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6237996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHMI-FM | WHMI-FM | WHMI-FM (93.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting from the Howell, Michigan area. The station broadcasts a Classic Hits format with local news, sports, traffic and weather and bills itself as Livingston County's Own. It also airs hourly news updates from ABC News Radio. WHMI is owned by Rodney Krol through licensee Krol Communications Inc.
History
WHMI began as an AM radio station at 1350 kHz in 1957. The call letters could be said to stand for both "Howell, Michigan" and "Heart of Michigan", a reference to an ad campaign of the late 1950s which promoted Livingston County as a good place to live. An FM signal at 93.5 was added in 1977, simulcasting the AM. Originally, WHMI was a small-town station typical of its era, with adult contemporary/MOR music and a strong news commitment.
The AM signal, which was inferior to the FM signal, was silenced in 1995. Since then WHMI has been solely on FM. During the late 1990s, WHMI's music programming gradually evolved from hot AC into the current "classic hits" format.
In 2001, WHMI moved out of its longtime studios on Grand River Avenue in Howell into a state-of-the-art facility at 1277 Parkway Drive in Genoa Township, Michigan.
References
Michiguide.com - WHMI-FM History
External links
HMI-FM
Classic hits radio stations in the United States
Livingston County, Michigan
Radio stations established in 1977
1977 establishments in Michigan |
11827573 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe%20Apeloig | Philippe Apeloig | Philippe Apeloig is a French graphic designer and typographer born in Paris in 1962.
Biography
Philippe Apeloig studied at the École supérieure des arts appliqués Duperré, then at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs. It was during two internships undertaken in 1983 and 1985, at Wim Crouwel's Total Design in Amsterdam, that he became particularly interested in typography.
Philippe Apeloig began his career as a graphic designer in 1985 at Musée d’Orsay, where he implemented the visual identity conceived by Bruno Monguzzi and Jean Widmer, and created the poster for the first exhibition Chicago, naissance d’une métropole. In 1988, he obtained a grant from the Ministère des Affaires Étrangères and set off to work in Los Angeles with April Greiman. Back from California, Apeloig created his own studio in Paris in 1989, and became art director for the magazine Le Jardin des Modes.
In 1993–1994, he was a Fellow at l'Académie de France à Rome, Villa Médicis, where he developed original typographic fonts. From this work he obtained the Gold Award from the Tokyo Type Director Club. He was named art consultant of the Louvre museum in 1997, and became its art director from 2003 to 2007.
From 1992 to 1998, Philippe Apeloig has taught typography and graphic design at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs (Ensad). In 1998, he moved to the United States for five years where he taught at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, and at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1999, he was hired Full-time faculty by the Cooper Union School of Art of New York, where he also occupied the position of curator of the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography.
Philippe Apeloig has created the logotypes and visual identities for Musée de France, for the Musée d’art et d’histoire du judaïsme for its opening in 1997 in Paris, the IUAV (Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia) in Venice, the Châtelet Théâtre in Paris, the estate group Icade, Médiateur européen, the year of Brazil in France Brésil-Brésils (2004), the year Cézanne in Aix-en-Provence (2006), the Palais de la Découverte (2010), the Petit Palais - Musée des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris, the French Institute / Alliance Française of New York (FIAF), the Louvre Abu Dhabi, Puiforcat, the cinema Le Balzac, and l'Ameublement français (a French professional union that represents furniture industries and companies). He works with the publishers Flammarion, La Martinière, Le Serpent à Plumes, Phaidon, PUF, and Robert Laffont. He has been the official poster artist for the Fête du Livre d’Aix-en-Provence since 1997, and he has designed many other posters, among them one for the Yves Saint Laurent retrospective at the Petit Palais in Paris in 2010. He has designed posters for numerous exhibitions, including Bateaux sur l’eau rivières et canaux for the Voies navigables de France, in Rouen. In 2013, he designed the visual identity for the Saut Hermès at the Grand Palais in Paris. In 2015, the Maison Hermès also engaged him to create the numerals of the Hermès Slim watch, as well as to design a silk and cashmere shawl for men celebrating the centennial of the birth of Roland Barthes, and the logotype of the review Le Monde d'Hermès in 2019.
He creates the visual identity The Manufacture de Sèvres (National ceramic factory), who offered him to create visuals on threes ceramic table services in 2017. This project has been exposed in the Parisian gallery of the Manufacture de Sèvres.
At the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, SNCF Gares & Connexions (the society in charge of the railway stations in France) invited him to display a typographical interpretation of the fundamental text, in over a hundred station.
In 2015 and 2019, he exposes drawings and watercolors at the Parisian gallery Gilles Drouault Galerie / Multiples.
In October 2018, the French publishing house, Gallimard, released Philippe Apeloig's book: Enfants de Paris, 1939-1945. This voluminous object (1.100 pages) gathered all the Second World War commemoraties plaques in Paris. At the crossroads of typography and history, this graphic piece shows an original vision of the French capital. For this book, Philippe Apeloig received the Prix Thiers de l’Académie française.
Many of Philippe Apeloig's designs belong to the collections of the MoMA, the SFMOMA, the LACMA, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs à Paris, the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam, the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of New York, the Museum für Gestaltung of Zurich, the Maison du Livre et de l'Affiche de Chaumont, the Deutsches Plakat Museum in Essen, the Poster Museum à Lahti and the Ogaki Poster Museum au Japon.
Philippe Apeloig is member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI).
He was named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2011.
Awards and honors
Elected a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) (1997)
Gold Award of the Tokyo Type Directors Club (1995) for the posters Octobre ouvre la saison en musique and Octobre fait danser la saison
Premier Award, International TypoGraphic Awards, ISTD International Society of Typographic Designers (2004), London, for the poster Bateaux sur l’eau, rivières et canaux for Voies navigables de France
Golden Bee Award, Golden Bee 6, Moscow International Biennale of Graphic Design (2004), category « Posters », for the poster Vis pour nous / Vis sans nous
First Prize, Five Star Designers’ Banquet, International Invitational Poster Biennial Osaka (2006), prize and exhibition organized by University of Arts of the City of Osaka, for his body of work
Gold Award of the Hong Kong International Poster Triennial (2007) for the poster Kenzaburo Ōé: je suis de nouveau un homme
Golden Bee Award, Golden Bee 8, Moscow International Biennale of Graphic Design (2008), for the poster Vivo in Typo
Premier Award, International TypoGraphic Award (2009), ISTD International Society of Typographic Designers, London, for the book Typography 29. TDC Annual. Call for Entries
Overall Winner of the International Society of Typographic Designers of London (2009) for the series of posters Season 2008/2009, Théâtre du Châtelet
Jagda Excellence Award (2012) for the poster Kodo Dadan
Gold Medal, Icograda Excellence Award et Jagda Excellence Award, Taiwan International Graphic Design Award (2013), for the posters Street Scene (Théâtre du Châtelet), Le Saut Hermès au Grand Palais (Hermès) and Kodo Dadan Theatre du Châtelet)
Iconograda Excellence Award (2013) for the poster Saut Hermès au Grand Palais
Gold Medal of Taiwan International Graphic Design Award (2013) for the poster Street Scene
Lahti Prix, Lahti Poster Triennial (2014), Lahti Art Museum, Finlande for the poster Bruits du monde (Fête du livre d'Aix-en-Provence)
Premier Award, International TypoGraphic Award (2014), ISTD International Society of Typographic Designers, London, for the posters created for the National Theatre of Toulouse (Seasons 2012-13 and 2013–14).
Golden Bee Award, Golden Bee (2014), Moscow International Biennale of Graphic Design, for the poster Théâtre national de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Season 2013-14
Bronze Award, International Poster Triennal (2014), Hong Kong, category «Promotion of Cultural Events», for the poster Théâtre national de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Season 2012-13
Prix Thiers (2019) of the Académie française, for the book Enfants de Paris, 1939-1945 by Gallimard publisher
Fonts
Philippe Apeloig is the creator of numerous fonts, published since 2013 by the type foundry Nouvelle Noire Type Foundry.
Books
(en) Philippe Apeloig, The Spiral, the Hand and the Menorahauteurs, Gabriele Capelli Editore Sagi, 2002 ()
(en) Jean Widmer, a Devotion to Modernism, The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, New York, 2003, 96 p. (ASIN B0006S5L8M)
(en) (fr) Philippe Apeloig, Inside the Word/Au Cœur Du Mot, Lars Muller Publishers, 2005 ()
(en) (fr) Philippe Apeloig, Typorama, Les Arts Décoratifs/Thames & Hudson, 2013 ()
(fr) Philippe Apeloig, à la Racine de la Lettre, Design Friends, 2015
(fr) Philippe Apeloig, Chroniques graphiques, Tind éditions, 2016
(en) Philippe Apeloig, Philippe Apeloig, GGG Books, 2017
(fr) Philippe Apeloig, Enfants de Paris, 1939-1945, Gallimard, 2018
Selected exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
1988, "Philippe Apeloig, affiches", Galerie Impression, Paris
1990, "Philippe Apeloig, affiches", Centre Arc-en-Rêve, Bordeaux
1997, "Poster in the context of French culture", Galerie GGG, Tokyo; Gallerie DDD, Osaka
1999, "AA", Cooper Union School of Art, Houghton Gallery, New York
2000, "Le musée s'affiche/Posters for Museums", La Maison Française at New York University, New York
2001, "Au cœur du mot", Galerie Anatome, Paris
2003, "Philippe Apeloig, affiches", La Médiatine, Brussels
2003, "Philippe Apeloig, affiches", Galerija Avla NLB, Ljubljana
2004, "Philippe Apeloig, affiches", Dawson College, Montréal
2005, "Typo/Typé", Carré Sainte-Anne, Montpellier; Musée d'Art Russe, Kiev
2005, "Play Type", The University of the Arts, Philadelphia
2008, "Vivo in Typo", Espace Topographique de l'art, Paris
2009, "La typographie animée/The animated typography", Université de Québec, Montréal
2010, "Portes", gravures, Atelier Didier Mutel, Paris
2010, "OrienTYPOccident" avec Reza Abedini, Centre Culturel Français, Damas
2013, "Typorama. Philippe Apeloig, design graphique", Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris
2014, "Typo Apeloig", Cité du Livre, Aix-en-Provence
2015, "Using Type", Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
2016, "Tremblements essentiels", galerie de Multiples, Paris
2017, "Apeloiggg", GGG Gallery, Tokyo
2017, "Apeloig à Sèvres", galerie de Sèvres, Paris
2018, "TypoApeloig. Un parisino en América", Casa de América, Madrid
2019, "TypoApeloig. Un parisino en América", Centro University, Mexico
2019, "Des coupes et Découpes", watercolors, galleries de Multiples, Paris
Group exhibitions
2001, "Typojancai", Seoul Arts Center Design Gallery, Séoul
2004, "Grafist 8", Université des Beaux Arts de Mimar Sinan, Institut Français d'Istanbul, Istanbul
2004, "19ème biennale internationale de l'affiche", Wilanow Poster Museum, Varsovie
2006, " Five stars' designers banquet", Osaka University of Arts, Osaka
2011, " Graphisme et création contemporaine", Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
2011, "Wim Crouwel - A graphic odyssey", Design Museum, Londre
2011, "Bewegte Schrift", exposition de groupe, Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich
2011–2012, "Type in Motion", Fundación Barrie, Vigo
2012, "Graphic Design: Now in Production", co-organized by the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2012, "20 Iconos del diseño Francés: L'Émoi du design", Institut Français, Madrid
2015, "How Posters Work", Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Museum, New York
2015, "Villissima", Hôtel des Arts, Toulon
2017, "Typomania", Musée de Moscou
2017, "Design Week", Saint-Pétersbourg
Notes and references
(en) Collection du MoMA
(fr)Collection de la Bibliothèque nationale de France
(en)Collection du Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt Museum de New York
(de)Collection du Museum of Design Zurich
(en)Apeloig Type Library, Nouvelle Noire Type Foundry
References
External links
Notices d’autorité : Fichier d’autorité international virtuel • International Standard Name Identifier • Bibliothèque nationale de France
Site officiel
45 affiches commentées par Philippe Apeloig
French poster artists
French typographers and type designers
French graphic designers
1962 births
Living people
Artists from Paris
École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs alumni |
34337707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951%20Norwegian%20Football%20Cup | 1951 Norwegian Football Cup | The 1951 Norwegian Football Cup was the 46th season of the Norwegian annual knockout football tournament. The tournament was open for all members of NFF, except those from Northern Norway. The final was played at Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo on 21 October 1951, and was contested by five-time former winners Sarpsborg and Asker, who made their first appearance in the cup final. Sarpsborg won the final 3-2, after extra time, and secured their sixth title. Fredrikstad were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Vålerengen in the quarter-final.
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See also
1950–51 Norwegian Main League
1951 in Norwegian football
References
Norwegian Football Cup seasons
Norway
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3405857 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4.35am | 4.35am | 4.35am is an EP by Irish singer-songwriter Gemma Hayes. Her first official release came out in 2001 on the Source Records label.
The track 4.35am appeared on the soundtrack for the 2006 movie flicka starring Mario Bello. Piano Song features Gemma unaccompanied on Piano. This is the first time Gemma recorded a song for piano only. Song for Julie a B side on the single for Back of my hand is the only other known recording of solo piano pieces by Hayes.
Track listing
All songs written by Gemma Hayes.
"Gotta Low"
"Making Waves"
"Evening Sun"
"4.35am."
"Piano Song"
Charts
References
Gemma Hayes albums
2001 EPs |
22846587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Hay%20du%20Chastelet | Paul Hay du Chastelet | Paul Hay du Chastelet (November 1592 – 26 April 1636) was a French magistrate, orator, and writer. His brother, Daniel Hay du Chastelet de Chambon, was a mathematician.
Biography
Du Chastelet was born at Laval, Mayenne, a member of the ancient house of Hay in Brittany region of France. He became a councillor in 1616 and Advocate-General of the Parliament of Brittany in 1618.
References
External links
Notice biographique de l'Académie française
1592 births
1636 deaths
French rhetoricians
17th-century French writers
17th-century French male writers
French politicians |
55667149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan%20Hewitt%20%28record%20producer%29 | Ryan Hewitt (record producer) | Ryan Hewitt is an American music producer, engineer and mixer known for his work with the Lumineers, Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Avett Brothers, the Chicks, Third Eye Blind, Jamie Cullum, John Frusciante and the Turnpike Troubadours. Hewitt is a Grammy Award winner having received the accolade for mixing and engineering Red Hot Chili Peppers' ninth studio album Stadium Arcadium. The album received seven Grammy nominations and won in the categories of Best Rock Album and Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package. He is currently based in Nashville, Tennessee.
Education and career
Hewitt grew up working with his father David Hewitt, a recording engineer. He went on to study at Tufts University in Boston, MA where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. After establishing a rapport with Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante, he went on to mix and engineer eight solo albums for Frusciante.
Hewitt moved from Los Angeles to Nashville in 2015 where he currently resides. Hewitt is based at the House of Blues Studios in Berry Hill, where he mixed the Lumineers' album Cleopatra as well as A Long Way from Your Heart by the Turnpike Troubadors. He is currently represented exclusively by GPS management.
Selected discography
References
External links
Ryan Hewitt Interview NAMM Oral History Library (2019)
Living people
American record producers
Tufts University School of Engineering alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
24867435 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse%20%28Brotherhood%20of%20Man%20album%29 | Greenhouse (Brotherhood of Man album) | Greenhouse is a 1997 album by British pop group Brotherhood of Man.
The album was released independently by the group themselves on cassette only and was available to buy at their shows. The songs contained included a mix of re-recordings of their own hit singles and cover versions. It also contained one new track "Greenhouse" - a song recorded a few years earlier in 1991 with Dutch producer Eddy Ouwens, but never released. The song was later included on the download-only album The Definitive Collection in 2009. Brotherhood of Man themselves were credited as producers for the rest of the album (member Lee Sheriden had been the group's musical director on their recordings for many years). The line-up of tracks formed part of their then current live show.
Among the cover versions were the Prince song, "1999", the Beatles' "Got to Get You into My Life" (albeit based on the 1970s hit version by Earth Wind and Fire), Huey Lewis and the News 1987 hit "Hip to Be Square" and Foreigner's "Juke Box Hero". The latter of these featured a heavy rock sound that was unusual for Brotherhood of Man, and at over five minutes; the longest song they ever recorded.
Track listing
Side One
"1999" (Nelson) 4.02
"Beautiful Lover" (Hiller / Sheriden / Lee) 3.26
"Angelo" (Hiller / Sheriden / Lee) 3.09
"Hip to Be Square" (Gibson, Hopper, Lewis) 4.06
"Got to Get You into My Life" (Lennon–McCartney) 4.10
"Figaro" (Hiller / Sheriden / Lee) 2.58
Side Two
"Greenhouse" (Hiller / Blue) 4.08
"Sweet Rosalie" (Hiller / Sheriden / Lee) 2.36
"Oh Boy (The Mood I'm In)" (Romeo) 3.19
"Juke Box Hero" (Gramm / Jones) 5.10
"Save Your Kisses for Me" (Hiller / Sheriden / Lee) 3.04
"United We Stand" (Hiller / Simmons) 2.57
References
1997 albums
Brotherhood of Man albums |
25795160 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont%C3%A9hus | Montéhus | Gaston Mardochée Brunswick, better known by his pseudonym Montéhus (9 July 1872 – December 1952), was a French singer-songwriter. He was the writer of such notable songs as "Gloire au 17ème" and "La Butte Rouge".
Biography
Montéhus was the eldest child of 22 in an impoverished working-class family of Jewish descent.
A Child of the Commune
Montéhus was born in Paris after the Paris Commune of 1871. According to him, his father Abraham Brunschwig had been among the rebels, but there is no source to verify this claim. Nevertheless, Montéhus was raised in a post-Commune context, which accounts for his commitment to left-wing politics. "Revolutionary jingoist" as he liked to present himself, he was close to the "wretched of the Earth" spoken of by Eugène Pottier in L'Internationale.
He began to sing in public at the age of 12, in 1884, a decade before the beginning of the Dreyfus Affair. He published his first song (Au camarade du 153ème) in 1897. It was then that he adopted his pseudonym, easier to bear than his name in the context of strong antisemitism. In 1907, he published Gloire au 17ème in honour of the regiment of soldiers who refused to fire on a demonstration of wine growers in Béziers.
A Committed Singer
In the second half of the 19th century, the song was central to the popular culture. Books, expensive as they were, were not accessible to the working classes. When it contained a strong political element, the song could be a powerful tool of propaganda. Montéhus was one of the singers of the red revolt, along with Jean-Baptiste Clément (1836–1903), writer of the song Le Temps des cerises, Eugène Pottier (1816–1887), writer of L'Internationale, Jules Jouy (1855–1897), writer of V'là l'choléra qu'arrive, Les Anarchistes de Chicago, Pierre Dupont (1821–1870), Le chant des ouvriers, Le chant du vote, Gaston Couté (1880–1911) Le gars qu'a mal tourné, etc.
In his lively, driven songs, Montéhus opposed war, capitalist exploitation, prostitution, poverty, religious hypocrisy, but also the income tax:
Au lieu d'imposer l'travailleur qui enrichit l'gouvernement
Imposez plutôt les noceurs [les capitalistes] qui gaspillent tant d'argent.
He also defended the cause of women in a remarkable way. La grève des Mères (The Mothers' Strike) was legally banned on 5 October and Montéhus condemned for "incitement to abortion".
On 5 March 1902, he is initiated into Freemasonry at ″l'Union de Belleville″ lodge in Paris. And when he considered joining the Communist Party in 1922, as the French Communist Party did not accept Freemasons, he preferred to remain faithful to his lodge.
A Friend of Lenin
Montéhus maintained relations with Vladimir Lenin; moreover, the latter made reference to this in his correspondence. In a letter to Lev Kamenev, Lenin wrote: "Ah! If I could listen to Montéhus again!". At the time of his exile in France (between 1909 and 1912), Lenin gave a series of conferences in a room of either the Rive Gauche or Bobino (the places is uncertain). At Lenin's request, Montéhus sang in the first part to attract a sizable audience. The people who came to listen to the "humanitarian singer" were also invited to listen to the Bolshevik activist after the intermission. The relations between art and politics prefigured the agitprop (art in the service of political discourse and/or ideology) put in place in the USSR beginning in the 1920s.
A Revolutionary Jingoist
During the First World War, Montéhus, like many others, underwent a radical change of political opinion. He made himself the zealous changer of the Union Sacrée and sang militarist songs. One may draw a comparison with the painting of Picasso, who in the same period renounced cubism (considered "too German") for a more academic style (considered "French"). It was then that Montéhus sang La Guerre finale, a grotesque détournement of L'Internationale:
"Et maintenant tous à l'ouvrage
Amis, on ne meurt qu'une fois !"
Similarly, in Lettre d'un Socialo (sung to the tune of L'air du Clairon by Paul Déroulède), he explained that the time had come for La Marseillaise, while waiting to be able to sing L'Internationale once again:
Nous chantons La Marseillaise
Car dans ces terribles jours
On laisse L'Internationale
Pour la victoire finale
On la chantera au retour.
Montéhus was the image of the working people, who left en masse for the front contrary to the fears of the state adjutant who had overestimated the workers' commitment to pacifism.
In a song impregnated with the racism of his time, entitled L'Arbi, Montéhus held xenophobic intentions:
Moi li sait bien, toi pas voulu guerre
Toi, li Français, c'est kif kif le bon Dieu.
Plus loin :
Moi suis content voir Paris : J'suis content, c'est bézef bonno
A couper cabêche aux sales Pruscots
car eux, du tout, pas gentils
As pas peur, as pas peur, Sidi
Si Pruscots venir, moi coupe kiki.
During these four years of war, he did not cease to compose warlike songs (La Dernière victime, La Voix des mourants, La Vision sanglante, Debout les Morts !, etc.), he would never be mobilised and thus never know the horrors of the front. On the other hand, on the stage of the Olympia, he was wounded in the head singing warlike songs. At the end of the war in 1918, for his good and loyal services, he received the Croix de Guerre.
Disgrace
After the war, Montéhus faced a rather long period of disgrace. He ceased to enroll in the Popular Front. He would attempt to redeem himself in 1923 by composing La Butte Rouge (The Red Mound), which makes reference to the Mound of Bapeaume, theatre of violent battles at the Somme during the offensive of the summer of 1916 (and not, contrary to a common error, the Paris Commune of 1871, strongly evoked in the work of de Montéhus). In this song, he takes on those responsible for the carnage: [...] car les bandits qui sont cause des guerres n'en meurent jamais, on ne tue qu'les innocents.
Support for the Popular Front
During the 1930s, he was a member of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO). At the advent of the Popular Front, at the age of 64, Montéhus was again at the forefront with Le décor va changer, Vas-Y Léon !", Le Cri des grévistes, L'Espoir d'un gueux, songs in which he supported the Popular Front and Léon Blum.
Under the Vichy Regime
Montéhus was not sent to a concentration camp, but he was forced to wear the yellow star from 1942 until the Liberation of France. In 1944, he wrote the Chant des Gaullistes (Song of the Gaullists).
After the Liberation
He received the Legion of Honour from Paul Ramadier en 1947. Nevertheless he was all but forgotten in show business, and was supported only by his family when he died in 1952 in Paris.
Citations
Gloire au 17ème – 1907
Salut, salut à vous,
Braves soldats du 17ème ;
Salut, braves pioupious,
Chacun vous admire et vous aime ;
Salut, salut à vous,
À votre geste magnifique ;
Vous auriez, en tirant sur nous,
Assassiné la République.
Lettres d'un socialo – 1914
Certes cela est pénible
Quand on a le cœur sensible
De voir tomber les copains
Mais quand on est sous les armes
On n'doit pas verser de larmes
On accepte le destin.
La Butte Rouge – 1919
La Butt’ Rouge, c’est son nom, l’baptême s’fit un matin
Où tous ceux qui montaient roulaient dans le ravin.
Aujourd’hui y’a des vignes, il y pousse du raisin.
Qui boira ce vin là, boira l’sang des copains.
References
Book
Rémy Wermester : "Montéhus La lutte en chantant" Editions Elzévir (November 2012) : In the same time, biography, bibliography of the writer under historic ground from "La Belle Epoque" to "Trente Glorieuses".
Bibliography
Marc Robine : « Montéhus, Le chansonnier humanitaire. Enregistrements originaux 1905–1936 » EPM, Paris.
External links
Chansons de Montéhus (La Butte rouge, La jeune garde, Les mains blanche, ...)
La Butte rouge
1872 births
1952 deaths
Musicians from Paris
19th-century French Jews
French Freemasons
French Section of the Workers' International politicians
French male singers
Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France)
Recipients of the Legion of Honour |
26459697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light%20valve | Light valve | A light valve (LV) is a device for varying the quantity of light, from a source, which reaches a target. Examples of targets are computer screen surfaces, or a wall screen in the case of a light projector.
There are two basic principles of achieving this. One is by deflecting the light on its way to the target (a reflective LV). The other method is to block the light (a transmissive LV).
The blocking method has found its way into liquid crystal flat screens (LCDs), video projectors and rear projection TVs. In this type of screens and projectors, the source light is first polarised by a filter in one direction and then passed on to another filter, filled with liquid crystals. By changing the voltage applied to this crystal filter, it will work as a switching polarising filter, giving different gray scales of the light coming out. The light is changed only once for each image frame. The light valve thus consists of the two polarising filters, where one has a voltage controlled switch function thanks to the properties of the liquid crystals. This type of valve is often referred to as a liquid crystal light valve.
The other principle, the reflective LV, works by either reflecting the light towards the target or deflecting it away. The portion of light that is reflected on the target decides the gray scale. This re- and deflection occurs many times a second. Should this happen at too low a frequency, the human eye and brain would perceive it as flickering, but due to sufficiently high frequency, a human will be "tricked" into viewing it as a continuum, a smooth shift in brightness. Examples of the reflective LV type are the Digital Micromirror Device (DMD), Eidophor's oil-film based system, and the Grating Light Valve.
See also
Spatial light modulator
Femtosecond pulse shaping
Multiphoton intrapulse interference phase scan
References
Display technology
Optics |
47366137 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%20University%20of%20Toulouse%20Midi-Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es | Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées | Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées (, UFTMP) is the association of universities and higher education institutions (ComUE) for institutions of higher education and research in the French region of Midi-Pyrénées (now called Occitania). On January 1, 2023, it was renamed as the University of Toulouse.
History
The university system was created as a ComUE according to the 2013 Law on Higher Education and Research (France), effective July 1, 2015. It replaced the pôle de recherche et d'enseignement supérieur (PRES) which had been organized in 2007 to coordinate higher education and research in the region.
In 2021, Patrick Lévy conducted an audit of the university site, which proposed changes. In 2022, this process led to the evolution of the institution towards the status of an experimental ComUE. On January 1, 2023, the Université fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées became the Université de Toulouse.
Members
Université fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées (now University of Toulouse) brings together the following institutions:
University Toulouse 1 - Capitole
University Toulouse 2 - Jean Jaurès
University Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier
National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse (Toulouse INP), consists of 7 schools
Institut national des sciences appliquées de Toulouse (INSA Toulouse)
Institut supérieur de l'aéronautique et de l'espace (ISAE-SUPAERO)
Institut d'études politiques de Toulouse (Sciences Po Toulouse)
National University Institute Jean-Francois Champollion (INUC)
École des Mines d'Albi-Carmaux (IMT Mines Albi)
École nationale de l'aviation civile (ENAC)
École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Toulouse (ENSA Toulouse)
École nationale supérieure de formation de l’enseignement agricole (ENSFEA)
Toulouse Business School (TBS)
Institut Catholique d'Arts et Métiers (ICAM)
References
External links
Université fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées website
Toulouse
Federale
Federale
2007 establishments in France
Universities and colleges established in 2007
Universities and colleges formed by merger in France |
1792381 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odemira | Odemira | Odemira ( or ) is a town and a municipality in Beja District in the Portuguese region of Alentejo. The population in 2011 was 26,066, in an area of 1720.60 km2, making it the largest municipality of Portugal by area.
It is famous for its wild beaches and for being home to a significant Dutch and German community. The village of Zambujeira do Mar is home to the Festival do Sudoeste, one of the biggest rock festivals in Europe.
The municipality of Odemira has great agricultural potential, specially in the western area of the region, and is home to major operations of important agricultural companies like Vitacress, world leader in the salad market.
The present Mayor is Hélder António Guerreiro, elected by the Socialist Party in 2021. The municipal holiday is 8 September.
Geography
The municipality of Odemira is located in southwestern Portugal, bordered by the municipalities of Sines and Santiago do Cacém to the north, Ourique to the east, and the Algarvian municipalities of Aljezur and Monchique to the south.
Much of the municipality is within the Southwest Alentejo and Vicentine Coast Nature Park.
Climate
Odemira has a Mediterranean climate. Winters are mild and rainy, with daytime temperatures usually around and nighttime lows around . Summers are dry and sunny and are hot in the interior of the municipality (maxima is around bordering Ourique) and warm at the coast (where maxima is around ).
Parishes
Administratively, the municipality is divided into 13 civil parishes (freguesias):
Boavista dos Pinheiros
Colos
Longueira / Almograve
Luzianes-Gare
Relíquias
Sabóia
Santa Clara-a-Velha
São Luís
São Martinho das Amoreiras
São Salvador e Santa Maria
São Teotónio
Vale de Santiago
Vila Nova de Milfontes
Notable people
Pedro Damiano (1480–1544) a Portuguese chess player and pharmacist by profession
Pedro de Almada Pereira (1835 in Odemira – 1911) an Alentejan landowner, schoolmaster and journalist, founded the periodical O Campo de Ourique
Population
Gallery
References
External links
Town Hall official website
Photos from Odemira
Towns in Portugal
Populated places in Beja District
Municipalities of Beja District |
24204430 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20United%20States%20senators%20in%20the%2065th%20Congress | List of United States senators in the 65th Congress | This is a complete list of members of the United States Senate during the 65th United States Congress listed by seniority, from March 4, 1917, to March 3, 1919.
Order of service is based on the commencement of the senator's first term. Behind this is former service as a senator (only giving the senator seniority within his or her new incoming class), service as vice president, a House member, a cabinet secretary, or a governor of a state. The final factor is the population of the senator's state.
Senators who were sworn in during the middle of the Congress (up until the last senator who was not sworn in early after winning the November 1918 election) are listed at the end of the list with no number.
Terms of service
U.S. Senate seniority list
See also
65th United States Congress
List of members of the United States House of Representatives in the 65th Congress by seniority
Notes
External links
Senate Seniority List
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70766163 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrow-gauge%20railways%20in%20Sicily | Narrow-gauge railways in Sicily | Sicily had at one time an extensive narrow gauge railway network. The design work was begun under at the time of the provisional management of the Southern Railways, continued by the Rete Sicula (Sicilian Railways) and built by Ferrovie dello Stato (Italian State Railways), which spread over the territory of five provinces: Palermo, Trapani, Agrigento , Caltanissetta, Enna; today the FS narrow-gauge network is completely abandoned and only the Circumetnea railway survives.
History
The design origins of some sections of the network date back to the 1870s; The construction of these railways was however started later and in some cases implemented so slowly
to that construction was only completed in the 1960s only to be abandoned soon after.
The first narrow gauge railway, the Palermo-Corleone-San Carlo Railway was built by private investors; the first project of 1873, was for an 850mm gauge steam tramway but on 15 September 1879 (perhaps also as a consequence of the new "Baccarini law", a framework for the construction of new lines to complete the Sicilian railway network) which recommended the use of metre gauge and established the contribution to construction costs by local authorities, the Provincial Council of Palermo decided to build it as heavy rail. This decision was probably the basis for the subsequent, unfortunate, choice of the narrow gauge for all the other related lines, built subsequently. The primary aim was to be able to convey wines, agricultural products and fish from the ports of the Mediterranean to the regional capital, Palermo.
The construction of the section from Palermo to Corleone was sub-contracted in June 1883 to the English entrepreneur Robert Trewhella. Work began on 20 April 1884.
The extension towards Castelvetrano and the south coast was entrusted in concession to the Società Siciliana per le Ferrovie Economiche (Sicilian Economical Railway Company) on 11 December 1898; however the Corleone-San Carlo was inaugurated only on 21 May 1903. Traffic remained at good levels for the first section up to Corleone but was always limited on the second and this led to a period of provisional management by the State in 1906 and then the incorporation into the FS network as of 1922.
While the construction of the main standard gauge network continued steadily, the construction of the other secondary lines suffered long setbacks with the exception of the private Circumetnea Railway, built by the Società Siciliana per lavori pubblici, (the Sicilian Civil Engineering Company, of which Trewhella himself was a shareholder), opened between 1895 and 1898. The remaining lines to be built suffered continuous setbacks due to multiple factors, including disputes among the municipalities in exchange for their investment capital required the alignment to pass as close as possible to the town centre, the interests of foreign or national sulphur companies who wanted the lines to serve their mines and not least the Rete Sicula's priority to build standard gauge lines to the coast, in particular, Castelvetrano-Porto Empedocle and Agrigento-Palma di Montechiaro-Licata.
To resolve these conflicting interests,the government set up a Royal Commission in 1901. Its recommendations are considered to be the cause of the premature obsolescence of the network. Narrow gauge with minimum infrastructure was recommended in order to limit the cost. Extensive use was to be made of rack sections to shorten the route. The result was a mess of very slow and tortuous lines, subject to landslides, the absence of efficient signaling and operating systems, and above all no relation to any master plan.
In the meantime, the construction of the network was further delayed by the nationalization, which happened for the Rete Sicula at the end of 1906. Under the aegis of the FS (State Railways) two sections from Castelvetrano station were finally put into service on 20 June 1910: the first of the line to San Carlo and Burgio up to Partanna and the first of the line to Porto Empedocle as far as Selinunte; on December 16, 1911, construction began on the Porto Empedocle-Siculiana section.
The first railway to be completed was the Canicattì-Licati, built between 1911 and 1915, to carry sulphur from the mines to the ports of Licata and Palma di Montechiaro and to transport the sulphur miners between the towns and the mines scattered between Canicattì and the sea.
Meanwhile, the construction of the coastal Castelvetrano-Agrigento line proceeded initially apace, reaching Sciacca in February 1914. However it took 9 more years to connect to the line built from Porto Empedocle and, inexplicably, the link between Porto Empedocle and Agrigento Bassa was only completed on 20 May 1951. This meant that for 28 years travellers lost time with a long transfer which made rail travel even more inconvenient.
The other line that from Castelvetrano pointed towards Santa Ninfa, crossing various municipalities of the Belice Valley, then bending towards San Carlo and connecting to the line coming from Palermo (completing the north–south narrow-gauge transversal), after departure of the works of the first section proceeded more and more slowly and saw its completion only in 1931 and in 1935 it was enriched by the branch diverted to Santa Ninfa-Salemi, which in the initial intentions should have continued directly on Trapani, but after the design and construction of the Alcamo Dir.-Trapani via Milo, was then diverted to Calatafimi (construction that stopped after the construction of the headquarters and buildings). In the same period the continuation on Burgio was activated which should have reached the coast at Bivio Greci but which never saw its completion.
In 1912 the first rack section inaugurated between Lercara Bassa station on the Palermo-Catania line and the town of Lercara Friddi; it was the only large sulphur basin in the Palermo area and served the need for transport of miners and sulphur. Filaga was reached in 1914 but after that only in 1918 was the significant centres of Prizzi and Palazzo Adriano were only reached in 1918. Finally Magazzolo was connected in 1924 even though the priority was to connect the other important sulfur basin of Cianciana to Porto Empedocle for shipping out.
The other line from Castelvetrano headed towards Santa Ninfa, crossing various municipalities of the Belice Valley, then curving towards San Carlo and connecting to the line coming from Palermo (completing the north–south narrow-gauge connection) was opened in 1931. In 1935 the Santa Ninfa-Salemi branch was opened. Initially this line was intended to go all the way to Trapani, but a standard gauge line was built from Alcamo Diramazione to Trapani via Milo. Thus a new plan was hatched to extend the branch to Calatafimi. Only the headquarters and buildings were ever constructed. About that time work began on the continuation towards Burgio and Bivio Greci on the coast, but that was never completed either.
As for the rest of the central Sicily narrow-gauge network, it was to remain isolated from the Western network due to the abandonment of the construction of the Canicattì-Caltagirone railway. The first km in operation served the sulfur basins of Floristella, Grottacalda and Assoro-Leonforte with two lines: Dittaino-Piazza Armerina-Caltagirone and Dittaino-Leonforte. The first long section started from the courtyard of the Dittaiono station (formerly Assoro), and entered operation on April 25, 1912. The steep gradients meant that rack and pinion operation was required. The Strub system was chosen and installed between km 8.856 and 11.990 and between km 12.424 and 13.738. The second section of the line of came into operation on 29 August 1914 and connected Valguarnera to the Grottacalda station built near the Floristella-Grottacalda mining complex, equipped with Decauville junctions and railways, in which thousands of workers worked for the extraction and sulfur processing. The town of Piazza Armerina was only reached on September 7, 1920, demonstrating the priority given to freight services over passenger traffic. Caltagirone was reached only in 1930 and, moreover, the construction was done so cheaply that the line was beset with subsidence and landslides which often interrupted traffic and caused derailments. In 1918 the first section of the railway to Assoro and Leonforte was opened with a view to continuing towards the Valle del Salto and Nicosia with an intermediate station, Bivio Paternò, from which a branch line would descend towards the Simeto valley to reach the Circumetnea railway. Also in this case the works proceeded slowly, ending in 1923 with the arrival of the railway in Leonforte. Most of the trackbed of the next section towards Nicosia was completed but no track was ever laid.
Meanwhile, starting from the 1920s, the export of sulfur had entered an irreversible crisis (due to US competition which had monopolized the markets) and therefore many of the reasons for which so many routes had been planned had disappeared; it would therefore have been useful to review the entire design of the railway lines, abandoning those no longer useful, modernizing the existing ones with better routes. It was preferred to continue to wearily build what had been planned but then to abandon it to the weeds. The remaining section of the Dittaino-Leonforte towards Nicosia was partly built but the track was never laid; the branch Junction Paternò-Regalbuto-Paternò-Motta Sant'Anastasia dragged itself between postponements and reworkings. Finally only in the southern part was built to standard gauge, like Regalbuto-Catania and opened entirely much later, in 1952 without any connection to ensure it even minimal passenger traffic from Leonforte and Agira. The Caltagirone-Piazza Armerina was opened only in 1930 with the provision of a connection to San Michele di Ganzaria of the Canicattì-Caltagirone railway which was then being built, but was never completed or opened. The construction of the Santa Ninfa-Salemi-Trapani was also begun (which logicshould have been built with standard gauge) but after the opening of the first section and the construction of a second one that was never opened, it was abandoned forever.
Between 1928 and 1930 another project was started, which, even if mostly completed, never went into operation; that of the Palermo-San Cipirello-Camporeale-Salaparuta line, connecting to the Castelvetrano-San Carlo line at San Carlo. The friezes that indicate the year VIII of the Fascist era on the bridges before the Camporeale station bear witness to the successful execution of the project. The track was laid between Palermo and Monreale before the Second World War, but the I.G.M. map of 1951 still showed the section as "railway under construction".
The thirties also saw the beginning of the construction of the long railway from Caltagirone to Gela (then called Terranova), approved in 1911 and included among those of four narrow-gauge projects that would have reduced the total distance from Catania (albeit with transhipment) to about , much shorter than the itineraries via Canicattì () and via Siracusa / Ragusa (). Appropriately, however, on November 24, 1921, the Royal Decree no. 1696 had transformed the project to the ordinary gauge (together with that of the building for Canicattì, which was partly already built to a narrow gauge). Some engineering work was done, but the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 stopped everything. In the early fifties the project was updated once again. The works began in April 1952 and the opening took place in November 1979. Of the whole program, this last section of the network, built to standard gauge, is the only one that survived.
Although construction continued tirelessly until the post-war period, nothing was done to modernize the existing one or speed up the service except for the introduction, in 1950, of 25 new RALn60 railcars on some lines, while the rest was abandoned to incredibly long distances of the old steam traction (average speed between ). The cuts and closures began in the mid-1950s and continued up to the beginning of the sixties. The group of central railways disappeared at the beginning of the seventies and the last line closed its doors at the end of 1987. Some closure made sense since the industrial purpose for which they were created had ceased to exist, for others such as Dittaino-Piazza Armerina-Caltagirone, Castelvetrano-Salaparuta and Castelvetrano-Agrigento it was a questionable measure given that the existing commuter traffic remained at good levels and was forcibly diverted due to the lack of speeding up of services and lines, sometimes impossible timetables and very long interruptions for relatively simple jobs.
Opening dates for the operation of individual sections of the network
The dates each section opened are shown below.
Palermo-Corleone-San Carlo Railway :
up to Corleone: 20 December 1886,
Corleone-San Carlo: May 21 1903.
Agrigento-Naro-Licata railway :
Canicattì - Naro: February 28 1911,
Naro - Camastra: 4 December 1911,
Camastra - Licata: 7 October 1915,
Girgenti - Favara: May 8 1921,
Favara-Margonia: December 30 1921,
Agrigento Bassa station (formerly Girgenti) - Agrigento Centrale: 1933 (dual-gauge section).
Castelvetrano-Porto Empedocle railway :
Selinunte - Castelvetrano: June 20 1910,
Siculiana - Porto Empedocle: December 16 1911,
Selinunte - Sciacca: 21 February 1914,
Cattolica Eraclea - Siculiana: June 16 1915
Ribera - Cattolica Eraclea: February 26 1917,
Sciacca-Ribera: 2 July 1923,
Porto Empedocle - Agrigento Bassa: 20 May 1951 (dual-gauge section).
Lercara-Filaga-Magazzolo Railway
Lercara Alta - Lercara Bassa 20 August 1912,
Lercara Alta - Filaga: 12 September 1914,
Filaga-Contuberna: May 10 1921,
Contuberna - Bivona: 11 November 1923;
Bivona - Alessandria della Rocca: 1 September 1924,
Cianciana - Alessandria della Rocca: July 15 1922,
Cianciana - Magazzolo: December 3 1921.
Lercara-Filaga-Magazzolo branch :
Filaga - Prizzi: March 16 1918,
Prizzi - Palazzo Adriano: 21 August 1920.
Dittaino-Piazza Armerina-Caltagirone Railway
Assoro station - Grottacalda mines: April 25 1912,
Grottacalda station - Valguarnera: 29 August 1914,
Valguarnera - Piazza Armerina: 7 September 1920,
Piazza Armerina - Caltagirone: 1930.
Dittaino-Leonforte Railway
Dittaino - Cavalcatore: March 8 1918,
Cavalcatore - Assoro: May 12 1921,
Assoro - Leonforte: 30 September 1923.
The second historical phase: closures
Construction, now under the control of the Ministry of Public Works, after the suspension during World War II, resumed very slowly at the beginning of the 1950s, when FS also made the only concrete attempt to relaunch some lines with the introduction of the RALn60 diesel railcar, a vehicle specifically built for Sicily. the positive experience led to a significant return of passengers, since it halved transport times. Indeed, ticket sales increased between 25 and 40% on the lines where it was put into operation and in the case of the Piazza Armerina-Caltagirone section even doubled) Unfortunately only 25 units were ever built so most lines were stuck with the slow steam traction. Furthermore, no modernization of the permanent way or operating systems was ever carried out, and often no routine maintenance of the lines was done, so line speeds became even lower than the usual , frequently at walking pace, often with stopping and driving by sight, where landslides ate the territory at every storm. No wonder that as soon as it was possible, users looked for alternative means such as their own car, motorcycle or competing private bus line.
In the fifties, in spite of the railcars' success in their limited operations, the politicians then in power decided that road transport was the future and closed sections even with good levels of ridership.
Palermo-Corleone-San Carlo Railway : first February 1959 (entire line closed).
Lercara-Filaga-Magazzolo Railway : first October 1959 (entire line closed).
Agrigento-Naro-Licata railway: 28 September 1958 (cancellation of the service), 26 August 1959 (DPR 875 closing the entire line).
Dittaino-Leonforte Railway: April 16, 1959 (entire section closed).
Santa Ninfa-Salemi Railway : 1 July 1954 (suspension of the railway service).
Castelvetrano-San Carlo-Burgio railway
(closure of the Salaparuta-San Carlo section): 1 February 1959,
(Castelvetrano-Salaparuta section) in operation until 15 January 1968; after the destruction of the Belice earthquake no longer reopened.
Railway Dittaino-Piazza Armerina-Caltagirone :
(Piazza Armerina-Caltagirone section closes): 25 June 1969,
(closing of the Dittaino-Piazza Armerina section): 11 July 1971.
Castelvetrano-Porto Empedocle railway :
(closure of the Porto Empedocle-Agrigento Bassa section): 23 February 1976,
(service suspended from Realmonte to Agrigento): December 1977,
(suspended service on the Ribera-Porto Empedocle section): spring 1978,
(closing of the remaining Castelvetrano-Sciacca-Ribera section): 1 January 1986.
List of railways in the FS network
Railways that entered into operation, now closed
Palermo Sant'Erasmo-Corleone-San Carlo railway
Lercara-Filaga-Magazzolo railway with the Filaga-Palazzo Adriano branch
Castelvetrano-Porto Empedocle railway
Castelvetrano-Santa Ninfa-Salaparuta-San Carlo-Burgio railway
Santa Ninfa-Salemi railway
Dittaino-Piazza Armerina-Caltagirone railway
Dittaino-Leonforte railway
Agrigento-Margonia-Naro-Licata railway with the Margonia-Canicattì branch
Railways at least partially built that never operated
Canicattì-Riesi-San Michele G.-Caltagirone railway
Palermo Lolli-Camporeale-Salaparuta railway
Salemi-Kaggera railway (planned extension of Santa Ninfa-Salemi)
Leonforte-Nicosia railway (planned extension of the Dittaino-Leonforte)
Santo Stefano di Camastra-Reitano-Mistretta railway
Railways designed but never built
Salemi-Trapani railway (planned extension of Salemi-Kaggera)
Nicosia-Randazzo railway (planned extension of Alcantara-Randazzo)
Nicosia-Regalbuto railway (planned extension of the Regalbuto-Motta Sant'Anastasia)
Fiumetorto-Nicosia railway (planned extension of Leonforte-Nicosia)
Burgio-Magazzolo railway (planned extension of Castelvetrano-San Carlo-Burgio)
Mistretta-Nicosia railway (planned extension of Santo Stefano di Camastra-Reitano-Mistretta)
Burgio-Magazzolo railway (extension of Castelvetrano-Burgio)
General features
The entire network was built to 950mm gauge (also called Italian metric). The rails of the Vignoles type were , in lengths, mounted on sleepers separated by a distance of . The minimum radius of curvature was , but on the Palermo-San Carlo there were also . The gradients were generally contained between 25‰ and 30‰ which allowed adhesion operation. For steeper sections (up to 75‰), the Strub rack was installed. The speed of the trains on the rack sections was limited to for locomotive hauled trains and for railcars. The rack was engaged at a speed not exceeding .
The traction was always steam for almost all the lines and until the closure except, from 1950 and only for some lines, the use of the diesel one for passenger trains. At the end of the 1920s there were experiments with experimental railcars (the RNe 8501 built by SNOS and the RNe 8901-8902 built by Fiat ) that did not lead to any series production.
and only shortly before the final closure two four-axle FS RD.142 locomotive diesel locomotives with bogies were put into service on the Castelvetrano-Porto Empedocle line.
Special operating rules
In the vast majority of cases, no type of railway signaling, traffic light or light was used for the protection of the stations or for the regulation of railway traffic. Only in the case of stations common to the normal gauge or crossroads were railway signals of the same type FS used. The stations were equipped with an indicator pole in the stations equipped with switches for the possibility of making an intersection. In this case the train had to stop at the pole and wait to be called with hand signals in order to enter the station. The entrance to the switch was to take place at speeds not exceeding . The stations were equipped with telephones and the movement of trains took place with the joint regime exchanged between the capitreno. Later the block system with single management was adopted.
A peculiar characteristic of the rolling stock of the network was that of having adopted the Hardy continuous automatic brake which worked by exploiting not compressed air but vacuum, that is, with air extracted from the brake duct. This system is the one still in use today on British railways.
Narrow gauge engine sheds
Sant'Erasmo
Lercara Alta
Castelvetrano
Dittaino
Piazza Armerina
Porto Empedocle
Licata
Motive power
FS RALn 60 railcar
FS steam locomotives R.301, R.302, R.370, R.401, R.402
FS diesel locomotive RD.142
References
Railway lines in Sicily
Narrow gauge railways in Europe |
73883722 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT%20Max%20Bump | DDT Max Bump | Max Bump is an annual Japanese professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT) brand. The event has been held since 2001 and aired as an Internet pay-per-view (iPPV) on DDT's streaming service Wrestle Universe and on Fighting TV Samurai, then on AbemaTV. The event is usually held around the holidays of the Golden Week, between April and May. The 2020 edition was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, the event moved to Yokohama and was renamed Mega Max Bump.
Events
Notes
References
External links
The official DDT Pro-Wrestling website
DDT Pro-Wrestling shows |
19710656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castaway%20Island | Castaway Island | Castaway Island (or Qalito) is an island of the Mamanuca Group in Fiji. It is inhabited, with a tourist resort on its west side. The island has an area of .
Access
Castaway Island is located about offshore from Nadi International Airport. It is accessible by either boat, seaplane or helicopter. The sea trip takes about 1 hour and 50 minutes, travelling past several other Mamanuca Islands.
Traditional Fijian name and present-day use
Known traditionally by the Fijians as “Qalito”, Castaway Island today is a private island resort used for holidays and vacations - in particular honeymoons and family holiday vacations.
Island inhabitants
The Fijian resort staff live on-island in a staff village. The bulk of the staff are from the Main island of Viti Levu.
References
Islands of Fiji
Ba Province
Mamanuca Islands
Private islands of Fiji |
7533977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockley-in-the-Hole | Hockley-in-the-Hole | Hockley-in-the-Hole was an area of Clerkenwell Green in central London where bull-baiting, bear-baiting and similar activities occurred in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Beargarden was located at Hockley-in-the-Hole where the Coach pub is today, at the junction of Back Hill and Ray Street, north of the junction of Clerkenwell Road and Farringdon Road.
See also
Beargarden
Westminster Pit
References
Animal cruelty incidents
Baiting (blood sport)
Clerkenwell
Sports venues in London |
68567422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hylozoic%20Ground | Hylozoic Ground | Hylozoic Ground is an interactive model of architecture which was presented in the Venice Biennale of 2010 and the 18th Biennale of Sydney in 2012. Hylozoic Ground is an exemplar of live architecture: it is an installation by Philip Beesley, who is a professor at the University of Waterloo.
Hylozoism
Hylozoism is the word from which "Hylozoic" is derived. The philosophical viewpoint of hylozoism holds that matter is alive in some way.
Features
It is a kind of architextiles. Hylozoic is a textile matrix that supports responsive activities, ''dynamic material exchanges, and living technologies in an immersive, interactive sculpture environment.''
Hylozoic Ground is a work of experimental architecture that explores the aspects of contemporary wilderness. The Canada Pavilion was transformed into an artificial forest through the use of an intricate lattice of tiny transparent acrylic meshwork links, which were covered in a network of interactive mechanical fronds, filters, and filaments.
References
Architectural design
Venice Architecture Biennale exhibitions
Textile arts |
612407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%20senate | Byzantine senate | The Byzantine senate or Eastern Roman senate (, , or , ) was a continuation of the Roman Senate, established in the 4th century by Constantine I. It survived for centuries, but the senate's powers varied greatly during its history and gradually diminished until its eventual disappearance in the 14th century.
The senate of the Eastern Roman Empire originally consisted of Roman senators who happened to live in the East, or those who wanted to move to Constantinople, and a few other bureaucrats who were appointed to the senate. Constantine offered free land and grain to any Roman senators who were willing to move to the East. When Constantine founded the Eastern senate in Byzantium, it initially resembled the councils of important cities like Antioch rather than the Roman Senate. His son Constantius II raised it from the position of a municipal to that of an imperial body but the senate in Constantinople had essentially the same limited powers as the senate in Rome. Constantius II increased the number of senators to 2,000 by including his friends, courtiers, and various provincial officials.
Admission and composition
The traditional principles that senatorial rank was hereditary and that the normal way of becoming a member of the senate itself was by holding a magistracy still remained in full force. By the time of the permanent division of the Roman Empire in 395, praetors' responsibilities had been reduced to a purely municipal role. Their sole duty was to manage the spending of money on the exhibition of games or on public works. However, with the decline of the other traditional Roman offices such as that of tribune the praetorship remained an important portal through which aristocrats could gain access to either the Western or Eastern Senates. The praetorship was a costly position to hold as praetors were expected to possess a treasury from which they could draw funds for their municipal duties. There are known to have been eight praetors in the Eastern Roman Empire who shared the financial burden between them. The late eastern Roman senate was very different from the Republican senate as the offices of aedile and tribune had long fallen into abeyance and by the end of the 4th century the quaestorship was on the point of disappearing, save as a provincial magistrate. The emperor or the senate itself could also issue a decree to grant a man not born into the senatorial order a seat in the senate. Exemption from the expensive position of praetor would also often be conferred on such persons that had become senators in this way.
The senate was mostly composed of statesmen and officials, ranging from the most important statesmen in the Empire such as the Master of Offices and the Master of Soldiers to provincial governors and retired civil servants. The senatorial families in Constantinople tended to be less affluent and less distinguished than those in the West (where the size of the senate had also been increased to 2,000 in the 4th century). Some aristocrats attempted to become senators in order to escape the difficult conditions that were imposed on them by late Roman emperors such as Diocletian (r. 284-305 AD). The curiales (Roman middle class) were often forced to become decurions where they were charged with participating in local government at their own expense as well as having to collect taxes and pay any deficits from their own pockets. As it was recognised that many who sought seats in the senate were doing so primarily to escape the harsh duties of the decurion Theodosius I decreed that they must complete their public service even if they became senators.
The senate was led by the Prefect of the City (Constantinople), who conducted all of its communications with the emperor. It was composed of three orders, the illustres, spectabiles and clarissimi. The members of the illustres were those who held the highest offices in Eastern Rome, such as the master of soldiers and praetorian prefects. The spectabiles formed the middle class of the senate and consisted of important statesmen such as proconsuls, vicars and military governors of the provinces. The clarissimi was the lower class of the senate and was attached to the governors of the provinces and to other lesser posts. Members of the lower two orders were permitted to live anywhere within the Empire and were generally inactive senators. The majority of active members in the senate were the illustres, whose important offices were usually based in Constantinople and so were able to attend the senate frequently. By the end of the 5th century the two lower classes were completely excluded from sitting in the senate. During the reign of Justinian I the numbers of clarissimi were significantly increased which caused many officials to be promoted to the rank of spectabiles and this in turn caused there to be an increase of the numbers of illustres, which had previously been the elite class of the senate. As a result, a new order, the gloriosi, was created to accommodate the highest ranking senators. It is important to note that being a Senator was generally a secondary career for most of the senate's members, who usually possessed important positions within the administrative machinery of the Empire.
Powers and functions
Whilst the powers of the senate were limited, it could pass resolutions (senatus consulta) which the Emperor might adopt and issue in the form of edicts. It could thus suggest Imperial legislation, and it acted from time to time as a consultative body. Some Imperial laws took the form of 'Orations to the senate', and were read aloud before the body. The Western Roman emperor, Valentinian III, in 446, formulated a legislative procedure which granted to the senate the right of co-operation, where any new law was to be discussed at a meeting between the senate and the Council before being confirmed by the emperor. This procedure was included in Justinian's code although it is unclear whether it was fully adopted in the East. In addition the emperor would use the senate as a judicial court, and trials for high treason were sometimes referred to it. Ordinary crimes would also often be judged by a court consisting of the prefect of the city and five senators chosen by lot. The senate also maintained constitutional significance in that officially emperors were to be chosen by the military and the senate, although succession was almost always hereditary.
Confrontations with the emperor
There were incidents when the senate confronted the emperor and attempted to assert authority on the basis of their constitutional importance regarding the succession of an Emperor. In 457 they offered to enthrone the master of soldiers, the Alan Aspar, but the tribune and senator Leo I, who was Aspar's subordinate, became emperor instead. In 532, some of the senators gave their support to the Nika rioters against Justinian I, who did not like or trust the wealthy senate. After 541, the senate lost many of its members due to a plague pandemic and during the ensuing economic turmoil, Justinian confiscated the wealth of many of the remaining senators. In 608 during the rule of Phocas, Heraclius the Elder and his son Heraclius were declared consuls with the backing of senate members in Carthage. Heraclius later was elected emperor. Previous emperor Phocas was deposed by the senate and arrested in a church by two senators.
When Emperor Heraclius died in 641, he left the Empire to be ruled by two of his sons: Constantine III from his first marriage with Eudokia and Heraklonas from his second marriage with Martina. Empress Martina demanded imperial power for herself (although most likely with intended favor for her son), and declared this in a grand ceremony held in the Hippodrome of Constantinople which was attended by the senate, other high officials and people of Constantinople. Opinion of the senate and the people being strongly against her, wanting Heraclius' sons to rule, Martina was forced to return to the Great Palace of Constantinople in defeat. However, Constantine died only four months later, leaving his half-brother Heraklonas as sole ruler, and rumours of Martina having assassinated him started to spread. Soon afterwards, a revolt led by general of the army named Valentinus began, and Heraklonas was forced to accept his young nephew Constans II, son of Constantine, as co-ruler. As a part of the negotiations, David brother of Heraklonas was also crowned as co-emperor. This, however, did not ease the discontent among the senate and the people, and soon the senate deposed Heraklonas. His nose was slit, Martina's tongue cut out and they were exiled to Rhodes. Constans II became sole emperor, under the regency of the senate.
Decline
The senate's power was gradually reduced over the course of history, although it still existed into the 13th century. From the seventh century on, it could be said that it was less of an institution than a class of dignitaries, as many of its remaining powers as a body were removed under legal reforms by the emperors Basil I and Leo VI. The senate itself retained considerable prestige, especially in the 11th century when the "court party" came to power following the death of Basil II. With the final triumph of the military faction on the accession of Alexios I Komnenos, the senate began to fade into irrelevance and the title of senator could be bought from the emperor. In 1197 the senate was assembled—along with the clergy and guildsmen of the capital—to approve a special tax, the Alamanikon. The senators refused to be assessed for the tax, as it was contrary to custom, and the emperor was forced to tax the provinces and exempt the capital. The senate's last known act was to elect Nikolaos Kanabos as emperor in opposition to Isaac II and Alexius IV during the Fourth Crusade. Under the Palaeologus dynasty the title of senator survived for a time, but in the crises of the mid 14th century the ancient office, said to have been founded 2,000 years prior by the first Roman leader, Romulus, finally vanished for good.
Senate houses
There were two senate houses in Constantinople. One, built by Constantine and restored by Justinian, was on the east side of the Augustaion, close to the Imperial Palace, at Magnaura, whilst the other was on the north side of the Forum of Constantine. The senate lost its houses in the 6th century and from then on assembled in the Great Palace of Constantinople.
References
Further reading
Bury, J. B. History of the Later Roman Empire, Volume 1.
4th-century establishments in the Byzantine Empire
Government of the Byzantine Empire
Historical legislatures
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465986 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%ABl | Raël | Raël (born Claude Maurice Marcel Vorilhon, 30 September 1946) is a French journalist who founded and leads the Raëlian Movement, an international UFO religion.
Before becoming a religious leader, Raël, then known as Claude Vorilhon, worked as a sports-car journalist and test driver for his car-racing magazine, Autopop. Following a purported extraterrestrial encounter in December 1973, he formed the Raëlian Movement and changed his name to Raël (meaning "messenger of the Elohim"). He later published several books, which detail the encounter with a being called Yahweh in 1973. He traveled the world to promote his books for over 30 years.
Early life
Vorilhon was born in Vichy, Allier, France. He was raised in Ambert in the home of his maternal grandmother, who was atheist. His father was Jewish and his mother a "devout atheist". He attended a Catholic boarding school with Le Puy-en-Velay and caused a scandal by taking part in communion without being baptized. His parents withdrew him from the boarding school to put him in school in Ambert. He later advocated that Huguenot descendants receive reparations from the Church.
At age 15, Vorilhon ran away from boarding school and hitchhiked to Paris, where he spent three years playing music on the streets and in cafés and cabarets. He met with , the director of a national radio program(on Europe 1), who was scouting for young talent. Vorilhon signed a record contract and became a rising teen pop star on the radio. He took on a new identity, assuming the name Claude Celler, and released six singles, including a minor hit song, "Le miel et la cannelle" ("Honey and Cinnamon"). Vorilhon had a passion for the songs of Belgian singer Jacques Brel, and tried to imitate his singing style. He was saving up his money to buy a racing car, a dream he had since he was a young boy, but his prospects as a singer came to an abrupt end when Morisse killed himself in September 1970.
Vorilhon decided to work as a sports journalist to gain access to the world of car racing. He met Marie-Paul Cristini, a nurse. They moved to Clermont-Ferrand, where Vorilhon started his own publishing house. He created a sports car magazine, Autopop, whose first issue was released in May 1971. One of the tasks for his new startup was the position of testing new automobiles, which enabled him to enter the motor racing world.
The Raëlian messages
According to the book Le Livre qui dit la vérité (The Book That Tells the Truth), Vorilhon had an alien visitation on 13 December 1973. In a secluded area within a French volcanic crater, an extraterrestrial being came out of a craft that had descended gently from the sky, and told him, in French, that he had come for the sole purpose of meeting with him. Raël said he was given a message by this alien and told that it was his mission to pass this message on to the people of Earth.
The book states that advanced human scientists from another planet with 25,000 years of scientific advances created all life on Earth through DNA manipulation. These scientists, Raël said, were originally called Elohim or "those who came from the sky". He wrote that around 40 prophets in Earth's history were sent by Elohim, but their messages were distorted by humans, largely because of the difference in the level of civilization between the advanced race and Earth's primitive one.
Raël said he was given the mission to inform the world of humanity's origins in anticipation of these extraterrestrials' return by building a residential embassy in neutral territory. He stated that certain mysteries were explained to him based on new interpretations of sacred texts such as the Bible. He said that, on 7 October 1975, he was contacted by one of the Elohim, who took him to another planet to meet Buddha, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad. He stated that his second book, Les extra-terrestres m'ont emmené sur leur planète (Extraterrestrials Took Me To Their Planet), relates the teaching he received from these people. In this book, Raël describes harmonious and peaceable beings free of money, sickness, and war.
In 1974, Raël decided to give up his automobile magazine, Autopop. That September, the last issue, number 34, was published. Raël then devoted himself to the task he said was given by his "biological father", an extraterrestrial named Yahweh. Shortly after a first public conference, Raël founded MADECH, a group of people interested in helping him in his task, which later became the International Raëlian Movement.
Marriages
Raël has been married three times.
His first wife was Marie-Paul Cristini. Sociologist Susan J. Palmer said that Cristini, a nurse, diagnosed Raël as clinically depressed after he appeared at her doorstep in 1987, burnt out from the tasks he carried out within the movement.
Raël focused on spreading his message in Japan in the 1980s, and by 1987, he met Lisa Sunagawa. Sunagawa soon began accompanying Raël during his travels to Lima, Miami, Brazil, and Martinique. In the 1990 Radio Canada television documentary They're Coming!, Raël is seen with four women, while Lisa, in slow motion, wears a pink tutu and holds hands with him.
Raël separated from Sunagawa sometime between 1990 and 1992. Around that time, Sophie de Niverville, whose mother and aunt were both Raëlians, was convinced of the authenticity of the messages. Sophie received a Raëlian baptism at age 15. When she turned 16, she married Raël at Montreal's city hall. During a December 2001 interview with Palmer, Sophie spoke positively about Raël, despite their divorce the previous year; they continued to live together.
Racing career
In 1994, wealthy Japanese Raëlians rented a race car and showed it to Raël. They believed that if he raced it, it would generate publicity for the movement. Raël accepted the offer on the condition that the funding not come from member tithes or embassy funding. Funding for Raël's races, which took place in the 1990s and early 2000s, came mostly from well-funded European and Japanese people. His best finishes included "a 3rd place finish in GT1 in Lime Rock with the Mosler Raptor in 1997, and a 7th place finish at Watkins Glen with a Viper GTS R in a 1999 FIA GT race". Raël participated in the 1999 BFGoodrich Tires Trans-Am Series and the 2000 Speedvision GT Championship. According to Palmer, Raël announced in November 2001 that he intended to retire from professional auto racing. She said that he still enjoyed racing in the form of video games.
Promoted technologies
Raël believes humanity is slowly transitioning into a society where humans will not need to work or have jobs. This is due to human technological advancement and because humans "are not made to work". He has stated that work is for machines, whereas humans are made to create, think, and enrich themselves.
Much of Raël's advocacy concerning futuristic technology is described in his 2001 book, Yes to Human Cloning. He supported human genetic engineering in order to avoid genetically inherited diseases and to reduce the economic burden on society. He said that no distinctive emphasis needed to be allocated to a particular race or religion. Elsewhere in the book, he stated that nanotechnology will make it possible to have micro-distributive power generation (essentially a power plant in each house), fur-like furnishings that are self-cleaning with hair-like fibers that move on their own, and biological robots. Nanostructures control biology, so Raël expected that meat and salads will someday be grown in a machine via molecular construction.
Raël believed that genetically modified food is the only way to stop hunger everywhere in the world, and he saw a future where qualities of different foods can be combined through direct genetic modification. In Raël's book, Extraterrestrials took me to their planet (book number 2 in the volume Intelligent Design), he said that animation of plant life was possible through nanotechnology and that he was presented genetically modified flowers, that swayed and changed colors with music, while on another planet.
Criticism and controversies
Plagiarism
In recent years, many ex-Raëlians have accused Vorilhon of plagiarism. They have compared numerous passages from his books with those of author Jean Sendy. Raëlian concepts such as chemical education, infinity, geniocracy, and others are all found in Sendy's books. Most of Raël's book Sensual Meditation is said to have been derived from the Silva 'Mind Control' Method, which was allegedly taught to him by ex-level-5 guide of the Canadian Raelian Movement, Jean-Denis Saint-Cyr.
In her book Raël, Thief of Souls: Biography of a Liar (), Maryse Péloquin provides the result of her ten years of research into Vorilhon and his movement, with compelling evidence to support the conclusion that Raël has copied concepts from, and often paraphrased full paragraphs from, other UFO and ancient astronaut authors of the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, such as Sendy, Brinsley Le Poer Trench, and Robert Charroux. In her book, the dialogue of Raël's "encounter with an ET" is shown to closely resemble that of "contactee" George Adamski, who claimed that he had an encounter on 13 December 1952.
Much of the Raëlian philosophy also closely matches that of Osho. The white costume Raël wears closely resembles one that Osho was known to have worn.
Appearances in the media
In 1992, Raël appeared on Ciel mon Mardi, a French talk show hosted by journalist Christophe Dechavanne. Toward the end of the show, Raël's sexual liberalism was critiqued by a priest, a social worker, and a psychologist. A former Raëlian, Jean Parraga, believed that his wife and children were being held as prisoners, and that Raël attempted to break up his family. Parraga thought that his wife and children were being treated like criminals in activities such as orgies and sacrifices that involve children, at the Sensual Meditation camp. Parraga also had a criminal record as a drug dealer and car thief, and in August 1992, he attempted to shoot Raël.
Raëlians from around the world sent letters of protest to Dechevanne's TV station. Dechavanne portrayed that as "incitement to violence" and sued Raël. The judge appointed to the case decided to question Raël. Raël agreed to ask his members to stop sending letters if the station apologized publicly. The two parties agreed to drop the feud.
In 2004, Raël appeared on the first airing of the Quebec version of the French talk show Tout le monde en parle, hosted by Guy A. Lepage. During this appearance, Raël upset panel members with his statements on democracy and cloning. The situation reached its peak when caricaturist Serge Chapleau called Raël a "farce" and a "nerd", ridiculed his clothes, and grabbed him by the back of his neck. Raël left the stage, followed by his disciples. A fellow guest on the show, Parti Québécois Member of Quebec Legislative Assembly Pauline Marois, who later became premier of Quebec, called Raël "insane". The Raëlian Movement asked Marois to apologize; she refused.
A Swiss newspaper that called Raëlians "rat heads" was sued for defamation. Another suit was brought against journalist Stephane Baillargeon for writing in the Montreal daily Le Devoir that Raëlians defend pedophiles and that certain ex-Raëlians claim the "gourou" likes very young girls. After some negotiation, Le Devoir published a letter from Raël condemning the charge as "ignominious defamation" and asserting that the Raëlian Movement had "always condemned pedophilia and promoted respect for laws that justly forbid the practices that are always the fault of unbalanced individuals".
Appearances in court
In 1991, Raël sued French journalist Jean-Yves Cashga for defamation; Raël lost and was ordered to pay court costs. The judgment remains uncollected. Amid growing legal problems in France, Raël emigrated to Canada.
On two separate court dates of 2 September 1994 at the High Courts of Paris and 1 October 1996 at the Appeal Court of Paris, journalists Jacques Cotta and Pascal Martin of Flammarion Publishing were found guilty of attributing racist statements and distorted quotations to Raël in their book Dans le secret des sectes. They were fined 10,000FF in damages and 13,000FF in proceedings costs, ordered to insert stickers mentioning the sentence on copies not yet distributed and to suppress of the passage in the next editions, and told that they would be fined 100FF for each non-conforming copy.
On 26 January 1994, in emergency proceedings by the Appeal Court of Reims, Myriam Assan was accused of defamation for claiming in her book that "Raël was often sentenced for corruption of minors". Assan was given a provisional sentence of 10,000FF in damages and ordered to withdraw the book. She was sentenced to pay a penalty of 300FF per infringement and 5,000FF in proceedings costs and to publish the judgment in Le Monde and Le Figaro.
On 13 December 1994, Gérard Chol, director of Le Maine Libre, was declared guilty by the High Court of Le Mans for public defamation for claiming that the Raël's movement was laundering money coming from drug trafficking, prostitution, arms dealing, and the sale of pornographic videotapes. Chol was ordered to pay 1FF in damages and 3,000FF in proceedings costs and to publish the penal judgment in Le Maine Libre.
In 2003, Vorilhon sued Ottawa columnist Denis Gratton and Le Droit newspaper for $85,000 in defamation damages over a 23 January 2003 column; Raël lost and was ordered to pay court costs by Quebec Superior Court on 21 June 2006.
Government action against Raël
In response to Raël's association with Clonaid, South Korean immigration authorities at the airport denied him entry into their country in 2003. A planned Raëlian seminar continued, with Raël making some brief "big screen" video-camera appearances via the internet for the several hundred who attended. Raël instructed South Korean Raëlians to protest near the Ministry of Health and Welfare that ordered him to leave.
In February 2007, Raël, who wanted to start commercial activities with Swiss vintners, was denied residence in the Swiss Canton Valais, in part because he was feared to be endangering public values by promoting sexual liberty and the education of children on how to obtain sexual pleasure. Also cited was his association with the Clonaid human cloning claim; Switzerland forbade human cloning. In a brief statement, Raël said he considered appeal at the European level.
Discography
1966: "Sacrée sale gueule"
1966: "Dans un verre de vin"
1967: "Le Miel et la cannelle" (Honey and cinnamon)
1967: "Madam' Pipi" (Mrs. Toilet attendant)
1967: "Monsieur votre femme me trompe" (Mister, your wife is cheating on me)
1967: "Quand on se mariera" (When we'll get married)
Bibliography
1974: Le Livre qui dit la vérité ("The Book Which Tells the Truth")
1975: Les extra-terrestres m'ont emmené sur leur planète ("Extraterrestrials Took me to Their Planet")
(collected in English as "The Message Given to Me by Extra-Terrestrials")
1978: La géniocratie ("Geniocracy")
1979: Accueillir les extra-terrestres ("Welcoming the Extraterrestrials")
1980: La méditation sensuelle ("Sensual Meditation")
1992: Le racisme religieux financé par le gouvernement socialiste
1995: Vive le Québec libre!
2001: Oui au clonage humain ("Yes to Human Cloning")
2003: Le Maitraya ("The Maitraya")
2006: Intelligent Design: Message from the Designers [English compilation of the 1974, 1975 and 1979 books]
Notes
Citations
References
Lewis, James R. The Gods Have Landed: New Religions from Other Worlds SUNY Press, 1995. .
Partridge, Christopher H. UFO Religions. Routledge, 2003. .
Palmer, Susan J. Aliens Adored. Rutgers University Press, 2004. .
External links
Raël, Intelligent Design – Message from the Designers . Nova Distribution, 2006. .
Raël, Yes to Human Cloning: Immortality Thanks to Science . Tagman Press, 2001. ; .
Maugé, Claude. "The Real Raël, UFO Contactee and the Last Prophet" in Ballester-Olmos, V.J. and Heiden, Richard W. (Eds.), The Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony. UPIAR, Turin, Italy (2023), pp. 107-120. ISBN 9791281441002.
Palmer, Susan J. "When Testimony Becomes Testament: The Case of Raël, UFO Prophet, and the Question of Witness Reliability" in Ballester-Olmos, V.J. and Heiden, Richard W. (Eds.), The Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony. UPIAR, Turin, Italy (2023), pp. 153-165. ISBN 9791281441002.
The Raëlian books compared to Jean Sendy's
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71366955 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20Dominion%E2%80%93William%20%26%20Mary%20rivalry | Old Dominion–William & Mary rivalry | The Old Dominion–William & Mary rivalry (formerly known as the Battle for the Silver Mace in football) refers to the U.S. college rivalry games between the Old Dominion Monarchs of the Sun Belt Conference and the William & Mary Tribe of the Colonial Athletic Association. They are the two largest and most historically tenured NCAA Division I rivals in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
History
Old Dominion University was founded as the Norfolk branch of the College of William & Mary in 1930. The Norfolk Division of William & Mary sports program initiated from football and basketball competitions against local high school teams. In 1941, their football program dissolved because of a $10,000 debt, poor attendance, and a ruling that did not allow freshman players on a branch campus. The Norfolk Division joined the Mason–Dixon Conference in September 1961, becoming its 16th member and competing with other William & Mary divisions as well as smaller NCAA Division II colleges in Virginia.
Old Dominion became independent of William & Mary in 1962 after Governor Albertis Harrison signed legislation dissolving William & Mary's College System. Seven years later, they gained University status and competed as a Division II independent. William & Mary competed in the Southern Conference. Since ODU's declaration, the two schools began competing, despite belonging to separate conferences.
The rivalry intensified from 1991–2013 when both schools competed in the Colonial Athletic Association. Through this period, they competed against each other in 6 conference basketball tournaments and 6 baseball tournaments. They have competed in 26 joint men's soccer classics. Since, Old Dominion has gained the edge over William & Mary in most of their male varsity sports.
All-time series results
Basketball
Men's basketball
Old Dominion and William & Mary men's basketball have competed in six total CAA conference tournaments. Old Dominion won 8 conference championships from 1991–2011. Despite the Monarchs' dominance during their CAA tenure, the William and Mary Tribe regathered a series of wins after ODU moved to Conference USA in 2013.
Football
After ODU re-established its football program in 2009, Old Dominion and William & Mary competed as separate schools for the first time on September 18, 2010. The annual CAA divisional battles were coined the ‘Battle for the Silver Mace' with the winner to be presented with a replica of the Norfolk Mace on display at the Chrysler Museum of Art. Old Dominion competed for three matches with the Tribe before leaving the CAA to join Conference USA (FBS) in 2014 as an FCS independent. ODU's move to the FBS inevitability cancelled their future matchups with the Tribe.
Old Dominion announced that the two teams will meet on September 1, 2029.
Old Dominion currently plays at S.B. Ballard Stadium; William & Mary at Zable Stadium.
References
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William & Mary Tribe
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3617622 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20IV | Francis IV | Francis IV may refer to:
Francis IV of Beauharnais (1600–1681)
Francis IV, Duke of Modena (1779–1846) |
73393948 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borran%20District | Borran District | Borran District () is in Aslan Duz County, Ardabil province, Iran. Its capital is the village of Borran-e Olya, whose population at the 2016 National Census was 1,508 people in 451 households.
In 2017, Aslan Duz District was separated from Parsabad County in the establishment of Aslan Duz County, which was divided into two districts of two rural districts each, with the city of Aslan Duz as its capital and only city.
References
Aslan Duz County
Districts of Ardabil Province
Populated places in Ardabil Province
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17682840 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahine%20Ezell | Shahine Ezell | Shahine Ezell (Dallas, Texas) is a film and television actor, record producer, talent manager and songwriter. Ezell is Leighton Meester's talent manager as well as the songwriter and record producer of "The Nomads". He attended Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and California Institute of the Arts for Acting.
He started his career on the television show Strong Medicine. Then moved on to work on movies: Driftwood (2006 film), Detention, Remember the Daze, and Days of Wrath. He also appeared on the NBC show Crossing Jordan. He now is working on Leighton Meester's debut album.
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33066977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideki%20Taniuchi | Hideki Taniuchi | is a Japanese composer and arranger from Hokkaido. He is best known for composing music for the Death Note, Real Drive, Akagi and Kaiji anime TV series. He also composed music used in the anime Aoi Bungaku and the "Heian Arc" of the anime Otogi Zoshi. In addition, he performed opening theme songs for Hajime no Ippo as a guitarist in the rock band Shocking Lemon.
In May 2012, Taniuchi was arrested in Kanagawa Prefecture on marijuana charges.
Works
Otogi Zoshi Heian Arc (2004–2005)
Tōhai Densetsu Akagi: Yami ni Maiorita Tensai (2005–2006)
Death Note (with Yoshihisa Hirano) (2006–2007)
Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor (2007–2008)
Real Drive (with Yoshihisa Hirano) (2008)
Aoi Bungaku (episodes 1–8, 11–12) (2009)
Kaiji: Against All Rules (2011)
References
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Anime composers
Japanese composers
Japanese film score composers
Japanese male composers
Japanese male film score composers
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55409217 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malik%20Tchokount%C3%A9 | Malik Tchokounté | Malik Tchokounté (born 11 September 1988) is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for club Laval.
Club career
A youth product of OGC Nice, Tchokounté was a prolific scorer in the lower divisions of France, before transferring to Paris FC in the Ligue 2 on 4 July 2017. He made his professional debut with Paris FC in a 0–0 Ligue 2 tie with Clermont Foot on 28 July 2017.
On 10 July 2018, Tchokounté joined Stade Malherbe Caen in Ligue 1.
In June 2022, Tchokounté joined Nîmes on a one-year contract.
International career
Tchokounté appeared for the County of Nice national football team at the 2014 ConIFA World Football Cup, and helped them win the tournament for the first time.
Personal life
Tchokounté is of Cameroonian and Guinean descent.
References
External links
Paris FC Profile
1988 births
Living people
French men's footballers
French sportspeople of Cameroonian descent
French sportspeople of Guinean descent
Footballers from Nice
Men's association football forwards
Thurrock F.C. players
USL Dunkerque players
Paris FC players
Stade Malherbe Caen players
Nîmes Olympique players
Stade Lavallois players
Championnat National 2 players
Championnat National players
Ligue 2 players
Ligue 1 players
Black French sportspeople
French expatriate men's footballers
French expatriate sportspeople in England
Expatriate men's footballers in England |
44743323 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20people%20from%20Santa%20Ana%2C%20California | List of people from Santa Ana, California | This is a list of notable past and present residents of the U.S. city of Santa Ana, California, and its surrounding metropolitan area.
Athletics
Stephen Abas (born January 12, 1978) – three-time NCAA champion wrestler and Olympic silver medalist at 2004 Summer Olympics in freestyle wrestling
Ben Agajanian (born August 28, 1919) – collegiate and professional football player
David Aldana (born November 26, 1949) – motorcycle racer
Bob Ammann (born May 27, 1965) – soccer goalkeeper
Daniel Antúnez (born February 10, 1986) – soccer midfielder
Victor Auer (March 24, 1937 – May 3, 2011) – sports shooter and Olympic medalist for the United States
Bill Bean (born May 11, 1964) – Major League Baseball player
Richard Bivens (born August 26, 1979) – Musician
Eddie Bockman (July 26, 1920 – September 29, 2011) – professional baseball player and scout
Cedric Bozeman – basketball player
Isaac Curtis (born October 20, 1950) – professional football wide receiver
Don Davis (born December 16, 1943) – professional football defensive tackle
Fumio Demura (born September 15, 1938) – master of karate and kobudo (weaponry)
Cynthia Denzler (born May 12, 1983) – alpine skier
Sandro Dias (born April 18, 1975) – professional vert skateboarder
Lenny Dykstra (born February 10, 1963) – MLB center fielder
Don Edmunds (born September 23, 1930) – race car driver and car builder
Clancy Edwards (born August 9, 1955) – track and field sprinter
Danny Espinosa (born April 25, 1987) – second baseman for Washington Nationals, Los Angeles Angels
Hebron Fangupo (born July 19, 1985) – football nose tackle
Ben Francisco (born October 23, 1981) – professional baseball outfielder
David Gibson (born November 5, 1977) – NFL safety
Khaled Holmes (born January 19, 1990) – USC and NFL center
Rosie Jones (born November 13, 1959) – professional golfer
Jeff Kemp (born July 11, 1959) – NFL football quarterback
Matt Leinart (born May 11, 1983) – USC and NFL football quarterback
Colin Long (born June 19, 1989) – professional ice hockey center and assistant coach
Larry Lutz (1913–1998) – football player and coach
Jeff MacPherson (born June 9, 1956) – driver
Jamie Martin (born February 8, 1970) – quarterback of NFL and NFL Europe
Gilbert Melendez (born April 12, 1982) – mixed martial artist
Yaotzin Meza (born February 4, 1981) – mixed martial artist
Donn Moomaw (born October 15, 1931) – football player and Presbyterian minister
Kim Mulkey (born May 17, 1962) – women's head basketball coach at Baylor University
Jack Musick (c. 1925 – November 27, 1977) – football player and coach
Billy Preston – basketball player
Christian Ramirez (born April 4, 1991) – soccer player
Erasmo Ramirez (born April 29, 1976) – MLB left-handed relief pitcher
Ronny Rios (born January 22, 1990) – professional boxer
Jeff Robinson (born December 13, 1960) – MLB right-handed pitcher
Jesse Ruíz (born July 31, 1985) – wrestler
Marlene Sandoval (born January 18, 1984) – football defender and member of Mexico women's national team
Bryan Save (born December 16, 1981) – football defensive tackle
Nick Scandone (March 4, 1966 – January 2, 2009) – yachtsman
Paul Soliai (born December 30, 1983) – football defensive tackle
Dave Stieb (born July 22, 1957) – MLB right-handed pitcher
Kelly Talavou (born October 4, 1984) – football defensive tackle
Stephen Tepper (born March 10, 1969) – ice hockey right wing
Lenny Vandermade (born January 3, 1981) – football coach
Mitch Williams (born November 17, 1964) – MLB relief pitcher and TV commentator
Art and literature
Kimberly Duran (1989) – "Shmi," Chicana muralist
Carlee Fernández (1973) – Sculptor and photographer
Suzanne Mathis McQueen (1957) – American feminist author
Film, television and theatre
Wade Boteler (October 3, 1888 – May 7, 1943) – actor
Dale Fuller (June 17, 1885 – October 14, 1948) – actress of the silent era
Brett Halsey (born June 20, 1933) – actor
Michael B. Jordan (born February 9, 1987) – actor
Diane Keaton (born January 5, 1946) – actress
Louie Olivos Jr. – actor, producer, director, and playwright
Michelle Pfeiffer (born April 29, 1958) – actress and singer
John Raitt (January 29, 1917 – February 20, 2005) – actor and singer
Robert Webber (October 14, 1924 – May 19, 1989) – actor
Music
Manuela Budrow (1876–1966) – vocalist, composer, music educator based in Santa Ana after 1923
Roy Estrada (born April 17, 1943) – bassist, singer-songwriter, record producer, actor and convicted child molester, bassist with Frank Zappa, Mothers of Invention, Little Feat and Captain Beefheart
Dinah Jane Hansen (born June 22, 1997) – singer, member of girl group Fifth Harmony
Bill Medley (born September 19, 1940) – singer, one half of the Righteous Brothers
Mr. Mixx (born September 23, 1963) – rapper
Duke Montana (born February 7, 1975) – Italian-American rapper
Lindsey Stirling (born September 21, 1986) – violinist, YouTuber, singer-songwriter
Politics
Lou Correa (born January 24, 1958) – California senator; lives in Santa Ana
Miguel A. Pulido (1956) – politician
William H. Spurgeon (October 10, 1829 – June 20, 1915) – founder of Santa Ana
See also
List of people from California
References
Santa Ana, California
Santa Ana |
37121542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20works%20by%20Penny%20Jordan | List of works by Penny Jordan | Penny Jordan was the most common pen-name used by prolific fiction writer Penelope Halsall. This is a comprehensive list of her novels and written works from her career which ended upon her death at 65, and includes works published posthumously. She used a range of different pen-names, from which this list derives its sequence.
Caroline Courtney
Single novels
Duchess in Disguise (1979)
A Wager for Love (1979)
Love Unmasked (1979)
Guardian of the Heart (1979)
Dangerous Engagement (1979)
Love's Masquerade (1980)
The Fortunes of Love (1980)
The Romantic Rivals (1980)
Heart of Honour (1981)
Destiny's Duchess (1981)
The Masquerading Heart (1981)
Abandoned for Love (1981)
The Tempestuous Affair (1981)
Love of My Life (1981)
Love Triumphant (1981)
Lover's Victory (1981)
The Courier of Love (1982)
Love in Waiting (1982)
Libertine in Love (1982)
The Daring Heart (1982)
Forbidden Love (1982)
Hearts or Diamonds (1985)
Prisoner of Passion (1985)
Dual Enchantment (1985)
Conspiracy of Kisses (1986)
Melinda Wright
Single novels
The Concorde Affair (1981)
Love at 30,000 Feet (1982)
Flight into Ecstasy (1983)
Lydia Hitchcock
Single novels
The Ducetti Lair (1981)
The Geneva Touch (1982)
Penny Jordan
Single Novels
Falcon's Prey (1981)
Tiger Man (1981)
Marriage without Love (1981)
Blackmail (1982)
Long Cold Winter (1982)
Caged Tiger (1982)
Daughter of Hassan (1982)
Northern Sunset (1982)
Island of the Dawn (1982)
An Unbroken Marriage (1982)
Bought with His Name (1982)
Escape from Desire (1982)
Desire's Captive (1983)
Forgotten Passion (1983)
Man Hater (1983)
Rescue Operation (1983)
Flawed Marriage (1983)
Phantom Marriage (1983)
Sudden Engagement (1983)
Passionate Protection (1983)
Savage Atonement (1983)
The Inward Storm (1984)
Love's Choices (1984)
Response (1984)
Shadow Marriage (1984)
Wanting (1984)
Darker Side of Desire (1984)
Rules of the Game (1984)
Campaign for Loving (1985)
Permission to Love (1985)
Taken Over (1985)
Time Fuse (1985)
You Owe Me (1985)
What You Made Me (1985)
The Friendship Barrier (1985)
Only One (1985)
The Six-Month Marriage (1985)
Exorcism (1985)
Fire With Fire (1985)
Injured Innocent (1985)
The Hard Man (1985)
Desire for Revenge (1985)
Capable of Feeling (1986)
A Man Possessed (1986)
Return Match (1986)
Desire Never Changes (1986)
Research into Marriage (1986)
A Reason for Marriage (1986)
Loving (1986)
Stronger Than Yearning (1986)
Too Short a Blessing (1987)
Passionate Relationship (1987)
A Savage Adoration (1987)
For One Night (1987)
An Expert Teacher (1987)
Substitute Lover (1987)
Levelling the Score (1987)
Fight for Love (1987)
Payment in Love (1988)
Special Treatment (1988)
Force of Feeling (1988)
Without Trust (1988)
Potential Danger (1988)
Lover's Touch (1988)
Power Play (1988)
A Reason for Being (1989)
Beyond Compare (1989)
Equal Opportunities (1989)
Valentine's Night (1989)
So Close and No Closer (1989)
Free Spirit (1989)
Bitter Betrayal (1989)
Silver (1989)
A Rekindled Passion (1989)
Rival Attractions (1990)
Time for Trust (1990)
Unspoken Desire (1990)
Breaking Away (1990)
Out of the Night (1990)
Game of Love (1990)
The Hidden Years (1990)
A Kind of Madness (1990)
Second Time Loving (1990)
Payment Due (1991)
A Forbidden Loving (1991)
A Time to Dream (1991)
Dangerous Interloper (1991)
Second-Best Husband (1991)
A Cure for Love (1991)
Stranger Form the Past (1991)
Past Passion (1991)
Law of Attraction (1992)
Lesson to Learn (1992)
Mistaken Adversary (1992)
Lingering Shadows (1992)
Past Loving (1992)
Passionate Possession (1992)
A Matter of Trust (1992)
Tug of Love (1992)
Yesterday's Echoes (1993)
For Better for Worse (1993)
French Leave (1994)
Cruel Legacy (1994)
Power Games (1995)
Unwanted Wedding (1995)
The Trusting Game (1995)
Her Christmas Fantasy (1996)
Stranger From The Past (1997)
Mission: Make-Over (1997)
To Love, Honour and Betray (1998)
Wanting His Child (1999)
One Intimate Night (1999)
The City-Girl Bride (2001)
Christmas Eve Wedding (2002)
Now or Never (2003)
Sweet Revenge (2005)
The Christmas Bride (2006)
Her Lover Her Husband (2006)
The Italian Duke's Wife (2006)
The Sheikh's Blackmailed Mistress (2008)
The Boss's Marriage Arrangement (2008)
The Bride's Bouquet Series
Woman to Wed? (1996)
Best Man to Wed? (1996)
Too Wise to Wed? (1996)
The Bride's Bouquet (Omnibus) (2000)
Duet: Woman to Wed? / Best Man to Wed? (2005)
The Perfect Crightons Series
A Perfect Family (1997)
The Perfect Seduction (1997)
Perfect Marriage Material (1997)
The Perfect Match? (1997)
The Perfect Lover (1998)
The Perfect Sinner (1999)
The Perfect Father (2000)
A Perfect Night (2000)
Coming Home (2000)
Starting Over (2001)
The Crightons: The Perfect Seduction / Perfect Marriage Material / The Perfect Match? (by Request 3's) (2001)
Women and Love: The perfect lover / The perfect father / The perfect night (2002)
Fantasy in the Night Series
Fantasy for Two (1998)
One Night in His Arms (1998)
Sweet Revenge Or Seduction Series
Mistress Assignment (1999)
Lover by Deception (1999)
A Treacherous Seduction (1999)
The Marriage Resolution (1999)
Sheikh's Arabian Nights Series
The Sheikh's Virgin Bride (2003)
One Night with the Sheikh (2003)
Possessed by the Sheikh (2005)
Taken By The Sheikh (2007)
Jet Set Wives Series
Bedding His Virgin Mistress (2005)
Expecting The Playboy's Heir (2005)
Blackmailing the Society Bride (2005)
Jet Set Wives (Omnibus) (2008)
Silk Series
Silk (2008)
Sins (2009)
Scandals (2010)
The Leopardi Brothers Saga
Captive At the Sicilian Billionaire's Command (2009)
The Sicilian Boss's Mistress (2009)
The Sicilian's Baby Bargain (2009)
Needed: The world's Most Eligible Billionaires
The Wealthy Greek's Contract wife (2009)
The Italian Duke's Virgin Mistress (2010)
Marriage: To Claim His Twins (2010)
Penny Jordan collaborative series
In her career, Jordan contributed the following pieces towards multi-author collaboration series.
For Her Eyes Only
An Unforgettable Man (1995)
Dangerous Liaisons
An Unforgettable Man (1995)
The Big Event
Marriage Make Up (1998)
Amnesia
Back in the Marriage Bed (2000)
Greek Tycoons
The Demetrios Virgin (2001)
The Mistress Purchase (2004)
Red-Hot Revenge
The Marriage Demand (2001)
Wedlocked!
The Blackmail Baby (2002)
Marco's Convenient Wife (2002)
Mistress to Her Husband (2004)
Do Not Disturb
The Tycoon's Virgin (2002)
By Royal Command
The Blackmail Marriage (2003)
The Italian Duke's Mistress (2006)
Mistress to a Millionaire
Mistress of Convenience (2004)
The Mistress Purchase (2004)
Foreign Affairs
Mistress of Convenience (2004)
Greek Tycoons
The Mistress Purchase (2004)
Desert Brides
Prince of the Desert (2006)
Dinner At 8
The Christmas Bride (2006)
Uncut
Master of Pleasure (2006)
The Royal House Of Niroli
1. The Future King's Pregnant Mistress (2007)
8. A Royal Bride At the Sheikh's Command (2008)
Mistress to a Millionaire
Virgin For The Billionaire's Taking (2008)
Penny Jordan collections
Penny Jordan Collection (1984)
Best of Penny Jordan: Falcon's Prey / Tiger Man (1986)
Penny Jordan Omnibus: Shadow Marriage / Man-hater / Passionate Protection (1992)
Penny Jordan Collection: Fire with Fire / Capable of Loving / Substitute Lover (1993)
Two complete stories by Penny Jordan: Game of Love / Time for Trust (1995)
Mistletoe Magic (1996)
Marriage of Convenience: Loving / Injured Innocent / The Six-Month Marriage (2000)
Collector's edition: A Perfect Family / To Love, Honor and Betray / The Perfect Sinner (2000)
A Collection: Shadow Marriage / Man-Hater / Passionate Protection (2002)
Duet: Stronger Than Yearning / Silver (2004)
Sweet Seduction (2005)
Duet: Rules of the Game / Passionate Possession (2005)
Duet: Perfect Family / Fantasy for Two (2006)
The Sheikh's Bride (2006)
Penny Jordan omnibus in collaboration
Sunsational (1991) (Fantasy by Emma Darcy / Rent-A-Bride by Emma Goldrick / You Owe Me by Penny Jordan / Lovers in the Afternoon by Carole Mortimer)
Matched By Mistake (1996) (Passionate Protection by Penny Jordan / Hotline by Gina Wilkins / Forbidden Surrender by Carole Mortimer)
Yours, Mine And Ours (1997) (Penny Jordan with Cathy Gillen Thacker and Marisa Carroll)
Christmas Treats (1998) (Figgy Pudding by Penny Jordan / A man for all seasonings by Day Leclaire / All the trimmings by Lindsay Armstrong)
Wedded Bliss (1999) (They're Wed Again by Penny Jordan / The Man She'll Marry by Carole Mortimer)
A Man for Mum! (1999) (Wanting His Child by Penny Jordan / The Boss and the Baby by Leigh Michaels / One Mum Too Many by Vicki Lewis Thompson)
Nearly Weds! (1999) (Making Sure of Sarah by Betty Neels / The Man She'll Marry by Carole Mortimer / They're Wed Again! by Penny Jordan
Christmas Presents (1999) (Penny Jordan with Anne McAllister and Sally Wentworth)
Latin Lovers (2000) (A Spanish Christmas by Penny Jordan / The Christmas Eve Bride by Lynne Graham / Christmas in Venice by Lucy Gordon)
Wed Again! (2001) (They're Wed Again! by Penny Jordan / Anne Mather / The Man She'll Marry by Carole Mortimer)
Christmas with a Latin Lover (2001) (The Christmas Eve Bride by Lynne Graham / A Spanish Christmas by Penny Jordan / Christmas in Venice by Lucy Gordon)
What Women Want! (2002) (Penny Jordan with Darcy Maguire)
City Girls (2002) (Penny Jordan with Liz Fielding and Jessica Hart)
Winter Weddings (2002) (Christmas Eve Wedding by Penny Jordan / A Scandalous Courtship by Gail Whitiker / Snowbound Sweetheart by Judy Christenberry)
For Love Or Money (2003) (Unwanted Wedding by Penny Jordan / The Borghese Bride by Sandra Marton)
Greek Millionaires (2004) (Penny Jordan with Anne McAllister and Sara Craven)
Strictly Business (2004) (The Temp and the Tycoon / The Fiance Deal by Liz Fielding with Penny Jordan and Hannah Bernard)
Boardroom to Bedroom (2005) (The Boss's Marriage Arrangement by Penny Jordan / His Darling Valentine by Carole Mortimer)
Plain Jane Makeover (2005) (Penny Jordan with Miranda Lee and Barbara McMahon)
The Mills and Boon Collection: 3 Full-Length Stories (2006) (Penny Jordan with Margaret Way and Caroline Anderson)
Marco's Convenient Wife Penny Jordan / The Mistress's Secret by Julia James) (2006)
The Innocence Collection (2007) (Innocent Bride by Penny Jordan / Innocent Desires by Carole Mortimer / Innocent Seduction by Kay Thorpe)
Graphic novels
Response: Graphic Novel (2005) art by Takako Hashimoto
Annie Groves
Pride Family Series
Ellie Pride, 2003
Connie's Courage, 2004
Hettie of Hope Street, 2005
World War II Series
Goodnight Sweetheart, 2006 (subsequently republished as A Mother's Blessing)
Some Sunny Day;, 2006
The Grafton Girls, 2007
As Time Goes By, 2007
Campion Family Series
Across the Mersey, 2008
Daughters of Liverpool, 2008
The Heart of the Family, 2009
Where the Heart Is, 2009
When the Lights Go On Again, 2010
References and sources
External links
Penny Jordan's Official Homesite & Annie Groves's Official Homesite
Nantwich Writers Official Website
Penny Jordan in Harlequin Enterprises Ltd
Annie Groves in Harper Collins UK
Penny Jordan in Fantastic Fiction and Annie Groves in Fantastic Fiction
Jordan, Penny |
557850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier%20League%20Manager%20of%20the%20Month | Premier League Manager of the Month | The Premier League Manager of the Month is an association football award that recognises the best adjudged Premier League manager each month of the season. The winner is chosen by a combination of an online public vote, which contributes to 10% of the final tally, and a panel of experts. It has been called the Carling Premiership Manager of the Month (1993–2001) and the Barclaycard Premiership Manager of the Month (2001–2004); it is currently known as the Barclays Manager of the Month.
The Premier League was formed in 1992, when the members of the First Division resigned from the Football League. These clubs set up a new commercially independent league that negotiated its own broadcast and sponsorship agreements. The Premier League introduced new Manager of the Month and Manager of the Season awards for the 1993–94 season, supplementing the existing Football Writers' Association and Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year awards. The first Manager of the Month was awarded to Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson for his achievements in August 1993. For the 1994–95 season, the Premier League introduced the Player of the Month award, which is presented alongside the Manager of the Month award.
Ferguson has been Manager of the Month the most times with a record 27 awards. Harry Redknapp has had six spells managing Premier League clubs (West Ham United, Portsmouth, Southampton, Portsmouth again, Tottenham Hotspur and Queens Park Rangers), winning a Manager of the Month award in five of those spells. Fifteen other managers have won an award with two or more clubs: Gordon Strachan with Coventry City and Southampton, Stuart Pearce with Nottingham Forest and Manchester City, Martin O'Neill with Leicester City, Aston Villa and Sunderland, Roy Hodgson with Blackburn Rovers and Fulham, Rafael Benítez with Liverpool, Chelsea and Newcastle United, Brendan Rodgers with Swansea City and Liverpool, Alan Pardew with West Ham United and Newcastle United, Sam Allardyce with Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United, Tony Pulis with Crystal Palace and West Bromwich Albion, Mauricio Pochettino with Southampton and Tottenham Hotspur, Claudio Ranieri with Chelsea and Leicester City, Carlo Ancelotti with Chelsea and Everton, José Mourinho with Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur, Nuno Espírito Santo with Wolverhampton Wanderers and Tottenham Hotspur, and Eddie Howe with Bournemouth and Newcastle United.
The award has been won in consecutive months by 17 managers: Joe Kinnear, Kevin Keegan, Roy Evans, Alex Ferguson, Arsène Wenger, David O'Leary, Stuart Pearce, Paul Jewell, Rafael Benítez, Carlo Ancelotti, Manuel Pellegrini, Claudio Ranieri, Antonio Conte, Pep Guardiola, Jürgen Klopp, Mikel Arteta, and Ange Postecoglou. Guardiola is the only manager in Premier League history to have won the award in four successive months. Klopp is the first manager to win the award five times in a season. Postecoglou is the only manager to win the award in each of his first two months in the competition. The award has been shared on one occasion, in March 2002, when Liverpool manager Gérard Houllier was jointly awarded Manager of the Month with caretaker manager Phil Thompson, who had deputised while Houllier was absent for medical reasons.
, the most recent recipient of the award is Tottenham Hotspur manager Ange Postecoglou.
Key
Managers marked shared the award with another manager.
List of winners
Multiple winners
The following table lists the number of awards won by managers who have won at least two Manager of the Month awards.
Managers in bold are still active in the Premier League.
Awards won by nationality
Awards won by club
See also
Premier League Manager of the Season
Premier League Player of the Month
Premier League Goal of the Month
Premier League Save of the Month
Notes
References
General
Individual seasons accessed via drop-down list.
Specific
Manager of the Month
Coaching awards
Lists of Premier League managers |
41121697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episcepsis%20littoralis | Episcepsis littoralis | Episcepsis littoralis is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1911. It is found in Venezuela.
References
Euchromiina
Moths described in 1911 |
3924766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atragon | Atragon | is a 1963 Japanese tokusatsu science fiction film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Produced and distributed by Toho, it is based on The Undersea Warship: A Fantastic Tale of Island Adventure by Shunrō Oshikawa and The Undersea Kingdom by Shigeru Komatsuzaki. The film stars Jun Tazaki, Tadao Takashima, Yōko Fujiyama, Yū Fujiki, and Ken Uehara.
The film was released in Japan on December 22, 1963, and in the United States in 1965 via American International Pictures. A two-episode anime OVA titled Super Atragon, based on the same novels, was produced by Phoenix Entertainment in 1995.
Plot
The legendary empire of the lost continent of Mu reappears to threaten the world with domination. While countries unite to resist, an isolated World War II captain has created the greatest warship ever seen, and possibly the surface world's only defense.
While on a magazine photo shoot one night, photographers Susumu and Yoshito witness a car drive into the ocean. While speaking with a detective the next day they spot Makoto Jinguji, daughter of deceased Imperial Captain Jinguji, who is also being followed by a suspicious character. Her father's former superior, retired Rear Admiral Kusumi is confronted by a peculiar reporter, who claims contrarily that Captain Jinguji is alive and at work on a new submarine project. The threads meet when a mysterious taxi driver attempts to abduct Makoto and the Admiral, claiming to be an agent of the drowned Mu Empire. Foiled by the pursuing photographers, he flees into the ocean.
During another visit to the detective, a package inscribed "MU" arrives for the Admiral. Contained within is a film depicting the thriving undersea continent (with its own geothermal "sun") and demanding that the surface world capitulate, and prevent Jinguji from completing his Atragon submarine, named Gotengo. The UN realizes that the Atragon may be the world's only defense and requests that Admiral Kosumi appeal to Jinguji. Concurrently, Makoto's stalker is arrested and discovered to be a naval officer under Jinguji. He agrees to lead the party to Jinguji's base but refuses to disclose its location. After several days of travel, the party find themselves on a tropical island inhabited only by Jinguji's forces and enclosing a vast underground dock.
Eventually Captain Jinguji greets the visitors, though he is cold toward his daughter and infuriated by Kusumi's appeal. He built Gotengo, he explains, as a means to restore the Empire of Japan after its defeat in World War II, and insists that it be used for no other purpose. Makoto runs off in anger, later to be consoled by Susumu. Gotengo'''s test run is a success, the heavily armored submarine even elevating out of the water and flying about the island. When the Captain approaches Makoto that evening they exchange harsh words; again Susumu reproaches the Captain for his selfish refusal to come to the world's aid. After Makoto and Susumu are kidnapped by the reporter, and the base crippled by a bomb, Jinguji consents to Kusumi's request and prepares Gotengo for war against Mu.
The Mu Empire executes a devastating attack on Tokyo and threatens to sacrifice its prisoners to the monstrous deity Manda if the Atragon appears. The submarine appears, pursuing a Mu submarine to the Empire's entrance in the ocean depths. Meanwhile, Susumu and the other prisoners escape their cell and kidnap the Empress of Mu. They are impeded by Manda, but soon rescued by Gotengo, which then engages the serpent and freezes it using the "Absolute Zero Cannon". Jinguji offers to hear peace terms, but the proud Empress refuses. The Captain then advances Gotengo into the heart of the Empire power room and freezes its geothermal machinery before successfully escaping to the surface. This results in a cataclysmic explosion visible even to those on deck of the surfaced submarine. Her empire dying, the Mu Empress abandons the Atragon and, Jinguji and company looking on, swims into the conflagration.
Cast
Jun Tazaki as Captain Hachiro Jinguji
Tadao Takashima as Susumu Hatanaka
Yōko Fujiyama as Makoto Jinguji
Ken Uehara as Rear Admiral Kusumi
Yū Fujiki as Yoshito Nishibe
Kenji Sahara as Umino
Hiroshi Koizumi as Detective Ito
Akihiko Hirata as Mu Agent #23
Hideyo Amamoto as High Priest of Mu
Tetsuko Kobayashi as Empress of Mu
Production
WritingAtragon is loosely based on The Undersea Warship: A Fantastic Tale of Island Adventure (1899) by Shunrō Oshikawa and The Undersea Kingdom (1954-1955) by Shigeru Komatsuzaki. Komatsuzaki also served as an uncredited designer for the film, as he had with The Mysterians and Battle in Outer Space.
Shinichi Sekizawa submitted his first draft on August 10, 1963, following revisions and storyboards by Komatsuzaki.
Sekizawa thought up the character of Jinguji after reading about the Brazilian-Japanese groups Machigumi and Kachigumi, one of which felt that Japan should have won World War II. He saw this as pointless fanaticism and wanted to embody this in the admiral whose nationalism blinds him.
Instead of a dragon, Manda was envisioned as a giant rattlesnake. There is some debate as to whether Manda was always in the script (a snake monster doesn’t appear in the Undersea Kingdom) or whether the beast was added at Tomoyuki Tanaka’s insistence like he did with Maguma in Gorath (1962). Manda’s design was changed to resemble a Chinese dragon due to 1964 being the Year of the Dragon, and this was Toho’s New Year’s blockbuster.
Many of the film’s most memorable elements weren’t added until the final draft, which was finished by September 1963. This includes the Mu attack launched from Mt. Fuji, the earthquake assault on Marunochi in Tokyo, and the Gotengo’s zero cannon. Sekizawa also hoped that Captain Jinguji would be played by Toshiro Mifune, though he know his hopes were in vain as Mifune was too expensive and tended to decline offers for giant monster films.
Sekizawa originally wrote a scene in a late draft of the script where Jinguji learned of his daughter's kidnapping and was prepared to sacrifice her in order to save the world, which triggered an argument between Jinguji and Kosumi. This was cut by director Ishiro Honda because he saw the story as a parable of global problems rather than personal problems. The film was originally scheduled to show the Mu Empire also attacking New York City, but there wasn’t enough time due to the rushed shooting schedule. Another elaborate deleted scene is expressed in the film's storyboards and occurs as the characters arrive on Jinguji’s island. As they drive through the vast wasteland In the jeep, they are consumed by a black dust cloud. The jeep almost drives into a huge pit, with Makota saved by Susumu.
Filming
Shinichi Sekizawa originally wrote the character of Jinguji for Toshiro Mifune. However, no one approached the actor prior and by the time casting was underway Mifune was already tied up in rehearsals for what would be a 18 month shoot for Red Beard (1965).
Ishiro Honda had no idea whom to cast as the Empress of Mu but met Tetsuko Kobayashi by chance, who was working on a TV show in Toho's lot. Honda found her to be "hard working and very energetic." Kobayashi also applied the Empress' makeup herself.
Over 70,000,000 yen was spent on the construction of sets and props for the film. By Toho standards, this was a large sum although less than recent productions such as Gorath (1962).
The film's production schedule was shorter than usual, with production beginning September 5, 1963, targeted for a December release of that same year. This resulted in effects director Eiji Tsuburaya scaling back some effects. Honda originally wanted to show towns and residual areas for the Mu Empire but did not have enough money in the budget.
The film became the 13th highest grossing domestic film of the year, grossing 175 million yen.
Special effects
Five models of the Gotengo were built for the film with steel hulls for supporting their internal mechanisms. All at various scales, the largest was 4.5 meters (15 feet long), manufactured by an actual ship-building company for the price of 1,500,000 yen. This version was fully operational with wings, fins, gun turrets, the bridge, and the drill all movable by remote radio control devices built into the hull. This model was large enough for a technician to lie inside the hull and manually operate some of the ships movable parts. Other models of the Gotengo were built to lengths of 3 meters (1/50) scale, 2 meters (1/75) scale, 1-meter (1/150) scale, and 30 cm (1/500) scale. Altogether, two models of each of these scales were built except for the 30 cm version, of which five were built. The 30 cm model was used mainly in water tank shots to depict the Gotengo cruising on the surface of the sea. A small mechanical arm was attached to the ship beneath the water line, providing the ship mobility from outside the camera’s vantage point.
The film’s highlight is the trial run of the Gotengo. Using an indoor water tank with a miniature shore line placed in front of a huge curved backdrop painting, the scene was shot in three different cuts, each of which used a different scale miniature sub. The initial scene showing the Gotengo surfacing was done by Eiji Tsuburaya without any composition. The five-meter model was used to express the illusion of mass as the ship rises. From the water tank. The model was attached to an underwater crane that forced the ship through to the surface of the pool. High-speed photography was employed with the camera cranking at 10 times normal speed. As the ship began to fly, a two-meter model, suspended by wires, was also filmed at high speed. Air jets located at the bottom of the model created the illusion of upward propulsion. The final cut of the scene utilized a one-meter model to depict the Gotengo slowly flying forward in a long shot.
The scene where the American submarine Red Satan is crushed by water pressure was done by pumping air out of the model.
The largest set for the film was inside Toho’s Stage No. 11, then the largest on the back-lot. An elaborate backdrop measuring 30 feet high and 120 feet long was made for long shots of the Empress and her court overseeing the Mu ritual. The royal contingent, consisting mostly of the wives of American servicemen, was placed on a small platform with the pillars, balcony, and antechambers all painted in perspective on the backdrop. The chamber was filled with 600 male and female dancers were choreographed by Ishiro Honda to Akira Ifukube’s Mu ritual music.
The destruction of the Tokyo business district required that the Ginza and Marunouchi areas be reproduced in miniature at 1/20 scale. The buildings were made of plaster, and only a handful were made with internal steel structures, so that the buildings would partially survive the destruction. When the model was completed, stagehands crawled under the platform and partially cut though the main supports. Ropes were then tied to each support beam, and all the ropes were attached to the bumper of a truck. Tsuburaya’s vision of the scene was that the underground collapse would slowly ripple through the city, destroying it in a rolling wave. The destruction of the Ginza and Marunouchi districts did not go as planned. When time came for shooting, the technician who was driving the truck panicked and drove off too quickly, causing the entire model city to collapse at the same time. The staff all gasped, thinking the shot was ruined and that Tsuburaya would surly order the set rebuilt for another take. Tsuburaya stood silently for a while contemplating the situation, and finally he announced that he would take care of the matter in editing room.
The attack by the Mu submarine on Tokyo Bay was done in the huge 100-centimeter water tank located outdoors on the Toho backlot. Ten miniature tankers were constructed, each to a different scale, the maximum scale being 1/20 and the smallest 1/100. These ships were distributed in the water tank to create a forced perspective, adding greater depth to the scene than the confines of the tank would normally allow. Since the scene was shot with high-speed photography for more realism, a great amount of light was required for filming. Natural sunlight was sufficiently bright for filming only between 3:00PM and 4:00PM, so preparations were made from sunrise to ready the set for a tight afternoon shooting schedule. Six automatic remote-control cameras shot the scene simultaneously as six miniature ships exploded in sequence. Conventional animation was used to add the Mu subs ray to live action.
The aqualungs used by the Mu agents cost 70,000 yen each, with an additional charge of 100,000 yen to Toho for custom design of the suit. Altogether, 30 such aqualungs were built, and each was fully functional for underwater use.
The underwater sequences were achieved through camera filters and smoke machines.
The immense wall of smoke and flames which erupted from the explosion of the Mu power chamber was created using a small water tank against which a camera was secured upside down beneath the water line. A sky backdrop was placed behind the water, and colored paints were poured into the water, creating billowing, smoke-like clouds.
The mu submarines which were destroyed by the Gotengo’s freeze cannon were 2 cm models built to float upside down in the water tank. The ice flow in which the subs were trapped prior to their demise consisted of paraffin.
The scene where Shingugi’s strike team uses freeze ray guns on attacking Mu soldiers was done using matte paintings.
The underwater sequences were achieved through camera filters and smoke machines.
ReleaseAtragon was released in Japan on December 22, 1963. It became the 13th highest grossing domestic film of the year, grossing ¥175 million.Atragon became a popular feature on TV and at film festivals. In fact, it was so popular that it was re-released in 1968 as the support feature for Honda's Destroy All Monsters. It was also the 1964 Japanese entry at the Trieste Science Fiction Film Festival.
American International Pictures afforded the film a successful US theatrical release in 1965, with minimal changes and quality dubbing by Titra Studios, as a double feature with The Time Travelers. The new name Atragon, derived from Toho's international title Atoragon, is presumably a contraction of "atomic dragon", a colorful moniker for the titular juggernaut; however, AIP's dubbed dialogue refers to the Goten-go by the name "Atragon". This shortening from four to three syllables was the choice of AIP, since several European markets released the film as Atoragon (Italy) and Ataragon (France). While Atragon became Toho's first tokusatsu eiga (visual effects film) released on home video in 1982, and though the film is exceptionally popular among western tokusatsu fans, Atragon was not released on home video in the United States until Media-Blasters' DVD in 2005 (although the film was in constant television syndication in the US until the early 1980s). Media Blasters had intended to use the original Titra Studios dubbing, but Toho forced the company to use its international version. This alternate dubbed version syncs up precisely with the Japanese video, but fans generally consider these international dubs to be inferior.
Other appearances
Manda later appeared in the 1968 Godzilla film Destroy All Monsters. Manda and the Gotengo, the original and an updated version, were featured in Godzilla: Final Wars''.
See also
List of underwater science fiction works
References
Bibliography
Godziszewski, Ed (1995). "Atragon: A Toho Classic Revisited". G-Fan #21: 18–33.
External links
https://archive.org/details/atragon-1963
1960s fantasy adventure films
1960s science fiction adventure films
1960s monster movies
1963 films
American International Pictures films
Films scored by Akira Ifukube
Films about dragons
Films based on science fiction novels
Films directed by Ishirō Honda
Films produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka
Films set in Tokyo
Giant monster films
Adventure horror films
1960s Japanese-language films
Kaiju films
Japanese natural horror films
Science fiction submarine films
Toho tokusatsu films
Japanese fantasy adventure films
Japanese science fiction horror films
Films with screenplays by Shinichi Sekizawa
Submarine films
1960s Japanese films |
29155096 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%20Learning%20Idea | Earth Learning Idea | Earth Learning Idea (ELI) provides free Earth-related teaching ideas, designed to be practical science and geography resources for secondary and primary teachers and teacher-trainers and trainees across the world. It is run on a voluntary basis by three teachers from the Earth Science Education Unit (ESEU).
History
Earth Learning Idea was set up in May 2007, for the International Year of Planet Earth, with the intention of reaching as many children throughout the world as possible, particularly those who suffer from lack of resources and from lack of thought-provoking teaching. The aim is to foster a better knowledge of the natural world and how it works, encouraging the joy of knowledge about the Earth in those who may not otherwise have the opportunity to receive it.
Global educational project
Earth Learning Ideas enhance learning by being fun to carry out and so enjoyable for pupils and teachers. All ELIs are directed at teachers to encourage maximum pupil participation. One of the main aims is to encourage interactive teaching and the development of thinking and investigational skills in pupils. It is a global effort offering unique teaching resources. All activities are free to download in pdf format and all are accompanied by ´back-up´ notes for teachers.
The activities range widely from ´Rock cycle in wax´, ´Craters on the Moon´ to ´Quakeshake´, an investigation into why some buildings survive in an earthquake and others do not. Other popular activities are ´Trapped! Why can't oil and gas escape from their underground prison?´ and ´How to weigh a dinosaur´. ELIs are popular in schools especially when earthquakes, volcanoes or tsunamis have been in the news. A rich collection of exciting and imaginative activities covering a wide range of Earth-related topics can be found on the website.
Each week an activity is posted on the ELI blog. New activities are published here and comments and suggestions are encouraged. The suggestions are incorporated into ´Extension´ ideas for the activities.
At 10 January 2019, more than 4,000,000 activities in PDF format have been downloaded worldwide.
Translations
Earth Learning Idea activities are written on a voluntary basis and, with the exception of Norway, they have been translated voluntarily too. The Norwegian team received a small grant. ELI activities are now available in the following languages:-
Spanish - translations by AulaGEA, a service for teachers and learners of the Dept. of Geology of the University of Buenos Aires.
Catalan and further Spanish translations - are published by AEPECT, Asociación Española para la enseñanza de las Ciencias de la Tierra: La organización de profesores de Ciencias de la Tierra de España, Portugal e Hispano-América.
Norwegian - the translations are sponsored by the Norwegian Committee of the Year of Planet Earth and Earth Learning Idea activities are listed as resource material on the Naturfagsenteret website.
Italian ANISN - translations by members of ANISN Associazione Nazionale degli Insegnanti di Scienze Naturali.
German - translations supported by the Department for Geography Education, Institute for Science Education, Leibniz University, Hannover.
Portuguese - translations by members of the Institute of Geosciences, Campinas State University, São Paulo, Brazil.,
Polish - translations by the Institute of Geology, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.
Slovak - translations by the Lepšia Geografia (Better Geography) Project. Bratislava, Slovakia
Chinese (Mandarin) - translations by members of the Geoidea team.
Tamil - one translation so far by a member of Arul Anandar College, Tamil Nadu, India.
References
External links
Earth Learning Idea
The Earth Science Education Unit (ESEU)
Earth Science Teachers' Association (ESTA)
Joint Earth Science Education Initiative (JESEI)
Rockwatch
Earth sciences |
552924 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick%20County | Brunswick County | Brunswick County is the name of two counties in the United States:
Brunswick County, North Carolina
Brunswick County, Virginia
In fiction
Brunswick County, Florida is a fictional location in John Grisham's novel The Whistler |
20774703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Hopkins%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201873%29 | James Hopkins (footballer, born 1873) | James Hopkins (born 1873) was an English footballer. His regular position was as an inside right. He was born in Manchester. He played a single game for Newton Heath, the club that would later become Manchester United, against New Brighton Tower on 18 March 1899, having previously played for Berry's Association.
References
External links
MUFCInfo.com profile
1873 births
Footballers from Manchester
English men's footballers
Men's association football inside forwards
Manchester United F.C. players
English Football League players
Year of death missing |
65633971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Vandevelde | Joseph Vandevelde | Joseph Vandevelde, or Jozef Van de Velde (5 January 1855 – 23 May 1882) was a Belgian soldier and explorer in the Congo before the Congo Free State was established.
Life
Joseph Vandevelde was born in Ghent, Belgium, on 5 January 1855, son of Adolplie-François-Joseph Vandevelde and Colette-Jacqueline Vanderstraeten.
On 21 July 1871 he enlisted as a private soldier in the 2nd Line Regiment.
He was made a sergeant on 6 October 1872.
He entered the Military School on 1 December 1874, and spent a year in infantry studies and then four years in specialized arms.
On 1 January 1877 he was made sub-lieutenant and provisionally assigned to the artillery.
Colonial career
On 10 May 1881 Vandevelde was seconded to the Military Cartographic Institute, and joined the service of the Comité d'Etudes du Haut-Congo for three years in support of the Congo expedition of Henry Morton Stanley.
He was responsible for setting up a shipyard in Léopoldville for launching boats on the Congo above the cataracts.
He spent a year at the marine engineering establishments, taking a practical course in mechanics and shipbuilding.
He also made a study of the Congo in the places where it was navigable.
Vandevelde left for the Congo on 18 January 1882 accompanied by skilled maritime carpenters, following his brother Liévin Vandevelde, who had left for the Congo on 9 December 1881.
He reached Banana on 5 March 1882.
With his travelling companions, Edmond Hanssens, Théodore Nilis and Nicolas Grang, he went up the river to Vivi.
In March 1883 there were rumors of a revolt, and Nilis, Vandevelde and Louis-Gustave Amelot went to come to the aid of Émile Parfonry, who was head of the Isangila station.
With the arrival of reinforcements the problem was resolved.
They found the reports had been exaggerated, and sailed upstream in the Royal to Manyanga.
Vandevelde then continued on to Léopoldville, where he fell ill with fever.
He delayed returning to the coast for treatment since he was needed by Stanley on the upper Congo, but became so ill that he had to be carried in a hammock through difficult country to Vivi.
He died on the way, on 23 May 1882, three days from Isangila.
His carriers took his body on to Vivi, where it was buried.
Notes
Sources
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Belgian soldiers
International Association of the Congo |
28043879 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice%20%28Perfume%20song%29 | Voice (Perfume song) | "Voice" (stylized as "VOICE") is the sixteenth overall single of electropop girl group Perfume. It was released on August 11, 2010 as a CD-only version and CD+DVD version. "Voice" was used in the commercial of "Nissan no Omise de!" Campaign and the B-side "575" was used in the Light Pool phone commercial by KDDI iida.
Track listing
Oricon Charts (Japan)
Certifications
References
2010 singles
Perfume (Japanese band) songs
Songs written by Yasutaka Nakata
Song recordings produced by Yasutaka Nakata
2010 songs |
27180963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stomatella%20monteiroi | Stomatella monteiroi | Stomatella monteiroi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Description
The size of the shell varies between 3.3 mm and 4.5 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off the Philippines.
References
External links
Gastyropods.com: Stomatella monteiroi
monteiroi
Gastropods described in 2006 |
53078670 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20Thompson%20%28figure%20skater%29 | Barbara Thompson (figure skater) | Barbara Thompson is a British figure skater who competed in ice dance.
With partner Gerard Rigby, she won the bronze medal at the 1956 World Figure Skating Championships.
Competitive highlights
With Gerard Rigby
References
British female ice dancers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
18914689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20You%20Live | First You Live | First You Live is the title of Dusty Rhodes and the River Band's second album, released on October 19, 2007.
Track listing
All songs written and arranged by Dusty Rhodes and the River Band.
"Intro"
"First You Live"
"Leaving Tennessee"
"Ghost Trails"
"Dear Honey"
"Oh Icicle"
"Strike"
"Keys To The Truck"
"Then You Pass"
"Street Fighter"
"Grampa Mac"
"Goodnight, Moonshine"
"The Ballad Of Graff"
Personnel
Dusty Rhodes and the River Band
Dustin Apodaca: Vocals, Keyboards, Accordion
Kyle Divine: Guitars, Harmonica, Vocals
Edson Choi: Electric, Acoustic and Lap Steel Guitars, Banjo, Sitar, Vocals
Andrea Babinski: Violin, Mandolin, Vocals
Allen Van Orman: Bass
Eric Chirco: Drums, Percussion
Tim Schneider: Drums, Percussion
Additional Personnel
Anthony Arvizu: Percussion
Stephen Hodges: Tympani
Horns (Phillip Inzerillo: Trombone; Jared Parsons: Saxophone) and strings (Katie Mendenhall: Cello) arranged by Andrea Babinski
Megan McCliesh: Vocals
Production
Produced by Isiah "Ikey" Owens
Recording Engineers: Anthony Arvizu, Jeff "Lightning" Lewis and Marcus Samperio
Mixed by Ryan Williams
Mastered by Eddy Schreyer
References
External links
Dusty Rhodes and the River Band at Sideonedummy
2007 albums
SideOneDummy Records albums |
1343987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20N.%20Mather | John N. Mather | John Norman Mather (June 9, 1942 – January 28, 2017) was a mathematician at Princeton University known for his work on singularity theory and Hamiltonian dynamics. He was descended from Atherton Mather (1663–1734), a cousin of Cotton Mather. His early work dealt with the stability of smooth mappings between smooth manifolds of dimensions n (for the source manifold N) and p (for the target manifold P). He determined the precise dimensions (n,p) for which smooth mappings are stable with respect to smooth equivalence by diffeomorphisms of the source and target (i.e., infinitely differentiable coordinate changes).<ref>Mather, J. N. "Stability of C∞ mappings. VI: The nice dimensions". ``Proceedings of Liverpool Singularities-Symposium, I (1969/70), Lecture Notes in Math., Vol. 192, Springer, Berlin (1971), 207–253.</ref>
Mather also proved the conjecture of the French topologist René Thom that under topological equivalence smooth mappings are generically stable: the subset of the space of smooth mappings between two smooth manifolds consisting of the topologically stable mappings is a dense subset in the smooth Whitney topology. His notes on the topic of topological stability are still a standard reference on the topic of topologically stratified spaces.
In the 1970s, Mather switched to the field of dynamical systems. He made the following main contributions to dynamical systems that deeply influenced the field.
1. He introduced the concept of Mather spectrum and gave a characterization of Anosov diffeomorphisms.
2. Jointly with Richard McGehee, he gave an example of collinear four-body problem which has initial conditions leading to solutions that blow up in finite time. This was the first result that made the Painlevé conjecture plausible.
3. He developed a variational theory for the globally action minimizing orbits for twist maps (convex Hamiltonian systems of two degrees of freedom), along the line of the work of George David Birkhoff, Marston Morse, Gustav A. Hedlund, et al. This theory is now known as Aubry–Mather theory.Bangert, Victor. "Mather sets for twist maps and geodesics on tori." Dynamics reported. Vieweg+ Teubner Verlag, 1988. 1–56.
4. He developed the Aubry–Mather theory in higher dimensions, a theory which is now called Mather theory.Mather, John N. "Variational construction of connecting orbits." Annales de l'Institut Fourier, Vol. 43. No. 5. 1993. This theory turned out to be deeply related to the viscosity solution theory of Michael G. Crandall, Pierre-Louis Lions et al. for Hamilton–Jacobi equation. The link was revealed in the weak KAM theory of Albert Fathi.
5. He announced a proof of Arnold diffusion for nearly integrable Hamiltonian systems with three degrees of freedom. He prepared the technique, formulated a proper concept of genericity and made some important progresses towards its solution.
6. In a series of papers,Mather, John N. "Commutators of diffeomorphisms: II." Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici 50.1 (1975): 33-40. he proved that for certain regularity r, depending on the dimension of the smooth manifold M, the group Diff(M, r) is perfect, i.e. equal to its own commutator subgroup, where Diff(M, r) is the group of C^r diffeomorphisms of a smooth manifold M that are isotopic to the identity through a compactly supported C^r'' isotopy. He also constructed counterexamples where the regularity-dimension condition is violated.
Mather was one of the three editors of the Annals of Mathematics Studies series published by Princeton University Press.
He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences beginning in 1988. He received the John J. Carty Award of the National Academy of Sciences in 1978 (for pure mathematics) and the George David Birkhoff Prize in applied mathematics in 2003. He also received the Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit in 2000 and the Brouwer Medal from the Royal Dutch Mathematical Society in 2014.
See also
List of members of the National Academy of Sciences
References
External links
Mather notes on Topological Stability (on the Princeton University website, pdf file)
John Mather bibliography on the Princeton University website (pdf file)
Obituary on the Princeton University website
1942 births
2017 deaths
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Princeton University faculty
Recipients of the Great Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil)
Brouwer Medalists
Harvard University alumni
Princeton University alumni
Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars
Dynamical systems theorists
People from Los Angeles
Mathematicians from California |
56606679 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing%20insecurity%20in%20the%20United%20States | Housing insecurity in the United States | Housing insecurity is the lack of security in an individual shelter that is the result of high housing costs relative to income, poor housing quality, unstable neighborhoods, overcrowding, and, but may not include, homelessness.
Measuring housing insecurity
Researchers from the University of Southern California proposed measuring housing insecurity through the following indicators: housing instability, housing affordability, housing safety, housing quality, neighborhood safety, neighborhood quality, and homelessness.
The Department of Health and Human Services has defined housing insecurity by taking into account proportion to income, housing quality, neighborhoods, overcrowding, and homelessness.
The Center for Disease Control used the frequency of responses to the question of, "How often in the past 12 months would you say you were worried or stressed about having enough money to pay your rent/mortgage? Sometimes, usually, or always?", to identify those who are housing insecurity and to assist in their research on disease prevention.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development defines housing insecurity based on multiple factors in the unit based on the quality of the house. Based on answers on the American Housing Survey, they deem people housing insecure and the house inadequate based on these structural conditions:
"does not have hot and cold running water"
"does not have a bathtub or shower"
"does not have a flush toilet"
"shares plumbing facilities"
"unit was cold for 24 hours or more and more than two breakdowns of the heating equipment have occurred that lasted longer than 6 hours"
"electricity is not used"
"has exposed wiring, not every room has working electrical plugs, and the fuses have blown more than twice."
"has had outside water leaks in the past 12 months"
"has had inside water leaks in the past 12 months"
"has holes in the floor"
"has open cracks wider than a dime"
"has an area of peeling paint larger than 8 by 11 inches"
"rats have been seen recently in the unit."
Housing affordability
Housing affordability is defined as the ratio of annualized housing costs to annual income. Different income based measures use different thresholds; however most organizations use either the 30% or 50% threshold, meaning that an individual is housing insecure if they spend more than 30% or 50% of their annual income on housing.
The median rent increased from $483 in 2000 to $1,216 in 2021; more than doubled in the past two decades.
According to Zillow data, the average U.S. home was worth about $230,000 at the start of 2020. In May 2023 it has reached over $330,000. As housing expenses rose in 2021, households with incomes under $30,000 had little money left over after paying for utilities and rent - only approximately $380 per month, down from nearly $600 two decades earlier.
Housing safety
Housing safety is defined as a housing issue that presents an imminent health threat, such as inadequate heating capacity, faulty foundation, evidence of rodents, exposed electrical and more. Housing quality is defined as housing that is substandard but does not pose an imminent health risk, such as no cooking unit, no hot/cold water, no drinking water, faulty sewage, and more.
Neighborhood safety
Neighborhood safety is defined as living in a neighborhood that presents imminent health threats, such as a factory is located within half a block, unit is in a flood plain, unsatisfactory police presence, and more. Neighborhood quality is defined as households in neighborhoods with undesirable characteristics that do not pose an imminent health risk, such as poor city/county services, unit is boarded up, roads need repairs, no stores within fifteen minutes, and more. Homelessness in the United States is defined as "households who define housing type at the time of interviews as either tent, cave, railroad car, unspecified housing unit, a boat, an RV, or an unoccupied site for a mobile home, trailer or tent." If an individual meets one of the above criteria, then they are considered housing insecure under this definition.
Adequate housing
The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, of which the United States is a signee, includes the right to adequate housing. They define adequate housing as having security of tenure, availability of services, materials, facilities and infrastructure, affordability, habitability, accessibility, location, and cultural adequacy. Many of these tenants are similar to the ones above, such as availability of services (neighborhood quality), affordability, habitability (housing quality and housing safety), and location (neighborhood safety and neighborhood quality).
Additional terms
The UN defines security of tenure as having tenure security which guarantees legal protection against forced evictions, harassment, and other threats. They define accessibility as taking into account the specific needs of disadvantaged and marginalized groups. They define cultural adequacy as respecting and taking into account the expression of cultural identity. If housing does not meet any of these criteria, it is considerate inadequate, or housing insecure.
Rates
The various forms of housing insecurity have been studied in order to find which life circumstances lead families to housing insecurity. Associations between unreliable housing and factors such as race, income, and family type are especially clear. Housing insecure households are likely to consist of unmarried people. 57% of housing insecure households are made up of unmarried individuals that do not have children.
The second largest category is unmarried households with children, which makes up 21% of the distribution. 63% of housing insecure households are extremely low income, which means their annual income is less than the Federal Poverty Level or 30% of the Area Median Income. Most people facing housing insecurity are not seniors and are renters. A lack of education has an especially evident association with housing insecurity. Within housing insecure households, 18% of individuals have a bachelor's or graduate degree, while 50% have no college experience. 55% of housing insecure households are white.
Rates of housing insecurity are fairly consistent across the United States. For the majority of states, between 10% and 15% of households are housing insecure. Wyoming has the least housing insecurity while California and New York have the most housing insecurity; 20% of households face housing insecurity.
In regards to rates of housing inadequacy defined by the American Housing Survey, the number of housing units that were considered extremely inadequate fluctuated between 2005 and 2009.There were 2,021,050 extremely inadequate units that were occupied in 2005, 1,805,960 extremely inadequate units that were occupied in 2007, and 1,863,660 extremely inadequate units that were occupied in 2009. The average number of extremely inadequate units for these three years, 1,896,890 units, amounts to less than 2% of the total number of housing units in the United States. The characteristics that most frequently made units deemed extremely inadequate were shared plumbing facilities (55%) and unacceptably long cold periods (29%). 91.6% of extremely inadequate units experienced only one of the listed qualities of an extremely inadequate unit.
Risk factors
Race/Ethnicity
Those who experience housing insecurity are found to be majorly composed of minority groups such as African Americans and Hispanics, who are twice more likely than whites to experience housing insecurity. Due to their lack of jobs and opportunities, these populations were unable to afford housing even without agreements and restrictions. Around the 1800s, they experiences overcrowding "into tenement housing lacking sanitation, fire safety, and adequate light and ventilation" which using the multiple definitions defined, this is considered housing insecurity.
Impacts
Housing insecurity in the United States has many impacts for the housing insecure. Through cross-sectional analyses, researchers in the 2010s have found several negative factors; yet they acknowledge that it is not currently possible to pinpoint the exact causes and effects. The absence of a valid measure or universal definition for housing insecurity may be a possible reason for lack of research. Despite these implications with research, findings across the board suggest housing insecurity is a negative risk factor when it pertains to health and educational attainment.
Health
In a study that analyzed data from the 2011 Washington State Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System, 29.4% of the 8,416 respondents reported being housing insecure. Housing insecure respondents were approximately "twice as likely to report poor or fair health status" compared to those who did not report being housing insecure. Approximately one third of the housing insecure respondents reported delaying doctor visits due to the costs. 26.9% of the housing insecure respondents were current smokers and "26.3% had poor or fair health".
Through an additional cross-sectional analysis from the 2002 National Survey of America's Families, "housing instability was independently associated with postponed medical care, postponed medications, and increased emergency department visits". Other health outcomes that have been associated with housing insecurity by past studies include: probable GAD, depression, and PTSD.
Education
A longitudinal study assessed the academic achievements of children suggesting there is a link between housing insecurity and performance in school. Researchers reported that homeless and highly mobil children were more likely to be at risk for low academic achievement compared to other students.
Some scholars conclude the aforementioned achievement gaps with homeless and highly mobile students tend to be chronic and "may worsen among older grade cohorts." Highly mobile students were also linked with having "increased rates of grade retention" and more "school-related problems such as expulsion or suspension", compared to other students.
Assistance
One source of assistance is locally located public housing agencies (PHAs) that distribute section 8 vouchers. The vouchers are funded by the U.S. government, specifically the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. These vouchers help low income families or individuals pay for their rent. The PHA determines eligibility based on income, family size and citizenship. Most families that qualify are put on a waitlist, and once they get a voucher, they must be able to find their own housing, and it must meet the safety requirements of the PHA. Once the family meets all the standards, the PHA may partially pay the landlord for the family's rent, requiring the family to pay the difference, or depending on the situation, the PHA may pay for a reasonably priced home.
The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) aims to create housing stability in the U.S. by increasing affordable housing and supporting government funded homes. The organization consists of 5 teams: the Research Team, the Policy Team, the Field Team, the Communications Team, and the Administration Team. The Research Team looks at statistics of housing insecurity, and the Policy Team helps inform policy makers about these trends. The Field Team raises awareness and the Communications Team gathers input from the general population about their views of housing insecurity. Finally, the Administration Team oversees the organization and regulates progress. These 5 groups all come together to combat housing insecurity.
Enterprise is another organization that has a plan to end housing insecurity by 2020. Their goal is not only to provide for low income families, but to also improve their psychological and physical well-being. They have 5 pillars that they focus on: homes, systems, connections, resources, and foundation. Their objective is to provide affordable housing with systems that will provide equal opportunity for low income families. Enterprise also looks for opportunities to expand resources in the government to help those in need. Enterprise's 5 pillars come together to shape their main goal of becoming the foundation that will be strong enough to end housing insecurity.
Solutions
Starter homes
Only 8% of new single family homes built in 2021 were 1,400 ft2 or less and in the 1940s 70% of new housing built was under 1,400 ft2. Local governments regulate out entry level housing with square foot requirements, zoning ordinances, and permits. Condominiums of 500-1,000ft2 that can be owned instead of leased, which could be a studio, 1 bedroom, or 2 bedroom with a reasonable HOA monthly fee and property taxes would be less expensive than renting in the longer run and a way to start building wealth starting out.
See also
Home-ownership in the United States
Eviction in the United States
Homelessness in the United States
Cost of rent by State and County (United States)
References
Housing in the United States
Homelessness in the United States |
7692089 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27re%20Next | You're Next | You're Next is a 2011 American slasher film directed and edited by Adam Wingard, written by Simon Barrett and starring Sharni Vinson, Nicholas Tucci, Wendy Glenn, A. J. Bowen, Joe Swanberg, Barbara Crampton and Rob Moran. The plot concerns an estranged family under attack by a group of masked assailants during a family reunion.
The film had its world premiere at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival Midnight Madness program and was theatrically released on August 23, 2013, in the United States. The film grossed over $26 million from a $1 million production budget and has since gained a cult following.
Plot
The film opens with a couple, Talia and Erik Harson, having sex. Afterwards, Talia walks around the house, not noticing that the motion sensor light outside had turned out. After a shower, Erik finds "you're next" written on the window in Talia's blood; her body is lying dead on the ground. An attacker wearing a lamb mask attacks Erik and kills him with a machete.
Erin accompanies her boyfriend, Crispian Davison, to his family reunion at their vacation home in rural Missouri. Present are Crispian's parents Aubrey and Paul, Crispian's older brother Drake and his wife Kelly, Crispian's younger siblings Felix and Aimee, and their partners, Zee and Tariq, respectively.
During dinner, someone shoots crossbow bolts through the window, one of which hits Tariq in the head and kills him, with another wounding Drake. The survivors discover that their cell phone reception has been jammed. Aimee runs outside for help but runs into a garrote wire which slices her throat, killing her. Erin is briefly attacked by an attacker in a tiger mask in the kitchen, but she fights him off as he escapes through the kitchen door. Paul puts Aubrey to bed, but an intruder wearing a fox mask, who was hiding under the bed, murders Aubrey with a machete, leaving the words "you're next" in blood on the wall.
Kelly discovers Fox Mask, panics and flees the house, going to Erik's house nearby. Upon discovering Erik's corpse, Lamb Mask throws her through the window and kills her by driving an ax into the side of her head. Crispian leaves the house to look for help. Tiger Mask attacks Erin with an ax but she crushes his skull by beating him with a meat tenderizer.
Paul finds sleeping bags, food wrappers, and bottles of urine in the closet indicating the killers have been staying in the house for some time. He finds Felix and Zee and starts to tell them, only for Fox Mask to slit his throat with a machete. It is then revealed that Felix and Zee hired the assassins to murder the family so they could collect their inheritance. Lamb Mask finds Tiger Mask's corpse and flips the dinner table over in rage. He discovers a wounded Drake hiding but retreats after Erin stabs him with a screwdriver. Erin sets up nail traps by the house's entrances, explaining to Zee that she grew up in a survivalist compound where she learned combat and survival skills. Felix meets Drake in the basement and kills him out of pity by stabbing him with multiple screwdrivers.
On the upper floor, Erin comes across Paul's body. She jumps through a window to escape Fox Mask, injuring her leg. Lamb Mask is injured by one of her nail traps. While hiding, Erin overhears an argument between Felix, Zee, Fox Mask, and Lamb Mask where it was revealed that Lamb Mask and Tiger Mask were brothers. Her cell phone beeps to indicate that her text to 911 has gone through, alerting the killers. She is able to ambush and kill Lamb Mask by stabbing him in the head.
Realizing she cannot outrun Fox Mask with a wounded leg, Erin sets a trap at the front door where an axe would fall and kill anyone who opens the door. Fox Mask enters through a window, so Erin lures him into the basement, where she blinds him with a camera before cracking his skull with a log, killing him. Zee and Felix attempt to kill Erin themselves, but she kills Felix by shredding the top of his head with a blender before stabbing Zee in the top of the head with a knife. Felix's cell phone rings and Erin answers without speaking. Believing he is speaking to Felix, Crispian reveals his involvement in the scheme. Erin confronts him when he returns. Crispian explains that she was never meant to be targeted and he attempts to bribe her into staying quiet. Horrified and disgusted that he would sacrifice his entire family for money, she kills him by stabbing him in the neck and eye.
A police officer arrives and shoots Erin in the shoulder, having seen her kill Crispian. After calling for backup, he attempts to enter the house and falls victim to Erin's front door trap, with the axe swinging at his head just as the movie cuts to a blood splattered "You're next".
Cast
Sharni Vinson as Erin
Nicholas Tucci as Felix Davison
Wendy Glenn as Zee
A. J. Bowen as Crispian Davison
Joe Swanberg as Drake Davison
Rob Moran as Paul Davison
Barbara Crampton as Aubrey Davison
Sarah Myers as Kelly Davison
Amy Seimetz as Aimee Davison
Ti West as Tariq
Lane Hughes as Tom / Fox Mask
L.C. Holt as Craig / Lamb Mask
Simon Barrett as Dave / Tiger Mask
Larry Fessenden as Erik Harson
Kate Lyn Sheil as Talia
Calvin Reeder as Officer Trubiano
Production
Development
Barrett wrote the film after Wingard told him that he wanted to do a home invasion movie, noting that they were the only films that still truly frightened him.
From there, Barrett wrote a script inspired by Agatha Christie mysteries as well as a combination of screwball comedies and chamber mysteries. Barrett would later note that Bay of Blood was probably in the back of his mind when writing the film, although he only realized this after the fact.
Wingard credited the film's humor to Barrett's sense of humor and cynicism. Some of the dinner conversations were improvised and based on real-life experiences the filmmakers had with family members.
Filming
The film was shot in 2011 at a mansion in Columbia, Missouri. Filming took place over four weeks, and shooting consisted mostly of night shoots filmed from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m.
Release
You're Next premiered on September 17, 2011 at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival and opened at other film festivals later.
Four days after its premiere, Lionsgate acquired American, British, and Canadian distribution rights to the film for $2 million. The film was part of the competition during the 20th edition of the international festival of fantastic movies at Gerardmer (France) in February 2013, and it won the Syfy prize of the event.
Box office
The film opened in the United States on August 9, 2013 and earned $7,020,196 in its opening weekend. The film closed on October 17, having grossed $18,494,006 in the domestic box office and $8,401,475 overseas for a worldwide total of $26,895,481.
Critical response
Rotten Tomatoes reports an approval rating of 79% based on 162 reviews, with an average rating of 6.6/10. The site's critical consensus states, "You're Nexts energetic and effective mix of brutal gore and pitch black humor will please horror buffs and beyond." Metacritic gives the film a weighted average score of 66 out of 100, based on 32 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale.
Vanity Fairs Jordan Hoffman called You're Next "one of the more entertaining horror pictures of the last 10 years". Chris Nashawaty of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B+, praising "Wingard's canny knack for leavening his characters' gory demises with sick laughs and clever Rube Goldberg twists (razor-sharp piano wire hasn't been used this well since 1999's Audition). It's like Ordinary People meets Scream" and describing the final shot as "deliciously twisted". R. Kurt Osenlund of Slant Magazine gave the film 4 stars, stating the film "brazenly merges the home-invasion thriller with the dysfunctional family dramedy". Joshua Rothkopf (Time Out New York) called the film "solidly satisfying" and a "minor triumph", although he commented that the film was, in general, unoriginal. Matt Glasby of Total Film called the film "funny and tense, rather than hilarious and terrifying", and complimented the film for being a "good" horror-comedy. Barbara VanDenburgh (Arizona Republic) gave the film 3.5 out of 5 stars, stating the film was not "very scary" and that its "budget for red food coloring was no doubt higher than the one for script doctoring", although she complimented the film's score and "gruesome" conclusion. Mark Jenkins of The Washington Post said the movie "is at times bloodily entertaining. And if the central plot twist isn't all that clever, at least the movie offers some motivation for its mayhem", while Jane Horwitz wrote for the same newspaper: "For slasher/horror fans 17 and older, You're Next may provide sufficient homicidal entertainment". Liam Lacey (The Globe and Mail) gave the film 2.5 out of 4 stars, describing it as "well-executed" but "rudimentary".
A review from St. Louis Post-Dispatch called the film unoriginal, while Rene Rodriguez (The Miami Herald) panned the film, calling it "practically insulting", and dubbed the premise "idiotic". John DeFore (The Hollywood Reporter) wrote that the film's characters were mostly unsympathetic and that more humor would have improved the film. Stephen Whitty of The Newark Star-Ledger, in a review for The Portland Oregonian, gave the film a C+ rating, agreeing it was unoriginal and uninventive, comparing it to The Purge and The Last House on the Left. Scott Bowles of USA Today gave You're Next a negative review, describing it as repetitive and stating that it did not have a purpose.
Total Film placed Erin (Sharni Vinson) at number one on their list of "50 Most Bad-Ass Female Horror Leads".
Home media
The film was released via video on demand on December 27, 2013, and via DVD and Blu-ray on January 14, 2014.
See also
List of films featuring home invasions
References
External links
2011 films
2011 comedy horror films
2011 black comedy films
2011 horror thriller films
2011 independent films
2010s slasher films
American black comedy films
American horror thriller films
American independent films
American slasher films
2010s English-language films
Fiction about familicide
Films about dysfunctional families
Films about contract killing
Films about mass murder
Films directed by Adam Wingard
Films set in Columbia, Missouri
Films set in Missouri
Films set in country houses
Films shot in Columbia, Missouri
Home invasions in film
Icon Productions films
Lionsgate films
Films produced by Keith Calder
Films with screenplays by Simon Barrett (filmmaker)
Films produced by Simon Barrett (filmmaker)
Films scored by Adam Wingard
2010s American films |
6579124 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20McCormick | Charles McCormick | Charles McCormick may refer to:
Charles T. McCormick (1889–1963), American university professor
Charles Edward McCormick (1946–2022) American musician with the band Bloodstone
Charles Perry McCormick (1896–1970), American businessman and civic leader in Baltimore, Maryland
See also
Charles J. McCormack (1865–1915), American politician in New York City
Charlie McCormack (1895–1975), Scottish footballer |
30886343 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira%20Smith%20%28baseball%29 | Ira Smith (baseball) | Ira Lamonte Smith (born August 4, 1967) is an American former college and minor league baseball player from Chestertown, Maryland. While playing collegiately at University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Smith was the first player to win two NCAA batting titles as well as the first to win the award in consecutive seasons.
College baseball
In 1989, Smith finished the season with a .488 batting average and was named team MVP. In 1990, Smith repeated the feat by batting .519, ranking the sixth all-time highest Division 1 batting average and again earning team MVP honors. Ira's career batting average of .431 ranks as the 14th highest in Division 1 history.
Professional baseball
In the 1990 MLB Draft the Los Angeles Dodgers selected Smith in the 37th round. In 14 years playing Minor league and Independent league baseball, Smith had a career .292 batting average. Despite several seasons in Triple-A, Smith did not appear in any games for a Major League Baseball team. In 1997, it was reported that the Detroit Tigers were grooming Smith to eventually become a coach or manager due to his relationship with Randy Smith, former General Manager of the San Diego Padres and then GM of the Tigers.
Post career
In 2004, Smith was elected to the UMES Athletics Hall of Fame and in 2005 he was named to the Eastern Shore Baseball Hall of Fame. In 2010, Smith was elected to the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Hall of Fame. The NCAA announced in 2011 that Smith would be added to the ballot for the National College Baseball Hall of Fame.
Smith served as a bench coach for the Lincoln Saltdogs in 2004 and as the teams hitting coach in 2005. In 2006, Smith left the Saltdogs and took a position as the hitting coach of the Joliet Jackhammers.
References
1967 births
Living people
Maryland Eastern Shore Hawks baseball players
Minor league baseball coaches
People from Chestertown, Maryland
Baseball players from Maryland
African-American baseball players
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American sportspeople
Bakersfield Dodgers players
Duluth-Superior Dukes players
Great Falls Dodgers players
Jacksonville Suns players
Las Vegas Stars (baseball) players
Lincoln Saltdogs players
Memphis Chicks players
Rancho Cucamonga Quakes players
San Antonio Missions players
Sioux City Explorers players
Toledo Mud Hens players
Vero Beach Dodgers players
Wichita Wranglers players
Winnipeg Goldeyes players
American expatriate baseball players in Canada |
2949938 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio%20Grande%20Blood | Rio Grande Blood | Rio Grande Blood is the tenth studio album by American industrial metal band Ministry, released in 2006. It is their first release through 13th Planet and Megaforce Records.
Overview
The album is the second installment in the band's anti-George W. Bush trilogy, preceded by 2004's Houses of the Molé and followed by 2007's The Last Sucker.
The title of the album is a parody of the 1972 ZZ Top album Rio Grande Mud.
Just like Houses of the Molé, Rio Grande Blood contains very political lyrics, making frequent allusions to the George W. Bush administration. The second track makes an explicit reference to Bush as Señor Peligro, which translates to "Mr. Danger" in Spanish. Some of the issues raised include the then-current Iraq War, U.S. immigration policy and U.S. military policy (particularly the United States Marine Corps in the song "Gangreen"). The Halliburton corporation is also quoted and linked to the Bush administration.
The album also contains allegations of the Bush administration complicity in the September 11 attacks in the track "Lieslieslies," which contains audio samples from the conspiracy documentary series Loose Change. The song received a nomination for Best Metal Performance at the 49th Grammy Awards.
A remix of the song "The Great Satan" from Rantology appears on this album. Along with "LiesLiesLies", "The Great Satan" was also nominated for a Grammy.
Samples of genuine Bush soundbites are cut-and-pasted together at various points to satirical effect: for example, the title track begins with Bush stating "I have adopted sophisticated terrorist tactics and I'm a dangerous, dangerous man with dangerous, dangerous weapons."
The album was re-released in remixed form as Rio Grande Dub on July 10, 2007.
Jourgensen ranks Rio Grande Blood as his second favorite Ministry album saying that not only he liked the songs but he had a good time working with Paul Raven and Tommy Victor. He was also proud that some of the songs were used in the 2008 Academy Award winning film The Hurt Locker.
Track listing
Personnel
Ministry
Al Jourgensen - lead vocals, lead guitar (1), guitars (1-3, 5-10), bass (1, 6), keyboards (1-10), drum programming (1, 6), production
Tommy Victor - guitars (2-5, 7-10), bass (2-4)
Paul Raven - keyboards (2, 3, 10), backing vocals (2, 3), bass (5, 7-10), guitars (7, 9, 10) drum programming (7, 9), drums (10)
Mark Baker - drums (2, 3, 5, 8, 10)
Additional personnel
Isaias Martinez - Latin vocals (2)
Freddie Macias - background vocals (2, 3)
Sgt. Major - drill instructor vocals (3, 13)
Bobby Torres - background vocals (3)
Jim Ward - background vocals (3)
Justin Leeah - drum programming (4), engineering
Mike Scaccia - lead guitar (6)
Jello Biafra - intro vocals (9)
Liz Constantine - additional vocals (10)
John Gray - engineering
John Bilberry - assistant engineering
Dave Donnelly - mastering
Lawton Outlaw - art direction, design, layout
In popular culture
The song "Palestina" is used in the skateboarding game Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam.
The sound after the opening speech at the album's beginning is sampled from the track "Snagglepuss" by John Zorn.
The song "Señor Peligro" is used in the video game Scarface: The World Is Yours.
The song "Lieslieslies" is featured in the 2007 film Battle for Haditha.
The songs "Lieslieslies" and "The Great Satan" are available as downloadable content for the video game Rock Band 2.
The songs "Fear (Is Big Business)", "Palestina", and "Khyber Pass" were used in the Academy Award-winning 2009 film The Hurt Locker.
Chart positions
References
Bibliography
2006 albums
Albums produced by Al Jourgensen
Megaforce Records albums
Ministry (band) albums
Cultural depictions of George W. Bush
Obscenity controversies in music |
55690587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balh%20Assembly%20constituency | Balh Assembly constituency | Balh Assembly constituency is one of the 68 constituencies in the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly of Himachal Pradesh a northern state of India. Balh is also part of Mandi Lok Sabha constituency.
Members of Legislative Assembly
Election candidates
2022
Election results
2017
See also
Balh
Mandi district
List of constituencies of Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly
References
External links
Assembly constituencies of Himachal Pradesh
Mandi district |
41991645 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitao | Haitao | Haitao () is a given name of Chinese origin that is principally used as a masculine name. It may refer to:
Du Haitao (born 1987), Chinese television presenter
Fu Haitao (born 1993), Chinese triple jumper
Hao Haitao (born 1968), Chinese soccer coach
Liu Haitao (born 1983), Chinese sprint canoer
Qiu Haitao (born 1973), Chinese female softball player
Zhang Haitao (born 1970), Chinese soccer coach
Chinese masculine given names
Masculine given names |
29737856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infected%20%282012%20film%29 | Infected (2012 film) | Infected is an American science-fiction action-horror film directed by Glenn Ciano.
Plot
A father and his son must fight to survive against a deadly, rapidly spreading blood virus that has infected a group of hunters.
Cast
Michael Madsen as Louis
Christy Carlson Romano as Kelly
William Forsythe as Dr. Ed Dennehey
Michael Nicolosi as Matt
Myke Michaels as Infected In Window
Johnny Cicco as Seth
Lily Haze as Infected Woman
Eric Norris as Infected Man
Tom DeNucci as Andrew
J. J. Perry as Infected Man
Kristi Lynn as Infected Woman
Manny Perry as Infected Man
Brian Smrz as Infected Man
Taylor Momsen as Sarah
Bug Hall as Tom
Kathryn E. Prescott as Infected Horde
Tom Paolino as Infected Father
Nicholas John Bilotta as Infected Man #1
Sera Verdi as Sarah
Wendy Overly as Annie O'Toole
Annie Worden as Jessica
Chad A. Verdi Jr. as Infected Son
Jared Hartley as Infected Man #2
Jeanine Kane as Angela
Tracey Sheldon as Hooker
Furio Spagliatelli as Infected Man #3
Brian Steven Burke as Infected Mayor
Jade Hartley as Infected Horde
Charles James Wesley as Infected Attacker
Kevin DeCristofano as Jeremy Dennehey
Gary Roscoe as Infected
George J. Vezina as Bald Infected With Beard
Robert A Glenn as Infected Man In Business
Production
Ciano began with the filming of the Horror-Action film in October 2010. Michael Madsen, Christy Carlson Romano and William Forsythe were cast as the leads of the film. The Woodhaven Production Company produced the film. Glenn Ciano co-wrote the script with Robert Rotondo Jr., but the story was originally an idea of Ciano's. The film was produced by director Glenn Ciano. It was filmed on location in Foster, Rhode Island.
Release
The original release was set for the late 2010. The film premiered at Worcester’s 2012 Rock and Shock Convention and was released onto DVD on April 9, 2013.
References
External links
2012 films
American science fiction horror films
Films about viral outbreaks
2012 horror films
2010s English-language films
2010s American films |
68976634 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977%20Orient%20Cup | 1977 Orient Cup | The 1977 Orient Cup was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Bogotá, Colombia that was part of the one star category of the 1977 Colgate-Palmolive Grand Prix. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was held from 7 November through 13 November 1977. First-seeded Guillermo Vilas won the singles title.
Finals
Singles
Guillermo Vilas defeated José Higueras 6–2, 6–0
It was Vilas' 13th singles title of the year and the 32nd of his career.
Doubles
Belus Prajoux / Hans Gildemeister defeated Jorge Andrew / Carlos Kirmayr 6–4, 6–2
References
External links
ITF tournament edition details
Orient Cup
Orient Cup |
69463691 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavle%20Ar%C5%A1inov | Pavle Aršinov | Pavle Aršinov (; 1855 – 1930) was a professor, writer, financier, politician and prominent benefactor and proponent of Privrednik Patronage. He is remembered for writing a seminal work, Šta ćemo i kako ćemo at the turn of the 20th century (1908).
Biography
Pavle Aršinov was born in Veliki Bečkerek, Austrian Empire to a farming family and grew up in the suburb of Gradnulica, Zrenjanin, at 28 Cara Dušana Street. At his home, the Association of Serb Businessmen erected a memorial plaque to him on 15 May 1932 in memory of his work and dedication. In 1870, his father Miloš bought him one of Vuk Karadžić's books through subscription. Arsinov finished primary school in his hometown of Veliki Bečkerek. He studied at grammar school in Bečkerek, and higher grades in Kecskemét and Novi Sad in German, Hungarian and Serbian. He began his university studies in natural sciences in Prague as a cadet at the Serbian Tekelianum college in 1879. He moved to Pest, where, in addition to his regular studies, he also studied pedagogy and philosophy. Driven by ideas Svetozar Marković, during his schooling Aršinov studied socialist literature, and was very active in the student societies. After breaking up with Jaša Tomić, he sided with the views of the Radical Party in Serbia.
After graduating, Aršinov moved to Serbia, where he worked as Gymnasium teacher and wrote works on education. When the Serbian business association Privrednik began in 1897, Aršinov went to live in Zagreb to help start the work of the association as well as the Association of Serbian Agricultural Cooperatives. His task was to agitate for these two institutions as the editor of the Privrednik newspaper. There were others who moved to Zagreb, including Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, Kosta Taušanović, Sima Lukin Lazić, and Jovan Paču among others. He also worked on the cultural upliftment of peasants, craftsmen and merchants through a number of topics covered by his Privrednik newspaper. During the First World War, the Austro-Hungarian authorities imprisoned him on charges of high treason. Due to illness, a year before his death, Aršinov resigned as editor of Privrednik, whose editor-in-chief and associate he had been since its founding in 1898. He wrote numerous articles on topics covering the natural sciences, agriculture, social policy, poems and travelogues, and most of his extensive manuscripts relate to popular enlightenment. He also collaborated in various political and literary newspapers, magazines and calendars.
Since retiring in 1924, he settled permanently in Zagreb (at the time in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia), where he died and was buried in 1930.
Works
He authored numerous scholastic works on education and pedagogy:
Serbian Agricultural Cooperatives. Conversation of Serb farmers about agricultural cooperatives , Zagreb 1898 (II edition entitled: "Is there a cure for evil?", Zagreb 1905);
What's in the world for? Questionnaires from natural sciences , Belgrade 1902;
Is there a cure for evil? Zagreb 1905, II edition
Father teaches son, letters of millionaire Greshem , Zagreb 1905;
Mind and Heart I — III , Novi Sad 1906, 1907, 1910;
"What are we going to do and how are we going to do it?" (Šta čemo i kako čemo), Belgrade 1908;
Marko Kraljevic of our days , Belgrade 1922;
"How we used to be educated in Banat", Belgrade 1926;
"Privrednikova čitanka", Belgrade 1932;
"There and there by nature, observations and considerations of a naturalist", Belgrade 1938.
Literature
Jelena Aršinov, "Pavle Aršinov: život i dela" (1937)
References
1855 births
1930 deaths
Serbian newspaper editors
20th-century Serbian educators
Writers from Zrenjanin
20th-century Serbian writers
Serbian male writers
Emigrants from Austria-Hungary |
19801679 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whatever%2C%20Mortal | Whatever, Mortal | Whatever, Mortal is the second album by Papa M, the third such pseudonym used by David Pajo (after 'M' and 'Aerial M'), released in 2001 on the Chicago-based Drag City label (see 2001 in music).
Track listing
"Over Jordan" - 4:20
"Beloved Woman" – 3:26
"Roses in the Snow" – 3:45
"Sorrow Reigns" – 1:18
"Krusty" – 3:54
"The Lass of Roch Royal" – 2:53
"Many Splendored Thing" – 3:53
"Glad You're Here With Me" – 3:23
"Tamu" – 3:18
"Sabotage" – 7:16
"Purple Eyelid" – 3:06
"The Unquiet Grave" - 5:13
"The Northwest Passage" - 5:44
Personnel
David Pajo - electric and acoustic guitar, piano, melodica, bass, drums, keyboards, vocals, backing vocals, banjo, sitar, harmonica, percussion
Will Oldham - bass, piano, electric guitar, backing vocals
Tara Jane O'Neil - banjo, acoustic guitar
with:
Britt Walford - drums on "Beloved Woman"
Technical
David Pajo - engineer, recording
Mary Newton - front cover painting
References
External links
Drag City label
David Pajo's official website
David Pajo albums
2001 albums
Drag City (record label) albums |
47028991 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek%20O%27Connor | Derek O'Connor | Derek O'Connor may refer to:
Derek O'Connor (footballer, born 1955), Scottish football striker for St. Johnstone and Hearts
Derek O'Connor (footballer, born 1978), Irish football goalkeeper for Huddersfield Town
Derek O'Connor (journalist), Irish writer and filmmaker |
8299892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Merry%20Month%20of%20May%20%28novel%29 | The Merry Month of May (novel) | The Merry Month of May is author James Jones's 1971 novel concerning the events of the 1968 student revolutions in Paris. It is centered on a rich American family, the Gallaghers, living as expatriates in Paris.
The Merry Month of May is only superficially concerned with the student revolution. The real subject of the novel is the sexual maladjustment of Americans. While the novel is as concerned with the sexual revolution which destroys screenwriter Harry Gallagher and his family as it is with the student revolution, the relationship between the two is not defined.
Reviews of the book were typically uneven, though never in Jones's career would the gulf between the most favorable and the least favorable reviews be so wide. At one pole were reviewers who claimed Merry Month was Jones's best novel since From Here to Eternity, while at the other pole were reviewers who claimed that Merry Month was such a bad novel that it should never have been published.
Notes
1971 American novels
Fiction set in 1968
Novels set in Paris |
33958055 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Pegues | Mike Pegues | Mike Pegues (born January 13, 1978) is an American men's basketball coach who is currently an assistant for the Butler University men's basketball team. He previously served as an assistant and then interim head coach for the University of Louisville from 2018–2022. He is also known for his playing career at Delaware, where he was a three-time first-team All-America East Conference selection, as well as the league's player of the year in 1998–99.
Playing career
High school
Pegues, a 6'5", 240-lb power forward from Forestville, Maryland, played at national basketball power DeMatha Catholic High School from 1992 to 1996 and was a teammate of former Philadelphia Eagles running back Brian Westbrook. His head coach was Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Morgan Wootten. During his four-year high school career he compiled an overall record of 105–26, including two #1 rankings in the Washington, D.C. area.
College
After graduating from DeMatha Catholic in 1996, Pegues enrolled at the University of Delaware on a basketball scholarship to play for head coach Mike Brey (who is, coincidentally, also a DeMatha alumnus). During a college career that spanned between 1996 and 2000, Pegues became the first player in school history to earn three first team all-conference selections as well as its first conference player of the year. He scored a still-standing Delaware record 2,030 points and guided the Fightin' Blue Hens to two NCAA Tournaments (1998, 1999) and one National Invitation Tournament (2000). In both 1997–98 and 1998–99, Delaware was America East regular season and tournament champions. When he was named the America East Conference Player of the Year as a junior, Pegues averaged 21.8 points per game. Although he did not repeat as player of the year as a senior, his overall career was good enough to have him enshrined in the University of Delaware Hall of Fame in 2007.
Professional
Pegues did not get selected in the 2000 NBA draft but had a professional career that took him to Italy, England, Argentina, New Zealand and the Continental Basketball Association in the United States.
Coaching career
A knee injury ended Pegues' playing career after several seasons, and he became a teacher at Friendship Collegiate Academy Public Charter School. He also coached high school and Amateur Athletic Union basketball. In 2009–10, Pegues served as the video coordinator at Virginia Commonwealth before joining the staff at Delaware in 2010–11. In 2012, Pegues was hired as an assistant for coach Chris Mack at Xavier.
In 2018, Mack took the head coaching job at Louisville and Pegues followed him there. Pegues served as acting head coach for the first six games of the 2021–22 season while Mack was suspended; he went 5–1 and won the Bahamas Championship.
On January 26, 2022, Pegues was named the interim head coach after Louisville and Mack mutually parted ways. On March 18, 2022, Pegues tenure at Louisville came to an end upon the announcement that Kenny Payne would become the next permanent head coach for the Cardinals. Following the season, Pegues was hired as an assistant for head coach Thad Matta at Butler.
Head coaching record
*Pegues coached the first six games of the 2021–22 season during Chris Mack's suspension and went 5–1 (0–0 ACC). Then on January 26, 2022, he took over again as the interim head coach for the rest of the year following the permanent departure of Mack.
References
1978 births
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Basketball coaches from Maryland
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British Basketball League players
Butler Bulldogs men's basketball coaches
Canterbury Rams players
Connecticut Pride players
Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens men's basketball coaches
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Leicester Riders players
Louisville Cardinals men's basketball coaches
Otago Nuggets players
Power forwards (basketball)
Sportspeople from Frederick, Maryland
Xavier Musketeers men's basketball coaches |
38040048 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodgepole%20%28sculpture%29 | Lodgepole (sculpture) | Lodgepole is a public art work by artist Lyman Kipp located at the Lynden Sculpture Garden near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The abstract sculpture is a T-shaped form painted red; it is installed on the patio.
References
Outdoor sculptures in Milwaukee
1968 sculptures
Steel sculptures in Wisconsin
Abstract sculptures in Wisconsin
1968 establishments in Wisconsin |
32705969 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G7011%20Shiyan%E2%80%93Tianshui%20Expressway | G7011 Shiyan–Tianshui Expressway | The Shiyan–Tianshui Expressway (), designated as G7011 and commonly referred to as the Shitian Expressway () is an expressway that connects Shiyan, Hubei, China and Tianshui, Gansu. It is a spur of G70 Fuzhou–Yinchuan Expressway.
Overview
Hubei Province
The section in Hubei is long.
Shaanxi Province
The long section between Ankang and Hanzhong was opened on 27 December 2010 after a 2 year construction period at a cost of 13.77 billion Yuan.
Gansu Province
The Gansu section is long and the investment cost was 20.621 billion Yuan. The section opened on October 1 2015.
Route table
References
Chinese national-level expressways
Expressways in Hubei
Expressways in Shaanxi
Expressways in Gansu |
39023052 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%20Lincolnshire%20County%20Council%20election | 2013 Lincolnshire County Council election | An election to Lincolnshire County Council took place on 2 May 2013 as part of the 2013 United Kingdom local elections. 77 electoral divisions returned one county councillor each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. The electoral divisions were the same as those used at the previous election in 2009. No elections were held in North Lincolnshire or North East Lincolnshire, which are unitary authorities outside the area covered by the County Council.
All locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 2 May 2013 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections, although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections. It is possible to register to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who had a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election.
Summary
The election saw the Conservative Party lose overall control of the council. The party previously enjoyed a sizable majority, holding around three quarters of the seats. After the election, the Conservatives found themselves 6 seats short of an overall majority; the UK Independence Party was the council's second biggest party, with 16 seats. Since the election the Conservative group have negotiated a coalition deal with the Liberal Democrats, whereby there is one Liberal Democrat cabinet member. UKIP replaced the Liberal Democrats as the council's official opposition.
UKIP lost six of its councillors to defections shortly after the election, and as a result Labour now form the official opposition.
Results
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Results by electoral division
Boston
Boston Coastal
Boston East
Boston Fishtoft
Boston North West
Boston Rural
Boston South
Boston West
East Lindsey
Alford and Sutton
Horncastle and Tetford
Ingoldmells Rural
Louth Marsh
Louth North
Louth Rural North
Louth South
Louth Wolds
Mablethorpe
Skegness North
Skegness South
West Lindsey
Lincoln
North Kesteven
South Kesteven
South Holland
References
2013
2013 English local elections
2010s in Lincolnshire |
62102850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM%20Mujibur%20Rahman | SM Mujibur Rahman | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a former Member of Parliament of Satkhira-1.
Career
Rahman was elected to parliament from Satkhira-1 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 2008.
References
Living people
Awami League politicians
9th Jatiya Sangsad members
Place of birth missing (living people)
Date of birth missing (living people) |
29971886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Mexico%20Lobos%20women%27s%20basketball | New Mexico Lobos women's basketball | The New Mexico Lobos women's basketball team represents the University of New Mexico in the Mountain West Conference in the NCAA Division I. The team is coached by Mike Bradbury.
Coaching history
Pre Varsity Eras
The UNM women's basketball team played their first recorded game on December 22, 1898 . It was an intramural game played between teams called the Gladiators and the Olympians; it was an intramural game as both teams were made up of University of New Mexico students. Shortly after this first game was played, the women played the first game in the women's basketball version of what is now known as the Rio Grande Rivalry, as they played Las Cruces College to a 4-2 win at the First Street Armory. After that first season of play, the women's team would late extend invitations to colleges throughout New Mexico; however, in 1912, the UNM faculty refused to allow the women to travel outside of the city.
In the 1970s, with the introduction of Title IX, UNM effectively restarted their women's basketball program, with 2 club seasons in 1972-73 and 1973-74. After the 1973-74 season, the University fully established the basketball team as an official interscholastic athletic team.
Kathy Marpe (1974–80)
Head coach Kathy Marpe compiled a winning record with UNM women's basketball team to a win 78 games and lose 58 (.577).
Doug Hoselton (1980–87)
Coach Doug Hoselton compiled a record of 89 wins and 105 (.459). After the 1987 season, facing budget issues, the university shut down the women's basketball program.
Maureen Eckroth (1991–95)
Maureen Eckroth had an unfortunate record during the four years as head coach, finishing with 14 wins and 96 losses(.13).
Don Flanagan (1995–2011)
Don Flanagan coached the Lobos for 16 seasons, improving the Lobos' record to a remarkable 340–168 (.669). He announced his retirement in April, 2011.
Yvonne Sanchez (2011–2016)
Yvonne Sanchez was named head coach on April 22, 2011 replacing Don Flanagan who had been the head coach for 15 years.
Mike Bradbury (March 2016–present)
In March 2016, Mike Bradbury took over as the new women's head basketball coach, after former coach Yvonne Sanchez was fired earlier that month.
In 2021, the Lobos won the regular-season Mountain West Conference title, the first time they had done so without sharing the title with another team. Because of public health orders during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Lobos were able to play only two of their games at their own court, The Pit.
NCAA tournament results
References
External links
Women's sports in New Mexico |
44556845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gidra | Gidra | Gidra may refer to:
Nickname for Serbian actor Dragomir Bojanić (1933–1993)
Nickname for Serbian martial artist Miodrag Stojanović (1950–2001)
Gidra (newspaper) (1969-1974), Asian-American monthly
Gidra (river), river in Slovakia
Gidra language, another name for the Wipi language |
57190627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice%20to%20Meet%20You%20%28Seeb%20EP%29 | Nice to Meet You (Seeb EP) | Nice to Meet You is the second extended play (EP) by Norwegian electronic dance music band Seeb. It was released on 20 April 2018, and features musicians Skylar Grey, Jay Sean, and Iselin. The first single, "Drink About", was released on 6 April 2018 and featured singer Dagny.
Track listing
Personnel
Simen Eriksrud, Espen Berg – sampling, programming
Charts
References
2018 EPs |
12864484 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Amador | USS Amador | USS Amador (AK-158) was an commissioned by the US Navy for service in World War II. She was responsible for delivering troops, goods and equipment to locations in the war zone.
Service history
Amador was laid down under a Maritime Commission contract, MC hull 2103, on 27 December 1943, at Richmond, California, by Kaiser Cargo Inc.; launched on 15 June 1944; sponsored by Mrs. S. J. Davis; acquired by the Navy on 10 August 1944; commissioned on 9 October 1944, decommissioned at Portland, Oregon, on 23 October 1944 to undergo conversion to an ammunition tender by the Commercial Iron Works, and recommissioned on 25 November 1944. Amador got underway early in December for shakedown training off San Pedro, California. She loaded cargo and ammunition at the Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, then sailed for Eniwetok on 11 January 1945. The ship reached Eniwetok on the 29th and was routed on to Ulithi. Upon her arrival there on 18 February, Amador was assigned to Service Squadron 10.
Amador remained at Ulithi through 15 March for ammunition handling operations. She next set sail on the 16th for Leyte, Philippines, via Kossol Roads. The ship anchored in Leyte-Samar Naval Base's San Pedro Bay on 22 March and began issuing ammunition to ships of the fleet, as well as reworking defective projectiles and fuses. On 23 October, she moved to Guinan Roadstead, Samar, and began receiving ammunition from ammunition lighters for transportation back to the United States. On 12 November, Amador got underway for Seattle, Washington. She arrived in Puget Sound on 8 December and remained in that area until 29 March 1946, when she began preparations for deactivation. She was decommissioned on 20 June 1946, and her name was struck from the Navy list on 19 July 1946. The ship was transferred to the Maritime Commission on 23 July 1946. She was subsequently sold and fitted out for service as a merchant ship.
Notes
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Alamosa-class cargo ships
Ships built in Richmond, California
1944 ships
World War II auxiliary ships of the United States |
74802325 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter%20Davidson | Hunter Davidson | Hunter Davidson (September 20, 1826February 16, 1913) was an American engineer, inventor, and naval officer, first serving the United States and then joining the Confederacy during the American Civil War. He later served as the first commander of the Maryland Oyster Police Force during the height of the Oyster Wars.
Early life and family
Davidson was born in Georgetown in 1826. He was the son of William B. Davidson, an artillery officer in the United States Army, and Elizabeth Chapman Hunter. Davidson was twice married and had seven children. His older brother was Union Army brigadier general John Wynn Davidson. In 1847, he graduated from the United States Naval Academy.
Military service
United States Navy
After graduating from the Naval Academy, Davidson was stationed aboard the USS Portsmouth during the Mexican–American War. During the 1850s, Davidson was stationed on the USS Dale as part of the Africa Squadron and Atlantic Anti-Slavery Operations of the United States to suppress the slave trade. In the 1850s, Davidson was also assigned duty for several years with the Coast Survey, a predecessor of what became the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Davidson was promoted to lieutenant in 1855, and was granted two patents for a lifeboat-lifting device. In 1856, Davidson was one of the officers selected to return the exploration vessel HMS Resolute to Queen Victoria and the Royal Navy.
Davidson was an instructor at the Naval Academy from 1858 to 1861 prior to the outbreak of the American Civil War.
American Civil War (Confederate Navy)
Davidson was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. He was stationed on the CSS Virginia as a gunnery officer during the Battle of Hampton Roads of 1862. In June and July 1862, Davidson was commander of the CSS Teaser, used by the Confederate Naval Submarine Battery Service to plant and service "torpedoes" (Naval mines) in the James River.
Davidson later served as commander of the Submarine Battery Service, also referred to as the "Torpedo Bureau," a branch of the Confederate Secret Service. He was credited for his work in operationalizing the electric detonation of mines.
Later life
After his service for the Confederacy, Davidson was ineligible for further military service in the United States after the Civil War had ended. In 1865 he briefly served as a merchant officer in the United Kingdom.
Maryland Oyster Navy
In 1868 during the early period of the Oyster Wars in Maryland, Davidson was unanimously appointed as the first commander of the Maryland Oyster Police Force, which was nicknamed as the "Oyster Navy." Davidson acquired a 12-pounder Dahlgren howitzer for the force's first steamer, Leila, for use in the gun battles between the police force and the illegal oyster dredgers.
The organization was tasked with enforcing the state's oyster-harvesting laws and served as the predecessor of the modern Maryland Natural Resources Police. In 1870, as part of his role, Davidson delivered a report to the Maryland General Assembly which made recommendations regarding oyster management issues, protecting oyster habitats, and regulating the harvesting of oysters in the state.
In 1871, Davidson thwarted an assassination plot against him by a pirating oysterman named Gus Rice. Davidson served in the role until 1872.
South America
After leaving his post with the Oyster Navy, Davidson relocated to South America where he founded and was the first chief of the Argentine Navy’s Torpedo Division. In the role, he conducted the first detailed hydrographic surveys of Argentine waterways, including the Bahia Blanca Estuary and Iguazu River. In 1874, he designed a 620-ton steamer, Fulminante, for the country's Minister of War (and previous Vice President), Adolfo Alsina. He retired to Paraguay in 1885.
Death and burial
Davidson died on February 16, 1913 in Paraguay, South America at the age of 86.
Works
"Electrical Torpedoes as a System of Defence," in the Southern Historical Society Papers. Volume 2, July 1876
References
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1913 deaths
19th-century American people
20th-century American people
American oceanographers
People from Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)
People of Virginia in the American Civil War
United States Navy officers
United States Navy
Argentine Navy officers
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35406030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caladenia%20picta | Caladenia picta | Caladenia picta, commonly known as painted fingers, is a species of orchid endemic to New South Wales. It has a single, sparsely hairy leaf and a single white or pink flower with a greenish-white back. Unlike many other caladenias, it flowers in autumn.
Description
Caladenia picta is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with an underground tuber and a single, sparsely hairy, linear leaf, long and . A single flower long and wide is borne on a stalk tall. The sepals and petals are white to pink on the front, greenish-white on the back and spread fan-like. The dorsal sepal is erect or slightly curved forward, long and wide. The lateral sepals are long, wide and the petals are long and wide. The labellum is long, wide and usually white with pink margins. The sides of the labellum curve up strongly and the tip curls downwards, and is orange-yellow with narrow teeth on the edge. There are two rows of calli with clubbed heads in the centre of the labellum. Flowering occurs from April to June.
Taxonomy and naming
This caladenia was first described in 1931 by William Nicholls who gave it the name Caladenia alba var. picta and published the description in The Victorian Naturalist. In 1989 Mark Clements raised the variety to species status and published the change in Australian Orchid Research. The specific epithet (picta) is a Latin word meaning "painted".
Distribution and habitat
Painted fingers is found in coastal districts of New South Wales, south from the Newcastle where it grows in eucalyptus woodland or forest.
References
picta
Endemic orchids of Australia
Orchids of New South Wales
Plants described in 1931 |
4726934 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wouter%20Hanegraaff | Wouter Hanegraaff | Wouter Jacobus Hanegraaff (born 10 April 1961) is professor of the History of Hermetic Philosophy and related currents at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. He served as the first president of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE) from 2005 to 2013.
Life
Hanegraaff was raised as the son of a theologian. He originally studied classical guitar at the Municipal Conservatory at Zwolle from 1982 to 1987, and cultural history at the University of Utrecht from 1986 to 1990. From 1992 to 1996 he was a Research Fellow at the department for the Study of Religions at the University of Utrecht. From 1996 to 1999 Hanegraaff held a postdoctoral fellowship from the Dutch Association for Scientific Research (NWO), during which time he spent a period working in Paris. In 1999 he became professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam. From 2002 to 2006 he has been president of the Dutch Society for the Study of Religion, and, from 2005 to 2013, president of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism. In 2006 he was elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he is now an honorary member of the ESSWE.
Partial bibliography
Monographs
-----New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought, Brill, Leiden 1996, State University of New York Press, Albany 1998. ; .
----- and R.M. Bouthoorn Lodovico Lazzarelli (1447–1500): The Hermetic Writings and Related Documents, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe, 2005.
-----Swedenborg, Oetinger, Kant: Three Perspectives on the Secrets of Heaven, The Swedenborg Foundation, West Chester, Pennsylvania 2007 (Swedenborg Studies Series, no. 18) .
-----Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2012, .
-----Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed, Bloomsbury, London 2013.
-----Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination - Altered states of knowledge in late antiquity, Cambridge University Press, 2022. .
Edited volumes
(ed., with Peter J. Forshaw & Marco Pasi), Hermes Explains: Thirty Questions about Western Esotericism. Amsterdam University Press 2019, .
(ed., with Ria Kloppenborg), Female Stereotypes in Religious Traditions. Brill, Leiden 1995, .
(ed., with Roelof van den Broek), Gnosis and Hermeticism from Antiquity to Modern Times. State University of New York Press, Albany 1998.
(ed., with Antoine Faivre), Western Esotericism and the Science of Religion, Peeters, Louvain 1998.
(ed., with Richard Caron, Joscelyn Godwin & Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron), Ésotérisme, gnoses & imaginaire symbolique: Mélanges offerts à Antoine Faivre, Peeters, Louvain 2001.
(ed. in collaboration with Antoine Faivre, Roelof van den Broek, Jean-Pierre Brach, Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism, Brill, Leiden 2005. .
(ed. with Jeffrey J. Kripal), Hidden Intercourse: Eros and Sexuality in the History of Western Esotericism. Brill, Leiden 2008.
(ed. with Joyce Pijnenburg), Hermes in the Academy: Ten Years' Study of Western Esotericism at the University of Amsterdam. Amsterdam University Press, 2009.
See also
Academic study of Western esotericism
New Age
References
Footnotes
Sources
External links
Wouter J. Hanegraaff Personal Website
Personal Homepage at University of Amsterdam
European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism
1961 births
Living people
20th-century Dutch philosophers
21st-century Dutch philosophers
Religion academics
New Age writers
Utrecht University alumni
Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam
Writers from Amsterdam
Western esotericism scholars
Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |
50221478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed%20Bourguieg | Mohamed Bourguieg | Mohamed Abdeldjalil Bourguieg (born August 31, 1996) is an Algerian male artistic gymnast, He participated in two editions of the World Championships (2014 in Nanjing, China, and 2015 in Glasgow, Scotland), and qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics, securing one of the spots available at the Olympic Test Event in Rio de Janeiro.
References
External links
1996 births
Living people
Algerian male artistic gymnasts
People from Boufarik
Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic gymnasts for Algeria
African Games gold medalists for Algeria
African Games medalists in gymnastics
African Games silver medalists for Algeria
Competitors at the 2015 African Games
Competitors at the 2019 African Games
Islamic Solidarity Games competitors for Algeria
21st-century Algerian people
Gymnasts at the 2022 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games competitors for Algeria |
6877531 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigations%20in%20Numbers%2C%20Data%2C%20and%20Space | Investigations in Numbers, Data, and Space | Investigations in Numbers, Data, and Space is a K–5 mathematics curriculum, developed at TERC in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The curriculum is often referred to as Investigations or simply TERC. Patterned after the NCTM standards for mathematics, it is among the most widely used of the new reform mathematics curricula. As opposed to referring to textbooks and having teachers impose methods for solving arithmetic problems, the TERC program uses a constructivist approach that encourages students to develop their own understanding of mathematics. The curriculum underwent a major revision in 2005–2007.
History
Investigations was developed between 1990 and 1998. It was just one of a number of reform mathematics curricula initially funded by a National Science Foundation grant. The goals of the project raised opposition to the curriculum from critics (both parents and mathematics teachers) who objected to the emphasis on conceptual learning instead of instruction in more recognized specific methods for basic arithmetic..
The goal of the Investigations curriculum is to help all children understand the fundamental ideas of number and arithmetic, geometry, data, measurement and early algebra. Unlike traditional methods, the original edition did not provide student textbooks to describe standard methods or provide solved examples. Instead, students were guided to develop their own invented algorithms through working with concrete representations of number such as manipulatives and drawings as well as more traditional number sentences. Additional activities include journaling, cutting and pasting, interviewing (for data collection) and playing conceptual games.
Investigations released its second edition for 2006 that continues its focus on the core value of teaching for understanding. The revised version has further emphasis on basic skills and computation to complement the development of place value concepts and number sense. It is also easier for teachers to use since the format is more user friendly, though some districts have failed to carefully implement the second edition as well, and moved back to textbooks that teach traditional arithmetic methods.
Research
A systematic review of research into Investigations was conducted by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences and published as part of the What Works Clearinghouse in February 2013. This found "potentially positive effects" on mathematics achievement, supported by a "medium to large" evidence base.
A variety of measures of student achievement and learning including state-mandated standardized tests, research-based interview protocols, items from research studies published in peer-reviewed journals and specially constructed paper-and-pencil tests have been used to evaluate the effectiveness of Investigations
Research featured at the TERC website states that students who use Investigations, among other things, 'do as well or better than students using other curricula.' To support the assertion that children do better when they are not taught traditional arithmetic, Anne Goodrow, in her PhD thesis at Tufts University, compared subtraction strategies of students taught traditional methods with those who used constructivist methods with Investigations curriculum. Although negative numbers are not taught in the 2nd grade, "constructivist" student subtracting 9 from 28 explains that "8 minus 9 equals negative 1" and then argues that "-1 plus 20 is the same as 20-1 and equals 19." On the basis of this, and of the average score of this group of 10 students, the author concluded that "although they did not receive instruction in the use of the standard algorithms, the children in the Constructivist group were the most successful at both two-digit addition and subtraction." Many research reports demonstrating the success of the program are criticized by opponents of this curriculum as having poor methodology or for being conducted by the publisher. NSF-sponsored curricula are required to conduct and report such studies, something that is not required of traditional mathematics textbooks. See also a recent study conducted with the revised edition, for more evidence of efficacy.
Some school districts report their own data about success with the program.
Criticism
Investigations initially was commercially successful. But parents and math educators have criticized its lack of traditional arithmetic content, of decimal math, of multiplication tables, of division and multiplication of fractions, or even of addition and subtraction of ordinary fractions apart from a small subset, its emphasis on "kindergarten activities" (cutting, folding, taping, etc.) in class and homework, its lack of a traditional textbook; its incompatibility with high-school and international mathematics methods; its non-traditional homework assignments; its high cost (a concern mainly of home-schooling parents); and other factors.
A common complaint is that the curriculum does not teach any of traditional arithmetic methods familiar to those taught in other nations and to parents with as little as an elementary-school education. The critics assert that "the TERC computational methods are cumbersome, inefficient, and only work for carefully selected simple problems" and that "conscious thought is regularly required for both TERC method selection and TERC method execution" even at the simplest levels, thus precluding automaticity and the ability to focus conscious thought on higher-level cognitive tasks later on. TERC defenders' response is that the traditional arithmetic methods familiar to Americans are not necessarily those used in other nations. Research has shown that students are capable of developing algorithms that are as correct, efficient, and generalizable as the "standard" algorithms.
A common parent complaint is that there is no recognizable arithmetic and that homework is frequent and very time-consuming, with some tasks requiring help from family members and cutting, pasting, and coloring, whereas a traditional worksheet may take little time. Other critics claim that there is not enough homework, and children should simply be given a procedure and told to practice it on a large number of exercises.
Non-traditional materials and content
Student materials included in the 2002 Grade 5 package for TERC Investigations: 4 rolls of adding machine tape; 36 blank 5/8" cubes; 1,000 stickers for blank cubes; 200 1-cm cubes; 16 transparent blank spinners; 4 450-piece sets of power polygons; 4 buckets of square color tiles (400 per bucket); 1,000 Snap(TM) cubes; 1 set of elementary bar mass set-Ohaus; 4 graduated measuring prisms (2-cm x 5-cm x 21-cm); 4-liter measuring pitcher (calibrated 100 ml - 1,000 ml); 4 spectrum school balance (includes 7-piece mass set); 4 sets standard measuring pitchers (3 pitchers: quart, pint, cup per set); 10 measuring tapes; 12 meter/yard sticks.
The total package for Grade 5 is listed at $1,388.42, and within that total the cost of the just mentioned student materials, for a class of 32, is $817.00 Many mathematics classrooms where active learning occurs already own many of these materials, so it is not necessary to purchase all of these items from the publisher.
In the original edition, there was no multiplication table presented. Instead, students were instructed to color-code multiples of numbers on a 100s chart and evaluate these charts to find common multiples and patterns.
There is no formal presentation of decimal addition. Students are instructed to begin by using colored pencils on 10,000 grid chart. The addition of decimals is related to students' work with whole number addition, with attention paid to place values so that students understand the reasoning behind lining up decimal points.
Students are not instructed to compute an average by "adding up the items, and dividing by the number of items" because it is judged to be too complex for students of some groups to justify. Instead, the teacher is given a chapter on different ways to compute the median. Students using this curriculum could easily perform the calculation. It is important, however, to develop the underlying reasoning along with the procedure, which is done further into the data module rather than at the beginning.
Students who demonstrate knowledge of a standard method of calculation are encouraged to demonstrate at least one other method of calculation, in order to demonstrate a complete understanding of the operation and numbers involved. Students who are later taught 'standard' methods can be ready to compare and contrast methods, and be able to flexibly move among their options.
Students are asked to compute the volume of a rectangular solid. They are do not immediately use and are not told the standard formula of length multiplied by width and height. This formula, which is the formula given on standardized tests such as the SAT, is developed as a connection to previous work with multiplication, area, and the associative property.
Parody
The textbook series has been parodied by the on-line cartoon series "Weapons of Math Destruction", including one panel of a student declaring that he can't finish his homework because they have run out of glue, or writing three different ways to determine if 2 is even or odd, and explaining the answer.
Adoptions
An incomplete listing of school districts that have adopted TERC materials
Bellevue School District adopted it for 10 years, dropped in favor of Math Expressions as "outdated and inefficient" for 2008.
Stillwater School District
Ridgewood Public Schools
Seattle School District. Dropped in favor of Everyday Mathematics in 2007–08.
Reading City Schools (Cincinnati, OH)
Frederick County Public Schools (Maryland), dropped in 2011
State College Area School District (State College, PA)
Prince William County, VA Public Schools In 2009, a coalition of parents in Prince William County, VA sponsored a study of those districts cited in 2007 by Pearson publishing as having successfully adopted TERC Investigations. They found that many of these districts either had dropped the curriculum or were supplementing it with other materials. They consolidated and published their findings in 2009.
This list is indeed incomplete; there are hundreds of districts using this curriculum.
Notes
External links
Pearson / Scott Forseman website for curriculum
National Science Foundation
A collection of links to reviews of and commentaries of TERC: Investigations in Number, Data, and Space, Bas Braams, Elizabeth Carson, and NYC HOLD
Critical "Mathematically Correct second grade review"
"Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth", M.J. McDermott, Q13 FOX KCPQ-TV
"Beyond TERC National" message board for concerned citizens
STOP Taking Excessive Risks with our Children
Education reform
Mathematics education
Mathematics education reform |
49537445 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinantheae | Clinantheae | Clinantheae is a tribe (in the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae), where it forms part of the Andean clade, one of two American clades. The tribe was described in 2000 by Alan Meerow et al. as a result of a molecular phylogenetic study of the American Amaryllidoideae. This demonstrated that the tribe Stenomesseae, including the type genus Stenomesson was polyphyletic. Part of the tribe segregated with the Eucharideae and were submerged into it, while the other part formed a unique subclade. Since the type species of Stenomesson was not part of the second subclade, it was necessary to form a new name for the remaining species together with the other genera that remained. This was Clinanthus, the oldest name for these species, and consequently the tribe Clinantheae.
Taxonomy
Phylogeny
The placement of Clinantheae within subfamily Amaryllidoideae is shown in the following cladogram, where this tribe is shown as a sister group to the Hymenocallideae.
Subdivision
Four [three] genera (species):
Clinanthus (20) Type
Pamianthe (2)
Paramongaia (1)
[Pucara (1)]
Pucara as Pucara leucantha was later shown to be indistinguishable from Stenomesson, and was transferred as Stenomesson leucanthum
References
Bibliography
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, in . (additional excerpts)
External links
Amaryllidoideae
Asparagales tribes |
34169314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%20Lor | Noah Lor | Noah Lor is an American politician in Merced, California, United States. He is the first Hmong American to be elected as mayor pro-tempore in the City of Merced history.
Lor was elected to the Merced City Council in 2007 and re-elected again second term in 2011. He was elected to be Mayor Pro-Tempore in December 5, 2011. The City of Merced does not have a directly elected mayor pro-tempore. The mayor pro-tempore is, traditionally, appointed by the council, and, in many cases, the council member in the most recent election who gets the highest number of votes is appointed by the city council to serve for two years as mayor pro-tempore.
References
External links
"Lor fighting for quality of life, jobs", Merced County Times, October 6, 2011
"Council hopefuls poised for 2011 vote", Merced County Times, April 28, 2011
American politicians of Hmong descent
Mayors of places in California
Asian-American people in California politics
American mayors of Asian descent
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
24512682 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Jaray | Paul Jaray | Paul Jaray (Hungarian: Járay Pál; 11 March 1889 – 22 September 1974) was an Austrian engineer, designer, and a pioneer of automotive streamlining.
Life
Paul Jaray came from one of the oldest Prague-born Jewish families of scholars and artists called the Jeitteles, later his family moving to the Hungarian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Jaray, of Hungarian-Jewish descent, was born in Vienna. Jaray studied at Maschinenbauschule in Vienna and worked at the Prague Technical University as an assistant to Professor Rudolf Dörfl.
Later he became the chief design engineer for the aircraft building firm Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen, designing seaplanes. From 1914 Jaray worked at Luftschiffbau Zeppelin, located in the same town, concentrating on streamlining airships. Jaray designed the airship LZ 120 Bodensee on which airships such as the LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin, the LZ 129 Hindenburg and the LZ-130 were later based. Further experiments in LZ's wind tunnel led to his establishment of streamlining principles for car designs. In 1923 he moved permanently to Switzerland, opening an office in Brunnen.
In 1923 Jaray founded the Stromlinien Karosserie Gesellschaft, which presented numerous designs for streamlined car body work. It issued licences to major vehicle manufacturers including Tatra Works in Kopřivnice, Czechoslovakia. Tatra was the only manufacturer that used Jaray's streamlining principles for their car production. Jaray designed his own cars starting with the 1923 Ley and followed on with designs for Chrysler, Mercedes-Benz, Maybach, Apollo, Dixi, Audi, Adler, Jawa, Ford, Steyr and others.
His own 1934 car was built on a Audi 2-litre Front chassis with a body by Huber and Brühwiler of Lucerne. Jaray also designed the body for the streamlined Auto Union Typ B Lucca Rennlimousine in 1934. Jaray was also interested in radio and television technology. In 1941 he worked for Farner AG in Grenchen on nosewheel undercarriage design. In 1944 he set up as an independent engineer working on wind-driven power station.
He was the author of a large number of technical patents relating to streamlining, air compressors for railway, and devices for handling gases in silencers. Later he lectured at the Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Zürich.
Jaray died in 1974 in St. Gallen.
See also
Tatra
Automobile drag coefficient
Notes
External links
BMW Car Designers Paul Jaray in the overview of the BMW automotive designers.
References
de Syon, Guillaume: 'The Teardrop that Fell From the Sky: Paul Jaray and Automotive Aerodynamics', ITEA Journal 2008, 29, pp. 14–16
1889 births
1974 deaths
Airship designers
Austrian automobile designers
Austrian automotive engineers
Austrian automotive pioneers
Austrian Jews
Engineers from Vienna |
4540241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss%20Connecticut%20Teen%20USA | Miss Connecticut Teen USA | The Miss Connecticut Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Connecticut in the Miss Teen USA pageant.
The state pageant directors are:
Crown Productions from 2003 to 2008
Sanders & Associates, Inc., dba- Pageant Associates based in Buckhannon, West Virginia from 2009 to 2017
Five Crown Pageant Productions based in Washington, D.C. from 2018 to 2019
Ewald Productions from 2020
Connecticut has been one of the least successful states at Miss Teen USA. In 2002, Ashley Bickford's placement followed the 4th runner-up placement of Miss Connecticut USA Alita Dawson, who had previously been Miss Connecticut Teen-USA 1997. This was Connecticut's highest joint placement, and the highest joint placement of any state that year. Dawson was one of four Miss Connecticut Teen-USA titleholder to later win the Miss Connecticut-USA title.
The state has produced two Miss Teen USA winners: Logan West who was crowned Miss Teen USA 2012, and Kaliegh Garris who was crowned Miss Teen USA 2019.
Mya Xeller of New Haven was crowned Miss Connecticut Teen USA 2022 on April 10, 2022, at Marriott Airport Hotel in Windsor. She will represent Connecticut for the title of Miss Teen USA 2022.
Results summary
Placements
Miss Teen USAs: Logan West (2012), Kaliegh Garris (2019)
Top 10: Ashley Bickford (2002)
Top 12: Cynthia Schneck (1993)
Top 16: Samantha Sarelli (2020)
Connecticut holds a record of 5 placements at Miss Teen USA.
Awards
Miss Congeniality: Allison Barbeau-Diorio (1987)
Winners
Color key
1 Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant
References
External links
Official website
Connecticut
Women in Connecticut |
28371195 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delahaye%20135 | Delahaye 135 | The Delahaye 135 is a luxury car manufactured by French automaker Delahaye. Designed by engineer Jean François, it was produced from 1935 until 1954 in many different body styles. A sporting tourer, it was also popular for racing.
History
The Delahaye 135, also known as "Coupe des Alpes" after its success in the Alpine Rally, was first presented in 1935 and signified Delahaye's decision to build sportier cars than before. The 3.2-litre overhead valve straight-six with four-bearing crankshaft was derived from one of Delahaye's truck engines and was also used in the more sedate, longer wheelbase () Delahaye 138. Power was in twin carburetor form, but were available in a version with three downdraught Solex carbs, offering a top speed. The 138 had a single carburetor and , and was available in a sportier iteration.
The 135 featured independent, leaf-sprung front suspension, a live rear axle, and cable operated Bendix brakes. 17-inch spoked wheels were also standard. Transmission was either a partially synchronized four-speed manual or four-speed Cotal pre-selector transmission.
Competition 135s set the all-time record at the Ulster Tourist Trophy and placed second and third in the Mille Miglia in 1936, and the 1938 24 Hours of Le Mans.
The list of independent body suppliers offering to clothe the 135 chassis is the list of France's top coachbuilders of the time, including Figoni & Falaschi, Letourneur et Marchand, Alphonse Guilloré, Marcel Pourtout, Frères Dubois, Jacques Saoutchik, Marius Franay, Henri Chapron, Faget-Varnay, Antem, and others.
Production of the 3.2-litre version ended with the German occupation in 1940 and was not taken up again after the end of hostilities.
135M
A larger-displacement (3,557 cc) 135M was introduced in 1936. Largely the same as the regular 135, the new engine offered 90, 105, or 115 hp, with either one, two, or three carburetors. As with the 135/138, a less sporty, longer wheelbase version was also built, called the "148". The 148 had a 3,150 mm wheelbase, or 3,350 mm in a seven-seater version. On the two shorter wheelbases, a 134N was also available, with a 2,150 cc four-cylinder version of the 3.2-litre six from the 135. Along with a brief return of the 134, production of 148, 135M, and 135MS models was resumed after the end of the war. The 135 and 148 were then joined by the one litre larger engined Delahaye 175 / 175S; 178; and 180, being an entirely new series that was under development before the war. When the large displacement chassis-series was discontinued in 1951, the 135M was updated to be introduced as the Type 235, as a last ditch effort to save Delahaye. It was a fine product, and was offered until the demise of Delahaye in 1954. Only 84 examples were built.
168
Presented in December 1938 and built until the outbreak of war in 1940, the Type 168 used the 148L's chassis and engine (engine code 148N) in Renault Viva Grand Sport bodywork. Wheelbase remained 315 cm while the use of artillery wheels rather than spoked items meant minor differences in track. This curious hybrid was the result of an effort by Renault to steal in on Delahaye's lucrative near monopoly on fire vehicles: after a complaint by Delahaye, Renault relinquished contracts it had gained, but in return Delahaye had to agree to purchase a number of Viva Grand Sport bodyshells. In an effort to limit the market of this cuckoo's egg, thus limiting the number of bodyshells it had to purchase from Renault, Delahaye chose to equip it with the unpopular Wilson preselector (even though the marketing material referred to the Cotal version). This succeeded very well, and with the war putting a stop to car production, no more than thirty were supposedly built. Strong, wide, and fast, like their Viva Grand Sport half sisters, the 168s proved popular with the army. Many were equipped to run on gazogène during the war and very few (if any) remain.
135MS
An even sportier version, the 135MS, soon followed; 120–145 hp were available, with competition versions offering over 160 hp. The 135MS was the version most commonly seen in competition, and continued to be available until 1954, when new owners Hotchkiss finally called a halt. The MS had the 2.95 m wheelbase, but competition models sat on a shortened 2.70 m chassis.
The Type 235, a rebodied 135MS with ponton-style design by Philippe Charbonneaux, appeared in 1951.
Competition
The 135 was successful as a racing car during the late 1930s, winning the Monte Carlo Rally in 1937 and 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1938. The Le Mans victory, with Chaboud and Trémoulet at the wheel, was decisive, with two more Delahayes coming in second and fourth. A regular 135 came seventh at the 1935 Le Mans, and in 1937 135MS came in second and third. Appearing again in 1939, two 135MS made it to sixth and eighth place, and again after the war the now venerable 135MS finished in 5th, 9th, and 10th. 135s finished 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 11th and 12th in the 1936 French Sports Car Grand Prix at Montlhéry.
John Crouch won the 1949 Australian Grand Prix driving a 135MS.
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
1940s cars
1950s cars
Delahaye vehicles
Le Mans winning cars
Rally cars
Rear-wheel-drive vehicles
Cars introduced in 1935 |
40311429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Smart%20%28Tasmanian%20politician%29 | Thomas Smart (Tasmanian politician) | Thomas Christie Smart (1816 – 26 March 1896) was a doctor and politician in colonial Tasmania, member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council.
Smart was born in Scotland and became a licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1842. Later in 1842 he emigrated to Australia and was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council for Hobart on 8 March 1881, resigning on 8 February 1886.
Smart became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1875.
Smart was also Chairman of the Hobart Hospital Board and chairman of directors of the Eldon Ranges Gold Prospecting Co.
References
Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council
1816 births
1896 deaths
Scottish emigrants to Australia
19th-century Scottish medical doctors
19th-century Australian medical doctors
19th-century Australian politicians |
70520943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Herrera%20%28Bolivian%20footballer%29 | José Herrera (Bolivian footballer) | José Herrera (born 9 March 2003), is a Bolivian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Club Bolívar.
References
External links
2003 births
Living people
Bolivian men's footballers
Bolivia men's international footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Club Bolívar players
Bolivian Primera División players |
5151471 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20Coffee | Double Coffee | Double Coffee is a coffee house company based in Latvia. As of early 2014, the company had a total of 15 locations in Riga, Latvia in addition to seven locations in Russia, and one in each Kyiv, Ukraine, Cairo, Egypt and Baku, Azerbaijan. Double Coffee was founded in 2002, and during its history has also had branches in Estonia, Lithuania, Belarus and China.
History
The first Double Coffee cafe opened on 26 September 2002, in the city of Riga, on Stabu Street. The year it was founded it won the best trader in Riga 2002, and also the best Latvian trader 2002.
Five new Double Coffee houses opened in 2003 and at the end of 2005 there were 16 in Latvia with branches subsequently opening in Estonia, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine. The chain opened its first non-European branch in June 2009 in Beijing, China In 2009, the Estonian section of the chain went bankrupt, followed in 2011 by bankruptcy in Lithuania and a withdrawal from both those countries' markets.
See also
List of coffeehouse chains
References
External links
Double Coffee Latvia - Official Facebook fan page
Coffeehouses and cafés
Companies based in Riga
Restaurants established in 2002
2002 establishments in Latvia
Latvian brands |
56192105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homecoming%20%E2%80%93%20Live%20from%20Ireland | Homecoming – Live from Ireland | Homecoming – Live from Ireland is the first full-length live album and tenth home video release by the group Celtic Woman, released worldwide on 26 January 2018 by Manhattan Records.
Background
On 20 April 2017, Celtic Woman announced a special performance of their Voices of Angels world tour at the 3Arena in Dublin, Ireland on 2 September of the same year. In July, it was confirmed that the show would be recorded as the next DVD release and concert special for American broadcaster PBS from the group.
The lead performers in the concert are vocalists Mairéad Carlin, Susan McFadden, Éabha McMahon, and instrumentalist Tara McNeill. This is the group's first concert special and home video release to feature McNeill as a lead performer, although she appeared on the group's previous home video release, Destiny, as the harpist of the accompanying live band. For this concert, McNeill performed on both the violin and harp, making it the first time that a lead instrumentalist of the group has performed more than one instrument on one of the group's home video releases.
The concert features members of the Orchestra of Ireland and the Celtic Voices Choir, both of whom appeared on the Voices of Angels album, led by music director Gavin Murphy, who produced, arranged and orchestrated the songs performed. The concert also features guest singer Anabel Sweeney from County Wicklow, Ireland, who won a competition run by the group to perform at the concert.
The concert special and DVD release, entitled Homecoming - Live From Ireland, aired on PBS stations in the United States starting in November 2017, and on television in Ireland on 1 January 2018. The special consists of a subset of songs available on the accompanying live album and DVD release, both of which were made available through PBS pledge drives prior to their official public release worldwide on 26 January 2018. The album consists entirely of live tracks, and while the first made available worldwide, is the second released by the group to do so overall (the United States-exclusive O Christmas Tree also consisted entirely of live tracks, which were taken from the DVD and Blu-ray release of Home for Christmas).
Track listing
Notes
Track 10 orchestrated by Paul Campbell.
Personnel
Per the liner notes.
Celtic Woman
Mairéad Carlin – vocals
Susan McFadden – vocals
Éabha McMahon – vocals
Tara McNeill – fiddle, harp
Celtic Woman Band
Ray Fean – percussion
Caítriona Frost – percussion
Tommy Buckley – guitar
Anthony Byrne – bagpipes
Darragh Murphy – uilleann pipes
The Orchestra of Ireland
Joe Csibi – orchestra contractor
Celtic Voices Choir
Paul McGough – choir co-ordinator
Special guest
Anabel Sweeney – vocals
Production
Gavin Murphy – musical direction
Méav Ní Mhaolchatha – vocal direction
Tim Martin – recording and mixing
Andy Walter – mastering
Caroline Nesbitt, Designedly – design, art direction
Charts
References
Celtic Woman albums
2018 live albums
2018 video albums
Manhattan Records albums |
29235434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Bayda%20District | Al Bayda District | Al Bayda District () is a district of the Al Bayda Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 40,289 inhabitants.
References
Districts of Al Bayda Governorate
Al Bayda District |
40733681 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%20de%20Rosas | Luis de Rosas | Luis de Rosas (died January 25, 1642) was a soldier who served as the ninth Spanish Governor of New Mexico from 1637 until 1641, when he was then imprisoned and assassinated. During his administration, de Rosas clashed with the Franciscans, mainly because of his handling of the indigenous Americans, whom he forced to work for him or sold them as slaves. The Franciscans promoted a revolt of the citizens of New Mexico against him. De Rosas was imprisoned after an investigation relating to his position as governor. He was killed by soldiers while in prison.
Early years
In his youth, De Rosas joined the Spanish Army, where he excelled and reached higher ranks. He served the Spanish Army in Flanders for fifteen years.
Government in New Mexico
Politics in New Mexico
The Viceroy, Díez de Armendáriz, appointed de Rosas as governor of New Mexico in 1636. Initially, De Rosas opposed the appointment due to the unpopularity of the New Mexico government and the impact of the appointment on his reputation. This was because mutinies against governors were frequent in New Mexico, as well as by the "seizure" of the governments of the province. However, his role had been decided in advance and he was forced to accept it. De Rosas arrived to New Spain with the virrey in this year and, probably, moved from Mexico City to Santa Fe, New Mexico in the caravan of the supply mission.
A De Rosas troop established a fortification around Santo Domingo to protect Santa Fe from the external attacks. De Rosas headed an expedition to Ipotlapiguas village in 1638. The expedition had been planned by a priest named Salas and composed of a group of five Franciscans and forty soldiers.
The expedition traveled to northern Sonora, southwest of the Zuni lands, and aimed to convert the indigenous population to Christianity.
De Rosas led slave raids against several Native American peoples, particularly Apaches and Utes. In the Plains, he attacked the Apaches during an expedition to Quivira and later, in the north of Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico, attacked the Utes. In both cases he captured slaves to sell or use in his workshops. In addition, De Rosas sacked ranches of Gira in Zuni lands. He also promoted trade with Native tribes in the Plains (although this trade was considered illegal) and he let that the Native Americans of the village of Pecos practice their religion on the condition they paid double the price of the encomienda's tribute that the Spaniard authorities demanded of them, contributing to his personal enrichment.
De Rosas employed Native American labor to manufacture products to sell, both prisoners captured from enemy tribes and the inhabitants of several Amerindian villages. The first ones worked in his weaving workshop in Santa Fe, while the second ones were employed in their own villages. He also forced Native Americans to work on plantations. In addition, he traded with the Apache.
Confrontations with the Franciscans
After De Rosas took office in New Mexico, many Spanish residents rebelled against him because of the confrontation between De Rosas and the Franciscans. The Franciscans were the main religious group in the Spanish colonies of Americas, aiming to evangelize the natives; they and de Rosas issued complaints and accusations against each other, causing political instability in the colony. Revolts and riots spread across New Mexico.
De Rosas accused the friars of not granting the sacraments and confessions to parishioners, even if they asked for it, and to excommunicate some of them.
The Franciscans accused De Rosas of having accepted the capture of Apaches, some of whom were enslaved and traded in other places of New Spain, while others were taken to his own workshop, in the capital of New Mexico, to work for him. According to the Franciscans, De Rosas introduced both Christians and non-Christian Native Americans to a situation of near–slavery, forcing them to work long hours. He gave the Native Americans permission to exercise some of the rites of their particular religions if they allowed him to sell some of his property. In addition, De Rosas was upset when he learned that the Indigenous did not have the required hides for exchange them for his knives in the Pecos Pueblo lands. He accused the Franciscans for this fact, and jailed one. The Franciscans complained about the fact that De Rosas had been bribed by his predecessor, Francisco Martínez de Baeza. However, De Rosas dismissed this, arguing that the Franciscans' objections to him began when he ordered the closure of an illegal sweatshop in a mission. The workshop exploited child Amerindian labor, but the Franciscans had since tried to provoke revolts against De Rosas in the province.
So, after the imprisonment of a delinquent by De Rosas, two Franciscans promoted the prisoner's release sending a crowd to the Palace of the Governors gates to demand his release. Many citizens of the province participated in that revolt, among them 73 of the 120 soldiers New Mexico employed. The Franciscans "withheld the Sacrament" from De Rosas and "threatened his life". In the spring of 1638, Father Perea, who investigated the allegations about De Rosas, decided to leave the Inquisition. In January 1640, De Rosas forced all the ecclesiastics of Santa Fe to left the city, and when two of them, particularly two priests, returned the city three months later, De Rosas hit them with a stick, causing them significant injuries.
Revolt and imprisonment of De Rosas
With the goal of promoting a revolt against De Rosas and expelling him from the government of New Mexico, the Franciscans issued a letter through the province. It claimed De Rosas was a follower of the Lutheran and Calvinist doctrines, that he exercised an "idolatry with a goal" and that the Santa Fe residents rejected Jesus Christ, whose image they whipped. A revolt broke out against de Rosas.
De Rosas finished his term in spring 1641. The viceroy of New Spain, Diego López Pacheco, ordered an investigation of the De Rosas administration and the new governor, General Juan Flores Sierra y Valdes, led the investigation. De Rosas was excommunicated and imprisoned. That caused the Pueblo Native Americans, who placed much importance on religion, to begin to underestimate the power the Spanish government and Church. They deemed some priests liars, refused to obey the excommunicated governors and rejected the disunity between churchmen and governors.
A few months later, on January 25, 1642, when De Rosas was in his cell, he was killed by the soldier Nicolás Ortiz, a native of Zacatecas (modern Mexico), who stabbed him. The soldier alleged, in the trial held against him, that De Rosas was adulterous with his wife, Maria de Bustillas. Several months later, however, eight other soldiers were found guilty of killing de Rosas and were beheaded.
References
External links
The trial de Juan Ortiz, accused of murder of Luis de Rosas.
Dossier concerning the abuses of Luis de Rosas, governor of New Mexico (1637-1641), his murder in 1641, and the extrajudicial execution of the alleged conspirators in the murder by Alonso Pacheco de Heredia, governor of New Mexico (1642-1644)
Biography of Don Luis de Rosas
17th-century Spanish people
Colonial governors of Santa Fe de Nuevo México
Neomexicano slave owners |
18573746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make%20the%20Music%20with%20Your%20Mouth%2C%20Biz | Make the Music with Your Mouth, Biz | Make the Music with Your Mouth, Biz is an EP by Biz Markie. It was released in 1986 on Prism Records on 12" and cassette and was produced by Marley Marl. An expanded edition was released on CD and 2xLP in 2006 on Cold Chillin' Records/Traffic Entertainment Group.
Track listing
"Make the Music with Your Mouth, Biz"- 5:15
"The Biz Dance"- 3:40
"They're Coming to Take Me Away (Ha Haa)"- 3:26
"A One Two"- 2:20
"The Biz Dance" (dub)- 3:41
"Make the Music with Your Mouth, Biz" (instrumental)- 4:48
"Biz Beat"- 4:21 *
"Beat Box (Live)"- 2:38 *
"Oh Girl (Live)"- 1:49 *
"Music with Your Mouth, Biz (Live)"- 4:41*
"Nobody Beats the Biz (Live)"- 4:17 *
"Protection (Live)"- 5:38 *
"XXX-Mas Freestyle (Live)"- 1:28 *
"The Biz Dance (Live)"- 1:55 *
*Bonus Tracks on 2006 reissue.
Biz Markie albums
Albums produced by Marley Marl
2006 compilation albums |
595135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova%20Gradi%C5%A1ka | Nova Gradiška | Nova Gradiška is a town located in the Brod-Posavina County of Croatia, population 14,229 (2011). It is located in the historic region of Slavonia, near the border to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The first word in the name means New, and there's also an Old Gradiška nearby, the village of Stara Gradiška and the Bosnian town of Gradiška.
History
Nova Gradiška is often referred to as The Youngest Town.
The town of Nova Gradiška was founded in 1748 as an outpost in the Military Frontier and was first named Friedrichsdorf in German. Already in 1750 it was renamed Neu-Gradischka which later became Nova Gradiška in Croatian. The Hungarian name is Újgradiska.
Before 1881, Nova Gradiška (named NEU-GRADISKA before 1850) was part of the Austrian monarchy (Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia after the compromise of 1867), in the Slavonian Military Frontier, Gradiskaner Regiment N°VIII.
The first building constructed was the church of Saint Tereza, which is an important monument of baroque architecture in Slavonia. The old core of the town comprises the church of Saint Terezija and the old court house and prison from the 18th century.
Between 1881 and 1918, Nova Gradiška was a district capital in the Požega County of the Kingdom.
Communications
The town is located on the M104 railway line, frequently served by passenger trains at the local Nova Gradiška railway station. The A3 motorway also passes nearby. The highway and railway are part of the Pan European corridor X. Bus traffic within the town as well as suburban traffic is very well developed. There is also a connection to Požega via the D51 road and the nearby border crossing to Bosnia and Herzegovina, located in Stara Gradiška.
Settlements
The administrative area of Nova Gradiška includes the following settlements:
Kovačevac, population 669
Ljupina, population 987
Nova Gradiška, population 11,821
Prvča, population 752
Politics
Minority councils
Directly elected minority councils and representatives are tasked with consulting tasks for the local or regional authorities in which they are advocating for minority rights and interests, integration into public life and participation in the management of local affairs. At the 2023 Croatian national minorities councils and representatives elections Serbs of Croatia fulfilled legal requirements to elect 15 members minority councils of the Town of Nova Gradiška.
Tourism
Here are several hotels and other tourist resorts present. The Tourist board is also present and well developed in Nova Gradiška. There are a number of townfaires. Some of the most important ones are:
Carnival festivities "Pokladne svečanosti"
Flower show "Izložba cvijeća"
The Folklore Show ("međužupanijska smotra folklora")
The display of traditional wind instruments ("smotra tradicijskih puhačkih instrumenata")
Nova Gradiška Music Summer ("Novogradiško glazbeno Ljeto")
Oldtimer car meeting ("susreti oldtimera")
Fishfaire ("fišijada")
Mushroom festival ("izložba gljiva")
Motorcycle riders meeting "Strmac" ("Motoristički susreti Strmac")
Religion
Maria Theresa granted the rights for construction of the Roman Catholic Chapel of Teresa of Ávila in Nova Gradiška in 1756. The church was damaged by the forces of the Republic of Serbian Krajina during the Croatian War of Independence. In the 19th century the new Church of Virgin Mary on the town square was initiated. Aulic Council prevented the authorities of the Slavonian Military Frontier from destroying the church with intention to build a school at its place.
Historically, there were also two Serbian Orthodox Churches in Nova Gradiška, one of them destroyed during the World War II and one during the Croatian War of Independence. Those were the Church of Saint Nicholas and the Church of the Holy Trinity. The Church of the Holy Trinity was the central orthodox church located at the town square. It was erected in 1824 at the spot of an earlier wooden church from 1755. The church was destructed by the Ustasha regime in 1941. The new neo-Byzantine Church of the Holy Trinity was complete in 1982 but it was detonated 9 times and destroyed during the Croatian War of Independence. The second church of Saint Nicholas was constructed in 1818 on the local cemetery, it was reconstructed in 1866 but it was also destroyed during the Croatian War of Independence.
Local electronic media
Croatian Radio Nova Gradiška () is the local radio station.
Commerce
Today some furniture industry and beer industry exists in small parts. There is an initiative to extend the industry park.
Before the Croatian War of Independence, there was metallurgy industry in the town, which went bankrupt.
People
Đura Horvatović – Serbian Officer
Slavko Brill – sculptor and ceramics artist
Goran Vlaović – footballer
Milan Rapaić – footballer
Marko Malenica – footballer
Kim Verson – singer
Mia Pojatina – model and Miss Universe Croatia 2018
Imakulata Malinka – organist, nun, music pedagogue
Svyetlana Canak – Scientist
Adolf Dado Topic - singer
References
External links
Official site
Town map
Cities and towns in Croatia
Slavonia
Populated places in Brod-Posavina County
Požega County
18th-century establishments in Croatia
1748 establishments in the Habsburg monarchy |
12255363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission%20on%20Accreditation%20of%20Medical%20Transport%20Systems | Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems | The Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems (CAMTS) (pronounced cames), is an independent, non-profit agency based in Sandy Springs, South Carolina, which audits and accredits fixed-wing, rotary wing, and surface medical transport services worldwide to a set of industry-established criteria. CAMTS has accredited 182 medical transport programs worldwide as of February, 2017.
Background
CAMTS first enacted its Accreditation Standards in 1991, which were developed by its member organizations as well as with extensive public comment and input. The Standards are the core element to the CAMTS program, which declares that the highest priorities for medical transport services companies are "patient care and safety of the transport environment".
CAMTS accreditation, once granted, lasts for three years, at which time it can be renewed by being reaudited. Preparation for initial accreditation generally takes from four to six months, as the process examines all aspects of operations, from management to medical protocols to flight operations.
CAMTS' member organizations
CAMTS is an "organization of organizations" composed of 22 member organizations, each of which has representation on the Commission's board of directors. The member organizations are:
Aerospace Medical Association
Air Medical Operators Association
Air Medical Physicians Association
Air and Surface Transport Nurses Association
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Association of Critical Care Nurses
American Association of Respiratory Care
American College of Emergency Physicians
American College of Surgeons
Association of Air Medical Services
Association of Critical Care Transport
Emergency Nurses Association
European HEMS and Air Ambulance Committee
International Association of Flight & Critical Care Paramedics
International Association of Medical Transport Communications Specialists
National Air Transportation Association
National Association of EMS Physicians
National Association of Neonatal Nurses
National Association of State EMS Officials
National EMS Pilots Association
United States Transportation Command
Requirement for accreditation
While in principle CAMTS accreditation is voluntary, a number of government jurisdictions require companies providing medical transportation services to have CAMTS accreditation in order to be licensed to operate. This is an increasing trend as state health services agencies address the issues surrounding the safety of emergency medical services flights. Some examples are the states of
Colorado,
New Jersey,
New Mexico,
Utah, Michigan and
Washington. According to the rationale used to justify Washington's adopting the accreditation requirements, "Requiring accreditation of air ambulance services provides assurance that the service meets national public safety standards. The accreditation is done by professionals who are qualified to determine air ambulance safety. In addition, compliance with accreditation standards is done on a continual basis by the accrediting organization. Their accreditation standards are periodically revised to reflect the dynamic, changing environment of medical transport with considerable input from all disciplines of the medical profession."
Other states require either CAMTS accreditation or a demonstrated equivalent, such as Rhode Island and Texas, which has adopted CAMTS' Accreditation Standards (Sixth Edition, October 2004) as its own. In Texas and Maryland, an operator not wishing to become CAMTS accredited must submit to an equivalent survey by state auditors who are CAMTS-trained. An exception would be the Maryland State Police, who are not accredited. Virginia, Arizona, Missouri, and Oklahoma have also adopted CAMTS accreditation standards as their state licensing standards.
Notable accredited programs
PHI Air Medical
St. Mary's LifeFlight
Air Evac Lifeteam
Air Methods
ARCH Air Medical Service
Boston Children's Hospital Critical Care Transport Team
Calstar
CareFlite
Flight for Life
Lifestar Air Medical Services
Memorial Hermann Life Flight
STAT Medevac
Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society (STARS)
AirMed International
Northwest MedStar
REACH Air Medical
Penn State Hershey Life Lion
LVHN MedEvac
MedCenter Air
References
External links
CAMTS website
CAMTS Standards, 11th edition
Emergency medical services in the United States
Medical and health organizations based in South Carolina |
3543438 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20process%20interoperability | Business process interoperability | Business process interoperability (BPI) is a property referring to the ability of diverse business processes to work together, to so called "inter-operate". It is a state that exists when a business process can meet a specific objective automatically utilizing essential human labor only. Typically, BPI is present when a process conforms to standards that enable it to achieve its objective regardless of ownership, location, make, version or design of the computer systems used.
Overview
The main attraction of BPI is that a business process can start and finish at any point worldwide regardless of the types of hardware and software required to automate it. Because of its capacity to offload human "mind" labor, BPI is considered by many as the final stage in the evolution of business computing. BPI's twin criteria of specific objective and essential human labor are both subjective.
The objectives of BPI vary, but tend to fall into the following categories:
Enable end-to-end straight-through processing ("STP") by interconnecting data and procedures trapped in information silos
Let systems and products work with other systems or products without special effort on the part of the customer
Increase productivity by automating human labor
Eliminate redundant business processes and data replications
Minimize errors inherent in manual processes
Introduce mainstream enterprise software-as-a-service
Give top managers a practical means of overseeing processes used to run business operations
Encourage development of innovative Internet-based business processes
Place emphasis on business processes rather than on the systems required to operate them
Strengthen security by eliminating gaps among proprietary software systems
Improve privacy by giving users complete control over their data
Enable realtime enterprise scenarios and forecasts
Business process interoperability is limited to enterprise software systems in which functions are designed to work together, such as a payroll module and a general ledger module that are part of the same program suite, and in controlled software environments that use EDI. Interoperability is also present between incompatible systems where middleware has been applied. In each of these cases, however, the processes seldom meet the test of BPI because they are constrained by information silos and the systems' inability to freely communicate among each other.
History
The term "Business process interoperability" (BPI) was coined in the late 1990s, mostly in connection with the value chain in electronic commerce. BPI has been utilized in promotional materials by various companies, and appears as a subject of research at organizations concerned with computer science ontologies.
Despite the attention it has received, business process interoperability has not been applied outside of limited information system environments. A possible reason is that BPI requires universal conformance to standards so that a business process can start and finish at any point worldwide. The standards themselves are fairly straightforward—organizations use a finite set of shared processes to manage most of their operations. Bringing enterprises together to create and adopt the standards is another matter entirely. The world of management systems is, after all, characterized by information silos. Moving away from silos requires organizations to deal with cultural issues such as ownership and sharing of processes and data, competitive forces and security, not to mention the effect of automation on their work forces.
While the timetable or adoption of BPI cannot be predicted, it remains a subject of interest in organizations and think tanks alike.
Testing for BPI
To test for BPI, an organization analyzes a business process to determine if it can meet its specific objective utilizing essential human labor only.
The specific objective must be clearly defined from start to finish. Start and finish are highly subjective, however. In one organization, a process may start when a customer orders a product and finish when the product is delivered to the customer. In another organization, the same process may be preceded with product manufacture and distribution, and may be followed by management of after-sale warranty and repairs.
Essential human labor includes:
Tasks that must be performed by people because no practical means of automation is available. Examples include fighting a fire, driving a bus and preparing a meal.
Tasks that, in the opinion of management, are more effectively performed by people. Examples include answering a telephone call with a human voice and offering investment advice in person.
Tasks where the cost of automation is greater than the cost of human labor.
To qualify for BPI, every process task must be taken into account from start to finish, including the labor that falls between the cracks created by incompatible software applications, such as gathering data from one system and re-inputting it in another, and preparing reports that include data from disparate systems. The process must flow uninterrupted regardless of the underlying computerized systems used. If non-essential human labor exists at any point, the process fails the test of BPI.
Achieving BPI
To assure that business processes can meet their specific objectives automatically utilizing essential human labor only, BPI takes a “service-oriented architecture“ (SOA) approach, which focuses on the processes rather than on the technologies required to automate them. A widely used SOA is an effective way to address the problems caused by any disparate system that is the heart of each information silo.
SOA makes practical sense because organizations cannot be expected to replace or modify their current enterprise software to achieve BPI, regardless of the benefits involved. Many workers' jobs are built around the applications they use, and most organizations have sizable investments in their current information infrastructures which are so complex that even the smallest modification can be very costly, time-consuming and disruptive. Even if software makers were to unite and conform their products to a single set of standards, the problem would not be solved. Besides software from well-known manufacturers, organizations use a great many legacy software systems, custom applications, manual procedures and paper forms. Without SOA, streamlining such a huge number of disparate internal processes so that they interoperate across the entire global enterprise spectrum is simply out of the question.
To create an SOA for widespread use, BPI relies on a centralized database repository containing shared data and procedures common to applications in every industry and geographical area. In essence, the repository serves as a top application layer, enabling organizations to export their data to its distributed database and obtain the programs they need by simply logging on via a portal. To assure security and commercial neutrality, the repository conforms to standards promulgated by the community of BPI stakeholders.
Organizations and interest groups that wish to achieve business process interoperability begin by establishing one or more BPI initiatives.
See also
Information silo, the antithesis of BPI
References
Further reading
O. Adam et al. (2005). A Collaboration Framework for Cross-enterprise Business Process Management. Paper First International Conference on Interoperability of Enterprise Software and Applications, INTEROP-ESA'2005.
Khalid Belhajjame, Marco Brambilla. Ontology-Based Description and Discovery of Business Processes. In Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support (BPMDS) at CAiSE 2009, Amsterdam, June 2009, Springer LNBIP, vol. 29, pp. 85–98.
Kurt Kosanke (2005). "INTEROP-ESA’2005, Summary of Papers"
Richard A. Martin (2004). "A Standards’ Foundation for Interoperability" Paper 2004 International Conference on Enterprise Integration and Modelling Technology. 9–11 October 2004. University of Toronto, Canada.
M.P. Papazoglou et al. (2000) "Integrated value chains and their implications from a business and technology standpoint," Decision Support Systems 29 2000 p. 323–342
External links
Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure Development
Business software
Enterprise modelling
Interoperability
Business process |
7676524 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ka%20River | Ka River | Ka River (also known as Gulbin Ka River) is a river in the northern part of Nigeria. Originating in Zamfara State, it runs some west into Kebbi State where it joins with the Sokoto River about south of Birnin Kebbi, shortly before joining the Niger River.
River Ka is a section of a stream in Nigeria. River Ka is situated nearby to the villages Nasarawa and Tunga Lombo. Additionally, river ka serves as a traditional boundary that separates Benue-Congo group languages of Zuru Emirate from the Afro-Asiac group of Gummi and Bukkuyun to far north,. Some of the ancient communities of river ka are Waje, Kyabu, Danko and Warri districts in Zuru Emirate of Kebbi State..
Climate
River Gulbin Ka is a stream with the region font code of Africa/Middle East. Its climate coordinates are 11°39'0" N and 4°10'60" E in DMS or 11.65 and 4.18333. Its UTM position is FN28 and its Joint Operation Graphics reference is NC31-03.
References
Rivers of Nigeria |
4791361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeds%20of%20Change%20%28album%29 | Seeds of Change (album) | Seeds of Change is Kerry Livgren's first solo album. Released in 1980 while he still was a member of Kansas, it features guest appearances by three fellow Kansas members: Steve Walsh, Phil Ehart and Robby Steinhardt. Singer Ronnie James Dio and members of LeRoux, Jethro Tull, Ambrosia, and Atlanta Rhythm Section are also featured. In 1996, Seeds of Change was reissued by Renaissance Records with an interview with Livgren as a bonus track.
Background
Seeds of Change marked a new chapter in Livgren's music. It was recorded after Kerry Livgren had converted to Christianity in 1979. His religious beliefs began to be reflected in the song lyrics of Kansas album Vinyl Confessions as well as Seeds of Change. This eventually would cause tension within the band.
The inclusion of Ronnie James Dio, who was Black Sabbath's lead vocalist at the time, caused controversy, as Black Sabbath is considered satanic by some Christians. Livgren wrote that he chose Dio "strictly on the basis of his vocal abilities" as well as stating in the liner notes for Seeds Of Change that Dio "is no Satanist".
Track listing
All songs written by Kerry Livgren
Side one
"Just One Way" – 5:45
"Mask of the Great Deceiver" – 7:34
"How Can You Live" – 4:12
"Whiskey Seed" – 5:33
Side two
"To Live for the King" – 4:55
"Down to the Core" – 5:18
"Ground Zero" – 8:33
Personnel
"Just One Way" (track 1);
Drums - Barriemore Barlow
Bass - Paul Goddard
Trumpets and percussion - Bobby Campo
Lead vocals - Jeff Pollard
Background vocals - Jeff Pollard, Mylon LeFevre, John Fristoe
guitars, piano, synthesizers - Kerry Livgren
"Mask of the Great Deceiver" (track 2);
Drums - Barriemore Barlow
Bass - Paul Goddard
vocals - Ronnie James Dio
Guitars, synthesizers - Kerry Livgren
"How Can You Live?" (track 3);
Drums - Barriemore Barlow
Tambourine - Bobby Campo
Background vocals - John Fristoe, Joey Jelf, Mylon LeFevre
Lead vocals - Steve Walsh
Bass, guitars, piano, organ, synthesizers - Kerry Livgren
"Whiskey Seed" (track 4);
Drums - Phil Ehart
Bass - Paul Goddard
Vocals - Kerry Livgren, Mylon LeFevre
Harmonica - Darryl Kutz
Background vocals - "The Moaning Multitudes"
Guitars, mongo drums - Kerry Livgren
"To Live For the King" (track 5);
Drums - John Thompson
Bass - Gary Gilbert
Lead vocals - Ronnie James Dio
Background vocals - Joey Jelf, Steve Walsh, Donna Williams
Guitars - Kerry Livgren
"Down to the Core" (track 6);
Drums - Barriemore Barlow
Lead vocals - Davy Moire
Background vocals - Victoria Livgren
Horns - Bobby Campo
Bass, guitars, clavinet, Fender Rhodes - Kerry Livgren
"Ground Zero" (track 7);
Drums - Phil Ehart
Lead vocals - David Pack
Background vocals - Donna Williams, Brad Aaron, Mylon LeFevre, Davy Moire, Steve Venezia
Violins - Robby Steinhardt
Gong - John Thompson
Piano, guitars, synthesizers, percussion - Kerry Livgren
References
Footnotes
Bibliography
1980 debut albums
Kerry Livgren albums |
66394800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanli%20Township | Nanli Township | Nanli Township () is a township in Qin County, Shanxi, China. , it has 19 villages under its administration:
Nanli Village
Xilin Village ()
Dongzhuang Village ()
Houjiazhuang Village ()
Shangzhangzhuang Village ()
Xiazhangzhuang Village ()
Meigou Village ()
Yangjiazhuang Village ()
Tang Village ()
Zhongli Village ()
Zhaojiagou Village ()
Yaojialing Village ()
Longmen Village ()
Beidishui Village ()
Mengjiazhuang Village ()
Shijiaotou Village ()
Getuo Village ()
Shihuo Village ()
Donglin Village ()
References
Township-level divisions of Shanxi
Qin County |
50968985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMSC | TMSC | The acronym TMSC might refer to:
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
Talcott Mountain Science Center
the pin Test Serial Data of the JTAG debug interface |
47785056 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-State%20Defender | Tri-State Defender | The Tri-State Defender is a weekly African-American newspaper serving Memphis, Tennessee, and the nearby areas of Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee. It bills itself as "The Mid-South's Best Alternative Newspaper". The Defender was founded in 1951 by John H. Sengstacke, owner of the Chicago Defender. In 2013, the paper was locally purchased from Real Times Media by Best Media Inc.
History
Sengstacke's Chicago Defender circulated widely across the Southern United States, but Sengstacke in the early 1950s identified Memphis as a particularly attractive market, where several African-American newspapers had failed to take root and a startup would face only one competitor, The Memphis World, which had begun in 1931 (and would continue publishing until 1961).
In November 1951, Sengstacke and editor Lewis O. Swingler, the former editor of the World, published the first edition of the Tri-State Defender, adopting the slogan "The South's Independent Weekly". The 20-page inaugural edition included "The Tri-State Defender Ten Point Program", consisting of vows "to broadcast to the world the achievements of all the citizens it serves", "to join hands with all citizens regardless of creed or color who wish to develop better human relations and to advance the principals of American Democracy", and "to uphold those Christian principles which under gird our republic", among others. Swingler served as editor in chief until 1955.
Editor L. Alex Wilson and his Tri-State Defender journalists led coverage of the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, an African-American teen from Illinois who was killed in Mississippi after allegedly flirting with a white woman. Their stories and photographs dominated both their own paper and the Chicago Defender for weeks, and the trial became a media sensation and landmark event in the Civil Rights Movement. Wilson' s coverage of the Civil Rights Movement had a more powerful editorial influence than its competitor, The Memphis World, on the Memphis black community.
The Tri-State Defender in its first 50 years was part of Sengstacke Enterprises Inc., a chain of prominent African-American publications, which in the 1990s included the flagship Chicago Daily Defender, the Michigan Chronicle and the New Pittsburgh Courier. Following Sengstacke's death in 1997, the four-paper chain was held in a family trust until 2003, when it was sold for nearly $12 million to Real Times, a group of investors with several business and family ties to Sengstacke.
References
External links
Newspapers published in Tennessee
African-American newspapers
Newspapers established in 1951 |
56454517 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirak%20%28periodical%29 | Shirak (periodical) | Shirak (in Armenian Շիրակ) was a literary and cultural publication published by the Tekeyan Cultural Union in Lebanon between 1956 and 1978. Published with various frequency (mainly a monthly, but at times as bi-monthly or as a quarterly with some interruptions), it had a wide range of contributions to Armenian writers and literary figures of the Armenian diaspora in addition to giving space for contributions from writers in Soviet Armenia. Main contributors included Zareh Melkonian, Onnig Sarkisian, Vatche Ghazarian, Haig Nakashian and Jirair Tanielian. It also published critiques and reviews of books, theatre, classical music etc.
References
1956 establishments in Lebanon
1978 disestablishments in Lebanon
Armenian-language magazines
Cultural magazines
Defunct literary magazines
Defunct magazines published in Lebanon
Irregularly published magazines
Magazines established in 1956
Magazines disestablished in 1978
Magazines published in Beirut
Monthly magazines published in Lebanon |
41899737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atakan%20Alaftargil | Atakan Alaftargil | Atakan Alaftargil (born November 9, 1976) is a retired Olympian alpine skier from Turkey, who competed in slalom and giant slalom events.
Early life
Atakan Alaftargil was born on November 9, 1976, in Erzurum, Turkey. He is a member of a skiing family, his father İlhani having owned a ski equipment store at Palandöken Mountain and his three older brothers being skiers. His older brother Arif Alaftargil competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
He began skiing at the age of six. He graduated from Atatürk University with a degree in physical education and sports. He is also a certified coach for skiing and snow boarding.
Career
He competed for Turkey at the 2002 Winter Olympics after participating at the 2001 World Alpine Ski Championships in St. Anton, Austria.
References
External links
1976 births
People from Erzurum
Atatürk University alumni
Turkish male alpine skiers
Olympic alpine skiers for Turkey
Alpine skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Living people
20th-century Turkish people |
2423791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth%20and%20Seventh%20Books%20of%20Moses | Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses | The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses is an 18th- or 19th-century magical text allegedly written by Moses, and passed down as hidden (or lost) books of the Hebrew Bible. Self-described as "the wonderful arts of the old Hebrews, taken from the Mosaic books of the Kabbalah and the Talmud", it is actually a grimoire, or text of magical incantations and seals, that purports to instruct the reader in the spells used to create some of the miracles portrayed in the Bible as well as to grant other forms of good fortune and good health. The work contains reputed Talmudic magic names, words, and ideograms, some written in Hebrew and some with letters from the Latin alphabet. It contains "Seals" or magical drawings accompanied by instructions intended to help the user perform various tasks, from controlling weather or people to contacting the dead or Biblical religious figures.
Copies have been traced to 18th-century German pamphlets, but an 1849 printing, aided by the appearance of the popular press in the 19th century, spread the text through Germany and Northern Europe to German Americans and eventually helped popularize the texts among African Americans in the United States, the Caribbean, and Anglophone West Africa. It influenced European Occult Spiritualism as well as African American hoodoo folk magic, and magical-spiritual practices in the Caribbean, and West Africa.
An older magical text, a fourth-century Greek papyrus entitled Eighth Book of Moses otherwise unrelated to the Sixth and Seventh Books, was found in Thebes in the 19th century and published as part of the Greek Magical Papyri.
History
No first version of this work has been established, but early versions began to appear as inexpensive pamphlets in Germany in the 18th century. Elements of the "Seventh Book", such as "The Seven Semiphoras of Adam" and "The Seven Semiphoras of Moses" appear to have come from the seventh book of the earlier European copies of the Sefer Raziel HaMalakh. The work came to wide prominence when published as volume 6 of (The Cloister) in 1849 in Stuttgart by antiquarian Johann Scheible.
Historian Owen Davies traces copies of the work from the 18th century in Germany. After circulating there, the work was popularized in the United States first in the communities of the Pennsylvania Dutch.
Anglo-Germanic American rural folk magic
In the early 19th-century European or European-American grimoires were popular among immigrants and in rural communities where the folk traditions of Europe, intertwined with European religious mysticism, survived. One of the earliest American grimoires is John George Hohman's Pow-Wows; or, Long Lost Friend, a collection of magical spells originally published in 1820 for Pennsylvania Dutch spiritualists known as "hexmeisters".
While versions of The Sixth and Seventh Books were likely passed around German immigrant communities from the late 18th century, the 1849 Leipzig copy was followed by a New York printing, in German, in 1865, and an English translation in 1880. The growth of inexpensive paperback publication in the 19th century, like those of Chicago occult publisher L. W. de Laurence, helped the work gain popularity outside German communities.
Its prominence as a source of popular rural Pennsylvanian and Appalachian "folk magic" spells has been recorded as late as the mid-20th century.
African-American folk magic and spirituality
The boom in inexpensive publishing, and the interest in Spiritualism helped the work gain popularity in the African-American population of the United States, and from there, the Anglophone parts of the Caribbean.
From 1936 through 1972, the folklorist Harry Middleton Hyatt interviewed 1,600 African-American Christian root doctors and home practitioners of hoodoo, and many of them made reference to using this book and other seal-bearing grimoires of the era, such as the Key of Solomon. When Hyatt asked his informants where such books were purchased, he was told that they could be had by mail order from hoodoo suppliers in Chicago, Memphis, or Baltimore.
In the West Indies, the book became one of the central texts of Jamaican obeah and was counted among the founding works of the "Zion Revivalist" Christian movement and the Rastafari movement of the early 20th century. The influential Jamaican musical group Toots and the Maytals, for instance, released in 1963 the song "Six And Seven Books Of Moses": its lyrics list the accepted books of the Old Testament, ending in "... the Sixth and the Seventh books, they wrote them all."
Folk magic and spirituality in Anglophone West Africa
In early 20th-century British West Africa and Liberia, The Sixth and Seventh Books was adopted widely. It served as a source for "Christian Magic", both by West African spiritualist Christian cults and "assimilated" Africans. In colonial Gold Coast and Nigeria, it was seen as a "western" form of magic that might be used by educated Africans seeking access to Britain or its power, much like Masonic ritual or Rosicrucianism. The Nigerian press in the 1920s regularly featured advertisements for copies of The Sixth and Seventh Books and other Christian occult books.
It was also influential in Christian occult movements in Anglophone West Africa, and West African religious movements which blended Christianity and traditional magic made use of the work. Josiah Olunowo Ositelu's seals and mystical written incantations, used in the Nigerian Church of the Lord (Aladura) were likely derived from the Sixth and Seventh Books.
Elsewhere
Versions of this work circulated throughout Scandinavia and Central Europe. In Sweden and Finland these books are compiled and published under the titles and , respectively, meaning "The Black Bible".
Contents
The printed texts of The Sixth and Seven Books of Moses (from 1849) combine two purportedly lost short Biblical texts with several contemporary essays and half a dozen purported writings of those who kept this knowledge and practiced its use through history, dated from Biblical times to the 17th century. These works attempt to paint a portrait of secret knowledge which Moses was given by God, and then handed down father to son until King Solomon, when it was handed to Priests, and finally, Talmudic scholars. In Christian circles, the text appealed to the same authority as did Biblical apocrypha: Biblical texts outside the current Biblical canon.
Containing numerous allegedly magical spells used to summon spirits to do the will of the conjurer, the books are attributed to works in which Moses sets forth the magic which enabled him to defeat the magicians of Egypt, part the Red Sea, and perform the acts attributed to him in the Old Testament. Although these are allegedly Kabbalistic in nature, there is very little or no influence of Kabbala within the pages. Most texts are reputed to be Hebrew, passed to the editors through European Talmudic scholars or Christian Medieval ecclesiastics who were privy to secret Biblical texts. Some of the texts are allegedly translated from a text written by Canaanite magicians and keepers of the Samaritan Pentateuch in the "Cuthan-Samaritan language", a language considered extinct since the 12th century.
No complete manuscripts older than Scheible's 1849 printing are extant, and the claimed origin must be regarded pseudepigraphic and spurious. It is rather of a school of European Medieval and Enlightenment grimoires, such as The Key of Solomon, The Red Dragon, Petit Albert and others. Elements appear directly reprinted from Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1531) and an 18th-century German translation by Gottfried Selig of the Hebrew Sepher Schimmush Tehillim (The magical uses of the Psalms).
The vast majority of the printed works of 1849, a New York German printing of 1865, and the first English public printing of 1880 are additions to the reputed biblical books. In the 1880 edition, for instance, "the Sixth Book of Moses" and "the Seventh Book of Moses" run only from page 6 to 28, making up 23 of the 190 pages. The vast majority of the work is appendices, restatements of similar seals and incantations, reputedly from those Kabala teachers to whom this knowledge was passed. Finally, there are sections including lists of the powers associated with each of the Hebrew "Names of God", the powers and use of reciting each of the Psalms and each Hebrew letter.
Introduction
Scheible also inserted an introduction, "The Magic of the Israelites", taken from Joseph Ennemoser's 1844 . The introduction to the 1880 New York edition explains the genesis of the books.
The Sixth Book of Moses
The Sixth Book includes an introduction along with seven chapters, known as "The Mystery of the First Seal" through "The Mystery of the Seventh Seal". The included pictures of the "seals" consist of various stylized symbols surrounded by pseudo-Hebrew and pseudo-Latin phrases and letters. Each "Seal" or "Table" (in the Seventh Book) is paired with an incantation (reputedly Hebrew) and a very brief description of its powers.
The Seventh Book of Moses
The seventh book is much the same: taking the events of the Biblical narrative of Moses' life (and other Biblical and unknown stories) and gives a reputed pairing of an incantation and a drawn magical object, here called "Tables". There are twelve tables, each said to control powers associated with certain Angels, elements, or astronomical symbols:
The First Table of the Spirits of the Air;
The Second Table of the Spirits of Fire;
The Third Table of the Spirits of Water;
The Fourth Table of the Spirits of the Earth;
The Fifth Table of Saturn;
The Sixth Table of Jupiter;
The Seventh Table of Mars;
The Eighth Table of the Sun;
The Ninth Table of Venus;
The Tenth Table of Mercury;
The Eleventh Table of the Spirits;
The Twelfth Table of the Schemhamforasch.
The remainder of Volume I
In the New York Edition this is followed by "The Magic of the Israelites", used in the 1849 version as the introduction.
Volume II
The second volume of the work collects a series of works claimed to be "in the tradition of" the original two books. In the New York edition, this begins with "Formulas of the Magical Kabala of the Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses", which again demonstrates seals and incantations, these said to be the Magic used by Moses himself at various points in the Biblical stories, such as how to turn his staff into a snake or conjure the pillar of fire. They include other incantations, such as the one labeled "These words are terrible, and will assemble devils or spirits, or they will cause the dead to appear." This is followed by works of only a dozen or so pages, all giving similar "Seals" and incantations (often with identical titles, such as "the Breastplate of Moses"). These include "Extract From The True Clavicula Of Solomon And Of The Girdle Of Aaron" (a version of the Key of Solomon grimoire), the "Biblia Arcana Magica Alexander, According To The Tradition Of The Sixth And Seventh Books Of Moses, Besides Magical Laws", and the "Citation of the Seven Great Princes in The Tradition Of The Sixth And Seventh Books Of Moses" which contains similar seals and incantations with more or less Biblical connotations.
Names and psalms
These are followed by a long section reputing to explain the powers associated with each of the Hebrew "Names of God", other seals which are to be used with these incantations, the Schemhamphoras of King Solomon (The Semiphoras and Schemhamphorash a 1686 occult book attributed to King Solomon printed by Andreas Luppius), and the powers and use of reciting each of the Psalms and each Hebrew letter. For example:
Astrology, cures, and amulets
Finally there are sections "Astrological Influence Upon Man and Magical Cures of the Old Hebrews. From Dr. Gideon Brechee's work: The Transcendental, Magic and Magical Healing Art in the Talmud. Vienna: 1850". This is a likely bowdlerizing of Gideon Brecher's (Vienna: Klopf und Eurich, 1850). This work was one of a school of ("The science of Judaism" in German), a 19th-century movement of critical investigations of Jewish literature and culture, including rabbinic literature, using more or less scientific methods.
After a long treatise on Astrology, a further section lists cures, spells and amulets, and gives a source preceding each, such as
Editions
A copy of an 1880 English translation of the Johann Scheible version, originally from the Harry Houdini Collection at the Library of Congress is available as: The sixth and seventh books of Moses: or, Moses' magical spirit-art, known as the wonderful arts of the old wise Hebrews, taken from the Mosaic books of the Cabala and the Talmud, for the good of mankind. Translated from the German, word for word, according to old writings". s.n., 1880
Joseph H. Peterson (ed., with critical commentary). The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses: Or Moses' Magical Spirit-Art Known as the Wonderful Arts of the Old Wise Hebrews, Taken from the Mosaic Books of the Kabbalah and the Talmud, for the Good of Mankind. Ibis, (2008)
See also
Jannes and Jambres
Scrolls of Moses
Hexateuch
Heptateuch
References
Bibliography
External links
Esoteric Archives: The Sixth and Seventh Book of Moses
Magical Uses of Psalms
Grimoires
1849 non-fiction books
Modern pseudepigrapha
Texts attributed to Moses
Hoodoo (spirituality)
Jewish grimoires |
40782722 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming%20at%20the%201983%20Pan%20American%20Games%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%20200%20metre%20backstroke | Swimming at the 1983 Pan American Games – Men's 200 metre backstroke | The men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1983 Pan American Games took place on 19 August. The last Pan American Games champion was Peter Rocca of US.
This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in backstroke.
Results
All times are in minutes and seconds.
Heats
Final
The final was held on August 19.
References
Swimming at the 1983 Pan American Games |
7093433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some%20Girl%28s%29 | Some Girl(s) | Some Girl(s) is a play written by Neil LaBute about a man only identified as "Guy" who is about to get married. Before his wedding, he decides to visit his ex-girlfriends, all of whom he mistreated. His exes include: Sam, his former high school sweetheart; Lindsay, a college professor from Boston; Tyler, his Chicago fling; and Bobbi, a woman from Los Angeles whom he actually could have ended up with.
Productions
The play opened in London in May 2005 at the Gielgud Theatre. The cast included David Schwimmer in the lead role, Catherine Tate, Lesley Manville, Saffron Burrows and Sara Powell.
The play premiered Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, produced by MCC Theater on June 8, 2006, and closed on July 8, 2006. Directed by Jo Bonney, the cast starred Eric McCormack (Guy), Fran Drescher (Lindsay), Judy Reyes (Tyler), Brooke Smith (Sam), and Maura Tierney (Bobbi), all known primarily for their television work.
The play was staged in Toronto at the Tarragon Theatre in the Extra Space from June 27–30, 2012.
London's Tower Theatre Company staged a revival of the play from 12 to 16 February 2013 at Theatro Technis in Camden Town.
Adaptations
A film adaptation of Some Girl(s) premiered at the SXSW Festival on March 9, 2013. The film stars Adam Brody, who is credited as Man. It also stars Jennifer Morrison as Sam, Emily Watson as Lindsay, Mia Maestro as Tyler, Kristen Bell as Bobbi, and Zoe Kazan as a newly written character named Reggie, the younger sister of the main character's best friend. The screenplay was written by Neil LaBute and directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer.
References
External links
MCC Theater website
Plays by Neil LaBute
2006 plays |
7248832 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%20Dermota | Anton Dermota | Kammersänger Anton Dermota (June 4, 1910 – June 22, 1989) was a Slovene lyric tenor.
Early life
He was born in a poor family in the Upper Carniolan village of Kropa in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire (and is now in Slovenia). He went to the Ljubljana Conservatory with the intention of studying composition and organ, but in 1934 he received a scholarship which sent him to Vienna. There, he devoted himself exclusively to vocal study with Marie Radó.
Career
Dermota made his debut at the opera in Cluj in 1934, and was promptly invited by Bruno Walter to perform at the Vienna State Opera. Here he made his début as "First Man in Armor" in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Magic Flute in 1936 and got a contract immediately. His first leading role was Alfredo in Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata, which he sang in 1937. In the same year Dermota made his début at the Salzburg Festival in a production of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, conducted by Arturo Toscanini.
Dermota quickly became a favorite of the Viennese audience and remained with the State Opera's company for more than forty years. He was a witness (and helped to save parts of the furniture) when the opera house burned down after an Allied air raid on March 13, 1945. After the war he stayed with the company in its provisional lodgings at Theater an der Wien, and was one of the stars of the reopening of the original house in 1955 (as Florestan in Beethoven's Fidelio). As early as 1946 Dermota was honoured for his loyalty with the title of Kammersänger.
Anton Dermota sang as a tenor as Alfred in Die Fledermaus in the 1950 London Gramophone recording LLP 305.
For 20 years, Dermota sang at the Salzburg Festival almost every summer. As guest he gave acclaimed performances at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden London, in Palais Garnier and Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, at Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, in Australia, Czechoslovakia and Hungary.
Dermota was best known for his Mozart roles - especially his Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni. But he sang a good deal of the lyric tenor repertory during his career, including more modern parts, such as Oedipus in Igor Stravinsky's Oedipus rex, the title role of Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina and Flamand in Richard Strauss's Capriccio. Later in life he ventured into heldentenor territory, essaying parts such as the title role in Smetana's Dalibor and Florestan. All told, his repertoire included some 80 roles.
An accomplished Lieder singer, he gave many recitals accompanied by his wife, the pianist Hilde Berger-Weyerwald. He began a second career as a singing coach at the Wiener Musikhochschule in 1966.
To celebrate his 70th birthday, Dermota sang Tamino in The Magic Flute at the Vienna State Opera. A popular anecdote states that when he spoke the line "Ist's Phantasie, dass ich noch lebe?" ("Is it a fantasy that I am still alive?") the audience broke into spontaneous applause. A year later he sang the Shepherd in Carlos Kleiber's famous recording of Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, sounding astonishingly young.
Death
He died in Vienna less than a month after his 79th birthday.
Decorations and awards
1959: Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class
1977: Grand Silver Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria
References
1910 births
1989 deaths
Österreichischer Kammersänger
People from the Municipality of Radovljica
Recipients of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class
Recipients of the Grand Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria
Slovenian operatic tenors |
113553 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossop | Glossop | Glossop is a market town in the borough of High Peak, in the county of Derbyshire, England. It is located east of Manchester, north-west of Sheffield and north of the county town, Matlock. Glossop lies near Derbyshire's borders with Cheshire, Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire. It is between above sea level and is bounded by the Peak District National Park to the south, east and north. In 2021 it had a population of 33,340.
Historically, the name Glossop refers to the small hamlet that gave its name to an ancient parish recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 and then the manor given by William I of England to William Peverel. A municipal borough was created in 1866, which encompassed less than half of the manor's territory. The area now known as Glossop approximates to the villages that used to be called Glossopdale, on the lands of the Duke of Norfolk. Originally a centre of wool processing, Glossop rapidly expanded in the late 18th century when it specialised in the production and printing of calico, a coarse cotton. It became a mill town with many chapels and churches; its fortunes were tied to the cotton industry.
Architecturally, the area is dominated by buildings constructed with the local sandstone; a number of these, including Glossop Gasworks, are grade II listed. Two significant former cotton mills and the Dinting railway viaduct remain.
History
Toponymy and definition
The name Glossop is thought to be of Anglo-Saxon origin, named during the Angles' settlement in the 7th century, and derived from Glott's Hop—where hop could mean a valley, a small valley in a larger valley system, or a piece of land enclosed by marshes and Glott was probably a chieftain's name. Because of its size and location, Glossop had many definitions. The village of Glossop is now called Old Glossop. Howard Town and Milltown gained importance. They were named New Town and then Glossop. Local government reorganisations had caused the Glossopdale villages to be promoted to a municipal borough and then have that status removed. Land has been added to Glossop and other lands removed. From a small settlement it became an ancient parish, a manor, a borough and a township. Currently, two county divisions in High Peak Borough, Derbyshire, have Glossop as part of their names.
Ancient
There is evidence of a Bronze Age burial site on Shire Hill (near Old Glossop) and other possibly prehistoric remains at Torside (on the slopes of Bleaklow). The Romans arrived in 78 AD. At that time, the area was within the territory of the Brigantes tribe, whose main base was in Yorkshire. In the late 1st century the Romans built a fort, Ardotalia, on high ground above the river in present-day Gamesley. The site of this fort was rediscovered in 1771 by an amateur historian, John Watson. It subsequently acquired the name Melandra Castle. The extensive site has been excavated, revealing fort walls, a shrine and the fort headquarters. The area has been landscaped to provide parking and picnic areas.
Medieval
King William I awarded the manor of Glossop to William Peverel, who began construction of Glossop Castle, but the entire estate was later confiscated. In 1157 King Henry II gave the manor of Glossop to Basingwerk Abbey. They gained a market charter for Glossop in 1290, and one for Charlesworth in 1328.
In 1433, the monks leased all of Glossopdale to the Talbot family, later Earls of Shrewsbury. In 1494, an illegitimate son of the family, Dr John Talbot, was appointed vicar of Glossop. He founded a school, and paved the packhorse route over the moors; this is known as Doctor's Gate.
At the dissolution of the monasteries in 1537 the manor of Glossop was given to the Talbot family. In 1606 it came into the ownership of the Howard family, the Dukes of Norfolk, who held it for the next 300 years. Glossop was usually given to the second son of the family.
The land was too wet and cold to be used for wheat but was ideal for the hardy Pennine sheep, so agriculture was predominantly pastoral. Most of the land was owned by the Howards and was leasehold and it was only in Whitfield that there was any freehold land. The few houses were solid, built of the local stone, and allowed for the development of home industries such as wool spinning and weaving.
Industrial and civic history
The medieval economy was based on sheep pasture and the production of wool by farmers who were tenants of the Abbot of Basingwerk and later the Talbot family. During the Industrial Revolution of the 18th century Glossop became a centre for cotton spinning. A good transport network between Liverpool and Glossop brought in imported cotton which was spun by a labour force with wool spinning skills. The climate of Glossopdale provided abundant soft water that was used to power mills and finish the cloth, and also gave the humidity necessary to spin cotton under tension. Initial investment was provided by the Dukes of Norfolk. By 1740, cotton in an unspun form had been introduced to make fustians and lighter cloths.
Mills
The first mills in Glossop were woollen mills. In 1774, Richard Arkwright opened a mill at Cromford. He developed the factory system and patented machines for spinning cotton and carding. In 1785, his patents expired and many people copied Arkwright's system and his patents, exemplified by the Derwent Valley Mills. By 1788 there were over 200 Arkwright-type mills in Britain. At the same time there were 17 cotton mills in Derbyshire, principally in Glossop. By 1831 there were at least 30 mills in Glossopdale, none of which had more than 1,000 spindles. The mill owners were local men: the Wagstaffs and Hadfields were freeholders from Whitfield; the Shepleys, Shaws, Lees, Garlicks and Platts had farmed the dale. The Sidebottoms were from Hadfield, the Thornleys were carpenters and John Bennet and John Robinson were clothiers.
John Wood of Marsden came from Manchester in 1819 and bought existing woollen mills which he expanded. These were the Howard Town mills. Francis Sumner was a Catholic whose family had connections with Matthew Ellison, Howard's agent. He built Wren Nest Mill. The Sidebottoms built the Waterside Mill at Hadfield. In 1825, John Wood installed the first steam engine and power looms. Sumner and Sidebottom followed suit and the three mills, Wren Nest, Howardtown and Waterside, became very large vertical combines (a vertical combine was a mill that both spun the yarn and then used it to weave cloth). With the other major families, the Shepleys, Rhodes and Platts, they dominated the dale. In 1884, the six had 82% of the spinning capacity with 892,000 spindles and 13,571 looms. Glossop was a town of very large calico mills. The Glossop Tramway was opened in 1903 to connect workers to the various mills along the main routes between Glossop and Hadfield.
The calico printing factory of Edmund Potter (located in Dinting Vale) in the 1850s printed 2½ million pieces of printed calico, of which 80% was for export. The paper industry was created by Edward Partington who, as Olive and Partington, bought the Turn Lee Mill in 1874 to produce high-quality paper from wood pulp by the sulphite method. He expanded rapidly with mills in Salford and Barrow-in-Furness. He merged with Kellner of Vienna and was created Lord Doverdale in 1917. He died in 1925; his factories in Charlestown created nearly 1,000 jobs.
Religion and benevolence
Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk, rebuilt the old parish church in 1831, built All Saints Roman Catholic chapel in 1836, improved the Hurst Reservoir in 1837, and built the Town Hall, whose foundation stone was laid on Coronation Day 1838.
The Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway came to Dinting in 1842, but it was the 13th Duke of Norfolk who built the spur line to Howard Town, so that coal could be brought from the collieries at Dukinfield. Glossop railway station bears the lion, the symbol of the Norfolks. Many of the street- and placenames in Glossop derive from the names and titles of the Dukes of Norfolk, such as Norfolk Square, and a cluster of residential streets off Norfolk Street that were named after Henry Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk, the first Catholic MP since the Reformation. (His second son was created 1st Baron Howard of Glossop and was ancestor of the post-1975 dukes.)
A two-storey Township Workhouse was built between 1832 and 1834 on Bute Street (). Its administration was taken over by Glossop Poor Law Union in December 1837. The workhouse buildings included a 40-bed infirmary, piggeries and casual wards for vagrants. The workhouse later became Glossop Public Assistance Institution and from 1948 the N.H.S. Shire Hill Hospital.
The mill owners, Catholics, Anglican, Methodist and Unitarian, built reading rooms and chapels. They worked together and worshipped together with their workers. The Woods, Sidebottoms and Shepleys were Anglicans and hence Tory, and they dominated every vestry, which was the only form of local government before 1866. They built four churches St James's, Whitfield in 1846, St Andrew's, Hadfield in 1874, Holy Trinity, Dinting in 1875 and St Luke's, Glossop. Francis Sumner and the Ellisons and Norfolks were Catholic and built St Charles's, Hadfield and St Mary's, Glossop. The smaller mill owners were Dissenters and congregated at Littlemoor Independent Chapel built in Hadfield in 1811, but they later built a further eleven chapels.
For decades there was rivalry between Edward Partington, his friend Herbert Rhodes, and the Woods and Sidebottoms. The Woods built the public baths and laid out the park. Partington built the library. Partington built the cricket pavilion, so Samuel Hill-Wood sponsored the football club that for one season, 1889–1890, played in League Division One. He and his descendants went on to be chairmen of the London club, Arsenal. He was MP for High Peak from 1910 to 1929. Edward's son, Oswald, was MP for High Peak from 1900 to 1910. Ann Kershaw Woods devoted herself to Anglican education and had schools built.
Cotton famine and industrial relations
In 1851, 38% of the men and 27% of the women were employed in cotton; the only alternative employment was agriculture, building, or labouring on the railway. Consequently, the town was vulnerable to interruptions in the supply of cotton or the export trade. The American Civil War caused the cotton famine of 1861–64. The mill owners met together and put in place a relief programme through which they supplied food, clogs and coal to their employees. Howard increased the workforce on his estate, and public works (such as improving the domestic water supply) were undertaken. They provided unsecured loans to the workers until the cotton returned. The relationship between the owners and men was one of paternal benevolence. They lived in the same community and worshipped in the same churches. The mill owners were the local aldermen, the church elders and led the sports teams. In the Luddite and Chartist times and the period following Peterloo, Glossop was virtually unaffected, despite its proximity to Hyde, a radical hotbed. In the '4s 2d or swing strike' it was incomers from Ashton who stopped the Glossop mills. The rivalry in Glossop was not based on class but on religious groups.
Modern (20th and 21st centuries)
The decline of cotton spinning has resulted in the closure of many of the town's mills. The Howard family sold the Glossop Estate in 1925 and donated large areas to the people of Glossop. Manor Park was the location of the family's manor house and gardens. The recession of 1929 hit Glossop very hard: in 1929 the unemployment rate was 14%, and in 1931 it was 55%. In Hadfield it reached 67%. National initiatives to improve housing and employment conditions largely failed, and mills fell empty and decayed. Unemployment remained at 36% in 1938. The Second World War changed this: military stores, metals, machine tools, munitions, rubber and essential industries moved into the empty factories and left Glossop with a more diverse range of industries.
In spite of the Barlow Report and government intervention, no significant employer moved into Glossop.
Gamesley underwent considerable change in the 1960s, when a large council estate was built, mainly to house people from Manchester. These housing areas, called 'Overspill estates', were also built in other towns surrounding Manchester.
In 2006, High Peak Borough Council granted planning permission for a local foam factory to store up to 120 tonnes of toluene diisocyanate. Further permissions granted in 2010 increased the amount to 280 tonnes. As a result of this, a Detailed Emergency Planning Zone and Extended Area of Risk were created, which encompasses Dinting, Hadfield and Gamesley.
Plans
Glossop has been included as pilot in the Liveability scheme, and has drawn up the Glossop Vision masterplan for the improvement and gentrification of the town. This is being partially funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. It aims to open up access to the Glossop Brook, to coordinate developments in Glossop town centre, to enhance the built environment and to link the town to its wider setting. As such, the mills have become a retail development with housing, trees are to be planted along the A57 and the market square has been pedestrianised.
Governance
In the local government reorganisation of 1974 the Municipal Borough of Glossop was abolished, and since then the two levels of local government are Derbyshire County Council, based in Matlock, and High Peak Borough Council then based in Chapel-en-le-Frith.
Glossop was included in the "South East Lancashire Special Review Area" under the Local Government Act 1958, and the Redcliffe-Maud Report of 1969 recommended its inclusion in a South East Lancashire–North East Cheshire metropolitan area. Glossop was not ultimately included in the Greater Manchester area established by the Local Government Act 1972, with the residents voting to remain in Derbyshire in 1973. The county council, originally based in Derby, moved to Matlock in the late 1950s to facilitate easier travelling to the county hall from the northern extremities such as Glossop and the High Peak.
For the county council, Glossop is split between the divisions of Glossop and Charlesworth (electing two councillors), and Etherow (electing one councillor). Etherow division contains Hadfield North, Hadfield South, Gamesley and the large and sparsely populated Tintwistle ward, which was formerly in Cheshire. These boundaries were set in 2013.
At the district level, that is High Peak Borough Council, Glossop comprises these wards: Dinting, Gamesley, Hadfield North, Hadfield South, Old Glossop, Padfield, Howard Town, Simmondley and Whitfield. St John's represents the rural area that was formerly Glossopdale RDC and lies within the National Park. These were the wards used in the 2001 Census.
Glossop itself does not have a parish council, but Tintwistle and St John's are parished.
The Member of Parliament for the High Peak constituency since 2019 has been Robert Largan MP, representing the Conservative Party. His majority in the 2019 general election was 590 over the Labour candidate Ruth George.
Historic Glossop
Historically, the ancient parish of Glossop consisted of the ten townships of the manor: Glossop, Hadfield, Padfield, Dinting, Simmondley, Whitfield, Chunal, Charlesworth, Chisworth, Ludworth and nine more: Mellor, Thornsett, Rowarth, Whittle (Whitle), Beard, Ollersett, Hayfield, Little Hayfield, Phoside, Kinder, Bugsworth, Brownside and Chinley. Within the parish were the chapelries of Hayfield and Mellor. The ancient parish was in the Hundred of High Peak; it was about in length and wide, with an area of . Beard, Ollerset, Thornsett, Rowarth and Whitle later formed the town of New Mills, while Hayfield, Little Hayfield, Phoside and Kinder joined the parish of Hayfield. The chapelry of Mellor included Mellor, Chisworth, Ludworth, Whittle and part of Thornsett.
The Manor of Glossop was made up of the territory that includes Hadfield, Padfield, Dinting, Simmondley, Whitfield, Chunal, Charlesworth, Chisworth, Ludworth and the village of Glossop, now called Old Glossop. It had an area of , of which more than were classed as moorland.
The Municipal Borough of Glossop (1866–1974) contained the land within two miles of the town hall in Howard Town and a sliver to the north bounded by the River Etherow, an area of . It is cited as an example of a 'millocracy' as two-thirds of the elected councillors were mill owners. The remaining parishes of Charlesworth, Chisworth and Ludworth formed Glossopdale Rural District, which remained in existence until 1934 when the parishes were split, Ludworth going into Marple RDC, Chisworth and the greater part of Charlesworth joining Chapel en le Frith RDC and the smaller part——joining Glossop.
The present community of Glossop is centred on Howardtown. It is served by the Glossopdale Area Forum and the Glossop Town Partnership.
The previous hamlet of Glossop is now known as Old Glossop.
Geography
Glossop is at the north-western extreme of England's East Midlands region, north-west of London, east of the city of Manchester, west of the city of Sheffield and north of Derby. It nestles in the foothills of the Pennines, with Bleaklow to the north-east and Kinder Scout to the south. It lies on Glossop Brook, a tributary of the River Etherow, in the area of peat moorland commonly known as the Dark Peak. The moors, which rise to over 1,960 ft, are cut by many deep V-shaped valleys known as cloughs, each formed by a stream known as a brook. Shelf Brook passes through Old Glossop where it joins Hurst Brook to form Glossop Brook, which passes westward through Milltown, Howard Town and Dinting to the River Etherow, which in turn runs south to join the River Goyt at Marple Bridge. Two other notable brooks are Padfield Brook and Gnat Hole Brook.
Shelf Brook leads from Shelf Moor on Bleaklow down Doctor's Gate through Old Glossop to Glossop Brook. The valley was used by the Romans for a road, and currently contains a bridleway. The north slope of Holden Clough and Hurst Brook is used by the A57 road known as the Snake Pass. The Snake Pass crosses the Pennine Way near Doctor's Gate Culvert (1,680 ft above sea level) before descending to the east to Ladybower Reservoir along the northern side of the River Ashop valley. Here a road leads east over Hallam Moor into Sheffield, and south along the River Derwent into Baslow and Matlock. To the north of Glossop is Tintwistle; the River Etherow is the boundary. Today, the Longdendale valley forms a chain of reservoirs that provide drinking water for Manchester. At the head of the valley is Woodhead, where the road from Huddersfield joins the road to Sheffield, and a three-mile railway tunnel brought the railway from Penistone.
Geology
Directly beneath Glossop lie areas of Carboniferous Millstone Grit, shales and sandstone. Glossop is on the edge of the Peak District Dome, at the southern edge of the Pennine anticline. The Variscan uplift has caused much faulting and Glossopdale was the product of glacial action in the last glaciation period that exploited the weakened rocks. The steep-sided valleys of the cloughs cause significant erosion and deposition. The layers of sandstone, mudstones and shale in the bedrock act as an aquifer to feed the springs. The valley bottoms have a thin deposit of boulder clay. The brooks are fed by the peaty soils of the moors thus are acid (pH5.5–7.0); this means the instream wildlife is dependent on food sources from outside the channel.
Climate
Glossop experiences a temperate maritime climate, like much of the British Isles, with relatively cool summers and mild winters. There is regular but generally light precipitation throughout the year. Glossop has a history of flash flooding, the most recent being in 2002 when High Street West was flooded to a depth of .
Demography
Glossop demographics were recorded as the following:
Economy
Glossop was a product of the wealth of the cotton industry. Glossop's economy was linked closely with a spinning and weaving tradition that had evolved from developments in textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution. Before the First World War, Glossop had the headquarters of an international paper empire, the largest calico printworks in the world, a large bleach works and six spinning weaving combines with over 600,000 spindles and 12,000 looms and two niche manufacturers: grindstones and industrial belts. In the 1920s, these firms were refloated on the easily available share capital—thus were victims of the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Their product lines were vulnerable to the new economic conditions.
The main street contains a variety of shops, restaurants and food outlets.
Glossop is located close to the border of the Peak National Park, and to the east are the open moorlands of the Dark Peak. The local economy benefits from the many thousands of tourists who visit the park each year and who use Glossop as the Gateway to the Peak.
Landmarks
Wren Nest Mill
Wren Nest Mill on High Street West was built c. 1800–10, with further extensions in 1815 and 1818, the latter incorporating an octagonal tower. The present building is a small part of the original complex, which in its heyday employed 1,400 workers operating 123,000 spindles and 2,541 looms. It ceased trading in 1955. A major fire in 1996 destroyed half the mill. The remaining half has been redeveloped into flats and retail units.
Wood's Mill, Howardtown Mills, Milltown Mills
From a group of small mills at Bridge End, John Wood built a complex of mills. Bridge End Mill was originally built in 1782 as a fulling mill. Today one mill building is being restored, and the Milltown mills lie idle.
Town hall
Glossop Town Hall and Market Hall was designed in Italianate style by Sheffield architects Weightman and Hadfield. The foundation stone was laid on 28 June 1838, the Coronation Day of Queen Victoria. The buildings were opened on 10 July 1845. Cost of construction exceeded £8,500. The facilities included a lock-up with four cells heated by hot water.
Dinting Viaduct
The viaduct was built in 1845, and later reinforced with additional piers. An accident occurred in 1855, when an MS&LR passenger train was stopped by signalling on the viaduct at night. Two men and a woman mistook the parapet of the viaduct for the station platform at Hadfield, alighted from the train and fell 75 feet to their deaths.
Parish Church of All Saints
The present-day (2008) fabric of the parish church of All Saints is mostly of the 20th century; very little remains of the previous churches on this site.
The first mention of a church in Glossop is in the charter of 1157 conferring the manor of Glossop on Basingwerk Abbey. Although the dedication of the church to All Saints may indicate an Anglo-Saxon origin, no trace of such a church has been found. The first recorded vicar is William, of 1252. At this time the church was probably aisleless. It was altered in the 15th century when the nave was rebuilt with arcades, aisles and a still-extant (2008) arch at the east end of the north aisle. In 1554 a new and taller tower with a broach spire was built 3 feet west of the old tower, incorporating the east wall of the previous tower. The nave was completely rebuilt in 1831, with removal and replacement of much of the old fabric including the tracery of the aisle windows. The work was carried out by the firm of E. W. Drury of Sheffield, the cost far exceeding the initial estimate of £700. When the nave was rebuilt in 1914 it was discovered that the arch leading to the chancel had been partly made up of plaster, the wall supported by this arch had not been bonded into the existing chancel walls, and the "oak" roof bosses were also plaster. Between the pillars of the nave sleeper walls had been built to a higher level than the pillar bases. These walls appear to have been needed to counteract the effects on the church structure of a combination of excess drainage from the nearby hillside and the numerous burials inside the church. The pillars of the new nave of 1914 were superimposed on the bases of the old pillars, and the floor built up to cover the sleeper walls.
The tower and chancel were demolished and rebuilt in 1853–55, the new tower also having a broach spire. The chancel was again rebuilt in 1923, completing the architect C. M. Hadfield's plan of 1914. The present church has a nave of 5 bays, 25 yards long by 16 yards wide, with north and south aisles, and a chancel of 14 yards by 7 yards with a north aisle dedicated as St Catherine's Chapel.
Open spaces
Two public open spaces in Glossop have been given the Green Flag Award: Manor Park close to the town centre, which has views of the surrounding countryside, and Howard Park, which was described by the Award organisation as "a good example of visionary layout from the Victorian era retaining many original features". Glossop's parkrun takes place in Manor Park every Saturday at 9am. Harehills Park, with its riverside footpath and mature trees, has been identified by Glossop Vision as a strategic open space, and was donated by the 2nd Lord Howard of Glossop as a First World War memorial.
Transport
Early private horse-drawn buses were first provided by the Glossop Carriage Company Ltd, and an electric tramway connected Glossop with Hadfield between 1903 and 1927. Public transport in Glossop is now coordinated by Derbyshire County Council, with the exception of rail travel and some bus services being provided by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM).
Railway
Glossop railway station is on the Glossop line between Manchester Piccadilly and Hadfield. There are generally half-hourly train services, increasing to every 20 minutes during rush hour, along this remaining stub of the former Woodhead Line.
A user group, the Friends of Glossop Station, are working to make the station more attractive and to encourage greater use of public transport. The trains operated on the line are three-car Class 323 electric multiple units, built between 1992 and 1996 by Hunslet Transportation Projects.
Buses
There are regular bus services running to towns in Tameside, Buxton, New Mills, Whaley Bridge, the Hope Valley, Sheffield and infrequent services to Holmfirth.
Bus services in Glossop are operated predominantly by High Peak and by Stagecoach Manchester, with the Sheffield service operated by Hulleys of Baslow.
Roads
The main road through Glossop is the A57. To the west, this road (with the parallel M67 motorway) leads to Manchester, while Sheffield and the Hope Valley lie to the east, via the Snake Pass. The B6105 leads north then east, along the Woodhead Pass (A628) and eventually to the South Yorkshire town of Barnsley and the M1 motorway. Chapel-en-le-Frith, Buxton and Derby lie to the south, along the A624 and A6.
Leisure
The Peak District Boundary Walk runs along the eastern side of town through Charlestown and Old Glossop and the Pennine Bridleway passes the western side of town around Gamesley and Hadfield.
Schools and further education
Sport
Glossop is the smallest town in England to have had a team in the top tier of the English football league system. Glossop North End were members of the Football League between 1898 and 1915; around the turn of the 20th century, they played in Division One. The team now plays in the North West Counties Football League Premier Division.
The town also has a number of sports clubs, including tennis, golf, rugby union, cricket, bowls, running, cycling and sailing at Torside reservoir.
Culture
Performing arts
Partington Theatre is an amateur theatre with a 120-seat venue in the centre of the town. It runs six plays each season and was established in 1954. The building was started in 1914 and completed in 1917. Glossop Operatic and Dramatic Society is an amateur musical/drama society established in 1976, and Glossop & District Choral Society is a community choir founded in 1949 by Margaret Lomas.
Community events
Glossop Victorian Weekend was the biggest weekend event in Glossop and was featured on the BBC's Songs of Praise. The weekend included many activities, including a Grand Victorian Costume Competition and a Shop Window Competition. The Victorian Weekend was discontinued in 2009 due to lack of local support. Running parallel with the Victorian Weekend was Glossop Beer Festival, run by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) and featuring over 30 beers and a barbecue in Glossop's Labour Club.
Glossop has a range of other cultural activities including Peak Film Society, a film club. Many other activities, including Glossop Folk Club take place at Glossop Labour Club. Also at Glossop Labour Club is the monthly Glossop Record Club, which holds vinyl listening sessions on the second Thursday of each month.
Glossop has a thriving indoor and outdoor market where a wide selection of goods can be purchased. The indoor market is open every Thursday, Friday and Saturday, while the outdoor market is open every Friday and Saturday. The Outdoor Market is joined by the Local Produce Market on the 2nd Saturday of every month throughout the year.
The Crown Inn public house at 142 Victoria Street, built in the 1840s, is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.
Emergency service provision
Calls for service in the rural areas usually increase during the summer as the population is boosted by approximately twenty million visitors each year to the Peak District and its surrounds. Winter weather on the high ground around Glossop and Kinder Scout can also cause problems for traffic and residents.
Hospitals
State healthcare is provided for in Glossop and District by the NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board. Despite this, patients from the area use Tameside General Hospital located in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester because there are no district general hospitals (hospitals with an Accident and Emergency Department) within the borough of High Peak. The nearest hospital with A&E facilities within the county is located at Chesterfield, some 30 miles from the town by road.
Ambulance and paramedics
The North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) is the main ambulance service provider for the area, with an ambulance station based on Chapel Street. However, services are occasionally complimented and assisted by the East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) in times of high demand, or to assist with a major incident.
Police and crime
When Glossop was granted Municipal Borough Status in 1867, the Watch Committee elected to implement its own police force. Glossop Police remained independent until 1947 when they amalgamated with the Derbyshire Constabulary. The police station on Ellison Street is staffed by statutory police officers from B Division of Derbyshire Constabulary. It has a custody suite, five cells and an incident room. There are also a team of volunteer special constables and six police community support officers.
Fire service
General fire and rescue cover is provided by the Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service. Glossop fire station is based in the Charlestown area, just off the A624 road.
Mountain rescue
Specialised search and rescue services are provided by the volunteer Glossop Mountain Rescue Team, part of the Peak District Mountain Rescue Organisation. Their remit is to 'save lives in the mountains and moorlands'.
Twin town
Bad Vilbel (Hesse, Germany)
Bad Vilbel is a spa town in the Wetteraukreis district of Hesse, Germany, north-east of Frankfurt.
In 1985 the Glossop–Bad Vilbel Twinning Association was established. Its aims are:To promote and foster friendship and understanding between the people of Glossop and district and those of Bad Vilbel and district in Germany.
To encourage visits by individuals and groups to and from the linked towns, particularly by children and young people, and the development of personal contacts, and by doing so to broaden the mutual understanding of the cultural, recreational, educational and commercial activities of the linked towns.Source: The Glossop-Bad Vilbel Twinning Association
In 1987 formal twinning ceremonies were held in both towns, with a tree being planted in Norfolk Square. The Twinning Association arranges for visitors to stay with families.
The two signatories of the charter were Catherine Holtom, the Mayor of High Peak, and Gunther Biwer, Bürgermeister of Bad Vilbel.
Literature and the media
Hilaire Belloc wrote about Glossop in a letter to a Miss Hamilton in 1909: "Do you know the filthy village of Glossop? It is inhabited entirely by savages. I tried every inn in the place and found each inn worse than the last. It stinks for miles. Rather than sleep in such a den I started walking back to Manchester with a huge bag...."
Glossop is mentioned in the satirical book England, Their England by A. G. Macdonell. The town's fictional newspaper, the Glossop Evening Mail, is described as the lowest rung in the journalistic profession.
In 2013, Old Glossop was used for filming in the BBC drama series The Village, starring John Simm and Maxine Peake. The Parish Church of All Saints and the former Duke of Norfolk school building appeared in the series.
Local newspapers includes the Glossop Advertiser newspaper owned by the Manchester Evening News, the Glossop Chronicle, the Buxton Advertiser, the Glossop Gazette,
Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC North West and ITV Granada.
The town’s local radio stations are BBC Radio Manchester, Glossop Community Radio and Greatest Hits Radio Derbyshire (High Peak), formerly known as High Peak Radio.
Notable persons
Andy Cannon (born 1996) – professional footballer playing for Wrexham A.F.C., lived in Simmondley and attended St Philip Howard Catholic Voluntary Academy.
Eileen Cooper (born 1953) – English contemporary painter and printmaker best known for her stylised paintings of women or couples, often featuring animals (particularly tigers).
Nicholas Garlick (c. 1555 – 24 July 1588) – English priest, martyred in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
Benjamin Charles Garside (born 1863) – Wisconsin machinist and Populist legislator.
Matthew Ellison Hadfield (1812–1885) – Gothic Revival architect, born at Lees Hall.
Jeremy Heywood, The Lord Heywood of Whitehall (31 December 1961 – 4 November 2018) – served as Cabinet Secretary to David Cameron and Theresa May between 2012 and 2018 and Head of the Home Civil Service from 2014 to 2018. Lived on Spire Hollin.
John Vernon Lord (born 1939) – illustrator and author of children's books, such as The Giant Jam Sandwich, and Professor of Illustration at the University of Brighton. His grandfather and father owned Lord's Café at 16 High Street West from 1901 to 1963.
Hilary Mantel DBE (1952–2022) – British novelist, short story writer and critic.
Dan Money (born 1976) – British bobsleigher who represented Great Britain at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.
Paul Raymond, born Geoffrey Anthony Quinn (15 November 1925 – 2 March 2008) – English strip-club owner, publisher of pornography and property developer, widely dubbed the "King of Soho". The outbreak of World War II prompted relocation to Glossop where he was educated by the Irish Christian Brothers.
Frederick Rowbottom (16 January 1938 – 12 October 2009) – British logician and mathematician. In set theory, a Rowbottom Cardinal is named after him.
Andy Wilman (b. 16 August 1962) – co-creator and producer, BBC Top Gear, born in Glossop.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) – Austrian philosopher, stayed at the Grouse Inn in Glossop in 1908 while studying and working at Manchester University.
See also
Listed buildings in Glossop
References
External links
Glossop Gazette
Towns in Derbyshire
Towns and villages of the Peak District
Unparished areas in Derbyshire
Former civil parishes in Derbyshire
High Peak, Derbyshire |
69604199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20industry%20of%20Scotland | Space industry of Scotland | According to the UK Space Agency, there are 173 space companies currently operating in Scotland as of May 2021. These include spacecraft manufacturers, launch providers, downstream data analyzers, and research organisations.
In 2017/18 it was estimated that the space industry in Scotland employed approximately 8,000 people with an annual growth rate of 12% between 2013 and 2018. London Economics published a report projecting £2billion in income for Scotland's space cluster by 2030. Scottish space industry jobs represent almost 1 in 5 of all UK space industry employment.
Scottish Space Groups
Space Scotland
Space Scotland (formerly Scottish Space Leadership Council) is an industry coordinating body created to promote the Scottish space industry. In conjunction with Scottish Space Academic Forum and The Scottish Government, they have published A Strategy for Space in Scotland 2021. This document describes a plan for the continued development of the Scottish space industry over the next decade.
Space Centres in Scotland
Higgs Centre for Innovation
The Higgs Centre for Innovation was created by the Science and Technology Facilities Council at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh to incubate space startups, provide the sector with facilities for building and demonstrating space technologies, and to give doctoral candidates startup and entrepreneurial experience. The facilities include cleanrooms, cryostats, vibration shaker tables, thermal chambers, and EMC testing facilities. The Higgs Centre is one of four ESA Business Incubation Centres in the UK.
Bayes Centre
The Bayes Centre, at the University of Edinburgh, hosts a coordinating hub for space and satellite data science activities that brings together academia, NGOs, the space industry, and governmental organisations with a focus on commercializing university research.
Spaceports
There are multiple spaceports in varying phases of development in Scotland. Two Scottish spaceports, SaxaVord and Sutherland, are scheduled to have their first launches in 2022.
SaxaVord
SaxaVord Spaceport is located on the isle of Unst, in the Shetland Islands. It is planned to host Lockheed Martin's first rocket launches as well as Edinburgh-based Skyrora's launches.
Sutherland Space Hub
Sutherland spaceport is located in the north of the Scottish mainland. It currently has six launch contracts with rocket maker Orbex which is headquartered in Forres, Scotland.
Space Data Companies
Omanos Analytics
Omanos Analytics, based in Glasgow, combines earth observation data with ground source data to track operations of infrastructure projects such as mining, logging, and rubber plantations. These are monitored for their environmental and community impact, especially in hostile and low-infrastructure regions with the goal of supporting sustainable development.
Ecometrica
Ecometrica, with offices in Edinburgh, has developed an end-to-end environmental SaaS whose purpose is to analyze earth observation data combined with on-the-ground data collection sources to identify risks and opportunities for their customers. The software assists sustainability planning, operations and reporting.
Space Intelligence
Space Intelligence, based in Edinburgh, uses machine learning on remote sensing satellite data to classify landscapes, especially around deforestation and forest degradation, to provide businesses seeking to reduce their environmental impact with actionable data.
Trade in Space
Trade in Space, based in Edinburgh, uses satellite data to create smart contracts via the blockchain in real time for commodities such as coffee.
Carbomap
Carbomap, based in Edinburgh, builds tools to analyze and develop insights from environmental data from remote sensing satellites and UAVs. They work with governments, NGOs, and research institutes to map out forests and monitor deforestation.
EarthBlox
EarthBlox, based in Edinburgh, produces a no-code SaaS interface to obtain and analyze data from remote sensing satellites for applications ranging from flood damage, crop production, and climate change.
AstroSat
AstroSat, based in Edinburgh, combines satellite data with ground source data to monitor and analyze problems ranging from fuel poverty in Britain, natural disaster response, and construction monitoring.
Bird.i
Bird.i, based in Glasgow, uses satellite data to provide businesses with monitoring of infrastructure projects such as mining, oil and gas, and construction. It was acquired in April 2020 by Zonda.
Rocket makers
Skyrora
Skyrora, based in Edinburgh, builds rockets suited for the launch of small satellites. The Skyrora XL rocket is intended to launch payloads of up to 315 kg into a Sun-synchronous orbit between 500 and 1000 km or a polar orbit between 200 and 1000 km. Their first scheduled launch is in 2023.
Orbex
Orbex, based in Forres (about 25 miles northeast of Inverness), is developing a rocket called Prime that is intended to launch nano satellites into a polar orbit. The first launch is targeted to end of 2022.
References
Scotland
Industry in Scotland
Science and technology in Scotland |
19526125 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manzano%20Mountains%20State%20Park | Manzano Mountains State Park | Manzano Mountains State Park is a state park of New Mexico, United States, located north of Mountainair on the eastern slope of the Manzano Mountains. The park is popular for camping, bird-watching, hiking, and photography.
The Manzano Mountains are a part of the same geological feature that formed the Sandia Mountains to the north, but the Manzano Mountains are more remote and less developed.
References
External links
Manzano Mountains State Park
State parks of New Mexico
Parks in Torrance County, New Mexico
Protected areas established in 1973
1973 establishments in New Mexico |
50577868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansai%20Kaisers%20football | Kansai Kaisers football | The Kansai Kaisers football program represents Kansai University in college football. Kansai is a member of the Kansai Collegiate American Football League (KCAFL).
History
In 1935, Kansai Kaisers was established. They are one of the three members which established KCAFL.
In 1948, they won their fist Koshien Bowl, beating Meiji University 6–0. They qualified to Koshien for two consecutive years but this time they were defeated by Keio Gijuku University 7–14.
For next 6 decades, they missed Koshien Bowl as Kwansei Gakuin University dominates Kansai League. Also, rise of Ritsumeikan University and Kyoto University led the Kaisers to relegation to Div. 2 from late 1980's to early 2000's.
However, the team started rising and in 2009, their hard work paid off and became a national champion for the first time in 61 years.
They have been regularly a title contender after that.
References
External links
American football teams established in 1935
American football in Japan
1935 establishments in Japan |
52440 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/435 | 435 |
Year 435 (CDXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Theodosius and Valentinianus (or, less frequently, year 1188 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 435 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Events
By place
Roman Empire
Roman general (magister militum) Flavius Aetius begins a campaign in Gaul against the Burgundians, following their raids into neighbouring Gallia Belgica by King Gunther.
November 14 – Emperor Theodosius II orders a new edict for the death penalty of all heretics and pagans in the Empire. Judaism is considered a legal non-Christian religion.
Africa
King Genseric concludes a peace treaty with the Romans, under which the Vandals retain Mauretania and a part of Numidia as foederati (allies under a special treaty) of Rome.
The Vandals use Hippo Regius (modern Annaba) as a port for their expeditions. Genseric establishes a merchant fleet to transport goods between Africa and the Italian mainland.
Huneric, eldest son of Genseric, is sent as a child hostage to the court at Ravenna to secure the alliance with the Western Roman Empire.
Central America
August 10 – A figure known to Mayanist scholars as "Casper" begins a 52-year reign in the Mayan city-state of Palenque what is now the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico, and reigns until his death in 487.
December 8 – On the Mayan calendar, the era of the 9th Baktun begins. There is a change in political alliances just preceding the event when royal personages from the Mexican highland city of Teotihuacan consolidate power individually as Mayan kings.
By topic
Religion
August 3 – Theodosius II exiles Nestorius, archbishop of Constantinople, to a monastery in the Libyan desert at the behest of his sister Pulcheria.
Ibas is elected bishop of Edessa. He becomes associated with the growth of Nestorianism and openly preaching heretical doctrines in public.
Births
Deaths
John Cassian, Desert Father and theologian
Pelagius, British monk (approximate date)
Philip of Side, Christian church historian (approximate date)
Rabbula, bishop of Edessa
References |
21158502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariant%C3%B3w%2C%20Turek%20County | Mariantów, Turek County | Mariantów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Władysławów, within Turek County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.
References
Villages in Turek County |
33141390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadliest%20Crash%3A%20The%20Le%20Mans%201955%20Disaster | Deadliest Crash: The Le Mans 1955 Disaster | Deadliest Crash: The Le Mans 1955 Disaster is a documentary film made by Bigger Picture Films for the BBC in 2009. It was originally aired on BBC Four on Sunday, 16 May 2010. It was subsequently repeated on BBC Two and BBC Four.
The programme tells the story of the 1955 Le Mans disaster in which Pierre Levegh's Mercedes 300 SLR smashed into the crowd, killing 83 people and injuring 120 more.
References
External links
BBC Programme Page for The Deadliest Crash
Official Web Page
Bigger Picture Films
2009 television films
2009 films
British auto racing films
Documentary films about auto racing
Documentary films about disasters
2009 documentary films
2000s disaster films
British sports documentary films
2000s British films |
47640194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports%20in%20Odisha | Sports in Odisha | Sports is an important part of the culture of Odisha and hence it plays a key role in development of the state. Field hockey, athletics, tennis, rugby union, rugby sevens, association football and cricket is the most popular sports in the Indian state of Odisha.
It is also called as 'Sports Capital'.
The Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar hosted the 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup from 28 November to 16 December 2018.
Events
Odisha have been hosting various sporting events in the recent years.
Athletics
Badminton
Football
Hockey
Rugby
Table Tennis
Tennis
Leagues
State
National
National Leagues Hosted by Odisha
Football
Hockey
Field hockey
Field hockey is the most popular sport in the state. In a first-of-its-kind association, the Government of Odisha, has become the first state government in India to sponsor a national team. In early 2018, the government launched its sporting logo, signing a five-year sponsorship agreement with Hockey India, replacing the former sponsors. Odisha field hockey team has been providing India, with some extremely talented players, who eventually are called up for the national teams, i.e. India men's national field hockey team and India women's national field hockey team.
The 35th edition of the Hockey Champions Trophy i.e. 2014 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy was held between in Bhubaneswar, India.
The 3rd and the last edition of the FIH Hockey World League, i.e. the qualification stage for the 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup, was held in Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, Odisha
The 14th edition of the Hockey World Cup i.e. 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup, was held from 28 November to 16 December 2018, at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Belgium turned out to be the champions after defeating Netherlands in the Final on 16 December 2018.
In 2019, the Government of Odisha, Tata Steel & Tata Trusts (Hockey Ace foundation) joined hands to launch Odisha Naval Tata Hockey High Performance Centre to train and prepare the next generation of hockey talent in the state.
Athletics
Sport of athletics is another major sport in the state. Odisha has been producing some of the India's finest athletes who dominate in national and international sporting events. The 22nd edition of the Asian Athletics Championships i.e. 2017 Asian Athletics Championships, was held from 6 to 9 July 2017 at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. Around 560 athletes from 41 countries attended the international event.
Football
Association football is also an uprising, popular sport in Odisha. Football Association of Odisha (FAO) is the administrating governing body for football in Odisha. In women's football particularly, the Odisha women's football team has dominated at national levels. They have a team Odisha FC that plays and compete with others in ISL.
Rugby
Rugby is popular both in men and women categories in Odisha. The Odisha Rugby Football Association is the state's administrating body for rugby football in Odisha. The Odisha women's rugby union team and Odisha women's rugby sevens team have been dominating since the past decade having won nearly all competitions at national levels. On the other hand, Odisha rugby union team and Odisha rugby sevens team have also made odisha proud with their performance at national levels. Both men and women of Odisha have provided India some of its best players.
Odisha will be hosting the Asia Rugby Women's Championship from 26 to 28 October 2018.
High Performance Centres
The Government of Odisha, in collaboration with various entities, have launched a few High Performance Centres at Kalinga Stadium in order to provide high-class training, facilities and infrastructure to the young sportsmen of Odisha. The list of HPCs is as follows:
Abhinav Bindra Targeting Performance (ABTP)
Dalmia Bharat Gopichand Badminton Academy
JSW Swimming HPC
Khelo India State Centre of Excellence (KISCE) for Athletics, Hockey, and Weightlifting
KJS Ahluwalia and Tenvic Sports HPC for Weightlifting
Odisha Naval Tata Hockey High Performance Centre (ONTHHPC)
Odisha Aditya Birla and Gagan Narang Shooting HPC
Reliance Foundation Odisha Athletics HPC
SAI Regional Badminton Academy
AIFF High Performance Centre
References
External links
Odisha Government Portal
Sports & Youth Services (Government of Odisha)
Odisha Naval Tata Hockey HPC official website
Sport in Odisha |
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