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26722560 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bockstael%20railway%20station | Bockstael railway station | Bockstael railway station is a railway station in Brussels, Belgium operated by the SNCB/NMBS. It opened in 1982 to replace the Laeken railway station. The station is located in the City of Brussels on the Belgian railway line 50, between the Brussels-North and Jette railway station. It is named after the nearby Place Bockstael/Bockstaelplein.
Train services
The station is served by the following service(s):
Brussels RER services (S3) Dendermonde - Brussels - Denderleeuw - Zottegem - Oudenaarde (weekdays)
Brussels RER services (S4) Aalst - Denderleeuw - Brussels-Luxembourg (- Etterbeek - Merode - Vilvoorde) (weekdays)
Brussels RER services (S10) Dendermonde - Brussels - Denderleeuw - Aalst
Connections
The station offers a connection with the Bockstael metro station as well as tram route 62 and 93 and bus routes 49, 53, 88 and 89. Many De Lijn buses also stop at Bockstael.
References
Railway stations in Brussels
City of Brussels
Railway stations opened in 1982 |
23580967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah%20Bergamini | Deborah Bergamini | Deborah Bergamini (born 24 October 1967) is an Italian politician, manager and journalist currently member of the Italian Parliament.
Education
Bergamini studied literature and philosophy and went on to study at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, specialising in political marketing.
Media career
Bergamini embarked on a career as a journalist, starting working for local newspapers and TVs in Tuscany. In 1996, she moved to Paris to work for the French publisher "Analyses et Synthèses" and then from 1997 to 1999 she was based in London, working for Bloomberg. It was while at Bloomberg that she interviewed Silvio Berlusconi, who subsequently recruited her as his communication advisor.
Between 2002 and January 2008 Bergamini worked for RAI television, first as deputy and then as director for strategic marketing.
Political career
Bergamini entered the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 2008 as a member of The People of Freedom political movement and since then she is member of the Committee on Transports, Postal Services and Communication. In November 2011 she was also elected vice-president of the inquiry commission on piracy and counterfeiting.
In addition to her role in parliament, Bergamini has been serving as member of the Italian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2008. She is member of the Committee on culture and Chair of the Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society. In this capacity, she has been the Assembly’s rapporteur on the governance of artificial intelligence since 2019. She is also President, since 17 March 2009, of the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe.
References
External links
Personal website – Italian
Member details on Italian Chamber of Deputies website
Member details on Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly Website
Bergamini on Youtube
1967 births
Living people
Smith College alumni
People from Viareggio
Council of Europe people
Forza Italia politicians
The People of Freedom politicians
Forza Italia (2013) politicians |
23580975 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toulouse%20Rod%C3%A9o%20FC | Toulouse Rodéo FC | Rodéo Football Club is a football club based in Toulouse, France. Though the club's proper name is Rodéo Football Club, the club is often referred to as Toulouse Rodéo Football Club to show the club's location. The club played in Championnat National 3 from 2017 until 2020, after winning promotion from Division d'Honneur Midi-Pyrénées in 2015–16. They were relegated from 2019–20 Championnat National 3 and currently play in Régional 1 Occitanie.
External links
A blog discussing the club
Football clubs in France
Sport in Toulouse |
26722602 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Von%20Hoff | Bruce Von Hoff | Bruce Frederick Von Hoff (November 17, 1943 – September 11, 2012) was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He was born in Oakland, California.
Von Hoff pitched in a total of thirteen games for the Houston Astros in the 1965 and 1967 seasons.
He died at his home in Gulfport, Florida.
References
External links
Venezuelan Professional Baseball League
1943 births
2012 deaths
Amarillo Sonics players
Arkansas Travelers players
Asheville Tourists players
Baseball players from Oakland, California
Cocoa Astros players
Dallas–Fort Worth Spurs players
Decatur Commodores players
Durham Bulls players
El Paso Sun Kings players
Florida Instructional League Reds players
Houston Astros players
Industriales de Valencia players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Northern Illinois Huskies baseball players
Oklahoma City 89ers players
People from Gulfport, Florida
St. Petersburg Cardinals players |
26722613 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window%20Observational%20Research%20Facility | Window Observational Research Facility | The Window Observational Research Facility (WORF) is an experiment rack facility manufactured by the Brazilian Space Agency, which remotely operated payloads and crew members can perform Earth and space science research, including hand held photography, at the U.S. Laboratory Science Window on the International Space Station. WORF is based on an International Standard Payload Rack (ISPR) and utilizes avionics and hardware adapted from the EXPRESS Rack program. The rack provides a payload volume equivalent to , and will be able to support up to three payloads simultaneously, depending on available resources and space available at the window. The WORF will also provide access and equipment for crew Earth observations, such as crew restraints, camera/camcorder brackets, and condensation prevention.
WORF payloads include those focusing on geology, agriculture, ranching, environmental and coastal changes, and education.
The WORF design uses existing EXpedite the PRocessing of Experiments to Space Station (EXPRESS) Rack hardware which includes a Rack Interface Controller (RIC) box for power and data connection, Avionics Air Assembly (AAA) fan for air circulation within the rack, rack fire detection, and appropriate avionics to communicate with the ISS data network. The WORF will maximize the use of this window by providing sensors (cameras, multi-spectral and hyper-spectral scanners, camcorders and other instruments) to capture imagery of the Earth and space.
WORF also provides attachment points for power and data transfer and the capability for multiple instruments to be mounted and used in the window simultaneously. WORF will include a means of preventing the formation of condensation on the interior surface of the window and a retractable bump shield to protect the interior window surface from impacts of loose tools and hardware being used in the area during the set-up and change-out of sensor packages by the crew. The interior of the WORF provides a non-reflective, light-tight environment to minimize stray reflections and glare off the window allowing use to equipment that are sensitive to extremely low energy phenomena such as auroras. An opaque fabric shroud can be attached to the front of the rack to allow crew-members to work in the WORF without the problem of glare from the U.S. Laboratory interior lights.
When the WORF is not in use, when visiting spacecraft are docking with the International Space Station (ISS), or when the window is exposed to orbital ram conditions during special orientations of the ISS, the research lab window is protected by a metal cover on the outside of the Destiny lab module. This external window shutter pivots on hinges and is rotated open and closed by the crew using controls on the WORF rack.
Delivery
WORF was delivered by ISS Flight 19A (which was STS-131) . It was launched on April 5, 2010 aboard the NASA Space Shuttle.
Operations
After transfer into the US Lab, WORF will be installed in the LAB1D3 location over the Destiny Window. The installation process includes attaching light close-outs, removing launch fasteners, connecting to U.S. Laboratory resources and installing mounting brackets.
After installation, WORF will be powered on by crew/ground command and a checkout will be performed to ensure all systems are functioning. After checkout, WORF will be ready to support payload operations. Typical payload operations will include mounting the imaging equipment on the payload shelf, connecting power/data cables, powering payload subsystems and initiating payload software.
WORF Payload operations will consist of crew-tended or automated activities. For crew-tended operations, the WORF hatch will be removed and the crew member can use the payload shroud to block any incoming light from the U.S. Laboratory. For automated operations, the hatch will be installed to protect the payload hardware and commands can be sent to the payload via the ground or WORF laptop computer.
WORF patch and Star Trek
As an allusion to the fictional character Worf from the science fiction television and movie franchise Star Trek, the mission patch incorporated text written in the Klingon language. The patch's creator contacted Star Trek producer Rick Berman for permission and to ensure correctness.
See also
Scientific research on the ISS
Destiny (ISS module)
Gallery
Related publications
Eppler D, Runco S. Earth Observations Capabilities of the Window Observational Research Facility on Board the International Space Station. American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics. ;AIAA-2001-4915. 2001
References
External links
ISS Window Observational Research Facility (WORF) – Summary – spaceandtech.com
Klingon, Cookies and Class Project Arrive at Space Station on Shuttle – www.space.com
WORF arrives at the International space station – neatinformation.com
WORF and Klingons occupy ISS Universe Today – 17. April 2010
Science facilities on the International Space Station
Destiny (ISS module) |
23580977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Shoe%20Museum | The Shoe Museum | The Shoe Museum in Street, Somerset, England exhibited shoes dating from the Roman era to the present day. The museum closed on 27 September 2019.
It showed the history of the Clark family and their company C. & J. Clark and its connection with the development of shoemaking in the town. The Clarks started making slippers, shoes and boots in the town in the 1820s and the company grew, introducing mechanised processes in the 1860s. Production continued until after 2000 when it was moved off-shore, using third party factories, predominantly located in Asia. In the 19th century, in line with the family’s Quaker values, the capital was also extended beyond the factory to benefit social initiatives in Street: a school was founded so that young men and women could combine working in the factory with continuing their education, a theatre was opened, a library was built, along with an open-air swimming pool, known as Greenbank, and town hall. The company still has its headquarters in Street, behind a frontage which includes the clock tower and water tower, In 1993 the redundant factory buildings were converted to form Clarks Village.
The museum started in 1951, but was expanded in 1974.
It had examples of shoes from the 200 years of the companies history. The museum also included a display of machinery used in footwear production, and a selection of shop display showcards from the 1930s, 1950s and 1960s, and television advertisements.
The museum closed to the public on 27 September 2019, and its artefacts will be transferred to the nearby Alfred Gillett Trust.
See also
Concealed shoes
References
External links
The Shoe Museum (archived 16 July 2015)
Alfred Gillett Trust
Museums in Somerset
Shoe museums
Street, Somerset
Grade II listed museum buildings |
17344326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar%20M.%20Yaghi | Omar M. Yaghi | Omar M. Yaghi (; born February 9, 1965) is the James and Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences.
Early life and education
Yaghi was born in Amman, Jordan in 1965 to a refugee family, originally from Mandatory Palestine. He grew up in a household with many children, but only had limited access to clean water and without electricity.
At the age of 15, he moved to the United States at the encouragement of his father. Although he knew little English, he began classes at Hudson Valley Community College, and later transferred to the University at Albany, SUNY to finish his college degree. He began his graduate studies at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and received his PhD in 1990 under the guidance of Walter G. Klemperer. He was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University (1990–1992) with Professor Richard H. Holm.
Career
He was on the faculties of Arizona State University (1992–1998) as an assistant professor, the University of Michigan (1999–2006) as the Robert W. Parry Professor of Chemistry, and the University of California, Los Angeles (2007-2012) as the Christopher S. Foote Professor of Chemistry as well as holding the Irving and Jean Stone Chair in Physical Sciences.
In 2012, he moved to the University of California, Berkeley where he is now the James and Neeltje Tretter Professor of Chemistry. He was the director of the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 2012 through 2013. He is the Founding Director of the Berkeley Global Science Institute. He is also a co-director of the Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute of the University of California, Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as well as the California Research Alliance by BASF.
Professional work
Yaghi pioneered reticular chemistry, a new field of chemistry concerned with stitching molecular building blocks together by strong bonds to make open frameworks. His most recognizable work is in the design and production of new classes of compounds known as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs), and covalent organic frameworks (COFs). MOFs are noted for their extremely high surface areas ( for MOF-177) and very low crystalline densities ( for COF-108). Yaghi also pioneered molecular weaving, and synthesized the world’s first material woven at the atomic and molecular levels (COF-505).
He has been leading the effort in applying these materials in clean energy technologies including hydrogen and methane storage, carbon dioxide capture and storage, as well as harvesting water from desert air.
According to a Thomson Reuters analysis, Yaghi was the second most cited chemist in the world from 2000–2010.
Honors and awards
His accomplishments in the design and synthesis of new materials have been honored by the Solid State Chemistry Award of the American Chemical Society and Exxon Co. (1998), and the Sacconi Medal of the Italian Chemical Society (2004). His work on hydrogen storage was recognized by the US Department of Energy Hydrogen Program Award (2007). He received the Materials Research Society Medal for work in the theory, design, synthesis and applications of metal-organic frameworks and received the Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for the best paper published in Science (2007).
Yaghi is the recipient of the American Chemical Society Chemistry of Materials Award (2009), Izatt-Christensen International Award (2009), the Royal Society of Chemistry Centenary Prize (2010), as well as China Nano Award (2013). In 2015 he was awarded both the King Faisal International Prize in Chemistry and the Mustafa Prize in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. In 2016 he was awarded TÜBA Academy Prize in Basic and Engineering Sciences for establishing Reticular Chemistry. In 2017, Yaghi was awarded the Spiers Memorial Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Medal of Excellence of the First Order bestowed by King Abdullah II, the Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry International Award, the Bailar Medal in Inorganic Chemistry, the Kuwait Prize in Fundamental Sciences, and the Albert Einstein World Award of Science conferred by the World Cultural Council. In 2018, Yaghi was awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences for pioneering Reticular Chemistry, and also in 2018 he received the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in which he was cited for pioneering reticular chemistry via metal-organic frameworks and covalent organic frameworks. His work on water harvesting from desert air using metal-organic frameworks was showcased by the World Economic Forum in Switzerland as one of the top 10 emerging technologies, and was awarded the 2018 Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water. Yaghi also received the 2018 Eni Award in recognition of his work in applying framework chemistry to clean energy solutions including methane storage, carbon dioxide capture and conversion, and water harvesting from desert air. He was honored with the 2019 Gregori Aminoff Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for the development of reticular chemistry. In 2019, he also received the MBR Medal for Scientific Excellence of the United Arab Emirates, as well as the Nano Research Award. Yaghi was awarded the 2020 August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann-Denkmünze gold medal of the German Chemical Society for his contribution to reticular chemistry and for pioneering MOFs, COFs, and molecular weaving. Yaghi also received the 2020 Royal Society of Chemistry Sustainable Water Award for his impactful development of water harvesting from desert air using metal–organic frameworks. In 2021, Yaghi was honored with Belgium’s International Solvay Chair in Chemistry, as well as the Ertl Lecture Award by the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society and Berlin universities.
On January 20th 2022 during an international award ceremony in Vietnam it was announced that Yaghi won the inaugural VinFuture Prize for Outstanding Achievements in Emerging Fields in recognition of his pioneering Reticular Chemistry.
References
External links
The Yaghi Group website.
Yaghi CV
Omar M. Yaghi - Google Scholar Citations.
MOFs are the most beautiful compounds ever made
Omar M. Yaghi Lecture - Reticular Chemistry
Omar M. Yaghi Lecture - Harvesting water from desert air
1965 births
Living people
Albert Einstein World Award of Science Laureates
Jordanian people of Palestinian descent
American people of Palestinian descent
Inorganic chemists
21st-century American chemists
People from Amman
UC Berkeley College of Chemistry faculty
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
Arizona State University faculty
University of Michigan faculty
Wolf Prize in Chemistry laureates
Jordanian emigrants to the United States |
23580981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C5H9NO4 | C5H9NO4 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C5H9NO4}}
The molecular formula C5H9NO4 (molar mass 147.13 g/mol) may refer to:
O-Acetylserine, an α-amino acid
Glutamic acid, a proteinogenic amino acid
N-Methyl-D-aspartic acid, a specific agonist at the NMDA receptor
L-threo-3-Methylaspartate
Molecular formulas |
23580985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMNH | PMNH | PMNH may refer to:
Pakistan Museum of Natural History, Islamabad, Pakistan
Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, Connecticut, USA |
23580987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C5H10N2O3 | C5H10N2O3 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C5H10N2O3}}
The molecular formula C5H10N2O3 may refer to:
Glutamine
Isoglutamine, or α-glutamine
β-Ureidoisobutyric acid
Molecular formulas |
26722620 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Ludwig%20Michel | Henry Ludwig Michel | Henry Ludwig Michel (1925-2001) was a civil engineer and chairman of Parsons Brinckerhoff. He was responsible for the planning and management of public infrastructure projects, having received international acclaim for his management of worldwide transportation projects. In 2000, Michel was honored with the Pupin Medal conferred by Columbia University in memory of Michael Pupin.
Early life and career
Henry Michel was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1925. In 1949, Michel earned a B.A. in civil engineering from Columbia University. After graduation, he participated in a project that sought to upgrade British fighter bomber bases in the Cold War era.
Michel later left England, moving to Rome where he started an engineering company that became a contractor at sites in Iran, Iraq, Kenya, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia. He helped to develop the University of Baghdad, the Nigerian Parliament in Lagos, Tunis University and the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva.
Parsons Brinckerhoff
Michel, upon returning to New York City in 1965, joined the engineering planning and construction company Parsons Brinckerhoff. He became the company's partner in 1969 and in 1975 reorganized the traditional partnership into an employee-owned corporation. He became the first chief executive and chairman of the newly formed corporation in 1990.
During his tenure, the engineering firm went international, setting up six offices overseas. Employment grew drastically from 500 to 4,000 employees. Under Michel's leadership, Parsons Brinckerhoff became one of the most reputed construction contractors in the United States. The company would later be contracted to manage Boston's mega transportation project known as the Big Dig.
Later life
After stepping down as chairman in 1994, Michel continued to speak on the company's behalf. He then joined a new trouble-shooting venture, Global Construction Solutions, in Princeton, New Jersey, while also becoming a co-owner of Pegasus Consulting.
Mr. Michel was a founding member and former president of the Civil Engineering Research Foundation. In his mid and late career, Michel traveled extensively lecturing universities including MIT and Columbia. He is the recipient of many awards such as Columbia's Pupin and Egleston Medal. In 1995, Michel was elected into the prestigious National Academy of Engineering.
The American Society of Civil Engineers named its Henry L. Michel Award for Industry Advancement of Research, presented at the annual CERF Global Innovation Awards Dinner, in honor of Henry Michel.
See also
Columbia University
Columbia Engineering
Big Dig
Parsons Brinckerhoff
Ivy League
Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin
References
External links
American Society of Civil Engineers CERF
Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
2001 deaths
1925 births |
23580992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom%20of%20Simplicity | Kingdom of Simplicity | Kingdom of Simplicity is a novel by American author Holly Payne published in June 2009. It is Payne's third novel.
Plot outline
The novel is set among the Old Order Amish in the Lancaster, Pennsylvania region. It tells the story of an Amish boy's attempts to move past "his anger ... and his guilt, which lead him on a painful journey during his rumspringa, the period when Amish teens are allowed to experience the outside world before formally joining the Amish faith. Eli can embrace it only when he learns to forgive.
Told in the first person, the novel opens when Eli Yoder, the protagonist, steals a camera. This is a doubly significant crime, since the Amish don't use cameras or permit themselves to be photographed. This theft figures into another crime of sorts, and finally into Eli's expulsion from his non-Amish friends.
Writing and publication
Payne began writing the book based on her recollections and experiences growing up among the Amish, but the Amish school-shooting tragedy in October 2006 made her reconsider the book's direction. The Amish quickly forgave the shooter, and went to comfort his family. According to Payne, "If you're Amish, you can get there much faster, just because it's part of your DNA. Our culture isn't a forgiving culture. We're a very litigious culture. It's all about getting back and an eye for an eye." Payne has stated that the entire book is really about forgiveness.
Major characters
Eli Yoder - the proatgonist. Eli is old-order Amish, and has a genetic disorder common among Amish, that of having webbed hands. Most of the novel occurs when Eli is sixteen years old, though it begins somewhat earlier.
Leroy Fischer - a non-Amish barber who befriends Leroy, but also challenges him in several important ways.
Emma Beiler - an Amish girl whom Eli likes, and who likes him.
The Driver - a character initially in the background, whose identity is eventually revealed.
References
2009 American novels
Novels set in Pennsylvania
Lancaster, Pennsylvania |
17344346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibson-cum-Stibbington | Sibson-cum-Stibbington | Sibson-cum-Stibbington is a civil parish in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. The parish includes the villages of Sibson and Stibbington, together with Wansford railway station.
From 1894 to 1935 the parish was under the administrative responsibility of Barnack Rural District in the Soke of Peterborough even though the parish was then in Huntingdonshire; it then transferred to Norman Cross Rural District.
Demography
Population
In the period 1801 to 1901 the population of Sibson-cum-Stibbington was recorded every ten years by the UK census. During this time the population was in the range of 324 (the lowest was in 1801) and 790 (the highest was in 1851).
From 1901, a census was taken every ten years with the exception of 1941 (due to the Second World War).
All population census figures from report Historic Census figures Cambridgeshire to 2011 by Cambridgeshire Insight.
In 2011, the parish covered an area of and the population density of Sibson-cum-Stibbington in 2011 was 196.3 persons per square mile (75.8 per square kilometre).
References
'Parishes: Stibbington', A History of the County of Huntingdon: Volume 3 (1936), pp. 217–222. . Date accessed: 10 May 2008.
Huntingdonshire
Civil parishes in Cambridgeshire |
26722640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Empress%20Wu%20Tse-tien%20%281939%20film%29 | The Empress Wu Tse-tien (1939 film) | The Empress Wu Tse-Tien () is a 1939 Chinese historical film based on the life of Wu Zetian, the only female emperor in Chinese history. Directed by Fang Peilin, the film starred Gu Lanjun as the titular character.
Cast
Gu Lanjun
Yin Xiucen
Huang Naishuang
Li Ming
Liang Xin
Bai Hong
External links
1939 films
1939 drama films
Mandarin-language films
Chinese black-and-white films
Films set in 7th-century Tang dynasty
Films set in 8th-century Tang dynasty
Works about Wu Zetian
Cultural depictions of Wu Zetian
Chinese drama films |
26722646 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melitaea%20asteria | Melitaea asteria | Melitaea asteria, the little fritillary, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Alps of Europe.
The larva feeds on Plantago alpina.
References
External links
Leps It
Melitaea
Butterflies of Europe
Butterflies described in 1828 |
20486122 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20University%20of%20California%2C%20Berkeley | History of the University of California, Berkeley | The history of the University of California, Berkeley begins on October 13, 1849, with the adoption of the Constitution of California, which provided for the creation of a public university. On Charter Day, March 23, 1868, the signing of the Organic Act established the University of California, with the new institution inheriting the land and facilities of the private College of California and the federal funding eligibility of a public agricultural, mining, and mechanical arts college.
19th Century
Founding
In 1866, the College of California, a private institution in Oakland founded by Andover and Yale alumnus Henry Durant, purchased the land that comprises the current Berkeley campus, and the State of California established an agricultural, mining, and mechanical arts college, which existed only as a legal entity to secure federal funds under the Morrill Act. Signed by President Lincoln in 1862, the Morrill Act provided for the capitalization of public universities by federal land grant. In 1867, through the good offices of then-governor Frederick Low, the financially struggling College of California agreed to a merger with the state college. On March 23, 1868, Governor Henry H. Haight signed the Organic Act, which established the University of California as the state's first land-grant university. Although the founding of the University of California is often incorrectly mistaken for a merger, the Organic Act created a "completely new institution" and did not actually merge the two precursor entities into the new university.
The Organic Act — also known as the Dwinelle Bill, named after its principal author, Assemblyman John W. Dwinelle — stated that the "University shall have for its design, to provide instruction and thorough and complete education in all departments of science, literature and art, industrial and professional pursuits, and general education, and also special courses of instruction in preparation for the professions".
Professor John LeConte was appointed interim president, serving until 1870, when the Board of Regents elected Henry Durant.
The university opened in September 1869, using the former College of California's buildings in Oakland as a temporary home while the new campus underwent construction.
Early Development
In 1871, the Board of Regents stated that women should be admitted on an equal basis with men.
On November 7, 1872, Daniel Coit Gilman was inaugurated as the second president of the university. Gilman proclaimed in his inaugural address: "The charter and the name declare that this is to be the 'University of California'. It is not the University of Berlin nor of New Haven which we are to copy ... it is the University of this State. It must be adapted to this people ... It is 'of the people and for the people'—not in any low or unworthy sense, but in the highest and noblest relations to their intellectual and moral well-being".
With the completion of North and South Halls in 1873, the university relocated to its Berkeley location with 167 male and 22 female students.
In 1874 the first woman graduated from the University of California; Rosa L. Scrivner earned a Ph.B in Agriculture. Elizabeth Bragg, the first woman to receive a degree in Civil Engineering from an American university, earned her degree at Berkeley in 1876.
In 1881, Henry Douglas Bacon donated books and art work from his personal collection and funded the construction of Bacon Hall, a library and art museum.
Financed by a bequest from California land baron James Lick, the university's first research facility, an observatory on Mount Hamilton, began operations in 1888.
Starting in 1891, Phoebe Apperson Hearst made several large gifts to Berkeley, endowing a number of programs, sponsoring an international architectural competition, and funding the construction of Hearst Memorial Mining Building and Hearst Hall. Levi Strauss, another notable donor, endowed 28 scholarships in 1897. The following year, Cora Jane Flood gave the university some 540 acres in present-day Menlo Park and Atherton and a one-half interest in the Bear Creek Water Company, which supplied water to the donated property and its surrounds. The Flood donation would provide for the establishment of Berkeley's business school, then the College of Commerce and now the Haas School, in 1898. It would be the country's first business school at a public university.
20th Century
The university came of age under the direction of Benjamin Ide Wheeler, who would serve as its president from 1899 to 1919.
In 1905, the "University Farm" was formed near Sacramento, ultimately becoming the University of California, Davis.
Berkeley's reputation grew as President Wheeler succeeded in attracting renowned faculty to the campus and procuring research and scholarship funds.
The campus began to take on the look of a proper university with the completion of several Beaux-Arts and neoclassical buildings, including California Memorial Stadium (1923), designed by architect John Galen Howard; these buildings form the core of Berkeley's present campus architecture.
In the 1910s, Berkeley played a significant role in the Indian Independence Movement. Beyond the reach of the British colonial police, Indian students studying at the university helped form the Ghadar Party and published its paper, the Hindustan Ghadar.
In 1928, John D. Rockefeller Jr. funded the International House Berkeley, which officially opened on August 18, 1930. One of three such residences in country dedicated to international students – the first was established at Columbia University in the City of New York and the second at the University of Chicago—it was the largest student housing complex in the Bay Area and the first coeducational residence west of the Mississippi.
Robert Gordon Sproul became president in 1930, and during his 28-year tenure, Berkeley gained international recognition as a major research university. Prior to taking office, Sproul took a six-month tour of other universities and colleges to study their educational and administrative methods and to establish connections through which he could draw talented faculty in the future. The Great Depression and World War II led to funding cutbacks, but Sproul was able to maintain academic and research standards by campaigning for private funds. By 1942, the American Council on Education ranked Berkeley second only to Harvard University in the number of distinguished departments.
As a land-grant university subject to the Morrill Act of 1862, male undergraduates were required to serve two hours per week for four years being trained in tactics, dismounted drill, marksmanship, camp duty, military engineering, and fortifications. In exchange for California's share of , North Hall housed an armory. In 1904, the service requirement was reduced to two years, and in 1917, Berkeley's ROTC unit was established. The university president's report from 1902 states, "The University Cadets from last year numbered no less than 866. Appointments as second lieutenants in the regular army have been conferred upon several men who have distinguished themselves as officers in the University Cadets. It is very much to be hoped that the War Department will establish permanently the policy of offering such appointments to the graduates of each year who show the highest ability in military pursuits." Commander Chester W. Nimitz established the Naval ROTC at Berkeley in the fall of 1926. Transferred in June 1929, Captain Nimitz left a unit of 150 midshipmen with a staff of six commissioned and six petty officers. Berkeley has produced 36 general and flag officers of the United States Armed Forces.
World War II
During World War II, Ernest Orlando Lawrence's Radiation Laboratory in the hills above Berkeley began to contract with the U.S. Army to develop the atomic bomb, which would involve Berkeley's cutting-edge research in nuclear physics, including Glenn Seaborg's then-secret discovery of plutonium (Room 307 of Gilman Hall, where Seaborg discovered plutonium, would later be a National Historic Landmark). Berkeley physics professor J. Robert Oppenheimer was named scientific head of the Manhattan Project in 1942. Along with the descendant of the Radiation Lab, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the University of California originally managed and is now a partner in managing two other labs of similar age, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which were established in 1943 and 1952, respectively.
From 1943 to 1946, Berkeley was one of 131 colleges and universities that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program. The military increased its presence on campus to produce officers, with the army program commandeering Bowles Hall and the naval program taking control of the International House, the Student Co-op Barrington Hall, and several fraternities. By 1944, more than 1,000 navy personnel were studying at Cal, roughly one out of every four male Berkeley students. Former secretary of defense Robert McNamara and former Army chief of staff Frederick C. Weyand were both graduates of Berkeley's ROTC program. With the end of the war and the subsequent rise of student activism, the board of regents succumbed to pressure from the student government and ended compulsory military training at Berkeley in 1962.
1950s
In 1949, the Board of Regents adopted an anti-communist loyalty oath to be signed by all University of California employees. Several faculty members, including eminent comparative psychologist Edward C. Tolman, objected to the oath requirement and were dismissed; ten years passed before they were reinstated with back pay. An oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California against all enemies, foreign and domestic" is still required of university employees who are American citizens.
Prior to 1952, Berkeley was the University of California, and university locations outside of Berkeley were considered remote departments. However, in March 1951, the University of California began to reorganize itself into a university system, with each semi-autonomous campus having its own chief executive, a chancellor, who would, in turn, report to the university president. After the reorganization was formalized in 1952, Sproul remained in office as president, and Clark Kerr became Berkeley's first Chancellor. After Kerr became president in 1957, Berkeley, once simply the "University of California", officially became the "University of California, Berkeley", its name now often shortened to "Berkeley" in general reference or in an academic context (www.berkeley.edu, Berkeley Law, Berkeley Haas) or to "California" or "Cal", particularly when referring to its athletic teams (California Golden Bears).
In 1958, a faculty committee, first chaired by Professor Otto Struve and then by Professor Edward Teller, recommended the establishment of a laboratory dedicated to emerging rocket and satellite technology. The Regents, acting on the recommendation of Chancellor Glenn T. Seaborg and President Clark Kerr, authorized the formation of the Space Sciences Laboratory in 1959. Located in the Berkeley Hills overlooking the central campus, the Space Sciences Laboratory would go on to make important scientific contributions to many NASA programs.
1960s
In the 1960s, Berkeley gained a worldwide reputation for political activism, beginning with the student-led Free Speech Movement. By tradition and given its proximity to the highly-trafficked main entrance to the university, Sproul Plaza had been, and continues to be, an area for public speeches and similar activities, much like Speakers' corner in London's Hyde Park. However, in 1964, the university administration banned political activity on campus. On October 1, 1964, Jack Weinberg, who had graduated magna cum laude from Berkeley with a degree in mathematics the prior year, was arrested while manning a Campus CORE booth in Sproul Plaza, prompting a series of student-led acts of formal remonstrance and civil disobedience that ultimately gave rise to the Free Speech Movement. The movement would ultimately prevail and serve as precedent for student opposition to America’s involvement in the Vietnam War.
University president Clark Kerr would later write that of all the chancellors with whom he had worked, Roger W. Heyns, who served as Berkeley's chancellor from 1965 to 1971, had the most "tormenting" assignment of all.
During this era, the most publicized event was the 1969 protest over People's Park, a conflict between the university and a number of Berkeley students and city residents over a plot of land on which the university had intended to construct athletic fields. A grassroots effort by students and residents turned it into a community park, but after a few weeks, the university decided to reclaim control over the property. Law enforcement was sent in and the park was bulldozed, setting off a protest. California governor Ronald Reagan—who had promised during his gubernatorial election campaign that he would address the so-called unruliness at Berkeley and other university campuses—called in National Guard troops, and the violence that followed resulted in over a dozen hospitalizations and the death of one student. Ever since, People's Park has been used as a community park. On May 8, 2018, the university announced plans to build student housing on the site and to make a portion of the land available for permanent supportive housing.
Present day
Today, Berkeley students are considered to be less politically active than their predecessors, and far more liberal than the surrounding city of Berkeley. In a poll conducted in 2005, 51% of Berkeley freshmen considered themselves liberal, 37% considered themselves moderate, and 12% identified as conservative. 43.8% have no religious preference compared to a national average of 17.6%. In 1982, 20.8% identified as conservative, 32.9% identified as liberals, and 46.4% identified as moderate. Although Republicans are in the minority, the Berkeley College Republicans is the largest political organization on campus. Democrats outnumber Republicans on the faculty by a ratio of nine to one, leading to some conservative student criticism of the faculty for teaching with a liberal bias.
Although considered a liberal institution by some, various human and animal rights groups have protested the research conducted at Berkeley. Native American groups contend that the university's dismantling of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology's repatriation unit demonstrates unwillingness to comply with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, while Berkeley officials say the museum's reorganization complies with the law and will involve all museum staff in the repatriation process. Animal-rights activists have taken to committing various acts of vandalism and intimidation against faculty members whose research involves the use of animals. Additionally, the university's response to a group of tree sitters protesting the construction of a new athletic center has galvanized some members of the local community, including the city council, against the university. Plans to renovate Memorial Stadium in a way that would eliminate a view of the field from the surrounding hills also have encountered opposition from alumni and others who have regularly watched Cal football games for free.
As of 2006, the 32,347-student university needed more capital investment just to maintain current infrastructure than any other campus in the UC system, but as its enrollment is at capacity, it often receives less state money for improvement projects than other, growing campuses in the system. As state funding for higher education declines, Berkeley has increasingly turned to private sources to maintain basic research programs. In 2007, the oil giant BP donated $500 million to Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to establish a joint research laboratory to develop biofuels, the Hewlett Foundation gave $113 million to endow 100 faculty chairs, and Dow Chemical gave $10 million for a research program in sustainability to be overseen by a Dow executive.
BP deal
The $500 million ten-year contract between Berkeley, the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and BP (formerly BP Amoco), one of the world's largest energy production companies, officially went into effect Wednesday November 14, 2007 following approval by a majority of the faculty. The grant is the largest in the University's history. The deal has garnered criticism from some students and faculty who claim the agreement was negotiated in secret, and that it threatens Berkeley's reputation as an autonomous and democratic institution of higher learning. Supporters of the deal, on the other hand, assert that the infusion of capital from the venture will benefit the campus as a whole at a time when public universities are dealing with increasing cuts in State and Federal funding. They also point out that the BP deal focuses on developing alternative energy, an important issue in today's world.
Nuclear physicist and BP Chief Scientist Steve Koonin began the process that led to BP's selection of Berkeley as a co-recipient of the grant. Berkeley faculty and graduate students will aid BP scientists in designing and implementing genetically modified plants and microbes which can be used in the Bio-fuel industry. The deal is controversial among some Berkeley faculty, with some professors including Ignacio Chapela and Miguel Altieri who claim that the project will displace farmland needed for food crops in poor nations and replace them with patented crops owned by multinational corporations, and others including Randy Schekman speaking out in support of the deal.
In March 2007 the UC Regents, who signed the deal, voted to build a new research facility to house the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI), BP's chosen name for the project. University officials describe it as "the first public-private institution of this scale in the world".
Names
At the time of its founding, Berkeley was the first full-curriculum public university in the state of California and thus was known as the University of California. As occurred in other states with only a single major public university, University of California was frequently shortened to California or Cal, for ease of identification. Because the school's long sports tradition stretches back to an era before the founding of the other University of California branches, its athletic teams continue to be designated as California Golden Bears, Cal Bears, or simply, Cal. Andrew Gabrielson, a trustee of the College of California at its beginning, suggested that the college be named in honor of the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley.
As a reflection of the University of California's development into a multi-institutional university system, the term University of California is no longer applied to the campus outside of varsity sports; the official name is University of California, Berkeley. Informally, the campus is called UC Berkeley, Berkeley, or Cal. More specifically, the campus uses the terms in the following ways:
"UC Berkeley" is the standard brand name for communications to the general public. The university's current brand identity standards call for "UC Berkeley" to be used in the first reference in any communication.
"Berkeley" is used in further references in any document in which "UC Berkeley" is used. In addition, according to the campus, "Berkeley is the academic expression of our brand and is used by colleges, schools and departments in official communications."
"Cal", according to the campus, "is the social expression and pet name for Berkeley. It is used by Cal Athletics, Cal Alumni Association and by development, student organizations and licensed products".
The term University of California has come to refer to the entire University of California system. The campus office for trademarks disallows the use of Cal Berkeley, though it is occasionally used colloquially. Unlike most University of California campuses, which are commonly known by their initials, usage of UCB is discouraged (as is University of California at Berkeley, except in instances where use of the comma would cause confusion), and the domain name is . While and are also registered by the school, they are not actively used.
References
External links
Berkeley.edu: official History of UC Berkeley website
Bancroft.berkeley.edu: University of California, Berkeley archives — in the Bancroft Library collections.
Lib.Berkeley.edu: "The University at the Turn of the Century: 1899-1900" — Online Exhibition.
Lib.Berkeley.edu: "Roma/Pacifica: The Phoebe Hearst International Architectural Competition and the Berkeley Campus, 1896-1930" — Online Exhibition.
Lib.Berkeley.edu: "Designing the Campus of Tomorrow: The Legacy of the Hearst Architectural Plan, Present and Future" (digital archives) — history of international architectural competition for 1st UC Berkeley campus master plan (1895−1899).
Sunsite.berkeley.edu: UC Berkeley history — unmaintained old website, with links to current sites.
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6911216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon%20sugar | Cinnamon sugar | Cinnamon sugar is a mixture of ground cinnamon and granulated sugar used as a spice to flavor foods such as Belgian waffles, Snickerdoodle cookies, tortillas, coffee cake, French toast, and churros.
It is also used to flavor apples, cereals, and other fruits. As McCormick describes cinnamon sugar, "it’s the comforting scent of Sunday morning cinnamon toast and mid-summer’s peach cobbler...the aroma of the holidays, with cinnamon cookies and spice cake."
This spice mixture has not only been used to flavor funnel cakes and other treats, but it has been mentioned in patents and as part of recipes. The latter is where many results of the term derive, as the term "cinnamon sugar" is often used in cookbooks. This spice mixture has also been used in scientific studies about bean flour, a natural remedy of cinnamon sugar to "treat" dermatitis, and others, while being part of the promotional materials of companies like King Arthur Flour. There is currently a propellant developed for astronauts which has the moniker of "cinnamon sugar."
Poems have mentioned the spice mixture as well, like Nancy Gillespie Westerfield's 1976 work, which talks about how the main character toasted her bread with the spice mixture, reminding her of "sweet things" from her girlhood, or Mel Vavra's 2001 work, which poses the protagonist as "a Cinnamon-Sugar girl."
While in the United States cinnamon and sugar are "often used to flavour cereals, bread-based dishes, and fruits, especially apples," in the Middle East cinnamon is "often used in savory dishes of chicken and lamb" and in the preparation of chocolate in Mexico. Even so, in South Africa there is a famous dessert pastry called melktert which is "lightly flavoured with cinnamon sugar."
History
It is not known when the term "cinnamon sugar" first came about. Some books, like Bernard Fantus's "Candy Medication" in 1915, mention it. Fantus writes about "red cinnamon sugar" as one of the products created for medical purposes. But others, like an 1891 book of vegetarian cooking, do not. The latter book, in describing a recipe for apple custard, describes how "a little cinnamon sugar can be shaken over the top" is the appropriate topping. Apart from this, one of the earliest uses of the term "cinnamon sugar" is within the "book of cookery" used by Martha Washington and her descendants, purchased by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 1892, its original date not known. In a recipe for stewing warden's pears, the spice mixture is directly mentioned: "Boyle them first in faire water, then pare & stew them between 2 dishes of cinnamon sugar and rose water, or the same seasoning you may put them in a pie and bake them."
In 1846, Charles Elme Francatelli, a British cook of Italian descent, published a cookbook in which he described shaking "some cinnamon sugar" on the surface of "cherry bread" (a British bread), German "Kouglauff," a German tourte of apricots, and on a brown-bread soufflé. 18 years later, in 1865, J.E. Tilton's cookbook talked about how the create the spice mixture, recommended that it be on eggs, and baked with as a possible replacement of "vanilla sticks." By 1881 J.E. Thompson Gill's cookbook still recommended how the mix could be made, but recommended it be applied on pound cakes instead. 17 years later, in 1898, a cooking encyclopedia would refer to the spice mixture when talking about cinnamon sticks and other desserts. Years later, in 1907, Hotel Monthly published a cookbook that mentioned cinnamon sugar as a topping for French Baba, a type of cake. This was followed by the National Baker writing, in 1913, about the sprinkling of this mixture on "Parisian Cake."
During the 1920s and 1930s, the term "cinnamon sugar" would be mainly in reference to cooking, primarily recommended as a garnish on desserts. While this spice mixture was mentioned in The New Zealand Journal of Agriculture in 1955, it would primarily appear in U.S.-publications, like the Illinois Rural Electric News in 1959, American Home in 1964, and the American Sugar Crystal Company's Crystal-ized Facts in 1967. In the 1970s and 1980s, the spice mixture was integrated into many cookbooks, and other publications, becoming a common topping for dessert dishes. By the early 1990s, cinnamon sugar was part of books about early childhood education and in a cookbook of the fraternity Beta Sigma Phi.
In the 21st Century, while the term has remained as staple of cookbooks, mostly when it comes to desserts, it has also been mentioned by some in the field of natural skin care.
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26722652 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southampton%20Philharmonic%20Choir | Southampton Philharmonic Choir | The Southampton Philharmonic Choir is a large choral society based in Southampton, England. It has around 170 members and also benefits from collaborating with the students of the Southampton University Philharmonic Choir. The choir regularly performs with a professional orchestra, the New London Sinfonia, and is directed by David Gibson.
The choir is also known as Southampton Philharmonic Society and is a registered charity.
History
The choir was founded in 1860, making it Southampton's longest-established music society. It performs works from the baroque and classical repertoire and also contemporary works. The choir has several "first performances in Southampton" to its name and sometimes commissions new works. In 1985, the choir received an Enterprise Award from the National Federation of Music Societies, now Making Music, in recognition of its varied programme and regular inclusion of contemporary works.
For the Millennium, Southampton Philharmonic Choir, jointly with Leeds Festival Chorus, commissioned a new oratorio The Fall of Jerusalem by Dominic Muldowney, with libretto by James Fenton. Both choirs performed the work, separately, in March 2000, the premiere being in Leeds.
The choir performs major concerts three times a year. Its main venue is Southampton Guildhall. It also regularly performs in Winchester Cathedral and the Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton.
The choir celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2010 with a concert on 24 April in Southampton Guildhall, performing Dominic Muldowney's The Fall of Jerusalem (see above) and Mozart's Requiem.
Recent performances
In the 2010-2011 season the choir performed the complete score of Peer Gynt, composed by Grieg as the incidental music to Ibsen's play Peer Gynt. The choir commissioned a complete English translation of the score, given its first performance at this concert, narrated by actor Samuel West. This finished off a memorable concert, which had opened with Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture and Delius' Songs of Farewell. The remainder of the season included an accomplished Winchester Cathedral performance of Mozart's Symphony No 29, Solemn Vespers and Mass in C Minor, completed by a summer concert of choral and orchestral music by Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Parry, with the City of Southampton Orchestra .
The 2011-2012 season featured a performance of Handel's Messiah with the New London Sinfonia. The Southampton Echo described it as an "evening to remember," praising every aspect of the performance. Other performances included The Bells, along with Vocalise and Piano Concerto No 2 by Rachmaninov, and Poulenc's Gloria, and Haydn's The Creation.
2012-2013 Season
During the 2012-2013 season the choir has performed Bach's Christmas Oratorio, and will follow it with Verdi's Requiem (which will be sung from memory so that the full range and power of this work can be heard), and a joint concert with the City of Southampton Orchestra, comprising Walton's Belshazzar's Feast and Te Deum, along with Elgar's Enigma Variations.
References
External links
Southampton Philharmonic Choir official web site
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Musical groups from Southampton
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1860 establishments in England
Choral societies |
23580994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Comet%20%281910%29 | HMS Comet (1910) | HMS Comet was one of 20 s built for the Royal Navy in the 1910s. Completed in 1911 she saw active service in the First World War.
Design and description
The Acorn class marked a return to oil-firing as pioneered in the Tribal or F class of 1905 and of 1907. The Admiralty provided general specifications, but each shipyard did their own detailed design so that ships often varied in size. The Acorns had an overall length of , a beam of , and a deep draught of . The ships displaced at deep load and their crew numbered 72 officers and ratings.
The destroyers were powered by a single Parsons steam turbine that drove three propeller shafts using steam provided by four Yarrow boilers. The engines developed a total of and were designed for a speed of . Comet reached a speed of from during her sea trials. The Acorns had a range of at a cruising speed of .
The primary armament of the ships consisted of a pair of BL MK VIII guns in single, unprotected pivot mounts fore and aft of the superstructure. They were also armed with two single QF 12-pounder () guns, one on each broadside between the forward and centre funnels. The destroyer were equipped with a pair of single rotating mounts for 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes amidships and carried two reload torpedoes.
Construction and career
Comet was ordered under the 1909–1910 Naval Programme from Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company. The ship was laid down at the company's Govan shipyard on 1 February 1910, launched on 23 June and commissioned in June 1911. She was torpedoed and sunk on 6 August 1918.
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6911218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative%20districts%20of%20Bacolod | Legislative districts of Bacolod | The legislative districts of Bacolod are the representations of the highly urbanized city of Bacolod in the various national legislatures of the Philippines. The city is currently represented in the lower house of the Congress of the Philippines through its lone congressional district.
It was represented as part of the second district of Negros Occidental from 1907 to 1972 (except from 1943 to 1944) and 1984 to 1986, and of Region VI from 1978 to 1984.
Senatorial representation
Between 1916 and 1935, the then-municipality of Bacolod, under the province of Negros Occidental, 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
Bacolod has been represented in the lower house of various Philippine national legislatures since 1943, through its at-large congressional district.
See also
Legislative districts of Negros Occidental
References
Bacolod
Politics of Bacolod |
23580995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanwardine%20Halt%20railway%20station | Stanwardine Halt railway station | Stanwardine Halt was a minor station located north of Shrewsbury on the GWR's Paddington to Birkenhead main line. It was opened in the 1930s as part of the GWR's halt construction programme, aimed at combatting growing competition from bus services. Today the route is part of the Shrewsbury to Chester line. Nothing now remains on the site.
Historical services
Express trains did not call at Stanwardine Halt, only local services. No freight or parcels traffic was handled here.
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Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1960 |
6911225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Day%20I%27ll%20Be%20on%20Time | One Day I'll Be on Time | One Day I'll Be on Time is the second album by The Album Leaf.
Track listing
Personnel
Jimmy LaValle – producer, engineer, mixing, instrumentation
Rafter Roberts – engineer, drum programming, mastering
References
2001 albums
The Album Leaf albums |
20486128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas%20Alm | Andreas Alm | Andreas Alm (born 19 June 1973) is a Swedish football coach in charge of Odense Boldklub from June and a former football player.
He formerly managed AIK and is also a former player for the club. During his active career he played for the two Stockholm rivals AIK and Hammarby IF in the Swedish Allsvenskan. He also played for IFK Norrköping in the Swedish Superettan and also in Norway and Kongsvinger IL for a short time.
Commentating job
After his active career he showed up in Swedish television as a football commentator in the national channel TV4.
Managerial career
AIK
On 27 November 2008 he was appointed as a new assistant manager for AIK following the departure of former assistant Nebojša Novaković earlier the same month in protest against the board’s decision to sack Rikard Norling. Together with other assistant manager Christer Swärd and manager Mikael Stahre, AIK managed to win both Allsvenskan and Svenska Cupen during their first year together.
The following year, AIK started by winning the Supercupen against the recent league runners-up IFK Göteborg. But the rest of the season became a big disappointment, and Stahre left the club for Greek outfit Panionios G.S.S. in April 2010. Alm remained as assistant manager during caretaker Björn Wesström's stay and later appointed Alex Miller's stay. When Miller and AIK during mutual consent split up, Alm later on was appointed as AIK's new manager in December 2010. Novaković rejoined the team staff as assistant manager together with Swärd.
Alm became a successful coach for AIK and ended on the second place in both 2011 and 2013 in the Allsvenskan.
Vejle Boldklub
Alm was linked with a job at the vacant job at Brøndby IF in May 2016, but was instead presented as the new manager of Vejle Boldklub 2 months later.
After a disappointing season, finishing on the 9th place, Alm confirmed on 30 May 2017, that he wouldn't continue as the head coach of Vejle.
BK Häcken
Alm was appointed as the head coach of BK Häcken on 8 December 2017, which is his second stint as coach in Allsvenskan.
Honours
Manager
BK Häcken
Swedish Cup: 2018–19
Managerial statistics
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Living people
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AIK Fotboll managers
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23580996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armilenium | Armilenium | Armilenium is a carbocation and was originally proposed as the first entirely organic sandwich compound. Named for its resemblance to an armillary sphere, NMR evidence for the carbocation was first described by Melvin J. Goldstein and Stanley A. Klein at Cornell University in 1973. In subsequent 13C NMR experiments by Goldstein and Joseph P. Dinnocenzo in 1984, the carbocation was generated under stable ion conditions at lower temperature and at higher magnetic field than previously possible. These experiments revealed the carbocation to be fluxional. Fitting of the dynamic NMR process ruled out the sandwich species even as an intermediate in the 20-fold degenerate rearrangement of the carbocation.
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6911229 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaka | Isaka | Isaka is a small town and station on the narrow-gauge Mwanza railway line of Tanzania which connects to the seaport of Dar es Salaam.
Transport
It is located in Kahama Rural District of Shinyanga Region. In the 1980s a dry port was established there to serve the landlocked countries of Burundi and Rwanda, since Isaka is on a highway, now paved, running 610 km from the Rwandan capital, Kigali. The dry port functions as a sub-port of Dar es Salaam. Road transport companies can collect containers coming from overseas at Isaka and clear customs there, and deliver containers going overseas to the same location. Isaka also handles containers for the north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
In 2017, a new station on the standard gauge railway is proposed.
In 2006, China offered funds to carry out feasibility studies to extend the Tanzanian Railway system to serve Burundi and Rwanda directly. There is an alternate plan to connect these landlocked countries to the Cape Gauge southern African railway network via DR Congo, but the DR Congo network itself is still in poor condition. Burundi and Rwanda are also connected by paved highway to Kampala which has a rail link to the seaport of Mombasa.
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Wards of Tanzania |
6911230 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodwin%20Wharton | Goodwin Wharton | Goodwin Wharton (8 March 1653 – 28 October 1704) was an English Whig politician and autobiographer, as well as an avid mystic, alchemist and treasure hunter. His unpublished manuscript autobiography, in the British Library, "ranks high in the annals of psychopathology" according to the historian Roy Porter.
Early life
Goodwin Wharton was the third and youngest son out of the seven children of Philip Wharton, 4th Baron Wharton and Jane Goodwin, daughter and heiress of Arthur Goodwin (died 1643), of Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire. He was privately educated in France and attended a Protestant academy in Caen in 1663–64. In public and family life he was overshadowed by his forceful older brother, Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton and Malmesbury.
Elected a member of Parliament for East Grinstead in 1680, he made a hot-headed speech in favour of excluding the Duke of York (later James II) from the throne and had to go into hiding for a time.
Fairies and visions
Wharton sent two expeditions to Tobermory to try to raise a galleon from the Spanish Armada wrecked there. Some of his singularly unsuccessful treasure-hunting was done on the advice of a lover, the self-professed medium Mary Parish, who claimed to have placed him in contact with fairies. The soldier-politician John Wildman also became fascinated by Parish's predictions in 1684.
In the following year, Wharton began to receive messages that ostensibly came directly from God and several of his angels. Many of these concerned the prospect of seducing a number of women, including his stepmother, Anne Carr Popham. He claimed to have had an affair with his sister-in-law, the poet Anne Wharton, in the early 1680s. He never married, but he was persuaded by Parish that Hezekiah Knowles, the son of an associate of hers, was his illegitimate son.
Admiralty lord
Wharton's mental instability seems to have gone unnoticed outside his family circle, but he was out of favour under James II for his pronounced Whiggery, despite making representations to his consort, Mary of Modena (and fantasizing about having an affair with her). With the Glorious Revolution he rose to some eminence and was commissioned a lieutenant colonel of cavalry.
Wharton inherited Buckinghamshire estates on his father's death in 1696. He had been elected to Parliament again in 1690, and sat successively for Westmoreland, Malmesbury, Cockermouth, and the shire of Buckinghamshire until his death. He was one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty in 1697–99. He suffered a stroke in 1698, which ended his public career.
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6911248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid%20Pozen | Leonid Pozen | Leonid Vladimirovitch Pozen (1849–1921) was a Russo-Ukrainian sculptor and politician. Most of his works were made using wax and then cast in bronze at the K. Werfel factory in St Petersburg. His early works show his attraction to animal sculpture. His realism placed Pozen alongside the painters Vasily Perov, Grigory Myasoyedov, and Ivan Kramskoy.
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20th-century Ukrainian painters
20th-century Ukrainian male artists
20th-century Russian male artists
19th-century Russian painters
Russian male painters
20th-century Russian painters
1849 births
1921 deaths
People from Semenivka Raion, Poltava Oblast |
17344348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%20Coventry%20City%20Council%20election | 2008 Coventry City Council election | Elections for Coventry City Council were held on Thursday 1 May 2008. As the council is elected by thirds, one seat in each of the wards was up for election.
The Labour Party gained two seats (Radford, whose sitting councillor had been elected for Labour but later switched parties, and Foleshill) from the Conservative Party and the Conservatives gained one seat (Westwood) from Labour.
The Conservative Party lost overall control of the council, but remained the ruling party, with half of the seats.
Election result
Council Composition
The composition of the council before and after the election can be found in the following table:
Ward results
Note: Gains and holds of wards are noted with respect to the 2006 council election except for Radford - where the seat changed hands by defection.. Percentage changes are given with respect to the 2007 council election.
Turnout figures include spoilt ballots.
References
2008 English local elections
2008
2000s in Coventry |
17344357 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd%20Corps%20%28Army%20of%20the%20Republic%20of%20Bosnia%20and%20Herzegovina%29 | 2nd Corps (Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina) | The 2nd Corps was one of five, later seven corps in the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina established in early 1992.
History
Just like the 1st Corps, the 2nd Corps was established early in 1992. This corps along with the 5th Corps had more success than the other Corps.
Operational zones
The 2nd Corps was responsible for the following districts: Tuzla (where were the headquarters of the corps), Doboj, Bijeljina, Srebrenica, Žepa, Zvornik.
Commanders
1st Commander: Major general Željko Knez
2nd Commander: Brigadier Hazim Šadić
3rd Commander: Brigadier Sead Delić
Units
The 2nd Corps had 8 operational groups:
1st Operational Group (Gradačac)
21st Brigade
107th Motorized Brigade "Zmaj od Bosne" (Gradačac)
108th Motorized Brigade (Brčko)
108th HVO Brigade
208th Brigade
2nd Operational Group (Gračanica)
109th Mountain Brigade (Doboj)
111th Brigade (Gračanica)
117th Brigade "Džemisetski Golubovi" (Lukavac)
3rd Operational Group (Kladanj)
Commander: Erdin Hrustić
1st Olovo Brigade
121st Mountain Brigade (Kladanj)
302nd Brigade
4th Operational Group (Kalesija)
205th Brigade (Kalesija)
206th Mountain Brigade (Zvornik)
207th Mountain Brigade (Tešanj)
5th Operational Group (Tuzla)
1st Tuzla Brigade
2nd Tuzla Brigade
3rd Tuzla Brigade
6th Operational Group (Živinice)
Commander: Hasan Muratović
116th Mountain Brigade
118th Brigade
119th Mountain Brigade (Banovići)
Commander: Nihad Šehović
210th Brigade
7th/South Operational Group (Tesanj)(Maglaj)
110th HVO Brigade (Žepče)
111th HVO Brigade (Usora)
201st Brigade (Maglaj)
Commander: Colonel Esad Hindić
202nd Mountain Brigade (Teslić)
203rd Motorized Brigade (Doboj)
204th Mountain Brigade (Teslić) (Nov. 1994, Operational Group to 3rd Corps)
207th Brigade
8th Operational Group (Srebrenica)
Commander: Naser Orić
Deputy Commander: Fahrudin Alić
180th Brigade
181st Brigade
183rd Brigade
184th Brigade
283rd Brigade
Commander: Major Huso Halilović
285th Light Mountain Brigade (Žepa)
Commander: Colonel Avdo Palić
Arms
Zastava M70 active since 1992–1995, 1995–present
M-16 active since 1994–1996, 1996–present
AK-47 active since 1991–1995, 1996–present
AR-15 active since 1994–present (used by Tuzla special forces today)
Military operations and engagements
Battle of Budučin Potok
Operation "Proljece" 1994
Battle for Ozren and Vozuca
Operation "Farz 95"
References
Corps of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
1992 establishments in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
17344367 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark%20Acton%20Academy | Ark Acton Academy | Ark Acton Academy, is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in the Acton area of the London Borough of Ealing, England.
The school teaches pupils between the ages of 11 to 18. It is sited on Gunnersbury Lane (A4000) just north of Acton Town Underground station.
History
Grammar school
The school was originally known as Acton County Grammar School, which opened in 1906 for 200 boys. It was the first purpose-built county grammar school in Middlesex. In 1958, it began admitting girls, becoming fully co-educational in 1966. In 1965, the school's administration moved from Middlesex County Council to the London Borough of Ealing. When proposals for going comprehensive appeared in 1966, parents took the LEA to court and lost.
Comprehensive
The school became a comprehensive in 1967, when Ealing borough adopted the three tier system, and was known as Acton County Comprehensive and in 1974 became Reynolds High School, named after local politician and former pupil Gerry Reynolds who has been a Minister in the 1960's and had been tipped for higher office. The 18-year-old "graduation" year of 1976 produced 4 university students out of an intake of 180 in 1969. School colours were brown and cream, with a badge showing a ring of oak leaves around a portcullis with the school name superimposed. The school roll in 1979 amounted to 1040 pupils and until its final years, consisted of eight forms per year.
In the 1970s, the neighbouring Ealing Mead County school off Popes Lane, opened in 1962, was found to have serious structural problems in its building. After only eight years of use, Ealing Mead had to be closed and demolished. As a result, the pupils of the school were distributed around the other local schools and Reynolds High School absorbed a significant proportion of them.
Reynolds High School closed in July 1984 primarily due to falling school roll but re-opened in September the same year as Acton High School following a merger with the Faraday High School, formerly based at Bromyard Avenue. The old brick buildings, dating from 1939, were demolished in 2005, and a new school building built on the same site.
Academy
Previously a community school administered by Ealing London Borough Council, in September 2018 Acton High School converted to academy status and was renamed Ark Acton Academy. The school is now sponsored by Ark Schools.
Notable former pupils
Acton County Grammar School
Sir Austin Bide, chemist and industrialist
Anthony Valentine, actor
Pete Townshend, musician, founder member of The Who
Roger Daltrey CBE, musician, founder member of The Who
John Entwistle, musician, founder member of The Who
John "Speedy" Keen, musician for Thunderclap Newman, who wrote the 1960s song Something in the Air and a song for The Who, Armenia City in the Sky
Colin Phipps, petroleum geologist and Labour MP from 1974–9 for Dudley West
Leonard E. H. Williams CBE DFC, Chief Executive from 1967 to 1981 of the Nationwide Building Society
Ian Gillan, musician, lead singer of Deep Purple
Reynolds High School
Warren Neill, professional footballer with QPR and Portsmouth FC
Acton High School
Paul Bruce, Professional footballer (1996–2008)
Gemma Cairney, BBC Radio 1Xtra DJ and fashion stylist
Jamal Edwards, entrepreneur/founder of SBTV
Caroline O'Connor, Olympic rowing coxswain
Notable staff
Zacron, born Richard Drew (1943–2012) was an English artist who designed the Led Zeppelin III album cover. Head of Art Teacher during the mid 70s
References
External links
Ark Acton Academy official website
Secondary schools in the London Borough of Ealing
Educational institutions established in 1906
1906 establishments in England
Academies in the London Borough of Ealing
Acton, London
Ark schools |
17344369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/200%20South%20Wacker%20Drive | 200 South Wacker Drive | 200 South Wacker Drive is a high-rise office building located in Chicago, Illinois. Construction of the building began in 1979 and was completed in 1981. Harry Weese Associates designed the building, which has 41 stories and stands at a height of 500 ft (152m), making it the 92nd tallest building in Chicago.
See also
List of tallest buildings in Chicago
References
Skyscraper office buildings in Chicago
Office buildings completed in 1981
1981 establishments in Illinois |
23581000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Spaak | Charles Spaak | Charles Spaak (25 May 1903 – 4 March 1975) was a Belgian screenwriter who was noted particularly for his work in the French cinema during the 1930s. He was the son of the dramatist and poet Paul Spaak, the brother of the politician Paul-Henri Spaak, and the father of the actresses Catherine Spaak and Agnès Spaak.
Career
Charles Spaak was born in Brussels in 1903 into a prominent Belgian family. In 1928 he moved to Paris and took a post as secretary to the film-maker Jacques Feyder, who then asked him to work on the adaptation of a stage play for his film Les Nouveaux Messieurs. He also worked as head of publicity for the production company Albatros. He went on to write the screenplays for Feyder's most important films of the 1930s: Le Grand Jeu, Pension Mimosas, and La Kermesse héroïque. Spaak was also in demand to work with other leading directors. During the 1930s he worked with Julien Duvivier on La Bandera (1935) and La Belle Équipe (1936), and with Jean Grémillon on La Petite Lise (1930) and Gueule d'amour (1937). He also collaborated with Jean Renoir on two of his major films, Les Bas Fonds (1936) and La Grande Illusion (1937).
Many of these films of the 1930s are marked by a concern for realistic detail with sharply written dialogue, often pessimistic in tone, and several of them provided leading roles which were played by Jean Gabin. He established himself, alongside Jacques Prévert and Henri Jeanson, as a leading screenwriter during one of the French cinema's richest periods.
During the German occupation of France, Spaak chose to return to Paris and found work on a number of the wartime productions that were made there, including further films with Duvivier and Grémillon. (In Bertrand Tavernier's film Laissez-passer (2001) which gives a detailed picture of how film-making continued in occupied Paris, Spaak is portrayed in 1943 when he was working on a film for the Continental Films production company.)
After the war Spaak worked with new directors and in a wider range styles, and he formed a particular association with André Cayatte in a series of films set against a background of the French judicial system: Justice est faite (1950), Nous sommes tous les assassins (1951), Avant le deluge (1953), and Le Dossier noir (1955). He also undertook some of the literary adaptations which marked the 'quality cinema' of the 1950s, including Thérèse Raquin (1953) and Crime et Châtiment (1956).
In 1949 Spaak made his only venture into directing with Le Mystère Barton, but the film met with little success.
Charles Spaak continued working selectively on scenarios until the early 1970s, and he died in 1975 in Vence in the South of France.
Selective list of screenplays
Charles Spaak wrote or contributed to more than 100 film screenplays, including the following:
1929 Les Nouveaux Messieurs (d. Jacques Feyder)
1930 La Petite Lise (Little Lise, d. Jean Grémillon)
1931 Dainah la métisse (d. Jean Grémillon)
1933 Le Grand Jeu (d. Jacques Feyder)
1934 Pension Mimosas (d. Jacques Feyder)
1935 La Bandera (d. Julien Duvivier)
1935 Les Beaux Jours (d. Marc Allégret)
1935 La Kermesse héroïque (d. Jacques Feyder)
1935 Veille d'armes (d. Marcel L'Herbier)
1936 Les Bas-fonds (d. Jean Renoir)
1936 La Belle Équipe (d. Julien Duvivier)
1936 L'Homme du jour (The Man of the Hour) (d. Julien Duvivier)
1936 Les Loups entre eux (d. Léon Mathot)
1936 La Porte du large (d. Marcel L'Herbier)
1937 Aloha, le chant des îles (d. Léon Mathot)
1937 L'Étrange Monsieur Victor (The Strange Monsieur Victor) (d. Jean Grémillon)
1937 La Grande Illusion (d. Jean Renoir)
1937 Gueule d'amour (d. Jean Grémillon)
1938 La Fin du jour (The End of the Day) (d. Julien Duvivier)
1938 Le Récif de corail (Coral Reefs) (d. Maurice Gleize)
1939 Le Dernier Tournant (d. Pierre Chenal)
1939 Remorques (d. Jean Grémillon) [uncredited]
1940 Untel père et fils (d. Julien Duvivier)
1941 L'Assassinat du père Noël (Who Killed Santa Claus) (d. Christian-Jaque)
1941 Péchés de jeunesse (d. Maurice Tourneur)
1942 Le Lit à colonnes (d. Roland Tual)
1943 Le ciel est à vous (The Woman Who Dared) (d. Jean Grémillon)
1944 Les Caves du Majestic (Majestic Hotel Cellars) (d. Richard Pottier)
1946 L'Affaire du collier de la reine (The Queen's Necklace) (d. Marcel L'Herbier)
1946 Panique (d. Julien Duvivier)
1948 Éternel conflit (Eternal Conflict) (d. Georges Lampin)
1949 Le Mystère Barton (The Barton Mystery) (d. Charles Spaak)
1950 Black Jack (d. Julien Duvivier)
1950 Justice est faite (d. André Cayatte)
1952 Adorables créatures (d. Christian-Jaque)
1952 Le Banquet des fraudeurs (d. Henri Storck)
1952 Nous sommes tous des assassins (d. André Cayatte)
1953 Avant le déluge (d. André Cayatte)
1953 Thérèse Raquin (d. Marcel Carné)
1955 Le Dossier noir (d. André Cayatte)
1955 Scuola elementare (d. Alberto Lattuada)
1956 Crime et Châtiment (Crime and Punishment) (d. Georges Lampin)
1956 Paris, Palace Hotel (d. Henri Verneuil)
1957 Charmants Garçons (Charming Boys) (d. Henri Decoin)
1957 Quand la femme s'en mêle (Send a Woman When the Devil Fails) (d. Yves Allégret)
1961 Cartouche (d. Philippe de Broca)
1961 La Chambre ardente (d. Julien Duvivier)
1962 Germinal (d. Yves Allégret)
1962 Le Glaive et la Balance (d.André Cayatte)
1963 Mathias Sandorf (d. Georges Lampin)
1973 (d. Étienne Périer)
Further reading
Spaak, Janine. Charles Spaak, mon mari. (Paris: Éditions France-Empire, [1977]).
References
External links
Charles Spaak at Ciné-Ressources [in French].
Charles Spaak commemorated at the Université Européenne d'Écriture [in French].
Charles Spaak at IMDb.
Red Orchestra (espionage)
Belgian screenwriters
1903 births
1975 deaths
20th-century screenwriters |
6911253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20multinational%20corporations | List of multinational corporations | This is a complete list of multinational corporations, also known as multinational companies in worldwide or global enterprises.
These are corporate organizations that own or control production of goods or services in two or more countries other than their home countries.
List
A listing of multinational corporations (sorted A-Z) includes:
85C Bakery Cafe
10.Or
2U
3i
3M
7-Eleven
4F
Ajinomoto
ABN AMRO
Abbott Laboratories
Abiomed
AbbVie
Accenture
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group
Acer Inc.
Activision Blizzard
Adidas
Aldi
Adient
Aditi Technologies
Aditya Birla Group
Advanced Micro Devices
Aegon
AEON
Ahold Delhaize
Asics
Airbus
AkzoNobel
Akai
Alfa Laval
All Nippon Airways
Alliance Global Group Inc.
Allianz
Alibaba Group
Almarai
Alstom
Alphabet Inc.
Altice
Altria Group
Amazon
Amcor
American Airlines Group
American International Group
Andritz AG
Aon
Apollo Tyres
Apple
Arcor
Assicurazioni Generali
Aston Martin
Asus
AsusTek
AT&T
Atari
Avast
Avianca
AXA
Axiata Group
Axis Bank Ltd
BP
Baker Hughes
Ball Corporation
Bacardi
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria
Banco Santander
Bank of India
Bank of Ireland
Bank of Montreal
Barclays
Barilla
Barnes & Noble
Barrick Gold Corporation
BASF
Baskin-Robbins
Bata
Bath & Body Works
Baidu
Bayer
Becton Dickinson
Beko
Bertelsmann
Benetton Group
Best Buy
Bharti Airtel
Bharti Enterprises
Bihl
Billabong
Black & Decker
BlackRock
BMW
BBK Electronics
BBC
BNP Paribas
Bose Corporation
Boeing
Bombardier Inc.
Books-A-Million
Bouygues
BRAC
Braun
Bridgestone
British Airways
British Petroleum
Burberry
BT Group
ByteDance
BYD
Cadbury
Capcom
Canon Inc
Capgemini
Casio
Capital One
Cargill
Cargolux
Caribbean Airlines
Carlsberg Group
Carrefour
Caterpillar Inc.
Celestica
Celkon Mobiles
Cencosud
Chupa Chups
China Mobile
Changhong
Chanel
Chiquita Brands International
Chevron
China Merchants Bank
China Resources
Chubb
CIMC
Cisco Systems
Citigroup
Coolpad
The Coca-Cola Company
The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Colgate-Palmolive Company
Comac
Concentrix
ConocoPhillips
Copa
Costco
Coty inc
Creative Labs
Crédit Agricole
Crocs
Credit Suisse
Cummins
Currys plc
Cyient
CyrusOne
D-Link
Dabur
Daikin
Daimler AG
Dangote Group
Daihatsu
Danone
Dalton Maag
Darden Studio
Decathlon
Deepin
Dell
Deloitte
Delta Air Lines
Deutsche Bank
Diageo
Dine Brands Global
Dixons Carphone
Dow Inc
Dollar Tree
DocuSign
Dole Food Company
Domino%27s Pizza
Dude Perfect
DuPont
DXC Technology
Dyson
eBay
Electronic Arts
Embraer
Emerson Electric
Emigre
Eni
Ericsson
Est%C3%A9e Lauder Companies
Etisalat
Eva Air
Evergreen Marine
Evercore
ExxonMobil
Ezaki Glico
EY
Faber-Castell
Fairphone
Fast Retailing
FBT
FedEx Corporation
Ferrero
Fila
Ficosa
FIS
Font Bureau
FontShop
Fortinet
Fossil Group
Foxconn
FPT Group
Fujifilm
Fujitsu
Fujiya
Future Group
GameStop
Gap Inc.
Garmin
Gartner
Geeknet
General Electric
Gree Electric
General Mills
General Motors
Generali
Gerdau
Giant Bicycles
Globe Telecom
GungHo Online Entertainment
Guinness
Guess
Glaxo Smith Kline
Geely
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Google
GoDaddy
GoPro
Harley-Davidson
Herm%C3%A8s
Haier
Harrods
Haribo
Hard Rock Cafe
Halliburton
Hankook Tire
House Foods
Hartwall
H%26M
Hasbro
Hearst Corporation
Henkel
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hilti
Hisamitsu
Hitachi
Honda
Honeywell
HP Inc
Hsbc holdings plc
HTC
Huayi Brothers
Huawei investment and holdings
Huntington Bancshares
Huntington Ingalls Industries
Huntsman Corporation
Hytera
HMD Global
Hyundai Motor Company
IBM
ICAP
ICICI Bank
IJM Corporation
Indeed
Intracom
IKEA
Illinois Tool Works
Infosys
ING Group
Ingersoll Rand
Intel Corporation
Intesa Sanpaolo
Isuzu
Jelly Belly
Jim Beam
The J.M. Smucker Company
Jardine Matheson
JG Summit Holdings
Johnnie Walker
Johnson & Johnson
Jollibee Foods Corporation
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
JVCKenwood
JXD
KBC Bank
Kawasaki
Kappa
Kellogg%27s
Kikkoman
Kirin Company
Kimberly-Clark
Kingston Technology
Klim Type Foundry
Knorr
Komatsu Limited
Konami
Korg
Keumyoung Group
KPMG
Kraft Heinz
Lactalis
Lam Research
Lagardère
Larsen & Toubro
LATAM Airlines
Lazada
Levi Strauss %26 Co.
Lear
Lindt %26 Spr%C3%BCngli
Lenovo
LeEco
Leonardo
Leoni AG
Lexmark
LG Electronics
Linde
Linpus
Lionbridge
LiuGong
Lockheed Martin
L'Oréal
Lotte Group
Louisa Coffee
Lufthansa
Lukoil
Lupin
Luxgen
Luxottica
LyondellBasell Industries
MG Cars
Macy's
Mahindra Group
Mars, Incorporated
Maton
Marshall Amplification
Mark Simonson Studio
Martini & Rossi
Maersk
Mama Sita%27s Holding Company
Mamee Double-Decker
Mattel
Maxxis
McCain Foods
McDonald's
MediaTek
Meiji Holdings
Meitu
Meizu
melstacorp
Mercedes-Benz
Meta Platforms
Michaels
Michelin
Micro-Star International
Micromax Informatics
Microsoft
Mizuno Corporation
Millipore Corporation
Miniso
Mindtree
Mitsubishi Electric
Mobil
Monotype
Monotype Imaging
Morinaga %26 Company
Mustek
Nando%27s
Namco Bandai Holdings
New Balance
Newell Brands
Nestlé
NEC
NetApp Inc.
Nike, Inc.
Nivea
Nikon
Nintendo
Nissan
Nokia
Norsk Hydro (ASA)
Novartis
Novo Nordisk
Olympus Corporation
Oknoplast
Ooredoo
Otobi
OfficeMax
Oracle Corporation
Orange S.A.
Ornua
Pandora
Panasonic Corporation
Parrot
Puma
Paper Mate
Pepper Lunch
PepsiCo
Perficient
Petronas
Pernod Ricard
Penguin Random House
Petrovietnam
Pfizer
Philips
Ping An Bank
Ping An Insurance
Pioneer Corporation
Pirelli
Pilot
Playmobil
Pladis
PLDT
Pollo Campero
Procter & Gamble
Proton
Prada
Prudential Financial
PVH
PwC
QNB Group
Qantas
Qualcomm
Qatar Petroleum
Rabobank
Ranpak
Reckitt Benckiser
Recruit
Red Bull
Regus
Reliance Industries Limited
Renault
Repsol
Ricoh
Robert Bosch GmbH
Roland Corporation
Rohde & Schwarz
Royal Bank of Canada
Royal Dutch Shell
RPG Group
Rusal
SsangYong Motor
Saab AB
Saks Fifth Avenue
Samsung Electronics
Samsonite
Sanford L.P.
San Miguel Corporation
SanDisk
Sandvik
Sanrio
Sanofi Aventis
Saudi Aramco
SAP SE
Sapient Corporation
SAS
Sasken Communication Technologies Limited
Sasol
Schlumberger
Schwan-Stabilo
Schneider Electric
Schindler Group
Schleich
Scotiabank
Scholastic Corporation
Seiko
Sears
Sennheiser
Sphero
Spin Master
Serta
Seagate Technology
Sega Sammy Holdings
Sealy Corporation
Servcorp
SF Express
SGS S.A.
Shenzhen Airlines
Shiseido
Shopee
Siemens
Sime Darby Properties
SilkRoad
Singtel
Sinopec
Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9 Bic
Snapchat
SmartStudy
SM Investments Corporation
Société Générale
Sogou
SK Group
Skullcandy
Skype
%C5%A0koda Transportation
Solaris Bus & Coach
Sony
SoftBank Group
Southwest Airlines
Square Enix
Staedtler
Standard Chartered
Starbucks
State Bank of India
Safeway Inc.
Subway
Stellantis
Suntory
Suzuki
Swarovski
Swinkels Family Brewers
Taco Maker
Tagged
Taiwan Beer
Tapestry, Inc.
Target
Tata Motors
Tabasco sauce
Tate & Lyle
TCL Technology
TCS
TEAC Corporation
TechniSat
Tech Mahindra
Technicolor
Telefonica
Telus
Tencent
The Home Depot
The Hershey Company
The Swatch Group
Tesco
Tetra Pak
Telstra
Texas Instruments
Textron
Thomson Reuters
Ting Hsin International Group
Tissot
TKK Fried Chicken
Toshiba
TomTom
Tomy
Total S.A.
Towers Watson
TPG Telecom
TDK
Toyota
Trend Micro
TP-Link
TRW Automotive
TSMC
Tyco
Typotheque
Uber
Ülker
UMC* Unicredit
Unilever
Ubisoft
Unisys
United Airlines
vanguard group
Volvo
Vanke
Vestel
Vestas
Verisk Analytics
VF Corporation
Viettel Mobile
Victoria's Secret
Victorinox
Vimpelcom
Virgin Group
Vitol
Vizio
Vivendi
Vinamilk
Vodafone
Voith
Volkswagen Group
Wendy's
Want Want
Wal-Mart
The Walt Disney Company
Warner Bros.
Wawa
Whirlpool Corporation
Wingstop
Wipro
Wirecard
Xiaomi Corporation
Xtep
Yakult
Yili Group
Yamaha Corporation
Yokohama Rubber Company
Yamaha Motor Company
Yum brands
Zara
Zensar Technologies
Zhujiang Beer
ZTE
Zippo
Zyxel
See also
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Multinational |
26722668 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Gordon%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201991%29 | Ben Gordon (footballer, born 1991) | Benjamin Lawrence Gordon (born 2 March 1991) is an English professional footballer who plays as a left back for club Yorkshire Amateur.
Gordon began his career as a youth player at Leeds United before moving to Chelsea in 2007. He failed to make a first-team appearance at Chelsea, and spent time out on loan in the Football League with Tranmere Rovers, Scunthorpe United, Peterborough United and Birmingham City. He also experienced two loan spells in the Scottish Premier League with Kilmarnock. Following his release from Chelsea in 2013, Gordon moved briefly to Yeovil Town before spending a season in Scotland with Ross County in the Scottish Premiership. In 2014 he joined Colchester United, where he spent one season. He then dropped into non-league football, and following a brief spell with Chester, he signed for hometown club Bradford Park Avenue and also went on to play for Woking, Boston United Gainsborough Trinity (two spells), Shaw Lane, Matlock Town and Pontefract Collieries, before joining Yorkshire Amateur in 2021.
Gordon represented England at under-16, under-17 and under-20 levels.
Club career
Chelsea
Gordon came through the academy system at Leeds United and was signed by Chelsea from Leeds in 2007 for compensation. He progressed through the youth ranks at Chelsea, before graduating to the reserves where he became a regular player.
Tranmere Rovers (loan)
Gordon signed for League One side Tranmere Rovers on an initial one-month loan deal on 25 March 2010. Rovers' manager Les Parry brought Gordon in to help beat off the threat of relegation, replacing regular left-backs Zoumana Bakayogo and Aaron Cresswell who were both suspended. He made his Football League debut for the club two days later when they fell to a 3–0 away defeat at Brighton & Hove Albion. Gordon made four appearances for Rovers during his loan spell before returning to his parent club.
Kilmarnock (loan)
Scottish Premier League club Kilmarnock signed Gordon on a short-term loan deal on 5 August 2010. He made his debut on the opening day of the season on 14 August as Killie fell to a 2–1 away defeat to Rangers. Manager Mixu Paatelainen was encouraged by his performance in the game despite the defeat. He scored his first professional goal on 10 November 2010 as Kilmarnock earned a third consecutive Premier League win against Hamilton Academical. Gordon opened the scoring with a curling shot into the top corner midway through the first half. He was instrumental in a 2–1 victory over Hibernian on 18 December, laying on two goals for Liam Kelly. His impressive form for Killie saw him and other in-form players linked with moves away from the club prior to the January transfer window.
Gordon's loan spell was ended prematurely by his parent club on 3 January 2011; he had been a key member of Paatelainen's team that held fourth position in the Scottish Premier League. The club cited that they would prefer Gordon to play the second half of the 2010–11 season on loan in England. He had hoped to extend his stay with Kilmarnock. He left the Ayrshire club on the back of a ten-game run which included seven wins and two draws, and had made 18 league appearances, scoring once, in addition to three Scottish League Cup games.
Scunthorpe United (loan)
Chelsea sent Gordon out on loan just three days after his return from Kilmarnock. He joined Championship strugglers Scunthorpe United until the end of the season. However, his debut was delayed due to a hamstring injury he had collected while on loan with Kilmarnock. The announcement followed Gordon signing a two-and-a-half-year extension with Chelsea. Due to the injury, he did not finally join up with Scunthorpe until 7 February. His eventual debut arrived on 12 February in a 1–0 away defeat to Cardiff City. Scunthorpe eventually ended the season bottom of the Championship and relegated to League One. Gordon made 14 league appearances during his stint at the club.
Peterborough United (loan)
On 18 July 2011, it was leaked that Peterborough United were interested in signing Gordon from Chelsea. Further to this, it was confirmed that a deal was in place to sign an unnamed England under-20 left-back once the player returned from international duty. The deal was finally confirmed on 17 August, with Gordon due to stay with the Posh until 2 January 2012. He made his only league appearance for the club as a 57th-minute substitute for Mark Little in their 7–1 rout of Ipswich Town on 20 August. He also made a League Cup appearance four days later, but lost the tie 2–0 at home to Middlesbrough. Finding his chances limited, Gordon returned from his loan spell in late September.
Second Kilmarnock loan spell
Gordon returned to Kilmarnock for a second loan spell on 11 January 2012. He revealed how Chelsea manager André Villas-Boas persuaded him to return to Scotland in an attempt to force his way into the Blues' first team on the completion of the loan. He made his second debut for the club in a 0–0 draw with Aberdeen at Pittodrie on 14 January.
Gordon helped the club to their first ever Scottish League Cup win as they defeated Celtic 1–0 in the 2012 Scottish League Cup Final at Hampden Park on 18 March, earning his first silverware as a player. In the summer of 2012, Gordon returned to Chelsea having made 20 further appearances for Killie.
Birmingham City (loan)
Birmingham City signed Gordon on a six-month loan from Chelsea on 10 August 2012. He made his debut on 25 August in a 2–0 loss at Watford. This was to be his solitary league appearance, though he did feature in Birmingham's 3–2 extra time loss to Coventry City in the League Cup on 29 August. On his return to Chelsea in January 2013, Gordon was released by the club without making a single first-team appearance.
Yeovil Town
Following his release from Chelsea in January 2013, Gordon played for Hull City Reserves on trial. Shortly after, he signed a month-long contract with League One club Yeovil Town on 11 March 2013, with a view to an extension. Gordon made his debut for Yeovil the following day, featuring for 67 minutes in a 2–2 draw with Crawley Town, his first game in over six months. He assisted the opening goal, crossing in for Byron Webster to head home after five minutes, before being substituted for Dominic Blizzard. Gordon played just two more games for Yeovil, coming on as a substitute in both the 2–0 home defeat to Swindon Town on 19 March, and the 3–3 away draw with Carlisle United on 23 March. He left the club on 14 April following the expiry of his deal.
Ross County
After attracting attention from English clubs Blackpool and Notts County, and failing to secure a long-term contract with Yeovil, Gordon returned to Scotland, this time with Ross County in the newly established Scottish Premiership. He signed a one-year deal on 27 June 2013. He made his debut in the opening game 2–1 defeat at Celtic on 3 August. Gordon's only goal for the club was Ross County's second as they fought back from a 3–1 deficit to draw 3–3 with Partick Thistle on 11 January 2014. He ended the season with 27 Premiership appearances and played once in the League Cup.
It was reported on 17 June 2014 that Gordon had signed a one-year contract extension with the Dingwall club. However, he decided to leave the club just ten days later, citing his desire to return to play in England.
Colchester United
On 1 July 2014, Gordon signed a two-year contract with League One club Colchester United. He made his debut for the club in the opening fixture of the 2014–15 season as Colchester held Oldham Athletic to a 2–2 draw at the Colchester Community Stadium.
After falling out of favour under new manager Tony Humes, having been ousted by loan signings, Gordon earned a recall on 20 December having been out of league action since early October. He helped his side to a 1–0 victory over his former club Yeovil Town. Gordon was again left out after the loan signing of Matthew Briggs in February 2015, and after Colchester signed Briggs on a permanent basis in the summer of 2015, Gordon was allowed to move on to find a new club. His contract was terminated by mutual consent on 1 July 2015.
Non-league spells
Gordon signed for National League side Chester on 30 October 2015, but he was released in January 2016 having failed to make a league appearance for the club. He had only made the bench on three occasions in the National League, although he did make an appearance in the Cheshire Senior Cup in a 10–1 win over Winsford United in November.
Returning to his native Bradford, Gordon signed for National League North side Bradford Park Avenue in March 2016. He made his debut as a substitute in the 3–1 win over Harrogate Town on 28 March.
On 27 July 2016, Gordon joined National League club Woking on a one-year deal. On 6 August, he made his Woking debut in a 3–1 home defeat against Lincoln City, being replaced in the 78th minute by fellow new signing Max Kretzschmar.
On 21 September, after failing to impress under manager Garry Hill, Gordon made the switch back to the National League North to join Boston United. Three days later, he made his debut in their 1–0 away victory against Altrincham. Gordon's first goal for Boston tied the scores after 15 minutes of their 3–1 victory at home to Curzon Ashton on 20 December. After appearing 23 times and scoring once for Boston in all competitions, Gordon was released at the end of the 2016–17 campaign.
On 1 September 2017, it was announced that Gordon had signed for Boston's county rivals Gainsborough Trinity. However, after only featuring twice for Gainsborough, Gordon was released a month later. He joined Northern Premier League Premier Division club Shaw Lane, where he played regularly for the rest of the 2017–18 season, before re-signing for Gainsborough Trinity for 2018–19.
In May 2019, he was announced as a new player for Matlock Town. He made 25 appearances in the Northern Premier League Premier Division and a further 13 in cup competitions, and then dropped a division to join Pontefract Collieries in August 2020. He made 12 appearances in the 2020–21 season disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, chose to stay on for the 2021–22 campaign, but left in October 2021 for divisional rivals Yorkshire Amateur.
International career
Gordon represented England at under-16, under-17 and under-20 levels. He made seven under-16 appearances, six at under-17 level and two under-20 appearances at the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup held in Colombia, a goalless draw with Mexico on 4 August and a 1–0 defeat to Nigeria six days later.
Career statistics
Honours
Kilmarnock
Scottish League Cup winner: 2011–12
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Birmingham City F.C. players
Yeovil Town F.C. players
Ross County F.C. players
Colchester United F.C. players
Chester F.C. players
Bradford (Park Avenue) A.F.C. players
Woking F.C. players
Boston United F.C. players
Gainsborough Trinity F.C. players
Shaw Lane A.F.C. players
Matlock Town F.C. players
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20486132 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlevania%3A%20Lords%20of%20Shadow | Castlevania: Lords of Shadow | Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is an action-adventure video game developed by MercurySteam and Kojima Productions, published by Konami and released on October 5, 2010 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The PC version was released on August 27, 2013. The game is a reboot of the Castlevania series. Set in Southern Europe during the Middle Ages, the story focuses on Gabriel Belmont and his quest to defeat a malevolent order known as the Lords of Shadow and resurrect his wife. The player controls Gabriel in 3D environments as he uses melee skills to defeat enemies and solves puzzles to move through the game.
The game was originally announced as Lords of Shadow with no connection to the Castlevania series mentioned. This was done to keep their plans to radically change the direction of the Castlevania mythos a secret and to prevent the announcement of the game from upstaging another series release, Castlevania Judgment. Hideo Kojima, creator of the Metal Gear series, helped produce the title. The music was composed by Spanish composer Óscar Araujo, who was acclaimed for his work on the game.
The game sold well and received positive reviews from video game publications. It was praised for new elements it provided to the franchise, with particular praise for its story, combat, visuals, music, and art direction. Konami requested that the development team produce more titles related to Lords of Shadow. This includes two sequels titled Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2.
Gameplay
Lords of Shadow is a third-person action-adventure game in which the player controls the main character, Gabriel Belmont. The combat involves a retractable chain whip called the Combat Cross. The player can perform up to forty unlockable combos with it. The commands consist of direct attacks for dealing damage to single enemies, and weak area attacks when surrounded by them. It is also capable of interactions with secondary weapons, such as knives, holy water and other items which can be upgraded. In addition, the Combat Cross's melee skills can be combined with the Light and Shadow magic system, which are spells aimed at defense and aggression, respectively. The whip is upgradeable and can also be used to guard against an opponent's attack.
The developers attempted to reach out to new audiences by distancing Lords of Shadow from previous Castlevania games, but kept some elements intact to not alienate franchise fans. For example, vampires and werewolves are recurring enemies in the game, but other existing enemies include trolls, giant spiders and goblin-like creatures. The enemies can be defeated for experience points, which can be used to purchase combos or to augment the player's abilities further. Lords of Shadow has large-scale bosses known as titans. The Combat Cross can be used to grapple onto their bodies and navigate them, and break the runes that animate the titan.
Similar to the original Castlevania titles, platforming and puzzles are a key component and are featured in fifty levels. The player can control Gabriel to jump most distances, dash or hold his balance above fatal pits. The Combat Cross can be used for exploration purposes like scaling walls, rappelling and swinging across gaps. Some sequences of the game require the player to solve physical puzzles or brain teasers. Alternatively, moving certain objects can set off chain reactions and open paths to new areas. Activating switches can also assist against traps. The player can explore the levels in order to find hidden items, which can increase health or magic abilities. These items are "gems"; there are three types, including life gems, light gems and dark gems. These can increase life endurance, light magical ability and dark magical ability, respectively.
Plot
Setting and characters
Producer David Cox stated the game is a reboot of the franchise. The setting of Lords of Shadow is during "the end of days" in the year 1047. The Earth's alliance with the Heavens has been threatened by a malevolent force known as the Lords of Shadow. A dark spell has stopped the souls of the deceased from leaving, while evil creatures inhabit the dying land and attack living people.
The main character, Gabriel Belmont (voiced by Robert Carlyle), is a member of the Brotherhood of Light, an elite group of holy knights who protect and defend innocent people against the supernatural creatures. Gabriel's wife Marie (Natascha McElhone) was brutally murdered by one of them, and her soul cannot leave as it is trapped in limbo. Because she is now neither alive nor dead, she realizes what is at stake and guides Gabriel to his destiny to save the world as he investigates the dark spell. He travels the destroyed land, meeting other characters, such as the oldest living member of his order, Zobek (Patrick Stewart, who additionally narrates the game). Two masks referred to as the God and Devil Masks lie at the center of the plot, with the God Mask having powers to resurrect the dead. Gabriel intends to defeat the three factions of the Lords of Shadow in order to obtain the pieces of the God Mask and bring back his deceased wife.
Story
Gabriel is sent by the Brotherhood of Light to the Lake of Oblivion, where his deceased wife, Marie, tells him that Spirits who founded the Brotherhood said that the Lords of Shadow's power will save the world. Gabriel meets a man from the Brotherhood called Zobek, who states that a prophecy has been kept a secret by a select few, which tells of a pure-hearted warrior who will claim the Lords of Shadow's power to overcome evil. Zobek says that he and Gabriel must enter the lands of the Dark Lords in order to unite the Heavens with the world again, and that with this Gabriel can bring Marie back from the dead. Gabriel defeats the werewolf chief Cornell (Richard Ridings) and the vampire queen Carmilla (Sally Knyvette) for the first two pieces of the God Mask on his journey, while learning that they were once two of the three founding members of the Order who fought the spawns of Satan in God's favor until they transformed into the Spirits, with power only second to God's. After they ascended to the Heavens, they left behind their dark sides, who became known as the Lords of Shadow.
Gabriel departs for the Land of the Necromancers for the last part of the mask. There, Zobek appears before Gabriel with the Devil Mask over his face, and divulges that he is the Lord of the Necromancers and that he grew tired of the Lords of Shadow always dividing their power amongst the three of them in an uneasy truce. Orchestrating the events of the story, he searched Hell for a power that could overthrow the other Lords until an evil force entered him and expanded his knowledge of the dark arts, which allowed him to cast the spell that separated the Earth from the Heavens so that the Spirits would contact the Brotherhood. Zobek discloses he used the Devil Mask on Gabriel to kill Marie and that all he needed was for Gabriel to restore the power of the Spirits to avoid suspicion from them. However, Satan (Jason Isaacs) emerges and takes the God Mask from Zobek before seemingly burning him alive, revealing himself as the mastermind who planted the idea in Zobek's mind so that Satan could use the God Mask to return to the Heavens and take his revenge on God. Gabriel confronts Satan and defeats him, releasing souls of the deceased from limbo. Gabriel discovers the God Mask cannot bring Marie back and that it only allows him to see through God's eyes. Despite being mortally wounded in the fight, Gabriel is fully healed and cannot go with the other spirits. Marie tells him he has been given a new life to redeem himself for his sins before she departs with the God Mask. As Gabriel falls to his knees in anguish, the view shifts to Zobek's discarded Devil Mask.
The story is expanded in two DLC packs titled Reverie and Resurrection. Reverie has Gabriel returning to Carmilla's castle to contain an ancient evil, the Forgotten One (Colin McFarlane), with the help of Carmilla's "daughter" Laura (Grace Vance), who is also a playable character that assists Gabriel in some sequences of the DLC. Before entering a portal into the Forgotten One's prison, Laura tells Gabriel he cannot enter it in his mortal form and dies after she has Gabriel drink her blood to use its powers to enter, turning him into a vampire. During Resurrection, the Forgotten One aspires to destroy the humans' world, but he is defeated by Gabriel who claims his power for himself. Corrupted by the Forgotten One's power, Gabriel destroys his Combat Cross and leaves through the portal.
In a post-credits scene after the base game's ending, Zobek is seen alive during modern times, and has uncovered Gabriel living as a vampire called Dracula. Zobek mentions the acolytes of Satan are preparing for his return and that they must stop him before he takes revenge on both of them. Before Gabriel disappears, Zobek tells him he will free him of his immortality if he helps him.
Development and release
Castlevania was rebooted due to the team's concern over the poor sales in their latest Castlevania games. The team wished to expand the franchise's fanbase with this game. A number of prototypes in parallel development competed to become the next Castlevania title. Konami told MercurySteam the game would be an original intellectual property (IP) when it was first greenlit as a Castlevania title. Konami eventually asked them to cease work on Lords of Shadow while it was still in its early stages, until David Cox showed the Japanese senior management the game and was offered help by video game designer Hideo Kojima. Konami then chose the pitch for it as the next Castlevania entry. The original concept for the game was to remake the first Castlevania starring Simon Belmont, but it was later decided to make a reboot of the franchise. Lords of Shadow still drew inspiration from earlier titles in the series, most notably Castlevania for the Nintendo Entertainment System, and Super Castlevania IV.
Kojima's input included advising Cox's team to redesign some of the lead character, Gabriel, who he felt needed a "more heroic face". Originally, Gabriel's design resembled a classic barbarian, before Kojima then advised the staff to refine him into a character that was more relatable for the player. Cox mentioned that the voice acting provided by Robert Carlyle helped humanize Gabriel's character. Kojima also oversaw the Japanese localization of the game, employing a number of voice actors from the Japanese versions of Metal Gear Solid. Cox stated that Kojima otherwise allowed MercurySteam a lot of freedom with the project. MercurySteam wanted to depart from the art style of the other games in favour of one that was darker. Cox said, "The old games had this boyish depiction of vampires and monsters and we wanted them to have a darker edge this time around." VideoGamer.com drew comparisons between the art style and Guillermo del Toro's work.
The developers claimed to avoid the use of quick time events during combat, stating that they distracted the player from the action, but the game features many instances of them. When the game was 60% complete, MercurySteam was aiming for 30 frames per second performance, as opposed to 60 frames, which the company said was not a priority at that stage. The game reached gold status following an announcement on Twitter made by David Cox on September 9, 2010. The game's two downloadable content (DLC) episodes, Reverie and Resurrection, were released in February 2011 and June 2011 respectively to explain the twist from the story's ending. David Cox referred to these DLC chapters as "a mistake."
A port for Microsoft Windows was announced in June 2013 with the subtitle of "Ultimate Edition". The downloadable content chapters are also included within the game. It was released in Steam on August 27, 2013 and in retail on August 30, 2013.
Audio
The game's musical score was written by Spanish composer Óscar Araujo using a 120-piece orchestra. It also features previous Castlevania musical themes. A soundtrack CD was also included in limited editions of the game, with twenty tracks in total. In October 2013, specialist label Sumthing Else Music Works issued the soundtrack in a more widely available CD release while selling a digital format of the previously issued tracks that were featured on the CD that came with collector's editions of the game alongside additional material exclusive to the digital release. Araujo was nominated by the International Film Music Critics Association for breakout composer of the year for his work on Lords of Shadow. He won "Best Original Score for a Video Game or Interactive Media."
Lords of Shadow features voiced dialogue by a professional cast recorded in London, an aspect which has been acclaimed by the gaming press. The cast includes Robert Carlyle and Patrick Stewart. The part of Gabriel was originally going to be offered to Gerard Butler, but he was not available. The cast would make their own contributions to the characters during the recordings. David Cox mentioned that "What could have been an 'in and out' voiceover job for them [the voice actors] wasn't. Instead, their love of the script and praise saw them developing their characters and working through the motivations for them".
Reception
During its development, Lords of Shadow was placed on several lists for most anticipated video games. GameTrailers ranked it at number 7 for "Top 10 Most Anticipated Games of 2010." GamesRadar+ placed Lords of Shadow at number 26 for 100 Most Anticipated Games of 2010, stating that "This could be a megaton release." 1UP.com top 50 most anticipated games of E3 2010 ranked Lords of Shadow at number 17. Despite the heavy anticipation, Cox noted there was still a small number of fans who did not like the game's transition to the 3D format. He stated, "Fair enough, some people aren't going to like what we're doing and we accept that but generally what we're trying to do is bring the fans with us ... there's no point in going back and making the same game again – the point is to make a clean break and move forward with the series."
Reaction to Lords of Shadow was highly positive. 1UP.com review praised how the game took elements from other series and executed them well. GamesRadar+ drew favorable comparisons to other action games it has given a perfect score, including God of War III, Bayonetta and Dante's Inferno, while praising it for being "huge in scope, length, and depth, and it's polished with obvious love and passion". Official Xbox Magazine lauded the size of the game's content, writing "... [it] is big. Actually, big's too little a word. It's monolithic... From the Resi 4 mood of the scarecrow puzzle to the unexpected oddity of the music box level, this is a game that seemingly hasn't heard of DLC – and decides to offer you immense value for money instead." The publication concluded it was otherwise a success. Other reviews noted that it was derivative of other games and that it was unlike the classic Castlevania series. GameSpot review calls the game "a good start for a series in need of some new blood – so to speak – it's just unfortunate so much of it comes from other games and not an original source." IGN found the combat repetitive but felt the puzzles and platforming provided good pacing. Game Informer Tim Turi praised its boss battles, its magic-based combat system, and its story. GameZone ranked it as the sixth best Castlevania title. The staff praised the developers' success at bringing Castlevania to 3D.
Xbox World 360 awarded the game the "Star Player Accolade" in 2010. GamesMaster also gave it the "Gold Award."
The game was a commercial success. By November 2010 Konami had shipped one million copies in North America and Europe. Despite not achieving a high rank on the sales chart, Konami was satisfied with the game's sales considering the budget it had and the staff's intentions. The game also became the best-selling Castlevania game, which resulted in Konami's request to produce more titles. Because of the game's success, Lords of Shadow is seen as the start of a possible second golden age of Spanish software.
Sequels
On May 29, 2012, Nintendo Power magazine revealed a sequel to Lords of Shadow for the Nintendo 3DS was in development by MercurySteam, titled Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate. The game takes place 25 years after Lords of Shadow and features 2.5D gameplay. It follows Trevor Belmont, Simon Belmont, Alucard and Gabriel Belmont at different points in history.
On May 31, 2012, Konami announced the sequel at E3 2012, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2. The game stars Gabriel as Dracula while he seeks to regain his lost powers in order to fight the Belmonts and the return of Satan. Mirror of Fate has a climax that sets up the events of Lords of Shadow 2.
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26722705 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowing%20at%20the%202010%20South%20American%20Games%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%20lightweight%20four | Rowing at the 2010 South American Games – Men's lightweight four | The Men's lightweight four event at the 2010 South American Games was held over March 22 at 11:20.
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Lightweight Four M |
20486134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tully%20Gymnasium | Tully Gymnasium | The Bobby Tully Gymnasium is a 2,500 seat multi-purpose arena, in Tallahassee, Florida, that opened in 1956. It is the home of the Florida State University Seminoles volleyball team. Prior to the Donald L. Tucker Civic Center opening in 1981, it was home to the men's basketball team as well. The arena played host to The Rolling Thunder Revue Tour on April 27, 1976, headed by Bob Dylan.
See also
Florida State Seminoles
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Indoor arenas in Florida
Florida State Seminoles basketball venues
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Sports venues completed in 1956
Defunct college basketball venues in the United States |
20486135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living%20Other%20Lives | Living Other Lives | Living Other Lives is a novel by the American writer Caroline Leavitt set in 1990s New York City and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
It tells the story of Lilly Bloom, who after her fiancé's accidental death just before their marriage, drives his unruly daughter, Dinah, 15, from Manhattan to the Pittsburgh home of her deceased fiancé's mother.
References
1995 American novels
Novels set in Pittsburgh
Novels set in Manhattan
Warner Books books |
26722714 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jette%20railway%20station | Jette railway station | Jette railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Jette in Brussels, Belgium opened in 1892. The station is located south of the King Baudouin park on the Cardinal Mercier square, on the Belgian railway line 50 between the Bockstael and Berchem-Sainte-Agathe railway stations.
Nearby the railway station is the Jette station STIB/MIVB stop, which offers a connection with the Brussels tram route 19 as well as the bus routes 53 and 88.
History
The station opened on 17 September 1858.
Train services
The station is served by the following service(s):
Intercity services (IC-20) Lokeren - Dendermonde - Brussels - Aalst - Ghent (weekends)
Intercity services (IC-26) Sint-Niklaas - Lokeren - Dendermonde - Brussels - Halle - Tournai - Kortrijk (weekdays)
Brussels RER services (S3) Dendermonde - Brussels - Denderleeuw - Zottegem - Oudenaarde (weekdays)
Brussels RER services (S4) Aalst - Denderleeuw - Brussels-Luxembourg (- Etterbeek - Merode - Vilvoorde) (weekdays)
Brussels RER services (S10) Dendermonde - Brussels - Denderleeuw - Aalst
References
External links
STIB/MIVB Website
Railway stations in Brussels
Jette
Railway stations opened in 1858 |
6911254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20Se%C3%B1or | Juan Señor | Juan Antonio Señor Gómez (born 26 August 1958 in Madrid) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a central midfielder.
During his professional career he played mainly for Zaragoza, amassing nearly 400 official appearances in nine years. The scorer of one of Spain's most important goals, he earned more than 40 caps during the 1980s, representing the nation in one World Cup and one European Championship.
Club career
During his career, Real Madrid youth graduate Señor represented professionally CD Ciempozuelos (fourth division), Deportivo Alavés (second) and Real Zaragoza. With the Aragonese team he played 304 La Liga games, scoring 54 goals.
In the 1986–87 season, which featured a second stage, Señor netted 11 times in 43 matches as Zaragoza finish fifth. He also helped the side to the Copa del Rey in 1986, being voted by magazine Don Balón the league's best player in the 1982–83 campaign where he recorded 33 appearances and five goals.
Señor had to retire sooner than expected due to a heart disease, his last season being 1989–90. He subsequently moved into coaching, going on to work with Mérida UD, UD Salamanca, FC Cartagena and CD Logroñés, and also began managing a football campus for children in the Aragonese Pyrenees.
International career
Señor made 41 appearances for Spain, his debut coming on 27 October 1982 in a UEFA Euro 1984 qualifier against Iceland, a 1–0 win in Málaga. Also during that stage, he scored the most important of his six international goals: on 23 December 1983, as the national team needed to win by 11 goals against Malta to qualify, he scored in the 85th in a final 12–1 result in Seville.
Señor was part of the nation's squads at Euro 1984 and the 1986 FIFA World Cup, where he scored another late goal, in a quarter-final penalty shootout loss against Belgium (1–1 after 120 minutes).
International goals
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Club
Zaragoza
Copa del Rey: 1985–86
International
Spain
UEFA European Championship: Runner-up 1984
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Official football campus website
1958 births
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Spanish footballers
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Real Zaragoza players
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Spain B international footballers
Spain international footballers
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23581008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel%20Pincus | Lionel Pincus | Lionel I. Pincus (March 2, 1931 — October 10, 2009) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was the founder of the private equity firm Warburg Pincus, running it from 1966 to 2002, and later became the chairman emeritus of the company.
Early life
Pincus was born to a Jewish family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Henry (d. 1949) and Theresa Celia (née Levit, d. 1982) Pincus. His grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia and Poland. After being educated at The Hill School, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree in English in 1953. His family had clothes retailing and real estate businesses; rather than join those businesses, he pursued an MBA at Columbia Business School, graduating in 1956.
Career
Pincus joined Ladenburg Thalmann, an investment banking firm, in 1955, and became a partner in the firm at age 29. He formed Lionel I. Pincus & Co., Inc., a financial consultancy, in 1964. The following year, he joined the board of directors of E.M. Warburg & Co., founded in 1939 by Eric Warburg, and in 1966, the two firms merged. The company was renamed to E.M. Warburg Pincus in 1970, and to Warburg Pincus LLC in 2001.
Pincus is a "pioneer of the venture capital megafund", raising billions of dollars to invest in companies across industries. The money he raised came from, among other sources, blue chip pension funds, such as AT&T, IBM, GE, Pacific Telesis, and GM, state pension funds, and college endowments.
An early venture capital fund, EMW Associates, was organized by Pincus in 1970, with $20 million in capital, about half of which came from officers of the company. This was followed by successively larger funds; a $2 billion fund organized by Warburg Pincus in 1989 was described as "five times larger than any other venture partnership". A later fund, closed in 2000, raised $2.5 billion, and was then described as the "biggest so far in the private-equity industry". The tenth and final fund raised while Pincus headed the company raised over $5.3 billion, closing in 2002.
Early investments included 20th Century Fox, Humana, and Warner, a company later acquired by Waste Management, Inc. In 1984, Warburg Pincus invested in Mattel, and Pincus joined its board of directors. By 2002, when Pincus ended his tenure as the hands-on leader of the company, it had overseen investments of more than $13 billion in over 450 companies in 29 countries.
In 1999, Warburg Pincus sold its asset management division to Credit Suisse for $650 million, which also acquired an interest in the private equity division of Warburg Pincus.
Philanthropy
Pincus supported several philanthropic activities, including a $10 million donation to Columbia University, New York in 1995. He was a trustee of the university at the time. In 2005, the New York Public Library renovated its main map room, principally financed and endowed by Pincus and Princess Firyal of Jordan. The renovation cost $5 million and was also financially supported by the City of New York and the U.S. Government. The division was renamed The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division. He was recognized in 2002 for having donated more than $5 million to the Library.
Personal
Pincus married the former Suzanne Storrs, a former Miss Utah winner and actress, in 1967. They had two sons, Henry A. Pincus (married to Ana Terzani) and Matthew S. Pincus (married to Sarah Min). She died in 1995 at the age of 60, after a long illness.
Following cancer surgery in 2006, Pincus was declared mentally and physically incompetent, and his sons became his guardians. In 2008, his 14-room, apartment at The Pierre hotel was offered for sale, over the objections of Princess Firyal, his long-time companion. The asking price at the time was $50 million.
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6911265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%20of%20the%20Year%20%281995%20film%29 | Man of the Year (1995 film) | Man of the Year is a 1995 mockumentary film written, directed by and starring Dirk Shafer. It is a fictionalized account of Shafer's reign as Playgirl magazine's 1992 "Man of the Year" and his struggle with reconciling his public persona as a sex symbol to women with his identity as a gay man. Shafer combines mock interviews (both with some of the actual people involved and with actors standing in for the actual people) with archive footage from Shafer's appearances on talk shows like Donahue, The Maury Povich Show and The Jerry Springer Show (along with an early appearance on Dance Fever) and recreations of events like his Playgirl photoshoots, his "fantasy date" with a Playgirl reader and the death of his friend Pledge Cartwright (played by actor Bill Brochtrup) of an AIDS-related illness to relate the story.
Critical response
Variety gave Man of the Year a generally favorable review, calling the film "pleasant to watch and intermittently clever." However, it notes that Shafer's writing is "uneven" and that the film's "structure is a bit repetitive." The New Yorker largely concurred, noting that Shafer "keep[s] condescension at bay with some nice comic spins" but finding the use of the death of Shafer's friend as Shafer's catalyst for coming out to be self-serving. The San Francisco Chronicle was far harsher, deriding the film as a "vanity" production and complaining "There's no shape to Man of the Year, no forward movement. Man of the Year doesn't even have the benefit of being hip." The New York Times, however, found the film "gently satirical" with the use of real clips from Shafer's various talk show appearances creating a "tone of vertiginous loopiness." The Times also saw the metaphor in Shafer's experience to the pressure that society put on gay people to pretend to be straight.
DVD release
Man of the Year was released on Region 1 DVD on February 23, 1999.
References
External links
Man of the Year at Internet Movie Database
1995 films
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1990s mockumentary films |
23581012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ale%C5%A1%20Poplatnik | Aleš Poplatnik | Aleš Poplatnik (born 25 June 1987) is a Slovenian footballer who plays for SC-Reichenau/Falkert as a forward.
Personal life
His younger brother Matej Poplatnik is also a professional footballer, playing as a forward.
External links
PrvaLiga profile
1987 births
Living people
Slovenian footballers
Association football forwards
NK Svoboda Ljubljana players
NK Olimpija Ljubljana (2005) players
NK Triglav Kranj players
Slovenian PrvaLiga players
Slovenian expatriate footballers
Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in Austria
Expatriate footballers in Austria |
17344372 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibson%2C%20Cambridgeshire | Sibson, Cambridgeshire | Sibson is a village in Cambridgeshire, England. Sibson lies approximately west of Peterborough city centre. Sibson is in the civil parish of Sibson-cum-Stibbington. Sibson is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England. Sibson Aerodrome is 1 km south of the village.
History
In 1085 William the Conqueror ordered that a survey should be carried out across his kingdom to discover who owned which parts and what it was worth. The survey took place in 1086 and the results were recorded in what, since the 12th century, has become known as the Domesday Book. Starting with the king himself, for each landholder within a county there is a list of their estates or manors; and, for each manor, there is a summary of the resources of the manor, the amount of annual rent that was collected by the lord of the manor both in 1066 and in 1086, together with the taxable value.
Sibson was listed in the Domesday Book in the Hundred of Normancross in Huntingdonshire; the name of the settlement was written as Sibestun and Sibestune in the Domesday Book. In 1086 there were two manors at Sibson; the annual rent paid to the lords of the manors in 1066 had been £5 and the rent was the same in 1086.
The Domesday Book does not explicitly detail the population of a place but it records that there were nine households at Sibson. There is no consensus about the average size of a household at that time; estimates range from 3.5 to 5.0 people per household. Using these figures then an estimate of the population of Sibson in 1086 is that it was within the range of 31 and 45 people.
The Domesday Book uses a number of units of measure for areas of land that are now unfamiliar terms, such as hides and ploughlands. In different parts of the country, these were terms for the area of land that a team of eight oxen could plough in a single season and are equivalent to ; this was the amount of land that was considered to be sufficient to support a single family. By 1086, the hide had become a unit of tax assessment rather than an actual land area; a hide was the amount of land that could be assessed as £1 for tax purposes. The survey records that there were five ploughlands at Sibson in 1086 and that there was the capacity for a further three ploughlands.
In addition to the arable land, there was of meadows and a water mill at Sibson.
The tax assessment in the Domesday Book was known as geld or danegeld and was a type of land-tax based on the hide or ploughland. It was originally a way of collecting a tribute to pay off the Danes when they attacked England, and was only levied when necessary. Following the Norman Conquest, the geld was used to raise money for the King and to pay for continental wars; by 1130, the geld was being collected annually. Having determined the value of a manor's land and other assets, a tax of so many shillings and pence per pound of value would be levied on the land holder. While this was typically two shillings in the pound the amount did vary; for example, in 1084 it was as high as six shillings in the pound. For the manors at Sibson the total tax assessed was five geld.
By 1086 there was already a church and a priest at Sibson.
Government
Sibson is part of the civil parish of Sibson-cum-Stibbington, which has a parish council. The parish council is elected by the residents of the parish who have registered on the electoral roll; the parish council is the lowest tier of government in England. A parish council is responsible for providing and maintaining a variety of local services including allotments and a cemetery; grass cutting and tree planting within public open spaces such as a village green or playing fields. The parish council reviews all planning applications that might affect the parish and makes recommendations to Huntingdonshire District Council, which is the local planning authority for the parish. The parish council also represents the views of the parish on issues such as local transport, policing and the environment. The parish council raises its own tax to pay for these services, known as the parish precept, which is collected as part of the Council Tax. The parish precept for the financial year 2014–15 was £11,000. The parish council consists of eight parish councillors.
Sibson was in the historic and administrative county of Huntingdonshire until 1965. From 1965, the village was part of the new administrative county of Huntingdon and Peterborough. Then in 1974, following the Local Government Act 1972, Sibson became a part of the county of Cambridgeshire.
The second tier of local government is Huntingdonshire District Council which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire and has its headquarters in Huntingdon. Huntingdonshire District Council has 52 councillors representing 29 district wards. Huntingdonshire District Council collects the council tax, and provides services such as building regulations, local planning, environmental health, leisure and tourism. Sibson is a part of the district ward of Elton and Folksworth and is represented on the district council by one councillor. District councillors serve for four-year terms following elections to Huntingdonshire District Council.
For Sibson the highest tier of local government is Cambridgeshire County Council which has administration buildings in Cambridge. The county council provides county-wide services such as major road infrastructure, fire and rescue, education, social services, libraries and heritage services. Cambridgeshire County Council consists of 69 councillors representing 60 electoral divisions. Sibson is part of the electoral division of Norman Cross and is represented on the county council by two councillors.
At Westminster Sibson is in the parliamentary constituency of North West Cambridgeshire, and elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. Sibson is represented in the House of Commons by Shailesh Vara (Conservative). Shailesh Vara has represented the constituency since 2005. The previous member of parliament was Brian Mawhinney (Conservative) who represented the constituency between 1997 and 2005.
Demography
Population
In the period 1801 to 1901 the population of Sibson-cum-Stibbington was recorded every ten years by the UK census. During this time the population was in the range of 324 (the lowest was in 1801) and 790 (the highest was in 1851).
From 1901, a census was taken every ten years with the exception of 1941 (due to the Second World War).
All population census figures from report Historic Census figures Cambridgeshire to 2011 by Cambridgeshire Insight.
In 2011, the parish covered an area of and the population density of Sibson-cum-Stibbington in 2011 was 196.3 persons per square mile (75.8 per square kilometre).
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23581041 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Forbes%20%28bishop%29 | William Forbes (bishop) | William Forbes (1585 – 12 April 1634) was a Scottish churchman, the first Bishop of Edinburgh.
Life
He was the son of Thomas Forbes, a burgess of Aberdeen, descended from the Corsindac branch of that house, by his wife, Janet, the sister of the botanist James Cargill. Born at Aberdeen in 1585, he was educated at the Marischal College, graduating A.M. in 1601. Very soon after he held the chair of logic in the same college, but resigned it in 1606 to pursue his studies on the continent. He travelled through Poland, Germany, and Holland, studying at several universities, and meeting Scaliger, Grotius, and Vossius. Returning after five years to Britain, he visited Oxford, where he was invited to become professor of Hebrew, but he pleaded ill-health.
Ordained, probably by Bishop Peter Blackburn of Aberdeen, he became minister successively of two rural Aberdeenshire parishes, Alford and Monymusk; in November 1616 (pursuant to a nomination of the general assembly) he was appointed one of the ministers of Aberdeen; and at the Perth assembly in 1618 was selected to defend the lawfulness of the article there proposed for kneeling at the holy communion. In the same year, in a formal dispute between him and Aidie, then principal of Marischal College, he maintained the lawfulness of prayers for the dead. Such doctrines would not have been tolerated elsewhere in Scotland, but in Aberdeen they were received with favour, and on Aidie's enforced resignation in 1620 the town council of the city, who were patrons of Marischal College, made him the principal, specifying that he should continue his preaching.
In the end of 1621 he was chosen one of the ministers of St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh, being admitted in March 1622. In 1625 when the church was split into quarters, Forbes was given the south-east quarter (known as the Old Kirk) in January 1626. At his request, on grounds of ill-health, he transferred back to his native Aberdeen on Michaelmas 1626.
His zeal for the observance of the Perth articles was distasteful to many, and when he taught that the doctrines of the Catholics and the Reformed could in many points be easily reconciled, there was disorder. Five of the ringleaders were dealt with by the privy council; but Forbes felt that his ministry at Edinburgh was a failure, and more trouble arising from his preaching in support of the superiority of bishops over presbyters, he returned to Aberdeen, where in 1626 he resumed his former post.
In 1633, when Charles I was in Scotland for his coronation, Forbes preached before him at Holyrood, and his sermon so pleased the king that he declared the preacher to be worthy of having a bishopric created for him. Shortly afterwards the see of Edinburgh was erected; Forbes was nominated to it, and was consecrated in February 1634. In the beginning of March he sent an injunction to his clergy to celebrate the Eucharist on Easter Sunday to take it themselves on their knees, and to minister it with their own hands to every one of the communicants. When Easter came he was very ill, but he was able to celebrate in St. Giles' Cathedral; on returning home he took to bed, and died on the following Saturday, 12 April 1634, in the year of his 49th birthday. He was buried in his cathedral; his monument was afterwards destroyed, but a copy of the inscription is in William Maitland's History of Edinburgh.
He was married, and left a family, of whom one, Arthur, is said to have become Professor of Humanities at St. Jean d'Angel, near La Rochelle, while another, Thomas, entered the Catholic Seminary, the Scots College, Rome, and eventually entered the service of Cardinal Carlo Barberini
Works
Forbes himself published nothing, but in 1658 a posthumous work, Considerationes Modestae et Pacificae Controversiarum de Justificatione, Purgatorio, Invocatione Sanctorum Christo Mediatore, et Eucharistia, was published from his manuscripts by T. G. (Thomas Sydeserf, bishop of Galloway). Other editions appeared at Helmstadt (1704) and Frankfort-on-the-Main (1707); while a third, with an English translation by Dr. William Forbes, Burntisland (Oxford, 1856), forms part of the Anglo-Catholic Library. In parts fragmentary, it deals with the imperial question of the Christian church: reunion of the church on a catholic scale. Forbes also wrote Animadversions on the works of Bellarmine, which was used by his friend and colleague at Marischal College, Robert Baron, but the manuscripts seem to have perished in the 'troubles' which so soon began. A summary of his sermon before Charles I is given in the folio edition (1702-3) of the works of Dr. John Forbes.
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23581045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Risk%20of%20Darkness | The Risk of Darkness | The Risk of Darkness is a novel by Susan Hill. It is the third novel in the "Simon Serrailler" crime series.
References
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2006 British novels
British crime novels
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17344373 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Benning%20Webb | William Benning Webb | William Benning Webb (September 17, 1825 March 13, 1896) was an American politician and attorney who was the Police Superintendent of Washington, D.C., and president of the board of commissioners for the District of Columbia, U.S., from 1886 to 1889. He was the first President of the Board of Commissioners to be born in Washington.
Biography
Webb was born in the City of Washington, DC on September 17, 1825. He was only 19 years old when he graduated from Columbia College (now George Washington University, and was admitted to the District of Columbia bar Three years later. Upon admission he entered practice, in which he remained until 1861. That year, the capital's Metropolitan Police Department was organized, and Webb was appointed its first superintendent by Mayor Richard Wallach. It was under Webb's administration that the police force conducted the investigation into the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. That same year, Webb resigned from the Police Department and returned to his Washington law practice, where he commanded an extremely high reputation among his colleagues. The Washington Post said of Webb that "his digest of municipal laws, as affecting the national capital, is regarded as the standard authority."
In 1885, upon the vacancy of Joseph Rodman West from his seat on the D.C. Board of Commissioners, President Grover Cleveland surprised the city establishment by offering the appointment to the popular and respected Webb, who accepted and joined the commission for its sixth session in July, 1885. When board president James Barker Edmonds declined reappointment on April 1, 1886, Cleveland raised Webb to the position.
Webb died at his home in Washington on March 13, 1896, at the age of 70. He was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery.
In 1901, The William Benning Webb School, named in his honor, opened at 15th and Rosedale, NE. It was an all-white school, but by 1947 it had become unused and at late that year became an annex to all-black Browne Junior High School. It was shut down some time shortly thereafter and has been used for school storage ever since.
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23581060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haughton%20Halt%20railway%20station | Haughton Halt railway station | Haughton Halt was a minor station located north of Shrewsbury on the GWR's Paddington to Birkenhead main line. It was opened in the nineteen thirties as part of the GWR's halt construction programme, aimed at combatting growing competition from bus services and would primarily have served the adjacent (and now disused) Haughton Airfield. Today the route is part of the Shrewsbury to Chester line. Nothing now remains on the site.
Historical services
Express trains did not call at Haughton Halt, only local services. No freight or parcels traffic was handled here.
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23581074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnieston%20distillery | Finnieston distillery | The Finnieston Distillery is one of the thirty-three lost distilleries in the City of Glasgow, Scotland. The Finnieston Distillery was formed on the lands of Stobcross, at that time held by John Orr of Barrowfield, who named it after Mr Finnie, who was a tutor in his family.
Foundation
The Finnieston Distillery was founded in 1824 by Ebenezer Connal, on Finnieston Street in the City of Glasgow, Scotland.
Ingredients
Like many of the distillers of his time Ebenezer was known to add ingredients to the whisky to enhance the whisky's flavour.
He encouraged mixing the whisky with herbs and heathers to make the drinking experience as enjoyable as possible.
Closure
Operations at the distillery were suspended in 1827.
References
Udo, Misako (2006). "The Scottish Whisky Distilleries: For the Whisky Enthusiast"
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Lost Distilleries of the Lowlands
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23581102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Bligh%20Bank | George Bligh Bank | George Bligh Bank is a seamount that lies in the Rockall Trough. It is a roughly circular feature in the northeast Atlantic, west of Scotland, centred at approximately 59°N, 14°W at the northern end of both the Hatton and Rockall Banks. The bank is approximately 75 km in diameter with a summit at approximately 450 m rising from a depth of over 1000 m. The ‘moat’ around the base of George Bligh Bank deepens from north to south and is deeper than 1650 m in the south.
George Bligh Bank is part of the Rockall-Hatton Plateau, a large piece of continental crust that separated from the northwest European continental margin around 100 million years ago. It is not of volcanic origin and thus is not recognized as a seamount under the OSPAR Convention, even though it rises more than 1000 m from the surrounding seafloor. Lack of sediment cover on the upper flanks and summit of George Bligh Bank is thought to be related to increased current flow as a result of the topography.
Photographic and video observations were made on George Bligh Bank during 2005, covering a depth range from 425 to 1338 m. Diverse communities of sedentary suspension-feeding organisms were observed along five of the seven transects, with some evidence of localised hard coral (Lophelia pertusa) frameworks. Community composition on George Bligh Bank is similar to those observed on other hard substrata in the deep northeast Atlantic.
George Bligh Bank is named after the fisheries research vessel RV George Bligh that discovered the seamount during her maiden voyage in service with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (United Kingdom) in April 1921
In October 2020 the seamount was made part of the West of Scotland Marine Protected Area by the Scottish Government in attempt to protect the area's ecology.
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23581112 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective%20receptor%20modulator | Selective receptor modulator | In the field of pharmacology, a selective receptor modulator or SRM is a type of drug that has different effects in different tissues. A SRM may behave as an agonist in some tissues while as an antagonist in others. Hence selective receptor modulators are sometimes referred to as tissue selective drugs or mixed agonists / antagonists. This tissue selective behavior is in contrast to many other drugs that behave either as agonists or antagonists regardless of the tissue in question.
Note that selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) is the only class of these drugs currently on the market in the US.
Classes
Classes of selective receptor modulators include:
Selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM)
Selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM)
Selective progesterone receptor modulator (SPRM)
See also
Agonist–antagonist
Selective glucocorticoid receptor agonist (SEGRA)
References
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20486148 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.%20Surya%20Prakash | P. Surya Prakash | Bishop Emeritus P. Surya Prakash was the fifth Bishop-in-Karimnagar Diocese of the Church of South India. from 2007 through 2014 and occupied the Cathedra in Karimnagar's Wesley Cathedral. He retired on account of superannuation in 2014 following which the Church of South India Synod headquartered in Chennai appointed a successor to him in 2015.
After discerning his avocation towards priesthood, Surya Prakash entered the portals of a Protestant Seminary in 1972 in Bangalore where he studied spirituality leading to the award of the graduate degree of Bachelor of Divinity in 1976 after which he began pastoring parishes within the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Diocese of Medak, Church of South India. In 1980, Surya Prakash went on to major in Greek and New Testament and became a member of the Society for Biblical Studies, India in which his Professor, J. G. F. Collison was already a distinguished member. Again from 1982, Surya Prakash continued to pastor parishes of the Diocese of Medak until Victor Premasagar sent him for doctoral studies in 1987 to the Kirchliche Hochschule, Bethel, Bielefeld, Germany where researched on Homiletics specializing in indigenous movements and Churches in India, especially the work of Sadhu Sundar Singh. Roger E. Hedlund, the Missiologist with major contribution to indigenous Christianity in India terms Surya Prakash as a leading authority on Sadhu Sundar Singh.
From 1991 onwards, Surya Prakash spent nearly a decade teaching Homiletics at the United Theological College, Bangalore, an autonomous College affiliated to the Senate of Serampore College (University) until 2000 when he went to Stuttgart as India Liaison Secretary of the EMS succeeding Luise Plock who bridged the gap after C. L. Furtado. After a distinguished record at Stuttgart, Surya Prakash returned to India in 2005 donning the role of a Presbyter at the Diocese of Medak until his elevation to the Bishopric in 2007 in the adjoining Diocese of Karimnagar to succeed the Old Testament Scholar and Bishop S. J. Theodore who retired on attaining superannuation.
Surya Prakash contributed as an academician and as an administrator to the Church taking into consideration not only the mainline Churches but the small and indigenous Churches in India as well. In 2006, India's first University (a University under Section 2 (f) of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956)with degree-granting authority validated by a Danish Charter and ratified by the Government of West Bengal elected Surya Prakash as a Member of its Council in which Surya Prakash continues to contribute to theological education and research. In 2010, the Henry Martyn Institute, Hyderabad an Institute with inter-faith concerns with focus on Islam partnered by the Canadian Baptist Ministries elected Surya Prakash as its Chairperson where he provides leadership in an inter-religious setting.
Early years and studies
Surya Prakash was born in Dudgaon in Nizamabad District in undivided Andhra Pradesh, India to Smt. Guyyani Sundaramma and Sri Perumalla Prakasham who realised the need for education and sent him to the CSI-Wesley Boys High School, Secunderabad from where he completed schooling and pre-university studies in 1968 and continued higher studies at the State-run Nizam College of the Osmania University where he earned a graduate degree leading to Bachelor of Arts in English in 1972.
Spirituality and Seminary studies
During the incumbency of Bishop H. D. L. Abraham, then Bishop – in – Medak (1968–1975), Surya Prakash evinced interest in pursuing a priestly vocation and was sent to the United Theological College, Bengaluru in 1972, then headed by the eminent theologian Joshua Russell Chandran, where Surya Prakash completed the graduate degree of Bachelor of Divinity (B. D.) in 1976 during the Registrarship of D. S. Satyaranjan at Bengaluru. Incidentally, Christopher Asir and J. W. Gladstone who also led the Bishopric of the Church of South India in other dioceses also happened to pursue theology at the same College during that period.
Ordination & Pastorship
Soon after Surya Prakash's return to his Diocese, he was assigned a Deacon's role in Parishes of the Diocese of Medak and assigned to Varni near Nizamabad and was ordained by then Bishop – in – Medak, B. G. Prasada Rao (1976–1981) as a Presbyter on 31 July 1977 in the Medak Cathedral in Medak after which he was made Presbyter – in – Charge in Adilabad.
Post-graduate studies
The Diocese of Medak sent Surya Prakash to pursue further studies in theology and was sent again to the United Theological College, Bengaluru where he enrolled for the post-graduate degree of Master of Theology (M. Th.) in the discipline of New Testament in 1980 studying under J. G. F. Collison and K. James Carl then Professors of New Testament who stipulated a tough regimen of study which Surya Prakash stuck to and worked out a dissertation entitled Theological motives in Mark - a redactional critical study. This was during the time that the Old Testament Scholar G. Babu Rao began doctoral studies in Bengaluru. Prakash's classmates included Prasanna Kumari Samuel of the Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Surya Prakash also went to Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts and had an exposure at the Boston University School of Theology where he was also Student Chaplain at the United Methodist Church of All Nations By the year 1982, Surya Prakash was awarded an M. Th. in New Testament by the Senate of Serampore College. Prakash was then reassigned a ministerial role in the Diocese of Medak as Presbyter – in – Charge in Bellampalli.
Research
In the year 1987, during the Bishopric of the Old Testament Scholar the Right Reverend Victor Premasagar (1982–1992), Surya Prakash was sent for higher studies to Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany where he pursued a doctoral degree (Dr. Theol.) in Homiletics under the India-born Traugott Stählin at the Kirchliche Hochschule Bethel. submitting a dissertation entitled "The Preaching of Sadhu Sundar Singh: A Homiletic Analysis of Independent Preaching and Personal Christianity" which was later published in 1991.
Ecclesiastical contribution
Professorship
The United Theological College, Bengaluru, then under the Principalship of the Old Testament Scholar E. C. John invited Surya Prakash to serve on its faculty where he began teaching Practical Theology from 1991–2000. Apart from his teaching, Prakash continued to don the priestly mantle. He was Associate Presbyter at St. Peter's Telugu Church, Mission Road and at St. Mark's Cathedral, Bangalore Mahatma Gandhi Road, Bangalore. In 1993 during the Principalship of the Old Testament Scholar Gnana Robinson Prakash was sent to Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey for a course in Speech Communication in Ministry and Worship
During the academic year 1997 – 1998, the Professor went on a sabbatical as Visiting Professor to San Francisco Theological Seminary, San Anselmo and thereafter to Germany to the historical Mission Seminary in Hermannsburg. He also taught at his alma mater Kirchliche Hochschule Bethel, Bielefeld before returning to Bengaluru.
Administratorship
Evangelisches Missionswerk in Südwestdeutschland (EMS)
While teaching at the Seminary in Bengaluru, the Evangelisches Missionswerk in Südwestdeutschland (EMS) – (Association of Churches and Missions in South Western Germany), Stuttgart invited Surya Prakash to be its Liaison Secretary for India in 2000. The then Principal of the Seminary, O. V. Jathanna relieved him while the Diocese of Medak under B. P. Sugandhar (1993–2008) loaned the services of Surya Prakash to the EMS, Stuttgart. Surya Prakash began monitoring partnership between the EMS and the Church of South India. He was also made the Deputy General Secretary of the EMS in 2002.
While at Stuttgart, Surya Prakash was also on the Chaplaincy of St. Catherine's Church.
With the end of the term of Surya Prakash at the EMS, he returned to Medak Diocese in 2005 and was made Presbyter-in-Charge of Church of St. John the Baptist, Secunderabad.
Bishopric
The Diocese of Karimnagar had seen four Bishop's since its erection post 1950. Bishops B. Prabhudass, G. B. Devasahayam, K. E. Swamidass and Sanki John Theodore provided stable leadership. John Theodore, the predecessor of Surya Prakash vacated the Cathedra on account of attaining superannuation resulting in sede vacante. The Church of South India Synod announced fresh elections to be conducted following which Surya Prakash hailing from the Diocese of Medak contested and declared elected. Then Moderator of the Church of South India, B. P. Sugandhar principally consecrated Surya Prakash as Bishop – in – Karimnagar on 26 March 2007 at the CSI-Wesley Cathedral, Karimnagar. After leading the Diocese for nearly eight years, Surya Prakash retired on attaining superannuation in 2014. The sede vacante was filled in by the Church of South India Synod which appointed K. Reuben Mark in 2015 to succeed him.
Lambeth Conference
The Church of South India (CSI)is an autonomous body in the Anglican Communion headed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lambeth. Bishops of the CSI also participate in the decennial Lambeth Conference. Bishop Surya Prakash attended the fourteenth Lambeth Conference held at the University of Kent, Kent from 16 July – 3 August 2008.
Writings
Articles
1991, Sermon Preparation: Biblical Preaching, Methodological Issues and Perspectives,
1994, Mission of the Church in a Pluralistic Society,
1995, Homiletics and Preaching in India,
1997, Liturgy and Worship of the Church of South India,
2001, Towards Understanding "Ecumenism" as Mission of the Church,
2004, Sadhu Sundar Singh's Contribution,
2005, The Episcopacy in the Church of South India: A Reflection by a CSI Presbyter: My Vision of Episcopacy in the CSI,
2005, Church in India: Is it a visible sign of the invisible grace of God?,
2009, Spirit of Lent, in Mount of Olives, our Lenten journey with Jesus,
Books
Books written
1991, The Preaching of Sadhu Sundar Singh: A Homiletic Analysis of Independent Preaching and Personal Christianity,
Books edited
1997, Unite-liberate-celebrate: A Guide for the Study of the Theme,
2001, (with Vinod Victor and Leslie Nathaniel), Ecumenism: Prospects and Challenges,
Leadership
Academic institutions
Senate of Serampore College (University)
From 2006 onwards Surya Prakash began serving as a Council member of India's first University striving for providing sound spiritual formation to the Priests of the Church in India.
Andhra Christian Theological College
Formed in 1964, the Andhra Christian Theological College, Hyderabad is a special purpose entity with major partners including the Lutherans, Baptists, Methodists and the Church of South India in which Surya Prakash represented the Diocese of Karimnagar and was ex-officio member of the Board of Governors of the College which elected him as the Chairperson of the Board for a 3-year term, 2009-2011.
United Theological College, Bangalore
In 2009, the United Theological College, Bangalore, an autonomous College affiliated to the Senate of Serampore College (University) elected Surya Prakash as its President where he provided leadership to the College with high academic credentials.
Inter-faith institution
Henry Martyn Institute
Henry Martyn Institute, Hyderabad managed by the Canadian Baptist Ministries which also has concerns at the Andhra Christian Theological College as well as along the sea coast along the Bay of Bengal through the Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars elected Surya Prakash as its Chairperson of its Council in 2010 where Surya Prakash continues in that role.
Child-centric institution
India Sunday School Union
In 2002, the Coonoor based India Sunday School Union elected Surya Prakash as its President for the term 2002-2011.
Social research institution
Christian Institute for the Study of Religion and Society
The CISRS, Bangalore is a social research institution which elected Surya Prakash as its President for the term 2007-2011.
References
Further reading
People from Nizamabad, Telangana
Telugu people
21st-century Anglican bishops in India
Anglican bishops of Karimnagar
Osmania University alumni
Indian Christian theologians
Senate of Serampore College (University) alumni
Living people
1949 births
Senate of Serampore College (University) faculty |
23581129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukit%20Batok%20Public%20Library | Bukit Batok Public Library | Bukit Batok Public Library is located at Bukit Batok on the third floor of West Mall in Singapore, next to Bukit Batok MRT station. This is fifth library of the National Library Board that is located inside a shopping mall. The library was officially opened on 21 November 1998 by Deputy Prime Minister, BG (NS) Lee Hsien Loong.
History
The library begun operating soon after the West Mall was opened. The library is headed by Lim Puay Ling. It is a fully computerised library with a collection of 202,151 publications. It has served more than 1,419,634 visitors and residents from the Bukit Batok and Bukit Gombak constituencies. As of 2001, it had 28,814 members and had given out 1,345,869 book loans.
About the library
The library has a floor area of . It is home to:
191,492 books
10,424 serials
235 audiovisual materials.
The library includes a customer service counter, an adult/young people's section, a children's section, an activities room, 13 multimedia stations and a reference collection. Facilities in the library include borrower's enquiry, six borrowing stations, two bookdrop services, browsing shelves of books and periodicals in four main languages and multimedia services.
RFID
It was the first library in which the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Electronic Library Management System (ELiMS) was implemented. The Electronic Library Management System was developed together by Singapore Technologies LogiTrack and the National Library Board. The ELiMS system manages the tracking, distribution, circulation and flow of books in the library. The advantages of this technology is that it allows books to be cancelled immediately as they are returned through automated book-drops and the loan records of the borrowers are updated instantly.
Programmes
Two storytelling sessions for children are conducted every Tuesday at 7:00 pm and 7:30 pm. Reading Bear programmes were organised for primary school. Primary school children are also taken on class visits to the library featuring storytelling, craft, video shows and a tour of the library.
Class visits for the secondary school students includes multimedia services. The multimedia service is a basic information literacy programme on Internet strategies, search tools and evaluation of websites. Junior colleges, schools and other institutions are offered bulk loan services and book promotions or institutional loans. School holiday programmes include video screening, storytelling in four languages and art and craft sessions. Adults can enjoy educational and informative talks, workshops, user education programmes and library orientation tours.
See also
Bukit Batok
List of libraries in Singapore
References
External links
National Library Board
Infopedia Article
1998 establishments in Singapore
Libraries established in 1998
Libraries in Singapore
Bukit Batok |
23581130 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Warren%20%28baseball%29 | Bill Warren (baseball) | William Hackney Warren (February 11, 1884 – January 28, 1960), nicknamed "Hack", was a Major League Baseball player. Warren played for the Indianapolis Hoosiers/Newark Pepper of the Federal League in and . He batted and threw right-handed.
He was born in Missouri and died at his home in Whiteville, Tennessee.
External links
1884 births
1960 deaths
Major League Baseball catchers
Newark Peppers players
Indianapolis Hoosiers players
Baseball players from Missouri
Minor league baseball managers
Oshkosh Indians players
Dallas Giants players
Dayton Veterans players
People from Whiteville, Tennessee |
17344374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campeonato%20Nacional%20de%20Interligas | Campeonato Nacional de Interligas | The Campeonato Nacional de Interligas (Spanish for National Championship of Interleague) is the biggest football event involving teams with combined players from different clubs of every regional leagues in Paraguay from all departments. The tournament is organized by the Unión del Fútbol del Interior (UFI).
History
Its first edition was played in 1927, same year of foundation of the Unión del Fútbol del Interior. The tournament is played (with a few exceptions) every two years, and the winner qualifies to play the Copa San Isidro de Curuguaty championship game.
Winners
Titles per team
External links
Interligas champions by Juan Pablo Andrés at RSSSF
UFI Website
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23581131 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Miller%20Dickey | John Miller Dickey | Rev. John Miller Dickey, (December 15, 1806 — March 2, 1878) was a Presbyterian minister. He and his wife, Sarah Emlen Cresson, a Quaker, founded Ashmun Institute in 1854, which was later named Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. They named it after Jehudi Ashmun, a religious leader and social reformer. They founded the school for the education of African Americans, who had few opportunities.
Dr. John Miller Dickey was the first president of the college (1854–1856). He encouraged some of his first students: James Ralston Amos (1826–1864), his brother Thomas Henry Amos (1825–1869), and Armistead Hutchinson Miller (1829/30-1865), to support the establishment of Liberia as a colony for African Americans. Each of the men became ordained ministers.
John Miller Dickey was born in Oxford, Pennsylvania and educated from Dickinson College (Carlisle College)- class of 1824.
Honor
The building 'JOHN MILLER DICKEY HALL' in Lincoln was completed in 1991 with funds allocated by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - is a , three-story structure, designed by Friday Architects/Planners of Philadelphia. Dickey Hall houses several departments.
References
House divided
Presbyterian Education
Presidents of Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)
1806 births
1878 deaths
University and college founders
People from Oxford, Pennsylvania
Dickinson College alumni |
17344380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Pak%20Agi | Anna Pak Agi | Anna Pak Agi (박아기 안나) (1782 – 24 May 1839) is one of 103 Korean Martyrs. Her feast day is May 24, and she is also venerated along with the rest of the 103 Korean martyrs on September 20.
Anna was naturally slow, and she had great difficulty in learning about religion. She consoled herself by saying, "Since I cannot know my God as I should desire to do, I will at least endeavor to love Him with all my heart."
She married a Christian, and brought up her children in that religion. She felt particular devotion in meditating on the Passion of our Lord: the sight of his five wounds was sufficient to draw abundant tears from her eyes. When she heard persecution mentioned, her countenance, far from growing pale, became, on the contrary, more animated.
She was arrested with her husband and eldest son. The latter had numerous friends at court, who did all in their power to make them apostates, and at length succeed as far as her husband and son were concerned: they were then set free. Anna, however, remained firm. The judge often tried to shake her determination by severity or by kindness, but his endeavors were vain.
Her husband and son came to see her daily and entreated her to say but one word, and leave the prison. They presented to her the desolation of her family, her old mother at the point of death, her children crying out for her, but her resolution was unshaken. "What," she said, "for a few days of life will you expose yourselves to everlasting death? Instead of soliciting me to transgress, you should exhort me to remain steadfast. Return, return rather to God, and envy me my happiness."
Anna remained in prison for three months, and died on 24 May 1839, at the age of fifty-seven.
References
Bibliography
The Lives of the 103 Korean Martyr Saints: Saint Pak A-gi Anne (1783-1839), Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea Newsletter No. 46 (Spring 2004).
1782 births
1839 deaths
Korean Roman Catholic saints
19th-century Christian saints
Canonizations by Pope John Paul II
People from Gangwon Province, South Korea
Joseon Christians |
23581138 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20of%20Brothers | House of Brothers | House of Brothers is an English indie pop band founded by Andrew Jackson. It was originally a solo project by Jackson, whose first EP Deadman was released in 2007. House of Brothers expanded to a full band in early 2008, and released the EP Document 1 to positive reviews.
Members
Andrew Jackson
Mathew Pugh
Luke J. Moss
Peter Banks
Discography
Deadman (EP, Big Scary Monsters, 2007)
Document 1 (EP, Rough Trade, 2009)
References
External links
House of Brothers (official MySpace site)
House of Brothers (official blog)
English indie rock groups |
20486158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiso%20Blackstar%20Group | Tiso Blackstar Group | Chamulinso is a Village in zambia, chilubi district, the Village founder Late. Neta Sambeshi . Chamulinso means "Something always inside the eye". The family is too small. with more expects good things.
Avusa publications and services
Magazines
avocado (closed)
Computing SA
Elle
Financial Mail
Home Owner
Longevity (sold)
SA Mining
Soccerlife
Top Huis
Newspapers
Business Day
Daily Dispatch
The Herald
Saturday Dispatch
The Sowetan
The Sunday Times
Sunday World
The Times
Weekend Post
Times Media community newspapers
Algoa Sun
Go! & Express
Our Times
The Rep
Talk of the Town
Retailers
Exclusive Books (sold)
Nu Metro Cinemas (sold)
Publishers
New Holland Publishers
Mediaguide
Picasso Headline (pty) Ltd.
Digital
Avusa created a network of its own websites, named Times Media Live, in 2010. In 2011 this network began to expand from three sites to 21 in 2014, made up mostly of disparate websites within the Group (Times Live, Sowetan Live, BDLIVE, Financial Mail, HeraldLive and more) including the African representation of The Daily Telegraph. In doing so, Times Media Live became the second largest publisher network and thereafter Times Live the second largest website in South Africa. Times Media Live was the first large media-owned publisher to reach profitability in the 2013 financial year. In 2014 The Rand Daily Mail was resuscitated as an online-only brand.
Picasso Headline currently publishes:
African Leader - Quarterly magazine published on behalf of the Black Management Forum (BMF)
SA Schools and Tertiary Collection - An annual directory of SA schools and tertiary institutions
Rock, Surf and Deep RSD - A monthly on-shelf salt water fishing magazine, including African Angling Destinations Guides
Voice of Local Government - Quarterly magazine published on behalf of the South African Local Government Association (SALGA)
Digest of SA Architecture - Annual magazine showcasing projects of the year, published on behalf of the SA Institute of Architects (SAIA), primarily for its members
Architecture SA - Alternate monthly magazine published on behalf of the SA Institute of Architects (SAIA), primarily for its members
New Agenda - A quarterly magazine published on behalf of the Institute for African Alternatives. This publication is the South African Journal of Social and Economic Policy.
SA Banker - Quarterly magazine published on behalf of the Banking Association of South Africa (BASA) and the Institute of Bankers (IOB)
In April 2019, Tiso Blacksar relaunched Vrye Weekblad.
Music
Gallo Record Company
Events
Tiso Blackstar Events is the events division of Tiso Blackstar Group which focuses on creating and managing events that leverage the reach of its titles to create brand awareness and recognition for brands and sponsors
Controversies
Accusations of fake news
On 27 November 2016, The Sunday Times published a story claiming that South African radio and television personality, and former Idols SA judge, Gareth Cliff had "admitted to giving fellow Idols SA judge Marah Louw the spiked drink that led to her notorious slurring and swearing on live TV", with further suggestions made that the incident had resulted in Louw's contract not being renewed. As a result of the article, Gareth Cliff was the victim of many insults on social media, before releasing a statement on Facebook confronting the false allegations printed in the Sunday Times. Susan Smuts, Managing Editor of the Times, responded to Cliff's lawyer, admitting that there had been "misinterpretations". Cliff, via his lawyer, demanded an unreserved apology from the Times.
See also
List of South African media
Naspers
Independent News and Media
Caxton/CTP
References
External links
Official home page
Companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
South African companies established in 2007
Companies based in Johannesburg
Mass media companies established in 2007 |
26722719 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy%20Palmer | Andy Palmer | Andrew Charles Palmer (born 30 June 1963) is an English automotive executive and engineer. He has been described as the 'Godfather of EVs' due to his work launching the Nissan Leaf in 2010 whilst COO at the Japanese company. Palmer is also known for launching Aston Martin's first SUV, the DBX, and first mid-engined sports car, Valkyrie, during his tenure as CEO from 2014 to 2020. Palmer is currently CEO and Executive Vice-chairman of electric bus and van company, Switch. In addition, Palmer is founder and CEO of Palmer Automotive Ltd (most notably leading a bid on behalf of Punch, to acquire Nissan Motor Iberica in Barcelona), chairman of Optare plc, a non-executive director of Ashok Leyland Ltd, and Chairman of InoBat, a Slovakian developer of electric vehicle 'intelligent' batteries.
In 2017, Palmer was appointed chairman of the productivity and skills commission of the new West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA). He was previously the chief planning officer, executive vice-president and member of the executive committee of Nissan Motor Company. Reporting directly to Nissan's president and CEO, Carlos Ghosn, Palmer shared the chief operating officer role with two Nissan executives. Palmer was also chairman of Infiniti, and president of Nissan Motor Light Truck Co, a member of the board of directors of Nissan (China) Investment Company (NCIC), and of Nissan's joint ventures with India's Ashok Leyland.
Early life
Palmer was born in June 1963 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Palmer attended Kineton High School.
Palmer entered a technical apprenticeship with UK Automotive Products Limited in 1979 at the age of 16. He received a master's degree (MSc) in Product Engineering from the University of Warwick, in July 1990, and a doctorate (PhD) in Engineering Management, from Cranfield University, in April 2004. Palmer is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Palmer holds a Diploma in Industrial Management from Coventry University. Palmer is a member and former board member of SAE International and a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute
He was given honorary doctorates by Coventry and Cranfield Universities, and is a professor at Coventry University, industrial professor at Warwick University and a guest professor at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology.
Business career
Palmer started his professional career in 1983 as a project engineer of UK Automotive Products Limited. In 1991, he became manual transmission chief engineer of Rover Group. Latterly in his career, he was described by Automotive News Europe as an "engineer-turned-marketing guru [with a] raw instinct."
Nissan
Palmer joined Nissan in 1991 as business administration manager at the Nissan Technical Centre Europe (NTCE), where he became Deputy managing director in 2001 after managing vehicle design and testing.
In September 2002, Palmer moved to Japan, where he became program director for Nissan's Light Commercial Vehicles (LCVs).
Adding to his duties as Program Director, Palmer was named President of Nissan Motor Light Trucks Company Limited in 2003. After establishing the LCV business unit within Nissan in April 2004, Palmer was promoted in April 2005 to Corporate Vice-president in charge of the unit. In February 2009, Palmer was appointed Senior Vice-president, and entered Nissan's executive committee. In October 2010, Palmer's responsibility was extended to include Global Marketing, Brand and Communications. In April 2011, he was named Executive Vice-president.
In his position as Chief Planning Officer of Nissan, Andy Palmer was "responsible for global product planning, global program management, global market intelligence, global IS, global Infiniti business unit, global marketing communications, global corporate planning (including OEM business), zero emission vehicle planning and strategy, global battery business unit, and global sales."
At Nissan, Palmer is credited with pioneering new technologies, through his support of the Zeod hybrid Le Mans project and Bladeglider sports car concept.
At the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show, Palmer said that "it's complete bullshit" to assume that electric vehicles move the issue to the powerstation. Palmer conceded that EVs could pollute even less if electricity generation would be made greener across the globe.
Palmer was described as the "main proponent of electric vehicles" at Nissan and led on the development of the LEAF electric car. Bloomberg described Palmer as "instrumental in developing the Japanese carmaker's battery-powered LEAF."
In October 2013, Palmer called the Toyota 86 and the jointly developed Subaru BRZ "midlife crisis cars."
In March 2014, Palmer drew attention after Global NCAP tested a number of India's best-selling cars (including the Tata Nano, Suzuki-Maruti Alto 800, Ford Figo, Volkswagen Polo and Hyundai i10) and found their safety lacking. "I think the people who criticise these cars for not meeting US or European crash standards are living in a dream world," Palmer was quoted by Autocar. "We are talking about cars built to transport people who would otherwise be four or five-up on a motorcycle. These people today can't afford more, and if we fit safety systems we will drive the prices up and they'll choose the motorbike again. A car with a body and individual seats is much safer than a bike." A Nissan car was not among the tested vehicles.
Aston Martin
Palmer became chief executive of Aston Martin in October 2014. He has gained recognition for bringing the iconic, albeit perennially loss-making, Aston Martin brand on the path of profitability.
"From a very early age I wanted to be the CEO of a car company," Palmer told Autocar, "but when I decided to take this one from Nissan, I was pretty sure people would say I was mad."
Arriving at Aston Martin in 2014, Palmer introduced new equity, an expansion plan, and cost reduction. He "put funding in place to launch one new model at least every year," sanctioned a new logistics center and a new factory in Wales to build the DBX SUV. At the 2015 Geneva Motor Show, Palmer had presented Aston Martin's "Second Century Plan," and he unveiled the DBX crossover concept he had commissioned when new into the job as Aston Martin CEO.
In Palmer's first year at Aston Martin, a decline of retail sales was reversed, with a year-on-year 11% growth. Under Palmer's early leadership between 2014 and 2017, EBITDA had quadrupled and the company returned to profit.
Drawing on his time working in Japan, Palmer imported various elements of Japanese corporate culture at Aston Martin, including a greater emphasis on teamwork and minimising internal politics.
Palmer's tenure at Aston Martin saw the launch of four core car models with nine derivatives; the DB11, Vantage, DBS Superleggera and DBX. Palmer also oversaw Aston Martin's move towards a mid-engined car bloodline, culminating in the launch of the Valkyrie expected in late 2020.
Public offering
After being credited with "completing a turnaround for the once perennially loss-making company", in October 2018 Palmer announced the company's IPO on the London Stock Exchange. Following the initial float, the company faced challenges during the 2019 automotive downturn.
Following the IPO, analysts suggested Palmer had the "toughest job in the industry" and that alongside Brexit and the global automotive slump "blame [for the company's market performance] probably lies with Aston's private equity owners and its multiple advisers for seeking too high a price and encouraging the company to go to market with an excessively hubristic and overwrought script."
The Sunday Times wrote that Palmer has "fought for the past year with one hand tied behind his back. Aston's private equity shareholders, the Italian fund Investindustrial and Kuwait's Investment Dar, sold about 25% of their shares in the listing, raking in £1.1bn. But, reluctant to be diluted via a share issue, they did not allow Aston to raise any fresh capital. That meant it brought in new investors, but no new money, and so started life as a public company already up to its neck in debt."
Car and Driver questioned: “But could Palmer have altered his destiny? Even 20/20 hindsight struggles to discern a clearer path. The IPO was the only obvious way to defuse tensions between the existing investors who were clamoring to get their cash back. It's hard to imagine simple changes that could have sold many more cars or even a much quicker launch for the DBX."
To stabilize the company, Palmer led Aston Martin through two debt raises, a Rights Issue and private placement, raising £536million. This took place as Palmer navigated the company through the COVID-19 outbreak, which had a severe impact on demand throughout the automotive industry.
Departure
The Aston Martin board announced on 26 May 2020 that Palmer was leaving Aston Martin after almost six years, to be replaced by Tobias Moers. Car and Driver noted, "once Lawrence Stroll had taken a substantial stake in the company — one Palmer had fought against — it was clear that change was coming." Before Palmer left, the Aston Martin share price had declined 94% since floatation and the price increased 40% on the day of the announcement; three directors also left.
On his departure from Aston Martin, Palmer was praised by Steve Fowler of Auto Express for producing Aston Martin's "best ever line up" and for "leaving the company in a better place than when he joined." Car and Driver agreed: "Palmer leaves Aston looking stronger than it ever has, and that wasn't enough to save him."
After leaving Aston Martin, Palmer spoke The Guardian newspaper and reflected on his tenure at the company, commenting "if you tell the story of going from £420m to £2bn, it’s an amazing turnaround.” Since leaving Aston Martin, Palmer has been described as the "architect of modern Aston Martin, developing the brand from an also-ran former Ford cast off to a real player in the segment".
InoBat Auto
In October 2020, Palmer was appointed non-executive vice-chairman of a Slovakian battery manufacturer, InoBat Auto. In March 2022, Palmer was appointed as Chairman of the company.
Optare/Switch Mobility
In July 2020, Optare, a UK maker of buses, announced that Palmer was appointed non-executive chairman. Optare is a subsidiary of Indian company Ashok Leyland, where Palmer served as a non-executive board member since 2015. During his time at Nissan, Palmer was a board member of a Nissan joint-venture with Ashok Leyland. Nissan ended the joint-venture in 2016. In July 2021, Palmer was appointed as CEO and Executive Vice-chairman of the newly re-branded Optare, now known as Switch Mobility. In August 2021, Switch secured an investment that valued the company at $1.8 billion.
Palmer Automotive Ltd.
In mid-2020, Palmer founded Palmer Automotive, a vehicle for Palmer to deploy "more than four decades' experience in the auto industry to do something good for the planet". Via Palmer Automotive Ltd, Palmer supports multiple organisations operating in the net zero space.
UK government
Palmer advises the UK government in export matters as an ambassador for the GREAT Britain campaign. In 2016, Palmer was asked to be an advisor to the UK Prime Minister in the area of Skills and Apprenticeships. Palmer serves as an Honorary Group Captain of the Royal Air Force. In January 2021, Palmer wrote to the UK Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Kwasi Kwarteng MP, declaring the UK urgently needed to plan for four factories for electric vehicle batteries in order for the UK car industry to stay competitive. In January 2021, Palmer submitted evidence to the parliamentary Science and Technology Select Committee on the role hydrogen can play in reaching Net Zero. In September 2021, Palmer announced he was appointed as an Ambassador for the government's Business Climate Leaders campaign ahead of COP26.
Palmer Foundation
In September 2018, Palmer announced a charitable foundation to fund apprenticeships targeting young people from disadvantaged background. According to an Aston Martin statement, "the charitable foundation will operate independently of the apprenticeship scheme at Aston Martin Lagonda, which earlier this month welcomed its biggest ever intake of 50 apprentices and 26 graduates."
Recognition
In 2012, Palmer was designated No. 1 in the "Top 50 Most Influential British People in the Global Automotive Business 2012" and selected to Auto Express Hall of Fame.
In 2013, Palmer was named the automotive industry's most influential, and the world's third most influential chief marketing officer (after Phil Schiller of Apple Inc. and Younghee Lee of Samsung) by the CMO Influence Study, conducted by marketing firm Appinions for Forbes magazine.
Under CMO Palmer, Nissan's Interbrand score entered the top 100 in 2011, and moved to 65 in 2013. Among Interbrand's Best Global Green Brands 2013, Nissan took No. 5. Interbrand credited Palmer with "elevating marketing to a science."
Palmer was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to the British automotive industry.
In 2014, Palmer was voted one of EVO's "25 most important people of the car industry."
In 2016, Palmer was selected for the first Cranfield University "Distinguished Manufacturing Alumnus/a of the Year Award".
In 2017, Palmer was appointed Honorary Group Captain with the RAF.
In 2018, Palmer was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by Auto Express.
In 2018, Palmer won an Automotive News "All Star" award in the luxury car category.
In 2021, Palmer appeared on BBC's Question Time and was introduced as "one of the most respected people in the [auto] business".
In 2021, Palmer was awarded the 'Men as Allies' award by the Women's Engineering Society.
Personal life
Palmer is married to Hitomi, who is Japanese, and they have one daughter. He has three children from a previous marriage.
Palmer's hobbies include "reading, listening to punk rock, and running by necessity."
Racing
Palmer (not to be confused with the Bentley Team racing driver) is a licensed race car driver. He started racing while still at Nissan, driving a GT4 Nissan 370Z. A few months after taking the helm of Aston Martin, Palmer and his co-drivers, Marek Reichman, Alice Powell and Andrew Frankel, finished 5th overall and 4th in class at the Silverstone Britcar 24-Hour. He entered professional racing in 2017, when he applied for and received his MSA C Class international licence., and only weeks later, he finished 20th overall and 2nd in class SP3, co-driven by chef and racer Paul Holywood, racer Pete Cate and motorsport commentator John Hindhaugh in an Vantage GT8 at the 2017 Hankook 24H COTA USA.
References
External links
Video, Q&A with Andy Palmer
Just-auto interview with Andy Palmer
Official bio at Nissan
1963 births
Living people
Alumni of Cranfield University
Alumni of the University of Warwick
Chief executives in the automobile industry
Chief operating officers
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
English chief executives
English engineers
English expatriates in Japan
Fellows of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Nissan
Aston Martin
People from Stratford-upon-Avon
24H Series drivers |
20486179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele%20Marc | Île Marc | Île Marc is one of the Canadian arctic islands in Nunavut, Canada. It lies in the Boyer Strait, south of Massey Island, and north-west of Alexander Island.
External links
Île Marc in the Atlas of Canada - Toporama; Natural Resources Canada
Ile Vanier
Uninhabited islands of Qikiqtaaluk Region |
17344393 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thapangthong%20district | Thapangthong district | Thapangthong District is a district (muang) of Savannakhet province in southern Laos.
Settlements
Tha Pangthong
Ban Nong Ko
References
Districts of Savannakhet province |
17344404 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite%20Range | Granite Range | Granite Range may refer to:
Granite Range (Alaska) in Alaska, USA
Granite Range (Montana) in Montana, USA
Granite Range (Elko County) in Nevada, USA
Granite Range (Washoe County) in Nevada, USA
See also
Granite Mountain (disambiguation)
Granite Mountains (disambiguation) |
23581146 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshal%20Johnson | Marshal Johnson | Marshal Mfon Johnson (born 12 December 1989) is a Nigerian footballer who last played for FC Pyunik.
Career
Johnson began his career with Akwa United F.C. and joined on 26 May 2009 to Belgium club R. Union Saint-Gilloise who signed a two-year contract. On 24 September 2010 left R. Union Saint-Gilloise and signed with KAS Eupen.
In the summer of 2011, Johnson signed for Honvéd on loan.
In March 2018, Johnson signed a one-year contract with Armenian Premier League club FC Pyunik.
References
External links
NZS profile
1989 births
Living people
People from Uyo
Nigerian footballers
Association football midfielders
Royale Union Saint-Gilloise players
Akwa United F.C. players
Expatriate footballers in Belgium
Expatriate footballers in Hungary
Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
Slovenian PrvaLiga players
K.A.S. Eupen players
Nigerian expatriate footballers
Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Hungary
Nemzeti Bajnokság I players
Budapest Honvéd FC players
Budapest Honvéd FC II players
Expatriate footballers in Slovenia
Expatriate footballers in Armenia
ND Gorica players
Expatriate footballers in the United Arab Emirates |
26722725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik%20Scherpenhuijzen | Hendrik Scherpenhuijzen | Hendrik Scherpenhuijzen (3 April 1882 – 28 June 1971) was a Dutch fencer. He won a bronze medal in the team sabre competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
References
External links
1882 births
1971 deaths
Dutch male fencers
Olympic fencers of the Netherlands
Fencers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
Olympic medalists in fencing
Sportspeople from Rotterdam
Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics |
17344413 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley%20Parker | Harley Parker | Harley Parker (April 13, 1915 – March 3, 1992) was a Canadian artist, designer, curator, professor and scholar - a frequent collaborator with fellow Canadian and communications theorist Marshall McLuhan.
Parker specialized in watercolour painting, and exhibited internationally.
He was awarded numerous grants over his life, including two Canada Council Grants, and a British Council of the Arts Grant. He lectured all over the world, was published internationally, and collaborated closely with manifold scholars and thinkers, McLuhan among them.
Life and career
Harley Parker was born in Fort William, Ontario in 1915.
He graduated from the Ontario College of Art (OCA) in Toronto, Ontario in 1939, and from there went on to work independently as an artist. Years later, he taught color, design, and watercolor. In 1946, he attended and completed further studies at Black Mountain College in Virginia, studying under Josef Albers. Between the years of 1947 and 1957, Parker taught colour theory and design, as well as watercolour techniques, at the Ontario College of Art (OCA) in Toronto, Ontario.
In 1957, he assumed the position of Head of Design and Installations at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto, a post which he retained for a decade, until 1967. During a year-long sabbatical leave from his teaching position, he became an associate professor at Fordham University sharing the Albert Schweitzer chair of communications with Professor Marshall McLuhan.
From 1967 until 1975, Parker became involved with McLuhan's Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto as a research associate. His work there revolved around investigating the relationships between the arts and sciences in the 20th century. It was during these years that he collaborated most closely with Marshall McLuhan, co-authoring two titles, Through the Vanishing Point: Space in Poetry and Painting and Counterblast.
In 1973, Parker was selected to be the first Institute Professor of Communications at the Rochester Institute of Technology, in Rochester, New York. He returned to Canada the following year to pick up his work with McLuhan's Centre for Culture and Technology.
Parker retired from his scholarly career in 1976, whereupon he moved to British Columbia to live and paint in the Kootenay Mountains. He participated in many solo and group exhibitions across Canada and the globe, both in solo and group shows, until his death in 1992.
Bibliography
1960 The Gutenberg Galaxy: A Voyage Between Two Worlds. Transcript of conversation with McLuhan, Harley Parker, and Robert Shafer (appeared in McLuhan's Report on Project in Understanding New Media).
1967 "Picnic in Space." Interviewed with Marshall McLuhan. dir. Bruce Bacon. Retrieved from http://www.watershed.co.uk/mcluhan/picnic-in-space/
1968 Through the Vanishing Point: Space in Poetry and Painting with Marshall McLuhan; 1st Ed.: Harper & Row, NY.
1969 Counterblast, Marshall McLuhan, design/layout by Harley Parker; McClelland and Steward, Toronto.
References
External links
Harley Parker : Biography and Galleries
"Picnic in Space" (Video Interview)
The Marshall McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology
1915 births
1992 deaths
Fordham University faculty
Marshall McLuhan
Mass media theorists
North American cultural studies
University of Toronto faculty
20th-century Canadian painters
Canadian male painters
Rochester Institute of Technology faculty |
17344414 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951%20Luxembourg%20general%20election | 1951 Luxembourg general election | Partial general elections were held in Luxembourg on 3 June 1951, electing 26 of the 52 seats in the Chamber of Deputies in the south and east of the country. The Christian Social People's Party won 12 of the 26 seats, but saw its total number of seats fall from 22 to 21.
Results
References
Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg elections
Legislative election, 1951
Luxembourg
1951 in Luxembourg
June 1951 events in Europe |
26722733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabul%20Dreams | Kabul Dreams | Kabul Dreams is a rock band from Afghanistan, established in 2008 in Kabul. The band consists of Sulyman Qardash (lead singer and guitarist), Siddique Ahmed (bassist) and Jai Dhar (drummer). The band is managed by Alykhan Kaba. Kabul Dreams has paved the way for a modest but growing rock scene in Afghanistan, rebuilding itself after decades of war. The band’s motivation to perform came from their own love for music, but also from a public hunger for a new life after war – a life that included new music and art.
History
All of the band members were born in Afghanistan, but they were displaced to neighboring countries as refugees during the Taliban reign – Sulyman Qardash in Uzbekistan, Siddique Ahmed in Pakistan, and Mojtaba Habibi Shandiz in Iran. After the fall of the Taliban regime, the band members returned to Afghanistan and met each other in Kabul. Since the bandmates originate from different regions, they do not share a common first language, and perform in English. Their musical influences include Sex Pistols, Metallica, Nirvana and Oasis.
In April 2013, Kabul Dreams released their first album, Plastic Words. The album was mixed by Grammy winner Alan Sanderson, who has previously worked with artists including Michael Jackson and The Rolling Stones.
In 2014, the band relocated to Oakland, California to grow their presence in the American music scene. While the band had experience performing in Europe and Asia, they made their North American debut that year at the high profile arts festival, South by Southwest. They have played several more shows since then, located primarily in the Bay Area. In 2016, they partnered again with Alan Sanderson to release their second album, Megalomaniacs.
Band members
Current members
Sulyman Qardash - lead vocals, guitar (2008–present)
Siddique Ahmed - bass (2008–present)
Jai Dhar - drums (2019-present)
Former members
Raby Adib - drums (2013–2018)
Mojtaba Habibi Shandiz - drums (2008–2013)
Timeline
Discography
Plastic Words (2013)
Megalomaniacs (2017)
With Love from Kabul Dreams (2019)
Filmography
Radio Dreams (2016) – as themselves
Radio Dreams is a film about a Persian language radio station located in the Bay Area that tries to arrange a jam session between the Afghan rock band Kabul Dreams and the metal legends Metallica. The film is a fictional story, and features Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich.
In 2016, Radio Dreams won the Hivos Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. In 2017, the North American rights to the film were acquired by Matson Films in Los Angeles. It was slated for theatrical release in late April and May 2017.
References
External links
Afghan rock music groups
Musical groups established in 2008 |
20486183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Nusan%20Porter | Jack Nusan Porter | Jack Nusan Porter is an American writer, sociologist, human rights and social activist, and former treasurer and vice-president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. He is a former assistant professor of social science at Boston University and a former research associate at Harvard's Ukrainian Research Institute. He is a research associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, doing research on Israeli-Russian relations, especially the life of Golda Meir, as well as doing work on mathematical and statistical models to predict genocide and terrorism and modes of resistance to genocide. His most recent books are Is Sociology Dead?, Social Theory and Social Praxis in a Post-Modern Age, The Genocidal Mind, The Jew as Outsider, and Confronting History and Holocaust.
Early life and education
Nusia Jakub Puchtik was born December 2, 1944, in Rovno, Ukraine to Jewish-Ukrainian partisan parents Faljga Merin and Srulik Puchtik. The family emigrated to the United States on June 20, 1946 and their name was Anglicized to Porter.
Growing up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Porter attended Washington High School and was active in Habonim Dror, a Labor Zionist Youth movement. He left for Israel soon after high school and worked on Kibbutz Gesher Haziv and studied in Jerusalem at the Machon L'Madrichei Chutz La'Aretz (a youth leaders institute). Porter eventually returned to Wisconsin and attended the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee from 1963-1967, majoring in sociology and Hebrew Studies. Going for the Ph.D. in sociology, he was accepted in 1967 to Northwestern University, studying under Howard S. Becker, Bernie Beck, Janet Abu-Lughod, and Charles Moskos. In the late 1960s, Porter was an active leader in the moderate wing of Students for a Democratic Society. However, in response to the growing anti-Zionism emanating from the black and white leftist movements, Porter and other students at Northwestern founded in 1970 the activist Jewish Student Movement, a forerunner to all Jewish “renewal” groups and predecessor to Michael Lerner’s Tikkun movement.
Career
In 1976, Porter founded the Journal of the History of Sociology; it published its first issue in 1978. In the 1980s, Porter founded The Spencer Institute For Business and Society; a new age think tank. Also incorporated into the Spencer Institute For Business and Society was the Ahimsa Project. He also set up the Spencer School of Real Estate in 1983 and became a real estate developer, building housing in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
In 2001, Porter was ordained a rabbi by an Orthodox Vaad in New York City, attending the trans-denominational Academy for Jewish Religion in Manhattan in the late 1990s; after which he served congregations in Marlboro and Chelsea, Massachusetts and most notably in Key West, Florida, where he led a controversial Jewish outreach program to native Key Westers known as “Conchs”, northeastern U.S. “Snowbirds”, Miami’s Jewish, Cuban, and intermarried “Jewban” populations, transvestites, gay and lesbian parishioners.
In the spring of 2012 Porter ran for United States House of Representatives for the 4th Congressional seat in Massachusetts as a write-in candidate following the departure of incumbent Representative Barney Frank. Running as a Democrat, Porter described himself as a "radical-libertarian-progressive" and aligned his views with those of Representative Ron Paul and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. Porter's write-in candidacy gained less than 0.1% of the vote; Joseph Kennedy III won the primary with approximately 90% of the vote and was later elected to his first term in Congress in the 2012 general election.
Selected works
Porter's books include:
Student Protest and the Technocratic Society: The Case of ROTC (Chicago: Adams Press, 1973 and based on his sociology Ph.D. dissertation from Northwestern University, June 1971)
Jewish Radicalism with Peter Dreier (Grove Press, 1973)
The Sociology of American Jews (University Press of America, 1978, 1980)
The Jew as Outsider (University Press of America, 1981; The Spencer Press, 2014)
Jewish Partisans: A documentary of Jewish resistance in the Soviet Union during World War II (University Press of America, 1982; The Spencer Press, 2013)
Conflict and Conflict Resolution: An Historical Bibliography (Garland Publishing, 1982)
Genocide and Human Rights: A Global Anthology (University Press of America, 1982)
Confronting history and Holocaust (University Press of America, 1983; new edition with bibliography of Porter's works, The Spencer Press, 2014)
Sexual politics in the Third Reich: The Persecution of the Homosexuals During the Holocaust (The Spencer Press, 1991, with Rudiger Lautmann and Erhard Vismar; 20th Anniversary edition, The Spencer Press, 2011)
The Sociology of Genocide: A Curriculum Guide (American Sociological Association, 1992)
The Sociology of Jewry: A Curriculum Guide (American Sociological Association, 1992)
Women in Chains: On the Agunah (Jason Aronson, 1995)
The Genocidal Mind: Sociological and Sexual Perspctives (University Press of America, 2006)
Is Sociology Dead? Social Theory and Social Praxis in a Post-Modern Age (University Press of America, 2008)
Awards
2004: Lifetime Achievement Award, American Sociological Association Section on the History of Sociology for his founding of the Journal of the History of Sociology, 1977-1982. He shared the award with Glenn Jacobs and Alan Sica.
2009 The Robin Williams Award for Distinguished Contributions to Scholarship, Teaching, and Service from the American Sociological Association, Section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict (for his work in genocide and Holocaust studies).
References
1944 births
Living people
People from Rivne
Ukrainian Jews
American Zionists
Northwestern University alumni
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee alumni
Boston University
Harvard University staff
American sociologists
Massachusetts Democrats
American human rights activists
Jewish human rights activists
Jewish activists
American anti–Vietnam War activists |
20486187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remember%20Me%20%281979%20film%29 | Remember Me (1979 film) | Remember Me is a 1979 American short documentary film produced by Dick Young, that was filmed in the US, the Middle East and Asia. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
Summary
Documenting and contrasting children's youthful beauty with the squalor, hardship and wasted potential of their daily lives; students learning how their counterparts really live and are encouraged to think about what these children need to thrive.
References
External links
1979 films
1979 documentary films
1979 short films
1970s short documentary films
English-language films
American short documentary films |
23581148 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landesliga%20Braunschweig | Landesliga Braunschweig | The Landesliga Braunschweig, called the Bezirksoberliga Braunschweig from 1979 to 1994 and 2006 to 2010, is the sixth tier of the German football league system and the second highest league in the German state of Lower Saxony (German: Niedersachsen). It covers the region of the now defunct Regierungsbezirk Braunschweig.
It is one of four leagues at this level in Lower Saxony, the other three being the Landesliga Lüneburg, the Landesliga Weser-Ems and the Landesliga Hannover.
The term Landesliga can be translated as State league.
Overview
The league's history goes back to 1979, when four new Bezirksoberligas (Braunschweig, Hannover, Lüneburg and Weser-Ems) were formed in the state of Lower Saxony. The Bezirksoberligas (6th tier) were set below the Verbandsliga Niedersachsen (4th tier) and the two Landesligas (5th tier) in the German football league system. In 1994, the two old Landesligas were dissolved, while the four Bezirksoberligas were renamed into Landesliga Braunschweig, Landesliga Hannover, Landesliga Lüneburg, and Landesliga Weser-Ems respectively. Due to the introduction of the new Regionalliga (IV) the new Landesligas still remained at the 6th tier of German football, however.
In 2006, the Landesliga was renamed into Bezirksoberliga again. The new Bezirksoberliga Braunschweig was made up of fifteen clubs, two from the Verbandsliga Niedersachsen-Ost, eleven from the Landesliga and one from the two Bezirksligas each. The league was formed in a reorganisation of the league system in Lower Saxony, whereby the four regional Landsligas were replaced by the Bezirksoberligas. Below these, the number of Bezirksligas was increased. In Braunschweig, the two Bezirksligas were expanded to four, as in the other regions, except Weser-Ems, which was expanded to five.
The Bezirksoberliga, like the Landesliga before, was set in the league system below the Verbandsliga and above the now four Bezirksligas, which were numbered from one to four. The winner of the Bezirksoberliga was directly promoted to the Verbandsliga, while the bottom placed teams, in a varying number, were relegated to the Bezirksliga. The Bezirksoberligas of Weser-Ems and Hannover form the tier below the Verbandsliga West, while those of Lüneburg and Braunschweig form the tier below the eastern division of the Verbandsliga.
In the leagues first season, 2006–07, the runners-up of the league, SCW Göttingen, was also promoted, like the runners-up from Lüneburg. In the following season, only the league champions were promoted while, in 2009, Lupo Martini Wolfsburg moved up a level as runners-up.
At the end of the 2007-08 season, with the introduction of the 3. Liga, the Verbandsliga was renamed Oberliga Niedersachsen-Ost. For the Bezirksoberliga, this had no direct consequences.
After the 2009-10 season, the two Oberligas () in Lower Saxony were merged to one single division. The four Bezirksoberliga champions that season were not be automatically promoted, instead they had to compete with the four teams placed ninth and tenth in the Oberliga for four more spots in this league.
On 17 May 2010, the Lower Saxony football association decided to rename the four Bezirksoberligas to Landesligas from 1 July 2010. This change in name came alongside the merger of the two Oberliga divisions above it into the Oberliga Niedersachsen.
Champions
The league champions of the Bezirksoberliga and Landesliga Braunschweig since 1979:
Bezirksoberliga Braunschweig 1979–1994
Landesliga Braunschweig 1994–2006
Bezirksoberliga Braunschweig 2006–2010
Landesliga Braunschweig 2010–present
Promoted teams in bold.
References
Sources
Deutschlands Fußball in Zahlen, An annual publication with tables and results from the Bundesliga to Verbandsliga/Landesliga. DSFS.
Kicker Almanach, The yearbook on German football from Bundesliga to Oberliga, since 1937. Kicker Sports Magazine.
Die Deutsche Liga-Chronik 1945-2005 History of German football from 1945 to 2005 in tables. DSFS. 2006.
External links
Das deutsche Fussball Archiv Historic German league tables
The Lower Saxony Football Association (NFV)
Braunschweig
Football competitions in Lower Saxony
1979 establishments in West Germany
Sports leagues established in 1979
Sport in Braunschweig |
6911275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kham%20Khuean%20Kaeo%20district | Kham Khuean Kaeo district | Kham Khuean Kaeo (, ) is a district (amphoe) of Yasothon province in northeastern Thailand.
History
In 1917, the district was renamed Lumphuk after its central sub-district. In 1953 it was returned to its original name, Kham Khuean Kaeo.
When Yasothon was separated from Ubon Ratchathani province, Kham Khuean Kaeo was one of the districts which was assigned to the new province.
Geography
Neighboring districts are (from the northwest clockwise): Mueang Yasothon and Pa Tio of Yasothon Province; Hua Taphan of Amnat Charoen province; Khueang Nai of Ubon Ratchathani province; Maha Chana Chai of Yasothon Province; and Phanom Phrai of Roi Et province.
Administration
The district is divided into 13 sub-districts (tambons) which make up 115 villages (mubans). Kham Khuean Kaeo is a sub-district municipality (thesaban tambon) which covers parts of the sub-district Lumphuk. Each of the sub-districts have a tambon administrative organization (TAO).
References
External links
amphoe.com (Thai)
Districts of Yasothon province |
23581165 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akaflieg%20Stuttgart%20fs18 | Akaflieg Stuttgart fs18 | The Akaflieg Stuttgart fs18a was a glider designed and built in Germany from 1938. It was characterized by a gull wing and was the first glider to have a retractable undercarriage. Only one example of the design was constructed.
Development
With the experience gained from the Rhön gliding competitions, the students at Akaflieg Stuttgart (Akademische Fliegergruppe – academic flying group) designed the fs18, which was able to turn tightly in thermals and had a relatively low sink rate, over the six months preceding the next Rhön competition at Wasserkuppe. The result was the fs18 which was a high-wing cantilever monoplane with gulled centre section, to ensure that the wings joined the fuselage at 90 degrees, rectangular midsection and tapered outer section. Flaps were fitted to the trailing edge of the midsection to 30% chord, and ailerons were mounted on the trailing edges of the outer wing sections. The fuselage consisted of the cockpit pod smoothly narrowing to a boom-like rear fuselage supporting the tail unit. The main undercarriage was manually retractable into an enclosed wheel well behind the cockpit. After the first flight on 21 July 1938, testing of the fs18a continued until 7 December 1938 when the fs18 crashed, killing pilot Ernst Scheible.
Specifications
See also
References
Further reading
1930s German sailplanes
Glider aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1938
Akaflieg Stuttgart aircraft |
23581177 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser%20Churchill | Fraser Churchill | Fraser Elmslie Churchill (29 January 1863 – 29 August 1943) was an English rower who won the Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta.
Churchill was born in London, the son of Charles Churchill. His family home was in Weybridge Park, Weybridge, Surrey, in the half of the parish closer to the River Thames. He was educated from age 13 at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge (1882–1885). There he was selected as one of the eight oarsmen to race for Cambridge University Boat Club in the Boat Races of 1883, 1884 and 1885. In 1886, he won Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta with Stanley Muttlebury.
Churchill was admitted at Inner Temple (1885–1894) until his name was withdrawn. He emigrated to Australia and lived at Molong, New South Wales.
Churchill died at Molong at the age of 80.
See also
List of Cambridge University Boat Race crews
References
1863 births
1943 deaths
People educated at Eton College
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Cambridge University Boat Club rowers
English male rowers
English emigrants to Australia |
23581192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylcatechol | Methylcatechol | Methylcatechol may refer to:
Guaiacol (O-methylcatechol)
3-Methylcatechol
4-Methylcatechol |
23581194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connelly%20v%20DPP | Connelly v DPP | Connelly v DPP [1964] AC 1254 was a landmark appeal whereby the highest court set out the way in which peripheral double jeopardy trials can take place in British law. It was ruled such proceedings should only be stayed where a retrial would be an abuse of process that violated objective standards of fairness and hampered the rights of the defendant. Connelly had been tried for murder, while in the commission of a robbery, and was found guilty despite a defence revolving around a lack of intent for murder. Connelly then appealed to the Court of Appeal, where his conviction was overturned and he was acquitted of murder for lack of proveable intent to kill or cause serious injury at the moment or leading up to the killing and the indictment reduced to robbery. Connelly pleaded autrefois acquit, or double jeopardy, but the argument was rejected and he was able to be convicted of robbery. It is ruled that offences of murder and robbery differ enough in fact and in law" that charges for both offences must together fall or stand. The moral sphere in which law founded demands in that the public interest (and where a custodial or electronic tagging sentence is imposed, a period of enhanced protection of the public) that robbers do not go without a sentence by way of justice.
Notes
References
English criminal case law
House of Lords cases
1964 in British law
1964 in case law |
6911288 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20common%20astronomy%20symbols | List of common astronomy symbols | This is a compilation of symbols commonly used in astronomy, particularly professional astronomy.
Age (stellar)
τ - age
Astrometry parameters
Astrometry parameters
Rv - radial velocity
cz - apparent radial velocity
z - Redshift
μ - proper motion
π - parallax
J - epoch
α - Right Ascension
δ - Declination
λ - Ecliptic longitude
β - Ecliptic latitude
l - Galactic longitude
b - Galactic latitude
Cosmological parameters
Cosmological parameters
h - dimensionless Hubble parameter
H0 - Hubble constant
Λ - cosmological constant
Ω - density parameter
ρ - density
ρc - critical density
z - redshift
Distance description
Distance description for orbital and non-orbital parameters:
d - distance
d - in km = kilometer
d - in mi = mile
d - in AU = astronomical unit
d - in ly = light-year
d - in pc = parsec
d - in kpc = kiloparsec (1000 pc)
DL - luminosity distance, obtaining an objects distance using only visual aspects
Galaxy comparison
Galaxy type and spectral comparison:
see galaxy morphological classification
Luminosity comparison
Luminosity comparison:
LS, - luminosity of the Sun (Sol)
Luminosity of certain object:
Lacc - accretion luminosity
Lbol - bolometric luminosity
Mass comparison
Mass comparison:
ME, - mass of Earth
, - mass of Jupiter
MS, - mass of the Sun (Sol)
Mass of certain object:
M● - mass of black hole
Macc - mass of accretion disc
Metallicity comparison
Metallicity comparison:
[Fe/H] - Iron ratio to Hydrogen, a logarithm representation of the ratio of a star's iron abundance compared to that of the Sun
[M/H] - Metallicity ratio.
Z - Metallicity
ZS, Z☉ - Metallicity of the Sun (Sol)
Orbital parameters
Orbital Parameters of a Cosmic Object:
α - RA, right ascension, if the Greek letter does not appear, á letter will appear.
δ - Dec, declination, if the Greek letter does not appear, ä letter will appear.
P or Porb or T - orbital period
a - semi-major axis
b - semi-minor axis
q - periapsis, the minimum distance
Q - apoapsis, the maximum distance
e - eccentricity
i - inclination
Ω - longitude of ascending node
ω - argument of periapsis
RL - Roche lobe
M - Mean anomaly
Mo - Mean anomaly at epoch
Radius comparison
Radius comparison:
RE, - Radius compared to Earth
, - Radius compared to Jupiter
RS, - Radius compared to The Sun (Sol)
Spectral comparison
Spectral comparison:
see Stellar classification
m(object) - Apparent magnitude
M(object) - Absolute magnitude, for galaxies and stars
H(object) - Absolute magnitude, for planets and nonstellar objects
Temperature description
Temperature description:
Teff - Temperature Effect, usually associated with luminous object
Tmax - Temperature Maximum, usually associated with non-luminous object
Tavg - Temperature Average, usually associated with non-luminous object
Tmin - Temperature Minimum, usually associated with non-luminous object
K - Kelvin
See also
List of astronomy acronyms
Astronomical symbols
Stellar classification
Galaxy morphological classification
List of astronomical catalogues
Glossary of astronomy
References
Symbols
Astronomy |
23581196 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C7H8O2 | C7H8O2 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C7H8O2}}
The molecular formula C7H8O2 (molar mass: 124.14 g/mol, exact mass: 124.05243 u) may refer to:
2-Acetyl-5-methylfuran
Methylbenzenediols
3-Methylcatechol
4-Methylcatechol
Orcinol
Hydroxymethylphenols
Gastrodigenin
Salicyl alcohol
Methoxyphenols (benzenediol monomethyl ethers)
Guaiacol
3-methoxyphenol
Mequinol
Phenylmethanediol |
23581200 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Theodore%20Barclay | Charles Theodore Barclay | Charles Theodore Barclay (17 July 1867 – 30 March 1921) was an English rower who won the Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta.
Barclay was born at Woodford, Essex. He was the fifth son of Henry Ford Barclay, of Monkhams, and his first wife Richenda Louisa Barclay (née Gurney). Although his connection with the banking Barclay family was distant, he was related through his mother to the Gurneys, another Quaker banking family. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He rowed for the winning Cambridge crew in the 1887 Boat Race. In 1887, he also won Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta with Stanley Muttlebury.
Barclay became a stockbroker, and was a senior partner in the firm of Shephards and Co., London. He lived at Fanshaws, Hertford from 1909.
Barclay married Josephine Lister Harrison and had at least five children. He died in the library at Fanshaws at the age of 53.
See also
List of Cambridge University Boat Race crews
References
1867 births
1921 deaths
People educated at Eton College
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Cambridge University Boat Club rowers
English male rowers
People from Woodford, London |
6911296 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Assouline | Pierre Assouline | Pierre Assouline (born 17 April 1953) is a French writer and journalist. He was born in Casablanca, Morocco to a Jewish family. He has published several novels and biographies, and also contributes articles for the print media and broadcasts for radio.
As a biographer, he has covered a diverse and eclectic range of subjects, including:
Henri Cartier-Bresson, the legendary photographer
Marcel Dassault, the aeronautics pioneer
Gaston Gallimard, the publisher
Hergé, the creator of The Adventures of Tintin
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, the art dealer
Georges Simenon, the detective novelist and creator of Inspector Maigret
Several of these books have been translated into English and the Henri Cartier-Bresson biography has been translated into Chinese.
As a journalist, Assouline has worked for the leading French publications Lire and Le Nouvel Observateur. He also publishes a blog, "La république des livres".
Wikipedia
Assouline was the editor of La Révolution Wikipédia, a collection of essays by postgraduate journalism students under his supervision. Assouline contributed the preface.
On 7 January 2007, Assouline published a blog post criticizing the Wikipedia entry on the Dreyfus Affair.
References
1953 births
Living people
People from Casablanca
French biographers
French bloggers
20th-century French Sephardi Jews
20th-century Moroccan Jews
Prix des libraires winners
Prix Maison de la Presse winners
French literary critics
Lycée Janson-de-Sailly alumni
20th-century French journalists
21st-century French journalists
Sciences Po faculty
20th-century French writers
20th-century French male writers
21st-century French writers
French male non-fiction writers
Male bloggers
Jewish journalists
Jewish non-fiction writers
Male biographers |
23581213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C10H13N5O5 | C10H13N5O5 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C10H13N5O5}}
The molecular formula C10H13N5O5 (molar mass: 283.24 g/mol) may refer to:
Guanosine
8-Oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-OxO-dG)
Molecular formulas |
23581214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow%20Village%20Historic%20District | Ludlow Village Historic District | Ludlow Village Historic District may refer to:
Ludlow Village Historic District (Ludlow, Massachusetts), listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts
Ludlow Village Historic District (Ludlow, Vermont), listed on the NRHP in Vermont |
23581225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A5gsfjorden | Vågsfjorden | Vågsfjorden may refer to:
Vågsfjorden, Troms, a long fjord in Troms county, Norway
Vågsfjorden, Sogn og Fjordane, an long branch of the Nordfjord in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway |
6911297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senoic%20languages | Senoic languages | The Senoic languages (also called Sakai) are a group of Aslian languages spoken by about 33,000 people in the main range of the Malay peninsula. Languages in the group are,
Semai and Temiar (the main languages), Lanoh, Sabüm, and Semnam.
References
External links
http://projekt.ht.lu.se/rwaai RWAAI (Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage)
http://hdl.handle.net/10050/00-0000-0000-0003-66EF-E@view Central Aslian languages in RWAAI Digital Archive
Languages of Malaysia
Malay Peninsula
Peninsular Malaysia |
23581226 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document%201 | Document 1 | Document 1 is the second EP by English indie pop band House of Brothers.
References
House of Brothers albums
2009 EPs |
6911302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pondok%20Indah | Pondok Indah | Pondok Indah is an upscale residential area in Kebayoran Lama, South Jakarta, Indonesia. Dubbed the Beverly Hills of Indonesia, this is a much sought-after suburb by expatriates, conglomerates, celebrities, and government officials. This area was built by the Metropolitan Kentjana Group in the 70s into the most prestigious and complete residential complex and commercial area in Indonesia. Houses in this suburb can run upwards to millions of U.S. dollars.
Many mansions in the area comprise one to three floors, with designated quarters for household staff. Many of the larger mansions are inhabited by wealthy Indonesians. The 'Jakarta Post' estimates that 74.5% of residents in Pondok Indah are expatriates, following their annual survey of Indonesia. (Jakarta Post, issue 6 edition 21, January 6, 2007) A posh shopping complex, Pondok Indah Mall, caters to residents.
Education
This area is served by many schools such as follows:
Jakarta International School Pondok Indah Campus
Bakti Mulya 400
Tirta Marta BPK Penabur
Don Bosco
Raffles Christian School
SDI Harapan Ibu
HighScope Indonesia, Pondok Indah
Transportation
The area is well connected with other areas in Jakarta using Jakarta Outer Ring Road toll road in the southern of the area. Next to the area is located Lebak Bulus Bus Terminal as a domestic and intercity bus terminal. The terminal is also the terminus of the Jakarta MRT. TransJakarta bus is also serving the area.
Recreation
There are many malls located inside and near Pondok Indah. Pondok Indah Mall is the main attraction of the area as it is considered as a big shopping mall in Jakarta. Next to the mall is a water park and a golf course. There are also multiple tennis courts for residents to use.
The Pondok Indah Golf and Country Club was also the venue of the 1983 Golf World Cup.
Pondok Indah Sunday Market (PISM) offers a break from Sunday routines. The market serves the various interests of residents in the area (food, children activities, shopping, medical information, live music), as well as the meeting point for sports enthusiasts and exotic vehicle lovers. It is held annually in January. Visitors to PISM 2017 are estimated upwards of 10,000 people. Proceeds from organizing the bazaar is wholly donated to community charity projects throughout the year. The group works with Kelurahan Pondok Pinang to identify needs in the community, and often donates through RPTRA Pondok Pinang.
References
South Jakarta
Planned townships in Indonesia |
17344419 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna%20Allik | Johanna Allik | Johanna Allik (born 7 April 1994, in Tallinn) is an Estonian figure skater. While competing in singles skating, she has won two senior international medals and is a two-time Estonian national silver medalist (2008, 2010). She switched to ice dance in 2011 and won the 2012 Estonian junior title with partner Paul Bellantuono. After a two-season hiatus from competitive skating from 2013-2015, she returned to singles skating for the 2015–16 figure skating season.
Programs
Single skating
With Bellantuono
Competitive highlights
CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
Singles career
Ice dancing with Bellantuono
References
External links
Tracings.net profile
Estonian female single skaters
Estonian female ice dancers
1994 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Tallinn |
17344421 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaphalanxay%20district | Thaphalanxay district | Thaphalanxay is a district (muang) of Savannakhet province in southern Laos.
References
Districts of Savannakhet province |
17344429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha%20Sayami | Buddha Sayami | Buddha Sayami (; 1944 – 26 December 2016) was a Nepalese poet and Newa politician, born in Kathmandu. He wrote poetry in Nepal Bhasa, the Newari language. Sayami was the president of Newaa Deygoo. He was awarded the Rastriya Pratibha Puraskar and was elected in 2008 as representative to the Constituent Assembly election by the Nepa Rastriya Party. He died at a hospital in Jawalakhel in 2016 at the age of 72, from complications of diabetes.
He published two books of poetry: Ji: Jigu Vartaman/Me: My Present (1974), Jindagi: Bayan Wagu Hi Chetanaya Mi/Life: Spilled Blood and the Fire of Knowledge (1997) and a commentary on contemporary Nepal Bhasa poetry: Kawita: Thaunya Mikhan/Poetry: In Contemporary Eyes.
References
1944 births
2016 deaths
People from Kathmandu
Nepalese male poets
Nepali-language writers
Newar-language writers
Nepal Bhasa movement
20th-century Nepalese poets
21st-century Nepalese poets
Newar-language poets from Nepal |
6911318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20Diemen%27s%20Land%20Company | Van Diemen's Land Company | The Van Diemen's Land Company (also known as Van Dieman Land Company) is a farming corporation in the Australian state of Tasmania. It was founded in 1825 and received a royal charter the same year, and was granted 250,000 acres. (1,000 km2) in northwest Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) in 1826. The company was a group of London merchants who planned a wool growing venture to supply the needs of the British textile industry.
The company established its headquarters at Circular Head under the management of Edward Curr who arrived in Van Diemen's Land in 1826.
Much of the initial cargo, stock and farm labourers arrived in Van Diemen's Land aboard . Some of the settlers refused to adapt to their new surroundings. For instance they did not recognise that in the Southern Hemisphere the seasons were reversed. For many years the costs of farming were only just recovered. By the 1880s the company was making more money from timber felling and timber exports than from farming.
The Van Diemen's Land Company introduced bounties on the thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) from as early as 1830, which was a partial cause of their extinction.
The Company was the constructor of the early stages of the Emu Bay Railway between 1875 and 1884.
The company retains some of the original land grant and is widely believed to be the last Australian chartered company still operating. By the 1970s the company owned one seventh of its original selection.
In July 2014 it was announced the owner of the Van Diemen's Land Company, New Plymouth District Council (through Taranaki Investment Management Limited) in New Zealand, was attempting to sell the company. In 2016, Moon Lake Investments, controlled by Lu Xianfeng, purchased it for A$280 million. Moon Lake Investments has since changed its name to Van Dairy Limited. In 2021, 12 farms comprising 2,200 hectares were sold to Prime Value, an asset manager based in Melbourne, for A$62.5 million. Later in 2021, 6,000 hectares in the Woolnorth area were sold to TRT Pastoral Group for over A$120 million.
Citations
References
Pink, Kerry Winds of Change: A History of Woolnorth (2003)
James Bischoff, Sketch of the history of Van Diemen's Land, illustrated by a map of the island, and an account of the Van Diemen's Land Company (1832)
Companies established in 1825
History of Australia (1788–1850)
Chartered companies
Companies based in Tasmania
North West Tasmania
1825 establishments in Australia
History of Tasmania
Van Diemen's Land |
6911321 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Curran%20%28university%20president%29 | Thomas Curran (university president) | The Rev. Thomas B. Curran is a Jesuit priest & President of Rockhurst University in Kansas City MO. As of July 2006, he is Rockhurst's 14th President, not originally from the Jesuit tradition; the order with which the school is affiliated. Curran was formerly an Associate Vice-President for the University Relation's Assistant to the President at The University of Regis in Denver, CO.
Father Curran is the official Roman Catholic Chaplain for the National Football League team, the KC Chiefs.
He has earned the following degrees:
B.A. in Politics from DeSales University
M.A. in Theology from DeSales School of Theology
M.A. in Liberal Studies, Public Policy & Government from Georgetown University
J.D. from The Catholic University of America
M.B.A. from Saint Joseph's University.
External links
Rockhurst Official Site
Living people
Presidents of Rockhurst University
Rockhurst University
Salesians of Don Bosco
Georgetown University alumni
Saint Joseph's University alumni
Columbus School of Law alumni
American Roman Catholic priests
Year of birth missing (living people) |
17344431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viraboury%20district | Viraboury district | Viraboury District is a district (muang) of Savannakhet province in southern Laos. Seponh-Viraboury Airport in this district serves both Seponh and Viraboury.
References
Districts of Savannakhet province |
6911327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp%20Bonifas | Camp Bonifas | Camp Bonifas is a United Nations Command military post located south of the southern boundary of the Korean Demilitarized Zone. It is south of the Military Demarcation Line, which forms the border between South Korea (the Republic of Korea) and North Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of Korea). It was returned to the Republic of Korea in 2006.
Overview
Camp Bonifas is home to the United Nations Command Security Battalion-Joint Security Area, whose primary mission is to monitor and enforce the Korean Armistice Agreement of 1953 between North and South Korea. Republic of Korea and United States Forces Korea soldiers (known as "security escorts") conduct the United Nations Command DMZ Orientation Program tours of the JSA and surrounding areas. The camp has a gift shop which sells DMZ- and JSA-related souvenirs.
The camp, formerly known as Camp Kitty Hawk, was renamed on August 18, 1986, in honor of U.S. Army Captain Arthur G. Bonifas (posthumously promoted to major), who along with 1Lt. Mark T. Barrett (posthumously promoted to captain), were killed by North Korean soldiers in the "Axe Murder Incident".
Access to the Neutral Nations Monitors (Sweden and Switzerland), on Camp Swiss-Swede, was through Camp Bonifas.
There is a par 3 one-hole "golf course" at the camp which includes an Astroturf green and is surrounded on three sides by minefields. Sports Illustrated called it "the most dangerous hole in golf" and there are reports that at least one shot detonated a land mine.
Kevin Sullivan of The Washington Post reported in 1998 that Camp Bonifas was a "small collection of buildings surrounded by triple coils of razor wire just 440 yards south of the DMZ" that, were it not for the minefields and soldiers, would "look like a big Boy Scout camp".
See also
Joint Security Area
List of United States Army installations in South Korea
References
External links
Camp Bonifas & Area I Facebook page
redcloud.korea.army.mil, official website of USAG Area I, Camp Red Cloud, Camp Casey & Camp Bonifas, Korea
The "Axe Murder Incident" and Operation Paul Bunyan, a Veterans of Foreign Wars organization website
Closed installations of the United States Army
Bonifas, Camp
Korean Demilitarized Zone |
17344437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryce%20Crawford | Bryce Crawford | Bryce Low Crawford Jr. (November 27, 1914 – September 16, 2011) was an American scientist. He worked for decades as a professor of physical chemistry in the University of Minnesota.
Awards
Crawford has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1956. Among his awards are the Priestley Medal in 1982.
References
External links
American physical chemists
1914 births
2011 deaths
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Stanford University alumni
University of Minnesota faculty |
17344439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copulative | Copulative | Copulative may refer to:
Copula (linguistics), a part of speech
Copulation (zoology), the union of the sex organs of two sexually reproducing animals for insemination and subsequent internal fertilization |
23581234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankfield%20Museum | Bankfield Museum | Bankfield Museum is a grade II listed historic house museum, incorporating a regimental museum and textiles gallery in Boothtown, Halifax, England. It is notable for its past ownership and development by Colonel Edward Akroyd, MP, and its grand interior.
History
When Edward Akroyd (1810–1887) bought this building in 1838, on his engagement to Elizabeth Fearby of York, it was a much smaller eight-roomed house, built ca 1800. He and his brother Henry were working for their father Jonathan Akroyd, a rich worsted mill owner, and living at Woodside Mansion in Boothtown. Jonathan died in 1848, and it was possibly Edward's inheritance which paid for the development of Bankfield which began around this time. Edward encased the 18th century building in fairfaced stone and added two loggias, a dining room, Anglican chapel and kitchens.
By 1867 Akroyd was Member of Parliament for Halifax and obliged to entertain on a grand scale. When the future Edward VII visited Halifax to open the town hall in 1863, the royal party ate lunch and dinner with the mayor who had more space at Manor Heath, although the prince did visit the Akroyd family business at Haley Hill Mills. For this reason, the 1867 wing, designed by John Bownas Atkinson of York at a cost of £20,000, was spacious and decorated to impress. It had a porte-cochere, saloon, drawing rooms, library and billiard room. At its busiest, the mansion had 25 servants. Akroyd extended his influence beyond Haley Mills and Bankfield by building Akroydon close by: a model village of gothic terraced houses, allotments, park, cooperative, stables and All Souls Church, all designed by George Gilbert Scott.
By 1887 the business was in decline and Akroyd was dying. He sold the building to Halifax Corporation for £6,000 and retired to St Leonards-on-Sea where he died. The house was immediately turned into a museum and branch library, but over time the original features were neglected, and some elements were lost; however the building was listed grade II in 1954. The building has now been restored as far as possible. Calderdale Council has done this because "Together Akroydon and Bankfield symbolise the importance of the textile industry to Victorian Britain and the central role that Halifax played in this story." Meanwhile 25,000 natural history specimens were transferred to Leeds City Museums in 1990 and the archaeology collections loaned to Kirklees Museums in 1979. A number of collections, in particular a large textile collection, were listed in 1999.
Duke of Wellington's Regiment Museum
The museum was partly closed for phase one of a refurbishment in 2005, and was reopened on 22 October 2005 by Lady Jane Wellesley the daughter of the 8th Duke of Wellington. It was again partly closed to complete phase two in 2008 and reopened on 11 November 2008, after receiving further Heritage Lottery Fund grants. The museum shows the history of the Havercake regiment from its beginnings in 1702 as the Earl of Huntingdon's Regiment of Foot to its demise, when it was amalgamated with the Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire and The Green Howards to form the Yorkshire Regiment on 6 June 2009, using accounts from serving soldiers and interactive displays.
The regiment comprised the combined 33rd and 76th foot Regiments, which were linked in 1881, as the 1st and 2nd battalions and based at Wellesley Barracks. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington was colonel of the 33rd, named after him when he died. The 76th served in India and carried two stands of Queens and Regimental colours, one which was an honorary stand awarded by the East India Company, so the combined regiment carried four colours on parade.
The regiment's headquarters (now an area headquarters of the Yorkshire Regiment) and archives are at Wellesley Park in Halifax. In 1860 Edward Akroyd paid for and recruited the 4th Yorkshire West Riding (Halifax) Rifle Volunteers, absorbing the 7th battalion formed in 1959. In 1883 the title of the regiment changed to the First Volunteer Battalion (Duke of Wellington's) West Riding Regiment. A further change took place in 1908 when it became the 4th Battalion (Duke of Wellington's) West Riding Regiment. In 1938 it changed name and role once more to the 58th Anti-Tank Regiment (DWR) Royal Artillery. Following several more mergers of battalions in the Duke of Wellington's Regiment it eventually became part of the 3rd Battalion Yorkshire Volunteers (Duke of Wellington's). In 2006 they became part of 4th Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment. As MP he supported the establishment of the Regimental Depot in Halifax. The Bankfield Museum assists with research and educational activities in connection with this department.
"The Regiments’ Battle Honours range from the Battle of Dettingen (1743) to the Battle of the Hook, Korea (1953) and then to a Theatre Honour in the Iraq War (2003), together with many other unrecognised actions. Twenty one Battalions served during the First World War and during the Second World War men from twelve Battalions served as tank crews, artillery men and engineers in addition to their traditional role as infantryman. Since 1945, the Dukes have served with United Nations Forces in several operations, in addition to their tours of duty in Northern Ireland."
Description
Exterior
The wide eaves and fairfaced stone give the building an Italianate appearance. The pillared and enclosed entrance lobby was originally an open porte-cochere, or covered entrance-way for carriages, which would drive under the stone canopy for the passengers to disembark.
The forecourt has a bowed screen wall. The stone mansion has an irregular shape due to various extensions. It consists of two arcaded storeys above a basement, especially in the 1867 wing. There are great eaves below a hipped and slated roof, and it is generally designed in the style of 14th to 15th century Italy. The basement is rusticated. From the back the low belvedere tower which lights the back staircase is visible. The arcaded loggias, originally open to the air, are now enclosed and altered.
Interior
The grand staircase is marble, and the decorations are inspired by the frescoes of Pompeii and Herculaneum, although the wall-design at the bottom of the stairs appears to be Egyptian revival. The dining room is now the temporary exhibition gallery. It has a classical style marble fireplace, and a plaster frieze featuring the royal coat of arms. The Regimental Museum occupies the original drawing room suite. Below the library was the billiard room, accessible from the bottom of the staircase, through the red door on the right. The 1867 block has warm air grilles in the skirting boards, and the heating was probably provided by a boiler. However, there is a legend that hot air was ducted from the Haley Mill nearby. On the floors of the marble gallery and the chapel lobby are encaustic tiles by Maw & Co. of Staffordshire.
The saloon
This is now the entrance hall and shop, and the walls are used to display temporary exhibitions. The saloon was also the grand hall, reception room, picture gallery and ballroom, with a little furniture at the sides, many oil paintings and gasoliers. It has rooflights with painted plaster decorations in the classical style around them. The marble fireplace features two large putti holding trumpets. Putti are also the central feature on the grand staircase ceiling – possibly a wistful element as Akroyd and his wife had no children.
The library
This is now the World of Textiles gallery, with the exhibits in the original oak bookcases. It was a very light room, the north and east walls having three great windows on each, and fittings for three chandeliers on the ceiling. The windows have etched glass semicircular panels at the top, in designs reflecting the stylised patterns on the ceiling. In one of the bookcases is a display of silverwork by Halifax jeweller Charles Horner (1837–1896).
Ceiling
The library was originally also the smoking room, so it is surprising that the original painted ceiling has survived and could be fully restored. The ceiling is heavily painted, gilded and sculptured in an eclectic manner, taking its general design from classical sources. The background is cream, but there is much use of Pompeiian red, an earth colour which gained popularity in Victorian England after the renewed excavations by Giuseppe Fiorelli in 1860. Small panels feature clearly painted classical motifs and portraits with distressed backgrounds, to look like pieces of ancient frescoes. Four medallions show the named poets Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer and Tennyson, all admired by the Romantics. All the spaces on the cream background are filled with illustrations imitating the original maiolica style, featuring stylised goats and fauns, cornucopia, grapes, birds and flowers, but also angels and putti in the centre. The decoration around the edge has a Green Man.
Fireplace
The fireplace is red Rouge de Rance marble with cream and black marble, patterned with inlaid semi-precious stone including green malachite: all imported materials. The intertwined initials of Edward and Elizabeth his wife are central on the fire surround and fireback, which is prominently dated 1867. The inlay features the White Rose of Yorkshire, possibly in Parian marble, which is repeated on the carved corinthian columns on the fire surround. The mantelshelf is massive enough to support three lifesized marble busts: Edward Akroyd on the left, his father Jonathan in the centre, and his wife Elizabeth Fearby (d.1884) on the right (by the Florentine sculptor Niccolò Bazzanti (1802–1869)). The bust of Elizabeth is remarkable in that it has the trompe-l'œil effect of a veil over the face. The glazed hearth tiles are similar to Mintons tiles but are probably locally made.
Back staircase
On the wall of the stairwell are low relief plaster sculptures of Night and Day after works by the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen. They symbolically divide the night quarters upstairs from the day quarters downstairs. The oak balustrade has turned balusters and brass finials in the shape of lions, because Elizabeth's family coat of arms featured lions. The ceiling is heavily coffered, but there are windows round the top of the stairwell and a great glass chandelier, so it is very light – in fact the stairwell is built as a separate tower so as to permit so many windows.
People associated with the museum
The Halifax Literary and Philosophical Society was started by 13 Halifax merchants, professionals and military officers in 1830 for research and study, to promote science and the arts and to start a museum to display their collections. These collections of curios were acquired from their Grand Tours and travels for business and military purposes; they were objects of geology, natural history, anthropology, the arts, as well as oddities from around the world. Their museum was at first successful but by 1895 had declined, so was closed and the exhibits given to Halifax museums. Some of Bankfield's share has survived and a few items are exhibited to demonstrate Victorian antiquarian taste.
Lemuel Clayton was a Halifax councillor, silk spinner and one of the co-founders of Bankfield Museum in 1887. He was a member of the Literary and Philosophical Society, had travelled the world and amassed a collection of curios, and these curios were some of the first exhibits shown in the museum. One of the curios was a stone carving of a baby which he acquired in 1886 from the Higashi Honganji temple at Kyoto. It was not appropriate for him to take home one of these stone babies which were images intended to bring luck to childless women, but Clayton convinced the jūshoku to allow him to have one, after insisting that he was not a missionary. So in 1887 yet another image of a baby was added to the number already in Bankfield House's decorations while the childless Elizabeth Akroyd was still alive and her husband had died the same year.
Emile Clement (1844–1928) donated or sold some of his Western Australian aboriginal material to the museum, but this collection was later given to Manchester Museum.
Henry Ling Roth was an anthropologist and curator of the Halifax museums between 1900 and 1925. He published numerous items on anthropology, including 23 numbers of Bankfield Museum notes. He was "The man who developed a small, confused, unattractive museum into an important centre of spectacular interest and research". The museum had followed the 18th century pattern of displaying curiosities, but Roth classified and rearranged the displays for educational purposes about peoples of the world and of the past. His main interest was textiles, so he displayed textile machinery from Calderdale and "an old spinning jenny in use at Dobcross until 1916". He acquired and displayed spinning wheels, looms and textiles from the southern and eastern continents. He was commended for this in 1916.
Edith Durham was an anthropologist and collector of Balkan textiles who donated her collection to the museum in 1935. It is thought that the museum possibly acquired this important collection as Bankfield still carried the reputation given to it by Ling Roth, or perhaps because Roth's successor from 1925 to 1932 as curator was George Carline, brother of Edith Durham's friend Hilda Carline. The Durham collection was displayed at Bankfield in the "Bread and Salt in our Hearts" exhibition in 1997.
Events
The museum hosts a series of temporary exhibitions; for example in 2009 there was an exhibition of Chinese-inspired textiles. There are regular events, including talks for the public, and workshops and drop-in activities for children, plus Key Stages 2 and 3 education programmes.
References
External links
Calderdale Council: Bankfield Museum
Calderdale Council: Duke of Wellington's Regiment Museum
Calderdale Council: DisabledGo.info: Bankfield Museum access details
TourismLeafletsOnLine.com: Bankfield Museum Halifax leaflet
Country houses in West Yorkshire
History of West Yorkshire
Grade II listed buildings in West Yorkshire
Textile museums in the United Kingdom
Toy museums in England
Regimental museums in England
History museums in West Yorkshire
Museums in Halifax, West Yorkshire
Local museums in West Yorkshire
The Duke of Wellington's Regiment
Museums established in 1887
1887 establishments in England |
26722734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowing%20at%20the%202010%20South%20American%20Games%20%E2%80%93%20Women%27s%20pair | Rowing at the 2010 South American Games – Women's pair | The Women's pair event at the 2010 South American Games was held on March 22 at 11:40.
Medalists
Records
Results
References
Final
Pair W |
26722737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subdivisions%20of%20the%20canton%20of%20Valais | Subdivisions of the canton of Valais | The Canton of Valais is subdivided into districts and municipalities.
There is one former district, namely Raron District, which got divided into Westlich Raron District, Östlich Raron District.
Districts
Valais is divided into 13 districts, represented by the 13 stars on the coat of arms of Valais:
Brig with capital Brig-Glis
Conthey with capital Conthey
Entremont with capital Sembrancher
Goms with capital Münster-Geschinen
Hérens with capital Evolène
Leuk with capital Leuk
Martigny with capital Martigny
Monthey with capital Monthey
Saint-Maurice with capital Saint-Maurice
Sierre with capital Sierre
Sion with capital Sion
Visp with capital Visp
District Raron is divided into:
Östlich Raron with capital Mörel-Filet
Westlich Raron with capital Raron
See also
:Category:Districts of Valais
Municipalities of the canton of Valais |
6911330 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpana%20Singh | Alpana Singh | Alpana Singh (born November 1976) is an American Master Sommelier (although she renounced the title in 2020), restaurateur and local television personality in Chicago, Illinois.
Early life
Singh is a second-generation Indian American, born and raised in Monterey, California. Her parents are Fiji Indians who migrated from Fiji to California. The family owned and ran an ethnic grocery store. Her father was a chef for 30 years.
Career
Singh's first job in the restaurant business outside the family business was as a waitress at Bakers Square. After an aborted attempt to join the US Air Force (due to a failed medical exam), she applied for a job at a fine dining restaurant but needed better background on wines. She self-educated and re-applied for the job, impressing the interviewer, who hired her and encouraged her to continue her studies. She became a sales clerk at Nielsen Bros. Market in Carmel, California which further exposed her to the wine business.
Singh passed the Court of Master Sommeliers' advanced certification test at age 21. In 2003, she passed the final exam to become the youngest woman ever to achieve the rank of Master Sommelier. (The master sommelier exam has an approximately 3% pass rate.)
Beginning at age 23, she served as sommelier at Chicago restaurant, Everest. She later became Director of Wine and Spirits for Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, a large Chicago-based chain of restaurants.
Singh became especially well known for hosting the local Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) public television station WTTW's restaurant review show Check, Please! and her regular appearances on Chicago Tonight for the "Ask Alpana" segment on Thursday evenings. She replaced the original host of Check, Please!, Amanda Puck, in October 2003 and remained in that role until 2013, when she was replaced by Catherine De Orio. In 2018, however, Singh was reported to be returning to the show, signing a two-year contract.
Singh authored the 2006 book Alpana Pours: About Being a Woman, Loving Wine, and Having Great Relationships () and writes a column on wine for RedEye.
In December 2012, Singh opened The Boarding House, a wine-driven concept in the River North neighborhood. The four-story restaurant received national attention from Forbes Travel Guide (Top 40 Tastemakers), Food & Wine (Sommeliers of the Year), Market Watch, Sommelier Journal, Restaurant Hospitality, Midwest Living and others. Additional accolades include "100 Best Wine Restaurants" (Wine Enthusiast), "Pastry Chefs to Watch" (Time Out Chicago), "2013 Best New Restaurants" (Chicago Magazine), and nominations for best restaurant design from the Eater Awards and Jean Banchet Awards. Singh closed out the restaurant’s first successful year with an all-female culinary and beverage team, and the honor of Sommelier of the Year 2013 Wine Star award from Wine Enthusiast.
In 2014 and 2015, Singh appeared as a judge on the Food Network television show Food Truck Face Off. The television show premiered just prior to Singh running her first marathon and opening her second restaurant, Seven Lions, an American concept, located on Chicago's Michigan Avenue.
Singh sold her ownership in Seven Lions in October 2017 while preparing to run for public office (Cook County commissioner for the Third District), which she later decided against pursuing. According to Eater, Singh stated in July 2018 she sold ownership of both her restaurants The Boarding House and Seven Lions in October 2017. The Boarding House closed in July 2018. Singh still owns a third restaurant, Terra & Vine, in nearby Evanston, Illinois.
In late 2020, after The New York Times reported on a culture of sexual harassment within the Court that had persisted for years, Singh renounced her Master Sommelier title as a show of support for the women who had come forward.
Personal life
In 2006, Singh married fiction writer Charles Blackstone; the couple divorced in 2014.
Honors and accolades
2006 Wine & Spirits Professional of the Year by Bon Appetit magazine
Best Sommelier in America by Wine and Spirits magazine
Crain's Chicago Business 40 Under 40
Food & Wine'''s 35 Under 35
Best Sommelier (2004) by Chicago magazine
30 Under 30 (2006) by Jane'' magazine
References
External links
Official website
Podcast interview with Alpana Singh
American people of Indo-Fijian descent
American television personalities
Fijian Hindus
Businesspeople from Chicago
American Hindus
1976 births
Living people
American people of Punjabi descent
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17344441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Student%20Canada | First Student Canada | First Student Canada is a major contractor of school bus services and public transit systems. A subsidiary of FirstGroup, the company provides services in Canada comparable to those delivered by sister companies First Transit and First Student in the United States. The component parts of the operation consist of the former Laidlaw services and subsequent new acquisitions by First Canada.
Operating subsidiaries
Laidlaw
Laidlaw Transit Ltd., is a Canadian registered subsidiary which operates former Laidlaw school transportation services throughout Southern Ontario.
Farwest Group
The Farwest Group of companies provides transportation services in various communities in British Columbia. These companies were acquired by First Canada in 2004 and are contracted to operate public transit services for BC Transit in Chilliwack, Kamloops, Kelowna Region and the Central Fraser Valley.
Cardinal
Several companies branded as "Cardinal" operated school buses in different locations across Canada. In 2005, Firstbus Canada acquired 471136 B.C. Limited and Cardinal Transportation B.C. Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia and Cardinal Coach Lines Limited and Focus Capital Inc., Calgary, Alberta and Cardinal Coach Lines (Ont.) Ltd., North York, Ontario.
King Transportation
King Transportation Ltd., is a Winnipeg based company that provides school bus transportation, special education transportation services, charter and maintenance services. The company was acquired by FirstBus Canada in 2008.
2014 Calgary controversy
In February 2014, the company was subject to criticism after it fired Kendra Lindon, a school bus driver after she used her own vehicle to pick up children from her route after her bus failed to start. Due to the extremely low temperature (-26 degrees Celsius), and due to the failure of her dispatch to send replacement buses on the previous day, Lindon decided that "it wouldn’t be right" to leave children out in the cold and feared they might suffer frostbite, since many were not properly dressed for such cold weather. Upon learning of Lindon's actions, the company immediately terminated her employment, on the grounds that it was "against company policy to pick up children in a personal vehicle." Lindon defended her decision, stating that "I was not acting as a bus driver at that point, but as a concerned parent...I saw these kids I’ve known since they were five. I was acting as a parent and a concerned neighbour and friend. I couldn’t just drive past them and leave them to freeze."
When contacted by Licia Corbella of Postmedia News, the assistant location and safety manager, Mike Stiles, declined to comment and referred her to the First Student's Cincinnati headquarters, which did not return any calls for inquiry. Three lawyers, who have offered to represent Ms. Lindon pro bono, have suggested that she may have a case against First Student for wrongful dismissal.
School services
First Student Canada is a major school bus operator mainly in the Greater Toronto Area, Southern Ontario and Alberta.
Clients
School boards served by First Student Canada include:
Algoma District School Board
Calgary Board of Education
Calgary Catholic School District
Conseil scolaire de district des écoles catholiques du Sud-Ouest
Conseil scolaire Viamonde
Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board
Durham District School Board
Edmonton Catholic School Board
Edmonton Public School Board
Elk Island Public Schools
Greater Essex County District School Board
Halton Catholic District School Board
Halton District School Board
Hamilton Wentworth Catholic District School Board
Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board
Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board
Keewatin-Patricia District School Board
Kenora Catholic District School Board
Lambton Kent District School Board
Lakehead District School Board
Northwest Catholic District School Board
Ottawa Catholic School Board
Ottawa-Carleton District School Board
Peel District School Board
Rainy River District School Board
Rocky View Schools
St. Clair Catholic District School Board
Thames Valley District School Board
Thunder Bay Catholic District School Board
Toronto Catholic District School Board
Toronto District School Board
Upper Canada District School Board
Waterloo Region District School Board
Winnipeg School Division
Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board
York Region District School Board
Public Transit
First Student Canada is contracted to provide public transit services for many small communities across the country.
Airdrie Transit, Alberta
Barrie Transit, Ontario
Kamloops Transit, British Columbia
Kelowna Regional Transit System, British Columbia
Orangeville Transit, Ontario
Orillia Transit, Ontario
Prince Albert Transit, Saskatchewan
Tecumseh Transit, Ontario
Vernon Regional Transit, BC
York Region Transit, Ontario (Division 2, serving Northern York Region). - terminated January 16, 2012
See also
First Student (United States)
First Student UK
References
FirstGroup companies
Bus transport in Alberta
Bus transport in British Columbia
Bus transport in Saskatchewan
Bus transport in Ontario
School bus operators
Companies based in Burlington, Ontario |
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