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Cathedral of St. Luke and St. Paul (Charleston, South Carolina) | The St. Luke and St. Paul Episcopal Church, located on Coming Street in Charleston, is the cathedral of the Anglican Diocese of South Carolina. It was originally known as St. Paul's Radcliffeboro.
Construction began in 1810. The architectural style is typical of the period, the interior being almost devoid of ornamentation with the exception of the chancel which, according to Dalcho the historian, is “richly painted, and ornamented with Corinthian pilasters having gilt capitals”. This description still applies today, as during the redecorating of the interior after the hurricane of 1989, the colors and applications first used in 1815 were employed as much as current means allowed.
The building was in continuous use during the Civil War, harboring congregations from those churches nearer the strongholds of the Union forces, whose cannons bombarded the city constantly. The church's bell was dismantled and sent to Columbia to be melted down in support of the Confederate cause.
For the most part, the interior appears much as it did in 1815, a major exception being that of the stained-glass windows added later. In addition, the box pews were replaced in 1872 and the pulpit was moved from the middle aisle to its present location.
In 1949, the parish enfolded the congregation of St. Luke's on Charlotte Street, long closely associated with St. Paul's, and the first combined service was held on July 17, 1949. Later, the present building was designated the cathedral church for the Diocese of South Carolina and Bishop Gray Temple was officially “seated” here in November 1963.
The stained-glass windows in the apse of the sanctuary were installed in the fall of 1991 and, consistent with the post-hurricane restoration, are in the style of Sir Christopher Wren, the 17th century architect of St. Paul's Cathedral, London. They were designed and constructed by Willett Studios of Philadelphia and portray, on the left and right, the patron saints of the cathedral (St. Luke and St. Paul) with the center window depicting the crucified Christ, together with St. Mary and St. John.
The building is known for its acoustical properties and is often sought by performing artists, particularly during the Spoleto Festival.
In 2009, the long-time dean, William McKeachie, announced his retirement and the vestry called the Reverend Peet Dickinson to serve as dean. The same year the new dean, vestry, and executive finance committee took the necessary moves to retire the debt accumulated from structural renovations to the historic church building.
The cathedral remained the diocesan seat of Bishop Mark Lawrence after the 2012 breakup of the historic diocese. Bishop Lawrence's diocese was received into the Anglican Church in North America on 27 June 2017. The other faction of the old diocese is today known as the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina. Another historic Charleston church, Grace Church, was selected in 2015 as their new cathedral.
References
External links
Cathedral of St. Luke and St. Paul Official Website
Category:Churches completed in 1815
Category:19th-century Episcopal church buildings
Category:Anglican Church in North America church buildings in the United States
Luke and St. Paul (Charleston)
Category:Episcopal churches in South Carolina
Category:Churches in Charleston, South Carolina |
Tomashi Jackson | Tomashi Jackson (born 1980) is a multimedia artist working across painting, video, textiles and sculpture. Jackson was born in Houston, Texas, raised in Los Angeles, and currently lives and works in New York, NY and Cambridge, MA. Jackson was named a 2019 Whitney Biennial participating artist. Jackson also serves on the faculty for sculpture at Rhode Island School of Design. She is currently represented by Tilton Gallery in NYC.
Artistic practice
Jackson's work investigates the relationships between the aesthetic and the political. Jackson references layered content bridging historical actions with shifting artistic structures.
Education
Jackson received her BFA from Cooper Union in 2010, MS from the MIT School of Architecture and Planning in 2012, and MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art in 2016
Teaching
She has lectured and taught at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Rhode Island School of Design, UMass Dartmouth, Boston University, School of Visual Arts, and New York University.
Solo exhibitions
2014 - Love Economy: Emerging Visions of the African American Experience, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
2016 - The Subliminal Is Now, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
2018 - Interstate Love Song, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA
2019 - Time Out of Mind, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Selected group exhibitions
2012 - Brucennial, MoMA PS1
2016 - Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter, New Museum
2017 - In the Abstract, Mass MoCA
2019 - Whitney Biennial, curated by Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta
Her work has been featured in the 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2029 Art Basel Miami Beach as well.
References
External links
The Linguistic Overlap of Color Theory and Racism - Hyperallergic
Rhythm and Blues: Tomashi Jackson by Cora Fisher
Category:1980 births
Category:Living people
Category:21st-century American artists
Category:African-American artists
Category:Yale School of Art alumni
Category:MIT School of Architecture and Planning alumni
Category:Cooper Union alumni
Category:American painters |
Laurence Piquet | Laurence Piquet is a French journalist and television presenter.
Biography
Piquet first presented 19/20 on FR3. In 1991, she later transferred to France 2. She worked for Télématin from 1994 to 1996. She is perhaps best known for presenting the midday news programme 13 Heures as a weekday co-presenter with Henri Sannier from September 1992 to September 1993, as a weekend presenter from September 1996 to August 1998, alternating with weekday presenter Patrick Chêne and during the summer in 2008, temporarily relieving for the current presenter Élise Lucet and the late night news summary, Le Journal de la Nuit from 1991 to 1994 and again from September 2000 to February 2008.
In December 2009, she co-hosted the Téléthon with Marijosé Alie on France 2. Since 2006, she hosts cultural programs on France 5.
References
Category:1965 births
Category:French television journalists
Category:French television presenters
Category:French women journalists
Category:Living people
Category:French women writers
Category:Women television presenters
Category:People from Mulhouse |
Worldwide Protein Data Bank | The Worldwide Protein Data Bank, wwPDB, is an organization that maintains the archive of macromolecular structure. Its mission is to maintain a single Protein Data Bank Archive of macromolecular structural data that is freely and publicly available to the global community.
The organization has four members:
Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Database (RCSB PDB)
Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe)
Protein Data Bank Japan (PDBj)
Biological Magnetic Resonance Data Bank (BMRB)
The wwPDB was founded in 2003 by RCSB PDB (USA), PDBe (Europe) and PDBj (Japan). In 2006 BMRB (USA) joined the wwPDB.
Each member's site can accept structural data and process the data. The processed data is sent to the "archive keeper". The RCSB PDB presently acts as the "archive keeper". This ensures that there is only one version of the data which is identical for all users. The modified database is then made available to the other wwPDB members, each of whom makes the resulting structure files available through their websites to the public. (Data is accessed from the wwPDB website itself only through links to the member websites.) The member sites are more than just mirrors of the archive keeper, because the members offer different tools on their websites for analysing the structures in the database.
Accomplishments (taken from wwPDB annual reports)
2008 The wwPDB now requires that, in addition to atomic coordinates, structure factor amplitudes and intensities (for crystal structure depositions) and NMR restraints (for NMR structure depositions) must be deposited as a prerequisite for receiving a PDB ID.
2007 Rolled out a remediated PDB. Remediation included changing the nomenclature to conform to IUPAC standards.
See also
Protein Data Bank
References
External links
Member organizations
RCSB PDB, Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Databank (USA)
PDBe, Protein Data Bank in Europe
PDBj, Protein Data Bank Japan
BMRB, Biological Magnetic Resonance Data Bank (USA)
Category:Biological databases |
Mail delivery agent | A mail delivery agent or message delivery agent (MDA) is a computer software component that is responsible for the delivery of e-mail messages to a local recipient's mailbox. It is also called a local delivery agent (LDA).
Within the Internet mail architecture, local message delivery is achieved through a process of handling messages from the message transfer agent, and storing mail into the recipient's environment (typically a mailbox).
Implementation
Many mail handling software products bundle multiple message delivery agents with the message transfer agent component, providing for site customization of the specifics of mail delivery to a user.
Unix
On Unix-like systems, procmail and maildrop are the most popular MDAs. The Local Mail Transfer Protocol (LMTP) is a protocol that is frequently implemented by network-aware MDAs.
Invocation
The mail delivery agent is generally not started from the command line, but is usually invoked by mail delivery subsystems, such as a mail transport agent, or a mail retrieval agent.
List of MDA software for Unix-like platforms
Cyrus IMAP - A mail server suite that includes a mail delivery agent
dovecot - A mail server suite that includes a mail delivery agent
fetchmail - Primarily a Mail retrieval agent (MRA)
getmail - simpler, more secure, modern fetchmail alternative
fdm — modern replacement for both fetchmail and procmail from the author of tmux
maildrop or courier-maildrop - traditional procmail replacement, part of Courier Mail Server, but can also be used with other mail servers
procmail - obsolete since it is unmaintained; old, but still used
bin/mail, the MDA part of Sendmail - Sendmail is one of the oldest email packages
Sieve mail filtering language - a standardised mail filtering language; also, a modern replacement for procmail from the GNU Mailutils package
See also
Message transfer agent (MTA)
Mail retrieval agent (MRA)
Mail submission agent (MSA)
Mail user agent (MUA) a.k.a. email client
E-mail agent (infrastructure) (MxA)
References
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Oued Heimer | Oued Heimer is a mining town in Jerada Province, Oriental, Morocco. It is located 31 km south of Oujda and 17 km west of Touissit.
According to the 2004 census it has a population of 1997.
References
Category:Populated places in Jerada Province |
Endless Express | Endless Express is a first-person simulation video game developed in 2014 by Florian Veltman, Alexandre Taillefert, Martin Gugger, Felix Meunier, and Baptiste Virot. The game was first created as part of a 7-day game jam, but was later "reimagined" and re-titled "The Endless Express" in 2016, however, the project was discontinued, with its work-in-progress build publicly released. Endless Express was released on Microsoft Windows, MacOS, and Linux systems.
Development
Endless Express was the product of a five person team collaborating at a "7DFPS" game jam in 2014 - an event which is meant for first-person shooter video games, as noted by PC Gamer.
Gameplay
Endless Express''' starts off with the player waking up in a train station. Using only a watch and a train timetable, they must find their way home, being sure to catch the correct trains. The game is a combination between accelerated time and semi-real-time, with train stations being in real time and the travel being accelerated. The game also makes use of different animation styles, with low-polygonal textures for terrain, while using a cartoonish style elsewhere.
Reception
In a November 2014 article, PC Gamer called the gameplay of Endless Express "compelling", with Kotaku'' stating that it was "full of charm." Killscreen described the game as having a "dreamlike quality...magical realism."
References
External links
Endless Express on itch.io:
Original 2014 version
Updated 2016 version
Category:First-person adventure games
Category:Game jam video games
Category:2014 video games
Category:2016 video games
Category:Linux games
Category:MacOS games
Category:Train simulation video games
Category:Windows games |
Manufacturing USA | The National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI), also known as Manufacturing USA, is a network of research institutes in the United States that focuses on developing manufacturing technologies through public-private partnerships among U.S. industry, universities, and federal government agencies. Modeled similar to Germany's Fraunhofer Institutes, the network currently consists of 14 institutes. The institutes work independently and together in a number of advanced technologies.
Institutes
History
In June 2011, United States President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) recommended that the federal government launch an advanced manufacturing initiative of public-private partnerships to support "academia and industry for applied research on new technologies and design methodologies." The recommendation called for $500 million per year to be appropriated to the Departments of Defense, Commerce and Energy, increasing to $1 billion per year over four years.
The NNMI was proposed in the President's fiscal year 2013 budget and formally unveiled by the administration several weeks later in March 2012. The proposal called for a joint federal effort between the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation and the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology to create a network of 15 regional institutes, funded by a one-time investment of $1 billion and carried out over a period of 10 years. The administration reprogramed $45 million of existing resources from the Departments of Defense, Energy, Commerce and the National Science Foundation through executive action to fund a pilot, proof-of-concept institute for the program. In May the Department of Defense solicited proposals from consortiums led by nonprofit organizations and universities to establish an additive manufacturing (which includes 3D printing) research institute to serve as the prototype facility.
In August, 2012 the government announced the winning proposal, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII), also known as AmericaMakes led by the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining and based in Youngstown, Ohio. The consortium's members include 40 companies, nine research universities, five community colleges and 11 nonprofit organizations. AmericaMakes was established with an initial federal government investment of $30 million, while the consortium contributed almost $40 million in additional funding. The administration stated that it expected AmericaMakes to become financially self-sustaining. In May 2013, the administration announced the establishment of three additional institutes using $200 million in funding through two federal agencies: the Departments of Defense, and Energy.
Additional Manufacturing USA institutes were competitively selected Departments of Defense and Energy.
In September 2016, the NNMI adopted the name "Manufacturing USA".
Additional Manufacturing USA institutes were competitively selected by Departments of Defense, Commerce, and Energy.
, Manufacturing USA consists of fourteen institutes. Eight are managed in part by the Department of Defense. Six are managed in part the Department of Energy. One is managed in part by the Department of Commerce.
Model
According to the Manufacturing USA original proposal, it would consist of up to 15 linked institutes with unique research concentrations to serve as regional manufacturing innovation hubs with spokes that link to project locations as seen represented by the various linked activities across the network. Each institute would be independently run by a nonprofit organization and form a public-private partnership designed to leverage existing resources and promote collaboration and co-investment between industry, universities and government agencies. The network is designed to address the inconsistency in U.S economic and innovation policy in that federal research and development (R&D) investments and tax incentives are not matched by corresponding incentives to encourage the domestic manufacture of the technologies and products that arise from this R&D. The goal of the institutes is to develop, showcase and reduce risks sufficiently so that commercial companies can commercialize new products and processes for domestic production, as well as to train a manufacturing workforce at all skill levels to enhance domestic manufacturing capabilities. Institute activities include connecting proven basic research to additional problem solving that ranges from basic to applied research and demonstration projects that reduce the cost and risk of commercializing new technologies or that solve generic industrial problems, education and training, development of methodologies and practices for supply-chain integration, and engagement with small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises.
Critics of Manufacturing USA have argued taxes and burdensome regulations are the most pressing problems facing U.S. manufacturers. Supporters counter that the U.S. government has a long history of successful investments in R&D to support innovation in U.S. industry. Others argue that the Manufacturing USA can help alleviate two key market failures that plague industrial innovation, namely that innovators generally do not capture the full economic benefits that their innovations provide and thus achieving the optimal level of R&D investment requires government support, and the so-called "valley of death" problem in which no single business can afford the risk or the cost to invest or where businesses tend not to invest in long-term R&D projects with profits that are far in the future. Additionally, supporters argue that the Manufacturing USA will create a more attractive domestic environment for manufacturing, and thus will encourage manufacturers to locate production facilities in the United States. Already there are a few examples of placement of new manufacturing or growth of existing manufacturing in the United States to engage the expertise and facilities of Manufacturing USA.
See also
Manufacturing in the United States
DIUx
Defense Innovation Advisory Board
References
External links
ManufacturingUSA official website (cost-shared public-private partnership)
NNMI institutes
Category:Manufacturing in the United States
Category:National Institute of Standards and Technology
Category:National Science Foundation
Category:United States Department of Defense
Category:United States Department of Energy
Category:Research institutes in the United States
Category:Innovation organizations
Category:United States Department of Commerce
Category:NASA
Category:United States Department of Labor |
Green Office | A Green Office (in some cases also called Student Green Office, (Student) Green Unit, Sustainability Hub, Nachhaltigkeitsbüro (German) or Duurzaamheidskantoor (Dutch)) is a sustainability department or office that enables students and other actors such as academics and staff to act on sustainability at their university. The model differs from other approaches of sustainability governance, as it allows students to more actively contribute to their university’s sustainability efforts. Through its institutional mandate, funding and support, a Green Office addresses common barriers which prevent sustainability student groups from having more of an impact on their university.
The first Green Office was established at Maastricht University in 2010 as the institution’s student-run sustainability department. The model has since spread to over 30 higher education institutions in six European countries. It is particularly popular in the Netherlands, where 10 of the 14 universities have established a Green Office. The model is actively being spread by the social business rootAbility and freely available under a Creative Commons License.
Activities and achievements
Green Offices focus on embedding sustainability into the education, research and operations of their university or on supporting sustainability student engagement. For example, Maastricht, Magdeburg and Konstanz are engaged in writing sustainability reports, strategies and policies for their university. Others, such as Groningen, Utrecht and Rotterdam are more focussed on student engagement through lectures, movie screenings or workshops.
Some notable achievements of Green Offices include contributing to achieving the Fair-Trade University Status (Eindhoven), creating a sustainability minor and honours programme (VU Amsterdam), increasing the recycling rate of E-waste by 185% (Maastricht) and getting an online course accredited (Konstanz).
Characteristics
An analysis of 23 Green Offices concluded that the “average” Green Office has 5 student employees who are paid for 9 hours a week and typically work another 5 hours voluntarily. The Green Office either consists of only students who actively work with staff at the institution or of students and staff in one core team. Every second Green Offices works with volunteers. Typically, a Green Office working with volunteers will manage 20 volunteers at a time.
70% of Green Offices possess their own office space, whereas 30% share office space. Green Offices are officially recognized and resourced by their Executive Board, a (sustainability) committee or Facility Services. The average overall annual budget is 60,000 EUR. Some Green Offices also have supervisory boards to which they report.
Green Office Movement
Existing Green Office are part of the “Green Office Movement”. Every year a European Green Office Summit is organised. rootAbility has also initiated a Learning, Exchange and Action Programme hosting knowledge exchange throughout the year. On a national level, the movement is supported by Studenten voor Morgen in the Netherlands, Netzwerk N in Germany and the National Union of Students in the United Kingdom.
Risks and recognition
A recurring issue Green Offices have faced is a lack of continuity given the high turnover of student employees. Green Offices also have limited authority within the university and rely on academics, staff and higher management to work with them. In addition, a Green Office may reduce the responsibility that other actors at the university feel to act on sustainability.
The Green Office Model has received numerous recognitions including the International Student Campus Network Award for excellence in student projects and the UNESCO-Japan Prize on Education for Sustainable Development. The committee for the UNESCO-Japan prize claims that “this intense collaboration and inclusive participation have ensured the best conditions for the necessary changes towards sustainability.”
References
Category:Sustainability at academic institutions |
Entry Sequenced Data Set | An Entry Sequenced Data Set (ESDS) is a type of data set used by the VSAM computer data storage system. Records are accessed based on their sequential order, that is, the order in which they were written to the file; which means that accessing a particular record involves searching all the records sequentially until it is located, or by using a relative physical address (Relative byte address, RBA), i.e. the number of bytes from the beginning of the file to start reading.
Keys may be used to access records in an RRDS by defining an alternate index.
See also
Key Sequenced Data Set
Relative Record Data Set
Random access
References
Category:Computer file systems |
Doina subicula | Doina subicula is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by John Frederick Gates Clarke in 1978. It is found in Chile.
The wingspan is 24–25 mm. The forewings are fuscous with the basal angle light ochraceous buff. On the costa, to the apex, is a series of ill-defined light ochraceous-buff dots and in the cell is a blackish dash joined at the end of the cell by a transverse bar of the same colour. Between the cell and the termen is an ill-defined, outwardly curved series of light ochraceous-buff spots and the termen is narrowly edged blackish fuscous. The hindwings are light greyish olive with a darker line around the outer edge.
References
Category:Moths described in 1978
Category:Doina |
Dichelonyx canadensis | Dichelonyx canadensis is a species of May beetle or junebug in the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in North America.
References
Further reading
External links
Category:Melolonthinae
Category:Beetles described in 1876 |
Transkeian honours system | The Transkeian honours system was instituted after Transkei was declared independent in 1976.
A range of orders, decorations, and medals were instituted including the Military Rule Medal,1987
Since 1994, when Transkei was reincorporated into the Republic of South Africa, the obsolete Transkeian honours system has now been given a place within the South African order of wear.
References
See also
Military Rule Medal, 1987
Category:Military decorations and medals of Transkei
Category:Honours systems |
Eupithecia cooptata | Eupithecia cooptata is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in France and Spain.
The length of the forewings is 10.5–11.5 mm.
The larvae feed on Artemisia camphorata.
References
Category:Moths described in 1903
cooptata
Category:Moths of Europe |
Jul i Tøyengata | Jul i Tøyengata is a Norwegian televised advent calendar created by the Norwegian comedian Zahid Ali. The show is a parody on another Norwegian advent calendar Jul i Skomakergata from 1979, one of the most successful Norwegian TV series.
Cast
Zahid Ali - Shoemaker Ali, Konnerud
Nikis Theophilakis - Naeem
Morten Rudå - Varberg
Siw Anita Andersen - Iram
Bodil Lahelle - Ms. Konnerud
Robert Gustafsson - Radko
Øystein Martinsen - Seidelbaum
The three Africans: Buntu Pupa, Banthata Mukguatsane and Jimu Makurumbandi
Category:TVNorge programmes
Category:Norwegian comedy television series |
Conchos darter | The Conchos darter (Etheostoma australe) is a species of darter endemic to the Conchos River system in northern Mexico, where it is known as dardo de conchos. This species can reach a length of .
References
Category:Etheostoma
Category:Endemic fauna of Mexico
Category:Freshwater fish of Mexico
Category:Fish described in 1889
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
York Township, Iowa County, Iowa | York Township is a township in Iowa County, Iowa, USA.
History
York Township was established in 1860.
References
Category:Townships in Iowa County, Iowa
Category:Townships in Iowa |
Oroua | Oroua may refer to:
Oroua River, a river in the North Island of New Zealand
Oroua County, a county in the North Island of New Zealand
Oroua (New Zealand electorate), a parliamentary electorate in New Zealand from 1902 to 1938 |
North Manly, New South Wales | North Manly is a suburb of northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 17 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of Northern Beaches Council. It is part of the Northern Beaches region.
History
Corrie Road Post Office opened on 1 August 1916, was renamed North Manly in 1926 and closed in 1978.
Parks
Manly District Park, Nolan Reserve, Warringah Golf Course.
References
Category:Suburbs of Sydney
Category:Northern Beaches Council |
Constant-weight code | In coding theory, a constant-weight code, also called an m-of-n code, is an error detection and correction code where all codewords share the same Hamming weight.
The one-hot code and the balanced code are two widely used kinds of constant-weight code.
The theory is closely connected to that of designs (such as t-designs and Steiner systems). Most of the work on this very vital field of discrete mathematics is concerned with binary constant-weight codes.
Binary constant-weight codes have several applications, including frequency hopping in GSM networks.
Most barcodes use a binary constant-weight code to simplify automatically setting the threshold.
Most line codes use either a constant-weight code, or a nearly-constant-weight paired disparity code.
In addition to use as error correction codes, the large space between code words can also be used in the design of asynchronous circuits such as delay insensitive circuits.
Constant-weight codes, like Berger codes, can detect all unidirectional errors.
A(n, d, w)
The central problem regarding constant-weight codes is the following: what is the maximum number of codewords in a binary constant-weight code with length , Hamming distance , and weight ? This number is called .
Apart from some trivial observations, it is generally impossible to compute these numbers in a straightforward way. Upper bounds are given by several important theorems such as the first and second Johnson bounds, and better upper bounds can sometimes be found in other ways. Lower bounds are most often found by exhibiting specific codes, either with use of a variety of methods from discrete mathematics, or through heavy computer searching. A large table of such record-breaking codes was published in 1990, and an extension to longer codes (but only for those values of and which are relevant for the GSM application) was published in 2006.
1-of-N codes
A special case of constant weight codes are the one-of-N codes, that encode bits in a code-word of bits. The one-of-two code uses the code words 01 and 10 to encode the bits '0' and '1'. A one-of-four code can use the words 0001, 0010, 0100, 1000 in order to encode two bits 00, 01, 10, and 11. An example is dual rail encoding, and chain link used in delay insensitive circuits. For these codes, and .
Some of the more notable uses of one-hot codes include
biphase mark code uses a 1-of-2 code;
pulse-position modulation uses a 1-of-n code;
address decoder,
etc.
Balanced code
In coding theory, a balanced code is a binary forward error correction code for which each codeword contains an equal number of zero and one bits. Balanced codes have been introduced by Donald Knuth; they are a subset of so-called unordered codes, which are codes having the property that the positions of ones in a codeword are never a subset of the positions of the ones in another codeword. Like all unordered codes, balanced codes are suitable for the detection of all unidirectional errors in an encoded message. Balanced codes allow for particularly efficient decoding, which can be carried out in parallel.
Some of the more notable uses of balanced-weight codes include
biphase mark code uses a 1 of 2 code;
6b/8b encoding uses a 4 of 8 code;
the Hadamard code is a of code (except for the zero codeword),
the three-of-six code;
etc.
The 3-wire lane encoding used in MIPI C-PHY can be considered a generalization of constant-weight code to ternary -- each wire transmits a ternary signal, and at any one instant one of the 3 wires is transmitting a low, one is transmitting a middle, and one is transmitting a high signal.
m-of-n codes
An m-of-n code is a separable error detection code with a code word length of n bits, where each code word contains exactly m instances of a "one". A single bit error will cause the code word to have either or "ones". An example m-of-n code is the 2-of-5 code used by the United States Postal Service.
The simplest implementation is to append a string of ones to the original data until it contains m ones, then append zeros to create a code of length n.
Example:
Some of the more notable uses of constant-weight codes, other than the one-hot and balanced-weight codes already mentioned above, include
Code 39 uses a 3-of-9 code;
bi-quinary coded decimal code uses a 2-of-7 code,
the 2-of-5 code,
etc.
References
External links
Table of lower bounds on maintained by Andries Brouwer (update of the earlier table by Neil Sloane and E. M. Rains)
Table of upper bounds on maintained by Erik Agrell
Category:Information theory
Category:Error detection and correction |
Eta Aurigae | Eta Aurigae (η Aurigae, abbreviated Eta Aur, η Aur), officially named Haedus , is a star in the northern constellation of Auriga. With an apparent visual magnitude of 3.18, it is visible to the naked eye. Based upon parallax measurements made during the Hipparcos mission, this star is approximately distant from the Sun.
Nomenclature
η Aurigae (Latinised to Eta Aurigae) is the star's Bayer designation.
Along with Zeta Aurigae it represents one of the Kids of the she-goat Capella, from which it derived its Latin traditional name Haedus II or Hoedus II, from the Latin haedus "kid" (Zeta Aurigae was Haedus I). It also had the less common traditional name Mahasim, from the Arabic المِعْصَم al-miʽşam "the wrist" (of the charioteer), which it shared with Theta Aurigae. In 2016, the IAU organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN approved the names Haedus for Eta Aurigae and Saclateni for Zeta Aurigae A on 30 June 2017 and they are both now so included in the List of IAU-approved Star Names.
In Chinese, (), meaning Pillars, refers to an asterism consisting of Eta Aurigae, Epsilon Aurigae, Zeta Aurigae, Upsilon Aurigae, Nu Aurigae, Tau Aurigae, Chi Aurigae and 26 Aurigae. Consequently, the Chinese name for Eta Aurigae itself is (, .)
Properties
Since 1943, the spectrum of Eta Aurigae has served as one of the stable anchor points by which other stars are classified.
Eta Aurigae is a larger star than the Sun, with more than five times the Sun's mass and over three times the Sun's radius. The spectrum of this star matches a stellar classification of B3 V, which is a B-type main sequence star that is generating its energy through the nuclear fusion of hydrogen at its core. It is radiating 955 times the Sun's luminosity from its outer atmosphere at an effective temperature of 17,201 K. Based upon its projected rotational velocity of 95, it is spinning with a rotation period of only 1.8 days. Eta Aurigae is around 39 million years old.
References
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HR 1641
Image Eta Aurigae
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Aurigae, Eta
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Category:B-type main-sequence stars
Category:Stars with proper names
Aurigae, 10
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Joe Carter (English footballer) | Joseph Henry Carter (27 July 1899 – 7 January 1977) was an English footballer who played at inside-forward. He won three England caps, scoring four goals. Carter won an FA Cup winner's medal with West Bromwich Albion in 1931, also helping the team win promotion to Division One in the same season. In September 1931 he became the first ever Albion player to be sent off at The Hawthorns. He played in the 1935 FA Cup Final when Albion finished as runners-up to Sheffield Wednesday. He died of dehydration in 1977.
Honours
West Bromwich Albion
FA Cup winners: 1931
References
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Category:1899 births
Category:1977 deaths
Category:Footballers from Birmingham, West Midlands
Category:English footballers
Category:England international footballers
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Hendersonville, Pennsylvania | Hendersonville is a census-designated place located in Cecil Township, Washington County in the state of Pennsylvania. The community is located just to the east of Interstate 79. As of the 2010 census the population was 325 residents.
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Männiku, Saku Parish | Männiku is a village in Saku Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia.
It has a railway station on the Tallinn - Viljandi railway line operated by Elron (rail transit).
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Lydia Eberhardt | Lydia Eberhardt (7 February 1913 – 21 September 1997) was a German athlete. She competed in the women's javelin throw at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
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Graeme Wilkinson | Graeme "Dreams" Wilkinson (born 31 March 1938) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne and Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
As a forward or ruckman, Wilkinson spent two seasons at Richmond after failing to make his mark with Melbourne. His 21 goals in the 1960 VFL season was enough to top Richmond's goal-kicking.
The next phase of his career took place in the Northern Tasmanian Football Association (NTFA) where he played with City-South. He made a total of 204 NTFA appearances for City-South and was their 'best and fairest' winner in 1968. As captain-coach during the 1960s, Wilkinson steered his club to premierships in 1962 and 1966 as well as a win over Hobart in the 1966 Tasmanian State Grand Final at York Park. Wilkinson represented Tasmania at the 1966 Hobart Carnival, amongst his six interstate games.
After retiring, Wilkinson was a commentator on ABC radio for the NTFA and Statewide League. He has also served the NTFL as an administrator.
Inducted into the Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame in 2007, Wilkinson has also been honoured as the captain of the official City-South 'Team of the Century'.
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Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
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List of number-one singles of 1997 (Finland) | This is the list of the number-one singles of the Finnish Singles Chart in 1997.
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Cúpido Formation | The Cúpido Formation is a geologic formation in Mexico. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period.
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Nguyễn Thế Lộc | Nguyễn Thế Lộc (born 5 September 1935) is a Vietnamese fencer. He competed in the individual sabre events at the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics.
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Jon Cole | Jon Cole may refer to:
Jon Cole (businessman), Texas businessman and anti-drug leader
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George Nesbitt | George Nesbitt (1859 – 13 December 1948) was an Irish-born Australian politician.
He was born at Castlederg in County Tyrone to John Nesbitt, a Master in Poor Law, and Rebecca, née Gregory. He arrived in New South Wales in 1885 and worked for a Sydney softgoods firm as a traveller to the North Coast from 1887 to 1895. In 1895 he settled in Lismore and opened a general store; also in that year he married Adina Morgan. He was active in various retailers' and commercial travellers' associations throughout the 1890s and 1900s, and was an alderman and mayor at Lismore from 1906 to 1907. In 1913 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Liberal member for Lismore; with the introduction of proportional representation he became one of the members for Byron. He left the Assembly in 1925 but in 1927 was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council, serving until 1940. Nesbitt died at Cremorne in 1948.
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Hypobapta percomptaria | Hypobapta percomptaria, the southern grey, is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Achille Guenée in 1857. It is known from Australia, including South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and Tasmania.
The wingspan is about 50 mm. Adults are grey-brown with wavy lines. Specimens from Tasmania are generally paler than mainland specimens.
The larvae feed on Eucalyptus species. Young larvae are brown with a red head and tail. Later instars become green with a conical head.
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Scotland and the Thirty Years' War | Scotland and the Thirty Years' War deals with the complicated involvement of the kingdom of Scotland in the Thirty Years' War of 1618–1648. Scotland and Scots were heavily entangled in both the diplomatic and military events centred on the Holy Roman Empire. There were a number of reasons for this participation.
Among these, the fate of the Scottish princess Elizabeth of Bohemia (daughter of King James VI & I) proved to be a key concern. Up to 50,000 Scottish troops arrived on the continent having been levied on warrants issued by the Privy Council and countersigned by their king, usually at periods corresponding to the participation of a particular ally in a campaign against the Habsburgs. They mostly served initially in established Scottish brigades in the Dutch Republic and Sweden which had existed before 1618. Later, specially commissioned army groups were also created in Denmark-Norway and France to facilitate further Scottish participation. Some fought for better prospects, some for kin loyalty, not a few for dynastic and confessional considerations. A few, the minority, were plain mercenaries. Although Scots participated from the start of the war until the end, formal participation by the nation was limited. Scotland formally declared war on Spain (1625–1630) and France (1627–1629), but for the most part, Scots engaged in foreign service with consent from their monarch and under warrants issued by the Privy Council but in armies commanded by their European allies.
Through such service a number of ambitious individual Scots in different European courts had a profound influence on the course of the war both conducting diplomacy and commanding entire army groups in the campaign. These included General Sir James Spens of Wormiston, Lieutenant General Patrick Ruthven, Lieutenant General James King and Field Marshal Alexander Leslie who all served in Sweden. These men were joined in Germany by an auxiliary army with Scots and English under notional Swedish command and led by James, 3rd Marquis Hamilton (1631–1632).
In France the main officers were Marechal de France John Hepburn (1634–1636), a former colonel in Swedish service, and Sir Robert Moray (1640s). In Denmark Robert Maxwell Earl of Nithsdale led a contingent including Donald Mackay Lord Reay and Colonel Robert Monro and Alexander Lindsay, 2nd Lord Spynie among others (1627–1629).
The Scots Brigade, which had existed since 1572, was another outlet for Scottish soldiers looking for service in Continental armies. Although in the service and under the payroll of the States-General of the Dutch Republic, these troops were, first and foremost, loyal to the House of Stuart. Nonetheless, Scottish soldiers may have chosen to serve in the Republic due to their religious beliefs, perhaps as part of movement of "Calvinist Internationalism." Notable officers include Colonel William Brog, William Balfour, James Livingston, 1st Earl of Callendar, and several generations of the Lords and Earls of Buccleuch. Notable engagements during their service in the Eighty Years' War include the Battle of Nieuwpoort (1600), the Siege of Ostend (1601-1604), the War of the Jülich Succession (1609-1610), the Siege of Bergen-op-Zoom (1622), the Siege of 's-Hertogenbosch (1629), and the Siege of Breda (1637), among countless others.
It is important to remember that not all Scots fought for or believed in the cause of either Elizabeth of Bohemia or the Protestant northern alliances. A number fought for the Habsburgs (Austrian and Spanish) for the same complex reasons as their countrymen; there were some committed to the counter-reformation, some compelled by circumstance and some opportunists such as Albrecht von Wallenstein's assassin, Count Walter Leslie.
Scottish people of the Thirty Years' War
Many noted Scots participated in the Thirty Years' War or had strong interests in it, including:
Scottish monarchs and royalty
James VI & I – King of Scotland (1567–1625) & England and Ireland (1603–1625)
Elizabeth of Bohemia – Daughter of James VI. The Scottish-born princess became Queen of Bohemia after her husband Frederick V of the Palatinate accepted the Bohemian Crown.
Charles I – Son of James VI. The Scottish-born prince ruled as King of Scotland, England and Ireland, 1625–1649.
Field marshals and generals
Archibald Douglas, lieutenant general of artillery in the Hamilton Army in Germany
Robert Douglas, Count of Skenninge, eventually elevated to field marshal in the Swedish army (1655), Douglas reached the rank of lieutenant general by the end of the war in 1648. He commanded the left wing of Torstensson's army at Jankowitz
David Drummond, major general in the Swedish army
Alexander 'Arvid' Forbes, also known as Finn Forbes, an ethnic Scot and major general in the Swedish army.
Alexander Hamilton, also known as 'Dear Sandy', General of Artillery in the Swedish army, later General of Artillery in the Army of the Covenant.
James Hamilton, Marquis of Hamilton (later Duke of Hamilton), "General of British" in the Swedish army in Germany
John Hepburn, Marechal de France and field marshal in the French army
Thomas Kerr, major general in the Swedish army
James King, Lord Eythin, lieutenant-general in the Swedish army in Germany, Governor of Vlotho
Alexander Leslie, Earl of Leven, field marshal in the Swedish army in Germany, Governor of the Baltic Provinces and victor of Wittstock in 1636.
Robert Maxwell, Earl of Nithsdale, titular 'General of Scots' in the Danish army.
James MacDouglall, a.k.a. Jacob Duwall, an ethnic Scot and major general in the Swedish army
James Ramsay 'the Black', major general in the Swedish army.
John Ruthven, major general in the Swedish army
Patrick Ruthven, Earl of Forth, field marshal in the Swedish army in Germany, Governor of Ulm
Robert Scott, General of Artillery in the Danish army.
James Spens, "General of British", and "General of Scots" in the Swedish army.
Frances de Traytorrens, general of fortifications in the Swedish army
Some of the more notable Colonels
William Baillie, later major general in Scotland
William Balfour, colonel in the Scots-Dutch brigade, later a general in England
William Barclay, colonel in Swedish service, later major general in Sweden (1654)
William Bonar, colonel and commandant (Glogau, Silesia) in Swedish service
William Brog, colonel in the Scots-Dutch Brigade
Henry (Henry) Bruce, captain in the Scots-Dutch Brigade, colonel and governor in Imperial service
Colonel Robert Cunningham, colonel in Swedish service
James Douglas colonel in the French army
Alexander Forbes 'the Bald', colonel in the service of Hessen-Kassel
William Forbes, colonel of Germans in Swedish service
Andrew Gray, Catholic and colonel of a "Regiment of Brittanes" in Bohemia
Herbert Gladstone, colonel in Swedish service
Alexander Gordon, colonel in the Swedish service
John Gordon, colonel in Swedish service
John Gunn, colonel in Swedish service
William Gunn, colonel in Swedish service, refused promotion higher due to his Catholicism, later a colonel in Imperial service.
Hugo Hamilton, 1st Baron of Deserf colonel in the Swedish army
Alexander Hay, colonel in Swedish service
Robert Henderson, colonel in the Scots-Dutch Brigade
Francis Henderson, colonel in the Scots-Dutch Brigade
Alexander Irving, colonel in Swedish service
Frances Johnstone, colonel in Swedish service
Thomas Kinnemond, colonel in Swedish service
Patrick Kinnemond, colonel in Swedish service
Alexander Leslie, 2nd Lord Balgonie, colonel in Swedish service, later colonel in the British Civil Wars
Alexander Leslie of Auchintoul, colonel in Swedish and Russian service, later first-ever general in Russia (1653)
George Leslie, colonel in Swedish service
David Leslie, Lord Newark, colonel in the Swedish army.
Robert Leslie (brother of Lord Newark), colonel in Hessen-Kassel
Walter Leslie, Count of the Holy Roman Empire
Alexander Lindsay, 2nd Lord Spynie, colonel and governor in Danish service
George Lindsay, Earl of Crawford, colonel in the Swedish army
Harry Lindsay, colonel in Swedish service
James Lumsden colonel in Swedish service, later lieutenant general in Scotland
Donald Mackay, 1st Lord Reay, colonel in Danish and Swedish service
Robert Monro, major in the Danish army, colonel in the Swedish army, later lieutenant general in Scotland and Ireland
Robert Moray, colonel in French service and sometime quartermaster general of the Army of the Covenant
Patrick More, colonel in the Swedish army during the war, later promoted to major general in Swedish service (March 1675) based in Buxtehude near Hamburg
Robert Munro, Baron of Foulis, colonel in Swedish service
John Nairn, colonel in Swedish service
James Ramsay 'the Fair', colonel in Swedish service under Marquis Hamilton.
William Phillip, colonel in Swedish service
Andrew Rutherford, 1st Earl of Teviot, colonel in French service, promoted to lieutenant general in 1653
Frances Ruthven, colonel in Swedish service
Robert Sanderson, colonel in Swedish service
Alexander Seaton, colonel in Danish service, later 'admiral' of a fleet in Denmark during the Torstensson War
Johan Skytte, ethnic Scot and colonel of a Scottish regiment in Sweden
Robert Stewart, colonel in Swedish service
Important Scottish diplomats
Sir Robert Anstruther, Stuart ambassador to Denmark (and Danish ambassador to Britain), Sweden, the Dutch Republic and the Holy Roman Empire
William Douglas, Stuart ambassador to Poland-Lithuania and Elizabeth of Bohemia
James Hay, 1st Earl of Carlisle. Stuart ambassador to France and Spain
John Henderson, colonel in Swedish service, later Stuart Diplomat to Denmark-Norway and alleged Cromwellian agent.
Walter Leslie, assassin, Imperial Count and diplomat for the House of Stuart and the Holy Roman Empire
Hugh Mowatt, agent, spy and later accredited diplomat between Sweden and the Scottish and English parliaments
Andrew Sinclair, Stuart ambassador to Denmark
Sir James Spens, Stuart ambassador to Sweden (and Swedish ambassador to Britain), Denmark and the Dutch Republic
Basis for the Covenanter armies
Thousands of Scots returned home from foreign service to join the Covenanters, including experienced leaders like Alexander Leslie and General of Artillery Alexander Hamilton. These veterans played an important role in training the Covenanter recruits. However, more senior officers including Lieutenant General Patrick Ruthven, Lieutenant General James King, Major General John Ruthven also returned to confront their former comrades. Both Covenanters and Royalists returned with cohorts of officers, and both introduced the 'Swedish Discipline' into their respective armies. When the wars spread to England, a situation arose in 1644 where the senior commander of the parliamentary allied army was Alexander Leslie, Earl of Leven while his opposition was led by Patrick Ruthven, now Earl of Forth and Lord General of the Royalist forces in England. Both men survived the war and died peacefully in their beds.
Sources and fiction
Some notable Scottish contemporary published sources
William Forbes, a diary edited by D. Pleiss, 'Das Kriegstagebuch des schwedischen Offiziers William Forbes: Von seiner Landung an der Unterelbe im Sommer 1634 bis zu seiner Rückkehr nach Stade im Winter 1649/50’, Stader Jahrbuch Neue Folge 85, (1995), pp. 135–53.
Thomas Kellie, Pallas Armata or Military Instructions for the Learned, The First Part (Edinburgh, 1627).
Andrew Melvill, edited and published by Torick Ameer-Ali as Memoirs of Sir Andrew Melvill (London, 1918). Only a small part on the Thirty Years' War.
Robert Monro, His Expedition with a worthy Scots Regiment called Mac-Keyes (2 vols., London, 1637).
Contemporary poetry and fiction
Arthur Johnston, a contemporary neo-Latinist poet, wrote several poems about the Bohemian part of the conflict in W.D. Geddes (ed.) Musa Latina Aberdonensis vol. 1 (Aberdeen Spalding Club, 1892)
Simplicius Simplicissimus (1668) by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, one of the most important German novels of the 17th century, is the comic fictional autobiography of a half-German, half-Scottish peasant turned mercenary who serves under various powers during the war, based on the author's first-hand experience. An opera adaptation by the same name was produced in the 1930s, written by Karl Amadeus Hartmann.
Modern fiction
Dallas, O., A Ragged Renown: A Romance of the Thirty Years’ War (1934)
Dallas, O., The Daughter of the Scots’ Brigade (1938)
Dickason, C., The King’s Daughter (2010)
Henty, G.A., The Lion of the North: The adventures of a Scottish lad during the Thirty Years’ War (2 vol., 1997 reprint). Available under a number of sub-title variants including a comic strip.
Lorimer, J., The Green Brigade (1935)
Friedrich Schiller's Wallenstein trilogy (1799) is a fictional account of the downfall of this general. Not Scottish as such, but contains fictionalised accounts of Wallenstein's assassins, including Count Walter Leslie.
Scott, E., The Best Soldier: The Life of Sir John Hepburn, Marshal of France, Founder and First Colonel of the Royal Scots, 1628–1636 (Hawick, 2011)
Stevenson, J., The Winter Queen (2003)
References
Further reading
Dukes, P., 'The Leslie family in the Swedish period, (1630–5) of the Thirty Years' War', European Studies Review, vol. 12 (1982)
W. Forbes Leith, The Scots Men at Arms and Life Guards in France, 1458–1830 (2 vols., Edinburgh, 1882)
Edward Furgol, 'Scotland turned Sweden: the Scottish Covenanters and the military revolution’ in J. Morrill, ed., The National Covenant in its British Context 1638–51 (Edinburgh, 1990)
Alexia Grosjean,‘General Alexander Leslie, The Scottish Covenanters and the Riksråd debates, 1638–1640’, in Macinnes, A. I., T. Riis and F.G. Pedersen, eds., Ships, Guns and Bibles in the North Sea and the Baltic States c.1350–1700 (East Linton, 2000)
Alexia Grosjean, An Unofficial Alliance: Scotland and Sweden 1569 – 1654 (Leiden, 2003)
Steve Murdoch, ed., Scotland and the Thirty Years’ War (Leiden, 2001)
Steve Murdoch, ‘Scotsmen on the Danish-Norwegian Frontier, 1589–1680’ in S. Murdoch and A. Mackillop (eds.), Military Governors and Imperial Frontiers c.1600–1800 (Leiden, 2003)
Steve Murdoch, Britain, Denmark-Norway and the House of Stuart, 1603–1660 (Eat Linton, 2003)
Steve Murdoch and Alexia Grosjean, Alexander Leslie and the Scottish Geneals of the Thirty Years' War, 1618–1648 (Pickering & Chatto, London, 2014)
G. A. Sinclair, ‘Scotsmen Serving the Swede’, The Scottish Historical Review, vol. 9 (1912)
A. F, Steuart, ‘Scottish Officers in Sweden’ in The Scottish Historical Review, vol. 1 (1904)
David Worthington, Scots in Habsburg Service, 1618–1648 (Leiden, 2003)
Gunnar Westin, ed., Negotiations about church unity 1628–1634; John Durie, Gustavus Adolphus, Axel Oxenstierna (Uppsala, 1932)
Gunnar Westin, ed., John Durie in Sweden 1636–1638; Documents and Letters (Uppsala, 1936)
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WGTT | WGTT is a Christian radio station licensed to Emeralda, Florida, broadcasting on 91.5 MHz FM. The station serves the areas of The Villages and Eustis, Florida, and is owned by Bible Clarity.
WGTT's programming includes Christian talk and teaching shows such as Revive our Hearts with Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Chuck Swindoll, and Answers in Genesis with Ken Ham.
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HNoMS Glommen (1916) | The minelayer HNoMS Glommen was built for the Royal Norwegian Navy during World War I, as the lead ship of the two ship Glommen class of mine layers. Her sister ship was Laugen.
Glommen and her sister ship were kept in service until the German invasion of Norway in 1940. Glommen surrendered to the Germans on 14 April 1940, and was rebuilt as a floating anti-aircraft battery. She was scuttled at Kirkenes in 1944 by the retreating Germans.
Glommen was built at Akers mekaniske verksted in Kristiania.
She was named after the Glomma - the longest and largest river in Norway.
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Mind Set Art Center | The Mind Set Art Center (MSAC; ) is a contemporary art gallery in Daan District, Taipei, Taiwan, predominantly known for its specialty in representing emerging artists around the world, in particular Taiwanese artists. It was founded in 2010 by Andre Lee.
Artists
Artists shown in the gallery include:
Jhong Jiang Ze
Shi Jin-Hua
Juin Heish
Tang Jo-Hung
Yee I-Lann
Marina Cruz Garcia
Ana Maria Micu
Exhibitions
Babel -Patricia Eustaquio (2014)''
Nameless Hundred -Victor Balanon (2014)''
the Visible and the Invisible -Oana Farcas (2014)''
Chen Archives -Shiau-Peng Chen (2014)''
-LIN Chuan-Chu (2014)''
the Moon -Shi Jin-Hua (2013)''
ceremony of SHI Jin-Hua's album and latest work Art Today on view -SHI Jin-Hua (2013)''
-Hanna Pettyjohn (2013)''
of Life -Shinji Ohmaki (2013)''
The Skin -YU JI SOLO EXHIBITION (2013)''
Trip -Contemporary Art Group Exhibition -LIN Chuan-Chu‧JHONG Jiang Ze‧SHI Jin-Hua‧SHI (2013)''
Conscious Choice For Temporary Blindness -ANA MARIA MICU & Cătălin Petrişor (2012)''
a duo show -Shi Jin Hua & Marina Cruz (2012)''
Single to Dual, From Dual to Single -Juin Shieh (2012)''
Jean-François Gromaire -Jean-François Gromaire (2012)''
Garden -Shi Jin Song (2012)''
the House of Memory –Marina Cruz solo exhibition (2012)''
has he been? -Tang Jo-Hung (2012)''
-Yee I-Lann (2011)''
Through a Year -Jin-Hua Solo Exhibition (2011)''
World -Yee I-Lann (2011)''
-Huang Liang (2011)''
Life with Art -Bill Viola, Takashi Murakami, Valay Shende, Jorge Mayet, Shimura Nobuhiro, Montri Toemsombat, etc (2011)''
- Asian Contemporary Art Group Exhibition (2010)''
is here? -Zhou Yilun (2010)''
Transportation
The center is accessible within walking distance north of Taipower Building Station of Taipei Metro.
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Mike (novel) | Mike is a school story by P. G. Wodehouse, first published on 15 September 1909 by Adam & Charles Black, London. The story first appeared in the magazine The Captain, in two separate parts that were collected together in the original version of the book; the first part, originally called Jackson Junior, was republished in 1953 under the title Mike at Wrykyn, while the second half, called The Lost Lambs in its serialised version, was released as Enter Psmith in 1935 and then as Mike and Psmith in 1953. Although Mike was one of Wodehouse's earlier books, Wodehouse thought it his best work.
Plot introduction
The first half of the story, found in Mike at Wrykyn, introduces Michael "Mike" Jackson. Mike is the youngest son of a renowned cricketing family. Mike's eldest brother Joe is a successful first-class player, while another brother, Bob, is on the verge of his school team. When Mike arrives at Wrykyn himself, his cricketing talent and love of adventure bring him success and trouble in equal measure.
The second part, also known as Enter Psmith or Mike and Psmith, takes place two years later. Mike, due to poor academic reports, is withdrawn from Wrykyn by his father and sent to a smaller school called Sedleigh. On arrival at Sedleigh, he meets the eccentric Rupert Psmith, another new arrival who has arrived from Eton. The two become friends and decide not to play cricket, instead participating in other school activities.
Plot summary
Part 1: "Mike at Wrykyn", or, "Jackson Junior"
Mike is leaving his private school to go to Wrykyn. His sisters hope that he will get into the school team his first year, although his brother Bob and Saunders, the pro, are sceptical. On the train down to Wrykyn, Mike is joined by a stranger; seeing the boy get off the train without his bag, Mike throws it out onto the platform, but the boy returns at the next stop. It turns out that the stranger is Firby-Smith, head of Wain's house, which Mike is to join.
Mike meets and befriends Wyatt, Wain's stepson. Wyatt asks Burgess, the cricket captain, to allow Mike to try out; Mike performs well and gets on the third team.
Mike is later allowed to play for the first after Wyatt is involved in a fight between some of the students and a gang from Wrykyn town, which ends up with a policeman being thrown into a pond. The policeman exaggerates the incident to the headmaster, claiming several hundred boys had thrown him into the water, and the headmaster punishes the school by cancelling a forthcoming holiday. In retaliation, Wyatt organises a mass walk-out, taking most of the school with him to a nearby town. As punishment for this, the younger boys are caned, and the older boys are all given "extra" during a cricket match against the M.C.C.. As there are now several openings in the team, Wyatt persuades Burgess to let Mike play.
Mike plays well in the M.C.C. match, scoring 23 not out, against a team that includes both Mike's brother Joe and the pro Saunders. However, in a later house match, Firby-Smith runs Mike out, and Mike insults him. Firby-Smith insists that Mike be punished, but Bob persuades him not to. In gratitude, Mike, finding that he has squeezed Bob out of the team, feigns a sprained wrist so that Bob will get into the team instead of him.
Soon after, a boy brings the chicken-pox to the school. The outbreak takes out one of the first-team players, giving Mike another chance; he plays reasonably in a poor game. Bob tells him he thinks the first-team place is now Mike's, but next day Mike again angers Firby-Smith by missing early morning fielding practice for the house. When Burgess hears Firby-Smith's story, he decides to pass Mike over in favour of Bob.
Neville-Smith, a bowler who has taken the other place in the team, plans a party at his house (he is a day boy) in celebration of his placement, and Wyatt sneaks out of school to attend. On his way out he is spotted by a master, who reports it to Wain; the housemaster waits in Mike's room until Wyatt returns, and tells him he is to leave the school at once, to take a job in a bank. Mike takes Wyatt's place in the team, and persuades his father to find Wyatt more interesting work, via his connections in Argentina.
Wrykyn go into the match against their biggest rivals, Ripton, short on bowling but with both Jacksons. The wicket is sticky from rain and Ripton notch up a good score, and taking the field reveal they having a strong bowler of googlies. After a bad start, Wrykyn's fortunes look up when the brothers bat together. Bob gets out, but has given Mike time to settle in; with the tail of the team accompanying him, he deftly collars the bowling, finishing on 83 not out; Wrykyn wins.
Part 2: "Mike and Psmith", or, "The Lost Lambs"
Mike has been at Wrykyn for another two years and is due to become cricket captain next term, but during the Easter holidays, his father, receiving Mike's poor performance report, removes him from Wrykyn and sends him instead to Sedleigh, a far smaller school.
Arriving at Sedleigh in a bitter mood, he meets Mr Outwood, the head of his house. Mike then meets a well-dressed boy with a monocle, who introduces himself as Psmith. The P in his surname is silent and was added by himself, in order to distinguish him from other Smiths. He is an ex-Etonian whose family lives near Mike's, and, like Mike, is a new boy. They decide to avoid cricket and instead join Mr Outwood's archaeological society.
Having made friends with a boy called Jellicoe, the three take a dormitory together. The next day, they meet Adair, school cricket captain, and house-master Mr Downing, both of whom are disappointed by the new boys' refusal to play cricket. Both Psmith and Mike claim ignorance of cricket, a decision which Mike comes to regret.
Bored by their archaeology trips, they wander off one day, and Mike runs into an old cricketing friend, who offers him a place in a local village team. Mike enjoys the games, but keeps his village cricket career a secret. Mike eventually reveals his cricketing history, and is persuaded to play in an upcoming house match as revenge against Mr Downing, who unfairly favours his own house. The game ends with Mike making 277 not out, and Downing's not getting an innings at all.
Mike agrees to deliver money to a pub owner in Wrykyn town for his roommate, Jellicoe. After discovering that the money was not owed, he returns to Wrykyn, attempts to return to his house, and is chased by Downing. He rings the school fire bell and escapes in the confusion.
The next morning, Sammy, Mr. Downing's dog, turns up covered in red paint. Downing is enraged and proceeds to investigate: he finds that a boy from Outwood's was seen abroad that night, and finds spilled red paint in the bike shed with a footprint in it. He gets Psmith to show him round Outwood's house, searching for boots with red paint on them, and he finds one of Mike's with paint on it. Psmith successfully hides the boot, but does not tell Mike, so Mike ends up wearing shoes to school, attracting Downing's attention.
Meanwhile, Stone and Robinson, not pleased with Adair's proposal to hold an early-morning cricket practice, decide they can safely skip it. Adair has other ideas, and fights Stone, bullying them both into playing. He then visits Mike and invites him to either play or fight. Despite being the better boxer, Adair loses his temper, and loses the fight. Psmith persuades Mike to play, telling him that he also will be playing, revealing that he had been a very good bowler at Eton. Adair sprained a wrist during the fight and is unable to play; the match is rained out. Downing tells the headmaster that he suspects Mike of painting Sammy, but it is found out that it had been done by Dunster, an old student. Mike and Adair arrange a match between Sedleigh and Wrykyn, and Sedleigh wins.
Characters
Michael "Mike" Jackson, main protagonist. Mike is described as being ordinary at everything except cricket, where he is a "natural genius". He is fifteen years old in the beginning of Part I and eighteen years old in Part II.
Bob Jackson, Mike's older brother, a prefect at Wrykyn
Trevor and Clowes, two friends of Bob Jackson, both cricketers
"Gazeka" Firby-Smith, head of Mike's house at Wrykyn
Mr Wain, master of Mike's house at Wrykyn
James Wyatt, Mr Wain's stepson, Mike's roommate
Burgess, Wrykyn cricket captain
Neville-Smith, Wrykyn day boy and good bowler
Rupert Psmith, boy who joins Sedleigh at the same time as Mike
Mr Outwood, amiable master of Mike's house at Sedleigh
Spiller, boy in Outwood's, whose study is taken by Psmith and Mike
Stone, boy in Outwood's
Robinson, boy in Outwood's, Stone's friend
Tom Jellicoe, boy in Outwood's house, Mike and Psmith's roommate
Mr Downing, unpopular master of another house
Adair, Sedleigh cricket captain
Dunster, Sedleigh old boy
Sergeant Collard, school sergeant at Sedleigh
Related stories
Both Mike and Psmith feature in several later novels by Wodehouse:
Psmith in the City (1910)
Psmith, Journalist (1915)
Leave it to Psmith (1923)
Wrykyn school had previously appeared in two novels:
The Gold Bat (1904)
The White Feather (1907)
Several short stories are also set at Wrykyn, some of which are listed at List of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse#School stories.
Wodehouse reused the scene with the paint-splashed shoe in Something New (1915): although the setting and characters are different, the scene is essentially the same as in Mike. This scene was omitted from the UK edition, Something Fresh.
References
External links
The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with numerous book covers, and a full and detailed list of characters
Fantastic Fiction's page, with details of published editions, photos of book covers and links to used copies
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Ri Chol (boxer) | Ri Chol (born 29 January 1976) is a North Korean boxer. He competed in the men's lightweight event at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
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Federación Department | Federación is a department of Entre Ríos Province (Argentina).
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National Dunking Association | The National Dunking Association was a membership-based organization started by The Doughnut Corporation of America. It was established in the 1930s to help popularize doughnuts in North America.
At its peak, the association claimed millions of members across more than 300 chapters. Members included famous actors, athletes, political figures, and people of all ages.
Activities
Members were encouraged to eat doughnuts using the Official Dunking Rules, a step-by-step method outlined by the organization. The lighthearted rules referred to dunking donuts as a sport and instructed members to break their donuts in half before swishing them rhythmically in coffee, cocoa, tea, or milk.
The association held various doughnut-focused events including an annual convention in New York City.
Leadership
Presidents of the National Dunking Association included Jimmy Durante, Jack Lemmon, Red Skelton, Joey Bishop, and Johnny Carson. Bert Nevins served as the organization's vice president.
Famous Members
Johnny Carson
Jimmy Durante
Jack Lemmon
Red Skelton
Joey Bishop
Paul V. McNutt
Zero Mostel
Martha Graham
Location
The National Dunking Association was located at 50 East 42nd Street in New York City.
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Andrew Bowie | Andrew Bowie may refer to:
Andrew Bowie (philosopher) (born 1952), Professor of Philosophy and German at Royal Holloway, University of London
Andrew Bowie (politician) (born 1987), Scottish Conservative Party politician |
Bev Wilson | Beverley Wilson (born 1 January 1949 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian former cricket player. Wilson played two tests and six one day internationals for the Australia national women's cricket team.
Wilson was the captain of the New South Wales women's cricket team for three seasons from 1970/71 to 1973/74.
Bev Wilson's younger sister Debbie Wilson also played test and one day international cricket for Australia.
References
External links
Bev Wilson at CricketArchive
Beverley Wilson at southernstars.org.au
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Single-point locking | Single-point locking is a locking system in cabinet doors where locking takes places only at the point halfway up the edge of the door, where the latch engages with the doorjamb. The term is most often used in items like lockers, where it is contrasted with the much more secure three-point locking, which uses movable rods to secure the top and bottom of the door when the door is locked, and the term is not normally used in situations where single-point locking is the only option normally found.
Typically, box lockers (that is, with 4 or more tiers) use single-point locking, unless they are ordered with three-point locking as an optional extra, whereas full-length (single-tier) lockers most often come with three-point locking as standard. The reason for this is that, for some situations, single-point locking is considered adequately secure with smaller doors, because those are not so easy to force open than larger doors of otherwise similar design. High-security models of tiered lockers, along with being constructed of thicker steel, may also have three-point locking, however many tiers are involved.
In Australia, cabinets cannot be legally used for storing firearms if they have only single-point locking - three-point locking is required by law, as part of the crackdown on gun storage after the Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania.
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Tic-Tac-Dough | Tic-Tac-Dough is an American television game show based on the paper-and-pencil game of tic-tac-toe. Contestants answer questions in various categories to put up their respective symbol, X or O, on the board. Three versions were produced: the initial 1956–59 run on NBC, a 1978–86 run initially on CBS and then in syndication, and a syndicated run in 1990. The show was produced by Barry & Enright Productions.
Jack Barry, the co-producer, was the original host of the 1950s version, followed by Gene Rayburn and then Bill Wendell, with Jay Jackson and Win Elliot hosting prime time adaptations as well. Wink Martindale hosted the network and syndicated version beginning in 1978, but left the program to host and co-produce Headline Chasers and was replaced by Jim Caldwell who hosted during the 1985–86 season. Patrick Wayne hosted the 1990 version.
Gameplay
The goal of the game was to complete a line of three X or O markers on a standard tic-tac-toe board (with the reigning champion always mounting X's). Each of the nine spaces on the gameboard featured a category. Contestants alternated choosing a category and answering a general interest or trivia question in that category. If they were correct, they earned an X or O in that square; otherwise, it remained unclaimed. The center square, being of the most strategic importance, involved a two-part question, with the contestant given 10 seconds to think of the two answers needed to win the square (though in the 1950s version, the contestant could opt out of the extra time). After each question, the categories shuffled into different positions (in the 1950s series and early in the 1978 revival, the categories shuffled only after both contestants had taken a turn). In the 1990 series, the categories shuffled prior to the start of each contestant's turn and the shuffle was stopped when the contestant in control hit his/her lock-in button. If at any point in a game it became impossible for either contestant to win with a line (a so-called "cat game"), the match was declared a draw and a new game started. The process continued until the deadlock was broken, however long it took to do so. This meant that a match could take multiple episodes to complete, which happened quite often. Tic-Tac-Dough used a rollover format to enable this to take place smoothly. This meant that a match could start at any point in an episode, continue until time was called, and then resume play on the next episode where the game began with the same categories in play.
The gameboard on the original 1950s series used rolling drums (each containing the same nine categories) to display subject categories, with light displays beneath them to indicate X's and O's. When Tic-Tac-Dough was revived in 1978, the gameboard was made up of nine Apple II systems connected to individual computer monitors to represent each game screen, all linked to a central Altair 8800 computer, which displayed the categories, X's and O's, bonus game numbers and amounts, and dragon, in addition to a moving screensaver and custom messages. It was the first game show to use computerized graphics. The 1990 series used a completely computer-generated setup for its gameboard.
On the original 1950s Tic-Tac-Dough, a winning contestant played until either he/she was defeated or elected to stop on their own. The second option was a Barry & Enright staple that had been used on Twenty One, which made it important for a contestant to consider as if he/she chose to play another game and lost, the new champion's initial winnings would be deducted from the outgoing champion's final total. On the 1978 CBS daytime series, contestants played until either being defeated or reaching the network's $25,000 total winnings limit. There was no such restriction on the syndicated series that debuted in the fall of 1978. This included the period between 1981 and 1984 where TTD aired on stations owned by CBS. Several contestants during that time won amounts well in excess of any limit imposed on CBS stations at the time. Additionally, on the 1978–86 version, each time a contestant defeated five opponents, he or she also won a new car. On the 1990 version, winning contestants stayed until they defeated 15 opponents (this was never achieved, with the highest number of victories being 12).
Adding money to the pot
As questions were answered correctly, money was added to the pot which went to the winner:
On the original series, the same nine categories were used for an entire match regardless of the number of games played and/or episodes it took. On all subsequent series, each new game featured a different set of nine categories. If there were ties on the original or first syndicated series, the pot was carried over to each subsequent game until someone won. In the 1990 series, there was no carryover of the pot from a tied game. Instead, the values of the outer boxes increased by $500 and the center box by $1,000 until the tie was broken.
For each tie game before being defeated, losing challengers received $100 on the 1950s version and $250 from 1979 to 1986. Champions who eventually lost the match after a tie game did not receive any additional money.
1978 CBS differences
The CBS summer season featured gameplay differences. Categories were shuffled at the beginning of the game and then only prior to the champion (playing as X) choosing a category. The challenger was required to select from the remaining categories after the champion's turn. After shuffling, some categories were featured with a black background rather than blue. If a category with a black background was selected, either contestant could ring-in and respond, regardless of who selected the category.
Unlike in the 1950s series and the following syndicated series, tie games did not result in the pot carrying over or a new set of categories being played. Instead, a final jump-in question was asked and whoever answered it correctly won the game and advanced to the bonus game. The jump-in format was later used during the syndicated versions as the "Jump-In Category" (see "Special Categories" below).
Special categories
The use of special categories, which appeared in red boxes (red letters in the 1990 version), began on the syndicated version in 1980. At first, just one special category (starting in the lower right box, later in the lower center box) was used per game. Eventually, two appeared each game (one in the upper center, the other in the lower center at the start), then three of these appeared per game (in the upper center, center right and lower center boxes to start the game). The categories then shuffled like normal categories, though special categories never shuffled into the center box.
AuctionContestants were read a question with multiple answers. Contestants took turns bidding on how many correct answers they could name until either a contestant deferred to his opponent or opted to name all the answers on the list. If the winning bidder fulfilled the bid, that contestant won the box. If not, the other contestant only needed to give one additional correct answer to win the box.
Bonus CategoryA three-part question was asked, which, if answered correctly, gave the contestant another turn. The categories were shuffled before the extra turn; as a result, it was possible for the champion to win the game on his/her first turn by repeatedly selecting this category. If this happened, the challenger was invited back to compete on a future episode.
Challenge CategoryThe contestant who selected this category could answer the question or challenge their opponent to answer. If the controlling player gives the correct answer or the opponent gives a wrong answer, the contestant who selected the category won the box.
Double or NothingIf the contestant answered the question correctly, they could either keep the box or try to earn a second box. If unsuccessful, the contestant lost both boxes. Later on the rule changed to where contestants no longer had the option to keep the first box and therefore were required to take the risk. When this category was selected, the board did not shuffle after the first question was answered correctly.
Grand QuestionThis category replaced Secret Category (see below). A correct answer added $1,000 to the pot.
It's a DilemmaThe contestant heard the question and could ask for up to five clues; however, the opponent decided who answered the question.
Jump-In CategoryContestants used the buzzers in front of them to ring-in and answer the question. A correct answer won the box, but an incorrect answer gave the other contestant a chance to win the box by hearing the entire question. In the 1990 version, the category name was accompanied by a general subject or "Who?", "What?", "Where?", etc.
Number PleaseThe contestants were asked a question with a numerical answer. The contestant who picked the category guessed the answer and the opponent guessed if the correct answer was higher or lower. If the opponent was correct, they won the box, otherwise the first contestant won. An exact guess of the number won the box automatically for the first contestant.
Opponent's ChoiceThe contestant answered a question from one of two categories which were selected for them by the opponent. During the 1985–86 season, one category contained one question while the other category contained two.
Play or PassThe contestant had the option to skip the first question and answer a second.
Secret CategoryThis was the show's very first red category, which first appeared in the lower right hand corner at the start, then later appeared in the bottom center at the start. The topic of the Secret Category was only announced by the host after it was selected. A correct answer to that category doubled the value of the pot. This category was eventually replaced by Grand Question (see above).
SeesawA question with multiple answers was read to both contestants. Contestants alternated giving correct answers until one contestant gave a wrong answer, repeated an answer, or could not think of an answer and the opponent won the box, unless the opponent could not answer either, which left the box unclaimed. The box could also be won by giving the last correct answer.
ShowdownContestants were asked a two-part question, using the buzzers to ring-in. The first contestant to ring-in answered one part of the question. The other contestant answered second. If one contestant was right while the other was wrong, the contestant answering correctly won the box. Otherwise, additional questions were asked until the box was awarded in this manner.
Take TwoThe question had two clues. The contestant could answer after the first clue, but to receive the second clue he or she had to first give the opponent a chance to answer.
Three to WinA series of buzz-in questions was asked to both contestants, with the first to answer three correctly winning the box.
Top TenA question with ranked answers was asked. The contestant who chose the higher-ranked answer won the box; however, if the first contestant gave the top-ranked answer, he/she automatically won the box. Renamed Top This during the 1985–86 season.
Trivia ChallengeA question with three multiple-choice answers was asked. The contestant chose to answer first or defer to their opponent. Regardless of who started, if a contestant was incorrect, his/her opponent could choose from the remaining answers. If the opponent also guessed wrong, the box remained unclaimed. Renamed Trivia Dare during the 1984–85 season.
1983 Tournament of Champions
In 1983, the show invited eight of its (at the time) all-time highest winners, all of whom earned a collective total of $1,248,500, back to play for their favorite charities. In each game, there was no pot and there were also no red categories, and the loser played the bonus for $5,000; hitting the dragon earned $1,000. The final match was best of three; the winner earned $50,000 while the runner-up won $25,000. In case of a tie during the main game, a multiple answer question was posed, as identical to the Seesaw category, the first person who did not come up with another correct answer, repeated an answer or ran out of time lost.
Bonus round
The bonus round was introduced in the 1978 version, giving the winner of a match a chance to "Beat the Dragon".
CBS (Summer 1978)
On the CBS daytime summer run, the bonus round had four Xs, four Os and one dragon hidden inside the nine monitors. The Xs and Os were shuffled around so that one of the symbols formed a "Tic-Tac-Dough". For each X and O a contestant revealed, $150 was added to the pot. The contestant won the money and a prize package for finding the "Tic-Tac-Dough" line, but could quit and take the cash at any time. Finding the dragon ended the round and lost all the money in the pot. If the dragon was found, the same prize package was at stake for the entire episode until won.
Syndication (1978–86)
On the syndicated run, the squares contained the words "TIC" and "TAC", and six dollar amounts: $100, $150, $250, $300, $400, $500 (originally $50, $150, $250, $350, $400, and $500). The remaining box concealed the dragon. The object was for the contestant to accumulate $1,000 or more, up to a mathematical maximum of $1,450 among those six amounts. If successful, the contestant won the cash and a prize package that usually consisted of furniture, trips, jewelry, and/or appliances, totaling anywhere between $2,000 and $5,000. For the first five seasons, the same prize package was at stake for the entire show until won, but this was changed to a different prize package for each bonus round for the final three seasons. The contestant automatically won by uncovering "TIC" and "TAC" (at which point the contestant also had his/her cash total amended to $1,000). However, if the contestant found the dragon, the game ended and the contestant forfeited the prize package and the accumulated money. The contestant could stop at any time, take the money and forgo the prize package. For a brief period in 1983, a contestant had to accumulate exactly $1,000 or find TIC and TAC, but this was quickly removed.
Dragon Finder
For a time in 1983, members of the studio audience were invited to play a special "Dragon Finder" game whenever the bonus round was won or a contestant stopped early. The remaining numbers on the board were not immediately uncovered; instead, an audience member would be chosen to choose which number hid the dragon. If that person did not find the dragon, another audience member would be asked to choose one of the remaining numbers. The prize for finding it was originally a flat $250 and a "dragon finder" cap, but was later increased by $50 for each incorrect guess. When the change was made to invite two audience members to take turns choosing numbers, both audience members received Dragon Finder caps and the losing member received $50.
Syndication (1990)
The short-lived 1990 syndicated series used a bonus round that was similar to the 1978 CBS bonus round, with the champion playing for cash and a merchandise prize. There were, however, several notable differences. One was that the contestant chose between X and O as their symbol for the round and hoped to complete a "Tic-Tac-Dough" line with that symbol. In addition, an armored knight dubbed the "dragon slayer" was added to the board and finding him resulted in an automatic win. It was not always possible to complete a Tic-Tac-Dough with a contestant's chosen symbol due to both shuffling and distribution of the symbols. For example, the shuffling, which was stopped manually by the contestant, could leave contestants with no Tic-Tac-Dough possibility for their chosen symbol; sometimes a contestant might not have enough symbols on the board to complete one or the shuffle placed their symbols on the board in such a manner that they could not form any connection no matter what symbol was chosen. In these cases, the contestant could only win the prize by finding the dragon slayer.
For the first of their symbols a contestant found, they received $500. Each one found after that doubled the pot. If the contestant completed the Tic-Tac-Dough, he/she won the prize and whatever money was in the pot. Finding the dragon slayer doubled the pot, and if he was found without money in the pot, the contestant won $1,000. As before, finding the dragon at any point ended the round and cost the contestant everything.
Beginning about seven weeks into the run, the dragon and dragon slayer described their purpose in a short rap song as they were introduced by host Wayne.
Record winnings
With contestants being able to play until defeated, some Tic-Tac-Dough contestants were able to win over $100,000, setting game show records at the time. Over the course of nine weeks on the show in 1980, Thom McKee defeated 43 opponents to win eight cars and take home $312,700 (with other bonus game prizes), including over $200,000 in cash, a record at the time. In one game, he broke the record for winning the biggest pot in a match, which reached $36,800 after four tie games against challenger Pete Cooper. McKee's winnings record stood until 1999 when Michael Shutterly won $500,000 all-cash on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire; his winning streak record stood until 2004, when Ken Jennings won 74 consecutive all-cash games on Jeopardy!.
Broadcast history
1956–59
Tic-Tac-Dough premiered on NBC daytime television on July 30, 1956, hosted by co-creator and co-executive producer Jack Barry.
Beginning on September 12, 1956, Barry began hosting Twenty-One in Primetime. The show was initially on Wednesday nights but quickly moved to Thursday nights. At this point, Gene Rayburn began hosting Tic-Tac-Dough on Fridays. Twenty One later moved to Monday nights in February, 1957, and Barry once again hosted the show all five days of the week. Barry left the show and was replaced by announcer Bill Wendell on October 6, 1958. Wendell hosted the show, with the announcing taken over by Bill McCord, until its demise on October 23, 1959.
A nighttime version, produced in color, played for bigger stakes aired from September 12, 1957 to December 29, 1958. Jay Jackson was the original host, and was replaced by Win Elliot on October 2, 1958 for the duration of the show's nighttime run. Johnny Olson filled in as both host and announcer at varying points on this version.
Quiz show scandal
In August 1958, the cross-network hit game show Dotto was canceled after network and sponsor executives discovered the game had been rigged, and when newspaper headlines exploded with confirmation that deposed Twenty One champion Herb Stempel's allegations of rigging on that show were true, the big money quiz shows began to sink in the ratings and disappear from the air as the scandal widened.
Tic-Tac-Dough did not go unscathed before its cancellation. The April 3, 1958 episode featuring U.S. military serviceman Michael O'Rourke winning over $140,000 became one key subject of the federal grand jury investigating the quiz fixing. That run occurred during Jay Jackson's tenure as host. Jackson was never implicated in any wrongdoing himself, and he had left the show well before the quiz investigations began, but he never again hosted a television game show. The same could not be said for Tic-Tac-Dough producer Howard Felsher. Felsher was in charge of all facets of the show's production, including selecting contestants. One of them, sixteen-year-old Kirsten Falke, auditioned as a folk singer. This led her to the offices of Tic-Tac-Dough producer Felsher, who provided Kirsten with the answers and hints to win on the show and a promise to showcase her talent and sing. "I botched it up", said Kirsten. She requested her categories in the wrong order and, as a result, walked away with a paltry $800. A grand jury subpoenaed Kirsten to testify, and Felsher implored her to lie. Felsher admitted to Congress that he urged roughly 30 former show contestants and all of his production staff to lie to the grand jury, and that he had himself lied under oath. Felsher also estimated that about 75% of the nighttime Tic-Tac-Dough run had been rigged. Felsher was fired in the fallout of the quiz show scandals by NBC, but later resurfaced as a producer for Goodson-Todman Productions in the 1970s and 1980s.
The daytime show was unaffected, and host Gene Rayburn's career was completely unscathed. After Tic-Tac-Dough, Rayburn went to Goodson-Todman, where on December 31, 1962, he began the first of his hosting assignments of The Match Game.
1978–86
Almost two decades after its original cancellation, the game was reborn as The New Tic-Tac-Dough on CBS gave it a place on its daytime schedule. The series ran from July 3 to September 1, 1978 at 10:00a.m. Eastern/9:00a.m. Central, replacing the Bill Cullen-hosted Pass the Buck. Coincidentally, that timeslot had been occupied from September 1972 to June 1975 by the original version of Barry's The Joker's Wild.
However, the CBS TTD ran only nine weeks because of the high popularity of its competition on NBC, Card Sharks. It was replaced by daytime repeats of All in the Family, which had already been running on CBS daytime for about two a half years. When it was cancelled by CBS, TTD had averaged a 3.9 rating/21 share through July 28, and had a clearance rate of 84%. TTD was one of numerous failed attempts by CBS to find a suitable lead-in to The Price is Right, by then a daytime institution; it was not until The New $25,000 Pyramid and Press Your Luck arrived in 1982 and 1983, respectively, that the network finally succeeded.
On September 18, a previously-planned nighttime version premiered in first-run syndication, where it aired in some markets as a companion series to Joker, which went into an off-network version the previous season. This was a nearly identical situation to a 1976 game packaged by Barry and Enright, Break the Bank, which was hurriedly put into syndication after ABC cancelled it just three months into a daytime run in order to expand two of the network's daytime serials; the syndicated version ran during the 1976–77 season.
Wink Martindale hosted Tic-Tac-Dough for its first seven seasons, then left on May 24, 1985 to host his new creation Headline Chasers. Jim Caldwell took over as host on September 23, 1985 and hosted until the series finale on May 23, 1986. Jay Stewart served as announcer for the first three years. Charlie O'Donnell replaced Stewart in 1981. Occasional substitutes for those announcers included Johnny Gilbert (including the syndicated premiere), Bob Hilton, Mike Darrow, John Harlan, and Art James.
In an interview, Martindale stated that while the CBS version began airing Barry & Enright Productions secured a spot to air a syndicated version that began in the fall. The CBS version ended due to poor ratings, but the syndicated version drew high numbers and as a result had an eight-year run.
Throughout its eight-year run, the show used its theme song entitled "Crazy Fun", which was composed by Hal Hidey. From 1978 to the end of 1980, the show was recorded at CBS Television City in Hollywood in studio 31 and studio 43 at different times.
From 1981 to 1984 and again for the final season from 1985 to 1986, the show was taped at the studios of KCOP (also known as Chris Craft Studios). The 1984–85 season was taped at The Production Group Studios, while Chris Craft Studios was getting an overhaul.
Beginning around early 1979, every Friday was "Hat Day", where Martindale received hats from viewers to show off at the end of the show. Some were winter hats, and some even dealt with the show (such as having a picture of a dragon on them). He also wore hats on the Friday shows of Las Vegas Gambit, which he was also hosting on NBC at the time, requiring Martindale to commute between Los Angeles and Las Vegas for over a year.
The gameboard, designed by Bob Bishop of Apple Computer, Inc., was driven by nine Apple II computers, each one responsible for displaying a single box of the gameboard, and in turn controlled by an Altair 8800 system. It was one of the very first uses of computer graphics on a television game show.
GameTV added the Jim Caldwell season to their daytime lineup and is set to start airing March 6, 2020.
1990
The second syndicated revival of the series premiered on September 10, 1990. Its theme music was composed by Henry Mancini, his final television theme song.
The series was a Barry & Enright Production (the company's last) and distributed by ITC Entertainment.
As noted above, Patrick Wayne hosted, while Larry Van Nuys announced with Art James substituting for two weeks. The 1990 revival was one of four game shows to premiere on September 10, 1990, with five premiering altogether for the season. Like the other four series, however, Tic-Tac-Dough did not find an audience. The series was the first of the five to be cancelled, airing its final new episode on December 7, 1990 after thirteen weeks. Three months of reruns followed and the show aired for the last time on March 8, 1991.
International versions
Tic-Tac-Dough is one of only three Barry–Enright game shows known to have foreign adaptations, the others being Twenty One and Concentration.
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! Country !! Name !! Host !! Channel !! Year Aired
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| | Tic Tac Dough| Chuck Faulkner
| Nine Network
| 1960–64
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| Tick-Tack-Quiz
| Fritz Benscher
| ARD
| 1958–67
|-
| Tic-Tac-Toe
| Michael "Goofy" Förster
| RTL plus
| 1992
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| X-0 da Dinero
| Salvador Nasralla
| Televicentro
| 1990–present
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|rowspan=3 ||rowspan=3 |Tak-Tik-BOOM| Dede Yusuf
| rowspan=3|RCTI
| 1992–98
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| Charles Bonar Sirait (Season 2)
| rowspan=2| 2010
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| Arie Untung (Season 3)
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| | XO da dinero| Juan Vinas
| TVE
| 1959–60
|-
|rowspan=2 || Criss Cross Quiz| Jeremy HawkBarbara Kelly
|rowspan=2 |ITV
|rowspan=2 |1957–67
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| Junior Criss Cross Quiz| Jeremy HawkChris KellyBob HolnessMike SarneChris HowlandGordon LuckPeter WheelerBill GrundyDanny BlanchflowerBarbara Kelly
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|rowspan=4 || Tic Tac Dough| Jack Barry (1956–58)Gene Rayburn (1956–57, Fridays only)Jay Jackson (1957–58, Primetime)Win Elliott (1958, primetime)Bill Wendell (1958–59)
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| (The New) Tic Tac Dough| Wink Martindale
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In popular culture
On the cover of the December 1978 issue of Richie Rich Fortunes (issue #43) published by Harvey Comics (released in September 1978), Richie Rich and his girlfriend, Gloria Glad, were playing the game with a dollar sign instead of horizontal and vertical lines crossing each other, and Gloria mentioned "Tee hee! Richie I never played Tic-Tac-Dough before!" The 1978 game show revival would launch in syndication during the same month the issue was released.
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Joseph Stone, Prime Time and Misdemeanors "The Big Fix", Time'', 19 October 1959
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Art Butler | Arthur Edward "Artie" Butler (December 18, 1887 – October 7, 1984) was an American infielder in Major League Baseball. He played for the Boston Rustlers, Pittsburgh Pirates, and St. Louis Cardinals.
He was the last living teammate of Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young.
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Linda Biehl | Linda Biehl (born 1943) is an American philanthropist and mother of Amy Biehl, an activist who was murdered in 1993 in South Africa. She is the co-founder and director of the United States-based Amy Biehl Foundation (with husband Peter Biehl) and the South African-based Amy Biehl Foundation Trust.
Early life
Biehl was born in 1943 in Chicago. She met her late husband Peter at Whittier College in California and they had four children together. Before the death of her daughter Amy, she ran an American Indian art gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Philanthropy
After the 1993 death of her daughter Amy in South Africa, the Biehl's supported the amnesty appeal, to South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, by those convicted of Amy's murder. After a tour of the Cape Town townships, the couple started developing projects to continue their daughter's work. They followed in 1994 by creating the Amy Biehl Foundation. Linda continued her work after Peter passed away from colon cancer in 2002.
In 2008, Biehl was awarded the Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo in Bronze in South Africa, an award from the President. The same year she was announced as the first Greely Scholar at University of Massachusetts Lowell. She, along with husband Peter, was awarded the Aline and Norman Felton Humanitarian Award in 1999.
In 2016 Biehl was hired as a consultant with Tyler Perry's Atlanta based production company to work on a movie about Amy's life and the relationship the family has with the two men convicted of her murder. The movie, The Year of the Great Storm, was still in production as of January 2019.
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World record progression 400 metres individual medley | The first world record in the 400 metres individual medley in long course (50 metres) swimming was recognized by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) in 1957, followed by the women a year later. In the short course (25 metres) swimming events the world's governing body recognizes world records since March 3, 1991.
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Men
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Tyler Clary also swam 4:07.31 (2009).
Daiya Seto also swam 4:07.95 (2019), 4:08.95 (2019).
Jay Litherland also swam 4:09.31 (2017).
Wang Shun also swam 4:10.13 (2019).
Women
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Katinka Hosszú also swam 4:30.39 (2019).
Yui Ohashi also swam 4:31.42 (2017), 4:32.33 (2019).
Hannah Miley also swam 4:31.76 (2014).
Ye Shiwen also swam 4:32.07 (2019).
Li Xuanxu also swam 4:32.91 (2012).
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Peru Cricket Association | The Asociación Peruana de Cricket or Cricket Peru is the official governing body of the sport of cricket in Peru. Cricket Peru is Peru's representative at the International Cricket Council and is an affiliate member and has been a member of that body since 2007. It is included in the ICC Americas region.
Cricket has been played in Peru for over 150 years, at the splendid Lima Cricket & Football Club (LCFC), and is now undergoing resurgence as a recently admitted Affiliate Member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) and a founder member of Cricket South America (CSA), along with Argentina, Brazil and Chile.
Domestic Cricket
Peru traditionally held an 8- to 10-week season at the LCFC from February until Easter. Most of the fixtures were friendlies, and the most important regular matches on the calendar were traditionally the British Ambassador’s XI vs President of the LCFC XI and Asia vs Rest of the World. The latter is still hotly contested, while the former has been developed into a one-day cricket carnival, The Ambassador's Cup, featuring teams - and ambassadors - representing Australia, India, South Africa and UK.
The Easter holiday, which was traditionally a time for overseas touring teams to visit Lima, is now set aside for the South American Championship (SAC), a non-official, annual tournament between teams representing CSA members i.e. Argentina, Brazil, Chile & Peru, as well as invited national teams. 2014 saw the 11th staging of this tournament, with Lima hosting.
The advantage of playing cricket in Lima is that play is never lost to rain!
In November 2006, a uniquely Peruvian cricket form, Cricket Veloz, was introduced to the cricketing calendar, and the Cricket Veloz Trophy has been hotly contested every year since. Originally designed as a four-team, indoor tournament, in 2009 it was rebranded as an outdoor 6-a-side festival, with great success, fitting nicely into the 150th Anniversary celebrations of the LCFC.
National Twenty20 Championship
In 2007, the Peruvian National T20 Championship was inaugurated, with all games being played at LCFC.
The four founding teams were:
1) The Kiteflyers: the cricketing arm of a multinational local football team - with a British core - founded in 1981.
2) Eidgenossen: a team made up mainly of teachers from local British schools
Eidgenossenschaft is a German word meaning confederation. The term literally translates as "oath fellowship". An Eidgenossenschaft is a confederacy of equal partners, which can be individuals or groups such as states, formed by a pact sealed by a solemn oath. Such an alliance could be either time-limited or unlimited (or "eternal"). An important characteristic is that the partners were always considered equal, in contrast to the oath of fealty in feudal societies with their strict hierarchies. As a political term, it is used most often as a synonym for Switzerland, whose official German name is "Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft", usually translated as Swiss Confederation. An Eidgenosse is a member of an Eidgenossenschaft, and is an expression for "Swiss citizen".
3) Chak De: a team made up of Peruvian residents from the Indian subcontinent.
‘Chak De’ means ‘let’s go’ in Punjabi.
4) LCFC: members and invited players from the Lima Cricket and Football Club
Originally, the T20 Championship was played over three Sundays, with each team playing the others once. But with the success of the format, and the addition of a fifth team, Lima Indians in 2013, the competition has now been expanded into two stages - the Apertura and the Clausura - lasting for 10 weeks of the season. Accordingly, the start of the season has been moved forward to early January.
Tacna, in the south of Peru, in the late 1990s and early 2000s had a sizable Pakistani population, many of whom were involved in the importation of second-hand cars; and from this community they were able to create a team, the Tacna Tigers, which annually visited Lima to play cricket, and provided a number of players for the national side. However, changes to the free trade zone regulations governing business in Tacna, from 2011 onwards, saw the Pakistani cricket community dwindle in size.
International Cricket
Cricket Peru's men's team are known as the 'Llamas', and have competed in international competitions since 1997, usually against other Latin American national sides.
ICC Americas Division III
The Llamas competed three times in the ICC Americas Division III, an officially sanctioned ranking tournament, overseen by the International Cricket Council that offered a pathway to World League Cricket and potentially to playing in the World Cup.
1. Buenos Aires, Argentina: 12 – 16 Feb, 2008:
This was a 50-over tournament, played at different venues in Buenos Aires, featuring 5 teams - Belize, Brazil, Chile, Peru and Turks & Caicos Islands - that had a stunning climax with three teams in a position to win the tournament before the final ball of the tournament. The eventual winners were the Turks and Caicos Islands, who were promoted to Division II.
Second place went to Chile on account of their lower net run rate. Belize finished third.
Peru, captained by Harry Hildebrand, lost their first three games, but on the last day of the tournament, pulled off an upset by defeating Brazil, thereby securing fourth place, with Brazil in 5th.
2. Santiago, Chile: 9 - 12 Oct, 2009:
Again this was a 50-over tournament, played at Craighouse in Santiago, Chile, with only 4 teams: Belize, Brazil, Chile & Peru. The Llamas, under the captaincy of Miles Buesst, lost all their games to finish fourth, but came close to defeating eventual champions, Brazil, in their final match, falling 17 short chasing 253.
3. San Jose, Costa Rica: 14–18 March 2011
The format of this tournament was changed to T20, and featured 6 teams: Belize, Brazil, Chile, hosts Costa Rica, Falkand Islands and Peru, playing at Los Reyes Polo Club on the outskirts of San Jose. The shorter format suited the Llamas' style of play, and Peru, captained by Miles Buesst (and Mike Soulsby, for one match) enjoyed their most successful international tournament to date, with a record of four wins out of five, and a highly creditable 2nd-place finish. The only loss was to the eventual undefeated champions, Belize, on the first morning.
Success was based on a disciplined bowling unit of Miles Buesst, Nadeem Ahmed, Javed Iqbal, Tony Sanford and Dinesh Ekanayake, taking advantage of the low bounce of the wickets, and a large, slow outfield, backed up by good fielding, to starve batsmen of runs and force them into errors. Runs were at a premium on the two pitches used, and so batsmen had to be patient and correct to weather the initial storm of the opposition’s top bowlers, before making hay against the lesser bowlers. This approach was typified by Mike Soulsby’s masterly half century, off 63 balls, against Chile, that won him the Man of the Match award.
Seemingly low T20 scores of under a hundred against Chile and Costa Rica were easily defended, and even the free-scoring Belizean batsmen took 14 overs to score 65, losing 6 wickets along the way, and indicating that the ball would dominate the bat for most of the Championship.
This was certainly the case against Mexico, who batting first, were rolled over for 49; and then the Falkland Islands were dismissed for 22, the lowest score of the tournament, as some of Peru’s second-string bowlers came to the fore.
South American Championship
Sadly, in 2012, ICC policy changed, with the focus shifting away from High Performance Cricket to increasing Participation Numbers. This decision was driven by an economic imperative.
The ramifications for Cricket Peru were that there would no longer be any ICC-sponsored international cricket. Solace could be found in the fact that the Llamas had been participating in the bi-annual South American Championships (SAC) since 1995.
In the wake of the ICC decision to scrap the ICC Americas Div III tournament, it was decided to make the SAC an annual T20 Easter championship, with the hosting rotating between the four members of Cricket South America.
In April 2014, it was the turn of Cricket Peru to host SAC XI. For the first time, Mexico were invited to join the tournament, which they did with great enthusiasm - so much so that they actually won the tournament, defeating Chile in the final, thereby taking the trophy out of South America for the first time!
Chile had won three games out of four leading up to the Final, but Brazil, Mexico and Peru had all won two games each; and so qualification to face Chile came down to wickets lost.
Central American Championship
After the success of the expanded 2014 South American Championships in Lima, Cricket Panama were inspired to invite additional teams to their March 2015 Central American Championship (CAC) in Panama City. The invitees that accepted were Peru, Brazil and M.C.C, who took their place alongside regulars Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador and, of course, Panama.
Another of the CAC regulars, Belize, pulled out at the eleventh hour, and their place was taken by a Panama A side, to keep the number of teams at eight, divided into two groups of four, playing T20 games.
The Llamas first match, on March 17, was against the M.C.C, who had just been on the wrong end of a hard-fought series in Suriname, and were in no mood to be generous. Featuring a number of County players and ex-players, they racked up an imposing 200 for 8 off their 20 overs. Peru, batting second, were never in the hunt and faltered to 79, for a chastening loss.
The next game was against old sparring partners, Brazil, on March 18. Again Peru bowled first and did well to keep the Brazil score down to 141 for 8. The reply started well, with Hallett, Soulsby and Myers all making quick runs, but after a mid-innings stutter, the run rate started to climb alarmingly. Some good late innings clubbing, and hard running, from man-of-the-match Buesst (35*) and Chaplin (5*), saw Peru home with 3 balls to spare, for a famous 5-wicket victory.
The last group game was against Panama A on the morning of March 19. Batting first, Peru racked up 147 for 9 off their 20 overs, with Soulsby (39), Buesst (35) and Myers (29) the main contributors. In a mirror image of the game the day before, the Panama A reply got off to a fast start and then faltered in the middle overs, as they lost wickets and the run rate increased. However, they got over the line with 3 balls to spare, and 5 wickets in hand, thanks to some good death batting.
The upshot of these group games was that Peru came third in the group, thereby missing out on progressing to the semi-final stage. They were able to take solace in a victory, that afternoon, over Costa Rica, who had come also third in their group, to claim 5th place. Drained from the morning's narrow loss, Peru's batsman struggled to a total of 109 for 8 from their 20 overs, with Soulsby and Myers again in the runs. However, the bowlers, led by Spry (3 for 12) and Roughton (3 for 14) and backed up by some good fielding, did enough to keep the Costa Rica batting line-up down to a total of 91 all out.
This was a satisfying end to an excellent tournament, with two wins and two losses.
Amistad Cup
The development of cricket in Peru and Brazil has followed quite similar trajectories since their acceptance as Affiliate Members of the ICC in the early 2000s, with a small group of keen volunteers facing sizable geographical and cultural challenges. This has led to a close friendship off the pitch - with the sharing of ideas and resources - and a healthy rivalry on the pitch.
To encapsulate this relationship, in 2011 it was decided to inaugurate the Amistad Cup (actually a Thermos flask), which would be awarded to the winner of any men's cricket game between Peru and Brazil. The loser would be given the dubious prize of The Spork (half spoon, half fork), which was found as a hidden extra in the lid of the Thermos!
Brazil is the current holder of the Amistad Cup, having defeated Peru in the group stage of the 2015 South American Championship in Chile.
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Goodhand | Goodhand is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Margo Goodhand twenty-first century Canadian editor-in-chief
Phillip Goodhand-Tait (born 1945), English songwriter
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Good Hands (disambiguation) |
Ramazzotti | Ramazzotti may refer to:
Eros Ramazzotti, Italian singer
Ramazzotti (liquor), Italian liquor |
Alex McGrath | Alex McGrath (born 12 May 1997) is an English cricketer. He made his first-class debut on 28 March 2017 for Durham MCCU against Gloucestershire as part of the Marylebone Cricket Club University fixtures.
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Patriarch Joseph II | Patriarch Joseph II may refer to:
Patriarch Joseph II of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch in 1416–1439
Joseph II (Chaldean Patriarch) (ruled in 1696–1713)
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Calhoun, New Brunswick | Calhoun is an unincorporated community in Westmorland County, New Brunswick. The community is situated in southeastern New Brunswick, to the east of Moncton, and is part of Greater Moncton.
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Bordering communities
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Suzuki Recursion | The Suzuki Recursion is a turbocharged concept motorcycle shown by Suzuki at the 2013 Tokyo Auto Show. The engine is a 588 cc parallel-twin with intercooled turbo and traction control system. Kevin Cameron described its power delivery in Cycle World as "the torque of a liter-bike, given across a three-times-wider band and packaged into a light middleweight", and Gizmag's Mike Hanlon compared it to a Buell V-twin.
Visordown.com said the intercooler was positioned under the saddle. It is unclear if this would be carried forward in a production motorcycle; other production models with under-tail exhausts and radiators (Benelli Tornado) have been criticized for un-ergonomic heat management.
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Ted Adams (publisher) | Ted Adams is an American publisher and producer. He is a cofounder and long-time Publisher/CEO of IDW Publishing, which he ran from 1999 to 2018. Adams is also the executive producer for several films and television properties. In 2019, he cofounded the boutique publisher Clover Press.
Early life
Ted Adams was born and raised in Oregon. He attended Notre Dame University, where he received an MBA.
Publishing
Ted Adams moved to San Diego, California in 1990 to work for comic book company WildStorm Productions. After it was purchased by DC Comics, Adams cofounded IDW in order to maintain the creative services business and some of the clientele that Wildstorm would close as a part of that acquisition.
Adams founded IDW Publishing in 1999 with Alex Garner, Kris Oprisko and Robbie Robbins; Adams served as the company’s CEO and publisher until 2018. Over fifteen years, Adams built the company into the fourth largest comic book publisher in the world, with original titles and licensing with franchise film and television properties. The company was acquired in 2007 by IDT, after which Adams remained the head IDW Media holdings, which also produces strategic board games, television, and film properties. Under Adams, the company has been the recipient of a National Book Award and 29 Eisner Awards.
In May 2019, it was announced that Adams and Robbins were launching a new publishing house, Clover Press, for prose works, graphic novels, art books, and other works. While IDW Publishing is an investor in Clover Press, Clover Press is not an imprint and will not share overhead or infrastructure with IDW Publishing.
Writing
Ted Adams has also written his own original title comics, including Diablo House.
Film
Ted Adams has served as executive producer of the television series V-Wars, Brooklyn Animal Control, Awakened, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Wynonna Earp, and Locke & Key. He also produced the films Remains and 30 Days of Night.
Boards
Ted Adams is the chairman of the board for Traveling Stories, and in 2018 Adams was named to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Board of Directors.
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Orient Lines | Orient Lines was a cruise line specialising in exotic destinations that was in operation 1993–2008. The brand was founded in 1993 by Gerry Herrod, and was sold to Norwegian Cruise Line in 1998. It ceased operations in March 2008 and was sold to new owners in June 2008. Operations were planned to be restarted in April 2009; however, due to the Great Recession of 2008, the re-launch of the Orient Lines brand was put on hold.
History
The history of Orient Lines began in 1991 when Shipping & General Ltd, owned by Gerry Herrod, acquired the cruise ship Alexandr Pushkin from Far Eastern Shipping Company. During the next two and a half years the Alexandr Pushkin was almost entirely rebuilt and emerged in 1993 as the Marco Polo for the new Orient Lines brand, embarking on a varied program with cruises all around the world.
In 1998, Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) acquired the brand. In 1999, NCL itself was acquired by Star Cruises. Following this, NCL's Norwegian Crown joined the Orient Lines fleet in May 2000 under the name Crown Odyssey. In March 2001 Star Cruises announced that their SuperStar Aries would be joining the Orient Lines fleet in mid-2002 as the Ocean Voyager. This plan was shelved however, and in 2003, the Crown Odyssey returned to the NCL fleet and Orient Lines reverted to operating with just one ship.
On 4 June 2007, the Marco Polo was sold to the Greece-based Global Maritime, with a delivery date on 31 March 2008. Without its only ship sold and no other ships to replace it, the Orient Line brand ceased to operate.
On 27 June 2008, Star Cruises sold the Orient Line brand to Origin Cruise Group, owned by Wayne Heller. The new owners stated they would be restarting operations with several second-hand ships with a capacity of 600 to 800 passengers. The first ship acquired by the "new" Orient Lines was , which was purchased from Sovcomflot on 20 August 2008. The Maxim Gorkiy was due to enter service with Orient Lines in April 2009 as SS Marco Polo II. On 19 November 2008 Wayne Heller stated that due to the Great Recession of 2008, the relaunch of the Orient Lines brand was delayed indefinitely. The Maxim Gorkiy never was refitted and renamed Marco Polo II. The ship was sold for scrap in January 2009.
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Schmelen | Schmelen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Heinrich Schmelen (1776–1848), German missionary, linguist and translator
Zara Schmelen (c. 1793 – 1831), mission assistant and translator, wife of Heinrich Schmelen |
Lee Dong-keun (badminton) | Lee Dong-keun (Hangul: 이동근; or ; born 20 November 1990) is a Korean badminton player specializing in men's singles. He won his first international senior title at the 2011 Vietnam International tournament. In 2016, Lee represented his country compete at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Achievements
BWF World Junior Championships
Boys' singles
BWF World Tour
The BWF World Tour, announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour are divided into six levels, namely World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100.
Men's singles
BWF Grand Prix
The BWF Grand Prix has two levels: Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix. It is a series of badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007.
Men's singles
BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament
BWF Grand Prix tournament
BWF International Challenge/Series
Men's singles
BWF International Challenge tournament
BWF International Series tournament
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Tamara Miansarova | Tamara Grigoryevna Miansarova (née Remnyova, ; 5 March 1931 – 12 July 2017) was a Soviet and Russian lyric soprano,pop singer and professor of Russian Academy of Theatre Arts, best known for her hit May There Always Be Sunshine.
Biography
She was born on March 5, 1931 in Zinovievsk.
She received her education at a music school attached to the Minsk Conservatory, which she graduated in 1951. In the same year she entered the piano department of the Moscow Conservatory (class of Lev Oborin).
Awards and recognition
1963: 1st prize at the Sopot International Song Festival, for the song "May There Always Be Sunshine"
1972: Meritorious Artist of the Ukrainian SSR
1996: People's Artist of Russia
Order of Friendship of Peoples
2004: Miansarova get star on the Star Square in Moscow.
Hits
Miansarova performed over 400 songs, many of them remembered as hits (their recording may be found at Miansarova's site).
"Ginger", in the meaning of red haired man), a rendering the song "Rudy Rydz" by Helena Majdaniec, Queen of Polish Twist, the first Twist song performed in Russian on stage
"Black Cat" It was the first Soviet Twist.
"May There Always Be Sunshine"
"Летка-енка" (for the fad dance Letkajenkka)
"Let Us Never Quarrel"
"Step, Step, a Toddler Is Stepping"
"Eyes on the Sand"
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Martha Kinney Cooper | Martha Norma Kinney Cooper (January 12, 1874 – April 20, 1964) was the First Lady of Ohio. After her husband Myers Y. Cooper was elected governor of Ohio in 1929, Kinney Cooper decided to create a library housing the works of Ohioans.
Personal life
Kinney Cooper was born to parents Joel and Sarah Kinney on January 12, 1874. Her father was a former Major during the Civil War and worked as a lawyer. Growing up, Kinney Cooper attended Walnut Hills Christian Church where she met her future husband, Myers Y. Cooper. She graduated from Woodward High School in 1892. She married Cooper on December 15, 1897 and they had two children together; Raymond K. Cooper and Martha Anne Cooper.
Career
In early 1929, she moved into the governor’s mansion with her husband. As she was unpacking, Kinney Cooper came across stacks of books and large bookshelves but realized that none of them were written by Ohio authors. This inspired her to establish the Ohioana Library Association, an organization with the goal to preserve Ohio's cultural heritage. Directed by Depew Head, the Martha Kinney Cooper Ohioana Library was created to specifically house the works of Ohioans. Kinney Cooper established relationships with various authors and interests groups to expand the library. Each spring, she would host a tea for Hamilton County authors at her Cincinnati home. She also developed a friendship with members of the National League of American Pen Women. One such member, Clara Heflebower, would go on to serve as secretary of the Ohiona Library committee.
By the 1931, the library already held more than 600 volumes. As a non-profit, all the books were collected through the authors themselves. Ohio was the first state to found a library of the works of its own authors. She continued to enlist help from interest groups, such as the Ohio Federation of Women’s Clubs, to help her collect and file books written by Ohioans. As a result, the library outgrew its space in the governor’s mansion and was relocated to the State Library of Ohio. By January 2001, the library again relocated, this time to 274 E First Avenue. In 1942, the Ohioana Book Awards was established to honor Ohio authors in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Juvenile Literature.
Kinney Cooper remained active with the library until her death in 1964. On August 30, 1978, Kinney Cooper was posthumously inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame.
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Malava Khurd | Malava Khurd is a village in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Yuta Iyama | is a Japanese professional Go player. In April 2016, he became the first player in Japanese history to hold all seven major titles simultaneously. In January 2018, Iyama became the first professional Go player to be awarded Japan's People's Honour Award.
Biography
Born in Osaka, Iyama became the first professional of the Heisei period. He began playing Go at the age of five and reached the rank of 3 dan amateur a year later. It was at this time Kunio Ishii became Iyama's teacher, with the two playing thousands of games online. He won the national elementary school championship twice, in 1997 and 1998. Iyama became an insei in October 1998 and challenged for a professional spot in 2001. He lost to Kohei Kawada. The following year, he challenged again and passed the qualifying test. At the time, Iyama was the fourth youngest professional behind Cho Chikun, Utaro Hashimoto and Satoshi Yuki.
Iyama was promoted to 2 dan on 4 September 2002. During the China-Japan Agon Cup in 2002, Iyama played an unofficial match with Chen Yaoye. Iyama lost the match by resignation. In June 2003, Iyama was promoted to 3 dan for his performances in the Oteai. Nearly two years later, Iyama was promoted to 4 dan under the newly revised promotion rules.
He met his rival, Daisuke Murakawa, a fellow player from the Kansai region, in the final section of the 30th Shinjin-O. Taking white, Iyama went on to win by 5.5 points. Iyama won the first major game of his career when he defeated Cho U by resignation in the 20th Agon Cup. He would go on to win the tournament, becoming the youngest title holder in Japanese history at 16 years and five months. The previous holder of the record was Cho Chikun, who won the Shin-Ei, a tournament open to young players only, at 17 years. As a result of winning the tournament, Iyama was directly promoted to 7 dan and became the youngest 7 dan in Japanese Go.
Before winning the Agon Cup, Iyama won the Nakano Cup, a privately sponsored unofficial tournament, and unsuccessfully challenged for the Shinjin-O title, losing to Kim Shushun. Iyama was a member of the Japanese team at the 6th Asian New Star Match, where he won one match. Japan finished in third place behind South Korea and China. Iyama participated in the China-Japan Agon Cup in 2006, losing to Gu Li by resignation.
Iyama won two awards for his performance during the 2005 season: the New Star award and an award for having the highest winning percentage (75.47%). In August 2006, Iyama made it to the last game of the 61st Honinbo preliminary stage. Facing Cho Sonjin (a former Honinbo), Iyama took black and lost by resignation. Had Iyama won, he would have been the youngest participant of the Honinbo league at 17 years. Three months after his unsuccessful Honinbo league bid, Iyama participated in the first edition of the Daiwa Cup, an internet tournament. Iyama qualified for the main tournament, but was unable to challenge for the title.
Iyama won his second official tournament when he defeated Kenichi Mochizuki in the Shinjin-O final. In September 2007, Iyama reached the challenger final of his first major title, the Tengen. Taking black, Iyama lost to Keigo Yamashita by 1.5 points and was unable to challenge title-holder Rin Kono. Iyama qualified for his first international tournament, the 21st Fujitsu Cup, by defeating Kanketsu Rin and Michihiro Morita in the preliminary stages. In the main tournament, Iyama defeated Taiwanese representative Zhou Junxun, but lost to Korea's Lee Sedol in the second round.
In March 2008, Iyama participated in the 1st Yugen Cup, a tournament pitting veteran professionals against newly promoted youngsters. He finished in 6th place, but won all six of his games. Iyama reached the final round of the preliminary tournament for the 13th LG Cup, but was unable to make the final tournament. No other Japanese players qualified.
Two months later, in July 2008, Iyama won the 33rd Meijin league. At the age of 19, Iyama became the youngest ever challenger for the Meijin title and the youngest challenger for any of the major titles. He broke a record held by Cho Chikun, who challenged for the Oza title in 1976 at the age of 20 years. As a result of winning the league, Iyama was directly promoted to 8 dan. Iyama's title bid was unsuccessful as he lost in seven games to title-holder Cho U.
A few days after earning the right to challenge for the 33rd Meijin, Iyama defeated Cho U in the final of the 1st Daiwa Cup Grand Champion, an internet tournament for winners of the other Daiwa Cup tournaments. Iyama was also a part of the Japanese team at the 1st World Mind Sports Games. While challenging for the Meijin title, Iyama faced Cho u again, this time in the Oza challenger finals. Iyama took black and lost by resignation.
A month later, in October 2008, Iyama reached another challenger finals. He faced Norimoto Yoda in challenger finals of the 33rd Kisei and lost by resignation. In March 2008, Iyama participated in the inaugural BC Card Cup as one of Japan's two representatives, Cho Chikun being the other. Chikun was knocked out in the first round by Paek Hongsuk, but Iyama won two games in a row against Kim Seongjae and On Sojin. Iyama came up against Cho Hanseung in the third round and was eliminated by the Korean representative.
That same month Iyama participated in two unofficial tournaments, the Yugen Cup, which he won, and the RICOH Rengo Cup. Iyama and partner Xie Yimin lost to Naoki Hane and Keiko Kato in the final of the Rengo Cup. Iyama also won the Kido "Outstanding Player" award for his performances during the 2008 season.
Iyama was one of four Japanese participants at the 14th LG Cup, where he won his first game against Yun Junsang and lost his second game against Lee Chang-ho. Iyama also reached the challenger finals of the 34th Gosei, but eventually lost to Satoshi Yuki by 1.5 points.
After losing the Meijin the previous year, Iyama won the Meijin league again in July 2009 and earned the right to challenge Cho U. He went undefeated in the league, becoming the fourth player in the modern-era to go undefeated in the Meijin league. Two months later Iyama qualified for his first Honinbo league.
Iyama lost the first game of his Meijin challenge, but then went on to win four in-a-row. As a result, Iyama broke three records: youngest major title winner, youngest Meijin and youngest 9 dan, breaking records set by Cho Chikun, Rin Kaiho and his opponent in the Meijin finals, Cho U. Iyama also won the Ryusei title, televised on the date of the final Meijin match.
In December 2009, Iyama participated in his first Nongshim Cup. He was the third Japanese player and lost his game to Xie He, who won five straight games before losing to Naoki Hane. Iyama led the Japanese most wins list in 2009 with a record of 43 wins and 14 losses. Iyama was also awarded the Shusai Prize for his performances during the 2009 season. In February 2010, Iyama lost the final of the 5th Daiwa Cup to Rin Kono.
In May, Iyama reached the challenger finals for the 65th Honinbo, but lost to Keigo Yamashita. As a result, for finishing runner-up of the NHK Cup in 2010, Iyama was qualified for the 22nd Asian TV Cup. He lost to Lee Chang-ho in the first round. Iyama was also a representative of the Japanese team at the 16th Asian Games. In October 2010, Iyama was invited to the World Meijin tournament along with Gu Li and Lee Chang-ho. Iyama finished in third place. Iyama then defended his Meijin title in straight wins against Shinji Takao.
In 2010, Iyama won the third most prize money in Japan with 56,482,000 Yen. He unsuccessfully challenged Cho U for the Kisei title in 2011. Iyama won his second major title, the Judan, in 2011.
In January 2017, Iyama was awarded the Shusai Prize, which honors the outstanding player of the previous year. It was his fifth consecutive Shusai Prize. In February 2017, Iyama was awarded the Kido Prize for "Most outstanding player" for winning all top seven titles.
Iyama is scheduled to play in the 2017 World Go Championship.
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Career record
Titles and runners-up
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Jonathan Sinclair | Jonathan William Rossiter Sinclair (born 13 October 1970) is a British diplomat who is Director of Human Resources at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Career
Sinclair was educated at Radley College and studied at Oxford University for a BA degree in PPE and at Johns Hopkins University for a Master's degree in International Relations. After short stints in media and tourism he joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1996. He was a Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary (then Jack Straw) 2002–04, and head of the political team at the British embassy in Washington, D.C., 2005–09. He was High Commissioner to New Zealand, non-resident High Commissioner to Samoa, and non-resident Governor of the Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands 2014–18..
Sinclair was appointed LVO in 2007 following a state visit by The Queen to the United States.
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Schellenberg (surname) | Schellenberg is a toponymic surname derived from any of various places in Germany and Switzerland. Notable people with the surname include:
Aldo C. Schellenberg (born 1958), Swiss military officer
August Schellenberg (1936–2013), Canadian actor
Glenn Schellenberg, Canadian composer and professor
Harry Schellenberg, Canadian politician
Hans Conrad Schellenberg (1872–1923), Swiss botanist and agronomist
J. L. Schellenberg (born 1959), Canadian philosopher and professor
Johann Rudolph Schellenberg (1740–1806), Swiss artist, writer and entomologist
Joseph von Schellenberg (1735–1801), Austrian infantry commander
Katharina Schellenberg (1870–1945), American medical missionary
Keith Schellenberg (1929-2019), English businessman and former Olympic bobsledder
Max Schellenberg (1927–2000), Swiss racing cyclist
Susanna Schellenberg (born 1979), Lebanese professor and author
T. R. Schellenberg (1903–1970), American archivist and archival theorist
Ted Schellenberg (born 1952), Canadian broadcaster and former politician
Tobias Schellenberg (born 1978), German diver
Walter Schellenberg (1910–1952), German SS functionary
See also
Schellenberg
Schellenberger
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Krupac | Krupac may refer to the following places:
Bosnia and Hercegovina
Krupac (East Sarajevo)
Krupac (Konjic)
In Serbia
Krupac (Pirot)
Krupac (Bela Palanka) |
Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar | Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar is a Scandinavian legendary saga which was put to text in Iceland in the 13th century. It has a prequel in Gautreks saga.
Summary
Gautrekr was a Geatish king who descended from Odin himself. He lost his wife Alfhild and went somewhat out of his mind, ignored all matters of state, and spent all his time on Alfhild's burial mound, flying his hawk.
He had two sons Ketill and Hrólfr Gautreksson, and Ketill became a great Viking who inherited his father's kingdom.
In Uppsala ruled Erik, the king of Sweden, who had only had one child, Þornbjörg, born a daughter. He was a transmasculine king who would rather fight and partake in masculine activities then participate in traditionally feminine undertakings. He also preferred to be called Thorberg, a male name, and insisted on using male pronouns. He was called Þórbergr konungr, king Thorberg. Thorberg's father gave him the royal estate of Ulleråker, where he kept a retinue of housecarls.
Ketill suggested that Hrólfr make a try to woo the king and after much hesitation, Hrólfr agreed. His brother said that "it would be the most noble marriage in the Northlands to have the daughter of the king at Uppsala for wife" and "many have little courage in a big body and it is a shame that you who are a man durst not speak to womenfolk".
Hrólfr summoned his courage and went to Ulleråker with his fosterbrother Ingjald of Denmark and sixty well-armed warriors to woo Thorberg.
Þórbergr was sitting on the throne, dressed in armor. When Hrólfr proposed, he rushed up, grabbed his weapons and ordered his men to "fetch and bind the fool who offended king Þórbergr". Hrólfr put on his helmet and asked his housecarls to leave and then he manfully slew no less than twelve of Þórbergr's champions before he had to flee the overwhelming foe. Everybody in his company returned to Geatland alive.
After a Viking campaign in the West to both Scotland and Brittany, Hrólfr steered his fleet of six ships and a selected crew northwards and did not stop until he reached Uppsala. When the new peace agreement between Hrólfr and king Erik had been established, Hrólf went to Ulleråker to propose once more to the Þórbergr.
Þórbergr screamed that he'd become a shepherd in Geatland before he had any power over him. After a hard fight Þórbergr was captured and not long afterwards he married Hrólfr.
After some time Hrólfr succeeded his brother Ketill as the king of the Geats, but that story was not recorded.
According to a Swedish tradition, he is buried in Bälinge near Alingsås on Rolfsborg on Rolf's hill. .
Editions and translations
Hrolf Gautreksson: A Viking Romance, trans. by Hermann Pálsson and Paul Edwards (Edinburgh: Southside, 1972).
Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda, ed. by Bjarni Vilhjálmsson and Guðni Jónsson (Reykjavík, 1943-1944), vol. 3, 43-151.
The original text at Snerpa.
External links
Bibliographic entry in the Stories for all Time database
A more recent Swedish poem on Hrólf and Torborg by Wilhelm von Braun
References
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Category:Legendary sagas
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Public Relations Journal | The Public Relations Journal is an open-access peer-reviewed, electronic academic journal covering topics having to do with public relations and communication studies. It is published quarterly by the Public Relations Society of America. The editor-in-chief is Donald K. Wright (Boston University).
History
The Public Relations Journal was established in 1945 by Rex F. Harlow (American Council on Public Relations). After this council and the National Association of Public Relations Counsel merged to form the Public Relations Society of America in 1947, it became a monthly publication of the latter society. It was published until 1994, after which it was superseded by two publications, the monthly PR Tactics and the quarterly The Strategist. However, the original Public Relations Journal had an editorial focus towards news, trends, and how-to information about the practice of public relations. The new journal is dedicated to the online publishing of research articles that examine public relations in depth and/or create, test, or expand public relations theory.
References
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Swartzentruber Amish | The Swartzentruber Amish are the most well-known and one of the largest and the most conservative subgroups of Old Order Amish. Swartzentruber Amish are considered a subgroup of the Old Order Amish, although they do not fellowship or intermarry with more liberal Old Order Amish. They speak Pennsylvania German as their mother tongue as well as English (with outsiders).
History
Swartzentruber Amish formed as the result of a division that occurred among the Amish of Holmes County, Ohio, in the years 1913–1917. The bishop who broke away was Sam E. Yoder. The Swartzentruber name was applied later, named after bishop Samuel Swartzentruber who succeeded him. In 1932 there was a split among the Swartzentrubers that resulted in the formation of the Troyer Amish in Wayne County, Ohio. In the early 1980s several church districts in Minnesota, Tennessee, and Ohio split from the Swartzentruber church districts elsewhere because of disagreements over shunning ("Bann und Meidung"). This group, known as the "Jeck Jeckey Leit" is now affiliated with the Nebraska Amish. In the 1990s two more splits occurred, resulting in three Swartzentruber Amish groups: the Joe Troyer group, the main group, the Mose Miller/Isaac Keim group and the Andy Weaver group. The Swartzentruber Andy Weaver group should not be confused with the Old Order Andy Weaver group. In this three-way split the Andy Weaver group is the most conservative while the Joe Troyer group is at the other end of the spectrum, leaving the Mose Miller group somewhere in between.
Customs and technology
Riding in cars is prohibited among the Swartzentruber Amish, except in emergencies, whereas average Old Order Amish are allowed to use cars as long as they do not own them. Swartzentrubers are the most restrictive concerning the use of technologies among all Amish affiliations, see table below.
Their style of dress tends to be heavier and plainer, especially in the case of women, only the Nebraska Amish dress in a more conservative style. Swartzentruber services tend to be longer, even up to four hours.
Like some other Old Order groups, they avoid the use of electricity and indoor plumbing. Many other common devices and technologies are also disallowed for being too worldly, including Velcro and bicycles. Swartzentruber farms and yards are often unkempt. The Swartzentrubers discourage interest in outward appearance, as such an interest could promote vanity and pride. Their farms can be identified by dirt drives and surrounding roads, while most roads of the Old Order contain either gravel or paving to keep out the mud. The roofs of the houses and outbuildings are often made of tin. The clothing differs from that of the other Old Order Amish in subtle ways: all colors are dark and somber rather than the bright blues and mauves; more common is navy, dark burgundy, and even gray. The dresses of the women, rather than reaching mid-calf, usually reach to the top of the shoes. The brims on the hats of Swartzentruber men are four inches wide, wider than the brims of more liberal affiliations.
The tack on the horses and buggies is often all black, rather than brown leather. Swartzentruber Amish use reflective tape on the back of their buggies, in place of bright triangular "slow moving" signs for road travel, which they regard as too worldly. These buggies will also use lanterns, rather than battery-operated lights or reflectors. The lanterns are also often staggered, one side slightly higher than the other, so as not to appear like the tail lights of a vehicle. There have been several court cases across the country where the state and county challenged the local Swartzentruber group to use the regulation orange triangle. So far, even as far as the federal Supreme Court, the Amish have prevailed, although statistics suggest that in areas where these groups exist, accidents involving buggies are more prevalent.
On September 13, 2011, nine Old Order Swartzentruber men were jailed for not paying a fine for refusing to display an orange reflective triangle on their horse-drawn carriages.
Swartzentruber Amish normally do not allow teenagers to leave the community during rumspringa, although most of them allow teenagers to "court" in order to find a marriage partner, which includes hugging in a bed while being fully clothed and rocking in a chair together.
Population and Church districts
As other conservative affiliations the Swartzentruber tend to have more children than the average Old Order Amish. In one sample that Kraybill et al. give, the average number of children born to Swartzentruber women was 9.3. Combined with a high rate of retention concerning their youth, the Swartzentruber have one of the highest growth rates among all Old Order Amish. Between 1991 and 2010 the number of church districts grew from 38 to 103, a growth of 171 percent.
In 1936 there were three Swartzentruber church districts and in 1957, five, with approximately 200 families. In 1944 a settlement was founded in Ethridge, Tennessee, which had ten church districts around 2013 with a population of 1,520 people. It is the largest Amish settlement in the South. The settlement near Lodi and Homerville, Ohio, which was founded in 1952 had 14 church districts around 2013 with a population of 2,148 people. In 1975 the settlement near Heuvelton, New York, was founded, that had 12 church districts around 2013 with a population of 1,671 people.
As of 2000, the Swartzentruber Amish had 64 districts, 3,165 members, a total population of 7,101 in 12 states with 33 districts in Ohio alone. There are nineteen districts of Swartzentruber in Holmes County and Wayne County, where the subgroup originated. The Swartzentruber share of the Old Order Amish is about 7 percent. As of 2011 there were 119 Swartzentruber Amish church districts and 43 settlements in 13 states of the US as well as in Ontario, Canada.
Etymology
Swartzentruber is a Mennonite and Amish surname of Swiss origin, coming from the Trub river valley, located approximately midway between Bern and Lucerne. It has been thought to mean "seller of black grapes". Other English spellings of the name include Swartzendruber, Schwartzendruber, Schwarzentruber, and Schwarztrauber.
See also
Nebraska Amish, the most conservative Amish subgroup
Literature
Donald B. Kraybill, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner and Steven M. Nolt: The Amish, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD 2013.
Karen Johnson-Weiner: New York Amish: Life in the Plain Communities of the Empire State, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY 2010.
Charles Hurst and David McConnell: An Amish Paradox. Diversity and Change in the World's Largest Amish Community, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD 2010.
Joe Mackall: Plain Secrets: An Outsider among the Amish, Boston, Mass. 2007.(Account of a neighbor and friend to a Swartzentruber family)
References
External links
Who are the Swartzentruber Amish? - Amish Online Encyclopedia entry on Swartzentruber Amish technology, history, and customs.
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*Swartzendruger Amish
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Lambda holin family | The Lambda Holin S (λ Holin) Family (TC# 1.E.2) is a group of integral membrane transporter proteins belonging to the Holin Superfamily III. Members of this family generally consist of the characteristic three transmembrane segments (TMSs) and are of 110 amino acyl residues (aas) in length, on average. A representative list of members belonging to this family can be found in the Transporter Classification Database.
Lambda Holin S
Lambda holin S (Lysis protein S of phage lambda, holin S105; TC# 1.E.2.1.1) is the prototype for class I holins. It has 3 TMSs with the N-terminus in the periplasm and the C-terminus in the cytoplasm. Its 107 codon sequence encodes two proteins with opposing functions, the holin, S105, and the holin inhibitor, S107. The latter protein, S107, is a 2-amino acid extension of the former protein, S105, due to a different translational initiation start site (M1-K2-M3 vs. M3). A cationic amino acid at position 2 is largely responsible for the inhibiting effect of S107. The ratio of S105 to S107 influences the timing of phage lambda-induced cell lysis. The highly hydrophilic C-terminal domains of holins (e.g., lambda S105) have been shown to be localized cytoplasmically and serve as regulatory domains. Like the N-terminal 2 amino acid extension in S107, they influence the timing of lysis by a charge dependent mechanism.
Mechanism
Expression of holin S at a precisely scheduled time after phage infection terminates respiration and allows release of a muralytic enzyme, endolysin, that hydrolyzes the cell wall. Point mutations in the S gene that prevent lethality alter TMSs 1 and 2 and the connecting loop. TMS 2 is particularly important for function. A three-step mechanism (monomer → dimer → oligomeric pore) has been proposed for assembly of the pore. S105 (holin) and S107 (inhibitor) form an abortive dimer. Only when S105 production exceeds that of S107 (which occurs at a specific developmental time), do functional holes appear in the bacterial cell membrane.
Holins regulate the length of the infection cycle of tailed phages (caudovirales) by oligomerizing to form lethal holes in the cytoplasmic membrane at a time dictated by their primary structures. Savva et al. (2008) used electron microscopy and single-particle analysis to characterize structures formed by the bacteriophage lambda holin (S105) in vitro. In non-ionic or mild zwitterionic detergents, purified S105, but not the lysis-defective variant S105A52V, formed rings of at least two size classes, the most common having inner and outer diameters of 8.5 and 23 nm respectively, and containing approximately 72 S105 monomers. The height of these rings, 4 nm, closely matches the thickness of the lipid bilayer. The central channel is of unprecedented size for channels formed by integral membrane proteins, consistent with the non-specific nature of holin-mediated membrane permeabilization. S105, present in detergent-solubilized rings and in inverted membrane vesicles, showed similar sensitivities to proteolysis and cysteine-specific modification, suggesting that the rings are representative of the lethal holes formed by S105 to terminate the infection cycle and initiate lysis.
Homologues
A homologue of λ holin S from the lysogenic Xenorhabdus nematophila, hol-1 (TC #1.E.2.1.4), has been shown to be a functional holin. When cloned into wild-type E. coli, it causes hemolysis due to the release of the SheA hemolysin. Another holin (phage H-19B holin) is encoded by a gene associated with the Shiga-like toxin I gene of E. coli. Thus, it appears that holins can export various toxins as well as autolysins.
The holes caused by S105 have an average diameter of 340 nm, and some exceeding 1 micron. Most cells exhibit only one irregular hole, randomly positioned in the membrane, irrespective of its size. During λ infection, S105 accumulates harmlessly in the membrane until it forms a single irregular hole, releasing the endolysin from the cytoplasm, resulting in lysis within seconds. Using a functional S105-GFP fusion, it was demonstrated that the protein accumulates uniformly in the membrane, and then within 1 minute, it forms aggregates at the time of lethality. Thus, like bacteriorhodopsin, the protein accumulates until it reaches a critical concentration for nucleation.
See also
Lambda phage
Holin
Lysin
Transporter Classification Database
Further reading
References
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USS Newport (PG-12) | USS Newport (Gunboat No.12/PG-12/IX-19) was a United States Navy gunboat. She was laid down by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine in March 1896, launched on 5 December 1896, sponsored by Miss Frances La Farge, and commissioned on 5 October 1897, Comdr. B. F. Tilley in command.
Service history
US Navy, 1897–1906
After fitting out in Boston, Newport sailed for duty in the Caribbean on 15 October 1897. Between December 1897 and August 1898, the ship patrolled off the West Indies and Central America, During the Spanish–American War, she received credit for assisting in the capture of nine Spanish vessels. The ship returned to the United States and decommissioned on 7 September 1898.
Recommissioned on 1 May 1900, Newport served as training ship at the United States Naval Academy and at the Naval Training Station at Newport, Rhode Island, until decommissioning at Boston on 1 December 1902. Recommissioned on 15 May 1903, she operated with the Atlantic Fleet along the eastern seaboard and in the West Indies until decommissioned on 17 November 1906.
Training ship, 1907–1934
Newport was loaned to the Massachusetts Naval Militia on 2 June 1907, and on 27 October 1907 was reassigned to the New York Nautical School. She also served as training ship for the 3rd Naval District until June 1918, when she was returned to the Navy for wartime service. On 26 July 1918 she was reassigned to continue duty as a New York State training ship under control of the Commandant, 3rd Naval District. The gunboat sailed on a training cruise from New York to the Gulf of Mexico and the West Indies from 9 December 1918 to 25 May 1919. On 3 June 1919, she returned to full control of New York State. In 1924 explorer Herbert Lawrence Bridgman died on board Newport.
Newports designation was changed from Gunboat No.12 to PG-12 on 17 July 1920, and she was reclassified as the Unclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary IX-19 on 1 July 1921.
Struck from the Navy List on 12 October 1931, she was turned over to the city of Aberdeen, Washington, by an act of Congress on 14 May 1934, to be used as a training ship for the United States Naval Reserve.
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Tupolev Voron | The Tupolev Voron (Russian: Ворон; English: Raven) was a planned supersonic unmanned reconnaissance aircraft of the Soviet Union manufactured by the company Tupolev, largely based on or designed to compete with the Lockheed D-21.
History
In the first mission of the Lockheed D-21 on 9 November 1969, the drone reached its target area and was able to photograph the nuclear weapon testing site Lop Nor in the People's Republic of China, but did not turn around due to a malfunction of the navigation system and ultimately crashed in the Soviet Union. The remains of the crashed drone were recovered and analysed by the Soviet aircraft industry. Decades later, during the 1980s they were given to Ben Rich, an aeronautics engineer for Lockheed.
The Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union commissioned the Tupolev OKB (Tupolev Experimental Design Bureau) to rebuild the D-21 using Soviet materials, engines and equipment. Work began at the MMZ Opyt facility near Moscow, which already had experience with the drones Jastreb-1, Jastreb-2, Reys and Strizh. The project was named Voron (English: Raven). It was headed by Alexei Tupolev, the son of Andrei Tupolev.
The Voron was planned as an reconnaissance platform which, in conjunction with other airborne and ground-based reconnaissance tools, would contribute to overall strategic reconnaissance for the Soviet Union. The autopilot was to guide the aircraft along a route pre-programmed with way-points. Navigation was based on an inertial navigation system. For the reconnaissance, only a high-resolution camera, which would have been attached to the underside, was available as payload. The drone was intended to be launched from a Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bomber. This is similar to the modification of the D-21, which could be launched from a wing station of a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, though a B-52 could carry a D-21 under each wing while a Tu-95 could only carry one Voron held partially inside an opened bomb bay. It was also planned to use the Voron from a bomber version of the Tupolev Tu-144, as a counterpart to the Lockheed M-21 / D-21 combination, and a later bomber produced as Tupolev Tu-160.
Some sources state the Voron was equipped with an RD-012 engine with thrust; other sources speak of a 3Ts4 (RD-07K) engine from the OKB-670 of Michail Bondarjuk. The OKB-670 also used the relatively well-preserved Marquardt RJ43-MA-11 engine of the D-21. After disengaging from the carrier aircraft, the Voron was to be accelerated to a supersonic speed by the jettison-able booster with an output of . The Voron was only intended for a single mission. After completing the mission, the collected data would be separated from the rest of the drone in a reusable section containing the reconnaissance equipment and glide down on a parachute, similar to the Jastreb-1 drone.
A ground-based launch of the Voron was also planned, using a trailer with a large booster rocket. This project was soon rejected because the deployment range would have been much shorter than a carrier-aircraft launch. The work on the Voron lasted for several years and the project yielded valuable insights and useful materials for future supersonic missiles. The Voron was not built as the Soviet government came to believe that reconnaissance satellites would be more effective than drones.
Specifications
See also
Lockheed D-21
Lockheed M-21
Tupolev Tu-141
Tupolev Tu-143
Tupolev Tu-144
Tupolev Tu-160
Boeing B-52 Stratofortress
References
Further reading
External links
Three side drawings (in English)
Voron (in Russian)
Voron cut-drawing (in English)
Voron
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Balhinch, Indiana | Balhinch is two-mile-square unincorporated community in Union Township, Montgomery County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. Balhinch includes Rattlesnake Canyon and Weir Cemetery.
History
The Balhinch area was originally settled by William Offield in February 1821, five miles southwest of Crawfordsville in Section 21 in an area with two streams — Sugar Creek and Offield's Creek. A monument to William Offield stands near Offield's Creek.
It was formally platted in the 1920s and the boundaries legally defined.
Notable person
Caroline Virginia Krout, author
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1937 Western Reserve Red Cats football team | The 1937 Western Reserve Red Cats football team represented Western Reserve University in the American city of Cleveland, Ohio, now known as Case Western Reserve University, during the 1937 college football season. The team was coached by college football hall of fame coach Bill Edwards. Notable players included Frank "Doc" Kelker, Phil Ragazzo, Albie Litwak, Mike Rodak, and Johnny Wilson. The Red Cats went undefeated while at home
The loss to Dayton on October 30 ended a 28-game unbeaten streak stretching back to the 1934 season.
Schedule
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Takuya Igarashi | is a Japanese freelance storyboard artist and director who has worked for Toei Animation and Bones. He has also sometimes used the alias .
Anime involved in
Director
TV Series
Films
Other
Alien Nine: Episode Director (episodes 1, 3, 4)
Futari wa Pretty Cure: Episode Director (episode 8)
Goldfish Warning!: Episode Director, Assistant Unit Director (episodes 1–7 odd, 8, 11–12, 15–31 odd, 35–45 odd, 50)
Mushishi: Storyboard (episodes 11, 24), Episode Director (episodes 11)
Ojamajo Doremi Na-i-sho: Episode Director (episodes 1, 5, 9, 13)
Sailor Moon: Episode Director (episodes 24, 35, 42), Assistant Episode Director
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Zeinab Elobeid Yousif | Zeinab Elobeid Yousif (1952 – 19 March 2016) (Arabic: زينب العبيد يوسف), was A Sudanese aircraft engineer. She was the first Sudanese female to be licensed by the Civil Aviation Authority (United Kingdom). She worked with Sudan Airways from July 1973 until May 1992, after which she relocated to the United Kingdom. During the 1960s, Sudanese culture was considered patriarchal and hostile for women wanting to study and work in fields such as engineering.
Yousif studied and worked in the fields of Electronics, Avionic Communication, navigation and radar. She worked on diverse aircraft such as the Boeing 707 / Boeing 737 / 347 / Fokker 50 and Fokker F27 at Sudan Airways and on Cessna 402 / 404 / 208 & Beach craft 1900 at London South-end Airport.
Early life
Yousif was born in Khartoum, Sudan on June 13, 1952. She was the oldest daughter of Elobeid Yousif Ahmed Shidwan, a well-known and respected businessman of the town, and Asma Elobeid Ahmed Shidwan. Both her parents came from religious backgrounds. Yousif grew up in the village of Umdawwanban (Arabic: أم ضوّاً بان) known for Alma-seed, a big religious school for boys where people from across Sudan and sub-Saharan Africa send their children to study and learn the Quran. Yousif graduated from high school thanks to her father's encouragement. It was typical for Sudanese girls her age to wed and abandon their education. Yousif studied Electronic engineering at Khartoum Polytechnic from 1970 to 1973.
Career
She worked as an Aircraft Engineer in the radio workshop on maintenance and repair. From 1983 to 1986 she studied Avionics and Aerospace Engineering at Brunel Technical College in Bristol, UK, where she received her license from the Civil Aviation Authority. In the 1990s, she earned a Master of Science degree in Advanced Manufacturing Systems from Kingston University, London.
References
Profile of Zeinab Yousif Sudan's Aviation Hall of Fame
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Scott K. Dessain | Scott K. Dessain is an American oncologist, research scientist, who is a professor at Lankenau Institute for Medical Research and an attending medical oncologist at Lankenau Medical Center, both in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. He also is co-founder and chief technology officer of Immunome, Inc., a biotechnology company in Philadelphia specializing in development of native human cancer antibodies targeted against cancer antigens. Dessain developed a technology that caused cells to glow, which had been licensed for use by others.
Education and career
Dessain earned his bachelors from Brown University and his MD and PhD from Yale University. He completed a residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, followed by a fellowship in medical oncology at the Dana Farber/Partners CancerCare program, also in Boston.
In addition to his academic career, Dessain has worked as a biotechnology entrepreneur since 2006, when he co-founded Immunome. He served as chief scientific officer of Immunome until 2016, when he became chief technology officer.
On 13 November 2017, Dessain named The Joseph and Ray Gordon Chair in Clinical Oncology and Research by the Lankenau Medical Center Foundation.
Dessain was responsible for developing a technology that made cells glow, which was licensed to OCMS Bio. He also contributed to various studies, including a Nature Communications study about salmonella typhimurium biofilm disruption and an MDPI study on human IgA monoclonal antibodies. He has also worked in dilution cloning and with the antibody immunoglobulin A, among others.
Selected publications
Levites Y, O'Nuallain B, Puligedda RD, Ondrejcak T, Adekar SP, Chen C, Cruz PE, Rosario AM, Macy S, Mably AJ, Walsh DM, Vidal R, Solomon A, Brown D, Rowan MJ, Golde TE, Dessain SK. (2015) “A human monoclonal IgG that binds aβ assemblies and diverse amyloids exhibits anti-amyloid activities in vitro and in vivo.” The Journal of Neuroscience. 35(16):6265-76.
Dalmau J, Gleichman AJ, Hughes EG, Rossi JE, Peng X, Lai M, Dessain SK, Rosenfeld MR, Balice-Gordon R, Lynch DR (2008).“Anti-NMDA-receptor encephalitis: case series and analysis of the effects of antibodies.” Lancet Neurol 7 (12): 1091–8.
Adekar SP, Takahashi T, Jones RM, Al-Saleem FH, Ancharski DM, Root MJ, Kapadnis BP, Simpson LL, Dessain SK (2008). “Neutralization of botulinum neurotoxin by a human monoclonal antibody specific for the catalytic light chain.” PLOS One 3 (8): e3023.
Bernards R, Dessain SK, Weinberg RA (1986). “N-myc amplification causes down-modulation of MHC class I antigen expression in neuroblastoma.” Cell 47 (5): 667–74.
Dessain SK, Gross CT, Kuziora MA, McGinnis W (1992). “Antp-type homeodomains have distinct DNA binding specificities that correlate with their different regulatory functions in embryos.” The EMBO Journal 11: 991–1002.
Dessain SK, Adekar SP, Stevens JB, Carpenter KA, Skorski ML, Barnoski BL, Goldsby RA, Weinberg RA (2004).“High efficiency creation of human monoclonal antibody-producing hybridomas.” J Immunol Methods 291 (1–2): 109–22.
Adekar SP, Jones RM, Elias MD, Al-Saleem FH, Root MJ, Simpson LL, Dessain SK (2008) “Hybridoma populations enriched for affinity-matured human IgGs yield high-affinity antibodies specific for botulinum neurotoxins.” J Immunol Methods 333(1–2): 156–66.
Books
Dessain SK, editor (2008). Human Antibody Therapeutics for Viral Diseases. Berlin: Springer. (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology; vol. 317). .
Dessain S, Fishman S (2016). Preserving the Promise: Improving the Culture of Biotech Investment. 1st ed. Cambridge (MA): Academic Press. .
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Enea Zuffi | Enea Zuffi (; 27 December 1891 – 14 July 1968) was an Italian footballer who played as a forward. Born in Turin, he began his career with local side Torino, making nine appearances and scoring one goal in two years there between 1908 and 1910. He then joined cross-city rivals Juventus, where he made 26 appearances in two years, before returning for one more season with Torino, where he collected another five appearances. At international level, he made five appearances for the Italy national team between 1912 and 1913, also appearing twice for Italy at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.
References
Profile at FIGC.it
Profile at myJuve.it
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Rob Beckley | Robert Benjamin "Rob" Beckley (born August 20, 1975) is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the Christian rock band Pillar, which was voted Best Hard Rock Band in CCM Magazine's 2006 Reader's Choice Awards. Beckley started the band in 1998 in Kansas.
Beckley is married to Linda Beckley. In addition to being the band's frontman, he is also a soldier in the United States Army Reserves.
Rob Beckley has contributed guest vocals to the songs such as, "Numb" by Tait, "Rock On" and "Help me Change" by KJ-52, "Silent Screams" by Éowyn, and "Indestructible" by Hardie Avenue. Rob is currently working on a solo album that will be exclusively sold on Idefimusic.
References
Further reading
External links
Pillar's official website
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Free-choice profiling | Free-choice profiling is a method for determining the quality of a thing by having a large number of subjects experience (view, taste, read, etc.) it and then allowing them to describe the thing in their own words, as opposed to posing them a set of "yes-no-maybe" questions. All of the descriptions are then analyzed to determine a "consensus configuration" of qualities, usually through Generalized Procrustes analysis (GPA) or Multiple factor analysis (MFA).
Free-choice profiling first emerged in 1984 but the original published model has been modified by researchers into variations that are more applicable to their particular use. For example, a technique employed by Jean Marc Sieffermann combined it with flash profiling, specifically using the free-profiling strategy of individual panelist vocabulary generation. The method allows panelists to freely develop their own descriptors and scales. A study show that free-choice profiling can provide more accurate sample maps compared with other methodologies such as project mapping and free sorting in the area of sensory characterization.
Dr Françoise Wemelsfelder is a well known scientist who has done extensive research in this field.
Notes and references
Sources
Raw Hop Aroma Qualities by Trained Panel Free-Choice Profiling, Gregory J. Stucky and Mina R. McDaniel, available on-line
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Shoe tree | A shoe tree may refer to:
Shoe tree (decorated plant), a perennial woody plant decorated with pairs of hung shoes
Shoe tree (device), a device placed inside of a shoe to preserve its shape |
Babatunde Omidina | Babatunde Omidina (born August 22, 1958) is a Nigerian actor and comedian popularly known as Baba Suwe.
Early life
He was born on August, 1958 in Inabere Street in Lagos Island where he grew up but hails from Ikorodu local government area of Lagos State, southwestern Nigeria.
He had his primary education at Jamaitul Islamial Primary School in Lagos and Children Boarding School, Osogbo before he proceeded to Adekanbi Commercial High School in Mile 12, Lagos state but obtained the West African School Certificate from Ifeoluwa Grammar School in Osogbo, the capital of Osun State, southwestern Nigeria.
Career
He began acting in 1971 but came into limelight after he featured in a movie titled, Omolasan, a film produced by Obalende.
He became more popular after he featured in Iru Esin, produced by Olaiya Igwe in 1997.
He had featured and produced several Nigerian movies such as Baba Jaiye jaiye, a movie that featured Funke Akindele and Femi Adebayo, the son of the veteran actor Adebayo Salami.
In 2011, he was alleged of cocaine trafficking by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, an allegation that was described as false and defamatory by the ruling of the lagos high court of law.
His solicitor was the late Bamidele Aturu, a Nigerian lawyer and human right activist.
Filmography
Ba o ku
Oju Oloju
Baba Londoner
Ko tan si be
Aso Ibora
Obelomo
''elebolo""
References
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Alcohol laws of Pennsylvania | The alcohol laws of Pennsylvania contain many peculiarities not found in other states, and are considered some of the strictest regulations in the United States.
History
Pennsylvania's complex alcohol laws can be traced back to the Prohibition era. Gifford Pinchot, who served as governor from 1923 to 1935, had a "dry" stance on alcohol. Even as Prohibition was repealed in Pinchot's 2nd term, he maintained his tough stance on alcohol control. The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board was created to license establishments, set serving hours, and regulate prices. Also in 1933, alcohol sales became a local option whether or not to become wet or dry. Although the state does not have any dry counties, the state still has 683 municipalities (as of January 2019) that are at least partially dry. Many of the dry or moist municipalities are small communities in rural areas.
Retail establishments selling alcohol must be licensed. The Liquor Control Board operates on a quota system, which has changed several times over the years. Currently, the quota is one license per 3,000 county inhabitants, but existing licenses in areas that exceed the quota are grandfathered-in.
License types
There are a number of types and sub-categories of liquor licenses available in the state. A retail license allows for the on-premises sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages. However, retail licenses are further divided into retail liquor licenses, which can sell liquor, wine, malt and brewed beverages, and retail dispenser licenses, which can sell brewed and malt beverages only.
Retail liquor
Retail liquor licenses can sell liquor, wine, malt, and brewed beverages for consumption on-premises. A restaurant or hotel, who has sold a customer a bottle of wine with a meal consumed on-premises, may allow the patron to take the bottle off-premises as long as it is re-sealed.
A peculiarity not found in many other states is that brewed or malt beverages can be sold for off-premises consumption in quantities less than 192 ounces (generally 6-packs and 12-packs of beer). Thus, many bars and restaurants double as beer stores.
For both types of retail licenses, serving hours are from 7:00 am to 2:00 am Monday through Saturday, and from 11:00 am to 2:00 am on Sunday, provided the establishment has a Sunday Sales Permit. There are further exceptions where one can serve earlier than 11:00 am.
Additional License Categories:
Restaurant Liquor - A restaurant that must have a minimum of 400 sq. ft. and seating for 30 patrons
Hotel Liquor
Municipal Golf Course Liquor
Airport Restaurant Liquor
Privately-Owned Public Golf Course Restaurant Liquor
Off-Track Wagering Restaurant Liquor
Retail dispenser
Retail dispenser licenses are under the same restrictions as the retail liquor licenses, except they are limited to brewed and malt beverages only.
Additional License Categories:
Eating Place Retail Dispenser - Must have a minimum of 300 sq. ft. and seating for 30 patrons. These are generally delis or corner stores.
Hotel Retail Dispenser
Municipal Golf Course Retail Dispenser
Privately-Owned Public Golf Course Eating Place Retail Dispenser
Club
Club licenses include private members-only fraternal organizations. Clubs may operate later than restaurants, until 3:00 am.
Distributor
The distributor license applies to establishments selling larger quantities of beer, generally cases and kegs.
Alcohol sales
For consumption off-premises
Pennsylvania is an alcoholic beverage control state. Spirits are to be sold only in the state owned Fine Wine and Good Spirits stores, which also sell wine, but not beer. Prices are generally the same throughout the state, but state stores may offer special discounts and sales, and county sales tax may cause the price to differ slightly. People under the age of 21 are allowed to enter Fine Wine and Good Spirits stores, contrary to popular belief, but only if accompanied by a parent or guardian. Monday through Saturday, a store may open as early as 9 am and close as late as 10 pm. On Sunday, many stores sell liquor from 11 am until 7 pm.
Wineries are common throughout the Commonwealth, and often sell their wines at storefronts in shopping malls; persons under the age of 21 are permitted to enter these establishments. Wine was available for a short time in supermarket kiosks, but this practice has ended. Many supermarkets now operate restaurants at which they are permitted to sell small quantities of wine as well as beer (see below).
Beer may only be purchased from a distributor or in limited quantities at many supermarkets. Beverage distributors are permitted sell beer in any amount whereas supermarkets have quantity restrictions. Beverage distributors (which also sell soft drinks) may sell beer and malt liquor, or hard liquor. People under 21 may enter most beverage distributors without an adult, since most distributors also sell water, soda, ice, tobacco products, and some snack foods. They are subject to the rules of the individual establishment.
The hours of operation of beer distributors are typically similar to that of Wine and Spirits stores and other retail establishments. These hours are only restricted by the state on Sundays, where a special license is required to sell beer, and sales before 11 am are not permitted. Although state law permits late-night beer distributors, local authorities can place additional restrictions, and stores typically close before 10 pm.
Beer and wine in small quantities may be purchased from a restaurant, bar, or licensed retailer. These establishments may sell six and twelve packs of beer, along with individual bottles such as 40 ounce or 24 ounce beers. Their licenses permit them to sell up to 192 fluid ounces of beer per purchase. They may also sell up to 4 bottles of wine per purchase.
Some supermarkets, including Acme, Giant, Giant Eagle, Redner's, Wegmans, and Weis, have begun to sell alcohol within restaurants attached to the main supermarket building, but only under very specific conditions (the restaurant must have a defined separation from the rest of the supermarket, a separate cashier, and seating for at least 30 patrons). Supermarket chain ShopRite has begun to attach Fine Wine and Good Spirits stores to its stores.
For a time, Sheetz obtained a liquor license for a restaurant attached to one of its convenience stores in Altoona. After several debates, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled that the store must sell beer to in-house customers as well as take-out. The 17th Street store now again sells beer and allows limited in store consumption. Today, Sheetz sells beer and wine at many Pennsylvania locations. In 2015, a Wawa convenience store location in
Chadds Ford was given approval to sell beer as part of a pilot. Several Rutter's convenience stores in Central Pennsylvania sell beer and wine.
Governor Tom Wolf signed Act 39 into law on June 8, 2016, which allowed for wine sales at supermarkets, restaurants, and hotels. On August 8, 2016, Act 39 went into effect. The act also allowed for additional alcohol licenses at retailers across the state.
For consumption on-premises
Closing time for restaurants and bars in Pennsylvania is 2am and for private clubs is 3am.
Attempts to privatize
Pennsylvania state lawmakers have attempted to privatize the sales of wine and spirits in the commonwealth. The state has had a monopoly over the sales of wine and spirits since the repeal of Prohibition. In the 2011 legislative session, the privatization of sales of wine and spirits was the focus of some controversy. This controversy is due to the budget deficit that the commonwealth faces. Supporters of the bill argue that sales taxes and license sales could generate nearly $1 billion worth of revenue for the state.
In the 2012 session, House Majority Leader Mike Turzai, with the backing of Governor Tom Corbett, announced a plan to issue 1,600 new liquor store licenses and auction the 600-plus liquor stores currently owned by the state. Stores would be allowed to sell beer in any configuration and without limit. Supporters say it could raise as much as $1.6 billion for the state. Opponents say that the proposed pricing would make it difficult for mom-and-pop stores to afford such licenses. Major opponents include the liquor store clerks union and the Pennsylvania Beer Alliance.
Drinking age
The minimum drinking age in Pennsylvania is 21 years. Minors are prohibited from purchasing, possessing, or consuming alcohol, even if it is furnished by the minor's immediate family. Persons over the age of 18 are permitted to serve alcohol, so an exception is made in the possession portion of the law in this respect. Many states have exceptions for consuming alcohol made for religious or medicinal purposes, but Pennsylvania does not have exceptions for either.
A person under the age of 21 may also be arrested, charged, and convicted of underage drinking through constructive possession, even if they had not consumed any alcohol, simply by being in the presence of alcohol. This is mainly exercised when officials break up large parties or other events where alcohol is being consumed and the issuance of chemical tests to every individual is deemed impractical.
Drunk driving
Driving, operating, or being in actual physical control of the movement of vehicle under the influence is a crime in Pennsylvania, and is subject to a great number of regulations outside of the state's alcohol laws. Pennsylvania's maximum blood alcohol level for driving is 0.08% for persons at or over the age of 21 (with suspension of license on the first offense), and 0.04% for a person operating a commercial vehicle (0.02% for a school bus) with revoking of the license on the first offense. For those under 21, Pennsylvania follows a "zero tolerance" policy, meaning that any BAC over 0.02% is enough to warrant a DUI (the small allowance is for certain medicinal purposes such as some cold medicines that contain alcohol). Penalties include fines, license suspension, and possible imprisonment.
See also
Sumptuary law
Allegheny County Alcoholic Beverage Tax
Law of Pennsylvania
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Band offset | Band offset describes the relative alignment of the energy bands at a semiconductor heterojunction.
Introduction
At semiconductor heterojunctions, energy bands of two different materials come together, leading to an interaction. Both band structures are positioned discontinuously from each other, causing them to align close to the interface. This is done to ensure that the Fermi energy level stays continuous throughout the two semiconductors. This alignment is caused by the discontinuous band structures of the semiconductors when compared to each other and the interaction of the two surfaces at the interface. This relative alignment of the energy bands at such semiconductor heterojunctions is called the Band offset.
The band offsets can be determined by both intrinsic properties, that is, determined by properties of the bulk materials, as well as non-intrinsic properties, namely, specific properties of the interface. Depending on the type of the interface, the offsets can be very accurately considered intrinsic, or be able to be modified by manipulating the interfacial structure. Isovalent heterojunctions are generally insensitive to manipulation of the interfacial structure, whilst heterovalent heterojunctions can be influenced in their band offsets by the geometry, the orientation, and the bonds of the interface and the charge transfer between the heterovalent bonds. The band offsets, especially those at heterovalent heterojunctions depend significantly on the distribution of interface charge.
The band offsets are determined by two kinds of factors for the interface, the band discontinuities and the built-in potential. These discontinuities are caused by the difference in band gaps of the semiconductors and are distributed between two band discontinuities, the valence-band discontinuity, and the conduction-band discontinuity. The built-in potential is caused by the bands which bend close at the interface due to a charge imbalance between the two semiconductors, and can be described by Poisson's equation.
Semiconductor Types
The behaviour of semiconductor heterojunctions depend on the alignment of the energy bands at the interface and thus on the band offsets. The interfaces of such heterojunctions can be categorized in three types: straddling gap (referred to as type I), staggered gap (type II), and broken gap (type III).
These representations do not take into account the band bending, which is a reasonable assumption if you only look at the interface itself, as band bending exerts its influence on a length scale of generally hundreds of angström. For a more accurate picture of the situation at hand, the inclusion of band bending is important.
Experimental Methods
Two kinds of experimental techniques are used to describe band offsets. The first is an older technique, the first technique to probe the heterojunction built-in potential and band discontinuities. This methods are generally called transport methods. These methods consist of two classes, either capacitance-voltage (C-V) or current-voltage (I-V) techniques. These older techniques were used to extract the built-in potential by assuming a square-root dependence for the capacitance C on bi - qV, with bi the built-in potential, q the electron charge, and V the applied voltage. If band extrema away from the interface, as well as the distance between the Fermi level, are known parameters, known a priori from bulk doping, it becomes possible to obtain the conduction band offset and the valence band offset. This square root dependence corresponds to an ideally abrupt transition at the interface and it may or may not be a good approximation of the real junction behaviour.
The second kind of technique consists of optical methods. Photon absorption is used effectively as the conduction band and valence band discontinuities define quantum wells for the electrons and the holes. Optical techniques can be used to probe the direct transitions between sub-bands within the quantum wells, and with a few parameters known, such as the geometry of the structure and the effective mass, the transition energy measured experimentally can be used to probe the well depth. Band offset values are usually estimated using the optical response as a function of certain geometrical parameters or the intensity of an applied magnetic field. Light scattering could also be used to determine the size of the well depth.
Alignment
Prediction of the band alignment is at face value dependent on the heterojunction type, as well as whether or not the heterojunction in question is heterovalent or isovalent. However, quantifying this alignment proved a difficult task for a long time. Anderson's rule is used to construct energy band diagrams at heterojunctions between two semiconductors. It states that during the construction of an energy band diagram, the vacuum levels of the semiconductors on either side of the heterojunction should be equal.
Anderson's rule states that when we construct the heterojunction, we need to have both semiconductors on an equal vacuum energy level. This ensures that the energy bands of both the semiconductors are being held to the same reference point, from which ΔEc and ΔEv, the conduction band offset and valence band offset can be calculated. By having the same reference point for both semiconductors, ΔEc becomes equal to the built-in potential, Vbi = Φ1 - Φ2, and the behaviour of the bands at the interface can be predicted as can be seen at the picture above.
Anderson's rule fails to predict real band offsets. This is primarily due to the fact that Anderson's model implies that the materials are assumed to behave the same as if they were separated by a large vacuum distance, however at these heterojunctions consisting of solids filling the space, there is no vacuum, and the use of the electron affinities at vacuum leads to wrong results. Anderson's rule ignores actual chemical bonding effects that occur on small vacuum separation or non-existent vacuum separation, which leads to wrong predictions about the band offsets.
A better theory for predicting band offsets has been linear-response theory. In this theory, interface dipoles have a significant impact on the lining up of the bands of the semiconductors. These interface dipoles however are not ions, rather they are mathematical constructs based upon the difference of charge density between the bulk and the interface. Linear-response theory is based on first-principles calculations, which are calculations aimed at solving the quantum-mechanical equations, without input from experiment. In this theory, the band offset is the sum of two terms, the first term is intrinsic and depends solely on the bulk properties, the second term, which vanishes for isovalent and abrupt non-polar heterojunctions, depends on the interface geometry, and can easily be calculated once the geometry is known, as well as certain quantities (such as the lattice parameters).
The goal of the model is to attempt to model the difference between the two semiconductors, that is, the difference with respect to an chosen optimal average (whose contribution to the band offset should vanish). An example would be GaAs-AlAs, constructing it from a virtual crystal of Al0.5Ga0.5As, then introducing an interface. After this a perturbation is added to turn the crystal into pure GaAs, whilst on the other side, the perturbation transforms the crystal in pure AlAs. These perturbations are sufficiently small so that they can be handled by linear-response theory and the electrostatic potential lineup across the interface can then be obtained up to the first order from the charge density response to those localized perturbations. Linear response theory works well for semiconductors with similar potentials (such as GaAs-AlAs) as well as dissimilar potentials (such as GaAs-Ge), which was doubted at first. However predictions made by linear response theory coincide exactly with those of self-consistent first principle calculations. If interfaces are polar however, or nonabrupt nonpolar oriented, additional effects must be taken into account. These are additional terms which require simple electrostatics, which is within the linear response approach.
References
Franciosi A.; Van de Walle C.G: Heterojunction band offset engineering, Surface Science Reports, Volume 25, Number 1, October 1996, pp. 1–140
Raymond T. Tung; Leeor; Kronik: Charge Density and Band Offsets at Heterovalent Semiconductor Interfaces; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adts.201700001/pdf
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Physics
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Alexandra Stan vs. Marcel Prodan | Alexandra Stan vs. Marcel Prodan refers to a 2013 Judecătoria Constanța (Constanța Court) lawsuit in which Romanian singer Alexandra Stan accused her impresario Marcel Prodan and his label Maan Studio of blackmail, bodily harm, common assault and robbery. In June 2013, Stan and Prodan were travelling in a car on Autostrada Soarelui (Sun Motorway) between Constanța and Valu lui Traian. Members of Poliția Rutieră (traffic police) found them fighting on the shoulder of the motorway; Stan's face was visibly bruised hence why she was taken to hospital. She later appeared on national television, generating media attention in Romania.
According to the singer, the incident occurred after she had asked Prodan for her earnings, to which he reacted violently. Several hearings were scheduled as part of the lawsuit; during one, Prodan testified that he had acted in self-defence after Stan hit him in his car and threatened to commit suicide. While Stan's accusations of blackmail and bodily harm were deemed groundless by the judges in 2014, Prodan received a seven-month suspended sentence for common assault in February 2016 and was assessed damages.
On appeal from both sides, the case was handed over to Curtea de Apel Constanța (Constanța Court of Appeal), where it was documented under the name of 5946/212/2015. On 21 December 2016, the court denied Stan's accusations due to the lack of evidence; Prodan's sentence was confirmed and his fines increased to €25,000. Music critics noted the impact of the legal case on the singer's follow-up work. Furthermore, she initiated the anti-domestic violence campaign Nu bate! Mai bine cântă! (Don't beat! Better sing!) in late 2013.
Background and lawsuit initiation
In 2009, Romanian singer Alexandra Stan was discovered by Romanian producers and songwriters Marcel Prodan and Andrei Nemirschi, who offered her a record deal with their label, Maan Records. In 2010, Stan's breakthrough single "Mr. Saxobeat" topped the Romanian Top 100 chart for several consecutive weeks, and further reached number one in Austria, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Slovakia, Switzerland and Turkey.
According to spokesmen for Poliţia Judeţeană Constanţa (Constanţa Country Police Department), members of Poliția Rutieră (traffic police) picked up Stan from Autostrada Soarelui (Sun Motorway) on 16 June 2013 at about 19:00 (EET). Policemen saw the singer and Prodan fighting in a car on the shoulder of the motorway; Stan had facial bruises as visible evidence of physical assault, and was subsequently taken to Spitalul Clinic Judeţean de Urgenţă Constanţa (Constanța County Emergency Hospital).
During her hospitalization, Stan filed a lawsuit against Prodan and Maan Studio for blackmail, bodily harm, common assault and robbery, at Judecătoria Constanța (Constanța Court). Additionally, she insisted that a message, reading she would cancel concerts due to a traffic accident, was posted by Prodan on her social media and was untrue. According to Stan, Prodan beat her to intimidate her about demanding her earnings from concerts, a reported €40,000. The singer also appeared on Romanian television, attracting media coverage in the country.
Court proceedings and outcome
In June 2014, judges deemed Stan's accusations of blackmail as groundless. Furthermore, the singer's bodily harm claims were denied in the November of the same year due to the lack of physical evidence. In June 2015, a first hearing of Stan and Prodan was held. According to Prodan, the incident had begun in his recording studio when he told Stan that she had sung poorly. Prodan alleged that Stan did not want to leave the building and reacted aggressively to him pushing her towards the exit. When describing the events in his car, Prodan said Stan had begun kicking him; he defended himself, slapping her when she jerked the steering wheel. Prodan testified that Stan had said she wanted to commit suicide and opened the door to jump out of the car; he grabbed her hand and stopped. Conversely, Stan said Prodan threw her into his car and struck her multiple times. In shock, she jerked the wheel to get out of the car. Further hearings with witnesses were scheduled to take place in September 2015.
In a follow-up audition in December, Stan demanded around €1 million in damages from Prodan. Among the audited was also Andrei Nemirschi, Prodan's collaborator at Maan Studio. On 19 February 2016, Prodan received a seven-month suspended sentence for common assault and was ordered to pay Stan €193 for medical care and €10,000 in damages. Dissatisfied with the outcome, both Stan and Prodan made appeals, resulting in the case being handed over to Curtea de Apel Constanța (Constanța Court of Appeal) on 9 June 2016. The court ruled that there was insufficient evidence to support the accusations made by the singer. It was reported in late November 2016 that, while Stan was assessed €500 in court costs, Prodan's sentence was confirmed and his damage award to Stan increased to €25,000. That decision was finalised on 21 December 2016.
Reception and aftermath
Romanian commentator Mircea Toma observed that the incident was treated "in a derisory way" by Romanian media, writing that "[a] woman who is beaten is subject of irony, something sensationalist and the violence itself is not condemned". However, Toma saw the legal case as a "good opportunity for society to debate domestic violence". Stan received widespread support on social media. The incident was noted to be the source of inspiration for the singer's follow-up work. Her song "Thanks for Leaving" (2014) reportedly discusses her recovery, while the title of "9 Lives" (2017) alludes to the event; according to Gheorghe Chelu of Click! magazine, "no trouble has ever managed to bring [Stan] down". In late 2013, the singer launched the anti-domestic violence campaign Nu bate! Mai bine cântă! (Don't beat! Better sing!), and was part of Pro TV's campaign Femeia ca o pradă (The woman as a prey) in September 2019.
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Lee Da-hye (swimmer) | Lee Da-hye (; born April 5, 1987) is a South Korean swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events. Lee qualified for the women's 200 m backstroke at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 2:14.88 from the Dong-A Swimming Tournament in Seoul. She challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including top medal favorite Evelyn Verrasztó of Hungary. She edged out Guatemala's Gisela Morales to claim a fifth spot by half a second in 2:17.73. Lee failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed twenty-fifth overall in the preliminaries.
References
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Eleazar Guzman Barron District | Eleazar Guzmán Barrón District is one of eight districts of the province Mariscal Luzuriaga in Peru.
Ethnic groups
The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (96.73%) learnt to speak in childhood, while 3.10% began with Spanish.
See also
Ancash Quechua
See also
Yanamayu
References
Category:Districts of the Mariscal Luzuriaga Province
Category:Districts of the Ancash Region |
Jean-Pierre Vallotton | Jean-Pierre Vallotton (born 1955 in Geneva, Switzerland) is a French-speaking Swiss poet, writer and artist.
Background
Jean-Pierre Vallotton studied literature and drama. He has participated in a number of international literature festivals including Rotterdam, Paris, Liege, Republic of Macedonia, Canada, Mexico, Australia. From 2005 to 2007, he was a lecturer at the University of Lausanne (literature and cinema). He is also a member of the Pierrette Micheloud Foundation board and president of its literary award jury.
Writing
Jean-Pierre Vallotton is the author of over thirty works, including poems, short stories, criticism, children texts, artist's books and translations (Ion Caraion, Sylvia Plath, Wolfgang Borchert, R. L. Stevenson). His work has been translated into fifteen languages.
His work has been published in about fifty anthologies and more than fifty periodicals (Two Plus Two, The Mississippi Review, Cimarron, The Prose Poem, Poetry New York, The Chariton Review, Confessio, Álora, Svetová Literatura, Unu, Struga International Review of Poetry, Europe, Nouvelle Revue Française, Poésie/Seghers, PO&SIE, Le Figaro littéraire, L'Humanité). Also a collagist, he illustrated the cover of some of his books.
The bilingual anthology "Wings Folded in Cracks", English translation and foreword by Antonio D'Alfonso, was published by Guernica (Toronto) in 2013 ("Essential Translations Series" 14).
Awards
Winner of several prizes : Hermann Ganz de la Société Suisse des Ecrivains, Unimuse (Belgium), Louise Labé (Paris), de la Ville de Lancy, Poncetton de la Société des Gens de Lettres de France (Paris).
What critics have said about
Jean-Pierre Vallotton's poetry:
"With neither complaint nor joy – uncompromising words."
(Constuire)
"A perfect and elegant writing that softly sings about love."
(Arpa)
"His poetry book traces a need for deep communion, for
transcendental essence, the light of which is a symbol closest
to the absolute."
(Rétro-Viseur)
"Profusion and sobriety converge in this pursuit of a learned
language of poetry."
(Le Courrier de l ’Escaut)
"Here is poetry, vibrantly so. the divine breathe of
inspiration transcends anguish, and opens to new life."
(Lettres et Cultures de Langue Française)
"Poetry opening to all horizons, to duration, and essentially
to what is presence."
(Le Journal des Poètes)
"More than the macroscopic of the surreal, Jean-Pierre Vallotton explores
the microscopic of hyperreality. In fact, if there is one single element in
this complex poetry that stands out, it is precisely the absence of
anything obvious. Yet his idiosyncratic poetic structure never disrupts its
symbolic density. Behind the irregularity of forms, there is recurrence,
tempo, permanency of pursuit. Where other poets of his generation
developed strategies of deconstruction, Vallotton invented a brave new
mosaic with the parameters left behind by traditionalism, modernism
and postmodernism. If William Wordsworth, Oscar Wilde, T.S. Eliot
are considered decadent, then so is Jean-Pierre Vallotton a decadent,
however, the sort of decadent that will be viewed as being great in years
to come: the space between us is a path of magnificence, and here the
faintest of our footsteps draws forth a flower''. His neo-baroque poetry
stands at the crossroads of whatever styles, forms, and contents
led to this spot; and it is with the pernicious artefacts found here that
Jean-Pierre Vallotton invents the unknown structures that will welcome
the birds of paradise of tomorrow." (Antonio D’Alfonso, in Wings Folded in Cracks)
References
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No Fools, No Fun | No Fools, No Fun is the debut full-length album by Brooklyn-based alt-country trio Puss n Boots, released on July 15, 2014, through Blue Note Records. It is a collection of five original and seven cover songs originally performed by artists including Johnny Cash, Wilco and Neil Young. The album, which contains both studio and live recordings, is available on CD, vinyl and as a digital download. The album's title comes from lyrics in the Johnny Cash song, "Bull Rider", which is covered by the band on the album.
Background and recording
About six months prior to the album's release the band decided to make a full-length album. The standard-edition release contains three live recordings, while a fourth is included as one of two bonus tracks on the Amazon deluxe edition. The live tracks were recorded live at The Bell House in Brooklyn, NY on June 27, 2013. The studio tracks on the album were recorded in just three days at Studio G in Brooklyn.
Release
Singles
The lead single from No Fools, No Fun, titled "Down By The River (Live From The Bell House, Brooklyn, NY / 2013)", was released on June 3, 2014. The song is a cover written and originally performed by Neil Young.
Album
No Fools, No Fun was released on July 15, 2014, through Blue Note Records. Amazon released an exclusive edition on CD and digital download that contains two bonus tracks.
Promotion
In support of the album, Puss n Boots toured during the summer and fall of 2014. Along with clubs, the band performed at numerous festivals including the Clearwater Festival, Green River Festival and the Newport Folk Festival.
On July 12, 2014, Puss n Boots was featured on SiriusXM's Outlaw Country channel, promoting the album and playing songs from it over an hour-long program.
Prior to the album's release the band performed at The Wall Street Journal cafe and inside the "Soundcheck studio" at WNYC.
On July 16, 2014, Puss n Boots performed "Don't Know What It Means" on The Tonight Show.
On August 16, 2014, Puss n Boots appeared on the Saturday edition of the television show CBS This Morning.
On October 2, 2014 Puss n Boots appeared inside the performance studio at a Live Lunch presentation from WTMD 89.7 in Towson/Baltimore MD.
Critical reception
No Fools, No Fun received mostly positive reviews from music critics upon its release. At Metacritic, they assign a "weighted average" rating out of 100 to selected independent ratings and reviews from mainstream critics, and the album has received an Metascore of a 66, based on 4 reviews, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic rated the album three and a half stars out of five, calling it "an appealing listen," and that it is "never rowdy -- the closest it comes is the train-track beat of Jones' original "Don't Know What It Means"—but there's an earthiness to the trio's chemistry that signals how deeply the group knows each other's strengths and weaknesses."
Rating the album three stars out of five, Hal Horowitz of American Songwriter states that its "difficult to dislike something that feels as genuine and unaffected as these dozen tracks played by talented friends clearly relishing each other’s company."
Writing for Rolling Stone and rating the album three stars out of five, Will Hermes expressed, "Most bar bands don't manage trio harmonies near this gorgeous, but the song selection is uneven."
Frederick Marfil of M Magazine called No Fools, No Fun "This summer’s all-purpose soundtrack ... (it) sounds as good at parties as it does in your headphones."
Chart performance
No Fools, No Fun debuted at No. 83 on the Billboard 200 chart. It also debuted at No. 7 on the Folk Albums chart and No. 28 on the Top Rock Albums chart.
Track listing
Personnel
Puss n Boots
Norah Jones – vocals, electric guitar, fiddle
Sasha Dobson – vocals, acoustic guitar, bass, drums
Catherine Popper – vocals, bass, acoustic guitar
Technical personnel
Joel Hamilton – engineering, mixing (at Studio G in Brooklyn, NY)
Greg Calbi – mastering (at Sterling Sound in New York City)
Matt Labozza – assistant engineering
Mike Jinno – assistant engineering
Francisco Botero – assistant engineering
Nicole Frantz – creative direction
Frank Harkins – art direction, design
Richard Ballard – photography
Release history
References
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Seek for Surname History | Seek for Surname History () is a TV series broadcast by ATV in Hong Kong in 2011. Each episode is dedicated to telling some of the legendary stories that belong to the Chinese surnames in the Hundred Family Surnames ancient text.
Production
The first season features 26 episodes hosted by Spencer Leung (). The content is not limited to just the five big surnames, but also covers lesser known names.
Many of the stories are legacy stories researched from ancient family trees that go back hundreds to thousands of years. Some of the stories focus on how the surname ended up in Hong Kong.
Episode surnames
External links
Official site
References
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Martin Corry (rugby union) | Martin Edward Corry MBE (born 12 October 1973) is an English former rugby union footballer who played at number eight, blindside flanker or lock for Bristol and Leicester Tigers and represented England and the British and Irish Lions.
Club career
Born in Birmingham, Corry was educated at Tunbridge Wells Grammar School and the University of Northumbria, and first played rugby union for Tunbridge Wells minis and the first team before joining Newcastle Gosforth and later Bristol. He broke his contract at Bristol to move to Leicester Tigers in 1997.
Corry was one of Leicester's core forwards for several seasons, an integral part of Leicester Tigers' success over this period, and was the club's captain during his tenure there. Corry started both the 2001 and 2002 Heineken Cup finals. He also helped Leicester win four Premiership trophies in a row in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002. Corry won his fifth Premiership medal in 2007, starting the final and scoring a try as Leicester defeated Gloucester.
Corry captained Leicester from the retirement of Johnson and Back in 2005 until his eventual retirement in 2009.
International rugby
During his career he has worked his way up the full representative ladder, representing England at Schools, Students, U21 and A level. He made his England debut against Argentina on the 1997 tour there with the main players playing on the 1997 British Lions tour.
Because of his ability to play either at lock, blindside or number 8, he was often used as an impact substitute.
In 2001 he was called up to the British and Irish Lions side after the tour had started, due to injuries within the squad, and immediately impressed Graham Henry, the Lions coach. He started the first test in the absence of the injured Neil Back, and replaced the injured Richard Hill in the second before starting the third test in the absence of Hill.
His subsequent international form has been varied: after playing in the delayed Six Nations decider in Dublin in October 2001, Corry missed out on the Autumn internationals but was a bench replacement for the 2002 Six Nations.
He confirmed his selection for Clive Woodward’s Rugby World Cup squad in a highly competitive back row area with a strong late run in England's warm-up matches: he performed well in the 43–9 defeat of Wales at the Millennium Stadium in late Summer of 2003 and then again in the September defeat of France at Twickenham. He was part of England's 2003 World Cup-winning squad, chosen ahead of teammate Graham Rowntree. During the 2003 Rugby World Cup, Corry flew home from Australia for the birth of his first child, daughter Eve. He rejoined the squad days later, and played in England's victory over Uruguay.
In 2005, he was named as England Captain for the Six Nations match against Italy and Scotland, in the absence of Jason Robinson.
In the summer he was selected for his second Lions tour, this time to New Zealand, and was made vice-captain for the first test. He went on to captain the team from the 2nd minute onwards as Brian O'Driscoll was injured in a notorious spear tackle incident. However, he was dropped for the final two tests in favour of Ryan Jones.
He was again selected as England's captain for the 2005 autumn internationals and 2006 Six Nations tournament. He continued as captain for the Autumn Internationals of 2006, in which England lost to New Zealand, Argentina and South Africa. Following these results, England Head coach Andy Robinson left his post and was replaced by Brian Ashton. In his first squad selection as England coach, Ashton named Corry in the starting line-up for the 2007 Six Nations opener against Scotland, though he was replaced as captain by Phil Vickery. Corry remained in the side as the tournament progressed, but in the final two games of the tournament (against France and Wales) he was moved to lock.
In 2007, Corry formed part of the Ashton's Rugby World Cup squad in which England progressed to the Final in Paris but were ultimately unable to defend their world title, losing to South Africa. The following year, Corry reportedly turned down Ashton's offer of a place in the England's squad for the opening fixture of their 2008 Six Nations campaign, instead announcing his retirement from international rugby at the age of 34.
In May 2009, Corry announced that he was retiring at the end of the 2008/09 season.
He captained the Barbarians against England at Twickenham on 30 May 2009, to a 33–26 victory.
Personal life
Corry is a keen supporter of Scarborough FC, having first been taken to watch the club as a child, when his grandfather had a house in the town.
Corry jetted back from Australia during the 2003 RWC for the birth of his first child, a daughter called Eve. It was literally a flying visit, as he rejoined the squad just a few days later. His son Edward was born soon after the end of the 2006 RBS 6 Nations Championship and daughter Tess was born in 2009.
References
External links
England profile
Martin Corry photo 1 at sporting-heroes.net
Martin Corry photo 2 at sporting-heroes.net
Martin Corry photo 3 at sporting-heroes.net
Leicester Tigers profile
Lions profile
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Norman Cohen | Norman Cohen (11 June 1936 in Dublin – 26 October 1983 in Van Nuys, California) was an Irish film director and producer, best known for directing two feature films based on television comedy programmes, Till Death Us Do Part (1969) and Dad's Army (1971). He was also a director of several of the Confessions of... sex comedy series: Confessions of a Pop Performer (1975), Confessions of a Driving Instructor (1976) and Confessions from a Holiday Camp (1977).
In addition to those films, he also produced as well as directed the adaptation of Spike Milligan's Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1973), and the comedy sequel Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers (1977). Cohen's first film production was The London Nobody Knows (1967) narrated by James Mason and his final film was Burning Rubber (1981).
He died after suffering a heart attack in 1983.
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Category:Irish film producers |
MPRI | MPRI may refer to:
Military Professional Resources Inc., a private military contractor.
Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute, a proton therapy treatment center in Bloomington, Indiana.
Master Parisien de Recherche en Informatique, a French master course in theoretical computer science |
Baburugama | Baburugama is a village in Sri Lanka. It is located within North Western Province.
See also
List of towns in North Western Province, Sri Lanka
External links
Department of Census and Statistics - Sri Lanka
Category:Populated places in North Western Province, Sri Lanka |
Pərioğlular | Pərioğlular or Perioglular or Peioglylar or Parioglylar may refer to:
Pərioğlular, Agdam, Azerbaijan
Pərioğlular, Aghjabadi, Azerbaijan |
Corraleja | A corraleja is a bullfighting festival in the Caribbean region of Colombia. In this type of event, the public is invited to engage the bulls in the ring. Compared a Spanish-style bullfight, the bulls are not killed after the fight, and the event is much less formal.
References
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Kenshiro | is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Fist of the North Star manga series created by Tetsuo Hara and Buronson. According to Buronson, Kenshiro's character design was inspired by the martial artist and actor Bruce Lee, and the character Max Rockatansky played by Mel Gibson in the Mad Max film series.
In the story, Kenshiro is the rightful successor of an ancient art of assassination called Hokuto Shinken, which allows Kenshiro to defeat his adversaries through use of hidden meridian points. Through the course of the original manga, Kenshiro fights against various ruffians who threaten the lives of the post-apocalyptic survivors, as well as numerous rival martial artists, including his three honorary brothers trained in the art of Hokuto Shinken.
Kenshiro is also known as the , due to the seven scars engraved on his chest patterned after the shape of the Big Dipper (the symbol of the Hokuto school), as well as the . Kenshiro's famous catchphrase just prior to an enemy's death is .
Concept and creation
Artist Tetsuo Hara originally depicted Kenshiro as a teenager who fought against the rival martial arts school of the Taizanji Kenpō in the 1980s Japan in his two-part prototype version of Hokuto no Ken. This version of the character was given the full name of . In this setting, Kenshiro was the 23rd successor of Hokuto Shinken, preceded by his unnamed father, who in turn learned the art from the 21st successor, Master . This Kenshiro was much more cheerful than the Kenshiro of the serialized manga, having yet to experience the same hardships at the start of the story and lacking his iconic seven scars. After Kenshiro's girlfriend, Yuki is murdered and Ken is framed for her death, Kenshiro becomes a wanted fugitive who sets out to overthrow the Taizanji organization.
The character was revised by Buronson when Hokuto no Ken was picked up for weekly serialization. Now turned into a full-grown adult, Buronson has stated that he based the revised Kenshiro on the actor and martial arts legend Bruce Lee, and the character Max Rockatansky from the Mad Max film series. The character is only referred by his given name in the series, which is always written in katakana in Japanese. The full name Kenshiro Kasumi was reused for the main character of Fist of the Blue Sky, a predecessor of the Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star, although his given name is spelled differently ( instead of ).
Character overview
Kenshiro is the youngest of four adopted sons trained by the previous Hokuto Shinken successor, Ryuken. As a child, he was sent to Japan, along with his future nemesis Raoh and Raoh's brother Toki, to escape from their homeland, the war-torn Land of Asura. Along with Raoh, Toki and a fourth student named Jagi, Kenshiro, the youngest of the four, was trained in the art of Hokuto Shinken and eventually named successor by Ryuken. After surviving the nuclear war, he tried to live in peace with his fiancée Yulia, until Jagi instigates Shin, a jealous rival from the Nanto Koshuken school, to challenge, then defeat Kenshiro. Shin then engraved the iconic seven scars on Kenshiro's chest by stabbing Kenshiro with his fingertips and left him for dead. Prior to this event, he was more forgiving of his enemies, as shown in a flashback of Jagi's failed assassination attempt against him, in which Kenshiro chooses to spare Jagi's life after defeating him. When Kenshiro later fights his old rivals in the present, particularly Shin, Jagi, and Raoh, they all remark on Kenshiro's acquired mercilessness.
The initial story arc centers around Kenshiro's quest to reclaim Yulia from Shin. He meets a pair of orphans who follow him in his journey: Bat, a thief; and Lin, a young girl rescued by Ken. Throughout the course of the series, Kenshiro protects the weak and innocent from the numerous gangs roaming the post-apocalyptic wasteland, eventually gaining his reputation as the "Savior of the Century's End." Kenshiro's skills improve through his encounters with members of the Nanto Roku Seiken and his Hokuto brothers. In the intervening years between Kenshiro last encountering his brothers, Toki decided to use his powers in a way that brought no pain, through healing and painless attacks, while Raoh became considerably more misguided, intent on becoming the 'Saviour of the Century's End' through ruling the wasteland with an iron fist. Kenshiro eventually confronts and defeats Raoh and is reunited with Yulia, and lives with her until she eventually dies from a terminal illness brought on by radiation sickness.
Years later, Kenshiro joins forces with the now-grown Bat and Lin, who have formed the Hokuto Army to fight off the now-corrupt Gento Kōken warriors. The story eventually takes Ken to the Land of Asura, where he learns of his Hokuto Sōke heritage and fights against the warlords who control the Land of Asura: his estranged blood brother Hyoh; and Kaioh, Raoh's other blood brother. In the end, Kenshiro takes Raoh's orphaned son, Ryu, under his wing, before continuing on his own, the future of humanity finally sealed with the defeat of Kaioh.
Voice actors
Kenshiro has been voiced by numerous voice actors in different media. Akira Kamiya voiced him first in the original anime television series and movie, as well as in a few video games. He is voiced by Takehito Koyasu in the original video animation series New Fist of the North Star, Kunihiro Kawamoto in the Fist of the North Star arcade game and CGI short Hokuto no Ken: Legend of Heroes, Hiroshi Abe in The Legends of the True Savior film series, Hideo Ishikawa in the video game version of Ten no Haō, Katsuyuki Konishi in the video games Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage, J-Stars Victory VS and Jump Force, and Takaya Kuroda, in the video game Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise. The child version of Kenshiro is voiced by Ryō Horikawa in the original anime series and by Yūko Gibu in the Legends of the True Savior film series.
Reception
In a survey conducted by the Oricon in 2007 among 1,000 people, Kenshiro ranked third place as the "strongest manga character of all time," behind only Dragon Ball protagonist Son Goku and Doraemon who ranked first and second, respectively.
A "wedding ceremony" for Kenshiro and Yuria was held at the Nippon Seinenkan on September 13, 2008, the date of the 25th anniversary of Fist of the North Star. Tetsuo Hara, Buronson, and other staff who worked on the series attended the ceremony planned by an actual wedding planner, with 3,000 fans applying for the 777 invitations that were available to fans via various outlets.
Internet meme
In the 2010s, Kenshiro's catchphrase "Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru" ("You Are Already Dead") became one of the most popular Internet meme. In September 2017, music producer deadman 死人 (Noah Ryan Murphy) released the song "Omae Wa Mou" which references the meme and samples the Japanese song "Tiny Little Adiantum" (2013) from the Touhou Project video game music album Toho Bossa Nova 2. The rapper Lil Boom produced his own version of the song called "Already Dead" three months later. In 2019, "Omae Wa Mou" went viral on TikTok and topped Spotify's Viral 50 chart, before being taken off the chart after being struck with a copyright claim.
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Duris of Samos | Duris of Samos (or Douris) (; BCafter 281BC) was a Greek historian and was at some period tyrant of Samos. Duris was the author of a narrative history of events in Greece and Macedonia from 371BC to 281BC, which has been lost. Other works included a life of Agathocles of Syracuse and a number of treatises on literary and artistic subjects.
Personal and political life
Duris claimed to be a descendant of Alcibiades. He had a son, Scaeus, who won the boys' boxing at the Olympian Games "while the Samians were in exile"; that is, before 324BC. From 352 to 324 Samos was occupied by Athenian cleruchs who had expelled the native Samians. Duris therefore may well have been born at some date close to 350BC, and, since his main historical work ended with the death of Lysimachus in 281 BC, must have died at an unknown date after that. Some modern sources assume that the Olympic victor Scaeus must have been the father, not the son, of the historian Duris; hence he is described in at least two encyclopedias as "son of Scaeus". The ancient sources, admittedly meagre, do not support this. Duris was the brother of Lynceus of Samos, author of comedies, letters and the essay Shopping for Food.
Many 20th century works state that Duris was a pupil of Theophrastus at Athens. There is no evidence for this claim other than a conjectural emendation by Adamantios Korais of the text of the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus. The manuscript text says not that Duris studied under Theophrastus, but that his brother Lynceus and Lynceus's correspondent Hippolochus did so.
The only recorded fact about Duris's public life is that he was tyrant, or sole ruler, of Samos. How he attained this position, for how long he held it, and what events took place under his rule, are unknown. "His reign was uneventful", Hazel guesses.
Writings
Duris was the author of a narrative history of events in Greece and Macedonia from the battle of Leuctra (371BC) down to the death of Lysimachus (281BC). This work, like all his others, is lost; over thirty fragments are known through quotations by other authors, including Plutarch. It was continued in the Histories of Phylarchus. Other works by Duris included a life of Agathocles of Syracuse, which was a source for books 19-21 of the Historical Library of Diodorus Siculus. Duris also wrote historical annals of Samos arranged according to the lists of the priests of Hera; and a number of treatises on literary and artistic subjects.
List of works
Parts of eight of Duris's works survive, ranging from 33 fragments of his Histories to a single, small fragment from his On Sculpture. A full listing is:
Histories (also listed as Macedonica and Hellenica; 33 fragments)
On Agathocles (also listed as Libyca; 13 fragments)
Annals of Samos (22 fragments)
On Laws (2 fragments)
On Games (4 fragments)
On Tragedy (and perhaps On Euripides and Sophocles; 2 fragments)
On Painters (2 fragments)
On Sculpture (1 fragment)
Later opinions
Of those later authors who knew Duris's work, few praise it. Cicero accords him qualified praise as an industrious writer. Plutarch used his work but repeatedly expresses doubt as to his trustworthiness. Dionysius of Halicarnassus speaks disparagingly of his style. Photius regards the arrangement of his work as altogether faulty. By contrast with recent predecessors such as Ephorus, Duris served as the exemplar of a new fashion for "tragic history" which gave entertainment and excitement greater importance than factual reporting. In Plutarch's "Life of Pericles" a telling example is Duris's elaborate (and, according to Plutarch, exaggerated) description of cruelty and extensive destruction at Samos when Athenian forces, led by Pericles, subdued the island.
Recent critics, believing that Duris was a pupil of Theophrastus, have attempted either to demonstrate that "tragic history" agreed with the teachings of the Peripatetic school or to analyse Duris's motives for taking a different line from his supposed teachers. The debate was inevitably inconclusive.
References
Bibliography
Editions of the fragments
C. Müller, Fragmenta historicorum Graecorum vol. 2 (Paris, 1848) pp. 466–488. [Greek with Latin translation and commentary]
F. Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker vol. 2A pp. 1136–1158 [Greek text]; vol. 2C pp. 115–131 [German commentary]
Modern scholarship
J. P. Barron, "The Tyranny of Duris of Samos" in Classical Review new series vol. 12 (1962) pp. 189–192.
C. O. Brink, "Tragic History and Aristotle's School" in Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society vol. 186 (1960) pp. 14–19.
A. Dalby, "The Curriculum Vitae of Duris of Samos" in Classical quarterly new series vol. 41 (1991) pp. 539–541.
R. B. Kebric, In the Shadow of Macedon: Duris of Samos. Wiesbaden, 1977.
R. B. Kebric, "A Note on Duris in Athens" in Classical Philology vol. 69 (1974) pp. 286–287.
F. Landucci Gattinoni, Duride di Samo. Roma, 1997.
L. Okin, Studies on Duris of Samos. University of Michigan dissertation, 1974.
L. Okin, "A Hellenistic Historian Looks at Mythology" in Panhellenica (Lawrence, Kansas, 1980).
P. Pédech, Trois historiens méconnus: Théopompe, Duris, Phylarque. Paris, 1989.
E. Schwartz, "Duris (3)" in Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft: neue Bearbeitung (Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 1894-1980) vol. 5 pt 2 cols 1853-1856.
F. W. Walbank, "History and Tragedy" in Historia vol. 9 (1960) pp. 216–234.
C. Baron, Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic Historiography (2012) pp. 247–255.
Other encyclopedias
M. von Albrecht, "Duris (1)" in Der kleine Pauly ed. Konrat Ziegler, Walther Sontheimer (Munich: Artemis, 1975).
D. Bowder, "Duris of Samos" in Who Was Who in the Greek World (Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1982) pp. 101–102.
"Duris of Samos" in The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. (2008).
J. Hazel, "Duris (2)" in J. Hazel, Who's Who in the Greek World (London, 1999) p. 89.
R. Schmitt, "Duris of Samos" in Encyclopædia Iranica. OCLC 311688910
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