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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercell%20%28disambiguation%29
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Supercell (disambiguation)
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A supercell is a thunderstorm with a deep, persistently rotating updraft.
Supercell may also refer to:
Supercell (crystal), a repeating unit cell of a crystal that contains several primitive cells
Supercell (mobile network), a mobile phone network in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo
Supercell (video game company), a Finnish video game company
Supercell (band), a Japanese 11-member music group
Supercell (album), the band's debut album
Supercell (film), an upcoming American disaster film
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Pau-Langevin
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George Pau-Langevin
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George Pau-Langevin (born 19 October 1948 in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe) is a French lawyer and politician. A member of the Socialist Party (PS). Close to Bertrand Delanoë, she was deputy for the 21st constituency of Paris from 2007 to 2012, then re-elected in the 15th constituency, which took over roughly the same territory in Paris, in 2012.
She was the Minister Delegate for Educational Success in the governments of Jean-Marc Ayrault from 2012 to 2014, then was appointed Minister of Overseas Territories in 2014 in the governments of Manuel Valls. Resigning in 2016, she regained her seat as a deputy and was re-elected the following year. She left the National Assembly in November 2020, following her appointment as Deputy Defender of Rights.
Early life and education
Pau-Langevin was president of the Movement against racism and for friendship between peoples from 1984 to 1987. In 1989, she joined the National Agency for the Promotion and Integration of Workers from Overseas as deputy director, which she later directed from 1997 to 2001.
Political career
Career in local politics
Municipal councilor of the 20th arrondissement of Paris from 1989 to 1995, Pau-Langevin found this function during the municipal elections of 2008, elected on the list led by Frédérique Calandra.
Pau-Langevin was one of the initiators of the name change of the street Richepanse (general who contributed to reestablish slavery in Guadeloupe in 1802, on the order of Bonaparte) in street Chevalier-de-Saint-George, in the 1st arrondissement of Paris (named after a Métis from Guadeloupe, swordsman, violinist, conductor and famous composer, from the second half of the 18th century).
Pau-Langevin was a member of the Regional council of Île-de-France from 1992 to 1998.
Member of the National Assembly
Pau-Langevin was elected member of the National Assembly for Paris's 21st constituency during the 2007 French legislative election. During her first term, she was the only black deputy from mainland France. In parliament, she served on the Committee on Legal Affairs (2007-2012).
As vice-president of the Socialist, Radical and Citizen Group (SRC) in the National Assembly, Pau-Langevin was in charge of immigration and co-development issues between 2007 and 2009. In this capacity, she is responsible for the opposition to the September 2007 bill relating to immigration control, integration and asylum. She fights the measure relating to DNA tests within the framework of family reunification and seizes, with her colleagues of the socialist group, the Constitutional Council on the subject of ethnic statistics.
During the 2012 legislative elections, Pau-Langevin was elected member of the National Assembly in the Paris's 15th constituency, which mostly covered the same area of Paris as the abolished 21st constituency after the 2010 redistricting of French legislative constituencies. Her appointment as minister leads her to leave her mandate to her substitute, Fanélie Carrey-Conte, who exercises it from 22 July 2012.
Career in government
Following François Hollande's victory in the 2012 presidential election, Pau-Langevin was appointed Junior Minister for Educational Success in the government of Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault.
Pau-Langevin's tenure at the Ministry of Educational Success includes measures in favor of the School's relationship with parents, equality and against discrimination, the holding of meetings with the Minister of the city and all stakeholders of educational success, the creation of a National Observatory of educational success and the attribution of the Great National Cause 2013 to the fight against illiteracy.
During the reshuffle of 2 April 2014, following the defeat of the majority in the municipal elections, Pau-Langevin was appointed Minister of Overseas in the First Valls government in place of Victorin Lurel. She was reappointed to this post on 27 August 2014 in the Second Valls government, even if her departure is envisaged during the reshuffle of February 2016.
In this capacity, Pau-Langevin presented several plans for the overseas territories (youth, housing, health, security) and in April 2016 managed several nights of urban violence in Mayotte. She also prepared, jointly with the Secretary of State for Real Equality Ericka Bareigts, a bill for real equality overseas, providing for a development plan to gradually reduce the differences in living standards and quality of life and the creation of the future Cité des Outre-mer.
Pau-Langevin announced her resignation on 30 August 2016 (the same day as Emmanuel Macron) for personal reasons [and] regaining contact with the field, after having however made a press conference back to school the same morning. She was replaced by Ericka Bareigts.
In the Socialist Party's 2017 presidential primaries, Pau-Langevin endorsed Vincent Peillon as her party's candidate for that year's presidential election and worked on his campaign team.
Return to the National Assembly
Running for re-election in the 2017 legislative elections, Pau-Langevin won the second round with 60.3% of the votes cast, in a constituency where La République en marche had not invested a candidate.
In parliament, Pau-Langevin has served on the Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education (2017-2019) and the Committee on Legal Affairs (since 2019). In December 2018, she was appointed rapporteur for the "flash mission" on the future of France Ô, but later withdrew from the mission on 22 March 2019, believing that, despite several reminders, the work of this mission did not start. During an interview, here are these propros : "we're already running France Ô. This is something serious and that is why I will not continue this mission because I feel that it is useless".
In addition to her committee assignments, Pau-Langevin was appointed by Prime Minister Jean Castex as deputy of Ombudsman (Défenseur des droits) Claire Hédon in 2020. She left the Assembly in November 2020.
Recognition
Pau-Langevin was decorated with the Legion of Honour in March 2002.
References
Links
Page on the French National Assembly website
1948 births
Black French politicians
Living people
Guadeloupean politicians
Guadeloupean socialists
People from Pointe-à-Pitre
Socialist Party (France) politicians
French people of Guadeloupean descent
Government ministers of France
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Women government ministers of France
21st-century French women
Members of Parliament for Paris
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnarok%20%28T%C3%BDr%20album%29
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Ragnarok (Týr album)
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Ragnarok is the third full-length album by the Faroese viking/folk metal band Týr. It was released on 22 September 2006 by Napalm Records.
The album is bilingual with Faroese and English lyrics. The album features cover art by Jan Yrlund.
Track listing
Credits
Heri Joensen – vocals, guitar
Terji Skibenæs – guitar
Gunnar H. Thomsen – bass
Kári Streymoy – drums
References
External links
mp3 sample of "Wings of Time"
2006 albums
Týr (band) albums
Concept albums
Napalm Records albums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Marquis%20of%20Granby
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The Marquis of Granby
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The Marquis of Granby is a public house at 2 Rathbone Street, Fitzrovia, London, W1. The pub is named after John Manners, Marquess of Granby. He is popularly supposed to have more pubs named after him than any other person - due, it is said, to his practice of setting up old soldiers of his regiment as publicans when they were too old to serve any longer.
The poet and playwright T. S. Eliot is associated with the pub. According to Time Out, the poet Dylan Thomas was a regular visitor, who frequented the pub to meet guardsmen who were cruising for gay partners, and then start fights with them.
The pub appears on chapter XXVII of the Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens.
References
Fitzrovia
Pubs in the City of Westminster
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo%20Cuccia
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Vincenzo Cuccia
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Vincenzo Cuccia (20 March 1892 – 2 March 1979) was an Italian fencer. He won a gold and bronze medal at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
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External links
1892 births
1979 deaths
Italian male fencers
Olympic fencers of Italy
Fencers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Italy
Olympic bronze medalists for Italy
Olympic medalists in fencing
Sportspeople from Palermo
Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges%20Colombier
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Georges Colombier
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Georges Colombier (born 8 March 1940 in Bourgoin-Jallieu, Isère) was a member of the National Assembly of France from 1986 to 2012. He represented the 7th constituency of the Isère department, as a member of a number of groups, most recently the Union for a Popular Movement.
References
1940 births
Living people
People from Bourgoin-Jallieu
Liberal Democracy (France) politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
Deputies of the 8th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 9th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 10th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 11th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges%20Ginesta
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Georges Ginesta
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Georges Ginesta (born July 8, 1942 in Saint-Raphaël, Var) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Var department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
References
1942 births
Living people
People from Saint-Raphaël, Var
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Senators of Var (department)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avi%20Tayari
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Avi Tayari
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Avraham "Avi" Tayari (born 25 October 1973) is a retired Israeli triple jumper. His personal best jump was 16.94 metres, achieved in May 1997 in Tel Aviv.
He competed at the 1992 World Junior Championships, the 1997 World Championships, the 1998 European Championships, the 2001 World Championships and the 2002 European Championships without reaching the final.
Achievements
See also
Sports in Israel
References
1973 births
Living people
Israeli male triple jumpers
Competitors at the 1999 Summer Universiade
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges%20Mothron
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Georges Mothron
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Georges Mothron (born April 5, 1948 in Argenteuil) is a former member of the National Assembly of France. He represented the Val-d'Oise department, and is a member of the Republicans.
References
1948 births
Living people
People from Argenteuil
Rally for the Republic politicians
The Republicans (France) politicians
The Popular Right
Mayors of places in Île-de-France
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%20People%27s%20Theatre
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Young People's Theatre
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Young People's Theatre (YPT) is Canada's largest and oldest professional theatre for young people. The company produces and presents a full season of theatre and arts education programming, serving approximately 150,000 patrons annually. Founded in 1966 by Susan Douglas Rubeš, YPT originally operated out of the now-demolished Colonnade Theatre on Bloor Street. Since its 1977–78 season, the company has resided in a renovated heritage building in downtown Toronto.
YPT operates two performance spaces in the building at 165 Front Street East: the Ada Slaight Stage and the Nathan Cohen Studio. It stages an average of eight productions each year. The current artistic director is Herbie Barnes and the current executive director is Nancy J. Webster.
History
Rubes created the Museum Children's Theatre in her Toronto kitchen and then, with the help of a few local businessmen, opened Alice in Wonderland at the Royal Ontario Museum in 1963. Susan staged her first YPT show, The Looking Glass Revue, at the Colonnade Theatre in 1966.
Before finding its permanent home in 1977, YPT staged shows at the St. Lawrence Centre, the Ontario Science Centre and Toronto's Firehall Theatre. The company also toured to schools throughout Ontario, and toured the play Inook and the Sun in the UK. In 1975, Rubes received the Order of Canada for her work in children's theatre. Two years later, YPT staged its first show at its current home (165 Front St. E) with an adaptation of The Lost Fairy Tale. Young People's Theatre added a drama school in 1969, a community outreach program and resources for educators. As of 2022, the Drama School operates four different locations in Toronto.
Several stage and screen actors have appeared on the YPT mainstage since the 1970s, including Martin Short, Megan Follows, Brent Carver, Cynthia Dale, Fiona Reid, Gordon Pinsent, R.H Thomson, Sheila McCarthy and Eric Peterson. Celebrities such as Drake and Kiefer Sutherland also attended YPT's Drama School in their youth.
In the spring of 2001, the theatre was renamed Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People after a donation of $1.5 million from Kevin Kimsa in honour of his mother. In March 2011, the theatre announced a change back to its original name: Young People's Theatre.
The Slaight family's 2015 donation of $3 million resulted in the creation of the Ada Slaight Education Centre at YPT. At the time it was the largest non-capital gift received by a Toronto theatre company. In 2022 a gift from the Slaight Family resulted in the renaming of the company's Mainstage to the Ada Slaight Stage.
In 2016 YPT was one of a number of theatres offering free tickets to newly arrived Syrian refugees.
The building
Young People Theatre's current home is a renovated 1887 heritage building in Toronto, Ontario. This site was a three-story stable for the horses that pulled Toronto Street Railways horsecars in the late 19th century, as well as an electrical generating plant and a Toronto Transit Commission warehouse. The warehouse sat empty for much of the 20th century and was ready for demolition before it was chosen by YPT as its home. The building was renovated in 1977 by Zeidler Partnership Architects to contain a large main stage (the current day Susan Douglas Rubes Theatre) and a smaller studio (the Nathan Cohen Studio). YPT was given an Award of Merit by the Toronto Historical Board in 1979, "for its imaginative and sympathetic treatment of a landmark that might otherwise have been destroyed". A $13.5 million comprehensive campaign to expand and improve YPT's entire complex is currently underway.
Artistic Directors
Susan Douglas Rubes (1966-1979)
Richard Ouzounian (1979-1980)
Peter Moss (1980-1991)
Maja Ardal (1991-1998)
Pierre Tetrault (1998-2002)
Allen MacInnis (2002-2021)
Herbie Barnes (2021–present)
Awards
62 Dora Mavor Moore Awards
13 Chalmers Children Awards for playwrighting.
Toronto Arts Foundation Arts for Youth Award, 2016
Ontario's Lieutenant Governor's Award for the Arts, 1998.
Award of Merit, Heritage Toronto, 1979.
References
External links
Young People's Theatre fonds (R8245) at Library and Archives Canada
Theatres in Toronto
1966 establishments in Ontario
Children's theatre
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Poland
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John Poland
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John Poland (born 21 November 1996) is an Irish rugby union player. He plays as a scrum-half for the New England Free Jacks in Major League Rugby (MLR) in the United States.
Early life
Born in Ballinora, County Cork, the second eldest of four children, Poland first played rugby for Sundays Well, where his father had also been a player, and attended Presentation Brothers College, captaining the team during the Munster Schools Rugby Senior Cup. He also played hurling and football for Ballinora GAA, where he played on several inter-county development sides. Initially, he played as a fly-half or centre, before converting to scrum-half. Poland has been capped at under-19 and Under-20 level for Ireland, and joined the Munster sub-academy in July 2015.
Club rugby
Poland played his club rugby with Cork Constitution during the 2015–16 and 2016–17 seasons, winning several trophies while there. He moved to UCC ahead of the 2017–18 season and was an integral part of the side that was promoted to the division 1A of the All-Ireland League for the 2018–19 season.
Professional career
Munster
Poland was an integral part of the Munster A team that won the 2016–17 British and Irish Cup. He was used as a replacement in round 1 against London Welsh, missed the round 3 clash against Rotherham Titans due to exam commitments, was used as a replacement again in round 4 against Rotherham, before starting against Doncaster Knights in the rescheduled round 2 and round 5, Ulster A in the quarter-final, Ealing Trailfinders in the semi-final and Jersey Reds in the final. Poland made his senior competitive debut for Munster on 10 February 2018, coming off the bench in the provinces' 33–5 win against Zebre in the 2017–18 Pro14.
New England Free Jacks
Poland joined American Major League Rugby side New England Free Jacks in October 2019 upon concluding his degree in finance at University College Cork, in time for the sides inaugural season in 2020. He scored four tries in the 5 regular season games and had 4 try assists. Poland scored a brilliant individual try which was awarded try of the week in week 4.
Ireland
Poland was capped for Ireland U20 during the 2016 Six Nations Under 20s Championship, earning the Man-of-the-Match award during the sides opening 35–24 loss to Wales U20 on 5 February 2016.
Honours
Munster A
British and Irish Cup:
Winner (1): 2016–17
Cork Constitution
All-Ireland League Division 1A:
Winner (1): 2016–17
Bateman Cup:
Winner (2): 2015–16, 2016–17
Munster Senior Cup:
Winner (2): 2015–16, 2016–17
All Ireland U20 League:
Winner (1): 2016–17
University College Cork
All-Ireland League Division 1B:
Winner (1): 2017–18
References
External links
New England Free Jacks Profile
Munster A Profile
U20 Six Nations Profile
Living people
1996 births
Rugby union players from County Cork
People educated at Presentation Brothers College, Cork
Irish rugby union players
Sundays Well RFC players
Cork Constitution players
University College Cork RFC players
Munster Rugby players
New England Free Jacks players
Irish expatriate rugby union players
Expatriate rugby union players in the United States
Irish expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Rugby union scrum-halves
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham%20de%20Revier%20Sr.
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Abraham de Revier Sr.
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Abraham de Revier Sr. was the first elder of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow in Sleepy Hollow, New York when it was organized in 1697.
He was one of the ninety-six original members of the church and was the patriarch of a leading family in the Sleepy Hollow community. He has also been credited as the author of a private memorandum book that is now lost to history, which was heavily drawn upon in 1715 by Dirck Storm to compose the church's history. However, he signed his 1716 will by his mark, so it is more likely that the memoranda should be credited to his son, also named Abraham and a later elder of the church, who had predeceased his father about 1712.
The Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow's book of records is one of the most significant records in Early American history. "Het Notite Boeck der Christelyckes Kercke op de Manner of Philips Burgh" is a rare surviving record of Dutch Colonial American village life in English-occupied New York province.
References
American clergy
People of the Province of New York
American members of the Dutch Reformed Church
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic%20Soul%20Surfer
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Sonic Soul Surfer
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Sonic Soul Surfer is the seventh studio album by American blues musician Seasick Steve. It is the follow-up of his previous album Hubcap Music in 2013. It was released on 23 March 2015 worldwide. Three singles were released from the album : "Bring It On" was the lead single on 25 November 2014, "Summertime Boy" was the album's second single on 10 February 2015, and music video was shot, featuring Seasick Steve surfing. Another single and music video were released on 12 April 2015 : the album's opening track "Roy's Gang". A "Sonic Soul Tour" started in April 2015, with concerts in the US, and across Europe.
The album was his most acclaimed to date by critics, with an average score of 70/100 according to Metacritic. It also was a commercial success, peaking at number 4 on the UK and Scottish Albums Chart, 16 in the Netherlands, 17 in Belgium, 25 in Ireland, and 64 in Australia, its best peak since his 2009 album Man From Another Time. It has been certified gold.
Critical reception
Sonic Soul Surfer received critical acclaim, receiving an average score of 70/100 on Metacritic, based on nine critics.
Mojo gave the album four out of five stars, stating "Sonic Soul Surfer mostly trades in toe-tapping slide-guitar riffage". Q magazine also rewarded the album with four out of five stars. The website "The Metropolist" rewarded the album with three out of five stars, picking lead single "Bring It On" as a "stand-out on Sonic Soul Surfer", but criticizing "Roy's Gang" as "falling a bit flat".
Calum Slingerland of Exclaim! acknowledged that the record was more about lateral movement as opposed to breaking new musical ground, writing that Sonic Soul Surfer "reassures listeners that the California native's desire to write and play is still very much alive."
French website Stillinrock also gave a positive review of the record, but however criticized it in these words : "it's a fact : Sonic Soul Surfer won't be a rock'n'roll revolution. However, only a few musicians dare playing this kind of music [...]. If "powerful" is the word that comes to our mind when we think of Sonic Soul Surfer, it might be because Steve is an artist that lies neither to himself nor to his audience".
Track listing
Charts and certifications
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
References
External links
Official website
2015 albums
Seasick Steve albums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granada%20Street
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Granada Street
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Granada Street, also known as Senator Jose O. Vera Street, is a road in Quezon City, Metro Manila, the Philippines. It runs from Nicanor Domingo Street as an extension of Gilmore Avenue to the boundary with San Juan, where it terminates at Bonny Serrano Avenue and becomes Ortigas Avenue.
Route description
The land on which the street lies on used to be part of an estate owned by the family of Jose O. Vera, founder of Sampaguita Pictures and later Senator from 1946 to 1949. In the late 1950s, Quezon City mayor Norberto S. Amoranto convinced the Vera family to permit construction of the street through their property, part of a project to improve connectivity between Quezon City — at the time the capital of the Philippines — and the surrounding suburbs, particularly those headed to New Manila from Mandaluyong and Pasig. The family sold of land to the Quezon City government at a significant discount to facilitate construction of the road, and its completion enabled direct access to Quezon City from eastern Metro Manila without needing to go through side streets or Epifanio de los Santos Avenue. In 2004, the street was renamed after Vera by the Sangguniang Panlungsod of Quezon City.
Today, Granada Street is known for being home to several parol (Christmas lantern) vendors which line both sides of the street, giving it the name "Parol Row". Also known as the Parolan sa San Juan ("Lantern Area on the San Juan"), selling lanterns here began in the 1990s, when Sampaguita Pictures crewmen made lanterns and sold them outside the studio premises to generate extra income. Several vendors sell their lanterns here from September to December every year, with some selling the rest of the year as well. The street is also a culinary destination, having held this distinction since the 1970s. Modern-day dining establishments along the street include Gavino's Donuts, known for their Japanese-style donuts, and Mien-San, known for their Chinese-style steamed brisket and other dishes.
References
Streets in Quezon City
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Volaris%20destinations
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List of Volaris destinations
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This is a list of cities and airports that Volaris serves as of July 2022:
Destinations
References
Volaris Flight Tickets
Lists of airline destinations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Matthew%27s%20Collegiate%20School
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St Matthew's Collegiate School
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St Matthew's Collegiate School is a state-integrated Anglican girls' secondary school in Pownall Street, Masterton, New Zealand.
Notable alumni
Julie Paama-Pengelly (born 1964), tā moko artist, painter, commentator, and curator
Katrina Shanks (born 1969), former politician
Lydia Wevers (1950–2021), literary critic, English language literary historian, editor, and book reviewer
References
Girls' schools in New Zealand
Educational institutions established in 1914
Masterton
Secondary schools in the Wellington Region
Schools in the Wairarapa
Anglican schools in New Zealand
1914 establishments in New Zealand
Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragoons%20of%20the%20Imperial%20Guard
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Dragoons of the Imperial Guard
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The Empress's Dragoons of the Imperial Guard () was a heavy cavalry unit formed by Napoleon I through the decree of April 15, 1806. The "dragoon" regiments of the line had distinguished themselves in the German Campaign of 1805, and therefore Napoleon decided to reorganize the cavalry of the Guard and create within it a regiment of dragoon guards. This regiment was colloquially known as the Dragons de l'Impératrice (Empress' Dragoons), in honor of Empress Joséphine. Following the Bourbon Restoration, they were renamed as the Royal Dragoon Corps of France (Corps Royal de Dragons des France) but were disbanded shortly afterwards. The Empress' Dragoons were reformed during the Second Empire (1852-1870).
Composition
The regiment was made up of three squadrons, headed by 60 officers personally selected by Napoleon. The first squadron was to have 296 men, and be made up of "vélites", while the other two were regular squadrons of 476 horsemen. To complete this new unit, each of the 30 dragoon regiments of the line provided 12 men, each with 10 years of service; the brigadier, chasseur, and dragoon line regiments provided the sous-officiers.
The unit's numbers rose to 1269 in 1807 with the addition of two new squadrons, and on December 9, 1813, it was attached to the Guard's 3rd regiment of éclaireurs.
Campaigns
The Dragons de la Garde Imperiale distinguished themselves at the battle of Friedland (1807), and at the battle of Wagram (1809). They suffered heavy losses at the battle of Maloyaroslavets and at the battle of Berezina (1812). They participated in the battles of Leipzig and Hanau (1813) and captured 18 guns at the battle of Saint-Dizier (1814). Their last battle was Marshal Ney's charge at Waterloo (1815).
Uniform
The dragoons' uniform and weaponry was the same as those of the Guard's horse grenadiers, only in green rather than blue, and (in place of the bonnet à poil) a copper dragoon helmet with a hanging mane in the Neo-Greek Minerve style, with a red plume.
The trumpeters wore a light blue tunic with white lapels and crimson turn backs and collar. The mane on their helmets was white and the plume was light blue. They rode grey horses. They also had a white uniform for parade, consisting of a white coat with light blue lapels and collar lined with gold.
The Dragoon Guards wore green coats with white lapels and red turnbacks. They also wore aurore (light orange) aiguilettes and epaulettes. They wore brass helmets with a long black mane, a simulated leopard fur turban and a red plume (white plume for the highest officers). They rode chestnut horses.
References
External links
Uniform of the Empress' Dragoons, in 1815, on "Les uniformes pendant la campagne des Cent Jours"
Regiments of Napoleon I's Imperial Guard
Dragoon regiments of France
Military units and formations established in 1806
Military units and formations disestablished in 1815
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges%20Tron
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Georges Tron
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Georges Tron (born 1 August 1957 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French politician. He served as Secretary of Public Affairs in the Cabinet of François Baroin but resigned after accusations of sexual assault were made against him. He was mayor of Draveil from 1995 to 2021, and only resigned from that role several months into his 3-years prison sentence for rape.
Biography
Georges Tron received his Baccalauréat at the Lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague in 1975 and a Masters in Public Law. In 1986, he was appointed as parliamentary advisor to Édouard Balladur, then Minister of Economy and Finance. From 1988 to 1993, he served as Chief of Staff for Balladur. From 1997 to 2002, he served as budgetary advisor to the Prime Minister, Lionel Jospin.
In 1999, he served as National Secretary of the Rally for the Republic and in 2002, he joined the Union for a Popular Movement.
He became President of the Union des Jeunes pour le Progrès. Since 1993, he has been a deputy of Essonne. Since 1995, he has been Mayor of Draveil. Since 2003, he has been the President of Communauté d'Agglomération Sénart Val de Seine. In 2009, he joined the Deslierres & Associés law firm.
In May 2011, George Tron became the subject of a preliminary investigation into charges of sexual harassment after two women alleged that he had attacked them between 2007 and 2010, which led him to resign as a junior minister for the civil service, tendering his resignation to French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Tron linked the case to a feud with relatives of Presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, who announced she would sue him for libel.
In February 2021, he was sentenced on appeal to 5 years of imprisonment (with 2 of those suspended) for the sexual harassment and rape of his former employee. He initially refused to resign and ran the town from his jail cell for several months, but he eventually resigned in May 2021.
Political career
Governmental functions
Secretary of State for Public Service : 2010-2011 (Resignation)
Electoral mandates
National Assembly of France
Member of the National Assembly of France for Essonne (9th constituency) : 1993-2010 (He became secretary of state in 2010) / Since 2011. Elected in 1993, reelected in 1997, 2002, 2007.
Municipal Council
Mayor of Draveil : Since 1995. Reelected in 2001, 2008, 2014, 2020.
Municipal councillor of Draveil : Since 1995. Reelected in 2001, 2008.
Agglomeration Community Council
President of the Agglomeration Community Sénart Val de Seine : Since 2003. Reelected in 2008.
Member of the Agglomeration Community Sénart Val de Seine : Since 2003. Reelected in 2008.
References
External links
Official website
1957 births
Living people
People from Neuilly-sur-Seine
Politicians of the French Fifth Republic
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
The Republicans (France) politicians
Mayors of places in Île-de-France
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Bunting%20Snowball
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William Bunting Snowball
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William Bunting Snowball (January 12, 1865 – September 27, 1925) was a Canadian politician. He was the eldest son of Jabez Bunting Snowball, a politician who became Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick.
Snowball served as the Mayor of the Town of Chatham, New Brunswick for four terms. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada from the riding of Northumberland, New Brunswick as a Liberal in a by-election on October 1, 1924, but served for less than a year before dying suddenly on September 27, 1925.
Snowball was educated at Upper Canada College.
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1865 births
1925 deaths
Liberal Party of Canada MPs
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from New Brunswick
People from Miramichi, New Brunswick
Mayors of Miramichi, New Brunswick
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonnardite
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Gonnardite
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Gonnardite is a comparatively rare, fibrous zeolite, natrolite subgroup. Older papers claim that a complete solid solution exists between tetranatrolite and gonnardite, but tetranatrolite was discredited as a separate species in 1999. A series, based on the disorder of the silicon-aluminum in the framework, appears to exist between Na-rich gonnardite and natrolite, Na2(Si3Al2)O10·2H2O.
Gonnardite was named in 1896 after Ferdinand Pierre Joseph Gonnard (1833–1923), who was Professor of Mining Engineering at the University of Lyon, France.
Crystallography
Orthorhombic-bipyramidal class 2/m 2/m 2/m and tetragonal-scalenoidal class 2m (orthorhombic with a very close to b, or tetragonal with a equal to b). Unit Cell Parameters: a = b = 13.21 Å, c = 6.622 Å, Z = 2Space Group: I2d
Crystal habit
Crystals are prismatic, bounded by {110} and {111} as well as {100} and {001}, and gonnardite also occurs as radial hemispheres. Commonly found as zoned prisms or aggregates with thomsonite, natrolite and paranatrolite.
Structure
Gonnardite is a tectosilicate belonging to the natrolite group. The natrolite minerals are composed of chains of AlO4 and SiO4 tetrahedra that link to form frameworks. As with all zeolites, there are channels within the framework, and for the natrolite minerals the channels are occupied by polyhedra containing sodium, calcium or barium, together with oxygen and water. Gonnardite has the same framework structure as natrolite, but a disordered Si, Al distribution on the tetrahedral sites. Some of the water sites in the disordered natrolite structure of gonnardite are empty.
Environment
Gonnardite has been found in silica-poor volcanics and pegmatites. It occurs with thomsonite and natrolite in vesicles in the volcanic rock of The Nut, near Stanley, Tasmania, Australia, intergrown with natrolite at Don Hill, Tasmania and in drill holes with chabazite and calcite near Guildford, Tasmania. It is also found in nepheline-syenite in the Grenville Geological Province, which is part of the Canadian Shield.
The type locality (the place where the mineral was first described) is La Chaux de Bergonne, Gignat, Saint-Germain-Lembron, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France, and type material from this locality is held at the Natural History Museum, London, England, registration number BM.1930,166.
References
Zeolites
Tetragonal minerals
Minerals in space group 122
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald%20Holz
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Harald Holz
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Harald Holz (born 14 May 1930, in Freiburg im Breisgau) is a German philosopher, logician, mathematician (autodidact), poet and novelist.
Life
Holz studied philosophy from 1953 to 1957 in Pullach im Isartal/Germany (lic. phil. schol.) and from 1959 until 1961 Catholic Theology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt/Germany (bac. theol.). He continued his study of philosophy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University Bonn/Germany. There he received his research doctorate in 1964 with Gottfried Martin with the thesis Transcendental philosophy and metaphysics.
Since 1964 he was assistant professor at the Institute of Philosophy at Ruhr University Bochum/Germany. In 1969 he published his Second Book with the university entitled Speculation and Facticity. On middle-aged and late Schelling's concept of freedom. Since 1971 he was Research Associate and Professor with Ruhr University Bochum. Since 1976 he was Chair Professor and Director of the Institute of Fundamental Philosophical-Theological Questions at the Westfalian Wilhelm University Münster/Germany. In 1979 and in 1983 he was visiting scholar at George Washington University in Washington D.C. Further he was director, together with E. Wolf-Gazo, implementing the first Inter-national Congress on the Philosophy of A. North Whitehead 1981 at the University of Bonn, then director of the congress: ‘Kant in the Hispanidad’, together with J. E. Dotti and H. Radermacher 1983 at the university of Cologne, and further director, together with H. Radermacher and A. Engstler, of the congress: ‘The liberation of Hispano-America, Philosophical contexts’ 1984 at the university at Münster/Westfalia.
Philosophy
As a systematic basic concept he replaces substance metaphysics totally by relation subsistence: Relationality is no longer an addition to existing concepts, but its reasoning and in the first place constitutes terminativity.
References
Further reading
A. Engstler, H.-D. Klein (Hg.), Perspektiven und Probleme systematischer Philosophie. Harald Holz zum 65. Geburtstag, Fft/M u.ö. (P. Lang) 1996.
Porträt: Harald Holz wird 70, in: Wiener Jahrbuch für Philosophie XXXII (1999), 285-292.
Xavier Tilliette, Rezension: Spekulation und Faktizität, Zum Freiheitsbegriff des mittleren und späten Schelling, Bonn (Bouvier) 1970, in: Archives de Philosophie 34 (1971) 314 – 316.
Fernando Inciarte, Rezension: Thomas von Aquin und die Philosophie, Ihr Verhältnis zur thomasischen Theologie in kritischer Sicht, Paderborn/München (Schöningh) 1975, in: Theologische Revue 74 (2/1978). 3 pp.
Friedrich Wallner, Rezension: System der Transzendentalphilosophie im Grundriß, 2 Bde. Freiburg/München (Alber) 1977, in: Philos. Literaturanzeiger 34 (1/1983) 72 -80, bes.: 78 – 80.
Hans-Dieter Klein, Rezension: System der Transzendentalphilosophie im Grundriß, 2 Bde. Freiburg/München (Alber) 1977, in: Wiener Jahrb. f. Philosophie XIII (1985) 218 – 221.
Hans-Dieter Klein, Rezension: Metaphysische Untersuchungen, Meditationen zu einer Realphilosophie, Bern u. a. (Lang) 1997, in: Wiener Jahrb. f. Philosophie XXI (1998) 204 – 206.
Thomas Weiß, Rezension: Geist in Geschichte, Idealismus-Studien, Würzburg (Königshausen & Neumann) 2 Halb-Bde., in: prima philosophia 8 (1995) 448 – 450.
Heinrich Euler, Rezension: Der zerrissene Adler, Eine deutsche Geschichtsphilosophie, Münster (Lit) 1995, in: Mitteilungen der Humboldt-Gesellschaft (Mannheim), 34 (Oktober/1999) 168 – 171.
Gregor Paul, Rezension: Ost und West als Frage strukturologischer Hermeneutik: Zur Frage einer 'Brücke' zwischen abendländisch-europäischer und chinesischer Philosophie; East and West as Theme of a Structurological Hermeneutics: The Question of a 'Bridge' between Occidental-European and Chinese Philosophy, Essen (Die Blaue Eule), 1998, in: Deutsche China-Gesellschaft – Mitteilungsblatt 42 (2/1999) 58 – 60.
Wolfram Schommers, Rezension: Kosmische Polarität und Transformation. Traktat über kosmologische Logik und Erkenntnistheorie nebst kritisch-alternativen Reflexionen zur sog. 'Supergravitation', Münster (Lit) 2001, in: Mens agitat molem, Mitteilungen der Humboldt-Gesellschaft (Mannheim), hrsg. v. D. Haberland, 36 (2003) 190 – 191.
Karen Gloy, Die Kosmologie von Harald Holz, in: Wiener Jahrb. f. Philosophie XXXVII (2006), 293 – 305.
Alexander Ph. Grundorath, Transzendentale Kosmologie – Harald Holz’ Beiträge zum Entwurf einer alternativen Idee von Humanexistenz, Universität Wien 2010, 244 pp. (doctoral thesis).
External links
Detailed biography and bibliography
Short bibliography
On Ultimate Justification (Letztbegründung)
20th-century German philosophers
1930 births
Living people
German male writers
Scientists from Freiburg im Breisgau
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20of%20Bahram%20Khan
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Family of Bahram Khan
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The Bahram Khan family () is a major political family from Charsadda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
Family tree
The members of Bahram Khan family who have been active in politics are:
Khan Abdul Bahram Khan, the founder of the family
Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan (1882–1958) ("Dr. Khan Sahib"), pioneer in the Indian Independence Movement and a Pakistani politician, son of Khan Abdul Bahram Khan
Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890–1988), also known as Bacha Khan, independence activist, son of Khan Abdul Bahram Khan
Abdul Ghani Khan (1914–1996), widely considered as one of the best Pashto language poets of the 20th century, son of Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Abdul Wali Khan (1917–2006), secular democratic socialist leader and opponent of the British Raj, son of Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Abdul Ali Khan (1922-1997), educationist, the youngest son of Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Nasim Wali Khan, politician and wife of Abdul Wali Khan
Asfandyar Wali Khan (born 1949), politician, son of Abdul Wali Khan
Sangeen Wali Khan (1959–2008), politician, son of Abdul Wali Khan
Aimal Wali Khan (born 1986), politician, son of Asfandyar Wali Khan
Lawangeen Wali Khan (born 1988), politician, son of Sangeen Wali Khan
See also
Pakistan
Pashtun people
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Khudai Khidmatgar
Awami National Party
Political families of Pakistan
Pashtun people
Bahram Khan family
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zdzis%C5%82aw%20Stycze%C5%84
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Zdzisław Styczeń
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Zdzisław Styczeń (16 October 1894, in Przemyśl – 20 December 1978, in Kraków) was a footballer from Poland (midfielder) who played for such clubs as Cracovia and Wisła Kraków. He played in the first game of the Poland national football team. Styczeń was also a part of the Poland national football team that participated in the 1924 Summer Olympics.
References
External links
Player profile on pkol.pl
1894 births
1978 deaths
Polish footballers
Poland international footballers
MKS Cracovia (football) players
Wisła Kraków players
Olympic footballers of Poland
Footballers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
People from Przemyśl
Sportspeople from Podkarpackie Voivodeship
Polish Austro-Hungarians
People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
Association football midfielders
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germinal%20Peiro
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Germinal Peiro
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Germinal Peiro (born September 15, 1953 in Lézignan-Corbières, Aude) Is a French politician who was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented Dordogne's 4th constituency from 1997 to 2017 as a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche.
He was Mayor of Castelnaud-la-Chapelle from 14 March 1983 to 4 April 2014.
References
1953 births
Living people
People from Aude
Socialist Party (France) politicians
Mayors of places in Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Members of Parliament for Dordogne
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balch
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Balch
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Balch may refer to:
People with the surname
Albert V. Balch (1828–1915), American politician
Antony Balch (1937–1980), British film director
Emily Greene Balch (1867–1961), American pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
Rear Admiral George Beall Balch (1821–1908), American naval officer
USS Balch (DD-363)
USS Balch (DD-50)
Herbert E. Balch (1869–1958), British archaeologist and caver
Jennifer Balch American wildfire scientist
John Balch, builder of the John Balch House (1679), in Beverly, Massachusetts
John Henry Balch (1896–1980), United States Navy
Joseph Pope Balch (1822–1872), American Civil War veteran of Rhode Island
Oscar B. Balch, American decorator who built the Oscar B. Balch House (1911) by Frank Lloyd Wright
Pamela Balch, president of West Virginia Wesleyan College
Reg Balch (1894–1994), British Canadian photographer and scientist
Robert Balch (born 1945), American sociologist
Stephen Balch, American scholar
Stephen Bloomer Balch (1747–1833), American Presbyterian minister
Thomas Balch (1821–1877), American historian
Other uses
Alternative spelling of Balkh, an ancient city in Afghanistan
Balch & Bingham, law firm in Birmingham, Alabama
Balch Cave in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England, named for Herbert E. Balch
Balch Creek in Portland, Oregon, named for settler Danford Balch
Balch (crater), on Venus
Balch Fieldhouse, arena in Boulder, Colorado
Balch Hall, at Cornell University
Balch House (Cincinnati, Ohio), a registered historic building
Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
Balch Pond, on the Maine-New Hampshire border
Balch Springs, Texas
See also
Balché, mildly intoxicating Mayan drink
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avram%20Moiseevich%20Razgon
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Avram Moiseevich Razgon
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Avram Moiseevich Razgon (; 6 January 1920, Yartsevo – 3 February 1989, Moscow) was a Russian historian and a prominent Soviet theoretician of museology, Doktor nauk (1974), and university professor (1986).
Career
A. Razgon graduated from Lomonosov University in 1948. He was a student and later an associate of N. Rubinstein, a renowned Soviet historian and specialist in the historiography of Russian history.
He worked as a Senior scientific officer (1952-1962) and later as the Deputy Director for Science (1962-1972) in the Research Institute for Museum Studies in Moscow.
Razgon was the head of the Museum Studies sector at the Museum of Revolution from 1972 to 1974. He headed the Department of cartography of the State Historical Museum, Moscow, from 1974 to 1988. In 1984, he founded the Department of Museum Studies at the All-Union Institute of improvement of professional skills of workers of art and culture, and was the head of the Department until 1989. He was also lecturing on Museology in the Faculty of History at Lomonosov University and in the Department of Museum Studies of the Moscow State Historico-Archival Institute. In the USSR, he was the first academic to attain the rank of Professor in the Department of Museum Studies (1986).
Razgon was one of the founders of ICOM’s International Committee for museology (ICOFOM) and from 1977 to 1983 was ICOFOM’s Vice President. He participated in the creation of the international Glossary of museum terms Dictionarium museologicum published in 1983 and 1986.
Together with museologists from the GDR, Razgon led an international project to write the book “Museum Studies: Historical museums” which was published in 1988 and which was, for many years, the main textbook on museology. In the last decades of his life, Razgon put a lot of energy into the development of the theoretical and methodological foundations of the education of professional museologists.
The State Historical Museum and other heritage institutions have organized a number of conferences to commemorate his work and ideas for the purpose of the further development of museum theory and practice.
Research interests
Razgon authored over 100 scientific papers on economic history and museology. His research was based on both printed and archival sources as well as on objects from museum collections, and his writings were devoted to the history of historical, archaeological, military and local lore museums and to the protection of monuments of history and culture in the context of the history of society and development of scientific knowledge. Summarizing these observations, his doctoral dissertation "Historical museums in Russia in 1861-1917" (1973) became an important work in the historiography of Russian museology. He directed the preparation of collective writings on the history of museum work entitled: “Essays on the History of museums in Russia and the USSR” (1960-1971) and were among those Razgon published about the state of historical museums and monuments from the 18th century to the year 1917.
Since the mid1970s, Razgon’s scientific interests lay mainly in the field of history and the theory of museum work. Razgon considered that museology was showing “features of an independent scientific branch” that was studying the processes of the preservation of social information, a knowledge of the world and the transfer of knowledge and emotion through museum objects. Razgon was promoting the idea of “museum sources studies”, i.e. museum objects analyzed as a source of information. He was also interested in determining the place of museology in relation to other sciences and fields of knowledge and in the improvement of museological terminology.
Razgon’s idea of “museum sources studies” as a separate area of knowledge was later developed in the writings of Nina P. Finyagina (1930-2000) and Natalia G. Samarina (1958-2011). From their point of view, the main difference between the “museum sources studies” and “historical source studies” lay in the emphasis on semantic information that a museum object carries.
Works
Finjagina N. P., Razgon A.M. Izučenie i naučnoe opisanie pamjatnikov material’noj kul’tury. Moskva : Sovetskaja Rossija, 1972, 271 p.
Razgon A.M. Research work in museums: its possibilities and limits, in Possibilities and Limits in Scientific Research Typical for the Museums. (Les possibilités et les limites du travail et de la recherche scientifiques dans les muses, in Possibilités et limites de la recherche scientifique typiques pour les musées). Brno, Musée morave, 1978, p. 20–45, 99–127.
Razgon A.M. Contemporary museology and the problem, in Sociological and Ecological Aspects in Modern Museum Activities in the Light of Cooperation With Other Related Institutions. (La muséologie contemporaine et le problème de la place des musées dans le système des institutions sociales, in Aspects sociologiques et écologiques dans l’activité des musées modernes en coopération avec les autres organisations sœurs). Brno, Moravian Museum, 1979, p. 29–37.
Razgon A.M. Museological provocations 1979, in Museology – Science or just practical museum work? MuWoP 1, 1980, p. 11–12.
Razgon A.M. Multidisciplinary research in museology. MuWoP 2, 1981, p. 51–53.
Works about Razgon
Slovo o soratnike i druge. Moskva : Gosudarstvennyj Istoričeskij Muzej, 1999, 152 p.
References
Museologists
Museum people
1920 births
1989 deaths
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Next%20Movement
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The Next Movement
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"The Next Movement" is a single by The Roots from their fourth album Things Fall Apart (1999). The track features scratching from DJ Jazzy Jeff and background vocals from R&B duo Jazzyfatnastees. Randall Roberts of the Riverfront Times called it "one of the best singles of the '90s". Charles Stone III directed the song's music video.
Track listing
"The Next Movement" (radio version) – 3:45
"You Got Me (The Q-Cru Radio Mix)" (featuring Erykah Badu) – 3:45
"Without a Doubt" (radio version) – 3:08
"The Next Movement" (instrumental) – 4:30
References
External links
"The Next Movement" music video at YouTube
"The Next Movement" at Sessions@AOL
1999 singles
1999 songs
The Roots songs
MCA Records singles
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Bataan Risers
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The Bataan Risers, also known as 1Bataan Risers-Camaya Coast, are a professional basketball team in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League. It is owned by the provincial government of Bataan.
They also fielded a team in 3x3 basketball. The Bataan Risers participated as the 1Bataan Risers in the Chooks-to-Go Pilipinas 3x3 and has also participated in the 2019 FIBA 3x3 World Tour as the Balanga Chooks.
History
They joined MPBL on the league's maiden season.
Current roster
Depth chart
Head coaches
All-time roster
Melvin Bangal (2018–present)
Arvie Bringas (2018–present)
Christian Capuli (2018–present)
JP Capuli (2018–present)
Al Carlos (2018–present)
Gary David (2018–present)
Francis Ebidag (2018–present)
Gio Espuelas (2018–present)
Dennis Ignacio (2018–present)
Edward Gallo (2018–present)
Glenn Macalinao (2018–present)
Niño Magno (2018–present)
Khiel Misa (2018–present)
Mark Montes (2018–present)
JC Peñaflor (2018–present)
Jay Sierra (2018–present)
Alfhon Tuazon (2018–present)
Dinmark Villar (2018–present)
Kim Lintag (2018-present)
Season-by-season records
Records from the 2019-20 MPBL season:
References
Bataan Risers
2018 establishments in the Philippines
Basketball teams established in 2018
Chooks-to-Go Pilipinas 3x3 teams
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Francis Malbone House
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The Francis Malbone House is a historic house at 392 Thames Street in Newport, Rhode Island.
The house dates from 1760 and its design is attributed to Peter Harrison, a prominent architect of the period, responsible also for the Touro Synagogue and the Redwood Library, both important early Newport buildings.
In 1975 the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
History
The building was constructed "in 1760 as a private residence for Colonel Francis Malbone (1728 - 1785), who made his fortune as a shipping merchant at a time when Newport Harbor was one of the busiest Harbors in the New World. He is believed to have smuggled merchandise into the house to avoid taxes. Subterranean passages found in the cellar have been traced to a subway leading to the pier where Colonel Malbone moored his fleet. This was a practice common in the Free Port of Newport, and one upon which many Newport fortunes were founded."
The British occupied Newport during the American Revolution "and seized the Malbone Estate. The mansion was used to store looted gold and treasures, leading to its nickname, "the treasure house.""
After the American Revolution, "the mansion was returned to the Malbone family who retained ownership until the early 1830s. After the death of Colonel Malbone in 1785, his son, also named Francis Malbone, who later became United States Senator, owned the estate until his death in 1809. In 1770, famed painter, Gilbert Stuart painted the portrait of the younger Francis Malbone and his brother Saunders, which now hangs in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts."
In the early 1800s, prior to the building of the famous mansions on Bellevue Avenue, the Malbone House was one of the most opulent houses in Newport. It was owned from 1833 to 1838 by Colonel Joseph G. Totten of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. At that time, Colonel Totten was in charge of construction of Fort Adams and was also the senior Army engineer in the northeast. He sold the house in 1838 when he was appointed Chief Engineer of the Army.
Dr. James R. Newton owned the house in 1850 and built a brick office on the estate for his doctor's office, now known as "The Counting House".
The Francis Malbone house was restored in the early 1970s. The front door of the mansion features an Ionic doorway very similar to the Ionic portico of the Touro Synagogue. The floor plan features a broad central hall with flanking rooms on either side. The hall has a high divided arch, the stairs are fitted with ramped rail and twisted balusters. The stair landing is lit by a Palladian window. The front parlors feature plush paneling, a sign of wealth in colonial times. Two-story pediment mantels adorn the fireplace walls and a broken scroll tops the one in the northwest parlor.
In 1989, the house was converted to an inn, with nine guest rooms. In 1996, a "sensitively designed addition" was built, allowing the inn to expand to eighteen guestrooms.
See also
Southern Thames Historic District
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Houses in Newport, Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Newport, Rhode Island
Historic district contributing properties in Rhode Island
Houses completed in 1758
Georgian architecture in Rhode Island
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy%20Barclay
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Dorothy Barclay
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Dorothy Barclay (1892 Cape Town - 1940 Cape Town) was a South African botanical illustrator, and the niece of Ethel May Dixie.
The Wild Flower Protection Society had been started by the Mountain Club of South Africa in 1912 and had published 'Nature Notes', edited by Louisa Bolus and illustrated by Dorothy Barclay.
Works illustrated
'Springbok Rympies en Stories' - Willem Versfeld - Townshend, Taylor & Snashall, Cape Town (1911) - Afrikaans translations of Mother Goose rhymes
'A Book of South African Flowers' - Barclay, Bolus and Steer - Juta & Co., Cape Town (1925)
'A Guide to the Flora of the Cape Peninsula' - Margaret Levyns (1929)
'A Second Book of South African Flowers' - Barclay, Bolus and Steer - Juta & Co., Cape Town (1936)
References
Botanical illustrators
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert%20Le%20Bris
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Gilbert Le Bris
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Gilbert Le Bris (born March 3, 1949 in Concarneau) is a former member of the National Assembly of France. He represented the 8th constituency of the Finistère department from 2002 to 2017, and was a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche group.
References
1949 births
Living people
People from Concarneau
Socialist Party (France) politicians
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
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Gilbert Mathon
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Gilbert Mathon (born May 7, 1941 in Vitry-en-Artois) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Somme department, and is a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche.
References
1941 births
Living people
People from Pas-de-Calais
Politicians from Hauts-de-France
Socialist Party (France) politicians
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verica%20Nedeljkovi%C4%87
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Verica Nedeljković
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Verica Nedeljković (; born 16 September 1929), née Jovanović (), is a Serbian and Yugoslav chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 1978). She is a six-time winner of the Yugoslav Women's Chess Championship (1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1958, 1965).
Biography
From the mid-1950s to the late 1960s, she was one of the leading Yugoslav women's chess players. Verica Nedeljković won the Yugoslav Women's Chess Championships six times: 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1958 and 1965. The winner of many international chess women's tournaments, including twice in a row in Belgrade (1961, 1962).
Verica Nedeljković four times participated in the Women's World Chess Championship Candidates Tournaments:
In 1955, at Candidates Tournament in Moscow has taken 6th place;
In 1959, at Candidates Tournament in Plovdiv has taken 2nd place;
In 1961, at Candidates Tournament in Vrnjačka Banja shared 4th-6th place;
In 1964, at Candidates Tournament in Sukhumi has taken 9th place;
In 1967, at Candidates Tournament in Subotica has taken 6th place.
Verica Nedeljković played for Yugoslavia in the Women's Chess Olympiads:
In 1963, at second board in the 2nd Chess Olympiad (women) in Split (+12, =0, -0) and won the team silver medal and the gold individual medal,
In 1966, at second board in the 3rd Chess Olympiad (women) in Oberhausen (+4, =4, -2).
In 1954, Verica Nedeljković was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title, but in 1978 she received the honorary title of FIDE Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
After graduation, she was a ship engineer and a candidate for technical sciences. Worked as a lecturer at the University of Belgrade. Been married to a chess player, a chess trainer and a medical doctor by profession - Srećko Nedeljković (1923—2011).
References
External links
1929 births
Living people
Serbian female chess players
Yugoslav female chess players
Chess woman grandmasters
Chess Olympiad competitors
Sportspeople from Čačak
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Sport in Greenland
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Sport is an important part of Greenlandic culture, as the population is generally quite active. The main traditional sport in Greenland is Arctic sports.
Popular sports include association football, track and field, handball and skiing. Handball is often referred to as the national sport, and Greenland's men's national team was ranked among the top 20 in the world in 2001.
Greenland has excellent conditions for skiing, fishing, snowboarding, ice climbing and rock climbing, although mountain climbing and hiking are preferred by the general public. Although the country's environment is generally ill-suited for golf, there are nevertheless golf courses on the island. Greenland hosts a biennial international the world's largest multisport and cultural event for young people of the Arctic for the second time in 2016.
Football
The Football Association of Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaanni Arsaattartut Kattuffia), has a national football team but is not yet a member of FIFA because of ongoing disagreements with FIFA leadership and an inability to grow grass for regulation grass pitches. However, it is the 17th member of the N.F.-Board. DBU president Jesper Møller visited Greenland in 2015 and the Danish and Greenlandic associations signed a cooperation agreement which aims to encourage the game at grass roots level and build four to six artificial pitches. The FIFA Goal programme sponsored the Qaqortoq Stadium in Qaqortoq, which has an artificial grass pitch. Greenland holds the Greenlandic Football Championship annually. They previously held the event known as the Greenland Cup. They also are a member of CONIFA and compete in the Island games Football, finishing as runners-up to Bermuda in 2013.
Skiing
The oldest sport association in Greenland is the Greenland Ski Federation (GIF), founded in 1969. This happened when the then-President of the GIF Daniel Switching took the initiative to found federations and institute reforms. Greenland Ski Federation is further divided into Alpine and cross-country selection committees. The federation is not a member of the International Ski Federation (FIS), but Greenland skiers participated in the Olympics and World Championships under the Danish flag at the 1968, 1994, 1998 and 2014 Games.
Arctic sports
Greenland competes in the biennial Arctic Winter Games (AWG). In 2002, Nuuk hosted the AWG in conjunction with Iqaluit, Nunavut. In 1994 and again in 2002, they won the Hodgson Trophy for fair play.
Other sports
Greenland takes part in the biennial Island Games, organized by the International Island Games Association.
Greenland took part in the 2007 World Men's Handball Championship in Germany, finishing 22nd in a field of 24 national teams.
Greenland took part in badminton in the European Men's & Women's Team Championships in 2018 and won the first match ever in international badminton team championships against Hungary.
Greenland took part in the table tennis event at the multi-sport 2022 European Championships in Munich, Germany.
Membership of international sports federations
Greenland has gained membership of, or is in the process of applying to join, the following federations:
References
External links
Sport in North America
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20of%20the%20Annunciation%20%28Moh%C3%A1cs%29
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Church of the Annunciation (Mohács)
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The Nagyasszonya temple (Our Lady of Hungarians), also known as the Roman Catholic Memorial Church, the Votive Church, or the Battlefield Memorial Church, is a 20th-century Roman Catholic church in Mohács, Hungary. It is located on the main square (Széchenyi tér) and belongs to the Diocese of Pécs. The church was dedicated to Virgin Mary on the 29. of August 1940.
The dome is 30 meters high and 20 meters wide. The floor area of 1,227 square meters can accommodate 3,600 visitors.
References
Roman Catholic churches in Hungary
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Lovdata
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Lovdata is a Norwegian foundation which publishes judicial information of Norway.
It publishes the periodical Norsk lovtidend, and Lov&Data and EuroRett, and hosts a website with free, public access to all Norwegian laws and other judicial documents, including court rulings.
Lovdata was established on 1 July 1981 by the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police and the foundation Det juridiske fakultets lovsamlingsfond [Lovsamlingsfondet] (The Norwegian Statute Book Foundation at the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo).
It has had a database since 1983 and published laws on CDs since 1990.
Managing director is Odd Storm-Paulsen, and the board consists of Knut Kaasen (chairman), Ida Børresen, Ketil Gjøen, Anne K. Herse and Randi Birgitte Bull.
In 2018, Lovdata sued Håkon Wium Lie and another person for having published Norwegian court decisions openly on rettspraksis.no. Lovdata, which offers access to such court decisions for an annual fee, sued the leechers for having siphoned Lovdata's servers. In less than 24 hours, the Oslo court had ordered the web site to close and for the volunteers to pay for Lovdata's legal bills. Later, in September 2019, the Norwegian Supreme Court ordered l Wium Lie and Fredrik Ljone to remove all court decisions illegally copied from Lovdata.
References
Law of Norway
Publishing companies of Norway
Foundations based in Norway
Organisations based in Oslo
Organizations established in 1981
1981 establishments in Norway
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Gilles Bourdouleix
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Gilles Bourdouleix (born 15 April 1960 in Angers, Maine-et-Loire) is a French politician and former member of the National Assembly of France. He was the deputy for Maine-et-Loire's 5th constituency from 2002 to 2017. He is also the former spokesman of the National Centre of Independents and Peasants, of which he has been the president since 24 October 2009. Bourdouleix was a founding member of the Union of Democrats and Independents, a party from which he resigned on 24 July 2013.
Political life
Gilles Bourdouleix was elected mayor of Cholet the first time on 19 June 1995 with a lead of 148 votes. He succeeded Maurice Ligot who was his chief of staff. He was elected mayor again in the second round of voting in March 2001 with 61.69% of the votes. He was again reelected in 2008.
In 2002, Bourdouleix was elected a member of the National Assembly of France as a member of the UMP. He has continued to serve in the office since then, though switching parties to Union of Democrats and Independents for his third election in 2012 and then leaving parties all together in August 2013. Bourdouleix represents the department of Maine-et-Loire.
Controversy
In July 2013, French blogger Benjamin Charles-Lemaire revealed that Bourdouleix said Adolf Hitler had not killed enough Romani people. Bourdouleix, who had been faced with Nazi salutes and accusations of racism, is said to have stated about a group of Romani people in exasperation, "It's almost as if Hitler didn't kill enough [of them]." On 22 July these remarks were reported in the French newspaper Le Courrier de l'Ouest which led to a significant political outcry against Bourdouleix. Bourdouleix went on to defend himself saying, "You all call me Hitler, and you think that's okay, no?" He then went on to clarify, "[I said that] if I were Hitler, these people here would be killed. There, that's basically what I said."
After Bourdouleix refuted comments published by Lemaire, Le Courrier de l'Ouest published audio recording in order to verify their claims, and a forensic analysis of the recording certified it as authentic. This, along with the initial accusations, led to an investigation of Bourdouleix by the Criminal Court of Angers which charged him with condoning crimes against humanity and defamation of the newspaper Le Courrier de l'Ouest. On 23 January 2014 Bourdouleix was found guilty of the charge and was fined 3,000 euros, though his fine was suspended. On 12 August 2014 Bourdouleix's conviction was upheld by the Court of Appeal. On 15 December 2015 the Court of Appeal cancelled the sentence.
References
1960 births
Living people
People from Angers
National Centre of Independents and Peasants politicians
Mayors of places in Pays de la Loire
People from Cholet
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Union of Democrats and Independents politicians
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian%20Mafia%20during%20the%20Fascist%20regime
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Sicilian Mafia during the Fascist regime
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The Sicilian Mafia was less active during the era of Fascist Italy and it was fought by Benito Mussolini's government. In June 1924, Mussolini instructed Cesare Mori to eradicate the Mafia from Sicily and on October 25, 1925, appointed Mori prefect of the Sicilian capital, Palermo.
History
In 1924, Mussolini initiated a campaign to destroy the Sicilian Mafia, which undermined Fascist control of Sicily. A successful campaign would legitimize his rule and strengthen his leadership. Not only would a campaign against the Mafia be a propaganda opportunity for Mussolini and the National Fascist Party, but it would also allow him to suppress his political opponents in Sicily, since many Sicilian politicians had Mafia links.
According to a popular account that arose after the end of World War II, as prime minister of the Kingdom of Italy, Mussolini had visited Sicily in May 1924 and passed through Piana dei Greci, where he was received by the mayor and Mafia boss Francesco Cuccia. At some point Cuccia expressed surprise at Mussolini’s police escort and is said to have whispered in his ear: "You are with me, you are under my protection. What do you need all these cops for?" After Mussolini rejected Cuccia's offer of protection, Cuccia, feeling he had been slighted, instructed the townsfolk not to attend Mussolini's speech. Mussolini was outraged. However, according to scholar Christopher Duggan, the reason was more political rather than personal: the Mafia threatened and undermined his power in Sicily, and a successful campaign would strengthen him as the new leader, legitimising and empowering his rule.
The Mafia undermined Mussolini through their involvement in the Sicilian government post Italian unification. The Italian state had difficulty administering protection and enforcing the law which created a power vacuum that was gradually filled by the Mafia. Politicians’ systemic use of the organization gradually integrated them into the political and social system on the island, and their involvement in construction projects, agriculture and private protection allowed them into each of these economic sectors. In the 1890s, the Mafia began to deviate from the urban areas they had frequently been present in and expanded towards the more rural areas to employ their coercive powers at the request of landlords to overthrow the socialist peasant fasci.
Although the Sicilian community considered the Mafia to be a “social plague” due to their control in the agricultural sector, they were hard to compete with politically. They had an intrinsic relationship with local political and law enforcement structures. They often funded politicians who were under their protection in exchange for political favors. Mafia bosses were able to manipulate elections to their advantage and violently overthrew any opposition. The Mafia also practiced voter intimidation through the use of verbal menacing or physical attacks. Additionally, the Mafia had a negative effect on the Sicilian economy; in response Mussolini enacted Mezzogiorno policies in an effort to counteract their impact. Considering the Mafia’s integration with the government and economy, their corruption was hard to contain. As the Mafia threatened Mussolini's control and legitimacy, the campaign to exterminate them would benefit him and his regime.
Mussolini's Minister of the Interior, Luigi Federzoni, recalled Mori to active service and appointed him prefect of Trapani. Mori arrived in Trapani in June 1924 and stayed until October 20, 1925, when Mussolini appointed him prefect of Palermo. Mussolini granted Mori special powers to eradicate the Mafia by any means possible. In a telegram, Mussolini wrote to Mori:
"Your Excellency has carte bianche, the authority of the State must absolutely, I repeat absolutely, be re-established in Sicily. If the laws still in force hinder you, this will be no problem, as we will draw up new laws."
Mori formed a small army of policemen, carabinieri and militiamen, which went from town to town, rounding up suspects. To force suspects to surrender, they would take their families hostage, confiscate their property, and publicly slaughter their livestock. Confessions were sometimes extracted through beatings and torture. Some Mafia members who had been on the losing end of Mafia feuds voluntarily cooperated with prosecutors to secure protection and exact revenge. Charges of Mafia association were typically leveled at poor peasants and gabellotti (tenant farmers), but generally not leveled at wealthy landowners. By 1928, over 11,000 suspects were arrested. Many were tried en masse. More than 1,200 were convicted and imprisoned, and many others were internally exiled without trial.
In order to destroy the Mafia, Mori felt it necessary to "forge a direct bond between the population and the state, to annul the system of intermediation under which citizens could not approach the authorities except through middlemen..., receiving as a favour that which is due them as their right." Mori’s methods were sometimes similar to those of the Mafia: He did not just arrest the bandits, but sought to humiliate them as well. Mori aimed to convince Sicilians that the Fascist government was powerful enough to rival the Mafia and that the Mafia could no longer protect them.
Mori's inquiries brought evidence of collusion between the Mafia and influential members of the Italian government and the Fascist Party. His position became more precarious. Some 11,000 arrests were attributed to Mori’s rule in Palermo, creating massive amounts of paperwork which may have been partially responsible for his dismissal in 1929.
Mori's campaign ended in June 1929 when Mussolini recalled him to Rome. Although Mori did not permanently crush the Mafia, his campaign was successful at suppressing it. The Mafia informant Antonino Calderone reminisced: "The music changed. Mafiosi had a hard life. [...] After the war the mafia hardly existed anymore. The Sicilian Families had all been broken up."
Sicily's murder rate sharply declined. Landowners were able to raise the legal rents on their lands; sometimes as much as ten-thousandfold. The Fascist Party propaganda machine proudly announced that the Mafia had been defeated.
Many Mafia members fled to the United States. Among these were Carlo Gambino and Joseph Bonanno, who became powerful Mafia bosses in New York City.
In 1943, nearly half a million Allied troops invaded Sicily. Crime soared in the upheaval and chaos. Many inmates escaped from their prisons, banditry returned and the black market thrived. During the first six months of Allied occupation, party politics in Sicily were banned. Most institutions, with the exception of the police and carabinieri were destroyed, and the American occupiers had to build a new order from scratch. As Fascist mayors were deposed, the Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories (AMGOT) simply appointed replacements. Many turned out to be former Mafia members, such as Calogero Vizzini and Giuseppe Genco Russo. They easily presented themselves as fascist dissidents and their anti-communist positions strengthened their bids for political offices. Mafia bosses reformed their clans, absorbing some of the marauding bandits into their ranks.
References
Sources
Costanzo, Ezio (2007), The Mafia and the Allies: Sicily 1943 and the Return of the Mafia, New York, Enigma books,
Dickie, John (2007). Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia, Hodder.
Duggan, Christopher (1989). Fascism and the Mafia, New Haven: Yale University Press
Duggan, Christopher (2008). The Force of Destiny: A History of Italy Since 1796, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
Finkelstein, Monte S. Separatism, the Allies and the Mafia: The Struggle for Sicilian Independence 1943-1948, Lehigh University Press
Lupo, Salvatore (2009). The History of the Mafia, New York: Columbia University Press,
Mori, Cesare (1933) The Last Struggle With the Mafia, London & New York; Putnam;
Newark, Tim (2007). Mafia Allies: The True Story of America’s Secret Alliance with the Mob in World War II, Saint Paul, MN: Zenith Press (Review)
Petacco Arrigo, L'uomo della provvidenza: Mussolini, ascesa e caduta di un mito, Milan: Mondadori.
Servadio, Gaia (1976), Mafioso: A History of the Mafia From Its Origins to the Present Day, London: Secker & Warburg
History of the Sicilian Mafia
Italian Fascism
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTM%20790%20Duke
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KTM 790 Duke
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The KTM 790 Duke is a naked parallel-twin motorcycle, manufactured by KTM from 2017. The Duke's liquid cooled eight-valve DOHC engine uses a 285° crankshaft in order to mimic KTM's 75° V-Twins. Its power output is 105 bhp.
The Duke is KTM's first parallel-twin bike; previously the factory had produced only singles and V-twins. Released in 2018 for the European market, KTM propose to release the Duke as a 2019 model to the US market in late 2018. Starting in 2021, this new model will be produced in China. It appears that no changes will be made to KTM's warranty, which covers the lesser of two years or twenty-four thousand miles, and guarantees the frame, swingarm, ignition system, engine parts inside the crankcase.
The Duke is also the first middleweight naked with an inertial measurement unit within its electronics that include ride-by-wire, fuel modes, and multi-level traction control. It also includes a bi-directional quickshifter. With a dry weight of 169 kg, the pared-down design is said to make the Duke the lightest bike in the middleweight naked market. KTM cooperated with Maxxis to develop special tyres for the Duke.
Reception
The KTM Duke has received positive reviews.
In Motor Cycle News, senior bike tester Michael Neeves wrote that the KTM "manages to combine the best bits of its rivals", with "the speed and electronic sophistication of the Triumph Street Triple R, the punch and simplicity of the MT-07 and the cheekiness of the MT-09 ... with a dash of crazy 1290 Super Duke R". Neeves praises the KTM's riding position and comfort, but points out that wind protection is non-existent. His overall verdict: "Its engine is a peach, the chassis balanced and it's topped off with superbike-spec electronics".
References
External links
KTM motorcycles
Motorcycles powered by straight-twin engines
Motorcycles introduced in 2018
Standard motorcycles
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xestia%20tecta
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Xestia tecta
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Xestia tecta is a moth of the family Noctuidae. In Europe the species is only known from the boreal area of Fennoscandia, north-western Russia and the northern Ural Mountains. Outside Europe it occurs in northern and central Siberia and the north-western USA including Alaska as well as north-western and central Canada.
The wingspan is 32–41 mm. Adults are on wing from June to August. The species takes two years to reach maturity.
The larvae feed on hardwood shrubs such as Huckleberries (Vaccinium spp.).
Subspecies
Xestia tecta tecta
Xestia tecta tectoides (Corti, 1926) (Labrador)
References
Michael Fibiger: Noctuinae II. In: W. G. Tremewan (Editor.): Noctuidae Europaeae, Vol. 2, Entomological Press, Sorø 1993, page 155/156,
External links
Lepiforum
Bug Guide
Distribution in USA
Pacific Northwest Moths
Fauna Europaea
Xestia
Moths of Europe
Moths of Asia
Moths of North America
Moths described in 1808
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Wodage Zvadya
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Wodage Zvadya (Hebrew: וודג' זבדיה; born 7 September 1973) is an Israeli long-distance runner who specializes in the marathon.
Biography
He was an Ethiopian citizen until 1991 when he emigrated to Israel. He won the silver medal at the 2001 Summer Universiade. His best finish at the European or World Championships was a 22nd place at the 2002 European Championships. He also competed at the 2006 European Championships, the 2005, 2007 and 2009 World Championships and the 2001, 2002 and 2005 World Half Marathon Championships.
His personal best times are 14:07.14 minutes in the 5000 metres, achieved in July 1996 in Hechtel; 29:38.88 minutes in the 10,000 metres, achieved in May 1996 in Tel Aviv; 1:04:30 hours in the half marathon, achieved at the 2001 Summer Universiade in Beijing; and 2:16:04 seconds in the marathon, achieved in January 2004 in Tiberias.
Achievements
References
1973 births
Living people
Israeli male long-distance runners
Ethiopian emigrants to Israel
Citizens of Israel through Law of Return
Israeli people of Ethiopian-Jewish descent
Sportspeople of Ethiopian descent
Ethiopian Jews
Israeli male marathon runners
Ethiopian male long-distance runners
Ethiopian male marathon runners
World Athletics Championships athletes for Israel
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
Universiade silver medalists for Israel
Medalists at the 2001 Summer Universiade
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijayawada%20City%20Police
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Vijayawada City Police
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The 'Vijayawada City Police ,is the local law enforcement agency for the city of Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh and is headed by the city police commissioner.
Organizational structure
The Vijayawada Police Commissionerate is headed by Commissioner of Police and Two Deputy commissioner of Police and Assistant Commissioner of Police with particular number of police stations.
Current structure
The Vijayawada City Police control the following zones:
East Zone
West Zone
Central Zone
South Zone
North Zone
Traffic Zone
Command Control Center
Vijayawada Police has a Command Control Center. With the help of this center, the city police can monitor the whole city.
See also
Andhra Pradesh Police
Visakhapatnam City Police
References
Government of Vijayawada
Metropolitan law enforcement agencies of India
Andhra Pradesh Police
1983 establishments in Andhra Pradesh
Government agencies established in 1983
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles%20Carrez
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Gilles Carrez
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Gilles Carrez (born 29 August 1948 in Paris) is a French politician of the Republicans who serves as a member of the National Assembly of France, representing the Val-de-Marne's 5th constituency.
He is not standing for re-election in the 2022 French legislative election.
Political positions
Carrez is the author of the 1996 Carrez law which obliges the vendor of a property lot (or fraction of a lot) in a condominium to specifically mention the surface area in all documents relating to the property sold.
In response to a 2019 law authorizing the sale of the government's controlling stake in Groupe ADP, Carrez supported a cross-party initiative which called for a referendum to overturn the legislation, citing concerns over the loss of government revenue and influence.
Controversy
In October 2014, Carrez was found to have avoided paying the French solidarity tax on wealth (ISF) for three years by applying a 30 percent tax allowance on one of his homes. However, he had previously converted the home into an SCI, a private, limited company to be used for rental purposes. The 30 percent allowance does not apply to SCI holdings. Once this was revealed, Carrez declared, "if the tax authorities think that I should pay the wealth tax, I won't argue." At the time, Carrez was one of more than 60 French parliamentarians battling with the tax offices over 'dodgy' asset declarations.
References
1948 births
Living people
HEC Paris alumni
École nationale d'administration alumni
Politicians from Paris
Rally for the Republic politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
The Republicans (France) politicians
Mayors of places in Île-de-France
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef%20Shaftel
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Josef Shaftel
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Josef Shaftel (1919–1999) was an American film producer, director and writer.
Selected credits
Film
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (1952) - producer
No Place to Hide (1956) - producer, director
The Naked Hills (1956) - producer director
The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968) - producer
The Bliss of Mrs Blossom (1968) - producer
The Last Grenade (1970) - producer
The Statue (1971) - producer
The Assassination of Trotsky (1972) - executive producer
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972) - executive producer
The Spiral Staircase (1975) - executive producer
Gulliver's Travels (1977) - executive producer
Television
Straightaway (1961–1962 television series) - producer
External links
American film producers
1919 births
1999 deaths
20th-century American businesspeople
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles%20Cocquempot
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Gilles Cocquempot
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Gilles Cocquempot (born 22 October 1952 in Éperlecques) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented the Pas-de-Calais department, as a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche.
References
1952 births
Living people
People from Pas-de-Calais
Politicians from Hauts-de-France
Socialist Party (France) politicians
Deputies of the 11th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreste%20Moricca
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Oreste Moricca
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Oreste Moricca (5 August 1891 – 21 June 1984) was an Italian fencer. He won a gold and bronze medal at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
See also
Moricca
References
External links
1891 births
1984 deaths
Italian male fencers
Olympic fencers of Italy
Fencers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Italy
Olympic bronze medalists for Italy
Olympic medalists in fencing
Sportspeople from the Province of Vibo Valentia
Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles%20d%27Ettore
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Gilles d'Ettore
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Gilles d'Ettore (born 23 May 1968 in Agde, Hérault) was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented Hérault's 7th constituency from 2007 to 2012 as a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
References
1968 births
Living people
People from Agde
The Republicans (France) politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
The Popular Right
Mayors of places in Occitania (administrative region)
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
French people of Italian descent
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestre%20Viken%20Hospital%20Trust
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Vestre Viken Hospital Trust () is a health trust which covers Buskerud, Asker and Bærum. The trust is owned by Southern and Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority and is headquartered in Drammen. It covers an area with 470,000 residents in 26 municipalities. Vestre Viken has 9,500 employees.
Vestre Viken operates Bærum Hospital, Drammen Hospital, Kongsberg Hospital and Ringerike Hospital in Hønefoss. It also operates them medical center Hallingdal Hospital in Ål. It also runs the ambulance service with fifteen bases.
Drammen Hospital
Drammen Hospital (), previously Buskerud Central Hospital, is a general hospital situated in Drammen, Norway. It is the largest hospital which is part of Vestre Viken Hospital Trust, part of the Southern and Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority.
Drammen Heliport, Hospital is an asphalt, ground helipad with a diameter of . It can no longer be used by the 330 Squadron and their Westland Sea King helicopters after an expansion of the parking lot in 2012.
References
Health trusts of Norway
Hospitals established in 2009
Government agencies established in 2009
Companies based in Drammen
2009 establishments in Norway
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Jay Papasan
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Jay Papasan is an American writer and business executive. He is best known for co-authoring, with Gary Keller, books such as The Millionaire Real Estate Investor, which both became a New York Times best-seller and a BusinessWeek best-seller, and The ONE Thing, which reached #1 on the Wall Street Journal business best-seller list. Papasan is the vice president of publishing and executive editor at KellerINK, the publishing arm of Keller Williams Realty. He and his wife Wendy are owners of The Papasan Real Estate Team. In 2014 he was named one of the Most Powerful People in Real Estate by Swanepoel Power 200.
Early life and education
In an interview Papasan recalled typing on an old manual typewriter when he was 12 years old. He attended the Harding Academy in Memphis, Tennessee, graduating in 1987. Papasan attended the University of Memphis where his roommate encouraged him to expand his vocabulary using word habits. After earning his degree in English and French, he traveled to France where he worked as a translator for two and a half years. Papasan was only allowed to work 20 hours a week which was the maximum allowed in the country for the visa he was on, and used his free time to write short stories. He returned from France to attend New York University, earning a Master's degree from its graduate writing program.
Career
After graduating from NYU, Papasan took a job as an editorial assistant at New Market Press. He then moved on to HarperCollins where he worked several years as an associate editor. While at HarperCollins, he started working with David Hirshey, a 10 year deputy editor at Esquire. It was with Hirshey that Papasan published his first best-seller, Go For the Goal: A Champion's Guide to Winning in Soccer and Life by Mia Hamm.
Papasan moved from New York to Austin, Texas with his wife Wendy in February 2000. He freelanced while looking for work, eventually landing as a newsletter writer for Keller Williams Realty. He worked in various positions within the company, learning about the real estate industry and eventually learning that co-founder Gary Keller was planning to write a book. Papasan ran into Keller and asked him if he was aware that he had previously worked in publishing. He spoke with Keller about Keller's plans to write 14 books, showing him two books that he wanted to model on. After Papasan pointed out to Keller that he in fact edited those books during his days at HarperCollins, Keller hired him to help write and edit their first book together.
In 2003, Papasan founded KellerINK along with Gary Keller. The first book published by KellerINK was The Millionaire Real Estate Agent, a book authored by Papasan, Keller, and Dave Jenks in 2004. The book became a BusinessWeek best-seller. He co-authored a second book with Keller and Jenks in 2005. Titled The Millionaire Real Estate Investor, the book appeared on both the BusinessWeek best-seller list and The New York Times Best Seller list.
Papasan continued his writing career in 2007 when he collaborated with Rick Villani and Clay Davis on the book FLIP: How to Buy, Fix and Sell Homes for Profit. The following year he co-authored Your First Home, again with Keller and Jenks, and in 2009, the team wrote SHIFT: How Top Agents Tackle Tough Times, which was Nielsen BookScan's #1 Real Estate Book for 2009. The book also appeared on The Wall Street Journal Business bestseller list and The New York Times Business bestseller list. In 2011, Papasan worked with Buddy Norman to create Shift Commercial: How Top Commercial Brokers Tackle Tough Times. The third book in the "Millionaire" investor series, HOLD: How to Find, Buy, and Rent Houses for Wealth, debuted in 2012 on USA Today's bestselling book list.
Keller and Papasan published their first non-real estate book in April 2013, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results. The book reached #1 on the Wall Street Journal business bestseller list. It was also a bestseller on The New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists. Hudson Booksellers named The ONE Thing one of the five best business interest books of 2013. Papasan has been featured in publications including Forbes and Dave Ramsey’s EntreLeadership Review.
Papasan's freelance work has appeared in Texas Monthly and Memphis Magazine.
Bibliography
References
External links
Jay Papasan official website
Papasan Properties Group Website
KellerINK Website
American business writers
Living people
People from Austin, Texas
American real estate brokers
New York University alumni
University of Memphis alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
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Bandy (disambiguation)
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Bandy is a winter sport.
Bandy may also refer to:
Bandy (carriage), a cart used in India and Sri Lanka
Bandy (surname), a surname
Bandy-bandy, a snake
Bandy Creek, Western Australia, suburb in Australia
Bandy Farms Historic District, United States
Bandy Island, Antarctica
Bandy, Virginia, an unincorporated community in the United States
Dr. Robert W. Bandy House, historic house in the United States
"Bandy legs" or "bandiness"; see genu varum
See also
Bandi (disambiguation)
Band (disambiguation)
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Divisi
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In musical terminology, divisi, or as typically printed “div.,” is an instruction to divide a single section of instruments into multiple subsections. This usually applies to the violins of the string section in an orchestra, although violas, cellos, and double basses can also be divided. Typically, 4-part French Horn sections include divided sections if Horns 1/2 and/or 3/4 are not playing the same music ("a2"). Other brass instruments can also be divided but it is not as frequent as with the Horn section. Woodwinds - especially Flutes and Clarinets - also utilize "divisi" to divide music between parts and even between players of the same part.
After a divisi section, it may be cancelled by the instructions tutti, all'unisono. or unison (abbreviated unis.).
The German equivalents for divisi and tutti, often used in German language scores, are geteilt (or getheilt, abbreviated get.) and zusammen (abbreviated zus.).
Some pieces use notation that refers to half of a section or referring to a specific number of performers. For instance, Giuseppe Verdi's scores include directions for small sections of the chorus by metà ("half") or soli quattro soprani ("four sopranos alone"). Some German late Romantic scores use instructions like die eine Hälfte/die andere Hälfte ("one half" and "the other half").
References
Musical terminology
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Gisèle Biémouret
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Gisèle Biémouret (born 16 June 1952) is a French politician who was member of the National Assembly of France for Gers's 2nd constituency from 2007 to 2022. She is a member of the SRC parliamentary group.
She didn't stand for re-election in the 2022 French legislative election.
References
External links
Gisèle Biémouret blog
1952 births
Living people
People from Gers
21st-century French women politicians
Women members of the National Assembly (France)
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Socialist Party (France) politicians
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Iran National Football Camp
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Iran National Football Camp () is an association football training facility in Tehran, Iran. Located in west of Azadi Sport Complex and operated by Iranian Football Federation, the camp is mostly used by Iran national football team.
The camp has a number of football fields, an indoor futsal pitch, a bodybuilding gym, classrooms, medical clinic, restaurant and dormitory.
The main building of "Iran Football Academy", which operates Iran youth football teams is located inside the complex.
References
Iran national football team
Iran National Football
Football venues in Iran
Sports venues in Tehran
Sports venues completed in 2000
2000 establishments in Iran
National football academies
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IPDC Finance
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IPDC Finance Limited (previously known as "Industrial Promotion and Development Company of Bangladesh Limited") is a private sector financial institution of the country. This is a public limited company and listed in both Dhaka Stock Exchange and Chittagong Stock Exchange. Established in 1981, IPDC is the first private sector financial institution of the country. The company's products and services ranges from corporate finance and advisory services in corporate sector, middle market supply chain finance in SME sector to retail wealth management and retail finances in retail sector. The company is headquartered in Dhaka and has operations in Chittagong, Sylhet, Gazipur, Narayanganj, Bogra, Jessore, Mymensingh, Uttara, Dhanmondi and Motijheel.
Corporate background
IPDC Finance was established on November 28, 1981, by a distinguished group of shareholders namely International Finance Corporation (IFC), USA, German Investment and Development Company (DEG), Germany, The Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED), Switzerland, Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC), UK and the Government of Bangladesh. It's a public limited company incorporated in Bangladesh under the Companies Act 1913 (now the Companies Act 1994), listed with the Dhaka and Chittagong Stock Exchange Limited since December 3, 2006. Licensed as Financial Institution under the Financial Institutions Act 1993 on February 7, 1995.
IPDC was first conceived as a result of an IBRD/IFC Industrial Sector mission to Bangladesh in 1978. Subsequently, a detailed feasibility study and strategic policy dialogue among the Government, IFC and other international partners resulted in the establishment of IPDC as an alternative development finance institution in the private sector. The Company in 1981 became the first private sector Development Finance Institution (DFI) in Bangladesh.
Management
Chief Executive Office
At the beginning of 2018, IPDC Finance has reappointed Mominul Islam as its managing director and CEO for the third term. Islam joined IPDC as head of operations in 2006. After working in different positions of the company, he took charge as managing director and CEO in 2011. He had also worked in American Express Bank and Standard Chartered Bank for more than seven years in different roles.
Board of directors
Mr Mohammad Abdul Karim (59) is the Chairman of the Board of IPDC Finance Limited. Along with him, Amin Manekia (56) is Vice Chairman, Salahdin Imam (69), Sameer Ahmad (46), Nasreen Sattar (71), Shameran Abed (35), Md. Hoque (56), Mohammad Rashid (50) and Tamara Abed (42) are the members of the board of directors of IPDC Finance.
Awards and recognition
Received Superbrands award 2018
Philanthropy
IPDC has diverse CSR activities education, well-being, cultural, emergencies, recreation, health, sanitation and environment.
Apon Nibash Briddha Asroy Kendro
Started as an informal arrangement in Ramadan of 2015, the Apon Nibash Briddha Asroy Kendro was set up by Syeda Selina Sheli to give shelter to abandoned, isolated and underprivileged older women in Uttara's Chandpara, Uttarkhan area. IPDC came forward and stood beside Apon Nibash, in an effort to sustain its day to day noble work to help the solitary and underprivileged women of the society.
Porua Library
IPDC made significant donations to establish libraries in 9 schools with the help of Light and Hope for the better education of around 300 underprivileged children. It helps in spreading knowledge and education. A well-stocked library is an asset. By establishing libraries in the underserved areas and distributing books to the children. It also contributes towards encouraging children to build themselves a brighter future and henceforth, serve the community.
References
External links
Financial services companies established in 1981
Companies listed on the Dhaka Stock Exchange
Financial services companies of Bangladesh
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Stories to Tell
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Stories To Tell is an acoustic album released by Richard Marx featuring several songs from his previous albums in newly recorded acoustic versions. It is his second album of acoustic reworkings of his previous hits, with the Richard Marx/Matt Scannell album Duo being the first. The 11 track collection was first released in March 2010 and available for purchase exclusively at his solo acoustic concerts. The album was later repackaged and released November 11, 2010 in Europe with an additional 7 bonus tracks featuring songs Marx had written or co-written for other artists such as Keith Urban, NSYNC, and Daughtry, all performed here by Marx. May 3, 2011, the album was again repackaged into a three disc set for an exclusive Wal-Mart stores release. The first disc featured the original 11 songs from the first release of Stories To Tell - along with an acoustic version of Marx's new song "When You Loved Me". The second disc features re-imagined recordings of 11 of Marx's hits plus the studio version of "When You Loved Me." The third disc is a DVD of Marx's concert at Shepherd's Bush in London, England.
Track listing
All songs written by Richard Marx, except where noted.
Standard U.S. Edition
Endless Summer Nights - 4:35
One Thing Left - 3:57
Hazard - 4:17
Over My Head - 3:39
Angelia - 4:39
Now And Forever - 3:59
Keep Coming Back - 5:47
This I Promise You - 4:07
Loved - 4:21
Should've Known Better - 3:18
Right Here Waiting - 4:49
European edition bonus tracks
This I Promise You - 4:40
Had Enough (Marx, Daughtry, Wade) - 3:48
To Where You Are (Marx, Linda Thompson) - 3:34
On The Inside (Marx, Daughtry, Kroeger) - 3:16
Never Take Me Dancing - 5:15
The Best Of Me (Marx, Foster, Lubbock) - 4:30
Everybody (Marx, Urban) - 5:15
Wal-Mart Exclusive
Disc 1: Stories To Tell
Endless Summer Nights
One Thing Left
Hazard
Over My Head
Angelia
Now And Forever
Keep Coming Back
This I Promise You
Loved
Should've Known Better
Right Here Waiting
When You Loved Me
Disc 2: The Best Of Richard Marx
Don't Mean Nothing
Should've Known Better
Endless Summer Nights
Keep Coming Back
Take This Heart
Hold On To The Nights
Angelia
Hazard
Too Late To Say Goodbye
Satisfied
Right Here Waiting
When You Loved Me
Disc 3 (DVD): Live At Shepherd's Bush
Endless Summer Nights
Take This Heart
One Thing Left
When You're Gone
Hazard
Through My Veins
Always On Your Mind
Angelia
Everybody
Should've Known Better
Don't Mean Nothing
Right Here Waiting
Chart performance
Album Credits
Personnel
Jo Allen - strings
Steve Brewster - drums
Paul Bushnell - bass guitar
Joanne Davies - background vocals
Jim Gailloreto - saxophone
Bruce Gaitsch - writer, guitars, nylon guitar
Mark Hill - bass guitar
Steve Hornbeak - piano, harmony vocals
John Howard - bass guitar
Michael Landau - guitars
Herman Matthews - drums
Jerry McPherson - guitars
Kevin Marks - guitars
Jesse Marx - harmony vocals
Lucas Marx - harmony vocals
Richard Marx - producer, writer, arrangements, lead & background vocals, acoustic guitar, guitars, keyboards
Emma Owens - strings
Rhian Porter - strings
Matt Scannell - writer, guitars
Chuck Tilley - drums
Keith Urban - writer
Fee Waybill - writer
Jason Webb - piano, keyboards
Engineers
Chip Matthews
Joel Numa
Bill Philput
Matthew Prock
Jamie Sickora
Guest Credits
Matt Scannell
Miscellaneous
This is Marx's first solo acoustic album.
The track "Loved" features new lyrics not present on the Sundown album version of the same track.
This is Marx's first album to have three separate releases, each at different times, each with a different album cover.
The new song, "When You Loved Me", became Marx's first Top 20 hit on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart in over 13 years.
2010 albums
Richard Marx albums
Albums produced by Richard Marx
Self-released albums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornwall%20Domesday%20Book%20tenants-in-chief
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Cornwall Domesday Book tenants-in-chief
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The Domesday Book of 1086 lists in the following order the tenants-in-chief in Cornwall of King William the Conqueror:
Osbern FitzOsbern (died 1103), Bishop of Exeter
Tavistock Church, Devon
The churches of various saints
St Michael's Church
Canons of St Stephen's
St Petroc's Church, Bodmin
Canons of St Achebran's
Canons of Probus
Canons of St Carantoc's
Canons of St Piran's
Canons of St Buryan's
Clergy of St Neot
Robert, Count of Mortain (died 1090), half-brother of the king
Juhel de Totnes (died 1123/30), feudal baron of Totnes
Gotshelm, brother of Walter de Claville
Sources
Thorn, Caroline & Frank, (eds.) Domesday Book, (Morris, John, gen. ed.) Vol. 10, Cornwall, Chichester: Phillimore, 1979
Domesday Book tenants-in-chief
Medieval Cornwall
Domesday
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20Hill%20Theatre
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Church Hill Theatre
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Church Hill Theatre is a Category B listed pink sandstone former church and current theatre venue owned by the Edinburgh City Council. Built originally as Morningside Free Church, the council purchased it in 1960. After undergoing an extensive refurbishment, it re-opened in August 2006. It is managed by the team operating the Assembly Rooms.
History
It was built in 1892 as North Morningside Free Church to a design by Hippolyte Blanc and purchased by Edinburgh's town council in 1960.
Current use
It is a popular venue for amateur drama productions, as well as for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Edinburgh International Festival. Some of the non-professional theatre and dance companies it hosts include Lothian Youth Arts And Musicals Company, Tempo, Showcase, Edinburgh Telephone Choir, Edinburgh Music Theatre Company, Leitheatre, Edinburgh University Footlights, Buckstone Youth Dance, Manor School of Ballet and Edinburgh Dance Academy.
Facilities
The theatre auditorium seats 353, and the building has space for smaller functions. Since the renovation, there is now lift access to the auditorium, as well as a privately run cafe
References
Hippolyte Blanc buildings
Edinburgh Festival
Theatre in Edinburgh
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%27s%203rd%20House%20of%20Representatives%20district
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Texas's 3rd House of Representatives district
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District 3 is the 3rd district in the Texas House of Representatives that represents part of Montgomery County. This district was first used in the 3rd legislature (1849-1851) and is still in use. Cecil Bell Jr. is its current representative and he has served here since 2013.
Major cities include a portion of Conroe and all of Magnolia and Stagecoach.
List of representatives
References
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Nicolas Winding Refn
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Nicolas Winding Refn (; born 29 September 1970) also known as Jang, is a Danish film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is known for his collaborations with Mads Mikkelsen, Tom Hardy and Ryan Gosling.
He gained great success early in his career directing the Pusher trilogy (1996–2005), the crime drama Bronson (2008), and the adventure film Valhalla Rising (2009). In 2011 he gained newfound stardom directing the action drama film Drive (2011) for which he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director. He was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Direction. Refn's next films were the stylistically driven action film Only God Forgives (2013), and the psychological horror film The Neon Demon (2016). In 2019, he directed his first television series Too Old to Die Young (2019) which premiered on Amazon Prime.
In 2008, Refn co-founded the Copenhagen-based production company Space Rocket Nation.
Early life
Refn was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and raised partly in New York, United States. Refn's parents are Danish film director and editor Anders Refn and cinematographer Vibeke Winding. His half-brother is Kasper Winding, who has become a singer in Denmark.
He attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts but was expelled for throwing a table into a wall.
Career
1996–2005: Early career and the Pusher trilogy
Refn made his directorial debut with the Danish crime film Pusher (1996). It garnered a Best Supporting Actor Award for Zlatko Burić at the 1997 Bodil Awards.
Refn then directed Bleeder (1999), which featured much of the same cast from the Pusher Trilogy, including actors such as Kim Bodnia and Mads Mikkelsen. Refn won the FIPRESCI prize for the film at the 2000 Sarajevo Film Festival the work won Best Lighting at the Robert Festival. The film was nominated for Best Film and Best Supporting Actress at the 2000 Bodil Awards, as well as for the Grand Prix Asturias for Best Feature at the 1999 Gijon International Film Festival.
In 2003, Refn directed and wrote his first English-language film, Fear X, which starred John Turturro and was shot in Canada. Although a financial disappointment, the Danish-Canadian production won an International Fantasy Film Award for Best Screenplay at the 2004 Fantasporto Film Festival, and was nominated for best actor awards (for Turturro) at the Bodil Awards and the Fangoria Awards, and best film awards at festivals including Sitges Film Festival and the Sochi International Film Festival.
Refn later made two sequels to Pusher, Pusher II (2004) (a.k.a. Pusher II: With Blood on My Hands) and Pusher 3 (2005) (a.k.a. Pusher III: I'm The Angel of Death). For Pusher II, lead actor Mads Mikkelsen won a Best Actor award at the 2005 Bodil Awards, Best Actor at the 2005 Robert Festival (where the film was also nominated for Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Film, among other nominations), and Best Actor at the 2005 Zulu Awards. The film was remade as a British version in 2012, Pusher, directed by Luis Prieto and executive produced by Refn.
2005–2011: Critical acclaim
In 2008, Refn returned to the European art house film circuit after his unsuccessful Hollywood venture Fear X. He wrote and directed Bronson (2008), which starred Tom Hardy as the title character, the U.K. prisoner Charles Bronson, noted for mental illness, violence and art. The film won Best Film at the 2009 Sydney Film Festival, and was also nominated for the Grand Jury Prize (World Cinema — Dramatic) at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Hardy won a Best Actor award at the 2009 British Independent Film Awards for his portrayal of Charles Bronson (and the film was nominated for a Best Achievement in Production award as well). Hardy was nominated for Best Actor by the Evening Standard British Film Awards and the London Critics Circle Film Awards.
In 2009, Refn teamed up again with frequent collaborator Mads Mikkelsen to write and direct Valhalla Rising, a surrealistic period piece about the Viking era. The film won an International Fantasy Film Special Jury Award and Special Mention at the 2010 Fantasporto Festival, and won the Titra Film Award for Refn at the 2010 Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival. The film also won a Best Make-Up award at the 2011 Robert Festival.
2011–2016: Hollywood breakthrough
In 2011, Refn directed the American action drama film Drive (2011). It premiered in competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where he received the Best Director Award.
The film earned Refn a BAFTA nomination for directing. The film was also nominated in 2012 for an Academy Award for Best Sound Editing, a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture nomination for Albert Brooks, Excellence in Production Design Award from the Art Directors Guild, won Best Director, Best Screenplay (for Hossein Amini) and Best Supporting Actor (for Brooks) at the Austin Film Critics Awards, won Boston Society of Film Critics Awards for Best Supporting Actor (Albert Brooks) and Best Use of Music in a Film (by Cliff Martinez), the Critics Choice Award at the Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards for Best Action Movie, Best Director, Best Picture and Breakthrough Film Artist at the Central Ohio Film Critics Association, Best Original Score (Martinez) and Best Supporting Actor (Brooks) at the Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, Best Supporting Actor (Brooks) at the Florida Film Critics Circle Awards, Best Foreign Film at the Fotogramas de Plata, Best Director from the Las Vegas Film Critics Society, a Top Films Award from the National Board of Review, Best Supporting Actor (Brooks) at the National Society of Film Critics Awards, the San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards and the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Best Director at the San Diego Film Critics Society Awards.
Refn wanted to cast Drive actress Christina Hendricks as Wonder Woman, but later focused on Batgirl instead.
The Bangkok-set crime film Only God Forgives, starring Ryan Gosling and Kristin Scott Thomas, premiered in competition at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. The film was awarded the Sydney Film Prize at the 2013 Sydney Film Festival.
Liv Corfixen, Refn's wife, directed the documentary My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, centered on the life and work of Refn and their relationship. The documentary film premiered on July 17, 2014, in Denmark.
In September 2011, Refn said his next film would be I Walk with the Dead, with Carey Mulligan slated to play the lead; she was co-star of Drive. According to Refn, it will be a horror-movie sex thriller that may be set in Tokyo or Los Angeles.
In 2013, Refn confirmed I Walk with the Dead as his next project. In October 2013 playwright Polly Stenham was confirmed to write the screenplay with Refn. They stated that the film will have an all-female cast. Refn admitted that he asked Stenham to write the screenplay to compensate for his perceived inability to write female characters.
On November 3, 2014, his production company Space Rocket Nation, alongside its co-producers Gaumont Film Company and Wild Bunch, announced that Refn's next film would be titled The Neon Demon, rather than I Walk With The Dead. The Neon Demon would be filmed in Los Angeles, California, in early 2015. The film stars Elle Fanning, Karl Glusman, Keanu Reeves, Christina Hendricks, Abbey Lee, Jena Malone and Bella Heathcote. On April 14, 2016, it was announced that the film would be competing for the Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, marking it as the third consecutive film directed by Refn that had competed for the Palme d'Or.
Adverts and short films
He directed an extended Gucci commercial featuring Blake Lively and himself in a brief cameo, which premiered at the 2012 Venice Film Festival. The short film is entitled Gucci Premiere. He also directed the music video for his frequent collaborator Peter Peter's band Bleeder, which featured his wife Liv Corfixen as a crazy nurse. He also directed a series of Lincoln commercials starring Matthew McConaughey.
Future projects
On August 14, 2016, Refn announced via his Twitter page that his next project would be titled The Avenging Silence, calling it "Ian Fleming + William Burroughs + NWR = The Avenging Silence" and posted images for Fleming's novel Dr. No and for Burroughs's novel The Soft Machine. Variety reported that producer Lene Borglum described the purported plot as following: "[A] former European spy [accepts] a mission from a Japanese businessman to take down the head of a Yakuza boss in Japan".
Teaching
In 2019, Cannes Film Festival announced that it would host a masterclass with Refn on working in Film and TV.
Unrealized projects
In 2005, it was reported that Refn co-wrote a screenplay with Nicholas St. John titled Billy’s People. However, Refn scrapped the project because his films Bleeder (1999) and Fear X (2003) were box office disasters.
In 2009, Refn expressed high interest in developing a film biopic of notoriously polemic and controversial English occultist, Aleister Crowley, with Bronson star, Tom Hardy, as Crowley. Refn admitted to not knowing anything about the life of the magician and referred to Crowley as a "Satan-worshipping cult personality". That year, he became attached to direct a modern retelling of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with Keanu Reeves playing the titular roles. The working title of the film was Jekyll. According to an interview with SciFi Wire, he wanted the film to take place "in modern America and use as much credible science as possible." However, in February 2010, Winding Refn dropped out of the project in order to work on Drive.
In 2010, Refn planned to direct Paul Schrader's script The Dying of the Light with Harrison Ford as the lead. However, in February 2010,
Winding Refn exited the project. In September 2011 during promotion for Drive, he claimed that Ford did not want his character to die, causing the film production to fall apart.
Schrader directed the film, which starred Nicolas Cage and Anton Yelchin in the Ford and Tatum roles. Following its release, Refn joined with Schrader, Cage, and Yelchin in protesting the studio's final edit of the project, which was not to Schrader's original vision.
Channing Tatum, who was to co-star with Ford in The Dying of the Light, originally wanted Refn to direct Magic Mike (2012), which Steven Soderbergh came to direct.
In 2012, Refn became involved in the direction of a remake of the 1980s crime show The Equalizer starring Denzel Washington, but the deal with Sony fell through for unknown reasons. The adaptation The Equalizer ended up being directed by Antoine Fuqua for release in 2014.
In July 2016, Refn revealed that he had turned down the offer to direct the James Bond movie Spectre.
Directing style
Refn has spoken about characterization in his films:
Refn prefers to shoot his films in chronological order: "I read that [director John Cassavetes] had done it on some of his films, so I thought, 'That's a pretty cool approach.' And after I did it on my first movie, I felt, 'How can you do a movie any other way?' It's like a painting—you paint the movie as you go along, and I like the uncertainty of not knowing exactly how it's going to turn out." Refn spoke more about shooting in chronological order in September 2011, in reference to Drive:
On his approach to working with actors, Refn has said:
Refn's color blindness has influenced his style: "I can't see mid-colors. That's why all my films are very contrasted, if it were anything else I couldn't see it."
Influences
Refn has cited viewing The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) as inspiration for his filmmaking career:
Refn has said numerous times that his largest cinematic influence has been the director Alejandro Jodorowsky (to whom Refn dedicated Only God Forgives), of whom he has said:
He stated that for his first film Pusher, he stole everything from Gillo Pontecorvo's 1965 Oscar-nominated The Battle of Algiers and the 1980 Italian horror film Cannibal Holocaust. Also influential to his film viewing experience were John Cassavetes' 1976 film The Killing of a Chinese Bookie and Kevin Smith's 1994 indie film Clerks.
Other favorites include Tokyo Drifter (1966), Kwaidan (1965), My Life as a Dog (1985), Man on Fire (2004), Pretty Woman (1990), Scorpio Rising (1963), Vampyr (1932), Videodrome (1980), Suspiria (1977), Cloverfield (2008), Flesh for Frankenstein (1973), Liquid Sky (1982), The Shining (1980), Night of the Living Dead (1968), To Die For (1995), Sixteen Candles (1984), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Alien (1979) and Beauty and the Beast (1946). Some of the films Refn help restored include Ron Ormond's The Burning Hell (1974), Curtis Harrington's Night Tide (1961) and Ray Dennis Steckler's Wild Guitar (1962).
Personal life
Refn is married to actress Liv Corfixen, with whom he has two daughters.
After making the movie Fear X, Refn was heavily in debt. The story of Refn's recovery is recorded in the documentary Gambler, directed by Phie Ambo. At the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, Refn said that he was repulsed by the controversial remarks by Lars von Trier about Adolf Hitler, calling them unacceptable.
His wife, Liv Corfixen, wrote and directed a documentary entitled My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, which chronicles the "behind the scenes" experience of shooting Only God Forgives when the entire family had to be relocated to Thailand. The documentary has received positive reviews after premiering at Fantastic Fest and Beyond Fest. The soundtrack for the documentary is also composed entirely by Cliff Martinez, with the last track "Disconnected" composed, written and sung by Julian Winding, Refn's nephew.
Filmography
Film
Film appearances
Television
Music videos
Video games
References
External links
Interview with Nicolas Winding Refn on Filmsactu.com
1970 births
Danish screenwriters
Danish male screenwriters
Living people
American Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni
Film directors from Copenhagen
Danish film producers
English-language film directors
People with dyslexia
Danish expatriates in the United States
Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director winners
Postmodernist filmmakers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen%20Dang%20Quang
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Nguyen Dang Quang
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Nguyễn Đăng Quang (born 23 August 1963) is a Vietnamese billionaire businessman.
Quang is the co-founder and chairman of Masan Group, a consumer goods company best known for selling fish sauce, instant noodles, chili sauce, sausages, and animal feed.
Early life
Quang earned an MBA from the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics in Moscow, followed by a doctorate in technical sciences from the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
Career
Quang founded Masan in the 1990s.
Quang and his wife own 49% of the company's share, and his co-founder Hồ Hùng Anh, the vice chairman, owned 47.6% as of September 2015, although his holding as of January 2018 was not known.
Following a doubling of the share price in the six months to January 2018, Quang had a net worth of US$1.2 billion, according to Bloomberg L.P. He became Vietnam's third billionaire.
References
1963 births
Living people
Vietnamese billionaires
Vietnamese company founders
Vietnamese businesspeople
Plekhanov Russian University of Economics alumni
People from Quảng Trị province
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanded%20polystyrene%20concrete
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Expanded polystyrene concrete
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Expanded polystyrene (EPS) concrete (also known as EPScrete, EPS concrete or lightweight concrete) is a form of concrete known for its light weight made from cement and EPS (Expanded Polystyrene). It is a popular material for use in environmentally "green" homes. It has been used as road bedding, in soil or geo-stabilization projects and as sub-grading for railroad trackage.
Before 1980, EPS as the aggregate of concrete has been studied in detail. It is created by using small lightweight EPS balls (sometimes called Styrofoam) as an aggregate instead of the crushed stone that is used in regular concrete. It is not as strong as stone-based concrete mixes, but has other advantages such as increased thermal and sound insulation properties, easy shaping and ability to be formed by hand with sculpturing and construction tools.
After many years of exploration and attempt, EPS lightweight concrete can be used in many building structures, such as EPS insulation coating, EPS mortar, EPS sealing putty, EPS lightweight mortar, EPS concrete inner and outer wall panels, etc. In addition, EPS lightweight aggregate concrete is also used in the fields of pavement backfill, antifreeze subgrade, thermal insulation roof, floor sound insulation and marine floating structure. In particular, it has a strong energy absorption function, so it can also be used as a structural impact protection layer.EPS concrete combines the construction ease of concrete with the thermal and hydro insulation properties of EPS and can be used for a very wide range of application where lighter loads or thermal insulation or both are desired.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qasim%20Umar%20Sokoto
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Qasim Umar Sokoto
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Qasim Umar Sokoto (died 5 February 2018) was a contributor to the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, the prayer leader and Islamic teacher in Sokoto, the Northern city of Nigeria.
On 18 July 2007, Shia community was persecuted in the region at by Nigerian security forces, following the death of Umaru Danmaishiyya, a popular Salafi cleric in Sokoto, who was well-known in Sokoto for his sermons against Shias. After that, Qasim Umar Sokoto was violently arrested along with hundreds of members of Shia community of Sokoto, but was set free by the courts in 2014 after a tortuous court case. Since then, He delivered many lectures in Islamic ceremonies and also peaceful rallies.
On Tuesday, 9 January 2018, during a demonstration of Shia people in Abuja, demanding the release of leader of Islamic Movement in Nigeria Ibrahim Zakzaky, Qasim was shot and injured by Nigerian Police, while two others were killed. After 26 days of treatment at a private facility in Kano, he died on 5 February 2018.
Following his death, the Islamic Movement issued a statement and announced that the Federal Government must bear responsibility for his death since he was shot by its agents while peacefully protesting the illegal detention of Sheikh Zakzaky – the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria.
See also
Religion in Nigeria
Shia in Nigeria
References
Converts to Shia Islam from Sunni Islam
Nigerian Shia clerics
Nigerian Shia Muslims
People from Zaria
People from Sokoto
Nigerian prisoners and detainees
Nigerian Muslim activists
2018 deaths
Year of birth missing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou%20Kilzer
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Lou Kilzer
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Lou Kilzer (born 1951) is an investigative journalist and author and a two time Pulitzer Prize Winner.
Career
Journalism
He began work as a journalist in 1973 after graduating cum laude in philosophy from Yale University, joining the Rocky Mountain News in December 1977. He covered police, courts and investigations. In 1983, he began a five-year stint on the investigations unit and city desk of the Denver Post, and then seven years on the investigative unit of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
In 1986, Kilzer and two other Denver Post reporters won for that newspaper a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for a series that debunked the notion that millions of small American children were being kidnapped each year by strangers.
He and another Minneapolis Star-Tribune reporter won a Pulitzer for investigative reporting in 1990 for articles exposing how top officials at the Saint Paul Fire Department were profiting from the arson industry. He has also won over a dozen national journalism awards, including the George Polk Award for National Reporting, and the IRE award for investigative journalism.
In 1994, Kilzer returned to the Denver Post as investigations editor, followed by five years as investigative reporter where he had begun his career: The Rocky Mountain News. Kilzer covered the insider stock trading by Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio and appeared before his stock fraud indictment and conviction. In 2008, Kilzer accepted the job of editor-in-chief of the JoongAng Daily in Seoul, South Korea. The JoongAng Daily (now known as the Korea JoongAng Daily) is published in partnership with the International New York Times. Kilzer returned to the United States in 2010, taking a job on the investigative unit of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. He retired and moved with his wife, Liz, to Costa Rica where he is pursuing a book writing career.
In 2012 he won the William Brewster Styles Award given by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers for reporting on international money laundering. Kilzer won the award, together with fellow reporter Andrew Conte and Investigations Editor Jim Wilhelm for work published in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Books
Kilzer's 1994 book, Churchill's Deception, sought to prove that Great Britain tricked Germany into attacking the Soviet Union in 1941. It was published by Simon & Schuster. Kirkus Reviews called the book "an audacious rereading of the diplomatic history" of World War II," in which Kilzer argues "that Winston Churchill deliberately nurtured Hitler's illusion that powerful British factions sought an end to the war on terms favorable to Nazi Germany, and thus outwitted Hitler into starting a war against the Soviets that Germany could not win." The book maintains that Rudolf Hess's 1941 flight to Britain was a British intelligence operation, and that the man who died in Spandau Prison in 1987 was not Hess. Kirkus called the book "an absorbing and cogently argued original contribution to WW II literature." Booklist said historians would give the book "short shrift" because it was primarily derived from existing published works, and Library Journal described the Hess theory as "generally discredited."
His 2000 book Hitler's Traitor: Martin Bormann and the Defeat of the Reich contends that Germany's defeat was largely the result of the Red Orchestra spy ring that had penetrated the German High Command. The book contends that Martin Bormann, a top aide to Adolf Hitler, and Heinrich Müller, head of the Gestapo, were both Soviet agents. Publishers Weekly said that Kilzer "revisits this arena with an entertaining synthesis of evidence about the activities of these spies, extensive accounts of relevant military history, and informed speculations about causes and effects, motives and behaviors."
Kilzer's first book of fiction, co-authored with Mark Boyden, a British business consulting executive, is called "Fatal Redemption," published by Enigmas Publishing. "Fatal Redemption" won several national awards including the IRDA in 2015, the crime fiction award category for the Beverly Hills International Book Awards and the general fiction category of the 2015 Great Northwest Book Festival. Kilzer and Boyden are writing a series centering around a journalist named Sally Will. This includes the title, "Fatal Seductions."
Personal life
Kilzer was born in Cody, Wyoming, the son of Robert and Marjorie Kilzer. He and his wife, Liz Kovacs, have two grown children.
Published works
Kilzer, Lou, and Mark Boyden. Fatal Redemption: A Mystery Thriller. Enigmas Publishing, 2014.
Kilzer, Lou, and Mark Boyden. Fatal Seductions: Second in the Sally Will series. Enigmas Publishing, 2015.
Kilzer, Lou, and Sarah Huntley. Battered Justice. Denver, CO: Rocky Mountain News, 2005.
Kilzer, Louis C. Hitler's Traitor: Martin Bormann and the Defeat of the Reich. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 2000.
Kilzer, Louis C. Churchill's Deception: The Dark Secret That Destroyed Nazi Germany. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
References
1951 births
Living people
American male journalists
Yale University alumni
Journalists from Wyoming
Pulitzer Prize winners
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting winners
American expatriates in Costa Rica
People from Cody, Wyoming
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/689th%20Radar%20Squadron
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689th Radar Squadron
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The 689th Radar Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 25th Air Division, stationed at Mount Hebo Air Force Station, Oregon. It was inactivated on 30 June 1979.
History
The 689th Radar Squadron's long range radars (LRR) were part of the Air Force Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) computer directed system for air defense. Available squadron electronic equipment was able to support the detection, identification, and destruction of enemy aircraft. This was accomplished by communications between the SAGE computer at McChord Air Force Base, the radars and communications systems at Mount Hebo Air Force Station, and airborne interceptor aircraft such as the supersonic Convair F-106 Delta Dart jet.
Radar systems operated and maintained by the 689th included the AN/FPS-24 search radar and the AN/FPS-26A and AN/FPS-90 height finder radars. The FPS-24 was housed in a 5 story tall (85 ft) building with two separate transmitters, a receiver, and special receiver equipment to provide counter measures against enemy jamming. In addition, the radar antenna was housed beneath a rigid radome about 145 ft in diameter and 100 ft tall. Three separate radomes were installed in the period from 1962 to 1965. All three were destroyed by high winds, the last in 1968. As a result, the FPS-24 was removed and a FPS-27 search radar requiring a much smaller radome was installed. Both height finder radar antennas were protected by smaller, inflatable radomes. Each height finder radar was installed in its own building. The FPS-26A radar was later modified beginning in 1967 to an FSS-7 Sea Launched Ballistic Missile detector. All three radar buildings were connected together so that 689th personnel could walk between them and the Operations building and be protected from adverse weather conditions.
The 689th Radar Squadron was originally assigned to the SAGE Portland Air Defense Sector at Adair Air Force Station, Oregon, a part of the 25th Air Division SAGE at McChord Air Force Base, Washington. Higher headquarters included 4th Air Force (Hamilton Air Force Base, California), and Air Defense Command (Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado). As the northernmost LRR site in the sector, the 689th was also able to feed its radar data to the Seattle Air Defense Sector, another adjacent unit of the 25th Air Division. When the sectorsS were absorbed into the 25th Air Division, the radars of the 689th and related units were connected to the computers there. In July 1967, Detachment 2 of the 14th Missile Warning Squadron was activated at Mt Hebo to operate a missile warning radar. Both squadrons are now inactive. The Air Force equipment and facilities at Mt Hebo have been removed and the site returned to its natural state. A plaque is virtually all that remains of the radar station. It is dedicated In Memory Of Those Who Served At Mt. Hebo AFS, Oregon. 689th Radar Sq., Oct.1956-June 1979. Det.2 14th MWS July 1967 - Sep.1980.
Squadron responsibilities included operation and maintenance of the installed radar and communications equipment, and various support activities including food service, supply, power production, civil engineering, administration, transportation, and personnel services. Available facilities included buildings for the radar and communications equipment, barracks for personnel, family housing, a power plant, dining hall, gym, motor pool, and administrative activities. The Squadron had all the functions and capabilities of a small town.
Lineage
Established as 689th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
Activated on 1 October 1953
Redesignated as 689th Radar Squadron (SAGE) on 15 July 1960
Redesignated as 689th Radar Squadron on 1 February 1974
Inactivated on 30 June 1979
Assignments
4704th Defense Wing, 1 October 1953
25th Air Division, 8 October 1954
Portland Air Defense Sector, 1 March 1960
25th Air Division, 1 April 1966 – 30 June 1979
Stations
Portland Air Force Base (later Portland International Airport), Oregon, 1 October 1953
Mount Hebo Air Force Station, Oregon, 1 July 1956 – 30 June 1979
References
Notes
Explanatory notes
Citations
Bibliography
Further reading
Radar squadrons of the United States Air Force
1953 establishments in Oregon
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrachomera
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Corrachomera
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Corrachomera () is a townland in the civil parish of Templeport, County Cavan, Ireland. It lies in the Roman Catholic parish of Corlough and barony of Tullyhaw. The local pronunciation is Currach-Humra.
Geography
Corrachomera is bounded on the north by Owencam and Tullywaum townlands, on the west by Tullyveela and Tullynaconspod townlands, on the south by Cartronnagilta and Greaghnadoony townlands and on the east by Corlough townland, Leitra, Corlough and Tullytrasna townlands. Its chief geographical features are mountain streams, forestry plantations, gravel pits, dug wells and spring wells. Corrachomera is traversed by minor public roads and rural lanes. The townland covers 337 statute acres.
History
In medieval times the McGovern barony of Tullyhaw was divided into economic taxation areas called ballibetoes, from the Irish Baile Biataigh (Anglicized as 'Ballybetagh'), meaning 'A Provisioner's Town or Settlement'. The original purpose was to enable the farmer, who controlled the baile, to provide hospitality for those who needed it, such as poor people and travellers. The ballybetagh was further divided into townlands farmed by individual families who paid a tribute or tax to the head of the ballybetagh, who in turn paid a similar tribute to the clan chief. The steward of the ballybetagh would have been the secular equivalent of the erenagh in charge of church lands. There were seven ballibetoes in the parish of Templeport. Corrachomera was located in the ballybetagh of Ballymackgonghan (Irish = Baile Mac Eochagain, meaning 'McEoghan's Town').
The 1652 Commonwealth Survey spells the name as Corcamderry and lists the proprietor as Lieutenant Arthur Newborogh and the tenant as John Trench, both of whom appear in other Templeport townlands in the same survey.
The 1658 Down Survey map depicts the townland as Curcanderry (Irish Corcach Doire meaning 'The Marsh of the Oakwood').
On 13 March 1706 Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone leased the lands of Curcandry alias Curranderry to Robert Saunders (Irish lawyer), one of the founders of the village of Swanlinbar, for a term of 99 years. Saunders' son Morley Saunders leased his interest in Coracomgery to Colonel John Enery of Bawnboy by deed dated 24 December 1720. Deeds, tenant lists etc. relating to Corrachomera from 1650 onwards are available at- by searching for Derryvella.
The 1790 Cavan Carvaghs list spells the townland name as Corcramgerry.
A map of the townland drawn in 1813 is in the National Archives of Ireland, Beresford Estate Maps, depicts the townland as Curraghcombera or Curcanderry and the owners as John Finlay and George Finlay and the previous owner as Colonel Ennery deceased.
The Tithe Applotment Books for 1826 list sixty-seven tithepayers in the townland.
The Ordnance Survey Name Books for 1836 give the following description of the townland- The townland is bounded on the S. side by a large mountain stream.
The Corrachomera Valuation Office Field books are available for September 1839.
In 1841 the population of the townland was 138, being 62 males and 76 females. There were twenty-six houses in the townland, all of which were inhabited.
In 1851 the population of the townland was 122, being 64 males and 58 females, the reduction being due to the Great Famine (Ireland). There were twenty-two houses in the townland, two of which were uninhabited.
Griffith's Valuation of 1857 lists thirty eight landholders in the townland.
In 1861 the population of the townland was 118, being 54 males and 64 females. There were twenty-two houses in the townland, of which one was uninhabited.
In the 1901 census of Ireland, there are twenty seven families listed in the townland.
In the 1911 census of Ireland, there are twenty seven families listed in the townland.
Antiquities
Lime-kilns
Stepping stones over the river
References
External links
The IreAtlas Townland Data Base
Townlands of County Cavan
Lime kilns in Ireland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Island%20%28San%20Juan%20Islands%29
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James Island (San Juan Islands)
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James Island is one of the San Juan Islands in San Juan County, Washington, United States. It lies in Rosario Strait just off the eastern shore of Decatur Island and west of the city of Anacortes. The entire island comprises James Island State Park of the Washington State Park System. It has a land area of with of saltwater shoreline. The island has no potable water or residents. It has three different camping areas, each with at least one toilet. The camping areas combine for a total of 13 campsites and are connected by a loop trail. James Island was named by Charles Wilkes in 1841 to commemorate the naval hero Reuben James. The property was transferred from the federal government to the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission in 1964.
References
External links
James Island State Park Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission
James Island State Park Map Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission
James Island Marine State Park San Juan Sufficiency
San Juan Islands
Uninhabited islands of Washington (state)
State parks of Washington (state)
Parks in San Juan County, Washington
Protected areas established in 1964
1964 establishments in Washington (state)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20M.%20Lewis%20%28diplomat%29
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Paul M. Lewis (diplomat)
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Paul Lewis is an American lawyer and diplomat. Lewis served as Marine JAG officer and chief counsel to House Armed Services Committee, before President Obama appointed him as Special Envoy for Guantanamo Bay facility closure.
Early life and education
Lewis earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1980 and his J.D. degree from Notre Dame Law School in 1983.
Career
He rose to the rank of captain, within the Marine Corps, during the five years he served as a JAG officer.
He had also served as an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan, and an anti-racketeering prosecutor for the Department of Justice, before holding a series of posts as counsels to Congressional Representatives, or to Congressional committees.
Obama had announced the creation of two positions during a speech about Guantanamo at the Defense University in May 2013.
William Lietzau, the most recent Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs had resigned in July, without being replaced. Lewis's position was not a direct replacement for the empty DASD-DA position. The other position was that of a special envoy for Guantanamo closure within the State Department. That position had been filled in June, by Clifford Sloan. On October 7, 2013 President Barack Obama appointed Lewis to be United States Department of Defense's Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure, the most senior Pentagon official tasked with closing the notorious Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. Lewis is currently a law professor at Georgetown University.
Carol Rosenberg, writing in the Miami Herald, reported that, at Georgetown Lewis had specialized in teaching legal ethics.
The Hill reported Lewis also had responsibility for finding new homes for the foreigners the USA held in extrajudicial detention in Afghanistan.
References
Living people
American military lawyers
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
Notre Dame Law School alumni
University of Notre Dame alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria%20Nixon
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Victoria Nixon
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Victoria Nixon (born 7 June 1948) is a British author and company director. She was previously an international fashion model.
Early life
Nixon was born in Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire, and educated at Barnsley Girls' High School. Her father owned a car dealership; her mother was a college bursar. She had an elder brother. At the age of 16, she caught the eye of Paul Jones, the lead singer of Manfred Mann, at a gig in Sheffield, and he said that she should go to London to be a model. After completing a secretarial course at the Northern Secretarial College in Leeds, she left for London.
Career
Modelling
At the age of 18 she was spotted in London's Bond Street by top fashion photographer Helmut Newton who stepped out of a taxi and offered her a contract launching a decade-long international modelling career as Vikki Nixon in 1966. Subsequently, she appeared in French, English, Italian and American Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Glamour, Nova, 19 and Elle.
She was selected as the Daily Mail's 'Face of 68',
She featured in a number of high-profile press advertising campaigns and was the first British model to work with a Milan model agency, Riccardo Gay.
Television
As a result of her modelling career she also appeared on a number of TV programmes, most notably in the 1969 live coverage of the Apollo 11 moon landing where she appeared with presenter Cliff Michelmore and journalist Jean Rook during the live studio broadcast wearing a "space-fashion outfit". She was the first "promo star" of the BBC's 'Top of the Pops' described in Disc and Music Echo 11 April issue as an "Angelic looking Hell's Angel", and "girlfriend of promotion ace Bill Fowler." When a music act, such as Andy Williams or Kenny Rogers, was unable to appear live, producer/director Mel Cornish would pre-film a clip of her to broadcast with the song. She was featured in a 1975 version of the hugely successful and long running TV campaign for Cadbury's flake.
In Australia
After modelling, Nixon relocated to Australia and became an advertising copywriter and was the Melbourne editor of POL magazine, an avant-garde fashion and lifestyle glossy, from 1978 to 1985. Whilst still in Australia she formed a film production company and produced 'The Price of Fame' television series for Central Television UK, however the series was never broadcast but it remains "in the can".
Business
In 1992, Nixon opened the One Stop Fresh delicatessen in Fulham, South London which specialised in healthy lunchtime food. One Stop Fresh was the first deli in the UK to use eco-friendly packaging.
In 2006, with Michael Messenger, she co-founded the British company Aircell Structures Ltd which designs and manufactures unique humanitarian aid products for medical charities and aid agencies such as IFRC, British & German Red Cross, Marie Stopes International and Vision Salud.
Author
Whilst running the deli her first book 'Supermodels' Beauty Secrets was published in 2002 with contributions from Jerry Hall, Kate Moss and many others leading models. Reprinted thirteen times, it has also been translated into several languages including Spanish, Hungarian and Latvian. It formed part of Victoria's Celebrity Inspiration in "Beauty Flash", Liz Dwyer (now at Image Magazine)'s weekly column in TV Now.
Nixon's follow-up book Supermodels' Diet Secrets, based on her experience both as a model and latterly as a deli owner, was published in 2004 and the Daily Express bought the rights to serialise it.
HEAD SHOT is Nixon's latest book, published in August 2019. A coming-of-age memoir revealing her extreme life as an International model whilst confronting the tragic deaths of her entire family. A double page feature in the Daily Mail (5 August 2019) and interviews on BB4's Saturday Live 11 August 2019 and ITV Calendar 20 August 2019 followed Head Shot's publication.
Books
References
External links
Writers from Yorkshire
English female models
Living people
1948 births
21st-century British women writers
People from Barnsley
21st-century English women
21st-century English people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich%20St%C3%B6lzel
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Heinrich Stölzel
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Heinrich David Stölzel (7 September 1777 – 16 February 1844) was a German horn player who developed some of the first valves for brass instruments. He developed the first valve for a brass musical instrument, the Stölzel valve, in 1818, and went on to develop various other designs, some jointly with other inventor musicians.
Biography
Stölzel was born in Schneeberg, Saxony. His father was also a musician, and as a young man he learnt to play numerous instruments, including harp, violin, trumpet and horn. From 1800 he was employed as a military musician for the Duke of Pless, Silesia, mainly playing the horn.
During this time, the horn used was essentially a natural horn, which restricted the range of notes that were able to be easily used to only those in the instrument's natural harmonic series, and variations thereof created by using the hand in the bell to alter the pitch. German musicians also used an Inventionshorn, which allowed some further range of notes by manually inserting extra crooks.
Stölzel dedicated himself to the further development of the instrument, and experimented with adding valves that redirected the air stream into different lengths of tubing, to lengthen the sections of tubing available and thereby created more (and lower) usable harmonic series. His system featured two valves; the first lowered the instrument's fundamental pitch by a tone, the second by a semitone. Depressing both at once lowered the fundamental by a tone and a half. By 1814 he had developed a playable valve horn, able to play a chromatic series in the instrument's upper register.
Stölzel reportedly wrote directly to King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia to publicise his invention, and musical director Gottlob Benedikt Bierey of the Beslau City Theatre wrote in the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung on 3 May 1815: "Heinrich Stölzel, the chamber musician from Pless in Upper Silesia, in order to perfect the Waldhorn, has succeeded in attaching a simple mechanism to the instrument, thanks to which he has obtained all the notes of the chromatic scale in a range of almost three octaves, with a good, strong and pure tone. All the artificial notes – which, as is well known, were previously produced by stopping the bell with the right hand, and can now be produced merely with two levers, controlled by two fingers of the right hand – are identical in sound to the natural notes and thus preserve the character of the Waldhorn. Any Waldhorn player will, with practice, be able to play on it."
Fellow inventor and musician Friedrich Blühmel also designed a similar valve system independently of Stölzel around the same time. On 12 April 1818, Stölzel and Blühmel registered a joint patent for ten years.
The same year, on 16 October 1818, the first work for valved horn was performed - the Concertino für drei Waldhörner und ein chromatisches Ventilhorn, written by composer and horn player Georg Abraham Schneider.
Stölzel's early two-valve horn design was soon expanded to three by instrument builder Christian Friedrich Sattler of Leipzig, and the first valve trumpets were built in 1820. As the system was further developed by other inventors, similar valves were eventually built into almost all members of the brass instrument family.
Stölzel died in Berlin in 1844.
References
External links
Early Valve Designs, John Ericson
1777 births
1844 deaths
German male musicians
19th-century German inventors
Horn players
German musical instrument makers
People from Schneeberg, Saxony
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annick%20Smith
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Annick Smith
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Annick Smith (born 1936) is a French-born American writer and filmmaker whose work often focuses on the natural world.
Biography
The daughter of Jewish-Hungarian émigrés, Smith was born in Paris and raised in Chicago, Illinois. In 1964, she moved to Montana, where she and her husband and sons eventually settled on a ranch in the Blackfoot River valley. Her husband died from heart failure in 1974, but Smith remained on the land to raise her sons. Her writings mostly revolve around the subjects of environmentalism, travel, and history of Montana. She was also a founding member of the Sundance Film Institute and Hellgate Writers in Missoula, Montana.
Among her books are Homestead, Big Bluestem, In This We Are Native and Crossing the Plains with Bruno. She also co-edited an anthology of Montana writing, The Last Best Place. Her travel writing and essays have appeared in journals such as Audubon, Outside, Islands, Travel + Leisure, and National Geographic Traveler.
In October 2018, Milkweed Editions published Hearth: A Global Conversation on Identity, Community, and Place, a book Smith co-edited with Susan O'Connor. Smith had previously worked with O'Connor on The Wide Open: Prose, Poetry, and Photographs of the Prairie, published by University of Nebraska Press in 2008.
Smith served as executive producer of the film Heartland and co-producer of A River Runs Through It, directed by Robert Redford. She was also a founding board member of Redford’s Sundance Institute. An often overlooked fact is that she is the producer of the documentary on the late poet Richard Hugo, Kicking the Loose Gravel Home: Richard Hugo.
Smith lived in Montana with her partner, the writer William Kittredge.
References
External links
Author papers at Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University
1936 births
Living people
American film producers
American travel writers
American women travel writers
American women film producers
21st-century American women
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%20Bataan%20Risers%20season
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2018 Bataan Risers season
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The 2018 Bataan Risers season is the 1st season of the franchise in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL).
Key dates
January 25, 2018: Inaugural season of the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL).
Names
Bataan Defenders (2018)
Bataan Risers (2018–present)
Roster
Rajah Cup
Eliminations
Standings
Game log
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| 1
| January 30
| Quezon City
| L 69–87
| Gary David (21)
| Arvie Bringas (14)
| James Castro (5)
| Bulacan Capitol Gymnasium
| 0–1
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 2
| February 3
| Batangas
| L 73–88
| Gary David (33)
| Arvie Bringas (7)
| Khiel Misa (3)
| Batangas City Coliseum
| 0–2
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 3
| February 8
| Valenzuela
| L 80–97
| Gary David (20)
| Gary David (11)
| James Castro (7)
| Valenzuela Astrodome
| 0–3
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 4
| February 13
| Caloocan
| L 69–76
| James Castro (14)
| Arvie Bringas (12)
| Khiel Misa (4)
| Bataan People's Center
| 0–4
|- style="background:#bfb;"
| 5
| February 20
| Imus
| W 91–87
| Al Carlos (22)
| Arvie Bringas (7)
| Carlos, David (5)
| Muntinlupa Sports Complex
| 1–4
|- style="background:#bfb;"
| 6
| February 27
| Navotas
| W 96–88
| Gary David (25)
| Francis Ebidag (11)
| Francis Ebidag (7)
| Navotas Sports Complex
| 2–4
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 7
| March 6
| Parañaque
| L 71–74
| Gary David (19)
| Gary David (10)
| Carlos, Castro, Misa, Sierra (3)
| Bataan People's Center
| 2–5
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 8
| March 13
| Muntinlupa
| L 78–87
| Gary David (26)
| Al Carlos (10)
| James Castro (7)
| Batangas City Coliseum
| 2–6
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 9
| March 17
| Bulacan
| L 74–81
| Gary David (16)
| Arvie Bringas (7)
| Glenn Macalinao (3)
| Bulacan Capitol Gymnasium
| 2–7
Playoffs
Bracket
Game log
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 1
| March 20
| Batangas City
| L 75–88
| Gary David (24)
| Arvie Bringas (8)
| James Castro (5)
| Batangas City Coliseum
| 0–1
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 2
| March 24
| Batangas City
| L 82–95
| James Castro (21)
| James Castro (7)
| James Castro (7)
| Valenzuela Astrodome
| 0–2
Datu Cup
Standings
Regular season
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| 1
| June 16
| Manila
| L 82–89
| John Villarias (17)
| Alfred Batino (14)
| John Raymundo (4)
| San Andres Sports Complex
| 0–1
|- style="background:#bfb;"
| 2
| June 27
| Batangas City
| W 81–67
| John Raymundo (13)
| Vince Tolentino (10)
| Raymundo, Celiz (6)
| Bataan People's Center
| 1–1
|- style="background:#bfb;"
| 3
| July 6
| Davao Occidental
| W 91–88
| John Raymundo (21)
| Jeepy Faundo (13)
| John Raymundo (4)
| Navotas Sports Complex
| 2–1
|- style="background:#bfb;"
| 4
| July 18
| General Santos
| W 62–58
| John Raymundo (12)
| Alfred Batino (7)
| John Raymundo (5)
| Bataan People's Center
| 3–1
|- style="background:#bfb;"
| 5
| July 28
| Imus
| W 95–85
| John Villarias (25)
| J-Jay Alejandro (9)
| John Raymundo (7)
| Navotas Sports Complex
| 4–1
|- style="background:#bfb;"
| 6
| August 8
| Quezon City
| W 101–68
| Gary David (21)
| J-Jay Alejandro (12)
| John Raymundo (7)
| Blue Eagle Gym
| 5–1
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| September 1
| Makati
| W 72–70
| Gary David (15)
| Batino, Tolentino, Raymundo, Faundo (7)
| Iñigo, David, Alejandro, Villarias (3)
| Lagao Gymnasium
| 6–1
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| 8
| September 12
| Valenzuela
| W 59–55
| David, Villarias (16)
| John Villarias (9)
| Alfred Ryan Batino (4)
| Bataan People's Center
| 7–1
|- style="background:#bfb;"
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| September 22
| Cebu
| W 76–69
| John Raymundo (12)
| John Villarias (11)
| John Raymundo (4)
| Ynares Sports Arena
| 8–1
|- style="background:#bfb;"
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| October 4
| Pampanga
| W 87–74
| Batino, Espuelas (13)
| Alfred Batino (11)
| John Raymundo (6)
| Valenzuela Astrodome
| 9–1
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| October 23
| Bulacan
| W 63–49
| John Villarias (13)
| John Villarias (10)
| Alejandro, Villarias, Raymundo, Tolentino (3)
| Bataan Peoples's Center
| 10–1
|- style="background:#bfb;"
| 12
| November 3
| Pasay
| W 77–60
| Robby Celiz (16)
| John Villarias (12)
| Celiz, Raymundo (5)
| Bataan People's Center
| 11–1
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| November 12
| Basilan
| W 108–77
| John Villarias (23)
| Robby Celiz (9)
| Robby Celiz (12)
| Angeles University Foundation Gymnasium
| 12–1
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| November 27
| Caloocan
| W 94–81
| John Raymundo (20)
| John Villarias (9)
| John Villarias (6)
| Batangas City Coliseum
| 13–1
|- style="background:#bfb;"
| 15
| December 4
| Bacoor
| W 84–75
| Gary David (20)
| John Villarias (11)
| John Raymundo (6)
| Strike Gymnasium
| 14–1
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| December 10
| San Juan
| L 61–67
| Alfred Batino (16)
| Alfred Batino (8)
| John Raymundo (5)
| Bataan People's Center
| 14–2
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| December 20
| Rizal
| W 88–74
| David, Escoto (10)
| Gabriel Dagangon (11)
| John Raymundo (6)
| Blue Eagle Gym
| 15–2
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| January 7
| Zamboanga
| W 76–74
| John Raymundo (15)
| Alfred Batino (12)
| John Villarias (7)
| Bataan People's Center
| 16–2
|- style="background:#bfb;"
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| January 16
| Navotas
| W 84–78
| Richard Escoto (15)
| John Villarias (8)
| John Raymundo (10)
| Bataan People's Center
| 17–2
|- style="background:#bfb;"
| 20
| January 28
| Laguna
| W 77–70
| Yvan Ludovice (16)
| Alfred Batino (6)
| Yvan Ludovice (6)
| Alonte Sports Arena
| 18–2
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| 21
| February 4
| Muntinlupa
| W 67–63
| Gabriel Dagangon (15)
| Charles Eboña (14)
| John Raymundo (6)
| Bataan People's Center
| 19–2
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| February 12
| Mandaluyong
| W 109–65
| Dagangon, Escoto (15)
| Dagangon, Espuelas (8)
| Yvan Ludovice (5)
| Valenzuela Astrodome
| 20–2
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| February 18
| Marikina
| W 81–64
| Yvan Ludovice (13)
| Richard Escoto (8)
| John Raymundo (8)
| Marist School Gymnasium
| 21–2
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| February 28
| Parañaque
| W 102–73
| Gabriel Dagangon (21)
| Alfred Batino (12)
| Vince Tolentino (7)
| Bataan People's Center
| 22–2
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| 25
| March 7
| Pasig
| W 105–87
| Gabriel Dagangon (26)
| Bernie Bregondo (10)
| Alejandro Iñigo (6)
| Navotas Sports Complex
| 23–2
Playoffs
Bracket
Game log
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| March 12
| Caloocan
| W 91–71
| John Villarias (18)
| Alfred Batino (11)
| John Raymundo (11)
| Bataan People's Center
| 1–0
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| 2
| March 20
| Caloocan
| W 83–71
| Richard Escoto (17)
| Batino, Escoto (9)
| John Raymundo (6)
| San Andres Sports Complex
| 2–0
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| 1
| March 26
| Manila
| W 73–72
| John Raymundo (12)
| Alfred Batino (10)
| Dagangon, Escoto, Raymundo (6)
| Bataan People's Center
| 1–0
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 2
| March 28
| Manila
| L 76–80
| Gabriel Dagangon (28)
| Gabriel Dagangon (10)
| Yvan Ludovice (5)
| Filoil Flying V Centre
| 1–1
|- style="background:#fcc;"
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| April 1
| Manila
| L 51–56
| John Villarias (12)
| Alfred Batino (12)
| Ludovice, Raymundo, Villarias (3)
| Bataan People's Center
| 1–2
References
Bataan Defenders
Bataan Risers
Bataan Risers Season, 2018
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Guillaume Garot
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Guillaume Garot (born 29 May 1966) is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has served as a member of the National Assembly from 2007 until 2012 and since 2014, representing the Mayenne department. From 2012 until 2014, he was Junior Minister for the Food Industry under minister Stéphane Le Foll in the government of Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault.
Political career
Garot became a member of the National Assembly in the 2007 French legislative election. During his first term in parliament, he served on the Committee on Economic Affairs (2007-2009) and the Defence Committee (2009-2012) before his appointment to the government. In addition to his activities in national politics, he was the mayor of Laval from 2008 until 2012.
At the Socialist Party's Reims Congress in 2008, Garot supported Ségolène Royal's candidacy as party leader; she eventually lost against Martine Aubry. From 2011, he also worked as spokesperson for Royal's campaign to become the party's candidate for the 2012 French presidential election.
While in government, Garot oversaw the French government's response to the 2013 horse meat scandal.
After leaving government in 2014, Garot was part of the Finance Committee (2014-2015) and the Committee on Legal Affairs (2014-2017). Since 2017, he has been serving on the Committee on Sustainable Development and Regional Planning. In 2015, he was the parliament's rapporteur on legislation obliging supermarkets to hand over unused food to charity and not destroy leftover products.
In addition to his committee assignments, Garot is part of the French-Japanese Parliamentary Friendship Group and the French-Tunisian Parliamentary Friendship Group.
Other activities
National Council on Food (CNA), Chairman (2016-2019)
Political positions
In July 2019, Garot voted against the French ratification of the European Union’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.
References
External links
Le blog d'information de Guillaume Garot
1966 births
Living people
People from Laval, Mayenne
Mayors of places in Pays de la Loire
Socialist Party (France) politicians
Pantheon-Sorbonne University alumni
Sciences Po alumni
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 16th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
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Charles Frederick Lyttelton
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Charles Frederick Lyttelton (26 January 1887 – 3 October 1931) was a priest from the Lyttelton family. As an English first-class cricketer, he played 31 games for Cambridge University, Worcestershire and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in the early twentieth century. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, and became a clergyman.
Born in Marylebone, London, the third son of Charles Lyttelton, 8th Viscount Cobham, Lyttelton appeared in a minor match in August 1906 when he played at Stoke Edith playing for a team of the same name against "Gentlemen of the Netherlands" and took three wickets including that of Carst Posthuma. Two weeks later he made his first-class debut for Worcestershire against Gloucestershire, though he bowled only a single over (which cost ten runs) and managed 6 and 13 with the bat.
His maiden first-class wicket, that of Jack Sharp, had to wait until his next game, for Cambridge against Lancashire in May 1907. Lyttelton had a very good match, taking 2-26 and 5-33 (his best innings performance) as well as scoring 25 not out from number eleven. Cambridge recorded a crushing win by an innings and 204 runs, which remains their second highest margin of victory.
1908 was Lyttelton's most productive season, as in ten matches (all but one for Cambridge; the other was for Worcestershire) he took a total of 47 wickets, including 5-75 against Sussex. He won his blue that year too, his five wickets in the Varsity Match proving important as Cambridge beat Oxford by the narrow margin of two wickets. He also played against Oxford the following year (though he took no wickets), and played five times for Worcestershire, although he never claimed more than three wickets in an innings that summer.
Lyttelton played his last three first-class matches in 1910: two for Worcestershire and his one and only appearance for MCC, a badly rain-affected game against his old university in which he neither batted nor bowled. For his county he took three wickets in each of the two matches he played, with his final first-class wicket being that of Hampshire's Alexander Johnston. In this, his final game, Lyttelton captained Worcestershire for the only time in his career.
A very large number of Lyttelton's relations played cricket to a high standard: his grandfather, father, brother, five uncles and a nephew all made at least one first-class appearance, with one of those uncles, Alfred Lyttelton, playing four Test matches for England in the 1880s. Two of his brothers-in-law were also first-class cricketers. Details of these relations can be found at the Cricinfo and CricketArchive links given below.
Lyttelton died in Paddington, London, at age 44.
References
External links
Statistical summary from CricketArchive
1887 births
1931 deaths
English cricketers
Worcestershire cricketers
Cambridge University cricketers
Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
Charles Frederick
People educated at Eton College
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Younger sons of viscounts
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9310%20Nottingham%20Forest%20F.C.%20season
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2009–10 Nottingham Forest F.C. season
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The 2009–10 season was Nottingham Forest's second season in the Football League Championship, following promotion from League One in the 2007–08 season, and after spending three years in the third tier.
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Board of Directors
Technical staff
Pre-season and friendlies
Summary
In preparation for the 2009–10 campaign, Forest released seven fringe players. Richard Tait, Hamza Bencherif, Liam Hook, Tom Sharpe, Ryan Whitehurst, Emile Sinclair and Paddy Gamble were all released with Sinclair the only player to make first team appearances. Ian Breckin was also told he would play no part next season. Another three fringe players were given new contracts, Mickael Darnet, Shane Redmond and Arron Mitchell. Forest then signed three players in two days in late June. Striker David McGoldrick signed for £1m from Southampton, whilst fellow striker Dele Adebola rejected a new contract offer from Bristol City to sign a two-year deal for The Reds As well as this, winger Paul Anderson signed a three-year deal for £250,000 from Liverpool, after spending the previous season on loan at The Reds. Goalkeeper Lee Camp became Forest's fourth signing of the summer on 3 July, signing for £150,000 from QPR, with the highly rated keeper committing himself to a four-year deal with the club. Youngsters Shane Redmond and James Reid headed out of the City Ground for six-month loans to Burton Albion and Rushden & Diamonds respectively on 7 July. Forest announced a day later that their shirt sponsors for the season would be gaming company Victor Chandler, with the one-year contract seeing Forest receive a substantial six-figure sum.
On Thursday 16 July, Forest announced their full list of squad numbers for the 09/10 season.
The Reds then kicked off their pre-season campaign with a 1–0 victory over Portuguese outfit Sporting Lisbon, with Paul Anderson netting the winner in the 79th minute for Forest.
A week later Forest sent out two teams to play Burton Albion and Ilkeston Town. The first team beat Burton 4–1 with McGoldrick netting his first goal and Tyson bagging a hat-trick, whilst a young and inexperienced team lost 2–1 to Ilkeston, Tim Hopkinson scoring a late consolation penalty. On 20 July Nottingham Forest completed the signings of Chris Gunter and Paul McKenna for £1.75 million and £750,000 respectively. Mark Byrne was also sent out on loan to Rushden and Diamonds for six months. On 21 July a deal was completed to bring back Joel Lynch, who spent a large amount of time on loan at Forest last season. Along with Forest's payment of around £200,000, Matt Thornhill was sent out on loan to Brighton & Hove Albion for 6 months. On 22 July Forest signed Dexter Blackstock from QPR for on a 4-year deal. This bolstered Davies' attacking options to six strikers. They continued their spending on the 22nd by bringing in Polish Midfielder Radoslaw Majewski on a season-long loan deal with an option to buy him included. Later that day Forest sent two teams out in pre-season friendlies, one to face Rotherham United, the other to face Rushden and Diamonds. The first team squad was mixed between the 2 matches as one side beat Rotherham 1–0 with Earnshaw's first goal of the pre-season while the other drew 1–1 with Diamonds thanks to a goal from Majewski on his debut scored after just 90 seconds. Three days later was the traditional match between Forest and local rivals Notts County, who has just been taken over by the Munto Finance group. The result was 2–1 to County despite late pressure from Forest that saw McGugan get a goal, this surprised many people who had expected Forest to easily win. Forest finished their pre-season fixtures with two impressive results at home against Premier League opposition. The first a 1–1 draw against Stoke City and the second, two days later, a 2–1 victory against Birmingham City.
Results
Football League Championship
Summary
Forest began the season with a 0–0 draw at Reading, the same as their previous season. Forest then picked up their first win of the season a few days later with a 3–0 victory in the League Cup over League Two Bradford City, with Paul Anderson, Dexter Blackstock and Lewis McGugan all getting their names onto the scoresheet. However, their first home league game of the season ended in a 1–0 defeat to West Bromwich Albion, due to an own goal by Wes Morgan and Robert Earnshaw missed a penalty for Forest. Forest then suffered their second home defeat of the week, a 4–2 loss against Watford. The following Saturday saw Forest pick up a point in a 1–1 draw away to Q.P.R, with a goal from David McGoldrick in the second half. The next fixture was a midweek League Cup tie against Middlesbrough at the City Ground. Forest won 2–1 after extra time, after Chambers scored from a corner in the 60th minute and Radoslaw Majewski scored his first goal for Forest in the 103 minute. Next up was the East Midlands derby against rivals Derby County. Forest were looking to beat Derby for the first time since 2003, and they got off to a perfect start when Majewski fired the Reds in front after just 58 seconds. Forest made it 2–0 after 28 minutes, Dexter Blackstock with the goal. Nathan Tyson made it 3–0, just three minutes before half time. However Derby were not done yet when a Wes Morgan own goal and Jake Livermore goal had Derby back into the game. Forest held onto the win but it was after the game that made the headlines with Nathan Tyson celebrating the win by parading a corner flag, emblazoned with the Forest emblem, across the away fans. Tyson, and Forest as a whole, argued that the gesture was celebratory and the move across the away fans was so Tyson could salute the home fans above and at the other end of the away end. The Derby contingent disagreed, believing that the gesture was inflammatory. Derby players and staff clashed with Forest players and staff. The FA charged Forest and Derby with "failing to control their players", while Tyson was charged with improper conduct. Tyson pleaded guilty to his charge, as did Derby. Forest pleaded not guilty. The FA fined Forest £25,000 and Derby £20,000, with £10,000 suspended for both. Tyson was fined £5,000 and given a two-game ban which was suspended.
September started with consecutive 1–1 draws against Sheffield Wednesday and Ipswich Town. However Forest were then up against high-flying Blackpool and suffered a 1–0 defeat before going out of the League Cup by the same scoreline to Blackburn Rovers. But a 1–0 win over struggling Plymouth Argyle gave Forest a new lease of life and they made it consecutive wins after a 2–0 win over Scunthorpe United. In October, Forest moved up to 10th place, their highest position in the Football League since the 2003/04 season, after a 2–1 victory over Darren Ferguson's, Peterborough United. Forest then defeated Newcastle United, who were then in second place in the table, at home to gain their fourth consecutive win and consign the Toon to only their second defeat of the season. An injury-time winner from Guy Moussi saw Forest to their fifth-consecutive win, against Barnsley at home. However, after this Moussi was sent off for a second bookable offence, for celebrating with the Forest fans in the Trent End. Forest ended the month with a 1–1 draw away at Crystal Palace after coming from behind. November started where October left off with two 1–1 draws against Cardiff City and Bristol City. Lewis McGugan rescued a point with an injury-time equaliser against Cardiff, with Wes Morgan scoring a late goal against Bristol City, who pulled level later in the game. The next match saw Forest play Middlesbrough away. An early goal from the home team saw Forest on the back foot but a free kick in second half from Robert Earnshaw saw Forest to their fourth-successive 1–1 draw. The week after Forest introduced a 'mixed area' of fans, where fans of both Forest and Doncaster could sit together. After selling out this allocation, they went on to record their biggest win of the season, at that stage, with a 4–1 victory. This also saw Nicky Shorey make his debut for the Reds. Forest kick started December with an impressive 5–1 victory over East Midlands neighbours Leicester City, including a Robert Earnshaw hat-trick. Forest then claimed a draw at Sheffield United before going to win at Swansea City and beat Preston at home, Billy Davies' and Paul McKenna's former club who scored the first goal. The Christmas period saw Forest get a draw away at Watford and a win at home against Coventry City. January began with a very important win over promotion rivals West Bromwich Albion. Blackstock, Majewski and Cohen all got on the scoresheet as the Reds won 3–1 to help them leap frog West Brom into second place. The month continued to be good as Forest beat Reading 2–1 and thumped QPR 5–0 at home to help them stay in second place. However the month ended in disaster as Forest lost away for the first time in the season to local rivals Derby County 1–0. This saw their 19-game unbeaten run come to an end. This, coupled with the FA Cup exit, saw mixed emotions through the month. Forest bounced back in February with a win at home to Sheffield Wednesday, thanks to a Dexter Blackstock brace, which saw Forest's impressive home record continue. However, the defeat to Derby away had had its effects. Two away defeats on the bounce to Coventry City and Doncaster Rovers saw the Reds slip down to third, despite being unbeaten away for the earlier parts of the season. Home wins against Sheffield United and Middlesbrough saw Forest back up to 3rd but their away form took another blow as they lost to Leicester City 3–0 away. March began with an injury time winner from Luke Chambers against Swansea City at home saw Forest mount a push to keep the pressure on second placed WBA but away defeats against Preston North End and Barnsley dented these hopes. A 4th consecutive 1–0 win at home, against Peterborough United, and a 2–0 win against Crystal Palace saw Forest equal Brian Clough's record of twelve consecutive home wins but it was not enough though as West Bromwich Albion got further away in the promotion push. A 7th consecutive away defeat, against table topping Newcastle United, saw most fans condemn themselves to the playoffs and West Brom pulled away even further. April saw Forest gained their first away point in three months against Bristol City thanks to a finish from outside the box from Guy Moussi to draw 1–1. Forest's draw at home to Cardiff 2 days later meant Newcastle were confirmed of promotion. Forest then got an impressive win against Ipswich at home which saw them qualify for the playoffs, but also meant West Brom gained the final automatic promotion place. The following week Forest played Blackpool away, the last team to beat them at home back in September. With Forest already qualified for the playoffs, the starting 11 saw many fringe players in, which saw Forest go on to lose 3–1 with Joe Garner getting the consolation, his first of the season. Forest's last home game of the season was against already relegated Plymouth Argyle, where Forest won 3–0. Forest ended the season with a 2–2 draw, playing Scunthorpe United away.
Results
Results by round
League table
Coca-Cola Championship Playoffs
Summary
Forest qualified for the playoffs after finishing third. Since Blackpool finished sixth it meant they drew each other in the semi-finals, with Cardiff City and Leicester City contesting the other semi. The first leg was at Blackpool's Bloomfield Road ground. Forest started brightly with a superb goal from Chris Cohen from the corner of the area, before Blackpool replied with two goals meaning they took a 2–1 advantage into the second leg. Forest once again started brightly, with Earnshaw levelling the scores on aggregate after 7 minutes. In the second half Blackpool took an aggregate lead, but then Earnshaw levelled again. However, Blackpool then went on to score three more in quick succession. Adebola scored a late consolation in stoppage time, but it was not enough and Forest were knocked out.
Results
League Cup
Summary
Forest were drawn against Bradford City at home, in the First Round of the League Cup. Bradford had lost 5–0 to Forest neighbours Notts County just a few days before and their poor luck continued as they went on to lose 3–0 thanks to goals from Paul Anderson, Dexter Blackstock and Lewis Mcgugan. The Second Round saw Forest get drawn against nearly relegated Middlesbrough. This would prove a tough test for Forest. Forest in at half time losing 1–0. However, after the break Luke Chambers gained a valuable equaliser which saw the match go into extra time. Then in the first period of extra time, Polish international Radosław Majewski bagged a winner to send Forest into the Third Round. Forest were drawn at home again, this time to Premier League side Blackburn Rovers. Forest couldn't continue their cup run and went on to lose 1–0.
Results
FA Cup
Summary
Forest started in the Third Round of the FA Cup, due to them being in the Championship. They were drawn against Premier League Birmingham City. Both sides had very impressive unbeaten runs going into the fixture. The match saw a closely contested match with Joe Hart keeping Birmingham in the competition on more than one occasion. In the second half Forest won a penalty, however this saw Robert Earnshaw blaze it over the bar. The match finished 0–0 meaning a replay at St Andrew's. The match was again closely contested, but this time Birmingham edged the win, defeating Forest 1–0.
Results
Squad statistics
Appearances and goals
The statistics for the following players are for their time during 2009–10 season playing for Nottingham Forest. Any stats from a different club during 2009–10 are not included.
Nottingham Forest have also had two own-goals scored for them during 2009–10
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Top scorers
Includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted by league goals when total goals are equal.
Last updated on 11 May 2010
Disciplinary record
Includes all competitive matches. Players with 1 card or more included only.
Last updated on 11 May 2010
Transfers
In
Out
Loans in
Loans out
References
2008-09
Nottingham Forest
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20Chambefort
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Guy Chambefort
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Guy Chambefort (born 19 October 1944 in Saint-Étienne) was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented the first constituency of the Allier department, from 2007 to 2017 and sat as a member of the Socialist, Radical, Citizen and Miscellaneous Left group in the Assembly.
References
1944 births
Living people
Politicians from Saint-Étienne
Socialist Party (France) politicians
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
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Oozeball
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Oozeball (also OOzeball) is a volleyball tournament at several American universities, played in 8 inches of mud and often staged as a fundraising event. The game was being played at the University of Missouri by at least 1980, but where it originated is unknown.
University of Connecticut
An annual Oozeball event is organized by the University of Connecticut's Student Alumni Association during Spring Weekend, which is traditionally the weekend before the last week of class. Each year over 1,000 players and spectators attend the tournament. The 2010 event marked the 27th "UConn OOzeball" event, making it the longest running tournament of its kind in the nation.
UConn OOzeball has been recognized three times by Sports Illustrated:
"Best Mud Volleyball in the Country" – SI Best of College Sports
33 on the "Top 100 Things Gotta Do Before You Graduate: No Matter The Cost" – SI On Campus
"Best Use of Dirt" – SI On Campus
In 2011, in an effort to curb the Spring Weekend partying and violence, the University declared that all University-sanctioned events were to be held the weekend before the traditional date. Officially, this was in part due to a late Easter falling during the "real" Spring Weekend. However, temperatures in the upper 30s forced the event to be cancelled early, with at least nine students experiencing hypothermia. The student body was displeased with the new date, and in subsequent years, the tournament was moved back to Spring Weekend.
University of Texas Arlington
Since 1989, students, faculty, staff, and alumni at University of Texas at Arlington have competed annually in an oozeball competition, with proceeds helping to fund student scholarships.
References
University of Connecticut
University of Texas at Arlington
Volleyball variations
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Yulia Ivanova (model)
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Yulia Ivanova (Russian: Юлия Иванова) (born 1983, Novosibirsk) is a Russian beauty queen and a model. She was crowned Krasa Rossii in 2005 and later represented Russia at Miss World 2005. She made the top 15 by winning the Beach Beauty competition. Before competing in beauty pageants Yulia was a contestant in Ty - supermodel cycle 2 TV show & participated in Krasa Rossii 2004.
References
1983 births
Miss World 2005 delegates
Living people
Russian female models
Top Model contestants
Russian beauty pageant winners
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20Geoffroy
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Guy Geoffroy
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Guy Geoffroy (born 26 May 1949 in Paris) is a French member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Seine-et-Marne department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
References
1949 births
Living people
Politicians from Paris
The Republicans (France) politicians
United Republic politicians
Mayors of places in Île-de-France
Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur
Knights of the National Order of Merit (France)
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die%20Frontschau
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Die Frontschau
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The Front Show is a series of German World War II era military training films, shown to German soldiers shortly before deployment to the Eastern Front. These films were directed by the veteran propagandist Fritz Hippler, best known for Der Ewige Jude.
The installments in the series are:
FS 11 Terrain Difficulties in the East, Winter and Spring (1943)
FS 9/10 Construction of Positions (1941)
FS 8 Defensive Battle in Winter (1943)
FS 7 Attack by Infantry and Armor Against a Village (1941)
FS 5/6 Mountains Troops Battle for a Town (1941)
FS 4 Infantry on the Attack (1941)
FS 3 Advance (1941)
FS 2 Russian Construction of Positions (1941)
FS 13 Traveling Across Ice Surfaces and Waters with Drifting Ice (1941)
See also
List of German films of 1933–1945
External links
Extensive information on the series from International Historic Films
1941 films
1943 films
Films of Nazi Germany
Films directed by Fritz Hippler
German black-and-white films
1940s German films
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Guy Malherbe
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Guy Malherbe (born April 9, 1946) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Essonne department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
References
1946 births
Living people
Politicians from Montpellier
Rally for the Republic politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
The Republicans (France) politicians
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Mayors of places in Île-de-France
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OddLot%20Entertainment
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OddLot Entertainment
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OddLot Entertainment was an American independent film studio, founded by Gigi Pritzker and Deborah Del Prete in 2001, which dealt with financing and production of films.
History
OddLot Entertainment
In 2013 OddLot has produced a cinematic version of Ender's Game. The cinematic version of the film was in development, in one form or another, for over a decade until its premiere. In the same year, OddLot signed a multi-year distribution and co-financing agreement with Lionsgate. OddLot and Lionsgate have previously collaborated on the production of Draft Day and Ender's Game. The collaboration officially began with the production of Mortdecai, an action comedy that was released in 2015.
DarkLot Entertainment
OddLot has launched horror production division DarkLot Entertainment, has produced films such as Undead or Alive: The Zombedy, Buried Alive, Living Hell and The Spirit.
List of produced films
as OddLot Entertainment
as DarkLot Entertainment
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Official website (archived)
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Companies based in Los Angeles
Entertainment companies established in 2001
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFGY
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WFGY
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WFGY (98.1 FM, "Froggy 98.1") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to serve Altoona, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by Forever Media through licensee FM Radio Licenses, LLC, and broadcasts a Froggy-branded country format.
WFGY is the flagship station of the Froggy Radio network of stations in the region, which also includes WFGI-FM (Froggy 95.5 on 95.5 MHz), licensed to serve Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and WFGE (Big Froggy 101.1 on 101.1 MHz), licensed to serve State College, Pennsylvania.
WFGY is a grandfathered “superpower” station. While the station’s effective radiated power (ERP) is within the maximum limit allowed for a Class B FM station, its antenna height above average terrain (HAAT) is too high for its ERP according to current FCC rules.
Sister stations
The sister stations of WFGY in the Altoona market are 100.1 WWOT-FM, 103.9 WALY-FM, 104.9 WRKY-FM, 1290 WFBG-AM, and 1430 WTNA.
History
Beginnings as WFBG-FM
The Federal Communications Commission granted Triangle Publications, Inc. a construction permit for the station on April 8, 1959 with the WFBG-FM call sign. The station was granted its first license on March 26, 1962.
On September 20, 1972, the FCC granted a voluntary reassignment of the station's license to The Gilcom Corporation.
The station was best known for being Blair County's exclusive easy-listening station, primarily automated, like others of its day. However, the change would come by the start of the 1990s.
Switchover to Froggy
On April 2, 1991, the station's call sign was changed to WFGY. Forever of PA, LLC (Forever Media) purchased the station on July 31, 1996, with the sale consummating on August 31, 1996. The station adopted the "Froggy 98" branding while changing format to country music. The station became known for its colorful presentation, with jingles resembling a frog's croak (or, as they proclaimed, "ribbit"), as well as the even more colorful names assigned to its on-air staff. The station also promoted a family-friendly image and did station giveaways catering to families.
Among the on-air names used at Froggy by the DJs over the years were Roger Ribbit, Web Foote, Holly Hopper, Jeff Jumper, Davey Croak-it, Cricket, Tad Pole, Pete Moss, Polly Wogg, Kellie Green, Steve "The Frogman" Kelsey, Jumpin' Jim, JoJo, Leapin' Lily, and James Pond.
Weekday Programming
6 a.m. to 10 a.m. - JoJo In The Morning Featuring Leapin Lily
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. - Leapin Lily
2 p.m. to 7 p.m. - Jumpin Jim
7 p.m. to 12 a.m. - The Big Time with Whitney Allen
Saturday Programming
7 p.m. to 12 a.m. - The Big Time with Whitney Allen
Sunday Programming
8 a.m. to 12 p.m. - Crook and Chase Countdown
7 p.m. to 9 p.m. - The Road
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External links
Froggy 98
Bz
FGY
Country radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1959
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterborough%20East%20%28provincial%20electoral%20district%29
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Peterborough East (provincial electoral district)
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Peterborough East was an electoral riding in Ontario, Canada. It was created in 1867 at the time of confederation and was abolished in 1926. In 1926, Peterborough East and Peterborough West were redistributed into two ridings Peterborough City and Peterborough County. This lasted until 1934 when both ridings were merged into one riding called Peterborough.
Members of Provincial Parliament
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Former provincial electoral districts of Ontario
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20Teissier
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Guy Teissier
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Guy Teissier (born 4 April 1945) is a French politician who served as the member of the National Assembly for the 6th constituency of the Bouches-du-Rhône department from 1993 until 2022, previously briefly holding the position in 1988. He has been a member of The Republicans (LR) since the party was established in 2015 as the successor to the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). Teissier previously held the mayoralty of the 5th sector of Marseille (9th and 10th arrondissements) from 1983 to 1989 and again from 1995 until 2014.
The Government of Azerbaijan has blacklisted Teissier who visited Artsakh in 2011 without Baku's permission.
He did not run for re-election in the 2022 French legislative election.
Early life and career
Born in the Saint-Antoine quarter of Marseille (15th arrondissement), he became a notary clerk and then a property administrator.
Political career
At the outset of his political career, Teissier was a member of the "extreme right-wing group” of the Nationalist Union. He then joined the New Forces Party, becoming a member of its Central Committee in 1976.
In 1978, he joined the Republican Party, then switched to the Liberal Democracy Party, run by his friend Alain Madelin. In the latter party he served as Deputy Secretary General and was in charge of security and defense issues. Still later, he joined the Union for a Popular Movement, and sat on its nomination committee. In 2015, the UMP changed its name to the Republican Party.
Departmental council for Bouches-du-Rhône
In 1982, Teissier ran successfully against Jean-Victor Cordonnier for a seat on the departmental council. He was re-elected in 1985, 1992, and 1998. During that period, he was president of the opposition in the council. In March 2004, running again two other candidates, he was re-elected to the post of councilor general in the canton of Sainte-Marguerite with 46.7% of the votes; he resigned from this post in November of that year to devote himself fully to his other political responsibilities.
Mayor of a sector of Marseille
Since 1983, Teissier has been a member of the Marseille city council. He was elected mayor of the 5th sector (9th and 10th arrondissements) in 1983, and re-elected to that chair in 1995, 2001, and 2008.
In the municipal elections of March 2014, Guy Teissier once again was at the top of the list in the 9th and 10th arrondissements. In the second round of votes, Teissier's list won a three-way contest with more than 51.4% of the votes, while Jean-Claude Gaudin, his local party leader, was re-elected mayor of Marseille. After the election, Teissier gave his seat to one of his relatives, Lionel Royer-Perreaut.
Deputy from Bouches-du-Rhône
Teissier campaigned in 1988 to represent the 6th constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône. In the June elections he defeated businessman Bernard Tapie, but the election was nullified in November by the Constitutional Council.
In 1993, he was again elected to represent the 6th constituency. During the ensuing period, he held the position of Secretary of National Defense and Armed Forces in the National Assembly. He went on to write several parliamentary information reports. He was re-elected in 1997 and became Secretary of the National Assembly, a post he held until 1999. He served on the Committee of Defense and the Armed Forces and on the Supreme Council of the Military Reserve.
He was re-elected in 2002 with 76% of the votes cast, the highest percentage received in that year's election by any candidate for the National Assembly. His colleagues selected him to be president of the Committee of Defense and the Armed Forces. In this capacity, he chaired the Defense Procurement Control Mission of the Department of Defense, and wrote a new report on the Military Reserves. In 2003, he met with all the major figures in French and European defense under the auspices of the Summer Universities of Defense in Pau.
Re-elected yet again in June 2007, with 55.30% of the votes in the first round, Teissier was reappointed to the presidency of the Defense Committee. In January 2008, he was appointed President of the Parliamentary Intelligence Delegation, responsible for oversight of all French intelligence services.
In June 2012, he was re-elected with 42.45% of the vote in a three-way contest. He remained on the Foreign Affairs Committee, served as president of the Espace study group, and was a member of several others, in addition to serving as vice-president of the friendship groups with Armenia, Israel, and Latvia.
He was re-elected again in June 2017.
Urban community of the Marseille Provence conurbation (MPM)
He was elected community councilor in 2001, and re-elected to this post in 2008 and 2014.
On April 7, 2014, he was elected president of the MPM with 90 votes, out of a total of 137, succeeding Eugène Caselli (PS) in this post. Teissier promised to seek to revitalize MPM (a conurbation of 18 municipalities with a total of one million inhabitants) in the run-up to its 2016 expansion into the Aix-Marseille Provence conurbation, which includes 93 municipalities with a total of 1.8 million inhabitants.
In 2008, Guy Teissier was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Euro-Mediterranean Public Planning Institution, a large urban-renewal project in central Marseille. He left this position at the end of 2013.
Additional positions and activities
From 1999 to 2012, he chaired the Public Interest Group of the Calanques of Marseille and Cassis, from 1999 to 2012. He was instrumental in establishing the Calanques National Park in 2012.
He was named a Knight of the National Order of Merit in 1983, is an honorary colonel, and has also won the René Cassin medal.
Personal life
He is married and is the father of two children.
On 15 March 2020, Teissier tested positive for COVID-19.
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1945 births
Living people
French city councillors
20th-century French politicians
21st-century French politicians
Departmental councillors (France)
Mayors of places in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Union for French Democracy politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
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Deputies of the 11th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Members of Parliament for Bouches-du-Rhône
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu%C3%A9nha%C3%ABl%20Huet
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Guénhaël Huet
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Guénhaël Huet (born 30 July 1956) is a French politician. He was a member of the National Assembly of France from 2007 to 2017,
representing Manche's 2nd constituency. He was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, then the Republicans.
References
1956 births
Living people
The Republicans (France) politicians
People from Manche
Mayors of places in Normandy
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas University alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirck%20Storm
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Dirck Storm
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Dirck Gorisszen Storm (16301716) was an early colonial American who recorded the first official history of the Dutch community at Sleepy Hollow. His book Het Notite Boeck der Christelyckes Kercke op de Manner of Philips Burgh is a rare document of life in colonial times. Sometimes referred to as Het Notite Boeck, the five-part book is one of the few surviving records of Dutch Colonial American village life in English-occupied New York province.
Birth and early life
One line of data provides that Dirck Storm was born in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in 1630 and his family resided in Leyden, Holland, where they dealt in fine cloth. R. W. Storm states that historical records carry this Storm line back to Dederick Storm, who lived in Wyck, near Delft, in 1390. The family may have been of Viking stock since so many settled in the province of North Brabant when the Vikings overran the Low Countries before the year 1000. [A move from the low countries to Brabant before the year 1000 and a move to Brabant from there by Dirck in the 1600s do not support the internal logic of the latter statement.]
At the age of eighteen Dirck Storm went to Den Bosch to be clerk in his uncle's commercial office. On May 13, 1656 he married, in the church of St. Gertrude in 's-Hertogenbosch, Maria van Montfoort, daughter of Pieter van Montfoort, a Walloon Calvinist. By 1660, Storm was named Town Clerk of Oss in the Mayorate of 's-Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch). Public service was part of the Storm family history, as Dirck's father was the City Clerk of Leiden and his grandfather was a lawyer in the Court of Justice of Holland, West Friesland and Zealand. [Primary sources for all of these ancestral data are needed] When Protestant Holland was hit by a recession after the overthrow of Cromwell in England, Dirck Storm set sail for the New World.
A different line of research is based significantly on records from the Province of Noord Brabant, including records of the town of Oss. It would welcome evidence of primary documents to show ancestry in Utrecht or Zuid Holland, and provides in the meantime that Dirck Storm's ancestors may have been from the Oss area of Noord Brabant (North Brabant), The Netherlands instead, and he may have been born there. There are many source citations for data in this research provided below, including primary sources. The town of Oss (aka Osch) lies in the Eastern part of the Province of Noord Brabant. Oss is a suburb of the city of Den Bosch, separated by hamlets such as Lith and Lithoijen.
Many sources also quoted in the first line of research say that the immigrant Dirck used the patronymic middle name “Gorisz” or variations thereof, short for Goriszoon, meaning “son of Goris”, strongly suggesting his father’s first name was Goris (aka Gregorius) and not Dirk as suggested by some. Primary sources give the place of birth and marriage of one Dirck Goris Storm as Oss and give his wife's name as Maria (or the diminutive Marijke/Mariken/Maritje) Pieters (Peter's) without any reference to a surname Montfoort or alternatively van Cortenbosch. For instance, archives in the Brabants Historisch Informatie Centrum (BHIC) have a record of the marriage at Oss of Derck Goris Storm, born in Oss, Groom on Sunday 20 June 1655 to Marijke Peters, born in Oss, Bride, daughter of Peter Teunissen. Source:Rijksarchief Noord-Brabant, NG (Gereformeerd ) register 34 folio 45 r/v: A, Bron: Oss trouwen, 1651-1661 / 1680-1810. DTB Oss inventarisnummer 29-30, 34 and 36, Retroacta van de Burgerlijke Stand. No primary sources seem to use the surname "van Montfoort" for our Dirck's wife. It would be very helpful to find the church record of the marriage of Dirck Storm, as it should provide some missing ancestral data.
Another BHIC record gives a Baptism on Sunday 24 Apr 1661 at Oss, father Dirck Gorisse Storm, child Peternella, mother Maria Peters. Winess 2, Derken Peter Anthonissen is daughter of Peter Anthonissen. Source: Oss NG dopen, 1651-1661 / 1806-1811(1825) Archief: DTB Oss inventarisnummer 34 en 36 (cite: Plaats: Oss; bron: RANB; gezindte: NG; register: 34; folio: 10 ) Retroacta van de Burgerlijke Stand. This is consistent with a child aged 1 1/4 years when embarked on trip to America. one of three children shown on a passenger list.
The parentage of Maria Peters is arguably as found in Archival Records in Den Bosch referring to division in 1660 of an Estate at Lithoijen, apparently of the deceased parents of Dirck’s wife and her sister. Source:‘s Hertogenbosch, Erfdelingen 1629-1709 (| R 1615 | f 163 ) (translated by Cos van Wermeskerken ) provides:
"Dirck Goris STORM, husband and guardian of Marike his housewife, daughter of Peter THONISZ by Dircxken his housewife, of the one part; Marcelis Anton HUIJBERTS and Lenart Jacob LENARTS guardians of Eercke (), dependent daughter of Peter THONISZ by Dircxken beforementioned of the other part, will make division to heirs of the goods of their late parents, at Lithoijen."
Thonis/Theunis is a common Dutch first name, short for Antoni()s (Anthony). "Thonisz." is Thoniszoon, which like "Anthonissen" means “son of ()Thonis”. Maria Peters or Marike Peter Thonisse would in translation be Maria, daughter of Peter, son of Anthony.
Other records in North Brabant show lands owned or leased in the Lithoyen area by various Dirck Storms, possibly ancestors, as early as 1392. The following sale may well relate to our subject Dirck, recorded in Oss a few years before Dirck Storm's travel to North America: Derrick Goress Storm, as husband of Maryken, sold land on 1 May 1656 to Jan Theunisz living at Heesch, 1 ½ morgen land, situated at Lithoyenbroeck, at a place called Parsyck. [Source: Schepenbanken, Oss, Index schepenprotocol Oss (7365.69), Datering: 1-5-1656, Pagina (Page): 856-856. Plaats: Oss, Toegangsnummer: 7365, Inventarisnummer: 69 -accessed through BHIC, supra, translated by Cos van Wermeskerken] Other transfers occurred as late as 1660 and 1661, found in the same archive using variable spelling versions of Dirck Goris Storm. These are consistent with preparations for emigration.
New Amsterdam
In the fall of 1662 Storm emigrated, with his wife Maria and three children, ages six, four and one from the Mayory of Den Bosch to New Amsterdam in New Netherland onboard De Vos (The Fox). De Vos sailed from Amsterdam after 31 August 1662 and arrived New Amsterdam 14 November 1662 with a total of 54 emigrants. During the voyage, Maria gave birth to a daughter. The ship landed at the foot of Wall Street, in what is now Manhattan.
Town clerk and farmer
Storm held real estate, owned a tavern on Beaver Street, and dabbled in inn-keeping. Later he was appointed Town Clerk in several communities in Breuckelen (today's Brooklyn); New Utrecht, Bedford, and Flatbush. Many land titles and hundreds of genealogies are based on the community records he kept. He also served as a teacher in some of these communities. He farmed land in Bedford and New Lots, and served as precantor to two of the Dutch churches in Breuckelen. In 1670, he was appointed Secretary of the Colony.
Sleepy Hollow
In 1691 Storm was sent to Tappan by the British, who were setting up new governments at the time. There, he became the first Secretary and Clerk of the Sessions for Orange County, New York. He was also the Voorleser of the Tappan Church. In 1693, he joined his old friend Frederick Philipse, and acted as tax collector for the vast manor held by Philipse. Storm and his wife were recorded as members of the Old Dutch Church at Sleepy Hollow as early as 1697, soon after the church was constructed.
Writer
On November 3, 1715, the church members selected Storm to begin recording the history of the church retroactively from 1697. Historic records show that they decided that Storm was "the best informed and most competent member be chosen to make up a statement of events that led to the founding of the church." Abraham de Revier, Sr. was the first elder of the church and evidently kept a private memorandum book that is now lost to history. However, it was heavily drawn upon by Storm in composing Het Notite Boeck''.
Legacy
Storm was of the yeoman class and under Dutch law, was allowed to buy his farmland in Sleepy Hollow outright from the lord of the Manor, his friend, Frederick Philipse. All his sons were farmers but many descendants were captains of their own boats on the Hudson River. Descendant Capt. Jacob Storm lived in the Philipse Manor house which is now a museum. The old mill house was once his office.
Death
In May or June 1716 Storm died at Tarrytown, New York. He is buried at the Old Dutch Church Burying Ground in Sleepy Hollow, New York.
Dirck Storm is the ancestor of many notable Americans, including the famous clergyman David Storm, deacon and elder of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow. Many Americans with the last name "Storm" or "Storms" can trace their ancestry to him.
References
External links
Storm Family History, research notes prepared by Morilla Garrison in 1917
1630 births
1716 deaths
Dutch emigrants to the Thirteen Colonies
American Christian clergy
History of New York City
People of the Province of New York
People of New Netherland
Colonial government in America
Dutch civil servants
Writers from Utrecht (city)
American members of the Dutch Reformed Church
People from Tappan, New York
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%9318%20Total%20League%20season
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2017–18 Total League season
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The 2017–18 Total League season, is the 65th season of the first division of the professional basketball in Luxembourg.
Amicale defended successfully its title and achieved their eighth league.
Competition format
The regular season consisted in a double-legged round robin tournament where the six first qualified teams advanced to the group for the title, while the other four teams played for avoiding relegation.
In the second stage, all wins from the regular season count for the standings, while the points are reset. The four first qualified teams in the group for the title, advanced to the playoffs, played in a format of best-of-three-games series.
Teams of the relegation group play twice against themselves and twice against the four first qualified teams of the first stage of the Nationale 2. The two worst teams would be relegated.
Teams
Regular season
Second stage
Group for the title
Relegation group
Playoffs
Bracket
Seeded teams played games 1, 3 and 5 at home.
Quarterfinals
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References
External links
Luxembourgish basketball at Eurobasket.com
Total League website at FLBB.com
Luxembourg
Basketball in Luxembourg
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard%20Bapt
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Gérard Bapt
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Gérard Bapt (born 4 February 1946 in Saint-Étienne) is a French politician. He was the deputy for Haute-Garonne's 2nd constituency in the National Assembly of France. He was a member of the Socialist Party (Parti Socialiste) and worked in association with the SRC parliamentary group.
Bapt is a medical doctor and heart specialist. He was first elected in 1978 (to the first constituency) and kept his seat until 1993; he was then re-elected in 1997 and held his seat until 2017.
References
External links
Official website
1946 births
Living people
Politicians from Saint-Étienne
Socialist Party (France) politicians
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20rail%20accidents%20in%20Turkey
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List of rail accidents in Turkey
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This list of rail accidents in Turkey provides details of significant railway crashes in Turkey involving railway rolling stocks and with fatalities.
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Turkey
Train accidents
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%20ASB%20Classic%20%E2%80%93%20Singles
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2001 ASB Classic – Singles
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Anne Kremer was the defending champion but lost in the quarterfinals to Marlene Weingärtner.
Meilen Tu won in the final 7–6 (12–10), 6–2 against Paola Suárez.
Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.
Draw
Qualifying
Seeds
The top three seeds received a bye to the second round.
Qualifiers
Draw
First qualifier
Second qualifier
Third qualifier
Fourth qualifier
References
2001 ASB Classic Draw
WTA Auckland Open
2001 WTA Tour
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Shakkum
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Martin Shakkum
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Martin Lucianovich Shakkum (; born 21 September 1951) is a Russian politician, economist and psychologist. He was a member of the State Duma between 1999 and 2021.
Shakkum was a candidate in the 1996 Russian presidential election.
Biography
Early life
Shakkum was born on 21 September 1951 in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR. His father was an ethnic Latvian, his mother - Russian. Studied at school No.7 of Krasnogorsk. Graduated from Kaliningrad Higher Military Engineering College, then All-Union Correspondence Civil Engineering Institute. For three years he worked as an employee of the laboratory of the Space Research Institute in Moscow.
From 1978 to 1991 he worked as a service–engineer, chief engineer, deputy chief and then chief of special works of the Main Department for Construction in the Moscow Oblast.
From 1991 to 1999 Shakkum was CEO, Vice President and then President of the International Fund for Economic and Social Reforms ("Reforma" Fund). This Fund was created by Martin Shakkum together with academicians-economists Stanislav Shatalin, Leonid Abalkin, political scientist Andranik Migranyan and other prominent scientists and public figures.
Presidential campaign
Shakkum ran for President as independent candidate in the 1996 Russian presidential election.
An associate of radical economist Shatalin, Shakkum was on the right wing of the Russian political spectrum. While he presented an authoritarian personality, he held moderate positions on many social issues.
To protect the rights and liberties of citizens against government corruption and abuses of power, Shakkum proposed forming a chain of executive power, excluding the possibility of concentration of various forms of power in the hands of individual central and regional elites. Specifically, he proposed forming 19 federal administrative districts across Russia, creating a system of separate federal executive bodies.
He also proposed requiring all civil servants of federal and regional government bodies and deputies of elective bodies to publish their income reports and documentation of all property belonging to them and their immediate relatives, including adult children, both in Russia and abroad.
To address the nation's economic woes, Shakkum proposed, "establishing a reliable system of control over cash flows and strengthening the country's banking system by reorganizing it and creating special investment banks."
At the same time, however, Shakkum supported the existence natural resource monopolies, such as Gazprom, and warned against attempts to split them into smaller entities.
Shakkum's original registration had been rejected by the Central Election Commission on account of lacking a sufficient number of signatures. However, Shakkum successfully managed to appeal through the Supreme Court.
In April 1996, he created the Socialist People's Party and became its leader.
Shakkum received 277,068 votes in the first round (0.4% of the overall vote).
Subsequent career
In 1998, Shakkum survived an assassination attempt. On 8 September, around 9 PM, near his house, his car was shot from the machine gun. Shakkum has not suffered, the employee of Fund "Reform" Valery Basok, who was with him in the car, received a slight injury. Commenting on the attack, Shakkum stated that he could not link the incident to his personal and public life.
In December 1999, Shakkum was elected to the State Duma for the Istra single-member constituency. He was supported by the electoral bloc Fatherland — All Russia. In the election, Martin Shakkum was ahead of three incumbent State Duma deputies in his constituency, and showed one of the highest results in the elections for single-member constituencies in terms of the percentage of votes. In 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2016 he was re-elected to the State Duma.
Shakkum was a member of the Presidium of the General Council of United Russia in 2004-2005, and in 2006 became a member of the Supreme Council of party. In publications and speeches in 2000 and 2004, Shakkum has actively supported Vladimir Putin in his presidential campaigns.
At a meeting between a United Russia faction activist and Vladimir Putin in July 2006, Shakkum publicly invited him to join the party and lead it. He told Putin that he wants to see his national leader, than caused applause in a hall. The newspaper Moskovskij Komsomolets called Shakkum's performance "a real hit".
Shakkum has scientific degrees of Candidate of Sciences by Psychology and Doctor of Sciences by Economy.
Honours
Order of Friendship (2003)
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 4th class (2006)
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 3rd class (2012)
References
External links
Official website
Profile on the State Duma website
Profile on the United Russia website
Profile on the United Russia parliamentary group website
Profile on Facebook
1951 births
Living people
People from Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast
United Russia politicians
Economists from Moscow
Shakkum
Third convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
Fourth convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
Fifth convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
Sixth convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
Seventh convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert%20Dwaramury
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Gilbert Dwaramury
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Gilbert Richard Duaramuri (born on January 6, 1993) is an Indonesian footballer who currently plays for Persija in the Indonesia Super League.
References
External links
Profile at World Football
Living people
1993 births
People from Jayapura
Papuan people
Association football midfielders
Indonesian footballers
Persija Jakarta players
Liga 1 (Indonesia) players
Sportspeople from Papua
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota%20i-REAL
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Toyota i-REAL
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The i-REAL is a 'Personal Mobility Concept' made by automotive giant Toyota that was planned to be put on sale sometime around 2010. It is a development of previous Toyota Personal Mobility vehicles including the i-unit and Toyota i-swing. As with said previous vehicles, the i-REAL is a 3-wheeled electrically powered one-passenger vehicle, running on lithium-ion batteries.
In Low-Speed Mode, the vehicle is upright, and moves around at 'walking pace' at similar eyesight height to pedestrians, without taking up a large amount of space. In High-Speed Mode, the Toyota extends in length by leaning back and extending the single rear wheel to improve aerodynamics and stability, thus being able to achieve a speed of 18.6 mph, or 30 km/h. It leans into corners, like other tall, one-man vehicles such as the Segway, to prevent it from tipping over.
There are two joysticks, one for each hand. Either joystick controls the i-Real, so left- and right-handed people will be equally at home. You push the joystick forwards to go forwards, left to go left, right to go right and pull back to stop. Perimeter-monitoring sensors detect when a collision with a person or object is imminent and alerts the driver by emitting a noise and vibrating. At the same time, it alerts people around it of its movements through use of light and sound.
The i-REAL was driven on the BBC's motoring programme Top Gear in 2008 by Richard Hammond. (Series 12)
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20090816182954/http://www2.toyota.co.jp/en/tech/p_mobility/i-real/
http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Toyota-i-Real-concept/
https://gizmodo.com/gadgets/drive-slow/toyota-i+real-concept-car-309614.php
I-REAL
Production electric cars
Articles containing video clips
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid%20code
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Grid code
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A grid code is a technical specification which defines the parameters a facility connected to a public electric grid has to meet to ensure safe, secure and economic proper functioning of the electric system. The facility can be an electricity generating plant, a consumer, or another network.
The grid code is specified by an authority responsible for the system integrity and network operation.
Its elaboration usually implicates network operators (distribution or transmission system operators), representatives of users and, to an extent varying between countries, the regulating body.
Contents of a grid code vary depending on the transmission company's requirements. Typically, a grid code will specify the required behavior of a connected generator during system disturbances. These include voltage regulation, power factor limits and reactive power supply, response to a system fault (e.g. short-circuit), response to frequency changes on the grid, and requirement to "ride through" short interruptions of the connection.
There is not a common grid code in all countries and each electric grid has its own grid code. Even in North America, there is no grid code that applies to all territories.
Independent power producers
All generators including Independent power producers like photovoltaic power stations or wind farms have to comply with the grid code.
Categorizing
Grid code requirements can be divided into two categories: static and dynamic requirements.
See also
Smart grid
RISSP
References
External links
Indian grid code
Italian grid code (for direct connections to TSO)
Italian grid code (for connections to DSOs)
UK grid codes
International Grid Code Listing
Electric power transmission
Regulation of technologies
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterborough%20West%20%28provincial%20electoral%20district%29
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Peterborough West (provincial electoral district)
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Peterborough West was an electoral riding in Ontario, Canada. It was created in 1867 at the time of confederation and was abolished in 1926. In 1926, Peterborough West and Peterborough East were redistributed into two ridings Peterborough City and Peterborough County. This lasted until 1934 when both ridings were merged into one riding called Peterborough.
Members of Provincial Parliament
References
Former provincial electoral districts of Ontario
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delis%20Castillo%20Rivera%20de%20Santiago
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Delis Castillo Rivera de Santiago
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Delis Castillo Rivera de Santiago (born ca. 1945) was interim mayor of Ponce from 2004 to 2005. She filled the post left vacant by the sudden death of long-time Mayor Rafael Cordero Santiago, completing Mayor Cordero Santiago's term. Prior to filling in the office of mayor, Castillo Rivera was vice-mayor of the municipality. She is a member of Mu Alpha Phi sorority.
References
See also
List of mayors of Ponce, Puerto Rico
1940s births
Year of birth uncertain
Living people
Popular Democratic Party (Puerto Rico) politicians
Mayors of Ponce, Puerto Rico
Women mayors of places in Puerto Rico
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%20%26%20R%20Dickson
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R & R Dickson
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Richard and Robert Dickson (usually simply referred to as R & R Dickson) were brothers, acting as architects in Scotland in the early and mid-19th century. Whilst most of their work is typified by remote country houses they are best known for their magnificent spire on the Tron Kirk in the heart of Edinburgh on the Royal Mile.
Life
They were the sons of John Dickson (1766–1828), an Edinburgh builder. Their mother was Mary Crichton, sister to Richard Crichton (1771–1817), an Edinburgh architect, and they appear to have trained under him, taking over his office upon his death.
Their offices were at 9 Blenheim Place near the top of Leith Walk a handsome and unusual building forming part of a terrace designed by Playfair and built by their own father in 1824. It is possible that the unit was in lieu of payment for this stylish row, characterised by its being the only flat roofed Georgian terraced "bungalows" (with basement for servants) in Edinburgh.
They designed in a variety of styles from Gothic to Classical. There buildings are both sound and attractive and most are now listed buildings.
Richard (1792–1857) was the older of the two. He is buried in Old Calton Cemetery with his parents.
Works
See
Abercairney House, Crieff (1817) completing Richard Crichton's job on his death
Cockpen Parish Church (1817) again completing Richard Crichton's design on his death
Kilconquhar Parish Church (1819) a slightly enlarged version of the Cockpen design
Redesign of Cortachy Castle (1820) adding crenellations as were the fashion of the day
Coul House, Contin (1820)
Whitehaugh, Newcastleton (1822)
West Lodge Balbirnie House (1824) note- they probably worked on the main house during their apprenticeship under Richard Crichton
The large tenement at Gardners Crescent/ Morrison Street in Edinburgh (1826)
Classical crescent, 1-25 Gardners Crescent (1826)
Church at Gardners Crescent (1827) (demolished)
Inchrye Lodge, Denmylne Castle near Newburgh, Fife (1827)
Leith Town Hall (1827) now Leith Police Station
The impressive spire on the Tron Kirk on the Royal Mile (1828) rebuilt in a Wren style following the Great Fire of Edinburgh of 1824 in which the original spire was destroyed
Muirhouse in rural north-west Edinburgh (1830) now encompassed by the city
Bathgate Academy (1831)
Veterinary College, Clyde Street, Edinburgh (1833) closed 1916 to move to Summerhall. Building demolished to build a cinema c.1930 and then cleared for St Andrew Square Bus Station
West lodge, Blair Drummond (1836) note- the brothers probably worked on the main house (designed by Richard Crichton) during their apprenticeship
St James Episcopal Church, Muthill (1836)
Collessie Parish Church (1838)
Estate buildings, Arbuthnott House, Kincardineshire (1839)
Dr Bell's School, Great Junction Street, Leith (1839)
Dunimarle Castle (1839)
Blair Cottages, Blair Atholl (1840)
Collessie School and schoolmaster's house (1846)
Kinellan House, Murrayfield, Edinburgh (1846) probably for the MacKenzies of Kinellan in Ross and Cromarty
Duchess of Atholl's Girls School, Dunkeld (1853)
Kincardine School, Kincardine-in-Menteith, Perthshire (1855)
Atholl Arms Hotel, Blair Atholl (1856)
Garryside Village, Blair Atholl (1856)
Duke of Atholl's School, Logierait (1863)
References
A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, H M Colvin
Architecture firms of Scotland
Service companies of Scotland
Architects from Edinburgh
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Giovanni%20di%20Fassa
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San Giovanni di Fassa
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San Giovanni di Fassa (in ladin: Sèn Jan) is a comune (municipality) in Trentino in the northern Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. It was formed on 1 January 2018 after the merger of the former comuni of Pozza di Fassa and Vigo di Fassa.
References
Cities and towns in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
Ladinia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othman%20Wok
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Othman Wok
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Othman bin Wok (Jawi: عثمان بن ووك; b. 8 October 1924 – d. 17 April 2017), often known as Othman Wok, was a Singaporean politician who served as Minister of Social Affairs between 1963 and 1977. After retiring from politics, he was Singapore's Ambassador to Indonesia and served on the boards of the Singapore Tourism Board and Sentosa Development Corporation. For his political, economic and social contributions to the nation building of Singapore, he was awarded the Order of Nila Utama (Second Class) in 1983 by President Devan Nair.
Early life
Othman was born on 8 October 1924 in the then British colony of Singapore, to a family of Orang Laut origins. His father, Wok Ahmad, had been a school teacher and principal. During the Japanese occupation of Singapore in the Second World War from 1942-1945, Wok Ahmad enrolled Othman in a Japanese school in the belief that doing so would prevent Othman from being conscripted into the Japanese Imperial Army. As a result, Othman would come to learn the Japanese language. Following the end of the occupation, Othman would go on to continue his education in Sekolah Melayu Telok Saga before proceeding to Raffles Institution for his secondary education.
Othman's grandfather, a religious teacher, objected to Wok Ahmad’s decision to send Othman to Radin Mas and later Raffles Institution, both of which are English-medium schools. He was afraid that Othman would waver in his religious beliefs in the course of his English-language education, converting him to Christianity. However, not only did Othman stay faithful to his religion, he became an important bridge between the Malay/Muslim community and the new People's Action Party Government from the 1950s. This affirmed Wok Ahmad’s beliefs that an English-language and mainstream education is essential for a brighter future ahead.
Othman, on the other hand, did not hold the same worries as his grandfather. He sent one of his daughters to a Catholic school, CHIJ Katong Convent. His daughter received religious education outside school hours, and remains a Muslim today.
Early career
Othman joined the local Utusan Melayu Malay-language newspaper as a clerk after finishing his education, and was offered a reporter position in 1946 by Yusof Ishak (founder of the newspaper who would also go on to become Singapore’s first president). In 1950, Othman pursued a Diploma in Journalism in London on a Colonial Development Scholarship, and rejoined Utusan Melayu as a news editor in 1951.
Upon his return, Othman was also elected as Honorary Secretary of the Singapore Printing Employees Union (SPEU), which sought to secure better wages and working conditions for its members. This was a significant period in Othman’s early years as it marked the time when he would become acquainted with Lee Kuan Yew, who had been the legal adviser to Utusan Melayu as well as SPEU. This would mark the beginning of a long and enduring friendship between the two.
He would stay in his role of news editor for 6 more years until his promotion to deputy editor of the newspaper in 1957.
Political career
Days after the formation of the PAP in 1954, Othman joined the political party as his ideology of a national policy of multi-racialism was aligned with what the PAP sought to achieve. He took on the role of producing the party’s Petir publication, and was a member of the bulletin’s editorial board. In 1959, he was asked by the then legislative assembly member Ahmad Ibrahim to be the elected chairman of the PAP Geylang Serai/Tampines branch.
Minister
Othman became Singapore’s first Minister for Social Affairs after his successful election in the General Elections of 1963, and was at that time the only Malay member in the Cabinet. Othman. He also held the concurrent role of Director of the Malay Affairs Bureau, and has been credited with implementing policies that continue to impact the Malay community today. Under his tenure, he oversaw the setting up of Singapore’s Pilgrimage Office, which was Singapore’s first formal system of registration for hajj activities. The system remains today, and continues to be built upon the foundations set in place by him then.
The Singapore Pilgrimage Office would eventually evolve the Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura (MUIS) entity, which continue to regulate and oversee hajj-related as well as other Muslim affairs.
The Ministry for Social Affairs would also go on to implement the Administration of Muslim Law Act (AMLA) and Mosque Building Fund (MBF) under his leadership.
Othman was branded a traitor to the Malay community for joining the PAP. At the time, they were being courted by the Kuala Lumpur-based United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) to fight for Malay racial favouritism. As a result, Othman lost in the 1959 elections when he was contesting as a PAP candidate for the electoral ward of Kampong Kembangan.
He would go on to contest once more in the 1963 General Elections, when he would then succeed and become the elected representative of the Pasir Panjang constituency. Following his successful election, Othman would go on to leave his job at the Utusan Melayu to focus on developing his political career full-time.
On 7 August 1965, the Parliament of Malaysia successful voted for the expulsion of Singapore from Malaysia. On 9 August, Othman, along with 8 other Singapore ministers, signed the document of separation. On this day, Othman highlighted his concern regarding the communists to Lee Kuan Yew, and only upon assurance did he put pen to paper.
Othman was also known for his active involvement in the development of sports and recreation in Singapore. He was also once a famous tennis player, ranked number 28 in the world. Othman was responsible for setting up a Sports Department within the purview of the Ministry of Social Affairs in 1966, and officiated the groundbreaking ceremony of the first National Stadium.
Ambassador
Having served 14 years as Minister for Social Affairs, Othman was appointed to serve as Singapore’s ambassador to Indonesia in 1977. His term would last three and a half years. He served as Member of Legislative Assembly (1963-1965) and Member of Parliament (1963 to 1980) for the Pasir Panjang Constituency retiring on 5 December 1980 when parliament dissolved on the same day for the 23 December 1980 general election.
Post political career
Othman continued to be active and served in the Presidential Council of Minority Rights as a permanent member. He was also appointed as a member of several companies' board of directors.
Personal life
Othman grew up in a humble family. In the first four years of his life, Othman lived with his Uncle, together with his grandparents and parents, in a kampong area dominated by Malays. He recounted that as a boy, different races lived together harmoniously, and he would have Chinese and Indian playmates whom he conversed with in Malay.
In his mid-twenties, Othman went to London to receive further education in a polytechnic.
Othman was married with four children. His hobbies included reading and writing ghost stories, one of his books being Malayan Horror: Macabre Tales of Singapore and Malaysia in the 50s, a compilation of stories written by him. Othman has also penned a biography titled: " Never in my Wildest Dreams", as a memoir of his life experiences.
Othman was considered as one of the 'Old Guard' - the first generation of leaders of independent Singapore.
Othman completed military service (called National Service in Singapore) with the People's Defence Force in 1980, holding the rank of major. He also retired from politics in the same year.
On 17 April 2017, he died at 12.22pm local time at the Singapore General Hospital due to poor health. He was buried at Choa Chu Kang Muslim Cemetery the next day.
References
External links
Othman Wok on ourstory.asia1.com.sg
1924 births
2017 deaths
Members of the Cabinet of Singapore
People's Action Party politicians
Singaporean diplomats
Ambassadors of Singapore to Indonesia
Singaporean Muslims
Singaporean people of Malay descent
Members of the Dewan Rakyat
Members of the Legislative Assembly of Singapore
Recipients of the Darjah Utama Nila Utama
Members of the Parliament of Singapore
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensification
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Intensification
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Intensification may refer to:
Image intensification by image intensifier
Rapid intensification, a meteorological condition that occurs when a tropical cyclone intensifies dramatically in a short period of time
Sustainable intensification in intensive farming
Urban intensification, a concept in urban density
Water cycle intensification, a development taking place due to climate change
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