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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Scandling
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William Scandling
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William F. "Bill" Scandling (June 17, 1922 – August 22, 2005) was an American businessman and philanthropist who was one of the founders of Saga Corporation, a multi-billion dollar food service and restaurant company. Scandling donated money to his alma mater Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He also funded the redevelopment of the Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development at the University of Rochester which was renamed to honor his wife in 1993.
Biography
Scandling grew up in Rochester, New York, and attended several Rochester area high schools, graduating from Brighton High School in 1940. He started work as a salesman for a Men's Clothier spending some time travelling through the midwest. He was called to military service in July 1942 and served in the Pacific theater for the Army Air Forces during World War II. In his military service, he eventually rose to the rank of Technical Sergeant working for the Army Airways Communication System.
At the close of the war Scandling enrolled at Hobart College with financial support from the G.I. Bill and became a member of The Kappa Alpha Society. In 1948 Scandling, along with fellow veteran-classmates Harry W. Anderson and W. P. Laughlin, took over operation of the Hobart dining hall which had been nearing bankruptcy. The following year they started providing dining services for William Smith College. Scandling graduated from Hobart in 1949 with a degree on Economics. He and his partners continued to operate their cafeteria business and incorporated it in the late 1940s. After learning that Geneva was built on an old Native American village called Kanadasaga, it was decided that Saga Corporation would be a fitting name for the new company.
In the summer of 1952, Saga opened operations at their third account at Kalamazoo College. In 1962, Saga's national headquarters opened in Menlo Park, California. In 1968, Saga went public, offering 321,000 shares of common stock. By 1970, Saga was serving meals to hospitals and retirement communities in addition to college cafeterias and was also operating its first two restaurant chains Black Angus and the Velvet Turtle. By 1973 Saga was serving more than 400,000,000 meals a year. Other restaurant chains operated by Saga included Straw Hat Pizza and MacArthur Park. At its height Saga ran food service contracts for more than 400 universities, colleges, hospitals, and retirement homes.
Scandling served as Saga Corporation's president from 1968 to 1978. He said that one of his proudest achievements was in 1984, when Saga was named one of the 100 best companies in America to work for, according to his family.
In 1986, Scandling and his partners sold Saga to Marriott Corporation in a hostile takeover valued at more than $400 million. Despite the sale Scandling had opposed the takeover and wrote about it in a 1994 book The Saga of Saga: the Life and Death of an American Dream. Writing in the Winter 1997 issue of the Pultney Street Survey alumni and alumnae magazine for Hobart and William Smith Colleges Dana Cooke wrote about Saga corporation that "In the 39 years it existed, the company changed the face of college food service nationwide, introducing contracting and service concepts to the industry. It pioneered a staff-empowerment management style decades before such philosophies came into vogue."
Scandling was awarded an honorary degree from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in 1967. In 1998 Saga Corporation founders Scandling, Anderson, and Laughlin were awarded the Medal of Excellence from the Hobart Alumni Association. At that time the Colleges and Marriott had a ceremony to note the legacy of Saga Corporation and the main dining hall in the Scandling Center was formally renamed Saga.
Scandling's first wife Margaret Warner Scandling died in 1990. In 1995, Scandling married Yvette Farquharson-Oliver. The Scandlings had a son named Michael, and resided in Atherton, California. Scandling died August 22, 2005, in Montreal, at the age of 83.
Scandling was a member of many professional societies. He was a member of the Menlo Country Club in Woodside, California, and the Seneca Yacht Club in Geneva, New York. Scandling established the Scandling Family Foundation in 2000.
Philanthropy
Scandling served on the Board of Trustees for Hobart and William Smith Colleges for 20 years and was the chairman for 11 from 1972 to 1983. In 1984, the Scandling Student Center at Hobart and William Smith Colleges was named to honor Scandling's generous philanthropic commitment to the Colleges. The Colleges' 65 foot research vessel was renamed from HWS Explorer to William F. Scandling in his honor. In 2003, Scandling made the largest gift in the history of Hobart and William Smith Colleges ($15 million). Scandling's gifts to Hobart and William Smith Colleges totaled more than $30 million. In 1997, then President of Hobart and William Smith Colleges Richard H. Hersh was reported by Dana Cooke to have said: "Most colleges like ours have patron saints and guardian angels, who are key to their surviving and thriving. Bishop Hobart, William Smith, a few presidents, and Bill Scandling are in that category for us." in the Winter 1997 issue of the Pultney Street Survey alumni and alumnae magazine.
The Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development at the University of Rochester (established 1958) was renamed in 1993 to honor the memory and legacy of his late wife, Margaret Warner Scandling, who had graduated from the University of Rochester in 1944. Mr. Scandling made gifts over the years totaling more than $14 million to the Warner School.
In addition to Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and the University of Rochester, Scandling was a major contributor to Johns Hopkins University where he established The Paul R. McHugh Endowed Chair in Motivated Behaviors in 1998, Deep Springs College where he served on the Board of Trustees for 8 years, the Salk Institute where a $1 million gift funded the William Scandling Developmental Chair for an assistant professor, and Northern Arizona University.
The Scandlings created the Scandling Family Foundation in 2000. Scandling and the foundation also contributed to many community-based organizations and causes such as the Peninsula Habitat for Humanity, the Marine Science Institute in Redwood City, California, the Equestrian Therapy Program at the Stein Education Center main campus of Vista Hill Foundation center in San Diego, as well as the John Hart Hunter Educational Foundation of The Kappa Alpha Society. Scandling also contributed to political fundraising drives such as the Campbell (R) for Senate campaign.
See also
Kappa Alpha Society Alumni
Bibliography
(1994) The Saga of Saga: The Life and Death of an American Dream 382 pp.; Vista Linda Press; Mill Valley, CA; .
References
External links
The Saga Foundation founded by William P. Laughlin, co-founder of the Saga Corporation is dedicated to raising awareness and creating models for action to increase nuclear safety and security.
1922 births
2005 deaths
Businesspeople from Rochester, New York
Hobart and William Smith Colleges alumni
United States Army Air Forces soldiers
United States Army personnel of World War II
20th-century American businesspeople
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9jaumont
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Réjaumont
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Réjaumont may refer to the following places in France:
Réjaumont, Gers, a commune in the Gers department
Réjaumont, Hautes-Pyrénées, a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department
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Steven Rosengard
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Steven Rosengard is an independent American fashion designer. He designs his eponymous line in Chicago, Illinois, and was a contestant in season four of the Bravo reality television show Project Runway.
Childhood and education
Rosengard grew up in the south suburbs of Chicago and is the youngest of four children. A graduate of Morgan Park Academy, Rosengard entered the fashion design program at Columbia College Chicago. After one year, Rosengard left Columbia to travel abroad; upon returning from travels to France, Italy, and England, Rosengard enrolled in the Dutch Studies program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Career
In 2005, Rosengard began working with clients to create custom couture under his eponymous label. Featured in Chicago Fashion Week, Rosengard emerged as a designer on the Chicago fashion scene before his appearance on Project Runway, a reality show on Bravo in which designers compete against each other in a variety of fashion challenges.
In 2006, Rosengard auditioned for season three of Project Runway and made it through all rounds of auditioning, but in the end was selected to be an alternate. His audition video, along with footage from his actual audition with Tim Gunn and Nick Verreos was shown on "Road to Runway: Season 3 - Casting Special".
In 2007, Rosengard was selected to be a contestant on the fourth season of Project Runway. The designers competed for the opportunity to show their Spring 2008 collection at New York Fashion Week, an editorial feature in Elle magazine, $100,000 (furnished by TRESemmé) to start their own line, the opportunity to sell their line on Bluefly, and a 2008 Saturn Astra. Rosengard was eliminated in the season's fifth episode.
Upon his return to Chicago after filming for Project Runway ended, Rosengard designed "The Perfect Rose Dress" for Gaga's, a Chicago-based boutique specializing in children's formal attire. The dress was featured on In the Loop with iVillage.
References
American fashion designers
LGBTQ fashion designers
Project Runway (American series) participants
Morgan Park Academy alumni
Artists from Chicago
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente%20Nicolau%20de%20Mesquita
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Vicente Nicolau de Mesquita
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Vicente Nicolau de Mesquita (July 9, 1818, in São Lourenço, Portuguese Macau – March 20, 1880, in São Lourenço, Portuguese Macau) was an officer of the Portuguese Army in Macau. He is widely remembered for his role at the Portuguese attack of Baishaling, in 1849. He was the oldest of the five children of noted Macanese lawyer Frederico Albino de Mesquita and Clara Esmeralda Carneiro – both Macau natives. He married twice: first to Balbina Maria da Silveira; second to his sister-in-law Carolina Maria Josefa da Silveira.
Baishaling Incident
Immediately after a Chinese mob assassinated Governor Ferreira do Amaral on August 22, 1849, Chinese Imperial troops mobilized on the Guangdong Province – Macau frontier. The Portuguese population of Macau viewed this as an overtly threatening move by the Chinese to retake Macau. On August 25, 1849, with a numerically smaller group of 36 soldiers from his Artillery Battalion, against a defending force of 400 men and 20 cannons, the then Second Lieutenant Mesquita attacked and pacified the Chinese fort at Baishaling. This coup guaranteed Macau's security and upon his return to the city, Mesquita was received as a national hero.
Later years
In later years, Mesquita was wracked by depression due to his slow and inadequate promotion in the Portuguese military, allegedly due to being Macanese. He was further saddened by the lack official recognition of his role in protecting Macau. As a result, he suffered a series of severe nervous breakdowns – the last of which prompted his permanent retirement. His professional and personal life deteriorated rapidly afterwards. His madness reached its zenith on March 3, 1880 – at his fashionable home: nº 1, Largo da Bica do Lilau – when Mesquita murdered his second wife, a daughter and gravely wounded two other of his children. Afterwards, on that same day, Mesquia committed suicide by throwing himself down a well at his home.
Under these circumstances, the then present governor of Macau would not accord him a military burial, nor would the Bishop of Macau allow his remains to be placed in consecrated ground. Some thirty years later, on August 28, 1910, in conformity with public opinion on the importance of this man to the history of Macau, were his remains re-interred in the with full military and ecclesiastical honors.
Military career
June 9, 1835 – voluntarily enlisted in Batalhão do Principe Regente.
August 29, 1848 – promoted to second lieutenant in the Artillery Battalion of Macau, by patent letter.
December 12, 1850 – promoted to first lieutenant in the same Battalion by patent letter.
July 9, 1863 – made effective major, by decree of the same date.
February 7, 1867 – promoted to lieutenant colonel.
October 27, 1873 – promoted to colonel.
Notes
References
Forjaz, Jorge. Familias Macaenses. Macau: Instituto Português do Oriente, 1996. .
Teixeira, Manuel. Vicente Nicolau de Mesquita – Separata editada na inauguração do monumento ao herói do Passaleão. Macau: Leal Senado, 1940
Teixeira, Manuel. Vicente Nicolau de Mesquita – 2ª ed. Macau: Tipografia "Soi Sang", 1958.
1818 births
1880 deaths
19th-century Macau people
Macanese people
Murder–suicides in Asia
1880s suicides
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Catholic%20Diocese%20of%20Novo%20Mesto
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Novo Mesto
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The Diocese of Novo Mesto (; ) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in the city of Novo Mesto in the ecclesiastical province of Ljubljana in Slovenia.
History
April 7, 2006: Established as Diocese of Novo Mesto from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Ljubljana
Leadership
Bishops of Novo Mesto (Roman rite)
Bishop Andrej Glavan (7 April 2006 – 30 June 2021)
Bishop Andrej Saje (30 June 2021 – present)
See also
Roman Catholicism in Slovenia
External links
GCatholic.org
Catholic Hierarchy
Roman Catholic dioceses in Slovenia
Christian organizations established in 2006
Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 21st century
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9jaumont%2C%20Hautes-Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es
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Réjaumont (; ) is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France.
See also
Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department
References
Communes of Hautes-Pyrénées
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Arroman
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Saint-Arroman
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Saint-Arroman may refer to the following places in France:
Saint-Arroman, Gers, a commune in the Gers department
Saint-Arroman, Hautes-Pyrénées, a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Maryland%20fire%20departments
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List of Maryland fire departments
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Fire departments in the U.S. state of Maryland function in the principal cities, towns and communities in each county.
Allegany County
The borough of Wellersburg is in Somerset County, Pennsylvania where The Wellersburg District Volunteer Fire Company provides coverage as Station 630, but does provide primary fire protection and first responder service to portions of Allegany County as Station 630.
The CDP of Bloomington is in Garrett County, Maryland where it provides coverage as Station 100, but does provide primary fire protection to portions of Allegany County as Station 36.
The community of New Creek is in Mineral County, West Virginia, but does provide primary fire protection to portions of Allegany County, serving both counties as Station 38.
Anne Arundel County
All volunteer stations in Anne Arundel County have at least 2 career firefighter on staff 24x7, with the exception of Ferndale and Odenton.
A^ The Edgewater Volunteer Fire Department was known as the Woodland Beach Volunteer Fire Department from its founding until October 2, 2024 when a rebranding was announced.
B^ The Arundel Volunteer Fire Department merged with the Riva Volunteer Fire Department on June 12, 2024 with the Arundel VFD taking over the Riva corporation. Prior to this date, the Riva Volunteer Fire Department had been Station 3.
Baltimore County
Stations 1-19, 54-58, and 60 are fully staffed by career members of the Baltimore County Fire Department. Stations 20-51, 53, 74, 85, and 156 are independent companies staffed solely by volunteers. Station 175 is staffed by the Maryland Air National Guard.
A^ Central Alarmers (Rehab 155) was absorbed by the White Marsh Volunteer Fire Company in 2015.
B^ Violetville Volunteer Fire Company (Station 34) was absorbed by Lansdowne Volunteer Fire Department (Station 36) on February 1, 2017.
C^ Middleborough Volunteer Fire Company (Station 23), Rockaway Beach Volunteer Fire Company (Station 24), and Hyde Park Volunteer Fire Company (Station 25) merged on November 21, 2017 forming the Essex Volunteer Fire Company (Station 51).
D^ Sparrows Point Fire Department (Station 51) was a fire station operated at the former site of the Bethlehem Steel mill. Station 51 was disbanded with the closing of the mill and the fire station became a part of Baltimore County Fire Department as Station 57. The Baltimore County Fire-Rescue Academy is adjacent to the station.
E^ Middle River Volunteer Fire Company (Station 22) and Middle River Volunteer Ambulance Rescue Company (Station 52) merged on August 31, 2016, forming the Middle River Volunteer Fire & Rescue Company (Station 74).
F^ Boring Volunteer Fire Company (Station 42) and Arcadia Volunteer Fire Company (Station 43) merged on September 1, 2017, forming the Upperco Volunteer Fire Company (Station 85).
Baltimore City
Baltimore City Fire Department
Calvert County
Caroline County
The town of Marydel is in Caroline County, Maryland but the fire company is physically located across the state line in Kent County, Delaware, where it also provides coverage, causing the discrepancy in the numbering system.
A portion of the county is covered by Queen Anne-Hillsboro Volunteer Fire Co. from Queen Anne's County. The town of Hillsboro is in Caroline County, while the town of Queen Anne lies in both Queen Anne's and Talbot Counties.
Carroll County
Cecil County
Charles County
Dorchester County
Frederick County
Graceham Volunteer Fire Company Station 18, voted to dissolve in July 2024
Garrett County
Harford County
Howard County
12 Waterloo
7645 Port Capital Dr. Jessup MD
Engine 121, P125, B128, BC 1
13
{Glenwood in Woodbine Maryland
1 Engine 1 ALS transport Tanker Brush Truck
14
Merriweather in Columbia Maryland
6025 Symphony Woods Rd, Columbia, MD 21044
Kent County
Montgomery County
See Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service.
Prince George's County
Prince George's County Fire/EMS Department
Queen Anne's County
St. Mary's County
Somerset County
Talbot County
Queen Anne-Hillsboro Volunteer Fire Co. from Talbot County. The town of Hillsboro is in Caroline County, while the town of Queen Anne lies in both Queen Anne's and Talbot Counties.
Washington County
Wicomico County
1 - The town of Delmar, Maryland is in Wicomico County, Maryland but the fire company is physically located across the state line in Delmar, Delaware, in Sussex County, Delaware, where it also provides coverage.
2 - Informal designation/placeholder, not officially numbered.
Worcester County
Defunct
See also
Engine House No. 8 (Baltimore, Maryland)
Great Baltimore Fire
Howard County Fire and Rescue (Maryland)
Maryland State Fire Marshal
Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service
Poppleton Fire Station
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Babe
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My Babe
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"My Babe" is a Chicago blues song and a blues standard written by Willie Dixon for Little Walter. Released in 1955 on Checker Records, a subsidiary of Chess Records, the song was the only Dixon composition ever to become a number one R&B single and it was one of the biggest hits of either of their careers.
Background
Willie Dixon based "My Babe" on the traditional gospel song "This Train (Is Bound For Glory)", recorded by Sister Rosetta Tharpe as "This Train". He reworked the arrangement and lyrics from the sacred (the procession of saints into Heaven) into the secular (a story about a woman that won't stand for her man's cheating): "My baby, she don't stand no cheating, my babe, she don't stand none of that midnight creeping."
Recording
In his autobiography, Dixon recalled:
Little Walter recorded the song on January 25, 1955. Accompanying his vocal and harmonica were Robert Lockwood, Jr. and Leonard Caston on guitars, Willie Dixon on double-bass, and Fred Below on drums. Guitarist Luther Tucker, then a member of Walter's band, was absent from the recording session that day. "My Babe" was re-issued in 1961 with an overdubbed female vocal backing chorus and briefly crossed over to the pop charts.
Releases and charts
Ray Charles had famously, and controversially, pioneered the gospel-song-to-secular-song approach with his reworking of the gospel hymn "It Must Be Jesus" into "I Got a Woman," which hit the Billboard R&B charts on January 22, 1955, later climbing to the number one position for one week. Within days of the appearance of Charles's song on the national charts, Little Walter recorded "My Babe" and Checker released it while "I've Got a Woman" was still on the charts. The single eclipsed Charles's record by spending 19 weeks on the Billboard R&B charts beginning on March 12, 1955, including five weeks at the top position, making it one of the biggest R&B hits of 1955. The B-side of "My Babe" was the harmonica instrumental "Thunderbird," following the pattern established by the release of Little Walter's number one hit single from 1952, "Juke," of featuring a vocal performance ("Can't Hold On Much Longer") on one side and a harmonica instrumental on the flip side.
Recognition and influence
In 2008, "My Babe" was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in the "Classic of Blues Recording – Singles or Album Tracks" category. The song has been recorded by artists with a variety of backgrounds, including rock, R&B, country, and jazz.
References
1955 songs
Little Walter songs
Songs written by Willie Dixon
Blues songs
Checker Records singles
Ike & Tina Turner songs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Arroman%2C%20Hautes-Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es
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Saint-Arroman, Hautes-Pyrénées
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Saint-Arroman (; ) is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France.
See also
Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department
References
Communes of Hautes-Pyrénées
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Cr%C3%A9ac
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Saint-Créac
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Saint-Créac may refer to the following places in France:
Saint-Créac, Gers, a commune in the Gers department
Saint-Créac, Hautes-Pyrénées, a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Hadley
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Paul Hadley
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Paul Hadley was an American artist, mainly a watercolorist, who is known for his creation of the current flag of Indiana. He lived most of his life in Mooresville, Indiana. A middle school in Mooresville is named after him.
Early life
Paul Hadley was born on August 5, 1880, in Indianapolis, Indiana, to Evan Hadley and Ella Quinn Hadley. He was the youngest of four sons. When Paul was born, he and his family lived in 187 Virginia Avenue, Indianapolis. Hadley was a student at Indianapolis High School. He dropped out after his freshman year to attend the Manual Training High School, in order to study art under Otto Stark. After graduating, Hadley furthered his art studies at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia in 1900 for two years, and later at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in the same city in 1903.
Career
Paul Hadley created stained glass pieces and did interior design for churches and wealthy homes. In 1922, Hadley became a facility member at the Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis. For the first ten years of working at Herron School of Art, Hadley taught classes in watercolor and interior design. He later served as Assistant Curator at the school. In May 1933, Hadley was fired due to the school struggling during the Great Depression. Shortly after creating the state flag, he began a new career as a muralist.
Artwork
Hadley created several watercolor pieces. His watercolors were displayed and sold at the annual Hoosier Salon, the Indiana Artists Club, and the Indiana State Fair art exhibitions. Hadley typically won several awards for his watercolors from each event. In 1921, Hadley rented a fifth floor studio in the Union Trust Building, now demolished, at 120 East Market Street in Indianapolis. During the autumn of 2021, Hadley spent three months painting in Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, and England. Upon returning to the United States, some of his paintings were exhibited at the Indianapolis Women's Department Club. By the end of the decade, Hadley had given up his art studio, but he continued to paint, mainly in his home in Mooresville. His watercolors are now on display at the Indiana State Museum, Emmerich Manual High School, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Creation of the flag
To commemorate the state's 1916 centennial anniversary, the Indiana General Assembly issued a resolution to adopt a new state flag. At the request of the General Assembly, a contest was sponsored by the Indiana Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution to design a flag to serve as the official state banner. As an incentive to increase the number of submissions, the contest offered the winner a $100 cash prize. More than 200 submissions were received, including several from Hadley. An entry created by Hadley was ultimately chosen as the winner of the contest and the cash prize.
Hadley made several copies of his original flag design. When he would create a flag, he would cut out the symbols and glue them onto the flag. The material he used for the symbols had a shiny gold appearance. Prior to Hadley's flag, Irwin B. Arnold and William C. Langdon had both created proposal flags that had very similar design elements. These flags were likely inspirations for Paul Hadley's flag design.
On May 31, 1917, Hadley's flag was chosen as the state's official banner. The General Assembly made only one change to Hadley's original design: they added the word Indiana, in a crescent shape, over the top of the large star. The state banner was later designated as the state flag in a statute passed in 1955 that also standardized the dimensions of the flag.
To honor Hadley for the creation of the state flag, the new junior high school in Mooresville was renamed to Paul Hadley Middle School in July of 1965. Hadley's hometown of Mooresville adopted "Home of the State Flag" as its official motto in November of 1965.
Personal life
Hadley's family first moved to Mooresville, Indiana, in late 1902. Paul and his parents built a small two-story house on West South Street. The house was later moved to 320 Lockerboe Street where it still stands. Paul's father, Dr. Evan Hadley, died in May 1903. Paul permanently moved to Mooresville in 1912 to help care for his mother and for his older brother, Evan, who was developmentally disabled. After Paul's mother died in 1930, Paul and Evan sold the house in 1950. They moved into a smaller house at 24 East Washington Street until Evan died in 1954. The house was soon demolished after Paul moved out the same year. Hadley moved into a small apartment at 115 North East Street in Plainfield, Indiana. Because Hadley never learned how to drive, he moved to Plainfield to be close to a regular bus line to Indianapolis. Six years later, Hadley moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, to be closer to relatives. In June 1969, Hadley finally moved into the Reid Memorial Nursing Home in Richmond, Indiana, to be closer to his other family.
Haldey was a Quaker for all of his life, and he was very humble. His close friends described him as a tall and erect man with white hair. He was known to be a quiet, modest, and dignified person. His friends enjoyed him for his occasional and unexpected quick humor. Beyond his friends, he was known for collecting oddly shaped and ornately decorated antique bottles. Hadley loved nature. He enjoyed taking long walks in the country, which would serve as inspiration for his watercolors. Hadley was a member of the Mooresville nature club and the Mooresville Friends Church.
Paul Hadley died on January 31, 1971 at the age of 90 in Richmond, Indiana. A few days later, the Indiana Senate passed a resolution acknowledging his passing. The resolution referred to Hadley as "the dean of Hoosier watercolor artists".
Gallery
See also
List of Indiana state symbols
Eliza "Lizzie" Callis
References
1880 births
1971 deaths
20th-century American male artists
Flag designers
Artists from Indiana
People from Mooresville, Indiana
20th-century American designers
20th-century American artists
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Saint-Créac, Hautes-Pyrénées
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Saint-Créac (; ) is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France.
See also
Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department
References
Communes of Hautes-Pyrénées
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salles%2C%20Hautes-Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es
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Salles, Hautes-Pyrénées
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Salles (; ) is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France.
See also
Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department
References
Communes of Hautes-Pyrénées
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina%20Pizzolongo
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Lina Pizzolongo
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Lina Pizzolongo (January 25, 1925, Montreal - September 21, 1991, Toronto) was a Canadian vocal coach and concert pianist. She was married to baritone Louis Quilico and was the mother of two children Donna and Gino Quilico, also a baritone.
Career
She studied first at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal, with Yvonne Hubert, then at the "École normale de musique" in Paris, with Alfred Cortot and Marguerite Long, and at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome with Carlo Zecchi. She performed as a soloist with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and the CBC Radio Orchestra. She taught as an instructor first at the Montréal Conservatory, and later at the University of Toronto from 1970 to 1987, and the McGill University from 1987 to 1990. As a vocal coach and accompanist, she was the primary influence in the careers of her husband Louis and son Gino.
External links
Lina Quilico (Canadian Encyclopedia of Music)
1925 births
1991 deaths
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia alumni
Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal alumni
Musicians from Montreal
Academic staff of the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal
Academic staff of the University of Toronto
Academic staff of McGill University
20th-century Canadian pianists
20th-century Canadian women pianists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sers
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Sers
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Sers may refer to:
Sers, Armenia
Sers, Charente, France
Sers, Hautes-Pyrénées, France
Sers, Tunisia
SERS may refer to:
Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)
Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme, a housing strategy in Singapore
Pennsylvania State Employees' Retirement System (SERS), a public pension system
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John Whitley (prison warden)
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John P. Whitley (born January 1944 in Hammond, Louisiana) is a former Louisiana corrections officer who served as the warden of Louisiana State Penitentiary (or Angola Prison), the largest maximum-security in the United States, from 1990 to 1995. Time magazine credited Warden Whitley with turning around hopelessness and violence at Angola with "little more than his sense of decency and fairness."
Early life and education
John Whitley attended Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana, and graduated in 1968. He enlisted in the United States Army that year, and served during the Vietnam War before his discharge in 1970. Shortly after, he began his career in corrections.
Career
Whitley started his career as a corrections officer at Angola in 1970. He rose through the ranks during the prison's most violent years, becoming Deputy Warden.
He was promoted to warden of another Louisiana prison, Hunt Correctional Center, and left the state to run a private prison in Texas. In 1990 Louisiana recruited him to return to Angola to restore order. At a time of frequent stabbings, suicides and escapes, a United States Federal Judge declared a state of emergency at the prison in response to an ACLU suit against the state for the horrendous conditions.
Within two years, Whitley had stemmed the violence. He established incentives for good behavior, such as extra visits, and increased educational opportunities with literacy tutoring, and computer and paralegal courses. He enabled some trustworthy and deserving inmates to travel outside the prison as part of athletic teams and inmate bands that provided entertainment for churches, nursing homes, and other charitable organizations.
Whitley launched an outreach program to all criminal justice programs in the State of Louisiana. He offered to send both prison officials and inmates to college classrooms to help both students and faculty better understand the realities of prison management and prison life.
Philosophy
Like several Louisiana wardens before him, Whitley was committed to an open door policy with the media. He told editors of the inmate-produced newsmagazine, The Angolite, that he would continue the decades-long policy of lack of censorship. This had enabled the inmates to produce reporting on difficult issues and to win major national journalism awards for investigating problems at the prison.
He also said that he would continue to welcome outside media and cooperate with them: "We're not going to have anything to hide in Angola," he said. "And, if there's something that's wrong in the prison, I want to know about it, and my staff better correct it—because I intend to be proud of this prison and the way we operate it." Under Whitley, The Angolite began to produce material for uncensored radio and television journalism. Whitley believed these efforts were related to the prison's other outreach programs designed to educate the public about prison life and issues. As he explained to National Public Radio's Fresh Air host, Terry Gross, about his philosophy that lay behind the lack of censorship: "We want … different views of prison. Some of the views, I don't like. It upsets me sometimes, but it's true. We're looking for the truth."
Challenge
In July 1991, inmate welders were ordered by a corrections department employee to build a "hospital examining table". They soon learned that it was a gurney to enable executions by lethal injection. This took place hours after an execution by electric chair had taken place. One of the welders had a brother who had been executed at the prison. Learning of these plans, hundreds of fellow inmates staged a work strike.
When Whitley learned what was happening, he locked up the strikers. He also brought in SWAT teams to prepare for the strike. But he also told the media that deceiving the inmate workers was wrong and the work order should never have been issued. He understood that it put the inmates in a bad position, and he was not going to subject them to building the lethal injection gurney. With that statement, he ended the strike without violence and gained the respect of both the inmate population and his security force.
Even the conservative Baton Rouge Morning Advocate commended him in two editorials for admitting the prison had erred and correcting the mistake. "It's refreshing to see a high-ranking government official admit mistakes and attempt to rectify them. It's a sign of integrity and responsibility." Time magazine invited Whitley to New York City to share his management philosophy with its corporate officers and editors, and profiled him in a three-page feature. He is the only American prison warden to be so profiled. The Russian language magazine, Amerika, followed suit with a six-page profile of Whitley.
Accomplishments
Angola first earned accreditation from the American Correctional Association during Whitley's tenure. This was a concrete measure of the success of reforms he had enacted to increase the safety under which both inmates and employees live and work on the prison farm.
Having accomplished his goal of turning Angola into the safest maximum security in America, Whitley retired as warden in 1995. In what "may have been a first in the history of U. S. prisons," more than 100 inmate leaders pooled their money to throw Whitley a farewell party. It was attended by prison employees and officials, and covered by news media throughout Louisiana.
After leaving Angola, Whitley ran a private prison in Florida. He was called back to Louisiana to serve as the Court Expert for the U.S. Middle District Court of Louisiana. It continued to oversee the state's prisons compliance with a 1975 federal court order about conditions. He served in that position until 2003.
Recognition
Whitley received numerous awards and honors during his tenure as Warden. Several of those were: Profile in "Time" Magazine, December 1992; Alumni of the Year" Southeastern Louisiana University 1993; Profile in "AMERICA", a Russian-Language Magazine, January 1994; Panelist, Time/Warner forum on Crime & Punishment - Feb. 1994; Profile by CBS News (Mike Wallace) - "In the Killing Fields of America" - Jan. 1995
References
External links
Time (magazine)
http://www.southeastern.edu/alumni_donors/alumni_assoc/programs/recognition/past_alumni/1993_jwhitley/index.html
1944 births
Living people
American prison officers
American prison wardens
Penal system in Louisiana
People from Hammond, Louisiana
Southeastern Louisiana University alumni
United States Army soldiers
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Spin Boldak bombing
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The Spin Boldak bombing was a terrorist attack that occurred on February 18, 2008, when a car bomb detonated near a Canadian military convoy in a market in Spin Boldak, Afghanistan. The attack killed 38 Afghans and injured at least 25 civilians. In addition, four Canadian soldiers were lightly injured.
This suicide bombing – directed at a small convoy of Canadian armoured vehicles conducting a routine patrol alongside the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Spin Boldak – occurred just one day after the 2008 Kandahar bombing, the deadliest terrorist attack during the Afghanistan War up until then.
Kandahar Governor Asadullah Khalid said the bombing would not have happened if the Canadians had heeded his warning about a suicide bomber moving about the area and not gone to Spin Boldak.
References
2008 murders in Afghanistan
Mass murder in 2008
2008 massacres of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Suicide car and truck bombings in Afghanistan
Terrorist incidents in Afghanistan in 2008
February 2008 in Afghanistan
February 2008 crimes in Asia
Taliban bombings
21st century in Kandahar Province
Crime in Kandahar Province
Marketplace attacks in Afghanistan
Suicide bombings in 2008
Car and truck bombings in 2008
Islamic terrorist incidents in 2008
Attacks on buildings and structures in 2008
Road incidents in Afghanistan
2008 road incidents
2000s road incidents in Asia
Afghanistan–Canada military relations
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Fleet 50 Freighter
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The Fleet 50 Freighter was a Canadian twin-engine biplane general utility aircraft designed and built by Fleet Aircraft. This peculiar-looking aircraft had promise as a freighter and general use aircraft, but it was underpowered and only five were built.
Development
Design was started in 1936 to create a general purpose twin-engined utility aircraft for the Canadian market. It was designed as a short take-off freighter with features added to ease cargo handling. The Freighter was a biplane with the lower wing an inverted gull wing with either a float or wheel landing gear. Two radial piston engines were mounted in nacelles on the upper wing panels.
The fuselage structure was welded steel tubing with duralumin formers, and a semi-monocoque duralumin nose section. The wings were stressed-skin metal structure on the inboard panels and fabric-covered wood beams and duralumin ribs on the outboard panels. The fuselage had room for two crew and up to ten passengers. Large doors and a roof-mounted chain hoist were fitted for use in the cargo role.
The prototype designated the 50J first flew on 22 February 1938, powered by two 285 hp (213 kW) Jacobs L-5MB 7-cylinder radial engines. It was later re-engined with 330 hp Jacobs L-6MB engines and re-designated the 50K. A further four aircraft were built, all with L-6MB engines.
None of the aircraft was operated for long, as the design was underpowered and could not maintain altitude on only one engine. The last aircraft went out of service in 1946.
The remains of one airframe are held by the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.
Specifications (50K landplane)
References
Citations
Bibliography
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985). London: Orbis Publishing, 1985, p. 1817.
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1930s Canadian civil utility aircraft
Biplanes
Inverted gull-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1938
Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft
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Sers () is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France.
See also
Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department
Gallery
References
Communes of Hautes-Pyrénées
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C. Brian Haselgrove
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Colin Brian Haselgrove (26 September 1926 – 27 May 1964) was an English mathematician who is best known for his disproof of the Pólya conjecture in 1958.
Haselgrove was educated at Blundell's School and from there won a scholarship to King's College, Cambridge. He obtained his Ph.D., which was supervised by Albert Ingham, from Cambridge in 1956.
Personal life
Haselgrove was married to fellow mathematician Jenifer Haselgrove. After having suffered minor epileptic fits for several years caused by a brain tumor, he died in Manchester in May 1964.
References
External links
1926 births
1964 deaths
People educated at Blundell's School
20th-century English mathematicians
British number theorists
Deaths from brain cancer in England
Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
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Uzer (; ) is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France.
See also
Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department
References
Communes of Hautes-Pyrénées
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Nils Reuterholm
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Nils Esbjörnsson Reuterholm (1676–1756) was the governor of Kopparberg County (later renamed Dalarna County) in Sweden from 1732 to 1739 and then the governor of Örebro County from 1739 to 1756.
He was made a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in the year of its foundation, 1739.
Swedish politicians
Governors of Örebro County
Governors of Dalarna County
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
1676 births
1756 deaths
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Olmstedville, New York
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Olmstedville is a hamlet in the town of Minerva in Essex County, New York, United States, in the Adirondack Park.
Historically, it has been the largest settlement in the town of Minerva. Today, it has its own post office (ZIP Code 12857) and Minerva Central School is located there. One of two stations of Minerva Fire & Rescue is also located in Olmstedville. The community still remains as the largest hamlet in the town. Telephone service is provided by the 518-251 exchange in North Creek.
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Hamlets in New York (state)
Hamlets in Essex County, New York
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The Passaleão incident (), also known as the Battle of Passaleão (or Pak Shan Lan) or Baishaling incident, was a conflict between Portugal and China over Macau in August 1849. The Chinese were defeated in the only military confrontation, but the Portuguese called off further punitive measures after a naval explosion killed about 200 sailors.
Changes in Portuguese policy
The Portuguese governor João Maria Ferreira do Amaral had adopted a confrontational stance towards the Chinese, as displayed in the earlier revolt of the faitiões (October 1846). In early 1849 he proposed to extend a road from the walls of the city to the Chinese border. This required the relocation of some Chinese graves. Further, he ordered Chinese residents within the walls to pay taxes to the Portuguese authorities and no longer to the imperial mandarins.
Amaral also placed stricter controls on the lorcha traffic and tried to stop the mandarins from collecting customary dues from the Tanka people who lived on boats in the harbour, since Macau was a free port. The mandarins retained two customs houses, one at the Inner Harbour (Praia Pequena) and one at the Outer Harbour (Praia Grande). They refused to close them at Amaral's request, so on 5 March he proclaimed them closed. The mandarins still did not budge and, on 13 March, they were forcibly expelled. Amaral informed the mandarins of Zhongshan that if they ever visited Macau they would be received as foreign dignitaries.
By all these moves the mandarins—and the Chinese state—stood to lose significant revenue. The Chinese inhabitants of Macau were inflamed. Placards offering a reward for the head of Amaral were posted in Guangzhou (Canton). The governor, however, had achieved his goal of Macanese independence from China: for the legations of Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States accredited to China had chosen to stay in Macau while awaiting permission to enter China.
Assassination of Amaral
Matters came to a head on 22 August, when Amaral and his aide-de-camp, Lieutenant Jerónimo Pereira Leite, left the town through the Portas do Cerco (Barrier Gate) to give alms to an elderly Chinese woman whom Amaral was supporting. The two were only a few hundred yards within the gate when a Chinese coolie frightened Amaral's horse with a bamboo pole and signalled to his comrades in hiding. The one-armed governor held the reins with his teeth in order to draw his pistol. Before he could do so, he was set upon by seven Chinese, led by Shen Zhiliang and armed only with edged weapons, and dragged from his horse. Leite, also armed, was dismounted and fled on foot. Intending to collect the reward in Guangzhou, the assassins cut off Amaral's head and remaining hand as proof. The Portuguese authorities later retrieved the rest of his corpse and traced a trail of blood out of the gate.
The assassination quickly became well known in Guangzhou, where the evidence was widely seen and the perpetrators openly bragged. When the Portuguese—supported by the Americans, British, French and Spanish—protested the assassins' escape to the Chinese government, the latter claimed complete ignorance of the event.
Since Amaral had earlier dissolved the Senate of Macau (because it had opposed his imposition of taxes), there was a power vacuum after the assassination. Some senior officials requested assistance from Britain and the United States. The USS Plymouth and Dolphin took up defensive positions in the harbour, while HMS Amazon and Medea landed some Royal Marines to defend Portuguese civilians and British nationals.
Battle of August 25
In the aftermath of the assassination, sensing Portuguese weakness, the Chinese moved troops closer to the city. On 25 August, the guns of the imperial fort of Latashi (拉塔石), known to the Portuguese as Passaleão, about one mile north of the city, opened fire on the walls of Macau. The field artillery and naval guns of the Portuguese returned fire, but could do little damage to the Chinese fort. With about 400 men and 20 cannons, the Chinese greatly outnumbered and outgunned the Portuguese garrison. In this situation, Vicente Nicolau de Mesquita, an artillery sub-lieutenant, volunteered to lead an attack on Baishaling with a company of about thirty-six men and a howitzer. The howitzer got off only one shot before its carriage broke down, but the shell caused a panic among the Chinese troops. Mesquita then led a charge, and the surprised Chinese broke and ran. Now in control of the fort but unable to hold it, Mesquita had the guns spiked and exploded the powder magazines. One Portuguese was wounded and about 15 Chinese were killed. Although Mesquita was treated as a hero in the twentieth century, both in Portugal and in Macau, he was not immediately recognised for the valour of his actions.
To calm the Portuguese, Xu Guangjin, Viceroy of Liangguang, ordered the arrest of Shen Zhiliang, the lead conspirator. He was captured by officials in Shunde County, who also recovered Amaral's head and arm, on 12 September 1849. Although Xu believed that Amaral deserved his fate, he had Shen Zhiliang executed at Qianshan on 15 September.
Aftermath
After their initial victory, the Portuguese received support from Britain, France and the United States. They brought in reinforcements from Portuguese India (Goa) and metropolitan Portugal (Lisbon). Following negotiations, the Chinese agreed to return Amaral's head and arm in January 1850, and the governor's entire body was returned to Lisbon for burial. The Portuguese proceeded to assemble a naval flotilla for a punitive expedition. The frigate Dona Maria II, the corvettes Irís and Dom João I and some armed lorchas gathered in the harbour on 29 October 1850 to fire a salute in honour of King Ferdinand II on his birthday. After the salute, and just before the local elites could board the Dona Maria II for the celebrations, the frigate exploded. The cause was sabotage by the keeper of the magazine with a grudge against the captain. Nearly 200 men died and the expedition was called off. A memorial to the victims of the Dona Maria II tragedy, erected in 1880, still stands by the site of the old fort in Taipa.
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Sources
1849 in China
1849 in Portugal
Conflicts in 1849
History of Macau
19th century in Macau
China–Portugal relations
Portuguese Macau
Battles involving Portugal
Battles involving the Qing dynasty
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Solitary Fragments
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La soledad (English: Solitary Fragments) is a 2007 Spanish drama film written and directed by Jaime Rosales. It was Rosales's second film: he had previously made The Hours of the Day. Solitary Fragments, divided in five chapters, follows a dual narrative; the characters' lives unfold as a series of everyday concerns over health, work, shelter, relationships and money. Made with a small budget and with actors from the theater scene, the film was nominated for three Goya Awards, Spain's most prestigious film awards. It won all three awards, including the Best Film and Director award. Voted by Spanish film critics as Best Film of the year for that reason, it was given the Fotogramas de Plata Award.
Plot
Adela, a young woman recently separated from her husband and with one-year-old baby, is tired of her life in her small hometown of León. She leaves behind the mountains and the country life to move to Madrid. She gets a job as a hostess and moves into an apartment with Carlos and Inés, a nice young couple. The three get along well then, sharing meals, doubts and leisure. Antonia, Inés's mother, has a small neighborhood supermarket. She leads a fairly quiet life with her boyfriend Manolo. Antonia has two more daughters: Nieves and Helena, the eldest. However, little by little, Antonias's pleasant life begins to crumble. First, a doctor detects that Nieves has cancer. Later, the already tense relationship between her daughters gets more complicated when Helena asks her mother borrowed money to buy an apartment on the beach.
Adela has no major difficulties in adapting to urban life, even though the father of her baby does not help her economically. While traveling by bus, she is one of the victims of a terrorist attack, leaving her life in tatters. From that moment she should find the strength to return to a normal life.
Cast
María Bazán - Helena
Petra Martínez - Antonia
Sonia Almarcha - Adela
Miriam Correa - Inés
Nuria Mencía - Nieves
Jesús Cracio - Manolo
- Carlos
José Luis Torrijo - Pedro
Juan Margallo - Padre Adela
Awards and nominations
To see the complete list of awards and nominations, see this link.
Goya Awards
Best Director (Jaime Rosales, winner)
Best Film (winner)
Best New Actor (José Luis Torrijo, winner)
Spanish Actors Union
Best Actress (Petra Martínez, nominee)
References
Interview with Jaime Rosales tras recibir los Premios Goya, 20 minutos, February 5, 2008
Son pocos, son valientes El País, February 10, 2008
External links
2007 films
2007 drama films
2000s Spanish-language films
Films set in Madrid
Best Film Goya Award winners
Spanish drama films
2000s Spanish films
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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maribor
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The Archdiocese of Maribor (, ) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Slovenia. Its episcopal see is Maribor.
History
1859 : Maribor (then Marburg) became the see of the Diocese of Lavant
March 5, 1962: Established as Diocese of Maribor from the Diocese of Lavant
April 7, 2006: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Maribor
It was reported in January 2012 that the Archdiocese of Maribor was in deep financial difficulties and just before bankruptcy. The whole amount of debts, provoked by high-risk investments was 800 million euros. The Archbishop of Maribor, Marjan Turnšek, and the Archbishop of Ljubljana, Anton Stres, have resigned due to their involvement after the request by Pope Francis.
United titles
Lavant (since March 5, 1962)
Special churches
Former Cathedral:
Stolna cerkev sv. Jurija, Ptuj
Minor Basilica:
Bazilika Marije, matere usmiljenja, Maribor
Bazilika Marije Zavetnice s plaščem, Ptujska Gora
Leadership
Bishops of Maribor
Maksimilijan Držečnik (5 March 1962 – 13 May 1978)
Franc Kramberger (6 November 1980 – 7 April 2006); see below
Archbishops of Maribor
Franc Kramberger (7 April 2006 – 3 February 2011); see above
Marjan Turnšek (3 February 2011 - 31 July 2013)
Stanislav Lipovšek, Bishop of Celje, Apostolic Administrator (31 July 2013 – 26 April 2015)
Alojzij Cvikl, S.J. (14 March 2015 - present)
Coadjutor archbishop Anton Stres (31 January 2009 – 28 November 2009), did not succeed to see; appointed Archbishop of Ljubljana
Coadjutor archbishop Marjan Turnšek (28 November 2009 – 3 February 2011)
Suffragan dioceses
Celje
Murska Sobota
See also
Roman Catholicism in Slovenia
References
External links
Official site
GCatholic.org
Catholic Hierarchy
Roman Catholic dioceses in Slovenia
Christian organizations established in 1962
Roman
Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century
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Balanced literacy is a theory of teaching reading and writing the English language that arose in the 1990s and has a variety of interpretations. For some, balanced literacy strikes a balance between whole language and phonics and puts an end to the so called "reading wars". Others say balanced literacy, in practice, usually means the whole language approach to reading.
Some proponents of balanced literacy say it uses research-based elements of comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, phonemic awareness and phonics and includes instruction in a combination of the whole group, small group and 1:1 instruction in reading, writing, speaking and listening with the strongest research-based elements of each. They go on to say that the components of a balanced literacy approach include many different strategies applied during reading and writing workshops.
On the other hand, critics say balanced literacy, like whole language, is a meaning-based approach that when implemented does not include the explicit teaching of sound-letter relationships as provided by systematic phonics. Also, it is reasonably effective only for children to whom learning to read comes easily, which is less than half of students.
Research has shown balanced literacy to be less effective than a phonics-based curriculum. The rejection of balanced literacy in favor of phonics education was a key component in the Mississippi Miracle of increased academic performance across the Southern United States in the 2010s and 2020s.
Reading
During balanced literacy reading workshops, skills are explicitly modeled during mini-lessons. The mini-lesson has four parts: the connection, the teach (demonstration), the active engagement and the link. The teacher chooses a skill and strategy that the class needs to be taught based on assessments conducted in the classroom. During the connection phase, the teacher connects prior learning to the current skill the students are currently learning. The teacher announces the teaching point or the skill and strategy. In this approach, the teacher shows students how to accomplish the skill by modeling the strategy in a book the students are familiar with. The teacher likewise uses a "think aloud" in this method to share thoughts and then allow the students to work this out in their own books or in the teacher's book during the active engagement. During the link phase, the teacher reminds students about the strategies they can do while they are reading.
Shared reading is when the students read from a shared text. Often this is a big book projected on screen using a website or documents camera. If possible students should have their own copies also. Students and the teacher read aloud and share their thinking about the text.
During mini-lessons, interactive read-aloud and shared reading the class will create anchor charts. These anchor charts remind students how and when to use different skills and strategies.
Guided reading is a small group activity where more of the responsibility belongs to the student. Students read from a leveled text. They use the skills directly taught during mini-lessons, interactive read aloud and shared reading to increase their comprehension and fluency. The teacher is there to provide prompting and ask questions. Guided reading allows for great differentiation in the classroom. Groups are created around reading levels, and students move up when they note that the entire group is ready. During guided reading time the other students may be engaged in reading workstations that reinforce various skills or partner or independent reading. They often work in pairs during this time. Stations can include a library, big book, writing, drama, puppets, word study, poetry, computer, listening, puzzles, buddy reading, projector/promethean board, creation station, science, social studies.
Independent reading is exactly what it sounds like: students reading self-selected text independently. Students choose books based on interest and independent reading level.
Word study content depends on the grade level and the needs of the student. Kindergarten begins with phonemic awareness, then adds print for phonics, sight word work, and common rimes/onset. In first and second grade phonics work intensifies as students apply their knowledge in their writing including adding endings, prefixes, suffixes, and use of known sight words to study other words. To "know" a word means the student can read it, write it, spell it and use it in conversation.
Writing
The second half of balanced literacy is the writing component giving students practice writing, for extended periods of time, on topics of their choice. Allowing students to write about topics they find interesting gives them a sense of ownership.
There are four main components of the writing workshop: the mini-lesson, check-in, writing/conferring time, and sharing.
The mini-lesson is a whole class activity. The teacher introduces a skill or strategy they want students to be able to apply during the independent writing time. Examples of skills or strategies could include: using strong verbs; how to transition from one idea to another; the importance of adding vivid details; how to organize writing with a beginning, middle, and end, and tips for writing a good introduction or conclusion.
Just before the students begin writing, the teacher will check in to see where each student is in the writing process. This is a quick check-in to check their status and make sure someone is not stuck in one area.
After modeling the skill or strategy taught during the mini-lesson, students then begin writing independently, putting those new skills to work. Students utilize all the steps of the writing process: brainstorming, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. Depending on the size of the writing piece, this may take place in one session, or over several days. While the students are writing, the teacher is conferencing one-on-one with each student. Meeting with students individually, allows the teacher to target specific skills for each student. Each conference lasts approximately five minutes with the goal being to meet with each student at least once a week. At times, peer conferencing may also take place, where students seek feedback from their peers.
The final step in the writing workshop is sharing. This is a crucial element, almost as much as the writing itself. This process allows students to show off their work and take ownership for what they have written.
Implementation
Balanced literacy is implemented through the Reading and Writing Workshop Model. The teacher begins by modeling the reading/writing strategy that is the focus of the workshop during a mini-lesson (see above description) Then, students read leveled texts independently or write independently for an extended period of time as the teacher circulates amongst them to observe, record observations and confer. At the culmination of the workshop session, selected students share their strategies and work with the class.
It is recommended that guided reading be implemented during the extended independent reading period. Based upon assessment, the teacher works with small groups of students (no more than 6 students in each group) on a leveled text (authentic trade book). The teacher models specific strategies before reading and monitors students while they read independently. After reading, the teacher and students engage in activities in word study, fluency, and comprehension. The purpose of Guided Reading is to systematically scaffold the decoding and/or comprehension strategy skills of students who are having similar challenges.
Direct Instruction in phonics and Word Study are also included in the balanced literacy approach. For emergent and early readers, the teacher plans and implements phonics based mini-lessons. After the teacher explicitly teaches a phonemic element, students practice reading and/or writing other words following the same phonemic pattern. For advanced readers, the teacher focuses on the etymology of a word. Students who are reading at this stage are engaged in analyzing the patterns of word derivations, root words, prefixes and suffixes.
The overall purpose of balanced literacy instruction is to provide students with a differentiated instructional program which will support the reading and writing skill development of each individual.
Comprehension strategies
Children are taught to use comprehension strategies including: sequencing, relating background knowledge, making inferences, comparing and contrasting, summarizing, synthesizing, problem-solving, distinguishing between fact and opinion, finding the main idea, and supporting details.
During the Reading and Writing Workshop teachers use scaffolded instruction as follows:
Teacher modeling or showing kids what a reader does when reading a text, thinking aloud about the mental processes used to construct meaning while reading a book aloud to the class.
Active Engagement during the mini-lesson; students try the work they were shown by the teacher.
"Link" Students are reminded of all the strategies they can do as readers and writers.
Independent practice where children begin to work alone while reading books by themselves, trying out the work they have been taught by the teacher, not only on that day but any previous lessons as well.
Application of the strategy is achieved when the students can correctly apply comprehension strategies to different kinds of texts and are no longer just practicing but are making connections between and can demonstrate understanding through writing or discussion.
Throughout this process, students progress from having a great deal of teacher support to being independent learners. The teacher support is removed gradually as the students acquire the strategies needed to understand the text by themselves.
Reception and critics
Critics such as Diane Ravitch say that balanced literacy may use elements of phonics and whole language but it focuses mainly on reading strategies such as "predicting what they will read, visualizing what they will read, inferring the meaning of what they have read, reading alone, reading in a group, and so on". Others, such as Louisa C. Moats, say that balanced literacy is just whole language "wearing the fig leaf of balanced instruction".
Neuroscientist Mark Seidenberg, a proponent of the science of reading and the teaching of phonics, writes that balanced literacy purports to end the reading wars "without resolving the underlying issues", and that "balanced literacy provided little guidance for teachers who thought that phonics was a cause of poor reading and did not know how to teach it". In particular, he does not support practices such as the three-cueing systems or encouraging struggling readers to skip over or guess puzzling words.
Timothy Shanahan, a well known literacy educator and researcher, is on record as saying he does not support the reading workshop because "it definitely is not research based" and the workshop method is not particularly supportive of reading instruction.
Critics further state that teachers should use methods derived from best practices and supported by scientific research, and children need instruction in systematic phonics.
See also
Analytic phonics
Dual-route hypothesis to reading aloud
Phonics
Reading education in the United States
Simple view of reading
Synthetic phonics
Whole language
References
Further reading
Fountas, Irene and Pinnell, Gay Su; The Fountas & Pinnell Literacy Continuum: A Tool For Assessment, Planning and Teaching (2017)
Fountas, Irene and Pinnell, Gay Su. Guiding Readers and Writers/Grades 3–6'', Portsmouth, NH,Heinemann, 2001.
Learning to read
Literacy
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1982 United States gubernatorial elections
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United States gubernatorial elections were held on November 2, 1982, in 36 states and two territories. The Democratic party had a net gain of seven seats. This election coincided with the Senate and the House elections. As of , this remains the last election cycle in which a Republican won the governorship of Oregon.
Election results
States
Territories and federal district
Close states
States where the margin of victory was under 1%:
Illinois, 0.14%
States where the margin of victory was under 5%:
California, 1.2%
Nebraska, 1.4%
New York, 2.4%
Pennsylvania, 2.7%
New Hampshire, 4.7%
Guam, 4.8%
States where the margin of victory was under 10%:
Idaho, 5.8%
New Mexico, 6.0%
Iowa, 6.2%
Michigan, 6.3%
Texas, 7.3%
Connecticut, 7.4%
Kansas, 8.7%
Alaska, 9.0%
Arkansas, 9.4%
Alabama
The 1982 Alabama gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1982, to elect the governor of Alabama. Incumbent Democrat Fob James declined to run for re-election; he later successfully ran again in 1994 as a Republican. The open seat election saw former Democratic governor George Wallace, who narrowly won the Democratic primary, defeat Republican Emory Folmar, the Mayor of Montgomery, Alabama.
Alaska
The 1982 Alaska gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 1982, for the post of Governor of Alaska. To replace outgoing Republican governor Jay Hammond, Democratic nominee Bill Sheffield defeated three opponents: Republican nominee Tom Fink, Libertarian nominee Dick Randolph and Alaskan Independence Party nominee Joe Vogler. Hammond had endorsed his lieutenant governor, Terry Miller, who lost the Republican nomination to Fink in the primary election, as did Don Wright. Sheffield defeated Steve Cowper and former Lieutenant Governor H. A. Boucher for the Democratic nomination.
Arizona
The 1982 Arizona gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 1982, for the post of Governor of Arizona. Democratic incumbent Bruce Babbitt defeated Republican nominee Leo Corbet and Libertarian candidate and former U.S. Representative Sam Steiger. Evan Mecham unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination. This was the last time until 2002 that a Democrat was elected governor of Arizona, and the last time a male Democrat was elected governor.
Arkansas
The 1982 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1982. Former Democratic governor Bill Clinton regained the position after having narrowly been defeated by Republican candidate Frank D. White at the previous election. Clinton held the position from January 1983 until he resigned after being elected president in 1992. As of , this is the last time that an incumbent governor of Arkansas lost re-election.
California
The 1982 California gubernatorial election occurred on November 2, 1982. The Republican nominee, Attorney General George Deukmejian, narrowly defeated the Democratic nominee, Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley. Incumbent Governor Jerry Brown did not seek reelection to a third consecutive term; he later successfully ran again in 2010 and 2014.
Colorado
The 1982 Colorado gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Democrat Richard Lamm defeated Republican nominee John Fuhr with 65.69% of the vote.
Connecticut
The 1982 Connecticut gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Democratic governor Bill O'Neill had assumed the governor's office in 1980 after Ella Grasso resigned due to poor health. Grasso died just weeks later on February 5, 1981. Governor O'Neill defeated former Connecticut state senator Lewis Rome for his first full term in the governor's office.
Florida
The 1982 Florida gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Democratic governor Bob Graham was re-elected in a landslide, defeating Republican nominee Skip Bafalis with 64.70% of the vote.
Georgia
The 1982 Georgia gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1982. Joe Frank Harris was elected as the 78th Governor of Georgia.
Hawaii
The 1982 Hawaii gubernatorial election was Hawaii's seventh gubernatorial election. The election was held on November 2, 1982, and resulted in a victory for the Democratic candidate, governor George Ariyoshi, over Frank Fasi, running as an Independent Democrat, and the Republican candidate, state senator D. G. Anderson. Ariyoshi received more votes than any other candidate in every county in the state.
Idaho
The 1982 Idaho gubernatorial election was held on November 2. Incumbent Democrat John V. Evans narrowly defeated Republican nominee Phil Batt with 50.64% of the vote, the fourth of six consecutive wins for the Democratic party.
Illinois
The 1982 Illinois gubernatorial election was held in Illinois on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Republican governor James R. Thompson won a third term in office, defeating the Democratic nominee, former United States Senator Adlai Stevenson III, by a slim margin of 5,074 votes.
Iowa
The 1982 Iowa gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1982. Republican nominee Terry Branstad defeated Democratic nominee Roxanne Conlin with 52.81% of the vote.
Kansas
The 1982 Kansas gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Democrat John W. Carlin defeated Republican nominee Sam Hardage with 53.2% of the vote.
Maine
The 1982 Maine gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Democratic Governor Joseph Brennan defeated Republican challenger Charles R. Cragin. Brennan defeated Cragin, winning his re-election by the highest percent margin in more than thirty years.
Maryland
The 1982 Maryland gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Democrat Harry Hughes defeated Republican nominee Robert A. Pascal with 61.97% of the vote.
Massachusetts
The 1982 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1982. Michael Dukakis was elected to a second non-consecutive term. He beat Republican John W. Sears in the general election, after defeating incumbent Governor Edward J. King in the Democratic primary.
Michigan
The 1982 Michigan gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Governor William Milliken decided to retire instead of seeking a fourth full term as governor. The primary elections occurred on August 10, 1982. Businessman Richard Headlee narrowly defeated incumbent lieutenant governor James Brickley in a four way race on the Republican side. Congressman James Blanchard defeated Michigan Senate Majority Leader William B. Fitzgerald Jr. by a wide margin a fractured seven way race. Blanchard won the general election by a relatively comfortable 6.31% margin. Blanchard became the first Democrat to win the governor’s mansion in Michigan in 22 years.
Minnesota
The 1982 Minnesota gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 1982. Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party candidate Rudy Perpich defeated Independent-Republican Party challenger Wheelock Whitney, Jr. Warren Spannaus unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic nomination, while Lou Wangberg and Harold Stassen unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination. Perpich became the first candidate to receive over a million votes in a gubernatorial election in Minnesota.
Nebraska
The 1982 Nebraska gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1982, and featured businessman Bob Kerrey, a Democrat, narrowly defeating incumbent Republican governor Charles Thone.
Nevada
The 1982 Nevada gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 1982 to elect the Governor of Nevada. Incumbent Republican Robert List ran unsuccessfully for re-election to a second term. He lost to Democratic nominee Richard Bryan by 11.7%.
New Hampshire
The 1982 New Hampshire gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 1982. Incumbent Democratic governor Hugh Gallen ran for re-election but was defeated by Tufts University professor John Sununu. Sununu, who defeated Lou D'Allesandro for the Republican nomination, became the first Arab-American governor of New Hampshire. Gallen died just over a week before Sununu's inauguration.
New Mexico
The 1982 New Mexico gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 1982 to elect the governor of New Mexico. Due to term limits, incumbent Democrat Bruce King was ineligible to seek a second consecutive (and third overall) term as governor. Democrat Toney Anaya defeated Republican state senator John B. Irick by about five points. Anaya was the first Democrat to carry Harding County in a gubernatorial election since Thomas J. Mabry in 1946.
New York
The 1982 New York gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1982, to elect the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of New York. Incumbent Democratic Governor Hugh Carey chose not to run for a third term, which resulted in an open race. Democratic nominee Mario Cuomo, the Lieutenant Governor of New York, narrowly defeated Republican Lewis Lehrman, a banker who ran as a conservative.
Ohio
The 1982 Ohio gubernatorial election was held in Ohio on November 2, 1982. Dick Celeste of the Democratic Party was elected with 59% of the vote.
Oklahoma
The 1982 Oklahoma gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1982, and was a race for Governor of Oklahoma. Democrat George Nigh won re-election by a substantial majority over the Republican, former State Auditor and Inspector Tom Daxon.
Oregon
The 1982 Oregon gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Republican Governor Victor Atiyeh won re-election to a second term in a landslide, defeating Democratic state senator Ted Kulongoski and carrying every county in the state.
Pennsylvania
The 1982 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1982, between incumbent Republican Dick Thornburgh and Democratic U.S. Congressman Allen E. Ertel. Thornburgh was a popular incumbent, who largely was the favorite throughout the race. However, owing to a nationwide recession which hit the state particularly hard, and a backlash to Reaganomics, the final result ended up becoming much closer than what was initially anticipated.
Rhode Island
The 1982 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Democrat J. Joseph Garrahy defeated Republican nominee Vincent Marzullo with 73.30% of the vote.
South Carolina
The 1982 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1982 to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. The state constitution was amended by the voters on November 4, 1980 to allow for the governor to serve a second consecutive four-year term. Governor Richard Riley, the popular Democratic incumbent, easily defeated Republican W. D. Workman, Jr. and became the first governor since Thomas Gordon McLeod in 1924 to be elected to a second consecutive term.
South Dakota
The 1982 South Dakota gubernatorial elections were held on November 2, 1982, to elect a Governor of South Dakota. Republican candidate Bill Janklow was elected, defeating Democratic nominee Mike O'Connor to take a second term in office.
Tennessee
The 1982 Tennessee gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1982, to elect the governor of Tennessee. Incumbent Republican governor Lamar Alexander was now qualified to run for re-election because of Tennessee's 1978 constitutional amendment allowing governors to serve a second consecutive four-year term. Alexander ran for re-election and defeated Democratic nominee Randy Tyree with 59.6% of the vote in the general election.
Alexander was the first Republican to be re-elected governor since 1912.
Texas
The 1982 Texas gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1982, to elect the governor of Texas. Incumbent Republican governor Bill Clements ran for reelection, but was defeated in the general election by Democrat Mark White, winning 46% of the vote to White's 53%. White was sworn into office on January 18, 1983.
Vermont
The 1982 Vermont gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Republican Richard A. Snelling ran successfully for a fourth term as Governor of Vermont, defeating Democratic candidate Madeleine Kunin.
Wisconsin
The 1982 Wisconsin gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1982. Democrat Anthony S. Earl won the election with 56.75% of the vote, defeating Republican Terry J. Kohler.
Wyoming
The 1982 Wyoming gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Democratic Governor Edgar Herschler ran for re-election to a third term. He faced former State House Speaker Warren A. Morton in the general election after several prominent Republicans, including then-Congressman Dick Cheney, declined to challenge him. However, Herschler remained personally popular and the national political environment favored Democrats, and he had little difficulty defeating Morton to win a third term. In doing so, Herschler became the first (and, with the subsequent adoption of gubernatorial term limits, likely the last) Governor of Wyoming to win three terms in office.
Territories and federal district
District of Columbia
On November 2, 1982, the District of Columbia held an election for its mayor. It resulted in the reelection of incumbent Democratic mayor Marion Barry to a second term, defeating Republican candidate E. Brooke Lee.
Guam
U.S. Virgin Islands
See also
1982 United States elections
1982 United States Senate elections
1982 United States House of Representatives elections
Notes
References
November 1982 in the United States
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(February 26, 1920 – April 6, 2008), also known as Yasunori Kawauchi, was a Japanese screenwriter who created various tokusatsu series, including the first, Moonlight Mask, in 1958. He was originally from Hakodate, Hokkaido.
His series Warrior of Love Rainbowman (1972) is considered to be an inspiration for Go Nagai's Cutie Honey. Other tokusatsu shows he created include Seven Color Mask (1959) and Messenger of Allah (1960). He also wrote the screenplay for Seijun Suzuki's Tokyo Drifter.
Personal life
Kawauchi converted to Islam in 1959. This led to his creation of the tokusatsu superhero series Messenger of Allah in 1960.
Filmography
Created
Warrior of Love Rainbowman (1972)
Seven Color Mask (1959)
Messenger of Allah (1960)
Writer
Ramayana (1943) - first work
Tokyo Drifter (1967)
References
1920 births
2008 deaths
20th-century Japanese musicians
Conservatism in Japan
Converts to Islam
Japanese lyricists
Japanese Muslims
People from Hakodate
Writers from Hokkaido
20th-century Japanese screenwriters
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Caldas Sport Clube is a Portuguese professional football team based in Caldas da Rainha. Founded on 15 May 1916, the club competes in the Liga 3.
The team plays its home games at Campo da Mata with a capacity for 9,600 spectators.
History
Between 1956 and 1959, Caldas participated in the Portuguese Liga, the top level of Portuguese football, but they currently play their matches in the Campeonato de Portugal. In 2018, Caldas reached the semi-finals of Taça de Portugal, along with Desportivo das Aves, Sporting CP and FC Porto.
Current squad
References
External links
Caldas Sport Clube official website
Sport in Caldas da Rainha
Football clubs in Portugal
Association football clubs established in 1916
Sport in Leiria
1916 establishments in Portugal
Primeira Liga clubs
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Lullaby Land is the third studio album by Vampire Rodents, released on October 25, 1993, by Re-Constriction Records. The album utilizes strings, horns, and timpanis backed with industrial music tropes.
Music and lyrics
Daniel Vahnke's lyrics focus on topics such as referring to the UN is a genocide monitor, daring Muslims to nuke Belgrade, cattle drive-by shootings, and "the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi". The album has much more emphasis on guitars than either of their previous releases, while retaining their usual sound.
The tracks "Trilobite" and "Nosedive" were made in collaboration with 'electronic junk punk' band Babyland and were first released on the Rivet Head Culture compilation under the band name Recliner. This collaboration would continue throughout the Rodents' career.
Reception
Lullaby Land has been well received by critics, some even considering it among the greatest industrial albums ever recorded. Exclaim! called it their best work, saying "these folks can turn collage into counterpoint the way only masters of the avant-garde have done; Zappa comes to mind for those old enough to remember the delirious metamorphoses on Absolutely Free." Aiding & Abetting also gave it a positive review, saying "layer upon layer of samples and instruments combine into an almost symphonic orgy of sound." and compared it favorably to Public Enemy's Fear of a Black Planet. Keyboard said "Unlike the single-mindedness of death metal (which has some of the terroristic sounds and voices), this music offers more color and intellectual possibilities. But it also has industrial music's sense of intensity."
Much was said about the eclecticism of the music, with i/e praising the band for pushing the boundaries of industrial music, saying "with no repeated chorus rhymes and musical riffs, they forge ahead, staying away from stale techno and industrial treachery" and that "nobody creates the different moods and emotional states that the Vampires create." Buzz (magazine) agreed, saying "The Rodents have scoffed at conventional song formation and continue to do so, incorporation cello and violin into a deranged stew that sounds something like Robocop dismembering an orchestra. Off the beaten path as far as electronic music goes: you can dance, but these guys force you to think, too." RIP also praised the variety of the album, saying "Lullaby Land is a seething cauldron on cello (!), guitar, live percussion, and a very eccentric repertoire of samples that often implode into a 1000 points of noise," concluding that "I was particularly taken with the moody ambience of Akrotiri and propulsive density of Bosch Erotiqe."
The oppressive atmosphere of the album was also subject to praise, with Welcomat describing the music as "a merciless castigation of contemporary society" that "unfolds against a gothic backdrop and laments the strangle hold materialism, rudeness and decadence have on society." Gear credited the band with creating a cinematic experience with their music, saying they "want to create classic horror movies and are using music, not film, as their medium. Bypassing the too easy and predictable formula of blood and screams, the Rodents' vision involves nail-biting strings, don't-open-that-door horn blasts, bump-in-the-night drum beats, and mortuary vocals to provide a chair-arm gripping listening experience." Plazm noted that "it would be really hard to compare this to anything. There's just this strong emotional power that this band has through their music and leaves me dumbfounded to describe this piece of art to the fullest way."
Track listing
Accolades
Personnel
Adapted from the Lullaby Land liner notes.
Vampire Rodents
Andrea Akastia – cello, violin
Jing Laoshu – percussion
Daniel Vahnke (as Anton Rathausen) – lead vocals, sampler, guitar, musical arrangement
Victor Wulf – synthesizer
Additional musicians
Marc C. Bennet – electric guitar (3, 14)
Dan Gatto – lead vocals (1, 15)
Pall Jenkins (as The Sandman) – lead vocals (5)
Jared Louche – lead vocals (9)
Production
Joan McAninch – mastering
Release history
References
External links
Lullaby Land at Bandcamp
Lullaby Land at Discogs (list of releases)
1993 albums
Vampire Rodents albums
Re-Constriction Records albums
Sound collage albums
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The Diocese of Celje (; ) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church located in the city of Celje in the ecclesiastical province of Maribor in Slovenia.
History
April 7, 2006: Established as Diocese of Celje from the Diocese of Maribor
Leadership
Bishops of Celje (Roman rite)
Anton Stres (7 April 2006 — 31 January 2010)
Stanislav Lipovšek (24 April 2010 – 18 September 2018)
Maksimilijan Matjaž (since 5 March 2021)
Special churches
Minor basilica:
Bazilika Marijinega obiskanja, Petrovče by Celje
Bazilika sv. Marije lurške, Brestanica
See also
Roman Catholicism in Slovenia
Sources
Official site
GCatholic.org
Catholic Hierarchy
Roman Catholic dioceses in Slovenia
Christian organizations established in 2006
Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 21st century
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The Dayton-Wright T-4 Messenger was a light, single-seat reconnaissance aircraft built in the United States by the Dayton-Wright Company in 1918 in the hope of gaining a production contract from the United States Army. It was a small conventional single-bay biplane with a neatly streamlined fuselage and staggered, equal-span wings. The undercarriage was of fixed tailskid type and the pilot sat in an open cockpit. Although diminutive, the design in fact started life as a scaled-up version of the Dayton-Wright Bug and shared a family resemblance to the de Havilland DH.4 that Dayton-Wright was building under licence during World War I. When the US Army was not interested in the aircraft, plans were made to sell it on the civil market, but these came to nothing and the prototype was the only example ever built.
Specifications
See also
References
Citations
Bibliography
Messenger
1910s United States military reconnaissance aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1918
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Dick Hafer (May 29, 1927 – December 15, 2012) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist who performed with Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Woody Herman, and other renowned big bands.
Formative years
Born in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania on May 29, 1927, Hafer began playing clarinet at the age of seven and switched to tenor saxophone in high school. His first professional gig was with Charlie Barnet's orchestra in 1949. He played with Claude Thornhill from 1949 to 1950 before returning briefly to play with Barnet again. After this he played with Woody Herman (1951–55), Tex Beneke (1955), Bobby Hackett (1957–58), Elliot Lawrence (1958–60), and Benny Goodman (1962). In 1963 he recorded on two Charles Mingus albums.
In 1974 he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he worked mostly as a studio musician, including as a member of the studio band for The Merv Griffin Show on television. He released two albums under his own name in the 1990s.
Death
Dick Hafer died in La Costa, California.
Discography
As leader
In a Sentimental Mood (Progressive, 1991)
Prez Impressions (Fresh Sound, 1994)
As sideman
With Johnny Hartman
The Voice That Is! (Impulse!, 1964)
With Herbie Mann
Salute to the Flute (Epic, 1957)
With Charles Mingus
Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (Impulse!, 1963)
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (Impulse!, 1963)
References
[ Dick Hafer] at Allmusic
1927 births
2012 deaths
People from Wyomissing, Pennsylvania
American jazz saxophonists
American male saxophonists
Jazz musicians from Pennsylvania
American male jazz musicians
20th-century American saxophonists
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The Ñuble River or Rio Ñuble is a river in Ñuble Region, located in the southern portion of central Chile. Its main tributaries are Chillán and Claro River. The Ñuble River discharges into the Itata River.
Nuble River Level
It is a Class IV section, which means that the rapids are very challenging, but you don't need to be a professional to run this section. The biggest reason why this section has seldom been run is that it is hard to access – it requires three automobile river crossings as well as extreme off-roading skills. Farmers who live in the area usually use horses to commute back and forth from the village.
See also
List of rivers of Chile
External links
Nuble River
Rivers of Chile
Rivers of Ñuble Region
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Hoppkorv was the seventh album by the American blues rock band Hot Tuna, and their last studio album recorded for Grunt Records. Unlike previous albums, Hot Tuna relied entirely on an outside producer for this effort, Harry Maslin. In addition to four new original songs by Jorma Kaukonen and one by Nick Buck, the album includes covers of Buddy Holly's "It's So Easy", Muddy Waters' "I Can't Be Satisfied", and Chuck Berry's "Talkin' 'bout You."
Released in 1976, the album reached number 116 on the Billboard charts. In 1996, RCA released the CD box set Hot Tuna in a Can which included a remastered version of this album, along with remasters of the albums Hot Tuna, First Pull Up, Then Pull Down, Burgers and America's Choice.
The album's name, loosely translated from Swedish as "jumping sausage" comes from an incident during frontman Kaukonen's visit to Östersund, Sweden in 1976. Kaukonen's ice skating buddy Håkan Sannemo attempted to eat a sausage that "jumped" off his plate and he shouted "jävla hoppkorv" ("bloody jumping sausage"). Later the same year Kaukonen invited Sannemo to San Francisco to experience the recording of his band's new album, named after said "jumping sausage".
Track listing
Personnel
Jorma Kaukonen – vocals, guitar
Jack Casady – bass
Bob Steeler – drums, percussion
Additional Personnel
Nick Buck – keyboards
John Sherman – 2nd guitar on "Bowlegged Woman, Knock-Kneed Man"
Karen Tobin – background vocals
Production
Harry Maslin – producer, engineer
Pat Ieraci (Maurice) – production coordinator
Bill Thompson – manager
Allen Sudduth – assistant engineer
David Gertz – assistant mixing engineer
Michael Casady, Ron Dudley – equipment
Acy Lehman – art direction
Gribbitt (Tim Bryant) – album design
Chris Whorf – album design
Roger Rossmeyer – cover photos, liner photos
Jerry Leiberwitz (Leibowitz) – sleeve painting
Recorded and Mixed at Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco
Mastered by Rick Collins, Kendun Recorders, Burbank
References
Hot Tuna albums
1976 albums
Albums recorded at Wally Heider Studios
Grunt Records albums
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Crypto
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Crypto commonly refers to:
Cryptography, the practice and study of hiding information
Cryptocurrency, a type of digital currency based on cryptography
Crypto or krypto may also refer to:
Cryptography
Cryptanalysis, the study of methods for obtaining the meaning of encrypted information
CRYPTO, an annual cryptography conference
Crypto++, a cryptography software library
Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government—Saving Privacy in the Digital Age, a cryptography book by Steven Levy
Crypto AG, defunct Swiss cryptography company
Finance
Crypto.com, a cryptocurrency exchange
Biology and medicine
Cryptococcus (fungus), a genus of fungus that can cause lung disease, meningitis, and other illnesses in humans and animals
Cryptococcosis (also called cryptococcal disease), a disease caused by Cryptococcus
Cryptosporidium, a protozoan that can cause-intestinal illness with diarrhea in humans
Cryptosporidiosis, a parasitic intestinal disease in mammals caused by Cryptosporidium
Fiction
Crypto (film), a 2019 American crime drama thriller film
Krypto, a dog in the popular comic, cartoon, and movie series
Krypto the Superdog, an animated series featuring Krypto
Games
Cryptosporidium (Destroy All Humans!), a protagonist in the Destroy All Humans! video game series
Krypto (game), a mathematical strategy card game
Crypto, a character in the video game Apex Legends
Literature
Crypto (book)
See also
Crypto Bro, a slang term (sometimes derogatory) for an overly enthusiastic male crypto supporter
Crypto Wars, governmental attempts to limit access to strong cryptography
List of cryptocurrencies
Cripto, a protein-coding gene in Homo sapiens, appearing in embryo development and in cancer
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Estádio Aluízio Ferreira, usually known as Estádio Aluízio Ferreira and nicknamed Aluizão, is a football stadium located in Porto Velho, Rondônia state, Brazil. The stadium is owned by the Governo de Rondônia and it was built in 1957. Its formal name honors Aluízio Ferreira, who was the first governor of the former Território Federal do Guaporé (nowadays Rondônia) from 1942 to 1957.
History
The stadium construction concluded in 1957. The inaugural match was played on May 17 of that year, when Ferroviário-RO beat Flamengo-RO 3–1. The first goal of the stadium was scored by Flamengo's Nezio.
On August 22, 1965, Bahia beat Ypiranga-RO 9–1, which was the stadium's highest score at the time.
The stadium's attendance record currently stands at 7,427, set on February 27, 1995, when Botafogo beat Ji-Paraná 3–1.
On June 10, 2001, the new stadium's highest score was set, when Genus beat Shallon 13–0.
References
External links
Estádio Aluízio Ferreira at Templos do Futebol
Football venues in Rondônia
Estadio Aluizio Ferreira
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Murska Sobota
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The Diocese of Murska Sobota (; ) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church located in the city of Murska Sobota in the ecclesiastical province of Maribor in Slovenia.
History
April 7, 2006: Established as Diocese of Murska Sobota from the Diocese of Maribor
Leadership
Bishops of Murska Sobota
Marjan Turnšek (April 7, 2006 - November 28, 2009); appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maribor
Peter Štumpf, S.D.B. (November 28, 2009 – present)
Janez Kozinc (since 18 June 2025)
See also
Roman Catholicism in Slovenia
External links
Official site
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Tamara Diane Wimer (born October 11, 1972), known professionally as Tamara Gee (formerly Isis Gee), is an American pop singer and songwriter. She grew up singing and performing from the age of 5, and was a professional vocalist by the time she was 12 years old, winning various singing competitions throughout her adolescence and adulthood, as well as a beauty pageant. Gee opened for vocalist Tony Bennett and his orchestra after being the featured vocalist on various albums throughout her teen years. She released her debut album Hidden Treasure with Universal Music in 2007, while living in Poland. Her single from the album, "For Life", was voted unanimous winner of Piosenka dla Europy, the Polish final for the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest. Tamara and her song "For Life" was the first Polish entry in history to qualify out of a semifinal. A portion of Gee's Eurovision performance was shown on The Oprah Winfrey Show on "The World's Got Talent" episode with Simon Cowell where Gee sang with former participants Celine Dion and Julio Iglesias. In 2007 Gee co-wrote and performed "Fate" on DJ Schiller's album Sehnsucht. The album went triple platinum and was nominated for a Grammy. She released her solo EP Christmas Angel in 2009. On November 27, 2014, Tamara released a new highly anticipated album "Love, Tamara" of which she wrote with and was produced by Multi Grammy Award winning producer/songwriter Walter Afanasieff (Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, etc.).
Gee is the co-founder, co-owner, co-creator, spokeswoman, and creative director of Nebu Milano, an Italian cosmetic brand launched in Milan in 2013.
Biography
Early life, education
Tamara Gee is of Polish descent. She was born in Seattle, Washington, in the United States as Tamara Diane Wimer. At 8 years old she began singing the National Anthem as a soloist for major Seattle sporting events at the Seattle Seahawks, Seattle Mariners and Seattle SuperSonics games in arenas of 65,000+ people and was singing regularly at such events until her early 20s. Throughout her adolescence, Gee sang and toured the United States with the Seattle Girls Choir studying with Jerry Wright and the Northwest Girls Choir as well as trained privately with vocal coach Maestro David Kyle (Ann Wilson, Geoff Tate, Chris Cornell, Layne Staley, etc.) who Gee stated, taught her how to belt in her chest voice. She began her professional career in music at age 12, performing pop, R&B, classical, jazz, Broadway, and country music. In a Tygodnik Angora Magazine article, Gee shared that the most memorable singing contest she ever entered as a child was when she was 12 years old, both winning the contest and $1,000.00 cash.
Gee attended Kentwood High School in Covington, Washington from 1988 to 1991 receiving awards such as "Most Inspirational Student" and "Most Likely To Succeed". Gee also received music scholarships at the University of Washington, Central Washington University, Pierce College and Highline Community College. She has sung at various events for individuals such as Bill Gates, Paul Allen and the Mayor of Seattle. At 17, Gee received the Best Female Vocalist Award in a singing contest with IMTA (International Modeling and Talent Association) in Los Angeles. California Soon after, she went on to win a scholarship and beauty pageant (preliminary to Miss America) also winning the Talent Award.
At the age of 19 she opened for Tony Bennett and his large orchestra, also touring and recording with various orchestra's and big jazz bands. Before Gee turned 21, she had been the featured vocalist on an array of albums including recording with the Jazz Police, a 24 piece jazz band from Seattle on their 1992 album Phantom Suite. The album was released with Universal Music Group. Gee was also the vocalist for Room to Move, featuring on the band's album No Time for Daydreams, as well as the featured vocalist with the Bobby Medina Band (Ray Charles, Herbie Hancock, etc.).
During her Asia tour she also performed with McCoy Tyner (John Coltrane, Stanley Clarke, Bill Evans). After moving to Los Angeles, Gee worked with songwriter Steve Dorff (Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand, Whitney Houston).
In 2000, she starred in Jericho.
Polish releases
In 2004 she married Adam Gołębiowski and moved to Warsaw, Poland. She continued to pursue her career in Poland and released her debut album Hidden Treasure with Universal Music in 2007. Grammy Award-winning engineer Simon Gogerly assisted and mixed the entire album, as well as her single "For Life". KK co-produced three tracks on the album.
In 2007, Gee worked with German DJ Schiller (Christopher von Deylen) on his new album Sehnsucht, co-writing and performing the song "Fate", which was released with Universal Music. The album and song received Platinum, selling over 200,000 units in a few months time. The album went triple platinum and was nominated for a Grammy.
In 2007, Gee also took part in Dancing with the Stars: Taniec z Gwiazdami on TVN in Poland. She reached the quarter-final, ranking a top 5 position out of 14 couples. Her dance partner was world champion Ukrainian dancer Zora Korolyov. During her last performance, she broke her ribs, hit her dance partner's knee, and ended up in the hospital. She performed at the semifinal of Taniec z Gwiazdami (season 6) and in the final of the program, Gee was the special guest featured singing Caruso with a large orchestra. In August 2008 in Kraków, Gee and Korolyov were chosen as one of four couples from the program's history to take part in a Guinness Book of World Records event, where they are recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records for teaching 1,600 couples to dance the cha-cha.
In 2008, Gee recorded and performed her Christmas compositions from her album Christmas Angel with the Harlem Gospel Choir in New York City and Warsaw, Poland. According to the liner notes, the album was dedicated to her cousin Mindy, who had died in a car crash earlier that year.
Eurovision Song Contest
Gee's song "For Life", which she had written and produced, was chosen from among over one hundred songs as one of twelve entries to participate in Piosenka dla Europy, the Polish national final for the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest. During the live broadcast on February 23, 2008, her entry was selected to represent Poland at Eurovision 2008. She received the maximum points by both the jury and text voting from the public.
At the semi-final, Gee qualified for the final receiving 42 points and placing 10th; the top 10 entries qualified for the final. As of 2014, Gee was the first Polish representative to have ever reached the Eurovision final with the new format of semifinals and final selection rules which were designed due to the 40+ countries in the contest presently (My Słowianie by Donatan and Cleo became the next song to qualify for the final with this format in the 2014 contest). In the final, "For Life" placed 24th out of 25 entries, having received a total of 14 points from the United Kingdom and Ireland.
She was also voted the most beautiful contestant in Eurovision by the National Broadcaster of Serbia RTS, and was nominated as one of the top 5 best female vocalists in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008. In the poll website Eurovision ESC Today, Gee was nominated in two categories – Best Performance by a Vocalist and Best-Dressed Performer. She rated 3rd in an online poll as "Best female vocal performance" in the 2008 Contest.
On May 11, 2009, a portion of Gee's Eurovision performance was shown on The Oprah Winfrey Show during "The World's Got Talent with Simon Cowell" episode. In the clip Gee is shown singing amidst Celine Dion, ABBA and Julio Iglesias. She was also featured singing on European television programs such as The Late Late Show in Ireland. In 2009, Gee re-appeared during Piosenka dla Europy to perform as a guest act.
Before Eurovision she had performed in over 35 countries in one year's time, including at venues such as the Scala Club in London.
Recent years
Music videos
In 2007, she signed to Universal Music Poland where she released the album Hidden Treasure and an associated music video with the single. As of 2013 she has released four music videos for songs she has written, including "Hidden Treasure," "What You See," "For Life," and "How About That."
Recent releases
In 2010 she recorded the duet ballad single "Live" with Jacques Houdek and co-produced the song with Canadian writer and producer Tino Izzo (Celine Dion). The song was recorded in London and released as a single by Croatia Records.
In 2012 she released an EP single and the first song she and Anders Hansson produced together, entitled "How About That". Hansson is the author of the Agnes Carlsson songs Release me and "On and On". Gee wrote, programmed and arranged "How About That" in Italy and co-produced with Anders' team of producers from Sweden, including Marta Grauers, Erik Arivander (Lady Gaga – Alejandro), Felix Person and Adam Gee. The song official videoclip was entirely shot in the Italian city of Brindisi, directed by Nicola Cozzoli with cinematography by Giuliano Tomassacci.
In November 2014, Gee released her highly anticipated album "Love, Tamara" of which she wrote with and was produced by Walter Afanasieff (Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Andrea Bocelli, Barbra Streisand, Leona Lewis, Christina Aguilera and others). As of 2013, she is managed by Jim Morey Management in Los Angeles. (Mariah Carey, Michael Jackson, Miley Cyrus) The first single from her album was released on February 14, 2014, entitled "Your Alibi" along with a music video clip featuring some scenes of Gee and Afanasieff recording in Los Angeles. Also in November 2014, Gee was on the cover of the high luxury beauty and fashion magazine "Milano World" and her album "Love, Tamara" was released in Italy with the magazine.
NEBU Milano
After moving part-time to Italy with her husband, in 2011 Gee and her husband co-founded and co-created Nebu Milano, an Italian cosmetic brand that sells 24 carat golden plated cosmetics with Swarovski Crystal elements. Gee is the spokeswoman, creative director and co-owner of the brand which was launched in Milan on November 21, 2013, in Mazzolari perfumeries. Gee and Nebu Milano have been featured in various Italian magazines, including Vogue Italia released during fashion week in Milan, Reve Italian Beauty Magazine, a 2014 edition of Italian magazine "Shopping For You" and fashion and beauty magazine "Milano World", where Gee was on the cover and reviewed as the perfect fit of beauty and talent in representing the brand, comparing her vocal capacity to Celine Dion. Gee and the brand have also been featured in Polish editions of Elle, InStyle, Gala and Twoj Styl, where the brand won Best New Brand of the year 2014 at the magazines' annual gala event. Gee was also on the cover of Shopping For You in 2011. In November 2014, Gee was showcased in various articles related to the brand in Milano World magazine. As of 2016, Nebu Milano is available in perfumeries around the world. Gee has combined the creativity and ownership of the brand with her music.
Voice
Tamara is a soprano with a vocal range that spans over four octaves and is known for her powerful belt and strong vocal tambour. She has been named the next Celine Dion.
Personal life
Tamara Gee is living in Los Angeles and traveling to a variety of countries globally for concerts and appearances related to Nebu Milano.
Discography
Studio albums
1993: No Time for Daydreams
2000: Blazin'''
2002: Phantom Suite/The Music of Daniel Barry/Red Fish Blue Fish2007: Hidden Treasure2009: Christmas Angel2014: Love, Tamara''
Singles
References
External links
Tamara Gee on YouTube
1972 births
Living people
American expatriates in Italy
American expatriates in Poland
Singers from Seattle
Polish women pop singers
Polish pop singers
English-language singers from Poland
Polish songwriters
Polish women songwriters
Kentwood High School (Washington) alumni
21st-century American singers
21st-century Polish singers
21st-century American women singers
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Total Drama Action (abbreviated TDA) is a Canadian animated television series. It is the second season of Total Drama, airing after Total Drama Island. It premiered on Teletoon on January 11, 2009. This season was also created by the makers of 6teen, another Teletoon program. Unlike in previous seasons, Teletoon did not air new episodes every week.
Plot
Like Total Drama Island, the previous season of Total Drama, much of Total Drama Action chronicles the events of the eponymous fictional reality show. The Total Drama series itself is an "animated reality television series," which stars the cast and crew of the fictional series, parodying many aspects of reality television. After last season's winner forgoes their prize money of C$100,000 (US$73,129.00) for a challenge (open to all 22 of Total Drama Island contestants) in which the winner would receive C$1,000,000 (US$731,485.00), the money was left in limbo after a situation resulted in a 14-way tie.
Consequently, host Chris McLean (voiced by Christian Potenza) initiated a second season featuring all 14 contestants who tied. Two weeks after the aforementioned tie, the contestants who tied are told to arrive at an abandoned movie studio lot in Toronto, Ontario, where the new season, titled Total Drama Action, would take place. Due to its location, Chris told the contestants that the challenges would all be in the form of various movie genres. The accommodations of the contestants are handled by the underpaid Chef Hatchet (Clé Bennett), similar to how they were handled in the previous season. The outhouse, which was used as a confessional in Total Drama Island, has been replaced with a makeup trailer.
After the quick elimination of two contestants, the couple Bridgette (Kristin Fairlie) and Geoff (Dan Petronijevic), a second challenge determined the team captains of the two competing teams: the Screaming Gaffers, headed by Gwen (Megan Fahlenbock), and the Killer Grips, headed by Trent (Scott McCord). From then on, challenges would alternate between "reward challenges" where winners would receive a special prize, and "elimination challenges" where the losing team would vote off one of its own in an elaborate "Gilded Chris Ceremony".
The pattern of reducing the contestants down was briefly interrupted on two occasions: once when Izzy (Katie Crown) was reinstated following a voting irregularity where her alter-ego, "E-Scope", was voted off, and another time when Courtney (Emilie-Claire Barlow), a contestant who did not originally qualify for Total Drama Action, successfully sued the show and was added to the game. The players eliminated would make the "Walk of Shame" and to the "Lame-o-sine", where they leave the movie studio.
Once seven contestants were left, the Screaming Gaffers and the Killer Grips were dissolved, and the challenges became more individual-oriented. Chris hired Owen as his ringer to sabotage the other contestants and create drama. Eventually, two contestants were left standing: Duncan (Drew Nelson) and Beth (Sarah Gadon), with both contestants being considered official winners depending on the country of airing.
Episodes
Total Drama Action debuted on January 11, 2009, at 6:30 p.m. on Teletoon, with its premiere on Cartoon Network following on June 11, 2009. In the U.S., Cartoon Network creates a disclaimer with a TV-PG-D rating before the previous show's recap. In the UK it aired on April 11, 2011, at 10:00 GMT as part of Disney XD's Easter Shows.
Episode finale variations
The show's producers created two alternate endings for the final episode, such that the winner seen in one country's broadcasts is the runner-up in other countries (and vice versa) where the show airs. In Canada, Duncan was aired as the winner as well as in Denmark, Latin America, Norway, the Philippines, and in the United States. Beth is also depicted as the winner in airings from Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, France, Hungary, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
Characters
The main Total Drama Action cast consists of host Chris McLean, assistant Chef Hatchet, and the contestants that make up the castmates. The remaining contestants from Total Drama Island also appear on the show, but serve in lesser capacities as commentators on The Aftermath. The contestants were Trent, Lindsay, Gwen, Owen, DJ, Beth, Geoff, Leshawna, Izzy, Heather, Bridgette, Justin, Harold, Duncan and eventually Courtney.
Staff
Contestants
Season summary
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; width:auto;" align="center"
|+ Total Drama Action season summary
! colspan="3"| Episode
! colspan="2"| Original airdate
! colspan="2"| Challenge
! colspan="2"| Eliminated
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! No. || Title || Written by
! Canada || United States
! Movie genre || Winner(s)
! Team || Castmate
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! 1
| align="left"| "Monster Cash"
| Alice Prodanou
| Jan. 11, 2009
| June 11, 2009
| Monster
| Owen
| colspan="100%"
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! 2
| align="left"| "Alien Resurr-eggtion"
| Nicole Demerse
| Jan. 18, 2009
| June 18, 2009
| Alien
| Gwen & Trent
| || Bridgette & Geoff
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! 3
| align="left"| "Riot on Set"
| Alex Nussbaum
| Jan. 25, 2009
| June 25, 2009
| Drama
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| || E-Scope
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! 4
| align="left"| "Beach Blanket Bogus"
| Emily Andras
| Feb. 1, 2009
| July 2, 2009
| Beach
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| colspan="100%"
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! 5
| align="left"| "3:10 to Crazytown"
| Nicole Demerse
| Feb. 8, 2009
| July 9, 2009
| Western
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| || Trent
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! 6
| align="left"| "The Aftermath: I"
| Alice Prodanou
| Feb. 15, 2009
| July 16, 2009
| colspan="100%"
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! 7
| align="left"| "The Chefshank Redemption"
| Brendon Yorke
| April 5, 2009
| July 23, 2009
| Prison
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| || Gwen
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! 8
| align="left"| "One Flu Over the Cuckoos"
| Alex Ganetakos
| April 12, 2009
| July 30, 2009
| Medical
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| colspan="100%"
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! 9
| align="left"| "The Sand Witch Project"
| Shelley Scarrow
| April 19, 2009
| Aug. 6, 2009
| Horror
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| || DJ
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! 10
| align="left"| "Masters of Disasters"
| Alex Nussbaum
| April 26, 2009
| Aug. 13, 2009
| Disaster
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| colspan="100%"
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! 11
| align="left"| "Full Metal Drama"
| James Hurst
| May 3, 2009
| Aug. 20, 2009
| War
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| || Izzy
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! 12
| align="left"| "The Aftermath: II"
| Shelley Scarrow
| May 10, 2009
| Aug. 27, 2009
| colspan="100%"
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! 13
| align="left"| "Ocean's Eight—or Nine"
| Paul Pogue
| June 24, 2009
| Sept. 3, 2009
| Bank heist
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| || Owen
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! 14
| align="left"| "One Million Bucks, B.C."
| John Slama
| Sept. 17, 2009
| Sept. 10, 2009
| Prehistoric
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| colspan="100%"
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! 15
| align="left"| "Million Dollar Babies"
| Richard Clark
| Sept. 24, 2009
| Sept. 13, 2009
| Sports
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| || Heather
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! 16
| align="left"| "Dial M for Merger"
| Alan Resnick
| Oct. 1, 2009
| Sept. 24, 2009
| Spy
| Courtney & Lindsay
| colspan="100%"
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! 17
| align="left"| "Super Hero-ld"
| Alex Nussbaum
| Oct. 8, 2009
| Oct. 1, 2009
| Superhero
| Courtney
| || Leshawna
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! 18
| align="left"| "The Aftermath: III"
| Alice Prodanou
| Oct. 15, 2009
| Oct. 8, 2009
| colspan="100%"
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! 19
| align="left"| "The Princess Pride"
| Heather Jackson
| Nov. 5, 2009
| Oct. 15, 2009
| Fairy tale
| Courtney
| || Justin
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! 20
| align="left"| "Get a Clue"
| Alex Nussbaum
| Nov. 12, 2009
| Oct. 22, 2009
| Mystery
| Lindsay
| colspan="100%"
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! 21
| align="left"| "Rock n' Rule"
| Alan Resnick
| Nov. 19, 2009
| Oct. 29, 2009
| Rock & roll
| Courtney
| || Lindsay
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! 22
| align="left"| "Crouching Courtney, Hidden Owen"
| Alex Ganetakos
| Nov. 19, 2009
| Nov. 5, 2009
| Kung fu
| Harold
| colspan="100%"
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! 23
| align="left"| "2008: A Space Owen"
| rowspan="3"| Ken Cuperus
| Nov. 26, 2009
| Nov. 12, 2009
| Space
| Beth
| rowspan="3" || Harold
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! rowspan="2"| 24
| rowspan="2" align="left"| "Top Dog"
| rowspan="2"| Nov. 26, 2009
| rowspan="2"| Nov. 19, 2009
| rowspan="2"| Animal buddy
| rowspan="2"| Beth
| Courtney
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| Owen
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! 25
| align="left"| "Mutiny on the Soundstage"
| Brendon Yorke
| colspan="2"| Dec. 3, 2009
| Pirate & misc.
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| colspan="4"
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! 26
| align="left"| "The Aftermath: IV"
| Alex Nussbaum
| colspan="2"| Dec. 10, 2009
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| Duncan / Beth
| || Beth / Duncan
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! 27
| align="left"| "Celebrity Manhunt'''s Total Drama Action Reunion Special"
| Brendon Yorke
| June 10, 2010
| April 6, 2010
| colspan="100%"
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Elimination table
Production
Like Total Drama Island, Total Drama Action was developed and produced by Fresh TV, targeting an age group of 10-to 16-year-olds. Many of the show's settings, as well as the show's opening sequence, are deliberately made to be as close as to their Total Drama Island counterparts as possible; Camp Wawanakwa, the setting of Total Drama Island, was also revisited on several occasions, most notably as the site of some of the season's challenges. All of the cast of Total Drama Island return in the same roles as that of Total Drama Island, though some had their roles reduced as their characters were not as prominent in this season. As with Total Drama Island, two endings were commissioned for the series, one with each of the final two competitors winning; after the airing of the penultimate episode and prior to the season finale, viewers were prompted to the show's website (either at Teletoon for viewers in Canada or Cartoon Network for American viewers) to vote for the desired ending. Unlike Total Drama Island, however, the alternate ending was available as a webcast on the show's website immediately following its airing.
ReceptionTotal Drama Action has received generally mixed reviews from critics and fans, though not as much as its predecessor. Most critics agree the season does not live up to the first season, Total Drama Island. Total Drama Action received a 7.6 on Metacritic by fans, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".
Media
DVD releasesTotal Drama Action'' has only been publicly sold on DVD in Australia. The first half of the season was released on a Region 4 DVD, on November 2, 2011." The second half of the season was released exclusively to Australia, on July 4, 2012.
See also
Notes
References
External links
Total Drama Action Interactive
A TDA Podcast
Total Drama Action.com
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Edmund Henry Hartley Hall (13 August 1878 – 28 July 1965) was an Australian politician who represented the Western Australian Legislative Council district of Central Province from 1928 until 1947, and the Legislative Assembly seat of Geraldton from 1947 until 1950. He was a member of the Country Party.
Biography
Born to Edward Hall, a labour, baker and contractor, and Ellen (née Craggs) in the port city of Geraldton, Western Australia, Hall was educated locally before gaining employment at the post office, where he worked in various locations over 20 years. By 1911, he was the postmaster at Laverton, and on 20 April 1916, he married Catherine Forster at St Andrew's Church, Subiaco, with whom he was to have one son and four daughters.
On 5 August 1918, he enlisted and was appointed Second Lieutenant with the First Australian Imperial Force, on account of his 7 years' earlier service with the Rifles in Geraldton. He was assigned to the Australian Light Horse Regiment, and reported to Blackboy Hill, but did not leave Australia and was discharged on 1 December 1918. He then continued his career with the postal service, then became a storekeeper and agent in Geraldton. On 24 November 1920, he was elected to Geraldton Municipal Council, and served eight years as a councillor.
In May 1928, he contested one of the three Legislative Council seats in Central Province, which had historically been Labor-held, and won it. He went on to sit in the Council for 19 years, serving on select committees into the Hire Purchase Act, the distribution of funds provided by the Commonwealth to aid wheat growers, and the care and reform of juvenile delinquents.
He resigned his seat before the 1947 Assembly election to contest the seat of Geraldton, following the retirement from politics of the former Labor Premier, John Willcock, who had held the seat for 30 years. Hall won the seat by 11 votes against Bill Sewell, and served a single term before being defeated by Sewell at the 1950 election.
On 4 July 1950, his wife Catherine died. Little is known of his later life, and he died on 28 July 1965 at Martindale Hospital in the Perth suburb of Applecross, and was buried at Karrakatta Cemetery.
References
1878 births
1965 deaths
Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council
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Rishikesh Shah (May 16, 1925 – November 13, 2002) was a Nepalese writer, politician and human rights activist.
Career
Political
Shah was a member of the Nepal Prajatantrik Party from 1948 to 1949. Between 1951 and 1953, he was the general secretary of the Nepali Rastriya Congress. He then became general secretary of the joint Nepali Congress-Nepali Rashtriya Congress front until 1956. Shah was Minister of Finance from 1960 to 1962. In 1962 he became chair of the Constitution Drafting Commission. Between 1967 and 1971 he represented the graduate constituency in the National Panchayat. In the Panchayat, he was one of the most prominent advocates of democratic reforms.
Diplomatic
Shah was the Nepalese ambassador to the United States and the first Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations between 1956 and 1960. In 1961 Shah was elected by the United Nations General Assembly to chair the International Commission to investigate the death of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld, who had suffered an air crash over Congo. Shah was one of the candidates to succeed Hammarskjöld, but was defeated by U Thant. In 1962, Shah was appointed special ambassador.
Academic
Shah lectured in English and Nepali at Tri-Chandra College 1945–1948. During the period 1947–1948 he served as Chief Inspector of Schools.
Shah served as visiting professor at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India in 1970. In 1971 he served as Regents' Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., and the East-West Center, Honolulu.
Shah authored several works about Nepalese politics and history.
Organizational
Shah was president of the Nepal Council of World Affairs and in 1988 he became the founding president of the Human Rights Organisation of Nepal (HURON). Later, he left HURON.
References
1925 births
2002 deaths
Nepali Congress politicians from Karnali Province
Ministers of finance of Nepal
Government ministers of Nepal
Ambassadors of Nepal to the United States
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Edmund Quincy II (; 1628–1698) was an English colonist soldier, planter, politician, and merchant in the American colonies. He emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1633 with his father, Edmund Quincy I.
Early life
Edmund Quincy II was born in England in 1628. He was the son of Edmund Quincy I. In 1633, at around five years old, he emigrated to colonial Massachusetts with his father.
Career
Edmund became a magistrate, a representative to the general court, and a Lieutenant Colonel in a Massachusetts militia regiment. In 1689 he was a member of the provisional government (Committee of Safety). This was a time of turmoil in the colonies and England. The disliked Governor Edmund Andros of the Dominion of New England was placed under investigation by the Committee, while in England the Glorious Revolution (James II fled to France) and the Bill of Rights brought fundamental changes to the political structure. Colonel Quincy started work on the family property, called the Quincy Homestead, around 1696.
Personal life
His mother Judith Pares Quincy then married Robert Hull, the father of John Hull. John and Edmund were therefore step-brothers as well as in-laws. John and Judith Quincy Hull raised Daniel Quincy from the age of seven.
His first wife was Joanna Hoar, sister of Leonard Hoar (President of Harvard College); and they had 10 children:
Daniel Quincy (7 Dec 1650-1690) married Anna Shepard. Ancestors of Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams;
John Quincy (5 Feb 1652-died young);
Mary Quincy (4 Jan 1654-1676) married c 1670 to Ephraim Savage. Other sources give the year 1649 for her birth year.;
Johanna/Joanna Quincy (16 Feb 1654-18 May 1695) married David Hobart;
Judeth Quincy (25 April 1655 – 8 May 1679) married Rev. John Raynor, Jr.;
Elizabeth Quincy (28 July 1656-?) married 1681 Rev. John Daniel Gookin.;
Edmond Quincy (9 May 1657-died age 4 months);
Ruth Quincy (29 Oct 1658-?) married 19 Oct 1686 John Hunt.;
Ann Quincy (3 September 1663 – 1676);
Experience Quincy married William Saul.;
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Edmund and his second wife, Elizabeth, the widow of Rev. John Elliot of Newton and daughter of Major General Daniel Gookin, had 2 children.
Edmund Quincy III was very active in colonial affairs, like his father. His son was Josiah Quincy I.
Mary Quincy (c. 1684 – 29 March 1716) married Rev. Daniel Baker, of Shirborne. His grave was once marked with two granite columns embossed with lead. The lead was stripped for use by the colonists during the Revolution. This was noted by President John Adams.
Descendants
Many of Edmund's descendants were active in the American Revolution, some of the more notable being John Quincy Adams and Dorothy Quincy. The family intermarried with other local South Shore families, especially with the Hobarts of nearby Hingham.
Notes and references
See also
Quincy political family
Members of the colonial Massachusetts House of Representatives
Politicians from Quincy, Massachusetts
1628 births
1698 deaths
English emigrants to Massachusetts Bay Colony
Merchants from colonial Massachusetts
17th-century Massachusetts politicians
17th-century American planters
17th-century American merchants
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Tami Sagher is an American comedy writer, producer, and actress.
Biography
A native of Chicago, Sagher studied mathematics at the University of Chicago before joining Boom Chicago and then Second City.
Career
TV
Sagher has written for the TV shows 30 Rock, Psych, MADtv and Inside Amy Schumer. She was a staff writer on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, leaving before the show's final season.
Sagher then spent two seasons as writer-producer on the Netflix series Orange is the New Black. From 2020 to 2021, Sagher was a writer-executive producer on the Hulu series Shrill.
National Public Radio
In addition, Sagher has contributed to This American Life.
Performance
Her performing includes playing an improv performer in Don't Think Twice, starring in the short film The Shabbos Goy, as well as various appearances on TV sitcoms and sketch shows. In particular, she appeared in Season 5 of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Honors
Sagher has been nominated for 4 Writers Guild of America Awards:
Three for MADtv;
One (2008 in the category of Best Comedy Series) for the third season of 30 Rock.
References
External links
American film actresses
American television actresses
American television producers
American women television producers
American television writers
Living people
American women television writers
Writers Guild of America Award winners
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Upright Citizens Brigade Theater performers
21st-century American women
American comedy writers
Comedians from Chicago
American women comedians
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Foundation Public School (FPS) are a group of private schools based in Karachi, Hyderabad and Islamabad Pakistan, educating children from the ages of three and a half to eighteen, including O and A Levels. The school has nine campuses, one in Hyderabad offering Intermediate diplomas, and was founded in 1981.
House system
There are three inter houses and students are randomly divided among them at the time of admission. The houses, named after important personalities in Pakistan's history, are: Jinnah (blue) named after Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Liaquat (red) named after Liaquat Ali Khan and Iqbal ( yellow) named after Muhammad Iqbal.
Inter school sports days are part of the yearly activities including football however excluding basketball at FPS. Students compete in sports related activities and represent their respective houses. The house with the most points wins the annual sports trophy.
Curriculum
FPS prepares students for the International Examinations conducted by Cambridge Assessment International Examinations (CAIE) which issues the General Certificate of Secondary Education in Ordinary Level, and/or Advanced Level examinations.
The Hyderabad campus is the only campus to offer a Matric Diploma and Intermediate Diploma under the Sindh Board of Secondary Education.
Subjects taught at FPS include Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology, Computer Studies, Pakistan Studies, Urdu, Islamic Studies, English Literature, Economics, Accounting, Business Studies, Environmental Studies, Sociology, English Language, World History, Art & Design, Additional mathematics and Economics.
All students that are citizens of Pakistan must write an examination testing their knowledge on Pakistan's History and Geography. The CIE board offers Islamiyat and Pakistan Studies to meet those requirements. Non Muslims are exempted from Islamiyat but still have to write an exam based on Pakistan's History and Geography.
Students are given an option to choose their optional subjects in grade 10 while all students are required to take the five compulsory subjects which are English as First Language, Mathematics Syllabus D, Urdu as Second Language, Islamiyat and Pakistan Studies.
The O Level examinations are given in two phases. In grade 10, all students sit for Islamiyat, Pakistan Studies and Urdu as Second Language. The remaining exams are given in grade 11 which include two compulsory subjects and five optional subjects. All examinations are written while representing FPS.
Athletics
While the name FPSonians has existed it has not been used to represent FPS teams. Teammates have preferred the short acronym of the school name as the label to their team which is FPS.
FPS has formed teams in the following sports that compete regularly among other schools in the country:
Football (soccer)
Cricket
Table tennis
Throw ball
Football (soccer)
Initially when football was gaining popularity in the country there was no formal team representing FPS. Many students were playing for local clubs and later on schools across the country started forming official football teams. FPS was one of the pioneers in bringing football as a sports to school and its team soon became active in competing against other schools.
FPS has participated in championship tournaments organized by Karachi United Football Club (KUFC).
It has arranged an inter-school Football Tournament in which teams from other schools in Karachi compete against each other to win the championship.
Team players from the school have made their name in the FPS's team and later played for other schools while doing their A Levels.
Cricket
The oldest of all the teams FPS has had is the cricket team. The team has lost popularity as football is taking over but other campuses of FPS have maintained a cricket team. FPS has participated in inter-school tournaments.
Table tennis
In 2012, the table tennis team reached the finals against Beaconhouse School System (Jubilee Campus).
Throw ball
FPS has a girls' throw ball team who plays against other schools in Culligan Girls Throwball Tournament.
Extracurricular activities
Humanitarian
In July 2012, FPS sent students to participate in a seminar related to the dumping of waste in Arabian Sea that connects to the coast of Karachi.
FPS is working on making community service work mandatory for all A-Level schools in the city. This will be a condition on all students in order to proceed to their second year of A-Levels. An activity like this is closely similar to the requirements of the Ontario Secondary School Diploma which requires students to complete a minimum of 40 hours of community service before they can graduate.
Notable alumni
Mahira Khan who is a prominent Pakistani Video jockey and actress graduated from FPS in 2001.
References
External links
Official website
Cambridge schools in Pakistan
School systems in Pakistan
Educational institutions established in 1981
1981 establishments in Pakistan
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Gutu is the third largest district in Masvingo Province, southern Zimbabwe, after Chiredzi and Mwenezi. It is the northernmost district in the province. The name "Gutu" is historically reported to have emerged from "Chinomukutu wemiseve" – meaning, "the one with a load of arrows". This is according to oral historical folklore of the "Gumbo" clan who are said to have taken over the area from the "Shiri" clan through killing them by poisoning the fruit trees in the "Gona" area. Mupandawana is the largest district service centre. It was designated as a "growth point" during the early years of independent Zimbabwe together with such places as Gokwe in the Midlands Province and Juru in Mashonaland East province. Mpandawana gained town status in April 2014.
It was home to the late Oliver Munyaradzi, Simon Muzenda, former vice president of Zimbabwe as well as Vitalis Zvinavashe, a Commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces and politician. Dr Costa Maonei, former District Medical Officer, comes from the southern tip of the District. The late Air Vice Marshal Josiah Tungamirai was also a native of Gutu. Nelson Chamisa, a politician and former president of the Citizens Coalition for Change also comes from Gutu. Gutu Mission Hospital found in the district, is one of a number of centers for HIV/AIDS treatment in the province. The population is mostly the Karanga, a Shona sub-tribe. It is one of a few districts in the province where the standard of living is above average. Gutu Rural District council is in charge of the day-to-day running of the district.
Geography
Climatically, the area falls under Natural Region III. Natural Regions (NRs) in Zimbabwe's context are areas delineated on the basis of soil type, rainfall and other climatic factors. It is one of a few districts in the country that suffers from over-population. Its population density of 22.08 per square kilometer is among the highest in the country.
Gutu district center had a population of 10-12000 in 1989. Like other districts in the country, medical facilities in the district suffer from shortage of manpower.
Mpandawana Growth Point, a business center in Zimbabwe, is found in the district.
Government and politics
General elections 2008
The district was divided into four parts by the electoral commission for the general elections of 2008. Candidates from both the MDC and ZANU-PF and independents will compete for the four constituency seats available and winner will go one to represent the district in Zimbabwe's new House of Assembly.
Matuke Lovemore (Zanu-PF), and Chirume Oliver (MDC Tsvangirai) will contest the Gutu central seat while in Gutu east, Chikwama Bertha (Zanu-PF), Revai Tichaona (Independent), Makamure Ramson (MDC Tsvangirai) will fight it out. In Gutu north, the candidates are Maramwidze Edmore (MDC Tsvangirai), and the late Provincial hero Frank Machinya(Zanu-PF) while Mandevu Tarirai (Zanu-PF), and Maguma Stanley (MDC Tsvangirai) are vying for the Gutu west seat.
The results came as follows: of the five seats, four seats were won by MDC Tsvangirai, and one went to Zanu PF.
Notable residents
Paul Tangi Mhova Mkondo, nationalist, part of the first group of Gonakudzingwa restriction camp political prisoners, insurance executive, indigenous businessman, commercial farmer, philanthropist.
Simon Muzenda, nationalist, former Zimbabwean deputy prime minister and vice-president
Divine Ndhlukula, businesswoman, farmer
Naftali Rabson Mupata Tanyongana, Educator
Elisha Tavagadza,- EMV Engineer-currently based in Europe
Simbarashe Mazorodze, Information Technology Consultant based in Harare.
[Penemene Chomurwiti Chivasa Chitsa ], Intelligent Headman and Son of Chief Chomurwiti Gutu who resided in Chitsa
Chipo Ziso, a notable Chemical Technician responsible for a number of labs.
Villages
Shenjere Village is an inhabited place located in Gutu District. There is a lower school, "Shenjere Primary School" for 1st to 7th graders in this village.
References
Districts of Masvingo Province
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Grigory Verzhbitsky
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Grigory Afanasyevich Verjbitsky () (born January 25, 1875, Letychiv, Podolia Governorate — died December 20, 1942 Tianjin, China) was one of the leaders of the White movement in Transbaikal and Primoriye during the Russian Civil War, Lieutenant-General (1918).
Verjbitsky was graduated from the Odessa Infantry Engineering School in 1897. He was a participant of the Russo-Japanese War and World War I and he became a colonel in 1915. Verjbitsky joined the Omsk Provisional Government of Admiral Kolchak and was appointed as a commander of the 3rd Steppe Siberian Corps becoming Lieutenant-General.
After the defeat of Admiral Kolchak's armies in the Ural and Western Siberia, Verzhbitsky took part in the Great Siberian Ice march. After arrival at Chita, Ataman Grigory Semyonov trusted into his hands the 2nd Separate Rifle Corps of the Far Eastern Army from February to August 23, 1920. Verjbitsky escaped to China and even was a deputy of the Constituent Assembly of the Far Eastern Republic but did not participate in its work.
He headed the Provisional Priamurye Government Army of Spiridon Dionisovich Merkulov from 1921 to 1922. After the final defeat from the Soviets Verzhbitsky settled down in Harbin heading the branch of the Russian All-Military Union. The Japanese sent him to Tianjin in 1934, where he died eight years later.
Verjbitsky was awarded with:
Order of St. George of the Fourth Degree
Order of St. George of the Third Degree
Order of St. Anna, 2nd class
Order of St. Anna, 4th class
Order of Saint Stanislaus (Imperial House of Romanov), 3rd class
Order of St. Vladimir, 4th class
Cross of St. George with a palm branch by his soldiers.
References
Бушин А. Ю. Во имя России: генерал-лейтенант Г. А. Вержбицкий // Белая армия. Белое дело. — Екатеринбург. — 2000. — № 7.
1875 births
1942 deaths
People from Letychiv
White movement lieutenant generals
White Russian emigrants to China
Russian All-Military Union members
History of Zabaykalsky Krai
Primorsky Krai
Russian military personnel of the Russo-Japanese War
Russian military personnel of World War I
People of the Russian Civil War
Recipients of the Order of St. George of the Third Degree
Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 2nd class
Recipients of the Order of Saint Stanislaus (Russian), 3rd class
Recipients of the Order of St. Vladimir, 4th class
Recipients of the Cross of St. George
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, released in July 1966, is the first film made by Japanese director Kōji Wakamatsu independently of any movie studio. It was released just months after he had left Nikkatsu and formed his own company, Wakamatsu Productions. At the time of its release Wakamatsu was quoted as saying "For me, violence, the body and sex are an integral part of life" which would predict the outcome and plot of the film.
Plot summary
A mentally unstable man keeps his girlfriend tied up in his small apartment and tortures her. He prefers to keep her naked, and she is subjected to various types of bondage, whipped, and tortured with a razor blade. He also brushes her hair, and applies make-up on her, though, and as the film goes on he continues to have a mental breakdown due to his deteriorating sanity. In the end the girl gets free and has her revenge against him.
Cast
Legacy
The film is said to be one of the "early examples of the stalker film".
Notes
References
External links
IMDb entry
1966 films
BDSM in films
Films directed by Kōji Wakamatsu
Pink films
Japanese black-and-white films
1960s pornographic films
1960s Japanese films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail%20of%20Tears%20%28disambiguation%29
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Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of Native American nations from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States following the passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Trail of Tears may also refer to:
Places
Trail of Tears State Forest in southern Illinois
Trail of Tears State Park in Missouri
Art, entertainment, and media
Film
The Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy, a 2006 documentary
Music
Artists
Trail of Tears (band), a Norwegian musical group
Albums
Trails of Tears (Jacques Coursil album), 2010
Trail of Tears (Billy Ray Cyrus album), 1996, or the title track
Trail of Tears (The Renderers album), 1990, or the title track
Songs
"Trail of Tears", a song by Guadalcanal Diary, from their 1984 album, Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man
"Trail of Tears", a song composed by Roger Cook, Allen Reynolds and Randy Handley and recorded by John Denver, on his 1985 album, Dreamland Express and by Hal Ketchum on his 1992 album Sure Love
"Trail of Tears", a song by British pop star Midge Ure, released on his 1996 solo album Breathe
"Trial of Tears", a song by Dream Theater, from their 1997 album, Falling into Infinity
"Trail of Tears", a song by Eric Johnson, from his 1986 album, Tones
"Trail of Tears", a song by Nuclear Assault, from their 1989 album, Handle with Care
"Trail of Tears", a song by Testament, from their 1994 album, Low
"Trail of Tears", a song by W.A.S.P., from their 2002 album, Dying for the World
Television
"Trail of Tears" (Strangers with Candy), a Season 3 episode of the television comedy Strangers with Candy
See also
Highway of Tears murders
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Clatter is a small village in Powys, Wales located in the community of Caersws on the main A470 road between Carno and Caersws village.
External links
Photos of Clatter and surrounding area on geograph.org.uk
Villages in Powys
Caersws
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Massy Stores (formerly Hi-Lo Foods Stores) is a nationwide supermarket chain in Trinidad and Tobago. It is a subsidiary of the Massy Group (formerly Neal & Massy) of companies and part of the IGA network. Originally opened by Cannings Foods Limited, Hi-Lo was rebranded as Massy Stores in 2014 as part of an effort to make consumers familiar with other businesses operating under the Massy Group.
References
External links
Official Website
Supermarkets of Trinidad and Tobago
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Charles Whittlesey may refer to:
Charles Whittlesey (geologist) (1808–1886), American geologist and archeologist
Charles Frederick Whittlesey (1867–1941), American architect
Charles White Whittlesey (1884–c. 1921), American soldier
Charles Whittlesey (lawyer) (1819–1874), Connecticut lawyer, Union soldier and briefly Virginia Attorney General
Charles Whittlesey (politician) (1807–1863), American politician in Iowa
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Victor Konwlo (born 1 February 1975) is a Liberian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder for Canon Yaoundé in Cameroon, AS Cannes and AS Nancy in France, AZ in the Netherlands, and Paços de Ferreira and Caldas in Portugal.
In 2001, he also had a trial with Scottish side Raith Rovers, but he was not offered a contract.
References
External links
1975 births
Living people
Liberian men's footballers
AS Cannes players
AS Nancy Lorraine players
AZ Alkmaar players
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 2 players
Eerste Divisie players
Expatriate men's footballers in France
Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands
Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal
Caldas S.C. players
Men's association football midfielders
Liberia men's international footballers
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This is a list of the number-one hits of 2004 on FIMI's Italian Singles and Albums Charts.
See also
2004 in music
List of number-one hits in Italy
References
External links
FIMI archives
ItalianCharts.com
2004 in Italian music
Italy
2004
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The Blue Ridge Music Center is a music venue, museum, and visitor center on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Galax, Virginia. The center celebrates the living musical heritage of the surrounding mountains and interprets its significance within the larger landscape of American music and culture through concerts, exhibits, and programs. The site is a partnership between the National Park Service and Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation.
See also
List of music museums
Sources
External links
Music museums in Virginia
Music archives in the United States
Music venues in Virginia
Music venues completed in 1985
Museums in Grayson County, Virginia
Music organizations based in the United States
Blue Ridge Parkway
1985 establishments in Virginia
Appalachian music
Old-time music
National Park Service museums
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Transamerican Love Story is an American reality dating show in which suitors woo transgender woman Calpernia Addams. Addams chooses a suitor by process of elimination. When the show first aired, viewers could vote their preferences online, but it was Addams who chose whom to eliminate. Calpernia is accompanied by her friend Andrea James; each episode is hosted by comedian Alec Mapa.
Transamerican Love Story is the first reality dating show in the United States in which contestants compete for the attention and approval of a transgender woman. Logo TV, a digital cable channel with LGBTQ content, announced the series in November 2007, and premiered the first episode the following February. The series finale aired on March 31, 2008.
Zack Rosen of the Washington Blade praised the series, describing it as "refreshing for its lack of sensationalism". Heather Havrilesky of Salon agreed, and admired Calpernia's composure in the reality show environment. In 2009, Transamerican Love Story won a GLAAD Media Award in the "Outstanding Reality Program" category, tying with I Want to Work for Diddy.
MTV Networks published the complete series on DVD in 2008. The series is also distributed on Amazon Video, and was previously distributed through Netflix, iTunes, and LOGOonline.
Overview
The show employs the competition-dating format established by The Bachelor (2002), a long-running series with numerous spin-offs and imitators. The bachelors in Transamerican Love Story are men who are "open to dating a trans woman". They lodge together in a mansion while Calpernia stays in a separate cottage on the estate. The contestants compete in group challenges, and the winners are granted time with Calpernia.
Before deciding which contestant to eliminate in the evening's ceremony, Calpernia confers with her friends Andrea James and (show host) Alec Mapa. James and Mapa have occasion to chat with the bachelors, and they share some of their insights with Calpernia. Viewers also vote their preferences online, but it is Calpernia who chooses whom to eliminate. In the elimination ceremony, Calpernia feeds a chocolate to those suitors whom she invites to stay. In the final episode, when only three suitors remain, they are given makeovers before Calpernia meets with them individually to tell each man whether it is him she has chosen.
Most of Transamerican Love Story was filmed in the Greater Los Angeles Area of Los Angeles County, California. Portions of episode six were filmed in the Western US cities of Ventura, California and Las Vegas, Nevada.
The suitors
Eight men compete in the show. They range in age from 24 to 47.
Call-out order
Contestants are arranged in the order in which Calpernia calls their names during the elimination ceremony. In episode five, no competition winner is declared. In episode six, each of the three remaining men gets a date with Calpernia. Episode seven is a clip show, and has no elimination ceremony. In episode eight, Calpernia turns down two of the three remaining suitors before declaring the remaining man the winner.
The contestant won the competition.
The contestant won a date with Calpernia.
The contestant won a date with Calpernia, but was eliminated.
The contestant was eliminated.
The contestant was to be eliminated, but Calpernia let him stay.
Episodes
Production
Transamerican Love Story was one of three new reality television shows that Logo premiered in 2008, accompanied by Gimme Sugar and Shirts & Skins. It was produced by World of Wonder Productions with the assistance of Oh Really! Productions, a company that had recently begun producing The Big Gay Sketch Show for Logo.
After World of Wonder developed the concept for Transamerican Love Story, Logo called Calpernia Addams in the summer of 2007 to offer her the starring role, which she accepted. Addams is an actress, musician, writer, and activist from Nashville, Tennessee. She was 36 years old when the show was filmed.
Her friend, transgender activist Andrea James, co-stars in the series, and was a consulting producer. In a 2013 interview, James explains that she saw an opportunity for social progress in a program that accurately represented men who are attracted to trans women. Typically, she says, in US media trans-attracted men are stigmatized and shamed, and that can make them hate themselves—and "lead to unhealthy and even dangerous situations for trans women." "No one knows how hard it is for us to date!" Addams adds. Both Addams and James hoped the show would also undermine the media stereotype of trans women as "tragic and serious".
Transamerican Love Story was not World of Wonder's first transgender program. Their documentary series TransGeneration (2005) won a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary in 2006, and Sex Change Hospital (2007) was a nominee for the same award in 2009. Transamerican Love Story contestant Jim Howley, who is himself transgender, appeared in the premiere episode of Sex Change Hospital.
Response and epilogue
Zack Rosen of the Washington Blade called the show "refreshing for its lack of sensationalism". Heather Havrilesky, in her review for Salon, observed: "The show’s producers (thankfully) resist the urge to throw in big, manipulative Fox-style surprises. While some of the men get freaked out by each other, Calpernia is likable and accepting and takes the whole crazy assortment of characters in stride."
"A reality dating show is… a very difficult circumstance in which to get to know someone", wrote Calpernia Addams, a few weeks after the finale aired. "I look[ed] at it as… a fun romp… rather than a deadly serious path to matrimony." The following July, Calpernia reported that she and competition-winner Shawn "had some dinners and get-togethers, but… have not continued to date". A few days later, she told an interviewer: "The amazing thing that Logo did with this was they showed trans people dating as being so normal, like it really is. I think it’s going to open it up for trans women to feel worthy of love and for guys to not be afraid to date us."
About two months after the final episode aired, Addams, Howley, Andrea James, and Alec Mapa all appeared together in the 2008 Los Angeles Pride parade. Later that summer, Jim Howley did a photo shoot with portrait photographer Eric Schwabel for a feature in The Advocate on the human body. Schwabel also photographed Addams the following February.
On June 18, 2009, a few weeks after Transamerican Love Story won a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Reality Program, Calpernia Addams and Andrea James debuted a short comedy film at the 33rd Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco. They had begun developing the film—called Transproofed—more than a year prior. Transproofed is the story of a trans woman, Ava, who feels unready to tell the man she's been dating that she's transgender; but when Ava's friend Joyce pressures her into hiding any evidence in her apartment that she's trans (with a long career as a showgirl), Ava feels more and more uneasy. Addams and James wrote, directed, produced, and scored the film. Addams takes the role of Ava, and James plays the role of Joyce.
GLAAD Media Award
At the 20th GLAAD Media Awards in May 2009, Transamerican Love Story tied with I Want to Work for Diddy for the GLAAD Media Award in the "Outstanding Reality Program" category. Calpernia Addams and Laverne Cox were at the awards ceremony in San Francisco to accept the honors for the respective shows.
Also in attendance was Transamerican Love Story finalist Jim Howley. He reports that when Transamerican Love Story won, he impulsively ran past the security personnel and onto the stage. After Addams' acceptance speech, he approached the lectern, introduced himself, and said a few words about transgender progress. Howley was one of the subjects of Sex Change Hospital, which was a nominee that year in the "Outstanding Documentary" category. He attended the awards ceremony with Clair Farley, a trans woman who was the subject of the 2007 documentary Red Without Blue. The couple married in 2011.
In 2016, two transgender-related series once again tied for GLAAD's "Outstanding Reality Program" award: I Am Cait (starring Caitlyn Jenner) and I Am Jazz (starring Jazz Jennings). Chris McCarthy, general manager of Logo and VH1, told Adweek in 2015 that without Transamerican Love Story and other portrayals of diverse trans issues, "there would be no I Am Cait." Said World of Wonder co-founder Randy Barbato, "We always thought our subjects were ready for prime time. Not that many people agreed with us."
Video releases
MTV Networks published the complete series in a four-disc DVD set in 2008. It is distributed online through Amazon Video, and has also been distributed through Netflix, iTunes, and LOGOonline.
See also
There's Something About Miriam (2004) - A similar show, surrounding a trans-woman finding a male romantic partner. However, the show was much more controversial, in keeping the leads' gender status a secret.
The Bachelorette (2003)
A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila (2007)
My Transsexual Summer (2011)
References
Further reading
External links
2008 American television series debuts
2008 American television series endings
2000s American LGBTQ-related reality television series
Celebrity reality television series
GLAAD Media Award–winning shows
American dating and relationship reality television series
American English-language television shows
Logo TV original programming
Transgender-related television shows
LGBTQ-related dating and relationship reality television series
2008 LGBTQ-related television
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R.M. Williams Outback (or simply Outback) is a bi-monthly magazine of Australia. The magazine was established in 1998 with first issue in September. Its center of focus and target audience are toward Australians living and working in the Australian Outback. It commonly features stories, articles and advertisements about life on a ranch, work, and products thereof. It is published in Australia and circulated primarily in Australia and New Zealand, although subscription is available world wide.
The magazine is the recipient of the Australian Magazine Award.
See also
R. M. Williams
References
External links
Official website
1998 establishments in Australia
Bi-monthly magazines published in Australia
Lifestyle magazines published in Australia
Local interest magazines published in Australia
Magazines established in 1998
Magazines published in Sydney
Australian outback
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Harrow History Prize
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The Harrow History Prize or the Townsend Warner Preparatory Schools History Prize is an annual history competition for children at British preparatory schools. It currently attracts around 800 entrants each year.
History
The prize was established in 1885 by E. E. Bowen, a housemaster at Harrow School. He wanted to encourage a move away from purely classical education and offered a prize in history to pupils of Elstree Preparatory School. In 1895 the Dragon School also started to take part, and the competition had spread to thirteen other schools by 1905 with 39 entrants taking part that year. In 1905, George Townsend Warner, head of history at Harrow (and father of Sylvia Townsend Warner), took on the running of the competition until his death in 1916. Over many years the prize was repeatedly won by St Cyprian's School whose Headmistress Mrs Vaughan Wilkes was a great believer in history teaching and in the prize itself. After 1916 administration was shared between Mr Henry of Harrow and Henry Marten, later Sir Henry Marten, of Eton and the prize was renamed after Townsend Warner. In 1940 the number of participating schools had risen to 40, by which time both Henry and Marten had withdrawn. There were difficulties during World War II because of the disruption this caused to prep schools, but the competition was kept running by Major C F Letts until 1956 when the Independent Association of Preparatory Schools (IAPS) took over. By this time there were 70 schools and over 500 entrants in the competition. The competition has continued to grow since then, and a special centenary competition was run in 1985.
Winners
Notable winners, both from St Cyprian's, included Dyneley Hussey (1905) and Cyril Connolly (1916), with his colleague Eric Blair (George Orwell) in second place. Orwell later wrote scathingly of the prize as a "piece of nonsense". Another runner up was the historian Arthur Bryant. Westminster Under School. British Conservative Party politician Kwasi Kwarteng is also a recipient of the prize as he won it in 1988 while studying at Colet Court.
Papers 1 and 2
There are two exams in this competition, Paper 1 consisting of testing of dates and battles, and 2 is made up of essays.
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External links
Harrow School
Educational awards in the United Kingdom
1885 establishments in the United Kingdom
Awards established in 1885
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Webster Street station
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The Webster Street station was a train station located at Webster and North 15th Streets in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Located on the Omaha Belt Line, which was operated by the Omaha Road and the Missouri Pacific Railroad as a local railroad passenger depot, the station was built in 1887. In 1902 the New York Times noted the station for its innovations in the treatment of passenger luggage.
The Swedes in Omaha used the Webster Street Station to connect with their ethnic communities in Oakland, Pender, Wakefield, and Wausa.
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Former railway stations in Omaha, Nebraska
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1887
Omaha
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Carl Murchison
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Carl Allanmore Murchison (1887–1961) was an American psychologist and an early promoter of the discipline of psychology. Unlike most psychologists who became prominent in the history books, Murchison was not an influential theorist or researcher. Instead, he was an extremely active organizer, publisher, and editor.
Murchison received his Ph.D. in social psychology from Johns Hopkins University in 1923. He taught at Clark University from 1923 to 1936. During most of this time he served as the chair of the psychology department.
Carl Murchison edited The Psychological Register in 1929, and the first Handbook of Social Psychology in 1935. He founded and served as editor of a total of five psychology journals, all of which still exist today. These include the Journal of Psychology, the Journal of General Psychology, co-founded with Edward Titchener and the Journal of Social Psychology, co-founded with John Dewey. This further broadening the reach and impact of psychological research.Carl Allanmore Murchison efforts in publishing, organizing, and advocating for psychology helped to establish a strong foundation for the field and encouraged the dissemination and application of psychological knowledge
Murchison was also instrumental in organizing conferences and meetings that brought together leading psychologists and researchers. These gatherings were crucial for sharing ideas, fostering collaborations, and setting the agenda for future research directions and till this day there is professionals talking this approach like Chris M Murchison. In addition he was also known for his support and mentorship of up-and-coming psychologists. By providing guidance and opportunities for young scholars, he helped nurture the next generation of psychologists, ensuring the growth and sustainability of the discipline.
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Clark University faculty
20th-century American psychologists
1961 deaths
1887 births
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River Carno
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The River Carno () is a river in Powys, mid Wales, and a tributary of the River Severn.
The river is named after the village of Carno, which is close to the source in the foothills of the Cambrian Mountains. From Carno, it flows roughly parallel to the A470 road, past Clatter and through Pontdolgoch, before emptying into the Severn at Caersws.
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Carno
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visakha%20Express%20%28film%29
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Visakha Express (film)
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Visakha Express is a 2008 Indian Telugu-language thriller film directed by Vara Mullapudi who co-wrote the film with Chandra Sekhar Yeleti and Harsha Vardhan. The film stars Allari Naresh, Rajiv Kanakala, Preeti Jhangiani, and Sindhu Tolani. The basic plot of the story is taken from Patricia Highsmith's novel Strangers on a Train (1950), which is about two strangers and an exchange of murders.
Plot
Two strangers, Dr. Raja (Rajiv Kanakala) and Ravi Varma (Allari Naresh) meet each other on a train, Visakha Express. Raja is annoyed with the problems caused by his drunkard father (Kota Srinivasa Rao) and in an unconscious situation shares his problems with Ravi Varma. A few days later, his father injures himself in an accident and is brought to the hospital, who dies of poisoning and the blame is put on the doctor. In fact, it is Ravi Varma who has designed the death on the train.
Ravi Varma marries Suchitra (Preeti), who is an ex-girlfriend of Raja. Ravi Varma is dissatisfied with the relationship between his wife and Raja and wanted to eliminate her. So Ravi Varma kills Raja's father and throws that case on Raja. He also blackmails Raja that if he kills his wife Suchitra, he will save him. The remaining story is about how Raja saves his ex-girlfriend and kills Ravi Varma.
Cast
Rajiv Kanakala as Dr. Raja
Allari Naresh as Ravi Varma
Preeti Jhangiani as Suchitra
Kota Srinivasa Rao as Mohan Rao, Raja's father
Sindhu Tolani as Kokila
Ali as Superintendent of Police
Mumaith Khan as Geetha
Vijaya Rangaraju as Inspector
Dharmavarapu Subramanyam as Doctor
Shankar Melkote as Dr. Melkote
Narsing Yadav as Venu, wine shop owner
Sivannarayana Naripeddi
Raghu Karumanchi as Constable
Soundtrack
01.Kasukku Sokulu
02.Mapatela Eeroju
03.Oh Prema
04.Mapreme Mapreme
Reception
Reviewing the film for Rediff.com, Radhika Rajamani wrote, "The film, which starts off as a whodunit finally boils down to a question of personal vendetta. In the end we are left wondering whether it is worth two hours of sitting through the film to get to the ending." Sify rated the film 3/5 and stated, "Story is good, but the screenplay by Chandrasekhar Yeleti and direction by Vara are disappointing. As the audiences come out of the theatre, they would certainly sympathize with the story. A unanimous feeling that it has not been handled with skill pervades their judgment."
References
External links
Film review
2008 films
2000s Telugu-language films
Films based on American novels
Films based on works by Patricia Highsmith
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2008 thriller films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha%20Belt%20Line
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Omaha Belt Line
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The Omaha Belt Line was a long railroad that circumnavigated Omaha, Nebraska, starting in 1885. The organization behind the line, called the Omaha Belt Railway, was incorporated two years earlier, in 1883. Carrying passengers and cargo, the original line was operated by the Missouri Pacific Railroad, with the first line from the Sarpy County line into Downtown Omaha.
History
The line was first associated with the Union Pacific Railroad, whose officers first registered it as a "pet project" in 1883. In 1885, a young railroad tycoon named Jay Gould noticed that the Omaha Belt Line would be a perfect route to run his burgeoning Missouri Pacific Railroad around Omaha, thereby giving his railroad direct access to Downtown Omaha, something his railroad had previously only been able to reach via Union Pacific-owned tracks, which Missouri Pacific's line from Kansas City connected with at Portal, NE, just west of Papillion, NE.
While being constructed with Union Pacific employees and materials, the Belt Railway had only weak ties to UP on a business level, so, the always ambitious Gould decided he would expropriate Union Pacific of the 15-mile rail line around Omaha. To ensure local agreement, Gould, known for his charisma and strategic use of easily swayed government officials, stacked the Omaha Belt Board of directors with local officials whom Gould had frequent, personal contact with - except S.H.H. Clark, who was a former president of the Union Pacific - eager to work for Gould's growing empire. This acquisition of the Omaha Belt Railway from the Union Pacific was viewed as a masterfully enacted business coup in later years. The line was finished using materials from both railroads. That use of combined resources was the subject of a later dispute between the railroad companies which they carried to the US Railway Commission. The case was eventually dropped. By the 1920s, 178 trains per day went in and out of Omaha carrying mail, passengers, and freight.
The line was abandoned and removed piecemeal throughout the 1980s and 1990s as freight customers moved to bigger facilities away from the rail line and public transportation service in Omaha became less popular and dominated by an inefficient bus system. Today a portion of the Belt Line has been turned into the MoPac Trail (MoPac being the age-old nickname of the Missouri Pacific Railroad), also known as the "Field Club Trail", a recreational trail in Omaha. A small portion of the Belt Line Railway is still in use on the extreme south end of the line, which now serves as a "spur" (a dead end railroad track that provides access to one or more industries) to several South Omaha industries near Dahlman Avenue. It is operated by the Union Pacific Railroad.
Lines and properties
Missouri Pacific's Omaha Belt Line included the main yard at Nicholas Street in North Omaha, the "Alley" switching district in Downtown Omaha, the "short belt" industrial area and the Westside Junction near 48th and Leavenworth streets. The Belt Line interchanged with several other roads including the Union Pacific, the Chicago and Northwestern Railway, the "Omaha Road" Railway and the Illinois Central. The Belt connected with the Missouri Pacific Railroad's original mainline at Westside Junction, as well as the newer mainline to Kansas City and St. Louis at Dahlman Ave. in South Omaha. The Missouri Pacific railroad also had branches in Lincoln, Wahoo and Nebraska City.
See also
History of Omaha
Missouri Pacific Railroad
References
Railway lines in Omaha, Nebraska
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Railway lines opened in 1883
1883 establishments in Nebraska
1960s disestablishments in Nebraska
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STRS
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STRS
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STRS or Strs may refer to:
Short tandem repeats, in DNA testing
St. Thomas Residential School, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
Sir Thomas Rich's School, Longlevens, Gloucester, England
South Thames Retrieval Service, a medical transport service affiliated with Evelina Children's Hospital, London
Sprouse-Reitz (NASDAQ symbol: STRS), a defunct American retail chain
Strauss Group (Tel Aviv Stock Exchange symbol: STRS), an Israeli food company
See also
STR (disambiguation)
California State Teachers' Retirement System, (CalSTRS)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant%27Elia
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Sant'Elia
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Sant'Elia, Elia being the Italian name for the prophet Elijah, may refer to:
Places
Places in Italy:
Sant'Elia a Pianisi, a commune in the Province of Campobasso
Castel Sant'Elia, a commune in the Province of Viterbo
Sant'Elia Fiumerapido, a comune in the Province of Frosinone
Sant'Elia (Rieti), a frazione of Rieti
Sant'Elia (L'Aquila), a frazione of L'Aquila
Sant'Elia (Santa Flavia), a frazione of Santa Flavia in the Province of Palermo
Places outside Italy
Mount Saint Elias a peak in North America climbed in the 19th century by the Duke of Abruzzi.
People
Sant'Elia di Enna (829–904), an Italian monk from Enna, venerated as a saint in the Catholic and Orthodox churches
Sant'Elia Speleota (863–960), an Italian saint from Reggio Calabria, venerated in the Catholic and Orthodox churches
Antonio Sant'Elia (1888–1916), an Italian architect from Como
Facilities and structures
Basilica di Sant'Elia, a church dating from the 11th century at Castel Sant'Elia
Stadio Sant'Elia, a football stadium in Cagliari, Italy
See also
Monte Sant'Elia (disambiguation)
Elia (disambiguation)
Saint Elias (disambiguation), Elias derived from Greek for the Italian Elia
Saint Elijah (disambiguation), Elijah derived from Hebrew for the Italian Elia
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John Hardee
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John Hardee (December 20, 1918 – May 18, 1984) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.
Hardee toured with Don Albert in 1937–38 while he was in college; he graduated in 1941. He directed a Texas school band and served in the Army during World War II. In 1946 he played with Tiny Grimes and then recorded as a bandleader for Blue Note Records between 1946 and 1948, issuing eight releases. In the 1940s and early 1950s he played with Clyde Bernhardt, Cousin Joe, Russell Procope, Earl Bostic, Billy Kyle, Helen Humes, Billy Taylor, and Lucky Millinder. In the 1950s he retired from music and became a schoolteacher. In 1959, he played saxophone on Dallas R&B group The Nightcaps (Texas band) LP Wine, Wine, Wine. He was credited as "Jon Hardtimes" and, although he performed with them occasionally, was not an official member of the group.
Discography
Leader
John Hardee Swingtet & Sextet: Various Artists – The Blue Note Swingtets (Blue Note, 1946) with Tiny Grimes, Gene Ramey and Sid Catlett
John Hardy Quartet & Quintet: The Tenor Sax Album – The Savoy Sessions (Savoy Records)
Tired
John Hardee 1946–1948
Hardee’s Partee
The Forgotten Texas Tenor
Tenor Sax (Blue Note, 1946)
Al Haig, Coleman Hawkins, Wardell Gray, John Hardee: Al Haig Meets The Master Saxes, Volume One (Spotlite Records, 1977)
A Little Blue (Black And Blue, 1999)
Sideman
Tiny Grimes: The Complete 1944-1950, Vol. 1 & 2 (Blue Moon)
John Hardee mit Russell Procope Big Six & Billy Kyle’s Big Eight: Giants Of Small-Band Swing, Vol.1 (OJC, 1946)
Helen Humes: 1945–1947 (Classics)
Billy Kyle: 1937–1938 (Classics)
References
Scott Yanow, [ John Hardee] at Allmusic
American jazz saxophonists
American male saxophonists
1984 deaths
1918 births
20th-century American saxophonists
Jazz musicians from Texas
20th-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians
Savoy Records artists
Black & Blue Records artists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top%20Gear%20series%205
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Top Gear series 5
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Series 5 of Top Gear, a British motoring magazine and factual television programme, was broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two during 2004, consisting of nine episodes between 24 October and 26 December; a compilation episode, titled "Best of Top Gear", was aired on 2 January 2005, and charted the best moments from Series 4 and 5.
Episodes
Best-of episodes
References
2004 British television seasons
Top Gear (2002 TV series) series
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Betty Youngblood
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Betty Youngblood was President of Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, MI from 2002 to 2007. Previously she was President and Professor of political science at Western Oregon University and chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Superior. She was preceded as president of Lake Superior State by President Arbuckle and succeeded by Dr. Rodney L. Lowman.
References
Living people
People from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
Lake Superior State University faculty
Western Oregon University faculty
University of Wisconsin–Superior
Heads of universities and colleges in the United States
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Elijah Gates
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Elijah Gates (December 17, 1827 – March 4, 1915) was an American politician, and colonel in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
Early and personal life
Gates moved to Platte County, Missouri, sometime around 1846, and subsequently settled on a farm in Buchanan County. In 1852, he married Maria Stamper, and they had twelve children.
Military career
At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Gates enlisted in the Confederate Army, starting as a captain in the Missouri State Guard under the command of General Sterling Price, and was later promoted to colonel of the 1st Missouri Cavalry Regiment. He commanded his regiment at the Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas in March 1862, during the Siege of Corinth, Mississippi, and at the Battles of Iuka, Second Corinth, Champion Hill, Big Black River Bridge and at the Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi. He also temporarily commanded the 1st Missouri Brigade. In 1864, Gates participated in the Atlanta Campaign and the Battle of Allatoona, Georgia, and lost an arm at the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee. During his service, he was wounded five times, captured by Union forces three times, and had four horses shot from underneath him. On April 9, 1865, the same day Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, Colonel Gates was engaged in one of the last battles of the Civil War, the Battle of Fort Blakeley in Alabama.
Political career
Following the war, Gates returned to his farm. In 1874, he was elected as Sheriff of Buchanan County, serving in that post until 1877. From 1877 to 1881, he served as State Treasurer of Missouri. Following his tenure as State Treasurer, he served as United States Marshal for the Western District of Missouri under President Grover Cleveland, and was engaged in the transfer and bus business in St. Joseph, Missouri until his death at the age of 87 years old.
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1915 deaths
Law enforcement officials from Missouri
State treasurers of Missouri
People from Platte County, Missouri
Politicians from St. Joseph, Missouri
People from Garrard County, Kentucky
Confederate States Army officers
People of Kentucky in the American Civil War
People of Missouri in the American Civil War
Missouri State Guard
Missouri sheriffs
Missouri Democrats
United States Marshals
Cleveland administration personnel
American politicians with disabilities
American amputees
19th-century Missouri politicians
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellegen%27s%20theorem
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Tellegen's theorem
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Tellegen's theorem is one of the most powerful theorems in network theory. Most of the energy distribution theorems and extremum principles in network theory can be derived from it. It was published in 1952 by Bernard Tellegen. Fundamentally, Tellegen's theorem gives a simple relation between magnitudes that satisfy Kirchhoff's laws of electrical circuit theory.
The Tellegen theorem is applicable to a multitude of network systems. The basic assumptions for the systems are the conservation of flow of extensive quantities (Kirchhoff's current law, KCL) and the uniqueness of the potentials at the network nodes (Kirchhoff's voltage law, KVL). The Tellegen theorem provides a useful tool to analyze complex network systems including electrical circuits, biological and metabolic networks, pipeline transport networks, and chemical process networks.
The theorem
Consider an arbitrary lumped network that has branches and nodes. In an electrical network, the branches are two-terminal components and the nodes are points of interconnection. Suppose that to each branch we assign arbitrarily a branch potential difference and a branch current for , and suppose that they are measured with respect to arbitrarily picked associated reference directions. If the branch potential differences satisfy all the constraints imposed by KVL and if the branch currents satisfy all the constraints imposed by KCL, then
Tellegen's theorem is extremely general; it is valid for any lumped network that contains any elements, linear or nonlinear, passive or active, time-varying or time-invariant. The generality is extended when and are linear operations on the set of potential differences and on the set of branch currents (respectively) since linear operations don't affect KVL and KCL. For instance, the linear operation may be the average or the Laplace transform. More generally, operators that preserve KVL are called Kirchhoff voltage operators, operators that preserve KCL are called Kirchhoff current operators, and operators that preserve both are simply called Kirchhoff operators. These operators need not necessarily be linear for Tellegen's theorem to hold.
The set of currents can also be sampled at a different time from the set of potential differences since KVL and KCL are true at all instants of time. Another extension is when the set of potential differences is from one network and the set of currents is from an entirely different network, so long as the two networks have the same topology (same incidence matrix) Tellegen's theorem remains true. This extension of Tellegen's Theorem leads to many theorems relating to two-port networks.
Definitions
We need to introduce a few necessary network definitions to provide a compact proof.
Incidence matrix:
The matrix is called node-to-branch incidence matrix for the matrix elements being
A reference or datum node is introduced to represent the environment and connected to all dynamic nodes and terminals. The matrix , where the row that contains the elements of the reference node is eliminated, is called reduced incidence matrix.
The conservation laws (KCL) in vector-matrix form:
The uniqueness condition for the potentials (KVL) in vector-matrix form:
where are the absolute potentials at the nodes to the reference node .
Proof
Using KVL:
because by KCL. So:
Applications
Network analogs have been constructed for a wide variety of physical systems, and have proven extremely useful in analyzing their dynamic behavior. The classical application area for network theory and Tellegen's theorem is electrical circuit theory. It is mainly in use to design filters in signal processing applications.
A more recent application of Tellegen's theorem is in the area of chemical and biological processes. The assumptions for electrical circuits (Kirchhoff laws) are generalized for dynamic systems obeying the laws of irreversible thermodynamics. Topology and structure of reaction networks (reaction mechanisms, metabolic networks) can be analyzed using the Tellegen theorem.
Another application of Tellegen's theorem is to determine stability and optimality of complex process systems such as chemical plants or oil production systems. The Tellegen theorem can be formulated for process systems using process nodes, terminals, flow connections and allowing sinks and sources for production or destruction of extensive quantities.
A formulation for Tellegen's theorem of process systems:
where are the production terms, are the terminal connections, and are the dynamic storage terms for the extensive variables.
References
In-line references
General references
Basic Circuit Theory by C.A. Desoer and E.S. Kuh, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1969
"Tellegen's Theorem and Thermodynamic Inequalities", G.F. Oster and C.A. Desoer, J. Theor. Biol 32 (1971), 219–241
"Network Methods in Models of Production", Donald Watson, Networks, 10 (1980), 1–15
External links
Circuit example for Tellegen's theorem
G.F. Oster and C.A. Desoer, Tellegen's Theorem and Thermodynamic Inequalities
Network thermodynamics
Circuit theorems
Eponymous theorems of physics
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The Manoir de Brion (), also known as the Château de Brion, is a former Benedictine priory of the abbey of Mont Saint-Michel, France.
It is located near the village of Genêts, in Normandy, and was founded in 1137 by the abbot Bernard du Bec. Several kings and members of the royal court stayed at the Manoir de Brion while on pilgrimage to Mont Saint-Michel, including Charles VI in 1393, Louis XI in 1462 and Francis I of France in 1532. The explorer Jacques Cartier was also presented to King Francis I at the Manoir de Brion before his 1534 voyage to Canada, where one of the Magdalen Islands would be named Île Brion. During the Second World War, the building was used as a hospital to shelter wounded soldiers. The British writer Vincent Cronin resided there until his death in January 2011.
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Benedictine monasteries in France
Brion, Manoir
Brion
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather%20Brooke
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Heather Brooke
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Heather Rose Brooke (born 1970) is a British-American journalist and freedom of information campaigner. Resident since the 1990s in the UK, she helped to expose the 2009 expenses scandal, which culminated in the resignation of Speaker of the House of Commons Michael Martin, dozens of MPs standing down in the 2010 general election and multiple MPs being jailed.
Brooke was a Professor of Journalism at City University London's Department of Journalism and an adjunct professor at Columbia Journalism School in New York. She is the author of Your Right to Know (2006), The Silent State (2010), and The Revolution Will Be Digitised (2011), as well as a regularly updated Substack.
Early life
Education
Brooke was born in Pennsylvania in the United States to parents originally from Liverpool, England, and has dual United States/United Kingdom citizenship. She grew up in Seattle, Washington, where her mother worked for Boeing and graduated from Federal Way High School.
According to The Scotsman, she briefly moved to England as a teenager, but returned to the United States when she was 15. She attended the University of Washington Department of Communication, where she graduated in 1992 with a double major degree in journalism and political science. While there, she wrote for the student newspaper, The Daily, covering news stories and acting as the paper's sex columnist, writing with what she called a "feminist" slant.
Early career
An internship with The Spokesman-Review in Olympia, Washington to cover the state legislature gave her an early exposure to using public records requests to investigate the expenses of politicians, although she found little beyond taking advantage of frequent flyer miles. After graduation, she worked for a year at the Spokesman-Review, but it lacked the funds to keep her on longer. She then became a crime reporter for the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, where she reported on murder cases and uncovered flaws in South Carolina's forensic crime lab.
Describing herself as "burnt out" from covering over 300 murders, Brooke took a break from journalism. When her mother died in a car accident in 1996, and her father moved back to England, she no longer had family in America and decided to relocate to the United Kingdom. She enrolled for a master's in English literature at the University of Warwick, then moved to East London with her husband, where she took a job with the BBC as a copywriter. Boyd Tonkin wrote in 2010 that when she arrived in the UK she was immediately introduced to the "British disease": "the overweening haughtiness of bureaucratic jobsworths, and the deference of citizens." She became a neighbourhood activist, describing local public officials as having a surprisingly hostile attitude compared to local governments in the United States.
Freedom of Information writing and activism
With the enactment of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Brooke began work on a book explaining how to use the law, which was not scheduled to come into effect for another five years. Originally titled Your Right to Know: How to Use the Freedom of Information Act and Other Access Laws, the book was reissued in October 2004 as Your Right to Know: A Citizen's Guide to Freedom of Information, with a foreword by Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian. In October 2006 it was revised and published in paperback and hardcover editions that included a foreword by satirist Ian Hislop.
BBC minutes
In early 2007, Brooke won a landmark legal case that led the BBC to disclose the minutes of its Board of Governors' meeting of 28 January 2004. At that meeting, the governors had decided to dismiss director general Greg Dyke and issue an apology to the government in response to the Hutton Inquiry. Brooke, along with journalists from The Guardian, had requested the minutes shortly after the Freedom of Information Act came into force, but the BBC resisted disclosure for nearly two years. In December 2006, the case came before the Information Tribunal, which the following month ruled that the BBC should disclose the minutes.
MPs expenses
In October 2004, Brooke started to request details of MPs' expenses, via the House of Commons Freedom of Information Officer, Bob Castle. However, the information was in a bulk format, and could not be broken down to individual MPs.
In January 2005, the Freedom of Information Act 2000 came into force, allowing members of the public to request disclosure of information from public bodies. She started out requesting all 646 MPs' expenses, but the Commons claimed that would be too costly. She then asked for request for travel information (refused); then for the names and salaries of MPs' staff, blocked personally by the Speaker of the House of Commons Michael Martin. She then asked for information on second homes for the details for all MPs, but this was also refused.
In 2006, Brooke reduced her request to 10 MPs—the leaders of the parties and a few ministers. After again being refused, in July 2006 she made an appeal to the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas. Her request was considered for a year, together with two other similar requests on MPs' expenses which had been appealed to the Commissioner in 2005, from Jonathan Ungoed-Thomas of The Sunday Times. The Information Commissioner ordered the release of some information on 15 June 2007. House of Commons authorities objected to this order in June 2007 and MPs had, in May 2007, voted in favour of the Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill which sought to exempt MPs from the 2000 act. The amendment bill was ultimately withdrawn prior to second reading in the House of Lords because peers were unwilling to sponsor the bill.
In February 2008, after referral to an Information Tribunal, it was ruled that Commons authorities had to release information on 14 MPs. The Speaker appealed against the decision on behalf of the House of Commons, challenging the requests for publication of expenses for 11 serving MPs: Gordon Brown, David Cameron, John Prescott, Menzies Campbell, Margaret Beckett, George Osborne, William Hague, Mark Oaten, George Galloway, Barbara Follett and Ann Keen; and three former MPs: Tony Blair, Peter Mandelson and John Wilkinson. The appeal was heard at the High Court of Justice, which ruled on 16 May 2008 in favour of releasing the information:
No appeal was lodged against the High Court ruling, and the details were made public on 23 May 2008. In January 2009, the Leader of the House of Commons, Harriet Harman, tabled a motion to exempt MPs' expenses from being disclosed under a Freedom of Information request. Labour MPs were placed under a three line whip to force the motion through the Commons. However, opposition parties stated they would vote against the proposals, and large scale public opposition emerged. The proposals were ultimately dropped on 21 January 2009. The Commons authorities announced that full disclosure of all MPs' expenses would be published on 1 July 2009, following the 2009 European Elections in early June 2009.
In May 2009, The Daily Telegraph obtained unedited details of all MPs' expenses, including address details which showed the practice of "flipping", that is, changing the registered main address for various tax and expense purposes. The disclosures led to several MP's resignations and a national scandal.
Aftermath and recognition
On 23 February 2010 BBC Four showed a dramatised account about Heather Brooke's campaign for disclosure of MPs' expenses, titled On Expenses. The role of Heather Brooke was played by Anna Maxwell Martin. Brooke still serves as a visiting professor in the journalism department of City University London and has done since the expenses scandal. She was the first international winner of the FOI award in 2009 at the Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards. In March 2010 she was awarded the Judges' Prize in the British Press Awards, and the Special Commendation Award at the Tenth Annual Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards. She also made the 2010 Happy List for her persistence that "led to the MPs' expenses scandal, introducing us to house flipping, duck houses and other fiddles. The happiness came, first, with the delicious details; second with the moral superiority we can now feel over those who legislate and lecture us on how to live."
The Washington Coalition for Open Government granted Brooke a "Key Award", "in honor of a good deed in advancement of open government." The Coalition also gave her a pre-conference reception and keynote placement in their first Washington State Open Government Conference. The Keynote was a through debriefing of operations conducted to liberate Britain. Brooke included a personal account of her role in the MPs expenses scandal in her second book, The Silent State: How Secrecy and Misinformation are Destroying Democracy (2010).
In recognition of her work, the UK Press Gazette ranked Brooke as number 5 in their Top 10 list of journalists in February 2013.
WikiLeaks reporting and The Revolution Will Be Digitised
Brooke has continued to blog about freedom of information issues, as well as writing and speaking at conferences. She was commissioned in 2010 to write her third book, The Revolution Will Be Digitised (2011), exploring "the world of computer hackers, internet whistleblowers and pro-democracy campaigners," and including in-depth research on WikiLeaks. Brooke stated "It was clear to me from my own reporting and campaigning around freedom of information that society is undergoing a radical transformation. The amount of knowledge in the world is now so vast and technology so adept at zero-cost duplication that no government, company or organisation can hope to keep control." She went on to say that, "When I met Julian Assange of Wikileaks he was still a little-known figure but his stories of battles fought to free information and ambitions to free even more in future spurred me to begin writing this book."
While working on The Revolution Will Be Digitised (2011), Heather Brooke received a copy of the documents from a disgruntled WikiLeaks volunteer consisting of the raw material of the United States diplomatic cables leak. Brooke worked with The Guardian to edit and publish the material, while concerned about genuine harm minimisation. In an op-ed published in The Guardian on 29 November 2010, she wrote: "Leaks are not the problem; they are the symptom. They reveal a disconnect between what people want and need to know and what they actually do know. The greater the secrecy, the more likely a leak. The way to move beyond leaks is to ensure a robust regime for the public to access important information."
Brooke also starred in We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks as a pundit giving commentary based on her freedom of information campaigning experience and dealings with Julian Assange. In the film, Brooke said re: Wikileaks' publishing of the US State Department's diplomatic cables, "It was that whole Wizard of Oz moment. We all look at these politicians – oh wow, they're so powerful – and then it was the little dog pulling the curtain away."
Bibliography
Your Right to Know: A Citizens Guide to Freedom of Information. Pluto Press, 2004.
The Silent State: Secrets, Surveillance and the Myth of British Democracy. William Heinemann, 2010.
The Revolution Will Be Digitised. William Heinemann, 2011.
References
External links
WikiQuote Page of Heather Brooke quotations
heatherbrooke.org – Personal website
Heather's Newsletter - Substack
Heather Brooke on Twitter as Newsbrooke
Heather Brooke on Threads as heatb_writes
Journalisted – Articles by Heather Brooke
The Guardian Author Profile & List of Contributions: Heather Brooke
The NS interview: Heather Brooke
British women journalists
American women television journalists
American freedom of information activists
British freedom of information activists
People associated with WikiLeaks
American people of English descent
Alumni of the University of Warwick
University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences alumni
American women writers
British journalists
British writers
British women activists
British women radio presenters
BBC newsreaders and journalists
Academics of City, University of London
American emigrants to England
American women radio hosts
The Daily of the University of Washington alumni
American women academics
British republicans
1970 births
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Foule sentimentale
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"Foule sentimentale" is a 1993 popular song written, composed and performed by the French artist Alain Souchon. The song was released as a single in October 1993 and was the first one from his 1993 album C'est déjà ça. It achieved success in France.
Lyrics and music
In this song, Alain Souchon criticizes "the superfluity of the materialistic society". In the lyrics, he also cites Paul-Loup Sulitzer and Claudia Schiffer as examples of people highlighted in the media for their success in their respective fields, saying thus all that causes great harm to the TV viewers.
Critical reception
According to the magazine Platine, this song was "clean and efficient".
The song won the award of the song of the year at the 1994 Victoires de la Musique and the Victory of Victories of the original song of the last twenty years in 2005.
Chart performances
The song appeared on the French SNEP Singles Chart from 30 October 1993 to 9 April, then from 23 to 30 April 1994. Thus it stayed for 26 weeks on the chart and jumped from #14 to #1 on 12 February 1994. The song has become one of the most emblematic songs of the singer.
Covers and tributes
In 1997, the song was covered by Les Enfoirés and features on their album Sol en Si (track 15, 5:09), released on 6 October. It was performed by Francis Cabrel, Michel Jonasz, Catherine Lara, Maxime Le Forestier, Maurane, Zazie and Alain Souchon himself.
In 2006, the song was also covered in Portuguese-language by the female singer Bia under the name "Tão Sentimental" (3:14), that features on her album Coeur Vagabond.
The song also exists in the Russian-language by DJ Smash under the name "Москва ждёт Февраль" (4:17). Rose and Renan Luce covered it live in the French television show Pour Haïti, broadcast on 24 January 2010 on France 2.
In The Netherlands, Herman Van Veen used the music of the song in one of his children theatre shows about Alfred J. Kwak. The song is called Andere Namen.
As tribute to this song, French singer-songwriter Renaud wrote the song "Sentimentale mon cul" in 2006 on his album Rouge Sang.
Charts
Certifications and sales
References
1993 singles
Alain Souchon songs
SNEP Top Singles number-one singles
Songs written by Alain Souchon
1993 songs
Virgin Records singles
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Ampleforth Abbey is a monastery of Benedictine monks a mile to the east of Ampleforth, North Yorkshire, England, part of the English Benedictine Congregation. It descends from the pre-Reformation community at Westminster Abbey through the last surviving monk from Westminster, Sigebert Buckley (c. 1520 - c. 1610). As of 2024 the monastery has 41 monks, and sometimes will have 50 nuns of the monastery organization.
History
The Abbey was founded in a house given to Father Anselm Bolton by Lady Anne Fairfax, daughter of Charles Gregory Fairfax, 9th Viscount Fairfax of Emley. This house was taken over by Dr Brewer, President of the Congregation, on 30 July 1802. Since leaving Dieulouard in Lorraine, where its members had joined Spanish and Cassinese Benedictines to form the monastery of St Laurence, the community had been successively at Acton Burnell, Tranmere, Scholes, Vernon Hall and Parbold Hall, under its superior, Dr Marsh.
On its migration to Ampleforth Lodge Dr Marsh remained at Parbold and Father Appleton was elected the first prior of the new monastery. Shortly afterwards Parbold was broken up and the boys of the school there were transferred to Ampleforth. The priory was erected into an abbey in 1890 by the Bull 'Diuquidem' and an important and flourishing college was founded. John Cuthbert Hedley, Bishop of Newport, was an alumnus, as was a superior of Ampleforth, Abbot Smith. The monastery was completed in 1897. The first abbey church was begun in 1857 and demolished in 1957. The existing Abbey church was begun in 1924 and consecrated in 1961, having been designed by notable architect Giles Gilbert Scott, replacing the mid-19th-century church of Charles Hansom.
Coat of arms
Blazon: Per fesse dancetté Or and Azure a chief per pale Gules and of the second charged on the dexter with two keys in saltire Or and Argent and on the sinister with a Cross Flory between five martlets of the first. (College of Arms, London 1922). Ensigned with an abbot's crosier in pale behind the shield Or garnished with a pallium crossing the staff argent and a galero with cords and twelve tassels disposed on either side of the shield in three rows of one, two, and three all Sable.
List of abbots
1900–1924: Oswald Smith OSB
1924–1939: Edmund Matthews OSB
1939–1963: Herbert Byrne OSB
1963–1976: Basil Hume OSB
1976–1984: Ambrose Griffiths OSB
1984–1997: Patrick Barry OSB
1997–2005: Timothy Wright OSB
2005–2021: Cuthbert Madden OSB
2021–present: Robert Igo OSB
Architecture
The college buildings were begun by Charles Hansom in 1861 and have been enlarged on numerous occasions. The woodwork in the cafe and library is by Robert Thompson.
Abbey Church
The church is a grade I listed building. It was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, and built in two phases, from 1922 to 1924, and 1958 to 1961. It is built in limestone and has roofs of various materials. The church has a cruciform plan, with a sanctuary at the crossing over which is a tower, a retrochoir to the west and a nave to the east, both with side chapels, and a narrow north aisle. Underneath is a crypt with 25 chapels. The tower has clasping buttresses, three pairs of bell openings on each face, and a lightly embattled parapet. The woodwork is by Thompson. Some of the stained glass is by Patrick Reyntiens, and other ones by Herbert Hendrie.
Foundations
Ampleforth College
The monastery founded a school at Ampleforth in 1802. It is now the coeducational independent boarding school Ampleforth College, with about 600 pupils. In 2017 the college separated from the Abbey by splitting the site and each having its own independent governance. Monks from Ampleforth Abbey continue to oversee the spirituality scheme of the College.
Parishes
In addition to the work at Ampleforth, some of the monks are assigned as parish priests to parishes across four dioceses.
St Benet's Hall
Ampleforth had a permanent private hall at St Benet's Hall, Oxford, which was founded in 1897 for the purpose of enabling monks to study for secular degrees. It accepted lay undergraduates and graduate as well as monastic members. It ceased operation as a permanent private hall at the beginning of October 2022.
Saint Louis
Ampleforth founded a daughter house, the priory at St Louis, Missouri, in 1955. The priory gained independence in 1973 and became Saint Louis Abbey in its own right in 1989.
Zimbabwe
In 1996 Ampleforth set up the community of Christ the Word in Zimbabwe, which had three members as of 2020.
Child-abuse scandal
In November 2017, as part of its larger mandate, the national Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) undertook an investigation into the prevalence of paedophilia in the English Benedictine Congregation and its failures in protecting young people over many decades, focusing on the abbeys of Downside in Somerset, Ealing in London and Ampleforth in North Yorkshire. The final report outlined a series of failures at Ampleforth but also noted the ongoing efforts of both the Abbey and College to address the safeguarding concerns. It found credible allegations of physical, emotional and sexual abuse perpetrated by monks and lay members of Ampleforth. In addition safeguarding concerns were noted about some monks relating to grooming, inappropriate touching and pornography addiction. The Ampleforth monks named in the report included: Piers Grant-Ferris, Gregory Carroll, Bernard Green (deceased 2013) and a number of unidentified monks referred to as RC-F3, RC-F8, RC-F27, RC-F16, RC-F18, RC-F91 and RC-F95.
Abbot Christopher Jamison, then newly elected President of the English Benedictine Congregation, welcomed the report, apologising for the abuse and the congregation's failure to address it and urging other victims to come forward. Piers Grant-Ferris was convicted in 2006 of twenty counts of indecent assault. Peter Turner, formerly known as Gregory Carroll, was jailed for more than 20 years for his offences of child abuse.
Gallery
See also
Grade I listed buildings in North Yorkshire (district)
Listed buildings in Ampleforth
Ampleforth College
St Benet's Hall, Oxford
English Benedictine Congregation
Benet Perceval
References
External links
Ampleforth Abbey (English Benedictine Congregation Web)
Ampleforth
Benedictine monasteries in England
Monasteries in North Yorkshire
Monasteries of the English Benedictine Congregation
1802 establishments in England
Christian monasteries established in the 19th century
Giles Gilbert Scott buildings
Grade I listed churches in North Yorkshire
Grade I listed Roman Catholic churches in England
19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United Kingdom
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History of Arizona State University
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Principal Hiram Bradford Farmer opened the Territorial Normal School's four classroom building to 33 students on February 8, 1886, the first institution of higher education to open in Arizona. The Normal School was charged to provide "instruction of persons, both male and female, in the art of teaching, and in all the various branches that pertain to a good common school education; also, to give instruction in the mechanical arts and in husbandry and agricultural chemistry, in the fundamental law of the United States, and in what regards the rights and duties of citizens."
During the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal, ASU's reputation received negative press coverage when it was alleged in court filings that one of the defendant parents had named ASU as a university they were specifically trying to avoid. It was reported in connection with such coverage that the non-selective university has been the "butt of jokes" in American television shows for many years, as well as the 2015 film Ted 2.
References
External links
Evolution of a University, a series on ASU's history and future plans printed in The State Press from Nov. 4–6, 2008
Arizona State University
Arizona State University
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This%20Is%20Barbara%20Mandrell
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This Is Barbara Mandrell is the fourth solo studio album by American country music singer Barbara Mandrell, released in May 1976.
This was Mandrell's first album with ABC/Dot Records, her new record company. Mandrell had previously been signed to Columbia Records from 1969 to 1974, though only achieving modest success, especially with her albums. The first single off this album, "Standing Room Only", became her first Top 5 Country hit. Mandrell had only had four Top 10 hits under her previous record company over the course of five years. Following "Standing Room Only", two further singles were released. The second, "That's What Friends Are For", peaked at #16 and the third, "Love Is Thin Ice", only reached the Top 25. The album sold slightly better than her previous albums had done, peaking farther on the Top Country Albums chart at #26. This album set the stage for Mandrell's eventual success in the following decade, with further Top 10 singles, some of them reaching #1. Unlike most of Barbara's other albums, This Is Barbara Mandrell, consists of 11 tracks instead of 10.
Track listing
"That's What Friends Are For" (Ed Penney, Robert Shaw Parsons)
"Standing Room Only" (Charles Silver, Susan Manchester)
"The Beginning of the End" (Kent Robbins)
"Husband Stealer" (Gary Paxton, Gary Paxton Jr.)
"She Don't Have to Stop and Rock the Baby" (Danny Hice, Ruby Hice)
"Love the Second Time Around" (John Schweers)
"Love Is Thin Ice" (Geoffrey Morgan)
"Can't Help But Wonder" (Sharon Sanders)
"Will We Ever Make Love in Love Again" (Bud Reneau, Sarah Jones)
"Mental Revenge" (Mel Tillis)
"Just in Case" (Hugh Moffatt)
Personnel
Barbara Mandrell - lead vocals
Mike Leech, Steve Schaffer - bass guitar
Hayward Bishop, Larrie Londin, Kenny Malone - drums
Jim Buchanan, Johnny Gimble, Tommy Williams - fiddle
Harold Bradley, Jimmy Capps, Steve Gibson, Glenn Keener, Grady Martin, Billy Sanford, Jerry Shook, Chip Young - guitar
Charlie McCoy - harmonica
David Briggs, Ron Oates, Bobby Ogdin, Hargus "Pig" Robbins - piano
John Hughey, Hal Rugg - steel guitar
Joe Zinkan - upright bass
Charlie McCoy, Farrell Morris - vibraphone
Lea Jane Berinati, Janie Fricke, Herman Harper, The Jordanaires, The Nashville Edition, D. Bergen White - backing vocals
Archie Jordan - string arrangements (tracks 1,3,5,6)
Charts
Album – Billboard (North America)
Singles – Billboard (North America)
References
1976 albums
Barbara Mandrell albums
Albums produced by Tom Collins (record producer)
Dot Records albums
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Jose Calingasan is a Filipino politician. He was a former member of the House of Representatives representing the 4th District of Batangas. He is also a co-founder of Lakas CMD. He also served as an Ambassador to Bangladesh during the administration of Fidel Ramos.
Notes
Politicians from Batangas
Living people
Lakas–CMD (1991) politicians
Members of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from Batangas
Ambassadors of the Philippines to Bangladesh
Year of birth missing (living people)
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Pick a Box was an Australian game shows that first aired on radio in 1948 until the early 1960s; subsequently, the concept transferred to TV and was broadcast from 1957 and 1971. The program was hosted by the husband-and-wife duo Bob and Dolly Dyer
History
Radio program
Beginning initially as a radio program in 1948, it was heard Australia-wide on was then the Macquarie Broadcasting Service (now Nine Entertainment Co.).
It was originally produced in Sydney, New South Wales at studio 2GB. The program successfully made the move to television, debuting at on Saturday 2 March 1957, less than six months after the new medium had been launched in Australia. Nevertheless, the program continued to be heard on radio for some years.
Television version
The TV version in addition to the radio version was filmed in the studios of Sydney's ATN-7 and was broadcast on ATN-7 and Melbourne's GTV-9, which were initially affiliated.
This changed, however, when Frank Packer, owner of TCN-9, bought a controlling share in GTV-9 and formed the National Television Network, which later became the Nine Network. As a result, in 1963 ATN-7 and HSV-7 came together to form the Australian Television Network, now known as the Seven Network. The affiliation changes meant that Pick a Box became part of the newly formed Seven Network and its Melbourne broadcast moved from GTV-9 to HSV-7.
The program was initially broadcast on Saturday nights and sponsored by the Colgate-Palmolive Company of Australia. Three years later, on 4 July 1960, the show was moved to Monday nights at and was sponsored by BP.
Presenters
Bob Dyer, who produced and packaged the show for the Seven Network, decided in 1969 that it was time to start thinking about ending the show. After approximately 900 episodes, Pick a Box broadcast its final episode on 28 June 1971. As they owned the program, the Dyers then reviewed most of the archived episodes – kept a few as souvenirs and discarded most of them. The couple then retired to Queensland where Bob pursued his other great love, fishing.
In 1971 the show was still the seventh most popular in the country.
Format
The format for each episode consisted of two contestants participating in a multi-question trivia quiz. The contestant who correctly answered a set number of questions, was invited to choose from one of 30 boxes. Without disclosing the box's contents (which could be either valuable or a booby prize), Dyer would offer the contestant a cash payment in lieu of the prize. Here appears one of the program's catch phrases, "The money or the box?"
To increase the risk/suspense, he would sometimes offer increasing amounts of cash to contestants who chose the box. After receiving the cash or prize, contestants had the option of leaving the show undefeated, or returning to play for more prizes, at the risk of losing those already won.
This format remained largely unchanged throughout its entire run.
Famous contestants
The first contestant to make a name for himself was Ken Eccleston, who gained fame over 10 weeks in 1958 when he achieved what was then the longest winning streak on the program. After claiming the official title of "Mr Pick a Box" during a closely fought contest with Melbourne entrant George Morris, Eccleston retired from the game with a total of AU£3873/5/-, or AU$7746.50. ($121,477.99 in 2018 currency, adjusted for inflation)
Two other famous contestants were Frank Partridge, the last Australian to be awarded the Victoria Cross in World War II, and George Black, who went on to become a question writer for the show.
However, by far the program's most successful contestant was Barry Jones, who won a total of 208 episodes spanning eight years between 1960 and 1967, winning over A$58,000.
Jones was known for taking issue with Dyer about certain expected answers, most famously in response to a question about "the first British Governor-General of India", where he pointed out that Warren Hastings was technically only the Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal Presidency. Jones' appearances on Pick a Box lasted from 1960 to 1968.
Jones later became a member of the Parliament of Victoria and then of the Federal Parliament, a minister in the Hawke government and president of the Australian Labor Party. He was also chosen as an Australian Living Treasure.
Pick a Box was added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia Registry in 2010. An excerpt of Episode 170, featuring Barry Jones, has been published online.
The show's later remake, Ford Superquiz, featured Hutton "Red" Gibson as a contestant. Gibson, who had already won thousands of dollars as a Grand Champion on the game show Jeopardy! in his native United States, had a prolonged run of several weeks as champion on Superquiz.
Episode status
Out of the 900+ episodes made, 73 are stored at the National Film and Sound Archive, including the final episode, according to a search of the archive's website.
Superquiz
Ford Superquiz was a remake of the show hosted by Bert Newton and his wife Patti Newton and produced by the Reg Grundy organisation for the Nine Network. It began in 1981 and ran for two seasons with the number of boxes reduced to 20. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company of Australia.
Superquiz was a remake of the show in 1989 hosted by Mike Walsh and Deborah Hutton on Network Ten. The number of boxes was further reduced to 12 in this version.
Super Quiz is a series of games and books as well as a syndicated quiz column and online quiz game created by Ken Fisher.
See also
It Pays to Be Funny, Bob Dyer's other television game show, ran from 26 February 1957 to around November of the same year
List of Australian game shows
List of Australian television series
References
External links
Pick a Box at memorabletv.com
Pick A Box on Australian Screen
1940s Australian game shows
1950s Australian game shows
1960s Australian game shows
1970s Australian game shows
Seven Network original programming
Television shows set in New South Wales
1957 Australian television series debuts
1971 Australian television series endings
Black-and-white Australian television shows
Australian English-language television shows
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulcrum%20%28Anglican%20think%20tank%29
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Fulcrum is a think tank based around the evangelical centre-ground of the Church of England. Formed in 2002, Fulcrum aims to renew the moderate centre of the evangelical tradition in the Church of England. Fulcrum is normally viewed as representative of the open evangelical tradition within the Church of England.
History
Fulcrum was co-founded by Francis Bridger, Graham Kings and others in response to strong and extreme responses from some evangelical quarters of the Church of England to the appointment of Rowan Williams as Archbishop of Canterbury. In 2003 the first official meeting of Fulcrum took place and the appointments of Chair, vice-chairs, administrator and theological advisor were made.
The equivalent organization in the Episcopal Church of the USA is Covenant, an organization which aims to renew the centre of the Christian tradition in North America and particularly within Anglicanism.
Purpose
A fulcrum is the point of balance in a pivot. Fulcrum chose this name because it seeks to renew the evangelical tradition at the centre of the Church of England. According to its website, "Fulcrum embraces an historic orthodoxy that is generous in spirit, confident in the contribution evangelicals can make to Anglicanism". In the current climate of uncertainty in the Anglican Communion, Fulcrum seeks to promote an unpolarised evangelicalism.
It has been described as a "moderate evangelical grouping [...] which was formed, really, in order to uphold the prohibition on gay sex but to welcome women priests".
Publications
Fulcrum publishes articles regularly through its website on a wide range of issues that affect the Church of England.
Fulcrum does not publish a journal outside of its website, but the journal Anvil is representative of the constituency associated with Fulcrum.
References
Anglican organizations
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The Mexican Academy of Language () divides its members into several categories: numerarios ("full"), honorarios ("honorary") and correspondientes ("correspondent").
Director
The Academy's director for the 2023–2027 term is Gonzalo Celorio.
Full members
The current Académicos de número of the Academy are, in the order of the seats they occupy:
Patrick Johansson Keraudren
Tarsicio Herrera Zapién
Angelina Muñiz-Huberman
Fernando Fernández
Yolanda Lastra
Roger Bartra
María Eugenia Vázquez Laslop
Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
Carlos Prieto
Enrique Fernando Nava López
Margit Frenk
Julieta Fierro Gossman
Gonzalo Celorio
Javier Garciadiego
Marina Garone Gravier
Flavio González Mello
Rodrigo Martínez Baracs
Silvia Molina
Margo Glantz
Rosa Beltrán
Honorary members
The Académicos Honorarios have included:
Mexican
Antonio Alatorre
Carlos Fuentes
José Justo Gómez de la Cortina
Alfonso Herrera
Octavio Paz
Foreign
Dámaso Alonso
Germán Arciniegas
Samuel Arguedas
Miguel Antonio Caro
Rufino José Cuervo
Atilio Dell'Oro Maini
Laureano García Ortiz
Antonio Gómez Restrepo
Lorenzo Marroquín
Luis Eduardo Nieto Caballero
Salomón de la Selva
Gutierre Tibón
Aurelio Tió
Correspondent members
Notable académicos correspondientes have included:
Miguel Alessio Robles, Salvador Díaz Mirón, Genaro Estrada, Pablo González Casanova, Luis González y González, José Gorostiza, Francisco de Icaza, Amado Nervo, Manuel José Othón, Manuel Payno, Sergio Pitol, Vicente Riva Palacio, Luis G. Urbina, and Felipe San José y González and Natalio Hernández.
References
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Hugh Morris (1872 – 20 September 1897) was a Welsh footballer who played as a forward for Manchester City, Sheffield United and Grimsby Town in the 19th century. Born in Chirk, Wales, he gained three caps for the Welsh national team.
Career
Club career
Morris was first spotted by Ardwick when playing for Chirk in the Welsh cup and the Manchester side duly signed him in 1891. Morris was the leading goalscorer for the club in the 1891–92 Football Alliance season, scoring 10 goals in 22 appearances, including a hat-trick against Walsall Town Swifts. The following season Ardwick were admitted to the newly formed Football League Second Division and Morris played in the club's first ever Football League fixture, scoring twice as Ardwick beat Bootle 7–0. Morris continued to play regularly for Ardwick before he was transferred to Sheffield United, then of the First Division in December 1893. He became a regular in United's first team for the following 18 months, having rejected an offer to play in the United States in 1894, and made 39 league appearances, scoring nine goals for the Yorkshire club. In September 1895 Morris was suspended for "lodging in a public house" (the club was run on strict Methodist lines at the time and this was against the terms of his contract), before being transferred back to Ardwick, now renamed Manchester City, in the following November along with Joe Davies and Bob Hill. Returning to Hyde Road, Morris made 20 appearances in his second spell at the Manchester club, before moving to Grimsby Town in May 1896 where he played for a further season. Morris moved to Southern League side Millwall in the summer of 1897, but contracted tuberculosis not long after his transfer and died before he could make his debut.
International career
While at Sheffield United, Morris won his first cap for Wales in a British Home Championship match against Scotland on 24 March 1894. Morris scored twice, but Wales lost 5–2. Morris gained a second international cap in a 9–1 defeat to England in March 1896 and earned the last of his three international caps in March 1897, a 4–0 defeat against England at his former club ground Bramall Lane.
References
1872 births
Sportspeople from Chirk
Footballers from Wrexham County Borough
1897 deaths
Welsh men's footballers
Wales men's international footballers
Men's association football forwards
Manchester City F.C. players
Sheffield United F.C. players
Grimsby Town F.C. players
Millwall F.C. players
English Football League players
19th-century deaths from tuberculosis
Tuberculosis deaths in Wales
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1404 conclave
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The 1404 papal conclave (10 October to 17 October) – the papal conclave of the time of the Great Western Schism, convened after the death of Pope Boniface IX, it elected Cardinal Cosimo Migliorati, who took the name of Innocent VII.
Cardinal electors
Pope Boniface IX died on 1 October 1404. At the time of his death, there were only 12 cardinals in the Roman Obedience of the Sacred College. Nine of them participated in the election of his successor:
All the electors were Italians. Five of them were elevated by Pope Urban VI, and four by Boniface IX.
Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church was at that time Corrado Caraccioli, bishop of Mileto.
Absentee cardinals
Three cardinals, two created by Urban VI and one by Boniface IX, did not participate in this conclave:
Hungarian Alsani was the only non-Italian Cardinal in the Roman Obedience.
The election of Pope Innocent VII
Several churchmen and laymen urged "Roman" Cardinals not to elect the successor of Boniface IX and to recognise Benedict XIII of Avignon as Pope (or, at least, to wait for his death and then elect the new pope together with his adherents). Among the supporters of this point of view was Cardinal Protodeacon Ludovico Fieschi, who did not attend the conclave and later did not recognise its result.
In spite of this, nine cardinals present in Rome entered the conclave on October 10. Initially, they subscribed the conclave capitulation, which obliged whoever was elected to do everything possible (including abdication) in order to restore the unity of the Church. After seven days of deliberations Cardinal Cosimo Gentile Migliorati was unanimously elected pope and took the name of Innocent VII. Five days later Cardinal Fieschi officially abandoned the Roman Obedience and recognised Benedict XIII as true pope, so the rite of papal coronation on November 11 was performed by the new Protodeacon Landolfo Maramaldo.
Notes
Bibliography
Martin Souchon: Die Papstwahlen in der Zeit des grossen Schismas, Verlag von Benno Goeritz, 1888
External links
Salvador Miranda: List of participants of the papal conclave of 1404
Konklave 1404
1404
15th-century Catholicism
15th-century elections
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Has-Beens and Never-Weres
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Has-Beens and Never-Weres is the tenth 12" vinyl record album by DIY home recording pioneer and one-man band R. Stevie Moore. Never officially reissued on compact disc.
Track listing
Side one
"Intelligence" (3:45)
"Near Tonight" (4:15)
"Love Is the Way to My Heart" (2:42)
"Skin Mags" (6:48)
"Bonus Track" (LP Only) (1:15)
"You Came Along Just in Time" (3:00)
"I'm Out of My Mind" (7:20)
Side two
"Sit Down" (4:35)
"Banana Jerseyjam" (1:08)
"I Will Want to Die" (4:50)
"Martyrdom" (4:10)
"Pow Wow" (3:43)
"The Residents" (2:20)
"What's the Point?" (2:42)
"If You See Kay" (2:40)
"14 Months Back" (1:50)
External links
RSM's Has-Beens and Never-Weres webpage
1990 albums
R. Stevie Moore albums
New Weird America albums
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Penegoes
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Penegoes () is a village in Powys, Wales, between Cemmaes Road and Machynlleth, on the A489 road, and the primary settlement of the community of Cadfarch.
The Afon Crewi, one of several streams feeding into Afon Dulas, itself a tributary of the Afon Dyfi, has created a fairly broad and flat valley. Penegoes church is on the level northernside of the valley with the ground sloping down gently to the stream. The church represents the focus of what is now a dispersed settlement. Only a single habitation, Llwyn, adjoins it but others lie off the main road at regular intervals to west and east.
The Welsh dedication of the church and the form of the oval churchyard suggests that it is of early medieval origin. St Cadfarch was reputedly a 6th-century saint and a disciple of St Illtyd.
The churchyard adopts an irregular form but has been extended at its west end where the original curvilinear course can still be detected as a scarp bank amidst the tightly packed graves. Two adjacent wells on the opposite side of the road to the church are reputed to have had curative properties, as reported by the Royal Commission at the beginning of the 20th century: Ffynnon Penegoes and Ffynnon Gadfarch. The rectory and its outbuildings are dated to the late 18th or early 19th century and have a Grade II listing. Reputedly they are on the site of an earlier rectory where the landscape painter, Richard Wilson RA (1714–1782), was born. Llawr-Penegoes, 250m east of the church.
Plas Dolguog
Plas Dolguog, an early 17th-century manor house, with Victorian extensions, now a hotel. The house was built in 1632 for the Herbert family. It is now a country house hotel.
References
Villages in Powys
Cadfarch
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Fallstaff is a neighborhood in the Upper Park Heights area of Northwest Baltimore, Maryland, and is one of the city's northwesternmost communities. The area, which is mostly middle class, is part of the center of Baltimore's Orthodox Jewish community, and also has a heavy African-American and immigrant population.
Fallstaff is home to several Baltimore City Public Schools, including Northwestern High School and Fallstaff Elementary Middle School (formerly Fallstaff Middle School).
The main street that run through the area is Park Heights Avenue in Pikesville. Other streets include Fallstaff Road, on which both schools are located, and Clarks Lane. Fallstaff Road is mostly a residential side street on which duplexes, single-family houses, apartments, and condominiums are located. One block of Fallstaff Road is one way in order to reduce traffic from rat running. On the other hand, Clarks lane, which also is lined with similar types of structures, is two ways throughout and handles more traffic. Clarks Lane starts out across from the Reisterstown Road Plaza (sharing a traffic light with the parking lot) and continues to the city/county line, where it changes name to Sanzo Road, and ends shortly thereafter at Smith Avenue.
Slayings in May 2004
Fallstaff is generally considered to be a safe, low-crime area. But in May 2004, the murders of three children shook up the community and resulted in ongoing media coverage. Two relatives were charged with the murders, and their first trial resulted in a mistrial. They were convicted in their second trial and received life sentences. The children were buried in their native Mexico.
Now through all the years since 2004, Fallstaff has been a quiet, low-crime area and consider to be safe near West Baltimore County.
Blue Police Light cameras are available starting at Fallstaff Road to Reistertown Road.
(Which began in 2005)
Fallstaff Road
Located in the Fallstaff area, the road is not too far from Baltimore County. The road starts as a one-way street at Crest Heights Road, then a two-lane road towards Northwestern School, although there is a 2-way stop, motorists that are going slight right will bring motorist to Cross Country Boulevard. Fallstaff ends at Willow Glen Drive in Baltimore County. Cross Country Boulevard has another road to the right after passing Greenspring Avenue to Rogers Avenue. Motorists going straight will bring them to Kelly Avenue in Mount Washington which is North Baltimore to Falls Road (crossing the Kelly Avenue bridge and I-83). Most of the area is a historical area. While traveling in that area, an MTA Light Rail station is available on Smith Avenue, but motorists must take Sulgrave Avenue and then Newbury Street to get to the Light Rail station.
See also
List of Baltimore neighborhoods
References
External links
Northwest District Maps
Collection of Baltimore Sun articles on Fallstaff slayings
Fallstaff Improvement Association, Inc. - a community association serving this area
Jewish communities in the United States
Jews and Judaism in Baltimore
Neighborhoods in Baltimore
Orthodox Jewish communities
Orthodox Judaism in Baltimore
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Response%20Framework
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National Response Framework
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The United States National Response Framework (NRF) is part of the National Strategy for Homeland Security that presents the guiding principles enabling all levels of domestic response partners to prepare for and provide a unified national response to disasters and emergencies. Building on the existing National Incident Management System (NIMS) as well as Incident Command System (ICS) standardization, the NRF's coordinating structures are always in effect for implementation at any level and at any time for local, state, and national emergency or disaster response.
NRF authority
The NRF formally replaced the National Response Plan (NRP) on March 22, 2008, sixty days after its publication in the Federal Register. Until that time, the NRF served as information on the national intent for homeland security policy to replace the NRP on that date.
NRF five key principles
Engaged partnership means that leaders at all levels collaborate to develop shared response goals and align capabilities. This collaboration is designed to prevent any level from being overwhelmed in times of crisis.
Tiered response refers to the efficient management of incidents, so that such incidents are handled at the lowest possible jurisdictional level and supported by additional capabilities only when needed.
Scalable, flexible, and adaptable operational capabilities are implemented as incidents change in size, scope, and complexity, so that the response to an incident or complex of incidents adapts to meet the requirements under ICS/NIMS management by objectives. The ICS/NIMS resources of various formally defined resource types are requested, assigned and deployed as needed, then demobilized when available and incident deployment is no longer necessary.
Unity of effort through unified command refers to the ICS/NIMS respect for each participating organization's chain of command with an emphasis on seamless coordination across jurisdictions in support of common objectives. This seamless coordination is guided by the "Plain English" communication protocol between ICS/NIMS command structures and assigned resources to coordinate response operations among multiple jurisdictions that may be joined at an incident complex.
Readiness to Act: "It is our collective duty to provide the best response possible. From individuals, households, and communities to local, tribal, State, and Federal governments, national response depends on our readiness to act."
NRF core
The NRF consists of the core document and annexes. The NRF core covers:
Roles and responsibilities at the individual, organizational and other private sector as well as local, state, and federal government levels
Response actions
Staffing and organization
Planning and the National Preparedness Architecture
NRF implementation, Resource Center, and other supporting documents incorporated by reference
NRF annexes
NRF ESF Annexes
The NRF Emergency Support Function Annexes include the following enumerated protocols:
ESF #1 - Transportation
ESF #2 – Communications
ESF #3 – Public Works and Engineering
ESF #4 – Firefighting
ESF #5 – Information and Planning
ESF #6 – Mass Care, Emergency Assistance, Housing, and Human Services
ESF #7 – Logistics Management and Resource Support
ESF #8 – Public Health and Medical Services (PHMS): the primary agency responsible for PHMS is the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS). The authority to coordinate ESF 8 has been bestowed upon the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) by the Secretary of HHS. PHMS provides the ability for HHS to coordinate and lead efforts to supplement local, Tribal, and State resources to ensure that the needs of individuals impacted by disasters, public health emergencies, or medical emergencies, are met. This Federal assistance can be provided through activation of the Stafford Act, or through the Public Health Service Act.
ESF #9 – Search and Rescue
ESF #10 – Oil and Hazardous Materials Response
ESF #11 – Agriculture and Natural Resources
ESF #12 – Energy
ESF #13 – Public Safety and Security
ESF #14 – Cross-Sector Business and Infrastructure
ESF #15 – External Affairs
NRF Support Annexes
The Support Annexes include:
Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CIKR)
Financial Management
International Coordination
Private-Sector Coordination
Public Affairs
Tribal Relations
Volunteer and Donations Management
Worker Safety and Health
NRF Incident Annexes
The Incident Annexes include:
Incident Annex Introduction
Biological Incident
Catastrophic Incident
Cyber Incident
Food and Agriculture Incident
Mass Evacuation Incident
Nuclear/Radiological Incident
Terrorism Incident Law Enforcement and Investigation
The Oil and Hazardous Materials Annex has been superseded by ESF #10
Historical context
The NRF represents the American state of the art in the blueprint application of strategic staff planning that has at its roots the model of the Prussian General Staff in 1870, after which the United States Army adopted that form of staff organizational structure and function. This model includes dedicated doctrinal components for an institutional emphasis on leadership training at all organizational levels, combined with continuous historical analysis for acquiring generally understood strategic lessons.
In the specific instance of the NRF model for best-practice strategic staff planning under comprehensive emergency management (CEM) after Homeland Security Presidential Directives 5 and 8, the NRF incorporates military field components as directed by the President or released by the Secretary of Defense. In their parallel command structure to ICS/NIMS under national coordination, these military assets support the operations of ICS/NIMS civilian resources in a given incident scenario under management by objectives. Under the Secretary of Homeland Security, the NRF Resource Center exists a living system that can be revised and updated in a dynamic transparent fashion, where the online Resource Center will allow for ongoing revisions as necessary to reflect the continuous analysis of real-world events and the acquisition of CEM lessons subsequently learned.
See also
National Incident Management System,
Notes
References
National Response Framework Document, NRF Resource Center
NRF Core
NRF Annexes
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Emergency Management Institute course IS-800.B National Response Framework, an Introduction
"National Response Framework Released", United States Department of Homeland Security, Office of the Press Secretary, January 22, 2008.
United States Department of Homeland Security
Disaster preparedness in the United States
Disaster management tools
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Bouarij
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Bouarej (also spelled Bouarij, Bouârej, Buariji or Bwareg) is a village located on the eastern side of the Church Mountain, Beqaa.
Population
Bouarij has 1,274 registered voters in the 2009 elections. The population follow Sunni Islam. In the municipal Lebanese elections of 2004, Bouarej counted 1,905 registered voters of which 1,141 voted. For the past 150 years, the village has been populated by four main families: Chahine, Jabr, Jaber and AlBast.
References
External links
Bouarej, Localiban
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106000420825&view=1up&seq=13&skin=mobile Buarij: Portrait Of A Lebanese Muslim Village : Fuller, Anne H:
Populated places in Zahlé District
Sunni Muslim communities in Lebanon
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Zeeburg, Guyana
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Zeeburg is a village located on the West Coast of Demerara in Guyana, South America. Zeeburg is 30.6km far from the capital of Guyana. The village, in the administrative region Essequibo Islands-West Demerara (Region 3) was named by the Dutch during their occupation of Guyana.
Zeeburg is bordered on the north by the Atlantic Ocean, to the east by DeGroot En Klyn and to the west by DeWillem. Like most West Demerara villages, Zeeburg is bordered to the south by sugar cane fields.
The majority of people residing in Zeeburg are of East Indian descent, usually called Indo-Guyanese (descendants of the Indian indentured labourers) most of whom work on the sugar plantation of Uitvlugt/Leonora Estate and the vibrant fishing port which is based at the popular Zeeburg koker.
Zeeburg is also the home of Zeeburg Secondary School which always played a critical role in the education system of Region 3 since its existence and the traditional Zeeburg market that is held every Saturday.
References
Populated places in Essequibo Islands-West Demerara
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WUFE
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WUFE (1260 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Baxley, Georgia and broadcasting a classic hits format. The station’s studios and transmitter are located on Golden Isles Parkway in Baxley.
References
External links
1954 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
UFE
Radio stations established in 1954
UFE
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Byron (band)
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Byron (stylized byron) is a Romanian alternative rock band formed in Bucharest in 2006. Dan Byron (real name Daniel Radu), former guest of Agathodaimon and ex-member of Urma and Kumm, initially wanted to start a solo project, but it soon developed into an actual band. Their music is hard to define; it would best be described as art-rock / adult-alternative with a lot of influences from different musical areas, mostly blues, progressive rock and jazz. Some songs are written in English, some in Romanian, and touch aspects of modern man's condition.
History
Formation and Forbidden Drama (2006–2008)
In early 2006, Dan Byron began writing for what would later become byron's debut release. The band was assembled later that year, with guitarist Costin Oprea being the first to join in September. Keyboard player 6fingers (also in gothic metal band Magica) was recruited afterwards, soon followed by Cristi Mateşan on drums. To complete the line-up, the band was joined by bass player Gyergyay "Szabi" Szabolcs, freshly returned from Budapest. Rehearsals start in October 2006 and the band takes the stage for the first time on 1 December – a sold-out gig at Lăptăria Enache, one of Bucharest's most famed live music venues. Noteworthy later gigs include Art & Aids Bucharest, Stufstock 2007 at Vama Veche, and a special concept – a 3-band, 3-venues simultaneous concert held together with Timpuri Noi and Trupa Veche.
The debut album, Forbidden Drama, structured in acts, like a theater drama, was finished in September – with Victor Panfilov as musical producer, mixing and mastering at Real Sound Studio, Bucharest. The album is manufactured and distributed by the Romanian label A&A Records. Forbidden Drama has been released on 12 October 2007, at Fabrica club in Bucharest, followed by a month-long national promotion tour (Forbidden Tour).
Acoustic Drama (2008–2009)
In January 2008, bassist Gyergyay Szabolcs quits the band for personal reasons and is replaced by Jacob Glick. In this line-up, on 3 April 2008, the band played a special unplugged show at Teatru 74, an unconventional theater venue in the medieval citadel of Târgu Mureş. Old songs, as well as a couple of new ones, were rearranged for a full unplugged performance featuring instruments such as seven different guitars, a banjo, a mandolin, a cajón, an upright bass, an acoustic bass, a string quartet and a piano. The concert featured several guests, most notably Alexandru Andrieş and Paula Seling.
The show was recorded and released as the live DVD Acoustic Drama in October 2008, the first unplugged DVD ever released by a Romanian band. There were no later overdubs in the studio, as the band wanted the acoustic experience to be as natural as possible. The DVD contains 14 songs, a photo gallery, the video for "Blow Up My Tears" single (directed and shot by Oleg Mutu, edited by Victor Panfilov) and many "making of" features. A notable song is "Departe", a translated version of "Far Away" off Forbidden Drama, with Romanian lyrics provided by Alexandru Andrieş.
The DVD was released with a special unplugged show at Palatul Copiilor in Bucharest, followed by a national tour spanning four major cities – Sibiu, Târgu Mureş, Iaşi and Cluj. For the tour, the band hooked up with sponsors Nokia, promoting their new multimedia smartphones Nokia Nseries. A special website was created, where fans could record their live experiences and follow the band as they toured the country. Several videos were also uploaded on YouTube, featuring tour performances recorded with Nseries phones.
A Kind of Alchemy (2009–2010)
In October 2009 the band released their second album, A Kind Of Alchemy. The release marks an evolution in the band's sound, with blues, progressive and funk influences, employing a wider diversity of instruments. In Dan Byron's words, "The mood is nocturnal, rather intimate, sometimes playful or even exuberant".
The 14 new songs came in a illustrated book, as the graphic aspect is just as important as the music.
In June 2010, the band applied a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License on their first and second studio albums which can now be downloaded freely from their blog.
Perfect and Live Underground (2011–2012)
Perfect was released on 17 February 2011, at The Silver Church Club in Bucharest (with the special guest – Grimus band).
Feature of this album is that it consists of covers byron made of songs played by other Romanian artists (Kumm, Luna Amară, Timpuri Noi etc.), and the lyrics totally on Romanian language.
In October 2011, the band has released a video for the fifth track from this album – "Granița-n raniță" (directed by Mattia Molini, for 5 days, in New York).
On 26–27 November 2010, byron played in Salina Turda (Turda salt mine) for their second DVD, Live Underground. There were two different live shows: the first unplugged concert, without spectators, was at Terezia mine, and the second electric – in amphitheatre at Rudolf mine. The special guests joined the band, such as Nicu Alifantis, Maria Ioana Mântulescu, Rene Popescu and Alexandru Gorneanu. The DVD was released on 3 May 2012, with participation of HBO Romania. It also has released on Blu-ray (limited edition).
In June 2012, the band released an official application for Android and iOS to let the others get the latest news and exclusive content from them.
In January 2013, byron announced their 4th album, which working title was Long Story Short. Afterwards it was changed to 30 Seconds of Fame like an innuendo on Andy Warhol's famous expression about 15 minutes of fame. The album was released on 16 March and was the first byron's album, which has an identical Romanian version, called 30 de secunde de faimă.
After that, the band was working with music producer Adam Balazs for the soundtrack of the original HBO Romania series Rămâi cu mine (Stay with me). An OST album called Melancolic was released in February 2014.
Band members
Current members
Dan Byron – vocals, guitar, flute (ex- Kumm, ex- Urma) (2006–present)
Sergiu "6fingers" Mitrofan – keyboards, guitar, backing vocals (ex- Magica) (2006–present)
László Demeter – bass (ex- Slang) (2012–present)
Dany Serrano – guitar (2024-present)
Andrei Ilie – drums, (2021–present)
Former members
Gyergyay Szabolcs – bass (2006–2008)
Jacob Glick – bass (2008)
Vladimir Săteanu – bass (2008–2010)
Cristi Mateşan – drums (2006–2010)
Marcel Moldovan – drums (2010–2011)
Costin Oprea – guitars (2006–2013)
Dan Georgescu
Live members
Ovidiu Baciu – drums (2008–2009)
Vlad Bolborea – drums (2011–2012)
Gabriel Bălaşa – percussion (2010–2012)
Discography
Studio albums
Forbidden Drama (2007)
A Kind of Alchemy (2009)
Perfect (2011)
30 Seconds of Fame (2013)
Melancolic (2014)
Eternal return (2015)
Noua (2019)
Efemeride (2023)
DVD albums
Acoustic Drama (2008)
Live Underground (2012)
Singles
"Road Trip" (2012)
References
External links
byron website
Official byron blog
byron on facebook
byron on bandcamp
byron on Jamendo
byron on Myspace
byron on Progarchives
Forbidden Drama album reviews
A Kind of Alchemy album reviews
Romanian alternative rock groups
Musical groups established in 2006
English-language musical groups from Romania
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WULS
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WULS (103.7 FM) is a Christian radio station broadcasting a bluegrass and Southern gospel format. It is licensed to Broxton, Georgia, United States. The station is currently owned by WULS, Inc. and features programming from ABC Radio.
History
The station went on the air as WXEA on 14 February 1992. On 28 December 1992, the station changed its call sign to the current WULS.
References
External links
Southern Gospel radio stations in the United States
ULS
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%C3%B3teo%20%28municipality%29
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Timóteo is a Brazilian municipality located in the interior of the state of Minas Gerais, in the Southeast Region of Brazil. Situated in the Vale do Rio Doce, it is part of the Vale do Aço Metropolitan Region and lies approximately east of the state capital, Belo Horizonte. The municipality covers an area of just over , with classified as urban, and its population was estimated at 84,087 inhabitants in 2024.
The settlement of Timóteo began in the mid-19th century when Francisco de Paula e Silva acquired three sesmarias in the region and established himself in one, located in the present-day Alegre neighborhood near the Timóteo Stream. Francisco developed agriculture and cattle raising, fostering the formation of a village later named São Sebastião do Alegre. In 1938, the area became a district under Antônio Dias, already bearing the name Timóteo. In the following decade, it was selected as the site for the industrial hub of Acesita, now known as Aperam South America. This development was facilitated by the ease of receiving raw materials and transportation via the Vitória-Minas Railway, the availability of water from the Piracicaba River, and wood in the vast local forests. In 1948, Timóteo was annexed to the municipality of Coronel Fabriciano.
At Acesita's request, a workers' village was constructed parallel to the original urban core, but its growth spurred Timóteo's emancipation in 1964. This led to the city being divided into two distinct clusters: one comprising neighborhoods built by the company around the Centro-Norte, still referred to as "Acesita" despite the company’s name change, and the other stemming from the original settlements in the Centro-Sul, known as "Timóteo." Although the service sector has grown, industry remains the main source of municipal revenue, and its presence has contributed to the formation of the Vale do Aço Metropolitan Region, one of the main urban centers in the state's interior.
Approximately 35% of Timóteo’s area is protected by the Rio Doce State Park, the largest Atlantic Forest reserve in Minas Gerais. The city is known for traditions such as handicrafts, samba schools, and congado, as well as attractions such as the Ana Moura Peak; the São José Operário Church, built by Acesita for the religious activities of the former workers' village; and the 29 de Abril and 1º de Maio squares, key leisure and event venues in the region. Through the Aperam Acesita Foundation, Aperam South America maintains a cultural center featuring a theater, a museum, and spaces for exhibitions, courses, and theater classes, while also offering workshops in schools and public areas.
History
Colonization of the region
Exploration of the region, initially known as the Sertões do Rio Doce, began in the late 16th century with expeditions seeking precious metals. However, settlement was restricted in the early 17th century to prevent gold smuggling from areas near Diamantina. Colonization was permitted in 1755, but the presence of indigenous groups in the Vale do Rio Doce posed challenges to development. To protect settlers, "quarters" were established in the early 19th century under the "4th Division of Rio Doce," which included the current municipality. The area was home to the Borun (also called Botocudos) indigenous people, who inhabited the vast local Atlantic Forest. In 1820, the region, then known as Alegre, was under the Onça Pequena Quarter, headquartered in Jaguaraçu. During this period, Guido Marlière, the commander of the Rio Doce divisions, encouraged the catechesis of indigenous groups in eastern Minas Gerais in order to facilitate colonization and avoid systematic extermination.
Despite a ban on attacks against indigenous peoples in 1831, they were nearly extinct in the Vale do Rio Doce by 1832, as documented, encouraging further settlement and colonization. On September 11, 1831, Francisco de Paula e Silva (known as Chico Santa Maria, from Santa Maria de Itabira) arrived with his family and numerous slaves, settling near the present-day Alegre neighborhood. Chico Santa Maria received three sesmarias (Alegre, Limoeiro, and Timóteo) in the region along the watercourse he named "Timóteo Stream," where he developed agriculture and cattle raising and hosted tropeiros seeking rest. The name "Timóteo" is attributed to a tropeiro who settled in the area and opened a store that became a key reference point, also known as the "Paragem do Ribeirão do Timóteo." Another account suggests that a pioneer honored his European nephew, Timóteo.
By around 1840, Alegre had solidified as a village and was annexed to the Freguesia of Santana do Alfié. Over the next few decades, Manoel Archanjo de Andrade (around 1855), Antônio Pacífico Fraga (1877), and the brothers João and Manoel Lino de Sá from Joanésia (who acquired land from José Luiz de Paula, heir of Francisco de Paula e Silva, in 1885) purchased land. The holdings of the deceased Chico Santa Maria were divided among his children and grandchildren in 1890. In 1895, Manoel Berto de Lima founded the Our Lady of the Rosary Congado Group. In 1907, Francisco Malachias donated land dedicated to Saint Sebastian at the site of the current 29 de Abril Square in Centro-Sul, used to build a small wooden church, leading the settlement to be known as São Sebastião do Alegre.
Urban formation
The construction of the Vitória-Minas Railway (EFVM) in eastern Minas Gerais spurred population growth near the railway during the 1910s and 1920s. In 1921, pharmacist Raimundo Alves de Carvalho settled in the current Horto neighborhood in Ipatinga to support the construction of the railway. Raimundo acquired land in São Sebastião do Alegre, donating a plot for the construction of the village’s first school, the São Sebastião do Alegre Mixed Rural School, in 1922, the same year the first post office was established. In 1925, the Timotinho Municipal Mixed School was inaugurated in the Ana Moura neighborhood, also on land donated by the pharmacist. Both schools were later incorporated into the Dona Angelina Alves School (now Angelina Alves de Carvalho Municipal School), named after Raimundo’s mother. Meanwhile, the village was incorporated into the district of São José do Grama (now Jaguaraçu), created on September 7, 1923, then part of São Domingos do Prata. In 1928, the pharmacist established the Dona Angelina Farm near the village, along the Piracicaba River.
In the early 1930s, an office of the Belgo-Mineira Steel Company was established in Coronel Fabriciano to centralize timber extraction and charcoal production in the Rio Doce region to fuel its furnaces in João Monlevade. This led to large-scale land negotiations for timber extraction, resulting in extensive deforestation. Concerned about preserving the native Atlantic Forest, Bishop Helvécio Gomes de Oliveira spearheaded the creation of the Rio Doce State Park in 1944, the first conservation unit in Minas Gerais. By state decree No. 148 of December 17, 1938, the former São Sebastião do Alegre village ceased to belong to Jaguaraçu and was elevated to district status, annexed to Antônio Dias under the name "Timóteo." Its establishment occurred on January 1, 1940, with Joaquim Ferreira de Souza as the first justice of the peace.
The area benefited from Vitória-Minas Railway stops at the Baratinha (opened June 9, 1924), Ana Matos (August 26, 1925), and Sá Carvalho (August 26, 1925) stations. The availability of the railway, watercourses, and timber for extraction were decisive factors in studies by Itabira Iron, led by Percival Farquhar and entrepreneurs Amyntas Jacques de Moraes and Athos de Lemos Rache, which identified Timóteo as the optimal location for their steel complex, leading to the founding of Acesita (Aços Especiais Itabira) on October 31, 1944. A loan from the Banco do Brasil secured the project’s consolidation. On June 3, 1947, the Acesita Station was inaugurated and served by Vitória-Minas Railway stops.
Originally, Itabira was designated to host the complex, but its rugged terrain made it unfeasible. Iron ore extracted in Itabira could be transported to Timóteo via the railway, which also facilitated connections to port complexes on the Espírito Santo coast. The chosen site for the factory was the Dona Angelina Farm, purchased from Raimundo Alves de Carvalho. A planned industrial village for 2,000 inhabitants was also envisioned, while the village had only 200 residents. The urban project was designed by engineer Romeu Duffles Teixeira in 1946, though not fully implemented as planned. On December 27, 1948, the Timóteo district was incorporated into the newly emancipated municipality of Coronel Fabriciano, driven by the momentum from Acesita’s arrival.
Economic expansion and emancipation
Acesita’s establishment attracted workers and employees from across Brazil and immigrants, solidifying the urbanization of both Timóteo and neighboring Coronel Fabriciano. In the following years, the company built several residential complexes for its employees, giving rise to neighborhoods such as Quitandinha (the oldest), Bromélias, Funcionários, Vila dos Técnicos, and Olaria. In 1949, Acesita produced its first pig iron run. Its presence catalyzed the industrial development of the Vale do Aço, reinforced by the establishment of Usiminas in the Fabriciano district of Ipatinga in the late 1950s.
By 1950, with a population of 11,813 people, Timóteo gained access to treated water, and in 1952, the Acesita Hospital was established, later renamed Vital Brazil Hospital and Maternity and then Hospital and Maternity of Timóteo. By 1958, the company had built 2,734 residences, but in 1964, it began charging workers for housing. Neighborhoods reflected employee hierarchies; for instance, the Funcionários neighborhood was reserved for doctors, engineers, and managers, located closer to the plant with relatively higher-quality housing. Beyond schools, the company built sports courts and clubs, hosting tournaments, dances, and theater performances.
The movement for Timóteo’s political autonomy began in 1947 but initially failed. It was revived in 1954 and later approved by the Coronel Fabriciano City Council and enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Minas Gerais (ALMG) through state law No. 2,764 of December 30, 1962, alongside Ipatinga’s emancipation. However, Governor José de Magalhães Pinto vetoed the emancipation of both districts under pressure from an alliance with Fabriciano’s then-mayor Cyro Cotta Poggiali. The Fabriciano municipal government was unwilling to forgo the revenue generated by Acesita and Usiminas, and the governor aimed to maintain political, administrative, economic, and financial unity in the steel hub.
A rift between the Fabriciano mayor and Magalhães Pinto prompted the governor to reconsider the veto, enabling a new commission to secure Timóteo’s emancipation approval by the state’s Interior Secretariat on April 28, 1964. This process also saw the emancipation of Ipatinga, João Monlevade, and Bela Vista de Minas. The independence of the districts was announced on a stage in Fabriciano’s Centro around noon on the same day, formalized in the Official Gazette the following day, April 29. Virico Fonseca was appointed intendant, but José Antônio de Araújo was the first elected mayor, taking office on December 3, 1965.
Urban development
Acesita’s responsibilities for public services were transferred to the municipal government in 1969. Until then, the urban core around the company consisted almost exclusively of its workers, as the infrastructure was initially built solely for them and their families. This situation divided the urban area into two clusters: one comprising company-built neighborhoods around Centro-Norte, still called "Acesita," and the other from the original São Sebastião do Alegre settlements in Centro-Sul, referred to as "Timóteo." As Centro-Sul received minimal investment from Acesita, it experienced relatively higher rates of poverty and deprivation. An attempt to integrate the two cores was the construction of the Primavera neighborhood in the 1970s through a partnership between the municipal government and the state, on land donated by Acesita.
Alongside the development of the original workers’ village, significant growth occurred in peripheral areas between the 1960s and 1970s, driven by non-industrial populations attracted by local progress, leading to relatively recent occupations in neighborhoods such as Ana Moura, Alvorada, Limoeiro, and Macuco, as well as the Cachoeira do Vale district along the BR-381 highway, established on May 13, 1976. This district, located in a lowland along the Piracicaba River, was severely impacted by flooding during the 1979 floods. That year marked the municipal administration’s first concerns about flood impacts, though the district continued to face recurrent flooding due to its location in the river’s floodplain.
Between 1979 and 1981, a plebiscite proposed renaming the municipality to "Acesita," which garnered 12,861 votes in favor and 4,908 votes against but was rejected by the Legislative Assembly of Minas Gerais (ALMG). However, the city’s population and economic growth stagnated in the 1980s due to a nationwide crisis. Of 55 companies planning to establish operations in Timóteo, only seven secured funding. Acesita’s accumulated debts led to its privatization, finalized on October 23, 1992. Subsequent cost-cutting measures, including staff and position reductions and workforce modernization, were implemented, which led to layoffs that strained the local economy's ability to absorb displaced workers, though dismissals were carried out gradually until 1994.
Recent history
In the early 1990s, the creation of the first Municipal Master Plan to regulate urban planning and environmental issues, combined with Acesita’s privatization, reduced the public administration’s dependence on the company. Nonetheless, Acesita continued investing in arts and cultural facilities, notably through the Acesita Foundation (now Aperam Acesita Foundation), established in 1994. It also retained ownership of vast urban and rural lands in the municipality.
In the 2000s, Timóteo faced a political crisis marked by successive mayoral changes, starting with the impeachment of Geraldo Nascimento de Oliveira (PT) and his deputy on September 20, 2006. Leonardo Rodrigues Lelé da Cunha (PMDB), the runner-up in the 2004 election, was appointed in his place. Geraldo Nascimento returned via an injunction two months later but was impeached again in October 2007. Due to legal disputes, Leonardo could not take office, and his deputy Geraldo Hilário Torres (PSDB) was sworn in. Geraldo Nascimento secured another injunction in December 2007, but his final impeachment was upheld by the TSE in July 2008, when Geraldo Hilário Torres reassumed office. Torres was reelected in 2008 but was impeached in September 2010, with runner-up Sérgio Mendes Pires assuming office.
In 2007, the ArcelorMittal group acquired Acesita and renamed it ArcelorMittal Timóteo. In January 2011, it joined the Aperam group, becoming Aperam South America. Despite these changes, many residents still refer to the plant and the Centro-Norte area as "Acesita" due to its historical influence. This often confuses outsiders, who may think Timóteo and "Acesita" are separate cities, as the municipal administrative center is in Centro-Sul. The former company name persists in street names and commercial establishments.
Geography
The municipality’s area is , representing 0.0247% of Minas Gerais, 0.0157% of the Southeast Region, and 0.0017% of Brazil’s total territory. Of this, are urban. According to the regional division effective since 2017, established by the IBGE, Timóteo belongs to the Intermediate and Immediate Geographic Regions of Ipatinga. Previously, under the microregion and mesoregion divisions, it was part of the Ipatinga microregion within the Vale do Rio Doce mesoregion.
Topography and hydrography
Timóteo is located in the Vale do Rio Doce interplateau depression, where the terrain is the result of the fluvial erosion of Precambrian granite-gneiss rocks. The geological complex includes gneissic, magmatic, and metamorphic rocks, such as biotite-gneiss, granitic rocks, and granite-gneiss. The topography is diverse, with 50% of Timóteo's area comprising undulating hills, 30% being mountainous, and the final 20% being level.
The highest elevations are found in the west, reaching 864 meters at Ana Moura Peak. The lowest altitudes are found along riverbanks, with the lowest recorded being 225 meters at the mouth of the Piracicaba River in the Doce River. The municipal center is at 350 meters. The Piracicaba River’s location at the city’s northern boundary and the flat terrain nearby facilitated the establishment of the Vitória-Minas Railway and Acesita, and later the urban expansion of Timóteo, which was forced toward higher elevations. Consequently, significant occupation, especially by lower-income groups, has occurred in steeply sloped areas. The Rio Doce State Park region, in the east and south, features alternating hills and fluvial plains.
The Piracicaba River flows through the city, forming the boundary with Coronel Fabriciano, within its sub-basin, part of the Doce River Basin. The mouth of the Piracicaba River in the Doce River lies at the Rio Doce State Park’s boundary with Ipatinga. An alluvial aquifer beneath the Piracicaba’s mouth supplies most of the Vale do Aço’s water. The municipal territory includes five smaller sub-basins: the Atalho, Celeste, and Limoeiro streams, and the Belém () and Timotinho () rivers. The Timotinho River, the main watercourse crossing the city, suffers from severe pollution and unregulated occupation of its banks, contributing to flooding during the rainy season. Rio Doce State Park, which is crossed by the Doce River, has hundreds of small springs, and forms one of the world’s largest lacustrine systems.
Neighboring municipalities and metropolitan region
Timóteo borders Coronel Fabriciano and Ipatinga to the north, Caratinga and Bom Jesus do Galho to the east, Marliéria to the south, Antônio Dias to the west, and Jaguaraçu to the southwest. Rapid regional growth has blurred political boundaries, forming the Vale do Aço Metropolitan Region (RMVA), encompassing Timóteo, Coronel Fabriciano, Ipatinga, and Santana do Paraíso, as well as 24 other municipalities in the metropolitan area. As the seat of Aperam South America and other metal-mechanical and raw material supplier companies, Timóteo plays a key role as an employer for surrounding cities. The region gained international recognition due to major companies such as Aperam South America (Timóteo), Cenibra (Belo Oriente), and Usiminas (Ipatinga), all of which export large volumes of products. Despite its recent settlement, the region is one of the state’s main urban hubs.
Climate
Timóteo’s climate is classified as tropical wet and dry climate (type Aw, according to the Köppen system), with an average annual temperature of and average precipitation of /year, concentrated between October and April. The rainy season includes the warmer months, while the dry season covers milder months. Autumn and spring are transitional seasons. The transition between dry and wet seasons features thunderstorms and high thermal amplitude, especially from late winter to spring.
Precipitation primarily occurs as rain and, occasionally, hail, recorded on August 28, 2014, damaging hundreds of homes and businesses, and more recently on May 1, 2023, and April 28, 2025. Rains may be accompanied by lightning and strong wind gusts. According to the Atmospheric Electricity Group of the National Institute for Space Research (ELAT/INPE) in 2018, the municipality had a lightning strike density of 3.019 strikes per km²/year, which puts it in 270th place in the state and 3,173rd place nationally.
Fog occurs with high humidity and low temperatures. However, low humidity levels can occur during the dry season or prolonged Indian summers. During these periods, dry air and pollution increase atmospheric pollutant concentration, degrading air quality. The prevailing wind comes from the east, with the windiest period from August 2 to December 6, averaging 10.6 kilometers per hour, peaking slightly in September and October. During the calmer period from March to June, wind speeds average 8 to 9 kilometers per hour.
According to data from the National Institute of Meteorology (INMET) collected at the automatic weather station located in the Primavera neighborhood, installed on February 22, 2006, the lowest recorded temperature was on May 20, 2022, and the highest reached on September 28, 2020. The lowest relative humidity index was 12% on September 28, 2020. The highest 24-hour precipitation accumulation was on March 23, 2024. The highest hourly precipitation was between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. on December 11, 2017, while the strongest wind gust was , recorded during a storm on the night of March 6, 2006. According to measurements by the Brazilian Geological Service (CPRM) and the National Water and Sanitation Agency (ANA), which began in 1974, the highest 24-hour rainfall volume was on December 15, 2005. Other significant accumulations (completing the top five) were on November 14, 1981, on February 12, 1998, on November 11, 2021, and on February 1, 1979.
Ecology and environment
The native vegetation belongs to the Atlantic Forest domain, with the original biome covering , equivalent to 80.46% of the municipality's area. Notably, of the municipal area is protected by the Rio Doce State Park (PERD), established in 1944 to safeguard the remaining native forest against deforestation driven by local industrial complexes. In addition to encompassing one of the world's largest lake systems, this conservation unit represents the largest Atlantic Forest reserve in Minas Gerais, extending into the municipalities of Dionísio and Marliéria. The biodiversity is remarkable, providing a habitat for 325 bird species and 77 mammal species, including endangered species such as the jaguar, solitary tinamou, and southern muriqui.
Furthermore, Timóteo has an environmental protection area (APA), which, together with preservation areas in neighboring municipalities, forms an ecological corridor connecting other regions of the Steel Valley to the PERD. The APA Serra do Timóteo serves as a buffer zone for the PERD and was recognized in 2003. However, it has faced irregular and invasive occupations due to urban expansion in the Alphaville, Macuco, and Recanto Verde neighborhoods. The Oikós Project, located within the urban area, is a revegetation initiative by Aperam South America integrated with the Serra do Timóteo and the Rio Doce State Park. It serves local schools and the community through visits, lectures, ecological activities, and programs organized by the Aperam Acesita Foundation, featuring trails and recreational areas dedicated to children. The presence of the Rio Doce State Park contributes to Timóteo having approximately 1,000 square meters of green space per inhabitant, one of the highest rates in Brazil. Focused on environmental conservation, the city also promotes ecological awareness campaigns involving the population and urban tree planting programs. The municipality has an Integrated Urban Tree Planting Plan, aimed at planning and managing tree species to ensure proper interaction with the population and the environment.
Environmental issues
Some of the main environmental challenges in the city include floods, which during the rainy season cause significant damage in the lower and more populated areas along the Piracicaba River, particularly in the Cachoeira do Vale district and neighborhoods along smaller waterways, as well as landslides on hills and slopes. These issues are often caused by residential construction in irregular zones, in addition to waste and sewage discharged into streams and rivers. The city hall and agencies such as the Brazilian Geological Service (CPRM) maintain rainfall stations and monitoring points for the Piracicaba River's water levels in Timóteo and other municipalities in the river basin, and in case of alerts, residents of riverside areas are evacuated. A mapping of risk areas in the municipality also serves as a basis for other preventive measures.
On the other hand, during the dry season and prolonged Indian summers within the rainy season, wildfires are common in hills and wooded areas, including the PERD. Between September 20 and 24, 2019, a fire consumed of the reserve between Timóteo and Marliéria, the largest in recent years, and was controlled with the aid of rainfall. Forest fires contribute to the destruction of native forest, degrade soil quality, and further impair air quality, which is already affected by pollutants from the Steel Valley's industrial plants. Visual pollution, meanwhile, is significant in various parts of the urban area, with considerable presence of uncontrolled posters and advertisements on walls, poles, and other open spaces.
Demographics
In 2022, the population was estimated at inhabitants by the census conducted that year by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). Of the total, were men (47.58%) and were women (52.43%). According to the same census, inhabitants lived in the urban area (99.84%) and 131 in the rural area (0.16%). There were inhabitants in the main district (90.92% of the municipal population), while the Cachoeira do Vale district had residents (9.08%).
Of the total population in 2022, inhabitants (17.72%) were under 15 years old, (13.3%) were aged 15 to 24, (21.74%) were aged 25 to 39, (34.85%) were aged 40 to 64, and (12.39%) were 65 or older. In 2010, the life expectancy at birth was 75.1 years, and the total fertility rate per woman was 1.5.
Indicators and inequality
The Municipal Human Development Index (HDI-M) of Timóteo is considered high by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), with a value of 0.771 (the 227th highest in Brazil and the 17th highest in Minas Gerais). The city has most indicators close to the national average according to the UNDP. Specifically, the education index is 0.742, the longevity index is 0.836, and the income index is 0.737.
From 2000 to 2010, the proportion of people with a per capita household income of up to half a minimum wage decreased by 64.6%, and in 2010, 94.3% of the population lived above the poverty line, 4.5% were at the poverty line, and 1.2% were below it. The Gini coefficient, which measures social inequality, was 0.489, where 1.00 is the worst and 0.00 is the best. The share of the city's total income held by the richest 20% of the population was 53.5%, or 12 times higher than that of the poorest 20%, which was 4.5%. In 2013, according to the city hall, there was a housing deficit of approximately units.
In 2022, according to the IBGE census, 11.83% of the population lived in slums and urban communities, representing the ninth-largest proportion of residents in such conditions among Minas Gerais municipalities. That year, the institute identified six slums and urban communities in Timóteo, housing people. Despite the construction of planned housing complexes to accommodate the industrial population during Acesita's establishment, the presence of slums results from uncontrolled land occupation by people attracted to local economic progress. To address this, housing projects, land regularization, and lot acquisition programs are strategies aimed at improving the management of related policies.
Ethnicity and religion
In 2022, the population consisted of mixed-race (50.13%), white (34.44%), black (15.19%), 121 Asian (0.15%), and 72 Indigenous (0.09%) individuals. In 2010, considering the region of birth, were born in the Southeast (98.36%), 59 in the North (0.07%), 809 in the Northeast (1.00%), 111 in the Central-West (0.14%), and 71 in the South (0.09%). inhabitants were born in Minas Gerais (96.12%), of which were born in Timóteo (59.49%). Among the residents born in other states, Espírito Santo had the largest presence with 837 people (1.03%), followed by São Paulo with 563 residents (0.69%), and Bahia with 427 residents (0.53%).
According to the 2022 IBGE census, the municipal population aged 10 and over comprised evangelicals (42.95%), Catholics (42.8%), people with no religion (7.65%), 540 Spiritists (0.75%), with the remaining 5.85% distributed among other religions. The municipality is part of Pastoral Region III of the Diocese of Itabira-Fabriciano and is divided into three parishes: São João Batista, São José, and São Sebastião. Their origins trace back to the Catholic faith inherited from the first settlers, maintained by the workers who came to build Acesita.
The São José Parish, located near the former workers' village and established in the 1950s, offered literacy, sewing, and painting courses to early residents. The São Sebastião Parish, corresponding to the oldest urban core, was established in the 1960s. Meanwhile, the São João Batista Parish, based in the Cachoeira do Vale district, was created in 2017. The growth of Protestant religions has been significant since the 1990s, making Timóteo one of the largest evangelical communities in the state, surpassing the number of Catholics in the 2022 census.
Politics and subdivisions
Municipal administration is carried out by the Executive and Legislative branches. The Executive is led by the mayor, supported by their cabinet of secretaries. The first Executive representative was Virico Fonseca, appointed intendant by Governor José de Magalhães Pinto after political emancipation, while José Antônio de Araújo was the first elected mayor, taking office on December 3, 1965. The mayor elected in the 2024 municipal elections was Vitor Vicente do Prado (Captain Vitor), elected by the Republicans with 33.81% of valid votes, alongside Marcelo Araújo Martins (PMB) as vice-mayor.
The Legislative branch consists of the municipal chamber, composed of fifteen councilors. It is responsible for drafting and voting on fundamental laws for the administration and the Executive, particularly the participatory budget (budget guidelines law). Complementing the legislative process and the work of the secretaries, several municipal councils are active, including those for children's and adolescents' rights (created in 2010), guardianship (2010), racial equality (2006), elderly rights (2010), rights of people with disabilities (2009), and women's policies (2007). Timóteo is governed by its organic law, enacted on April 29, 1990, and hosts a judicial district of the state judiciary, of special category, operating in the Doutor Geraldo Perlingeiro Courthouse, with jurisdiction over the municipalities of Jaguaraçu and Marliéria. As of September 2024, the municipality had voters, according to the Superior Electoral Court (TSE).
The municipality consists of the main district and the Cachoeira do Vale district, located west of the municipal territory. The total area of the main district is , while Cachoeira do Vale covers . According to the IBGE in 2022, the city had 39 official neighborhoods, with the most populous being Cachoeira do Vale—the seat of the homonymous district—( inhabitants), Ana Rita ( inhabitants), and Primavera ( inhabitants). The neighborhoods are organized into seven "regions" by the city hall for administrative purposes, named according to their geographic location. The availability of areas for urban expansion in Timóteo is relatively limited due to its topography and restrictions related to the proximity of the Rio Doce State Park. This is reflected in the high population density and the slowdown in population growth since the 1990s.
Economy
In Timóteo's Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the industry and service sector stand out. According to 2021 IBGE data, the municipality's GDP at current prices was R$ thousand. thousand were from taxes on products net of subsidies at current prices, and the per capita GDP was R$. In 2010, 64.9% of the population over 18 was economically active, with an unemployment rate of 11.55%. Notably, about 16.8% of the population commuted to another municipality for work, given the location and easy access to industrial complexes in other municipalities of the Steel Valley Metropolitan Region.
In 2022, wages and other remunerations totaled thousand reais, with an average monthly salary of 2.7 minimum wages. There were local units and active companies. According to the IBGE, in 2010, 51.01% of households had a monthly per capita income of less than one minimum wage ( households), 37.05% had between one and three minimum wages per person ( households), 5.54% had between three and five minimum wages ( households), 3.63% had over five minimum wages (890 households), and 2.56% had no income (628 households).
Agriculture
In 2021, livestock and agriculture contributed thousand reais to Timóteo's economy, while in 2010, 1.75% of the economically active population was employed in this sector. According to the IBGE, in 2023, the municipality had a herd of poultry, cattle, 152 horses, 73 pigs, and 31 sheep. In the same year, the city produced thousand liters of milk from 215 cows, 7,000 dozen eggs from hens, and kilograms of honey. In 2019, Timóteo and neighboring Ipatinga were the two Minas Gerais municipalities exporting the most honey internationally, according to the state government.
In permanent agriculture, in 2023, the crops with the largest planted areas were bananas (9 hectares) and coconuts (1 hectare). Family farming is prominent in Timóteo, particularly through the cultivation of vegetables, honey production, and biscuit manufacturing. Part of the local agricultural production is sold at local markets. The Timirim Fair, held in the João XXIII neighborhood, is one of the main regular open-air markets in the Steel Valley Metropolitan Region.
Industry and services
In 2021, industry contributed thousand reais to the municipal GDP. Much of this is due to the presence of Aperam South America, the largest producer of stainless steel and electrical steel in South America, with an annual production capacity of 800,000 to 900,000 tons of crude steel (in slabs). In 2015, it employed over workers in Timóteo and northern Minas Gerais at Aperam Bioenergia, with about 20% of its production exported. The establishment of this industrial complex attracted supplier companies, complementary businesses, and service providers to Timóteo and surrounding municipalities.
Timóteo has two industrial districts, one being the Limoeiro Industrial District, located between the Limoeiro and Alphaville neighborhoods, and the other along the BR-381, between Aperam's industrial core and the Cachoeira do Vale district. Other industrial sectors include the production of clothing and accessories, extraction and processing of non-metallic minerals, manufacturing of furniture and fixtures, food and beverage production, machinery manufacturing, and products derived from metallurgy. According to 2010 statistics, 0.43% of the workforce was employed in extractive industries and 22.64% in manufacturing.
In 2010, 8.72% of the employed population worked in construction, 0.92% in public utilities, 15.30% in commerce, and 44.20% in services. In 2021, thousand reais of the municipal GDP came from the gross added value of the service sector, and thousand reais from public administration. Commercial activity in Timóteo is particularly significant in the Centro-Norte, where Acesita established a commercial center in the 1960s to serve the former workers' village. This area, now known as Acesita, is considered a metropolitan hub, attracting consumers from nearby cities due to its public services and commerce. More recently, commercial activity has expanded in the Funcionários and Timirim neighborhoods, which have easy access to Centro-Norte.
Infrastructure
Healthcare
Timóteo's healthcare network includes 15 primary healthcare units, one health center, one general hospital, and one Psychosocial Care Center (CAPS), according to 2018 data. In 2010, there were 0.55 nurses, 0.55 dentists, and 0.8 physicians per thousand inhabitants, compared to national averages of 0.69, 0.54, and 1.5, respectively. In 2015, there were also seven specialty centers distributed across the municipality.
The Timóteo Hospital and Maternity (HMT), formerly known as Acesita Hospital and Vital Brazil Hospital and Maternity, is located in the Timirim neighborhood and was constructed by the current Aperam South America in the 1950s. This healthcare facility is regarded as a regional reference for childbirth, as well as obstetrics and orthopedics. The João Otávio Health Center, located in the Olaria neighborhood, is managed by the municipal administration and provides clinical and emergency medical services. Additionally, there is the Geraldo dos Reis Ribeiro Emergency Care Unit (UPA), designed for 24-hour urgent care in the Primavera neighborhood, which was inaugurated on 24 January 2020.
Timóteo has two cemeteries, namely Recanto da Paz, in the Bela Vista neighborhood, and Jardim da Saudade, in the Santa Maria neighborhood. In 2022, 590 deaths were recorded due to morbidity, with diseases of the circulatory system being the leading cause of death (25.42%), followed by tumors (18.47%). During the same year, 894 live births were recorded, with the infant mortality rate standing at 5.59 deaths of children under one year of age per thousand live births. It is noteworthy that in 2010, 1.3% of girls aged 10 to 17 gave birth.
Education
In the field of education, the average Basic Education Development Index (IDEB) score for students in the initial years of primary education in Timóteo's public schools was 6.6 in 2023, on a scale ranging from 1 to 10, while the score for students in the final years of primary education was 4.9. In 2022, 44.54% of children aged zero to three years, 93.32% of those aged four to five years, and 99.3% of those aged six to 14 years were enrolled in schools, along with 91% of adolescents aged 15 to 17 years. Additionally, 27.79% of residents aged 18 to 24 years and 6.76% of those aged 25 years or older were also attending educational institutions.
Among residents aged 18 years or older in 2022, 24.64% had not completed primary education, 15.44% had completed only primary education, 41.25% had completed secondary education, and 18.67% had completed higher education, with the population aged eleven years or older having an average of 10.3 years of schooling. The literacy rate among residents aged 15 years or older was 96.88%, resulting in 3.12% of individuals in this age group being illiterate. In 2023, there were enrollments in the city's early childhood education, primary, and secondary education institutions.
The Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais (CEFET), whose campus is located in Centro-Norte, serves regional demand by offering free secondary education combined with technical education and higher education courses. In addition to CEFET, there are campuses of private technical and higher education institutions. Aperam South America maintains a Professional Training Center, offering technical courses in partnership with the National Service for Industrial Training (SENAI) and internship opportunities at the company. Through the Aperam Acesita Foundation, Aperam also occasionally provides qualification courses.
Housing, services, and communications
In 2022, Timóteo had occupied permanent private households. Of these, were houses (73.22%), were apartments (25.87%), 137 were houses in villages or condominiums (0.46%), 101 were tenements (0.34%), and 35 were degraded or unfinished structures (0.12%). Of the total occupied households, were owned (71.20%), with fully paid and in the process of acquisition; were rented (22.00%); were borrowed or lent (6.34%); and 138 were occupied in other ways (0.46%). The municipality has a Municipal Master Plan that regulates geographic and urban parameters for the construction of residences, buildings, and commercial establishments.
Water supply and sewage collection services are provided by the Minas Gerais Sanitation Company (Copasa). In 2022, according to IBGE, 91.46% of households had the general water network as their main supply source, and 99.90% had a bathroom for exclusive household use. Regarding sewage disposal, 94.53% of households were served by the general or stormwater network. Much of the water used to supply the city and the Vale do Aço region comes from an alluvial aquifer located underground, extracted and treated at Copasa's water treatment plant in the Amaro Lanari neighborhood, in Coronel Fabriciano. However, Timóteo has three smaller water intake points that exclusively serve the municipality. Sewage, on the other hand, was released directly into the urban area's watercourses without treatment until 2019, when a wastewater treatment plant began operating in the Limoeiro neighborhood, initially intended to serve 165,000 residents of Timóteo and Coronel Fabriciano.
The electricity supply service is provided by the Minas Gerais Energy Company (Cemig), which also serves much of the state of Minas Gerais. In 2010, 99.91% of households had access to the electrical network, according to IBGE. Regarding waste disposal, according to the 2022 census, 99.36% of households were served by waste collection. The collected waste is sent to the Vale do Aço Waste Center (CRVA), located in Santana do Paraíso, with an average of 40 tons of waste produced daily in 2012. Until 2005, the city's waste was disposed of in an open-air landfill near the Piracicaba River, known as the Mauá Bridge landfill, which also served Coronel Fabriciano. This area was closed and designated for preservation, but soil and water contamination persisted due to the lack of environmental recovery.
According to data from the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel), Timóteo had 271 payphones in 2016. The area code (DDD) is 031, and the postal code (CEP) ranges from 35180-001 to 35184-999. In January 2009, the municipality began to be served by number portability, along with other municipalities sharing the same DDD. Portability allows users to change operators without changing their phone numbers. Postal services are provided by Correios agencies in the Centro-Norte and Centro-Sul neighborhoods. Among the city's radio stations, Tropical FM, established on 9 November 2007, and Itatiaia Vale stand out as major stations in the Vale do Aço Metropolitan Region. Regarding local daily newspapers, Diário do Aço and Diário Popular, published in Ipatinga, and Folha do Aço, edited in Timóteo, are notable.
Safety and crime
Public safety in Timóteo is provided by various organizations. The Military Police, a state force, is responsible for ostensible policing in the city, bank patrols, environmental, prison, school, and special event patrols, as well as community engagement initiatives, with a Military Police Company based in the municipality, subordinate to the Coronel Fabriciano Battalion. The Civil Police aims to investigate and address crimes and infractions and is represented in Timóteo by an Integrated Public Safety Area (AISP), subordinate to the Ipatinga Regional Civil Police Station. The city is served by a Fire Department brigade and also has a civil defense, subordinate to the municipal government.
In 2022, 24 homicides were recorded, a decrease from 28 in 2021. The worst year between 2000 and 2022 was 2014, with 31 incidents. However, these numbers are proportionally high relative to the population, exceeding those of the state capital and the most populous municipalities in the Vale do Aço. Most homicides are related to drug trafficking, which also contributes to other crimes, as drug users often steal to support their addictions. There are also records of deaths caused by disputes among criminal organizations established in the city, particularly in peripheral neighborhoods, reflecting socioeconomic inequality. Many offenders are sent to the city's prison in the Primavera neighborhood, which has faced issues of overcrowding and riots.
Transportation
Timóteo is served by the Vitória-Minas Railway (EFVM), operated by Vale, which is a key means of transporting iron ore extracted in Itabira to Aperam South America and for exporting the company's production. The Mário Carvalho Station facilitates passenger transport with daily stops for trains traveling between the metropolitan areas of Vitória and Belo Horizonte. Among regular public transportation options, the EFVM is the most affordable travel option for several cities with stations.
The municipality has one of the region's main bus terminals, located in Centro-Norte and inaugurated in January 1983. The city is served by BR-381, the main access route to the state capital and Espírito Santo; and by LMG-760, connecting the urban area to BR-262 through the Cava Grande district in Marliéria. The municipal vehicle fleet in 2023 totaled vehicles, including cars, motorcycles, pickups, SUVs, trucks, 981 trailers, 895 scooters, 556 utility vehicles, 407 mopeds, 313 semi-trailers, 262 tractor-trailers, 201 minibuses, 186 buses, 17 tricycles, nine wheeled tractors, four sidecars, and five classified as other types of vehicles. The urban area occasionally experiences traffic congestion due to increased vehicle flow. Near commercial hubs, parking availability is sometimes limited, impacting local businesses. Proposals such as implementing a paid parking system have been considered and implemented.
Public transportation in the municipality is managed by Saritur, with 19 bus lines operating in 2012. Through the integration terminal, built for line transfers, passengers can take two municipal buses for the price of one fare. Univale Transportes provides intercity lines connecting Acesita (Centro-Norte) and Timóteo (Centro-Sul) to other municipalities in the Vale do Aço Metropolitan Region. Cycling infrastructure in the city includes bike paths and lanes on some roads, though most lack paving and continuity. Sidewalk infrastructure is also deficient in many neighborhoods, with issues such as irregularities, obstacles, and lack of continuity. In the metropolitan region, air transportation is available through Ipatinga Airport, which offers daily flights to the Greater Belo Horizonte area.
Culture
The first investments in leisure facilities were made by the former Acesita company to encourage workers to settle in the company’s workers' village. Initially, civic celebrations and football tournaments were organized, followed by the creation of clubs such as the Elite Club and the Workers’ Club, which also hosted theater and music performances. The Marabá Cinema, originally Acesita Cinema, was established in the 1950s and relocated to a new building in the commercial center of the workers' village (now Centro-Norte) in the 1970s, but it was deactivated and converted into a commercial establishment in the 1990s. Centro-Sul, meanwhile, had older cultural traditions, such as the Nossa Senhora do Rosário Congado Group, dating back to 1895, and street carnival celebrations in the 1940s.
Following emancipation in 1964, the municipal government increased investments in public squares and sports centers throughout the city. Timóteo has a municipal culture council and a heritage preservation board, both with equal representation and deliberative and oversight roles. There are also municipal laws protecting tangible cultural heritage, managed by a dedicated municipal culture department, which oversees cultural activities in the municipality. Despite public sector involvement, Aperam South America, through the Aperam Acesita Foundation, also supports arts and cultural facilities, including projects funded by the Rouanet Law.
In 2013, the following tangible assets were listed as municipal cultural heritage: the forest of the Rio Doce State Park, Percival Farquhar State School, the former Technical Metallurgy School, the "Biquinha" spring, and Getúlio Vargas State School. The only listed movable asset was the Oratory of the Holy Spirit. However, in 2022, the Hoffmann Kiln was also listed. The municipality’s cultural policy score for the 2024 Cultural ICMS calculation was 3.00 on a scale of 0 to 4. The total score, factoring in conservation, expenditure, and the number of listed or registered assets, was 9.83.
Cultural expressions and spaces
The city boasts a rich and diverse folklore. According to IBGE in 2012, there are artistic groups dedicated to choirs, folklore, and musical performances. Handicrafts are one of the most prominent forms of cultural expression in Timóteo, with IBGE noting that the main artisanal activities involve fruits and seeds, wood, and metal. Another significant cultural expression is the Nossa Senhora do Rosário Congado Group, introduced by Manoel Berto de Lima in 1895, which performs in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary during festive occasions.
Carnival celebrations originated in what is now Praça 29 de Abril, in Centro-Sul, where residents began gathering in the 1940s to dance in masks and costumes, inspired by marchinhas played on battery-powered radios. In the 1960s, these festivities moved to city clubs, evolving with the formation of samba schools and carnival blocks. In the 1980s, the municipal government, in partnership with Acesita, began organizing a street carnival in Centro-Norte, involving local carnival groups. Though not held regularly, it has attracted over 40,000 people, featuring block parades and musical performances.
The Feast of Saint Sebastian (the municipal patron saint), the Saint Sebastian Rustic Race, the Rosário Feast (with the congado group’s participation), the city’s anniversary celebrations in April, the Feast of Our Lady of Aparecida, and the Christmas carol by the Aperam Acesita Foundation are other examples of popular cultural expressions in the municipality. On Corpus Christi, carpets are crafted on neighborhood streets by parishes, continuing a tradition that dates back to 1930. Among the cultural spaces dedicated to preserving and promoting popular expressions, the city has publicly maintained libraries, theaters, stadiums, sports gyms, clubs, recreational associations, and a public archive, according to IBGE in 2005 and 2012.
Through the Rouanet Law, Aperam South America, via the Aperam Acesita Foundation and in partnership with the municipal government and other local entities, periodically organizes a variety of programs, including workshops and cultural performances. The Aperam Acesita Foundation Cultural Center (formerly Acesita’s guest house), opened in October 1994, houses a theater, a museum, and spaces for exhibitions, courses, and theater classes, which are also available to the community. The foundation extends its activities with events in schools and major public squares and open areas, accessible to the general population.
Landmarks and attractions
Rural and natural attractions
Timóteo is part of the Minas Gerais Atlantic Forest Tourist Circuit, established in 2010 by the Minas Gerais State Tourism Secretariat to promote tourism in participating cities. Among the natural attractions, the Ana Moura Peak stands out as the municipality’s highest point, reaching 864 meters in altitude. Its summit is open to visitors and features communication antennas, a paragliding launch ramp, and is used for climbing.
In the Petrópolis neighborhood, a key access point to the Ana Moura Peak, there are farm hotels, rural properties, and trails used for hiking and motocross. The forests of the Rio Doce State Park (PERD), listed as municipal cultural heritage, are also noteworthy. At the Oikós Project’s environmental education center, maintained by Aperam South America and integrated with the PERD, visitors can explore a preserved section of the Atlantic Forest, with trails, lookouts, a ropes course, and a library.
Urban landmarks
The urban area features several attractions considered major city landmarks due to their heritage or symbolic importance. The São José Operário Church in Praça 1º de Maio, also known as "São José de Acesita Church" or "Centro Church," was built by Acesita in 1947 to serve the religious needs of the company’s workers' village. The church, which can seat about 100 people and accommodate 300 standing, is too small for some events, which attract over attendees, requiring outdoor activities. To address space constraints while preserving its original architecture, a new church was built on Rua 20 de Novembro in the same area, with its cornerstone laid on 2 August 2018. The new São José Parish Church, part of the São José Parish, was inaugurated on 14 December 2023.
The São José do Timirim Church, located atop the Timirim neighborhood, began construction in 1950 to serve as the main church of the São José Parish. Completed 27 years later, it was modeled after the Saint Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. The São Sebastião Parish Church, headquarters of the São Sebastião Parish in Centro-Sul, began construction in 1950 to replace a wooden church built in 1915, which itself had replaced the settlement’s first chapel. At the access roundabout to Coronel Fabriciano via the old BR-381 bridge, the Sinergia Monument stands, designed by sculptor Wilma Noel. Installed in the 1990s, it represents the municipal administrations of the three main Vale do Aço cities (Coronel Fabriciano, Ipatinga, and Timóteo), also known as the "Three Cities" monument.
In the Timirim neighborhood, the Praça do Coliseu, designed by architect Éolo Maia and built in 1983, features an open-air theater for cultural activities. Also in 1983, Éolo Maia designed the Percival Farquhar State School in the Vale Verde neighborhood, notable for its self-supporting solid brick structures. The Hoffmann Kiln, located in the Novo Horizonte neighborhood, was built in 1945 to produce bricks for the Acesita workers' village’s residences. Deactivated in the 1960s, it briefly served as a nightclub but was later sealed off due to its deteriorating condition. Despite partial collapse of its walls and roof, it is used for studies and occasionally hosts cultural activities. In May 2023, a service order was signed for the development of a restoration project.
Other cultural assets include the former Technical Metallurgy School, built by Acesita in 1963 and acquired by the municipal government in 1994 after its deactivation; the "Biquinha," a spring used by early 20th-century residents of the São Sebastião de Timóteo settlement; and the Getúlio Vargas State School, located in the Funcionários neighborhood and inaugurated in 1948. As previously mentioned, these sites are listed as municipal cultural heritage. Also noteworthy are April 29 Square and May 1 Square, in Centro-Sul and Centro-Norte respectively, which are among the region’s main leisure and event venues.
Sports
Timóteo offers a range of spaces and facilities for sports, including clubs, football fields, and gyms, but football received the earliest support due to its popularity. The Florestino Social Club, founded in Centro-Sul on 12 October 1938, was the first football club in the current municipality. However, the former Acesita company organized the first tournaments and established the Acesita Esporte Clube in the 1940s to provide leisure for its workers, encouraging the creation of new teams.
Teams formed until the 1960s received support from Acesita to sustain themselves, but Acesita Esporte Clube was the municipality’s most successful team. It competed in professional Minas Gerais championships and holds multiple titles in the main amateur municipal leagues. During this period, the company expanded investments in other sports, hosting tournaments and building the Acesita Esporte Clube’s social headquarters and the ALFA (Acesita Employees’ Leisure Association) sports complex, completed in the 1980s. However, ALFA was deactivated, and its area was sold in 2019. Since the 1950s, the Elite Club and Workers’ Club existed, but the Elite Club focused on dances and events, while the Workers’ Club, aimed at lower-income workers, prioritized sports. Investments in public squares and sports centers were also intensified by the municipal government after emancipation.
The headquarters of the Acesita Esporte Clube, known as Clube Campestre, features swimming pools, courts for basketball, volleyball, futsal, and tennis, as well as the José de Oliveira Freitas Stadium, nicknamed Jucão. In addition to recreational facilities, the club offers courses in some of these sports and operates the Acesita football school. Other football stadiums in the city include Joaquim Cirilo, the Vila Nova field in the Quitandinha neighborhood; and the General Ney Futuro Rocha Stadium in the São Cristóvão neighborhood. The Iorque José Martins Gymnasium, inaugurated in 1986 and reopened in June 2016 after being closed due to hydraulic issues in 2000, provides multi-sport courts, a sand court, and a walking track. The government runs programs to encourage children and teenagers to participate in sports. There are also championships involving public and private schools that compete against each other in various sports.
Holidays and symbols
In Timóteo, there are three municipal holidays and eight national holidays, in addition to optional holidays. The municipal holidays are the city’s anniversary, celebrated on 29 April; Corpus Christi, which in 2025 is observed on 19 June; and the Assumption of Our Lady, on 15 August.
The municipality also has official symbols, namely the flag and the coat of arms. These were designed by João Pinto, a draftsman from the former Acesita company, and were officially adopted by Law No. 179 on 22 January 1968. The flag consists of the municipal coat of arms centered on a blue, white, and red rectangle. The coat of arms, in turn, features three stars symbolizing the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches. The triangle represents the balance between these branches; the Olympic flame symbolizes commerce; and the gear and anvil represent industry.
Notable people
Vitor Roque, football player
See also
List of municipalities in Minas Gerais
References
Bibliography
External links
Official homepage
Municipalities in Minas Gerais
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Midnight Angel
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Midnight Angel is the fifth solo studio album by American country music singer, Barbara Mandrell, released in October 1976. The album peaked at number 24 on the Top Country Albums chart. Two singles were released, "Midnight Angel", which peaked at number 16 on the Top Country Singles chart, and "Married, But Not to Each Other", which peaked at number three. Following its success on the singles chart, "Married, But Not to Each Other" was included on Mandrell's Lovers, Friends and Strangers album in May 1977.
Content
Like Barbara's previous album, Midnight Angel was not as successful as future releases. However, the album set the stage for her future recordings under the label. With her second album under ABC/Dot, the subject matter of her songs got sexier, as exemplified in "Pillow Pleasure", "Slippin' Around Again", and the pop-tinged "I Never Said I Love You." Like Barbara's previous album, This Is Barbara Mandrell, Midnight Angel also consisted of 11 tracks.
Track listing
"From Saturday Night to Sunday Quiet" (John Schweers)
"Partners" (Kent Robbins)
"Better Off by Myself" (Geoffrey Morgan)
"Fool's Gold" (Robert John Jones)
"It's a Beautiful Morning With You" (Archie Jordan)
"Pillow Pleasure" (John Schweers)
"Midnight Angel" (Bill Anthony, Bob Morrison)
"I Count You" (Barbara Mandrell, Schweers)
"I Never Said I Love You" (Archie Jordan, Hal David)
"Slippin' Around Again" (Roger Bowling, Jumpin' Gene Simmons)
"Married, But Not to Each Other" (Denise LaSalle, Francis Miller)
Personnel
Barbara Mandrell - lead vocals
Gordon Stoker, Hoyt Hawkins, Lea Jane Berinati, Janie Fricke, Neal Matthews, Ray Walker, The Jordanaires - backing vocals
Mike Leech - bass guitar
Kenny Malone - drums
Tommy Williams - fiddle
Jimmy Capps, Steve Gibson, Glenn Keener, Jack Mollette, Billy Sanford, Jerry Stembridge, Chip Young - guitar
Charlie McCoy - harmonica
Farrell Morris - percussion
Bobby Ogdin, Hargus "Pig" Robbins - piano
John Hughey - steel guitar
Archie Jordan - string arrangements (tracks 1,5,9,11)
Charlie McCoy, Farrell Morris - vibraphone
Charts
Album – Billboard (North America)
Singles – Billboard (North America)
1977 albums
Barbara Mandrell albums
Dot Records albums
Albums produced by Tom Collins (record producer)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHJD
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WHJD
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WHJD (920 AM) is a radio station licensed to Hazlehurst, Georgia, United States. The station is owned by Broadcast South, LLC.
References
External links
HJD
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%2Agger%20Wetb%2Ack%20Ch%2Ank%3A%20The%20Race%20Play
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N*gger Wetb*ck Ch*nk: The Race Play
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N*GGER WETB*CK CH*NK, also known as "N*W*C", is a comedy stage production co-written by Rafael Agustin, Allan Axibal, Miles Gregley, Liesel Reinhart, and Steven T. Seagle. The production was originally performed by Rafael Agustin, Miles Gregley, and Allan Axibal.
The play uses a combination of theater, stand-up comedy, hip hop, slam poetry, and real-life stories to take on racial slurs, stereotypes and the concept of race itself. The show, written and performed by three former UCLA students: Rafael Agustin (the "W"), Miles Gregley (the "N"), and Allan Axibal (the "C"), debuted in the Spring of 2004. The show quickly became a success in Los Angeles and has been touring at colleges, theaters and performing art centers throughout the United States. "N*W*C" exclusive booking representation is David Lieberman Artists' Representative.
The show opens with a lively chant of stereotypes, slurs, and other racial phrases. Axibal first comes on stage neatly dressed as the “model minority” and starts his chant. He is followed by Agustin dressed as a cholo, who expands on the chant. Lastly, Gregley enters in pimp attire, further elaborating on the ideas presented.
The performance, though comedic in nature, was created with the intent to strip racial slurs of their pejorative power. The three actors have insisted “their point was not to exacerbate racial tensions or divisions, but to drive home that there is only ONE race, the human race. The show traces the origins and evolution of three derogatory terms that shaped our lives. In doing this show we hope to de-power these words for ourselves and for our audiences.”
The final performance of the show was in 2015.
Critical reception and controversy
Reactions to the show differed among students across different campuses. Although it was highly acclaimed by critics at major newspapers as well as student publications, advertisements for the show have created controversy on several campuses. Promo boards for the UCLA performance were vandalized with graffiti. The posters defaced with comments such as “Racist ****” and “This makes me mad”. Nonetheless, each of the "N*W*C*" performances in 2003 & 2004 were sold out the UCLA Freud Playhouse. In response to questions about these responses, Alan Axibal commented: "People may be agitated by the words we use in the title of the show, but the truth is that we are just as aggravated because we've lived with these words all our lives. They are very important words that bring up some very important issues".
The title of the play caused controversy at some of the campuses where it was being performed. Particular concern was brought up about the use of slurs in the title. Responding to questions regarding the choice of words used in the play's title, the actors have told newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times: "People ask us all the time, 'Why did it have to be these words? Couldn't you just call it "African American/Latin American/Chinese?"' My answer to that is, why not these words? What is it that people are so afraid of? It's a shame that someone's day is ruined if they see a poster of ours. When people are offended it's because of their own experiences they've had with these words. We're not out to offend anyone, and we're not using these words against people. When the three of us got together, the title just came, and it was perfect: These are the words we've been dealing with our whole lives."
At one performance in Olympia, Washington, neo-Nazis threatened the performance while the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) issued fliers condemning their use of ethnic slurs.
Mainstream newspapers and radio stations refused to run advertisements for the show due to the controversial title.
Awards
Winner of “Best Play” from the American Readers Theater Association
References
External links
NWC Live Website
Speak Theater Arts Website
2004 plays
Plays about race and ethnicity
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WVOH-FM
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WVOH-FM
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WVOH-FM (93.5 FM) is a radio station licensed in Nicholls, Georgia, United States. The station was owned by John Hulett until the summer of 2008 when it was purchased by Broadcast South, LLC. The station changed its format to classic hits on September 29, 2008, became 93.5 "The Eagle" in 2011, then jumped to contemporary hit radio with "VibeFM" on January 5, 2018.
References
External links
VOH-FM
Contemporary hit radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1975
1975 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
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Institution Sainte Jeanne-Antide
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Institution Sainte Jeanne-Antide is a French school for girls, located in Alexandria, Egypt.
History
The "Catholic Greek Welfare Society" wanted to occupy girls in a workhouse. The first two sisters arrived in 1909 and in 1913 they established an orphanage.
In 1934, the Sisters of Charity, from Besançon, built the Holy Institution Jeanne-Antide.
Demographics
Today, the school comprises more than 1000 students from pre-kindergarten to High school.
References
External links
http://www.jeanne-antide-eg.org
https://web.archive.org/web/20080218151218/http://membres.lycos.fr/antide/
https://jeanneantidecom.wordpress.com/
French international schools in Egypt
Education in Alexandria
Private schools in Alexandria
International schools in Alexandria
Girls' schools in Egypt
Educational institutions established in 1934
1934 establishments in Egypt
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Quincy%20%281681%E2%80%931737%29
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Edmund Quincy (1681–1737)
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Edmund Quincy III (; 1681–1737) was an American merchant and judge. He was the son of Col. Edmund Quincy II (1627-1698) II and his second wife, Elizabeth Gookin. He married Dorothy Flynt and had 7 children. Four lived to adulthood, including Edmund Quincy IV and Dorothy Quincy, who was the topic of a famous poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Life
Like his father and grandfather, he was deeply involved with the affairs of the Massachusetts colony. He was a magistrate, Supreme Court judge from 1718 until his death, and a colonel in the Massachusetts militia. In 1737, he was appointed to a commission to settle the boundary between Massachusetts and New Hampshire. However, he contracted smallpox and died before his return to Massachusetts. The colony built a monument at his grave in Brunhill Fields Burial Ground in London and gave in Lenox to his family as a tribute for all of his efforts.
See also
Quincy political family
References
1681 births
Merchants from colonial Massachusetts
18th-century American merchants
People from Quincy, Massachusetts
1737 deaths
Justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature
Harvard University alumni
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