title: List of Neighbours characters (1998)

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Neighbours is an Australian television soap opera created by Reg Watson. It was first broadcast on 18 March 1985. The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the serial in 1998, by order of first appearance. All characters were introduced by the show's executive producer Stanley Walsh. The 14th season of Neighbours began airing from 19 January 1998. Sally Upton was introduced during the following month. March saw the arrivals of Nicholas Atkins and Drew Kirk, while Joel Samuels and Veronica Olenski made their debuts in May. Karen Oldman and Mike Healey began appearing from August. Tad Reeves and Geri Hallett were both introduced during November.

Sally Upton

Sally Upton, played by Sally Davis, made her first screen appearance on 23 February 1998. Three weeks prior to playing Sally, Davis made a guest appearance in the show as Alison Nova. Shortly after Sally's introduction, she became a love interest for Joel Samuels (Daniel MacPherson). The couple were initially not "on the same wavelength", but they became closer when Sally confided in Joel about her mother's death. Sally was "opinionated" and "quite pushy". Her green Volkswagen Beetle car was later owned by Libby Kennedy (Kym Valentine), Sally's one time love rival.

Sally works as an assistant at the Erinsborough University radio station UniFM, alongside Toadfish Rebecchi (Ryan Moloney). Toadie introduces Sally to his housemate Joel Samuels and she is instantly attracted to him. Joel initially finds Sally hard to work out, but they soon begin dating. Sally opens up to Joel about the death of her mother and they become closer, but when Sally notices the closeness between Joel and Libby Kennedy, she becomes jealous and suspects Joel has feelings for Libby. Sally and Joel also fall out over Libby and Sarah Beaumont (Nicola Charles), as Sally had made friends with Sarah and did not understand the bad feelings between Sarah and Libby's family. Sally has difficulty dealing with the anniversary of her mother's death and her heightened emotions cause her to reject Joel's attempts at sympathy. She then accuses Joel of cheating on her and ends their relationship.

Weeks later, Sally runs into Drew Kirk (Dan Paris) at the local pub and they decide to go and see a movie together. While Drew goes to change, Sally waits downstairs for him. However, she then bursts into his room and tries to kiss him. Drew rejects her as he is friends with Joel. After Joel ends up in the hospital, things between Sally and Drew become awkward, especially as Joel believes Sally still has feelings for him. Sally plays along, as she is worried that rejecting Joel might affect his recovery. When she begins to struggle with the charade, Sally tells Joel that she cannot see him anymore and leaves.

A writer for the BBC's official Neighbours website said Sally's most notable moment was "rushing in on Drew when he was changing and attempting to kiss him."

Nicholas Atkins

Nicholas "Nick" Atkins, played by Jason Crewes, made his first screen appearance on 12 March 1998. The character was the third member of the Atkins family to be introduced. He immediately causes upset when he "comes down heavy" on his young sister Caitlin Atkins (Emily Milburn), after catching her with her boyfriend. One of Nick's first storylines saw him pretend to be Toadfish Rebecchi (Ryan Moloney). Another notable storyline saw him accused of assault. When the charges were dropped, it left Nick "feeling bitter about the experience" and wondering whether he should accept more work at Erinsborough High. Nick and Caitlin departed Neighbours at the same time to return to Adelaide. The siblings have "a cheeky farewell" after Caitlin paints a goodbye message on the road to make sure the residents did not forget them in a hurry. Tony Johnston, author of Neighbours: 20 years of Ramsay Street, branded Nicholas "handsome". While Stephen Murphy from Inside Soap thought Nick and his sister "made a big impact in Erinsborough".

Nick arrives in Erinsborough to look after his younger sister, Caitlin. He arrives just as Caitlin tries to run away with her boyfriend, Josh Hughes (Sullivan Stapleton). Nick argues with his brother Ben (Brett Cousins) over Caitlin, as they both feel that they can care for her better than the other. Karen Oldman (Pia Miranda), a fan of  Toadie's, comes over and mistakes Nick for Toadie. As Toadie is worried that Karen will be disappointed to see the real him, he convinces Nick to pretend to be him for a while longer. Nick is uncomfortable with the deception, but goes along with it. He is relieved when Toadie later reveals himself to Karen. Nick finds himself in charge of Caitlin when Ben moves away. He gets himself a job teaching at Erinsborough High and settles into the neighbourhood.

Nick befriends his colleague Jacquie Boyd (Amy Lapin), which upsets Caitlin, as she dislikes her. When student Mickey Dalton (Trent Fowler) falls out with Paul McClain (Jansen Spencer), a fight breaks out between them and Nick tries to break it up. Mickey takes a fall and hurts his ankle, leading his mother, Jean (Joanne Canning) to sue Nick for assaulting her son. Nick is then suspended from the school. After his name is cleared, Nick is allowed to return to the school, but he admits that he is not sure he wants to continue teaching. When Nick and Caitlin's mother returns from the Middle East, Nick tells his sister that they are going home to Adelaide. Despite Caitlin's protests, they leave Erinsborough.

Drew Kirk

Drew Kirk, played by Dan Paris, made his first screen appearance on 27 March 1998. Neighbours was the first television show Paris auditioned for. He won the role of Drew straight away. He was contracted until March 2002. Drew is a country boy who previously worked on a farm in Oakey, before coming to Erinsborough. Drew replaced Ben Atkins (Brett Cousins) at Carpenter Mechanics. James Joyce of the Newcastle Herald said Drew was a "suitably spunky rival" for Ben. Denise Everton from the Illawarra Mercury thought Drew was "nice, naive and gorgeous." Drew was known for his long hair, which gave him a "hippy look". Paris was banned from cutting his hair by the producers.

Joel Samuels

Joel Samuels, played by Daniel MacPherson, made his first screen appearance on 13 May 1998. MacPherson auditioned for the show's casting director, Jan Russ, who then approached the producers and suggested they create the role of Joel for him. MacPherson joined the cast when he was seventeen. He relocated to Melbourne from Sydney for filming. Annette Dasey from Inside Soap said Joel was "good-looking, down-to-earth, friendly and a champion triathlete." She also branded him a "heart-throb", but MacPherson said Joel was unlucky in love, mostly due to his naivety. For his portrayal of Joel, MacPherson received a nomination for Most Popular New Male Talent at the 1999 Logie Awards.

Veronica Olenski

Veronica Olenski, played by Caroline Lloyd, made her first screen appearance on 18 May 1998. Lloyd appeared in the semi-regular role of Dr. Olenski for eleven years. A notable storyline for Veronica saw the introduction of her husband Greg Michaels (Nick Farnell) and his subsequent affair with Veronica's patient Stephanie Scully (Carla Bonner). Greg told Steph that he and Veronica had separated, despite the fact that they still lived together. Greg admitted that he cared for Veronica, but no longer loved her. When Steph attended a charity meeting, she received "short shrift" from Veronica who was the charity's chairwoman. Steph's young son was later injured in an accident and Veronica had to put her feelings aside to treat him.

Dr. Veronica Olenski works as a doctor and gynaecologist at Erinsborough Hospital. Her first patient is competitive swimmer Caitlin Atkins (Emily Milburn), who she treats for exhaustion. A few months later, Dr. Olenski informs Joel Samuels (Daniel MacPherson) that he has damaged the ligaments in his knee, and it is unlikely that he will ever be able to compete in triathlons again. Dr. Olenski treats Craig "Pinhead" Pinders (Nathan Godkin), Libby Kennedy (Kym Valentine) and Brendan Bell (Blair Venn) when they involved in road accidents. The following year, Dr. Olenski helps to deliver Libby's son and saves her life when she goes into cardiac arrest. Dr. Olenski also helps to deliver Oscar Scully (Ingo Dammer-Smith), Ashley Thomas (Amielle Lemaire) and Charlie Hoyland (Aaron Aulsebrook-Walker). That same year, Dr. Olenski becomes responsible for the care of Izzy Hoyland (Natalie Bassingthwaighte). Dr. Olenski accidentally gives away Izzy's pregnancy secret when she leaves a message on the Hoyland house phone about an ultrasound appointment.

Dr. Olenski is forced to deliver Sky Mangel's (Stephanie McIntosh) baby during a fire at the hospital, due to Sky's advanced labour. Once the baby is born, Dr. Olenski moves them to another part of the hospital. Six months later, Dr. Olenski treats Pepper Steiger (Nicky Whelan) for stage 2 cervical dysplasia and incorrectly diagnosis Susan Kennedy (Jackie Woodburne) with the menopause, when she is really suffering from Multiple sclerosis. When Carmella Cammeniti suffers pains during her pregnancy, she is rushed to hospital where Dr. Olenski performs an ultrasound and assures Carmella that there is nothing to be alarmed about. Carmella later goes into premature labour and Dr. Olenski delivers her daughter by caesarean section. During Rosetta Cammeniti (Natalie Saleeba) and Frazer Yeats's (Ben Lawson) first ultrasound, Dr. Olenski cannot find their baby's heartbeat and believes that Rosie has experienced a false pregnancy. Frazer later asks Dr. Olenski if there is a chance that Rosie could still be pregnant, and she offers to perform another ultrasound. Dr. Olenski finds a heartbeat and tells Rosie and Frazer that they are expecting a baby after all.

When Dr. Olenski runs into Stephanie Scully at the hospital, she admits that she is having a tough day as her husband, Greg, has left her for another woman. Steph then admits that she is the other woman and Veronica slaps her. They exchange heated words at a breast cancer charity meeting, of which Veronica is the chairperson. When Charlie is injured, Veronica is forced to treat him and she calls a truce with Steph. However, she is upset when she later sees Steph hugging Greg and freezes her joint bank account. Steph tells Veronica that she is being unfair, but Veronica refuses to listen. Veronica lashes out at Steph and they get into a physical fight. Veronica later apologises and asks Greg for another chance, but he turns her down. When Susan plans to act as a surrogate for her daughter, Dr. Olenski warns her that the physical strain could cause a serious relapse of her MS. The local newspaper soon gets hold of the story and Dr. Olenski tells Susan's husband, Karl (Alan Fletcher), that the hospital are not happy with the media attention. She also offers to fight the hospital's CEO over his opposition to IVF. Not long after, Dr. Olenski carries out the IVF procedure on Susan and treats a newborn India Napier (Alia and Gabriella De Vercelli).

Karen Oldman

Karen Oldman, played by Pia Miranda, made her first screen appearance on 13 August 1998. Neighbours marked Miranda's first television role, three years after she graduated from drama school. She admitted that her first day on set was embarrassing, as a tampon fell out of her bag and into her co-star Todd MacDonald's (Darren Stark) lap during their first meeting. Miranda found Neighbours to be a good training ground for her acting skills, saying "It's fantastic training because I never forget my lines. After being on Neighbours you are so used to getting reels and reels of script, and you are used to working under heaps of pressure." Karen was Toadfish Rebecchi's (Ryan Moloney) "first big romance", so he was devastated when he discovered she was having an affair.

Karen is a first year student at Eden Hills University. She listens to Toadfish Rebecchi's radio show on UniFM and mistakes Nick Atkins (Jason Crewes) for Toadie. As Toadie is too shy to meet Karen, he and Nick stage a ruse that Nick is Toadie and Nick dates Karen for a while. Eventually, the truth is revealed and Karen is angry with both guys, but decides to give things a go with Toadie.

During a meal with Toadie's housemate Sarah Beaumont (Nicola Charles), Karen finds herself attracted to Sarah's boyfriend Alex Fenton (Guy Hooper) and they leave together when Toadie and Sarah start bickering. When confronted, Karen and Alex admit that they have been seeing each other and their respective relationships end. However, Karen returns several weeks later and she and Toadie reconcile. Toadie suggests Karen pilot his and Lou Carpenter's (Tom Oliver) flying machine in order to win money to go away to Bali, but she refuses after a mishap involving a helium doll version of her floating away. Karen does test a newer flying machine, but is unsuccessful in winning the money. Karen tells Toadie she is moving to New Zealand with her family. They agree to try to keep things going long distance, but Karen ends the relationship during a phone call several months later, breaking Toadie's heart.

Mike Healey

Mike Healey, played by Andrew Blackman, made his first screen appearance on 17 August 1998. Mike was introduced as a love interest for Libby Kennedy (Kym Valentine). Mike faced disapproval from Libby's family, as he was her university lecturer and several years older than her. The couple faced further problems when Libby learned Mike regularly spent social time with his estranged wife. Valentine commented "She understands Mike and his wife have to keep in touch as they have a child together, but she can't help but fear the worst." Valentine added that as the relationship continued, there would be "a lot of drama" as they were confronted with further crises.

While lecturing at Eden Hills University, Mike is attracted to his student Libby Kennedy and they begin dating. The couple decide to keep their relationship a secret, due to their age difference and the problems Mike could encounter at the university. When Libby lies that she is horse-riding, and is reported missing from the group, she is forced to come clean about her relationship with Mike. Her family hold a dinner party in order to meet Mike. Libby's father Karl (Alan Fletcher) is not pleased that Mike is dating his daughter, especially when he learns that Mike has a young daughter of his own. Mike introduces Libby to his daughter, Sasha (Chelsea Driessen), which causes her to have second thoughts about their relationship. Mike reassures Libby that he does not have feelings for his ex-wife, Victoria (Tamar Kelly), but Libby is uneasy when she learns Mike still socialises with Victoria. To prove his love for Libby, Mike rents Number 32 and they become closer.

While Libby is at Mike's house, his mother Bianca (Joy Mitchell) calls by and tells Libby that she cannot replace Victoria. When Mike learns what Bianca said, he tells Libby that he has spoken to his mother and assures her there is no problem. However, it soon emerges that Mike only said that to placate Libby and Bianca had not changed her opinion. Libby manages to bond with Sasha, but Mike's behaviour towards Libby starts to change. Drew Kirk (Dan Paris) catches Mike cheating on Libby with Victoria. Drew  confronts Mike and punches him. Drew does not tell Libby, as he does not want to upset her, and she continues to date Mike. Libby then told Mike he needed to formally divorce Victoria if they were to resume their relationship, which was initially accepted by both him and Victoria. When Sasha tells Libby that Victoria is expecting another baby, Libby realises that Mike has been cheating on her and she ends their relationship. Mike tries to win her back, but she refuses, knowing she will always come second in his life. Mike then moves out of Number 32.

A writer for the BBC's Neighbours website believed Mike's most notable moment was "getting his ex-wife pregnant whilst he was seeing Libby." A columnist for Inside Soap quipped, "Mike is just the latest in a long line of rotters who caused Libby heartache over the years."

Tad Reeves

Wayne "Tad" Reeves, played by Jonathon Dutton, made his first screen appearance on 16 November 1998. Producers began casting for the role of Tadpole, Toadfish Rebecchi's (Ryan Moloney) younger cousin, as they needed a new "rascal" character because Toadie had grown up. Dutton had previously appeared in Neighbours in a small guest role, before he won the role of Tad. Dutton was sixteen when he joined the show and he had a tutor on set, so he could keep up with his schooling. Denise Everton from the Illawarra Mercury thought Tad was "outgoing". Dutton admitted to her that one of his hardest storylines to film was when Tad learned that he was adopted.

Geri Hallett

Geri Hallett, played by Isabella Dunwill, made her first screen appearance on 25 November 1998. Dunwill was initially contracted for two weeks, but after the producers liked her performance and character, they kept bringing her back. Dunwill commented "I'm thrilled. She's fun to play." The actress also admitted that she wanted her recurring role to become more permanent.

Describing her character, Dunwill said "She's a troublemaker, she's manipulative, and she'll stop at nothing to get what she wants." Geri caused friction between couple Drew Kirk (Dan Paris) and Libby Kennedy (Kym Valentine). She developed a grudge against Libby because she won Drew's affections and Geri was jealous. Geri got a job working at the Erinsborough News, alongside Libby, and she started dating Libby's boss and got a byline on her first story, something that took Libby two years to get. Dunwill found the scenes between Geri and Libby "a lot of fun" to film and added that people had told her they enjoyed watching her "nasty" character.

Geri attends Eden Hills University and shares the same journalism course with Libby Kennedy. The two girls frequently clash. Matters are not helped when Geri begins dating Drew Kirk, who Libby previously rejected after he declared his feelings for her. Geri confronts Drew about his feelings for her and when he cannot give her a straight answer, she realises he still loves Libby and the relationship ends. Geri becomes Toadfish Rebecchi's (Ryan Moloney) co-host at UniFM and he plots to have her fired, as he dislikes her. Toadie discovers Geri is being paid to appear on the volunteer radio station, and while investigating further, he learns that Geri is receiving bribes in exchange for promoting local businesses. Toadie tells Libby, who publishes the story in a magazine, resulting in Geri being sacked. Geri causes more trouble when she spreads rumours about Drew seeing Libby's friend Stephanie Scully (Carla Bonner) after noticing Steph's attraction towards Drew. However Libby and Steph set up Geri to expose her muckraking: - Steph deliberately gave the impression of affection to Drew while Geri was watching, with Geri gossiping to Libby as predicted. Libby and Steph found this amusing, though Drew was annoyed at being involved in the setup. She increases Libby's ire by publishing Libby's rejection of Drew's marriage proposal in her Erinsborough News column, but Libby retaliates by exposing Geri's practice of accepting bribes from local businesses in return for free plugs on her UniFM radio show. Following Libby and Drew's wedding, they run into Geri on the Gold Coast during their honeymoon. Geri takes photos of them for the paper and continues to seemingly follow them around all day.

Others

References

External links
Characters and cast at the Official AU Neighbours website
Characters and cast at the Official UK Neighbours website
Characters and cast at the Internet Movie Database

1998
, Neighbours


title: Cochran frog (disambiguation)

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The Cochran frog (Nymphargus cochranae) is a frog in the family Centrolenidae found in the lower Amazonian slopes of the Cordillera Occidental of Ecuador and adjacent Colombia.

Cochran frog may also refer to various frogs in the family Centrolenidae:

 Alban Cochran frog (Centrolene daidaleum), a frog found in Colombia and Venezuela
 Caqueta Cochran frog (Nymphargus oreonympha), a frog endemic to Colombia
 Grainy Cochran frog (Cochranella granulosa), a frog found in Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama
 Lonely Cochran frog (Centrolene solitaria), a frog endemic to Colombia
 Peru Cochran frog (Nymphargus chancas), a frog endemic to Peru
 Ruiz's Cochran frog (Nymphargus ruizi), a frog endemic to Colombia
 Santa Cecilia Cochran frog (Teratohyla midas), a frog found in Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, and Colombia
 Spiny Cochran frog (Teratohyla spinosa), a frog found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Panama, and Nicaragua
 Spotted Cochran frog (Nymphargus ocellatus), a frog endemic to the Amazonian slopes of Andes in Peru

Animal common name disambiguation pages


title: Triad (film)

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Triad (German: Dreiklang) is a 1938 German drama film directed by Hans Hinrich and starring Lil Dagover, Paul Hartmann and Rolf Moebius.

It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios with sets designed by the art directors Wilhelm Depenau and Ludwig Reiber.

Cast

References

Bibliography
 Hake, Sabine. Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. University of Texas Press, 2001.

External links

1938 films
Films of Nazi Germany
German drama films
1938 drama films
1930s German-language films
Films directed by Hans Hinrich
German black-and-white films
UFA GmbH films
1930s German films


title: Meechy Darko

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Demetri O'Neal Simms, better known by his stage name Meechy Darko, is an American rapper from Brooklyn, New York. He is best known as a member of the hip hop trio Flatbush Zombies, with whom he began his rapping career with his longtime friends, Erick Arc Elliott and Zombie Juice in 2010. In 2022, he released his debut solo album Gothic Luxury.

Early life

Meechy Darko was born in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York, to a Jamaican family. He met his future bandmates Zombie Juice and Erick Arc Elliott at a very young age. Meech also was friends with the members of the rap group that would later be known as the Underachievers. They bonded while using LSD and Psilocybin mushrooms. During one of these experiences with shrooms, Meech felt that he had experienced ego death.

Career

Meech, Juice, and Erick went on to form Flatbush Zombies in 2010. In January 2012, they released a music video for their song "Thug Waffle". The video received many views and caught attention of fans and other rappers. They released multiple other rap videos for their first mixtape "D.R.U.G.S", which was released in July 2012. The group then released their second mixtape "BetterOffDEAD" on September 11, 2013, at 9:11 PM. "BetterOffDEAD" went on to receive positive reviews from critics. In 2014, Meech announced that every Friday they would put out a new song for multiple weeks. In 2015, Meech announced that Flatbush Zombies were working on their debut album. In October 2015, they were invited to perform at Jay Z's Tidal concert. In January 2016, they were invited to "Yams Day", a concert that was dedicated to deceased ASAP Mob member A$AP Yams. In the same month, Flatbush Zombies released "Glorious Thugs" to SoundCloud, and also announced that their debut album "3001: A Laced Odyssey" was to be released on March 11, 2016. They also planned a tour to go along with the album. On March 11, the album was released, and sold 28,000 copies in its first week, debuting at #10 on the Billboard Album Sales Charts. Their latest album, "Vacation In Hell", was released on April 6, 2018, and they have continued to work independently under Glorious Dead Recordings. They also created an album in 2019 with hip hop collective Beast Coast called "Escape From New York".

On August 26, 2022, Meech released his debut solo album, "Gothic Luxury", on Loma Vista Recordings. The album contains features from Denzel Curry, Busta Rhymes, and Freddie Gibbs, amongst others.

Discography

Studio albums

Collaborative albums

EPs

Mixtapes

Singles

Guest appearances

References

American male rappers
American rappers of Jamaican descent
Living people
Rappers from Brooklyn
Songwriters from New York (state)
Alternative hip hop musicians
Musicians from Flatbush, Brooklyn
21st-century American rappers
21st-century American male musicians
21st-century African-American musicians
1989 births
American male songwriters
Beast Coast members


title: Dara Tucker

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Dara Tucker (Dara Starr Tucker) is an American singer, songwriter, social commentator and satirist.

Tucker has released four studio albums: All Right Now (2009), Soul Said Yes (2011) The Sun Season (2014), and Oklahoma Rain (2017), as well as a limited-release, live album, Dara Tucker Live in 2013. She was named Jazz Vocalist of the Year at the 2016 and 2017 Nashville Industry Music Awards. In 2017, the second single from Oklahoma Rain, "Radio", was named Song of the Year at the Nashville Industry Music Awards. Oklahoma Rain won Jazz Album of the Year. Tucker has performed internationally with her ensemble since 2009. She appeared on the Tavis Smiley Show in 2015 and was the opening act for Gregory Porter in 2016. She won the silver medal in the American Traditions Vocal Competition in 2017.

She has shared the stage with Lonnie Smith, 7-string guitarist Charlie Hunter, and pianist Johnny O'Neal at The Blue Note in New York City, The San Jose Jazz Festival, Smoke Jazz and Supper Club in New York City, Sculler's in Boston, the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, and Snug Harbor in New Orleans. In November 2016, she shared the stage with Vince Gill and the Time Jumpers. She has recorded with guitarist Peter Bernstein, guitarist Charlie Hunter, pianist Helen Sung, trombonist Alan Ferber, saxophonist John Ellis and drummer Donald Edwards. She is a touring member of the Charlie Hunter Trio, with whom she has performed throughout the Midwest and east coast.

Background
Dara Tucker was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as the third of seven children to music minister and gospel recording artist Doyle Tucker and singer Lynda Tucker. She started out singing harmony at the age of 4 with her brothers and sisters, and began playing the piano at age 8. She traveled the country singing with her family for most of her childhood. Dara's family spent time in Spokane, Washington, Detroit, Michigan, Fayetteville, Arkansas, Pasadena, California and Baltimore, Maryland. She and her brothers and sisters, known as "The Tuckers" were known for their rich harmonies and seamless blend. Dara received her degree in International Business and German Studies. After graduating, Tucker worked for a few years in the field of International business. She then moved to Interlaken, Switzerland to study German while aupairing.

Musical career
Dara Tucker began songwriting while living in Switzerland in 2003, and in 2004, moved to Nashville to pursue a career as a singer-songwriter. She recorded the first of her albums, "All Right Now" in 2009. It featured mostly Great American Songbook standards. Her second album, "Soul Said Yes" (2011) was a blend of R&B, jazz and Gospel, and featured seven string guitarist, Charlie Hunter. It made Amazon.com's top 10 R&B chart within a few weeks of its release. Two of Tucker's own compositions were included on this project – "The Space" and "Partly Cloudy."

Tucker's third release, "The Sun Season" (2014) was recorded in Astoria, Queens, New York. Ten of the twelve songs on "The Sun Season" were written by Tucker. The album features Peter Bernstein on guitar, Helen Sung on piano, Donald Edwards on drums, John Ellis on saxophone, Alan Ferber on trombone and Greg Bryant on bass. It reached number 62 on the JazzWeek charts on September 22, 2014.

On June 29, 2015, Dara was interviewed by Tavis Smiley for his PBS television show. On the show, she performed an original song she wrote with her sister, Diamond Tucker entitled, "Giants" from The Sun Season. Dara Tucker on Tavis Smiley. She opened for Gregory Porter in Nashville, TN on June 4, 2016, at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. Dara Tucker is a frequent performer at the Nashville Jazz Workshop, and Rudy's Jazz Club and performed her New York CD release show at "Smoke Jazz and Supper Club" on New York City's upper west side in August 2014.

Dara Tucker was a finalist in the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival's vocal competition in 2016.

Dara won the silver medal at the "American Traditions" vocal competition in Savannah, GA in February 2017. This competition requires singers to perform in 9 separate genres. She also won the "Ben Tucker Jazz Award" for her performance of The Nearness of You, which was presented to her by jazz bassist, Ben Tucker's widow.

Dara Tucker released a full-length project on April 30, 2017, called, "Oklahoma Rain" which chronicles her journey of love, loss and healing in the wake of losing both her parents in 2014. Two singles have been released from the CD – "Moving On" and "Radio" for which she self-produced a music video. Radio Music Video "Radio" rose to No. 5 on the UK soul charts, and was named, "Song of the Year" at the 2017 Nashville Industry Music Awards. "Oklahoma Rain" was named "Jazz Album of the Year" at the Nashville Industry Music Awards. "Oklahoma Rain" received favorable reviews from numerous publications, including the London Jazz Review Soul and Jazz and Funk Soulwalking Lemonwire and The Tennessee Tribune.

In 2018, Dara embarked on a set of appearances as a touring member of the Charlie Hunter Trio. She has performed with the group throughout the Midwest. She will perform several duo shows with Charlie Hunter in 2018 opening for the California Honeydrops on the east coast.

Other
Dara Tucker is an avid freelance documentary filmmaker. She produces a docu-series on Nashville musicians called, "Music City Select" through her production company, "GoldenTime Films". She is also a contributor to the Huffington Post where she writes essays on her personal experiences as a minority and a woman in the entertainment business. Her article, "Here's to the Ladies Who Cuss" was featured on The Huffington Post Voices homepage.

Musical influences
Tucker counts among her influences: Lynda Tucker, Doyle Tucker, Mel Tormé, James Taylor, Stevie Wonder & Nancy Wilson.

Discography

Studio albums
2009: All Right Now
2011: Soul Said Yes
2014: The Sun Season
2017: Oklahoma Rain

Live albums
2013 Dara Tucker Live

Awards and honors
 2016 Nashville Industry Music Awards Artist of the Year (Nominee)
 2016 Nashville Industry Music Awards Jazz Vocalist of the Year (Winner)
 2016 Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival Vocal Competition Finalist
 2017 Nashville Industry Music Awards Song of the Year – Radio (Winner)
 2017 Nashville Industry Music Awards Jazz Album Of the Year – Oklahoma Rain (Winner)
 2017 Nashville Industry Music Awards Jazz Vocalist of the Year (Winner)
 2017 American Traditions Ben Tucker Jazz Award
 2017 American Traditions Vocal Competition Silver Medalist
 2018 American Traditions Johnny Mercer Award
 2018 American Traditions Semifinalist

References

American jazz composers
Women jazz composers
American jazz singers
African-American women singer-songwriters
21st-century African-American women singers
African-American jazz musicians
Musicians from Tulsa, Oklahoma
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Jazz musicians from Oklahoma
Singer-songwriters from Oklahoma


title: John Guthrie (politician)

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John Guthrie is a British political activist formerly involved in the youth section of the Conservative Party and a former employee of Conservative Central Office. He has been active in Bedford politics and run for mayoral office.

Young Conservatives

Guthrie joined Luton Young Conservatives in the early eighties and rose to be National vice-chairman (1982/4).  He worked closely with National chairman Phil Pedley to counter extremism and spoke against Harvey Proctor MP in the balloted motion on Immigration at the 1983 Party Conference. He co-ordinated the Young Conservative/BBC poll of delegates that showed most attendees did not support the extreme views promoted at the conference by the Monday Club.

He became National Chairman of the Young Conservatives in 1984 as the moderate (wets) candidate. The Guardian reported: "Mr Guthrie represents the dominant wet wing of the YC's was elected as national chairman in a ballot last week by a convincing majority of 222 to 81 over his right-wing rival, Mr Colin Jackson."

YC Report into Right Wing Infiltration & Extremism

As a member of the Young Conservatives Committee on Extremist Infiltration, in 1983/84 he continued to support the Final Report and the Panorama programme after Pedley's Chairmanship term ended. Despite pressure from the Party chairman, John Selwyn Gummer, Guthrie remained steadfast . The Times reported: "… in an astonishing intervention which would have been wholly unwelcome to the party chairman," he referred to "the strange antics," of Conservative Central Office in "orchestrating" an attack against the Panorama programme. Guthrie warned Gummer, the Party was fostering the impression that it would not act on extremist infiltration. "It is therefore disturbing to see that some have seen fit to undermine our work in this area by challenging the basis of this programme." Guthrie warned the Party chairman, that the Young Conservatives would continue to speak out on the issue of extremists."We are not prepared to see the strange antics of Central Office deflect us from our commitment to the Report or its recommendations. If it transpires that we are the only section of the Party that is prepared to place principle over convenience in this respect, then we are fully prepared to accept that role."

The Party acted on Guthrie's call to comb the Party for extremists. Sir Russell Sanderson, Chairman of the voluntary party announced steps to tighten selection procedures at al levels. And in March the Party vice-chairman in charge of Candidates, David Hunt MP, announced plans to comb the files for extremists. The YC's remained unhappy two key recommendations were not adopted: the creation of a permanent monitoring unit and the countering of extreme groups on the fringe of the party.

Guthrie was succeeded by fellow moderate, Richard Fuller as National Chairman of the Young Conservatives in February 1985.

Tory Reform Group

In 1988 Guthrie became National Chairman of the One Nation leaning Tory Reform Group, overseeing a revamp of the organisation and finishing his term in 1991.

Parliamentary and European Elections

The 1992 General election saw him standing as the Conservative candidate against Greville Janner (Labour )in Leicester West. From 1992 -94, he directed the Conservative Party's International Office at Conservative Central Office and ran the party's 1994 European Elections Campaign.

Local activism

In 2010, Guthrie won the ballot to run as the Conservative Candidate in the 2011 Bedford Mayoral elections. In the campaign for Bedford Mayor, he finished a close second to the Liberal Democrat candidate in the second ballot.

References

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Conservative Party (UK) parliamentary candidates


title: Elise Matthews

text:
Elise Matthews (born 6 June 1993) is a British female acrobatic gymnast. With partners Georgia Lancaster and Millie Spalding, Matthews achieved gold in the 2014 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships.

References

External links

1993 births
Living people
British acrobatic gymnasts
Female acrobatic gymnasts
Medalists at the Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships
21st-century British women


title: Tai (surname)

text:
Tai is a surname in various cultures.

Arabic
Tai or al-Ta'i, at-Ta'i (), also spelled al-Ta'i or at-Ta'iy, is an Arabic name. In ancient times it originated as a nisba indicating affiliation with the Tayy tribe.

Hatim al-Tai (Hatem ibn Abdellah ibn Sa'ad at-Ta'iy, died 578), Arab poet
Dawud Tai (Abu Solaiman Dawud ibn Nosair al-Ta’i, died 770s or 780s), Sufi mystic
Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai (1945–2020), Iraqi Minister of Defense under Saddam Hussein
Ashraf Tai, Burmese-born Pakistani martial artist who states that he is a descendant of Hatim al-Tai

Chinese
Tái is the Pinyin romanisation of the Chinese surname written using the character . According to traditional stories recorded in the Shuowen Jiezi, it originated as a toponymic surname referring to the city by the same name.

Tai Chih-yuan (; born 1965), Taiwanese comedian
Samuel Tai (; born 1966), Hong Kong-born Taiwan singer

Tái is also the Pinyin romanisation of the Chinese surname written using the character .

Tai Xiaohu (; born 1998), Chinese diver

Tai may also be the Wade-Giles transcription of Dai (); see that page for people with that Chinese surname.

People
Tai Beng Hai (born 1965), Malaysian field hockey player
Tai Chen-yao (1948-2017), Taiwanese politician
Tai Cheuk-yin, Hong Kong politician
Tai Chih-yuan (born 1965), Taiwanese comedian
Tai Hung-hsu (born 1987), Taiwanese football skier
Tai An Khang (born 1994), Malaysian badminton player
Tai Tak-fung (born 1948), Chinese political figure
Tai Tzu-ying (born 1994), Taiwanese badminton player
Tai William (born 1997), Taiwanese speed skater
Tai Xiaohu (born 1998), Chinese diver

Japanese
As a Japanese surname, Tai could be written with the single characters , , , or , as well as numerous two-character combinations from one character read ta (e.g. , ) and another read i (e.g. on-yomi of  or kun-yomi of  or ). People with these surnames include:

Ichiro Tai, Japanese electrical engineer
Miyuki Tai (born 1980), Japanese badminton player
, Japanese voice actor

Korean

Tai is an alternative spelling of the Korean surname Tae (). In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 28.5% of people with that surname spelled it in Latin letters as Tai in their passports, vs. 57.1% as Tae.

Other
António Taí (born 1948), Portuguese footballer
Eric Tai (born 1964), New Zealand actor of Tongan descent
Katherine Tai, American diplomat
Kobe Tai (born 1972), stage name of an American pornographic actress of Asian descent, changed from Coby Ty to sound "more ethnic" for marketing purposes
Daniel Tai (born 1977), New Zealand boxer
Jordan Tai (born 1982), New Zealand boxer and kickboxer
Soaeb Tai (born 1989), Indian cricketer

See also
Tai (disambiguation)
Tai (given name)

References


title: Edward Rugumayo

text:
Edward Bitanywaine Rugumayo (born 18 December 1934) is a Ugandan politician, diplomat, author, academic and environmentalist. He has previously served as cabinet minister in three Ugandan administrations. From 1979 until 1980, Rugumayo served as the Chairman of the Uganda Legislative Council. He currently serves as the chancellor of two Ugandan universities. He is a botanist and a community leader.

History
Rugumayo was born in Kyenjojo District, then known as Mwenge County, on 18 December 1934.

Education
He attended Mukole Primary School in Kyenjojo District from P1 to P4. He then attended Galihuma Primary School from P5 to P6. For S1 to S3, he attended Kabarole Junior Secondary School, and for S4 to S6, he attended Nyakasura School, in Fort Portal. He was admitted to Makerere University in the mid 1950s, but he quit when the university did not offer him the course he wanted; he was offered Agriculture, but he wanted Medicine. He was offered a scholarship to go and study in the United States of America, but was denied a passport by the British Colonial Administration. Instead, in 1958, they gave him a scholarship to study in the United Kingdom. He studied for the Diploma in Education at Chester College, then a constituent college of the University of Liverpool. He then studied at the University of London, where he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Botany and Ecology.

Political career
When Rugumayo returned to Uganda in 1966, he taught briefly at Kyambogo before joining Makerere University, as the warden of Mitchell Hall, one of the halls of residence. In 1971, Idi Amin successfully led a coup d'état against the Obote I administration. Rugumayo was appointed Minister of Education, through connections with his friend Wanume Kibedi, a lawyer, with whom they had studied in London and who was an in-law to Idi Amin. Kibedi was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs. In February 1973, one year and eight months on the job, Rugumayo resigned from Amin's cabinet; the first member of the cabinet to resign. He went into exile in Nairobi, Kenya and Lusaka, Zambia, staying there until 1979, when Amin's regime was toppled.

After the Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA) and the Uganda National Liberation Front (UNLF) captured power in Kampala, with the assistance of the Tanzania People's Defence Force (TPDF), Rugumayo was appointed chairman of the National Consultative Council (NCC), the parliament of the time. Rugumayo was instrumental in removing Yusuf Lule from power, when Lule disagreed with the NCC on procedural protocol when making cabinet appointments. Lule was replaced by Godfrey Binaisa. In May 1980, while Rugumayo was in Arusha, Tanzania, the Binaisa administration was also deposed in another coup d'état. This time Rugumayo stayed in exile until 1992. That year, he returned to Uganda and joined the National Resistance Movement administration of Yoweri Museveni.

Academic and political appointments
He has formerly held the following positions in the Ugandan Government, International Organizations and Universities:
 As Senior Science Inspector of Schools, while teaching at the Institute of Teacher Education, Kyambogo; now part of Kyambogo University, from 1968 until 11969.
 As Warden of Mitchell Hall, and lecturer, Department of Education, Makerere University, from 1970 until 1971.
 As Minister of Education from June 1971 until February 1973 under Idi Amin
 As Senior Lecturer, then Associate Professor and then Dean, School of Education at the University of Zambia, between 1973 and 1979
 As Chairman of the National Consultative Council from April 1979 until May 1980
 As Senior Consultant on Environmental Education; Training and Project Design for UNEP, UNDP, UNESCO, World Bank and other NGOs based in Nairobi.
 As Visiting Professor of Environment at Oklahoma State University and Moscow State University
 As Chairperson of a 12-person team of consultants hired to establish the School of Environmental Studies at Moi University in Kenya, in 1989.
 As Visiting UNDP/UNEP Professor of Environment at Moi University.
 As Senior Programme Coordinator of Environment Liaison Centre International, a global coalition of environment NGOs based in Nairobi, from June 1992 until May 1995.
 As Chief Technical Advisor on Environment to with the Government of Lesotho, from July 1995 to July 1996, assigned by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
 As Uganda's first Ambassador to South Africa from 1996 until 1999
 As Minister of Internal Affairs from 199 until 2000
 As Minister of Tourism, Trade and Industry, from 2000 until 2005.

In 2005, during a cabinet reshuffle, Rugumayo was appointed Uganda's ambassador to France, a position which he turned down.

Other considerations
Rugumayo started Tooro Botanical Gardens, a , natural tropical forest with rare native flora, with medicinal, dye-producing and perfumed plant species. It is the only other botanical gardens in Uganda, other than the government-owned Entebbe Botanical Gardens in Entebbe, on the shores of Lake Victoria. He also owns a mixed diary and crop farm measuring , where he also maintains an apiary.

See also
 Parliament of Uganda
 Cabinet of Uganda
 Kyenjojo District
 New Vision

References

External links
Leadership Profile: Uganda Minister of Tourism, Trade and Industry: Honorable Edward Bitanywaine Rugumayo, Professor

1934 births
Living people
People from Kyenjojo District
Toro people
Western Region, Uganda
Alumni of the University of London
Alumni of the University of Liverpool
Government ministers of Uganda
National Resistance Movement politicians
Ugandan diplomats
High Commissioners of Uganda to South Africa


title: Millie Spalding

text:
Millie Spalding (born 31 July 1998) is a British female acrobatic gymnast. With partners Georgia Lancaster and Elise Matthews, Spalding achieved gold in the 2014 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships.

References

External links

1998 births
Living people
British acrobatic gymnasts
Female acrobatic gymnasts
Medalists at the Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships
21st-century British women


title: Men's sabre at the 2014 World Fencing Championships

text:
The Men's sabre event of the 2014 World Fencing Championships was held on 18 July 2014. The qualification was held on 15 July 2014.

Medalists

Draw

Finals

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Bottom half

Section 3

Section 4

Final classification

References
 Bracket
 Final classification

2014 World Fencing Championships


title: Georgia Lancaster

text:
Georgia Lancaster (born 7 December 1995) is a British people female acrobatic gymnast. With partners Elise Matthews and Millie Spalding. Lancaster trained as an acrobatic gymnast for over 13 years, competing both nationally and internationally. She started off training at Spelthorne Gymnastics Club and later moved to Heathrow Gymnastics Club. Lancaster was British Champion three times, over the years of 2010, 2011 and 2013 - twice as a Women's Pair (with partner Megan Garraghan) and once in a Women's Group, alongside Matthews and Spalding. The trio achieved gold in the 2014 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships held in Levallois, Paris - becoming the first Great Britain trio to win the Senior World Championships in history.

References

External links

1993 births
Living people
British acrobatic gymnasts
Female acrobatic gymnasts
Medalists at the Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships
21st-century British women


title: Damon Thayer

text:
Damon Thayer (born September 16, 1967) is an American politician. He is a Republican member of the Kentucky Senate, representing the 17th District.

Thayer was raised in Grayling, Michigan. He graduated from Michigan State University in 1989 with a B.A. in communications. He is the owner of Thayer Communications and Consulting LLC, a marketing communications firm. Thayer was vice chairman of the Republican Party of Kentucky from 1999 to 2004.

In 2003, Thayer was elected to the Kentucky Senate in a special election to represent the 17th District, which encompasses Grant, Scott and southern Kenton Counties. In 2017, he was selected Senate Majority Floor Leader. As a member of Senate leadership, he serves on the Committee on Committees, the Rules Committee, and the Legislative Research Commission.

He appeared on The Daily Show in 2013.

In March 2020 during the first session of the Kentucky Senate since Democrat Andy Beshear took office as governor, Thayer proposed legislation to limit the powers of the executive branch.

References

1967 births
21st-century American politicians
Republican Party Kentucky state senators
Living people
Michigan State University alumni


title: Island Walk, Florida

text:
Island Walk is an unincorporated area and a census-designated place (CDP) in Collier County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, there were 2,812 people, 1,511 households and 1,085 families residing in the CDP.  The population was 3,035 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Naples–Marco Island Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Geography
Island Walk is located in northwestern Collier County,  northeast of Naples.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of .

There are extensive ponds that surround almost every street in the community.

Demographics

2020 census

References

External links
Island Walk official website

Census-designated places in Collier County, Florida
Census-designated places in Florida


title: Eugène Laermans

text:
Eugène Jules Joseph Baron Laermans (22 October 1864 – 22 February 1940) was a Belgian painter.

Life
He was born in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek. At the age of eleven, he contracted meningitis, which left him deaf and nearly mute (although some sources say he was born deaf). This concentrated his attention on his sense of sight, and led to his decision to become a painter. He enrolled at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in 1887, where he studied with Jean-François Portaels and was a great admirer of the paintings of Félicien Rops. The writings of Charles Baudelaire were also an influence, so Laermans joined the Decadent movement in 1890 and created illustrations for Baudelaire's book Les Fleurs du mal. By 1893, his work resembled that of Bruegel rather than the decadents, and he had settled on his signature theme, portrayals of downtrodden laborers and poor peasants which some critics saw as "disturbing caricatures". In 1894, he began to exhibit at the Salons of La Libre Esthétique. Two years later, he illustrated La Nouvelle Carthage, a novel by Georges Eekhoud, and was inspired by the book to create a triptych of paintings, "Landverhuisers" (Emigrants),  that he considered his masterpiece.

In 1922, he became a member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium. Two years later, his eyesight began to fail as well and he stopped painting, declaring "I am no longer Laermans". In 1927, the year his mother died, King Albert made him a baron. He became totally blind, faded into reclusive obscurity and died thirteen years later, in Brussels and was buried in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean.

In Wemmel, there is a wall called the "Laermansmuur". Once, as a student, when he was home on vacation, Laersman saved a drowning man there and the wall was later named after him. It is a low, whitewashed wall of a style that appears in many of his paintings.

Honours
 1919 : Commander of the Order of the Crown.
 1922 : Member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium.
 1927 : Created Baron Laermans.

Selected works

References

Further reading
 François Maret, Eugène Laermans (Monographies de l'Art Belge),  Le Ministre de l'Instruction Publique (1959)
 Philippe Roberts-Jones, et al., Eugène Laermans (exhibition catalog), Brussels, Crédit communal (1995)

External links

 ArtNet: More works by Laermans
 Arcadja Auctions: Six pages of paintings by Laermans
 SkyNet. An appreciation of Laermans by Carl Itschert (31 May 1913)

1864 births
1940 deaths
19th-century Belgian painters
Belgian male painters
19th-century Belgian male artists
20th-century Belgian painters
People from Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
Members of the Royal Academy of Belgium
Commanders of the Order of the Crown (Belgium)
Barons of Belgium
Deaf artists
Belgian deaf people
20th-century Belgian male artists


title: Birch O'Neill

text:
Birch Dilworth O'Neal (c.1913 – August 28, 1995) was the CIA station chief in Guatemala in 1953, succeeding Collins Almon. When the CIA began Operation PBSuccess, whose goal was to overthrow Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz, O'Neill objected, so director Allen Dulles transferred him out so that the operation could proceed..

O'Neal was born in Bainbridge, Georgia.

References

Year of birth uncertain
1995 deaths
People of the Central Intelligence Agency


title: Cock o' the North (golf)

text:
The Cock of The North was a golf tournament held in Zambia.  It was part of the Sunshine Tour in 2000 and 2001. The tournament was founded in 1954 and was held at the Ndola Golf Club in Ndola.

Founded in 1954, the tournament was held annually until 1977, when the European Tournament Players Division took over running of the Safari Circuit. It was then only held every other year, alternating on the schedule with the Mufulira Open, until 1985, although it was incorporated with the Zambia Open in 1977 and 1979, and not held in 1983. The tournament was revived in 2000 as part of the Sunshine Tour, before being cancelled in 2002 due to lack of sponsorship.

Note: The records from the Ndola Golf Club show that Craig Defoy, Sam Torrance, Tommy Horton, and Brian Barnes won the tournament in 1972, 1975, 1977, and 1979 respectively. However, in those years the Zambia Open was held at the Ndola Golf Club and there was no separate Cock o' the North tournament.

Winners

References

External links
Ndola Golf Club history

Former Sunshine Tour events
Safari Circuit events
Golf tournaments in Zambia
Recurring sporting events established in 1954
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2001
1954 establishments in Northern Rhodesia
2001 disestablishments in Zambia


title: Madeleine Bayon

text:
Madeleine Bayon (born 4 December 1997) is a French female acrobatic gymnast and high diver. With partners Alizée Costes and Noémie Nadaud, Bayon achieved 7th at the 2014 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships.

References

1997 births
Living people
French acrobatic gymnasts
Female acrobatic gymnasts
21st-century French women
Female high divers


title: Noémie Nadaud

text:
Noémie Nadaud (born 18 April 1995) is a French female acrobatic gymnast. With partners Alizée Costes and Madeleine Bayon, Nadaud achieved 7th in the 2014 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships.

References

1995 births
Living people
French acrobatic gymnasts
Female acrobatic gymnasts


title: Alizée Costes

text:
Alizée Costes (born 9 August 1994) is a French female acrobatic gymnast. With partners Madeleine Bayon and Noémie Nadaud, Costes achieved 7th in the 2014 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships.

References

1994 births
Living people
French acrobatic gymnasts
Female acrobatic gymnasts
Place of birth missing (living people)
Sportspeople from Rennes
21st-century French women


title: Murmansk Shipping Company

text:
Murmansk Shipping Company (), often abbreviated as MSCO, is a Russian shipping company based in Murmansk (hence the name). One of the primary shipping companies operating in Arctic Russia and northern Europe, as of 2014 the company has 303 vessels, with a total deadweight of about 1.2 million tons. The company runs a notable museum in Murmansk.

History
The company was established in 1939 as the Murmansk State Dry-Cargo and Passenger Shipping Company, and was renamed to its present name in 1967. It specialised in arctic transportation, and by 1940 it had 37 vessels with a total deadweight of 112,200 tons. During World War II its carriers served as allied escorts. It performs passenger as well as cargo navigation. In 1973, the Northern Fleet and the Murmansk Shipping Company commenced transporting spent nuclear fuel by barges to Murmansk, and then delivering it to Mayak by train. In 1977, one of its ships, the nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika, reached the North Pole for the first time.

The company was reorganized into the Joint Stock Company in 1993. At this time the company faced significant criticism from environmentalists which culminated from the Yablokov Report, drawn up by presidential adviser Aleksey Yablokov, which revealed that the Northern Fleet and the Murmansk Shipping Company had dumped some 2.5 million curies of liquid and solid radioactive waste in the Arctic Ocean between 1959 and 1991. In 1996 the Murmansk Shipping Company reported 3,100 fuel assemblies were stored on the service ship Lotta.

Facilities
The main operating facility of the company is at Atomflot, to the north of the city on the Murmansk Fjord. The base contains liquid and solid waste processing systems, warehouses for shipping supplies and workshops etc. The ships are maintained at the dry docks in Murmansk, and the Zvezdochka shipyard in Severodvinsk also makes repairs to the reactors of the nuclear-powered icebreakers.

Museum

The Murmansk Shipping Company Museum on Volodarskogo Street in Murmansk, established in 1977, has an extensive collection of artifacts related to its history and Russian naval history. Among its displays are photographs of polar captains, ship bells, micro model replicas, marine equipment, with one section dedicated entirely to icebreakers and their history. Icebreakers represented by particularly fine models include Yermak (1898), Fyodor Litke (1909), Sedov (1909), Alexander Sibiryakov (1909), Sadko (1913), Semyon Dezhnov (1939), Severny Veter (1944), Lenin (1959), Kiev (1965), Artika (1972), Krasin (1976), Kapitan Dranitsyn (1980), Vladmimir Ignatyuk (1983), Rossiya (1985) and Taymyr (1989).

Past and present vessels
As of 2014 the company has 303 vessels, with a total deadweight of about 1.2 million tons. A selected number of ships are shown below:
Indiga and Varzuga, Finnish icebreaking product tankers purchased in 2003
A number of SA-15 type Arctic multipurpose cargo ships, two of which remain in service (Kapitan Danilkin and Yuriy Arshenevskiy)
Sevmorput, the last nuclear-powered cargo ship previously operated by Murmansk Shipping Company
Vladimir Ignatyuk, an icebreaker purchased from Canada
Kotlas, a 1989-built tanker
Kuzma Minin, a 1980-built bulk carrier
Volodarsky, the oldest vessel of the fleet (launched in 1929) used to transport and store radioactive waste

References

External links

Official Murmansk Shipping Company website—

Shipping companies of Russia
Russian brands
Shipping companies of the Soviet Union
Transport companies established in 1939
1939 establishments in the Soviet Union
1939 establishments in Russia
Companies based in Murmansk Oblast


title: The Last Man (1955 film)

text:
The Last Man () is a 1955 West German drama film directed by Harald Braun and starring Hans Albers, Romy Schneider and Rudolf Forster. The film is a remake of the 1924 Weimar silent The Last Laugh, with the setting updated to post-war Germany.

It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich and on location in Baden-Baden. The film's sets were designed by the art director Kurt Herlth and Robert Herlth.

Synopsis
A hotel employee loses his sense of self-respect when he is demoted.

Cast
 Hans Albers as Karl Knesebeck
 Romy Schneider as Niddy Hoevelmann
 Rudolf Forster as Herr Claasen
 Joachim Fuchsberger as Alwin Radspieler
 Camilla Spira as Sabine Hoevelmann
 Michael Heltau as Helmuth Buehler
 Michael Gebühr as Till / Pikkolo
 Heini Göbel as Onkel Max
 Walter Gross as Kellner Otto
 Peter Lühr as Onkel Udo
 Willy Stettner as Friseur Popp
 Milena von Eckhardt as Kellner Eugen
 Sabine Hahn
 Ursula von Reibnitz as Tante Alma
 Charlotte Witthauer as Tante Elsbeth
 Paul Bahlke as Kellner Enrico
 Franz Essel as Empfangschef Pichler
  as Der alte Krüger
 Peter Horn
 Karl Maria Schley as Kellner Eugen
 Gert Westphal
 Karl-Georg Saebisch as Jonas, der Kellner
 Peter Martin Urtel

References

Bibliography
 Hake, Sabine. Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. University of Texas Press, 2001.

External links

1955 films
1955 drama films
German drama films
West German films
1950s German-language films
Films directed by Harald Braun
Remakes of German films
Sound film remakes of silent films
Films set in hotels
Films shot at Bavaria Studios
German black-and-white films
1950s German films


title: Tunç Tezel

text:
Tunç Tezel (born in 1977 in Bursa, Turkey) is a Turkish amateur astronomer, photographer and civil engineer. He is a member of The World at Night (TWAN), an international program in which photographers from around the world capture images of night skies as seen above notable landmarks of the planet. He is a member of Turkish Astronomical Society (Türk Astronomi Derneği)(TAD) since 2007.

Tezel is an avid eclipse chaser. In 2006 he completed the first ever Analemma photograph that included a total Solar eclipse, which is called Tutulemma, after the Turkish word for eclipse: tutulma. This unique feat brought worldwide acclaim and publication of his photographs. Tezel's other specialty in night sky photography is capturing rare conjunctions and occultations of bright stars, planets and bright clusters near the Moon. He also creates dramatic all-sky and time-lapse photographs that capture meteors and the motions of the cosmos. Photographing retrograde motions of planets has been one of his trademarks. His images have also been used in motion pictures.

In 2011, he won the annual Astrophotographer of the Year contest held by Royal Museums Greenwich in Earth and Space category with the picture titled Galactic Paradise. He was amongst winners of Astrophotographer of the Year contest twice more, with the picture "Sky Away From The Lights" awarded as Highly Commended in Earth and Space category in 2012 and "Diamonds and Rubies" Highly Commended in Our Solar System category in 2014.

References

Living people
1977 births


title: Otome (given name)

text:
Otome (おとめ, オトメ) is a feminine Japanese given name.

Characters
, a character in Pani Poni Dash
, a character in Aikatsu!
, a character in School Days
, a character from Shimoneta
, a character in Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan

Japanese feminine given names
Feminine given names


title: Jerdon's frog

text:
Jerdon's frog may refer to:

 Jerdon's narrow-mouthed frog (Ramanella montana), a frog in the family Microhylidae found in the Western Ghats of India
 Jerdon's olive-brown frog (Micrixalus saxicola), a small frog in the family Micrixalidae found in forest streams in the Western Ghats of India
 Jerdon's tree frog (Hyla annectans), a species of tree frog in the family Hylidae found in China, India, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam, at elevations between 600 and 2500 m

Animal common name disambiguation pages


title: Quesada pasiega

text:
Quesada pasiega is a dessert typical of the region of Cantabria, Spain. It is one of the best-known dishes of Cantabrian cuisine.  It has the consistency of a dense pudding, and is made from milk, sugar, butter, wheat flour, and egg, and flavored with lemon zest and cinnamon.  The batter is typically mixed until smooth and then baked to perfection, resulting in a soft and creamy interior with a slightly firm outer layer. The dessert is known for its delicate sweetness, subtle hints of lemon or cinnamon. It can be served hot or cold. Quesada Pasiega is a beloved dessert in Cantabria, enjoyed on various occasions, from family gatherings to special celebrations. Its rich history and traditional preparation methods have made it a culinary gem, showcasing the region's culinary heritage and providing a delightful taste of Spanish gastronomy.

Also known as the "Spanish Cantabrian Cheesecake," Quesada pasiega is a heavenly treat renowned for its velvety texture and mouthwatering taste. This delightful sweet treat is often referred to as the "Spanish Cantabrian Cheesecake" due to its similar texture and appearance to a cheesecake. The dessert boasts a rustic allure, adorned with a perfectly golden-brown crust that forms during baking.

See also
 Sobao pasiego

References

Spanish desserts
Cantabrian cuisine
Spanish cuisine
Custard desserts


title: Charles R. Hale (bishop)

text:
Charles Reuben Hale (March 14, 1837 – December 25, 1900) was coadjutor bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Springfield from 1892 to 1900. He was commissioned as a chaplain in the United States Navy on March 10, 1863, and served in that capacity until his resignation on March 26, 1871.

Biography
Charles R. Hale was born in Lewistown, Pennsylvania on March 14, 1837. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with an A.M. degree in 1858.

He married Anna McKnight Twiggs on January 12, 1871.

Charles Reuben Hale was consecrated on July 26, 1892 as Coadjutor Bishop of the Diocese of Springfield in the Episcopal Church.

He died in Cairo, Illinois on December 25, 1900.

References

External links
 Documents by Hale from Project Canterbury

1837 births
1900 deaths
19th-century Anglican bishops in the United States
Anglican chaplains
Episcopal bishops of Springfield
University of Pennsylvania alumni


title: Yellow bush frog

text:
Yellow bush frog may refer to:

 Coorg yellow bush frog (Raorchestes luteolus), a frog in the family Rhacophoridae endemic to the Western Ghats, India, in the state of Karnataka
 Kalpatta yellow bush frog (Raorchestes nerostagona), a frog in the family Rhacophoridae endemic to the Western Ghats, India

Animal common name disambiguation pages


title: Bhagwatikumar Sharma

text:
Bhagwatikumar Sharma (31 May 1934 – 5 September 2018) was an Indian author and journalist who wrote in Gujarati.  Born in Surat and educated in languages, he edited a daily for several years. He wrote novels, short stories, poetry, essays and criticism. He received Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak in 1984 and Sahitya Akademi Award in 1988.

Biography
Sharma was born in Surat on 31 May 1934 in Shrimali Brahmin family of Hargovind and Heeraben. His family was a native of Ahmedabad. His father was a pandit of Samveda. He completed the secondary school education in 1950 and left studies. He later completed his B. A. in Gujarati and English languages in 1968.

He wrote his first poem, on the event of Mahatma Gandhi's death, on 31 January 1948. In 1951, his two sonnets were published for the first time in Gujaratmitra, a daily published from Surat. In 1953, he recited his poem for the first time in the poet meet. He joined the editing department of Gujarat Mitra in 1955. He served as the trustee of Kavi Narmad Yugavart Trust and vice-president of Narmad Sahityasabha, Surat. He also served as president of the Gujarati Sahitya Parishad from 2009 to 2011.

He married Jyotiben in 1953. She died in 2009.

Sharma died on 5 September 2018 in Surat.

Works
His novels include Aarti ane Angara (1957), Man Nahi Mane (1962), Rikta (1968), Vyaktamadhya (1970), Samaydvip (1974), Urdhvamool (1981), Asuryalok (1987), Dwar Nahi Khule, Premyatra, Viti Jashe Aa Rat?, Padchhaya Sang Preet (1963), Na Kinaro, Na Mazdhar (1965), Hridaysharan, Nirvikalp (2006). Samaydvip deals with old Brahmin culture and modern sensibility. His short story collections include Deep Se Deep Jale (1959), Hridaydaan (1960), Ratrani, Chhinnabhinna (1967), Mahek Mali Gai, Tamane Ful Didhanu Yaad Nathi (1970), Kai Yaad Nathi (1974), Vyarth Kakko, Chhal Barakhadi (1979), Akathya (1994), Mangalya Kathao (2001) and Adabeed (1985). His selected stories are published as Bhagavatikumarni Shresth Vartao (1987). His collections of essays are Shabdateet (1980), Bistantu (1988), Hriday Sarasa (1995), Dandiya Dool (2005), Jadabatod (2006), Spandan. Supda Saf is collection of humorous essays while America Avje (1996) is his travelogue.

He worked in different genres of poetry such as Ghazal, Geet, Sonnet etc. Sambhav (Ghazal collection), his first anthology, was published in 1974, followed by Chhando Chhe Pandada Jenan (1987), Nakhdarpan (1995), Jhalhal (1995), Adhi Aksharnu Chomasu (2002), Ujaagaro (2004), Ek Kagal Harivarne (2003), Gazalayan (2009) and Atmasaat (2010). Atmasaat is a collection of 72 sonnets dedicated to his wife, Jyoti, after her death. He has written biography, Saral Shatriji. He translated Sat Yugoslav Varta (1978), Ashadno Ek Divas (1979) and Alok Parva (1995). He edited Swasoshwas on the occasion of seventieth anniversary of Gani Dahiwala. His poems are also compiled as Tamara Vina Saanj Duske Chadhi Chhe (2003) by Suresh Dalal, Shabdanu Saat Bhavnu Lenu Chhe (2009) and Gazalni Paalakhi (2009) by Ravindra Parekh and Kavyakalash by Bharati Dalal.

He has written his autobiography Surat Muj Ghayal Bhoomi.

Recognition
He received Kumar Chandrak in 1977 and Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak in 1984. He also received Sahitya Akademi Award in 1988 for his novel Asuryalok. He was conferred the Doctor of Literature (D.Litt.) by Veer Narmad South Gujarat University in 1999. He received Kalapi Award in 2003. In 2011, he received the Harindra Dave Memorial Award for journalism and Vali Gujarati Gazal Award for his contribution to literature. He also received Nachiketa award in 1999, Nandshankar Mehta Chandrak in 1998 for Akathya, Swami Sachchidanand Sanman in 2003, Darshak Award. He received Narsinh Mehta Award in 2009. In 2017, Gujarat Sahitya Akademi awarded him Sahityaratna Award.

See also
 List of Gujarati-language writers

References

External links

Bhagwatikumar Sharma : Padchhaaya Sang Preet : Documentary film

1934 births
2018 deaths
Indian male journalists
Gujarati-language writers
People from Surat district
Writers from Gujarat
Modernist writers
Indian male poets
Recipients of the Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak
Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Gujarati


title: Siyabonga Cwele

text:
Siyabonga Cyprian Cwele (born 3 September 1958) is a South African politician who served in the cabinet of South Africa from September 2008 to May 2019, most recently as the Minister of Home Affairs between 2018 and 2019. He was appointed as the South African Ambassador to China in December 2020. He is a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and represented the party in Parliament from 1994 to 2019.

A medical doctor by training, Cwele joined the ANC underground during apartheid in 1984. In the 1994 general election, he was elected to the KwaZulu-Natal delegation of the National Council of Provinces, where he served for a single term before joining the National Assembly. He chaired Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence between 2004 and 2008.

In September 2008, he was appointed to the cabinet of President Kgalema Motlanthe, who named him as Minister of Intelligence. He remained in that office until May 2014, though President Jacob Zuma renamed it as the Minister of State Security in May 2009. From May 2014 to November 2018, he was the Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services under Zuma and his successor, Cyril Ramaphosa, and he went on to serve a brief stint as Ramaphosa's Minister of Home Affairs from November 2018 to May 2019. After the 2019 general election, he was excluded from Ramaphosa's second cabinet and resigned from his legislative seat.

Cwele was a member of the ANC National Executive Committee from December 2012 to December 2022. Before that, he served in the Provincial Executive Committee in KwaZulu-Natal between 1990 and 2012.

Early life and education
Cwele was born on 3 September 1958. He graduated from the University of KwaZulu-Natal with an MBChB in 1984 and he later completed an MPhil in economic policy from the University of Stellenbosch.

Early political career
Between 1984 and 1990, he served in underground structures of the African National Congress (ANC), which at the time was banned by the apartheid government. After the party was unbanned in 1990, he was elected to the inaugural Provincial Executive Committee of the ANC's new KwaZulu-Natal branch; he remained a member of the committee for over two decades thereafter.

Parliament: 1994–2008
In the April 1994 general election, South Africa's first under universal suffrage, Cwele was elected to represent the ANC in the Senate of South Africa, soon renamed the National Council of Provinces. He represented the KwaZulu-Natal constituency. He served only a single term in his seat: in the next general election in June 1999, he was elected instead to the National Assembly, the upper house of Parliament. He was a backbencher, again representing the KwaZulu-Natal constituency, until after the 2004 general election, when the ANC nominated him to chair the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence.

Intelligence and State Security: 2008–2014
On 25 September 2008, recently elected President Kgalema Motlanthe announced that Cwele would be appointed to his cabinet as Minister of Intelligence, a position vacated by the resignation of Ronnie Kasrils. In the April 2009 general election, Motlanthe was succeeded by President Jacob Zuma, who renamed Cwele's position as the Minister of State Security, to align with the newly restructured State Security Agency (SSA).

During his tenure in the ministry, Cwele attended the ANC's 53rd National Conference in December 2012. Though Cwele had been re-elected to the Provincial Executive Committee in May, he graduated at the 53rd Conference to the National Executive Committee, gaining election to a five-year term. By number of votes received, he was the 24th-most popular member of the 80-member body.

Zondo Commission findings
Cwele's activities in the state security portfolio were later investigated by the Zondo Commission, which was established to investigate state capture under Zuma's administration. At the commission, three top SSA officials – Mo Shaik, Mzuvukile Maqetuka, and Gibson Njenje – testified that Cwele had obstructed investigations into the influence of the Gupta family and into Arthur Fraser's use of a slush fund to operate the controversial Principal Agent Network. Cwele's relationship with all three officials had been poor, and he denied their allegations in his own testimony before the commission. However, the final report of the Zondo Commission largely accepted the officials' account, concluding that Cwele had obstructed both investigations in order to protect President Zuma's interests.

Telecommunications and Postal Services: 2014–2018

In the 2014 general election, Cwele was re-elected to his fourth term in the National Assembly, ranked 31st on the ANC's national party list. Announcing his second-term cabinet, Zuma also announced a reconfiguration in the communications portfolio: Cwele was appointed to a new ministry as Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services.

During this period, the ANC was increasingly divided over Zuma's leadership and the race to succeed him as ANC president. According to the Business Day, Cwele shifted his allegiance to Zuma's deputy, Cyril Ramaphosa, in 2017, though he had previously been viewed as a strong supporter of Zuma. The Mail & Guardian reported in May 2017 that Cwele had supported a motion of no confidence in Zuma's leadership, tabled by Joel Netshitenzhe at an ANC meeting – although Eyewitness News reported that he had opposed the same motion. At the ANC's 54th National Conference in December that year, Ramaphosa was elected to succeed Zuma as the president of the party, and Cwele was re-elected to the National Executive Committee, ranked 60th of 80. He was retained in the cabinet when Ramaphosa replaced Zuma as President of South Africa in February 2018.

Home Affairs: 2018–2019
On 22 November 2018, Ramaphosa announced a minor cabinet reshuffle, occasioned by Malusi Gigaba's resignation from cabinet. Cwele was appointed to succeed Gigaba as Minister of Home Affairs. His own former portfolio was merged back into the newly renamed Ministry of Communications of Digital Technologies, to be led by Cwele's former deputy, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams.

In the May 2019 general election, Cwele was re-elected to the National Assembly, ranked 54th on the ANC's national party list. However, after the election, he was sacked from Ramaphosa's second cabinet; Aaron Motsoaledi was appointed to replace him as Minister of Home Affairs. Shortly after the cabinet announcement, Cwele resigned from the National Assembly, with effect from 3 June 2019.

Ambassador to China: 2020–present
After Cwele resigned from frontline politics, President Ramaphosa designated him as South African Ambassador to China. Although the Sunday Times reported in March 2020 that he had been denied the requisite security clearance, he arrived in Beijing on 4 December 2020 and presented his diplomatic credentials on 23 December. He was not re-elected to the ANC National Executive Committee when his term expired in December 2022.

Personal life
In 1985, he married Sheryl Cwele, with whom he had four children. She was director for health and community services at the Hibiscus Coast Local Municipality until May 2011, when she was convicted of dealing or conspiring to deal in cocaine. Their divorce was finalised in August 2011, and Cwele said in court papers that he had been estranged from his wife since 2000.

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1958 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Zulu people
African National Congress politicians
Members of the National Assembly of South Africa
Members of the National Council of Provinces
Members of the Senate of South Africa
University of KwaZulu-Natal alumni
Stellenbosch University alumni
Ministers of Home Affairs of South Africa
20th-century South African politicians
21st-century South African politicians


title: Sebastián Salem

text:
Sebastián Salem  (born 8 March 1983) is a Peruvian professional golfer who formerly played on PGA Tour Latinoamérica.

Professional career
Salem has played sporadically on PGA Tour Latinoamérica since 2012 and achieved his only professional win to date at the 2012 Lexus Peru Open on the tour.

Professional wins (1)

PGA Tour Latinoamérica wins (1)

References

External links

Peruvian male golfers
PGA Tour Latinoamérica golfers
Sportspeople from Lima
1983 births
Living people


title: 2004 in Thailand

text:
The year 2004 was the 223rd year of the Rattanakosin Kingdom of Thailand. It was the 59th year in the reign of King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX), and is reckoned as year 2547 in the Buddhist Era.

Incumbents
King: Bhumibol Adulyadej
Crown Prince: Vajiralongkorn
Prime Minister: Thaksin Shinawatra
Supreme Patriarch: Nyanasamvara Suvaddhana

Events

January
2004 Bangkok International Film Festival took place from January 22 to February 2. Many awards were given out. A list of awards given out can be viewed here.

February

March
Miss Thailand Universe 2004 was a beauty contest held on March 27. Morakot Aimee Kittisara was the winner.

July
XV International AIDS Conference, 2004 was held from July 11 to July 16 in Bangkok.

August
2004 Bangkok gubernatorial election was held on August 29. Apirak Kosayodhin, who belonged to the Democrat party, won the election.

October
Tak Bai incident occurred on October 25 and resulted in 85 deaths.

December

2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami occurred on December 26.

Births

Deaths
26 December - Poom Jensen

See also
 List of Thai films of 2004
 2004 in Thai television
2004 Thailand national football team results
2004 Thailand National Games
Miss Thailand Universe 2004
2004 ASEAN Football Championship
2004 Thailand Open (tennis)

References

External links
Year 2004 Calendar - Thailand

Years of the 21st century in Thailand
Thailand


title: When the Evening Bells Ring

text:
When the Evening Bell Rings (German:Wenn die Abendglocken läuten) may refer to:

 When the Evening Bells Ring (1930 film), a German silent film directed by Hanns Beck-Gaden
 When the Evening Bells Ring (1951 film), a West German film directed by Alfred Braun


title: Hüttenberg (Haardt)

text:
The Hüttenberg near Maikammer in the Rhineland-Palatinate county of Südliche Weinstraße is a subpeak,  , of the Kalmit (672.6 m) the highest mountain in the Haardt in the eastern Palatinate Forest of Germany. There is a blockfield, the Hüttenberg Felsenmeer, along the crest.

Geography

Location
The Hüttenberg lies in the Palatinate Forest-North Vosges Biosphere Reserve and the Palatinate Forest Nature Park. Like the Breitenberg (545.2 m), the Taubenkopf (603.8 m), the Kanzel (531.7 m) and the Wetterkreuzberg (400.7 m), it is one of the subpeaks of the Kalmit (672.6 m), the Palatinate Forest's highest summit. It is covered by woodland and is about 950 metres as the crow flies southwest of the main summit, with which it is linked via a gently sloping saddle, and west-northwest of the top of the Breitenberg. Its northern part, including the summit, is in the parish of Maikammer, the southern part belongs to Sankt Martin.

Hüttenberg Felsenmeer

The Hüttenberg Felsenmeer is a blockfield on the Hüttenberg ridge and a feature of the geology of the Palatinate Forest. The sandstone blockfield is made up of boulders of the Middle Bunter, particularly the Karlstal Rock Zone, which were formed during the Triassic period. These range from boulders strewn over the surface of the mountainside to rock formations up to 10 metres high. The boulders were formed during the various ice ages, frost weathering of the hitherto solid layers of rock splitting it into a sea of boulders. These rocks are not only found on the summit ridge, which runs roughly from north to south and is around 700 metres long, but also on the mountainsides because, during the short periods of thawing in the summer months, the piles of rubble, soaked in meltwaters, are set in motion and slide downhill. The Felsenmeer is a popular bouldering area.

Transport and walking

The Landesstraße 514 (Totenkopfstraße), runs along the southern and western sides of the Hüttenberg from Sankt Martin via the Hüttenhohl (479 m) and over the Totenkopf saddle (513.7 m) to Breitenstein. The L 515 (Kalmithöhenstraße) branches off northwest from this road below the summit of the Hüttenberg near the Hüttenhohl at 476.9 m heading over the Kalmit heights to Maikammer.

The shortest route to the Hüttenberg is from the car park near the Kalmit which is about a 15-minute walk. Other routes are from the Sankt Martin valley from the ramblers' car park by the managed refuge hut, Haus an den Fichten, through the Wolseltal valley or from the car park at the Hüttenhohl. Two trails run over the summit ridge – on directly over and through the Hüttenberg Felsenmeer; the other running alongside the blockfield to the east and just below it. The start and end point is the saddle with the Kalmit and the refuge hut at the southern end of the ridge called the Hüttenberg Hut (Hüttenberghütte, 591.2 m), from where there is a view of the Sankt Martin valley. The Palatine Wine Route, opened in autumn 2010 and certified as a Prädikatsweg in 2011 by the German Alpine and Rambling Club Association, also crosses the felsenmeer as part of the 4th stage and finally reaches the long descent to the wine-growing village of Sankt Martin.

References

External links

Mountains under 1000 metres
Mountains and hills of the Palatinate Forest


title: Alisha Farrer

text:
Alisha Farrer (born 19 October 1993) is an Australian film actress, television actress and model of Indian heritage. While in college, Farrer did a few modelling jobs. Following appearances in several television commercials, she entered the Miss India Australia pageant. She is a state finalist for Miss World Western Australia 2013. She has mainly appeared in Hindi films. Her first role in film came with the 2016 box office disaster  romantic drama Love Games. She subsequently received praise for her appearance in the reality show Splitsvilla where she placed Semi-finalist. Farrer garnered critical appreciation for portraying the character Lubna in the Bollywood comedy film Hotel Beautifool (2017) Directed by Sameer Iqbal Patel.

Farrer is currently filming for her upcoming film MOH, directed by Rajesh Rathi.

Early life
Alisha Farrer was born on 19 October 1993 in Perth, Western Australia to parents of Indian heritage. From the age of 4 she had shown interest in acting and dancing and was a fan of Bollywood films. Farrer was brought up in Beechboro, Western Australia and completed her higher education at Hampton Senior High School. After graduating in 2010, Farrer's parents encouraged her to take up .
She worked briefly as a makeup artist alongside her modelling and launched her business Farrer Beauty, in Perth.
After she signed with Perth's Top Agency, Scene Model Management, her modelling career started to pick up as she was offered to model for clothing brands and television commercials for well known brands and runway shows. She walked the ramp for many events and designers such as Rocky Bay, Model of the Future, Fashion HEIR, Manish Malhotra. She was selected to represent Perth in Indian Australian Dancing Star, a finalist for Miss India Australia representing Perth,  as well as a state finalist for Miss World Australia. Farrer garnered critical appreciation for portraying the character Lubna in the Bollywood Comedy Film Hotel Beautifool (2017), Directed by Sameer Iqbal Patel.

Career

Modelling
March 2012, Farrer represented Australia in the Beauty Pageant Indian Princess International. She placed top 5, she also won Miss Best Smile. The pageant grooming and training was broadcast internationally on Channel V, including the grand finale. She was judged by Bollywood stars Hema Malini and Zeenat Aman.
After visiting Mumbai she had been offered to pursue a career in Acting however she felt that she was too young and inexperienced to be exposed to the industry and declined and continued to model in Australia.
In January 2013 Farrer briefly appeared in the short film "In the Hands of Todd". Shortly after in April, Farrer had a small role in the Australian film, Son of a gun, starring Ewan McGregor shot in Perth.
After that, Farrer had decided to take a years break from modelling to focus on her studies as she wanted to give more priority to her education and completing her teaching degree at Curtin University . With the support of her parents after a year Farrer then decided to take a step closer to her dream and moved to Mumbai in August 2014. By 2015, Farrer had completed adds in India for brands such as Renault with popular Bollywood celebrity Ranbir Kapoor , Lipton detox tea with Shraddha Kapoor, Adlabs Imagica and Sunsilk. She also is signed with an agency in the UAE and regularly completes modelling projects in Dubai. Her commercial for 'This and That' chocolate regularly airs in the UAE and Pakistan.

Acting
Farrer's debut film, Love Games was a turning point in her career. She prizes her role as Sonia and often states the film as one of her best works.
She has also appeared in many TV commercials for high end brands such as Sunsilk and Renault with brand ambassador Ranbir Kapoor

Farrer moved to Mumbai to establish her career August 2014 making her Bollywood debut with Sameer Iqbal Patel's comedy film, Hotel Beautifool.
She had signed Hotel Beautifool within a week of moving to Mumbai and was the kick start of her career in Bollywood.

Immediately after completing the first schedule of Hotel Beautifool she was offered the role of Ritu in the Bollywood romantic comedy film Jhol under the Shasan Arts banner. After completion of Jhol,

she then began shooting for her upcoming college based film Zindagi under the Rajshri Productions banner in Delhi. The film has completed its first two schedules and its currently in post production before the completion of the third.

Farrer regularly posts online beauty videos on the popular platform YouTube called "Beauty Mantra" in which she teaches makeup tips and tricks.

Shortly after she appeared in SuperCops vs Supervillains on the channel Life OK and also appeared in one of the hit shows on the channel Star Plus, Ye Hai Mohabbatein.

In August 2015, Farrer was signed with Vishesh Films as the character Sonia Kamat for the film Love Games, an erotic thriller directed by Vikram Bhatt, produced by Mukesh Bhatt & Mahesh Bhatt under the Vishesh Films banner. The film was shot completely in Cape Town South Africa.
In 2016 Farrer then appeared in the Telugu film - కుమారి

In 2017, Farrer also appeared on MTV Splitsvilla X, the 10th Season.

YouTube
Farrer also appears in regular YouTube videos for the beauty channel Beauty Mantra in which she teaches makeup artistry which led to her appearance on a popular beauty show telecasted on DD National.

Filmography

Television

References

External links

Living people
1993 births
Actresses from Perth, Western Australia
Models from Perth, Western Australia
Australian film actresses
Australian people of Punjabi descent
Australian people of Indian descent
Actresses of Indian descent
Australian expatriate actresses in India
Actresses in Hindi cinema
21st-century Australian actresses


title: Kobina Tahir Hammond

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Kobina Tahir Hammond (born June 16, 1960)  is a Ghanaian politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Adansi-Asokwa constituency in the Ashanti Region of Ghana in the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and the 8th Parliament of the 4th Ghanaian Republic. He is a member of the New Patriotic Party.

Early life and education
Hammond was born on June 16, 1960. He hails from Asokwa, a town in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Hammond had his high school education at Adisadel College. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Law and Political Science from the University of Ghana. He acquired the degree in 1986. He is also a product of Gray's Inn, Holborn Law School, London, UK. From there, he acquired a Bachelor of Law in 1991.

Career
Hammond was a partner at the Chancery Chambers in London.

Political career
Hammond is a member of the New Patriotic Party. He became a member of parliament from January 2001 after emerging winner in the Ghana General Election in December 7, 2000. He has since then had a run of five consecutive terms in office. He is the MP for Adansi-Asokwa constituency. He has been elected as the member of parliament for this constituency in the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh parliament of the fourth Republic of Ghana.  He was re-elected in the 2020 General election to represent in the 8th Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana. Kobina was a member of the Finance Committee, and Mines and Energy Committee in the 7th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana.

Elections
In the year 2000, Hammond won the general elections as the member of parliament for the  Adansi-Asokwa constituency of the Ashanti Region of Ghana. He won on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party. His constituency was a part of the 31 parliamentary seats out of 33 seats won by the New Patriotic Party in that election for the Ashanti Region. The New Patriotic Party won a majority total of 99 parliamentary seats out of 200 seats. He was elected with 10,306 votes out of 19,407 total valid votes cast. This was equivalent to 54.4% of the total valid votes cast. He was elected over Theresa Mensah of the National Democratic Congress, Nana Yaw Frimpong of the People's National Convention, Kwame Amoh of the Convention People's Party, Peter Kofi Essilfie of the National Reformed Party and Prince Lawrence of the United Ghana Movement. These won 7,230, 1,001, 241, 92 and 61 votes out of the total valid votes cast respectively. These were equivalent to 38.2%, 5.3%, 1.3%, 0.5% and 0.3% respectively of total valid votes cast.

Hammond was elected as the member of parliament for the Adansi-Asokwa constituency of the Ashanti Region of Ghana for the second time in the 2004 Ghanaian general elections. He won on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party. His constituency was a part of the 36 parliamentary seats out of 39 seats won by the New Patriotic Party in that election for the Ashanti Region. The New Patriotic Party won a majority total of 128 parliamentary seats out of 230 seats. He was elected with 15,176 votes out of 24,112 total valid votes cast equivalent to 62.9% of total valid votes cast. He was elected over Seidu S. Adams of the Peoples’ National Convention and Reverend Evans Amankwa of the National Democratic Congress. These obtained 0.7% and 36.3% respectively of total valid votes cast.

In 2008, he won the general elections on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party for the same constituency. His constituency was part of the 34 parliamentary seats out of 39 seats won by the New Patriotic Party in that election for the Ashanti Region. The New Patriotic Party won a minority total of 109 parliamentary seats out of 230 seats. He was elected with 13,659 votes out of 24,524 total valid votes cast equivalent to 55.7% of total valid votes cast. He was elected over Alhaji Abdul-Lateef Madjoub of the National Democratic Congress, Amoako Anaafi of Democratic Freedom Party and Owusu-Boamah Francis of the Convention People's Party. These obtained 37.59%, 5.43% and 1.28% respectively of the total votes cast.

Personal life
Hammond is a Muslim. He belongs to the Ahmadiya faction.  He is married.

See also
List of MPs elected in the 2000 Ghanaian parliamentary election
List of MPs elected in the 2004 Ghanaian parliamentary election
List of MPs elected in the 2008 Ghanaian parliamentary election
List of MPs elected in the 2012 Ghanaian parliamentary election
List of MPs elected in the 2016 Ghanaian parliamentary election

References

1960 births
Living people
Ghanaian Muslims
Ghanaian MPs 2001–2005
Ghanaian MPs 2005–2009
Ghanaian MPs 2009–2013
Ghanaian MPs 2013–2017
Ghanaian MPs 2017–2021
Ghanaian MPs 2021–2025
New Patriotic Party politicians
University of Ghana alumni
Trade ministers of Ghana


title: Koike

text:
Koike (written: ) is a Japanese surname.  Notable people with the surname include:

 Akihiko Koike, a retired Japanese male race walker
 Akiko Koike, a Japanese voice actress
 Akira Koike, a Japanese politician
, Japanese actor
 Ayame Koike, a Japanese actress
 Eiko Koike, a Japanese idol and actress
 Junki Koike, a Japanese football player
 Kazuko Koike, a Japanese creative director
 Kazumori Koike, a Japanese sprint canoer
 Kazuo Koike, a Japanese manga writer, novelist, and entrepreneur
 Kensuke Koike, a Japanese contemporary visual artist
, Japanese writer
 Masaaki Koike, a Japanese baseball player
 Masakatsu Koike, a Japanese politician
 Reizo Koike, a Japanese breaststroke swimmer
 Rina Koike, a Japanese idol and actress
 Ryohei Koike, a Japanese football player
, Japanese speed skater
, Japanese ice hockey player
 Shota Koike, a Japanese baseball catcher
 Takeshi Koike, a Japanese studio animator, illustrator, and film director
 Teppei Koike, a Japanese actor and singer
 Toshiki Koike, a Japanese football player
 Yui Koike, a Japanese gravure idol and actress
 Yuki Koike (footballer), a Japanese football player
 Yuki Koike (athlete), a Japanese sprinter
 Yuriko Koike, a Japanese politician

Fictional Characters
, a ramen chief character from Little Ghost Q-Taro and Doraemon

Japanese-language surnames


title: Francis Ogilvie (British Army officer)

text:
Francis Ogilvie was a British Army officer who served as interim governor of East Florida from 30 July 1763 to 29 August 1764.

Commissioned into the 9th Regiment of Foot, Ogilvie served in Cuba, and was then posted to Saint Augustine, Florida, where he held the highest military title among the members of the city's military garrisons.

References

Royal Norfolk Regiment officers
18th-century British Army personnel
People of British Florida


title: National Education Assessment System

text:
National Education Assessment System, NEAS, () is an initiative of the Government of Pakistan to identify the gaps, challenges and to diagnose the strengths and weaknesses of the education system through measuring the learning achievement of the students for appropriate decision making for promoting the access, equity and quality in education system. National assessment is conducted across the country in five subjects each for Grade - 4 & 8 on sample basis after every four years. This report is meant to reflect the health of the education system for better understanding of the stakeholders. The report also aims at pointing out the pluses and minuses of the education system and the facts about students’ learning achievements along with recommendations on the findings for effective implementation. This practice is not peculiar to Pakistan, as the last decade has seen many ups and downs affecting national assessment at various subjects and grade – levels.

Briefly, initiative taken in primary and elementary education through the assessment system, named as National Education Assessment System (NEAS) in Pakistan is given for the audience in this report. NEAS has been institutionalized in Pakistan at national level with the cooperation of provincial and area Assessment Centers. Initially NEAS and its sister provincial and area education assessment organizations were established as five years development project with the financial assistance of the World Bank and Department for International Development (DfID) in year 2003. Realizing its significance in the education system, NEAS was made a regular feature of the education system before the closure of its project life. So far, NEAS has published four national level assessment reports on two grades each with four subjects. National Achievement Test (NAT) – 2014 is a step ahead of previous studies as the subject of English is introduced for the first time and performance of the students is being analyzed on the proficiency benchmark.

Recent Report

NEAS conducted National Achievement Test in 2014 and the findings of the study were disseminated in a conference on September 3, 2015. These findings provide some food for thought for those who wish to make positive changes in Pakistani educational system. NAT-2014 Report is a milestone in the history of NEAS, since this study was conducted by NEAS with the help of provincial PEACe's and Area Centres under guidance from Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training Pakistan.

References

External links

NEAS official website

Educational organisations based in Pakistan
Pakistan federal departments and agencies


title: An Evening with Richard Nixon

text:
An Evening With Richard Nixon, originally billed as An Evening With Richard Nixon and ..., is a play by Gore Vidal which opened at the Shubert Theatre in April 1972. The play was produced by Hillard Elkins, directed by Edwin Sherin, and starred George S. Irving, Gene Rupert, Humbert Allen Estredo, Stephen D. Newman, Philip  Sterling and Robert King. As yet "undiscovered" in the ensemble were future stars Maureen Anderman and Susan Sarandon.

The play is a wry examination of the career and Presidency (up to that pre-Watergate point) of Richard M. Nixon (Irving). As it starts, two pundits, a William F. Buckley-like Pro (Rupert) and a Gore Vidal-like Con (Estredo) are debating the worthiness of Nixon. Unable to settle their differences objectively, they magically convene a tribunal of deceased, past Presidents — Eisenhower (Sterling), Kennedy (King) and Washington (Newman) — to review the Nixon career and pass judgment. The rules are strict: anything we observe in the central playing area, which is dedicated to historical recreation, is taken from actual public record; every word spoken by anyone is what that person actually said. This applies especially to Nixon, whose words, we are assured, remain in their original context. Only Pro, Con and the Tribunal speak freely in the immediate present. And of course, they have much to say.

Previews began on April 18, and the play ran from April 30 to May 13, for a total of 14 previews and 16 regular performances.

The published version of the play, prepared prior to rehearsals, features only the tribunal of presidents, but not the characters of Pro and Con, who were added later.

References

External links
An Evening With Richard Nixon at Internet Broadway Database

1972 plays
Broadway plays
Plays based on real people
Plays by Gore Vidal
Satirical plays
Cultural depictions of Richard Nixon