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6911550 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grove%20Farm%2C%20Somerset | Grove Farm, Somerset | Grove Farm () is a 36.5 hectare (90.2 acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset, notified in 1989.
This site comprises an extensive area of unimproved mesotrophic grassland, a habitat which is now uncommon in Britain.
References
Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset
Sites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 1989 |
44508416 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydnellum%20cyanopodium | Hydnellum cyanopodium | Hydnellum cyanopodium, commonly known as the blue foot or bleeding blue tooth, is an inedible fungus in the family Bankeraceae. It occurs in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.
Taxonomy
The fungus was described as new to science to Canadian mycologist Kenneth A. Harrison in 1964. The type was collected by Alexander H. Smith in Crescent City, California, on November 1937. It is kept at University of Michigan Herbarium. Harrison considered this species—in addition to H. cruentum and H. scleropodium—to be members of the stirps (species thought to be descendants of a common ancestor) he called "cruentum". This stirps is characterized by the presence of red juice drops on young fruit bodies, bluish spines, and similar spore morphology.
Description
The fruit bodies have irregularly shaped caps measuring in diameter. The cap surface is rough with small hard points, has ridges, and is a dark blue-wine red color that changes later to lavender. The outer cap edge turns whitish with age. Young fruit bodies are covered with drops of red juice. The flesh has a woody or cork-like texture, and a strong, "disagreeable" odor and taste.
The spines on the underside of the caps are up to 3 mm long with a color ranging from initially grayish violet blue to wine-blue with brownish tints, to dull grayish-green. The stipe measures long by thick, and tends to root into the ground. Its color is deep bluish-black (with similarly colored flesh within) with a whitish mycelium at the base. Staining the spines or the cap or stipe flesh with potassium hydroxide turns it blue-green. Spores are angular, cross-shaped with four to six thick points, and measure 4–5 by 3.5–4.5 µm. The spore shape has been likened to jacks.
Similar species
The lookalike species Hydnellum caeruleum can be readily distinguished from H. cyanopodium by its lack of a medicinal odor, the absence of red juice drops, and the orange to rusty-brown color of its stipe. H. caeruleum can be further distinguished microscopically by its roughly spherical spores. H. scleropodium has a smoother texture and more pallid colors. H. cruentum, found in Nova Scotia, Canada, has an odor that has been described as "medicinal".
Habitat and distribution
Hydnellum cyanopodium fruits singly, in groups, or with fruit bodies fused together. It occurs under Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) and pine (Pinus spp.) in California. The fungus is also found in Oregon.
See also
List of fungi by conservation status
References
Fungi described in 1964
Fungi of North America
Inedible fungi
cyanopodium |
6911561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grevillea%20triloba | Grevillea triloba | Grevillea triloba is a spreading shrub endemic to Western Australia, principally the Geraldton area.
Description
The height of the shrub usually ranges from and has a diffuse to spreading habit. The flowers, which are sweet-scented, are usually white but pink flowering forms have been observed within the natural distribution. These are produced from early winter to mid spring (June to October In Australia). Its narrow leaves are three-lobed (hence the specific name triloba) and each of the lobes terminates in a sharp point.
Taxonomy
The plant was first formally described by the botanist Carl Meissner in 1855 in New Proteaceae of Australia as a part of the as a part of the William Jackson Hooker work Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany.
Distribution
The shrub is native to coastal areas in the Mid West region of Western Australia mostly to the north of Geraldton with the bulk of the population found between Northampton and Geraldton. It is mostly found on sandplains growing in sandy loam soils over or around limeston or sandstone or in lateritic soils.
See also
List of Grevillea species
References
triloba
Endemic flora of Western Australia
Eudicots of Western Australia
Proteales of Australia
Taxa named by Carl Meissner
Plants described in 1855 |
26723051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maimonides%20Synagogue | Maimonides Synagogue | The Maimonides Synagogue (, translit: Bet Knesset ha-Rambam; ), also known as the Rav Moshe Synagogue, is a historic synagogue located in Cairo, Egypt. A synagogue has existed at the site since the 10th century and was subsequently named after the famous Jewish philosopher, rabbi and physician Maimonides, after his arrival there in around 1168. It is believed that Maimonides' original tomb is contained within the building. In March 2010, the Egyptian government completed the restoration of the current building which dates from the late 19th century.
Early history
A synagogue has existed at the site from around two centuries before Maimonides emigrated to Egypt in around 1168, following his exile from Córdoba, Spain at the hands of the Almohads. The Almohads had conquered Córdoba in 1148 and threatened the Jewish community with the choice of conversion to Islam, death, or exile. Maimonides' family, along with most other Jews, chose exile. After spending ten years in southern Spain, they moved to Morocco and then eventually settled in Fustat, Egypt in around 1168. In Egypt, he gained widespread recognition and became a court physician to Qadi al-Fadil, secretary to Saladin. Maimonides studied and worked in a yeshiva attached to the small synagogue. The synagogue and yeshiva are located in Harat al-Yahud, the Jewish quarter of medieval Cairo, and can only be reached on foot. (In the time of Maimonides, 97% of the inhabitants of Harat al-Yahud were Jews.)
After his death in Fustat on December 12, 1204, it is believed that he was buried for a short while at the synagogue before being reinterred in Tiberias. According to tradition, his bones were placed for a week in a small shrine where he used to study and to heal strangers. (Some believe his bones never left Egypt.)
19th century: Rebuilding
In the 19th century, another synagogue was built on the site and named in his honor.
20th century: Disuse and decay
The situation of Egypt's Jews became increasingly precarious in the middle of the 20th century. Rising Arab nationalism, together with increased tensions between Jews and Arabs following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and later, the Lavon Affair that led to the 1956 Suez War, led to government restrictions on foreign economic activity which deeply impacted Egypt's Jewish community. Several thousand Jewish residents were expelled from the country following the 1956 war and thousands more fled the hostile social and economic conditions. Egypt's Jewish population eventually dropped from 80,000 to less than 100.
With only about 30 Jews (mostly elderly women) left in Cairo, the synagogue was closed, and almost collapsed due to underground water and earthquakes. The ceiling of the building collapsed in 1992, and the debris was left on the floor. The slum area in which synagogue was located was littered with garbage.
The head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, said that the synagogue was used for the last time in 1960, and then was allowed to "crumble". Although it was declared an antiquity in 1986, the condition of the medieval synagogue had deteriorated further by 2005. A holy ark with a broken door was located in the small courtyard, covered with debris. The ark's Star of David was still present, but was hanging on only by a thread.
21st century: Restoration
In June 2009, the Egyptian government began a year-long restoration project, unveiled in August 2009 by their head of antiquities Zahi Hawass. The $2 million, 18-month restoration project of the Rav Moshe synagogue, in an area of Cairo once called "the neighborhood of the Jews," was financed by the Egyptian government. The restoration work was finished in March 2010. Along with Maimonides tomb, the synagogue contains two areas that were for prayer and rituals, one of which included a section for women.
Among the synagogue's treasures is a Bible that allegedly was written by Maimonides himself. Former Israeli ambassador to Egypt, Zvi Mazel, said "the results were spectacular; the original colors were restored almost perfectly".
Inauguration controversy
As restoration work was nearing completion, the Egyptian authorities agreed that the small Jewish community of Cairo would organize a dedication ceremony on March 7, 2010. The official inauguration was planned for the middle of March. The dedication ceremony was closed to media but attendees said it was an emotional event, especially for the Egyptian-Jewish families invited, many of whom now live in Europe. About 150 people attended, none of them Egyptian officials.
On March 14, 2010 the official inauguration ceremony was canceled. Zahi Hawass explained that the cancellation was due to media reports of Jews "dancing and drinking alcohol in the synagogue" during the private March 7 dedication, which Hawass described as a "provocation to the feelings of hundreds of millions of Muslims in Egypt and around the world". Hawass later added that the decision to scrap the ceremony was made at "a time when Muslim holy sites in occupied Palestine face assaults from Israeli occupation forces and settlers...". Later still, he characterized the cancellation of the ceremony as a "strong slap in the face" to "the Zionist enemy."
Legends and tradition
According to a legend told by Joseph ben Isaac Sambari, (c.1640 - 1703), a Jewish-Egyptian chronicler of the 17th century, the people who carried the body of Maimonides to the Sea of Galilee for permanent burial mistakenly left one of his toes behind in the synagogue, which at that time was called the synagogue of Western (Tunisian) Jews. Later, one of the people who carried the body had a dream, in which a wise man of Egypt reminded him about the forgotten toe. The toe was later recovered and buried next to the body.
The synagogue and accompanying yeshiva have traditionally been considered to have miraculous healing powers. Until the Egyptian government forbade the practice in 1948, the synagogue was used as a place of healing by the local Jewish community. The ailing person was left to sleep in the special underground room in the hope that the sufferer would dream of Maimonides and get better.
References
Medieval Cairo
Synagogue
Synagogues in Cairo |
26723055 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Cooper%20Nott | Charles Cooper Nott | Charles Cooper Nott may refer to:
Charles C. Nott, Sr. (1827–1916), Chief Justice of the United States Court of Claims
Charles Cooper Nott, Jr. (1869–1957), Assistant District Attorney and Judge of the New York General Sessions Court |
6911573 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative%20district%20of%20Malabon%E2%80%93Navotas | Legislative district of Malabon–Navotas | The Legislative district of Malabon–Navotas was the combined representation of the Metropolitan Manila municipalities (now highly urbanized cities) of Malabon and Navotas in the lower house of the Congress of the Philippines from 1987 to 2010.
Since 2010, each has been represented separately through the lone congressional districts of Malabon and Navotas.
History
Prior to gaining joint representation, areas now under the respective jurisdictions of Malabon and Navotas were represented under Rizal (1907–1972), Region IV (1978–1984), and the parliamentary district of Malabon–Navotas–Valenzuela (1984–1986).
Under the new Constitution which was proclaimed on 11 February 1987, the independent Metro Manila municipalities of Malabon and Navotas constituted a single congressional district, and elected its member to the restored House of Representatives starting that same year.
The enactment of Republic Act No. 9387 on 10 March 2007 and its subsequent approval by plebiscite on 24 June 2007 converted Navotas into a highly urbanized city. Per Section 58 of R.A. 9387 Navotas was constituted into its own congressional district, which effectively created separate representation for Malabon as well. Both cities elected their separate representatives in the 2010 elections.
Lone District (defunct)
Municipalities: Malabon (became highly urbanized city 2001), Navotas (became highly urbanized city 2007)
Unseated on 24 September 2009 after losing electoral protest to Josephine Veronique Lacson-Noel.
Took oath of office on 17 November 2009 after winning electoral protest against Alvin Sandoval, per House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal decision that was upheld by the Supreme Court on 9 March 2009.
See also
Legislative districts of Rizal
Legislative district of Malabon–Navotas–Valenzuela
Legislative district of Malabon
Legislative district of Navotas
References
Malabon-Navotas |
6911583 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millwater | Millwater | Millwater () is a 1.4 hectare (3.5 acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Crewkerne in Somerset, notified in 1989.
Millwater consists of a complex mosaic of pasture, wet grassland, tall-herb fen, standing and running water, alder and willow carr. The invertebrate fauna of the site has been extremely well documented and 1744 species have been recorded in the period 1978-1988 including many nationally scarce species in a wide range of groups. Seventy-six bird species have been recorded on the site. Of these, twenty-eight species are known to breed including sedge warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus), reed warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus), and reed bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) which are characteristic inhabitants of tall herb fen and carr vegetation.
References
Crewkerne
Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset
Sites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 1989 |
20486818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985%20Alabama%20Crimson%20Tide%20football%20team | 1985 Alabama Crimson Tide football team | The 1985 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "UA", "Bama" or "The Tide") represented the University of Alabama in the 1985 NCAA Division I-A football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 93rd overall and 52nd season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by head coach Ray Perkins, in his third year, and played their home games at both Bryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa and Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama. They finished the season with a record of nine wins, two losses and one tie (9–2–1 overall, 4–1–1 in the SEC) and with a victory in the Aloha Bowl over USC.
Highlights of the 1985 season included a last-second, 20–16 comeback victory on Labor Day over Georgia to open the season. The 1985 edition of the Iron Bowl against Auburn is regarded as one of Alabama's most dramatic victories in the history of the series. In the game, Alabama led 16–10 after three quarters, but saw four lead changes in the fourth quarter, including two in the final minute. It ended with Van Tiffin's 52-yard field goal as time expired to give Alabama a 25–23 victory. Tiffin's field goal is remembered simply as "The Kick" in Alabama lore.
Due to NCAA sanctions that led to the forfeit of Alabama's 1993 17–17 tie with Tennessee, and college football's adoption of an overtime that does not allow ties, the 14–14 tie with LSU remains the last official tie in school history.
Schedule
Roster
Game summaries
at LSU
Auburn
Van Tiffin kicked his fourth field goal of the game, from 52 yards out, as time expired to give Alabama the Iron Bowl victory.
vs. USC (Aloha Bowl)
References
General
Specific
Alabama
Alabama Crimson Tide football seasons
Aloha Bowl champion seasons
Alabama Crimson Tide football |
20486821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude%20Leroy | Jean-Claude Leroy | Jean-Claude Leroy (born 3 June 1952 in Wavrans-sur-l'Aa) was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented the Pas-de-Calais department, and is a member of the Socialist Party, part of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche group.
He has been president of the Departmental Council of Pas-de-Calais since 2017.
References
1952 births
Living people
People from Pas-de-Calais
Politicians from Hauts-de-France
Socialist Party (France) politicians
Deputies of the 11th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
French Senators of the Fifth Republic
Senators of Pas-de-Calais
Members of Parliament for Pas-de-Calais
Presidents of French departments |
17344636 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drumma%20Boy | Drumma Boy | Christopher James Gholson (born August 11, 1983), better known by his stage name Drumma Boy, is an American record producer.
Early life
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, and raised in Cordova, Tennessee, he was exposed to music at a young age. His mother, Billie Baker Gholson, was an accountant who worked as a part-time opera singer and was the first African-American to graduate from Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music at the University of Memphis. His father, G. James Gholson, is a retired clarinetist and music professor at Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music, was the first African-American male to hold the first chair position in the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. His father is an emeritus of the Memphis Woodwind Quintet and a soloist in the United States Navy Band. His paternal grandfather was a high school principal and has a high school named after him in Washington, D.C. The rest of his extended family including grandmothers and aunts were also musicians and taught music in the schools. Drumma Boy says he had a recorder in his hand at age 3 and a clarinet at age 5. His father was instrumental in teaching him about traditional classical music yet it was his mother that introduced him to Curtis Mayfield and 1970s rhythm and blues. A classical musically trained musician, Gholson began the practicing E-flat clarinet at age six and then went to the B-flat clarinet. At the age of six, Gholson began taking piano lessons.
Mathematics was his favorite school subject. In 9th grade, he made a song about the quadratic formula for extra credit and received the top grade for the class. Gholson started making hip hop beats at the age of 12 and scored his first production placement on local radio with Memphis rapper Tela’s “Double Dose". He produced an entire album at age 14. During high school, Gholson played basketball and was offered several athletic scholarships. He was offered a position in the Memphis Youth Symphony Orchestra as well as being offered college music scholarships. As an amateur producer during his high school days, he began charging $200 for each beat that he made and eventually earned $500 per track by the time he graduated from high school.
Gholson attended the University of Memphis as a Music Business major, matriculating in 2001. Due to the pressure from his parents to achieve academically, his father advised him that a college degree would open more doors for career advancement, and his mother stressed the importance of financial savvy. Gholson also attended college to satisfy his father's belief that a college degree was a ticket to a solid and stable career. Following his father's advice and by his junior year, Drumma Boy established a name for himself and was quickly becoming the most sought-after producers in Tennessee. He spent much of his spare time outside of classes on the keyboard and drum machine making hip hop beats in his room. In between attending classes, he would shop his homemade beats to local Memphis rappers such as Gangsta Boo, as well as travel to Texas to work on musical projects for Scarface and Bun B of UGK. Though Gholson earned good grades, he was expelled from school in 2004 due to lack of attendance. The cash flow from his music production company was so strong that Gholson pulled $20,000 per month where he eventually realized that he had no reason to stay in college. His father challenged him, in an effort to convince him to return to college, to earn $100,000 within 12 months to prove his independence. Drumma Boy earned $100,000 within 10 months. Though Gholson never returned to the University of Memphis, he and his father established the James and Christopher Gholson Scholarship Fund, a scholarship that goes towards undergraduate and graduate students studying music at the school, furthering his father and his family's commitment and values towards education and cultural literacy.
Within two years of leaving his native city, Drumma Boy had fostered relationships with a number of hip hop groups and rappers such as Outkast, Trick Daddy, Slim Thug, DJ Cash Money, Pastor Troy, and Killer Mike.
In October 2013, Drumma Boy conducted a halftime show during the 2013-2014 season opening of his hometown NBA team, the Memphis Grizzlies.
Career
Gholson has worked with an array of acts from hip hop, R&B, and reggae. Gholson relocated to Atlanta in 2004 and set his sights to become a professional music producer and entrepreneur. Citing his sense of business acumen from his mother, a professional accountant, Gholson founded Drum Squad, an independent umbrella entertainment company that encompasses Drum Squad Productions, a music production company that represents producers and songwriters, Drum Squad Records (a record label), and Drum Squad Films, a film production and distribution company.
By 2008, Gholson became one of the most sought after hip hop producers in the music industry. In 2008, Vibe Magazine named him one of the Top 5 Producers "making noise" in the music industry. In December 2009, he was named by The New York Times one of the 4 hottest producers "driving the city" in Atlanta, describing his sound as "a busy bee swarm of synths overlaid with brash bass injections that's equal parts Memphis and Atlanta". He was quoted in the January 2010 issue of Rolling Stone surrounding his production work for controversial recording artist Gucci Mane's #1 rap album The State vs. Radric Davis.
In January 2009, Gholson starred alongside Jazze Pha and Vawn in BET's reality series Welcome to Dreamland. He appeared on a segment of Bravo'sThe Real Housewives of Atlanta while making beats for cast member Kandi Burruss as well as appearing in the studio during an episode of Monica's BET reality series Still Standing. In November 2009, Drumma Boy released his music video "Dis Girl" shot by Mr. Boomtown, the first single off his mixtape Welcome II My City, which received millions of hits on Worldstarhiphop. He has appeared on Good Day Atlanta, Good Morning Memphis, CBS News Channel 9, BET and MTV.
Gholson also scores for television and film, most recently working on FOX’s hit TV show Empire with Bryshere Gray (Yazz). In December 2013, Drumma Boy was commissioned to create film scores for the independent film Blood First for NaRa Films and O.Y.’s Spotlite Entertainment. He created film scores for movies Chapters and Holla 2.
Other ventures
In 2013, Gholson released his own line of luxury wine called Moreno BHLV. Gholson has also opened “G Factory”; a 20,000 square foot creative studio in his hometown Memphis, for film and TV show production that will eventually encompass a wood shop, and car detail crew where the space will be designated strictly for creative professionals, artists and painters to hone their talents. Gholson also launched a film production and distribution division called Drum Squad Films subsidiary within his company, Drum Squad. One of the first few independent films called “Chapters” was launched through Drum Squad films in 2012, of which Gholson did additional film scoring for. “Know your History" was another independent film released by Drum Squad films documenting on history of the city of Memphis.
Gholson is part of Tracklib's Creators Advisory Board.
Gholson was a featured guest at The Heart of God Foundation’s “City of Atlanta Neighborhood Revitalization Ball, an organization dedicated to raising funds to provide for the city’s homeless.
Production equipment and style
Gholson uses a variety of production equipment to compose hip hop drum beats for hip hop songs. He primarily uses an Akai MPC 4000, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Roland TR-808 and electronic keyboards manufactured by Roland, Korg and Yamaha. Gholsons's signature drop on his beats is a voice saying "listen to this track, bitch". He is also known for the origination of extending sounds at the end of a verse and his use of a rise effect before the beginning and end of every verse and hook. He also utilizes his ad-lib of "Yeah Boy" and a young reverbed female voice saying "Drumma Boy" before the beginning of a song.
Gholson cites hip hop and R&B musicians Dr. Dre, Quincy Jones, Raphael Saadiq and The Funk Brothers as his signature music production inspirations with other musical influences ranging from European classical composers Ludwig van Beethoven, Jean Sibelius, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Johann Sebastian Bach to American jazz icons Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis all the way to hip hop group Three 6 Mafia and Houston rapper, Scarface. He is known for combining classical music chords with urban hip hop street sounds, and for his adherence to the Atlanta trap music subgenre. His production techniques bring together a diverse array of genres that originate in hip hop, rock, pop, classical, soul, and R&B.
Awards
Drumma Boy won "Best Indie Producer of the Year" consecutively at the 2009, 2010 and 2011 Southern Entertainment Awards. He received a nomination for "Producer of the Year" at the 2008 Ozone Awards and at the 2010 BET Hip Hop Awards. His beats assisted with two nominations during the 2009 Grammy Awards including his work on T.I.'s Paper Trail (Best Rap Album) and "Put On" by Young Jeezy & Kanye West (Best Performance by a Rap Duo.). Drumma also produced "Stranger" off Usher's 2010 Versus (EP), released in conjunction with the deluxe edition of Raymond v. Raymond; the album won two Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary R&B Album and Best Male R&B Vocal Performance. In 2011, Drumma's hit single "No Hands" for Waka Flocka, Roscoe Dash and Wale received a nomination for "Best Collaboration" at the 2011 BET Awards and picked up the accolade for "Best Club Banger" at the 2011 BET Hip Hop Awards.
Discography
Albums
2009: Welcome II My City (Drum Squad Records)
2011: The Birth of D-Boy Fresh (Drum Squad Records)
2012: Welcome to My City 2 (Drum Squad Records)
2014: Welcome to My City 3 (Drum Squad Records)
Hosted mixtapes
2010: Young Buck - Back on My Buck Shit Vol. 2: Change of Plans
2012: Young Buck - Live Loyal Die Rich (Hosted with: DJ Crisis)
2012: 8 Ball - Premro
2014: Drumma Boy's 2k14 All Star Weekend Playlist
2021: Young Buck - Back on My Buck Shit, Vol. 3
Filmography
Production credits
References
External links
1983 births
21st-century American businesspeople
21st-century American composers
21st-century American keyboardists
21st-century American rappers
21st-century American male musicians
African-American businesspeople
African-American film producers
African-American film score composers
African-American male rappers
African-American record producers
American drink industry businesspeople
American film score composers
American hip hop record producers
American music arrangers
American music industry executives
American philanthropists
American rhythm and blues keyboardists
Businesspeople from Atlanta
Businesspeople from Tennessee
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Living people
American male film score composers
People from Cordova, Tennessee
Rappers from Atlanta
Rappers from Memphis, Tennessee
Songwriters from Georgia (U.S. state)
Songwriters from Tennessee
Southern hip hop musicians
Trap musicians
University of Memphis alumni
African-American songwriters
21st-century African-American musicians
20th-century African-American people
American male songwriters |
6911585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%20Coverdale | Linda Coverdale | Linda Coverdale is a literary translator from French. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and has a Ph.D in French Literature. She has translated into English more than 60 works by such authors as Roland Barthes, Emmanuel Carrère, Patrick Chamoiseau, Maryse Condé, Marie Darrieussecq, Jean Echenoz, Annie Ernaux, Sébastien Japrisot, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Philippe Labro, Yann Queffélec, Jorge Semprún, Lyonel Trouillot, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Jean Hartzfeld, Sylvain Tesson and Marguerite Duras.
Translations
The Grain of the Voice by Roland Barthes (Hill & Wang, 1985)
Once Upon A Time: Visions of Old Japan by Chantal Edel (The Friendly Press, 1986)
The Stones Cry Out: A Cambodian Childhood by Molyda Szymusiak (Hill & Wang, 1986)
Sweet Death by Claude Tardat (The Overlook Press, 1987)
The Wedding by Yann Queffélec (Macmillan, 1987)
Mortal Embrace: Living With AIDS by Alain Emmanuel Dreuilhe (Hill & Wang, 1988)
The Children of Segu by Maryse Condé (Viking Penguin, 1989)
Out of Reach by Emmanuel Carrère (translation for Macmillan, 1990)
Lion Mountain by Mustapha Tlili (Arcade Publishing/Little by Brown & Company, 1990)
To The Friend Who Did Not Save My Life by Hervé Guibert (Atheneum, 1991)
Le Petit Garçon by Philippe Labro (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992)
A Very Long Engagement by Sébastien Japrisot (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993)
Compulsory Happiness by Norman Manea (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993)
The Traveler’s Tree by Bruno Bontempelli (The New Press, 1994)
A Frozen Woman by Annie Ernaux (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995)
What the Night Tells the Day by Hector Bianciotti (The New Press, 1995)
Creole Folktales by Patrick Chamoiseau (The New Press, 1995)
School Days by Patrick Chamoiseau (The University of Nebraska Press, 1996)
Naming the Jungle by Antoine Volodine (The New Press, 1996)
Black Tunnel White Light by Philippe Labro (Kodansha America, 1997)
Pig Tales by Marie Darrieussecq (The New Press, 1997)
Class Trip by Emmanuel Carrère (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 1997)
Literature or Life by Jorge Semprún (Viking, 1997)
Rider on the Rain by Sébastien Japrisot (The Harvill Press, 1998)
Shadows of a Childhood by Élisabeth Gille (The New Press, 1998)
Mamzelle Dragonfly by Raphaël Confiant (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1999)
Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows by Patrick Chamoiseau (The University of Nebraska Press, 1999)
Lila Says by Chimo (Scribner, 1999)
Undercurrents by Marie Darrieussecq (The New Press, 2000)
The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrère (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2000)
Speak You Also by Paul Steinberg (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2000)
My Forbidden Face by Latifa (Miramax Books, 2001)
'Stories' by Mohammed Dib & Monique Agénor (The Hudson Review, Autumn 2001)
This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun (The New Press, 2001)
The Absolute Perfection of Crime by Tanguy Viel (The New Press, 2002)
Making Love by Jean-Philippe Toussaint (The New Press, 2003)
Street of Lost Footsteps by Lyonel Trouillot (The University of Nebraska Press, 2003)
The Prophecy of the Stones by Flavia Bujor (Miramax Books, 2004)
Happy Days by Laurent Graff (Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2004)
Massacre River by René Philoctète (New Directions, 2005)
A Machete Season by Jean Hatzfeld (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Serpent's Tail, 2005)
The Lecture by Lydie Salvayre (Dalkey Archive Press, 2005)
In the Name of Honor by Mukhtar Mai (Atria/Simon & Schuster, 2006)
Freedom by Malika Oufkir (Miramax Books, 2006)
Life Laid Bare by Jean Hatzfeld (Other Press, 2007)
Ravel by Jean Echenoz (The New Press, 2007)
A French Life by Jean-Paul Dubois (Knopf, 2007)
You Have Only One Picture Left by Laurent Graff (film script, OuiDO! Entertainment, 2008)
Beyond Suspicion by Tanguy Viel (The New Press, 2008)
Wartime Writings: 1943-1949 by Marguerite Duras (The New Press, 2008)
The Children of Heroes by Lyonel Trouillot (The University of Nebraska Press, 2008)
Running by Jean Echenoz (The New Press, 2009)
The Antelope's Strategy by Jean Hatzfeld (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009)
Leaving Tangier by Tahar Ben Jelloun (Penguin, 2009)
'Fiction in the First Person, or Immoral Writing', Marie Darrieussecq (L'Esprit Créateur, Vol. 50, No. 3, Fall 2010)
A Palace in the Old Village by Tahar Ben Jelloun (Penguin, 2010)
My Life as a Russian Novel by Emmanuel Carrère (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2010)
I Am Nujood, Age Ten and Divorced by Nujood Ali (Crown/Random House, 2010)
A Tale of Two Martyrs by Tahar Ben Jelloun (Granta, 2011)
Lives Other than My Own by Emmanuel Carrère (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2011)
There Are Things I Want You to Know… by Eva Gabrielsson (Seven Stories Press, 2011)
Lightning by Jean Echenoz (The New Press, 2011)
La Petite by Michèle Halberstadt (Other Press, 2012)
The Suitors by Cécile David-Weill (Other Press, 2012)
"On Europa" by Marie Darrieussecq, The Trunk (Les éditions Gallimard, 2013)
The Art of Sleeping Alone by Sophie Fontanelle (Simon & Schuster, 2013)
Consolation of the Forest by Sylvain Tesson (Rizzoli Ex Libris, 2013)
The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien by Georges Simenon (Penguin Modern Classics, 2014)
1914 by Jean Echenoz (The New Press, 2014)
Viviane by Julia Deck (The New Press, 2014)
Night at the Crossroads by Georges Simenon (Penguin Modern Classics, 2014)
The Queen's Caprice by Jean Echenoz (The New Press, 2015)
The Misty Harbor by Georges Simenon (Penguin Modern Classics, 2015)
The Emperor, C'est Moi by Hugo Horiot (Seven Stories Press, 2015)
Maigret in New York by Georges Simenon (Penguin Modern Classics, 2016)
Maigret at the Coroner's by Georges Simenon (Penguin Modern Classics, 2016)
The Hand by Georges Simenon (Penguin Modern Classics, 2016)
"Julie's Life" by Emmanuel Carrère (Granta, 2016)
Maigret Goes to School by Georges Simenon (Penguin Modern Classics, 2017)
"New York Diary" by Édouard Louis (Bomb Magazine, Fall 2017)
"Who Killed My Father?" by Édouard Louis (Speech at Litteraturhuset, Oslo, October 2017)
Slave Old Man by Patrick Chamoiseau (The New Press, 2018)
The Punishment by Tahar Ben Jelloun (Yale University Press, 2020)
Honors
1997 French-American Foundation Translation Prize: Literature or Life
1999 Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres).
1999 Finalist French-American Foundation Translation Prize: Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows
2003 Finalist PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize: This Blinding Absence of Light
2004 International Dublin Literary Award: This Blinding Absence of Light
2004 Finalist PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize: Street of Lost Footsteps
2005 Finalist French-American Foundation Fiction Translation Prize: Making Love
2006 Scott Moncrieff Prize (Scott Moncrieff Prize): Machete Season .
2006 Finalist Independent Foreign Fiction Prize: This Blinding Absence of Light
2006 Finalist French-American Foundation Fiction Translation Prize: Massacre River
2007 French-American Foundation Translation Prize: Ravel (Fiction)
2008 Finalist French-American Foundation Translation Prize: Life Laid Bare (Nonfiction)
2009 Finalist International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Ravel
2010 Runner-up Scott Moncrieff Prize: The Strategy of Antelopes (Serpents Tail)
2012 Finalist Best Translated Book Award: Lightning (Fiction)
2013 French Voices Award: Viviane
2013 A Financial Times Best Book of the Year: Consolations of the Forest
2014 Dolman Best Travel Book of the Year Award: Consolations of the Forest
2015 Best Translated Book Award Fiction Selection: 1914
2018 New York Times Notable Book of 2018: Slave Old Man
2019 National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award Finalist: Slave Old Man
2019 French-American Foundation Translation Prize Fiction Finalist: Slave Old Man
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
French–English translators |
17344638 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Willis%20%28sailor%29 | William Willis (sailor) | William Willis (September 8, 1893 – July 1968) was an American sailor and writer who is famous due to his solo rafting expeditions across oceans.
Early years
Willis became a sailor at 15, leaving his home in Hamburg, Germany, to sail around Cape Horn.
A few days after New Years, 1938 (Page 5, "Damned and Damned Again") Willis rented a room in New York City from a French immigrant named Madame Carnot. Her son, Bernard Carnot, had been sent to Devil's Island in 1922 for a murder that he did not commit. Out of compassion and a sense of adventure, Willis set out to the penal colony to effect Bernard Carnot's escape, which he eventually accomplished.
During his first solo expedition in 1954 from South America to American Samoa, he sailed 6,700 miles – 2,200 miles farther than did Thor Heyerdahl on Kon-Tiki. His raft was named "Seven Little Sisters" and was crewed by himself, his parrot, and cat. Willis was age 61 at the time of this voyage. He selected the seven great balsa tree trunks which were used in the raft (hence the name Seven Little Sisters) himself at a balsa forest on a great inland estate. His (American) wife saw him off at the dockside in Callao, Peru. In an incident with the raft in the docks the day before sailing, Willis ruptured himself (suffered a hernia), but nonetheless set sail as planned.
In a second great voyage ten years later, at the age of 71, he sailed 10,000 miles from South America to Australia single-handing a 34-foot (10.4 m) raft named Age Unlimited. He left Callao on 5 July 1963, made a lengthy stop in Apia, and after a total of 204 days at sea, arrived near Tully, Queensland, completing his voyage on 9 September 1964.
Death and legacy
At age 74, Willis made his third attempt at a solo crossing of the North Atlantic in a small sailboat. Willis left Montauk Point, Long Island on May 2, 1968, in his boat Little One. On September 24, 1968, the crew of the Soviet Latvian trawler Yantarny sighted his half-submerged boat nearly four hundred miles west of the Irish coast. No one was found on board. Willis' log was found on the boat, with its last entry dated July 21, 1968.
Novelist T. R. Pearson wrote the book Seaworthy: Adrift with William Willis in the Golden Age of Rafting (2006), summarizing Willis's adventures.
Willis's adventure on Devil's Island was featured in the Season 4 premiere of Drunk History on Comedy Central.
In 2014 russian rock group Orgia Pravednikov (lit. 'Orgy of The Righteous') released a single Vdal po siney vode (lit. 'Far on blue water') about Willis's final adventure.
Bibliography
(Previous title: The Gods Were Kind)
(Previous title: An Angel on Each Shoulder)
See also
Adventurers' Club of New York
Pre-Columbian rafts
References
External links
Rafting the Pacific
1893 births
1968 deaths
American explorers |
6911607 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet%20Moor | Wet Moor | Wet Moor () is a 491.0-hectare (1214.0 acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Muchelney in Somerset, notified in 1985.
Wet Moor is part of the extensive grazing marsh grasslands and ditch systems of the Somerset Levels and Moors.
Wet Moor is low-lying, low-relief land typical in character of the Somerset Moors and Levels. The landscape is dominated by two major arterial watercourses, the Rivers Parrett and Yeo. These are large embanked channels which act as upland water carriers conveying water from the upstream catchments through the low moor lands. In storm conditions the rivers can surcharge their banks and overspill into the adjacent low-lying moorland. Here, flood waters are retained until river levels recede below bankfull conditions. The rivers running through the moor make home for many wildlife, including wintering whooper swans.
References
Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset
Sites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 1985
Somerset Levels
Wetland Sites of Special Scientific Interest |
44508432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Gladiator%20%28play%29 | The Gladiator (play) | The Gladiator is a tragic melodrama in five acts written by Robert Montgomery Bird originally starring Edwin Forrest.
It first premiered on September 26, 1831, at the Park Theatre in New York City.
Background
This theatrical piece was written at the request of Edwin Forrest, an American actor seeking to further his career. He wanted to solidify his fame by acquiring the rights to perform in plays customized to highlight his talents and physical attributes so he devised a contest to encouraged dramaturgs to author new works in return for a cash price. Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags, a play by John Augustus Stone won Forrest's inaugural play prize in 1829. A huge success, Metamora inspired Forrest to continue offering the prize. Robert Montgomery Bird, a doctor without "an all-consuming passion for medicine," hearing of the prize, penned and submitted his first play, the blank verse tragedy Pelopidas, or The Fall of the Polemarchs. Although Pelopidas won the prize, it was not produced or published until 1919, possibly because Pelopidas does not dominate the action of his play in the way Metamora managed and therefore failed to show off Forrest's abilities adequately. However, Forrest found it well written and encouraged a second submission by Bird. The following year, Bird won Forrest's prize a second time with that play that would become his most impactful, The Gladiator. Bird's brother Henry, in a letter advised Robert to continue with The Gladiator as Spartacus was "altogether more suited to Forrest's Roman figure & actions." In fact, it turned out to be the perfect vehicle to showcase Forrest's “muscular acting style” . Thanks to The Gladiator, Forrest became “the most famous American actor of his day”.
Characters
Marcus Licinius Crassus – A Roman praetor.
Lucius Gellius – A consul.
Scropha – A quaestor.
Jovius – A centurion.
Mummius – Lieutenant to Crassius.
Batiatus Lentulus – A Capuan lanista.
Bracchius – A Roman Lanista.
Florus – Son of Lentulus.
Spartacus – A Thracian gladiator.
Phasarius – Spartacus' brother.
Ænomaiis – A gladiator from Gaul.
Crixus – A German gladiator.
boy – Son to Spartacus.
Julia – Niece of Crassus.
Senona – Wife of Spartacus.
Citizens, soldiers, etc.
Synopsis
The Gladiator tells the story of a man yearning to live freely and removed from the oppression of totalitarian masters. Spartacus is a gladiator who initially refuses to fight because he will not “slay a man for the diversion of Romans”.
The play opens with Phasarius, a Thracian slave and other gladiators decrying the position of Rome and considering a revolt against the state left vulnerable by its colonizing and war-mongering generals. However, upon heading from his lanista, Bracchius, that a newly captured Thracian gladiator is an even better fighter than himself, Phasarius resolves to postpone his plans for coup. This newly captured slave is Spartacus, who agrees to battle so that he may free his also captured wife and child. He barters his services, “I will serve you Better than slave e'er served”, in exchange for his family, “Keep us together”. Upon meeting each other in the arena of the amphitheater, however, Phasarius and Spartacus recognize each other as brothers, refuse to fight and incite their fellow gladiators to revolt. They proclaim, “Death to the Roman fiends, that make their mirth Out of the groans of bleeding misery! Ho, slaves, arise! it is your hour to kill! Kill and spare not -For wrath and liberty!-”
War ensues. The gladiator army, led by Spartacus is initially successful in their crusade against the Romans. However, the two brothers have differing agendas: while Spartacus wants to return with his wife, Senona and son to his beloved Thrace and his live as a shepherd, Phasarius wants to sack Rome. He declares, “Whilst this city stands, This ne'er can be; for just so long our country Remains a Roman province. Tear it down, And you enfranchise Thrace, and half the world". Phasarius eventually defects from his brother's army when Spartacus forbids his advance on Julia, the captured niece of Crassus, a Roman praetor. Splintered, the various rebelling armies are easily defeated by the Romans. Phasarius, reconciled and reunited with his brother's dwindling campaign, attempts to escort Senona and her son through a forest to safety. In this attempt, Senona and her child are slain by waiting Roman troops, while Phasarius manages to stumble back to Spartacus and deliver the tragic news before he too dies. Enraged, Spartacus refuses a pardon granted to him by the Romans. In his final bloody fight, Spartacus manages to kill his former captor, Lentulus, before he is felled by multiple Roman troops over the cries of Julia's protest. Though it does not have happy ending, The Gladiator conveys the huge sacrifice man has been willing to withstand throughout history for the sake of freedom.
Production history
The Gladiator premiered at New York's Park Theatre on September 26, 1831. Although the weather on opening night was poor, the actors in secondary roles of questionable distinction and the sets and costumes "wretchedly bad," the play was a massive success and was received with increasing enthusiasm each of the four nights it played. This original production was noted for the play's climatic Act Two in which Spartacus and Pharsarius refuse to slaughter each other. This scene was staged in a spectacular way, the likes of which had not yet been seen that century.
After such success in New York, the production moved to Philadelphia, where it was first produced on October 24 and Boston, where the play was seen in November.
The Gladiator was such a success for Forrest that he opened with it when he traveled to London in 1836. Although Forrest was a success at the Drury Lane Theatre on October 17 with The Gladiator, the audience demonstrated their desire to see Shakespeare as The Gladiator was seen by many in the audience as anti-British.
Although The Gladiator remained a central part of Forrest's repertoire, as with many pre-Civil War plays, it eventually fell out of favor as naturalism and "realistic representation" became more popular.
Even though Bird's work helped secure Forrest prominence, their partnership ended when Forrest failed to compensate Bird as they had originally agreed. In fact, Forrest's “poor treatment led Bird to become a novelist”. Notwithstanding the dissolution of their partnership, Forrest produced and starred in The Gladiator over 1000 times.
Slavery in The Gladiator
The social relevance of The Gladiator is unquestionable. Spartacus is the “underdog who through thirst for individual freedom and love of family risks all in taking on a tyrannical government”. Certainly, 19th century American theater patrons could identify to this as the young country was still figuring out how to live up to the “promises of the Revolution”. But the impact reached far beyond the confines of mainstream American theater goers. Dealing with slave insurgency in Ancient Rome, The Gladiator implicitly attacks the institution of Slavery in the United States by “transforming the Antebellum into neoclassical rebels”. Spartacus was born free just like the first generation of slaves in America and he valued that freedom above anything but family. Unquestionably, the play deals with many of the issues faced by the African slaves of the time including the inevitable shattering of family units resulting from individual slave sales. Spartacus’ yearning for his wife and son mirrored the plight of many slaves with family members scattered across multiple households or plantations. Although Spartacus finds himself “removed from anything like liberty and dignity”, he manages to rise from the “lowest of the low to become an inspiring role model who comes close to achieving freedom for himself and others”.
Bird's opinion on Slavery in the United States is often questioned in regards to The Gladiator. The play was written in a time of great abolitionist activity: William Lloyd Garrison founded The Liberator, an influential anti-slavery newspaper, the same year as Bird wrote his play. Thus the timing of the first performance of The Gladiator was impeccable with it coinciding with the inception of The Liberator. It almost seemed to predict the slave uprising led by Nat Turner in Virginia which resulted in the deaths of many whites until Turner and his men were captured and executed.
In his appraisal of the work, Whitman insists that, "this play is as full of 'Abolitionism' as an egg is of meat."
He called The Gladiator a calculated play to “make the heart of the masses well responsive to all those noble aspirations on behalf of mortal freedom”. Clearly, Whitman had no doubt of the play's abolitionist undertones. Jenna Gibbs states that Bird “used the story to denounce black slavery” and adds that, “Bird noted that his intention was an impassionate and strong dialogue about slavery”. Richards was also convinced of Bird's anti-slavery agenda stating, “The Gladiator seems intent in reminding audiences that it enacts a slave revolt”.
Yet later scholars have dissented from Whitman's surety. Though some still debate that it is not clear that he intentionally conceived The Gladiator as an abolitionist play, everyone agrees that he was fully aware of its incendiary potential in the South.
Certainly, Bird did not want his play to be "damned" in the south. And while Bird himself was worried that, The Gladiator produced in a Slave state would lead to, "the managers, players, and perhaps myself ... rewarded with the Penitentiary," he also differentiated between "nobel" Thracian rebels and "violent" African American slaves. Writing in his journal of the Nat Turner slave rebellion, Bird remarks, "if they had had a Spartacus among them to organize the half million of Virginia, the hundreds of thousands of the [other] states, and lead them on in the Crusade of Massacre, what a blessed example might they not give the world of the excellence of slavery."
Regardless of Bird's intention, the truth is that the play's setting could be easily changed from Rome to a Southern plantation without need to modify much else.
Criticism
From the very first performance in New York City the play was a major success, both commercially and critically. Mr. Forrest's Spartacus was deemed “the perfection of the art histrionic” and “one of the gems that shone upon the stage”. Amongst other praise accorded The Gladiator, it was called "the best native tragedy extant," "decidedly the best drama ever written in this century" with "the stamp of genius in every lineament." The prominent Philadelphia critic, Wemyss called the play, upon its opening in that city, "the perfection of melodramatic tragedy." The play was indeed a huge success in Philadelphia as well as Boston and other cities in the Northeastern United States. Writing in The Brooklyn Eagle in late 1846, Walt Whitman also discusses Forrest's talent, citing the actor as "a deserved favorite with the public."
While the relationship between The Gladiator and its playwright to slavery is much debated (see above), the play is often seen as the pinnacle of romanticism in American drama. Written only a few years following the inauguration of Andrew Jackson, the play is Anti-imperial and anti-British where distant colonies are persecuted while ancient lineages reign dominant over "the new blood of the poor," a common theme in Jacksonian political rhetoric.
The Gladiator played successfully across the country for 70 years. A marker of its enormous success may be seen in how many performances were produced: by 1854, The Gladiator had been performed over 1000 times, a remarkable feat. It was considered to be the first time a play had reached such a threshold in the playwright's lifetime. Forrest retained the play in his repertoire until his death, and it was eventually taken up by John Edward McCullough and Robert Downing.
Legacy
The Gladiator’s legacy was a success from its very first performance. Its theatrical acclaim can be attributed to the appeal of its star, Edwin Forrest, in conjunction with the story of the oppressed seeking freedom from despotism. The story not only capitalized on the success of the American Revolution but it fed from the cultural and societal mood of the time. By subtly tying the story of Roman slavery to that of African American slaves, Bird created a framework through which he could express his human equality views. As a result, The Gladiator became a cornerstone of American dramaturgy awarding Bird his righteous place as one of the most acclaimed playwrights of the early 19th century. Having been performed over 1000 times, The Gladiator’s longevity attests to the universality of its central story touching on themes ranging from freedom and family to the sacrifice sometimes required to achieve societal rather than individual goals.
Not only is the story of The Gladiator a universally appealing tale, but Forrest's foresight in having such a play custom fitted to his ability is also an important aspect of the legacy of this work. In fact, The Gladiator’s "Spartacus was perfectly conceived to meet the actor's strengths" and completely suited to "Forrest's Roman figure and actions". Spartacus is "loud, dynamic, and anti-aristocratic" which perfectly suited Forrest's image. With Forrest talents and physical abilities determining the course of the play, it is one of the first instances where a particular actor's skills and physique dictate the tone and content of a theatrical offering. Today, theatrical vehicles are often created to fit the needs and desires of many superstars and even up- and comers who are believed to be worth the time and financial investment.
Published during the "Golden Era of the American Stage", The Gladiator stands as one of the first epics written by an American author. As a theatrical piece, its impact in the American entertainment industry is irrefutable. Bird's play, with its critical and financial success, demonstrated the potential of ancient history as fodder for entertainment. It can be considered a precursor to the many works inspired or set during the Roman Empire that are found in contemporary literature and portrayed in the theatre, television shows, and feature films. For example, Broadway's Her First Roman and Pippin are based on Roman Empire characters though gladiators are not central to the stories. Gladiators do abound in television and film. Spartacus’ story has been told by at least one long running television series and a 2004 made-for-TV movie starring Goran Visnjic. On the big screen, Howard Fast's novel Spartacus was adapted into film in 1960 starring Kirk Douglas and it is considered a classic. Just like Bird's play, Fast's novel has social relevance in that it reflects the fight for the “political empowerment of the working class” (Joshel et al. 91). Perhaps the most successful Roman Empire movie is the 2000 film Gladiator starring Russell Crowe. Though not directly based on Bird's work, the influence of The Gladiator is evident throughout Crowe's film. Although the story is different, the heroic central figure, Maximus, is uncannily similar to Spartacus including the yearning for family, his failed attempt at escaping Roman rule, and his untimely sacrificial death. It is important to note that, just like Forrest, the actors in both of the films mentioned had input regarding the content of the films and used them as career building vehicles.
See also
Spartacus
Edwin Forrest
Robert Montgomery Bird
References
1831 plays
Melodramas
Tragedy plays
Rome in fiction
Cultural depictions of Spartacus |
6911609 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4%20%28conference%29 | C4 (conference) | C4 was a Macintosh software developers conference held in Chicago, Illinois. The conference ran from 2006 through 2009. It was created by Jonathan Rentzsch after the demise of MacHack. In May 2010 Rentzsch announced that he would no longer operate the conference due to a dissatisfaction with Apple's policies toward iPhone OS development and the lack of a strong negative reaction from the Apple developer community.
Etymology
The name C4 stands for Code Culture Conspiracy Conference
C4[0]
The first C4 conference was a two-day event held at the University Center in downtown Chicago. It was held on October 20 and October 21, 2006, with an optional trip to Adler Planetarium's TimeSpace show for attendees on October 22. Due to that year's Chicago Marathon, attendees unable to stay downtown were provided free passes to the Chicago 'L' railway system for the weekend (an arrangement referred to as "Plan 'L'").
Presenters
Steve Dekorte, software developer
Drunkenbatman, blogger, organizer of Evening@Adler (held at Adler Planetarium)
Brian W. Fitzpatrick, developer of Subversion, Fire and Apache Portable Runtime
John Gruber, coauthor of Markdown and influential blogger (see Daring Fireball)
Gus Mueller, creator of VoodooPad
Jonathan Rentzsch, software developer
Brent Simmons, creator of NetNewsWire
Aaron Hillegass, software developer and Cocoa instructor at Big Nerd Ranch
Paul Kafasis, software developer and founder of Rogue Amoeba
Notable attendees
James Duncan Davidson, former Sun Microsystems engineer, creator of Tomcat and Ant
C4[1]
The second C4 conference was held at the Chicago City Centre Hotel on August 10–August 12, 2007. Like the first conference, C4[1] was organized by Jonathan Rentzsch.
Presenters
Tim Burks, RubyObjC developer
Drunkenbatman
Adam Engst, publisher of TidBITS
Bob Ippolito, PyObjC developer
Daniel Jalkut, developer of MarsEdit (acquired from Brent Simmons)
Jonathan Rentzch
Cabel Sasser, co-founder of Panic Inc.
Wil Shipley, creator of Delicious Library
Shawn Morel, VMware developer working on Fusion
Daniel Lyons, senior editor at Forbes magazine and writer of The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs under the pseudonym "Fake Steve Jobs", was scheduled to speak at C4 but was unable due to an illness.
C4[2]
The third C4 conference was held at the Chicago City Centre Hotel on September 5–September 7, 2008. Like the previous conferences, C4[2] was organized by Jonathan Rentzsch. He announced the conference via Twitter feed on April 23, 2008.
Presenters
Alex Payne, developer for Twitter
Brent Simmons, creator of NetNewsWire
Buzz Andersen, creator of PodWorks
Craig Hockenberry, creator of Twitterrific
Mike Lee, former developer for Delicious Monster and Tapulous
Rich Siegel, founder of Bare Bones Software
D. Richard Hipp, architect and primary author of SQLite
Wil Shipley, founder of Delicious Monster
C4[3]
The fourth C4 conference was held at the DoubleTree Chicago from September 25 to September 27, 2009. It sold out within eight hours of the initial announcement. This year's version featured Blitz talks, talks held between the conference's standard presentations. In these talks, speakers were held to 5 minutes per presentation, with each slide having a maximum of 20 seconds on screen.
Presenters
Augie Fackler, Google engineer
Christopher Lloyd, creator of Cocotron
Dave Dribin, founder of BitMaki
John C. Welch
Jonathan Rentzsch
Matt Drance
Michael Lopp, author of Rands in Repose
Peter Wayner
Patrick Thomson
References
External links
C4[0] schedule
Jonathan Rentzsch's blog posts about C4
Photos of C4 by attendee James Duncan Davidson at Flickr
Photos of C4 by presenter John Gruber at Flickr
Apple Inc. conferences |
6911611 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grevillea%20aquifolium | Grevillea aquifolium | Grevillea aquifolium is a shrubby or scrambling plant endemic to South Australia and Victoria. Common names include holly grevillea, prickly grevillea or variable prickly grevillea. It occurs naturally in woodland, open forest and heathland.
Description
The species displays a high level of plasticity in its leaves, habit, and habitat preferences across its natural range. The height of the shrubby forms usually ranges between 1 and 2 metres but can reach 4 metres in some populations, while prostrate forms are also observed in their natural distribution, sometimes growing among shrubby forms. The flowers occur in terminal one-sided racemes, typical of what are commonly referred to as "toothbrush" grevilleas. They are red or occasionally yellowish-green. Flowering in South Australia is recorded as being between November and March, while in the Grampians in Victoria it extends from September to April. The foliage is usually lobed with sharp points on the lobes but some populations have leaves with nearly entire leaf margins.
Taxonomy
The species was formally described in 1838 by English botanist John Lindley in Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia based on plant material collected from Mount William in the Grampians by Thomas Mitchell. Mitchell commented that the species was "a remarkable kind with leaves like those of a European holly, but downy".<ref name="three expeditions">{{cite web|author=Mitchell, Thomas|title=Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia|volume=2|year=1838|publisher=T&W Boone|location=London|url=http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks/e00036.html}}</ref> The specific epithet (aquifolium) is a reference to the common European holly, Ilex aquifolium.
Distribution and habitatGrevillea aquifolium occurs in the south-east of South Australia and western Victoria.
In South Australia, small populations are found at locations such as Carpenter Rocks, Bucks Lake Game Reserve and West Dairy Range. In Victoria the species is found in the Grampians region and northwards to the Little Desert as well as near the south coast at Kentbruck Heath near Portland. Associated tree species in Victoria include Eucalyptus baxteri, Eucalyptus obliqua, Eucalyptus willisii subsp. falciformis and Callitris rhomboidea.
Possible hybrids between this species and Grevillea microstegia and Grevillea montis-cole occur near Mount Cassel and Mount William respectively.
Ecology
Birds are thought to be the primary pollinators of the species, though bees and ants may also have a role.
Use in horticulture
A number of naturally occurring forms have been brought into cultivation from locations including Carpenter Rocks, Cooack, Halls Gap, Kenbruck Heath, Lake Wartook, Little Desert, Mount William and Serra Road.
'Copper Crest', a hybrid cross of G. aquifolium and G.acanthifolia, is a commercially released cultivar that was selected in Montrose in Victoria in 1975.Grevillea aquifolium'' prefers a well-drained position with full exposure to the sun or in partial shade. Mature plants are drought tolerant and have some frost tolerance, but dislike humidity. Plants may be propagated from cuttings taken from semi-mature growth.
References
External links
Herbarium specimens at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Flora of South Australia
Flora of Victoria (Australia)
aquifolium
Proteales of Australia
Taxa named by John Lindley
Plants described in 1838 |
26723073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor%20Ca%C8%99u | Igor Cașu | Igor Cașu (born October 8, 1973 in Borogani) is a historian from the Republic of Moldova.
Biography
Igor Cașu was born on October 8, 1973 in Borogani, district Comrat, now in Leova. He studied history for 3 years at State University of Moldova and then transferred to University of Iași where he graduated with an MA in History in 1995 and subsequently defended his PhD at the same university – University of Iași - in 2000. The subject of his Ph.D. was Soviet Nationalities Politicy in Moldavia, 1944–1989.
In 2000 fall semester he was Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory, North Carolina, teaching a course on Balkan History and Politics in the 20th Century.
He contributed in 2006 to the Presidential Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania as expert on former Moldavian SSR.
Igor Cașu has been also deputy Chair of the Commission for the analysis of the totalitarian communist regime in the Republic of Moldova, designated by Presidential Decree signed by the Acting President of Moldova, Mihai Ghimpu.
Since October 2010 he is (founding) Director of the Center for the Study of Totalitarianism at the Faculty of History and Philosophy, State University of Moldova in Chişinău. He contributed for Radio Free Europe (2010–2011), Romanian language section (http://www.europalibera.org/author/20709.html) as well as to Romanian daily Adevărul (2010-2014), Chişinău edition (http://adevarul.ro/blogs/igor.casu).
Works
The following is a list of works that were published:
Foametea din anii 1946-1947 din RSS Moldovenească: cauze şi consecinţe/The Mass Famine in the Moldavian SSR, 1946-1947: causes and consequences—accessibile at https://www.academia.edu/7785239/Foametea_din_anii_1946-1947_din_RSS_Moldoveneasca_cauze_si_consecinte_The_Mass_Famine_in_the_Moldavian_SSR_1946-1947_causes_and_consequences
"Marea Teroare" in RASS Moldovenească, 1937-1938 (context intern și extern; operațiunile "culăcească" și "română"; represiuni față de nomenclatură; probe ale folosirii torturii/violenței)—accessibile at https://www.academia.edu/7973252/_Marea_Teroare_in_RASS_Moldoveneasca_1937-1938_context_intern_%C8%99i_extern_opera%C8%9Biunile_culaceasca_%C8%99i_romana_represiuni_fa%C8%9Ba_de_nomenclatura_probe_ale_folosirii_torturii_violen%C8%9Bei_
Голод в Молдавской ССР 1946-1947 гг.: причины и последствия (https://usm-md.academia.edu/IgorCasu)
Большой Террор в Молдавской АССР, 1937-1938 гг. ("кулацкая" и "румынская" операции, репрессии против номенклатуры и доказательства использования насилия) (https://usm-md.academia.edu/IgorCasu)
Conflicte între Ministerul de Interne (MVD) şi Securitatea Statului (MGB) în ajunul şi în timpul deportării în masă din iulie 1949 din RSS Moldovenească (https://usm-md.academia.edu/IgorCasu)
Конфликты между МВД и МГБ накануне и во время массовой депортации из Молдавской ССР (июль 1949 г.) (https://usm-md.academia.edu/IgorCasu)
У истоков советизации Бессарабии. Выявление "классового врага", конфискация имущества и трудовая мобилизация, 1940-1941. Сборник документов [At the Origins of Sovietization of Bessarabia. Identification of "class enemy", confiscation of property and work mobilization, 1940–1941. Collections of documents from party, government and NKVD/KGB archives], Chişinău, Cartier, 2014, 458 p. List of documents in Russian, Romanian and English, introduction in Russian and Romanian as well as short summary in English available at: https://www.academia.edu/7393697/_._1940-1941._
Duşmanul de clasă. Represiuni politice, violenţă şi rezistenţă în R(A)SS Moldovenească, 1924-1956 [Class Enemy. Political Repressions, Violence and Resistance in Moldavian (A)SSR], Chişinău, Cartier, 2014, 396 p. A summary in English available at: https://www.academia.edu/616126/Class_Enemy._Political_Repressions_Violence_and_Resistance_in_Moldavian_A_SSR_1924-1956_Chisinau_Cartier_2014_396_p._Summary_in_English_in_Romanian_Russian_version_to_be_ready_soon_
Discontent and Uncertainty in theBorderlands: Soviet Moldavia and the SecretSpeech 1956–1957, in Europe-Asia Studies, 66:4, 2014, p. 613-644, co-author Mark Sandle. A summary in English available at: https://www.academia.edu/6931057/Discontent_and_Uncertainty_in_the_Borderlands_Soviet_Moldavia_and_the_Secret_Speech_1956-1957
"World History and History of Romanians". History textbook for the 12th grade, recommended by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Moldova, Chişinău, Cartier, 2013, 144 pages (co-author with Igor Şarov, Virgil Pâslariuc, Flavius Solomon and Pavel Cerbuşcă).
"Political Repressions in Moldavian SSR after 1956: Towards a Typology Based on KGB files", in Dystopia. Journal of Totalitarian Ideologies and Regimes, vol. 1–2, 2012, p. 89-127. Full text available at: https://www.academia.edu/4921186/Political_Repressions_in_Moldavian_SSR_after_1956_Towards_a_Typology_Based_on_KGB_files
"Was the Soviet Union an Empire? A view from Chisinau", in Dystopia. Journal of Totalitarian Ideologies and Regimes, vol. 1–2, 2012, p. 277-290. Full text available at: https://www.academia.edu/1055280/Was_the_Soviet_Union_an_Empire_A_view_from_Chisinau
Fără termen de prescripţie. Aspecte ale crimelor comunismului în Europa [No Statute of Limitations. Aspects of the Communist Crimes in Europe], Chişinău, Cartier, 2011 (co-editor with Sergiu Musteaţă), 780 p.
Republica Moldova de la Perestroikă la independenţă, 1989-1991. Documente secrete din arhiva CC a PCM [The Republic of Moldova from Perestroika to independence, 1989–1991. Secret Documents from the Archive of the CC of PCM], introduction and titles of documents in Romanian, Russian and English, Chişinău, Cartdidact, 2011, 692 p. (main co-editor, with Igor Şarov). Full text available online at: https://www.academia.edu/4183904/Republica_Moldova_de_la_Perestroika_la_independenta_1989_1991._Documente_inedite_2011_-_Moldova_from_Perestroika_to_Independence_1989-1991._Secret_documents_2011._In_original_Russian_with_contents_and_introduction_in_Romanian_English_and_Russian
Al Doilea Război Mondial în Estul şi Vestul Europei. Istorie şi memorie [Second World War in Eastern and Western Europe. History and Memory], Chişinău, Cartier, 2013, 332 p. (co-editor with Diana Dumitru, Andrei Cuşco and Petru Negură).
"Был ли Советский Союз империей? Взгляд из Кишинева" // НЕПРИКОСНОВЕННЫЙ ЗАПАС (МОСКВА) No. 78 (4/2011). Full text available at: http://magazines.russ.ru/nz/2011/4/ka13.html
"Stalinist Terror in Soviet Moldavia, 1940-1953", in Kevin McDermott, Matthew Stibbe, eds., Stalinist Terror in Eastern Europe. Elite purges and mass repression, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2010, p. 39-56.
"Chestiunea revizuirii hotarelor RSS Moldoveneşti: de la proiectul "Moldova Mare" la proiectul "Basarabia Mare" şi cauzele eşecului acestora (decembrie 1943 – iunie 1946)" [ Moldavian SSR's Border Revision Question: From The Project of "Greater Moldavia" to The Project of "Greater Bessarabia" and The Causes of their Failure(December 1943 – June 1946)]. Documents in original Russian, translated in Romanian, with Introduction article of 22 pages, English summary of 2 pages, co-edited with Virgil Pâslariuc, in Archiva Moldaviae, no. 2, 2010, p. 275-370. Full text available online at: https://www.academia.edu/5465961/Chestiunea_revizuirii_hotarelor_RSS_Moldovenesti_de_la_proiectul_Moldova_Mare_la_proiectul_Basarabia_Mare_si_cauzele_esecului_acestora_decembrie_1943_-_iunie_1946_
"Represiunile comuniste în Moldova Sovietică", în Vladimir Tismăneanu, Dorin Dobrincu, Vasile Cristian, eds., "Raportul Comisiei Prezidenţiale pentru analiza dictaturii comuniste din România", București, Humanitas publishing house, 2007.
"Le Goulag Bessarabien: Deportations, Repressions, Famine, 1940-1941, 1944-1953", in Communisme (Paris), no. 91–92, 2007, p. 129-138. Full text available at: https://www.academia.edu/3049764/Le_Goulag_Bessarabien_Deportations_Repressions_Famine_1940-1941_1944-1953
"Politica naţională" în Moldova Sovietică, 1944–1989 [Nationalities Policy in Soviet Moldavia, 1944-1989], Chişinău, Editura Cartdidact, 2000, 214 p. Summary in English and Russian. Full text available at: https://www.academia.edu/377397/Nationalities_Policy_in_Soviet_Moldavia_1944-1989
Istoria Universală Contemporană, clasa a 9-a, Chişinău, Civitas, 2005.
"Zur Binnendeportation von sowjetischen Deutschen und Juden im und nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg", in Krista Zach et al.(eds.), Migration im sudostlichen Mitteleuropa. Auswanderung, Flucht, Deportation, Exil im 20. Jahrhundert, IKGS Verlag, Munchen, 2005
Politică, societate şi cultură în sud-estul şi vestul Europei (mastercourse), Chişinau, TACIS, 2001.
"Nation Building in the Era of Integration: The case of Moldova", in Konrad Jarausch and Thomas Lindenberger (eds.), Conflicting Memories: Europeanizing Contemporary History'', Oxford, Berghan Books, 2007, p. 237-253
Footnotes
External links
Preşedintele interimar al Republicii Moldova Mihai Ghimpu a emis un decret prezidenţial privind constituirea Comisiei pentru studierea şi aprecierea regimului comunist totalitar din Republica Moldova.
Lavinia Stan. Review of Cașu, Igor, Dușmanul de clasă: Represiuni politice, violenţă şi rezistenţă în R(A)SS Moldovenească, 1924-1956. H-Romania, H-Net Reviews. September, 2014.
1973 births
Living people
21st-century Moldovan historians
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University alumni
Members of the Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova |
26723108 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20Kooten | Van Kooten | van Kooten is a surname of Dutch origin. People with the name include:
Cees van Kooten (1948–2015), Dutch professional football player and manager
Kees van Kooten (born 1941), Dutch comedian, television actor, and author
Half of the comedy duo of Van Kooten en De Bie
Kim van Kooten (born 1974), Dutch actress and screenwriter
Theodorus van Kooten (1749–1813), Dutch poet, professor and politician
Dutch-language surnames
Surnames of Dutch origin |
23581367 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965%E2%80%9366%20Mersin%20%C4%B0dmanyurdu%20season | 1965–66 Mersin İdmanyurdu season | Mersin İdmanyurdu (also Mersin İdman Yurdu, Mersin İY, or MİY) Sports Club; located in Mersin, east Mediterranean coast of Turkey in 1965–1966. The 1965–66 season was the 3rd season of Mersin İdmanyurdu football team in Second League, the second level division in Turkey.
The club had had name "Çukurova İdmanyurdu" again under Çukurova Group sponsorship and finished 5th. On 20 July 1965 the club and fans celebrated the 40th anniversary of their foundation. Executive committee comprised Mehmet Karametmet, Halit Gazioğlu, Sezai Sak.
At the beginning of the season Fahrettin Cansever was the coach of the team. In the half season Lefter Küçükantonyadis became the manager of the team (20 January 1966). Lefter signed for four months. One month later, Lefter had been stabbed by a fan (a restaurant owner, Fikri Özkörüklü) and hospitalized. Many citizens, pupils, NGO representatives and sports people visited him in hospital and his room was filled with flowers. Lefter declared that he will not leave the team. Fahrettin Cansever became the trainer of Beykozspor (12 January 1966). On 7 June 1966 before the last match of the season, Lefter left Mersin. He said that he was compliant of the behaviours of executive committee member Sezai Sak.
Pre-season
Preparation game: ÇİY-Türkocağı: 4–1.
Spor-Toto Cup: 15 August 1965 - Adana Demirspor-ÇİY: 0–2. Sunday, 17:00. City Stadium, Adana. Goals: Mehmet.
Spor-Toto Cup: 22 August 1965 - ÇİY-Adana Demirspor: 0–0. Sunday. Mersin.
Preparation game: 29 September 1965. ÇİY-Adana Milli Mensucat. Sunday.
1965–66 Second League participation
Second League 1965–66 was played by 22 teams in two groups (red and white), 11 in each. Top four teams played promotion group matches in league format. Bottom teams played relegation play-out. Top two teams promoted to First League 1966–67.
Results summary
Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) 1965–66 Second League summary:
Sources: 1965–66 Turkish Second Football League pages.
Ranking group performance
The 1965–66 season Red Group (stage 1) matches of Çukurova İdmanyurdu (ÇİY) vs other team are shown in league table below.
Two points for a win. Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored. First team is ÇİY in both cases, home and away.
(Q): Qualified for Final Group; (R): Relegated to Regional Amateur League after relegation play-outs.
Sources: 1965–66 Turkish Second Football League Cem Pekin Archives; and advanced searched performed in Milliyet online archive for 1965–66 Mersin İdmanyurdu season.
Ranking group games
Sources: Cem Pekin Archives, Milliyet Online Archive, Maçkolik, Erbil (1975).
Final group performance
The 1965–66 season promotion group (stage 2) matches of Çukurova İdmanyurdu (ÇİY) vs other team are shown in league table below.
Two points for a win. Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored. First team is ÇİY in both cases, home and away.
(P): Promoted to 1966–67 Turkish First Football League.
Sources: 1965–66 Turkish Second Football League Cem Pekin Archives; and advanced searched performed in Milliyet online archive for 1965–66 Mersin İdmanyurdu season.
Final group games
Sources: Cem Pekin Archives, Milliyet Online Archive, and Maçkolik.
1965–66 Turkish Cup participation
1965–66 Turkish Cup was the fourth cup and played by 71 teams: 16 First League teams (1), 20 Second League teams (2), 19 teams from regional leagues (R), and 16 amateur teams (A). Galatasaray has won the cup for the fourth time consecutively and became eligible for playing ECW next year. ÇİY and Yeşildirek were penalized due to last season draw outs. So ÇİY couldn't participated in fourth cup.
Management
Club management
Executive committee:
President: Halit Gazioğlu. Deputy President: Mehmet Mehmetoğlu. General Secretary: Aydın Özlü. Members: Mahir Turan, Erol Tarhan, Sezai Sak, Victor Venüs, Sedat Gülergün.
Coaching team
Head Coach: Fahrettin Cansever.
1965–66 Mersin İdmanyurdu head coaches:
Note: Only official games were included.
1965–66 squad
Stats are counted for 1965–66 Second League matches. In the team rosters four substitutes were allowed to appear, two of whom were substitutable. Only the players who appeared in game rosters were included and listed in the order of appearance.
Source: 1964–65 season squad data from maçkolik com, Milliyet, and Erbil (1975).
See also
Football in Turkey
1965–66 Turkish Second Football League
1965–66 Turkish Cup
Notes and references
Mersin İdman Yurdu seasons
Turkish football clubs 1965–66 season |
26723132 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebet%20Kadarusman | Ebet Kadarusman | Ebet Kadarusman (July 7, 1936 – March 20, 2010) was an Indonesian television and radio presenter and host. He was known to audiences for the phrase, "It is nice to be important, but it is more important to be nice", which he used on his television talk show, Salam Canda.
He was born in Tasikmalaya on July 7, 1936, though some sources state that he may have been born in Jakarta. He began his career as a presenter for ABC radio in Australia, where he resided for more than 30 years. He returned to Indonesia in 1986.
In November 1990, he began hosting a popular radio show called, Good Pagi, Selamat Morning. His television tak show, Salam Canda, which was hosted in both English and Bahasa Indonesian launched in 1991 on the private television network, RCTI.
Ebet suffered three strokes between 2001 and 2010. He died of complications from his most recent stroke just before 6 a.m. on March 20, 2010, at Hasan Sadikin Hospital in Bandung at the age of 73. he had been in a coma since suffering the stroke on March 16.
Ebet was survived by five children from his first marriage - Andre Kadarusman in Singapore, Valerie in Sydney, Iriany in Melbourne, Julia in New York, and Michelle in Canada. His second wife, a widow, also had five children.
Ebet was buried at Sarijadi cemetery in Bandung.
References
1936 births
2010 deaths
Indonesian television presenters
Indonesian radio personalities
Sundanese people |
20486822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986%20Alabama%20Crimson%20Tide%20football%20team | 1986 Alabama Crimson Tide football team | The 1986 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "UA", "Bama" or "The Tide") represented the University of Alabama in the 1986 NCAA Division I-A football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 94th overall and 53rd season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by head coach Ray Perkins, in his fourth year, and played their home games at both Bryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa and Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama. They finished the season with a record of ten wins and three losses (10–3 overall, 4–2 in the SEC) and with a victory in the Sun Bowl over Washington.
After opening the season with a victory over Ohio State in the Kickoff Classic, the Crimson Tide would win their first 7 games and eventually rise to as high as #2 in the rankings but lost to eventual national champion Penn State and lost out on an SEC championship after losses to LSU and Auburn. Highlights of the season included their first ever victory over Notre Dame and a 56–28 victory over Tennessee that snapped a four-game losing streak to the Vols.
After the season, Ray Perkins resigned on December 31, to become head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League.
Schedule
Roster
Rankings
Season summary
Ohio State
Vanderbilt
Southern Mississippi
at Florida
Notre Dame
Memphis State
Homecoming
at Tennessee
Penn State
at Mississippi State
LSU
Temple
Auburn
vs. Washington (Sun Bowl)
Awards and honors
Cornelius Bennett – Lombardi Award, SEC Player of the Year, Unanimous First-team All-American
1987 NFL Draft
References
General
Specific
Alabama
Alabama Crimson Tide football seasons
Sun Bowl champion seasons
Alabama Crimson Tide football |
23581378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno%20Bartoletti | Bruno Bartoletti | Bruno Bartoletti (Sesto Fiorentino, 10 June 1926 – Florence, 9 June 2013) was an Italian operatic conductor. His active international career lasted from 1953 to 2007, and he specialized in the Italian repertory and contemporary works. He was particularly noted for his 51-year association with Lyric Opera of Chicago, as co-artistic director, artistic director, principal conductor, and artistic director emeritus. He also served as Artistic Director of both the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (1965–1973) and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (1985–1991), and as principal conductor of the Danish Royal Opera (1957–1960), in addition to frequent work as a guest conductor at various major opera houses.
Life and career
Bartoletti's father was Umberto Bartoletti, a blacksmith, who also played clarinet in a Florence band. As a youth, Bartoletti played the piccolo. A teacher in Florence recognised the young Bartoletti's talent in music, and her husband, the sculptor Antonio Berti, recommended him to the Cherubini Conservatory. There, he studied flute and piano.
Bartoletti later played in the orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and subsequently became a staff pianist with the Teatro Comunale Florence, at its centre of vocal training. He was an assistant to such conductors as Artur Rodzinski, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Vittorio Gui and Tullio Serafin. In particular, Serafin encouraged Bartoletti to study conducting. In December 1953, Bartoletti made his professional conducting debut at the Teatro Comunale with Rigoletto. In 1957, he became resident conductor of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, where his work included conducting the Italian premiere of Shostakovich's The Nose. Subsequently, Bartoletti was artistic director of the Rome Opera from 1965 to 1973. He returned to the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino as its artistic director from 1985 to 1991. Elsewhere in Europe, Bartoletti served as principal conductor of the Royal Danish Opera from 1957 to 1960.
Bartoletti made his US conducting debut with Lyric Opera of Chicago in 1956, conducting Il trovatore, as a replacement for the indisposed Serafin. In 1964, Bartoletti was named co-artistic director of Lyric Opera, alongside Pino Donati, and served jointly with Donati until 1974. In 1975, Bartoletti became sole artistic director, and held the post until his retirement in 1999. Following his retirement, he had the title of artistic director emeritus for the remainder of his life. Bartoletti began as Lyric Opera's principal conductor in 1964, and served in that capacity until 1999. Over the period from 1956 to 2007, Bartoletti conducted approximately 600 performances of 55 operas with Lyric Opera, with his final conducting appearance at Lyric Opera in a 2007 production of La traviata. His other notable conducting work at Lyric Opera included conducting the US premiere of Britten's Billy Budd in 1970, and the 1978 world premiere of Krzysztof Penderecki's Paradise Lost.
Bartoletti focused almost exclusively on opera in his career, with few conducting engagements in symphonic work. He conducted several world premieres of works by composers such as Luciano Berio, Luigi Dallapiccola, Paul Dessau, Lodovico Rocca, Gian Francesco Malipiero, and Alberto Ginastera (Don Rodrigo, 1964). His commercial recordings Ponchielli's La Gioconda, Puccini's Manon Lescaut, and La Cena delle Beffe of Umberto Giordano (from the Opernhaus, Zürich, in 1996), as well as DVDs of Death in Venice, La bohème, Giovanna d’Arco, Macbeth, La gazza ladra, and television films of La sonnambula and Tosca.
The Italian government had bestowed on Bartoletti the rank of Cavaliere di Gran Croce della Repubblica Italiana. He was also a member of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, and a winner of the Abbiati Prize. In his later years, Bartoletti taught at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena. His final operatic performance was a production of Manon Lescaut in February 2011.
Bartoletti was married to the former Rosanna Sandretti, an elementary-school teacher, from 1 July 1953 until her death on 2 August 2011. The marriage produced two daughters, Chiara Bartoletti and Maria Poggi, who both survive Bartoletti. Other survivors include a sister, a brother, and five grandchildren, Livia, Filippo, Arianna, Margherita, and Nicolò.
References
Sources
Dictionnaire des interprètes, Alain Pâris, Éditions Robert Laffont, 1989.
External links
Three interviews with Bruno Bartoletti: October, 1981; February, 1996; November, 1998
1926 births
2013 deaths
People from Sesto Fiorentino
Italian male conductors (music)
Music directors (opera)
20th-century Italian conductors (music)
20th-century Italian male musicians |
6911614 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chet%20Pancake | Chet Pancake | Chet Pancake is an American filmmaker and musician. He is a co-founder of the Red Room Collective, the High Zero Foundation, the Charm City Kitty Club and the Transmodern Festival. He is currently an assistant professor in the Film and Media Arts Program at Temple University and director of the Black Oak House Gallery. His documentary film Black Diamonds (2006), an examination of mountaintop removal mining, has received a number of awards.
Personal
Pancake grew up in the areas of Romney, West Virginia and Summersville, West Virginia, and moved to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1993. His sister is writer Ann Pancake, and his brother is actor Sam Pancake. The writer Breece D'J Pancake was also a relative. When he moved to Baltimore in 1994, he found his calling to producing and filmmaking. By producing and film making, his work portrayed exclusive subject matters that gained the publics eyes." Pancake currently resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with his partner.
Career
In Baltimore, Pancake co-founded the Red Room Collective and High Zero Foundation. He also became a self-trained improvising percussionist and began making films, which ranged from short, experimental meditations to feature-length narratives and documentaries. He was a founding member of the Charm City Kitty Club (GLBT Performance Series) and the Transmodern Festival (Live.Art.Action.)
Pancake currently lives in Philadelphia, where he is an assistant professor in the Film and Media Arts Program at Temple University and the director of Black Oak House Gallery.
Beginning around 2001, his primary project was a documentary about the mountaintop removal project of the coal in southern West Virginia and its resulting environmental and humanitarian consequences titled Black Diamonds. Black Diamonds: Mountaintop Removal & The Fight for Coalfield Justice was released by Bull Frog Films for distribution in December 2006.
Pancake received a master's degree in fine arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in May 2012. As recipient of the Edes Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship, he began the film Genius Project as his Edes Year project. In it he documents five avant-garde artists who identify as queer women: Eileen Myles, Barbara Hammer, Jibz Cameron, Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Phillips.
In 2012, Pancake began working on Queer Genius, a documentary interviewing and following queer-identifying artists Eileen Myles, Barbara Hammer, Rasheedah Phillips, Camae Ayewa, and Jibz Cameron. In addition to the Edes Foundation, Queer Genius has received support from the Leeway Foundation and Temple University. The film began screening at various festivals and events in 2019, including Women Make Waves International Film Festival in Taipei, Taiwan and the Toronto Queer Film Festival in 2020. Many of the screenings were moved online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Queer Genius has won awards including “Audience Prize Best Feature 2020” at QFest Houston and "Boundary Breaker Award" at the Buffalo International Film Festival 2020.
In an interview given in 2019, Pancake talked about currently projects, including a short film set in West Virginia that addresses family dynamic and addiction. This will be an addition to the artwork series "Bloodland." He is also working on a larger video project that addresses the emotional and somatic resonances of ecological activism and factors surround fossil fuel extraction on the East Coast of the United States.
Film and videography
2006 release, Black Diamonds: Mountaintop Removal & The Fight for Coalfield Justice, DV 72 minutes; screened at the Documentary Fortnight Series at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Feb 2008
2009, Jay Dreams
2010, bitterbittertears
2011, Optical Scores
2019, Queer Genius
Awards
2002, Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award
2006, Key to the City, South Charleston, West Virginia
2006, Paul Robeson Independent Media Award
2007, Jack Spadaro Documentary Award
2007, Silver Chris Award – Best in Science & Technology Division – Columbus International Film Festival
2012, Edes Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2013, American Composers Forum, Subito grant for Axon Ladder, Bhob Rainey, Catherine Pancake, Meg Foley
2014, Pew Center for Arts & Heritage “No Idea Too Ridiculous” grant for Allele Wake, Catherine Pancake, Bhob Rainey, Christina Zani
References
External links
Black Diamonds film page
Leeway Foundation Bio
Temple University Bio
Interview with Chet Pancake
Further reading
Film and Everyday Eco-Disasters Robin L Murray; Joseph K Heumann
1966 births
American cinematographers
People from Romney, West Virginia
Living people
American documentary filmmakers
Musicians from West Virginia
Musicians from Baltimore
Musicians from Chicago
Film directors from West Virginia
LGBT musicians from the United States
21st-century LGBT people
LGBT film directors |
56564559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarred%20Shaw | Jarred Shaw | Jarred Shaw (born September 28, 1990) is an American professional basketball player for Trouville of the Liga Uruguaya de Básquetbol (LUB).
Professional career
On October 31, 2015, Shaw was selected by the Santa Cruz Warriors with the 18th overall pick in the 2015 NBA Development League Draft. He signed for Dorados de Chihuahua of the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional (LNBP) in August 2019. In February 2020 he signed for Club Trouville of Montevideo, Uruguay, and played during the 2019–20 LUB season.
Career statistics
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References
1990 births
Living people
American expatriate basketball people in Argentina
American expatriate basketball people in Japan
American expatriate basketball people in Mexico
American expatriate basketball people in Thailand
American expatriate basketball people in Turkey
American expatriate basketball people in Uruguay
Club Africain basketball players
Dorados de Chihuahua (LNBP) players
Fukushima Firebonds players
Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball players
Santa Cruz Warriors players
Utah State Aggies men's basketball players
American men's basketball players
Centers (basketball)
Power forwards (basketball) |
56564573 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrow%20International%20School%20Shanghai | Harrow International School Shanghai | Harrow International School Shanghai () is a British international boarding and day, all-through school in Waigaoqiao, Pudong, Shanghai. It opened in August 2016 and is the fourth in the Harrow family of schools in the Asia region in association with Harrow School and The John Lyon School in London. The School provides a British independent style of education from early years to Y13.
Location
Harrow has a campus with a designated 70% green space ratio, located within the Sunland project in the Waigaoqiao area of Pudong District in Shanghai.
The school
School structure
The School is divided into five phases of progression as follows:
The Early Years (K1 and K2) follows the English-based ‘Early Years Foundation Stage’ Curriculum.
The Pre-Prep School (Y1 to Y4) follows the English-based ‘National Curriculum of England’.
The Prep School (Y5 to Y8) is offered to help pupils manage the transition from the homeroom environment in the Pre-Prep School to the more subject-specific environment in the Senior School.
The Senior School (Y9 to Y11) curriculum is based on IGCSE courses studied over two years (Y10 to Y11).
The Sixth Form (Y12 to Y13) curriculum is based on A-level courses studied over two years.
Extra-curricular activities
"As with the other Harrow International Schools, a very comprehensive extra-curricular programme, which is called Leadership in Action, being the practical application of the Harrow International’s vision statement, will involve all students and teachers every week. Leadership in Action includes community service, outdoor education, sport, the performing arts and a wide range of clubs and hobbies."
The campus
The campus covers . The facilities include:
Two-storey library
12 science laboratories
swimming pool
Double-sized sports hall
Roof-top running track
Football and rugby pitch
Rooftop gardens
Computing suites
Art and design studios
Modern music and drama complex
Medical centre
A comprehensive and fully integrated air filtration system
See also
Harrow International School Bangkok
Harrow International School Beijing
Harrow International School Hong Kong
References
External links
High schools in Shanghai
Educational institutions established in 2016
British international schools in Shanghai
Pudong
2016 establishments in China |
26723141 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ema%20Shah | Ema Shah | Ema Shah () (born 7 June 1981) is a Kuwaiti singer, composer, pianist, guitarist, actress, writer, dancer, and director. Her father is Kuwaiti, and her mother is Iranian. At the 2014 Winter Film Awards in New York City she won the award for Best Music Video, she won Best Short International Film at the 2016 North Hollywood Cinema Festival, she received five awards at the 2013 Best Shorts Competition in California, she won Finalist Best Short Film at the 2013 Back in the Box Competition, and she received six nominations at the Best Shorts Competition and one in the 2014 St Albans Film Festival in the UK for her music video "Masheenee Alcketiara". In 2012, she sang to the Kuwaiti Prime Minister Prince Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, a song of the Kuwaiti heritage sung by Abdel Halim Hafez.
Career
Early life
Shah studied opera, photography, and film. She has attracted attention through her activism, radical views, humanitarian and often controversial points of view, and eccentricity. In addition to being a founding member and president of the troupe Anthropology, she is a member of Team Force of the Rising Sun for brides in Kuwait, the Kuwait Cinema Club, the National Democratic Youth League, the Kuwait Democratic Forum, the Dubai Community Theater, the Kuwaiti Human Rights Association, and Club Business and Professional Women in Kuwait.
Theater
She made her debut stage appearance in Silence by Harold Pinter, followed by The Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco 2004, The old women and the poet by Yukiomicemia, Debate between night and day by Mohammed Affendi Al-Gazairi, the clown "Monodrama Bantomim" (at the Mediterranean People Festival-Italy), and The Meteor by Dorinmat.
In 2006, Ema established her group "Anthropology", joining actors from different nationalities, with performances, spectacles, and songs in different languages, including Arabic, English, French, Japanese, and Spanish. She has performed as a singer, pianist, composer, and actress at various local and international events.
Films
In 2011, she starred in a short movie called "Swing". She also acted on a short movie called Mooz (Banana). The film containing sexual allusions won the jury prize at the Dubai International Film Festival.
Music
She composed a collection of musicals inspired by books like "Jesus, the Son of Human", and The Prophet, written by Gibran Khalil Gibran, and performed them using piano and guitar at the Kuwait National Museum. She has also sung covers for many well-known and international artists. She took part in the musical We can not write on a black page. Her singles include "Shah", about her grandfather Shah Khan. She has sung lyrics written by, amongst others, Lebanese Elia Abu Madi, Saudi Malek Asfeer, and Australian Miranda Lee.
Controversy
Ema sparked a big controversy after singing "Hava Nagila" in Hebrew, which led to her being accused by some Islamic clerics of promoting Zionism and normalization of ties with Israel. International news agencies, and Arab and Israeli media, covered the story and the Los Angeles Times ran an article about the affair under the headline "Diva blasted by Islamic clerics for singing in Hebrew at club" including reports of putting her on trial. There were also threats on her life. Shah explained that she sang the song as she wanted to go beyond borders, and break barriers in support of universal peace between nations.
Dancing
Shah competed in dancing rumba at the Twin Cities Open 2019 in Minneapolis, reaching the finals. She danced different styles of silver–level rumba. They took second place in closed rumba, and third place in open rumb].
Below is the picture of a rare international duo: Gordan Bratt from Dancers Studio in St. Paul, Minnesota, dancing with Ema Shah, officially the first Arab dancer from Kuwait and the Arabian Gulf, in history, to Latin dance competitively.
The second competing: Ema was a 5x winner at the Embassy Ballroom Championship 28 September 2019 in Irvine, California, Dancing with Fred Astaire Studio professional: Forrest Walsh from Pasadena, California:
4X WINNER: Closed Gold Rumba
1st & 2nd Place: Open Silver Rumba
2nd Place: Open Gold Rumba
3rd Place: Open Gold Rumba
FilmographyMOOZ (Banana)- actress (2009)Swing - actress (2011)I wish we were Dancers - main actress (2011)Choose to See - Director "Music Video"(2012)Hey Mister - Director "Music Video"(2012) Masheenee Alcketiara - Producer, Director "Music Video"(2013)Aleqini - Producer, Director "Music Video" (2014)Who Killed $arah "Short Film" (2014)Nashi and Mira - main actress "Future Film" (2015)Bell - Producer, Director "Music Video" (2018)The Visitor - main actress "Short Film" (2019)
Discography
The Poem And the old woman, 2008.
SYNC INFINITI, 2010.
Emagination, 2018.
In Love, 2019.
Awards
The Youth Theater |Kuwait|
2004 - Best Second Actress
Best Shorts Competition |USA| Awards on IMDB
2013 - Award of Merit Best Music Video
2013 - Award of Merit Viewer Impact: Entertainment Value
2013 - Award of Merit Art Direction
2013 - Awards of Excellence Concept
2013 - Awards of Excellence Viewer Impact: Motivational/Inspirational
Back in the Box Competition |USA|
2013 - Finalist Best Short Film
Winter Film Awards |USA|
2014 - Best Music Video
Horror Hotel: International Festival and Convention |USA|
2014 - 1st place music video
Twickenham Alive Film Festival |England|
2015 - International Drama Award: Special Mention Award Awards Ceremony 2014
The Accolade Competition |USA|
2014 - Award of Excellence Music Videos
2014 - Award of Excellence Art Direction
2014 - Award of Merit Direction
2014 - Award of Merit Costume Design
WORLD MUSIC & FILM FESTIVAL |USA|
2014 - Best Music Video
The IndieFest Film Awards |USA|
2014 - Award of Merit Best Music Video
Global Music Awards (GMA) |USA|
2015 - Bronze Medal Female Vocalist Awards on IMDB
2015 - Bronze Medal Lyrics/songwriter "Aleqini"
The Northern Virginia International Film Festival |USA|
2015 - Best Music Video "Masheenee Alcketiara"
Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards |Hollywood|
2015 - Best Music Video "Masheenee Alcketiara"
St Albans Film Festival Nominations |England|
2014 - Best Music Video
Be Film The Underground Film Festival Nominations |USA|
2014 - Best Music Video
Meters Film Festival Nominations |Russia|2015 - Best Music Video "Masheenee Alcketiara"
American Sephardic federation Award |USA|2016
North Hollywood Cinema Festival |USA|2016 - Best International Short Film "Masheenee Alcketiara"
Mediterranean Film Festival |Italy|2018 - Best Music Video/ International "Masheenee Alcketiara"
Chambal International Film Festival |India|2019 - Best Music Video/ International "Masheenee Alcketiara"
Kapow International Film Festival |Hollywood, USA|'
2019 - Best Music Videol "Masheenee Alcketiara"
References
External links
|Industry Rules Magazine - New York City| Interview With Ema Shah: 'I Wish We Were Dancers: Ema Shah' |English|
The Talk Magazine Interviewing Ema Shah |English|
alqabas.com.kw article
interviews with Ema on AL sabah Tv
Khabab site: Biography of Ema Shah
Annahar site
Los Angeles Times: KUWAIT: Diva blasted by Islamic clerics for singing in Hebrew at club
interview with Ema Shah "alhurra TV – Very Close"
interview with Ema mbc TV
interview with Ema Shah Almarina FM Radio
The event will feature world-famous composer, singer, actress and peace activist Ema Shah
Winter Film Awards in New York - Best Music Video - Ema Shah
Lola Bastinado interviews Ema Shah in New York
Ema Shah on imdb
icandy TV interviews Ema Shah at Winter Film Awards Film Festival in New York
The Cinema Couch Interviews Ema Shah at Winter Film Awards Film Festival in New York
faisal almutar Interview with Ema Shah
alrai media celebrities "Kuwaiti Newspaper" Ema Shah Winner of Best Music Video at Winter Film Awards in New York
alrai media celebrities "Kuwaiti Newspaper" Ema Shah won 13 International Awards for her Music Video Masheenee Alcketiara
elfann Media - Ema Shah won 13 International Awards for her Music Video Masheenee Alcketiara
sashdesigns.com Exclusive : Who Killed Sarah? A very daring khaliji Movie Starring by Ema Shah
indieflix.com indie-filmmakers Sma Shah Bio
Ema Shah singing to the Prime minister of Kuwait Sheikh Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah
alayam "Bahrain Newspaper" Ema Shah Winner of Best Music Video in New York
prlog.org Ema Shah wins best music video at winter film awards independent film festival in nyc
annahar Kuwaiti Newspaper celebrities Ema Singing in Spain 2014
Ema Shah a guest on Kuwaiti Radio Station FM Regarding her at Clair-Obscur Filmfestival, Swaziland
alanba "Kuwaiti Newspaper": the sponsors of the movie who killed $sarah are "Enjaz" with the "Imagination" Abu Dhabi. new Upcoming Movie of Ema and it will be showing soon in Dubai international Film Festival
almshaheer "celebrities" Middle East. the Movie Who Killed $arah exposes the sexual abuse from family members
al-seyassah "Kuwaiti Newspaper": the sponsors of the movie who killed $sarah are "Enjaz" with the "Imagination" Abu Dhabi. new Upcoming Movie of Ema and it will be showing soon in Dubai international Film Festival
sabq "Saudi NewsPaper" spongers it Dubai international film festival and it Filmed in Kuwait. the producer is a saudi Arabian who brings up a subject about "sexual abuse from Family members
soqona "Dubai" a movie about "sexual abuse from family member" and the starring actress are Iranian and the producer are Saudi
alrakoba "Sudan news" the Movie Who Killed $arah exposes the sexual abuse from family members
nbaonline - Saudi Arabian producers a film about "sexual abuse from family members" and the starring actress from Iranian Roots
Chicago International movies and Music Film Festival to book a ticket to Attend the music video "Masheenee Alcketiara"
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EMA SHAH's interview FM Radio 99.7 "the breakfast Show" |English|
albawaba.com/entertainment/kuwait-Kuwaiti crooner set to make records by singing in Hebrew!
Ema Shah presenting a Member of the Kuwaiti Council nation's democratic Mohammed Al Juwaihel with 14 languages
1981 births
Living people
Kuwaiti women singers
Kuwaiti composers
Kuwaiti women writers
Kuwaiti people of Iranian descent
21st-century women singers
21st-century pianists |
56564628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenz%20B%C3%A4umer | Lorenz Bäumer | Lorenz Bäumer (born in 1965 in Washington, D.C.) is a jeweler and the founder and director of the company of the same name located at 19, Place Vendôme Paris, France. Born to a French mother and a German diplomatic father, Baumer lived his early years in the United States, Jordan, Germany, Austria, Canada and Israel. He moved to Paris at the age of 15 and, in 1988, started to make costume jewelry. In late 2010, Charlene Wittstock and Albert II of Monaco choose the tiara for their marriage. He married Géraldine Becq de Fouquières, co-founder, with Stanislas Couteaux, brother of far-right politician Paul-Marie Coûteaux, of the online property rental site Book-a-flat.
Recognition
He was made a Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters in 2004 and then an Officer in 2009. He became a Knight of the Legion of Honor in 2010. He won the Vogue Joyas Special Prize in tribute to his artistic vision and his professional career in 2009). He received the Audacity Award for Talents in Luxury and Creation in 2017.
References
1965 births
Living people
Businesspeople from Paris |
26723147 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ti%20amo%20ti%20amo | Ti amo ti amo | "Ti amo ti amo" is the tenth single released by the Italian singer Alexia released in 2000 and was the only new track from her first best of compilation album The Hits. It was the last single she released that was produced by Robyx as she decided to leave the DWA team so that she could grow as an artist and pursue different styles of music.
When the single was announced, there was some confusion in that it was initially thought the single was "Te amo", a track from Alexia's then current album Happy which had been a fan favourite. Fan opinion on the single was divided, with some fans labelling it "unacceptable".
Music video
The video for the single was filmed in America.
Release
The track was released in Italy on CD and 12" (Sony Code 669426) in May 2000. Remixes were done solely by Robyx and this would be the last Alexia release he would do remixes for. A promotional CD was released in Brazil.
Official versions
Radio Version 3:13
Original Long Version 5:58
Club Short Edit 3:02
Club Extended Version 5:52
Chart performance
References
2000 singles
Alexia (Italian singer) songs
Songs written by Roberto Zanetti
Sony Music singles
2000 songs |
20486824 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987%20Alabama%20Crimson%20Tide%20football%20team | 1987 Alabama Crimson Tide football team | The 1987 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "UA", "Bama" or "The Tide") represented the University of Alabama in the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 95th overall and 54th season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by head coach Bill Curry, in his first year, and played their home games at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama. They finished the season with a record of seven wins and five losses (7–5 overall, 4–3 in the SEC) and with a loss in the Hall of Fame Bowl to Michigan.
Due to a major renovation project that resulted in the completion of the western upper deck, Alabama played all of their home games at Legion Field instead of splitting them with Bryant–Denny Stadium for the 1987 season.
Schedule
Roster
Season summary
at LSU
References
General
Specific
Alabama
Alabama Crimson Tide football seasons
Alabama Crimson Tide football |
56564649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klau%20and%20Buena%20Vista%20Mine%20Superfund%20site | Klau and Buena Vista Mine Superfund site | The Klau/Buena Vista Mine is a Superfund site located approximately 12 miles west of Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo County, California. It consists of two abandoned mercury mine sites (Klau and Buena Vista) that are located on adjacent properties on a northwest–southeast ridge of the Santa Lucia Range in the California coastal mountains. Mercury mining and ore processing operations occurred at these mines between 1868 and 1970.
Episodic weather events left deep erosional channels throughout the site, thereby releasing mercury-laden sediment, which had contributed significant levels of mercury to downstream Las Tablas Creek and Lake Nacimiento Reservoir.
History
The Klau Mine opened in 1868 and yielded nearly 18,000 flasks of mercury by 1940. Operation of the Buena Vista or Mahoney mine started in 1900 and was active until 1970. The Buena Vista mine produced more than 15,000 flasks of mercury. Buena Vista Mines, Inc. has owned the Buena Vista Mine at least since 1957 and the Klau Mine since at least 1964.
For more than 20 years, acid-contaminated water has drained from the mine into Las Tablas Creek. The California Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB) ordered the Buena Vista Mines, Inc. to stop discharging water or treat the water before it was released into the creek. In 1994, the company constructed an earthen holding pond to capture the mine water and evaporate it. The pond was built from an existing cattle pond, dug 12 feet deep, and designed to hold 1.5 million gallons of acid-contaminated water. In early 1995, San Luis Obispo County experienced heavy rains. Buena Vista Mines inspected the pond on March 24, 1995, and noticed that the water was one inch from the top. Using a water pump, they pumped out 180,000 gallons and lowered the water level about by 18 inches. David Schwartzbart, an engineering geologist for RWQCB, observed the water run down a concrete channel into the Las Tablas Creek. Schwartzbart tested the water and determined that it was highly acidic. After the criminal charges were brought, Buena Vista Mines constructed a second pond that had a 1,200,000-gallon capacity. They also installed a treatment facility that could treat 10,000 gallons of water per day.
In 1999, the RWQCB requested the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9's Emergency Response Office to assist in preventing the continued release of mercury-laden sediments and other contaminants from the site. Short-term removal work involved site stabilization, which reduced the discharge of acid mine drainage (AMD) and discharge into Las Tablas Creek. In 2000, EPA removed 120,000 cubic yards of contaminated materials from the drainage channel and secured it in an on-site repository to prevent immediate threats to human health and the environment. In 2002, EPA stabilized a sinkhole on site and also stabilized a slope failure on site. In 2006, EPA removed the mercury processing building (retort) and some mercury-laden soils. Contaminated materials stored on site are temporarily capped and will be addressed in the site's long-term cleanup.
Damage to fishery
During an investigation conducted by California Department of Health Services (CDHS) and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) in February–March 2006, elevated levels of mercury that pose health hazard were found in six species of fish from Lake Nacimiento. Water analysis has shown that the water is safe to drink and recreate in. However, mercury in the sediment has been converted to methylmercury by organisms living in the sediment and then there has been bioaccumulation of methylmercury in fish in the lake.
Cleanup efforts
EPA has spent about $6 million so far to contain the dangerous runoff from the Klau/Buena Vista. The owner, Buena Vista Mines, Inc., began the effort after years of court battles with the state water board. Shortly after the cleanup started, it became too expensive and the mining company quit. In 1999, RWQCB requested EPA to assist on preventing the release of the mercury-laden sediments to water reservoir. The cleanup is paid for by an EPA Superfund.
Legal actions
It was alleged that the Buena Vista Mines, Inc. intentionally violated the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act by discharging pollutants into Las Tablas Creek which flows into Lake Nacimiento. On January 20, 1998, the Court of Appeal, 2nd District, Division 6, California dismissed the violations on the ground that the mine had established a defense of necessity.
References
Superfund sites in California |
17344640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988%E2%80%9389%20Boston%20Celtics%20season | 1988–89 Boston Celtics season | The 1988–89 Boston Celtics season was the 43rd season of the Boston Celtics in the National Basketball Association (NBA). This was the first season for Jim Rodgers as head coach; Rodgers had been a Celtics assistant coach prior to this season. This year's Celtics team was severely hindered by the loss of All-Star forward Larry Bird to a heel injury, which required surgery to have bone spurs removed from both heels; Bird only played just six early-season games before being lost to injury, averaging 19.3 points, 6.2 rebounds and 4.8 assists per game. Initially, Bird was expected to be back in March, but it was delayed and ultimately became a season-ending injury. At midseason, the Celtics traded Danny Ainge and Brad Lohaus to the Sacramento Kings in exchange for Ed Pinckney and Joe Kleine. The results were dramatic as the Celtics, who had averaged over 60 wins per season thus far in the 1980s, fell to just 42 wins and 40 losses this season. Coming into the season, the Celtics had been the Eastern Conference's #1 seed five years in a row. This season, they were the #8 seed, clinching a playoff spot in the season's final game.
This season included some bright spots, particularly the emergence of second-year guard Reggie Lewis, who had only been a minimal bench contributor in his rookie season of 1987–88, but showed a lot of improvement averaging 18.5 points and 1.5 steals per game, starting in 57 out of the 81 games he played this season. Lewis finished in second place in Most Improved Player voting. In addition, Kevin McHale averaged 22.5 points and 8.2 rebounds per game, and was named to the NBA All-Defensive Second Team, and selected for the 1989 NBA All-Star Game, while Robert Parish provided the team with 18.6 points, 12.5 rebounds and 1.5 blocks per game, and was named to the All-NBA Third Team, and Dennis Johnson contributed 10.0 points, 6.6 assists and 1.3 steals per game. First round draft pick Brian Shaw provided with 8.6 points and 5.8 assists per game, and was selected to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team, and Jim Paxson also contributed 8.6 points per game off the bench. The Celtics were still dangerous at the Boston Garden, posting a 32–9 home record (defeating both the Lakers and Pistons), but struggled mightily away from home, failing to record a road win over a team with a winning record.
The Celtics faced the Detroit Pistons in the postseason for the 4th time in 5 seasons, but this time much earlier, in the Eastern Conference First Round. The Pistons were heavily favored, but hope arose for a competitive series when the Celtics activated Bird for their playoff roster. However, Bird never suited for a game and the Pistons easily dispatched the Celtics in a three-game sweep. This was the first time since 1956 that the Celtics lost their opening round playoff series. The Celtics had won their previous 28 opening round playoff series dating back to 1957.
Draft picks
Roster
Roster Notes
Small forward Larry Bird played 6 games but missed the majority of the season after undergoing surgery to remove bone spurs from both of his heels.
Regular season
Season standings
Record vs. opponents
Game log
Playoffs
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| 1
| April 28
| @ Detroit
| L 91–101
| Kevin McHale (27)
| Robert Parish (12)
| Brian Shaw (8)
| The Palace of Auburn Hills21,454
| 0–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 2
| April 30
| @ Detroit
| L 95–102
| Reggie Lewis (21)
| Kevin McHale (11)
| Lewis, Johnson (5)
| The Palace of Auburn Hills21,454
| 0–2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 3
| May 2
| Detroit
| L 85–100
| Reggie Lewis (20)
| Joe Kleine (11)
| Brian Shaw (7)
| Boston Garden14,890
| 0–3
|-
Player statistics
Season
Playoffs
Awards and records
Robert Parish, All-NBA Third Team
Kevin McHale, NBA All-Defensive Second Team
Brian Shaw, NBA All-Rookie Team 2nd Team
Transactions
See also
1988–89 NBA season
References
Boston Celtics seasons
Boston Celtics
Boston Celtics
Boston Celtics
Celtics
Celtics |
56564737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry%20of%20Local%20Governments%20%28Turkey%29 | Ministry of Local Governments (Turkey) | Ministry of Local Governments () was a former government ministry of Turkey.
The municipalities and the other local offices such as province governorships of Turkey are in the responsibility of the Minister of Interior. During the formation of the 42nd government of Turkey on 5 January 1978, the Ministry of the Local Governments was established for the coordination of the local governments. But it was a short-lived ministry and during the formation of the 43rd government of Turkey on the 12 November 1979, it was abolished and the responsibility of the local governments was retransferred to the Ministry of Interior.
Minister
References
1978 establishments in Turkey
1979 disestablishments in Turkey
Local Governments
Ministries established in 1978
Ministries disestablished in 1979
Local government ministries |
44508446 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatrical%20scenery%20in%20the%20nineteenth%20century | Theatrical scenery in the nineteenth century | Theatre in the nineteenth century was noted for its changing philosophy, from the Romanticism and Neoclassicism that dominated Europe since the late 18th century, to Realism and Naturalism in the latter half of the 19th century, before it eventually gave way to the rise of Modernism in the 20th century. Scenery in theater at the time closely mirrored these changes and with the onslaught of the Industrial Revolution and technological advancement throughout the century, dramatically changed the aesthetics of the theater.
Realism
Theatrical realism was a general movement in 19th-century theatre from the time period of 1870-1960 that developed a set of dramatic and theatrical conventions with the aim of bringing a greater fidelity of real life to texts and performances. Part of a broader artistic movement, it included a focus on everyday middle-class drama, ordinary speech, and simple settings. This idea of representing subject matter truthfully, was evident in the changes that were made to scenic design in theater. Theatrical designers and directors began meticulously researching historical accuracy for their productions, which meant that scenery could no longer be drawn from stock - which was typically used over and over again in generic settings for different shows. Scenery began to be custom designed and made for specific production. This meant, while scenery used to be seen as capital investment, it was not considered to be more disposable when the production was removed from the repertory.
Scenic Innovation
One of the most important scenic transition into the century was from the often-used two dimensional scenic backdrop to three dimensional sets. Previously, as a two dimensional environment, scenery did not provide an embracing, physical environment for the dramatic action happening on stage. This changed when three dimensional sets were introduced in the first half of the century. This, coupled with change in audience and stage dynamic as well as advancement in theater architecture that allowed for hidden scene changes, the theater became more representational instead of presentational, and invited audience to be transported to a conceived ‘other’ world.
Box Set
The epitome of the new three dimensional style sets and one of the most important advancement of scenic design was the popularization of the box set. The box set has been around since the 17th century but lacked support. Madame Vestris had introduced realistic stage furnishing in 1836 at her little Olympic Theatre in London, and forced them on American managers when she toured this country in 1838-1839. The box set was a gradual replacement of the painted wing-and-shutter sets. Between 1800 and 1875, many theater artists began to use them. A box set consists of flats hinged together to represent a room; it often has practicable elements, such as doors and windows, which can be used during the course of a play or show. With the new pursuit of realism, room-like box settings now had heavy molding, real doors with doorknobs, and ample accurate furniture. Having the box set also meant that many theater artists began to stage all the action behind the proscenium in the late 1800s, thus reinforcing the illusion of a fourth wall. Audiences would be watching a “slice of life” through a window. Box sets allowed scenic designers to create better visualized atmospheres and moods.
Aesthetic Style
19th century scenic styles in America were unique derivations from the European masters. Scenic artists from Europe brought with them the Romantic, Baroque, or classical landscapes that they knew from their homes, but the styles seemed to change when they landed on the American shore. The romantic English landscape painting style slowly adapted to the American image. The more rugged wild-western American landscape came to be idealized by native scenic artists throughout the century. Many theatres invested in generic scenery meant for virtually any production. An all-purpose set included landscapes, European cities, prison, palace, village, mountain pass, and forest.
The oleo was a versatile drop for any sort of entertainment. The oleo drop often hung in the in-one position, subdividing the stage into a shallower depth that was more appropriate for a brief interlude. The act curtain or drop curtain functioned as today's main drape, the decorative divider wall between audience and stage. Often, it was the most elaborate piece a theater owned and was painted to harmonize with the interior decorations of the theater itself.
Technological Advancement
During the nineteenth century, the technology of the industrial revolution was applied to theater. Many historians believe that the popularity of melodrama, with its emphasis on stage spectacle and special effects, accelerated these technological innovations: For example, Dion Boucicault was responsible for the introduction of fireproofing in the theater when one of his melodramatic plays called for an onstage fire.
Panorama
While the invention of the panorama is attributed to Scotsman Robert Barker in 1787, Frenchman Louis Jacques Daguerre (1789 to 1851) is largely seen as having perfected the invention in the 19th century. He created the diorama which was a still painting viewed by an audience sitting on a rotating platform. This soon gave way to the moving panorama in which a setting was painted on a long cloth, which could be unrolled across the stage by turning spools, created an illusion of movement and changing locales. A popular American play, William Dunlap's A Trip to Niagara (1828), used this device to show a voyage from New York City to Niagara Falls via a steamboat. The advent of the panoramas coupled with Charles Kean’s invention of the Corsican trap meant that entire horse and chariots races could be enacted on stage. The emphasis on recreating natural environments onstage was probably influenced by romanticism, which called for a "return to nature."
Elevator Stage
On February 7, 1880, The Spirit of the Times announced: ‘Tonight Mr. J. Steele MacKaye will open the most exquisite theatre in the world, and all New York will assemble to do honor to the realization of his artistic visions…Mr. MacKaye will play the drama Hazel Kirke through with only two-minute waits between the acts, and will then exhibit the double stage—one compartment set for the kitchen of Blackburn Mill and other as boudoir at Fairy Grove Villa. MacKaye's elevator stage was an important development of American drama and theatre. It was a solution to the problem posed by the increasing use of box sets to reproduce interior scenes in detail. With the elevator stage, multiple scenes could be changed in a fast and detailed way. This greatly improved the speed and efficiency of scenic changes, and that design didn’t have to be simplified, they could still be detailed.
The elevator stage was described in the Scientific American, April 5, 1884.
[It consists] of two theatrical stages, one above another, to be moved up and down as an elevator car is operated in a high building, and so that either one of them can easily and quickly be at any time brought to the proper level for acting thereon in front of the auditorium. While the play is proceeding before the audience, the assistants arrange another scene on the upper stage
Edwin Booth Theatre
New styles of scenery meant that new means of scene shifting were needed. The Edwin Booth Theatre, opened in 1869, was the first in a new generation of theaters built specifically to suit three dimensional set pieces. It was the first theater to have a level stage floor (rather than a raked floor, as had been the standard in proscenium-arch theaters since the Renaissance) and no grooves in the stage floor for shifting flats. This idea would become the standard by the end of the century. Elevators and equipment for flying scenery also complemented the space.
Stage Lighting
Nineteenth-century technology revolutionized stage lighting, which until then had been primitive. The introduction of gas lighting was the first step. In 1816, Philadelphia's Chestnut Street Theater became the earliest gas-lit playhouse in the world. The introduction of gas lighting revolutionized stage lighting. It provided a somewhat more natural and adequate light for the playing and the scenic space upstage of the proscenium arch. However, this new richness in lighting provided difficulties at first. Though scenic painters had to learn to subdue their colors to the increased candle-power, the brightness only further highlight the disparity between three dimensional set pieces and their two dimensional backdrop and led to the latter's eventual decline.
The advent of limelight, also known as Drummond light, also effectively introduced spotlighting to theater. Thomas Edison's electric incandescent lamp, invented in 1879, was the next step. It made electricity the most flexible, most controllable, and safest form of lighting, in the twentieth century, it would make stage lighting design a true art. These new means of illumination tremendously increased the control over stage light and stimulated interest in imitating lighting phenomena of nature
Noted Designers, Artists, and Technologists
It was during this time that scenic artist began to be recognized for their work. Many of the scenic artists operated their own scenic studios in New York and towards the latter half of the century, the first theatrical unions were formed as a response to the Theatre Syndicate. Producing who originally hired staff carpenters and company painters began to place their productions out to bid. It was also during this time period that designers began working with models to convey their design.
Steele MacKaye (1842-1894) was one innovative theater technologist that invented the elevator stage. In 1880, at the Madison Square Theater in New York, Mackaye used two stages; one above the other, which could be raised and lowered; while one stage was in view of the audience, the scenery on the other, which was either in the basement or in the fly area, could be changed
David Belasco (1853-1931) was an American producer, director and playwright, Mr. Belasco is primarily remembered today for his emphasis on naturalistic detail. David Belasco is best known for his ultra-realistic melodramas of the turn of the century. He and his chief scenic artist, George Gros, created meticulously detailed interiors, realistic exteriors, and stunning atmospheric effects. Belasco and Gros produced some of the most memorable scenic inventions of the American theatre and certainly some of the finest realistic scenery of the theatre history. His laborious scenic and lighting techniques were seen by the avant-garde as the embodiment of every ill of the stage and were severely ridiculed by history. In 1909, for a production of The Easiest Way, his scenic artist placed the contents of a boarding house room, including the wallpaper, on the stage of the Stuyvesant Theatre and three years later (1912) he built on stage a fully functioning restaurant for the Governor's Lady.
Alfred Roller (1864-1935) was trained as a painter in Vienna, but his designs hinted at a new concept of scenic design. Focused entirely on the interplay of light and color to create evocative stage spaces. Roller's designs relied on a selected or simplified realism in which only few items were introduced to the stage, but each of them evocative, detailed and powerful. He utilized mobile scenic towers that could be rearranged and altered with light to form new shapes and movement patterns on the stage (Sumner 338). He was probably the earliest designer to embody and practice the ideas of Adolph Appia and Edward Gordon Craig.
Charles Witham (1842-1926) was born in Portland, Maine and educated as an artist. He spent some time as an itinerant landscapist before becoming involved with the theater. Thanks to the friendship of Gaspard Maeder, Witham obtained his first theatre job as Maeder's assistant when the latter was chief designer for Niblo's Garden in New York in the early 1860s. By 1863, Witham had become head designer for the Boston Theater where he painted scenery for Edwin Forrest. His stay in Boston was short because he was hired by Edwin Booth to join his staff as scenic artist. He would go on to be Booth's primary designer for years to come. His collection of work remains the largest surviving theater scenic art from the time period
Notable Plays
Under the Gaslight (1868), was one of the first of many plays to use a steam engine onstage while the hero was being tied to the railway tracks. “Despite the fact that, on the first night, the machinery of the great railroad scene failed to work properly, the audience was held in tense excitement, and the play from the outset was a success” It ran for 110 performances. The mechanical effects involved are said to have been patented by Augustin Daly.
There were many thrills in The Black Crook (1866), but the greatest of them was the corps de ballet and the hundred of costumes. After the premier, which lasted from 7:45pm till 1:15am, the Tribune reported that “The Scenery is magnificent; the ballet is beautiful; the drama is—rubbish…the last scene in the play, however, will dazzle and impress to even a greater degree, by its lavish richness and barbaric splendor. All that gold and silver, and gems and light, and woman’s beauty can contribute to fascinate the eye and charm the sense. The best exhibited scenery piece is the one that closes the second act. A vast grotto extending into an almost measureless perspective. Stalactites descend from the arched roof. A tranquil and lovely lake reflects the golden glories that span it like a vast sky. In every direction one sees the bright sheen or the dull richness of massy gold. Beautiful fairies and sprites make the scene luxuriant.
The Poor of New York (1899), scenically displaying such contrasts and spectacles as a rich home in Madison Square, a tenement house in Cross Street, with a fire, a bank in Nassau Street, and a snow storm in Union Square
Aftermath
The end of the 19th century witnessed both the height and the end of scenery painted in traditional perspective. Scenic design was realistic and creative that released the audience’s imagination. Realism was but a passing style. Towards the end of the century, realism would find an opposite in naturalism. Adolphe Appia and Edward Gordon Craig would be the ones to revolt against the idea of the actor standing on a flat floor surrounded by “realistic” painted canvases. Their controversial ideas would be the basis of the New Stagecraft. The 20th century would bring the scenic designer an entirely new aesthetic for the world of the theatre in the form of Henrik Ibsen and Modernism. As movies replaced theatre's popularity, an international aesthetic weighed in against painted scenery, scenic studios began to shrink, and scenic artists began to disappear. The golden age of scenic painting of the 19th century rapidly turned to a much more fragmented one in 20th century, as theatre styles changed radically and eventually the theatre lost popularity to movies and television.
References
Scenic design
Stagecraft |
56564783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennady%20Leonov | Gennady Leonov | Gennady Alexeyevich Leonov (; February 2, 1947 in Leningrad, Soviet Union – April 23, 2018) was a Russian scientist, Correspondent Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 2006), Professor at the Saint Petersburg State University, Doctor of Sciences.
Laureate of the 1986 USSR State Prize and 2012 Aleksandr Andronov Russian Academy of Sciences Prize.
He graduated from the Leningrad State University in 1969.
In 1971 he defended his Candidate's Dissertation.
In 1983 he defended his doctoral dissertation.
In 1986 he received the title of Professor.
Since 1988, he served as Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of the Saint Petersburg State University.
He was a foreign member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (2017).
References
Obituaries
N.V. Kuznetsov, S. Abramovich, A.L. Fradkov, G. Chen, In Memoriam: Gennady Alekseevich Leonov, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 28(5), 2018, art. num. 1877001
S. Abramovich, N.V. Kuznetsov, P. Neittaanmäki, Obituary: Gennady Alekseevich Leonov (1947-2018), Open Mathematical Education Notes, 8(1), 2018, 15-21
1947 births
2018 deaths
Saint Petersburg State University alumni
Saint Petersburg State University faculty
Russian professors
Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Members of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
Recipients of the USSR State Prize
Sportspeople from Saint Petersburg |
44508447 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raanan%20Rein | Raanan Rein | Raanan Rein (; 17 June 1960) is the Elías Sourasky Professor of Latin American and Spanish History and former Vice President of Tel Aviv University. Since 2005 Rein is the Head of the S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies. He is a member of Argentina's National Academy of History, and former President of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association (LAJSA). The Argentine government awarded him the title of Commander in the Order of the Liberator San Martín for his contribution to Argentine culture. The Spanish government awarded him the title of Commander in the Order of Civil Merit. His current research deals with Jewish Argentines and Peronism, sports and politics in Argentina, Jewish Self-Defense organizations, and Jewish volunteers in the Spanish Civil War.
Early life
Rein was born in Givataim (Israel) where he grew up and attended "Shimom Ben Tzvi" High School. He is married to Dr. Mónica Esti Rein and father of two children. During the 1980s he held several positions in the Israeli press and media, among them: Foreign News Editor of the I.D.F. Radio Station, Commentator on foreign affairs in Al Hamishmar, Member of the founding group of Hadashot daily newspaper and its first Foreign News Editor. During this period he published hundreds of articles and reportages in a number of Israeli newspapers and magazines.
Academic life
While working as a journalist, Rein completed his academic studies at Tel Aviv University. He graduated from Tel Aviv University in 1986 with a B.A degree in Political Science and History. His doctoral dissertation, supervised by Profs. Shlomo Ben-Ami and Tzvi Medin, dealt with the Franco-Perón Alliance and Spanish-Argentine relations after World War II. In 1992, after receiving a Ph.D in history, he joined the Department of History as Lecturer and in 2001 he was promoted to the rank of Full Professor in this Department. Several years later he became the Elías Sourasky Professor of Latin American and Spanish History.
In addition to his extensive academic work, Rein has also held administrative positions at the university. He was a Member of the Board of Directors of Tel Aviv University; served as the Director of the Sverdlin Institute for Latin American History and Culture; Chairperson of the Faculty of Humanities Teaching Committee (2003 to 2005); Founding director of the S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies beginning in 2004; and Vice Rector of the University (2005-2009). He was also a Member of the International Committee, appointed by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sport, to evaluate centers of excellence in Spanish Universities. Since 2012 Rein is the Vice president of Tel-Aviv University.
Rein is also the co-editor of the journal Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe, editor of the book series in Spanish Nuevas miradas a la Argentina del siglo XX published by Lumière in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and editor of Brill's book series Jewish Latin America: Issues and Methods. Rein is on the editorial board of seven academic journals and was the guest editor of several special issues in various journals, including History & Memory, Z'manin, Mediterranean Historical Review, and Jewish History. Rein was a visiting professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, Emory University, Atlanta, and UADE in Buenos Aires.
Grants, Honors and Prizes
Rein, over the years, has won numerous awards. He was the first Israeli to be elected to the National Academy of History of Argentina. In May 2009 Rein was awarded the title of Commander in the Order of the Liberator San Martín by the Argentine Government for his contribution to Argentine culture. In 2012, he won the Bi-Annual Award of the Center of the Iberian and Latin American Communities in Israel (CICLA) for contributing to a better understanding of Latin America in Israel. In the following year he was awarded the Latin American Jewish Studies Association (LAJSA) Book Prize for the co-edited volume (with Adriana Brodsky), The New Jewish Argentina: Facets of Jewish Experiences in the Southern Cone. In 2014, he won the “Dorothy and Elmer Kirsch Distinguished Conference Scholar” from Hofstra University. In 2016, he won the Reimar Lüst Award (co-sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation); Awarded the title of Comendador in Spain's Order of Civil Merit, granted by King Felipe VI; Awarded the title Huesped de Honor Extraordinario by the President of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina; Awarded the Seal of the Bicentenary by the Ente del Bicentenario, Tucumán. In March 2017, the City of Buenos Aires declared him as a Guest of Honor. In May 2017 The Argentine University of San Martin (UNSAM) conferred upon him an Honorary Doctorate.In January 2020, awarded the title Ufficiale dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia by the Italian government for his contribution to the promotion of academic relations and cooperation between Italy and Israel.
Research
Among his research interests are Modern Latin America, populist movements, Argentine society and politics, Jews in the Spanish speaking world, ethnic minorities in Latin America, immigration and collective identities, 20th century Spain. His current research deals with Jewish Argentines and Peronism, sports and politics in Argentina, Jewish Self-Defense organizations, and Jewish volunteers in the Spanish Civil War.
Among his prominent research:
The Franco-Perón Alliance: Relations between Spain and Argentina, 1946-1955, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh and London, 1993.
Argentina, Israel, and the Jews: Perón, the Eichmann Capture, and After, University Press of Maryland, 2003.
In the Shadow of Perón: Juan Atilio Bramuglia and the Second Line of Argentina's Populist Movement, Stanford University Press, 2008.
Argentine Jews or Jewish Argentines? Essays on Ethnicity, Identity, and Diaspora, Brill, 2010.
Fútbol, Jews, and the Making of Argentina, Stanford University Press, 2015.
Publications
Rein is the author and editor of more than thirty books and well over a hundred articles in academic journals and book chapters, in several languages.
Among his publications:
Books
Adriana Brodsky and Raanan Rein (eds.). The New Jewish Argentina: Facets of Jewish Experiences in the Southern Cone. Boston, MA: Brill, 2013.
Raanan Rein, Populism and Ethnicity: Peronism and the Jews of Argentina, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020.
David Sheinin and Raanan Rein (eds.). Muscling in on New Worlds: Jews, Sport, and the Making of the Americas. Boston, MA: Brill, 2015.
Jeffrey Lesser and Raanan Rein (eds.). Rethinking Jewish-Latin Americans. New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 2008.
Rein, Raanan. Argentina, Israel and the Jews: Perón, the Eichmann Capture, and After. Bethesda, MD: University Press of Maryland, 2003.
Rein, Raanan. Argentine Jews or Jewish Argentines? Essays on Ethnicity, Identity, and Diaspora. Boston, MA: Brill, 2010.
Rein, Raanan (ed.). Árabes y judíos en Iberoamérica: similitudes, diferencias y tensiones sobre el trasfondo de las tres culturas. Madrid: Tres Culturas, 2008.
Rein, Raanan. Fútbol, Jews, and the Making of Argentina. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015.
Rein, Raanan. In the Shadow of the Holocaust and the Inquisition: Israel's Relations with Francoist Spain. London and Portland, OR: Routledge, 1997.
Rein, Raanan. In the Shadow of Perón: Juan Atilio Bramuglia and the Second Line of Argentina's Populist Movement. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press 2008.
Rein, Raanan. Peronismo, populismo y política: Argentina, 1943-1955. Buenos Aires: Editorial de la Universidad de Belgrano, 1998.
Rein, Raanan. The Franco-Perón Alliance: Relations between Spain and Argentina, 1946-1955. Pittsburgh and London: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993.
Articles
Raanan Rein and Ilan Diner. "Unfounded Fears, Inflated Hopes, Passionate Memories: Jewish Self-Defense in 1960s Argentina", Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Vol 11 No.3 (November 2012), pp. 357–376.
Rein, Raanan. "A Belated Inclusion: Jewish Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War and Their Place in the Israeli National Narrative", Israel Studies, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Spring 2012): pp. 24–49.
Rein, Raanan. “A Trans-National Struggle with National and Ethnic Goals: Jewish-Argentines and Solidarity with the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War”, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, JILAR, Vol. 20, No. 2, 2014, pp. 171–182.
Rein, Raanan. "Diplomacy, Propaganda, and Humanitarian Gestures: Francoist Spain and Egyptian Jews, 1956-1968", Iberoamericana, No. 23 (2006): pp. 21–33.
Rein, Raanan. "Echoes of the Spanish Civil War in Palestine: Zionists, Communists and the Contemporary Press", Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 43 No. 1 (2008): pp. 9–23.
Rein, Raanan. "Football, Politics and Protests: The International Campaign against the 1978 World Cup in Argentina" in S. Rinke/K. Schiller (eds.), The Relevance and Impact of FIFA World Cups, 1930-2010, (Goettingen: Wallstein, 2014) pp. 240–258.
Rein, Raanan. "From Juan Perón to Hugo Chávez and Back: Populism Reconsidered", in Mario Sznajder, Luis Roniger and Carlos Forment (eds.), Shifting Frontiers of Citizenship: The Latin American Experience, (Boston, MA: Brill, 2013) pp. 289–311.
Rein, Raanan. “The Eichmann Kidnapping: Its Effects on Argentine-Israeli Relations and the Local Jewish Community”, Jewish Social Studies, Vol. 7, No. 3 (2001): pp. 101–130.
References
External links
Website of Raanan Rein, Tel Aviv University
CV of Raanan Rein, Tel Aviv University Website
The S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional WebSite
Raanan Rein - academia.edu
1960 births
Israeli historians
Israeli political writers
Living people
People from Givatayim
Tel Aviv University faculty
Academics and writers on the international relations of Spain |
44508450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production%20control | Production control | Within supply chain management and manufacturing, production control is the activity of monitoring and controlling any particular production or operation. Production control is often run from a specific control room or operations room. With inventory control and quality control, production control is one of the key functions of operations management.
Overview
Production control is the activity of monitoring and controlling a large physical facility or physically dispersed service. It is a "set of actions and decision taken during production to regulate output and obtain reasonable assurance that the specification will be met." The American Production and Inventory Control Society, nowadays APICS, defined production control in 1959 as:
Production control is the task of predicting, planning and scheduling work, taking into account manpower, materials availability and other capacity restrictions, and cost so as to achieve proper quality and quantity at the time it is needed and then following up the schedule to see that the plan is carried out, using whatever systems have proven satisfactory for the purpose.
Production planning and control in larger factories is often run from a production planning department run by production controllers and a production control manager. Production monitoring and control of larger operations is often run from a central space, called a control room or operations room or operations control center (OCC).
The emerging area of Project Production Management (PPM), based on viewing project activities as a production system, adopts the same notion of production control to take steps to regulate the behavior of a production system where in this case the production system is a capital project, rather than a physical facility or a physically dispersed service.
Production control is to be contrasted with project controls. As explained, project controls have developed to become centralized functions to track project progress and identify deviations from plan and to forecast future progress, using metrics rooted in accounting principles.
Types
One type of production control is the control of manufacturing operations.
Production planning and control of the when and where.
Production control and supply chain management
Management of real-time operational in specific fields.
Production control in the television studio in a production control room
Master control in television studio
Production control in spaceflight in a Mission Operations Control Room
Communist countries had a central production control institute, where the agricultural and industrial production for the whole nation was planned and controlled.
In Customer Care environments production control is known as Workforce Management (WFM). Centralized Workforce Management teams are often called Command Center, Mission Control or WFM Shared Production Centers.
Related types of control in organizations
Production control is just one of multiple types of control in organizations. Most commons other types are:
Management control, one of the managerial functions like planning, organizing, staffing and directing. It is an important function because it helps to check the errors and to take the corrective action so that deviation from standards are minimized and stated goals of the organization are achieved in a desired manner.
Inventory control, the supervision of supply, storage and accessibility of items in order to ensure an adequate supply without excessive oversupply.
Quality control, the process by which entities review the quality of all factors involved in production.
See also
Control (management)
Industrial engineering
Manufacturing process management
Materials management
Operations management
Production engineering
Project production management
Time book
References
Further reading
Bedworth, David D., and James E. Bailey. Integrated production control systems: management, analysis, design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999.
Eilon, Samuel. Elements of production planning and control. Macmillan, 1962.
Groover, Mikell P. Automation, production systems, and computer-integrated manufacturing. Prentice Hall Press, 2007.
Johnson, Lynwood A., and Douglas C. Montgomery. Operations research in production planning, scheduling, and inventory control. Vol. 6. New York: Wiley, 1974.
C.E. Knoeppel. Graphic production control. New York, The Engineering magazine company, 1920
Koontz, Harold. "A preliminary statement of principles of planning and control." Academy of Management Journal 1.1 (1958): 45-61.
Sipper, Daniel, and Robert L. Bulfin. Production: planning, control, and integration. McGraw-Hill Science, Engineering & Mathematics, 1997.
External links
Control engineering
Production and manufacturing |
26723154 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatiana%20Nabieva | Tatiana Nabieva | Tatiana Olegovna Nabieva (; born November 21, 1994, in Pushkin) is a Russian artistic gymnast who has won four World Championship medals. She is known for the F-rated uneven bars skill named after her.
Gymnastics career
Junior career
Nabieva competed at the 2008 European Junior Championships, earning gold medals in the team competition and floor exercise and silver medals on balance beam, vault and uneven bars. Although no all-around final was held, Nabieva held the highest all-around score in the qualifying competition, ahead of teammate Aliya Mustafina.
Senior career
2009–10
Nabieva competed at the 2009 and 2010 Russian Championships. In 2009, she finished third in the all-around. In 2010, she competed only on vault and uneven bars due to an injury, and earned a bronze and a gold medal, respectively.
At the 2010 Japan Cup, she introduced a toe-on laid-out Tkachev on the uneven bars (a piked sole circle backwards to a reverse hecht in a layout position over the high bar).
She won gold with the Russian team at the 2010 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, despite falling on the uneven bars in the team final. It was at these world championships that her original skill was officially named after her. She also qualified for the all-around final, but multiple errors left her in seventh place.
2011–12
Nabieva performed consistently at the 2011 World Championships in Tokyo, competing on the uneven bars and vault and helping Russia win the silver medal. She qualified for the uneven bars event finals and won the silver medal behind teammate Viktoria Komova. She also placed sixth in the vault final with a double-twisting Yurchenko and a Yurchenko half-on piked half off.
In 2012, she struggled with back injuries. She was named as an alternate for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
2013–2014
In March 2013, Nabieva placed second at the Russian National Championships on uneven bars, behind Anastasia Grishina.
In July, she returned to international competition at the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan with teammates Mustafina, Ksenia Afanasyeva, Maria Paseka and Anna Dementyeva. She contributed scores of 14.850 on vault, 14.400 on uneven bars, 13.750 on beam and 13.050 on floor toward the Russian team's first-place finish, but did not qualify for the all-around final because Afanasyeva placed ahead of her. In the uneven bars finals, she won the silver medal behind Mustafina. She went on to win gold medals in the all-around, uneven bars and vault at the 2013 Russian Cup.
In late 2013, Nabieva announced her retirement from gymnastics via social media after a win at a small French meet. She said: "I want to be a coach. That's my dream, since the very moment I started gymnastics. My dream is to train children and participate with them in the most serious competitions."
Nabieva was persuaded to come out of retirement to compete at the 2014 World Championships. She scored 14.933 on vault and helped the Russian team win the bronze medal.
Tatiana retired from gymnastics in 2016 along with 2008 Olympian Ekaterina Kramarenko and 2012 Olympic team silver medalist Anastasia Grishina, but returned to compete at the 2018 Russia National Championships where she qualified to the vault final.
2019
In July Nabieva competed for the first time internationally since 2014 at the 2019 Summer Universiade alongside Lilia Akhaimova and Ulyana Perebinosova. Together they won silver in the team final behind Japan. During event finals Nabieva won silver on uneven bars behind Hitomi Hatakeda of Japan and won bronze on vault behind Marina Nekrasova of Azerbaijan and teammate Akhaimova.
Eponymous skill
Nabieva has one eponymous uneven bars release skill listed in the Code of Points.
Competitive history
International Scores
References
External links
Official Website (English)
1994 births
Living people
Russian female artistic gymnasts
Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
European champions in gymnastics
Originators of elements in artistic gymnastics
Gymnasts from Saint Petersburg
Universiade medalists in gymnastics
Universiade gold medalists for Russia
Universiade silver medalists for Russia
Universiade bronze medalists for Russia
Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade
Medalists at the 2019 Summer Universiade |
56564828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashtun%20Tahafuz%20Movement | Pashtun Tahafuz Movement | The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM; Paṣhtūn Zhghōrənē Ghōrźang; ) is a social movement for Pashtun human rights based in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. It was founded in May 2014 by eight students in Dera Ismail Khan. On 1 February 2018, the name of the movement was changed from "Mahsud Tahafuz Movement" ('Mahsud Protection Movement') to "Pashtun Tahafuz Movement."
During PTM's public demonstrations and sit-ins since February 2018, several demands were presented to the Pakistani government and military, including punishment to the retired police officer Rao Anwar, a truth and reconciliation commission on extrajudicial killings in the country, presenting missing persons before courts, and removal of landmines from the Pashtun tribal areas. The movement is led by Manzoor Pashteen, a human rights activist from South Waziristan. Other prominent activists in it include Ali Wazir, Mohsin Dawar, Mir Kalam, Alamzaib Mahsud, Abdullah Nangyal, Fazal Khan, Gulalai Ismail, Sanna Ejaz, Wranga Loni, and the late Arman Loni, Arif Wazir, Usman Kakar, and Noor Islam Dawar. PTM claims to be an unarmed and peaceful resistance movement working within the lawful boundaries of the Constitution of Pakistan. The Pakistan Army and several journalists have claimed that the movement is trying to create discord in the country along ethnic lines, as well as following a foreign agenda. The movement has seen strong support from neighboring Afghanistan, which traditionally has an uneasy relationship with the government of Pakistan.
History
Background
The "Pashtunistan" movement has been a sensitive issue since Pakistan's independence in 1947. A large Pashtun population exists in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. According to some scholars, Pakistani authorities have promoted Islamization as an opposing force. The PTM has however refrained from comment on Pashtun unity.
Pashtun territory has been a war zone since the 1980s, since the Cold War between the Soviet Union and United States and the following conflict between western and Islamist forces. The PTM therefore campaigns against war, blaming both Islamists and the Pakistani military for the destruction.
Early history
The movement was founded as Mahsud Tahafuz Movement in May 2014 by eight students in Dera Ismail Khan as an initiative for removing landmines from Waziristan and other parts of the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas, affected by the war in North-West Pakistan.
The movement rose to prominence in January 2018 when it began a justice movement for Naqeebullah Mehsud, who was extrajudicially killed in a fake encounter staged by the police officer Rao Anwar in Karachi. When the movement gained popularity among the Pashtuns in February 2018, the word "Mahsud" in its name, which referred to the Mahsud tribe from Waziristan, was changed into "Pashtun" to refer to all Pashtuns.
The movement, which has inspired global Pashtun solidarity, has been dominated by youth, and thrives on social media while lacking significant coverage in mainstream media. According to Saleem Shah, it has challenged military power where typical Pashtun nationalist parties have not dared. However, the PTM lacks organizational structure and a political manifesto, as of 2018.
In November 2018, PTM launched a justice movement for Tahir Dawar, a police officer and Pashto poet who was abducted from the capital Islamabad and tortured to death, with his corpse found 18 days after disappearance in the Dur Baba District of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. PTM, as well as Tahir's family, demanded that Tahir's murder must be investigated through an international commission rather than a Pakistani one because the case involved two countries. PTM again gained international press coverage in February 2019 when the Balochistan Police allegedly extrajudicially murdered one of the leaders of PTM, Arman Loni, in Loralai. Protests followed which led to the detention of more than 20 PTM activists, including Gulalai Ismail and Abdullah Nangyal. In May 2020, after the assassination of PTM leader Arif Wazir, another wave of widespread protests was held during which several PTM activists, including Gilaman and Nadeem Askar, were arrested by Pakistani authorities. The Pashteen hat (also known as the Mazari hat) has become the most iconic symbol of PTM, as Manzoor Pashteen regularly wears it at public rallies and events.
Kharqamar incident
On 26 May 2019, there was a clash between the Pakistan Army and PTM activists who were holding a protest gathering near the Kharqamar check post in North Waziristan. To stop the demonstration, the security forces killed at least 13 PTM supporters and injured over 25 others. The military said PTM members attacked security forces before any shooting began and injured several soldiers, but the army showed no evidence to contradict the witness accounts and videos, that largely pointed to the contrary. Several PTM activists, including two members of the National Assembly of Pakistan, Ali Wazir and Mohsin Dawar, were arrested by the security forces after the incident and curfew was imposed in the area. A day after this incident, the opposition parties walked out of the National Assembly of Pakistan in protest, and asked Asad Qaiser, who was the Speaker of the National Assembly and a leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), to produce Wazir and Dawar before the parliament so that they could explain their viewpoint about the incident at the parliament sessions, but the speaker refused.
After almost four months in jail, Wazir and Dawar were released on bail on 21 September 2019. On 14 October 2020, the government withdrew the Kharqamar case against PTM, and Wazir and Dawar were acquitted of the charges against them.
Objectives
The main demands of PTM presented during the Pashtun Long March's gatherings in 2018 included, among others:
State Terrorism
The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement has highly demanded that landmines must be removed from the Pashtun tribal areas. The PTM leaders have criticized Pakistan's military establishment for terrorizing lands of Pashtun people several times. They adopted a famous Balochi slogan "ye jo dehshatgardi hai, iske peeche wardi hai" (Those in uniform are behind terrorism). PTM also demanded several times that Rao Anwar and other police officers involved must be punished for the alleged murder of Naqeebullah Mehsud. PTM also demands a truth and reconciliation commission must be established for all the people who are killed extrajudicially like Naqeebullah Mehsud in alleged fake encounters by the law enforcement agencies of Pakistan The missing persons who are imprisoned at unknown places must be tried in a court of law, and forced disappearances must be stopped.
Torture of Pashtuns
PTM demands that torture and collective punishment against entire villages and tribes in the Pashtun tribal areas, especially after a violent incident, must be stopped The humiliation of locals at army checkpoints in the Pashtun areas must be ended.
Pashtun marches
Islamabad sit-in
On 26 January 2018, the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement organized a protest march starting from Dera Ismail Khan. Pashteen started the march along with 20 friends, but many people joined it along the way, as it passed through Lakki Marwat, Bannu, Domel, Karak, Kohat, and Darra Adam Khel, reaching Peshawar on 28 January. Then after passing through Charsadda, Mardan, Swabi, and Tarnol, the march reached Islamabad, where a sit-in called "All Pashtun National Jirga" was organized from 1 February outside the National Press Club. The jirga condemned the murder of the Pashtun labourer and aspiring model, Naqeebullah Mehsud, who was shot dead by police force in Karachi during an alleged encounter, and the alleged state oppression against the Pashtuns. It asked the government to set up a judicial inquiry for Naqeebullah Mehsud, as well as for all the other Pashtuns murdered extrajudicially in police encounters. The jirga demanded to stop racial profiling of the Pashtuns in Pakistan, and to bring the Pashtun missing persons before the court of law, so that those who are innocent but held could be freed. The jirga also demanded Pakistan Army to guarantee that they will not abduct or open fire on innocents in the tribal areas, or use violence or collective punishment against entire villages and tribes, and that they will not impose the frequent curfews on the movement of locals even after minor incidents. Another demand was to remove all landminess planted in the tribal areas, which have resulted in many civilian casualties. The protesters said that since 2009, more than 35 people including children had been killed due to landmines in South Waziristan alone.
The sit-in in Islamabad ended on 10 February, but the organizers of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement announced that they would reconvene the protest if their demands were not fulfilled by the government. Advisor to Prime Minister on political affairs, Engr. Amir Muqam appeared in front of the protesters with the hand-written agreement from the Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi that included three clauses, agreeing to apprehend Rao Anwar, speed-up the clearing of Mines in South Waziristan, an intermediate college establishment in name of Naqeebullah Mehsud, and promised to addressed "genuine gravencies" raised by Jirga members. Muqam also told the protestors, "the way you held the peaceful protest is really commendable and others should learn a lesson to record their protests this way. I’ll stand by you in trying times and you can come to discuss with me all of your legitimate issues anytime."
On 13 May 2018, family members of missing Pakistanis participated in a protest rally by Pashtun Tahafuz Movement in Karachi, Pakistan by holding photos of their relatives.
Public gatherings
PTM has held public demonstrations at various places, including Bajaur, Bannu, Chaman, Charsadda, Dera Ismail Khan, Islamabad, Kabul, Karachi, Khyber, Killa Saifullah, Lahore, Loralai, North Waziristan, Peshawar, Quetta, South Waziristan, Swabi, Swat, Battagram, Tank, Zhob, as well as in several Western countries including Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Media blackouts
The powershows and rallys of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement are not shown by mainstream media channels as they are not allowed by the Establishment, leaving social media as the primary channel for communicating with the rest of Pakistan and strengthening the narrative that the PTM is being ignored by the system. In February 2019, Khyber TV, a Pakistani Pashto-language channel, chose not to air an interview with Manzoor Pashteen because of pressure from the military.
On 23 March 2018, the PTM meeting was scheduled to be held in Peshawar University, but Deputy Commissioner Peshawar Islam Zeb, issued an order under section 144 CrPC, imposing ban on political meetings in University and stated any violation against the order shall be preceded against u/s 188 PPC and order will be exercised "for 30 days unless modified or withdrawn." Later the meeting was held in Baghi-e-Naran, Hayatabad with 200 person attending the gathering.
The movement's anthem is "Da Sanga Azadi Da?", which means "What kind of freedom is this?". Many Pashtun's have discovered their voice with this anthem and it encloses the various grievances they have from being caught between the militants and the military.
On 26 April 2019, Mohsin Dawar tweeted that he and his fellow National Assembly member Ali Wazir were barred from holding a press conference at National Press Club (NPC) despite having prior bookings. Many prominent politicians including Pakistan Peoples Party's Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Farhatullah Babar and Bushra Gohar condemned NPC for their move. The next day, NPC issued statement claiming that the lawmakers had not made any prior bookings. The Pakistan Army spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor told the journalist Hamid Mir not to invite PTM members on media in response to a question by the journalist as to whether the media houses should invite PTM leaders on TV channels. On 29 April 2019, Asif Ghafoor said PTM would no longer be tolerated. "Their time is up," he said of PTM at the press conference.
Criticism of the Pakistan Army
PTM openly criticizes the Pakistan Army and accuses the Pakistani state of violating the basic human rights of the Pashtuns, but the Pakistan Army has claimed that PTM is backed by foreign powers and their gatherings are "engineered". PTM claims that as a result, news organizations in Pakistan have been pressured to ignore PTM, and university professors have been forced to identify the students attending PTM's protest gatherings. Some Pakistani politicians and journalists also view PTM as working on a foreign or Pashtun nationalist agenda. However, PTM's leadership has claimed that they are protesting through peaceful means within the Constitution of Pakistan.
Gulalai Ismail, a leading PTM member, received death threats by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for speaking out against sexual assaults and enforced disappearancess allegedly carried out by the Pakistani military. Due to the allegations of treason against Gulalai Ismail by the Pakistan police, she went into hiding and eventually took refuge in the United States.
PTM leader Ali Wazir is also known for his vocal criticism of Pakistan's military establishment. He blames the Pakistan Armed Forces for human rights violations during its large-scale military operations, including Operation Rah-e-Nijat in South Waziristan in 2009, during which time he was forced to stay in Dera Ismail Khan due to the insecurity in Waziristan. On 16 December 2020, Wazir was arrested on allegations of treason by the Sindh Police in Peshawar, where he was present to commemorate the 2014 Peshawar school massacre. Qamar Javed Bajwa, the Pakistan Army Chief, stated on 1 July 2021 that Wazir would have to apologize for criticizing the Pakistan Army and then he could be released, but Wazir refused to apologize. On 14 March 2022, the Pashtun National Jirga in Bannu demanded that Wazir be immediately released along with all other political prisoners.
See also
Waziristan
Killing of Naqeebullah Mehsud
Manzoor Pashteen
Ali Wazir
Mohsin Dawar
Forced disappearances in Pakistan
Pakistan and state-sponsored terrorism
Targeted killings in Pakistan
People's Peace Movement (Afghanistan)
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2018 protests
Activism in Pakistan
Ethnic organisations based in Pakistan
Human rights organisations based in Pakistan
Pashtun nationalism
Pashtun rights
Pashtun politics
Politics of Balochistan, Pakistan
Politics of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas
Politics of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Protests in Pakistan
Social movements in Afghanistan
Social movements in Pakistan
Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Censorship in Pakistan
Afghanistan–Pakistan relations
Human rights abuses in Pakistan
2014 establishments in Pakistan |
26723211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Cooper%20Nott%20Jr. | Charles Cooper Nott Jr. | Charles Cooper Nott Jr. (October 10, 1869 – May 10, 1957) was an attorney and jurist. He served as judge of the New York General Sessions Court from 1913 to 1939. In 1919 anarchists were planting a bomb on his doorstep when it prematurely exploded killing both of the bombers. In 1922 he presided over the obscenity case of James Branch Cabell and Robert Medill McBride for the novel, Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice. In 1939 he presided over the second trial of James Joseph Hines.
Early life
Nott was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts on October 10, 1869. He was the son of Alice Effingham (née Hopkins) Nott and Charles Cooper Nott Sr., the chief justice of the United States Court of Claims.
His great-grandfather was Eliphalet Nott, the longtime President of Union College, and his great-aunt, Sarah Marie Nott, was married to Bishop Alonzo Potter.
Nott graduated from Williams College in 1890, then received his law degree from Harvard Law School.
Career
After graduation until November 1913 he was an assistant district attorney for New York City for district attorney William Travers Jerome.
From November 1913 to 1939 he was a judge for the New York General Sessions Court. In 1922, he presided over the obscenity case of James Branch Cabell and Robert Medill McBride for the novel, Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice. Nott wrote in his decision that "...the most that can be said against the book is that certain passages therein may be considered suggestive in a veiled and subtle way of immorality, but such suggestions are delicately conveyed [and that because of Cabell's writing style] ... it is doubtful if the book could be read or understood at all by more than a very limited number of readers."
In 1939, Nott presided over the second trial of James Joseph Hines, the Democratic Party politician who was one of the most powerful leaders of Tammany Hall in New York City, where Hines was found guilty on corruption and conspiracy charges.
Assassination Attempt
There was an attempted assassination in 1919 when anarchists planted a bomb at his doorstep. The bomb prematurely exploded, killing both of the bombers. The opinion of the police was that Federal Judge John Clark Knox, who presided over cases during the First Red Scare, may have been the intended target, and the bombers had confused their names.
Personal life
On November 12, 1896, he married Julia Jerome Hildt (1871–1912), the daughter of Frances Jewitt "Fanny" (née Jerome) Hildt and John McClean Hildt. Together, Charles and Julia were the parents of four children:
Dorothy Nott (1898–1899), who died in infancy.
Frances Jerome Nott (b. 1900), who first married Stacy Courtis Richmond Jr. (1898–1931) in 1922. After his death, she married James Smith Hemingway Jr. (1899–1961) in 1934.
Joel Benedict Nott (1903–1931), who died in an aircrash on Saturday, November 21, 1931 at the New Bern Regional Airport.
Lawrence Hopkins Nott (1906–1986), who married Janet Lawton.
After his first wife's death, he remarried to Mary Porter Mitchell (1878–1960) on April 15, 1916 in Williamstown. Mary, who was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, was the daughter of Emily Frances and James Mitchell of Newton, Massachusetts.
Nott died on May 10, 1957 at St. Luke's Hospital in Manhattan.
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56564874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deon%20Jones | Deon Jones | Deon Jones (born January 4, 1993) is an American professional basketball player who last played for Fukushima Firebonds in Japan.
As a senior at Monmouth, Jones averaged 10.4 points and 6.3 rebounds per game.
References
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Monmouth Hawks bio
1993 births
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American expatriate basketball people in Japan
American men's basketball players
Basketball players from Pennsylvania
Earth Friends Tokyo Z players
Fukushima Firebonds players
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Towson Tigers men's basketball players
Shooting guards
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26723213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinel%20%28FBI%29 | Sentinel (FBI) | Sentinel is a software case management system developed by the US FBI with the aim to replace digital and paper processes with purely digital workflows during investigations. There was a previous failed project called Virtual Case File.
The project started in 2006 with a $425 million budget. After several delays, new leadership, a slightly bigger budget, and adoption of agile software development method, Sentinel was completed under budget and was in use agency-wide on July 1, 2012.
An audit of the program in 2014, two years after completion, revealed ongoing issues with Sentinel's search function, with only 42 percent of surveyed FBI employees indicating that they often found results they needed. In spite of this, the audit was broadly positive, and found that most FBI employees reported that Sentinel enhanced their ability to enter and share case information.
References
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Law enforcement databases in the United States |
56564929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abhinav%20Tandel | Abhinav Tandel | Abhinav Tandel (born 23 September 1998) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut for Gujarat in the 2017–18 Vijay Hazare Trophy on 12 February 2018.
References
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1998 births
Living people
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44508465 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%E2%80%9315%20Women%27s%20EHF%20Champions%20League%20main%20round | 2014–15 Women's EHF Champions League main round | This article describes the main round of the 2014–15 Women's EHF Champions League.
Format
The top three teams of each group from the group stage advanced to the main round. The 12 teams were split into two groups of six teams. The top four placed teams advanced to the knockout stage. The points gained in the group stage against teams that advance, were carried over.
Group 1
Group 2
References
External links
Official website
2014–15 Women's EHF Champions League |
56564983 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjeet%20Desai | Sanjeet Desai | Sanjeet Desai (born 12 December 1997) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut for Chhattisgarh in the 2017–18 Vijay Hazare Trophy on 12 February 2018. He made his first-class debut for Chhattisgarh in the 2018–19 Ranji Trophy on 1 November 2018. He made his Twenty20 debut on 5 November 2021, for Chhattisgarh in the 2021–22 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.
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6911623 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sound%20of%20Girls%20Aloud%3A%20The%20Greatest%20Hits | The Sound of Girls Aloud: The Greatest Hits | The Sound of Girls Aloud: The Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits album of British girl group Girls Aloud. It was first released in the United Kingdom through a limited edition on 23 October 2006, while the standard version was released on 30 October 2006. The Sound of Girls Aloud features twelve of the group's singles, two of which reached number one in the UK. The album features three new tracks, with "Something Kinda Ooooh" and "I Think We're Alone Now" being released as singles and peaking inside the top five on the UK Singles Chart.
The Sound of Girls Aloud received positive reviews from critics, who praised it as a reflection of the group's success. The album entered the UK Albums Chart at number one, making it Girls Aloud's first album to do so. It also peaked at number nine on the Irish Albums Chart. In 2009, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) recognised The Sound of Girls Aloud as one of the nine albums that year to sell at least 1 million units in Europe.
Release and content
On 6 October 2006, Girls Aloud announced that they would release their first compilation album, following rumours that they would split after Chemistry (2005). A limited edition of The Sound of Girls Aloud was released in the United Kingdom on 23 October. The limited edition included a bonus disc with alternate edits of the group's previous singles "No Good Advice" and "Wake Me Up", and unreleased tracks, including a cover of "Sacred Trust", originally recorded by fellow Popstars: The Rivals contestants One True Voice. The bonus disc was also going to include a cover of Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game", however, the track did not make onto the final track listing.
The standard version of the compilation album was released the following week, on 30 October. The regular track listing includes three new tracks: "Something Kinda Ooooh", "Money" and a cover of Tommy James and the Shondells's 1967 single "I Think We're Alone Now". Originally, a cover of "What A Feeling" from the film Flashdance was included on the track list instead of "I Think We're Alone Now", but Girls Aloud contacted the record label three days before the album was manufactured to say they would rather record the Tommy James and the Shondells song. The group recorded the song the following morning and the album was mastered three days later. Apart from the new tracks, the album contains twelve of the group's previous singles, two of which reached number one in the UK: "Sound of the Underground" and "I'll Stand by You".
According to Irish bandmate Nadine Coyle, the first draft of the artwork included only the Union Jack, but she demanded the addition of the flag of Ireland. However, the flag appears backwards on the cover, resembling the flag of Ivory Coast.
Reception
Critical response
The Sound of Girls Aloud received positive reviews from critics. Talia Kraines of BBC Music called the album "a journey through the most exciting and daring pop music of recent times" and went on to add that "this reality band has surpassed all expectations," while Paul Scott of Stylus Magazine described it as "an irreverent party through the last 30 odd years of pop, taking inspiration from the most unexpected of places" and hailed Girls Aloud as "the finest singles band Britain [sic] has produced this decade." Allmusic reviewer Andy Kellman noted the album for making "an ideal introduction" to the group, and said that the three new songs would most likely "keep the group's remarkable streak of dominance afloat." Dan Cairns of The Times gave the album 4 out of 5 stars, stating that Girls Aloud's personality flows "through unimpeachable, sugar-rush pop singles" such as "Something Kinda Ooooh", "The Show" and "Sound of the Underground".
Pitchfork Media critic Tim Finney described the album as "a whirlwind trip through bizarre but lovable pop gadgetry that may leave the uninitiated reeling." He complimented the songs' "deathless hooks and multi-genre pyrotechnics" and noted that they are diverse, varying from different genres while embracing "elements of electroclash, big beat, and even skiffle." Leonie Cooper of The Guardian characterised the album as "slick ... near-faultless high-octane pop all the way"; however, she felt that the ballads were not really necessary, as "Girls Aloud sound far more exciting when they're simply having fun". In 2007, The Guardian included the greatest hits collection in their list of "1000 albums to hear before you die". Dorian Lynskey wrote, "Years from now, when someone wants to know how bold and brilliant mainstream British pop could get in the noughties, play them this."
Chart performance
The Sound of Girls Aloud became Girls Aloud's first album to debut at number one in the United Kingdom, and stayed on the UK Albums Chart for a total of 38 weeks. On 24 November 2007, Mark Sutherland of Billboard reported that the album had already sold a total of 767,000 units in the country. On the week ending 2 November 2006, the album debuted at number 13 on the Irish Albums Chart, rising to a new peak of number nine the following week. It was certified Platinum by the Irish Recorded Music Association, denoting shipments of 15,000 units in the country alone. On 29 January 2009, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) recognised The Sound of Girls Aloud as one of the nine albums that year to sell at least 1 million units in Europe. As of 21 March 2013, the album has sold over 1,2 million units in Europe.
Promotion
Singles
"Something Kinda Ooooh" was released on 16 October 2006 as the lead single from The Sound of Girls Aloud, one week prior to the album's release. The track debuted at number five on the UK Singles Chart on download sales alone, before reaching its peak position at number three on the week ending 4 November 2006. The accompanying music video was directed by Stuart Gosling and produced by Jon Adams, and features the group "singing and dancing glamorously". "I Think We're Alone Now" was chosen as the second and final single from the album, being released on 18 December. The song peaked at number four on the UK Singles Chart during Christmas week. The music video was directed by Alex Hemming and Nick Collett, and portrays Girls Aloud in an attempt to rob a Las Vegas casino.
Tour
In 2007, Girls Aloud went on The Greatest Hits Tour to further promote the album. The announcement of the tour and the recording of their fourth studio album helped to stop rumours that the band were splitting up, which had surfaced due to the release of their greatest hits album. The show received mixed reviews from music critics, with Dave Simpson of The Guardian saying that the group "fare best when they are playing their own songs."
Track listing
All tracks were produced by Xenomania. Credits adapted from the liner notes of The Sound of Girls Aloud: The Greatest Hits.
Personnel
Credits adapted from Allmusic.
Dick Beetham – mastering
Greg Bone – guitar
Myra Boyle – composer
Jack Clark – engineer
Nick Coler – bass, composer, guitar, keyboard programming, keyboards, programming
Miranda Cooper – composer, programming
Lisa Cowling – composer
Girls Aloud – primary artist
Matt Gray – keyboards, programming
Brian Higgins – composer, keyboards, mixing, producer, programming
Ash Howes – mixing
Chrissie Hynde – composer
Tom Kelly – composer
Tim "Rolf" Larcombe – composer, guitar, keyboards, programming
Shawn Lee – composer, drums, guitar, guitar (bass)
Steve Mitchell – composer
Yoad Nevo – programming
Lene Grawford Nystrøm – composer
Tim Powell – composer, keyboards, mixing, programming
Peter Manning Robinson – liner notes
Niara Scarlett – composer
Toby Scott – keyboards
Marti Sharron – composer
Jon Shave – composer, keyboards, production assistant, programming
Giselle Sommerville – composer
Billy Steinberg – composer
Matt Tait – mixing
Will Thom – photography
Jeremy Wheatley – mixing, producer
Andy Wood – bass
Paul Woods – composer, programming
Xenomania – composer
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Release history
References
2006 greatest hits albums
Albums produced by Xenomania
Girls Aloud albums |
56564997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuling%20National%20Forest%20Recreation%20Area | Wuling National Forest Recreation Area | Wuling National Forest Recreation Area () is located in Heping District, Taichung, Taiwan.
Geology
The forest recreation area spans over an area at the elevation of 1,800-3,884 meters above sea level with annual mean temperature of 16°C. It features the Taoshan Waterfall at the end of the Taoshan Trail.
Transportation
The recreation area is accessible by bus from Taichung Station of Taiwan Railways.
See also
Geography of Taiwan
Wuling Farm
References
Geography of Taichung
National forest recreation areas in Taiwan
Tourist attractions in Taichung |
44508490 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud%20Diver | Maud Diver | Maud Diver (born Katherine Helen Maud Marshall; 9 September 1867 – 14 October 1945) was an English author in British India who wrote novels, short stories, biographies and journalistic pieces primarily on Indian topics and Englishmen in India.
Personal life
Diver was born Katherine Helen Maud Marshall in Murree, now in Pakistan, where her father Charles Henry Tilson Marshall served as an officer in the British Indian Army. She grew up in India and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), but received her education in England. She had a lifelong friendship with the sister of Rudyard Kipling, Trix Fleming. Diver married Thomas Diver (1860–1941), an officer in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, . They settled in England and had a son, Cyril (1892–1962).
Writing
Maud Diver published her first novel, Captain Desmond, VC, in 1907. This and several subsequent books were successful and charted on the bestseller lists of the time. She specialised in the imperial romance genre which was popular at the time. However, unlike her contemporary, Kipling, Diver has been forgotten by later generations. There has been recent interest in her books as a source of information for studies on Anglo-Indian culture.
Her novels tried to instruct Englishmen on how they were to live in British India and included depictions of mixed marriages (for example in Lilamani and its sequels) between Indians and the English as a positive means of bringing East and West together. She countered Kipling's aphorism of "East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet" with,
At the same time, she also held the view that the British bloodline should not be diluted too much (as in the book, Desmond's Daughter).
Bibliography
References
Descendants of Sir Frederick Pollock
"Diver, Maud" The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction. Sandra Kemp, Charlotte Mitchell and David Trotter. Oxford University Press 2002. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press.
Who Was Who (A&C Black, January 2007, KnowUK)
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1945 deaths
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English women journalists
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56565007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puneet%20Kumar | Puneet Kumar | Puneet Kumar (born 22 June 1998) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut for Jammu & Kashmir in the 2017–18 Vijay Hazare Trophy on 12 February 2018. He made his Twenty20 debut on 12 January 2021, for Jammu and Kashmir in the 2020–21 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.
References
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1998 births
Living people
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Place of birth missing (living people)
Jammu and Kashmir cricketers |
6911625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.%20A.%20Baby | M. A. Baby | Mariam Alexander Baby is an Indian politician and member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) from Kerala. He was elected to the Polit Bureau of CPI(M) in the 20th Congress held at Kozhikode, Kerala, in 2012.
Personal life
M.A. Baby was born to P.M. Alexander and Lilly Alexander on April 5, 1954 at Prakkulam in Kollam district of Kerala. Baby did his schooling from Prakkulam Lower Primary School and Prakkulam NSS High School. It was during his high school days where he first acquainted with politics. After completing basic schooling, Baby went to SN College, Kollam for higher studies. Later, Baby joined for BA in Political Science in SN College itself, but could not write the final year examination as he was incarcerated during the emergency period.
He is married to Betty Louis and has a son Ashok Betty Nelson.
Political life
M.A. Baby joined Kerala Students Federation, the predecessor of Students Federation of India, while he was studying at NSS high school, Prakkulam. He has held many responsible positions in Students Federation of India, Democratic Youth Federation of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist). Currently he is a Politburo member of CPI(M).
He was the Minister of Education in Kerala during the period 2006-2011.
He unsuccessfully contested from Kollam against N. K. Premachandran of Revolutionary Socialist Party during 2014 Indian general elections
References
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Website
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Malayali politicians
1954 births
Living people
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Sree Narayana College, Kollam alumni
Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidates in the 2014 Indian general election
Kerala MLAs 2006–2011
Kerala MLAs 2011–2016
Education Ministers of Kerala
Rajya Sabha members from Kerala
Students' Federation of India All India Presidents
DYFI All India Presidents |
20486829 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988%20Alabama%20Crimson%20Tide%20football%20team | 1988 Alabama Crimson Tide football team | The 1988 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "Bama" or "The Tide") represented the University of Alabama in the 1988 NCAA Division I-A football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 96th overall and 55th season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by head coach Bill Curry, in his second year, and played their home games at both Bryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa and Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama. They finished the season with a record of nine wins and three losses (9–3 overall, 4–3 in the SEC) and with a victory in the Sun Bowl over Army.
Alabama suffered close losses to rivals LSU and Auburn in November but the low point of the season was a 22–12 loss on homecoming to Ole Miss, Alabama's first ever loss against Ole Miss in the state of Alabama. Alabama had zero yards passing in the game. Highlights included a victory over Penn State, Alabama's third consecutive victory over Tennessee, and a come-from-behind 29–28 victory in the Sun Bowl over Army in which quarterback David Smith threw for 412 yards, an all-time bowl record for an Alabama quarterback.
Alabama's road game against Texas A&M, originally scheduled for September 17, was postponed to December 1 when Coach Curry declined to make the trip, worried about oncoming Hurricane Gilbert. When Gilbert made landfall in Mexico and the weather in College Station was clear on gameday, A&M fans called Alabama's coach "Chicken Curry". Alabama won the rescheduled game on December 1 by a final score of 30–10.
Schedule
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Season summary
Texas A&M
vs. Army (Sun Bowl)
1989 NFL Draft
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Sun Bowl champion seasons
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20486832 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude%20Mathis | Jean-Claude Mathis | Jean-Claude Mathis (born August 15, 1939 in Bouzonville, Moselle) was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented the 2nd constituency of Aube from 2002 to 2017, as a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
References
1939 births
Living people
People from Moselle (department)
Rally for the Republic politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
26723217 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%20Open%20Pr%C3%A9vadi%C3%A8s%20Saint%E2%80%93Brieuc%20%E2%80%93%20Singles | 2010 Open Prévadiès Saint–Brieuc – Singles | Josselin Ouanna was the defending champion, however he lost to Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo in the quarterfinals.
Michał Przysiężny defeated Ramírez Hidalgo in the final (4–6, 6–2, 6–3).
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26723221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNTT | WNTT | WNTT(1250 AM & 93.7FM) is a radio station broadcasting a mostly mixed country music format. Licensed to Tazewell, Tennessee, United States, the station is currently owned by WNTT, Inc. and features local programming on a 24/7 schedule.
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Claiborne County, Tennessee |
56565008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolundunga%2C%20South%20Australia | Woolundunga, South Australia |
Woolundunga is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the western side of the Flinders Ranges about north of the state capital of Adelaide and about south-east of the city of Port Augusta.
Boundaries for the part of Woolundunga within the City of Port Augusta in the west were proclaimed on 17 February 1994 while the part within the District Council of Mount Remarkable in the east was added on 13 March 1997.
The locality's name is of Aboriginal origin and is considered by the South Australian historian, Geoffrey Manning, to be derived from the name of “springs near Mount Brown” claimed to belong to a group of Aboriginal people with “the same name.” The name was used in 1851 for a pastoral enterprise called the ‘Woolundunga Run’ which was established by J. Pat(t)erson on pastoral lease no. 32 and which was located in part of the locality as shown by the presence of two homestead ruins both bearing the name within the current boundaries.
Woolundunga is bounded in part by roads including the Horrocks Pass Road (B56) which passes through the pass of the same name on its southern side and the Augusta Highway which forms its western boundary.
Land use within the locality is concerned with ‘primary industry’ activities dominated by pastoralism and other classes of agriculture with land in the locality's east being zoned to preserve “the natural and rural character and scenic features.”
Woolundunga is located within the federal division of Grey, the state electoral district of Stuart and the local government areas of the City of Port Augusta and the District Council of Mount Remarkable.
References
Towns in South Australia
Far North (South Australia) |
26723232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels%20tram%20route%2055 | Brussels tram route 55 | The Brussels tram route 55 is a tram route in Brussels, Belgium operated by the STIB/MIVB. The route connects the Bordet railway station in the municipality of Evere, northeast of Brussels, to the Rogier metro station in the City of Brussels. The route also crosses the municipalities of Saint-Josse and Schaerbeek. The route was cut in the years 2000s with the STIB/MIVB willing to reduce the number of tram routes riding in the north–south tunnel. Prior to this, the route went on up to the southern municipality of Uccle at the Silence stop. A part of this section is now served by Brussels tram route 51.
See also
List of Brussels tram routes
External links
STIB/MIVB website
55
City of Brussels
Evere
Schaerbeek |
56565009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise%20Harper%20Angel | Denise Harper Angel | Denise Harper Angel (born November 24, 1953) is an American politician who has served in the Kentucky Senate from the 35th district since 2005. Prior to being elected, she worked in various positions of public service, including roles on other campaigns. She was also a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1992.
References
1953 births
Living people
Kentucky state senators
Kentucky Democrats
21st-century American politicians |
44508518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Boat%20Race%201960 | The Boat Race 1960 | The 106th The Boat Race took place on 2 April 1960. Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames. Oxford went into the race as reigning champions, having won the previous year's race. In a race umpired by former Cambridge rower Kenneth Payne and attended by Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, it was won by Oxford by lengths in a time of 18 minutes 59 seconds, their second consecutive victory, which took the overall record in the event to 58–47 in Cambridge's favour.
Background
The Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing competition between the University of Oxford (sometimes referred to as the "Dark Blues") and the University of Cambridge (sometimes referred to as the "Light Blues"). First held in 1829, the race takes place on the Championship Course on the River Thames in southwest London. The rivalry is a major point of honour between the two universities; it is followed throughout the United Kingdom and, as of 2014, broadcast worldwide. Oxford went into the race as reigning champions, having won the 1959 race by six lengths, while Cambridge led overall with 58 victories to Oxford's 46 (excluding the "dead heat" of 1877).
Cambridge were coached by Chris Addison (who rowed for Cambridge in the 1939 race), James Crowden (who rowed for the Light Blues in the 1951 and 1952 races), A. T. Denby (1958 Blue), David Jennens (who rowed three times between 1949 and 1951) and J. R. Owen (1959 race). Oxford's coaching team comprised Hugh "Jumbo" Edwards (who rowed for Oxford in 1926 and 1930), J. L. Fage (an Oxford Blue in 1958 and 1959) and L. A. F. Stokes (who rowed for the Dark Blues in the 1951 and 1952 races). The Oxford crew had opted to use oars, lighter than normal.
The main race was umpired for the seventh and penultimate time by the former British Olympian Kenneth Payne who had rowed for Cambridge in the 1932 and 1934 races. Antony Armstrong-Jones, who had coxed Cambridge to victory in the 1950 race, and his fiancée Princess Margaret were spectators on board the Cambridge launch Amaryllis.
Crews
Both crews weighed an average of 12 st 9 lb (80.1 kg). Cambridge's crew contained three rowers who had taken part in the 1959 race, bow J. R. Owen, G. H. Brown and John Beveridge. Oxford saw two rowers return from the previous year's race, Alexander Lindsay and D. C. Rutherford. Former Olympic gold medallist Jack Beresford, writing in The Observer said the Dark Blues "are good watermen: their co-ordination is precise, their boat control admirable". Beresford suggested that the Cambridge crew were "not fully under control ... there is a definite jerkiness and hurry about their work."
Only one participant in this year's race was registered as non-British in American Townsend Swayze, the former Harvard University captain.
Race
Oxford won the toss and elected to start from the Middlesex station, handing the Surrey side of the river to Cambridge. The Dark Blues made the quicker start and held a canvas-length lead after ten strokes, extending to half a length after the first minute. With the bend of the river in their favour, Oxford pulled further ahead and were three-quarters of a length up by Craven Cottage. Passing the Mile Post in a record time (beating that set in the 1934), Oxford spurted at Harrods Furniture Depository to hold held a clear water advantage, and were two lengths ahead by the time the crews passed below Hammersmith Bridge.
As the Oxford cox, P. J. Reynolds steered the Dark Blues towards the Middlesex shore, allowing Cambridge to start to reduce the deficit. Difficult conditions between Chiswick and Barnes Bridge slowed the pace of the race, but a spurt just before Barnes allowed Cambridge to close the gap to four seconds. Aggressive steering from Cambridge's Roger Weston was held off by Oxford who took advantage of the tide, and in a sprint finish, Oxford won by lengths in a time of 18 minutes 59 seconds. It was Oxford's second consecutive victory for just the second time since the First World War. It was also the first time since the 1921 race that the event was witnessed by a member of the British royal family.
Ian Thomson, writing in The Observer, described the event as "a really titanic struggle ... an exceptionally gallant race." The rowing correspondent for The Guardian stated that the race saw "one of the most gallant finishing efforts by a crew two lengths in arrears at the half-way mark."
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
Official website
1960 in English sport
1960 in rowing
1960 sports events in London
The Boat Race
April 1960 sports events in the United Kingdom |
26723242 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Giroux | Martin Giroux | Martin Giroux (born 23 May 1979) is a Canadian pop singer. Hailing in Gatineau, Giroux sings mostly in French. He first became known as a contestant on the TV series Star Académie in 2004. He later had success with the radio hit "J't'aimerai encore". Plays the role of Phoebus in the French revival of the musical Notre-Dame de Paris (premiered in November 2016).
Early life
Giroux was born in Gatineau, Quebec. He began playing guitar at age 12, and from age 16 performed in venues in the Outaouais region of Quebec.
Music career
In 2001, he participated in a number of contests including Tout nouveau, tout show where he was one of three finalists alongside Pierre Lapointe.
In 2004, his profile increased after being asked to participate in the reality TV contest Star Académie. He toured with previous runner-up Marie-Élaine Thibert.
His debut album, Faut que j'te dise..., was released in 2005, and the single "J't’aimerai encore" stayed at number one for nine weeks on the Top 100 BDS Francophone.
In 2006, he understudied the lead role in the Québécois musical Dracula – Entre l'amour et la mort. He also had roles in other musicals such as Joe Dassin – La grande fête musicale and Party Time.
His subsequent albums were En cavale in 2008, and La vie ça s'mérite in 2010, for which he wrote all the music and lyrics.
From November 2016 Martin Giroux plays the role of Captain Phoebus in the musical Notre-Dame de Paris as a member of its main cast.
References
External links
Living people
Musicians from Gatineau
1979 births
Canadian male singers
Canadian pop singers
Participants in Canadian reality television series
Canadian male musical theatre actors |
44508536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel%20Face%20%28cocktail%29 | Angel Face (cocktail) | The Angel Face is a cocktail made from gin, apricot brandy and Calvados in equal amounts.
The cocktail first appears in the Savoy Cocktail Book compiled by Harry Craddock in 1930.
See also
List of cocktails
List of cocktails (alphabetical)
List of IBA official cocktails
References
Cocktails with gin |
26723272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyalodiscus | Hyalodiscus | Hyalodiscus is an extant genus of diatom known also from the fossil record.
References
Diatom genera
Prehistoric SAR supergroup genera |
20486836 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989%20Alabama%20Crimson%20Tide%20football%20team | 1989 Alabama Crimson Tide football team | The 1989 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "UA", "Bama" or "The Tide") represented the University of Alabama in the 1989 NCAA Division I-A football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 97th overall and 56th season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by head coach Bill Curry, in his third year, and played their home games at both Bryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa and Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama. They finished the season with a record of ten wins and two losses (10–2 overall, 6–1 in the SEC), as SEC Co-Champions and with a loss in the Sugar Bowl against national championship winner Miami.
Alabama won its first ten games en route to its best record since 1980 and first SEC championship since 1981 season, its 19th overall. Highlights of the season included a 62–27 victory over Ole Miss after falling behind 21–0, a 47–30 victory over Tennessee in a match of unbeatens, and a 17–16 victory over Penn State in which Alabama blocked an 18-yard field goal try with 13 seconds left in the game for the win. The 32–16 win at LSU featured a first for the Crimson Tide, as Alabama safety Lee Ozmint scored the first ever defensive two-point conversion in school history on a 100-yard interception return of an LSU two-point conversion attempt.
However, in the season finale against Auburn—the first Iron Bowl ever played in Auburn, Alabama—the Tigers beat Alabama 30–20. As a result, Alabama, Auburn and Tennessee finished in a three-way tie for the conference championship. Alabama would however receive the conference's Sugar Bowl berth.
In the Sugar Bowl Miami would defeat Alabama 33–25 and be named national champions.
In the week after the Sugar Bowl loss, on January 7, 1990, Bill Curry resigned his position to take the head coaching job at Kentucky.
Schedule
Source: Rolltide.com: 1989 Alabama football schedule
Roster
Rankings
Game summaries
Tennessee
vs. Miami (FL) (Sugar Bowl)
References
General
Specific
Alabama
Alabama Crimson Tide football seasons
Southeastern Conference football champion seasons
Alabama Crimson Tide football |
44508548 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20Dreva | Jerry Dreva | Jerry Dreva (1945–1997) was an artist, writer, performer, activist, and teacher from South Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was a principal proponent of Mail art. His efforts were concentrated in the areas of self-documentation and performance, often employing subterfuge and a wry sense of humor. He was a founding member (with Robert J. Lambert) of the conceptual rock band Les Petites Bon-Bons.
Early work and activism
Active in the local civil rights and anti-war movements in the late 1960s, Dreva was devoted to the cause of gay rights on the local and national level. He was a founding member (together with Robert J. Lambert) of Les Petites Bon-Bons, a flamboyantly attired musical group that never played a single concert. In fact, they never so much as picked up an instrument. Instead they dressed as glitter rock musicians of the era (1970’s) and were frequently featured in newspapers and magazines as Les Petite Bon Bons.
In one of his most famous performances he would sneak out at night and spray paint public buildings in South Milwaukee. The next morning, in his role as a reporter for the local South Milwaukee weekly, the Voice-Journal, he would report glowingly on these graffiti events sometimes signed by the “Art Gangster” thus creating a countercultural figure and simultaneously influencing the way in which that figure was portrayed in the media. It was a ruse that lasted several years.
As a mail artist he corresponded with individuals well known for their work in this field including On Kawara, Ray Johnson, Ben Vautier, Coum Transmissions, General Idea and members of Asco. His work was included in countless mail art exhibits both nationally and internationally, including Extended Sensibilities: Homosexual Presence in Contemporary Art at the New Museum in New York in 1982.
During the 1980s Dreva became increasingly interested in Latin America, learning Spanish and spending considerable time in Guatemala, El Salvador and other Central and South American countries, where he studied revolutionary movements. He was a supporter of the Shining Path in Peru, but adamant in insisting that gay rights be included in their agenda.
Legacy
Dreva died of a heart attack at his Milwaukee home in 1997 at the age of fifty-two. His work has attracted the attention of a growing number of writers and curators and has been featured in catalogs and exhibitions from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
References
1945 births
1997 deaths
American gay writers
Gay artists
Artists from Milwaukee
20th-century American artists
People from South Milwaukee, Wisconsin
20th-century LGBT people
LGBT artists from the United States |
44508551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starkman | Starkman | Starkman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
David Starkman (1885– 1947), Austrian-American silent film businessman
Haim Starkman (born 1944), Israeli basketball player
Maxwell Starkman (1921–2003), Canadian-American architect
Randy Starkman (1960–2012), Canadian sports journalist |
26723295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal%20evolution | Horizontal evolution | The phrase horizontal evolution is used in evolutionary biology to refer to:
Concerted evolution, whereby individual members of a DNA family within one species are more closely related to each other than to members of the same type of DNA family in other species;
Horizontal gene transfer, where genes are transferred from one organism to another by means other than genes received from an ancestor
It is sometimes used by creationists as a synonym for
Microevolution, development of genetic changes below the speciation threshold
References
Evolutionary biology |
20486846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude%20Mignon | Jean-Claude Mignon | Jean-Claude Mignon (born February 2, 1950) was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Seine-et-Marne department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
On 23 January 2012, he was elected President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
References
1950 births
Living people
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
44508573 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%20F%20Rockhey | J F Rockhey | J F Rockhey was a department store located in Torquay, Devon with a further smaller branch in Newton Abbot.
History
John Fry Rockhey bought a small drapery business on Fleet Street, Torquay from a Mr Peter Thomas in 1881, and set about expanding the business with his partner Mr T S Bulleid. The store grew from the original one to four over the next few years and by 1901 the business was incorporated. John Fry Rockhey was Mayor of Torquay 1896-97 and 1901–02 and was made a Freeman of the City.
Upon the death of J F Rockhey (date unknown), his business partner T M Bulleid took over as Chairman of the board until his death in 1937, when J F Bulleid took over the reins. He was behind a remodelling of the store which took place between 1939-40. A further store was opened in Newton Abbot.
In 1948, D H Evans purchased the business for £259,556 but continued to operate the business as a separate entity from the Oxford Street store. In 1954, however, Harrods completed the purchase of the entire preference share capital of DH Evans (they had owned the entire ordinary share capital since 1928). House of Fraser purchased the Harrods group in 1959.
J F Rockhey was kept within the Harrods family until 1971, when House of Fraser agreed as part of the takeover of Dingles that all House of Fraser stores in the west country would transfer to the Dingles group.
References
Defunct department stores of the United Kingdom
Defunct companies of England
Harrods
House of Fraser
British companies established in 1881
Retail companies established in 1881
Retail companies disestablished in 1971
1881 establishments in England
1971 disestablishments in England |
56565025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstie%20Clements | Kirstie Clements | Kirstie Clements (born 23 March 1962) is an Australian author, editor, journalist and speaker. Clements served as editor-in-chief of Vogue Australia for thirteen years from 1999 to 2012. She has previously acted as director and chief creative officer for luxury lingerie brand Porte-á-Vie and features editor for Harpers Bazaar Australia.
Early life
Clements was born on 23 March 1962 in Sydney, Australia. She grew up in the Sutherland Shire, a local government area in the southern region of Sydney, New South Wales. Clements has one older brother, Anthony. Their father died of a brain tumor when Clements was five years old.
In her youth, Clements attended Sylvania High School. She described her desire to leave her hometown at an early age, stating "Not to dismiss it, but at that point I was much more interested in the band scene. I was interested in punk, in literature, in magazines, in popular culture, and the Shire wasn’t where I was going to get that from."
At the age of sixteen, Clements moved to the Sydney suburb of Darlinghurst with her mother Gloria. Describing herself as poor, Clements would often shop at disposal stores and op-shops in order to discover clothing and fashion.
Career
First job with Vogue Australia
At the age of 23, Clements was working in a bookstore when she saw a job being advertised in the newspaper for receptionist at Vogue Australia. Clements immediately applied for the position and was granted an interview. The last of twenty different girls to be interviewed, Clements met with a woman described as "probably in her late 60s. Glamorous; white blonde hair, blue eyes, great legs, she was gorgeous. It was about six o'clock at night and she was drinking out of a tea cup, and I’m sure it was gin… I loved her immediately and she hired me." Clements began working behind the reception desk the very next day.
Clements quickly moved on from the reception desk, taking on various jobs within the Vogue Australia offices. Describing her quick promotion, Clements stated, "I just put my hand up for everything. My key to success is to make yourself useful, just put you hand up for everything… and you’ll find what you shine at. Essentially I found I wasn’t very good at taking orders, but I was really good at giving them"
Clements departed Vogue Australia in the early 1990s to move to Paris and work as the foreign correspondent for Vogue Australia, and the newly launched Vogue Singapore. She joined the fashion show circuit, travelling constantly, and interviewing the world's top designers, beauty experts and business leaders.
Harper's Bazaar
Clements returned to Australia in 1997 where she briefly worked as Beauty Editor for Vogue Australia before joining glossy magazine rival Harper’s Bazaar. Clements was brought on as associate editor for the magazine and worked there for just over two years from 1997 to 1999.
Return to Vogue Australia
Clements returned to Vogue Australia in 1999 to be hired as the magazine's editor-in-chief. Clements succeeded Juliet Ashworth, who was former editor-in-chief from 1998 to 1999. Clements described her return to Vogue Australia as a challenge to rebuild its image following a demise in the 1990s. She stated, "Vogue was pretty broken at that point… When I went back it took three years to build it back to what I felt was a standard that it should have been." Under Clements 'Vogue Australia' was voted Magazine of the Year 2012, had the highest readership figures in its history and had the greater market share of luxury advertising. Subscriptions also rose to a 51% ratio, and was the most visited fashion website in Australia at the time. Vogue.com.au was launched under Clements in 2000.
Early on in her career as editor-in-chief, while working on a November issue, Clements was faced with an almost empty roster of booked advertisements with mere weeks to go. With a goal of 120 pages of ads, the magazine had booked just one advertisement due to a staff error. This forced Clements to undertake a restaffing of the entire office. Commenting on her preferences for staff hires, she stated, "I liked to have a local staff, and an Australian staff. I didn't like to use freelancers that much if I could help it."
When interviewing applicants for potential positions at Vogue Australia, Clements remarked how surprised she was by the number of young girls who expressed an obsession with a fashion label instead of an original style or desire to make things. She elaborated by stating that she was "always highly dubious because I wanted them to have a passion for art, for books, for culture, for literature, for dance, for theatre, for costume design... anything but, as a matter of fact, fashion… I didn’t want people who were obsessed with labels, and I still stand by that."
Discussing her approach to management at Vogue Australia, Clements stated, "I learnt how to be diplomatic. I think most of my job was diplomacy. Diplomacy between staff members, diplomacy between management, diplomacy to clients, to creatives." She commented that working with creatives was more rewarding than collaborating with any other worker due to their passion and vision. "They don’t care about the bonus, they don’t really care about the wage, but they care about the product, and if you can actually equip them with the materials, and the idea, and the vision, then they really can just run on praise."
Dismissal from Vogue
In November 2006, Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Limited (rebranded as News Corp on 1 July 2013) acquired Independent Print Media Group's FPC Magazines which included Vogue Australia. News Limited placed management of the newly acquired FPC magazines (Notebook, Delicious, Super Food Ideas, & Vogue Australia) under its NewsLifeMedia branch.
Clements was fired from her position as editor-in-chief six years after the News Limited acquisition, on 16 May 2012. She was called into a meeting with NewsLifeMedia CEO Nicole Sheffield who directed her to collect her belongings and depart the Vogue Australia offices immediately without offering an explanation as to why she was being fired. Clements left the office and went to have a drink at Bondi's Icebergs bar while news of her departure was announced.
Clements was succeeded by Edwina McCann, former editor-in-chief of rival magazine Harper’s Bazaar Australia.
Current career
The day after her firing from Vogue Australia, Clements received a phone call from Louise Adler of Melbourne University Press who invited her to write a book about her career. Clements soon after signed a book publishing deal with Melbourne University Press to publish an auto-biography titled The Vogue Factor. The book was published in February 2013 and detailed Clements memoirs of her 25-year career at Vogue Australia. The book went on to become a bestseller in a number of markets worldwide, and Clements made an appearance on US talk show The View which was hosted by Barbara Walters to discuss the book. The Vogue Factor was released in the UK by Faber and Faber in July 2013, with a US edition following in February 2014 published by Chronicle.
Clements described writing the book as a cathartic experience which encouraged her to look back at her time with Vogue Australia with fondness despite the way she was let go.
Following the release of The Vogue Factor, Clements wrote the novel Tongue in Chic, which was published in November 2013 by Victory Books and is described as a behind-the-scenes exposé of the fashion and luxury magazine industries. Clements also co-authored Fashion, The First Fifty Years from The Australian Women’s Weekly, which was published by the National Library Australia in 2014.
From 2014 to 2017, Clements worked as a creative consultant and editorial ambassador for Australian department store chain Myer and contributed to its Myer Emporium Magazine, a custom magazine owned by Bauer Media Australia. During this time, Clements also launched an independent publishing house and content production company, Imprint Agency. She currently serves as its director.
In March 2017, Clements co-launched luxury lingerie brand Porte-á-Vie with former colleague Lisa Hili. She serves as the company's director and chief creative officer.
Clements often makes public speaking appearances and contributes to a number of fashion and beauty publications such as The New Daily. She is a board director for FARE (Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education) and an ambassador for Australian children's cancer charity Camp Quality.
Clements appeared on Australian TV show Australia’s Next Top Model Cycle 4 which aired from 22 April – 1 July 2008. She served as a guest judge on a panel alongside Alex Perry and Charlotte Dawson.
Personal life
In June 1992, while Clements was working as a freelance journalist in Paris she married French-Algerian nightclub bouncer Mourad Ayat. Clements met Ayat while covering collections and moved to Paris in 1994. Following their marriage and a stint working in Paris, the couple moved back to Australia in late 1997 with their two sons.
Clements is a mother to twin sons, Sam and Joseph Ayat (born 1995). Clements and her family reside in Sydney's eastern suburbs.
Books
In Vogue: 50 Years of Australian Style (Harper Collins, 2009)
The Vogue Factor (Melbourne University Press, 2013)
Tongue in Chic (Victory Books, 2013)
The Australia Women’s Weekly Fashion, The First Fifty Years (Australian National Library, 2014)
Impressive, How to Have a Stylish Career (Melbourne University Press, 2015)
References
External links
Official website
Vogue (magazine) people
Women magazine editors
Fashion editors
20th-century Australian journalists
Living people
1962 births
Australian magazine editors
Australian women journalists
Writers from Sydney
20th-century Australian women |
26723309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gare%20du%20Nord%20%28band%29 | Gare du Nord (band) | Gare du Nord is a Dutch-Belgian jazz band, originally consisting of Doc (Ferdi Lancee) and Inca (Barend Fransen). Doc played guitar and Inca played saxophone, while both performed vocal duties. After the pair split up in 2013, the band continued to work and tour with a different line-up.
History
2001–2005
Dutch guitarist Ferdi Lancee (real name: Ferdy Dousenbach, born October 21, 1953 in Tilburg) and saxophone player Barend Fransen (born January 4, 1959 in Helmond) started working together in 2001, when they started writing lounge music in Belgium. They signed a record deal with Play It Again Sam Records in Brussels, and released the albums (In Search Of) Excellounge (2001) and Kind Of Cool (2002). Several of their songs were used in the soundtracks of the TV series Six Feet Under and the movie Ghost Rider (2007). In 2003, Gare du Nord toured the Netherlands and Russia with a newly formed band consisting of nine musicians. Their third album Club Gare du Nord (2005) was recorded in their own Cell4-Studio in the Netherlands. French Jazz trumpet player Erik Truffaz and the gospel singers of the American Imani Fellowship Choir contributed to the album. Around that date (2005), Barend Fransen left his job as president of the Dutch record store chain "Van Leest" to spend more time with the band.
2006
On January 12, 2006, during Eurosonic in Groningen, the Underground Station Tour 2006 of Gare du Nord started. The jazz duo made the soundtrack for Stout, a book by Heleen van Royen and Marlies Dekkers.
2007–2008
Gare du Nord recorded the single "Ride On" with British singer Paul Carrack. This song appears on their fourth album, Sex 'n' Jazz (2007). The album is the first part of a so-called love trilogy. In addition to Carrack, the album was supported with vocals by Dutch singer Dorona Alberti, as well as soul singer Marvin Gaye in the song "You're My Medicine". The song can be heard in Sexual Healing, an American biographical movie from director Lauren Goodman about the last years of Marvin Gaye's life. The song was also released as a single. On April 28, Gare du Nord received a golden record for their debut album (In Search Of) Excellounge. In late 2007, Gare du Nord went on the Theatre Tour Sex 'n' Jazz. Sales of Sex 'n' Jazz earned the duo a second golden record in October 2007, handed out by fashion designer Marlies Dekkers. On October 15, a Gold Edition of Sex 'n' Jazz was released containing six newly recorded tracks.
2009
The second part of the love trilogy, entitled Love for Lunch, was released in May 2009, again with a cover designed by Marlies Dekkers. "Dish of the Day", the second track of the album, became a single. Track 3 of the album is Gare du Nord's interpretation of the Summertime jazz standard.
2011
The band Gare du Nord separated from the project Gare du Nord and would go on to perform on stage without Ferdi or Barend, who were going to focus on the new album and a movie.
On October 3, 2011, the new album Lilywhite Soul was presented in Amsterdam, again on the Blue Note label. This album contains a cover of Lou Reed's Perfect Day.
2012
Two songs (a remake of Pablo's Blues and a new song Tarantino's Tango) are submitted for the new Quentin Tarantino movie Django Unchained. These songs are also present on a new soundtrack album, called Rendezvous 8:02 released on June 4. In October 2012 the first live album is released, entitled Lifesexy. The release turns out to be the very last album that Barend and Ferdi work on as a creative team
2013
Barend and Ferdi split and go separate ways; Ferdi quit the public music business and Barend set up a completely new live band together with singer Dorona Alberti and guitarist Aron Raams. By the end of 2013 Universal Music releases the 3-CD box Collected. The box with a career overview of the band reaches the Top 10 in the Dutch Album charts.
2014
The new Gare du Nord band tours the Netherlands for the 35 City Live Tour. The shows feature guest appearances by classical harpist Lavinia Meijer. In January 2014 Lavinia Meijer presents a multi platinum award for the Sex 'n' Jazz album, a platinum award for Love For Lunch and a gold award for Lilywhite Soul to the band in a fully packed Muziekgebouw Eindhoven. Songwriter Barend Fransen starts writing new songs with several contemporary composers for a new 10-song songcycle to be premiered live on stage as Gare du Nord: Undressed for a clubtour kicking of October 5, 2014
.
References
External links
Official band site
Belgian jazz ensembles |
20486850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC%20B%C3%A2rlad | FC Bârlad | Fotbal Club Bârlad was a Romanian professional football club from Bârlad, Vaslui County, Romania, founded in 2005 and dissolved in 2009.
History
In 2007, Bârlădenii, won the Liga IV – Vaslui County and promoted to Liga III after a promotion play-off against champions of Liga IV – Botoșani County, Avântul Albești (2–0 at Pașcani).
Ground
The club played its home matches on Fepa 74 Stadium in Bârlad, with a capacity of 2,000 people.
Honours
Liga IV – Vaslui County
Winners (1): 2006–07
Former players
Bogdan Ghiceanu
Sorin Ungurianu
Alin Abuzătoaie
Ionuț Plăcintă
Former managers
Costinel Botez
League history
References
Bârlad
Association football clubs established in 2005
Defunct football clubs in Romania
Football clubs in Vaslui County
Association football clubs disestablished in 2009
Liga III clubs
2005 establishments in Romania
2009 disestablishments in Romania |
56565030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena%20Cooper-Thomas | Helena Cooper-Thomas | Helena D. Cooper-Thomas (born 1970) is a New Zealand organisational behaviour academic. She is currently a full professor at the Auckland University of Technology.
Academic career
After a Masters at the University of Saskatchewan, she completed a PhD at Goldsmith College, University of London and then worked in industry for Shell. She rejoined academia at the University of Auckland before moving to Auckland University of Technology.
Her work on topics such as work hours, workplace bullying and burnout is covered regularly in the New Zealand media.
Selected works
Chen, Gilad, Robert E. Ployhart, Helena Cooper-Thomas, Neil Anderson, and Paul D. Bliese. "The power of momentum: A new model of dynamic relationships between job satisfaction change and turnover intentions." Academy of Management Journal 54, no. 1 (2011): 159–181.
Cooper-Thomas, Helena D, and Neil Anderson. "Changes in newcomers' psychological contracts during organizational socialization: A study of recruits entering the British Army." Journal of Organizational Behavior (1998): 745–767.
Cooper‐Thomas, Helena, and Neil Anderson. "Newcomer adjustment: The relationship between organizational socialization tactics, information acquisition and attitudes." Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology 75, no. 4 (2002): 423–437.
Cooper-Thomas, Helena D., and Neil Anderson. "Organizational socialization: A new theoretical model and recommendations for future research and HRM practices in organizations." Journal of Managerial Psychology 21, no. 5 (2006): 492–516.
Cooper-Thomas, Helena D., Annelies Van Vianen, and Neil Anderson. "Changes in person–organization fit: The impact of socialization tactics on perceived and actual P–O fit." European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology 13, no. 1 (2004): 52–78.
References
External links
Living people
1970 births
Auckland University of Technology faculty
New Zealand women academics
New Zealand women writers |
26723313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Old%20Wellington%20Inn | The Old Wellington Inn | The Old Wellington Inn is a half-timbered pub in Manchester city centre, England. It is part of Shambles Square, which was created in 1999, and is near Manchester Cathedral. It is a Grade II listed building.
History
The oldest building of its kind in Manchester, the Old Wellington Inn was built in 1552 next to the market square which led off what is now Market Street, in what was known as the Shambles. In 1554 part of it became a draper's shop, owned by the Byrom family, and the writer John Byrom was born there in 1692. The building had a third storey added to it in the 17th century. In 1830 the building became a licensed public house, known as the Vintners Arms, and later the Kenyon Vaults. By 1865, the ground floor of the building was known as the Wellington Inn, while the upper floors were used by makers of mathematical and optical instruments. Later, in 1897, the upper floors were used as a fishing tackle shop, known as "Ye Olde Fyshing Tackle Shoppe".
In the 1970s the Old Shambles was underpinned with a concrete raft and raised by designed by draughtsman Fred Kennedy, to fit in with the development of 'The Market Place Centre.' This completely separate development was designed to provide a single level walk, from the Arndale Centre; to which it was connected by a glass bridge over Corporation Street, and then on to Deansgate. The Inn was reopened in 1981. But what was not appreciated by most was the extent to which the building had been changed. Prior to the jacking operation, the entire internal structure of the whole block was removed and replaced by an internal, steel bracing framework. Only the curtain walling remained of the original Tudor building. Moreover, when rebuilt it was necessary to do so to all the latest building regulations. Originally, due to centuries of settlement, there was not a straight line in the place. The floors, ceilings and windows were all awry, and there were several low beams in the bar area which had to be ducked under by all but the shortest clientele. The main one bore the legend 'Duck or Grouse.' In its new position, built onto the rear of the Marks & Spencer's store, at first-floor level, it was all but a new building. All the eccentric charm had gone. It was damaged in the 1996 Manchester bombing, and was reopened in February 1997, with costs of £500,000 paid to repair the damage. However, in preparation for the city's development in the bomb's aftermath, it was decided that the building, alongside its neighbour Sinclair's Oyster Bar, should be dismantled and rebuilt towards the cathedral to form Shambles Square. The move was completed by November 1999, when the pub reopened.
See also
Listed buildings in Manchester-M3
References
Notes
Sources
Grade II listed buildings in Manchester
Pubs in Manchester
Buildings and structures completed in 1552
Relocated buildings and structures in the United Kingdom
Grade II listed pubs in Greater Manchester
1552 establishments in England |
26723324 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teodoro%20Sampaio | Teodoro Sampaio | Teodoro Sampaio may refer to:
Teodoro Fernandes Sampaio (1855–1937), Brazilian engineer, geographer and historiographer
Teodoro Sampaio, Bahia, a municipality in the state of Bahia, Brazil
Teodoro Sampaio, São Paulo, a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil
See also
Sampaio (disambiguation) |
20486874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude%20Thomas | Jean-Claude Thomas | Jean-Claude Thomas (16 March 1950 – 13 November 2018) was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented the Marne department, and was a member of the Gauche démocrate et républicaine.
Biography
Early Life
Jean-Claude Thomas was born on 16 March 1950 in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. Born to Roger Thomas and Georgette Roy, his family collectively ran a grocery store in Paris. When he was three years old, he was sent to Nièvre to live with his aunt and grandparents.
He graduated from the boarding school Lycée Jules-Renard in 1968, and went to medical school in Dijon. He later earned a doctoral degree from a dental school in Reims and became a dentist in 1978.
Political Career
Thomas became deputy to Jean Falala in 1981 and continued in his position when Falala was elected mayor of Reims in 1983. In 1985, Thomas became General Councillor of the newly created Reims-10 district.
Thomas was elected Deputy of the 3rd District of Marne on 18 June 1988 with a slim 50.29% majority over Jean-Claude Fontalirand. He was re-elected in 1992, 1997, 2002, and 2007.
Jean Falala resigned in 1999 amid health concerns, and was succeeded by Jean-Louis Schneiter. Schneiter kept Thomas as General Councillor, and was re-elected in 2001.
However, in 2008, Thomas was defeated by socialist Stéphane Rummel, with 58.15% to 41.85% of votes.
Thomas opted not to run for re-election in Marne's 3rd district in the 2012 elections, instead being succeeded by Philippe-Armand Martin.
Jean-Claude Thomas died on 13 November 2018 at age 68.
References
1950 births
2018 deaths
Politicians from Paris
Rally for the Republic politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
Deputies of the 9th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 10th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 11th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
20486894 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude%20Viollet | Jean-Claude Viollet | Jean-Claude Viollet (born 9 June 1951 in Ruelle-sur-Touvre, Charente) is a former member of the National Assembly of France. He represented the Charente department, from 1997 to 2012 and was a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche.
References
1951 births
Living people
People from Charente
Socialist Party (France) politicians
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
17344644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987%E2%80%9388%20Boston%20Celtics%20season | 1987–88 Boston Celtics season | The 1987–88 Boston Celtics season was the 42nd season of the Boston Celtics in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Coming from an NBA Finals defeat to their rivals, the Los Angeles Lakers in six games, the Celtics finished first place in the Eastern Conference with 57 wins and 25 losses, with Larry Bird being selected to the All-NBA First Team. Bird, Kevin McHale and Danny Ainge were all selected for the 1988 NBA All-Star Game. In the first round of the playoffs, they defeated the New York Knicks in four games. In the semi-finals, the Celtics trailed 3–2 to Dominique Wilkins and the Atlanta Hawks, but won the final two games. They advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals for the fifth consecutive time, becoming the first team to do so since the 1968–69 Boston Celtics (which reached the previous thirteen). However, they would lose to Isiah Thomas and the 2nd-seeded Detroit Pistons in six games.
Draft picks
Roster
Roster Notes
Center Bill Walton missed the entire season due to a right foot injury.
Regular season
Season standings
Record vs. opponents
Game log
Regular season
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1 || November 6, 1987 || Milwaukee
| W 125–108
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| Boston Garden
| 1–0
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 2 || November 7, 1987 || @ Washington
| W 140–139 (2 OT)
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| Capital Centre
| 2–0
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 3 || November 9, 1987 || @ New York
| W 96–87
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| Madison Square Garden
| 3–0
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 4 || November 11, 1987 || Indiana
| W 120–106
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| Boston Garden
| 4–0
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 5 || November 13, 1987 || Cleveland
| W 128–114
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| Boston Garden
| 5–0
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 6 || November 15, 1987 || @ Indiana
| W 103–98
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| Market Square Arena
| 6–0
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 7 || November 17, 1987 || @ Cleveland
| L 88–109
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| Richfield Coliseum
| 6–1
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 8 || November 18, 1987 || New York
| W 111–109 (2OT)
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| Boston Garden
| 7–1
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 9 || November 20, 1987 || @ Philadelphia
| L 85–116
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| The Spectrum
| 7–2
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 10 || November 21, 1987 || @ New Jersey
| W 107–97
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| Brendan Byrne Arena
| 8–2
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 11 || November 23, 1987 || Chicago
| L 102–107
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| Hartford Civic Center
| 8–3
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 12 || November 25, 1987 || Atlanta
| W 117–102
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| Boston Garden
| 9–3
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 13 || November 27, 1987 || Seattle
| W 117–112
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| Boston Garden
| 10–3
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 14 || November 28, 1987 || @ Milwaukee
| L 97–112
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| MECCA Arena
| 10–4
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 15 || December 1, 1987 || @ Atlanta
| L 106–120
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| The Omni
| 10–5
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 16 || December 2, 1987 || New Jersey
| W 130–99
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| Boston Garden
| 11–5
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 17 || December 4, 19877:30 PM EST || @ Detroit
| L 105–128
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| Pontiac Silverdome34,523
| 11–6
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 18 || December 9, 1987 || Denver
| L 119–124
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| Boston Garden
| 11–7
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 19 || December 11, 19878:00 PM EST || L.A. Lakers
| L 114–115
| Bird (35)
| Bird & Parish (9)
| Bird (8)
| Boston Garden14,890
| 11–8
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 20 || December 15, 1987 || @ Washington
| W 122–102
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| Capital Centre
| 12–8
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 21 || December 16, 1987 || Utah
| W 121–111
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| Boston Garden
| 13–8
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 22 || December 20, 1987 || Philadelphia
| W 124–87
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| Boston Garden
| 14–8
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 23 || December 22, 1987 || @ Philadelphia
| W 118–115
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| The Spectrum
| 15–8
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 24 || December 26, 1987 || @ L.A. Clippers
| W 106–97
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| Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena
| 16–8
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 25 || December 27, 1987 || @ Sacramento
| W 114–102
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| ARCO Arena
| 17–8
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 26 || December 30, 1987 || @ Seattle
| L 105–111
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| Seattle Center Coliseum
| 17–9
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 27 || January 2, 1988 || @ Golden State
| W 115–110
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| Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena
| 18–9
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 28 || January 4, 1988 || @ Utah
| W 107–99
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| Salt Palace
| 19–9
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 29 || January 6, 1988 || New York
| W 117–108
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| Boston Garden
| 20–9
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 30 || January 8, 1988 || Washington
| W 125–109
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| Boston Garden
| 21–9
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 31 || January 9, 1988 || @ New York
| L 98–106
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| Madison Square Garden
| 21–10
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 32 || January 12, 1988 || @ Chicago
| W 104–97
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| Chicago Stadium
| 22–10
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 33 || January 13, 19887:30 PM EST || Detroit
| W 143–105
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| Boston Garden14,890
| 23–10
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 34 || January 15, 1988 || Sacramento
| W 122–86
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| Boston Garden
| 24–10
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 35 || January 16, 1988 || @ New Jersey
| W 103–96
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| Brendan Byrne Arena
| 25–10
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 36 || January 18, 1988 || Golden State
| W 121–101
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| Boston Garden
| 26–10
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 37 || January 20, 1988 || Phoenix
| W 131–115
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| Boston Garden
| 27–10
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 38 || January 22, 1988 || Atlanta
| W 124–106
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| Boston Garden
| 28–10
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 39 || January 23, 1988 || @ Cleveland
| L 100–119
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| Richfield Coliseum
| 28–11
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 40 || January 26, 1988 || @ Atlanta
| W 102–97
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| The Omni
| 29–11
|- style="background:#cfc;:
| 41 || January 27, 1988 || Washington
| W 106–100
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| Boston Garden
| 30–11
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 42 || January 29, 19888:00 PM EST || @ Detroit
| L 108–125
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| Pontiac Silverdome61,983
| 30–12
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 43 || January 31, 1988 || Philadelphia
| W 100–85
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| Boston Garden
| 31–12
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 44 || February 3, 1988 || Indiana
| W 118–103
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| Boston Garden
| 32–12
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 45 || February 4, 1988 || @ Milwaukee
| L 101–111
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| MECCA Arena
| 32–13
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 46 || February 9, 1988 || @ Houston
| L 120–129
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| The Summit
| 32–14
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 47 || February 10, 1988 || @ San Antonio
| W 139–120
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| HemisFair Arena
| 33–14
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 48 || February 12, 19888:30 PM EST || @ Dallas
| W 105–104
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| Reunion Arena17,007
| 34–14
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 49 || February 14, 19883:30 PM EST || @ L.A. Lakers
| L 106–115
| Bird (25)
| Bird (17)
| Johnson (10)
| The Forum17,505
| 34–15
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 50 || February 15, 1988 || @ Phoenix
| W 107–106
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| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum
| 35–15
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 51 || February 17, 1988 || @ Denver
| L 125–138
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| McNichols Sports Arena
| 35–16
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 52 || February 19, 1988 || @ Portland
| W 124–104
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| Memorial Coliseum
| 36–16
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 53 || February 22, 1988 || New York
| W 95–93
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| Hartford Civic Center
| 37–16
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 54 || February 24, 1988 || Portland
| W 113–112
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| Boston Garden
| 38–16
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 55 || February 26, 1988 || Milwaukee
| W 132–96
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| Boston Garden
| 39–16
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 56 || February 28, 198812 Noon PM EST || @ Detroit
| L 101–106
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| Pontiac Silverdome37,462
| 39–17
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 57 || March 1, 1988 || @ Milwaukee
| L 116–117
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| MECCA Arena
| 39–18
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 58 || March 2, 1988 || New Jersey
| L 107–117
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|
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| Boston Garden
| 39–19
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 59 || March 4, 1988 || L.A. Clippers
| W 121–90
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| Boston Garden
| 40–19
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 60 || March 6, 1988 || Cleveland
| W 127–98
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| Boston Garden
| 41–19
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 61 || March 9, 1988 || San Antonio
| W 117–116
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| Boston Garden
| 42–19
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 62 || March 11, 1988 || Indiana
| W 122–112
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|
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| Hartford Civic Center
| 43–19
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 63 || March 13, 1988 || Atlanta
| W 117–100
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|
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| Boston Garden
| 44–19
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 64 || March 15, 1988 || @ Indiana
| W 119–113
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| Market Square Arena
| 45–19
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 65 || March 18, 1988 || @ Chicago
| L 103–113
|
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| Chicago Stadium
| 45–20
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 66 || March 20, 1988 || Chicago
| W 137–107
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| Boston Garden
| 46–20
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 67 || March 23, 1988 || Washington
| W 104–89
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|
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| Boston Garden
| 47–20
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 68 || March 25, 1988 || Philadelphia
| L 93–97
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| Boston Garden
| 47–21
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 69 || March 26, 1988 || @ New York
| W 118–106
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| Madison Square Garden
| 48–21
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 70 || March 28, 1988 || @ New Jersey
| W 106–105
|
|
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| Brendan Byrne Arena
| 49–21
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 71 || March 30, 1988 || Houston
| W 117–110
|
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| Boston Garden
| 50–21
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 72 || April 1, 19888:00 PM EST || Detroit
| W 121–110
|
|
|
| Boston Garden14,890
| 51–21
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 73 || April 3, 19881:00 PM EDT || Dallas
| W 110–101
|
|
|
| Boston Garden14,890
| 52–21
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 74 || April 8, 1988 || New Jersey
| W 127–90
|
|
|
| Boston Garden
| 53–21
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 75 || April 10, 1988 || @ Philadelphia
| W 117–108
|
|
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| The Spectrum
| 54–21
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 76 || April 13, 1988 || Milwaukee
| W 123–104
|
|
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| Boston Garden
| 55–21
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 77 || April 15, 1988 || @ Cleveland
| L 109–120
|
|
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| Richfield Coliseum
| 55–22
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 78 || April 17, 1988 || @ Washington
| L 92–98
|
|
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| Capital Centre
| 55–23
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 79 || April 19, 19887:30 PM EDT || Detroit
| W 121–110
|
|
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| Boston Garden14,890
| 56–23
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 80 || April 21, 1988 || Chicago
| W 126–119
|
|
|
| Boston Garden
| 57–23
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 81 || April 22, 1988 || @ Atlanta
| L 106–133
|
|
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| The Omni
| 57–24
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 82 || April 24, 1988 || @ Chicago
| L 108–115
|
|
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| Chicago Stadium
| 57–25
Playoffs
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 1 || April 29 || New York
| W 112–92
| McHale, Bird (29)
| Robert Parish (13)
| Dennis Johnson (9)
| Boston Garden14,890
| 1–0
|- style="background:#cfc"
| 2 || May 1 || New York
| W 128–102
| Larry Bird (36)
| Kevin McHale (12)
| Dennis Johnson (9)
| Boston Garden14,890
| 2–0
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 3 || May 4 || @ New York
| L 100–109
| Kevin McHale (24)
| Robert Parish (11)
| Larry Bird (12)
| Madison Square Garden19,591
| 2–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 4 || May 6 || @ New York
| W 102–94
| Larry Bird (28)
| Robert Parish (12)
| Dennis Johnson (12)
| Madison Square Garden19,591
| 3–1
|-
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 1 || May 11 || Atlanta
| W 110–101
| Larry Bird (38)
| Robert Parish (14)
| Danny Ainge (12)
| Boston Garden14,890
| 1–0
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 2 || May 13 || Atlanta
| W 108–97
| Kevin McHale (32)
| Robert Parish (14)
| Dennis Johnson (9)
| Boston Garden14,890
| 2–0
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 3 || May 15 || @ Atlanta
| L 92–110
| Larry Bird (22)
| Robert Parish (13)
| Larry Bird (8)
| Omni Coliseum16,451
| 2–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 4 || May 16 || @ Atlanta
| L 109–118
| Larry Bird (30)
| Kevin McHale (12)
| Dennis Johnson (10)
| Omni Coliseum16,451
| 2–2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 5 || May 18 || Atlanta
| L 104–112
| Robert Parish (24)
| Robert Parish (13)
| Dennis Johnson (10)
| Boston Garden14,890
| 2–3
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 6 || May 20 || @ Atlanta
| W 102–100
| Kevin McHale (26)
| Larry Bird (11)
| Danny Ainge (14)
| Omni Coliseum16,451
| 3–3
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 7 || May 22 || Atlanta
| W 118–116
| Larry Bird (34)
| Kevin McHale (13)
| Danny Ainge (10)
| Boston Garden14,890
| 4–3
|-
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 1 || May 25, 19888:00 PM EDT || Detroit
| L 96–104
| Kevin McHale (31)
| Robert Parish (13)
| Dennis Johnson (10)
| Boston Garden14,890
| 0–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 2 || May 26, 19888:00 PM EDT || Detroit
| W 119–115 (2OT)
| Robert Parish (26)
| Larry Bird (12)
| Dennis Johnson (10)
| Boston Garden14,890
| 1–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 3 || May 28, 19883:30 PM EDT || @ Detroit
| L 94–98
| Kevin McHale (32)
| Larry Bird (11)
| Larry Bird (8)
| Pontiac Silverdome26,481
| 1–2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 4 || May 30, 19883:00 PM EDT || @ Detroit
| W 79–78
| Larry Bird (20)
| Larry Bird (10)
| Johnson, Bird (6)
| Pontiac Silverdome26,625
| 2–2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 5 || June 1, 19888:00 PM EDT || Detroit
| L 96–102 (OT)
| Larry Bird (27)
| Larry Bird (17)
| Dennis Johnson (8)
| Boston Garden14,890
| 2–3
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 6 || June 3, 19889:00 PM EST || @ Detroit
| L 90–95
| Kevin McHale (33)
| Larry Bird (14)
| Dennis Johnson (9)
| Pontiac Silverdome38,912
| 2–4
|-
Player statistics
Season
Playoffs
The Celtics would end up losing to the Detroit Pistons in the conference finals as an aging Celtics team was beginning to falter against a younger and fresher pistons team. This would be the first time in 5 years that the Celtics would not make it to the finals and would not return to another finals until 2008.
Awards and records
Larry Bird, All-NBA First Team
Kevin McHale, NBA All-Defensive First Team
Transactions
References
Celtics on Database Basketball
Celtics on Basketball Reference
See also
1987–88 NBA season
Boston Celtics seasons
Boston Celtics
Boston Celtics
Boston Celtics
Celtics
Celtics |
56565032 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Negron | Steve Negron | Steve Negron is a politician from Nashua, New Hampshire who served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. He was the Republican nominee for the United States Congress in in 2018 and 2020, but lost the election to Democratic incumbent Ann McLane Kuster.
Early life
Negron received his bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Texas Christian University in 1983. Later, he received his Masters in Business Administration from Western New England College.
Negron served in the United States Air Force for fifteen years, joining shortly after college and serving until 1998. While in the Air Force, he worked as an intercontinental ballistic missile combat crew member in Missouri and at Air Force Space Command in Colorado Springs, Colorado. At the time of his retirement in 1998 he was the director of requirements with the Air Force Space Command.
After retiring from the military, Negron worked for defense contractors Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics before founding his own contracting firm Integron LLC in 2005.
Politics
He was first elected as a Republican to the New Hampshire House of Representatives in November 2016 to represent District Hillsborough 32 for a two-year term. He came in third in the three-member district with 2,346 votes equal to 17.13% of the popular vote. Upon his election, he was named to the Election Law Committee in the legislature.
in 2016 he hosted a house party for Carly Fiorina and was endorsed by her top supporters.
Since being elected to the State legislature, Negron has not sponsored any legislation. According to other sources, he has served as a cosponsor on other pieces of legislation, but these bills were largely vetoed or died in committee. The one successful piece of legislation sponsored by Negron involved removing the limitation on a charter schools incurring long term debt.*
Congressional run
Midway into his first term in the state legislature, Negron announced a 2018 run as a Republican candidate for Congress in New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district. As of February 8, 2018, Negron was one of five remaining Republican candidates vying for their party's nomination.
His campaign raised just over $12,000, but he loaned his campaign an additional $130,000. He had given his campaign $21,000 and loaned it an additional $95,000.
In 2020, Negron gained the Republican nomination and in a rematch ran against Democratic representative Ann McLane Kuster.
Personal life
Negron lives in Nashua with his wife Theresa (Terry). They have three children. He remains active in the community as well as his local Catholic Church. He is of Mexican and Puerto Rican ancestries.
References
The information here is disputed. The website of the New Hampshire House of Representatives lists no legislation sponsored by Negron, while the website Bill Track 50 mentions at least four pieces of legislation. However, links from Bill Track 50 lead back to the New Hampshire House of Representatives website, which does not list Negron as a sponsor or cosponsor on the legislation in question.
American politicians of Cuban descent
Candidates in the 2018 United States elections
Living people
Members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
New Hampshire Republicans
People from Nashua, New Hampshire
Texas Christian University alumni
United States Air Force officers
Western New England University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
26723339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven%20Haakanson | Sven Haakanson | Sven Haakanson, Jr. (born 1967) (Alutiiq) is an American anthropologist who specializes in documenting and preserving the language and culture of the Alutiiq. He served, from 2000-2013, as Executive Director of the Alutiiq Museum in Kodiak, Alaska. He is employed as Associate Professor by the University of Washington, Seattle, and as Curator of North American Anthropology with Burke Museum. In 2007 he was named as a MacArthur Fellow for being a leader in the effort to rekindle Alutiiq language, customs and culture.
Early life and education
Sven Haakanson, Jr. was born in Old Harbor, Alaska, a small, remote-island village, into the Alutiiq people. His father, Sven Haakanson, Sr., was a community leader serving as the Mayor of Old Harbor and president of the Old Harbor Tribal Council. As a child, Haakanson never heard about the history of the Alutiiq in school. When he tried to ask the tribal elders about how their ancestors lived in the past, only one told him about the traditions. That single elder taught Haakanson the Alutiiq language and the culture of the Alutiiq people.
He attended the University of Alaska Fairbanks and graduated with a bachelor's in English in 1992. While in college, Haakanson was invited to attend the Inuit Studies Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. At the conference, he attended a lecture on Alutiiq culture. Looking back on the experience, he remarked, "I wondered why I had traveled to the other side of the world to learn about Alutiiq history and culture when I could be doing the same thing at home." Haakanson spent a year in Russia while a UAF undergraduate in 1991. He taught English in the port town of Magadan on Russia’s northeast coast. While in Magadan he became interested in the Nenet people of the Yamal Peninsula. Parts of their history are the content of his 2000 doctoral dissertation at Harvard University.
Haakanson continued his studies as a graduate student in anthropology at Harvard University in 1992, receiving his MA in 1996 and PhD in 2000. The title of his doctoral dissertation was Ethnoarchaeology of the Yamal Nenets: utilizing emic and etic evidence in the interpretation of archaeological residues.
Research
Haakanson's research centers around documenting and preserving the language and culture of the Alutiit. In the early 21st century, there are only 24 fluent speakers of the Alutiiq language. Because of this, there is a focus on recording everyday speech.
Haakanson was the executive director of the Alutiiq Museum and adjunct professor at Kodiak College from 2000 to 2013. Since 2009, he has served as a board member of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation.
In 2013 he became associate professor at the University of Washington Department of Anthropology in Seattle. He also served as curator of Native American collections at the University's Burke Museum. Haakanson gained tenure in early 2016.
In 2015 he led the Angyaaq project, to restore and practice skills for making native, traditional transport vessels. Russian explorers destroyed these native transport vessels for their practical and cultural value. Until Haakanson began this project, Angyaaqs had not been built on Kodiak Island for more than 150 years.
Awards
2007 MacArthur Fellows Program
In 2007 People Magazine staff named Sven “sexiest anthropologist”, he was touted as low maintenance and high energy. When interviewed he said “The thing I can’t live without is my family. Everything else I can do without”
See also
Awa'uq Massacre
List of Alaska Native inventors and scientists
Notes
The Alutiiq People are known by many names, including the Pacific Yupik and the Sugpiaq. Alutiiq is used throughout for consistency reasons due to the lack of another preferred name.
Citations
Sources
1967 births
Alutiiq
Alaska Native inventors and scientists
Alaska Native people
American anthropologists
Harvard University alumni
Living people
MacArthur Fellows
People from Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska
University of Alaska Fairbanks alumni |
26723346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far%20Eastern%20Air%20Transport%20Flight%20104 | Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 104 | Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 104 was a short-haul flight from Kaohsiung International Airport to Taipei Songshan Airport, Taiwan using a Handley Page Dart Herald aircraft that crashed on 24 February 1969 upon its approach for an emergency landing in Tainan Airport in Taiwan.
Aircraft
Aircraft model: Handley Page Dart Herald
Manufacturing serial number (msn): 157
Registration: B-2009
Accident
On February 24, 1969, the B-2009 aircraft carried out the FE104 flight that ended the Spring Festival holiday and flew from Kaohsiung International Airport to Taipei Songshan Airport. The flight took off at 12:03 pm, after a 13-minute delay from 11:50 am. Ten minutes after take-off, the captain told the Tainan Airport Tower that an engine failure had occurred. The aircraft's port-side engine had failed, leaving its propeller windmilling and the aircraft in a shallow descent. The flight crew decided to divert to Tainan Airport in Tainan City. Moments after receiving clearance for an emergency landing, however, the aircraft passed over a wooded area, belly-landed in a small clearing and skidded into a creek. The aircraft broke into three parts and caught fire, killing all on board.
Cause
The right engine had been severely damaged, causing the aircraft to quickly lose altitude.
References
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19690224-0
http://www.planecrashinfo.com/1969/1969-14.htm
Aviation accidents and incidents in 1969
Airliner accidents and incidents caused by mechanical failure
Aviation accidents and incidents in Taiwan
Accidents and incidents involving the Handley Page Dart Herald
Far Eastern Air Transport accidents and incidents
1969 in Taiwan
February 1969 events in Asia
History of Tainan |
44508577 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Grand%20Prix%20%28squash%29%202014 | British Grand Prix (squash) 2014 | The British Grand Prix 2014 is the 2014's British Grand Prix (squash), which is a tournament of the PSA World Tour event International (Prize money : 70 000 $). The event took place at the National Squash Centre in Manchester in England from 5 December to 8 December. Nick Matthew won his second British Grand Prix trophy, beating Mathieu Castagnet in the final.
Prize money and ranking points
For 2014, the prize purse was $70,000. The prize money and points breakdown is as follows:
Seeds
Draw and results
See also
PSA World Tour 2014
British Grand Prix (squash)
References
External links
PSA British Grand Prix 2012 website
British Grand Prix official website
Squash tournaments in the United Kingdom
British Grand Prix Squash
British Grand Prix Squash
2010s in Manchester
British Grand Prix Squash
Sports competitions in Manchester |
26723356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tension%20at%20Table%20Rock | Tension at Table Rock | Tension at Table Rock is a 1956 American Western drama film directed by Charles Marquis Warren and starring Richard Egan and Dorothy Malone. Wes Tancred (Richard Egan) is publicly vilified after killing a famous gunslinger who was a public hero. The same year this film was made Richard Egan would star in another western: Love Me Tender. That film would mark Elvis Presley's film debut. Despite Richard Egan being first billed in that movie, people went to see it mainly because of Presley, but at the same time would discover how good an actor Egan was and he would become a known actor.
Plot
After killing a man whom many thought was his friend, Wes Tancred is assaulted and immortalized in an uncomplimentary song about one man shooting his best friend in the back; when in fact Wes' friend was reaching for his gun to shoot Wes in the back as he started out the door. Wes leaves town and winds up working as a hostler at a Stagecoach Outpost. He adopts an alias and befriends the father and son who run the outpost. Three outlaws arrive with plans to rob the stagecoach when it arrives. The father is killed in a showdown with the three outlaws. Wes kills them and takes the boy to live with his aunt and uncle, who is the Sheriff in Table Rock. A reckless band of herders that are running a cattle drive come to town with revelry and kill a sodbuster. In court there is testimony presented that the murder was self-defense because the ramrodder had placed a weapon in the victim's hand. Both the Sheriff and Wes are aware of this; however, the Sheriff who was traumatized from a previous beating, states in his report, that it was self-defense. He revises his report when Wes steps forward with testimony to the contrary, challenging him to overcome his fear. Wes shoots down a hired gun that comes to town to kill the Sheriff and the Sheriff, in turn, shoots the man who hires the gunman when he attempts to shoot Wes in the back.
Cast
Richard Egan as Wes Tancred
Dorothy Malone as Lorna Miller
Cameron Mitchell as Fred Miller
Billy Chapin as Jody Burrows
Royal Dano as Harry Jameson
Edward Andrews as Kirk
John Dehner as Hampton
DeForest Kelley as Jim Breck
Joe De Santis as Ed Burrows (as Joe DeSantis)
Angie Dickinson as Cathy
Lauren Chapin as Little Girl (uncredited)
Charles H. Gray as Zecca (uncredited)
Joyce Jameson as Singer (uncredited)
Suzanne Ridgeway as Saloon Girl (uncredited)
Jeanne Bates as Mrs. Brice (uncredited)
Production
Sterling Hayden claimed he had been hired for six weeks to appear in the film but RKO Pictures disclaimed the agreement so he sued them for $35,000. RKO settled out of court.
See also
List of American films of 1956
References
External links
1956 films
1956 Western (genre) films
American films
RKO Pictures films
American Western (genre) films
English-language films
Films scored by Dimitri Tiomkin
Films directed by Charles Marquis Warren
1956 drama films |
44508593 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic%20houses%20in%20Santa%20Rita%2C%20Pampanga | Historic houses in Santa Rita, Pampanga | The following lists down historic houses in the municipality of Santa Rita, Pampanga, Philippines.
One of such houses is the Guanzon Ancestral House, or commonly referred to as Villa Epifania. Dubbed as the "Grand Old House of Santa Rita", Villa Epifania has been receiving attention due to alleged supernatural occurrences happening inside it.
List of historic houses in Santa Rita, Pampanga
Dominican Convent
Also known as the Convento de la Sagrada Familia, the Dominican Convent has hosted numerous retreats and spiritual recollections. Near the convent is a Spanish-era stone arch.
Guanzon Ancestral House
Constructed in the 1930s, the Villa Epifania was named after Dona Epifania from the Alvendias clan, an affluent clan from Floridablanca, Pampanga. The ancestral lot was owned by the Guanzon patriarch Don Agapito Guanzon (Captain Pitong), then the Capitan Municipal of Santa Rita. Capitan Pitong's son, Don Olympio Guanzon (former Pampanga Governor) would later inherit the lot and build an earlier old house in the same lot by 1925. The old house was later be dismantled to give way for the villa and would later be passed on to Don Felipe Guanzon. The villa was designed and constructed by Architect Mariano Pineda, a native of Santa Rita and relative of the Guanzons. Pineda would later join the Federal Architects of America. It was used as headquarters by the Japanese officers, USAFE guerillas and alcaldes during World War II.
Constructed between 1931 and 1932, the house was a standout among other houses during the period since it was the only all-concrete house in town. The entire house is made of concrete save for the upper wall on the western side of the house facing north, which showcases a gallery of windows. The main walls of the house are concrete, about a foot thick on all the major sidings. The concrete materials were imported from Guiguinto, Bulacan. The villa's wood portions are of the Philippine hardwood (narra, camagong and molave) and the furniture is of King Louis style. The furniture was acquired for the villa in 1931 and was bought from the Philippine Carnival in Manila and allegedly made by the prisoners of Bilibid prison. An azotea flanks the north side of the house which gives a view of the western farm lands in Santa Rita, a large portion of which were once owned by the Guanzons and other notable landlords from the Pineda, Lansang and Gosioco families. The doors of the former house that stood are now on the second floor of the house. The doors and windows are made of colored glass with hues of green and orange. A porte-cochere with granite staircase is the main feature of the facade and above it is a grand veranda with baroque pillars. Another small porch is located at the second floor near the grand veranda. The interiors of the house is of similar design. The villa also features other verandas at the second floor and a minor rooftop and chimneys for the kitchen. The construction of the entire house reportedly costs 90,000 pesos, a relatively large sum during its era. In popular media, the house was first featured in the Lino Brocka film “Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang” in 1976. Later in the 1990s it was used as the backdrop for the movie “Tanging Yaman.”
Pineda Ancestral House
Construction of the Pineda House started on April 7, 1917, and was completed on January 10, 1918. The house is said to house images of saint carved by prolific 19th to 20th-century sculptor of religious images, Maximo Vicente. The lot of the house hosts the Santa Rita Catholic School.
Pineda House Image Gallery
References
Historic houses articles
Houses in the Philippines
Buildings and structures in Pampanga |
26723360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%20Robot%20Association | Japan Robot Association | The (JARA) is a trade association made up of companies in Japan that develop and manufacture robot technology. It was formed in 1971 as the Industrial Robot Conversazione and was the world's first robot association. The association was reorganized and renamed as the Japan Industrial Robot Association (JIRA) in 1972, and was formally incorporated in 1973. The name of the association was changed again in 1994 to its current one to accommodate non-industrial robots such as personal robots. Its headquarters are in Tokyo.
The Japan Robot Association aims to advance the growth of the robot manufacturing industry by encouraging research and development on robots and related system products, and promoting the use of robot technology in industry and society.
The activities of the Japan Robot Association include organizing the International Robot Exhibition (IREX) every two years in Tokyo, the Jisso Process Technology Exhibition every year, and hosting the ORiN (Open Robot interface for the Network) Forum to promote standard network access to robots and programmable machines. It is also a member of the International Federation of Robotics (IFR).
Members include Japanese robot manufacturers like Denso, FANUC, Hitachi, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Mitsubishi Electric, Panasonic Corporation, Sony, Toshiba, Yamaha Motor Company, Yaskawa Electric Corporation. Also some non Japanese industrial robot suppliers are members of JARA: ABB, KUKA and Stäubli.
See also
Robotic Industries Association, the corresponding US trade group.
References
External links
Robotics organizations
Professional associations based in Japan
Organizations established in 1971
Robotics in Japan
1971 establishments in Japan |
26723370 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelical%20Church%20of%20India | Evangelical Church of India | The Evangelical Church of India (ECI) is a Christian denomination in India. It operates the Allahabad Bible Seminary in Allahabad, the Calcutta Bible Seminary in Kolkata and the Madras Theological Seminary and College in Chennai. Its came into existence because of the activity of the Oriental Missionary Society, (OMS International). The church has more than 100,000 members. The denomination is relatively progressive and, in 2012, ordained its first openly transgender pastor.
References
See also
Christianity in India
Evangelicalism in India
Evangelical denominations in Asia |
20486901 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahala%20Brands | Kahala Brands | Kahala Brands is a wholly owned subsidiary of Canada-based MTY Food Group Inc. of Montreal, Quebec. Based in Scottsdale, Arizona, Kahala is one of North America's largest holding company of franchise fast food restaurant companies. In May 2016, the publicly traded Canadian MTY Food Group announced a friendly takeover deal with the Kahala Brands. MTY agreed to pay about US$300 million to acquire Kahala. The two companies generated near $2 billion in revenues in the previous year. Jeff Smit was chosen to lead the US operations of MTY.
History
Surf City Squeeze was started in the early 1980s by Kevin Blackwell and his wife Kathi, and later became a franchise. Later, in 1998/1999, Sports Group International, Inc. (a company that was originally formed to distributed Spalding-branded sports drinks) merged with Surf City Squeeze with Surf City Squeeze's management taking over full control of the company. Also in 1999, Sports Group International purchased Frullati Cafe & Bakery Chain, bringing the total number of its franchised locations to 200.
In 2001, Kevin Blackwell changed the name of his company from Sports Group International to Kahala Corp. after terminating an agreement with Spalding. Also in 2000, Kahala Corp. then developed the Rollerz brand.
From 2002 to 2006, Kahala Corp. purchased Ranch One Grilled Chicken, Samurai Sam's Teriyaki Grill, Taco Time, Great Steak, Johnnie's New York Pizzeria, and Blimpie. Kahala also acquired the license to Wafflo.
In 2007, Kahala Corp and Cold Stone Creamery agreed to merge creating a combined company holding 13 diversified brands. The combined company generated more than $1.1 billion in system wide sales in partnership with 3,000-plus franchisees and more than 4,600 retail locations. As a result of the merger, Kahala's CEO Kevin Blackwell and Cold Stone Creamery's CEO and chairman Doug Ducey were respectively appointed chairman and CEO of the new combined company, Kahala-Cold Stone. Ducey left a few months later to join tech start-up iMemories after being forced out by Blackwell.
In July 2007, Kahala-Cold Stone acquired Cereality Cereal Bar & Cafe.
In 2012, Kahala signed a franchising deal with Phoenix-based America's Taco Shop.
In 2013, a controlling interest in Kahala Corp. was purchased by the Serruya family of Canada. The Serruyas own and founded Yogen Früz, a chain with 1400 stores around the world. At that time, Michael Serruya became Chairman and Co-CEO of Kahala Corp. Shortly thereafter, Co-CEO Kevin Blackwell left the company. The Serruya family changed the company name from Kahala Corp to Kahala Brands to better align the focus of the business.
In June 2015, Kahala Brands purchased Planet Smoothie and Tasti D-Lite. This acquisition added 128 new locations to the overall company store count and increased the total of smoothie-focused locations to over 400 worldwide.
Just a few months later in November 2015, Kahala Brands purchased the gourmet coffee and smoothie brand Maui Wowi. At the time of the acquisition, Maui Wowi had with 400 mobile carts and 29 standalone retail units that operated by 200 franchisees. The following month, Kahala acquired Pinkberry in December.
In July 2016, MTY Food Group Inc. of Montreal, Quebec in Canada purchased Kahala Brands for approximately US$310 million. Under the deal, Kahala remained in its headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona while MTY's US operations was moved into Kahala's offices. Kahala's Chief Operating Officer Jeff Smit was chosen to lead the US operations of the combined entity.
Brands
America's Taco Shop – a restaurant chain with locations in Arizona and Maryland
Baja Fresh – a restaurant chain of fast-casual Tex Mex restaurants (United States)
Blimpie – an American submarine sandwich chain with locations in the United States and Kuwait
Cereality – a chain with stores in Texas, West Virginia, Minnesota and Ohio; formerly had stores in Illinois
Cold Stone Creamery – an ice cream parlor restaurant chain with stores in Bahrain, Canada (partnership with Burger King/Tim Hortons), China, Denmark, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kuwait, Mexico, Nigeria, Oman, Qatar, South Korea, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates, United States, Philippines, Kenya, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Finland, Jordan, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Vietnam,Singapore and Lebanon
Frullati Cafe & Bakery – chain with stores in Kuwait and the United States
Great Steak – a restaurant chain with locations in Canada, Mexico, Kuwait and the United States. Founded 1982; formerly "Great Steak & Potato Company". In 2000, it had 225 locations. Sold to Kahala Brands in 2004; expansion planned into South Korea.
Johnnie's New York Pizzeria – restaurant chain with stores in California, Florida, Oregon, Texas and Washington
Kahala Coffee Traders (California, Utah)
Maui Wowi Hawaiian – chain with stores in the United States, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates
NRgize Lifestyle Cafe (United States)
Planet Smoothie – a chain of smoothie restaurants with stores in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia
Pinkberry – a chain of frozen dessert restaurants with locations in Canada, Chile, India, Indonesia, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Panama, Peru, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, United States, Philippines and Thailand
Ranch One – a chain of restaurants specializing in grilled chicken breast sandwiches, with locations in Kuwait and the United States
Rollerz (California, D.C., Illinois, Nevada and Texas)
Samurai Sam's Teriyaki Grill (Kuwait and United States)
Surf City Squeeze – a chain of smoothie restaurants with stores in Canada, Saudi Arabia, Curaçao/Netherlands Antilles and United States
Taco Time (Canada, Kuwait, Curaçao/Netherlands Antilles and United States)
Tasti D-Lite – a New York-based fast food company which sells products including a frozen dessert product, it has locations in Florida, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New York and Texas
Grabbagreen - a chain of restaurants offering healthy foods and smoothies
References
External links
Food and drink companies of the United States
Restaurants established in 1998
2016 mergers and acquisitions
Restaurant groups in the United States
Companies based in Scottsdale, Arizona
Multinational food companies
American subsidiaries of foreign companies |
20486907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois%20Chossy | Jean-François Chossy | Jean-François Chossy (born 4 May 1947 in Montbrison, Loire) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Loire department, and is a member of the Christian Democratic Party.
Biography
Jean-François Chossy focused his parliamentary activity on the issue of disability. He is the author of Law on Disability of 11 February 2005.
References
1947 births
Living people
People from Montbrison, Loire
Politicians from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Union for French Democracy politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
Christian Democratic Party (France) politicians
Deputies of the 10th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 11th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
44508599 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marasmius%20fulvoferrugineus | Marasmius fulvoferrugineus | Marasmius fulvoferrugineus is a species of agaric fungus in the family Marasmiaceae. Described as new to science in 1976, it is found in the southeastern United States. The mushroom is frequently confused with Marasmius siccus, and microscopy is needed to reliably distinguish between them.
Taxonomy
The fungus was described as new to science in 1976 by mycologist Martina S. Gilliam. It has been classified in the section Sicci of the genus Marasmius, along with species like M. delectans, M. megistus, M. anomalus, and M. haematocephalus. However, molecular analysis has not provided evidence that these species form a distinct phylogenetically related group.
Description
The cap is initially cushion shaped or bell shaped before becoming convex, and it has a small umbo; it reaches a diameter of . The cap surface is dry, somewhat velvety in texture, and has radial furrows extending to the edge of the cap as well as a pleated margin. The color ranges from tawny brown to rusty brown. The thin yellowish-white gills are up to broad, free from attachment to the stipe, and distantly spaced—there are typically 23–28 gills present. The stipe measures long by 1–1.25 mm thick, and is straight or curved, shiny, and hollow. It is dark brown except for a pink region near the top, and it has a tuft of cotton-like white mycelium at the base. The odor and taste of the mushroom are weakly farinaceous (similar to freshly-ground flour). The edibility of the fruit bodies has not been determined.
Marasmius fulvoferrugineus has a white spore print. The spores are shaped like lances (oblanceolate) or curved clubs, and are smooth, hyaline (translucent), and have dimensions of 15.2–18 by 3–4.5 µm. The basidia (spore-bearing cells) are club-shaped, four-spored, and measure 35–38 by 8–12 µm.
Similar species
Other Marasmius species readily confused with M. fulvoferrugineus include M. siccus and M. pulcherripes. A microscope is required to reliably distinguish M. fulvoferrugineus from M. siccus.
Habitat and distribution
A saprobic fungus, Marasmius fulvoferrugineus fruits in groups or clusters on decaying leaves and humus in mixed woods. It is widely distributed in the southeastern USA, where it fruits in the summer and early fall.
Bioactive compounds
Fruit bodies contain an antifungal antibiotic named fulvoferruginin. This compound has a sesquiterpenoid carotene skeleton and has shows strong activity against Gram-positive bacteria and significant antifungal activity towards Paecilomyces varioti.
See also
List of Marasmius species
References
External links
Image of spores
fulvoferrugineus
Fungi described in 1976
Fungi of the United States
Fungi without expected TNC conservation status |
20486914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois%20Mancel | Jean-François Mancel | Jean-François Mancel (born March 1, 1948 in Beauvais, Oise) is a French politician. He was a member of the National Assembly of France, representing Oise's 2nd constituency from 2002 to 2017, as a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
References
1948 births
Living people
People from Beauvais
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic |
26723375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20fratricides%20in%20fiction | List of fratricides in fiction | Following is a list of notable fratricides.
Legend and mythology
Medea killed her brother Apsyrtus in order to help Jason escape Colchis after obtaining the Golden Fleece. (Greek myth)
In Völuspá, the forecast of the world in Nordic mythology, one of the signs of the end of the world is an increase in fratricides.
Höðr is manipulated into killing his brother Baldur in Nordic mythology.
Romulus killed Remus, his twin brother and co-founder of Rome.
Osiris, one of the principal deities of Egyptian mythology, was murdered by his evil brother Set. His wife and sister Isis resurrected him and he became the god of the dead and the underworld.
Eteocles and Polynices kill each other in ensuing battle over the throne of Thebes, Greece in Sophocles' Antigone (Sophocles).
When both change into different armor, Sir Balin and Sir Balan kill each other in a duel, with Balin shortly outliving his brother and realizing what had happened, according to Arthurian Legend.
The Biblical story of Cain and Abel.
The Biblical story of , where Absalom kills Amnon after King David, their father, fails to punish Amnon for raping Tamar, their sister.
The Pandavas killed their brother Karna in the epic Mahabharata but they did not know that Karna was their brother, at the time of his killing.
Genghis Khan killed his older brother following a dispute.
In Historia regum Britanniae Porrex, the son of the King of Britain Gorboduc, slew his elder brother Ferrex in a dispute over rule of Britain.
Literature and film
Claudius killed King Hamlet, his brother, and married his sister-in-law, Gertrude, in order to become King of Denmark in William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
In the Thomas Harris novel Hannibal, Margot Verger kills her brother Mason as revenge for his abuse of her when they were younger, as she was encouraged to do by her former therapist, Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
In William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Henry Sutpen murders his half-brother Charles Bon.
In Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind prehistoric Homo Sapiens kills all the other homo 'brothers and sisters' species.
In the ninja anime series Naruto, Sasuke Uchiha kills his brother Itachi Uchiha to avenge the murder of their family.
In the manga and anime series Ginga Densetsu Weed, Hougen, the tyrannical Great Dane, and one of the villains of the series, is forced kill his younger brother, Genba, after he has a fight with the protagonists, falls and hits his head on a rock, gaining intellectual disability and memory loss. In the anime, Genba has memory loss and becomes so brain-damaged, that he reacts violently to everything around him and attacks Hougen, to which he kills him out of mercy.
In Idylls of the King Balin and Balan kill each other mistakenly
In Invincible, the last book in the Star Wars: Legacy of the Force series, Jedi Knight Jaina Solo is forced to kill her twin brother Jacen in a lightsaber duel, after Jacen turns to the dark side of the Force and becomes a Sith Lord.
In The Vampire Diaries, it is revealed that, in a moment of extreme grief over losing the woman they both loved, brothers Damon and Stefan Salvatore get swords and duel, where Damon kills Stefan, but Stefan manages to plunge his sword into Damon before he himself dies. Later, they both wake to find that they have become vampires.
In anime series Dragon Ball Z, the main character, Son Goku kills his brother Raditz with the help of Piccolo.
In One Piece Donquixote Doflamingo kills his younger brother Rocinante after his treason is confirmed.
In The Skin I Live In Dr Robert Ledgrad kills his half-brother Zeca, unaware that they are brothers.
In A Song of Ice and Fire, Stannis Baratheon kills his vain and ambitious younger brother Renly Baratheon, Euron Greyjoy slays his half-brothers Harlon and Robyn Greyjoy, and is responsible for the death of his brother Balon Greyjoy, and Ramsay Bolton is suspected of poisoning his half-brother Domeric Bolton.
In the prequel series The Tales of Dunk and Egg Prince Maekar Targaryen (later Maekar I), accidentally kills his oldest brother Prince Baelor Targaryen. One of their father Daeron II's half-brothers, Brynden Rivers, is mentioned to have killed another half-brother, King Daemon I Blackfyre, in battle.
Another prequel The Princess and the Queen mentions the twin knights Ser Arryk Cargyll and Ser Erryk Cargyll, who slew each other.
Film and television
In The Legend of Mor'du, the prince Mor'du transformed into a monstrous bear and murdered his 3 younger brothers in cold-blood rather than share the Kingdom with them as their father intended.
Michael Corleone (in The Godfather Part II) has his brother Fredo shot.
Scar murders his older brother Mufasa in order to usurp his throne in The Lion King.
In the 1979 anime, Mobile Suit Gundam, Kycilia Zabi kills her brother, Gihren Zabi, to avenge her father's death.
In Power Rangers Operation Overdrive, Flurious destroys his own brother Moltor, by freezing him and shattering him.
In the anime Code Geass, Lelouch Lamperouge kills his half-brother Clovis la Britannia as an act of (partial) revenge, in order to stop a massacre ordered to cover up the loss and recovery of an illegal research subject.
In the anime Shaman King, Yoh Asakura kills his twin brother Hao in order to prevent his genocidal agenda against humanity.
In the season 1 finale of Dexter, Dexter murders his older brother, the "Ice-Truck Killer". This is the conclusion of a major story arc in the first season.
In the second episode of season 3 of NCIS Mossad Officer Ziva David shoots her paternal half brother Ari Hazwari who is also the control officer in defence of Gibbs. As Hazwari had killed Gibbs agent Caitlin Todd. Gibbs took responsibility for the death. It was revealed in the season 6 finale and second episode of season 7 it is revealed that their shared father Eli David ordered the killing of his son and gain NCIS trust but Ziva shot Ari to save Gibbs not to kill her brother.
Nino Brown kills his brother G Money in New Jack City for disloyalty, and as the only way for Nino to start over. G Money asks "am I my brother's keeper".
In From Dusk till Dawn, Seth kills his brother Richie, who has turned into a vampire. Kate is forced to do the same with her brother, Scott.
In Harper's Island, Henry Dunn kills his brother JD at a rainy boat dock.
In Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data is forced to kill his brother Lore.
In Halloween H20: 20 Years Later Laurie Strode allegedly decapitates her older brother serial killer Michael Myers with an ax, but in Halloween: Resurrection, it's revealed that the latter switched places with a paramedic.
In One Tree Hill Season 3, Episode 16, Dan Scott kills his older brother Keith Scott during a school shooting, because he believes he tried to kill him first in a fire.
Video games
In Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly, when twin girls were not available, twin brothers were used in a ritual in which one brother strangles the other. The one documented occurrence of this is when Itsuki Tachibana killed his brother Mutsuki. It is implied that Ryokan Kurosawa, the father of Yae and Sae Kurosawa, also killed his twin brother.
In Final Fantasy XII, Vayne Solidor, the main antagonist and eventual final boss, kills two of his older brothers at the order of his father, Emperor Gramis Solidor (whom Vayne eventually kills as well), only before he is ironically killed by the player's party with assistance from his brother, Larsa.
In Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, Raziel kills his vampire brothers as he seeks out his creator Kain.
In the Metal Gear series, Solid Snake commits fratricide, patricide and, unknowingly, matricide.
In Devil May Cry, Dante kills his twin brother Vergil (under the guise of Nelo Angelo), unaware of the fact that Nelo Angelo was actually his twin brother. In the novels, he thought he had killed Vergil after shooting him while he was under the guise of Gilver.
In Mortal Kombat: Deception, Noob Saibot's (non canon) ending shows him violently murdering his own brother, Sub-Zero with the help of Smoke by ripping him in half.
In World in Conflict: Soviet Assault the overzealous and brainwashed Soviet Captain Malashenko kills his commanding officer Colonel Orlovsky, who is also his uncle, after the Colonel goes against orders to save his men.
In Galerians, protagonist Rion Steiner kills his "brother" Cain, who strongly resembles him.
In Portal, the player earns the "Fratricide" achievement upon destroying the Weighted Companion Cube.
In one of the endings of Baroque, the protagonist kills his twin brother.
In Grandia II, the protagonist Ryudo is forced to defeat (and thus kill) his demon-possessed brother Melfice.
In Baldur's Gate, the player character will fight against, and kill, his or her half-brother Sarevok.
In Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal the player character will fight and kill a number of his or her half-brother and half-sisters—the Bhaalspawn—including Illasera, Gromnir Il-Khan, Sendai, Abazigal and Balthazar, collectively known as "The Five".
At the end of the storyline of the video game Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, Huang's uncle Kenny Lee is found out to be the one who had Huang's father killed by two men, who was Kenny Lee's brother, which Huang was trying to find out at the start of the game, and avenge his father's death.
In Undead Knights, Romulus Blood, a human knight turned demonic necromancer, accidentally kills his younger brother Remus in an exhausted rage.
In Grand Theft Auto IV the playable character, Niko Bellic will be given a choice of killing one of two brothers, who each have asked him to kill the other.
In Hatoful Boyfriend Yuuya Sakazaki was ordered to murder his brother, but killed his half-brother instead.
In Overwatch, when Genji Shimada refused to change his behavior for the good of his family's business, his brother Hanzo was forced to kill him.
Fratricides |
20486915 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasile%20Lucaciu%20National%20College | Vasile Lucaciu National College | Vasile Lucaciu National College () is a public day school for students aged 10 to 19, established in 1962 and located in Baia Mare, Romania. The college is named after Vasile Lucaciu, a Greek Catholic priest and advocate.
It includes a gymnasium as well as a high school.
Former names
Medium School No. 3 () between 1962 and 1965
High School No. 3 () between 1965 and 1971
High School Mathematics and Physics No. 1 () between 1971 and 1982
Industrial High School No. 8 () between 1982 and 1990
Vasile Lucaciu High School () between 1990 and 1999
Vasile Lucaciu National College () since 1999
Educational institutions established in 1962
Schools in Maramureș County
Buildings and structures in Baia Mare
National Colleges in Romania
1962 establishments in Romania |
20486918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Great%20Smith%20House%20Hustle | The Great Smith House Hustle | The Great Smith House Hustle is a novel for children by the American writer Jane Louise Curry.
The Smith clan, who after moving across the country to live in Grandma Smith’s old house in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, learn they are to be evicted. The Smith children, with the help of the community, race to uncover a long-standing scam to steal the houses of seniors before the savings and loan bank repossesses Grandma’s home.
References
1993 American novels
1993 children's books
American children's novels
Novels set in Pittsburgh |
56565036 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabetta%20Cocciaretto | Elisabetta Cocciaretto | Elisabetta Cocciaretto (born 25 January 2001) is a tennis player from Italy.
She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 108, achieved on 28 June 2021.
On the ITF Junior Circuit, Cocciaretto had a career-high combined ranking of 17, achieved on 5 February 2018. She reached the semifinals of the 2018 Australian Open girls' singles tournament, losing to eventual champion Liang En-shuo.
Cocciaretto made her Fed Cup debut for Italy in 2018.
She qualified for the first Grand Slam tournament main-draw in her career at the 2020 Australian Open.
Performance timeline
Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.
Singles
Current through the 2022 Wimbledon Championships.
WTA career finals
Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)
WTA Challenger finals
Singles: 2 (2 runner-ups)
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 9 (6 titles, 3 runner–ups)
Doubles: 1 (1 title)
Notes
References
External links
2001 births
Living people
Italian female tennis players
Tennis players at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics |
56565039 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan%20John | Ryan John | Ryan John (born 25 September 1997) is a West Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut for the Windward Islands in the 2017–18 Regional Super50 on 11 February 2018. Prior to his List A debut, he was named in the West Indies' squad for the 2016 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. In October 2019, he was named in the Windward Islands' squad for the 2019–20 Regional Super50 tournament. He made his first-class debut on 27 February 2020, for the Windward Islands in the 2019–20 West Indies Championship.
References
External links
1997 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Windward Islands cricketers |
6911633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20diplomatic%20missions%20of%20Paraguay | List of diplomatic missions of Paraguay | This is a list of diplomatic missions of Paraguay. Paraguay is landlocked between two South American giants, Brazil and Argentina, and therefore it has several consulates in both countries. It is also one of the most significant countries and the only South American country to have an embassy in Taipei instead of Beijing.
Current missions
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Oceania
Multilateral organisations
Gallery
Closed missions
Americas
Europe
See also
Foreign relations of Paraguay
Visa policy of Paraguay
Notes
References
External links
Ministry of Foreign Relations of Paraguay
Paraguay
Diplomatic missions |
44508627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20record%20progression%20track%20cycling%20%E2%80%93%20Women%27s%20flying%20200%20m%20time%20trial | World record progression track cycling – Women's flying 200 m time trial | This is an overview of the progression of the World track cycling record of the women's flying 200 m time trial as recognised by the Union Cycliste Internationale.
Progression
Amateurs (1955–1990)
Open (from 1992)
References
Track cycling world record progressions |
56565055 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Roodhouse%20Gloyne | Stephen Roodhouse Gloyne | Stephen Roodhouse Gloyne (24 December 1882 – 25 September 1950) was an English pathologist who worked at the London Chest Hospital from 1911 to 1948. There he built up the pathology department almost from scratch. He kept a large animal house, was director of the Barnes Research Department, and expanded the specimen collection started by Peacock. In 1941, during the Second World War, all but 18 of the 400 specimens in the collection were destroyed, causing Gloyne to comment that his life's work had gone up in smoke.
He wrote a biography of the Scottish surgeon John Hunter.
Selected publications
John Hunter. E. & S. Livingstone, Edinburgh and London, 1950.
References
1882 births
1950 deaths
English pathologists
English biographers
20th-century English writers
20th-century English scientists |
26723415 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadtime%20Stories%20%28film%29 | Deadtime Stories (film) | Deadtime Stories (also known internationally as Freaky Fairy-Tales and The Griebels from Deadtime Stories) is a 1986 American horror comedy anthology film co-written and directed by Jeffery Delman in his directorial debut. In the film, a babysitting uncle tells his nephew three stories. The first story involves a slave used by two witches, who are attempting to resurrect their sister. The second story is based on "Little Red Riding Hood", where a teenage girl mistakenly picks up a werewolf's medicine for her grandmother. The third story, based on "Goldilocks", tells about three escaped mental patients who share their hideaway with a murderess.
Production was filmed in New York City in 1984, originally titled as Freaky Fairy Tales. After screening at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival, it was released on November 26, 1986, where it grossed $2.7 million at the box office.
Plot
An impatient uncle attempts to calm his rambunctious nephew by telling him three horror stories. The first story tells about a fisherman's son who is sold as a slave to two witches that are trying to resurrect their sister. The second story is about a teenage girl who picks up the medication for her grandmother, which is mixed up with medicine intended for a werewolf. In the third story, three mental patients escape and share their country house hideaway with a murderess.
Cast
Scott Valentine as Peter
Nicole Picard as Rachel
Matt Mitler as Willie
Cathryn de Prume as Goldi Lox
Melissa Leo as Judith "MaMa" Baer
Kathy Fleig as Miranda
Phyllis Craig as Hanagohl
Michael Mesmer as Uncle Mike
Brian DePersia as Little Brian
Kevin Hannon as Beresford "Papa" Baer
Timothy Rule as Wilmont "Baby" Baer
Anne Redfern as Florinda
Casper Roos as Vicar
Barbara Seldon as Seductress
Leigh Kilton as Seductress
Lesley Sank as Reviving Magoga
Lisa Cain as Living Magoga
Jeffrey Delman as Strangling Man
Michael Berlinger as Greg
Fran Lopate as Grandma
John Bachelder as Drugstore Clerk
Caroline Carrigan as Nurse
Oded Carmi as Groundskeeper / Postman
Heather L. Baley as Girl in Store
Thea as Dog
Bob Trimboli as Lt. Jack B. Nimble
Harvey Pierce as Capt. Jack B. Quick
Rondell Sheridan as Looney Bin Guard
Beth Felty as Reporter
Patrick McCord as Anchor
Michele Mars as Waitress
Ron Bush as Bank Guard
Bryant Tausek as Man At Car
Suzanna Vaucher as Weather Girl
Leif Wennestrom as Dead Body
Jim Nocell as Dead Body
Evan L. Delman as Police Sergeant
Production
Principal photography was shot as Freaky Fairy Tales in New York City in 1984, and finished post-production in 1985. The title was initially changed to Deadtime, but was settled as Deadtime Stories.
Release
Deadtime Stories was screened at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. After being acquired, the film was released on November 26, 1986 in the Southeastern United States, and premiered in Los Angeles on February 20, 1987. It earned $708,112 on its opening weekend in 255 theaters, and grossed $2.7 million during its theatrical course.
Home video
It was originally released on VHS in 1987 by Continental Video and Magnum Entertainment in the United States, and by Entertainment in Video in the United Kingdom where it was titled as Freaky Fairy-Tales. Mill Creek Entertainment released the film on DVD on September 13, 2015 as part of their ‘Chilling Classics: 50 Movie Pack’, but was discontinued after it was mistaken to be in the public domain. The film was released again on DVD by Image Entertainment under license from Cinevision International, which ran 12 minutes shorter. Scream Factory, a substinary of Shout! Factory, released Deadtime Stories on Blu-ray and DVD as a combo pack on February 28, 2017.
References
External links
English-language films
1980s comedy horror films
1980s fantasy films
1986 independent films
1980s monster movies
1980s supernatural films
1986 films
Films shot in New York City
1986 horror films
American parody films
Fairy tale parody films
American anthology films
American comedy horror films
American horror anthology films
American independent films
American supernatural horror films
American dark fantasy films
Supernatural fantasy films
Supernatural comedy films
Films about witchcraft
Films based on Little Red Riding Hood
Films based on multiple works
Films based on short fiction
Films based on Goldilocks and the Three Bears
American werewolf films
1986 comedy films |
6911638 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal%20leaders%20of%20North%20Korea | Eternal leaders of North Korea | The eternal leaders of North Korea, officially the eternal leaders of Juche Korea, refers to the practice of granting posthumous titles to deceased leaders of North Korea. The official title was established by a line in the preamble to the Constitution, as amended on 30 June 2016, and in subsequent revisions.
It reads (in the original version):
History of the title
Presidency of North Korea before 1994
The post of "President of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea" was established in the Constitution of North Korea in 1972. Until then, Kim Il-sung held the posts of premier and general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea.
In 1972, the presidency was established, and Kim Il-sung was elected to the position by the Supreme People's Assembly, the North Korean legislature, on 28 December 1972. Kim served as president until 1994 when he died, and the position was left vacant and his son and successor Kim Jong-il was not given the title.
"Eternal President"
The revised constitution in 1998 abolished the presidency and declared Kim Il-sung "eternal President".
The preamble of the Constitution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea as amended on 5 September 1998 reads:
The president was the de jure head of state of North Korea, but whose powers were exercised by the "sacred leader" of the nation's state ideology called Juche. According to Ashley J. Tellis and Michael Wills, this amendment to the preamble was an indication of the unique North Korean characteristic of being a theocratic state based on the personality cult surrounding Kim Il-sung. In addition, North Korea adopted a Juche calendar dating from 1912, the year of Kim Il-sung's birth.
The 2012 Constitution once again referred to Kim Il-sung as the "eternal President of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea".
"Eternal General Secretary" / "Eternal Chairman"
After the death of Kim Jong-il, the constitution was amended in 2012, declaring him Eternal General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and Eternal Chairman of the National Defence Commission. The title of party leader was changed to "first secretary".
In 2016, the title "eternal leaders of Juche Korea" was introduced by amending the preamble of the constitution, which was given to Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il.
Head of state role in North Korea after the death of Kim Il-sung
The functions and powers previously belonging to the president were divided between numerous officials: the premier of North Korea; the chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly, chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly; and the head of the military, the chairman of the National Defence Commission (replaced by State Affairs Commission of North Korea in 2016) and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army. These positions are currently held by Kim Tok-hun, Choe Ryong-hae, and Kim Jong-un respectively.
See also
Death and state funeral of Kim Il-sung
Death and state funeral of Kim Jong-il
Absolute monarchy
Imperial cult
Kim dynasty (North Korea)
Kim Il-sung bibliography
List of things named after Kim Il-sung
North Korean cult of personality
Political religion
President for Life
Propaganda in North Korea
Sacred king
Vice President of North Korea
References
Bibliography
1998 in North Korea
Government of North Korea
Kim Il-sung
Kim Jong-il
Posthumous recognitions |
56565058 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serhat%20Kot | Serhat Kot | Serhat Kot (born 12 August 1997) is a Turkish professional footballer who most recently played as a midfielder for Dutch club MVV Maastricht in the Eerste Divisie.
Professional career
A youth product of Borussia Dortmund, Kot begun his senior career with the Turkish club Altay S.K., before moving back to Germany with 1. FC Nürnberg II. He joined Fenerbahçe in the summer of 2017, joining their youth side. Kot made his professional debut with Fenerbahçe in a 2-0 Süper Lig win over İstanbul Başakşehir F.K. on 11 February 2018.
On 24 August 2019, Kot signed a one-year contract with Dutch club MVV Maastricht competing in the second-tier Eerste Divisie. He left the club when his contract expired in July 2020.
International career
Kot represented the Turkey U16s at the 2013 Montaigu Tournament.
References
External links
FuPa Profile
DFB Profile
1997 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Bielefeld
Turkish footballers
Turkey youth international footballers
German footballers
German people of Turkish descent
Fenerbahçe S.K. footballers
Altay S.K. footballers
1. FC Nürnberg II players
MVV Maastricht players
Süper Lig players
Regionalliga players
Eerste Divisie players
Association football midfielders
Footballers from North Rhine-Westphalia
Expatriate footballers in the Netherlands |
26723418 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20Euler%20characteristic%20formula | Local Euler characteristic formula | In the mathematical field of Galois cohomology, the local Euler characteristic formula is a result due to John Tate that computes the Euler characteristic of the group cohomology of the absolute Galois group GK of a non-archimedean local field K.
Statement
Let K be a non-archimedean local field, let Ks denote a separable closure of K, let GK = Gal(Ks/K) be the absolute Galois group of K, and let Hi(K, M) denote the group cohomology of GK with coefficients in M. Since the cohomological dimension of GK is two, Hi(K, M) = 0 for i ≥ 3. Therefore, the Euler characteristic only involves the groups with i = 0, 1, 2.
Case of finite modules
Let M be a GK-module of finite order m. The Euler characteristic of M is defined to be
(the ith cohomology groups for i ≥ 3 appear tacitly as their sizes are all one).
Let R denote the ring of integers of K. Tate's result then states that if m is relatively prime to the characteristic of K, then
i.e. the inverse of the order of the quotient ring R/mR.
Two special cases worth singling out are the following. If the order of M is relatively prime to the characteristic of the residue field of K, then the Euler characteristic is one. If K is a finite extension of the p-adic numbers Qp, and if vp denotes the p-adic valuation, then
where [K:Qp] is the degree of K over Qp.
The Euler characteristic can be rewritten, using local Tate duality, as
where M′ is the local Tate dual of M.
Notes
References
, translation of Cohomologie Galoisienne, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes 5 (1964).
Algebraic number theory
Galois theory |
56565061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota%20Purple%20Rage | Minnesota Purple Rage | The Minnesota Purple Rage were a professional indoor American football team based in Mankato, Minnesota. They were members of the original Indoor Football League founded in 1999 and began play in 2000. They competed in the Southern Division of the Eastern Conference and played their home games at the Verizon Center.
History
The Purple Rage were founded as an expansion team in 1999 and joined the original incarnation of the Indoor Football League along with several others expansion franchises. In the only season in the IFL, the team compiled a 5-9 record finishing in fourth place in the Eastern Conference. After the IFL was bought out by af2, the Purple Rage were not among the many teams that moved to the new league and subsequently folded.
Years later in 2016, the Minnesota Havoc was set to begin play in the new Indoor Football League, but quickly folded after not being able to meet the newer league's requirements.
References
Mankato, Minnesota
Indoor Football League (1999–2000) teams
American football teams in Minnesota |
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