown Dover to the west. It was routed to travel on SR 211 north of US 21 leaving SR 211 only on the portion between SR 16 and US 21. Within a couple of years, US 250's relocation onto a freeway bypassing New Philadelphia obliterated the surface road between SR 16 and US 21 leading to the temporary retirement of the SR 211 designation. The designation resurfaced around 1971 when a state-maintained road connecting SR 39 and SR 800 was created in Dover, partly along what was previously SR 39. The route has not experienced any reroutings since the second designation.
Major intersections
References
External links
211
Transportation in Tuscarawas County, Ohio |
26721427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nata%C5%A1a%20Janji%C4%87 | Nataša Janjić | Nataša Janjić-Medančić (born 27 November 1981) is a Croatian film, stage and television actress.
Personal life
Nataša Janjić was born in Split on 27 November 1981. As a child, she studied at the Youth Theatre in Split. After finishing school in 2000, she went on to studying journalism and acting in Zagreb.
Janjić dated director Antonio Nuić before she began a relationship with Croatian actor and producer Joško Lokas in 2012, whom she married. The couple later divorced and Janjić married her second husband Nenad Medančić. Janjić and Medančić together have a son and a daughter.
Filmography
References
External links
1981 births
Living people
Actors from Split, Croatia
Croatian film actresses
Croatian television actresses
Croatian stage actresses
Golden Arena winners
LGBT rights activists from Croatia
Croatian Theatre Award winners |
44507037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian%20Mafia%20during%20the%20Fascist%20regime | Sicilian Mafia during the Fascist regime | The Sicilian Mafia was less active during the era of Fascist Italy and it was fought by Benito Mussolini's government. In June 1924, Mussolini instructed Cesare Mori to eradicate the Mafia from Sicily and on October 25, 1925, appointed Mori prefect of the Sicilian capital, Palermo.
History
In 1924, Mussolini initiated a campaign to destroy the Sicilian Mafia, which undermined Fascist control of Sicily. A successful campaign would legitimize his rule and strengthen his leadership. Not only would a campaign against the Mafia be a propaganda opportunity for Mussolini and the National Fascist Party, but it would also allow him to suppress his political opponents in Sicily, since many Sicilian politicians had Mafia links.
According to a popular account that arose after the end of World War II, as prime minister of the Kingdom of Italy, Mussolini had visited Sicily in May 1924 and passed through Piana dei Greci, where he was received by the mayor and Mafia boss Francesco Cuccia. At some point Cuccia expressed surprise at Mussolini’s police escort and is said to have whispered in his ear: "You are with me, you are under my protection. What do you need all these cops for?" After Mussolini rejected Cuccia's offer of protection, Cuccia, feeling he had been slighted, instructed the townsfolk not to attend Mussolini's speech. Mussolini was outraged. However, according to scholar Christopher Duggan, the reason was more political rather than personal: the Mafia threatened and undermined his power in Sicily, and a successful campaign would strengthen him as the new leader, legitimising and empowering his rule.
The Mafia undermined Mussolini through their involvement in the Sicilian government post Italian unification. The Italian state had difficulty administering protection and enforcing the law which created a power vacuum that was gradually filled by the Mafia. Politicians’ systemic use of the organization gradually integrated them into the political and social system on the island, and their involvement in construction projects, agriculture and private protection allowed them into each of these economic sectors. In the 1890s, the Mafia began to deviate from the urban areas they had frequently been present in and expanded towards the more rural areas to employ their coercive powers at the request of landlords to overthrow the socialist peasant fasci.
Although the Sicilian community considered the Mafia to be a “social plague” due to their control in the agricultural sector, they were hard to compete with politically. They had an intrinsic relationship with local political and law enforcement structures. They often funded politicians who were under their protection in exchange for political favors. Mafia bosses were able to manipulate elections to their advantage and violently overthrew any opposition. The Mafia also practiced voter intimidation through the use of verbal menacing or physical attacks. Additionally, the Mafia had a negative effect on the Sicilian economy; in response Mussolini enacted Mezzogiorno policies in an effort to counteract their impact. Considering the Mafia’s integration with the government and economy, their corruption was hard to contain. As the Mafia threatened Mussolini's control and legitimacy, the campaign to exterminate them would benefit him and his regime.
Mussolini's Minister of the Interior, Luigi Federzoni, recalled Mori to active service and appointed him prefect of Trapani. Mori arrived in Trapani in June 1924 and stayed until October 20, 1925, when Mussolini appointed him prefect of Palermo. Mussolini granted Mori special powers to eradicate the Mafia by any means possible. In a telegram, Mussolini wrote to Mori:
"Your Excellency has carte bianche, the authority of the State must absolutely, I repeat absolutely, be re-established in Sicily. If the laws still in force hinder you, this will be no problem, as we will draw up new laws."
Mori formed a small army of policemen, carabinieri and militiamen, which went from town to town, rounding up suspects. To force suspects to surrender, they would take their families hostage, confiscate their property, and publicly slaughter their livestock. Confessions were sometimes extracted through beatings and torture. Some Mafia members who had been on the losing end of Mafia feuds voluntarily cooperated with prosecutors to secure protection and exact revenge. Charges of Mafia association were typically leveled at poor peasants and gabellotti (tenant farmers), but generally not leveled at wealthy landowners. By 1928, over 11,000 suspects were arrested. Many were tried en masse. More than 1,200 were convicted and imprisoned, and many others were internally exiled without trial.
In order to destroy the Mafia, Mori felt it necessary to "forge a direct bond between the population and the state, to annul the system of intermediation under which citizens could not approach the authorities except through middlemen..., receiving as a favour that which is due them as their right." Mori’s methods were sometimes similar to those of the Mafia: He did not just arrest the bandits, but sought to humiliate them as well. Mori aimed to convince Sicilians that the Fascist government was powerful enough to rival the Mafia and that the Mafia could no longer protect them.
Mori's inquiries brought evidence of collusion between the Mafia and influential members of the Italian government and the Fascist Party. His position became more precarious. Some 11,000 arrests were attributed to Mori’s rule in Palermo, creating massive amounts of paperwork which may have been partially responsible for his dismissal in 1929.
Mori's campaign ended in June 1929 when Mussolini recalled him to Rome. Although Mori did not permanently crush the Mafia, his campaign was successful at suppressing it. The Mafia informant Antonino Calderone reminisced: "The music changed. Mafiosi had a hard life. [...] After the war the mafia hardly existed anymore. The Sicilian Families had all been broken up."
Sicily's murder rate sharply declined. Landowners were able to raise the legal rents on their lands; sometimes as much as ten-thousandfold. The Fascist Party propaganda machine proudly announced that the Mafia had been defeated.
Many Mafia members fled to the United States. Among these were Carlo Gambino and Joseph Bonanno, who became powerful Mafia bosses in New York City.
In 1943, nearly half a million Allied troops invaded Sicily. Crime soared in the upheaval and chaos. Many inmates escaped from their prisons, banditry returned and the black market thrived. During the first six months of Allied occupation, party politics in Sicily were banned. Most institutions, with the exception of the police and carabinieri were destroyed, and the American occupiers had to build a new order from scratch. As Fascist mayors were deposed, the Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories (AMGOT) simply appointed replacements. Many turned out to be former Mafia members, such as Calogero Vizzini and Giuseppe Genco Russo. They easily presented themselves as fascist dissidents and their anti-communist positions strengthened their bids for political offices. Mafia bosses reformed their clans, absorbing some of the marauding bandits into their ranks.
References
Sources
Costanzo, Ezio (2007), The Mafia and the Allies: Sicily 1943 and the Return of the Mafia, New York, Enigma books,
Dickie, John (2007). Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia, Hodder.
Duggan, Christopher (1989). Fascism and the Mafia, New Haven: Yale University Press
Duggan, Christopher (2008). The Force of Destiny: A History of Italy Since 1796, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
Finkelstein, Monte S. Separatism, the Allies and the Mafia: The Struggle for Sicilian Independence 1943-1948, Lehigh University Press
Lupo, Salvatore (2009). The History of the Mafia, New York: Columbia University Press,
Mori, Cesare (1933) The Last Struggle With the Mafia, London & New York; Putnam;
Newark, Tim (2007). Mafia Allies: The True Story of America’s Secret Alliance with the Mob in World War II, Saint Paul, MN: Zenith Press (Review)
Petacco Arrigo, L'uomo della provvidenza: Mussolini, ascesa e caduta di un mito, Milan: Mondadori.
Servadio, Gaia (1976), Mafioso: A History of the Mafia From Its Origins to the Present Day, London: Secker & Warburg
History of the Sicilian Mafia
Italian Fascism |
23580366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.%20H.%20A.%20Haleem | M. H. A. Haleem | Mohamed Hashim Abdul Haleem is a Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and current Minister of Muslim Religious Affairs and Posts.
References
Parliament profile
1956 births
Living people
Samagi Jana Balawegaya politicians
United National Party politicians
Members of the 11th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan Muslims
Muslim religious affairs ministers of Sri Lanka
Posts ministers of Sri Lanka |
20484528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Muir%27s%20High%20Sierra | John Muir's High Sierra | John Muir's High Sierra is a 1974 American short documentary film directed by Dewitt Jones produced by Dewitt Jones and Lesley Foster. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject.
See also
List of American films of 1974
References
External links
John Muir's High Sierra at the National Archives and Records Administration
1974 films
1970s short documentary films
1974 short films
English-language films
American short documentary films
1974 independent films
American independent films
Documentary films about nature |
26721429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD%20Pt%C3%A1k | Jiří Pták | Jiří Pták (born 24 March 1946 in Děčín, Czechoslovakia), is a Czech rowing coxswain who competed for Czechoslovakia at six Olympic Games between 1968 and 1992 (except the 1984 Olympics, boycotted by the Eastern Bloc countries).
He was the first rower to compete at six Olympics. He was the third rower, after Briton Jack Beresford and Soviet Yuriy Lorentsson, to compete at five Olympics. (From 1896 to 2008, 22 rowers have competed at five Olympics and 6 at six Olympics.)
His best performance was fourth in the coxed eight at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, when his team lost out on bronze by 1.09 seconds.
See also
List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games
References
1946 births
Living people
Czech male rowers
Czechoslovak male rowers
Olympic rowers of Czechoslovakia
Rowers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Rowers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Rowers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Rowers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Rowers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Rowers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
People from Děčín
Coxswains (rowing)
World Rowing Championships medalists for Czechoslovakia
European Rowing Championships medalists
Sportspeople from the Ústí nad Labem Region |
44507054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xestia%20tecta | Xestia tecta | Xestia tecta is a moth of the family Noctuidae. In Europe the species is only known from the boreal area of Fennoscandia, north-western Russia and the northern Ural Mountains. Outside Europe it occurs in northern and central Siberia and the north-western USA including Alaska as well as north-western and central Canada.
The wingspan is 32–41 mm. Adults are on wing from June to August. The species takes two years to reach maturity.
The larvae feed on hardwood shrubs such as Huckleberries (Vaccinium spp.).
Subspecies
Xestia tecta tecta
Xestia tecta tectoides (Corti, 1926) (Labrador)
References
Michael Fibiger: Noctuinae II. In: W. G. Tremewan (Editor.): Noctuidae Europaeae, Vol. 2, Entomological Press, Sorø 1993, page 155/156,
External links
Lepiforum
Bug Guide
Distribution in USA
Pacific Northwest Moths
Fauna Europaea
Xestia
Moths of Europe
Moths of Asia
Moths of North America
Moths described in 1808 |
26721445 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unterrheintal%20District | Unterrheintal District | Unterrheintal District () is a former district of the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
Former districts of the canton of St. Gallen |
20484529 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houben | Houben | Houben is a Dutch and Low German patronymic surname meaning "son of Houb". Houb was a nickname for Huibert/Huibrecht/Hubrecht (Hubert) in Brabant and Limburg. People with this surname include:
Claude Houben (born 1926), Belgian bobsledder
Francine Houben (born 1955), Dutch architect
Frank Houben (born 1939), Dutch politician
Fred Houben (born 1974), Dutch punk rock bass player
Heinrich Hubert Houben (1875–1935), German literary historian
Heinrich Hubert Maria Josef Houben (1875–1940), German chemist
Henri Houben (1858–1931), Belgian genre painter
Hilde Houben-Bertrand (born 1940), Belgian politician
Hubert Houben (1898–1956), German sprinter
Hubert Houben (born 1953), German historian
Jean-Marie Houben (born 1966), Belgian footballer
Joannes Andreas Houben (1821–1893), Dutch-Irish priest (Karel Houben, St. Charles of Mount Argus)
Josef Houben (1875–1940), German chemist
Max Houben (1898–1949), Belgian athlete and bobsledder
Philippe Houben (1881–?), Belgian-French waterpolo player
Reinhard Houben (born 1960), German politician
Robert J. Houben (1905–1992), Belgian politician
Rom Houben (born 1963), Belgian long-term coma patient
Saul Houben (1922-1982), Belgian-French violinist concertmaster
Steve Houben (born 1950), Belgian jazz saxophonist and flutist
Stijn Houben (born 1995), Dutch footballer
Tuur Houben (born 1996), Belgian footballer
Given name
Houben R.T. (born 1970), Bulgarian painter
References
External links
Houben (surname) in the world
Dutch-language surnames
Patronymic surnames |
23580368 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denys%20Rebryk | Denys Rebryk | Denys Rebryk (; born 4 April 1985) is a Ukrainian footballer currently under contract for Hungarian side Ceglédi VSE.
External links
Profile at HLSZ
1985 births
Living people
People from Uzhhorod
Hungarian people of Ukrainian descent
Ukrainian footballers
Association football forwards
FC Hoverla Uzhhorod players
Vasas SC players
Jászberényi SE footballers
Lombard-Pápa TFC footballers
BFC Siófok players
Ceglédi VSE footballers
Nemzeti Bajnokság I players
Ukrainian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Hungary
Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Hungary
Association football midfielders
Sportspeople from Zakarpattia Oblast |
44507059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef%20Shaftel | Josef Shaftel | Josef Shaftel (1919–1999) was an American film producer, director and writer.
Selected credits
Film
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (1952) - producer
No Place to Hide (1956) - producer, director
The Naked Hills (1956) - producer director
The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968) - producer
The Bliss of Mrs Blossom (1968) - producer
The Last Grenade (1970) - producer
The Statue (1971) - producer
The Assassination of Trotsky (1972) - executive producer
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972) - executive producer
The Spiral Staircase (1975) - executive producer
Gulliver's Travels (1977) - executive producer
Television
Straightaway (1961–1962 television series) - producer
External links
American film producers
1919 births
1999 deaths
20th-century American businesspeople |
23580372 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunil%20Handunnetti | Sunil Handunnetti | Sunil Handunnetti (born October 19, 1970) is a Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He contested the 2010 parliamentary elections under the Democratic National Alliance (DNA), which is led by former army chief Sarath Fonseka and was re-elected to Parliament from Colombo District.
Entered politics by being a student in Sri Jayawardanapura University and became the Convener of the Inter University Students' Federation in 1995 and continued until 1996. Was an activity in the Socialist Students Union.
Entered full-time politics in 1998 and was elected as a councilor of Colombo Municipal Council during 1998-1999
Was elected to the Central Committee of the JVP in 2000 and was appointed to the Political Bureau of the JVP in 2012 and was appointed as the Financial Secretary of the JVP.
Elected to Parliament at the general election held in 2004 with the second highest number of preferential votes from Colombo District. In 2004 was appointed as the Deputy Minister of Ministry of Rural Economic Affairs.
References
Living people
Sri Lankan Buddhists
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
1971 births
Alumni of Dharmasoka College |
20484534 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia%E2%80%93Spain%20relations | Estonia–Spain relations | Estonia–Spain relations are the bilateral and diplomatic relations between these two countries. Both nations are members of the European Union, NATO and the United Nations.
In 2007 the number of Spaniards residing in Estonia stood at 54 people, while the number of non-resident Spaniards was 55.
History
International relations between Spain and Estonia began in 1921, when Spain recognized the independence of the Republic of Estonia. On 24 August 1991 Spain once again recognized Estonia's independence from Soviet Union. Both countries established diplomatic relations on 10 September of the same year. On 3 December 1992 Spain established an Honorary Consular Office in Tallinn under the Spanish embassy of Helsinki, it was not until 2004 when it opened its own embassy in the capital Estonia. The first ambassador of Spain in Estonia was Miguel Bauzá y More, who held the position until 11 January 2008 when he was replaced by Eduardo Ibáñez López-Dóriga. For its part Estonia opened an embassy in Madrid in 1997, between 2000 and 2007 the ambassador was Andres Tomasberg, since 2007 the position is held by Andres Rundu. Currently, the relations between the two countries are framed within the scope of the European Union.
Economic relations
Exchanges between Estonia and Spain have maintained an upward pace with a positive balance in favor of Spain which, in 2007, sold products to Estonia for a total of 120 million euro s while importing for a total of 54 million . The main imports from Estonia are composed of fuel and mineral oils, wood, charcoal, manufacturing sy steel and iron from smelting waste. While Spain's main exports are made up of automobiles, tractor is, ceramic products and edible fruits.
On the other hand, the investments between both countries have reached a more even level, since although in 2006 Estonia only invested 6,100 euros in Spain the following year it did so for a value of 1,984,420 euros. In contrast, Spain in 2006 invested 1,022,170 euros while in 2007, it was reduced to 283,230.
At the end of 2008 the Estonian Hispanic Chamber of Commerce was established with headquarters in Tallinn.
Tourism
The number of Spanish tourists traveling to Estonia has been increasing every year, in 2006 were 15,150 who spent the night at least one night in the country. However, most tourists visiting Estonia do so through cruise ships or from Helsinki on a round trip on the same day, so it is estimated that the number of Spanish visitors is much higher.
Estonia is present at the tourism fairs in Barcelona, EIBTM (since 2004) and Madrid, FITUR (since 2005). In addition, the airline Estonian Air has since 2006 a regular line between Tallinn and Barcelona.
Cultural relations
Since 1996, Spanish studies can be taken at Tartu University, the most prestigious in the country. The University of Tallinn introduced this possibility in 2001 and since 2003 this university has an examination center of the Instituto Cervantes.
Agreements
Estonia and Spain have signed the following agreements: in 1997 the Agreement on international road transport; in 1998 the Agreement for the Protection of Investments; in 1999 the Protocol of cooperation between the Ministries of Defense; in 2000 the Agreement on the reciprocal abolition of visas, the Agreement for the readmission of persons and the Agreement for the extradition of criminals; in 2005 the Agreement to avoid double taxation; and in 2007 the Agreement for the protection of classified information and the Agreement for cooperation in culture and education.
Resident diplomatic missions
Estonia has an embassy in Madrid.
Spain has an embassy in Tallinn.
See also
Foreign relations of Estonia
Foreign relations of Spain
References
Spain
Estonia |
26721468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%20Fonseca | Ray Fonseca | Rae (or Ray) Fonseca (November 17, 1953 – March 20, 2010) was an American hula dancer and hula master. Fonseca established the Halau Hula O Kahikilaulani in 1980, a Hilo-based halau.
Fonseca was a student of kumu hula master George Na'ope, who gave Fonseca the name, Kahikilaulani. Fonseca's halau, Halau Hula O Kahikilaulani, integrated Hawaiian culture, language and folklore into its hula instructions. The hulau had more than 100 students, who ranged in age from 4 up to 60 years old, as of March 2010.
He pleaded no contest to second-degree negligent homicide in 2006 for killing a moped driver in a traffic accident in 2003. Fonseca was driving 40 mph in a 25 mph speed zone when he struck the moped with his sports utility vehicle while trying to avoid potholes. The judge sentenced him to six months in prison, but allowed work release during the day for community service and to teach hula.
On March 20, 2010, Fonseca flew from Hilo to Oahu to perform at the Lei o Lanikuhonua Hula Festival in Ko Olina. He was a strong supporter of the festival, which was founded in 2006 and allows high school students to perform and study with hula masters. He collapsed back stage minutes after completing a hula performance. Fonseca, who suffered a heart attack, was 56 years old.
Fonseca's death came less than a day after the passing of another prominent hula figure, Auntie Dottie Thompson, who developed the Merrie Monarch Festival. He had visited her at her bedside before her death.
References
1953 births
2010 deaths
Hula dancers
People from Hilo, Hawaii |
26721475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alttoggenburg%20District | Alttoggenburg District | Alttoggenburg District () is a former district of the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
Former districts of the canton of St. Gallen |
44507062 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestre%20Viken%20Hospital%20Trust | Vestre Viken Hospital Trust | Vestre Viken Hospital Trust () is a health trust which covers Buskerud, Asker and Bærum. The trust is owned by Southern and Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority and is headquartered in Drammen. It covers an area with 470,000 residents in 26 municipalities. Vestre Viken has 9,500 employees.
Vestre Viken operates Bærum Hospital, Drammen Hospital, Kongsberg Hospital and Ringerike Hospital in Hønefoss. It also operates them medical center Hallingdal Hospital in Ål. It also runs the ambulance service with fifteen bases.
Drammen Hospital
Drammen Hospital (), previously Buskerud Central Hospital, is a general hospital situated in Drammen, Norway. It is the largest hospital which is part of Vestre Viken Hospital Trust, part of the Southern and Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority.
Drammen Heliport, Hospital is an asphalt, ground helipad with a diameter of . It can no longer be used by the 330 Squadron and their Westland Sea King helicopters after an expansion of the parking lot in 2012.
References
Health trusts of Norway
Hospitals established in 2009
Government agencies established in 2009
Companies based in Drammen
2009 establishments in Norway |
26721480 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaster%20District | Gaster District | Gaster District () is a former district of the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. The Gaster and See districts merged in 2003 to form the See-Gaster constituency.
References
Former districts of the canton of St. Gallen |
23580375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.%20Harrison | P. Harrison | Pelisge Harrison (born July 24, 1964) is a Sri Lankan United National Party politician, current member of the Parliament for Anuradhapura District current cabinet Minister of Social Empowerment and former Minister of Rural Economic Affairs. Harrison first entered parliament in 1994 from the United National Party within a few years from his graduation from the University of Kelaniya.
He is the Minister of Agriculture, Rural Economic Affairs, Livestock Development, Irrigation, Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development.
References
Sri Lanka Parliament profile
1964 births
Living people
United National Party politicians
Sri Lankan Buddhists
Members of the 10th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 11th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka |
23580378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltate | Deltate | The word deltate, in its most common senses, is derived from the Greek delta (letter), specifically the capital form (Δ). It may mean:
In biology, a triangular leaf shape.
In chemistry, a salt of deltic acid, which has three carbon atoms connected in a triangle.
See also
Deltoid (disambiguation)
River delta
Deltic (disambiguation) |
23580382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayarathna%20Herath | Jayarathna Herath | Jayarathna Herath is a Sri Lankan politician, a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a government minister.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Members of the 11th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians |
26721481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20Cameron%20%28bishop%29 | Douglas Cameron (bishop) | Douglas Maclean Cameron (born 23 March 1935) was an eminent Anglican bishop in the second half of the 20th century and the very start of the 21st.
Biography
Born on 23 March and educated at Edinburgh Theological College and the University of the South, he was ordained (after National Service in the RAF) in 1963. He began his career with a curacy at Christ Church, Falkirk after which he was a Missionary in Papua New Guinea eventually rising to be its Archdeacon. Returning to the UK he was Priest in charge of St Fillan's, Edinburgh. Incumbencies at St Hilda's Edinburgh, St Mary's Dalkeith and St Leonard's Lasswade followed, before his appointment as Dean of Edinburgh in 1991. He was Bishop of Argyll and The Isles from 1993 to 2003.
His brother Bruce Cameron was Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney from 1992 to 2006.
Notes
1935 births
Living people
Sewanee: The University of the South alumni
Anglican archdeacons in Oceania
Deans of Edinburgh
Bishops of Argyll and The Isles
20th-century Scottish Episcopalian bishops
21st-century Scottish Episcopalian bishops
Alumni of Edinburgh Theological College
Provosts of the Cathedral of The Isles |
44507076 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%20National%20Football%20Camp | Iran National Football Camp | Iran National Football Camp () is an association football training facility in Tehran, Iran. Located in west of Azadi Sport Complex and operated by Iranian Football Federation, the camp is mostly used by Iran national football team.
The camp has a number of football fields, an indoor futsal pitch, a bodybuilding gym, classrooms, medical clinic, restaurant and dormitory.
The main building of "Iran Football Academy", which operates Iran youth football teams is located inside the complex.
References
Iran national football team
Iran National Football
Football venues in Iran
Sports venues in Tehran
Sports venues completed in 2000
2000 establishments in Iran
National football academies |
26721486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossau%20District | Gossau District | Gossau District () is a former district of the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
Former districts of the canton of St. Gallen |
26721494 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutoggenburg%20District | Neutoggenburg District | Neutoggenburg District () is a former district of the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
It was detached from Obertoggenburg District in 1831, and merged into the single district of Toggenburg in 2002.
Former districts of the canton of St. Gallen |
26721499 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obertoggenburg%20District | Obertoggenburg District | Obertoggenburg District () is a former district of the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
Former districts of the canton of St. Gallen |
26721501 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untertoggenburg%20District | Untertoggenburg District | Untertoggenburg District () is a former district of the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
Former districts of the canton of St. Gallen |
44507095 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPDC%20Finance | IPDC Finance | IPDC Finance Limited (previously known as "Industrial Promotion and Development Company of Bangladesh Limited") is a private sector financial institution of the country. This is a public limited company and listed in both Dhaka Stock Exchange and Chittagong Stock Exchange. Established in 1981, IPDC is the first private sector financial institution of the country. The company's products and services ranges from corporate finance and advisory services in corporate sector, middle market supply chain finance in SME sector to retail wealth management and retail finances in retail sector. The company is headquartered in Dhaka and has operations in Chittagong, Sylhet, Gazipur, Narayanganj, Bogra, Jessore, Mymensingh, Uttara, Dhanmondi and Motijheel.
Corporate background
IPDC Finance was established on November 28, 1981, by a distinguished group of shareholders namely International Finance Corporation (IFC), USA, German Investment and Development Company (DEG), Germany, The Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED), Switzerland, Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC), UK and the Government of Bangladesh. It's a public limited company incorporated in Bangladesh under the Companies Act 1913 (now the Companies Act 1994), listed with the Dhaka and Chittagong Stock Exchange Limited since December 3, 2006. Licensed as Financial Institution under the Financial Institutions Act 1993 on February 7, 1995.
IPDC was first conceived as a result of an IBRD/IFC Industrial Sector mission to Bangladesh in 1978. Subsequently, a detailed feasibility study and strategic policy dialogue among the Government, IFC and other international partners resulted in the establishment of IPDC as an alternative development finance institution in the private sector. The Company in 1981 became the first private sector Development Finance Institution (DFI) in Bangladesh.
Management
Chief Executive Office
At the beginning of 2018, IPDC Finance has reappointed Mominul Islam as its managing director and CEO for the third term. Islam joined IPDC as head of operations in 2006. After working in different positions of the company, he took charge as managing director and CEO in 2011. He had also worked in American Express Bank and Standard Chartered Bank for more than seven years in different roles.
Board of directors
Mr Mohammad Abdul Karim (59) is the Chairman of the Board of IPDC Finance Limited. Along with him, Amin Manekia (56) is Vice Chairman, Salahdin Imam (69), Sameer Ahmad (46), Nasreen Sattar (71), Shameran Abed (35), Md. Hoque (56), Mohammad Rashid (50) and Tamara Abed (42) are the members of the board of directors of IPDC Finance.
Awards and recognition
Received Superbrands award 2018
Philanthropy
IPDC has diverse CSR activities education, well-being, cultural, emergencies, recreation, health, sanitation and environment.
Apon Nibash Briddha Asroy Kendro
Started as an informal arrangement in Ramadan of 2015, the Apon Nibash Briddha Asroy Kendro was set up by Syeda Selina Sheli to give shelter to abandoned, isolated and underprivileged older women in Uttara's Chandpara, Uttarkhan area. IPDC came forward and stood beside Apon Nibash, in an effort to sustain its day to day noble work to help the solitary and underprivileged women of the society.
Porua Library
IPDC made significant donations to establish libraries in 9 schools with the help of Light and Hope for the better education of around 300 underprivileged children. It helps in spreading knowledge and education. A well-stocked library is an asset. By establishing libraries in the underserved areas and distributing books to the children. It also contributes towards encouraging children to build themselves a brighter future and henceforth, serve the community.
References
External links
Financial services companies established in 1981
Companies listed on the Dhaka Stock Exchange
Financial services companies of Bangladesh |
20484539 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riccardo%20Taddei | Riccardo Taddei | Riccardo Taddei (born 5 September 1980, in Vecchiano) is an Italian football manager and former player, who played as a forward. He is currently serving as the assistant manager of Pisa, under head coach Luca D'Angelo.
Playing career
Taddei started his career at Pontedera, a club based in the Province of Pisa. He was then signed by AC Fiorentina as back-up for forwards Nuno Gomes, Enrico Chiesa, Gabriel Batistuta, and Leandro Amaral. He made his Serie A debut on 6 November 1999 against Cagliari Calcio, collecting five league appearances during his three seasons with the team. He also played once in the 2001–02 UEFA Cup.
After the relegation and bankruptcy of Fiorentina, in 2002, he was signed by Genoa of Serie B on a free transfer. He failed to gain regular playing time with the team, however, and subsequently joined Cremonese of Serie C2, with whom won promotion to Serie C1 as the runner-up of Group A in 2003–04. During the 2004–05 season, he won promotion again, this time as the champion of Serie C1 Group A. During the 2005–06 season, however, he did not play any games for the club in Serie B. After Cremonese were relegated at the end of the season, he played seven more times for the team during the 2006–07 Serie C1 season. In August 2007, he moved to Brescia of Serie B.
After only making three appearances for Brescia in the Italian top flight during the first half of the 2010–11 season, in January 2011, he joined U.S. Triestina Calcio.
In July 2011 he joined A.S. Casale Calcio.
The following season he moved to Rimini. In the summer of 2013 he signed a two-year contract with Alessandria. He ended his career with Catanzaro, after becoming a free agent at the conclusion of the 2015–16 season.
Managerial career
For the 2016–17 season, Taddei joined the coaching staff of Bassano Virtus manager Luca D'Angelo, in the role of assistant coach. After D'Angelo's dismissal in 2017, he left the club, and retained his post as the former's assistant manager at Casertana, and subsequently Pisa in 2018; with the latter side, they obtained promotion to Serie B during the 2018–19 season.
Style of play
A creative left–footed forward or midfielder, with excellent technical skills, Taddei usually played as a second striker or as an attacking midfielder, although he was also capable of playing as a left winger. Despite the talent that he displayed in his youth, his career was affected by several injuries, which impeded him from establishing himself at the top level.
Honours
Player
Fiorentina
Coppa Italia winner: 2000–01
Supercoppa Italiana runner-up: 2001
Cremonese
Serie C2 (Group A) Runner-up: 2003–04
Serie C2 Promotion playoff winner: 2003–04
Serie C1 (Group A) Champions: 2004–05
References
External links
Profile at gazzetta.it
1980 births
Living people
Italian footballers
Italy under-21 international footballers
Italy youth international footballers
ACF Fiorentina players
Genoa C.F.C. players
U.S. Cremonese players
Brescia Calcio players
U.S. Città di Pontedera players
U.S. Triestina Calcio 1918 players
U.S. Catanzaro 1929 players
Rimini F.C. 1912 players
U.S. Alessandria Calcio 1912 players
Serie A players
Serie B players
Serie C players
Association football forwards
Sportspeople from the Province of Pisa
Footballers from Tuscany |
44507116 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornwall%20Domesday%20Book%20tenants-in-chief | Cornwall Domesday Book tenants-in-chief | The Domesday Book of 1086 lists in the following order the tenants-in-chief in Cornwall of King William the Conqueror:
Osbern FitzOsbern (died 1103), Bishop of Exeter
Tavistock Church, Devon
The churches of various saints
St Michael's Church
Canons of St Stephen's
St Petroc's Church, Bodmin
Canons of St Achebran's
Canons of Probus
Canons of St Carantoc's
Canons of St Piran's
Canons of St Buryan's
Clergy of St Neot
Robert, Count of Mortain (died 1090), half-brother of the king
Juhel de Totnes (died 1123/30), feudal baron of Totnes
Gotshelm, brother of Walter de Claville
Sources
Thorn, Caroline & Frank, (eds.) Domesday Book, (Morris, John, gen. ed.) Vol. 10, Cornwall, Chichester: Phillimore, 1979
Domesday Book tenants-in-chief
Medieval Cornwall
Domesday |
20484540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alguber | Alguber | Alguber () is a parish of Cadaval, in Lisbon District, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 957, in an area of 19.26 km².
References
Parishes of Cadaval |
23580385 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijitha%20Herath | Vijitha Herath | Herath Mudiyanselage Vijitha Herath (born 1 May 1968) is a Sri Lankan politician, former Cabinet Minister of Cultural Affairs & National Heritage and current member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He contested in the 2010 parliamentary election under the Democratic National Alliance (DNA) and was elected to parliament from Gampaha District.
Electoral history
References
Parliament profile
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
Living people
Members of the 11th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna politicians
National People's Power politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
1968 births |
20484551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haraipur | Haraipur | Haraipur is a village situated in the Siwan district of Bihar, India. It is in the eastern part of the district, and surrounded by villages Balathara, Sohilpatty, Usuri, Seriyan, Parauli and Balitola. Gandak canal passes through the village.
Pin Code is 841406.
External links
http://www.haraipur.com
Villages in Siwan district |
23580390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samansiri%20Herath | Samansiri Herath | Samansiri Herath is a Sri Lankan politician and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna politicians
Jathika Nidahas Peramuna politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians |
6910672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin%20Luistro | Armin Luistro | Brother Armin Altamirano Luistro, FSC (born December 24, 1961) is a Filipino Lasallian Brother who served as secretary of the Department of Education of the Philippines under President Benigno Aquino III. Luistro entered De La Salle Scholasticate (the center for academic training of De La Salle Brothers) in Manila on April 1979 while he was studying in De La Salle University (DLSU). He received the religious habit of the congregation on October 1981 at the La Salle Novitiate in Lipa. He professed his first religious vows on October 1982, and his final vows on May 1988.
He started teaching as a religion teacher at De La Salle Lipa in 1983. He was made provincial of the De La Salle Brothers Philippine District on April 1997, a post he held until 2003. On August 26, 2000, Luistro co-founded the De La Salle Catholic University Manado, in Indonesia with Josef Suwatan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Manado.
On April 2004, he succeeded Andrew Gonzalez as the president of De La Salle University System, consequently making him the president of eight De La Salle institutions. He worked into establishing De La Salle Philippines (DLSP) which replaced the system. The DLSP National Mission Council appointed him DLSP President and Chief Executive Officer on November 29, 2005.
He was appointed as the Secretary of Education of the Philippines on June 30, 2010, becoming the second De La Salle brother to hold the post—the other was Gonzalez who was in office from 1998 to 2001. Luistro has the least net worth among Aquino's cabinet. He had ₱89,000 (US$2,060). In contrast, the richest—Cesar Purisima who is Secretary of Finance—had ₱252 million (US$5.84 million).
The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) have expressed skepticism over Luistro's stand on sex education citing his religious background. Nevertheless, the Department of Education has included sex education in its curriculum for grade 5 to fourth year high school. Roman Catholic groups have criticized it for allegedly not covering the emotional, psychological and spiritual dimensions of sexuality.
Luistro is a major proponent of the K+12 Basic Education Program in the Philippines. The program sought to add two years to the previous 10-year basic education curriculum. Numerous parties had opposed the plan including Ateneo de Manila University President Bienvenido Nebres and progressive groups of students, teachers and parents.
Educational background
Luistro was born on December 24, 1961, to José Dimayuga Luistro and Magdalena Aranda Altamirano-Luistro in Lipa, Batangas, Philippines. He attended first grade at Our Lady of the Rosary Academy in Lipa, grades 2 to 5 at Canossa Academy Lipa, and graduated elementary and high school at De La Salle Lipa. He pursued his undergraduate studies at De La Salle University in Manila under a scholarship, and was conferred Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Letters on March 1981. When asked in a Manila Bulletin interview in 2009, he shared that he had spent most of his education in Batangas, and since DLSU had no uniforms, he "wore all the badúy [unfashionable] type of shirts", as he put it, using the Tagalog word for "unfashionable", while most of his classmates were from elite high schools. Thus he says "I supposed [they] laughed at me."
In 1981 he entered into a program in Ateneo de Manila University, and was awarded a Certificate in Formation Institute for Religious Educators in 1985. He enrolled in a graduate program in DLSU in 1991, and was conferred a Master of Arts degree in Religious Education in 1993. He also graduated with a master's degree in religious education and values formation at the same university in 2003. He was conferred a doctorate degree in educational management on May 2005 from the University of St. La Salle in Bacolod.
He was made Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, by La Salle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States on May 9, 2004.
Religious and academic career
Luistro entered the De La Salle Scholasticate (the center for academic training of De La Salle Brothers) in Manila on April 1979, and received the religious habit on October 1981 at the La Salle Novitiate in Lipa. He professed his first religious vows on October 1982, and his final vows on May 1988. In the Manila Bulletin interview, he said that teaching was the reason why he entered the congregation.
He started teaching as a religion teacher at De La Salle Lipa in 1983. He moved to La Salle Greenhills in 1986. He was made provincial of the De La Salle Brothers Philippine District on April 1997, a post he held until 2003.
On August 26, 2000, Luistro co-founded the De La Salle Catholic University of Manado, currently known as De La Salle University, in Indonesia with Josef Suwatan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Manado. DLSU in Manila supervised initial operations before it was transferred to the Philippine District.
On April 2004, he succeeded Andrew Gonzalez as the president of De La Salle University System, consequently making him the president of eight De La Salle institutions. In his inaugural speech, he acknowledged the "multiversity" concept of Gonzalez who established the system. In which structure, DLSU served as the flagship while other De La Salle institutions specialized in fields like agriculture, alternative education and medicine.
He did, however, find the system's structure unfeasible. He worked into establishing De La Salle Philippines which replaced the system. Under the reorganization, other De La Salle institutions were included in the network—a total of 17. Each De La Salle institution was autonomous and had its own president. The DLSP National Mission Council appointed him DLSP President and Chief Executive Officer on November 29, 2005.
Political involvement
Luistro called for the resignation of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo during the height of the Hello Garci scandal in 2005. In which time, he became close to the Aquino family, a prominent political family in the Philippines. He also delivered a eulogy (named Cory, the Heart of a Saint) during the wake of former President Corazon Aquino, and said "our closeness with her was really borne out of that period [Hello Garci scandal], none of her children went to La Salle."
Work at the Department of Education
President Benigno Aquino III, Corazon's son, appointed him as the secretary of the Department of Education. He was inaugurated on June 30, 2010, becoming the second De La Salle brother to hold the post—the other was Gonzalez who was in office from 1998 to 2001.
Aquino gave Luistro two years to address problems, including insufficient books, classrooms and teachers. Luistro estimates a lack of 130,000 teachers, 72,000 classrooms, 7 million desks, 141,000 comfort rooms and 96 million books.
As of December 2010, Luistro has the least net worth among Aquino's cabinet. He had ₱89,000 (US$2,060). In contrast, the richest—Cesar Purisima who is Secretary of Finance—had ₱252 million (US$5.84 million). He declared an annual gross salary of ₱989,496 (US$22,900).
Sex education
The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) have expressed skepticism over Luistro's stand on sex education citing his religious background. Meanwhile, Luistro's predecessor, Mona Valisno expressed her confidence with Luistro.
The Department of Education has included sex education in its curriculum for grade 5 to fourth year high school. Roman Catholic groups have criticized it for allegedly not covering the emotional, psychological and spiritual dimensions of sexuality. Likewise, former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lingayen-Dagupan Oscar V. Cruz criticized Luistro for his alleged lack of comment regarding the Reproductive Health Bill, which proposes to integrate sex education in public schools. He appealed Luistro to "stop teaching lewd studies [sex education] in schools" (trans.).
Luistro stated that sex education was not his priority. He instead wanted to focus on streamlining the bureaucracy of DepEd, which employs 600,000 employees (501,158 of which are teachers). In line with this, he announced on December 28, 2010, that DepEd would terminate all of its 67 consultants by the end of the year. The DepEd-National Employees Union, in response, has called for his resignation. Luistro argued, however, that "streamlining is a must" as bulk of the department's budget goes to funding the salary of its employees.
K+12 Basic Education Program
Luistro is a major proponent of the K+12 Basic Education Program in the Philippines. The program seeks to add two years to the current 10-year basic education curriculum, and make graduates more competitive. The program involves kindergarten, six years of elementary, four years of junior high school, and two years of senior high school. Kindergarten was required in 2012 while senior high school is planned to be included in the curriculum by 2016. DepEd said that 77 percent of its participants in fora are in favor of the change. Before its implementation in 2012, the Philippines was the only country in Asia which employed 10 years of basic education—all other countries had 12. Numerous parties have opposed the plan including Ateneo de Manila University President Bienvenido Nebres and progressive groups of students, teachers and parents. A spokesperson of No To K–12 Alliance said:
Indigenous framework of education
Luistro signed on behalf of the Deped the national policy framework for Indigenous peoples education in 2011. The framework aims to address Indigenous peoples' lack of access to "culture-responsive basic education". The framework directs DepEd offices and units to ensure that textbooks and other learning materials are free from discriminatory and erroneous content that misrepresent the history and culture of Indigenous peoples.
References
External links
De La Salle University
De La Salle Alumni Association
Philippine Lasallian Family
De La Salle Philippines
Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools
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Living people
Ateneo de Manila University alumni
De La Salle Brothers in the Philippines
De La Salle University alumni
Filipino Roman Catholics
Secretaries of Education of the Philippines
People from Lipa, Batangas
Roman Catholic religious brothers
Benigno Aquino III Administration cabinet members
Presidents of universities and colleges in the Philippines
Visayan people |
26721514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Rotten | Ian Rotten | John Benson Williams (born June 1, 1970) is an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Ian Rotten. He has wrestled in the Global Wrestling Federation (GWF), Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), the United States Wrestling Association (USWA), and his own wrestling promotion IWA: Mid-South.
Professional wrestling career
Early career
After becoming a fan of Dusty Rhodes and "Superstar" Billy Graham while growing up in Florida and Baltimore, Maryland, John Williams, began his career under the name Johnny Lawler, the storyline illegitimate son of Jerry "The King" Lawler. After a short stint as hockey gimmick Zach Blades, Williams went to wrestle in the Global Wrestling Federation.
The Bad Breed
In GWF, Williams formed The Bad Breed, a tag team with Brian Knighton as brothers Ian and Axl Rotten, respectively. They defeated the Texas Mustangs (Bobby Duncum, Jr. & Johnny Hawk) for the GWF Tag Team Championship in January 1993, losing the titles shortly thereafter. In June 1994 in Extreme Championship Wrestling, the Bad Breed started a feud with The Public Enemy over the ECW Tag Team Championship, but never won the title.
Later career
The Rotten brothers briefly feuded with each other prior to Williams' termination from ECW in late 1995. He moved to Kentucky, where he started a wrestling hotline followed by the IWA Mid-South promotion in early 1996. IWA was controversial for its use of violent and bloody hardcore wrestling. In 2008, IWA and Williams were investigated by Indiana State Police over the violence in their shows. In 2011, IWA shut down and was restarted by a third party, with Williams making occasional appearances.
Personal life
Williams is the father of John Calvin Glenn, known also by the ring name of J.C. Rotten.
Championships and accomplishments
Anarchy Championship Wrestling
ACW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Drake Younger
Global Wrestling Federation
GWF Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Axl Rotten
Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South
IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Championship (8 times)
IWA Mid-South Tag Team Championship (5 times) - with Axl Rotten (2), Cash Flo (1), Tarek the Great (1) and Mad Man Pondo (1)
IWA Mid-South King of the Deathmatch (1997, 2001)
Juggalo Championship Wrestling
JCW Tag Team Championship (1 times) - with Lane Bloody
NWA New Jersey
NWA United States Tag Team Championship (New Jersey version) (1 time) - with Blaze
NWA Revolution
NWA Revolution Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Danny McKay
Westside Xtreme Wrestling
wXw World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
wXw Hardcore Championship (1 time)
References
External link
1970 births
American male professional wrestlers
Living people
Professional wrestling promoters
ECW Originals members
People from Baltimore
Professional wrestlers from Maryland |
20484568 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archduchess%20Maria%20Theresa%20of%20Austria-Este%20%281817%E2%80%931886%29 | Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este (1817–1886) | Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este () (14 July 1817, Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio – 25 March 1886, Gorizia, Austria-Hungary) was a member of the House of Austria-Este and Archduchess of Austria, Princess of Hungary, Bohemia, and Modena by birth. Henri was disputedly King of France and Navarre from 2 to 9 August 1830 and afterwards the Legitimist pretender to the throne of France from 1844 to 1883. Maria Theresa was the eldest child of Francis IV, Duke of Modena and his niece-wife Maria Beatrice of Savoy.
Biography
Maria Theresa married Henri, comte de Chambord, the posthumous son of Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, younger son of Charles X of France, by his wife, Princess Caroline Ferdinande of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, daughter of Francis I of the Two Sicilies, by proxy on 7 November 1846 in Modena and in person on 16 November 1846 in Bruck an der Mur. Maria Theresa and Henri produced no children.
Maria Theresa had been chosen as Henri's wife by his paternal aunt Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte of France. Marie-Thérèse sought to ally the exiled French Royal Family with the House of Austria-Este for several reasons: it was Roman Catholic and the only royal family not to have recognized the July Monarchy of Louis-Philippe of France. Henri had actually preferred Maria Theresa's youngest sister, Maria Beatrix.
After Henri's death on 24 August 1883, Maria Theresa and a minority of Henri's supporters held that Juan, Count of Montizón, as senior male descendant of Louis XIV, was his successor. Juan's wife was Maria Theresa's sister, Maria Beatrix.
Maria Theresa was instrumental in building a crypt for the French Royal Family at the Church of the Annunciation of Our Lady on Castagnevizza in Görz (now in Nova Gorica, Slovenia). It was her wish that the last of the Bourbons be gathered in one place together within the monastery at Castagnevizza. Three years after the death of her husband Henri, Maria Theresa died on 25 March 1886 in Görz and was interred with her husband in the crypt of the church of Franciscan Monastery of Castagnevizza in Görz.
Honours
: Dame of the Order of the Starry Cross
Gallery
Ancestry
References
1817 births
1886 deaths
Austria-Este
Austrian princesses
Modenese princesses
Princesses of France (Bourbon)
Burials at Kostanjevica Monastery |
23580392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renuka%20Herath | Renuka Herath | Dunuthilaka Mudiyanselage Renuka Menike Herath, commonly known as Renuka Herath (Sinhala: රේණුකා හේරත්, Tamil language: ரேணுகா ஹேரத், Born 7 September 1945 – 13 March 2017), was a prominent Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. She was the Health Minister under President Ranasinghe Premadasa. Renuka Herath was the opposition leader of the Central Provincial Council when she died.
During her tenure as the Minister of Health, while there was a tremendous amount of improvement to the healthcare system, it was also a time where no strikes in the healthcare service sector were allowed to cause inconvenience the public. She was active in politics up until she died in 2017.
She is still known today as one of the most outspoken and courageous political leaders who fought for justice and rights of the people.
Career
Renuka Herath was a member of the UNP and came into politics by contesting in 1977 from her native Walapane electorate in Nuwara-Eliya district. She went on to win her first election and became a district minister.
In 1988, she was appointed as the deputy minister of cultural affairs. During President Ranasinghe Premadasa’s regime, she was the Minister of Health and women’s affairs. It was during her tenure in office that a major development in infrastructure and public service sector and uplift the quality of life for the people in Walapane and Nuwara-Eliya.
References
1945 births
2017 deaths
Members of the 8th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 10th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
District ministers of Sri Lanka
Health ministers of Sri Lanka
Women legislators in Sri Lanka
Women government ministers of Sri Lanka
United National Party politicians
20th-century Sri Lankan women politicians
21st-century Sri Lankan women politicians |
44507121 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou%20Kilzer | Lou Kilzer | Lou Kilzer (born 1951) is an investigative journalist and author and a two time Pulitzer Prize Winner.
Career
Journalism
He began work as a journalist in 1973 after graduating cum laude in philosophy from Yale University, joining the Rocky Mountain News in December 1977. He covered police, courts and investigations. In 1983, he began a five-year stint on the investigations unit and city desk of the Denver Post, and then seven years on the investigative unit of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
In 1986, Kilzer and two other Denver Post reporters won for that newspaper a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for a series that debunked the notion that millions of small American children were being kidnapped each year by strangers.
He and another Minneapolis Star-Tribune reporter won a Pulitzer for investigative reporting in 1990 for articles exposing how top officials at the Saint Paul Fire Department were profiting from the arson industry. He has also won over a dozen national journalism awards, including the George Polk Award for National Reporting, and the IRE award for investigative journalism.
In 1994, Kilzer returned to the Denver Post as investigations editor, followed by five years as investigative reporter where he had begun his career: The Rocky Mountain News. Kilzer covered the insider stock trading by Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio and appeared before his stock fraud indictment and conviction. In 2008, Kilzer accepted the job of editor-in-chief of the JoongAng Daily in Seoul, South Korea. The JoongAng Daily (now known as the Korea JoongAng Daily) is published in partnership with the International New York Times. Kilzer returned to the United States in 2010, taking a job on the investigative unit of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. He retired and moved with his wife, Liz, to Costa Rica where he is pursuing a book writing career.
In 2012 he won the William Brewster Styles Award given by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers for reporting on international money laundering. Kilzer won the award, together with fellow reporter Andrew Conte and Investigations Editor Jim Wilhelm for work published in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Books
Kilzer's 1994 book, Churchill's Deception, sought to prove that Great Britain tricked Germany into attacking the Soviet Union in 1941. It was published by Simon & Schuster. Kirkus Reviews called the book "an audacious rereading of the diplomatic history" of World War II," in which Kilzer argues "that Winston Churchill deliberately nurtured Hitler's illusion that powerful British factions sought an end to the war on terms favorable to Nazi Germany, and thus outwitted Hitler into starting a war against the Soviets that Germany could not win." The book maintains that Rudolf Hess's 1941 flight to Britain was a British intelligence operation, and that the man who died in Spandau Prison in 1987 was not Hess. Kirkus called the book "an absorbing and cogently argued original contribution to WW II literature." Booklist said historians would give the book "short shrift" because it was primarily derived from existing published works, and Library Journal described the Hess theory as "generally discredited."
His 2000 book Hitler's Traitor: Martin Bormann and the Defeat of the Reich contends that Germany's defeat was largely the result of the Red Orchestra spy ring that had penetrated the German High Command. The book contends that Martin Bormann, a top aide to Adolf Hitler, and Heinrich Müller, head of the Gestapo, were both Soviet agents. Publishers Weekly said that Kilzer "revisits this arena with an entertaining synthesis of evidence about the activities of these spies, extensive accounts of relevant military history, and informed speculations about causes and effects, motives and behaviors."
Kilzer's first book of fiction, co-authored with Mark Boyden, a British business consulting executive, is called "Fatal Redemption," published by Enigmas Publishing. "Fatal Redemption" won several national awards including the IRDA in 2015, the crime fiction award category for the Beverly Hills International Book Awards and the general fiction category of the 2015 Great Northwest Book Festival. Kilzer and Boyden are writing a series centering around a journalist named Sally Will. This includes the title, "Fatal Seductions."
Personal life
Kilzer was born in Cody, Wyoming, the son of Robert and Marjorie Kilzer. He and his wife, Liz Kovacs, have two grown children.
Published works
Kilzer, Lou, and Mark Boyden. Fatal Redemption: A Mystery Thriller. Enigmas Publishing, 2014.
Kilzer, Lou, and Mark Boyden. Fatal Seductions: Second in the Sally Will series. Enigmas Publishing, 2015.
Kilzer, Lou, and Sarah Huntley. Battered Justice. Denver, CO: Rocky Mountain News, 2005.
Kilzer, Louis C. Hitler's Traitor: Martin Bormann and the Defeat of the Reich. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 2000.
Kilzer, Louis C. Churchill's Deception: The Dark Secret That Destroyed Nazi Germany. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
References
1951 births
Living people
American male journalists
Yale University alumni
Journalists from Wyoming
Pulitzer Prize winners
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting winners
American expatriates in Costa Rica
People from Cody, Wyoming |
6910687 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thullur | Thullur | Thulluru is a Village in Guntur district of Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is located at a distance of 4 km from Krishna River and was a village in Thulluru mandal of Guntur district, prior to its denotification as gram panchayat.
Demographics
Census of India, the town had a population of , of which males are , females are and the population under 6 years of age are . The average literacy rate stands at 69.44 percent, with literates.
Transport
Thulluru is located on Vijayawada and Amaravati route. The village is served by the APSRTC city bus services from Vijayawada bus station and Guntur Bus Station. Nowadays No of Buses Plying over Thullur to serve Secratariat.
Education
The primary and secondary school education is imparted by government, aided and private schools, under the School Education Department of the state. The medium of instruction followed by different schools are English, Telugu.
See also
Thulluru mandal
References
External links
Neighbourhoods in Amaravati
Mandal headquarters in Guntur district |
20484618 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s%20What%20I%20Do | It's What I Do | It's What I Do is the title of the fifth studio album released by American country music artist Billy Dean. It was his first album since Men'll Be Boys two years previous. This was also his first release for Capitol Records Nashville, as the Nashville division of Liberty Records had been merged into Capitol. The album produced three singles: the title track at #5, followed by "That Girl's Been Spyin' on Me" at #4 and "I Wouldn't Be a Man" at #45. (The latter was originally a Top Ten country hit for Don Williams, in 1987.) The album also reunited him with Tom Shapiro, who had co-produced his first two albums.
Track listing
"It's What I Do" (Tom Shapiro, Chuck Jones) – 3:22
"That Girl's Been Spyin' on Me" (Shapiro, Max T. Barnes) – 3:44
"In the Name of Love" (Skip Ewing, Doug Stone) – 3:39
"Down to Your Last One More" (Gary Burr) – 3:13
"I Wouldn't Be a Man" (Mike Reid, Rory Bourke)– 4:24
"When Our Backs Are Against the Wall" (Billy Dean, Tim Nichols) – 4:01
"Play Something We Can Dance To" (Dean, Dennis Morgan) – 4:04
"The Mountain Moved" (Bob Regan, George Teren) – 2:53
"Don't Threaten Me With a Good Time" (Kostas, Bobby Boyd, Don Mealer) – 3:14
"Leavin' Line" (Pam Rose, Mary Ann Kennedy, Pat Bunch) – 4:41
Personnel
Eddie Bayers – drums, percussion
Bruce Bouton – lap steel guitar
Larry Byrom – acoustic guitar
Linda Davis – background vocals
Billy Dean – lead vocals, background vocals, acoustic guitar
Thom Flora – background vocals
Paul Franklin – pedal steel guitar, Dobro
Terry McMillan – shaker, tambourine, cowbell, harmonica
Steve Nathan – keyboards
Brent Rowan – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Joe Spivey – fiddle, mandolin
Nicol Sponberg- background vocals
Tina Clark-Vallejo – background vocals
Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
Glenn Worf – bass guitar
Curtis Wright – background vocals
Curtis Young – background vocals
Jonathan Yudkin – fiddle
Synthesizer strings performed by Carl Marsh, arranged by Carl Marsh and Tom Shapiro.
Chart performance
References
Allmusic (see infobox)
1996 albums
Capitol Records albums
Billy Dean albums |
26721515 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mwea%20Constituency | Mwea Constituency | Mwea Constituency is an electoral constituency in Kenya. It is one of four constituencies in Kirinyaga County. The constituency was established for the 1988 elections.
Members of Parliament
Locations and wards
References
Constituencies in Kirinyaga County
Constituencies in Central Province (Kenya)
1988 establishments in Kenya
Constituencies established in 1988 |
20484639 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peral%2C%20Portugal | Peral, Portugal | Peral () is a freguesia (civil parish) of Cadaval, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 905, in an area of 16.46 km². One of its villages is Barreiras.
References
Parishes of Cadaval |
17342338 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%20Muttukumaru | Anton Muttukumaru | Major General Anton M. Muttukumaru, OBE, ED, ADC (6 July 1908 – 2001) was the first Ceylonese Army officer to serve as Commander of the Ceylon Army (now Sri Lankan Army), a post he held from 1955 to 1959. He also served as Ceylon's High Commissioner to Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan and Ambassador to Egypt.
Early life and education
Born to Jaffna Tamil parents Dr Philip Marian Muttukumaru and Mary Mount Carmel Alles, he and his siblings were brought up by their mother after the early death of their father. Educated at home by an English governess and then at St. Joseph's College, Colombo, he then entered Ceylon University College and in 1928, he left for Jesus College, Oxford to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. After completing his degree, he read for the Bar and was called by Gray's Inn to become a barrister. He returned to Ceylon, took his oaths as an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Ceylon and started his legal practice.
Military career
Ceylon Defence Force
After returning from England, in 1934 he joined the Ceylon Defence Force, a part-time reserve force raised by the British to defend the island. Muttukumaru was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Ceylon Light Infantry (CLI) on 11 September 1934. In 1939 he was mobilised with the rest of the CDF at the outset of World War II. During this time, he would go on to command the CLI Guard at the South East Asia Command headquarters in Kandy and was promoted captain on 29 November 1940 and major in 1942. On 1 November 1943 he was promoted lieutenant colonel and appointed commanding officer, 2nd Battalion CLI, in which appointment he continued to serve until the general demobilisation which took place after the end of the war in January 1947. He led Ceylon's contingent in the London victory parade in 1946.
Following the war, Muttukumaru worked once again as a lawyer representing the Attorney General, in a variety of cases but soon gave up law to function as Officer in Charge, Administration in the Ceylon Defence Force Headquarters, where he assisted in the initial plans for the formation of a new Ceylon Army, including the drafting of the Army Act.
Ceylon army
When the Ceylon Army was formed in 1949, he was one of three lieutenant colonels commissioned into the regular force with the serial no O/50001. There he served as the chief of staff to Brigadier the Earl of Caithness. During this time he attended the Senior Officers' School, where he was taught by Field Marshal Montgomery and befriended future Israeli Defence Minister, Brigadier Moshe Dayan. He led the Ceylon contingent of soldiers to London on ceremonial duties for the funeral of George VI in 1952, and for the Queen's coronation. There his men mounted guard at Buckingham Palace. He was subsequently attached to the British Army in West Germany, serving at the Headquarters of the British Army of the Rhine.
On 1 January 1954, he was promoted to the rank of colonel and took over as commanding officer of the 1 Battalion, Ceylon Light Infantry and Officer Commanding Troops, Panagoda. Under his command the battalion undertook its first live fire exercise Ex TYRO. On 19 July 1954, he was appointed aide-de-camp to the Queen. On 8 February 1955, he relinquished command of the Ceylon Light Infantry.
Army Commander
On 9 February 1955, he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier and appointed first Ceylonese Army Commander. This took place while he was at attending the Imperial Defence College, Colonel Wijeyekoon who was the chief of staff, served as acting army commander until his return in 1956 when he assumed command of the army. On 1 January 1958, he was promoted to the rank of Major General, becoming the first army officer to hold the rank. During his time as commander, the army grew in size and was deployed on several occasions to curb civil unrest and riots. He elevated the Army Recruit Training Depot at Diyatalawa to the Army Training Centre, raised a new infantry battalion, Ceylon Sinha Regiment, promoted all commanding officer to the rank of lieutenant colonel after elevating all regular units to regimental strength; established the Headquarters of the Ceylon Volunteer Force and initiated the concept of regional commands. In 1959, he decided to retire so that younger officers could have their chance to command, even though Prime Minister Solomon Bandaranaike asked him to stay on.
Later years
After leaving the army, Muttukumaru was appointed Ceylon's High Commissioner to Pakistan (with concurrent responsibility for Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq) in 1959, and High Commissioner to Australia and New Zealand from 1963 to 1966. Later in 1966, Muttukumaru became Ambassador to Egypt, concurrently he was Ambassador to Jordan, the Sudan and Yugoslavia. He permanently retired in 1969.
Honors and decorations
During his service in the Ceylon Defence Force, he received the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal in 1935, appointed an officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) in the 1946 Birthday Honours and awarded the Efficiency Decoration. For wartime service, he had earned the Defence Medal and the War Medal 1939–1945 in 1945; for service in the Ceylon Army, he received the Ceylon Armed Services Inauguration Medal in 1955.
In 1996, the General Sir John Kotelawela Defence Academy awarded an 'Honourable Doctor of Letters' to him for his contributions to the buildup of the Army and for being the first to publish a short history of the Army, "The Military History of Ceylon – An Outline" (). General Muttukumaru died in Australia in 2001 at the age of 93.
Family
Muttukumaru married Margaret Vasanthi Ratnarajah in 1944. They had three sons: Anton Vasantha Muttukumaru, Philip Rajkantha Muttukumaru and Christopher Peter Jayantha Muttukumaru, CB, DL.
See also
Sri Lankan Non Career Diplomats
References
External links
Official Website of Sri Lanka Army
First Ceylonese Commander of the Army
Maj-Gen Anton Muttukumaru
Muttukumaru ancestry
Deserters are cowards, says first Sri Lankan Army Chief
1908 births
2001 deaths
Sri Lankan major generals
Ceylonese lieutenant colonels
Sri Lankan Tamil lawyers
Sri Lankan Tamil military personnel
High Commissioners of Sri Lanka to Australia
High Commissioners of Sri Lanka to New Zealand
High Commissioners of Sri Lanka to Pakistan
Ambassadors of Sri Lanka to Egypt
Ambassadors of Sri Lanka to Afghanistan
Ambassadors of Sri Lanka to Iran
Ambassadors of Sri Lanka to Iraq
Ambassadors of Sri Lanka to Jordan
Ambassadors of Sri Lanka to Sudan
Ambassadors of Sri Lanka to Yugoslavia
Australian people of Sri Lankan Tamil descent
Sri Lankan diplomats
Tamil people
Sri Lankan emigrants to Australia
Sri Lankan Roman Catholics
Ceylonese Officers of the Order of the British Empire
British Army personnel of World War II
Ceylon Light Infantry officers
Alumni of the Ceylon University College
Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford
Members of Gray's Inn
Sri Lankan barristers
Ceylonese advocates
Ceylonese military personnel of World War II
Alumni of Saint Joseph's College, Colombo
Alumni of the Royal College of Defence Studies |
44507145 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20M.%20Lewis%20%28diplomat%29 | Paul M. Lewis (diplomat) | Paul Lewis is an American lawyer and diplomat. Lewis served as Marine JAG officer and chief counsel to House Armed Services Committee, before President Obama appointed him as Special Envoy for Guantanamo Bay facility closure.
Early life and education
Lewis earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1980 and his J.D. degree from Notre Dame Law School in 1983.
Career
He rose to the rank of captain, within the Marine Corps, during the five years he served as a JAG officer.
He had also served as an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan, and an anti-racketeering prosecutor for the Department of Justice, before holding a series of posts as counsels to Congressional Representatives, or to Congressional committees.
Obama had announced the creation of two positions during a speech about Guantanamo at the Defense University in May 2013.
William Lietzau, the most recent Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs had resigned in July, without being replaced. Lewis's position was not a direct replacement for the empty DASD-DA position. The other position was that of a special envoy for Guantanamo closure within the State Department. That position had been filled in June, by Clifford Sloan. On October 7, 2013 President Barack Obama appointed Lewis to be United States Department of Defense's Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure, the most senior Pentagon official tasked with closing the notorious Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. Lewis is currently a law professor at Georgetown University.
Carol Rosenberg, writing in the Miami Herald, reported that, at Georgetown Lewis had specialized in teaching legal ethics.
The Hill reported Lewis also had responsibility for finding new homes for the foreigners the USA held in extrajudicial detention in Afghanistan.
References
Living people
American military lawyers
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
Notre Dame Law School alumni
University of Notre Dame alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
23580394 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.%20M.%20Jayaratne | D. M. Jayaratne | Dissanayaka Mudiyanselage Jayaratne (, ; 4 June 1931 – 19 November 2019), known as D. M. "Di Mu" Jayaratne, was a veteran Sri Lankan politician who was Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 2010 to 2015. A founding member of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, Jayaratne was first elected to parliament in 1970. He was sworn in as Prime Minister on 21 April 2010.
Early life
D. M. Jayaratne was born on 4 June 1931. He was educated at Doluwa Maha Vidyalaya and at Zahira College in Gampola, a town just outside Kandy. Following the founding of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party in Kandy in 1951 by S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Jayaratne worked as a teacher at Doluwa Maha Vidyalaya. He later worked as Postmaster at Doluwa from 1960 to 1962.
Political career
Jayaratne started his political career having been elected a member of the Village Council of Doluwa, where he later became the Chairman of the Village Council. He also become the President of the Kandy District Village Council Chairmen Association and a Member of the Federation of All Ceylon Village Council.
He first entered parliament following the 1970 general election, obtaining 14,463 votes as the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) candidate in the Gampola electorate, and defeating W.P.B. Dissanayake of the United National Party (UNP). He was subsequently defeated by Dissanayake in the 1977 election in which just 8 members of the SLFP were returned to parliament. He was again re-elected to parliament in 1989 from the Kandy District under the new preferential voting system. He obtained 54,290 preferential votes, topping the SLFP list in the Kandy District.
Re-elected to parliament under the People's Alliance in 1994, Jayaratne was appointed Minister of Land, Agriculture and Forestry by President Chandrika Kumaratunga, entering the cabinet for the first time. He held several senior party positions such as Secretary General of People's United Front and Senior Vice President of Sri Lanka Freedom Party. Ministerial appointments he held included:
Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Forestry and Livestock (1994)
Minister of Agriculture, Land and Forestry (1997)
Minister of Agriculture and Land (1999)
Minister of Agriculture (2000)
Minister of Agriculture Land Forestry Food and Cooperative Development (2001 Probationary Government)
Minister of Post and Communication (2004 while being in the Opposition)
Minister of Post and Telecommunication (2004)
Minister of Telecommunication and Rural Economic Promotion (2005)
Minister of Telecommunication and Upcountry Development (2006)
Minister of Plantation Industries (2007)
Prime Minister
Following the election victory of the United People's Freedom Alliance at the 2010 general election, Jayaratne, the most senior member of the SLFP, was sworn in as Prime Minister on 21 April 2010. Under the constitution of Sri Lanka, the role of Prime Minister is largely a ceremonial post. Along with it, he also held the Ministry of Buddha Sasana (Buddhism) and Religious Affairs.
Personal life
Jayaratne had three children. His youngest Anuradha Jayaratne, is a State Minister and member of parliament, his daughter is a graduate from Manipal University, Manipal campus, India.
See also
List of political families in Sri Lanka
Cabinet of Sri Lanka
References
1931 births
2019 deaths
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
Members of the 7th Parliament of Ceylon
Members of the 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 10th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 11th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Prime Ministers of Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan Buddhists
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
People of British Ceylon
Posts ministers of Sri Lanka
Telecommunication ministers of Sri Lanka
Sinhalese politicians
Sinhalese teachers
Postmasters |
20484641 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne-Lise%20Seip | Anne-Lise Seip | Anne-Lise Seip (born 6 November 1933) is a Norwegian historian and former politician for the Socialist People's Party. A professor emerita at the University of Oslo, she specialized in social history and the history of the welfare state. She was married to the famous historian Jens Arup Seip.
Career
She grew up in Bergen, and finished her secondary education in 1952. She moved to Oslo in 1956 to study at the University of Oslo. She took the cand.philol. degree in 1966, and the dr.philos. degree in 1974 with the thesis Vitenskap og virkelighet, about Torkel Halvorsen Aschehoug.
While studying, she was a member of the Labour Party-affiliated Sosialistisk studentlag. However, she was excluded together with a group from this organization after visiting East Germany. Seip became a member of the Socialist People's Party at its foundation in 1961, and served for some time as a member of Bærum municipal council.
Seip was not hired in an academic position until 1974, when she became associate professor in criminology at the University of Oslo, covering for Tove Stang Dahl who was on a one-year leave. After one year, Seip was hired at the Institute of History. She was promoted to professor in 1985. Her field was modern Norwegian history, specifically social history, and her main works are Om velferdsstatens framvekst (1981), Sosialhjelpstaten blir til. Norsk sosialpolitikk fra 1740 til 1920 (1984) and Veien til velferdsstaten: norsk sosialpolitikk 1920-1975 (1994). She also penned volume eight of Aschehougs Norgeshistorie.
As a professor emerita, she has biographed Johan Sebastian Welhaven in Demringstid. Johan Sebastian Welhaven og nasjonen (2007). She is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. From 1974 to 1981 she was a member of Kringkastingsrådet.
Personal life
Seip was married to historian Jens Arup Seip, whom she met as a tutor at the university. The couple had two children, Ingebjørg and Åsmund, both of whom are academics. Jens Arup Seip died in 1992. Seip still lives at Høvik in Bærum.
References
1933 births
Living people
20th-century Norwegian historians
University of Oslo alumni
University of Oslo faculty
Socialist Left Party (Norway) politicians
Bærum politicians
Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
21st-century Norwegian historians
Norwegian women historians |
17342353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed%20of%20Gold | Bed of Gold | Bed of Gold is the debut EP of San Francisco-based indie rock band LoveLikeFire. It was released in 2006, the same year that the band formed. The album received critical praise from The A.V. Club, LA Weekly, and the East Bay Express.
Track listing
"Inner Space" – 2:29
"A Million Pieces" – 4:10
"Radio Nurse" – 5:03
"You're Never Alone" – 4:38
"Bullet Proof" – 3:10
"Delusion" – 6:07
References
2006 debut EPs
LoveLikeFire albums |
23580400 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Hennigan | Mike Hennigan | Michael Hennigan (born 20 December 1942) is an English retired professional football player and manager.
Career
Playing career
Hennigan played as a central defender and began his career with the youth team of Sheffield Wednesday, but he never made a first team league appearance. Hennigan later played in the Football League for Southampton and Brighton & Hove Albion, before moving to South Africa to play with Durban United.
Managerial career
Hennigan briefly took joint temporary management of Blackpool in 1999, along with Mike Davies, after the departure of Nigel Worthington.
Hennigan managed the Malawi national side in 2005.
References
External links
Mike Hennigan - A Tribute by John Doxey
1942 births
Living people
People from Thrybergh
Sportspeople from Yorkshire
English footballers
Association football defenders
Sheffield Wednesday F.C. players
Southampton F.C. players
Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. players
Durban United F.C. players
English Football League players
English football managers
Blackpool F.C. managers
Malawi national football team managers
Expatriate football managers in Malawi |
20484642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Allyn%20Jr. | Arthur Allyn Jr. | Arthur Allyn Jr. (December 24, 1913 – March 22, 1985) was the co-owner of the Chicago White Sox of the American League with his brother John Allyn from through . A few years after purchasing the franchise from Bill Veeck, Allyn tried to sell the team to a number of different parties, including Lamar Hunt and Bud Selig (who planned to move the team to Milwaukee, Wisconsin), before selling his share of the White Sox to his co-owner and brother John. Allyn also owned the Chicago Mustangs soccer club that was a charter member of the United Soccer Association in 1967. The Mustangs became part of the newly formed North American Soccer League the following year after merging with the NPSL.
Personal life
Arthur Allyn graduated from Dartmouth College in 1935 and was a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. He received the "Significant Sig" award from the fraternity in 1969.
References
White Sox History on Baseball Library
1913 births
1985 deaths
Major League Baseball owners
Chicago White Sox owners
Sportspeople from Chicago
North American Soccer League (1968–1984) executives |
17342369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaphabat%20district | Thaphabat district | Thaphabat is a district (muang) of Bolikhamsai province in central Laos.
References
Districts of Bolikhamsai province |
23580402 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrani%20Bandara%20Jayasinghe | Chandrani Bandara Jayasinghe | Chandrani Bandara Jayasinghe is a Sri Lankan politician and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
References
Living people
Members of the 11th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
United National Party politicians
1962 births
Women's ministers of Sri Lanka
21st-century Sri Lankan women politicians
Women government ministers of Sri Lanka
Women legislators in Sri Lanka |
20484661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20and%20Lillie | Arthur and Lillie | Arthur and Lillie is a 1975 American short documentary film directed by Jon H. Else. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. The film is a biographical documentary about Arthur and Lillie Mayer - their own lives and their adventures in the formation of "Hollywood" from its earliest days.
References
External links
Arthur and Lillie at Pyramid Media
1975 films
1975 documentary films
1975 short films
1970s English-language films
American short documentary films
1970s short documentary films
Documentary films about Hollywood, Los Angeles |
23580407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumedha%20Jayasena | Sumedha Jayasena | Sumedha Gunawathie Jayasena (සුමේධා ගුණවතී ජයසේන) is a Sri Lankan politician, a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a government cabinet minister.
Dr. Sumedha G. Jayasena is the Minister of Parliamentary affairs of Sri Lanka, aged 62. Sumedha G. Jyasena, has held various cabinet ministerial positions over the 25 continuous years of her political career. She has been doing an enormous service to her Constituency 'Monaragala' over the years. She contributed massively to the rehabilitation/rebuild process after the devastating 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka as the Minister of social services.
Political career
1989-1994 Member of Parliament Monaragala District
1994-1999 Deputy Minister of Buddhist Affairs
1999-2005 Minister of Social Services
2005-2010 Minister of Women's Affairs/Empowerment
2010–present Minister of Parliamentary Affairs
References
Living people
Members of the 10th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 11th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna politicians
1952 births
Women legislators in Sri Lanka
Social affairs ministers of Sri Lanka
20th-century Sri Lankan women politicians
21st-century Sri Lankan women politicians
Women government ministers of Sri Lanka |
17342405 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archbishops%27%20Council | Archbishops' Council | The Archbishops' Council is a part of the governance structures of the Church of England. Its headquarters are at Church House, Great Smith Street, London.
The council was created in 1999 to provide a central executive body to co-ordinate and lead the work of the church. This was a partial implementation of the recommendations of the report "Working Together as One Body" produced by Michael Turnbull (then Bishop of Durham) in 1994.
Objectives and objects
The council describes its objectives as:
enhancing the church's mission by:
promoting spiritual and numerical growth,
enabling and supporting the worshipping church and encouraging and promoting new ways of being church, and
engaging with issues of social justice and environmental stewardship
sustaining and advance the church's work in education, lifelong learning and discipleship;
enabling the church to select, train and resource the right people, both ordained and lay, to carry out public ministry and encouraging lay people in their vocation to the world; and
encouraging the maintenance and development of the inherited fabric of church buildings for worship and service to the community.
And its objects as:
giving a clear strategic sense of direction to the national work of the Church of England, within an overall vision set by the House of Bishops and informed by an understanding of the church's opportunities, needs and resources;
encouraging and resourcing the church in parishes and dioceses;
promoting close collaborative working between the church's national bodies, including through the management of a number of common services (communications, human resources, IT etc.);
supporting the archbishops with their diverse ministries and responsibilities; and engaging confidently with government and other bodies.
Legal status and membership
The Archbishops' Council was established by the National Institutions Measure passed by the General Synod of the Church of England in 1998. It has its own legal identity and is, in addition, a charity.
The council is made up of:
the Archbishop of Canterbury
the Archbishop of York
the prolocutors of the convocations of Canterbury and York
the chairman and vice-chairman of the House of Laity of the General Synod
two bishops elected by the House of Bishops of the General Synod
two members of the clergy elected by the House of Clergy of the General Synod
two lay people elected by the House of Laity
one of the Church Estates Commissioners
up to six other people jointly appointed by the two archbishops, with the consent of the General Synod. These appointees have a non-executive role and currently include:
Philip Fletcher (chair, Ofwat),
Mark Russell (chief executive, Church Army),
Andrew Britton (former director, National Institute of Economic and Social Research),
Mary Chapman (former chief executive, Chartered Management Institute),
Rosalyn Murphy (priest-in-charge, St Thomas's, Blackpool),
Rebecca Swinson (former chair, Church of England Youth Council)
The archbishops of Canterbury and York are the joint presidents of the council, but the Archbishop of Canterbury normally chairs its meetings.
The council is one of the "National Church Institutions"; the others include the Church Commissioners, the Church of England Pensions Board and the General Synod.
Committees and staff
The work of the council is assisted by a number of committees:
Mission and Public Affairs Council (including the Hospital Chaplaincies Council)
Board of Education
Committee for Minority Ethnic Anglican Concerns
Council for Christian Unity
Central Council for the Care of Churches
Committees of the Ministry Division
Committee for Ministry of and among Deaf and Disabled People
Deployment, Recruitment and Conditions of Service Committee
Theological Education and Training Committee
Vocation, Recruitment and Selection Committee
Finance Committee
Audit Committee
In 2006, the council employed about 250 staff. The senior posts include:
Secretary-General to the Council and the General Synod
Chief Education Officer
Director of Mission & Public Affairs
Head of Cathedral and Church Buildings
Director of Ministry
Director of Human Resources
Head of Legal Office and Chief Legal Adviser to the General Synod
Clerk to the Synod and Director of Central Secretariat
Finances
The members of the council are also members and directors of the Central Board of Finance of the Church of England. Technically, the board of finance is a separate legal entity, however all major decisions are taken by members of the council in their capacity as the directors of the Board.
In 2006, the council had a budget of approximately £61 million, principally derived from the Church Commissioners (about £32 million) and contributions from each of the dioceses (£24.5 million).
Spending in that year included grants to the dioceses (£31 million), training clergy (both funding for colleges and allowances for individuals in residential training - £10 million), grants to organisation such as Churches Together, the Church Urban Fund and the World Council of Churches (£2.2 million), and housing assistance for retired clergy (£2.8 million).
Notable members
William Fittall, secretary-general from 2002 to 2015
Philip Fletcher, 2007 to 2016
David Lammy, 1999 to 2002
William Nye, secretary-general from 2015-present
Jayne Ozanne, 1999 to 2004
Mark Russell, CEO of the Church Army, 2005 to 2011 and since 2015
Glyn Webster, present
References
External links
Official website
Anglican organizations established in the 20th century
Christian organizations established in 1999
Church of England ecclesiastical polity
Church of England societies and organisations
Organisations based in the City of Westminster
Religion in the City of Westminster
1999 establishments in the United Kingdom |
20484665 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASCAR%20Kart%20Racing | NASCAR Kart Racing | NASCAR Kart Racing is a kart racing video game that was released for the Wii console on February 10, 2009. The game features fourteen real world NASCAR drivers and ten fictional drivers. The cover drivers are, from left to right, Carl Edwards, Kyle Busch, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, and Jimmie Johnson. Other drivers featured in the game are Jeff Burton, Denny Hamlin, Kasey Kahne, Kevin Harvick, Elliott Sadler, and Matt Kenseth. Joey Logano and Richard Petty are unlockable drivers in the game.
This would be EA's only NASCAR title produced for 2009 and last game in the EA Sports NASCAR series. Due to low sales numbers for NASCAR 09 and other factors such as a difficulty making new features, the production of the annual simulation-style NASCAR games stopped until Eutechnyx's release of NASCAR The Game: 2011. EA's license as NASCAR's official video game producer expired upon the release of Gran Turismo 5.
This game marks the first NASCAR video game released on a Nintendo console since NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup.
Racetracks
There are twelve different racetracks, four of which are real venues. All real venues except Talladega Superspeedway include not only a part of the real track, but a fictional, off-road section. At Daytona International Speedway and Bristol Motor Speedway, the finish line is located on the off-road section. At Dover International Speedway, the finish line is located on the real track, but is located just after the crossover from the off-road section.
Reception
NASCAR Kart Racing received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.
IGN and Nintendo Life found the game fun and praised its controls, aesthetics, creativity, handling, and multiplayer, but took minor issue with the lack of online support, ghost racers in time trials, and mildly lackluster graphics for the hardware.
References
External links
NASCAR Kart Racing at Nintendo's page
2009 video games
Electronic Arts games
Karting video games
NASCAR video games
North America-exclusive video games
Racing video games
Video games developed in the United States
Wii games
Wii Wheel games
Wii-only games |
17342414 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankton%20High%20School | Yankton High School | Yankton High School is a public high school in Yankton, South Dakota, United States. It serves students in grades 9-12 for Yankton School District 63-3.
Notable alumni
Tom Brokaw, news anchor
Leroy V. Grosshuesch, World War II flying ace
Ray Hamann, professional basketball player
Colton Iverson, professional basketball player
Layne Somsen, Major League Baseball pitcher.
References
External links
Public high schools in South Dakota
Buildings and structures in Yankton, South Dakota
Schools in Yankton County, South Dakota |
26721523 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potamogeton%20compressus | Potamogeton compressus | Potamogeton compressus is a species of aquatic plant known by the common names grass-wrack pondweed, flatstem pondweed and eel-grass pondweed.
Description
Potamogeton compressus produces a strongly flattened, robust, branching stem up to 90 cm in maximum length
. It grows annually from turions and seed, producing bushy plants branching near the surface with long, rather grass-like leaves that are 85–240 mm long and 3–6 mm wide and olive-green or dark green, sometimes with a reddish tinge near the surface. Each leaf has two veins either side of the midrib and is bluntly pointed. The leaves have a rather opaque appearance compared to the transparent leaves of most pondweeds, due of the presence of fibres called sclerenchymatous strands. There are no rhizomes or floating leaves.
The inflorescences are up to 6 mm long with 4-6 flowers with a short peduncle (5–20 mm long, occasionally more). The fruits are 3.1-4 x 2.1–3 mm.
Grass-wrack pondweed is relatively easily distinguished from most other pondweeds by its combination of strongly flattened stems and sclerenchymatous strands in the leaf . P. acutifolius is similar in Europe but can be distinguished by its sharply pointed leaves, less branched habit and flower spikes with only 2-6 flowers on peduncles up to 20 mm long. In the Far East, P. mandschuriensis is an altogether smaller plant, with leaves 1.5-2.3 mm wide and 8-14 sclerenchymatous strands, stem 0.8-1.5 mm wide, and fruit 2.8-3.8 mm diameter.
This is a diploid species, with 2n=28.
Hybrids with P. acutifolius (P. × bambergensis Fischer), P. oxyphyllus (P. × faurei Miki) and P. trichoides (P. × ripoides Baagøe) have been recorded. P. × bambergensis may be reasonably frequent where the two species coexist, but like many fine-leaved pondweed hybrids, is difficult to identify reliably without using genetic techniques.
Taxonomy
Potamogeton compressus was first named by Linnaeus in Species Plantarum (1753). For much of the 19th century, Potamogeton friesii was incorrectly known as P. compressus, which has led to considerable confusion.
Grass-wrack pondweed is one of a group of rather closely related species that also includes P. acutifolius and P. mandschuriensis. North American populations have been assigned to Potamogeton zosteriformis Fernald. Although this is not a currently accepted name, there is molecular evidence to suggest it is probably distinct from P. compressus.
Distribution
Potamogeton compressus is native to northern Europe (Austria, Britain, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine), Asia (China (Yunnan), Japan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia).
In North America P. compressus / zosteriformis occurs in northern USA and Canada. There are isolated populations in the Balkans, Oregon and the Rockies. There is considerable uncertainty regarding the exact distribution of this species in Siberia and Canada.
Ecology and Conservation
Grass-wrack pondweed grows in still or slow-flowing, lowland, calcareous and often rather nutrient-rich water bodies such as backwaters in rivers, ponds and slow-moving streams, usually on fine substrates such as sand, silt, clay or peat, usually in less than 1.5 m water depth. However, Japanese populations have been reported growing in 5 m of water. It is also capable of colonising artificial habitats such as canals and drainage ditches, so long as these are not heavily boated. Grass-wrack pondweed is intolerant of turbid water and prefers some shade. Like its close relative Potamogeton acutifolius, it rarely grows in lakes; the shallow root system is intolerant of disturbance and is therefore vulnerable to wind action, boat disturbance and uprooting by fish.
Potamogeton compressus is a rather early succession species and tends to be outcompeted unless the habitat it grows in is regularly disturbed. As a result, populations are often transient. Most reproduction in the wild appears to be asexual via turions, which is likely to mean that populations have limited ability to recolonise if lost. However, turion production is not prolific, with wild plants typically producing only 4-5 turions. Flowering and fruiting seems to be more frequent in shallow water environments with fluctuating water levels, such as ditches.
Grass-wrack pondweed is threatened in many parts of its range especially in Europe: it is Extinct in the Czech Republic, Critically Endangered in Flanders, Endangered in Germany, England, Vulnerable in the Carpathian region, Wales, and Near Threatened in the Netherlands. In North America it is listed as Endangered in Maryland and New Jersey, Threatened in New Hampshire and Rare in Pennsylvania. In Britain P. compressus is a Biodiversity Action Plan priority species and is subject to conservation action including translocation efforts.
These declines probably reflect the widespread damage to riverine landscapes across lowland Europe, and in particular the loss of many features such as back channels, oxbow lakes and floodplain ponds as rivers are channelised and engineered for flood defence and agricultural purposes. The largest British populations are in disused or rarely boated canals, which cannot be the primary habitat for grass-wrack pondweed and are not a sustainable long-term habitat. However, in the short-term, canal populations are an important reservoir for this species. Competition with introduced Elodea canadensis (Canadian pondweed) and E. nuttallii (Nuttall's water-thyme) may also be problematic. It is possible that the widespread reintroduction of beaver across Europe may help to arrest or reverse the decline of grass-wrack pondweed, as beaver ponds may well be a suitable habitat for this species.
Cultivation
Potamogeton compressus is not in cultivation. It could probably be cultivated in rather silty ponds, so long as they are regularly cleaned out in order to prevent other more competitive plants from excluding it. Cultivation experiments for conservation purposes have successfully grown plants to maturity from turions planted in late winter, but adult plants are more difficult to establish due to their limited root system and fragile nature. High mortality was also observed due to snail predation in culture.
References
External links
Jepson Manual Treatment
Flora of North America
compressus
Plants described in 1753
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus |
23580408 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premalal%20Jayasekara | Premalal Jayasekara | Halkedaliya Lekamlage alias Mahawela Lekamlage Premalal Jayasekara (Sinhala: ප්රේමලාල් ජයසේකර), also known by his pseudonym Choka Malli (Sinhala: චොකා මල්ලි) (lit. Lil' Choco Brother) is a Sri Lankan convicted murderer, politician, and is a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a former government deputy minister.
On 31 July 2020, he along with two others were sentenced to death over a fatal shooting during the 2015 Sri Lankan presidential election. but were acquitted and released by the Court of Appeal on 31 March 2022.
Murder conviction
The lead-up to the 2015 Sri Lankan presidential election was marred by some violence. On January 05 2015 opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena was due to address a rally in the town of Kahawatta in the Ratnapura District. Premalal Jayasekara, then a Deputy Minister in the government of incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa, was involved in a shooting incident that fatally wounded a supporter of Sirisena who was decorating the election stage.
After a trial lasting 5 years, the Ratnapura High Court sentenced Jayasekara and two others to death on 31 July 2020. Later they filed petitions with the Court of Appeal citing that the manner in which the death sentence was imposed was in violation of the law. On 31 March 2022, they were acquitted and released by the Court of Appeal.
2020 parliamentary election
During the 2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary election, Jayasekara won 104,237 preferential votes in the Ratnapura District and was elected to Parliament. The Attorney General of Sri Lanka Dappula de Livera informed Parliament that as a convicted criminal on death row, Jayasekara was ineligible to hold office as a Member of Parliament. However, after the Court of Appeal of Sri Lanka ruled that there was no legal impediment to Jayasekara being sworn in as an MP, he was permitted to attend sittings from prison.
References
1974 births
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
Living people
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka
People convicted of murder by Sri Lanka
Politicians convicted of murder
Prisoners sentenced to death by Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
Sri Lankan people convicted of murder
Sri Lankan politicians convicted of crimes
Sri Lankan prisoners sentenced to death
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians |
20484672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence%20Square | Clarence Square | Clarence Square is a small park in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where Wellington Street West meets Spadina Avenue. It is a relatively quiet and shady park, with many large trees and a spacious grassy terrain. There are several benches and picnic tables scattered throughout and a drinking fountain in the centre.
The origins of the name of the square is unclear, but both are linked to members of the British Royal Family, Prince William Henry or Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence with the former being the likely name as the name appeared on maps in the 1850s.
In the northwest corner of the park is a historical plaque honouring Alexander Dunn, born near the park, who was the first Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross. In 1854, he was a participant in the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, saving the lives of two fellow soldiers. Hugh John Macdonald, son of Prime Minister Sir John Alexander Macdonald also lived in the area (#304).
Clarence Square is one of the oldest remaining park spaces in the downtown core of Toronto. The park became a largely neglected space however when the rail yards and industrial warehouses inhabited areas adjacent to the park. Today however, industry has left the neighbourhood and the area is primarily residential and commercial.
Historic buildings along Clarence Square include:
Clarence Terrace (5-15 and 6-16 Clarence Square) built in 1879-1890
Steele Briggs Seed Company warehouse or Clarence Square Building (originally as 2 Clarence Square now as 49 Spadina Avenue) 5 storey warehouse and office built in 1911-13
See also
Other squares invisioned by the 'New Town Extension':
Portugal (McDonell) Square
West Market Square
Victoria Memorial Square
References
External links
City of Toronto – King-Spadina Urban Design Guidelines
Parks in Toronto
Squares in Toronto |
20484690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barreiras%20%28Cadaval%29 | Barreiras (Cadaval) | Barreiras is a small Portuguese village located in Peral, Cadaval, in the Lisbon district.
Its population is around 110 inhabitants, all over the village, but its center has just around 60.
References
Villages in Portugal
Cadaval |
23580410 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achala%20Jagodage | Achala Jagodage | Achala Jagodage (born ) is a Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
References
Parliament profile
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Jathika Nidahas Peramuna politicians
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna politicians
1973 births |
20484695 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADAC%20%28disambiguation%29 | ADAC (disambiguation) | ADAC is an initialism which means any of the following:
Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council of South Australia
Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC)
Acting Deputy Assistant Commissioner
Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club e.V. the German Auto club
ADAC GT Masters a grand tourer-based auto racing series |
17342416 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Woodworth%20%28New%20York%20politician%29 | John Woodworth (New York politician) | John Woodworth (November 12, 1768, Schodack – June 1, 1858, Albany, New York) was an American lawyer and member of the Woodworth political family.
Early life and education
Woodworth was born in 1768, the son of future New York State Senator Robert Woodworth, and Rachel Fitch, daughter of Abel Fitch. Woodworth studied law with John Lansing, Jr. at Yale College, graduating in 1788, and was admitted to the bar in 1791.
Personal life
He married Catharine Westerlo (1778–1846, sister of Rensselaer Westerlo, and half-sister of Stephen Van Rensselaer III).
Public service
He commenced practice in Troy, New York, and was appointed Loan Commissioner in 1792, Surrogate of Rensselaer County from 1793 to 1804. He was a presidential elector in 1800, voting for Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. In 1811, Woodworth was appointed a commissioner to revise the state laws. Woodworth was a Regent of the University of the State of New York.
Woodworth was a member from Renssealaer County of the New York State Assembly in 1803. During this session, he was the Democratic-Republican caucus nominee for the election of a U.S. Senator from New York, but was narrowly defeated by Theodorus Bailey who was supported by a faction of his party who combined with the Federalists.
Woodworth was a member of the New York State Senate from 1804 to 1807, and at the same time was New York State Attorney General from 1804 to 1808. He was a justice of the New York State Supreme Court from 1819 to 1828. He was one of the last members of the Council of Revision which was abolished by the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1821.
Literary works
Laws of New York, with Notes (with William P. Van Ness, 2 vols., Albany, 1813)
Reminiscences of Troy from its Settlement in 1790 till 1807 (Albany, 1855)
References
Short bio at Court History
Political Graveyard
Van Rensselaer genealogy and history
1768 births
1858 deaths
New York (state) state senators
Members of the New York State Assembly
New York State Attorneys General
New York Supreme Court Justices
Regents of the University of the State of New York
John
Yale College alumni
People from Schodack, New York
1800 United States presidential electors
Politicians from Troy, New York |
23580413 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.%20Jegadhiswaran | S. Jegadhiswaran | Shanmugan Jegadhiswaran (also spelt Shanmugam Jegatheeswaran, Sanmugan Jegadeeswaran) is a Sri Lankan politician, a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a former government minister.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians |
20484698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millions%20of%20Years%20Ahead%20of%20Man | Millions of Years Ahead of Man | Millions of Years Ahead of Man () is a 1975 West German short documentary film about Leafcutter ants, produced by Manfred Baier for BASF. The music is from Wolfgang Lauth. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
References
External links
1975 films
1975 documentary films
1975 short films
West German films
1970s German-language films
German short documentary films
1970s short documentary films
Documentary films about nature |
23580415 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricio%20Mardones | Patricio Mardones | Luis Patricio Mardones Díaz (born 17 July 1962) is a retired Chilean football midfielder. He played for the Chile national football team and was capped 29 times scoring 2 goal between 1985 and 1995. Mardones made his debut on 8 February 1985 in a friendly against Finland.
Honours
Club
Universidad de Chile
Primera División de Chile (2): 1994, 1995
References
External links
1962 births
Living people
Chilean footballers
Chilean expatriate footballers
Chile international footballers
1987 Copa América players
1995 Copa América players
Chilean Primera División players
Universidad de Chile footballers
Club Deportivo Universidad Católica footballers
O'Higgins F.C. footballers
FC St. Gallen players
Expatriate footballers in Switzerland
Association football midfielders |
26721526 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20dogs%20of%20war%20%28phrase%29 | The dogs of war (phrase) | The dogs of war is a phrase spoken by Mark Antony in Act 3, Scene 1, line 273 of English playwright William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war."
Synopsis
In the scene, Mark Antony is alone with Julius Caesar's body, shortly after Caesar's assassination. In a soliloquy, he reveals his intention to incite the crowd at Caesar's funeral to rise up against the assassins. Foreseeing violence throughout Rome, Antony even imagines Caesar's spirit joining in the exhortations: "raging for revenge, with Ate by his side come hot from hell, shall in these confines with a Monarch's voice cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war."
In a literal reading, "dogs" are the familiar animals, trained for warfare; "havoc" is a military order permitting the seizure of spoil after a victory and "let slip" is to release from the leash. Shakespeare's source for Julius Caesar was The Life of Marcus Brutus from Plutarch's Lives, and the concept of the war dog appears in that work, in the section devoted to the Greek warrior Aratus.
Apart from the literal meaning, a parallel can be drawn with the prologue to Henry V, where the warlike king is described as having at his heels, awaiting employment, the hounds "famine, sword and fire".
Along those lines, an alternative proposed meaning is that "the dogs of war" refers figuratively to the wild pack of soldiers "let slip" by war's breakdown of civilized behavior and/or their commanders' orders to wreak "havoc", i.e., rape, pillage, and plunder.
Based on the original meaning of "dog" in its mechanical sense ("any of various usually simple mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening that consist of a spike, bar, or hook"), the "dogs" are "let slip" as an act of releasing. Thus, the "dogs of war" are the political and societal restraints against war that operate during times of peace.
In popular culture
The phrase has entered so far into general usage that it is now regarded as a cliché.
Many books, films, video games, songs, and television episodes are titled using variations of the phrase “Dogs of War.”
Victor Hugo used "dogs of war" as a metaphor for cannon fire in chapter XIV of Les Misérables:
The phrase was used by Christopher Plummer's character General Chang in the film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, in a scene which featured Chang's Klingon Bird of Prey attacking the USS Enterprise.
Jeremy Clarkson used the phrase during a Top Gear special, before attempting a speed run at the Bonneville Salt Flats in a Chevrolet Corvette C6 ZR1, adding "They probably think that's a Bon Jovi lyric here."
Sterling Archer misquotes the phrase before embarking on a rampage to find the chemotherapy drugs for his aforementioned breast cancer.
Kevin Spacey on his role as Frank Underwood in the Series "House of Cards - Season 2 - Episode 12" used the phrase as he began a political attack to undermine the power of the President of the United States and move forward on his silent plan to take control of the White House and the executive power.
In 2017, it was used on a tifo at the King Power Stadium during the Champions League last 16 match featuring Leicester City and Sevilla FC. The tifo displayed a person holding onto dogs via a chain, with the phrase "Let Slip the Dogs of War" underneath.
The term “Dogs of War” is used in the boardgame Warhammer as a colloquial for various mercenary groups selling their swords for loot, plunder, and adventure.
See also
List of titles of works based on Shakespearean phrases
References
Bibliography
Note: The "Notes" for "Julius Cæsar" chapter in the Cornwall edition close with the signature "SINGER.", apparently referring to contributions based on the work of Samuel Weller Singer.
External links
Julius Caesar (play)
Metaphors referring to dogs
Shakespearean phrases
16th-century neologisms |
44507154 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20rail%20accidents%20in%20Turkey | List of rail accidents in Turkey | This list of rail accidents in Turkey provides details of significant railway crashes in Turkey involving railway rolling stocks and with fatalities.
References
Turkey
Train accidents |
23580416 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%B6bling%20Carmelite%20Monastery | Döbling Carmelite Monastery | The Döbling Carmelite Monastery (Karmelitenkloster Döbling) is a monastery belonging to the Teresian Carmelites, a reformed branch of the Carmelites that arose out of the reform of the Carmelite Order by two Spanish saints, St. Teresa of Ávila and St. John of the Cross; the Teresian Carmelites thus belong to the Discalced Carmelites (Ordo Carmelitarum Discalceatorum). The monastery stands next to a Roman Catholic church in the suburb of Unterdöbling in the 19th district of Vienna, Döbling.
History of the monastery
The first monastery belonging to the Discalced Carmelites was founded in Austria on 4 February 1622 in Leopoldstadt (see Karmeliterviertel). This was made possible by Ferdinand II and his wife Eleonora, but after Joseph II dissolved the Carmelite convent, along with many other monasteries, the order was only able to maintain a single parish. Later, this parish also passed to the lay clergy. The monastery building was later torn down, but the former monastery church is still used as a parish church.
It was not until the end of the 19th century that the order found a new home in Döbling. The Karmelitenkloster Döbling was built in the Silbergasse in Unterdöbling between 1898 and 1901. It was financed from the state religion fund.
Construction
Work began on the monastery and church, which had been designed by architect Richard Jordan, in 1898. The church was built with a nave with four sets of pillars and a double tower facade. The nave is 40 metres long and 20 metres wide. Jordan made particular use of forms found in Romanesque architecture in his construction. The interior of the church is particularly impressive because of the use of Art Nouveau and Art Deco. In addition to a main altar, six secondary altars and a chapel, the church boasts a pulpit in carrara marble made by Ludwig Schadler and decorated with the four original Doctors of the Church – Saint Ambrose, Saint Augustine, Saint Jerome, and Pope Gregory I, although the figure of Pope Gregory resembles Pope Leo XIII, during whose papacy the church was erected.
The main altar
A large mural depicting angels, saints and the Holy Family decorates the wall above the main altar. It is the work of Josef Kastner, who also decorated the nave with scenes from the life of the Holy Family. The altar is the work of Ludwig Schadler and also depicts the four Doctors of the Eastern Church (John Chrysostom, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Athanasius of Alexandria) in the foreground and Jesus on the cross, flanked by his mother Mary and John the Apostle in the background.
The secondary altars
The church has six side altars, which are described here in clockwise order from the front left-hand corner of the church.
The altar of mercy
The most important side altar is called the altar of mercy, Mary with bowed head. The altar was made in 1904 by the Marmorindustrie Kiefer AG company from Oberalm using Untersberg marble in accordance with a design by Richard Jordan. The depiction of Mary is to be found on a niche altar reminiscent of Romanesque designs. It is flanked by two angels shown in relief and bears the inscription Ave Maria, gratia plena. The history of the depiction itself is explained on an arch over the altar.
The depiction of Mary is an oil painting 45 x 60 cm in size. It is the work of an unknown master of the Italian school of the 15th or 16th century. It shows Mary with her head slightly bowed. A crown was added in 1931. According to legend, the depiction was found by Pater Dominicus covered in dust in an old building near the first Carmelite monastery in the Roman neighborhood of Trastevere. It was restored and made its way to the court in Munich, before being moved to Vienna. It was revered by female Carmelites belonging to the Ordo Carmelitarum, and Ferdinand II is supposed to have prayed before it during the Battle of White Mountain in 1620. Ferdinand II later ascribed the Catholic army's victory to Mary's help. During World War I, the picture was carried in great processions through the streets of Vienna to St. Stephen's Cathedral, where thousands prayed before it for peace. Even Franz Joseph I believed Mary's help could be achieved via this picture and had it brought to Schönbrunn Palace so that he too could pray for peace before it.
The altar of the child Jesus
Opposite the altar of mercy is the altar of the child Jesus. It too was made using Untersberg marble in 1904. Above the altar, there is a copy of a wooden figure of the child Jesus from the 18th century which the Carmelites had brought from their hermitage in Mannersdorf. For its part, the original figure was based on the famous Jesulein (the little Jesus) wax figure in Prague.
The altar of Christ the King
The altar of Christ the King stands to the right of the altar of the child Jesus. It was made in 1922 by the architect of the church, Richard Jordan, from maiolica and marble in art deco style. The altar's design demonstrates the dramatic change in style that had taken place in the space of 20 years.
The altar of Saint Teresa
To the right of the altar of Christ the King is the altar of Saint Teresa. It was donated by the family of Unterdöbling industrialist Johann Zacherl and shows the Transfiguration of Christ on Mount Tabor. The altar was made by the same artists who participated in the construction of the altar to Saint John.
The altar of Saint John
Opposite the altar of Saint Teresa is the altar of Saint John. Like the altar of Saint Teresa, it was donated by the Zacherl family, and shows a vision that Saint John of the Cross had. It was created between 1913 and 1914 by the Dutch Benedictine Jan Verkade. Verkade was also responsible for the glass window above the altar. The marble altar table with its cross and candlesticks is the work of Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik.
The altar of Saint Joseph
The altar of Saint Joseph is located between the altar to Saint John and the altar of mercy.
The chapel of Saint Teresa
The chapel of Saint Teresa houses the grave of the Spanish Carmelite priest Dominicus a Jesu Maria, who participated in the foundation of the monastery in Leopoldstadt in 1632. He was also responsible for bringing the depiction of Mary featured on the altar of mercy to Vienna. In 1903, Dominicus’ remains were brought from Leopoldstadt to Döbling. Behind his grave stands a white marble altar with a figure of Thérèse of Lisieux, a Carmelite nun who was canonised in 1925.
The Carmelite crypt, which is accessible from the chapel, was used between 1917 and 1932 to house coffins, including that of Charles X of France, brought to Vienna on Empress Zita’s orders from the Kostanjevica Monastery in Gorizia which the Empress feared would be damaged in the course of World War I.
References
Christine Klusacek, Kurt Stimmer: Döbling. Vom Gürtel zu den Weinbergen. Wien 1988
Godehard Schwarz: Döbling. Zehn historische Spaziergänge durch Wiens 19. Bezirk. Wien 2004
Martin Stangl: Richard Jordan – Sakralbauten. Diplomarbeit, Universität Wien 1999
External links
Karmelitenkloster Döbling
Buildings and structures in Döbling
Roman Catholic churches in Vienna
Carmelite churches
Art Nouveau architecture in Vienna
Art Deco architecture
Art Nouveau church buildings in Austria
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1901
20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Austria |
23580420 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N.%20D.%20N.%20P.%20Jayasinghe | N. D. N. P. Jayasinghe | N. D. N. P. Jayasinghe or Nimal Premawansa Jayasinghe is a Sri Lankan politician and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna politicians
Jathika Nidahas Peramuna politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians |
44507158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert%20Dwaramury | Gilbert Dwaramury | Gilbert Richard Duaramuri (born on January 6, 1993) is an Indonesian footballer who currently plays for Persija in the Indonesia Super League.
References
External links
Profile at World Football
Living people
1993 births
People from Jayapura
Papuan people
Association football midfielders
Indonesian footballers
Persija Jakarta players
Liga 1 (Indonesia) players
Sportspeople from Papua |
23580421 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%20into | Read into | The process of being read into a compartmented program generally entails being approved for access to particularly sensitive and restricted information about a classified program, receiving a briefing about the program, and formally acknowledging the briefing, usually by signing a non-disclosure agreement describing restrictions on the handling and use of information concerning the program. Officials with the required security clearance and a need to know may be read into a covert operation or clandestine operation they will be working on. For codeword–classified programs, an official would not be aware a program existed with that codeword until being read in, because the codewords themselves are classified.
See also
Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI)
Special access program (SAP)
References
Espionage
Classified information
National security
United States government secrecy
Military intelligence
Intelligence gathering disciplines |
44507164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%20%26%20R%20Dickson | R & R Dickson | Richard and Robert Dickson (usually simply referred to as R & R Dickson) were brothers, acting as architects in Scotland in the early and mid-19th century. Whilst most of their work is typified by remote country houses they are best known for their magnificent spire on the Tron Kirk in the heart of Edinburgh on the Royal Mile.
Life
They were the sons of John Dickson (1766–1828), an Edinburgh builder. Their mother was Mary Crichton, sister to Richard Crichton (1771–1817), an Edinburgh architect, and they appear to have trained under him, taking over his office upon his death.
Their offices were at 9 Blenheim Place near the top of Leith Walk a handsome and unusual building forming part of a terrace designed by Playfair and built by their own father in 1824. It is possible that the unit was in lieu of payment for this stylish row, characterised by its being the only flat roofed Georgian terraced "bungalows" (with basement for servants) in Edinburgh.
They designed in a variety of styles from Gothic to Classical. There buildings are both sound and attractive and most are now listed buildings.
Richard (1792–1857) was the older of the two. He is buried in Old Calton Cemetery with his parents.
Works
See
Abercairney House, Crieff (1817) completing Richard Crichton's job on his death
Cockpen Parish Church (1817) again completing Richard Crichton's design on his death
Kilconquhar Parish Church (1819) a slightly enlarged version of the Cockpen design
Redesign of Cortachy Castle (1820) adding crenellations as were the fashion of the day
Coul House, Contin (1820)
Whitehaugh, Newcastleton (1822)
West Lodge Balbirnie House (1824) note- they probably worked on the main house during their apprenticeship under Richard Crichton
The large tenement at Gardners Crescent/ Morrison Street in Edinburgh (1826)
Classical crescent, 1-25 Gardners Crescent (1826)
Church at Gardners Crescent (1827) (demolished)
Inchrye Lodge, Denmylne Castle near Newburgh, Fife (1827)
Leith Town Hall (1827) now Leith Police Station
The impressive spire on the Tron Kirk on the Royal Mile (1828) rebuilt in a Wren style following the Great Fire of Edinburgh of 1824 in which the original spire was destroyed
Muirhouse in rural north-west Edinburgh (1830) now encompassed by the city
Bathgate Academy (1831)
Veterinary College, Clyde Street, Edinburgh (1833) closed 1916 to move to Summerhall. Building demolished to build a cinema c.1930 and then cleared for St Andrew Square Bus Station
West lodge, Blair Drummond (1836) note- the brothers probably worked on the main house (designed by Richard Crichton) during their apprenticeship
St James Episcopal Church, Muthill (1836)
Collessie Parish Church (1838)
Estate buildings, Arbuthnott House, Kincardineshire (1839)
Dr Bell's School, Great Junction Street, Leith (1839)
Dunimarle Castle (1839)
Blair Cottages, Blair Atholl (1840)
Collessie School and schoolmaster's house (1846)
Kinellan House, Murrayfield, Edinburgh (1846) probably for the MacKenzies of Kinellan in Ross and Cromarty
Duchess of Atholl's Girls School, Dunkeld (1853)
Kincardine School, Kincardine-in-Menteith, Perthshire (1855)
Atholl Arms Hotel, Blair Atholl (1856)
Garryside Village, Blair Atholl (1856)
Duke of Atholl's School, Logierait (1863)
References
A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, H M Colvin
Architecture firms of Scotland
Service companies of Scotland
Architects from Edinburgh |
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