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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%ABbari-class%20destroyer%20escort
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Yūbari-class destroyer escort
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The Yūbari-class destroyer escort (or frigate) of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force is the successor of the Ishikari-class destroyer escort. Yubari was named after the experimental light cruiser of the 1920s–1930s, which served in (and was lost during) World War II.
Description
This class was the extended version of its predecessor, . The displacement was slightly increased, and some improvements were introduced. But they were almost same and there were many points in common as follows:
The CODOG propulsion system.
The propulsion system of this class was identical with the one of its predecessor. The Rolls-Royce Olympus TM-3B manufactured by the Kawasaki Heavy Industries under license was used for boosting. The cruising engine is the Kawasaki 6DRV 35/44 diesel engine developed by the Technical Research and Development Institute (TRDI).
Centre-superstructure style.
Whereas the JMSDF incline to adopt the flush decker style, in this class, the superstructure is at the center of the ship to save the space of the ship. This was very controversial decision, and because of this decision, there has been the criticism about the oceangoing capability of this class.
Simplified but sufficient C4ISR system.
This class was not equipped with air-search radar whereas her predecessors almost had. Alternatively there were the OPS-28 surface search and target acquisition radar which can deal with low-altitude aircraft and missiles. And also the FCS-2 gun fire-control system has the air-searching capability. As the tactical data processing system, they had the OYQ-5 being capable of receiving data automatically from other ships via Link-14 (STANAG 5514; the data link with the Radioteletype).
Brand-new weapon systems.
This class was equipped with eight Boeing Harpoon Surface-to-surface missile as the key weapon system whereas traditional Japanese frigates weighed heavily on the Anti-submarine warfare. According to this mission concept, its predecessor's Mark 16 GMLS for the ASROC system was removed. And a modern Otobreda 76 mm gun replaced its predecessor's older 3-inch gun and automation greatly reduced the number of crew needed. Provision for a Phalanx CIWS was made in the stern area, although it was never installed.
Both ships of this class were deployed at the Ominato District Force (home-ported at Mutsu, Aomori). The Ominato District is the northernmost district of the JMSDF and forefront against the Russian Pacific Fleet. Originally it had been planned to build six of this class (1985 Mid-Term Defense Buildup Program). However it was decided that this class was too small to continue in production, so it was succeeded by the with an entirely new design.
Ships in the class
See also
List of frigates
Notes
References
Jane's Fighting Ships 2005–2006
Frigates of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
Frigate classes
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Devrimci Yol
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Devrimci Yol (Turkish for "Revolutionary Path", shortly DEV-YOL) was a Turkish political movement (as opposed to a tightly structured organization) with many supporters in trade unions and other professional institutions. Its ideology was based on Marxism-Leninism but rejected both the Soviet and the Chinese model in favor of a more native Turkish model, although it was influenced by the latter. Devrimci Yol entered the political scene in Turkey on 1 May 1977 with its manifesto called bildirge. Its roots can be seen in a movement that called itself Devrimci Gençlik ("Revolutionary Youth", short DEV-GENÇ), and it followed the thesis of Mahir Çayan.
Self-portrayal
The defence in the central trial against members of Devrimci Yol at Ankara Military Court included the following lines:
"In many areas of life and many cities in Turkey Devrimci Yolcu's (follower of Devrimci Yol) can be found. They carry the name because they defend a common political view on the fight against fascism and the general problems of the revolutionary fight in our country."
The brochure published in Hamburg in November 1980 carried the emblem of the organization (fist on top of a star) and therefore the views expressed there reflect the attitude of the organization:
"Devrimci Yol calls the current regime in Turkey fascism of a colonialist type...We have seen that the anti-fascist fight is closely related to the fight against imperialism...The armed struggle merely means to systematize and extend the scattered resistance against fascism."(page 25)
External sources
In a report on the central trial against Devrimci Yol in Ankara Amnesty International wrote in June 1988:
Dev-Yol had no formal membership and gathered its supporters among people sharing the views expressed in a journal under the same name. Until the military coup in September 1980 this journal was legal like many other political publications."
In April 1997, the Swiss Refugee Support Organization (in German Schweizerische Flüchtlingshilfe, SFH) published a report simply called "Türkei - Turquie". The report included detailed information on many legal and illegal Turkish and Kurdish organization. On Devrimci Yol, it stated inter alia:
"The organization was led by a collective. In the indictments against Dev-Yol the members of the central committee were named as: , Nasuh Mitap, Ali Başpınar, Mehmet Ali Yılmaz, Akın Dirik, Melih Pekdemir, Ali Alfatlı, and Taner Akçam. Devrimci Yol quickly developed to a mass movement and had tens of thousands followers in a short time. Before the military coup its publication had a circulation of 115,000."
The question of violence
"The journal and supporters of Dev-Yol were not opposed to violence but tried to put into practice a defence policy centred around the idea of 'committees of resistance', which were to counter attacks against the population by right-wing militants known as the Grey Wolves." The first resistance committees (direniş komiteleri) were formed because Devrimci Yol believed that there was a civil war in Turkey. Arms were to be used in defence. One of the main goals of the committees was the establishment of cooperatives of production. In Fatsa, for instance, a hazelnut cooperative was founded.
Resistance committees in practice
The resistance committees (organized in factories or quarters) were put to the test during the incidents in Çorum in July 1980. Just like the conflict in Kahramanmaraş in December 1978, the clashes in Çorum seemed to emerge from religious tensions between the dominant Sunnites and the minority of Alevites, but at the same time, they were a battle between right and left wing groups for domination in the town. The committees in the quarters erected barricades trying to avoid further losses.
Although a curfew was announced and the military intervened, some 50 people were killed. While the conflict in Çorum was still continuing, Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel intervened by saying Çorum'u bırak, Fatsa'ya bak (Leave Çorum and look at Fatsa). He was referring to the district town at the Black Sea of (at the time some 20,000 inhabitants) who in 1979 had elected Fikri Sönmez, known as terzi Fikri ("Tailor Fikri") as mayor with 62% of the votes. The words of Demirel resulted in the so-called "point operation" (nokta operasyonu), a military operation that destroyed the project of self-administration in Fatsa (in German :de:Selbstverwaltung in Fatsa). More than 1,000 people were detained. The military operation in Fatsa was often termed rehearsal for the coup.
Prosecution of Devrimci Yol members
After the military coup of 12 September 1980, tens of thousands of men and women were taken into custody. More than 30,000 were jailed in the first four months after the coup. Alleged members of Devrimci Yol were detained in many parts of the country and tried at military courts. Many of these trials involved several hundred defendants.
Mass trials
The list of mass trials against alleged members of Devrimci Yol and the number of death penalties passed in these trials is based on press reports collected by the alternative türkeihilfe
Executions
Between 1980 and 1984 a total of 50 people including 27 political prisoners were executed in Turkey. Members of Devrimci Yol executed for violent activities were:
Veysel Güney in Gaziantep on 11 June 1981
Mustafa Özenç in Adana on 20 August 1981
İlyas Has in İzmir on 7 October 1984
Hıdır Aslan in Burdur on 25 October 1984
Deaths in custody
After the military coup of September 1980 the number of deaths in custody increased decisively. Many of them were alleged to be the result of torture. The victims included persons who had been detained on suspicion of being members of Devrimci Yol. They included:
Zeynel Abidin Ceylan in Ankara on 26 September 1980
Cemil Kırbayır in Kars on 9 October 1980
Behçet Dinlerer in Ankara on 15 October 1980
Himmet Uysal in Uşak on 30 October 1980
Cengiz Aksakal in Artvin on 12 November 1980
Zafer Müctebaoğlu in Ankara on 15 October 1982
Şerafettin Tırıç in Fatsa on 10 August 1985
Current situation
Some cadres of Devrimci Yol, who managed to leave the country formed an organization in Europe called Devrimci İşçi (Revolutionary Worker) and for some time published a paper called Demokrat Türkiye, but later dissolved. In April 1991 the Law to Fight Terrorism (Law 3713) entered into force in Turkey. Temporary Article 1 of this law provided that all death sentences would be commuted to 10 years' imprisonment. Subsequently most long-term prisoners including the leading members of Devrimci Yol were released. Most of them joined the Freedom and Solidarity Party (Özgürlük ve Dayanışma Partisi, ÖDP). Some people tried to revive Devrimci Yol. Attempts can be seen around journals such as Yön (Direction), Devrim (Revolution), Devrimci Gençlik (Revolutionary Youth), Liseli Genç Umut (Hope for Youth at School) or Halkın Sesi (Voice of the people). Other attempts of reorganizing the group have remained at a low level.
References
External links
Devrimci Yol Archive
1977 establishments in Turkey
1985 disestablishments in Turkey
Communist organizations in Turkey
Far-left politics in Turkey
Left-wing militant groups in Turkey
Organizations disestablished in 1985
Organizations established in 1977
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest%20Park%20%28Manchester%29
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Northwest Park (Manchester)
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Northwest Park (Manchester) is a baseball field located in the northeastern part of Manchester, Connecticut, United States. The field is the former home of the Manchester Silkworms of the New England Collegiate Baseball League. It played host to the Silkworms between 2000 and 2009. The field's location places Union Pond behind a stand of trees located past the outfield.
External links
Manchester Silkworms website
NECBL website
Notes
New England Collegiate Baseball League ballparks
Baseball venues in Connecticut
Sports in Manchester, Connecticut
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline%20Playne
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Caroline Playne
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Caroline Elizabeth Playne (2 May 1857 – 27 January 1948) was an English pacifist, humanitarian, novelist, and historian of the First World War.
Early life
Very little is known about the personal details of Playne's life, as she left little of her own documentary evidence. She was born in Avening, Gloucestershire, one of two daughters of Margarettia Sara, a Dutchwoman, and her English husband, George Frederick Playne, a cloth manufacturer. Caroline was multilingual from childhood, speaking English and Dutch, while her later historical work suggests she also was familiar with French and German. Some time after her father's death in 1879, Playne moved with her mother to Hampstead, London, where she lived for the rest of her life. Margarettia died in 1905.
Playne's first foray into writing was as a romantic novelist. In 1904 she published The Romance of a Lonely Woman closely followed byThe Terror of the Macdurghotts in 1907, both novels published by T. Fisher Unwin under the name C.E. Playne. In 1908, Playne was elected an associate member of the University Women's Club.
Peace and humanitarian work
Caroline Playne formally approached pacifist work some time around 1905, and quickly became a committed activist and member of a wide range of organisations. She was a representative of the National Peace Council (NPC), created to support the action of the international court in The Hague, and in 1910 was a founder member of the Church of England Peace League, a member organisation of the NPC dedicated to "keep[ing] before members of the Church of England 'the duty of combating the war spirit. Over the following years she also became a member of the Hampstead Peace Society, the League of Peace and Freedom, and the Peace Society. Playne became a regular attendee and speaker at national and international peace conferences. In 1908 she took part in the International Congress for Peace in London, and on this occasion she met the Austrian pacifist Bertha von Suttner, of whom she later wrote a biography. Playne was present at an NPC meeting on 4 August 1914, which condemned the secret diplomacy of the British government in the years before the war.
At the outbreak of the First World War, Playne immediately became a committee member of the Society of Friends' Emergency Committee for the Assistance of Germans, Austrians and Hungarians in Distress, an organisation set up to assist citizens of those countries in Britain, including prisoners of war. She became heavily involved in this work, helping with accommodation and other needs for the thousands of "enemy aliens" who appealed to the Committee for help, while also taking up detailed committee tasks and financial scrutiny.
Alongside this humanitarian work, Playne joined the Union of Democratic Control when it was formed in 1914, hosting events for the organisation at her London home. She was also involved in encouraging personal correspondence between the belligerent countries; the tracing of missing persons; and translating German newspaper articles for British audiences.
Historical writing
During the war, Playne assembled a large mass of research on the conflict and events in London, including some 530 books and pamphlets. With the addition of her own voluminous diary observations, and encouraged by her friend, the writer Vernon Lee, this collection provided the material for her four major studies of the war and its causes: The Neuroses of the Nations (1925); The Pre-War Mind in Britain (1928); Society at War 1914–1916 (1931); Britain Holds On 1917–1918 (1933).
Both pioneering and idiosyncratic, Playne's historical work draws heavily on the emerging methodologies of social psychology to argue that the War represented a collective "neurosis" of the European mind. Preoccupied with "the mind and the passions of the multitude", Playne deployed a vast array of sources and quotations to critique European culture before and during the War, especially its nationalism, imperialism and militarism. She argues that the technological and social developments of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries "disorientated" and "disjointed" European societies, and was especially damaging to the "mental calibre" of the cultural elite. Her work is particularly notable for emphasising the influence of mass media in shaping and directing public opinion, anticipating media studies by fifty years. Taken together, argues the historian Richard Espley, the four books can be regarded as a single "2,500 page meditation on the neurotic, militaristic failure of western culture".
Despite the originality of her approach to the study of the War, Playne has been neglected by later scholars. Where they are used, her books are largely drawn upon as sources for detail and reportage of the war years, rather than analyses in their own right.
Later life and death
In 1938, Playne deposited her research collection in the library at Senate House, London. Playne never married, and left no children. She died at Hampstead in 1948.
Works
Fiction:
The Romance of a Lonely Woman, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1904
The Terror of the Macdurghotts, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1907
Non-Fiction:
The Neuroses of the Nations, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1925
The Pre-War Mind in Britain. An Historical Review, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1928
Society at War 1914–1916, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1931
Britain Holds On 1917, 1918, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1933
Bertha von Suttner, and the Struggle to Avert the World War, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1936
The four volumes on the Great War are also available in electronic edition, in a single ebook that collects them all:
Society in the First World War, GogLiB ebooks, 2018
References
External links
Caroline Playne: A Campaigning Life @ the Senate House Library, University of London
Works by Caroline E. Playne in the British Library Catalogue.
1857 births
1948 deaths
English pacifists
English non-fiction writers
20th-century British non-fiction writers
English women non-fiction writers
20th-century British historians
20th-century English women
20th-century English people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%20Serti%C4%87
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Ivan Sertić
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Ivan Sertić (born 27 February 1985) is a Croatian retired football forward.
Career
Sertić start to play football in NK Rijeka. Between 2001 and 2003 Sertić is a part of Croatia national under-17 football team.
In 2005, he is loaned in NK Novalja for six months.
In season 2007/08 the forward played for NK Pomorac.
In summer 2008 he signed a contract with Bulgarian Belasitsa Petrich. Sertić made his official debut for the Bulgarian club on 10 August 2008 in a match against CSKA Sofia as a 74th min substitute. On 8 November 2008 he scored his first goal for Belasitsa in a match against Litex Lovech.
In July 2015, Sertić returned to his former club HNK Orijent 1919. Two years later, in June 2017, he announced his retirement from football.
References
External links
Ivan Sertić profile at Nogometni Magazin
Ivan Sertić at HNS
1985 births
Living people
Footballers from Rijeka
Association football forwards
Croatian footballers
Croatia youth international footballers
Croatia under-21 international footballers
HNK Rijeka players
NK Novalja players
HNK Orijent players
NK Pomorac 1921 players
PFC Belasitsa Petrich players
NK Nehaj players
NK Jadran Poreč players
NK Grobničan players
Croatian Football League players
First Football League (Croatia) players
First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players
Croatian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Bulgaria
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emission%20inventory
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Emission inventory
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An emission inventory (or emissions inventory) is an accounting of the amount of pollutants discharged into the atmosphere. An emission inventory usually contains the total emissions for one or more specific greenhouse gases or air pollutants, originating from all source categories in a certain geographical area and within a specified time span, usually a specific year.
An emission inventory is generally characterized by the following aspects:
Why: The types of activities that cause emissions
What: The chemical or physical identity of the pollutants included, and the quantity thereof
Where: The geographic area covered
When: The time period over which emissions are estimated
How: The methodology to use
Emission inventories are compiled for both scientific applications and for use in policy processes.
Use
Emissions and releases to the environment are the starting point of every environmental pollution problem. Information on emissions therefore is an absolute requirement in understanding environmental problems and in monitoring progress towards solving these. Emission inventories provide this type of information.
Emission inventories are developed for a variety of purposes:
Policy use: by policy makers to
track progress towards emission reduction targets
develop strategies and policies or
Scientific use: Inventories of natural and anthropogenic emissions are used by scientists as inputs to air quality models
Policy use
Two more or less independent types of emission reporting schemes have been developed:
Annual reporting of national total emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants in response to obligations under international conventions and protocols; this type of emissions reporting aims at monitoring the progress towards agreed national emission reduction targets;
Regular emission reporting by individual industrial facilities in response to legal obligations; this type of emission reporting is developed to support public participation in decision-making.
Examples of the first are the annual emission inventories as reported to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for greenhouse gases and to the UNECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP) for air pollutants. In the United States, a national emissions inventory is published annually by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. This inventory is called the "National Emissions Inventory", and can be found here:
Examples of the second are the so-called Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers.
Policy users typically are interested in annual total emission only.
Scientific use
Air quality models need input to describe all air pollution sources in the study area. Air emission inventories provide this type of information. Depending on the spatial and temporal resolution of the models, the spatial and temporal resolution of the inventories frequently has to be increased beyond what is available from national emission inventories as reported to the international conventions and protocols.
Compilation
For each of the pollutants in the inventory emissions are typically estimated by multiplying the intensity of each relevant activity ('activity rate') in the geographical area and time span with a pollutant dependent proportionality constant ('emission factor').
Why: the source categories
To compile an emission inventory, all sources of the pollutants must be identified and quantified. Frequently used source categorisations are
those defined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, IPCC Good practice guidance and uncertainty management in national greenhouse gas inventories, IPCC Good practice guidance for land use, land use change and forestry and more recently the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories
those defined in the UNECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP); recently the LRTAP Convention adopted a source categorisation that is largely consistent with those of IPCC, to replace the more technology oriented Standardized Nomenclature for Air Pollutants (SNAP) used until 2005.
Both source categorisations make a clear distinction between sources related to the combustion of (fossil) fuels and those that are not caused by combustion. In most cases the specific fuel combusted in the former is added to the source definition. Source categories include:
Energy
Fuel combustion
Stationary combustion
Industrial combustion
Residential heating
Mobile combustion (transport)
Fugitive emissions from (fossil) fuel use
Industrial Processes
Solvent and other product use
Agriculture
LULUCF (Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry)
Waste
Many researchers and research projects use their own source classifications, sometimes based on either the IPCC or the SNAP source categories, but in most cases the source categories listed above will be included.
What: the pollutants
Emission inventories have been developed and still are being developed for two major groups of pollutants:
Greenhouse gases:
Carbon dioxide (CO2),
Methane (CH4),
Nitrous oxide (N2O) and
A number of fluorinated gaseous compounds (HFCs, PFCs, SF6)
Other greenhouse gases, not included in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Air pollutants:
Acidifying pollutants: sulphur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx, a combination of nitrogen monoxide, NO and nitrogen dioxide, NO2) and ammonia (NH3),
Photochemical smog precursors: again nitrogen oxides and non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOCs)
Particulates and particulate precursors
Toxic pollutants like heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants
Carbon monoxide (CO)
Where: geographical resolution
Typically national inventories provide data summed at the national territory only. In some cases additional information on major industrial stacks ('point sources') is available. Stacks are also called release points, because not all emissions come from stacks. Other industrial sources include fugitive emissions, which cannot be attributed to any single release point.
Some inventories are compiled from sub-national entities such as states and counties (in the U.S.), which can provide additional spatial resolution.
In scientific applications, where higher resolutions are needed, geographical information such as population densities, land use or other data can provide tools to disaggregate the national level emissions to the required resolution, matching the geographical resolution of the model.
When: temporal resolution
Similarly, national emission inventories provide total emissions in a specific year, based on national statistics. In some model applications higher temporal resolutions are needed, for instance when modelling air quality problems related to road transport. In such cases data on time dependent traffic intensities (rush hours, weekends and working days, summer and winter driving patterns, etc.) can be used to establish the required higher temporal resolution.
Inventories compiled from Continuous Emissions Monitors (CEMs) can provide hourly emissions data.
How: methodology to compile an emission inventory
The European Environment Agency updated in 2007 the third edition of the inventory guidebook. The guidebook is prepared by the UNECE/EMEP Task Force on Emission Inventories and Projections and provides a detailed guide to the atmospheric emissions inventory methodology.
Especially for Road Transport the European Environment Agency finances COPERT 4, a software program to calculate emissions which will be included in official annual national inventories.
Quality
The quality of an emission inventory depends on its use. In policy applications, the inventory should comply with all what has been decided under the relevant convention. Both the UNFCCC and LRTAP conventions require an inventory to follow the quality criteria below (see):
A well constructed inventory should include enough documentation and other data to allow readers and users to understand the underlying assumptions and to assess its usability in an intended application.
See also
Emission factor
Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database
Greenhouse gas inventory
Notes
External Links
National inventories of GhG emitted in 2019 (received by the UNFCCC in 2021)
Sources and further reading
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Clearinghouse for Inventories and Emissions Factors
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: National Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Toxics Release Inventory
European Environment Agency EMEP/CORINAIR Emission Inventory Guidebook 2009
U.S. Toxic Air Emissions Map
COPERT 4 - Computer Programme to Calculate Emissions from Road Transport
Methodology for the calculation of exhaust emissions - Road Transport
Air pollution emissions
Greenhouse gas inventories
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922%20Giro%20d%27Italia
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1922 Giro d'Italia
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The 1922 Giro d'Italia was the tenth edition of the Giro d'Italia, a Grand Tour organized and sponsored by the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport. The race began on 24 May in Milan with a stage that stretched to Padua, finishing back in Milan on 11 June after a stage and a total distance covered of . The race was won by the Italian rider Giovanni Brunero of the Legnano team. Second and third respectively were the Italian riders Bartolomeo Aymo and Giuseppe Enrici.
Participants
Of the 75 riders that began the Giro d'Italia on 24 May, fifteen of them made it to the finish in Milan on 11 June. Riders were allowed to ride on their own or as a member of a team. There were four teams that competed in the race: Bianchi-Salga, Ganna-Dunlop, Legnano-Pirelli, and Maino-Bergougnan.
The peloton was almost completely composed of Italians. The field featured one former Giro d'Italia champion in the 1919 Giro d'Italia winner Costante Girardengo. Other notable Italian riders that started the race included Giovanni Brunero, Bartolomeo Aymo, and Gaetano Belloni.
Final standings
Stage results
General classification
There were fifteen cyclists who had completed all ten stages. For these cyclists, the times they had needed in each stage was added up for the general classification. The cyclist with the least accumulated time was the winner.
Other classifications
There were two other classifications contested at the race. A juniors classification was won Giuseppe Enrici and the isolati classification was won by Domenico Schierano. Each of these classifications were calculated like the general classification.
References
Notes
Citations
1922
Giro d'Italia
Giro d'Italia
Giro d'Italia
Giro d'Italia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monclova%20Christian%20Academy
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Monclova Christian Academy
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Monclova Christian Academy is a private Christian school in Monclova, Ohio, United States, southwest of Toledo. It is a ministry of Monclova Road Baptist Church.
Monclova Christian Academy was founded in 1999 by Russell Merrin, pastor of Monclova Road Baptist Church. Throughout that first year, only 30 students were enrolled. The first graduate of Monclova Christian Academy was Brian Keel who graduated with a class size of 1. Since then, the school has grown drastically to over 200 students.
Later, a graduate of MCA and son of the founder (Derek Merrin) became the mayor of Waterville, Ohio.
Although the school is small, it has participated in athletics with both private and public schools. Monclova Christian Academy's athletics include soccer, volleyball, basketball, tennis, and track. A cheerleading team has also been added in past years and continues to encourage school spirit during basketball games along with the MCA Pep Band.
In 2008, a preschool class was added to the school. This was a result of an expansion on the main church building that was added on to the building.
External links
School Website
Baptist schools in the United States
Christian schools in Ohio
High schools in Lucas County, Ohio
Private high schools in Ohio
Private middle schools in Ohio
Private elementary schools in Ohio
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium%20Tower%20%28Abuja%29
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Millennium Tower (Abuja)
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The Millennium Tower and Cultural Centre project is one of a number of projects in the Central District of Nigeria's capital city of Abuja. At , it is the tallest artificial structure in Abuja. The tower was designed by Manfredi Nicoletti and is part of the Nigeria National Complex which also includes the Nigerian Cultural Centre, an eight-storey, low rise, pyramid shaped Cultural Centre. Construction for the tower started in 2006 and was topped out in 2014 whilst the cultural centre is still under construction.
The site is severed by a main road so the two structures will be linked via an underground arcade. The tower consists of three cylindrical concrete pillar-like structures varying in height and linked together near the towers first peak using a disc shaped section which is intended to house in its two floors, an observation deck and a viewing restaurant. Around the pillars of the tower three transparent stainless steel wings wrap around the base of the tower and gradually open outwards in a fan like fashion as they extend up the height of the tower.
See also
List of towers
References
External links
Manfredi Nicoletti Abuja National Complex project
Construction photo on Immaginionline.net
Abuja architecture
Buildings and structures under construction in Nigeria
Neo-futurism architecture
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid%20Light
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Liquid Light
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Liquid Light is a New Jersey-based company that develops and licenses electrochemical process technology to make chemicals from carbon dioxide (CO2). The company has more than 100 patents and patent applications for the technology that can produce multiple chemicals such as ethylene glycol, propylene, isopropanol, methyl-methacrylate and acetic acid. Funding has been provided by VantagePoint Capital Partners, BP Ventures, Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital, Osage University Partners and Sustainable Conversion Ventures. Liquid Light's technology can be used to produce more than 60 chemicals, but its first targeted process is for the production of monoethylene glycol (MEG) which has a $27 billion annual market. MEG is used to make a wide range of consumer products including plastic bottles, antifreeze and polyester fiber.
Company history
Liquid Light began operations in 2009 with seed capital from Redpoint Ventures after being co-founded by Kyle Teamey, Emily Cole, Andrew Bocarsly, Fouad Elnaggar and Nety Krishna. The company licensed technology developed by Bocarsly and Cole at Princeton University for electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide to chemicals and subsequently began to develop additional technology for commercial implementation and to broaden the potential product offerings. After validating the technology at lab scale and beginning engineering scale-up, the company unveiled the first product, a process for making MEG, in March 2014 and subsequently won significant industry recognition including the CCEMC Grand Challenge, the CleanTech 100 Rising Star of the Year, and a #1 ranking in Biofuels Digest’s 40 Hottest Smaller Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy. The company closed a $15 million series B round of investment in September 2014 from investors including VantagePoint Capital Partners, Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital, Osage University Partners, Sustainable Conversion Ventures, and BP Ventures.
On January 10, 2017 Avantium announced its acquisition of Liquid Light for an undisclosed amount.
Technology
Liquid Light’s core technology is based on the principles of electrochemistry and electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide. The process under development for production of MEG first converts carbon dioxide into a two carbon intermediate called oxalate or oxalic acid. Oxalate is then converted to MEG in separate process steps that have potentially lower costs of production than petroleum-based processes. Liquid Light has developed additional technology to make other products from oxalic acid including glycolic acid, glyoxylic acid, acetic acid, and ethanol.
See also
Carbon dioxide
References
External links
Company web site
Companies based in New Jersey
Chemical companies of the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%20Rosen%20%28attorney%29
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Lawrence Rosen (attorney)
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Lawrence Rosen (also Larry Rosen) is an attorney and computer specialist. He is a founding partner of Rosenlaw & Einschlag, a Californian technology law firm, specializing in intellectual property protection, licensing and business transactions for technology companies. He also served as general counsel and secretary of the Open Source Initiative, and participates in open source foundations and projects, such as the Python Software Foundation, and the Free Standards Group.
Rosen was a lecturer in law at Stanford Law School in Spring 2006. He is the author of the Academic Free License and the Open Software License. He is a member of the board of the Open Web Foundation. Rosen was a director of the Apache Software Foundation from July 2011 to March 2012.
References
External links
Lawrence Rosen's page at Rosenlaw & Einschlag
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American lawyers
Stanford Law School faculty
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voices%20%28Henze%29
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Voices (Henze)
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Voices is a musical composition by the German composer Hans Werner Henze.
Written between January and June 1973, it is a collection of 22 independent songs which may be performed individually, with alterations to the instrumentation. In its full version, it is written for mezzo-soprano, tenor, electronics and fifteen instrumentalists who are required to play about 70 different instruments from all over the world. The piece consists of two parts (11 + 11 songs) and lasts 90 minutes. The polystylistic conception of "Voices" results from the different origin and message of the poems.
The songs set a diverse range of words, almost all of which are from the twentieth century, the linking theme being alienation and oppression. Henze has said: The voices of the title are those of young and old artists whose work is politically committed. These people are concerned with their fellow human beings, with the contemporary human condition within the world around them and with all the problems of race and class in which they themselves often seem fated to be embroiled. : „'Stimmen' für Hans Werner Henze. Die 22 Lieder aus 'Voices'“. Editor Peter Petersen, Hanns-Werner Heister and Hartmut Lück, Mainz, Schott 1996.
It was premiered on 4 January 1974 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London with soloists Paul Sperry and Rose Taylor, and the London Sinfonietta conducted by Henze. In 1978 it was recorded the same forces, except Sarah Walker who took the mezzo role.
Songs
'Los poetas cubanos ya no sueñan' ('Cuban Poets Do Not Sleep Anymore') (Heberto Padilla)
'Prison Song' (Ho Chi Minh)
'Keiner oder alle' ('All or None') (Bertolt Brecht)
'The electric cop' (Victor Hernandez Cruz)
'The distant drum' (Calvin C. Hernton)
'42 Schulkinder' (Schoolchildren) (Erich Fried)
'Caino' (Gino de Sanctis)
'Il Pasi' (Mario Tobino)
'Heimkehr' ('Homecoming') (Heinrich Heine)
'Grecia 1970' ('Greece 1970') (Giuseppe Ungaretti)
'Legende von der Enstehung des Buches Taoteking auf dem Weg des Laotse in die Emigration' ('Legend of the Origin of the Book Tao Te Ching on Lao Tzu's Way into Exile') (Brecht)
'Gedanken eines Revuemädchens während des Entkleidungsaktes' ('Thoughts of a Showgirl as She Strips') (Brecht)
'Das wirkliche Messer' ('The Real Knife') (Hans Magnus Enzensberger)
'Recht und Billig' ('A Fair Deal') (Fried)
'Patria' (Miguel Barnet)
'Screams - Interlude' (Walton Smith)
'The worker' (Richard W. Thomas)
'Para aconsejar a una dama' ('Advice to a Lady') (Padilla)
'Roses and revolutions' (Dudley Randall)
'Vermutung über Hessen' ('Conjecture about Hessen') (F.C. Delius)
'Schluss' ('An End') (Michalis Katsaros)
'Das Blumenfest' ('Carnival of Flowers') (Enzensberger)
References
1973 compositions
Compositions by Hans Werner Henze
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyantonde
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Lyantonde
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Lyantonde is a town in the southern part of the Central Region of Uganda. It is the main municipal, administrative, and commercial center of Lyantonde District.
Location
Lyantonde is approximately , by road, west of Masaka, the nearest large city, on the all-weather Masaka–Mbarara Road. This is approximately , by road, south-west of Kampala, the capital and largest city of Uganda. The coordinates of the town are 0°24'25.0"S, 31°09'27.0"E (Latitude:-0.406944; Longitude:31.157500). Lyantonde Town sits at an average elevation of above mean sea level.
Population
In 2002, the national population census estimated the population of the town to be 7,500. In 2010, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) estimated the population at 8,700. In 2011, UBOS estimated the mid-year population at 8,900. During the national census and household survey of 27 and 28 August 2014, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), enumerated the population of Lyantonde Town at 13,586 people.
In 2015 UBOS estimated the population of the town at 14,100. In 2020, the population agency estimated the mid-year of Lyantonde Town at 16,300. Of these, 8,500 (52.1 percent) were female and 7,800 (47.9 percent) were male. UBOS calculated the growth rate of the town between 2015 until 2020 to average 2.9 percent annually.
Overview
The town lies along the Masaka-Mbarara Road which connects to Kampala, Uganda's capital to the east and Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda to the southwest. Lyantonde serves as a stop-over for long-distance truck drivers plying this route. Although prostitution is illegal in Uganda, prostitutes are readily available in Lyantonde town.
Points of interest
The following points of interest lie within the town limits or near the town edges: (a) The headquarters of Lyantonde District Administration (b)
Lyantonde General Hospital, a 100-bed public hospital administered by the Uganda Ministry of Health (c) Offices of Lyantonde Town Council (d) Lyantonde central market (e) Masaka-Mbarara Road, which passes through the middle of town in a general east/west direction (f) Salaama Vocational Education Centre (SVEC).
See also
List of cities and towns in Uganda
References
External links
Meeting the Truck Stop Prostitutes of Uganda's HIV Capital
Populated places in Central Region, Uganda
Cities in the Great Rift Valley
Lyantonde District
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20McGill
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William McGill
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William McGill is the name of:
William McGill (politician) (1814–1883), Scottish member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament
Willie McGill (1873–1944), American major league baseball pitcher
William J. McGill (1922–1997), American psychologist and university administrator
Bill McGill (1939–2014), basketball player
Bill McGill (baseball) (1880–1959), American baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball
See also
William Gill (disambiguation)
McGill (surname)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beware%20of%20the%20Dog%20%28short%20story%29
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Beware of the Dog (short story)
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"Beware of the Dog" is a 1944 World War II story by Roald Dahl which was originally published in Harper's Magazine and later appeared in his Over to You collection. Its basic plot was adapted into the 1965 movie 36 Hours, starring James Garner and Rod Taylor, and the TV movie Breaking Point in 1989.
Story
RAF pilot Peter Williamson sustains a serious injury (the loss of a leg from a cannon shell) while flying a mission over German-controlled Vichy France. He bails out of his plane and later awakes to find himself in a hospital bed in Brighton, on the English coast. As he recovers, strange things keep happening, such as hearing the sound of German warplanes through the window when none would have been nearby. The nurse also mentions that the hospital water is very hard, when Williamson knows the water in Brighton is famous for being soft.
Suspicious and frightened, Williamson drags himself to the window and sees a wooden sign, "GARDE AU CHIEN" (French for “Beware of the Dog”). He now knows that he is actually in Vichy France, and that the English caregivers are Germans in disguise. When they send in a fake RAF commander to convince him to divulge his squadron's location, he stares him straight in the eye and says nothing more than "My name is Peter Williamson. My rank is Squadron Leader and my number is nine, seven, two, four, five, seven."
References
1944 short stories
Prisoners of war in popular culture
Short stories adapted into films
Short stories by Roald Dahl
Works originally published in Harper's Magazine
World War II short stories
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire%20Stations%20of%20Oahu
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Fire Stations of Oahu
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The Honolulu Fire Department (HFD) operates their 44 Fire Stations on the Island of Oahu, and in and around Honolulu. Seven current or former stations are on the National Register of Historic Places, of which five are still in use today as fire stations.
By the 1920s, the accepted style for most public architecture in Honolulu, Hawaii, was Spanish Mission Revival or, more broadly, Mediterranean Revival. Five fire stations built on Oahu between 1924 and 1932 illustrate this stylistic congruence, despite being designed by three different architects. The prototype for all five appears to have been Palama Fire Station, built in 1901 and designed by Oliver G. Traphagen. Honolulu's Central Fire Station, remodeled in 1934, is larger but somewhat similar in style, although with Art Deco embellishments. All seven buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places on 2 December 1980, even though Palama Fire Station had been added separately on 21 April 1976.
All seven fire stations are box-shaped, two-story structures, with engine bays on the ground floor and dormitories upstairs. All have drying towers, which were required for the cloth-covered rubber hoses of the era in which they were built, but which also serve as visual landmarks and decorative elements. The buildings are all of sturdy masonry, with white stucco walls and tiled roofs, in a Mediterranean style. The Waikiki Fire Station on Kapahulu Avenue followed a similar model when it was built in 1927, but it was extensively remodeled in 1963 to fit an evolving Hawaiian rather than Mediterranean style, so it was excluded from the National Register application.
History
In 1901, just after the devastating Chinatown fire of 1900, the city of Honolulu had three fire stations. The Central Fire Station at that time was a lava-rock building of two-and-a-half stories designed in 1896 by Clinton Briggs Ripley and C.W. Dickey in the Richardsonian Romanesque style that dominated the downtown area at that time. The Makiki Fire Station was a two-story wooden building designed by Ripley and Dickey in 1899. At the time he relocated to Honolulu in 1897, Oliver G. Traphagen had already designed many public buildings in Duluth, Minnesota. During the turn-of-the-century building boom after annexation, he soon became one of the busiest architects in the Territory. When he was commissioned to design the Palama Fire Station in 1901, he gave it a Mediterranean look very different from that of the Romanesque Kakaako Pumping Station he had designed the previous year.
However, the building boom faded soon afterward. Dickey relocated to Oakland, California in 1905, and Traphagen followed in 1907, after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 set the stage for another building boom, as both tourism and migration helped fuel rapid growth during the 1920s. Many nationally known architects opened offices in the islands, and their designs often reflected a California regional style heavily influenced by the work of Bertram Goodhue at the 1915 Panama-California Exposition in San Diego. Dickey reopened an office in Honolulu in 1920 and moved back to the islands in 1925. The new fire stations of the 1920s and 1930s more closely reflected California regional styles than did Traphagen's prototype in 1901.
A new Central Fire Station was built in 1934, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Gallery
Notes
References
Neil, J. Meredith (1975). "The Architecture of C.W. Dickey in Hawai‘i." Hawaiian Journal of History 9:101-113.
Penkiunas, Daina Julia (1990). American Regional Architecture in Hawaii: Honolulu, 1915–1935. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Virginia. (Published by UMI, Ann Arbor, in 1993.)
Report of the Governor of the Territory of Hawaii to the Secretary of the Interior (1901). Washington: Government Printing Office.
External links
Government buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Hawaii
Hawaiian architecture
History of Oahu
Fire stations in Hawaii
Buildings and structures in Honolulu
Historic American Buildings Survey in Hawaii
National Register of Historic Places in Honolulu
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%20United%20States%20Senate%20election%20in%20Florida
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2000 United States Senate election in Florida
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The 2000 United States Senate election in Florida was held on November 7, 2000, on the same date as the U.S. House of Representatives and presidential election. Incumbent Republican Senator Connie Mack III decided to retire instead of seeking a third term. Democrat Bill Nelson won the open seat, even as Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush narrowly triumphed over Al Gore in the state by a mere 537 votes.
Republican primary
Candidates
Hamilton A. S. Bartlett
Bill McCollum, U.S. Representative
Results
Democratic primary
Candidates
Newall Jerome Daughtrey, nominee for Florida State Comptroller in 1998
David B. Higginbottom, nominee for FL-10 in 1986 and 1988
Bill Nelson, State Treasurer and former U.S. Representative
Results
General election
Candidates
Major
Bill McCollum (R), U.S. Representative
Bill Nelson (D), State Treasurer and former U.S. Representative
Minor
Joel Deckard (Re), former U.S. Representative from Indiana
Willie Logan (I), State Representative
Andy Martin (I), perennial candidate
Darrell McCormick (I)
Joe Simonetta (NL)
Nikki Oldaker (WI)
Campaign
This election was in conjunction to the presidential election, where Bush narrowly defeated Gore after an intense recount. The Senate election was evenly matched, with two U.S. Congressmen named Bill in their mid-50s. Both parties heavily targeted this senate seat. The election became very nasty as Nelson called his opponent "an extremist who would sacrifice the elderly, the poor, and the working class to coddle the rich." McCollum called the Democrat "a liberal who would tax everything that moves, and some things that don't." The election advertisements were very negative, as both candidates talked more about each other than themselves.
Nelson raised only soft money, but had help from Gore and President Bill Clinton. Two days before the election, McCollum predicted he would win by a 6-point margin. On election day, he lost by a five-point margin.
Debates
Complete video of debate, October 12, 2000
Results
See also
2000 United States Senate elections
References
2000
Florida
2000 Florida elections
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hare%20nome
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Hare nome
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The Hare nome, also called the Hermopolite nome (Egyptian: Wenet) was one of the 42 nomoi (administrative divisions) in ancient Egypt; more precisely, it was the 15th nome of Upper Egypt.
The Hare nome's main city was Khemenu (later Hermopolis Magna, and the modern el-Ashmunein) in Middle Egypt. The local main deity was Thoth, though the inscriptions on the White Chapel of Senusret I links this nome with the cult of Bes and Unut.
History
The Hare nome was already recognized during the 4th Dynasty of the Old Kingdom as shown by the triad statue of pharaoh Menkaure, Hathor, and an anthropomorphized-deified depiction of the nome. It is known that during the 6th Dynasty its nomarchs were buried in the necropolis of El-Sheikh Sa'id.
The nome kept its importance during the First Intermediate Period and the subsequent Middle Kingdom; its governors were also responsible of the alabaster quarrying at Hatnub in the Eastern Desert, they owned exclusive offices such as "director of the double throne" and great one of the five", and also were high priests of Thot. Since the First Intermediate Period they moved slightly northward their official necropolis to Deir el-Bersha, where their remarkable though poorly preserved rock-cut tombs were excavated. During the Middle Kingdom the Hare nome was ruled by a rather branched dynasty of nomarchs usually named Ahanakht, Djehutynakht or Neheri. The last known among them, Djehutihotep, was also the owner of the most elaborate and preserved tomb of the Deir el-Bersha necropolis; he ruled until the early reign of Senusret III who is known to have put into action serious steps to minimize the power held by all nomarchs.
During the Second Intermediate Period the Hare nome assimilated the neighboring Oryx nome (16th of Upper Egypt).
Nomarchs of the Hare nome
Old Kingdom
This is a list of the known nomarchs, dating to the Old Kingdom. They were buried at El-Sheikh Sa'id.
Serefka (5th Dynasty)
Werirni (5th Dynasty, son of Serefka)
Teti-ankh/Iymhotep (6th Dynasty, perhaps Pepy I)
Meru/Bebi (6th Dynasty, perhaps Pepy I)
Wiu/Iyu (6th Dynasty, perhaps Pepy I; son of Meru/Bebi)
Meru 6th Dynasty, perhaps Pepy II, son of Wiu/Iyu)
Middle Kingdom
The following is a genealogy of the nomarchs of the Hare nome during the late 11th and 12th Dynasty (the limit between the two dynasties passes approximately along the third generation). The nomarchs are underlined. They were buried at Dayr al-Barsha.
References
Further reading
Nomes of ancient Egypt
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Hamilton%20%28American%20football%29
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James Hamilton (American football)
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James Hamilton is a former American football linebacker who played for the Jacksonville Jaguars. He was often injured and did not record a single start in his two-year NFL career and only played in 16 games over the two seasons.
References
1974 births
Living people
American football linebackers
North Carolina Tar Heels football players
Jacksonville Jaguars players
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/67th%20World%20Science%20Fiction%20Convention
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67th World Science Fiction Convention
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The 67th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), also known as Anticipation, was held on 6–10 August 2009 at the Palais des congrès de Montréal in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
The organising committee was co-chaired by René Walling and Robbie Bourget.
This convention was also the 2009 Canvention, and therefore presented the Prix Aurora Awards.
This was the fifth Worldcon to be held in Canada, and the first one to be held in an officially French-speaking city.
Participants
Guests of Honour
Neil Gaiman
Elisabeth Vonarburg
Taral Wayne (fan)
David Hartwell (editor)
Tom Doherty (publisher)
Julie Czerneda (toastmaster)
Awards
A number of notable science fiction and fantasy awards were presented at Anticipation.
2009 Hugo Awards
Anticipation was the first Worldcon to include a category for graphic story on the Hugo ballot. The category filled with six nominations due to a tie for fifth place.
The 2009 Hugo Award statue base was designed by Seattle-based artist Dave Howell.
Best Novel: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Best Novella: "The Erdmann Nexus" by Nancy Kress
Best Novelette: "Shoggoths in Bloom" by Elizabeth Bear
Best Short Story: "Exhalation" by Ted Chiang
Best Related Book: Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998–2008 by John Scalzi
Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: WALL-E, story by Andrew Stanton and Pete Docter; screenplay by Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon; directed by Andrew Stanton (Pixar/Walt Disney)
Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, written by Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Jed Whedon, and Maurissa Tancharoen, directed by Joss Whedon
Best Professional Editor, Long Form: David G. Hartwell
Best Professional Editor, Short Form: Ellen Datlow
Best Professional Artist: Donato Giancola
Best Semiprozine: Weird Tales, edited by Ann VanderMeer and Stephen H. Segal
Best Fanzine: Electric Velocipede, edited by John Klima
Best Fan Writer: Cheryl Morgan
Best Fan Artist: Frank Wu
Best Graphic Story: Girl Genius, Volume 8: "Agatha Heterodyne and the Chapel of Bones", written by Kaja and Phil Foglio, art by Phil Foglio, color by Cheyenne Wright
Prix Aurora Awards
This Worldcon being also the 2009 Canvention, it awarded the Prix Aurora Awards. They are given out annually for the best Canadian science fiction and fantasy literary works, artworks, and fan activities from that year, and are awarded in both English and French.
Best Long Form: Marseguro, by Edward Willett
Meilleur livre: Les vents de Tammerlan, by Michèle Laframboise
Best Short Form: "Ringing in the Changes in Okotoks, Alberta", by Randy McCharles
Meilleure nouvelle: Le Dôme de Saint-Macaire, by Jean-Louis Trudel
Other, in English: Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine, Karl Johanson, editor
Meilleur ouvrage (autre): Solaris, Joël Champetier
Fanzine: The Original Universe, Jeff Boman, editor
Fan (organizational): Randy McCharles (Chair of World Fantasy 2008)
Fan (other): Joan Sherman for Heather Dale Concert (organizer)
Artistic Achievement: Looking for Group, by Lar deSouza
Sidewise Awards
The Sidewise Award for Alternate History recognizes the best alternate history stories and novels of the year.
Long form: Chris Roberson, The Dragon's Nine Sons
Short form: Mary Rosenblum, "Sacrifice"
Other awards
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer: David Anthony Durham
Future site selection
Worldcon
In uncontested elections, the members of Anticipation selected Reno, Nevada, as the host city for the 69th World Science Fiction Convention, Renovation, to be held in 2011; and Raleigh, North Carolina, as the host city for the 10th North American Science Fiction Convention (NASFiC), ReConStruction, to be held in 2010.
Canvention
The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association selected Winnipeg, Manitoba, as the location of Canvention 2010 and the 30th Prix Aurora Awards.
See also
Hugo Award
Science fiction
Speculative fiction
World Science Fiction Society
Worldcon
References
External links
Anticipation—the 67th Worldcon
Official Worldcon Homepage
2009 conferences
2009 in Canada
Science fiction conventions in Canada
Worldcon
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Jerusalem%20Times
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The Jerusalem Times
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The Jerusalem Times is a Palestinian newspaper founded by the BILADI Publishing Co. in 1994.
The Jerusalem Times also maintains an internet edition, jerusalem-times.net
Publications established in 1994
Mass media in Jerusalem
Newspapers published in the State of Palestine
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuufuli%20Uperesa
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Tuufuli Uperesa
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Tuufuli Uperesa (January 20, 1948 – June 21, 2021) was an American football guard who played one season with the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Eagles in the sixteenth round of the 1970 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of Montana and attended ʻAiea High School in Aiea, Hawaii. Uperesa was also a member of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Calgary Stampeders, Ottawa Rough Riders and BC Lions of the Canadian Football League.
He died of kidney failure on June 21, 2021, in American Samoa at age 73.
References
External links
Just Sports Stats
1948 births
2021 deaths
Players of American football from American Samoa
Players of American football from Hawaii
American football offensive linemen
American sportspeople of Samoan descent
Canadian football offensive linemen
Montana Grizzlies football players
Philadelphia Eagles players
Winnipeg Blue Bombers players
Calgary Stampeders players
Ottawa Rough Riders players
BC Lions players
People from Oahu
Deaths from kidney failure
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazy%20%28disambiguation%29
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Hazy (disambiguation)
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Hazy refers to a state of haze.
Hazy may also refer to:
People
Hazy Osterwald (1922–2012), Swiss bandleader, trumpeter, and vibraphonist
Steve Hazy (born 1946), American billionaire businessman
Music
"Hazy", a song by Chloe x Halle from the 2021 album Ungodly Hour
"Hazy", a 2006 song by Gemma Hayes and Adam Duritz
"Hazy", a 2021 song by Great Gable
"Hazy", a 2022 song by Kyle Dion featuring Tkay Maidza
Other uses
Hazy IPA, a style of beer
Hazy Creek, stream in the U.S. state of West Virginia
See also
Haze (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todessehnsucht
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Todessehnsucht
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Todessehnsucht is the second studio album by the heavy metal band Atrocity. It was released in 1992. At the time the band still played death metal with a technical edge.
History
The album was released in some countries with the title Longing for Death, which is a translation of the original German title. The album was released in 1992 by Roadrunner Records.
The final track on the album, "Archangel", is a cover of Death; however the lyrics are re-written as the original ones are not available.
Track listing
"Todessehnsucht" – 3:50
"Godless Years" – 5:40
"Unspoken Names" – 5:27
"Defiance" – 4:58
"Triumph at Dawn" – 4:01
"Introduction" – 1:35
"Sky Turned Red" – 6:24
"Necropolis" – 4:11
"A Prison Called Earth" – 6:06
"Todessehnsucht (Reprise)" – 2:05
"Archangel (Death cover) " – 3:28
Personnel
Alexander Krull - vocals
Mathias Röderer - guitar
Richard Scharf - guitar
Oliver Klasen - bass
Michael Schwarz - drums
References
External links
Roadrunner Records Review
Atrocity (band) albums
1992 albums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha%20Reservation
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Omaha Reservation
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The Omaha Reservation () of the federally recognized Omaha tribe is located mostly in Thurston County, Nebraska, with sections in neighboring Cuming and Burt counties, in addition to Monona County in Iowa. As of the 2020 federal census, the reservation population was 4,526. The tribal seat of government is in Macy. The villages of Rosalie, Pender and Walthill are located within reservation boundaries, as is the northernmost part of Bancroft. Due to land sales in the area since the reservation was established, Pender has disputed tribal jurisdiction over it, to which the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in 2016 that "the disputed land is within the reservation’s boundaries."
History
The reservation was established by a treaty at Washington, D.C. dated March 16, 1854. By this treaty, the Omaha Nation sold the majority of its land west of the Missouri River to the United States, but was authorized to select an area of to keep as a permanent reservation. The Omaha Nation chose an area around the Blackbird Hills and obtained the President's approval on May 11, 1855.
In a treaty on March 6, 1865, the Omaha Nation agreed to sell the northern part of the reservation to the United States for the use of Ho-Chunk refugees from Crow Creek, South Dakota who became the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, establishing the Winnebago Reservation just north of the Omaha Reservation. The Omahas later conveyed an additional 12,348 acres of timber land to the Winnebago Reservation through an act of Congress on June 22, 1874 and a deed dated July 31, 1874. This reduced the Omaha Reservation to its present size.
Federal legislation in the late nineteenth century caused the reservation to be allotted, ultimately enabling white settlers to buy most of the land on the reservation. An act on June 10, 1872, authorized the survey and sale of land on the western end of the reservation, but the property initially failed to attract buyers, resulting in the sale of only the first year.
Through the lobbying efforts of anthropologist Alice Cunningham Fletcher, Congress passed another act on August 7, 1882, that divided the eastern portion of the reservation into individual allotments for Omaha tribal members, while authorizing the sale of land west of the Sioux City and Nebraska Railroad to settlers and speculators. Fletcher personally oversaw the allotments, allocating to 954 tribal members and leaving about in tribal ownership. The 1882 act on the Omaha Reservation served as a model for the Dawes Act of 1887, which authorized the similar allotment of land on reservations nationwide. An additional act on March 3, 1893 allotted most of the remaining Omaha tribal land to individual women and children who had been left out of the 1882 legislation.
The sale of land on the reservation has led to numerous jurisdictional disputes between the Omaha Nation and the white-led government of Thurston County, which is entirely within the Omaha and Winnebago reservations. Special legislation in 1916 empowered the county to assess property tax on Omaha allotments, forcing a large number of tribal members to sell or mortgage their allotment land to outsiders in order to pay back taxes. The county continued to tax tribal trust land until the 1970s, when federal courts ruled that the tribe could not be taxed without its consent.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the reservation has a total area of , of which is land and is water.
Due to allotments in the late nineteenth century, much of the reservation is no longer tribally-owned. According to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Omaha Nation's trust land amounts to , or about 14.2% of the total reservation land area.
Demographics
As of the census of 2020, the population of the Omaha Reservation was 4,526. The population density was . There were 1,563 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the reservation was 47.6% Native American, 47.5% White, 0.3% Asian, 0.2% Black or African American, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 1.6% from other races, and 2.7% from two or more races. Ethnically, the population was 4.1% Hispanic or Latino of any race.
Boundary disputes
Boundary claims and areas of jurisdiction have continued to be issues for the Omaha Indian Reservation. In the late nineteenth century, Congress authorized sales of land to non-Omaha in the western portion of the reservation, where European-American farmers had settled. Due to the sales and federal legislation subsequent to the treaty establishing the reservation, a Nebraska state court in 2000 ruled that the western boundary of the reservation ended at railroad tracks east of Pender, Nebraska.
The Omaha Tribe contends that Pender is within tribal jurisdiction, as Congress did not change the boundaries of reservation, which includes most of Thurston County. The tribe says that the state does not have the power to redefine the boundary set by the Omaha treaty with the US government in 1865. It holds that although Congress authorized land sales in this area, it did not diminish the jurisdiction of the tribe within the reservation boundaries. "Under Supreme Court precedent, only Congress can diminish a reservation."
Asked for its opinion on a related matter related to the Omaha Tribe's law that liquor merchants on the reservation had to pay tribal license fees and sales taxes (see section below), the Nebraska state attorney general noted its opinion, based on Congressional laws and a field ruling during the Ronald Reagan administration, that Pender was outside the reservation boundaries. It also noted that ultimately this was a matter of federal jurisdiction.
There have been continuing issues related to tribal jurisdiction in Pender and other areas along its western boundary. For instance, in 2003 the tribal police tried to stop non-Omaha people from entering the reservation from Pender. The tribe negotiated with the state in 2003–2004 related to its policing functions in this area, but the parties signed no agreement. Prior to this period, the state generally had policing functions on the roads and in Pender.
On March 22, 2016, the United States Supreme Court held, in a unanimous decision, that Pender is within the reservation's boundaries.
Current issues
In December 2006, the Omaha Tribe issued notices to the seven liquor stores in Pender (which has a population of 1,000), as well as those in Rosalie and Walthill, Nebraska, informing them that as of January 1, 2007, the merchants would have to pay the Omaha Tribe liquor licensing fees and a 10 percent sales tax to continue to operate within the reservation. The executive director of the Nebraska State Liquor Commission said that he would be consulting with the state attorney general on the issue. Ben Thompson, an Omaha attorney who represents the tribe, notes that it has the legal right to establish such laws within the reservation. The Nebraska Attorney General offered the opinion that the Omaha Tribe had the authority to regulate liquor sales on its reservation and it did not interfere with the Nebraska Liquor Commission. While offering an opinion, he said the tribal boundary was a federal jurisdictional issue.
In April 2007, liquor merchants in Pender (later joined by the village) filed a federal lawsuit challenging the tribe's authority to demand the liquor taxes, based on their contention that Pender was outside the reservation boundaries. In October 2007 the US District Court ordered the parties first to take their challenge to the Omaha Tribal Courts, as part of the tribal exhaustion doctrine, and denied the plaintiffs' request for dismissal. Judge Richard Kopf said he may not be bound by the tribal court, but wanted to hear their opinion. He required the parties to report back to him regularly until a ruling was made by the Omaha Tribal Courts. While the case was pending, the judge ordered a temporary stay on the merchants' paying the liquor sales tax.
In January 2012, the plaintiffs in Pender v. Omaha Tribe filed a request with the Omaha Tribal Courts for a summary judgment due to the length of time the case had taken. The defendants had requested that no hearing be held before June 2012. The plaintiffs had submitted a report to them by an expert witness on transactions related to Pender and the western boundary. In 2008 the village had voted for a five-year, 1% sales tax to finance its lawsuit on the boundary and liquor tax, as well as to promote economic development in the town. Residents voted in May 2012 on whether to renew the sales tax, as the boundary issue continued.
See also
Native American tribes in Nebraska
Dr. Susan LaFlesche Picotte Memorial Hospital
Omaha Nation Public Schools
Notes
References
External links
"Nebraska Attorney General's Opinion on Omaha Tribe Liquor Tax", 15 February 2007, Liquor Control Commission website
Pender v. Omaha Tribe, US District Court of Nebraska, 4 October 2007
Omaha Reservation tract map, US Census.
Geography of Burt County, Nebraska
Geography of Cuming County, Nebraska
Geography of Monona County, Iowa
Geography of Thurston County, Nebraska
American Indian reservations in Nebraska
Omaha (Native American) people
1854 establishments in Nebraska Territory
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Martha Sharp Joukowsky
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Martha Sharp Joukowsky (2 September 1936 - 7 January 2022) was a Near Eastern archaeologist and a retired member of the faculty of Brown University known for her fieldwork at the ancient site of Petra in Jordan.
Early life and education
Martha Sharp Joukowsky was the daughter of Waitstill Hastings Sharp and Martha Ingham Dickie, noted for aiding Jews escaping Nazi persecution in Czechoslovakia during World War II. Joukowsky was educated at Pembroke College (B.A. 1958) American University of Beirut (MA 1972) and Paris I-Sorbonne (Ph.D. 1982).
Academic career
From 1982 to 2002 Joukowsky was Professor in the Center for Old World Archaeology and Art and the Department of Anthropology at Brown University. Her archaeological fieldwork has included work in Lebanon (1967-1972), Hong Kong (1972-1973), Turkey (1975-1986), Italy (1982-1985), and Greece (1987-1990). Joukowsky conducted archaeological fieldwork at Petra in Jordan for more than ten years, beginning in 1992. Her work, and that of Brown University, focused on Petra's so-called "Great Temple" during that time.
Martha Sharp Joukowsky was also elected as President (1989-1993) of the Archaeological Institute of America and was Trustee for the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. She also serves as Trustee Emerita of Brown University.
Personal life
Artemis A. W. Joukowsky, her husband, was chancellor of Brown University (1997–98) and together they created the Artemis A.W. and Martha Sharp Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University in 2004; the institute was first directed by Susan Alcock, who was succeeded in the post by Peter van Dommelen.
Honours
In 1993 Joukowsky endowed an annual lecture series in her own name for the Archaeological Institute of America.
She accepted the Yad Vashem award on behalf of her parents in 2006.
Selected publications
1980. A complete manual of field archaeology: tools and techniques of field work for archaeologists. Englewood Cliffs (NJ): Prentice-Hall.
1988. The young archaeologist in the oldest port city in the world. Beirut: Dar el-Machreq.
1996a. Early Turkey: an introduction to the archaeology of Anatolia from prehistory through the Lydian period. Dubuque (IA): Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co.
1996b. Prehistoric Aphrodisias: an account of the excavations and artifact studies. Providence (RI): Brown University, Center for Old World Archaeology and Art.
1998. Petra Great Temple: Brown University excavations, 1993-1997. Providence (RI): Brown University Petra Exploration Fund.
Cohen, G. & M.S. Joukowsky. (ed.) 2004. Breaking ground: pioneering women archaeologists. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
2007. Petra Great Temple, Volume II: archaeological contexts of the remains and excavations. Providence (RI): Brown University Petra Exploration Fund.
References
External links
Petra Great Temple Excavations
Joukowsky Family Foundation
1936 births
Living people
People from Montague, Massachusetts
Archaeologists of the Near East
Brown University faculty
20th-century American archaeologists
American women archaeologists
20th-century women writers
20th-century American women
American women academics
21st-century American women
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Exchequer%20Dam
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New Exchequer Dam
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New Exchequer Dam is a concrete–faced, rock-fill dam on the Merced River in central California in the United States. It forms Lake McClure, which impounds the river for irrigation and hydroelectric power production and has a capacity of more than . The Merced Irrigation District (MID) operates the dam and was also responsible for its construction.
Built between 1964 and 1967, the dam replaced the old arch type Exchequer Dam and stands high. At the time of completion, it was the largest dam of its kind in the world. The dam is named for the town of Exchequer which now lies under the reservoir, while the reservoir is named for Wilbur F. McClure, the State Engineer of California during construction.
History
In 1926, after five years of planning and construction, MID completed the Exchequer or "Great Exchequer" Dam across the Merced River six miles (9.7 km) above the town of Merced Falls. The dam was a concrete gravity–arch structure high, holding a lake with a capacity of of water. Although the dam was to serve primarily for irrigation, power production began ceremoniously on June 23, 1926 with a press of a telegraph key by President Calvin Coolidge, starting the turbines at a 31 megawatt hydroelectric plant.
By the 1950s, it became apparent that the limited storage capacity at Exchequer was no longer enough to serve the needs of farmers in the Merced River valley. A high dam was proposed to be built just downstream, creating a reservoir nearly four times the size of Exchequer.
Construction of New Exchequer Dam began on July 8, 1964, directly downstream from the old concrete arch dam. Tudor Engineering Company of San Francisco was responsible for the design of the new dam. The dam wall was constructed in vertical zones, which consisted of compacted, alternating layers of coarse and fine material ranging in thickness from . The old Exchequer Dam was incorporated as an upstream toe to help support the rock-fill embankment, which was then armored with a layer of reinforced concrete. The dam was topped out in early 1967 and the power plant went into commercial operation by July.
As the new reservoir filled, it inundated an additional of the Merced River canyon and buried sections of the historic Yosemite Valley Railroad and the mining town of Bagby under of water. New Exchequer was among the first high concrete–faced rock-fill dams in the world, and its untested design resulted in significant leakage, sometimes up to . MID began to repair the leaks in the fall of 1985 under orders from the California Division of Safety of Dams.
The dam has been able to halt major floods in many instances, such as the New Year's Day Flood of 1997. However, it has not always been able to weather the worst droughts – such as in 1977, when the reservoir fell to just , a fourteenth of capacity, and in 1991, which saw historic low water levels of . In February 2015, the reservoir reached its lowest level on record, at or less than 7 percent of total capacity, due to three years of persistent drought.
Dimensions and usage
New Exchequer Dam stands high from the foundations and above the Merced River. The dam is long, wide at the crest, wide at the base and is composed of of fill. High water releases are controlled by an ogee-type, gated overflow spillway located about north of the dam. The dam's power station has a capacity of 94.5 megawatts and generates about 316 million kilowatt hours annually.
The reservoir has a storage capacity of , of which is reserved for flood control. At full pool, the reservoir has an elevation of , with of water and of shoreline. To fulfill downstream flood control requirements, the reservoir will only be allowed to rise into the flood-control pool if the flow downstream at Stevinson is forecast to exceed .
MID has proposed raising the spillway gates of the dam, which would provide up to of additional storage. However, this has met with controversy because it would result in part-time flooding of a portion of the Merced River designated Wild and Scenic. Opponents also point out that the raise is unnecessary, since the reservoir has never overflowed due to flooding since its completion in the mid-1960s.
Lake McClure is also extensively developed for recreational activities, with 515 campsites, four boat ramps and two marinas. In 1992, the lake received 606,000 visitor-days, mostly from May to September.
See also
List of dams and reservoirs in California
List of largest reservoirs of California
List of power stations in California
List of reservoirs and dams in California
List of the tallest dams in the United States
Water in California
References
External links
Photos of original Exchequer Dam
Dams in California
Dams in the San Joaquin River basin
Merced River
Buildings and structures in Mariposa County, California
United States local public utility dams
Concrete-face rock-fill dams
Dams completed in 1967
1967 establishments in California
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Mesalands Community College, is a public community college in Tucumcari, New Mexico. It is also the home of the North American Wind Research and Training Center and the Mesalands Stampede Intercollegiate Rodeo Team.
Originally known as Tucumcari Area Vocational School, it was established in 1979.
Collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories
On April 14, 2009, Mesalands Community College and Sandia National Laboratories signed a memorandum of understanding allowing the college's North American Wind Research and Training Center and the lab to collaborate on such projects as turbine operations and maintenance, reliability of turbine components, and repair methods. It is the first memo of its kind between a national laboratory and a two-year college.
Gallery
References
External links
Official website
1979 establishments in New Mexico
Buildings and structures in Quay County, New Mexico
Community colleges in New Mexico
Education in Quay County, New Mexico
Educational institutions established in 1979
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsten%20Nielsen
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Torsten Nielsen
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Torsten Nielsen (born 5 March 1967) is a Danish politician and mayor of Viborg Municipality for the Conservative People's Party. Nielsen is state authorized Estate agent since 1992, and he was elected to the City Council of Viborg Municipality in 2009, and re-elected in 2013. Nielsen succeeded the former mayor, Søren Pape Poulsen, when he was appointed as the new leader of the Conservative People's Party.
References
1967 births
Living people
Conservative People's Party (Denmark) politicians
People from Viborg Municipality
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Olaf%27s%20Church
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St. Olaf's Church
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St. Olaf's Church, or variants thereof, refers to churches dedicated to Olaf II of Norway, and may refer to:
Denmark
St. Olaf's Church, Helsingør, ()
Sankt Ols Kirke, Bornholm
Faroe Islands
Saint Olav's Church, Kirkjubøur
Estonia
St. Olaf's Church, Tallinn ()
St. Olaf's Church, Nõva ()
St. Olaf's Church, Vormsi ()
St. Olaf's Church ruins, Väike-Pakri ()
St. Olaf's Chapel ruins in Suur-Pakri ()
Finland
St. Olaf's Church, Jomala, Åland Islands ()
St. Olaf's Church, Jyväskylä ()
St. Olaf's Church, Tyrvää, Sastamala ()
St. Olaf's Church, Ulvila ()
Norway
St. Olaf's Church, Balestrand
Russia
Saint Olaf's Church in Novgorod
United Kingdom
St Olaf's Church, Poughill, Bude, Cornwall
St Olaf's Church, Wasdale, Cumbria
St Olaf's Church (Balliasta), Unst, Shetland
St Olaf's Church (Cruden), Cruden, Scotland
St Olaf's Church (Lunda Wick), Unst, Shetland
St Olaf's Church (Voe), Shetland Mainland
United States
St. Olaf Kirke, a historical Lutheran church located near Cranfills Gap, Texas
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapagala%20fortress
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Mapagala fortress
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Mapagala fortress was an ancient fortified complex of the Anuradhapura Kingdom long before Kasyapa I built his city, Sigiriya. It is located to the South of Sigiriya and closer to Sigiriya tank.
It was built by using unshaped boulders to about 20 ft high. Each stone is broad and thick and some of them are about 10 ft high and about 4 ft long. It is believed that it was built before the time of usage of metal tools. Arthur Maurice Hocart noted that cyclopean style stone walls were used for the fortress, and square hammered stones were used for the ramparts of the citadel. However, his note suggests metal (iron) tools were used for construction. Excavations work in this areas found a few stone forges, which proved Hocart's claim on the usage of metal tools.
References
Further reading
Forts in Central Province, Sri Lanka
Kingdom of Anuradhapura
Buildings and structures in Matale District
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%20Jos%20riots
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2008 Jos riots
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The 2008 Jos riots were riots involving Christians and Muslims over the result of a local election on 28 and 29 November 2008 in Jos, a city in the Middle Belt region of Nigeria. Two days of rioting left hundreds injured and at least 761 dead. The Nigerian army was deployed and by 30 November order was restored.
Causes
Electoral workers did not publicly list the winners of the elections, and rumours began that the election was won by the candidate of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), barrister Timothy Gyang Buba, defeating the candidate for the All Nigerian Peoples Party. People from the largely Muslim Hausa community, began protesting even before the results were released, which results to clash that claims hundred of lives between the Muslims and Christians, who largely supported Buba.
Similar riots in 2001 between Christians and Muslims in Jos also killed hundreds. A 2004 riot in Yelwa, another town in Plateau State resulted in the so-called Yelwa Massacre. Fighting in the north-central Kaduna State when it tried to impose shari'a law in 2000, resulted in the partition of Kaduna. This was followed by the Kaduna riots of November 2002, resulting from Nigeria's hosting of the Miss World contest, which one of its contestants had won the previous year.
Riots
The two days of rioting led to the death of at least 761 people, and homes, mosques, churches and schools were damaged or burned by mobs. The Nigerian Red Cross Society reported that 10,000 people fled their homes due to the riots, and were living in government-provided shelters. Nigerian soldiers were sent into Jos to break up the fighting and create a buffer zone between the Christians and Muslims. Flights to and from Jos were cancelled and roads to the north were blocked.
Effects
Jonah Jang, the governor of the Plateau State, imposed a 24-hour curfew on four districts of the city, and soldiers were permitted to "shoot on sight" to prevent more violence. Human Rights Watch alleged that soldiers and police carried out more than 130 extrajudicial killings while responding to the riots. Many armed youths of both sides were arrested at military roadblocks. Police reported that more than 500 people were arrested as a result of the riots. But state officials said no one was successfully prosecuted.
See also
2001 Jos riots
2010 Jos riots
References
External links
Blench, R. M., Daniel, P. & Hassan, Umaru (2003): Access rights and conflict over common pool resources in three states in Nigeria. Report to Conflict Resolution Unit, World Bank (extracted section on Jos Plateau)
Human Rights Watch (2009), Arbitrary Killings by Security Forces: Submission to the Investigative Bodies on the November 28-29, 2008 Violence in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria
Human Rights Watch (2013), "Leave Everything to God": Accountability for Inter-Communal Violence in Plateau and Kaduna States, Nigeria
Nkwocha, Stanley (1 December 2008). Jos: Blood On Its Streets, Again, Leadership (Abuja)
Ostien, Philip (2009), [http://www.sharia-in-africa.net/media/publications/ethno-religious-conflict-in-Jos-Nigeria/Ostien_Jos.pdf Jonah Jang and the Jasawa: Ethno-Religious Conflict in Jos, Nigeria], in Muslim-Christian Relations in Africa''
2008 murders in Nigeria
2008 in Nigeria
2008 riots
Political riots
Religious riots in Nigeria
2000s massacres in Nigeria
Riots and civil disorder in Nigeria
Jos
Attacks on religious buildings and structures in Nigeria
November 2008 events in Africa
2008 murders in Africa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedroso%2C%20La%20Rioja
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Pedroso, La Rioja
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Pedroso, La Rioja is a small village in Spain.
References
Municipalities in La Rioja (Spain)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20heritage
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Virtual heritage
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Virtual heritage or cultural heritage and technology is the body of works dealing with information and communication technologies and their application to cultural heritage, such as virtual archaeology. It aims to restore ancient cultures as real (virtual) environments where users can immerse.
Virtual heritage and cultural heritage have independent meanings: cultural heritage refers to sites, monuments, buildings and objects "with historical, aesthetic, archaeological, scientific, ethnological or anthropological value", whereas virtual heritage refers to instances of these within a technological domain, usually involving computer visualization of artefacts or virtual reality environments.
First use
The first use of virtual heritage as a museum exhibit, and the derivation of the name virtual tour, was in 1994 as a museum visitor interpretation, providing a 'walk-through' of a 3D reconstruction of Dudley Castle in England as it was in 1550.
This consisted of a computer controlled laserdisc based system designed by British-based engineer Colin Johnson. It is a little-known fact that one of the first users of virtual heritage was Queen Elizabeth II, when she officially opened the visitor centre in June 1994.
Because the Queen's officials had requested titles, descriptions and instructions of all activities, the system was named 'Virtual Tour', being a cross between virtual reality and royal tour.
Projects
One technology that is frequently employed in virtual heritage applications is augmented reality (AR), which is used to provide on-site reconstructions of archaeological sites or artefacts. An example is the lifeClipper project, a Swiss commercial tourism and mixed reality urban heritage project. Using HMD technology, users walking the streets of Basel can see cultured AR video characters and objects as well as oddly-shaped stencils.
Many virtual heritage projects focus on the tangible aspects of cultural heritage, for example 3D modelling, graphics and animation. In doing so, they often overlook the intangible aspects of cultural heritage associated with objects and sites, such as stories, performances and dances. The tangible aspects of cultural heritage are not inseparable from the intangible and one method for combining them is the use of virtual heritage serious games, such as the 'Digital Songlines' and 'Virtual Songlines' which modified computer game technology to preserve, protect and present the cultural heritage of Aboriginal Australian Peoples. There have been numerous applications of digital models being used to engage the public and encourage involvement in built heritage activities and discourse.
Place-Hampi is another example of a virtual heritage project. It applies co-evolutionary systems to show a cultural presence using stereoscopic rendering of the landscape of Hampi landscape, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Karnataka, India.
See also
CyArk
Computational archaeology
Digital heritage
References
Further reading
Michael Falser, Monica Juneja (eds.). 'Archaeologizing' Heritage? Transcultural Entanglements between Local Social Practices and Global Virtual Realities. Heidelberg, New York: Springer (2013), .
External links
Cultural heritage
Virtual reality
Digital humanities
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1978 United States Senate election in Tennessee
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The 1978 United States Senate election in Tennessee took place on November 7, as a part of the Senate class 2 election.
Situation
Two-term popular incumbent Howard Baker, who had served as United States Senate Minority Leader since 1977, ran for reelection against first-time candidate and Democratic Party activist Jane Eskind.
Democratic nomination
Candidates:
Jame Boyd
Walter Bradley
Former State Senate Majority Leader Bill Bruce
Jane Eskind
James Foster
Douglas L. Heinsohn
J. D. Lee
Virginia Nyabongo
Charles Gordon Vick
In the primary, held on August 3, Eskind won in an open primary against eight other candidates:
Eskind – 196,156 (34.52%)
Bruce – 170,795 (30.06%)
Lee – 89,939 (15.83%)
Boyd – 48,458 (8.53%)
Bradley – 22,130 (3.90%)
Heinsohn – 17,787 (3.13%)
Foster – 10,671 (1.88%)
Nyabongo – 7,682 (1.35%)
Vick – 4,414 (0.78%)
Write-in – 147 (0.03%)
Republican nomination
Candidates:
Incumbent United States Senator and Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker
J. Durelle Boles
Harvey Howard
Hubert David Patty
Dayton Seiler
Francis Trapp
In the primary, held on August 3, Baker easily emerged as the winner:
Baker – 205,680 (83.44%)
Howard – 21,154 (8.58%)
Boles – 8,899 (3.61%)
Patty – 3,941 (1.60%)
Seiler – 3,831 (1.55%)
Trapp – 2,994 (1.22%)
General election
Baker won with a 15-point margin in the general election, held on November 7:
See also
1978 United States Senate elections
References
1978
Tennessee
United States Senate
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20of%20Peace%20Synagogue
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House of Peace Synagogue
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The House of Peace Synagogue is a former synagogue of the Beth Shalom Congregation in Columbia, South Carolina. It was originally located at 1318 Park Street. After the congregation moved in the 1935, the building was used for the Big Apple Club, which was an African-American night club. It was named to the National Register of Historic Places on August 28, 1979. In the early 1980s, the building was moved to its present location at the southeast corner of Hampton and Park Streets. In 1993, it was purchased by the Historic Columbia Foundation and is called the Big Apple.
History
The first Jewish congregation in Columbia, Sharit Israel, met on Assembly Street. Their building was destroyed in the burning of Columbia in the Civil War. The Jewish community diminished after the war until Eastern European immigrants arrived later in the century. In 1896, the Reform Tree of Life synagogue was built. Because of religious differences, the Orthodox Jews in Columbia separated. In 1907, the Orthodox minyan met at a house at Park and Lady Streets that served as their first synagogue. They received a state charter in 1912. This first synagogue was destroyed in a fire in 1915. The new synagogue was built at the site. By the late 1920s, they had outgrown this facility. They moved to their third synagogue on 1719 Marion Street in early 1935. The congregation's synagogue is now at 5827 North Trenholm Road.
The second synagogue on Park Street was then used for the African-American night club called the Big Apple Club. At the club, a dance craze, which was named the Big Apple, was popularized. Students from the University of South Carolina, who paid to watch from a balcony, learned the dance steps. Some of these students took the dance to the Roxy Club in New York in 1937. From there, the dance was briefly popular across the country.
After its use as a night club, the building was used by various commercial establishments. At the time of the preparation of the National Register of Historic Places nomination, it was used by a heating and air conditioning company. In the early 1980s, it was moved nearly two blocks to the corner of Hampton and Park Streets. In 1993, it was purchased by the Historic Columbia Foundation. It has been restored and is available for rental for special occasions.
Architecture
The Big Apple building is two-story, wooden building with a metal gabled roof. At its Park Street site, it was on a raised brick basement. Built for a congregation that was largely Polish and Russian immigrants, it is an example of Eastern Jewish architecture.
The entrance to the building is in a projecting central bay. The door is flanked by wooden pilasters and sidelights under a large arch with stained glass windows. On each side of the arch is a pair of tall narrow, stained glass windows with horseshoe arches. The sides of buildings have five windows with horseshoe arches. Some of have been modified. The sides have pedimented gables with a rondelle.
The interior has central recessed dome. When it was the Big Apple Club, the dome had neon lights shaped like the crescent moon and shooting stars. There is a balcony on the front side of the building. This was the spectator's gallery during operation as the night club.
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1907 establishments in South Carolina
1915 establishments in South Carolina
African-American history of South Carolina
Ashkenazi Jewish culture in South Carolina
Buildings and structures in Columbia, South Carolina
Former religious buildings and structures in South Carolina
Former synagogues in the United States
Jewish organizations established in 1907
National Register of Historic Places in Columbia, South Carolina
Polish-Jewish culture in the United States
Russian-Jewish culture in the United States
Synagogues completed in 1915
Synagogues in South Carolina
Synagogues on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
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Henri Gradis
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Moïse Henri Gradis (30 July 1823 – 23 January 1905) was a French businessman and historian.
Life
Moïse Henri Gradis was born on 30 July 1823 in Bordeaux.
He came from a family of prominent Bordeaux merchants who had flourished in the 18th century but were ruined by the French Revolution and the insurrections in Santo Domingo and Martinique.
His parents were Benjamin Gradis (1789–1858) and Laure Sarah Rodrigues Henriquès (1803–46).
In 1853 he married Claire Brandame (1835–1925).
Their son was Raoul Gradis (1861–1943).
Their daughter Emma Gradis married Georges Schwob d'Héricourt in 1889.
The Maison Gradis recovered, and by 1892 was selling sugar from several producers in Bordeaux, Nantes and Marseille.
Henri Gradis was deputy mayor of Bordeaux in 1864 and 1876.
He was also author of a history of Bordeaux and several other literary works.
His history of the 1848 revolution won praise for its accuracy and lack of bias.
Moïse Henri Gradis died in Paris in 1905.
He was succeeded at the Maison Gradis by his son Raoul.
Publications
Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare (translation, 1847)
Réflexions sur le christianisme, suivies d’une lettre à un jeune Israélite (1847-1850)
Histoire de la guerre de 1870 (1870)
Notes sur la guerre de 1870 et sur la Commune (1872)
Histoire de la révolution de 1848
Judaïsme et christianisme (1874)
Notice sur la Famille Gradis et sur la Maison Gradis et Fils de Bordeaux (1875)
Introduction à l'histoire du peuple d'Israël ; judaïsme et christianisme (1876)
Polyxène, drame antique en 4 actes et en vers (1881)
Jérusalem, drame en 5 actes et en vers (1883)
Le peuple d'Israël (Paris, 1891)
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Sources
1823 births
1905 deaths
Businesspeople from Bordeaux
19th-century French Sephardi Jews
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boost%20Drinks
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Boost Drinks
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Boost Drinks Limited is a British drinks company that sells primarily energy and sports drinks through convenience stores, independent retail chains and petrol forecourts. It was established in 2001 and is headquartered in Leeds.
History
The company was founded on 27 June 2001 by Leeds Metropolitan University graduate Simon Gray at the age of 28 with a bank loan of £30,000. Gray said in an interview that he wanted to take Boost to independent retailers because it would have been "crazy to challenge the big brands with a me-too product". The company was originally known as Blast UK Limited before changing its name to Boost Drinks Limited in July 2001. Gray paid back the bank loan within the company’s first 12 months and distributed Boost into international markets such as Spain, Croatia, South Africa and Nigeria. The brand was launched in Northern Ireland in 2003, with the Northern Irish market accounting for approximately 15 percent of the company's overall business by 2018.
As of 2011, the company employed eight people and had launched in 12 countries. The price of several Boost products increased in 2020. In September of the same year, Boost unveiled a £1.2 million "Choose Now" marketing campaign, which included a £10,000 fund to be shared by three community groups. Boost introduced a "Boost Retailer Hall of Fame" in Northern Ireland during June 2021, with the first winner being Kearney's shop in Randalstown, County Antrim, receiving 30% of the overall vote.
In December 2022, it was announced that Boost was acquired by A.G. Barr for £20 million.
Partnerships
Boost Drinks has had a partnership with Air Ambulance Northern Ireland since 2019, when the company gave £10,000 to the charity. From February 2021, under a deal signed with Dorset-based brewery Hall & Woodhouse, Boost Drinks became responsible for the distribution, marketing and sale of soft drink brand Rio. Boost Drinks became the "official energy drinks partner" of Leeds United for the 2021–22 Premier League season.
Products
In 2010, the company attempted to introduce a smoothie product, but the response was "disappointing" and it was soon abandoned. Boost has released a number of "limited edition" flavours, to its energy and sports drinks line, including a 'Winter Spice' flavour in 2015, a tropical flavour in 2016, a pomegranate and blueberry flavour in 2017, and a grape and cherry product in 2018. Boost also launched protein drinks and an iced coffee range in 2016 and 2020 respectively.
References
External links
British companies established in 2001
Coffee companies of the United Kingdom
Companies based in Thorpe Park Leeds
Drink companies of England
Energy drinks
Food and drink companies established in 2001
Soft drinks manufacturers
Sports drinks
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Garvald Centres
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The Garvald Centres are a group of six affiliated but independent Scottish charities that support people with special needs and learning disabilities. It is based on the work of the Austrian esotericist Rudolf Steiner. The charities operate in the Midlothian, Scottish Borders and Edinburgh area of Scotland.
Founding
The Garvald School and Training Centre was founded near West Linton in 1944 by Dr Hans Schauder, his wife Lisl and others who decided to join him after having worked for some years at the Camphill community in Aberdeen. Dr Schauder himself was of Viennese origin and had fled Austria some years previously as he came from a Jewish family. Connected with anthroposophy, the medical and therapeutic work of Rudolf Steiner and with the group around Karl König, he had been among the founders of Camphill. After working at Garvald for some years he opened his own practice in Edinburgh and developed his own method of counselling until meeting the Dominican friar, Lefébure, with whom he wrote his best-known work Conversations on Counselling.
The Garvald school later became the Garvald Training Centre and later became six independent communities:
Garvald West Linton, the original community established in 1944.
Garvald Edinburgh, established in 1969, runs a bakery and confectionery delivering to whole food shops, delicatessens and cafés and private customers, which was featured in the short film Breadmakers produced by Jim Hickey and Robin Mitchell and directed by Yasmin Fedda in 2007. The Mulberry Bush Shop sells artisan gifts produced in their workshops as well as books, art materials and craft produced by other suppliers. Craft workshops include a glass studio, joinery, pottery, puppetry, textiles and hand tool refurbishment. In 2007 it opened the Orwell Arts building in the city, where the former Dalry Primary School had been.
The Engine Shed, an extension of Garvald Edinburgh founded in the 1980s.
The Columcille Centre has a range of programmes like Edinburgh All, Columcille Esbank, Music for All, the Library project, Columcille Hall that is also available for rental and the Columcille Ceili Band, which featured in the documentary "About A Band" by Jim Hickey and Robin Mitchell. In addition it hosts the Makers Markets.
Garvald Glenesk, a residential care centre established in 1998.
Garvald Home Farm, a Biodynamic farm associated with Garvald West Linton established in 1987
Garvald social therapy
The centres are based on the work of Rudolf Steiner, in particular his ideas on social therapy expressed through the type of opportunities provided, the approach and the interdependence they try to create. It consists in giving structure and rhythm to member's lives, bringing people together to form a solid community through common activities or the celebration of events and by emphasising the quality of what the workshops produce so that everyone can take pride in achieving the best possible. The items produced should have a value or benefit to others rather than making things for their own sake.
They provide creative working environments focusing mainly on craft, catering, artistic skills and agriculture. Craft offers a wide range of possibilities for people to express creativity and be connected to nature, so there is much focus on different craft activities. In addition they engage in approaches such as the talking points methodology, which focuses on outcomes for service-users and carers and have themselves produced Talking Points tools which have been designed specifically for people with learning disabilities. In this way there is an opportunity for anyone coming to one of the Garvald centres to affect their environment, and the local and often wider community. They become needed by others and relied upon to sustain the creativity and range of goods, art and craft work. A range of therapies like eurythmy, creative speech, massage and various other therapeutic arts are also offered.
In addition to providing structured and creative working environments the majority of their studios and workshops have an enterprise focus, returning income to offset running costs. The opportunities they provide help people to gain confidence, particularly school leavers making the transition into an adult environment. The workshops teach skills that apply in mainstream employment or help an individual develop creativity over a longer period.
They have experience in supporting people with a range of needs and syndromes including autism, Down syndrome, fragile X syndrome, epilepsy, Prader Willi Syndrome and dual diagnosis as well as physical and communication difficulties. Members' ages range from sixteen to the mid seventies.
See also
Camphill Movement
References
External links
Garvald West Linton Homepage
Website: Garvald Edinburgh
The Engine Shed Homepage
columcillecentre.co.uk
Garvald Glenesk Homepage
Garvald Home Farm
An Approach Based on Anthroposophy
Charities based in Scotland
Organizations established in 1944
Educational organisations based in Scotland
Anthroposophy
Therapeutic community
1944 establishments in Scotland
Special education in the United Kingdom
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2008 Porsche Centre Gold Coast 500
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The 2008 Porsche Centre Gold Coast 500 was the seventh 500km race held at Queensland Raceway. It was held on 15 November 2008, and only attracted nine entrants.
Results
Qualifying 1
Qualifying session 1 was held on Saturday, 15 November, at 10:30am.
Qualifying 2
Qualifying session 2 was held on Saturday, 15 November, at 11:40am.
Race
The race was held on Saturday, 15 November, at 3:45pm.
* Cars 11 and 29 finished first and second respectively, however were relegated to positions two and three after the race.
References
Porsche Centre Gold Coast 500
Queensland 500
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Abukuma-class destroyer escort
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The Abukuma-class destroyer escort (or frigate) is the general-purpose destroyer escort of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. It is the successor of the earlier .
Design
This class was planned to replace the earlier and possess both ASW capability as the successor of the and ASuW capability as the successor of the Yūbari class, but there are many enhancements as follows:
Introduction of stealth technology
This class is the first combatant ship of the JMSDF with stealth technology. Their superstructure has traditional vertical surfaces, but their hulls are angled to reduce their radar cross section.
Electronic warfare
This is the first destroyer escort class with the Naval Tactical Data System and OYQ-7 combat direction system. It is also the first destroyer escort class which has ECM capability with the OLT-3 jammer.
Weapon systems
The Short Range Air Defense system comprises the OPS-14 air-search radar, the OPS-28 surface search and target acquisition radar, one Otobreda 76 mm rapid-firing gun controlled by the FCS-2 fire-control system and Phalanx CIWS. The OPS-14 is the Japanese equivalent of the American AN/SPS-49 radar, and the OPS-28 is the equivalent of the American TAS Mk.23. Phalanx CIWS has given the ships an improved self-defence capability against anti-ship missiles. Mk.31 RAM GMWS Point Defense Missile System was planned, but it is not installed yet.
The ASW system comprises an OQS-8 hull-sonar (Japanese equivalent of the American DE-1167), ASROC anti-submarine rocket from the Type 74 octuple launcher (Japanese license-built version of the American Mark 16 GMLS) and lightweight ASW torpedoes from two HOS-301 triple torpedo tubes. A Tactical Towed-Array Sonar System was planned but it is not installed yet.
The JMSDF intended to build eleven ships of this class, but finally, only six were built because s started deploying in distinct forces. All six vessels of the class are named after World War II cruisers.
Ships in the class
See also
List of naval ship classes in service
Notes
References
Jane's Fighting Ships 2005-2006
Frigates of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
Frigate classes
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Dennis Bailey is a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s. He played at club level for Dewsbury, as a , i.e. number 2 or 5.
External links
Dennis Bailey Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org
Tetley's Yorkshire County Cup Final 2003
ĎŔƑ Dewsbury's Last Game, Ever
ĎŔƑ Memory Lane
Angry Leigh hit out at ref
RUGBY LEAGUE: Henare completes the Lynx
Cougars slump in Rams rampage
Video of try 1:39 -to- 1:59
Dewsbury Rams players
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Rugby league wingers
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Michael Beckam Donovan (October 18, 1881 – February 3, 1938) was a professional baseball player. He played parts of two seasons in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Naps in 1904 and the New York Highlanders in 1908, primarily as a third baseman. In seven career games, he had five hits and two RBIs, all of them with the Highlanders. He batted and threw right-handed.
Donovan was born in Brooklyn, New York and died in New York, New York. Donovan was working for Consolidated Edison as a security guard when he was accidentally shot and died, after a co-worker's gun accidentally discharged.
References
External links
Major League Baseball third basemen
Cleveland Naps players
New York Highlanders players
Hartford Senators players
Springfield Ponies players
Toledo Mud Hens players
Shreveport Pirates (baseball) players
Wilkes-Barre Barons (baseball) players
Troy Trojans (minor league) players
Fall River Indians players
Johnstown Johnnies players
Lancaster Red Roses players
Reading Pretzels players
Minor league baseball managers
Baseball players from New York (state)
Deaths by firearm in New York City
1881 births
1938 deaths
Firearm accident victims in the United States
Accidental deaths in New York (state)
Burials at Calvary Cemetery (Queens)
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List of University of Pittsburgh buildings
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The lists of University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) buildings catalog only the currently-existing Pitt- and UPMC-owned buildings and structures that reside within the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the home of the university's and medical center's main campuses. Although the University and the closely affiliated University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) are tightly intertwined both institutionally and geographically, including the sharing and leasing arrangements of resources and facilities (such as Forbes Tower, Thomas Detre Hall, the Carrillo Street Steam Plant, Hillman Cancer Center, etc.), buildings primarily owned by UPMC are listed separately because the University and UPMC are technically separate legal entities.
University of Pittsburgh
The major concentration of buildings that comprise Pitt's main campus is centered in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, however a few facilities are scattered elsewhere throughout the city, including the adjacent Shadyside neighborhood. Along with regional campuses in Bradford, Greensburg, Johnstown, and Titusville, Pitt also has a Computer Center in RIDC Park in Blawnox, the Plum Boro Science Center in Plum, the University of Pittsburgh Applied Research Center (U-PARC) in Harmarville, Pennsylvania, the Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology in Linesville, Pennsylvania, and the Allen L. Cook Spring Creek Preserve archeological research site in Spring Creek, Wyoming.
Table of Pitt-owned buildings in Pittsburgh
Buildings in the sortable table below are initially listed alphabetically.
Table of former Pitt-owned buildings in Pittsburgh
The following table lists buildings that were owned and utilized by the university but have subsequently been either sold or demolished.
UPMC
The flagship of UPMC's hospital network is centered in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh within, and adjacent to, the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. Many university departments, institutes and programs are housed within UPMC facilities and vice versa. The administrative headquarters of UPMC are moving into the top floors of the U.S. Steel Tower in downtown Pittsburgh. In Pennsylvania, UPMC also owns and operates facilities outside Pittsburgh including hospitals in Aspinwall (UPMC St. Margaret), Bedford (UPMC Bedford), Braddock (UPMC Braddock), Cranberry (UPMC Passavant – Cranberry Campus), Greenville (UPMC Horizon: Greenville), McCandless (UPMC Passavant – McCandless campus), (UPMC McKeesport), Seneca (UPMC Northwest), and Farrell (UPMC Horizon: Shenango Valley), as well as operating ISMETT, located in Palermo, Sicily. UPMC also owns and operates a variety of other facilities inside Pennsylvania including cancer centers (also internationally in Ireland and the United Kingdom), retirement and long-term care facilities, and community and medical and surgical facilities.
Table of UPMC-owned buildings in Pittsburgh
The sortable table below has its included buildings initially listed alphabetically.
See also
Oakland - the neighborhood of the main Pitt campus
Schenley Farms Historic District - the historic district in Oakland which the main campus is located. Many other historic buildings in this district are scattered among the Pitt campus and are utilized for various school functions.
Notes
References
External links
Financial Records Services Building List
Allegheny County Assessment Real Estate Search
Emporis Pittsburgh buildings
Images of America: Oakland
Building List
Pittsburgh, University of
University of Pittsburgh buildings
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
University of Pittsburgh
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Movie Love: Complete Reviews 1988–1991 (1991) is the 11th and last collection of film reviews by the critic Pauline Kael and covers the period from October 1988 to March 1991, when she chose to retire from her regular film reviewing duties at The New Yorker. In the "Author's Note" that begins the anthology, Kael writes that this period had "not been a time of great moviemaking fervor", but "what has been sustaining is that there is so much to love in movies besides great moviemaking."
She reviews 85 films in this final collection. She gives rich praise to directors and performers she admires - in this collection for example, Pedro Almodóvar; 'Generalissimo Francisco Franco kept the lid on Spain for 36 years; he died in 1975 and Almodóvar is part of what jumped out of the box. The most original pop writer-director of the 1980s; he's Jean-Luc Godard with a human face - a happy face.' And Chet Baker in Let's Get Lost; " He's singing a torch song after the flame is gone; he's selling the romance of burnout." Perhaps pre-eminently in this collection she praises Brian De Palma's Casualties of War; "Some movies - La Grande Illusion, and Shoeshine come to mind, - can affect us in more direct, emotional ways than simple entertainment movies. They have more imagination, more poetry, more intensity than the usual fare; they have themes, and a vision. Casualties of War has this kind of purity." And she's cool to what she regards as second rate - Field of Dreams, for example, - 'That the film is sincere doesn't mean it's not manipulative.' Or The Rainbow: "The ads for The Rainbow feature a banner line, 'Ken Russell is the purest interpreter D. H. Lawrence could have hoped for.' In his worst nightmare."
The films she recommends include; Patty Hearst, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, True Believer, Scrooged, The Dressmaker, Dangerous Liaisons, Out Cold, Let's Get Lost, Say Anything..., Casualties of War, Ghostbusters II, Batman, The Fabulous Baker Boys, My Left Foot, Enemies, The Tall Guy, The Grifters, Vincent & Theo, Everybody Wins, L.A. Story.
Notably absent from this collection of reviews are the longer general essays on the films that Kael had written and included in past anthologies.
This book is out-of-print in the United States, but is still published by Marion Boyars Publishers of the United Kingdom.
Movies reviewed
Bird
Gorillas in the Mist
Patty Hearst
Another Woman
Punchline
Madame Sousatzka
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Things Change
A Cry in the Dark
The Good Mother
Scrooged
High Spirits
The Dressmaker
Tequila Sunrise
Mississippi Burning
Dangerous Liaisons
Working Girl
The Accidental Tourist
Beaches
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Rain Man
True Believer
High Hopes
Three Fugitives
Out Cold
Parents
Cousins
New York Stories
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The Dream Team
Crusoe
Heathers
Let's Get Lost
Field of Dreams
Scandal
Say Anything
The Rainbow
Miss Firecracker
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Vampire's Kiss
Dead Poets Society
Batman
Ghostbusters II
Casualties of War
My Left Foot
Penn & Teller Get Killed
A Dry White Season
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Breaking In
Johnny Handsome
Drugstore Cowboy
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Dad
Fat Man and Little Boy
The Bear
Henry V
Valmont
Blaze
Back to the Future Part II
The Little Mermaid
Enemies
Driving Miss Daisy
Music Box
Roger & Me
Always
Born on the Fourth of July
Glory
Internal Affairs
GoodFellas
The Tall Guy
Postcards from the Edge
Pacific Heights
Avalon
The Grifters
Reversal of Fortune
Vincent & Theo
Dances with Wolves
Edward Scissorhands
The Sheltering Sky
Everybody Wins
The Godfather Part III
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Awakenings
Sleeping with the Enemy
L.A. Story
References
1991 non-fiction books
Books of film criticism
Books about film
Books by Pauline Kael
American non-fiction books
E. P. Dutton books
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The Write Stuff, "Radio 4's game of literary correctness", was a lighthearted quiz about literature on BBC Radio 4, taking a humorous look at famous literary figures, which ran from 1998 to 2014. It was chaired and written by James Walton. The two teams were captained by novelist Sebastian Faulks and journalist John Walsh, with Beth Chalmers reading literary extracts.
Format
John Walsh and Sebastian Faulks have been team captains since the programme began. They are each joined by another journalist or novelist; frequent guests in later years included John O'Farrell, Mark Billingham and Lynn Truss. Truss stepped in as captain to replace Faulks for series 13 (2010).
Each week, the programme has an "Author of the Week"; W. B. Yeats, E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence, Robert Burns, and J. K. Rowling all featured in the programme. The programme has, on occasion, featured a group of writers, rather than a single author, as its key study - for example, poets of the Beat Generation were the featured authors on 26 October 2010. Each programme begins with the panellists reading favourite extracts from the author's writing, and the first round is a series of questions about the author's life and works.
The programme normally ends with panellists having to write a pastiche (or parody; the programme uses the terms interchangeably) based on that week's author of the week. Walton describes these as 'the most popular bit of the programme'. Walton sets a topic that would be so out of style of the author in question that a pastiche would be humorous. For example, when Robert Burns was the author of the week, contestants were asked to write a poem, in the style of Burns, celebrating something typically English; when Philip Roth was the author of the week, contestants were asked how he might have written a children's story. Faulks has published a collection of his parodies as a book, Pistache.
The intervening rounds do not focus on the author of the week. Rounds commonly included are: connections; odd one out; literary mistakes; the archive round; and a music round.
The programme has normally been broadcast at 18:30 on a weekday, one of the Radio 4 comedy slots.
Episodes
Series 1 (1998)
Series 2 (1999)
Series 3 (2000)
Series 4 (2001)
Series 5 (2002)
Christmas Special (2002)
Series 6 (2003)
Series 7 (2004)
Christmas Special (2004)
Series 8 (2005)
Series 9 (2006)
Series 10 (2007)
Series 11 (2008)
Series 12 (2008)
Series 13 (2010)
Series 14 (2010)
Cheltenham Literature Festival Special
Series 15 (2012)
Series 16 (2013)
Series 17 (2014)
References
External links
BBC Radio 4 programmes
British radio game shows
1990s British game shows
2000s British game shows
2010s British game shows
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In Canadian folklore, Cressie is the nickname given to an eel-like lake monster said to reside in Crescent Lake, Robert's Arm, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The name is a portmanteau of Crescent Lake and Nessie, the nickname given to the Loch Ness Monster. The monster has been described as resembling a large dark brown eel around 15 feet in length with a long, sleek body and as "looking long and shiny, and having a fish-like head." Claims of Cressie being sighted began in the 1950s, and continue to the present day.
History
Though there are reported sightings of Cressie as early as the 1950s, some have linked the legends to earlier Indigenous legends of the woodum haoot ("pond devil") or haoot tuwedyee ("swimming demon"), however others caution that this attribution has seemingly been copied from source to source without any verification of its connection to Cressie or the area of Newfoundland and Labrador in which Cressie is found.
There have been no photographs of Cressie, and all information relies on local oral history. According to local folklore, an elderly resident of Robert's Arm known as Grandmother Anthony was startled while berry-picking by a giant serpent in the lake. In one of the earliest dated sightings in the 1950s, two woodsmen were on the shores of the lake when they noticed an upturned boat, and fearing for its occupants, they hurried towards it. However, as they approached, the boat turned out to be something large and slick which slipped below the waters of the lake.
A local resident reported a slim, black shape rise five feet from a patch of churning water before sinking out of sight, in early spring 1990.
On July 9, 1991, Fred Parsons and his wife reported seeing a large snakelike creature swimming in Crescent Lake. He described it as a long, sleek body without a significantly large head, which was laying level with the water. In September of that same year, a resident of Robert's Arm was returning to town when he noticed a disturbance on the surface of the lake. As he watched, the object dropped beneath the surface and then rose again. He described it as "a black, fifteen foot long shape pitching forward in a rolling motion much as a whale does but with no sign of a fin." It sank out of sight and did not reappear.
There were several sightings in 1995, and a summer student crew working on the boardwalk along the lake spotted the monster in 2000.
During the summer of 2003, several town residents say they saw the creature swimming after at least a year with no reports, which had led some residents to speculate whether Cressie had died. In these reports, Cressie was said to resemble a snake-like creature with a fish-like head:A passenger in a passing car shrieked at the driver as she looked out towards the lake and watched as the monster surfaced, its skin shiny and slick under the summer sun. Both watched water pour from the monster's gaping mouth. It was about 20 feet in length and swam silently across the top of the lake before diving down into the cool depths once more.There are other reports that divers from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have allegedly described seeing "giant eels as thick as a man's thigh" in the lake while investigating a drowning death. According to reports, scuba divers conducting an underwater search for the body of a downed pilot in the mid-80s found themselves surrounded by a school of vicious gigantic eels, though they were able to escape, leading some to believe that perhaps these eels were Cressie's babies.
In the winter, large holes often appear in the ice that covers Crescent Lake, leading some to speculate that the holes were created not by something falling into the lake, but by something bursting through the ice.
Explanations
According to skeptics there are several natural occurrences that can explain "Cressie" sightings.Giant eels have been touted as one of the most likely candidates. Several Robert's Arm residents offer as evidence of the eel hypothesis previous sightings of giant eels, and high numbers of eels appearing in eel traps in the lake. In an article from 1993 called Have You Seen Cressie?, author R.A. Bragg suggests that eels do not stop growing during their lifetime, and perhaps this is the cause of Cressie's size.
Others, such as skeptical investigator Joe Nickell speculate that perhaps the dark-colored northern river otter is responsible. He claims the river otter"swims both under water and at the surface where its wake can make it appear much longer, and moves in an undulating (rising and falling) manner...In addition, multiple otters swimming in a line can give the effect of a single giant serpentine creature slithering with an up-and-down movement through water".Still others suggest that Cressie is not a living creature at all, but instead a large log. The bottom of Crescent Lake is reported to be covered in wooden logs from when logging took place in the community. For decades, Crescent Lake was used to transport more than half a million cords of pulpwood that was harvested from the surrounding areas and shipped to paper mills. Some speculate that bubbles of gas from the decomposing wood lifts these logs to the surface of the lake.
Tourism and popular culture
In 1991, the town of Robert's Arm erected a statue of Cressie at the entrance to the community, along with a storyboard which describes the alleged sightings. This statue greets tourists to the area, and is depicted with distinctly dragonlike features including green scales, a row of plates along its back, and fearsome teeth. The statue and signs have been part of a deliberate attempt by the community to promote the monster in hopes of boosting tourism and the local economy:In 1992 Roberts Arm was the principal supply and service centre for communities on several nearby islands. However, the town's major source of employment — cutting pulpwood for local contractors — was in crisis, after having been in decline for some years. It was also hoped that the community would benefit from efforts to promote tourism along the "Beothuk Trail". Perhaps this hope is strengthened by the old, local tradition that a 'monster', named Cressie, inhabits Crescent Lake.
A local gas station is named "Cressie's Gas Bar & Supplies." A 2012 newspaper article promoting local hiking spots used the monster as a potential attraction for hikers:The area is blazing with color in the fall when the birches, aspens and maples are changing colour. If you are lucky maybe you will even catch a glimpse of 'cressie', the lake monster that lurks beneath the waters of Crescent Lake.
Cressie has featured in several of Robert's Arm's Come Home Year celebrations. The 1995 Come Home Year commemorative book includes several poems which refer to Cressie, including this passage by Jim Payne:"I suppose you've heard of Cressie the monster in the lake
If you get too handy she'll give her tail a shake
She'll set you boat a-rocking and you won't believe your eyes
And people will make fun of you and say you're telling lies"In May 2008, local media reported that a production company from Montreal would travel to Robert's Arm to produce a show for the History Channel. On 17 September 2008, History Channel’s Monster Quest broadcast an episode entitled “Lake Monsters of the North,” which focused on the legends of the monster eels in the lake.
In October 2019, a group exhibition entitled “Crafted Beasts” opened at the Craft Council of NL Gallery in St. John's, which examined provincial, indigenous, and Western European folklore, and which "started from the desire to see the transformation of traditional beliefs, customs and stories that have been passed through word of mouth, into a physical object." The show included a sculpture inspired by tales of the lake monster:For “Cressie,” Michael Harlick combined forged metal and found bone to build a spooky sculpture one certainly would not want to encounter in the deep, dark waters.
References
Canadian folklore
Canadian legendary creatures
Water monsters
Culture of Newfoundland and Labrador
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Hooked: Film Writings, 1985–88 (1989) is the ninth collection of movie reviews by the critic Pauline Kael, covering the period from July 1985 to June 1988. All articles in the book originally appeared in The New Yorker.
She reviews more than 170 films giving rich praise to the work of directors and performers she admires - in this collection for example, Robert Altman; Alan Rudolph - for his film Songwriter; Nick Nolte; Susan Sarandon; Melanie Griffith; Lesley Ann Warren; Steve Martin in Roxanne. And she attacks what she regards as second rate, for example, George Lucas, -"George Lucas should believe less in himself - he keeps trying to come up with an original idea, and he can't"; and the film Heartbreak Ridge - "It would take a board of inquiry made up of gods to determine whether this picture is more offensive aesthetically, psychologically, morally, or politically."
The films she recommends include:
The Best of Times
Dreamchild
Sweet Dreams
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Compromising Positions
My Beautiful Laundrette
Mona Lisa
Salvador
Club Paradise
Mike's Murder
Blue Velvet
She's Gotta Have It
Re-Animator
Something Wild
Hour of the Star
The Stepfather
Law of Desire
Raising Arizona
Brazil
Roxanne
Tampopo
Eat the Peach
The Witches of Eastwick
Wish You Were Here
Hamburger Hill
Hope and Glory
Weeds
The Dead
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Moonstruck
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
High Tide
High Season
Pass the Ammo
Hairspray
Matador
Beetlejuice
Masquerade
A World Apart
Bull Durham
The title refers to her film 'addiction'. "I got hooked on movies at an early age, (around 4 or 5 , when I saw them while sitting on my parents' laps), and I am still a child before a moving image. Movies seem to me the most mysteriously great of all art forms."
The book is out-of-print in the United States, but is still published by Marion Boyars Publishers in the United Kingdom.
References
1989 non-fiction books
Books of film criticism
Books about film
Books by Pauline Kael
American non-fiction books
E. P. Dutton books
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNU
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BNU
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BNU may refer to:
BNU (software), a communications driver.
Banco Nacional Ultramarino, a Portuguese and Macanese bank
Beaconhouse National University, Lahore
Beijing Normal University, a university in Beijing, China
Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire, public library in Strasbourg
Brooklyn Northern United AFC, a New Zealand football team
Buckinghamshire New University, a university in Buckinghamshire, England
Bengaluru North University, a university in Karnataka, India
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taking%20It%20All%20In
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Taking It All In
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Taking It All In is the seventh collection of movie reviews by the critic Pauline Kael and contains the 150 film reviews she wrote for The New Yorker between June 9, 1980, and June 13, 1983. She writes in the Author's Note at the beginning of the collection that, "it was a shock to discover how many good ones there were", as well as observing that only a very few of the movies she liked were box office successes - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Tootsie, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. She laments that, "in the '80s, films that aren't immediate box office successes are instantly branded as losers, flops, bombs. Some of the movies that meant the most to me were in this doomed group - The Stunt Man, Pennies from Heaven, Blow Out, The Devil's Playground, Melvin and Howard, Shoot the Moon, Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean."
The collection starts up after a gap of a year, part of which Kael spent in Los Angeles and what she learned during those months is summed up in the piece "Why Are Movies So Bad?" This essay, (in which she takes on the Hollywood money men whose love of swift and easy financial returns she believed led to the too many truly bad films on show at the time), is also included in the collection. ( "Why Are Movies So Bad? Or The Numbers").
The book is out-of-print in the United States, but is still published by Marion Boyars Publishers in the United Kingdom.
Editions
Henry Holt & Co., 1984, hardbound ()
Marion Boyars, 1986, paperback ()
1984 non-fiction books
Books of film criticism
Books about film
Books by Pauline Kael
American non-fiction books
Henry Holt and Company books
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghukasyan
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Ghukasyan
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Ghukasyan () ) is an Armenian surname, meaning 'son of Ghukas', the Armenian equivalent of Luke. In Russia, Azerbaijan and other countries, some holders of this surname changed the spelling to Gukasov ().
People with the surname include:
Arkadi Ghukasyan (born 1957), second president of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Siranush Ghukasyan (born 1998), Armenian chess master
Hovhannes Ghukasyan (1822–1882), Polish-Armenian pharmacist and petroleum industry pioneer, inventor of the modern kerosene lamp
See also
Arshak Ter-Gukasov (1819–1881), Yerevan Forces commander of Russia's army during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878
Voroshil Gukasyan (1932–1986), Soviet linguist
Armenian-language surnames
Patronymic surnames
Surnames from given names
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1muel%20Brassai
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Sámuel Brassai
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Sámuel Brassai (15 June 1797 – 24 June 1897) was a Hungarian linguist and teacher sometimes called "The Last Transylvanian Polymath." In addition to being a linguist and pedagogue he was also a natural scientist, mathematician, musician, philosopher, essay writer, and a regular member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is perhaps best known for teaching methods.
Notes
References
É. Kiss, Katalin. 2008. A Pioneering Theory Of Information Structure. Acta Linguistica Hungarica, Vol. 55 (1–2), pp. 23–40.
External links
1797 births
1897 deaths
Hungarian centenarians
Men centenarians
Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
People from Alba County
Rectors of the Franz Joseph University
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo%20School%20for%20the%20Arts
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Toledo School for the Arts
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Toledo School for the Arts is a public charter school in downtown Toledo, Ohio founded by former director Martin Porter. It was first sponsored by the Toledo Board of Education. In 2008 the school was chartered by Bowling Green State University. TSA serves over 700 students from any school district in Ohio in Junior Division (6th, 7th and 8th grades), and Senior Division (9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grades). TSA's college preparatory curriculum integrates the visual, language, and performing arts. In addition to core academic subjects, classes are offered in dance, music, theatre, English language, humanities, and visual arts and include training and career development for students interested in pursuing professions in the arts. TSA students have been accepted to many of the nation's best colleges and universities.
First Friday
First Friday is a monthly event for the public with performances, demonstrations and exhibits of student work. The highlight of each year is Kaleidoscope, a performance and art exhibit that features student works from each department as well as student soloists. Students collectively participate in an average of 180 performances and exhibitions each year.
Community
TSA has "ARTnerships" with Toledo's major cultural institutions, including the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, the Arts Commission of Greater Toledo, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Toledo Ballet Association, Toledo Repertoire Theatre, and Ballet Theatre of Toledo. ARTnerships are community organizations that share TSA's vision.
History
The Toledo School for the Arts began operating in 1999.
In 2004, TSA moved to 333 14th Street, the former Willys Overland building located in uptown Toledo. In 2009 the school opened its own gallery to allow them the ability to hold art shows and sell student art throughout the year.
In 2008 TSA was awarded a No School Left Behind Blue Ribbon from the US Department of Education. In 2007 TSA was identified as one of the leading charter schools in the nation, and featured in the US Department of Education publication, Innovations in Education Reform. TSA has twice been designated a Bronze Medal School by U.S. News & World Report.
In 2016 TSA was named the number one charter school in Ohio by the website Niche, a website that ranks schools based on data and reviews. They were also named the 25th best school in Ohio by Niche.
In 2019 TSA unveiled an Ohio Historic Marker on the corner of 14th and Adams detailing the history of the building which was constructed in the early 1900s by the Willys Overland Company. During the unveiling the school announced plans to expand the historic building with an addition and increase student enrollment. This marker was then, in 2021, knocked down in a motor vehicle accident and has not since been replaced.
In 2022 the Toledo School for the Arts began groundbreaking on a major expansion.
Notable alumni
References
External links
High schools in Lucas County, Ohio
Bowling Green State University
United States
Performing arts education in the United States
Arts schools in the United States
1999 establishments in Ohio
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When%20the%20Lights%20Go%20Down%20%28book%29
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When the Lights Go Down (book)
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When the Lights Go Down: Film Writings 1975–1980 (1980), is the sixth collection of movie reviews by the critic Pauline Kael.
Background
All material in the book originally appeared in The New Yorker. The collection begins with an appreciation of Cary Grant. " Mae West's raucous invitation to him - 'Why don't you come up sometime and see me?' - was echoed thirty years later by Audrey Hepburn in Charade: 'Won't you come in for a minute? I don't bite, you know, unless it's called for.' And then, purringly, 'Do you know what's wrong with you? Nothing.' That might be a summary of Cary Grant, the finest romantic comedian of his era: there's nothing the matter with him." . After the profile of Cary Grant the book contains reviews of movies of the second half of the 1970s - more than one hundred and fifty of them.
The book is out-of-print in the United States, but is still published by Marion Boyars Publishers in the United Kingdom.
Critical response
National Post reported that the volume "sold in impressive numbers".
Matthew Wilder of City Pages wrote of Kael and offered "Her peak can be seen in the masterly collection When the Lights Go Down".
Jim Emersonon of Sun Times wrote Renata Adler's 7,646-word massive attack on Kael in the New York Review of Books", "...was ostensibly a review of Kael's 1980 collection When the Lights Go Down". He further offered that in her own The Perils of Pauline, Adler panned Kael's work on the volume when Adler wrote "Now, When the Lights Go Down, a collection of her reviews over the past five years, is out; and it is, to my surprise and without Kael- or Simon-like exaggeration, not simply, jarringly, piece by piece, line by line, and without interruption, worthless. It turns out to embody something appalling and widespread in the culture."
The volume has been archived in the National Library of Australia.
Editions
Henry Holt & Co., 1980, hardbound ()
Henry Holt & Co., 1980, paperback ()
References
External links
1980 non-fiction books
Books of film criticism
Books about film
Books by Pauline Kael
American non-fiction books
Henry Holt and Company books
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon%20Patton
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Brandon Patton
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Brandon Patton is an American game designer and musician.
Games
Game Design
Mycology (board game, in-development)
Super PACS: The Game of Politics About the Game of Politics (2016, TableTip Games)
Healing Blade: Defenders of Soma (2016, Nerdcore Medical)
Occam's Razor: The Diagnostician's Dilemma (2013, Nerdcore Medical)
Music
Awards
Winner of the Vox Populi for Best Story Song of 2009 (for "Mixed-Up Modern Family") by the 9th Annual Independent Music Awards,
2009 Finalist in the USA Songwriting Competition in the Rock / Alternative category.
Featured on NPR's song of the day Oct. 8, 2009.
"Top Music Artist" at the 2005 Temecula Film and Music Festival.
The album Should Confusion was a finalist for "Album of the Year" in the 2004 Independent Music Awards.
Finalist in the 2004 Newport Folk Festival New Talent Showcase.
Solo albums
How I Allegedly Bit a Man in Gloucestershire (2011)
Underhill Downs (2009)
Should Confusion (2004)
Nocturnal (1997)
Other albums
Jukebox Stories, The Official Bootleg (2008)
three against four, Hey Sparkle Eyes (2002)
three against four, Some of Us Are Here (1998)
Compilations featuring Patton
Nerdcore Rising: Music From the Motion Picture (2008)
Indie Pop Cares A lot (2005)
Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival 2005 Compilation (2005)
The WSVNRadio Hall of Fame, Vol. 14 (2004)
Oasis Acoustic Vol. 47 (2004) note: due to a printing error, he is listed only as Brandon
Music festival appearances
SXSW Music Festival (2012)
Truck America (2010)
Heart of Texas Quadruple Bypass Music Festival (2008)
Newport Folk Festival New Talent Showcase (2005)
Temecula Film and Music Festival (2005)
NXNE Toronto (2005)
Musical groups
MC Frontalot (2006–2016)
Futureboy
Jonathan Coulton
The Famous
MC Lars
Steve Songs
Solea
three against four (1997-2000)
Theater and film
Theater
Jukebox Stories 3: The Secrets of Forking (2013, performer)
Jukebox Stories 2: The Case of the Creamy Foam (2008, performer)
Love Sucks! A Punk Rock Musical (2007, composer)
Jukebox Stories (2006,2007, performer)
The AtrainPlays (2005–2007, composer)
Young Zombies in Love (2004, bassist)
Film
Remedy (2013) background music
The Muslims Are Coming (2012) background music
Nerdcore Rising (2008) as himself
References
External links
American pop musicians
American rock musicians
American multi-instrumentalists
Living people
Wesleyan University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back%20Together%20Again
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Back Together Again
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Back Together Again is an album by American jazz saxophonist Fred Anderson with drummer Hamid Drake, which was recorded in 2003 and released on the Thrill Jockey label. They played together for more than 30 years, but this was their first duo recording. A bonus CD-ROM includes footage of three of the tunes along with interviews in which Anderson and Drake dissect the process of how the songs evolve and the different styles and approaches the two use.
Reception
Reviewing for The Village Voice in September 2004, Tom Hull said, "It feels like [Anderson]'s finally found his way. Master drummer Drake, who learned to play alongside Anderson's son when his family moved to Chicago, keeps the rhythms bubbling, getting a robust but subdued sound from his frame drums that keeps Anderson relaxed and generous."
In his review for AllMusic, Sean Westergaard states "Anderson can spin endlessly creative melodic improvisations on tenor, and Hamid Drake is every bit his equal on the traps and frame drums. It should be no surprise that this set is amazing. Both men are at the top of their game."
The All About Jazz review by Rex Butters says "Hamid Drake and Fred Anderson bring the fruits of their long association to bear and share that magic chemistry as a stunning document of just how much music two people can make."
The JazzTimes review by Mike Shanley notes that "The eight tracks are likely spontaneous improvisations, but each has a structural focus in rhythm and melody. Neither musician pushes at the other too aggressively, preferring instead to move in tandem."
In another review for JazzTimes, Chris Kelsey claims "This is a very solid, occasionally superlative session-proof positive that the best jazz coming from Chicago still has its roots in the AACM."
The PopMatters review by Patrick Sisson states "Back Together Again finally documents an amazing working relationship between two friends and musicians. With such stellar results, it’s almost more unbelievable that nobody has ever had these two record as a duet before."
Track listing
"Leap Forward" - 7:39
"Black Women" - 7:23
"Back Together Again" - 13:49
"Losel Drolma" - 5:49
"A Ray from THE ONE" - 9:03
"Louisiana Strut" - 9:30
"Know Your Advantage (The Great Tradition)" - 6:42
"Lama Khgenno (Heart's Beloved)" - 12:48
Personnel
Fred Anderson - tenor sax
Hamid Drake - drums
References
2004 albums
Fred Anderson (musician) albums
Thrill Jockey albums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-dependent%20neutral%20amino%20acid%20transporter%20B%280%29AT1
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Sodium-dependent neutral amino acid transporter B(0)AT1
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Sodium-dependent neutral amino acid transporter B(0)AT1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC6A19 gene.
Function
SLC6A19 is a system B(0) transporter that mediates epithelial resorption of neutral amino acids across the apical membrane in the kidney and intestine.
Clinical significance
Mutations in the SLC6A19 gene cause Hartnup disease.
References
Further reading
Solute carrier family
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999%20Rink%20Hockey%20World%20Championship
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1999 Rink Hockey World Championship
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The 1999 Rink Hockey World Championship was the 34th edition of the Rink Hockey World Championship, held between 4 and 12 June 1999, in Reus, Catalonia, Spain. It was disputed by 12 teams.
Format
The competition was disputed by 12 countries, divided in two groups of 6 teams each one.
Every game lasted 40 minutes, divided in 2 parts of 20 minutes.
Matches
Group stage
Group A
Group B
Championship Knockout stage
5th place bracket
9th to 12th place stage
Final standings
References
External links
Official (Archived 2009-07-22)
Roller Hockey World Cup
World Championship
Rink Hockey World Championship
Rink Hockey World Championship
International roller hockey competitions hosted by Spain
Sport in Reus
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suillellus%20hypocarycinus
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Suillellus hypocarycinus
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Suillellus hypocarycinus is a species of bolete fungus found in North America. Originally described as a species of Boletus by Rolf Singer in 1945, it was transferred to Suillellus by William Alphonso Murrill in 1948.
References
External links
hypocarycinus
Fungi described in 1945
Fungi of the United States
Fungi without expected TNC conservation status
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maccabi%20Kiryat%20Ekron%20F.C.
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Maccabi Kiryat Ekron F.C.
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Maccabi Kiryat Ekron Football Club () is an Israeli football club based in Kiryat Ekron. The club plays in Liga Gimel, the fifth tier of the Israeli football league system.
History
The original club was established in 1962 and spent most of its years in the lower tiers of the Israeli football league system, rising, at its best, to Liga Bet, during the 1980s. In the Cup, the best performance by the club was in 1964–65, reaching the fourth round and losing 0–10 to Bnei Yehuda. The original club folded at the end of the 2007–08 season.
Re-establishment
In 2014 the club was re-established and was named after former Kiryat Ekron deputy mayor, Asher Okavi. The club registered to the Central division of Liga Gimel and played its first match on 19 September 2014, beating Hapoel Gedera 3–2 in the Cup.
Honours
Liga Gimel
Central Division champions:
1981–82
1998–99
Notable former players
Idan Shriki
Moshe Peretz
External links
Maccabi Kiryat Ekron Asher Israel Football Association
References
Kiryat Ekron
Kiryat Ekron
Association football clubs established in 1962
Association football clubs disestablished in 2008
Association football clubs established in 2014
1962 establishments in Israel
2008 disestablishments in Israel
2014 establishments in Israel
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravensworth%2C%20Virginia
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Ravensworth, Virginia
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Ravensworth is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. Its name reflects Ravensworth plantation, farmed since the 18th century and manor house which burned under mysterious circumstances on August 1, 1926. The Ravensworth Farm subdivision was developed in the early 1960s. The 2010 census lists the area's population as 2,466. It is part of the Washington metropolitan area.
Geography
Ravensworth is in eastern Fairfax County, bordered by the Capital Beltway to the northeast, Braddock Road to the north, Accotink Creek to the west, Lake Accotink to the south, and Flag Run to the southeast. Neighboring communities are Wakefield to the north, North Springfield to the east, and Kings Park to the south and west. Downtown Washington, D.C. is to the northeast. The CDP border follows Accotink Creek to the west, Braddock Road to the north, Interstate 495 to the east, and Flag Run to the southeast.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Ravensworth CDP has a total area of , of which is land and , or 10.02%, is water.
The Ravensworth Farm community has a neighborhood pool and a civic association, and is home to the notorious Golden Ravens. The Ravensworth Shopping Center has stores including 7-Eleven, The Swiss Bakery, Lotte Plaza Market (which replaced Safeway), and Jersey Mike's Subs. Ravensworth Elementary School is located in the middle of the neighborhood. It has a 7/10 rating on Great Schools.
Economy
The corporate headquarters of Ensco is physically located in Ravensworth CDP, with a Springfield postal address.
Education
Fairfax County Public Schools operates Ravensworth Elementary School in the CDP.
References
Census-designated places in Fairfax County, Virginia
Washington metropolitan area
Census-designated places in Virginia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage%20Retirement
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Teenage Retirement
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Teenage Retirement is the only studio album by American rock band Chumped, released on November 18, 2014, through Anchorless Records.
Background
The album is titled after the band some members played in prior to Chumped's formation. The album's sound has been compared to that of Superchunk, Nirvana, and Slingshot Dakota. A music video for "December is the Longest Month" was released in December 2014.
Anika Pyle discussed the album's title in an interview prior to its release:
Critical reception
Many critics gave Teenage Retirement favorable reviews, with Tom Breihan of Stereogum naming it "Album of the Week" on November 18. Josh Terry at Consequence of Sound considered the record "a strong opening statement of charming pop punk with airtight hooks and ripping guitar leads." Mischa Pearlman from Alternative Press described the album thus: "Chumped's debut album couldn’t really be called anything else—its 12 songs throb with both the naïve, reckless abandon of youth and the jaded, tired contemplation of old age." Pitchfork's Devon Maloney wrote that the album "finds that melodramatic sweet spot that made emo and pop punk hit so hard in the '90s and '00s." Zachary Houle of PopMatters felt it a "bonafide enjoyable album [...] Teenage Retirement feels constructed well as a whole." Kyle Ryan of Entertainment Weekly dubbed it "one of 2014's best musical surprises."
Track listing
References
External links
2014 debut albums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamze%20Bezan
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Gamze Bezan
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Gamze Bezan (born 31 August 1994) is a Turkish women's football midfielder, who last played in the First League for İlkadım Belediyesi Yabancılar Pazarı Spor with jersey number 22. In 2010, she played for the Turkish girls' national U-17 team.
She is studying physical education and sports in Gümüşhane University.
Career
Club
Gamze Bezan received her license on 10 April 2008 for her hometown club Trabzonspor, where she played until the end of the 2010–11 season capping 25 times and scoring 3 goals. After dissolution of the women's football branch of the club, she transferred to Trabzon İdmanocağı, another local women's club.
Following the 2010–11 season, she was honored with the title "Best Women's Footballer of Trabzonspor" bestowed by the fans of the club.
After playing five seasons for her hometown club, she transferred to İlkadım Belediyesi Yabancılar Pazarı Spor of Samsun in the 2016–17 season.
International
Bezan was admitted to the Turkey girls' U-17 team, and debuted in the 2011 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship – Group 6 match against England on 3 October 2010. She cappen twice for the Turkey U-17 nationals.
She was called up to the Turkey women's U-19 team for the first time in 2011. Bezan was elected again in 2012 to play at the 2013 UEFA Women's U-19 Championship First qualifying round matches. However, she did not find a place in the squad later on.
Career statistics
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Honours
Turkish Women's First League
Trabzon İdmanocağı
Third places (3): 2011–12, 2014–15, 2015–16
References
External links
Living people
1994 births
Sportspeople from Trabzon
Turkish women's footballers
Trabzonspor women's players
Trabzon İdmanocağı women's players
Women's association football midfielders
İlkadım Belediyespor players
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Wicksteed
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Thomas Wicksteed
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Thomas Wicksteed (26 January 1806 – 15 November 1871) was a notable English civil engineer of the 19th century. As engineer to the East London Waterworks Company he was responsible for introducing the Cornish pumping engine. He oversaw many improvements, and was approached for advice by a number of water companies elsewhere in the country, later turning his attention to the efficient handling of sewage.
Career
Born in Shrewsbury, the fourth son of John Wicksteed, he was educated at Shrewsbury School, and at sixteen years of age he was sent to London, to reside with his father's old friend, Arthur Aikin, Secretary of the Society of Arts, with whom he lived. He was articled to a mechanical engineer in Smithfield, and at the end of his apprenticeship, became an assistant to Henry R. Palmer, Engineer to the London Docks, at a time when extensive additions were being made.
In 1829, he became the Engineer to the East London Waterworks Company. It was a time when costly additions to the reservoirs and pumping-engines had to be made, but these were offset by the large saving he was able to make, particularly in the consumption of fuel.
In 1835 his attention was directed to the Cornish engine as a replacement for the less economical condensing engine. He visited the Cornish mines, conducted experiments, and prevailed upon the directors of the company to invest in this new technology. In 1837 an engine from Cornwall was installed in the works at Old Ford. The savings were such that he carried out careful measurements for a year, and published his findings in 1841 in a paper entitled "An Experimental Inquiry concerning the relative power of, and useful effect produced by, the Cornish and Boulton and Watt pumping-engines, and cylindrical and waggon-head boilers" read to the Institution of Civil Engineers. Following this, several large engines were installed under his direction by various water companies about London.
Meanwhile, he carried out various additions to the reservoirs and other works of the company. Among these was to transfer the source of the company’s supply from Old Ford to Lea Bridge up river from the tidal flow.
Between 1838 and 1845, he was retained as Consulting Engineer to the Grand Junction, Vauxhall, Southwark, and Kent Waterwork Companies, while still Resident Engineer to the East London Water Works. He was thus, at one time, engineer to five out of the then nine London water companies. During this time, he constructed new waterworks at Hull and Wolverhampton, with extensions to those at Brighton and Scarborough. He was also consulted by the towns of Leeds, Liverpool, Dewsbury, Lichfield, Leamington, Cork, Kingston in Jamaica, Valparaiso, Boston, in the United States, the
waterworks and sewerage of Berlin and consulted by the Pasha of Egypt in reference to the barrage of the Nile.
His attention having been drawn to the sewerage of towns, and its disposal, he became the Engineer to the London Sewage Company in 1847. Plans for a sewer along the North bank of the Thames to a pumping station and reservoir at Barking Creek were prepared to put before Parliament on behalf of the company, but necessary investment was not forthcoming and the company was subsequently dissolved. His plan was
similar to that which he had proposed for Berlin in 1841, and he then built a system at Leicester. With the aim of purifying the sewage of towns, and producing manure, he set up the Patent Solid Sewage Manure Company. At this point he resigned as Engineer to the East London Waterworks in 1851 and severed his connections with the other London companies.
The Patent Solid Sewage Manure Company at Leicester was successful in purifying sewage, with a marked improvement to the River Soar but, though large quantities of manure were produced it could not compete with others on the market. In the end, the company failed and the corporation took over the sewage purifying.
Besides carrying out a complete system of drainage for Leicester, he was consulted on the sewerage of Leeds, Leamington, Maidstone, and Scarborough ; and gave evidence before the Special Committee on the Sewage of the Metropolis.
He was elected a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers on 7 February 1837 and contributed several papers on the Cornish engine, for which he received a Telford medal in 1839. He had a seat on the Council from 1840 to 1843, but for many years before his death he had ceased to attend the meetings and to take part in the discussions. In 1863 he was elected also to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
Personal life
On 20 July 1829 at St John, Hackney, he married Eliza, the third daughter of the late Mr. John Barton, of London, by whom he had six children - Bithia (1831-1874), Katharine (1833–1884), Mary (1834-1834), Mary Frances (1835-1906), Arthur Aikin (1840-1903) and Eliza Lucy (1845-1923).
His health was adversely affected by his labours in Leicester, and in 1865, he had what was described at the time as a slight attack of paralysis, and retired. He died at Headingley, near Leeds, on 15 November 1871, aged 65.
References
London water infrastructure
English civil engineers
Water supply and sanitation in London
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIFL-LP
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WIFL-LP
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WIFL-LP/104.5 is a low-power F.M. radio station licensed to Weirsdale, Florida, United States. WIFL-LP is owned by the Lake Weir Chamber of Commerce. It was initially licensed as WHZL-LP on January 12, 2006, changing callsigns to WORJ-LP on November 19, 2010 & changed callsigns again on June 14, 2011 to WIFL-LP. WIFL-LP transmits on 104.5 MHz (Channel 283).
References
External links
IFL-LP
IFL-LP
Radio stations established in 2006
2006 establishments in Florida
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.%20Athar%20Ali
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M. Athar Ali
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M. Athar Ali (18 January 1925 – 7 July 1998) was an Indian historian of Medieval Indian History. Throughout his career Ali was known to hold a strong stance against Hindu and Islamic extremism. He was a professor at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Medieval History at his Alma mater, Aligarh Muslim University.
Early life
M. Athar Ali was the son of Rehmat Ali. He was born in Pilakhna in Aligarh District, Uttar Pradesh, India. He was married to Feroza Kahtoon and had seven children. His oldest son, Taimur Athar is a renowned research scientist at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology in Hyderabad, Telangana.
Career
Ali was educated at Aligarh Muslim University where he was a student of Mohammad Habib, Nurul Hasan, and S. A. Rashid. He earned his doctorate at AMU in 1961 under the supervision of Satish Chandra. He started his career in research and teaching when he joined AMU as a research assistant. He and fellow historian Irfan Habib joined AMU's Department of History at around the same time in 1953. He became Professor in 1978. Athar Ali retired in 1990 after a five-year period of re-employment.
Ali wrote extensively on the Mughal Empire, comparative history of Islamic Empires, implications of secularism and early modern societies from Spain to Indonesia. Athar Ali's reputation for scholarship was firmly established in 1966, with the publishing of his book The Mughal Nobility Under Aurangazeb. A paper-back edition was brought out in 1970 and a second, revised, edition in 1997. Originally his doctoral thesis, it was soon acknowledged as the definitive study of India's late medieval ruling class. The book led to a reconsideration of many standard views of the ethnic composition of the Mughal ruling class and was widely regarded as a strong critique of communalist historiography in India and Pakistan. It also offered, for the first time, a more scientific and rational analysis of Aurangazeb the person, and the historical role of Aurangazeb, the last of the great Mughal emperors, whose reign between 1658 and 1707 hastened the disintegration of the empire. The theory, which still receives support from many quarters, that Aurangazeb's 'religious bias' generated a 'Hindu backlash' which brought about the downfall of the empire, was challenged by Athar Ali on the basis of hard evidence. "The evidence I assembled," wrote Athar Ali in his introduction to the revised edition of the book, "did not in any sense exonerate Aurangazeb, but I think it did set different limits within which the Emperor's personal preferences and decisions had impact: and it suggested a number of other factors, besides the one of religious bias..."
In 1985, Athar Ali published his second major work, The Apparatus of Empire: Awards of Ranks, Offices and Titles to the Mughal Nobility, 1574-1658. This is a crucial reference tool for historians concerned with that period. In his introduction to the work's extensive tables, Athar Ali demonstrated how the quantitative data obtained from them could tell the reader the internal processes of the Mughal polity. Athar Ali had largely completed his compilation of similar data on Aurangazeb's reign (1659-1707) for a second volume.
Ali died of liver cancer on 7 July 1998.
Political views
Ali was a secularist. He strongly opposed all forms of religious extremism. Athar Ali strenuously opposed the communal perception of history. He was one of the four authors (the others were R.S Sharma, D.N. Jha and Suraj Bhan) of theReport to the Nation on the Babri Masjid, Ayodhya, 1990, which was published in many Indian languages. Dismissing, on the basis of an examination of the written and archaeological evidence, the claim that the Babri Masjid occupied the site of Rama's birth or that a temple occupied the site and it was pulled down to construct the masjid, the Report ended with the impassioned appeal: "If, then, we have a care for historical facts, if we want to uphold the law, if we have love for our own cultural heritage, we must protect the Babri Masjid. A country is surely judged by how it treats its past."
To oppose the source of a dangerous communalist subversion of the nation, Athar Ali did not disdain activist positions. His support for the well-known anti-communal organisation Sahmat (Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust) was firm and unqualified.
Works
The Mughal Nobility Under Aurangzeb, 1966, OUP,
The Apparatus of Empire: Awards of Ranks, Offices and Titles to the Mughal Nobility, 1574-1658, 1985,
The Perception of India in Akbar and Abu'l Fazl" in Akbar and His India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi,1997
Mughal India. Studies in Polity, Ideas, Society and Culture, Oxford University Press, 2008,
References
20th-century Indian historians
People from Aligarh
Aligarh Muslim University alumni
Aligarh Muslim University faculty
Analysts of Ayodhya dispute
1925 births
1998 deaths
Deaths from liver cancer
Historians of India
Historians of South Asia
Scholars from Uttar Pradesh
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ambassadors%20of%20the%20United%20Kingdom%20to%20Tunisia
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List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Tunisia
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The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Tunisia is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative to the Republic of Tunisia, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Tunis.
Ambassadors
1956–1960: Angus Malcolm
1960–1963: Anthony Lambert
1963–1966: Sir Herbert Marchant
1966–1967: Robin Hooper
1968–1970: Edward Warner
1970–1973: Archibald Mackenzie
1973–1975: John Marnham
1975–1977: Glencairn Balfour Paul
1977–1981: Sir John Lambert
1981–1984: Sir Alexander Stirling
1984–1987: Sir James Adams
1987–1992: Stephen Day
1992–1995: Michael Tait
1995–1999: Richard Edis
1999–2002: Ivor Rawlinson
2002–2004: Robin Kealy
2004–2008: Alan Goulty
2008–2013: Chris O'Connor
2013–2016: Hamish Cowell
2016–2020: Louise De Sousa
2021-: Helen Winterton
References
General
Specific
External links
UK and Tunisia, gov.uk
British Embassy Tunis on Facebook
Tunisia
United Kingdom
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone%20Cold%20Sober%20%28disambiguation%29
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Stone Cold Sober (disambiguation)
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Stone Cold Sober may refer to
Stone Cold Sober (album), a studio album from the German thrash metal band Tankard, or a song from that album
"Stone Cold Sober" (Paloma Faith song), a song performed by Paloma Faith.
"Stone Cold Sober" (Brantley Gilbert song), a song performed by Brantley Gilbert.
"Stone Cold Sober", a song by Rod Stewart, from his 1975 album Atlantic Crossing
"Stone Cold Sober", a song by Del Amitri, from their 1989 album Waking Hours
"Stone Cold Sober", a song by Crawler, from their 1977 album Crawler
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%E2%80%9305%20Japan%20Figure%20Skating%20Championships
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2004–05 Japan Figure Skating Championships
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The 2004–05 Japan Figure Skating Championships was the 73rd edition of the event. They were held from December 24 through 26, 2004 at the Shinyokohama Stake Center in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. Skaters competed on the senior level in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The competition was used to decide Japan's entries to the 2005 World Championships and the 2005 Four Continents Championships. The entries to the 2005 World Junior Championships were decided at the Japanese Junior Championships.
Competition notes
The following skaters placed high enough at Junior Nationals and so were invited to compete at Nationals: Nobunari Oda (first in junior, third in senior), Kazumi Kishimoto (second in junior, fifth in senior), Yasuharu Nanri (third in junior, eighth in senior), and Takahiko Kozuka (fourth in junior, fourth in senior) in men, and Mao Asada (first in junior, second in senior), Mai Asada (second in junior, eighth in senior), Aki Sawada (third in junior, fourth in senior), and Akiko Kitamura (fourth in junior, fifth in senior) in ladies.
Silver medalist Mao Asada was not old enough to be sent to the World or the Four Continents Championships.
Results
Men
Ladies
Pairs
Ice dancing
Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships
The 2004–05 Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships took place between November 20 and 21, 2004 at the Osaka Pool arena in Osaka.
Men
Ladies
Ice dancing
International team selections
World Championships
Following the national championships, Honda, Arakawa, and Ando were assigned to the World team. All other places were filled following the 2005 Four Continents Championships, with the highest placing Japanese skater earning the available Worlds spot.
Four Continents Championships
External links
2004–05 Japan Figure Skating Championships results
2004–05 Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships results
Japan Figure Skating Championships
2004 in figure skating
2005 in figure skating
2004 in Japanese sport
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirakabaha
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Shirakabaha
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The was an influential Japanese literary coterie, which published the literary magazine Shirakaba, from 1910 to 1923.
History
In 1910, a loose association of alumni of the prestigious Gakushuin Peer’s School in Tokyo began a literary society. Members included writers, artists, literary critics and others who rejected Confucianism and the strictures of traditional Japanese literary and artistic styles. In particular, the group emphasized idealism, humanism and individualism, over the naturalism that had been the dominant trend in Japanese literature of the Taishō period. The Shirakaba-ha thought highly of Western aesthetics (particularly Expressionism and Post-Impressionism), and considered their mission to spread the ideas of Western art and Western literature into Japan. Unlike many other literary circles, The Shirakaba-ha did not limit their interest to literature, but also delved into other art forms. However, the group remained deeply interested in Japanese culture, particularly in folk art, which had previously been disparaged by traditional art critics.
Early members included Shiga Naoya (1883-1971), Mushanokōji Saneatsu (1885-1976), Yanagi Sōetsu (1889-1961), Satomi Ton (1888-1983), Arishima Takeo (1878-1923) and Nagayo Yoshirō (1888-1961). Their literature was typically of the ‘I novel’ genre, and was concerned with the life of individuals, often incorporating optimistic philosophy into their work. Some of these individuals came with wealthy families, and attempted to emulate Tolstoy in creating utopian agrarian communes in remote parts of Japan. The self-published monthly literary journal Shirakaba ("White Birch") was in circulation from April 1910 until 1923. The magazine reached its peak in popularity in 1918. However, publication was discontinued after the Great Kantō earthquake.
References
Suzuki, Tomi. Narrating the Self: Fictions of Japanese Modernity. Stanford University Press. (1997)
Yamanouchi, Hisaaki. The Search for Authenticity in Modern Japanese Literature. Cambridge University Press. (1980)
External links
Shirakaba Literary Society home page
The Circle, Red Circle Authors
Literary circles
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried%20Mynhardt
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Siegfried Mynhardt
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Siegfried Mynhardt (5 March 1906 – 28 March 1996) was a South African actor.
Personal life
Mynhardt was born in Johannesburg and lived in a Wynberg army camp, where his father was a padre. He had three children with his wife, Jocelyn.
Career
As well as appearing in several films and several television projects, Mynhardt was also known for his work in both South African and British theatre. After the end of school, he started appearing in theatre productions across South Africa. He admitted that he learnt true professionalism in the 1930s, when he was performing in the Old Vic in London and sharing a flat with Alec Guinness. His credits included appearing in Dingaka, a 1965 film by the acclaimed South African director, Jamie Uys. He later appeared alongside Jacqueline Bisset in A Cape Town Affair. On 26 January 2020, Siegfried was also inaugurated as a living legend in the South African Legends Museum. He's nephew, Shaun Mynhardt dedicated the museum in memory of Siegie.
Selected filmography
References
External links
1900s births
1996 deaths
20th-century South African male actors
Male actors from Johannesburg
South African male film actors
South African male stage actors
White South African people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20community%20college%20football%20programs
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List of community college football programs
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This is a list of schools of United States community colleges that offer a football program. The two largest associations are the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) and California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA).
In the NJCAA, of 512 member colleges, 53 sponsored a football program, as of November, 2021. This reflects the elimination of football at seven Arizona community colleges in 2018; one in Minnesota and one in North Dakota in 2019; and one in Kansas in 2021.
In California, of 114 community colleges in the state, 66 sponsored a football program under the auspices of the CCCAA, as of November, 2021. This reflects the suspension of football at two CCCAA member institutions in 2020.
As shown below, the NJCAA is organized into five conferences (or leagues): Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference; Minnesota College Athletic Conference; Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges; Northeast JC Football Conference; Southwest Junior College Football Conference; as well as Independents (no conference/league affiliation.)
The CCCAA divides its membership into two regions: Northern and Southern. Each region is divided into the National Conference and the American Conference. In Northern California, there are three conferences/leagues in the National and two in the American; in Southern California, there are three conferences/leagues in both the National and the American.
NJCAA football programs
New Members
CCCAA Football Programs
Northern California Football Association programs
Southern California Football Association programs
See also
List of Division 1 NJCAA schools
List of Division 2 NJCAA schools
List of Division 3 NJCAA schools
References
External links
Football at the website of the National Junior College Athletic Association
Football at the website of California Community College Athletic Association
Community College
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20van%20Koningsveld
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Jan van Koningsveld
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Jan van Koningsveld (born 1969 in Emden) is a mental calculator. He is the champion of Extracting Square Roots of 2004 and 2008 as well as the champion of Calendar Calculation of 2008 at the Mental Calculation World Cups. In addition, he finished second in the overall rankings of 2004, 2006 and 2008.
During the first Memoriad 2008, the Olympiad for Mental Calculation and Memory held in İstanbul, Turkey, Jan van Koningsveld won the gold medals in the categories Multiplication as well as Calendar Calculation. After the competition he was also able to even the world record in the category Calendar Calculation by calculating 56 days of the week (range 1600–2100) in 1 minute.
Jan van Koningsveld also held the world record for multiplying two five-digit numbers. He solved ten tasks correctly in 3:06 minutes on 25 November 2005. That record was broken by Marc Jornet Sanz during world record attempts at the 2010 Mental Calculation World Cup
References
External links
http://memoriad.com/ MEMORIAD
http://www.recordholders.org/en/list/memory.html Memory and Mental Calculation World Records
http://www.recordholders.org/en/events/worldcup/index.html Mental Calculation World Cup Site
1969 births
Living people
Mental calculators
People from Emden
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nysa%20Bridge
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Nysa Bridge
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The Nysa Bridge is a late imperial Roman bridge over the Cakircak stream in Nysa (modern Sultanhisar) in the ancient region of Caria, modern-day Turkey. The long substructure was the second largest of its kind in antiquity, after the Pergamon Bridge.
Dating
The Greek geographer Strabo (63 BC–AD 21), who lived in Nysa, mentioned a secret water conduit in the town, but it remains unclear whether he meant the existing tunnel-like bridge. An inscription at the northern wall of the tube, close to a bend after , indicates a construction date in late imperial times. It reads "Work of Praülos until this point".
Construction
The Nysa Bridge served as a substructure for the area in front of the city theatre, which lay close to the Cakircak stream. It was built as a two-level structure: the bottom vault spanned the brook. On top of it a row of arches connected the two hills that formed the urban area. The ground arch spanned the stream on a length of some , giving the bridge the appearance of a tube or a tunnel, although it was constructed entirely above ground. It consists of a single, wide vault whose uphill mouth widens to . The overall height of its semi-circular arch is , featuring a rise of . The vault is made of rubble stone laid in mortar, resting on a substructure of ashlar stone blocks of varying size (0.3–0.9 x 1.0–1.4 m). Originally featuring a continuous vaulting, it is collapsed today between m 75 and 85, and again at the downhill exit. The remaining, isolated structure at the downstream side has often been incorrectly referred to as a bridge of its own. The Nysa Bridge was the second largest bridge substruction of its kind in antiquity, only surpassed by the nearby Pergamon Bridge. By comparison, the width of a normal, free standing Roman bridge did not exceed .
In its further course, the Cakircak also ran through the city stadion, so that naumachia could be given. There are remains of two other ancient bridges both up- and downstream.
Discharge capacity
The capacity limit of the Nysa Bridge in case of floods has been the subject of hydraulic and hydrological research. The gradient of the tunnel was calculated as 3.3% with a maximum discharge capacity of 290 m³/s. Exceeding this limit puts the bridge under internal pressure and damages the structure in the process. Considering that the Cakircak is long, with a median gradient of 19% and a drainage basin of , the following median intervals were calculated, depending on the method employed:
7,500 years (Günerman method)
10,500 years (D.S.I. method)
13,000 years (Mockus method)
68,000 years (Snyder method)
The study came to the conclusion that statistically every 13,500 years, a value which has been referred to as the "arithmetic mean", floods are to be expected which would exceed the capacity of the bridge.
See also
List of Roman bridges
Roman architecture
Roman engineering
References
Sources
Further reading
External links
Roman bridges in Turkey
Deck arch bridges
Stone bridges in Turkey
Roman Caria
Tunnels in Turkey
Buildings and structures in Aydın Province
Arch bridges in Turkey
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amino%20acid%20transport%20disorder
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Amino acid transport disorder
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Amino acid transport disorders are medical conditions associated with a failure of amino acids to be absorbed from the kidney or intestine.
An example is Hartnup disease.
Reference
External links
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandinka%20%28song%29
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Mandinka (song)
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"Mandinka" is a song by Sinéad O'Connor from her 1987 album The Lion and the Cobra.
Background
In an April 1988 interview with The Tech, O'Connor said: "Mandinkas are an African tribe. They're mentioned in a book called Roots by Alex Haley, which is what the song is about. In order to understand it you must read the book."
Critical reception
AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine described the song as "hard-rocking". Steven Wells from NME stated that it is a "stark reminder that O'Connor is blessed with an amazing and unique voice". Sal Cinquemani from Slant noted its "indie-rock splendor" in his review of The Lion and the Cobra.
Chart performance
The single "Mandinka" also topped the dance chart. The single was a mainstream pop hit in the UK, peaking at number 17 on the UK Singles Chart, number 6 in O'Connor's native Ireland, number 24 in the Netherlands, number 26 in Belgium, number 18 in New Zealand, and number 39 in Australia.
Music video
The video for "Mandinka" was in heavy rotation after debuting 24 January 1988 in 120 Minutes on MTV.
Live performances
In 1988, O'Connor sang "Mandinka" on Late Night with David Letterman, which was her first US network television appearance. She also sang the song live at the 1989 Grammy Awards.
Charts
References
1987 songs
1987 singles
Chrysalis Records singles
Sinéad O'Connor songs
Songs written by Sinéad O'Connor
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courser%20%28disambiguation%29
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Courser (disambiguation)
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Courser may refer to:
Courser – group of birds which together with the pratincoles make up the family Glareolidae
Courser (horse) – a swift and strong horse, frequently used during the Middle Ages for hunting or as a warhorse
Horse courser – early term for a horse dealer
Or to someone who engages in:
Coursing – the pursuit of game or other animals by dogs
Hare coursing – the hunting of hares with dogs
Lure coursing – a sport for dogs that involves chasing a mechanically operated lure
Or to persons named Courser:
Todd Courser,- Michigan state representative
Transportation:
Chrysler 26 Courser, an American sailboat design
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strule%20Arts%20Centre
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Strule Arts Centre
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Strule Arts Centre (; Ulster-Scots: Strule Hoose o Airts) is a multi-purpose arts venue in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The Omagh tourist information office is located on the ground floor. The centre is owned and run by Omagh District Council.
History
In 2003 Omagh's Town Hall was demolished to make way for the new Strule Arts Centre Arts. It cost £10.5 million and opened on 8 June 2007, overlooking the River Strule which flows through the town centre. It is part of a wider regeneration project for the High Street, George Street and Riverside area of Omagh. It was designed by architects Kennedy Fitzgerald and Associates. The centre was officially opened in January 2008 by Edwin Poots, then Minister for Culture, Arts and Leisure, and Margaret Ritchie, Minister for Social Development.
References
External links
Omagh
Arts centres in Northern Ireland
Buildings and structures in County Tyrone
Tourist attractions in County Tyrone
Art museums and galleries in Northern Ireland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bois%20Blanc%20Lighthouse
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Bois Blanc Lighthouse
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Bois Blanc Lighthouse may refer to
Bois Blanc Island Lighthouse and Blockhouse, a National Historic Site of Canada, on Bois Blanc Island, Ontario
Bois Blanc Light, on Bois Blanc Island, Michigan, United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estoril%20Open%20%28golf%29
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Estoril Open (golf)
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The Estoril Open was a golf tournament on the European Tour in 1999. It was held at Penha Longa in Estoril, Portugal from 15 to 18 April. It was won by Jean-François Remésy who shot a 2-under-par total of 286, to finish as the only player under par.
The renewal of the Estoril Open in 2000 was cancelled due to sponsorship problems. The event was also included on the European Tour schedule in 2001, but was cancelled again.
Winners
References
External links
Coverage on the European Tour's official site
Former European Tour events
Golf tournaments in Portugal
Sport in Estoril
Defunct sports competitions in Portugal
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikopol%3A%20Secrets%20of%20the%20Immortals
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Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals
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Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals is a point and click adventure game developed by White Birds Productions and based on the graphics novels of Enki Bilal's The Nikopol Trilogy.
Plot
The year is 2023 and Paris is governed by a power-hungry dictator. As Alcide Nikopol you try to find a way of joining the underground rebellion and help stop the dictator's iron fist rule. The history takes a turn towards the weird, as Nikopol finds out that his father - an astronaut sent into orbital exile in cryopreservation - may be alive and well in the city. At the same time, a strange pyramid hovers over Paris, and a rumour of Egyptian gods residing in it spreads like wildfire.
Reception
The game received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
References
External links
(This website is no longer available as of April, 2012)
2008 video games
Adventure games
Point-and-click adventure games
Video games developed in France
Cyberpunk video games
Windows games
Video games set in Paris
Video games based on comics
Got Game Entertainment games
Single-player video games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stay%20a%20Little%20Longer
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Stay a Little Longer
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"Stay a Little Longer" is a Western swing dance tune written by Bob Wills and Tommy Duncan. The title comes from a refrain in the chorus:
The song consists of a number of unrelated verses, one of which (verse three) comes from an old folk song"Shinbone Alley":
Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys recorded it in 1945 and it reached number three in 1946. Willie Nelson (number 22 in 1973) and Mel Tillis (number 17 in 1982) also charted Top 40 hits. The song has been recorded numerous times.
In The Andy Griffith Show episode "The Darling Baby", the lyrics went like this:
References
Bibliography
Cohen, Norm. Folk Music: A Regional Exploration. Greenwood Press, 2005.
Whitburn, Joel. The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits. Billboard Books, 2006.
Western swing songs
1946 songs
Bob Wills songs
Mel Tillis songs
Willie Nelson songs
Songs written by Bob Wills
Songs written by Tommy Duncan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams%20Fieldhouse
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Williams Fieldhouse
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Williams Fieldhouse is a 2,300-seat multi-purpose arena in Platteville, Wisconsin. It is home to the NCAA Division III University of Wisconsin-Platteville Pioneers basketball team. It opened in 1962.
The playing surface was named "Bo Ryan Court" in 2007 in honor of Bo Ryan, the coach at UW-Platteville from 1984 to 1999, who led the Pioneers to four national titles. He later coached the UW-Madison basketball team.
References
Buildings and structures in Grant County, Wisconsin
College basketball venues in the United States
Basketball venues in Wisconsin
Wisconsin–Platteville Pioneers men's basketball
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dating%20in%20the%20Dark
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Dating in the Dark
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Dating in the Dark () is a reality show created in the Netherlands where 3 single men and 3 single women move into a light-tight house getting to know each other and form bonds in total darkness.
Format
Dating
Three men and three women are sequestered in separate wings of the house, unable to have any conversation or contact with the opposite sex unless in the dark room. Initially, all six contestants have a group date in which they all sit at a table in the dark room exchanging names and getting to know one another's voices and personality types. After this date, each contestant can invite another contestant for a one-on-one date; these dates are also held in the dark room.
Throughout the show, the host provides the men and women with additional insights by providing personality profiles showing which contestants are their best matches and also allowing them to view items the others have brought to the house, such as items of clothing or luggage. Other episodes include sketch artists drawing contestants' impressions of each other.
After the one-on-one dates, each contestant can choose to invite another that they wish to see. The contestants enter the dark room for the final time and are revealed to each other one at a time. During the reveal process the couple must remain silent.
The Reveal Process
While being shown in the light, a contestant cannot see the other contestant's reaction. Each contestant is standing at opposite ends of the dark room with a very large two-way mirror between them. A color camera films from the dark side of the mirror while the other is illuminated on the other side. A separate infrared camera films the person on the dark side's reaction; the two images are combined in post-production. This is done, in part, by using video editing software to fade the infrared image of the person being revealed to black before they are illuminated, then seamlessly showing the color image of the person being revealed as it is faded in and out. During the reveal process the couple must remain silent.
The Balcony
The show culminates with each contestant choosing whether to meet another on the balcony of the house. The contestant will go to the balcony and wait for his or her prospective partner to join him or her. Joining the other on the balcony signifies that the contestants both want to pursue a relationship; exiting the house through the front door signifies that they do not want to pursue a relationship. Cameras are set up to show both the meeting balcony and the front door.
International versions
References
External links
Dutch version official website
Australian version official website
Finnish version official website
Israeli version official website
Dating and relationship reality television series
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotaru%20Hazuki
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Hotaru Hazuki
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is a Japanese actress and gravure model known for her work on the stage and in more pink films. She has appeared in award-winning pink films and was given "Best Actress" awards at the Pink Grand Prix for her work in this genre in 1995 and 1996. Including second-place awards, Hazuki has won five awards in the Best Actress category and one Best New Actress award, a record at the Pink Grand Prix. She has been called the "Queen of Pink Eiga" and the "Last Pink Actress."
Life and career
Hotaru Hazuki was born in Fukushima Prefecture in 1970 as . She joined the Suizokukan Gekijō (Aquarium Theater) theatrical group while in university. Besides performing in the groups' productions, she works as co-organizer. She uses her birth name in her stage career.
Hazuki made her screen debut in director Takahisa Zeze's 1993 film Modern Story About Bandits aka The Legend of the Thief. Her role in Toshiya Ueno's Keep on Masturbating: Non-Stop Pleasure (1994) won her the Best New Actress, 2nd Place at the Pink Grand Prix. To pink film audiences she is known less for her beauty than for her strong stage presence and unique vocal performance. Anglophone pink film critic Jasper Sharp notes her "aloof, composed and slightly melancholic figure."
She became closely associated with the work of Toshiki Satō, starring in some of his highest-regarded films, including the Pink Grand Prix Best Film-winners Blissful Genuine Sex: Penetration! (1995) and Adultery Diary: One More Time While I'm Still Wet (1996). Hazuki was given the Best Actress award for her work in both films. Her work in Satō's Apartment Wife: Midday Adultery (1997), Ueno's The Lustful Sister-in-Law 2: Erotic Games (1999) and pink film actor-director Yutaka Ikejima's Obscene Stalker: It Holds in Darkness! (2002) won her the Best Actress Silver Prize in three more of the annual ceremonies.
In recent years Hazuki has appeared in mainstream films such as Man Walking on Snow, which screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. The cast listing gives her name as Sayoko Ishii.
References
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English
Japanese
1970 births
Japanese film actresses
Japanese female adult models
Japanese gravure idols
Pink film actors
Living people
Actors from Fukushima Prefecture
Models from Fukushima Prefecture
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donja%20Pi%C5%A1tana
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Donja Pištana
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Donja Pištana is a village in north-eastern Slavonia, situated in municipality town of Orahovica, Virovitica-Podravina County, Croatia.
Population
References
CD-rom: "Naselja i stanovništvo RH od 1857-2001. godine", Izdanje Državnog zavoda za statistiku Republike Hrvatske, Zagreb, 2005.
Populated places in Virovitica-Podravina County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Banner%20discography
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David Banner discography
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The following is a select discography of albums and singles released by or featuring American rapper, producer, and actor, David Banner.
Albums
Studio albums
Mixtapes
Singles
As lead artist
Guest appearances
See also
David Banner production discography
Crooked Lettaz discography
References
External links
David Banner at AllMusic
David Banner at Discogs
Banner, David
Discographies of American artists
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Pilot (Warehouse 13)
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"Pilot" is the first episode of the Syfy series Warehouse 13. It first aired July 7, 2009, and was written by Brent Mote, Jane Espenson, and David Simkins and directed by Jace Alexander.
Plot
At a Washington, D.C. museum, Secret Service agents Myka Bering (Joanne Kelly) and Pete Lattimer (Eddie McClintock) clash over plans for a Presidential visit; Myka is exceptionally organized, rigid, and by-the-book, while Pete is more flexible and receptive to the "vibe" of a situation. A curator cuts his finger on the crystal teeth of a carved stone head called an "Aztec Bloodstone" and is soon possessed by it. Later noticing a steady trickle of blood coming from the Bloodstone, on instinct, Pete removes it from the display. Myka dramatically thwarts the zombie-like curator's knife attack of the President (actually an attack on the Mexican Ambassador's daughter, as the "Bloodstone" craves virgin sacrifices) as Pete is confronted by a man who knows his name and disappears with the Bloodstone in a flash of light. Pete is temporarily suspended pending an investigation into his strange story, but later visited by the mysterious Mrs. Frederick (C. C. H. Pounder), who orders him to report to particular coordinates for an extended special assignment. Arriving at a remote government warehouse in South Dakota, Pete finds a flummoxed Myka close behind him. They are welcomed to Warehouse 13 by Artie Nielsen (Saul Rubinek), the man who had taken the Bloodstone. Artie explains that they will be joining him as "gatherers and protectors of secrets"—specifically, empowered and potentially dangerous objects stored in the warehouse and located out in the world and need of retrieval. Pete is somewhat intrigued by what Artie calls "America's attic," while Myka feels she is "too valuable to be wasted" at such a task.
While Myka and Pete's former boss Daniel Dickenson (Simon Reynolds) is trying to figure out how to get them back, Artie sends the agents to investigate a report of domestic abuse in Seever City, Iowa which he believes may be connected to an item. The agents meet University of Southern Iowa law student Cody Thomas, being held for assaulting his girlfriend; during questioning, Cody begins speaking 15th century Italian and flies into a rage. The Renaissance professor who translates his words is driven to suicide, and Cody's godmother and lawyer, Lorna Solliday (Sherry Miller), reveals Cody's girlfriend, Emily, as the reason. Myka and Pete see a jeweled comb on Lorna, who suddenly tries to kill them. An unconscious Myka sees a vision of her deceased lover Sam Martino (Gabriel Hogan) before she awakens. Artie determines that the comb had once been owned by Italian schemer Lucretia Borgia, and possesses "twisted desires" which will drive everyone around it to violence. Myka and Pete manage to stop Lorna and retrieve the comb. After meeting Mrs. Frederick, Dickenson gives Myka a choice: she can stay in South Dakota or return to Washington, but Pete must stay at Warehouse 13 either way. Myka stays.
Artifacts
Aztec Bloodstone - used in human sacrifices. The museum worker affected by the Bloodstone took a ceremonial Aztec knife and attacked the Mexican Ambassador's daughter, who he was somehow able to identify as a virgin.
Tesla - a polyphase electrical stun gun invented by Nikola Tesla. Standard issue weapon for Warehouse Agents, seen in multiple episodes. The power on the Tesla has settings from 1 to 5 in half-point increments; Artie suggests not using it above 2.
Farnsworth - a two-way video communication system invented by Philo Farnsworth. It's relatively flat, with several knobs to select communication frequencies and a round, black and white screen. In a later episode, Artie mentions that they have their frequency, which cannot be hacked. Standard issue for Warehouse Agents, seen in multiple episodes.
American football - when thrown, it circles the earth and returns to the place it was thrown, seen in multiple episodes. Its artifact nature is explained in the season 4 premiere, "A New Hope".
Wand - unknown effect. Artie uses it to "fix the fish."
Thomas Edison's Bio-Electric Vehicle - created as a prototype for Henry Ford, but he chose to forego the electric car in favor of the internal combustion engine. If two people hold onto the bar on the front of the vehicle, their bodies' electricity powers the car.
Harry Houdini's Wallet - Possesses the power of "charonic transfer," allowing the bearer to see and hear visions of dead people. Causes Myka to see her deceased partner, Sam Martino. According to the tag on the shelf, the wallet was obtained three days after Houdini's death.
Tea kettle - The kettle can move around unnoticed; it sneaks into Pete's hand while Artie explains the Warehouse's function. The kettle grants wishes, but if someone makes a wish that cannot be granted, the kettle produces a ferret instead; nobody knows why it does this.
Mayan Calendar - Artie states that two Warehouse Agents had their "clocks stopped" with this artifact, implying that they're still alive but wish they won't be in a hundred years. Not shown but mentioned.
Lucrezia Borgia's comb - transmits the famous Italian murderess's mindset through the crystals in the comb. It also gives the bearer the ability to control others' actions, using an Italian phrase as a phonetic trigger.
Pandora's Box - Artie briefly mentions that Pandora's box is kept (empty) in Aisle 989-B of Warehouse 13.
Production
"Pilot" marked the first series debut after SyFy changed its name from The Sci Fi Channel. "Pilot" was produced by Universal Cable Productions. Development of the series began in 2005, and a number of people worked on the pilot, with multiple versions of the script, before a version credited to Mote, Espenson and Simkins was ordered in October 2007. The pilot for Warehouse 13 was Eddie McClintock's 10th pilot. The previous nine were unsuccessful. Warehouse 13 is the first series where McClintock has received top billing, although he was the lead in two unsuccessful pilots. Showrunner Jack Kenny feels that roles are partially defined by their actor, and that writer Simkins "in crafting the pilot, I think really made it a nice fit for Jo and Eddie to slip into these parts and Saul as well."
The opening museum scenes were shot at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.
Reception
"Pilot" was the most-watched cable show on its night, with 3.5 million viewers. This earned Syfy its third best premiere, after Stargate Atlantis and Eureka. Joanne Ostrow of The Denver Post described it as "X-Files light, with the bickering Scully and Mulder stand-ins going off on Indiana Jones-style adventures." IGN reviewer Ramsey Isler gave "Pilot" a positive review, but felt that it wasn't enough to give "SyFy a chance to once again boast the best sci-fi show on TV." Entertainment Weekly gave it a negative review, describing it as an "unholy cross between The X-Files, Bones, and Raiders of the Lost Ark." Carlos Delgado of iFMagazine.com gave the episode a "B". He liked the premise, but felt that two hours was too long, saying "smart editing could have trimmed to show to at least an hour and a half, maybe even an hour." Randee Dawn of Reuters felt that the "by-the-numbers hate/bonding ritual" between the lead characters in "Pilot" was weak, saying they are "no Mulder and Scully".
John Booth of Wired listed ten things that parents should consider when watching "Pilot" with their children: Language, which included "screwing off” and “what the hell." Violence, including fisticuffs, guns, and "a pretty tame immolation and crispy corpse." "One genuine moment of heart-race goosebumps." A brief scene involving a semi-nude woman in bed. That the show was unrealistic and parallelled to other television shows and movies, and other observations that he and his daughter made. Amy Amatangelo of Zap2it singled out the character Pete's line "I’m trained to take a bullet if necessary, but I’m not sure how to stop a dead Italian cougar" as one of her quotes of the week.
Jason Hughes of TV Squad enjoyed two mysteries that "Pilot" sets up, but does not explain: why "CCH Pounder's Mrs. Frederic may be much older than she appears", and that the character Leena may be Mrs. Frederic's daughter. John Dugan of Time Out New York felt the episode was "ultimately slightly less than satisfying."
References
External links
Warehouse 13 episodes
2009 American television episodes
Warehouse 13
Television episodes written by Jane Espenson
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1980 Dallas Cowboys season
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The 1980 Dallas Cowboys season was their 21st in the league. The team improved their previous output of 11–5, winning twelve games. They qualified for the playoffs as an NFC Wild Card, but lost in the Conference Championship game.
The season featured a very unusual end to the regular season. Going into the final week of the season, Dallas (11–4) played Philadelphia (12–3) at Texas Stadium. Under the NFL's tiebreaking rules, if Dallas could beat the Eagles by 25 points, they would earn the NFC East title and the number two seed in the NFC playoffs while Philadelphia would be a wildcard team. However, if the Cowboys lost (or won by less than 25) then the roles would reverse.
Dallas led the game 35–10 in the fourth quarter, but the Eagles rallied to lose by only 35–27. This forced Dallas to play an extra week in the playoffs and a road game in Atlanta in the Divisional Round. Dallas ultimately lost at Philadelphia in the NFC Championship Game.
Offseason
NFL Draft
Undrafted free agents
Schedule
Division opponents are in bold text
Game summaries
Week 1 at Redskins
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12
Week 13
Week 14
Week 15
Week 16
Playoffs
Wildcard Round
Divisional Round
Conference Championship
Standings
Roster
References
Dallas Cowboys seasons
Dallas Cowboys
Dallas
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Minuscule 462
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Minuscule 462 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 359 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on a paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.
Formerly it was labelled by 101a and 116p.
It was adapted for liturgical use.
Description
The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles on 240 paper leaves (). It is carefully written in one column per page, 25 lines per page.
It contains prolegomena, Synaxarion, and scholia to the Acts, and lectionary markings at the margin of the Epistles for liturgical reading.
It contains Martyrium Pauli.
The order of books: Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles.
Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category.
According to the subscription at the end of the Epistle to the Romans, the Letter was written προς Ρωμαιους εγραφη απο Κορινθου δια Φοιβης της διακονου; the same subscription have manuscripts: 42, 90, 216, 339, 466, 642;
History
It is dated by the INTF to the 13th century.
Formerly it was labelled by 101a and 116p. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 462 to it.
The manuscript was examined by Matthaei and Treu. It is currently housed at the State Historical Museum (V. 24, S. 346) in Moscow.
See also
List of New Testament minuscules
Biblical manuscript
Textual criticism
Minuscule 461
Minuscule 464
References
Further reading
C. F. Matthaei, Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine (Riga, 1782-1788).
Kurt Treu, Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbiblisi und Erevan, Texte und Untersuchungen 91 (Berlin, 1966), pp. 254-258.
External links
Greek New Testament minuscules
13th-century biblical manuscripts
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Jaguar 420 and Daimler Sovereign (1966–1969)
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The Jaguar 420 (pronounced "four-twenty") and its Daimler Sovereign equivalent were introduced at the October 1966 London Motor Show and produced for two years as the ultimate expression of a series of "compact sporting saloons" offered by Jaguar throughout that decade, all of which shared the same wheelbase. Developed from the Jaguar S-Type, the 420 cost around £200 more than that model and effectively ended buyer interest in it, although the S-Type continued to be sold alongside the 420/Sovereign until both were supplanted by the Jaguar XJ6 late in 1968.
Pedigree
The 420/Sovereign traces its origins back to the Jaguar Mark 2, which was introduced in 1959 and sold through most of the 1960s. The Mark 2 had a live rear axle and was powered by the XK six-cylinder engine first used in the Jaguar XK120 of 1948. The Mark 2 was available in 2.4, 3.4 and 3.8-litre engine capacities.
In 1961 Jaguar launched two new models with the triple SU carburettor version of the 3.8-litre XK engine and independent rear suspension: the Mark X (pronounced "mark ten") saloon and the E-Type sports car. Both cars used versions of the Jaguar independent rear suspension system, the Mark X having a track and the E-Type a track. In 1965 the Mark X and E-Type were updated with a new 4.2-litre version of the XK engine, still using triple carburettors.
In 1963 Jaguar introduced the Jaguar S-Type as a development of the Mark 2. It used a new intermediate-width, version of the independent rear suspension in place of the live rear axle of the Mark 2. Other differences from the Mark 2 were extended rear bodywork to provide for a larger boot, a changed roofline for more rear seat passenger headroom, a slightly plusher interior and detail differences around the nose. The S-Type was available with either 3.4 or 3.8-litre XK engines (only 3.8-litre in US) but in twin-carburettor form because the triple-carburettor setup would not readily fit into what was essentially still the Mark 2 engine bay.
James Taylor suggests four reasons why Jaguar boss Sir William Lyons might have decided to add yet another model to an already extensive Jaguar range:
sales of the Mark X were disappointing; the car was widely seen as being too big and cumbersome and a smaller car with similar standards of technical sophistication and luxury he thought could be more successful
demands for more luxurious features would add weight to any future models, forcing the drive towards a 4.2-litre-engined compact saloon
a combination of the 4.2-litre engine with the compact saloon body was expected to have market appeal
aesthetic objections to the controversially styled S-Type were known to be harming its sales.
Consequently, Lyons initiated development of a new saloon based on the S-Type, retaining its 54-inch independent rear suspension but adding a twin-carburettor version of the 4.2-litre powerplant and frontal styling more akin to that of the Mark X. The new car was released in August 1966 in the form of two badge-engineered models, the Jaguar 420 and the Daimler Sovereign equivalent.
Design
Styling
The starting point for design of the 420/Sovereign was the Jaguar S-Type, which had been in production since 1963 but whose styling had never met with universal acceptance.
In styling terms, the 420/Sovereign was essentially an S-Type with that car's curvaceous nose made much more linear, the better to match its rear styling (which was not altered). Contouring around its four lamps was relatively subtle, with small peaks over each, and its flat frontage sloped forward slightly. The square grille with central divider matched that of the 420G, (which was the new name given to the Mark X at the time of the 420/Sovereign's release). The low-set fog lamps of the Mark 2 and S-Type were replaced by a pair of inner headlamps at the same level as the main headlamps. The inner lamps were lit on main beam only. Dummy horn grilles were added below each inner headlamp to break up what would otherwise have been a large expanse of flat metal on either side of the radiator grille. The tops of the front wheel arches were flattened to match the squarer lines of the nose. The slimline bumpers dispensed with the centre dip which had characterised the bumpers of the Mark 2 and S-Type. All this was done to improve the car's aesthetic balance compared with the S-Type and to create a family resemblance to the Mark X/420G, changes which Sir William could not afford (in either time or money) when the S-Type was designed. No attempt was made to give the 420/Sovereign the same front-hinged bonnet as the Mark X/420G and it retained a rear-hinged bonnet of similar dimensions to those of the S-Type and Mark 2.
Interior
Changes to the S-Type's interior to create the 420/Sovereign were driven mainly by safety considerations, with the wood cappings on the doors and dashboard replaced with padded Rexine and a wooden garnish rail on the tops of the door linings. The clock was relocated from the tachometer to the centre of the dashboard top rail, where it was powered by its own battery. The S-Type's pull out map tray below the central instrument panel was not carried over although the 420 retained the same central console and under-dash parcel tray. The seats of the 420 were of slightly different proportions from the S-Type, although they appeared very similar.
Engine
The 4.2-litre XK engine of the 420/Sovereign was fitted with the straight port cylinder head and 3/8-inch lift cams. Compression ratios of 7:1, 8:1 and 9:1 could be specified according to local fuel quality, the difference being obtained by varying the crown design of the pistons. The engine was fed by just two carburettors and developed a claimed gross at 5,500 rpm, which was less than the triple-carburettor version in the 420G and E-Type. The maximum torque of the engine at was virtually the same as that of the triple-carburettor version yet was achieved at 3,750 rpm rather than 4,000 rpm.
The factory-quoted horsepower rating of was measured using the SAE (gross) system current in the USA at the time the 420/Sovereign was sold there. The SAE (gross) system excluded many accessory drives and often used non-standard induction and exhaust systems and so was replaced by the more accurate SAE (net) system in 1972, long after the 420/Sovereign had gone out of production. Reference states that the DIN horsepower rating of the 1977 USA specification 4.2-litre Series II XJ6 was equivalent to 180 bhp. The DIN system yields horsepower ratings which, for most technical purposes, are the same as those that would be obtained using the SAE (net) system. However, the 1977 test would have included power-sapping emissions equipment not present on the 420/Sovereign. Therefore, the SAE (net) power rating of the 420/Sovereign must have lain somewhere between 180 bhp and 245 bhp.
Mechanical
A novel mechanical feature that the 420/Sovereign shared with the 420G was Marles Varamatic power steering, which was offered as an option on the 420 but was standard on the Sovereign. Built by Adwest Engineering Co Ltd of Reading, England, it was a "cam and roller" system in which the non-constant pitch of the cam resulted in a variable steering ratio, with the lowest gearing being at the straight ahead, rising rapidly to either lock. The rise in gearing (equivalent to a drop in ratio from 21.6:1 to 13:1) occurred almost entirely within the first half turn of the steering wheel from the straight-ahead position. The effect was to give very light and relaxed steering at the straight ahead, with quick reaction when cornering. There was no adjustment in the behaviour of the steering in reaction to road speed. A very few of the last S-Types were similarly equipped.
Other mechanical refinements the 420/Sovereign had over the S-Type included:
replacement of the Borg Warner Type 35 automatic transmission with the stronger Model 8
a more efficient cross-flow radiator in place of the S-Type's smaller vertical flow type
a dual-line hydraulic braking system replacing the S-Type's single line system
twin 2-inch HD8 SU carburettors (cf. the S-Type's twin 1.75-inch HD6 SUs)
brake discs featuring a peripheral cast-iron anti-squeal ring
a Holset "Torquatrol" viscous coupled engine cooling fan
negative earthing, the S-Type was positive earth
a pre-engaged starter instead of a Bendix pinion
an alternator rather than the S-Type's dynamo
Performance
Contemporary road tests indicate that the performance of the 420 and Sovereign was very highly thought of.
A Motor (UK) road test in May 1967 reported:
A North American perspective was provided by Road & Track, whose December 1967 report concluded:
A road test by Wheels (Australia) in August 1967 enthused:
In terms of performance measured under test conditions, 0–60 mph in under 10 seconds and a top speed of more than were typical. Such performance figures were superior to those of many of the 4.2-litre XJ6 models that followed. Among the few exceptions the testers took was to its 15–16 mpg average fuel consumption, which even for the late 1960s was rather high. Combined with the modest size of its two 7 Imperial gallon (31.75 litre) fuel tanks, such fuel consumption gave the model a touring range of only around 250 miles (403 km).
Daimler
Whereas the Daimler 2½-litre V8 released in 1962 differed from the Jaguar Mark 2 in having a genuine Daimler engine, only the Sovereign's badging and aspects of interior trim differentiated it from the 420.
The market perception of the two marques Daimler and Jaguar, which the material differences between them sought to foster, was that the Daimler represented luxury motoring for the discerning and more mature gentleman whereas the Jaguar was a sporting saloon aimed at a somewhat younger clientele. In the Daimler model range, the Sovereign filled a gap between the 2½-litre V8 and the larger and more conservatively styled 4½-litre Majestic Major. Prices in the UK of the basic 420 and Sovereign, as quoted in the Motor magazine of October 1966 were:
Manual o/d – Jaguar £1615, Daimler £1724Automatic – Jaguar £1678, Daimler £1787
In return for the ≈6.5 % difference in price, the Daimler purchaser obtained only a few substantive advantages but would have considered the cachet of the Daimler badge to be well worth the extra money; indeed the Daimler name attracted buyers who disliked the Jaguar's racier image. By the same token, rather than being unable to afford the difference for a Daimler, those who chose the Jaguar are unlikely to have regarded the Daimler as something they would wish to own anyway.
In total, the Daimler differed from the Jaguar in having:
a plastic insert on the rear number plate housing bearing the Daimler name. On the 420 the cast number plate housing bore the Jaguar name and on the Sovereign this remained beneath the plastic "Daimler" insert
wheel trim centres, horn button, oil filler cap and seat belt clasps carrying the stylised D rather than the title Jaguar, a Jaguar’s head ('growler') or no badging at all
ribbed camshaft covers bearing the inscription ‘Daimler’ rather than ‘Jaguar’, (although earlier versions shared the same polished alloy covers)
all of the 420 extras as standard, including a heated rear window, overdrive on manual transmission cars and power assisted steering
a flying D mascot at the forward edge of the bonnet in place of the leaping cat Jaguar mascot ('leaper') above the radiator grille
a fluted radiator grille with stylised D badge in place of the smooth crowned and Jaguar-badged grille
arguably more carefully selected and matched walnut veneer trim
higher grade Vaumol ventilated leather seat centre sections
better quality covers for the sun visors
Differentiation
Difficulty in differentiating the 420/Sovereign from other Jaguar/Daimler models has meant that they are less well known than other Browns Lane products of the era. Even some Jaguar enthusiasts are unsure exactly where and when the 420/Sovereign fitted into the Jaguar range.
At the same time as the 420 was released, Jaguar added a chrome side strip and side repeater indicator to the Mark X and a centre bar to its grille. Along with alterations to the interior, these changes were used to justify renaming it the 420G ("G" for Grand). The Motor magazine of October 1966 referred to the 420G as "still one of the best looking large cars in the world today" and commented on the similarity of its new radiator grille to that of the 420. Given the similarity between both the names and frontal styling of the 420 and 420G, the casual observer might be forgiven for mistaking one for the other.
In 1968 the Daimler DS420 limousine began to be produced, carrying a similarly styled grille to the Sovereign and using the 4.2-litre Jaguar engine in twin carburettor form, and also undergoing final assembly at Jaguar's Browns Lane factory in Coventry, England. Although this car was based on a modified 420G floorpan rather than that of the 420, the existence of a third Jaguar-manufactured model with "420" in its name provides further scope for confusion.
Similar confusion arises with regard to the Daimler Sovereign. From late 1969 its Series I Jaguar XJ6-based successor continued with the Daimler Sovereign name until 1983, when the "Sovereign" model name was instead applied to the high-specification version of the Jaguar (which by then was into its Series III XJ6 iteration).
Demise
In 1967, its first full year of production, the 420/Sovereign easily outsold the other Jaguar saloon models still in production (the 240 and 340 Jaguar Mark 2s, Daimler 250 V8, Jaguar S-Type and 420G) and effectively ended buyer interest in the S-Type. Nevertheless, relatively few were made in total due to the fact that the Coventry factory stopped making the Jaguar 420 in 1968, just over two years after production began and with just 10,236 produced. The Daimler Sovereign continued into 1969 and 5,824 were sold.
In 1968, 420/Sovereign sales were again well in excess of those of the S-Type and 420G but it was outsold by the resurgent Jaguar Mark 2/Daimler 250. By this time, many potential 420/Sovereign buyers were hanging back to wait for the new Jaguar XJ6. Introduced late in 1968, the XJ6 was slightly larger than the 420 and swept it from the Jaguar range along with the Mark 2 and S-Type, although the Daimler 250 remained in production into 1969 and the 420G lasted until 1970.
The decision by Sir William Lyons to base the Jaguar XJ6 on the engine, suspension and approximate dimensions of the 420/Sovereign showed his faith in the 420/Sovereign formula as the best way to rationalise the company's saloon car range. In that way, the 420/Sovereign became a victim of its own success.
The Jaguar 420 ceased production at Browns Lane in September 1968 and the Daimler Sovereign in July 1969, although CKD ("completely knocked down") Jaguar 420 kits were supplied as late as November 1968 for assembly by Jaguar Cars South Africa Ltd.
Scale models
As yet, no diecast model of either the 420 or Sovereign has been produced.
Airfix produced a 1/32 scale plastic kit of the 420 during the car's production run in 1968, which was reissued in 2021.
MPC models released the Airfix 1/32 scale plastic kit of the 420 during the 1960s / early 1970's, kit No. 1006-100
Neo Scale Models currently produce a 1:43 resin moulded model of the 420 and also a Sovereign version.
Specifications
External links
Further reading
Ball, Kenneth. Jaguar S Type, 420 1963–68 Autobook, Autopress
Harvey, Chris. Great Marques – Jaguar, Octopus Books
References
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Sovereign
Rear-wheel-drive vehicles
Full-size vehicles
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James Ford Bell Library
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The James Ford Bell Library is a special collection of the University of Minnesota Libraries located on the University of Minnesota Minneapolis campus. It is named for its first donor and patron James Ford Bell, founder of the General Mills Corporation in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The collection consists of some 40,000 rare books, maps, manuscripts, broadsides, pamphlets and other materials documenting the history and impact of international trade and cultural exchange in the pre-modern era, before ca. 1800. Its materials range in date from 400 CE to 1825 CE, with the bulk of the collection concentrated between the years 1450 and 1790, the early modern period. The library is known for its globe gores copy of the 1507 Waldseemuller world map, and it acquired a copy of the 1602 Impossible Black Tulip Chinese world map in 2009. The scope of the collection is global and more than 15 languages are represented.
The library was founded at the University of Minnesota in 1953 and was located first in Walter Library. It moved to the newly constructed Wilson Library in 1968. In March 2018, the Bell moved again to its current location in the university's Elmer L. Andersen Library building.
The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library was established in 1963 as friends group that contributes to the support of the library and sponsors events and publications. The library has a variety of publications and since 1964 has sponsored an annual public lecture series: the James Ford Bell Lecture.
Curators
Dr. John "Jack" Parker, 1953-1991
Dr. Carol Urness, 1991-2001
Dr. Brian Fryckenberg, 2003
Dr. Marguerite Ragnow, 2005–present
References
The James Ford Bell Library: An annotated catalog of original source materials relating to the history of European expansion, 1400-1800 Minneapolis, Minn.: James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1994.
James Ford Bell and his books: the nucleus of a library. Minneapolis, Minn. : Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1993.
A book for Jack: words to, by and about John Parker, curator of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, edited by Carol Urness. Minneapolis/St. Paul: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1991.
The world for a marketplace : episodes in the history of European expansion : commemorating the 25th anniversary of the James Ford Bell Library, by John Parker. Minneapolis: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1978.
The Manifest : a newsletter to the Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, Wilson Library, University of Minnesota.
The merchant explorer: a commentary on selected recent acquisitions. 1961-
External links
James Ford Bell Library
1953 establishments in Minnesota
Libraries established in 1953
Libraries in Minnesota
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University and college academic libraries in the United States
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Blister (disambiguation)
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A blister is a small pocket of fluid in the upper layer of the skin caused by heat, electricity, chemicals, light, radiation, or friction
Blister(s) or Blistering may also refer to:
Anti-torpedo bulge, also known as an anti-torpedo blister
Blister (TV series)
Blister (band), a Norwegian band
Blister (Portuguese band)
Blister pack, a type of packaging
Blistering (magazine), an online heavy metal and hard rock magazine
"Blister", a song by Jimmy Eat World from the album Clarity
"Blisters", a song by Neurosis from the album The Word as Law
"Blisters", a song by War from the album Deliver the Word
An asymmetrical spinnaker
Another name for a mustard plaster
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Wingate Hayes
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Wingate Hayes (1823–1877) was Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives and U.S. District Attorney for the district of Rhode Island during the American Civil War.
In 1823 Wingate Hayes was born in Farmington, New Hampshire to John and Sarah Hayes. Hayes graduated from Brown University in 1844 and then studied in the office of Richard Ward Greene in Rhode Island. He was admitted to the bar in 1847. Hayes served on the Providence City Council and in the Rhode Island House of Representatives, where he was elected Speaker, serving from 1859 to 1860. Hayes also served as assistant adjutant general and division inspector, with rank of colonel. President Abraham Lincoln appointed Hayes to be the U.S. District Attorney for Rhode Island serving from 1861 to 1871. President Andrew Johnson tried unsuccessfully to replace Hayes, and Hayes eventually resigned to private practice. He mentored and later partnered with future Rhode Island Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Matteson. Hayes was also involved in various railroads and other enterprises. He died in 1877.
References and external links
Abraham Payne Reminiscences of the Rhode Island Bar (Tibbitts & Preston: Providence, 1885), 227-232 (accessed on Google Book Search)
Rhode Island Speakers of the House of Representatives
People from Farmington, New Hampshire
Providence City Council members
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Speakers of the Rhode Island House of Representatives
Brown University alumni
Businesspeople from Rhode Island
United States Attorneys for the District of Rhode Island
1823 births
1877 deaths
19th-century American politicians
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Robert Pattinson (politician)
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Sir Robert Pattinson, JP, DL (19 February 1872 – 4 December 1954) was a British Liberal politician and businessman. Pattinson joined his family's railway contracting firm after finishing school and was quickly appointed to senior positions. In 1900, he became chairman of Ruskington Urban District Council and four years later joined Kesteven County Council, eventually becoming an alderman and serving as its chairman for 20 years between 1934 and his death in 1954. He chaired the Sleaford Liberal Association (1900–18) and was nominated as the party's representative for Sleaford shortly before World War I broke out. He contested Grantham unsuccessfully in 1918, but was returned for the seat in 1922, serving until he was defeated in the following year's general election. Several other unsuccessful attempts at a parliamentary career followed. He chaired several bodies responsible for maintaining Lincolnshire's waterways, served as a magistrate for Kesteven and Lindsey and sat as Lincolnshire's High Sheriff in 1941. Knighted in 1934, Pattinson died aged 82 in 1954 after several years of illness.
Background
Born on 19 February 1872, Robert Pattinson was the son of a contractor and businessman, William Pattinson, JP (1833–1906), and his wife Anne (1833–1916). His father ran (and had founded with brother Samuel) the successful building company Messrs. Pattinson and Son alongside serving as chairman of Ruskington Urban District Council and vice-president of the Sleaford Liberal Association. Robert's brother Samuel (d. 1924) was a Liberal Member of Parliament for Horncastle (1922–24), head of Messrs Pattinson and Co. Ltd, and a prominent member of Kesteven County Council. One of his sisters, Emmeline Taylor (d. 1937), became the first female Kesteven county councillor and alderman, while his other sister's husband Richard Winfrey was also a Liberal MP, for South West Norfolk (1906–23) and Gainsborough (1923–24). Their eldest brother, John (d. 1939), was involved in the family business, supervising contracts in Liverpool and the south of England, before moving back to Lincolnshire; he represented Heckington and Sleaford on the County Council, became a justice of the peace and served as vice-chairman of the Sleaford Bench.
Pattinson married Catherine Lucy Pratt (d. 1917), daughter of Henry Pratt of Lincoln in 1895. There were two sons and one daughter of the marriage: Henry Pattinson (died 1941), a captain in the Indian Army; William Pratt Pattinson, a solicitor and coroner for the Lincoln South District, who married Elaine Eva Higson Smith, daughter of Louis W. Smith, MP, of Lincoln; and Catherine Mary, who married, firstly, G. W. R. Russell, elder son of J. J. Russell, of Ballygasson House, High Sheriff of County Louth, and secondly, Wing Commander Colin Spencer Richardson, of Salisbury, son of Colonel Alan Richardson.
Business career
After schooling at Carre's Grammar School and Abingdon School, Pattinson joined his father and uncle's railway contracting firm. Two years later, he oversaw a project to widen the Great Northern Railway between Finsbury Park and King's Cross. The partnership became Messrs W. Pattinson and Sons, Ltd., and Pattinson became a managing director, with responsibility for many of its large projects, and he also became a director in Messrs Pattinson and Co., Ltd, a company of merchants and shippers.
Political career
Local government
Pattinson became chairman of the Ruskington Urban District Council in 1900. He was elected to Kesteven County Council in 1904, became an alderman in 1911 and served as its vice-chairman from 1923 until he was elected chairman in 1934, the year he was knighted. Pattinson served on the Lincolnshire County Committee for 50 years, and as chairman of the Witham and Steeping Rivers Catchment Board when it was formed in 1931; after World War II, he was appointed chairman of Lincolnshire River Board, and was appointed to be one of the original members of the River Board Areas Consultative Committee and a member Central Transport Board for Great Britain, 1948–54. Pattinson also served as the first chairman of the Lincolnshire Archives Committee, as a justice of the peace (for Kesteven from 1900 and Lindsey from 1930), and deputy lieutenant for Lincolnshire. He was appointed High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1941.
Parliament
In 1898, Pattinson became chairman of the Sleaford Division Liberal Association, serving until 1918. He was first chosen as Liberal candidate for Sleaford division in 1914. At the 1918 general election he unsuccessfully contested the Grantham division for the party. He was elected for Grantham at the 1922 general election, defeating the sitting Conservative MP, Edmund Royds by a majority of 425 votes. However, at the 1923 general election he was defeated by the new Conservative candidate Victor Warrender.
Pattinson stood unsuccessfully for Lincoln at the general election in 1929. In 1937 he was suggested as a possible National government candidate at the Holland with Boston by-election. As a well-known local man he was thought to be an acceptable candidate to both local Liberal and Conservative Associations. In fact he was reported to be the preferred candidate of the local Conservatives. The by-election was caused by the death of the sitting MP, Sir James Blindell. He had captured the seat for the Liberals in a by-election in 1929 and had later joined the Liberal Nationals. In the end Herbert Butcher of Peterborough, Chairman of the East Midlands Liberal National Area Council was chosen as the National Government candidate. Pattinson himself later formally joined the Liberal Nationals.
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Death
Pattinson died at his home, The Fosse House, in Lincoln on 2 December 1954 at the age of 82 years.
See also
Sir Robert Pattinson Academy
References
External links
1872 births
1954 deaths
Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1922–1923
National Liberal Party (UK, 1931) politicians
People from Ruskington
Councillors in Lincolnshire
Politics of Grantham
People educated at Carre's Grammar School
High Sheriffs of Lincolnshire
Knights Bachelor
Members of Kesteven County Council
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Demidov Prize
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The Demidov Prize () is a national scientific prize in Russia awarded annually to the members of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Originally awarded from 1832 to 1866 in the Russian Empire, it was revived by the government of Russia's Sverdlovsk Oblast in 1993. In its original incarnation it was one of the first annual scientific awards, and its traditions influenced other awards of this kind including the Nobel Prize.
History
In 1831 Count Pavel Nikolaievich Demidov, representative of the famous Demidov family, established a scientific prize in his name. The Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences (now the Russian Academy of Sciences) was chosen as the awarding institution. In 1832 the president of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Sergei Uvarov, awarded the first prizes.
From 1832 to 1866 the Academy awarded 55 full prizes (5,000 rubles) and 220 part prizes. Among the winners were many prominent Russian scientists: the founder of field surgery and inventor of the plaster immobilisation method in treatment of fractures, Nikolai Pirogov; the seafarer and geographer Adam Johann von Krusenstern, who led the first russian circumnavigation of the globe; Dmitri Mendeleev, the creator of the periodic table of elements; Boris Jacobi, pioneer of the first usable electric motors; and many others. One of the recipients was the founder's younger brother, Count Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato, in 1847; Pavel had died in 1840, making Anatoly the Count Demidov (note that Russia did not recognize Anatoly's Italian title of prince).
From 1866, 25 years after Count Demidov's death, as was according to the terms of his bequest, there were no more awards.
In 1993, on the initiative of the vice-president of the Russian Academy of Sciences Gennady Mesyats and the governor of the Sverdlovsk Oblast Eduard Rossel, the Demidov Prize traditions were restored. The prize is awarded for outstanding achievements in natural sciences and humanities. The winners are elected annually among the members of the Russian Academy of Sciences. According to the tradition every year the Demidov Scientific Foundation chooses three or four academicians to receive the award. The prize includes a medal, a diploma and $10,000. The awards ceremony takes place every year at the Governor's Palace of Sverdlovsk Oblast, in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The recipients of the Prize also give lectures at the Ural State University (Demidov Lecture).
Winners (1832-1866)
Winners (from 1993)
See also
List of general science and technology awards
List of biology awards
List of chemistry awards
List of mathematics awards
List of physics awards
References
Bibliography
(in Russian) N. A. Mezenin: Лауреаты Демидовских премий Петербургской Академии наук. Л., Наука, 1987.
(in Russian) Yuri Alexandrovich Sokolov, Zoya Antonovna Bessudnova, L. T. Prizhdetskaya: Отечественные действительные и почетные члены Российской академии наук 18-20 вв. Геология и горные науки.- М.: Научный мир, 2000.
External links
Demidov Foundation short history
List of all the winners of the full Demidov Prize
Demidov Prize and Demidov Lecturing at Lebedev Physical Institute web site
Physics awards
Chemistry awards
Mathematics awards
Biology awards
Awards established in 1993
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Gert Mittring
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Gert Mittring (born May 26, 1966 in Stuttgart) is a German mental calculator. He was inspired by the late Wim Klein. He has competed in the MSO mental calculation event every year since 2004, failing to win the gold medal outright on only four occasions. He has held numerous world records for mental calculation, such as calculating the 89247th root of a 1000000 digit number. He has doctorates in statistics and mathematics education, and is a member of the Intelligence Research Committee of Intertel. Mittring is said to have been poor in math during his school years. He has written several books on mental calculation.
References
Bredenkamp, J., Klein, K.-M., von Hayn, S. & Vaterrodt, B. (1988). Gedächtnispsychologische Untersuchungen eines Rechenkünstlers. Sprache und Kognition, 7, S. 69–83.
Bredenkamp, J. (1990). Kognitionspsychologische Untersuchungen eines Rechenkünstlers. In: H. Feger (Hg.): Wissenschaft und Verantwortung. Hogrefe, Göttingen
Bredenkamp, J. & Klein, K.-M. (1996). Strategien und Arbeitsgedächtnis eines Rechenkünstlers.
External links
Gert Mittring's official site
TV Total 2014
Deutschlands Superhirn 2016
World record root extraction 2015
World record prime number extraction 2013
MSO interview 2015
Mental calculators
People from Stuttgart
1966 births
Living people
Mensans
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Going Steady (book)
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Going Steady: Film Writings 1968–1969 is the third collection of film reviews by the critic Pauline Kael, comprising the years 1968–1969, when she first began her film-reviewing duties at The New Yorker and which covers, " a crucial period of social and aesthetic change at the end of the sixties."
The collection for the most part consists of reviews of individual films, but includes one long essay, (which appeared originally in Harper's Magazine), entitled "Trash, Art, and the Movies ", perhaps the closest Kael comes to a manifesto defining her personal aesthetics in regards to films. In the essay, Kael dissects, compares, and contrasts the merits of "trash" films that are nevertheless entertaining, as well as "art" films that are uninteresting. In doing so, Kael lambastes "art" films such as Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, concluding her treatment of that particular film by declaring: "If big film directors are to get credit for doing badly what others have been doing brilliantly for years with no money, just because they've put it on a big screen, then businessmen are greater than poets and theft is art." The essay is divided into ten parts, ranging from discussions of The Thomas Crown Affair to Petulia. Kael's overriding theme is to dismantle the intellectual pretences of those who deride films deemed to be "trash" on the basis of dubious aesthetic concerns, notwithstanding the entertainment appeal a particular "trash" film might possess.
Other notable reviews include Kael's treatment of the Norman Mailer film Wild 90, its relation to cinéma vérité, and the implications of that particular film-making technique.
This book is out-of-print in the United States, but is still published by Marion Boyars Publishers of the United Kingdom.
Editions
Little, Brown, 1969, hardbound
Bantam, 1971, paperback ()
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References
External links
Contains the full text of Kael's essay "Trash, Art, and the Movies"
1969 non-fiction books
Books about film
Little, Brown and Company books
Books of film criticism
Books by Pauline Kael
American non-fiction books
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba%E1%B9%9B%C4%AB%20ye
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Baṛī ye
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Baṛī ye ( "greater ye") is a letter in the Urdu alphabet (and other Indic language alphabets based on the Nastaʿliq script) directly based on the alternative "returned" variant of the final form of the Arabic letter ye/yāʾ (known as yāʾ mardūda) found in the Hijazi, Kufic and Nastaʿliq scripts. It functions as the word-final yā-'e-majhūl ([]) and yā-'e-sākin ([]). It is distinguished from the "choṭī ye ( "lesser ye")", which is the regular Perso-Arabic yāʾ () used elsewhere.
Character encoding
References
Arabic letters
Persian letters
Arabic calligraphy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Dutil
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Robert Dutil
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Robert Dutil is a Canadian businessman and politician, who was a Quebec Liberal Party member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1985 to 1994 and from 2008 to 2015.
Background
He was born in Saint-Georges, Quebec on April 16, 1950. He is the grandson of politician Édouard Lacroix and the brother of businessman Marcel Dutil.
Education
Dutil obtained a bachelor's degree in physical education in 1973 and a master's degree in business administration in 1982 both from Laval University.
Local politics
Dutil served in the Saint-Georges City Council as a city councillor from 1975 to 1979 and as mayor from 1979 to 1985. He was a prefect for the Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality from 1982 to 1985.
Member of the provincial legislature
He ran as a Liberal candidate in the provincial district of Beauce-Sud in the 1985 election and won. He was appointed to Premier Robert Bourassa's cabinet in 1985 and was in charge of different portfolios, including communications and supply and services. He was re-elected in the 1989 election, but did not run for re-election in the 1994 election.
In 2008, Dutil founded the Union du centre political party; however, later that year he was elected as the Liberal candidate in the 2008 election in his old district of Beauce-Sud, and the Union du centre party later dissolved without ever running candidates for office.
Dutil became revenue minister on December 18, 2008, replacing Jean-Marc Fournier who did not seek a re-election. Following a 2010 cabinet shuffle, Dutil was named minister of public safety, replacing Jacques Dupuis.
He announced his resignation from the legislature in September 2015.
Business interests
Since 2002, Dutil has been vice-president of Structal-ponts, a division of Canam Manac Group. He was also in the 1970s and 1980s co-owner of several businesses mostly in the Saint-Georges area. He was also president or vice-president for several other small businesses from 1996 to 2008.
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1950 births
Living people
Mayors of places in Quebec
Members of the Executive Council of Quebec
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Quebec Liberal Party MNAs
Université Laval alumni
21st-century Canadian politicians
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