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20472047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Martin%27s%20Church%20%28Starkenburg%2C%20Missouri%29 | St. Martin's Church (Starkenburg, Missouri) | St. Martin's Church is a historic Catholic church building in Starkenburg, Montgomery County, Missouri in the Diocese of Jefferson City. It is now part of a religious complex near the Shrine of Our Lady of Sorrows.
History
German Catholic immigrants to the Missouri Rhineland had established a community here as early as 1852, worshiping in a log cabin. The stone church was constructed in 1873, with an addition and tower added in the 1890s.
The parish of St. Martin's at Starkenburg was merged in 1979 with St. Joseph's at Rhineland to form the Church of the Risen Savior in Rhineland, which continues to administer the site.
References
German-American culture in Missouri
Churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jefferson City
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri
Churches in Montgomery County, Missouri
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1873
Organizations disestablished in 1979
National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, Missouri
Starkenburg, Missouri
19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United States |
44502387 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frechinia%20lutosalis | Frechinia lutosalis | Frechinia lutosalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough in 1914. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico.
The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are olive green, suffused with white and with a white basal dash. The terminal area is paler than the median area. The hindwings are dark smoky with a darker terminal line. Adults have been recorded on wing from June to August.
References
Moths described in 1914
Odontiini |
6904062 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Kansas%20State%20University%20people | List of Kansas State University people | The following is a list of notable people associated with Kansas State University, whose main campus is located in the American city of Manhattan, Kansas.
University presidents
The following men have served as President of Kansas State University:
Joseph Denison, 1863–1873
John Anderson, 1873–1879
George Fairchild, 1879–1897
Thomas Elmer Will, 1897–1899
Ernest Reuben Nichols, 1899–1909
Henry J. Waters, 1909–1917
William Jardine, 1918–1925
Francis D. Farrell, 1925–1943
Milton Eisenhower, 1943–1950+
James A. McCain, 1950–1975
Duane C. Acker, 1975–1986
Jon Wefald, 1986–2009
Kirk Schulz, 2009–2016
Richard Myers, 2016–2022+
Richard Linton, 2022–Present
+Kansas State alumnus
Alumni
Academia
Anna Estelle Arnold (1879–1942) – school teacher, administrator, textbook publisher
Erle Bartley – professor (1949–83); developed widely used preventative for ruminal tympany (ruminant bloat)
May Louise Cowles – researcher and nationwide advocate of home economics study
Kenneth S. Davis – historian, professor, nominated for National Book Award
Milton S. Eisenhower – former president of Kansas State, Penn State, and Johns Hopkins universities; brother of Dwight D. Eisenhower
Charlotte P. Morris (PhD) – interim president of Tuskegee University (2010; 2017–2018)
Ernest Fox Nichols – physicist, president of Dartmouth College (1909–16) and MIT (1921–23)
Michael O'Donnell – professor, researcher on adolescent wellness
George P. "Bud" Peterson – President of the Georgia Institute of Technology (2009–present); chancellor of the University of Colorado-Boulder (2006–09)
Imam Prasodjo – professor at the University of Indonesia
John Brooks Slaughter – Chancellor of University System of Maryland (1982–88), president of Occidental College (1988–99), director of the National Science Foundation
Jackie Vietti – President of Butler Community College for 17 years; interim president of Emporia State University in 2015
Arts and media
Kirstie Alley – actress (Cheers, Veronica's Closet, Fat Actress); winner of two Emmy Awards
Craig Bolerjack – announcer on NFL on CBS; Utah Jazz television announcer
Charles L. Brainard – architect; active in preserving the papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower and establishing the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home
Jane Butel – cookbook author; founder of the Jane Butel Cooking School
Bill Buzenberg – journalist; executive director of Center for Public Integrity; former vice-president of news at NPR
Del Close – actor, improviser, writer; co-founder of I.O. theatre in Chicago and one of premier influences on modern improvisational theater
Lucinda Dickey – actress (Breakin', Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo), former Solid Gold dancer
Roy M. Fisher – journalist; former Editor-in-Chief of Chicago Daily News
Gail Gregg – artist
Eddie Griffin – comedian
Mitch Holthus – radio voice of Kansas City Chiefs
Gordon Jump – actor (WKRP in Cincinnati, "Maytag Man")
Charles Melton – actor
Virgil Miller – film special effects pioneer; Academy Award nominee
Clementine Paddleford – journalist and food writer; declared by Time magazine in 1953 as the "best known food editor in the United States"
Darcy Pattison – writer of children's literature, blogger, writing teacher and indie publisher.
Steve Pepoon – TV writer/producer; Emmy winner, The Simpsons
Steve Physioc – broadcaster for the Kansas City Royals
Keylee Sue Sanders – television fashion consultant; former Miss Teen USA; pageant organizer
Lawrence M. Schoen – science fiction author
Mark Schultz – musician
Kevin Warren Sloan - student athlete; landscape architect, urban planner and writer
Crystal Smith – model, actress, and Playboy centerfold
Pete Souza – photojournalist and official White House photographer (1983–1989); chief White House photographer (2009–present)
Eric Stonestreet – actor (Modern Family), Emmy Award winner
Theresa Vail – Miss Kansas 2013
Jerry Wexler – record producer; enshrined in Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
English/creative writing
Derick Burleson – poet
Frank Marshall Davis – poet; journalist; editor of several African-American newspapers
Darren DeFrain – fiction writer
Taylor Mali – slam poet
Claude McKay – poet influential during Harlem Renaissance
Debra Monroe – fiction writer
Bryan Penberthy – poet
Kevin Rabas – poet
Ed Skoog – poet
Business
Leanne Caret – President and CEO of Boeing Defense, Space & Security
James Harbord – Major General during World War I; president and chairman of the board for RCA
Damon T. Hininger – chief executive officer of the Corrections Corporation of America.
Carl Ice – President (2010–14) and President and CEO (2014–20) of BNSF Railway
Jim Isch – officer at NCAA; interim executive director of NCAA (2009–2010)
Dakota Bartell - President of DBMetals (2015–Present)
William A. Porter – founder of E-Trade
Warren Staley – President and CEO, Cargill, Inc.
Gregory C. Case - CEO of Aon
Politics, government and military
Emory S. Adams – United States Army general
Joseph Boakai – Vice President of Liberia (2006–2018)
Sam Brownback – U.S. Senator, Kansas (1996–2011), 46th governor of Kansas (2011–2018)
Donald M. Campbell Jr. – Commanding general of U.S. Army Recruiting Command in Fort Knox
John W. Carlin – 40th governor of Kansas; Archivist of the United States (1995–2005)
Glen E. Edgerton – Major General, U.S. Army
Marlin Fitzwater – Press Secretary under Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush
Kenji Fujimori – Peruvian businessman and Congressman
Jim Geringer – 30th governor of Wyoming
Mike Hayden – 41st governor of Kansas
Lori Healey – Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Planning and Development
Lynn Jenkins – Kansas State Treasurer (2002–08), U.S. House of Representatives (2009–2019)
Ronald E. Keys – General, U.S. Air Force
Richard A. Knobloch – Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force
Henry D. Linscott – Lieutenant General, U.S. Marine Corps
Roger Marshall – junior United States senator from Kansas
Michael A. McAuliffe – Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force
Frank B. Morrison – 31st governor of Nebraska (1961–67)
Richard Myers – Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff (2001–2005)
Richard Bordeaux Parker – diplomat
John Jacob Rhodes – Minority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives (1973–1981)
Pat Roberts – U.S. Senator, Kansas (1996–2020)
Bernard W. Rogers – NATO Supreme Allied Commander
Glenn Rogers – Member of the Texas House of Representatives (2021–Present)
Susanna M. Salter – Mayor of Argonia, Kansas (1887); first female mayor in the United States
Fred Andrew Seaton – U.S. Senator, Nebraska (1951–1952); U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1956–1961)
K. Gary Sebelius – Magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas
Harold Sebring – Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court, American judge at the Nuremberg Trials, Dean of the Stetson University College of Law, and head coach of the Florida Gators football team
Richard J. Seitz – Lieutenant General, U.S. Army
Theresa Sparks – President of the San Francisco Police Commission
John Strick - Member of the Kansas State Senate (1985-1992)
Virginia Trotter – U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education (1974–1977)
Allen West – U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 22nd district (2011–2013)
Science and technology
Mark Alfred Carleton – botanist
Peter Tsai - inventor of N95 mask
David Fairchild – botanist and explorer
Paul C. Fisher – inventor
Philip Fox – astronomer
Alwyn Howard Gentry – botanist
Luis Montaner – HIV/AIDS researcher
Nellie M. Payne – entomologist and agricultural chemist
Elieser Posner — grain scientist
Geraldine L. Richmond – physical chemist; National Medal of Science laureate
Lloyd Carlton Stearman – aircraft designer
Charles Hazelius Sternberg – paleontologist
Walter Tennyson Swingle – botanist
Samuel Wendell Williston – paleontologist
Athletics
Baseball
Elden Auker – All-American (1932); All-Big Six Conference in football, basketball, and baseball; played for Detroit Tigers
Josh Billings – 11-year Major League Baseball veteran
Ted Power – 12-year Major League Baseball veteran
Bobby Randall – played for Minnesota Twins (1976–80), former head baseball coach at Iowa State University (1985-1995), former head baseball coach at University of Kansas (1996-2002)
Andy Replogle – pitcher for Milwaukee Brewers
Kite Thomas – outfielder for Philadelphia Athletics, Washington Senators; namesake of Kite's Bar in Manhattan, Kansas
Carlos Torres – pitcher for Chicago White Sox
Craig Wilson – All-American (1992); member of the 1992 Olympic baseball team in Barcelona; played for Chicago White Sox
Earl Woods – father of Tiger Woods; broke color barrier in baseball in the Big Seven Conference at Kansas State
Basketball
Ernie Barrett – first-round pick in 1951 NBA Draft (Boston Celtics), former athletic director at Kansas State, number retired by KSU
Michael Beasley – active NBA player, All-American and Big 12 Conference Player of the Year (2008), second overall selection in the 2008 NBA Draft
Rolando Blackman – College Basketball Hall of Famer, All-American (1981), first-round pick in 1981 NBA Draft (Dallas Mavericks), four-time NBA All-Star
Bob Boozer – College Basketball Hall of Famer, two-time All-American (1958, 1959), first overall draft pick in 1959 NBA Draft (Cincinnati Royals), NBA All-Star
Bob Chipman – former basketball coach at Washburn University; team won 1986–1987 NAIA national championship
Norris Coleman (born 1961) - NBA forward for the Los Angeles Clippers, 1994 Israeli Basketball Premier League MVP
Mike Evans – two-time Big Eight Conference Player of the Year (1977, 1978), first-round pick in 1978 NBA Draft (Denver Nuggets), NBA executive and coach
Bill Guthridge – former basketball coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, National Coach of the Year (1998)
Gene Keady – former basketball coach at Purdue, four-time National Coach of the Year (1984, 1994, 1996, 2000)
Lon Kruger – basketball coach at Oklahoma, former coach of Atlanta Hawks, two-time Big Eight Conference Player of the Year (1973, 1974)
Rodney McGruder – active NBA player (Los Angeles Clippers)
Willie Murrell – led KSU to Final Four in 1964, former ABA basketball player, number retired by KSU
Nicole Ohlde – three-time All-American (2002, 2003, 2004), first-round pick in 2004 WNBA Draft, number retired by KSU
Jacob Pullen – all-time scoring leader for KSU (2,132 career points), winner of Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award
Mitch Richmond – Naismith Hall of Fame, All-American (1988), first-round pick in 1988 NBA Draft, six-time NBA All-Star, NBA All-Star Game MVP
Howie Shannon – All-American (1948), first overall draft pick in 1949 BAA Draft (Providence Steamrollers)
Juan "Pachín" Vicens – named "Best Basketball Player in the World" in 1959
Kendra Wecker – All-American and Big 12 Conference Player of the Year (2005), first-round pick in 2005 WNBA Draft (San Antonio Silver Stars), number retired by KSU
D.J. Johnson (basketball) -
Tex Winter- Former KSU basketball coach, Innovator of the Triangle Offense
Football
Elijah Alexander – NFL linebacker; founder of the Tackle Cancer Foundation
David Allen – All-American (1998); NFL kick returner
Michael Bishop – Davey O'Brien Award winner; second in voting for 1998 Heisman Trophy; All-American (1998)
Larry Brown – 1972 NFL MVP; four-time NFL Pro Bowler
Russ Campbell – former NFL tight end for the Pittsburgh Steelers
Chris Canty – two-time All-American (1995, 1996); first-round pick in 1997 NFL Draft
Henry Childs – NFL Pro Bowler
Paul Coffman – three-time NFL Pro Bowler; member of Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame
Tyrone Crews – CFL linebacker, Grey Cup champion, BC Lions Wall of Fame
Ron Dickerson – head football coach for Temple University
Darrell Dickey – head football coach for University of North Texas
Lynn Dickey – NFL quarterback; named all-time All-Big Eight QB in 1996; member of Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame
Josh Freeman – NFL quarterback; first-round draft pick in 2009 NFL Draft
Ralph Graham – starter in 1934 East-West Shrine Game; head football coach for Kansas State
Martín Gramática – Lou Groza Award winner; All-American (1997); NFL Pro Bowler
Dean Griffing – Canadian Football Hall of Famer; first general manager of Denver Broncos
Steve Grogan – NFL quarterback; member of New England Patriots Hall of Fame
Kirby Hocutt – athletic director at Texas Tech University, Chairman of College Football Playoff Committee (2016– )
Jason Johnson – former Indianapolis Colts player
Tony Jordan – NFL running back of Phoenix Cardinals
Jeff Kelly – All-American (1998); former NFL linebacker
Collin Klein – Big XII Offensive Player of the Year 2012; Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award 2012; third in voting for 2012 Heisman Trophy
Tyler Lockett – NFL wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks selected for the 2016 Pro Bowl
Jeron Mastrud – NFL tight end (Miami Dolphins)
Jaime Mendez – All-American (1993); holds KSU record for most interceptions in a season (15)
Ralph McFillen – player 1960–1963; NCAA conference commissioner
Jordy Nelson – All-American (2007); NFL wide receiver (Green Bay Packers)
Quentin Neujahr – NFL center
Terence Newman – Jim Thorpe Award winner; unanimous All-American (2002); first-round pick in 2003 NFL Draft
Gary Patterson – head football coach at TCU
Ellis Rainsberger – head football coach for Kansas State University and Pittsburgh Maulers
Doug Russell – led NFL in rushing in 1935
Clarence Scott – All-American (1970); NFL Pro Bowler
Harold L. "Tom" Sebring – Head football coach for the University of Florida (1925–1927)
Mark Simoneau – All-American (1999); Big 12 Player of the Year; former NFL linebacker
Sean Snyder – All-American (1992); son of coach Bill Snyder
Gary Spani – All-American (1977); Member of College Football Hall of Fame and Kansas City Chiefs Hall of Fame
Darren Sproles – All-American (2003); NFL running back; selected as one of "Fifty Greatest San Diego Chargers"
Bob Stull – athletic director at UTEP
Veryl Switzer – NFL running back; highest NFL draft pick in KSU history (#4 in 1954)
Daniel Thomas – NFL running back
Brent Venables, current head football coach at Oklahoma
James J. Yeager – head football coach for Iowa State University and the University of Colorado
Golf
Jim Colbert – finished second at NCAA Championships; registered 8 victories on PGA Tour and 20 victories on Champions Tour; golf television analyst
Robert Streb – PGA golfer
Aaron Watkins – PGA golfer
Track and field
Thane Baker – winner of four Olympic medals, including gold, at 1952 Summer Olympics and 1956 Summer Olympics
Tom Brosius – All-American in shot put and discus
DeLoss Dodds – Big Seven champion; Kansas State track coach (1963–1976); U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Hall of Fame
Steve Fritz – Big Eight champion; finished fourth in decathlon at 1996 Summer Olympics; assistant coach at Kansas State
Kenny Harrison – won gold medal in triple jump at 1996 Summer Olympics
Thomas Randolph – two-sport All-American (1992)
Ivan Riley – won bronze medal in 400 meter hurdles at 1924 Summer Olympics
Austra Skujytė – won silver medal in heptathlon (for Lithuania) at 2004 Summer Olympics; assistant coach at Kansas State
Others
Erin Brockovich – activist
Sean Lowe – reality star (The Bachelorette, The Bachelor, Dancing with the Stars)
Jim Rayburn – founder of Young Life
Kevin Saunders – wheelchair Olympian
Faculty and staff
Stephen Ambrose – professor of history (1970–71)
Helen Brockman – fashion designer (1968–74)
Helen Stuart Campbell – professor of domestic science (1896–97)
Elizabeth Williams Champney – secretary of college, drawing instructor (1870–73)
John Ciardi – professor of English (poetry)
John Wynn Davidson – first professor of military science (1868–71)
Kenneth S. Davis – professor of history
Michael Finnegan – professor of anthropology
Angelo Garzio, emeritus professor of ceramics
Charles Christian Georgeson – professor of agriculture (1890–98)
Nehemiah Green – professor of military tactics
Roy M. Green – professor; later president of Colorado State University
T. Marshall Hahn – Dean of College of Arts and Sciences (1959–62); later president of Virginia Tech
Pascal Hitzler - professor of computer science (2019–present)
Jonathan Holden – professor of English (poetry) (1978–present)
John S. Hougham – chairman of philosophy and agriculture (1868–72)
A. S. Hitchcock – professor of botany (1892–1901)
Lloyd Hulbert – professor of biology (1955–86)
William Ashbrook Kellerman – professor of botany (1883–91)
Naomi B. Lynn – professor of political science; later first Hispanic female president of an American public university
George A. Milliken – professor of statistics
W. R. Moses – poet; professor of English
Benjamin Franklin Mudge – Chair of Geology Department (1866–74)
Philip Nel – professor of English (2000–present)
Mitsugi Ohno – glassblower of first successful Klein bottle (1961–96)
Andrew Summers Rowan – professor of military tactics (1902–03)
Fred Albert Shannon – professor of history; awarded Pulitzer Prize for History in 1929 while teaching at Kansas State
James Shanteau – professor of psychology
Maurice Cole Tanquary – professor of entomology (1913–1919)
Albert M. Ten Eyck – professor of agriculture (1902–06), agronomy (1906–10) and farm management (1910–12)
Michael Wesch – assistant professor of cultural anthropology, recipient of 2008 U.S. Professor of the Year award from CASE
Kimberly A. With – professor of biology
Fictional characters
Joseph, anti-hero of Bruce Jay Friedman's novel A Mother's Kisses, attends "Kansas Land Grant Agricultural College."
Mary Ashley, main character in Sidney Sheldon's novel Windmills of the Gods, starts the book as a professor at Kansas State University.
Brantley Foster, protagonist in the movie The Secret of My Success, portrayed by Michael J. Fox, is a recent graduate of Kansas State University who moves to New York City where he has landed a job as a financier.
Oliver Lang, terrorist in the movie Arlington Road, portrayed by Tim Robbins, is a former Kansas State student.
Lamar Quin, senior associate in the John Grisham novel The Firm, is noted to have graduated from Kansas State.
See also
Lists of people from Kansas
References
Kansas State University people |
44502394 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frechinia%20texanalis | Frechinia texanalis | Frechinia texanalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Eugene G. Munroe in 1961. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Texas.
The wingspan is about 14 mm. Adults have been recorded on wing in May.
References
Moths described in 1961
Odontiini |
44502412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyros%20atripennalis | Gyros atripennalis | Gyros atripennalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough in 1914. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from California.
The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are blackish with a deep purplish-red tinge. The basal half of the wing is defined outwardly by a curved dark line just beyond which a black dash in the cell represents the reniform spot. There is a blackish line close to outer margin with which it is practically parallel. The space between these two lines is sprinkled with white scales. The hindwings are deep black. Adults have been recorded on wing in July.
References
Moths described in 1914
Odontiini |
20472053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylopia%20emarginata | Xylopia emarginata | Xylopia emarginata is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It is native to Cerrado vegetation in Brazil.
References
elliptica
Endemic flora of Brazil
Flora of the Cerrado |
20472068 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylopia%20brasiliensis | Xylopia brasiliensis | Xylopia brasiliensis is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae.
It is native to Atlantic Forest and Cerrado ecoregions in eastern and southern Brazil.
References
brasiliensis
Endemic flora of Brazil
Flora of the Atlantic Forest
Flora of the Cerrado |
23575978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel%20drift | Channel drift | Channel drift or network decay is the gradual shift of a television network away from its original programming, to either target a newer and more profitable audience, or to broaden its viewership by including less niche programming. Often, this results in a shift from informative or artistic quality programming aimed at cultured and educated viewers toward sensational, ratings-based or reality-formatted programming designed solely for the entertainment of a mass audience. Channel drift frequently features the incorporation of infotainment, reality television and heavy advertising into the channel's lineup.
Overview
United States
Cable
Networks primarily focused on a particular topic, such as History Channel, tend to add shows that the channel's management feel that a larger audience wants to see, thus leading to additional profits. By producing irrelevant or low-quality programming they can increase their ratings to a target audience, increase viewership and increase revenues. The degree of channel drift can vary: some of the nonconforming programming may retain some degree of association with the channel's original purpose (such as in the case of the History Channel, Pawn Stars, American Pickers, and Top Shot), while other programming may have no association whatsoever (such as Ax Men and Ice Road Truckers).
Channel drift can also result from the acquisition of sports rights or reruns of popular television series that would otherwise not fit the channel's format; Outdoor Life Network, for instance, acquired the rights to the National Hockey League in 2005, so the network began transitioning toward a general sports network known today as NBCSN. Conversely, WGN America abandoned its expensive sports packages in 2014 as part of its drift from a Chicago-centric superstation into a nationally oriented general entertainment channel; WGN America eventually started a gradual transition away from entertainment programming, structured as such due to contractual commitments to existing syndicated programming, to adopt a cable news format as NewsNation in March 2021.
A channel may rebrand itself to more accurately reflect its new content. Sci-Fi Channel changed its name to Syfy for both trademark reasons and to allow a stretching of the network's definition of appropriate programming to include content such as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit reruns and WWE professional wrestling. (WWE moved to USA Network in 2016.) Another example is the conversion of Court TV to truTV, which allowed it to show more reality-based programming (though initially retaining a law enforcement focus, such as repeats of World's Wildest Police Videos) and slowly phase out their advertiser-repelling legal system and courtroom programming. This process ended in October 2009 when the remaining courtroom analysis programs transitioned to CNN.com's legal news section and occasional court coverage from CNN Center on the mainline channel. TruTV then aired competitions, hidden camera prank shows, and even the first three rounds of the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. TruTV was further reformatted to a more conventional reality network with a strong emphasis on comedy on 27 October 2014, and then to comedy programming full-time in 2016 with the addition of scripted programming. Court TV would be revived as a digital subchannel network in 2019. Other examples include the drifting of The Learning Channel, which has officially renamed itself under the three-letter orphan initialism "TLC" since its transition to primarily reality television series, and that of most of the MTV Networks.
MTV Networks were a pioneer in channel drift. Music Television (as MTV was originally known) was originally a channel devoted to popular music videos upon its launch in August 1981, but began adding entertainment and reality programs geared toward a young adult audience in the 1990s, beginning a progression toward its current focus of reality and scripted programming. The music videos on the main channel were eventually limited to overnight and morning time periods, and were eventually pushed to spinoff networks MTV2, then to MTV Hits. MTV2 itself would gradually drift from an all-music video format to include reruns of MTV programs, original series, and acquired off-network sitcoms; MTV Hits would later be discontinued in favor of NickMusic.
Video Hits One likewise began as an outlet for adult contemporary music before transitioning to an urban pop culture channel as VH1; Country Music Television drifted to southern culture and general rerun programming as CMT; and The Nashville Network, perhaps the most dramatic, drifted to general entertainment format as The National Network and then to a heavily male-oriented program lineup known as Spike, only to drift back toward general entertainment in 2015 and become the Paramount Network in 2018, which is slated to become Paramount Movie Network in 2021.
While Nickelodeon has largely remained a children's-oriented channel throughout its history, its late-night Nick at Nite programming block (which for Nielsen ratings purposes is a separate channel from Nickelodeon) has drifted greatly from airing classic television (first from the Golden Age of Television, later expanding to shows from the 1960s and 1970s), to more recent shows still airing in local syndication, to its current focus on adolescent and young adult audiences similar to that of ABC Family (now Freeform). Nick at Nite launched TV Land as a spin-off channel due to its increased focus on more recent programming (as well as the elimination of non-sitcom programming on Nick at Nite), only for TV Land itself to eventually shift to more recent programming and even original programming. In recent years, networks such as Cozi TV and MeTV have emerged to fill this gap with their programming being primarily 1950s–1960s television shows; even those networks have left older content to early hours in their broadcast day for more recent content. Retro Television Network is the most prominent network still focused on 1950s and 1960s television shows.
Nickelodeon's cable channel Nicktoons is another example of channel drift, though in that channel's particular case, it has never had a particularly strong focus on anything other than being an overflow channel for Nickelodeon. In 2014, Nicktoons added sports content to its lineup to little viewer interest, but the block continues as three of the programs (NFL Rush Zone, WWE Slam City and Wild Grinders) were produced by sports leagues or to promote Viacom personalities on other networks (for Wild Grinders, MTV host Rob Dyrdek). Recently, Nicktoons' schedule has begun to feature live-action sitcoms on a cyclical basis, depending on the current output and success of Nickelodeon's animated series.
Channel drift can also result from a network's owner purchasing a competing channel and drifting one or both channels' formats to avoid overlapping. The aforementioned TNN was one example of this, as its Southern culture programming overlapped extensively with CMT's. ABC Family was also an example as The Walt Disney Company's 2001 purchase of the channel from News Corporation dramatically reduced its carriage of children's programming in order to avoid redundancy with Disney Channel. Destination America, a channel prone to frequent format changes over the course of its history, began as a network targeting rural middle America; parent company Discovery Communications' purchase of the former Scripps cable networks brought it under the same corporate umbrella as Great American Country, and thus Destination America began adding professional wrestling (briefly) and paranormal ghost-hunting programs to its schedule. Both GAC and Destination America were candidates to be reformatted entirely in 2019 to make way for the Magnolia Network, which is now expected to replace DIY Network when it launches in 2021.
Another case of channel drift is HLN, which started as CNN2. Its format originally consisted of rolling half-hour newscasts that were updated periodically throughout the day; one year after its launch, the channel changed its name to CNN Headline News to better reflect the rolling news format. By 2005, its programming began to include hour-long specialty and discussion-based news programs similar to those found on the main CNN channel (such as Showbiz Tonight, Nancy Grace and Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell) and by 2013, it had ceased its scaled back rolling news coverage further – relegating it to morning and early afternoon timeslots – and shifted toward crime mysteries and docudramas, showing programs such as Forensic Files.
Broadcast
One of the earliest examples of channel drift, and one that predates modern cable television, was programming changes by CBS. During the late 1960s, CBS had a reputation as a network with a disproportionate number of shows that targeted rural and older viewers, seen by advertisers as undesirable due to ingrained buying habits on the one hand and a greater perception of poverty on the other. Beginning in 1970, incoming network vice president Fred Silverman orchestrated the "rural purge," in which these shows would be canceled in favor of shows targeting younger, suburban viewers with more disposable income.
Another example of channel drift is the case of the Fox Broadcasting Company. Throughout its early existence, and even after its ascent to major network status, Fox had a reputation for lowbrow, alternative programming and knockoffs of other networks' hit shows, both aimed at a very young demographic. Beginning with the major success of American Idol in the early 2000s, Fox drifted away somewhat from this reputation; its dramas and sitcoms became more conventional, on the level of the historic Big Three television networks, and it put less emphasis on reality programs later that decade.
One less obvious, but nonetheless true, example of the phenomenon has occurred since the 1980s in American public television. From the origins of the medium in the late 1950s, stations, who were then affiliated with National Educational Television, the precursor to the current PBS, served two specific audiences: first, they provided, on weekdays, instructional programming for children used in school classrooms, to supplement traditional curricula; second, they served adults (on evenings and weekends) by scheduling shows that were alternatives to the fare available on commercial broadcasting, such as theatrical plays, classical music concerts, literary dramas, and serious public affairs initiatives like investigative reporting and civil discussion of political matters, things that had been mostly abandoned by the commercial networks with the end of the Golden Age of Television in and around 1960. Beginning with the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, the Federal government, along with those of most U.S. states, invested in production and distribution of such programming via NET/PBS and the construction of a large number of new stations. The political climate of the time was decidedly liberal and thus supportive of generous governmental funding of the medium, which developed its institutions accordingly.
However, the 1970s saw a political turn rightward, increasingly suspicious of Federal programs especially, and originally-anticipated steady increases in public taxpayer support did not materialize, leaving the new PBS and its stations with significant monetary gaps that had to be filled by other sources. "Pledge drives," at least an annual occurrence on stations, emerged in the mid-1970s to address cutbacks from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that occurred due to political changes and the economic recessions of that period; members of the general public would donate money to the station in exchange for certain privileges. Also, stations and program producers began to cultivate so-called "underwriting" (a modified form of advertising that did not interrupt shows in progress) from businesses, particularly large corporations who were then motivated by a sense of noblesse oblige to their communities and the country at large (in later years, these grants would become more targeted toward certain genres, raising suspicions by critics that they constituted de facto commercial advertising). This generated another large source of revenue. Some stations went so far as to stage week-long "auctions" of merchandise or services donated by retailers and other businesses, to which viewers would place "bids," from which the winner would receive the item or service in exchange for a donation to the station; these were quite successful in many markets from the 1970s through the 2000s.
In order to attract audiences who would donate to stations, which, in turn, purchased programming from other stations and producers in the PBS system, program managers felt increasingly that it was necessary to reduce the proportion of cultural and informational shows on the adult schedule, in order to appeal to a wider audience than a small, highly educated cohort. This especially became the case during pledge drives, which were imagined to be times when non-regular viewers could be appealed to with special programming. With the aging (and eventual death) of audiences who were the most enthusiastic for more serious (and heretofore customary) fare, it was felt that younger viewers with more disposable income would be more interested in programs akin to those they were accustomed to on commercial television rather than formats such as classical dramas (a number of them imports from the British Broadcasting Corporation) and documentaries on sometimes arcane subjects. This led to the introduction of things like lifestyle-oriented shows featuring hobbies like gardening, cooking, and home repair; specialty or niche informational programs like the Nightly Business Report and The Charlie Rose Show; reruns of certain former commercial TV shows (e.g., The Lawrence Welk Show, National Geographic specials); and British-import situation comedies (a la Are You Being Served?, Monty Python's Flying Circus). This amounted to exchanging what is termed as "high-brow" material for a more "middle-brow" approach to programming, while avoiding conspicuously mass-appeal formats such as adult-oriented game shows, action-oriented crime dramas, sensationalistic news magazines, and celebrity-driven talk shows. By the 1990s and 2000s, pledge drives became mainly reliant on fare such as TJ Lubinsky's nostalgic music specials (which themselves focus on oldies and adult standards music largely abandoned by commercial outlets) and self-help seminars of often questionable integrity (the latter were in fact not officially sanctioned by PBS and even rebuked by the network's ombudsman). Despite the stated aims to appeal to a non-elderly audience, PBS could not keep up, it seemed to many, with rapid developments in cable television, which began offering alternatives to viewers that were generally more sensationalistic and visually compelling than the staid, restrained traditions of the public medium. Some of those new networks in fact began aping the "how-to" and lifestyle formats that originally became popular via PBS (e.g., HGTV, Food Network). That competition, in turn, began to influence programmers to even further diminish or outright remove any shows considered "stuffy" or slow-paced, which eliminated several long-running staples of the network (e.g., Firing Line [original version], Wall Street Week).
At about the same time, development in technologies such as video cassette recorders enabled schoolteachers to bypass the need to schedule their classes around broadcasts of instructional material; typically, either school support staff would record the shows or teachers would do so themselves by using their VCRs' overnight silent-record function (some stations accommodated the latter practice by using what would otherwise be "dead air" time). Some PBS stations, in fact, took advantage of the changes to directly provide educational programs to schools without using airtime at all, something that accelerated with the emergence of video on demand via the internet in the 2000s. That created a void in the daytime hours that PBS executives decided to fill with a new generation of children's programming, aimed at preschoolers. To supplement beloved historic programs such as Sesame Street and Reading Rainbow, the network and leading stations developed several animated series with an educational and/or ethical emphasis. Part of that was also occasioned by the fact that commercial stations and networks were canceling children's cartoons, many of which were considered of dubious quality in any case, due to changing viewing habits and the FCC mandate, imposed in 1996, that required broadcast stations (of any kind) to include at least three hours per week of informational and educational programs for young people.
Therefore, with the original mission of public television having drastically changed in both its dimensions since its 1950s origins due to technological, political, and cultural shifts, channel drift became quite endemic to PBS and its affiliates. As such, this occurrence has left voids for adult viewers that have been filled mainly by two sources. First, the main fine arts source for television is the cable-and-satellite-distributed Classic Arts Showcase, which is funded entirely by an endowment from the estate of its founder and is not dependent whatsoever on private donations or government funding, unlike the PBS system. Second, serious, civil public affairs programming is frequently found on the C-SPAN networks, non-profit public services provided by cable companies and paid for by a portion of each customer's monthly bill. This supplements PBS news programming such as the PBS Newshour and Washington Week, two of the remaining public affairs programs on the national schedule.
Counterexamples
Channel drift is not always successful, and can often lead to backlash. The Weather Channel (TWC), for instance, faced criticism for its attempts to add entertainment programming to its schedule (which had historically focused primarily on weather news and information), culminating in the controversial introduction of a Friday-night movie block featuring films with some relation to weather as a plot point (such as The Perfect Storm). Citing the network's carriage fees and drift towards entertainment content, Dish Network dropped TWC and replaced it with WeatherNation's The Weather Cast on 21 May 2010, only to reach a deal to carry TWC again three days later. In January 2014, TWC faced a similar carriage dispute with DirecTV, who dropped the channel by citing its carriage fees, and complaints from viewers over the amount of reality programming it had carried. DirecTV added a competing channel, WeatherNation TV, as an alternative. TWC reached a new carriage agreement with DirecTV on 8 April 2014, with the network agreeing to reduce the amount of reality programming it carries on weekdays.
The former Family Channel is one of the few known instances in which the amount of channel drift allowed was limited to some degree. Launching as religious network CBN Satellite Service (a cable extension of televangelist Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network) in 1977, it later incorporated family-oriented secular programs by 1984, which became the channel's dominant form of programming for nearly two decades. In 1990, CBN agreed to sell the network to International Family Entertainment, but with strings attached: it is required to air CBN's flagship program The 700 Club twice each weekday as well as a day-long CBN telethon each January in perpetuity as part of a long-term time-buy. Following its sale to News Corporation, CBN made another long-term time-buy on the station to air a daily half-hour CBN talk show, then known as Living the Life, to the lineup. After The Walt Disney Company acquired the channel from News Corporation in 2001, Disney planned to reformat the channel as "XYZ" (a reverse reference to the American Broadcasting Company's abbreviation) and shift its target to a more hip audience such as college students or young women; possibly to avoid redundancies with the existing family-friendly Disney Channel. To create XYZ, Fox Family would have had to cease to exist — Disney would have had to create XYZ as an entirely new network, and negotiate carriage agreements with pay television providers from scratch (something that, in modern times, is fairly common, but would have been much more disruptive to one of the most widely distributed channels on cable). Nonetheless, under the ABC Family brand, the channel drifted from its strictly family-friendly format under Disney ownership; the channel gradually dropped series aimed at children from its schedule and incorporated programs aimed at young adults featuring profanity, some violence, and some sexual content, alongside its family-oriented series and films, and now airs a standard disclaimer before each broadcast of The 700 Club in which The Walt Disney Company disowns any connection to the show. Disney further denied the "Family" stipulation existed in late 2015 when it announced plans to rename the channel "Freeform" in January 2016. In February 2009, Disney XD was originally launched as a boy-oriented TV channel, with the parent channel's shows aimed mostly at girls aged 13 – 16. Four years later, after the network was found to have a surprisingly high female audience, Disney XD added some programs with female protagonists, such as Kim Possible and Star vs. the Forces of Evil, while maintaining a mostly action-driven format.
In more recent years, networks have started abandoning the idea of channel drift as some of the channels experienced poor results. AMC (originally an outlet for "American Movie Classics") drifted successfully into premium scripted dramas in the late 2000s, such as Mad Men, The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad. However, a further drift into unscripted shows such as 4th and Loud (a docuseries focusing on an Arena Football League team owned by members of the rock band Kiss) and Game of Arms (a reality series following competitive arm wrestlers) were mostly unsuccessful, prompting the network to cancel all but two of the shows (Comic Book Men, a docuseries following a comic book store owned by filmmaker Kevin Smith, and the Walking Dead-related talk show Talking Dead) in favor of focusing more on its core scripted slate.
In the early-2010s, USA Network—which built a niche for lighthearted comedy-dramas through the 2000s—attempted to augment them with original sitcoms (such as Benched and Sirens) to build upon its acquisition of off-network reruns of Modern Family. USA mostly backed away from that approach by 2014, as it prepared a shift away from its previous "blue sky" direction for its drama slate.
Outside the United States
In some countries, cable television channels are subject to the rules and regulations set forth by each country's communications bureau and must be licensed accordingly.
Canada
In Canada, specialty television channels were initially subject to conditions of license requiring them to operate within quotas of specific categories of programs. This system was designed primarily to ensure the integrity of channels that were licensed with the expectation of a specific format, and to prevent undue competition with established channels–a practice referred to as the "genre protection" rules.
For example, the presence of MuchMusic as an established music channel in Canada led to applications of these rules impacting the later launch of MTV-branded channels in Canada; Craig Media's MTV Canada was licensed as a channel featuring entertainment and informal education programming targeting youth and young adults, and could not devote more than 10% of its weekly programming to "music video clips" in order to protect MuchMusic. However, following complaints by its owner CHUM Limited (who also accused Craig of having used the pretense of a youth-based service to contravene the genre protection rule by, ultimately, offering a music-based service), the CRTC ruled that MTV Canada violated this quota due to music video content contained within programs such as Making the Video and MTV Select—even though the program categories distinguish music-related programs and music videos. Contrarily, sister channel MTV2 Canada was able to devote its lineup to music video programming, as it was licensed as part of "Music 5"—a specialty service consisting of channels devoted to specific genres of music.
A second incarnation of MTV Canada launched by CTVglobemedia in 2005 was also restricted in its airing of music content, but this time as the result of drift from its original format as TalkTV.
Outside of North America
The South African Broadcasting Corporation originally had its 3 main channels dedicated to specific ethnic groups and their home languages. SABC 1 primarily broadcasts shows that target the Bantu-speakers, while SABC 2 focused on Afrikaans programming and SABC 3 aimed at the English-speaking South Africans. Anti-apartheid propaganda and prejudice against Afrikaners caused SABC2's Afrikaans programming to be gradually replaced with English despite its high viewership. The lack of Afrikaans programming, along with the launch of DStv's rival Afrikaans-channel KykNET, caused the once-popular SABC2's viewership to decline. The SABC has been met with strong criticism over its treatment of Afrikaans programming on SABC2.
In September 2020, GMA News TV began its gradual transition from its original news format to general entertainment and sports, since the acquisition of rights to NCAA and additional entertainment programs due to the increase of its commercial load. This changes was targeted by mounting viewers' criticism where entertainment programs should be pre-emptied for the news coverage, notably when the Philippines was hit by Typhoon Goni (Rolly) which later re-branded as GTV in February 2021.
Radio format drift
To a certain extent, channel drift can also occur in radio, especially music radio: see, for instance, the transition from oldies to classic hits, beautiful music to smooth jazz, and MOR to adult contemporary. In these cases, channel drift occurs when a format's older music becomes less popular or profitable (often due to the fans of that music dying, retiring, and leaving the area, or aging out of advertising demographics) and newer music is inserted into the playlist to draw younger listeners.
See also
Key demographic
References
Further reading
External links
Top 5 Networks That Have Sold Their Souls
Demographic Downfall: Television Executives Missing the Point
Television terminology
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23575984 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%20Rollinson | Neil Rollinson | Neil Rollinson (born 1960 West Yorkshire) is a British poet.
Life
He has published four collections of poetry, all Poetry Book Society Recommendations (Jonathan Cape UK). His last collection Talking Dead was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award. He has published several pamphlets, the last of which, also titled Talking Dead was shortlisted for the Michael Marks award. He was writer in residence at Wordsworth’s Dove Cottage for two years and has since been teaching creative writing at Bath Spa University.
He was 2007 writer-in-residence at Manchester's Centre For New Writing.
He tutors occasionally at the Arvon Centre. and works regularly with mentees on poetry projects.
Awards
1997 First Prize, UK National Poetry Competition
Royal Literary Fund Fellow
2005 Cholmondeley Award
2015 Shortlist: Costa Poetry Prize.
Works
"Constellations"; "Entropy", Nox Oculis
"The Ecstasy of St Saviours Avenue"
chapbook
References
External links
"Author's website"
"Interview: Neil Rollinson", Pomegranate, Issue 5
1960 births
Living people
Alumni of Newcastle University
British poets
People from West Yorkshire
British male poets
Writers from Yorkshire |
44502417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyros%20muirii | Gyros muirii | Gyros muirii is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Henry Edwards in 1881. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from California, Oregon and Washington.
The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are dull orange, flecked with blackish scales, and the base shading into deep brown. In the central space, there is also a blackish cloud and the posterior margin is blackish. The hindwings are a lighter shade of orange, with a narrow regular marginal border. Adults have been recorded on wing from March to July.
Subspecies
Gyros muirii muirii
Gyros muirii rubralis (Warren, 1892) (California)
References
Moths described in 1881
Odontiini |
23575987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irondequoit%20Creek | Irondequoit Creek | Irondequoit Creek is a stream in eastern Monroe County, New York that feeds Irondequoit Bay. It begins in rural West Bloomfield in Ontario County, flowing north into the town of Mendon in Monroe County. Accumulating a few small tributaries, it twists eastward back into the Ontario County town of Victor, then back north into Monroe County, where it flows through the towns of Perinton and Penfield on its way to the bay. It also skirts the edge of the combined town and village of East Rochester.
The creek is believed to lie in a valley carved out by a pre-glacial Genesee River, which at the time would have flowed into Lake Ontario where Irondequoit Bay does today. Glacial debris caused the river to be rerouted as the glaciers retreated, leaving only the comparatively small creek (Rogers 1893).
The first settlements in the town of Penfield sprang up along the creek, as its waters were well suited to mills. The Daisy Flour Mill, previously a restaurant, was the last of over a dozen mills that once used the creek's waters.
The creek's valley caused a problem for the engineers of the original Erie Canal, who ultimately had to build the Great Embankment aqueduct to bridge the valley near Bushnell's Basin (Fairchild 1896:134, Farley 2010, Schoff:505).
The creek is stocked annually with fish by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for year-round fishing.
References
Rivers of New York (state)
Rivers of Monroe County, New York
Rivers of Ontario County, New York |
44502419 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyros%20powelli | Gyros powelli | Gyros powelli is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Eugene G. Munroe in 1959. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from California.
References
Moths described in 1959
Odontiini |
44502429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliothelopsis%20arbutalis | Heliothelopsis arbutalis | Heliothelopsis arbutalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Snellen in 1875. It is found in Mexico and southern Arizona.
The wingspan is about 25 mm. The forewings are dark brown with a narrowgrey submarginal line from the apex to the anal angle. The hindwings are black, crossed in the middle with a pale yellow-orange band from the costal margin to the inner margin. Adults have been recorded on wing in May and September.
References
Moths described in 1875
Odontiini |
23575988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%20Honda%20Indy%20Toronto | 2009 Honda Indy Toronto | The 2009 Honda Indy Toronto was the tenth round of the 2009 IndyCar Series season and took place on July 12, 2009 at the Exhibition Place temporary street circuit in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dario Franchitti won the race, to join Chip Ganassi Racing teammate Scott Dixon as the only three-time winners in the 2009 season. Franchitti also regained the points lead from Dixon, leading the championship by two points as the championship heads to Edmonton. Ryan Briscoe finished second for the fifth time in the last six races, with Penske Racing teammate Will Power third on his return to the series.
The 2009 race was a resumption of the Toronto Grand Prix after a one-year hiatus due to the unification of the Champ Car World Series into IndyCar during the 2008 season, during which a Toronto Grand Prix was not held due to scheduling conflicts.
Grid
Race
Standings after the race
Drivers' Championship standings
References
Honda Indy Toronto
Indy Toronto
Honda Indy Toronto
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20472073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM%20U-23%20%28Austria-Hungary%29 | SM U-23 (Austria-Hungary) | SM U-23 or U-XXIII was a or U-boat built for and operated by the Austro-Hungarian Navy ( or ) during the First World War. The design for U-23 was based on that of the submarines of the Royal Danish Navy's Havmanden class (which had been designed by Whitehead & Co. in Fiume), and was largely obsolete by the beginning of the war.
U-23 was just over long and was armed with two bow torpedo tubes, a deck gun, and a machine gun. In February 1918, U-23 was sunk with all hands by the Italian torpedo boat Airone while attempting an attack on the Italian transport . U-23 had no wartime successes.
Design and construction
When it became apparent to the Austro-Hungarian Navy that the First World War would not be a short one, they moved to bolster their U-boat fleet by seizing the plans for the Danish Havmanden class submarines, which had been designed by Whitehead & Co. in Fiume, who had built three units. Although the Austro-Hungarian Navy was not happy with the design, which was largely obsolete, it was the only design for which plans were available and which could be begun immediately in domestic shipyards. The Austro-Hungarian Navy unenthusiastically placed orders for U-23 and her three sister boats on 27 March 1915.
U-23 was one of two boats of the class to be built at the Hungarian UBAG yard in Fiume. Due to demands by the Hungarian government, subcontracts for the class were divided between Hungarian and Austrian firms, and this politically expedient solution worsened technical problems with the design, resulting in numerous modifications and delays for the class in general.
U-23 was an ocean-going submarine that displaced surfaced and submerged and was designed for a complement of 18. She was long with a beam of and a draft of . For propulsion, she featured a single shaft, a single diesel engine for surface running, and a single electric motor for submerged travel. She was capable of while surfaced and while submerged. Although there is no specific notation of a range for U-23, the Havmanden class, upon which the U-20 class was based, had a range of at , surfaced, and at submerged.
U-23 was armed with two torpedo tubes located in the front and carried a complement of two torpedoes. She was also equipped with a /26 deck gun and an machine gun.
Service career
U-23 was launched on 5 January 1917, but It is not known with certainty when U-23 was commissioned. Author Paul Halpern reports that U-23 and her three sisters all entered service between August and November 1917. Although there are no specific reports of problems with U-23, the U-20 class as a whole suffered from unreliable engines which compounded the poor handling characteristics of the boats.
On 21 February 1918, Linienschiffsleutnant Klemens Ritter von Bezard, U-23s only commanding officer, was guiding the boat in an attack on the Italian transport in the Straits of Otranto. U-23 came under attack by the Italian torpedo boat Airone which first tried to ram the U-boat, and then deployed an explosive paravane. When the paravane contacted the submerged U-23, it exploded, blowing debris into the air and sinking the submarine with all hands. Like all of her sister boats, U-23 had no wartime successes.
References
Bibliography
1917 ships
Maritime incidents in 1918
U-20-class submarines
U-boats commissioned in 1917
U-boats sunk in 1918
U-boats sunk by Italian warships
Ships built in Fiume
Ships lost with all hands
World War I shipwrecks in the Adriatic Sea
World War I submarines of Austria-Hungary |
20472093 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylopia%20aromatica | Xylopia aromatica | Xylopia aromatica is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family and the accepted name of Xylopia xylopioides.
It is a tree native to Cerrado grassland vegetation, particularly in the states of Goiás and Minas Gerais, in eastern Brazil.
References
External links
aromatica
Endemic flora of Brazil
Flora of the Cerrado
Flora of Goiás
Flora of Minas Gerais |
44502435 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliothelopsis%20costipunctalis | Heliothelopsis costipunctalis | Heliothelopsis costipunctalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough in 1914. It is found in Mexico and the US states of Texas and Arizona.
The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are deep black brown sprinkled with whitish scales and with a small whitish patch on the costa. The hindwings are uniform black brown. Adults have been recorded on wing in August.
References
Moths described in 1914
Odontiini |
44502439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliothelopsis%20unicoloralis | Heliothelopsis unicoloralis | Heliothelopsis unicoloralis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough in 1914. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Arizona.
The wingspan is 12–14 mm. The forewings are deep black brown with a slight bronze tinge and sprinkled with whitish scaling. The hindwings are uniform black brown. Adults have been recorded on wing in August.
References
Moths described in 1914
Odontiini |
6904064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil%20M.%20Mrak | Emil M. Mrak | Emil Marcel Mrak (October 27, 1901 – April 9, 1987) was an American food scientist, microbiologist, and second chancellor of the University of California, Davis. He was recognized internationally for his work in food preservation and as a world authority on the biology of yeasts.
Biography
Early years
Mrak was born in San Francisco, California to a Croatian family, but did not grow up in that city. Instead, he was raised in the rural orchards of the Santa Clara Valley. He graduated from Campbell High School in Campbell, then went on to receive a B.S. degree in Food Technology in 1926, M.S. degree in 1928, and Ph.D. degree in botany and mycology in 1936 from the University of California, Berkeley. While an undergraduate at Berkeley, Mrak was a member of the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity.
Career
Mrak was appointed as an instructor in food technology at UC Berkeley in 1937 and became professor and department chairman in 1948. In 1951, he led the move of the department to its current location at UC Davis, and was later appointed chancellor in 1959. He was the first food scientist to ever be named president or chancellor of a college or university. The only other food scientist to have this honor is James L. Oblinger, chancellor of the North Carolina State University in Raleigh from 2005 to 2009.
Mrak was recommended to UC President Clark Kerr by Harry R. Wellman. Kerr had to bring Mrak before the board three times in order to secure their reluctant approval of his appointment to lead the Davis campus. Upon encountering him, some regents initially thought that Mrak did not "look like a chancellor". However, both the Board of Regents and Kerr came to value Mrak's management skills, as well as his ability to effectively represent the university's interests in nearby Sacramento.
At the time of Mrak's appointment, Davis was still tightly focused on agriculture due to its origins as the University Farm. Mrak successfully developed UC Davis into a general campus offering a rich variety of undergraduate and graduate programs, and he worked hard to turn the campus into a bicycle-friendly environment.
A charter member of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) in 1939, Mrak served as its President from 1957 to 1958. He also won numerous awards within IFT, including the Nicholas Appert Award (1957), the Babcock-Hart Award (1961), the International Award (1963), election as a Fellow in 1970, and the Carl R. Fellers Award in 1984. He also served as chair of IFT's Northern California Section in 1947/48. In 1969, Mrak served as chairman of a federal government commission (which became known as the Mrak commission) that recommended restricting the use of the pesticide DDT. He also served as the first chairman of the Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory Council under President Richard M. Nixon.
Personal life
Mrak married Vera Dudley Greaves, a nutritionist, on November 15, 1945. They had two children: Robert Emil Mrak (December 18, 1948) and Antoinette Vera Mrak (July 15, 1951). Mrak died in Davis, California on April 9, 1987. Mrak Hall, the administration office building on the UC Davis campus, is named in his honor.
In 1988, UC Davis also established the Emil M. Mrak International Award in his honor.
Honours and awards
Alpha Gamma Rho Chi Brothers of the Century: 1923
Alpha Gamma Rho Hall of Fame: 1980
University of California, Berkeley Alumnus of the Year: 1969
Students
Herman Phaff
References
Further reading
Alpha Gamma Rho Chi brothers of the century
Alpha Gamma Rho Hall of Fame
Centennial history of University of California (food science and technology)
Food Science and Technology history at UC-Davis
List of IFT fellows
List of IFT past award winners
External links
Emil Mrak on the Davis Wiki
University of California: In Memoriam, 1987.
University of California, Berkeley Alumnus of the Year awards
Images of Emil Mrak from UCD Archives
Emil Mrak Papers at Special Collections Dept., University Library, University of California, Davis
1901 births
1987 deaths
American food scientists
American microbiologists
Fellows of the Institute of Food Technologists
People from San Francisco
University of California, Berkeley alumni
University of California, Berkeley faculty
Chancellors of the University of California, Davis
Educators from California
People from Davis, California
20th-century American academics |
20472102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil%20Selenka | Emil Selenka | Emil Selenka (27 February, 1842, Braunschweig – 20 February, 1902, Munich) was a German zoologist. He is known for his research on invertebrates and apes and the scientific expeditions he organized to Southeast Asia and South America.
Life
Selenka was the son of bookbinder Johannes Selenka (1801–1871). He studied natural history at the University of Göttingen, and following a graduate dissertation on Holothuroidea, he remained in Göttingen as an assistant to Wilhelm Moritz Keferstein (1833-1870). His research was in this period mainly on the anatomy, taxonomy and embryology of marine invertebrates, especially organisms from the phylum Echinodermata. In 1868 he became a professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of Leiden, followed by a professorship at the University of Erlangen in 1874. In 1895 he was given an honorary professorship at the University of Munich. He was co-founder of the journal Biologisches Zentralblatt.
His later research was on mammals. He studied the early development of the embryo and the development of the germ layer in mammals, and did comparative anatomic research on apes, especially gibbons and orangutans. He found evidence that the lateral distribution of orangutan races was caused by geographic isolation (a process called allopatric speciation). Selenka also examined the evolution of marsupials and their morphologic relation with reptiles. One problem he was interested in, was the evolutionary relation between Australian and South American marsupials.
In order to collect material, Selenka organized expeditions to tropical countries. In 1877 he undertook an expedition to Brasil. From 1892 he led an expedition that lasted two years to Southeast Asia, it visited Ceylon, the Dutch East Indies, Japan, China and Australia. Among the participants was his second wife, the zoologist and feminist Margarethe Selenka (1860-1922), whom he married in 1893. When Selenka became severely ill during his stay in the Dutch East Indies and had to return to Germany, his wife continued exploring the jungles of Borneo by herself. The couple wrote a report of their journeys together, titled "Sonnige Welten- Ostasiatische Reiseskizzen". Other publications by Emil Selenka are:
Beiträge zur Anatomie und Systematik der Holothurien, (1867).
Zoologische Studien, (1878).
Studien über Entwickelungsgeschichte der Thiere, (12 volumes, 1883–1913, with Ambrosius Hubrecht).
"Report on the Gephyrea, collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876"; (published in English, 1885).
Zoologisches Taschenbuch für Studierende zum Gebrauch bei Vorlesungen und praktischen Übungen zusammengestellt, (1897).
Between 1873 and 1874 and again from 1889 Selenka was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Literature
; 1922: Emil Selenka, ein Gedenkblatt zur achtzigsten Wiederkehr seines Geburtstages am 27. Februar, Naturwissenschaften 10(8), pp 179-181.
References
External links
Zeno.org, translated biography
Baltic and North East Atlantic Taxa, Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names
Scientists from Braunschweig
People from the Duchy of Brunswick
1842 births
1902 deaths
Leiden University faculty
Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg faculty
19th-century German zoologists
Members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences |
44502454 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaxmeste%20elbursana | Metaxmeste elbursana | Metaxmeste elbursana is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Hans Georg Amsel in 1961. It is found in Iran.
References
Moths described in 1961
Odontiini |
20472147 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylopia%20sericea | Xylopia sericea | Xylopia sericea is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It is native to Cerrado vegetation in Brazil.
References
sericea
Endemic flora of Brazil
Flora of the Cerrado |
44502455 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaxmeste%20nubicola | Metaxmeste nubicola | Metaxmeste nubicola is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Eugene G. Munroe in 1954. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Colorado and Washington. The habitat consists of arctic-alpine areas.
References
Moths described in 1954
Odontiini |
20472181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Brown%20%28game%20designer%29 | Anne Brown (game designer) | Anne K. Brown is a writer and editor in the role-playing game industry.
Career
Brown began working as an Assistant editor for Dragon magazine in 1989, on issues #147 to #151 (July–November 1989). She was later transferred to TSR's Games Division. She worked mostly as an editor, although she did design a number of modules and supplements including Falcon's Revenge, Falconmaster, and Flames of the Falcon (Greyhawk, 1990, with Richard W. Brown), Ship of Horror (Ravenloft, 1991), Unsung Heroes (Dragonlance, 1992), Aurora's Whole Realms Catalog (Forgotten Realms, 1992), and Children of the Night: Ghosts (Ravenloft, 1997). Brown was a vocal advocate within TSR of the Greyhawk setting, and designed the Player's Guide to Greyhawk (1998). Brown's Player's Guide to Greyhawk and Roger E. Moore's Return of the Eight and The Adventure Begins returned TSR to Greyhawk, and according to Shannon Appelcline "moved the setting's metaplot well beyond the Greyhawk Wars to a new era that that was lighter and more magical than that of From the Ashes".
Brown left TSR in August 1997, and did work for Fast Forward Entertainment from 2002-2003. She has also written educational nonfiction books for middle schoolers.
Publications
Co-author of The Storyteller’s Thesaurus (Chenault & Gray Publishing, 2013)
Author of middle grade biography, Roger Federer (Lucent Books, 2011)
Author of middle grade biography, Katy Perry (Lucent Books, 2011)
Author of middle grade nonfiction, Migraines (Lucent Books, 2010)
Author of middle grade nonfiction, Virtual Danger: Staying Safe Online (Compass Point Books, 2009)
Author of middle grade biography, Gwen Stefani (Lucent Books, 2009)
Author of middle grade biography, John Adams (Blackbirch Press, 2003)
Author of young adult novel, Bigby’s Curse (TSR, Inc., 1995)
Co-author of fantasy novels, Pools of Darkness and Pool of Twilight (TSR, Inc., 1992 & 1993)
Short Stories
"The Wolf in the Shadows," 2016, Lunar Resorts Anthology, The 77 Lost Worlds: An Apocalyptic Space game, FireSide Creations LLC
References
External links
21st-century American women
American women writers
Dungeons & Dragons game designers
Living people
Women science fiction and fantasy writers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
44502462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaxmeste%20staudingeri | Metaxmeste staudingeri | Metaxmeste staudingeri is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Hugo Theodor Christoph in 1873. It is found in Iran.
References
Moths described in 1873
Odontiini |
20472187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garibong | Garibong | Garibong is a mountain in the county of Inje, Gangwon-do, in South Korea. It has an elevation of .
See also
List of mountains in Korea
Notes
References
Mountains of South Korea
Inje County
Mountains of Gangwon Province, South Korea
One-thousanders of South Korea
zh:加里峰 |
20472216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser%20Tank%20%28disambiguation%29 | Laser Tank (disambiguation) | The Laser Tank is a fictional vehicle in the Space 1999 television series.
Laser Tank may also refer to:
1K17 Szhatie, Soviet laser tank
LaserTank, a 1995 computer puzzle game
Laser Tank (board game), a 1980 board game published by Judges Guild |
44502471 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtheoris%20ophionalis | Microtheoris ophionalis | Microtheoris ophionalis, the yellow-veined moth, is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1859. It is found from southern Canada, through the United States and Mexico to South America.
The length of the forewings 5.5–7 mm. The wing colour varies from dark ochreous brown, rust brown with a well-defined subterminal line, to pale tan with brown subterminal lines. Adults are on wing from May to October in the northern part of the range.
Subspecies
Microtheoris ophionalis ophionalis
Microtheoris ophionalis baboquivariensis Munroe, 1961 (Arizona)
Microtheoris ophionalis eremica Munroe, 1961 (Texas)
Microtheoris ophionalis lacustris Munroe, 1961 (Ontario)
Microtheoris ophionalis occidentalis Munroe, 1961 (British Columbia)
References
Moths described in 1859
Odontiini |
6904067 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Boney | Henry Boney | Henry Tate Boney (October 28, 1903 – June 12, 2002) was an American professional baseball player who was a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball during part of the 1927 season. Boney appeared in three games, all in relief, for the New York Giants.
Boney was born in Wallace, North Carolina. He attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he played for coach Lance Richbourg and coach Brady Cowell's Florida Gators baseball teams in 1926 and 1927.
Boney made his major league debut as 23-year-old rookie against the Philadelphia Phillies at Baker Bowl on June 28, 1927. He made his third and final relief appearance on July 13. Boney finished all three games in which he appeared, and pitched a total of four innings, giving up just one earned run. Boney's record was 0–0 with a 2.25 earned run average.
See also
Florida Gators
List of Florida Gators baseball players
External links
Retrosheet
1903 births
2002 deaths
Baseball players from North Carolina
Florida Gators baseball players
Major League Baseball pitchers
New York Giants (NL) players
People from Wallace, North Carolina |
20472226 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minuscule%202813 | Minuscule 2813 | Minuscule 2813 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on 151 parchment leaves (11.9 cm by 9.5 cm). Dated paleographically to the 13th century.
Description
The codex contains Luke and John with some lacunae. The text is written in one column per page, in 19 lines per page. It contains a miniature before Gospel of John. It is rubbed. The manuscript was bound with John preceding Luke. The leaves are numbered and according to these numbers Luke preceded John before bounding.
Kurt Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category.
It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.
Currently the codex is in private hands.
See also
List of New Testament minuscules (2001–)
Textual criticism
References
External links
Images of manuscript 2813 at the CSNTM
Greek New Testament minuscules
13th-century biblical manuscripts |
20472291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panafest | Panafest | The Pan African Historical Theatre Project now known as PANAFEST is a cultural event held in Ghana every two years for Africans and people of African descent. It was first held in 1992. The idea of this festival is to promote and enhance unity, Pan-Africanism, and the development of the continent of Africa itself. Activities that occur at this festival are performances and work in the areas of theatre, drama, music, and poetry, among other things. Also, there are viewing of the durbar of chiefs, and tours to various places of interest, such as slave castle dungeons.
Impetus and objectives
PANAFEST was mooted by the late Efua Sutherland in the mid-1980s as a cultural vehicle for bringing Africans on the continent and in the diaspora together around the issues raised by slavery that remain suppressed. PANAFEST addresses the most traumatic interruption that ever occurred in the natural evolution of African societies, which among other traumas profoundly eroded the self-confidence and freedom for self-determination of a whole people. Ghana’s coastline is dotted with now silent memorials to over 500 years of this most turbulent era in Africa’s history, which the festival consciously makes a site for confronting the effects of enslavement, purging the pain of the diaspora, acknowledging the residual effects of the trade on the African continent and re-uniting to forge a positive future in the contemporary global environment.
Alongside the healing processes, PANAFEST celebrates the strengths and resilience of African culture and achievements of Africans in spite of the transatlantic slave trade and its aftermath. It is designed to help Africans to reconnect with their strengths and thus be inspired to eternal vigilance, rededicate themselves to fully assuming the reigns of their own destiny in recognition of the lessons of history.
There are today urgent developments making this proudly Ghanaian initiative a vital and relevant platform that provides members of the African family with the opportunity to engage with each other in forthright communication. Among these are negatives such as human trafficking from the continent, the brain drain, marginalization of Africans in a global knowledge economy, the renewed surge of external pursuit of African natural resources and the slowness of African unification. There are also positive factors including enabling global conventions and coalitions and African initiatives to establish transnational businesses, add value to community initiatives, take advantage of technologies and mobilize the strength of Africans around the globe.
PANAFEST and the Ghanaian State
PANAFEST is an international event that, as has happened since Independence in the mid-20th century, makes Ghana a motivational force for African peoples. Since 1992, the festival has attracted participation by official delegations, individuals and groups from African, Caribbean and South American countries, as well as groups and individuals from Europe and the United States. The government of Ghana considers this a major national initiative and appreciates the agencies, communities, civil society organizations and corporate bodies which have mobilized resources to complement government efforts over the years. The government of Ghana is also deeply appreciative of all sister governments for their participation and the African Union for lending its auspices to this unique cultural manifestation.
References
External links
PANAFEST website
Festivals in Ghana
African society
African culture
African Union |
44502472 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Collected%20Stories%20of%20Frank%20Herbert | The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert | The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert is the sixth, and first posthumous, anthology of short science fiction stories by American author Frank Herbert, released by Tor Books on November 18, 2014.
Stories
External links
DuneNovels.com ~ Official site of Dune and Herbert Limited Partnership
2014 short story collections
Short story collections by Frank Herbert
Tor Books books |
44502481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtheoris%20vibicalis | Microtheoris vibicalis | Microtheoris vibicalis, the whip-marked snout moth, is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Zeller in 1873. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
The wingspan is about 11 mm. Adults have been recorded on wing from March to September.
References
Moths described in 1873
Odontiini |
6904077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C4%B1z%C4%B1lay | Kızılay |
Organizations
Kızılay, the short name for Kızılay Derneği, the Turkish Red Crescent
Places
Cyprus
Kızılay, Cyprus the Turkish name for the town of Trachonas
Turkey
Kızılay, Ankara, a neighborhood of Ankara, and one of the primary nerve centers of the city
Kızılay Meydanı, a square in the neighborhood |
6904082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahudi | Yahudi | Yahudi (), is a 1958 Hindi-language action drama film directed by Bimal Roy. It starred Dilip Kumar, Meena Kumari, Sohrab Modi, Nazir Hussain, Nigar Sultana and others. It was based on the play Yahudi Ki Ladki by Agha Hashar Kashmiri, a classic in Parsi-Urdu theatre, about persecution of Jews in the Roman Empire. Although, not very well received critically, the film was a big hit despite its alien theme, and was the third-highest grossing Indian film of 1958, owing to the box office draw of Dilip Kumar.
The film's lyricist Shailendra won the Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist at the 6th ceremony, for the song "Yeh Mera Diwanapan Hai", sung by Mukesh.
The plot bears similarities to Jacques Fromental Halévy's opera La Juive.
The story revolves around the life of a foster relationship. Set in the era of the Roman Empire over 2000 years ago, it focuses upon the persecution of Jews at that time in the empire's centre - Rome.
Plot
Ezra (Sohrab Modi) is a jeweller who has a son called Elijah. He also has a friendly butler/childminder called Emmanuel. In the beginning, Ezra is due to leave. As he does, Elijah becomes upset and stands at the balcony. In the roads of the Jewish area, Brutus (Nazir Hussain), Governor of Rome, is passing, making an announcement. Watching over the balcony is Elijah. A stone slips from his hand and hits Brutus on the head. Brutus immediately gets Elijah arrested, and as Elijah is a Jew, sentences him to death. Hearing this, Ezra rapidly returns from his trip and arrives at the doorstep of Brutus. He begs Brutus to free Elijah, but Brutus feeds Elijah to hungry lions. Ezra sadly returns to his house. In revenge, Emmanuel kidnaps Lydia, motherless daughter of Brutus, and takes her to Ezra. Ezra refuses to kill Lydia and instead adopts the child.
Brutus' anger brews. He orders the guards to find his daughter, and call for punishment of all Jews. Ezra remains hidden and raises Lydia, who grows up thinking she is Ezra's daughter and that her name is Hannah.
Years pass and Ezra grows to become a successful jeweller, well known to be so good and a Jew. Hannah (Meena Kumari) grows into a beautiful young lady and attracts attention from many. The Emperor of Rome arrives in Rome for the marriage of his son Prince Marcus (Dilip Kumar) to Brutus' niece Princess Octivia (Nigar Sultana).
However, Prince Marcus avoids talking about his marriage and opposes it. One day, when returning from a hunting trip, he gets hurt and is cared for by Hannah. He then disguises himself as a Jew and goes back into the Jewish area. He rescues Hannah from the unwanted attentions of a Roman soldier and meets her father, Ezra, not as Prince Marcus but as Monshija, a successful Jew from Alexandria. Ezra is happy to meet him and "Monshija" and Hannah fall in love.
But Hannah soon notices that something isn't right. Prince Marcus then reveals who he is, making Hannah very upset at his dishonesty, and she banishes the Prince from her life.
Then comes the day of the marriage of Prince Marcus and Princess Octivia. Everyone is invited. Before the ritual could commence, Hannah shouts aloud that she had been cheated by a Roman. Ezra joins in to get back at his enemy Brutus. He clamors for justice. The Emperor demands the name of the culprit and Hannah claims it was Prince Marcus. Brutus tries to rebut Hannah and Ezra, but the Emperor insists that justice must be done. Heartbroken, Hannah returns home.
She is followed by Princess Octivia. Hannah sees the Princess at her doorstep and denies her entry. Hannah knew the princess would beg for the Prince's life. However, the princess told Hannah that the Prince will be sentenced to death the very next day. Early morning the next day, without warning, Hannah took Ezra with her to the Emperor. There she told him that she takes the accusation back. She tells the Emperor that the man that cheated was not the prince but a look-alike. Ezra is shocked, and Brutus, filled with happiness, sentences Hannah and Ezra to death. They are to be thrown into a cauldron of boiling oil that very day, in front of the Prince. Unable to bear that his love will be burnt in front of him, Prince Marcus blinds himself, then goes to the cauldron chamber.
Here Ezra is begging for Hannah's life, and Hannah is trying to reason with Ezra that she'd rather die than live a life of hate. But Brutus stops at nothing and wants the two to die. Immediately, Ezra tells Brutus that he knows where the Governor's lost daughter is. Brutus is confused and says that this is Ezra's revenge and accuses the Jew of lying. Ezra sarcastically agrees. But Brutus begs Ezra and Ezra will only tell on one condition. That Hannah is thrown into the cauldron as soon as Brutus finds out who his daughter is. Now Hannah is confused. Ezra tells Brutus that Hannah is Brutus' daughter and the Jew tells the guards to throw Hannah into the boiling oil. Brutus orders them to stop. Ezra looks at Hannah and dies. Hannah cries over her foster father's dead body. Brutus tells Hannah not to cry, but Hannah does not listen. She runs away from Brutus and finds the Prince. Shocked to find him blind, Hannah lends him support and helps him as the two disappear into the distance.
Cast
Sohrab Modi as Ezra Johari
Dilip Kumar as Shehzada Marcus
Meena Kumari as Hannah / Lydia
Nigar Sultana as Shehzadi Octavia
Nazir hussain as Brutus
Anwar hussain as Antonio
Minu Mumtaz as Ruth
Tiwari as Emmanuel
Murad as Emperor Julius Caesar
Indira as Yasmine
Adil
Bikram kapoor as Leo
Baby Naaz as Young Lydia
Romi as Elijah
Helen as Dancer / Singer
Cuckoo as Dancer / Singer
Kamala Laxman as Wedding Dancer / Singer
Soundtrack
References
External links
Full movie YouTube
1950s Hindi-language films
1958 films
Films scored by Shankar–Jaikishan
Films directed by Bimal Roy
Films set in the Roman Empire
Indian historical drama films
Films about royalty
Films about antisemitism
Indian films based on plays
Indian epic films
Historical epic films
1950s historical drama films
1958 drama films |
23575993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary%20Clooney%20discography | Rosemary Clooney discography | Singer Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 – June 29, 2002) is known for many songs, including "Come On-a My House", "Botch-a-Me", "Mambo Italiano", "Tenderly", "Half as Much", "Hey There" and "This Ole House". This is a partial discography.
Singles discography
Albums
1952: Hollywood's Best (with Harry James) (10" Lp)
1954: Red Garters (with Guy Mitchell and Joanne Gilbert) (10" Lp)
1954: While We're Young (10" Lp)
1954: Irving Berlin's White Christmas (10" Lp)
1955: Tenderly (10" Lp)
1955: Children's Favorites (10" Lp)
1955: Hollywood's Best (with Harry James) (12" Lp)
1956: Blue Rose (with Duke Ellington)
1956: Date with the King (with Benny Goodman) (10" LP)
1956: My Fair Lady (10" LP)
1956: On Stage (live at the London Palladium) (10" LP)
1957: Ring Around Rosie (with The Hi-Lo's)
1957: Clooney Tunes
1958: The Ferrers (with José Ferrer)
1958: The Ferrers at Home (with José Ferrer)
1958: Swing Around Rosie (with the Buddy Cole trio)
1958: Fancy Meeting You Here (with Bing Crosby)
1958: In High Fidelity
1958: Oh, Captain!
1959: Hymns From the Heart
1959: A Touch of Tabasco (with Perez Prado)
1959: Hollywood Hits
1959: Mixed Emotions
1960: How the West Was Won (with Bing Crosby)
1960: Rosie Swings Softly
1960: Clap Hands! Here Comes Rosie!
1961: Rosie Solves the Swingin' Riddle! (with Nelson Riddle)
1961: Rosemary Clooney Sings for Children
1963: Rosemary Clooney Sings Country Hits from the Heart
1963: Love (recorded 1961)
1964: Thanks for Nothing
1965: That Travelin' Two Beat - Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney (with Bing Crosby)
1976: Look My Way
1977: Nice to Be Around
1977: A Tribute to Duke
1977: Everything's Coming Up Rosie
1978: Christmas with Rosemary Clooney (recorded 1976)
1978: Rosie Sings Bing
1979: Here's to My Lady
1979: Rosemary Clooney Sings the Lyrics of Ira Gershwin
1981: With Love
1982: Rosemary Clooney Sings the Music of Cole Porter
1983: Rosemary Clooney With Les Brown and his Band of Renown
1983: Rosemary Clooney Sings the Music of Harold Arlen
1983: My Buddy (with Woody Herman)
1984: Rosemary Clooney Sings the Music of Irving Berlin
1985: Rosemary Clooney Sings Ballads
1986: Rosemary Clooney Sings the Music of Jimmy Van Heusen
1987: Rosemary Clooney Sings the Lyrics of Johnny Mercer
1989: Show Tunes
1989: 16 Most Requested Songs
1990: Rosemary Clooney Sings Rodgers, Hart & Hammerstein
1991: For the Duration
1992: Girl Singer
1993: Do You Miss New York?
1994: Still on the Road
1995: Demi-Centennial
1996: Dedicated to Nelson
1996: White Christmas
1997: Mothers & Daughters
1998: At Long Last (with the Count Basie Orchestra)
2000: Out of This World
2000: Brazil (with John Pizzarelli)
2001: Sentimental Journey: The Girl Singer and Her New Big Band
2001: A Very Special Christmas with Rosemary Clooney
2002: The Last Concert (live)
References
Vocal jazz discographies |
6904083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture%20of%20Martinique | Culture of Martinique | As an overseas départment of France, Martinique's culture is French and Caribbean. Its former capital, Saint-Pierre (destroyed by a volcanic eruption), was often referred to as the Paris of the Lesser Antilles. The official language is French, although many Martinicans speak a Creole patois. Based in French, Martinique's Creole also incorporates elements of English, Spanish, Portuguese, and African languages. Originally passed down through oral storytelling traditions, it continues to be used more often in speech than in writing.
Most of Martinique's population is descended from African slaves brought to work on sugar plantations during the colonial era, white slave owners or from Carib or Kalinago people.
Today, the island enjoys a higher standard of living than most other Caribbean countries. French products are easily available. Following French custom, many businesses close at midday, then reopen later in the afternoon. Among young people, studying in France is common. For the French, Martinique has been a vacation hotspot for many years, attracting both the upper class and more budget-conscious travelers.
Music
Music contributes a great deal to Martinique's culture. The most popular style is zouk, which originated in Martinique and Guadeloupe by combining elements of a number of musical styles from the Caribbean and United States. Its biggest influence was biguine, which was popular dance orchestra music from the 1930s to 1950s. Zouk today has evolved from big band ensembles to smaller, electronically peppered bands. Musicians use synthesizers, DIGITAL samplers, and drum machines, which they program to sound like native percussion instruments.
Another favorite musical genre, bèlè is an early form of biguine which incorporates group dance and song accompanied by drumming, often led in a call and response style. For most of the year, local music dominates. But during Carnival, other music like calypso and soca can be heard as well.
Festivals
Martinique's version of Carnival, is a four-day event beginning just before Lent and ending on its first day, with the burning of Vaval, a papier-mâché figure symbolizing Carnival. Businesses close during Carnival.
Like other Caribbean Carnivals, Martinique's is a high-energy event with parades, singing, drums, and other festivities. People dress up in costumes, with devils and she-devils being especially popular. During Carnival in Martinique, many men parade in drag queen costume, sometimes with very elaborate and provocative outfits, with no obvious hint at alternative sexuality. It must be mentioned that traditionally, some women dressed as men for burlesque weddings on Monday. The high presence of men in drag is a reference to the central role of women in Martinique's society and family structure.
Towns throughout Martinique elect their own Carnival Queen, Mini-Queen, and Queen Mother.
Halfway through Lent, Martinicans take a break from abstinence with the one-day holiday Micarême. The one-day mini-Carnival features dances, parties, and similar activities. Afterward, people return to their repentance until Easter begins.
Just as in France, every year on November 21, Martinique celebrates the release of the year's Beaujolais nouveau. In odd-numbered years in early December, the island hosts its prestigious Jazz à la Martinique. Both top local talent and internationally known musicians like Branford Marsalis perform at this jazz festival. Jazz Festivals all over the Caribbean are very enjoyable.
Cuisine
French and Creole cuisine dominate Martinique's culinary landscape. The two styles also combine by using French techniques with local produce, such as breadfruit, cassava, and christophine (chayote). Creole dishes rely heavily on seafood, including curries and fritters. An exception is boudin, a Creole type of blood sausage. A dash of Chien sauce (made from onions, shallots, peppers, oil, and vinegar) adds a spicy touch to meals. The favored island drink, Ti punch, is a mixture of five parts of white rum to one part sugarcane syrup. Crêperies, brasseries, and restaurants featuring cuisine from various French regions can be found all over Martinique.
History of French Antilles culture
Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc was a French trader and adventurer in the Caribbean, who established the first permanent French colony, Saint-Pierre, on the island of Martinique in 1635. Belain sailed to the Caribbean in 1625, hoping to establish a French settlement on the island of St. Christopher (St. Kitts). In 1626 he returned to France, where he won the support of Cardinal Richelieu to establish French colonies in the region. Richelieu became a shareholder in the Compagnie de Saint-Christophe, created to accomplish this with d'Esnambuc at its head. The company was not particularly successful and Richelieu had it reorganized as the Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique. In 1635 d'Esnambuc sailed to Martinique with one hundred French settlers to clear land for sugarcane plantations.
After six months on Martinique, d'Esnambuc returned to St. Christopher, where he soon died prematurely in 1636, leaving the company and Martinique in the hands of his nephew, Du Parquet. His nephew, Jacques Dyel du Parquet, inherited d'Esnambuc's authority over the French settlements in the Caribbean. In 1637, his nephew, Jacques Dyel du Parquet, became governor of the island. He remained in Martinique and did not concern himself with the other islands.
The French permanently settled on Martinique and Guadeloupe after being driven off Saint Kitts and Nevis (Saint-Christophe in French) by the British. Fort Royal (Fort-de-France) on Martinique was a major port for French battle ships in the region from which the French were able to explore the region. In 1638, Jacques Dyel du Parquet (1606-1658), nephew of Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc and first governor of Martinique, decided to have Fort Saint Louis built to protect the city against enemy attacks. From Fort Royal, Martinique, Du Parquet proceeded south in search for new territories and established the first settlement in Saint Lucia in 1643, and headed an expedition which established a French settlement in Grenada in 1649. Despite the long history of British rule, Grenada's French heritage is still evidenced by the number of French loanwords in Grenadian Creole, French-style buildings, cuisine and places name (For ex. Petit Martinique, Martinique Channel, etc.)
In 1642 the Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique company received a twenty-year extension of its charter. The King would name the Governor General of the company, and the company the Governors of the various islands. However, by the late 1640s, in France Mazarin had little interest in colonial affairs and the company languished. In 1651 it dissolved itself, selling its exploitation rights to various parties. The du Paquet family bought Martinique, Grenada, and Saint Lucia for 60,000 livres. The sieur d'Houël bought Guadeloupe, Marie-Galante, La Desirade and the Saintes. The Knights of Malta bought Saint Barthélemy and Saint Martin, which were made dependencies of Guadeloupe. In 1665, the Knights sold the islands they had acquired to the newly formed (1664) Compagnie des Indes occidentales.
Dominica is a former French and British colony in the Eastern Caribbean, located about halfway between the French islands of Guadeloupe (to the north) and Martinique (to the south). Christopher Columbus named the island after the day of the week on which he spotted it, a Sunday (domingo in Latin), 3 November 1493. In the hundred years after Columbus's landing, Dominica remained isolated. At the time it was inhabited by the Island Caribs, or Kalinago people, and over time more settled there after being driven from surrounding islands, as European powers entered the region. In 1690, French woodcutters from Martinique and Guadeloupe begin to set up timber camps to supply the French islands with wood and gradually become permanent settlers. France had a colony for several years, they imported slaves from West Africa, Martinique and Guadeloupe to work on its plantations. In this period, the Antillean Creole language developed. France formally ceded possession of Dominica to Great Britain in 1763. Great Britain established a small colony on the island in 1805. As a result, Dominica speak English as an official language while Antillean creole is spoken as a secondary language and is well maintained due to its location between the French-speaking departments of Guadeloupe and Martinique.
In Trinidad, the Spanish who were in possession of the island, contributed little towards advancements, with El Dorado the focus, Trinidad was perfect due to its geographical location. Because Trinidad was considered underpopulated, Roume de St. Laurent, a Frenchman living in Grenada, was able to obtain a Cédula de Población from the Spanish king Charles III on 4 November 1783. Following the cedula of population French planters with their slaves, free coloreds and mulattos from the French Antilles of Martinique, Grenada, Guadeloupe and Dominica migrated to the Trinidad. They too added to the ancestry of Trinidadians, creating the creole identity; Spanish, French, and Patois were the languages spoken. The Spanish also gave many incentives to lure settlers to the island, including exemption from taxes for ten years and land grants in accordance to the terms set out in the Cedula. These new immigrants establishing local communities of Blanchisseuse, Champs Fleurs, Paramin, Cascade, Carenage and Laventille. Trinidad's population jumped to over 15,000 by the end of 1789, from just under 1,400 in 1777. In 1797, Trinidad became a British crown colony, with a French-speaking population. This exodus was encouraged due to the French Revolution.
Carnival had arrived with the French, indentured laborers and the slaves, who could not take part in Carnival, formed their own, parallel celebration called canboulay (from the French cannes brulées, meaning burnt cane) - the precursor for Trinidad's carnival and has played an important role in the development of Trinidad's culture. During the carnival season, the slaves performed songs in tents called Kaiso - later Calypso tents. Many early kaiso or calypso were performed in the French creole language and led by a griot or chantwell. As Trinidad became a British colony, the chantwell became known as the calypsonian. The British government tried to ban the celebration of carnival due to its aggressive overtone; this led to canboulay Riots between the Afro-creoles and the police, which banned the use of Stick fighting and African percussion music in 1881. They were replaced by bamboo "Bamboo-Tamboo" sticks beaten together, which were themselves banned in turn. In 1937 they reappeared, transformed as an orchestra of frying pans, dustbin lids and oil drums. These steelpans or pans are now a major part of the Trinidadian music scene.
Calypso's early rise was closely connected with the adoption of Carnival by Trinidadian slaves, including canboulay drumming and the music masquerade processions. The French brought Carnival to Trinidad, and calypso competitions at Carnival grew in popularity, especially after the abolition of slavery in 1834. From Trinidad, the carnival, calypso and steel pan spread to the entire English speaking Caribbean islands. Calypso in the Caribbean includes a range of genres, including: the Benna genre of Antiguan and Barbudan music; Mento, a style of Jamaican folk music that greatly influenced ska and reggae; Ska, the precursor to rocksteady and reggae; Spouge, a style of Barbadian popular music.
In Dominica, the chanté mas and lapo kabwit tradition started to become dominated by imported calypso and steel pan music in the early 1960s. After a fire in 1963, the traditional carnival was banned, though calypso and steelpan continued to grow in popularity. Calypso appealed to Carnival-partygoers because the lyrical focus on local news and gossip was similar to that of chanté mas, despite a rhythmic pattern and instrumentation which contrast sharply with traditional Dominican "Mas Domnik" music. Many of the traditional chanté mas (masquerade song) were performed to the calypso beat and later the new reggae beat coming out of Jamaica.
Calypsonians and Calypso Monarch competitions emerged and became extremely popular. Steelbands emerged all around Dominica and the rest of the Caribbean islands. Calypso music has been popular in Dominica since the 1950s; the first Calypso King was crowned in 1959. Bands such as Swinging Stars, The Gaylords, De Boys an Dem, Los Caballeros and Swinging Busters surfaced and began to cut records. The emergence of radio, first WIDBS and later Radio Dominica helped to spread the music.
In the 1960s, a number of Haitian musicians to the French Antilles (Guadeloupe and Martinique) brought with them the kadans (another word named for the genre "compas"), a sophisticated form of music that quickly swept the island and helped unite all the former French colonies of the Caribbean by combining their cultural influences. Webert Sicot, the originator of cadence recorded three LPs albums with French Antilles producers: two with "Celini disques" in Guadeloupe and one with "Balthazar" in Martinique. Haitian compas or cadence bands were asked to integrate Antillean musicians. Consequently, the leading "Les Guais troubadours", with influential singer "Louis Lahens" along other bands, played a very important role in the schooling of Antilleans to the méringue compas or kadans music style. Almost all existing Haitian compas bands have toured these Islands that have since adopted the music and the dance of the meringue. These were followed by French Antillean mini-jazz artists like Les Gentlemen, Les Leopards, and Les Vikings de Guadeloupe.
In 1969, Gordon Henderson of Dominica decided that the French Overseas Department of Guadeloupe had everything he needed to begin a career in Creole music. From there, lead singer Gordon Henderson went on to found a kadans fusion band, the Vikings of Guadeloupe – of which Kassav' co-founder Pierre-Eduard Decimus was a member. At some point he felt that he should start his own group and asked a former school friend Fitzroy Williams to recruit a few Dominicans to complete those he had already selected. The group was named Exile One. The band added various Caribbean styles to their musical identity such as reggae, calypso and mostly cadence or compas as the band moved to Guadeloupe. In 1973, Exile One (based on the island of Guadeloupe) initiated a fusion of cadence and calypso "Cadence-lypso" that would later influence the creation of soca music. The Trinidadian Calypso and Haitian kadans or méringue were the two dominants music styles of Dominica so Exile One, that featured calypso, reggae and mostly kadans or compas, called its music Cadence-lypso however, most of the band's repertoire was kadans.
Later in 1975, Lord Shorty of Trinidad visited his good friend Maestro in Dominica where he stayed (at Maestro's house) for a month while they visited and worked with local kadans artists. You had Maestro experimenting with calypso and cadence ("cadence-lypso"). A year later Maestro died in an accident in Dominica and his loss was palpably felt by Shorty, who penned "Higher World" as a tribute. In Dominica, Shorty had attended an Exile One performance of cadence-lypso, and collaborated with Dominica's 1969 Calypso King, Lord Tokyo and two calypso lyricists, Chris Seraphine and Pat Aaron in the early 1970s, who wrote him some kwéyòl lyrics. Soon after Shorty released a song, "Ou Petit", with words like "Ou dee moin ou petit Shorty" (meaning "you told me you are small Shorty"), a combination of calypso, cadence and kwéyòl. Soca's development includes its fusion of calypso, cadence, and Indian musical instruments—particularly the dholak, tabla and dhantal—as demonstrated in Shorty's classic compositions "Ïndrani" and "Shanti Om".
Due to the popularity of Exile One, There was a virtual explosion of kadans bands from Dominica - Grammacks, Liquid Ice, Midnight Groovers, Black Affairs, Black Machine, Mantra, Belles Combo, Milestone, Wafrikai, Black roots, Black Blood, Naked Feet and Mammouth among others. Leading vocalists of the period include Gordon Henderson, Jeff Joseph, Marcel "Chubby" Marc, Anthony Gussie, Mike Moreau, Tony Valmond, Linford John, Bill Thomas, SinkyRabess and Janet Azouz among others. Dominican kadans bands became popular in Martinique, Guadeloupe, Haiti and other islands in the Caribbean and Africa.
The full-horn section kadans band Exile One led by Gordon Henderson was the first to introduce the newly arrived synthesizers to their music that other young cadence or méringue bands from Haiti (mini-jazz) and the French Antilles emulated in the 1970s. Gordon Henderson's Exile One turned the mini-jazz combos into guitar-dominated big bands with a full-horn section and the newly arrived synthesizers, paving the way for the success of large groups like Grammacks, Experience 7, among others. Drawing on these influences, the supergroup Kassav' invented zouk and popularized it in the 1980s.
Kassav' was formed in 1979 by Pierre-Edouard Décimus and Paris studio musician Jacob F. Desvarieux. Together and under the influence of well-known Dominican and Guadeloupean kadans-lypso or compas bands like Experience 7, Grammacks, Exile One and Les Aiglons they decided to make Guadeloupean carnival music recording it in a more fully orchestrated yet modern and polished style. Kassav' created its own style "zouk" by introducing an eleven-piece gwo ka unit and two lead singers, tambour bélé, ti bwa, biguine, cadence-lypso: calypso and mostly Cadence rampa or compas with full use of the MIDI technology. Kassav was the first band in the Caribbean to apply the MIDI technology to their music. In the 1980s they took Caribbean music to another level by recording in the new digital format. The style lost ground in the late 1980s due to the strong presence of cadence or compas, the main music of the French Antilles.
A special style within the zouk is "zouk love", characterized by a slow, soft and sexual rhythm. The inspiration for the zouk love style of rhythmic music comes from the Haitian compas, as well as music called cadence-lypso - Dominica cadence as popularized by Grammacks and Exile One. The lyrics of the songs often speak of love and sentimental problems.
The music kizomba from Angola and cola-zouk or cabo love from Cape Verde are derivatives of this French Antillean compas music style, which sounds basically the same, although there are notable differences once you become more familiar with these genres. A main exponent of this subgenre is Ophelia Marie of Dominica. Other Zouk Love artists come from the French West Indies, the Netherlands, and Africa.
In Brazil, the zouk rhythm is used to dance the Brazilian Lambada. Since adding many new steps and changing the characteristics from Lambada, a new name was given to this dance "Zouk-lambada", with was originally 'zouk Love', later just called 'zouk'. Today, the Brazilian Zouk has changed and thus, the name 'Traditional Zouk' has been given to the dance that was first taught by Adilio and Renata in the beginning of the 90's, which is now didactically used all over the world.
In the late 80's, the WCK or Windward Caribbean Kulture, was formed by a group of highly creative young Dominican musicians. The band heralded in a new and much needed resurgence of live music and created a new wave in Dominicas musical evolution. They began experimenting with a fusion of cadence-lypso, the native lapo kabwit drum rhythms and elements of the music of jing ping bands. This group came together to fill a void left by several of Dominica's most internationally recognized bands such as Exile One and Grammacks. While the Cadence-Lypso sound is based on the creative use of acoustic drums, an aggressive up-tempo guitar beat and strong social commentary in the native Creole language, the new sound created by WCK, focused more on the use of technology with a strong emphasis on keyboard rhythmic patterns.
The band played a blend of the local Cadence-lypso and traditional Jing ping, chanté mas and lapo kabwit rhythms, which would later be labelled "bouyon", a genre which they are credited with creating. Dominican-born Derick "Rah" Peters is considered to be one of the most influential figure in the development of the bouyon genre. Bouyon as popularized largely by the WCK band blends in jing ping, cadence-lypso, and traditional dances namely bèlè, quadrille, chanté mas and lapo kabwit, mazurka, zouk and other styles of caribbean music. From a language perspective, Bouyon draws on English and Kwéyòl.
Bouyon music is popular across the Caribbean, and is known as "bouyon gwada" or jump up music in Guadeloupe and Martinique. A popular offshoot within the bouyon gwada is called "bouyon hardcore", a style characterized by its lewd and violent lyrics. This musical style is characterized by texts "slackness" sexually explicit. It is a form of radicalized bouyon of Dominica. Some call it bouyon gwada (Guadeloupe bouyon) to mark its difference and its themes are often the same.
See also
Paul Gauguin Interpretation Centre
Further reading
Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music From Rumba to Reggae, by Peter Manuel. Temple University Press, 1995.
Fodor's Caribbean 2004. Fodor's Travel Publications, 2004. |
20472313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum%20of%20Art%20of%20Puerto%20Rico | Museum of Art of Puerto Rico | The Museum of Art of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, abbreviated MAPR) is an art museum in Santurce, a barrio of San Juan, Puerto Rico, with 18 exhibition halls. The museum is located in a historic building, formerly occupied by the San Juan Municipal Hospital.
History
The museum building, designed by architect William H. Shimmelphening and built in 1920, is the remaining building in the former ruined complex of the San Juan Municipal Hospital. The building served as a hospital until 1966 when most of its body was moved to the newly inaugurated Centro Médico de Río Piedras (Río Piedras Medical Center). Afterwards it served as office space for the Puerto Rico Department of Transportation and Public Works until 1975.
The idea behind the Puerto Rico Museum of Art dates to 1995, when the Puerto Rico Tourism Company (Spanish: Compañía de Turismo de Puerto Rico) with funding by the Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico (Banco Gubernamental de Fomento, BGF). Instead of demolishing the building, the old structure was incorporated into the new museum building.
Gallery
See also
Graphopoli
References
External links
Museum of Art of Puerto Rico within Google Arts & Culture
Art museums and galleries in Puerto Rico
Museums in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Museum of Art of Puerto Rico |
20472326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isileli%20Tupou | Isileli Tupou | Isileli Tupou also known as Kaiongo Tupou (born 26 October 1984) in Tofua, Tonga) is a rugby union player who plays at center. He currently plays with the Lille Métropole Rugby in the Federale 1 in France.
References
1984 births
Living people
Tongan rugby union players
People from Haʻapai
Rugby union centres
Tonga international rugby union players
Tongan expatriate rugby union players
Expatriate rugby union players in France
Tongan expatriate sportspeople in France |
44502494 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctueliopsis%20aridalis | Noctueliopsis aridalis | Noctueliopsis aridalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by William Barnes and Foster Hendrickson Benjamin in 1922. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Arizona, California and Nevada. The habitat consists of deserts.
The length of the forewings is 5.5-6.5 mm. Adults have been recorded on wing from March to June.
References
Moths described in 1922
Odontiini |
44502496 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctueliopsis%20atascaderalis | Noctueliopsis atascaderalis | Noctueliopsis atascaderalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Eugene G. Munroe in 1951. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from California.
The wingspan is 17–18 mm. Adults have been recorded on wing from May to July.
References
Moths described in 1951
Odontiini |
44502500 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctueliopsis%20australis | Noctueliopsis australis | Noctueliopsis australis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Paul Dognin in 1910. It is found in the Andes Mountains.
The wingspan is about 22 mm.
References
Moths described in 1910
Odontiini |
20472329 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%20Party%20of%20Hungary | Workers Party of Hungary | The Workers Party of Hungary (, MÁMP) was a political party in Hungary, founded around the time of the 1878 election. The mainly made up by socialists from Budapest, and the party strove to create trade unions and fought for minimum wage and a 10-hour working day. The main organ of the party was Népszava. The party was in conflict with the other contemporary Hungarian socialist party, the Non-Voters Party, which it accused of being government stooges. In 1880 the two parties did however merge, forming the Hungarian General Labour Party.
References
Political parties in Austria-Hungary
Political parties established in 1878
1878 establishments in Austria-Hungary
Socialist parties in Hungary |
44502503 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctueliopsis%20brunnealis | Noctueliopsis brunnealis | Noctueliopsis brunnealis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Eugene G. Munroe in 1972. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas.
Adults have been recorded on wing from March to May and from July to September.
References
Moths described in 1972
Odontiini |
23576009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20McCracken | Gordon McCracken | William Clifford Gordon McCracken, (22 March 1898 – 27 January 1964) was an Australian Commonwealth Note and Stamp Printer and an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1920s.
Football
McCracken, who contested nine finals from 1922 to 1924, was Fitzroy's ruckman in the 1922 premiership side. He was again a follower in the 1923 Grand Final but was off the ground injured for much of the encounter and Fitzroy lost by 17 points. In the same year, McCracken represented the VFL at interstate football. Before arriving at Fitzroy, he played for Essendon Association in the Victorian Football Association.
Note and Stamp Printing
McCracken joined the Commonwealth Bank on 1 August 1936, as Works Manager, and was appointed as the Australian Note and Stamp Printer on 21 April 1940. During this period he was responsible for introducing new equipment, the photogravure printing process, and (reportedly) the elimination of personal monograms and imprints in favour of 'By Authority' impersonal marks in 1942. He retired in March 1963, the same year he was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
Notes
References
Gordon McCracken's playing statistics from The VFA Project
1898 births
1964 deaths
Fitzroy Football Club players
Fitzroy Football Club Premiership players
Essendon Association Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
One-time VFL/AFL Premiership players |
44502509 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctueliopsis%20bububattalis | Noctueliopsis bububattalis | Noctueliopsis bububattalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Duryea Hulst in 1886. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and Utah.
The wingspan is about 17 mm. The forewings are dark maroon brown with a white line just within the middle and another one at the margin. There are two small spots just before the middle of the wing. The hindwings are dark fuscous. Adults are on wing from February to May.
References
Moths described in 1886
Odontiini |
44502520 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctueliopsis%20decolorata | Noctueliopsis decolorata | Noctueliopsis decolorata is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Eugene G. Munroe in 1974. It is found in Mexico, where it has been recorded from Baja California.
References
Moths described in 1974
Odontiini |
17335496 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%9309%20Arsenal%20F.C.%20season | 2008–09 Arsenal F.C. season | The 2008–09 season was Arsenal Football Club's 17th consecutive season in the Premier League. This season Arsenal participated in the Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup and the UEFA Champions League.
Events
5 May: Midfielder Mathieu Flamini agrees to a four-year contract with Italian club Milan, meaning he will leave Arsenal on a free transfer on 1 July.
23 May: Physiotherapist Neal Reynolds agrees to join Arsenal from Norwich City.
28 May: Arsenal are granted a work permit for striker Carlos Vela, who spent the 2007–08 season on loan to Osasuna.
3 June: Goalkeeper Jens Lehmann joins VfB Stuttgart on a free transfer.
4 June: Defender Bacary Sagna signs a new "long-term" contract with Arsenal.
9 June: Central defender/defensive midfielder Alex Song agrees to a new "long-term" contract with Arsenal.
9 June: Physiotherapist Gary Lewin agrees to leave Arsenal to become full-time Head of Physiotherapy for England on 1 August.
13 June: Midfielder Aaron Ramsey signs for Arsenal from Cardiff City.
20 June: Defender Gaël Clichy signs a new "long-term" contract with Arsenal.
11 July: Attacking midfielder Samir Nasri signs for Arsenal from Marseille.
16 July: Attacking midfielder Alexander Hleb signs for Barcelona from Arsenal.
17 July: Defensive midfielder Gilberto Silva signs for Panathinaikos from Arsenal.
30 July: Arsenal sign midfielder Amaury Bischoff from Werder Bremen.
9 August: Arsenal retains their Amsterdam Tournament Title after drawing 1–1 with Sevilla.
13 August: Arsenal start their European campaign by defeating Twente in the first leg of their 2008–09 UEFA Champions League Third Round Qualifying Round.
16 August: Defender Justin Hoyte signs for Middlesbrough from Arsenal.
18 August: Striker Emmanuel Adebayor signs a new "long-term" contract with Arsenal.
20 August: Arsenal sign Defender Mikaël Silvestre from Manchester United. Silvestre becomes the first Manchester United player to join Arsenal since Brian Kidd in 1974 .
23 August: Arsenal suffer their first defeat of the season against Fulham by losing 1–0 from a Brede Hangeland goal.
27 August: Arsenal qualify for the group stages of the Champions League by defeating Twente 4–0 at the Emirates Stadium and 6–0 on aggregate.
1 September: Defender Kieran Gibbs signs a new contract with Arsenal.
22 September: Swiss defender Johan Djourou signs a new "long-term" contract with Arsenal.
27 September: Arsenal's second defeat at the Emirates Stadium was a 2–1 loss to Hull City who came back from an Arsenal lead early in the second half.
21 November: Sky Sports News and the BBC report that William Gallas has been stripped of the Arsenal captaincy following a verbal outburst against other players, however Arsenal FC refuse to comment.
24 November: Arsène Wenger announces that Cesc Fàbregas is the new permanent Arsenal captain, thus confirming reports that William Gallas has been stripped of the captaincy.
23 December: Arsenal captain Cesc Fàbregas is ruled out for 4 months with a ligament injury after colliding with fellow Spaniard Xabi Alonso in a 1–1 draw with Liverpool.
5 January: Midfielder Jack Wilshere signs a professional contract with Arsenal.
3 February: After protracted transfer negotiations, Arsenal announce the signing of Russian international Andrey Arshavin for an undisclosed fee.
8 February: 350 days after suffering a broken leg and open dislocation to his ankle, striker Eduardo is named on the substitutes bench in Arsenal's 0–0 draw against rivals Tottenham Hotspur.
16 February: Striker Eduardo makes his first start in nearly a year in Arsenal's fourth round replay against Cardiff. He scores twice before being substituted in the 67th minute in a 4–0 win.
11 March: Arsenal progress to the quarter-finals of the Champions League after beating Roma 7–6 on penalties after the tie was level at 1–1 after two legs.
14 March: Andrey Arshavin scores his first goal for Arsenal in the club's 4–0 Premier League victory over Blackburn Rovers.
18 April: Amid various injuries in defence, Arsenal are knocked out of the FA Cup in a 2–1 defeat to Chelsea at Wembley Stadium in the semi-finals.
21 April: 4 goals from man of the match Andrey Arshavin dents Liverpool's Premier League title hopes. The match at Anfield ends in a 4–4 draw.
5 May: Arsenal are knocked out of the UEFA Champions League, losing 4–1 on aggregate to defending champions, Manchester United.
8 May: Striker Theo Walcott signs a new "long-term" contract with Arsenal.
8 May: Striker Nicklas Bendtner is fined for "unacceptable" behaviour following nightclub disrepute after the Manchester United game. Bendtner apologised for his actions shortly afterward.
Players
Squad information
Transfers
In
Total spending: £32,550,000
Out
Total income: £15,900,000
Loan out
Overall transfer activity
Spending
£32,550,000
Income
£15,900,000
Net expenditure
£16,650,000
Squad stats
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Source: Arsenal F.C.
Disciplinary record
Start formations
Club
Coaching staff
Kit
Supplier: Nike / Sponsor: Fly Emirates
Kit information
The completely new set of Arsenal kit was launched.
Home The home kit was rather controversial, as Nike ditched the white sleeves that the club was well known for. The shirt has a white wide stripe on each sleeve, flanked by two dark red, narrower stripes. It has a red V-neck collar which is the same colour as the primary shirt colour. The shirt is complemented by white shorts with a dark-red trim, and white socks with a red horizontal stripe. Red socks with white horizontal stripe were used in some away games. Arsenal revealed that the kit would be used for two seasons.
Away The away kit harps back to the glory days of the late 1980s which gave the strip a modern touch, where the shirts are yellow with navy sleeves and a red trim. The shorts are navy with red trim and the socks are yellow and blue. It featured red trimmings on the side of the strip.
Third: The third kit retained away kit last season was unchanged.
Keeper The three goalkeeper kit, which were all based on Nike's new template, which in turn featured one conspicuous swirl on the kit. The main kit was grey, but the second kit was green/navy and the third kit black was available, should they be required.
Other information
Competitions
Overall
Premier League
Final league table
Results summary
Results by round
Matches
UEFA Champions League
Third qualifying round
Group stage
Knockout phase
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
FA Cup
Football League Cup
Pre-season
Last updated: 9 AugustSource: Arsenal FC
See also
2008–09 in English football
List of Arsenal F.C. seasons
References
External links
Arsenal 2008-09 on statto.com
Arsenal F.C. seasons
Arsenal |
20472330 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank%20of%20the%20Nation%20%28Peru%29 | Bank of the Nation (Peru) | The Bank of the Nation, known in Spanish as the Banco de la Nación, is the bank which represents the Peruvian government in financial transactions in both the public and private sectors, as well as at both domestic and international levels. It is a state institution, but it should not be confused with the Central Reserve Bank of Peru, the central bank which coins money. The BN (its official Spanish initials) belongs to the Peruvian Ministry of Economy and Finance. Its headquarters is located in the San Isidro District of Lima, the capital of Peru.
History
The BN was created January 27, 1966, by Law 16000, approved by the Peruvian congress and was signed into law by the then-president Fernando Belaúnde Terry. Its predecessors date to 1905, when José Pardo created the Caja de Depósitos y Consignaciones or Bank of Deposits and Consignments.
The Bank of the Nation has function uninterrupted since its creation. Currently, it employs its own system of ATMs and provides its own credit and debit cards.
Functions
Throughout the years, the bank's functions have either been expanded or reduced according to the policies of the current government although its most basic functions usually never change. Currently, the Bank of the Nation is used to:
Provide payment services in accordance with the policies of the General Directory of the Public Treasury
Provide collection services on behalf of tax creditors
Perform operations on behalf of sub-accounts of the public treasury
Act as the primary financial agency of the state
Act on the behalf of other banks and financial institutions in the channeling of resources
Participate in the foreign commerce transactions of the state
Grant credit to the Central Government, to Regional governments, and to local governments, in cases when they have not been granted by the National Finance System
Credit granted by the bank is not subject to the limits established by the General Law of Banking, Financial, and Insurance institutions
Provide correspondence services
Provide services to accounts of entities belonging both the National public sector and state providers
Receive savings deposits in locations where private banks don't have offices
Distribution
Branch offices can be found in every Peruvian province, with a total of 403 branch offices, of which 87% are located in rural areas of the country where private banks do not operate
External links
Bank of the Nation
Ministry of Economy and Finance
Banks of Peru
Economy of Peru |
17335499 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Hicks%20House | Joseph Hicks House | The Joseph Hicks House was a historic house at 494 Main Road in Tiverton, Rhode Island. The house was a two-story wood-frame structure, which was originally built with brick side walls, and became known locally as "the Brick House". These walls were covered over by clapboarding as part of a series of alterations in 1893, which did not otherwise significant obscure the building's modest Federal characteristics. The main facade was five bays wide, with a hip roof that has eaves deeper than normally found on Federal houses. The Hicks family, which owned it for many years, was one of the first to settle in the Tiverton area.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It was demolished in the 1980s for the construction of a CVS Pharmacy, which is now Tom's Market.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Buildings and structures in Tiverton, Rhode Island
Houses in Newport County, Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Newport County, Rhode Island
Federal architecture in Rhode Island |
44502522 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctueliopsis%20grandis | Noctueliopsis grandis | Noctueliopsis grandis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Eugene G. Munroe in 1974. It is found in Mexico, where it has been recorded from Baja California.
References
Moths described in 1974
Odontiini |
23576011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20memorandum%20account | Special memorandum account | Special memorandum account (SMA) is a margin credit account used for calculating US Regulation T requirements on brokerage accounts. In addition to Initial Margin and Maintenance Margin requirements, the SMA ledger is used to lock in unrealized gains that augment the client's buying power.
According to Regulation T, Section 220.5:
(b) The SMA may contain the following entries:
Dividend and interest payments;
Cash not required by this part, including cash deposited to meet a maintenance margin call or to meet any requirement of a self-regulatory organization that is not imposed by this part;
Proceeds of a sale of securities or cash no longer required on any expired or liquidated security position that may be withdrawn under section 220.4(e) of this part; and
Margin excess transferred from the margin account under section 220.4(e)(2) of this part.
Regulation T allows transfers from the SMA to be used as margin for new purchases in their margin account. However, exchange rules do not allow these transfers to be used for maintenance margin calls. The SMA balance represents credits that are used only for meeting margin requirements and are not actual funds that could be withdrawn by the client.
Buying Power is always twice the SMA balance.
Example
A customer purchases 1,000 shares of stock 'ABC' on margin at $50 per share. If ABC is currently trading at $70 per share, what is the excess equity or SMA?
A purchase of $50,000 worth of securities (1,000 shares × $50 per share) requires depositing the Regulation T amount (50 percent) of the purchase. Thus, the customer equity (EQ) is originally $25,000 (50% × $50,000) and $25,000 was borrowed on margin. The long market value (LMV) has now increased to $70,000 ($70 × 1,000 shares), but the margin amount ($25,000) remains the same. Thus the EQ ($70,000 - $25,000) has increased to $45,000 and the new Reg T margin requirement would be $35,000 ($70,000 × 50%).
We calculate SMA as follows:
Current Margin requirement = 50% × $70,000
SMA = EQ – Current Margin Requirement
SMA = $45,000 – $35,000 = $10,000
References
Financial markets
Margin policy |
44502527 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctueliopsis%20palmalis | Noctueliopsis palmalis | Noctueliopsis palmalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough in 1918. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from California, Nevada and Texas. The habitat consists of high and low elevation deserts.
The length of the forewings is 6-8.5 mm. The forewings are brown with a reddish tinge. Adults are on wing from March to June.
References
Moths described in 1918
Odontiini |
6904085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV%20Isle%20of%20Lewis | MV Isle of Lewis | MV Isle of Lewis is a ro-ro ferry, owned by Caledonian Maritime Assets, and operated by Caledonian MacBrayne between Oban and Castlebay, Barra. Built in 1995, she remains one of only two ships in the CalMac fleet over in length; the other, , being longer by almost 15 metres.
Originally built to operate between Ullapool and Stornoway, Isle of Lewis rarely deviated from that route for 20 years. Since March 2016, she has served the Isle of Barra all year round from Oban. The only other routes operated by CalMac she has ever worked on is the triangle between Uig, Lochmaddy & Tarbert and between Oban and Craignure, but only ever in an emergency situation.
History
Isle of Lewis was built by Ferguson Shipbuilders in Port Glasgow on the River Clyde and entered service in July 1995. When constructed she was largest ship ever built by Ferguson's. Her crossing time of around 2 hours and 45 minutes improved upon that of her predecessor, , by at least 45 minutes.
With increasing traffic on the crossing, there was speculation that Isle of Lewis might be replaced by a larger vessel. In September 2013 the freight vessel was chartered to relieve pressure on the route. On 10 June 2012, it was announced that a new £42 million replacement ferry was to be built in Germany. The new 116 metre long ROPAX ferry was named and is capable of continuous operation, with a capacity for up to 700 passengers, and 143 cars or 20 commercial vehicles. Loch Seaforth entered service in mid-February 2015 and took over both passenger and freight duties on the route. Since moving to the Barra service in March 2016, Isle of Lewis has been relegated to the role of Stornoway relief ship each October when Loch Seaforth departs for overhaul, with a second relief ship taking care of overnight freight traffic, owing to Isle of Lewis''' inability to carry certain hazardous cargo due to her fully enclosed and sealed car deck.
In June 2015, to assess her future deployment, Isle of Lewis undertook a tour of major terminals for berthing trials, with varied results. She called at Lochmaddy, Castlebay, Oban, Craignure, Brodick, Ardrossan, Troon, Campbeltown, and Tarbert between 4 and 9 June. No immediate decision was announced. Major work would be required to offset her stern ramp to starboard instead of to port, for her to operate on routes including Mull and Arran. Such adjustments would not prevent her returning to Stornoway for relief work, as both Stornoway and Ullapool harbours now have full-width linkspans.
In September 2015, it was announced that the Isle of Lewis was to become the Oban–Castlebay vessel from the following summer, thus allowing to commence daily return sailings between Lochboisdale and Mallaig.Isle of Lewis was on duty at Oban and Castlebay in 2017 when she undertook a series of special sailings between 4 and 6 June to transport those travelling to attend the funeral of Eilidh MacLeod, a Barra schoolgirl who died in the Manchester Arena bombing. As a mark of respect, the Isle of Lewis was shown with her CalMac pennant, along with the Barra flag, at half mast.
A history of the Isle of Lewis by Mark Nicolson was published by The Islands Book Trust on 31 July 2016, in time for the 21st anniversary of the vessel's inauguration in 1995.
LayoutIsle of Lewis is a further development of and ' design with a fully enclosed car deck. The car deck is accessed by bow and stern ramps, the latter being offset from the centre of the ship to accommodate the linkspan in Ullapool. The bow ramp is a folding design that is watertight and further protected by a conventional upward hinging bow visor. The bow ramp was originally off-set to suit Stornoway's original linkspan until new facilities opened in April 1997. During an overhaul at Greenock in 2016, the bow ramp was changed to be off-set to port in order to prepare her for her new role as the summer Barra ferry, to make berthing in Oban easier.
There are three lanes to port and two to starboard of the central casing. A hydraulically operated mezzanine deck along each side can be raised or lowered according to traffic requirements. Two stairways from the car deck bring passengers out in the entrance square on deck 4, where the passenger gangways enter.
The entrance square houses the information desk and gift shop. Forward is a large cafeteria overlooking the bow and occupying the full width of the ship. Aft are a designated dog area and a truckers' quiet lounge, with the reclining lounge and bar at the stern. Deck 5 houses the observation lounge at the bow, crew accommodation further aft and an open promenade deck stretching down both sides of the ship. Four stairways lead up to the open top deck, where seating is available.
The upper works of the ship are completed with two raked funnels in red and black company colours and two buff coloured masts. The smaller mast is on top of the wheelhouse and carries the twin radar scanners and radio antennae, while the larger mast is mounted aft on the promenade deck, carrying antennae and the house flag. During the winter refit in 2009, the funnels were fitted with angled exhaust extensions on the funnel tops to direct engine exhaust away from the decks. They were later removed during her 2019 overhaul. The ship carries a fast rescue craft and two large motor-driven lifeboats, one to port and one to starboard, with a set of automatically deploying inflatable life rafts. The two large lifeboats were replaced in 2019 with new inflatable life rafts.
ServiceIsle of Lewis spent the first twenty years of her career sailing back and forth between Ullapool and Stornoway. Until April 2015, she had hardly sailed on any other route, and has endured some treacherous seas crossing The Minch, some of the most exposed waters around the British Isles. Tidal constraints from her 4.2 metre draught make her unsuitable for full-time use on other routes. Her ramps not being suitable for many of the linkspans around the CalMac network further reduces her versatility.
Over the years, Isle of Lewis has called at other stations for a variety of purposes. During her initial delivery voyage in July 1995, she called at Ardrossan to collect supplies and be formally handed over to her new owners, and then called at Uig, Lochmaddy & Tarbert for berthing trials to assess her suitability on the 'Uig Triangle' should an emergency arise there, and making her debut calls at Ullapool and Stornoway a few hours later.
Two calls at Lochmaddy followed in April & May 1998, under charter to transport Ministry of Defence traffic to and from North Uist. However, Isle of Lewis suffered a major breakdown at Lochmaddy on the first charter, requiring repairs lasting roughly four weeks and being replaced at Stornoway by the smaller Isle of Mull. On 28 November 1998, whilst returning from an overhaul at North Shields, Isle of Lewis called at Stromness, Orkney for the purpose of 'showing the flag' to demonstrate CalMac's keen bid for the Northern Isles ferry services instead of the then-incumbent P&O Scottish Ferries.
Further calls on the 'Uig Triangle' by Isle of Lewis in 2008 and 2015. Firstly, in November 2008, a call was made at Uig to uplift stranded freight traffic whilst Ullapool's linkspan was closed for maintenance. On 3 April 2015, Isle of Lewis made her first commercial sailing on a route other than between Stornoway and Ullapool, when she carried out a special sailing from Uig to Lochmaddy for the benefit of extra Easter traffic travelling to North Uist. Further extra sailings - helped by the demotion of Isle of Lewis to the status as a back up vessel following her displacement by the new Loch Seaforth - followed. Isle of Lewis sailed between Tarbert and Lochmaddy on two consecutive evenings in June 2015. When Hebrides broke down in July 2015, Isle of Lewis relieved her on the full service between Uig, Lochmaddy and Tarbert for two days.
Around the time that strike action by the RMT union took in June 2015, Isle of Lewis was drafted in to assist at Oban, and was to make her first sailings between Oban and Castlebay. This included a unique 0046 departure from Oban to Barra, on the same day as the annual Barrathon was taking place. Following redeployments due to the separate breakdowns of Finlaggan & Lord of the Isles in August 2015, Isle of Lewis again took over the Oban to Castlebay services, sailing direct, and omitting Lochboisdale due to her being far too large and deep to use the South Uist facilities.
In early 2016, Isle of Lewis relieved on the Scrabster - Stromness route for NorthLink whilst sailed for her refit. This was a reciprocal arrangement after provided cover at Stornoway during the dry-docking of Loch Seaforth.
In March 2016, Isle of Lewis began a new phase of her life, serving Oban and Castlebay on Barra year-round, which allowed to commence a daily return service between Lochboisdale and Mallaig, thus ending South Uist's direct link to Oban. With Isle of Lewis deployment there, the Isle of Barra receives a daily dedicated service. These summer arrangements, announced by Transport Scotland, are likely to be a stop-gap until the new is commissioned at Arran, and Hull 802 is commissioned (possibly on the Uig-Lochmaddy/Tarbert service). On her first official day on the Barra service, 25 March 2016, Isle of Lewis completed all of her sailings in spite of an amber alert of adverse weather and swell conditions.Isle of Lewis'' returned to the Stornoway - Ullapool service in April and May 2021, while was undergoing repairs to the port engine. This left to combine the Lochboisdale and Castlebay services.
References
External links
MV Isle of Lewis on www.calmac.co.uk
Caledonian MacBrayne
Ships built on the River Clyde
1995 ships |
6904097 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murasame-class%20destroyer%20%281958%29 | Murasame-class destroyer (1958) | The Murasame-class destroyer was a destroyer class built for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) in the late 1950s as a successor to the destroyers. Like its predecessor, its main task was anti-submarine warfare, but its improved weaponry also enabled it to perform better in the anti-air role, so this class was classified as "DDA" (anti-air destroyer or all purpose destroyer) unofficially.
Like its predecessor, the , this class adopted a "long forecastle" design with inclined afterdeck called "Holland Slope", named after the scenic sloping street in Nagasaki City. The propulsion system was almost the same as the one of the .
The sensor suite and weapon system was almost the same as the one of the latter batch of the Ayanami class, but three 5-inch/54 caliber Mark 16 guns (with Mark 39 single mounts) were added to extend effective range against air and surface threats in addition to four 3-inch/50 caliber Mark 22 guns (with Mark 33 dual mounts). The 5-inch guns were controlled by one Mark 57 GFCS, and the 3-inch guns were done by one Mark 63 controller. The main air-search radar was an OPS-1, the Japanese version of the American AN/SPS-6.
Ships
References
Destroyer classes |
23576015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koko%C4%8Dak | Kokočak | Kokočak is a village in north-eastern Slavonia, situated in municipality town of Orahovica, Virovitica-Podravina county, Croatia.
Population
References
CD-rom: "Naselja i stanovništvo RH od 1857-2001. godine", Izdanje Državnog zavoda za statistiku Republike Hrvatske, Zagreb, 2005.
Populated places in Virovitica-Podravina County |
20472350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowdon%20Theatre%20%28Montreal%29 | Snowdon Theatre (Montreal) | The Snowdon Theatre was a Streamline Moderne style cinema in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, located on Decarie Boulevard in the neighbourhood of Snowdon. After the theater closed, it was re-purposed as mini-shopping center with gymnastics studio, and then later demolished to build condominiums. Only its exterior facade partially survives.
History
The theater opened in February 1937 with a lavish art deco interior by designer Emmanuel Briffa, designer of the interior of the Rialto Theatre and 60 other cinemas in Canada.
In 1950 the entrance facade was modified and a new marquee was added. In 1968 it showed X-rated movies. In 1972 it screened Charlie Chaplin films for approximately an entire year. The cinema closed in May 1982 and was vacant. In 1990 it was re-purposed as a small shopping center. The 25,000 square foot interior was rebuilt by Rafid Louis and Emile Fattal, splitting the theater into two floors and sub-dividing the remaining space. The theater's original wall and ceiling art deco remained intact on the second floor, where a gymnastics center operated for a number of years. In 2013 the building was vacant again, then boarded up and left abandoned.
Demolition
The building was not a success with its retail shopping and offices and by the late 1990s was mostly vacant. Flexart Gymnastics, the last tenant, was evicted in late 2013 due to safety concerns with the building's roof.
In January 2016, the city of Montreal, who owned the building, put it up for sale. On March 26, 2016 a fire on the second floor caused heavy damage to the roof. On May 4, 2017, the city found a buyer, who planned to demolish it for either a commercial or residential building project. The sale went through on February 3, 2018 for $1.6 million, with the only condition that the building's exterior front facade and sign be preserved.
In April 2019, the building was completely demolished, with only the front façade wall left standing and attached marquee (that had been modified in the late 80's with a French descriptor). As of April 2021, the condominiums are under construction and its remaining facade heavily modified.
References
External links
Photographs of surviving art deco elements at the Snowdon Theater
Photography Snowdon Theater 2015
Theatres in Montreal
Landmarks in Montreal
Former cinemas in Montreal
Streamline Moderne architecture in Canada
Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
Burned buildings and structures in Canada |
20472390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFCC | CFCC | CFCC may refer to:
Education
Cape Fear Community College, in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States
College of Central Florida (formerly Central Florida Community College), in Ocala, Florida, United States |
20472392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Voters%20Party | Non-Voters Party | The Non-Voters Party (, NVP) was a socialist political party in Hungary, founded around the time of the 1878 election. At the founding meeting of the party, 79 delegates participated. The party sought to represent the non-enfranchised population, and advocated universal suffrage and democratic reforms. The party was led by Leó Frankel. In 1880 the party merged into the Hungarian General Labour Party.
References
Political parties in Austria-Hungary
Political parties established in 1878
Socialist parties in Hungary |
20472445 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megali%20Mantineia | Megali Mantineia | Megali Mantineia () is a mountain settlement in the municipal unit of Avia, Messenia, Greece. In 2011, it had a population of 191. It sits at 200 m above sea level, 2 km southeast of Avia, 3 km south of Mikri Mantineia and 10 km southeast of Kalamata. Many of its residents only stay there during the summer months.
Population
History
Ano Mantineia ("Upper Mantineia") or Ano Chora was first mentioned in 1463, as opposed to the older Mantineia on the coast. In the mid 18th century, it was an important settlement in the area of Zarnata (Ζαρνάτα). It had 59 families (around 277 people) in 1704. In the late 18th century the smaller settlement Mikri Mantineia was founded, and the older Ano Mantineia was renamed to Megali Mantineia ("Great Mantineia").
The village joined the municipality of Avia in 1835. From the mid 19th century, a part of the population moved into the seaside areas including Palaiochora (now Avia), Archontiko and Akrogiali. Still Megali Mantineia kept a large population: 413 in 1851, 469 in 1879 and 424 in 1907. In 1914 Megali Mantineia became an independent community which included the new settlements. In 1924 the seat of the community moved to the seaside village Palaiochora. In 1926 both the settlement Palaiochora and the community were renamed to Avia.
Points of interests
Koskaras/Sandava cave
Katafygi, an inaccessible cave
The deserted settlement Koka
The old school, built in 1743-53
Sources
Theodoros Belitsos Ta Altomira tis Exo Manis (Τα Αλτομιρά της Έξω Μάνης (Ιστορία-Οικογένειες-Τοπωνύμια) = Altomira in Outer Mani (History-Family-Toponyms), 1999
See also
List of settlements in Messenia
Mikri Mantineia
References
External links
Megali Madinia at the GTP Travel Pages
Populated places in Messenia |
17335512 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Ford%20Bell%20Lecture | James Ford Bell Lecture | The James Ford Bell Lecture has been delivered annually since 1964 in the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota on a topic relating to the collections of the Library: the history of global trade before ca. 1800 CE.
List of the published James Ford Bell Lectures
5. Saints and sinners at sea by Vincent H. Cassidy. [Minneapolis]: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1968.
6. On book collecting: the story of my Drake library by Hans P. Kraus. [Minneapolis]: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1969.
7. Pehr Kalm and the image of North America by Nils William Olsson. [Minneapolis]: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1970.
8 All the peoples of the world are men by Lewis Hanke. Minneapolis: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1970.
9 The exploration of Canada: some geographical considerations by Eric W. Morse. Minneapolis: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1971.
10 The Barbary pirates: victims and the scourage of Christendom by Paul W. Bamford. Minneapolis: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1972.
12 The economy and society of colonial Brazil: a brief overview by Stuart B. Schwartz. Minneapolis: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1974.
13 The European presence in West Africa before 1800 by Victoria Bomba Coifman. Minneapolis: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1975.
14 The Minnesota Vincent of Beauvais manuscript and Cistercian thirteenth-century book decoration by Alison Stones. Minneapolis: The Association of The James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1977.
15 The orderly landscape: landscape tastes and the United States survey by Hildegard Binder Johnson. Minneapolis: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1977.
16 The efficient plantation and the inefficient hacienda by Ward Barrett. Minneapolis: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1979.
17 The bay where Hudson did winter by Linden J. Lundstrom. Minneapolis: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1980.
18 Reversing the telescope: Louis Hennepin and three hundred years of historical perspective by Rhoda R. Gilman. Minneapolis: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1981.
19 By inch of candle: a sale at East-India-House, 21 September 1675 by Otto Charles Thieme. Minneapolis: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1982.
20 In search of silk: Adam Olearius’ mission to Russia and Persia by Gerhard H. Weiss. Minneapolis: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1983.
21 Technology transfer and cultural subversion: tensions in the early Jesuit mission to China by Edward L. Farmer. Minneapolis: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1983.
22 Sir Joseph Banks and the origins of science policy by A. Hunter Dupree. Minneapolis: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1984.
23 Pirates: myths and realities by Robert C. Ritchie. [Minneapolis]: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1986.
24 Life at sea in the sixteenth century: the landlubber’s lament of Eugenio de Salazar [translated] by Carla Rahn Phillips. [Minneapolis]: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1987.
25 Goods, ideas, and values: the East Indies trade as an agent of change in eighteenth-century Sweden by Michael F. Metcalf. [Minneapolis]: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1988.
26 Representations of slavery: John Gabriel Stedman’s "Minnesota" manuscripts by Richard Price. [Minneapolis]: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1989.
27 Towards superiority: European and Indian medicine, 1500-1700 by M. N. Pearson. [Minneapolis]: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1989.
28 Disease and imperialism before the nineteenth century by Philip D. Curtin. [Minneapolis]: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1990.
29 Richard Eden, advocate of empire by John "Jack" Parker. [Minneapolis]: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1991.
30 The making of an elite enterprise: the Jesuits in the Portuguese Assistancy, 16th to 18th centuries by Dauril Alden. [Minneapolis]: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1992.
31 My long journey with National Geographic by Merle Severy. [Minneapolis]: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1993.
32 Moravian missionaries at work in a Jamaican slave community, 1754-1835 by Richard S. Dunn. [Minneapolis]: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1994.
33 The medieval origins of European expansion by William D. Phillips, Jr. [Minneapolis]: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1996.
34 "The four parts of the world": Giovanni Francesco Camocio’s wall maps by David Woodward. [Minneapolis]: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1997.
35 Thomas Forrest: Renaissance seaman by Joseph E. Schwartzberg. [Minneapolis]: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1998.
36 An epic American exploration: the friendship of Lewis and Clark by Stephen E. Ambrose. [Minneapolis]: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1998.
37 Learning from legends on the James Ford Bell Library mappamundi by Scott D. Westrem. [Minneapolis]: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 2000.
38 Emperor Charles V’s crusades against Tunis and Algiers: appearance and reality by James D. Tracy. [Minneapolis, MN]: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 2001.
39 Continuity and discontinuity in the sixteenth-century New World by Felipe Fernández-Armesto. [Minneapolis]: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 2001.
40 Acquisition of rare books, manuscripts and maps: a curator’s commentary by Carol Urness. [Minneapolis]: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 2005.
Sources
University of Minnesota Library Catalogue
Bell
University of Minnesota
Early Modern period
History of books |
17335515 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20Sullivan%20%28American%20football%29 | Gene Sullivan (American football) | Gene Sullivan is a former American football coach. He was the 28th head football coach at the Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, serving for 17 seasons, from 1976 to 1992, and compiling a record of 76–82–2.
While at Geneva, Sullivan hired Mark Mangino as an assistant coach. Geneva's current head coach Geno DeMarco first played and later was an assistant coach for Sullivan.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Geneva Golden Tornadoes football coaches |
17335534 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton%20Hoppin%20House | Hamilton Hoppin House | The Hamilton Hoppin House is an historic house at 120 Miantonomi Ave in Middletown, Rhode Island. It has been known by several names, including Villalon, Montpelier, Shadow Lawn, Agincourt Inn, and, currently, The Inn at Villalon.
The oldest part of the house was designed by architect Richard Upjohn, as was Kingscote in Newport. It was built in an Italianate style in the mid-nineteenth century and it is one of the first Italianate stick-style houses to be built in the United States. The Hamilton Hoppin House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
The house was featured on an episode of Weird Travels as the Inn at Shadow Lawn and it was claimed to be haunted.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Richard Upjohn buildings
Houses in Newport County, Rhode Island
Italianate architecture in Rhode Island
Buildings and structures in Middletown, Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Newport County, Rhode Island |
44502534 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctueliopsis%20pandoralis | Noctueliopsis pandoralis | Noctueliopsis pandoralis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough in 1914. It is found in Mexico and the southern United States, where it has been recorded from New Mexico.
The wingspan is about 12 mm. The forewings are pale olive brown, the basal area suffused with pink, defined outwardly by slight white scaling. The terminal area is pink, preceded by a white shade. The hindwings are dark smoky with a slight whitish shade above the anal angle and subterminally. Adults have been recorded on wing in September.
Subspecies
Noctueliopsis pandoralis pandoralis
Noctueliopsis pandoralis minimistricta (Dyar, 1913) (Mexico: Tehuacan)
References
Moths described in 1914
Odontiini |
44502544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctueliopsis%20puertalis | Noctueliopsis puertalis | Noctueliopsis puertalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough in 1912. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Arizona, California and Texas.
The wingspan is about 15 mm. The forewings are pale ocherous, heavily shaded with brown, especially in the basal and terminal areas, leaving the median space as a broad paler band across the wings. There are faint traces of a dark basal line. The hindwings are smoky brown. Adults have been recorded on wing from March to May and from August to September.
References
Moths described in 1912
Odontiini |
44502547 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctueliopsis%20rhodoxanthinalis | Noctueliopsis rhodoxanthinalis | Noctueliopsis rhodoxanthinalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Eugene G. Munroe in 1974. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Texas.
References
Moths described in 1974
Odontiini |
44502548 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elly%20Barnes | Elly Barnes | Elly Barnes MBE FCCT is the founder and chief executive of the charity Educate & Celebrate. She was voted Number 1 in the Independent on Sunday's Pink List in 2011 (now the Rainbow List), and was a judge in 2012.
Barnes was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2016 for her contribution to education, equality and diversity. She also received her honorary doctorate from the University of Aberdeen in November 2016 and won the Activist of the Year 2018 award from Diva Magazine.
Barnes has formed a close partnership with Goldsmiths University of London and together with Dr Anna Carlile wrote a book of all the research from the Educate & Celebrate Programme released in March 2018 called How To Transform Your School into An LGBT+Friendly Place: A Practical Guide for nursery, primary and secondary teachers.
Education
Barnes attended Market Bosworth High School and The Bosworth College. She then studied for a degree in music, specialising in voice, at the Birmingham Conservatoire and then completed her Post Graduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) at the faculty of Education at the University of Central England, now known as Birmingham City University. She had her Newly qualified teacher (NQT) year at The Barclay School in Stevenage whilst studying for a Diploma in Music Technology at Hertfordshire University. Barnes completed an MA in school based explorations at Goldsmiths University.
Early LGBT+ Work
Barnes first job was as a peripatetic singing teacher in Hertfordshire and London. She then obtained a permanent teaching role at Stoke Newington School in North London becoming Head of Year in 2005. That year, she began working towards eradicating homophobic, biphobic, and transphobic language and bullying by challenging young people's (and teachers, parents and governors) perceptions of LGBT+ people.
The approach taken was to educate young people about different gender identities and sexual orientations by introducing recognisable symbols of the LGBT+ community, famous LGBT+ people and the history of the LGBT+ struggle.
During these early years Barnes and her team created LGBT+Inclusive schemes of work for their year 7 including ICT lessons on Alan Turing, LGBT+ symbols, key rings, rainbow flag in Design & Technology and songs by queer artists in music. All the teachers in the year team contributed; the project developed over the next 7 years into a school-wide celebration of LGBT+ History Month with an integrated curriculum for which received ‘best practice’ status from Ofsted in 2012 for successfully tackling homophobic bullying and ingrained attitudes in our schools stating that ‘This approach has been highly successful.’
Educate & Celebrate
In 2010 Barnes developed her theory and practice into the ‘Educate & Celebrate’ PRIDE in Inclusion Award which incorporates teacher training, coaching and mentoring alongside a comprehensive resource programme to support schools, colleges, universities and organisations to build a future of inclusion and social justice.
See also
References
External links
Educate & Celebrate website
LGBT people from England
LGBT rights activists from England
Schoolteachers from Leicestershire
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
44502551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctueliopsis%20virula | Noctueliopsis virula | Noctueliopsis virula is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough in 1918. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Arizona, California and Nevada.
The length of the forewings is 5–6 mm. The forewings are olivaceous brown with a slight ruddy tinge. There is a white shade at the base above the inner margin. The lines are black. The hindwings are pure white with faint brown terminal dots in males. The hindwings of the females have a brown terminal line. Adults are on wing from March to April and in June.
References
Moths described in 1918
Odontiini |
6904103 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZINC%20database | ZINC database | The ZINC database (recursive acronym: ZINC is not commercial) is a curated collection of commercially available chemical compounds prepared especially for virtual screening. ZINC is used by investigators (generally people with training as biologists or chemists) in pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, and research universities.
Scope and access
ZINC is different from other chemical databases because it aims to represent the biologically relevant, three dimensional form of the molecule.
Curation and updates
ZINC is updated regularly and may be downloaded and used free of charge. It is developed by John Irwin in the Shoichet Laboratory in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco.
Version
The latest release of the website interface is "ZINC 15" (2015). The previous website was at ZINC, but the maintainers recommend moving to ZINC15 because of its better search capabilities. The database contents are continuously updated.
See also
PubChem a database of small molecules from the chemical and biological literature, hosted by NCBI
ChEMBL, a database of information about medicinal chemistry and biological activities of small molecules.
External links
ZINC database
Chemical databases
Biological databases |
44502602 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Rainieri | Frank Rainieri | Frank Rafael Rainieri Marranzini is a businessman in the tourist industry in the Dominican Republic. He is the chairman and founder of Grupo Puntacana. According to Forbes, Rainieri has one of the ten largest fortunes in the Dominican Republic, with a net worth near the billion-dollar mark as of 2014. In 2015, he was designated ambassador of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta to the Dominican Republic, a position that his father also held four decades earlier.
Early life
Rainieri was born into a family with tradition of hospitality. His paternal grandparents, Isidoro Rainieri and Bianca Franceschini, migrated from Bologna, northern Italy, to northern Dominican Republic, and established two hotels, one in Puerto Plata and the other in Santiago; they had more than 10 children. His parents were Francisco Rainieri Franceschini and Venecia Marranzini Lepore (daughter of the Italian immigrants Orazio Michelo Marranzini Inginio and Inmaccolatta Lepore Rodia, who migrated as children with their respective families, all of them natives of Santa Lucia di Serino, in southern Italy).
He went to college in Philadelphia at Saint Joseph's College, now Saint Joseph's University., finalizing them at APEC University, in Santo Domingo.
Punta Cana
In 1969, Rainieri and Theodore Kheel acquired a 58-million square meter lot on the eastern end of the Dominican Republic, which was covered with jungle and six miles of beach. Their first project was a 40 guest hotel called the Punta Cana Club, inaugurated two years later. In 1979, they constructed the Puntacana Hotel. The Punta Cana International Airport followed in 1984. In 1997, Rainieri and Kheel partnered with Oscar de la Renta and Julio Iglesias to start work on the Punta Cana Marina and the real estate development of the area.
Grupo Puntacana History
1969: Ted Kheel and group of 40 partners purchase approximately 30 square miles of undeveloped land in the eastern Dominican Republic.
1970: Frank Rainieri (Dominican entrepreneur), Ted Kheel and partners began the development of the tourism project.
1971: Puntacana Resort & Club (PCRC) builds first “resort” of 10 beach cottages and clubhouse, dedication attended by President Balaguer.
1972: PCRC builds first elementary school in Punta Cana.
1977: Club Mediterranee purchases parcel of land from Puntacana Resort & Club.
1980: Club Med opens hotel in Punta Cana.
1984: Inauguration of the Punta Cana International Airport with first flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1987: PCRC builds new Puntacana Resort & Club using thatch-roof constructions and low-impact sustainable architecture.
1988: Formation of the not-for-profit Puntacana Ecological Foundation (FEPC) with donation of 1,500 acres of land for ecological park and reserve (incorporation follows in 1994).
1992: Puntacana Ecological Foundation launches first sustainable agriculture initiative in Punta Cana (Fruit Tree Garden).
1996: Puntacana Foundation organized the first Concert at the Basilica Nuestra Senora de la Altagracia in the town of Higüey performed by the National Symphony Orchestra and Choir.
1997: Julio Iglesias and Oscar de la Renta join Kheel and Rainieri as PCRC major partners and build first homes in Corales development.
1998: PCRC founds a second not-for-profit organization, Puntacana Foundation (FPC) to develop social and community programs in the region.
2000: FPC founds bilingual, private school Puntacana International School (PCIS).
2001: FEPC and PCRC create Puntacana Center for Sustainability to develop research and education programs that create solutions to the environmental and social challenges facing tourism industry.
2004: Puntacana Foundation founds the public Ann and Ted Kheel Polytechnic School.
2004: Puntacana Ecological Foundation launches Puntacana Partnership for Ecological Sustainable Coastal Areas (PESCA).
2005: Puntacana Foundation makes its first commitment to the Clinton Global Initiative
2005: Puntacana Foundation Launch of co-management of Rural Clinic of Veron.
2005: Puntacana Foundation inaugurates the Puntacana Art Gallery jointly to Fundacion Igneri.
2006: Puntacana Resort & Club becomes founding member of RENAEPA, the National Network for Businesses that Protect the Environment in the Dominican Republic, now known as ECORED.
2006: Grupo Puntacana Foundation held the first medical mission together with Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM)
2007: Grupo Puntacana becomes a member of the United Nations Global Compact.
2007: Puntacana Ecological Foundation launches Zero Waste, integrated solid waste management system for Puntacana Resort & Club.
2008: Puntacana Foundation build and equip a police station to the community of Verón
2008: Puntacana Foundation launches “Carnaval de Punta Cana”.
2009: Puntacana Ecological Foundation launches beekeeping and worm-composting projects.
2009: FEPC signs collaborative agreement with The Peregrine Fund to conserve the endangered Ridgway's Hawk.
2009: FEPC and FPC sign a collaborative agreement with Save the Children to develop community programs in the town of Veron.
2010: Puntacana Foundation launches the Marine Archeological Project to locate and rescue archaeologically valuable pieces from the sea for exhibition.
2011: Puntacana Foundation hold the first Visual Surgical Mission together with Instituto de Ciencias Visuales de España (Incivi) among other partners
2012: PCRC and FEPC achieve Presidential Decree naming coastal area of Puntacana Resort & Club and Cap Cana as “Marine Protected Area.”
2014: Puntacana Foundation launches the social program Grupo Puntacana Works with the Community.
2014: Puntacana Foundation launches the Our lady of Punta Cana Craft Workshop
2015: Puntacana Foundation launches the housing project Ciudad Caracolí.
2016: Puntacana Ecological Foundation and Puntacana Foundation merge.
2017: Foundation inaugurated the Oscar de la Renta Pediatric Center facilities. The center will provide primary health care to more than 15,000 disadvantaged children from local communities.
2018: Creation of the Center of Marine Innovation.
2019: Launch of terrestrial coral nurseries.
2019: Launch of the Ornamental Fish Nursery Project.
2019: Inauguration of the Centro Educativo Caracolí.
References
Living people
1940s births
Date of birth missing (living people)
People from Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
Saint Joseph's University alumni
Dominican Republic businesspeople
Dominican Republic billionaires
Order of Merit of Duarte, Sánchez and Mella
People of Campanian descent
People of Emilian descent
Ambassadors of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta to the Dominican Republic
White Dominicans |
44502605 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Islington | The Islington | The Islington is a live music venue located at 1 Tolpuddle Street, London, England, Prior to new ownership it was called the "North One".
It has become a known venue for national and international touring acts. The venue booking schedule has hosted notable performances from Thurston Moore, Jeffrey Lewis, Matthew Caws(Nada Surf), Ethan Johns Jamie Lawson, Sarah Neufeld (Arcade Fire), Ward Thomas, The Magic Numbers, Minor Alps, Lisa Mitchell, Whyte Horses, Max Cooke, The High Llamas, Cara Dillon, The Barr Brothers, Jamie Lenman, Ben Taylor and Yasmine Hamdan. The venue has hosted profile book launches from David Hepworth, Paul Morley Hunter Davies, Jon Savage
References
Music venues in London |
6904106 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Duck%20Factory | The Duck Factory | The Duck Factory is an American sitcom produced by MTM Enterprises that aired on NBC from April 12 until July 11, 1984. It was Jim Carrey's first lead role in a Hollywood production. It was also the only time when Don Messick appeared in live-action, although he also voiced a cartoon character in the sitcom as well. The show was set at a small independent animation studio, and was co-created by Allan Burns and Herbert Klynn. It won two Emmy Awards.
Background
Burns had started his career as a writer/animator for The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show and George of the Jungle, before turning to live action and co-creating The Mary Tyler Moore Show; Klynn had worked in various production capacities on Mr. Magoo and Gerald McBoing-Boing, amongst many other cartoons.
Overview
The premiere episode introduces Skip Tarkenton (Carrey), a somewhat naive and optimistic young man who has come to Hollywood looking for a job as a cartoonist. When he arrives at a low-budget animation company called Buddy Winkler Productions, he finds out Buddy Winkler has just died, and the company desperately needs new blood. So Skip gets an animation job at the firm, which is nicknamed "The Duck Factory" as their main cartoon is "The Dippy Duck Show".
Other Duck Factory employees seen regularly on the show were man-of-a-thousand-cartoon voices Wally Wooster (played by real-life cartoon voice artist Don Messick); cynical, sometimes lazy comedy writer Marty Fenneman (played by real-life comedy writer Jay Tarses); veteran artist and animator Brooks Carmichael (Jack Gilford); younger storyboard artist Roland Culp (Clarence Gilyard); sarcastic editor Andrea Lewin; and hard-nosed, penny-pinching business manager Aggie Aylesworth. Buddy Winkler Productions was now owned by Buddy's young, ditzy but good-hearted widow, Mrs. Sheree Winkler (Teresa Ganzel), a former topless ice dancer who had been married to Buddy for all of three weeks before his death.
Production
Seen in some episodes were clips from various "Dippy Duck" shows the Buddy Winkler crew were working on—sometimes fully animated, sometimes in pencil sketch or animatic form. The opening and closing credits were also animated. Series co-creator Klynn was also credited as the show's "creative animation consultant", while production of the actual animated material was done by Ted and Gerry Woolery for which each won an Emmy.
Show history
The Duck Factory lasted thirteen episodes; it premiered April 12, 1984. It was directed primarily by Gene Reynolds, Rod Daniel, and Victor Lobel, who each did three episodes. The show initially aired at 9:30 on Thursday nights, directly after Cheers (at the time, not yet a top ten hit; Cheers finished the 1983/84 television season in 34th place). The show replaced Buffalo Bill on NBC's schedule. Jay Tarses, an actor on The Duck Factory, had been the co-creator and executive producer of Buffalo Bill, which had its final network telecast on Thursday, April 5, 1984.
Episodes of The Duck Factory were shown out of the producers' intended order by NBC, leading to significant continuity problems with the series. Most notably, the eighth episode (in which Skip is promoted to being the producer of "The Dippy Duck Show", much to the resentment of the show's staff) was shown as episode 2. As broadcast, succeeding episodes ping-ponged between Skip being the show's producer, and Skip being the show's low-ranking apprentice animator, with no explanation as to the reason for the constant change of status. As well, what the producers had intended to air as the second episode (and which set up the continuing premise of the series) was shown as the thirteenth; Mrs. Winkler was the receptionist in second episode as broadcast, but then in the fourth episode she becomes the receptionist, etc.
The show changed timeslots in June, moving to Wednesdays at 9:30. The last original episode of The Duck Factory was broadcast on July 11, 1984.
Cast
Jim Carrey as Skip Tarkenton
Jack Gilford as Brooks Carmichael
Nancy Lane as Andrea Lewin
Jay Tarses as Marty Fenneman
Don Messick as Wally Wooster
Messick also voiced Dippy Duck
Julie Payne as Aggie Aylesworth
Clarence Gilyard Jr as Roland Culp
Teresa Ganzel as Mrs. Sheree Winkler
Episodes
US television ratings
Home media
In 1995, at the height of Carrey's career, two VHS videocassettes were released in the United States by MTM Home Video, one containing the first three episodes, the other the last three episodes. The two volumes were released in the United Kingdom in 1997 (Pictured above), slightly expanded to the first four and the last four episodes of the series (which had never been broadcast in the UK).
References
External links
First episode posted by The Museum of Classic Chicago Television on YouTube
All episodes on Internet Archive
NBC original programming
1984 American television series debuts
1984 American television series endings
1980s American sitcoms
1980s American workplace comedy television series
American television series with live action and animation
Animated television series about ducks
Television series about television
Television series by MTM Enterprises
Television shows set in Los Angeles |
23576028 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichocentrum%20bicallosum | Trichocentrum bicallosum | Trichocentrum bicallosum is a species of orchid found from Mexico (Oaxaca, Chiapas) to Central America.
References
External links
bicallosum
Orchids of Central America
Orchids of Chiapas
Flora of Oaxaca |
23576061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichocentrum%20carthagenense | Trichocentrum carthagenense | Trichocentrum carthagenense, also known as the Coot Bay dancing lady orchid, is a species of orchid found from the Everglades, the Caribbean and Mexico, Central America and down to northern Brazil. The species name refers to the Cartagena, Colombia, where it was first collected in 1760.
References
External links
carthagenense
Orchids of Central America
Orchids of Belize
Orchids of Brazil
Orchids of Mexico
Flora of the Caribbean
Flora without expected TNC conservation status |
23576064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magadinovac | Magadinovac | Magadinovac is a village in north-eastern Slavonia, situated in municipality town of Orahovica, Virovitica-Podravina County, Croatia.
Population
References
CD-rom: "Naselja i stanovništvo RH od 1857-2001. godine", Izdanje Državnog zavoda za statistiku Republike Hrvatske, Zagreb, 2005.
Populated places in Virovitica-Podravina County |
20472452 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Leura | Mount Leura | Mount Leura is a 313-metre scoria cone surrounding a dry crater 100 m deep and is the central and most obvious component of a larger volcanic complex southeast of the town of Camperdown located in western Victoria, Australia, 194 kilometres (121 mi) south west of the state capital, Melbourne. The inactive volcano is thought to have last erupted between 5,000 and 20,000 years ago. The name means "big nose" in local aboriginal dialect.
Leura Maar
Mount Leura, together with nearby Mount Sugarloaf, forms part of a large extinct volcanic complex known as the "Leura Maar". The complex includes a broad shallow maar crater measuring 2.5 km by 1.7 km surrounded by a low tuff ring, inside which are the secondary eruption points of Mount Leura and several smaller unnamed mounds and cones of scoria. These may represent eruptions along a north–south fissure. The walls of the cone are alternating layers of tuff and scoria with numerous blocks and volcanic bombs. Mount Sugarloaf is a perfect conical mound on the southwestern flank of Mount Leura and represents a final stage of activity of the Leura volcano, when a small vent ejected a large volume of lava fragments in a short time, without a change in the direction of the eruption column. This produced a steep, symmetrical, conical mound of volcanic ash, scoria and larger blocks and bombs.
Mining
Numerous quarries operated within the "Leura Maar". Quarries also provide significant exposures of bedding in tuff and scoria and many xenoliths are obtained from these. The scoria at Mount Leura is notable for the inclusions of high temperature megacrusts and xenoliths (fragments of the lower crust and mantle of the earth) which occur here in unusually high concentrations. Most of the quarries now are closed and some are used for dumping landfill.
Tourism
The volcano lies within the 'Lakes and Craters' region, an access road was built in 1932. It allows vehicles the size of buses to access the lookout on top of Mount Leura. On a clear day you can see the Grampians and Mount Buninyong to the north, Mount Porndon to the east and Lavers Hill to the south. To the immediate west are the deep volcanic crater lakes Bullen-Merri and Gnotuk while to the east is the crater Lake Purrumbete popular for its Trout and Chinook Salmon fishing.
Hillclimb
Mount Leura has hosted the Australian Hillclimb Championship twice, 1985 and 1997. The access road to the summit is closed for the competition.
The Australian Hillclimb Championship has been sanctioned by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport since 1954. Prior to this it was sanctioned by the Australian Automobile Association, with two events having national championship status in 1949.
See also
Australian Hillclimb Championship
List of mountains in Victoria
List of volcanoes in Australia
References
Cinder cones
Mountains of Victoria (Australia)
Volcanoes of Victoria (Australia)
Inactive volcanoes
Maars of Australia |
20472459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castelmur%20Castle | Castelmur Castle | Castelmur Castle may refer to:
Castelmur Castle (Stampa) or Palazzo Castelmur in the Swiss village of Stampa in the Bregaglia municipality
Castelmur Castle (Bondo) an earlier castle in the Swiss village of Bondo in the Bregaglia municipality |
20472462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rihei%20Sano | Rihei Sano | was a Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.
Club career
Sano was born in Shizuoka Prefecture on September 21, 1912. He played for Waseda WMW was consisted of his alma mater Waseda University players and graduates.
National team career
In 1936, when Sano was a Waseda University student, he was selected Japan national team for 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. At this competition, on August 4, he debuted against Sweden. Japan completed a come-from-behind victory against Sweden. The first victory in Olympics for the Japan and the historic victory over one of the powerhouses became later known as "Miracle of Berlin" (ベルリンの奇跡) in Japan. In 2016, this team was selected Japan Football Hall of Fame. On August 7, he also played against Italy. He played 2 games for Japan in 1936.
Sano died on March 26, 1992 at the age of 79.
National team statistics
References
External links
Japan National Football Team Database
Japan Football Hall of Fame (Japan team at 1936 Olympics) at Japan Football Association
Rihei Sano's profile at Sports Reference.com
1912 births
1992 deaths
Waseda University alumni
Association football people from Shizuoka Prefecture
Japanese footballers
Japan international footballers
Olympic footballers of Japan
Footballers at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Association football goalkeepers |
17335537 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Business%20of%20Being%20Born | The Business of Being Born | The Business of Being Born is a 2008 documentary film that explores the contemporary experience of childbirth in the United States. Directed by Abby Epstein and produced by Ricki Lake, it compares various childbirth methods, including midwives, natural births, epidurals, and Cesarean sections.
Content
The film criticizes the American health care system with its emphasis on medicines and costly interventions and its view of childbirth as a medical emergency rather than a natural occurrence. Lake drew inspiration for the documentary from the disappointing experience she had had with the birth of her first son, Milo Sebastian Sussman.
The film documents actual home births and water births, including in the latter category that of Lake's own second son, Owen Tyler Sussman. They follow a midwife, Cara, in New York City as she takes care of and attends several births. They then give the audience several statistics about our current birthing techniques and challenge today's doctors. Many experts are interviewed and they cite a multitude of reasons for these, such as the overuse of medical procedures in the interest of saving time.
Cast
Ricki Lake
Abby Epstein
Julia Barnett Tracy
Louann Brizendine
Michael L. Brodman
Natashia Fuksman
DVD release
The DVD was released in the US on May 6, 2008 and soon after an international version was released.
See also
Orgasmic Birth: The Best-Kept Secret
More Business of Being Born
Medicating Normal
Homebirth
Waterbirth
Midwife
Doulas
References
External links
Interview by Lamaze President Allison Walsh
Interview by Motherwords
Interview by Celesta Rannisi, Host of "Timely Topics in Childbirth"
2008 films
American documentary films
Documentary films about pregnancy
2008 documentary films
2000s pregnancy films
American pregnancy films
2000s English-language films
2000s American films |
17335555 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Croton%20Aqueduct | New Croton Aqueduct | The New Croton Aqueduct is an aqueduct in the New York City water supply system in Westchester County, New York carrying the water of the Croton Watershed. Built roughly parallel to the Old Croton Aqueduct it originally augmented, the new system opened in 1890. The old aqueduct remained in service until 1955, when supply from the Delaware and Catskill Aqueducts was sufficient to take it off line.
Waters of the New Croton Aqueduct flow to the Jerome Park Reservoir in the Bronx before entering Croton Water Filtration Plant in Van Cortlandt Park for treatment, then out to distribution.
Overview
The Croton Watershed is one of three systems that provide water to New York City, joined by the waters of the Delaware and Catskill Aqueducts. The Croton system comprises 12 reservoirs and 3 controlled lakes.
History
The New Croton Aqueduct opened on July 15, 1890, replacing the Old Croton Aqueduct. The newer aqueduct is a brick-lined tunnel, in diameter and long, running from the New Croton Reservoir in Westchester County to the Jerome Park Reservoir in the Bronx. Water flows then proceed toward the Croton Water Filtration Plant for treatment. Treated water is distributed to certain areas of the Bronx and Manhattan.
In the late 1990s, the city stopped using water from the Croton system due to numerous water quality issues. In 1997 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Justice and the State of New York filed suit against the city for violating the Safe Drinking Water Act and the New York State Sanitary Code. The city government agreed to rehabilitate the New Croton Aqueduct and build a filtration plant. The filtration system protects the public from disease-causing microorganisms such as Giardia and Cryptosporidium. The Croton Water Filtration Plant was activated in May 2015.
See also
New York City water supply system
Water supply network
References
Aqueducts in New York (state)
Geography of the Bronx
Interbasin transfer
Transportation buildings and structures in Westchester County, New York
Water infrastructure of New York City |
17335572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89dgar%20Eusebio%20Mill%C3%A1n%20G%C3%B3mez | Édgar Eusebio Millán Gómez | Édgar Eusebio Millán Gómez (1967 – 8 May 2008) was a third-ranking member of Mexico's Secretariat of Public Security and acting commissioner of the Federal Preventive Police. Born in Mexico City, he received a law degree from the Universidad del Valle de México. After graduating he started his career in the Mexican Federal Police and received training in several countries.
On 8 May 2008, at the age of 41, Commander Millán was shot to death at his Mexico City home just after arriving at midnight. He was hit eight times in the chest and once in a hand. He died a few hours later at Metropolitan Hospital. Intelligence officials said it was highly likely that he was killed in retribution for the arrest on 21 January of Alfredo Beltrán Leyva.
His funeral was attended by the highest-ranking officials in Mexico, including President Felipe Calderón and Guillermo Galván Galván, general of the Mexican Army.
In June 2011, a federal judge sentenced his killer, Alejandro Ramirez Baez, to 60 years in prison along with an accomplice. Alejandro Ramirez Baez killed Edgar Millán Gomez on behalf of the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel.
References
1967 births
2008 deaths
Deaths by firearm in Mexico
People murdered by Mexican drug cartels
People murdered in Mexico
Chiefs of police
Male murder victims
Mexican police officers
Victims of the Mexican Drug War
Assassinated Mexican people |
44502614 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20P.%20Cothran | Thomas P. Cothran | Thomas P. Cothran (October 24, 1857 – April 11, 1934) was an associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. He was admitted to the South Carolina bar in 1878. He was elected while serving as the Speaker of the House of the South Carolina House of Representatives to succeed Justice Hydrick on January 28, 1921. He is buried in the Upper Long Cane Cemetery in Abbeville, South Carolina.
References
Justices of the South Carolina Supreme Court
1857 births
1934 deaths
Place of death missing
Members of the South Carolina House of Representatives
Speakers of the South Carolina House of Representatives
University of Virginia alumni |
44502629 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Hatanaka | Bill Hatanaka | Bill Hatanaka (born May 3, 1954) is a former Canadian football wide receiver who played four seasons in the Canadian Football League (CFL) with the Ottawa Rough Riders and Hamilton Tiger-Cats. He was drafted by the Rough Riders in the first round of the 1976 CFL Draft. He played CIS football at York University. He was a member of the Ottawa Rough Riders team that won the 64th Grey Cup. Hatanaka's punt return touchdown in the 64th Grey Cup was the first in Grey Cup history. He attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School, and is a member of the Board of Governors at York University.
Hatanaka serves as the chair of the Ontario Health agency's board of directors.
References
External links
Just Sports Stats
64th Grey Cup 79-Yard Punt Return Touchdown
Fanbase profile
Forbes profile
Living people
1954 births
Players of Canadian football from New Brunswick
Canadian football wide receivers
York Lions football players
Ottawa Rough Riders players
Hamilton Tiger-Cats players
People from Bathurst, New Brunswick
Canadian sportspeople of Japanese descent |
6904122 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauro%20Gianetti | Mauro Gianetti | Mauro Gianetti (born 16 March 1964 in Lugano) is a Swiss former professional road cyclist and later directeur sportif. Gianetti was employed as team manager for the cycling team throughout its existence between 2004 and 2011.
Several riders have been sanctioned for doping violations that occurred during his tenure as directeur sportif, including Riccardo Riccò and Juan José Cobo. Gianetti currently sits on the Board of Directors of UAE Team Emirates.
With over 30 professional victories, Gianetti's biggest career accomplishments as a rider include winning the 1995 Liège–Bastogne–Liège and Amstel Gold Race and representing Switzerland at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
His son Noé Gianetti was also a professional cyclist.
Major results
1981
3rd Road race, National Road Championships
1982
1st Road race, National Junior Road Championships
1983
2nd Gran Premio di Chiasso
1984
1st Stage 5b Settimana Ciclistica Bergamasca
1985
2nd Circuito Belvedere
1986
1st GP Lugano
5th Tour du Nord-Ouest
1987
7th Giro dell'Emilia
9th Coppa Placci
10th Giro di Toscana
1988
5th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
7th Overall Tour de Suisse
9th Züri-Metzgete
10th Giro dell'Emilia
10th Coppa Sabatini
1989
1st Tour du Nord-Ouest
2nd Overall Kellogg's Tour of Britain
1st Stage 4
2nd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
3rd Giro dell'Emilia
5th Amstel Gold Race
5th Trofeo Pantalica
7th Paris–Camembert
1990
1st Milano–Torino
1st Coppa Placci
3rd Grand Prix de Fourmies
5th Overall Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali
8th Giro dell'Emilia
10th Rund um den Henninger Turm
1991
4th GP des Amériques
5th Milano–Torino
7th Coppa Sabatini
7th Giro dell'Emilia
1992
3rd Grand Prix de Fourmies
5th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
7th Trofeo Laigueglia
1993
2nd Trofeo Melinda
6th Giro del Veneto
1994
1st Chur–Arosa
2nd Milano–Torino
9th Overall Tour de Suisse
9th Giro di Lombardia
9th Giro dell'Emilia
9th Coppa Sabatini
1995
1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège
1st Amstel Gold Race
2nd Overall Escalada a Montjuïc
1st Stage 1b (ITT)
2nd Klasika Primavera
3rd Overall UCI Road World Cup
3rd Japan Cup
3rd Subida a Txitxarro
4th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
5th Milano–Torino
7th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
1996
1st Japan Cup
1st Klasika Primavera
1st Chur–Arosa
2nd Road race, UCI Road World Championships
2nd Overall Escalada a Montjuïc
1st Stage 1a
3rd Overall Critérium International
1st Stage 2
3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
3rd Giro del Piemonte
3rd Giro del Veneto
4th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
4th La Flèche Wallonne
5th Overall Tour de Romandie
6th Overall UCI Road World Cup
6th Subida a Urkiola
8th Giro di Lombardia
1997
1st Paris–Camembert
1st Polymultipliée de l'Hautil
2nd Trophée des Grimpeurs
3rd Japan Cup
3rd Rund um den Henninger Turm
5th Amstel Gold Race
6th Overall Critérium International
7th Grand Prix de Fourmies
10th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
1998
7th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
1999
1st Trofeo Melinda
1st Wartenberg Rundfahrt
3rd Road race, National Road Championships
6th Giro del Friuli
7th Overall Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali
2001
1st Overall Tour of Japan
1st Stage 3
5th Road race, National Road Championships
5th Sparkassen Giro Bochum
6th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
9th La Flèche Wallonne
2002
2nd Tour de Berne
4th Road race, National Road Championships
6th Luk-Cup Bühl
6th Grand Prix de Wallonie
After retirement
Gianetti became assistant director of Dante Lam, and helped to film the Milan leg of Taiwanese movie To The Fore.
References
External links
1964 births
Living people
Swiss male cyclists
Olympic cyclists of Switzerland
Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Lugano
Swiss people of Italian descent |
44502704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoskinstown | Hoskinstown | Hoskinstown is a locality in Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council, New South Wales, Australia. The locality, and what remains of the cluster of settlement of the same name, is 38 km southeast of Canberra the Capital city of Australia, and 299 km southwest of Sydney. At the , it had a population of 191.
The area now known as Hoskinstown lies on the traditional lands of Ngarigo people.
Hoskinstown, was known previously as Hoskingtown; it was named after John Hosking (1805-1882), a Sydney merchant, first elected mayor of Sydney, and the owner of the nearby Foxlow station—its name was derived from his wife Martha's middle name—which he took up around 1835. Part of what was once Hoskings' landholding extented to part of the area occupied by the settlement at Hoskinstown.
The area lay of a road route, between Queanbeyan and Braidwood. Prior to 1870, it was known as 'Blackheath', a name in use since at least as early as 1835. Possibly due to confusion with the newer Blue Mountains township of Blackheath, the name of the newly-opened post office at 'Blackheath' was, only months later in 1870, changed to 'Hoskin's Town'. From around the same time, the name for the small settlement and its surrounding area became 'Hoskingtown', until around 1896, when it became Hoskinstown. Its name has been variously spelt as 'Hoskingtown', 'Hoskingstown', 'Hoskins Town', 'Hoskington', and 'Hoskintown', before, Hoskinstown, became the variant that was used universally. The post office was only renamed from 'Hoskin's Town' to Hoskinstown in 1925.
Hoskinstown's urban portion seems never to have been proclaimed a village—possibly another reason for the confusion about the spelling of its name—and was best described as a cluster of settlement; it was centred on Hoskinstown Road, roughly between modern-day Plains Road and Rossi Road.
Hoskinstown is known for the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope operated by the University of Sydney.
It had a public school from 1869 to 1967, aside from a mysterious event, in 1934, when the building was partially dismantled, without notice or explanation, but then restored. The site of the school was excised from land that was once owned by John Hosking. The school building built, in 1929, has been converted to a private residence,Hoskinstown platform was opened along with the Captains Flat railway line in 1940, and it closed, in August 1968, a year before the line. It was a small short-platform structure.
The settlement once had a hotel, the Victoria Hotel. During the 1930s, a house that contained the post office and store also seems to have operated, at times, as a 'sly grog' outlet. The post office closed at the end of November 1967.
The Catholic Church is dedicated to Saint Peter and Paul. There is also an Anglican Church, St Marks. Both churches have a cemetery. During the years when there was widespread sectarianism in Australia, Hoskinstown was a notable exception, with the two churches holding combined social and sporting events, with the funds raised being shared.
Hoskinstown has a public hall that opened in 1928. The public hall is used for public events of the Hoskinstown-Rossi Rural Fire Service brigade, although the brigade has its own building next to the Anglican Church.
References
External links
Map of Molongolo Parish (1962), NSW Department of Lands
Localities in New South Wales
Queanbeyan–Palerang Regional Council |
6904137 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annette%20Rogers | Annette Rogers | Annette Rogers (later Kelly, October 22, 1913 – November 8, 2006) was an American sprinter and high jumper. She competed in the individual 100 m, 4×100 m relay and high jump at the 1932 and 1936 Olympics and won two gold medals in the relay, setting a world record in 1932. She placed fifth in the individual 100 m in 1932 and sixth in the high jump in 1932 and 1936. Domestically she won the AAU outdoor titles in the 100 yards in 1933 and in the relay in 1931–1933. She also won the AAU indoor titles in the 200 m and high jump in 1933 and 1936.
Rogers was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, but at an early age moved to Chicago with her parents, John and Mary Rogers, two immigrants from Ireland. Rogers graduated from Senn High School in Chicago, and Northwestern University. She then worked as a teacher of physical education in the Chicago public school system, retiring in 1965. While going to school and working, Rogers trained and competed with the following organizations—Illinois Women's Athletic Club (IWAC), 1930-1933, Lincoln Park, 1933-34, and Illinois Club for Catholic Women (ICCW). Rogers married Peter J. Kelly in 1948.
References
1913 births
2006 deaths
American female sprinters
Sportspeople from Chelsea, Massachusetts
Olympic gold medalists for the United States in track and field
Athletes (track and field) at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Northwestern University alumni
Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics
USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships winners
20th-century American women
20th-century American people
Olympic female sprinters
21st-century American women |
44502784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yentl%20Syndrome | Yentl Syndrome | The Yentl Syndrome is the different course of action that heart attacks usually follow for women than for men. This is a problem because much of medical research has focused primarily on symptoms of male heart attacks, and many women have died due to misdiagnosis because their symptoms present differently. The name is taken from the 1983 film Yentl starring Barbra Streisand in which her character plays the role of a male in order to receive the education she desires. The phrase was coined in a 1991 academic paper by Dr. Bernadine Healy titled "The Yentl syndrome."
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the United States, killing 299,578 women in 2017—or about 1 in every 5 female deaths. However, heart disease continues to be thought of as a "man’s disease"
References
References
External links
C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD
Causes of death
Symptoms and signs: Cardiac
Women's health
Syndromes
Medical terminology |
23576070 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming%20at%20the%202006%20Central%20American%20and%20Caribbean%20Games%20%E2%80%93%20Women%27s%204x100%20metre%20freestyle%20relay | Swimming at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games – Women's 4x100 metre freestyle relay | The women's Freestyle Relay at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games occurred on Wednesday, July 19, 2006, at the S.U. Pedro de Heredia Aquatic Complex in Cartagena, Colombia.
Only 7 relays were entered in the event, and consequently, it was only swum once (in finals).
Records at the time of the event were:
World Record: 3:35.94, Australia (Mills, Lenton, Thomas, Henry), Athens, Greece, August 14, 2004.
Games Record: 3:57.55, Venezuela (Vilar, Lopes, Aponte, Semeco), 2002 Games in San Salvador (Nov.26.2002).
Results
References
2006 CAC results: Women's 4x100 Free Relay from the website of the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games; retrieved 2009-07-11.
Freestyle Relay, Women's 4x100m
2006 in women's swimming |
44502868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sage%20Library | Sage Library | The Sage Library is a historical structure located on 100 E. Midland St in Bay City, Michigan. The library had its grand opening on January 16, 1884 and was constructed by Henry W. Sage as a gift to Bay City. It is operated as a public library by the Bay County Library System. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is the oldest continually operated library building in the state of Michigan.
History
Henry W. Sage and his business partner, John McGraw, arrived in Bay City area in the early 1860s to open a sawmill and lumberyard. They platted a small settlement known then as Wenona, and later West Bay City. Henry Sage was also a generous philanthropist, donating significantly to Cornell University. In 1884, Sage contracted with the area's best known architectural firm, Pratt and Koeppe, to design this library, and hired Andrew Thomson as the contractor to construct it.
When originally built, the library itself occupied only the second floor of the building, and contained 10,000 books. The first floor was used for school classes, and the third floor was used as an office for the Superintendent of Schools. The building also provided meeting space for several societies. When West Bay City and Bay City merged in 1903, the library was incorporated into the Bay City System. The collection housed in the building continued to grow, reaching over 110,000 volumes by the 1970s.
The library underwent major renovations in 1982-84, and the slate roof was replaced in 1990. In 2002-04 an extensive renovation restored many historic features, converted the attic into a library area, and included an addition to the rear of building. The building is still operated as a public library.
Description
The Sage Library is a rectangular, 2-1/2-story, four bay wide red brick building with a multi-colored ashlar fieldstone foundation, and highlighted with pink Amherst stone. The building is designed in a revival version of French Châteauesque architecture, with asymmetrical massing and a steeply pitched hipped roof. The front facade has a projecting entryway covered with a gable roof two bays wide, with a rounded archway and double doors. Next to the entryway is a projecting bay reaching to the roofline; the final bay houses a tall double-hung window unit. On the second floor, the projecting bay holds a tri-sided arrangement of tall double hung window units; the remaining bays hold a simple double-hung sash each. At the roof level, the projecting bay is capped with a tri-sided roof while the remaining bays have dormers.
Inside, the arrangement is the same as when the building first opened. The first floor has an entrance lobby and two large rooms originally serving as schoolrooms. The second floor, reached by a stair in the entry way, is also divided into two large rooms. One of these was the original reading room, and the other housed the collection. The third floor remains was originally unfinished, but has been converted into library space.
References
Public libraries in Michigan
Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in Michigan
National Register of Historic Places in Bay County, Michigan
Michigan State Historic Sites in Bay County |
44502890 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alampyris | Alampyris | Alampyris is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae, containing the following species:
Alampyris bicolor Martins, Santos-Silva & Galileo, 2015
Alampyris cretaria Bates, 1885
Alampyris curta Bates, 1881
Alampyris flavicollis Galileo & Martins, 2005
Alampyris fuliginea Bates, 1881
Alampyris fusca Martins & Galileo, 2008
Alampyris marginella Bates, 1881
Alampyris melanophiloides (Thomson, 1868)
Alampyris mimetica Bates, 1881
Alampyris nigra Bates, 1881
Alampyris photinoides Bates, 1881
Alampyris quadricollis Bates, 1881
References
Hemilophini |
17335573 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown%20Archeological%20District | Jamestown Archeological District | The Jamestown Archeological District (also known as the Great Creek Archeological District) is an expansive archaeological district which is the site of a major prehistoric Native American settlement in Jamestown, Rhode Island. The full extent of archaeologically-sensitive areas has not been fully identified (as of 2014), but is known to extend from Narragansett Avenue in the south to Rhode Island Route 138 in the north, and from Narragansett Bay in the west to North Road. The district overlaps the historically significant Windmill Hill Historic District, and the nearly Watson Farm. The district includes one of largest Native American burying grounds in New England, and includes evidence of occupation dating to 3,000 BC.
The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
References
Historic districts in Newport County, Rhode Island
Jamestown, Rhode Island
Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Newport County, Rhode Island |
17335592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoene%20van%20Haersolte | Amoene van Haersolte | Jkvr. Amoëne van Haersolte (born Ernestine Amoene Sophia van Holthe tot Echten; 23 February 1890 – 11 August 1952) was a Dutch writer of prose.
Van Haersolte was born in Utrecht. She won the first P. C. Hooft Award in 1947. She died, aged 62, in Dalfsen.
Bibliography
Novels
1949 - De komeet en het harlekijntje
1951 - Lucile
1953 - De roerkop
Novellas
1927 - De laatsten
1946 - Sophia in de Koestraat
1953 - De roerkop
1890 births
1952 deaths
Jonkvrouws of the Netherlands
P. C. Hooft Award winners
Writers from Utrecht (city) |
23576077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mascha%20M%C3%BCller | Mascha Müller | Mascha Müller (born May 8, 1984 in Munich, Germany) is a German actress and best known for her role as Luise von Waldensteyck on the soap opera Verbotene Liebe (Forbidden Love).
Mascha began acting with sixteen on a little stage, called Bühne Moosberg, which was founded by her mother, playing the role of the legendary Anne Frank. She succeeded her acting schooling on the International School for Acting in Munich. Her first television roles were little parts in the crime solving show Aktenzeichen XY… ungelöst and the scripted documentary Die Abschlussklasse.
After that she became guest parts in the primetime sitcom Hausmeister Krause – Ordnung muss sein and in the telenovelas Storm of Love and Lotta in Love, followed by main parts in stage plays in Munich.
In 2007, Mascha took the part of Vanessa Eichoff in the short-lived soap opera Maple Avenue.
In November 2007, she started filming for Verbotene Liebe and was first seen on-screen on January 21, 2009 in the role of Luise von Waldensteyck. With a fast popularity by the audience it became her biggest success yet.
Filmography
2005: Aktenzeichen XY… ungelöst (segment: 'Bankraub') as bank assistant
2005: Die Abschlussklasse (1 episode) as transvestite
2007: Maple Avenue (contract role) as Vanessa Eichhoff
2008: Der Bulle von Tölz (episode: 'Das Ende aller Sitten') as Jana Fitz
2009–present: Verbotene Liebe (contract role) as Luise von Waldensteyck
2009: Pfarrer Braun (episode: 'Glück auf! Der Mörder kommt!') as Ulla Wiehr
External links
Mascha Müller in the Internet Movie Database
Official Homepage
1984 births
Living people
German soap opera actresses
Actresses from Munich
German television actresses |
26716213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving%20at%20the%202010%20South%20American%20Games%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%2010%20m%20platform | Diving at the 2010 South American Games – Men's 10 m platform | The Men's 10m Platform event at the 2010 South American Games was held on March 23 at 14:00.
Medalists
Results
References
Summary
10m M |
26716243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Una%20Mestiza | Una Mestiza | The Una Mestiza ("A Mestiza"), sometimes referred to as La Mestiza ("The Mestiza"), is an 1887 painting by Filipino painter and hero Juan Luna. The masterpiece is also known as La mestiza en su tocador which translates into English as The Mestiza at Her Dressing Table or Mestiza Lady at Her Dresser. Una Mestiza is also alternately called Charing. Coincidentally, this alternate title is the nickname of Luna's sister-in-law Rosario Melgar. Luna donated Una Mestiza to the Biblioteca Museu Victor Balaguer (Victor Balaguer Library Museum) of Vilanova i la Geltrú in the province of Barcelona in Spain. The Una Mestiza painting won an award at the Exposicion General de las Filipinas (Philippine General Exposition).
References
1887 paintings
Paintings by Juan Luna
Paintings in Spain |
6904158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Power%20Facility | Space Power Facility | Space Power Facility (SPF) is a NASA facility used to test spaceflight hardware under simulated launch and spaceflight conditions. The SPF is part of NASA's Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility, which in turn is part of the Glenn Research Center. The Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility and the SPF are located near Sandusky, Ohio (Oxford Township, Erie County, Ohio).
The SPF is able to simulate a spacecraft's launch environment, as well as in-space environments. NASA has developed these capabilities under one roof to optimize testing of spaceflight hardware while minimizing transportation issues. Space Power Facility has become a "One Stop Shop" to qualify flight hardware for crewed space flight. This facility provides the capability to perform the following environmental testing:
Thermal-vacuum testing
Reverberation acoustic testing
Mechanical vibration testing
Modal testing
Electromagnetic interference and compatibility testing
Thermal-Vacuum Test Chamber
The Space Power Facility (SPF) is a vacuum chamber built by NASA in 1969. It stands high and in diameter, enclosing a bullet-shaped space. It is the world's largest thermal vacuum chamber. It was originally commissioned for nuclear-electric power studies under vacuum conditions, but was later decommissioned. It was subsequently recommissioned for use in testing spacecraft propulsion systems. Recent uses include testing the airbag landing systems for the Mars Pathfinder and the Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, under simulated Mars atmospheric conditions.
The facility was designed and constructed to test both nuclear and non-nuclear space hardware in a simulated Low-Earth-Orbiting environment. Although the facility was designed for testing nuclear hardware, only non-nuclear tests have been performed throughout its history. Some of the test programs that have been performed at the facility include high-energy experiments, rocket-fairing separation tests, Mars Lander system tests, deployable Solar Sail tests and International Space Station hardware tests.
The facility can sustain a high vacuum (10−6 torr, 130 μPa); simulate solar radiation via a 4 MW quartz heat lamp array, solar spectrum by a 400 kW arc lamp, and cold environments () with a variable geometry cryogenic cold shroud.
The facility is available on a full-cost reimbursable basis to government, universities, and the private sector.
In Spring 2013 SpaceX conducted a fairing separation test in the vacuum chamber.
Aluminum Test Chamber
The Aluminum Test Chamber is a vacuum-tight aluminum plate vessel that is in diameter and high. Designed for an external pressure of and internal pressure of , the chamber is constructed of Type 5083 aluminum which is a clad on the interior surface with a thick type 3003 aluminum for corrosion resistance. This material was selected because of its low neutron absorption cross-section. The floor plate and vertical shell are (total) thick, while the dome shell is . Welded circumferentially to the exterior surface is aluminum structural T-section members that are deep and wide. The doors of the test chamber are in size and have double door seals to prevent leakage. The chamber floor was designed for a load of 300 tons.
Concrete Chamber Enclosure
The concrete chamber enclosure serves not only as a radiological shield but also as a primary vacuum barrier from atmospheric pressure. in diameter and in height, the chamber was designed to withstand atmospheric pressure outside of the chamber at the same time vacuum conditions are occurring within. The concrete thickness varies from and contains a leak-tight steel containment barrier embedded within. The chamber's doors are and have inflatable seals. The space between the concrete enclosure and the aluminum test chamber is pumped down to a pressure of during a test.
Brian Cox of the BBC's Human Universe filmed a rock and feather drop episode at the Space Power Facility. Below is a YouTube clip:
Rock and Feather Drop at NASA's Space Power Facility
Electromagnetic Interference/Compatibility (EMI/EMC) functionality
Designed specifically as a large-scale thermal-vacuum test chamber for qualification testing of vehicles and equipment in outer-space conditions, it was discovered in the late 2000s that the unique construction of the SPF interior aluminum vacuum chamber also makes it an extremely large and electrically complex RF cavity with excellent reverberant RF characteristics. In 2009 these characteristics were measured by NIST and others after which the facility was understood to be, not only the world's largest Vacuum chamber, but also the world's largest EMI/EMC test facility. In 2011 NASA GRC successfully performed a calibration of the aluminum vacuum chamber using IEC 61000-4-21 methodologies. As a result of these activities, the SPF is capable of performing radiated susceptibility EMI tests for vehicles and equipment per MIL-STD-461 and able to achieve MIL-STD-461F limits above approximately 80 MHz. In the spring of 2017 the low-power characterizations and calibrations from 2009 and 2011 were proven correct in a series of high-power tests performed in the chamber to validate its capabilities. The SPF chamber is currently being prepared for EMI radiated susceptibility testing of the crew module for the Artemis 1 of NASA's Orion spacecraft.
Reverberant Acoustic Test Facility
The Reverberant Acoustic Test Facility has 36 nitrogen-driven horns to simulate the high noise levels that will be experienced during a space vehicle launch and supersonic ascent conditions. The RATF is capable of an overall sound pressure level of 163 dB within a chamber.
Mechanical Vibration Test Facility
The Mechanical Vibration Test Facility (MVF), is a three-axis vibration system. It will apply vibration in each of the three orthogonal axes (not simultaneously) with one direction in parallel to the Earth-launch thrust axis (X) at 5–150 Hz, 0-1.25 g-pk vertical, and 5–150 Hz 0-1.0 g-pk for the horizontal axes.
Vertical, or the thrust axis, shaking is accomplished by using 16 vertical actuators manufactured by TEAM Corporation, each capable of . The 16 vertical actuators allow for testing of up to a article at the previously stated frequency and amplitude limits.
Horizontal shaking is accomplished through use of 4 TEAM Corporation Horizontal Actuators. The horizontal actuators are used during Vertical testing to counteract cross axis forces and overturning moments.
NASA's Space Power Facility Vibro-Acoustic Construction
Modal Test Facility
In addition to the sine vibe table, a fixed-base Modal floor sufficient for the diameter test article is available. The fixed based Modal Test Facility is a thick steel floor on top of of concrete, that is tied to the earth using deep tensioned rock anchors.
There were over of rock anchors, and of concrete used in the construction of the fixed-base modal test facility and mechanical vibration test facility.
Assembly Area
The SPF Facility layout is ideal for performing multiple test programs. The facility has two large high bay areas adjacent to either side of the vacuum chamber. The advantage of having both areas available is that it allows for two complex tests to be prepared simultaneously. One test can be prepared in a high bay while another test is being conducted in the vacuum chamber. Large chamber doors provide access to the test chamber from either high bay.
NASA's Space Power Facility Vibro-Acoustic Construction
References
External links
Skylab Shroud in Plum Brook Space Power Facility
NASA image gallery, featuring the SPF
Detailed facility capabilities
Aerospace engineering
Glenn Research Center
NASA facilities
Buildings and structures in Erie County, Ohio |
26716282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtenay%20station | Courtenay station | Courtenay Station is a former railway station in downtown Courtenay, British Columbia. The station was the northern terminus for the Dayliner Via Rail service that ended in 2011.
History
Courtenay Station was built in 1914 when the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway reached Courtenay. It was originally supposed to be a stop along the line to Campbell River, however, due to World War I the line only went as far as Courtenay.
The former Canadian Pacific Railway station was given heritage status by the City of Courtenay in 2002.
Closure
The station was closed indefinitely on March 19, 2011 due to track maintenance. However, due to a lack of funding the line was replaced with a bus service, and on August 7, 2011, the station closed. Service was supposed to start in summer 2015, but this was also cancelled due to lack of funding.
References
Via Rail stations in British Columbia
Designated Heritage Railway Stations in British Columbia
Courtenay, British Columbia
Railway stations closed in 2011
2011 disestablishments in British Columbia
Disused railway stations in Canada |
26716311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ondrej%20Mares | Ondrej Mares | Ondrej Mares (11 February 1949 – 19 March 2008) was an Australian artist and furniture designer who lived in Macclesfield, South Australia. His work has been exhibited in Adelaide, Sydney and Prague. Mares is most famous for his Kachina pieces. In 2002, he was diagnosed with cancer, which had the effect of shifting his focus from larger pieces to smaller more compact pieces. Also, clues to his sickness manifested in later works, such as his Kachina titled 'Stem Cells'. Mares' work has been described as "jamming as much experience, humour and detail into each of his arte povera pieces, usually about high, as is aesthetically possible."
Early life
Mares started his working life as a toolmaker in Prague, and was exceptionally skilled in this area, reaching the rank of Toolmaker First Class prior to the Prague Spring of 1968. Mares recalled going to work one morning during this time to find several tanks parked outside the factory at which he worked. It was during this time that Mares' tools were stolen, leaving him with a debt to the state that had to be paid off. Mares and another toolmaker worked nights until the debt was paid, and he then decided to leave Czechoslovakia and emigrate.
In Australia
Once in Australia, Mares worked in several different locations, including Darwin and Broome. Mares worked in his own workshop at Macclesfield, South Australia producing furniture and sculpture from 1975 onwards. In 1979, Mares completed a Diploma in Art and Craft in South Australia. He was a skilled carpenter, and in addition to building his house in Macclesfield he also built a house in Goolwa. During this time through personal travels and experiences, Mares developed his own unique style of work, which was manifested in several furniture designs and some sculptures. His rate of work was prolific, and his daughter recalled that he was always working in his workshop from early morning to dusk.
Study travels
Mares travelled extensively early in his career, and the inspiration from his travels is evident in his styles of work. Between 1973 and 1974, Mares did a formative study trip through Europe and Asia, including Indonesia (Flores), India, Sri Lanka, and Afghanistan. In 1990, Mares traveled to Europe to undertake a study of furniture design in Prague and Paris. Mares travelled back to Prague in 2004 and in 2007.
Solo exhibitions
During his life, Mares exhibited a total of 17 times between 1984 and 2006. In addition to this, Mares' work was exhibited after he lost his battle to lymphoma in March 2008.
Group exhibitions
In addition to his solo exhibitions, Mares' work was exhibited as part of over 25 group exhibitions both in South Australia and Melbourne.
Final years
Despite being diagnosed with cancer in 2002, Mares continued to produce a large amount of sculptures, tables and Kachinas. A large amount of his work remains unseen by the public.
Ondrej Mares died in hospital on 19 March 2008. He was cremated shortly after his death.
Featuring publications
Masters of Their Craft, Dr Noris Ioannou, 1997
Monument Magazine Number 16, 1997
Modern Australian Furniture, M. Bofle and P. Landman 1994
References
External links
Ondrej Mares at BMG Art, Adelaide
Ondrej Mares at Stephen Sinclair Gallery, Adelaide
1949 births
2008 deaths
20th-century Australian sculptors
Australian artists
Australian contemporary artists
Czech artists
21st-century Australian sculptors |
6904160 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiraing | Quiraing | The Quiraing () is a landslip on the eastern face of , the northernmost summit of the Trotternish on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. The whole of the Trotternish Ridge escarpment was formed by a great series of landslips; the Quiraing is the only part of the slip still moving – the road at its base, near Flodigarry, requires repairs each year.
Parts of the distinctive landscape have earned particular names. The Needle is a jagged landmark pinnacle, a remnant of landslipping. Northwest of it is The Table, a flat grassy area slipped down from the summit plateau, with vistas of the Torridon Hills and the mountains of Wester Ross. Southwest is the Prison, a pyramidal rocky peak which can look like a medieval keep when viewed from the right angle – the ascent of this is an airy scramble.
The name Quiraing comes from Old Norse , which means 'Round Fold'. Within the fold is The Table, an elevated plateau hidden amongst the pillars. It is said that the fold was used to conceal cattle from Viking raiders.
External links
Mountains and hills of the Isle of Skye
Landslides in the United Kingdom |
26716371 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy%20Domaradzki | Jerzy Domaradzki | Jerzy Domaradzki (born 6 January 1943, in Lwów, occupied Poland) is a Polish-born film director based in Australia. He is most closely associated with Poland's film industry.
Following his 1974 graduation from the National Film School in Łódź, Domaradzki got his start working as an assistant and second unit director. He then worked with Andrzej Wajda for the "X" film unit. Director of movies Bestia (1979), Wielki bieg (1981), Planeta krawiec (1983), Biały smok (1987), Łuk Erosa (1987).
His Australian Productions include Struck by Lightning (1990), Lilian's Story (1996).
In addition to his movie career, Domaradzki also directs television, documentary, and theatrical productions. In the late '80s, he moved to Australia and in 1988 was appointed director-in-residence at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in Sydney.
References
External links
1943 births
Living people
Polish film directors
Australian film directors
Film people from Lviv
Polish expatriates in Australia |
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