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20468392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikuliya%2C%20Rautahat | Tikuliya, Rautahat | Tikuliya is a village development committee in Rautahat District in the Narayani Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3103 people living in 530 individual households.
References
Populated places in Rautahat District |
20468410 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primovula%20roseomaculata | Primovula roseomaculata | Primovula roseomaculata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries.
As is the case in most ovulids, in life, the mantle completely covers the shell almost all of the time.
References
Ovulidae
Gastropods described in 1909 |
23573627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%98ep%C3%ADn | Řepín | Řepín is a municipality and village in Mělník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 700 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Živonín is an administrative part of Řepín.
Notable people
Josef Seger (1716–1782), organist, composer and educator
References
Villages in Mělník District |
23573628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stelis%20tricardium | Stelis tricardium | Stelis tricardium is a species of orchid native to Ecuador.
References
tricardium |
23573629 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spomy%C5%A1l | Spomyšl | Spomyšl is a municipality and village in Mělník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 500 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mělník District |
44499001 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Oliver%20%28doctor%29 | David Oliver (doctor) | David Oliver is a British physician specialising in the geriatric medicine and acute general internal medicine. He was President of the British Geriatrics Society from 2014 to 2016. He is Visiting Professor of Medicine for Older People in the School of Community and Health Sciences at City University London and a King's Fund Senior Visiting Fellow. He was formerly the UK Department of Health National Clinical Director for Older People's Services from 2009 to 2013. He is a researcher, writer, teacher and lecturer on services for older people and a regular blogger, columnist and media commentator. He was elected as Clinical Vice President of the Royal College of Physicians, London. In April 2022 he was elected as president of the Royal College of Physicians but withdrew in July 2022 after he had contracted Covid 19 and "no longer felt able to do it justice".
Early life and postgraduate clinical training
He attended a state primary school, Northern Moor and Northenden in Manchester. He then attended Manchester Grammar School before studying medicine at The Queen's College, Oxford and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
Senior clinical role
He gained his Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training in (General Internal and Geriatric Medicine) London in 1998. He initially worked in South London then from 2004 he held a General Internal Medicine position in Reading, now part of the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust,
Academic and research activities
Oliver began his research career whilst a registrar at St Thomas' Hospital in London. He gained his research doctorate from the University of London in 2001. He was a Senior Lecturer in the School of Health and Social care at the University of Reading from 2004 to 2009 alongside his consultant contract at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust. He has been involved with City University London. He is a visiting professor at the University of Surrey.
National leadership and advisory roles
Alongside his clinical work Oliver was on secondment to the Department of Health from 2009 to 2013, first as specialist clinical advisor leading the national programme of work on Falls and Bone Health and then as National Clinical Director for Older Peoples Services. In his government role he developed national policies around the care of older people, advised Ministers and officials and provided assistance to other clinicians with their own local services. He stood down to take on his role as BGS President-Elect, when National Clinical Director roles moved from the Department of Health to NHS England.
He became President of the British Geriatrics Society, in November 2014, having been appointed for a 2-year period.
Opinions, media and commentary
Since July 2015 he has written a weekly freelance column for The BMJ called "Acute Perspective". Oliver has written blogs for the King's Fund, The BMJ website, the British Geriatrics Society and guest blogs for other sites such as the Nuffield Trust. He writes regular opinion pieces for the Health Service Journal and BMJ and others in the national and professional press. He regularly comments on services for older people in print and broadcast media. He has appeared on BBC 1 (The Big Questions, News); BBC News Channel, BBC Radio 4 and 5 and BBC World Service, on Sky News and on numerous local radio stations. He has been quoted in The Independent, The Times, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mirror and Daily Mail. He was written for several other outlets in professional and general press.
He is a senior visiting fellow at the King's Fund. In 2014, he was the lead author of the keynote Kings Fund Paper "Making Health and Care Systems fit for an Ageing Population". He was also one of the commissioners for the Health Service Journal "Commission on Hospital Care for Frail Older People". He has campaigned on discrimination against older people in the British National Health Service, against the attitude being that the person is old and there is nothing that can be done about it. He challenges plans for large reductions in older people in acute hospitals, saying it is "absolute la la land to think we’re going to be in a situation any time soon where older people don’t still keep piling through the doors of general hospitals." He has also written about the need to focus more on healthy ageing, to make health and care professionals better trained in the care of older people. He has criticised the large NHS spend on management consultancy and pushed the case for NHS staff to learn more from other organisations within the NHS, criticised the idea that more aggressive regulation and inspection and "accountability" can bring about quality improvement in services and attacked contestible but prevalent "groupthink" and oft repeated "factoids" from the health policy "commentariat" and made the case for improving the care for older people in nursing homes rather than pretending no-one will ever need or want to be admitted to one.
Awards and honours
In 2014, he was named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top 100 Clinical Leaders in England and as one of the top 50 Leaders in Integrated Care.
References
Living people
21st-century British medical doctors
1966 births
People educated at Manchester Grammar School
Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford |
23573630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str%C3%A1nka | Stránka | Stránka is a municipality and village in Mělník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Villages of Ostrý and Tajná are administrative parts of Stránka.
References
Villages in Mělník District |
23573635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C5%99emy | Střemy | Střemy is a municipality and village in Mělník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 500 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Jenichov is an administrative part of Střemy.
References
Villages in Mělník District |
44499022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Day%20of%20Monaco | National Day of Monaco | The National Day of Monaco (, literally Prince's holiday) also known as The Sovereign Prince's Day is currently annually celebrated on 19 November.
Date
The date of the National day is traditionally determined by the reigning Prince. The previous Princes often chose the day of the saint they were named after. For instance the late Prince Rainier III chose 19 November, the day that celebrates Saint Rainier. When Prince Albert II ascended the throne he ended this tradition by choosing the same day as his father, instead of the day of St. Albert, 15 November. The 19 November also happens to be the same day of Albert II's official ascension to the throne.
Celebrations
National day is typically celebrated with fireworks over the harbour the evening before and a mass in the St. Nicholas Cathedral the next morning.
The people of Monaco may celebrate by displaying the Monegasque flag.
It is an opportunity to see the pomp and circumstance of the Principality. Knights of Malta, distinguished ambassadors, consuls and state officials wear medal-laden uniforms as they congregate in the Saint Nicholas Cathedral after the mass. The Princely Family of Monaco is expected to show up on national day.
The birth of Albert II's children has been celebrated in a similar fashion as a national day and 7 January 2015 was declared a public holiday (one-time only).
See also
Public holidays in Monaco
References
National days |
6901985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Glimm | James Glimm | James Gilbert Glimm (born March 24, 1934) is an American mathematician, former president of the American Mathematical Society, and distinguished professor at Stony Brook University. He has made many contributions in the areas of pure and applied mathematics.
Life and career
James Glimm was born in Peoria, Illinois, United States on March 24, 1934. He received his BA in engineering from Columbia University in 1956. He continued on to graduate school at Columbia where he received his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1959; his advisor was Richard V. Kadison. Glimm was at New York University, and at Rockefeller University, before arriving at Stony Brook University in 1989.
He has been noted for contributions to C*-algebras, quantum field theory, partial differential equations, fluid dynamics, scientific computing, and the modeling of petroleum reservoirs. Together with Arthur Jaffe, he has founded a subject called constructive quantum field theory. His early work in the theory of operator algebras was seminal, and today the "Glimm algebras" that bear his name continue to play an important role in this area of research. More recently, the United States Department of Energy adopted Glimm's front-track methodology for shock-wave calculations, e.g., simulating weapons performance.
Glimm was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1984. He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1970 at Nice and a Plenary Speaker of the ICM in 1974 at Vancouver. In 1993, Glimm was awarded the Leroy P. Steele Prize for his contribution to solving hyperbolic systems of partial differential equations. He won the National Medal of Science in 2002 "For his original approaches and creative contribution to an array of disciplines in mathematical analysis and mathematical physics". Starting January 1, 2007, he served a 2-year term as president of the American Mathematical Society. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Appointments
Selected publications
(Book)
(Book)
References
External links
Home Page, at Stony Brook
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Stony Brook University faculty
Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
Living people
National Medal of Science laureates
Fluid dynamicists
1934 births
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Brookhaven National Laboratory staff
Presidents of the American Mathematical Society
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences faculty
People from Peoria, Illinois
Mathematicians from Illinois |
44499051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suillellus%20atlanticus | Suillellus atlanticus | Suillellus atlanticus is a species of bolete fungus found in coastal sand dunes in Galicia. Originally described as a species of Boletus in 2013, it was transferred to Suillellus the following year.
References
External links
atlanticus
Fungi described in 2013
Fungi of Europe |
6901987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla%20television | Guerrilla television | Guerrilla television is a term coined in 1971 by Michael Shamberg, one of the founders of the Raindance Foundation; the Raindance Foundation has been one of the counter-culture video collectives that in the 1960s and 1970s extended the role of the underground press to new communication technologies.
History of the term
In 1969 Michael Shamberg, Paul Ryan and others co-founded a video collective called Raindance Corporation. From 1967 to 1969 Ryan had been a close assistant to Marshall McLuhan. While in 1970 McLuhan spoke of World War III as a "guerrilla information war," in the same year Ryan wrote for Radical Software, a journal of the Raindance foundation, the article Cybernetic guerrilla warfare. This article inspired Shamberg, in 1971, to coin the term Guerrilla television.
As early as 1967, Umberto Eco used similar terminology in a lecture he gave in New York City, coining the term "semiological guerrilla" and using expressions like "communications guerrilla warfare" and "cultural guerrilla."
Ideas
Paul Ryan was a student and research assistant of Marshall McLuhan, who believed modern technology, such as television, was creating a global village and challenging cultural values, and coined the term "Cybernetic guerrilla warfare" to describe how the counter-culture movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s should use communication technology to get its message to the public. Despite a bias in the counter-culture movement towards anti-technology, people like Ryan and former Time-Life correspondent Michael Shamberg believed new technology wanted social change.
Shamberg preferred the term Guerrilla television (the title of his 1971 book), because, despite its strategies and tactics similar to warfare, Guerrilla television is non-violent. He saw Guerrilla television as a means to break through the barriers imposed by Broadcast television, which he called beast television.
They urged for the use of Sony's Portapak video camera, released in 1965 to be merged with the documentary film style and television. The group later became TVTV, or Top Value Television, one of the medium's most influential video collectives.
See also
Lord of the Universe (documentary), won DuPont-Columbia Award, 1974
Public access television
Radical Software
Vineland, a novel by Thomas Pynchon prominently featuring a guerrilla television collective
Notes
References
Eco, Umberto (1967) Per una guerriglia semiologica (English tr. Towards a Semiological Guerrilla Warfare) first given as a lecture at conference Vision '67 in New York.
Greenwald, Dara (2007) "The Process Is in the Streets: Challenging Media America" in MacPhee, Josh and Reuland, Erik (2007) Realizing the impossible: art against authority
Greenwald, Dara (2007) "The Grassroots Video Pioneers" in The Brooklyn Rail, May 2007
Marshall McLuhan (1970) Culture is our business
Ryan, Paul (1970) "Cybernetic guerrilla warfare" in Radical Software, Volume 1, Issue 3, 1971
Shamberg, Michael, Raindance Corporation (1971) Guerrilla television Chapter "process notes"
Strangelove, Michael (2005) The empire of mind: digital piracy and the anti-capitalist movement
External links
Citizen media |
17332447 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department%20of%20Main%20Roads%20%28New%20South%20Wales%29 | Department of Main Roads (New South Wales) | The Department of Main Roads (DMR) was an agency of the New South Wales Government, responsible for planning, constructing and maintaining major road infrastructure. The DMR directly managed highways and major roads and provided funding to local councils for regional and local roads. The agency was merged with other agencies to form the Roads & Traffic Authority in 1989.
History
The Ministry of Transport was established in December 1932 by way of the Transport (Division of Functions) Act of 1932, following the dismissal of the Lang Government and the subsequent state election. The ministry consisted of three departments, including the Department of Main Roads and the Department of Road Transport & Tramways. The departments were established as the incoming Stevens Government and its Minister for Transport Michael Bruxner sought to reorganise the management of the road network in NSW. The new department essentially resumed the functions that had been held by the NSW Main Roads Board from 1925 until March 1932, when they were transferred to the Department of Transport by the Lang Government.
The Transport (Division of Functions) Act of 1932 provided for the appointment of a Commissioner of Main Roads who held the powers necessary to manage the major highways of the state. Hugh Hamilton Newell was appointed as the first Commissioner. The new Department also took over the management of the newly constructed Sydney Harbour Bridge from the Public Works Department.
In 1976 the responsibilities for managing traffic, including the operation of the traffic signal system, were transferred to the DMR from the Department of Motor Transport, which was a successor of Department of Road Transport and Tramways. Many specialist traffic management staff and traffic signal maintenance crews also became part of the DMR at this time.
Pursuant to the Transport Administration Act 1988, the DMR merged with the Traffic Authority of New South Wales and the Department of Motor Transport to form the Roads & Traffic Authority on 16 January 1989.
New South Wales Road Classification
When formed, the DMR was responsible for managing 26,321 km of the major roads in NSW. These were formally classified as:
State Highways
Trunk Roads
Main Roads
Secondary Roads
Developmental Roads
By 1972 this network had grown to 43,292 km and by then also included some additional classifications:
Freeways
Tourist Roads
Unclassified roads in the remote western parts of the State
Local roads continued to managed by local councils.
Organisation
The Department of Main Roads was headed by a Commissioner who was a statutory appointment by the Minister for Roads. The department employed salaried staff who carried out planning, management and administrative tasks and day labour staff who undertook road and bridge works.
For much of its existence the DMR undertook a significant proportion of its road and bridge construction and all its maintenance activities using its own labour force. It also operated major mechanical workshops, asphalt plants, spray sealing crews, road linemarking teams and materials testing laboratories.
In 1932 the Department had a total employment of 2,425. By 1970, as tasks expanded, this number had grown to 11,497. In the later 1970s and through the 1980s successive waves of internal re-organisation led to more work being let out to contract with the total employment number dropping to 8,700 by the time the Department ceased to exist in 1989.
List of Commissioners of Main Roads
National Affiliations
The Department of Main Roads became a member of Conference of State Road Authorities (COSRA) when that organisation was formed in 1934 and then, from 1959, the National Association of Australian State Road Authorities (NAASRA). When NAASRA was transformed into Austroads in 1989 the DMR's successor the Roads & Traffic Authority became a foundation member.
Publication
From 1929 until 1984, Main Roads was the DMR's inhouse journal that was published quarterly.
References
Aitkin, Don (1969). The Colonel: A political biography of Sir Michael Bruxner. Australian National University Press. .
Terry, Michael (1945). Bulldozer: the War Role of the Department of Main Roads, New South Wales. Frank Johnson, Sydney.
Notes
External links
History of Department of Main Roads - NSW State Archives & Records
Main Roads
Defunct transport organisations based in Australia
History of transport in New South Wales
1932 establishments in Australia
1989 disestablishments in Australia |
6901997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lookout | Lookout | A lookout or look-out is a person in charge of the observation of hazards. The term originally comes from a naval background, where lookouts would watch for other ships, land, and various dangers. The term has now passed into wider parlance.
Naval application
Lookouts have been traditionally placed in high on masts, in crow's nests and tops.
The International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (1972) says in part:
Every vessel must at all times keep a proper look-out by sight (day shape or lights by eyes or visual aids), hearing (sound signal or Marine VHF radio) and all available means (e.g. Radar, ARPA, AIS, GMDSS...) in order to judge if risk of collision exists.
Lookouts report anything they see and or hear. When reporting contacts, lookouts give information such as, bearing of the object, which way the object is headed, target angles and position angles and what the contact is. Lookouts should be thoroughly familiar with the various types of distress signals they may encounter at sea.
Criminal definition
By analogy, the term "lookout" is also used to describe a person who accompanies criminals during the commission of a crime, and warns them of the impending approach of hazards: that is, police or eyewitnesses. Although lookouts typically do not actually participate in the crime, they can nonetheless be charged with aiding and abetting or with conspiracy, or as accomplices.
Railway use
A lookout may be used when performing engineering works on an operational railway. They will be responsible for ensuring that all staff are cleared of the track in advance of an approaching train.
References
Crime
Marine occupations |
6902000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana%20S%C3%A1nchez | Ana Sánchez | Ana Belén Sánchez (born 16 February 1976) is a Spanish golfer who plays on the Ladies European Tour. She represented Spain in the 1996 Espirito Santo Trophy and turned professional the following year. She has one Ladies European Tour win, which came at the 2004 BMW Ladies Italian Open, and was a member of the European team at the 2003 Solheim Cup.
Professional wins
Ladies European Tour wins
2004 BMW Ladies Italian Open
Other wins
2005 Lalla Meryem Cup
Team appearances
Amateur
European Ladies' Team Championship (representing Spain): 1995 (winners), 1997
Espirito Santo Trophy (representing Spain): 1996
Professional
Solheim Cup (representing Europe): 2003 (winners)
World Cup (representing Spain): 2005, 2007
External links
Ana Sánchez personal blog
Ana Sánchez Academy
Spanish female golfers
Ladies European Tour golfers
Solheim Cup competitors for Europe
Mediterranean Games medalists in golf
Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Spain
Competitors at the 1997 Mediterranean Games
Sportspeople from Málaga
1976 births
Living people
20th-century Spanish women
21st-century Spanish women |
23573636 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stelis%20cuencana | Stelis cuencana | Stelis cuencana is a species of flowering plant in the family Orchidaceae, native to Ecuador.
References
cuencana
Flora of Ecuador |
23573638 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ti%C5%A1ice | Tišice | Tišice is a municipality and village in Mělník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,400 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Villages of Chrást and Kozly are administrative parts of Tišice.
References
Villages in Mělník District |
44499076 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dak%20Pek%20Camp | Dak Pek Camp | Dak Pek Camp (also known as Dak Pek Special Forces Camp) is a former U.S. Army and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) base northwest of Kon Tum in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.
History
The 5th Special Forces Group first established a base at here in December 1962 to monitor communist infiltration along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The base was located 14 km from the Laos border, 40 km south of Khâm Đức and approximately 85 km northwest of Kon Tum.
5th Special Forces Detachment A-749 was based here in October 1963, Detachment A-5 was based here in December 1964, Detachment A-211 was based here in 1965 and Detachment A-242 from October 1966. The base was also used as a launch site for MACV-SOG operations into Laos.
On 29 May 1968 a de Havilland Canada C-7 Caribou #62-4189 was hit by mortar fire as it landed at Dak Pek causing the right wing to separate, there were no casualties.
On 12 April 1970 a People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) force estimated at two battalions attacked the camp. Sappers attacked many of the bunkers and the defenders were forced back to a small fighting position before air support forced the PAVN back. The siege of Dak Pek last until early May when the PAVN withdrew. Total losses were 34 CIDG and 420 PAVN killed. The PAVN simultaneously attacked the nearby Dak Seang Camp.
Other units based at Dak Pek included:
6th Battalion, 29th Artillery
57th Assault Helicopter Company (AH-1 Cobra)
1st Battalion, 92nd Artillery
The base was transferred to 88th Border Rangers on 30 November 1970. In April 1972 AC-119K gunships killed 98 PAVN around Dak Pek.
Current use
The base has been turned over to forestry and housing and sits adjacent to the Ho Chi Minh Highway.
References
External links
http://www.bietdongquan.com/article1/rgr88.htm Account of history of Dak Pek post 1970
Installations of the United States Army in South Vietnam
Installations of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam
Buildings and structures in Kon Tum province |
6902012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister%20of%20the%20Right | Minister of the Right | was a government position in Japan in the late Nara and Heian periods. The position was consolidated in the Taihō Code of 702. The Asuka Kiyomihara Code of 689 marks the initial appearance of the udaijin in the context of a central administrative body called the Daijō-kan (Council of State). This early Daijō-kan was composed of the three ministers—the daijō-daijin (Chancellor), the sadaijin (Minister of the Left) and the udaijin.
The udaijin was the Junior Minister of State, overseeing all branches of the Daijō-kan. He would be the deputy of the sadaijin.
The post of udaijin, along with the rest of the Daijō-kan structure, gradually lost power over the 10th and 11th centuries, as the Fujiwara came to dominate politics more and more. The system was essentially powerless by the end of the 12th century, when the Minamoto, a warrior clan and branch of the imperial family, seized control of the country from the court aristocracy (kuge). However, it is not entirely clear whether the Daijō-kan system was formally dismantled prior to the Meiji era.
See also
Daijō-kan
Kugyō
Sesshō and Kampaku
List of Daijō-daijin
Kōkyū
Kuge
Imperial Household Agency
Notes
References
Asai, T. (1985). Nyokan Tūkai. Tokyo: Kōdansha.
Dickenson, Walter G. (1869). Japan: Being a Sketch of the History, Government and Officers of the Empire. London: W. Blackwood and Sons.
Hall, John Whitney, Delmer M. Brown and Kozo Yamamura. (1993). The Cambridge History of Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ozaki, Yukio. (2001). The Autobiography of Ozaki Yukio: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in Japan. [Translated by Fujiko Hara]. Princeton: Princeton University Press. (cloth)
Ozaki, Yukio. (1955). Ozak Gakudō Zenshū. Tokyo: Kōronsha.
Sansom, George (1958). A History of Japan to 1334. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Screech, Timon. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822. London: Routledge Curzon.
Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.
Varley, H. Paul, ed. (1980). [ Kitabatake Chikafusa, 1359], Jinnō Shōtōki ("A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa" translated by H. Paul Varley). New York: Columbia University Press.
Government of feudal Japan
Japanese historical terms
Meiji Restoration |
17332482 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruaraka%20Sports%20Club%20Ground | Ruaraka Sports Club Ground | The Ruaraka Sports Club Ground is one of several cricket venues in Nairobi accredited with full ODI status. This ground played host to the 1994 ICC Trophy final and was one of several grounds used during the 2007 World Cricket League Division one matches played in Kenya.
List of Centuries
One Day Internationals
References
Cricinfo ground profile
Google Maps
Kenyan club cricket teams
Sport in Nairobi
Cricket grounds in Kenya |
6902013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister%20of%20the%20Left | Minister of the Left | The was a government position in Japan in the late Nara and Heian periods. The position was consolidated in the Taihō Code of 702.
The Asuka Kiyomihara Code of 689 marks the initial appearance of the sadaijin in the context of a central administrative body called the Daijō-kan (Council of State). This early Daijō-kan was composed of the three ministers—the daijō-daijin (Chancellor), the sadaijin and the udaijin (Minister of the Right).
The sadaijin was the Senior Minister of State, overseeing all functions of government with the udaijin as his deputy.
Within the Daijō-kan, the sadaijin was second only to the daijō-daijin (the Great Minister, or Chancellor of the Realm) in power and influence. Frequently, a member of the Fujiwara family would take the position in order to help justify and exercise the power and influence the family held.
The post of sadaijin, along with the rest of the Daijō-kan structure, gradually lost power over the 10th and 11th centuries, as the Fujiwara came to dominate politics more and more. The system was essentially powerless by the end of the 12th century, when the Minamoto, a warrior clan, seized control of the country from the court aristocracy (kuge). However, it is not entirely clear when the Daijō-kan system was formally dismantled prior to the Meiji era.
See also
Imperial Household Agency
Kōkyū
Kugyō
List of Daijō-daijin
Sesshō and Kampaku
References
Related bibliography
Asai, T. (1985). Nyokan Tūkai. Tokyo: Kōdansha.
Dickenson, Walter G. (1869). Japan: Being a Sketch of the History, Government and Officers of the Empire. London: W. Blackwood and Sons.
Hall, John Whitney, Delmer M. Brown and Kozo Yamamura. (1993). The Cambridge History of Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ozaki, Yukio. (2001). The Autobiography of Ozaki Yukio: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in Japan. [Translated by Fujiko Hara]. Princeton: Princeton University Press. (cloth)
Ozaki, Yukio. (1955). Ozak Gakudō Zenshū. Tokyo: Kōronsha.
Sansom, George (1958). A History of Japan to 1334. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Screech, Timon. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822. London: RoutledgeCurzon.
Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.
Varley, H. Paul, ed. (1980). [Kitabatake Chikafusa, 1359], Jinnō Shōtōki ("A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa" translated by H. Paul Varley). New York: Columbia University Press.
Government of feudal Japan
Japanese historical terms
Meiji Restoration |
23573641 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuha%C5%88%20%28M%C4%9Bln%C3%ADk%20District%29 | Tuhaň (Mělník District) | Tuhaň is a municipality and village in Mělník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 800 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mělník District |
17332518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marisa%20Sannia | Marisa Sannia | Marisa Sannia (February 15, 1947 in Iglesias, Sardinia, Italy – April 14, 2008 in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy) was an Italian singer from the island of Sardinia. She started her career with success in pop music in the sixties. She later became an interpreter of songs, composer, an actress and then finally an artistic researcher. She is primarily noted for being a singer in the Sardinian language, her native tongue.
Sannia died in Cagliari at the age of 61 on April 14, 2008.
Biography
Having been a basketball player with good level in Cus Cagliari (which also called the national), Marisa Sannia began her musical career in the early sixties, winning a competition for new items that allowed her to get a record deal with the Cetra Fonit.
Her talent was spotted by Sergio Endrigo and Luis Enriquez Bacalov that sought to tap into composing a piece for her debut recording "All or nothing" and promoting its participation in 1967, on television as "Scala Reale" and "Settevoci".
The recognition received by the television appearances allowed her to participate the same year two musicarelli: "Kids of yellow flag", "Stasera mi butto", alongside Giancarlo Giannini.
After a few small successes (A postcard, Be proud of me - award of record criticism), and participation in Festivalbar 1967 where she ranked in the third round for young artists, Sannia achieved wide popularity in 1968 when she finished second in the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Casa Bianca", written by Don Backy and sung along with Ornella Vanoni, who became a great success, so as to be inserted in the soundtrack of the film "Alfredo Alfredo", by Pietro Germi.
After the success Sanremo, Sannia published her first album. Followed by several successful songs: "A tear", "the company" (composed by Carlo Donida and Mogol and resumed in 1976 by Lucio Battisti and then in 2007 by Vasco Rossi), "Love is a dove", "How sweet the evening tonight" and "my land".
Sannia also worked in film and participated in various events such as singing Canzonissima (1972, inter alia with a song by Nino Tristan, "A Kite"), the International Festival of Light Music of Venice, A Song for Europe in Switzerland and again in 1970 in San Remo in 1971 and 1984.
In the early seventies she devoted herself to theater by participating in two musicals (Cain and Abel and stories suburbs) very successful alongside Tony Cucchiara and in some work directed by Giorgio Albertazzi. Still under the wing of Sergio Endrigo, she also participated in the album The Ark, a collection of songs by Vinicius de Moraes dedicated to children. In 1973 she published a disc with songs taken from the Walt Disney movie entitled Sannia Wonderland.
In 1976 her first songwriting collection was published with the interesting title "The pasta sheet".
In the early eighties Sannia also appeared in television drama "George Sand" with Albertazzi, Anna Proclemer and Paola Borboni and participated in the film by Pupi Avati "Help me to dream". In 1984 she returned to Sanremo with "love Love" that followed a long period of isolation from the scene.
In 1993 she returned with a disc in the Sardinian language in which the verses of music Antioco Casula, Sardinian poet active in the first half of the twentieth century, entitled . Sannia later returned to the theater with Albertazzi in "memories of Adriano" - Portrait of an entry of 1995.
In 1997 recorded the new disc Melagranàda in collaboration with the contemporary poet writer Francesco Masala in a collection from the Poesias in duas limbas. In 2002 she participated in "songs for you", a tribute to Sergio Endrigo, interpreting "Hands holes".
In 2003 she published a third collection in the Sardinian language, and "Nanas and Janas", with new words and music written by herself. This research is poetic and musical recital summarized in "Songs between two languages on the way of poetry" presented in important exhibitions in Italy and abroad as The Night of the Poets all'anfiteatro Nora Roman, at Taormina Film Festival and as part of the exhibition Rome Meets the World . In January 2006 she took part in the concert tribute to Sergio Endrigo, entitled "Hello Poet" and collected in a CD / DVD, which interprets "The White Rose" and "How ever tonight."
Her last work, posthumously published and distributed (Felmay - Egea distributions) in November 2008 (preview Premio Tenco) and Sannia "Rosa de papel" is dedicated to the life and poetry of Federico García Lorca. This is a collection of 12 songs, and is particularly dear to the singer/Songwriter who has put to music the poems of the great poet of youth. Among the songs are some real musical gems as: "El nino mudo", "Rosa de papel", "Laberytos y espeyos", "Hi cerrado my balcon".
She also won the Festival della Canzone d'Autore for Children. Sannia was interested in the work of other artists. And some of her own compositions have been covered also in Spain by the singer Ester Formosa.
Due to a sudden and serious illness Sannia died April 14, 2008. In August 2008, the "Maria Carta" award was established in her memory. In January 2009, the artist Maria Lai dedicated an exhibition of her works to Sannia.
Discography
Marisa Sannia (Fonit Cetra, 1968)
Marisa Sannia canta Sergio Endrigo e le sue canzoni (CGD, 1970)
Marisa nel paese delle meraviglie (EMI Italiana, 1973)
La pasta scotta (CBS, 1976)
(Tekno Record, 1993)
Melagranàda (Nar, 1997)
Nanas e janas (Nar, 2003).
Rosa de papel (Felmay) (2008)
Filmography
1967 - I ragazzi di Bandiera Gialla, directed by Mariano Laurenti
References
External links
Official website www.sannia.it
1947 births
2008 deaths
People from the Province of South Sardinia
Music in Sardinia
20th-century Italian women singers
21st-century Italian women singers
Sardinian women |
6902014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cullen%20Murphy | Cullen Murphy | John Cullen Murphy, Jr. (born September 1, 1952) is an American writer, journalist and editor who was managing editor of The Atlantic magazine from 1985 to 2006.
He was born in New Rochelle, New York, in 1952, a son of illustrator and cartoonist John Cullen Murphy. He grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut. His family moved to Dublin, Ireland for several years, including 1966, the 50th anniversary of the Easter Revolution.
He was educated at Amherst College, from which he graduated with honors in medieval history in 1974. Murphy's first magazine job was in the paste-up department of Change, a magazine devoted to higher education.
He became an editor of The Wilson Quarterly in 1977. From the mid-1970s until 2004 he worked with his father, John Cullen Murphy, as writer for the comic strip Prince Valiant, for which his father produced the artwork. He is also the author of The Word According to Eve: Women and the Bible in Ancient Times and Our Own (1999); Are We Rome? (2007), which compares the politics and culture of Ancient Rome with that of the contemporary United States; God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World (2012); and Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe (2017), a history of the cartoonists and illustrators from the Connecticut School.
He currently serves as editor at large for Vanity Fair and lives in Massachusetts. He is on the advisory board of the literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College. He has three children: Jack, Anna, and Tim.
Publications
References
External links
Murphy bio at TheAtlantic.com
Archive of stories by Murphy at TheAtlantic.com
Video of debate/discussion with Cullen Murphy and Rod Dreher on Bloggingheads.tv
1952 births
Living people
American comics writers
American magazine editors
American male journalists
Amherst College alumni
Writers from New Rochelle, New York
The Atlantic (magazine) people
Vanity Fair (magazine) people
Writers from Connecticut
Journalists from New York (state) |
23573642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stelis%20piestopus | Stelis piestopus | Stelis piestopus is a species of flowering plant in the family Orchidaceae, native to Peru. It was first described by Rudolf Schlechter in 1921.
References
piestopus
Flora of Peru
Plants described in 1921 |
6902018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey%20Television | Turkey Television | Turkey Television is a Canadian teen sketch comedy originally aired on Nickelodeon. The show was created by Roger Price and Geraldine Laybourne at the request of Nickelodeon in response to the popularity of You Can't Do That on Television, another Canadian children's sketch comedy airing on Nick. It was originally broadcast in 1985 for one season.
The series was about an animated turkey named Thurman T. Turkey (voiced by Jim Thurman), who traveled around the world filming television shows from other countries, then "bringin' it home to Hollywood and puttin' it on the air". The cast featured Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Kevin Kubusheskie, and Adam Reid, all of You Can't Do That on Television fame, as well as several newcomers from Toronto: Steven Aiken, T.J. Criscione, and Craig Warnock. McGlade was also credited as a producer and a director. The cast also included John Koensgen as "Ivan Telaly" the Russian news announcer. John also co-hosted at least one episode as himself. Some of the most notable skits include parodies of Dr. Joyce Brothers and a parody of Hands Across America in which meat-waving children sing "Hams Across America." Actor Tom Riis Farrell appeared in a frequent segment called "The Uncle Hogram Program", a parody of Mr Bill.
The series also presented material from outside sources of varying vintage, from public domain footage (often re-edited and given new sound tracks, similar to Jay Ward's Fractured Flickers) to not so old clips presented as is (e.g., scenes from Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot's Holiday) to more recent excerpts (skits from the New Jersey Network's Uncle Floyd Show) to offbeat music videos such as "Fish Heads". Animation was also featured on the show, outside of the opening and interstitials, featuring Thurman in very Looney Tunes-like scenarios, there were also international cartoons including the works of Mordillo. Australian comedy character Norman Gunston appeared often, as well. Videos by "Weird Al" Yankovic also appeared from time to time.
References
External links
1980s Canadian sketch comedy television series
1980s Nickelodeon original programming
1985 Canadian television series debuts
1986 Canadian television series endings
Comedy franchises
Television series about television |
17332539 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20King%20Covell%20III%20House | William King Covell III House | The William King Covell III House, originally Villa Edna but now known as the Sanford-Covell Villa Marina, is historic house at 72 Washington Street in Newport, Rhode Island.
The house is a -story wood-frame structure, with a mansard roof and restrained Second Empire styling. It was designed by Emerson & Fehmer of Boston, and built in 1870 for M. H. Sanford as a summer residence. Its interior, in marked contrast to its exterior, is lavishly decorated with woodwork and stencilwork.
William King Covell II bought the house in 1896 and it has remained in his family until this day. It is currently owned by Anne Ramsey Cuvelier, the great granddaughter of William King Covell II, who uses it for a bed and breakfast business.
Lizzie Borden, a family friend who stood trial for murder, stayed with the Covell family after her acquittal in the summer of 1893. She stayed at the winter home of the Covell family on Farewell Street where the famous photo of her on the porch was taken. It is assumed that she also spent some time at 72 Washington Street.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
References
External links
Web site
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Houses in Newport, Rhode Island
Historic American Buildings Survey in Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Newport, Rhode Island |
23573643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupadly%20%28M%C4%9Bln%C3%ADk%20District%29 | Tupadly (Mělník District) | Tupadly is a municipality and village in Mělník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 100 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mělník District |
44499086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%20Stage%20Together%20Tour | On Stage Together Tour | The On Stage Together Tour was a concert tour by English musician Sting and American musician Paul Simon. The tour began on 8 February 2014 in Houston, Texas and traveled across North America, Oceania, and Europe before concluding on 18 April 2015 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Background
Sting and Paul Simon became friends in late 1980s when they both lived in the same apartment building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. In May 2013, they performed together for the first time at the annual Robin Hood Foundation benefit. "We were booked separately and then we said, 'Let's do it together.' So we did 'The Boxer' and 'Fields of Gold,' and there was an audible gasp in the room when we walked on together, and when we started singing we obeyed the basic rules of harmony, and it was great," said Sting in an interview with Billboard magazine. An idea for a joint concert tour originated after that performance. "After we finished it, we both looked at each other and said: 'Wow. That's pretty interesting,'" recalled Simon.
Separately from the ongoing Australian leg of the tour, Sting performed with Australian singer, musician and his long-time backing vocalist Jo Lawry on 5 February 2015 at the Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne, singing as a duet the song "Impossible" from Lawry's new album Taking Pictures.
Set list
This set list is representative of the show on 8 February 2014. It does not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour.
"Brand New Day"
"The Boy in the Bubble"
"Fields of Gold"
"Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic"
"Englishman in New York"
"I Hung My Head"
"Driven to Tears"
"Love Is the Seventh Wave"
"Mother and Child Reunion"
"Crazy Love"
"Dazzling Blue"
"50 Ways to Leave Your Lover"
"Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard"
"That Was Your Mother"
"Fragile"
"America"
"Message in a Bottle"
"The Hounds of Winter"
"They Dance Alone"
"Roxanne"
"Desert Rose"
"The Boxer"
"The Obvious Child"
"Hearts and Bones" / "Mystery Train" / "Wheels"
"Kodachrome" / "Gone At Last"
"Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes"
"You Can Call Me Al"
"Every Breath You Take"
"Late in the Evening"
"Bridge Over Troubled Water"
Tour dates
References
External links
Sting and Paul Simon Share 'On Stage Together' Tour Secrets: Exclusive. Rolling Stone
2014 concert tours
2015 concert tours
Sting (musician) concert tours
Paul Simon
Co-headlining concert tours |
23573646 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Ajezdec%20%28M%C4%9Bln%C3%ADk%20District%29 | Újezdec (Mělník District) | Újezdec is a municipality and village in Mělník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 100 inhabitants.
History
The first written mention of Újezdec is from 1380.
References
Villages in Mělník District |
6902024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Cowan%20%28broadcaster%29 | Barry Cowan (broadcaster) | Barry Cowan (1 February 1948 – 16 June 2004) was a high-profile journalist and broadcaster with BBC Northern Ireland. In 1974, he became the anchor of BBC Northern Ireland's flagship evening television news programme Scene Around Six, which established him as a household name in Northern Ireland. This involved bringing the news into people's homes during some of the worst years of the Northern Irish Troubles.
In 1986, he became the first presenter of BBC Radio Ulster's popular Talk Back programme (he was succeeded by his close friend David Dunseith in 1989) and also presented the station's Good Morning Ulster, Evening Extra and Seven Days programmes. In the early 1980s he left the BBC for a short period to present Today Tonight on RTÉ, for which he won a Jacob's Award.
Cowan died at the age of 56 after a long illness.
References
1948 births
2004 deaths
BBC newsreaders and journalists
Jacob's Award winners
RTÉ newsreaders and journalists
Place of birth missing |
23573648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9A%C5%BEice%20%28M%C4%9Bln%C3%ADk%20District%29 | Úžice (Mělník District) | Úžice () is a municipality and village in Mělník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 900 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Villages and hamlets of Červená Lhota, Kopeč and Netřeba are administrative parts of Úžice.
References
Villages in Mělník District |
6902038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen%20Wilkin | Karen Wilkin | Karen Wilkin (born 1940) is a New York-based independent curator and art critic specializing in 20th-century modernism.
Biography
Educated at Barnard College (1962) and Columbia University, she was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and a Fulbright Scholarship, to Rome. Wilkin has organized numerous exhibitions internationally and is the author of monographs on Stuart Davis, David Smith, Anthony Caro, Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, and Hans Hofmann. Her recent projects include a Hofmann retrospective for the Naples Art Museum, Naples, Florida, and, with William C. Agee, the introductory essays for the Stuart Davis Catalogue Raisonné.
Wilkin met Clement Greenberg in the early 1970s. When the Portland Art Museum, Oregon, acquired the critic’s collection, she was asked to contribute the main essay to the catalogue, because of her long friendship with Greenberg and her expertise on his writings, his studio practices, and the artists with whom he was closely associated. Recently, she was curator of the Syracuse exhibition “Clement Greenberg: Then and Now” that examines some of the Syracuse painters influenced by Greenberg. In 2009 Wilkin curated a posthumous retrospective of the painter Cleve Gray at the Boca Raton Museum of Art.
Wilkin teaches in the Master of Fine Arts program of the New York Studio School. She is the Contributing Editor for Art for the Hudson Review and a regular contributor to The New Criterion, Art in America, and the Wall Street Journal.
Select publications
2007 - The Paintings of Cynthia Polsky . Karen Wilkin and John Yau. Published: Phillip Wilson Publishers; 1 edition (February 15, 2007). ,
2007 - Color As Field:American Painting, 1950-1975. Karen Wilkin and Carl Belz. Published: Yale University Press; 1 edition (November 29, 2007). ,
2007 - Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné (3 volumes) by William Agee (Editor), Karen Wilkin (Editor), Ani Boyajian, Mark Rutkoski ()
2005 - Kenneth Noland: The Nature of Color by Kenneth Noland (Author), Alison De Lima Greene (Author), Karen Wilkin (Author) ()
2003 - Hans Hofmann ()
2001 - Clement Greenberg: A Critic's Collection by Bruce Guenther, Karen Wilkin (Editor) ()
2000 - David Smith: Two into Three Dimensions ()
1999 - Stuart Davis in Gloucester ()
1998 - Isaac Witkin ()
1998 - Giorgio Morandi (Twentieth-Century Masters Series) ()
1995 - Frankenthaler: Works on Paper 1949-1984 ()
1992 - Georges Braque (Modern Masters Series) ()
1986 - Milton Avery: Paintings of Canada ()
1984 - David Smith (Modern Masters Series) ()
Sources
Syracuse University - Newhouse School
External links
Karen Wilkin At New Criterion
1940 births
Living people
Barnard College alumni
Columbia University alumni
American art critics
American women journalists
American women critics
American expatriates in Italy
21st-century American women
American women curators
American curators |
17332544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Federation%20of%20Women%27s%20Clubs%20Headquarters | General Federation of Women's Clubs Headquarters | The General Federation of Women's Clubs Headquarters, also known as the Miles Mansion, is a social clubhouse headquarters in Washington, D.C. Built as a private residence in 1875, it has served as the headquarters of the General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC) since 1922. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1991 for its association with the federation, which serves as an umbrella organization for women's clubs, a social movement dating to the mid-19th century. Tours of the headquarters, available by appointment, provide information about the activities of the GFWC and several historic rooms, including the 1734 entryway, the Julia Ward Howe Drawing Room, the dining room, music room and the GFWC International President's office. The headquarters also features changing exhibits of art, photographs and artifacts from its collections.
Description and building history
The GFWC headquarters is located southeast of Dupont Circle, on the south side of N Street between St. Matthew's Court and 17th Street. It is a four-story masonry structure, built out of ashlar stone in a Renaissance Revival style. The entrance is in a slightly raised basement level, sheltered by a splayed glass and iron marquee with supporting ironwork brackets. The main floor windows are elongated, with paired casement windows topped by transoms, and keystoned lintels. A polygonal bay projects from the first two floors on the left, and a shallower rectangular one projects to the right of the entrance; both are topped by lower balustrades. The interior has been adapted for the GFWC's use, but retains some original finishes.
The house was built in 1875 by Rear Admiral William Radford, at a time when the Dupont Circle area was being developed as a fashionable residential neighborhood. In 1895 he sold the house to the state of Massachusetts, which gave it to General Nelson A. Miles in recognition for his military service. It was next owned by John Jay White, a big-game hunter who traveled with Theodore Roosevelt, and who commissioned the murals by Albert Herter that adorn some of its walls. In 1922 the house was purchased by the GFWC for use as its headquarters, a role it continues to play today.
The GFWC represents the culmination of smaller-scale women's organizations that sprang up in the 19th century, generally to improve the conditions for working and single women. It was the first nationwide organization of this type, enabling a broader scope of influence by these local and regional organizations.
See also
List of National Historic Landmarks in Washington, D.C.
National Register of Historic Places listings in the upper NW Quadrant of Washington, D.C.
References
External links
General Federation of Women's Clubs web site
National Historic Landmarks in Washington, D.C.
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
Clubhouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
Dupont Circle
Renaissance Revival architecture in Washington, D.C.
Historic house museums in Washington, D.C.
Women's museums in the United States
Women's club buildings
Women in Washington, D.C. |
23573652 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velk%C3%BD%20Borek | Velký Borek | Velký Borek is a municipality and village in Mělník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,200 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Villages of Mělnická Vrutice and Skuhrov are administrative parts of Velký Borek.
References
Villages in Mělník District |
23573657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidim%20%28M%C4%9Bln%C3%ADk%20District%29 | Vidim (Mělník District) | Vidim is a municipality and village in Mělník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 100 inhabitants.
Notable people
Ivan Mrkvička (1856–1938), painter
References
Villages in Mělník District |
6902042 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar%20Oil | Madagascar Oil | Madagascar Oil SA is an oil company operating in Madagascar. It is the principal onshore oil company in Madagascar in terms of oil resources and land.
Madagascar Oil's operational office is in Antananarivo, Madagascar and its administrative offices are in Singapore. Its Chairman is Indonesian national Al Njoo. Prior to this, the company was based in Houston, Texas and earlier in London, England. The company's flagship oil field is Tsimiroro in the Morondava Basin of western Madagascar. Madagascar Oil wholly owns its subsidiary, Madagascar Oil S.A.
History
Madagascar Oil was founded in 2004 by Canadian engineer Sam Malin and Australian businessman Alan Bond. Its parent company was originally Madagascar Oil Limited (Mauritius).
In March 2006, simultaneous with a US$60m fund raising to North American managed hedge funds, the parent company was reorganised as Madagascar Oil Limited in Bermuda. In 2006, Madagascar Oil launched its first licensing round involving 44 offshore blocks in the Morondava Basin.
In 2008, a joint venture agreement was executed with Total S.A. granting it operatorship and a 60% interest in the Bemolanga tar sands. In 2010, it raised £50 million in its IPO to finance a pilot project in the Tsimiroro Field.
Madagascar Oil was listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange from 2010 until 2016. In December 2010, the trade of company's share was suspended after the Malagasy government announcement that the most of the company's oil licenses would be annulled. The dispute was solved and the trade at the AIM restarted in June 2011. The company delisted in 2016, as a condition of its lenders recapitalising the company.
On 15 April 2015, the Madagascar government granted to the company a 25-year license on the oil production at the Tsimiroro block 3104. In February 2019, the new Madagascar president Andry Rajoelina cancelled an ongoing licensing round involving 44 blocks in the Morondava basin until further notice.
Description
Madagascar Oil focuses on the development, exploration and production of petroleum. In 2008, Madagascar Oil held the largest licensed onshore acreage in Madagascar. Madagascar Oil holds the large heavy oil fields of Tsimiroro and Bemolanga, which are the island's major onshore oil fields.
The company operates the 100%-owned Tsimiroro heavy oil field, while Total S.A., its farm-in partner, operates the 40%-owned Bemolanga bitumen field. Tsimiroro has 2P reserves of 614 million barrels and 3C resources of 1.6 billion barrels, in tar sands at depths between 100m and 200m. In addition to the Tsimiroro and Bemolanga, the company holds three exploration blocks: Manambolo, Morondava and Manandaza. On Madagascar Oil's blocks, previous exploration examples include the Manambolo West #1 well, drilled in 1987 that flowed gas at per day on a drill stem test and abandoned as non-commercial partially due to a lack of infrastructure; and the Manandaza well drilled in 1991 that flowed 41° API light crude oil.
Madagascar Oil's projects are governed by production sharing agreements signed with OMNIS, the relevant Malagasy government agency, in 2004. These agreements provide the Government of Madagascar with a significant stake in future production.
The company's controlling shareholder is the Singapore-based Benchmark Group. Other shareholders are Outrider Management LLC, SEP African Ventures Limited (formerly Persistency Capital LLC), and the John Paul DeJoria Family Trust.
References
External links
Official website
Oil and gas companies of Madagascar
Oil and gas companies of Bermuda |
23573659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vojkovice%20%28M%C4%9Bln%C3%ADk%20District%29 | Vojkovice (Mělník District) | Vojkovice is a municipality and village in Mělník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 800 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Villages of Bukol, Dědibab and Křivousy are administrative parts of Vojkovice.
History
The first written mention of Vojkovice is from 1088.
Notable people
Bohuslava Kecková (1854–1911), physician
References
Villages in Mělník District |
6902071 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Soxaholix | The Soxaholix | The Soxaholix is a comic-based blog published by pseudonymous Hart Brachen (similar to heartbroken) for Boston Red Sox fans to discuss the team and other sports-related news. Occasionally during the television season the blog also discusses the television drama Lost. The site began just prior to the 2004 baseball season. The author references many different sources of classic literature, modern literature, television shows, popular culture, and internet culture through the characters' dialogue. The setting for the comic revolves around a group of office co-workers in Boston and each daily strip focuses on the conversation of two of the characters in a back-and-forth manner similar to the comic Get your war on.
Readership averaged 1,600 visitors per day in 2005 with sometimes as many as 12,000 readers in a single day. The site has been recognized by a number of prominent online award committees and sports websites for incisive wit and mix of high-brow as well as low-brow humor, including a 2005 article in The Wall Street Journal. It was also mentioned in the March 2, 2007 All Things Considered story concerning baseball fandom on NPR.
History
Hart Brachen, a pseudonym to cover the author's true identity, grew up in New Hampshire and attended college in Boston. He then attended graduate school at a university in the South. Always a Red Sox fan, the author found the comic style of Get your war on appealing and chose to use the method to describe his thoughts about the Red Sox, especially given their heart-breaking end at the hands of the New York Yankees in the 2003 postseason.
One of the first entries included a discussion of blogger Ana Marie Cox and a link to her blog, Wonkette. She linked to the entry from her popular website and The Soxaholix received a large amount of attention very quickly. Readership remains high and the website garners more attention when the team is doing well, such as during and after the 2004 World Series. The author was interviewed for a Wall Street Journal article shortly after the Red Sox lost to the Chicago White Sox in the 2005 postseason. The characters are not real people. Readers comment on the strips, following the lows and highs of the season. Readers and commenters are divided between real and not real, with no clear line of demarcation.
With the sustained success of the Boston Red Sox since 2004, a strip based upon failure, sadness and schadenfreude might have been expected to wither away. Not so. Despite considering a "retirement" or hiatus from the strip after the successful 2013 season, the author continues to post pithy entries nearly every weekday. (With rare exceptions- marked by life-changing events or outrageous fortune—weekend strips are rare). During the 2013 season, in the interest of his (or her) sanity, the author also announced that henceforth there would be no strip on a Friday when the Red Sox were under .500 in wins and losses.
In November 2014, Brachen announced that he was bringing The Soxaholix to an end. Among his own comments on retiring The Soxaholix, he invited the fans to contribute ideas on how to keep the community alive since the strip concluded.
Format
Style
The TypePad blog entries are written in a comic-strip style using only one or two positions for each character's appearance. The dialogue is written in plain HTML above the character's "talk bubble" instead of incorporated into the images; this allows for alternate browsing such as cell phones and RSS syndication. The strip is created in BBEdit and Fireworks MX on an Apple iMac. The original blog used clipart directly from Microsoft Office, but the current artwork is obtained from completely original sources.
Awards and recognition
Blogdom's Best: Boston Red Sox - named the best Red Sox-related blog by Deadspin.
2005 Webby Worthy Selection - awarded to sites and teams demonstrating a standard of excellence and outstanding caliber of work.
2005 South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival Finalist - "Best Blog".
2005 Bloggie Awards Finalist - "Best Non-Weblog Content of a Weblog Site".
See also
Get your war on
References
Boston Red Sox
American blogs
American webcomics
2004 webcomic debuts
2016 webcomic endings
American sport websites
Sports webcomics |
23573661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vra%C5%88any | Vraňany | Vraňany is a municipality and village in Mělník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 900 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Mlčechvosty is an administrative part of Vraňany.
References
Villages in Mělník District |
23573662 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C10H15NO | C10H15NO | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C10H15NO}}
The molecular formula C10H15NO (molar mass : 165.23 g/mol, exact mass : 165.115364) may refer to:
Anatoxin-a
Ephedrine
Hordenine
2-Methoxyamphetamine
3-Methoxyamphetamine
para-Methoxyamphetamine (4-methoxyamphetamine)
Perillartine
Pholedrine
Pseudoephedrine
Talsaclidine |
23573666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C5%A1etaty%20%28M%C4%9Bln%C3%ADk%20District%29 | Všetaty (Mělník District) | Všetaty is a market town in Mělník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,300 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Přívory is an administrative part of Všetaty.
Transport
Všetaty is an important railroad hub. Two main railroads Prague–Turnov and Kolín–Rumburk crosses here.
Notable people
Jan Palach (1948–1969), student who self-immolated himself in a protest against the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
References
Market towns in the Czech Republic
Populated places in Mělník District |
17332558 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simba%20Union%20Ground | Simba Union Ground | The Simba Union Ground is one of several cricket grounds in Nairobi. It is also the home of Simba Union Cricket Club as well as the home of Cricket Kenya academy. The ground is located across the road from Kenya's main Cricket ground the Nairobi Gymkhana Club. The ground has hosted a One Day International match when Kenya cricket team played against West Indies cricket team.
One Day International Matches
List of ODI matches hosted at this stadium
List of Centuries
One Day Internationals
List of Five Wicket Hauls
One Day Internationals
References
Ground Profile
Sport in Nairobi
Cricket grounds in Kenya |
17332706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mombasa%20Sports%20Club | Mombasa Sports Club | Mombasa Sports Club (MSC) is multi-sport club based in Mombasa, Kenya. It also owns sporting facilities. The club was established in 1896, and it is among the oldest sporting clubs in Kenya.
Cricket
Mombasa Sports Club has a cricket team taking part in the Coast Cricket Association competitions.
Cricket ground
The Mombasa Sports Club ground is the only fully accredited ODI Cricket ground in Kenya outside of Nairobi. Its acquired this status prior to hosting a three match ODI series between Kenya and Bermuda as well as a triangular ODI Tournament featuring Kenya, Canada and Scotland, in 2006. Providing all the cricket for Ireland's tour of the country in 2012, this venue has hosted fifteen international fixtures (twelve ODI and three T20I), also six first-class matches (initially in 1964) and 22 List A matches.
Hockey
The club has field hockey sections for men and women. In 2008, MSC ladies team plays in 1st level National league, while their men counterparts play in the premier league.
In 2011, the Men's team finishes a top their National League and get promoted to the Premier League.
In 2012, in their first year, they finish 9th out of 12 teams and ensure Kenya Hockey Premier League survival for the 2013 Season ahead of regulars; Mvita XI, Karate Axiom and Western Jaguars.
The 2013 Season Kicks Off with the Mombasa Derby, MSC vs Mvita XI on 8 June 2013, before a flurry of four matches against: Western Jaguars, Green Sharks, Kenya Police and Strathmore
Rugby
MSC Rugby team plays in the Kenya Cup league, the highest level rugby union competition in Kenya. The club started playing rugby in 1935. The MSC Rugby Grounds, most recently hosted the Confederation of African Rugby tournament that brought together Over 8 national teams to a qualifier tournament in Mombasa, among them, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Morocco
Football
Their football team takes part in regional level football competitions.
Other sports
Other disciplines at Mombasa Sports Club include Basketball, Squash, Snooker, Tennis, Bowling and Bridge.
List of Centuries
One Day Internationals
List of Five Wicket Hauls
One Day Internationals
References
Mombasa Sports Club
Cricinfo ground profile
Google map location
Hockey Kenya
Kenya Rugby Union
External links
Mombasa Sports Club homepage
Kenyan club cricket teams
Cricket grounds in Kenya
Kenyan rugby union teams
Kenyan field hockey clubs
Football clubs in Kenya
Sport in Mombasa
1896 establishments in Kenya
Sports clubs established in 1896 |
20468449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%20Lipton%20Championships%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%20singles | 1998 Lipton Championships – Men's singles | Marcelo Ríos defeated Andre Agassi in the final, 7–5, 6–3, 6–4 to win the men's singles tennis title at the 1998 Miami Open. With the win, he completed the Sunshine Double.
Thomas Muster was the reigning champion, but did not participate this year.
Seeds
All thirty-two seeds received a bye to the second round.
Draw
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Bottom half
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
External links
Main draw
Men's Singles |
17332733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guiles%20v.%20Marineau | Guiles v. Marineau | In Guiles v. Marineau, 461 F.3d 320 (2d. Cir. 2006), cert. denied by 127 S.Ct. 3054 (2007), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States protect the right of a student in the public schools to wear a shirt insulting the President of the United States and depicting images relating to drugs and alcohol.
Overview
The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States prohibits Congress, among other things, from passing any law "abridging the freedom of speech." The Fourteenth Amendment likewise prohibits State governments from "depriv[ing] any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." The courts have interpreted the "liberty" guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to encompass the freedom of speech protected by the First Amendment. See, e.g., Edwards v. South Carolina, 372 U.S. 229, 235 (1963); Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697, 707 (1931); Stromberg v. California, 283 U.S. 359, 368 (1931).
Factual background
The plaintiff in this case, a student at Williamstown Middle High School in Vermont, had worn a T-shirt displaying the name "George W. Bush" and the words "Chicken-Hawk-In-Chief," underneath of which there was "a large picture of the President's face, wearing a helmet, superimposed on the body of a chicken." Alongside the picture of the President was a depiction of "three lines of cocaine and a razor blade." The wings of the "chicken" were depicted holding a straw and an alcoholic beverage. At the bottom of and on the back of the T-shirt there was additional verbiage making fun of Bush and, among other things, accusing him of being addicted to cocaine. Depictions of Bush, cocaine and alcohol were also present on the sleeves. After plaintiff had worn this shirt several times over a period of weeks, another student complained to a teacher, but was informed that the shirt constituted political speech, protected by law. However, after receiving a complaint from a parent, the defendant in the case, a school employee, asked the student to cover up the parts of the shirt pertaining to drugs and alcohol, or turn the shirt inside-out, or wear a different shirt, in accordance with the school system's dress code, which prohibits "any aspect of a" student's "appearance, which constitutes a real hazard to the health and safety of self and others or is otherwise distracting," (emphasis added) including "[c]lothing displaying alcohol, drugs, violence, obscenity, and racism."
The student refused, and after the student's father had the opportunity to speak with the superintendent, the defendant school administrator completed a "discipline referral form" and sent the student home. After the student returned to school, he wore the T-shirt covered by duct tape (as required by the school), on top of which was written the word "censored."
The student sued the school administrators (the student support specialist, the principal and the superintendent) in order to have the disciplinary referral expunged from his record, and to enjoin the school from enforcing the dress code policy against him. The district court, applying the Supreme Court precedent set in Bethel School District No. 403 v. Fraser, held that the images depicted on the shirt were "plainly offensive or inappropriate" and that the school was therefore entitled to enforce its dress-code policy, but also ordered the expungement of the offense from the student's disciplinary record. Both the plaintiffs and the defendant appealed.
Decision
The court of appeals held that the T-shirt, in spite of its depiction of drugs and alcohol, was protected speech under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States.
In its decision, the court analyzed the facts in light of the following three Supreme Court cases: Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Cmty. Sch. Dist., 393 U.S. 503 (1969), Bethel School District No. 403 v. Fraser, 478 U.S. 675 (1986) and Hazelwood Sch. Dist. v. Kuhlmeier, 484 U.S. 260 (1988).
In Tinker, the United States Supreme Court held that a school may not ban students from wearing black armbands in protest of the Vietnam War. The Tinker case thus stands for the proposition that "a student may 'express his opinions, even on controversial subjects ... if he does so without materially and substantially interfer[ing] with the requirements of appropriate discipline in the operation of the school and without colliding with the rights of others,' Tinker 393 U.S. at 513 (alteration in original). The rule of Tinker has come to mean that a school may not regulate student expression unless the regulation may be 'justified by a showing that the student['s] [speech] would materially and substantially disrupt the work and discipline of the school.'"
In Fraser, however, the Supreme Court held that a school could discipline a student for making a speech at a public assembly that "is 'vulgar,' 'lewd,' 'indecent,' or 'plainly offensive.'" Fraser can be thought of as an exception to the general rule set forth in Tinker: student speech is generally protected under the Constitution, but the protection does not apply if the speech is "plainly offensive." Whether Guiles' T-shirt was plainly offensive or not was a question of first impression in the Second Circuit; in this case, considering an analogous decision in Frederick v. Morse, 439 F.3d 1114 (9th Cir. 2006), the court held that the T-shirt is not "plainly offensive," and therefore falls within the protection of the Constitution as interpreted in Tinker, rather than being subject to regulation in accordance with Fraser. [The holding in Frederick v. Morse was subsequently overruled by the Supreme Court, but this does not affect the precedential value of Guiles v. Marineau within the Second Circuit.]
In Hazelwood, the Supreme Court permitted schools to regulate the content of a school newspaper, on the grounds that there is a "distinction between school-sponsored speech and student speech.". The student's T-shirt was not school-sponsored, nor was there any appearance of sponsorship by the school, and therefore Hazelwood was inapplicable in this case.
Finally, the Guiles court held that the plaintiff's rights were violated even by the limited intervention of the school staff (who had given the plaintiff the choice of changing shirts, wearing the shirt inside out, or covering the depictions of drugs and alcohol). The court stated that "[t]he pictures" that the school administrators wanted the student to obscure "are an important part of the political message" that he "wished to convey, accentuating the anti-drug (and anti-Bush) message. By covering them defendants diluted the student's "message, blunting its force and impact. Such censorship may be justified under Tinker only when the substantial disruption test is satisfied." As the student had worn the shirt on several days with no disruption to classroom activities, there are no grounds for the school to take any action against him.
Notes
Bibliography
Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
case summary from firstamendmentcenter.org
Helen Nguyen. "2nd Circuit rules censoring student's T-shirt violated free speech." Daily Record (Rochester, NY) (Sept 12, 2006): NA. General Reference Center Gold. Gale. Montgomery County Public Library (MD). 5 May 2008 <http://find.galegroup.com/itx/start.do?prodId=GRGM>
Jenny B. Davis "Student, Parents Sue School District Over Dress Code." Texas Lawyer (April 7, 2008): NA. General Reference Center Gold. Gale. Montgomery County Public Library (MD). 8 May 2008 (discussion of a new case that is similar to the Guiles case). <http://find.galegroup.com/itx/start.do?prodId=GRGM>
See also
Broussard v. School Board of Norfolk: a similar student T-shirt case
External links
United States Free Speech Clause case law
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit cases
Student rights case law in the United States
Williamstown, Vermont
Education in Orange County, Vermont
T-shirts
Works about George W. Bush |
17332750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20railway%20stations%20in%20Kazakhstan | List of railway stations in Kazakhstan | Railway stations in Kazakhstan include:
Maps
UN Map
reliefweb map
Towns
(Stations should be in line order)
Existing
Ganyushkino - near Russian border
Atyrau
Beyneu
Aqtau - port on Caspian Sea
Aqtober - near Russian border
Embi
Shalqar
Baikonur - spaceport
Qyzylorda
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Shymkent
Zhambyl
Dostyk-Alashankou on China border; break-of-gauge
Kokshetau - Kokshetau-1 railway station, Kokshetau-2 railway station
Almaty - Almaty-1 railway station, Almaty-2 railway station
Shu - junction
Beskol
Saryshagan
Balqash
Sayak
Qaraghandy
Nur-Sultan - Astana railway station
Aktogay - Aktogay railway station
(Second through route opened 2012)
Zhetigen, Kazakhstan
Altynkol railway station
gauge
Korgas Transfer Hub on border with China; break-of-gauge
gauge
Jinghe, China - junction
Under construction
Uzen
Gyzylgaya, Turkmenistan
Bereket
Etrek
Gorgan, Iran
proposed standard gauge line across Kazakhstan to China will be announced later in 2010 under auspicies of ECO.
See also
Transport in Kazakhstan
Break-of-gauge
Tengri Unitrade CARGO
References
External links
Railway stations
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Railway stations |
44499088 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Cuthbert%20Smith | Jim Cuthbert Smith | Sir James Cuthbert Smith (born 31 December 1954) is Director of Science at the Wellcome Trust and Senior Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute.
Education
Smith was educated at Latymer Upper School and graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Sciences in 1976. He was awarded a PhD in 1979 by University College London (UCL) for research supervised by Lewis Wolpert at Middlesex Hospital Medical School.
Career and research
Smith completed postdoctoral research appointments at Harvard Medical School from 1979 to 1981 and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer Research UK) from 1981 to 1984. In 1984 he joined the staff of the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), becoming head of the Division of Developmental Biology in 1991 and head of the Genes and Cellular Control Group in 1996. He moved to become director of the Gurdon Institute in 2001, returning to NIMR in 2009 to become its director. In 2014 he became Deputy CEO of the Medical Research Council in addition to his role as NIMR Director. When NIMR joined the CRUK London Research Institute as part of the Francis Crick Institute he became director of research at the Crick. He stepped down from his MRC and Crick roles in 2017 when he became Director of Science at Wellcome. He led the Wellcome Science Review in 2019. In 2021 he left Wellcome and became Secretary of the Zoological Society of London.
Smith's research has focused on how cells of the very early vertebrate embryo form the specialised tissues of muscle, skin, blood and bone. His discovery of a mesoderm-inducing factor secreted by a cell line and establishing its identity as activin transformed the study of induction in the early embryo. He also showed that activin specifies different cell types at different thresholds and that characteristic genes like Brachyury are turned on at specific concentrations. In other work he shed light on the molecular basis of gastrulation, and especially the role of non-canonical Wnt signalling. His earlier work demonstrated threshold responses in chick limb development and also showed that the mitogenic response to growth factors can be active when attached to the extracellular matrix.
Awards and honours
Smith was elected as an EMBO Member in 1992, a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1993 and of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1998. He was awarded the Zoological Society of London Scientific Medal in 1989, the Feldberg Foundation award in 2000, the William Bate Hardy Prize in 2001 and the Waddington Medal by the British Society for Developmental Biology in 2013. In 2014 he was named by the London Evening Standard as one of the 1000 most influential Londoners, in the 'Innovators' section. He was also awarded the EMBO Gold Medal in 1993.
Smith was knighted in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to medical research and science education.
Personal life
Smith married Fiona Watt in 1979 and has three children.
References
1954 births
Living people
Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge
Developmental biologists
English biologists
Fellows of the Royal Society
Knights Bachelor
People educated at Latymer Upper School
National Institute for Medical Research faculty
John Humphrey Plummer Professors |
6902078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20House%20Is%20Not%20a%20Motel | A House Is Not a Motel | "A House Is Not a Motel" is a song written by Arthur Lee and first released by Love on their 1967 album Forever Changes.
Lyrics and music
The song was likely inspired by the song "A House Is Not a Home" written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, given that Arthur Lee was a fan of their work. It features a descending/ascending psychedelic melody and a folk-rock rhythm. Lee's vocal performance has been described as snarling. According to a friend, Lee got the line about blood mixing with mud turning grey from a Vietnam War veteran.
The song begins with a 12-string guitar playing a riff in E minor. An electric guitar comes in after the second verse, playing a phrase on the top two strings. After the third verse, there is a drum break and twin guitar solo with strange vocal noises. It is one of the sparsest arranged songs on the album.
Reception
AllMusic's Matthew Greenwald called "A House Is Not a Motel" " another one of Arthur Lee's meditations of his own personal world, and it's both beautiful and brutal at the same time." He praised the "acid-magnified imagery" and considered it to be one of the standouts on the album. Considered to be "wonderfully dark" by The AV Club's Kyle Fowle, he wrote that it was "the most rock-oriented song, complete with blazing guitar solos that underscore the lyrical exploration of the chaos and inhumanity of war." David Barker considered the song to be an inversion of "Sympathy for the Devil" by the Rolling Stones and believed that the house Lee was referring to was a church while the motel symbolised the decrepitude of the world.
Treble magazine ranked the song as the 13th best song of the 1960s, calling it "an increasingly escalating series of apocalyptic visions sandwiched between folk-rock plucks and a fiery electric freakout." The German magazine Musikexpress ranked "A House Is Not a Motel" number 429 in its list of the 700 best songs of all time. Uncut listed the song as one of its 50 essential songs from the Summer of Love. The Spanish magazine Hipersonica ranked the song 23rd best of the 1950s and 1960s.
References
Songs about hotels and motels
Song recordings produced by Bruce Botnick
Love (band) songs
Elektra Records singles
1967 songs
Songs written by Arthur Lee (musician) |
23573670 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965%20ICF%20Canoe%20Slalom%20World%20Championships | 1965 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships | The 1965 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships were held in Spittal an der Drau, Austria under the auspices of International Canoe Federation for the second time in a row after hosting the event previously in 1963. It was the 9th edition. It also marked some changes in which the folding kayak events were replaced by standard kayaks for the men's and women's events. Additionally, the mixed C2 team event returned for the first time since 1957.
Medal summary
Men's
Canoe
Kayak
Mixed
Canoe
Women's
Kayak
Medals table
References
Results
International Canoe Federation
Icf Canoe Slalom World Championships, 1965
Icf Canoe Slalom World Championships, 1965
ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships
International sports competitions hosted by Austria |
20468468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primovula | Primovula | Primovula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Ovulidae, the false cowries.
Species
Species within the genus Primovula include:
Primovula astra Omi & Iino, 2005
Primovula beckeri (Sowerby, 1900)
Primovula fulguris (Azuma & Cate, 1971)
Primovula panthera Omi, 2008
Primovula roseomaculata (Schepman, 1909)
Primovula rosewateri (Cate, 1973)
Primovula santacarolinensis Cate, 1978
Primovula tadashigei (Cate, 1973)
Primovula tropica Schilder, 1931
Primovula uvula Cate, 1978
Species brought into synonymy
Primovula adriatica Allan, 1956: synonym of Pseudosimnia adriatica (Sowerby, 1828)
Primovula aureola Fehse, 2002: synonym of Crenavolva aureola (Fehse, 2002)
Primovula azumai Cate, 1970: synonym of Dentiovula azumai (Cate, 1970)
Primovula bellica Cate, 1973: synonym of Cuspivolva bellica (Cate, 1973)
Primovula bellocqae Cardin, 1997: synonym of Pseudosimnia juanjosensii (Pérez & Gómez, 1987)
Primovula carnea (Poiret, 1789): synonym of Pseudosimnia carnea (Poiret, 1789)
Primovula cavanaghi Allan, 1956: synonym of Globovula cavanaghi (Iredale, 1931)
Primovula celzardi Fehse, 2008: synonym of Cuspivolva celzardi (Fehse, 2008)
Primovula coarctaca Schilder, 1941: synonym of Prosimnia semperi (Weinkauff, 1881)
Primovula colobica Azuma & Cate, 1971: synonym of Dentiovula colobica (Azuma & Cate, 1971)
Primovula concinna Schilder, 1932: synonym of Procalpurnus semistriatus (Pease, 1862)
Primovula dautzenbergi Schilder, 1931: synonym of Diminovula dautzenbergi (Schilder, 1931)
Primovula diaphana Liltved, 1987: synonym of Pseudosimnia diaphana (Liltved, 1987)
Primovula dondani Cate, 1964: synonym of Serratovolva dondani (Cate, 1964)
Primovula dubia Cate, 1973: synonym of Primovula fulguris (Azuma & Cate, 1971)
Primovula formosa Schilder, 1941: synonym of Crenavolva traillii (A. Adams, 1855)
Primovula fructicum (Reeve, 1865): synonym of Prionovolva wilsoniana Cate, 1973: synonym of Prionovolva brevis (Sowerby, 1828)
Primovula fruticum (Reeve, 1865): synonym of Prionovolva brevis (Sowerby, 1828)
Primovula fumikoae Azuma & Cate, 1971: synonym of Sandalia triticea (Lamarck, 1810)
Primovula habui Cate, 1973: synonym of Cuspivolva habui (Cate, 1973)
Primovula helenae Cate, 1973: synonym of Cuspivolva helenae (Cate, 1973)
Primovula horai Cardin, 1994: synonym of Dentiovula horai (Cardin, 1994)
Primovula horimasarui Cate & Azuma, 1971: synonym of Hiatavolva coarctata (Sowerby in A. Adams & Reeve, 1848)
Primovula kurodai Cate & Azuma in Cate, 1973: synonym of Primovula roseomaculata (Schepman, 1909)
Primovula luna Omi, 2007: synonym of Pseudosimnia diaphana (Liltved, 1987)
Primovula mariae Schilder, 1941: synonym of Dentiovula mariae (Schilder, 1941)
Primovula mucronata Azuma & Cate, 1971: synonym of Cuspivolva mucronata (Azuma & Cate, 1971)
Primovula myrakeenae Azuma & Cate, 1971: synonym of Dentiovula azumai (Cate, 1970)
Primovula narinosa Cate, 1973: synonym of Cuspivolva narinosa (Cate, 1973)
Primovula oryza Omi & Clover, 2005: synonym of Dentiovula oryza (Omi & Clover, 2005)
Primovula platysia Cate, 1973: synonym of Cuspivolva platysia (Cate, 1973)
Primovula pyriformis Allan, 1956: synonym of Diminovula alabaster (Reeve, 1865)
Primovula rhodia Schilder, 1932: synonym of Simnia aperta (Sowerby, 1849)
Primovula rhodia (A. Adams, 1854): synonym of Sandalia triticea (Lamarck, 1810)
Primovula rutherfordiana Cate, 1973: synonym of Dentiovula rutherfordiana (Cate, 1973)
Primovula singularis Cate, 1973: synonym of Cuspivolva singularis (Cate, 1973)
Primovula sinomaris Cate, 1973: synonym of Primovula roseomaculata (Schepman, 1909)
Primovula solemi Cate, 1973: synonym of Pseudosimnia vanhyningi (M. Smith, 1940)
Primovula tigris Yamamoto, 1971: synonym of Cuspivolva tigris (Yamamoto, 1971)
Primovula tosaensis Azuma & Cate, 1971: synonym of Dissona tosaensis (Azuma & Cate, 1971)
Primovula tropica Schilder, 1941: synonym of Primovula tropica Schilder, 1931
Primovula vanhyningi M. Smith, 1940: synonym of Pseudosimnia vanhyningi (M. Smith, 1940)
Primovula virgo Azuma & Cate, 1971: synonym of Crenavolva virgo (Azuma & Cate, 1971)
References
Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
Ovulidae |
17332785 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WaveMaker | WaveMaker | WaveMaker is an enterprise grade Java low code platform for building software applications and platforms. WaveMaker Inc. is headquartered in Mountain view, California. For enterprises, WaveMaker is a low code platform that accelerates their app development and IT modernization efforts. For ISVs, it is a consumable low code component that can sit inside their product and offer customizations.
WaveMaker Platform is a licensed software that enables organizations to run their own end-to-application platform-as-a-service (aPaaS) for building and running custom apps. It also allows developers and business users to work with technologies to create apps that can be extended or customized. Those apps can consume APIs, visualize data and automatically support multi-device responsive interfaces.
WaveMaker low code platform enables organizations to deploy applications on public or private cloud infrastructure, and containers can be deployed on top of virtual machines or on bare metal. The software provides a Graphical User Interface (GUI) console to manage the IT app infrastructure and capabilities based on Docker containerization.
The solution provides features for app deployment automation, app lifecycle management, release management, deployment workflow and access rights, including:
Apps for web, tablet, and smartphone interfaces
Enterprise technologies like Java, Hibernate, Spring, AngularJS, JQuery
Docker-provided APIs and CLI
Software stack packaging, container provisioning, stack and app upgrading, replication, and fault tolerance
WaveMaker Studio
WaveMaker RAD Platform is built around WaveMaker Studio - a WYSIWYG rapid development tool that allows computer-literate business users to compose an application using a drag-and-drop method. WaveMaker Studio supports rapid application development (RAD) for the web, similar to what products like PowerBuilder and Lotus Notes provided for client server computing.
WaveMaker Studio allows developers to produce an application once, then auto-adjust it for a particular target platform, whether a PC, mobile phone, or tablet. Applications created using the WaveMaker Studio follow a model–view–controller architecture.
WaveMaker Studio has been downloaded more than two million times. The Studio community consists of 30,000 registered users. Applications generated by WaveMaker Studio are licensed under the Apache license.
Studio 8 was released September 25, 2015. The prior version, Studio 7, has some notable development milestones. It was based on AngularJS framework, previous Studio versions (6.7, 6.6, 6.5) use the Dojo Toolkit. Some of the features of WaveMaker Studio 7 include:
Automatic generation of Hibernate mapping, Hibernate queries from database schema import.
Automatic creation of Enterprise Data Widgets based on schema import. Each widget can display data from a database table as a grid or edit form. Edit form implements create, update, delete functions automatically.
WYSIWYG Ajax development studio runs in a browser.
Deployment to Tomcat, IBM WebSphere, Weblogic, JBoss.
Mashup tool to assemble web applications based on SOAP, REST and RSS web services, Java Services and databases.
Supports existing CSS, HTML and Java code.
Deploys a standard Java .war file.
Technologies and Frameworks
WaveMaker allows users to build applications that run on "Open Systems Stack" based on the following technologies and frameworks: AngularJS, Bootstrap, NVD3, HTML, CSS, Apache Cordova, Hibernate, Spring, Spring Security, Java. The various supported integrations include:
Databases: Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, IBM DB2, HSQLDB
Authentication: LDAP, Active Directory, CAS, Custom Java Service, Database
Version Control: Bitbucket (or Stash), GitHub, Apache Subversion
Deployment: Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, WaveMaker Private Cloud (Docker containerization), IBM Web Sphere, Apache Tomcat, SpringSource tcServer, Oracle WebLogic Server, JBoss(WildFly), GlassFish
App Stores: Google Play, Apple App Store, Windows Store
History
WaveMaker was founded as ActiveGrid in 2003.
In November 2007, ActiveGrid was rebranded as WaveMaker.
WaveMaker was acquired by VMware, Inc in March 2011 but after two years VMWare terminated the support for the WaveMaker project in March 2013.
In May 2013, Pramati Technologies acquired the assets of WaveMaker from VMWare.
In February 2014, WaveMaker, Inc. released WaveMaker Studio 6.7, the last version of the open source, downloadable Studio.
In September 2014, WaveMaker, Inc. launched WaveMaker RAD Platform (with WaveMaker Studio version 7), licensed software that enabled organizations to run their own end-to-end application platform as a service (aPaaS) for building and running custom apps.
References
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44499093 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Energy | The Energy | "The Energy" is the lead single from the debut and only major record label album Dirty Sexy Knights in Paris by alternative rock band Audiovent. The song was a top ten hit on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in 2002, and broke into the top 20 of the Billboard Alternative Songs chart as well.
Background
Majority of the band's major record label debut, Dirty Sexy Knights in Paris, actually originates from the album Papa's Dojo, the early material the band released in their early days under the moniker "Vent". "The Energy" was one of only a few new tracks not originating from those sessions, but rather, written explicitly for the new album. The song was the band's first to be sent to rock radio, and the first single as well. It was also included on the soundtrack for the video games Madden 2003, Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure, Splashdown: Rides Gone Wild, and BMX XXX.
Themes and composition
Boyd states that the lyrics were inspired by a difficult break up he was going through upon recording the song. Boyd stated that writing the song helped him work through his emotions on the departure.
"'Energy' and a lot of the record was written during the breakup, and that song in particular is about my realization that I can't be dependent on any one person except myself. It's just a constant reminder of where I was at that point in my life and now the song just lets me know that I can't get back there again."
He explains that "The Energy" is in reference to having the energy to be self-sufficient, and not dependent on any one person. MTV described the lyrics as " a misty reverie to a full-throttle venting session" while describing its sound as having "propulsive guitars, emotionally expressive vocals and galvanic rhythms".
Reception
Margo Whitmire of Billboard magazine praised the track for its "deep lyrics and electric musical energy". Conversely, Allmusic and Uproxx criticized the track for a lack of perceived energy, especially considering the song's title.
Personnel
Band
Jason Boyd - vocals
Benjamin Einziger - guitar, vocals
Paul Fried - bass, vocals
Jamin Wilcox - drums, vocals
Chart performance
References
2002 singles
2002 songs
Atlantic Records singles |
20468494 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imero%20Fiorentino | Imero Fiorentino | Imero (Immie) Fiorentino (July 12, 1928 – October 1, 2013) was an American lighting designer, considered one of the most respected pioneers and leaders in the American entertainment industry. Beginning his career as a lighting designer in the Golden Age of Television, he designed productions for such celebrated series as Omnibus, U.S. Steel Hour, Pulitzer Prize Playhouse and Kraft Television Theatre. Fiorentino's expertise was often called upon by industry professionals throughout the world to consult on the planning and development of major productions, exhibits, museums and architectural projects; from the Republican National Convention and Democratic National Convention and numerous United States presidential election debates, major concert tours and television specials to the environmental lighting for Epcot’s World Showcase at Walt Disney World. His consulting work on major corporate events with clients included: Anheuser-Busch, Michelin, Electrolux, American Express and Xerox.
Early life and education
Fiorentino was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Sicilian parents Margaret Viola (a doll dress maker who later worked for a real estate agency) and Dominick Fiorentino (an artist who painted the faces on the Dy-Dee Dolls), who met in New York. As a young boy, he enjoyed trips to Radio City Music Hall with his uncle as he became more and more fascinated with theatre, especially lighting and set design. He turned to books to learn everything he could on the art. In junior high school and later at Lafayette High School in Brooklyn, he joined the stage squad and did the lighting and set design for plays. In high school he was encouraged by a wonderful teacher, Florence Druss, who understood immediately his aptitude for lighting design and encouraged him to pursue it as a career and to go on to college. In his junior year, his life’s plan was mapped out for him and he was accepted to Carnegie Tech, now Carnegie Mellon University. In the year prior to his high school graduation, however, he had a horrible accident and lost one eye. He felt his great plans were in shambles now because, without depth perception, he thought it would be impossible to design lighting. However, his high school teacher and mentor came to the hospital and told him that no one would know he only had one eye and he “would still be the best lighting designer ever.” The teacher saw the course the young man needed to be on and convinced him to continue on with his plans so, with great sacrifice from his family, Fiorentino attended Carnegie Tech majoring in theatre.
After graduation, his plans to teach and design at Indiana State University the following fall were circumvented by the loss of his father. He undertook the new role as breadwinner for his family. He made the rounds at NBC, DuMont and ABC looking for immediate employment. When interviewed for a position with ABC, Fiorentino admitted he knew nothing about television lighting to which the interviewer replied, “So what? Nobody does.” Television was a new medium in 1950 and everything was a learning curve. Fiorentino recalls, “The man called back later and said, ‘I can hire you as a lighting director for television.’ I said, ‘Who's going to teach me?’ He said, ‘Nobody's going to teach you.’ I said, ‘Well, how will I know if it's right?’ He said, ‘If it looks good, remember how you did it.’ I started the next day.”
Career
ABC Lighting Designer
Fiorentino’s lighting career began during the “Golden Age” of television, when his TV credits included Omnibus, U.S. Steel Hour, The Voice of Firestone, Pulitzer Prize Playhouse, and the Bolshoi Ballet’s first televised appearance in the U.S. Broadcasts were still in black and white. There was no videotape or retakes. Everything was done “live.” Early television images required an intense amount of light in order for transmission of an image to appear on the screen and often employed banks of fluorescent lights. Coming from a theatre background, however, Fiorentino stayed away from the fluorescents and selected lighting instruments that would give a more modeled effect. Word got around quickly that his technique was artistic and directors began requesting his services. Fiorentino worked with such directors in those early years of television as Sidney Lumet, John Frankenheimer, Charles Dubin and Alex Segal. Lighting directors that worked on those early television programs invented lighting techniques as they went. For ten years Fiorentino worked as an ABC lighting designer as one of a small circle of lighting pioneers at other networks including Bob Barry and Greg Harney.
Imero Fiorentino Associates
In 1960 Immie left ABC to form Imero Fiorentino Associates (IFA.) As the television industry expanded, Fiorentino foresaw the need of independent production companies producing much of the networks' content and their need for experienced lighting designers. Before long IFA became the go-to company for freelance lighting designers. Lighting designers from various networks came to work at IFA such as Fred McKinnon, George Reisenberger, Ken Palius, Leard Davis, William Knight, William Klages, Greg Brunton, Carl Vitelli, Richard Weiss, Carl Gibson, Stig Edgren, Tony DiGirolamo, Alan Adelman, Robert Dickinson, Vince Cilurzo, Jim Tetlow, Marilyn Lowey, John Conti, Jeff Calderon, and Jeff Engle. Over time the business expanded to provide both lighting and set design, production, staging and technical supervision for television and live events; everything from Broadway productions to political conventions, educational seminars to architectural lighting consultation.
Fiorentino actively participated in the artistic as well as company management, leadership and direction and took great pride in helping to guide the many unique projects that came through their doors.
Fiorentino's creativity was evidenced by his participation as leader of the IFA team serving as design and lighting consultants for fourteen Democratic and Republican National Conventions.
He led the team that designed the environmental lighting for the World Showcase Pavilions at Walt Disney World's Epcot in Orlando, Florida; the exhibition lighting and staging of the famous Howard Hughes Flying Boat "Spruce Goose" aircraft in Long Beach, CA.; Neil Diamond international concert tours and television specials for which he received two Emmy Award nominations; he also lit the legendary industrial show extravaganza (the granddaddy of corporate theater), The Milliken Breakfast Show for 21 years.
Fiorentino was also responsible for spearheading IFA's role as designers and consultants for many large television facilities around the country. He headed the IFA team that redesigned the lighting during the 1991 renovation of Madison Square Garden and designed the WaMu Theater housed in the Garden.
Additionally, his credits include: Frank Sinatra - The Main Event, televised live from Madison Square Garden, El Cordobes: The Bullfight of the Century, transmitted live from Spain to 28 countries via satellite, the historic mass audience rock concert event, California Jam and the Broadway show, The Night That Made America Famous. He has served as consultant to every U.S. President since Dwight D. Eisenhower, and to a multitude of major political candidates in television appearances and campaigns, as well as numerous Presidential Debates. He was hired to do the television lighting the day after the first Kennedy-Nixon debate where Nixon looked awful as the bright studio lighting exaggerated his jowls and sunken eyes. He lit the first-ever pictures that were transmitted to outer space and back to Earth via “Telstar 1” in 1962. Fiorentino and William Knight were the lighting designers for the historic Barbra Streisand - A Happening in Central Park, Sept. 16, 1968.
Post-IFA
In 1996, Caribiner International acquired IFA and Imero Fiorentino joined the global communications company as Senior Vice President. Caribiner was subsequently acquired by Jack Morton Worldwide where he continued in the same capacity. During the 2000 and 2008 political conventions, Fiorentino was the overall lighting designer for the Fox News coverage. In 2002, he entered the latest phase of his career as an independent lighting and production consultant.
Family
Fiorentino was married to Carole Hamer from 1953 to 1963 and they had one daughter, Linda. He married Angela Linsell, an artist, in 1970. His daughter Linda, a minister, is married to Ken Crabbs. They have a son, Christian Imero Fiorentino Crabbs.
Death
He died in New York City on October 1, 2013.
Bibliography
At the time of his death, Fiorentino had been working on his memoir. His wife, Angela, completed it and Let There Be Light, An Illuminating Life, was published in 2017.
Associations
National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences: served on the Board of Governors of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and was its Vice President from 1971 to 1975
Illuminating Engineering Society
International Tape Association
International Industrial Television Association
International Teleproduction Society
International Radio and Television Society
Awards and recognitions
2012 Wally Lifetime Achievement Award
U.S. Institute Of Theatre Technology Award
1992 Silver Circle Honoree, National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Art Directors Club Award
Illuminating Engineering Society:
Award Of Merit
Section Award
Award Of Excellence
Lumen Award
Carnegie Mellon University:
Merit Award
Distinguished Alumni Award
L. Blair Award Of Excellence
Emmy Award Nominations (3)
VPA Pioneer Award
USITT Distinguished Lighting Designer Award
Notes
References
Breaking into Video, Fireside (June 3, 1985) by Marjorie Costello & Cynthia Katz, pages 29, 40, 46.
External links
Archive of American Television - Video Interview with Imero Fiorentino
Q&A: Imero Fiorentino, independent Lighting Designer
Imero Fiorentino Interview - NAMM Oral History Library (2010)
1928 births
American lighting designers
Carnegie Mellon University College of Fine Arts alumni
People from Brooklyn
American people of Italian descent
2013 deaths
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Lafayette High School (New York City) alumni |
20468496 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20E.%20Coles%20Jr. | William E. Coles Jr. | William E. Coles Jr. (1932–2005) was an American novelist and professor.
Born in Summit, New Jersey, Coles earned degrees from Lehigh University, the University of Connecticut, the University of Minnesota. From 1974 to 1998 he served as a professor and director of composition at the University of Pittsburgh.
Coles died on March 21, 2005. He was survived by his wife, Janet Kafka.
Books
The Plural I, novel (1978).
Funnybone, novel (New York: Atheneum Books, 1992).
Another Kind of Monday, novel (New York: Atheneum Books, 1996).
Compass in the Blood, novel (New York: Atheneum Books, 2001).
References
Sources
Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2006.
Matthew Lavelle (2007). Pennsylvania Center for the Book: Profile of William E. Coles, Jr.. Retrieved November 29, 2008.
Storlie, Erik F. Go Deep & Take Plenty of Root: A Prairie-Norwegian Father, Rebellion in Minneapolis, Basement Zen, Growing Up, Growing Tender. Recollections of W.E. Coles, Chapters 6-7. Createspace 2013.
1932 births
2005 deaths
Writers from Pittsburgh
University of Connecticut alumni
Lehigh University alumni
University of Minnesota alumni
University of Pittsburgh faculty
American male novelists
20th-century American novelists
20th-century American male writers
Novelists from Pennsylvania
People from Summit, New Jersey |
20468500 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatsa%20Bay | Vatsa Bay | Vatsa Bay (Vazza) is a bay on the southern tip of Paliki peninsula of Kefalonia, Greece. The area lies far from the main towns and villages in Kefalonia and preserves a rural charm for visitors. There is no public transport, and as a result access has to be by car.
History
The bay of Vatsa was settled in Roman times. A mosaic with a trident and dolphins from a Roman villa is displayed at the Archeological Museum of Kefalonia. The Venetian used the bay as a shipyard.
Geography and economy
The area has few buildings. There are light agricultural activities, including covered growing houses. Fishing from small boats operates in the locality.
There is a tourist beach area.
The beach is approximately six metres wide and composed of red/yellow soft sand in which are embedded scattered pebbles.
A small river reaches the sea at this point on the coast (one of the two on Kepfalonia) and can be crossed by a chain-anchored boat.
Amenities
The beach has a taverna (Spiaggia Taverna) immediately on the shore adjacent to the river. The Taverna has a thatched roof and the floor is of beach sand. Boats can be hired for fishing or exploring the coves and hidden beaches of the area.
There are some local apartments that can be rented as tourist accommodation.
A small chapel dedicated to Saint Nikolaos (open to visitors) is located nearby. This site is also the location of a previous ancient Temple remains.
References
External links
Vatsa Club
Rooms for rent
Beaches of Greece
Bays of Greece
Tourist attractions in the Ionian Islands (region)
Landforms of Cephalonia
Landforms of the Ionian Islands (region) |
6902084 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E21 | E21 | E21 may refer to:
BMW E21, an automobile platform
HMS E21
European route E21
DRG series E 21, different locomotives of the German National Railroad
E21 - Code that it designates the Astronomical observatory of Norm Roses, Leyburn
E21 - code ECHO of the Nimzo-Indian Defence, opening of chess
Eyeshield 21, a manga based on American Football
Economics21, or e21, web portal of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
Kajang–Seremban Highway, route E21 in Malaysia |
23573671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vysok%C3%A1%20%28M%C4%9Bln%C3%ADk%20District%29 | Vysoká (Mělník District) | Vysoká is a municipality and village in Mělník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 900 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Villages of Bosyně, Chodeč, Strážnice and Střednice are administrative parts of Vysoká.
References
Villages in Mělník District |
44499100 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20McNamara%20%28neuroscientist%29 | Patrick McNamara (neuroscientist) | Patrick McNamara (born 1956) is an American neuroscientist. His work has centered on three major topics: sleep and dreams, religion, and mind/brain.
Biography
McNamara was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts on January 4, 1956. McNamara’s father was a career US Air Force officer, so the family lived all around the world until McNamara was 17 years old. When the family returned to Massachusetts, he began to study philosophy part time at University of Massachusetts Boston. In his twenties he began a period of what he describes as a very fruitful period of in-depth personal exploration of differing spiritual disciplines and philosophical traditions culminating in a lifelong, distinctive orientation in his philosophical outlook. He returned to college at 27 years old, this time at Boston University, switching his major area of study to neuropsychology, graduating with a B.A. in Psychology in 1986. He received his Ph.D. in Behavioral Neuroscience from Boston University in 1991. His doctoral project (under Laird Cermak) involved psycholinguistic investigations into the memory disorders associated with Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome. He had a postdoctoral fellowship under Martin Albert, Lorane Obler, Harold Goodglass and Edith Kaplan for three years in the Aphasia Research Center at the Boston VA (Veterans Administration).
After brief teaching stints at several New England colleges and universities, he abruptly left academia, claiming it made him ill. He then became an independent researcher with a grants-dependent research appointment in the Department of Neurology at Boston University School of Medicine. From 2000 to about 2018 he won and subsisted upon several research awards from various funding agencies, foundations, and private groups – always avoiding official academic conferences, appointments, and ideologies as much as possible. Operating as an independent researcher allowed him to pursue his unusual scientific and philosophic interests including sleep and dreams, neuroscience, philosophy, and religion.
In 2022, McNamara, along with Dr. Jordan Grafman of Northwestern University, received a major award from the Templeton Foundation for his seminal contributions to the emerging scientific field of the cognitive neuroscience of religion (See: https://www.cognitiveneuroscienceofreligion.org/)
Research
In terms of sleep and dreams, McNamara's work has largely focused on the evolution of REM sleep, the social simulation hypothesis on dream content, and the links between REM dreams and religious consciousness. Throughout his writings, his philosophy is personalist in orientation. He sees religion as a practice that enhances individuality and reproductive fitness and that this is in tension with religion's group enhancing functions.
In his recent philosophical work, Religion, Neuroscience, and the Self, McNamara uses contemporary neuroscientific research on religious experience, the Self, and personhood to explore the theological and philosophical set of ideas known as Personalism. He proposes a new eschatological form of personalism that is consistent with current neuroscience models of relevant brain functions concerning the self and personhood and that can meet the catastrophic challenges of the 21st century. Eschatological Personalism, rooted in the philosophical tradition of “Boston Personalism”, takes as its starting point the personalist claim that the significance of a self and personality is not fully revealed until it has reached its endpoint, which from a theological perspective can only occur within the eschatological realm. That realm is explored in the book along with implications for personalist theory and ethics. Topics covered include the agent intellect, dreams and the imagination, future-orientation and eschatology, phenomenology of Time, social ethics, Love, the challenge of AI, privacy and solitude, and the individual ethic of autarchy. This book is an innovative combination of the neuroscientific and theological
insights provided by a Personalist viewpoint.
His two books published in 2022 are “The Cognitive Neuroscience of Religious Experiences (CNRE)” and “The Neuroscience of Sleep and Dreams”, both published by Cambridge University Press. The CNRE text provides an up-to-date review of the neurology of religious experiences. McNamara applies predictive processing and free energy principles to every key topic in the book.
Among the many topics explored, the CNRE book includes the following:
Findings on religious experiences associated with psychedelics
A new neurobiology and theoretical treatment of ritual and the ritualization process
Implications of evolutionary genetic and sexual conflict for all key religion and brain topics
The psychology, neurobiology and phenomenology of mystical states and experiences
A systematic psychology, philosophy, and neurobiology of self-transformation in relation to religious practices
A new theory of religious group effects rooted in evolutionary neurobiology and examines its relevance for functions of religion
Evidence for, relevance to religion of, and an exposition of the new theory of “Theory of Group Mind – ToGM” which stipulates that humans (and brains) aim to cognize both individual and group minds
Empirical and theoretical work as well as neural correlates of religious language
The evolutionary background, clinical neurology, and philosophical phenomenology of the relation of schizophrenia to religion and brain topic areas
Insights of cultural evolutionary models to religion and brain topics
Insights of the 4E paradigm to examine the extent to which religion and brain processes are embedded, extended, enacted, and embodied
REM sleep neurobiology and dreams are systematically incorporated into topics on religion and brain
Books
Published
Patrick McNamara, The cognitive neuroscience of religious experience. 2nd edition; Cambridge University Press, 2022, ISBN 978-1108833172
Patrick McNamara, The neuroscience of sleep and dreams. 2nd edition; Cambridge University Press, 2022, ISBN 978-1316629741
Patrick McNamara, The cognitive neuropsychiatry of Parkinson's Disease, MIT Press, 2011,
Patrick McNamara, The neuroscience of religious experience, Cambridge University Press, 2009,
Patrick McNamara, An evolutionary psychology of sleep and dreams. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Patrick McNamara and Wesley J. Wildman, Science and the world's religions, Praeger, 2012,
Patrick McNamara, Where God and science meet : how brain and evolutionary studies alter our understanding of religion, Praeger Publishers, 2006,
Patrick McNamara, Nightmares : the science and solution of those frightening visions during sleep, Praeger, 2008,
Patrick McNamara, Spirit possession and history: History, psychology, and neurobiology. Westford, CT: ABC-CLIO. 2011.
Patrick McNamara, Mind and variability: Mental Darwinism, memory and self. Westport, CT: Praeger/Greenwood Press. 1999.
Edited
Deirdre Barrett and Patrick McNamara, Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreams, Greenwood, 2012,
References
External links
Official page at Boston University
1956 births
Living people
American neuroscientists
Boston University faculty
University of Massachusetts Boston alumni
Boston University College of Arts and Sciences alumni
Neuroimaging researchers |
23573672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%A1lezlice | Zálezlice | Zálezlice is a municipality and village in Mělník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 400 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Villages of Kozárovice and Zátvor are administrative parts of Zálezlice.
Gallery
References
Villages in Mělník District |
23573673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlon%C4%8Dice | Zlončice | Zlončice is a municipality and village in Mělník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 600 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The hamlet of Dolánky is an administrative part of Zlončice.
Gallery
References
Villages in Mělník District |
23573675 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Kinglake | Robert Kinglake | Robert Alexander Kinglake (9 June 1843 – 10 June 1915) was an English rower and barrister.
Kinglake was born at Taunton. He was the second son of John Alexander Kinglake, MP for Rochester, and his wife Louisa Rebecca Liddon, daughter of John Liddon of Taunton. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. Kinglake rowed in the Cambridge boat in the Boat Races of 1863, 1864, 1865 and 1866, all of which were won by Oxford. He was president of Cambridge University Boat Club in 1866. In 1864 he won the Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta partnering John Richardson Selwyn.
Kinglake was admitted at the Inner Temple in November 1865 and was called to the bar on 17 November 1868. He was on the Western Circuit, and was Recorder of Penzance from 1883 to 1899 and of Bournemouth from 1899 to 1915.
Kinglake later lived at Moushill Manor, Milford, Surrey. He died at Harrogate at the age of 72.
See also
List of Cambridge University Boat Race crews
References
1843 births
1915 deaths
People educated at Eton College
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Cambridge University Boat Club rowers
English male rowers
English barristers |
23573676 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlosy%C5%88 | Zlosyň | Zlosyň is a municipality and village in Mělník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 500 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mělník District |
17332795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B3bert%20Ilosfalvy | Róbert Ilosfalvy | Róbert Ilosfalvy (June 18, 1927 – January 6, 2009) was a Hungarian operatic tenor; he possessed a voice of lyric grace and dramatic power enabling him to sing a wide range of roles in the Italian, German, and French repertories.
Life
Born in Hódmezővásárhely, Hungary, he began his career as a cantor singing in the Szentharomsag (Holy Trinity) Roman Catholic Church in his hometown, before studying at the Budapest Music Academy with Andor Lendvai. In 1953, after winning a first prize in a vocal competition in Bucharest, he made his operatic debut there. He returned to Hungary and sang at the Budapest Opera, also making guest appearances in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Russia.
In 1964, he began a career in West Germany, singing in Stuttgart, Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, Munich, also making guest appearances at La Monnaie in Brussels, the Royal Opera House in London, the San Francisco Opera, but never at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Ilosfalvy was particularly admired in Italian lyric roles such as Duke of Mantua, Alfredo, Rodolfo, Pinkerton, but was also able to tackle successfully more dramatic roles such as Manrico, Alvaro, Cavaradossi, and Dick Johnson. He also won acclaim as Walther von Stolzing, and Don Josė.
He is probably best known for his 1969 recording of Roberto Devereux, opposite Beverly Sills. Also available is a 1976 "pirate" recording of the tenor in La fanciulla del West, with Anja Silja. Both recordings are conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras.
Ilosfalvy died on January 6, 2009, aged 81, his remains are interred in Budapest's Szent Anna Roman Catholic Church.
References
External links
Operissimo.com
cafe momus komolyzenei magazin
1927 births
2009 deaths
Hungarian operatic tenors
20th-century Hungarian male opera singers
People from Hódmezővásárhely |
17332797 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USSU | USSU | USSU may refer to:
University of Salford Students' Union
University of Surrey Students' Union |
44499112 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samia%20Abbou | Samia Abbou | Samia Hamouda Abbou (, born 3 November 1965) is a Tunisian lawyer and politician. On 27 December 2011, she replaced Moncef Marzouki in the Constituent Assembly after he assumed office as the interim President of Tunisia.
Before the Tunisian Revolution she was one of the founding members of and joined the Congress for the Republic (CPR) in 2006. She is married to Mohamed Abbou, who until June 2012 served as Deputy Prime Minister for Administrative Reform in the Jebali Cabinet. On 17 February 2013, they both left the CPR and founded the Democratic Current in May.
In the 2014 parliamentary election she was head of her party's list in the Tunis I constituency and succeeded in being reelected to the Assembly of the Representatives of the People.
Biography
She completed her primary and secondary studies in Tebourba, then joined the Faculty of Law and Political Science in Tunis until she graduated in 2010.
She is one of the founding members of the National Council for Freedoms in Tunisia and joined the Congress for the Republic in 2006.
Member of the Constituent Assembly, replacing Moncef Marzouki, from 27 December 2011.
She left the Congress for the Republic in 2013 and joined the Democratic Courts, under whose colors she was elected to the Assembly of People's Representatives in the elections of 26 October 2014 with 5,404 votes.
In 2014, she was decorated with the insignia of knight of the Tunisian Order of Merit.
References
1965 births
Congress for the Republic politicians
Democratic Current politicians
Living people
Members of the Constituent Assembly of Tunisia
Members of the Assembly of the Representatives of the People
21st-century Tunisian women politicians
21st-century Tunisian politicians |
17332810 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnham%20Farm | Farnham Farm | The Farnham Farm is historic farm at 113 Mount Pleasant Avenue on Prudence Island in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
The farm was started by the Dennis family after the original farms on Prudence Island were burned and destroyed by the British during the American Revolution around the time of the Battle of Rhode Island. The farm contains several extant structures including a house (ca. 1805), barn (ca. 1850), milk house, fields, garden, woodland, orchard, and stone walls. The Dennis family sold the house to the Farnhams in 1867. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
The farm is now owned by the Prudence Conservancy, a local preservation organization.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
References
Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Houses in Newport County, Rhode Island
Buildings and structures in Portsmouth, Rhode Island
1805 establishments in Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Newport County, Rhode Island |
20468514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Kamishak%20%28AVP-44%29 | USS Kamishak (AVP-44) | USS Kamishak (AVP-44) was a proposed United States Navy seaplane tender that was never laid down.
Construction and commissioning
Kamishak was to have been one of 41 Barnegat-class small seaplane tenders the U.S. Navy planned to commission during the early 1940s, and was to have been built at Houghton, Washington, by the Lake Washington Shipyard. However, by the spring of 1943 the Navy deemed that number of seaplane tenders excess to requirements, and decided to complete four of them as motor torpedo boat tenders and one as a catapult training ship. In addition, the Navy also decided to cancel six of the Barnegat-class ships prior to their construction, freeing up the diesel engines that would have powered them for use in escort vessels and amphibious landing craft.
Kamishak became one of the first four ships to be cancelled when the Navy cancelled its contract with Lake Washington Shipyard for her construction on 22 April 1943.
References
NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive Small Seaplane Tender (AVP) Index
Cancelled ships of the United States Navy
Barnegat-class seaplane tenders
Ships built at Lake Washington Shipyard |
20468549 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamishak%20Bay | Kamishak Bay | Kamishak Bay (Alutiiq: Qameksaq) is a bay on the coast of Alaska in the United States.
The proposed United States Navy seaplane tender USS Kamishak (AVP-44) was named for Kamishak Bay, but the contract for the ship's construction was cancelled in 1943 before construction began.
References
(ship namesake paragraph)
Bays of Alaska
Bodies of water of Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska |
17332815 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummer%20%28disambiguation%29 | Mummer (disambiguation) | Strictly speaking, a mummer is an actor in a traditional seasonal folk play. The term is also humorously (or derogatorily) applied to any actor.
Mummer may also refer to:
A participant in the New Year's Day Mummers Parade in Philadelphia, USA, and other similar festivals
A participant in the Newfoundland and Labrador Christmas time tradition of mummering
A participant in Mummer's Day, a midwinter celebration in Padstow, Cornwall, UK
A mime artist, one acting out a story through body motions, without use of speech
A member of the Summer Mummers theatre group in Midland, Texas, USA
MUMmer, a bioinformatics software system
Mummer (album), a 1983 album by the group XTC
The Mummers, a band based in Brighton, England |
23573681 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDel%C3%ADzy | Želízy | Želízy () is a municipality and village in Mělník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 500 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Villages of Nové Tupadly and Sitné are administrative parts of Želízy.
History
The first written mention of Želízy is from 1360.
In the 19th century, Želízy became a summer resort. In the interwar period it was a popular resort destination visited by hundreds of guests, especially by German-speaking Jews of Prague, including Franz Kafka.
Sights
Želízy is known for the Čertovy hlavy, sculptures from the first half of the 19th century carved in the sandstone above the village of Želízy.
References
External links
Villages in Mělník District |
23573687 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C5%A1estudy%20%28M%C4%9Bln%C3%ADk%20District%29 | Všestudy (Mělník District) | Všestudy is a municipality and village in Mělník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 400 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Dušníky nad Vltavou is an administrative part of Všestudy.
References
Villages in Mělník District |
20468559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublab | Dublab | dublab is a non-profit music public broadcasting internet radio station based in Los Angeles. They have also been involved with art exhibition, film projects, event production, and record releases. These Shows are archived and downloadable on the dublab website. dublab also broadcasts on KLDB-LP on 99.1 FM in Los Angeles.
Their name is a portmanteau of dubbing and laboratory for the combined meaning: a place of experimenting with sampling music. Examples of this, besides their stream, is their film production Secondhand Sureshots where they gave producers, such as Daedelus, five dollars to buy albums from thrift stores and sampling the music to create new tracks. Another in audio/visual form is Into Infinity a collaboration with Creative Commons. It is a group art exhibition of around a hundred vinyl record sized circular artworks and more than a hundred eight second audio loops. The works are randomly dubbed together and is all made freely available for others to remix and sample, even on the project's website.
In January 2008, dublab formed a non-profit umbrella corporation Future Roots, Inc. The name comes from their characteristic style of mixing traditional music, such as folk, with electronic sounds. It also refers to the paradox that often music that is actually really old can sound very much like it was made in the present. In that theme, dublab will often only be written as either all lowercase or all uppercase by those familiar with the collective. There are other such characteristic writing styles such as a heavy use of alliteration.
Much of dublab's funding comes directly via listener support, with other funds generated through grants, Underwriting spots and event production. Their sound system and DJs have been featured at; MOCA, LACMA, Art Center College of Design, Barnsdall Art Park, CalArts, Page Museum/La Brea Tar Pits, The Getty Center, Disney Hall, UCLA, Hammer Museum, Hollywood Bowl, and El Rey Theatre.
They also have extended to releasing records such as; In The Loop series, Summer, Freeways, Echo Expansion and Light from Los Angeles. They record many Sprout Sessions at their studio in Los Angeles, which are released via their Live at dublab Podcast. These have made their way to record releases such as the Feathers Sprout Session. In August 2008 they released their performance video project called Vision Version, which is available as an RSS feed. They also have music-themed group art shows such as Into Infinity, Dream Scene, Up Our Sleeve, and Patchwork.
dublab was founded in 1999 by Jonathan Buck, Mark McNeill and fellow students from KSCR Radio at the University of Southern California.
Resident DJs
Ale (Languis/Pharaohs)
Andres Renteria (Poo-bah)
Anenon (Non Projects)
Anthony Valadez (Record Breakin/KCRW)
Beatie Wolfe
Carlos Niño (Ammoncontact/Life Force Trio)
Cooper Saver
Daedelus
Danny Holloway (Ximeno Records/Blazing 45s)
Derelict
EDJ
Farmer Dave Scher (All Night Radio/Beachwood Sparks)
Friends of Friends
Frosty (Adventure Time/Golden Hits)
Ganas (Mas Exitos)
Greg Belson (Divine Chord Gospel Show/45's of Fury)
Hashim B (Disques Corde)
Heidi Lawden
Hoseh (Headspace KXLU)
Induce (Induce's Listening)
Jake Jenkins
Jeff Weiss [POW Radio]
Jen Ferrer
Jimmy Tamborello (Dntel)
Katie Byron (Golden Hits)
Kutmah (Poo-Bah)
Lovefingers (ESP Institute)
Low Limit (Icee Hot)
Lucky Dragons
Mahssa (Finders Keepers)
Mamabear (Sweaterfunk)
Marco Paul
Maria Minerva
Marion Hodges (Hungry Beat/KCRW)
Matthewdavid (Leaving Records/Brainfeeder)
Michael Stock (Part Time Punks)
Morpho (The Masses)
Nanny Cantaloupe (Golden Hits/KXLU)
Nobody (Blank Blue/Low End Theory)
Ras G (Poo-Bah)
Rani de Leon (Soul in the Park, Radio Afrique)
Slow Motion DJs
Sodapop (Anticon)
Suzanne Kraft (Discothèque Records)
Take (Innercurrent)
Teebs (My Hollow Drum)
T-Kay (KSPC)
Tommy DeNys (Kraak)
Turquoise Wisdom (Biggest Crush)
Notable guests, artists, and DJs
Daedelus
Flying Lotus
Holy Fuck
Mia Doi Todd
Danny Holloway
Lucky Dragons
Dntel
DJ Z-Trip
Smaze
Kozyndan
Andy Votel
Figurine
Why?
Stevie Jackson
Animal Collective
Ariel Pink
Baby Dee
Busdriver
Cluster
Cut Chemist
Dan Deacon
Robert Woodrow Wilson
Allee Willis
J Rocc
Keith Fullerton Whitman
Kyp Malone (TV on the Radio)
Nobukazu Takemura
Smegma
Tom Brosseau
Terry Callier
Thomas Fehlmann
Devendra Banhart
Morton Subotnick
Marshall Allen
Damo Suzuki
Matmos
Four Tet
Mouse On Mars
Dungen
Saul Williams
Peter Hammarstedt
Erlend Øye
The One AM Radio
Lavender Diamond
Manuel Göttsching
Trickfinger (John Frusciante)
V. Vale
Dustin Wong
References
External links
Dublab official site
audio stream
Into Infinity online exhibition
Up Our Sleeve - Covers Art Project
Turning On Tomorrow: Dublab's Proton Drive Fundraiser
DUBLAB'S SECONDHAND SURESHOTS: DVD, 12-INCH, SLIPMATS & HAND-SCREENED SLEEVES
core programs: futureroots.org
Internet radio stations in the United States
American music websites |
20468582 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamishak | Kamishak | Kamishak may refer to:
Places
Kamishak Bay on the coast of Alaska in the United States
Ships
USS Kamishak (AVP-44), a proposed United States Navy seaplane tender cancelled in 1943 before construction began |
6902085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandown%20Raceway | Sandown Raceway | Sandown International Raceway is a motor racing circuit in the suburb of Springvale in Melbourne, Victoria, approximately south east of the city centre. Sandown is considered a power circuit with its "drag strip" front and back straights being and long respectively.
History
Sandown Racecourse was first built as a horse racing facility, dating back into the 19th century, but closed in the 1930s in a government run rationalisation program. Redevelopment began not long after World War II. A bitumen motor racing circuit was built around the outside of the proposed horse track (which was not completed until 1965) and was first opened in 1962 and held the race which became the Sandown 500 for the first time in 1964. The circuit hosted its first Australian Touring Car Championship race in 1965.
Motor racing
The opening meeting, held on 11 and 12 March 1962, featured the 1962 Sandown International Cup, which was contested by world-famous international drivers including Jack Brabham, Jim Clark, Stirling Moss, Bruce McLaren and John Surtees. A second Sandown International Cup was held in 1963, the two races serving as the forerunners of the Sandown round of the annual Tasman Series from 1964 to 1975. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s the race meetings continued to attract international stars along with the best of Australia's drivers.
Australia's traditional Holden/Ford rivalry really surfaced at the track in the late 1960s and through the 1970s with drivers such as Norm Beechey, Ian Geoghegan, Allan Moffat, Bob Jane, Colin Bond and Peter Brock and continues to the present day. From 1968 to 1980 almost every major touring car race held at the circuit was won be those driving either a Holden or a Ford.
1984 saw an extension of the track to to comply with FIA regulations for minimum track length for World Championship events. It also saw the first 500 km race held at the circuit, the Castrol 500, being Round 3 of the 1984 Australian Endurance Championship. Along with the circuit changes, some AUD$600,000 had been spent relocating the pits from its original place between what was turns one and two (now turns one and four) to its now permanent place coming onto the main straight. Peter Brock and Larry Perkins took their Holden Dealer Team VK Commodore to a one lap victory in the 1984 Castrol 500; it was to be the last of Brock's record nine wins in the Sandown enduro events.
In 1989, the International Circuit was abandoned and the track reverted to , though not by using the original 8 turn layout, but a modified 13 turn course. This was achieved by simply bypassing the largely unpopular tight and twisty infield section that had been in use since 1984 and using only the re-configured International (outer) Circuit. The effect was also to bring the cars closer to the spectator area on the outside of the esses to bring back spectators to the area. The esses at the end of the back straight was a popular spectator area during the 1970s and 1980s with several converted double-decker buses frequenting race meetings.
Sandown continued to host both the 500 kilometre race and a sprint round of the championship, the Sandown Challenge, throughout the majority of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. In 2001 and 2002, the circuit hosted the Grand Finale as the closing round of the season. When the Sandown 500 returned in 2003, the sprint round was removed from the calendar and Sandown no longer hosts two major V8 Supercars events per year.
The infield section was still used for motorcycle racing at the track until about 2001 as the high speed esses (turns 6–9) at the end of the back straight were deemed too dangerous for the bikes at high speed (the entry speed off the straight was close to with very little runoff area between the track and the outside fence. Using the infield section not only bypassed the esses but slowed the bikes down and allowed them to continue using the circuit for the series such as the Australian Superbike Championship.
In late 2007 the Melbourne Racing Club, owner of the venue, brought the management of the motor circuit in house. As part of securing the future of motorsport at the venue Sandown's Manager Wade Calderwood negotiated a long-term deal with V8 Supercars. Under this deal the MRC invested significant funds as part of a 3-year upgrade to the pits and circuit safety.
Under the local Council permit, Sandown Raceway is limited to running five motorsport events per year, at no louder than 95 decibels. Currently these events include the Sandown 500, Historic Sandown, Shannons Nationals and two Victorian State Race Series events.
The long term future of this historic circuit is unclear as the owners of Sandown Park want to have it rezoned so that they can sell it to a property developer who would then demolish the venue and turn it into high density housing.
Sandown 500
The circuit is home to the famous Sandown endurance race which was first held in 1964 through to 2007, with a return to the V8 Supercars calendar in 2012.
Traditionally the domain of touring cars, the race has also been held for Series Production cars from 1968–1972 and GT Sports Cars in 2001 and 2002. Peter Brock is the most successful driver of the Sandown enduro with nine outright wins including seven in a row from 1975 to 1981. The race itself wasn't always run over a 500 km distance. The first two races ran for six hours while the next two ran for just three hours. The race distance was 250 km from 1970 until 1975. This was increased to 400 km in 1976 and stayed that way until 1983. It was changed for the last time in 1984 with an increase to 500 km.
The 1990, 1993 and 1994 events had no major sponsor and were underwritten by circuit promoter and former Formula 5000 star Jon Davison.
V8 Supercars
With the creation of V8 Supercars in 1997, the Sandown 500 event remained as part of their calendar for that year and 1998. Sandown became a sprint round of the V8 Supercars Championship Series for 1999 and 2000, then as three 150 km races with pit stops in 2001 and a 150 km race on the Saturday and 300 km race on the Sunday in 2002. The event was won by Todd Kelly in 2001 and by Marcos Ambrose in 2002. The 500 km format returned in 2003 with a sponsorship deal with Betta Electrical and have been a large part of the series since. The 2003 event was won by Mark Skaife and Todd Kelly for the Holden Racing Team. In 2004, it was won by Marcos Ambrose and Greg Ritter in a Pirtek-backed Stone Brothers Racing Falcon. In 2005, it was won by Craig Lowndes and Frenchman Yvan Muller in a Betta Electrical backed Falcon. In 2006, Ford Performance Racing got its maiden endurance victory with Mark Winterbottom and Jason Bright. In 2007, the major sponsor of the Sandown 500 is Just-Car Insurance and the event is called the Just Car Insurance 500, and was won by Craig Lowndes, his fourth victory, and Jamie Whincup.
For the 2008 season, the 500 kilometres endurance race was moved to the Phillip Island circuit. Sandown remained on the calendar as a venue, but hosted a regular multiple sprint race format event earlier in the year. The event returned to its single 500 kilometres roots in September 2012 as an enduro precursor to the Bathurst 1000, with the inaugural Dick Smith Sandown 500 won by the Holden Commodore Team Vodafone pairing of Craig Lowndes and Warren Luff.
World Sportscar Championship
On 2 December 1984, Sandown held the last round of the 1984 World Endurance Championship. The race, known as the Sandown 1000, was won by Stefan Bellof and Derek Bell in their Rothmans Porsche 956. This race was the first FIA World Championship road racing motor racing event to be held in Australia. As the race name suggests, the race distance was to be long. However, under WEC rules, with the exception of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, races also had a time limit of 6 hours. The six-hour mark was reached when the Bellof/Bell Porsche had run only 206 laps (803.4 km), thus the race was declared at the time limit some 51 laps short of the 1000 km distance.
The next (and only other) FIA World Sportscar Championship race held in Australia was also held at Sandown on 20 November 1988. This was the 1988 360 km of Sandown Park, the final round of the 1988 World Sports-Protype Championship, which was won by Jean-Louis Schlesser and Jochen Mass driving their Sauber Mercedes C9. This race would prove to be the final top level motor race on the International Circuit, with Schlesser setting the circuit's outright lap record with a time of 1:33.580.
Easternats
Easternats was a car festival held at the race track annually. It attracted a large number of entrants for the show'n'shine and various other events. It comprised usually a turn out of 750 entered vehicles. This event has since been discontinued.
Historic Sandown
Historic Sandown is an annual event held at the circuit on the first weekend of November. Promoted by the VHRR (Victorian Historic Racing Register) and run by the MG Car Club of Victoria, it is a highly successful event which in 2009 attracted a record 400+ historic racing cars including touring cars, MG racers and Formula Fords and was also headlined by the Biante Touring Car Masters. 2009 was the 18th running of the event and was attended by the patron of the VHRR, Sir Jack Brabham.
Cycling Victoria
Several Melbourne cycling clubs hold regular races over the summer season.
Athletics Victoria
Annually, Athletics Victoria hold a road race (sometimes a team relay) as a part of the AV Cross Country season.
Australian Grand Prix
Sandown Raceway has held the Australian Grand Prix on six occasions, the last being in 1978, seven years before the event became part of the FIA Formula One World Championship in 1985. Two World Drivers' Champions were winners of the AGP at Sandown, Jack Brabham in 1964 and the late Jim Clark in 1968, with Clark's winning margin being only 0.1 seconds from the Ferrari of New Zealand's Chris Amon being one of the closest finishes in the race's history. John Goss' 1976 victory saw him become the first, and so far only winner of both the Australian Grand Prix and the Bathurst 1000 touring car race.
The winners of the Australian Grands Prix held at Sandown Raceway are:
Special Guest at the 1978 Australian Grand Prix, the 50th anniversary of the event (and the final time it would be held at Sandown), was Argentina's five-time Formula One World Drivers' Champion, the legendary Juan Manuel Fangio. Following the race Fangio, Australia's own three-time World Champion Jack Brabham, Bob Jane and former racer turned Holden dealer Bill Patterson, staged a spirited three-lap demonstration/race. Fangio and Brabham cleared out and swapped the lead many times. Fangio was driving a Mercedes-Benz W196 that he raced in and , while Brabham (not yet Sir Jack) drove the Repco V8 powered Brabham BT19 in which he won the Formula One World Championship to become the first and only person to win the Drivers' championship in a car of his own design and build. Brabham 'won' the demonstration, just ahead of Fangio, with Patterson (driving a Cooper) and Jane (driving a Maserati) some distance behind in 3rd and 4th.
Upgrades
Sandown was repaved and received many new safety features in 2013 in accordance with new FIA rules. More tyre barriers were added, and new catch fencing was also added during big events like Historic Sandown and the Wilson Security 500. The main grandstand was also upgraded to feature a new bar and food complex. Along with the grandstand, the pits were also upgraded. Following a spate of major accidents at the end of the back straight between 2010 and 2017, the run-off area was also extended in early 2019.
Lap records
As of December 2022, the official race lap records at Sandown Raceway are listed as:
Notes
References
External links
Sandown Raceway
Map and circuit history at RacingCircuits.info
Easternats
Motorsport venues in Victoria (Australia)
Supercars Championship circuits
Sports venues in Victoria (Australia)
Australian Grand Prix
1962 establishments in Australia
Sport in the City of Greater Dandenong
Buildings and structures in the City of Greater Dandenong |
23573740 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20Nature%27s%20Realm%20%28Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k%29 | In Nature's Realm (Dvořák) | The concert overture In Nature's Realm (), Op. 91, B. 168, was written by Antonín Dvořák in 1891. It is the first part ("Nature") of a "Nature, Life and Love" trilogy of overtures written by Dvořák. The other two parts of the trilogy are the Carnival Overture, Op. 92 ("Life") and Othello, Op. 93 ("Love").
The overture is scored for two flutes, two oboes, English horn, two clarinets, bass clarinet, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, triangle, cymbals and strings.
References
External links
Compositions by Antonín Dvořák
Concert overtures
1891 compositions |
23573742 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelymitra%20macrophylla | Thelymitra macrophylla | Thelymitra macrophylla, commonly called the large-leafed sun orchid or scented sun orchid, is a species of flowering plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae, and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has a single thick, broad, leathery leaf and up to twenty five relatively large dark blue to purplish flowers with white, toothbrush-like tufts.
Description
Thelymitra macrophylla is a tuberous herbaceous perennial with a single thick, leathery, strap-like leaf long and wide. Between two and twenty-five dark blue to purplish flowers, wide are borne on a flowering stem tall. The sepals and petals are long and wide. The column is white to pale blue or pinkish, long and wide. The lobe on the top of the anther is long, wide and dark brown with a yellow tip. The side lobes have toothbrush-like tufts of white hairs. The flowers are strongly scented, insect pollinated and open in sunny weather. Flowering occurs from August to October.
Taxonomy and naming
Thelymitra macrophylla was first formally described in 1840 by John Lindley from a specimen collected by James Drummond and the description was published in A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony. The specific epithet (macrophylla) is derived from the Ancient Greek words makros meaning "long" and phyllon meaning "leaf".
Distribution and habitat
The large-leafed sun orchid is widespread and common between Perth and Albany, growing in jarrah forest and wandoo woodland.
Conservation
Thelymitra macrophylla is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
References
External links
macrophylla
Endemic orchids of Australia
Orchids of Western Australia
Plants described in 1840 |
20468585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudomelatomidae | Pseudomelatomidae | Pseudomelatomidae is a family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropods included in the superfamily Conoidea (previously Conacea) and part of the Neogastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
In 1995 Kantor elevated the subfamily Pseudomelatominae to the status of family Pseudomelatomidae.
In 2011 Bouchet, Kantor et al. moved the Crassispirinae and Zonulispirinae and numerous genera of snails loosely called turrid snails (which at that point had been placed in the family Conidae) and placed them in the family Pseudomelatomidae. This was based on a cladistical analysis of shell morphology, radular characteristics, anatomical characters, and a dataset of molecular sequences of three gene fragments.
Genera
Genera within the family Pseudomelatomidae include:
Abyssocomitas Sysoev & Kantor, 1986
Aguilaria Taylor & Wells, 1994
Anticomitas Powell, 1942
Antimelatoma Powell, 1942
Antiplanes Dall, 1902
Benthodaphne Oyama, 1962
† Boreocomitas Hickman, 1976
Brachytoma Swainson, 1840
Burchia Bartsch, 1944
Buridrillia Olsson, 1942
Calcatodrillia Kilburn, 1988
Carinodrillia Dall, 1919
Carinoturris Bartsch, 1944
Cheungbeia Taylor & Wells, 1994
† Clavatoma Powell, 1942
Cleospira McLean, 1971
Comitas Finlay, 1926
Compsodrillia Woodring, 1928
Conorbela Powell, 1951
Conticosta Laseron, 1954
Crassiclava McLean, 1971
Crassispira Swainson, 1840
Cretaspira Kuroda & Oyama, 1971
Dallspira Bartsch, 1950
Doxospira McLean, 1971
Funa Kilburn, 1988
Gibbaspira McLean, 1971
Glossispira McLean, 1971
Hindsiclava Hertlein & A.M. Strong, 1955
Hormospira Berry, 1958
Inquisitor Hedley, 1918
Knefastia Dall, 1919
Kurilohadalia Sysoev & Kantor, 1986
Kurodadrillia Azuma, 1975
Leucosyrinx Dall, 1889
Lioglyphostoma Woodring, 1928
Maesiella McLean, 1971
Mammillaedrillia Kuroda & Oyama, 1971
Megasurcula Casey, 1904
Meggittia Ray, 1977
Miraclathurella Woodring, 1928
Monilispira Bartsch & Rehder, 1939
Naudedrillia Kilburn, 1988
Nymphispira McLean, 1971
Otitoma Jousseaume, 1898
Paracomitas Powell, 1942
Pilsbryspira Bartsch, 1950
Plicisyrinx Sysoev & Kantor, 1986
Pseudomelatoma Dall, 1918
Pseudotaranis McLean, 1995
Ptychobela Thiele, 1925
Pyrgospira McLean, 1971
Rhodopetoma Bartsch, 1944
Sediliopsis Petuch, 1988
Shutonia van der Bijl, 1993
Strictispira McLean, 1971
Striospira Bartsch, 1950
Thelecythara Woodring, 1928
Tiariturris Berry, 1958
Viridrillia Bartsch, 1943
Zonulispira Bartsch, 1950
Genera brought into synonymy
Epidirona Iredale, 1931: synonym of Epideira Hedley, 1918
Lioglyphostomella Shuto, 1970: synonym of Otitoma Jousseaume, 1898
Macrosinus Beu, 1970: synonym of Paracomitas Powell, 1942
Rectiplanes Bartsch, 1944: synonym of Antiplanes Dall, 1902
Rectisulcus Habe, 1958: synonym of Antiplanes Dall, 1902
Schepmania Shuto, 1970: synonym of Shutonia van der Bijl, 1993
Thelecytharella Shuto, 1969: synonym of Otitoma Jousseaume, 1898
Turrigemma Berry, 1958: synonym of Hindsiclava Hertlein & A.M. Strong, 1955
Viridrillina Bartsch, 1943: synonym of Viridrillia Bartsch, 1943
Genera moved to another family
Austrocarina Laseron, 1954 has been moved to the family Horaiclavidae.
References
(Pseudomelatominae) The American Malacological Union. Annual Reports for 1965: 2
External links
Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Pseudomelatomidae
James Mc Lean, A revised classification of the family Turridae , with the proposal of new subfamilies, genera, and subgenera from the Eastern Pacific - General description of the subfamily Zonulispirinae, now recognized as the family Pseudomelatomidae; The Veliger v. 14 (1971-1972)
Gastropod families |
23573746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner%20Tiso | Wagner Tiso | Wagner Tiso Veiga (born 12 December 1945) is a musician, arranger, conductor, pianist and composer from Brazil.
Born in Três Pontas, Tiso learned music theory with Paulo Moura and specialised in keyboards. In 1970, he joined Som Imaginário, working with Milton Nascimento. Tiso and Nascimento were then together in Clube da Esquina, who toured internationally. The group also included Beto Guedes, Toninho Horta and Flávio Venturini. He has also worked on several soundtracks.
References
External links
Official site
1945 births
Living people
People from Minas Gerais
Brazilian composers
Brazilian pianists
Musicians from Minas Gerais
21st-century pianists |
17332816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Pity%20Party | The Pity Party | The Pity Party is a two-piece band from Los Angeles composed of Julie Edwards, aka Heisenflei (simultaneous drums, keyboards, and vocals) and Marc Smollin (guitar, vocals). They are the first band without representation to score a full-page feature in NME. The Pity Party's artwork is created exclusively by Ronald Dzerigian.
Biography
Heisenflei and Smollin met in high school, where they sang in choir together. In 2004 they recorded their first music on a digital 8-track recorder in Heisenflei's studio apartment in Silverlake, California. Their first self-release was The EP (produced by Noah Shain) in 2006; champions of the environment, Heisenflei and Smollin folded and glued 750 CD sleeves made out of recycled cereal boxes. Their second self-released EP, Orgy Porgy (produced by Stevehimself) was recorded at Moonshine Studios. The group used recycled billboard vinyl to create 1,000 CD jackets which were hand sewn and screen printed with six unique images by artist Ronald Dzerigian.
In July 2007, Los Angeles' Indie 103.1FM KDLD featured The Pity Party live in its "Also I Like to Rock" series at The Hammer Museum. They have received attention from members of the band Ozomatli who played "The War Between 8 & 4" on their show Ozolocal on LA's Star 98.7FM KYSR. "Guru of the soon-to-be-great," John Kennedy, has included "H.O.T.S." on his playlist for his highly popular show X-Posure on XFM London.
Additionally, The Pity Party presented RUBBISH, a celebration of trash, at Echo Curio Art Gallery in Echo Park. For the event, The Pity Party produced 100 limited edition EPs with recycled billboard vinyl sleeves. While the band performed, artist Ronald Dzerigian drew a unique image on the sleeve of each distributed CD.
Tours
2007 w/ The Raveonettes2009 Tour of Tears with The Happy Hollows and Rumspringa (band)
Critical Acclaim
Voted No. 1 MySpace Band (2008) by Supersweet
Voted Best Band in LA (2007) by LA Weekly
Flyer of the Week (July 3, 2008) by LA Weekly's Mark Mauer.Kat Corbett spins "Love Lies" on Los Angeles' KROQ-FM 106.7 Locals Only (November 9, 2008)
"Yours, That Works" named in Best 10 Tracks of 2008 by Time Out LondonWinner of 826LA's Battle of the Bands (2009)
Discography
The EP (2006)
Orgy Porgy (2008)
Rubbish (2008) [Limited Edition]
Hotwork EP (2009)
Chickens In Love Compilation (Origami Vinyl, 2010)
Trivia
Heisenflei plays drums in two-piece Deap Vally.
Heisenflei's brother is guitarist Greg Edwards from Autolux.
Heisenflei founded a knitting shop in Los Angeles called The Little Knittery.
Heisenflei played drums for The Raveonettes in February 2009.
Heisenflei sings on Nolens Volens, the second album of The Deadly Syndrome.
References
External links
Facebook page
The Pity Party Interview on KCET
Alternative rock groups from California
American art rock groups
Indie rock musical groups from California
Musical groups from Los Angeles
Musical groups established in 2004
2004 establishments in California |
23573764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%20Better%20Know%20It | You Better Know It | "You Better Know It" is a 1959 single by recorded and written by Jackie Wilson who collaborated with Brunswick Records staff songwriter Norm Henry. Although the single made the Top 40, it was not as successful as Jackie Wilson's previous entries, peaking at number thirty-seven. On the R&B chart, the single was Jackie Wilson's, second number one, where it stayed for one week.
"You Better Know It" was used in the 1959 film Go Johnny Go, which starred Jackie Wilson and Alan Freed.
References
Jackie Wilson songs
1959 songs
1959 singles
Songs written for films |
23573772 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Anthony%20Abbot%20Tempted%20by%20a%20Heap%20of%20Gold | Saint Anthony Abbot Tempted by a Heap of Gold | Saint Anthony Abbot Tempted by a Heap of Gold is a painting by the 15th-century Sienese painter known as the Master of the Osservanza, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Completed circa 1435 in tempera and gold on panel, it is one of his cycle of eight works representing scenes from Saint Anthony's life.
St. Anthony lived during the third century and for a period survived as a wandering hermit in the Egyptian wilderness. Depictions often show him surrounded by debased creatures who gather to lure him into sin by offering the devil disguised in various ways, such as a woman or an object of wealth. In this instance, the gathering animals entice him with a pot of gold. At some stage early in the painting's history, the pot, which had been shown on the ground near the rabbit, was scraped out, removing the cause of the saint's gesture.
Typical of 15th-century Italian art, the figures in this composition are small in relation to the full canvas; their importance is indicated moreover by their proximity to the foreground. The painting appears relatively 'flat' to modern eyes. Depth of field is indicated by the path, which winds beyond the saint in the foreground, before forking to the right into the higher and more distant background.
The painting was owned by Prince Léon Ouroussoff of Vienna until acquired by the American banker Philip Lehman in 1924.
Notes
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1430s paintings
Paintings in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Paintings of Anthony the Great
Deer in art
Rabbits and hares in art |
20468592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Berry%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201882%29 | Bill Berry (footballer, born 1882) | William Alexander Berry (July 1882 – 1 March 1943) was an English footballer who played as a forward. Born in Sunderland, he played for Sunderland, Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United and Stockport County.
References
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MUFCInfo.com profile
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1943 deaths
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Association football forwards
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44499113 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haida%20Eddies | Haida Eddies | Haida Eddies are episodic, clockwise rotating ocean eddies that form during the winter off the west coast of British Columbia’s Haida Gwaii and Alaska’s Alexander Archipelago. These eddies are notable for their large size, persistence, and frequent recurrence. Rivers flowing off the North American continent supply the continental shelf in the Hecate Strait with warmer, fresher, and nutrient-enriched water. Haida eddies are formed every winter when this rapid outflow of water through the strait wraps around Cape St. James at the southern tip of Haida Gwaii, and meets with the cooler waters of the Alaska Current. This forms a series of plumes which can merge into large eddies that are shed into the northeast Pacific Ocean by late winter, and may persist for up to two years.
Haida eddies can be more than 250 km in diameter, and transport a mass of coastal water approximately the volume of Lake Michigan over 1,000 km offshore into the lower nutrient waters of the northeast Pacific Ocean. These "warm-core rings" transport heat out to sea, supplying nutrients (particularly nitrate and iron) to nutrient depleted areas of lower productivity. Consequently, primary production in Haida eddies is up to three times higher than in ambient waters, supporting vast phytoplankton-based communities, as well as influencing zooplankton and icthyoplankton community compositions.
The Haida name is derived from the Haida people native to the region, centered on the islands of Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands).
Historical observations
Due to their large size, it was not until the satellite era that scientists were able to observe the full scale and life cycles of Haida eddies. Their extent is such that an ocean liner can move through the eddy without observing its borders, so accurate records did not exist until the late 1980s.
Between 1985-1990, the first US research mission to study changes in sea surface height using radar altimetry (an instrument used to measure the ocean surface height using a radar pulse in reference to a geoid), was conducted by the US Navy using the Geodetic/Geophysical Satellite (GEOSAT). The primary focus was to study fronts, eddies, winds, waves, and tides; each of these processes produce a change in sea surface height of several meters. In 1986, researchers Gower and Tabata observed clockwise eddies in the Gulf of Alaska using GEOSAT - the first satellite observation of Haida eddies. In 1987, the Ocean Storms program deployed 50 drifters to examine intertidal oscillations and mixing during fall storms and observed eddies propagating westward. Also in 1987, researchers Richard Thomson, Paul LeBlond, and William Emery observed that ocean drifters deployed in the Gulf of Alaska at 100–120 meters below the surface had stopped their eastward motion and actually began to move westward counter to the predominant current. The researchers attributed the unexpected motion to eddies dragging the buoys westward from their path at approximately 1.5 cm/s.
In 1992, Haida eddies were observed by researchers Meyers and Basu as positive sea surface height anomalies using TOPEX-POSEIDON, an altimetry-based satellite platform (like GEOSAT). They specifically noted an increase in the number of Haida eddies during the 1997/1998 El Niño winter. Haida eddy altimetry observations were further supplemented by European Remote Sensing satellites, ERS1 and ERS2. In 1995 Richard Thomson, together with James Gower at the Institute of Ocean Sciences in British Columbia, discovered the first clear evidence of eddies along the entire continental margin using temperature maps from infrared observations using National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellites. Satellite observations coupled with drifter observations have allowed scientists to resolve physical and biogeochemical structures of Haida eddies.
Formation
General circulation
Ocean circulation in the region begins with the transport of waters eastward along the North Pacific Current, also known as the "West Wind Drift", which forms the northern branch of the anticyclonic (clockwise rotation of fluids in Northern Hemisphere) North Pacific subtropical gyre. The North Pacific current approaches the continental US and bifurcates into the southward flowing California Current and the northward flowing Alaska Current. The latitude of this bifurcation is dependent on changes in the midlatitude (30-60° latitude) westerly atmospheric wind patterns, which is the primary forcing on the ocean's circulation in this region. These westerly winds oscillate around 45°N and can have variable wind speeds. Changes in these winds are based on the large-scale atmospheric circulation which has seasonal (summer/winter), interannual (ENSO), and decadal (Pacific Decadal Oscillation, or PDO) variability. The northwestward Alaska Current then feeds into the westward Alaskan Coastal Current, and eventually into the Alaskan Stream; together these make up the cyclonic (counterclockwise rotating) subpolar Alaskan gyre, where Haida eddies are found.
In winter, the location of the North Pacific Current bifurcation is approximately 45°N, which is 5° south of where it bifurcates in the summer at approximately 50°N. This has implications as to what water is moved into the Alaskan subpolar gyre. In winter, when the splitting of the current is more south, fresh, warmer waters from river input from the Columbia (47°N) and Fraser (49°N) rivers are transported north. This shift in the North Pacific current location leads to winter currents transporting relatively warmer water poleward from a lower latitude than in the summer. Although the northern branch of the subtropical gyre shifts south in the winter, the subpolar gyre does not shift location, but intensifies in its circulation. This intensification brings a greater volume of water from the south into the subpolar gyre, which again is dependent on the magnitude of atmospheric circulation. For example: the Aleutian Low is a persistent low pressure system over the Gulf of Alaska that can fluctuate on decadal timescales, producing the PDO. If this system is relatively strong during winter, there will be an increase in northward transport of waters along the Alaskan current from southerly winds. Haida eddies have been documented to form predominantly in the winter when bifurcation is south, and favorable atmospheric conditions are met to intensify the subpolar gyre. With these conditions, Haida eddy formation has also been documented to occur from baroclinic instabilities from alongshore wind reversals, equatorial Kelvin waves, and bottom topography. Baroclinic instabilities form when tilting or sloping of isopycnals (horizontal lines of constant density) form. Baroclinic instabilities from alongshore wind reversals occur when a persistent wind along the coast changes direction. For example: in the Gulf of Alaska average winds travel from the south, poleward (termed southerly winds), but during a wind reversal the winds will abruptly shift to a northwesterly wind (coming from the northwest), and the coastal current that was being pushed north will now be pushed south. This change in direction causes rotation in an originally northward flowing current, which results in tilting isopyncals. Kelvin waves that form along the equator are able to travel along the west coast of North America to the Gulf of Alaska, where their presence can cause disruptions in the poleward current and form baroclinic instabilities. Bottom topography, the third formation process of Haida eddies, can occur because the Alaska current will interact with hills or rock formations below the surface, and this can cause baroclinic instabilities.
General physical attributes
Haida eddies possess common physical characteristics that are dependent on the attributes of the water that is being transported, and how that influences the overall structure. Haida eddies are characterized as relatively long-lived, transient (departure from the average ocean current along the coast), medium-sized (mesoscale) ocean eddies that rotate clockwise (anti-cyclonic), and possess a warm, less-saline core, relative to the surrounding waters. These warm waters within the eddy are attributed to the baroclinic clockwise motion that results in a piling up of water near the center, and a downward displacement of surface water to depth (downwelling). This phenomenon is referred to as Ekman pumping, resulting from a conservation of mass, vertical velocity, and the Coriolis force. Downwelling of water from convergence produces what is called 'dynamic height anomalies' between the center and the surrounding waters. The anomaly is calculated by taking the difference between the surface of interest, for example the middle of a Haida eddy, and a reference point (in oceanography it is in reference to the geopotential surface, or the geoid). Haida eddies are capable of producing dynamic height anomalies between the center and the surrounding waters of 0.12-0.35 m.
Ekman pumping of surface waters, coupled with northward transport of warm waters (from location of bifurcation), dampens the temperature gradient from the surface down to 300 m, so that water temperature within the eddy is warmer below the surface than typical conditions. Stratification increases between these warmer, less-saline vortices and the surrounding waters by effectively depressing background lines of constant temperature (isotherms) and salinity (isohalines) (shown in figure). This makes them an ideal vehicle to transport coastal water properties into the Gulf of Alaska because of reduced mixing with surrounding waters.
As Haida eddies break away from the coast into the subpolar gyre, they transport water properties such as temperature, salinity and kinetic energy. A common water mass in the area is the Pacific Subarctic Upper Water (PSUW) mass with conservative (constant through time and space) properties of salinity (32.6-33.6 psu) and temperature (3-15 °C). PSUW moves into the Alaska Current from the North Pacific Current and may be mixed via Haida eddies into the subpolar gyre. Fresh (low salinity) water from rivers are mixed into Haida eddies. They are also able to exchange potential energy and momentum from the coastal mean current, a process that takes energy away from the coastal current and advects it toward the middle of the gyre. On average, the Gulf of Alaska experiences 5.5 Haida eddies per year, with a typical eddy characterized by a dynamical height of approximately 0.179 m, propagation speed of 2 km per day, average core diameter of 97 km, total volume of approximately 3,000 to 6,000 km3, and a duration of 30 weeks.
Biogeochemical and nutrient dynamics
Biogeochemical dynamics in Haida eddies are typically characterized by highly productive, yet relatively nutrient depleted surface waters, that may be replenished by diffusion and mixing from nutrient abundant sub-surface core waters. This nutrient exchange is also often facilitated by seasonal fluctuations in the surface mixed layer depth (~20 m in winter, up to 100 m in summer), bringing the low-nutrient surface waters in contact with the nutrient-rich core waters as the mixed layer deepens. Upon eddy formation in winter, surface water concentrations are high in nutrients including nitrate, carbon, iron, and others that are important for biological production. However, they are quickly consumed by phytoplankton through spring and summer, until fall when the now reduced nutrient concentrations can be slowly replenished by mixing with the sub-surface core waters. The net effect of Haida eddies on macronutrients and trace metal micronutrients is that of offshore transport of materials from coastal waters to open ocean, increasing offshore primary productivity inside the eddy formation site.
Dissolved iron
The southeast and central Gulf of Alaska tends to be iron-limited, and Haida eddies deliver large quantities of iron-rich coastal waters into these regions. In High-Nutrient, Low-Chlorophyll (HNLC) areas, iron tends to limit phytoplankton growth more than macronutrients, so the delivery of iron plays an important role in stimulating biological activity. While surface waters within the eddy are similar to that of ambient HNLC waters, waters in the eddy core are highly iron-enriched. Iron is delivered upward to the surface from the eddy core as a result of physical transport properties as the eddy decays or interacts with other eddies. This iron flux into the photic zone (where light is abundant to support growth), is associated with an increase in spring and summer primary production, and drawdown of macronutrients as they are consumed by phytoplankton. Increased iron concentrations have been observed to persist in the core of the eddy up to 16 months after eddy formation. Physical transport properties retain a supply of iron to the surface from the still iron-rich eddy core for the lifetime of the eddy. Because of the large vertical iron transport, Haida eddies contribute a significant portion of the total iron available for biological use.
Total dissolved iron concentrations in Haida eddies are approximately 28 times higher than open ocean waters of the Alaska gyre. The daily average supply of iron upwelled from the eddy core is 39 times higher than the iron introduced by average daily dust deposition in the northeast Pacific. Despite the fact that seasonal shallowing and strengthening of the thermocline may inhibit mixing between the surface layer and enriched waters below (reducing iron exchange between the two by as much as 73%), concentrations are still an order of magnitude higher than ambient waters, delivering an estimated 4.6 x 106 moles of iron annually to the Gulf of Alaska. This loading is comparable to the total iron delivery from atmospheric dust or major volcanic eruptions. Thus, the arrival of Haida eddies may introduce anywhere from 5–50% of the annual dissolved iron supply in the upper 1,000 m of the Gulf of Alaska.
In the summer of 2012, an iron fertilization experiment deposited 100 tons of finely-ground iron oxides into a Haida eddy in an effort to increase salmon returns through an attempt to increase primary production. This resulted in the highest chlorophyll concentrations measured within an eddy, and the most intense phytoplankton bloom in the last ten years in the northeast Pacific. However, the impact of this bloom on higher trophic organisms such as zooplankton and fish is not known.
Carbon
Concentrations of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and nitrate (NO3−), which are important macronutrients for photosynthesis, are quickly depleted in Haida eddy surface waters through most of their first year due to uptake by biological primary production. This uptake of nutrients, which is largely carried out by phytoplankton, leads to observable increases in chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) concentrations. In summer, a large portion of the DIC pool is consumed due to increased production of coccolithophores, which are phytoplankton that use bicarbonate ion to build their calcium carbonate (CaCO3) shells, releasing carbon dioxide (CO2) in the process. This process also leads to a summertime reduction in total alkalinity, which is a measure of the capacity of seawater to neutralize acids, and is largely determined by bicarbonate and carbonate ion concentrations. Surrounding surface waters show similar, or even slightly higher concentrations of DIC, total alkalinity, and nitrates, and may at times exchange surface waters with Haida eddies, as witnessed when Haida-2000 merged with Haida-2001. Although some nutrient exchange takes place at the surface, export of organic carbon out of the eddy is not enhanced, and there is little change in organic carbon concentrations at depth, suggesting that the organic carbon formed through primary production is largely being recycled within the eddies.
In February, surface concentrations of CO2 (as quantified by ƒCO2), in the eddy center and edges start out relatively oversaturated relative to atmospheric CO2 concentrations, but quickly drop, partially due to biological production. By June, ƒCO2 becomes undersaturated relative to atmospheric concentrations, but increases slightly again through summer, aided by warming temperatures. In the eddy center, ƒCO2 usually reaches near equilibrium with the atmosphere by fall (depending on timing of the mixed layer deepening), when vertical entrainment and mixing from below can replenish ƒCO2, as well as the now-depleted DIC and nitrate concentrations. Lower ƒCO2 tends to persist through summer in edge waters however, most likely due to the presence of enhanced biological production, as suggested by the presence of higher Chl-a concentrations. Ambient waters typically reach parity with atmospheric CO2 by spring, after a smaller initial decrease early in the year. Net atmospheric CO2 removal by Haida eddies is estimated to be 0.8-1.2 x 106 tons per year, underscoring the important role they play in the Gulf of Alaska.
Other trace metals
Transport and delivery of other trace metals in the Gulf of Alaska are also enhanced by Haida eddies and may result in increased burial of trace metals in marine sediments where they can no longer be used to support biological growth. Evidence suggests Haida eddies may be an important source of dissolved silver ions, with eddy surface water concentrations three to four times higher compared to ambient waters. Silicate uptake rates by marine diatoms in Haida eddies are three times that observed in ambient waters, suggesting strong diatom population growth. Haida eddies are important sources of silver for diatom production, as silver is incorporated into the silicate shells of diatoms and the transport of silver associated with Haida eddies promotes diatom growth. Silver is sequestered by this production and eventually transported to depth by sinking particles of organic matter, linking silver to the marine silicate cycle.
Large quantities of dissolved aluminum and manganese ions are also supplied to the Gulf of Alaska via eddy transport of coastal waters enriched from riverine inputs. The quantity transported is also comparable to that deposited by atmospheric dust. This supply of trace metals impacts the rate of dissolved iron removal because the particles tend to aggregate together and sink to the seafloor, a process which may account for 50-60% of dissolved aluminum and manganese removal. Additionally, there is evidence for enhanced delivery of cadmium and copper to the Gulf of Alaska by Haida eddies.
Macronutrients
Haida eddies can produce low silicate and high nitrate, chlorophyll, and sedimentation events offshore.
Eddies that form nearshore in the Gulf of Alaska carry shelf nutrients west into the High-Nutrient, Low-Chlorophyll (HNLC) and oligotrophic (low-nutrient) waters of the northeast Pacific, or south into seasonally nitrate-depleted waters. If eddies head southward from the Gulf of Alaska toward British Columbia, waters in the eddy become enriched in nutrients at the expense of the seawater they are capturing nutrients from, leaving coastal waters relatively nutrient poor. If eddies head west into the HNLC waters of the central Gulf of Alaska basin, they transport particulate matter and supply the photic zone with nitrate that is up to three times greater than typical seasonal transport, increasing spring productivity.
The timing of advection from the eddy has important seasonal implications on the delivery of nutrients. The high-nutrient and high-iron coastal water is carried into the Gulf of Alaska from either the core of the eddy or the outer ring. The core of the eddy contains warm, fresh, nutrient-rich waters formed in winter, and with the addition of sunlight, produces strong spring blooms of primary productivity offshore. As the eddy drifts westward in late spring and summer, the outer ring mixes coastal and deep ocean waters in large arcs around the eddy edge. This process has an effect hundreds of kilometers offshore, and facilitates the exchange of nutrients between shelf to deep ocean from late winter to the following autumn.
Biology
Nutrients trapped and transported by Haida eddies support more biological growth compared to surrounding, low-nutrient ocean water.
Elevated measurements of chlorophyll in eddy centers, as compared to surrounding water, indicate that eddies increase primary production, and can support multiple phytoplankton blooms within a single year. These blooms are not only caused by increased nutrients, but also the eddy's ability to transport biota from the coast into the eddy. Spring blooms are caused by sufficient light reaching the warm, nutrient-rich water contained in the middle of the eddy, due to anticyclonic rotation. A second bloom can occur once the eddy has moved closer to the deep ocean, when the outer reaches of the eddy can gather nutrient-rich water from either the coast or from an adjacent eddy. Coastal water transported by this outer ring advection can move from the coast into the eddy in six days which also allows for the rapid transport of coastal algae into the nutrient-rich eddy waters. A late summer bloom can occur if storms produce vertical convection of the mixed layer, causing it to deepen and trap nutrients from below into the region of primary production.
High eddy kinetic energy (EKE) may also increase chlorophyll concentration in eddies. Northern Gulf of Alaska and Haida eddy regions have more chlorophyll when EKE was higher, which can be caused by storms, producing higher mixing of the mixed layer and introducing nutrients from below. Because of the correlation, research suggests that EKE could be used to predict chlorophyll blooms.
Haida eddies affect zooplankton distribution by transporting nearshore species into the deep ocean. During the first summer that an eddy moves offshore, nearshore species often dominate zooplankton communities, but decline after one or two years as the eddy dissipates. Species that perform diel vertical migration can remain in the eddy core for longer periods of time.
The influence of Haida eddies on larger organisms remains poorly understood. They are thought to influence winter feeding habits of northern fur seals by providing food at a low energy expense. Ichthyoplankton composition within eddies is significantly different than that of surrounding ocean water. The species composition is based on where an eddy forms, and thus what coastal species it acquired. Fish larval species richness correlates with distance from an eddy center, with higher richness closer to the core. The icthyoplankton communities also change depending on the age of the eddy.
See also
Mesoscale ocean eddies
Baroclinity
Ekman transport
Aleutian Low
References
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Bodies of water of British Columbia |
20468594 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoli%20language | Kyoli language | The Kyoli or Cori (Chori) language is a Plateau language spoken in Southern Kaduna State, Nigeria.
Overview
It is spoken in the northeast of Nok in Jaba Local Government Area (LGA), Kaduna State. The speakers prefer to spell the name of their language as Kyoli, which is pronounced [kjoli] or [çjoli]. The ethnic group is referred to as Kwoli.
There are about 7,000-8,000 Kyoli speakers living in the two village clusters of Hal-Kyoli and Bobang. Bobang is the cultural center of the Kyoli-speaking area. Bobang village cluster consists of the five hamlets of Bobang, Fadek, Akoli, Hagong, and Nyamten. Hal-Kyoli village is situated by itself. All of the Kwoli villages surround the foot of Egu-Kyoli Hill, which rises more than 240 meters above the villages.
Tone
Cori is known for having six distinct levels of tone, too many to transcribe using the International Phonetic Alphabet, which allows five. However, there are only three underlying tones: 1 (), 4 (), and 6 (), which are all that need to be written for literacy. Most cases of Tone 2 () are a result of tone sandhi, with 4 becoming 2 before 1. Tones 3 () and 5 () can be analysed as contour tones, with underlying realised as and realised as .
In order to transcribe the surface tones without numerals (which are ambiguous), an extra diacritic is needed, as is common for four-level languages in Central America:
1 ()
2 ()
3 ()
4 ()
5 ()
6 ()
Numerals
Kyoli numerals in different dialects:
References
Further reading
A Sociolinguistic Profile of the Kyoli (Cori) [cry] Language of Kaduna State, Nigeria
Dihoff, Ivan (1976). Aspects of the tonal structure of Chori. Doctoral dissertation, University of Wisconsin.
Languages of Nigeria
Central Plateau languages
Tonal languages |
23573773 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othello%20%28Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k%29 | Othello (Dvořák) | The concert overture Othello (), Op. 93, B. 174, was written by Antonín Dvořák in 1892 as the third part of a trilogy of overtures called "Nature, Life and Love". The first two parts of the trilogy are In Nature's Realm, Op. 91 ("Nature") and the Carnival Overture, Op. 92 ("Life").
The overture is scored for two flutes (Flute I doubling piccolo), two oboes, English horn, two clarinets in A, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, harp and strings.
References
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20468597 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudomelatoma%20torosa | Pseudomelatoma torosa | Pseudomelatoma torosa is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.
Subspecies
Pseudomelatoma torosa aurantia Carpenter, 1864
Description
The whorls show an angulated shoulder bearing nodulous terminations of about ten short oblique ribs. There is no spiral sculpture. The color of the shell is burnt-brown, under an olivaceous epidermis. The nodules are whitish. The aperture is brown.
The shell of the subspecies P. t. aurantia is orange-colored, sometimes spirally striate.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off southern California, USA.
References
Carpenter, Journ. de Conchyl., ser. 3, vol. 12, p. 146, April, 1865.
Turgeon, D.; Quinn, J.F.; Bogan, A.E.; Coan, E.V.; Hochberg, F.G.; Lyons, W.G.; Mikkelsen, P.M.; Neves, R.J.; Roper, C.F.E.; Rosenberg, G.; Roth, B.; Scheltema, A.; Thompson, F.G.; Vecchione, M.; Williams, J.D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). . IX, 526 + cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS)
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17332831 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2486%20Mets%C3%A4hovi | 2486 Metsähovi | 2486 Metsähovi, provisional designation , is a stony asteroid and synchronous binary system from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 10 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 22 March 1939, by Finnish astronomer Yrjö Väisälä at the Turku Observatory.
Orbit and classification
Metsähovi orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.1–2.4 AU once every 3 years and 5 months (1,248 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.08 and an inclination of 8° with respect to the ecliptic.
Naming
This minor planet was named for a donated farm near Helsinki, where various institutes have established their observing stations: the Finnish Geodetic Institute for space geodesy, the University of Helsinki for astrophysics, and the Helsinki University of Technology for radio astronomy. (Also see Metsähovi Radio Observatory). The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 26 May 1983 ().
Satellite
A moon was discovered in 2006 from lightcurve observations and announced in 2007.
References
External links
Asteroids with Satellites, Robert Johnston, johnstonsarchive.net
Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info )
Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center
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Discoveries by Yrjö Väisälä
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44499135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%20K.%20Stuller | Jennifer K. Stuller | Jennifer K. Stuller (born July 14, 1975 in Marin County, California) is an American writer, editor, popular culture critic, and historian best known for her work on female representation in comic books, TV, and movies. She is the author of Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors: Superwomen in Modern Mythology and a frequent contributor to Bitch Magazine as well as Co-Founder and Director Emeritus of Programming and Events for GeekGirlCon.
Stuller received her bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Washington in the Program in the Comparative History of Ideas where she later offered a survey course on the history of comic books.
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Living people |
20468646 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff%20Birkett | Cliff Birkett | Clifford Birkett (17 September 1933 – 11 January 1997) was an English footballer who played in the Football League as a forward for Manchester United and Southport. He was a schoolboy international. He also played non-league football for Cromptons Recreation, Wigan Rovers and Macclesfield Town.
Birkett was born in Haydock, Lancashire, in 1933 and died there in 1997 at the age of 63. Two brothers, Ronnie and Wilf, were also professional footballers.
References
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1997 deaths
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23573775 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelymitra%20rubra | Thelymitra rubra | Thelymitra rubra, commonly called the salmon sun orchid or pink sun orchid, is a species of orchid endemic to southeastern Australia. It has a single thin, grass-like leaf and up to five salmon pink flowers with broad, toothed arms on the sides of the column. It is similar to T. carnea but the flowers are larger and the column arms are a different shape.
Description
Thelymitra rubra is a tuberous, perennial herb with a single thin, channelled, green or purplish thread-like to linear leaf long and wide. There are up to five salmon pink flowers wide and are borne on a thin, wiry flowering stem tall. The flowers are sometimes other shades of pink, rarely cream-coloured or very pale pink. The sepals and petals are long and wide. The column is cream-coloured to pinkish with a black, red or orange band near the top and is long and about wide. The lobe on the top of the anther is short and brownish with a toothed tip. The side arms on the column are broad and yellow with finger-like edges. The flowers open on sunny days but are sometimes self-pollinating. Flowering occurs from September to November.
This species of sun orchid is similar to T. carnea but can be distinguished from that species by its larger flowers, salmon pink (rather than bright pink) colouration, and fringed column arms.
Taxonomy and naming
Thelymitra rubra was first formally described in 1882 by Robert Fitzgerald and the description was published in The Gardeners' Chronicle. The specific epithet (rubra) is a Latin word meaning "red".
Distribution and habitat
The salmon sun orchid grows in forest, heath and coastal scrub. It occurs in southern New South Wales, south-eastern South Australia and in Tasmania but is most widespread and common in all but the north-west of Victoria. Tasmanian specimens usually have a few hair-like strands on the sides of the column.
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Endemic orchids of Australia
Orchids of New South Wales
Orchids of South Australia
Orchids of Victoria (Australia)
Orchids of Tasmania
Plants described in 1882
Taxa named by William Vincent Fitzgerald |
20468649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan%20Fansler | Stan Fansler | Stanley Robert Fansler (born February 12, 1965) is an American former professional baseball pitcher.
Early life and amateur career
Fansler was born in 1965 to Elkins, West Virginia to Lonnis and Carol Anne Fansler. His father served in the United States Air Force and for thirty years in the United States Forest Service. Fansler was one of three brothers.
Fansler attended Elkins High School in Elkins where he played baseball and was named to the ABCA/Rawlings High School All-America Third Team in 1983.
Professional career
Fansler was selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the second round of the 1983 Major League Baseball draft and became the first player selected from West Virginia in the second or first round of the main phase of the draft. He began his professional career in the New York–Penn League with the Watertown Pirates, accumulating an earned run average (ERA) of 8.05 in his age-18 season. In the following season in Watertown, however, he lowered that number by more than three quarters; his 2.01 ERA and 78 strikeouts both led the Pirates. Fansler moved relatively quickly through the minors. By the time he reached Triple-A with the Hawaii Islanders for the first time in 1985, he was 5.7 years younger than the average player in the Pacific Coast League.
On or about August 29, 1986, the Pittsburgh Pirates promoted Fansler to the Major Leagues for the first time in his career alongside Sammy Khalifa, Bob Patterson and Mike Brown. He made his Major League debut on September 6, 1986. He was the starting pitcher that night for the Pirates against the Atlanta Braves at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium and surrendered four earned runs in just four innings pitched. His best start of the season according to game score came on September 18 against the Expos in Montreal; he went six innings for the first time in his career and allowed only one run. On October 4, Fansler recorded the only hit in his Major League career, a third-inning single off of Bob Ojeda of the eventual World Series champion New York Mets. It would turn out to be the final game of his Major League career.
Fansler underwent multiple surgeries on his rotator cuff after his brief MLB stint, with the first coming in 1987. In 1990, he suffered an ankle injury mid-season and also pitched through bursitis in his shoulder. His final season as a player came in the minors in 1994, after which he coached in the Montreal Expos and Texas Rangers farm systems.
Personal life
Fansler left baseball after having children with his wife, who he had married in 1991.
In 2006, Fansler was living in Beckley, West Virginia and working making mining equipment with his father-in-law. In 2020, Fansler's son, Hunter, played college baseball for Marshall University.
References
External links
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1965 births
Living people
American expatriate baseball players in Canada
Baseball players from West Virginia
Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players
Carolina Mudcats players
Gulf Coast Rangers players
Harrisburg Senators players
Hawaii Islanders players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Nashua Pirates players
Navegantes del Magallanes players
American expatriate baseball players in Venezuela
People from Elkins, West Virginia
Pittsburgh Pirates players
Salem Buccaneers players
Tiburones de La Guaira players
Vancouver Canadians players
Watertown Pirates players |
23573791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantabile%20%28disambiguation%29 | Cantabile (disambiguation) | Cantabile is a musical term meaning literally "singable" or "songlike".
Cantabile may also refer to:
Cantabile (group), a British a cappella vocal quartet
Cantabile (symphonic suite), a work by Frederik Magle
Liuto cantabile, a ten-stringed mandocello
Cantabile, a collection of poems by Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark |
44499150 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%20A.%20Reinhold | H. A. Reinhold | Hans Ansgar Reinhold (1897–1968) was a Roman Catholic priest born in Hamburg, Germany. Reinhold took part in the Roman Catholic resistance to the Nazi regime until taking refuge in the United States. He was a prominent liturgical reformer whose work was influential in shaping the changes to the Mass made at the Second Vatican Council. Reinhold was also a prominent advocate for the introduction of modernist architectural ideas to the construction of Catholic churches in the United States.
Books
The American Parish and the Roman Liturgy: An Essay in seven chapters (Macmillan, 1958),
Bringing the Mass to the people (Helicon Press, 1960),
The dynamics of liturgy (Macmillan, 1961),
Speaking of liturgical architecture (Daughters of St. Paul, 1961),
H.A.R.: The Autobiography of Father Reinhold (Herder and Herder, 1968)
[Edited compilation]The Soul Afire: Revelations of the Mystics (Image Books, 1973),
Literatur: Gerhard Besier, Peter Schmidt-Eppendorf (Hrsg,) Hans Ansgar Reinhold, Schriften und Briefwechsel, 588 S.,Aschendorf Münster 2011
References
Liturgists
1897 births
1968 deaths |
44499154 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadfields%20United%20F.C. | Broadfields United F.C. | Broadfields United Football Club is a football club based in Harrow, Greater London, England. They are currently members of the and play at Rayners Lane's Tithe Farm Sports & Social Club.
History
The club was established in 1993, and joined the Southern Olympian League. They were Division Four champions in 1994–95, after which they joined Division One of the Middlesex County League. The following season it was renamed the Senior Division, and Broadfields were champions, earning promotion to the Premier Division. Despite finishing bottom of the Premier Division in 1998–99, they were not relegated.
However, in 2003–04 the club finished bottom of the Premier Division again and subsequently left the league. They returned in 2007, joining Division One West. Despite finishing second-from-bottom of the division, they were promoted to the Premier Division for the 2008–09 season. They withdrew from the league towards the end of the 2009–10 season, resulting in their record being expunged, but returned to the Premier Division for the 2010–11 season.
In 2011–12 Broadfields won the Premier Division Cup, retaining it the following season. In 2014–15 they finished fourth in the Premier Division, allowing the club to be promoted to Division One of the Spartan South Midlands League. The club were Division One runners-up in 2018–19, earning promotion to the Premier Division.
Honours
Spartan South Midlands League Challenge Trophy
Winners: 2017-18
Middlesex Premier Cup
Winners: 2016–17, 2017–18
Middlesex County League
Senior Division Champions 1996–97
Alec Smith Premier Division Cup Winners 2011–12, 2012–13
Southern Olympian League
Division Four Champions 1994–95
Records
Best FA Cup performance: Second qualifying round, 2021–22
Best FA Vase performance: Second round, 2016–17
See also
Broadfields United F.C. players
References
External links
Football clubs in England
Football clubs in London
Sport in the London Borough of Harrow
Association football clubs established in 1993
1993 establishments in England
Middlesex County Football League
Spartan South Midlands Football League |
44499167 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston%20F.C. | Aston F.C. | Aston Football Club is a football club based in England. The club are currently members of the .
History
The club was established in 2006 and joined Division Three of the Midland Combination from the Birmingham AFA. They were promoted to Division Two at the end of their first season after finishing as runners-up. Another runners-up finish in 2011–12 led to the club being promoted to Division One. When the Midland Combination merged with the Midland Alliance in 2014, Aston were placed in Division Two of the new league. They made their FA Vase début in 2014 and were briefly confused for Premier League team Aston Villa by Soccerbase.
Aston left the league after the 2014–15 season and dropped back into the renamed Birmingham & District League. The club were champions of Division Six in 2016–17, after which they were promoted to Division Four.
Honours
Birmingham & District League
Division Six champions 2017–18
Records
Best FA Vase performance: First Round 2014–15
References
External links
Football clubs in England
Football clubs in Birmingham, West Midlands
Football clubs in the West Midlands (county)
2006 establishments in England
Association football clubs established in 2006
Midland Football Combination
Midland Football League
Birmingham & District Football League |
23573794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Am%20a%20Werewolf%20Cub | I Am a Werewolf Cub | I am a werewolf cub () is a 1972 Swedish children's novel by Gunnel Linde illustrated by Hans Arnold. It was translated to English by Joan Tate.
Plot introduction
Ulf was bitten in his leg when stealing apples. He read the Book of Werewolves and understands he turns into a werewolf at full moon. His family notices that the previously timid Ulf is now talking back and sneaks out at night.
References
1972 Swedish novels
Swedish fantasy novels
Swedish horror fiction
Werewolf novels
Swedish-language novels
1972 children's books |
6902091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living%20the%20Dream%20%28Jennylyn%20Mercado%20album%29 | Living the Dream (Jennylyn Mercado album) | Living the Dream is the first solo album by the StarStruck winner Jennylyn Mercado, released in 2004.
Track listing
Personnel
Buddy C. Medina - executive producer
Rene Salta - in charge of marketing
Kedy Sanchez - A&R supervising producer
GMA Artist Center - artist management
Jimmy Antiporda
Aji Manalo
Arnold Jallores
Boggie Manipon
Dominique Benedicto
Alexi Corbilla
Ramil Bahandi
Marlon Silva
Dong Tan - cover concept, cover design & execution
Claude Rodrigo - cover design & execution
Jake Versoza - photography
Mariel Chua - hair & make-up
Ana Kalw - wardrobe
See also
GMA Records
GMA Network
2004 albums
Jennylyn Mercado albums
GMA Music albums |
20468654 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy%20Kennedy%20%28Kerry%20Gaelic%20footballer%29 | Paddy Kennedy (Kerry Gaelic footballer) | Paddy Kennedy (1916-1979) was a Gaelic footballer from Kerry, active in the 1930s and 1940s. He was a member of the Garda Síochána for a time, but later became a sales representative for a mineral water company and managed the Crystal Ballroom in Dublin.
Paddy Kennedy Memorial Park
The Annascaul GAA club's home ground, opened in 1984, is named Paddy Kennedy Memorial Park after him. Regarded by many as one of the all-time greats of Kerry football, he was captain of the 1946 All-Ireland winning team. The pitch was opened in 1984; the first game played there was between Kerry and Dublin. Since then, there have been many West Kerry League championship games and finals played there by all age groups as well as many County League championships. In 2003, the Munster Ladies Minor Football Championship final between Kerry and Cork was played there. In 2008, a round of the Ladies National League was played here between Kerry and Mayo.
Playing career
Inter-county
Kennedy was Kerry captain in 1946 when Kerry defeated Roscommon in the final. He also played in the Polo Grounds final in New York in 1947 when Kerry lost to Cavan.
During his playing days he won 5 Senior All Irelands, 1 Minor All Ireland, 1 Munster Minor, 10 Munster Senior Championship and 2 Railway Cups.
Kennedy played 45 games for Kerry between 1936 and 1947, 44 as a starter and 1 as a substitute, and scored 5–23 in the Championship matches. He played in 12 Munster Finals, winning 11 and losing 1.
He also played in 8 All-Ireland finals, losing 3 and winning 5.
1936 Championship
Munster Quarter Final, 24 May: Kerry 7–7 Limerick 1–4. Kennedy played Left Half Forward, but did not score.
Munster Semi-final, 12 July: Kerry 1–5 Tipperary 0–5. Kennedy played Left Half Forward, but did not score.
Munster Final, 26 July: Kerry 1–11 Clare 2–2. Kennedy played Left Half Forward, and scored 0–3.
All-Ireland Semi-final, 9 August: Mayo 1–5 Kerry 0–6. Kennedy played midfield, but did not score.
1937 Championship
Munster Quarter Final, 13 June: Kerry 6–7 Cork 0–4. Kennedy played midfield, and scored 0–2.
Munster Semi-final, 11 July: Kerry 2–11 Tipperary 0–4. Kennedy played midfield, and scored 0–2.
Munster Final, 18 July: Kerry 4–9 Clare 1–1. Kennedy played Midfield, but did not score.
Kennedy did not play in the All-Ireland Semi-final against Laois, played on 15 August 1937 in Cork and which finished in a 2–3 to 2–3 draw, and also did not play in the Semi-final replay, played 22 August in Mullingar and which finished 2–2 to 1–4.
All-Ireland Final, 26 September: Kerry 2–5 Cavan 2–5. Kennedy played midfield, but did not score. Kennedy did not play in the replay, which was played in Croke Park on 17 October 1937, and won by Kerry 4–4 to 1–7. The Radio Athlone commentator mistakenly announced Cavan as the winners of the first game; Packie Boylan's late point had actually been disallowed. Kerry won the replay by six points, with goals by Timmy O'Leary (2), Miko Doyle and John Joe Landers. It was the fourth of five All-Ireland football titles won by Kerry in the 1930s.
1938 Championship
Munster Semi-final, 29 May: Kerry 2–6 Clare 0–2. Kennedy played midfield, but did not score.
Munster Final, 7 August: Kerry 4–14 Cork 0–6. Kennedy played Left Half Forward, and scored 1–1.
All-Ireland Semi-final, 21 August: Kerry 2–6 Laois 2–4. Kennedy played Right Half Forward, and scored 0–1.
All-Ireland Final, 25 September: Kerry 2–6 Galway 2–6. Kennedy played Left Half Forward, and scored 0–1.
All-Ireland Final Replay, 23 October: Kerry 0–7 Galway 2–4. Kennedy played Left Half Forward, but did not score.
1939 Championship
Munster Final, 23 July: Kerry 2–11 Tipperary 0–4. Kennedy played midfield, but did not score.
All-Ireland Semi-final, 13 August: Kerry 0–4 Mayo 0–4. Kennedy played Right Half Forward, but did not score.
All-Ireland Semi-final Replay, 10 September: Kerry 3–8 Mayo 1–4. Kennedy played midfield, and scored 0–1.
All-Ireland Final, 24 September: Kerry 2–5 Meath 2–3. Kennedy played Midfield, but did not score.
The 1939 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 52nd All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1939 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland. Dan Spring (later TD and father of Tánaiste Dick Spring) scored both Kerry goals. Meath rued their missed chances – they shot 11 wides. It was the fifth of five All-Ireland football titles won by Kerry in the 1930s.
1940 Championship
Munster Semi-final, 30 June: Kerry 4–8 Tipperary 1–5. Kennedy played midfield, but did not score.
Munster Final, 21 July: Kerry 1–10 Waterford 0–6. Kennedy played midfield, but did not score.
All-Ireland Semi-final, 18 August: Kerry 3–4 Cavan 0–8. Kennedy played midfield, but did not score.
All-Ireland Final, 22 September: Kerry 0–7 Galway 1–3. Kennedy played Right Half Forward, but did not score.
The 1940 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 53rd All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1940 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland. Jimmy Duggan scored a goal for Galway just before half-time, but Kerry hit four points in the second half to secure a narrow victory. The game was plagued by fouls, sixty-two frees being awarded in all. It was the first of three All-Ireland football titles won by Kerry in the 1940s. It was also the first of three consecutive All-Ireland football finals lost by Galway.
1941 Championship
Munster Final, 20 June: Kerry 2–9 Clare 0–6. Kennedy played midfield, but did not score.
All-Ireland Semi-final, 10 August: Kerry 0–4 Dublin 0–4. Kennedy played midfield, but did not score.
All-Ireland Semi-final Replay, 17 August: Kerry 2–9 Dublin 0–3. Kennedy played midfield, but did not score.
All-Ireland Final, 7 September: Kerry 1–8 Galway 0–7. Kennedy played Right Half Forward, but did not score.
The 1941 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 54th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1941 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. Kerry completed a three-in-a-row with a goal by Tom "Gega" O'Connor. The attendance was affected by restrictions under "The Emergency", with a thousand fans travelling by peat-fueled train, and two Kerrymen cycling a tandem bicycle from Killarney to Dublin. It was the second of three All-Ireland football titles won by Kerry in the 1940s. It was also the second of three consecutive All-Ireland football finals lost by Galway.
1942 Championship
Club
Kennedy won a Kerry County Championship with Kerins O'Rahillys in 1939 and 4 Dublin County Championships: three with Geraldines and one with the Garda club he joined in the late 1930s.
Honours
Inter-county
All-Ireland Senior Football Championship 5: 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1946
All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Winning Captain 1946
All-Ireland Minor Football Championship 1: 1933
Munster Senior Football Championship 10: 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1944, 1946, 1947
Munster Minor Football Championship 1: 1933
Inter-provincial
Railway Cup 2: 1941, 1946
Club
Kerry Senior Championship 1: 1939
Dublin Senior Football Championship 4: 1935 (Garda) 1940,1941,1942 (Geraldines)
References
1916 births
1979 deaths
Garda Síochána officers
All-Ireland-winning captains (football)
Kerins O'Rahilly's Gaelic footballers
Garda Gaelic footballers
Geraldines Gaelic footballers
Kerry inter-county Gaelic footballers
Munster inter-provincial Gaelic footballers
Winners of five All-Ireland medals (Gaelic football) |
44499171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suillellus%20comptus | Suillellus comptus | Suillellus comptus is a species of bolete fungus found in Europe. Originally described as a species of Boletus in 1993, it was transferred to Suillellus in 2014.
References
External links
comptus
Fungi described in 1993
Fungi of Europe |
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