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20475046 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosita%20Moreno | Rosita Moreno | Rosita Moreno (born Gabriela Victoria Viñolas; March 18, 1907 – April 25, 1993) was a Spanish film actress who worked in cinema in Hollywood, Argentina, Mexico, and in her native Spain.
Biography
Born in Madrid, Spain, Moreno was the daughter of Spanish character actor Francisco Moreno, who also developed a Hollywood career. As a child she devoted herself to acting in revue and zarzuela genres.
Moreno appeared in more than 30 films in a career that spanned more than 20 years, often travelling through several countries in quick succession. She made her screen debut alongside her father in the 1930 film Amor audaz, co-starring Adolphe Menjou. The same year she appeared in the Spanish-language version of Paramount on Parade, released by Paramount Pictures. In 1931, she co-starred in Stamboul, released by Paramount British. In 1935, Moreno paired with Carlos Gardel in two significant films, El día que me quieras and Tango Bar. The same year, she was selected for the main role in Piernas de seda.
She also worked with Richard Arlen (The Santa Fe Trail, 1930), Clara Bow (Her Wedding Night, 1930), Cary Grant (Ladies Should Listen, 1934), and Noël Coward (The Scoundrel, 1935), among others.
She made her last appearance in 1949 in an episode of The Clock, a suspense/anthology TV-series based on an ABC Radio Network series which ran from 1946 through 1948. In this episode she shared leading roles with George Reeves. Little is known about her after that point.
Rosita Moreno died in 1993 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, at the age of 86 from undisclosed causes.
Selected filmography
Paramount on Parade (1930)
El rey de los gitanos (1933)
Walls of Gold (1933)
Las fronteras del amor (1934)
The House of a Thousand Candles (1936)
Tengo fe en ti (1940)
A Medal for Benny (1945)
References
External links
1907 births
1993 deaths
Actresses from Madrid
Spanish film actresses
Expatriate actresses in the United States
Spanish expatriates in the United States
Expatriate actresses in Mexico
Spanish expatriates in Mexico
20th-century Spanish actresses
20th-century Spanish singers
20th-century Spanish women singers
Spanish expatriates in Argentina |
44500187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suraj%20Bhan%20%28archaeologist%29 | Suraj Bhan (archaeologist) | Suraj Bhan (1931–2010) was an Indian archaeologist and professor of archaeology. He was part of a panel of academics which contested the Vishva Hindu Parishad's claim that the Babri Masjid was built on top of a Râm temple.
Life and career
Suraj Bhan was born in March 1931 in Montgomery (now in Pakistan) to a peasant family of Haryana.
He studied Economics and Sanskrit for a B.A. and M.A. at the Delhi University. Subsequently, he joined the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in 1956 as a technical assistant. He studied Archaeology and Culture for a second M.A. degree in 1960 and, in 1972 also received a Ph.D. degree from the M. S. University, Baroda. He went on to a teaching career first at the Punjab University and then in at Kurukshetra University, carrying out archaeology of prehistoric sites in Haryana. He rose to become the Dean of the Faculty of Indic Studies before retiring in 1991.
Archaeological work
Bhan's early research was on the archaeology of prehistoric sites along the old river channels of Sarsuti–Ghaggar and Chautang rivers in Haryana. In 1968, he excavated the Indus culture site of Mitathal. His thesis on the "Historic Archaeology of Saraswati and Drishadavati Valleys" earned him a PhD in 1972. In 1975, Bhan published his major report, Excavations at Mitathal and Other Explorations in the Sutlej-Yamuna Divide, which became a fundamental reference for the study of Indus and post-Indus cultures.
In 1987, Bhan was invited to give the presidential address to the Archaeology section of the Indian History Congress, where he came out strongly against the tendency among some archaeologists to identify the Indus Valley Civilisation with the Vedic cultures. His paper in The Making of History volume (2002) countered arguments made by archaeologists, B. B. Lal, S. P. Gupta et al. for an Aryan link to the Indus Valley Civilization.
In 1996, he was awarded a senior fellowship by the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) and a year later, he was appointed as a member of the ICHR council. Irfan Habib, in his obituary of Bhan, believed him to be a man of "impeccable personal ethics, which matched well with his professional probity."
His academic work was said to bear a deep imprint of Marxism. He was also involved with the work of Communist Party of India (Marxist) in Haryana and took particular interest in the People's Science movement.
Ayodhya dispute
Suraj Bhan played a significant role during the Ayodhya dispute, supporting the case for the Babri Masjid. He along with historians, Ram Sharan Sharma, Dwijendra Narayan Jha and M. Athar Ali, were a group of four academics who submitted a document titled Babari Mosque or Rama's Birth Place? Historians Report to the Nation to the Minister of Home Affairs in May 1991. Bhan contributed towards the archaeological component of the report. The authors claimed to have scrutinised the evidence provided by the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Babri Masjid Action Committee (BMAC) and rejected outright the idea of the mosque being the site of Rama's birth or of the possibility of it having been built atop a pre-existing temple. The authors dismissed the claim by B. B. Lal, a former director of the ASI, that he had discovered pillar bases next to the Babri Masjid during his excavation in the 1970s. However, they did so while noting that they were not given access to Lal's excavation notes. Bhan would later testify in the Allahabad High Court that the report had been hurriedly compiled "under pressure" from BMAC.
In October 1992, the four historians wrote in the CPI(M)'s weekly newspaper, People's Democracy, reacting to the booklet Ram Janmabhumi Ayodhya: New Archaeological Discoveries stating that the VHP protagonists had indulged in "indiscriminate PWD-like excavation." Bhan had earlier also contested statements by S. P. Gupta that the black basalt pillars in the Babri Masjid were once part of a Hindu temple.
The Babri Masjid was demolished on 6 December 1992.
Suraj Bhan deposed as an expert witness in the Allahabad High Court on behalf of the pro-mosque parties in 2000, 2002, and again in 2006. He was the only one of the four authors of the Historians Report to the Nation to do so. On 5 March 2003, the Allahabad High Court ordered the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to excavate the site of the Babri Masjid in order to determine whether a temple-like structure had been demolished before the construction of the mosque. Suraj Bhan joined Irfan Habib and others in issuing a press statement denouncing the move. The ASI proceeded with its excavations and submitted its findings to the court in September 2003. Its report revealed the presence of a circular shrine, dateable to 7–10th century and a "massive structure", 50 metres by 30 metres, built in three structural phases during the 11–12th century.
Bhan who had visited the digs in June 2003 criticised the ASI for conducting extensive horizontal diggings which destroyed all the Mughal period remains at the site when limited vertical trenching was all that was required. Questioning the methodologies employed to date the underground structure, he accused the ASI report of being an attempt to push back the antiquity of Ayodhya and thereby the Ramayana to . He proclaimed with certainty, that the "massive structure" found by the ASI was not a temple and that it was likely a Sultanate period mosque.
Bhan appeared in the Allahabad High Court to state his professional opinion that the conclusion of the ASI report regarding the existence of any temple beneath the Babri mosque was baseless. While he was present at the excavation for only three days, he claimed that the ASI did not properly record the glazed ware, glazed tiles and bones found at the site. He made other observations such as on the use of lime mortar which he believed dated the underground structure to the Sultanate period. He also claimed that the shortcomings of the report could not be made good and alleged that the ASI lacked objectivity, professional integrity, and scientific rigour. Under examination, Bhan clarified that he was only an archaeologist and not an art-historian or medieval historian.
In its 2010 verdict on the Ayodhya dispute, the Allahabad High Court criticised the professionalism of the expert witnesses who had appeared on behalf of the pro-mosque parties. On Suraj Bhan, the court felt that he had made vague statements and had failed to provide a proper reason to challenge the conclusions of the ASI. It dismissed as baseless his technical observations on matters such as the use of lime mortar which had been established to have been in use in India from at least 600 BCE, well before the Sultanate period. The court noted that Bhan had a predetermined attitude against the ASI and noted that rather than being condemned, the Survey deserved commendation and appreciation.
Works
"Excavations at Mitathal (Hissar), 1968." Journal of Haryana Studies 1.1 (1969): 1–15.
"Changes in the course of Yamuna and their bearing on the protohistoric cultures of Haryana." Archaeological congress and seminar papers. 1972.
"Siswal, a pre-Harappan site in Drishadvati valley." (1972): 44–46.
"The sequence and spread of prehistoric cultures in the upper Sarasvati Basin." Radiocarbon and Indian Archaeology (1973): 252–263.
Excavation at Mitathal (1968) and Other explorations in the Sutlej-Yamuna divide. Kurukshetra University, 1975.
(with Jim G. Shaffer) "New discoveries in northern Haryana." Man and Environment 2 (1978): 59-68.
"Recent trends in Indian archaeology." Social Scientist (1997): 3–15. .
"Aryanization of the Indus Civilisation." The Making of History: Essays presented to Irfan Habib, pp. 41–55. Anthem Press, 2002. .
See also
Archaeology of Ayodhya
Ram Janmabhoomi
Siswal
References
Sources
20th-century Indian archaeologists
Scientists from Haryana
Delhi University alumni
Kurukshetra University faculty
1931 births
2010 deaths
Analysts of Ayodhya dispute
People from Sahiwal District
Punjabi people
Historians of India
Indian social sciences writers
Indian scientific authors |
23580992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom%20of%20Simplicity | Kingdom of Simplicity | Kingdom of Simplicity is a novel by American author Holly Payne published in June 2009. It is Payne's third novel.
Plot outline
The novel is set among the Old Order Amish in the Lancaster, Pennsylvania region. It tells the story of an Amish boy's attempts to move past "his anger ... and his guilt, which lead him on a painful journey during his rumspringa, the period when Amish teens are allowed to experience the outside world before formally joining the Amish faith. Eli can embrace it only when he learns to forgive.
Told in the first person, the novel opens when Eli Yoder, the protagonist, steals a camera. This is a doubly significant crime, since the Amish don't use cameras or permit themselves to be photographed. This theft figures into another crime of sorts, and finally into Eli's expulsion from his non-Amish friends.
Writing and publication
Payne began writing the book based on her recollections and experiences growing up among the Amish, but the Amish school-shooting tragedy in October 2006 made her reconsider the book's direction. The Amish quickly forgave the shooter, and went to comfort his family. According to Payne, "If you're Amish, you can get there much faster, just because it's part of your DNA. Our culture isn't a forgiving culture. We're a very litigious culture. It's all about getting back and an eye for an eye." Payne has stated that the entire book is really about forgiveness.
Major characters
Eli Yoder - the proatgonist. Eli is old-order Amish, and has a genetic disorder common among Amish, that of having webbed hands. Most of the novel occurs when Eli is sixteen years old, though it begins somewhat earlier.
Leroy Fischer - a non-Amish barber who befriends Leroy, but also challenges him in several important ways.
Emma Beiler - an Amish girl whom Eli likes, and who likes him.
The Driver - a character initially in the background, whose identity is eventually revealed.
References
2009 American novels
Novels set in Pennsylvania
Lancaster, Pennsylvania |
6906268 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dessie%20Baker | Dessie Baker | Desmond "Dessie" Baker (born 25 August 1977 in Dublin) is an Irish footballer who plays for Leinster Senior League side Edenderry Town.
He has three children.
Early career
From Tallaght Baker was a graduate of Dublin youth clubs Marks Celtic and Stella Maris, before spending his late teens as a trainee at Manchester United. Baker enjoyed a fruitful career at youth level, winning the FA Youth Cup and Youth League with Manchester United and numerous schoolboy international caps for Republic of Ireland. Baker played for the Republic of Ireland national under-19 football team in the 1996 UEFA European Under-18 Football Championship finals in Luxembourg and scored against Italy . Although he was named the FAI Youth Player of the Year in 1995 he failed to earn a professional contract at Old Trafford, however, and after a brief detour to Oldham returned to Ireland in the summer of 1996, having been offered a contract by League of Ireland club, Shelbourne.
League of Ireland career
He made his League of Ireland debut at UCD on 15 December 1995 and would remain a fixture in the Shels line-up for the remainder of the decade, but rose to wider prominence as a member of Brian Kerr's Republic of Ireland squad which placed third at the 1997 FIFA Under-20 World Cup. Baker famously headed the opening goal of Ireland's 2–1 victory over Ghana in the third/fourth place play-off after less than a minute of play had elapsed .
He had already represented his country at U16 and U18 levels.
Baker (who scored another memorable goal against Kilmarnock F.C. in the 1997–98 Cup Winners' Cup, although Shels eventually lost the tie) was an integral member of the Shelbourne team which won the League of Ireland championship under Dermot Keely in 1999–2000, frequently operating on the left-hand side of a forward trident which also featured his brother Richie on the opposite flank.
Another league title followed in 2001–02, but this time Shels were crowned champions under contentious and unsatisfactory circumstances, while Baker himself hardly muddied his boots all season. Keely, bemoaning the pressures of full-time football management, vacated his position, and his successor Pat Fenlon consigned Baker almost permanently to the substitutes' bench.
Baker served out the remainder of his contract during two frustrating and largely inactive seasons under Fenlon (incorporating a brief loan spell at UCD), before signing a two-year contract with Longford Town in January 2004. Longford manager Alan Matthews (formerly attached to the coaching staff at Shels) declared that "[Baker is] a good asset to us and he has something to prove to people after his last two seasons which have seen him play very little football." Baker himself was of the opinion that "the squad of players he [Matthews] has should see us challenging for more silverware next season."
This view was instantly vindicated as Longford won their maiden FAI Cup in 2003, a feat they remarkably reprised in 2004, when the additional conquest of the League of Ireland Cup reinforced the club's status as connoisseurs of knockout football.
Despite participation in the UEFA Cup and newly instituted Setanta Sports Cup, Longford's form deteriorated markedly resulting in relegation at the end of the 2007 season despite reaching the FAI Cup Final.
Baker signed for Shamrock Rovers in December 2007. He made his league debut for the Hoops on 8 March 2008, and scored his first goal on 21 March against Bray Wanderers. Despite a positive start to his Rovers career, Baker fell out of favour with Rovers manager Pat Scully and in July 2008 Baker was loaned to First Division title challengers Dundalk for the remainder of that season. Baker won a First Division winners medal with Dundalk as they pipped his former club Shelbourne to the title on a dramatic ending to the final night of the season.
Baker returned to Shamrock Rovers for the 2009 season and his faltering Rovers career was given a new lease of life by new manager Michael O'Neill. Baker re-established himself in the Rovers starting XI after instantly developing a formidable partnership with Gary Twigg as Rovers finished 2nd in the Premier Division. During the season Baker appeared as a second-half substitute in a friendly match against Real Madrid at Tallaght Stadium on 20 July 2009. The game was noted for Cristiano Ronaldo's Real Madrid debut. Baker missed an opportunity to put Shamrock Rovers ahead, and soon after Karim Benzema grabbed a late winner for the Spanish outfit.
In 2010, numerous injuries hampered Baker over the course of the season resulting in him announcing his intention to retire from football at the end of the season. He capped off his League of Ireland career by winning his fourth title as Shamrock Rovers won the 2010 Premier Division title on the final day of the season.
In his time at the Hoops, Baker scored a total of 19 goals in 75 total appearances.
Honours
Club
Shelbourne
League of Ireland: 1999–2000, 2001–02, 2003
FAI Cup: 1997, 2000
Shamrock Rovers
2010
Longford Town
2004
League of Ireland Cup: 2004
Dundalk
League of Ireland First Division: 2008
International
FIFA World Youth Championship: Third Place 1997
References
1977 births
Living people
Association footballers from Dublin (city)
Republic of Ireland association footballers
Republic of Ireland youth international footballers
Manchester United F.C. players
Shelbourne F.C. players
University College Dublin A.F.C. players
Longford Town F.C. players
Shamrock Rovers F.C. players
Dundalk F.C. players
League of Ireland players
Republic of Ireland under-21 international footballers
Republic of Ireland B international footballers
Stella Maris F.C. players
Leinster Senior League (association football) players
Association football midfielders |
26716577 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Helga%20Pictures | The Helga Pictures | The Helga Pictures are a series of more than 240 paintings and drawings of German model Helga Testorf (born c. 1933 or c. 1939) created by Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009) between 1971 and 1985.
Creation
Helga "Testy" Testorf was a neighbor of Wyeth's in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and over the course of fifteen years posed for Wyeth indoors and out of doors, nude and clothed, in attitudes that reminded writers of figures painted by Botticelli and Édouard Manet. To John Updike, her body "is what Winslow Homer's maidens would have looked like beneath their calico."
Born in Germany, Helga entered a Prussian Protestant convent chosen by her father in 1955. After becoming seriously ill she left the convent and lived in Mannheim, where she studied to be a nurse and a masseuse. In 1957, she met John Testorf, a German-born, naturalized American citizen, whom she married in 1958. By 1961 they were living in Philadelphia, where she worked in a tannery, and they soon moved to Chadds Ford. There she raised a family of four children, and acted as caretaker to farmer Karl Kuerner, an elderly neighbor who was a friend and model for Wyeth.
Wyeth asked Testorf to model for him in 1971, and from then until 1985 he made 45 paintings and 200 drawings of her, many of which depicted her nude. The sessions supposedly were a secret even to their spouses. The paintings were stored at the home of his student, neighbor and good friend, Frolic Weymouth.
Aftermath
Explaining the series, Wyeth said, "The difference between me and a lot of painters is that I have to have a personal contact with my models. ... I have to become enamored. Smitten. That's what happened when I saw Helga." He described his attraction to "all her German qualities, her strong, determined stride, that Loden coat, the braided blond hair". Art historian John Wilmerding wrote, "Such close attention by a painter to one model over so long a period of time is a remarkable, if not singular, circumstance in the history of American art". For art critic James Gardner, Testorf "has the curious distinction of being the last person to be made famous by a painting".
When the existence of the pictures was made public images of Testorf graced the covers of both Time and Newsweek magazines. Testorf, although flattered by the paintings, was upset by the publicity and controversy they provoked. Although Wyeth denied that there had been a physical relationship with Testorf, the secrecy surrounding the sessions and public speculation of an affair created a strain in the Wyeths' marriage.
Well after the paintings were finished, Testorf remained close to Wyeth and helped care for him in his old age. In a 2007 interview, when Wyeth was asked if Helga was going to be present at his 90th birthday party, he said, "Yeah, certainly. Oh, absolutely," and went on to say, "She's part of the family now. I know it shocks everyone. That's what I love about it. It really shocks 'em."
Exhibitions and ownership
In 1986, Philadelphia publisher and millionaire Leonard E.B. Andrews (1925–2009) purchased almost the entire collection, preserving it intact. Wyeth had already given a few Helga paintings to friends, including the famous Lovers, which had been given as a gift to Wyeth's wife.
The works were exhibited at the National Gallery of Art in 1987 and in a nationwide tour. There was extensive criticism of both the 1987 exhibition and the subsequent tour. The show was "lambasted" as an “absurd error” by John Russell and an “essentially tasteless endeavor” by Jack Flam, coming to be viewed by some people as "a traumatic event for the museum." The curator, Neil Harris, labeled the show “the most polarizing National Gallery exhibition of the late 1980s,” himself admitting concern over "the voyeuristic aura of the Helga exhibition."
The tour was criticized after the fact because, after it ended, the pictures' owner sold his entire cache to a Japanese company, a transaction characterized by Christopher Benfey as "crass."
List of works
Tempera on panel:
Letting Her Hair Down (1972)
Sheepskin (1973)
Braids (1977)
Farm Road (1979)
Day Dream (1980)
Night Nurse (1995)
Drybrush and/or watercolor on paper:
Black Velvet (1972)
The Prussian (1973)
In the Orchard (several versions, 1973–1985)
Seated by a Tree (1973, other versions from 1973 and 1982)
Crown of Flowers (1974)
Loden Coat (1975)
Easter Sunday (1975; a non-Helga watercolor also bears this title)
Barracoon (1976; a non-Helga tempera also bears this title)
On Her Knees (1977)
Drawn Shade (1977)
Overflow (1978)
Walking In Her Cape Coat (1979)
Night Shadow (1979)
Pageboy (1980)
Knapsack (two versions, both 1980)
Lovers (1981)
From the Back (two versions, both 1981)
In the Doorway (three versions, all 1981)
Cape Coat (1982)
Campfire (two versions, both 1982)
Sun Shield (1982)
Flotation Device (1984)
Autumn (1984)
Refuge (1985)
Red Sweater (1987)
Helga's Back (1991)
Barefoot (1992)
Uphill (1999)
Gone (2002)
Notes
References
Meryman, Richard: Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life, HarperCollins 1996. .
Updike, John. Just Looking: Essays on Art. Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.
Wilmerding, John. Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987.
External links
"The Last Person Made Famous by a Painting": Helga Testorf interviewed in a short film from The Atlantic.
German artists' models
Paintings by Andrew Wyeth |
20475074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellie%20Dunham | Mellie Dunham | Mellie Dunham (July 29, 1853 - September 27, 1931) was an American fiddler during the early twentieth century. Dunham was born in Norway, Maine, the son of Alanson Mellen Dunham and Christiana Bent. He came to prominence after he was invited to play for Henry Ford at his house in Dearborn, Michigan. Ford sent a Pullman car for Dunham and his wife, Emma "Gram" Dunham (née Richardson), because of Ford's love of country music. While Ford had invited 38 other fiddlers before Dunham, none received as much attention as Dunham did.
He was also a snowshoe maker, supplying 60 pairs of snowshoes to Commodore Robert Peary for an Arctic expedition.
Dunham died on September 27, 1931, in Lewiston, Maine, after a two-week illness, and was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, South Paris, Maine.
References
External links
Musicians from Maine
1853 births
1931 deaths
American fiddlers
People from Norway, Maine
People from Lewiston, Maine
Burials at Pine Grove Cemetery (Brunswick, Maine) |
23580994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Comet%20%281910%29 | HMS Comet (1910) | HMS Comet was one of 20 s built for the Royal Navy in the 1910s. Completed in 1911 she saw active service in the First World War.
Design and description
The Acorn class marked a return to oil-firing as pioneered in the Tribal or F class of 1905 and of 1907. The Admiralty provided general specifications, but each shipyard did their own detailed design so that ships often varied in size. The Acorns had an overall length of , a beam of , and a deep draught of . The ships displaced at deep load and their crew numbered 72 officers and ratings.
The destroyers were powered by a single Parsons steam turbine that drove three propeller shafts using steam provided by four Yarrow boilers. The engines developed a total of and were designed for a speed of . Comet reached a speed of from during her sea trials. The Acorns had a range of at a cruising speed of .
The primary armament of the ships consisted of a pair of BL MK VIII guns in single, unprotected pivot mounts fore and aft of the superstructure. They were also armed with two single QF 12-pounder () guns, one on each broadside between the forward and centre funnels. The destroyer were equipped with a pair of single rotating mounts for 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes amidships and carried two reload torpedoes.
Construction and career
Comet was ordered under the 1909–1910 Naval Programme from Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company. The ship was laid down at the company's Govan shipyard on 1 February 1910, launched on 23 June and commissioned in June 1911. She was torpedoed and sunk on 6 August 1918.
References
Bibliography
Acorn-class destroyers
1910 ships
Ships built in Govan
World War I destroyers of the United Kingdom
Ships sunk in collisions
World War I shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea |
6906270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20governors%20of%20the%20Leeward%20Islands | List of governors of the Leeward Islands | This is a list of governors of the Leeward Islands.
The Leeward Islands was originally created as a colony of England in 1671, continuing in existence until its dissolution in 1816.
In 1833 a number of island colonies were grouped together under a single governor once again. These islands were reconstituted as a federal colony in 1872. The federal colony was dissolved in 1956 with its constituent territories becoming colonies of the United Kingdom in their own right but still under a single governor. The office of Governor of the Leeward Islands remained in existence after the establishment of the Federation of the West Indies in 1958 until finally being abolished with effect from 1 January 1960.
Governors of the Leeward Islands (1671–1816)
1671–1686: Sir William Stapleton
1686-1689: Sir Nathaniel Johnson (Made Governor of South Carolina 1689)
1689-1699: Christopher Codrington, the Elder
1699–1704: Christopher Codrington, the Younger
1704: John Johnson (first time, acting)
1704: Sir William Mathew
1704–1706: John Johnson (second time, acting)
1706–1710: Daniel Parke
1710–1711: Walter Hamilton (first time, acting)
1711–1714: Walter Douglas
1714–1715: William Mathew, Jr. (first time, acting)
1715–1721: Walter Hamilton (second time)
1721–1728: John Hart
1728–1729: The Earl of Londonderry
1729: William Cosby (acting)
1729: George Forbes, 3rd Earl of Granard
1729–1752: William Mathew, Jr. (second time)
1753–1766: George Thomas
1766–1768: James Vercild
1768–1771: William Woodley (first time)
1771–1776: Sir Ralph Payne
1776–1781: William Mathew Burt
1781–1788: Sir Thomas Shirley (first time)
1788–1790: John Nugent
1790–1791: Sir Thomas Shirley (second time)
1791–1793: William Woodley (second time)
1795–1799: Charles Leigh
1799–1807: The Lord Lavington
1808–1814: Hugh Elliot
1814–1816: Sir James Leith
In 1816 the colony was dissolved.
Governors of the Leeward Islands (1833–1872)
In 1833 the colonies of Antigua, Barbuda, Dominica, Montserrat, Nevis, St Kitts, and the Virgin Islands were brought together under the Governor of Antigua.
In 1872 the Governor of Antigua became the first Governor of a new federal colony of the Leeward Islands.
Governors of the Leeward Islands (1872–1959)
1872–1873: Sir Benjamin Chilley Campbell Pine
1873–1874: Sir Henry Turner Irving
1874: Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson
1875–1881: Sir George Berkeley
1881: Henry James Burford Buford-Hancock (acting)
1881–1884: Sir John Hawley Glover
1884–1885: Sir Charles Cameron Lees
1885: Charles Monroe Eldridge
1885–1888: The Viscount Gormanston
1888: Sir Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell (acting)
1888–1895: Sir William Frederick Haynes Smith
1895–1901: Sir Francis Fleming
1901–1902: Sir Henry Moore Jackson
1902–1904: Sir Gerald Strickland.
1904–1905: Sir Clement Courtenay Knollys
1906–1912: Sir Ernest Bickham Sweet-Escott
1912–1916: Sir Henry Hesketh Joudou Bell
1916–1921: Sir Edward Marsh Merewether
1921–1929: Sir Eustace Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
1929–1936: Sir Thomas Reginald St. Johnston
1936–1941: Sir Gordon James Lethem
1941–1943: Sir Douglas James Jardine
1943–1947: Sir Brian Freeston
1947–1948: William Alexander Macnie (acting)
1948–1950: The Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
1950–1956: Sir Kenneth Blackburne
1957–1959: Sir Alexander Thomas Williams
References
External links
http://www.rulers.org/rula2.html#antigua_and_barbuda
Cassiques (A list of Governors from Indies that also went to Carolina)
Leeward Islands, Governors
Leewards
Leeward Islands
Leeward Islands
Leeward Islands |
44500189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Geller | Joe Geller | Joseph Scott Geller (born March 7, 1954) is a Democratic politician who currently serves as a member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 100th District, which includes most of Hollywood in southern Broward County and parts of Miami-Dade County, since 2014.
History
Geller was born in The Bronx in New York City in 1954, and moved to the state of Florida in 1965. He attended Northwestern University, but did not graduate, instead receiving his bachelor's degree in history from the Florida State University in 1975. After graduation, Geller then attended the Florida State University College of Law, receiving his Juris Doctor in 1979.
In 1989, he was elected the Chairman of the Miami-Dade County Democratic Party, serving in that capacity in 2000. During the 2000 presidential election, he played a prominent role as an attorney for the Al Gore presidential campaign. During the recount, Geller, seeking to confirm a theory that some Gore voters had accidentally punched the wrong hole in their ballots, requested a sample ballot from the Supervisor of Elections' office. After receiving the ballot from a clerk, Geller was accused of stealing a ballot, was mobbed by protesters, and had to be escorted to safety by police. "I requested [the sample ballot], which I'm entitled to do," Geller said. "It was clearly marked 'sample ballot for use by Democratic Party.' The whole transaction was out in the open and all very calmly done. This Republican observer — a woman with blond hair, a suit and clipboard — was watching the whole thing. But the moment I started to walk away, she sicced the crowd on me. She said I was stealing a ballot and they surrounded me. It was all orchestrated."
Geller ran for Mayor of North Bay Village, a small city in northeastern Miami-Dade County, in 2004. He faced Frank DiMaggio and was able to win narrowly, receiving 54% of the vote to DiMaggio's 46%.
Florida House of Representatives
When incumbent State Representative Dan Gelber was unable to seek re-election due to term limits in 2008, Geller ran to succeed him in the 106th District, which stretched from Fisher Island to Golden Beach in eastern Miami-Dade County. He faced Richard L. Steinberg in the Democratic primary, and he lost to Steinberg handily, receiving only 31% of the vote to Steinberg's 69%.
In 2014, incumbent State Representative Joseph Gibbons was unable to seek re-election in the 100th District, so Geller ran in the Democratic primary to replace him, declaring, "My style is to be a consensus builder to build bridges between people. I’m a progressive. And I make no bones about being a progressive. But I have also lived in other parts of the state. I think I can do some good up there. I think I can make a difference. I think I can make this a better state." He faced teacher John Paul Alvarez and pastor Ben Sorenson in the Democratic primary, and earned the endorsement of the Miami Herald, which praised him as a candidate who "knows this bi-county district well," and noted that the district "stands to benefit from his legislative priorities." Ultimately, Geller defeated his opponents handily, receiving 62% of the vote to Sorensen's 20% and Alvarez's 18%. In the general election, Geller faced fellow attorney Marty Feigenbaum and once again earned the endorsement of the Herald, which said that he was "thoroughly familiar with the issues."
In April 2022, Geller argued that the effort to repeal the Reedy Creek Improvement Act was "disrespectful of the legislative process."
References
External links
Florida House of Representatives - Joe Geller
Joseph S. Geller
Florida State University College of Law alumni
Florida Democrats
Members of the Florida House of Representatives
1954 births
Living people
21st-century American politicians |
23580995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanwardine%20Halt%20railway%20station | Stanwardine Halt railway station | Stanwardine Halt was a minor station located north of Shrewsbury on the GWR's Paddington to Birkenhead main line. It was opened in the 1930s 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 on the site.
Historical services
Express trains did not call at Stanwardine Halt, only local services. No freight or parcels traffic was handled here.
References
Neighbouring stations
External links
Stanwardine Halt on navigable 1946 O.S. map
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 |
44500193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facundo%20Gonz%C3%A1lez%20Miranda | Facundo González Miranda | Facundo González Miranda (born 16 October 1953) is a Mexican politician from the Party of the Democratic Revolution. In 2009 he served as Deputy of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing the State of Mexico.
References
1953 births
Living people
Politicians from the State of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
Party of the Democratic Revolution politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
Deputies of the LX Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for the State of Mexico |
26716615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowing%20at%20the%202010%20South%20American%20Games%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%20lightweight%20single%20sculls | Rowing at the 2010 South American Games – Men's lightweight single sculls | The Men's lightweight single sculls event at the 2010 South American Games was held over March 21 at 9:20.
Medalists
Records
Results
References
Final
Lightweight Single Scull M |
20475075 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodger%20Stevens | Rodger Stevens | Rodger Stevens is a contemporary American artist.
Stevens graduated from the Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn and went on to study economics at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, and at Pace University in Manhattan. Stevens then attended Parsons The New School for Design and the School of Visual Arts. From 1994 through 1999, he worked at Sotheby's in New York.
In the early nineties he began exhibiting his drawings and sculptures at small galleries throughout New York and eventually in more renowned venues such as the Tiffany & Co. windows, the MTV headquarters, the Todd Oldham boutique and the Yohji Yamamoto showroom in SoHo. In recent years he has done commissioned work for the Whitney Museum of American Art, the American Folk Art Museum, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Barneys, West Elm, The New York Times, Stuart Weitzman, the Rockwell Group, Jonathan Adler, Starbucks, the W Hotel, One Medical, The Advisory Board, and others. In 2011, he was selected by the Persol eyewear company to be a member of their "Work of Persol" artist series. Stevens continues to exhibit internationally, California, and elsewhere. His work has been featured in numerous publications and blogs. He has developed a line of sculptural air-plant holders for West Elm; collaborated with designer Mark McKenna on the illuminated mobile, Orchadia; created several large-scale mobiles for the Starbucks company; and designed a line of carpets for Lindstrom Rugs (Los Angeles). In addition to his art and jewelry practice, he is an active curator, and an Adjunct Professor at the Parsons School of Design. His work is currently carried by the Whitney Museum and the Brooklyn Museum, and he is represented by BDDW, Kinder Modern, Brad Ford's FAIR, and Timothy Yarger Fine Art in Los Angeles.
Exhibition history
Stevens' work has been exhibited both domestically and internationally. His work has been exhibited at: The Whitney Museum of American Art; the American Folk Art Museum in New York; the Saatchi Gallery in London; the Katonah Museum of Art; Sotheby's; Tiffany & Co.; the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; the Bristol Art Museum in Rhode Island; the Hangaram Design Museum in Seoul, the Patrick Parrish Gallery, the David Weeks Studio and elsewhere.
References
External links
American sculptors
Living people
1966 births
Manhattanville College alumni
Pace University alumni
Poly Prep alumni |
20475087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NH%2031 | NH 31 | NH 31 may refer to:
National Highway 31 (India)
New Hampshire Route 31, United States |
6906291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Tricks%20%28album%29 | New Tricks (album) | New Tricks was Bing Crosby's eighth long-playing album and sixth vinyl LP for Decca Records, originally released in 1957 as number DL-8575.
New Tricks featured twelve standards recorded between August 1955 and August 1956 for Crosby's daily CBS radio show with a trio led by Crosby's regular pianist Buddy Cole. They were mastered for LP release in March 1957.
Crosby's earlier Decca LP Some Fine Old Chestnuts (1954) similarly features songs recorded for radio accompanied by Cole.
The album was first issued on CD in 1990 by Decca in Japan No. 25P2 2833. In 1998 it was included in a twofer CD called "Some Fine Old Chestnuts & New Tricks" issued by MCA Records No. MCLD19377. Another CD issue took place in 2017 with the Universal Music release of New Tricks - 60th Anniversary Deluxe Edition catalog No. B0027587-02. This contained 12 bonus tracks, all of which were culled from Crosby's radio shows.
Reception
Record producer, Ken Barnes, wrote: "While Bing broke no new ground with this album of oldies—accompanied by Buddy Cole’s trio—it was clearly something he enjoyed doing. The songs are all good—‘When I Take My Sugar to Tea’, ‘Avalon’, ‘Chicago’ and an outstanding ‘On the Alamo’ to name but four, and Bing puts it all across with great style. Cole plays his customary tasteful piano—his occasional excursions on to organ, however, only serve to point out how much better electronic organs sound today. This is a pity, because Cole had a considerable technique. Not a classic Crosby album by any means but a pleasant one, certainly.
The jazz historian Will Friedwald describes New Tricks as "swingingly successful," adding that "its cover - a very Bingish basset bearing a Crosby-style pipe, hat, and even eyes - had won listeners over even before they dug into the disc."
Personnel
Buddy Cole (musician) (piano); Vince Terri (guitar); Don Whitaker (bass); Nick Fatool (drums)
Track listing
Bonus tracks on New Tricks - 60th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
Rain (Carey Morgan / Arthur Swanstrom / Eugene Ford)
Church Bells (Paul Sanders)
I'll Remember Today
My How the Time Goes By (Cy Coleman / Carolyn Leigh)
Chee Chee-Oo Chee (Sang the Little Bird)
Surprise (Jay Livingston / Ray Evans)
All the Time (Jay Livingston / Ray Evans)
Gigi
Tammy
Big D (with Lindsay Crosby)
Allegheny Moon (with Lindsay Crosby)
More Than You Know
References
Bing Crosby albums
1957 albums
Decca Records albums |
23580996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armilenium | Armilenium | Armilenium is a carbocation and was originally proposed as the first entirely organic sandwich compound. Named for its resemblance to an armillary sphere, NMR evidence for the carbocation was first described by Melvin J. Goldstein and Stanley A. Klein at Cornell University in 1973. In subsequent 13C NMR experiments by Goldstein and Joseph P. Dinnocenzo in 1984, the carbocation was generated under stable ion conditions at lower temperature and at higher magnetic field than previously possible. These experiments revealed the carbocation to be fluxional. Fitting of the dynamic NMR process ruled out the sandwich species even as an intermediate in the 20-fold degenerate rearrangement of the carbocation.
References
Carbocations |
20475100 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmie%20Savage%20%28baseball%29 | Jimmie Savage (baseball) | James Harold Savage (August 29, 1883 - June 26, 1940) was a Major League Baseball outfielder. He played all or part of three seasons in the majors, between and . He played two games in 1912 for the Philadelphia Phillies, then spent playing regularly for the Pittsburgh Rebels in the Federal League. He played mostly in right field, where he played 66 games, but also played substantially in left field and at shortstop and third base. He played another 14 games for the Rebels in 1915 to finish his major league career.
Sources
References
http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/profile.asp?ID=17592
Major League Baseball outfielders
Philadelphia Phillies players
Pittsburgh Rebels players
Utica Utes players
Baseball players from Connecticut
1883 births
1940 deaths
People from Southington, Connecticut |
26716664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epilogue%20%28Epik%20High%20album%29 | Epilogue (Epik High album) | Epilogue is a special release album from Korean hip-hop group Epik High. The album is a collection of unreleased tracks from the group's discography spanning 7 years and 11 albums. It is also the first album released without DJ Tukutz, due to his departure for the Korean military in October 2009. It is also the group's final release under Woollim Entertainment.
Epilogue debuted #1 on the U.S. iTunes Music Store digital hip-hop/rap charts in addition to charting at #1 in New Zealand, #2 in Australia, #3 in Canada, #9 in Japan, #22 in France, #40 in Germany, and #60 in the United Kingdom.
The music video for the lead single "Run," premiered on March 8, 2010, featuring L from Infinite. In the music video of "Run", others Infinite members also participate: Sunggyu (Guitar), Woohyun (Bass), Sungyeol (Drum), and Sungjong (Keyboard). They acted as supporting "band" in the background.
Track listing
References
2010 albums
Epik High albums
Woollim Entertainment EPs |
6906292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songlines%20%28Alphaville%20video%29 | Songlines (Alphaville video) | Songlines is a video released by the German band Alphaville in 1989, created during the production of Alphaville's 1989 album The Breathtaking Blue.
Background
Nine acclaimed directors (or directing teams) from 7 countries were given a different track from The Breathtaking Blue and asked to make a short movie inspired by the song. 'Songlines' are a reference to the Australian aboriginal belief that "the gods created the world and everything in it by wandering through the desert and calling creation into life through their singing. Till this day, Aborigines follow these songlines, guided by totems which the gods left behind for them". The video collection was re-released in May 2021, as part of the re-release of the album The Breathtaking Blue. Band member Bernhard Lloyd said of the project, "The crazy endeavor to turn the entire album into the film 'Songlines' actually worked out in a wondrous way. A separate short film for each song, from directors all across the world – a project ahead of its time almost 35 years ago. The treasure of original 35mm film tapes have been recovered, the tapes meticulously restored and digitalized. Now, these films can finally be enjoyed in all of their beauty. It’s a completely new experience."
Awards
Christoph & Wolfgang Lauenstein's video for "Middle of the Riddle" was later
retitled Balance and won in 1990 the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film (albeit with different music).
Track listing
"For a Million" - 9:21 (directed by Alexander Kaidanovsky, U.S.S.R.)
"Romeos" - 4:58 (directed by Ian Pringle, Australia)
"Middle of the Riddle" - 5:00 (directed by Christoph & Wolfgang Lauenstein, F.R.G.)
"Heaven or Hell" - 3:38 (directed by Slobodan Pesic, Yugoslavia)
"Ariana" - 3:49 (directed by Ricky Echolette & Olaf Bessenbacher, West Berlin)
"She Fades Away" - 5:02 (directed by Mao Kawaguchi, Japan)
"Summer Rain" - 4:14 (directed by Susanne Bier, Denmark)
"Mysteries of Love" - 5:02 (directed by Alex Proyas, Australia)
"Patricia's Park" - 4:19 (directed by Godfrey Reggio, U.S.A.)
"Anyway" - 2:56
References
1989 short films
Alphaville (band) video albums
1989 video albums
Music video compilation albums
1989 compilation albums |
44500218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blended%20space | Blended space | A blended space is a space in which a physical environment and a virtual environment are deliberately integrated in a close knit way. The aim of blended space design is to provide people with the experience of feeling a sense of presence in the blended space, acting directly on the content of the blended space. Examples of blended spaces include augmented reality devices such as the Microsoft HoloLens and games such as Pokémon Go in addition to many smartphone tourism apps, smart meeting rooms and applications such as bus tracker systems.
History
The idea of blending comes from the ideas of conceptual integration, or conceptual blending introduced by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner. Originally focused on understanding linguistic expressions, the simple but powerful ideas of blending have been applied to many areas as detailed on Turner's website. Creative thought arises from bringing together concepts from two input spaces. These spaces have some correspondences with each other and share a structure with a more generic space. The blended space takes a partial mapping of the concepts and structure of the two input spaces to provide a new structure that demonstrates properties not possessed by either of the input spaces. Fauconnier and Turner provide many examples of blends in their book along with descriptions of different types of blend (reflecting different types of projections from the two input spaces). They also provide guidance for creating blends that are effective "at the human scale".
Manuel Imaz and David Benyon introduced blending theory to look at concepts in software engineering and human-computer interaction.
Describing spaces
There are two main components to any space. They are:
Objects – The actual distinct objects which make up the medium/space. The objects thus effectively describe the space.
Agents – Correspondents/users inside the space who interact with it through the objects.
For presence in a blended space, there must be a physical space and a digital space. In the context of blended space, the higher the communication between the physical and digital spaces, the richer the experience. This communication happens through the medium of correspondents which relay the state and nature of objects.For the purpose of looking at blended spaces, the nature and characteristics of any space can be represented by these factors:
Ontology – Different types of objects present in the space the total number of objects and the relationships between objects and the space.
Topology – The way objects are placed and positioned.
Volatility – Frequency with which the objects change.
Agency – Medium of communication between the objects, and between the objects and users. Agency also encompasses the users inside the space.
Physical Space – Physical spaces are spaces which afford spatial interaction. This kind of spatial interaction greatly impacts the user's cognitive model. Digital Space – Digital space (also called the information space) consists of all the information content. This content can be in any form.
Structure
The simplest implementation of a blended space requires two features. The first required feature is input. The input can range from tactile, to changes in the environment. The next required feature is notifications received from the digital spaces. The correspondences between the physical and digital space have to be abstracted and exploited by the design of the blended space. Seamless integration of both the spaces is rare. Blended spaces need anchoring points or technologies to link the spaces.A well designed blended space advertises and conveys the digital content in a subtle and unobtrusive way. Presence can be measured using physiological, behavioral, and subjective measures derived from the space.
See also
Reality-virtuality continuum
Immersion (virtual reality)
Virtual reality
References
Human–computer interaction |
44500220 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock%20River%20Times | Rock River Times | The Rock River Times is an independently owned alternative newspaper based in Rockford, Illinois having a circulation of around 17,000 free newspapers.
The weekly newspaper, distributed every Wednesday, has been in publication since 1987. Daily headlines are offered on the paper's website.
History
The Rock River Times began as the monthly The North End Times in 1987. The paper was acquired by Frank Schier in 1992 and rebranded with its current name in 1993. Weekly publication began in December 1993.
Schier, who served as editor and publisher of the newspaper for more than 24 years, died in January 2017. The paper continued under publisher Josh Johnson, a former legals editor under Schier, who purchased the publication from his estate.
Format
The Rock River Times weekly edition comes in a tabloid format typically of 32-56 pages. Topics include local, state and national news and commentary, sports news, business news, and arts and entertainment news.
External links
Rock River Times website
Archived print issues at issuu.com
Newspapers published in Illinois
Rockford, Illinois
Companies based in Winnebago County, Illinois
Newspapers established in 1987 |
26716669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This%20Is%20Your%20Life%20%28New%20Zealand%20TV%20series%29 | This Is Your Life (New Zealand TV series) | This Is Your Life is a New Zealand television documentary show based on the American show of the same name, in which the host surprises guests with a show documenting their lives, with audience participation from their friends and family.
Thirty-nine New Zealanders have been honoured in the New Zealand version of the show, which has been broadcast on and off since 1984 on Television New Zealand's TVOne. It was originally hosted by Bob Parker (1984–1996), but more recent episodes have been presented by Paul Holmes (1996–2000) and Paul Henry (2007–2008). Most recently, racecar driver Scott Dixon was honoured, on 21 September 2008. Other recent recipients have included extreme sports pioneer, A. J. Hackett (who was profiled on 6 November 2007). Mark Inglis (who lost his legs on Mt Cook in 1982), the subject of an episode that was broadcast on 5 June 2007, and former All Blacks winger Jonah Lomu, who was honoured in a show that aired on 9 April 2007.
Prior to that, the last This Is Your Life programme in New Zealand was broadcast in September 2000. The subject of that episode was the runner Peter Snell.
Previous subjects of the show have included prominent figures in sports (such as John Walker, Sir Peter Blake, Mark Todd, Lance Cairns, Scott Dixon and Colin Meads), the arts (like Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, who also once appeared on the British edition of the show), Dame Malvina Major, Rob Guest, Rowena Jackson and Sir Howard Morrison), politics (e.g. Sonja Davies and Dame Catherine Tizard), broadcasting (like Sir Geoffrey Cox, Nola Luxford, Selwyn Toogood and Davina Whitehouse), literature (Barbara Ewing and A.K. Grant), science (Brian Harold Mason and William Pickering) and the military (Johnny Checketts and Charles Upham).
The show has also featured iconic New Zealanders such as mountaineer and explorer Sir Edmund Hillary, and Māori activist Dame Whina Cooper.
2010 revival
The show returned after two years' absence on 10 October 2010. Paul Henry was scheduled to appear as the host, but due to controversy surrounding occurrences on the TV show Breakfast, Henry was replaced with former host Paul Holmes. The book was presented to Sir Peter Leitch. Most recently, former All Black Zinzan Brooke was honoured on 17 October 2011.
References
External links
Page on the TVNZ Web site about This Is Your Life, including a complete list of everyone (now updated to include the show about Jonah Lomu) featured on the show to date
Interview with Paul Henry, the former host of the NZ version, also on the TVNZ site
New Zealand documentary television series
1984 New Zealand television series debuts
1980s New Zealand television series
1990s New Zealand television series
2000s New Zealand television series
TVNZ original programming
1984 in New Zealand television
2010s New Zealand television series |
23581000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Spaak | Charles Spaak | Charles Spaak (25 May 1903 – 4 March 1975) was a Belgian screenwriter who was noted particularly for his work in the French cinema during the 1930s. He was the son of the dramatist and poet Paul Spaak, the brother of the politician Paul-Henri Spaak, and the father of the actresses Catherine Spaak and Agnès Spaak.
Career
Charles Spaak was born in Brussels in 1903 into a prominent Belgian family. In 1928 he moved to Paris and took a post as secretary to the film-maker Jacques Feyder, who then asked him to work on the adaptation of a stage play for his film Les Nouveaux Messieurs. He also worked as head of publicity for the production company Albatros. He went on to write the screenplays for Feyder's most important films of the 1930s: Le Grand Jeu, Pension Mimosas, and La Kermesse héroïque. Spaak was also in demand to work with other leading directors. During the 1930s he worked with Julien Duvivier on La Bandera (1935) and La Belle Équipe (1936), and with Jean Grémillon on La Petite Lise (1930) and Gueule d'amour (1937). He also collaborated with Jean Renoir on two of his major films, Les Bas Fonds (1936) and La Grande Illusion (1937).
Many of these films of the 1930s are marked by a concern for realistic detail with sharply written dialogue, often pessimistic in tone, and several of them provided leading roles which were played by Jean Gabin. He established himself, alongside Jacques Prévert and Henri Jeanson, as a leading screenwriter during one of the French cinema's richest periods.
During the German occupation of France, Spaak chose to return to Paris and found work on a number of the wartime productions that were made there, including further films with Duvivier and Grémillon. (In Bertrand Tavernier's film Laissez-passer (2001) which gives a detailed picture of how film-making continued in occupied Paris, Spaak is portrayed in 1943 when he was working on a film for the Continental Films production company while in prison.)
After the war Spaak worked with new directors and in a wider range styles, and he formed a particular association with André Cayatte in a series of films set against a background of the French judicial system: Justice est faite (1950), Nous sommes tous les assassins (1951), Avant le deluge (1953), and Le Dossier noir (1955). He also undertook some of the literary adaptations which marked the 'quality cinema' of the 1950s, including Thérèse Raquin (1953) and Crime et Châtiment (1956).
In 1949 Spaak made his only venture into directing with Le Mystère Barton, but the film met with little success.
Charles Spaak continued working selectively on scenarios until the early 1970s, and he died in 1975 in Vence in the South of France.
Selective list of screenplays
Charles Spaak wrote or contributed to more than 100 film screenplays, including the following:
1929 Les Nouveaux Messieurs (d. Jacques Feyder)
1930 La Petite Lise (Little Lise, d. Jean Grémillon)
1931 Dainah la métisse (d. Jean Grémillon)
1933 Le Grand Jeu (d. Jacques Feyder)
1934 Pension Mimosas (d. Jacques Feyder)
1935 La Bandera (d. Julien Duvivier)
1935 Les Beaux Jours (d. Marc Allégret)
1935 La Kermesse héroïque (d. Jacques Feyder)
1935 Veille d'armes (d. Marcel L'Herbier)
1936 Les Bas-fonds (d. Jean Renoir)
1936 La Belle Équipe (d. Julien Duvivier)
1936 L'Homme du jour (The Man of the Hour) (d. Julien Duvivier)
1936 Les Loups entre eux (d. Léon Mathot)
1936 La Porte du large (d. Marcel L'Herbier)
1937 Aloha, le chant des îles (d. Léon Mathot)
1937 L'Étrange Monsieur Victor (The Strange Monsieur Victor) (d. Jean Grémillon)
1937 La Grande Illusion (d. Jean Renoir)
1937 Gueule d'amour (d. Jean Grémillon)
1938 La Fin du jour (The End of the Day) (d. Julien Duvivier)
1938 Le Récif de corail (Coral Reefs) (d. Maurice Gleize)
1939 Le Dernier Tournant (d. Pierre Chenal)
1939 Remorques (d. Jean Grémillon) [uncredited]
1940 Untel père et fils (d. Julien Duvivier)
1941 L'Assassinat du père Noël (Who Killed Santa Claus) (d. Christian-Jaque)
1941 Péchés de jeunesse (d. Maurice Tourneur)
1942 Le Lit à colonnes (d. Roland Tual)
1943 Le ciel est à vous (The Woman Who Dared) (d. Jean Grémillon)
1944 Les Caves du Majestic (Majestic Hotel Cellars) (d. Richard Pottier)
1946 L'Affaire du collier de la reine (The Queen's Necklace) (d. Marcel L'Herbier)
1946 Panique (d. Julien Duvivier)
1948 Éternel conflit (Eternal Conflict) (d. Georges Lampin)
1949 Le Mystère Barton (The Barton Mystery) (d. Charles Spaak)
1950 Black Jack (d. Julien Duvivier)
1950 Justice est faite (d. André Cayatte)
1952 Adorables créatures (d. Christian-Jaque)
1952 Le Banquet des fraudeurs (d. Henri Storck)
1952 Nous sommes tous des assassins (d. André Cayatte)
1953 Avant le déluge (d. André Cayatte)
1953 Thérèse Raquin (d. Marcel Carné)
1955 Le Dossier noir (d. André Cayatte)
1955 Scuola elementare (d. Alberto Lattuada)
1956 Crime et Châtiment (Crime and Punishment) (d. Georges Lampin)
1956 Paris, Palace Hotel (d. Henri Verneuil)
1957 Charmants Garçons (Charming Boys) (d. Henri Decoin)
1957 Quand la femme s'en mêle (Send a Woman When the Devil Fails) (d. Yves Allégret)
1961 Cartouche (d. Philippe de Broca)
1961 La Chambre ardente (d. Julien Duvivier)
1962 Germinal (d. Yves Allégret)
1962 Le Glaive et la Balance (d.André Cayatte)
1963 Mathias Sandorf (d. Georges Lampin)
1973 (d. Étienne Périer)
Further reading
Spaak, Janine. Charles Spaak, mon mari. (Paris: Éditions France-Empire, [1977]).
References
External links
Charles Spaak at Ciné-Ressources [in French].
Charles Spaak commemorated at the Université Européenne d'Écriture [in French].
Charles Spaak at IMDb.
Red Orchestra (espionage)
Belgian screenwriters
1903 births
1975 deaths
20th-century screenwriters |
44500221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot%20Transportation | Patriot Transportation | Patriot Transportation is an American trucking and real estate holding company based in Jacksonville, Florida. Through its affiliates, Patriot specializes in moving freight consisting mainly of petroleum products and other liquids and also dry bulk commodities. FRP Development Corp, the companies real estate division, acquires, constructs, leases and manages land and commercial buildings. As of September 30, 2013, Patriot Transportation had approximately $287.1 million in total assets.
See also
Florida Rock Industries
Vulcan Materials
References
External links
Patriot Transportation Official Web Site.
Companies based in Jacksonville, Florida
American companies established in 1988
Companies listed on the Nasdaq
1988 establishments in Florida
Publicly traded companies based in Jacksonville, Florida |
26716674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This%20Is%20Your%20Life%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | This Is Your Life (Australian TV series) | This Is Your Life is an Australian television documentary and reality show, based on the American show of the same name, which was created, produced and originally hosted by Ralph Edwards, in which the presenter surprises celebrity guests with a show documenting their lives, with audience participation from their friends and family.
Original broadcast
The original series began broadcasting in Australia in 1975 on the Seven Network, with Bill Lovelock as executive producer and Mike Willesee as host. Subsequent seasons were compered by Digby Wolfe (1976) and Roger Climpson (1977–1980).
Nine Network versions
In 1995, the Nine Network relaunched the program with a 13-year successful run hosted by journalist Mike Munro. In November 2010, it was announced that the show would return on 28 February 2011 and be hosted by Eddie McGuire; however, it was not as successful, and after just four episodes the show did not return.
Seven Network revival
On 27 January 2022, a revival for the Seven Network was announced, to be hosted by Melissa Doyle. The first episode, which aired on 24 July 2022, featured Olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe.
References
External links
This is Your Life at the National Film and Sound Archive
Seven Network original programming
Nine Network original programming
1970s Australian documentary television series
1980s Australian documentary television series
1990s Australian documentary television series
2000s Australian documentary television series
2010s Australian documentary television series
1975 Australian television series debuts
1980 Australian television series endings
1995 Australian television series debuts
2005 Australian television series endings
2008 Australian television series debuts
2008 Australian television series endings
2011 Australian television series debuts
2011 Australian television series endings
2022 Australian television series debuts
English-language television shows
Black-and-white Australian television shows |
20475112 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnebago%20Reservation | Winnebago Reservation | The Winnebago Reservation of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska is located in Thurston County, Nebraska, United States. The tribal council offices are located in the town of Winnebago. The villages of Emerson, south of First Street, as well as Thurston, are also located on the reservation. The reservation occupies northern Thurston County, Nebraska, as well as southeastern Dixon County and Woodbury County, Iowa, and a small plot of off-reservation land of southern Craig Township in Burt County, Nebraska. The other federally recognized Winnebago tribe is the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin.
Early history
The Winnebago Reservation is on land that originally belonged to the Omaha nation. On February 21, 1863, Congress passed legislation removing the Winnebago (also known as Ho-Chunk) people from a reservation in Blue Earth County, Minnesota to Crow Creek, South Dakota. This location lacked essential resources, leading to a famine that sent many Winnebago people to seek refuge on the Omaha Reservation further down the Missouri River. In order to establish a separate Winnebago reservation, the Omaha nation ceded the northern portion of their own reservation to the United States on March 6, 1865, and the United States granted this area to the Winnebago tribe in exchange for their South Dakota lands in a treaty on March 8, 1865. The Omaha Nation later conveyed an additional of timber land to the Winnebago Reservation through an act of Congress on June 22, 1874 and a deed dated July 31, 1874.
Federal legislation including the Dawes Act of 1887 led to the allotment of Winnebago tribal lands into private ownership. By 1910, the Bureau of Indian Affairs reported that were allotted to 1,200 Indians; reserved for agency, etc.; the residue, , is unallotted.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the reservation has a total area of , of which is land and is water. The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska held an additional of off-reservation trust land as of 2020.
Due to allotment under the Dawes Act of 1887, much of the reservation is no-longer tribally-owned. According to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the tribe's total trust land was , or about 24.5% of the reservation land area.
Demographics
As of the census of 2020, the population living within the reservation boundaries was 2,737. The population density was . There were 921 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the reservation and off-reservation trust land was 67.1% Native American, 26.9% White, 0.7% Black or African American, 0.2% Pacific Islander, 0.2% Asian, 0.8% from other races, and 4.2% from two or more races. Ethnically, the population was 4.2% Hispanic or Latino of any race.
Economic development
In 1992 the federally recognized tribe established the WinnaVegas Casino to generate revenues and provide employment. Its council had already legalized alcohol sales on the reservation, in order to keep the revenues from sales taxes and associated fees that its residents had previously paid through off-reservation merchants to the state. It also now directly regulates the sales and can provide for treatment for individuals and families affected by alcoholism. As of 2007, 63% of federally recognized tribes in the lower 48 states had legalized alcohol sales for similar reasons.
In 1994, based on a long-term view of growth, the tribe founded Ho-Chunk, Inc., its economic development corporation, which has strongly contributed to new resources on the reservation. Beginning with one employee, it has grown to 1400 employees operating in 10 states and five foreign countries. Its revenues have provided for development in 1995 of Little Priest Tribal College; as well as a new community school, hospital and a strong housing construction program of more than $1 million, with development of Ho-Chunk Village.
The rise in its economy has enabled the tribe to improve the quality of life on the reservation, as Lance Morgan, the CEO of the corporation, discussed in a forum at Bellevue University in Omaha, Nebraska, on April 2, 2010. Ho-Chunk, Inc. has gained awards for small business, and it has initiated a strong housing construction program in collaboration with federal programs. Its leaders were featured on Native American Entrepreneurs, airing in 2009 on PBS. Ho-Chunk, Inc. operates 26 subsidiaries in areas such as information technology, construction, government contracting, green energy, retail, wholesale distribution, marketing, media and transportation.
See also
Native American tribes in Nebraska
Reuben Snake, notable person from Winnebago
Notes
References
External links
Reservation tract maps from the US Census.
Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, official website
Ho-Chunk, Inc., economic development arm of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska
WinnaVegas Casino
Geography of Thurston County, Nebraska
Geography of Dixon County, Nebraska
Geography of Woodbury County, Iowa
Geography of Burt County, Nebraska
American Indian reservations in Nebraska |
44500223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Gurri%C3%B3n%20Mat%C3%ADas | Daniel Gurrión Matías | Daniel Gurrión Matías (born 30 January 1958) is a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party. FIn 2009 he served as Deputy of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Oaxaca.
References
1958 births
Living people
People from Oaxaca
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
Deputies of the LX Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Oaxaca |
26716723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKISAN%20National%20Convention | AKISAN National Convention | The Akwa Ibom State Association of Nigeria, USA Inc. (AKISAN) National Convention is the highest legislative activity of AKISAN and is generally held in August of every year. Divided into Business and General Sessions, the Convention is a gathering of all the chapters of the Association for legislative, cultural and social reasons. Until the 1990 gathering at Atlanta, Georgia, the convention was known as the Colloquium.
Past conventions
Notable attendees and speeches
In 1977 the Colloquium was addressed by the Cross River State Military Governor Major General Paul Ufuoma Omu, through the presentation of B.E. Bassey, the Cross River State Commissioner for Education. The elected civilian Executive Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Obong Victor Attah and his wife Allison, attended the 1999 Convention in Houston, Texas. In 2007 the Executive Governor, Godswill Akpabio, sent a goodwill message to the convention. The 2007 convention was attended by two ex-Governors of the state, Victor Attah and Idongesit Nkanga.
Free education policy announcement
.|Governor Akpabio delivers a key policy speech on education during the 2008 AKISAN National Convention]]
During the last year of Monday R. Affiah's administration in 2008, Governor Godswill Akpabio led a 50-member delegation from Nigeria to the convention hosted by the Washington, DC Chapter in Alexandria, VA. The governor announced donation of 100,000 U.S. dollars to the Association and delivered a policy speech announcing free universal education to all citizens of the state from primary to senior secondary school level.
The Governor announced the creation of the Diaspora Desk to coordinate the flow of information between the State Government and the Association. Former United States Ambassador to Nigeria Howard F Jetter announced the donation of thousands of books to Akwa Ibom State.
Notable delegates
Some members of the delegation to attend the AKISAN National Convention in 2008 included Helen Esuene, former Federal Minister and wife of the late first military governor of South-Eastern State Brigadier Udokaha Esuene, Idongesit Nkanga first military/indigenous governor of Akwa Ibom State, Umana O. Umana Secretary to the government of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Aloysius Etuk, Otuekong Sunny Jackson Udoh, Chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission Bassey Dan Abia, Executive Director of Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited Udom Inoyo, the first Akwa Ibom State female Head of Service Elder Grace Anwana, the Convention Chairman Obong Stephen Udofia and his wife Mrs. Idongesit Asuquo Udofia, and then Speaker of the State House of Assembly Rt. Hon Samuel Ikon.
Other attendees from Nigeria included Nollywood stars of Akwa Ibom State extraction led by actress, songwriter and television personality Ms. Anne Inyang with 8 albums to her credit and whose international hit song "Akanam Nkwe" was performed live to a standing ovation at the Convention.
Some Members of the Delegation to AKISAN 2019 Convention in Houston, Texas included Special Guest of Honor- Dr. Emmanuel Ekuwem, Secretary to the State Governor of Akwa Ibom State, represented His Excellency, Mr. Udom Emmanuel, Otuekong Idongesit Nkanga, former Military Governor of Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria, Rt. Hon. Aniekan Bassey, Speaker Akwa Ibom House of Assembly, Mr. Udom Inoyo, Vice Chairman ExxonMobil and 2019 Convention Chairman, Senator Dr. (Mrs.) Akon Eyakenyi, Congresswoman Mrs. Sheila Jackson of the United States of America Congress, Hon. Onofiok Luke- Hon. Member Federal House Representative (Convention Keynote Speaker), Rt. Hon. Michael Enyong- Hon. Member Federal House of Representative Rt. Hon. Felicia Bassey Deputy Speaker AKSHA, HRM Raymond Inyang Paramount Ruler of ONNA (and wife), Chief Paul Ekpo, Mr. Friday Ben Assistant Chief Protocols Officer to the State Governor, Mr. Nkanang Gabriel Nkanang, Mr. Gabriel Ukpeh- Chairman FDI and Entertainer Aity Inyang
2010 National Convention
The 2010 AKISAN National Convention was held at the Radisson Plaza Lord Baltimore, Baltimore, MD between August 5-8th.
References
Conventions (meetings) |
6906293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabs%20in%20Turkey | Arabs in Turkey | Arabs in Turkey (, ) refers to the 1.5-2 million citizens and residents of Turkey who are ethnically of Arab descent. They are the third-largest minority in the country after the Kurds and the Circassians and are concentrated in a few provinces in Southeastern Anatolia. Since the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011, millions of Arab Syrian refugees have sought refuge in Turkey.
Background
Besides the large communities of both foreign and Turkish Arabs in Istanbul and other large cities, most live in the south and southeast.
Turkish Arabs are mostly Muslims living along the southeastern border with Syria and Iraq but also in Mediterranean coastal regions in the following provinces: Batman, Bitlis, Gaziantep, Hatay, Mardin, Muş, Siirt, Şırnak, Şanlıurfa, Mersin and Adana. Many Bedouin tribes, in addition to other Arabs who settled there, arrived before Turkic tribes came to Anatolia from Central Asia in the 11th century. Many of these Arabs have ties to Arabs in Syria and Saudi Arabia, especially in the city of Raqqa. Arab society in Turkey has been subject to Turkification, yet some speak Arabic in addition to Turkish. The Treaty of Lausanne ceded to Turkey large areas that had been part of Ottoman Syria, especially in Aleppo Vilayet.
Besides a significant Shafi'i Sunni population, about 300,000 to 350,000 are Alawites (distinct from Alevism). About 18,000 Arab Christians belong mostly to the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch. There are also few Arab Jews in Hatay and other Turkish parts of the former Aleppo Vilayet, but this community has shrank considerably since the late 1940s, mostly due to migration to Israel and other parts of Turkey.
History
Pre-Islamic period
Arabs presence in what used to be called Asia Minor, dates back to the Hellenistic period. The Arab dynasty of the Abgarids were rulers of the Kingdom of Osroene, with its capital in the ancient city of Edessa (Modern day city of Urfa). According to Retsö, The Arabs presence in Edessa dates back to AD 49. In addition, the Roman author Pliny the Elder refers to the natives of Osroene as Arabs and the region as Arabia. In the nearby Tektek Mountains, Arabs seem to have made it the seat of the governors of 'Arab. An early Arab figure who flourished in Anatolia is the 2nd century grammarian Phrynichus Arabius, specifically in the Roman province of Bithynia. Another example, is the 4th century Roman politician Domitius Modestus who was appointed by Emperor Julian to the position of Praefectus urbi of Constantinople (Modern day Istanbul). And under Emperor Valens, he became Praetorian Prefect of the East whose seat was also in Constantinople. In the 6th century, The famous Arab poet Imru' al-Qais journeyed to Constantinople in the time of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I. On his way back, it is said that he died and was buried at Ancyra (Modern day Ankara) in the Central Anatolia Region.
The age of Islam
In the early Islamic conquests, the Rashidun Caliphate successful campaigns in the Levant lead to the fall of the Ghassanids. The last Ghassanid king Jabalah ibn al-Aiham with as many as 30,000 Arab followers managed to avoid the punishment of the Caliph Umar by escaping to the domains of the Byzantine Empire. King Jabalah ibn al-Aiham established a government-in-exile in Constantinople and lived in Anatolia until his death in 645. Following the early Muslim conquests, Asia Minor became the main ground for the Arab-Byzantine wars. Among those Arabs who were killed in the wars was Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Abu Ayyub was buried at the walls of Constantinople. Centuries later, after the Ottomans conquest of the city, a tomb above Abu Ayyub's grave was constructed and a mosque built by the name of Eyüp Sultan Mosque. From that point on, the area became known as the locality of Eyup by the Ottoman officials. Another instance of Arab presence in what is nowadays Turkey, is the settlement of Arab tribes in the 7th century in the region of Al-Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia), that partially encompasses Southeastern Turkey. Among those tribes are the Banu Bakr, Mudar, Rabi'ah ibn Nizar and Banu Taghlib.
Demographics
According to a Turkish study based on a large survey in 2006, 0.7% of the total population in Turkey were ethnically Arab. The population of Arabs in Turkey varies according to different sources. A 1995 American estimate put the numbers between 800,000 and 1 million. According to Ethnologue, in 1992 there were 500,000 people with Arabic as their mother tongue in Turkey. Another Turkish study estimated the Arab population to be between 1.1 and 2.4%.
In a 2020 interview with Al Jazeera, the prominent Turco-Arab politician Yasin Aktay estimated the number of Arabs in Turkey at nine million (or 10% of Turkey's population), half of them from other countries.
Notable people
Emine Erdoğan, wife of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, whose family is from Siirt.
Yasin Aktay, aide to President Erdoğan.
Hüseyin Çelik, politician (Arab father).
Murat Yıldırım, actor, (Arab mother).
Murathan Mungan, author, (Arab father).
Nicholas Kadi, actor of (Iraqi descent).
Mihrac Ural, militant and leader of the Syrian Resistance.
Selin Sayek Böke, politician.
Sertab Erener, singer, songwriter and composer.
Pınar Deniz, actress.
Selin Şekerci, actress (Arab father).
İbrahim Tatlıses, actor and singer, (Arab father).
Nur Yerlitaş, fashion designer, (Arab mother).
Ahmet Düverioğlu, basketball player.
Mert Fırat, actor and screenwriter.
Jehan Barbur, singer and songwriter.
Atiye, pop singer of Arab descent.
Selami Şahin, singer and songwriter.
Selçuk İnan, football player.
Kerim Frei, football player (Arab Mother).
Muhaymin Mustafa
See also
Turks in the Arab world
Alawites in Turkey
Hatay Province
Arab diaspora
Iraqis in Turkey
Syrians in Turkey
Refugees of the Syrian Civil War in Turkey
References
Further reading
Arab diaspora in Europe
Arab diaspora in Asia
Arab world articles needing expert attention
Cultural assimilation
Demographics of Turkey
Ethnic groups in Turkey
Turkish Arab people
Ethnic groups in the Middle East
Arab diaspora |
23581008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel%20Pincus | Lionel Pincus | Lionel I. Pincus (March 2, 1931 — October 10, 2009) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was the founder of the private equity firm Warburg Pincus, running it from 1966 to 2002, and later became the chairman emeritus of the company.
Early life
Pincus was born to a Jewish family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Henry (d. 1949) and Theresa Celia (née Levit, d. 1982) Pincus. His grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia and Poland. After being educated at The Hill School, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree in English in 1953. His family had clothes retailing and real estate businesses; rather than join those businesses, he pursued an MBA at Columbia Business School, graduating in 1956.
Career
Pincus joined Ladenburg Thalmann, an investment banking firm, in 1955, and became a partner in the firm at age 29. He formed Lionel I. Pincus & Co., Inc., a financial consultancy, in 1964. The following year, he joined the board of directors of E.M. Warburg & Co., founded in 1939 by Eric Warburg, and in 1966, the two firms merged. The company was renamed to E.M. Warburg Pincus in 1970, and to Warburg Pincus LLC in 2001.
Pincus is a "pioneer of the venture capital megafund", raising billions of dollars to invest in companies across industries. The money he raised came from, among other sources, blue chip pension funds, such as AT&T, IBM, GE, Pacific Telesis, and GM, state pension funds, and college endowments.
An early venture capital fund, EMW Associates, was organized by Pincus in 1970, with $20 million in capital, about half of which came from officers of the company. This was followed by successively larger funds; a $2 billion fund organized by Warburg Pincus in 1989 was described as "five times larger than any other venture partnership". A later fund, closed in 2000, raised $2.5 billion, and was then described as the "biggest so far in the private-equity industry". The tenth and final fund raised while Pincus headed the company raised over $5.3 billion, closing in 2002.
Early investments included 20th Century Fox, Humana, and Warner, a company later acquired by Waste Management, Inc. In 1984, Warburg Pincus invested in Mattel, and Pincus joined its board of directors. By 2002, when Pincus ended his tenure as the hands-on leader of the company, it had overseen investments of more than $13 billion in over 450 companies in 29 countries.
In 1999, Warburg Pincus sold its asset management division to Credit Suisse for $650 million, which also acquired an interest in the private equity division of Warburg Pincus.
Philanthropy
Pincus supported several philanthropic activities, including a $10 million donation to Columbia University, New York in 1995. He was a trustee of the university at the time. In 2005, the New York Public Library renovated its main map room, principally financed and endowed by Pincus and Princess Firyal of Jordan. The renovation cost $5 million and was also financially supported by the City of New York and the U.S. Government. The division was renamed The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division. He was recognized in 2002 for having donated more than $5 million to the Library.
Personal
Pincus married the former Suzanne Storrs, a former Miss Utah winner and actress, in 1967. They had two sons, Henry A. Pincus (married to Ana Terzani) and Matthew S. Pincus (married to Sarah Min). She died in 1995 at the age of 60, after a long illness.
Following cancer surgery in 2006, Pincus was declared mentally and physically incompetent, and his sons became his guardians. In 2008, his 14-room, apartment at The Pierre hotel was offered for sale, over the objections of Princess Firyal, his long-time companion. The asking price at the time was $50 million.
References
Further reading
1931 births
2009 deaths
American investment bankers
American money managers
American people of Polish-Jewish descent
American people of Russian-Jewish descent
Columbia Business School alumni
Jewish American philanthropists
Businesspeople from Philadelphia
Private equity and venture capital investors
University of Pennsylvania alumni
The Hill School alumni
20th-century American philanthropists
20th-century American businesspeople
20th-century American Jews
21st-century American Jews |
44500225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Archives%20of%20Medicine | International Archives of Medicine | The International Archives of Medicine is an open access medical journal covering all aspects of medicine. It was established in 2008 and published by BioMed Central until the end of 2014. Starting in 2015, the journal is being published by iMed.pub, the official publisher of the Internet Medical Society, and restructured as a megajournal on all areas of medicine. The journal was abstracted and indexed from 2009 until its delisting in 2015 in Scopus. The editor-in-chief is .
In 2015, as part of a sting operation, science journalist John Bohannon submitted an intentionally flawed study that claimed that eating chocolate aided weight-loss to the International Archives of Medicine. The article was accepted without peer review by the journal's CEO, Carlos Vasquez, who called the manuscript "outstanding" and published it without any change for a fee of . The journal editors later said that the article hadn't been accepted and was posted on the journal website only "for some hours", while Bohannon produced previous correspondence from the editors that said otherwise.
The journal's publishers, Internet Medical Publishing (and now iMed.pub), are both listed as potentially predatory publishers on "Beall's list" compiled by librarian Jeffrey Beall.
References
External links
Journal page at iMed.pub
Open access journals
General medical journals
Publications established in 2008
English-language journals |
20475120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So%20Young%2C%20So%20Bad | So Young, So Bad | So Young, So Bad is a 1950 American drama film. It stars Paul Henreid, and was directed by Bernard Vorhaus.
It was the first major screen role for Anne Francis, Rita Moreno, and Anne Jackson.
Plot
The film begins with three girls fleeing from Elmview Corrective School for Girls, a reform school. Two manage to steal a truck and escape while the third hides nearby. The next day, Dr. John Jason (Paul Henreid), a psychiatrist on staff, is told to resign by Riggs (Cecil Clovelly), the chief of staff. Dr. Jason refuses, and an investigation in the psychiatrist's methods is begun. Dr. Jason reflects on the circumstances leading up to this day, and the scene changes to his arrival at Elmview.
Against the wishes of Riggs, Dr. Jason, is hired to reduce the high rate of recidivism at Elmview. He meets several of the new arrivals, and naively recommends treatments for them to Riggs and the other staff, who seem to listen to his advice. Ruth Levering (Catherine McLeod), the assistant superintendent, warns him that his efforts will be futile. When he follows up, and explores the school, Dr. Jason is shocked to discover that not only is his advice not being followed but the girls are forced to work as farm hands and in a sweatshop laundry, and are punished with solitary confinement if they refuse. When he complains, Miss Levering, who had seemed sympathetic to the girls, refuses to back him up. Frustrated and realizing his work will do no good there, Dr. Jason considers resigning, much to the satisfaction of Riggs.
As a passive protest, the girls refuse to sing for the city council when they visit the institution. As punishment, Riggs has Mrs. Beuhler (Grace Coppin), the cruel head matron, confiscate the girls' belongings. In the process Riggs discovers and Beuhler kills a rabbit the girls had been keeping as a pet. In retaliation the girls set fire to their bedding and the blaze destroys the dormitory. Beuhler reacts by bringing the girls to the basement and setting a fire hose on them.
Meanwhile, Dr. Jason and Miss Levering meet on their day off and she explains that if she had supported him with the staff she would be fired and would then be unable to help the girls at all. Though Dr. Jason disagrees with this approach and an argument ensues, a friendship begins between the two. When they return to Elmview, they manage to rescue the girls from Beuhler. One of the girls, Loretta (Anne Francis), a single mother who Dr. Jason tried to help when he first arrived, develops a crush on him as a result.
Threatening to report the fire hose incident to the board of directors, Dr. Jason makes a deal with Riggs where he would stay on in a purely administrative role while Dr. Jason and Miss Levering would make all decisions as to the treatment of the girls. Under the new regime, the harsh punishments are abolished, the farm and the laundry are shut down and replaced by vocational training programs, and a number of other reforms are instituted. The morale and behavior of the girls improves dramatically, though Loretta is jealous of Miss Levering and Dolores (Rita Moren)), a chronic runaway, still has trouble socializing. Eventually Dr. Jason and Miss Levering arrange a dance, inviting boys from a nearby trade school.
The night of the dance, one of the girls "borrows" a bottle of perfume from Mrs. Beuhler who directs her anger at Dolores by cutting off her hair. The rest of the girls go to the dance leaving Dolores in tears. Loretta, hurt by Dr. Jason's rejection of her at the dance, runs back to the dormitory where she finds Dolores has committed suicide. When Riggs sees the body he suspends Dr. Jason and Miss Levering and puts Mrs. Beuhler in charge of the school. Fearing a return of harsh conditions, Loretta escapes with two other girls, Jane and Jackie, as seen at the start of the movie.
Dr. Jason, thinking that Dolores had cut off her own hair, blames himself for not realizing she was suicidal. But Jane emerges from hiding and reveals that Beuhler was actually responsible. At a hearing to determine the fate of Elmview, things don't go well. The suicide and runaways are blamed on Jason's methods and Jane and the other girls refuse to corroborate the incidents with the fire hose or the hair cutting. Miss Levering's testimony is discounted because of her relationship with Dr. Jason.
Loretta and Jackie, now fugitives, visit the maternity home where Loretta's baby is living in an attempt to get money. But on spending some time with him, Loretta decides to keep the baby rather than putting him up for adoption. They learn of Jason's predicament and return to Elmview to testify. With Loretta and Jackie there, the other girls also corroborate their harsh treatment by Beuhler, revealing they had been whipped to prevent them from telling the truth, which leads to Riggs and Beuhler being placed under arrest.
In an epilogue, Dr. Jason and Miss Levering, now Mrs. Jason, are running the school, Loretta is paroled and looking forward to raising her son, and many of the other girls leave to lead productive lives.
Cast
Paul Henreid as Dr. John H. Jason
Catherine McLeod as Ruth Levering
Cecil Clovelly as Mr. Riggs
Grace Coppin as Mrs. Beuhler
Anne Francis as Loretta
Anne Jackson as Jackie
Enid Pulver as Jane
Rita Moreno as Dolores Guerrero (credited as Rosita Moreno) [Not to be confused with Rosita Moreno, a Spanish actress who was 43 years old at the time.]
Production
Vorhaus received his idea after he read a newspaper article about abuses at a women's reformatory. Vorhaus and writer Jean Rouverol visited several institutions to gather ideas. Studios initially showed interest, but they backed out since Vorhaus and Rouverol's politics made the studios uninterested; both Vorhaus and Rouverol were blacklisted before So Young, So Bad saw release.
Paul Henreid says it was the first film from the Danzinger brothers. Henreid agreed to produce and star though the Danzingers would be credited; Henreid took 50% of the profits.
The film was shot with a very low budget. Filming locations included areas in Connecticut, Manhattan, Yonkers, and Long Island. A Jewish home for blind and elderly people in upstate New York was used to represent the Elmview Corrections School for Girls, a fictional institution.
Reception
Turner Classic Movies described the critical response to So Young, So Bad as "tepid" because independent film-making techniques were not as appreciated in the 1950s as they were in later years. Many critics made jokes out of the title. Some critics accused So Young, So Bad of plagiarizing the similarly themed film, Caged. The two movies were released one day apart. So Young, So Bad profited in the United States and received an international distribution agreement. Henreid, ignoring the warnings of his agent, placed a 50 percent stake in the film. Henreid reported that So Young, So Bad made him more money than any other film of his career.
Henreid wrote "the picture did well and I made more money out of it than of anything I've ever been connected with."
References
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1950 films
1950 drama films
American black-and-white films
American drama films
Films directed by Bernard Vorhaus
Films shot in Connecticut
Films shot in New York (state)
Films with screenplays by Bernard Vorhaus
United Artists films
Women in prison films
1950s English-language films
1950s American films |
44500249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel%20%C3%81ngel%20Guti%C3%A9rrez%20Aguilar | Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez Aguilar | Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez Aguilar (born 21 July 1978) is a Mexican politician from the National Action Party. From 2008 to 2009 he served as Deputy of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Jalisco.
References
1978 births
Living people
Politicians from Jalisco
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 Jalisco |
23581012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ale%C5%A1%20Poplatnik | Aleš Poplatnik | Aleš Poplatnik (born 25 June 1987) is a Slovenian footballer who plays for Škofja Loka as a forward.
Personal life
His younger brother, Matej Poplatnik, is also a professional footballer.
References
External links
NZS profile
1987 births
Living people
Slovenian footballers
Association football forwards
NK Svoboda Ljubljana players
NK Olimpija Ljubljana (2005) players
NK Triglav Kranj players
Slovenian Second League players
Slovenian PrvaLiga players
Slovenian expatriate footballers
Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in Austria
Expatriate footballers in Austria |
6906305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey%20Saputo | Joey Saputo | Giuseppe "Joey" Saputo (born September 25, 1964) is a Canadian businessman and the president of CF Montréal soccer team he founded in 1992, and Saputo Stadium, named after his family's dairy products company Saputo Inc. He is also the chairman of the Italian football club Bologna FC 1909.
Family
Saputo is the son of Emanuele "Lino" Saputo, the founder, former chairman & CEO, and majority shareholder of Saputo Inc., a Canadian dairy products company that also markets a range of other items including spaghetti sauce. Saputo previously owned Vachon Inc., the snack company responsible for the Jos. Louis dessert. Joey Saputo has four sons.
Career
Saputo Inc.
In 1985 Saputo began working for the family business, Saputo Inc., a dairy processing company founded by his father Lino Saputo in 1954. In 1990, he was promoted to president and chief operating officer of the Dairy Products Division for the United States. After occupying various positions within the organization, he was named Senior Vice President of Commercial and Business Development in January 2004.
Club de Foot Montréal
When Saputo was the founding president of Montreal Impact in 1992, the Saputo Group was the team's sole owner; however, under his leadership, in 1999, the club was sold to a group of shareholders. In 2002, the team was incorporated as a non-profit organization, and he played a "pivotal role in the re-launch of the club and returned as President. He then spearheaded the construction of Saputo Stadium, the team's new home, inaugurated at Olympic Park, Montreal, on May 19, 2008.
By 2007, he had left the Saputo Group in order to focus on the Impact. In 2012, he led the club's entry into Major League Soccer and oversaw the Saputo Stadium's expansion. Under his leadership, "professional soccer's popularity has soared to unprecedented heights in Quebec", with the Impact having won three championships, two Canadian championships, and reached the finals of the CONCACAF Champions League. In 2021, the Impact were renamed as Club de Foot Montréal.
Bologna F.C.
Saputo is the majority shareholder in a consortium (BFC 1909 Lux SPV SA) that bought the Italian football team Bologna F.C. 1909 on October 15, 2014. He was nominated as the next chairman of the club in an extraordinary general meeting on November 17, 2014, replacing Joe Tacopina, who retained the position until annual general meeting on December 22, 2014.
Other activities
In addition to his work at the Saputo Group and CF Montreal, Saputo has also been involved in managing his family's assets, consolidated under Jolina Capital ("the Saputo family company"), an asset management company where he was president from March 2001 to January 2004. Jolina Capital is a shareholder—and frequently a majority shareholder—in companies spanning sectors as diverse as food, transportation, softwood lumber, and real estate.
Saputo is currently on the board of directors of TransForce, a publicly traded Canadian transport and logistics company, where he has been an independent director since 1996.
Philanthropy
Saputo is involved in the Montreal community and serves on the boards of the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Centre Foundation, PROCURE, an organization that seeks to prevent and cure prostate cancer, the Italian-Canadian Community Foundation (his father immigrated from Montelepre, Sicily, in the 1950s).
References
1964 births
Living people
Anglophone Quebec people
Businesspeople from Montreal
Canadian food industry businesspeople
Canadian soccer chairmen and investors
Canadian people of Sicilian descent
CF Montréal
Bologna F.C. 1909
North American Soccer League executives
Chief operating officers |
20475122 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterina%20Bueno | Caterina Bueno | Caterina Bueno (April 2, 1943 – July 16, 2007) was an Italian singer and folk music historian.
Biography
Starting in the 1960s, her research and performances of Italian folk songs, particularly those of Tuscany, are credited to bringing a new awareness of Italian folk music.
Bueno was born in San Domenico di Fiesole to her Spanish father, painter Xavier Bueno, and Swiss mother, the writer Julia Chamorel. She taught herself to play the guitar and collected folk records, generally of Tuscany origin. She became active at the l'Istituto Ernesto De Martino and later the magazine Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano.
She has worked with many artists in her career including Francesco De Gregori who dedicated his song "Caterina" to her.
Albums
1964 -La brunettina – Canzoni, rispetti e stornelli toscani- (I dischi del sole)
1968 – La veglia – (I dischi del sole)
1969 – La Toscana di Caterina – (I dischi del sole)
1970 – In giro per la Toscana – (Amico)
1973 – Eran tre falciatori – (Fonit Cetra)
1974 – Se vi assiste la memoria – (Fonit Cetra)
1976 – Il trenino della "Leggera" – (Fonit Cetra)
1997 – Canti di maremma e d'anarchia – (Libera Informazione Editrice)
1998 – Caterina Bueno in spettacolo canzoni paradossali e storie popolari di dolente attualità (Supreme)
2001 – Caterina Bueno dal vivo (Compagnia Nuove Indye (CNI))
2005 – Eran tre falciatori – Se vi assiste la memoria – Il trenino della "leggera"] (Warner Music)
2007 – Dal vivo / live – Firenze 1975 Caterina Bueno e Coro degli Etruschi (Pegasus)
Singles
1976 – Italia bella mostrati gentile/La "Leggera" (from a television performance) – (Fonit Cetra)
Bueno was also featured in the 1999 Italian folk collection CD The Great Ladies of Italian Folk Music (Buda Musique)
References and further reading
Enciclopedia della canzone italiana, di Autori Vari (a cura di Gino Castaldo), ed. Curcio, 1990; alla voce "Bueno, Caterina", di Ambrogio Sparagna, pag. 228
1947 births
2007 deaths
People from Fiesole
Italian folk singers
Italian ethnomusicologists
Buda Musique artists
20th-century Italian women singers |
6906309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRK | FRK | FRK may refer to:
Federation of Russian Canadians
Finnish Red Cross (Swedish: )
Frankish language
Frégate Island Airport, in the Seychelles
Fructokinase
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
Fyn-related kinase
Martin Frk (born 1993), Czech ice hockey player |
23581041 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Forbes%20%28bishop%29 | William Forbes (bishop) | William Forbes (1585 – 12 April 1634) was a Scottish churchman, the first Bishop of Edinburgh.
Life
He was the son of Thomas Forbes, a burgess of Aberdeen, descended from the Corsindac branch of that house, by his wife, Janet, the sister of the botanist James Cargill. Born at Aberdeen in 1585, he was educated at the Marischal College, graduating A.M. in 1601. Very soon after he held the chair of logic in the same college, but resigned it in 1606 to pursue his studies on the continent. He travelled through Poland, Germany, and Holland, studying at several universities, and meeting Scaliger, Grotius, and Vossius. Returning after five years to Britain, he visited Oxford, where he was invited to become professor of Hebrew, but he pleaded ill-health.
Ordained, probably by Bishop Peter Blackburn of Aberdeen, he became minister successively of two rural Aberdeenshire parishes, Alford and Monymusk; in November 1616 (pursuant to a nomination of the general assembly) he was appointed one of the ministers of Aberdeen; and at the Perth assembly in 1618 was selected to defend the lawfulness of the article there proposed for kneeling at the holy communion. In the same year, in a formal dispute between him and Aidie, then principal of Marischal College, he maintained the lawfulness of prayers for the dead. Such doctrines would not have been tolerated elsewhere in Scotland, but in Aberdeen they were received with favour, and on Aidie's enforced resignation in 1620 the town council of the city, who were patrons of Marischal College, made him the principal, specifying that he should continue his preaching.
In the end of 1621 he was chosen one of the ministers of St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh, being admitted in March 1622. In 1625 when the church was split into quarters, Forbes was given the south-east quarter (known as the Old Kirk) in January 1626. At his request, on grounds of ill-health, he transferred back to his native Aberdeen on Michaelmas 1626.
His zeal for the observance of the Perth articles was distasteful to many, and when he taught that the doctrines of the Catholics and the Reformed could in many points be easily reconciled, there was disorder. Five of the ringleaders were dealt with by the privy council; but Forbes felt that his ministry at Edinburgh was a failure, and more trouble arising from his preaching in support of the superiority of bishops over presbyters, he returned to Aberdeen, where in 1626 he resumed his former post.
In 1633, when Charles I was in Scotland for his coronation, Forbes preached before him at Holyrood, and his sermon so pleased the king that he declared the preacher to be worthy of having a bishopric created for him. Shortly afterwards the see of Edinburgh was erected; Forbes was nominated to it, and was consecrated in February 1634. In the beginning of March he sent an injunction to his clergy to celebrate the Eucharist on Easter Sunday to take it themselves on their knees, and to minister it with their own hands to every one of the communicants. When Easter came he was very ill, but he was able to celebrate in St. Giles' Cathedral; on returning home he took to bed, and died on the following Saturday, 12 April 1634, in the year of his 49th birthday. He was buried in his cathedral; his monument was afterwards destroyed, but a copy of the inscription is in William Maitland's History of Edinburgh.
He was married, and left a family, of whom one, Arthur, is said to have become Professor of Humanities at St. Jean d'Angel, near La Rochelle, while another, Thomas, entered the Catholic Seminary, the Scots College, Rome, and eventually entered the service of Cardinal Carlo Barberini
Works
Forbes himself published nothing, but in 1658 a posthumous work, Considerationes Modestae et Pacificae Controversiarum de Justificatione, Purgatorio, Invocatione Sanctorum Christo Mediatore, et Eucharistia, was published from his manuscripts by T. G. (Thomas Sydeserf, bishop of Galloway). Other editions appeared at Helmstadt (1704) and Frankfort-on-the-Main (1707); while a third, with an English translation by Dr. William Forbes, Burntisland (Oxford, 1856), forms part of the Anglo-Catholic Library. In parts fragmentary, it deals with the imperial question of the Christian church: reunion of the church on a catholic scale. Forbes also wrote Animadversions on the works of Bellarmine, which was used by his friend and colleague at Marischal College, Robert Baron, but the manuscripts seem to have perished in the 'troubles' which so soon began. A summary of his sermon before Charles I is given in the folio edition (1702-3) of the works of Dr. John Forbes.
Notes
References
External links
1585 births
1634 deaths
Alumni of the University of Aberdeen
Bishops of Edinburgh (pre-1689)
Date of birth unknown
16th-century Anglican theologians
17th-century Anglican theologians |
6906338 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRY | WRY | WRY, or wry, may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Gordon Wry (1910–1985), a Canadian tenor and conductor
Scotch and Wry, a Scottish television comedy sketch show
Wry, the battle cry made by Dio Brando in the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series
Medicine
Wry neck, a medical condition with an abnormal, asymmetrical head or neck position
Wry nose, a medical condition with a deviation of the upper jaw and nose
Places
WRY, the Chapman code for the West Riding of Yorkshire, UK
WRY, the IATA code for Westray Airport on Orkney, Scotland, UK
WRY, the National Rail code for Wraysbury railway station in Berkshire, UK
See also
Work (disambiguation) |
23581045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Risk%20of%20Darkness | The Risk of Darkness | The Risk of Darkness is a novel by Susan Hill. It is the third novel in the "Simon Serrailler" crime series.
References
Novels by Susan Hill
2006 British novels
British crime novels
Chatto & Windus books |
26716752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maid-Droid | Maid-Droid | aka and is a 2009 Japanese science-fiction fantasy pink film directed by Naoyuki Tomomatsu. Among the awards it won at the Pink Grand Prix ceremony was the Silver Prize for Best Film.
Synopsis
In the near future, Ueno is a man who has been raised with his parents' cyborg maid Maria. His parents pass away while he is a teenager, leaving Maria to care for Ueno. As an adult, Ueno's attachment to Maria leads him to attempt to program her for sex. This attempted consummation of their relationship fails, and when Ueno is an old man, Maria's power supply comes to an end, leaving Ueno alone. Meanwhile, a series of rapes occur in the city and Detective Yuri Akagi suspects a droid is responsible.
Cast
Akiho Yoshizawa as Maria
Anri Suzuki () as Yuri
Yōko Satomi as Woman A
Mari Yamaguchi () as Fiancee
Masayoshi Nogami () as Old Man
Hiroyuki Kaneko () as Rape Machine
如春 as Ueno
Hiroshi Fujita () as Otaku critic
Abō () as Detective
Kōji Senō (妹尾公資) as Detective
Critical appraisal
Maid-Droid won several honors at the annual Pink Grand Prix. Besides winning the second place in the Best Film category, Naoyuki Tomomatsu was awarded Best Director for his work on this film. Prizes for Best Actor (Masayoshi Nogami) and Best Screenplay (Chisato Ōgawara) were also given for Maid-Droid.
The German-language site molodezhnaja, however, gives Maid-Droid a less-than-positive review, awarding it two out of five stars. While admitting that it can be enjoyed for its trashiness, and some good sex scenes, the review complains about the perceived misogynistic message behind the film. A scene in which young robots are praised while women over 30 are labeled "ugly" and physically abused for this reason is singled out as a particularly offensive jab at feminism. The review concludes that despite a few interesting ideas, the film as a whole is a clumsy misfire on the part of director Tomomatsu.
Availability
Maid-Droid was released under the title as an original video in Japan in 2008. The pink film studio, Xces gave the film a theatrical release in Japan on January 30, 2009 under the title . It was released on DVD in Japan on March 6, 2009 under the title . Cinema Epoch released Maid-Droid on DVD in the US through its Tokyo Erotique series on December 22, 2009.
References
External links
2009 films
Erotic fantasy films
Films directed by Naoyuki Tomomatsu
2000s Japanese-language films
Pink films
Android (robot) films |
6906343 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Bachand | Pierre Bachand | Pierre Bachand (22 March 1835 – 3 November 1878) was a lawyer and politician from Lower Canada who studied law with Louis-Victor Sicotte in Saint-Hyacinthe. He was, at various times, deputy protonotary of the Superior Court and assistant clerk of the Circuit Court in his area.
In 1862, he went into partnership and built up a large practice throughout the area. It was a time of rapid economic growth and, through his influence, they founded a Chamber of Commerce in the Saint-Hyacinthe district.
More important to the area was the start of the Banque de Saint-Hyacinthe which Bachand helped found. He was the president until his death.
He was active in politics and ran successfully for the Liberals in the Legislative Assembly of the province of Quebec in 1867 and was unopposed in 1871 and 1875. Although he was an MLA, he was active in important matters on the federal scene. He worked with Honoré Mercier during the time of the “Pacific Scandal” and helped organize the Parti National in 1871.
References
Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
1835 births
1878 deaths
Lawyers in Quebec
Quebec Liberal Party MNAs
People from Verchères, Quebec |
23581060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haughton%20Halt%20railway%20station | Haughton Halt railway station | Haughton Halt was a minor station located north of Shrewsbury on the GWR's Paddington to Birkenhead 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 and would primarily have served the adjacent (and now disused) Haughton Airfield. Today the route is part of the Shrewsbury to Chester line. Nothing now remains on the site.
Historical services
Express trains did not call at Haughton Halt, only local services. No freight or parcels traffic was handled here.
References
Neighbouring stations
External links
Haughton Halt on navigable 1946 O.S. map
Disused Stations: Haughton Halt
Disused railway stations in Shropshire
Former Great Western Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1934
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1960 |
20475159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loletta%20Chu | Loletta Chu | Loletta Chu (born 7 September 1958 in Mandalay, Myanmar) is a Chinese actress and beauty pageant titleholder. She was the winner of the 1977 Miss Hong Kong Pageant.
Early life
Chu was born in Mandalay, Myanmar, in 1958 into an ethnic Chinese family, with roots in Taishan, Guangdong, China. In 1968 she and her family moved to Hong Kong, where she attended St. Teresa School, Hong Kong International School and King George V School. She did some modelling in her teen years.
1977 Miss Hong Kong
She participated in the 1977 Miss Hong Kong Pageant and became the first candidate to win both the title as well as a second, Miss Photogenic. Coincidentally, ever since Chu won both titles, the winner of the title Miss Photogenic became a good indication of who would eventually be the winner, or runners-up, of the competition. She represented Hong Kong at Miss Universe 1977 in the Dominican Republic.
Personal life
She is the former wife of the late tycoon and philanthropist Henry Fok's son, Timothy, with whom she has three sons, Kenneth, Eric and Jeremy.
Chu and Fok announced their divorce in September 2006, after more than two decades of marriage. She remarried, to Hong Kong real estate billionaire Vincent Lo of Shui On Group, in Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Singapore in November 2008.
References
1958 births
Living people
Miss Hong Kong winners
Hong Kong female models
Alumni of King George V School, Hong Kong
People from Mandalay
Burmese emigrants to Hong Kong
Burmese people of Chinese descent
Miss Universe 1977 contestants |
23581074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnieston%20distillery | Finnieston distillery | The Finnieston Distillery is one of the thirty-three lost distilleries in the City of Glasgow, Scotland. The Finnieston Distillery was formed on the lands of Stobcross, at that time held by John Orr of Barrowfield, who named it after Mr Finnie, who was a tutor in his family.
Foundation
The Finnieston Distillery was founded in 1824 by Ebenezer Connal, on Finnieston Street in the City of Glasgow, Scotland.
Ingredients
Like many of the distillers of his time Ebenezer was known to add ingredients to the whisky to enhance the whisky's flavour.
He encouraged mixing the whisky with herbs and heathers to make the drinking experience as enjoyable as possible.
Closure
Operations at the distillery were suspended in 1827.
References
Udo, Misako (2006). "The Scottish Whisky Distilleries: For the Whisky Enthusiast"
External links
Lowland Whisky Distilleries
Lost Distilleries of the Lowlands
Distilleries in Scotland |
26716821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union%20Bay%20station | Union Bay station | The Union Bay station is located in the town of Union Bay, British Columbia. The station was a flag stop on Via Rail's Dayliner service. Service ended in 2011.
Footnotes
External links
Via Rail Station Description
Via Rail stations in British Columbia
Disused railway stations in Canada |
23581102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Bligh%20Bank | George Bligh Bank | George Bligh Bank is a seamount that lies in the Rockall Trough. It is a roughly circular feature in the northeast Atlantic, west of Scotland, centred at approximately 59°N, 14°W at the northern end of both the Hatton and Rockall Banks. The bank is approximately 75 km in diameter with a summit at approximately 450 m rising from a depth of over 1000 m. The ‘moat’ around the base of George Bligh Bank deepens from north to south and is deeper than 1650 m in the south.
George Bligh Bank is part of the Rockall-Hatton Plateau, a large piece of continental crust that separated from the northwest European continental margin around 100 million years ago. It is not of volcanic origin and thus is not recognized as a seamount under the OSPAR Convention, even though it rises more than 1000 m from the surrounding seafloor. Lack of sediment cover on the upper flanks and summit of George Bligh Bank is thought to be related to increased current flow as a result of the topography.
Photographic and video observations were made on George Bligh Bank during 2005, covering a depth range from 425 to 1338 m. Diverse communities of sedentary suspension-feeding organisms were observed along five of the seven transects, with some evidence of localised hard coral (Lophelia pertusa) frameworks. Community composition on George Bligh Bank is similar to those observed on other hard substrata in the deep northeast Atlantic.
George Bligh Bank is named after the fisheries research vessel RV George Bligh that discovered the seamount during her maiden voyage in service with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (United Kingdom) in April 1921
In October 2020 the seamount was made part of the West of Scotland Marine Protected Area by the Scottish Government in attempt to protect the area's ecology.
References
Seamounts of the Atlantic Ocean |
23581112 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective%20receptor%20modulator | Selective receptor modulator | In the field of pharmacology, a selective receptor modulator or SRM is a type of drug that has different effects in different tissues. A SRM may behave as an agonist in some tissues while as an antagonist in others. Hence selective receptor modulators are sometimes referred to as tissue selective drugs or mixed agonists / antagonists. This tissue selective behavior is in contrast to many other drugs that behave either as agonists or antagonists regardless of the tissue in question.
Note that selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) is the only class of these drugs currently on the market in the US.
Classes
Classes of selective receptor modulators include:
Selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM)
Selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM)
Selective progesterone receptor modulator (SPRM)
See also
Agonist–antagonist
Selective glucocorticoid receptor agonist (SEGRA)
References
Pharmacodynamics |
6906354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona%20Lisa%20%28singer%29 | Mona Lisa (singer) | Kimberly Leadbetter (born November 20, 1979), better known by her professional stage name Mona Lisa, is an American pop and R&B singer-songwriter, actress, model and record producer. She is best known for her debut single "Can't Be Wasting My Time" featuring the hip hop group Lost Boyz, which was featured on the Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood soundtrack, as well as her debut album 11-20-79.
In 2011, her collaboration with labelmate DL, "First Klass (That Lyfe)" was released as a digital single. It's the lead single for the King of Paper Chasin''' soundtrack. Her song, "Once Upon a Time" (written by Dennis Cooper) appeared in the film, The Heart Specialist which was released in 2012.
Discography
Albums
1996: 11-20-79''
Singles
1996 – "Can't Be Wasting My Time" (featuring Lost Boyz)
1996 – "You Said"
1996 – "Our Time to Shine" (with Lil' Kim ("Don't Be a Menace..." soundtrack)
1997 – "Just Wanna Please U" (featuring The LOX)
1998 – "Peach"
2004 – "Girls" (with Cam'Ron)
2007 – "Get At Me" (with Sonja Blade)
2011 – "First Klass (That Lyfe)" (with DL) ("King of Paper Chasin'" soundtrack)
Other appearances
1996 – "Our Time To Shine (Remix)" (with Lil' Kim) "Don't Be A Menace..." Soundtrack (chorus/background)
1996 – "Music Makes Me High" (Lost Boyz "Legal Drug Money" album (chorus/background, uncredited)
1996 – "Renee" Lost Boyz ("Renee" alternate side Ep Single, chorus/background uncredited)
1997 – "Silent Night" ("A Special Gift" compilation)
1997 – "Somehow" (with Voices of Theory & Kurupt)
1998 – "Get'n It On" ("Woo" soundtrack)
2001 – "Fever" (DJ Famous mixtape 15: R&B is Needed)
2009 – "Thug Love" (Head Crack "Handle My Business" album)
2012 – "Once Upon a Time" ("The Heart Specialist" soundtrack)
Videography
References
External links
Official Twitter
Official facebook
Official MySpace
Ontourage Entertainment's Official Site
Triplebeam World Official Site
1979 births
Living people
Actresses from New York (state)
African-American actresses
African-American women singer-songwriters
American women pop singers
American hip hop musicians
People from Union, South Carolina
People from Yonkers, New York
Singer-songwriters from New York (state)
21st-century African-American women singers
20th-century African-American women singers
Singer-songwriters from South Carolina |
6906356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypogastric%20plexus | Hypogastric plexus | Hypogastric plexus may refer to:
Superior hypogastric plexus
Inferior hypogastric plexus |
26716994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckley%20Bay%20station | Buckley Bay station | The Buckley Bay station is a former inter-city rail stop located in Buckley Bay, British Columbia across the island highway from the Denman Island ferry, between Bowser and Union Bay. The station was a stop on Via Rail's Dayliner service. Service ended in 2011 due to poor track conditions along the line.
References
External links
Via Rail Station Description
Via Rail stations in British Columbia
Railway stations closed in 2011
Disused railway stations in Canada |
20475161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Aguiar | Carlos Aguiar | Carlos Antonio Aguiar Burgos (born December 19, 1978), or simply Carlos Aguiar, is a Uruguayan former footballer who played as a midfielder. He last played for C.D. Huachipato in Chile.
Career
On 24 April 2009, he asked for the termination of his contract in order to leave Académica de Coimbra and return home.
Personal life
He also holds Italian citizenship. Carlos is the brother of another professional footballer Luis Bernardo Aguiar.
References
http://www.emol.com/especiales/2010/deportes/apertura_primera_a/despliegue.asp?idnoticia=423562
External links
1978 births
Living people
Uruguayan footballers
Uruguayan expatriate footballers
Club Atlético River Plate (Montevideo) players
Xanthi F.C. players
Independiente Medellín footballers
Racing Club de Montevideo players
Rampla Juniors players
Tiro Federal footballers
Liverpool F.C. (Montevideo) players
Associação Académica de Coimbra – O.A.F. players
C.D. Huachipato footballers
Uruguay Montevideo players
Chilean Primera División players
Expatriate footballers in Argentina
Expatriate footballers in Chile
Expatriate footballers in Greece
Expatriate footballers in Portugal
Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Argentina
Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Chile
Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
Club Atlético Fénix players
Association football midfielders |
23581129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukit%20Batok%20Public%20Library | Bukit Batok Public Library | Bukit Batok Public Library is located at Bukit Batok on the third floor of West Mall in Singapore, next to Bukit Batok MRT station. This is fifth library of the National Library Board that is located inside a shopping mall. The library was officially opened on 21 November 1998 by Deputy Prime Minister, BG (NS) Lee Hsien Loong.
History
The library begun operating soon after the West Mall was opened. The library is headed by Lim Puay Ling. It is a fully computerised library with a collection of 202,151 publications. It has served more than 1,419,634 visitors and residents from the Bukit Batok and Bukit Gombak constituencies. As of 2001, it had 28,814 members and had given out 1,345,869 book loans.
About the library
The library has a floor area of . It is home to:
191,492 books
10,424 serials
235 audiovisual materials.
The library includes a customer service counter, an adult/young people's section, a children's section, an activities room, 13 multimedia stations and a reference collection. Facilities in the library include borrower's enquiry, six borrowing stations, two bookdrop services, browsing shelves of books and periodicals in four main languages and multimedia services.
RFID
It was the first library in which the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Electronic Library Management System (ELiMS) was implemented. The Electronic Library Management System was developed together by Singapore Technologies LogiTrack and the National Library Board. The ELiMS system manages the tracking, distribution, circulation and flow of books in the library. The advantages of this technology is that it allows books to be cancelled immediately as they are returned through automated book-drops and the loan records of the borrowers are updated instantly.
Programmes
Two storytelling sessions for children are conducted every Tuesday at 7:00 pm and 7:30 pm. Reading Bear programmes were organised for primary school. Primary school children are also taken on class visits to the library featuring storytelling, craft, video shows and a tour of the library.
Class visits for the secondary school students includes multimedia services. The multimedia service is a basic information literacy programme on Internet strategies, search tools and evaluation of websites. Junior colleges, schools and other institutions are offered bulk loan services and book promotions or institutional loans. School holiday programmes include video screening, storytelling in four languages and art and craft sessions. Adults can enjoy educational and informative talks, workshops, user education programmes and library orientation tours.
See also
Bukit Batok
List of libraries in Singapore
References
External links
National Library Board
Infopedia Article
1998 establishments in Singapore
Libraries established in 1998
Libraries in Singapore
Bukit Batok |
23581130 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Warren%20%28baseball%29 | Bill Warren (baseball) | William Hackney Warren (February 11, 1884 – January 28, 1960), nicknamed "Hack", was a Major League Baseball player. Warren played for the Indianapolis Hoosiers/Newark Pepper of the Federal League in and . He batted and threw right-handed.
He was born in Missouri and died at his home in Whiteville, Tennessee.
External links
1884 births
1960 deaths
Major League Baseball catchers
Newark Peppers players
Indianapolis Hoosiers players
Baseball players from Missouri
Minor league baseball managers
Oshkosh Indians players
Dallas Giants players
Dayton Veterans players
People from Whiteville, Tennessee |
23581131 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Miller%20Dickey | John Miller Dickey | John Miller Dickey (December 15, 1806 – March 2, 1878) was an American Presbyterian minister. He and his wife, Sarah Emlen Cresson, a Quaker, founded Ashmun Institute on May 24, 1854, which was renamed Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) in 1866 following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. They named the school after Jehudi Ashmun, a religious leader and social reformer. They founded the school for the education and religious training of African American men, whose opportunities were limited. Lincoln University is the oldest historically black college or university in the United States.
Dickey served as the first president of Ashmun Institute from 1854 to 1856 and continued to chair its board of trustees until his death twenty-two years later. Eschewing abolitionism and anti-slavery agitation, he supported the establishment of Liberia as a colony for African Americans and was active in the American Colonization Society. Dickey encouraged his students, James Ralston Amos (1826–1864), his brother Thomas Henry Amos (1825–1869), and Armistead Hutchinson Miller (1829/30–1865), to become missionaries in Africa or among African Americans. All three men became ordained ministers.
The son of a Presbyterian minister, Dickey was born in Oxford, Pennsylvania and graduated from Dickinson College in 1824 and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1827, where he earned his doctoral degree in divinity. After conducting missionary work in Pennsylvania, Florida, and Georgia and serving briefly as a pastor in New Castle, Delaware, Dickey settled in Oxford on June 15, 1832, where he served two local churches through April 9, 1856, when he retired due to ill health. For fifteen years he presided over the Oxford Female Seminary, and for twenty years he served on the board of the Princeton Seminary.
Honors
The John Miller Dickey Hall at Lincoln University was completed in 1991 with funds allocated by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The building is a , three-story, steel-and-concrete structure.
References
Presidents of Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)
1806 births
1878 deaths
University and college founders
People from Oxford, Pennsylvania
Dickinson College alumni
American Presbyterian ministers
19th-century Presbyterian ministers |
26717031 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osgood%20curve | Osgood curve | In mathematical analysis, an Osgood curve is a non-self-intersecting curve that has positive area. Despite its area, it is not possible for such a curve to cover a convex set, distinguishing them from space-filling curves. Osgood curves are named after William Fogg Osgood.
Definition and properties
A curve in the Euclidean plane is defined to be an Osgood curve when it is non-self-intersecting (that is, it is either a Jordan curve or a Jordan arc) and it has positive area. More formally, it must have positive two-dimensional Lebesgue measure.
Osgood curves have Hausdorff dimension two, like space-filling curves. However, they cannot be space-filling curves: by Netto's theorem, covering all of the points of the plane, or of any convex subset of the plane, would lead to self-intersections.
History
The first examples of Osgood curves were found by and . Both examples have positive area in parts of the curve, but zero area in other parts; this flaw was corrected by , who found a curve that has positive area in every neighborhood of each of its points, based on an earlier construction of Wacław Sierpiński. Knopp's example has the additional advantage that its area can be made arbitrarily close to the area of its convex hull.
Construction
It is possible to modify the recursive construction of certain fractals and space-filling curves to obtain an Osgood curve. For instance, Knopp's construction involves recursively splitting triangles into pairs of smaller triangles, meeting at a shared vertex, by removing triangular wedges. When each level of this construction removes the same fraction of the area of its triangles, the result is a Cesàro fractal such as the Koch snowflake.
Instead, reducing the fraction of area removed per level, rapidly enough to leave a constant fraction of the area unremoved, produces an Osgood curve.
Another way to construct an Osgood curve is to form a two-dimensional version of the Smith–Volterra–Cantor set, a totally disconnected point set with non-zero area, and then apply the Denjoy–Riesz theorem according to which every bounded and totally disconnected subset of the plane is a subset of a Jordan curve.
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20475183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar%20architecture | Solar architecture | Solar architecture is an architectural approach that takes in account the Sun to harness clean and renewable solar power. It is related to the fields of optics, thermics, electronics and materials science. Both active and passive solar housing skills are involved in solar architecture.
The use of flexible thin-film photovoltaic modules provides fluid integration with steel roofing profiles, enhancing the building's design. Orienting a building to the Sun, selecting materials with favorable thermal mass or light dispersing properties, and designing spaces that naturally circulate air also constitute solar architecture.
Initial development of solar architecture has been limited by the rigidity and weight of standard solar power panels. The continued development of photovoltaic (PV) thin film solar has provided a lightweight yet robust vehicle to harness solar energy to reduce a building's impact on the environment.
History
The idea of passive solar building design first appeared in Greece around the fifth century BC. Up until that time, the Greeks' main source of fuel had been charcoal, but due to a major shortage of wood to burn they were forced to find a new way of heating their dwellings. With necessity as their motivation, the Greeks revolutionized the design of their cities. They began using building materials that absorbed solar energy, mostly stone, and started orienting the buildings so that they faced south. These revolutions, coupled with overhangs that kept out the hot summer sun, created structures which required very little heating and cooling. Socrates wrote, "In houses that look toward the south, the sun penetrates the portico in winter, while in summer the path of the sun is right over our heads and above the roof so that there is shade."
From this point on, most civilizations have oriented their structures to provide shade in the summer and heating in the winter. The Romans improved on the Greeks' design by covering the southern-facing windows with different types of transparent materials.
Another simpler example of early solar architecture is the cave dwellings in the southwestern regions of North America. Much like the Greek and Roman buildings, the cliffs in which the indigenous people of this region built their homes were oriented towards the south with an overhang to shade them from the midday sun during the summer months and capture as much of the solar energy during the winter as possible.
Active solar architecture involves the moving of heat and/or coolness between a temporary heat storage medium and a building, typically in response to a thermostat's call for heat or coolness within the building. While this principle sounds useful in theory, significant engineering problems have thwarted almost all active solar architecture in practice. The most common form of active solar architecture, rock bed storage with air as a heat transfer medium, usually grew toxic mold in the rock bed which was blown into houses, along with dust and radon in some cases.
A more complex and modern incarnation of solar architecture was introduced in 1954 with the invention of the photovoltaic cell by Bell Labs. Early cells were extremely inefficient and therefore not widely used, but throughout the years government and private research has improved the efficiency to a point where it is now a viable source of energy.
Universities were some of the first buildings to embrace the idea of solar energy. In 1973, the University of Delaware built Solar One, which was one of the world's first solar-powered houses.
As photovoltaic technologies keep advancing, solar architecture becomes easier to accomplish. In 1998 Subhendu Guha developed photovoltaic shingles, and recently a company called Oxford Photovoltaics has developed perovskite solar cells that are thin enough to incorporate into windows. Although the windows are not scaled to a size that can be taken advantage of on a commercial level yet, the company believes that the outlook is promising.
Elements
Greenhouse
A greenhouse keeps heat from the Sun. In a double glazed greenhouse, three effects occur: no convection (air blocking), ray keeping (the ground absorbs a photon, emits it with lower infrared energy, and the glass reflects this infrared to the ground), and little conduction (double glazing). It seems that the convection effect is the most important, as greenhouses in poor countries are made of plastic.
The greenhouse can be used to grow plants in the winter, to grow tropical plants, as a terrarium for reptiles or insects, or simply for air comfort. It must be ventilated, but not too much, otherwise the convection will make the inside colder, losing the desired effect. The greenhouse may be combined with heat storage or an opaque mask.
Photothermic module
Photothermic modules convert solar light into heat. They easily heat domestic water to 80 °C (353 K). They are put facing the sunny cardinal point, rather pointing towards the horizon to avoid overheating in summer, and take more calories in the winter. In a 45° North place, the module should face the south and the angle to the horizontal should be about 70°.
The use of intermediate solar heat systems like evacuated tubes, compound parabolic, and parabolic trough, is discussed as they correspond to specific, intermediate needs. A customer who wants a cheap system will prefer the photothermic, giving 80 °C (353 K) hot water with 70-85 % efficiency. A customer who wants high temperatures will prefer the solar parabola, giving 200 °C (573 K) with 70-85 % efficiency.
Do it yourself photothermic modules are cheaper and can use a spiral pipe, with hot water coming from the center of the module. Other geometries exist, like serpentine or quadrangular.
If on a flat roof, a mirror can be placed in front of the photothermic module to give it more sunlight.
The photothermic module has become popular in Mediterranean countries, with Greece and Spain counting with 30-40 % of homes equipped with this system, and becoming part of the landscape.
Photovoltaic module
Photovoltaic modules convert solar light into electricity. Classical silicon solar modules have up to 25% efficiency but they are rigid and cannot easily be placed on curves. Thin film solar modules are flexible, but they have lower efficiency and lifetime.
Photovoltaic tiles combine the useful to the pleasant by providing tile-like photovoltaic surfaces.
A pragmatic rule is to put the photovoltaic surface facing the sunny cardinal point, with a latitude-equal angle to the horizontal. For example, if the house is 33° South, the photovoltaic surface should face the north with 33° to the horizontal. From this rule comes a general standard of roof angle, that is the norm in solar architecture.
Thermal storage
The simplest solar heat water system is to place a hot water storage tank towards the Sun and paint it black.
A thick ground of rock in a greenhouse will keep some heat through the night. The rock will absorb heat in the day and emit it in the night. Water has the best thermal capacity for a common material and remains a sure value.
Electrical storage
In autonomous (off-grid) photovoltaic systems, batteries are used to store the excess of electricity, and deliver it when needed in the night.
Grid-connected systems can use interseasonal storage thanks to pumped-storage hydroelectricity. An innovative storage method, compressed air energy storage, is also being studied, and may be applied at the scale of a region or a home, whether a cave or a tank is used to store the compressed air.
White wall
In the Greek islands, the houses are painted in white to keep from absorbing heat. The white walls covered with lime and the blue roofs make the Greek islands' traditional style appreciated by tourists for its colors, and by the inhabitants for the cooler interior air.
Black wall
In Nordic countries, this is the opposite: the houses are painted in black to better absorb the irradiation heat. Basalt is an interesting material as it is naturally black and exhibits high thermal storage capacity.
Solar tracker
Part or all of the house can track the Sun's race in the sky to catch its light. The Heliotrope, the first positive energy house in the world, rotates to catch the sunlight, converted into electricity by photovoltaic modules, heating the house through the translucent glass.
Tracking requires electronics and automatics. There are two ways to let the system know where the Sun is: instrumental and theoretical. The instrumental method uses captors of light to detect the Sun's position. The theoretical method uses astronomical formulas to know the Sun's place. One or two axis motors will make the solar system rotate to face the Sun and catch more of its Sunlight.
A photovoltaic or photothermic module can gain more than 50% of production, thanks to a tracker system.
Solar mask
Sometimes the heat becomes too high, so a shadow may be desired. The Heliodome has been built in such a way that the roof hides the Sun in the summer to avoid overheating, and lets the sunlight pass in the winter.
As a mask, any opaque material is fine. A curtain, a cliff, or a wall can be solar masks. If a leafy tree is put in front of a greenhouse, it may hide the greenhouse in the summer, and let the sunlight enter in the winter, when the leaves have fallen. The shadows will not work the same according to the season. Using the seasonal change to get shadow in the summer, light in the winter, is a general rule for a solar mask.
Solar chimney
A solar chimney is a chimney of outside black color. They were used in Roman antiquity as a ventilation system. The black surface makes the chimney heat with sunlight. The air inside gets warmer and moves up, pumping the air from the underground, that is at 15 °C (288 K) all the year. This traditional air-ground exchanger was used to make the houses cool in the summer, mild in the winter.
The solar chimney may be coupled with a badgir or a wood chimney for stronger effect.
Solar parabola
A solar parabola is a parabolic mirror that concentrates the sunlight to reach high temperatures. In Auroville's collective kitchen, a large solar parabola on the roof provides heat for cooking.
The solar parabola can also be used for industrial building. The Odeillo solar furnace, one of the largest solar parabola in the world, concentrates the sunlight 10,000 times and reaches temperatures above 3,200 K. No material resists, even diamond melts. It opens the vision of a futuristic metallurgy, using a clean and renewable source of energy.
Examples
One of the first large commercial buildings to exemplify solar architecture is 4 Times Square in New York City. It has built-in solar panels on the 37th through the 43rd floors, and incorporated more energy-efficient technology than any other skyscraper at the time of its construction. The National Stadium in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, designed by the Japanese architect Toyo Ito, is a dragon-shaped structure that has 8,844 solar panels on its roof. It was built in 2009 to house the 2009 world games. Constructed completely of recycled materials, it is the largest solar-powered stadium in the world and powers the surrounding neighborhood when it is not in use. The Sundial Building in China was built to symbolize the need for replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy sources. The building is shaped like a fan and is covered in of solar panels. It was named the world's largest solar-powered office building in 2009.
Although it is not yet completed, the Solar City Tower in Rio de Janeiro is another example of what solar architecture might look like in the future. It is a power plant that generates energy for the city during the day while also pumping water to the top of the structure. At night, when the sun is not shining, the water will be released to run over turbines that will continue to generate electricity. It was set to be revealed at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, although the project is still in the proposal phase.
Environmental benefits
Using solar power in architecture contributes to a world of clean and renewable energy. This is an investment: the initial price is high, but afterwards, there is nearly nothing to pay. On the contrary, fossil and fissile energies are cheap in the beginning, but cost tremendous amounts to humans and nature. The Fukushima catastrophe is evaluated to cost 210 billion dollars to Japan,. Global warming has already been a cause of species extinction.
Solar architecture is then anti-crisis. If all houses were to be rebuilt to meet solar architecture standards, this would bring hope, jobs, money, and economical growth.
Criticism
According to an article on ECN's website titled "Architects just want to develop attractive buildings", an architect's main purpose is to "create a spatial object with lines, shapes, colours and texture. These are the challenges for the architect within the customer's programme of requirements. But they do not immediately think of using a solar panel as an interesting building material. There is still much to be achieved here." In the article it is stated multiple times that solar panels are not an architect's first choice for building material because of their cost and aesthetics.
Another criticism of installing solar panels is their upfront cost. According to energyinfomative.org, the average cost for a residential solar system is between $15,000 and $40,000 (USD), and about $7 per watt. In the article, it says that at today's rates, it would take 10 years to pay off an average system. As a solar panel may last more than 20 years, in the end, it becomes a benefit.
See also
Sustainable architecture
Building-integrated photovoltaics
Solar thermal collector
Solar cooker
Solar chimney
References
Low-energy building
Sustainable urban planning |
6906424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic%20library | Academic library | An academic library is a library that is attached to a higher education institution and serves two complementary purposes: to support the curriculum and the research of the university faculty and students. It is unknown how many academic libraries there are worldwide. An academic and research portal maintained by UNESCO links to 3,785 libraries. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, there are an estimated 3,700 academic libraries in the United States. In the past, the material for class readings, intended to supplement lectures as prescribed by the instructor, has been called reserves. In the period before electronic resources became available, the reserves were supplied as actual books or as photocopies of appropriate journal articles. Modern academic libraries generally also provide access to electronic resources.
Academic libraries must determine a focus for collection development since comprehensive collections are not feasible. Librarians do this by identifying the needs of the faculty and student body and the mission and academic programs of the college or university. When there are particular areas of specialization in academic libraries, these are often referred to as niche collections. These collections are often the basis of a special collection department and may include original papers, artwork, and artifacts written or created by a single author or about a specific subject.
There is a great deal of variation among academic libraries based on their size, resources, collections, and services. The Harvard University Library is considered to be the largest strict academic library in the world, although the Danish Royal Library—a combined national and academic library—has a larger collection. Another notable example is the University of the South Pacific which has academic libraries distributed throughout its twelve member countries. The University of California operates the largest academic library system in the world, managing more than 34 million items in 100 libraries on ten campuses.
History
United States
The first colleges in the United States were intended to train members of the clergy. The libraries associated with these institutions largely consisted of donated books on the subjects of theology and the classics. In 1766, Yale had approximately 4,000 volumes, second only to Harvard. Access to these libraries was restricted to faculty members and a few students: the only staff was a part-time faculty member or the president of the college. The priority of the library was to protect the books, not to allow patrons to use them. In 1849, Yale was open 30 hours a week, the University of Virginia was open nine hours a week, Columbia University four, and Bowdoin College only three. Students instead created literary societies and assessed entrance fees in order to build a small collection of usable volumes, often in excess of what the university library held.
Around the turn of the century, this approach began to change. The American Library Association (ALA) was formed in 1876, with members including Melvil Dewey and Charles Ammi Cutter. Libraries re-prioritized in favor of improving access to materials and found funding increasing as a result of increased demand for said materials.
Academic libraries today vary in regard to the extent to which they accommodate those who are not affiliated with their parent universities. Some offer reading and borrowing privileges to members of the public on payment of an annual fee; such fees can vary greatly. The privileges so obtained usually do not extend to such services as computer usage, other than to search the catalog, or Internet access. Alumni and students of cooperating local universities may be given discounts or other considerations when arranging for borrowing privileges. On the other hand, access to the libraries of some universities is absolutely restricted to students, faculty, and staff. Even in this case, they may make it possible for others to borrow materials through inter-library loan programs.
Libraries of land-grant universities generally are more accessible to the public. In some cases, they are official government document repositories and so are required to be open to the public. Still, members of the public are generally charged fees for borrowing privileges, and usually are not allowed to access everything they would be able to as students.
Canada
Academic libraries in Canada are a relatively recent development in relation to other countries. The very first academic library in Canada was opened in 1789 in Windsor, Nova Scotia. Academic libraries were significantly small during the 19th century and up until the 1950s when Canadian academic libraries began to grow steadily as a result of greater importance being placed on education and research. The growth of libraries throughout the 1960s was a direct result of many overwhelming factors including, inflated student enrollments, increased graduate programs, higher budget allowance, and general advocacy of the importance of these libraries. As a result of this growth and the Ontario New Universities Library Project that occurred during the early 1960s, five new universities were established in Ontario that all included fully catalogued collections. The establishment of libraries was widespread throughout Canada and was furthered by grants provided by the Canada Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, which sought to enhance library collections. Since many academic libraries were constructed after World War Two, a majority of the Canadian academic libraries that were built before 1940 that have not been updated to modern lighting, air conditioning, etc., are either no longer in use or are on the verge of decline. The total number of college and university libraries increased from 31 in 1959–1960 to 105 in 1969–1970.
Following the growth of academic libraries in Canada during the 1960s, there was a brief period of sedation, which was a primary result of some major budgetary issues. These academic libraries were faced with cost issues relating to the recently developed service of interlibrary lending and the high costs of periodicals on acquisition budgets, which affected overall acquisition budgeting and, ultimately general collections. Canadian academic libraries faced consistent problems relating to insufficient collections and an overall lack of coordination among collections.
Academic libraries within Canada might not have flourished or continued to be strengthened without the help of outside organizations. The Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) was established in 1967 to promote unity among Canadian academic libraries. The Ontario College and University Library Association (OCULA) is attached to the Ontario Library Association (OLA) and is concerned with representing academic librarians regarding issues shared in the academic library setting.
India
Modern academic libraries
Academic libraries have transformed in the 21st century to focus less on physical collection development and more on information access and digital resources. Today's academic libraries typically provide access to subscription-based online resources, including research databases and ebook collections, in addition to physical books and journals. Academic libraries also offer space for students to work and study, in groups or individually, on "silent floors" and reference and research help services, sometimes including virtual reference services. Some academic libraries lend out technology such as video cameras, iPads, and calculators. To reflect this changing focus, many academic libraries have remodeled as Learning Commons. Academic libraries and learning commons often house tutoring and writing centers and other academic services.
A major focus of modern academic libraries is information literacy instruction, with most American academic libraries employing a person or department of people dedicated primarily to instruction. Many academic institutions offer faculty status to librarians, and librarians are often expected to publish research in their field. Academic librarian positions in the United States usually require an MLIS degree from an ALA-accredited institution. The Association of College and Research Libraries is the largest academic library organization in the United States.
See also
Academic journal
Google Scholar and academic libraries
Internet search engines and libraries
Shadow library
Research library
Research Libraries Group
Research Libraries UK
Library assessment
Trends in library usage
Notes and references
Further reading
Bazillion, Richard J. & Braun, Connie (1995) Academic Libraries as High-tech Gateways: a guide to design and space decisions. Chicago: American Library Association
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Jürgen Beyer, « Comparer les bibliothèques universitaires », Arbido newsletter 2012:8
Ellsworth, Ralph E. (1973) Academic library buildings: a guide to architectural issues and solutions 530 pp. Boulder: Associated University Press
Giustini, Dean (2011, 3 May) Canadian academic libraries' use of social media, 2011 update [Web log post]. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20110512080605/http://blogs.ubc.ca/dean/2011/05/canadian-academic-libraries-use-of-social-media-2011-update/
Hamlin, Arthur T. (1981). The University Library in the United States: Its Origins and Development. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Hunt, C. J. (1993) "Academic library planning in the United Kingdom", in: British Journal of Academic Librarianship; vol. 8 (1993), pp. 3–16
Shiflett, Orvin Lee (1981). Origins of American Academic Librarianship. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Pub. Corp.
Taylor, Sue, ed. (1995) Building libraries for the information age: based on the proceedings of a symposium on The Future of Higher Educational Libraries at the King's Manor, York 11–12 April 1994. York: Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies, University of York
Types of library |
23581138 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20of%20Brothers | House of Brothers | House of Brothers is an English indie pop band founded by Andrew Jackson. It was originally a solo project by Jackson, whose first EP Deadman was released in 2007. House of Brothers expanded to a full band in early 2008, and released the EP Document 1 to positive reviews.
Members
Andrew Jackson
Mathew Pugh
Luke J. Moss
Peter Banks
Discography
Deadman (EP, Big Scary Monsters, 2007)
Document 1 (EP, Rough Trade, 2009)
References
External links
House of Brothers (official MySpace site)
House of Brothers (official blog)
English indie rock groups |
23581146 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshal%20Johnson | Marshal Johnson | Marshal Mfon Johnson (born 12 December 1989) is a Nigerian footballer who last played for FC Pyunik.
Career
Johnson began his career with Akwa United F.C. and joined on 26 May 2009 to Belgium club R. Union Saint-Gilloise who signed a two-year contract. On 24 September 2010 left R. Union Saint-Gilloise and signed with KAS Eupen.
In the summer of 2011, Johnson signed for Honvéd on loan.
In March 2018, Johnson signed a one-year contract with Armenian Premier League club FC Pyunik.
References
External links
NZS profile
1989 births
Living people
People from Uyo
Nigerian footballers
Association football midfielders
Royale Union Saint-Gilloise players
Akwa United F.C. players
Expatriate footballers in Belgium
Expatriate footballers in Hungary
Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
Slovenian PrvaLiga players
K.A.S. Eupen players
Nigerian expatriate footballers
Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Hungary
Nemzeti Bajnokság I players
Budapest Honvéd FC players
Budapest Honvéd FC II players
Expatriate footballers in Slovenia
Expatriate footballers in Armenia
ND Gorica players
Expatriate footballers in the United Arab Emirates |
44500262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmentalist%20Foundation%20of%20India | Environmentalist Foundation of India | The Environmentalist Foundation of India (E.F.I) is an environmental conservation group based out of Chennai, Hyderabad, Puducherry, Bangalore, Trivandrum, Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Coimbatore which focuses on wildlife conservation and habitat restoration. Started in 2007 and registered in 2011, the organisation is known for its work in cleaning and scientific restoration of lakes in India for biodiversity. The organisation and its efforts grew from one pond in Chennai to include over 167 water bodies in Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal in the last 14 years (2007 to 2021).
Activities
E.F.I focuses on restoration of lakes, flora, care of stray animals and a village development programme. Most of the organisation's work is carried out through volunteer support. E.F.I organises lake clean ups every Sunday and as of 2014 had cleaned 39 lakes across India. This includes Madambakkam, Keezhkattalai, Narayanapuram, Karasangal and Arasankazhani lakes in Chennai; the Selvachintamani Kulam in Coimbatore; and the Kapra, Alwal, Gurunadham Cheruvu lakes in Hyderabad.
In the cases of Arasankazhani lake and the Selvachintamani Kulam, the projects were executed through public funding in the first and government support for the second. The lakes now have "G" shaped central islands for the birds to nest and fish to spawn. These geometric central islands are a first of its kind, with wind barrier capabilities and roosting facilities. The lakes also have percolation trenches and parallel bunds which ensure water retention and trapping of garbage.
E.F.I is also involved in the setting up of herbal biodiversity gardens at schools and special interest zones. The idea behind the herbal gardens are to increase people's interest in green cover and live healthy with native Indian herbs. E.F.I's "Clean for Olive Green" is a beach clean up project that is organised every year in the months of December to May to keep Chennai's beaches clean for the nesting Sea Turtle Mothers.
E.F.I is active in Chennai, Hyderabad, Coimbatore, Delhi, Srinagar and Thiruvananthapuram. The organisation is known for cleaning the beach stretch between Veli and Vizhinjiam in Thiruvananthapuram part of the Beach Habitat Restoration.
Ramanujar Pond Restoration in Kanchipuram. An ancient waterbody, located in front of the Sri Ramanujar Sannadhi at Sevilimedu in Kancheepuram taluk, was revived by the Environmentalist Foundation of India (E.F.I). The work coincided with the 1,000th birth anniversary of Sri Ramanuja.
Narendra Modi- Xi Jinping summit and E.F.I Lake Restoration
To commemorate the historic Indo-China summit 2019 at Mamallapuram, E.F.I took on the task of reviving the Konneri Tank. A lake adjacent to the monuments in the UNESCO World Heritage town. The tank named so owing to its shape of a sitting cow was restored in time for the summit. Deepening of the water body, clearing invasive weeds, planting native saplings, establishing 'G' shaped nesting islands were all part of the restoration effort.
EFI Chidambaram
With the administrative support from the then District Sub Collector Mr. Vishu Mahajan IAS, E.F.I signed an MOU with administration to revive 9 water bodies in the temple town of Chidambaram over 2 years. These include the historic Omakulam, Nagachery kulam, Gnanaprakasam pond, Ayee Kulam and other water bodies such as Thatchan Kulam, Periya Anna Kulam, Chinna Anna Kulam, Kumaran Kulam, Palaman Kulam. As of 2020 October work was completed in the first four and the remaining 5 to be worked on in 2021. This effort was further supported by Mr. Madhu Balan IAS who took over from Mr. Vishu. Active participation from community volunteers strengthened this effort by E.F.I.
EFI Trivandrum
Environmentalist Foundation of India started operations in Trivandrum by cleaning the Veli lake front. The efforts extended to cleaning of the Karimadom Colony pond. The organization is working towards the eco-restoration of the pond located in the heart of Trivandrum. In addition to this the organization runs awareness drives around the Thettiyaar, Parvathy Puthanar and Aakulam water reserves. These are done through Lake Safaris and other EFI outreach programs.
E.F.I Hyderabad
E.F.I volunteers at 9 lakes across Hyderabad. This includes the Kapra Lake, Madinaguda Lake, Gangaram Cheruvu, Gurunadham Cheruvu, Alwal lake and others. Several volunteers come together over the weekends to voluntarily clean up the lakes of physical garbage.
E.F.I Bangalore
E.F.I volunteers removed close to 3 tonnes of garbage from the Hebbal lake on the 18th of June. Several like minded citizens continue to volunteer over the weekend to clean up the Hebbal Lake. Efforts are also on to volunteer for lakes in South and North East Bangalore.
E.F.I Coimbatore
E.F.I volunteers across several lakes in Coimbatore ranging from the Selvachintamani Kulam, Kumarasamy Kulam and others. The organization has a dedicated rural program covering areas of Thondamuthur, Karamadai and Madukkarai. E.F.I recruits volunteers through several school programs and students actively participate in supporting E.F.I's efforts. E.F.I released a documentary titled 'Coimbatore's Last Drop' in 2017. Aimed at increasing public awareness on water conservation. E.F.I also organizes regular Lake Safaris in Coimbatore to sensitize the public on the depleting state of lakes in the city.
In 2021, the organization had taken on the restoration of four water bodies close to the Kalapatti region in Coimbatore, namely the Kaliaperumal Koil Kulam, Kalam Park Kuttai, Kalapatti Lake and the Thottipalayam Lake. The restorations were inaugurated and flagged off by the Coimbatore Collector Thiru Sameeran GS IAS and Coimbatoe Municipal Corporation Commissioner Thiru Raja Gopal Sunakara IAS on September 1, 2021.
E.F.I Chennai
The Environmentalist Foundation of India's weekend voluntary clean ups are a regular in lakes such as Keezhkattalai, Madambakkam, Tiruneermalai, Adambakkam, Perumbakkam, Sithalapakkam, Mudichur lakes. These clean ups see several volunteers such as students, working class and senior citizen participating.
An eco-park named Kanagam was established in Anna Nagar to ensure sustainability and move away from the idea of ecologically damaging construction in any way. The project is being executed in collaboration with the Government of Tamil Nadu and the Greater Chennai Corporation under the Namakku Naame scheme.
2016 lake restorations in Chennai
Post the 2015 floods, E.F.I's role in mobilizing volunteers and restoring freshwater bodies in Chennai became furthermore important. Immediately post the monsoons, the organization started working on restoration of three ponds within the Perungalathur Town Panchayat. Following which scientific restoration efforts were undertaken at the Arasankazhani Lake, Karasangal Lake, Mudichur Ponds, Karasangal Pond and West Mambalam Pond.
2017 lake restorations
E.F.I worked on the restoration of 29 water bodies in 2017. This included the restoration of the Thumbikairayen pond near Thondamuthur in the district as part of its water-body rejuvenation initiative.
One pond in Nagapattinam and one in Chellaperumal Nagar at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu were restored by E.F.I with support from the Better India group. The Omakulam at Madhavaram in Chennai was restored by E.F.I in partnership with the Greater Chennai Corporation and Chennai City Connect. Noted Carnatic Singer Smt. Sudhaa Ragunathan through her social group Samudhaaya Foundation supported E.F.I in restoring two ponds at Thiruvaiyaaru in Tamil Nadu E.F.I worked on the restoration of 7 rural ponds in the Tirunelveli district. This included water bodies in Ambasamudram Taluk
2018 lake restoration
E.F.I worked on restoring nearly 37 water bodies in the year 2018. This included the Malliankaranai Pond establishment project in Uthiramerur. Following which E.F.I started work on the ecological restoration of the Gerugambakkam Pond in West Chennai. The once garbage filled and weed infested water body was cleaned and restored through E.F.I's community based conservation efforts. Following the Gerugambakkam Pond Restoration E.F.I and the Greater Chennai Corporation got into an agreement to restore nearly 20 different water bodies spread across Chennai. This included the Ramachandra Nagar Pond, Theeyambakkam Pond, Vinayagapuram Pond and others. The organization also took on the scientific restoration of the Sholinganallur Lake located on the arterial IT Corridor of O.M.R in South Chennai.
The Minjur pond restoration in North Chennai, Vinayagapuram pond restoration in North West Chennai near Puzhal Lake were also completed in 2018. Arresting the inflow of sewage, clearing the water bodies of non-degradable trash, construction debris and invasive weeds was part of the eco restoration efforts. These water bodies are today important ground water recharge sites.
2019 lake/pond restorations
The year started early and on a positive note for E.F.I with the first restoration project kick starting at Thazhambur in Chennai. The abandoned Thazhambur pond was taken up for ecological restoration and through scientific means. The restoration at Thazhambur received overwhelming public support through active citizen volunteering.
3 Ponds in the Kinathukadavu suburb of Coimbatore were restored by E.F.I between January and March 2019. A total of 7 ponds in the region have been adopted out of which 3 were completed by March. These ponds part of a system are important for local agriculture and drinking water.
The Sam Nagar pond near Manali in North West Chennai was restored by E.F.I in March 2019. The pond located within the burial ground was to be slowly converted into a dumping site, however is now revived and ecologically restored.
Water bodies in the periphery of the Palliakranai Marsh were given priority in 2019 part of E.F.I's efforts. This includes the Mandapam Kuttai, Puliyakeni and Nattar Street ponds of Velachery, the Pillayar Koil Kulam at Pallikaranai, The Nehru Nagar Pond at Karappakam on OMR, the Kannan Kulam and Kattabomman Pond at Thoraipakkam.
2020 Lakes/Pond restorations
The entire world was gripped by the COVID Pandemic, this brought to a temporary halt the lake/pond restoration efforts at E.F.I. Big projects such as the 257 acres Madambakkam Lake Restoration The 73 acres Koladi Lake Restoration The Ayapakkam Lake part restoration at Aparna Nagar, The Thirumulaivoyal Pond Restoration, The Mittanamalli Lake Restoration, The Vandalur ORR Lake Restoration, The Nedunkundram Samiyar Pond and Gandhi Road Pond, The Anaikeni Pond Restoration were all completed in Chennai. Aurangabad Shenpunji Lake Restoration, Vijaywada Pedda Cheruvu ,Konai Cheruvu and Vura Cheruvu, Visakapatnam Vura Cheruvu, Hubli Rayanal Kere, Ahmedabad Makarba Lake, Indore Kanadiya Lake, Tuticorin Puthupatti Lake etc were also worked on in 2020 A pan India Lake/pond restoration effort.
Revival of tributaries
E.F.I worked on the restoration of the Seekana Channel which leads from Mudichur's Seekana Lake to the Adyar River in South West Chennai. The channel which had an overgrowth of weed, garbage dumping and other issues was worked upon over 3 months and completely revived. This included the deepening of the channel, elevating the bunds and regulating the water flow. The restoration of the channel ensured prevention of flooding in areas such as Madhanapuram and Parvathy Nagar of Mudichur.
Dal Lake
E.F.I in association with a local group called Arastha in Srinagar in Jammu & Kashmir is involved in a multi-phase community based conservation of the Dal Lake. The two year long effort is voluntary with involvement from local citizens, shikaras, houseboat owners and the students in Srinagar. The efforts are aimed at cleaning the Dal Lake and maintaining it as an ecologically sensitive habitat.
Water security mission
The Government of Tamil Nadu launched a water security mission in the year 2015. The project is to focus on 15 lakes around Chennai which would be cleaned and scientifically restored. The Chennai Metro water is the nodal agency and Environmentalist Foundation of India is the executing NGO partner. 15 lakes chosen included the Madambakkam, Perumbakkam, Mudichur, Thiruverkadu, Keezhkattalai, Medavakkam, Adambakkam, Arasankazhani, Madipakkam, Puzhithivakkam lakes and more. This is seen as an effort to improve Chennai's water table and conserve these ecological habitats.
E.F.I's documentaries on water
E.F.I at a regular interval produces environmental documentary films. These films are used for public outreach efforts at schools, colleges, work environments. The organization has made three documentaries "Chennai's Lakes" "Chennai's Rivers" and "Coimbatore's Last Drop". It is working on similar documentaries on Pondicherry's Lakes and Bengaluru's Last Drop.
Lake Savaari
In an effort to connect people with environment, Environmentalist Foundation of India is organising a weekly Lake Savaari. Lake Savaari is an ecological safari aimed at increasing public awareness on freshwater habitats in Chennai. The safari is a free guided trip in which participants are taken to six lakes in Chennai where the Geology-Hydrology and Biodiversity are briefly explained. The lake safari is a 3-hour guided tour starting and ending at Thiruvanmiyur covering the Sholinganallur Pond, Arasankazhani Lake, Perumbakkam Lake, Medavakkam Lake and Narayanapuram Lake. E.F.I's lake safari in Coimbatore are scheduled over weekends and is a guided ecological tour with Sanjay Prasad E.F.I's Coimbatore coordinator.
Cyclakes
To enthuse the public on the need for conservation of freshwater bodies, E.F.I has initiated Cyclakes. A campaign aimed at encouraging people to cycle to their neighborhood lakes to learn more about their freshwater bodies. The effort rolled out in Chennai, Bangalore, Coimbatore, Pondicherry and Hyderabad is a weekend activity where participants are taken on a guided ecological tour to series of lakes. Every stopover is one of the city's lakes where stories related to the lakes ecology, revival etc. are shared.
E.F.I's Hydrostan
'Hydrostan' a video series launched by the Environmental Film Association (E.F.A) which is part of E.F.I. Through the series several documentaries on rivers of Tamil Nadu and other inspiring water stories are documented and made available for the general public. Aimed at increasing public awareness on water conservation, the screenings happen every weekend in Chennai and the videos are available on YouTube for public viewing.
E.F.I's public awareness wall paintings
Part of its outreach efforts, E.F.I has teamed up with the Southern Railway, Chennai Metro Rail Corporation and Greater Chennai Corporation to paint public walls with environment outreach information. Named "Wall.E" the effort has spread to 8 cities in 2017.
Founding
E.F.I was founded by Arun Krishnamurthy when initiated the cleaning of a pond in Mudichur and a lake in Hyderabad. The organisation's approach to recruit volunteers through school and college orientation programmes received support with many students joining them. E.F.I's team received support from like minded people across the spectrum who joined them as volunteers in their Sunday clean ups.
Recognition
British Council International Climate Champion Excellence Award in 2010.
Google Alumni Impact Award in 2011.
Rolex Awards for Enterprise award in 2012 for cleaning Lake Kilkattalai in Chennai.
Jane Goodall Institute Global Youth Leadership Award, 2010.
Youth Action Net Fellow.
The E.F.I has received voluntary support from celebrities of film industry as well, including Kamal Hasan and Trisha Krishnan.
In 2022, the Hon. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had acknowledged E.F.I's conservation efforts in restoring over 170 water bodies across the country.
References
External links
E.F.I
Volunteer in Environmentalist Foundation of India
Non-profit organisations based in India
Environmental organisations based in India |
44500270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritchie%20Blackmore%20%28disambiguation%29 | Ritchie Blackmore (disambiguation) | Ritchie Blackmore may refer to:
Ritchie Blackmore, an English guitarist and songwriter. Also part of Rainbow and of the music duo Blackmore's Night
Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, first album by British rock guitarist Ritchie Blackmore's solo band Rainbow
Ritchie Blackmore Stratocaster, an alternative known name for the electric guitar Fender Stratocaster
See also
Richie Blackmore (rugby league), New Zealand rugby league player and coach |
6906443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froggy%20%28brand%29 | Froggy (brand) | Froggy is a brand name radio format used for a variety of radio stations in the United States, most of which broadcast a country music format, with a few playing adult contemporary. (There was, however, an oldies-themed "Froggy" in Erie, Pennsylvania: the former WFGO; that station has since changed format and calls in 2007. Another oldies-based Froggy station, KFGI in Austin, Texas, changed formats in 1994.) Although the frog logo is shared among these stations, most of them are not associated with one another. The "Froggy" branding is particularly common among country stations currently or formerly owned by Forever Broadcasting or Forever Communications and Keymarketradio LLC, companies founded by Froggy creator Kerby Confer.
Origin
The Froggy format was conceived by Kerby Confer in 1988. Previously, Confer created a variety of country radio station brands such as "Kissin'" (KSSN in Little Rock, Arkansas) and "Beaver" (WBVR-FM in Bowling Green, Kentucky). "Froggy" was first installed on WFRG-FM in Utica, New York on February 1, 1988 with the branding "96 Frog". (The format and call letters have since switched frequencies and the station is now known as "Big Frog 104".) Other Froggy stations soon followed, including KFRG in Riverside-San Bernardino, California and WFGY in Altoona, Pennsylvania. For his work in developing the Froggy format, Confer was inducted into the Pennsylvania Radio Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2003 and the Country Radio Hall of Fame in 2016.
General theme
The Froggy branded radio station uses jargon saturated with frog-related puns. Station disc jockey pseudonyms and program elements bear names making reference to things such as where the frog lives (in a pond), how a frog moves (hops), what noise a frog makes (cricket or ribbit), and other words that are related to frogs.
Examples of the "Froggy" theme use words like the following:
"Hop-Line", "Frogcast", "Froggy Fotos", "Local Hoppenings", "Hoppy Birthday", "Froggy Fun Fones", "Froggyland", "in the swamp".
Some of the stations incorporate the lingo into their coverage area. For example, WFGE in State College, Pennsylvania refers to Happy Valley, the area in and around State College, as "Hoppy Valley". Most also call their coverage area "Froggyland".
An occasional "ribbit" between songs is used sometimes as a sweeper or in lieu of a jingle or dry segue.
Listeners are encouraged to contact the station: "give us a ribbit on the hoplines".
WFRG-FM in Utica, New York used to close out its weather "frogcast" with a jingle that sang "you sing 10 songs in a row and you're such a good friend of mine", to the tune of Three Dog Night's "Joy To The World", whose first line was "Jeremiah was a bullfrog".
A few Froggy stations in Pennsylvania used a parody of "Mercury Blues": "Hey now Froggy/You sound so fine/Ridin' 'round in my Merc'y 49/Crazy 'bout my Froggy/I'm crazy 'bout my Froggy/Gonna turn up my Froggy, cruisin' up and down the road, uh-huh". These are called "Froggy Songs" that most stations play periodically throughout the day. WFGS in Murray, Kentucky previously offered some of the Froggy songs as free ringtones.
Logo
For the most part, the logo of a "Froggy" branded radio station is a smiling green frog. The font, color, position and angles can vary, however, the frog is generally green with a red tongue. The variations on the logo include the radio station's frequency as well as whether it is referred to as "Frog", "Big Frog", or "Froggyland".
DJ monikers
Many DJs at Froggy-branded stations (known as "frog jocks") use pseudonyms that reflect the branding:
KVOX-FM in Fargo, North Dakota: Hopalong Cassidy, Anne Phibian, Hoppy Gilmore, Lilly Pad, Pete Moss, Jeremiah Bullfrog
WFGY in Altoona, Pennsylvania: Frogman, Kellie Green, Tad Pole, Polly Wogg, Pete Moss, James Pond
WFGE in State College, Pennsylvania: Boss Frog, Ann Phibian, Skeeter, Hopper, Sally Mander, Swampy
WFGS in Murray, Kentucky: Marty McFlies, Gracie Hopper, Heather McRibbits, Kenny Lake
WFRG-FM in Utica, New York: Annie Croakley, David Hopperfield, Joey Buttafroggo, Bean Pole, I. B. Green, Elvis Frogsley, Catfish Crawford
WFRY-FM in Watertown, New York: James Pond & Cricket, Webb Foote, Bud Green, Jumpin' Jay, Pete Moss, Croakin' O Brian, Annie Croakley, Swim Mcgraw
WOGY in Jackson, Tennessee: Tad Pole, Al Gee, Cricket
Many of the Froggy stations that have the country format use the syndicated evening program Lia, often putting "Leapin'" in front of her name to "frogify" her.
List of "Froggy" stations
In other media
The "Froggy" moniker is regularly lampooned on the Glenn Beck Program; Beck's alter ego, "Flap Jackson", is the morning jock at the fictional "109.9 The Big Frog".
On the US television series The Office, there is a Froggy 101 bumper sticker on the wall behind the reception desk and file cabinet, next to the desk of Dwight Schrute. The Office is set in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where WGGY uses the moniker "Froggy 101".
Related brands
Confer's daughter, Kristin Cantrell, established the Bigfoot Country brand for her stations when entering radio ownership. She also eventually acquired a prominent Froggy imitator, The Pig.
See also
KISS-FM, a top 40 radio brand owned by iHeartMedia
Jack FM, an adult hits radio brand
Bob FM, an adult hits radio brand
WEBN, a rock station in Cincinnati that had a frog mascot named Tree B. Frog
WIVK-FM, a country station in Knoxville, Tennessee that uses a frog as its logo, but a different "Froggy" package from other stations
References
External links
American radio networks
Franchised radio formats |
6906469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythrophleum%20chlorostachys | Erythrophleum chlorostachys | Erythrophleum chlorostachys is a species of leguminous tree endemic to northern Australia, from northeastern Queensland to the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Commonly known as Cooktown ironwood, the species is found in wide range of environments from arid savanna to tropical rainforest. The species is a beautiful source of timber, which is exceptionally hard and dense as well as being highly termite resistant. The eastern dragon shaped heartwood skeletons of the Cooktown Ironwood resisting natural degradation add wonder to their landscapes.
Ironwood is semi-deciduous, dropping much of its foliage in response to the prolonged winter dry periods which are the norm within its native range. The foliage of the tree contains toxic levels of alkaloids and has been responsible for numerous deaths of both cattle and horses.
Virtually all culturally modified trees in Eucalyptus tetrodonta woodland on Cape York Peninsula are Cooktown ironwoods. Most of these are 'sugar bag scars' where Aboriginal people have cut through the cambium into the heartwood of the tree to remove honey from native bees. Scars have been made using both stone axes (in pre-contact times) and steel axes (post-contact). These have particular significance to Aboriginal people as the tangible representation of past cultural practices. The large number of hollows found in Cooktown ironwoods at Kakadu National Park are also likely to be culturally modified trees (e.g. Taylor 2002 Figure 6.8).
References
Boland, D.J., Brooker M.I.H, Chippendale, G.M., Hall, N., Hyland, B.P.M., Johnstone, R.D., Kleinig, D.A., Turner, J.D. (1984). "Forest trees of Australia." CSIRO. Melbourne.
Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. and Cowie, I.D. (1995). "Flora of the Darwin region. 2." Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory. Darwin.
Morrison, M., McNaughton, D. and Shiner, J. (2010). "Mission-Based Indigenous Production at the Weipa Presbyterian Mission, Western Cape York Peninsula (1932-66)". International Journal of Historical Archaeology 14:86-111.
Taylor, R. (2002). "Ironwood Erythrophleum chlorostachys in the Northern Territory: aspects of its ecology in relation to timber harvesting". Report to Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Australia.
chlorostachys
Fabales of Australia
Flora of Queensland
Flora of the Northern Territory
Rosids of Western Australia
Trees of Australia
Drought-tolerant trees
Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller |
44500283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under%20Cover%20of%20Night | Under Cover of Night | Under Cover of Night is a 1937 American action film directed by George B. Seitz, written by Bertram Millhauser, and starring Edmund Lowe, Florence Rice, Nat Pendleton, Henry Daniell, Sara Haden and Dean Jagger. It was released on January 8, 1937, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Plot
A professor, Janet Griswald (Sara Haden), is about to announce a great discovery in physics when her jealous husband (Henry Daniell), who collaborated with her, causes her to have a heart attack by throwing her dog out a window. To cover up his heinous deed, he throws a ball the dog was playing with out the window also to make it seem the dog chased after it.
When he can't find her notebook containing the discovery details, he ends up killing several other people. Detective Cross (Edmund Lowe) solves what might have been a perfect crime when he realizes the dog was thrown out the window before the ball.
Cast
Edmund Lowe as Christopher Cross
Florence Rice as Deb
Nat Pendleton as Sergeant Lucks
Henry Daniell as Marvin Griswald
Sara Haden as Janet Griswald
Dean Jagger as Alan
Frank Reicher as Rudolph Brehmer
Zeffie Tilbury as Mrs. Nash
Henry Kolker as District Attorney Prichard
Marla Shelton as Tonya Van Horne
Theodore von Eltz as John Lamont
Dorothy Peterson as Susan
Harry Davenport as Dr. Reed
Larry Steers as Factually Member (uncredited)
References
External links
1937 films
American action films
1930s action films
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
Films directed by George B. Seitz
American black-and-white films
1930s English-language films
1930s American films |
23581148 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landesliga%20Braunschweig | Landesliga Braunschweig | The Landesliga Braunschweig, called the Bezirksoberliga Braunschweig from 1979 to 1994 and 2006 to 2010, is the sixth tier of the German football league system and the second highest league in the German state of Lower Saxony (German: Niedersachsen). It covers the region of the now defunct Regierungsbezirk Braunschweig.
It is one of four leagues at this level in Lower Saxony, the other three being the Landesliga Lüneburg, the Landesliga Weser-Ems and the Landesliga Hannover.
The term Landesliga can be translated as State league.
Overview
The league's history goes back to 1979, when four new Bezirksoberligas (Braunschweig, Hannover, Lüneburg and Weser-Ems) were formed in the state of Lower Saxony. The Bezirksoberligas (6th tier) were set below the Verbandsliga Niedersachsen (4th tier) and the two Landesligas (5th tier) in the German football league system. In 1994, the two old Landesligas were dissolved, while the four Bezirksoberligas were renamed into Landesliga Braunschweig, Landesliga Hannover, Landesliga Lüneburg, and Landesliga Weser-Ems respectively. Due to the introduction of the new Regionalliga (IV) the new Landesligas still remained at the 6th tier of German football, however.
In 2006, the Landesliga was renamed into Bezirksoberliga again. The new Bezirksoberliga Braunschweig was made up of fifteen clubs, two from the Verbandsliga Niedersachsen-Ost, eleven from the Landesliga and one from the two Bezirksligas each. The league was formed in a reorganisation of the league system in Lower Saxony, whereby the four regional Landsligas were replaced by the Bezirksoberligas. Below these, the number of Bezirksligas was increased. In Braunschweig, the two Bezirksligas were expanded to four, as in the other regions, except Weser-Ems, which was expanded to five.
The Bezirksoberliga, like the Landesliga before, was set in the league system below the Verbandsliga and above the now four Bezirksligas, which were numbered from one to four. The winner of the Bezirksoberliga was directly promoted to the Verbandsliga, while the bottom placed teams, in a varying number, were relegated to the Bezirksliga. The Bezirksoberligas of Weser-Ems and Hannover form the tier below the Verbandsliga West, while those of Lüneburg and Braunschweig form the tier below the eastern division of the Verbandsliga.
In the leagues first season, 2006–07, the runners-up of the league, SCW Göttingen, was also promoted, like the runners-up from Lüneburg. In the following season, only the league champions were promoted while, in 2009, Lupo Martini Wolfsburg moved up a level as runners-up.
At the end of the 2007-08 season, with the introduction of the 3. Liga, the Verbandsliga was renamed Oberliga Niedersachsen-Ost. For the Bezirksoberliga, this had no direct consequences.
After the 2009-10 season, the two Oberligas () in Lower Saxony were merged to one single division. The four Bezirksoberliga champions that season were not be automatically promoted, instead they had to compete with the four teams placed ninth and tenth in the Oberliga for four more spots in this league.
On 17 May 2010, the Lower Saxony football association decided to rename the four Bezirksoberligas to Landesligas from 1 July 2010. This change in name came alongside the merger of the two Oberliga divisions above it into the Oberliga Niedersachsen.
Champions
The league champions of the Bezirksoberliga and Landesliga Braunschweig since 1979:
Bezirksoberliga Braunschweig 1979–1994
Landesliga Braunschweig 1994–2006
Bezirksoberliga Braunschweig 2006–2010
Landesliga Braunschweig 2010–present
Promoted teams in bold.
References
Sources
Deutschlands Fußball in Zahlen, An annual publication with tables and results from the Bundesliga to Verbandsliga/Landesliga. DSFS.
Kicker Almanach, The yearbook on German football from Bundesliga to Oberliga, since 1937. Kicker Sports Magazine.
Die Deutsche Liga-Chronik 1945-2005 History of German football from 1945 to 2005 in tables. DSFS. 2006.
External links
Das deutsche Fussball Archiv Historic German league tables
The Lower Saxony Football Association (NFV)
Braunschweig
Football competitions in Lower Saxony
1979 establishments in West Germany
Sports leagues established in 1979
Sport in Braunschweig |
44500285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavio%20Klimek%20Alcaraz | Octavio Klimek Alcaraz | Octavio Adolfo Klimek Alcaraz (born 30 December 1962) is a Mexican politician from the Party of the Democratic Revolution. From 2008 to 2009 he served as Deputy of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Guerrero.
References
1962 births
Living people
Politicians from Guerrero
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
Party of the Democratic Revolution politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
Deputies of the LX Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Guerrero |
26717073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown%20%282011%20film%29 | Unknown (2011 film) | Unknown is a 2011 action-thriller film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and starring Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones, Aidan Quinn, Bruno Ganz, and Frank Langella. The film, produced by Joel Silver, Leonard Goldberg and Andrew Rona, is based on the 2003 French novel by Didier Van Cauwelaert published in English as Out of My Head which was adapted as the film's screenplay by Oliver Butcher and Stephen Cornwell. The narrative centers around a professor who wakes up from a four-day long coma and sets out to prove his identity after no one recognizes him, including his own wife, and another man claims to be him.
Released on 18 February 2011, the film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $136 million against its $30 million budget.
Plot
Martin Harris and his wife Liz arrive in Berlin for a biotechnology summit. At their hotel, Harris realizes he left his briefcase at the airport and takes a taxi to retrieve it. The taxi is involved in an accident and crashes into the Spree, knocking him unconscious. The driver rescues him but flees the scene. Harris regains consciousness at a hospital after being in a coma for four days.
When Harris returns to the hotel, he discovers Liz with another man. Liz says this man is her husband and declares she does not know Harris. The police are called, and Harris attempts to prove his identity by calling a colleague named Rodney Cole, to no avail. He writes down his schedule for the next day from memory. When he visits the office of Professor Leo Bressler, whom he is scheduled to meet, "Dr. Harris" is already there. As Harris attempts to prove his identity, "Harris" provides identification and a family photo, both of which have his face. Overwhelmed by the identity crisis, Harris loses consciousness and awakens back at the hospital. A terrorist named Smith kills Harris's attending nurse, but Harris is able to escape from him.
Harris seeks help from a private investigator and former Stasi agent Ernst Jürgen. Harris's only clues are his father's book on botany and Gina, the taxi driver, an undocumented Bosnian immigrant who has been working at a diner since the crash. While Harris persuades her to help him, Jürgen researches Harris and the biotechnology summit, discovering it is to be attended by Prince Shada of Saudi Arabia. The prince is funding a secret project headed by Bressler, and has survived numerous assassination attempts. Jürgen suspects that the identity theft might be related.
Harris and Gina are attacked in her apartment by Smith and another terrorist, Jones; they escape after Gina kills Smith. Harris finds that Liz has written a series of numbers in his book, numbers that correspond to words found on specific pages. Using his schedule, Harris confronts Liz alone; she tells him that he left his briefcase at the airport. Meanwhile, Jürgen receives Cole at his office and reveals his findings of a secret terrorist group known as Section 15. Jürgen soon deduces that Cole is a former mercenary and member of the group. Knowing Cole is there to interrogate and kill him and with no way of escape, Jürgen commits suicide to protect Harris.
After retrieving his briefcase, Harris parts ways with Gina. When she sees him kidnapped by Cole and Jones, she steals a taxi and follows them. When Harris awakes, Cole explains that "Martin Harris" is just a cover name created by Harris. His head injury caused him to believe the cover persona was real; when Liz notified Cole of the injury, "Harris" was activated as his replacement. Gina runs over Jones before he can kill Harris, then rams Cole's van, killing him as well. After Harris finds a hidden compartment in his briefcase containing two Canadian passports, he remembers that he and Liz were in Berlin three months earlier to plant a bomb in Prince Shada's suite.
Now aware of his own role in the assassination plot, Harris seeks to redeem himself by thwarting it. Hotel security immediately arrests Harris and Gina, but Harris proves his earlier visit to the hotel. After security is convinced of the bomb's presence, they evacuate the hotel.
Harris realizes that Section 15's target is not Prince Shada, but Bressler, who has developed a genetically modified breed of corn capable of surviving harsh climates. Liz accesses Bressler's laptop and steals the data. With Bressler's death and the theft of his research, billions of dollars would fall into the wrong hands. Seeing that the assassination attempt has been foiled, Liz tries to disarm the bomb but fails and is killed when it explodes. Harris kills "Harris", the last remaining Section 15 terrorist, before he can murder Bressler. While Bressler announces that he is giving his project to the world for free, Harris and Gina—with new identities—board a train together.
Cast
Liam Neeson as Martin Harris
Diane Kruger as Gina
January Jones as Elizabeth "Liz" Harris
Aidan Quinn as imposter Martin
Frank Langella as Rodney Cole
Bruno Ganz as Ernst Jürgen, a former Stasi operative
Sebastian Koch as Professor Bressler
Stipe Erceg as Jones
Olivier Schneider as Smith
Rainer Bock as Herr Strauss (chief of hotel security)
Mido Hamada as Prince Shada
Karl Markovics as Dr. Farge
Eva Löbau as Nurse Gretchen Erfurt
Clint Dyer as Biko
Many German actors were cast for the film. Bock had previously starred in Inglourious Basterds (which also starred Diane Kruger) and The White Ribbon. Other cast includes Adnan Maral as a Turkish taxi driver and Petra Schmidt-Schaller as an immigration officer. Kruger herself is also German, despite playing a non-German character.
Production
Principal photography took place in early February 2010 in Berlin, Germany, and in the Studio Babelsberg film studios. The bridge the taxi plunges from is the Oberbaumbrücke. The Friedrichstraße was blocked for several nights for the shooting of a car chase. Some of the shooting was done in the Hotel Adlon. Locations include the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin Hauptbahnhof, Berlin Friedrichstraße station, Pariser Platz, Museum Island, the Oranienburger Straße in Berlin and the Leipzig/Halle Airport. According to Andrew Rona, the budget was $40 million. Producer Joel Silver's US company Dark Castle Entertainment contributed $30 million. German public film funds supported the production with €4.65 million (more than $6 million). The working title was Unknown White Male.
Release
Unknown was screened out of competition at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival. It was released in the United States on 18 February 2011.
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, the film has an approval rating of 55% based on 200 reviews; the average rating is 5.81/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Liam Neeson elevates the proceedings considerably, but Unknown is ultimately too derivative – and implausible – to take advantage of its intriguing premise." On Metacritic the film has an average weighted score of 56 out of 100, based on 38 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.
Richard Roeper gave the film a B+ and wrote, "At times, Unknown stretches plausibility to the near breaking point, but it's so well paced and the performances are so strong and most of the questions are ultimately answered. This is a very solid thriller." Justin Chang of Variety called it "an emotionally and psychologically threadbare exercise".
Box office
Unknown grossed $63.7 million in North America and $72.4 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $136.1 million.
It finished at number one opening at its first week of release with $21.9 million.
Television series
In June 2021, it was announced that a sequel television series based on the film is in development at TNT. The project will be produced by Dark Castle Entertainment where Sean Finegan will write the pilot, Karl Gajdusek and Speed Weed will serve as executive producers and show runners, Neeson also will serve as executive producer and Collet-Serra will direct the pilot and executive produce.
References
External links
Unknown at The Numbers
2011 films
2011 action thriller films
2011 psychological thriller films
2010s American films
2010s British films
2010s English-language films
2010s German-language films
2010s mystery thriller films
American action thriller films
American chase films
American mystery thriller films
Babelsberg Studio films
British action thriller films
British chase films
British mystery thriller films
Dark Castle Entertainment films
English-language French films
English-language German films
Films about altered memories
Films about amnesia
Films about identity theft
Films about murder
Films about terrorism in Europe
Films based on French novels
Films directed by Jaume Collet-Serra
Films produced by Joel Silver
Films scored by John Ottman
Films set in Berlin
Films shot in Berlin
French action thriller films
French mystery thriller films
German action thriller films
German mystery thriller films
Thanksgiving in films
Warner Bros. films |
23581165 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akaflieg%20Stuttgart%20fs18 | Akaflieg Stuttgart fs18 | The Akaflieg Stuttgart fs18a was a glider designed and built in Germany from 1938. It was characterized by a gull wing and was the first glider to have a retractable undercarriage. Only one example of the design was constructed.
Development
With the experience gained from the Rhön gliding competitions, the students at Akaflieg Stuttgart (Akademische Fliegergruppe – academic flying group) designed the fs18, which was able to turn tightly in thermals and had a relatively low sink rate, over the six months preceding the next Rhön competition at Wasserkuppe. The result was the fs18 which was a high-wing cantilever monoplane with gulled centre section, to ensure that the wings joined the fuselage at 90 degrees, rectangular midsection and tapered outer section. Flaps were fitted to the trailing edge of the midsection to 30% chord, and ailerons were mounted on the trailing edges of the outer wing sections. The fuselage consisted of the cockpit pod smoothly narrowing to a boom-like rear fuselage supporting the tail unit. The main undercarriage was manually retractable into an enclosed wheel well behind the cockpit. After the first flight on 21 July 1938, testing of the fs18a continued until 7 December 1938 when the fs18 crashed, killing pilot Ernst Scheible.
Specifications
See also
References
Further reading
1930s German sailplanes
Glider aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1938
Akaflieg Stuttgart aircraft |
26717131 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20Bay%20station | Deep Bay station | The Deep Bay station is located in Deep Bay, British Columbia. The station was a flag stop on Via Rail's Dayliner service. Service ended in 2011.
Footnotes
External links
Via Rail Station Description
Via Rail stations in British Columbia
Railway stations closed in 2011
Disused railway stations in Canada |
6906486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20for%20Yesterday | Time for Yesterday | Time For Yesterday is a science fiction novel by American writer A. C. Crispin set in the fictional Star Trek Universe. It is a sequel to Crispin's earlier novel, Yesterday's Son, and describes a second encounter between the crew of the USS Enterprise and Spock's son, Zar.
The two books followed the original series episode "All Our Yesterdays", and Time For Yesterday is subtitled The Yesterday Saga, Book 2.
Plot summary
The Guardian of Forever has malfunctioned and is emitting waves of accelerated time that are causing premature star deaths throughout the galaxy. After Spock recalls that his son Zar was once able to communicate telepathically with the Guardian, the Enterprise is placed under the temporary command of Admiral Kirk and detailed to transport a powerful telepath to the Guardian. The telepath manages to partially restore the Guardian's time travel functions but collapses in a comatose state. Using the Guardian, Kirk, Spock, and Dr. McCoy travel into the past of the planet Sarpeidon to find Zar, hoping that his powerful telepathy combined with Vulcan shield training will allow him to successfully restore the Guardian to its normal state.
They find Zar in charge of a small, technologically advanced settlement that is about to engage in a battle with an alliance of less advanced but more numerous enemy clans. His death in the coming battle has been foretold by the priestess Wynn, the daughter of one of the enemy clan chiefs, who declares that the alliance will be denied victory only if "he who is halt walks healed" and "he who is death-struck in battle rises whole." "He who is halt" clearly refers to Zar, who walks with a painful limp because of a leg injury he suffered many years before. In order to increase his city's odds of survival, Zar has Wynn kidnapped and betrothed, forcing her father to change sides. The Enterprise men manage to convince him to come back with them and deal with the Guardian, although he insists that he will return afterward to fight in the battle despite the prophecy.
Zar successfully melds with the Guardian and returns its consciousness to its physical structure, along with a burst of energy that turns out to be several beings of pure energy. The Guardian explains that it abandoned its duties to search for its Creators, who long ago evolved into beings of pure energy and entered another dimension. Its fundamental programming required it to answer their summons and bring them home, and the resource drain connected to the search resulted in its apparent malfunction. The Creators are immensely old and senile, and wish to find their home system to die there; but they have forgotten where it is. The Creators assume the form of people drawn from the memories of the Enterprise men in order to converse with them. While some of the beings act in a benevolent manner, a few seem capricious and cruel, and even completely deranged. Eventually, Kirk and the others manage to convince them that their search would endanger intelligent life throughout the galaxy, and they re-enter another dimension via the Guardian. The Guardian, with the assistance of Zar and Spock, is able to force the remaining, less rational Creators to comply.
McCoy convinces Zar to undergo treatment and physical therapy aboard the Enterprise, healing his limp and giving him a greater chance of survival in the coming battle. Zar achieves peak physical condition and is able to walk normally again, fulfilling the first half of Wynn's prophecy. When he returns to Sarpeidon's past, Spock follows him, intending to help save him in the battle. Spock is unable to prevent the death-blow from landing, although he deflects it slightly, and Zar is unconscious but still alive. In order to fulfill the second half of the prophecy, Spock puts on Zar's armor and shows himself to the army, leading them to believe their leader has risen whole from being "death-struck".
Upon seeing this, most of the remaining clans surrender and Zar's army wins the battle. After ensuring that Zar will survive the blow and leaving him to Wynn's care, Spock returns to the present.
Characters
Mr. Spock
Zar
Captain James T. Kirk
Dr. Leonard McCoy
Wynn
Guardian of Forever
Audio version
The book is available in an audiobook adaptation read by James Doohan and Leonard Nimoy.
Release details
1988, USA, Pocket Books , April 1988, Softcover
Background
Crispin said that of the four Star Trek novels she wrote, Time for Yesterday was the one of which she was most proud, "because it was a prequel to Wrath of Khan, my favorite Trek film. Also, it was fun to write a love story for Zar."
Reception
Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer of Tor.com described the "Yesterday Saga" as "both precious and hilarious."
References
External links
Time For Yesterday at Memory Alpha, the Star Trek wiki
1988 American novels
Novels based on Star Trek: The Original Series
Novels by Ann C. Crispin |
26717158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%20map%20%28disambiguation%29 | Gauss map (disambiguation) | Gauss map may refer to:
The Gauss map, a mapping of the Euclidean space onto a sphere
The Gauss iterated map, an iterated nonlinear map
The function see Gauss–Kuzmin–Wirsing operator
See also List of topics named after Carl Friedrich Gauss. |
23581177 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser%20Churchill | Fraser Churchill | Fraser Elmslie Churchill (29 January 1863 – 29 August 1943) was an English rower who won the Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta.
Churchill was born in London, the son of Charles Churchill. His family home was in Weybridge Park, Weybridge, Surrey, in the half of the parish closer to the River Thames. He was educated from age 13 at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge (1882–1885). There he was selected as one of the eight oarsmen to race for Cambridge University Boat Club in the Boat Races of 1883, 1884 and 1885. In 1886, he won Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta with Stanley Muttlebury.
Churchill was admitted at Inner Temple (1885–1894) until his name was withdrawn. He emigrated to Australia and lived at Molong, New South Wales.
Churchill died at Molong at the age of 80.
See also
List of Cambridge University Boat Race crews
References
1863 births
1943 deaths
People educated at Eton College
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Cambridge University Boat Club rowers
English male rowers
English emigrants to Australia |
23581192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylcatechol | Methylcatechol | Methylcatechol may refer to:
Guaiacol (O-methylcatechol)
3-Methylcatechol
4-Methylcatechol |
26717205 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunsmuir%20station%20%28British%20Columbia%29 | Dunsmuir station (British Columbia) | The Dunsmuir station is located in Dunsmuir, British Columbia. The station was a flag stop on Via Rail's Dayliner service. The station is on the Southern Railway of Vancouver Island mainline, first appearing in railway maps in 1918. The station is named after Robert Dunsmuir, one of the early founders of the railway. Service ended in 2011.
Footnotes
External links
Via Rail Station Description
Via Rail stations in British Columbia
Railway stations in Canada opened in 1918
Railway stations closed in 2011
Disused railway stations in Canada |
23581194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connelly%20v%20DPP | Connelly v DPP | Connelly v DPP [1964] AC 1254 was a landmark appeal whereby the highest court set out the way in which peripheral double jeopardy trials can take place in British law. It was ruled such proceedings should only be stayed where a retrial would be an abuse of process that violated objective standards of fairness and hampered the rights of the defendant. Connelly had been tried for murder, while in the commission of a robbery, and was found guilty despite a defence revolving around a lack of intent for murder. Connelly then appealed to the Court of Appeal, where his conviction was overturned and he was acquitted of murder for lack of proveable intent to kill or cause serious injury at the moment or leading up to the killing and the indictment reduced to robbery. Connelly pleaded autrefois acquit, or double jeopardy, but the argument was rejected and he was able to be convicted of robbery. It is ruled that offences of murder and robbery differ enough in fact and in law" that charges for both offences must together fall or stand. The moral sphere in which law founded demands in that the public interest (and where a custodial or electronic tagging sentence is imposed, a period of enhanced protection of the public) that robbers do not go without a sentence by way of justice.
Notes
References
English criminal case law
House of Lords cases
1964 in British law
1964 in case law |
23581196 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C7H8O2 | C7H8O2 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C7H8O2}}
The molecular formula C7H8O2 (molar mass: 124.14 g/mol, exact mass: 124.05243 u) may refer to:
2-Acetyl-5-methylfuran
Methylbenzenediols
3-Methylcatechol
4-Methylcatechol
Orcinol
Hydroxymethylphenols
Gastrodigenin
Salicyl alcohol
Methoxyphenols (benzenediol monomethyl ethers)
Guaiacol
3-methoxyphenol
Mequinol
Phenylmethanediol |
23581200 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Theodore%20Barclay | Charles Theodore Barclay | Charles Theodore Barclay (17 July 1867 – 30 March 1921) was an English rower who won the Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta.
Barclay was born at Woodford, Essex. He was the fifth son of Henry Ford Barclay, of Monkhams, and his first wife Richenda Louisa Barclay (née Gurney). Although his connection with the banking Barclay family was distant, he was related through his mother to the Gurneys, another Quaker banking family. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He rowed for the winning Cambridge crew in the 1887 Boat Race. In 1887, he also won Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta with Stanley Muttlebury.
Barclay became a stockbroker, and was a senior partner in the firm of Shephards and Co., London. He lived at Fanshaws, Hertford from 1909.
Barclay married Josephine Lister Harrison and had at least five children. He died in the library at Fanshaws at the age of 53.
See also
List of Cambridge University Boat Race crews
References
1867 births
1921 deaths
People educated at Eton College
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Cambridge University Boat Club rowers
English male rowers
People from Woodford, London |
23581213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C10H13N5O5 | C10H13N5O5 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C10H13N5O5}}
The molecular formula C10H13N5O5 (molar mass: 283.24 g/mol, exact mass: 283.0917 u) may refer to:
Guanosine
8-Oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-OxO-dG) |
26717299 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plimmerton%20railway%20station | Plimmerton railway station | Plimmerton railway station is on the North Island Main Trunk Railway (NIMT) in Plimmerton, Porirua, New Zealand, and is part of Wellington's Metlink suburban rail network operated by Transdev Wellington. It is double tracked around a long island platform, with subway access from Steyne Avenue and Plimmerton Domain's Park and Ride to the north, and a controlled crossing to Steyne Avenue and Mainline Steam at the south end of the platform. Mainline Steam, a heritage steam train restorer and operator, is located in the former goods yard next to the station.
Services
Plimmerton is the third station north of Porirua on the Kapiti Line for commuter trains operated by Transdev Wellington under the Metlink brand contracted to the Greater Wellington Regional Council. Services between Wellington and Porirua or Waikanae are operated by electric multiple units of the FT/FP class (Matangi). Two diesel-hauled carriage trains, the Capital Connection and the Northern Explorer, pass through the station but do not stop.
All suburban services running between Wellington and Plimmerton or Waikanae stop at Plimmerton. Off-peak trains stop at all stations between Wellington and Waikanae. During peak periods, some trains from Wellington that stop at all stations may terminate at Porirua and return to Wellington while a number of peak services run express or non-stop between Wellington and Porirua before stopping at all stations from Porirua to Waikanae. Plimmerton is the northern terminus for some peak period trains which terminate at Plimmerton and return to Wellington.
Travel times by train are thirty-one minutes to Waikanae, eight minutes to Porirua, twenty-nine minutes to Wellington for trains stopping at all stations, and twenty-five minutes for express trains that do not stop between Porirua and Wellington.
Trains run every twenty minutes during daytime off-peak hours, more frequently during peak periods, and less frequently at night. Before July 2018, off-peak passenger train services between Wellington and Waikanae ran every thirty minutes but were increased to one every twenty minutes from 15 July 2018.
Mack's Track, a railway model specialist, operates a destination store, ticket agency and kiosk inside the station, and maintains a waiting room. Bicycle racks and lockers are also provided on the platform. A park and ride car park adjoining the station is located at Plimmerton Domain.
In 2021 upgrading of the Plimmerton railway station by addition of a train loop/turnback facility started, to be completed by 2023. Some trains will then turn around at Plimmerton rather than Porirua thus increasing the peak capacity of the line by reducing the number of passengers on trains to Waikanae.
History
The rail corridor through Plimmerton was built by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company (WMR). The line reached Plimmerton in 1885 and proved to be a very popular beach destination for weekend visitors from Wellington who would ride the train to Plimmerton to "take the waters".
The original station building constructed in 1885 was on the west side of the line, and was replaced with the current station in 1940 when double tracking was completed. There were also several other tracks and a goods shed. For many years, the new station also served as a venue for the community. The station was staffed until 1989 and still houses a control panel used for access for Mainline Steam's trains and other rail operations.
The station building was identified as being of special importance under the Village Strategy Plan put together by the Plimmerton Residents' Association (PRA) as a part of Porirua City Council's Village Planning Programme.
Station building reopening
The station building was closed to the public from October 1989. Faced with the threat of demolition in 2004, the local community and Porirua City Council sought to organise the support needed to repair the empty station rather than have it replaced by minimalist shelters. Funding and implementing the repairs was not resolved until 2009, when Tranz Metro and the PRA signed a Community Rail Partnership (CRP) to govern the restoration and future use of the station building, and Tranz Metro and Mack's Track (a model railway retailer) signed an Agreement to Lease (ATL) the building if it was made good. With the participation of other stakeholders, including Porirua City Council and the Rail Heritage Trust of New Zealand, this CRP created a framework for repairs and other work to commence, and the ATL provided for a tenant to occupy the building on an ongoing basis once the project was finished.
An important part of this successful small scale transit-oriented development was Mack's Track occupying the station building when finished and providing a ticket agency, cafe and destination store as well as acting as a "Station Master" with the PRA for a public waiting room and other facilities for train passengers and the local community.
The restored station building was reopened on 10 October 2010, commemorating the 125th anniversary of trains to Plimmerton, 70 years since the opening of the existing station building and electrification of the line and 21 years since the station building had been closed to the public.
The Plimmerton Station Restoration Project has been applauded for its successful partnering of the community with the rail operator and the local authority to enable the preservation of local heritage while enhancing the operation of a modern rail transit system. The project received a Rail Heritage Trust of New Zealand Restoration Award in 2011, being recognised as "a model for other station restorations throughout the country."
References
External links
Railway stations in New Zealand
Rail transport in Wellington
Buildings and structures in Porirua
Railway stations opened in 1885 |
23581214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow%20Village%20Historic%20District | Ludlow Village Historic District | Ludlow Village Historic District may refer to:
Ludlow Village Historic District (Ludlow, Massachusetts), listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts
Ludlow Village Historic District (Ludlow, Vermont), listed on the NRHP in Vermont |
23581225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A5gsfjorden | Vågsfjorden | Vågsfjorden may refer to:
Vågsfjorden, Troms, a long fjord in Troms county, Norway
Vågsfjorden, Sogn og Fjordane, an long branch of the Nordfjord in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway |
26717306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Island%20Film%20Festival | Big Island Film Festival | The Big Island Film Festival is a film festival held at the Mauna Lani Resort on the Kohala Coast on the Big Island of Hawaii.
The festival, which has been held every May between 2006 and 2016, features short and feature films by independent filmmakers from around the world, as well as food and beverage events, celebrities and Hawaiian music and culture. New independent narrative films are eligible for Golden Honu Awards. Founder is Leo Sears. Currently the future of the festival is uncertain as it has not been organized for the last 3 years.
Named one of the "25 Coolest Film Festivals" in 2009 by MovieMaker Magazine.
References
External links
Official Site
Film festivals in Hawaii
Film festivals established in 1999 |
6906505 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Puget%20Sound%20Community%20College | South Puget Sound Community College | South Puget Sound Community College is a public community college in southwest Olympia, Washington. The college contains and is serving about 5,300 full and part-time students as of the fall 2020 quarter.
The school offers transfer associate degree programs, transition studies program, professional technical programs, and corporate and continuing education programs. As of fall 2020, SPSCC offers 78 degrees and certificates in 30 areas. It also offers short-term study abroad program designed by the Washington State Community College Consortium for Study Abroad (WCCCSA).
In 2021, SPSCC was named among the nations' 150 best community colleges by the Aspen Institute, which is determined by student outcomes in learning, completion rates, employments rates and incomes, and equity.
History
South Puget Sound Community College was established in 1962 as Olympia Vocational Technical Institute (OVTI) located at the old Montgomery Ward Building in downtown Olympia. The Olympia school board had been working since 1957 to widen education opportunity in the Olympia area for adults, originally via classes offered at Olympia High School. By 1966, technical training expanded to 14 fields in respect to Olympia citizens' requests. The Community College Act of 1967 gave the Olympia Vocational Institute the option to either remain with Olympia School District or to merge into the community college system. The school decided to join the community college system, merging into district 12 under the control of Centralia Community College, becoming Olympia Technical Community College (OTCC) in 1976.
By 1982, a few hundred students were first awarded Associate of Arts Degree and more programs were added at the school. In 1984, college was renamed South Puget Sound Community College to reflect its progressive record.
Academics
Transfer Degrees
Many SPSCC students transfer to a 4-year university or college as a college junior after earning an Associate’s Degree with 90 credits at SPSCC. Under the direct transfer agreement (DTA), many Washington State colleges, out-of-state colleges accept DTA degree. In the year 2017-2018, 77% of DTA graduates have transferred to public institutions in Washington states, 11% transferred to out-of-state public institutions, and 10% transferred to other private institutions. Direct transfer degree includes Associate in Arts, Associate in Biology, Associate in Business, Associate in Computer Science, Associate in Music, Associate in Nursing, and Associate in Pre Nursing. In addition to those direct transfer degrees, an Associate in Science degree is also offered.
Transition Studies Program
Transition Studies Program courses includes Adult Basic Education (ABE), Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training program (I-BEST), HS+ (High School+), GED preparation classes, and the English as a Second Language (ESL) program.
Professional Technical Program
The Professional Technical Program offers 20 programs designed for gaining technical skills for future careers or to prepare for a new career. After the completion of the program, students can earn Associate in Applied Science degree or a certification.
Corporate and Continuing Education
The Corporate and Continuing Education program offers classes that are dedicated to specific skills such as consulting, personal training, and start-up training for students to learn and acquire in accordance with their interests.
Student media
A student-led magazine, The Sounds, is provided approximately once a month, throughout the school. The change from newspaper to magazine happened in 2019. The Sounds provides news related to Campus life, Community, Arts & Entertainment, and Op-ed.
Hawks Prairie Campus (Lacey Campus)
A satellite campus (referred to as the Hawks Prairie Campus) was located in the neighboring city of Lacey at the Hawks Prairie center until spring of 2015. It has since been replaced by the new Lacey Campus. As well as the programs offered at the Olympia campus, it also offers for-credit courses, and courses that are oriented to varying quarterly and real-life themes. In addition, Center for Business and Innovation (CB&I), dedicated to promoting Business innovation and growth is located in the Lacey campus.
Athletics
South Puget Sound Community College competes in the Northwest Athletic Conference (NWAC) as the Clippers, fielding a men's and women's soccer team, a women's volleyball team and men's and women's teams for basketball.
In 2021, women's soccer team was introduced to SPSCC by the Clipper Athletics Program.
In 2021, students from Women's Volleyball and Men's Soccer were selected for the Northwest Athletic Conference (NWAC) West Region All-Star Teams.
References
External links
Official website
Community colleges in Washington (state)
Universities and colleges in Olympia, Washington |
23581226 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document%201 | Document 1 | Document 1 is the second EP by English indie pop band House of Brothers.
References
House of Brothers albums
2009 EPs |
26717308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualicum%20Beach%20station | Qualicum Beach station | Qualicum Beach station is a former railway station in Qualicum Beach, British Columbia. The station was a stop on Via Rail's Dayliner service, which ended in 2011. It is located two blocks from the centre of town and 1 km from the beach.
References
External links
Via Rail stations in British Columbia
Disused railway stations in Canada |
26717448 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Peterson%20%28Australian%20footballer%29 | Carl Peterson (Australian footballer) | Carl Peterson (born 3 July 1987) is a former Australian rules football player, who with the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League. Peterson was also listed with the Richmond Football Club but didn't play a game for the club.
More recently, Peterson pulled on the boots for Perth Football League team SNESA. SNESA has attracted some big name AFL stars in recent times and Peterson was a catalyst to the moves.
Peterson was born in Meekatharra, Western Australia and moved to Kununurra when he was two, before moving to Perth to finish Year 12, where he trained and played football with the Clontarf Football Academy. He was then recruited by Claremont Football Club in the Western Australian Football League (WAFL). He played five games for Claremont in 2006, including two finals.
Peterson was originally drafted by Richmond in the 2006 AFL Draft. He was a fourth round pick, number 60 overall, but he was delisted by the Tigers at the end of the 2007 season without playing a game. Following this, he joined Northern Territory Football League (NTFL) club St Mary's and was in the Saints' 2007/08 premiership side. He was then redrafted into the AFL by with the 61st overall of the 2009 Rookie Draft.
He made his AFL debut in the opening round of the 2010 AFL season and performed well, kicking a goal and gathering 15 disposals in the first half before copping a heavy knock early in the second half. He played seventeen games for Hawthorn, all in 2010.
In 2012, Peterson signed to play for the Victorian Football League's Northern Blues.
Statistics
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External links
Notes
Hawthorn Football Club players
Box Hill Football Club players
Claremont Football Club players
St Mary's Football Club (NTFL) players
Preston Football Club (VFA) players
1987 births
Living people
Australian rules footballers from Western Australia
People from Meekatharra, Western Australia
People from the Kimberley (Western Australia)
Indigenous Australian players of Australian rules football
Darwin Football Club players |
6906510 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid%20%28band%29 | Raid (band) | Raid were a Tennessee based straight edge hardcore punk band that formed after the break-up of the hardcore band One Way. Raid were a part of the Hardline subculture, which combined the tenets of straight edge (a no drugs, no alcohol lifestyle) with militant veganism and environmentalism.
History
Along with the Californian band Vegan Reich and the English band, Statement, Raid helped pioneer the vegan straight edge movement and the hardline lifestyle and ideology.
Their lyrics strongly expressed of their stance against drugs, alcohol, abortion, sexism and racism, and for animal liberation and radical ecology. Their output started as fairly conventional hardcore punk, which gradually evolved to incorporate elements of heavy metal and they effectively became spokesmen for the Hardline movement.
In 1989, they self-released a demo tape and this led to a seven-inch EP called Words of War a year later through Vegan Reich's own label, Hardline Records. The band split as they moved away from the straight edge lifestyle, but not before recording one last session. The recordings were released by Hardline Records as the posthumous Above The Law LP and CD in 1994. This was later re-released in 1995 by Victory Records as the Hands Off the Animals CD.
Members
Steve Lovett – vocals
Jason VanAuken – guitars
Chad Cathy – guitars
Mark Whitlock – bass
Steve Capehart – drums
Discography
Albums
Above the Law (1992)
EPs
Demo (1989)
Words of War (1989)
Hands off the Animals (1995)
See also
Hardline (subculture)
Animal rights and punk subculture
References
External links
Interview at Scribd
Hardcore punk groups from Tennessee
American metalcore musical groups
Straight edge groups
Victory Records artists |
26717461 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parksville%20station | Parksville station | The Parksville station is a former railway station in Parksville, British Columbia. It was a stop on Via Rail's Dayliner service, which ended in 2011.
Footnotes
External links
Via Rail Station Description
Via Rail stations in British Columbia
Parksville, British Columbia
Railway stations closed in 2011
Disused railway stations in Canada |
26717534 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%20iterated%20map | Gauss iterated map | In mathematics, the Gauss map (also known as Gaussian map or mouse map), is a nonlinear iterated map of the reals into a real interval given by the Gaussian function:
where α and β are real parameters.
Named after Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss, the function maps the bell shaped Gaussian function similar to the logistic map.
Properties
In the parameter real space can be chaotic. The map is also called the mouse map because its bifurcation diagram resembles a mouse (see Figures).
References
Chaotic maps |
44500313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5%20Years%20of%20Mau5 | 5 Years of Mau5 | 5 Years of Mau5 is a greatest hits and remix album by Canadian electronic music producer Deadmau5. It was released on November 24, 2014, in celebration of the five-year anniversary of his label, Mau5trap. Like his previous studio album, While(1<2) the retrospective was released in double disc format. The first disc acts as a greatest hits album encompassing highlights from the past five years of his back catalog, while the second disc serves as a remix album featuring exclusive and new remixes from various artists. The album artwork features a combination of the 'Mau5heads' used in the cover art of his first four studio albums released through the label: Random Album Title, For Lack of a Better Name, 4×4=12 and Album Title Goes Here.
Track listing
Notes
The original track listing was meant to feature the Wolfgang Gartner collaboration "Animal Rights" instead of "Not Exactly", as well as a remix of "Word Problems" by Friend Within (which was not finished in time for the album's release) in place of Wax Motif's Remix of "Raise Your Weapon".
NERO's remix of "Ghosts 'n' Stuff" and Madeon's remix of "Raise Your Weapon" were originally released in 2009 and 2011, respectively.
The deadmau5 vs Eric Prydz remix for "The Veldt" and the Michael Cassette remix for "Raise Your Weapon" were both initially recorded around 2012 and originally released around 2013, but neither were officially released before the album.
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Release history
References
External links
Deadmau5 albums
2014 compilation albums
2014 greatest hits albums
2014 remix albums
Mau5trap albums
Ultra Records albums
Virgin Records albums |
6906525 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toula%2C%20Zgharta | Toula, Zgharta | Toula () is a small village in North Lebanon in Zgharta District (or Quadaa). It is above sea level and is primarily a recreational village. Descendants of the original full-time residents of Toula do not reside in Toula during the winter months. Heavy snow fall typically makes Toula's mountainous roads inaccessible. However, Toula's original families occupied the village on a year-round basis. Settling families and early residents developed a climatic tolerance and adapted to Toula's harsh winter months.
Demographics
Toula has an estimated approximate population of 1,000. The last national census was conducted in 1932.
At the beginning of the 20th century, similar to other Lebanese towns and cities, these village residents emigrated to different locations around the world. Significant numbers have emigrated to the United States of America, Canada, Australia, Argentina, Brazil and other countries. A distinctive percentage of current village residents have achieved secondary education and professional school levels. [cite pending] Census reports indicated that a high proportion of these residents hold professional degrees in medicine, law, engineering and education. Additionally, numerous business entrepreneurs are village residents.
Economy
Toula's topography has earned the village a country-wide reputation for its productive fertile soil. Fertile soil and climatic conditions together, produce high quality agricultural products. Representative products are tomatoes, cucumbers, apples, pears, apricots, and grapes. Residents also produce an alcoholic beverage made from high grade varieties of grapes and anise. The alcoholic distilled beverage Arak is produced primarily for use by residents. The aniseed-flavored Arak is the national, cultural drink of Lebanon.
Religion
The village population consists almost exclusively of Lebanese Maronite Catholics, who staunchly preserve their Maronite heritage founded under St. Charbel of Lebanon.
The patron saint of Toula is known as Saint Assia (مار أسيا) . Toulanians build a church in its honor in the middle of the village.
The village is popular for its Saint Assia annual summer festival, held the last Sunday of September. The Saint Assia summer festival is celebrated with an outdoor party, where Arak, Lebanese cultural dancing, tolling the St. Assia Church bell and cultural cuisine, Hrissi, are a part of the festivities.
See also
Arbet Kozhaya
External links
Toula - Aslout, Localiban
Toula Museum of Australia Inc.
Toula Blog
on Zgharta.com
Photos of Toula
Ehden Family Tree
Zgharta District
Populated places in the North Governorate
Maronite Christian communities in Lebanon |
26717586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanoose%20Bay%20station | Nanoose Bay station | Nanoose Bay station is a former railway station in Nanoose Bay, British Columbia. The station was a stop on Via Rail's Dayliner service, which ended in 2011. The station is on the Southern Railway of Vancouver Island mainline.
Footnotes
External links
Via Rail Station Description
Via Rail stations in British Columbia
Railway stations in Canada opened in 1930
Railway stations closed in 2011
Disused railway stations in Canada |
20475216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eder%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201987%29 | Eder (footballer, born 1987) | Ederzito António Macedo Lopes ComM (born 22 December 1987), commonly known as Eder (), is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward.
He signed with Académica in 2008 from the lower leagues, and joined Braga four years later. Over seven seasons, he appeared in 143 Primeira Liga matches and scored 38 goals. He also played in Wales, France, Russia and Saudi Arabia, notably winning the 2017–18 Premier League with Lokomotiv Moscow.
A Portuguese international since 2012, Eder represented the country at the 2014 World Cup and Euro 2016, winning the latter and also scoring the sole goal in the final.
Club career
Early years
Born in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, Eder moved to Portugal as a child, and started playing football with Associação Desportiva e Cultural da Adémia in the Coimbra District at the age of 11. He made his senior debut with Oliveira do Hospital and G.D. Tourizense, the latter in the third division and the farm team of Académica de Coimbra.
Académica
Eder made his Primeira Liga debut for Académica on 24 August 2008, in a 0–1 away loss against C.F. Estrela da Amadora. He scored his first goal for the club at the end of the season, netting the Students equalising goal in an eventual 3–1 victory over Associação Naval 1º de Maio.
On 2 May 2010, Eder scored what looked like a winning goal against C.D. Nacional, but the visitors equalised at 3–3 in the 90th minute. On 12 September of the following year, against the same opponent and also in Coimbra, he scored twice in a 4–0 rout. He finished the season with five goals in 16 appearances, and helped the club win its first Portuguese Cup since 1939 after defeating Sporting CP in the final, but he only featured in the earlier rounds of the cup as he was suspended for not reporting to training for several weeks, as interest from other clubs in signing him grew.
Braga
Eder signed with S.C. Braga in summer 2012, for four years. He made his official debut for his new team on 2 September in a 0–2 defeat at F.C. Paços de Ferreira but scored twice late into that month as the Minho Province side defeated Rio Ave F.C. 4–1 at home, contributing one in a 4–4 home draw with S.C. Olhanense.
On 30 November 2012, in the fifth round of the Taça de Portugal, Eder netted the winning goal as Braga defeated FC Porto 2–1, booking a place in the quarter-finals. On 6 January 2013, in a league match against Moreirense FC, he scored the game's only goal shortly after the restart. On 23 February he scored in each half of the local derby against Vitória de Guimarães in a 3–2 win at the Estádio Municipal de Braga, but missed the rest of the campaign after suffering a ligament tear in early March.
In the domestic cup final on 31 May 2015, Eder opened the scoring against Sporting with a penalty after Cédric Soares had been sent off for fouling Djavan, but missed in the penalty shootout in an eventual loss following a 2–2 draw.
Swansea City and Lille
On 28 June 2015, Premier League club Swansea City agreed a fee of around £5 million to sign Eder on a three-year deal. He made his debut on 8 August, playing the final 11 minutes of a 2–2 draw at title holders Chelsea in place of Bafétimbi Gomis.
Having not scored in 15 competitive games for the Swans – only four starts – Eder joined Lille OSC on loan for the remainder of the season. He made his French Ligue 1 debut on 3 February 2016 as a half-time replacement for Yassine Benzia in a 1–0 home win over Stade Malherbe Caen. He scored his first goal four days later, to open a 1–1 draw against Stade Rennais F.C. also at the Stade Pierre-Mauroy.
Eder played the full 90 minutes in the final of the Coupe de la Ligue on 23 April 2016, which ended in a 2–1 loss against Paris Saint-Germain FC. On 24 May, after helping his team finish fifth and qualify to the UEFA Europa League, he signed a permanent four-year contract.
On 2 March 2017, Eder scored the final goal (four minutes into injury time after 90 minutes of normal time had elapsed) in a 2–1 away defeat of Championnat de France Amateur side Bergerac Périgord FC in the round of 16.
Lokomotiv Moscow
On 23 August 2017, Eder joined Russian Premier League club FC Lokomotiv Moscow in a season-long loan with a buyout option. On 5 May 2018, he scored the winning goal in the 87th minute from Vladislav Ignatyev's cross against FC Zenit Saint Petersburg in a 1–0 victory, which helped to grant his team their first league title since 2004.
Eder moved to the RZD Arena on 16 July 2018, on a permanent basis. He ended that season as a national cup winner, scoring a penalty to open a 4–1 home win over FC Yenisey Krasnoyarsk in the last 16 on 31 October. On 6 July, he was a substitute in the 3–2 defeat of FC Zenit Saint Petersburg in the 2019 Russian Super Cup.
Eder scored for the first time in the UEFA Champions League on 21 October 2020, in a 2–2 away draw against FC Red Bull Salzburg in the group stage. He won the cup again at the end of the season.
Al Raed
On 23 September 2021, free agent Eder signed a contract of undisclosed length with Al Raed FC in the Saudi Professional League.
International career
Eder chose to represent Portugal internationally. After impressive club performances for Braga, he was first called up by the national team in August 2012 for a match against Luxembourg for the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, but remained an unused substitute in the 2–1 away win on 7 September. He made his debut four days later in the same competition, replacing Hélder Postiga in the dying minutes of a 3–0 home victory over Azerbaijan.
On 19 May 2014, Eder was named in the final 23-man squad for the tournament in Brazil. He made his debut in the competition on 16 June, replacing injured Hugo Almeida in the first half of a 0–4 group stage loss to Germany. In the second game, a 2–2 draw against the United States, he replaced another injured striker early on, this time Postiga.
Eder's first international goal came on his 18th cap, the only goal in a friendly defeat of Italy at the Stade de Genève on 16 June 2015. He was selected by Fernando Santos for his UEFA Euro 2016 squad, appearing in three matches as a substitute and scoring the only goal in the final to help defeat hosts France after extra time.
Eder was not picked for the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup squad, being replaced by Porto's André Silva. He was included in a preliminary 35-man list for the 2018 World Cup, but did not make the final cut.
Style of play
Eder is a strong, hard-working and well-rounded striker, with a solid first touch. Usually deployed as a centre forward, he excels in the air due to his height and powerful physique, although he is also capable of playing in other offensive positions due to his ability to hold up the ball with his back to goal and play-off his teammates.
Career statistics
Club
International
(Portugal score listed first, score column indicates score after each Eder goal)
Honours
Académica
Taça de Portugal: 2011–12
Braga
Taça da Liga: 2012–13
Lokomotiv Moscow
Russian Premier League: 2017–18
Russian Cup: 2018–19, 2020–21
Russian Super Cup: 2019
Portugal
UEFA European Championship: 2016
Orders
Commander of the Order of Merit
References
External links
1987 births
Living people
Bissau-Guinean emigrants to Portugal
Portuguese sportspeople of Bissau-Guinean descent
Black Portuguese sportspeople
Sportspeople from Bissau
Portuguese footballers
Bissau-Guinean footballers
Association football forwards
Primeira Liga players
Segunda Divisão players
F.C. Oliveira do Hospital players
G.D. Tourizense players
Associação Académica de Coimbra – O.A.F. players
S.C. Braga players
Premier League players
Swansea City A.F.C. players
Ligue 1 players
Lille OSC players
Russian Premier League players
FC Lokomotiv Moscow players
Saudi Professional League players
Al-Raed FC players
Portugal international footballers
2014 FIFA World Cup players
UEFA Euro 2016 players
UEFA European Championship-winning players
Portuguese expatriate footballers
Bissau-Guinean expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Wales
Expatriate footballers in France
Expatriate footballers in Russia
Expatriate footballers in Saudi Arabia
Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Wales
Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in France
Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Russia
Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia
Bissau-Guinean expatriate sportspeople in Wales
Bissau-Guinean expatriate sportspeople in France
Bissau-Guinean expatriate sportspeople in Russia
Bissau-Guinean expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia
Commanders of the Order of Merit (Portugal) |
26717588 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mirror%20of%20the%20Mind%20of%20Samantabhadra | The Mirror of the Mind of Samantabhadra | The Mirror of the Mind of Samantabhadra () is one of the Seventeen tantras of Dzogchen Upadesha.
English discourse
In the Lungi Terdzö (Wylie: lung gi gter mdzod) the prose autocommentary by Longchenpa (1308 – 1364 or possibly 1369) to his Chöying Dzö (Wylie: chos dbyings mdzod) -- which are numbered amongst the Seven Treasuries (Wylie: mdzod chen bdun) -- the following embedded quotation from this Tantra has been rendered into English by Barron, et al. (2001: p. 8) and the Wylie has been secured from Wikisource and interspersed and embedded in the English gloss for probity:
"You should understand that the nature of all phenomena is that of the five aspects of Samantabhadra [chos thams cad kun tu bzang po lnga'i rang bzhin du shes par bya'o]. What are these? you ask [de yang gang zhe na 'di lta ste]. They are Samantabhadra as nature [rang bzhin kun tu bzang po dang], Samantabhadra as adornment [rgyan kun tu bzang po dang], Samantabhadra as teacher [ston pa kun tu bzang po dang], Samantabhadra as awareness [rig pa kun tu bzang po dang], and Samantabhadra as realization [rtogs pa kun tu bzang po'o]."'Kun tu bzang po thugs kyi me long gi rgyud'. Source: (accessed: Monday April 5, 2010)
"Phenomena" in the abovementioned quotation should be understood as a rendering of dharmas (Sanskrit) which may also be glossed "constituent factors". "Nature" (rang bzhin) is an analogue of svabhava (Sanskrit). "Awareness" is a gloss of rigpa (Tibetan). Though Buddhism is for the most part non-theistic, Dzogchen and other Buddhadharma traditions often personify attributes or qualities with a deity in textual discourse as Samantabhadra herein is the Adi-Buddha (to be clearly discerned from the namesake Bodhisattva) and is iconographically "attributeless" and "unadorned", the "primordial Buddha", and Samantabhadra is often so for many textual traditions of Dzogchen in both lineagues of Bonpo and Nyingmapa. Following Longchenpa, wherever Samantabhadra is Samantabhadri is evident indivisibly in Yab-yum (Tibetan).
Primary resources
Kun tu bzang po thugs kyi me long gi rgyud in Wylie @ Wikisource
ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ་ཐུགས་ཀྱི་མེ་ལོང་གི་རྒྱུད in Tibetan Script (Uchen) Unicode @ Wikisource
References
Dzogchen texts
Nyingma tantras |
23581234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankfield%20Museum | Bankfield Museum | Bankfield Museum is a grade II listed historic house museum, incorporating a regimental museum and textiles gallery in Boothtown, Halifax, England. It is notable for its past ownership and development by Colonel Edward Akroyd, MP, and its grand interior.
History
When Edward Akroyd (1810–1887) bought this building in 1838, on his engagement to Elizabeth Fearby of York, it was a much smaller eight-roomed house, built . He and his brother Henry were working for their father Jonathan Akroyd, a rich worsted mill owner, and living at Woodside Mansion in Boothtown. Jonathan died in 1848, and it was possibly Edward's inheritance which paid for the development of Bankfield which began around this time. Edward encased the 18th century building in fairfaced stone and added two loggias, a dining room, Anglican chapel and kitchens.
By 1867 Akroyd was Member of Parliament for Halifax and obliged to entertain on a grand scale. When the future Edward VII visited Halifax to open the town hall in 1863, the royal party ate lunch and dinner with the mayor who had more space at Manor Heath, although the prince did visit the Akroyd family business at Haley Hill Mills. For this reason, the 1867 wing, designed by John Bownas Atkinson of York at a cost of £20,000, was spacious and decorated to impress. It had a porte-cochere, saloon, drawing rooms, library and billiard room. At its busiest, the mansion had 25 servants. Akroyd extended his influence beyond Haley Mills and Bankfield by building Akroydon close by: a model village of gothic terraced houses, allotments, park, cooperative, stables and All Souls Church, all designed by George Gilbert Scott.
By 1887 the business was in decline and Akroyd was dying. He sold the building to Halifax Corporation for £6,000 and retired to St Leonards-on-Sea where he died. The house was immediately turned into a museum and branch library, but over time the original features were neglected, and some elements were lost; however the building was listed grade II in 1954. The building has now been restored as far as possible. Calderdale Council has done this because "Together Akroydon and Bankfield symbolise the importance of the textile industry to Victorian Britain and the central role that Halifax played in this story." Meanwhile 25,000 natural history specimens were transferred to Leeds City Museums in 1990 and the archaeology collections loaned to Kirklees Museums in 1979. A number of collections, in particular a large textile collection, were listed in 1999.
Duke of Wellington's Regiment Museum
The museum was partly closed for phase one of a refurbishment in 2005, and was reopened on 22 October 2005 by Lady Jane Wellesley the daughter of the 8th Duke of Wellington. It was again partly closed to complete phase two in 2008 and reopened on 11 November 2008, after receiving further Heritage Lottery Fund grants. The museum shows the history of the Havercake regiment from its beginnings in 1702 as the Earl of Huntingdon's Regiment of Foot to its demise, when it was amalgamated with the Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire and The Green Howards to form the Yorkshire Regiment on 6 June 2009, using accounts from serving soldiers and interactive displays.
The regiment comprised the combined 33rd and 76th foot Regiments, which were linked in 1881, as the 1st and 2nd battalions and based at Wellesley Barracks. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington was colonel of the 33rd, named after him when he died. The 76th served in India and carried two stands of Queens and Regimental colours, one which was an honorary stand awarded by the East India Company, so the combined regiment carried four colours on parade.
The regiment's headquarters (now an area headquarters of the Yorkshire Regiment) and archives are at Wellesley Park in Halifax. In 1860 Edward Akroyd paid for and recruited the 4th Yorkshire West Riding (Halifax) Rifle Volunteers, absorbing the 7th battalion formed in 1959. In 1883 the title of the regiment changed to the First Volunteer Battalion (Duke of Wellington's) West Riding Regiment. A further change took place in 1908 when it became the 4th Battalion (Duke of Wellington's) West Riding Regiment. In 1938 it changed name and role once more to the 58th Anti-Tank Regiment (DWR) Royal Artillery. Following several more mergers of battalions in the Duke of Wellington's Regiment it eventually became part of the 3rd Battalion Yorkshire Volunteers (Duke of Wellington's). In 2006 they became part of 4th Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment. As MP he supported the establishment of the Regimental Depot in Halifax. The Bankfield Museum assists with research and educational activities in connection with this department.
"The Regiments’ Battle Honours range from the Battle of Dettingen (1743) to the Battle of the Hook, Korea (1953) and then to a Theatre Honour in the Iraq War (2003), together with many other unrecognised actions. Twenty one Battalions served during the First World War and during the Second World War men from twelve Battalions served as tank crews, artillery men and engineers in addition to their traditional role as infantryman. Since 1945, the Dukes have served with United Nations Forces in several operations, in addition to their tours of duty in Northern Ireland."
Description
Exterior
The wide eaves and fairfaced stone give the building an Italianate appearance. The pillared and enclosed entrance lobby was originally an open porte-cochere, or covered entrance-way for carriages, which would drive under the stone canopy for the passengers to disembark.
The forecourt has a bowed screen wall. The stone mansion has an irregular shape due to various extensions. It consists of two arcaded storeys above a basement, especially in the 1867 wing. There are great eaves below a hipped and slated roof, and it is generally designed in the style of 14th to 15th century Italy. The basement is rusticated. From the back the low belvedere tower which lights the back staircase is visible. The arcaded loggias, originally open to the air, are now enclosed and altered.
Interior
The grand staircase is marble, and the decorations are inspired by the frescoes of Pompeii and Herculaneum, although the wall-design at the bottom of the stairs appears to be Egyptian revival. The dining room is now the temporary exhibition gallery. It has a classical style marble fireplace, and a plaster frieze featuring the royal coat of arms. The Regimental Museum occupies the original drawing room suite. Below the library was the billiard room, accessible from the bottom of the staircase, through the red door on the right. The 1867 block has warm air grilles in the skirting boards, and the heating was probably provided by a boiler. However, there is a legend that hot air was ducted from the Haley Mill nearby. On the floors of the marble gallery and the chapel lobby are encaustic tiles by Maw & Co. of Staffordshire.
The saloon
This is now the entrance hall and shop, and the walls are used to display temporary exhibitions. The saloon was also the grand hall, reception room, picture gallery and ballroom, with a little furniture at the sides, many oil paintings and gasoliers. It has rooflights with painted plaster decorations in the classical style around them. The marble fireplace features two large putti holding trumpets. Putti are also the central feature on the grand staircase ceiling – possibly a wistful element as Akroyd and his wife had no children.
The library
This is now the World of Textiles gallery, with the exhibits in the original oak bookcases. It was a very light room, the north and east walls having three great windows on each, and fittings for three chandeliers on the ceiling. The windows have etched glass semicircular panels at the top, in designs reflecting the stylised patterns on the ceiling. In one of the bookcases is a display of silverwork by Halifax jeweller Charles Horner (1837–1896).
Ceiling
The library was originally also the smoking room, so it is surprising that the original painted ceiling has survived and could be fully restored. The ceiling is heavily painted, gilded and sculptured in an eclectic manner, taking its general design from classical sources. The background is cream, but there is much use of Pompeiian red, an earth colour which gained popularity in Victorian England after the renewed excavations by Giuseppe Fiorelli in 1860. Small panels feature clearly painted classical motifs and portraits with distressed backgrounds, to look like pieces of ancient frescoes. Four medallions show the named poets Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer and Tennyson, all admired by the Romantics. All the spaces on the cream background are filled with illustrations imitating the original maiolica style, featuring stylised goats and fauns, cornucopia, grapes, birds and flowers, but also angels and putti in the centre. The decoration around the edge has a Green Man.
Fireplace
The fireplace is red Rouge de Rance marble with cream and black marble, patterned with inlaid semi-precious stone including green malachite: all imported materials. The intertwined initials of Edward and Elizabeth his wife are central on the fire surround and fireback, which is prominently dated 1867. The inlay features the White Rose of Yorkshire, possibly in Parian marble, which is repeated on the carved corinthian columns on the fire surround. The mantelshelf is massive enough to support three lifesized marble busts: Edward Akroyd on the left, his father Jonathan in the centre, and his wife Elizabeth Fearby (d.1884) on the right (by the Florentine sculptor Niccolò Bazzanti (1802–1869)). The bust of Elizabeth is remarkable in that it has the trompe-l'œil effect of a veil over the face. The glazed hearth tiles are similar to Mintons tiles but are probably locally made.
Back staircase
On the wall of the stairwell are low relief plaster sculptures of Night and Day after works by the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen. They symbolically divide the night quarters upstairs from the day quarters downstairs. The oak balustrade has turned balusters and brass finials in the shape of lions, because Elizabeth's family coat of arms featured lions. The ceiling is heavily coffered, but there are windows round the top of the stairwell and a great glass chandelier, so it is very light – in fact the stairwell is built as a separate tower so as to permit so many windows.
People associated with the museum
The Halifax Literary and Philosophical Society was started by 13 Halifax merchants, professionals and military officers in 1830 for research and study, to promote science and the arts and to start a museum to display their collections. These collections of curios were acquired from their Grand Tours and travels for business and military purposes; they were objects of geology, natural history, anthropology, the arts, as well as oddities from around the world. Their museum was at first successful but by 1895 had declined, so was closed and the exhibits given to Halifax museums. Some of Bankfield's share has survived and a few items are exhibited to demonstrate Victorian antiquarian taste.
Lemuel Clayton was a Halifax councillor, silk spinner and one of the co-founders of Bankfield Museum in 1887. He was a member of the Literary and Philosophical Society, had travelled the world and amassed a collection of curios, and these curios were some of the first exhibits shown in the museum. One of the curios was a stone carving of a baby which he acquired in 1886 from the Higashi Honganji temple at Kyoto. It was not appropriate for him to take home one of these stone babies which were images intended to bring luck to childless women, but Clayton convinced the jūshoku to allow him to have one, after insisting that he was not a missionary. So in 1887 yet another image of a baby was added to the number already in Bankfield House's decorations while the childless Elizabeth Akroyd was still alive and her husband had died the same year.
Emile Clement (1844–1928) donated or sold some of his Western Australian aboriginal material to the museum, but this collection was later given to Manchester Museum.
Henry Ling Roth was an anthropologist and curator of the Halifax museums between 1900 and 1925. He published numerous items on anthropology, including 23 numbers of Bankfield Museum notes. He was "The man who developed a small, confused, unattractive museum into an important centre of spectacular interest and research". The museum had followed the 18th century pattern of displaying curiosities, but Roth classified and rearranged the displays for educational purposes about peoples of the world and of the past. His main interest was textiles, so he displayed textile machinery from Calderdale and "an old spinning jenny in use at Dobcross until 1916". He acquired and displayed spinning wheels, looms and textiles from the southern and eastern continents. He was commended for this in 1916.
Edith Durham was an anthropologist and collector of Balkan textiles who donated her collection to the museum in 1935. It is thought that the museum possibly acquired this important collection as Bankfield still carried the reputation given to it by Ling Roth, or perhaps because Roth's successor from 1925 to 1932 as curator was George Carline, brother of Edith Durham's friend Hilda Carline. The Durham collection was displayed at Bankfield in the "Bread and Salt in our Hearts" exhibition in 1997.
Events
The museum hosts a series of temporary exhibitions; for example in 2009 there was an exhibition of Chinese-inspired textiles. There are regular events, including talks for the public, and workshops and drop-in activities for children, plus Key Stages 2 and 3 education programmes.
References
External links
Calderdale Council: Bankfield Museum
Calderdale Council: Duke of Wellington's Regiment Museum
Calderdale Council: DisabledGo.info: Bankfield Museum access details
TourismLeafletsOnLine.com: Bankfield Museum Halifax leaflet
Country houses in West Yorkshire
History of West Yorkshire
Grade II listed buildings in West Yorkshire
Textile museums in the United Kingdom
Toy museums in England
Regimental museums in England
History museums in West Yorkshire
Museums in Halifax, West Yorkshire
Local museums in West Yorkshire
The Duke of Wellington's Regiment
Museums established in 1887
1887 establishments in England |
20475284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav%20Schn%C3%BCrer | Gustav Schnürer | Gustav Schnürer (30 June 1860 – 14 December 1941) was a German-Swiss historian.
Biography
Gustav Schnürer was born in the Silesian village of Jätzdorf on 30 June 1860.
He studied history, geography and philology at the universities of Berlin, Breslau and Münster, earning his doctorate in 1883 at Münster. Afterwards, he worked as an editorial assistant at Munich, later obtaining a professorship in medieval history at the University of Fribourg (1889).
Schnürer is known for his studies of religious and religio-cultural history. His best known written work was Kirche und Kultur im Mittelalter, a book that was translated into English in 1956 by George J. Undreiner as Church and Culture in the Middle Ages: 350–814.
He was co-founder of Deutschen Gesellschaft für christliche Kunst (German Society of Christian Art) (1893) and Zeitschrift für schweizerische Kirchengeschichte (Magazine of Swiss Church History) (1907). He was also a contributor to the Catholic Encyclopedia.
References
English translation
External links
20th-century Swiss historians
Swiss male writers
People from the Province of Silesia
1860 births
1941 deaths
University of Fribourg faculty
University of Münster alumni
University of Breslau alumni
Contributors to the Catholic Encyclopedia
19th-century Swiss historians |
20475305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogo%20Gomes%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201985%29 | Diogo Gomes (footballer, born 1985) | Diogo Soares Gomes (born September 12, 1985), known as Diogo Gomes, is a Brazilian footballer currently playing for Pro Duta FC.
He previously played for clubs including Académica de Coimbra.
References
1985 births
Living people
Brazilian footballers
J. Malucelli Futebol players
Associação Académica de Coimbra – O.A.F. players
Primeira Liga players
Brazilian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Portugal
Association football midfielders |
20475327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiyan | Xiyan | Xiyan or Xi Yan may refer to:
Western Yan (384–394), a Xianbei state in North China during the Sixteen Kingdoms period
The Wedding Banquet, a 1993 film by Ang Lee
Xi Yan, a character from David Henry Hwang's play Chinglish
Places in China
Xiyan, Guangxi (西燕), a town in Shanglin County, Guangxi
Xiyan, Hebei (西演), a town in Gaoyang County, Hebei
Xiyan, Hunan (西岩), a town in Chengbu Miao Autonomous County, Hunan
Xiyan, Yu County (西烟), a town in Yu County, Shanxi
Xiyan Township, Henan, a township in Lingbao, Henan
Xiyan Township, Shanxi (西墕乡), a township in Taiyuan, Shanxi |
26717592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicroidium | Dicroidium | Dicroidium is an extinct genus of fork-leaved seed ferns that were widely distributed over Gondwana during the Triassic (). Their fossils are known from South Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Australia, New Zealand, South America, Madagascar, the Indian subcontinent and Antarctica. They were first discovered in Triassic sediments of Tasmania by Morris in 1845. Fossils from the Umm Irna Formation in Jordan and in Pakistan indicate that these plants already existed in Late Permian. Late surviving members of the genus are known from the Early Jurassic (Sinemurian) of East Antarctica. Within paleobotany, Dicroidium is a form genus used to refers to the leaves, associated with ovuluate organs classified as Umkomasia and pollen organs classified as Pteruchus, while Dicroidum is also used collectively to refer to the whole plant.
Description
The leaves are similar to those of modern ferns but like all seed ferns (Pteridospermatophyta) were thick and had substantial cuticles. Dicroidium differs from other seed fern leaves in having a forked rachis; giving the appearance of two fern leaves joined at the base. These plants had male and female reproductive structures. Following the form generic nomenclature of paleobotany, male pollen-bearing structures are separately named Pteruchus and the female structures Umkomasia.
Whole plant reconstructions
Different organs attributed to the same original plant can be reconstructed from co-occurrence at the same locality and from similarities in the stomatal apparatus and other anatomical peculiarities of fossilized cuticles.
Dicroidium odontopteroides may have been produced by the same plant as Umkomasia macleanii (ovulate structures) and Pteruchus africanus (pollen organs).
Dicroidium zuberi may have been produced by the same plant as Umkomasia feistmantelii (ovulate structures) and Pteruchus barrealensis (pollen organs)
References
Bomfleur, B. and Kerp, H. (2010). Dicroidium diversity in the Upper Triassic of north Victoria Land, East Antarctica.
Triassic plants
Fossil taxa described in 1912
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