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44499956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography%20%26%20Culture | Photography & Culture | Photography & Culture is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal published by Routledge. It was started in 2008 by Berg Publishers and was published by Bloomsbury Publishing until 2015. The editors-in-chief are Kathy Kubicki (University for the Creative Arts), Thy Phu (University of Western Ontario), and Val Williams (University of the Arts London).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
External links
English-language journals
Arts journals
Triannual journals
Publications established in 2008
Taylor & Francis academic journals |
6905885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenic%20plexus | Phrenic plexus | The phrenic plexus accompanies the inferior phrenic artery to the diaphragm, some filaments passing to the suprarenal gland.
It arises from the upper part of the celiac ganglion, and is larger on the right than on the left side.
It receives one or two branches from the phrenic nerve.
At the point of junction of the right phrenic plexus with the phrenic nerve is a small ganglion (ganglion phrenicum).
This plexus distributes branches to the inferior vena cava, and to the suprarenal and hepatic plexuses.
References
Nerve plexus |
23580767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chachran | Chachran | Chachran Sharif (), is a town in Khanpur Tehsil of the Rahim Yar Khan District, in the Punjab state of Pakistan.
Chacharan Sharif is a historical town of District Rahim Yar Khan which is attributed with the name of famous 19th century poet and saint Khawaja Ghulam Farid and it is called Farid city as he was born and lived in this city. This city is situated at the east bank of Indus River and is the last northern town of District Rahim Yar Khan. After it the territory of District Rajan Pur begins; Mithankot, another historic town is directly across the river Indus on its west bank.
A new Baynazeer bridge is built on the Indus River useful for connection between two districts – R. Y. Khan & Rajan Pur. In this way, the bridge facilitates travel for thousands of people of the District Rahim Yar Khan and District Rajan Pur. There are many villages (mouzas) near Chachran Sharif like Pahuran, Mud Adil, Beit Mughal, Mehran, Hasil Pur, Mouza Chachar, Mouza Chandia, Mouaza Hamid Pur, Faiz Abad, and Hyder Abad.
History
Some historians have mentioned in their books like Professor Saeed Ahmed Saeed has quoted in his book "Political History: Rahim Yar Khan" on Page 30, Mr. Yahya Amjad in his book "The History of Old Pakistan" on page # 446, Professor H. C. Rae Chaudhri in his book " Political History of Initiant India" and Mr. Muhammad Hassan Dani in his book " Tamur Garha" on page 20 to page 22, mentioning that Malo was an ancient Arian democratic state. People of Malo tribe during the period of Alexander the Great lived near the linking point of Indus and Ravi Rivers, probably on the eastern side at Chachran, Allah Abad, Khanpur and Rahim Yar Khan. So it is concluded that around 326 BC, Chachran was like a basic city in that state. Shahzada Mirza Mehmood Shah cited in his travelling story on page # 46 that Chacharan at the bank of the Indus River is in the premises of Bahawalpur. It is said that it was a big city back then and its population was like the population of Multan.
There was a big harbour in Chachran before the birth of Khawaja Ghulam Farid in the 19th century. Big boats used to be here and people used to do business here on boats at that time. However Chachran got more famous after the renowned poet Khawaja Ghulam Farid lived here and became known as Chachran Sharif thereafter. Mostly the people of Chachar tribe used to live here and are still living here. So it has become known as Chachran Sharif.
Courts
There are no courts in Chachran Sharif itself. However, there is a sub-divisional headquarters for courts in Khanpur Tehsil, which comprises two honourable additional session judges and five civil judges. The bar consists of 280 members. Many Advocate from the town are practicing in the sub-division court
Area politicians
Local Politicians are Sardar jam Ishaq pahur,Jam Kaloo Mirani,Ahmad Khan Lound Advocate, Sahibzada Iqbal Fareed Koreja, Jam Ghulam Mohammed Khalti, Asif Basheer Khan Ghori, Sahibzada Muhammad Fareed Koreja, Sardar Fawad Ahmad Khan Lound Advocate, Sardar Shahzad Ahmad Khan Lound are some famous politicians of town Chacharan Sharif area.
Sahibzada Muhammad Fareed Koreja was recently elected Chairman of the town.
Town is located the Constituency from where Currently elected MNA is the Minister of Development and elected MPA is the Finance Minister of Punjab. Mr. Khusro Bakhtiar & Mr. Hashim Jawan Bakhat respectively. In Past Elected MNA'S & MPA"s are also served Pakistan as Ministers Like Makhdoom Shahaab-Ul-Deen, Mian Abdul Sataar, Sadrdar Mohammed Nawaz Khan, Mian Shafee Mohammed and many more famous names of Pakistani Politics.
Major tribes
The main clans of the Chachran area are the pahore,Chachar, Syed, Malik Sulangi, Malik Balhara, Mirani, Ghouri, Koreja, Gishkori, soomro, Qureshi, Pahur, Awan, Dashti, Chachar, Mughal, Khawaja, Mian, Rajput, Bhatti, Baloch, Arain, Jat, Jam, Abbasi, Malik, Jatoi, Gharro, Mirani, Khokhar and Patafi. Prior to the partition of British India in 1947, at least one third of the population consisted of Hindus with predominance of Aroras who conducted much of the business and finance of the town. They left for India after the 1947 partition.
Sport in Chachran Sharif
Cricket
The game of Cricket is widely played in the city, and the community of the city thoroughly enjoys it as an enjoyable alternative in terms of recreation. The city is home to many talented cricketers of Pakistan. The city once used to host a large cricket ground, which was generally maintained by the mayor of the city and the town committee as well as prominent members of the city community. However, the municipality later demolished the ground and constructed a central park, much to the dismay of some people and their demands.
Famous places and tourist attractions
One of the famous tourist attractions of the city is the Minchan Bund of Chachran Sharif. Khawaja Ghulam Farid Saran was built in the eighteenth century. The building structure is a blend of multi-cultural architecture, incorporating a typical eighteenth-century design as well as a traditional touch of both old and modern form of Pakistani architecture. Along With, Bank of the Indus River is the attraction for all tourists visiting town pertaining to the natural landscaping and attractable locations for a fresh breath and peace of Mind.
Education
The government high schools for girls & boys are both separately providing education in many disciplines. There are many private schools also providing quality education such as saeedia fareedia high school etc.
Poets
Khawaja Ghulam Farid was a famous poet of Chachran Sharif. He wrote many books of poetry as well as of Islamic sciences.
Famous personalities
Muhammad Maaz pahore
Mudassir Alvi
sherryar Azam
Junaid Abbas mirani
JAM KALOO MIRANI
Languages
Saraiki is the major language that is widely spoken. Other national languages of Pakistan, Urdu and English, and Punjabi are also fluently spoken and understood, especially at formal events. Some people can speak, write or understand the Arabic language as well.
Tombs
There are Few famous Shrines or Darabrs (Tombs) in Chachran Sharif and in the surrounding areas.
These tombs are of:
Khwaja Ghulam Fareed in Kot Mithan which is almost at 9 km distance from his city Chachran Sharif
Tomb and Mosque of Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari at nearby Uch Sharif
Bibliography
Saeed Ahmed Saeed, "Political History Rahim Yar Khan" page 30
Yehya Amjad, "The History of Old Pakistan" page 446
H. C Rae Chaudhri, Political History of Initiant India"
Muhammad Hassan Dani "Tamur Garha"
References
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Populated places in Rahim Yar Khan District |
20474671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian%20Seung | Sebastian Seung | Hyunjune Sebastian Seung (English: /sung/ or [səŋ]; ) is President at Samsung Electronics & Head of Samsung Research and Anthony B. Evnin Professor in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Computer Science. Seung has done influential research in both computer science and neuroscience. He has helped pioneer the new field of connectomics, "developing new computational technologies for mapping the connections between neurons," and has been described as the cartographer of the brain.
Since 2014, he has been a professor in computer science and neuroscience at Princeton University's Neuroscience Institute at the Jeff Bezos Center in Neural Dynamics, where he directs the Seung Labs. Before, he worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a full professor in computational neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and as a professor in physics.
In the industry, he was a research scientist at the Bell Labs and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Since 2015, he has joined the board of advisors for Nara Logics, an MIT-based startup specializing in brain research and big data. Since 2018, he was hired as the Chief Research Scientist at Samsung.
He is most well known as a proponent of connectomics through his Ted talk "I am my Connectome" and his book Connectome which was named top 10 nonfiction books of the year 2012 by the Wall Street Journal and has been translated into dozens of languages.
He has also founded EyeWire, an online computer game that mobilizes social computing and machine learning on a mission to map the human brain. It has attracted hundreds of thousands of users from over a hundred countries, and it has recently partnered with KT Corporation to help spread the scientific mission and attract more players to the cause.
Seung is also known for his 1999 joint work on non-negative matrix factorization, an important algorithm used in AI and data science.
Biography
Seung was born in New York, NY. His father Thomas Seung is a philosophy professor at the University of Texas, Austin, and Korean-American immigrant who escaped North Korea as a teenager. Sebastian's mother is Kwihwan Hahn, a graduate of Juilliard, and he has two younger siblings, a brother, currently a professor at Harvard Medical School, and a sister, currently a psychiatrist.
By age five, he had taught himself how to read. Growing up, his passions were soccer, math, nonfiction (science and philosophy), and Greek myths. His interest in western philosophy and the classics appears in his books including Connectome. As a teenager, he was particularly inspired by Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" to become a physicist.
Education and physics career (1982-2005)
He studied theoretical physics as an undergraduate at Harvard University (enrolled 1982 when 16 years old), taking graduate courses as a sophomore when he was 17 years old. He then went straight into Harvard's graduate program and obtained his Ph.D. in 1990 under the supervision of David Robert Nelson.
Seung's 1990 doctoral dissertation is titled "Physics of Lines and Surfaces." It examines the statistical mechanics of vortex lines in high-temperature superconductors and uses tools such as the renormalization group perturbation theory. It then uses Monte Carlo simulations to analyze buckling phase transition behavior and critical phenomena, drawing comparisons with the Ising model and XY spin-glass model. Finally it introduces a continuum elastic theory for certain hexatic molecules.
During his Ph.D studies he briefly interned at the Bell Labs in 1989. There he was introduced to the mathematical problem of neural networks.
He completed his postdoctoral training at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He returned to the Bell Labs and was a member of the Theoretical Physics Department. In 2004, he joined the MIT faculty first as a professor in physics and then as a professor in neuroscience.
Switch to neuroscience and connectomics
It was near the end of 2005 when he made the switch from physics to neuroscience, which at the time was considered a risky career move. In November, one of his former mentors David Tank from the Bell Labs suggested a new problem to Seung: how does the brain work? He was invited to a neuroscience conference in Germany, and in January 2006 he brought two of his graduate students to learn about a new technology that imaged the brain in higher resolution built by Winfried Denk. It was then that Seung worked day and night writing grant proposals to fund computational research in connectomics, which at the time was seen as a "highly speculative engineering project."
Since 2014, Seung joined the faculty at Princeton as a professor in neuroscience at the Bezos Center for Neural Circuit Dynamics. Seung now leads a team working on an online citizen science project, EyeWire. It is human-based computation game about tracing neurons in the retina. The game was developed by MIT and the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research.
The Connectome Theory
The connectome is the map of the 100 trillion plus neural connections within the brain. Its name is based on the same way the genome is a map of a species' DNA. In simplest mathematical terms, it can be thought of as a graph network. Seung focuses on the potential implications of the Human Connectome Project and what it would mean to map the connectome of a human brain. He has popularized the connectome theory through his 2010 TED Conference speech titled “I Am My Connectome” as well as through his 2012 book Connectome: How the Brain’s Wiring Makes Us Who We Are.
He proposes that every memory, skill, and passion is encoded somehow in the connectome. And when the brain is not wired properly it can result in mental disorders such as autism, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's. Understanding the human connectome may not only help cure such diseases with treatments but also possibly help doctors prevent them from occurring in the first place. And if we can represent the sum of all human experiences and memories in the connectome, then we can download human brains on to flash drives, save them indefinitely, and replay those memories in the future, thereby granting humans a kind of immortality.
TED Talk: "I Am My Connectome"
In his 2010 TED Conference speech, Seung hypothesizes that the essence of a human being is his or her connectome. The complexities and vast amount of neural connections in the human brain has slowed the complete mapping of the human connectome. This is in comparison to the only completely mapped connectome to date, that of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, a process that took over 12 years to complete despite the animal's hermaphrodite form only having a total of 302 neurons in its entire nervous system.
Seung proposes that a connectome is like a riverbed. As the water of a river, neural activity is constantly changing, never staying still. The connectome is the riverbed which both guides the neural activity while also being shaped by the water over time. Illustrating how thinking and neural activity alters the connectome adding to the difficulty of mapping the human connectome that is constantly changing.
Connectome: How the Brain’s Wiring Makes Us Who We Are
In his 2012 book Connectome, Seung discusses his current views on neuroscience and the upcoming science of connectomics. The book expands on some of the concepts discussed in his Ted talk as well as discussing how the doctrine of the connectome can be tested. He states that in order to test and further our knowledge and unlock to potential of the connectome we must improve the scientific tools in existence. Also, he states that there needs to be new ways to promote the concept of the connectome using the four R's: reweighting, reconnection, rewiring, and regeneration.
EyeWire.org
EyeWire is a computer game developed by Seung designed to map neuron cells in the human brain. Users can sign up for free, and the game helps contribute to ongoing cutting-edge scientific research. In Seung's own words:We have this new site: Eyewire.org. It is a citizen science project. Our AI is not accurate enough to map the connectome by itself. We still need human intervention. So we have now created this website that allows anybody to do it.Thusfar site has recruited over 130,000 players from over 100 countries. KT Corporation, South Korea's largest telecom provider, recently partnered with EyeWire to advertise the game across the country and attract more players.
Essentially, in the game one has to identify and color connected components of neuron cells just from the 2d cross sections of brain tissue. As explained in his book "Connectome," up to now neuroscientists can only accurately image brain tissue using 2d sections (as opposed to 3d scans), which necessitates the need to splice these 2d pictures together to create a neural network map of the brain's inner connections. While artificial intelligence and computer vision can perform some of the manual work, it still takes a combined computer-human effort to map something as huge as the human brain, a computational endeavor that has perhaps never been attempted before at this scale in human history, hence the need for social computing.
Ongoing experiments
In the same way the Human Genome Project and the complete mapping of human DNA has helped reveal a lot about human biology, Seung and other connectomists hope that a complete map of the human brain can reveal a lot about how we humans think and perceive, how memory works, important questions that has been asked since the time of Aristotle, and with connectomics we could be on the verge of answering them scientifically.
A team at Janelia plans to map the connectome of Drosophila by around 2025. Seung also helped set up experiments with Tank and Nobel Laureate Richard Axel to find memories in the connectome.
Publications and books
His algorithms for nonnegative matrix factorization have been widely applied to problems in visual learning, semantic analysis, spectroscopy, and bioinformatics. He continues to study neural networks using mathematical models, computer algorithms, and circuits of biological neurons in vitro.
As aforementioned he authored the book Connectome (2012). It has been translated into at least 26 languages.
He has published many other scholarly papers. A selection is published on his website:
https://pni.princeton.edu/faculty/h.-sebastian-seung
Awards and honors
He has been a Sloan Research Fellow, a Packard Fellow, and a McKnight Scholar. He has also won the Ho-am Prize in Engineering and has been named top 10 non-fiction authors by the WSJ for his book Connectome. He is an External Member for the Max Planck Society.
Teaching
"He is a popular teacher who traveled the world—Zurich; Seoul, South Korea; Palo Alto, California—delivering lectures on his mathematical theories of how neurons might be wired together to form the engines of thought."
In the past few years, he's been teaching Princeton's COS 485 Neural Networks, a course taken by both undergraduates and graduate students.
Personal life
He currently lives with his wife and 3 daughters.
He was known to be "so naturally exuberant that he was known for staging ad hoc dance performances with Harvard Square's street musicians." He continues to enjoy playing soccer in the fields of Princeton. And he enjoys eating mixed nuts from Costco.
See also
https://pni.princeton.edu/faculty/h.-sebastian-seung
https://eyewire.org/explore
https://blog.eyewire.org/tag/sebastian-seung/
I am my connectome, a TED talk by Sebastian Seung, has been viewed over 1 million times
Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Who We Are
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/magazine/sebastian-seungs-quest-to-map-the-human-brain.html
References
Other references
MIT Faculty page on Brain & Cognitive Sciences
MIT Physics Faculty page
Howard Hughes Medical Institute announcement
21st-century American physicists
Living people
Howard Hughes Medical Investigators
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Harvard University alumni
Recipients of the Ho-Am Prize in Engineering |
23580769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha%20Vidyaratna | Samantha Vidyaratna | Samantha Vidyaratna (or K.V.Samantha Vidyaratne) is a Sri Lankan politician and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.He fought over the Uma Oya issue and the transfer of 65,000 acres of land to a Singaporean company.
Biography
Lives in Ridimaliyadda, Badulla. He is a graduate of the University of Kelaniya. In 2004, is appointed deputy minister by President Chandrika Kumaratunga. Despite his MP position, he lived for 6 years in a house without electricity. In April 2015, he publicly criticized the Uma Oya Hydropower Complex and the heavy ecologic catastrophy it resulted in for the Uma Oya region.He is fighting against the forcible acquisition of lands in Uva Wellassa by a Singaporean company in the year 2022.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians |
6905897 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative%20districts%20of%20Valenzuela | Legislative districts of Valenzuela | The legislative districts of Valenzuela are the representations of the highly urbanized city of Valenzuela in the various national legislatures of the Philippines. The city is currently represented in the lower house of the Congress of the Philippines through its first and second districts.
History
Valenzuela, originally known as Polo until 1963, was represented as part of the second district of Bulacan from 1907 to 1941 and from 1945 to 1972 and the at-large district of Bulacan in the National Assembly of the Second Philippine Republic from 1943 to 1944. It was separated from Bulacan on November 7, 1975 by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 824, and was represented in the Interim Batasang Pambansa along with other Metropolitan Manila municipalities and cities as part of Region IV from 1978 to 1984. Valenzuela was grouped together with Navotas and Malabon as the legislative district of Malabon–Navotas–Valenzuela for representation in the Regular Batasang Pambansa from 1984 to 1986. It was granted its own representation in the restored House of Representatives in 1987, and was divided into two districts after its city charter (Republic Act No. 8526) was approved on February 14, 1998, and ratified on December 30, 1998.
Current Districts
References
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Valenzuela
Politics of Valenzuela, Metro Manila |
44499962 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeLuca%20Biochemistry%20Building | DeLuca Biochemistry Building | The Hector F. DeLuca Biochemistry Building, originally known as the Agricultural Chemistry Building, is a historic structure on the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. It was the site of the discovery of vitamins A and B, as well as the development of vitamin D processing.
History
The building was part of the expansion of the College of Agriculture undertaken by Edwin B. Hart. Hart assumed leadership of the department in 1906. The next year, Stephen Moulton Babcock and Elmer McCollum began the single-grain experiment, which fostered the development of agricultural chemistry at Wisconsin. The experiment continued in the Agricultural Chemistry Building when it was built in 1912 and was expended to identify the key elements in nutrition.
In 1913, McCollum identified a molecule in egg yolks, vitamin A. The discovery was consistent with the nutrition element proposed by Frederick Gowland Hopkins a year before. The experiment continued, and in 1915, McCollum identified vitamin B in rice. McCollum left Wisconsin for Johns Hopkins University in 1917 and was succeeded by Harry Steenbock. He continued experimentation on the new molecules, isolating and naming vitamin A in 1920.
Other research by Steenbock identified iron and copper as effective agents in the treatment of anemia. Steenbock made his most significant discovery in 1923, when he established a relationship between vitamin D and ultra-violet light on bone health. He then founded the "Steenbock Process" in 1928, a method of concentrating vitamin D by irradiating food. This method was employed on a large scale through his Wisconsin Alumni Research Fund.
Conrad Elvehjem isolated nicotinic acid (niacin) at the Agricultural Chemistry Building in 1937, which cured pellagra. and Karl Paul Link identified the blood coagulant dicumarol here in 1941. On June 19, 1985, the building was recognized by the National Park Service with a listing on the National Register of Historic Places. A major renovation was completed in 2012 and the building was integrated into the Biochemical Sciences Complex.
The building was named after Hector F. DeLuca in 2013. His research, which was all performed at UW-Madison, identified the active metabolites of vitamin D, and resulted in multiple patents benefiting the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
It is located within the Henry Mall Historic District.
Architecture
The building is generally Georgian Revival in style with its pediment, quoins, and balustrade. It was designed by Warren Powers Laird & Paul Philippe Cret, who also designed six other buildings on campus: the Central Heating Station, the Stock Pavilion, Lathrop Hall, the Home Economics Buildings, Wisconsin High School, and Sterling Hall.
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External links
Biochemistry Building in ''The Buildings of the University of Wisconsin
University and college buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin
Colonial Revival architecture in Wisconsin
Georgian Revival architecture in Wisconsin
Buildings and structures completed in 1912
Buildings and structures in Madison, Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Paul Philippe Cret buildings
1912 establishments in Wisconsin
National Register of Historic Places in Madison, Wisconsin |
44499977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemella%20palaticanis | Gemella palaticanis | Gemella palaticanis is a species of bacteria within the genus Gemella. Strains of this species were originally isolated from the mouth of a dog and are unique among Gemella species in that they can ferment lactose.
References
External links
Type strain of Gemella palaticanis at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Bacillales
Bacteria described in 1999 |
6905909 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Thurtell | John Thurtell | John Thurtell (21 December 1794 – 9 January 1824) was an English sports promoter, amateur boxer, Royal Marine officer and convicted murderer.
Early life
Thurtell was the eldest son of Thomas Thurtell, who later served as Mayor of Norwich in 1824 and from 1828 to 1829. His father wanted him to work in the family business, but John left to join the Royal Marines, serving in the Napoleonic Wars on the HMS Bellona from 1812 to 1814. He then set up a business in Norwich manufacturing bombazine, but this failed, and Thurtell moved to London, setting up a tavern in Long Acre in 1822.
Boxing
Thurtell achieved fame as a boxing promoter. He organised the fight between Ned Painter and Tom Oliver in 1814.
George Borrow describes how when he was 14 (in c.1817) he saw Thurtell:
The terrible Thurtell was present, lord of the concourse; for wherever he moved he was master, and whenever he spoke, even when in chains, every other voice was silent. He stood on the mead, grim and pale as usual, with his bruisers around.
In 1822, William Hazlitt wrote an essay for The New Monthly Magazine called "The Fight"; in it he described Thurtell under the name "Tom Turtle".
Murder of William Weare
Thurtell became a notorious gambler. He owed William Weare, a solicitor of Lyon's Inn, a gambling debt of £300, which he believed Weare had gained by cheating at Blind Hookey. When Weare demanded the money, Thurtell decided to murder him rather than pay up. Thurtell invited Weare to join him and his friends – Joseph Hunt and William Probert – for a weekend of gambling in Radlett, Hertfordshire. On 24 October 1823, as they journeyed from London in Thurtell's horse-drawn gig, Thurtell shot Weare in the face with a flintlock muff pistol. This failed to kill him, so Thurtell slit his throat with a knife before driving the pistol into his head with such force that his brains were dashed over the ground. The trial attracted great publicity. Thurtell was found guilty and hanged on 9 January 1824.
Legacy
A waxwork of Thurtell's body was displayed in Madame Tussauds for 150 years. Thomas De Quincey's satirical 1827 essay "On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts" discusses Thurtell, as do several of Thomas Carlyle's works and letters.
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1823 deaths
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British boxing promoters
English male boxers
English people convicted of murder
Executed English people
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People executed for murder
People executed by the United Kingdom by hanging
Royal Navy personnel of the Napoleonic Wars
Royal Marines officers |
6905987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haematophilia | Haematophilia | Haematophilia or hematophilia may refer to:
Haemophilia, a mostly inherited genetic disorder that impairs the body's ability to make blood clots, a process needed to stop bleeding
Vampire lifestyle, an alternative lifestyle and subculture based around the mythology of and popular culture based on vampires |
44499980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Cole%20%28artist%29 | George Cole (artist) | George Cole (15 January 1810 – 7 September 1883) was an English painter known for his landscapes and animal paintings.
Cole was born in Portsmouth to James and Elizabeth Cole. His mother died when he was 9 years old.
According to the artist's grandson, Rex Vicat Cole, he was apprenticed to a ship's painter in the Royal Navy dockyards at Portsmouth. He taught himself to paint pictures, at first portraits and animals; he also painted posters for Wombwell's menagerie.
In 1838 Cole's painting The Farm Yard was shown at the Society of British Artists. When he was 30 he changed his focus to landscapes and received instruction from John Wilson and started exhibiting in 1840. One anecdote has him painting the portrait of a Dutch merchant in Portsmouth. After the sitter refused to pay him, saying it was a bad likeness, Cole added wings and put the painting in a shop window with the title The Flying Dutchman. The man's friends recognised him and laughed; he paid for the painting, and Cole painted out the wings.
His career has been regarded as a good example of the Victorian self-made man: in 1831 he married Eliza Vicat, of an old French Huguenot family. In 1852 he moved to Fulham and in 1855 to Kensington, where he lived for the rest of his life. In the mid-1860s he purchased Coombe Lodge, a small estate in Hampshire.
By 1850 Cole had begun to concentrate on landscape, drawing on Dutch precedents for compositions such as London Road, Portsdown (1847, Portsmouth City Museum and Art Gallery). Working alongside him in the early 1850s was George Vicat Cole (1833–1893), the eldest of Cole's five children. In search of sketching grounds they visited the river valleys of the Wye, Teign, and Dart and, in 1851 or 1852, the Moselle. While the father undoubtedly instructed the son, it seems likely that the influence of Pre-Raphaelitism, absorbed more fully by the younger artist, was transmitted through his work to the father. After a temporary estrangement in 1855 the two never worked together again. George Cole's landscapes of the later 1850s are, however, less formulaic than his early works and are often a combination of rustic genre subjects with carefully observed landscape, as in Landscape and Cattle (1858, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth).
In a series of richly coloured and detailed landscapes on large canvases executed during the 1860s and 1870s, Cole created an idealized version of the Hampshire moorlands and agricultural landscape; examples include Fern Carting, Harting Coombe (1873, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth). Cattle continued to play an important role in his compositions, and he specialized in the depiction of river scenery with cows watering, including, for example, Windsor Castle (1876, exh. RA, 1878; Anglesey Abbey). Reassuring in their presentation of a seemingly timeless Englishness, these images were eagerly purchased by Victorian collectors.
Although he exhibited sixteen works at the Royal Academy, Cole's work formed a mainstay of the exhibitions of the Society of British Artists at Suffolk Street, where he exhibited 209 paintings from 1838 until his death in 1883. He was elected a member in 1850, became auditor in 1856, and vice-president in 1867. He was also awarded a medal for a harvesting scene in 1864 by the Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts. While, at his best, he was capable of sophisticated effects, the sheer volume of his production of smaller works, sold directly to dealers such as Thomas McLean and Arthur Tooth, inevitably led to a lowering of standards. His annual income rose from £842 in 1858 to £2580 in 1873.
A collector of topographical literature and an autodidact, Cole was reputed to know the works of Shakespeare by heart. Robert Chignell, the biographer of George Vicat Cole, saw the older painter as an exemplar of self-help: ‘one who began with nothing’, he had achieved success through ‘great capabilities and force of character’ (Chignell, 40). George Cole died on 7 September 1883 at his home at 1 Kensington Crescent and was buried in Kensal Green cemetery, London. Of his other children, Alfred Benjamin Cole was also an artist.
Selected works
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
Loch Lubnaig
A River Scene, Sussex (1874)
Evening on the Thames (1877)
Windsor Castle—Morning (1878)
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1810 births
1883 deaths
Artists from Portsmouth
English landscape painters
19th-century English painters
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Rother Valley artists
19th-century English male artists |
23580772 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissa%20Vitharana | Tissa Vitharana | Upali Tissa Vitharana (born 30 August 1934) is a Sri Lankan politician, former Member of Parliament and former cabinet minister. He is the current leader of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP), a member of the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA), and is serving as Governor of North Central Province.
Early life and family
Vitharana was born 30 August 1934 in Nuwara Eliya in central Ceylon. He was the son of Pieris Vitharana, a Public Works Department engineer, and N. P. Maggie Perera, sister of N. M. Perera. He was educated at Trinity College, Kandy and Ananda College, Colombo. He played cricket for both schools. After school he joined the University of Ceylon's medical faculty in Colombo, graduating in 1959 with a MBBS degree. Vitharana captained the university's cricket team in 1957/58 and took part in the Sara Trophy Tournament.
Career
After university Vitharana worked as a medical officer (1959–67) and was registrar at Colombo General Hospital in 1963/64. His post graduate work earned him an MD degree in clinical medicine from the University of Ceylon in 1965. He then went to study in the UK, obtaining a Diploma in Bacteriology from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 1968 and a Ph.D. in virology from the University of London in 1971. Specialising in bacteriology and virology, Vitharana joined the Medical Research Institute (MRI) in Colombo in 1972, serving as its director from 1983 to 1994. He was head of the virology department at the MRI from 1972 to 1994. Vitharana was a consultant virologist at the Edinburgh City Hospital's Regional Virus Laboratory in the 1980s. He was deputy director of the Victoria Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory in Melbourne from 1991 to 1993.
Politics & Lanka Sama Samaja Party
Following retirement in 1994 Vitharana was a professor of microbiology at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura from 1995 to 2000 and an advisor to the Minister of Science and Technology from 1994 to 2001.
Vitharana joined the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) in 1974. On 20 January 2004 the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) formed the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA). The Communist Party of Sri Lanka CPSL and LSSP joined the UPFA in February 2004. Vitharana was appointed as a UPFA National List MP in the Sri Lankan Parliament following the 2004 parliamentary election. He was appointed Minister of Science and Technology after the election.
Vitharana was re-appointed as a UPFA National List MP following the 2010 parliamentary election. He lost his cabinet position after the election but shortly afterwards, in May 2010, he was appointed Minister of Technology and Research. He was promoted to Senior Minister of Scientific Affairs in November 2010. He lost his cabinet position following the 2015 presidential election.
At the 2015 parliamentary election Vitharana was placed on the UPFA's list of National List candidates. However, after the election he was not appointed to the National List.
Governorship.
On December 4, 2019, Vitharana was appointed as Governor for the North Central Province, Sri Lanka. He was sworn in before President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
Awards
Vitharana was awarded the Vidya Jyothi title in the 2017 Sri Lankan national honours.
Personal life
Vitharana is married to Kamini Meedeniya. They have a son, Ranil.
References
1934 births
Academics of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura
Alumni of Ananda College
Alumni of Trinity College, Kandy
Alumni of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Alumni of the University of Ceylon (Colombo)
Alumni of the University of London
Cabinet ministers of Sri Lanka
Lanka Sama Samaja Party politicians
Living people
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka
People of British Ceylon
Sinhalese academics
Sinhalese politicians
Sinhalese physicians
Sri Lankan Buddhists
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Vidya Jyothi |
23580773 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Healy | Thomas Healy | Thomas Healy may refer to:
Thomas Healy (politician) (1894–1957), Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons
Thomas F. Healy (1931–2004), U.S. Army general
Tom Healy (hurler) (1855–?), Irish hurler
Tom Healy (poet) (born 1961), American poet
Thomas Joseph Healy, Member of Parliament for North Wexford, 1891–1900
Thomas Healy (baseball) (1895–1977), Major League Baseball player for Philadelphia Athletics
See also
Tom Healey (1853–1891), American Major League Baseball player
Thomas J. Healey (born 1942), academic at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government
Tom Healy (disambiguation) |
6906025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative%20districts%20of%20Para%C3%B1aque | Legislative districts of Parañaque | The legislative districts of Parañaque are the representations of the highly urbanized city of Parañaque in the Congress of the Philippines. The city is currently represented in the lower house of the Congress through its first and second congressional districts.
History
Parañaque was initially represented as part of the at-large district of the province of Manila in the Malolos Congress from 1898 to 1899. The then-town was later incorporated to the province of Rizal, established in 1901, and was represented as part of the first district of Rizal from 1907 to 1941 and from 1945 to 1972. It was incorporated to the City of Greater Manila and was represented as part of the at-large district of Manila from 1943 to 1944. Parañaque was separated from Rizal on November 7, 1975 by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 824, and was represented in the Interim Batasang Pambansa along with other Metropolitan Manila municipalities and cities as part of Region IV from 1978 to 1984.
Parañaque was grouped with Las Piñas in the Regular Batasang Pambansa from 1984 to 1986, as the Legislative district of Las Piñas–Parañaque. It was granted its own representation in the restored House of Representatives in 1987, and was divided into two districts after its city charter (Republic Act No. 8507) was amended by Republic Act No. 9229, approved on December 17, 2003.
Current districts and representatives
The city was last redistricted in 2004, wherein the city gained a second seat in the House of Representatives.
Political parties
Historical districts
References
Parañque
Parañaque
Politics of Parañaque |
6906030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm%20%281998%20video%20game%29 | Swarm (1998 video game) | Swarm is a 1998 Shoot 'em up PC game developed and published by Reflexive Entertainment. The action is viewed from a top-down perspective in outer space and features pre-rendered 3D graphics. In the game, the player controls an assault craft that battles against alien creatures in order to obtain special minerals called EZT nodules. The player is able to upgrade their ship with power-ups.
In 2008, Reflexive released an updated version of the game entitled Swarm Gold.
Plot
Swarm is set in the Praulac Nebula, which is inhabited by a strange insectoid race called the Clagnor. Negotiations between humans and the Clagnor have failed, leading to an all-out war between the two races. The story follows Rawl Masteson, a prison convict given the task of fighting the Clagnor for a year. After this, if by any chance he survives, his name will be cleared unless he takes an offer for another year on the job for twice the pay.
Gameplay
Each sector or level consists of a finite wrap-around space area, in which Clagnor enemies, asteroids, weapon power-ups, and EZT nodules (a fictional substance [Endron Zymithium Trisistaline] described as a fuel source) are placed randomly. The player enters and exits each level via a jumpgate that disappears after the level is started and reappears once it is completed.
There are three types of levels in Swarm: "get all the EZT", "kill them all", and bonus levels. The majority of these are "get all the EZT" levels, in which the player's primary mission is to collect all the EZT found in the level while fighting against the Clagnor and avoiding obstacles (e.g. asteroids and space junk). In the "kill them all" levels, which are mostly every 10 levels or so, there are no EZT crystals and the player's goal is to destroy all the Clagnor drones in the level. In the bonus levels, which are usually every 5 or 10 levels, there are neither Clagnor nor EZT in the area, and so the player can freely travel around and collect weapons, ammunition, and shield bonuses for a limited time. Because the level's goal is chosen at random, it means the player can potentially get 3 bonus levels in a row.
Reception
Next Generation reviewed the PC version of the game, rating it two stars out of five, and stated that "For gamers after some good old-fashioned, arcade-style action, Swarm delivers. Just don't go in expecting bleeding-edge graphics or an enthralling story because they're nowhere to be found here."
Reviews
Electric Games (1998)
Gaming Entertainment Monthly (1998)
See also
Escape Velocity, a role-playing game set in space from Ambrosia Software
Starscape, a 2D space combat game from Moonpod
References
1998 video games
Multidirectional shooters
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in outer space
Windows games
Windows-only games
Reflexive Entertainment games |
23580775 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavithra%20Wanniarachchi | Pavithra Wanniarachchi | Pavithradevi Wanniarachchi () is a Sri Lankan lawyer and politician. The current Minister of Transport, she is a Member of Parliament from the Ratnapura District.
Early life and education
Pavithradevi Wanniarachchi was born on 10 November 1964, as the eldest daughter of Dharmadasa Wanniarachchi and Podi Menike Weerasekera Wanniarachchi. Her father was a senior politician and was the former governor of the Wayamba Province in 2003 before which he held the post of Deputy Minister Industries and Scientific Affairs. From 1967 to 1977, he represented the Palmadulla seat in the Parliament. He was re-elected to Parliament in 2000 and in 2004 was appointed as the governor of the North Western Province. She has one sister, Prasanna Devi Wanniarachchi, who is a lawyer.
Wanniarachchi attended the Pelmadulla Mahinda Vidyalaya for her primary education. She then entered Gankanda Central College and Anula Vidyalaya Nugegoda for her secondary education. She was the Head Prefect, leader of the debating team, president of the Buddhist Association, Member of the Western band and the Captain of the 1st Volleyball Team of Anula Vidyalaya. She then entered Sri Lanka Law College in 1985 and took oaths as an attorney of law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka five years later.
Political career
In 1990 she entered politics on the invitation of the former Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike. In 1991 she was appointed as the chief organizer for Kalawana. She then became a member of the Sabaragamuwa Provincial Council in 1993 and in 1994 she entered Parliament as an MP representing the Ratnapura District.
After entering politics, she has held many posts both in the local and central governments. In 1994 she held the post of Deputy Minister of Health, Highways, Social Services and Welfare and in 1998 the post of Deputy Minister of Health & Indigenous Medicine. In the year 2000 she was elected as the Deputy Secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, the Leader of the Women's wing of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and Minister of Plan and Implementation.
In 2002, while she was serving as the organiser of the Eheliyagoda seat for SLFP in 2008, she was appointed as the Chairman of the Commonwealth Youth Ministers Convention and also served as the Minister for Youth Affairs.
Between 2004 and 2015 she held many post while the SLFP lead coalition was in power. In 2004 she was appointed Minister of Samurdhi & Poverty Alleviation, 2007 Minister of Youth Affairs, 2010 she was appointed as the Minister of Cultural and National Heritage and later that year as the Minister of Technology and Atomic Research.
The periods between 2001 - 2004 and 2015 - 2019 she was an active member of the opposition of the Parliament.
From 2019 she was appointed as the Minister of Women & Child Affairs, Social Security, Health & Indigenous Medicine in government headed by the new President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.
Post Held
Minister of Women & Child Affairs, Social Security, Health & Indigenous Medicine: 2019–Present
Minister of Power & Energy: 2013 - 2015
Minister of Technology & Research 2010 - 2013
Minister of Cultural Affairs & National Heritage: 2010
Chairman of Commonwealth Youth Ministers Convention: 2008
Minister of Youth Affairs: 2007 - 2010
Minister of Samurdhi & Poverty Alleviation: 2004 - 2007
Minister of Plan & Implementation: 2000 - 2001
Deputy Minister of Health & Indigenous Medicine: 1998 - 2000
Deputy Minister of Health, Highways, Social Services & Welfare: 1994 - 1998
Member of the Parliament for Ratnapura District: 1994–Present
Member of the Sabaragamuwa Provincial Council: 1993 - 1994
Other Responsibilities
Deputy Secretary of the SLFP: 2000 onwards
Leader of the SLFP Women's Wing: 2000 onwards
Chief Organizer of the Eheliyagoda Seat for the SLFP: 2002 onwards
Chief Organizer of the Kalawana Seat of the SLFP: 1991 to 2002
Family
Pavithra Wanniarachchi's husband is Kanchana Jayaratne, who is the Chairman of the Sabaragamuwa Provincial Council and also serves as her Private Secretary. She has two daughters.
See also
List of political families in Sri Lanka
Cabinet of Sri Lanka
References
External links
Members of the Sabaragamuwa Provincial Council
Women legislators in Sri Lanka
Living people
Members of the 10th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 11th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
1964 births
People from Ratnapura
Culture ministers of Sri Lanka
Power ministers of Sri Lanka
20th-century Sri Lankan women politicians
21st-century Sri Lankan women politicians
Women government ministers of Sri Lanka |
23580778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahinda%20Wijesekara | Mahinda Wijesekara | Mahinda Wijesekera is a Sri Lankan politician, former Fisheries cabinet minister and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
In 2001, Wijesekara left the President Chandrika Kumaratunga's ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party and joined United National Party along with few other senior ministers of the government such as S. B. Dissanayake and G. L. Peiris. He was a member of the working committee of UNP and the party organizer for Weligama. However, in 2006 UNP leader Ranil Wickramasinghe removed from all of his positions in the party as a result of internal crisis against the leadership.
On 2007, Wijesekara again crossed over to United People's Freedom Alliance government. He was the Telecommunications Minister in the government.
He was injured in a suicide bombing in 2009.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Members of the 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 10th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 11th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
United National Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Fisheries ministers of Sri Lanka
Failed assassination attempts in Sri Lanka |
44499987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waqas%20Khan | Waqas Khan | Waqas Khan (born 10 March 1999) is a Hong Kong cricketer. He made his Twenty20 International (T20I) debut for Hong Kong against Nepal in Sri Lanka on 24 November 2014. At the age of 15 years and 259 days, he became the youngest person to play in a T20I match. He made his One Day International (ODI) debut for Hong Kong against the United Arab Emirates in the 2015–17 ICC World Cricket League Championship on 18 November 2015. He made his first-class cricket debut against Ireland in the 2015–17 ICC Intercontinental Cup on 30 August 2016.
In August 2018, he was named in Hong Kong's squad for the 2018 Asia Cup Qualifier tournament. Hong Kong won the qualifier tournament, and he was then named in Hong Kong's squad for the 2018 Asia Cup.
In December 2018, he was named in Hong Kong's team for the 2018 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup. In September 2019, he was named in Hong Kong's squad for the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier tournament in the United Arab Emirates.
References
External links
1999 births
Living people
Hong Kong cricketers
Hong Kong One Day International cricketers
Hong Kong Twenty20 International cricketers
Place of birth missing (living people) |
44500021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where%20Do%20Broken%20Hearts%20Go%20%28disambiguation%29 | Where Do Broken Hearts Go (disambiguation) | "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" may refer to:
"Where Do Broken Hearts Go", 1988 single from Whitney Houston's second album Whitney.
"Where Do Broken Hearts Go (One Direction song), 2014 promotional single by One Direction from their album Four |
44500037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suillellus%20mendax | Suillellus mendax | Suillellus mendax is a species of bolete fungus found in Europe. It was originally published as a species of Boletus when it was newly described in 2013, but then transferred to Suillellus the following year.
This species is morphologically very similar to the widespread Suillellus luridus, but differs in its predominantly acidophilous ecology, a mostly dull-coloured, finely felty cap and more narrowly ellipsoid to subfusiform spores measuring (12.4–)13.3–14.7(–15.5) × (4.5–)4.9– 5.5(–5.7) μm.
Suillellus mendax forms ectomycorrhizal associations with beech (Fagus), oak (Quercus) and sweet chestnut (Castanea). So far, it has been molecularly verified from Italy, France and the island of Cyprus.
References
External links
mendax
Fungi described in 2013
Fungi of Europe |
44500038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapoel%20Gedera%20F.C. | Hapoel Gedera F.C. | Hapoel Ironi Gedera Football Club () is an Israeli football club based in Gedera. The club plays in Liga Bet, the fourth tier of the Israeli football league system.
History
The original club was established in 1958 and spent most of its years in the lower tiers of the Israeli football league system, rising, at its best, to Liga Bet, then the third tier, for two seasons in 1959–60 and 1960–61, and for another season, in 1975–76. The original club folded in 1998.
Re-establishment
The club was re-established in 2011 and was placed in the Central division, in which it played since, its best position was 5th, achieved in 2014–15.
Honours
Liga Gimel
1958–59
1974–75
External links
Hapoel Ironi Gedera Israel Football Association
References
Gedera
Gedera
Association football clubs established in 1958
Association football clubs established in 2011
Association football clubs disestablished in 1998
1958 establishments in Israel
2011 establishments in Israel
1998 disestablishments in Israel |
44500046 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty%20Acres | Thirty Acres | Thirty Acres () is a novel by Canadian writer Philippe Panneton, published under the pen name Ringuet. First published in French in 1938, it was published in an English translation in 1940 and won the Governor General's Award for Fiction at the 1940 Governor General's Awards. It is considered one of the most important works in Quebec literature, and one of the most important exemplars of the roman du terroir genre.
The novel traces the life of Euchariste Moisan, a rural farmer in Quebec.
The novel's English edition remains in print as part of the New Canadian Library series.
References
External links
1938 Canadian novels
Governor General's Award-winning novels
Canadian French-language novels
New Canadian Library |
44500054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiloepalpus%20factilis | Chiloepalpus factilis | Chiloepalpus factilis is a species of tachinid flies in the genus Chiloepalpus of the family Tachinidae.
External links
Tachinidae
Insects described in 1964 |
44500059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy%20of%20Pakistan%2C%20Abu%20Dhabi | Embassy of Pakistan, Abu Dhabi | The Embassy of Pakistan, Abu Dhabi is the diplomatic mission representing Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates. The embassy is located in the Diplomatic Area in Abu Dhabi. Afzaal Mahmood is the incumbent Ambassador of Pakistan to the United Arab Emirates. Pakistan also has a Consulate-General in Dubai, which works under the embassy.
The Embassy provides various Consular services including Machine Readable Passports (MRP), NADRA ID cards, Visa, Attestation in addition to various Community Welfare Services. On average around 500 to 700 people visit the Embassy daily for various services.
The Embassy facilitated the repatriation of around 24,000 Pakistanis during the COVID-19 pandemic and around 60,000 Pakistanis in total if repatriations from Dubai are included, making it one of the largest international evacuation operations in the history of Pakistan.
See also
Pakistan–United Arab Emirates relations
List of diplomatic missions of Pakistan
List of diplomatic missions in the United Arab Emirates
References
External links
Embassy of Pakistan, Abu Dhabi
Year of establishment missing
Pakistan
Abu Dhabi
Pakistan–United Arab Emirates relations |
44500061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anjan%20Chakravartty | Anjan Chakravartty | Anjan Chakravartty is an analytic philosopher and the Appignani Foundation Professor at the University of Miami. Previously, he was a professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Toronto. His work focuses on topics in the philosophy of science, metaphysics, and epistemology.
Life
After receiving his BSc in Biophysics from the University of Toronto Chakravartty spent three years working for an international development project in Calcutta and a United Nations World Congress on Environment and Development. After receiving an MA in Philosophy from the University of Toronto he spent a year working at the University of British Columbia, and then went on to receive an MPhil and a PhD in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.
On July 1, 2018, he became Appignani Foundation Chair at University of Miami. Prior to this he was the Director of the John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values at Notre Dame, and the Editor in Chief of the journal Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.
Works
Books and Collections by Anjan Chakravartty:
• Scientific Ontology: Integrating Naturalized Metaphysics and Voluntarist Epistemology, Oxford University Press (2017)
• Ancient Skepticism, Voluntarism, and Science’, International Journal for the Study of Skepticism (2015)
• Explanation, Inference, Testimony, and Truth: Essays Dedicated to the Memory of Peter Lipton’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (ed.) (2010) (in memory of his doctoral supervisor Peter Lipton, Hans Rausing Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.)
• A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism: Knowing the Unobservable, Cambridge University Press (2007) (The book won the Biennial Book Prize of the Canadian Philosophical Association in 2009.)
Recent Publications by Anjan Chakravartty:
• 'Truth and the Sciences', in M. Glanzberg (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Truth, Oxford University Press (2018)
• ‘What is Scientific Realism?’ (with Bas C. van Fraassen), Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science (2018)
• ‘Realism, Antirealism, Epistemic Stances, and Voluntarism’, in J. Saatsi (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Scientific Realism, Routledge (2018)
• ‘Reflections on New Thinking about Scientific Realism’, Synthese (2017)
• ‘Saving the Scientific Phenomena: What Powers Can and Cannot Do’, in J. D. Jacobs (ed.), Putting Powers to Work, Oxford University Press (2017)
• ‘Scientific Realism’ (version II: revised and updated), in E. N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2017)
• ‘Case Studies, Selective Realism, and Historical Evidence’, in M. Massimi, J.-W. Romeign, & G. Schurz, EPSA15 Selected Papers, Springer (2017)
See also
Scientific structuralism
References
External links
Personal website
Book review
University of Notre Dame faculty
University of Miami faculty
Analytic philosophers
Philosophers from Indiana
Living people
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Toronto faculty |
23580782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimal%20Weerawansa | Wimal Weerawansa | Weerasangilige Wimal Weerawansha (born 7 March 1970) is a Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament and leader of the National Freedom Front (NFF). He is the Minister of Industries since 2020. He was the Minister of Small & Medium Business and Enterprise Development, Industries and Supply chain Management from 2019 to 2020, the Minister of Housing and Social Welfare in 2018 and the Minister of Construction and Housing from 2010 to 2015.
Early life and family
Weerawansha was born 7 March 1970. He is the son of Weerasangilige Podineris, a dancing teacher and professional musician, and Wadachcharige Salie. Weerawansha has one brother (Sarath Weerawansha) and three sisters (Weerasangilige Sumanawathie, Chandani Weerawansha and Nilani Weerawansha). Weerawansha was educated at Tissa Central College in Kalutara where he played for the school cricket team. Weerawansha passed eight GCE O levels and started studying GCE A level but was expelled for not attending classes.
Weerawansha is married to Ranasinghe Mudiyanselage Shirsha Udayanthi (Sashi). They have a son (Wibhuthi Wishwajith Weerawansha) and a daughter (Wimasha Wishwadari).
Career
Weerawansha joined the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) during its second insurrection and wrote articles in Lakdiva and Hiru, pro-JVP periodicals. He was known by various aliases including Wimalasiri Gamlath and Wanshanatha. He was president of the Peoples' Movement for Freedom (Nidahasa Udesa Janatha Viyaparaya), propaganda secretary and politburo member of the JVP. In his early political years Weerawansha was only influenced by socialism and disliked nationalism as much as capitalism. He even accused the ultra-nationalist National Movement Against Terrorism (NMAT) of organising a coup d'état. However, as time went by, Weerawansha's and the JVP's attention moved away from Marxism and towards Sinhalese nationalism.
Weerawansha was one of the Sri Lanka Progressive Front (a JVP front) candidates in Colombo District at the 1994 parliamentary election but the SLPF failed to win any seats in the district. He contested the 1997 local government election as a JVP candidate and was elected to Colombo Municipal Council. He contested the 1999 provincial council election as one of the JVP's candidates in Colombo District, and as the JVP's chief minister candidate, but failed to get elected. The JVP nevertheless appointed Weerawansha to the Western Provincial Council. Weerawansha contested the 2000 parliamentary election as one of the JVP's candidates in Colombo District. He was elected and entered Parliament. He was re-elected at the 2001 parliamentary election.
Weerawansha played key roles in the JVP's opposition to President Chandrika Kumaratunga's devolution plans and the Norwegian facilitated peace talk with the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. On 20 January 2004 the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and the JVP formed the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA). Weerawansha was one of the UPFA's candidates in Colombo District at the 2004 parliamentary election and was re-elected. In June 2005 the JVP left the UPFA government. Weerawansha was general-secretary of the Patriotic National Movement (PNM).
Weerawansha fell out with the leadership of the JVP and was suspended from the party in March 2008, accused of corruption, espionage and extra-marital affairs. In May 2008 several dissident JVP MPs led by Weerawansha formed the National Freedom Front (NFF) (Jathika Nidahas Peramuna). The NFF joined the UPFA government in December 2008. Weerawansha was re-elected at the 2010 parliamentary election. He was appointed Minister of Construction, Engineering Services, Housing and Common Amenities after the election. He lost his ministerial position following the January 2015 presidential election. He was re-elected at the August 2015 parliamentary election. Weerawansha was appointed as the Minister of Small & Medium Business and Enterprise Development, Industries and Supply chain Management in November 2019 following the 2019 presidential election.
Weerawansha is the current Minister of Industries.
Controversies
Weerawansha has been involved in numerous controversies during his career. In 2006 he was accused of sexually harassing a 24-year-old female employee of the state-owned Lake House. On 8 July 2010 Weerawansha began a hunger strike outside the United Nations office in Colombo to protest against the appointment of the Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon. Despite promising to "fast-unto-death" Weerawansha's hunger strike only lasted until 10 July 2010 and was seen as a publicity stunt. In March 2012 Weerawansha called for Sri Lankans to boycott American products such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi, KFC, McDonald's, Google and Gmail as a protest against the US government sponsoring a resolution on Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Following the change in government in January 2015 the police started investigating Weerawansha's wife Shashi over allegations that she faked official documents to obtain a diplomatic passport. A panel investigating the activities of the housing ministry during Weerawansha's ministry uncovered financial irregularities and rampant nepotism. Weerawansha was investigated by the Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID) over how several of his relatives obtained government constructed houses at well below market prices. Weerawansha was arrested at Bandaranaike International Airport on 23 October 2015 due to discrepancies in his passport. After being questioned by the Criminal Investigation Department, he was produced before Negombo Magistrate's Court and released on bail. Weerawana was arrested by the Police Financial Crimes Financial Crimes Investigations Division (FCID) on accusations of misusing government vehicles on 10 January 2017. Weerawansha's bail applications were rejected several times. While he was in custody, Weerawansha started a hunger strike claiming of political revenge by the government. The hunger strike was called off after eight days on requests made by Theras of the Malwathu and Asgiri chapters and fellow politicians. Weerawansha was released on bail on 7 April 2017.
Weerawansha has been accused of spreading communalism.
Weerawansha asked the public to launch a Black Flag protest to oppose the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Sri Lanka in 2017 May.
In October 2017, Weerawansha stated that the parliament should be bombed if a new constitution was approved by a parliament vote. The Parliament Speaker urged to inquire into Weerawansha's statement. Piyasiri Wijenayake, an NFF member criticized Weerawansha and claimed that the thoughts expressed were Weerawansha's personal views.
In May 2022, Weerawansa's wife, Shashi was sentenced to two years in prison after she was found guilty of obtaining passport by submitting false information.
Electoral history
Notes
References
External links
wimalweerawansa.lk Official website
1970 births
Colombo municipal councillors
Housing ministers of Sri Lanka
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna politicians
Jathika Nidahas Peramuna politicians
Sinhalese nationalists
Living people
Members of the 11th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the Western Provincial Council
Sinhalese politicians
Sri Lankan Buddhists
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians |
44500084 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort%20MacDowall | Fort MacDowall | Fort MacDowall was located in Matale. It was a fortified outpost during the Kandyan Wars, named after Major General Hay MacDowall, the 6th Commander of British Troops in Ceylon. The fort was one of the few inland forts constructed by the British and was completed in 1803.
It was garrisoned on 25 April 1803 by 55 men of the 19th Regiment under the command of Captains Madge and Pearce. On 24 June the fort was surrounded and besieged by troops of the Kandyan army. For three days Captain Madge refused offers to surrender the fort however during the night on 27 June he managed to withdraw without detection, together with two officers, thirteen men of the 19th and 22 men of the Malay Regiment. They left behind 19 Europeans who were to sick to travel. Captain Madge and his men succeeded in reaching Trincomalee, approximately through jungle and enemy held territory, on 3 July. The individuals who remained at the fort were massacred by the Kandyan army when they found the fort undefended.
During the Matale rebellion, on 28 July 1848, the fort came under siege by approximately 400 rebels led by Puran Appu and Gongalegoda Banda, but the British garrison repulsed the attack. The rebels also burnt down a coffee storehouse and ransacked the Matale Kachcheri, destroying the tax records contained inside. On 29 July, the governor of Ceylon, Lord Torrington, declared martial law in the colony. A detachment of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, under the command of Captain Albert Watson, was dispatched from Kandy on 28 July, together with 220 men from the 19th Regiment of Foot, commanded by Captain Lillie C.R.R. On 29 July 1848, the 19th Regiment of Foot attacked a rebel force consisting of roughly 4,000 rebels at Wariyapola Estate who were heading towards Kandy; the rebels suffered casualties amounting to over 100 men killed and captured and hundreds wounded, while the lone British casualty was an injured soldier. After the battle, roughly 250 captured rebels were court-martialled and subsequently executed (either by firing squad or hanging) in Fort MacDowall. Watson and Lillie then led their troops in occupying Matale, arresting a number of rebel leaders, including Appu and Banda. Initial reports indicated that only thirteen rebels were killed and nine executed in Fort MacDowall. After the suppression of the rebellion, Torrington admitted "that the total number killed and wounded amounted to little less than two hundred", although unofficially the numbers are purportedly higher.
The only physical remnants of the fort that exist today are the gateway and portion of the ramparts. The interior of the fort is currently used as the Matale cemetery, which includes a monument to the rebellion.
References
MacDowall
Buildings and structures in Matale
MacDowall
Buildings and structures in Matale District |
20474703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977%20New%20Orleans%20Saints%20season | 1977 New Orleans Saints season | The 1977 New Orleans Saints season was the team's eleventh as a member of the National Football League. They were unable to improve on their previous season's output of 4–10, winning only three games. The most notable part of the season was when they lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who won their first game in franchise history after losing their first 26 games. The team failed to qualify for the playoffs for the eleventh consecutive season, while coach Hank Stram was fired following the season. In his two seasons as coach the Saints only won seven games.
Offseason
NFL draft
Personnel
Staff
Roster
Regular season
The first victory overall for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, did not come until week 13 on the road against the Saints, almost two seasons after their first game against the Houston Oilers in 1976. The Bucs led at halftime by a score of 13–0. Dave Green had two field goals, while Gary Huff threw a touchdown pass to Morris Owens. Upon their arrival in Tampa Bay, the Bucs were greeted by 8,000 fans.
The Saints were 11-point favorites before the game, and fans booed as the Buccaneers scored. "Eleven years I've supported this franchise!" one shouted, adding, "With all this money I've spent on this lousy team I could have bought some land in Colombia and raised pot." Losing to a team with a 0–26 losing streak was so humiliating that safety Tom Myers said, "We've been made the laughingstocks of the business ... I'm too embarrassed to say that I play for the team that got beat by Tampa Bay." Said head coach Hank Stram, "We're all very ashamed of what happened today. Ashamed for our people, for our fans, the organization, everybody. It is my worst coaching experience." Team owner John Mecom said during the loss that the Saints "is a poorly coached team", and Stram was fired January 28, 1978.
Schedule
Week 10 vs. Atlanta Falcons
TV Network: CBS
Announcers: Gary Bender, Johnny Unitas
Before a Regional TV Audience, Atlanta, which had never given up more than 14 points in a game this year, tried to keep it that way with one minute to go - In New Orleans - And Archie Manning was waiting. The Saints quarterback, back in action for the first time in six weeks, read the blitz and beat it with a 18-yard TD Pass, his second scoring strike to tight end Henry Childs. It was Hank Stram's 136th victory as a head coach... and his last.
Standings
Notes
References
New Orleans Saints seasons
New Orleans Saints
New Orl |
20474723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colovray%20Sports%20Centre | Colovray Sports Centre | Centre Sportif de Colovray Nyon is where FC Stade Nyonnais play their home football and rugby games. The site is opposite the UEFA headquarters. The centre has six pitches for different things and hosts a variety of activities, football, rugby and athletics. The stadium has 860 seats and the rest is standing places.
Events
In 2008, for the UEFA Euro 2008, Turkey had their base camp at this ground.
In June 2009, the ground hosted the 2009 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, with Germany and Spain reaching the final.
Since the 2013–14 season, the stadium hosts the final match of the UEFA Youth League.
The stadium hosted the preliminary round of the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League.
See also
List of football stadiums in Switzerland
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20130908084646/http://www.stadenyonnais.ch/centre_sportif/presentation.asp
Football venues in Switzerland
Rugby union stadiums in Switzerland
Buildings and structures in the canton of Vaud
Nyon |
23580783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef%20Wirsching | Josef Wirsching | Josef Wirsching (22 March 1903 – 11 June 1967) sometimes credited as Joseph Wirsching, was a German cinematographer, who became a pioneer in cinematography in India and who contributed to the heritage of Cinema of India and still photography in its improvement into a scientific art of expression. His association with Indian cinema started in 1925, when he worked with another German, Franz Osten, in the Indo-European collaboration, The Light of Asia. Thereafter he settled in India, went on to work in over 20 films with Bombay Talkies and subsequently with Kamal Amrohi in Mahal (1949), Dil Apna Aur Preet Parayi (1960) and his masterpiece Pakeezah (1972), though he died while it was still under production.
Early life and education
Born in Munich, Germany, where he also did his schooling. After his schooling he joined ‘Blau Weiβ Films’ in Munich as an apprentice photographer; he studied photography theory in the state run ‘Gewerbeschule’ in Munich.
Personal life
He married Charlotte Mϋllberger in Germany on 28 January 1929. Their only son, Wolfgang Peter Wirsching was born in Bombay, India in 1939.
He died in Bombay on 11 June 1967, after a massive cardiac arrest. His photographic collection is now maintained by grandson Georg Wirsching.
Career
In 1923, he joined ‘Emelka Film Studios’ (present day ‘Bavaria Films’) as an assistant cameraman cum laboratory assistant and was later promoted to Film Cameraman in a short span of time and was involved as an assistant/cameraman for the following films:
Prem Sanyas (The Light of Asia, 1925)
Das Grabmal einer groβen Liebe (1926)
Our Emden (1926)
Little Inge and Her Three Fathers (1926)
My Heidelberg, I Can Not Forget You (1927)
Travelogue of overland trip from Mϋnich to Benares (1927/28)
Travelogue of overland trip from Calcutta to Rangoon (1928)
Waterloo (1928)
Spuren im Schnee (1928)
Cruiser Emden (1932)
Stoβtrupp 1917 (1933/34)
Im Lande des Silbernen Löwen (1933)
The Love Hotel (1933)
Bombay Talkies
After Emelka he joined Bombay Talkies in Bombay, India, as a director of Photography in 1935.
Bombay Talkies productions (before Second World War)
Jawani Ki Hawa (1935)
Level Crossing (1936)
Mother-Always Tell Your Wife (1936)
Achut Kanya (1936)
Janmabhoomi. (1936)
Jeevan Naiya (1936)
Izzat (1937)
Prem Kahani (1937)
Miyan Biwi (1937)
Savitri (1937)
Jeevan Prabhat (1937)
Nirmala (1938)
Vachan (1938)
Mamta/Bhabi (1938)
Nav Jeevan (1939)
Kangan (1939)
Durga (1939)
As he was a German national living in the British India, In 1939 he was interned for the period of World War II in an internment camp for foreign nationals, firstly in Ahmednagar, then Dehradun and finally Satara. He was ultimately released from internment in 1947 after which he returned to ‘Bombay Talkies’ which by now had changed ownership.
Bombay Talkies productions (after Second World War)
Ziddi (1948)
Mahal (1949)
Sangram (1950)
Maa (1952)
Samsheer (1953)
Baadbaan (1954) {This was a ‘Bombay Talkies’ workers cooperative effort to keep the studio alive}.
AMA Limited
Before ‘Bombay Talkies’ closed down in 1954; he joined ‘AMA Limited’ in their documentary & ad-film division in 1954, where he photographed, co-photographed and partially directed a few of their productions in both color and black n white:
Black and white
Young Farmers Club
River Valley Projects, (Documentary on the Bakra Nangal Dam)
Fishing for Food
Malaria Control
One Thousand hands
How to grow more Paddy pest control
Education for Life
First Furrow
The Mould Board Plough
Practical seed drills
The Row cultivator
Time is Money
Improved Seed
Our Indian Earth
Care of the Eyes
Kora Kendra
How to have a healthy home (Northern region)
How to have a healthy home (Southern region)
How to have a healthy home (Eastern region)
Village Black Smith-ing
Village Carpentry
Black Smith-ing in small towns
Rehabilitation in Polio Mellitus
Color
Fertilizer Applications
Fertilizer for Abundance
Life of the soil
The Story of Trombay (A Documentary on the TATA Thermal power project in Trombay)
Mahal Pictures
After his stint in Bombay Talkies he joined Kamal Amrohi's Mahal Pictures as director of Photography in 1959 and did two films namely Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai (1960)
and Pakeezah (1972), his only colour film. This film was completed in part after his demise in 1967 and was released in 1972. The remaining scenes which were shot after his demise are clearly noticeable. The famous Paan gali scene is credited to him. He even shows up on screen as a large bearded man in the crowd in the film.
References
External links
Wirsching Foundation, Photographic Collection
German cinematographers
Hindi film cinematographers
1903 births
1967 deaths
German emigrants to India
Film people from Munich |
44500085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC%20Arge%C8%99%201953%20Pite%C8%99ti | FC Argeș 1953 Pitești | Fotbal Club Argeș 1953 Pitești was a Romanian football club from Pitești, Argeș. It was founded in 2013 as a phoenix club of the then-dissolved team FC Argeș Pitești, and was fully owned by its supporters.
History
Liga IV Argeș County (2014–present)
After the dissolution of the original team FC Argeș Pitești, the supporters recreated the team and named it FC Argeș 1953, a phoenix club who started in Liga IV. In their first season they finished on the second place in Liga IV – Argeș County. In the same year they participated in the first ever Football without Owners Tournament, a new established trophy for the fan-owned phoenix clubs in Romania, the other participants was ASU Politehnica Timișoara, FC Vaslui 2002 and the host LSS Voința Sibiu, they finished on the third place at the event. On June 12, they managed to win against the county rivals Unirea Bascov to win the league and qualify in the promotion play-off to Liga III.
After the promotion the club was dissolved, not having enough financial support.
Honours
Domestic
Liga IV – Argeș County
Winners (1): 2015–16
Runners-up (1): 2014–15
Friendly
Football without Owners Tournament
Third place (1): 2015
Statistics
References
External links
Official website
Fan-owned football clubs
Association football clubs established in 2013
Association football clubs disestablished in 2016
Defunct football clubs in Romania
Football clubs in Argeș County
2013 establishments in Romania
2016 disestablishments in Romania
Liga IV clubs |
20474762 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponca%20Reservation | Ponca Reservation | The Ponca Reservation of the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska is located in northeast Nebraska, with the seat of tribal government located in Niobrara, Knox County. The Indian reservation is also the location of the historic Ponca Fort called Nanza. The Ponca tribe does not actually have a reservation because the state of Nebraska will not allow them to have one. However, they do in fact have a 15-county service delivery area, including counties spread throughout Nebraska, South Dakota and Iowa.
Established by a treaty dated March 12, 1858 and a supplemental treaty on March 10, 1865, the reservation was re-established by an Act of Congress dated March 2, 1899. There were allotted to 167 Indians for settlement. An Indian agency and school buildings were reserved .
History
Despite their original reservation having been established in 1858, the Ponca suffered decades of broken treaties, a lack of financial support from the U.S. Government, and ongoing attacks by the neighboring Sioux, with whom they were sworn enemies. In 1875 a Ponca agent visited President Ulysses S. Grant to discuss moving the Ponca to the Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma. Grant agreed to the move if the Ponca were willing. When the agent returned to Nebraska, Standing Bear and other tribal members signed an agreement to move to the Indian Territory. The agreement also allowed several Ponca chiefs to select a new reservation there. In 1877 the Ponca leaders made arrangements to visit the Indian Territory and select a site for a new reservation.
Ponca Trail of Tears
In early 1877, ten Ponca leaders left for the Osage Reservation in Indian Territory to select a site for the new Ponca Reservation. Upon arriving, they found no Osage leaders present, so no land agreements were signed. Standing Bear and the other leaders decided they wanted to return home, which infuriated the Indian agent who accompanied them. In February the group of chiefs decided to return on their own. The group spent much of their travels on the open prairie, going for days without rations. They arrived at the Ponca Reservation more than three months later in April 1877.
On their arrival, the group met with their Indian Agent, who had orders to remove the tribe by force to Oklahoma. The tribe was split about leaving; those willing left in mid-April. A month later Standing Bear and the remainder of the tribe left after a military unit from Fort Omaha arrived. Nine people died on the journey, including Standing Bear's daughter. Prairie Flower died of consumption and was buried at Milford, Nebraska. White Buffalo Girl, daughter of Black Elk and Moon Hawk, also died and was buried near Neligh, Nebraska, with the people of Neligh providing a Christian burial for the girl and crafting an oak cross over the gravesite. Black Elk asked that the grave of his daughter be honored, and in 1913 the town of Neligh erected a marble monument that is still there.
Several of the leaders of the tribe went back to Nebraska, only to be imprisoned at Fort Omaha. General George Crook, commander of the Department of the Platte, imprisoned the contingent against his own best concerns. He tipped off Thomas Tibbles of the Omaha Daily Herald, who brought national attention to the plight of the tribe. This eventually led the U.S. government to grant the tribe two reservations; one in Nebraska and one in Oklahoma.
See also
Native American tribes in Nebraska
Notes
Ponca
American Indian reservations in Nebraska
Geography of Knox County, Nebraska
History of Nebraska
1858 establishments in the United States |
23580786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilip%20Wedaarachchi | Dilip Wedaarachchi | Dilip Wedaarachchi (born 5 February 1957) is a Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He is famous for having eaten raw fish at a press conference to shun the rumours claiming that Covid-19 virus can be transmitted by consumption of seafood. He gained further fame by demonstrating evidence of two thirds during a parliament session.
References
Living people
Members of the 11th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Samagi Jana Balawegaya politicians
United National Party politicians
1957 births
State ministers of Sri Lanka |
44500087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiloepalpus%20aureus | Chiloepalpus aureus | Chiloepalpus aureus is a species of tachinid flies in the genus Chiloepalpus of the family Tachinidae.
External links
Tachinidae
Insects described in 1926 |
20474778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei%20Strakhov | Alexei Strakhov | Oleksiy "Alexei" Strakhov (born October 16, 1975) is an ice hockey player from Kharkiv, Ukraine, currently playing for HC Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), and for the Belarusian national team.
External links
1975 births
Belarusian ice hockey right wingers
Expatriate ice hockey players in Russia
Amur Khabarovsk players
HC Dinamo Minsk players
Khimik-SKA Novopolotsk players
Living people
Ukrainian ice hockey right wingers |
23580790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumara%20Welgama | Kumara Welgama | Kumara Welgama () (born 5 April 1950) is a Sri Lankan politician and a current member of parliament for the Kalutara District. Welgama had been a minister of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party in the past. Since 2020, he has been the leader of the New Lanka Freedom Party and contested elections with the Samagi Jana Balawegaya.
Welgama was the chief organiser for the Sri Lanka Freedom Party in the Agalawatte electorate between 1984 and 2000. He was the Minister of Industrial Development from 2007 to 2010 and the Minister of Transport from 2010 to early 2015 in governments led by the SLFP.
Welgama had been a member of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party until 2019, when he defected from the party after it suppored the presidential candidacy of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, paving the way for the return of the Rajapaksa family. He supported UNP candidate Sajith Premadasa instead and founded a new party named New Lanka Freedom Party, which joined the Samagi Jana Balawegaya alliance led by Sajith Premadasa to run for the 2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary election.
References
1950 births
Alumni of S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia
Industries ministers of Sri Lanka
Living people
Members of the 10th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 11th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 12th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Prisoners and detainees of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
Sri Lankan prisoners and detainees
Transport ministers of Sri Lanka
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Samagi Jana Balawegaya politicians |
20474831 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Questions%20of%20Ezra | Questions of Ezra | The Questions of Ezra is an ancient Christian apocryphal text, claimed to have been written by the Biblical Ezra. The earliest surviving manuscript, composed in Armenian, dates from 1208 CE. It is an example of the Christian development of topics coming out from the Jewish Apocalyptic literature. Due to the shortness of the book, it is impossible to determine the original language, the provenance or to reliably date it. This text has had no influence outside the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Two recensions of this text are known: the longer, known as version A, was first published in 1896 by Yovsep'ianc, and translated into English in 1901 by Issaverdens and it is based on a manuscript dated 1208. The shorter recension B was published in 1978 by Stone.
The text can be related with 2 Esdras and with the Greek Apocalypse of Ezra. It is a dialogue between Ezra and an angel of the Lord about the fate of human souls after death. The text includes a description of the throne of God surrounded by the angelic host, though the impossibility of seeing the face of God is strongly emphasized. It also mentions the possibility of freeing souls from the hands of Satan by prayers in Church.
See also
Vision of Ezra
Notes
Old Testament pseudepigrapha
Armenian Apostolic Church |
23580792 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrasena%20Wijesinghe | Chandrasena Wijesinghe | Chandrasena Wljesinghe is a Sri Lankan politician and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He lost a re-election bid in 2010.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians |
23580795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piyasiri%20Wijenayake | Piyasiri Wijenayake | K. Piyasiri Wijenayake is a Sri Lankan politician and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
References
Candidates in the 2019 Sri Lankan presidential election
Deputy chairmen of committees of the Parliament of Sri Lanka
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna politicians
Jathika Nidahas Peramuna politicians
Living people
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Year of birth missing (living people) |
20474895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cl%C3%A9ber%20%28footballer%2C%20born%20March%201982%29 | Cléber (footballer, born March 1982) | Cléber Ferreira Manttuy (born March 24, 1982), known as Cléber, is a Brazilian footballer who played for clubs including Académica de Coimbra.
References
1982 births
Living people
Brazilian footballers
Marília Atlético Clube players
Associação Académica de Coimbra – O.A.F. players
Kallithea F.C. players
Association football defenders |
23580799 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thilakaratne%20Withanachchi | Thilakaratne Withanachchi | Thilakaratne Withanachchi is a Sri Lankan politician and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He lost a re-election bid in 2010.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians |
23580802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunaratna%20Weerakoon | Gunaratna Weerakoon | Muhudugama Hewage Gunaratna Weerakoon (10 November 1947 – 24 December 2021) was a Sri Lankan teacher and politician. He was a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a government minister. He died on 24 December 2021, at the age of 74.
References
Sources
1947 births
2021 deaths
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
Provincial councillors of Sri Lanka
Alumni of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura
People from Galle District |
23580807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayantha%20Wijesekara | Jayantha Wijesekara | N. W. M. Jayantha Wijesekara is a Sri Lankan politician and former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Sri Lankan Buddhists
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka |
6906042 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator%203%3A%20The%20Redemption | Terminator 3: The Redemption | Terminator 3: The Redemption is an action-adventure video game based on the 2003 film Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. It was developed by Paradigm Entertainment and published by Atari, Inc. in 2004 for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube. Terminator 3: The Redemption received "mixed or average" reviews according to Metacritic. It was praised for its graphics and was considered an improvement over an earlier game (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines); however, the gameplay was criticized as linear, repetitive and difficult.
Gameplay
Terminator 3: The Redemption features several gameplay styles presented from a third-person perspective across 14 levels, which are partially based on the film Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, while expanding the film's backstory. The player takes the role of a T-850 Terminator. Several levels are played on foot as the player fights against other Terminators. The player can use various guns against enemies, and can also engage them in hand-to-hand combat. The player can also use detached road signs as weapons. In addition, the player can utilize the T-850's red-colored scan mode, during which it can deal increased damage to enemies. Points, known as "Terabytes", are spread throughout the game and can be collected to upgrade the scan mode.
In addition, the game features driving levels which include a variety of different vehicles, including a hearse, a pickup truck, and a police car. Also featured are rail shooter levels in which the player is in a travelling vehicle and must shoot oncoming Terminator enemies. As in the film, the T-X is the primary enemy encountered throughout the game. A two-player co-op mode is included as a rail shooter game in which the players must defend against oncoming Terminators.
Plot
The story starts in the year 2032 with a squad of Tech-Com soldiers storming a Skynet facility in order to stop a T-X from entering a time displacement machine. However, they are no match for the T-X's superior capabilities and all are gruesomely killed.
Meanwhile, Katherine Brewster and the Human Resistance ambush the T-850 that was responsible for the death of John Connor. A Tech-Com technician reprograms the cyborg to be sent back to July 23, 2003 to protect Kate and John's earlier selves. The T-850, with the assistance of several Tech-Com soldiers manages to fight its way to the main gate of the Skynet bunker and it enters the time displacement machine.
In the past, the T-850 rescues John and Kate from the T-X, and informs them that Judgment Day is to begin within the next few hours. It plans to acquire a plane from a nearby military base, and fly the pair to Crystal Peak, a bunker that will ensure their survival during the nuclear blasts. As they arrive at the base, the T-X reappears, and hits the T-850 into a prototype time machine; it is sent back into the future, arriving in a new, alternate future where Skynet has triumphed.
The Terminator once again fights its way through Skynet and sends itself back to 2003. It appears just in time to fight off the T-X while John and Kate escape to Crystal Peak. At the bunker, the T-850 prevents the T-X from reaching John and Kate by blocking its route to them. The T-850 places its damaged fuel cell into the T-X's mouth, resulting in a large explosion that seemingly destroys both Terminators.
Following Judgment Day, John removes the CPU from the heavily damaged T-850's metal skull, deactivating it. The story then shifts further into the war, where John is leading the Resistance. He uses the CPU to reactivate the Terminator, who is revealed to have been rebuilt as an extensively modified FK Reaper. The Terminator then stomps out into battle, aiding John Connor once again, as the game closes with the final caption: "The battle has just begun...".
Development and release
Terminator 3: The Redemption was developed by Paradigm Entertainment and published by Atari. The game was developed simultaneously with the video game Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, which was developed by Black Ops. Both development teams took pictures of the film set to aid in development of the games. Black Ops' game was released alongside the DVD release of the film in November 2003, while Paradigm was unable to make the date due to the bigger design of their own game. Atari agreed to give Paradigm more time to work on Terminator 3: The Redemption. Paradigm had previously developed The Terminator: Dawn of Fate (2002), and the same concept team returned to work on The Redemption.
Despite the poor reception of Black Ops' Terminator 3 game, Atari chose to proceed with The Redemption. Atari acquired the rights to use the likeness of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Kristanna Loken, who portray the Terminators in the film. Scans of the actors were taken in 3D to create their in-game counterparts. Paradigm also worked with C2 Pictures on the game's enemy designs and story elements.
Lead game designer Shawn Wright said that working on a film license provided many advantages such as an existing universe and characters, but also said that a disadvantage is that content needed to be sent out to California to be approved. The game includes footage from the film. Aspects of the game were influenced by Grand Theft Auto III though the development team were careful not to create a GTA clone. Paradigm stated that 50 percent of the gameplay is vehicle-based, 25 percent with rail-shooter action and the final 25 percent is character combat. The fast pace of the game was a conscious decision by the developers of the game. Producer Josh Hackney said, "We didn't want to take the gameplay and player control away from the player for more than five seconds." A feature developed for the game, but removed in the final version was the use of mission timers. The timer required the player to finish certain levels within a set time. Otherwise, they will not progress to the next level. The final game uses timers but they are unnecessary to finish the level. Instead, the player can progress at their own pace. If the mission is completed within the time limit then the player will be rewarded. The targeting system was also changed during development. Schwarzenegger provided some voice acting for the game and the rest was voiced by a soundalike, Mark Mosley.
Development was concluded as of August 2004, and the game was shipped to North American retailers on September 9, 2004, less than 10 months after the previous Terminator 3 game. In Japan, the game was released for PlayStation 2 and GameCube on January 20, 2005.
Reception
Terminator 3: The Redemption received "mixed or average" reviews on all platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. The game was seen as an improvement over the original Terminator 3 game, and some critics considered the "Redemption" title an appropriate one, with Alex Navarro of GameSpot writing "the name The Redemption seems all too apt when describing this latest Terminator title, because it turns out that this one is actually pretty good."
Jeremy Dunham of IGN considered it the first good game in the series since The Terminator: Future Shock. Louis Bedigian of GameZone favorably compared the game's action to that of the Terminator 2: Judgment Day arcade game. Other reviewers for GameZone concluded that it was the best Terminator game yet. However, critics generally recommended the game as a rental rather than a purchase. GamePro wrote that "although Redemption has its moments, it merits a cautionary rental. Redemption gives some luster back to the Terminator name, but not much." Russ Fischer of GameSpy wrote, "Atari and Paradigm have put together a title that nails the tone of the source, without entirely capturing the appeal."
Praise went to the graphics, including the character models. Game Informer called Schwarzenegger's character "eerily perfect" in appearance. Bennett Ring of The Sydney Morning Herald stated that "The levels are so big and detailed that it's a wonder they don't bring your console to a crashing halt." Some critics believed that the graphics looked best on the Xbox version. The film footage featured in the game received some criticism for its low quality.
The gameplay was criticized as linear and repetitive. Some critics also believed the game lacked replay value. However, praise went to the variety of gameplay styles, which Dunham found to be "surprisingly addictive." Reviewers also criticized the gameplay for its trial-and-error element. The difficulty was criticized as well, including the lack of save points, forcing the player to start a level from the beginning if they lose. Eduardo Zacarias of GameZone wrote, "If there's a game that could have used a checkpoint, this is it." However, Dunham enjoyed the difficulty. Navarro stated that despite the difficulty, the missions "are usually good enough that you will want to keep coming back to try again." Some reviewers were critical of the game's targeting system, although Fischer considered it easy to use.
Critics praised the driving and rail shooter levels, which were generally considered to be the best parts of the game. Mike Reilly of Game Revolution wrote that the on-foot levels "are a bit drab in comparison." GameZone's Natalie Romano wrote "it's the driving parts that keep this from being just a simple shooter". GamePro opined that the film-based levels were not as fun as those created specifically for the game.
The music and sound was praised, although GamePro considered the music to be monotonous. The voiceovers were also generally praised, although Andrew Reiner of Game Informer was critical of Schwarzenegger's "horrifying one-liners", and Navarro was critical of Schwarzenegger's substitute voice actor: "To say that this substitute actor is merely subpar would be something of an understatement. Fortunately, this is really the only blemish on the game's audio." GamePro stated that Schwarzenegger's "one-liners couldn't sound more uninspired", although Romano enjoyed them.
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Terminator (franchise) video games
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23580808 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltic%20acid | Deltic acid | Deltic acid or dihydroxycyclopropenone is a chemical substance with the chemical formula C3O(OH)2. It can be viewed as a ketone and double alcohol of cyclopropene. At room temperature, it is a stable white solid, soluble in diethyl ether, that decomposes (sometimes explosively) between 140 °C and 180 °C, and reacts slowly with water.
Derivatives
Deltate and salts
Deltic acid is considered an acid because it is a particularly acidic enediol, with hydroxyl groups relatively easily losing their protons (pKa1 = 2.57, pKa2 = 6.03), leaving behind the symmetric deltate anion, .
The first deltate salts (of lithium and potassium) were described in 1976, also by Eggerding and West. Lithium deltate Li2C3O3 is a water-soluble white solid. Like the other cyclic dianions with formula , the deltate anion has a pronounced aromatic character which contributes to its relative stability.
Analogs
An analog of the deltate anion can be obtained by replacing the three oxygen atoms (=O or −O−) by cyanoimino groups (=N−C≡N or −N=C=N−) to yield the symmetric anion . Replacement of the three oxygen atoms by dicyanomethylene (=C(CN)2) provides an oxidizing species that is readily reduced to a stable radical anion and dianion.
Synthesis
Deltic acid was originally obtained by photolysis of the ester bis(trimethylsilyl) squarate, which converted into bis(trimethylsilyl) derivative. Upon irradiation with UV light, the disilyl compound decarbonylates. Decomposition of the latter by butanol yielded deltic acid.
The acid can also be prepared by reaction of silver squarate and trimethylsilyl chloride.
The deltate anion has also been obtained by direct cyclotrimerization of carbon monoxide at ambient conditions. Carbon monoxide dissolved in pentane reacted with a uranium coordination compound yielding a deltate anion bound to two uranium atoms.
See also
Acetylenediol
Croconic acid
Rhodizonic acid
Cyclopropenone
References
Non-benzenoid aromatic carbocycles
Ketones
Oxocarbons
Cyclopropenes
Enediols |
23580809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble%20Bowl | Bubble Bowl | Bubble Bowl refers to multiple entities in the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise:
An ability unlocked after the first major boss battle in the 2003 video game SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom and its 2020 remake.
A parody of an American football halftime show in the season 2 episode Band Geeks.
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20474900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady%20D%27Arbanville | Lady D'Arbanville | "Lady D'Arbanville" is a song written and recorded by Cat Stevens and released in April 1970. It subsequently appeared on his third album, Mona Bone Jakon, released later that year. It was his first single released after signing a contract with Island Records, with the encouragement of his new producer, Paul Samwell-Smith, fostering a folk rock direction. "Lady D'Arbanville" has a madrigal sound, and was written about Stevens' former girlfriend, Patti D'Arbanville, metaphorically laying her to rest.
Background
"Lady D'Arbanville" was the first single released from Mona Bone Jakon, which took off in a completely different direction from the songs of his previous two albums. Although Stevens' debut album had charted, and while both albums he'd recorded had successful single releases in the British pop music charts, he chafed against the "Carnaby Street musical jangle" and "heavy-handed orchestration" that his producer, Mike Hurst (of Deram Records) favoured. Just at the completion of his second album with Hurst, Stevens contracted tuberculosis and a collapsed lung, requiring hospitalisation and rest for a year. During this time, he spent his empty hours writing over 40 songs, and upon a clean bill of health successfully negotiated out of his Deram contract, and settled on Island Records' Paul Samwell-Smith as his new producer, who encouraged Stevens' inclinations towards an emerging folk rock genre.
As Stevens was nearing the end of his period of recuperation, he attended a party that boasted a gathering of musicians in London; including Jimmy Page, Steve Winwood, Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton, and others in attendance. Among the party-goers was Patti D'Arbanville, a US teenager who was pursuing a modelling career at the time; she later gained prominence as an actress. The two began dating over a period of more than a year. D'Arbanville stayed with him whenever she was in London, but often found her career taking her to Paris, and New York City. After over a year with her, Stevens was willing to invest more in a serious relationship than his young, ambitious girlfriend. It was on such a foray to New York that she heard his song about her on the airwaves. Her reaction was one of sadness. She said,
D'Arbanville continues,
Musical genre and sound
While Stevens' previous singles featured orchestration, this was the first single to contain only acoustic guitars, bass, organ, percussion, and vocals. Newly hired Alun Davies, initially brought in as a session guitarist, shared Stevens' love for the newly emerging folk rock sound that Stevens chose to pursue. The two guitarists worked with John Ryan's syncopated basslines and drummer Harvey Burns' latin rhythms were used to emphasize the beat of the song on the body of the guitar. Stevens said of it later, that "the name itself was intriguing", and that "it was one of the unique songs that stood out, even lyrically". The song had a unique arrangement, and melody as well. A backing vocal chorus in the style of Spaghetti Western classics added intrigue. The song had enough commercial appeal to reach No.8 on the British pop music chart, and became the first Stevens' track to get noticeable airplay in the United States. "Lady D'Arbanville" was issued in June 1970 and became his third top ten hit in the UK, with the album Mona Bone Jakon, beginning a modest climb up the charts as well.
Charts
Song
Personnel
Cat Stevens – guitar, keyboards, vocals
Alun Davies – guitar, backing vocals
John Ryan – double bass
Harvey Burns – percussion
Other versions
Elton John also performed a version of "Lady D'Arbanville" for a covers record, at a time in his career when he was still in relative obscurity. However, in parts of the song, he substitutes the word fille (French for girl which Cat Stevens pronounces like fill). The original song is written thus:
"My Lady D'Arbanville, why do you sleep so still?
I'll wake you tomorrow, and you will be my fille,
Yes, you will be my fille
Elton John's version has him singing "You will be my pill", instead of the original lyrics. John's career took off around the same time as that of Stevens, and the cover songs that John sang on, including "Lady D'Arbanville", remained in obscurity until they were eventually released on a compilation album titled Chartbusters Go Pop in 1994.
In 1970, the song was recorded in both French and Italian by French-Italian Singer Dalida and released on singles in France and Italy. Italian singer Gigliola Cinquetti also recorded the song in Italian the same year.
English band And Also the Trees also performed the song on their 1989 album Farewell to the Shade.
References
1970 singles
Cat Stevens songs
Songs written by Cat Stevens
Song recordings produced by Paul Samwell-Smith
Island Records singles
A&M Records singles
1970 songs
Songs about entertainers |
23580812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiswa%20Warnapala | Wiswa Warnapala | Watareke Arachchilage Wiswa Warnapala (26 December 1936 – 27 February 2016) was a Sri Lankan politician, Minister of Higher Education and member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
References
Alumni of the University of Peradeniya
1936 births
2016 deaths
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Government ministers of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Sinhalese academics
Sinhalese writers
Higher education ministers of Sri Lanka |
20474901 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customized%20employment | Customized employment | Customized employment (CE) is a way of personalizing the employment relationship between a candidate and an employer in order to meet the needs of both. It applies in particular to employees with disabilities. The individual employee's skills, interests and needs are identified in a process of "discovery", and job content and environment are tailored to these in a process of negotiation.
Participation in community
Customized employment aims to provide everyone with an equal opportunity to participate in community life. Community inclusion of individuals with disabilities requires support and advocacy from local businesses for concepts like customized employment. Molina, Leslie and Demchak, MaryAnn Demchak from Rural Special Education Quarterly says "If people with intellectual disability are to become truly self-determined, they must be allowed to express choice throughout their lives, including employment. Expectations for competitive employment tend to be low for this population, if considered at all". Through the customized employment concept businesses can universally accept the practice that recognizes the power of community relationships with persons with disabilities who have been left out of the equation of community.
Description
Katherine Inge from Virginia Commonwealth University Rehabilitation Research and Training Center says "The term, customized employment, is attributed to a speech that Secretary of Labor, Elaine Chao, made upon being confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2001. In that speech, Ms. Chao referred to customization as a trend in the labor market. Within 6 months of her speech, the Office of Disability Employment Policy, a new office within the U.S. Department of Labor, put forth in the Federal Register, a major initiative from the U.S. Department of Labor. They termed that initiative "customized employment". The definition of customized employment that was published in the Federal Register is as follows: People with disabilities find customized employment to be successful way of gaining purposeful work with real wages. Todd Citron et al. says "A person with a disability who needs supports often begins with a negative label and stands at risk of rejection, segregation, isolation and limited adult opportunities. While in our culture the notion of freedom is strongly tied to personal power, control and influence, many individuals with disabilities have been historically denied access to the opportunities for choice and decision-making necessary to experience becoming successful in what they wish to do with their lives". Customized employment utilizes a process of discovery to uncover an individual's strengths, weaknesses, interests, task contributions, and conditions of employment to create meaningful work and a customized fit. Rather than looking at work opportunities driven by the market, customized employment practices create employment that fulfills both the applicant with disabilities and the employer's needs.
Discovery
Discovery is a key component of customized employment. this is a process of identifying individual's skills and interests through interviews, observations, and conversations. Karen L. Heath et al., from Center for Human Development says "The Discovery process is both open and formal; it is time-limited; and it is not concerned with predicting the future. Rather, it is focused on employment that matches who the individual is now: one potential match is self-employment. While self-employment is gaining credibility as a viable employment option for individuals with disabilities, self-employment is not for everyone". Even though self-employment for individuals with disabilities is less common, it allows individuals to receive assistance in creating of independently owned small business that are typically under five employees. However, there has been some debate regarding CE and its relationship to supported employment. Katherine J. Inge from Virginia University says "Customized employment does not include group placements or sub-minimum wage positions that have unfortunately continued under supported employment services. However, since there are no formal regulations regarding customized employment implementation, the strategy faces the same pitfalls that have limited supported employment implementation. Hours worked, and wages earned will be issues as providers negotiate with employers to customize jobs for individuals with significant disabilities". There is talk amongst some authors that individuals with disabilities are being placed in jobs that are driven by the local labor market rather than negotiated positions based on individual's preferences and choice.
Benefits
Individuals, as well as companies, stand to benefit from customized employment. Customized employment concept provides the business with reliable and dependable employees, it reduces recruitment and hiring process, it matches job seekers with specific employment needs, increases employee retention, helps the business to attract broader customer base, enhance diversity, and increase tax benefits. Paulo dos Santos Rodrigues et al. from Brazilian Academy of Sciences say "One U.S. study reports that employers express a high level of satisfaction when they "customize" job tasks for specific individual job candidates. Employers who hired individuals with significant disabilities through a customized employment process, when interviewed about their experience, identified distinct advantageous results such as increased sales revenue, improved operations, and higher customer satisfaction". Customized employment works in a way that it starts with the person and engages employers through based negotiation disclosing benefits that hiring a specific individual will have for both parties. Cary Griffin et al. from Griffin-Hammis Associates, LLC say "Most supermarkets include a Union butcher shop, a produce department, an Information Technology department, Clerical, shipping and receiving, and management departments. All these operations employ people, therefore bagging groceries should be only one possibly out of a hundred options explored through creative instruction, job carving, and interest-based job negotiations". CE takes form in job carving, job sharing, and task reassignment which will be discussed below.
Tammy Jorgensen Smith et al. from Department of Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling, University of South Florida say "An example of a person who may benefit from discovery is an individual with autism. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a range of complex neurodevelopmental disorders, characterized by social impairments, communication difficulties, and restricted, repetitive, and stereotyped patterns of behavior (NINDS, 2014). Persons with autism may be resistant to change and may not be comfortable in offices or other unfamiliar settings. Sensitivity to stimuli may further this discomfort. Additionally, many people who have autism have issues with communication and some have limited or no speech. These characteristics may contribute to difficulties with traditional employment strategies, but do not indicate that the person does not have talents that can be translated into a work setting. Discovery is able to uncover these talents". In Australia, the Centre for Disability Employment Research and Practice (CDERP) have evolved Discovery to reflect the capacity-building element consistent with the objectives of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). This has evolved out of practice with the CDERP Work First employment service that supports practice-based evidence and technical training of provider staff.
Types
Sometimes customized jobs do not exist in complete job descriptions, but are created through initiatives like job carving, job creation, the development of a business-within-a-business, resource ownership, or a self-employment opportunity. Job carving happens when individuals analyze duties performed in given jobs and identify specific tasks within those existing positions that individuals with disabilities can accomplish. Jobs carved for individuals may be formed either by editing one existing job or by mixing tasks from multiple jobs to create new positions. In whichever way the process is completed, job carving is a means of focusing on individuals' abilities, skills, and talents they bring to potential employers.
For example: Erick is looking to work in the fields of journalism and advertising. He is a great storywriter and a salesman. He uses one finger to type on a computer keyboard, and he types 20 words per minute. Journalists for a local newspaper are expected to write three stories per week, he would only be able to complete one story a week. The newspaper happens to also have an advertising sales need. Erick cannot communicate effectively on the telephone, but he shows talent in courting the business of advertisers through electronic mail. The local newspaper decides to hire Erick. They use his abilities as both a storywriter and a salesman. This happens by giving Erick the tasks of researching, developing, and composing one feature story a week and successfully soliciting advertisers.
Job creation happens when certain employers' needs are matched with the skills of job seekers. Developing new jobs can be through the process of job carving or by coming up with totally new job descriptions. In the latter case, individuals' unique assists are marketed to businesses. For example: Jane finds a local small business uses paper files to keep track of sales and inventory. The owner of the business has no employees and is solely running the daily operations of the establishment. Because their sales are increasing, keeping account of transactions and items on paper has proven extremely difficult. Through discussing her abilities and talents pertaining to computers and business management, Jane markets herself to the business owner. In turn, the owner decides to create a position for Jane. In this new position, Jane is responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining a computerized system dedicated to recording sales and inventory.
Tim Riesen et al. from Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation say "Targett, Young, Revell, Williams, and Wehman (2007) described how youth in transition used One Stop Career Centers to support customized career development. The authors explained how students used the resources from centers to obtain employment. These resources included career club curricula, mentoring programs, and internships. In addition, they described how students had access to CE resource staff who provided individualized representation and negotiation with employers. Individuals with disabilities realized early on that Customized Employment is real employment with real pay. CE encouraged students with disabilities to work and realize that employment is essential to successful adult transition. However, Christopher Rogers et al. from Institute on Community Integration, University of Minnesota say, "Current school-to-career transition practices are not leading to sufficient levels of competitive employment and post-secondary education outcomes for youth and young adults with significant disabilities despite progressive mandates and policy improvements in federal and state secondary and post-secondary education, vocational rehabilitation, and workforce development services". When examined more closely, however, the studies showed that out of school youth had a similar rate of employment when compared to subgroup of students still attending high school. Pam Targett et al. say "James is a pleasant young man with a learning disability who attended special education and general education classes. During his freshman year, James learned about the local One Stop's summer youth program and was encouraged to participate by school personnel. Later that year, he enrolled in the summer work program. This program provides eligible youth with 3 weeks of employment training followed by 149 hours of paid work experience. Throughout his remaining years in high school. James attended workshops and training at the One Stop on various work-related topics and independent living issues. He also continued to participate in the summer youth program. One summer he was advised to participate in vocational courses at the local technical center to further develop his work skills. When James graduated from high school with a general diploma, he had employment experience from the summer youth programs, and certificates for completing courses in cabinetmaking. building maintenance, and occupational safety and health from the technical center. Now he was ready to pursue full-time work".
Implementation
CE has proven to be a reliable employment option for individuals with disabilities; however, to implement customized employment solutions, service providers must expand capabilities that they may not have. Jennifer Harvey et al., from Deloitte Consulting, LLP says "CE consists of four process components: Discovery; Job Search Planning; Job Development and Negotiation; and Post-Employment Support. Typically, the employment specialist leads the individual and the CE support team through the first component, Discovery, to determine the individual's interests, skills, and preferences related to potential employment. That information is used to develop a plan, determine a list of potential employers, and conduct an analysis of benefits during the Job Search Planning component. Once a potential employer is identified, the individual and the employer, in the third component, negotiate 1) a customized job, 2) the provision of supports, and 3) the terms of employment that will meet the needs of the individual and the employer. In the case of self-employment, the individual and the agency providing CE services, construct a customized self-employment situation, such as a small business, negotiate the provision of supports to help make the business a success, and tailor the business operations to meet the need of the individual" (Harvey, Jennifer et al., Understanding the competencies needed to customize jobs: A competency model for customized employment." Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation 38, no. 2: 77-89.) Business that implement customized employment will be hiring individuals with skills outside of traditional employment and likely provide better service and broader opportunities to their clients. Michelle Ouimette, and Linda Rammler from Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation say "Successful opportunities and innovations include the "right kind" of social enterprise, entrepreneurship through self-employment and micro-enterprises and other entrepreneurial models". Leaders on all levels are treating employment as a priority since it has an impact in the long run on money and employment opportunities.
Disclosure issues
Disclosing one's disability may be a concern for people with disabilities and well as organizations who assist them when looking for a job. Katherine J. Inge and Pam Targett from Virginia Commonwealth University say "Access to an accommodation in the work place is often dependent on a person's disclosure of disability related needs. Individuals with visible or hidden disabilities, who know that they will need work-related accommodations including an individualized job description, should plan to disclose. If an accommodation is needed, the job seeker with his/her employment specialist must plan how and when to tell potential employers about the disability and be prepared to discuss support needs" (Inge Katherine and Pam Targett, Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation 28, no. 2: 129-132). Disclosure is also important because an individual with disability may need to leave work several times a week for medical appointments and if the employer is unaware of the employee's disability they may have a different attitude towards employee's performance.
See also
Supported employment
References
Citron, Tod, Nancy Brooks-Lane, Doug Crandell, Kate Brady, Michael Cooper, and Grant Revell. 2008. "A revolution in the employment process of individuals with disabilities: Customized employment as the catalyst for system change." Journal Of Vocational Rehabilitation 28, no. 3: 169-179. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed February 14, 2018).
Dos Santos Rodrigues, Paulo, Richard G. Luecking, Rosana Glat, and Adriana Fernandes Caparelli Daquer. 2013. "Improving workforce outcomes among persons with disabilities in Brazil through youth apprenticeships and customized employment." Journal Of Vocational Rehabilitation 38, no. 3: 185-194. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed February 14, 2018).
Griffin, Cary, Dave Hammis, Tammara Geary, and Molly Sullivan. 2008. "Customized Employment: Where we are; where we're headed." Journal Of Vocational Rehabilitation 28, no. 3: 135-139. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed February 14, 2018).
Harvey, Jennifer, Ronald Szoc, Michelle Dela Rosa, Michelle Pohl, and Jessica Jenkins. 2013. "Understanding the competencies needed to customize jobs: A competency model for customized employment." Journal Of Vocational Rehabilitation 38, no. 2: 77-89. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed February 14, 2018).
Heath, Karen L., Karen M. Ward, and Danielle L. Reed. 2013. "Customized self-employment and the use of Discovery for entrepreneurs with disabilities." Journal Of Vocational Rehabilitation 39, no. 1: 23-27. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed February 14, 2018).
Inge, Katherine J. "Customized employment: A growing strategy for facilitating inclusive employment." Journal Of Vocational Rehabilitation 24, no. 3 (June 2006): 191-193. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed February 14, 2018).
Inge, Katherine J., and Pam Targett. 2008. "Customized employment and disclosure." Journal Of Vocational Rehabilitation 28, no. 2: 129-132. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed February 14, 2018).
Inge, Katherine. 2008. "Customized Employment." Journal Of Vocational Rehabilitation 28, no. 3: 133-134. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed February 14, 2018).
Jorgensen Smith, Tammy, Christina Dillahunt-Aspillaga, and Chip Kenney. 2015. "Integrating customized employment practices within the vocational rehabilitation system." Journal Of Vocational Rehabilitation 42, no. 3: 201-208. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed February 14, 2018).
Molina, Leslie, and MaryAnn Demchak. 2016. "The Right to a Better Life: Using an Work Camp to Create Customized Employment Opportunities for Rural High School Students with Severe Disabilities." Rural Special Education Quarterly 35, no. 2: 24-32. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed February 14, 2018).
Ouimette, Michelle, and Linda H. Rammler. 2017. "Entrepreneurship as a means to Employment First: How can it work?." Journal Of Vocational Rehabilitation 46, no. 3: 333-339. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed February 14, 2018).
Riesen, Tim, Robert L. Morgan, and Cary Griffin. 2015. "Customized employment: A review of the literature." Journal Of Vocational Rehabilitation 43, no. 3: 183-193. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed February 14, 2018).
Rogers, Christopher, Don Lavin, Tri Tran, Tony Gantenbein, and Michael Sharpe. 2008. "Customized Employment: Changing what it means to be qualified in the workforce for transition-aged youth and young adults." Journal Of Vocational Rehabilitation 28, no. 3: 191-207. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed February 14, 2018).
Smith, Tammy Jorgensen, Christina J. Dillahunt-Aspillaga, and Raymond M. Kenney. 2017. "Implementation of Customized Employment Provisions of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Within Vocational Rehabilitation Systems." Journal Of Disability Policy Studies 27, no. 4: 195-202. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed February 14, 2018).
Targett, Pam, Cynthia Young, Grant Revell, Sophie Williams, and Paul Wehman. 2007. "Customized Employment in the One Stop Career Centers." Teaching Exceptional Children 40, no. 2: 6-11. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed February 14, 2018).
External links
The following websites may provide more information on customized employment.
The University of Montana Rural Institute
The National Center on Workforce and Disability/Adult
The Office of Disability Employment Policy
Centre for Disability Employment Research and Practice
Disability rights
Employee relations |
6906060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.%20Christian%20Miller | T. Christian Miller | T. Christian Miller is an investigative reporter, editor, author, and war correspondent for ProPublica. He has focused on how multinational corporations operate in foreign countries, documenting human rights and environmental abuses. Miller has covered four wars — Kosovo, Colombia, Israel and the West Bank, and Iraq. He also covered the 2000 presidential campaign. He is also known for his work in the field of computer-assisted reporting and was awarded a Knight Fellowship at Stanford University in 2012 to study innovation in journalism. In 2016, Miller was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism with Ken Armstrong of The Marshall Project. In 2019, he served as a producer of the Netflix limited series Unbelievable, which was based on the prize-winning article. In 2020, Miller shared the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting with other reporters from ProPublica and The Seattle Times. With Megan Rose and Robert Faturechi, Miller co-won the 2020 award for his reporting on United States Seventh Fleet accidents.
Career and biography
Miller grew up in Charleston, South Carolina. His mother, Linda Miller, was a member of the local school board who focused on integration issues. His father, Donald H. Miller, was a research biochemist at the Medical University of South Carolina. Miller graduated from Bishop England High School.
Miller began his career in journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. He majored in English and minored in French while becoming the University Editor of the Daily Californian, an independent campus newspaper. After college, he worked for the St. Petersburg Times, now the Tampa Bay Times.
In 1997, he went to work for the Los Angeles Times. While at that paper, he covered local, national and international news, opening the newspaper's first bureau in Bogota, Colombia. Miller was briefly held prisoner by the leftist Colombian guerrilla group known as the FARC, or Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, an episode later documented in a short animated news feature. Two of his reporters were later held captive by a second Colombian leftist group, the ELN, or Ejército de Liberación Nacional.
Miller's investigative reporting in Colombia uncovered that a contractor for an American oil company, Occidental Petroleum, had helped to coordinate the bombing of civilians by the Colombian Air Force of a small town in northeastern Colombia which left 17 dead. His coverage of the Santo Domingo bombing led to the U.S. suspending military aid to the Colombian Air Force and to a judgement by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights condemning the Colombian government.
Miller became a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times based in Washington, D.C. While there, Miller served as the only journalist in the U.S. dedicated exclusively to covering the Iraqi reconstruction. Miller published a book on the subject, Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives and Corporate Greed in Iraq.
In 2008, Miller was one of the founding employees of ProPublica, an independent, non-profit start-up dedicated to investigative reporting. While at ProPublica, Miller has published investigative projects with various news organizations, including the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Salon, National Public Radio, This American Life, ABC News 20/20 and PBS' Frontline.
Miller is a leading figure in innovation in journalism, especially in transparency, trust and data-driven journalism. He delivered the U.S. Army Creekmore Lecture in 2007, and has taught at the University of Southern California, Columbia University, Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley and the College of Charleston. He spent a year at Stanford University as a Knight Fellow, studying transparency and new models of journalism. Miller has served as treasurer and board member of Investigative Reporters and Editors, or the IRE, the nation's largest organization of investigative journalists.
Honors and awards
Miller has won numerous local, national and international awards. In 1999, he won the John B. Oakes Award for Environmental Journalism for his coverage of runaway growth in the Santa Monica Mountains. In 2004, he was awarded the Livingston Award for international reporting, one of the most competitive and prestigious reporting prizes in American journalism, for his coverage of children and war. In 2005, he won an Overseas Press Club award. In 2009, he won an Investigative Reporters and Editors award. In 2010, he won a George Polk award with Daniel Zwerdling of National Public radio for his work covering traumatic brain injuries in the U.S. military. In that same year, he was also given the Selden Ring Award for investigative reporting on private contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2015, Miller, Marcela Gaviria, and colleagues from ProPublica and Frontline were awarded two News & Documentary Emmy Awards, the Robert F. Kennedy Center For Justice and Human Rights award for their work documenting the support given by the Firestone Company to Charles Taylor, Liberia's former president and a convicted war criminal, during that country's civil war. In 2016, Miller, along with Ken Armstrong of The Marshall Project, won the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for an article on the Washington and Colorado serial rape cases. In 2020, he and several other ProPublica reporters shared the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting with members of The Seattle Times. With Megan Rose and Robert Faturechi, Miller had received the award for their report on United States Seventh Fleet accidents.
Selected works
(with Ken Armstrong)
References
Living people
Los Angeles Times people
American reporters and correspondents
1970 births
University of California, Berkeley alumni
American investigative journalists
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism winners
Livingston Award winners for International Reporting
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting winners
University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism faculty |
20474960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas%20Remixed | Christmas Remixed | Christmas Remixed is a Christmas compilation and remix album, containing remixes of popular classic versions of Christmas songs.
Release
The album was released in 2003 by Six Degrees Records on October 21, 2003. A follow-up album, Christmas Remixed 2, was released in 2005. A third album, Christmas Remixed 3, was released in 2018 to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the series.
Critical reception
The album elicited a positive critical reaction upon its release. AllMusic's Rick Anderson awarded the album 3.5 stars, commenting that "there will probably not be a better new Christmas album this year than this one," going on to call the album "a complete blast" and stating that "this album is very highly recommended."
Commercial performance
The album debuted at number 21 on the Billboards "Top Dance/Electronic Albums" chart dated December 6, 2003. The following week, it rose six spots to number 16. The next week, it rose another seven spots to enter the top ten, before peaking at number 5 on the chart dated December 27, 2003. The album spent a total of six weeks on the chart.
Track listing
Andy Williams - "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" (A Shrift Remix) - 3:46
Bing Crosby - " Happy Holiday" (Beef Wellington Remix) - 4:10
Dean Martin - "Jingle Bells" (Dan the Automator Remix) - 3:19
Kay Starr - "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm" (Stuhr Remix) - 2:49
The Cathedral Brass - "Joy to the World" (Mocean Worker Remix) - 3:24
Johnny Mercer - "Winter Wonderland" (Rise Ashen's Brazilian Beach Mix) - 4:06
Charles Brown - "Merry Christmas Baby" (MNO Remix) - 3:44
Berlin Symphony Orchestra - "Nutcracker Suite" (Baz Kuts Breaks Mix) - 4:59
Louis Armstrong & Velma Middleton - "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (Mulato Beat Remix) - 4:18
Duke Ellington - "Jingle Bells" (Robbie Hardkiss Remix) - 4:12
Bing Crosby - "The First Noel" (Attaboy House Party Mix) - 3:52
Mel Tormé - "The Christmas Song" (Michael Kessler Open Fire Mix) - 5:15
Credits and personnel
Adapted from AllMusic and album liner notes.RemixingAttaboy
Dan the Automator
Robbie Hardkiss
Michael Kessler
Mocean Worker
MNO
Rise Ashen
StuhrProductionDoug Bernheim
Jeff Daniel
Billy Straus
David HargisA&R'
Robert Duskis
Charts
References
External links
Hear the album on Spotify
Christmas compilation albums
2003 compilation albums
2003 Christmas albums
2003 remix albums |
6906094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20battlecruiser%20Admiral%20Nakhimov | Russian battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov | Admiral Nakhimov () is the third battlecruiser of the Russian Navy's . The ship was originally commissioned into service with the Soviet Navy in the 1980s, known back then as Kalinin (Калинин), a name the ship kept until 1992. From 1997 Admiral Nakhimov is undergoing a repair and a refit to receive new and improved weaponry and had been scheduled to re-enter service with the Russian Navy in around 2022. The date for the ship's return to service is uncertain. In 2021 it was reported that the ship's return to service would be delayed until "at least" 2023 while in February 2022 it was reported that Sevmash CEO Mikhail Budnichenko noted that the warship was planned for delivery in 2022. Later in the year it was again reported that the vessel's return to service might be delayed as late as 2024.
Differences from lead ship
Kalinin was constructed differently from the lead ship of the class. On the forward part of the ship, the twin SS-N-14 ASW missile launcher was replaced with eight SA-N-9 surface-to-air missile vertical launchers (not installed). The forward 30 mm CIWS cannons were replaced by CADS-N-1. On the aft part, a single twin AK-130 130 mm gun, similar to the guns used on Slava and Sovremennyy, was used instead of two 100 mm guns. Near the flight deck, the 30 mm CIWS cannons were replaced by Kashtan CIWS and moved to the aft superstructure and replaced with eight SA-N-9 vertical launchers (not installed).
History
Kalinin was laid down on 17 May 1983 at Baltiysky Naval Shipyard, Leningrad, launched on 25 April 1986, commissioned on 30 December 1988. It joined the Northern Fleet on 21 April 1989 though GlobalSecurity noted the cruiser was a Pacific fleet unit. On 4 January 1991 she went on long voyage to the Mediterranean Sea. After the end of the Cold War the cruiser was rarely deployed and by 1999 it was permanently docked in Sevmash awaiting repairs.
Reactivation
In 2006, a decision was made to modernize this ship instead of completing the construction of the submarine . Later in 2006, she was undergoing refit at Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk, but was reported finished ahead of schedule and was announced to again be in service with the Northern Fleet. However, later reports state that the cruiser has been docked at Sevmash since 1999 without any activity. On 30 October 2008, Russian Navy representatives of the Northern Fleet announced that the first modification on Admiral Nakhimov had been started and that the ship would re-join the Russian fleet by 2012. In November 2010 the director of Sevmash, Nikolai Kalistratov, repeated this statement confirming that the Russian government had appropriated money for Admiral Nakhimov to be repaired in 2011 (costing over 50 billion rubles.) However he also said that the funds were insufficient and more were needed to bring the ship back to active service. After finishing repairs, Admiral Nakhimov was reported as likely to join the Russian Pacific Fleet. However, by 2020 it was reported that she would remain with the Northern Fleet.
In December 2011 the Sevmash shipyard stated that the refit of the ship would not be finished until after 2012. According to Sevmash General-Director Andrei Dyachkov the repairs were stopped because it was senseless to continue without having determined the final variant of modernization.
Work on modernizing Admiral Nakhimov was resumed in January 2014 with the vessel being projected to rejoin the Russian Navy in 2018. Admiral Nakhimov is slated to carry 60 Zircon hypersonic anti-ship cruise missiles, Kalibr cruise missiles and a navalized variant of the S-400 (missile) SAM system, among other weapons. According to Sevmash as of 2 November 2015 work on removing the battlecruiser's old equipment had been completed, and work to install its replacement was about to be commenced.
In 2018, Aleksey Rakhimov, the head of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, stated that the end date of the reconstruction remained 2021 or 2022, but additional changes made by the Ministry of Defense had made would require an amendment to the contract or a new contract. Trials are due to begin in 2020. In September 2019, state news agency TASS quoted Russian deputy defense minister Alexsey Krivoruchko that "It will be the most powerful navy warship. We inspected the project, the ship is now about 50% ready. As was agreed with Sevmash shipyard, we expect to receive the ship in late 2022." as reported by Jane's.
She was relaunched in August 2020 and was then expected to start sea trials in about 2023. It is expected to receive 174 VLS tubes: 80 for anti-surface and 94 for anti-air warfare. In early 2022, Sevmash CEO, Mikhail Budnichenko, noted that weapons systems for the cruiser would include: the Fort-M (NATO reporting name: SA-N-6 Grumble) and Pantsyr-M (SA-22 Greyhound) air defense systems and Paket-NK and Otvet antisubmarine warfare weapons. It was also reported that the cruiser would potentially be armed with up to 60 3M22 Zircon hypersonic anti-ship missiles.
References
External links
Kirov-class battlecruisers
Cold War cruisers of the Soviet Union
1986 ships
Nuclear ships of the Soviet Navy
Ships built at the Baltic Shipyard |
6906103 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament%20%28Qualification%20of%20Women%29%20Act%201918 | Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 | The Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It gave women over 21 the right to stand for election as a Member of Parliament.
At 27 words, it is the shortest UK statute.
Background
The Representation of the People Act 1918, passed on 6 February 1918, extended the franchise in parliamentary elections, also known as the right to vote, to women aged 30 and over who resided in the constituency or occupied land or premises with a rateable value above £5, or whose husbands did.
In March 1918 Swire Smith, the Liberal MP for Keighley died, causing a by-election on 26 April. There was doubt as to whether women were eligible to stand for parliament. Nina Boyle made known her intention to stand as a candidate for the Women's Freedom League at Keighley and, if refused, to take the matter to the courts for a definitive ruling. After some consideration, the returning officer stated that he was prepared to accept her nomination, thus establishing a precedent for women candidates. However, he ruled her nomination papers invalid on other grounds: one of the signatories to her nomination was not on the electoral roll and another lived outside the constituency. The Law Lords were asked to consider the matter and concluded that the Great Reform Act 1832 had specifically banned women from standing as parliamentary candidates and the Representation of the People Act 1918 had not changed that.
Parliament hurriedly passed the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act in time to enable women to stand in the general election of December 1918. The act ran to only 27 operative words: "A woman shall not be disqualified by sex or marriage for being elected to or sitting or voting as a Member of the Commons House of Parliament", and is the shortest UK statute.
Effects
In the 14 December 1918 election to the House of Commons, seventeen women candidates stood, among them well-known suffragette Christabel Pankhurst, representing the Women's Party in Smethwick. The only woman elected was the Sinn Féin candidate for Dublin St Patrick's, Constance Markievicz. However, in line with Sinn Féin abstentionist policy, she did not take her seat.
The first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons was Nancy Astor on 1 December 1919. She was elected as a Coalition Conservative MP for Plymouth Sutton on 28 November 1919, taking the seat her husband had vacated.
As Members of Parliament, women also gained the right to become government ministers. The first woman to become a cabinet minister and Privy Council member was Margaret Bondfield who was Minister of Labour in the Second MacDonald ministry (1929–1931).
Age limits
During the debate of the bill, Lord Islington explained the apparent discrepancy that women could sit in Parliament at 21 but could not vote until they were 30:
"...the age of thirty, which was prescribed for enfranchisement of women, was made not because women of a younger age were considered less competent to exercise the vote, but rather because the inclusion of women between the ages of twenty-one and thirty might lead to women-voters being in a majority on the Register, and this was considered, too drastic a departure in the realms of constitutional experiment. Therefore the embargo on any woman below the age of thirty was placed in that measure.
In the case of eligibility to Parliament, this age condition is not necessary. The whole question of age, suitability, and competence can safely be left, and should be left, in the hands of the electorate to decide..."
See also
Election results of women in United Kingdom general elections (1918–1945)
Women in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom
Women in the House of Lords — allowed from 1958 (life peers), 1963 (hereditary peers), 2015 (Church of England bishops)
References
External links
Text of the Act as originally enacted
Spartacus Educational: 1918 Qualification of Women Act
United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1918
Election law in the United Kingdom
Election legislation
History of women in the United Kingdom
Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom
Women's rights in the United Kingdom
Women's rights legislation
1918 in women's history |
6906106 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round%20Top | Round Top | Round Top is an extinct volcano in the Berkeley Hills, just east of Oakland, California. The peak lies entirely within the bounds of Contra Costa County. In 1936, the area surrounding the peak was established as Round Top Regional Park, one of the first three parks of the East Bay Regional Parks District. The park was renamed Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve for the second president of the park district (1948 to 1958), Robert Sibley, shortly after his death in 1958.
The eruptions that lead to Round Top started 10.2 Million years ago and ended more than a million years later. Two main vents of the old volcano are known, one is now under the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the other is Round Top. The Round Top vent has, over the years, fallen sideways.
See also
Robert Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve
List of summits of the San Francisco Bay Area
References
External links
Volcanoes of California
Berkeley Hills
Landforms of Contra Costa County, California
Mountains of the San Francisco Bay Area
Extinct volcanoes
East Bay Regional Park District
Parks in Contra Costa County, California |
44500089 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matteo%20Baiocco | Matteo Baiocco | Matteo Baiocco (born 23 April 1984) is an Italian motorcycle racer. He was the CIV Superbike champion in 2011, 2012 and 2016. In 2017, he will compete in the CIV Superbike Championship aboard an Aprilia RSV4.
Career statistics
Supersport World Championship
Races by year
Superbike World Championship
Races by year
References
External links
Profile on WorldSBK.com
1984 births
Living people
Italian motorcycle racers
Superbike World Championship riders
Supersport World Championship riders
Sportspeople from the Province of Ancona
FIM Superstock 1000 Cup riders
British Superbike Championship riders |
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 |
44500098 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto%20Javier%20G%C3%B3mez%20Barrales | Ernesto Javier Gómez Barrales | Ernesto Javier Gómez Barrales (born 7 November 1978) is a Mexican politician from the National Action Party. In 2009 he served as Deputy of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Puebla.
References
1978 births
Living people
Politicians from Puebla
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
National Action Party (Mexico) politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
Deputies of the LX Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Puebla |
44500115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluny%20lace | Cluny lace | Cluny lace is a bobbin lace style, worked as a continuous piece. It is a heavy plaited lace of geometric design, often with radiating thin, pointed wheatears (closely woven leaves). It is a guipure style of lace.
History
Cluny lace originated in France. It appeared in the nineteenth century in Le Puy and Mirecourt in Lorraine, reputedly using designs from the Museum of Antiquities at the Hotel Cluny, Paris.
Cluny lace was also made in the English Midland lacemaking areas.
References
External link
Bobbin lace
Textile arts of England |
6906120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Runners%20%28production%20duo%29 | The Runners (production duo) | The Runners are an American electronic and hip hop production duo from Orlando, Florida, consisting of Andrew "Dru Brett" Harr and Jermaine "Mayne Zayne" Jackson. They came together to form the team in 2000, but they have known each other since they were in kindergarten. They both have been influenced their entire lives by producers Timbaland and the Neptunes. Their trademark is an exhale sound effect ringing "Ahhh" at the beginning of their songs.
They are best known for producing the hit singles "Go Hard" and "Hustlin'", by rappers DJ Khaled and Rick Ross respectively. They have produced songs for artists like Keyshia Cole, Kevin Cossom, Ace Hood, Chris Brown, Fat Joe, Juelz Santana, Nelly, Trip Lee, Jim Jones, Lil Wayne, Fabolous and Usher.
History
The Runners first met as toddlers in Vero Beach, Florida. In 2000, they named themselves the Runners and set up shop in Orlando, where they launched Trac-N-Field Entertainment. In 2008, the Runners were nominated for Producer of the Year at the BET Awards.
They produced two tracks on Rihanna's fifth studio album Loud, "Cheers (Drink to That)" and "California King Bed". They have also produced British singer-rapper Cher Lloyd's debut single "Swagger Jagger". On March 31, 2012, they went in the studio to produce for Shakira. Although their work is primarily hip hop they have recently created several songs for TV including John Walsh's Americas Most Wanted intro. On October 7, 2014, they released their first original dance music track "We Will Stand" on Track Team Records.
Production discography
Singles
2006: "Where Da Cash At" (Curren$y featuring Lil Wayne & Remy Ma)
2006: "Hustlin'" (Rick Ross)
2006: "Born-N-Raised" (DJ Khaled featuring Trick Daddy, Pitbull, & Rick Ross)
2007: "All the Above" (Beanie Sigel featuring R. Kelly)
2007: "Go Getta" (Young Jeezy featuring R. Kelly)
2007: "Bet That" (Trick Daddy featuring Chamillionaire & Gold Rush)
2007: "Dreamin'" (Young Jeezy featuring Keyshia Cole)
2007: "I'm So Hood" (DJ Khaled featuring Trick Daddy, Rick Ross, Plies, & T-Pain)
2007: "Slap" (Ludacris)
2007: "Speedin'" (Rick Ross featuring R. Kelly)
2008: "Cash Flow" (Ace Hood featuring T-Pain & Rick Ross)
2008: "Out Here Grindin" (DJ Khaled featuring Akon, Rick Ross, Plies, Lil Boosie, Trick Daddy, Ace Hood & Lil Wayne)
2008: "Baby Doll" (Girlicious)
2008: "Go Hard" (DJ Khaled featuring Kanye West & T-Pain)
2009: "Cause A Scene" (Teairra Mari featuring Flo Rida)
2009: "Overtime" (Ace Hood featuring Akon & T-Pain)
2009: "My Time" (Fabolous featuring Jeremih)
2009: "Champion" (Ace Hood featuring Rick Ross & Jazmine Sullivan)
2009: "Thinkin' About You"(Mario)
2009: "Fed Up" (DJ Khaled featuring Usher, Rick Ross, Drake, & Lil Wayne)
2010: "Hey Daddy (Daddy's Home)" (Usher featuring Plies)
2010: "Lowkey Poppin" (Kid Ink)
2011: "California King Bed" (Rihanna)
2011: "Swagger Jagger" (Cher Lloyd)
2011: "Cheers (Drink to That)" (Rihanna)
2012: "Take It to the Head" (DJ Khaled)
2013: "Ready" (Fabolous, Chris Brown)
2017: Sounds Good To Me (Nelly)
References
External links
American hip hop record producers
American musical duos
African-American record producers
Hip hop duos
Musical groups established in 2000
Musical groups from Orlando, Florida
Record production duos
Southern hip hop groups |
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 |
6906121 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uterovaginal%20plexus%20%28nerves%29 | Uterovaginal plexus (nerves) | The Uterovaginal plexus is a division of the inferior hypogastric plexus. In older texts, it is referred to as two structures, the "vaginal plexus" and "uterine plexus".
The Vaginal Plexus arises from the lower part of the pelvic plexus. It is distributed to the walls of the vagina, to the erectile tissue of the vestibule, and to the cavernous nerves of the clitoris. The nerves composing this plexus contain, like the vesical, a large proportion of spinal nerve fibers.
The Uterine Plexus accompanies the uterine artery to the side of the uterus, between the layers of the broad ligament; it communicates with the ovarian plexus.
References
External links
Nerve plexus
Vagina |
20474972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977%20Philadelphia%20Eagles%20season | 1977 Philadelphia Eagles season | The 1977 Philadelphia Eagles season was the franchise's 45th season in the National Football League. The team improved upon their previous output of 4–10, winning five games. Despite the improvement, the team failed to qualify for the playoffs for the seventeenth consecutive season.
Offseason
NFL Draft
Player selections
The table shows the Eagles selections and what picks they had that were traded away and the team that ended up with that pick. It is possible the Eagles' pick ended up with this team via another team that the Eagles made a trade with.
Not shown are acquired picks that the Eagles traded away.
Roster
Schedule
Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text.
Standings
Regular season
Week 1: vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Television CBS
Announcers: Frank Glieber, Johnny Unitas
Quarterback Ron Jaworski threw two touchdown passes and the defense allowed just 152 yards as the Eagles got their first opening-day victory in 10 years. Jaworski, playing for the Eagles for the first time since being traded from the Los Angeles Rams for tight end Charle Young, floated a seven-yard touchdown pass in the first period to running back Tom Sullivan. After Bucs kicker Dave Green kicked a 22-yard field goal in the third quarter to reduce the Eagles' lead to 7–3, Jaworski hit Keith Krepfle with a 17-yard score.
The last time the Eagles had won their season opener was 1967 when they beat the Washington Redskins. It was the 15th straight loss for the Buccaneers, who entered the league in 1976 and had yet to win a game. The Eagles' defense, led by defensive end Art Thomas who had recently been obtained from Oakland, and linebacker Bill Bergey, gave up 82 yards on the ground and 70 in the air.
Week 4: at New York Giants
at Giants Stadium i East Rutherford, New Jersey
Television CBS
Announcers: Pat Summerall, Tom Brookshier
Ron Jaworski hit tight end Keith Krepfle for a 55-yard touchdown pass and Charlie Smith with a 28-yarder, and Herb Lusk ran for touchdowns of 1 and 70 yards in a steady rain as Philadelphia evened their season record at 2–2 with an impressive road victory over the New York Giants. Giants QB Joe Pisarcik, who would later join the Eagles in 1980, threw an 80-yard touchdown pass to Jimmy Robinson for New York's only TD of the day.
Week 8: vs. New Orleans Saints
at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Television: CBS
Announcers: Don Criqui and Johnny Unitas
Ron Jaworski had a great day, running for two touchdowns and passing for two more, as the Eagles won their third game of the season. In the first half, after Jaworski ran for his first touchdown on a 13-play 68-yard drive, he drove the Eagles on a 6-play 35-yard drive that ended with a 11-yard touchdown pass from Jaworski to Harold Carmichael. In the second half, Eagles' safety John Sanders returned an intercepted pass 26 yards to the Eagles' 7-yard line, where 3 plays later Jaworski passed to Carmichael for another score. The Saints finally got on the scoreboard with an 8-play 62-yard drive that ended with a Bobby Douglass 9-yard touchdown pass to Henry Childs. But the Eagles answered to finish off the Saints with a 10-play 57-yard drive that ended with Jaworski's 2-yard touchdown run to cap a great day for the Eagles, with the final score 28–7.
Notes
References
Philadelphia Eagles seasons
Philadelphia Eagles
Philadel |
44500136 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiloepalpus%20aurifacies | Chiloepalpus aurifacies | Chiloepalpus aurifacies is a species of tachinid flies in the genus Chiloepalpus of the family Tachinidae.
External links
Tachinidae
Insects described in 1927
Diptera of South America |
44500142 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes%C3%BAs%20G%C3%B3nz%C3%A1lez%20Mac%C3%ADas | Jesús Gónzález Macías | Jesús Gónzález Macías (born 27 May 1972) is a Mexican politician from the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico. From 2007 to 2009 he served as Deputy of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Nuevo León.
References
1972 births
Living people
People from Tampico, Tamaulipas
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
Deputies of the LX Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Nuevo León |
23580817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hup%20language | Hup language | The Hup language (also called Hupdë, Hupdá, Hupdé, Hupdá Makú, Jupdá, Makú, Makú-Hupdá, Makú De, Hupda, and Jupde) is one of the four Naduhup languages. It is spoken by the Hupda indigenous Amazonian peoples who live on the border between Colombia and the Brazilian state of Amazonas. There are approximately 1500 speakers of the Hup language. As of 2005, according to Epps, Hup is not seriously endangered – although the actual number of speakers is few, all Hupda children learn Hup as their first language.
History
Although their territory was the target of forced transferrals throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, due to their isolation, the Naduhup were among the least affected, since they were protected by the geography of their land. They were also the target of several Catholic missions, though those ultimately failed, as the Naduhup refused to send their children to Catholic education centres.
Contact with the Tucanoan people, also known as the River Indians, who live along the rivers rather than in the forests, has significantly impacted the Naduhup, both culturally and linguistically. Since before European contact, the Naduhup and Tukanoan peoples have engaged in trade, the Naduhup providing labour and hunted meats and the Tucanoan providing agricultural goods. However, the Naduhup are viewed as inferior by the Tucanoan, because of their linguistic and lifestyle differences. Because of this inequality, most Naduhup people can understand and/or speak a Tucanoan, while it is the opposite vice versa – very few, if any Tucanoan people speak Hup.
Language profile
Relatively few linguistic materials of Hup are available, due to the isolation of the Hupda. Incomplete vocabulary lists and dictionaries were established in 1955 (Giacone) and 1993 (Erickson and Erickson). The most complete descriptive grammar of Hup, A Grammar of Hup, was written by Patience Epps in 2005, was updated in 2008, and outlines Hup phonology, parts of speech, morphology, aspect, tense, modality, among many other features.
Hup is one of four languages in the Naduhup (Makú) family. Though Makú is the term most commonly used to refer to this language family, there is controversy over its usage, since it is also an ethnic slur, translating to “without language”, used by the Tukanoan towards the Naduhup. There has not been a consensus on a replacement term, although Epps proposed “Naduhup”, which combines the names of the four members of the language family - Nadëb, Dâw, Hup, and Yuhup.
Phonology
Consonants
There are nineteen contrasting consonants in Hup, with the twentieth /p’/ occurring in the morpheme-initial position in only one word of only some Hup dialects. /j/, /g/, and /ç/ only appear in morpheme-final position, while all other consonants may appear in morpheme initial, medial, and final position. Hup has glottalized consonants of both stops and approximants which can be seen in the chart below. This language also has nasal allophones of the voiced stops.
Adapted from Epps (2005), p. 40.
Vowels
Hup contains a large segmental phonemic inventory, in comparison to the Tukanoan languages that neighbour it geographically. Hup vowels are composed of nine contrasting sounds, with no occurring diphthongs:
However, these nine sounds occur only in non-nasal contexts. In nasal morphemes, there are only six distinct vowels:
Adapted from Epps (2005)
According to Epps (2005), this indicates that the contrast between mid-vowels and high/low vowels are neutralised in nasal contexts. Nasalisation is morphemic at the syllable level and targets all segments – generally, every syllable is either fully nasal or fully oral.
Tonality
Hup tonality functions in what is called a word-accent system – there is a word-level tone contrast system; the contrast is restricted to one syllable per word, which is predictable and also exhibits other features of stressed syllables (greater intensity, longer duration, and higher pitch). There are two tones: rising and high, which only appear in nouns and adjectives.
Morphology
Nouns and verbs are open class, while adjectives are closed class. Nouns usually appear as arguments of clauses and can appear bare in the clause, while verbs must be inflected in some way. Hup is highly agglutinative and concatenative, with a high rate of synthesis and low rate of phonological fusion of morphemes. Therefore, its morphemes are easily segmented. Roots typically undergo compounding, while formatives are affixed or cliticised.
Personal pronouns
Adapted from Epps (2005), p. 138
Semiverbal "Verby" nouns
Some nouns of Hup are semi-verbal, namely those which have to do with the passage of time, as well as periods of time, which are “inherently progressive and impermanent.”
“Passage of time” words:
wəhə́d "old man"
wɑ́ "old woman"
dóʔ "child"
“Periods of time” words:
wɑ́g "day"
j'ə́b "night"
While these words belong to the noun class (they typically appear as arguments of a clause, and aspectual inflection is not required), they have verb-like qualities, such as occurrence in verbal compounds (which is normally restricted to only verbs):
Respect markers
The enclitic =wəd, derived from the word for “old man” wəhə́d, can be inserted as a respect marker when referring to spiritual beings or other humans. The feminine form of this is =wa.
This marker is usually used to refer to someone older or of higher status, though it can also be used to indicate someone to be feared, especially when used to refer to dangerous spirits.
The usage of =wəd is also not necessarily respectful. The enclitic can also be affixed to children’s names as a sign of affection, comparable to doing the same in English with the titles “Mister” or “Miss”.
Syntax
Case and agreement
Hup is nominative-accusative. All subjects are unmarked, while the object and other noun cases are suffixed. Which suffix is used can depend on number, animacy, type of noun, and grammatical function, as shown in the table below. Case marking extends also to the noun phrase and relative clause, and the suffixes attach to the final constituent of the phrase.
Adapted from Epps (2005), p. 143
Though the object case and directional oblique markers are almost identical phonologically, the only difference being the stress, directional oblique is mainly used to indicate direction, and sometimes, location, in which it coincides with oblique case.
Semantics
Plurals
The plurality marker for nouns is =d'əh and follows an animacy hierarchy: humans, animals, and inanimates. For humans, plural marking is obligatory, though exception is made for a non-specific referent.
However, the marker is present for groups of people, which are considered conceptually plural.
Animals are generally also marked for plurality, but differ in that the marker is not obligatory for groups of animals. As with humans, non-specific referents are also not marked.
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|núp nutæ̌n yɑʔɑ́md'əh hɨd wæd-nɨ́h-ɑy-ɑ́h
|this today jaguarPL 3pl eat-NEG-INCH-DECL
|"So today jaguars don’t eat (people)." (Epps (2005), p. 168)
Inanimate objects are not marked for plurality and rely on numerals to indicate such. Plural inanimate entities are regarded with low importance, due to usually having low conceptual salience, and therefore are also almost always unmarked for number in discourse as well.
Abbreviations
OBJ:object
RESP:respect marker
ITG:intangible
COOP:cooperative
DIR:directional oblique
DYNM:dynamic
FLR:following marker
VENT:ventive
References
Patience Epps (2008) A Grammar of Hup. Mouton de Gruyter.
Moore, Barbara J.; Franklin, Gail L. Breves notícias da língua Maku-Hupda. Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1979
External links
Hup Vocabulary List (from the World Loanword Database)
Hup basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
Hup Collection of Patience Epps at the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. Contains audio recordings and transcriptions of Hup language materials, "most from the Middle Tiquié River (primarily villages of Tat Dëh / Taracua Igarapé and Barreira Alta). A few texts from other communities, including Umari Norte of the upper Tiquié."
Languages of Brazil
Nadahup languages |
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 |
44500145 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A1stup%20%28film%29 | Nástup (film) | Nástup is a 1953 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Otakar Vávra.
Cast
Ladislav Chudík as Bagar
Jaroslav Mareš as Antos
Karel Höger as Trnec
Jaroslav Průcha as Dejmek
Vlasta Fabianová as Dejmkova
References
External links
1953 films
1953 drama films
1950s Czech-language films
Films directed by Otakar Vávra
Czechoslovak drama films
1950s Czech films |
20475002 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo%20S%C3%A9rgio%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201981%29 | Paulo Sérgio (footballer, born 1981) | Paulo Sérgio Ferreira Gomes (born 21 July 1981 in Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro), known as Paulo Sérgio, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for FC Bern.
References
External links
1981 births
Living people
Brazilian footballers
Association football midfielders
Moreirense F.C. players
Associação Académica de Coimbra – O.A.F. players
U.D. Leiria players
S.C. Beira-Mar players
Ettifaq FC players
Malaysia Super League players
PKNS F.C. players
Cypriot First Division players
Ayia Napa FC players
AEK Kouklia F.C. players
Muscat Club players
FC Bern players
Primeira Liga players
Liga Portugal 2 players
Segunda Divisão players
Saudi Professional League players
Brazilian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Portugal
Expatriate footballers in Saudi Arabia
Expatriate footballers in Malaysia
Expatriate footballers in Cyprus
Expatriate footballers in Oman
Expatriate footballers in Switzerland
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Malaysia
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Oman
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Sportspeople from Rio de Janeiro (state) |
23580819 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duleep%20Wijesekera | Duleep Wijesekera | Ganepola Arachchige Duleep Pandula Perera Wijesekera is a Sri Lankan politician. He is a member of the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) and member of the Sri-Lankan parliament for the Gampaha District since 2004. He was the Deputy Minister of Disaster Management in the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
He was removed from his ministerial position by president Maithripala Sirisena on 29 October 29, 2017. On 30 October 2017 he crossed over to the opposition. The crossover was not valid since the meeting in the parliament was a committee meeting on 30 October and not a regular parliament sitting day.
See also
Politics of Sri Lanka
References
Living people
Sri Lankan Buddhists
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna politicians
Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians
United People's Freedom Alliance politicians
Sinhalese politicians
1957 births |
23580849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Pure%20in%20Heart | The Pure in Heart | The Pure in Heart is a novel by Susan Hill. It is the second in a series of seven crime novels which contains The Various Haunts of Men and The Risk of Darkness.
References
Novels by Susan Hill
2005 British novels
British crime novels
Chatto & Windus books |
6906129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20battlecruiser%20Admiral%20Lazarev | Russian battlecruiser Admiral Lazarev | Admiral Lazarev () was the second . Until 1992 she was named Frunze () after a Project 68 cruiser (named after Bolshevik leader Mikhail Frunze); at that time she was renamed after Russian admiral Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev. Scrapping of the ship began in April 2021.
Construction and design
She was laid down on 27 July 1978 at Baltiysky Naval Shipyard, Leningrad, launched on 26 May 1981, and commissioned on 31 October 1984.
Differences from lead ship
Admiral Lazarev was constructed differently from the lead ship of the class. On the forward part of the ship, the twin SS-N-14 ASW missile launcher was replaced with 8 octuple SA-N-9 surface-to-air missile vertical launchers (planned, but not installed). On the aft part, a single twin AK-130 130 mm gun, similar to the guns used on Slava and Sovremennyy, was used instead of two 100 mm guns. Near the flight deck, the 30 mm CIWS cannons were moved to the aft superstructure and replaced with place for 8 octuple SA-N-9 vertical launchers (not installed). There were also some differences in the sensors, ESM/ECM suite and communication systems.
Career
In August to November 1985 she sailed from the North via the Cape of Good Hope and the Malacca Strait to join the Soviet Navy's Pacific Fleet. She visited Luanda, Aden, and Vietnam along the way. Holm writes that the ship only conducted local-waters training from 1987 to 1992, and was inactive from 1994 onwards.
In 1999 the cruiser was taken out of service and prepared for scrapping as no money was available for its overhaul. In 2004–2005 the cruiser's nuclear fuel was unloaded.
As of 2009 it was reported that the ship was moored near Vladivostok, in conservation status. The Russian Navy planned to modernize the ship and return it to active service, provided that the necessary funds were found. In 2012 it appeared unlikely modernization would occur, as the ship was "considered to be beyond repair... will be scrapped, a source in the military complex says".
Admiral Lazarev has appeared in aerial imagery from 2006 to 2014 moored in the Abrek Bay mothball fleet, near Fokino, Primorsky Krai. Its berth is around from the Russian nuclear-powered vessel decommissioning facility at the Chazhma Bay naval yard. In northern summer 2014, Admiral Lazarev was painted at "30 судоремонтного завода" (roughly 30th Ship Repair Factory) in the Chazhma Bay drydock to extend preservation time in the reserve fleet. The latest aerial imagery shows the ship located at 42°55'46.0"N 132°25'08.0"E in the Bukhta Abrek.
In April 2019, Russia decided to scrap and recycle the Admiral Lazarev in 2021. A contract for ship recycling was signed in February 2021.
Updated scrapping photos were posted in October 2021.
References
Kirov-class battlecruisers
Cold War cruisers of the Soviet Union
1981 ships
Nuclear ships of the Soviet Navy
Ships built at the Baltic Shipyard |
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 |
23580850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly%20Men%27s%20Association | Ugly Men's Association | The Ugly Men's Voluntary Worker's Association of Western Australia Inc., generally shortened to the Ugly Men's Association or Ugly Men was a uniquely Western Australian fund-raising and charitable organisation established in 1917. Previously, a Mrs Alicia Pell had organised an "Uglie Man" competition to raise funds for the Red Cross in Kalgoorlie. The East Perth Football Club then built on the concept to raise funds for the Perth Children's Hospital and the War Patriotic Fund. The football club's work developed into a successful grassroots organisation with the first branch opening in the Perth suburb of Mount Lawley and focusing on supporting cases of hardship caused by war.
The Ugly Men were a major force in the cultural life for both men and women in 1920s Perth, with membership mainly from the lower and middle working-classes. Membership during the 1920s was about 2,000, with 21 branches across the Perth metropolitan area. Members organised dances, social events and busy bees to raise funds and build houses for war-widows and others in need. "Ugly Man" competitions were popular events, with nominations and voting requiring a coin donation.
The popularity of the Ugly Men peaked with the establishment of the annual Uglieland carnivals in Perth city and Fremantle, which raised about £12,000 each year. The White City, Perth amusement park was at times known as Uglieland due to the Ugly Men's Association administering the park at various stages in its history. An Uglieland fairground on the corner of Market and Phillimore Streets in Fremantle (now Pioneer reserve opposite Fremantle Railway Station) ran from 1922 to 1936 by the Fremantle Ugly Men's Association to raise funds for underprivileged children.
Uglieland carnivals were highly anticipated annual events. Crowds in the thousands were drawn to the bright lights, live music and open air festivities. A selection of rides (including roller coasters, toboggans and chair-a-planes) and live shows by circus performers and illusionists kept guests entertained well into the evening. But it was Ugly Men's late night gambling and the infamous dance floor that eventually brought the organisation into disrepute.
By the late 1920s, The West Australian had joined a choir of voices from the public and clergy calling for closure of the Uglieland carnivals at White City: "... there still flourishes in the city a place which, at best is an architectural eyesore and a moral disgrace. Situated at the foot of William-street, and forming one of the few blots on the picturesque riverfront of Perth...White City, also, contains a large open-air -dance floor on which youths, with their hats on their heads, perform intricate and sometimes immodest, steps with, young women whom, prob- ably they have never seen before...Since its inception, White City has proved to be a magnet, for larrikins and loafers, who, in various stages of intoxication, make for its gates when the hotels are closed."Caving to mounting public pressure, the Western Australian government ordered the closure of White City in 1929, effectively bringing an end to the Ugly Men's reign over Perth's social scene. After losing their major fundraising activity, the Ugly Men fell into inactivity during the 1930s. In 1948, the organisation was declared defunct.
Although based in Western Australia, the organisation did spread to other states, particularly in rural centres, and was closely associated with the New Settlers' League and the United British Immigrants' Association, both established to assist new immigrants from the United Kingdom.
The Lotteries Commission of Western Australia was established in 1933 to raise funds for hospitals and community organisations, taking over many of the activities of the Association. Long-serving president and vice-president of the Ugly Men's Association, Alec Clydesdale and Harry Mann, were both appointed to the first Commission board.
References
External links
Ugly Men Photo Gallery from the State Reference Library of WA
History of Western Australia
Health charities in Australia
East Perth Football Club
1917 establishments in Australia
Organizations established in 1917
1948 disestablishments in Australia
Non-profit organisations based in Western Australia |
44500178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdan%20Aurescu | Bogdan Aurescu | Bogdan Lucian Aurescu (born 9 September 1973) is a Romanian diplomat, currently Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Ciucă Cabinet since 25 November 2021.
He was Presidential Advisor for Foreign Policy to the President of Romania from May 2016 to November 2019 and Foreign Affairs Minister from November 2014 to November 2015. Previously, he held the position of Secretary of State in the Romanian MFA – Secretary of State for Strategic Affairs (2009–2010, 2012–2014), Secretary of State for European Affairs (2004–2005, 2010–2012) and Secretary of State for Global Affairs (2012).
Between 2004 and 2009, Aurescu was his country's chief counsel (Agent of Romania) in the Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea case, a boundary dispute with Ukraine that Romania brought before the International Court of Justice.
Between 2010 and 2011, he was the head of the Romanian delegation for the negotiations on the Romanian-American Ballistic Missile Defense Agreement, and of the Joint Declaration on the Strategic Partnership for the 21st Century between Romania and USA.
In November 2016, he was elected by the United Nations General Assembly as member of the UN International Law Commission for a five years’ mandate (2017–2021).
He is also Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest, having started his teaching activity in 1998.
Controversies
Adrian Năstase promoted Bogdan Aurescu to the post of Undersecretary of State and later, to the Secretary of State. Aurescu was Năstase's assistant at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest for the Public International Law discipline and they wrote together several legal treaties. In 2004, the Aurescu candidature was delegated by the Social Democratic Party (PSD) in Dâmbovița County for the Parliament elections but he did not win.
In November 2014, Adrian Năstase attended an event called by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Minister Bogdan Aurescu. Recently released from prison, where he was imprisoned being sentenced twice for the corruption offenses, Năstase was next to Aurescu, who had just been appointed Foreign Minister, at a book launch event. In April 2015, former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Adrian Năstase, who was twice sentenced for prison, returned to the Government, more precisely to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at the invitation of the acting minister Bogdan Aurescu to the meeting of an advisory council. The ministry led by Aurescu then argued that the invitation was made "because of his rich institutional and professional expertise".
In June 2015, Prime Minister Victor Ponta was charged by the National Anticorruption Directorate for several corruption offenses. At that time, Bogdan Aurescu was a member of the Ponta Government and remained in office until November 2015, when Victor Ponta resigned.
References
External links
Bogdan Lucian Aurescu at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs site
|-
1973 births
Living people
Romanian Ministers of Foreign Affairs
University of Bucharest faculty |
23580875 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C17H21NO3 | C17H21NO3 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C17H21NO3}}
The molecular formula C17H21NO3 (molar mass: 287.35 g/mol) may refer to:
Dihydromorphine
Etodolac
Galantamine
Mesembrenone
Ritodrine
Thesinine
Molecular formulas |
6906155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road%20speed%20limit%20enforcement%20in%20Australia | Road speed limit enforcement in Australia | Road speed limit enforcement in Australia constitutes the actions taken by the authorities to force road users to comply with the speed limits in force on Australia's roads. Speed limit enforcement equipment such as speed cameras and other technologies such as radar and LIDAR are widely used by the authorities. In some regions, aircraft equipped with VASCAR devices are also used.
Each of the Australian states have their own speed limit enforcement policies and strategies and approved enforcement devices.
Methods
Mobile Gatso speed camera
This mobile camera or speed camera is used in Victoria and Queensland and can be operated in various manners. Without a flash, the only evidence of speed camera on the outside of the car is a black rectangular box, which sends out the radar beam, about 30 cm by 10 cm, mounted on the front of the car. On the older models of the camera, and on rainy days or in bad light, a cable is used to link it to a box with a flash placed just in front of the vehicle. The operator sits in the car and takes the pictures, which are then uploaded to a laptop computer. In both states unmarked cars are used. In Victoria these cameras are operated by Serco contractors, while in Queensland uniformed police officers operate them.
Many of the modern Gatso cameras now feature full capability, flashless operation. The advent of infra-red flash technology has provided Gatsos with the capacity to capture vehicles exceeding the limit in varying conditions - without emitting a bright flash, which in many cases can be considered distracting to the driver, especially if taken head-on. Infra-red light is invisible to the human eye, but when paired with a camera with an infra-red sensor, can be used as a flash to produce a clear image in low light conditions.
Mobile Multanova speed camera
Used only in Western Australia, this Doppler RADAR-based camera is mounted usually on a tripod on the side of the road. It is sometimes covered by a black sheet and there is usually a "anywhere anytime" sign following it chained onto a pole or tree. It is sometimes incorrectly referred to as a "Multinova". Multanovas are manufactured by a Swiss company of the same name - Western Australia utilises the 6F and the 9F models.
During the daytime, the Multanova unit uses a standard "white" flash, but in low light or night time, a red filter is added to the flash so as to not dazzle the driver.
The camera is always accompanied by a white station wagon or by a black or, more commonly a white, silver or brown Nissan X-Trail, staffed by an un-sworn police officer (not a contractor) who is responsible for assembling and disassembling the unit, supervising it and operating the accompanying laptop in the car for the few hours that it is deployed at a location. The Nissan X-Trail usually has a bull bar and spotlights on it and a large, thick antenna. The camera stays usually for about 4 to 5 hours. There were 25 in use in Perth at the beginning of 2008.
As of late 2011 Multanova use in WA has been discontinued in favour of LIDAR exclusively.
Fixed speed-only camera
These cameras come in many forms, some free standing on poles; others mounted on bridges or overhead gantries. The cameras may consist of a box for taking photographs, as well as a smaller box for the flash, or only a single box containing all the instruments. Recently introduced infrared cameras, do not emit a blinding flash and can therefore be used to take front-on photographs showing the driver's face.
Most states are now starting to replace older analogue film fixed cameras with modern digital variants.
Fixed speed cameras can use Doppler RADAR or Piezo strips embedded in the road to measure a vehicle's speed as it passes the camera.
However ANPR technology is also used to time vehicles between two or more fixed cameras that are a known distance apart (typically at least several kilometres). The average speed is then calculated using the formula: . The longer distance over which the speed is measured prevents drivers from slowing down momentarily for a camera before speeding up again. The SAFE-T-CAM system uses this technology, but was designed to only targets heavy vehicles. Newer ANPR cameras in Victoria are able to target any vehicle.
Fixed dual speed and red light camera
These cameras are used in the Northern Territory, South Australia, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia. They detect speeding at the intersection as well as running a red light. They look the same as red light cameras, except they are digital and look slightly more modern. Some of the Victorian cameras are Traffipax brand.
In New South Wales and South Australia dual redlight/speed cameras are identified by a "Safety Camera" sign.
Queensland is in the process of investigating conversion to dual redlight/speed cameras as the current system is reaching end-of-life.
Other speed checking devices
Police also use other technology that does not rely photographs being taken of an offence, typically where officers enforce the speed limit in person.
'Silver Eagle'
New South Wales police used the Silver Eagle vehicle-mounted unit. This radar device is typically mounted on the right hand side of the vehicle just behind the driver, and is operated from inside the vehicle. The units are approved for use only in rural areas where traffic is sparse, and may be used from a stationary or moving vehicle.
'Stalker'
Police vehicles in New South Wales have recently been fitted with a dual-radar known as the Stalker DSR 2X, which is able to monitor vehicles moving in two different directions at the same time.
Other
NSW police also use LIDAR devices as well as vehicle speedometers and speed estimates to prosecute speeding motorists.
The TIRTL device is deployed as a speed measurement sensor in Victoria and New South Wales. The device consists of a pair of sensors embedded in the curb that use a series of infrared beams to monitor vehicles at wheel height. Although the sensors themselves are very difficult to see, they are accompanied by a standard Traffipax camera to capture images of the offence. The state of New South Wales approved the device in November 2008 for use in the state as dual red light / speed cameras (named "safety cameras" under the RTA's terminology).
Motorcycle and bicycle-mounted police in New South Wales are equipped with the binocular-styled "Pro-Lite+" LIDAR device.
History
Victoria
Started with a small trial in 1985 using signed cameras with minimal effect. The major introduction was at the end of 1989 with hidden speed cameras starting at around 500 hours/month increasing to 4000 hours/month by 1992. During the testing of the cameras the percentage of drivers speeding (over the speed camera thresholds) was 24% and by the end of 1992 this had dropped to 4%. The revenue collected by each camera dropped from $2000/hour to $1000/hour over 18 months. The road toll dropped from 776 in 1989 (no cameras) to 396 in 1992 (49% drop).
New South Wales
Mobile speed cameras were first used in New South Wales in 1991. In 1999 the authorities began to install fixed cameras, and signs warning of their presence, at crash black spots.
Western Australia
The government of Western Australia started using speed cameras in 1988.
See also
Point system
References
External links
State-published speed camera locations
Transport for NSW page of speed camera locations - NSW
Red Light and Speed Camera Locations Victoria - Victoria
Transport Department - Red Light / Speed Camera Locations - South Australia
SA Police Speed Camera Locations - South Australia
Speedometers and Speeding Fines
Driving in Australia
Road transport in Australia
Road safety in Australia
Traffic enforcement cameras |
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 |
23580901 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4H9NO2 | C4H9NO2 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C4H9NO2}}
The molecular formula C4H9NO2 (molar mass: 103.12 g/mol) may refer to:
α-Aminobutyric acid
β-Aminobutyric acid
γ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA)
2-Aminoisobutyric acid
3-Aminoisobutyric acid
Nitroisobutane
n-Nitrobutane
Butyl nitrite
Dimethylglycine
Isobutyl nitrite
Molecular formulas |
44500179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort%20%28disambiguation%29 | Oort (disambiguation) | Oort is a Dutch toponymic surname most commonly referring to the astronomer Jan Oort. Oort was one spelling of a Middle Dutch word for "edge" or "end", as in "the edge of town". Variant forms are Oord, Oordt and Ort, as well as Van Oort, Van den Oord etc. ("from (the) edge of town"). People with these surnames include:
Oort
Abraham H. Oort (born 1934), Dutch-American climatologist, son of Jan Oort
Frans Oort (born 1935), Dutch mathematician
André–Oort conjecture, a number theory conjecture by Yves André and Frans Oort
(1836–1927), Dutch theologist and philologist
Jan Oort (1900–1992), Dutch astronomer. Named after him:
Oort cloud, a cloud of solid objects surrounding the solar system
Oort constants, characterizing the rotational properties of the Milky Way
Oort (crater), a crater on Pluto
Oort limit, theoretical edge of the Oort cloud
1691 Oort (1956 RB), a main-belt asteroid
Van Oort
Adam van Oort (1561/62–1641), Flemish painter
Bart van Oort (born 1959), Dutch classical pianist
Eduard Daniel van Oort (1876–1933), Dutch ornithologist
Jan van Oort (1921–2006), Dutch writer, working under the pseudonym of Jean Dulieu
Johannes (Hans) van Oort (born 1949), Dutch patristic and gnostic scholar
Hendrik van Oort (1775–1847), Dutch painter
(1804–1834), Dutch painter and illustrator, son of Hendrik
Named after him: Vanoort's crow, an Indonesian butterfly
Oord
Thomas Jay Oord (born 1965), American theologian and philosopher
Pieter van Oord (born 1961), CEO of the Dutch dredging company "Van Oord"
Willem van der Oord (born 1919), Dutch hydraulic engineer and diplomat
Oordt
Darwin Oordt (born 1944), American newspaper publisher and horse breeder
Schuylar Oordt (born 1987), American football tight end
Adri Bleuland van Oordt (1862–1944), Dutch artist and draftswoman
(1757–1836), Dutch theologian
Ort
Bastiaan Ort (1854–1927), Dutch lawyer, judge and politician, Minister of Justice 1914–18
See also
Ort (disambiguation)
Noort, Dutch surname (including "Van Noort")
References
Dutch-language surnames
Toponymic surnames |
23580910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20Bonfim | Leo Bonfim | Leonardo Augusto Bonifácio (born 14 January 1983 in Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná), commonly known as Léo Bonfim, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for S.C. Salgueiros 08 in Portugal as a central defender.
Football career
After playing youth football for Cruzeiro Esporte Clube and Vila Nova Futebol Clube, Léo Bonfim began his senior career in 2002 with amateurs Sociedade Desportiva Serra Futebol Clube. Four years later he competed with Associação Portuguesa de Desportos in the Série B, remaining in the same division in the next season, with Ceará Sporting Club.
During the winter transfer window of 2007–08, Portuguese top level team Vitória de Setúbal brought Bonfim to his ranks. After only one league match during the entire campaign he left for another team in the country, second division's Gondomar SC.
In the 2009 summer Bonfim signed with NK Olimpija Ljubljana in the Slovenian First League, but after one season he returned to Portugal, joining Boavista F.C. in level three.
References
External links
Prva Liga profile
1983 births
Living people
Brazilian footballers
Association football defenders
Associação Portuguesa de Desportos players
Ceará Sporting Club players
Primeira Liga players
Liga Portugal 2 players
Segunda Divisão players
Slovenian PrvaLiga players
Vitória F.C. players
Gondomar S.C. players
Boavista F.C. players
Associação Naval 1º de Maio players
S.C. Salgueiros players
NK Olimpija Ljubljana (2005) players
Brazilian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Portugal
Expatriate footballers in Slovenia
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia |
44500185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barometer%20Clock | Barometer Clock | Barometer Clock (Boulle) by André-Charles Boulle is a late seventeenth-century French clock created out of ebony, turtle shell, brass, gilt bronze, and enamel. The clock case is decorated on all sides and was intended as either a centerpiece or for display on a mantel in front of a mirror. The centerpiece of the clock is a relief of "Father Time Carrying Off Truth."
This late seventeenth-century clock also functions as a barometer; the "two doors on the rear of the clock open to reveal a glass tube containing mercury and a float to which thread is attached." The semicircular barometer dial indicates five weather conditions from one extreme, beaucoup de pluye (rainy), to the other, beau fixe (fine).
Boulle, who gave his name to the type of veneering on this clock, is listed in the French Archives Nationales as a cabinet maker, maker of marquetry, and gilder and chaser of bronzes.
The clock movement design is by either Isaac Thuret or his son Jacques Thuret. The dial and backplate of the movement are both signed "I. Thuret...", the character I and J being interchangeable during the period.
Acquisition
The Barometer Clock was acquired by The Frick Collection through the bequest of New York collector Winthrop Kellogg Edey in 1999. Edey's bequest included twenty-five clocks and fourteen watches as well as his library and archives.
Exhibition
"Magnificent Timekeepers: An Exhibition of Northern European Clocks in New York Collections,” 1972, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
"French Clocks in North American Collections," November 2, 1982 - January 30, 1983, The Frick Collection.
"The Art of the Timekeeper: Masterpieces from the Winthrop Edey Bequest," November 14, 2001 - February 24, 2002, The Frick Collection.
See also
André-Charles Boulle
Thuret family
References
External links
Barometer Clock, ca. 1690-1700 The Frick Collection Online.
“Tick Talks” Frick Collection education interns discuss their research on 4 clocks, including the Barometer Clock.
Objects of the Frick Collection
Clocks in the United States |
23580933 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinan%20Akku%C5%9F | Sinan Akkuş | Sinan Akkuş (born 17 December 1971) is a Turkish-German director, writer and actor.
Life and work
Sinan Akkuş was born in Turkey. As a child he moved to Germany in 1973. After graduating from high school in Kassel, he studied philosophy, German language and literature from 1992 to 1994. In 1994 he also began studying visual communication with a focus on film and television.
In addition, Akkuş worked for the film and television production company kigali-films, where he was involved in camera work, editing and conception of corporate videos. In 1995 he attended the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión as an exchange student in Cuba. In 2000 he graduated from the Kunsthochschule Kassel with a focus on film and television.
Afterwards, Akkuş made a few short films, which received several awards and honours. His short film Lassie (2002), for example, received the rating especially worthwhile from the German Deutsche Film- und Medienbewertung (FBW). His feature film debut Evet, ich will! (2008) also received this rating. In this Culture clash - comedy, Akkuş takes on the subject of marriage among and by ethnic Turks in Germany and the associated difficulties. The film received the audience award Lüdia at the Kinofest Lünen in November 2008 and was released in German cinemas on 1 October 2009.
In 2015, Akkuş feature film 3 Türken und ein Baby, to which he also wrote the screenplay and in which the German rapper Eko Fresh and the actors Kostja Ullmann and Kida Khodr Ramadan play the leading roles, was released in German cinemas. 3 Türken und ein Baby received the rating worthwhile from the Deutsche Film- und Medienbewertung (FBW) and was nominated for the Civis Media Prize in 2015. One of the last director's works by Akkuş, the television film Fischer sucht Frau was nominated for the TV Producer Award at the Hamburg Film Festival in 2018.
Akkuş also appears as an actor. Among others, he played in the first season of the ProSieben - TV series Stromberg the character Sinan Turçulu, a colleague and one of the strongest competitors of the series main character Bernd Stromberg. Turculu also appears in the feature film Stromberg - Der Film of the series. In the TV series Dr. Psycho – Die Bösen, die Bullen, meine Frau und ich Akkuş had a guest appearance in the episode Der Türke, where he played a police informer.
Furthermore, Akkuş was also active as a juror for film festivals such as the Bamberger Kurzfilmtage or the Independent Days International Filmfest and works as a lecturer at the acting school IAF - Internationale Akademie für Filmschauspiel in Cologne.
Filmography (selection)
Director / screenwriter
1997: Zeig Dich (short film), (director, screenwriter)
2003: Lassie (short film), (director)
2004: Sevda heißt Liebe (short film), (director, screenwriter, producer)
2008: Evet, ich will! (feature film), (director, screenwriter)
2015: 3 Türken und ein Baby (feature film), (director, screenwriter)
2018: Fischer sucht Frau (television film), (director)
2019: Fast perfekt verliebt (television film), (director)
Actor
2000: Fußball ist unser Leben (Film)|Fußball ist unser Leben (feature film) - Directed by Tomy Wigand
2000: …und das ist erst der Anfang (feature film) – Directed by Pierre Franckh
2001: Sheriff (feature film) – Directed by Mihael Langauer
2003: Lassie (short film) – Directed by Sinan Akkuş
2004: Stromberg (TV series), (Appearance in 8 episodes) – Directed by Arne Feldhusen
2007: Dr. Psycho – Die Bösen, die Bullen, meine Frau und ich (TV series) – Directed by Richard Huber
2008: Evet, ich will! (feature film) – Directed by Sinan Akkuş
2013: Dear Courtney (feature film) – Directed by Rolf Roring
2013: 00 Schneider – Im Wendekreis der Eidechse (feature film) - Directed by Helge Schneider
2013: King Ping – Tippen Tappen Tödchen (feature film) - Directed by Claude Giffel, Dirk Michael Häger
2014: Stromberg – Der Film (feature film) – Directed by Arne Feldhusen
2015: 3 Türken und ein Baby (feature film) – Directed by Sinan Akkuş
2016: Die Gelben Teufel (short film) – Directed by Bernd Hackmann
2018: Fischer sucht Frau (television film) – Directed by Sinan Akkuş
2019: Fast perfekt verliebt (television film) – Directed by Sinan Akkuş
Other
2009: The Village (Köy), (short film), (cinematographer) – Directed by Mustafa Dok
Awards and nominations
2001: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Award at the Day of the German Short Film for Sevda heißt Liebe
2002: Audience Award at the film festival Kinofest Lünen for Lassie
2003: Audience Award at the Exground Filmfest in Wiesbaden, Germany for Lassie
2003: Nomination at the German Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis in the category Best Short Film for Lassie
2008: Merit Award at the Achtung Berlin Film Festival for Evet, ich will!
2008: Nomination for the award MFG Star at the Baden-Baden TV Film Festival for Evet, ich will!
2009: Prize Lüdia at the film festival Kinofest Lünen in the category Best Feature Film for Evet, ich will!
2009: Berndt-Media-Award at the film festival Kinofest Lünen in the category Best Film Title for Evet, ich will!
2010: Nomination at the German Film Critics Association Awards in the category Best Feature Film Debut for Evet, ich will!
2015: Nomination at the Civis Media Prize in the category CIVIS European Cinema Prize for 3 Türken & ein Baby
References
External links
1971 births
Turkish emigrants to Germany
Living people
Mass media people from Kassel
German male film actors
German male television actors
Turkish male film actors
Turkish male television actors
20th-century German male actors
21st-century German male actors
People from Erzincan
Actors from Kassel |
23580936 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGP%20Inline%20Memory%20Module | AGP Inline Memory Module | AGP Inline Memory Module (AIMM) also known as Graphics Performance Accelerator (GPA) is an expansion card that fits in the AGP slot of PC motherboards based on Intel 815 chipsets with onboard graphics, like the ASUS CUSL-2 with an AGP Pro slot and Abit SH6 with an AGP Universal slot. It is intended to be a mid-level cost solution between shared graphics memory and dedicated graphics memory found on more expensive discrete AGP expansion card. AIMM cards are special memory modules that are used as dedicated video memory (display cache) to store Z-buffering and they usually have 4MB of 32-bit wide SDRAM.
References
Computer memory form factor
Intel chipsets |
26716495 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babak%20Razi | Babak Razi | Babak Razi (born June 2, 1981) is an Iranian footballer who plays for Pas Hamedan in the Azadegan League.
Club career
In 2008, Razi Joined Zob Ahan F.C. after spending the previous season at Shirin Faraz F.C.
Club career statistics
Last Update 1 June 2010
Assist Goals
References
1981 births
Living people
Shamoushak Noshahr players
Shirin Faraz Kermanshah players
Zob Ahan Esfahan F.C. players
Iranian footballers
Association football midfielders |
23580948 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldwoods%20Halt%20railway%20station | Oldwoods Halt railway station | Oldwoods Halt was a minor station located north of Shrewsbury on the GWR's to main line. It was opened in the nineteen thirties as part of the GWR's halt construction programme, aimed at combatting growing competition from bus services. Today the route is part of the Shrewsbury to Chester line. Nothing now remains of the halt although the area of the adjacent goods siding/s can still be seen on the west side of the line.
Historical Services
Express trains did not call at Oldwoods Halt, only local services.
According to the Official Handbook of Stations the following classes of traffic were being handled at this station in 1956: G*, and there was a 15 cwt crane.
References
Neighbouring stations
External links
Oldwoods Halt on navigable 1946 O.S. map
Disused Stations: Oldwoods Halt
Disused railway stations in Shropshire
Former Great Western Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1933
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1960 |
23580954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GA3 | GA3 | GA3 may refer to:
George Atkinson III (1992–2019), American football player
Georgia's 3rd congressional district, a congressional district in the U.S. state of Georgia
Georgia State Route 3, a north–south highway in the U.S. state of Georgia
GA3, Gibberellic acid, a form of the gibberellin plant hormone
Trumpchi GA3, a 2013–2019 Chinese subcompact sedan |
23580956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C19H22O6 | C19H22O6 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C19H22O6}}
The molecular formula C19H22O6 (molar mass: 346.37 g/mol, exact mass: 346.141638 u) may refer to:
Atrop-abyssomicin_C
Cynaropicrin, a bioactive sesquiterpene lactone
Dihydrokanakugiol, a dihydrochalcone
Gibberellic acid, a hormone found in plants |
26716550 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valet%20Girls | Valet Girls | Valet Girls is a 1987 American comedy film directed by Rafal Zielinski, written by Clark Carlton, and starring Meri Marshall, April Stewart, Mary Kohnert, Jack DeLeon, Jon Sharp, Michael Karm, Steven Lyon, Randy Vasquez, Stuart Fratkin, and Tony Cox. The plot concerns three women in Los Angeles who are working as valet girls while trying to get started in the entertainment industry. The film was produced by Lexyn Productions and distributed by Empire International Pictures and Vestron Video.
Plot
The story revolves around Lucy (Meri Marshall), who wants to be a rock star, Rosalind (April Stewart), a brain pretending to be a bimbo, and Carnation (Mary Kohnert), who wants to be an actress. These three girls get a job parking cars for a big movie star named Dirk Zebra (Jack DeLeon) who throws regular house parties so that he and his fellow actor Lindsey Brawnsworth (Jon Sharp) and a record producer, Alvin Sunday (Michael Karm) can attract and seduce aspiring starlets.
Between parking cars, the three girls have to dodge the amorous attention of the party-goers while Lucy and Carnation try to get influential people to pay attention to their musical and acting talents. The party is sabotaged by members of a competing valet company (played by Steven Lyon, Randy Vasquez, and Stuart Fratkin) and the girls are blamed and fired. With the help of Dirk Zebra's wife Tina (Patricia Scott Michel) and Carnation's boyfriend Archie Lee (John Terlesky) the valet girls humiliate Dirk Zebra, Lindsey Brawnsworth, and the members of the other valet company.
Tony Cox appears as Lucy's friend and manager, Sammy. Ron Jeremy also made an appearance in an uncredited, minor roles.
Home media release
Valet Girls was released on VHS by Lions Gate on April 15, 1987.
External links
Fast-Rewind review
New York Times review
1987 films
1987 comedy films
American comedy films
Empire International Pictures films
Films directed by Rafal Zielinski
Films set in Los Angeles
Films shot in Los Angeles
American independent films
1980s English-language films
1980s American films |
6906164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Troienne | La Troienne | La Troienne (1926–1954) was one of the most famous and influential Thoroughbred broodmares in twentieth century America. She produced 10 winners including two Hall of Fame inductees while at stud, while her daughters in turn produced many notable offspring. In 2000, pedigree expert Janeen Oliver designated her as the taproot of family 1-x, a designation that was implemented by the Pedigree Online Thoroughbred Database in 2003. Recent matrilineal descendants include 2003 Horse of the Year Mineshaft, Japanese Triple Crown winner Contrail (2020), Kentucky Derby winners Smarty Jones (2004) and Super Saver (2010), Belmont Stakes winner Essential Quality (2021), and Sussex Stakes winner Alcohol Free (2021).
She was a bay filly born in 1926 in France, and was sired by the French stallion Teddy. Her dam was the winner Helene de Troie, by imported British stallion Helicon. Her breeder and first owner was Marcel Boussac.
Racing career
In France, La Troienne raced twice as a two-year-old, finishing unplaced. At age three, she was unplaced in the Prix Chloé and Poule d'Essai des Pouliches. Shipped to England, she managed a third in the five furlong Snailwell Stakes at Newmarket, and a second in the Freckenham Stakes at seven furlongs. In her final start, the Welter Handicap at six furlongs, she again ran unplaced. In total, La Troienne started seven times with no wins, just one second and a third. Her earnings were equivalent to $146.
Breeding career
Sent by Boussac to England to the December 1930 Newmarket Sales, she sold for 1,250 guineas. At the time, she was in foal to Chef-de-Race Gainsborough. She was purchased by Colonel E. R. Bradley of the Idle Hour Stock Farm in Lexington, Kentucky and exported to the US in 1931. The Gainsborough filly was born deformed and had to be killed.
La Troienne produced 14 named foals. Twelve raced and ten were winners, including five stakes winners and two Hall of Fame inductees.
Black Helen (1932), a filly by Black Toney. Won four principal races, including the American Derby, the Florida Derby, the Maryland Handicap, and the Coaching Club American Oaks. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1991. Black Helen's offspring were not successes on the track, but her daughters went on to become prominent producers. The most notable branch of her family descends from her eleventh foal, Hula Hula by Polynesian. This branch has produced major winners in North America, Australia and New Zealand, including Kentucky Derby winner Go for Gin and champion older male Pleasant Tap.
Biologist (1934), a gelding by Bubbling Over. Stakes winner
Baby League (1935), a filly by Bubbling Over. Winner of one race, she became the dam of four stakes winners: the Hall of Fame filly Busher, Mr. Busher, Striking (3 wins, including Schuylerville Stakes), and Harmonizing. Striking was named broodmare of the year in 1961, and her family is still very active. Kentucky Derby winners Smarty Jones (in 2004) and Super Saver (in 2010) both trace back to her. More recently, Striking's branch of the family produced Japanese Triple Crown winner Contrail and 2021 Belmont Stakes winner Essential Quality.
Big Hurry (1936), a filly by Black Toney. Won four races, including the Selima Stakes, and was the dam of 10 winners including Be Fearless, Bridal Flower, The Admiral, Great Captain, and Searching. Searching also became a major producer whose family includes Kentucky Derby winner Sea Hero and the great Allez France. Other daughters of Big Hurry include: Allemande, who was the third dam of Belmont Stakes winner Easy Goer; Blue Line, the fifth dam of Kentucky Oaks winner Pike Place Dancer and No Fiddling, the fourth dam of Prix du Jockey Club winner Caerleon.
Bimelech (1937), a colt by Black Toney. Bimelech won 11 races including the Belmont and Preakness Stakes. He was a Champion at ages two and three, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame. Bimelech sired 30 stakes winners.
Big Event (1938), a filly by Blue Larkspur. Winner and dam of stakes winner Hall of Fame.
Businesslike (1939), a filly by Blue Larkspur. Winless, she became the dam of two stakes winners: Auditing and Busanda, who in turn became the dam of champion and leading broodmare sire Buckpasser. Her family includes Preakness Stakes winner Prairie Bayou.
Besieged (1940), a colt by Balladier. Winner of 1 of 4 starts.
Broke Even (1941), a colt by Blue Larkspur. Winner of 11 of 44 starts.
Back Yard (1942), a gelding by Balladier. Unraced.
Bee Ann Mac (1944), a filly by Blue Larkspur. Winner of the Selima Stakes.
Belle Histoire (1945), a filly by Blue Larkspur. Winless herself, she became the dam of 8 winners, including stakes winner Royal Record.
Belle of Troy in 1947, a filly by Blue Larkspur. Unraced, dam of stakes winner Cohoes, exported to the United Kingdom. Her family includes Breeders' Cup winner Stephanie's Kitten and major sire More Than Ready.
Trojan War (1948) a gelding by Shut Out. Winner of two races.
Owing to the success of her descendants, La Troienne was listed as a Cluster Mare, which is a Thoroughbred brood mare that has produced two or more winners of five or more of the eight most important and valuable races, within six generations. When writing about American Classic Pedigrees in 2003, Avalyn Hunter identified six winners of American Triple Crown races descended from her in the female line: Bimelech, Personality, Easy Goer, Sea Hero, Prairie Bayou, and Go for Gin, plus four winners of similarly prominent races for fillies: Princess Rooney, Lite Light, Pike Place Dancer and Tweedside. The list has only continued to grow, including 2003 Horse of the Year Mineshaft, Kentucky Derby winners Smarty Jones and Super Saver, Japanese Triple Crown winner Contrail, plus Breeders' Cup winners Folklore, Judy the Beauty and Stephanie's Kitten. Essential Quality is both a Classic winner and a Breeders' Cup winner.
Beyond the success of her female line, La Troienne appears in the pedigrees of numerous other stakes winners, often through a form of inbreeding. One of pedigree analyst Les Brinsfield's favorite axioms was: "If a pedigree lacks La Troienne, get some in there. If it has La Troienne, get more in there." For example, La Troienne appears three times in the pedigree of 1992 Horse of the Year A.P. Indy. Leading sire Tapit is a descendant of A.P. Indy on the male side, and has an additional four strains of La Troienne from his dam, Tap Your Heels. Similarly, California Chrome, the 2014 Horse of the Year, traces to A.P. Indy on the male side, and has four additional strains of La Troienne through his dam, Love the Chase. Even American Pharoah, the 2015 Triple Crown winner, has five strains of La Troienne, in his case through grand-sire Empire Maker.
La Troienne's influence is not limited to North America. For example, she appears in the pedigrees of both Galileo and Danehill, leading sires in Great Britain and Ireland, through her great-grandson Buckpasser. The unbeaten Frankel, who descends from both Galileo and Danehill, thus has two strains of La Troienne.
La Troienne came in time to be described as "the most important producer to be brought across the Atlantic Ocean in [the twentieth] century." Pedigree expert Avalyn Hunter says she is "arguably the foremost American taproot mare of the modern era."
Later life
In 1938, at the age of 13, La Troienne was frightened by a thunderstorm and due to a loss of vision in her right eye, she bolted and collided with a tree. Her right shoulder was badly damaged and the veterinarians who examined her assured Colonel Bradley she would have to be destroyed. Col. Bradley said, "Put ten men with her night and day if it will help. We'll never get another like her." At the time La Troienne was carrying the filly Businesslike.
When Col. Bradley died in 1946, his stock was sold off. A syndicate including Greentree Stables, King Ranch, and Ogden Phipps received La Troienne.
After her foaling days had ended, La Troienne lived out her life in comfort. She died at Greentree Stud at the age of 28 on January 30, 1954. Her grave still stands at Greentree, now a part of Gainesway Farm.
Honors
The Grade II 7½ furlong La Troienne Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Churchill Downs was named after her for many years, until the name was changed for the 2009 running to the Eight Belles Stakes. Somewhat fittingly, Eight Belles was a member of La Troienne's female family. Churchill Downs then renamed the Louisville Distaff Handicap, for fillies and mares 3 years old and up, in La Troienne's honour. The new La Troienne Stakes became a Grade I stake in 2014.
La Troienne never received the title of Kentucky Broodmare of the Year as her best foals raced prior to the creation of the award in 1946. However, four of her female family descendants have been so honored: Striking (1961, a noted "blue hen" in her own right), Relaxing (1989, dam of Easy Goer), Glowing Tribute (1993, dam of Sea Hero), and Prospectors Delite (2003, dam of Mineshaft).
Pedigree
La Troienne was sired by Teddy, who is commonly considered the best three-year-old of 1916 in France and Spain, although his racing career was disrupted by World War I. He was the leading sire in France of 1923, and finished second in 1926, 1928 and 1932. Among his leading offspring were Bull Dog and Sir Gallahad III, who both became outstanding sires when imported into the United States. Teddy was also an outstanding broodmare sire, leading the French list in 1935. Teddy was inbred 5x3 to Bend Or and 5x4x5 to Galopin.
La Troienne's dam, Helene de Troie, also produced Adargatis, who won the Prix de Diane and herself became a Classic producer. Her dam, Lady of Pedigree, was a half sister to the notable broodmare Absurdity, who produced two Classic winners, Jest and Black Gesture. This branch of the family is also still active around the world, producing Classic winners such as Lawman and Cape Blanco. Helene de Troie was inbred 4x5 to Bend Or.
La Troienne's pedigree thus shows multiple crosses (6X4X5X6) to Bend Or, and even more crosses farther back (6X5X6X5X7) to Galopin. The first nine generations of her pedigree show fourteen crosses to Stockwell. Pedigree consultant Les Brinsfield felt that the secret to her success as a broodmare traces to the first winner of the Epsom Derby, Diomed, who had limited success at the beginning of his stud career in England but left behind the outstanding producer Young Giantess before exported to America. Young Giantess produced a thriving family and literally hundreds of crosses to her accumulated in the pedigree of La Troienne. Meanwhile, in America, Diomed established the most dominant sire line of the 19th century, including 16-time leading sire Lexington, and those sires were often inbred to Diomed. Upon arrival in North America, La Troienne was bred to stallions who descended from this male line of Diomed. Brinfield concluded, "Every foal from La Troienne was the result of the reunion of male and female strains of Diomed after segregation for over a century. Barring an error in our pedigrees, this is undeniable. Equally undeniable, these foals were superior to the norm and the cumulative impact of their offspring is astounding."
References
External links
Pedigree Online Thoroughbred Database
Bloodlines – La Troienne (FR)
Family 1-x (table showing notable descendants of the family)
La Troienne's 7 generation pedigree
1926 racehorse births
1954 racehorse deaths
Racehorses bred in France
Racehorses trained in France
Thoroughbred family 1-s
Thoroughbred family 1-x
Blue Hen Broodmare |
23580967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah%20Bergamini | Deborah Bergamini | Deborah Bergamini (born 24 October 1967) is an Italian politician, manager and journalist currently member of the Italian Parliament.
Education
Bergamini studied literature and philosophy and went on to study at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, specialising in political marketing.
Media career
Bergamini embarked on a career as a journalist, starting working for local newspapers and TVs in Tuscany. In 1996, she moved to Paris to work for the French publisher "Analyses et Synthèses" and then from 1997 to 1999 she was based in London, working for Bloomberg. It was while at Bloomberg that she interviewed Silvio Berlusconi, who subsequently recruited her as his communication advisor.
Between 2002 and January 2008 Bergamini worked for RAI television, first as deputy and then as director for strategic marketing.
Political career
Bergamini entered the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 2008 as a member of The People of Freedom political movement and since then she is member of the Committee on Transports, Postal Services and Communication. In November 2011 she was also elected vice-president of the inquiry commission on piracy and counterfeiting.
In addition to her role in parliament, Bergamini has been serving as member of the Italian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2008. She is member of the Committee on culture and Chair of the Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society. In this capacity, she has been the Assembly’s rapporteur on the governance of artificial intelligence since 2019. She is also President, since 17 March 2009, of the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe.
References
External links
Personal website – Italian
Member details on Italian Chamber of Deputies website
Member details on Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly Website
Bergamini on Youtube
1967 births
Living people
Smith College alumni
People from Viareggio
Council of Europe people
Forza Italia politicians
The People of Freedom politicians
Forza Italia (2013) politicians |
6906194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostatic%20plexus%20%28nervous%29 | Prostatic plexus (nervous) | The Prostatic Plexus is continued from the lower part of the pelvic plexus. It lies within the fascial shell of the prostate.
The nerves composing it are of large size.
They are distributed to the prostate seminal vesicle and the corpora cavernosa of the penis and urethra.
The nerves supplying the corpora cavernosa consist of two sets, the lesser and greater cavernous nerves, which arise from the forepart of the prostatic plexus, and, after joining with branches from the pudendal nerve, pass forward beneath the pubic arch. Injury to the prostatic plexus (during prostatic resection for example) is highly likely to cause erectile dysfunction. It is because of this relationship that surgeons are careful to maintain the integrity of the prostatic fascial shell so as to not interrupt the post-ganglionic parasympathetic fibers that produce penile erection.
References
External links
Nerve plexus |
23580975 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toulouse%20Rod%C3%A9o%20FC | Toulouse Rodéo FC | Rodéo Football Club is a football club based in Toulouse, France. Though the club's proper name is Rodéo Football Club, the club is often referred to as Toulouse Rodéo Football Club to show the club's location. The club played in Championnat National 3 from 2017 until 2020, after winning promotion from Division d'Honneur Midi-Pyrénées in 2015–16. They were relegated from 2019–20 Championnat National 3 and currently play in Régional 1 Occitanie.
External links
A blog discussing the club
Sport in Toulouse
Football clubs in Occitania (administrative region) |
20475007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern%20Luzon%20State%20University | Southern Luzon State University | Southern Luzon State University (SLSU; ), formerly known as Southern Luzon Polytechnic College (SLPC), is the premier, state-funded higher education institution in Quezon Province in the Philippines operating by virtue of Republic Act 9395. It is composed of 11 campuses in the province of Quezon, with the main campus situated in the Municipality of Lucban.
SLSU is mandated to provide advanced education, professional, technological instruction in the fields of allied medicine, education, engineering, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, environment, arts and sciences, accountancy, cooperative, business and entrepreneurship, technology and other relevant fields of study in the Province of Quezon and in Region IV-A CALABARZON. It is also mandated to undertake research and extension services and provide progressive leadership in its areas of specialization. By virtue of Republic Act 10931 or the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act signed by President Rodrigo Duterte, SLSU will no longer be collecting tuition fees from its local, first degree undergraduate students.
History
Southern Luzon State University (SLSU) started as Lucban Municipal Junior High School by virtue of Municipal Resolution No. 5 passed in April 1964. Through the initiative of its founding president, Dr. Angelo Peña, a letter signed by 257 petitioners seeking the establishment of a Municipal Junior High School was favorably received and recommended by the Municipal Council and then Mayor Hobart Dator. The permit to operate was bestowed by Assistant Secretary of Education, Hon. Miguel Gaffud in July 1964. Since then, the Municipal Council allocated funds for its operations. Due to its expanding student population, Municipal Resolution No. 18 series of 1966 effectively expropriated about 4.9 ha of land in Barrio Kulapi - a site which the Council initially allocated for the establishment of a public market - in favor of the Municipal High School. This would then become the present site of the main campus of the university.
In May 1965, Municipal Resolution No. 86 was passed requesting the change of name to Lucban Municipal High School to accommodate students into the third and fourth year levels. The Director of Public Schools at the time approved the resolution in August 1965. On June 14, 1968, the Lucban Community College was created and was made part of Lucban Municipal Junior School as an adjunct institution for its School of Education, despite resistance from then Municipal and Provincial Councils for the school to operate as a college. The Municipal and Provincial Councils deemed it to be outside their authority to enact a law that would ensure the continued operation of the Community College.
The Lucban School for Philippine Craftsmen formally started in July 1970. By virtue of Republic Act 4345 also known as the merger law, the Lucban Municipal High School and Lucban School of Philippine Craftsmen became the Lucban National High School in July 1972 (with the continuous operation of Lucban Community College).
On August 30, 1977, President Ferdinand Marcos approved the conversion of the Lucban National High School and Lucban Community College into Lucban National College (LNC). This was in line with his administration's approach to countryside development by bringing Colleges and Universities to the provinces and rural areas. At the time, the LNC was the only government-run and funded College in the Southern Tagalog region.
In 1981, 20 Assemblymen of the Southern Tagalog Region sponsored the Parliamentary Bill No. 173 for the conversion of Lucban National College into Southern Luzon Polytechnic College (SLPC). The bill was approved in December 1981 and was signed into law known as Batas Pambansa No. 145 by President Marcos.
Since then, SLPC grew to establish seven satellite campuses located in various parts of the province of Quezon. The first satellite campus was inaugurated in Alabat in July 1991. In 1991, SLPC-Polilio was created by virtue of Board Resolution No. 19, Series of 1992. In the following year, two additional campuses were established: SLPC-Sampaloc in Brgy. Caldong, Sampaloc, Quezon (BOT Res. No. 33, series of 1993) and SLPC-Infanta. In 1996, another campus, the SLPC-Lucena Dual Training and Livelihood Center, was established under Board Resolution No. 130, series of 1996. Judge Guillermo Eleazar Polytechnic College was integrated in February 2002 under Board Resolution No. 352, series of 2002.
Judge Guillermo Eleazar Polytechnic College
Judge Guillermo Eleazar Polytechnic College was the former name of the college's satellite campus in Tagkawayan, Quezon. The satellite started as the Tagkawayan School of Fisheries under the Commission on Fisheries by virtue of Republic Act No. 4290 passed by the legislature on June 19, 1965. After 12 years, the school name was changed to Judge Guillermo Eleazar Memorial School of Fisheries by Presidential Decree No. 1273 issued by then president Ferdinand E. Marcos on December 27, 1977. Eventually, with the passage of Republic Act No. 8728, the school was converted into a state college known as Judge Guillermo Eleazar Polytechnic College. On March 17, 2007, through Republic Act No. 9395, it became part of the Southern Luzon State University.
Awards and Recognitions
SLSU is the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Center of Development in Teacher Education and Forestry. It is also an accredited "Dark Green School", which means that SLSU's instruction, research, and extension activities are geared towards environmental awareness and protection.
In 2018, the university is assessed as a Level III State University by the CHED, a level higher than in the 2007 evaluation. Based on the CHED-Department of Budget and Management Joint Circular, a Level III SUC is "very good in undertaking the functions of a state university/college", that is, instruction, research, and extension. In 2018, the AACCUP recognized SLSU as a top ranking SUC in the Philippines in terms of number of degree programs accredited.
The university has also been recognized by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) of the Philippines for top performance in licensure examinations and for producing topnotchers in board examinations in the fields of Nursing, Midwifery, Teacher Education, Forestry, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Technician, Mechanical Engineering, and Accountancy. In fact, in 2015, FindUniversity.PH ranks SLSU as the 17th best performing University in the Philippines, and the 2nd best performing State University in Region IV-A CALABARZON among Philippine Universities with at least 15 PRC Board Examinations.
Quality Assurance
As a State University, SLSU is mandated to submit its programs and services to external audit for quality assurance. In terms of instruction, research, and extension services, periodic survey visits are conducted by the Accrediting Agency for Chartered Colleges and Universities in the Philippines (AACCUP). In terms of its management, it has been evaluated and granted the ISO 9001-2015 Certification for Quality Management System. The university is the first State University in the Southern Tagalog region to be ISO certified for Quality Management System in 2015. The Commission on Higher Education of the Philippines, on the other hand, conducts its in-house Institutional Sustainability Assessment (ISA).
As of May, 2017, 97% of all curricular programs both from the undergraduate and graduate levels in the main campus have been accredited by the Accrediting Agency of Chartered Colleges and Universities in the Philippines (AACCUP). Curricular programs in its satellite campuses in Tagkawayan and Tiaong have likewise been subjected to accreditation visits.
Colleges, Campuses and degree programs
The Lucban main campus is home to five colleges: (1) Allied Medicine, (2) Teacher Education, (3) Arts and Sciences, (4) Administration, Business, Hospitality Management, and Accountancy, (5) Engineering and (6) Agriculture; one institute, the Institute of Human Kinetics, and various research centers for agricultural and environmental research. Starting A.Y. 2020–2021, the College of Industrial Technology will return to operations offering BS in Industrial Technology programs.
SLSU has satellite campuses in: Lucena, Tagkawayan, Alabat, Polillo, Tiaong, and Infanta. New satellite campuses have been/ will be opened in Gumaca, Catanauan, Tayabas, and Calauag.
The university also has key partner educational institutions in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Malaysia, and the United States. The partnerships allow educational exchange opportunities among the students and faculty of both parties. The university, together with the International School of Thai Nguyen University in Vietnam offers Joint academic programs in Business Administration, Environmental Science, and English language teaching.
The following lists the academic programs offered by the university in the different colleges in the Lucban main campus and satellite campuses:
Graduate school
Administered by the College of Teacher Education
PhD Development Education
PhD Science Education
PhD Educational Management
Master of Arts in Educational Management
Master of Arts in Education (Elementary)
Master of Arts in Mathematics Education
Master of Arts in Science Education
Master of Arts in Teaching English (MATE)
Administered by the College of Arts and Sciences
Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics
Master of Arts in Psychology (Clinical Psychology)
Administered by the College of Administration, Business, Hospitality Management and Accountancy
Doctor in Business Administration
Master in Business Administration
Administered by the College of Agriculture
MS Environmental Science
Master of Science in Forestry (Major in Silviculture & AgroForestry)
Administered by the College of Allied Medicine
Master of Arts in Nursing (Medical-Surgical Nursing, or Psychiatric Nursing)
International programs
Doctoral programs
Doctor in Business Administration
Ph.D. in Educational Management
Master's programs
Master in Business Administration
Master of Arts in Teaching English
Master of Arts in Educational Management
Master of Science in Environmental Science
Undergraduate programs
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration major in Financial Management
Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science
Short courses
Intensive English Training Program (customized)
Clinical Enhancement for Nurses Training
Intensive English Training and Methodology for Teachers
College of Agriculture
(CHED Center of Development in Forestry)
Bachelor of Science in Agriculture Major in: Animal Science, Crop Science, Organic Agriculture
Bachelor of Science in Forestry
Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science
Bachelor of Agricultural Technology
College of Administration, Business, Hospitality, and Accountancy
Bachelor of Science in Accountancy
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Major in: Marketing Management, Human Resource & Development Management, Financial Management
Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Management
Bachelor of Public Administration
College of Allied Medicine
Bachelor of Science in Nursing
Bachelor of Science in Radiologic Technology
Midwifery
College of Engineering
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering
Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering
Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering
College of Arts and Sciences
Bachelor of Arts in Communication
Bachelor of Arts major in History
Bachelor of Arts major in Psychology
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics major in Statistics
Bachelor of Science in Biology
College of Teacher Education
(CHED Center of Development in Teacher Education)
Bachelor of Elementary Education
Bachelor of Secondary Education Major in: English, Filipino, Mathematics, MAPEH (Music, Arts, Physical Ed., Health), Physical Science, Social Studies
Bachelor of Culture and Arts Education
Bachelor of Technology and Livelihood Education Major in: Industrial Arts, Information and Communication Technology, Home Economics
Institute of Human Kinetics
Bachelor of Physical Education major in Sports and Wellness Management
Bachelor of Science in Exercise and Sports Sciences
Laboratory Schools
Elementary School Grades 1-6
Junior High School Grades 7-10
Senior High School Grades 11-12 with majors in Humanities & Social Sciences (HUMSS), Accounting, Business & Management (ABM), Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM)
College of Industrial Technology
(to return to full operations starting A.Y. 2020–2021)
Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology
Alabat Campus
Bachelor of Technical-Vocational Education major in Computer Programming
Calauag Campus
Bachelor of Science in Agriculture
Catanauan Campus
Bachelor of Elementary Education
Bachelor of Science in Agriculture
Gumaca Campus
Bachelor of Technical-Vocational Education major in Computer Programming
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
Bachelor of Secondary Education
Infanta Campus
Bachelor of Secondary Education major in Mathematics
Bachelor of Science in Agriculture
Basic Engineering
Judge Guillermo Eleazar Polytechnic College - Tagkawayan Campus
Bachelor of Elementary Education
Bachelor of Business Administration Major in: Marketing Management, Financial Management
Bachelor of Secondary Education Major in: English, Mathematics, Science
Bachelor of Technology and Livelihood Education major in Agri-Fisheries Arts
Lucena City Campus
Bachelor of Technical-Vocational Education Major in: Computer Programming, Food & Service Management
Polillo Campus
Bachelor of Elementary Education
Tayabas City Campus
Bachelor of Science in Agriculture
Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Management
Bachelor of Technology and Livelihood Education major in Computer Programming
Tiaong Campus
Bachelor of Elementary Education
Bachelor of Science in Agriculture Major in: Crop Science, Organic Agriculture
Facilities
References
Most of the Content were acquired from the SLSU Website and University Profile.
External links
The Official Website of SLSU
The Official Website of SLSU College of Arts and Sciences
The Official Facebook Page of Southern Luzon State University
The Official Facebook Page of SLSU Tiaong Campus
Universities and colleges in Quezon
State universities and colleges in the Philippines |
6906225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jess%20Buckles | Jess Buckles | Jesse Robert Buckles (May 20, 1890 – August 2, 1975), nicknamed "Jim", was a Major League Baseball pitcher who appeared in two games, both in relief, for the New York Yankees near the end of the 1916 season.
Buckles made his major league debut on September 17, 1916, against the Cleveland Indians at League Park. His second and final appearance (October 3) was in a home game against the Washington Senators at the Polo Grounds. In his two games he pitched a total of four innings and gave up just one earned run, giving him an ERA of 2.25.
External links
Baseball Reference
Retrosheet
Major League Baseball pitchers
Baseball players from California
New York Yankees players
1890 births
1975 deaths
Harrisburg Islanders players
Holyoke Papermakers players
Medicine Hat Hatters players
Troy Trojans (minor league) players
Scranton Miners players
Moose Jaw Robin Hoods players |
6906230 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representation%20of%20the%20People%20Act%201989 | Representation of the People Act 1989 | The Representation of the People Act 1989 (c. 28) is an act by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
It extended the time that a British citizen could have lived abroad and still vote from 5 years to 20 years, and extended this right to people who were too young to vote at the time of leaving Britain.
See also
Representation of the People Act 1969
Representation of the People Act 1985
References
External links
United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1989
Representation of the People Acts
1989 in law |
6906244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesical%20nervous%20plexus | Vesical nervous plexus | The vesical nervous plexus arises from the forepart of the pelvic plexus.
The nerves composing it are numerous, and contain a large proportion of spinal nerve fibers.
They accompany the vesicle arteries, and are distributed to the sides and fundus of the bladder.
Numerous filaments also pass to the seminal vesicles and vas deferens; those accompanying the vas deferens join, on the spermatic cord, with branches from the spermatic plexus.
Additional images
References
External links
Nerve plexus |
23580977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Shoe%20Museum | The Shoe Museum | The Shoe Museum in Street, Somerset, England exhibited shoes dating from the Roman era to the present day. The museum closed on 27 September 2019.
It showed the history of the Clark family and their company C. & J. Clark and its connection with the development of shoemaking in the town. The Clarks started making slippers, shoes and boots in the town in the 1820s and the company grew, introducing mechanised processes in the 1860s. Production continued until after 2000 when it was moved off-shore, using third party factories, predominantly located in Asia. In the 19th century, in line with the family’s Quaker values, the capital was also extended beyond the factory to benefit social initiatives in Street: a school was founded so that young men and women could combine working in the factory with continuing their education, a theatre was opened, a library was built, along with an open-air swimming pool, known as Greenbank, and town hall. The company still has its headquarters in Street, behind a frontage which includes the clock tower and water tower, In 1993 the redundant factory buildings were converted to form Clarks Village.
The museum started in 1951, but was expanded in 1974.
It had examples of shoes from the 200 years of the companies history. The museum also included a display of machinery used in footwear production, and a selection of shop display showcards from the 1930s, 1950s and 1960s, and television advertisements.
The museum closed to the public on 27 September 2019, and its artefacts will be transferred to the nearby Alfred Gillett Trust.
See also
Concealed shoes
References
External links
The Shoe Museum (archived 16 July 2015)
Alfred Gillett Trust
Museums in Somerset
Shoe museums
Street, Somerset
Grade II listed museum buildings |
23580981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C5H9NO4 | C5H9NO4 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C5H9NO4}}
The molecular formula C5H9NO4 (molar mass 147.13 g/mol, exact mass: 147.0532 u) may refer to:
O-Acetylserine, an α-amino acid
Glutamic acid, a proteinogenic amino acid
N-Methyl-D-aspartic acid, a specific agonist at the NMDA receptor
L-threo-3-Methylaspartate |
23580985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMNH | PMNH | PMNH may refer to:
Pakistan Museum of Natural History, Islamabad, Pakistan
Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, Connecticut, USA |
23580987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C5H10N2O3 | C5H10N2O3 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C5H10N2O3}}
The molecular formula C5H10N2O3 (molar mass: 146.14 g/mol) may refer to:
Glutamine
Isoglutamine, or α-glutamine
β-Ureidoisobutyric acid |
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