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20485343 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Edition%20%28film%29 | First Edition (film) | First Edition is a 1977 American short documentary film about the Baltimore Sun directed by Helen Whitney. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
References
External links
, posted by the Baltimore Sun
1977 films
1977 documentary films
1977 short films
English-language films
American short documentary films
1970s short documentary films |
20485349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogradec%20Castle | Pogradec Castle | Pogradec Castle () is a ruined castle in Pogradec, eastern Albania. At its highest point, it stands above Lake Ohrid.
References
Castles in Albania
Buildings and structures in Pogradec |
17343775 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%20Furst | Nathan Furst | Nathan Furst (born July 4, 1978) is an American television and film composer.
Furst is the son of Lorraine (Wright) and actor Stephen Furst. Furst is the husband of Britlin Lee. Furst's first major film was the 1998 movie A Moment of Confusion. He then went on to compose music for other films such as the Bionicle trilogy (Bionicle: Mask of Light, Bionicle 2: Legends of Metru Nui and Bionicle 3: Web of Shadows), Dust to Glory, Lake Placid 2, Lake Placid 3 and Act of Valor. Some of the television shows for which he has composed are The Real World and Max Steel. His more recent scores include Waiting for Lightning, Need for Speed, Cold Moon, and 6 Below: Miracle on the Mountain. He is a frequent collaborator with director Scott Waugh, having scored all of his films since Act of Valor.
After they remained unreleased for over a decade, Furst officially released his scores for the Bionicle films in 2017. Furst has described these scores as some of his best work due to the amount of creative freedom he was given.
Filmography
References
External links
Nathan Furst Interview at www.reviewgraveyard.com
1978 births
American film score composers
American male film score composers
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people) |
20485358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agathe%20Cl%C3%A9ry | Agathe Cléry | Agathe Cléry is a 2008 French comedy film directed and co-written by Etienne Chatiliez, with co-writer Laurent Chouchan.
Plot
Agathe Cléry is a marketing manager for a line of cosmetics for people with pale skin. She is also racist, particularly towards black people. However, she is diagnosed with Addison's disease, which turns her skin dark. The film follows her struggles as a black person dealing with discrimination against her due to her skin colour.
Cast
Valérie Lemercier - Agathe Cléry
Anthony Kavanagh - Quentin Lambert
Dominique Lavanant - Mimie
Isabelle Nanty - Joëlle
Jacques Boudet - Roland
Artus de Penguern - Hervé
Jean Rochefort - Louis Guignard
Bernard Alane - Philippe Guignard
Nadège Beausson-Diagne - Nathalie
François Duval - Loïc Guignard
Valentine Valera - Nathalie
Élise Otzenberger - Lucie
Claire Pataut - Alice
Virginie Raccosta - Delphine
Andy Cocq - Cédric
Julie Ferrier - The Cop
References
External links
2008 films
French musical comedy films
2000s French-language films
French black comedy films
2000s musical comedy films
French films
2008 black comedy films
Films scored by Bruno Coulais |
6911074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones%20Intercable | Jones Intercable | Jones Intercable was a cable television company founded by Glenn R. Jones in 1970. Jones, already a cable television veteran, had bought his first cable system in Georgetown, Colorado after taking a $400 loan on his Volkswagen. The company expanded rapidly and by 1994 it had 1.4 million subscribers. In 1995, the company was 30 percent owned by Bell Canada International.
In 1999, Comcast took full control of Jones Intercable, acquiring 100 percent of the company in a deal valued around $3 billion.
History
1970-90
The company was founded in cable television by Glenn R. Jones in 1970. Jones, already a cable television veteran, had bought his first cable system in Georgetown, Colorado after taking a $400 loan on his Volkswagen. In 1986, the ownership of Jones Intercable of Tampa, which had formerly been Tampa Cable, was transferred to a company called Cable TV Fund 12-BCD Venture. In 1988, Jones Intercable purchased Broward Cablevision for $95 million, which was providing service in Broward County, Florida. In 1989, the cable television operations TCI East and Adelphia Cable Communications were trying to buy Jones Intercable's business in New York. Jones Intercable was being sold because "the limited partnership that has owned it for more than five years is dissolving so investors may cash out."
1991-97
The company served "40,000 customers in nine communities, most of them in western Du Page County" in early 1992. In 1993, 30% of the company was purchased by BCI Telecom Holdings, which maintained partial ownership of the cable firm until May 1998, when Comcast announced it would be buying BCI's 37% portion of the cable giant. The company expanded rapidly and by 1994 it had 1.4 million subscribers. It was also broadcasting in Antelope Valley, California in 1993 and in Georgia in 1995, when it had around 77,500 or so subscribers overall, with 55 cable systems and 1.5 million "basic" subscribers. In 1995, the company was 30 percent owned by Bell Canada International.
Jones Intercable in September in 1995 launched a $35 million cable television system in Alexandria. The Baltimore Sun called it an "important milestone" as seen by video industry experts, as the new design had a "self-healing" function to eliminate cable outages, also expanding from 53 analog channels to 87. Between 1994 and 1996, Jones spent $40 million on equipment in Alexandria, and in 1996 was giving cable service to 39,000 out of 62,000 households and businesses in the city. Around two dozen residents in Alexandria were used to test a new service, described as "ultra-high-speed access to the Internet through cable TV wires" by The Washington Post, in 1995 and 1996, expanding on the company's already existent cable TV franchise in Alexandria. The system removed the need to dial out, as the service was always on.
1998-99
A deal in May 1998 to purchase some stock gave Comcast "rights to acquire control of Jones Intercable's 1.4 million subscribers and prevents anyone else from getting them." The Comcast deal left Comcast with a 37 percent economic stake and a 47 percent voting stake.
Around September 1999, Comcast announced that it had started to buy up the company's stock. Comcast purchased almost a million Class-A shares of Jones Intercable from Jones International along with almost 3,000 from Glenn Jones himself. This led to Comcast taking full control of Jones Intercable, with Comcast acquiring 100 percent of the company in a deal valued around $3 billion.
See also
List of cable companies
List of companies with Denver area operations
Total TV (American TV provider)
History of virtual learning environments
WERV-FM
References
Cable television companies of the United States
Telecommunications companies established in 1970
Companies based in Colorado
Communications in Colorado
Clear Creek County, Colorado
Technology companies disestablished in 1999
1970 establishments in Colorado
1999 disestablishments in Colorado |
20485360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright%20Ambush | Bright Ambush | Bright Ambush is a book of poems written by Audrey Wurdemann in 1934. In May 1935 Wurdemann won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for the book. She was the youngest person to win the prize for poetry.
References
External links
Bright Ambush, Google books
1934 poetry books
American poetry collections
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry-winning works |
6911076 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florus%20of%20Lyon | Florus of Lyon | Florus of Lyon (), a deacon in Lyon, was an ecclesiastical writer in the first half of the ninth century. He was probably born shortly before 810. There is no reliable evidence that he was alive after January 859.
As one of the most brilliant spirits of his time, Florus composed impressive compilations of the Church Fathers on defined subjects (Paul's epistles). He had some acquaintance with Greek, which was rare in his time, and a little Hebrew. He directed the Lyons scriptorium in which he produced editions of many texts: we owe to Florus the transmission of some ancient texts : especially the Latin version (the only complete) of Irenæus' Adversus Hæreses and excerpts from the lost work Contra Fabianum of Fulgentius of Ruspe.
Florus was also much involved in contemporary debates. He was a partisan of Archbishop Agobard of Lyon, who was deposed in 835 for his role in the rebellion against Emperor Louis the Pious, and replaced by Amalarius. In Agobard's defence, Florus wrote a short treatise on how bishops should be appointed; he also attacked Amalarius on theological grounds, accusing him of heretical interpretation of the liturgy.
Florus also used his remarkable knowledge of Augustine to contribute to the Predestination debates of the mid ninth century, in which he defended Gottschalk of Orbais. In the course of these debates, Florus was able to show the inauthenticity of several Pseudo-Augustinian texts.
Almost forgotten for a thousand years, Florus was rediscovered thanks in part to the works of Dom Célestin Charlier, O.S.B., in the mid-twentieth century. Subsequent studies are beginning to provide the first critical editions of his works.
References
Klaus Zechiel-Eckes, Florus von Lyon als Kirchenpolitiker und Publizist (1999)
External links
Catholic Encyclopedia Article
History of the Christian Church, Volume IV: Mediaeval Christianity. A.D. 590-1073
Opera Omnia by Migne Patrologia Latina with analytical indexes
'Querela de divisione imperii post mortem Ludovici Pii' attributed to Florus of Lyon
9th-century French writers
9th-century Latin writers
Writers of the Carolingian Empire
9th-century Christian clergy
Clergy from Lyon
Deacons
Writers from Lyon |
17343783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazadi%20Mwamba | Kazadi Mwamba | Robert Kazadi Mwamba (6 March 1947 – 1998) was a goalkeeper who played for TP Mazembe and Zaire.
Career
Mwamba played for DR Congo giants TP Mazembe and the Zaire national team (now DR Congo).
He was named the Player of the Tournament when Congo won the 1968 African Cup of Nations and followed this up with another victory in the 1974 African Cup of Nations where he was named to the Team of the Tournament.
At the 1974 FIFA World Cup, in a group game involving the Leopards and Yugoslavia, Kazadi conceded three goals in the first 20 minutes and was substituted by his Yugoslavian coach, Blagoje Vidinić.
He appeared in two 1982 World Cup qualifying matches; a 5–2 win over Mozambique on 13 July 1980 and a 3–2 win over Madagascar on 21 December 1980.
Kazadi was voted the IFFHS Keeper of the Century for the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2000.
He was the cousin of fellow footballer Bwanga Tshimen.
Honours
TP Mazembe
Linafoot: 1967, 1969, 1976
Congo Cup: 1967, 1979
African Cup of Champions Clubs: 1967, 1968
African Cup Winners' Cup: 1980
Zaire
African Cup of Nations: 1968, 1974
Individual
Africa Cup of Nations Player of the Tournament: 1968
See also
1974 FIFA World Cup squads
References
External links
1947 births
1998 deaths
People from Lubumbashi
Africa Cup of Nations-winning players
Association football goalkeepers
Democratic Republic of the Congo footballers
Democratic Republic of the Congo international footballers
1974 FIFA World Cup players
1968 African Cup of Nations players
1970 African Cup of Nations players
1972 African Cup of Nations players
1974 African Cup of Nations players
TP Mazembe players |
17343809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson%20Alba | Gibson Alba | Gibson Alberto Rosado Alba (born January 18, 1960) is a former professional baseball pitcher who played for the St. Louis Cardinals in . He appeared in three games as a reliever, pitching 3.1 innings in his career.
External links
1960 births
Living people
Algodoneros de Unión Laguna players
Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players
Denver Zephyrs players
Diablos Rojos del México players
Dominican Republic expatriate baseball players in Mexico
Dominican Republic expatriate baseball players in the United States
El Paso Diablos players
Erie Cardinals players
Florence Blue Jays players
Gastonia Cardinals players
Gulf Coast Pirates players
Kinston Blue Jays players
Knoxville Blue Jays players
Louisville Redbirds players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Major League Baseball players from the Dominican Republic
Mexican League baseball pitchers
People from Santiago de los Caballeros
Richmond Braves players
St. Louis Cardinals players
St. Petersburg Cardinals players
Syracuse Chiefs players |
20485366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porto%20Palermo%20Castle | Porto Palermo Castle | Porto Palermo Castle (Albanian: Kalaja e Porto Palermos) is a castle near Himarë in southern Albania. It is situated in the bay of Porto Palermo, a few kilometers south of Himarë along the Albanian Riviera. Huffington Post ranked Porto Palermo first among 15 Undiscovered European Destinations for 2014. The area together with Llamani beach will be proclaimed a protected area holding the status of Protected Landscape by the Albanian Government.
History
The well preserved castle is asserted by guide books and the local tourist guides, to have been built in early 19th century by Ali Pasha of Tepelena. In 1921 the castle was called Venetian. Porto Palermo Castle is a castle near Himara in southern Albania with an intriguing history. It is situated in the closed bay of Porto Palermo, a few kilometers south of Himarë, and makes nearly an island that is connected to the mainland by a narrow strip of land. The fort served as former Soviet submarine base during the communist regime in Albania, and nowadays its semi abandoned tunnel and barrack attract attention of visitors, as well as the stronghold walls and gates built by the powerful Ali Pasha of Ionina.
However, Porto Palermo had been an ancient Illyrian port-town named Panorë, and it served the fortified city of Himarë; now, the area around Cheimara was inhabited by the Illyrian tribe of the Chaonians before the 5th c. BCE. Panormos is also mentioned by Strabo and by Ptolemy. Most likely, Panorë was renamed during the Byzantine era (perhaps by people from Palermo, Sicily) as Porto Palermo; the original name of Palermo in Sicily was Panorlos.
By the middle of the 17th century the Ottoman Empire system of administration of vilayets of sanjaks /provinces/ changed into the near-autonomous governance of local rulers who were known as pashas. At the end of the 18th century the sultan appointed a certain Ali from Tepelen as the governor of the most of the Epirus /of the present day southern Albania/ and the large part of the Greek mainland, with his court at Ionina – Yannina. The ancestors of Ali were Christian Albanians, and became Muslims under the Turkish invasion. As young fellow, Ali was patrolling highroads and lanes, with his gun on his shoulder and his yataghan in his belt, attacking, holding for ransom, or plundering all whom he encountered. Afer some years of this profitable business, he found himself a wealthy man and came to power with a distinguished and honourable rank among the beys of the country.
The castle would have been vulnerable to cannon fire from the hill above and this also suggests an early date for its construction when cannon had not developed the range they had later. In 1662 the Venetians feared the Turks would recondition it. In 1803 Ali Pasha offered the castle and port to the Royal Navy. At which time the fort only had 4 or 5 cannon implying that Ali Pasha did not see the fort as important for him. Leake visited the fort and noted that the garrison consisted of 10 men with two four-pounders. Pouqueville in 1806 reports, "The tower or fort stands on the southern point of the entrance, connected with the continent by a low narrow isthmus. It consists of a square with bastions, having a few guns, of no service either to command the entrance or to protect the shipping at anchor. Near it are some warehouses, a custom-house, and a Greek church."
See also
List of lighthouses in Albania
Tourism in Albania
Albanian Riviera
Geography of Albania
Porto Palermo Tunnel
References
External links
Picture of the lighthouse
Castles in Albania
Buildings and structures in Himara
Tourist attractions in Vlorë County
Lighthouses in Albania |
26721998 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%20in%20men%27s%20road%20cycling | 2004 in men's road cycling | 2004 in men's road cycling is about the 2004 men's bicycle races governed by the UCI.
World championships
The World Road championships were held in Verona, Italy.
Grand Tours
UCI Coupe du Monde
2.HC Category Races
The prefix 2 indicates that these events are stage races.
1.HC Category Races
The prefix 1 indicates that these events are one-day races.
2.1 Category Races
The prefix 2 indicates that these events are stage races.
1.1 Category Races
The prefix 1 indicates that these events are one-day races.
National Championships
See also
2004 in women's road cycling
2004 |
17343829 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%20American%20Legislative%20Caucus | Mexican American Legislative Caucus | The Mexican American Legislative Caucus is a 501(c)(6) non-profit organization composed of members of the Texas House of Representatives committed to addressing issues of particular importance to Latinos across the state.
History
The Mexican American Legislative Caucus (MALC) was founded in 1973 in the Texas House of Representatives by a small group of lawmakers of Mexican American heritage for the purpose of strengthening their numbers and better representing a united Latino constituency across the state. MALC is the oldest and largest Latino legislative caucus in the United States.
In the 1990s, recognizing the growth of the Hispanic population in Texas and anticipating a new ethnic majority, MALC opened membership eligibility to House members of any race or ethnicity who represent majority-Latino constituencies.
Mission
Latinos today represent Texas’ fastest growing political and economic sector. To meet the needs of this rapidly growing population, MALC serves as an information clearinghouse to Caucus members and non-members alike. By researching the implications of policy on Texas' Hispanic communities and by voting together, the Mexican American Legislative Caucus ensures that the interests of all Texans are represented.
MALC’s educational outreach initiatives, conducted between bi-annual sessions of the Texas Legislature, strive to raise the level of Latino engagement in Texas government and politics.
Membership
As of 2013, MALC had a membership of 40 Democratic House members from all parts of the state, and is the second-largest caucus in Texas. Members are on all but 3 House Committees in the Texas House of Representatives. MALC members vote as a bloc on consequential matters for Latino constituents.
2013 Officers
Chairman
Trey Martinez Fischer,
San Antonio
Vice-Chairman
Eddie Rodriguez,
Austin
Secretary
Armando "Mando" Martinez,
Weslaco
Treasurer
Mary Gonzalez,
El Paso
Legal Counsel
Ana Hernandez Luna,
Houston
Roberto Alonzo,
Dallas
Carol Alvarado,
Houston
Rafael M. Anchía,
Dallas
Lon Burnam,
Fort Worth
Terry Canales,
Edinburg
Garnet Coleman,
Houston
Philip Cortez,
San Antonio
Dawnna Dukes,
Austin
Joe Farias,
San Antonio
Jessica Farrar,
Houston
Larry Gonzales,
Round Rock
John Garza,
San Antonio
Larry Gonzales,
Round Rock
Naomi Gonzalez,
El Paso
Bobby Guerra,
Hidalgo
Ryan Guillen,
Rio Grande City
Roland Gutierrez,
San Antonio
Abel Herrero,
Robstown
Tracy O. King,
Eagle Pass
Oscar Longoria,
Weslaco
Jose Manuel Lozano,
Kingsville
Eddie Lucio, III,
San Benito
Marisa Marquez,
El Paso
Ruth McClendon,
San Antonio
José Menéndez,
San Antonio
Joseph "Joe" Moody,
El Paso
Sergio Muñoz,
Mission
Elliott Naishtat,
Austin
Alfonso "Poncho" Nevárez,
Eagle Pass
René Oliveira,
Brownsville
Mary Ann Perez,
Houston
Joseph Picket,
El Paso
Richard Raymond Pena,
Laredo
Justin Rodriguez,
San Antonio
Jason Villalba,
Dallas
Michael Villarreal,
San Antonio
Armando Walle,
Houston
See also
National Association of Latino Elected Officials
Sources
External links
Official site
Members Pages
Mexican American Legislative Leadership Foundation
Texas Hispanic Research Council
Professional associations based in the United States
Mexican-American organizations
501(c)(6) nonprofit organizations
Organizations established in 1973
Issue-based groups of legislators |
17343834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportune | Opportune | Opportune may refer to:
HMS Opportune (S20), an Oberon class submarine
USS Opportune (ARS-41), a Bolster-class rescue and salvage ship
See also
Opportunity (disambiguation)
Sainte-Opportune |
26722009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport%20in%20Tanzania | Sport in Tanzania | Filbert Bayi and Suleiman Nyambui both won track and field medals in the 1980 Summer Olympics. Tanzania competes in the Commonwealth Games as well as in the African Championships in Athletics.
Football is widely played all over the country with fans divided between two major clubs, Young Africans and Simba. Football is the most popular sport in Tanzania, despite the little success that has been achieved by the national team. To date, they have never qualified for the FIFA World Cup but have made two appearances in the African Cup of Nations, in 1980, as well as 2019. They finished last in their group in both occasions.
Basketball is also played but mainly in the army and schools. Hasheem Thabeet is a Tanzanian-born player with the Oklahoma City Thunder, the first Tanzanian to play in the NBA. Cricket is a rapidly growing sport in Tanzania after hosting the ICC Cricket League Division 4 in 2008; the national team finished the tournament with a win. Rugby is a minor sport in Tanzania. Tanzania now has a national team, which used to be part of the East Africa team, but was separated.
Another minor but growing sport in Tanzania is Baseball - Softball. Tanzania Baseball was introduced by Mr. Shinya Tomonari, a Japan Nationalist and the Chairman of Association for Friends of African Baseball (AFAB), in January 2012. Since then the sport has been played frequently by a number of Secondary Schools in the country and the participating number of students keeps on increasing. On 12 th May 2014, Tanzania Baseball and Softball Association (TaBSA) was established and registered as the National Sporting Association (NSA) responsible for the administration, conduct, control, development and promotion of the sport of baseball in Tanzania, as recognized by the National Sports Council (NSC), the African Baseball and Softball Association (ABSA) and the World Baseball Softball Confederation the International Sport Federation. |
23580636 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racquetball%20at%20the%20Pan%20American%20Games | Racquetball at the Pan American Games | Racquetball has been part of the Pan American Games since 1995 Games in Mar del Plata, Argentina, although it was not included in the 2007 Games. Racquetball was again included in the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Ontario, and 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. Racquetball is on the program for the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile. The United States dominated the racquetball events in the first three games, but Mexico has been the dominant country in the last three games, winning all nine gold medals in the women's events and five of the nine gold medals in the men's events.
Medal table
Men
Singles
Doubles
Team
Women
Singles
Doubles
Team
Events
External links
International Racquetball Federation website
Sports at the Pan American Games
Pan American Games |
26722014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepless%20%28Eric%20Saade%20song%29 | Sleepless (Eric Saade song) | "Sleepless" is a song performed by Swedish singer Eric Saade. It is the first single from Saade's first album, Masquerade, and was released on 21 December 2009 worldwide. It reached the top 50 in Sweden.
Charts
Release history
References
External links
Eric Saade Official Website
2009 songs
Eric Saade songs
Songs written by Fredrik Kempe
Songs written by Peter Boström
2009 debut singles
Roxy Recordings singles |
23580643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel%20Premasiri | Lionel Premasiri | Peduru Hewage Lionel Premasiri is a Sri Lankan politician. He was a former representative of Galle District in the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
He studied at Mahinda College, Galle. He became a lawyer and then entered the politics from Sri Lanka Freedom Party and became the mayor of Galle. Later due to some discrepancies, he joined the United National Party and then became the mayor of Galle again. He became a member of Parliament in 2004 from United National Party. He was one of the first UNP politicians to join the Government of United People's Freedom Alliance. He was the deputy minister of Social Services and Social Welfare in the previous UPFA government.
References
1962 births
Living people
Mayors of Galle
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
United National Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Alumni of Mahinda College
People from Galle |
20485372 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF%20Calveley | RAF Calveley | Royal Air Force Calveley or more simply RAF Calveley is a former Royal Air Force station located near Nantwich, Cheshire.
History
In December 1940, it was decided to build an airfield near the village of Wardle, Cheshire, north-west of Nantwich, as one of a number of airfields intended to boost the fighter defence of Merseyside. The airfield was built by Peter Lind Ltd in 1941–1942, and had three concrete runways of between and .
By the time the airfield was complete, the need for fighter defences for the North-West of England had declined, so it was decided to use it for training, with the station opening as a Relief Landing Ground for No. 5 Service Training Flying School (SFTS) based at RAF Ternhill in Shropshire on 14 March 1942. 5 STFS was renamed No. 5 (Pilot) Advanced Flying Unit ((P)AFU) on 13 April 1942, continuing operations both from Ternhill and its satellites, including Calveley, which was the only one of Ternhill's satellites to have hard runways. In May 1943 RAF Calveley became the main base for No. 17 (P)AFU, equipped with 174 Miles Master trainers, which moved from RAF Watton in Norfolk. To accommodate the unit's large number of aircraft, RAF Wrexham served as a satellite airfield.
17 (P)AFU disbanded on 1 February 1944, as part of a shuffle of training units which saw No. 11 (P)AFU, equipped with 132 Airspeed Oxfords, move from RAF Shawbury, freeing the well equipped Shawbury for the Vickers Wellingtons of the Central Navigation School to move from RAF Cranage.
Posted units and aircraft
From 13 Mar 1942 until May 1943 No. 5 (Pilot) Advanced Flying Unit used the airfield as a Relief Landing Ground from their main airfield at RAF Ternhill flying Miles Masters.
No 11 (Pilot) Advanced Flying Unit from May 1943 using RAF Wrexham as a satellite.
From May 1943 until 1 Feb 1944 No 17 (Pilot) AFU moved from RAF Watton and RAF Bodney using RAF Wrexham as a satellite flying the Airspeed Oxford and Avro Anson then using Harvards Hawker Hurricanes and Miles Masters
21 Jun 1945 until Oct 1945 - No 5 Aircrew Holding Unit.
22 Oct 1945 until May 1946 - No 22 Service Flying Training School flying Harvards moved to RAF Ouston.
Current use
The airfield is now farmland and part of an industrial estate.
References
Citations
Bibliography
External links
Midlands Heritage
Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
Facebook Community Group Commemorating the history of RAF Calveley
Earth stations in England
Royal Air Force stations in Cheshire
Science and technology in Cheshire
1942 establishments in England |
23580645 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal%20rent | Internal rent | Internal rent is a form of transfer pricing where a company owning its own premises forces single departments in that company to pay rent for the real estate they use. This is typically organized by one department—the holding department—functioning as a landlord, while the other departments—the occupying departments—functioning as tenants.
One study lists two advantages with internal rents:
It requires the occupying department to "contribute" an amount to the business equivalent to the open market rental value of the space that it occupies. This prevents the treating of space as a free good and, as an individual profit centre, each department will then rationalise its holdings to minimise its costs.
The second advantage is from a strategic viewpoint: by charging an asset rent, the holding department can identify the performance of its real estate holdings. This can then be compared to an internal or external benchmark to help determine whether the company has adopted the most efficient tenure pattern for its properties.
References
Renting |
26722048 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20van%20der%20Wiel | Jan van der Wiel | Jan van der Wiel (31 May 1892 – 24 November 1962) was a Dutch épée, foil and sabre fencer. He won a bronze medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics and the 1924 Summer Olympics in the team sabre competitions.
References
External links
1892 births
1962 deaths
Dutch male épée fencers
Olympic fencers of the Netherlands
Fencers at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Fencers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Fencers at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
Olympic medalists in fencing
Sportspeople from Breda
Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Dutch male foil fencers
Dutch male sabre fencers |
23580650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.%20G.%20Wasantha%20Piyatissa | L. G. Wasantha Piyatissa | L. G. Wasantha Piyatissa 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
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians |
17343861 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonna%20Get%20Over%20You | Gonna Get Over You | "Gonna Get Over You" is a song written and recorded by American singer Sara Bareilles. It was released as the third and final single from her second studio album Kaleidoscope Heart (2010). On September 20, a new version featuring Ryan Tedder was released exclusively on iTunes. Lyrically, the song speaks about getting over an ex-lover and is a "doo-wop pop song." It received a positive reception from most music critics, who noted it as one of the album's highlights and a "harmony post-breakup track." A music video was released on September 20 and is directed by actor Jonah Hill. Mainly, the video consists of a heavily eye-lined, leather jacket-wearing Bareilles as she grooves her way down the supermarket aisle. Later, she's joined by a group of identical leather jacket-wearing pals who dance with her as she grazes the produce section.
Background and reception
"Gonna Get Over You" was written by Bareilles and Sam Farrar, who is the bass guitar player for rock band Phantom Planet. Bareilles recorded a new version featuring additional vocals from OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder. The new version was released as a single on September 20, 2011 exclusively on iTunes. Jon Pareles wrote for The New York Times that "the "post-breakup ballad" is a "finger-snapping, modernized doo-wop concoction" and has "swooping harmonized lines, nonsense-syllable backups, antiphonal choirs and a chorus that revolves around a nugget of self-reliance: 'I’ll be all right, just not tonight/But someday'." Jim Farber of New York Daily News perceived that the track "strikes a marching beat, making a heartbreak song sound like a victory lap." Will Hermes of Rolling Stone considered it the best track on the album, writing that the song is "a playfully sexy bit of doo-wop pop." Allison Stewart of Washington Post called it a "rollicking, harmony-heavy pop song." Megan Vick wrote for Billboard that the song is a "mid-century piano parlor ditty." BBC Music's Mark Beaumont believed that the "hooks that intensify on Gonna Get Over You, which might as well be called Man, I Feel Like Shania."
Music video
A music video for the song was released on September 20, 2011 and was directed by comedian Jonah Hill. Driving up to a Latino supermarket, Sara sports a pompadour and a rad jacket, bent upon converting daily shoppers into a gang of leather-clad dancers.
Background
Bareilles told AOL Music that the clip is, "a mash-up of Grease meets West Side Story meets a little market in East LA." She added: "Jonah and I both wanted it to be a combination of fantasy and reality. Silly, over the top moments that are anchored with authenticity."
Storyline
Rocking a leather jacket and wearing her hair in a ponytail and pompadour, Bareilles is romping around a grocery store. She's dancing from one aisle to another, creating a flash mob with some customers. The surreal scene, however, exists only in her daydream. Instead of being a cool girl who spreads toe-tapping fever to people around her, she's just a nerd who sings and dances awkwardly by herself. None of the customers and the patrons give any indication that they enjoy her impromptu performance. In fact, a security informs her that she makes the other people uncomfortable and tells her to leave the store.
Reception
MTV Buzzworthly Blog's Jenna Hally Rubenstein praised the video, writing that "Sara is rocking out HARD on the dance front and unsurprisingly, girlfriend can move." Hally also said that "her dance moves are amazing."
Chart performance
The song's first appearance was on the Billboard's Adult Pop Songs chart at number thirty-nine. It fell out to number thirty-nine, the next week and it climbed to number thirty-five, so far.
Live performances
Sara has performed the song at Walmart Soundcheck, on September 12, 2010. She also performed it alongside Cee Lo Green's hit "Forget You" on VEVO at The Warfield in San Francisco, on February 17, 2011.
Charts
References
2011 singles
Doo-wop songs
Sara Bareilles songs
Songs written by Sara Bareilles
Songs written by Sam Farrar
2010 songs
Epic Records singles
Song recordings produced by Neal Avron |
23580652 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.%20P.%20A.%20Ranaweera%20Pathirana | R. P. A. Ranaweera Pathirana | R. P. A. Ranaweera Pathirana 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
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians |
20485374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes%C3%BAs%20Guridi | Jesús Guridi | Jesús Guridi Bidaola (25 September 1886 – 7 April 1961) was a Spanish Basque composer who was a key player in 20th-century Spanish and Basque music. His style fits into the late Romantic idiom, directly inherited from Wagner, and with a strong influence from Basque culture. Among his best-known works are the zarzuela El Caserío, the opera Amaya, the orchestral work Ten Basque Melodies and his organ works, where the Triptych of the Good Shepherd can be highlighted.
Biography
Guridi was born in Vitoria-Gasteiz into a family of musicians. His mother, Maria Trinidad Bidaola, was a violinist and his father, Lorenzo Guridi, was a pianist . After completing his early studies with the Piarists and the Jesuits of Zaragoza, he moved to Madrid, where he received lessons from Valentín Arín. Later, in Bilbao, he received violin lessons from Lope Alaña, who introduced him to the society called "El Cuartito", and studied harmony with José Sáinz Besabe . On 28 January 1901 he gave his first public concert with the Philharmonic Society of Bilbao. At the age of 18 he enrolled in the Schola Cantorum in Paris, studying organ with Abel Decaux, composition with Auguste Sérieyx, and fugue and counterpoint with Vincent d'Indy. Here he met Jose Maria Usandizaga, with whom he developed a deep friendship.
He then moved to Brussels, where he studied with Joseph Jongen and in Cologne with Otto Neitzel, following the recommendations of Resurrección Maria de Azcue. In June 1912 he was appointed director of the Bilbao Choral Society. In the same year his friend Usandizaga died.
In 1922 he married Julia Ispizua. The couple had six children: María Jesús, Luis Fernando, María Isabel, Ignacio, Julia, and Javier. In 1944 he began working at the Madrid Conservatory, where, years later, he became director.
He died suddenly on 7 April 1961 at the age of 74 years in his home on Sagasta Street in Madrid.
Musical style
Strongly influenced by Richard Wagner and other late-Romantic musicians, he found inspiration in the roots of Basque folklore in his first scores, and which later give body and soul to his compositions. Guridi produced copiously in a huge range of genres. From chamber music (string quartets), vocal and choral compositions, orchestral works, liturgical and concert pieces for the organ, operas (Mirentxu and Amaya) and zarzuelas (El Caserio, La Meiga, etc.). Among his works are: El Caserio (1926), Diez melodias Vascas (1940), Así cantan los chicos (1909), Amaya (1920), Mirentxu (1910), Una aventura de Don Quixote (1916), La Meiga (1929), Seis canciones castellanas (1939), Pyrenean Symphony (1945), and Homenaje a Walt Disney, for piano and orchestra (1956).
His work
Despite his intense activity as an organist, choir director and teacher, Guridi was largely devoted to composition. The variety of genres he cultivated is very wide, ranging from symphonic music to film music, operas and operettas, chamber music, choral music, songs and music for children.
Guridi's music writing is characterized by the clarity of its formal organization, by the strength and richness of its harmony and the inspiration of the melodies. He was one of the main creators of the musical nationalism in Euskadi and Spain.
These are some of his most important works:
Opera
His best known opera is Amaya (libretto by Joseph M. Arroita Jáuregui), released at the Coliseo Albia in Bilbao in 1920, and also Mirentxu (libretto by Alfred Etxabe), released in Bilbao in 1910.
Zarzuela
Probably his best known zarzuela and work is El Caserío (The farmhouse, libretto by Guillermo Fernández Shaw and Federico Romero), premiered in Madrid in 1926.
It is also worth mentioning La Meiga (by the same authors), La Cautiva (The Captive, by LF Seville and A. Carreño), released in 1931, Mandolinata (A. C. de la Vega, 1934) and Mari-Eli, Basque operetta (E. Carlos and Arniches Garay, 1936) as well as the lyrical La bengala (The flare, by L. Weaver and J. Hollow, 1939), Peñamariana (Romero and Fernandez Shaw, 1944), and Acuarelas vascas (Basque Watercolours, 1948).
Orchestra
On orchestral music, his most famous work is Ten Basque melodies (1940). He also composed Basque Legend in 1915, the symphonic poem An Adventure of Don Quixote (1916) and En un barco fenicio (In a Phoenician ship), in 1927. In 1945 he composed his Pyrenean Symphony and, in 1956, Tribute to Walt Disney Fantasy for piano and orchestra.
Choral music
Vocal music is also present in Guridi’s work. Six Castilian Songs, composed in 1939, can be highlighted. Other Guridi’s choral works are: So the children sing (1915), for chorus and orchestra, Euskal folkloreko XXII Abesti (Basque popular songs, 1932), Basque Songs (1956), Boga boga (Popular Basque, 1913), Anton Aizkorri (1913), Ator, ator mutil (Christmas Eve Song, 1920), Mass in honor of the Archangel Gabriel, for chorus and organ (1955), Mass in honor of San Ignacio de Loyola, (3 voices and organ, 1922), Requiem Mass for chorus and organ (1918), Te Deum, for chorus and organ (1937), Ave Maria (1907), Hail, for gold and organ (1916), Tantum ergo, for choir and organ (1915) and Basque Folk Songs, for chorus of mixed voices (1913–1923).
Piano and chamber music
They are also noteworthy creations of incidental music for film and his work for solo piano, which include Old Dances (1939), 8 Notes For Piano (1954), Ten Basque melodies, Lamento e imprecación de Agar (1958), Piano Pieces (1905), Three short pieces (1910) and Vasconia (1924). He also cultivated chamber music, and he wrote two string quartets, Quartet in G major (1934) and Quartet in A minor (1949; dedicated to the cellist Juan Ruiz Casaux).
Organ
The organ was probably Guridi’s favourite instrument, in his role as a performer and as a teacher. In fact, he was a master on improvisation and he remained active as an organist until the end of his days.
Guridi was appointed professor of organ and harmony at the Institute of Music of Bizkaia in 1922, and in 1944 he won by opposition the organ national chair of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid, which in 1956 would become director. He served for years as organist of the Church of San Manuel and San Benito, Madrid.
In 1909, when he was still very young, he won the Gold Medal in the Valencia Regional Exhibition, with his Fantasy for great organ, a piece composed between 1906 and 1907 and premiered by Guridi himself. Also in 1909 he composed an Interlude and in 1917 he wrote another Fantasy, that was published under the title Prelude and Fantasy.
In 1922 he composed Cuadros vascos (Basque scenes), for chorus and orchestra, and adapted, for solo organ, the Espatadantza (traditional Basque dance) contained in this work. He also adapted for organ Four Cantigas of Alfonso el Sabio in 1953.
In 1948 he composed Variations on a Basque theme, which consists of nine variations on the popular song Itsasoa laino dago (There is fog on the sea), contained in Resurrección Mª de Azkue’s Songbook.
In 1951, Guridi grouped twenty short and not difficult of execution pieces for organ teaching approach under the title Spanish School of Organ (1. Introducción – 2. Capriccio – 3. Cantinela – 4. Himno – 5. Improvisación – 6. Canción vasca – 7. Salida – 8. Interludio – 9. Plegaria – 10. Preludio – 11. Pastorela – 12. Villancico – 13. Glosa (Puer natus est) – 14. Éxtasis – 15. Fuga – 16. Adagio – 17. Ave Maria – 18. Ofertorio I – 19. Ofertorio II – 20. Tocata).
In 1953 he wrote the beautiful Triptych of the Good Shepherd ("The Flock ", "The Lost Sheep" and "The Good Shepherd"), surely his masterpiece in this field, which won the first prize in the composition competition organized by Organería Española because of the inauguration of the new organ of the Good Shepherd Cathedral in San Sebastián. Guridi himself premiered his "Triptych" on 20 January 1954 in this temple. The other composers awarded in the competition were Tomás Garbizu, Luis Urteaga and José María Nemesio Otaño. In 2007, the concert offered by these composers, 19 and 20 January 1954, was reproduced, and the concert ended with the work of Guridi.
Shortly before his death in 1961, he composed a Final for organ, a composition of great character in the line of the French master Louis Vierne.
See also
Conservatory Jesús Guridi
References
External links
1886 births
1961 deaths
20th-century organists
20th-century French male musicians
Basque classical composers
Basque classical musicians
Spanish classical composers
Spanish male classical composers
Spanish classical organists
Male organists
People from Vitoria-Gasteiz
Pupils of Vincent d'Indy |
17343911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yommalath%20district | Yommalath district | Yommalath is a district (muang) of Khammouane province in mid-Laos. The district was damaged by floods caused by heavy rain in July 2011, affecting rice farmland in the district, inundating almost 700 hectares, destroying dozens of fishponds and killing 112 cattle.
Towns and villages
Ban Kenglek
References
External links
www-wds.worldbank.org
Districts of Khammouane province |
26722054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan%20Blasim | Hassan Blasim | Hassan Blasim (born 1973) is an Iraqi-born film director and writer. He writes in Arabic. He is a citizen of Finland.
Blasim left Iraq in 2000 to escape persecution for his films, including The Wounded Camera, filmed in the Kurdish area in northern Iraq and about the forced migration of Kurds by Saddam Hussein's regime. After travelling in Europe for four years, he settled in Finland in 2004, where he was granted asylum. He made four short films for the Finnish broadcasting company Yle. His short story collection The Madman of Freedom Square was long-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2010. His book The Iraqi Christ, translated from Arabic to English by Jonathan Wright, was published by Comma Press in 2013. A selection of his stories was published as The Corpse Exhibition by Penguin US in 2014. It won a number of awards including one of four winners in the English Pen's Writers in Translation Programme Awards. In 2014, he became the first ever Arabic writer to win the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The Iraqi Christ.
Filmography
The Wounded Camera
Uneton, 2006
Luottamuksen arvoinen, 2007
Elämä nopea kuin nauru, 2007
Juuret, 2008
Books
Short Films (2005) collection of articles in: Cinema Booklets: Series of Publications for the Emirates Film Competition. Ed. S. Sarmini. Abu Dhabi: Emirates Cultural Foundation.
Poetic Cinema (2006) collection of articles. Ed. Salah Sarmini, in: Cinema Booklets: Series of Publications for the Emirates Film Competition. Abu Dhabi: Emirates Cultural Foundation
Diving into Existing (2007) correspondence and dairies in collaboration with Adnan al-Mubarak.
Wounded Camera (2007) Writings on cinema.
The Shia’s Poisoned Child (2008) story collection.
Madman of Freedom Square (2009) Comma Press, translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright
The Iraqi Christ (2013) Comma Press, short stories, translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright
The Corpse Exhibition (2014) Penguin US, short stories, translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright
Iraq +100 (2017) Tor Books, short story anthology (editor)
God 99 (2019) novel, Comma Press, translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright
References
External links
Hassan Blasim's blog
Madman of Freedom Square by Marianne Brace, The Independent
Finnish writers
Finnish film directors
21st-century Iraqi poets
Iraqi film directors
1973 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Iraqi emigrants to Finland
Finnish people of Iraqi descent
Refugees in Finland
Finnish Arabic-language poets
21st-century Iraqi writers
Iraqi short story writers
Iraqi novelists
Naturalized citizens of Finland |
23580654 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo%20Galdames | Pablo Galdames | Pablo Manuel Galdames Díaz (; born 26 June 1974 in Santiago de Chile) is a Chilean former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He obtained a total number of 22 caps for the Chile national team, scoring two goals between 1995 and 2001.
At the club level, Galdames played for Unión Española and Universidad de Chile in his home country, Cruz Azul and CD Veracruz in Mexico, Colombian side América de Cali, as well as Racing Club, Quilmes AC and Instituto Atlético Central Córdoba from Argentina.
Personal life
He is the father of Chilean footballer of the same name Pablo Galdames and Mexican footballer Benjamín Galdames.
Political views
He is member of the Independent Regionalist Party (PRI) and in 2017 he supported the presidential candidacy of Sebastián Piñera. Likewise, he was candidate for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies representing the 8th district.
Notes
Honours
Club
Unión Española
Copa Chile (1): 1993
Universidad de Chile
Primera División de Chile (2): 1999, 2000
Copa Chile (2): 1998, 2000
References
External Links
1974 births
Living people
Chilean footballers
Chilean expatriate footballers
Chile international footballers
1995 Copa América players
2001 Copa América players
Universidad de Chile footballers
Unión Española footballers
Expatriate footballers in Argentina
Expatriate footballers in Mexico
Expatriate footballers in Colombia
C.D. Veracruz footballers
Cruz Azul footballers
América de Cali footballers
Racing Club de Avellaneda footballers
Quilmes Atlético Club footballers
Instituto footballers
Chilean Primera División players
Categoría Primera A players
Argentine Primera División players
Liga MX players
Footballers from Santiago
Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Colombia
Association football midfielders
Independent Regionalist Party politicians |
17343938 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Armory%20Show%20%28art%20fair%29 | The Armory Show (art fair) | The Armory Show is an international art fair in New York City, known as New York's Art Fair. Established in 1994 as the Gramercy International Art Fair by dealers Colin De Land, Pat Hearn, Lisa Spellman, Matthew Marks and Paul Morris, the annual fair is now held every fall for four days and attracts crowds of 65,000. The art fair reports sales of $85 million as of 2008. Many smaller fairs and special events are held the same week in New York, effectively called "Armory Show Week" or "New York Arts Week".
History
Founded in 1994 as the Gramercy International Art Fair, the first iteration of the fair was held in the rooms of the Gramercy Hotel in New York City by five art dealers: Colin De Land, Pat Hearn, Lisa Spellman, Matthew Marks and Paul Morris. The fair outgrew its original location and was renamed "The Armory Show" in 1999, to reflect its updated location, the 69th Regiment Armory, site of the famous Armory Show of 1913.
The 69th Regiment Armory location was only temporary, but The Armory Show was inspired by the 1913 Armory Show's shared mission to present new art from around the world to New York City under one roof. The opportunity to celebrate this revolution in American art and culture led The Armory Show to preserve its name despite venue changes. After several editions at the Gramercy Park Hotel and Chateau Marmont, New York's Art Fair moved to the West Side piers (Piers 88 & 90) in 2001. In 2009, The Armory Show expanded to a new home on Piers 92 & 94 with the introduction of The Armory Show – Modern. Until 2020 Pier 94 was designated to Contemporary art, and Pier 92 to Modern. Pier 94 - Contemporary was home to Armory Presents and Armory Focus sections. In 2021, The Armory Show, the Marquee event of The Armory Week and New York Arts Week, moved its dates to September. In 2020, the fair announced its new venue, the Javits Center, where the fair took place in September 2021. In 2022 the fair will be held at the Javits from September 9–11.
Programming
The Armory Show comprises five integrated sections presenting contemporary and modern art. These sections include "Galleries," "Solo," "Focus," "Presents," and "Platform." "Galleries" is the core section of The Armory Show, where leading international galleries present outstanding 20th- and 21st-century artworks across a range of media. In "Solo", intimate presentations focus on the work of a single emerging, established, or historic artist working in the 20th or 21st century. "Focus" is dedicated to solo-and dual-artist presentations that explore new themes each year. In "Presents," galleries no more than ten years old showcase recent work through solo-and dual-artist presentations. All artworks in Presents are less than three years old. "Platform" is dedicated to large-scale installations and site-specific works under a new theme each year.
The Armory Artist Commission was launched in 2002 to support living artists by spotlighting the work of a different artist each year. Past recipients include: Kapwani Kiwanga, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Xu Zhen, Liz Magic Laser, Theaster Gates, Gabriel Kuri, Susan Collis, Ewan Gibbs, Mary Heilmann and John Waters, Pipilotti Rist, John Wesley, Jockum Nordström, Lisa Ruyter, Barnaby Furnas, and Karen Kilimnik. In 2019, The Armory Show presented the Gramercy International Prize, which awards a nominated gallery with a booth at no cost to showcase a solo or dual-artist presentation. In 2021 The Armory Show launched Armory Off-Site a new initiative presenting large-scale and interactive artworks in key public areas around the city in conjunction with the Fair and New York Arts Week.
References
External links
The Armory Show website
Festivals in New York City
Recurring events established in 1993
Art fairs
Arts festivals in the United States
Festivals established in 1993
Art festivals in the United States
Festivals established in 1994
Recurring events established in 1994 |
23580659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahinda%20Ratnatilaka | Mahinda Ratnatilaka | Ihalakkankanamalage Mahinda Ratnatilaka (also Ihalakkankanamalage Mahinda Rathnathilake) 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
United National Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
1948 births |
20485379 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10%2C000%20Women | 10,000 Women | 10,000 Women is a program organized by Goldman Sachs and the Goldman Sachs Foundation with the goal of helping to grow local economies by providing business education, mentoring and networking, and access to capital to underserved women entrepreneurs globally. The program was announced on March 5, 2008, at Columbia University. The initiative is one of the largest philanthropic projects the bank has been involved with. The program was in its initial years run by Dina Habib Powell, a managing director at Goldman Sachs.
The program was continuing in 2022; Goldman Sachs published a report on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on female entrepreneursfrom the viewpoint of the 10,000 Women program.
Award process
As part of the program, Goldman Sachs committed US$100 million in funding and partnered universities in Europe and the United States with business schools in developing and emerging economies.
Vital Voices presented the 10,000 Women Entrepreneurial Achievement Award at its annual Global Leadership Awards event from 2009 to 2011. The award was given to a graduate of the 10,000 Women program, sponsored by Goldman Sachs. Past recipients include Temituokpe Esisi of Nigeria (2009), Andeisha Farid of Afghanistan (2010) and Fatema Akbari of Afghanistan (2011).
In September 2013, Goldman Sachs launched a public Twitter presence for the 10,000 Women program using the screen name @GS10KWomen. In December 2015 the account had over 39,000 followers.
Women Entrepreneurs Opportunity Facility
In March 2014, the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation and Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women program launched a $600 million financing program called the Women Entrepreneurs Opportunity Facility to allow 100,000 women entrepreneurs in emerging markets to have access to financing. IFC invested an initial $100 million in the program, and Goldman Sachs Foundation provided $32 million, with an additional $486 million expected from public and private investors.
Academic partners
See also
10,000 Small Businesses
References
External links
10,000 Women
Goldman Sachs |
20485383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prez%C3%AB%20Castle | Prezë Castle | The Prezë Castle () is a medieval castle in Prezë, Albania.
Preza Castle was built by the Byzantine emperor Justinian the Great in the 550s.
The castle overlooks the village with the same name and is located on a hilltop. The castle was enlarged by a construction which started in the 14th century and was completed in the early 15th century and belonged to the Thopias, a local Albanian feudal family. During 1443-1468 it was one of the core strongholds of the Albanian resistance against the Ottoman Empire led by Skanderbeg.
The castle has been declared a 'monument of culture'. It has four towers, one in each corner. The clock tower was erected around 1800–50. It is known for its beautiful location, overlooking the Tirana plain. The castle is quite close to the Mother Teresa International Airport. A restaurant named Restorant Kalaja E Prezës and other service facilities are found inside the castle.
See also
Landmarks in Tirana
Architecture of Albania
Castles in Albania
Buildings and structures in Vorë
Tourist attractions in Tirana County |
23580665 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amara%20Piyaseeli%20Ratnayake | Amara Piyaseeli Ratnayake | Ratnayake Mudiyanselage Amara Piyaseeli Ratnayake is a Sri Lankan politician and was the 9th Governor of the North Western Province. She was a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a former government minister, being the Minister of Woman's affairs in the 2001-2004 United National Party government. She is a longstanding MP of the United National Party for the Wariyapola Electorate. She entered politics from Kurunegala after her husband's death.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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
United National Party politicians
Women legislators in Sri Lanka
Ministers of state of Sri Lanka
Non-cabinet ministers of Sri Lanka
20th-century Sri Lankan women politicians
21st-century Sri Lankan women politicians
Women government ministers of Sri Lanka |
26722059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE%20Abd%C3%B3n%20Calder%C3%B3n | BAE Abdón Calderón | BAE Abdón Calderón is a naval ship of Ecuador, built in 1885 and now preserved as a museum ship at Guayaquil.
Service history
The Ecuadorian naval vessel Abdón Calderón was built in 1885 at Port Glasgow, Scotland by David Dunlop & Co as the cargo ship Chaihuin for Chilean shipowners Adam Greulich y Compañia of Valparaiso. In December 1886 she was purchased by the Ecuador Government, becoming the war steamer Cotopaxi, and was armed with four breech-loading Armstrong cannons and two Gatling guns. In 1892 Cotopaxi was redesignated as a cruiser.
In September 1913 in the Concha Revolution following the assassination of President Eloy Alfaro, the people of Esmeraldas revolted against the government of the new president, General Leónidas Plaza and attacked the local army headquarters. Cotopaxi was already anchored nearby and approached the city and fired warning shots from her 76mm cannon. With the assistance of two contingents of her crew which went ashore, the army was relieved. An extended siege followed, but after the end of the revolts in 1916 a period of austerity led to the reduction in the size of the navy, with only the Cotopaxi remaining in service by the mid-1920s. From 1924 she was also used as a training ship. In 1927 Cotopaxi was again redesignated, now as a gunboat and nine years later her name was changed to Abdón Calderón in honour of the revolutionary hero who died from injuries sustained on 24 May 1822 during the Battle of Pichincha.
Ecuadorian–Peruvian War
At the beginning of the Ecuadorian–Peruvian War in July 1941, the port of Guayaquil was blockaded and Abdón Calderón was hurriedly prepared, though with antiquated armament. On 25 July she encountered the Peruvian Orfey class destroyer Almirante Villar in the Jambeli channel. After spotting Abdon Calderón, the Ecuadorian ship that was in transit to Guayaquil, as soon as it recognized the Peruvian ship, turned 180º with respect to its course, fleeing towards Puerto Bolívar while firing shots. "Admiral Villar" did the same, maneuvering in circles, avoiding getting too close to the coast (due to the low seabed there). After 21 minutes of exchange of shots by both sides, the incident ended. On her side, the destroyer "Almirante Villar" continued its operations uninterruptedly in the North Theater of Operations until October 1 of that year, when she returned to the port of Callao. On the other hand, the "Abdón Calderón" suffered serious damage to its caldera, forcing it to flee and hiding behind the dense vegetation in the Jambelí Canal and the Santa Rosa estuary.
According to the official Ecuadorian military history, the BAP Almirante Villar of Peru received significant damage from the BAE Calderón, until now there is no evidence necessary to support such a version. Neither documentary nor materially it has been possible to demonstrate with evidence that the Peruvian destroyer received impacts and was damaged according to the Ecuadorian Commander Morán, in charge of "Abdón Calderón", presumed to have achieved according to his report.
Abdón Calderón was later transferred to the Coast Guard and remained in active service until 1957, when she was moored in port.
Museum ship
In 1960 Abdón Calderón was decommissioned for conversion to a static memorial museum and placed ashore in the Parque de la Armada (Navy Park) at Guayaquil. The museum was inaugurated in 1972.
See also
References
Ecuadorian Armed Forces
1886 ships
Ships built in Scotland
Museum ships |
23580668 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bimal%20Rathnayake | Bimal Rathnayake | Bimal Rathnayake is a Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He is a national organiser and political bureau member of the people's liberation front (JVP).
He is a member of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna party.
References
Living people
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
1973 births |
44507823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%20Argentine%20Primera%20Divisi%C3%B3n | 2015 Argentine Primera División | The 2015 Argentine Primera División or Torneo de Primera División 2015 "Julio H. Grondona" was the 125th season of top-flight professional football in Argentina. The season began on February 13 and ended on December 6. Thirty teams competed in the league, twenty returning from the 2014 Torneo de Transición and ten promoted from the 2014 Primera B Nacional (Aldosivi, Argentinos Juniors, Colón, Crucero del Norte, Huracán, Nueva Chicago, San Martín (SJ), Sarmiento, Temperley and Unión). No teams were relegated to the Primera B Nacional Championship in the previous tournament.
Competition format
Each of the 30 teams plays the other sides once, along with an extra derby game, for a total of 30 matches for each side.
The winners and runners-up of the first division qualified for the 2016 Copa Libertadores. Additionally, the winner of the 2015 Copa Argentina earned the Argentina 3 berth to the Copa Libertadores. The teams that place third to sixth in the league table advanced to the Liguilla Pre-Libertadores. The winner of this Liguilla earned the fourth berth to the Copa Libertadores, with the runner-up entering the 2016 Copa Sudamericana. The teams that place seventh to eighteenth in addition to the losing semifinalists of the Liguilla Pre-Libertadores advanced to the Liguilla Pre-Sudamericana, to determine the six berths for the 2016 Copa Sudamericana.
Club information
Stadia and locations
Managerial changes
Interim Managers
1. Interim manager, but later promoted to full-time manager.
2. Interim manager, but later promoted to full-time manager.
3. Gustavo Tognarelli was interim manager in the 9th round.
4. Alejandro Giuntini was interim manager in the 10th.
5. Nelson Vivas was interim manager in the 10th round.
6. Roberto Santiago González was interim manager in the suspended 7th round and 11th–12th rounds.
7. Miguel Ángel Salinas was interim manager in the 11th round.
8. Fernando Berón was interim manager in the 14th and 15th rounds.
9. Carlos Picerni was interim manager in the 15th round.
10. Interim manager.
11. Interim manager in the suspended 22nd round and 27th–30th rounds.
Notable occurrences
On January 25, Juan Román Riquelme announced his retirement from professional football, just one month after leading first club Argentinos Juniors back to the Primera División. Riquelme made his debut in 1996 and until his retirement played for Boca Juniors, Barcelona, Villarreal and Argentinos Juniors.
On March 15, A San Lorenzo supporter died from injuries sustained at the end of the derby against Huracán (3–1, 5th round) after he lost his balance and fell from the highest point of the uncovered home stand behind the goal.
On March 22, during the match San Martín (SJ)–Boca Juniors a tackle by Boca Juniors goalkeeper Agustín Orión resulted in a broken tibia and fibula in the right leg (from six to eight-month recovery) for San Martin's Carlos Bueno. Orión received a straight red card and got four-match ban.
On March 30, the referee Ariel Penel suspended after 30 minutes the match between Arsenal and Aldosivi (0–1) due to disturbances outside the Estadio Julio Humberto Grondona. The match was finished on April 25 with final score 0–3.
On April 4, the referee Germán Delfino awarded a penalty to Vélez Sarsfield after Daniel Rosero (Arsenal) was adjudged to have handled the ball in the area and showed his second booking of the game. As the penalty was about to be taken Delfino was told over his intercom that the handball was by Vélez Sarsfield striker Mariano Pavone and proceeded to overturn his decision and call Rosero back onto the field. Apparently the decision was overturned after linesman Iván Núñez caught a replay of the incident on a nearby cameraman's monitor and informed Delfino via his earpiece. Despite the correct decision was awarded by the referee, the video technology is not allowed in Argentine football and Delfino was banned one round.
On May 21, The AFA's Disciplinary Tribunal gave the victory to Newell's Old Boys over Arsenal (0−1) for fielding an ineligible player. Arsenal were charged after they played the suspended midfielder Leandro Godoy in their 3−0 win over Newell's Old Boys on April 13 (9th round).
On May 24, AFA suspended the match between Tigre and River Plate because of the death of Cristian Gómez, a player of second division football club Paraná, who died after collapsing on the pitch during a game.
League table
Results
Teams play every other team once (either at home or away), and play one additional round against their local derby rival (or assigned match by AFA if a club doesn't have derby), completing a total of 30 rounds.
Liguilla Pre Libertadores
The Liguilla Pre Libertadores is contested by the four best placed teams from the league that have not already qualified for the Copa Libertadores, with the winners gaining a place in the 2016 tournament and the runners-up playing in the Copa Sudamericana. The losing semi-finalists play in the Liguilla Pre Sudamericana.
Semi-finals
Final
First leg
Second leg
Racing won 3–2 on aggregate and qualified to 2016 Copa Libertadores. Independiente qualified to 2016 Copa Sudamericana.
Liguilla Pre Sudamericana
The Liguilla Pre Sudamericana is contested by the twelve best placed teams from the league that have not already qualified for the Copa Libertadores, plus the two losing semi-finalists from the Liguilla Pre Libertadores. The four winners of the finals qualify for the 2016 Copa Sudamericana.
Semi-finals
Finals
Match 1
Match 2
Match 3
Match 4
The four sides who won their ties on aggregate qualified for 2016 Copa Sudamericana.
Season statistics
Top goalscorers
Top assists
Source: AFA
Relegation
Source: AFA
See also
2015 Primera B Nacional
References
External links
Full fixture list
soccerway.com
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26722061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segun%20Oluwaniyi | Segun Oluwaniyi | Segun Oluwaniyi (born 24 April 1982 in Oyo State) is a Nigerian football (soccer) player currently with Shooting Stars F.C. of Nigeria.
Career
Youth
Oluwaniyi began 1998 to play football in the youth side for Villa Rock in Abuja and signed one year later for Osun United. After a successful year in the b-youth from Osun United was scouted by Niger Tornadoes, but he could not make the team and joined Gombe United F.C. after a half year.
Professional
In the 2001 season he started his professional career with Gombe United F.C. and in January 2004 joined Enugu Rangers. After two seasons with Rangers and 20 matches, he signed for Dolphins F.C. in December 2005. He was one of the leaders in his three and a half year by Dolphins F.C., but he signed in summer 2009 for Bayelsa United F.C.
International career
He made his full senior debut on March 3, 2010 as a starter in the 5–2 win over Congo DR.
References
1982 births
Living people
Yoruba sportspeople
Sportspeople from Oyo State
Nigerian footballers
Shooting Stars S.C. players
Association football goalkeepers
Dolphin F.C. (Nigeria) players
Rangers International F.C. players
Gombe United F.C. players
Niger Tornadoes F.C. players
Nigeria international footballers |
17343940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Querida%20enemiga | Querida enemiga | Querida enemiga (English: Dear Enemy) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Lucero Suárez for Televisa in 2008.
On Monday, May 12, 2008, Canal de las Estrellas started broadcasting Querida Enemiga weekdays at 6:00pm, replacing Palabra de mujer. The last episode was broadcast on Friday, October 10, 2008 with En nombre del amor replacing it the following day.
On Monday, June 23, 2008 Univision started broadcasting Querida Enemiga weeknights at 7:00pm replacing Yo amo a Juan Querendón. The last episode was broadcast on Friday, November 28, 2008 with Las tontas no van al cielo replacing it the following day.
On Saturday, August 22, 2009 Univision Puerto Rico started broadcasting 2 hours of Querida Enemiga weekend mornings from 11:00am to 1:00pm replacing Lola Érase una vez. The last episode was broadcast on Sunday, January 3, 2010 with Verano de amor replacing it the following day.
On Monday, February 26, 2018 Univision tlnovelas started broadcasting Querida Enemiga weekdays at 10:00am/4:00pm/10:00pm with a marathon of five episodes every Sunday at 5:00pm replacing Alcanzar una estrella. The last episode was broadcast on Friday, July 27, 2018 with Barrera de amor replacing it the following day.
On Monday, April 4, 2022 Univision tlnovelas rebroadcasts Querida Enemiga weekdays at 9:00am/3:00pm/9:00pm with a marathon of five episodes every Saturday at 7:00am replacing Velo de Novia.
Ana Layevska, Gabriel Soto and Jorge Aravena starred as protagonists, while Carmen Becerra, Luz María Jerez, Mauricio Aspe, Miguel Ángel Biaggio, Marco Méndez and Alexandra Graña starred as antagonists. The leading actors María Rubio, Socorro Bonilla, Alfonso Iturralde and Héctor Ortega starred as stellar performances.
Plot
Lorena and Sara were raised together in an orphanage, and even though they have different personalities, they loved each other as sisters. Lorena dreams of starting her own family and loves to cook, while Sara is more materialistic; she has always hated the poverty of the orphanage, and she has more ambitions than values.
Lorena's greatest wish is to become a chef and so, one day she says goodbye to the nuns who raised her at the orphanage and leaves to study cuisine in Mexico City. That same day, Madre Asunción discovers that Sara had stolen some of the funds of the orphanage. However, after she confronts Sara, she suffers a heart attack and dies. To avoid getting caught any further, Sara runs with her lover and accomplice Chalo, who is also the delivery guy/driver of the orphanage. But before she leaves, she goes through the files Madre Asunción had in her office for each orphaned child and stole two files – hers and Lorena's.
When she finally reads them, she learns that she was found in the garbage dump, while Lorena was abandoned in the orphanage without explanation by her grandmother, the millionaire Hortensia Vallejo Vda. de Armendáriz. Sara's first impulse is to find Lorena and help her confront her grandmother and demand her rights, but then she reconsiders her options and decides to usurp her place in the Armendáriz gastronomic empire. Believing she would never see Lorena again, Sara thought her plan was foolproof.
Unaware of what happened, Lorena finds work as a cook's aid in her own grandmother's company – a lady who is ruthless in her work area and demands perfection from all her workers. Lorena also meets a young doctor called Alonso and they fall in love with each other at first sight. Later on, Sara has an unexpected reunion with Lorena in the company and the girl's constant presence infuriates her and feels that if Lorena were to ever know the truth of her past she may want to reclaim what is truly hers and she would be once again poor. So Sara's mind betrays her and she is gradually overwhelmed by a desire to take everything away from Lorena, including Alonso, and get rid of her once and for all.
When Lorena learns that Sara was abandoned by her grandmother, she cries for her friend and is filled with contempt for Hortensia. Meanwhile, Hortensia uses all her resources to avoid confronting the pain she has caused to everyone around her. Eventually, Sara managed to take away everything that belonged to Lorena, her life, her love and even her parents who for a while believed Sara to be their long lost daughter.
When Lorena starts to discover Sara's evil machinations against her, she realizes that she never truly knew the one she loved as a sister. But in spite of her broken heart, she will bravely face betrayal, deceit and cruelty and even find a new hope with someone she never expected to love – Ernesto, a man who at first glance seemed the total opposite of who she was. She never dreamed that they would have something special between them, but Ernesto managed to convince her otherwise. Slowly he reconstructs Lorena's broken heart, healing it with his love for her and showing her to love and trust someone else again.
Cast
Starring
Ana Layevska as Lorena de la Cruz
Gabriel Soto as Alonso Ugarte Solano
Also starring
María Rubio as Hortensia Armendáriz
Luz María Jerez as Bárbara Amescua
Carmen Becerra as Sara de la Cruz
Socorro Bonilla as Zulema de Armendáriz
Alfonso Iturralde as Omar Armendáriz
Héctor Ortega as Toribio Ugarte
Danna Paola as Bettina Aguilar Ugarte
Mauricio Aspe as Arturo Sabogal Huerta
Miguel Ángel Biaggio as Chalo Carrasco
Marco Méndez as Bruno Palma
Luz Elena González as Diana Ruiz
Patricia Martínez as María Eugenia "Maruja" Martínez de Armendáriz
Bibelot Mansur as Rossy López Martínez
Eduardo Rivera as Darío Aguilar
Sharis Cid as Paula Ugarte Solano
Zully Keith as Catalina Huerta
Dalilah Polanco as Greta
José Carlos Femat as Julián Ruiz
Alexandra Graña as Jacqueline Hernández
José Manuel Lechuga as Vasco Armendáriz Amescua
Adanely Núñez as Valeria
Mercedes Vaughan as Madre Carmelita
María Alicia Delgado as Madre Trinidad
Jorge Aravena as Ernesto Mendiola Chávez
Special participation
Nuria Bages as Madre Asunción
Awards
Remake
In Greece, the Mega Channel bought the rights to make their own version, called Η ζωή της άλλης ("The life of the other"), it was broadcast for three seasons, entre 2009-2013.
References
External links
at esmas.com
2008 telenovelas
Mexican telenovelas
2008 Mexican television series debuts
2008 Mexican television series endings
Spanish-language telenovelas
Television shows set in Mexico City
Televisa telenovelas |
20485405 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV%20Camilla%20Desgagn%C3%A9s | MV Camilla Desgagnés | MV Camilla D is a St Kitts and Nevis cargo vessel that has operated since 2003 in the waters of eastern and Arctic Canada. Before that, the ship was sailing under the Finnish flag as MS Camilla, owned by Lundqvist Rederierna of Mariehamn, Åland Islands. The ship was built by Krögerwerft GmbH in Rendsburg, West Germany in 1982. As the ship operated out of Finnish and Baltic ports in winter mainly without icebreaker assistance, she has the highest Finnish-Swedish ice class of 1A Super.
2003 salvage
On May 1, 2002, Camilla was laid up in the port of Mariehamn, Finland. According to the Finnish investigation report, maintenance work on the ship was intended to be carried out during the lay-up, but did not actually take place. On December 31, 2002 the ship departed Mariehamn for Canada in ballast for a cargo of paper. During the sailing, it was noticed that the ship's fuel had been contaminated with water, requiring a transition to burning light oil, and that engine lubrication oil required continuous filtering. The exhaust valves of the main engine also saw attention many times during the trip. After loading her cargo in Dalhousie, New Brunswick, Canada, the ship left for England on January 19, 2003. On Jan 23rd 05:40z the main engine stopped at sea, causing a black out. The engine failed with alarms and was restarted several times each time with some increasingly worrying signs of disrepair. At 09:36z it was discovered that one of the crank shaft bearings was overheating with mechanical noise emerging from several of the cylinders. At 10:45z the engine was declared inoperative. The engineers initially set out to repair the engine, but the master's decision at 13.48z that the ship would be evacuated halted the work. A hurricane was closing in, the repairs would take up to 36 hours, and even in the best case the ship's propulsion would be limited. The ship was then at and rolling 30-40 degrees. The crew ate dinner, closed all the hatches and valves and prepared to leave the ship. The ship's Stork-Werkspoor engine type was deemed in the Finnish investigation report to be very sensitive to the quality of its lubrication oil owing to a design feature, and the type had also received a general design revision to the crank rod bearings and the connecting rods. The engine type was also known to collect sticky oily residue in the general crankshaft area even when carefully maintained. The engine on board Camilla had both unrevised and revised parts installed, but the parts to fail were all of the unrevised design. The investigation board concluded that the most probable cause for the engine break down was imperfect lubrication of the main engine. The imperfect lubrication was a result of several factors, as detailed in the full report.
Camilla was abandoned after her 17-person crew was rescued from the ship by the Canadian Coast Guard and the Canadian Forces in January 2003 off Newfoundland following extreme weather. This rescue became the subject of an installment of the 2007 National Geographic Channel documentary series Trapped.
Titan Salvage partnered with International Transport Contractors to salvage Camilla. ITC tugboat Kigoria and Secunda Marine tugboat Ryan Leet secured the vessel on January 30, 2003 while Camilla was heeling 20 degrees to port and rolling 40 degrees to port. The vessel was towed to sheltered waters on the Newfoundland coast before being moved to St. John's for delivery to her owners.
The ship was sold at that time to Groupe Desgagnés of Quebec who renamed her Camilla Desgagnés.
2005 fire
On June 8, 2005 the vessel reported an engine room fire off New York City. Disabled, the owners contracted Titan Salvage who had originally salvaged the vessel in 2003. The vessel's crew contained the fire and Titan Salvage sub-contracted McAllister Towing to move the Camilla Desgagnés to Port Elizabeth, New Jersey where it was safely returned to the owners on June 10, 2005.
2008 transit of the Northwest Passage
Camilla Desgagnés was claimed to have become the first commercial vessel to transit the Northwest Passage in September 2008. However, she has been preceded at least by , an oil tanker retrofitted with an icebreaker bow for the transit, in 1969 and in 1970.
On November 28, 2008, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported that the Canadian Coast Guard confirmed the first commercial ship sailed through the Northwest Passage. In September 2008, MV Camilla Desgagnés, owned by Desgagnés Transarctik Inc. and, along with the Arctic Cooperative, is part of Nunavut Sealift and Supply Incorporated (NSSI), transported cargo from Montreal to the hamlets of Cambridge Bay, Kugluktuk, Gjoa Haven and Taloyoak. A member of the crew is reported to have claimed that "there was no ice whatsoever". Shipping from the east is to resume in the fall of 2009. Although sealift is an annual feature of the Canadian Arctic this is the first time that the western communities have been serviced from the east. The western portion of the Canadian Arctic is normally supplied by Northern Transportation Company Limited (NTCL) from Hay River. The eastern portion by NNSI and NTCL from Churchill and Montreal.
References
Sources
Finnish Safety Investigation Authority, report B1/2003M "Ms CAMILLA, vaaratilanne ja aluksen evakuointi Pohjois-Atlantilla 23.1.2003", published Helsinki November 11, 2004 Ms CAMILLA, vaaratilanne ja aluksen evakuointi Pohjois- Atlantilla 23.1.2003
External links
1982 ships
Merchant ships of Canada
Maritime incidents in 2003
Maritime incidents in 2008
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Cargo ships
Ships built in Rendsburg |
17343942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry%2C%20British%20Columbia | Raspberry, British Columbia | Raspberry is an unincorporated community in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. On the northeast side of the Columbia River adjacent to the mouth of Norns (formerly Pass) Creek, the residential area is part of Greater Castlegar.
Sproat's Landing
In 1888, Thomas Alexander Sproat preempted 320 acres, which straddled the creek mouth. Sproat's Landing was a key stopping point for sternwheelers soon passing regularly to northern points. The sheltered pond area provided a natural crossroads for the northwestward Columbia River, northward Pass Creek track, and northeastward Kootenay River. The original townsite is today's Castlegar sewage lagoons, and the landing was immediately south. Within a year, a ferry operated to the future Castlegar townsite.
Thomas appears to have acted as a front for his younger brother Gilbert Malcolm Sproat, and Arthur S. Farwell, both barred from real estate speculation as prominent public servants. At that time, Gilbert created a government funded trail up the Kootenay Valley. Meanwhile, the settlement spread up onto the downstream bench, where a saloon and Kootenay House Hotel were erected. Rails for the construction of the Columbia and Kootenay Railway (C&K) were delivered to the landing. A sawmill at the creek mouth cut ties and timber for the railway. Another general store, restaurant, drugstore, blacksmith and sheet-metal shop opened. For a year, the new station was the western terminus, until the C&K connected the benches on either side of the creek with a trestle. Bypassing the landing, the line advanced westward in 1891 to what would become Robson.
When Thomas secured his property as a Crown Grant in 1892, he sold it to Farwell's syndicate, who laid out the new town of Columbia, west of the creek. Over the next couple of years, the businesses and residents of Sproat's Landing steadily relocated to Robson. The 1894 flood washed away the final remnants on the low-lying land east of the creek, but a new railway spur connecting to steamboats at the landing provided the 1895–1897 revival. In 1902, the opening of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) swing-bridge over the Columbia obliterated any evidence of the landing.
In 1910 the Edgewood Lumber Company relocated its sawmill from Upper Arrow Lake to the old landing area, which became known as Mill Pond. By 1928, the mill supported an expanding community of family cottages and bunkhouses. Extensive damage from the 1948 flood shuttered the venture. Purchased by the Canadian Celanese Corporation, the 1952–1961 operations were on a smaller scale. A 1963 fire consumed all of Mill Pond.
The southern section of Raspberry contains the sewage lagoons and the Waldie Island Trail. Opened in 1996, the trail meanders through the hawthorn, wild rose, willows and dogwoods. Along the route, interpretive plaques provide a history of the area.
Commune
In 1929, nearby Doukhobor communes bought, cleared, and established a commercial orchard on the northern part. The Ootischenia workshops manufactured the wooden irrigation pipes, which drew water from the creek. In 1932, a brick village was built for permanent residents to tend the orchard. The name came from a nearby raspberry plantation within the acreage. Originally called Malinovoye (Малиновое, raspberry in Russian), the name evolved into the English word. Although distinct places, the school at Brilliant, built in 1934, was called Raspberry school.
Subdivision
Following a declining population for two decades, the government acquired and subdivided the land, first offering lots to existing residents. Raspberry is one of the few places in which the traditional Doukhobor communal houses (with later modifications) remain standing. Until the early 1990s, one was Raspberry Lodge, a long-term care facility. Since the dividing line between Raspberry and Robson to the west is debatable, Robson-Raspberry is the unofficial amalgamation for census and improvement district purposes.
References
Doukhobors
British Columbia populated places on the Columbia River
Populated places in the West Kootenay
Unincorporated settlements in British Columbia |
23580671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keheliya%20Rambukwella | Keheliya Rambukwella | Keheliya Rambukwella (born 21 September 1954, also known as Balcony Rambukwella) is a Sri Lankan politician. Who is serving as the current Minister of Water Supply and Drainage and Minister of Health of Sri Lanka Since May 2022. He is the former Minister of Mass Media and Information and Minister of Foreign Employment Promotion and Welfare
Early life
Rambukwella was born and raised in Kegalle, Sri Lanka and received his education at St. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia. He is a professional hotelier, with a post graduate degree from the Hotel School. In 1979 he produced Sakvithi Suvaya, which featured Gamini Fonseka. His son Ramith is a national cricket player.
Politics
Rambukwella claims that he was introduced to politics by late Gamini Dissanayake when the UNP split under late President Ranasinghe Premadasa. Keheliya joined the Democratic United National Front (DUNF) led by Lalith Athulathmudali. Later he joined the United National Party and was elected to the Parliament from Kandy district in 2000 by winning 154,403 preferential votes. In December 2001, again he was elected to the Parliament from Kandy district.
Later he crossed over to the President Mahinda Rajapakse's government. Rambukwella made another attempt to cross-over in 2015, when he tried to rejoin the United National Party. But this attempt failed and he was forced to remain with the SLFP's Mahinda fraction which lost the 2015 election.
Accident and grant
In February 2012, Rambukwella claimed to have "jumped" from the balcony of a third-floor hotel room in Melbourne, injuring his legs. After receiving a direct aid of Rs. 20 million from the President's Fund to cover his medical expenses, he swiftly recovered from the injuries.
Utility Debts
Rambukwella is refusing to pay a sum of over Rs.1M for his domestic power bill to this day.
References
Living people
Provincial councillors 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
Members of the 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan Buddhists
Sinhalese politicians
1954 births |
44507837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vappala%20Balachandran | Vappala Balachandran | Vappala Balachandran is an Indian national security intelligence specialist. He worked as a police officer in Maharashtra in the 1960s and early 70s, and subsequently for the Cabinet Secretariat of the Government of India, where he was appointed Special Secretary.
He is the author of three books, two on security and one on the life of A.C.N. Nambiar.
Balachandran has also written newspaper columns on security and strategic subjects in Indian and foreign publications.
Early life
Balachandran originally hails from the state of Kerala, Southern India. His father, K.P. Kutti Krishna Menon, was an officer in the Myanmar government and he lived in Yangon till 1940. During World War 2, his father stayed back in Myanmar to serve the government.
Balachandran is the grand nephew of V.P. Menon from Ottapalam, Kerala.
Career
From 1961 to 1965, Balachandran was an Assistant Superintendent of Police in Nashik in northern Maharashtra. Between 1965 and 1972 he was Superintendent of Police, first in Sangli district and then in Yeotmal district. He was appointed Deputy Commissioner of Police in Bombay (present-day Mumbai) in 1972.
In 1976 he started working for the Indian government's Cabinet Secretariat in New Delhi. He retired in 1995.
Between 2007 and 2009 he wrote several papers for the Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington, D.C. for their "Regional Voices" project.
His paper "Insurgency, terrorism, and transnational trends" was included as Chapter 6 in their publication Transnational Trends. Balachandran was a member of the two-man "High Level Committee" appointed by the Government of Maharashtra to inquire into the police response during the Mumbai 26 November 2008 terror attacks.
In November 2009 he was invited by the Governor of Hawaii to be the keynote speaker at the 2009 Asia Pacific Homeland Security Summit at Honolulu and address senior police officials in Singapore on urban security and terrorism. Balachandran spoke at the Pluscarden Programme conference on "The Future of International Cooperation in Countering Violent Extremism" at St Antony's College, Oxford University in October 2010 and in 2013 on "India’s Politics of Free Expression-A Law & Order perspective" under the "Marchioness of Winchester Lectures 2013". The interview was aired by the BBC radio along with three other participants.
Vappala Balachandran is also an active columnist who writes for The Sunday Guardian and The Asian Age newspapers.
Awards
In 1975, Balachandran was awarded the Indian Police Medal for meritorious service and in 1986, The President's Police medal for meritorious service.
Books
National Security and Intelligence Management-A New Paradigm (2014)
A life in Shadow (2017)
Keeping India Safe: The Dilemma of Internal Security (2017)
References
Writers from Mumbai
1937 births
21st-century Indian non-fiction writers
Living people |
44507844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismael%20Peraza%20Valdez | Ismael Peraza Valdez | Ismael Peraza Valdez (born 17 June 1967) is a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party. In 2009 he served as Deputy of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Campeche.
References
1967 births
Living people
Politicians from Campeche
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians |
20485411 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle%20of%20Rodon | Castle of Rodon | The Rodoni Castle or Skanderbeg Castle () is a castle in Albania. Rodoni Castle is at an elevation of .
Overview
Rodoni Castle is on the Cape of Rodon. After the victorious First Siege of Krujë the League of Lezhë decided to increase the fortifications for use against the Ottoman Empire. Skanderbeg chose the cape of Rodon as the location of the castle and construction began in 1450. The walls of the castle that was completed in
approximately 1452 had a length of . When the Siege of Krujë started in 1466 Skanderbeg retreated to Rodoni Castle from where he and his family, together with many people from Albania, were transported to Brindisi in 14 ships. According to Marin Barleti this castle was destroyed by Ottoman forces in 1467.
In 1500 the castle was rebuilt by the Republic of Venice. As a result of the corrosive action of the sea waves, some of the walls are now under the waters of the Adriatic. Today the visitors can see the outer walls on the right side and the tower at the place they intersect.
Gallery
See also
Skanderbeg
History of Albania
Durrës
Cape of Rodon
Tourism in Albania
List of castles in Albania
Architecture of Albania
History of Albania during Ottoman administration
References
Buildings and structures completed in 1452
Castles in Albania
Buildings and structures in Durrës
Tourist attractions in Durrës County |
20485416 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of%20Time%2C%20Tombs%20and%20Treasures | Of Time, Tombs and Treasures | Of Time, Tombs and Treasures is a 1977 American short documentary film about the discovery the Tomb of the Tutankamun. Produced by James R. Messenger, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
References
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1977 documentary films
1977 short films
Documentary films about Egypt
English-language films
1970s short documentary films
American short documentary films
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Valley of the Kings
Films shot in Egypt
Films about archaeology
Tutankhamun |
17343950 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Akui | David Akui | David M. Akui (January 16, 1920 – September 15, 1987) was an American soldier who became famous for capturing the first Japanese prisoner of war in World War II. At the time, Akui was a corporal in Company G, 298th Infantry Regiment of the Hawaii Territorial Guard.
Biography
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Hawaiian native Akui enlisted on 15 October 1940 and would serve in the Pacific theater until its end.
On December 8, 1941, the morning after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Akui and Lieutenant Paul C. Plybonwas were walking along Waimanalo Beach when Akui found a Japanese man lying unconscious on the beach. The man awoke to find Akui standing over him with a drawn pistol. Akui took the man into custody and he was identified as Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki, commander of a two-man midget submarine that took part in the Pearl Harbor attacks. Ensign Sakamaki's submarine's gyrocompass was malfunctioning and caused the submarine to sail in circles at periscope depth. Sakamaki thus ran aground on a reef, where the United States Navy destroyer spotted it and opened fire. The destroyer's gunners missed, but the blasts freed the submarine from the reef and Sakamaki was able to submerge. When he could not repair the gyrocompass, Sakamaki ordered Petty Officer 2nd Class Kiyoshi Inagaki to swim ashore, while he set the demolition charges to destroy the submarine. Sakamaki then abandoned ship himself. Inagaki drowned attempting to swim ashore. Sakamaki succeeded, but passed out from exhaustion. Corporal Akui found him there. Sakamaki's demolition charges failed to explode and his submarine also washed ashore. It was salvaged and is now in the Admiral Nimitz Museum at Fredericksburg, Texas.
Akui served through the remainder of the war in the Pacific Theater and was a member of the famed "Merrill's Marauders", who fought the Japanese in the jungles of Burma. He retired from the United States Army as a master sergeant and spent the rest of his life in Hawaii. He died in Kaneohe, Honolulu in 1987 at the age of 67.
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People from Honolulu
1920 births
1987 deaths
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United States Army soldiers
Hawaii National Guard personnel |
17343954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milford%20Junction | Milford Junction | Milford Junction may refer to:
Milford Junction, a rail junction between the lines of the York and North Midland Railway and Leeds and Selby Railway
Milford Old junction railway station, also known as York Junction, and Gascoigne Wood; on the Leeds to Selby line, UK
Milford Junction railway station on the York and North Midland Railway, UK
Milford Junction, Indiana |
20485428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine%20Matison | Christine Matison | Christine Matison (born 29 October 1951) is an Australian former professional tennis player who reached the semi-finals of the 1978 Australian Open as a qualifier.
Matison was the first woman qualifier to reach the semi-finals of a Grand Slam tournament. The next woman qualifier to do so was Alexandra Stevenson in the 1999 Wimbledon Championships.
In 1975, Matison won the doubles of the Western Australian Championships in Perth partnering Lesley Turner Bowrey, beating Sue Barker and Michelle Tyler-Wilson in the final in two sets.
References
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1951 births
Living people
Australian female tennis players
Place of birth missing (living people) |
23580672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamal%20Rajapaksa | Chamal Rajapaksa | Chamal Jayantha Rajapaksa (Sinhala: චමල් රාජපක්ෂ; Tamil: சமல் ராஜபக்ஷ; born 30 October 1942) is a Sri Lankan politician who was Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka from 2010 to 2015. Previously he served as Minister of Ports and Aviation and the Minister for Irrigation and Water Management. He hails from a well known political family in Sri Lanka. His father, D. A. Rajapaksa, was a prominent politician, independence agitator, member of parliament and Minister of Agriculture and Land in Wijeyananda Dahanayake's government. He is the elder brother of Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was President of Sri Lanka from 2005 to 2015. Nine members of the Rajapaksa family have been members of parliament in Sri Lanka.
Shashindra Rajapaksa (eldest son of Rajapaksa) is the former chief Minister of Uva Provincial Council and former Basnayaka Nilame (Lay Custodian) of the Ruhunu Maha Kataragama devalaya.
Early life and education
Rajapaksa was born on 30 October 1942 in Palatuwa in the Southern District of Matara and raised in Medamulana in the District of Hambantota. He was the eldest son, of nine siblings which included, an older sister, three younger brothers: Mahinda Rajapaksa, Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Basil Rajapaksa and two younger sisters, to D. A. Rajapaksa and Dona Dandina Samarasinghe Dissanayake. He received his primary and secondary education at Richmond College, Galle. As a student, he was an athlete and played soccer for the school, in addition to being an academical high achiever.
Early career
Following his schooling, he joined the Ceylon Police Force as a Sub-inspector and served for eight years. He thereafter served the State Trading General Corporation as the Assistant General Manager before getting into active politics in 1985.
Political career
Contested the by-election held in 1985 for Mulkirigala Electorate.
Entered Parliament in 1989 as a member of parliament of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party representing Hambantota District. Has been a member of parliament continuously since 1989, retaining his seat in all elections held to date.
Prior to the present appointment as Speaker of the Parliament he has held the following portfolios.
Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Lands
Deputy Minister of Ports and Southern Development
Deputy Minister of Plantation Industries
Minister of Agricultural Development
Minister of Irrigation and Water Management
Minister of Ports and Aviation
Honorary titles
"Sri Lanka Janaseva Vibhushana"
Other positions held
President, Sri Lanka – Russia Parliamentary Friendship Association
President, Sri Lanka – Hungary Parliamentary Friendship Association
Chairman, District Development Committee, Hambantota (District Secretariat)
Chairman, Hambantota Development Foundation
See also
List of political families in Sri Lanka
Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka
References
External links
The Rajapaksa Ancestry
A people-based politician
Parliament profile
1942 births
Living people
Sri Lankan Buddhists
Speakers of the Parliament of Sri Lanka
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
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
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Alumni of Richmond College, Galle
Chamal
Sinhalese politicians
Sinhalese police officers |
17343962 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Blades%20of%20Black%20Cathay | Red Blades of Black Cathay | Red Blades of Black Cathay is a collection of Fantasy short stories by Robert E. Howard and Tevis Clyde Smith. It was first published in 1971 by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in an edition of 1,091 copies. The title story originally appeared in the magazine Oriental Stories.
Contents
Introduction, by Tevis Clyde Smith
"Red Blades of Black Cathay"
"Diogenes of Today"
"Eighttoes Makes a Play"
References
1971 short story collections
Short story collections by Robert E. Howard
Donald M. Grant, Publisher books |
20485433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Mu%C3%B1oz | Alexander Muñoz | Alexander Muñoz (born February 8, 1979) is a Venezuelan professional boxer who has held the WBA super flyweight title twice; from 2002 to 2004, and from 2007 to 2008. He also challenged for the WBA bantamweight title in 2010. Muñoz's strong punching power earned him the nickname of "El Explosivo"; to date, 79% of his wins have come via knockout.
Boxing career
Munoz had an outstanding amateur career, compiling a record of 163 wins, 9 losses, and 129 knockouts in 172 bouts. Not to be confused with a former amateur boxer of the same name from Puerto Rico.
Munoz turned professional in 1998 and captured the WBA super flyweight title with an 8th-round TKO win over Celes Kobayashi in 2002. He defended the title three times before losing by a split decision to Martín Castillo on December 3, 2004.
He recaptured the belt on May 3, 2007, with a unanimous decision win over Nobuo Nashiro. On January 14, 2008, Muñoz defended his belt by against Katsushige Kawashima, a former WBC super flyweight champion, in a similar way.
On May 17, 2008, Muñoz lost to WBC champion Cristian Mijares via a split decision in a unification bout. Mijares then became WBA super champion.
Professional boxing record
External links
1979 births
Living people
People from Miranda (state)
Super-flyweight boxers
World Boxing Association champions
World boxing champions
Venezuelan male boxers |
44507848 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver%20Pond%20%28Queens%29 | Beaver Pond (Queens) | Beaver Pond was a pond located in the Jamaica section of Queens, New York. Water flowed out of the pond through Baisley Creek towards Baisley Pond. From there, it flowed through Cornell Creek into Jamaica Bay.
The stream was formed by beavers prior to human settlement. The local Lenape native word for beaver, Jameco, became the namesake of the English settlement to the north of the pond, which became known as Jamaica. Beaver Pond's namesake animal was a vital component in the colonial economy. Beaver fur attracted Dutch colonists to the region and the animal appears on the seal of New York City. English settlers arrived in the area in 1656, with permission from the New Netherlands government to build Rustdorp. Following the English takeover of the colony in 1664, the popular name Jamaica became official and the town became the seat of Queens County in 1683.
The pond's oldest neighbor is Prospect Cemetery, which accepted its first interment in 1668 and continued to perform burials until 1988.
Later, the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line and Atlantic Branch were built in Jamaica. By 1834, when the railroad was constructed, the pond was considered the town's center.
In the last decade of the 19th century, the pond was used by the American Ice Company as an ice harvesting site. City authorities considered the industrial use of Beaver Pond a health hazard as its outflow contributed to the Brooklyn Water Works. In April 1906, a grand jury in Queens recommended that the city fill in this "menace to the community and a drawback to the material progress of that section of Jamaica." Although Beaver Pond was filled, land atop the site remained undeveloped for another couple of decades. It is zoned for manufacturing with auto repair shops, slaughterhouses and undeveloped lots used to store car parts. Beaver Road, which follows the former pond's northern shore is the only physical reminder of this body of water.
References
Lakes of Queens, New York
Former lakes of the United States
Jamaica, Queens |
20485435 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Hickey | Tim Hickey | Timothy William Hickey (born February 14, 1938) is an American politician. A Democrat, he served five terms (1963–1972) representing the 3rd Middlesex District in Cambridge in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He served as Deputy State Treasurer of Massachusetts from 1972–1980.
Early life and family
Hickey was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to William T. Hickey, a funeral director and embalmer, and Margaret (Kedian) Hickey. He was a graduate of the Cambridge Public School system. Hickey's father established the William T. Hickey Funeral Home in Cambridge in 1934. In 1959, he graduated from the New England Institute of Embalming and Funeral Directing and joined his father in a family business, the William T. Hickey & Son Funeral Home at 175 Huron Avenue in Cambridge.
In 1951, at the young age of thirteen, he met a Cambridge City Councillor by the name of Edward J. "Eddie" Sullivan. Through this friendship he became interested in a life of public service. He watched his friend go from city councillor to mayor of Cambridge and go on to become clerk of courts for Middlesex County in Massachusetts.
On June 4, 1960, Hickey married Patricia Eileen Hughes at St. Peter's Church in Cambridge. They have three daughters, Sheila, Margaret and Patricia, and five grandchildren, Timothy, Abigail, Meaghan, Colin and Liam.
Political career
In 1962 Hickey ran for Representative from the 3rd Middlesex District. He won a competitive Democratic primary for the seat vacated by Lawrence F. Feloney, followed by a win in the November general election. He won reelection in 1964, 1966, 1968 and 1970.
Representative Hickey took his oath of office on January 1, 1963 at the age of 24, being the youngest member of the legislature. Notable members of the Class of 1963 included: Congressman Joseph D. Early of Worcester, Governor Michael S. Dukakis who became the Democratic nominee for president in 1988, David M. Bartley who became Speaker of the Massachusetts House, and Thomas W. McGee who would also go on to become Speaker.
He voted to replace four of the constitutional offices in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. In 1964, Robert Q. Crane as state treasurer replacing John T. Driscoll. Also in 1964, Thaddeus Buczko as state auditor replacing Thomas J. Buckley. In 1967, John F.X. Davoren replacing Kevin H. White as secretary of state. In 1969, Robert H. Quinn replacing Elliot Richardson as attorney general.
Hickey served on the following House committees: Committee on Cities, Committee on Counties, Committee on Federal Financial Assistance, and the Committee On Ways and Means. Additionally, he served on the Special Commission on Mental Health.
In 1968, Representative Hickey attended the Democratic National Convention at The Stockyard in Chicago with the Massachusetts Delegation to support Hubert H. Humphrey and Edmund Muskie.
In 1972 Hickey left the House and was appointed Deputy State Treasurer, a post he held until 1980, returning full-time as President and owner of the William T. Hickey & Son Funeral Home in Cambridge.
Recent life
Hickey has retired from public service. He in Cambridge with his wife, Patricia, and they spend their summers at the White Cliffs Country Club in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The Hickey's spend their winters in Deerfield Beach, Florida.
On October 19, 2005, Representative Hickey attended The 375th Anniversary of the General Court of Massachusetts. His guest for the celebration was his grandson, Timothy W. Mahoney.
Over the years Representative Hickey has always given credit to his success in public service to his late friend and mentor Edward J. Sullivan, a friendship that lasted over fifty years.
References
1938 births
Living people
Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
Massachusetts Democrats |
44507849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse%20on%20Voluntary%20Servitude | Discourse on Voluntary Servitude | The Discourse on Voluntary Servitude () is an essay by Étienne de La Boétie. The text was published clandestinely in 1577.
The date of preparation of the Discourse on Voluntary Servitude is uncertain: according to recent studies it was composed by Étienne de La Boétie during his university education. According to his closest friend Michel de Montaigne, the speech was written when La Boétie was about 18 years old.
Content
The essay argues that any tyrant remains in power while his subjects grant him that, therefore delegitimizing every form of power. The original freedom of men would be indeed abandoned by society which, once corrupted by the habit, would have preferred the servitude of the courtier to the freedom of the free man, who refuses to be submissive and to obey.
Bibliography
Œuvres complètes, Editions William Blake & Co., 1991.
Discours de la servitude volontaire, Editions Mille et une nuits, 1997.
Discours de la servitude volontaire, Editions Flammarion, 1993.
The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude, translated by Harry Kurz and with an introduction by Murray Rothbard, Montrèal/New York/London: Black Rose Books, 1997.
The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude, translated by Harry Kurz and with an introduction by Murray Rothbard, Free Life Editions, 1975.
References
Further reading
Keohane, Nannerl O. (1977). ‘The Radical Humanism of Étienne de la Boétie’, Journal of the History of Ideas. 38:119–130.
Lablénie, Edmond (1930). ‘L’Énigme de la “Servitude Volontaire”’, Revue du seizième siècle. 17:203–227 [French].
Podoksik, Efraim (2003). ‘Estienne de La Boëtie and the Politics of Obedience’, Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance. LXV(1): 83–95.
Rothbard, Murray. 'Ending Tyranny Without Violence', originally titled The Political Thought of Étienne de La Boétie
External links
1576 books
Essay collections
French non-fiction books
Philosophy books
Philosophy essays |
23580673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JJ%20%28Swedish%20band%29 | JJ (Swedish band) | JJ, styled as jj, is a Swedish band who has released music through the Gothenburg-based independent label Sincerely Yours and the Bloomington, Indiana-based label Secretly Canadian. The band consists of Joakim Benon and Elin Kastlander.
History
jj met in their hometown of Vallentuna, outside of Stockholm, and began playing together at a local youth center. They released their debut jj n° 1 in early 2009 and a couple of months later they released their debut album jj n° 2. Both the debut single and the debut album received a Best New Music inclusion from Pitchfork Media with ratings of 8 and 8.6 respectively.
On December 24, 2008 it was announced that the American record label Secretly Canadian had signed jj to their roster. At the same time, the release date for jj's second full length album was slated. The album, named jj n° 3, was released in the United States and Sweden on March 9, 2010. jj works with both Sincerely Yours and Secretly Canadian, depending on the location, and hence didn't leave Sincerely Yours for Secretly Canadian.
Aside from their official releases, jj has also done several covers and new takes on contemporary songs. For example, they've recorded covers of Akon's "Troublemaker", Jeremih's "Birthday Sex" and the "Theme Song" for the Welcome Back, Kotter TV-series. All of these were released for free on the internet, making it similar to a mixtape.
From March to April 2010, jj was on a nationwide tour in the United States with the British band The xx. Following the US tour, jj went on a minor tour through Europe with dates in Italy, France and Belgium among others.
jj's next release, following jj n° 3, was a mixtape named Kills. It was released as a free download on Christmas Eve 2010, at Sincerely Yours website.
In late March 2011, jj collaborated with fellow Swedish artist Yves Saint Lorentz to make an official remix of Rebecca & Fiona's single "Bullets". The remix was named "The End of the World".
jj's song "My Life" from jj n° 3 was featured in an official trailer for Battlefield 3 that was released in April 2011.
In summer 2011, jj collaborated with the American R&B singer Ne-Yo and released the song "We Can't Stop" as part of the Adult Swim Singles Program 2011. Later in 2011, they were involved in another collaboration with American rapper Don Trip to make the song "Cheers (jj’s Save Our Souls Remix)" for the magazine The Fader.
In September 2013 they collaborated with Adrian Lux on the song "Wild Child".
In May 2014, jj announced their third studio album entitled V, as in jj n° 5. At the same time they released the single "All White Everything" from the album. V was released on August 19, 2014.
On August 12, 2015 jj released the EP "Death" consisting of five new songs.
Discography
Studio albums
jj n° 2 (2009)
jj n° 3 (2010)
V (2014)
Mixtapes
Kills (2010)
Singles and EPs
"jj n° 1" (2009)
a jj 12" (2009)
"jj n° 4" (2012)
High Summer (2012)
Death (2015)
References
External links
Sincerely Yours
Secretly Canadian
Swedish electronic music groups
Electronic music duos
Musicians from the Balearic Islands
Secretly Canadian artists |
44507854 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27re%20in%20My%20Arms | You're in My Arms | "You're in my Arms (and a million miles away)" is a 1941 song by Vera Lynn, with music by Michael Carr and lyrics by Jack Popplewell. Lynn recorded it with Mantovani and his Orchestra, and a version followed by Anne Shelton with Bert Ambrose and his Orchestra, also in 1941. Leslie Hutchinson (Hutch) recorded the song around this time too.
References
1941 songs
Vera Lynn songs
Songs with music by Michael Carr (composer) |
17343967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland%20Route%20586 | Maryland Route 586 | Maryland Route 586 (MD 586) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as Veirs Mill Road, the highway runs from MD 28 and MD 911 in Rockville east to MD 97 in Wheaton. MD 586 is a four- to six-lane northwest–southeast highway through southern Montgomery County. The highway was originally constructed in the mid-1930s. MD 586 was expanded to a divided highway in the mid-1950s.
Route description
MD 586 begins at the intersection of Veirs Mill Road and First Street in Rockville. MD 28 heads west along Veirs Mill Road across CSX's Metropolitan Subdivision railroad line toward downtown Rockville; the highway also heads north along First Street toward Norbeck. MD 911 heads south along First Street under the railroad toward North Bethesda. Access from MD 586 to northbound and southbound MD 355 (Rockville Pike) on the west side of the railroad tracks is via MD 28 and MD 911, respectively. MD 586 heads east as a four-lane divided highway through the eastern part of the city of Rockville. The highway is paralleled by service roads east to Twinbrook Parkway, east of which the highway leaves the city limits and crosses Rock Creek. Between the creek and Aspen Hill Road, MD 586 is crossed by a sweeping pedestrian bridge that carries the Rock Creek Hiker-Biker Trail.
MD 586 parallels Rock Creek southeast along the southern edge of Aspen Hill. After crossing Turkey Branch where the route intersects the linear Matthew Henson State Park, the highway leaves the valley of Rock Creek and expands to six lanes ahead of its intersection with Randolph Road. Local streets are used to circumvent the lack of direct access from eastbound Randolph Road to westbound MD 586 and from westbound Randolph Road to eastbound MD 586. East of Randolph Road, the two directions of the highway change from two to three lanes and back intermittently. MD 586 continues southeast and intersects MD 185 (Connecticut Avenue) just west of its crossing of an unnamed branch of Rock Creek. The highway enters the town center of Wheaton shortly before its intersection with MD 193 (University Boulevard). MD 586 passes between the Westfield Wheaton shopping mall and the Wheaton station on the Washington Metro's Red Line before reaching its eastern terminus at MD 97 (Georgia Avenue). There is no direct access from MD 586 to northbound MD 97.
MD 586 is a part of the National Highway System as a principal arterial for its entire length.
History
Veirs Mill Road is named for a grist and sawmill on Rock Creek built by Samuel Clark Veirs in 1838 and operated by his family until 1924. This mill drew business from Rockville and Mitchell's Crossroads, which later became Wheaton, along its namesake road. MD 586 was constructed starting in 1934. By the end of 1935, the highway was paved as a macadam road from MD 97 northwest to a branch of Rock Creek next to the modern MD 586–MD 185 intersection. Two segments of concrete road were also completed from the end of the macadam segment northwest to Turkey Branch and from First Street Rockville southeast to Edmonston Drive in Rockville. The remainder of the highway was completed in 1937 concurrent with Veirs Mill Road's original bridge across the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (now CSX) between First Street and U.S. Route 240 (now MD 355). MD 28 was relocated east on Veirs Mill Road across the new bridge, then north on First Street when the project was complete.
Expansion of MD 586 to a four-lane divided highway began in 1954. The first segment of the expanded highway, from just east of MD 28 in Rockville to Turkey Branch, was started that year and completed in 1956. This work included widening and reconstructing the route's bridge across Rock Creek. MD 586 was expanded to a divided highway from Turkey Branch to MD 97 between 1955 and 1957. The westernmost segment of the highway at the MD 28 intersection was expanded to a divided highway shortly after the completion of MD 28's modern bridge across the railroad in 1981. The pedestrian bridge that carries the Rock Creek Hiker-Biker Trail across MD 586 was constructed starting in 2008 and opened in 2011.
Junction list
See also
References
External links
MDRoads: MD 586
586
Maryland Route 586 |
23580675 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%20Rupasinghe | Neil Rupasinghe | Don Jayawickramage Neil Rupasinghe (Don Jayawickramage Neel Rupasinghe) 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 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
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians |
44507855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C5%BEidar%20Li%C5%A1%C4%8Di%C4%87 | Božidar Liščić | Božidar Liščić (born 1929 in Karlovac) is a Croatian engineer and from 1997 a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
He received his B.Sc. in Mech. Engineering and Ph. D in Materials Science from the University of Zagreb. After graduation followed several specializations throughout Europe dealing mainly with the heat treatment technologies. Ending his life in industry early he came back in 1968 to the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering as a lecturer on heat treatment. Here he established Heat Treatment laboratory introducing new heat treatment technologies in a country for the first time. Experiments done for his PhD using an experimental quenching tank built by the Swiss company Borel shifted his attention to quenching which became his main interest.
His greatest scientific achievement is the invention of Temperature Gradient Method for quenching intensity measuring, recording and evaluation. Soon afterwards, an appropriate software package was developed with the aim of recording the quenching intensity for different quenchants and working conditions. This is enabled by measuring the heat flux density from a surface of a special probe developed earlier in a cooperation with the American company NANMAC, known as Liscic/NANMAC probe. The relevant computer program enables also to calculate the cooling curves at every arbitrary point of the round bar cross-section, as well as to predict the resulting microstructure and hardness after quenching.
References
1929 births
Living people
Croatian engineers
Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb alumni
Members of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
People from Karlovac |
23580677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamini%20Rathnayake | Gamini Rathnayake | R. M. Gamini Rathnayake 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 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians |
23580678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20B.%20Ratnayake | C. B. Ratnayake | Ratnayake Mudiyanselage Chandrasiri Bandara Ratnayake (known as C. B. Ratnayake) is a Sri Lankan politician, a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a government minister.
References
Living people
Members of the 10th 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 Lanka Podujana Peramuna politicians
Sports ministers of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
1958 births |
17343985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othmarschen | Othmarschen | Othmarschen () is a quarter in the Altona borough of the Hamburg in northern Germany. In 2020 the population was 16,009.
History
The first records on Othmarschen are from 1317. Together with Altona, Othmarschen became a part of Hamburg in 1937/1938 through the Greater Hamburg Act.
Geography
In 2006 according to the statistical office of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, the quarter Othmarschen has a total area of 6 km2. The western quarter is Nienstedten. In the South the river Elbe is the border to Waltershof. The border in the North to the quarters Groß Flottbek and Bahrenfeld is the railway track of the city train. In the East is the quarter Ottensen.
Demographics
In 2006, the quarter Othmarschen had a population of 12,169 people. The population density was 2,023 people per km2. 16.7% were children under the age of 18, and 22.9% were 65 years of age or older. 11.3% were immigrants. 153 people were registered as unemployed and 2,508 were employees subject to social insurance contributions.
In 1999, there were 5,672 households, out of which 17.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them and 45.8% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 1.98.
In 2006, there were 1,178 criminal offences (97 crimes per 1000 people).
Education
The private International School of Hamburg (ISH) was located in Othmarschen.
In 2010, it was moved to Osdorf. (Hemingstedter Weg)
There were one elementary school and three secondary schools (Christianeum Hamburg, Gymnasium Hochrad, Gymnasium Othmarschen) in the quarter Othmarschen.
Culture
Museums, galleries
The Ernst Barlach Haus is a museum for the work of the expressionist sculptor, printmaker and writer Ernst Barlach. It is located in the Jenisch park.
The museums harbour in the neighbourhood Övelgönne is a small port with some old ships.
The Jenisch Haus was built 1831-1834 by Franz Gustav Forsmann in cooperation with Karl Friedrich Schinkel in the Jenisch park as a recreation home for Martin Johann Jenisch, a minister of Hamburg. Today it is a branch of the Altonaer Museum in Ottensen. It exhibits mainly paintings and other art from the first half of the 19th century.
Recreation
In Othmarschen is the Jenisch park and the Hindenburgpark and the Schröders Elbpark directly to the beach of the river Elbe.
Infrastructure
The Consulate General of the People's Republic of China established in Hamburg in 1921 is located at Elbchaussee 268.
Health systems
The Asklepios Klinik Altona is a general hospital with 922 beds located Paul-Ehrlich-Strasse. The hospital has 13 departments, including internal medicine, surgery, gynaecology/maternity clinic, urology, neurology, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, anaesthetics and intensive care and ambulant surgery.
In Othmarschen were 10 day-care centers for children and also 27 physicians in private practice and 1 pharmacy.
Transportation
Public transport in Othmarschen is provided by the rapid transit system of the city train with the stations Othmarschen and Bahrenfeld and several bus lines. This is coordinated through the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund.
An exit of the Bundesautobahn 7 and the northern tunnel entrance of the Elbe tunnel is located in Othmarschen.
According to the Department of Motor Vehicles (Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt), in the quarter were 5,475 private cars registered (464 cars/1000 people). There were 92 traffic accidents total, including 76 traffic accidents with damage to persons.
Notes
References
Statistical office Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein Statistisches Amt für Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein, official website
Hospitals in Hamburg 2006, Government Agency for Social Affairs, Family Affairs, Health and Environment of Hamburg website
External links
Ernst Barlach Haus, Hamburg
Museums harbour Oevelgönne e.V.
Quarters of Hamburg
Altona, Hamburg |
23580680 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%20of%20War | Hero of War | "Hero of War" is a 2008 song by Rise Against from the album Appeal to Reason. The song was mistaken to be the album's third single, after a music video of the song was released on the band's Myspace on May 20, 2009. However, it was later revealed it was just a promotional video and "Savior" is in fact, the third single.
Recording
Lead vocalist Tim McIlrath wrote the music and lyrics for "Hero of War" during the recording sessions of Rise Against's fifth album Appeal to Reason. Toward the completion of Appeal to Reason, McIlrath thought to include an acoustic song he had written earlier in the sessions, but was not sure if it would fit with the rest of the hardcore music on the album. He told producer Bill Stevenson about a possible acoustic song he had written from the perspective of a war veteran. By coincidence, Stevenson had just thought about writing an anti-war song, and after listening to the acoustic song, he convinced McIlrath to include it on the album.
Song meaning
The song starts out with an army recruiter asking the protagonist, a potential recruit, to enlist. With promises of adventure and money, he does indeed sign up. At the end of the song, the protagonist, now a veteran, recalls with bitter irony the army recruiter's promise that signing up would mean he could "see the world".
The protagonist sees how destructive wars are, including the destruction of his own moral scruples, as the protagonist is convinced, after initially protesting, to join in and participate in the torture of a prisoner. The soldier repeatedly declares his loyalty and trust in his country's flag, but after killing a woman who he later learns was carrying a white flag, he changes his mind about his former flag-waving patriotism, instead putting his trust now in the white flag. Near the end, the veteran reacts with revulsion to those who see him as "A hero of war, is that what they see? Just medals and scars, so damn proud of me." Tim says he was expressing sarcasm because many people treat soldiers like heroes, even though many don't feel like heroes.
Tim McIlrath wrote this song due to the violence in the war, but also for the troops that serve overseas protecting their respective countries.
Music video
A music video was made for the song, although it wasn't released as a single from the album, and thus the song was mistaken to be the album's third single. The music video was released on May 20, 2009, on the band's Myspace page.
The video fades between lead singer Tim McIlrath sitting and singing the song while playing the acoustic guitar, and shots of soldiers in war. Along these are clips of a visibly distressed soldier. The video ends with the soldier walking down a street, bare-chested, with paint on his face, while sirens go off in the background, implying he had descended into violence due to PTSD while in normal society.
Personnel
Tim McIlrath – lead vocals, Acoustic guitar
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
See also
List of anti-war songs
References
Rise Against songs
2008 songs
Anti-war songs
Songs about the military
Songs about soldiers
Songs written by Tim McIlrath
Songs written by Zach Blair
Songs written by Joe Principe
Songs written by Brandon Barnes |
23580685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarathchandra%20Rajakaruna | Sarathchandra Rajakaruna | Rajakaruna Mohotti Appuhamillage Sarathchandra Rajakaruna (known as Sarath Chandra Rajakaruna; 22 July 1940 – 10 January 2011) was a Sri Lankan politician and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
Members of the 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 10th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
United National Party politicians
2011 deaths
1940 births
Ministers of state of Sri Lanka
Non-cabinet ministers of Sri Lanka
Deputy ministers of Sri Lanka |
23580688 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utel | Utel | Utel may refer to:
Utel (telecommunications), Ukrainian mobile phone operator
Utel (bishop), Bishop of Hereford who lived in the 8th century |
23580690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.%20Radhakrishnan%20%28politician%29 | P. Radhakrishnan (politician) | Perumalpillai Radhakrishnan (born 30 April 1941) was a Sri Lankan politician and the Deputy Minister for Vocational and Technical Training. Radhakrishnan served on the Consultative Committee on Religious Affairs and Moral Upliftment. He was also a member of a 5 persons special panel appointed by The President to look into the spate of kidnapping and murders during the height of the civil war.
References
Sri Lankan Tamil politicians
Sri Lankan Hindus
Living people
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
1941 births |
17344017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical%20Music%20Indy | Classical Music Indy | Classical Music Indy is an American nonprofit organization based in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, that produces and syndicates classical music radio programming. Classical Music Indy provides the classical music programs heard on WICR (88.7 FM) in Indianapolis and part-time on three other stations in the state. It was established in 1968 to build support for classical music on the radio after a prior commercial station was sold and changed formats.
History
Prior to 1961, there was little classical music on the radio in Central Indiana. In May of that year, a group of research chemists from Eli Lilly and Company pooled their resources, formed a corporation and on May 13 the "Lively Arts Station," WYXB 105.7 FM went on the air. The station offered a variety of classical music, jazz, poetry, interviews, folk, discussions of religion, and editorials. Its broadcasts emanated from a tower atop the Dearborn Hotel on East Michigan Street in Indianapolis.
The station only became profitable in 1967, when the program format became exclusively classical. Programs were chosen by station staff and were presented in their entirety without interruption. This was the first completely classical music format on the radio in Indianapolis. However, later in the year, the owners opted to sell WYXB to a group that sought to give the city its first Black radio station.
Norbert Neuss, who had been WYXB’s program director, was determined to save classical music in the city. With the help of his friends, he purchased WYXB’s 2,500 classical record library, packed them up, and stored them in the Lilly Pavilion of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Neuss's friendship with Frank P. Thomas, founder and owner of the Burger Chef System of restaurants, turned out to be a decisive factor in fulfilling his dream of reviving classical music on the radio; in early 1968, Neuss, Thomas, F. Bruce Peck, and Willis K. Kunz formed the Fine Arts Society of Indianapolis, Inc., as a public charitable trust.
Upon hearing that the Indianapolis Public Schools were constructing a new radio/television center, the Society approached school officials. After informal discussions between Neuss and the staff of the school's broadcast center, IPS's Board of School Commissioners and the Society arrived at an agreement whereby the Fine Arts Society would augment the instructional programs of the IPS's radio station, WIAN-FM, with a "Second Programme" of classical music during prime evening hours. At the time, WIAN-FM only broadcast during school hours. that went on the air in December 1969. Seven months later, the group had 700 supporting members. By 1971, the Second Programme was airing for 36 hours a week, but it also was facing a fundraising shortfall. Another setback came in 1973, when the Thomas Building was destroyed in the W. T. Grant fire; while the society's mailing list and most of its record collection were stored elsewhere, the Fine Arts Society lost its offices, 1,500 records, and 60 operas in the blaze.
The partnership between the Fine Arts Society and the Indianapolis Public Schools station also turned out to be beneficial for WIAN. An expansion of broadcast hours fueled by the Second Programme turned the FM into a first-class station with NPR and qualified it for Corporation for Public Broadcasting funding. The idea was that an increase in donations from a major facility improvement for the radio station would pay for the expansion into morning hours, but the new broadcast tower was seriously delayed, and the society was overextended, cutting back on hours and making a loss for the first time in its history. In 1979, the Fine Arts Society proposed to the school board that it take over operations after talk of transferring the station to the Indianapolis–Marion County Public Library surfaced; at the time, the Indianapolis Star noted that the Second Programme was one of the few highly regarded offerings of the radio station.
The deteriorating relationship led to a new one. In 1979, Indiana Central University (now the University of Indianapolis) and the Fine Arts Society reached a deal by which the university would make major technical improvements to WICR (88.7 FM), with the Second Programme moving to WICR once the upgrades were complete. Neuss noted of the switch, "We feel WIAN doesn't need us anymore. We helped them become a public radio station." It was not until January 26, 1983, when Fine Arts Society output moved to WICR, with the Second Programme being joined by a new "First Programme" of classical music.
In 1986, the Fine Arts Society won a George Foster Peabody Award for excellence in overall programming, the first Peabody awarded to a radio station in Indianapolis and the first for overall programming in the state of Indiana. The Metropolitan Opera moved to WICR from WAJC, the former station of Butler University, when that outlet was sold in 1993 and became a commercial station.
Neuss retired in 2001 and died in 2006.
In 2014, the Fine Arts Society announced a name change to Classical Music Indy to more clearly communicate the organization's purpose. That same year, WBAA-FM in West Lafayette, WBOI-HD2 in Fort Wayne, and WNIN-FM in Evansville began to air CMI programming for the first time.
References
External links
1968 establishments in Indiana
Arts organizations based in Indiana
Culture of Indianapolis
Non-profit organizations based in Indianapolis
Peabody Award winners |
17344032 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonight%20%28France%20Joli%20album%29 | Tonight (France Joli album) | Tonight is an album by France Joli, released in 1980 on the Prelude label. It is well known for the singles "The Heart to Break the Heart" and "Feel Like Dancing".
Track listing
All songs written by Tony Green except where noted.
"The Heart to Break the Heart" (Remix)
"Feel Like Dancing"
"Tough Luck"
"This Time (I'm Giving All I've Got)"(Odette Springer/Susan Minski) US Peak # 103
"When Love Hurts Inside"
"Tonight"
"Stoned in Love"
"The Heart to Break the Heart" (Album version)
"The Heart to Break the Heart" (Instrumental)
"The Heart to Break the Heart" (Radio version)
Personnel
Lead Vocal - France Joli
Additional lead vocal - Tony Green
Strings & Horns Arranged by – Denis Lepage
Girl-group Backing Vocals – Barbara Ingram, Carla Benson, Evette Benton
Bass – Brian Smith
Congas, Percussion, Tambourine – Miguel Fuentes
Drums – Derek Kendrick
Guitar – Tony Green
Harp – Margau Morris
Keyboards – Robby Goldfarb
Producer, Arranged By – Tony Green
Saxophone – Richard Beaudet
Tambourine – Gene Leone
Vibraphone – Jimmi Tanaka
Credits
Written and arranged for Tony Green Organization Records Ltd.
Mastered at CBS Mastering Labs, NYC, and at Frankford/Wayne Mastering Labs, NYC
Engineer – Claude Allard, Gene Leone
Assistant Engineer – Clark Milioti, Evelyn Hertel, Michael Banghi
Mastered By – Dominick Romeo, Stan Kalina
Mixed By – Gene Leone
Assisted & Mixed By – Tony Green
External links
Tonight by France Joli at Discogs
Tonight by France Joli at AllMusic
1980 albums
France Joli albums
Albums produced by Tony Green |
17344035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kham%20district | Kham district | Kham District is a district (muang) of Xiangkhouang province in north-central Laos.
References
Districts of Xiangkhouang province |
6911084 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes%20%28surname%29 | Hayes (surname) | Hayes is an English language surname. In the United States Census, 1990, Hayes was the 100th most common surname recorded. The oldest record of the surname dates to 1197 in the Eynsham Cartulary of Oxfordshire, where it appears in the form Heise. There are nineteen coats of arms assumed by or granted to individuals with this or a similar surname. Though primarily a surname, "Hayes" sometimes appears as a given name in census records.
Origin
Derived from name of Irish god
In Ireland, Hayes originated as a Gaelic polygenetic surname "O hAodha", meaning descendant of Aodh ("fire"), or of Aed, an Irish mythological god. Septs in most counties anglicised "O hAodha" to "Hayes". In County Cork, it became "O'Hea". In the province of Ulster, it became "Hughes", the patronymic of Hugh, an anglicized variant of the given name Aodh. Hayes is noted on a public record in County Wexford as early as 1182. In County Cork, under the Munster providence, Hayes falls under the banner of the McNamara clan in the Dalcassian Sept. Other Irish Hayeses have also been associated with Clan Cian, the ruling O'Carroll clan of southern Ireland.
Derived from place-name element
England
In England, Hayes arose as a locational surname, associated with one of the several places named or suffixed -Hay, -Hays, -Hayes, etc., such as those in Kent, or Middlesex. Such place names had two origins, one based on the Old English haes (brushwood, underwood) and the other based on horg (enclosure) or hege (hedge). The distribution of Hayes in Great Britain in 1881 and 1998 is similar, and restricted to areas of England well separated from Scotland and showing some penetration into Wales. This surname has gained in popularity in the century between 1881 and 1998, but remains at a rank below 150 and a frequency lower than that in the United States and some other countries of the Commonwealth.
Scotland
In Scotland, Hayes is a Scoto-Norman surname, a direct translation of the Normans' locational surname "de la Haye", meaning "of La Haye", La Haye ("the hedge") being the name of several towns on the Cotentin peninsula of Normandy, France. The first Norman namebearer to arrive in Scotland was William II de la Haye in the time of the Norman invasion. Clan Hay descends from him.
Other
Hayes also can derive from the Yiddish name Khaye, meaning "life".
Given name
Notable people with the surname
Listed here are people who share the 'Hayes' surname, organized by birth year, to assist in assembling a view of the geographic distribution of this surname over time.
Additional notable people
Brian Hayes (scientist)
Gregory J. Hayes (born 1960/61), American businessman, chairman and CEO of United Technologies
Darren Hayes (born 1972), Australian singer and songwriter who rose to fame in 1996 as the frontman of Savage Garden
Geno Hayes (1987–2021), American football player
Helen Hayes (politician) (born 1974), British Labour Party politician, Member of Parliament for Dulwich and West Norwood since 2015
Hunter Hayes (born 1991), country singer and songwriter
Jimmy Hayes (born 1946), former member of the United States House of Representatives
Kate Simpson Hayes (1856–1945), Canadian writer, teacher, legislative librarian
Richard Hayes (professor) (born 1945), academic in the areas of Buddhist philosophy and Sanskrit
Robert Hayes, American fugitive also known as "The Daytona Beach killer"
Wade Hayes (born 1969), country singer
Fictional characters with the surname
Ainsley Hayes in the American television series The West Wing
Adam Hayes from the fiction podcast The Bright Sessions
Angela Hayes in the Academy Award-winning film American Beauty
Angela Hayes in the Academy Award-winning film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
Ben Hayes in the 2005 American film remake of King Kong
Beth Hayes in the horror video game Slender: The Arrival
Blake Hayes in the American television soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful
Captain Hayes, a recurring villain of TV series Totally Spies!
Damian Hayes, character in Degrassi: The Next Generation
Emily Hayes in the graphic novel series Amulet
Harriet Hayes (or Hannah Harriet Hayes) in the American television series Studio 60
Henry Hayes in Stargate SG-1
Major J. Hayes in the third season of Star Trek: Enterprise
Master Chief Special Warfare Operator Jason Hayes in the American television series SEAL Team.
Karen Hayes in the American television series 24
Lavon Hayes, in the American television series Hart of Dixie
Lisa Hayes, a character in the American television sitcom Diff'rent Strokes
Lisa Hayes in the anime Robotech
Logan Hayes in the American television soap opera General Hospital
Maddie Hayes in the American television series Moonlighting
Michael Hayes in American TV series of the same name
Molly Hayes, a main character from the Marvel Comics series Runaways
Sally Hayes, character from The Catcher in the Rye
Farmer Michael Hayes in the Christy Moore song "The Pursuit of Farmer Michael Hayes"
Taylor Hayes in the American television soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful
William Hayes, the main character in the 1978 film Midnight Express
William Matthew Hayes, the main character in the film Definitely, Maybe
Willie Mays Hayes in the films Major League and Major League II
Distribution
As a surname, Hayes is the 191st most common surname in Great Britain, with 42,475 bearers. It is most common in Kent, where it is the 73rd most common surname, with 4,828 bearers. Other concentrations include, Buckinghamshire, (34th,3,304), Caerphilly, (43rd,1,700), Carmarthenshire, (48th,1,696), Merseyside, (79th,3,252), Swansea, (86th,1,704), City of Leeds (165th,1,722), Lancashire, (177th,3,370), Greater London, (288th,3,358), Greater Manchester, (335th,1,724), Cheshire, (386th,1,678), Essex, (618th,1,666), and Scotland. Other notable concentrations include, Tyne and Wear, West Yorkshire including, the City of Wakefield, Nottinghamshire, the City of Glasgow, Midlothian, Moray, Aberdeenshire, Banffshire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire including, the City of Sheffield, Darton, Kirkleatham, and the Highlands.
See also
, includes people not listed above
Billy Hayes (disambiguation)Brian Hayes (disambiguation)
Chris Hayes (disambiguation)
David Hayes (disambiguation)
Frank Hayes (disambiguation)
Jeremy Hayes (disambiguation)John Hayes (disambiguation)
Mark Hayes (disambiguation)Michael Hayes (disambiguation)
Richard Hayes (disambiguation)
Sean Hayes (disambiguation)Stephen Hayes (disambiguation)
Thomas Hayes (disambiguation)
William Hayes (disambiguation)
Hays (surname)
Citations
General and cited references
Note: Attempts to link directly to search results pages result in failure to find the site.
United States Census Bureau (9 May 1995). s:1990 Census Name Files dist.all.last (1-100). Retrieved on 4 April 2008.
English-language surnames
ru:Хейз |
17344039 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRODES | PRODES | PRODES (Programa Despoluição de Bacias Hidrográficas, or "Basin Restoration Program") is an innovative program by the Brazilian federal government to finance wastewater treatment plants while providing financial incentives to properly operate and maintain the plants. It is a type of output-based aid, as opposed to financing programs targeted only at inputs.
The program was introduced in 2001 and is managed by the National Water Agency ANA. Under it, the federal government pays utilities (mostly public state or municipal water and sanitation companies) for treating wastewater based on certified outputs. Up to half the investment costs for wastewater treatment plants are eligible to be reimbursed over three to seven years, provided that the quality of the wastewater discharged meets the norms. If the norms are not met in one trimester, a warning is issued. If they are not met in the following trimester, the payment is suspended. If the norms are still not met in the next trimester, the service provider is excluded from the program. This provides strong incentives to properly operate and maintain plants. In short, the program does not fund promises, but results.
The program enhances the financial viability of utilities and thus increases their ability to access commercial credit, through development banks (such as the Caixa Economica Federal) as well as commercial banks. The operational risk is clearly assigned to the service provider, who is best able to manage that risk. In order to prevent over-investment, the treatment plants have to be included in basin plans adopted by water basin agencies as a necessary condition to be eligible for financing under the program.
Between 2001 and 2007, PRODES leveraged investments of US$290 million with subsidies and subsidy commitments of US$94 million, financing 41 wastewater treatment plants in 32 cities serving 2 million people. The program had a portfolio of 52 other projects to be financed serving 5.7 million people. Geographically, the projects are concentrated in the southeast of Brazil, the country's most urbanized region with the most serious pollution problems.
In terms of background, financing and cost recovery for urban sanitation is a challenge throughout the world. Many utilities do not levy separate tariffs for sanitation. Where such charges exist they are usually insufficient to finance operation and maintenance costs, not to speak of capital costs. This problem is particularly acute in countries that embark on ambitious investment programs to increase the coverage of wastewater treatment. The challenge is to devise programs to channel subsidies while promoting efficiency as well as operational and environmental sustainability. PRODES is an interesting case where a program has been introduced that fits these criteria.
See also
Water supply and sanitation in Brazil
Water resources management in Brazil
Sources
ANA PRODES
World Bank Mexico Infrastructure Expenditure Review 2006 - ANNEX A: PAYMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES IN WASTEWATER TREATMENT – AN EXAMPLE OF PERFORMANCE-BASED TRANSFERS
References
Waste management in Brazil
Environmental policy in Brazil |
17344048 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLane%20High%20School | McLane High School | McLane High School (Fresno Unified School District) is a 9-12 public high school in Fresno, California, United States, located at the corner of Cedar and Clinton.
Programs and activities
Advance Via Individual Determination (AVID) is a program at McLane that helps students to be organized and prepares them for college. AVID is a community support system which provides tutoring, career planning and mentoring.
Notable students and alumni
Victor Conte - BALCO founder
Bill Glasson - PGA Tour golfer
Vestee Jackson - cornerback, Chicago Bears
David St. John - poet
Joanna Kerns - actress from Growing Pains
Larry Mucker - class of 1973, wide receiver, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Jason Wood - Major League Baseball player, minor-league manager
Warren Zevon - singer/songwriter
References
High schools in Fresno, California
Public high schools in California
1959 establishments in California
Educational institutions established in 1959 |
23580693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athuraliye%20Rathana%20Thero | Athuraliye Rathana Thero | Venerable Athuraliye Rathana Thero (: born 5 October 1962), is a Sri Lankan Bhikkhu politician and a member of parliament. He is the only representative from Our Power of People's Party in the current parliament.
Personal life
He was born on 5 October 1962 in Athuraliya in the Matara District, as Ranjith Welikanda as the youngest in a family with seven siblings. His father Peirishamy Welikanda did gem testing as a profession. His mother Ceciliyana Halgamuwa was a housewife. He got his basic education from Athuraliya Maha Vidyalaya up to grade 8. On 11 May 1976, at the age of fourteen, he became a Buddhist monk, taking on the name, Athuraliye Rathana. He was ordained to the Saddhammawansa Nikaya, a pioneer of the Amarapura Nikaya, by Wadiye Sumangala thero and Polathugoda Gnaanaloka thero.
As a Buddhist monk
He received Buddhist education from Jayasumana Pirivena at Matara and at Shishyalankara Pirivena at Ambalangoda. He got his higher education at the Pinnawatta Pirivena, Panadura. After passing the exam he entered University of Peradeniya, and obtained his Bachelor of Arts (Hons) degree in Philosophy and later completed his master's degree in Philosophy. He also studied scriptures of Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana extensively. Then he wrote the book which contained a comparative study upon the differences between the philosophical differences of Mahayana and Theravada traditions. He also wrote the book with an annotation to the Maha Satipattana Sutta.
The book called the "Buddha In You" explaining the essence of the Dhamma. He authored another book called, "Buddhism for Sustainability" which explains how the Buddhist way of life can be the alternative to the modern materialistic life style with an over consumption that has given rise to many forms of crisis.
In 2001, he delivered a special lecture on "Modern environmental crisis and solutions through the Buddhist philosophy" at the International Conference at the University of Bath in England, held in Tripura, in India. He also delivered a key note address at the International Network of Engaged Buddhists (INEB) conference held in Taiwan in 2020.
Political career
When he was a university student he was a pioneer activist in student's movements. After obtaining degree in 1994, he gave leadership to an active peoples movement called the "Janatha Mithuro" (The friends of people) to defeat the then UNP government.
Before entering politics, he made an extensive work on western and eastern philosophical ideas. He has especially studied the Marxist philosophy. He participated UN summit, representing the Government of Sri Lanka in multiple occasions. Once, he delivered a speech, representing the Buddhist representatives at the Inter Religious Federation conference, which was chaired by the President of France, which was held along with the summit. In that conference he presented a special report with the theme, "How to achieve the goals of the United Nations".
He gave the leadership to build the Nationalist Bhikku movement called Jathika Sangha Sammelanaya (National Congress of Buddhist Clergy) which played an immense role in the political struggle against the Tamil separatism. Along with Sihala Urumaya and National Movement against Terrorism, Rathana Thero build a nationalist movement called Patriotic Nationalist Front and started addressing to the Nationalist sentiments.
Rathana was a founding member of the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) in February 2004, a Sinhala Buddhist nationalist party in Sri Lanka where he became the National Organizer of that party. In a short period of campaign JHU could win about 550,000 votes and the party secured 9 seats in the parliament at Parliamentary Election. Then he was selected as a parliamentarian from Gampaha district and he was given the responsibility to act as the parliamentary team leader of the party. JHU played a major role in defeating anti war pacifistic sentiments that were made popular by the government programs such as "Sudu Nelum" and "Thavalam". Rathana thero played a key role in the JHU within the parliament and outside the parliament. He was a member in the parliamentary main committee.
In 2005, with the help of JHU, Mahinda Rajapaksa secure a narrow victory over Ranil Wickramasinghe in the 2005 Presidential election. In 2015, Rathana and the JHU played a major role in defeating Mahinda Rajapaksa and making Maithripala Sirisena President. He represented many advisory committees. In the 2015 general election Rathana Thero was a national list nominee of the United People’s Freedom Alliance. He was appointed to the parliament after United National Party won the election.
On 19 March 2019, he started a hunger strike in front of the Temple of the Tooth. It was initiated for being asked to step down the posts of then Minister Rishad Bathiudeen, Governor of the Western Province Azath Salley and Governor of the Eastern Province M. L. A. M. Hizbullah. Then on 31 June 2019, Forty monks, including Rathana Thero, began a deadly hunger strike at the Temple of the Tooth for the same course. In the fourth day of fast, he ended his hunger strike after officially announcing the resignation of Azath Salley and M. L. A. M. Hizbullah from their posts. He was rushed to hospital and treated at the Surgical Intensive Care Unit of the Kandy General Hospital.
On 19 June 2019, Rathana Thero lodged a written complaint with Acting IGP C.D. Wickremaratne against the Criminal Investigations Department where he has charged that the CID has failed to carry out a proper investigation into the allegations leveled against Dr. Shafi Shihabdeen from Kurunegala.
On 18 December 2020, Rathana Thero was announced as the National List seat representative won by Our People's Party at the 2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary election. At the election, OPP polled 67,758 votes as a percentage of 0.58% and won one seat. On 5 January 2021, he sworn as the National List Member of Parliament and has decided to take a seat in the opposition party.
Humanitarian efforts
At the civil war period in 2005, Rathana thero mostly lived in the threatened areas, helping the affected people and encouraging the armed forces. During Maithripala Sirisena government, Rathana Thero initiated a program to popularize the renewable energy and the sustainable development.
He initiated another serious project to reverse the harmful farming system, in which the pesticides, weedicides and chemical fertilizers are abundantly used in the process of farming, to the carbonic farming in which harmful poisonous substances are not used. After a long struggle Rathana Thero was successful in banning glyphosate and promoting carbonic farming as a national policy.
See also
Maduluwawe Sobitha Thero
References
External links
Pivithuru Hetak National Movement
1962 births
Jathika Hela Urumaya politicians
Living people
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 from Matara District
Sri Lankan Buddhist monks
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians |
23580696 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijitha%20Ranaweera | Vijitha Ranaweera | Vijitha Ranaweera 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
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians |
17344064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/159%20Regiment%20RLC | 159 Regiment RLC | 159 Regiment RLC is a reserve regiment of the British Army's Royal Logistic Corps. It forms part of 102 Logistic Brigade.
History
The regiment was formed on 1 April 2007 as a product of Future Army Structures (FAS) with the aim of providing the contingent component to 6 Supply Regiment.
The regiment was made-up of one sub-unit from the Scottish Transport Regiment (125 Squadron), one squadron from 150 Regiment RLC (216 Squadron) and two squadrons from the Welsh Transport Regiment (123 Squadron and 237 Squadron).
In the summer of 2014, under the Army 2020 re-organisation, the regiment was restructured. 216 Squadron in Tynemouth re-subordinated back to 150 Regiment RLC and 381 Squadron in Lancaster re-subordinated into 156 Regiment RLC. 125 Squadron closed its base in Glasgow but re-formed in Stoke-on-Trent in late 2014. The regiment also received 294 Squadron, based in Grantham.
Structure
The current structure is as follows:
243 (Coventry) Headquarters Squadron.
123 (Telford) Supply Squadron.
125 (Stoke) Supply Squadron.
237 (West Bromwich) Supply Squadron.
294 (Grantham) Supply Squadron.
References
External links
Official Website
Army Reserve (United Kingdom)
Regiments of the Royal Logistic Corps |
6911091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose%20City%20Park%2C%20Portland%2C%20Oregon | Rose City Park, Portland, Oregon | Rose City Park is a neighborhood (and a park of the same name) in Northeast Portland, Oregon. It borders Beaumont-Wilshire, Grant Park, and the Hollywood District on the west (at NE 47th Avenue), Cully on the north (at NE Fremont Street), Roseway and Madison South on the east (at NE 65th Avenue), and Center on the south (at the Banfield Expressway and MAX transit line).
The neighborhood was platted in 1907, the year of the first Portland Rose Festival. Trolley service from Downtown Portland was inaugurated that year by the Portland Railway, Light & Power Co., and discontinued November 30, 1936.
In addition to its eponymous park (acquired 1920), other parks in the neighborhood include Normandale Park (1940), Frazer Park (1950, on the site of a former juvenile detention center), and the western part of Rose City Golf Course (1920), whose clubhouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. A statue of George Washington was commissioned by Henry Waldo Coe and sculpted by Pompeo Coppini, and dedicated on July 4, 1927. It stood at 57th Avenue and Sandy Boulevard, in the center of the neighborhood, until it was toppled and burned by rioters on June 18th 2020 in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Beginning in March 1946, NABISCO proposed building a large factory on in the Rose City Park neighborhood, choosing the location for proximity of workers and access to the rail line. The city council approved the zoning change on June 5, 1947, but by June 26, 1947 NABISCO abandoned the project, building a plant at the northern edge of the Piedmont neighborhood on Columbia Boulevard. The plant was completed in August 1950.
The NE 60th Ave station on the Blue Line and Red Line of the MAX light rail system is on the boundary (Interstate 84) with the Center neighborhood.
In July 2008, Forbes magazine named Rose City Park the ninth most overpriced neighborhood in the country. This was based on a price-to-earnings spread comparing rental costs with buying costs for similar properties, based on number of bedrooms, location and price per square foot. A neighborhood with a high price-to-earnings spread is considered overvalued because a buyer is getting a low return based on costs and paying a huge premium to live in area relative to how much it would cost to rent a similar property there.
See also
Alameda Ridge
Der Rheinlander
References
External links
Rose City Park Neighborhood Association Official Web Site (RCPNA.org)
Guide to Rose City Park Neighborhood (PortlandNeighborhood.com)
Trees of Rose City Park
Rose City Park Street Tree Inventory Report
1907 establishments in Oregon
Neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon
Populated places established in 1907 |
23580697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayatissa%20Ranaweera | Jayatissa Ranaweera | Arachchige Jayatissa Ranaweera is a Sri Lankan politician, former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a former government minister. Currently he is a Member of the Sabaragamuwa Provincial Council and hold the position of Council Chairman Post
References
Living people
Members of the 10th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 11th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
1956 births |
6911096 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reach%20Island | Reach Island | Reach Island, or Treasure Island, is an island in Case Inlet in the southern part of Puget Sound in the state of Washington, United States. The island's original name was Oak Island, but was later renamed it Reach Island due to its southern neighbor Stretch Island. It forms part of the unincorporated Mason County community of Allyn-Grapeview. The island has a land area of and a population of 119 persons, as of the 2010 census.
Notable people
Wes Stock, baseball player and coach.
References
External links
Reach Island (Treasure Island): Blocks 6026 thru 6028, Census Tract 9604, Mason County, Washington United States Census Bureau
Islands of Washington (state)
Landforms of Mason County, Washington
Islands of Puget Sound |
6911097 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20George%20V%20Memorial%20Park | King George V Memorial Park | King George V Memorial Park may refer to:
King George V Memorial Park, Hong Kong
King George V Memorial Park, Kowloon |
20485442 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skel%C3%AB%20Castle | Skelë Castle | Vlora Castle (Albanian:Kalaja e Vlorës) was a castle in Vlora, Albania. It was built during the reign of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and existed until 1906. It was one of the biggest military structures of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans and had an especially strategic importance for the Ottomans.
Background
While preparing his Corfu Campaign Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent spent some time in Vlora from the 13th of July 1537 until the 18th of August 1537. It was during his stay that the building of the castle was started. The town of Vlora had a strategic importance to the Ottomans, as it could be used as a bridgehead to Western Europe. It was in 1480 that the Ottomans first used the strategic important bay to send troops to Italy and capture the castle of Otranto.
Mimar Sinan was most probably involved in designing the castle, as he accompanied Sulemain during his Corfu Campaign as a military engineer. Another important building built in Vlora during that time by Mimar Sinan was the Muradie Mosque.
During the Sixth Ottoman-Venetian war the castle was captured by Venetian forces in 1690. Together with the town of Vlora and its surroundings they were held by the Republic of Venice until the reconquest of the Ottomans in 1691.
Construction
The castle had an octagonal shape. Each wall was around 100 metres long, which means that the castle occupied a surface of around 3.5-4ha. Each of the corners had a hexagonal bastion. Overall the castle had 2 gates which were secured by drawbridges as the walls were surrounded by water. The wall that faced the seas was accompanied by a tower to secure the castle against any amphibious landings. It housed a garrison of several hundred soldiers.
The castle took over 20 months to be built and had a cost of 33,107 Venetian gold ducats. The existing documents give high costs for transport but rather low costs for the materials. The most probable reason behind this is the usage of building material from the castle of Yengeç in modern day Triport a few kilometres away.
Descriptions
The Ottoman traveller Evliya Çelebi describes the castle in his Seyahatname in 1670 as follows:"The fortress of Vlora is built on a low sandy spit at the entrance to the Bay of Vlora and the Bay of Dukat. It is octagonal in shape and is very strong and solid, a veritable great wall of Sultan Süleiman. People say the Ottomans do not know how to build fortresses, but anyone who has not seen the fortresses of Szeged on the frontier of Eger, the fortress of Bender on the banks of the Dniester river on the frontier of Ochakov, and this fortress of Vlora, cannot understand how masterful Ottoman construction work can be.
The walls of the fortress of Vlora are 20 ells high and 10 ells thick on all sides. At the 8 corners of the fortress walls there are 8 large bastions, each like the walls of Gog and Magog, and each surmounted by 7 great long-range battering guns. Aside from these, inside the iron gates at sea level there are 47 other battering guns with rifled barrels looking out towards the bay and mounted on carriages with seven-headed dragons. They are covered with red canvas and are so big that a man can fit into their barrels. The cannons are ready to fire at all times, and the men guarding them lie right beside them day and night. From one corner to the next of the 8 corners is a distance of 120 paces, so if we add it up, we come up with the total circumference for the fortress of Vlora of 900 [sic] paces. Inside the fortress is the Mosque of Sultan Suleiman and at the very centre is the tower of Suleiman Shah. It is a very tall and finely-wrought tower, 7 storeys high, and is built of chiselled stonework with a lead-covered conical dome and is topped by a guilded pinnacle. This may be considered the citadel of the fortress of Vlora. It is a very solid and tall tower, like the Kalamaria Tower in Thessalonika, since both of them were built by the great Sinan, the architect of Sultan Suleiman. The tower is inhabited only by the warden and is filled with layer upon layer of munitions and other military equipment and supplies.
Inside the outer fortress there are some 300 squat and narrow old-fashioned earthen houses with tiled roofs and with no vineyard, garden or courtyard. Although the public thoroughfares are wide, there is nothing else but a bazaar: no khans, baths or other public buildings. The fortress has 2 gates, the space between them being completely full of munitions of various kinds. It is guarded by sentries and watchmen day and night. One gate faces east and the other west. The fortress is completely surrounded by a moat 50 paces wide on all sides and filled with sea water, which is, however, swampy. Each of the gates has a drawbridge in front of it which is raised at night and secured with chains to form a protective barrier. There are 500 cannons, small and large. The tower is inhabited by the warden, 12 officers and 400 garrison troops. Half of these soldiers were ordered to depart to defend the vilayet of Mania in accordance with the imperial decree. Also here are the steward of the sipahis, the commander of the janissaries, a qadi with a salary level of 300 akçe and responsible for 105 prosperous villages in the region, a market inspector, a collector of tolls, a customs inspector, a poll-tax official, a chief architect, an officer of the admiralty, and the mayor of the town."
Demolition
The castle was demolished in 1906 by the Ottoman authorities, as the stones were needed to pave the road from the town of Vlora to the port (iskele, modern day Skela district) which was close to the castle.
Aftermath
No photographs of the castle exist, its appearance has only been described or documented through drawings. Up until at least the 1930's the outline of the castle is visible on old aerial photographs. Today the Flamurtari Stadium occupies most of the site of the former castle.
Castles in Albania
Buildings and structures in Vlorë
Mimar Sinan buildings
Suleiman the Magnificent |
17344065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khoune%20district | Khoune district | Khoune, formerly called Muang Khoun (Khoune) or Old Xiang Khouang is a district (muang) of Xiangkhouang province in north-central Laos. It is a ghost of its former self, 35 km southeast of Phonsavan, was once the royal seat of the minor kingdom of Muang Phuan, renowned in the sixteenth century for its 62 opulent stupas, whose sides were said to be covered in treasure. Years of bloody invasions by Thai and Vietnamese soldiers, pillaging by Chinese bandits in the nineteenth century and a monsoon of bombs that lasted nearly a decade during the Second Indochina War taxed this town so heavily that, by the time the air raids stopped, next to nothing was left of the kingdom's exquisite temples. The town is partly abandoned, and centuries of history were drawn to a close. All that remains of the kingdom's former glory is an elegant Buddha image towering over ruined columns of brick at Wat Phia Wat, and That Dam, both of which bear the scars of the events that ended Xieng Khuang's centuries of rich history. Although the town has been rebuilt and renamed, it has been supplanted by Phonsavan. In 1707, when the Kingdom of Lan Xang split into three separate kingdoms. Muang Phuan became a tributary state of the Kingdom of Luang Prabang.
Khoune district has four main ethnic groups: Lao, Hmong, Khmu, and O Du.
References
Districts of Xiangkhouang province |
6911110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative%20districts%20of%20Antique | Legislative districts of Antique | The legislative districts of Antique are the representations of the province of Antique in the various national legislatures of the Philippines. The province is currently represented in the lower house of the Congress of the Philippines through its lone congressional district.
It was part of the representation of Region VI from 1978 to 1984. The province has never been redistricted, and its boundaries have remained constant since then. It is among the original representative districts from 1907 which has never changed in territorial coverage.
Senatorial representation
Between 1916 and 1935, Antique was represented in the Senate of the Philippines through the 8th senatorial district of the Philippine Islands. However, in 1935, all senatorial districts were abolished when a unicameral National Assembly was installed under a new constitution following the passage of the Tydings–McDuffie Act, which established the Commonwealth of the Philippines. Since the 1941 elections, when the Senate was restored after a constitutional plebiscite, all twenty-four members of the upper house have been elected countrywide at-large.
Congressional representation
Antique has been represented in the lower house of various Philippine national legislatures since 1898, through its at-large congressional district.
Provincial board districts
The municipalities of Antique are represented in the Antique Provincial Board, the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (provincial legislature) of the province, through Antique's first and second provincial board districts.
References
Antique
Politics of Antique (province) |
20485468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali%20Pasha%20Castle | Ali Pasha Castle | Ali Pasha Castle () is a castle in Albania. It is named after Ali Pasha of Tepelenë who resided there until 1820. The current fortress was rebuilt in 1819 from its surface with 3 towers. Until 1820 it was the second residence of Ali Pashe Tepelena.
History
Built under Venetian dominion in the late 15th or early 16th century, it provided a stronghold for the Venetians on Corfu to exploit fishing, grazing, olives and timber in and around Butrint. The castle was the centrepiece of numerous conflicts with the burgeoning Ottoman Empire, and changed hands on several occasions. It was destroyed by a retreating French army in 1798 to prevent it falling into the hands of Ali Pasha.
The fortification attributed to Ali Pasha at Butrint lies some due west at the mouth of the Vivari Channel. This in itself began life in the late 17th or early 18th century as a fortified estate centre belonging to a Corfiote family that farmed land on the plains south of the ancient city. Ali Pasha seized control of the structure around 1804 and carried out a series of defensive improvements including the installation of gun batteries. Given its small size it is unlikely that the fort functioned as anything more than a control over access from the sea to Butrint, and it can not be compared to Ali's more redoubtable fortresses in the region at Tepelena, Gjirokastra and Ioannina.
See also
Castles in Albania
Architecture of Albania
References
Castles in Albania
Tourist attractions in Albania
18th-century fortifications
Vlorë County
Tourist attractions in Vlorë County
Buildings and structures in Sarandë
Ottoman fortifications
Ali Pasha of Ioannina
Butrint National Park |
23580702 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wijeyadasa%20Rajapakshe | Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe | Wijeyadasa Rajapakse, MP, PC (born 16 March 1959) is a Sri Lankan lawyer and politician. He is the current Minister of Justice and previously served in the same ministry from 2015 to 2017. He was the Prime Minister's nominee for the Constitutional Council (Sri Lanka) During the 2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, he had briefly served as the Minister of Education and Higher Education and his post was suspended by the court in 2018.
Political career
In May 2004 he was appointed as a Member of Parliament to represent the ruling Party, Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and was offered the Ministry of Constitutional Affairs which was refused by him. Later he continued as the only Member of Parliament on the government side, without holding any portfolio. Following the 2005 presidential elections, President Mahinda Rajapaksa appointed him as the Minister of State Banking Development in November 2005, but he resigned in April 2006 on a matter of policy. He also resigned from the post of the party organiser in the Maharagama electorate. Thereafter he was elected the Chairman of the Committee On Public Enterprises in July 2006 and presented the first report in January 2007, which led to serious controversies both local and overseas. He gained publicity for
highlighting corruption in the public sector. In 2007, LMD magazine named him "Sri Lankan of the year 2007".
In 2010, he was elected to Parliament from the Colombo District. In 2012, he was elected President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka. During his tenure he led the Bar Association in support of former Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake during her impeachment. Following the 2015 presidential election he was appointed Minister of Justice. In 2017, he was sacked from his ministerial position by President Maithripala Sirisena at the request by the United National Party due to his views against the privatisation and involvement of the judiciary by the government. He was appointed Minister of Higher Education and Cultural Affairs in May 2018. In 2018, with the on set of the 2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis, he was appointed to the new cabinet of ministers headed by Mahinda Rajapaksa as the Minister of Education and Higher Education in October 2018.
References
External links
Living people
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 Lanka Freedom Party politicians
United National Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
1959 births
Justice ministers of Sri Lanka
Labour ministers of Sri Lanka
Buddha Sasana Ministers of Sri Lanka |
44507856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog%20Lab | Hedgehog Lab | hedgehog lab is a global digital product consultancy headquartered in Newcastle upon Tyne, with additional offices in London, the US, and India.
The company, which employs more than 120 people, concentrates on building apps for smartphones and other connected devices and has in-house capabilities in Artificial Intelligence, Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality. In recent years, it has experienced rapid turnover growth, with global revenues rising to £5m in 2019 and the company being named as one of the fastest-growing businesses in Europe for three years running.
In 2016 the business was named "Newcastle's Best Company to Work For" by ratings site Glassdoor, based on five star reviews from staff, who praised its culture and employee benefits.
hedgehog lab takes its name from Jim Collins’ book Good to Great, which features the ‘hedgehog concept’ of cultivating ‘piercing clarity’ in the pursuit of long-term results while rejecting propositions that ‘fail the hedgehog test’.
History
hedgehog lab founders, Sarat Pediredla and Mark Forster met while working as developers at a Newcastle-based digital agency. After leaving to launch their own business, they created a tool for the financial services sector and soon generated interest in their software-as-a-service offering.
Plans, however, were disrupted by the 2008 financial crisis, at which point hedgehog lab switched to a digital agency model. This was later refined to focus on ‘post-PC’ technologies, with the company looking internationally to grow market reach while still a micro-business. After launching sites in London and India, it turned its attention to the US, opening an office in Boston in April 2015.
Having secured £1m of investment from Maven Capital Partners - one of the UK's most active equity houses - hedgehog lab now plans to grow revenues by at least 50% year-on-year until 2020. The investment was used to increase the company's delivery capabilities, helped to grow its sales and marketing functions, and allowed the business to move into larger premises to support its growing international headcount.
hedgehog lab secured a further £900k investment from Maven Capital Partners in 2020 to support its work with its international client base and further grow headcount. As part of the investment, experienced tech advisor Charles Andrews, who has previously held positions at IBM and Globant, joined the business as Chairman.
Awards/Recognition
2022 Best Workplaces in UK by Great Place to Work
2021 UK App Awards, Large UK App Agency of the Year
2021 Prolific North Top 50 Digital Agencies
2020 Prolific North Top 50 Digital Agencies
2019 Prolific North Top 50 Digital Agencies
References
External links
hedgehog lab
The prickly business of app development
Small business in the spotlight ... Hedgehog Lab
Newcastle tech company Hedgehog Lab set for three years of 100% growth
Mobile software
Companies based in Newcastle upon Tyne |
6911120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon%27s%20Milk%20%28In%20Four%20Phases%29 | Moon's Milk (In Four Phases) | Moon's Milk (In Four Phases) is a release by Coil that compiles four of their singles onto a double CD. The two disc album compiles the CD versions of Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice, Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice (originally recorded throughout 1998, and released seasonally from March 1998 to January 1999). The album also has a live version of "Amethyst Deceivers" hidden at the end of the first disc, following several minutes of silence after "A Warning From The Sun (For Fritz)". This recording of "Amethyst Deceivers" was later released on Live Two, although the Moon's Milk version is a slightly longer edit. The release was given the catalog number ESKATON 023 and features artwork by Steven Stapleton.
Background
At the time of release, a mail order edition was offered for an additional $85, comprising the standard 2-CD set with the Moons Milk (In Four Phases) Bonus Disc, a CDr of extra material presented in sleeves that John Balance had individually hand-painted. The bonus disc was limited to 333 copies, 300 of which were offered for sale and 33 of which were supposedly withheld by Balance for his personal collection.
Moon's Milk (In Six Phases)
In 2006, Threshold House announced Moon's Milk (In Six Phases), a "deluxe gallery edition" 3CD/book set that was to compile their four Equinox and Solstice EPs, the three tracks from the Moons Milk (In Four Phases) Bonus Disc and "some new reinterpretations of those songs". The book was to feature photographs of the 333 hand-painted covers for the Moon's Milk (In Four Phases) Bonus Disc along with a listing of their titles and respective owners.
While the Black Antlers and The Remote Viewer re-releases were made available as announced, Christopherson was never to issue Moon's Milk (In Six Phases) in his lifetime. His passing makes it uncertain whether the package will ever eventuate as at this stage there have been no further Coil releases. Danny Hyde, who worked with Christopherson on the proposed reissue, eventually released the additional material that had been intended for the third disc of the set. Issued as Moon's Milk in Final Phase, the three tracks were credited to Electric Sewer Age rather than Coil.
Personnel
John Balance
Peter Christopherson
William Breeze
Drew McDowall
Rose McDowall
Thighpaulsandra
Track listing
Disc A:
"Moon's Milk Or Under An Unquiet Skull" - 8:29
"Moon's Milk Or Under An Unquiet Skull" - 8:09
"Bee Stings" - 4:55
"Glowworms/Waveforms" - 5:54
"Summer Substructures" - 8:07
"A Warning From The Sun (For Fritz)"/"Amethyst Deceivers" - 16:33
Disc B:
"Regel" - 1:17
"Rosa Decidua" - 4:55
"Switches" - 4:45
"The Auto-Asphyxiating Hierophant" - 5:58
"Amethyst Deceivers" - 6:37
"A White Rainbow" - 8:57
"North" - 3:46
"Magnetic North" - 8:56
"Christmas Is Now Drawing Near" - 3:28
References
External links
Moon's Milk (In Four Phases) at Brainwashed
2002 compilation albums
Coil (band) compilation albums |
17344072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC%20Polotsk | FC Polotsk | FC Polotsk was a Belarusian professional football club based in Polotsk, Vitebsk Oblast, Belarus.
History
The club was founded in 2004 and joined Belarusian Second League the same year. In 2006 they made their debut in Belarusian First League, where they stayed until 2013.
In September 2013, the club, struggling with financial troubles, announced its withdrawal from the league. They, however, were able to complete the season with youth players, finishing dead last after losing 15 games in a row. The club was officially dissolved in January 2014.
FC Polotsk was reformed in 2019 and rejoined Belarusian Second League in 2020.
Current squad
As of September 2021
External links
FC Polotsk at footballfacts.ru
Football clubs in Belarus
2004 establishments in Belarus
2019 establishments in Belarus
2014 disestablishments in Belarus
Association football clubs established in 2004
Association football clubs established in 2019
Association football clubs disestablished in 2014 |
44507872 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnmark%20Hospital%20Trust | Finnmark Hospital Trust | Finnmark Hospital Trust (, ) is a health trust which serves Finnmark, Norway. The trust is part of Northern Norway Regional Health Authority and headquartered in Hammerfest. It operates two hospitals, Hammerfest Hospital and Kirkenes Hospital. In addition it operates a decentralized psychiatric service.
References
Health trusts of Norway
Companies based in Finnmark
2002 establishments in Norway
Hospitals established in 2002
Government agencies established in 2002 |
17344079 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mok%20May%20district | Mok May district | Mok May District is a district (muang) of Xiangkhouang province in north-central Laos.
References
Districts of Xiangkhouang province |
44507887 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mipo%20O | Mipo O | is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and commercial director. Her name is also romanized Mipo Oh.
Career
After graduating from the Osaka University of Arts Visual Concept Planning Department, O began working as a screenwriter under director Nobuhiko Obayashi. She soon expanded to directing, and her third short film Eye won a prize at the Short Shorts Film Festival in 2002, while her short film Grandmother won the grand prize in the Digital Shorts category of Tokyo International Fantastic Film Festival. In 2005, she wrote her first feature-length screenplay, The Sakai’s Happiness, which won the Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award, and the following year, she directed her first feature-length film based on this screenplay. In 2010, she wrote and directed Here Comes the Bride, My Mom!, which played at the Busan International Film Festival and took the grand prize for the Kaneto Shindo Awards, awarded to promising directors by a committee of Japanese producers. She won the best director award at the Montreal World Film Festival for The Light Shines Only There, which was also nominated to be Japan's entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Her next film, You Are a Good Kid, for which she teamed up again with the producer and screenwriter of The Light Shines Only There, will be released in 2015. In addition to films, she also writes and directs commercials and episodes for television.
Family
She is a third generation Korean-Japanese.
Filmography
Here Comes the Bride, My Mom! (2010)
The Light Shines Only There (2014)
References
External links
Japanese film directors
1977 births
Osaka University of Arts alumni
Zainichi Korean people
Living people
Japanese women film directors |
44507893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make%20Me%20an%20Island | Make Me an Island | "Make Me an Island" is a 1969 hit song by Irish pop singer Joe Dolan, written by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood. The lyric begins "Different eyes, different size, different girls every day". The song topped the charts in 14 countries worldwide, and peaked at Number 2 in Ireland and Number 3 in the UK. In the US, Tom Northcott released a competing version of the song on Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Records.
Charts
Cover versions
Karel Gott - "Poslouchej Amore" (Make Me An Island)
References
1969 songs
Joe Dolan songs
Songs written by Albert Hammond
Songs written by Mike Hazlewood
Warner Records singles
1969 singles |
23580709 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil%20Rajapaksa | Basil Rajapaksa | Basil Rohana Rajapaksa (born 27 April 1951) is a Sri Lankan-American politician. He is a former Minister of Finance and Member of Parliament for the national list.
He was also a member of the Sri Lankan Parliament from 2007 to 2015. During the period of 2005–2010 he served as a presidential senior advisor for President Mahinda Rajapaksa and in 2007 he was appointed as a member of parliament from the national list. He was the Cabinet minister for Economic Development in President Mahinda Rajapaksa's second term (2010–2015). In the 2010 parliamentary election, he was elected from Gampaha district by receiving the highest number of preferential votes in Sri Lanka. He entered the parliament again from the national list and was appointed the Finance Minister during which he was accused of extreme negligence and mismanagement resulting in the worsening of the Sri Lankan economic crisis and was ultimately forced to resign under increasing protests by general public in the 2022 Sri Lankan political crisis. He resigned his seat in parliament on 9 June 2022.
Family
He hails from a well-known political family in the southern part of Sri Lanka. His father, D. A. Rajapaksa, was a prominent politician, independence agitator, Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister of Agriculture and Land in Wijeyananda Dahanayake's government. He is a younger brother of the former president Mahinda Rajapaksa and, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who was a powerful defense secretary in the Mahinda Rajapaksa government and as of 2019 incumbent President of Sri Lanka. Furthermore, his older brother Chamal served as the Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka (2010-2015).
He had his secondary education at Isipathana College and Ananda College, both located in Colombo.
Political career
At the 1977 General Elections, he contested Mulkirigala Electorate from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party but was defeated. He was the youngest SLFP candidate that contested in this election. In the 1977 election, only 8 members managed to win from the SLFP. Basil Rajapaksa later worked with the first executive President J.R. Jayewardene and joined the United National Party, He made this decision to join the UNP due to some infighting within the Sri Lanka Freedom Party. Although he was with JR Jayawardana, he openly supported his brother Mahinda Rajapaksa. While he was in UNP he became very close to the minister Gamini Dissanayake. When SLFP and coalition parties won the 1994 he actively assisted Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. In 1997 his wife won the US green card lottery and migrated to the USA with his family. He frequently visited Sri Lanka, especially whenever there were elections.
During the 2005 Presidential election campaign, he actively worked for his brother Mahinda Rajapaksa's victory and became an advisor for the President. In 2007 he was appointed as a national list member for the Sri Lankan parliament. When the 2010 parliamentary election was announced Basil contested the Gampaha district. As the district leader, he gained over 400,000 votes and became a member of the Parliament who obtained the highest number of preferential votes from the district.
In 2021 Basil Rajapaksa returned to the parliament from the national list and was appointed Finance Minister. During his time as minister Sri Lanka had entered an economic crisis but Rajapaksa began avoiding parliament sessions for months. The Opposition complained that pressing economic matters could not be discussed due to his absence. Other government MPs were also critical of his behavior with Udaya Gammanpila, the energy minister claiming that Basil Rajapaksa refused to accept that an economic crisis was growing and that Basil knew nothing about his subject.
Basil Rajapakasa finally attended parliament on 5 April after an absence of 4 months and after being forced to resign after a series of protests against the government.
Personal life
He is married to Pushpa Rajapaksa and has three children namely, Thejani, Bimalka and Ashantha.
Corruption allegations
Rajapaksa is accused of many corruption scandals, and he is under investigation for corruption and abuse of state assets. He gained a reputation as "Mr. Ten Percent" due to the allegations of taking commissions from government contracts.
In 2016, the court ordered authorities to auction a luxury villa and of land in Malwana, which is allegedly owned by Rajapaksa. The house and land have not been auctioned and a court case is still ongoing in respect to this allegation.
One of the accusations that the current government made was the misappropriation of funds belonging to the Divi Neguma Development Department. Financial Crimes Investigation Department (FCID), a police division that was established to punish the supporters of the previous government, filed charges against Rajapaksa. There are several court cases where some citizens of Sri Lanka have challenged the legality of the FCID.
S. B. Dissanayake, the Minister for Social Empowerment and Welfare has stated: "The pipes were purchased according to due tender process, the purchased pipes were duly delivered the pradeshiya sabhas. The pradeshiya sabhas need pipes – for temple functions, funerals, when a minister is visiting – they need pipes for all of this."
He has misused funds in a construction project while he was the Minister of Economic Development under his brother's government.
See also
List of political families in Sri Lanka
References
External links
Business Today: Basil Rajapaksa The Force Unseen
The Rajapaksa Ancestry
Parliament profile
1952 births
Alumni of Ananda College
Alumni of Isipathana College
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
Living people
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Prisoners and detainees of Sri Lanka
Basil
Sinhalese politicians
Sri Lankan Buddhists
Sri Lankan prisoners and detainees
Basil |
44507895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana%20Elisa%20P%C3%A9rez%20Bola%C3%B1os | Ana Elisa Pérez Bolaños | Ana Elisa Pérez Bolaños (born 13 June 1973) is a Mexican politician from the New Alliance Party. In 2009 he served as Deputy of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing the Federal District.
References
1973 births
Living people
Politicians from Mexico City
Women members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
New Alliance Party (Mexico) politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
21st-century Mexican women politicians |
44507903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleri | Eleri | Eleri (the Welsh form of the masculine given name Hilarus or Hilarius) may refer to:
Pope Saint Hilarius (5th century) in Welsh contexts
Eleri, daughter of Brychan Brycheiniog, the Welsh, 5th-century king
Saint Eleri (7th century), Welsh prince and abbot, cousin of Saint Winifred
Eleri Earnshaw (born 1985), Welsh footballer
Eleri Rees (born 1953), Welsh judge
Eleri Siôn (born 1971), Welsh radio and television host
Sian Eleri, Welsh radio presenter
See also
West Eleri, a village in Kerala in India
Welsh feminine given names |
23580711 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed%20Rajabdeen | Mohamed Rajabdeen | Mohamed Shafeek Rajabdeen is a Sri Lankan politician and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
References
1954 births
Living people
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the Western Provincial Council
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress politicians
Sri Lankan Moor politicians
Sri Lankan Muslims |
44507922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heriberto%20P%C3%A9rez%20S%C3%A1nchez | Heriberto Pérez Sánchez | Heriberto Pérez Sánchez (born 16 March 1955) is a Mexican politician from the Party of the Democratic Revolution. In 2009 he served as Deputy of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing the State of Mexico.
References
1955 births
Living people
Politicians from the State of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
Party of the Democratic Revolution politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians |
17344084 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durophagy | Durophagy | Durophagy is the eating behavior of animals that consume hard-shelled or exoskeleton bearing organisms, such as corals, shelled mollusks, or crabs. It is mostly used to describe fish, but is also used when describing reptiles, including fossil turtles, placodonts and invertebrates, as well as "bone-crushing" mammalian carnivores such as hyenas. Durophagy requires special adaptions, such as blunt, strong teeth and a heavy jaw. Bite force is necessary to overcome the physical constraints of consuming more durable prey and gain a competitive advantage over other organisms by gaining access to more diverse or exclusive food resources earlier in life. Those with greater bite forces require less time to consume certain prey items as a greater bite force can increase the net rate of energy intake when foraging and enhance fitness in durophagous species. In the order Carnivora there are two dietary categories of durophagy; bonecrackers and bamboo eaters. Bonecrackers are exemplified by hyenas and saber-toothed cats, while bamboo eaters are primarily the giant panda and the red panda. Both have developed similar cranial morphology. However, the mandible morphology reveals more about their dietary resources. Both have a raised and dome-like anterior cranium, enlarged areas for the attachment of masticatory muscles, enlarged premolars, and reinforced tooth enamel. Bamboo eaters tend to have larger mandibles, while bonecrackers have more sophisticated premolars.
Fish
Many fish exhibit durophagous behaviour including the Triggerfish, some Teleosts and some cichlids.
Triggerfish (Balistidae)
Triggerfish have jaws that contain a row of four teeth on either side, the upper jaw containing an additional set of six plate-like pharyngeal teeth. Triggerfish do not have jaw protrusion and there are enlarged jaw adductor muscles for extra power to crush the protective shells and spines of their prey.
Teleost (Teleostei)
These fishes crush hard prey and do so with the use of their pharyngeal jaws, with the aid of their protrusible mouth for enabling the grabbing of prey to draw it into their mouth. The pharyngeal jaws found in more derived teleosts are more powerful, with left and right ceratobranchials fusing to become one lower jaw and the pharyngeal branchial fusing to create a large upper jaw that articulates with the neurocranium. They have also developed a muscle, the hypertrophied pharyngeal, to crush prey with help from the molariform pharyngeal teeth. This allows for the consumption of hard-shelled prey.
Cichlids (Cichlidae)
Mollusk shells can be crushed to expose soft parts of the prey to digestive juices or the soft parts can be removed from the shell. Species that crush shells are defined by their large and greatly thickened pharyngeal bones. These bones have flat-crowned teeth and along with their dorsal fellows drawn by powerful muscles, create a crushing mill. The jaws are less derived as they are for just for picking up relatively large objects.
The second method Cichlids use is to crush mollusk shells between powerful jaws armed with suitable teeth. Cichlids possess short, broad jaws armed with an outer row of relatively few, strong and conical teeth and several inner rows of finer, also conical teeth. Along with these features are the presence of foreshortening of the skull and development of particularly powerful mandibular adductor muscles. To feed with this type of structure the fish can protrude its mouth ventrally to permit muscles to be seized by the jaws and the mouth then is retracted rapidly so the hard-toothed jaws crush the mollusk shell with the resulting force. A series of biting movements completes the process and the shell fragments are spat out and the soft body is swallowed.
Chondrichthyans
Within the Chondrichthyans, horn sharks (Heterodontidae), some rays (Myliobatidae) and chimeras (Holocephali) exhibit durophagous behaviour. They have adaptations to allow for this including stout flattened teeth, hypertrophied jaw adductor muscles and robust jaws to feed on hard prey such as crustaceans and molluscs. Sharks that crush prey have teeth with small, low rounded cusps that are numerous per row, or are molariform. The molariform teeth are smoothly rounded, lack cusps, and there are numerous teeth per row.
Horn sharks (Heterodontiformes)
Horn sharks have molariform teeth. The anterior teeth are pointed and are used for grasping while the posterior teeth are molariform and are used for crushing. Horn sharks feed primarily on limpets, bivalve molluscs and blue crabs.
Bonnethead shark (Sphyrna tiburo)
The bonnethead shark Sphyrna tiburo uses ram feeding to capture crab, shrimp and fish which are placed between the molariform teeth where they are crushed. This species also uses suction to transport prey to the esophagus for swallowing. By combining durophagous characteristics with altered kinematic and motor patterns, bonnethead sharks can prey on hard shelled animals. This characteristic distinguishes prey crushing from simply biting, which is a behaviour exhibited by elasmobranchs. While bonnethead sharks feed almost exclusively on crabs, they have the same tooth structure as the Horn sharks (Heterodontiformes).
Chimeras (Holocephali)
Chimeras (Holocephali) have pavement teeth that are flat, hexagonal in shape and interconnect to form an even dental plate. There is the presence of calcified strengthened cartilaginous jaws, calcified struts within the jaws and a lever ‘nutcracker’ system that amplifies the force of the jaw adductor muscles. The fusion of the palatoquadrate and mandibular symphysis, a restricted gape and asynchronous activation of the jaw adductors are key elements in the ‘nutcracker’ model of jaw-crushing ability. Chimeras use their pavement teeth for grinding molluscs, gastropods and crabs.
Myliobatidae
Myliobatidae are free-swimming rays whose pectoral fins make up broad, powerful "wings" which include the eagle and cow-nose rays. They feed on molluscs and have dentitions adapted to crushing. Dentitions of durophagous myliobatids show several specializations in the jaws and teeth related to their diet. The cartilaginous jaws are strengthened by calcified struts (trabeculae), and the palatoquadrate and mandibular symphysis are fused. Strong ligaments connecting the upper and lower jaws restrict the jaw gape. The strong adductor muscles can be asynchronously activated.
Eagle (Aetobatus narinari) and cow-nose (Rhinoptera javanica) rays
In these groups, teeth are hexagonal and are arranged in anteroposterior files packed closely together in an alternating array to form an almost gap-free pavement, similar to the organization found in Chimeras. The teeth are covered with a layer of enameloid. The tooth pavement is stabilized by vertical surfaces that bear ridges and grooves which are interconnected with those on neighboring teeth. These rays also use their pavement teeth for grinding molluscs, gastropods and crabs. Cow nose rays are specialized suction feeders, which open and close their jaws to generate water movements that are used to excavate buried prey. Food capture is achieved by suction and the prey is then cleaned by actions similar to those used in excavation.
Myliobatis and Aetobatus
Anteroposterior ridges of the basal plate extend from the posterior margin of the tooth and these interdigitate with those of the succeeding tooth and also form a shelf on which the body of the neighboring tooth rests. The dentition of the bat ray (Myliobatis californica) is made up of a series of seven files of crushing teeth. The central hexagonal plate is very wide, taking up about half the width of the occlusal surface and it is flanked by three lateral files of smaller teeth on each side, the outermost being pentagonal. The crushing surface formed by the teeth of the upper jaw is more curved than that of the lower jaw.
Birds
Shorebirds commonly consume bivalves and snails which are low in chitin but the calcium carbonate shell makes up a large portion of their weight. Bivalves and snails are largely consumed whole by ducks and wading birds. The molluscivores that swallow snails or bivalves whole have large well-modularized gizzards for crushing the strong shells. The gizzard of red-necked stints and red knots is more than ten times larger than the proventriculus. The size of the gizzard is adaptable in these shore birds, becoming atrophied when soft food items like worms are consumed and increasing in size and muscularity following prolonged consumption of snails, cockles or mussels. The production of chitinase for the hydrolysis of chitin is important for birds that consume mollusks.
Marine mammals
Sea otters (Enhydra lutris)
Sea otters preferentially forage on benthic invertebrates, particularly sea urchins, gastropod, bivalve mollusks, and crustaceans. Once prey is caught, the otters use their powerful jaws and sharp teeth to consume their meal quickly, even protective crustacean shells. They have canines that deliver a lethal bite, and molars that can crush bones and the shells of mollusks.
Sea otter molars are broad, flat, multi cuspid teeth and the carnassial are also modified for crushing. Both the temporalis and masseter muscles are well developed, creating a strong bite force. The teeth are extremely broad and carnassial are highly molarized. Captured prey is manipulated with the forepaws or is held temporarily in loose skin pouches in the armpits. For larger, heavier-shelled prey, otters will sometimes exhibit tool-use behavior, breaking open sea urchins and mussels with a false stone used as an anvil. Sea otters can also bite sea urchins and mussels open using their strong jaws and teeth. Adults can crush most of their food items but youngsters have not yet developed powerful enough jaws. Therefore, young otters require the assistance of a tool or stone. Tools may also be used when the molluscs are too large to be crushed in the jaws.
Mammals
Monkeys
All mangabeys appear to be durophagous and possess relatively thick molar enamel and expanded premolars, dental adaptations for processing hard foods. Their diet consists of Sacoglottis gabonensis seeds. These seeds can remain on the ground for months without rotting. With hard-object feeding, Mangabeys needed selection to favour thick molar enamel and flattened molars for crushing seeds.
Giant panda
The Giant Panda is mainly a herbivore despite its short, relatively unspecialized digestive tract that is characteristic of carnivores. Giant Pandas lack microbial digestion in their rumen or caecum that is typical of most herbivores for breaking down cellulose and lignin in plant cell walls. Therefore, Giant Pandas need to get their nutrients from the cell contents and fraction of hemicellulose they can break down. The panda subsists mainly on bamboo and does so with modifications of their jaws. Pandas show elaboration of the crushing features of the dentition. The molars are broad, flat, multi cuspid teeth and are the main grinding surface. Jaw action is not a simple crushing one but rather a definite sideways grinding. Panda jaws have a large zygomatico-mandibularis muscle, which is responsible for the sideways movement of the jaw. The glenoid is very deep, preventing back and forth movement of the jaw.
Bamboo represents a predictable food source which is seasonally abundant. Pandas are able to subsist on it despite its low nutritive content. Pandas do this by moving large quantities through the digestive tract in a short period of time. They also reduce their energy expenditures by resting and only remaining active to feed, and they don't have a hibernation period, allowing them to have more foraging time. They chose security over uncertainty, indicated by their bamboo eating adaptations.
Hyaenids
Bone-crushing eating habits appear to be associated with stronger teeth, as seen is in Hyaenids. This is because bone-crushing requires greater bite strength and increases the risk of canine breakage. In Hyaenids, the carnassial are slightly less specialized as cutting blades than those of the Felidae. The bone-crushing adaptations relate mainly to the premolars. The anterior and posterior cusps are reduced and the central cusp enlarged and widened, so that the tooth is converted from a blade-like structure to a heavy conical hammer. Strong muscles are also required for bone crushing, and the temporalis attachment on the skull is enlarged by a strong sagittal crest. Heavy, hammer-like teeth and extremely strong jaws and jaw muscles make it possible for hyaenas to crack larger bone than other carnivores are capable of, and their highly efficient cutting carnassials can deal with tough hides and tendons.
Wolverine (Gulo gulo)
The wolverine has jaws and teeth that are extremely powerful and together with its scavenging habits, have earned the wolverine the name "hyena of the north". The wolverine is an effective scavenger, capable of cracking heavy bones and shows the same adaptations in the jaw as the hyenas do. The sagittal crest projects well above the area of attachment of the neck muscles, and in a large animal it extends back far behind the level of the condyles to provide attachments for the relatively enormous temporalis muscles, creating a powerful bite force.
See also
List of feeding behaviours
References
Carnivory
Biology terminology |
20485475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divisiones%20Regionales%20de%20F%C3%BAtbol%20in%20Extremadura | Divisiones Regionales de Fútbol in Extremadura | The Divisiones Regionales de Fútbol in the Community of Extremadura:
Regional Preferente (Level 6 of the Spanish football pyramid)
Primera Regional (Level 7)
League chronology
Timeline
Regional Preferente
The Regional Preferente is the sixth level of competition of the Spanish league football in the Autonomous Community of Extremadura. It is organized by Football Federation of Extremadura.
League system
The Regional Preferente consists of three groups of sixteen clubs each one. Top four teams at final standings play the promotion playoffs. Bottom four teams are relegated.
2018–19 season teams
Champions
Primera Regional
The Primera Regional is the seventh level of competition of the Spanish league football in the Autonomous Community of Extremadura. It is organized by Football Federation of Extremadura.
League system
The Primera Regional is played with four groups of 14 teams. At the end of the season, the champion of each group are promoted to the Regional Preferente. The two winners of the runners-up playoff are also promoted. The Primera Regional de Extremadura is the lowest league in the Spanish league pyramid in Extremadura, so no clubs are relegated.
Some teams playing at this level
Burguillos
Castilblanco
External links
Futbolme.com
Federación Extremeña de Fútbol
Divisiones Regionales de Fútbol
Football in Extremadura |
23580714 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirupama%20Rajapaksa | Nirupama Rajapaksa | Nirupama Deepika Rajapaksa (born 13 April 1962) is a Sri Lankan politician, a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a former deputy minister.
Biography
She herself, a Sinhalese Buddhist is married to an ethnic Tamil Hindu, Thirukkumaran Nadesan .
Rajapaksa is the niece of former Sri Lankan President and later Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. Her late father, George and them were first cousins (her late paternal grandfather, D. M. Rajapaksa and their late father, D. A. Rajapaksa are brothers).
Career
She served as a deputy minister of water supply and drainage during the presidency of Mahinda Rajapaksa between 2010 and 2015.
Pandora Papers controversy
Her name was mentioned in the Pandora Papers which were released in October 2021. It was revealed that she and her husband controlled a shell company they used to buy luxury apartments in London and Sydney, and to make investments. Nadesan set up other shell companies and trusts in secrecy jurisdictions, and he used them with the intention to obtain lucrative consulting contracts from foreign companies doing business with the Sri Lankan government and to buy artwork. Many reports related the fraudulent efforts as part of Rajapksa family’s undisclosed wealth in offshore countries.
ICiJ reports that Rajapaksa and Nadesan declined to answer ICIJ’s questions about their trusts and companies.
Departure from Sri Lanka
On 5 April during the ongoing 2022 Sri Lankan protests against the Sri Lankan government she left the country to Dubai.
See also
List of political families in Sri Lanka
References
External links
The Rajapaksa Ancestry
1962 births
Living people
Members of the 10th 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
Nirupama
Women legislators in Sri Lanka
20th-century Sri Lankan women politicians
21st-century Sri Lankan women politicians
Women government ministers of Sri Lanka
People named in the Pandora Papers |
20485476 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Shetland%20Experience | The Shetland Experience | The Shetland Experience is a 1977 British short documentary film directed by Derek Williams. It is about environmental measures taken by the oil industry at the Sullom Voe Terminal in Shetland. It was a sponsored film, produced for the environmental advisory group of the Sullom Voe Association, to which the Shetland Islands Council and oil companies belonged. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
References
External links
Watch The Shetland Experience at BP Video Library
1977 films
1977 documentary films
1977 short films
English-language films
British short documentary films
1970s short documentary films
Documentary films about petroleum
Sponsored films
North Sea energy
Mass media in Shetland |
17344089 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine%20Ferry%20%28singer%29 | Catherine Ferry (singer) | Catherine Ferry (born 1 July 1953) is a French singer.
In 1976, at the Eurovision Song Contest, Catherine Ferry represented France with the song "Un, deux, trois" (Tony Rallo/Jean Paul Cara). She ranked second in the contest. Among the backing vocalists was Daniel Balavoine, who wrote the B side "Petit Jean". She worked and was produced mainly by Daniel Balavoine a famous French singer who wrote nearly 30 songs for her.
In 1977, she took part in the Yamaha Festival in Japan. In 1982, she released at WEA the song "Bonjour, Bonjour" (Linda Lecomte/Balavoine). In 1983, she participated in the musical fairy tale "Abbacadabra" by Alain Boublil based on ABBA's songs. In 1984, the album "Vivre avec la musique" was released, produced by Andy Scott, with music by Daniel Balavoine, Joe Hammer and Michel Rorive, lyrics of Daniel Balavoine, Linda Lecomte, Patrick Dulphy, Bernard Balavoine and Francis Wauthers.
Balavoine died in 1986, having failed to finish the French lyrics of a song originally written for Frida of Abba. Jean-Jacques Goldman wrote the lyrics of "Quelqu'un Quelque part". Ferry then took time off to have a family.
In the spring of 2010, things came full circle, with Catherine Ferry returning to Geneva in order to record her new single "Petit Jean" with John Woolloff, the guitar player of the late Daniel Balavoine. As her songs became "cult" favourites, one of them, "1, 2, 3", was selected to appear in the movie "Potiche", by French director François Ozon, starring Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu.
Discography
Singles
1975 : Julia mon cœur – Chanson pour toi
1976 : 1, 2, 3 – Petit Jean
1976 : Ma chanson d'amour – Petit Jean
1977 : Mélodie bleue – Une histoire d'amour
1977 : J'ai laissé le bon temps rouler – Pour tous ceux qui s'aiment
1978 : J'imagine – Le chanteur anglais
1979 : Dis goodbye à ton goodboy – Baxter
1980 : Tu es mon ennemi – Maman vit avec les animaux
1982 : Bonjour Bonjour – Il est en retard
1983 : Grandis pas – Pourquoi pas
1983 : Vivre avec la musique – Un homme tout perdu
1983 : Prends tout ce qu'on te donne – Raté
1986 : Quelqu'un quelque part – Ce matin
1989 : Manille – Rendez-vous
Albums
1977 : Catherine Ferry
1984 : Vivre avec la musique
2010 : Reedition remastered
References
External links
Official Myspace
French women singers
Eurovision Song Contest entrants for France
Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1976
Living people
1953 births
People from Ivry-sur-Seine |
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