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4035755 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Kronk | Paul Kronk | Paul Kronk (born 22 September 1954) is a former tennis player from Australia.
Kronk won seven doubles titles during his professional career. The right-hander reached his highest singles ATP ranking on 25 April 1976, when he was No. 78 in the world.
Kronk won seven doubles titles, and was a runner-up in the US Open and a two-time runner-up in the Australian Open, on all occasions partnering compatriot Cliff Letcher.
Grand Slam finals
Doubles: 3 (3 runner-ups)
Career finals
Doubles (6 wins, 2 losses)
External links
1954 births
Living people
Australian male tennis players
Australian Open (tennis) junior champions
Australian people of Dutch descent
Sportspeople from Toowoomba
Tennis people from Queensland
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' singles |
4035758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20P.%20Cormier | J. P. Cormier | John Paul "J.P." Cormier (born January 23, 1969), is a Canadian bluegrass/folk/Celtic singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. To date he has won thirteen East Coast Music Awards and one Canadian Folk Music Award.
Cormier was born in London, Ontario and began playing guitar around age five. As a child he displayed an unusual ability to play a variety of instruments by ear and won a guitar contest at age nine. Appearances on Up Home Tonight, a television show devoted to bluegrass music, followed at age fourteen.
Cormier has stated that he learned to play guitar by listening to such noted country / bluegrass musicians as Chet Atkins and Doc Watson. Other instruments J.P. has played on his albums include fiddle, twelve string guitar, upright bass, banjo, mandolin, drums, percussion, synthesizer, cello, tenor banjo and piano.
By age sixteen Cormier had recorded his first album (a collection of bluegrass instrumentals) and he began working the U.S. festival circuit. This led him to move to the United States and to begin working as a session musician. He continued to perform live on the festival circuit and at the Grand Ole Opry with country artists Waylon Jennings, Marty Stuart, Earl Scruggs, Bill Monroe and others.
In 1989 he attended the now-named Northeast Mississippi Community College in Booneville, Mississippi, where he majored in music education. At the time it was one of only three colleges in North America that offered a specialty in bluegrass instruments. During his stay at Northeast he began playing the dobro and piano. It was also during this time he first had the idea for the song "Northwind".
Cormier was involved in a serious truck accident in 2009, resulting in a fractured vertebra and a halt to his touring in 2012. He went back into the studio, focused on his singer-songwriter abilities, and released Somewhere in the Back of My Heart in the same year.
In April 2015 Cormier released a new album, The Chance, which included the previously released single Hometown Battlefield, about soldiers experiencing posttraumatic stress disorder. The song, inspired by Cormier's 2007 Afghanistan tour and news about soldiers' suicides, went viral, with millions of Facebook visits and 800,000 YouTube views (July 2015).
Discography
Return to the Cape (1995)
Another Morning (1997)
Heart & Soul (1999)
Now That the Work Is Done (2001)
Primary Color (2002)
Velvet Arm Golden Hand (2002)
X8… a mandolin collection (2004)
The Long River: A Personal Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot (2005)
Primary Color: The Owner's Manual (2005)
Looking Back – Volume 1: The Instrumentals (2005)
Looking Back – Volume 2: The Songs (2005)
Take Five – A Banjo Collection" (2006)The Messenger – J.P. Cormier Sings (2008)Noel – A J.P. Cormier Christmas (2008)Somewhere in the Back of My Heart (2012)The Chance (2015)Two with Dave Gunning as Gunning & Cormier (2017)
Albums No Longer Available
"Out Of The Blue" (Out Of Print)
"The Gift" (Out Of Print)
"Lord Of The Dance" (Out Of Print)
"When January Comes" (Out Of Print)The Fiddle Album (1991) CBC UG 1003
Awards
He has won or been nominated for the following awards:
Maritime Fiddling Festival- Best Reel - 1989
East Coast Music Award (ECMA) Instrumental Album of the Year - 1991
Maritime Fiddling Festival – Best Reel – 1995
East Coast Music Award(ECMA) Roots/Traditional Artist of the Year – 1998
Nominated for a Juno Award in the Roots/Trad recording of the year category for "Another Morning" 1998
East Coast Music Award (ECMA) Instrumental Album of the Year – 2000
East Coast Music Award (ECMA) Instrumental Artist of the Year – 2003
Music Industry Association Nova Scotia (MIANS) Folk/Roots Artist of the Year – 2005
Music Industry Association Nova Scotia (MIANS) Musician of the Year – 2005
Canadian Folk Music Awards – Instrumental Album of the Year – 2005
East Coast Music Award (ECMA) Folk Recording of the Year – 2006 (The Long River)
In addition, he has won several East Coast Music Awards and the Music Industry Association of Nova Scotia (MIANS) Award in various years.
In 2005 the Bravo! network aired J.P. Cormier – The Man and His Music'', a one-hour documentary examining the life and music of J.P. Cormier. J.P. was also featured on Bravo's half-hour program "Men Of Music".
References
External links
Official Web Page
Living people
1969 births
Canadian bluegrass fiddlers
Canadian male violinists and fiddlers
Canadian folk musicians
Acadian people
Musicians from London, Ontario
Musicians from Nova Scotia
Canadian Folk Music Award winners
21st-century Canadian violinists and fiddlers
21st-century Canadian male musicians |
4035759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prose%C4%8D%20%28disambiguation%29 | Proseč (disambiguation) | Prosec or Proseč may refer to:
Prosec Mexico, an economic program
Places in the Czech Republic
Proseč, a town in the Pardubice Region
Proseč (Pelhřimov District), a municipality and village in the Vysočina Region
Proseč, a village and administrative part of Kámen, Vysočina Region
Proseč, a village and administrative part of Pošná, Vysočina Region
Proseč, a village and administrative part of Seč, Pardubice Region
Proseč, a village and administrative part of Záhoří, Liberec Region
Proseč, a village and administrative part of Žernov, Liberec Region |
4035761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20M%C3%A9rida | Carlos Mérida | Carlos Mérida (December 2, 1891 – December 21, 1985) was a Guatemalan artist who was one of the first to fuse European modern painting to Latin American themes, especially those related to Guatemala and Mexico. He was part of the Mexican muralism movement in subject matter but less so in style, favoring a non-figurative and later geometric style rather than a figurative, narrative style. Mérida is best known for canvas and mural work, the latter including elements such as glass and ceramic mosaic on major constructions in the 1950s and 1960s. One of his major works 4000m2 on the Benito Juarez housing complex, was completely destroyed with the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, but a monument to it exists at another complex in the south of the city.
Life
Carlos Mérida was born Carlos Santiago Ortega in Guatemala City to Serapio Santiago Mérida and Guadalupe Ortega Barnoya. He later changed his name what is known by as he thought it was more sonorous. His brothers and children also took the Mérida name later on. He was of mixed Spanish/Maya-Quiché heritage which he promoted during his life.
As a young child, Mérida had both music and art lessons, and his first passion was music, which led to piano lessons.
From 1907 to 1909, the family went to live in the small town of Almolonga in the Quetzaltenango Department of Guatemala, where they were from. Here he continued music and art lessons.
At age 15, a malformation of his ear caused him to lose part of his hearing, so his father steered him towards painting. He felt “defeated” by music but found art to be an acceptable substitute. After he completed middle school and the family returned to Guatemala City, he entered a trade school called the Instituto de Artes y Oficios, then the Instituto de Ciencias y Letras. Here he began to have a reputation for the avant garde.
In 1919, he married Dalila Gálvez, with whom he had two daughters, Alma and Ana. She was from a wealthy family and understood Mérida’s aspirations although her parents had reservations about the marriage. She died ten years before him in 1974.
Merída’s first trip to the United States was in 1917, where he met writer José Juan Tablada. Mérida made several trips to Europe over his lifetime to both study art and work as an artist and diplomat. His early trips in the 1920s and 1930s put him in touch with both avant garde movements in Europe as well as noted Latin American artists, especially those from Mexico. His last trip was in 1950s.
In 1963, he donated canvases, graphic pieces and mural sketches to the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Mérida was one of a number of artists such as Diego Rivera and Gerardo Murillo who became committed to promoting the handcrafts and folk art of Mexico and Central America, with a particular interest in those of Guatemala, often featuring Mayan textiles or elements in their decoration in his artwork.
He died in Mexico City at the age of 94 on December 21, 1985.
Career
Mérida’s art career began when he was still a teenager. His family’s move back to Guatemala City put him in touch with various artists and intellectuals. At age nineteen, he approached Catalan artist and writer Jaime Sabartés, who helped Mérida organize his first individual exhibition at the offices of the El Economista newspaper in Guatemala City in 1910.
As there was little opportunity for artists in Guatemala, in 1910, Mérida traveled to Paris with a friend named Carlos Valenti on a German cargo ship. From then until 1914, he lived and worked in Paris and traveled much of Europe. This put him in touch with European avant garde artists such as Van Dagen, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian as well as Latin American artists studying in Europe such as Diego Rivera, Jorge Enciso, Ángel Zárraga and Dr. Atl. He exhibited his work in venues such as the Independent Salon and the Giroux Gallery in Paris. For unknown reasons, his traveling companion committed suicide in his studio, which affected Mérida deeply and temporarily losing interest in art. He was helped in overcoming this by Roberto Montenegro.
In 1914, Mérida returned to Guatemala and saw his country in a different light, becoming fascinated in the folklore
diversity. His second exhibition in Guatemala was at the Rosenthal Building in 1915, an exhibition which marks the beginning of modern painting in Guatemala. His time with Mexican artists in Europe prompted him to go to Mexico in 1919, when the fighting from the Mexican Revolution had ended but there was still disorder. He arrived to the country a year before Diego Rivera returned from Europe.
Mérida is noted for both easel and mural works. His first exhibition in Mexico was in 1920 at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes. In that same year, he exhibited in the United States at the Hispanic Society of New York. He participated in a collective show called the Independent Artists Exhibition in New York in 1922 and exhibited individually at the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes in Guatemala and the Valentin Dudesing Gallery in New York in 1926. In the 1930s and 1940s, the reputation of Mexican painting was rising; however, Mérida still needed to work to get his paintings sold. One reason for this was that his work differed from that of the Mexican muralists and was often not well received by critics. Mérida has forty five exhibitions in the United States and eighteen in Mexico from 1928 to 1948. These included an exhibition with Rufino Tamayo at the Art Center of New York (1930), the John Becker and Valentine galleries in New York (1930), the Club de Escritores de México and the Galería Posada in Mexico City (1931), the Stedhal Gallery and the Stanley Rose Gallery in Los Angeles, the East West Gallery in San Francisco, the Palacio de Bellas Artes and the Georgette Passedoit and Cuchnitz galleries in New York (1939-1940) as well as the International Surrealist Exhibition in 1940 in Mexico City. He worked intensely in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s producing designs, graphic works, scenographic sketches for dance, and tapestries, playing with geometric variants. Other venues for his exhibitions included Harvard University, the Berkeley Art Museum at the University of California in Berkeley, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In 1954 he exhibited at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Caracas.
His important works include Alcalde de Almolonga, Bucólica, Imágenes de Guatemala (portfolio), Danzas de Mexico (album), Carnaval en México (album), Mexican costume (album), Trajes regionales mexicanos (album), Trajes indígenas de Guatemala (album), La virgen y las fieras, Divagaciones plásticas alrededor de un tema azteca (series), Estilización de motivos mayas and La mestiza de Guatemala.
Mérida’s early monumental work was related to Mexican muralism, one reason he relocated to Mexico at the end of the Mexican Revolution. There he joined a group called the Renacimiento Mexicano (Mexican Renaissance) and then worked with Diego Rivera as an assistant at the Bolivar Amphitheater (San Ildefonso College) along with Jean Charlot, Amado de la Cueva, and Xavier Guerrero. He also painted Caperucita roja y los cuatro elementos at the children’s library of the Secretariat of Public Education in the 1920s.
In the late 1940s, he worked on murals again, at the Secretaria de Rucursos Hidraulicos and the children’s area of the Miguel Alemán housing complex with Mario Pani. This prompted an interest in a concept called “plastic integration” combining art and architecture. In 1950 he returned to Europe, studying Venetian mosaic techniques in Italy. His next major project with Pani was for the Benito Juárez housing project covering 4,000m2. The concept of this project was to have the works clearly visible to cars passing by the buildings. However, this work was destroyed along with most of the housing complex in the 1985 Mexico City earthquake. A monument to the Juarez project was created by a student of Mérida, Alfonso Soto Soria, at the Fuentes Brotantes housing complex in the south of Mexico City using the plans of the original work. Other projects of this type included the glass mosaic murals at the Reaseguros Alianza Building in Mexico City (1953), the artwork at the Torre Banobras in the center of Tlatelolco, the Cine Mácar and the Museo Nacional de Antropología (1964). In Guatemala, he also created murals and other monumental works including the Palacio Municipal of Guatemala City (La mestiza de Guatemala,), the Chancellery of Guatemala (Glorificación de Quetzal, 1955), the Instituto Guatemalteco de Seguridad Social, at the Crédito Hipotectario Nacional and at the Bank of Guatemala (1956).
In addition to canvas and murals, Mérida also worked in education. In 1932, he founded the dance school of the Secretariat of Public Education with Carlos Orozco Romero and invited the participation of other artists such as Agustín Lazo, Leopoldo Méndez, Silvestre Revueltas and Blas Galindo. He ran the school for three years working with dancers such as Gloria and Nellie Campobello, Graciela Arriaga, Anna Sololow, Waldeen, Gloria Contreras, Evelia Beristain, Rosa Rayna and his own daughter Ana Mérida. For Mérida dance was a way to express what painting and music could not. His daughter Ana studied at the school and became a noted Mexican choreographer. This interest in dance led him to design stage set and costumes for twenty two works from 1940 to 1979. He was particularly interested in indigenous dance, documenting 162 of them, some completely pre-Hispanic. In addition, in 1942 he was invited to teach fresco painting at the North Texas State Teacher’s College in Denton, today the University of North Texas .
In 1957 Mérida won the acquisition prize at the IV Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil. His first major recognition was in 1958, when he received the Order of the Quetzal from the Guatemalan government. This was following by the naming of an annual arts prize of the Instituto de Bellas Artes of Guatemala after him, and the Orden al Mérito Cultural y Artistico also from Guatemala. His first retrospective was in 1966, organized by the Bank of Guatemala. He participated in the III Bienal de Grabado Latinoamericano in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1974 and the Panorama Artístico de la Gráficia at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in 1979. In 1980 he received the Orden del Águila Azteca the highest honor Mexico gives to foreigners. The Palacio de Bellas Artes held important retrospectives in 1981 and again in 1992. Since his death, there have been other events to honor his work including a retrospective at the Museo Metropolitano in Monterrey (2000), a retrospective at the Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca (2008), another at the Museo Modelo de Ciencia e Industria (2010), and the Ana Lucia Gómez Gallery in Guatemala City held an homage to the artist (2011).
Mérida’s work can be found in major public and private collections around the world.
Artistry
Carlos Mérida is best known for his canvas and mural works, most of which was done in Mexico. However, he also did engraving, set design and mosaic work.
His artistic direction has been compared to that of Rufino Tamayo, generally rejecting large-scale narrative paintings, preferring canvas, being more interested in becoming a painter than in politics (with an exception in the 1950s when he was horrified by nuclear testing). He experimented with color and form as well as techniques. Music and dance were lifelong interests and they influenced his paintings with rhythmic, poetic and lyrical pieces.
He had three major epochs, a figurative period from 1907 to 1926, a surrealism phase from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s and from 1950 until his death, geometric forms characterized his work. His early work is marked by experimentation. He was in Europe when the avant garde was transitioning from Impressionism to Cubism and he was influenced by the works of Modigliani and Picasso. His surrealist phase again came from time in Europe, meeting not only Paul Klee and Miró but also fellow Guatemalan Luis Cardoza y Aragón. At this time, he abandoned his former figurative style and became one of Mexico´s first non-figurative artists, leaning to abstractionism and separating him from other Mexican artists. This focus on the non-figurative continued into his later work, but with focus on geometric elements, especially those linked to New World indigenous cultures such as the Maya. His work is considered highly intellectual, not representing things, but rather a concept of them. Salvador Novo wrote “The pre Hispanic world, in Carlos Mérida, attains a perfect synthesis, an ideal sublimation of numeric rhythm sprung from geometry. The debt owed by the abstract painting of our time to Carlos Mérida is thus as great as his work is perennially solid and relevant.
While heavily influenced by trends in Europe, especially his earlier work, Mérida felt it important to emphasize his American (New World) identity and culture. He fused European Modernism with forms and subjects specific to the Americas. One reason for this was that in Europe he found that European artists were not interested in what was happening on the other side of the Atlantic. He became convinced of the need to establish natively American art which would express the “original character which animates our nature and our race will inevitably engender a personal artistic expression.” His work reflects on both the Mayan and Aztec civilizations along with the colonial period representing the indigenous as symbols of post Revolution Mexico. He even integrated indigenous amate paper in to some of his works. While part of Mexican muralism, he predated it slightly by promoting indigenous motifs seven years before Rivera led Mexican painting to fame. Luis Cardoza y Aragon called him a pioneer of Latin American art, painting elements such as indigenous people, Mexican and Central American landscapes without oversentimenalizing which had not been done before. This emphasis on the New World not only was expressed with folkloric images, especially in his early work, but also in his later work. The discovery of Bonampak motivated him deeply, taking new ideas from the ruins and eventually led to his interest in integrating painting and sculpture into architecture.
Further reading
Harper Montgomery, "Carlos Mérida and the Mobility of Modernism: A Mayan Cosmopolitan Moves to Mexico City". The Art Bulletin, December 2016, vol. 98, number 4, pp. 488–509.
Nita Renfrew, "An Interview with Carlos Mérida," in A Salute to Carlos Mérida. Exhibition catalog. Austin: University Art Museum, University of Texas Austin 1976.
References
1891 births
1985 deaths
People from Guatemala City
Guatemalan Maya people
Guatemalan artists
Guatemalan printmakers
Maya painters
Maya printmakers
Maya illustrators
Zapotec people
Latin American artists of indigenous descent
20th-century indigenous painters of the Americas
20th-century printmakers
Cubist artists
20th-century Native Americans |
4035764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utsunomiko | Utsunomiko | , also written Utsu no Miko, is a Japanese historical fantasy light novel series written by Keisuke Fujikawa (藤川桂介) and illustrated by Mutsumi Inomata, which was later adapted into an anime of the same title. The story is set in the late Asuka Period to the Nara Period, and follows the trials of the title character Utsunomiko (usually shortened to Miko), the offspring of the kami of the north star. There are 52 Utsunomiko novels, the first published in 1984, and the last published in 1998. The Utsunomiko anime film premiered in 1989, followed by a second anime film and a 13-episode OVA starting in 1990.
Introduction
In the chaos of the Jinshin War of 672, a child with a small horn in his forehead was born. The child's mother condemned him as an oni and cast him away. An elderly shūgenja woman claimed the child and named him Utsunomiko, or 'Divine Child of the Heavens', telling Miko that his horn symbolizes the union of heaven and earth. Miko matured in the wilderness learning the ways of Shugendō, and soon started venturing into villages out of curiosity. He found that the common people of the villages live in poverty and suffering, and began using his spiritual powers to help them. But his anger at the self-serving rulers and their petty power-struggles grew until he came into open conflict with the Imperial Court, setting Miko down a long path as a champion of the oppressed.
Story arcs
Chronicle of Earth (地上編 – Chijō-hen) – 10 volumes
Chronicle of Heaven (天上編 – Tenjō-hen) – 10 volumes (Miko faces the rulers of the Heavenly plane and seeks his father)
Uncanny Dream Chronicle (妖夢編 – Yōmu-hen) – 10 volumes
Chronicle of Purgatory (煉獄編 – Rengoku-hen) – 10 volumes
Chronicle of Dawn (黎明編 – Reimei-hen) – 8 volumes
Gaiden Collection (拾異伝 – Shūiden) – 4 volumes
External links
Utsunomiko Data
Kadokawa Dwango franchises
1984 fantasy novels
1984 Japanese novels
1989 anime films
1990 anime films
1990 anime OVAs
Anime films based on light novels
Fantasy anime and manga
Fantasy novel series
Japanese serial novels
Light novels
Japanese fantasy novels
Nippon Animation films
Japanese-language films
Japanese novels adapted into films
Historical fantasy novels
Toei Animation films
Buddhist novels |
4035769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Emery%20White | James Emery White | James Emery White (born December 20, 1961), is the founding and senior pastor of Mecklenburg Community Church in Charlotte, North Carolina; President of Serious Times, a ministry that explores the intersection of faith and culture and hosts ChurchandCulture.org; ranked adjunctive professor of theology and culture on the Charlotte campus of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary where he also served as their fourth president; and author of more than 20 books that have been translated into ten languages.
Mecklenburg Community Church began with a single family and has grown to more than 10,000 active attenders. The church experiences more than 70% of its growth from those who were previously unchurched and during its formative years was often cited as one of the fastest growing church starts in the United States. He is also Distinguished Professor of Pastoral Ministry at Anderson University, and consulting editor to Leadership Journal.
White holds a B.S. degree in public relations and business from Appalachian State University and the M.Div. and Ph.D. degrees from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he received a Garrett Teaching Fellowship in both New testament and Theology. He has also done advanced university study at Vanderbilt University in American religious history and continuing education at Oxford University in England, including participation in Oxford's Summer Programme in Theology.
White is the author of more than 20 books, including such Gold Medallion nominees as Serious Times and A Search for the Spiritual, Christianity Today book-of-the-year award winner Embracing the Mysterious God, as well as The Prayer God Longs For and Rethinking the Church. His most recent publications include Christianity for People Who Aren't Christians, Meet Generation Z, The Rise of the Nones, The Church in an Age of Crisis, and What They Didn't Teach You in Seminary.
In November 2009, White signed an ecumenical statement known as the Manhattan Declaration calling on evangelicals, Catholics and Orthodox not to comply with rules and laws permitting abortion, same-sex marriage and other matters that go against their religious consciences.
Works
Books
External links
http://www.mecklenburg.org/
http://www.churchandculture.org/
References
1961 births
Baptist theologians
Appalachian State University alumni
Living people
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary alumni
Seminary presidents |
4035784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prose%C4%8D | Proseč | Proseč is a town in Chrudim District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,100 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Villages of Česká Rybná, Martinice, Miřetín, Paseky, Podměstí and Záboří are administrative parts of Proseč.
References
Populated places in Chrudim District
Cities and towns in the Czech Republic |
4035787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yurchenko%20%28vault%29 | Yurchenko (vault) | Yurchenko is the name of both a specific vault and a vault family in artistic gymnastics. The Yurchenko was named after Soviet gymnast Natalia Yurchenko in 1982 during a competition in Moscow.
In a Yurchenko vault, the gymnast does a round-off onto the springboard and a back handspring onto the horse or vaulting table. The gymnast then performs a salto, which may range in difficulty from a simple single tuck to a triple twist layout. The Yurchenko gave birth to a new vault group called "Round off with or without 1/2 to 1/1 turn (180-360 degrees) in entry phase (Yurchenko entry) - Salto forward or backward with or without long axis turn in second flight phase.
Variations
Any vault with a roundoff-back handspring entry is classified as a "Yurchenko-style" vault in the Code of Points. Many variations of the original vault have been introduced by gymnasts in international competitions. Even as of 2019, gymnasts and coaches continue to develop more difficult versions of the Yurchenko.
Backhandspring entry (off the table):
Dungelova: Roundoff, back handspring entry; tucked salto bwd with 2/1 turn (720°) off
1½ twisting Yurchenko: Roundoff, back handspring entry; one and a half twisting layout. Abbreviated as 1.5Y.
Baitova (more commonly referred to as Double Twisting Yurchenko): Roundoff, backhandspring entry; double twisting layout. Abbreviated as DTY.
Amanar/Shewfelt (2½ twisting Yurchenko): Roundoff, back handspring entry; two and a half twisting layout.
Twisting entry (springboard to table):
Luconi: Roundoff, back handspring with ¾ turn entry; back tuck/pike/layout somersault
Omelianchik: Roundoff, back handspring with half turn entry; piked salto fwd off
Ivantcheva: Roundoff, back handspring with half turn entry; tucked salto fwd off
Servente: Roundoff, back handspring with half turn entry; tucked salto fwd with ½ turn (180°) off
Podkopayeva: Roundoff, back handspring with half turn entry; front pike somersault with ½ twist
López: Roundoff, back handspring with half turn entry; front layout somersault with ½ twist
Khorkina: Roundoff, back handspring with half turn entry; front tuck somersault with 1½ twist
Mustafina: Roundoff, back handspring with half turn entry; front stretched somersault with 1 full twist
Cheng: Roundoff, back handspring with half turn entry; front stretched somersault with 1½ twist
Biles: Roundoff, back handspring with half turn entry; front stretched somersault with 2 twists
Scoring NCAA Gymnastics - Yurchenko
Each vault with a Yurchenko attached to it has its own points that are given values on a 10.0 scale, 10.0 being the maximum number of points allowed.
List of some vault values for reference:
Yurchenko back tuck - 9.5
Yurchenko back tuck 1/2 - 9.8
Yurchenko back tuck 1/1 - 9.9
Yurchenko back tuck 1.5 - 10.0
Yurchenko back pike - 9.6
Yurchenko back pike 1/2 - 9.9
Yurchenko back pike 1/1 - 10.0
Yurchenko back layout - 9.75
Yurchenko back layout 1/2 - 9.95
Yurchenko 1/2 front layout - 9.95
Yurchenko back layout 1/1 - 9.95
Yurchenko back layout 1.5 - 10.0
Yurchenko back layout 2/1 - 10.0
Yurchenko back layout 2.5 - 10.0
Yurchenko 1/2 on front tuck - 9.9
Yurchenko 1/2 on front tuck 1/2 - 10.0
Yurchenko 1/2 on front tuck 1/1 - 10.0
Yurchenko 1/2 on front pike - 10.0
Yurchenko 1/2 on front layout - 10.0
Yurchenko 1/2 on front layout 1/2 - 10.0
Yurchenko 1/1 on back tuck - 10.0
Background
It is asserted that the first gymnast to perform it in a competition was Viktor Levinkov.
See also
Yurchenko loop
Julissa Gomez
Produnova
References
External links
Video of Natalia Yurchenko performing Yurchenko vault - 1985 Summer Universiade in Kobe, all-around
Animation of a gymnast performing a DTY
Developing the Yurchenko from A to Z
List of Yurchenko family vaults with Start Values (old Code of Points)
Vault skills terminology
Natalia Yurchenko: http://www.nataliayurchenko.com/innovations/yurchenko-vault/
Vault Scoring Values: https://balancebeamsituation.com/2017/12/04/scoring-ncaa-gymnastics-vault/
Vaults (gymnastics) |
4035790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Borowiak | Jeff Borowiak | Jeff Borowiak (born September 25, 1949) is a former professional tennis player from the United States, who won five singles and three doubles titles during his professional career, reaching a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 20 in August 1977.
Personal
Borowiak is also an accomplished musician, mastering the flute and the piano. He was also indirectly involved in the formation of the group Metallica when he invested in his friend and Danish fellow player Torben Ulrich's son band Lars Rocket, which later became Metallica.
Tennis career
Borowiak played number one singles on one of the greatest collegiate tennis team of all time for the UCLA Bruins. Haroon Rahim played number two singles, Jimmy Connors played at number three. Borowiak and Connors were NCAA champions, and Rahim remains the youngest player to represent his country in the Davis Cup competition.
Borowiak was ATP Comeback Player of the Year in 1981.
Borowiak was inducted into the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Hall of Fame.
Career finals
Singles: 11 (5 titles – 6 runners-up)
Doubles: 9 (3 titles – 6 runners-up)
References
External links
1949 births
Living people
American male tennis players
Sportspeople from Berkeley, California
Tennis people from California
Tennis players from Seattle
UCLA Bruins men's tennis players |
4035807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Cullen | Eric Cullen | Eric Robertson Cullen (12 July 1965 – 16 August 1996) was a Scottish actor, who was famous for his role as Wee Burney in BBC's Rab C. Nesbitt. Cullen was born with achondroplasiaa type of dwarfism.
Early life
He was born to a single mother and was adopted by a family from Hamilton. He was diagnosed with achondroplasia at the age of seven.
Acting career
Cullen began acting when he was at school. He started to find roles appearing in several theatre groups before appearing in several Scottish TV programmes in the 1980s, particularly A Kick Up the Eighties. Cullen eventually found lasting fame playing the youngest son, Wee Burney, in the first three series of Rab C. Nesbitt. However, he left the programme in December 1993; owing to personal problems and citing ill health.
Victim of abuse
Cullen was sexually abused by a violent paedophile ring from the age of thirteen, and since his condition meant that he looked much younger than he was, this abuse continued into his twenties. Once he became a successful actor, his abusers returned to extort money with menaces. As a result, he developed clinical depression and post traumatic stress disorder.
Child campaigner
Cullen was arrested in 1993 for possession of child pornography, and the subsequent police investigation and press coverage resulted in clinical depression when he "finally cracked under a load which had become unbearable". In 1995, Cullen was convicted of child pornography offences, and his own history of being sexually abused since the age of 13 was revealed. His nine-month prison sentence was reduced to three years' probation on appeal. As soon as his prison sentence had been quashed on appeal, he began to be offered acting parts again, but he was still too ill with severe post traumatic stress disorder to resume work.
Once the court case was out of the way Cullen dedicated himself to campaigning against child pornography, and to trying to bring his abusers to justice. Of the three men he named as his principal abusers one, Francis Currens, was jailed during Cullen's lifetime; one, Cullen's uncle Jack Williams, was jailed after his death (both of them for sexual offences including the repeated rape of young boys); and as of summer 2006 one, whom Cullen named as the ringleader, has never been prosecuted.
Death
Only a day or two before his fatal heart attack, which followed on from surgery for a twisted bowel, he had been asked to take up the role of Wee Burney again. He was however in two minds as to whether to resume his acting career or become a clinical psychologist specialising in the treatment of abuse victims; he already had a BA in psychology, and had been accepted to begin a more advanced course in forensic psychology that autumn.
Acting career
Huntingtower
Playfair
The Camerons
Govan Ghost Story
Deathwatch
A Kick Up the Eighties
Laugh??? I Nearly Paid My Licence Fee
Scotch & Wry
Out With the Old (1993) (STV's Hogmanay Show) Rab C Nesbitt''
References
External links
"Wee Burney - The Vile Truth" - 2000 Sunday Mail article which reports a claim that although Eric Cullen "was the victim of horrific and sustained abuse" he "crossed the line and became an abuser himself".
1965 births
1996 deaths
Actors with dwarfism
Scottish male television actors
Scottish male comedians
20th-century Scottish male actors
20th-century British comedians |
4035810 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out%20of%20the%20Blue%20%28Delta%20Goodrem%20song%29 | Out of the Blue (Delta Goodrem song) | "Out of the Blue" is a song written by Delta Goodrem and Guy Chambers, produced by Chambers, Richard Flack, and Steve Power for Goodrem's second studio album, Mistaken Identity (2004). It was released as the album's first single in Australia on 11 October 2004 as a CD single and became Goodrem's sixth consecutive number-one hit.
About the record
Goodrem announced the release of the song on 3 September 2004. She and Chambers worked together on her debut album Innocent Eyes and he offered to work with her several times on the new album. Goodrem states "Guy was such an inspiration to work with, besides being such a talented musician on so many instruments I felt we had a real connection on a musical level. He makes a lot of classical music and I'm classically trained so we both knew where songs should go and also when it wasn't right. We could bring something out of each other to create something unique. Once we had 'Out of the Blue' we knew we had something special".
Goodrem says the song is "being about times when someone comes into your life unexpectedly, and what a positive effect that can have on you" being about her then boyfriend Mark Philippoussis and the support he gave her. When the relationship ended Goodrem states she found a new meaning for the song.
Promotion and chart performance
The song was released to radio on 24 September 2004 and became the most added song to airplay. The song was later performed at the ARIA awards and it was her first performance at the ARIA awards. The song debuted at number one on the ARIA Charts, becoming her sixth consecutive number-one single and topping the chart for three weeks. The song was certified Platinum in its first week. It spent a total of sixteen weeks in the top fifty ending the run at position fifty and spent twenty three weeks in the top one hundred. It was the twentieth highest selling single in Australia for 2004.
The song peaked in the top twenty in Greece, Ireland and New Zealand. It peaked at number nine in the United Kingdom and spent a total of nine weeks in the top seventy five ending its run at number seventy five.
Music video
The video for her single was filmed on the coast of Malibu, California and was directed by Nigel Dick. It premiered on Channel Ten Australia after an episode of Neighbours on 1 October 2004, a news spot on her website stating "The clip will fittingly go to air during Neighbours - Australia's most successful and longest running soapie - to mark Delta's final episodes in the show as the hugely popular character Nina Tucker".
The start of the video opens up to Delta sitting on a beach in a green dress. After a while Delta gets up and walks across the beach with the waves washing on her feet. When the chorus comes around the second time Delta has changed into a pink dress and walks up a hill into a forest and finds her piano and starts playing it. After she has finished playing it the piano catches on fire and Delta sings at the camera then runs away ending the video. Delta has stated that at the time of making the video, she was intrigued by the classical elements—earth, wind, fire and water. All elements can be seen in the video clip.
Track listings
Australian CD single
"Out of the Blue"
"Visualise"
"Beautiful Madness"
European and UK CD1
"Out of the Blue" (album version) – 4:25
"Visualise" – 4:00
European CD2
"Out of the Blue"
"Visualise"
"How a Dream Looks"
UK CD2
"Out of the Blue" (album version) – 4:25
"How a Dream Looks" (album version) – 4:14
"Beautiful Madness" (album version) – 3:03
"Out of the Blue" (video)
German mini-CD single
"Out of the Blue"
"Beautiful Madness"
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Release history
References
2004 singles
2004 songs
Daylight Records singles
Delta Goodrem songs
Epic Records singles
Music videos directed by Nigel Dick
Number-one singles in Australia
Pop ballads
Song recordings produced by Guy Chambers
Song recordings produced by Steve Power
Songs written by Delta Goodrem
Songs written by Guy Chambers |
4035820 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20McNamara | Peter McNamara | Peter McNamara (5 July 1955 – 20 July 2019) was an Australian tennis player and coach.
McNamara won five singles titles and nineteen doubles titles in his career. A right-hander, McNamara reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on 14 March 1983 when he became world No. 7. McNamara and fellow Australian Paul McNamee won the 1980 and 1982 men's doubles championship at Wimbledon and the Australian Open doubles in 1979. McNamara's highest rank in doubles was No. 3.
After retiring as a player, McNamara coached professionals including Mark Philippoussis, Grigor Dimitrov, Matthew Ebden and Wang Qiang.
McNamara died on 20 July 2019, at the age of 64, from prostate cancer.
Career finals
Singles (5 titles, 7 runner-ups)
Doubles (19 titles, 10 runner-ups)
References
External links
1955 births
2019 deaths
Australian male tennis players
Australian Open (tennis) champions
Australian tennis coaches
Deaths from prostate cancer
Deaths from cancer in Germany
Tennis players from Melbourne
Wimbledon champions
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in men's doubles
People educated at Marcellin College, Bulleen |
4035826 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripeikiai | Stripeikiai | Stripeikiai is the earliest known village in Aukštaitija National Park, Ignalina district best known for its unique ethnographic beekeeping museum. The museum was founded in 1974 by Bronius Kazlas at Vincas Bikus farmstead with a watermill and now receives about 10,000 visitors annually. The museum is all about the traditional beekeeping which was cultivated in this area throughout the ages. Guests still can taste fresh honey during their visit to the museum.
Villages in Utena County
Ignalina District Municipality |
4035828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistle%20Rymes | Whistle Rymes | Whistle Rymes is the second solo studio album by English rock musician John Entwistle, released on 3 November 1972 by Track Records in the UK and on 4 November 1972 by Decca Records in the US. Entwistle co-produced the album with John Alcock, his first work with a producer after self-producing his debut album, Smash Your Head Against the Wall (1971), and it was recorded at Island Studios in Notting Hill, a district of west London. The album features guitar contributions from both Peter Frampton and Jimmy McCulloch (who would later join Paul McCartney and Wings).
The album sold around 175,000 copies, and peaked at No. 138 on the US Billboard 200 but like his debut album it failed to chart in his home country.
The album was initially remastered and re-issued in 1996 by Repertoire Records, featuring no bonus content. The album was later remastered and re-issued again in 2005 by Sanctuary Records but this time featuring rare bonus content; the bonus content consists of two unreleased demos of songs that didn't make it onto the album (one of which is "Back on the Road" which would later be recorded by the John Entwistle Band for their sole album, Music from Van-Pires, which would also be the last album released during Entwistle's lifetime). This version of the album also has two demos of songs featured on the original album. However, all versions of the album remain out of print, and CD copies of this album are especially hard to come by.
Background
The album's title pokes fun at a common misspelling of Entwistle's surname. Several of the tracks give a humorous look on domestic life, following the birth of Entwistle's son, Christopher, earlier that year.
"Ten Little Friends" was written on piano at Entwistle's Ealing home studio at the time and sprang from a bout of writer's block. The title comes from a set of troll figures given to him by the Who's drummer Keith Moon. The track features a guitar solo from Peter Frampton, who also played on other songs on the album. As well as his usual bass guitar, Entwistle also plays bass synthesizer.
Packaging
Then Surrey-based artist Graham Lethbridge designed the album's gatefold cover artwork (at the suggestion of producer John Alcock). A watercolor painting, it depicts little scenes that were taken from themes expressed within the songs on the album. With a day and night theme, the front cover depicts nightime scenes, and the back is of daylight scenes. The time that it took to paint the artwork delayed the album's release.
Release
The original 1972 UK release of this album was on Track Records and distributed by Polydor. The first US issue of this album was by the silver Track/Decca label. A year later it was reissued in the US by MCA.
Critical reception
In a retrospective review for AllMusic, critic Donald A. Guarisco wrote that the album combines "catchy, straightforward, pop-tinged rock with dark, often bitingly sarcastic lyrics."
Track listing
Personnel
Credits are adapted from the Whistle Rymes liner notes.
John Entwistle — lead vocals; bass guitar; keyboards; synthesizers; bass synthesizer; trumpet; piano; French horn
Peter Frampton — electric guitar
John Weider — backing vocals; violin (10)
Rod Coombes — drums
Gordon Barton — drums
Jimmy McCulloch — electric guitar
Neil Sheppard — electric piano; organ
Bryan Williams — trombone; keyboards
Alan Ross — acoustic guitar
Production and artwork
John Entwistle — producer
John Alcock — producer
Brian Humphries — engineer
Mike Weighell — engineer
Graham Lethbridge — cover design; drawing
Charts
References
External links
1972 albums
John Entwistle albums
Track Records albums |
4035834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krouna | Krouna | Krouna is a municipality and village in Chrudim District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,400 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The villages of Čachnov, Františky, Oldřiš, Ruda and Rychnov are administrative parts of Krouna.
History
The first written mention of Krouna is from 1349.
The municipality is known for the Krouna train accident, in which 19 people died, making it one of the deadliest train crashes in Czech history.
References
External links
Villages in Chrudim District |
4035835 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalbe%2C%20Saxony-Anhalt | Kalbe, Saxony-Anhalt | Kalbe is a town in the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel (district), in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated approximately 15 km north of Gardelegen, on the river Milde. To avoid confusion with Calbe, it is also called Kalbe an der Milde.
Kalbe an der Milde was the location of the World War II German Naval VLF Goliath transmitter complex.
Kalbe is home to D. Dornblüth & Sohn, a small luxury watch maker.
Geography
The town Kalbe consists of the following Ortschaften or municipal divisions:
Altmersleben
Badel
Brunau
Engersen
Güssefeld
Jeetze
Jeggeleben
Kahrstedt
Kakerbeck
Kalbe (Milde)
Neuendorf am Damm
Packebusch
Vienau
Wernstedt
Winkelstedt
Zethlingen
References
Towns in Saxony-Anhalt
Altmarkkreis Salzwedel
Province of Saxony |
4035836 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oui%20%28magazine%29 | Oui (magazine) | Oui was a men's adult pornographic magazine published in the United States and featuring explicit nude photographs of models, with full page pin-ups, centerfolds, interviews and other articles, and cartoons. Oui ceased publication in 2007. ("" is French for "yes".)
Playboy years
Oui was originally published in France under the name Lui by Daniel Filipacchi (first French issue November 1963), as a French equivalent of Playboy. In 1972, Playboy Enterprises purchased the rights for a U.S. edition, changing the name to Oui, and the first issue was published in October of that year. Jon Carroll, formerly assistant editor at Rolling Stone magazine and editor of Rags and later editor of The Village Voice, was selected as the first editor. Arthur Kretchmer, the editor of Playboy, however, had a role in ensuring that editorial choices would be in line with Hugh Hefner's vision.
The intention was to differentiate the audience in mass-market men's magazines, in an attempt to answer the challenge brought by Penthouse and Hustler, with its more explicit photography, and therefore compete on multiple fronts. At first Playboy considered a direct response by following Penthouse in a nudity escalation, but Playboy management was hesitant to alter the magazine's philosophy, based on a more 'mature' and 'sophisticated' audience (one-third of Playboys readership at that time was estimated to be over 35). Instead, a separate publication, Oui, was introduced in order to pursue a younger readership, offering a combination of a "rambunctious editorial slant with uninhibited nudes pictured in the Penthouse mood."
Article content
In the late seventies, Oui published some interesting articles, including "Is this the man who ate Michael Rockefeller?" (April 1977) by Lorne Blair (lately famous for the Ring of Fire documentaries), beginning with a photograph of a grinning New Guinea native, told by the intrepid anthropologist/reporter who journeyed to New Guinea, interviewed people who had known Michael Rockefeller, then ventured into the jungle and talked to members of the tribe from whom Rockefeller had bought native art artifacts, including totem poles. In the end, he found a man who claimed he had eaten the unfortunate collector.
Oui also hosted several reportages about Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) activity, like the article "CIA vs. USA – The Agency's Plot to Take Over America" by Philip Agee, about an alleged Operation PBPrime, whose leaders were the top four men in the Central Intelligence Agency and whose target was the control of the U.S. government.
In a more humorous vein, Oui also published the essay "The 3 Most Important Things in Life" by Harlan Ellison in its November 1978 issue. The three things in question were sex, violence and labor relations, each illustrated by anecdotes from Ellison's life. The sex anecdote involved a less-than-successful assignation with a young woman, the violence anecdote was about witnessing a murder in a movie theater during a screening of Save the Tiger, and the labor relations anecdote was Ellison's version of the story of his being fired after only one morning at The Walt Disney Company for jokingly suggesting the making of a pornographic cartoon using the primary Disney characters. The piece has since been republished in Ellison's Stalking the Nightmare and Edgeworks 1. Oui also published short fiction.
A 1977 interview by Peter Manso of the then 29-year-old emerging actor Arnold Schwarzenegger on issues like sex, drugs, bodybuilding and homosexuality produced some embarrassment 25 years later to candidate Schwarzenegger in the 2003 California gubernatorial campaign.
During the 1970s, Oui printed a copy of Shere Hite's questionnaire about female sexuality that was used as the basis of The Hite Report. Replies were received from 253 of the magazine's women readers.
Post Playboy years
Despite its popularity, Oui was unable to produce a profit. Furthermore, management realized that Oui was taking more readers from Playboy than from Penthouse. So, in June 1981 Playboy Enterprises, based in Chicago, ended its Oui experiment. The magazine was sold to Laurant Publishing Ltd. in New York; its new president and chief operating officer was Irwin E. Billman, former executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Penthouse Group.
During the 1980s the magazine maintained its distinction from Playboy by publishing graphic nude pictures like its rivals Penthouse and Hustler. Initially, Laurant featured celebrity nudity in Oui, peaking in 1982 with pictorials of Phyllis Hyman, Linda Blair, Demi Moore and Pia Zadora. In the same year the magazine bought the short story "Down Among the Dead Men" by science fictions writers Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann. The editorial plan was to return the magazine to the "younger Playboy image" that it previously had.
The 1990s found the magazine focusing on pop culture and youth-centered topics, with rock musician interviews and an increasingly large comics section that included R-rated versions of the X-rated Carnal Comics: True Stories of Adult Film Stars line, Rip Off Press' Demi the Demoness (later the first adults-only comic character to be adapted as a live action film), and a serialized version of Jay Allen Sanford's illustrated book Triple-X Cinema: A Cartoon History.
The magazine subsequently experienced a significant decline in circulation. As had many of its competitors, Oui expanded its photo content to hardcore in the early 2000s, which included depictions of couples having sexual intercourse, including explicit penetration. Oui ceased publication in 2007.
See also
List of men's magazines
References
External links
ouimagazine.com at Internet Archive
Men's magazines published in the United States
Pornographic magazines published in the United States
Defunct magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1972
Magazines disestablished in 2007
Pornographic men's magazines
Monthly magazines published in the United States
Magazines published in Chicago
Magazines published in New York City |
4035840 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Chen | Adam Chen | Adam Chen (born 24 June 1976) is a Singaporean television and film actor.
Early life
Chen was educated at The Chinese High School and Hwa Chong Junior College. Whilst a civil engineering student at the National University of Singapore he did some modelling and joined Route to Glamour, a talent show organised by SPH MediaWorks. He was offered a contract and joined MediaWorks after graduating.
Acting career
Before going into acting, Chen worked as a model for numerous print and television commercials in Singapore.
In 2001, Chen participated in the Chinese talent competition, Route to Glamour, by SPH MediaWorks' Channel U. He was then signed by SPH Mediaworks to be an artiste for Channel U.
In 2003, Chen extended his contract with SPH Mediaworks for one year and then in 2004, extended for another three years.
He earned himself a role in the Singapore-Hong Kong co-produced TV series Yummy Yummy in 2005, before proceeding to work together with other famous actors such as Nicholas Tse, Dicky Cheung and Li Yapeng in TV series jointly produced by Singapore and other countries.
When SPH MediaWorks closed in 2005, he was transferred to MediaCorp, which SPH had merged with. Chen has also acted in English language TV dramas produced by MediaCorp Channel 5.
Business career
In 2002, Chen and his friends set up a merchandising company.
In 2009, Chen opened two Japanese burger restaurants, R Burger, in the town area. The chain closed in 2013. He also owns Three Kings Kitchen, a duck and chicken rice stall with three outlets.
In 2013, Chen and his friends spent $500,000 to open Park Cafe at Holland Village, Singapore. He later opened a Japanese izakaya, Ikki Izakaya, at Metropolis of Star Vista, One-north. Chen also has a yakitori restaurant, Birders.
He is also the owner of bar chain, Five, which has four outlets and also a bistro, Golden, located in arthouse cinema, The Projector, at Golden Mile Tower.
Beside the food and beverage business, Chen also owns Japanese watch boutique, Maker’s Watch Knot, in Tiong Bahru.
Filmography
Films
Television series
Variety shows
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Profile on xin.msn.com
Hwa Chong Junior College alumni
Hwa Chong Institution alumni
National University of Singapore alumni
Singaporean male film actors
Singaporean male television actors
1976 births
Living people
Singaporean people of Chinese descent |
4035842 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st%20%26%20Ten | 1st & Ten | 1st & Ten, 1st and Ten, or First & Ten may refer to:
1st and 10, a situation in American football which occurs at first down
1st and 10 (2003 TV series), a 2003 sports debate program that aired on the cable television networks ESPN and ESPN2
1st & Ten (1984 TV series), a 1984 situation comedy that aired on the cable television network HBO
1st & Ten (graphics system), a television graphics technology system used during American football television broadcasts more known as the "first down line" casually |
4035844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Albrecht | Daniel Albrecht | Daniel Albrecht (born 25 May 1983) is a retired World Cup alpine ski racer from Switzerland. He was a world champion in super combined in 2007, but was severely injured in a training run in 2009.
Racing career
Born in Fiesch in the canton of Valais, Albrecht made his World Cup debut at age 19 in January 2003 in a slalom at Schladming, Austria. A few weeks later, he competed in the slalom at the 2003 World Championships at St. Moritz. That March, he won three gold medals and a silver at the Junior World Championships at Serre Chevalier, France.
At the 2007 World Championships in Åre, Sweden, Albrecht won the gold medal in the super combined event, and took the silver medal in the giant slalom. A month later he made his first World Cup podium, a second-place finish in the downhill at Lenzerheide. Eight months later he won his first World Cup race, a super combined held in Beaver Creek, Colorado, followed by a giant slalom victory three days later.
Albrecht has four World Cup victories, eight podiums, and 22 top ten finishes.
Hahnenkammrennen injury
At Kitzbühel, Austria, on Thursday, 22 January 2009, Albrecht crashed in the final downhill training run on the Hahnenkamm's Streif course; he sustained brain and lung trauma and was placed in an induced coma. The fifth racer on the course, Albrecht was traveling at when he lost control on the final jump (Zielsprung) and flew through the air for about . He landed on his back, bounced forward onto his knees, then his face, and came to a stop near the finish line. Unconscious, Albrecht received medical attention for about 20 minutes before being airlifted by helicopter to a hospital in nearby St. Johann. He was later transferred to the university hospital in Innsbruck.
Two days later, Dr. Wolfgang Koller announced that the risk on Albrecht's life was decreasing. Dr. Markus Wambacher said that the pressure inside his head was lessening and that he could make a full recovery. He also stated that Albrecht, age 25, had problems with his knees and stomach. He was removed from the induced coma after three weeks, on 12 February, and doctors reported that he was breathing on his own.
Recovery
Albrecht expectedly missed the remainder of the 2009 season but had recovered sufficiently to train with the Swiss ski team in October, less than nine months after the crash.
Still not ready for World Cup competition, he sat out the 2010 season, missing the Winter Olympics.
Albrecht returned to the World Cup circuit in the giant slalom at Beaver Creek in December 2010 and finished 21st. Albrecht raced his first speed event of his comeback in Switzerland at Wengen in January 2011, the downhill portion of the super combined on a shortened Lauberhorn course. He missed a gate just after the high-speed Hannegschuss, about fifteen seconds from the finish, and safely skied off of the course.
Knee injury
During a training run for the Lake Louise downhill in November 2012, Albrecht crashed and suffered a dislocated left kneecap with torn ligaments, and underwent surgery in Switzerland. Less than a year later on 6 October 2013, he announced his retirement from racing.
World Cup results
Race podiums
4 wins – (3 GS, 1 SC)
8 podiums – (1 DH, 4 GS, 1 SL, 2 SC)
Season standings
World Championship results
Olympic results
Videos
YouTube video – Daniel Albrecht – training run crash at Kitzbühel – 22 Jan 2009
YouTube video – Daniel Albrecht – returns in GS at Alta Badia – 19 Dec 2010
References
External links
Daniel Albrecht World Cup season standings at the International Ski Federation
Swiss Ski team – official site
1983 births
Swiss male alpine skiers
Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Olympic alpine skiers of Switzerland
People from Goms District
Living people
Sportspeople from Valais |
4035849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%20Simpson%20%28tennis%29 | Russell Simpson (tennis) | Russell Simpson (born 22 February 1954) is a former tennis player from New Zealand, who won five doubles titles during his professional career. He reached his highest singles ATP ranking on 18 April 1983, when he became No. 47 in the world. He is currently the head tennis professional at the Beverly Hills Tennis Club in Beverly Hills, California.
Simpson is the younger brother of Jeff Simpson, who was also a professional tennis player.
Career finals
Doubles (5 titles, 4 runner-ups)
References
External links
1954 births
Living people
New Zealand male tennis players
Tennis players from Auckland |
4035851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Maria%20Flick | Giovanni Maria Flick | Giovanni Maria Flick (born 7 November 1940) is an Italian journalist, politician, and jurist.
Career
Flick was born in Cirié, Piedmont, to a Catholic, half-ethnic German family, as the fifth of seven children.
He began his education at the Jesuit liceo, and gained a diploma in law at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. He then practiced (1964–1975) at the Rome tribunal, as a judge, then as a prosecutor, was a professor at the University of Perugia, the University of Messina, and, from 1980, the LUISS University of Rome, and also started a career as a lawyer. He contributed editorials to Il Sole 24 Ore and La Stampa.
He was Minister of Justice in Romano Prodi's cabinet in 1996–1998, and presented the Italian Parliament with projects of organic laws meant to implement major judicial reforms which were almost entirely adopted by 1999 (including laws that made sentencing easier for misdemeanors). His experience as Minister got him named Italian representative to the European Commission of Human Rights, during the second Massimo D'Alema cabinet. In 2000, he was chosen by President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi to the office of judge in the Constitutional Court of Italy.
References
External links
1940 births
Living people
People from Cirié
Italian journalists
Italian male journalists
Italian people of German descent
University of Perugia faculty
Italian Ministers of Justice
Judges of the Constitutional Court of Italy
Presidents of the Constitutional Court of Italy
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore alumni
University of Messina faculty
20th-century Italian judges
21st-century Italian judges |
4035853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister%20of%20Justice%20and%20Public%20Security | Minister of Justice and Public Security | In Norway, the Minister of Justice and Public Security is the head of the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police and a member of Government of Norway. The current Justice Minister is Emilie Enger Mehl.
Until 1 January 2012 the post was named the Minister of Justice and the Police
List of ministers
Key
2nd Ministry (justice affairs) (1814–1818)
Ministry of Justice and the Police (1819–1945)
During the German occupation of Norway (1940–1945)
Ministry of Justice and the Police (1945–)
Minister of Immigration and Integration
The Minister of Immigration and Integration was a minister-post that was responsible for dealing with immigration and integration related cases. The post was established in 2015 in response to the 2015 European migrant crisis, and was abolished in 2018. Sylvi Listhaug was the first and only person to hold the post, and was promoted to Minister of Justice when the position was abolished in 2018.
Key
Minister
Minister of Public Security
The Minister of Public Security was a post established in 2019 after the Christian Democrats joined the Solberg Cabinet. The post was primarily responsible for issues related to public security.
Key
Minister
See also
Courts of justice of Norway
Governor of Svalbard
Justice ministry
National Police Directorate
Norwegian Correctional Services
Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police
Norwegian Police Security Agency
Politics of Norway
References
External links
Ministry of Justice and Public Security
Minister
Justice and the Police |
4035854 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather%20Simms | Heather Simms | Heather Alicia Simms (born February 25, 1970) is an American actress.
Early life
Born in Hartford, Connecticut. She was raised in New York City, she attended Midwood High School in Brooklyn, New York.
Career
Simms has appeared in a number of Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, including Ma Rainey's Black Bottom , A Raisin in the Sun and Gem of the Ocean. Her film credits includes Broken Flowers (2005), The Nanny Diaries (2007), and The Light of the Moon. She also provided voice acting for All the Beautiful Things, Red Dead Revolver, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony and Mafia III.
Simms guest-starred in a number of television series, including Homicide: Life on the Street, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Third Watch, and The Good Wife. She had recurring roles in the Netflix series Luke Cage in 2018 playing Auntie Ingrid, and in the Oprah Winfrey Network prime time soap opera The Kings of Napa as Yvette King in 2022.
Filmography
References
External links
1970 births
Living people
Actresses from New York City
American film actresses
American television actresses
American video game actresses
Actresses from Hartford, Connecticut
21st-century American women |
4035856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mand%C3%A9%20Sidib%C3%A9 | Mandé Sidibé | Mandé Sidibé (20 January 1940 – 25 August 2009) was Prime Minister of Mali from 2000 to 2002 and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ecobank from 2006 to 2009. He was also Director of the Malian branch of the Central Bank of West African States (Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, BCEAO) from 1992 to 1995.
Biography
Personal life
Sidibé was born in Bafoulabé, Mali, and raised in Bamako. He is the son of Mamadou Sidibé, a captain in the French Army. He attended the Terrasson de Fougères High School in Bamako, before leaving for France in 1959, where he obtained his Baccalauréat in 1960 at the Académie de Bordeaux. He also graduated with a degree in Economic Sciences (Licence ès-Sciences économiques) in 1965 from the University of Paris.
Sidibé is the brother of the Modibo Sidibé, a prominent politician who was the Prime Minister of Mali from 2007 until he resigned in 2011.
Career
Upon his return to Mali, he started working at Bank of the Republic of Mali (BRM). Then, in 1967, he was offered and opportunity at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as an Economist in the Africa Department. He held several positions at the IMF, including a resident advisor role in Chad from 1975 to 1977. He went on to become the divisional head, Africa Department. While at the IMF, he attended the George Washington University, from which he graduated with a Masters in Business Administration in 1974.
In 1985, Mandé Sidibé left the IMF to join the BCEAO in various capacities, including Secretary General in charge of monetary policies and special advisor to the governor of BCEAO. From 1992 to 1995, he was the Director of BCEAO-Mali, while still retaining his role as a special advisor to the governor. In 1996, Mandé Sidibé became special advisor to Malian President Alpha Oumar Konaré.
From 2000 to 2002 Mandé Sidibé served as Prime Minister of Mali. He was a candidate in the April 2002 presidential election, winning 2.01% of the vote and placing ninth.
Sidibé served on the Board of Directors of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), a private sector banking group based in 13 countries of West Africa and Central Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo), from 2003 to 2006. In 2006, he was appointed as Chairman of the Ecobank Board of Directors.
Mandé Sidibé died on August 25, 2009, in Paris at the age of 69 after a brief illness.
References
1940 births
2009 deaths
Malian economists
George Washington University School of Business alumni
University of Paris alumni
People from Bamako
People from Kayes Region
Prime Ministers of Mali
Malian expatriates in the United States
Malian expatriates in France |
4035860 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigor%20Mortis%20Sets%20In | Rigor Mortis Sets In | Rigor Mortis Sets In is the third solo album by John Entwistle, who was the bassist for The Who. Distributed by Track Records, the album was named John Entwistle's Rigor Mortis Sets In in the U.S. Co-produced by Entwistle and John Alcock, it consists of three Fifties rock and roll covers, a new version of the Entwistle song "My Wife" from The Who's album Who's Next, and new tracks (only six of the ten songs were new). Rigor Mortis Sets In set in motion John Entwistle assembling his own touring unit during the increasing periods of The Who's inactivity.
Bearing the dedication "In Loving Memory of Rock 'n' Roll 1950–∞: Never Really Passed Away Just Ran Out of Time", Entwistle's affection for Fifties rock and roll was evident by covers of "Mr. Bass Man", "Hound Dog", and "Lucille". As George Lucas had released American Graffiti at the same time as Rigor Mortis Sets In was released, creating a huge market for Fifties nostalgia, Entwistle's timing was uncannily prescient. In Entwistle's original material for the album, light whimsy prevailed over the darker (and more creative) vein of Smash Your Head Against the Wall and Whistle Rymes. The album was completed in less than three weeks, ultimately costing $10,000 in studio time and $4,000 on liquor bills.
The cover art of the gatefold LP features on one cover an outdoor photo of a grave, whose heart-shaped headstone is engraved with the dedication described above, while the grave's footstone is inscribed "V.S.O.P." (a grading acronym for cognac). The opposite cover features a wooden coffin bearing a brass plate engraved with the album's name. The UK (Track) LP used the coffin on the cover and the gravestone on the inner gatefold, while the U.S. (MCA) LP had the opposite arrangement. Compact disc releases have been fronted with Track's original coffin cover, with the gravestone cover proportionally preserved inside as part of the liner notes.
Rigor Mortis Sets In had a rough launch due to its title and cover art. BBC Radio refused to play the album and banned it, ironically in part due to the influence of DJ Jimmy Savile who had just suffered a death in his family. The album's U.S. debut was problematic for MCA Records (Track's new American distributor), who insisted on appending the artist's name to the title, out of concern that the album's sales would be weak without the Entwistle name in the title.
Critical reception
The album was rated by AllMusic as a "Nosedive" in his career compared to Smash Your Head Against the Wall and Whistle Rymes. His covers of "Hound Dog" and "Lucille" were so "lifelessly performed that it sounds like the band is merely attempting to imitate Sha Na Na instead of sending up the original tunes themselves". The song that was known as the biggest offender in this respect was "Mr. Bass Man" which replaces the enthusiasm of Johnny Cymbal's original version with a self-consciously campy production built on cutesy vocals guaranteed to make listeners grind their teeth.
The album was more positively received by John Rockwell of the New York Times. In a 1973 article about solo albums released by members of popular bands, Rockwell said that the album found Entwistle "working effectively in a straight-ahead fifties idiom that the Who themselves have long since abandoned."
Track listing
All songs by John Entwistle, except where noted.
Bonus tracks
Personnel
John Entwistle - lead vocals, bass guitar, electric guitar, keyboards
Alan Ross - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, piano, accordion, trumpet, synthesizer; lead vocals (2)
Jim Ryan - lead guitar
Tony Ashton - keyboards, Hammond organ, piano
Bryan Williams - trombone, electric organ (6, 8)
Howie Casey - saxophone (1, 3, 4)
Members of The Ladybirds:
Gloria George - backing vocals
Maggie Stredder - backing vocals
Marian Davies - backing vocals
Graham Deakin - drums, percussion (5, 6, 8)
Technical
Mike Weighell - engineer
References
1973 albums
John Entwistle albums
Track Records albums |
4035865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A4nzi%20Aufdenblatten | Fränzi Aufdenblatten | Franziska Christine "Fränzi" Aufdenblatten (born 10 February 1981) is a retired Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer.
Born in Zermatt, Valais, Aufdenblatten made her World Cup debut in March 2000 in a giant slalom at Sestriere. She scored four podium finishes on the World Cup: one win in a super-G in Val-d'Isère in December 2009, and three third places in downhill at Haus im Ennstal (2004), Bad Kleinkirchheim (2006), and Lenzerheide (2014). Aufdenblatten competed in three Winter Olympics (2002, 2006 and 2014) and her best finish was a sixth place in the 2014 super-G at Rosa Khutor.
After the 2014 Games, Aufdenblatten announced that she would be retiring from competition at the end of the season in order to start a new career in sports management. After announcing her retirement, she scored a fourth and final World Cup podium finish with a third place in the downhill at the 2014 World Cup Finals at Lenzerheide in her native Switzerland.
World Cup victories
References
External links
Fränzi Aufdenblatten World Cup standings at the International Ski Federation
Swiss Ski team – official site –
Stöckli Skis – alpine racers – Fraenzi Aufdenblatten
1981 births
Swiss female alpine skiers
Alpine skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Olympic alpine skiers of Switzerland
People from Zermatt
Living people
Sportspeople from Valais |
4035869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atabey | Atabey | Atabey is a town and district of Isparta Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey. The mayor is Ali Bal (MHP). The population is 4,153 as of 2010.
References
External links
District governor's official website
Populated places in Isparta Province
Districts of Isparta Province
Atabey District |
4035873 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukumar%20Sen%20%28linguist%29 | Sukumar Sen (linguist) | Sukumar Sen (; 16 January 1900 – 3 March 1992) was a Bengali linguist and historian of the Bengali literature, who was also well versed in Pāli, Prakrit and Sanskrit.
Life
Sen was born in 1900 to Harendra Nath Sen, a lawyer and Nabanalini Devi. His hometown was Gotan, near Shyamsundar in the Purba Bardhaman district. Sen was educated at the Burdwan Municipal High School, Burdwan, 1917. He obtained an F.A. in 1919 from Burdwan Raj College, then affiliated with the University of Calcutta. He received a divisional scholarship and earned first class honours in Sanskrit from the Government Sanskrit College in 1921. He studied Comparative Philology in Kolkata, scoring the highest marks in 1923. Linguists Suniti Kumar Chatterji and Irach Jehangir Sorabji Taraporewala were his teachers. He received a Premchand Roychand Scholarship and a PhD degree.
Sen retired from the University in 1964.
Work
He joined the University of Calcutta as a lecturer in 1930, where he served as a professor for thirty four years. He became the second Khaira Professor in the Department of Comparative Philology after his mentor, Suniti Kumar Chatterji, in 1954. After assuming this title, the department attracted many scholars from India and abroad to study and conduct research.
Sen was the first scholar to explore the Old Indo-Aryan syntax in his book, Use of Cases in Vedic Prose (1928), and Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit (1928). He later analysed the syntax of Middle Indo-Aryan in An Outline of Syntax of Middle Indo-Aryan (1950). He contributed significantly to Bengali literature, addressing themes ranging from mythology, the Puranas and crime to horror. Sen's crime stories were compiled in the book Galpa Samgraha (2009).
He published numerous significant articles and research papers. These include the Bangla Sahityer Itihas (5 Vol 1939, 1991), Bhashar Itibritta (1939, 1993), A History of Brajabuli Literature (1935), A Comparative Grammar of Middle Indo-Aryan (1960), Ramkathar Prak Itihas (1977), Bangla Sthannaam (1982), Bharat Kathar Granthimochan (1981), Bharatiya Arya Sahityer Itihas (1963, 1992) and Women's Dialect in Bengali (1923).
Bhashar Itibritta is the first book in the Bengali language on Indo-Aryan and Indo-European historical linguistics. In this book, he postulated Jharkhandi as the fifth dialect of the Bengali language. His book Bangala Sahitye Gadya (1934) remains the best example of a systematic, stylistic description of the literary dialect of the language. The Etymological Dictionary of Bengali (in two volumes, 1971) is one of the largest works on historical etymology in any Indian language. Bangala Sahityer Itihas was also a monumental contribution. Rabindranath Tagore commended the book and wrote the preface. The English edition was published by the Sahitya Akademi in 1960. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru wrote the foreword for this book. His autobiography was 'Diner Pore Din Je Gelo' (The Days Pass By).
Recognition
The Royal Asiatic Society of London honoured him with a Jubilee Gold Medal in 1984, making him the first Asian to receive the prize. Other prizes include the Rabindra Puraskar (1963), Ananda Puraskar (1966, 1984), Vidyasagar Puraskar (1981), Desikottam (1982), and the Padma Bhushan (1990). The Asiatic Society, Calcutta, awarded him the Jadunath Sarkar Medal. He was elected as an honorary fellow of Sahitya Akademi in 1973.
He received the prestigious Ashutosh Memorial Gold Medal and Griffith Memorial prize twice. He was also awarded the University Gold medal and Sarojini medal.
A college in Gotan was named in his honour.
Books
Bhashar Itibritta ভাষার ইতিবৃত্ত (বাংলা ভাষাতত্ত্বের একটি পূর্ণাঙ্গ আলোচনা)
Women's Dialect in Bengali (বাংলা মেয়েলি ভাষা নিয়ে গবেষণামূলক রচনা)
Bangla sthan nam বাংলা স্থাননাম (বাংলা স্থাননাম নিয়ে ভাষাতাত্ত্বিক ও ঐতিহাসিক বিশ্লেষণ)
Ram kathar prak itihas রামকথার প্রাক্-ইতিহাস (রামায়ণ-সংক্রান্ত তুলনামূলক পুরাণতাত্ত্বিক আলোচনা)
Bharat kathar granthi mochan ভারত-কথার গ্রন্থিমোচন (মহাভারত-সংক্রান্ত তুলনামূলক পুরাণতাত্ত্বিক আলোচনা)
A History of Brajabuli Literature (ব্রজবুলি সাহিত্যের ইতিহাস)
Bangla sahityer itihas বাঙ্গালা সাহিত্যের ইতিহাস (৫ খণ্ডে, সুকুমার সেনের সবচেয়ে বিখ্যাত বই, বাংলা সাহিত্যের একটি পূর্ণাঙ্গ ও সামগ্রিক ইতিহাস)
Bangla sahityer katha বাঙ্গালা সাহিত্যের কথা
Bangla sahitye gadya বাঙ্গালা সাহিত্যে গদ্য
Banga bhumika বঙ্গভূমিকা (বাংলার আদি-ইতিহাস সংক্রান্ত গ্রন্থ)
Bangla Islami sahitya বাংলা ইসলামি সাহিত্য
Diner pare din je gelo দিনের পরে দিন যে গেল ( আত্মজীবনীমূলক রচনা )
References
1900 births
1992 deaths
Bengali writers
Bengali detective fiction writers
20th-century Indian linguists
Linguists from Bengal
Recipients of the Ananda Purashkar
Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in literature & education
University of Calcutta alumni
University of Calcutta faculty
People from Purba Bardhaman district
Scholars from West Bengal
Linguists of Bengali
Linguists of Indo-Aryan languages
Scholars from Kolkata |
4035887 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orfeh | Orfeh | Orfeh (born March 28, 1971 as Orfeh Or) is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Orfeh and her husband, Andy Karl, performed at the Lincoln Center's American Songbook Series in 2016, and in the Broadway musicals Saturday Night Fever, Legally Blonde, and Pretty Woman.
Early life and career
Orfeh was born and raised in New York City. She attended the LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts and received a record deal shortly after graduation. Her first release was Life in the Movies, which she released as a part of the group Genevha with her musical partner Mike More in 1987. After the release, the duo formed the group Or-N-More and signed with EMI Records.
In 1991, the duo released a self-titled album, their single "Everyotherday" reached number 46 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album was awarded gold status, but shortly after the album's success, the duo found out their business manager had mis-managed their finances. She has been quoted about the situation, "My recording career went wrong," she has said. "Really, really wrong. We had the business manager that stole all the money, the hit record that was about to become a mega-hit record and suddenly the rug was pulled out from under us. After being on the road for years and devoting my life to recording, I found myself at home saying, 'What do I do now?'"
After Or-N-More disbanded, Orfeh signed a publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Music and continued to write and produce songs for other artists. She also remains a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, which gives her nominating and voting privileges for the Grammy Awards. She also co-wrote the song "Wishing On You," which appears on the soundtrack of the Disney film Model Behavior that was released in 2000.
Broadway
Orfeh made her Broadway debut in 1998 as a swing in Footloose. In early 1999, Orfeh joined the ten-member company of The Gershwins 'Fascinating Rhythm with Adriane Lenox, Sara Ramirez and Patrick Wilson. She then starred in the Original Broadway Company of London musical of Saturday Night Fever as Annette, and in addition to winning positive reviews, Orfeh met her husband, Andy Karl, while playing the role. In 1999, she appeared on The Rosie O'Donnell Show to promote the musical and perform her solo from the show, If I Can't Have You.
After Saturday Night Fever closed, Orfeh starred in Me and Mrs. Jones and Bright Lights, Big City at the Prince Theatre in Philadelphia. In 2001, she played Janis Joplin in the off-Broadway show, Love, Janis. In 2005, she starred in the off-Broadway musical The Great American Trailer Park Musical as Pippi, a stripper from the wrong side of the tracks.
In 2007, Orfeh was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance in the Legally Blonde musical. She played the role of Paulette, a down on her luck hairdresser who helps Elle on her journey, while finding love of her own. She also received Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk nominations for her performance. Her husband, Andy Karl, starred opposite her as her UPS man, Kyle. Orfeh stayed with the show until it closed on October 19, 2008. From July 20, 2018, through August 18, 2019, she played the role of Kit De Luca in Pretty Woman on Broadway.
Television and film
In addition to television appearances, she is a frequently used voiceover artist and has voiced characters for the videogames Max Payne 2, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and The Warriors. She also has done voiceover work for Wachovia bank.
Music
Orfeh released her first solo album, What Do You Want from Me, on September 30, 2008. In 2014, Orfeh recorded a song for Michael Mott's album, "Where The Sky Ends" which was later released as a dance mix. In 2015, she released the Christmas-themed single Baby Please Come Home. In 2016, Orfeh and her husband performed at the Lincoln Center's American Songbook series. That same year, she was featured on the single What the World Needs Now is Love with other Broadway artists and released the solo single, Forget My Name.
Personal life
In 2001, she married actor Andy Karl, a three-time Tony-nominated actor whom she met during her time in Saturday Night Fever, and who played opposite her as Paulette's UPS man, Kyle in the original cast of Legally Blonde. The couple splits their time between Manhattan and Los Angeles.
Discography Releases'
References
External links
Orfeh's official page at MySpace
Star File: Orfeh at Broadway.com
Q&A: Orfeh at Broadway.com
American film actresses
American stage actresses
American television actresses
American video game actresses
Living people
Actresses from New York City
American musical theatre actresses
1971 births
20th-century American actresses
American voice actresses
21st-century American actresses
20th-century American singers
20th-century American women singers
21st-century American singers
21st-century American women singers
Singers from New York City |
4035893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st%20%26%20Ten%20%28graphics%20system%29 | 1st & Ten (graphics system) | 1st & Ten is a computer system that augments televised coverage of American football by inserting graphical elements on the field of play as if they were physically present; the inserted element stays fixed within the coordinates of the playing field, and obeys the visual rules of foreground objects occluding background objects. Developed by Sportvision and PVI Virtual Media Services, it is best known for generating and displaying a yellow first down line over a live broadcast of a football gamemaking it easier for viewers to follow play on the field. The line is not physically present on the field, and is seen only by the television audience.
1st & Ten is sometimes used generically to refer to the class of systems capable of adding first down lines and similar visual elements, and not just the Sportvision system. However, PVI's competing system is more accurately named L-VIS, for Live Video Insertion System.
Over time, usage has evolved. Some football broadcasts change the color of the line from yellow to red on 4th down, or show a second computer-generated line (usually blue in color) that marks the line of scrimmage. Lines can also be projected to show other types of field position, including markings for the red zone and the optimum maximum distance for a placekicker's statistical field goal range. In extreme weather situations, an entire virtual field with yard and boundary markers can be projected onto the field in order to allow league officials, broadcasters and viewers some way to follow action when all field markings are obscured by snow, fog or mud.
The system makes use of a combination of motion sensors mounted on the broadcast cameras to record what they are viewing, and/or the use of match moving computer graphics technology and an enhanced version of chroma key or "green screen" technology.
History and development
The idea of creating an on-field marker to help TV viewers identify first down distances was conceived and patented in 1978 by David W. Crain, who presented the concept to Roone Arledge and Roger Goodman of ABC News and Sports and to the CBS Technology Center. At the time, both decided the broadcast industry was not ready to use Crain's invention.
In 1998, ESPN programmer Gary Morgenstern and others revived the idea. ESPN's NFL coordinating producer, Fred Gaudelli, was tasked with overseeing an implementation for his network. The 1st & Ten line was first broadcast by Sportvision, a private company, during ESPN's coverage of a Cincinnati Bengals-Baltimore Ravens game on September 27, 1998. A few weeks later, on Thanksgiving Day in 1998, Princeton Video Image (PVI) aired its version of the virtual yellow down line on a CBS broadcast of a Pittsburgh Steelers–Detroit Lions game. Four years later, SportsMEDIA introduced a third version during NBC coverage of a Notre Dame game.
The rivalry between PVI and Sportvision began with a collaboration. In July 1995, PVI had successfully used its L-VIS (Live Video Insertion System) match moving technology to broadcast virtual advertising behind the home plate on a local broadcast of a Trenton Thunder baseball game. In January 1996, Roy Rosser, director of special projects at PVI, saw Sportvision's FoxTrax puck on the broadcast of the 1996 NHL All-Star Game and realized that a combination of L-VIS and FoxTrax would allow virtual insertions in a wider range of situations than either could do on its own, given the power of affordable computers. He contacted Stan Honey, CTO at Sportvision, and the two companies undertook a joint demonstration of their combined technologies during the 1996 World Series between the Atlanta Braves and the New York Yankees at the Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium. The test was not a success and the two companies parted ways, each developing complementary systems that were eventually used to broadcast Sportvision's "First and Ten" line and PVI's "Yellow Down Line". In October 1999, SportVision sued PVI alleging that PVI's virtual signage, first down line and other products infringed Fox/Sportvision patents. In August 2001, PVI counterclaimed against Sportvision in the federal court action, alleging that Sportvision's virtual strike zone and virtual signage products infringed a PVI patent. In 2002, the companies settled the lawsuits out of court through a cross-licensing deal.
Before the game
Each football field has a unique crown and contour and is not perfectly flat in order to facilitate drainage, so a 3D model is made of the field prior to the game. Due to the low amount of change throughout a football season, this 3D model is usually only generated once a season at most. It also has a unique color palette, typically various shades of green, depending on the type of surface (i.e. real or artificial grass) and the weather (e.g. bright, shady or even snowing). In addition, after cameras are set up, the position of the camera relative to the field is established to be used in conjunction with the previously created 3D model of the field.
Cameras
There are usually a number of cameras shooting the field, but typically only three or four main cameras are used for an American football broadcast (one on the fifty-yard line, and one on each twenty-yard line, with most high profile games also having a Skycam, as described below). The cameras with video that will be used with the graphics system have electronic encoders within parts of the camera assembly (in the lens and the moving platform the camera sits on, sometimes called a "panhead") that monitor how the camera is used during the game (pan, tilt, zoom, focus and extender). The encoders transmit that info live 30 or more times per second to the broadcaster's production truck, where it is processed by Sportvision computers (typically one for each camera). A camera with this type of extra hardware is usually called an "instrumented" camera. This information helps keep the yellow 1st & ten line in the proper place without being distorted whenever the camera follows the players or the ball.
In the larger productions, several other cameras can be "instrumented" to work with the graphics system, but these are usually restricted to following additional types: a camera usually placed in a high position to see all twenty-two men on the field, typically called the "all 22" camera, and a camera shooting from above one end zone, called an "end zone camera", or in the industry often just "camera 4". The Skycam (or moving camera attached to cables above the field) can also be used to draw a yellow line over its video, but the mechanism has some major differences from the typical "instrumented" camera.
Crew
For the initial implementation, there were seven computers in total and a crew of four. Recent implementations require around four computers, one computer per camera plus a shared computer for chroma-keying and other tasks, that can be run by a single operator (although two is optimal). The primary operator usually uses a KVM to switch between camera computers and has an extra monitor, keyboard, and mouse setup for the chroma-keying computer.
Of the original four-member crew, two members, one inside the stadium and one in front of a computer, communicated the position of the real first down line to make sure everything was working. The third crew member was a troubleshooter. The last crew member monitored the various colors that make up the color palette onto which the line is drawn.
In recent setups only a single operator is required for all cameras. The operator clicks on the ball in the video to set the line of scrimmage and right-clicks where the first down line should be (or presses a button to automatically position it 10 yards in the direction of play). If lighting conditions don't change that much, the primary operator can also monitor chroma-key settings, but often a secondary operator is used when conditions get too variable.
Data
Each set of camera encoders on a camera transmits orientation and zoom data to an aggregator box that translates the digital information into modulated audio where it is sent down to the corresponding camera computer in the truck. This data is synchronized with the video from that camera. At the camera computer the camera position data is demodulated back to digital data for use by the program that draws the "yellow line" over the video.
Separately, the chroma-keying computer is told what colors of the field are okay to draw over (basically grass) and that information is sent to the camera computers.
The old way
The first computer in the truck gathers all the separate readings from the cameras and transmits a single, consolidated data stream to the central computer.
The central computer takes these readings, the 3D field model and color palette, the knowledge of which camera is on the air, and together using a geometrical calculation determines which pixels in the video frame would make up the first down line. All pixels that are obstructed by a player, a referee, the ball or any other object are identified and not included in the calculation. This will ensure that the 1st & Ten line will be projected only onto the field.
The PVI Virtual Media system relies on a single spotter to relay the down and distance, and a single operator at the studio as their vision system does not need camera data to perform the insertion. The primary operator of the Sportvision system does the spotting by merely clicking on the video to place the line.
Technology errors
The only pixels that should change are the ones that are the same color as the field, typically several shades of green. As a result, there are a few situations that are difficult. One is when the player's uniform color nearly matches that of the field (for example, the Green Bay Packers' jersey on a bright, sunny day, or for Bronco Stadium at Boise State University, where the field and the home team uniform share the same blue shade). The other is when the field itself changes, like during a rain/snow storm or if the grass field becomes very muddy. In those cases, the field's color palette would need to include brown and/or white shades. The most difficult situations are when the shade of the field is constantly changing as in situations where moving clouds are shadowing the field on some spots, but not others, but continue to move across the field.
The data collection and computation also requires time. The audio feed goes to an audio delay to be synchronized with the delayed video. The total delay for the viewer from the live feed ends up being about 2/3 of a second.
Final result
After the camera computer has determined which pixels represent the 1st & Ten line, it takes that pixel information and draws the yellow line in video format at around 60 times per second (depends on video refresh frequency). A 2011 study conducted by SportVision determined the yellow line has an average margin of error of 1.38 inches compared to the official first down marker.
In recent years the system has been upgraded to add more features. During Fox broadcasts, the Sportvision system also generates an arrow-like graphic on the field with down and distance text information inside of an arrow pointing in the direction of play. Competitors have also added this feature in recent years.
Additionally, the Sportvision system can also place virtual graphics that have another embedded video feed inside them like a video picture frame. This is sometimes called "video-in-perspective".
This technology is also the basis for showing ads where they may not appear (i.e. behind home plate in baseball during national broadcasts), and Race F/X in which images can be displayed on the race track, and info can follow a specific car, no matter what the camera does. This technology is used by CBS, ESPN, Fox, NBC, NFL Network, RDS, TSN, and TNT.
See also
FoxTrax
Match moving
L-VIS
References
External links
SportVision
PVI Virtual Media Services
Computing Basics - How Did They Do That? Thin Yellow Line
Sports television technology
National Football League on television
College football on television
Computer-related introductions in 1998 |
4035902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad%20Dog | Mad Dog | Mad dog is a phrase commonly attributed to rabid dogs.
Due to the Welsh given name 'Madog' (derived from Prince Madoc), in English speaking countries, it is often mistaken for the words 'Mad dog'.
Mad Dog may also refer to:
Music
Mad Dog (album), an album by John Entwistle
"Mad Dog", a song by America from Holiday
"Mad Dog", a song by Deep Purple from The House of Blue Light
"Mad Dog", a song by Pentagram from Sub-Basement
People
Johnny Adair (born 1963), Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary
Martin Allen (born 1965), English footballer
Brett Banasiewicz (born 1994), American professional BMX rider
Mike Bell (wrestler) (1971–2008), American professional wrestler
Roger Caron (1938–2012), Canadian robber
Mad Dog Coll (1908–1932), Irish-American gangster
David C. Dolby (1946–2010), US Army Medal of Honor recipient
Charles Gargotta (1900–1950), Italian-American gangster
Jon Hall (programmer) (born 1950), American computer programmer
Leslie Irvin (serial killer) (1924–1983), 1950s American serial killer
Bob Lassiter (1945–2006), American radio talk show host
Pierre Lefebvre (1955–1985), French-Canadian professional wrestler
Vini Lopez (born 1949), American drummer
Adam MacDougall (born 1975), Australian rugby league player
Jeff Madden, college football strength and conditioning coach
Bill Madlock (born 1951), American baseball player
Mark Madsen (basketball) (born 1976), American basketball coach and former player
Jim Mandich (1948–2011), American football player
Michel Martel (1944–1978), Canadian professional wrestler
Jim Mattis (born 1950), American Marine Corps general and Secretary of Defense
Brian McGlinchey (born 1977), Northern Ireland footballer
Dominic McGlinchey (1954–1994), leader of the INLA
Mad Dog McPhie (born 1971), English professional wrestler
Lewis Moody (born 1978), English rugby union player
Dan Morgan (bushranger) (1830–1865), Australian bushranger
Robbie Muir (footballer) (born 1953), Australian rules footballer
Mad Dog O'Malley, Irish-American professional wrestler
Edgar Ross (boxer) (1949–2012), American boxer
Chris Russo (born 1959), American sports radio personality
Joseph "Mad Dog" Taborsky (1924–1960), American executed murderer
Michael Taccetta (born 1947), a member of the New Jersey Lucchese crime family
Maurice Vachon (1929–2013), French-Canadian professional wrestler
Dwight White (1949–2008), American football player
Xu Xiaodong (born 1979), a Chinese mixed martial artist
Wong Yuk-man (born 1951), Hong Kong politician
Characters
Mad Dog (comics), various fictional characters
Mad Dog (Marvel Comics)
Mad Dog Rassitano, a bounty hunter in the Marvel Universe
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen, from the movie Back to the Future Part III
Johnny Mad Dog, from the film of the same name by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Goro Majima, known as the "Mad Dog of Shimano" in the Yakuza series
Mad Dog, a character from manga and anime series Haikyu!!
Mad Dog Branzillo, in the book A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
Mad Dog, nickname of Wayne Dobie in the film Mad Dog and Glory
Mad Dog, from the John Woo film Hard Boiled
Mad Dog, from the movie Ong Bak, starring Tony Jaa
Mad Dog, from the movie The Raid: Redemption, starring Iko Uwais
Tommy "Mad Dog" McCulum, from the South African TV series Isidingo
Mad Dog, a character in the Nintendo DS game Contra 4
Other uses
Mad Dog (TV series), a 2017 South Korean television series
Mad Dog Knives, a knifemaking company
Mad Dog Oil Field, in the Gulf of Mexico
"Mad Dog", an episode of the 1975 television series Survivors
the title character of Mad Dog McCree, a 1990 laserdisc video game
the title character of Mad Dog Morgan, a 1976 Australian bushranger film
Mad Dog Inc., a group of Texas authors including Bud Shrake
Maddog 20/20, a flavored fortified wine from Mogen David
MadDog, the mascot of the Northeastern University Rugby Club
McDonnell Douglas MD-80, a family of commercial jet liners, nicknamed Mad Dog
See also
The mad dog of the Middle East, a phrase used by U.S. President Ronald Reagan to describe Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi
Wanderlei Silva (born 1976), Brazilian mixed martial artist nicknamed Cachorro Louco (Portuguese for "mad dog")
Mad-dog skullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora), a plant
Mad Dog Coll (disambiguation)
Mad Dogs (disambiguation)
Mad Dogs and Englishmen (disambiguation)
Madd Dogg, a video game character in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Lists of people by nickname |
4035904 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20Berthod | Marc Berthod | Marc Berthod (born 24 November 1983 in Saint-Moritz) is a retired Swiss alpine skier.
In 2005, he was Swiss champion in giant slalom. He finished 7th in the combined event at the 2006 Winter Olympics. On 7 January 2007, Berthod won the world cup slalom in Adelboden in a "miraculous" effort that saw him qualify in 27th position for the second run (an impressive performance in itself as he started at #60) and then proceeded to win with a second run that carried him all the way into 1st place, beating Olympic champion Benjamin Raich by 0.26 seconds. The 2007 season has also yielded other good results for Berthod, with two other podium finishes so far, with a 2nd place at the Beaver Creek alpine combined, and a 2nd place in Wengen also in the combined.
In September 2016 he declared his retirement, as he lacked motivation and suffered several injuries in the past.
Race podiums
2 wins – (1 SL, 1 GS)
5 podiums – (1 SL, 2 GS, 2 AC)
Season standings
External links
Official website
1983 births
Swiss male alpine skiers
Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Olympic alpine skiers of Switzerland
Living people |
4035911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginu%C4%8Diai | Ginučiai | Ginučiai is a village on the shore of the Lake Linkmenas in the Aukštaitija National Park, Ignalina district of Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, its population was 44.
It is best known for its 19th-century watermill. It is one of the few mills in Lithuania that survive with the original mechanism. Ginučiai watermill is declared a monument of engineering.
Ginučiai village is quite popular touring place in the Eastern Lithuania.
References
External links
Photo essays from the village
Villages in Utena County |
4035918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hary%20Suharyadi | Hary Suharyadi | Suharyadi, also known as Hary Suharyadi and as Suharyadi Suharyadi on documents (born 14 February 1965) is a former tennis player from Indonesia. He competed in three Summer Olympics; the 1984 Los Angeles Games, 1988 in Seoul and 1992 in Barcelona.
He won gold on mixed doubles at the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing with Yayuk Basuki, whom he married on 31 January 1994 in Yogyakarta.
References
External links
1965 births
Living people
Indonesian male tennis players
Tennis players at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic tennis players of Indonesia
Asian Games medalists in tennis
Tennis players at the 1990 Asian Games
Sportspeople from Jakarta
Medalists at the 1990 Asian Games
Asian Games gold medalists for Indonesia
Asian Games bronze medalists for Indonesia
Southeast Asian Games gold medalists for Indonesia
Southeast Asian Games silver medalists for Indonesia
Southeast Asian Games bronze medalists for Indonesia
Southeast Asian Games medalists in tennis
Competitors at the 1985 Southeast Asian Games
20th-century Indonesian people
21st-century Indonesian people |
4035922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definist%20fallacy | Definist fallacy | The definist fallacy (sometimes called the Socratic fallacy, after Socrates) is a logical fallacy, identified by William Frankena in 1939, that involves the definition of one property in terms of another.
Overview
The philosopher William Frankena first used the term definist fallacy in a paper published in the British analytic philosophy journal Mind in 1939. In this article he generalized and critiqued G. E. Moore's naturalistic fallacy, which argued that good cannot be defined by natural properties, as a broader confusion caused by attempting to define a term using non-synonymous properties. Frankena argued that naturalistic fallacy is a complete misnomer because it is neither limited to naturalistic properties nor necessarily a fallacy. On the first word (naturalistic), he noted that Moore rejected defining good in non-natural as well as natural terms.
On the second word (fallacy), Frankena rejected the idea that it represented an error in reasoning – a fallacy as it is usually recognized – rather than an error in semantics. In Moore's open-question argument, because questions such as "Is that which is pleasurable good?" have no definitive answer, then pleasurable is not synonymous with good. Frankena rejected this argument as: the fact that there is always an open question, merely reflects the fact that it makes sense to ask whether two things that may be identical in fact are. Thus, even if good were identical to pleasurable, it makes sense to ask whether it is; the answer may be "yes", but the question was legitimate. This seems to contradict Moore's view which accepts that sometimes alternative answers could be dismissed without argument, however Frankena objects that this would be committing the fallacy of begging the question.
See also
List of fallacies
References
Informal fallacies |
4035924 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20City%20Star | Music City Star | The Music City Star, also known as the WeGo Star, is a commuter rail service running between Nashville and Lebanon, Tennessee. The service uses the existing track of the Nashville and Eastern Railroad. The line stops at seven stations: Riverfront, Donelson, Hermitage, Mt. Juliet, Martha, Hamilton Springs and Lebanon. The operation covers of rail line. Service began on September 18, 2006. In , the system had a ridership of .
Description
The Star is considered a "starter" project to demonstrate the effectiveness of commuter rail service to the metro Nashville area. Expansion plans include as many as six more lines, terminating in Gallatin, Columbia, Murfreesboro, Dickson, Springfield, and Clarksville via Ashland City. All are planned to use existing CSX Transportation railroad lines. The planned seven lines meet in central Nashville in a star formation, hence the name of the system, which also alludes to the city's many country music stars.
The Star is the first passenger train service of any kind for Nashville since the discontinuation of Amtrak's Floridian in 1979. The Nashville and Eastern line, part of the former Tennessee Central Railway, had not seen passenger service for many decades prior to the Star, with the exception of excursion trains operated by the Tennessee Central Railway Museum and the Broadway Dinner Train.
Rolling stock
The Music City Star regional rail service is currently served by four rebuilt ex-Amtrak EMD F40PH locomotives and seven former Chicago Metra coaches, standard gauge. The coaches are bilevel rail cars with seating on both levels.
Since 2022, all four F40PH locomotives have been rebuilt and repainted into the new WeGo paint scheme. 381 previously wore Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner paint scheme until late 2020.The coaches used also saw an overhaul; the former Metra Pullman-Standard coaches were withdrawn from service around 2020 and were replaced with corrugated stainless steel Budd bi-level gallery coaches formerly used by Chicago Burlington and Quincy, RTA, Metra, and the planned MiTrain.
Lines
Currently there is only one line, with six more planned to other satellite cities around Nashville.
The current line is long with seven stations. The line is mostly single-track, so this limits arrivals and departures to how long each train has to wait for the other to pass. The first "starter line" cost $41 million, or just under $1.3 million per mile, which made it the most cost-efficient commuter rail start-up in the nation.
East Corridor line
Riverfront station
Donelson station
Hermitage station
Mt. Juliet station
Martha station
Hamilton Springs station
Lebanon station
Ridership
Music City Star ridership steadily increased from 104,785 passenger trips in 2007 to 277,148 trips in 2012. In 2013, ridership decreased to 253,421 trips, but then steadily increased to 298,800 passenger trips in 2018. in 2019 ridership has slightly decreased to 292,500 passenger trips. During the 2020 pandemic, ridership plummeted to 77,200 with a majority of the rides being in the first quarter of the year, it fell further in 2021 to 57,500 although the 4th quarter saw immense improvement compared to the 4th quarter of 2020.
History
The train began operations on September 18, 2006, becoming the 18th commuter rail system in the United States, with a projected daily ridership of 1,500 passengers. The service launched with an estimated annual cost of $3.3 million, of which $1.3 million was covered by revenues.
In the first month after service began, ridership failed to reach the projected goals, a situation which continued for several years, culminating with a financial shortfall of $1.7 million by the summer of 2008, of which the state of Tennessee covered $1 million in a bailout of the service. Financial difficulties continued into the next year; in June 2009, the service was nearly shut down for lack of funds until state and local authorities granted the service $4.4 million to continue service until 2011.
During 2010, a third passenger car was added to all Music City Star trains to accommodate increasing ridership.
On May 2, 2010, the East Corridor line was closed because of damage related to the floods that hit Middle Tennessee. Flood waters pushed tracks off a concrete trestle over Sinking Creek in downtown Lebanon. This trapped Star trains at their Lebanon storage yard, causing RTA to suspend service until the trestle was repaired. MTA substituted chartered buses instead, picking up passengers at all stations except Martha. The line was repaired in one week.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Tennessee in 2020 briefly resulted in the shutdown of Star rail service, but service resumed on June 15, 2020 with eight trains each weekday — two each way in the morning and two more in the afternoon.
A proposed expansion of the system to Clarksville and Ashland City is projected to cost $525 million.
See also
List of United States railroads
List of Tennessee railroads
References
External links
Music City Star official website
Train-related introductions in 2006
Companies operating former Louisville and Nashville Railroad lines
Passenger rail transportation in Tennessee
Tennessee railroads
Transportation in Nashville, Tennessee
Commuter rail in the United States |
4035929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula%20Caplan | Paula Caplan | Paula Joan Caplan (July 7, 1947 – July 21, 2021) was an American psychologist, activist, writer, and artist. She was an Associate at Harvard University's DuBois Institute, Director of the Voices of Diversity Project, and a past Fellow at the Women and Public Policy Program of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Previously she had been full professor of psychology, assistant professor of psychiatry, and lecturer in Women's Studies at the University of Toronto, as well as head of the Centre for Women's Studies in Education there, and was chosen by the American Psychological Association as an "eminent woman psychologist". She also taught at Harvard University, Connecticut College, and the University of Rhode Island, gave hundreds of invited addresses, and did more than 1,000 media interviews about social issues. She was the author of The Myth of Women's Masochism, Don't Blame Mother, and a number of other books. Her twelfth and final book was When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home: How All of Us Can Help Veterans, which won the 2011 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in the Psychology category.
Since the 1980s, Caplan was concerned that psychiatric diagnoses are unscientific, that giving someone a psychiatric label does not reduce their suffering, and that labeling them carries enormous risks of harm. Caplan outwardly addressed her concerns to the public. In her book, They Say You’re Crazy: How the Worlds most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who’s Normal, Caplan discusses the nature of diagnosis and how the DSM contributes to the unique faults of psychiatry. She sought to educate the public about the unregulated nature of psychiatric diagnoses and the consequent lack of recourse for people who have been harmed by getting such labels, including how getting a psychiatric diagnosis and label often may stand in the way of recovery.
Paula Caplan died on July 21, 2021, in Rockville, Maryland. She was survived by her brother, her two children, and her five grandchildren.
See also
James Gottstein
David Oaks
Elyn Saks
References
External links
Paula Joan Caplan Official Site
In Memoriam: Paula Joan Caplan
Ending Harm from Psychiatric Diagnosis
The Welcome Johnny and Jane Home Project
Papers of Paula J. Caplan, 1973-2006. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
1947 births
2021 deaths
Duke University alumni
American women psychologists
American psychologists
Psychiatric assessment
Radcliffe College alumni
People from Springfield, Missouri
21st-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American women |
4035941 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humula | Humula | Humula is a small country town between Tarcutta and Tumbarumba in New South Wales, Australia. Humula was once named "American Yards" or "American Fields" during the gold rush, where many Chinese came for gold years ago. At the 2016 census, Humula had a population of 124 people.
Humula is located at the confluence of Carabost Creek, with Umbango Creek, a tributary of Tarcutta Creek, in the Murrumbigee catchment.
Humula Station, which is just outside the town, is one of Australia's most historic farming and grazing properties.
Although Humula is a small town, it has its own fire brigade, public school,p and a recreation ground. After surviving many fires including the latest in February 2006, Humula is still in one piece.
Murraguldrie Post Office opened nearby on 20 March 1874 and was replaced by a Humula office in 1888.
Humula has been around for well over 100 years. Older buildings include the butcher's shop at the end of Mate Street, the Humula Public School on School Street, and the ruins of the old Humula Hotel.
Humula once had a police station at the end of School Street. In the late 1970s and 1980s, Humula's activity and population peaked when logging was the main industry in the area. The Humula sawmill employed many people; when it closed Humula became almost a ghost town. The Sports Club is the only business still operating. Outside the town is Humula's large farming area, most of which has been converted to pine plantations.
Humula had its own railway station and siding, on the Tumbarumba railway line, but the railway is now disused.
The Post Office closed several years ago and the General Store continued in a much smaller role until about 2016.
References
External links
Humula Rail Siding
Mining towns in New South Wales |
4035943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webers | Webers | Webers (also known as Webers Hamburgers) is a hamburger restaurant on Ontario Highway 11, located 15 kilometres north of Orillia, Ontario that opened in July 1963. Webers grills their burgers over charcoal, with a grill man said to be able to flip up to 800 patties an hour. Long line ups are a common sight at the restaurant, which made the restaurant build a footbridge over the highway to provide access for guests from the southbound side. The restaurant's hamburger patties are also sold at Loblaws outlets.
As of 2009, Webers is reported to sell approximately 8000 hamburgers on a typically busy Friday. The restaurant is open weekends from Thanksgiving until Christmas, but closed from January to March break.
History
Webers was opened on July 11, 1963, by Paul Weber Sr., to cater to cottage goers. By the 1970s, it became so popular that patrons on the opposite side of the highway would often risk injury running across the street to the restaurant. In 1981, the province built a traffic barrier along the median of the highway in an effort to stop the jaywalking. Even so, travellers heading toward Toronto climbed over the waist-high wall to get their food. The following year, the province took further precaution by erecting a fence on top of the barrier. In 1983, Paul Weber Jr., the founder's son, bought a footbridge from a Toronto lawyer that was being used as part of the CN Tower's SkyWalk over Front Street to provide safe access to southbound travelers. This bridge has the distinction of being the first and only privately owned bridge spanning a public highway in Ontario. In 1987, Webers installed three CN train cars, retrofitted to house their own meat processing facility. They have since added five train cars, one of which is used as an eatery. The founder's sons eventually took over the business before their father's death in 1994. Webers opened up additional restaurants in Barrie in the late 1980s; one in Orillia, off the highway, in 1995; and two outlets in Toronto Pearson International Airport in the late 1990s. These restaurants have since closed, leaving only the original location on Highway 11. In 2005, Webers began selling frozen hamburgers through Loblaws.
Paul Weber Jr. sold the company in 2004 to Guelph businessman Tom Rennie, to spend more time with his family. This gave Rennie rights to the Webers name, and control of the Highway 11 flagship location as well as the outlets at Pearson. John Weber, the founder's other son, retained control of the locations in Orillia and Barrie. Since the additional restaurants closed their doors, Rennie became the sole owner of Webers.
On July 19, 2018, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Webers after visiting the Tim Horton Memorial Camp.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Webers has remained open to customers daily since May 3 with social distancing measures. Webers also started accepting debit cards for the first time in its history, having previously been a cash-only establishment.
References
External links
Restaurants established in 1963
Roadside attractions in Canada
Orillia
Fast-food hamburger restaurants
Restaurants in Ontario
1963 establishments in Ontario |
4035946 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20commanders%20of%20Guantanamo%20Bay%20Naval%20Base | List of commanders of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base | This is a listing of commandants and commanders of the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, located in Guantánamo Bay on Cuba.
Brief timeline
10 June 1898 : U.S. occupation.
23 February 1903 : U.S. leases naval station at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba.
6 October 1903 : Guantanamo Bay Naval Station leased to U.S.
12 December 1913 : Naval Station officially opens. Cuban flag lowered.
31 May 1934 : The 1934 Treaty of Relations abrogates the 1903 Treaty of Relations, explicitly spells out the right for the US to walk away from the lease.
1 April 1941 : Renamed Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Operating Base, after vast construction program for build-up of the Station Frederick Snare Corporation.
18 June 1952 : Renamed Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base.
List of commanders and commandants
Commandants
10 December 1903 – May 1904 : William H. Allen
17 May 1904 – September 1906 : Charles C. Rogers
8 September 1906 – July 1907 : Albert A. Ackerman
August 1907 – May 1908 : Clark D. Stearns
May 1908 – April 1909 : Charles H. Harlow
May 1909 – November 1909 : Myles Joyce
November 1909 – January 1912 : Walter Ball
18 January 1912 – June 1913 : George W. Kline
June 1913 – January 1914 : Merritt S. Corning
January 1914 – October 1914 : Hilary Williams
December 1914 – May 1916 : John M. Luby
4 May 1916 – September 1917 : CDR Dudley Wright Knox
September 1917 – November 1918 : E.E. Wright
December 1918 – September 1920 : Guy Whitlock
September 1920 – June 1921 : John J. Hannigan
June 1921 – May 1923 : Robert T. Menner
May 1923 – June 1924 : Ward K. Wortman
June 1924 – June 1926 : Charles M. Tozer
June 1926 – August 1928 : Charles C. Soule Jr.
August 1928 – June 1930 : Charles S. McWhorter
August 1930 – February 1931 : Alfred Hart Miles
February 1931 – May 1933 : Thomas L. Johnson
June 1933 – June 1934 : Edward C. Raguet
June 1934 – April 1936 : Charles "Savvy" M. Cooke Jr.
May 1936 – June 1938 : Mark L. Hersey Jr.
June 1938 – August 1940 : Worral Reed Carter
September 1940 – March 1944 : George L. Weyler
Commanders
April 1944 – October 1944 : F.A. Braisted
October 1944 – December 1945 : J.J. Mahoney
January 1946 – May 1948 : C.E. Battle Jr.
June 1948 – June 1950 : W.K. Phillips
June 1950 – December 1950 : A.M. Bledsoe
December 1950 – January 1953 : M.E. Murphy
January 1953 – December 1953 : C.L.C. Atkeson
February 1954 – September 1955 : E.B. Taylor
September 1955 – October 1956 : W.G. Cooper
December 1956 – November 1958 : R.B. Ellis
November 1958 – October 1960 : Frank W. Fenno
December 1960 - 22 December 1962 : RADM Edward J. O'Donnell
22 December 1962 – December 1963 : RADM J.W. Davis
December 1963 – June 1966 : RADM John D. Bulkeley
June 1966 – July 1968 : E.R. Crawford
July 1968 – June 1970 : James B. Hildreth
June 1970 – August 1972 : B. McCauley
August 1972 – June 1973 : Leo B. McCuddin
June 1973 – July 1975 : Ralph M. Ghormley
July 1975 – June 1977 : John H. McConnell
June 1977 – 7 February 1979 : David W. DeCook
7 February 1979 – 20 March 1981 : John H. Fetterman Jr.
20 March 1981 – 18 October 1983 : M.D. Fitzgerald
18 October 1983 – 28 October 1985 : R.A. Allen
28 October 1985 – 26 April 1988 : John R. Condon
26 April 1988 – 14 June 1990 : John S. Boyd
14 June 1990 – 21 August 1992 : W.C. McCamy Jr.
21 August 1992 – 2 September 1994 : W.M. DeSpain
2 September 1994 – 15 September 1995 : James F. Boland Jr.
15 September 1995 – 25 April 1997 : Jim Cannon
25 April 1997 – 12 May 2000 : Larry E. Larson
12 May 2000 – 27 March 2003 : Robert A. Buehn
27 March 2003 – 9 July 2005 : Leslie J. McCoy
9 July 2005 – 19 September 2005 : Lawrence S. Cotton Jr.
19 September 2005 – September 2008 : CAPT Mark M. Leary
September 2008 – September 2010 : CAPT Steve Blaisdell
September 2010 – July 2012 : CAPT Kirk Hibbert
July 2012 – January 2015 : CAPT J.R. Nettleton, relieved by RADM Mary M. Jackson
January 2015 – March 2015 : CAPT Scott Gray
March 2015 – June 2021 : CAPT David C. Culpepper
June 2021 – Present : CAPT Samuel White
References
Guantanamo Bay commanders |
4035957 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Westphal | Michael Westphal | Michael Westphal (19 February 1965 – 20 June 1991) was a male tennis player from West Germany.
Westphal participated for his native country in the 1984 Summer Olympics, making it as far as the quarter-finals. The right-hander reached his highest ATP singles ranking of world No. 49 in March 1986.
Westphal died of complications from AIDS on 20 June 1991, aged 26.
Career finals
Singles: 2 (0–2)
References
External links
1965 births
1991 deaths
People from Pinneberg
Olympic tennis players of West Germany
Tennis players at the 1984 Summer Olympics
West German male tennis players
AIDS-related deaths in Germany |
4035960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metronome%20%28band%29 | Metronome (band) | Metronome (メトロノーム) is a Japanese visual kei rock band, which took its influence from many genres, including techno, rock, hardcore and pop.
Musical styles
They have also been described as gamewave and nintendocore. Their songs typically sampled video game, or video game inspired, sounds and while being based in rock, are heavily electronic as well. They have a total of 22 official releases, albums and singles. They maintained an indie career throughout their years, and were never a hot selling band among the visual kei scene, mainly due to their uncompromising approach to their sound.
History
Metronome's claim to fame is that they travelled from the future—The year 2005, to be exact. Because they were getting bad record sales in 2005, they decided to travel back in time to 1998, thus boosting sales via their "futuristic" sound and look.
In a 2007 interview, Talbo-1 Fukusuke mentioned how they stopped with saying they were from the year 2005 as said year neared. The band apparently had thought they wouldn't still be around by the time 2005 rolled around. They split in 2009 for unknown reasons.
Later in 2016 the band got back together after being asked if during band members solo projects if they would perform covers of Metronome song which they responded that if they were to perform Metronome songs they were going to do it right. This led to their first single since their break up being released. The next year they released a new full-length album.
Members
Voicecoder: Sharaku Kobayashi 小林 写楽 {シャラク}
Birthday: 08.10
Current Bands: metronome, FLOPPY, Muchi muchi Anago, Cuckoo (カッコー), GalapagosS
Previous Bands: Picopico PON, Propellerheads
Talbo-1: Fukusuke Fukuda {フクスケ}
Birthday: 12.09
Current Bands: metronome, ADAPTER
Previous Bands: Picopico PON
Support for: FLOPPY
Talbo-2: Riu {リウ}
Birthday: 06.01
Current Bands: metronome, BEE-315
Previous Bands: SPICY DRY HOT MUSTARD
Drums: Shintarou {シンタロー}
Birthday: 11.23
Current Bands: metronome, GalapagosS
Previous Bands:
Ex members
Drums: Yuuichirou {ユウイチロー}
Birthday: 09.28
Current Bands: boogieman
Previous Bands: Fill or Kill, FeNeK, BADxTIMING, Mind Break, CUVE, metronome
Discography
Albums
YAPUU Ga Shoukansareta Machi (2000)
Fukigen Na ANDROID (2002)
1 Metronome (2003)
UNKNOWN (2004)
LIFO (2004)
Electric Travel (2005)
Cycle Recycle (2007)
HIGH TO LOW ELECTRO (2008)
COLLECTION (2008)
COLLECTION 2 (2008)
CONTINUE (2017)
Singles
Single Top Religion (1999)
PLASTIC-MODELS Kuro (2001)
PLASTIC-MODELS Shirogane (2001)
Planet (2002)
Self Control (2002)
Mittsu Kazoero (2003)
S.P.A.C.E. Romantic (2003)
Mousou Trick (2004)
Isshukan (2004)
Computer (2004)
Oboro/Sora (2005)
Boku Sonzaisetsu (2006)
Zetsubou-San (2006)
Tawainai Twillight (2007)
Zombie-Kun (2007)
Kairisei Doitsujinbutsu (2016)
DVD
サイクルリサイクル～メーDAY X'mas～ (2007)
10th Anniversary Special ONE MAN LIVE
＠2008.8.25SHIBUYA-AX
since2005→1998→2008 (2009)
External links
Official Site
Profile at JaME
Japanese punk rock groups
Japanese rock music groups
Visual kei musical groups |
4035963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylviane%20Berthod | Sylviane Berthod | Sylviane Berthod (born 25 April 1977 in Salins) is a female alpine skier from Switzerland, who was Swiss champion in downhill skiing (1997, 1998, 1999) and Giant Slalom (1998). At the 2002 Winter Olympics, she finished 7th in downhill.
External links
1977 births
Swiss female alpine skiers
Alpine skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Living people
Olympic alpine skiers of Switzerland |
4035966 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self%20Righteous%20Brothers | Self Righteous Brothers | Self Righteous Brothers is the mainly acoustic, alternative rock music, side-project of Australian punk rockers, Frenzal Rhomb's lead singer Jason Whalley and guitarist, Lindsay McDougall which formed in 2004. Inspired by American band, the Frogs, their music is humorous and often explicit. They released an album, Love Songs for the Wrong at Heart, in 2004 and was re-released in March 2005 via Shock Records.
The group's members were called "insensitive" by the South Australian Tourism Commission for the album track, "There's no Town Like Snowtown", which refers to the infamous bodies-in-barrels murders and are associated with the South Australian town of that name. Blair Boyer of Punk Globe Magazine described how, "This song and other irreverent offerings", appear on that album.
dBMagazine s Simon Foster opined, "they've managed to round up a swag of witty/offensive (take your pick) tunes with some great names and lyrics, a bunch of obscure instruments (Appalachian Mountain Dulcimer anyone?), and chucked them all on the one album [...] Although having a bit of fun, the lads display a surprisingly high amount of musical ability and 'Love Songs...' is great for a laugh... just don't set your expectations too high."
Discography
Love Songs for the Wrong at Heart (March 2005)
"Now You're Gone"
"Snowtown (There's no Town Like Snowtown)"
"The Only Gay Soldier"
"Daddy Drinks"
"Ruggedly Beautiful"
"Golden Wedding Anniversary"
"Self-Righteous"
"Sperm in Your Eyes"
"Who Will Buy"
"Brothers in Arms"
"Emosexual"
"Love on the Inside"
"My Love Barks"
"Dead Horse"
Members
Lindsay McDougall: – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo, piano, violin, viola, cello, pan flute, glockenspiel, zither, timbales, cymbals
Jason Whalley: – vocals, bass, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vibraphone, piano, cello, drums, cabasa, vibraslap, Appalachian dulcimer
Credits:
References
Australian folk music groups |
4035974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aki%20%28James%20Bond%29 | Aki (James Bond) | Aki is a fictional character created for the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice. In the film, Aki, played by Akiko Wakabayashi, is a female ninja agent with the fictional Japanese Secret Intelligence Service (SIS).
Creation
Aki does not appear in Ian Fleming's 1964 novel. She was originally named Suki in Roald Dahl's screenplay. According to The James Bond Films, the character was "Dahl's tribute to the Japanese woman of the Sixties". The character is portrayed as an attractive female Japanese SIS agent, a skilled ninja and an expert driver who often uses her skills at driving her white Toyota 2000GT sports car equipped with several high-tech communication devices.
Mie Hama was cast to play Suki, but she had trouble learning English; to solve the problem, she and Akiko Wakabayashi, originally cast to play the part of almost-silent Kissy Suzuki, decided to swap their respective roles. Wakabayashi then convinced director Lewis Gilbert to change the name of her character to Aki.
While Kissy acts as the film's main Bond girl, Aki serves as Bond's main contact and apparent love interest during the early and middle sections. When Kissy is set to be introduced as Bond's cover wife, Aki's role draws to a close. Her death shortly afterwards clears the way for Kissy to take on the role.
Character
Aki is first seen when 007 meets her at a sumo wrestling show. Bond is there to meet a contact who will take him to Mr. Henderson, M's recommended contact in Japan. He confirms that Aki is his contact by saying the code words "I love you" to her. Aki takes Bond to meet Henderson in her car. After Henderson is killed during their meeting, Bond attacks and kills one of Henderson's killers. Taking the man's place, he is driven to the Osato Chemical Works HQ, where he is discovered by the villains. Aki rescues him, using her skills as a driver, then takes him to meet her boss, Tiger Tanaka. It is after this meeting that a bikini-clad Aki invites Bond to spend the night with her, famously saying "I think I will enjoy very much serving under you", before Bond carries her to bed.
The next morning, Bond returns to the Osato Chemical Works and meets Blofeld's henchman Mr Osato. Leaving after the meeting, he is pursued by SPECTRE gunmen, from whom Aki rescues him again. The gunmen chase Aki's car and she leads them out into the countryside, where a SIS helicopter lifts the gunmen's car off the road with a giant magnet and drops it into the sea (in 2012, Complex ranked it as the sixth best James Bond chase scene). She then takes him to a quayside to investigate a ship he suspects is being used by the villains. When investigating the ship Bond and Aki are attacked by SPECTRE henchmen. Bond tells her to leave and report to Tanaka; Aki refuses to leave Bond at first, but eventually complies.
Aki next appears after Bond is captured and almost killed by Helga Brandt, when she meets with him back at Tanaka's headquarters and Bond is about to go on another mission that she cannot accompany him on.
When Bond returns to the base in Kyoto, Aki meets him there to discuss the plan to disrupt SPECTRE's plot. She had hoped to play the part of Bond's "wife" in the cover operation, however this was vetoed as she was not a native of the Ama island.
This proves to be a fortunate decision as Aki never makes it to the island at all. On Blofeld's orders Osato had sent ninja assassins to kill Bond, one of whom stealthily enters the bedroom where Bond and Aki are sleeping together and tries to poison Bond by dripping poison down a thread. (Dahl took inspiration for this by watching a similar scene in the first film in the Shinobi no Mono ninja film series.)
Bond, however, moves in his sleep. At the last moment Aki moves to his position, unwittingly takes the poison instead, and dies after a brief struggle for breath. The scene was accompanied by the musical track "The Death of Aki" by John Barry.
Reception
Various lists frequently ranked Aki among the best Bond girls ever, including as tenth by Zimbio in 2008 ("So beautiful you almost forget that Sean Connery has been ridiculously made up to look Japanese. Almost"), ninth by Postmedia News the same year ("Kissy Suzuki is considered the 'main' Bond girl in this film, but Aki has a bigger role and is more memorable"), and eight by WagerWeb in 2009 ("Hot Japanese agent, she kicks ass and look damn fine doing it. Besides, she dies to save James Bond, you have to give her some extra credit for that"). According to UGO, "although Akiko Wakabayashi is charming in the role, her chemistry with Bond is disappointing, and she lacks both the look and the attitude to make her a good Bond girl," but in another article UGO praised her as "Bond's super-hot guardian angel". Den of Geek included her in their 2008 list of ten James Bond characters who deserve their own spin-off. Esquire magazine dubbed Aki "the Girl Friday of Tiger Tanaka" and "Tiger's Pussycat".
References
Bond girls
Film characters introduced in 1967
Fictional Japanese people
Fictional female ninja
Fictional secret agents and spies
Fictional women soldiers and warriors
You Only Live Twice (film) |
4035975 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best%20Flow | Best Flow | Best Flow, Inc. is a Korean entertainment company, headquartered in Seoul, Korea. It was founded on 26 September 1994 as Datagate International, changed its name to Yuri International in 2005 and Best Flow in 2008. Its CEO () is Lee Seong Wook (이성욱).
Business sector
Management of Celebrities
Producing and investing in films and TV programs
Producing and distributing music
Star marketing, selling merchandise
Multimedia
Games
Related companies
Trifecta Entertainment
Climix Entertainment
I Star Cinema
Companies listed on KOSDAQ
Entertainment companies of South Korea
South Korean companies established in 1994 |
4035980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gugutka | Gugutka | Gugutka (, "collared dove", ) is a village in southernmost Bulgaria, part of Ivaylovgrad municipality, Haskovo Province. Located in the valley of the Byala Reka ("White River"), it is famous for the Byalgrad ("White Fortress") medieval fortress located eight kilometres from the village. Its former name was "Arnavutköy".
Villages in Haskovo Province |
4035984 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad%20Dog%20%28album%29 | Mad Dog (album) | Mad Dog is the fourth solo studio album by the bassist for The Who, John Entwistle, and his last for six years, and the debut album by his band John Entwistle's Ox.
Mad Dog didn't generate much interest, either in sales or among fans, in what sounded like and is often referred as to by fans as "The Son of" Rigor Mortis a second volume of Rock & Roll pastiches rubbing shoulders with items of dubious taste.
His next solo album Too Late the Hero would become his most successful while Mad Dog was his least successful solo album until the release of The Rock.
The song "Cell Number 7", (which is a close relation to The Who's "Long Live Rock") detailed The Who's then recent brush with Canadian justice in 1974 after a hotel wrecking spree in Montreal while on their Quadrophenia tour.
Critical reception
AllMusic said that the album "Is enjoyable in short bursts, but it also makes a good case for the conventional wisdom that even the best bass players are only so-so as band leaders.", Allmusic also said that "He can't seem to tell his good jokes from the ones that sink without a trace, he sets his best songs right beside numbers that would have been best left in the rehearsal space, and for a guy who was one-third of England's greatest power trio (plus vocalist), he doesn't always know what to do with a large band."
Track listing
All tracks composed by John Entwistle, except where indicated.
Bonus tracks (2005 reissue)
Personnel
John Entwistle - lead vocals, bass guitar, 8-string bass guitar, synthesizer
Jimmy Ryan - guitar
Mike Wedgwood - guitar, string arrangements
Robert A. Johnson - guitar (2, 6, 7)
Eddie Jobson - piano, violin
Tony Ashton - piano
John Mealing - piano
Mike Deacon - piano (2)
Nashville Katz - string arrangements
John Mumford - trombone
Dick Parry - baritone saxophone
Howie Casey - tenor saxophone
Dave Caswell - trumpet
Doreen Chanter - background vocals
Irene Chanter - background vocals
Juanita "Honey" Franklin - background vocals
Graham Deakin - drums, percussion
References
1975 albums
John Entwistle albums |
4035991 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther%20Green | Luther Green | Luther Green (November 13, 1946 – January 25, 2006) was an American basketball player.
Born in New York City, Green played college basketball at Long Island University and was selected by the Cincinnati Royals in the third round of the 1969 NBA draft and by the Miami Floridians in the 1969 ABA Draft.
Green played for the New York Nets of the American Basketball Association for two seasons. From 1971 to 1972 he played for the Harlem Wizards, and he played briefly for the National Basketball Association's Philadelphia 76ers during the 1972–73 NBA season.
Green died of lung cancer at the age of 59.
References
External links
Career stats at basketball-reference.com
1946 births
2006 deaths
African-American basketball players
American men's basketball players
Basketball players from New York City
Cincinnati Royals draft picks
Deaths from lung cancer
DeWitt Clinton High School alumni
Hartford Capitols players
LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds men's basketball players
Miami Floridians draft picks
New York Nets players
Philadelphia 76ers players
Small forwards
Wilkes-Barre Barons players
20th-century African-American sportspeople
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American men
21st-century African-American men |
4036000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportvision | Sportvision | Sportvision was a private company that provided various television viewing enhancements to a number of different professional sporting events. They worked with NFL, NBA, NASCAR, NHL, MLB, PGA and college football broadcasts.
In 1996, Rick Cavallaro, working for Stan Honey at Etak (then owned by Fox/News America) developed a way to track hockey pucks with a blue halo as seen by television viewers. It was assumed at that time that viewers had a hard time keeping track of the puck. Released as the FoxTrax puck, it was not a success but led to the 1998 formation of the Sportvision company and later that year the development of the 1st & Ten computer system, which generates and displays the yellow first down line that a TV viewer sees during a live football broadcast. The system became a major hit with television viewers when used during a broadcast of the Super Bowl. It has since become part of all standard American professional and college football and Canadian pro football broadcasts.
Another popular Sportvision product is seen in broadcasts of NASCAR races. It is called RACEf/x, and creates virtual flags above the cars to make them easier to follow by the viewers.
Sportvision also created the PITCHf/x system used by Major League Baseball to provide pitch data to users of MLB.com GameDay and viewers of Fox, Fox Sports Net, Rogers Sports Net and TBS, until its replacement by Statcast in 2017.
The latest attempt for hockey was tested for deployment during the 2015 NHL All-Star weekend. The new system used computer chips to standardize and increase the volume of data tracked during the course of a game.
In a deal finalized Oct. 4, 2016, Sportvision was acquired by SMT.
See also
SMT (media corporation)
PVI Virtual Media Services
References
External links
http://www.sportvision.com/
Sports companies
Visual effects companies |
4036001 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier%20Cuche | Didier Cuche | Didier Cuche (born 16 August 1974) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Switzerland.
Born in Le Pâquier, Neuchâtel, he competed in the downhill and super-G, along with the giant slalom. He won the World Cup downhill and super-G title for the 2011 season and has won three previous downhill titles in 2010, 2008 and 2007, along with a giant slalom title in 2009. Cuche has 21 World Cup race victories, along with 67 podiums (top three) and 181 top ten finishes. He is also an Olympic silver medalist and has won a total of four World Championships medals (a gold, two silvers, and a bronze). He retired from competition following the 2012 season.
Career highlights
At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, Cuche was the silver medalist in the super-G, where he had exactly the same time as Hans Knauss resulting in a rare sharing of the medal (no bronze medal was awarded).
Cuche switched from Atomic to Head skis following the 2006 season, joining Bode Miller and Hermann Maier.
During the 2007 season, Cuche was in top form, winning the downhill season title with a victory and four-second-place finishes. In the Bormio downhill on 28 December 2006 he finished second, 0.01 seconds behind winner Michael Walchhofer, the smallest measurable amount in ski racing.
Cuche repeated as the World Cup downhill season champion in 2008 with 584 points, five ahead of overall champion Bode Miller. Cuche finished third overall and nearly won the super-G season title, finishing a single point behind champion Hannes Reichelt.
At the 2009 World Championships in Val-d'Isère, France, Cuche won the super-G and was the silver medalist in the downhill.
A week after winning the super-G and downhill at Kitzbühel in 2010, Cuche broke his right thumb in the giant slalom at Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, on 29 January, two weeks before the 2010 Winter Olympics. The injury put Cuche's Olympic participation in doubt, and he was immediately flown to Switzerland. After successful thumb surgery, he was cleared to compete in the Olympics in Canada.
Cuche had a disappointing Olympics and did not win any medal; however, he regained the title of World Cup downhill champion for the 2010 season at the first post-Olympic race. Cuche won the downhill on the challenging Olympiabakken course at Kvitfjell, Norway, on 6 March for his fifth World Cup victory of the season. Until 2010, Cuche had never won more than two World Cup events in a single season.
On 22 January 2011, Cuche became the oldest race winner in the history of the World Cup, winning the Hahnenkamm downhill in Kitzbühel at the age of . It was also his fourth downhill victory in Kitzbühel, which tied him with Franz Klammer for the record on the Hahnenkamm. He has since added a fifth victory in Kitzbühel to his tally, thus becoming the sole record holder; Klammer was there to congratulate him at the finish.
At the 2011 World Championships in February, he won the silver medal in the downhill. In March he won the World Cup downhill championship for the 2011 season. This marked the fourth time he won the season title (2011, 2010, 2008, 2007), a record only surpassed by Franz Klammer who won the title five times. He ended the 2011 World Cup season in first-place ranking in downhill and super-G, finishing second in the overall rankings to Ivica Kostelić.
After considerable speculation as to whether Cuche might instead retire, he opened the 2012 World Cup season by winning the downhill race at Lake Louise, Canada, further extending the age record he had last broken at in a super-G at Kvitfjell in March 2011. That record was extended yet again at Kitzbühel in January 2012 to .
On 19 January 2012 Cuche announced his retirement for the end of the 2012 season. He gave his retirement speech in Kitzbühel during which he stated that he wanted to "leave the World Cup stage on a high". Only two days later, Cuche won the Hahnenkamm race in Kitzbühel for the fifth time in his career, including his first World Cup win in 1998. The following week, Cuche won the downhill at Garmisch, Germany, for his twentieth World Cup victory. He extended the record for the oldest winner of a World Cup race with his 21st and last career victory in the super-G of Crans Montana on 24 February 2012 to .
In December 2012, the Swiss ski federation announced that Cuche would work with his former teammates as a downhill coach after they suffered a slow start to the season.
Other awards
Cuche won the Swiss Sports Personality of the Year in 2009 and 2011. In January 2012 during the "Swiss Awards" he won the Swiss Person of the Year award in 2011.
World Cup results
Season standings
Season titles
6 season titles: 4 downhill, 1 super-G, 1 giant slalom
Race victories
21 wins (12 downhill, 6 super-G, 3 giant slalom)
67 podiums (32 DH, 23 SG, 12 GS)
World Championship results
Olympic results
References
External links
Didier Cuche World Cup standings at the International Ski Federation
Swiss Ski team official site
Didier Cuche at Head Skis
1974 births
Living people
People from Val-de-Ruz District
Swiss male alpine skiers
Alpine skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Olympic alpine skiers of Switzerland
Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Olympic medalists in alpine skiing
Olympic silver medalists for Switzerland
FIS Alpine Ski World Cup champions
Blancpain Endurance Series drivers
Sportspeople from the canton of Neuchâtel |
4036005 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bridge%20at%20Andau | The Bridge at Andau | The Bridge at Andau is a 1957 nonfiction book by the American author James Michener chronicling the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Living in Austria in the 1950s, Michener was at the border of Austria and Hungary during the period in which a significant wave of refugees fled Hungary.
The book is one of Michener's journalistic works (his 9th or 10th published book) and much shorter than the episodic novels that he wrote over the next thirty years. While the book is of an historical event based upon interviews with eyewitnesses, the story is told largely through composite characters or characters based on real people whose names were changed, either for their safety or the safety of family left behind. The story examines the experience of different segments of Hungarian society, both before and during the uprising, such as students, workers, soldiers, secret police, and ordinary citizens. The book takes the reader to the streets of Budapest, where unarmed young people, factory workers, and poorly equipped Hungarian soldiers fought Soviet tanks. It also tells the bittersweet story of the few days of freedom enjoyed by the citizens of Budapest before the Soviets returned in force.
Written soon after the events it chronicles, and published during the ongoing general strike that started soon after the Soviet reoccupation, the book serves to give the reader an idea of the middle years of the Cold War.
The title of the books refers to an actual bridge on the Austria-Hungary border near the village of Andau. The bridge was destroyed in November 1956 by Soviet troops. It was rebuilt in 1996 as a symbol of tolerance and helpfulness.
Characters
Josef Toth
He is an 18-year-old boy who was blond, gray-eyed, and had a fair amount of acne. Josef escaped to Austria and helped many others escape as well. He became an amazing man who not only looked out for himself but for others as well.
AVO
The State Protection Authority ( or ÁVH, referred to as "AVO" in the book) was the secret police of Hungary from 1945 until 1956. It was conceived as an external appendage of the Soviet Union's secret police forces and gained an indigenous reputation for brutality during a series of purges beginning in 1948, intensifying in 1949 and ending in 1953. In 1953 Joseph Stalin died, and Imre Nagy (a moderate reformer) was appointed Prime Minister of Hungary. Under Nagy's first government from 1953 to 1955, the ÁVH was gradually reined in.
References
Books by James A. Michener
1957 non-fiction books
American non-fiction books
Random House books
Books about Hungary
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
Works about refugees |
4036006 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid%20Millions | Kid Millions | Kid Millions (1934) is an American musical film directed by Roy Del Ruth, produced by Samuel Goldwyn Productions, and starring Eddie Cantor. Its elaborate "Ice Cream Fantasy Finale" production number was filmed in three-strip Technicolor, one of the earliest uses of that process in a feature-length film.
Plot
In New York City, 1934, jazz singer Dot Clark and her shady gangster boyfriend, Louie The Lug ("An Earful of Music"), are introduced. After having an affair with the deceased Professor Edward Wilson, Dot is now technically his common-law wife and heiress to $77 million. She has to go to Egypt to claim the money, and sets off with Louie in hopes of getting the cash. Former assistant to Edward Wilson, Gerald Lane, informs the law offices of Benton, Loring, and Slade of Professor Wilson's death and the fact that Edward's son, Eddie Wilson, Jr, is the rightful heir to the money. Mr. Slade, the lawyer, goes to a barge in Brooklyn where Eddie is living with his adopted father, Pops, an old stevedore, and his three sons, Oscar, Adolph, and Herman, who roughhouse Eddie. However, Eddie is managing to live a nice life nonetheless, with his girlfriend, Nora 'Toots', and his care for all the kids on the barge. He dreams of the day when he will have enough money to live his own life outside of the dirty barge ("When My Ship Comes In"). Moments later, Eddie is informed that he has inherited the $77 million and boards a ship bound for Egypt to claim the money. Aboard the ship is Colonel Henry Larrabee, a gentleman from Virginia who sponsored Eddie, Sr's exploration endeavors and wants a share of the money, as well. Eddie befriends his beautiful niece, Joan, and Dot and Louie realize that they are not the only ones traveling to Egypt. In an elaborate scheme to trick Eddie into signing over the inheritance, Dot disguises herself as Eddie's mother and almost succeeds in duping him, but Louie ruins the plan at the last minute. Meanwhile, Gerald Lane has boarded the ship and he is revealed to be in love with Joan Larrabee.
In the ship's bar, the Colonel, Gerald, and Louie realize they are all traveling for the same reason, and Gerald calls Colonel Larrabee a liar. Joan overhears and becomes angry with him, much to Jerry's dismay. Louie tries to get Eddie to hand over the cash by trying to bump him off by pushing him off the ship's deck in a wheelchair. The duo thinks they have succeeded in getting rid of Eddie, but they are foiled again. Eddie tries to help Jerry win back Joan, and suggests they rehearse a number for the ship's concert the next evening. They rehearse ("Your Head On My Shoulder"), but Joan is still frosty toward him. At the ship's concert, Jerry, Eddie, Dot, Joan, and members of the chorus perform a big minstrel show number featuring a specialty tap by the Nicholas Brothers ("Mandy N' Me"). The ship lands in Alexandria, Egypt, and Joan is still angry with Jerry. Eddie, still convinced that Dot is his mother and Louie is his uncle, wants to see a magician performing at the ship's port. When the magician taunts Louie and calls him a coward, Louie gets in the magic basket and ends up getting beaten by Egyptian slaves. Eddie chases a little dog running through the marketplace and lands literally in the lap of the sheikh's daughter, Princess Fanya, who falls instantly in love with Eddie. She forces him to come with her back to the palace, where Eddie meets her father, Sheikh Mulhulla, and her fiancé, Ben Ali, who is extremely jealous. Fanya hyperbolizes the encounter with the dog, saying that Eddie saved her from a lion's attack instead of a puppy.
Eddie then is invited to stay at the palace, much to Fanya's delight. However, soon Sheikh Mulhulla learns of the Americans being in Egypt who have come to take the $77 million treasure that he believes is rightfully his. He tells Eddie about this and Eddie begins to worry about his mother and his uncle, along with the others. In a comical scene, the sheikh and Eddie smoke a hookah pipe and the sheikh tells him of the affair he is having with a famous dancer who lives in the village. The harem women try to seduce Eddie, but he is steadfast to remain faithful to Nora 'Toots' ("Okay Toots"). Princess Fanya has a plot to get Eddie to marry her, and she tells her father that Eddie kissed her on the camel when they first met. The sheikh then decrees that Eddie must marry Fanya or die, and has him suspended over a large bowl of soup. Eddie then agrees to marry Fanya, and is kept in a room on a dog collar until the next morning, when Ben Ali comes in with a gun in a jealous rage. Eddie convinces Ben Ali that he does not want to marry Fanya, and Ben Ali is convinced and lets him go. However, Joan, Jerry, the Colonel, Dot, and Louie arrive at the palace and are immediately accosted by the guards. In the tomb, Eddie and the men disguise themselves as the spirits of the sheikh's ancestors and tell him to let the Americans go free. The sheikh is so scared by the prophecies, he agrees to let them go on one condition: Eddie will never be able to see Fanya ever again. He agrees and boards a plane home to New York City, where he uses the inheritance to open a free ice cream factory with Toots, thus realizing their lifelong dream ("Ice Cream Fantasy Finale").
Cast
Eddie Cantor as Eddie Wilson Jr., the deceased Professor Edward Wilson's son and the now heir
Ann Sothern as Joan Larabee, niece to Colonel Larrabee who is in love with Jerry Lane
Ethel Merman as Dot Clark, a jazz singer and con artist out to get the Wilson fortune
George Murphy as Jerry Lane, assistant to the deceased Professor Edward Wilson who befriends Eddie Wilson Jr. and is in love with Joan Larrabee
Berton Churchill as Col. Harrison Larabee, uncle to Joan Larrabee, a Southern gentleman from Virginia who funded one of Professor Wilson's expeditions
Warren Hymer as Louie the Lug, Dot Clark's dim-witted gangster boyfriend and manager who travels with her to get the Wilson fortune
Paul Harvey as Sheik Mulhulla, an Egyptian sheik whose daughter, Princess Fanya, falls in love with Eddie Wilson
Jesse Block as Ben Ali, Princess Fanya's jealous fiancé who believes that Eddie is out to steal Fanya from him
Eve Sully as Princess Fanya, the sheik's daffy daughter who falls in love with Eddie after he saves her from a small dog
Otto Hoffman as Khoot, Sheikh Mulhulla's head advisor
Stanley Fields as Oscar, one of Eddie's stepbrothers who lives on the barge
Edgar Kennedy as Herman, one of Eddie's stepbrothers who lives on the barge
Jack Kennedy as Pop Wilson, Eddie's adopted father, an old stevedore who lives on the barge with his three sons
John Kelly as Adolph, one of Eddie's stepbrothers who lives on the barge
Doris Davenport as Nora 'Toots', Eddie's girlfriend who lives on the barge and dreams of marrying him when he gets his money
The Nicholas Brothers
Tommy Bond as Tommy, one of Eddie's kid friends who lives on the barge
Donald Haines as Kid Band Member (uncredited)
Sam McDaniel as Ship's Steward (uncredited)
Production notes
The film's "ice cream fantasy sequence" was Goldwyn's first attempt at film with three-strip Technicolor. The cast of Our Gang appears among the children in this sequence.
Cantor originally introduced the song "Mandy", with Marilyn Miller, in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1919.
Among the Goldwyn Girls in this film are Lucille Ball, Paulette Goddard, Lynne Carver, Helen Wood and Barbara Pepper.
Reception
The film was very successful at the box office.
The film is recognized by American Film Institute in 2006: AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals – nominated
See also
List of American films of 1934
References
External links
1934 films
1934 musical comedy films
1930s color films
American musical comedy films
Films directed by Roy Del Ruth
Films scored by Alfred Newman
Films set in 1934
Films set in Egypt
Films set in New York City
Samuel Goldwyn Productions films
United Artists films
Early color films
1930s English-language films
1930s American films |
4036008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method%20ringing | Method ringing | Method ringing (also known as scientific ringing) is a form of change ringing in which the ringers commit to memory the rules for generating each change of sequence, and pairs of bells are affected. This creates a form of bell music which is continually changing, but which cannot be discerned as a conventional melody. It is a way of sounding continually changing mathematical permutations.
It is distinct from call changes, where the ringers are instructed how to generate each new change by calls from a conductor, and normally only two adjacent bells swap their position at each change.
In method ringing, the ringers are guided from permutation to permutation by following the rules of a method. Ringers typically learn a particular method by studying its "blue line", a diagram which shows its structure.
The underlying mathematical basis of method ringing is intimately linked to group theory. The basic building block of method ringing is plain hunt.
The first method, Grandsire, was designed around 1650, probably by Robert Roan who became master of the College Youths change ringing society in 1652. Details of the method on five bells appeared in print in 1668 in Tintinnalogia (Fabian Stedman with Richard Duckworth) and Campanalogia (1677 – written solely by Stedman), which are the first two publications on the subject.
The practice originated in England and remains most popular there today; in addition to bells in church towers, it is also often performed on handbells.
Fundamentals
Plain hunt
In method ringing, plain hunt is the simplest form of generating changing permutations in a continuous fashion, and is a fundamental building-block of change ringing methods.
It consists of a plain undeviating course of a bell between the first and last places in the striking order, with two strikes in the first and last position to enable a turn-around.
Thus each bell moves one position at each succeeding change, unless they reach the first or last position, when they remain there for two changes then proceed to the other end of the sequence.
This simple rule can be extended to any number of bells.
Grandsire
Plain hunting is limited to a small number of possible different changes, which is numerically equal to twice the number of bells that are hunting. However, by introducing deviations from the plain hunt, by causing some of the bells to change their relationship to the others, change ringing "methods" were developed. These allow a large range of possible different changes to be rung; even to the extent of the full factorial sequence of changes.
Grandsire, the oldest change ringing method, is based on a simple deviation to the plain hunt when the treble (bell No.1) is first in the sequence or it is said to "lead". The treble is known as the "hunt bell" because it hunts continuously without ever deviating from the path. The diagram for the plain course is shown here.
The Grandsire variation on the plain hunt on odd numbers adds a second hunt bell, which is "coursing" the treble: that is, the second hunt bell takes its place at the front of the change immediately after the treble. The single deviation away from hunting for the rest of the bells now takes place as the two hunt bells change places at the front of the lead.
Furthermore, because there are two hunt bells, not the second bell but the third remains in place:
13254 – Treble leads
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21354 – The second hunt bell, No.2 in this case, leads after the treble. It is coursing it.
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This forces a dodge on the other bells in 4/5 positions. After this the bells immediately return to the plain hunt pattern until the next treble lead.
This rule can now be extended to any number of odd bells in changes, making Grandsire an easily extendable method. The hunt bell is changed many times during such ringing to enable the full factorial number of changes to be achieved.
Plain Bob
"Plain Bob" is one of the oldest change ringing and simplest of these, first named "Grandsire Bob". The deviations when a plain course is extended with "calls" are much simpler than those in Grandsire.
A "plain course" of plain bob minor is shown in diagrammatic form, which has the characteristics;
all bells plain hunt, until the treble bell is first, when depending where they are in the pattern, they;
perform "Dodges" in the 3–4 position
or perform dodges in the 5–6 positions,
or sit for two blows if they are just above the treble, then go first again.
The red bell track shows the order of "works", which are deviations from the plain hunt.
3/4 down dodge
5/6 down dodge
5/6 up dodge
3/4 up dodge
make 2nds place.
And then it repeats. Each bells starts at a different place in this cyclical order.
A dodge means just that; two bells dodge round each other, thus changing their relationship to the treble, and giving rise to different changes.
The plain bob pattern can be extended beyond the constraints of the plain course, to the full unique 720 changes possible ( this is factorial 6 on 6 bells, which is 1×2×3×4×5×6 = 720 changes). To do this, at set points in the sequences one of the ringers, called the "conductor" calls out commands such as "bob" or "single", which introduce further variations. The conductor follows a "composition" which they have to commit to memory. This enables the other ringers to produce large numbers of unique changes without memorising huge quantities of data, without any written prompts.
Ringers can also ring different methods, with different "works" – so there is a huge variety of ways of ringing method changes.
Key points
Numbering the bells
The highest bell in pitch is known as the treble and the lowest the tenor. The majority of bell towers have the ring of bells (or ropes) going clockwise from the treble. For convenience, the bells are referred to by number, with the treble being number 1 and the other bells numbered by their pitch (2, 3, 4, etc.) sequentially down the scale. The bells are usually tuned to a diatonic major scale, with the tenor bell being the tonic (or key) note of the scale.
Ringing rounds and changes
The simplest way to use a set of bells is ringing rounds, which is sounding the bells repeatedly in sequence from treble to tenor: 1, 2, 3, etc.. (Musicians will recognise this as a portion of a descending scale.) Ringers typically start with rounds and then begin to vary the bells' order, moving on to a series of distinct rows. Each row (or change) is a specific permutation of the bells (for example 123456 or 531246)—that is to say, it includes each bell rung once and only once, the difference from row to row being the order in which the bells follow one another. Plain hunt is the simplest way of creating bell permutations, or changes.
Obtaining the maximum unique changes
Since permutations are involved, it is natural that for some people the ultimate theoretical goal of change ringing is to ring the bells in every possible permutation; this is called an extent (in the past this was sometimes referred to as a full peal). For a method on bells, there are (read factorial) possible permutations, a number which quickly grows as increases. For example, while on six bells there are 720 permutations, on 8 bells there are 40,320; furthermore, 10! = 3,628,800, and 12! = 479,001,600.
Key rules of valid method ringing
"Truth" of a ringing method
Estimating two seconds for each change (a reasonable pace), we find that while an extent on 6 bells can be accomplished in half an hour, a full peal on 8 bells should take nearly twenty-two and a half hours and one on 12 bells would take over thirty years! Naturally, then, except in towers with only a few bells, ringers typically can only ring a subset of the available permutations. But the key stricture of an extent, uniqueness (any row may only be rung once), is considered essential. This is called truth; to repeat any row would make the performance false.
Allowable position changes
Another key limitation keeps a given bell from moving up or back more than a single place from row to row; if it rings (for instance) fourth in one row, in the next row it can only ring third, fourth, or fifth. Thus from row to row each bell either keeps its place or swaps places with one of its neighbours. This rule has its origins in the physical reality of tower bells: a bell, swinging through a complete revolution with every row, has considerable inertia and the ringer has only a limited ability to accelerate or decelerate its cycle.
Start and finish with "rounds".
A third key rule mandates rounds as the start and end of all ringing. So to summarize: any performance must start out from rounds, visit a number of other rows (whether all possible permutations or just a subset thereof) but only once each, and then return safely to rounds, all the while making only small neighbour-swaps from row to row. These rules dramatically limit the options open to a method-maker.
For example, consider a tower with four bells. An extent includes 4! = 24 changes and there are, naturally, 24! possible orders in which to ring each change once, which is about 6.2 × 1023. But once we limit ourselves to neighbour-swaps and to starting and ending with rounds, only 10,792 possible extents remain.
Reason for methods
It is to navigate this complex terrain that various methods have been developed; they allow the ringers to plot their course ahead of time without needing to memorize it all (an impossible task) or to read it off a numbingly repetitive list of numbers. Instead, by combining a pattern short and simple enough for ringers to memorize with a few regular breaking points where simple variations can be introduced, a robust algorithm is formed. This is the essence of method ringing.
Lead
A lead is part of the plain course. It commences when the method starts and lasts until the treble gets back to the same place. In the diagram of Plain Bob Minor shown, the lead starts when the treble rings in second place and lasts until the treble has rung twice at lead. It is common practice in diagrams to draw a line under the lead end to assist in understanding the method. Most methods have a plain course consisting of a number of leads where the pattern is the same, but different bells are in differing places. In the diagram given, the number 4 bell rings the same pattern as the number 2, but one lead earlier.
In principles (where the treble does the same work as other bells and is affected by calls) the definition of a lead can become more complex.
Calls and compositions
To obtain more changes than available in the plain course, a conductor makes a call directing the ringers to make a slight variation in the course. (The most common calls are called bobs and singles.) These variations usually last only one change, but cause two or more ringers to swap their paths, whereupon they continue with the normal pattern. By introducing such calls appropriately, repetition can be avoided, with the peal remaining true over a large number of changes. For example, an extent in a minor method is 720 (6!) changes, so would require 12 repetitions of the plain course shown.
To know when to make calls and which ones to make, a conductor follows a plan called a composition which he or someone else devised; if properly constructed it will ensure a true performance of the desired length. Today computers make checking a composition's truth easy; but the process once involved a mix of mathematics and laborious row-by-row checking.
Probably the greatest composer of the 20th century was Albert J Pitman, who composed over a hundred peals between 1910 and 1965, entirely by hand. None of his compositions was then, nor since, discovered to be false.
Place Notation (shorthand)
As well as writing out the changes longhand (as in the accompanying illustration of Plain Bob Minor) there is a shorthand called Place Notation. For each row in which all bells change place, such as the first change, use an "x" or a "-". In rows where one or more bells stay in place write down the place numbers which do not change, so that the second row is written "16". Plain Bob Minor is therefore x16x16x16x16x16x12.
Many methods are symmetrical, and so only the first half lead is given, along with possibly the lead end. Plain Bob Minor is thus: x16x16x16 le:12. Where two changes consisting of numbers follow each other, use a dot to separate them. Plain Bob Doubles (i.e. on 5 bells) is: 5.1.5.1.5 le:125, or if written at full length 5.1.5.1.5.1.5.1.5.125.
Method names
Methods are generally referred to by an official name assigned to them by the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers; such names have three standard parts: the method's name proper, its class, and its stage.
The name proper is the method's personal name. The oldest methods have long-established names; but new methods are constantly being devised and rung, and the Central Council generally allows each to be named by the band which first rings a peal in it. Most often these methods end up with a place name, such as the band's village; but people's names and still more fanciful inventions are not uncommon.
The class describes the method, putting it in some established category of methods that work in similar ways. Methods in the simplest category omit this second name and use a simple two-part name.
The stage indicates the number of bells, using unique terminology:
As can be seen, there are different naming systems for even- and odd-bell stages. The odd-bell stage names refer to the number of possible swaps that can be made from row to row; in caters and cinques can be seen the French numbers quatre and cinq while the stage name for three-bell ringing is indeed "singles". Higher odd-bell stages follow the same pattern (sextuples, septuples, etc.) while higher even-bell stages have more prosaic names: fourteen, sixteen, etc.).
Note that the names refer to the number of bells being permuted, which is not necessarily the same as the number being rung: for it is typical to ring triples methods not on seven bells but on eight, with the tenor covering: only the seven highest bells permute; the eighth and lowest bell is simply rung last in every row. So likewise with caters, usually rung on ten bells, and other higher odd-bell stages.
Put together, this system gives method names sound that is evocative, musical, and quaint: Kent Treble Bob Major, Grandsire Caters, Erin Triples, Chartres Delight Royal, Percy's Tea Strainer Treble Place Major, Titanic Cinques and so forth.
"Performances"
A short composition, lasting perhaps only a few hundred changes, is called a touch, which got its name from the 16th-century expression a "touch" of music, meaning "a brief piece of instrumental music".; However many ringers look forward to the greater challenge of a quarter peal (about 1,250 changes) or a peal (about 5,000 changes), which is referred to as a "Performance".
This number derives from the great 17th-century quest to ring a full extent on seven bells; 7 factorial is 5,040. Sturdier bellframes and more clearly understood methods make the task easier today, but a peal still needs about 3 hours of labour and concentration.
Most ringers follow the definition of a peal as regulated by the Central Council. This requires a minimum of only 5,000 changes where major or a higher stage is being rung, but demands at least the full 5,040 changes on lower stages. For triples, this ensures at least a full extent; for lower stages a full extent falls well short of the goal and ringers must complete several full extents to reach 5,040 (working out mathematically to at least 7 extents on six bells, at least 42 on five, or at least 210 on four; three-bell peals are not recognised by the Central Council).
To qualify as a peal, the ringing must meet a number of other key criteria. Among other things, each bell must be rung continuously by the same person; a ringing band cannot swap in a person to give ringers an occasional break. Likewise the ringing must be done entirely from memory; ringers cannot consult the method's blue line nor can the conductor (who must be one of the ringers) have a written reminder of the composition.
More commonly rung is the quarter peal, typically consisting of 1,260 changes and typically taking 45 minutes to ring. Half peals are more rarely rung, but have been known. One example is in Buckfast Abbey in Devon, where there are two half peal boards.
See also
Campanology
Change ringing
Change ringing software
Siteswap
Notes
References
The Framework for Method Ringing, official definitions by the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers on what constitutes methods and peals
External links
Change-ringing resources: an online compendium of almost everything you need to know
Bellboard - online update on current change ringing performances.
The methods committee of the Central Council, with links to their online listing of all named methods
On-line method generator, which explains method diagrams
Campanology
English culture
Permutations |
4036022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyctibatrachus | Nyctibatrachus | Nyctibatrachus is a genus of frogs endemic to the Western Ghats of southwestern India. Their common name is night frogs. Their scientific name also means "night frog", in reference to their habits and dark color. They are the only extant members of the monotypic subfamily Nyctibatrachinae. Currently, 35 species belong to Nyctibatrachus.
Description
Members of the genus Nyctibatrachus are robust-bodied frogs that range in size from small (snout–vent length <13 mm in Nyctibatrachus robinmoorei) to relatively large (up to 84 mm Nyctibatrachus karnatakaensis). The especially small species are among the smallest of all Indian frogs. They have a concealed tympanum, dorsum with longitudinal skin folds, femoral glands, and expanded finger and toes disks. They occur near streams in hilly evergreen forests and are nocturnal. Most species have amplexus but Nyctibatrachus humayuni does not; in this species the male moves over the eggs after the female has deposited them.
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus Nyctibatrachus:
References
External links
Nyctibatrachidae
Amphibians of India
Endemic fauna of the Western Ghats
Amphibian genera
Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger |
4036025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaker%20Hill%2C%20Connecticut | Quaker Hill, Connecticut | Quaker Hill is a village or neighborhood in the town of Waterford, in the southeastern part of Connecticut, USA.
It is located in the northeast corner of the town, on the west bank of the Thames River (around Smith Cove) north of New London, and centered on the intersection of the Old Norwich Road and the Old Colchester Road.
The village center is included in the Quaker Hill Historic District, a historic district that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The historic district is the area around Old Norwich Road, extending as far south as the village of Thames View and as far north as Route 32.
Quaker Hill is the place name used for ZIP code 06375, which extends beyond Quaker Hill to encompass the entire northeastern portion of the town of Waterford, including Bartlett, Best View, Cohanzie, Harrisons and Thames View.
History
The area became known as Quaker Hill by 1687 due to its association with the Rogerenes or Rogerene Quakers, a religious sect founded by a local farmer, John Rogers (1648–1721) at the house near Benham Avenue.
The first house was built around 1740 by Benjamin Greene at Scotch Cap. The Robertson and Bingham paper mill, established in 1851, is said to be the first manufacturer of real tissue manila in the United States.
Education
Quaker Hill School
Waterford Public Schools operates one elementary school in Quaker Hill. The original Quaker Hill School was built in 1915, replacing two one- room district structures and was opened in 1917, and demolished on February 23, 2007, to make way for construction of a new Quaker Hill Elementary School that was scheduled to open in August 2008. This school is now located on 285 Bloomingdale Road, Quaker Hill CT.
Waterford Country School
Waterford Country School is a private nonprofit human services agency in Quaker Hill that offers a variety of special educational, residential treatment, and care services for children ages 10–18 from throughout eastern Connecticut. It was established in 1922 and moved to its current site in Quaker Hill in 1929.
Famous Residents
Eugene P. Wilkinson, Captain of the USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear submarine, lived in Quaker Hill during the 1950s
Fire and EMS service
The Quaker Hill Fire Company serves the residents of Quaker hill. The Fire house is located on Old Colchester Road.
See also
Connecticut College Arboretum
New London, Connecticut
Waterford, Connecticut
References
Waterford, Connecticut
Villages in Connecticut
Villages in New London County, Connecticut
Populated places on the Thames River (Connecticut) |
4036031 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissy%20Suzuki | Kissy Suzuki | Kissy Suzuki is a fictional character introduced in Ian Fleming's 1964 James Bond novel, You Only Live Twice. Despite Bond's womanizing, Kissy Suzuki (at least the literary version) remains the only character known to the reader who bears a child by him. The treatment of Kissy varies greatly between the novel and the film, where she is never identified by her name, no family name appears in the closing credits and the film ends in the usual Bond-style happy ending.
Novel version
In the book, Kissy is an Ama diver and former Hollywood actress. She is distantly related to a local police superintendent working with Tiger Tanaka, head of the Japanese Secret Service and is, therefore, asked to assist Bond. Bond stays with Kissy's family on an island near the castle, where Ernst Stavro Blofeld maintains a "suicide garden" where people come to die (and are killed by the "gardeners" if they change their mind), and Bond is seeking revenge for the murder of his wife at the conclusion of the previous novel, On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Bond enters the castle alone and succeeds in killing Blofeld and then destroying the castle.
Bond then sustains amnesia in the aftermath of his attack with Blofeld and is believed dead by his superiors; in reality, he comes to believe he is a fisherman and lives with Kissy for several months. Kissy decides that she will not stop him if he decides to pursue his true identity, but will encourage the cover story that allowed him to stay with her until something else happens. When Bond decides to leave for Russia, believing the answers to his identity are there, Kissy does not follow; unknown to Bond, she is pregnant with his child.
Kissy Suzuki does not appear again in the Bond canon, and Bond's child does not appear until "Blast From the Past", a short story published in 1996 by Raymond Benson as a direct sequel to You Only Live Twice. By the time of this story, Kissy is now dead, having died from ovarian cancer a few years before the story's timeline. Bond learns that she bore him a son, James Suzuki; Bond had little involvement in raising him, but paid for his university education. Bond receives a message, apparently from his son, asking him to come to New York City on an urgent matter. When Bond arrives, he finds his son murdered, having been being force-fed fugu syrup. With the aid of an SIS agent, Bond learns that Irma Bunt, Ernst Stavro Blofeld's henchwoman, killed James Suzuki as revenge for Blofeld's death (again in You Only Live Twice). Bond ultimately kills Bunt, but his victory is hollow; he must live with having lost his son, and with the knowledge that he was never a real father to him.
Film version
In the 1967 film adaptation, Kissy is one of the ninja agents working for Tanaka. She is introduced shortly after Aki is killed and is first seen in a mock wedding ceremony as James goes undercover, posing as a Japanese fisherman. Bond and Kissy eventually find Blofeld's secret base, hidden within a volcano and Kissy is sent to alert Tanaka. While swimming to her destination, she is pursued and fired upon by a SPECTRE helicopter, but her experience as a pearl diver enables her to dive underwater and stay there long enough to convince her pursuers that she drowned. After alerting Tanaka, she joins the raid that manages to foil Blofeld's scheme, thereby averting the outbreak of World War III.
In the movie, Kissy is played by Mie Hama. She was originally cast to be played by Akiko Wakabayashi; however, Hama had trouble learning English for the much bigger role of Aki, so the two decided to swap their roles. When Hama became ill during shooting, Sean Connery's wife Diane Cilento doubled for her in the swimming sequence. Her lines were dubbed by Nikki van der Zyl.
Cultural impact
A limited number of Kissy Suzuki dolls were produced in 1967; today, these dolls are valuable on the collector market. Mie Hama also appeared in Playboy magazine in a 1967 nude pictorial "007's Oriental Eyefuls" as the first Asian woman to appear in the magazine, a source of controversy in Japan. Pajiba included Hama on the list of the 15 most embarrassing post-Bond roles for Bond Girls at number seven for King Kong Escapes.
UGO.com offered a mixed review of the character: "Although Mie Hama is attractive in her bikini, this also looks extremely out of place. Similarly inconsistent is her acting, which is charming but forgettable." In another article, UGO called her "sexy yet cute-as-a-kimono." A 2006 retrospective CBS featurette called her "stunning", ranking her as the 23rd best Bond girl. She also placed 18th on the list of the Best Bond girls by LIFE, while Fandango ranked her as 23rd. Yahoo! Movies had her name included in the 2012 list of the best Bond girl names.
References
External links
Kissy Suzuki (Character) at the Internet Movie Database
KISSY SUZUKI - Bond Girls: Declassified at Yahoo!
James Bond multimedia | Mie Hama (Kissy Suzuki)
Kissy Suzuki - James Bond Wiki
Bond girls
Characters in British novels of the 20th century
Fictional Japanese people
Fictional female ninja
Fictional female secret agents and spies
Literary characters introduced in 1964
You Only Live Twice (film) |
4036034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too%20Late%20the%20Hero%20%28album%29 | Too Late the Hero (album) | Too Late the Hero is the fifth solo studio album by English musician John Entwistle, released on 23 November 1981 by ATCO Records in the US, and by WEA in the UK. This was his only solo album of the 1980s and his last album to chart. The album peaked at No. 71 on the US Billboard 200, making it his best-selling album and his only album to reach the Top 100.
"Talk Dirty" was the first single released from the album and it received some airplay in the US on album-oriented rock radio, peaking at No. 41 on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. "Too Late the Hero" was the second single to be released from the album and it would be his only single to chart on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at No. 76. It also peaked at No. 101 on the US Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, making it his best-selling single all round. "Too Late the Hero" was the only single from the album that had a music video filmed for it.
The album was recorded as a core trio of musicians that were Entwistle on bass guitar with Joe Walsh of the Eagles providing all guitar work and Walsh's former Barnstorm bandmate Joe Vitale on drums. Billy Nicholls also sang backing vocals on most of the tracks.
Cover
The album cover is an assemblage of photographs taken by Gered Mankowitz. It depicts Entwistle with an Alembic Explorer bass over grainy photos of him dressed as various heroes. The red suit and ankle boots worn by Entwistle were later sold at auction.
Composition
The album was Entwistle's first solo album in six years. "I had stopped writing because I thought I was going in the wrong direction with the 'shoo-bop, shoo-bop,' old rock & roll stuff on Rigor Mortis Sets In and Mad Dog. When I started writing again, I went back to the kind of material I was writing before those albums.
"Until about two years ago, I tried to stay away from certain subjects. I was getting a feeling from everyone – from the fans right through my wife and family – that if you write about hookers, you must go to hookers, and if you write about drugs, you must take drugs. I got this reputation for sinister black humour after things like Whistle Rymes, when I was getting up at six in the morning to feed my son, Christopher, and then sitting down at the piano at seven to write songs about peeping Toms and suicide cases."
Recording
The album was recorded over a couple of years, during those infrequent months when both Entwistle and long-time friend Joe Walsh were free (Walsh's James Gang toured extensively with the Who in the early seventies, and the two had planned to collaborate for years).
Critical reception
In the AllMusic review by Ben Davies, he praises the contributions of Joe Walsh on lead guitar and Joe Vitale on drums, but says that they were unable to save the album from being boring. The reviewer concedes that the combination of these musicians would have seemed, "Like something of a dream proposition back in the 1970s," making the album an even bigger disappointment. MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide awarded the album zero stars, calling it "a misguided, overblown collaboration with the severely unwitty Joe Walsh." The Rolling Stone Album Guide conceded that it "rocks capably."
Track listing
All songs written by John Entwistle.
Non-album track
Personnel
Credits are adapted from the Too Late the Hero liner notes.
John Entwistle — vocals; bass guitar; eight-string bass guitar; piano; synthesizers
Joe Walsh — acoustic and electric guitars; piano; cabassa; waste container; tambourine; limps; synthesizer
Joe Vitale — drums; percussion; piano; flute; clavinet; timpani; metronome
Billy Nicholls — backing vocals (1, 3–6, 9)
Production and artwork
John Entwistle — producer
Dave "Cyrano" Langston — producer
Joe Walsh — executive producer
Joe Vitale — executive producer
Dave "Cyrano" Langston — engineering
Neil Hornby — assistant engineer
Jim Hill — assistant engineer
Jeff Eccles — assistant engineer
Mike Reese — mastering
Gered Mankowitz — album cover design, concept, cover photo, photography
Charts
References
External links
1981 albums
John Entwistle albums
Atco Records albums
New wave albums by English artists |
4036037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier%20D%C3%A9fago | Didier Défago | Didier Défago (born 2 October 1977) is a Swiss retired World Cup alpine ski racer.
Born in Morgins, Valais, Défago made his World Cup debut at age 18 in March 1996, and was Swiss national champion in downhill (2003) and giant slalom (2004). At the 2010 Winter Olympics, he won the downhill at Whistler to become the Olympic champion.
Défago finished the 2005 World Cup season as sixth overall and fourth in the Super-G, his most successful season so far. In 2009 he won two downhill races in a row, the classics at Wengen and Kitzbühel. He was the first to win these in consecutive weeks since Stephan Eberharter in 2002, and the first Swiss racer since Franz Heinzer in 1992.
While training on a glacier above Zermatt in mid-September 2010, Defago fell and injured ligaments in his left knee, ending his 2011 season.
Défago announced his retirement in March 2015, after a second-place finish at the World Cup finals in the downhill in Méribel, France, and had his final World Cup race the next day in the super-G.
World Cup results
Season standings
Race podiums
5 wins – (3 DH, 2 SG)
16 podiums – (5 DH, 7 SG, 3 AC, 1 GS)
World Championship results
Olympic results
References
External links
Didier Défago World Cup standings at the International Ski Federation
YouTube video – Didier Défago – Wengen victory – 17 January 2009
YouTube video – Didier Défago – Kitzbühel victory on full course – 24 January 2009
Swiss male alpine skiers
Alpine skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Living people
1977 births
Olympic alpine skiers of Switzerland
Olympic gold medalists for Switzerland
Olympic medalists in alpine skiing
Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Valais |
4036042 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sen%20%28surname%29 | Sen (surname) | Sen (Bengali: সেন) is a surname derived from "Sena", the Sanskrit word for "army".
The surname is commonly found in the east of the Indian Subcontinent; namely Bangladesh & West Bengal, India mainly among Baidya and Kayastha communities. The Sena kings claimed themselves as Brahmakshatriya or Kshatriya in their own inscriptions.
History
The use of 'Sen' as a surname is first found among the kings of a Brahmin dynasty named as Vakataka (Vidarbha). This surname is also used by Raja Dahir Sen, the last king of Brahman dynasty of Sindh (Southeast Pakistan) and then followed by Sena Dynasty (East India and Bangladesh).
Notables
A
Abhijit Sen is a former member of the Planning Commission of India, which was disbanded in 2014.
Akshay Kumar Sen The 19th century Bengali mystic, saint and writer.
Amal Sen was a Bangladeshi politician. He was the founding president of the Workers Party of Bangladesh.
Amarendra Nath Sen, jurist who served as the chief justice of the Calcutta High Court in 1979 and as a judge in the Supreme Court of India.
Amartya Sen (born 1933), Indian economist and philosopher, Nobel Prize winner
Amiya Sen (cricketer) (1925–2000), Indian cricketer
Amiya Prosad Sen (born 1952), historian and religious scholar
Amalesh Sen (; 2 March 1943 – 7 October 2017) was a Bangladeshi football player and coach.
Ananda Prakash Sen (1923–?), often known as A. P. Sen, is an Indian former judge who served as a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India.
Anindya Sen Economist .
Anil Kumar Sen, jurist
Antara Dev Sen (born 1963), British–Indian journalist
Anupam Sen (1920s-2015), Indian politician, West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Anupam Sen(born August 5, 1940) is a Bangladeshi academic and social scientist.
Anushka Sen (born 2002), Indian model and television actress
Aparna Sen (born 1945), an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter and actress
Arunava Sen (born January 3, 1959) is a professor of economics at the Indian Statistical Institute. He works on Game Theory, Social Choice Theory, Mechanism Design, Voting and Auctions.
Ashalata Sen (5 February 1894 - 13 February 1986) was an activist, poet, social worker, and a leading figure in the Indian independence movement.
Ashish Sen is an American professor and transportation statistician based in Chicago.
Asit Sen (actor) (1917–1993), prolific Indian film actor and comedian in the Hindi film industry
Asit Sen (director) (24 September 1922 – 25 August 2001) was an Indian film director, cinematographer and screenwriter, who worked in both Bengali and Hindi cinema. He was born in Dhaka, now in modern-day Bangladesh, when it was part of East Bengal in British India. He directed 17 feature films in Hindi and Bengali
Ashoke Sen, theoretical physicist
Ashoke Kumar Sen former law minister, lawyer, and parliamentarian
Atul Sen (? – 5 August 1932) (Bengali: অতুল সেন) was a Bengali Indian independence movement revolutionary activist against British rule in India.
Atul Prasad Sen (; 20 October 1871 – 26 August 1934) was a Bengali composer, lyricist and singer, and also a lawyer, philanthropist, social worker, educationist and writer.
B
Baikuntha Nath Sen
(1843 – 1922) was a Bengali scholar, lawyer and philanthropist. His grandson Amarendra Nath Sen was a judge of Supreme Court of India.
Basiswar Sen also known as "Boshi" Sen (1887 – 31 August 1971), Indian agricultural scientist.
Benu Sen (26 May 1932 – 17 May 2011) was an awarded Indian photographer from Kolkata, India.
Bhim Sen (1 December 1894 – 18 January 1978) was an Indian politician. He was the Chief Minister of Punjab, thrice.
Bhupati Mohan Sen () was an Indian physicist and mathematician. He made remarkable contributions in the fields of Quantum Mechanics and Fluid Mechanics.
Bijoy Sen is a Bangladeshi art director. He won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Art Direction for the film Andha Biswas (1992).
Binay Ranjan Sen, former Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Binayak Sen, human rights activist
Bireswar Sen(1897–1974) was an Indian painter, writer and teacher, who was influenced by the Bengal School of Art and Western modernism, but then later developed a unique visual language of miniatures.
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Chitra Sen, an Indian actress and dancer who works in Bengali language films and television series.
Chandan Sen a Bengali stage, television and film actor, playwright and director.
Chandan K. Sen is an Indian-American scientist who is known for contributions to the fields of regenerative medicine and wound care.
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Dahir Sen, last ruler of the Brahman dynasty of Sindh
Deben Sen (1897 – 19 April 1971) was an Indian trade union activist and politician.
Dinesh Chandra Sen, researcher of Bengali folklore
Dola Sen (born 26 March 1967) is an Indian politician and trade unionist. From 2020 she is now the central president of the Indian National Trinamool Trade Union Congress (INTTUC).
Dwijesh Chandra Sen (died 9 July 1984) Revolutionary of Anushilon Samiti, awarded Tamrapatra by the President of India for his contribution to India's struggle for independence.He was the direct decedent of Raja Raj Bhallav Sen and the grandson of Rai Bahadur Kali Charan Sen.
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Erroll Chunder Sen (c. 1899 – after 1941), First World War Indian pilot in the Royal Flying Corps
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Gautam Sen is an Indian journalist, writer and automotive design consultant and expert.
Girish Chandra Sen( – 15 August 1910), Bengali religious scholar and first Bengali translator of the Quran
Gertrude Emerson Sen (6 May 1890–1982), early 20th-century expert on Asia and a founding member of the Society of Woman Geographers
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Haimabati Sen (1866 – 1932 or 1933), was an Indian physician.
Hari Keshab Sen (9 February 1905 - 1 September 1976), popularly known as H. K. Sen was an Indian Bengali scientist, astrophysicist.
Hiralal Sen is generally considered the first filmmaker of indian subcontinent
Hannah Sen (1894–1957) was an Indian educator, politician, and feminist, wife of Satish Chandra Sen. She was a member of the first Indian Rajya Sabha (upper house of Parliament) from 1952 to 1957 and the president of the All India Women's Conference in 1951-52.
H. Nida Sen H.Nida Sen is an ophthalmologist researching mechanisms involved in different forms of human uveitis. She is a clinical investigator at the National Eye Institute.
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Inder Sen is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter working in Bengali cinema.
Indra Sen (13 May 1903 – 14 March 1994) was a psychologist, author, and educator, and the founder of Integral psychology as an academic discipline. Sen was born in the Jhelum District of Punjab (now part of Pakistan) in a Punjabi Hindu family from Punjab.
Indrani Sen A Bengali singer who is known for Nazrul geeti and Rabindra Sangeet.
Ivan Sen (born 1972) is an Indigenous Australian filmmaker.
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Jaladhar Sen Rai Bahadur Jaladhar Sen (; 13 March 1860 – 15 March 1939) was a Bengali writer, poet, editor and also a philanthropist, traveler, social worker, educationist and littérateur. He was awarded with the title Ray Bahadur (রায় বাহাদুর) by the British Government.
Jogendra Nath Sen, First Bengali soldier to die in the First World War
Joginder Sen Raja Sir Joginder Sen Bahadur KCSI (20 August 1904 – 16 June 1986) was the last ruling Raja of Mandi State, and was subsequently a diplomat and Member of Parliament.
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Kaushik Sen (or Koushik Sen), Indian actor of film, television and theater based in Kolkata
Keshab Chandra Sen, social reformer of India
Keshav Sen -A king of Sen Empire, reformer of 'Kaulinya' and 'Varna' in vernacular literature
Keshav Sen (born 21 September 1923) is an Indian former sports shooter. He competed in the trap event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Kshitimohan Sen (2 December 1880 – 12 March 1960) was Indian scholar, writer, a Sanskrit professor and an M.A. in Sanskrit from Queen's College, Benares. He was born in a family hailing from Sonarang in Bengal (now in Bangladesh).
Konkona Sen (born 1979), Indian actress, writer, and director
Krishna Sen (19 October 1956 – 27 May 2002) was a writer and journalist of Nepal.
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Lakshya Sen (born 2001), Indian badminton player
Lakshman Sen, Emperor
Lalmohan Sen (Bengali: লালমোহন সেন) was an Indian revolutionary who took part in the Chittagong Armoury Raid.
Lionel Protip Sen Lieutenant-General Lionel Protip "Bogey" Sen DSO (20 October 1910 – 17 September 1981) was an indo-british decorated Indian Army general. He served as the Chief of the General Staff during 1959–1961 and commanded the Eastern Command during 1961–1963.
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Mala Sen (3 June 1947 – 21 May 2011) was a Bengali-Indian-British writer and human rights activist.
Mandakranta Sen (born 1972) is an Indian poet writing in Bengali. She became the youngest ever winner of Ananda Puraskar in 1999 for her very first poetry book. In 2004 she was awarded Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award for poetry. She is also a lyricist, composer, fiction writer, dramatist and cover designer. She quit medical studies to become a full-time writer.
Manikuntala Sen (; c. 1911–1987) was one of the first women to be active in the Communist Party of India.
Mantu Sen (21 June 1923 – 12 April 1990) was an Indian cricketer. He played eighteen first-class matches for Bengal between 1942 and 1959.
Malabika Sen, Dancer
Mayukh Sen is an American writer . He was nominated for a James Beard Award in 2018 and 2019, winning the award in 2018 for his profile of Princess Pamela.
Mihir Sen (born 1930), a famous Indian long distance swimmer
Mimlu Sen (born 1949) is an Indian author, translator, musician, composer and producer.
Minati Sen (born 2 October 1943) Politician, was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India.
Mithu Sen is an Indian conceptual artist. Born in West Bengal in 1971.
Mohit Sen was a communist intellectual. He was general secretary of the United Communist Party of India until of his death.
Moon Moon Sen (born 1954), an Indian actress working in Bengali, Hindi and other regional films
Mrinal Sen, Dadasaheb Phalke award-winning film director
Mrinal Kanti Sen, an Indian-American geophysicist.
Mrinalini Sen (3 August 1879 - 8 March 1972) was a Bengali writer in British India. On 19 December 1910, she became the first Indian to fly in a plane.
Mukunda Sen (sometimes known as Makanda Sen) was the King of Palpa from 1518 to 1553 of Sena dynasty (Nepal).
In 1524, he invaded Kathmandu Valley. After his death in 1553, his kingdom was divided into various kingdoms.
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Nabhendu Sen (31 August 1944 – 25 September 2008) a Bengali dramatist, sculptor and artist.
Nabinchandra Sen, poet and writer
Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Nandana Sen (born 1967), daughter of Amartya Sen, actress in Hindi cinema, screenwriter
Narayan Sen (1912–1956) was a Bengali revolutionary in the Indian independence movement.
Neeta Sen (1935 – 1 April 2006) was an Indian classical music director and singer.
Nikhil Sen (16 April 1931 – 25 February 2019) was a Bangladeshi dramatist. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2018 by the Government of Bangladesh.
Nibedita Sen is a queer Bengali-born writer of speculative fiction.
Nilima Sen (1928 Kolkata –1996) was a famous Rabindrasangeet singer.
Nirupam Sen (cricketer)
Nirupam Sen (diplomat)
Nirupam Sen (politician)
Nirupam Sen Chowdhary (born 23 October 1990) is an Indian first-class cricketer who plays for Tripura.
Nivaan Sen also known as Naveen Sen, is an Indian actor and producer.
Noel Swaranjit Sen (born 24 December 1946) is a retired Director-General and Inspector-General of Police in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. After a stint with the Indian Army (Short Service Commission) in the 1960s, he became an Officer of the Indian Police Service. He was also a Commandant of the 1st Battalion of Border Security Force.
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Orijit Sen (born 1963) is an Indian graphic artist and designer.
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Pabitra Kumar Sen, scientist and social reformer
Palash Sen, Band member of Euphoria (Indian band)
Paritosh Sen (Bengali: পরিতোষ সেন) (18 October 1918 – 22 October 2008) was a leading Indian artist. He was born in Dhaka (then known as Dacca)
Partha Sen was an economist.
Probir Sen, wicket keeper, the only wicket keeper to have stumped out Sir Donald Bradman
Prafulla Kumar Sen (died 1942), also known as "Swami Satyananda Puri" Indian revolutionary and philosopher
Pranab K. Sen Pranab Kumar Sen (born 7 November 1937 in Calcutta, India) is a statistician
Prafulla Chandra Sen (1897–1990), Bengali freedom fighter and politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1962 to 1967.
Prajesh Sen G. Prajesh Sen (also spelt G. Prajesh Sen; born 29 May 1979) is an Indian filmmaker and writer.
Prasenjit Sen (born 11 January 1956) Physical Scientist
P. K. Sen (surgeon) (1915–1982), Indian surgeon
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Rajanikanta Sen (26 July 1865 – 13 September 1910) was a Bengali poet and composer, known for his devotional (bhakti) compositions
Rajat Sen (1913 ― 6 May 1930) alias Rajat Kumar Sen was a Bengali revolutionary who joined in the Chittagong armoury raid.
Ramesh Chandra Sen (born 30 April 1940), Bangladeshi politician
Ramkamal Sen (Bengali: রামকমল সেন) (1783–1844) was the Diwan of the Treasury, Treasurer of the Bank of Bengal and Secretary of the Asiatic Society
Ramprasad Sen, singer and lyricist
Rangalal Sen (24 September 193310 February 2014) was a Bangladesh academician and writer. In 2011, he was inducted as the National Professor of Bangladesh.
Raima Sen (born 1979), Indian actress
Raja Sen (born 10 November 1955), Indian film & television director and the winner of three National Film Awards
Reema Sen (born 1981), Indian actress and model primarily working in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films
Riddhi Sen, an Indian Bengali film actor
Rii Sen, actress
Rimi Sen (born 1981), Indian actress and film producer who has appeared in Bollywood, Telugu and Bengali films
Rinku Sen is an Indian-American author, activist, political strategist and the executive director of Narrative Initiative. She is also the co-president of the Women’s March Board of Directors. Sen is the former president and executive director of the racial justice organization Race Forward and publisher of Colorlines.com and Mother Jones magazine.
Rittika Sen, an Indian actress
Riya Sen (born 1981), Indian film actress and model
Robin Sen was an Indian politician belonging to the Communist Party of India(Marxist). He was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament
Ronen Sen Ranendra "Ronen" Sen (born 9 April 1944) is a veteran Indian diplomat who was India's ambassador to the United States of America
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Sagar Sen (15 May 1932 – 4 January 1983) was a Bengali singer.
Samar Sen, (;)(10 October 1916 – 23 August 1987), Indian poet and journalist
Samar Sen (diplomat) (10 August 1914 16 February 2003), Indian diplomat
Samita Sen, historian and professor
Sandip Sen (born 4 October 1966) is an Indian business executive.
Sandipta Sen (born 1987), Bengali television actress
Sankar Sen ( – 8 February 2020) was a Minister, Vice Chancellor, Electrical engineer and politician from West Bengal belonging to Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was the vice chancellor of Jadavpur University. He served as a legislator of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. He also served as the Minister of Power of the Government of West Bengal from 1991 to 1999.
Sankar Sen (marketing academic) A marketing academic.
Sanjoy Sen, Football coach and manager
Santunu Sen is an Indian doctor and politician. He was a councilor in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation. He is a Rajya Sabha member from West Bengal. He was the President of the Indian Medical Association.
Santosh Kumar Sen (1910–1979) was an Indian surgeon and the president of the Association of Surgeons of India. He was the first Indian surgeon to be elected to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Satrajit Sen (born 31 August 1977) is an Indian film director, producer and entrepreneur. He is the only producer/director in Bengal with a Lee Strasberg
Awards: National Award in the year 2014 for best Bengali Film Bakita Byaktigato
Sarajubala Sen(Bengali: লেখক:সরযূবালা সেন) (1889 - 1949) was a Bengali writer and educator.
Satyen Sen (), (28 March 1907 - 5 January 1981), a historian of Bengali literature from Bangladesh.
Shekhar Sen is a singer, a music composer, a lyricist, and an actor, Awards: Padma Shri(2015)
Shobha Sen (1923–2017), also known as Sova Sen, Bengali theatre and film actress
Shoma Sen An women's rights activist, professor and head of the English literature department of the Nagpur University.
Sohag Sen (Bengali: সোহাগ সেন) is a Bengali theater actress, director and casting director.
Soumik Sen an Indian contemporary screenwriter
Soumitra Sen is a former judge of the Calcutta High Court. He was the first judge in independent India whose removal motion was passed in Rajya Sabha for misappropriation of funds.
Sohail Sen (born 24 June 1984) is a contemporary Indian film composer, musician and singer who works in Bollywood.
Shyamal Kumar Sen, jurist and former governor of West Bengal
Srabani Sen (also spelt as Sraboni Sen), singer of Rabindra Sangeet and other genres of Bengali songs
Subir Sen (24 July 1934 – 29 December 2015) was an Indian playback singer who sang modern songs in Bengali and Hindi. He was also one of the artists of Rabindra Sangeet.
Sukomal Sen (14 June 1934 – 22 November 2017) was an Indian trade union and CPI(M) leader.
Sukumar Sen (civil servant) -(2 January 1898 – 13 May 1963) The first Chief Election Commissioner of India.
Surya Sen (1894–1934), revolutionary and Bengali freedom fighter
Suchitra Sen (born as Roma Dasgupta, 1931), Indian actress
Sudeep Sen, poet
Sukumar Sen, first Chief Election Commissioner of India
Sukumar Sen, Bengali linguist
Susmit Sen, member of the band Indian Ocean
Sushil Sen full name Shushil Kumar Sen (Bengali: সুশিল কুমার সেন; 1892 – 30 April 1915) participated in the Indian Independence Movement.
Sushmita Sen (born 1975), Indian actress, model and beauty queen; former Miss Universe
Supriyo Sen a contemporary independent filmmaker from India. He produced and directed the film Tangra Blues (2021).
Suvam Sen (born 14 November 1989) an Indian athlet (footballer and goalkeeper of Indian football team)
Samar Sen (c. 1916-2004), Indian agricultural economist
Swati Sen An Indian actress most known for her roles in Udedh Bun, which won the Silver Bear for Best Film at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival, and the National Film Award-winning Antardwand (2010),
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Triguna Sen (24 December 1905 – 11 January 1998) was Union Minister for education in Government of India. He got Padma Bhushan in 1965.
Tanima Sen is a Bengali film and television actress.
Tapan Kumar Sen A politician from the Communist Party of India (Marxist), General Secretary of Centre of Indian Trade Unions, a Member of the Parliament of India representing West Bengal in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament.
Tapas Sen (11 September 1924 – 28 June 2006) was a noted Indian stage lighting designer, who was an important figure in 20th-century Indian theatre.
Tapen Sen(born 2 September 1953) is a former judge of the Calcutta High Court, the Punjab and Haryana High Court and the Jharkhand High Court and is currently holding the chair as the President of the Jharkhand State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission.
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Utpala Sen (12 March 1924 – 13 May 2005) was a prominent Indian Bengali playback singer.
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Vishwak Sen (born 1995), Indian actor who works in Telugu films
Vikramajit Sen (born 31 December 1950) is an Indian Judge, who has served as a sitting judge of the Supreme Court of India.
Fictional characters
Banalata Sen, fictional character in Jibanananda Das's poem
Mr. Saurav Sen, fictional characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's short story, Mrs. Sen's, from her collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies.
See also
Şen, Turkish surname
References
Bengali Hindu surnames |
4036061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnirana | Amnirana | Amnirana is a genus of frogs in the family Ranidae, "true frogs". The genus is primarily found in Sub-Saharan Africa, but one species occurs in parts of southern and southeastern Asia. Some of the African species are widespread but contain undescribed cryptic diversity. Most (but not all) species have a white upper lip, and the genus is sometimes known as the white-lipped frogs.
Taxonomy
Amnirana was originally introduced as a subgenus of Rana. It was often included in the then-diverse genus Hylarana, until Oliver and colleagues revised the genus in 2015, delimiting Hylarana more narrowly and elevating Amnirana to genus rank. Within the genus, Amnirana nicobariensis appears to be the sister taxon of the African clade of species, but the data are inconclusive. With more data available to resolve possible non-molecular synapomorphies of the genus, A. nicobariensis might become recognized as a separate genus. A later study suggested it to be closer to other Asian Hylarana sensu lato than to African Amnirana.
Description
The current delimitation of Amnirana is primarily based on molecular evidence in combination with geography. No morphological diagnosis is available, and the genus shows variability in characteristics that have been suggested to have diagnostic value within the genus Hylarana sensu lato. The body is robust and medium to very large in size. The dorsum is smooth to shagreened in texture and uniform to mottled in pattern. The upper lip is usually white, but it is dark in Amnirana lepus. Males have paired vocal sac, which may be internal or protrude externally.
Species
There are 11 recognized species:
In addition, the AmphibiaWeb recognizes Amnirana longipes as a valid species, whereas the Amphibian Species of the World, following Jongsma and colleagues, considers it synonym of Amnirana albolabris. Nevertheless, the "true" species number is likely to be substantially higher, with molecular data suggesting at least seven new African species.
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True frogs
Amphibian genera
Amphibians of Asia
Amphibians of Sub-Saharan Africa |
4036072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veliuona | Veliuona | Veliuona (, , ) is a small town on the Nemunas River in the Jurbarkas district municipality in Lithuania.
History
Veliuona (also known as Junigeda) was first mentioned in 1291 in the chronicle of Peter of Duisburg.
The town is primarily known as the burial place of Gediminas.
An old church, founded by Vytautas the Great in 1421, was rebuilt and enlarged in 1636.
In 1501–1506 m. Veliuona was granted Magdeburg rights by the Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland Alexander Jagiellon. In the 18th century Veliuona belonged to prince Józef Poniatowski, in the 19th century to the Zalewski family.
In July 1941, an Einsatzgruppen of German and Lithuanian nationalists murdered dozens of Jews from the town in mass executions.
Gallery
References
Veliuona, 2001, Versme, 1176 p.
External links
Велона — Velona
Towns in Lithuania
Towns in Tauragė County
Duchy of Samogitia
Kovensky Uyezd
Holocaust locations in Lithuania |
4036074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amolops | Amolops | Amolops (commonly known as cascade frogs or sucker frogs) is a genus of true frogs (family Ranidae) native mainly to eastern and south-eastern Asia. These frogs are closely related to such genera as Huia, Meristogenys, Odorrana, Pelophylax and Rana, but still form a distinct lineage among the core radiation of true frogs. They are commonly known as "torrent frogs" after their favorite habitat - small rapid-flowing mountain and hill streams - but this name is used for many similar-looking frogs regardless of whether they are loosely related.
Several species are highly convergent with other Ranidae "torrent frogs". A. archotaphus and its relatives for example very much resemble Odorrana livida. In another incidence of convergent evolution yielding adaptation to habitat, the tadpoles of Amolops, Huia, Meristogenys as well as Rana sauteri have a raised and usually well-developed sucker on their belly. This is useful in keeping in place in rocky torrents, where these frogs grow up. But as Odorrana and Staurois from comparable habitat prove, this sucker is by no means a necessity and other means of adaptation to torrent habitat exist.
Species
The delimitation of this genus has proven complicated, with many species believed to belong elsewhere. Due to the degree of convergent evolution, DNA sequence studies are very helpful in assigning species to the genera, though the possibility of past hybridization cannot be discounted in Ranidae.
New species are described on a regular basis. At least one undescribed species is known to exist, a very distinct form from Phetchaburi in Thailand that is possibly closer to A. marmoratus than to most others.
Amolops afghanus (Günther, 1858)
Amolops akhaorum Stuart, Bain, Phimmachak, and Spence, 2010
Amolops albispinus Sung, Hu, Wang, Liu, and Wang, 2016
Amolops aniqiaoensis Dong, Rao, and Lü, 2005
Amolops archotaphus (Inger and Chan-ard, 1997)
Amolops assamensis Sengupta et al., 2008
Amolops australis Chan, Abraham, Grismer, and Grismer, 2018
Amolops bellulus Liu, Yang, Ferraris, and Matsui, 2000
Amolops caelumnoctis Rao and Wilkinson, 2007
Amolops chakrataensis Ray, 1992
Amolops chayuensis Sun, Luo, Sun, and Zhang, 2013
Amolops chunganensis (Pope, 1929)
Amolops compotrix (Bain, Stuart, and Orlov, 2006)
Amolops cremnobatus Inger and Kottelat, 1998
Amolops cucae (Bain, Stuart, and Orlov, 2006)
Amolops daiyunensis (Liu & Hu, 1975)
Amolops daorum (Bain, Lathrop, Murphy, Orlov, and Ho, 2003)
Amolops formosus (Günther, 1876)
Amolops gerbillus (Annandale, 1912)
Amolops gerutu Chan, Abraham, Grismer, and Grismer, 2018
Amolops granulosus (Liu and Hu, 1961)
Amolops hainanensis (Boulenger, 1900)
Amolops himalayanus (Boulenger, 1888)
Amolops hongkongensis (Pope and Romer, 1951) – Hong Kong Cascade Frog
Amolops indoburmanensis Dever, Fuiten, Konu, and Wilkinson, 2012
Amolops iriodes (Bain and Nguyen, 2004)
Amolops jaunsari Ray, 1992
Amolops jinjiangensis Su, Yang, and Li, 1986
Amolops kaulbacki (Smith, 1940)
Amolops kohimaensis Biju, Mahony, and Kamei, 2010
Amolops larutensis (Boulenger, 1899)
Amolops lifanensis (Liu, 1945)
Amolops loloensis (Liu, 1950)
Amolops longimanus (Andersson, 1939)
Amolops mantzorum (David, 1872)
Amolops marmoratus (Blyth, 1855)
Amolops medogensis Li and Rao, 2005
Amolops mengdingensis Yu, Wu, and Yang, 2019
Amolops mengyangensis Wu and Tian, 1995
Amolops minutus Orlov and Ho, 2007
Amolops monticola (Anderson, 1871)
Amolops nidorbellus Biju, Mahony, and Kamei, 2010
Amolops nyingchiensis Jiang, Wang, Xie, Jiang, and Che, 2016
Amolops ottorum Pham, Sung, Pham, Le, Ziegler, and Nguyen, 2019
Amolops pallasitatus Qi, Zhou, Lyu, Lu, and Li, 2019
Amolops panhai Matsui & Nabhitabhata, 2006
Amolops ricketti (Boulenger, 1899)
Amolops shuichengicus Lyu and Wang, 2019
Amolops sinensis Lyu, Wang, and Wang, 2019
Amolops spinapectoralis Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999
Amolops splendissimus Orlov and Ho, 2007
Amolops torrentis (Smith, 1923)
Amolops tuberodepressus Liu and Yang, 2000
Amolops viridimaculatus (Jiang, 1983)
Amolops vitreus (Bain, Stuart, and Orlov, 2006)
Amolops wenshanensis Yuan, Jin, Li, Stuart, and Wu, 2018
Amolops wuyiensis (Liu and Hu, 1975)
Amolops xinduqiao Fei, Ye, Wang, and Jiang, 2017
Amolops yatseni Lyu, Wang, and Wang, 2019
Amolops yunkaiensis Lyu, Wang, Liu, Zeng, and Wang, 2018
Footnotes
References
(2007): Paraphyly of Chinese Amolops (Anura, Ranidae) and phylogenetic position of the rare Chinese frog, Amolops tormotus. Zootaxa 1531: 49–55. PDF abstract and first page text
(2008): The phylogenetic problem of Huia (Amphibia: Ranidae). Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 46(1): 49–60. (HTMl abstract)
Amphibian genera
Frogs of Asia
Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope |
4036087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Galston | William Galston | William Arthur Galston (; born January 17, 1946) holds the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies and is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; he joined the think tank on January 1, 2006. Formerly the Saul Stern Professor and Dean at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland and a professor of political science at the University of Texas, Austin, Galston specializes in issues of U.S. public philosophy and political institutions.
Family
He is the son of Yale University plant physiologist Arthur Galston.
Career
He was deputy assistant for domestic policy to U.S. President Bill Clinton (January 1993 – May 1995). He has also been employed by the presidential campaigns of Al Gore (1988, 2000), Walter Mondale, and John B. Anderson. Since 1995, Galston has served as a founding member of the Board of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and as chair of the Campaign's Task Force on Religion and Public Values.
Galston was in the United States Marine Corps, serving as a sergeant. He was educated at Cornell, where he was a member of the Telluride House, and the University of Chicago, where he got his Ph.D. He then taught for nearly a decade in the Department of Government at the University of Texas. From 1998 until 2005 he was professor of public policy at the University of Maryland. Later he was executive director for the National Commission on Civic Renewal. Galston founded, with support from The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. He was also director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, both located at the University of Maryland.
He has written on questions of political and moral philosophy, U.S. politics and public policy, having produced eight books and more than one hundred articles. His most recent book is Public Matters: Politics, Policy, and Religion in the 21st Century (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005). Galston is also a co-author of Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation and What We Can Do About It, published by the Brookings Press.
Galston became an op-ed columnist for the Wall Street Journal in 2013. In 2014, he continued public commentary on partisan politics.
Publications
References
External links
The Brookings Institution profile
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
American political philosophers
1946 births
Jewish American academics
Jewish philosophers
20th-century American Jews
21st-century American Jews
Political scientists who studied under Leo Strauss
United States Marines
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University of Chicago alumni
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
University of Texas faculty
Clinton administration personnel
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Philosophers from Texas
Philosophers from Illinois
Philosophers from Maryland
Brookings Institution people |
4036103 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubria | Aubria | Aubria is a small genus of frogs, with two (possibly three) known species. All members of this genus are found in West Africa. Their common name is ball frogs or fishing frogs.
Etymology
The genus name Aubria is in honour of Charles Eugène Aubry-Lecomte, a French colonial administrator and amateur naturalist.
Species
The recognized species are:
Aubria masako (Ohler & Kazadi, 1990) - Masako fishing frog
Aubria subsigillata (Duméril, 1856) - brown ball frog
The status of A. occidentalis is disputed; following the Amphibian Species of the World it is here treated as a synonym of A. subsigillata.
References
Pyxicephalidae
Amphibians of Sub-Saharan Africa
Amphibian genera
Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger |
4036113 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20di%20Laura | Carlos di Laura | Carlos di Laura (born 19 October 1964) is a former tennis player from Peru.
He participated in the 1984 Summer Olympics for his native country. The left-hander won three tour doubles titles during his professional career.
Di Laura reached his highest singles ranking on 12 May 1986, when he became the world No. 92.
Career finals
Doubles (3 titles, 2 runner-ups)
References
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1964 births
Living people
Olympic tennis players of Peru
Pepperdine Waves men's tennis players
Peruvian expatriates in the United States
Peruvian male tennis players
Tennis players at the 1984 Summer Olympics
20th-century Peruvian people
21st-century Peruvian people |
4036116 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Calypso | HMS Calypso | The following ships of the Royal Navy were assigned the name Calypso, after Calypso, a sea nymph in Greek mythology:
, a 16-gun sloop of 342 tons burthen, launched at Graves, Deptford 27 September 1783. She sank during a violent storm on 30 July 1803 with the loss of all her crew when a heavily laden West Indiaman ran afoul of her.
, an 18-gun sloop of the launched at Dudman, Deptford Wharf 2 February 1805; not broken up until 1821.
, a 10-gun . Ordered 1824 for construction at Deptford Dockyard; renamed Hyaena in 1826; and cancelled 21 February 1831.
Calypso was to be a 10-gun brig-sloop of the Cherokee class. Laid down March 1825 at Chatham Dockyard as HMS Hyaena; launched 19 August 1826 and renamed Calypso that same year; completed as a yacht for the governor of Malta. Later a packet brig for Royal Navy. Lost 1 February 1833.
Calypso, to be a 10-gun brig-sloop of the Cherokee class. Laid down 1829 at Woolwich dockyard; renamed Hyaena in 1830; cancelled 1831.
, a sixth rate launched at Chatham Dockyard in May 1845; broken up 29 January 1866.
, a 46-gun fifth rate of 1,103 tons bm. Launched at Deptford Dockyard 12 January 1819. Relegated to harbour service in 1850; renamed HMS Calypso 9 March 1870, and sold 28 February 1895.
, a launched in 1883, used as a training ship for the Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve from 1902, renamed HMS Briton in 1916, sold in 1922 and used as a storage hulk, and now awash north of Lewisporte.
, a of the Caledon sub-class; launched in 1917 and sunk in 1940 by the Italian submarine .
See also
(ex-Royal Navy minesweeper HMS J-026), research ship of Jacques-Yves Cousteau
References
pp. 42, 57, 169.
Grocott, Terence (1997) Shipwrecks of the revolutionary & Napoleonic eras (Chatham).
Royal Navy ship names |
4036128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinderton | Kinderton | Kinderton is an electoral ward in Middlewich, Cheshire, England. Kinderton was also historically the name of a township in Middlewich on the opposite side of the River Croco from the current ward.
In the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–72) John Marius Wilson described Kinderton:
References
Middlewich |
4036134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conraua | Conraua | Conraua, known as slippery frogs or giant frogs is a genus of large frogs from sub-Saharan Africa. Conraua is the only genus in the family Conrauidae. Alternatively, it may be placed in the family Petropedetidae.
This genus includes the largest frog of the world, Conraua goliath, which may grow to in snout–vent length and weigh as much as . Four of the seven species in this genus are threatened.
Etymology
The generic name Conraua honours Gustav Conrau, a German trader and labour recruiter in Cameroon who was the collector of the holotype of Conraua robusta, the type species of the genus.
Species
The recognized species are:
Conraua alleni
Conraua beccarii
Conraua crassipes
Conraua derooi Hulselmans, 1972
Conraua goliath (Boulenger, 1906) – goliath frog
Conraua robusta Nieden, 1908 – Cameroon slippery frog
Conraua sagyimase Neira-Salamea, Ofori-Boateng, Kouamé, Blackburn, Segniagbeto, Hillers, Barej, Leaché & Rödel, 2021
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Conraua.
References
External links
Amphibians of Sub-Saharan Africa
Amphibian genera
Taxa named by Fritz Nieden |
4036144 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biguanide | Biguanide | Biguanide () is the organic compound with the formula HN(C(NH)NH2)2. It is a colorless solid that dissolves in water to give highly basic solution. These solutions slowly hydrolyse to ammonia and urea.
Biguanidine drugs
A variety of derivatives of biguanide are used as pharmaceutical drugs.
Antihyperglycemic agents
The term "biguanidine" often refers specifically to a class of drugs that function as oral antihyperglycemic drugs used for diabetes mellitus or prediabetes treatment.
Examples include:
Metformin - widely used in treatment of diabetes mellitus type 2
Phenformin - withdrawn from the market in most countries due to toxic effects
Buformin - withdrawn from the market due to toxic effects
History
Galega officinalis (French lilac) was used in diabetes treatment for centuries. In the 1920s, guanidine compounds were discovered in Galega extracts. Animal studies showed that these compounds lowered blood glucose levels. Some less toxic derivatives, synthalin A and synthalin B, were used for diabetes treatment, but after the discovery of insulin, their use declined. Biguanides were reintroduced into Type 2 diabetes treatment in the late 1950s. Initially phenformin was widely used, but its potential for sometimes fatal lactic acidosis resulted in its withdrawal from most pharmacopeias (in the U.S. in 1978). Metformin has a much better safety profile, and it is the principal biguanide drug used in pharmacotherapy worldwide.
Mechanism of action
The mechanism of action of biguanides is not fully understood, and many mechanisms have been proposed for metformin.
Biguanides do not affect the output of insulin, unlike other hypoglycemic agents such as sulfonylureas and meglitinides. Therefore, they are effective in Type 2 diabetics; and in Type 1 diabetes when used in conjunction with insulin therapy.
Mainly used in Type II diabetes, metformin is considered to increase insulin sensitivity in vivo, resulting in reduced plasma glucose concentrations, increased glucose uptake, and decreased gluconeogenesis.
However, in hyperinsulinemia, biguanides can lower fasting levels of insulin in plasma. Their therapeutic uses derive from their tendency to reduce gluconeogenesis in the liver, and, as a result, reduce the level of glucose in the blood. Biguanides also tend to make the cells of the body more willing to absorb glucose already present in the bloodstream, and there again reducing the level of glucose in the plasma.
Side effects and toxicity
The most common side effect is diarrhea and dyspepsia, occurring in up to 30% of patients. The most important and serious side effect is lactic acidosis, therefore metformin is contraindicated in advanced chronic kidney disease. Kidney function should be assessed before starting metformin. Phenformin and buformin are more prone to cause acidosis than metformin; therefore they have been practically replaced by it. However, when metformin is combined with other drugs (combination therapy), hypoglycemia and other side effects are possible.
Antimalarial
Some biguanides are also used as antimalarial drugs. Examples include:
Proguanil
Chlorproguanil
Disinfectants
The disinfectants chlorhexidine, polyaminopropyl biguanide (PAPB), polihexanide, and alexidine feature biguanide functional groups.
References
Guanidines |
4036145 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Amend | Eric Amend | Eric Amend (born November 17, 1965) is an American former tennis player who represented the United States at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Born in Berkeley, California, the right-hander did not win any ATP titles during his professional career reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on September 20, 1993, when he became the World No. 234. Amend served as an assistant coach for his alma mater's Tennis Team, at the University of Southern California, for five years during which the team won the 2009 & 2010 NCAA National Championships.
External links
1965 births
Living people
American male tennis players
Olympic tennis players of the United States
Sportspeople from Berkeley, California
Tennis people from California
Tennis players at the 1984 Summer Olympics
USC Trojans men's tennis coaches
USC Trojans men's tennis players
American tennis coaches |
4036167 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%2C4-Dimethoxybenzene | 1,4-Dimethoxybenzene | 1,4-Dimethoxybenzene is an organic compound with the formula CH(OCH). It is one of three isomers of dimethoxybenzene. It is a white solid with an intensely sweet floral odor. It is produced by several plant species.
Occurrence
It occurs naturally in willow (Salix), tea, hyacinth, zucchini (Cucurbita pepo). It appears to attract bees as it has a powerful response in their antenna. In a study in mice, Iranian scientists identified 1,4-dimethoxybenzene as the major psychoactive chemical in musk willow (Salix aegyptiaca) by its ability to cause somnolescence and depressed activity.
Preparation
It is produced by the methylation of hydroquinone using dimethylsulfate and an alkali.
Uses
1,4-Dimethoxybenzene is mainly used in perfumes and soaps.
It is an intermediate in synthesis of organic compounds, including pharmaceuticals such as methoxamine and butaxamine.
Niche uses
It can be used as a developer in black and white film, and as a base in synthesizing catecholamines and phenethylamines.
References
Hydroquinone ethers
O-methylated natural phenols
Sweet-smelling chemicals |
4036168 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrosi%20Hoffmann | Ambrosi Hoffmann | Ambrosi Hoffmann (born 22 March 1977, in Davos) is a Swiss alpine skier.
At the 2002 Winter Olympics, he finished 8th in downhill. He won a bronze medal in super-G at the 2006 Winter Olympics and placed 17th in the downhill event.
References
External links
1977 births
Swiss male alpine skiers
Alpine skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Olympic alpine skiers of Switzerland
Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Olympic medalists in alpine skiing
Olympic bronze medalists for Switzerland
Living people
People from Davos
Sportspeople from Graubünden |
4036169 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphlyctis | Euphlyctis | Euphlyctis is a genus of frogs in family Dicroglossidae distributed from the southwestern Arabian Peninsula, Pakistan and Afghanistan to India, Nepal, through Myanmar and Thailand to Malaya, and Sri Lanka. None of the four species assessed by the IUCN is considered threatened.
Species
There are eight species recognised in the genus Euphlyctis:
Euphlyctis aloysii Joshy, Alam, Kurabayashi, Sumida, and Kuramoto, 2009
Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis (Schneider, 1799)
Euphlyctis ehrenbergii (Peters, 1863)
Euphlyctis ghoshi (Chanda, 1991)
Euphlyctis hexadactylus (Lesson, 1834)
Euphlyctis kalasgramensis Howlader, Nair, Gopalan, and Merilä, 2015
Euphlyctis karaavali Priti, Naik, Seshadri, Singal, Vidisha, Ravikanth, and Gururaja, 2016
Euphlyctis kerala Dinesh, Channakeshavamurthy, Deepak, Ghosh, and Deuti, 2021
Euphlyctis mudigere Joshy, Alam, Kurabayashi, Sumida, and Kuramoto, 2009 was placed into the synonymy of Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis
References
Dicroglossidae
Amphibians of Asia
Amphibian genera
Taxa named by Leopold Fitzinger |
4036172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GayVN%20Awards | GayVN Awards | The GayVN Awards are film awards presented annually to honor work done in the gay pornographic industry. The awards were sponsored by AVN Magazine, the parent publication of GAYVN Magazine, and continue the recognition for gay pornography which was part of the AVN Awards from 1986–1998. The awards went on a hiatus after the 2011 ceremony and returned in 2018.
The award recipients are listed below by the year of the award ceremony. In 1998, the first year of the awards, awards were given for that current year's work. Starting with the awards show held in 2000, the awards were given for the previous year's work. For example, the 8th GAYVN Awards were held Thursday, March 9, 2006; awards were given for the movies that were released in 2005. The awards have been held annually since 2000. The current record-holder for the most wins in one year is Lucas Entertainment's Michael Lucas' La Dolce Vita (2006), which won 14 awards in 2007. The previous record-holder with 11 award wins in 2005 was Buckshot Productions' BuckleRoos.
1998
Winners from the 1998 GayVN Awards held December 4, 1998, at the Westin Bonaventure, Los Angeles, California, as published in Choices: The 1999 AVN Awards Show official program:
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1999
Starting in 2000, awards would be given for the previous year's achievement. Therefore, the awards recognizing achievement in 1999 would be given at the award ceremony in 2000; there was no award ceremony in 1999.
2000
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2001
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2002
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2003
Host: Taylor Negron
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2004
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2005
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2006
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2007
Host: Kathy Griffin
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2008
Host: Derek Hartley & Romaine Patterson
Cohost: Lady Bunny
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2009
Host: Janice Dickinson & Margaret Cho
Cohost: Alec Mapa
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2010
Host: Alec Mapa
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2018
GayVN Awards was held after a hiatus of seven years on January 21, 2018, at Hard Rock Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. It was hosted by Shangela Laquifa Wadley and was held a week before 35th AVN Award at the same location. Awards were presented in 27 categories.
Full list of nominees and winners
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2019
Awards were presented at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on January 21, 2019.
2019 GayVN Hall of Fame Inductee
Keith Miller, founder of Helix Studios
Best Actor (Tie)
Wesley Woods, Zack & Jack Make a Porno, Falcon Studios
Diego Sans, Pirates: A Gay XXX Parody, Men.com/Pulse
Best All-Sex Movie
Summer Break 2, BelAmi/Pulse
Best Bi Sex Scene
Lance Hart, Pierce Paris & Dahlia Sky; Wanna Fuck My Wife? Gotta Fuck Me Too 11, Devil's Film
Best Director – Feature
Jake Jaxson, All Saints: Chapter 1, CockyBoys
Best Director – Non-Feature
Chi Chi LaRue & Tony Dimarco; Love & Lust in New Orleans, Falcon Studios
Best Duo Sex Scene
Max Konnor & Armond Rizzo; “Big Black Daddy,” NoirMale.com
Best Feature
All Saints: Chapter 1, CockyBoys
Best Fetish Sex Scene
JJ Knight & Sean Zevran; Tie Me Up! Dick Me Down!, CockyBoys
Best Group Sex Scene
Josh Brady, Corbin Colby, Joey Mills, Cameron Parks, Angel Rivera & Luke Wilder; “Splash,” HelixStudios.com
Best Newcomer
Alam Wernik
Best Parody
Pirates: A Gay XXX Parody, Men.com/Pulse
Best Supporting Actor
Bruce Beckham, The Slutty Professor, NakedSword/Falcon
Best Three-Way Sex Scene
Ace Era, Tyler Roberts & Dave Slick; The Slutty Professor, NakedSword/Falcon
Performer of the Year
Wesley Woods
2020
Awards were presented at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on January 21, 2020. The show was hosted by Alec Mapa and Nicole Byer, with performances by King Princess and Alyssa Edwards.
2020 GayVN Hall of Fame inductee
Tim Valenti, NakedSword/Falcon Studios CEO
Best Actor
DeAngelo Jackson, Blended Family, Icon Male/Mile High
Best All-Sex Movie
Love and Lust in Montreal, Falcon Studios
Best Bi Sex Scene
Natalie Mars, Ella Nova, Ricky Larkin & Wesley Woods; Free for All, WhyNotBi.com
Best Director – Feature
Jake Jaxson & RJ Sebastian; Le Garçon Scandaleux, CockyBoys/PinkTV;
Best Director – Non-Feature
Steve Cruz; Outta the Park!, Raging Stallion/Falcon
Best Duo Sex Scene
Ashton Summers & Phoenix Fellington, Fellington’s Flip Fuck, HelixStudios.com
Best Feature
Vegas Nights, HelixStudios.com
Best Fetish Sex Scene
Alex Mecum & Michael DelRay; My Brother's Discipline, Kink.com
Best Group Sex Scene
Alam Wernik, Blake Ryder, Jay Dymel, Nic Sahara & Sean Duran; Five Brothers: The Takedown, NakedSword/Falcon
Best Newcomer
Nic Sahara and Alex Riley (tie)
Best Supporting Actor
Dante Colle, At Large, Raging Stallion/Falcon
Best Three-Way Sex Scene
Jack Harrer, Peter Annaud & Marcel Gassion; Offensively Large 4, BelAmi/Pulse
Performer of the Year
Cade Maddox
Fan awards
Favorite Bear
Teddy Torres
Favorite Body
Blake Mitchell
Favorite Bottom
Rourke
Favorite Butt
Beaux Banks
Favorite Cam Guy
Callum and Cole (joint page)
Favorite Cock
Calvin Banks
Favorite Daddy
Rocco Steele
Favorite Dom
Austin Wolf
Favorite FTM Star
Billy Vega
Favorite Top
Zilv Gudel
Favorite Twink
Joey Mills
Hottest Newcomer
Rhyheim Shabazz
Social Media Star
Armond Rizzo
2021
Awards were presented virtually during a live stream at AVNStars.com on January 18, 2021. The show was hosted by Alec Mapa and Sherry Vine.
Best Actor
Angel Rivera, A Murdered Heart, NakedSword
Best All-Sex Movie
Summer Loves, BelAmi
Best Bi Sex Scene
Maya Bijou, Dante Colle & Kaleb Stryker, The Elevator Goes Both Ways, WhyNotBi.com
Best Director – Feature
Jake Jaxson & RJ Sebastian, Hollywood & Vine, CockyBoys
Best Director – Non-Feature
Steve Cruz, Cake Shop, Raging Stallion
Best Duo Sex Scene
Rhyheim Shabazz & Sean Zevran, Big Dicks Going Deep, CockyBoys
Best Feature
A Murdered Heart, NakedSword
Best Fetish Sex Scene
Dirk Caber, Nate Grimes, Jaxx Thanatos & Kurtis Wolfe, Tom of Finland: Leather Bar Initiation, Men.com
Best Group Sex Scene
Riley Finch, Johnny Hands, Jacob Hansen, Garrett Kinsley, Travis Stevens & Ashton Summers, Inside Helix, Helix Studios
Best Newcomer
Brock Banks
Fan Awards
Hottest Newcomer
Seth Peterson
Favorite Twink
Austin L Young
Social Media Star
Joey Mills
Favorite Cam Guy
Max Konnor
Favorite Camming Couple
Jacob and Harley
Favorite Top
Austin Wolf
Favorite bottom
Devin Franco
Favorite FTM Star
Trip Richards
Favorite Dom
Zilv Gudel
Favorite Cock
Cade Maddox
Favorite Butt
Alam Wernik
Favorite Bear
Teddy Torres
Favorite Daddy
Rocco Steele
Favorite Body
Alex Mecum
GayVN Star of the Year
Camran Mac
2022
Awards were presented virtually on January 19, 2022. The show was hosted by Alec Mapa and Jackie Beat.
2022 GayVN Hall of Fame inductee
Howard Andrew, FabScout Entertainment
Performer of the Year
Max Konnor
Best All-Sex Movie
Fuck Me I'm Famous (BelAmi/TLAGay)
Best Bi Sex Scene
Draven Navarro, Joel Someone and Vanessa Vega, My Wife Found Out I'm Bi! (Devil’s Film)
Best Director — Feature
Alex Roman, Return to Helix Academy Parts 1 and 2 (Helix Studios)
Best Director — Non-Feature
Steve Cruz and Leo Forte, Born to Porn (Falcon Studios)
Fan awards
Favorite Camming Couple
Pablo and Sebas
Favorite Cock
Cade Maddox
Hottest Newcomer
Felix Fox
See also
Adult Erotic Gay Video Awards
List of Grabby recipients
List of gay pornography awards
Gay Erotic Video Awards
List of male performers in gay porn films
References
GayVN Awards
Previous GayVN Winners
External links
Official Website
2010 "GayVN Weekend: List of Winners"
Pornographic film awards
Gay pornographic film awards
American pornographic film awards
Awards established in 1998
21st-century awards |
4036173 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakenham%2C%20Suffolk | Pakenham, Suffolk | Pakenham is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Its name can be linked to Anglo-Saxon roots, Pacca being the founder of a settlement on the hill surrounding Pakenham church. The village describes itself as the "Village of Two Mills", as it has a water mill which claims to be the only working example in the county. The Pakenham windmill no longer works.
The village sits to the east of Bury St. Edmunds and is administered as part of the borough of St Edmundsbury. Prior to the local government reorganisation of 1974 it was part of Thingoe Rural District.
History
Pacca was the founder of a settlement on the hill where Pakenham church now sits, on an area higher than the waters of Pakenham Fen. The discovery of many Anglo-Saxon remains, notably that of a bone-toothed comb in the old school garden (near the church) in the 1950s, testify to the authenticity of the site. The village was therefore named Pacca's Ham, i.e. the home of Pacca.
This name eventually became Pakenham, (pronounced locally with a long "a" sound.) The Anglo-Saxon family name later became "de Pakenham". Pacca's descendants continued to farm here until the Norman Conquest of 1066.
The village has contained several manor houses, such as Pakenham Hall the family seat of the Spring family, but has now been demolished. Nether Hall was the original home of the de Pakenham family, and later seat of the Greene baronets. Newe House was built by Sir Robert Bright before becoming the dower house of the Spring family. Several members of the Spring family are buried in the parish church.
Notable residents
Hamon L'Estrange (1605 – 1660), writer on history, theology and liturgy who is buried at Pakenham.
Joanne Jennings (1969- ), high jumper who competed for Great Britain twice at the Summer Olympics and won silver at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.
Thomas Thornhill (1837-1900), baronet, High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1860, Conservative politician, and Member of Parliament (MP) for the Western division of Suffolk at a by-election in October 1875, and held the seat until the constituency was abolished at the 1885 general election.
Gallery
See also
Pakenham Windmill
References
External links
Village website
Village Hall website
Water mill website
Village website
Villages in Suffolk
Civil parishes in Suffolk
Borough of St Edmundsbury
Thedwastre Hundred |
4036178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Malcolm%20%28musician%29 | George Malcolm (musician) | George John Malcolm CBE KSG (28 February 191710 October 1997) was an English pianist, organist, composer, harpsichordist, and conductor.
Malcolm's first instrument was the piano, and his first teacher was a nun who recognised his talent and recommended him to the Royal College of Music at the age of seven, where he studied under Kathleen McQuitty FRCM until he was 19. He attended Wimbledon College, and went on to study at Balliol College, Oxford in the 1930s.
During the Second World War he had a musical role with the RAF becoming a bandleader. After the War he completed his musical studies with Herbert Fryer. He bought a harpsichord at auction and went on to develop a career as a harpsichordist. He continued to make occasional appearances as a pianist, for example in Mozart's music for four hands and with the Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble (with whom he made one of his rare recordings as pianist in the first performance of the Gordon Jacob Sextet, written for the group). As a mentor, he also influenced a number of musicians not necessarily associated with the harpsichord such as Andras Schiff.
Harpsichord career
Like Wanda Landowska, he favoured rather large 'revival' harpsichords with pedals, built in a modern style, that now are seen as "unauthentic" for Baroque music. While aspects of his interpretations may seem outdated by the standards of today's "historically informed performance practice", his recordings and live performances introduced many people to the harpsichord.
As well as Baroque works, he played modern harpsichord repertoire. His own composition "Bach before the Mast" (a humorous set of variations on The Sailor's Hornpipe in the style of Johann Sebastian Bach) was written as a B side for a cover version of the Alec Templeton number Bach goes to town which he released in the 1950s. He also wrote "Variations on a Theme of Mozart".
Collaborations with other harpsichordists
In the 1950s he participated in annual concerts featuring four harpsichordists, the three others being Thurston Dart, Denis Vaughan and Eileen Joyce. In 1957 this group also recorded two of Vivaldi's Concertos for Four Harpsichords, one in a Bach arrangement, with the Pro Arte Orchestra under Boris Ord. Malcolm, Dart and Joyce also recorded Bach's Concerto in C for Three Harpsichords. In 1967, he appeared with Eileen Joyce, Geoffrey Parsons and Simon Preston in a four-harpsichord concert with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields under Neville Marriner in the Royal Festival Hall.
Organist and choir-master
He also pursued a notable career as an organist and choir-trainer. After serving as organist-choirmaster of St Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Clapham, he was Master of Music of Westminster Cathedral for 12 years (1947–1959). He developed the choir's forthright, full-throated tone—often, but rather vacuously described as "continental"—which contrasted with that of Anglican choirs at the time. Benjamin Britten praised the choir's 'staggering brilliance and authority', and proposed to write a piece for them. This resulted in the Missa Brevis (1959). Its first performance was one of Malcolm's last services at Westminster Cathedral before he retired on 1 September 1959. He continued to play the organ, recording the Handel organ concertos for example.
Malcolm was founding patron of Spode Music Week, an annual residential music school that places particular emphasis on the music of the Roman Catholic liturgy. Malcolm also composed for voices, a well-known piece being his Palm Sunday introit Ingrediente Domino. His setting of Psalm 51 Miserere mei (composed in 1950, presumed lost but rediscovered in the Cathedral archives in 2011) is reminiscent of Ivor Atkins' 1951 version of Gregorio Allegri's Miserere.
A devout Roman Catholic, Malcolm was awarded papal honours for his services as Master of Music at Westminster Cathedral.
Conducting
Benjamin Britten engaged Malcolm in 1960 to conduct the second and third performances of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
In later life Malcolm developed a career as a conductor, forging long-standing relationships with ensembles such as the English Chamber Orchestra and the Northern Sinfonia orchestra. The pianist András Schiff, who left Hungary to study with Malcolm, was a frequent concerto soloist under his baton, and the two recorded Mozart's complete works for piano duet together on the composer's own piano.
Burial and legacy
Malcolm was born and died in London. He is interred in the graveyard at St Nicholas Church, Saintbury, Gloucestershire.
Malcolm's centenary was marked by Balliol College in 2017.
Discography
In 1967, he recorded The Complete Harpsichord Works of Rameau (Argo Record Co, London).
See also
Millicent Silver
Notes
External links
Interview from The Harpsichord Magazine
Biography from the website of Ian Partridge
George Malcolm official website
1917 births
1997 deaths
English classical organists
British male organists
English classical pianists
Male classical pianists
English harpsichordists
English Roman Catholics
English people of Scottish descent
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Alumni of the Royal College of Music
Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
Cathedral organists
20th-century classical pianists
20th-century classical musicians
20th-century English musicians
People educated at Wimbledon College
20th-century organists
20th-century British male musicians |
4036180 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fejervarya | Fejervarya | Fejervarya is a genera of frogs in the family Dicroglossidae found in Asia. First proposed in 1915 by István József Bolkay, a Hungarian naturalist, the genus did not see widespread adoption at first. As late as the 1990s it was generally included in Rana, but more recent studies have confirmed its distinctness.
These frogs are remarkable for being extremely euryhaline by amphibian standards. Species such as the crab-eating frog (F. cancrivora) can thrive in brackish water, and its tadpoles can even survive in pure seawater.
Systematics and taxonomy
Fejervarya was first introduced as subgenus of Rana and later placed as subgenus as Limnonectes. It was treated as an independent genus first in 1998. However, Fejervarya sensu lato was found to be paraphyletic with respect to Sphaerotheca. This issue was eventually resolved in 2011 by splitting off Zakerana from Fejervarya. Fejervarya, as now defined, is distributed from eastern India (Orissa) eastwards through Myanmar to southern China and Indochina to the islands of the Sunda Shelf as well as Japan. In contrast, Zakerana contains species from southern Asia (Sri Lanka and Indian subcontinent including Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh).
The widespread Cricket Frog (F. limnocharis) and some others have also been suspected to be cryptic species complexes since at least the 1970s, and indeed a few populations have been identified that almost certainly constitute undescribed species.
Species
The following 13 species are recognised in the genus Fejerverya:
Fejervarya cancrivora (Gravenhorst, 1829)
Fejervarya iskandari Veith, Kosuch, Ohler, and Dubois, 2001
Fejervarya kawamurai Djong, Matsui, Kuramoto, Nishioka, and Sumida, 2011
Fejervarya kupitzi Köhler et al., 2019
Fejervarya limnocharis (Gravenhorst, 1829)
Fejervarya moodiei (Taylor, 1920)
Fejervarya multistriata (Hallowell, 1861)
Fejervarya orissaensis (Dutta, 1997)
Fejervarya pulla (Stoliczka, 1870)
Fejervarya sakishimensis Matsui, Toda, and Ota, 2008
Fejervarya triora Stuart, Chuaynkern, Chan-ard, and Inger, 2006
Fejervarya verruculosa (Roux, 1911)
Fejervarya vittigera (Wiegmann, 1834)
Phylogeny
The following phylogeny of Fejervarya is from Pyron & Wiens (2011). 7 species are included. Fejervarya is a sister group of Zakerana, which had until recently been included in Fejervarya.
Vocalisation behaviour
References
External links
Dicroglossidae
Amphibians of Asia
Amphibian genera |
4036185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire%20%28James%20Bond%29 | Solitaire (James Bond) | Solitaire is a fictional character in the James Bond novel and film Live and Let Die. In the film, she was portrayed by Jane Seymour.
Novel biography
In a relative rarity for the James Bond franchise, there is little difference between the film and novel in the treatment of Solitaire's basic character and role. The novel reveals that her real name is Simone Latrelle, that she is of French stock, and she was born in Haiti; the name "Solitaire" (an near-oronym of her real name) is given to her by the Haitians because of her apparent exclusion of men from her life. The only physical difference appears to be that Solitaire is stated to have blue-black hair; she also possesses pale skin reminiscent of the tropical planter class. When Bond meets her she is twenty-five years old and described as "one of the most beautiful women Bond had ever seen." On a later occasion Bond describes her as looking "rather French and very beautiful." At their first meeting, in the presence of Mr. Big, she comes across as superior, cold, and disdainful, an attitude reflected by her face, which Bond finds beautiful partly because of its lack of compromise and its hint of both cruelty and command. Once Solitaire has escaped from Mr. Big, she immediately becomes warm, open, and passionate towards Bond. Despite her obvious Gallic-Haitian heritage, there is no mention of her having any French accent.
Solitaire was initiated into some of the practices of Voodoo while still a child in Haiti. Either naturally or through this initiation, she has an extrasensory ability both to foretell the future and to judge the veracity of others, even if they converse in a language that she does not speak. These gifts instilled great fear of her among those who know her. Mr. Big discovered her doing a mind-reading act in a Haitian cabaret and, recognizing the value of her abilities, took her into his employ, using her in his espionage operations and planning for her eventually to have his children. Solitaire becomes, more or less, his hostage, with little or no autonomy, and when he uses her to interrogate Bond, her mental abilities immediately tell her that he is the one who will rescue her. She thus covers for Bond by lying to Mr. Big, telling him that Bond is not out to get the gangster. She later escapes from Mr. Big and accompanies Bond on his assignment, though the gangster locates and kidnaps her, ultimately attempting, unsuccessfully, to kill both her and Bond by towing them over a Jamaican reef (a scenario adapted for the film version of For Your Eyes Only). The effort fails when Mr. Big's boat is destroyed by a mine Bond had earlier planted. The novel ends with Solitaire preparing to accompany Bond on his post-assignment recuperative leave.
Unlike in the film, there is no evidence that Solitaire would lose her psychic powers after sexual congress, an eventuality that does not appear due to a broken finger Bond sustains and his need to stay vigilant during their only night together. As is the case in the film, she is apparently a virgin, and she gives every sign of wishing to have a sexual relationship with Bond, going so far as to initiate their first physical contact and later teasing him with her nudity. While the culmination never comes to pass in the novel, the indications are that it will happen during their shared vacation as the story concludes. Unusually for one of Fleming's heroines, what becomes of Solitaire after Live and Let Die is never explained; in Dr. No, when returning to Jamaica, Bond finds himself wondering about her whereabouts.
Film biography
Solitaire is a psychic in the employ of Dr. Kananga. As Bond travels to New York by plane, Solitaire describes his journey to Dr. Kananga through the use of Tarot cards. The one drawback to her ability is that she must remain a virgin in order to preserve it.
After Bond follows Kananga to the Fillet of Soul restaurant, he meets Solitaire. After a rather brief encounter with Mr. Big, Bond asks Solitaire about his future. When instructed to pick up a card Bond quizzically comments "us?” after picking up The Lovers card.
When Bond and Rosie Carver visit San Monique, Solitaire tells Kananga the future, once more picking The Lovers card in regard to Bond, but for the first time she lies to him about what she sees, saying that it is the Death card. When her false reading proves to be inaccurate, she incurs Kananga's anger. He points out that her mother had had the gift too, but lost it and so became useless to him (Presumably by losing her virginity and perhaps resulting in Solitaire's birth). Later that evening Bond returns to the island. After convincing Solitaire they are meant to be lovers, by the use of a Tarot deck secretly composed of only The Lover cards, Bond succeeds in seducing her. After losing her virginity to Bond, Solitaire loses her psychic power, which endangers her life. Bond discovers Kananga is hiding vast areas of opium poppy fields. Bond and Solitaire evade Kananga's men, escaping in Quarrel Jr.'s boat.
After arriving in New Orleans, Bond and Solitaire are captured and taken to Mr Big. Before Bond can be given his skydiving lesson without a parachute, he manages to escape. Solitaire is recaptured by Kananga's henchmen and taken back to him.
Later, Felix Leiter informs Bond that after a raid on the Fillet of Soul, Kananga has taken Solitaire back to San Monique, leaving three Tarot cards: The High Priestess, The Moon, and Death. After travelling to San Monique, Bond rescues Solitaire and kills Kananga while Quarrel Jr. destroys the opium poppy fields.
Analysis
Screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz has stated that although Solitaire is a white person in the novel, he initially wrote her as black, with Diana Ross in mind. United Artists president David Picker objected, however, on the basis that there were several countries where the film could not be released if there were relations between Bond and Solitaire. According to Ian Kinane, even though Solitaire is French Haitian in the book,
The casting of British actress Jane Seymour as Solitaire eradicates from the narrative those concerns regarding the character's cultural hybridity... thus marking her realignment by Bond in politico-ideological and not racial terms. While Solitaire's religious and spiritual practices are discernibly non-Western (and therefore threatening to the ordered rigidity of British Christendom), Seymour's whiteness does much to mitigate such fears in the viewers' eyes: her whiteness aligns Solitaire's powers of the obeah less with Black primitivism and more with a sublimated Christian religiosity.
Joyce Goggin argues that Solitaire is at the center of the film: "many of the remarkable and strange features that contribute to the uniqueness of both novel and film are related precisely to voodoo, superstition and the Tarot, here given an added frisson through a highly eroticised medium in the person of Solitaire." Goggin also suggests that Solitaire "functions as very liquid panoply of stereotypical markers of Otherness and sexuality."
Patrick Maille notes that Solitaire is naïve about sexuality and compares her to a damsel in distress. Monica Germanà draws on Linda Welter's study of European/Anatolian folkloric dress to connect Solitaire's dress with the preoccupation the film has with her virginity:
The emphasis on Solitaire's chastity is conveyed, to begin with, by the high neckline of her first appearance in ethnic dress, and the colour red, which, with its associations with blood, and, in turn, menstruation and childbirth, is simultaneously used to foreshadow a bride's loss of virginity and future fertility in ethnic bridal gowns. Later, in St Monique, the bridal motif is pursued through a more revealing red dress, elaborate headdress, and a green cape studded with red stones; since Solitaire is about to lose her virginity to Bond, her neckline has dropped. Back in New York, the neckline plunges down to a butterfly appliqué stitched on the high waist of the red and gold dress she wears on her last tarot reading session.
Britni Dutz sees the initial shots of Solitaire as an example of scopophilia, illustrating Laura Mulvey's "gaze theory":
In the fleeting introductory shots of Solitaire, she is introduced to the viewer not as a character, but a “girl,” a silent doll who is dressing up... These shots establish Solitaire as an example of Mulvey's object of the gaze, as an object for pleasurable looking.
References
Fictional fortune tellers
Fictional Haitian people
Live and Let Die (film)
Fictional characters introduced in 1954
Bond girls |
4036186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FASTOPEN | FASTOPEN | In computing, FASTOPEN is a DOS TSR command, introduced in MS-DOS version 3.3, that provides accelerated access to frequently-used files and directories. The command is also available in SISNE plus.
Overview
The command works with hard disks, but not with diskettes (probably for security when swapping) or with network drives (probably because such drives do not offer block-level access, only file-level access).
It is possible to specify for which drives should operate, how many files and directories should be cached on each (10 by default, up to 999 total), how many regions for each drive should be cached and whether the cache should be located in conventional or expanded memory.
If a disk defragmenter tool is used, or if Windows Explorer is to move files or directories, while is installed, it is necessary to reboot the computer afterwards, because would remember the old position of files and directories, causing MS-DOS to display garbage if e.g. "DIR" was performed.
DR DOS 6.0 includes an implementation of the command. is also part of the Windows XP MS-DOS subsystem to maintain MS-DOS and MS OS/2 version 1.x compatibility. It is not available on Windows XP 64-Bit Edition.
The "fastopen" name has since been reused for various other "accelerating" software products.
See also
FASTOPEN (CONFIG.SYS directive)
SmartDrive
List of DOS commands
References
Further reading
External DOS commands |
4036188 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildebrandtia%20%28frog%29 | Hildebrandtia (frog) | Hildebrandtia is a genus of frogs in the family Ptychadenidae. They are distributed in tropical and subtropical Sub-Saharan Africa. The common name of this genus is Hildebrandt's burrowing frogs or ornate frogs. The genus name honours Johann Maria Hildebrandt, a German botanist and explorer.
Description and ecology
Hildebrandtia are medium-sized to large frogs with stocky bodies. They use their large inner metatarsal tubercles for digging. They live in dry to very dry savanna habitats and stay hidden in their burrows most of the year. Reproduction takes place in temporary ponds and puddles at the beginning of the rainy season. The tadpoles are robust-bodied with a muscular tail and low tail fin. They have strong jaws and are carnivorous.
Species
There are three species in this genus:
Hildebrandtia macrotympanum (Boulenger, 1912)
Hildebrandtia ornata (Peters, 1878)
Hildebrandtia ornatissima (Bocage, 1879)
References
Ptychadenidae
Amphibian genera
Amphibians of Sub-Saharan Africa
Taxa named by Fritz Nieden |
4036195 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundbybergs%20centrum%20metro%20station | Sundbybergs centrum metro station | Sundbybergs centrum (Sundbyberg Centre) is a metro station, located in Sundbyberg Municipality, approximately from the centre of Stockholm. It opened on 19 August 1985 as part of the extension to between Västra skogen and Rinkeby. The metro station is connected to a stop on Tvärbanan with the same name, as well as to the railway station Sundbyberg served by the Stockholm commuter rail and long-distance trains.
Gallery
References
External links
Images of Sundbybergs centrum
Stockholm metro stations
Railway stations opened in 1985
1985 establishments in Sweden |
4036209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solna%20centrum%20metro%20station | Solna centrum metro station | Solna centrum is a shopping mall and metro station in Solna Municipality, approximately from central Stockholm, Sweden. It is close to the Friends Arena and opened on 31 August 1975 as part the first stretch of the Blue Line between T-Centralen and Hjulsta. The mall contains around 120 stores and restaurants, 40 offices and 214 apartments.
References
External links
Images of Solna Centrum
http://www.solnacentrum.se/
Stockholm metro stations
Stockholm urban area
Railway stations opened in 1975
1975 establishments in Sweden |
4036226 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizad%20Gustad | Kaizad Gustad | Kaizad Gustad (born 1968) is an Indian film director and author based in Mumbai, India. He is best known for his 1998 comedy Bombay Boys. In his career as an author, he has written three books, Of No Fixed Address published in 1998 by HarperCollins, The Road to Mandalay and 7 Storeys.
Early life
Gustad was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) into a wealthy Parsi family. He has an older brother and a younger sister. He grew up on a farm in the outskirts of Wadi, a town in the Kalaburagi district of Karnataka, where his father and grandfather owned cinema theaters and a stone quarrying business. He first attended the Cathedral and John Connon School in Bombay and then studied at St. Paul's School, Darjeeling. At the age of sixteen, he moved along with his family to Sydney, Australia. He later attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts to study film.
At the age of 18, Gustad left home and started traveling to different parts of the world. He kept a diary on his travels and called it "Of No Fixed Address," in reference to the fact that he had no fixed address for three years. He used this diary as the basis for his book of short stories entitled Of No Fixed Address, which was published in 1998.
Filmography
Bombay Boys
At 28, Gustad wrote and directed his debut feature film Bombay Boys. It starred Naseeruddin Shah, Naveen Andrews and Tara Deshpande among others. It was a break out commercial and critical cult success, paving the way for independent cinema in India. It also travelled to several film festivals worldwide and premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 1998, followed by the Vancouver and London Film Festivals. The film was nominated for best film at Verzaubert, Berlin.
Boom
Gustad's next film as writer and director was Boom, which had an ensemble cast like Amitabh Bachchan, Zeenat Aman, Jackie Shroff, Gulshan Grover, with the debut of supermodels Padma Lakshmi, Madhu Sapre and Katrina Kaif. It was released worldwide.
Later films
Gustad's third film, Bombil and Beatrice, was a British arthouse film made in English, and his fourth and latest offering was Jackpot, a film set in a casino in Goa, starring Sunny Leone and Naseeruddin Shah. The premiere of Jackpot was held at PVR Cinemas in Juhu, Mumbai, and was attended by Shah Rukh Khan. It was released worldwide.
Incidents
In May 2010, Gustad was found guilty of negligence leading to the death of Nadia Khan, an assistant producer working on the set of his film Mumbai Central. Khan was struck by a train near Mumbai's Mahalaxmi station during shooting in May 2004.
Personal life
Gustad dated Miss World Diana Hayden in 1998, during the release of Bombay Boys. In January 2004, he married Alexandra Ritt, an American woman. He has two sons, Zahaan and Zakary.
References
External links
Kaizad Gustad at Kinopoisk
Film directors from Mumbai
Parsi people from Mumbai
1968 births
Living people
St. Paul's School, Darjeeling alumni
Tisch School of the Arts alumni
20th-century Indian film directors |
4036248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duvbo | Duvbo | Duvbo is an upper-middle-class residential area in Sundbyberg in suburban Stockholm, Sweden. In 2019 it had 2217 inhabitants.
The Duvbo metro station is located in central Sundbyberg, just outside (300m) Duvbo and is part of the Stockholm Metro. It was inaugurated on August 19, 1985.
In 1899 the property Dufvebol, then in Spånga municipality, was sold to a suburb development company, which split the land and built roads, naming it Dufbo egna-hems-koloni (Duvbo own home community). After 5 years the suburb was nearly complete, housing 1200 residents. From 1900 trains stopped at the nearby (400m) station Sundbyberg Norra (named so because it was in the north-west of the adjacent suburb Sundbyberg) was opened, until 1963. In 1902 Duvbo became a municipalsamhälle (submunicipality), until 1949 when it transferred into Sundbyberg municipality. An epidemics hospital was built in 1925 on the Ekbacken slope on the south side of Duvbo, an was torn down in the 1960s, replaced by the hospital Sundbybergs sjukhus. Today Ekbacken is instead an elderly care home, next to a few tall residential buildings.
References
Stockholm urban area |
4036250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp%20Kohlschreiber | Philipp Kohlschreiber | Philipp Eberhard Hermann Kohlschreiber (; born 16 October 1983) is a German former professional tennis player. The right-hander won eight singles and seven doubles titles on the ATP World Tour and made the quarterfinals at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking of world No. 16 in July 2012.
Personal life
Kohlschreiber married his long-term girlfriend Lena Alberti on 1 August 2018 in Kitzbühel, Austria.
Career
2007: First ATP career title
In 2007, Kohlschreiber achieved his greatest result at an ATP Masters Series event during the Monte-Carlo Masters, when he reached the quarterfinals after going through qualifying, defeating world No. 12 David Nalbandian in the second round. He won his first career title in Munich defeating Mikhail Youzhny, thereby becoming the first German player to win the event since Michael Stich in 1994.
2008: Four top-ten victories
Kohlschreiber started 2008 by reaching the quarterfinals of the tournament in Doha and winning his second career title in Auckland, where he defeated Juan Carlos Ferrero in the final.
After his win in Auckland, he defeated world No. 6, Andy Roddick, in the third round of the Australian Open 6–4, 3–6, 7–6, 6–7, 8–6. Kohlschreiber hit a personal record 32 aces and 104 winners. He eventually lost in the fourth round to Jarkko Nieminen 6–3, 6–7, 6–7, 3–6. Kohlschreiber failed to convert 11 set points in the second (7) and third (4) sets.
He reached the final of the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, Germany, eventually falling to the four-time champion Roger Federer 3–6, 4–6. At the US Open, he had to retire in the match against Viktor Troicki.
2009: 4th round at the French Open
Kohlschreiber started 2009 by reaching the quarterfinals in Doha and Auckland. The German reached the second round at the Australian Open where he defeated Sam Querrey, before losing to Fabrice Santoro in five sets. In the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Kohlschreiber beat Nicolás Lapentti 6–2, 3–6, 6–3 before being defeated by Fernando Verdasco in the fourth round. Also in 2009, during the French Open, Kohlschreiber defeated world No. 4, Novak Djokovic, in a 6–4, 6–4, 6–4 upset.
In the third round of Wimbledon, he was defeated by Roger Federer 6–3, 6–2, 6–7, 6–1. He was the only person other than finalist Andy Roddick to take a set off of Federer, the eventual champion.
2010: Quarterfinals in Monte Carlo and Canada Masters
Kohlschreiber started the season in Auckland well with three straight sets wins, including wins over Thomaz Bellucci and Frenchman Marc Gicquel before running into eventual finalist Arnaud Clément, losing in straight sets in the semifinals. Kohlschreiber progressed to the third round of the Australian Open with wins over Horacio Zeballos and Wayne Odesnik. He gave second seed Rafael Nadal a test in the third round, before losing 4–6, 2–6, 6–2, 5–7.
He returned to action in San Jose seeing off local boy Rajeev Ram in three sets and crushing Dudi Sela, only losing two games. He then ran into the in-form Denis Istomin and lost in three topsy sets, sparking a three-match losing streak. He crashed out of Memphis to Evgeny Korolev in two tight sets, followed by an easy three set lost to Gaël Monfils in the Davis Cup.
Kohlschreiber got back to winning ways at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells as he had a bye then beat fellow German Philipp Petzschner in straight sets. He then lost a final set tie-breaker in round 3 to world No. 2, Djokovic. At the Sony Ericsson Open Kohlschreiber received another bye and took on fellow German Florian Mayer and it was about to go into a first set tie breaker before Florian retired with an injury. Again he went out in the third round this time to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in straight sets.
To start his clay-court season, Kohlschreiber went to the Monte-Carlo Masters where he caused a couple of upsets. In the first round, he edged out Bellucci in a final set tie-break before he thumped the world No. 4, Andy Murray, for the loss of just three games. He then took on Petzschner, again and again, won in straight sets, to reach the quarterfinals. Where he played David Ferrer and was edged out in two tight sets.
At Wimbledon, Kohlschreiber defeated Potito Starace and Teymuraz Gabashvili, before losing to Andy Roddick in the third round.
At Hamburg, he lost to Thomaz Bellucci in the third round. In September, he hired Murray's former coach Miles Maclagan.
2011: Grand Slam struggles
Kohlschreiber began his year at the Qatar Open where he was the eighth seed. He won his first match against Andreas Seppi 6–2, 6–4 but then lost to Ivo Karlović in a tight match 7–6, 6–7, 7–6. He then went to the Heineken Open in Auckland where he won against Carlos Berlocq 2–6, 6–3, 6–1, and 6–4, 3–6, 6–2 against Marcel Granollers before falling to the top seed David Ferrer, 3–6, 7–6, 3–6, in the quarterfinals.
In February, Kohlschreiber attended the ABN AMRO tournament in Rotterdam. In the first round, he faced Lu Yen-hsun of Taiwan whom he defeated 6–4, 7–6. In the second round, he put up a brave showing against top seed and world No. 4, Robin Söderling, but lost 6–3, 5–7, 7–6.
In the first round of the Davis Cup tie against Croatia, Kohlschreiber saved one match point in the second rubber against Ivan Dodig to win in five sets and to draw the score after day one. In the fourth rubber, Marin Čilić was too strong for Kohlschreiber – he was defeated in straight sets to give the tie a 2–2. In the deciding fifth rubber Philipp Petzschner managed to lead Germany to a 3–2 win. After a first round bye in Indian Wells, Kohlschreiber defeated Tim Smyczek in Round two saving 3 MP before beating world No. 4, Robin Söderling, 7–6, 6–4, saving five set points in the opening set tie-break. In round 4, he lost to Juan Martín del Potro, 6–7, 6–7. Kohlschreiber was defeated by Federer in the second round of the Monte-Carlo Masters after beating Andrey Golubev in round 1.
He captured his third career title at the Gerry Weber Open in Halle defeating Philipp Petzschner in the final. On the way to the title, he overcame Cedrik-Marcel Stebe, Alexandr Dolgopolov, Lleyton Hewitt and Gaël Monfils.
2012: Quarterfinals at Wimbledon
At the Australian Open he lost in the fourth round to Juan Martín del Potro. Kohlschreiber reached the semifinals of Gerry Weber Open, defeating Rafael Nadal in the quarterfinals, 6–3, 6–4. He lost in the semifinals to Tommy Haas, 6–7, 5–7.
Less than two weeks following his defeat of Nadal, Kohlschreiber beat Tommy Haas, Malek Jaziri and then Lukáš Rosol in straight sets 6–2, 6–3, 7–6 in the third round of Wimbledon Championships. Rosol had defeated Nadal in the previous round of in one of the greatest upsets in Grand Slam history. Kohlschreiber then advanced to the quarterfinals of a major for the first time by defeating Brian Baker, but was thwarted by Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7–6, 4–6, 7–6, 6–2. At the US Open, he lost in the fourth round to Janko Tipsarević.
2013: 4th round at the French Open and US Open
At the Australian Open, he lost in the third round to Milos Raonic. He made it to the fourth round of the French Open before losing to world number one, Novak Djokovic. At Wimbledon, he had to retire in his first-round match against Ivan Dodig. At the US Open, he lost in the fourth round to eventual champion Rafael Nadal.
2014: Davis Cup quarterfinals
At the 2014 Rotterdam Open, Kohlschreiber defeated Richard Gasquet to reach quarterfinals, where he lost to Igor Sijsling. At Dubai, he won over Andreas Seppi in the second round and was defeated by Tomáš Berdych in the semifinals.
Kohlschreiber won the Düsseldorf Open, then the following week reached the third round of the French Open where he took reigning Wimbledon champion Andy Murray to five sets.
At Hamburg, he reached the semifinals winning over Gilles Simon and Lukáš Rosol. At the US Open, he defeated John Isner in the third round and lost to Djokovic in the round of 16.
2015: Title in Kitzbühel
Kohlschreiber defeated Paul-Henri Mathieu in the first round of the Australian Open in straight sets for his first win of the season, before bowing out to Bernard Tomic in a tightly contested four-set match, 7–6, 4–6, 6–7, 6–7. He was very dominant against Japanese Go Soeda to begin the French Open, losing only three games, but could not get past Pablo Andújar despite winning sets three and four. He fell to Djokovic with a score of 4–6, 4–6, 4–6 in the first round of Wimbledon. Kohlschreiber then took part in Kitzbühel, defeating two top-30 players in Fabio Fognini and Dominic Thiem in the quarter- and semifinals, respectively. He then defeated Paul-Henri Mathieu to win the tournament. The US Open saw his best grand slam performance of the year, defeating countryman Alexander Zverev in five sets, and then taking down Lukas Rosol with a score of 7–6, 6–2, 6–2. Federer took down Kohlschreiber in straights in the third round, however.
2016: Munich champion, Stuttgart runner-up, poor Grand Slam results
Kohlschreiber began 2016 ranked 34th in the world and had a season high rank of 22. He lost in the first round of the Australian Open to Kei Nishikori in straight sets. He played in the Sofia Open and lost to Victor Troicki in the quarterfinals. His next tournament was the Rotterdam Open where Kohlschreiber beat former US Open champion Marin Cilic in the quarterfinals. He then lost in the next round. Following the Rotterdam semifinals, Kohlschreiber made the quarterfinals of Dubai where he lost to Stan Wawrinka. Kohlschreiber then represented Germany in their Davis Cup team against the Czech Republic where he beat both Lukáš Rosol and Tomáš Berdych.
Kohlschreiber reached the round of 32 at both the Indian Wells Masters and the Monte-Carlo Masters where he lost to Djokovic and Wawrinka, respectively. He reached the semifinals in Barcelona before winning the Munich Open with wins against Mayer, del Potro, Fognini and Dominic Thiem in the final. He lost early at both Madrid Masters and the Rome Masters before a first-round loss at the French Open to Nicolás Almagro.
2017: 400th win, best Grand Slam fourth round result since 2014
Kohlschreiber started 2017 ranked No. 32. At the Australian Open, he won against Nikoloz Basilashvili and Donald Young, but lost in round 3 to Gael Monfils.
In February, Kohlschreiber played in the Dubai Tennis Championships where he beat eighth seed Gilles Muller in straight sets. In the quarterfinals, Kohlschreiber who was aiming to win his 400th match on tour lost in three tight sets to eventual champion and world No. 1, Andy Murray. Kohlschreiber won the first set 7–6, and in the second set tiebreaker lost 18–20. In that tiebreaker, Kohlschreiber had seven match points. Murray saved all seven, won the tiebreaker and the deciding set 6–1.
Kohlschreiber finally won his 400th match at the BNP Paribas Open against Alexandr Dolgopolov. He subsequently lost his next match to eventual finalist Stan Wawrinka. Later that month at the Miami Open, as the 26th seed, Kohlschreiber won his second-round match in three sets against young American Taylor Fritz. In the third round, despite winning the first set 6–0, Kohlschreiber lost to 15 time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal. In August, Kohlschreiber won his second title at Kitzbuhel.
Originally for the US Open, Kohlschreiber was to be unseeded; however, the last-minute withdrawal of Andy Murray saw a draw reshuffle with Kohlschreiber becoming the 33rd seed. Kohlschreiber reached the round of 16 where he lost to Roger Federer, world No. 3, in straight sets. Kohlschreiber did not drop a set in reaching the round of 16.
2018: Masters 1000 - singles quarterfinal since 2010, first doubles semifinal; fifth US Open fourth round
2019–2021: 2019 year-end loss of form; continued struggles in 2020; out of top 100 in 2021
Kohlschreiber won his first match against a current world No. 1 at the 2019 Indian Wells Masters, where he beat Novak Djokovic in the third round in straight sets. He lost in the next round against Gaël Monfils.
After an extended period of playing on the Challenger tour, winning the 2020 Canberra Challenger, he struggled with form and was not able to pass the first round in multiple Grand Slams, except for the 2020 Australian Open where he withdrew in the second round, Kohlschreiber found his form at the 2021 French Open using his protected ranking where he reached the third round of this major for the first time in seven years, since 2014. He defeated Fernando Verdasco and 24th seed Aslan Karatsev before falling to 10th seed and 2020 French Open semifinalist Diego Schwartzman.
He lost in the first round at the 2021 Wimbledon Championships to Denis Shapovalov, where he also used his protected ranking, after a hard-fought five setter lasting more than hours.
At the 2021 US Open Kohlschreiber reached the second round, using his protected ranking once more, after Marin Cilic retired in the first round in the fifth set. It was Cilic's first retirement in more than 800 matches on the tour.
2022: 68th Grand Slam appearance, out of top 200, retirement
He competed in his 68th Grand Slam at the Australian Open and reached the second round.
Unable to defend his third round showing at Roland Garros from the year before, and despite qualifying at Indian Wells earlier in the season, he fell out of the top 150 on 6 June 2022. On 20 June, after winning the first round of the Wimbledon qualifying, he announced his retirement from professional tennis after that tournament. He played his last match on the ATP Tour two days later, losing to Mikhail Kukushkin in the next round.
As of 27 June 2022, he is in 4th place on the list of Grand Slam appearances overall with 68 tied with Novak Djokovic.
Performance timelines
Singles
Kohlschreiber's second-round match at the 2013 French Open was a walkover (so doesn't count as a win).
Kohlschreiber withdrew before the second round match at the 2020 Australian Open due to an injury (so doesn't count as a loss).
Doubles
ATP career finals
Singles: 18 (8 titles, 10 runner-ups)
Doubles: 10 (7 titles, 3 runner-ups)
Team competition: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 10 (5–5)
Doubles: 1 (1–0)
Playing style
Kohlschreiber is an all-court player with an emphasis on baseline play. He has strong groundstrokes on both wings which are equally as solid and is often able to wrong-foot opponents due to his quick follow-through, forcing them to commit early. His forehand is his primary weapon, and he is known to hit inside-out forehands to draw opponents out, while his single-handed backhand is considered one of the best on the tour currently. It is known for its consistency, power, and his ability to hit it in a variety of ways, namely flat, with top-spin and slice. Generally playing from the baseline, Kohlschreiber constructs points and uses a sudden injection of pace or a drop-shot to draw opponents out of their comfort zone and dominate the point from there.
Complementing his strong baseline play, as an all-court player, Kohlschreiber is also a proficient volleyer and uses variety to construct points. He is known to employ drop-shots mid-rally to catch opponents off-guard, especially on the backhand side. He occasionally uses a chip-and-charge tactic as well, especially on grass. It is due to the variety of shots he has that has led him to be successful on all surfaces, as can be seen by the fact that he has reached at least the fourth round of all Grand Slam tournaments and won titles on all surfaces (although he has won the most titles on clay).
Wins over top 10 players
He has a record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.
Record against top 10 players
Kohlschreiber's ATP-only record against players who have been ranked world No. 10 or higher.
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German tournaments
References
External links
1983 births
Living people
German male tennis players
Olympic tennis players of Germany
Tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Hopman Cup competitors
Sportspeople from Augsburg
German expatriates in Austria
Tennis people from Bavaria |
4036271 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno%20Kernen%20%28born%201961%29 | Bruno Kernen (born 1961) | Bruno Kernen (born 25 March 1961) is a former Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer, winner of the Kitzbühel downhill race in January 1983.
Born in Schönried, Bern, he currently runs a hotel in his hometown with his family.
References
External links
Bruno Kernen's Hotel Bahnhof Homepage
Swiss male alpine skiers
1961 births
Living people
Sportspeople from the canton of Bern |
4036278 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%20Trams%20to%20Lime%20Street | No Trams to Lime Street | No Trams to Lime Street is a 1959 British television play, written by the Welsh playwright Alun Owen for the Armchair Theatre anthology series. Produced by ABC Weekend TV for transmission on the ITV network, the play was broadcast on 18 October 1959. The original version no longer exists.
Set in the northern English city of Liverpool, where Owen had grown up from the age of eight, the play starred Alfred Lynch, Billie Whitelaw, Jack Hedley and Tom Bell. It was directed and produced by two Canadians—Ted Kotcheff and Sydney Newman respectively. Newman was at the time the Head of Drama at ABC. The storyline concerns three sailors on shore leave in Liverpool.
The play was a factor in Owen later being hired to write the script for The Beatles' first feature film, A Hard Day's Night (1964), as they had been impressed with his depiction of their home city in the production. For his work on that film, Owen was nominated for an Academy Award in 1965.
In 1965, No Trams to Lime Street was remade by the BBC, as part of their Theatre 625 anthology strand, screened on the new BBC2 channel. It was presented as the middle episode in a trilogy of loosely connected Owen plays, broadcast on 21 March 1965, being preceded by Progress to the Park on 14 March and followed by A Little Winter Love on 28 March. The second version, which starred Mike Pratt, Tom Bell and Anthony Hall, is also lost.
The play was remade for television a second time, again by the BBC, in 1970, for the Wednesday Play strand. Transmitted on 18 March 1970, this time on BBC1 this version was directed by Piers Haggard starred Rosemary Nicols, Glyn Owen, Anthony May, Eilian Wyn and Paul Greenwood; and included songs and music by Marty Wilde and Ronnie Scott (not the famous jazz saxophonist and club owner). This version survives as a black and white telerecording, although it was made in colour.
References
Vahimagi, Tise. Owen, Alun (1925–1994). British Film Institute Screenonline. URL accessed 11 February 2006.
TV Cream – Play for Today guide''. URL accessed 11 February 2006.
External links
1959 television plays
1970 television plays
ITV television dramas
Lost BBC episodes
Lost television episodes
Television shows produced by ABC Weekend TV
Armchair Theatre |
4036285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando%20Vicente | Fernando Vicente | Fernando Vicente Fibla (; born 8 March 1977) is a professional tennis coach and a former player from Spain, who turned professional in 1996. He reached his career-high ATP ranking of world No. 29 in June 2000, winning three singles titles and reaching the quarterfinals of the 1998 Rome Masters and the 2000 Cincinnati Masters.
As of 2018, he is coaching Andrey Rublev and from 2010 to 2014 he worked with Marcel Granollers and Marc López.
Career finals
Singles: 6 (3–3)
Doubles: 6 (2–4)
Notes
References
External links
Vicente World Ranking History
1977 births
Living people
People from Baix Maestrat
Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Andorra
Spanish male tennis players
Sportspeople from the Province of Castellón
Tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Tennis players from the Valencian Community
Spanish tennis coaches
Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Spain
Mediterranean Games medalists in tennis
Competitors at the 1997 Mediterranean Games
Olympic tennis players of Spain |
4036289 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmannia%20lanceolata | Tasmannia lanceolata | Tasmannia lanceolata (syn. Drimys lanceolata), commonly known as Tasmanian pepperberry or mountain pepper, is a shrub native to woodlands and cool temperate rainforest of south-eastern Australia. The shrub varies from 2 to 10 m high. The aromatic leaves are lanceolate to narrow-elliptic or oblanceolate, 4–12 cm long, and 0.7–2.0 cm wide, with a distinctly pale undersurface. Stems are quite red in colour. The small cream or white flowers appear in summer and are followed by black, globose, two-lobed berries 5–8 mm wide, which appear in autumn. There are separate male and female plants.
Originally described by French botanist Jean Louis Marie Poiret, it gained its current name in 1969 by A.C. Smith. It had been known for many years as Drimys lanceolata.
It is found in Tasmania and northwards through Victoria to Barrington Tops in New South Wales. It is found in gullies in rainforest.
Uses
Polygodial has been identified as the primary active compound in Tasmannia lanceolata, and is also responsible for its peppery taste. The fruits also contain benzoic acids, flavanols, and flavanones, as well as eugenol, methyl eugenol, and gallic acid, and also the glycosides quercetin and rutin.
The leaf and berry are used as a spice, typically dried. Tasmanian pepperberry was used as a colonial pepper substitute. More recently, it has become popularised as a bushfood condiment. It can be added to curries, cheeses, and alcoholic beverages. It is exported to Japan to flavour wasabi. The berries are sweet and fruity at first with a lingering peppery aftertaste. Dried T. lanceolata berries and leaves have strong antimicrobial activity against food spoilage organisms. It also has high antioxidant activity. Low safrole clonal selections are grown in plantations for commercial use, as safrole is considered a low-risk toxin.
Used in colonial medicine as a substitute for Winter's bark, a stomachic, it was also used for treating scurvy. Tasmanian pepper is one of a number of native Australian herbs and food species being supported by the Australian Native Food Industry Ltd, which brings together producers of food species from all parts of Australia. The pepperberry can be used as a fish poison.
The 1889 book 'The Useful Native Plants of Australia' records that common names included "Pepper Tree" and that "The drupe is used as a condiment, being a fair substitute for pepper, or rather allspice The leaves and bark also have a hot, biting, cinnamon-like taste."
It can be grown as a garden plant. Its berries attract birds, including Currawongs, that feed on them. It can be propagated from cuttings or seed, and can grow in a well-drained acidic soil with some shade, but is sensitive to Phytophthora cinnamomi.
Garden cultivars include 'Mt. Wellington', a compact plant with coppery new growth, and 'Suzette', a variegated cultivar.
See also
List of Australian herbs and spices
References
External links
Bruneteau, Jean-Paul, Tukka, Real Australian Food,
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of Tasmania
Flora of Victoria (Australia)
Spices
lanceolata |
4036290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashburton%20Forks%2C%20New%20Zealand | Ashburton Forks, New Zealand | Ashburton Forks, formerly known as Spread Eagle, is a small town which lies between the forks of the Ashburton River / Hakatere in the Canterbury Province of New Zealand's South Island. It is approximately 50 km west of Ashburton and about 17 km from the foot of the Southern Alps.
Early settlers
William Campbell, blacksmith by trade, of Oakfield Demesne, County Donegal established the Spreadeagle Farm at Ashburton in the early 1880s with his wife Mary (née Falloon).
Demographics
The statistical area of Ashburton Forks, which also includes Mount Somers, covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2.
Ashburton Forks had a population of 2,214 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 207 people (10.3%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 528 people (31.3%) since the 2006 census. There were 840 households. There were 1,197 males and 1,017 females, giving a sex ratio of 1.18 males per female. The median age was 33 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 501 people (22.6%) aged under 15 years, 468 (21.1%) aged 15 to 29, 1,065 (48.1%) aged 30 to 64, and 183 (8.3%) aged 65 or older.
Ethnicities were 82.9% European/Pākehā, 5.6% Māori, 1.1% Pacific peoples, 10.4% Asian, and 5.7% other ethnicities (totals add to more than 100% since people could identify with multiple ethnicities).
The proportion of people born overseas was 22.5%, compared with 27.1% nationally.
Although some people objected to giving their religion, 48.6% had no religion, 42.1% were Christian, 1.1% were Hindu, 0.4% were Muslim, 0.3% were Buddhist and 2.3% had other religions.
Of those at least 15 years old, 303 (17.7%) people had a bachelor or higher degree, and 243 (14.2%) people had no formal qualifications. The median income was $41,800, compared with $31,800 nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 1,104 (64.4%) people were employed full-time, 309 (18.0%) were part-time, and 21 (1.2%) were unemployed.
See also
Ashburton, nearby major town
Methven, nearby major town
References
Populated places in Canterbury, New Zealand |
4036291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinkensdamm%20metro%20station | Zinkensdamm metro station | Zinkensdamm is a Stockholm metro station in Södermalm, Stockholm, Sweden. The station was opened on 5 April 1964 as part of the first stretch of the Red line, between T-Centralen and Fruängen. The surrounding area is known for the Zinkensdamms IP sports grounds, the Tantolunden Park, the Drakenberg area, and the STF Zinken hostel.
Gallery
See also
Zinkensdamm
References
External links
Images of Zinkensdamm
Stockholm metro stations
Railway stations opened in 1964 |
4036292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlewich%20Folk%20and%20Boat%20Festival | Middlewich Folk and Boat Festival | The Middlewich Folk and Boat Festival takes place in June in Middlewich, Cheshire, England. The festival builds on the town's industrial heritage in which canal boats were used to move coal and other raw materials in the town for the production of salt, and then move the salt out of town, either for use directly, or as a raw material in the manufacture of chemicals such as chlorine and soda ash.
The Middlewich Folk and Boat festival is now firmly established on the folk circuit and it is estimated that 30,000 people visit the town during the festival weekend, along with 400 boats. The festival was originally organised by members of the Middlewich Paddies, and taken over by the local council in 2011 when the original committee were unable to continue with the event. In 2008, the festival was declared among the top three folk festivals in England by Guardian Online.
History
The festival has been held since 1990. It was cancelled in 2001 because of Foot and Mouth disease.
The festival
Since 1990 there has been an annual folk music and (canal) boat festival, which is now highly regarded on the folk circuit with visitors coming into the town from all over the UK. During this festival artists appear at venues throughout the town, whilst Morris Dancing and Craft Stalls also featured. The boating festival centres on the Trent and Mersey Canal. The main venues where people and boats converge are the Big Lock and Kings Lock, public houses next to locks of the same name on the Trent and Mersey canal.
Artistes
2014 (13–15 June)
Ade Edmondson & The Bad Shepherds
The Men They Couldn't Hang
Hat Fitz & Cara
Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin
The Liverpool Shanty Kings
The Peace Artistes
Emma Stevens
Brian McCombe Band
Merry Hell
Moulettes
Headsticks
Allan Yn Y Fan
Niamh Boadle
NE3Folk
Jaipur Kawa Brass Band
Les Barker
Sean Taylor
Simply Soweto Encha
The Driving Force
Pamela Wyn-Shannon
Shamus O'Blivion and the Megadeath Morrismen
Thrill Collins
2013 (14–16 June)
Dick Gaughan
Spiers & Boden
Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar
Seth Lakeman
Mark Radcliffe & Foes
Woody Mann
African Entsha
All Blacked Up Ceilidh Band
Babajack
The Backyard Devils
Blue Horyzon
The Boat Band
Clutching at Straws
Fosbrooks
Gordie MacKeeman & His Rhythm Boys
Golty Farabeau
Headsticks
Kye Sones
The Liverpool Shanty Kings
Maddocks & Bayes
Moulettes
NE3FOLK
The Peace Artistes
My Sweet Patootie
The Roving Crows
Dan Walsh & Christi Andropolis
The Willows
2012 (15–17 June)
Including
Show of Hands
Mark Radcliffe & the Big Figures
All Blacked Up
Les Barker
Merry Hell
Toy Hearts
Babajack
Roving Crows
Eddi Reader
Glenn Tilbrook
The BlueYellows
2011 (17–19 June)
Phil Maddocks
Pilgrims' Way
Andy Buckley
Salty Dog
The Tow Path Tipplers
The Crazy Folk Band
Sniggleheap
Acoustak
David Gibb and the Pony Club
Steamhead and the Weavils
Calico Jack
Last Ones Out
The Boat Band
Wearside Jack
Maxine Adelle
Louisa James
The Kane Sisters
Edel Fox
Hayley Strangelove
Dai Thomas
The Middlewich Paddies
With Bob On Our Side
The Generation
No Dinosaurs
Blackfingers
Providence Jug Band
Stan's Magic Foot
Steven Doyle
2010 (18–20 June) - 20th Anniversary Celebration
INCLUDING
Stan's Magic Foot
London Philharmonic Skiffle Orchestra
Mabon
Little Johnny England
The Lonnie Doneghan Band
Ken Nicol and Phil Cool
Nigel Beck
Queensbury Rules
Show of Hands
Pete Donegan
Tom Palmer
Peter Knight's Gigspanner
2009 (19–21 June)
The Family Mahone
Blue Murder
Ade Edmondson & The Bad Shepherds
All Blacked Up & Baz Parkes
Thea Gilmore
Jim Moray
Stan's Magic Foot
The Rainbow Chasers
Gina Le Faux
Tom Doughty
Greg Cave & The Village Band
Ella Edmondson
Vicki & Trefor
Andrea Glass
Rachel Harrington
Liz and the Lizzettes
Isambarde
Zoox
Acoustak
Barron Brady
Bill Malkin
Breeze and Wilson
Brendan Fahy
Calico Jack
Chloë
Chris Layhe and Oyster
Cold Flame
Dave Dove
Deportees
Dominic Collins
Dr Bob and the Wildboys
Fiona Simpson and Brian Adams
Full House
Geoff Mather
Guitar Mal
Holy Maggots
James & the Giant
Jaywalkers
Jonathan Tarplee
JP Slidewell
Kavona
Last Ones Out
Lorelei Loveridge
Lost in the Mist
Madcap
Men in Black
Michelle Martin
Nigel Beck
Peter Butler
Picnic Area
Providence Jug Band
Salt Town Poets
Shake the Barley
Song & Story
The Huers
Thom Kirkpatrick
Time Bandits
2008 (13–15 June)
Including
June Tabor
The Family Mahone
Martin Simpson
Bandersnatch
Kerfuffle
Peatbog Faeries
Nick Barraclough and the Burglars
Lau
Rory Ellis
Zoe Mulford
The Warsaw Village Band
Stomp
Nick Harper
Jonathan Kelly
2007 (15–17 June)
Seth Lakeman
Elbow Jane and Dave Dove
The Family Mahone with Mark Radcliffe
Dave Hunt and Happenstance.
Blazin’ Fiddles
Queensberry Rules
Ashley Hutchings and Rainbow Chasers
The Demon Barber Roadshow
Breeze & Wilson
Full House
Peeping Tom and caller Mick Peat.
The New Rope String Band
Richard Digance
Show of Hands
De Develeski
PJ Wright and Thom Kirkpatrick
2006 (16–18 June)
The Stereo Graffiti Show with Darren Poyzer and Friends
Tommy Kirkpatrick and the Beautiful Noise
The Dylan Project
Tom Doughty
PJ Wright and Dave Pegg
Karine Polwart
CrossCurrent
Michael McGoldrick and His Band
Emma and The Professor
Hazel O'Connor
A Woman's Word
McDermott's
The Levellers
The Family Mahone
Darren Poyzer
Ann English
Kirsty McGee
Dear Gregory
All Blacked Up
Cave
Martin Eden and The Assembly Boys
2005 (17–19 June)
Queensberry Rules
Uiscedwr
The Family Mahone
Mostly Autumn
Bellowhead
Jez Lowe and the Bad Pennies
Kerfuffle
Martin Carthy
Eddi Reader
Tickled Pink
Brian Kennedy
Eliza Carthy
The Ratcatchers
2004 (18–20 June)
Fairport Convention
The Family Mahone
Simon Mayor
Hilary James
Shooglenifty
Baker's Fabulous Boys
Show of Hands
The Levellers
2003 (13–15 June)
Bob Geldof
The Family Mahone
John Wright, Gary Forrest and Serious Kitchen
Whapweasel
Gordon Potts
The New John Wright Band
Ian Bruce
Kirsty McGee
Te Vaka
Rick Roser
Waterson–Carthy
Les Barker
Jim Moray
The Oysterband
Eliza Carthy Band
Sean Cannon
2002 (14–16 June)
Fairport Convention
Lindisfarne
Kate Rusby
Black Umfolosi
Andy Cutting and Chris Wood
Isla St Clair
e2k
Cara Dillon
Kathryn Robert and Sean Lakeman
Jon Boden and John Spiers
Whorticulture
Jenny Butterworth
Jon Brindley
Emily Slade
Hot Tamales
Aphrodite
Jug O' Punch
Steamhead
Taggart and Wright
Trefor and Vicki Williams
Roam
Quartz
Ailsa and John Booth
Brass Tacks
The Family Mahone
The Peace Artistes
Root Chord
Odd at Ease
Tom Brown and Ian Goodier
South Cheshire Pipe Band
Elle Osbourne
Sarah Hayes
The Middlewich Paddies
2001 (15–17 June – cancelled)
Cancelled due to Foot-and-mouth disease.
2000 (16–18 June)
Vin Garbutt
Iron Horse
Te Vaka
Roy Bailey and John Kirkpatrick
Blue Horses
Show of Hands
Les Barker
Blowzabella
Loctup Together
Jenny Butterworth
Cuckoo Oak
Seize the Day
Dragonfall
The Family Mahone
Slip Jig
Karen Burton
Tania Opland and Mike Freeman
Bob Webb
Calico Jack
Steamhead
Bakers Fabulous Boys
Ceolta
The National Youth Folklore Troupe of England
John Barden
Roy Clinging
Davian Reel
Quartz
St Patrick's Pipe Band
The Middlewich Paddies
1999 (18–20 June)
Cherish the Ladies
Black Umfolosi
The Poozies
Tanglefoot
The Old Rope String Band
Cock and Bull
The Oldham Tinkers
Bernard Wrigley
Ian Bruce
The Boat Band
Acquiesce
The Middlewich Paddies
The Chipolatas
St. Patrick's Pipe Band
Keeper's Lock
Steamhead
Davian Reel
Roy Wilcock & Bridget Guest
Lorebreakers
1998 (19–21 June)
Dervish
The Albion Band
Chris While and Julie Matthews
Artisan
Tanglefoot
Huw and Tony Williams
Cock and Bull Band
The Peace Artists
Calico Jack
Davian Reel
Moorland Folk
Buzz & Sam Collins
Stanley Accrington
The Middlewich Paddies
Chris Sherburn and Denny Bartley
Flakey Jake and The Steamin Locos
John Conolly and Pete Sumner
Fiona Shirra
Acquiesce
The Salt Town Poets
Ian Goodier and Tom Browne
Steamhead
Roy Wilcock and Bridget Guest
The Lorebreakers
Biggles Wartime Jug Band
The Ram Shanty Crew
Silk Brass
1997 (20–22 June)
The Yetties
Coope Boyes and Simpson
Big Jig
The Boat Band
Anam - Flook!
The Geckoes
Jez Lowe and The Bad Pennies
Crook
Sears and Harrison
Davian Reel
Gavin Lewery and Jock Tyldesley
Les Barker
To Hell with Burgundy
The Middlewich Paddies
Calico Jack
Youthquake
Salt Town Poets
The Chipolatas
Gilly Darby
Chew the Roots
Harvey Andrews
1996 (14–16 June)
After Hours
Cosmotheka
Calico Jack
Gary and Vera Aspey
Five Speed Box
New Bushbury Mountain Daredevils
Chris Sherbourn and Denny Bartley
The Southgators
Keith Donnelly
Risky Business
The Middlewich Paddies
Jenny Shotliffe and Youthquake
The Great Bonzo and Doris
Dave Roberts
Circus Sensible
Paul and Glen Elliot
Notes
External links
http://www.midfest.org.uk/
http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/middlewich/2014 2014 Festival page
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/gsivills/gsfandb.html 2003 Festival home page
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0O3VKl1OHA Clerical Error at the 2006 festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC2KTAv0owo Music at the Big Lock during the 2007 festival
Music festivals established in 1990
Folk festivals in the United Kingdom
Music festivals in Cheshire
Folk and Boat
Boat festivals |
4036293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorrie%20Sprecher | Lorrie Sprecher | Lorrie Sprecher (born 18 July 1960) is an American writer, musician, and activist.
Biography
She holds a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Maryland, where her dissertation was on Gertrude Stein.
Her debut novel, Sister Safety Pin, details the life of a 20-something lesbian named Melany as she struggles to come to terms with her sexuality, her lovers, her future, and her place in the changing world of punk rock. Peppered heavily with references to seminal punk bands, the novel follows Melany through a small series of relationships, attaining her undergraduate degree, and contemplating "if a lesbian... especially a punk lesbian... is supposed to get a Ph.D." Honed with sharp wit, the story unfolds against a backdrop of 1980s California, New York City, and D.C.; a time when punk rock was shifting faces and the AIDS crisis was exploding amongst the gay community. Widely reviewed, Sister Safety Pin has become a classic among its lesbian audience.
After the publication of her novel, Sprecher turned her attention to music, forming the one-woman band Sugar Rat. Her music is politically charged, most recently addressing the bombing of Afghanistan. Her debut album, Rats Have Rights, was released in 2001. In 2002, Sprecher released her follow-up to Rats, entitled The Opposite of Popular. Both albums were self-distributed and are available via iTunes or Sprecher's website. She has also contributed songs to the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA).
Sprecher is a vocal member of ACT UP, an organization dedicated to fighting AIDS, and has been arrested six times in Washington D.C. during various protests.
She is currently working on her third novel and an acoustic album for Sugar Rat.
Bibliography
Anxiety Attack: Short-Short Storie (Violet Ink, 1992)
Sister Safety Pin (Firebrand Books, 1994)
Pissing in a River (The Feminist Press, 2014)
Discography
Rats Have Rights (2001)
The Opposite of Popular (2003)
References
External links
Lorrie Sprecher Online
Sugar Rat - Soundclick
1960 births
20th-century American novelists
American women novelists
American punk rock musicians
HIV/AIDS activists
Feminist musicians
Lesbian feminists
American lesbian musicians
American lesbian writers
Living people
American LGBT novelists
20th-century American women writers
20th-century LGBT people
21st-century LGBT people
21st-century American women
Women in punk |
4036297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang%20Yang%20%28speed%20skater%2C%20born%201976%29 | Yang Yang (speed skater, born 1976) | Yang Yang (; born 24 August 1976 in Jiamusi, Heilongjiang, China) is a retired Chinese short track speed skater. She is a two-time Olympic Champion from 2002 Winter Olympics and a six-time Overall World Champion for 1997–2002. Known as Yang Yang (A), she was formerly a member of the Chinese national short track team. Yang is one of the most accomplished short track speed skaters of all time having won 34 world titles, including six Overall World Championships. She is the first person to have won six Overall World Titles and won six consecutively. Her victory in the women's 500 m short track at the 2002 Winter Olympics made her China's first-ever Winter Olympics gold medalist. She added a second gold in the women's 1000 m short track at the same Games and has also won two silver and a bronze medal. After 2003 World Championships, Yang took time off competing, but came back in 2004–2005 season in lead-up to 2006 Winter Olympics where she won the bronze medal in 1000m race. She retired soon afterwards.
Naming
Yang, born 1976, is sometimes known as Yang Yang (A), to differentiate her from the speed skater named Yang Yang born in 1977 (known as "Yang Yang (S)").
By coincidence, Yang Yang had a contemporary on the Chinese skating team, one year and one month her junior, also named Yang Yang in pinyin and English (although with a different given name character in Chinese). The "(A)" identifier was used as a way to distinguish her from the younger Yang Yang. Originally, the older Yang Yang was known as Yang Yang (L) for "large" (大 or 'big' in Chinese is used to distinguish between younger and older persons of roughly the same age), as she is older than Yang Yang (S) for "small"; however, she objected to the "L" identifier, changing it to "A" for "August", her birth month. Although the younger Yang Yang (S) is now retired from competition and there is no longer a need to distinguish between the two in results, Yang Yang (A) still used the identifier in competition, considering it a part of her identity.
Retirement
Yang Yang (A) was chosen to be one of 12,000 torchbearers to carry the Olympic torch for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, and on November 22, 2009, she ran a portion of the Prince Edward Island legs.
Yang was elected as an IOC member in 2010 becoming mainland China's fourth IOC member. She is also a committee member of the World Anti Doping Agency, and founding member of the Chinese Athlete Education Foundation.
In 2013, Yang co-founded the Feiyang Skating Centre in Shanghai, a new double-rink facility with an Olympic-sized rink upstairs and a recreational-sized rink downstairs, built to promote ice sports in China.
Career
Gallery
References
External links
Yang Yang (A) (Short-track Speed Skating) from china.org.cn
1976 births
Living people
Chinese female short track speed skaters
Olympic bronze medalists for China
Olympic gold medalists for China
Olympic short track speed skaters of China
Olympic silver medalists for China
Olympic medalists in short track speed skating
Short track speed skaters at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Short track speed skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Short track speed skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Asian Games medalists in short track speed skating
Short track speed skaters at the 1996 Asian Winter Games
Short track speed skaters at the 1999 Asian Winter Games
Short track speed skaters at the 2003 Asian Winter Games
International Olympic Committee members
World Anti-Doping Agency members
People from Jiamusi
Sportspeople from Heilongjiang
Medalists at the 1996 Asian Winter Games
Medalists at the 1999 Asian Winter Games
Medalists at the 2003 Asian Winter Games
Asian Games gold medalists for China
Asian Games silver medalists for China
Universiade bronze medalists for China
Universiade medalists in short track speed skating
Competitors at the 1997 Winter Universiade |
4036308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas%20Vinciguerra | Andreas Vinciguerra | Andreas Vinciguerra (; born 19 February 1981) is a former tennis player from Sweden, who turned professional in 1998. He won 1 singles title in Copenhagen; reached the semi-finals of the 2001 Rome Masters and 2001 Paris Masters; and attained a career-high singles ranking of World No. 33 in November 2001.
Tennis career
Vinciguerra is of Italian origin on his father's side.
Junior career
As a junior Vinciguerra reached as high as No. 6 in the world in 1998.
Junior Slam results:
Australian Open: F (1998)
French Open: SF (1998)
Wimbledon: -
US Open: 1R (1998)
Pro career
He experienced significant problems with a back injury, but in 2006 made a comeback, which has seen him edge towards the top 100 in the ATP rankings.
Has played 9 Davis Cup matches in singles, and won 3 of them.
In the 2009 World Group Playoffs in March 2009, Sweden faced Israel in Vinciguerra's hometown. Dudi Sela first defeated Vinciguerra 11–9 in the fifth. Harel Levy then beat Vinciguerra in the decisive final match in a marathon 3-hour, 44 minutes, 8–6 in the fifth, to lead the Israeli team to a come-from-behind 3–2 victory over the 7-time Davis Cup champion Swedes at Baltic Hall in Malmö, Sweden, and allow Israel to advance in the 2009 Davis Cup.
After the Davis Cup, Vinciguerra decided to continue playing and reached in his first tournament of the year the final at the Rome Challenger. He then received a Wild Card to the Swedish Open where he made it to the semifinals.
ATP career finals
Singles: 4 (1 title, 3 runners-up)
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 10 (5–5)
Doubles: 1 (0–1)
Junior Grand Slam finals
Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)
Performance timeline
Singles
References
External links
1981 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Malmö
Swedish male tennis players
Swedish people of Italian descent
Olympic tennis players of Sweden
Tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics |
4036309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantolunden | Tantolunden | Tantolunden is a park in the southern part of central Stockholm, Sweden.
Tantolunden is located in Södermalm near Zinkensdamm and Hornstull. The area is bounded by the railway in the south, the Ringvägen in the east, the Drakenberg area in the north and Lake Årstaviken in the southwest. The park was designed in 1885 by Swedish garden architect Alfred Medin (1841-1910). The construction work continued until 1899, when it was considered that the park was completed. In 1906 a playground was arranged in the western part of the park.
References
Parks in Stockholm |
4036324 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parippally | Parippally | Parippally is a village in Kalluvathukal Panchayath of Kollam district, Kerala, India. Paripally village is situated South of Kollam City along NH66 and North of Trivandrum along NH66.
Kollam Govt. Medical College is situated in Parippally. Kerala's new No 1 theatre Revathy Cinemax is also situated in Parippally-Kulamada(Kulamada-only away from Parippally junction). The nearest town Chathannor is located away, Kottiyam is another major town located near Parippally.
Transportation
Nearest Airport is The Trivandrum International Airport which is away. Kollam Helipad (Asramam) is about away from Parippally and Varkala Helipad (Cliff) is about away.
Paravur Railway Station is the nearest railway station to Parippally. Paravur is well connected to Bengaluru, Chennai, Mumbai, Salem, Madurai, Kanyakumari, Mangalore, Coimbatore, Pune, Tirunelveli, Trichy and various towns in Kerala through Indian Railways. It is the nearest railway station to the newly inaugurated Kollam Medical College, Parippally.
There are 4 major roads which connect Madathara, Paravur, Kollam, Thiruvananthapuram. It is only 13 kilometers away from the famous Varkala Sivagiri, Varkala Beach, and Varkala Temple.
Administration
Parippally is the part of Kalluvathukkal Panchayath.
Schools
Famous schools are KPHS Kalluvathukkal, ASHSS Parippally. UKF Engineering College is in Paripally.
Govt Medical College, Kollam is situated in Paripally.
Temples
There are more than 10 temples in this village. Kodimoottil Sri Bhadrakaali Temple is one of the most famous temples in Kerala. Gajamela and Ponkala which are associated with the temple festival are very famous. Thousands of devotees come to watch the Gajamela. Other major temples are Sri Guru Nagappan Kavu (ശ്രീ ഗുരുനാഗപ്പൻ ക്ഷേത്രം), Sree Subramanya Swami Temple, Mullukattil Nagaru Kavu, Mevanakkonam Thirunettarakavu Sree Badhra Kali Temple (fire works associated with the temple festival are very famous), Vayalil Thrikkovil Mahavishnu Temple (വയലില് തൃക്കോവില് മഹാവിഷ്ണു ക്ഷേത്രം), Kunnathuveetil Temple (കുന്നത്ത് വീട്ടിൽ ക്ഷേത്രം), Kanninkarazhikam Durga Devi Temple (കണ്ണങ്കരിഴികം ദുർഗ്ഗദേവി ക്ഷേത്രം), Sreeramapuram Sreeramswamy Temple (ശ്രീരാമപുരം ശ്രീരാമസ്വാമി ക്ഷേത്രം), Madankavu Devi Temple (മാടൻ കാവ് ദേവി ക്ഷേത്രം), Peroor Sree Nagarukavu (പേരൂർ ശ്രീ നാഗരുകാവ്),Sree Madankavu Moorthi Temple(ശ്രീ മാടൻകാവ് മൂർത്തി ക്ഷേത്രം),Sri Krishna Swamy Temple(ശ്രീകൃഷ്ണ സ്വാമി ക്ഷേത്രം)in Jawahar Junction (only away from Parippally), Kizhakkanela Sree Madanakavu Mahadeva navagraha temple ( കിഴക്കനേല മാടൻകാവ് ശ്രീ മഹാദേവ നവഗ്രഹ ക്ഷേത്രം, Kizhakkanela Thottathil sree bhadrakali Temple ( കിഴക്കനേല തോട്ടത്തിൽ ശ്രീ ഭദ്രകാളി ക്ഷേത്രം,
References
Kerala Atlas
Manorama year book: 2006
External links
Parippally Gajamela
http://www.census2011.co.in/data/village/628437-parippally-kerala.html
Villages in Kollam district |
4036333 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarocco | Tarocco | Tarocco may refer to:
Tarocco, a Renaissance card game using tarot cards
Tarocco Piemontese, a type of tarot deck used to play a surviving variant of the game
Tarocco Bolognese, a type of tarot deck used to play Tarocchini, another surviving variant popular in Bologna
Tarocco Siciliano, a type of tarot deck found in Sicily
An Italian variant cultivar of the Blood orange |
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