title: Elena Moșuc

text:
Elena Moșuc (born 18 January 1964) is a Romanian operatic soprano.
Associated to the Zürich Opera House, she has an active career primarily in Europe, including guest appearances at the Romanian National Operas since 1990.

Life and career

Early years
Moșuc was born in Iași. Since the age of 16, she studied at the Școala Populară de Arte in her native city for almost five years, with her teachers including Mioara Cortez. Since she was 18, she taught in a primary school for seven years. Meanwhile, she pursued her singing studies through private lessons. At the end of her studies, she made her opera debut in February 1990 with the Queen of the Night (Mozart's The Magic Flute) at the Romanian National Opera, Iași, where she was a chorister in 1989/90. She later performed Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), Gilda (Rigoletto), Violetta (La traviata). After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, she finally entered in July 1990 the George Enescu National University of Arts, where her studies lasted for seven years.

In September 1990, she won the first prize at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich, which opened the way for an international career. In 1991, she won the International Monte-Carlo Music Competition.

Immediately after winning the ARD Competition, Moșuc sang her second Queen of the Night in Munich. She became associated with the role, which she would sing more than 250 times, and with which she made her Vienna State Opera debut (1993), Italian debut in Rome (2000), Paris Opera debut (2002), and Royal Opera House debut (2003).

Zürich Opera
Moșuc joined the Opernstudio of the Zürich Opera House in 1991. Originally in a contract of three years, she remained as a troop member till 2000 and continued the association, which lasted for more than two decades.

Recognised by intendant Alexander Pereira, she was offered roles which constitutes the majority of her repertoire, and regularly alternated roles with Edita Gruberová. She dominated coloratura soprano roles at the House during Gruberová's absence due to the tension between the singer and the intendant.

She appeared in various roles, among others as the Queen of the Night, Konstanze (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), Linda (Linda di Chamounix), Elvira (I puritani), Gilda (Rigoletto), Violetta (La traviata), Luisa (Luisa Miller), Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier), Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos), Aminta/Timidia (Die schweigsame Frau), Musetta (La bohème), Micaëla (Carmen), Marguerite (Gounod's Faust), Liù (Puccini's Turandot), Medora (Il corsaro), Nedda (Pagliacci), Mrs. Alice Ford (Falstaff), Stella, Olympia, Antonia and Giulietta (The Tales of Hoffmann).

Performances elsewhere
In 2005, Moșuc was featured in Franco Zeffirelli's new production of La traviata, opening Israeli Opera's 2005/06 season.

In June 2008, she made her first appearance at the New National Theatre Tokyo with La traviata, and returned in December with Donna Anna in a new production of Don Giovanni.

In October 2010, Moșuc made her US debut at the New York Metropolitan Opera as Olympia in The Tales of Hoffmann, sharing the role with Anna Christy. In October 2011, she opened the season at the Dallas Opera in the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor.

In 2012, she starred in the original 1912 version of Ariadne auf Naxos at the Salzburg Festival.

In 2019, she made her role debut in Lakmé at the Royal Opera House Muscat. This was the company's first-ever original opera production.

Achievements
Moșuc received many prestigious prizes. She was awarded the "European Furtherance Prize for Music" (Europäischer Förderpreis für Musik) in 1993, and the Premio "Bellini d'Oro" in Catania in 1995. In 2002, Moșuc received the Premio "Zenatello" in Verona, and in 2004 the "Premio Verdi di Modena" and the "Premio Verdi di Verona". In 2009, Moșuc was the first soprano from Eastern Europe to receive the international award Siola d'oro.

In 2005, Moșuc was appointed an "Officer of the Arts" (Ofițer al Artelor) by the Romanian presidency. She received the 2009 edition of "Woman of the Year" award (Femeia Anului) in the category of "Ambassador of Romanian Arts from Abroad". In the same year, she received her doctor's degree in music science from the National University of Music Bucharest. In 2010, Elena Moșuc became honorary citizen of her native city Iași. In 2015, she received the "Grand Prize of the National Operas of Romania".

In 2019, Elena Moșuc has been awarded with the International Opera Awards - "Oscar della Lirica" - as the world's best soprano of the year.

Discography
Mozart Portrait. Iași "Moldova" Philharmonic Orchestra, Camil Marinescu. Arte Nova Voices 2000
Au jardin de mon cœur. Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra, Jan Schultsz. Arte Nova Voices 2000
Notre Amour – French and Romanian songs. Sabine Vatin, piano. Arte Nova Voices 2002
Flavio Motalla: L'amore è poesia – Vocalises for Soprano & Orchestra. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, John Scott. 2011. (reissued on Solo Musica 2016)
Donizetti Heroines. Symphony Orchestra of Croatian Radio-Television, Ivo Lipanović. Sony Classical 2013
A Portrait. [compilation] Sony Classical 2015
Verdi Heroines. Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Ivo Lipanović. Solo Musica 2018

References

External links

1964 births
Living people
Musicians from Iași
Romanian operatic sopranos
Romanian emigrants to Switzerland
Naturalised citizens of Switzerland
20th-century Romanian women opera singers
21st-century Romanian women  opera  singers
George Enescu National University of Arts alumni
Sony Classical Records artists
National University of Music Bucharest alumni
Prize-winners of the ARD International Music Competition


title: Margit Babos

text:
Margit Babos (maiden name Margit Greskovits, 1931–2009) was a Hungarian mycologist born on 28 October 1931 in Budapest. She became one of the most widely recognized mycologists in the second half of the 20th century in Eastern Europe, with contributions to mycological research, fungal taxonomy and recording the mycoflora of Hungary.

Bibliographical data
Babos joined the plant herbarium of the Hungarian Natural History Museum in 1951, first as a curator in the paleobotany department, then in the phycology department. In 1954, she joined the Mycology Department under the supervision of Dr. Gábor Bohus. They adopted the modified Herpell exsiccation method which resulted in well-preserved dried specimens of fungi. Although this was a tedious method and often required the process to be started in the field, Babos prepared more than 20,000 Herpell-exsiccata, which forms a valuable part of the fungus collection of the Hungarian National History Museum.

Shortly after joining the Mycology Department, she started participating in ongoing research activities, which mostly focused on recording and cataloguing the mushroom flora of Hungary and the renovation and organization of the Fungal Herbarium. She was promoted as a major museologist of the Hungarian National History Museum.

Research activities
Her research resided around the fungal flora of the continental sand dune systems in Hungary. She performed extensive field work and collecting of fungi in several sites with moving sand dunes, dry sandy grasslands, wet and marshy interdune habitats and dry steppe forests in Hungary. Many of her research sites belonged to the Kiskunság National Park or the Hortobágy National Park and the knowledge gathered still forms the basis of our understanding of the European continental sand dune mycoflora. She made extensive comparisons with coastal, halophilic sand dunes and was always delighted by the high species overlap between these habitats despite great geography distances. She has reported the occurrence in Hungary many of the species described from coastal sand dunes in France and Spain, most of which were new for the Hungarian mycoflora.

While recording fungi from sandy habitats, she became a specialist of several groups of fungi. She was an internationally renown expert of Lepiota s.l. Inocybe Pluteus but has made important contributions to several other groups of fungi as well, such as Bolbitius, Rhodocybe, Coprinus, Tricholosporum, and Leucopaxillus. Babos collected the type materials of several Cortinarius and Agaricus species, which she described together with Gábor Bohus. She worked with several major figures of mycology of the time, including Albert Pilát, Marcel Bon, and Johann Stangl.

During her taxonomic work, she described 12 new taxa:
 Collybia distorta var. amara Babos 1983.
 Coprinus micaceus var. mammosus Babos 1976.
 Inocybe aeruginascens Babos in Bohus 1970.
 Inocybe javorkae Babos & Stangl 1985.
 Leucoagaricus brunneolilacinus Babos 1980.
 Leucocoprinus pilatianus var. erubescens Babos 1979.
 Macrolepiota excoriata f. barlae Babos 1974.
 Pluteus nigroviridis Babos 1983.
 Pluteus variabilicolor Babos 1978.
 Rhodocybe popinalis var. hollosii Babos in Babos et al. 1994.
 Tricholoma eosinobasis Babos, Bohus & Vasas 1991.
 Tricholoma nodulosporum Babos & Bohus in Bohus 1983.

She has also made numerous new taxonomic combinations in Lepiota, Rhodocybe, Tricholoma, and others. As a commemoration of her scientific achievements, three species of fungi have been named in her honour:

 Agaricus babosiae Bohus 1990, Ann. Hist.-Nat. Mus. Natn. Hung. 81: 37.
 Leucoagaricus babosiae Bon 1993, Doc. Mycol. 22(88): 31.
 Coprinopsis babosiae L. Nagy, Vagvolgyi & Papp 2013

In addition to sand dunes, she performed extensive research in the fungi growing on sawdust and wood-chips piles, a special habitat with unique fungal associations. She reported over 100 species from sawdust and described three new species, Pluteus variabilicolor, P. nigroviridis and Collybia distorta var. amara. She was also interested in the fungi occurring in floating bogs. In collaboration with Gábor Bohus, they contributed significantly to the clarification of the taxonomy of Agaricus mushrooms in Europe. In this genus belong one of the most widely produced mushroom, Agaricus bisporus, the button mushroom. They also performed extensive experiments on establishing cultivation protocols for additional Agaricus species, such as Agaricus macrosporus and A. macrosporoides. She has also investigated Diptera (flies) living in mushroom fruit bodies and determined the specificity and distribution of Diptera species in various fungal species.

Major publications
Margit Babos published 115 research papers and popular articles between 1958 and 2004. Her most monumental works include the Catalogue of Hungarian Macrofungi (Agaricales s.l.) in 1989  which summarized the state of the art knowledge on the occurrence and distributions of macroscopic mushrooms of the broadly understood order Agaricales. It is based on the macrofungi collections of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, which has been re-established, catalogued and organized after World War II by Margit Babos and Gábor Bohus. In addition, she published two volumes on the macrofungi of the Kiskunság and the Hortobágy National Parks  which give the foundation of the mycological knowledge on continental sandy areas.

On the international stage, her best-known works are those on the taxonomy of Lepiota s.l. fungi and the genus Inocybe. Together with Gábor Bohus, she published a volume of Fungorum rariorum icones coloratae, Pars VIII in 1977.
Babos published several books and identification guides and gave hundreds of lectures and seminars on fungal biology in Hungarian.

Awards and distinctions
Her contributions to Hungarian and European mycology have been recognized by several awards. She has received the Clusius Medallion of the Hungarian Mycological Society twice, in 1974 and 2009. She has been awarded a Budapest Medallion during the 12th Cortinarius Congress (1994), the Laszlo Szemere Medallion of the First Hungarian Truffle Society (2004). She has been granted knighthood by the "Szent Laszlo Truffle Order" on 10 September 2005. In 2008 the journal "Magyar Gombasz" (Hungarian Mycology) recognized her oeuvre by an award (oeuvre-award). Her last honour, the Effectrix Magnus Collectiones Award of the Hungarian National History Museum was awarded to her in 2009, one month before her death, on 27 December. In 2010 a foray was held in Kiskunság National Park in her honour, where almost 70 species of macrofungi were identified.

Notes

Cited literature

1931 births
2009 deaths
Hungarian mycologists
Women mycologists
20th-century women scientists
Hungarian women curators


title: Koumaria, Imathia

text:
Koumaria (, ) is an Aromanian (Vlach) village and a community of the Veroia municipality. Since the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality Veroia, of which it was a municipal district. The 2011 census recorded 243 residents in the village and 339 in the community. The community of Koumaria covers an area of 139.132 km2.

Administrative division
The community of Koumaria consists of two separate settlements:
Koumaria (population 243)
Xirolivado (; population 96)
The aforementioned population figures are as of 2011.

See also
List of settlements in Imathia

References

Populated places in Imathia
Veria
Aromanian settlements in Greece


title: Timote

text:
Timote is a settlement in Carlos Tejedor partido, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.

Location
It is 18 km east from Carlos Tejedor, its accesses are over 68 and 70 Provincial Roads.

Population
According to 2010 INDEC National Census, there are 526 persons, what represents an increase of 3,3% over 509 in 2001 census.

History
In 1876, in Foromalán lagoon shore, Conrado E. Villegas founded Capitán Timote Fort in honour to Lieutenant Colonel Pedro Timote, born in Buenos Aires in 1836 and killed in Santa Rosa battle (1874).

Pedro Eugenio Aramburu murder
In Timote, in La Celma estate, on June 1, 1970, the body of the de facto ex-president and dictator Pedro Eugenio Aramburu (1955-1958) was found, after being kidnapped and killed by the Argentine leftist urban guerrilla Montoneros.

References

 Coord.geográficas e imágenes NASA, Google
 Timote, todo el mundo en escena
 Historia de Timote
 Timote, un pueblo que sufre el agua desde 1973

Populated places in Buenos Aires Province


title: Marist Red Foxes women's basketball

text:
The Marist Red Foxes women's basketball team is the basketball team that represents Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States.  The school's team currently competes in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.

History
The Red Foxes had an 11-year stretch from 2004 to 2015 in which they won 10 conference tournaments (while playing in 12 conference tournaments) and won 11 regular season titles while advancing to the Sweet Sixteen in 2007. In those seasons, they only missed the NCAA Tournament twice (2005 and 2015, though they made the WNIT in the latter year).

NCAA Tournament appearances
The Red Foxes have a 5–11 record in eleven NCAA Tournament appearances.

WNIT appearances
The Red Foxes are 0–2 in WNIT appearances.

Year-by-year results
Division I only

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| style="background: #e6e6e6; text-align:center;" colspan="6" | Susan Deer (1981–83)
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| style="background: #ffffdd; text-align:center;" colspan="6" | Cosmopolitan Conference
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| style="background: #e6e6e6; text-align:center;" colspan="6" | Patty Torza (1983–86)
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| style="background: #ffffdd; text-align:center;" colspan="6" | ECAC Metro
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| style="background: #e6e6e6; text-align:center;" colspan="6" | Ken Babineau (1986–98)
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| style="background: #ffffdd; text-align:center;" colspan="6" | Northeast Conference
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| style="background: #ffffdd; text-align:center;" colspan="6" | Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
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| style="background: #e6e6e6; text-align:center;" colspan="6" | Kristin Lamb (1998–02)
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| style="background: #e6e6e6; text-align:center;" colspan="6" | Brian Giorgis (2002–present)
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Records
Active players in italics. *As of March 19, 2021
Note: Free throw percentage list is Min 100 made/2 seasons played

Career scoring leaders

Career rebound leaders

Career assist leaders

Career blocked shots leaders

Career steals leaders

Career three-point leaders

Career free throw pct. leaders

Career free throw leaders

See also
 Marist Red Foxes men's basketball

References

External links


title: Diamandi Gheciu

text:
Diamandi Gheciu (20 April 1892 in Bucharest – 1 October 1982, Bucharest) was a Romanian composer.

Selected works, editions and recordings
Gheciu: "Si daca", on Angela Gheorghiu with Jeff Cohen (pianist) - Live from La Scala - song recital EMI 2007

References

1892 births
1982 deaths
20th-century classical composers
Romanian classical composers
Male classical composers
20th-century male musicians


title: Achim Stoia

text:
Achim Stoia (Mohu, 1910 – Iași, 1973) was a Romanian composer.

References

1910 births
1973 deaths
20th-century classical composers
Romanian classical composers
Place of birth missing
Male classical composers
20th-century male musicians


title: Far Rockaway (disambiguation)

text:
Far Rockaway, Queens is a neighborhood in Queens, New York City.

Far Rockaway may also refer to:

Far Rockaway Branch, a branch of the Long Island Rail Road
Far Rockaway (LIRR station), a station on the LIRR
Far Rockaway – Mott Avenue (IND Rockaway Line), a New York City Subway station on the
Far Rockaway High School, a defunct high school

See also
Rockaway Peninsula


title: The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal

text:
The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal. It was established in 1964 as the Cleft Palate Journal, obtaining its current title in 1991. The journal is published by SAGE Publishing on behalf of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association. It covers research on the etiology, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cleft palate and other craniofacial anomalies. The editor-in-chief is Jamie Perry.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
Current Contents/Clinical Medicine
Embase
Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed
Science Citation Index Expanded
Scopus
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 1.347.

See also
List of medical journals

References

External links

Academic journals established in 1964
SAGE Publishing academic journals
Monthly journals
English-language journals
Orthopedics journals
Academic journals associated with learned and professional societies


title: Jim Ruttle

text:
James Ruttle is an Irish former politician. He was a Fianna Fáil member of Seanad Éireann from 1980 to 1981. He was nominated by the Taoiseach to the 14th Seanad on 20 June 1980 to fill vacancy created by the resignation of Michael Yeats. He did not contest the 1981 Seanad election. He was an unsuccessful Fianna Fáil candidate for the Wicklow constituency at the 1981 general election.

In 1988 he was co-opted to replace the deceased Cllr Jim Miley by Fianna Fail, however he was not selected to run for the party in 1991 local elections.

From 1991 to 2019, he was an Independent member of Wicklow County Council for the Baltinglass electoral area, which covers the western portion of County Wicklow. He retired from politics at the 2019 local elections.

Personal life
Ruttle was the son of Earnest Ruttle and Jane Valentine, he is a member of the Church of Ireland. He trained in Gurteen Agricultural College. A farmer in Manor Kilbride, he is married to Kathryn, and they have two sons.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Members of Wicklow County Council
Fianna Fáil senators
Independent local councillors in the Republic of Ireland
Members of the 14th Seanad
People from County Wicklow
Nominated members of Seanad Éireann
Fianna Fáil candidates in Dáil elections
Fianna Fáil local councillors


title: Al-Madina FM

text:
Al-Madina FM ("The City FM") is a private Syrian radio station based in Damascus. It broadcasts a mix of Arabic music along with hit music.

History
Al-Madina FM was launched in 2005, becoming the first Syrian private radio station. Before this, only government and clandestine stations were broadcast.

Broadcasting
With constant emphasis on various music, Madina FM has become one of the mainstream radio broadcasters of Syria. Al-Madina FM is known across the country and is a very popular radio station whose programs are full of music and playlists of energetic songs of popular Syrian singers.

References

BBC - Pushing the boundaries of Syrian media (2010)

External links
Al-Madina FM website

Radio stations in Syria
Arabic-language radio stations


title: Vasile Spătărelu

text:
Vasile Spătărelu (21 April 1938, in Tâmna, județul Mehedinți – 24 March 2005, in Galați) was a Romanian composer.

References

1938 births
2005 deaths
20th-century classical composers
Romanian classical composers
Male classical composers
20th-century male musicians


title: Toddalioideae

text:
Toddalioideae is a formerly recognized subfamily of the family Rutaceae. Its type genus, Toddalia, is now accepted as a synonym of Zanthoxylum and placed in the subfamily Zanthoxyloideae.

References

Historically recognized angiosperm taxa


title: First Sensibility

text:
First Sensibility is the first studio album by the South Korean male pop group B.A.P.  It was released on February 3, 2014 under the label of TS Entertainment. It features the single "1004 (Angel)".

Track listing

Promotion
The first 30 seconds teaser clip for the music video of the title track 1004 (Angel) was released on January 22, 2014. On January 26, B.A.P released their album medley and pre-released additional 30 seconds preview on Naver Music. The full version video was released on February 2, 2014 through YouTube.

On February 7, B.A.P made their first live broadcast appearance promoting the album on Music Bank. This was followed by appearance for Bang X2 and 1004 (Angel) on Music Core on February 8.

External links
First Sensibility on iTunes

2014 albums
B.A.P (South Korean band) albums
Kakao M albums
TS Entertainment albums


title: Arthur Wilde

text:
Arthur William Wilde (1879 – 21 January 1916) was a British sports shooter. He competed in three events at the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was killed in action during World War I.

See also
 List of Olympians killed in World War I

References

1879 births
1916 deaths
British male sport shooters
Olympic shooters for Great Britain
Shooters at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing
British military personnel killed in World War I


title: Rosenbergia exigua

text:
Rosenbergia exigua is a longhorn beetle species found in New Guinea. It can grow to be up to 32 mm long. It was first described by Charles Joseph Gahan in 1888.

References

Batocerini
Beetles described in 1888
Taxa named by Charles Joseph Gahan


The Preventing Sex Trafficking and Improving Opportunities for Youth in Foster Care Act () is a bill introduced in the 113th Congress. The bill would require states to take action to address the problem of sex trafficking of foster care children.

Major provisions
If enacted, the bill would (1) Require states to identify and report child sex trafficking victims; (2) Improve data collection; (3) Require states to create standards to give foster parents more flexibility in raising foster children; (4) Prohibit states from designating long-term foster care as the ultimate goal for children in foster care, instead attempting to place the children in permanent homes; (5) Give foster children more input in their own case plans.

The bill also would require states to make sure that foster children over aged 14 have a Social Security card, birth certificate and medical records.

Legislative history
The bill was originally introduced by Republican Congressman Dave Reichert of Washington and Democratic Congressman Lloyd Doggett of Texas. Fifteen additional Members of Congress signed onto the bill as original cosponsors including Congressmen Vern Buchanan, Tim Griffin and Jim Renacci.

On October 23, 2013, the House Human Resources Subcommittee held a hearing on sex trafficking of youth in foster care. Witnesses who testified at the hearing included members of Congress, activists for the issue, and a victim of trafficking. On December 20, 2013, the subcommittee wrote and publicized a draft bill.

The American Bar Association, American Public Human Services Association, and National Indian Child Welfare Association responded to the subcommittee's request for public comments with suggestions to improve the bill.

Similar bills were introduced in Congress in 2013:
 S. 1118: Child Sex Trafficking Data and Response Act of 2013 introduced by Senators Ron Wyden and Rob Portman.
 S. 1870: Supporting At-Risk Children Act introduced by Senator Max Baucus
 S. 1518: Improving Outcomes for Youth At Risk for Sex Trafficking Act of 2013 introduced by Senator Orrin Hatch, parts of which were included in the Supporting At-Risk Children Act

Prostitution link
Some media coverage of the bill highlighted the link between sex trafficking victims and prostitution. For example, in its coverage of the bill, the Sky Valley Chronicle, an online newspaper covering East Snohomish County, Washington, said that sex trafficking has reached "epidemic levels" in certain areas of the world, and that anyone engaged in prostitution under age 18 in the U.S. is considered a victim of sex trafficking.

In a blog post, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer wrote, "The legislation is an implicit admission that a lot of the prostitution enforcement that [Congressman] Reichert used to do with the King County Sheriffs Office was misguided."

Seattle's local CBS TV station, KIRO, noted in an article on its website that Reichert was a detective during the murder spree of "Green River killer" Gary Ridgway, and that many of the victims were prostitutes and runaways.

See also
 List of bills in the 113th United States Congress

Further reading
 Academic articles
 Bump, Micah; Duncan, Julianne; Gozdziak, Elzbieta; MacDonnell, Margaret. "Second Conference on Identifying and Serving Child Victims of Trafficking", International Migration, Volume 43, Issue 1-2 (January 2005)
 Fong, Rowena; Cardoso, Jodi Berger. "Child human trafficking victims: Challenges for the child welfare system". Evaluation and Program Planning (August 2010)
 McClain, Natalie; Garrity, Stacy. "Sex Trafficking and the Exploitation of Adolescents". Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing, Volume 40, Issue 2, p. 243-252 (March/April 2011)
 Agencies and organizations
 AMBER Alert
 Child Quest International
 Child Welfare Information Gateway
 National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
 National Center for Youth Law
 Polly Klaas Foundation
 Congressional hearings
 "Protecting Vulnerable Children: Preventing and Addressing Sex Trafficking of Youth in Foster Care" (Testimony submitted by National Center for Missing and Exploited Children)
 Video of House Subcommittee on Human Resources hearing on sex trafficking (C-SPAN), October 2013
 Witness list and links to all testimony, Hearing on Preventing and Addressing Sex Trafficking of Youth in Foster Care, House Subcommittee on Human Resources, October 2013
 Fact sheets
 Human Trafficking (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime)
 Fact Sheet: Foster Care and Human Trafficking (CAS Research and Education)
 Legislation information
 Bill summary and status (THOMAS)
 H.R. 4058 bill tracking (GovTrack)

References

Proposed legislation of the 113th United States Congress


title: Joseph McGeough

text:
Joseph Anthony McGeough FREng FRSE is a former Regius Professor of Engineering, and now an honorary professorial fellow, in the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh.

Biography
McGeough was born in Kilwinning, Scotland, on 29 May 1940. A graduate of the University of Glasgow (BSc, 1963; PhD, 1967) and the University of Aberdeen (DSc, 1982), he gained industrial training as an undergraduate vacation apprentice for a firm of electrical contractors at ICI Nobel Division, and with Cossor Radar and Electronics, Harlow. Following graduation he worked for International Research and Development Ltd, Newcastle, as a research metallurgist. He then held research appointments as a Demonstrator and senior research fellow at respectively the University of Leicester, the University of Queensland and the University of Edinburgh

He was a Lecturer (1972–1977), then senior lecturer (1977–1980) and reader (1980–1983) in engineering at the University of Edinburgh, before being appointed in 1983 to the Regius Chair of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. While Regius Professor he also served for eight years as the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

His main field of research is manufacturing; his research outcomes are published in journals including the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Proceedings of the Royal Society, the Journal of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, and, latterly, in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. McGeough's books include Principles of Electrochemical Machining (1974), Advanced Methods of Machining (1988), Micromachining of Engineering Materials (editor, 2001) and The Engineering of Human Joint Replacements (2013). He is the author of the entry on Electroforming for the Encyclopaedia of Production Engineering (2013), and a volume editor for Comprehensive Materials Processing (2014). The IMechE and the Society for Underwater Technology have awarded him prizes for his researches. He held a Royal Society/SERC (now EPSRC) Industrial Fellowship between 1987 and 1989, and has been the director of three spin-off companies.

McGeough is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the International Academy for Production Engineering, and the Royal Academy of Engineering. He is a member of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. He has served as vice-president of the IMechE and chair of its Professional Publishing Board, and of its International Strategy Board. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Naples "Federico 2", Monash University, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, and Dublin City University. He is an honorary professor of Nanjing Aeronautical and Astronautical University.

When he was a student he gained a number of county, universities and national athletics championship awards, and was the winner of an Australian Universities’ soccer championship medal. He was secretary and vice-captain of Glasgow University Athletics, and became an honorary vice-president of Aberdeen University Athletics Association.

More recently he served as chairman for Aberdeen Dyce Academy College council, and president for Edinburgh Colinton Literary Society (including its centenary year). He gives lectures on science to the community, including the National Trust for Scotland, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

He has been married for more than 40 years, with three children and six grandchildren.

References

1940 births
People from Kilwinning
Academics of the University of Edinburgh
Living people
Regius Professors of Engineering in Edinburgh University


title: Croatian Coldblood

text:
The Croatian Coldblood (, ) is an autochthonous medium-heavy horse breed of draught horse originating from Croatia.

Characteristics

The typical Croatian Coldblood ranges from  to  high. Stallions can weigh up to . Its head is medium-sized and refined, with small ears, but with large eyes and nostrils. It has medium short, arched and muscular neck, wide and deep chest, broad and muscular breast, as well as powerful legs with broad hooves.

Most Croatian Coldbloods are bay or seal brown. Of the remaining horses, approximately 10-15 percent are black, and less than 10 percent are chestnut, gray, flaxen chestnut, while the other colours are very rare.

They are considered mild and obedient, easy keepers, willing workers and adapt well to various conditions and climates. Earlier, they were used for pulling waggons or for work in agriculture or forestry, but today they have lost their importance as draft animals and are being widely used for horse meat production.

History

The history of the breed dates back to the first half of the 19th century, when it was begun to crossbreed local warmblood mares in central Croatia with imported quality stallions of Noriker breed. Some other breeds were involved later, like Ardennes, Brabant and Percheron. At the beginning of the 20th century the breed was widespread toward east (Slavonia) and west (Gorski kotar and Istria regions).

In the last few decades, the Croatian Coldblood was the most numerous horse breed in Croatia in general. The total number of the registered population in 2008 was 5,334 or 33.77% of all horses (15,796) in Croatia. The number of horses of the breed was increased by 10.74% in the last four years, from 5,334 in 2008 to 5,907 in 2012.

See also

 List of horse breeds in DAD-IS
 List of mammals of Croatia
 Međimurje horse
 Posavac horse

References
 Croatian Coldblood – an authentic Croatian horsebreed
  Croatian Coldblood in the scientific work „Analysis of horse breeding and equestrian sports in the Repubulic of Croatia“
 Croatian Coldblood in 2012 – the most numerous breed in Croatia (in Croatian)
 Croatian Coldblood (with average height at the withers: 150-160 cm) in a brochure of State Institute for Nature Protection (in Croatian)
 Genetic structure of three Croatian horse breeds: implications for their conservation strategy
 Horse breeding in the Republic of Croatia – present situation and perspectives (summary in English at the end)

Horse breeds originating in Croatia
Horse breeds
Mammals of Europe
Conservation Priority Breeds of the Livestock Conservancy


William Lovell Church of England Academy (formerly William Lovell Church of England School, William Lovell Secondary-School) is a coeducational Church of England secondary school with academy status, located in Stickney in the English county of Lincolnshire.

History
William Lovell Secondary Modern opened in July 1959, costing £96,000 It was officially opened by Bishop of Lincoln, Kenneth Riches, on Thursday 31 March 1960.

It was previously a voluntary controlled school administered by Lincolnshire County Council, William Lovell Church of England School converted to academy status on 1 September 2012 and was renamed William Lovell Church of England Academy. However, the school continues to coordinate with Lincolnshire County Council for admissions.

It is a branch of the school provided for by a trust set up under the terms of William Lovell's will in 1678. The revised trust deed (dating from 1926) states that "the School of the Foundation shall continue to be maintained as a Public Elementary School, and religious instruction in accordance with the doctrines of the Church of England shall be given therein".  Today the school is supported by the Church of England Diocese of Lincoln.

Partnerships
The William Lovel Secondary-School was a partner school of the Staatliche Realschule Annweiler in Annweiler am Trifels, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Notable staff members
 The poet Paul Verlaine taught French and art at William Lovell's school in 1875.
 Alec Brader an English professional footballer and youth athletics coach taught PE, Geography , European Studies, and served as Deputy Headmaster.

References

External links
William Lovell Church of England Academy official website

Academies in Lincolnshire
Church of England secondary schools in the Diocese of Lincoln
Educational institutions established in 1959
1959 establishments in England
Secondary schools in Lincolnshire


title: ShowClix

text:
ShowClix is an online event technology company for live and virtual events headquartered in Wexford, Pennsylvania that handles ticket sales, marketing, and on-site operations for fandom conventions, museums, attractions, festivals, consumer shows, and music and comedy venues. New York Comic Con, Candytopia, and Rick Bronson's House of Comedy are among ShowClix's clients.

History

The company was founded in 2007 by Joshua Dziabiak and Lynsie Campbell, initially as an event registration database. The pair later focused on creating a web-based ticketing solution. Prior to forming the company, Dziabiak met Campbell while working together at Spreadshirt, an online platform for creating and selling personalized apparel.

The company was launched in 2011.

On July 31, 2017, ShowClix received a strategic investment by Providence Strategic Growth ("PSG"), the growth equity affiliate of Providence Equity Partners. With that investment, ShowClix and PatronManager became the first two products at Patron Technology.

In 2019, ShowClix apologized for a ticketing "meltdown" at Burning Man that led to difficulty getting tickets, which ShowClix chalked up to a "manual intervention" during a sale.

On September 24, 2020, Patron Technology received another strategic investment, this time from Vector Capital, a leading private equity firm specializing in transformational investments in established technology businesses. The firm has about $4 Billion of capital under management, and believes that, with their investment, Patron Technology and all products underneath its umbrella will rise in the live events industry once the COVID-19 pandemic in which they made their initial investment ends.

Recognition

 Amplify's 16 to Watch in 2016
 Pittsburgh's Top Workplaces in 2017 by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
 Pittsburgh's Fastest Growing Companies in 2017 by the Pittsburgh Business Times.
NEXT Pittsburgh's 12 Pittsburgh tech companies to watch in 2018

See also
List of corporations in Pittsburgh

References

External links
showclix.com

American companies established in 2007
Companies based in Pittsburgh
Ticket sales companies


title: Pat Woods (politician)

text:
John Patrick "Pat" Woods (born 1948 or 1949) is an American politician and a Republican member of the New Mexico Senate representing District 7. He was appointed on October 25, 2012  by Governor of New Mexico Susana Martinez to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Clinton Harden.

Education
Woods earned his BS in agricultural economics and business administration from New Mexico State University.

Elections
 2012 When District 7 incumbent Republican Senator Harden retired and left the seat open, Woods ran in the three-way June 5, 2012 Republican Primary, winning with 2,296 votes (52%) and was unopposed for the November 6, 2012 General election, winning with 12,595 votes.

Controversy
In August 2020, a rally held at Albuquerque claiming to honor the far-right militia group New Mexico Civil Guard was attended by some Republicans. Woods described the rally as a "GOP grand opening event, paying special tribute to NM law enforcement and the New Mexico Civil Guard."

References

External links
 Official page at the New Mexico Legislature
 Campaign site

 Pat Woods at Ballotpedia
 John Patrick Woods at the National Institute on Money in State Politics

Place of birth missing (living people)
1940s births
Living people
Republican Party New Mexico state senators
New Mexico State University alumni
21st-century American politicians


title: Book of Tang

text:
Book of Tang may refer to:

Old Book of Tang, a 10th-century history book about the Tang dynasty
New Book of Tang, an 11th-century history book about the Tang dynasty

See also
 Tang Huiyao, the Institutional History of Tang
 Canonical Book of the Tang Dynasty (disambiguation)
 Book of Southern Tang (disambiguation)


title: J. M. Lozano

text:
Jose Manuel Lozano, Jr., known as J. M. Lozano (born May 23, 1980), is a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 43, which consists of the counties of Bee, Jim Wells, Kleberg, and San Patricio. He serves as chairman of the House Committee on Redistricting and vice-chair of the Committee on International Trade. A restaurateur, Lozano lives in Kingsville in Kleberg County with his wife, Avelina, and their three children.

Background

Political life
He is a member of the Eagle Ford Shale Caucus, Tourism Caucus, Rural Caucus, and House Republican Policy Committee, and at various times he has been appointed to the positions of Deputy Floor Leader, chairman of the Committee on Redistricting, and vice-chairman of the Committee on International Trade.

References

1980 births
Living people
University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts alumni
University of the Incarnate Word alumni
Members of the Texas House of Representatives
Texas Democrats
Texas Republicans
American politicians of Mexican descent
Politicians from Guadalajara, Jalisco
People from Jim Wells County, Texas
People from McAllen, Texas
People from Kingsville, Texas
American restaurateurs
21st-century American politicians
Baptists from Texas
Latino conservatism in the United States


title: Pointman (user interface)

text:
Pointman is a seated user interface for controlling one's avatar in a 3D virtual environment.  It combines head tracking, a gamepad, and sliding foot pedals to provide positional control over many aspects of the avatar's posture.  Pointman was developed by the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) to support the use of dismounted infantry simulation for USMC training and mission rehearsal.  NRL's goal in developing Pointman was to extend the range and precision of actions supported by virtual simulators, to better represent what infantrymen can do.

How Pointman Works

Pointman seeks to enhance the level of control provided by conventional desktop and console game controllers by engaging the user's whole body to control corresponding segments of the avatar's body.   The user employs his head and upper body to control looking and aiming, as well as leaning to duck and peek around cover. He uses his hands to operate virtual weapons and direct tactical movement, and he uses his feet for stepping and controlling his avatar's postural height.

Pointman uses a set of three consumer grade input devices: a Natural Point TrackIR 5 head tracker, a Sony DualShock 3 gamepad, and a pair of flight simulator foot pedals from CH Products. The additional input from the head and feet offloads the hands from having to control the entire avatar and allows for a more natural assignment of control. Together, the three input devices offer twelve independent channels of control over the avatar's posture.

The head tracker registers the translation and rotation of the user's head. Pointman uses these inputs to map the movements of the user's head and torso one-for-one to those of his avatar. The virtual view changes as the user turns his head to look around or leans his torso in any direction. When the weapon is raised into an aim position its sights remain centered in the field of view, so that turning the head also adjusts the aim. The user can aim as precisely as he can hold his head on target. Hunching the head down by flexing the spine is also registered by the head's translation, and the avatar adopts a matching posture. Leaning forward and hunching are used to duck behind cover. Rising up and leaning to the side are used to look out and shoot from behind cover.

The gamepad includes dual thumb sticks and a pair of tilt sensors. Pointman uses the thumb sticks to turn the avatar's body and set the stepping direction. The tilt of the gamepad is mapped to control how the virtual rifle is held. The user tilts the gamepad down to lower the rifle, and tilts the gamepad up to continuously raise the rifle up through a low ready into an aim and then to a high ready.  This allows users to practice muzzle discipline, by lowering the rifle to avoid muzzle sweeping friendlies, minimizing collisions when moving through tight spaces, or leading with the rifle when moving around cover.  Once the rifle is raised into an aim position, the user's head motion aligns the sight picture.  The user rolls the gamepad (tilting it side to side) to cant the weapon. Gamepad buttons are mapped to control various weapon operations (including firing and reloading) and aiming functions (such as the optic zoom level).
The foot pedals slide back and forth and also move up and down like accelerator pedals. Pointman uses these inputs to control the avatar's lower body. The translational sliding (apart then together) is mapped to control the separation of the avatar's legs, simulating stepping when the avatar is upright and crawling when the avatar is prone. This allows users to take precise, measured steps when moving around obstacles or cover, and to continuously vary their speed over a realistic range of walking, running and crawling gaits.  The up-down movement of the pedals is mapped to control the avatar's postural height via the flexing of the avatar's legs.  This allows the avatar to continuously transition from standing tall to a low crouch (or kneel when the legs are apart), and when prone from hands-and-knees to belly-on-the-ground. The ability to precisely control their avatar's postural height allows users to make better use of cover and concealment, and to look and shoot out from behind cover while minimizing their exposure.

Integration with the Virtual Battlespace Combined Arms Simulator

The Virtual Battlespace combined arms simulators (VBS2, VBS3, and their successor VBS4), from Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BIS), are used for training by the USMC, the US Army, and a number of the NATO armed forces.  BIS worked closely with NRL to tightly integrate the Pointman interface with VBS, and to allow Pointman to control the posture of the user's avatar on a continuous basis. The detailed articulation of the user's avatar is made visible to other squad members running in a networked simulation.  Pointman-enhanced VBS (VBS-Pointman) supports the operation of a wide range of small arms and additional forms of mobility, including climbing, swimming, and mounted roles (driver, passenger and gunner) using the full complement of manned vehicles.

Development and Assessment

Pointman was designed by Dr. Jim Templeman of NRL and implemented by Patricia Denbrook of DCS, Inc. NRL's Base Funding Program supported the initial development of Pointman, and the USMC Program Manager Training Systems (PM_TRASYS) together with the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Rapid Technology Transition program office supported its integration with VBS2. ONR's Human Performance, Training, and Education Thrust Area added its support in refining and demonstrating Pointman.

A formal Military Utility Assessment (MUA) of Pointman integrated with VBS2 was performed by the MarForPac Experimentation Center at MCB Hawaii in September 2011.  The squad of Marines that participated in the study (Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 34d Marine Regiment) gave Pointman high marks for realism and usability. In response to a series of survey questions, the Marines felt Pointman allowed them to realistically: control viewing, perform tactical movements, control the virtual rifle, utilize cover, and control the avatar’s posture. They found it comfortable, easy to use, and that it enhanced the simulation. The primary recommendation of the MUA report was: “Transition the Pointman DISI (dismounted infantry simulation interface) enhancements into VBS2 to increase realism and efficacy as a virtual training aid.”

Future Enhancements

NRL is continuing to develop the Pointman interface as part of its ongoing research in expressive interaction for desktop simulation. This involves extending Pointman to include non-verbal communications (such as eye movements, facial expression, and arm gestures) needed to support team and cross-cultural interaction, without limiting tactical mobility. A driving application is the training of cultural interaction skills alongside warfighting skills, using training scenarios which pose a mix of tactical, cultural and ethical challenges.

References

External links
Pointman Demonstration Video
Enhancing Realism in Desktop Interfaces for Dismounted Infantry Simulation
User Interfaces for Dismounted Infantry Simulation
VBS-Pointman Quick Reference Cards
VBS-Pointman Training Guide
VBS-Pointman API
CH Products Pro Pedals
NRL Immersive Simulation Lab (ISL)
VRWiki Walking Simulators
Pointman in BIS Showcase

Simulation
User interfaces
Virtual reality


title: Dictyoloma

text:
Dictyoloma is a genus of flowering plants that belongs to the family Rutaceae.

References

Cneoroideae
Rutaceae genera


title: Shinji Takamatsu

text:
is a Japanese storyboard artist, screenwriter, and director.

Filmography

Director
 Mobile Suit SD Gundam's Counterattack (1989; director)
 The Brave Express Might Gaine (1993; director as )
 Brave Police J-Decker (1994; director, episode storyboard, episode director)
 The Brave of Gold Goldran (1995; director, episode storyboard, episode director)
 Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (1995; director [uncredited] from ep. 27 to ep. 49), episode storyboard)
 After War Gundam X (1996; director, episode storyboard)
 Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo (1998; director from ep. 76 to ep. 338)
 Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo The Movie (1999; director)
 Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo The Movie 2: UFO Shūrai! Tornado Daisakusen!! (2003; director)
 School Rumble (2004; director, episode storyboard, episode director)
 Gin Tama OVA (2005; director)
 Ginban Kaleidoscope (2005; director, episode storyboard; as )
 School Rumble: Extra Class (2005; director, episode storyboard, episode director)
 Gin Tama (2006; director from ep. 1 to 105; surpervisor from ep. 106 to 201)
 School Rumble: Third Semester (2008; director)
 Sora no Manimani (2009; director, writer, episode storyboard)
 Gintama: The Movie (2010; director) — Prugio Citizen's Choice Award at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival
 Gintama' (2011; supervisor, recording production)
 Daily Lives of High School Boys (2012; director, writer, episode storyboard, sound director)
 Chō Soku Henkei Gyrozetter (2012, chief director, episode storyboard)
 Ixion Saga DT (2012, director, episode storyboard, sound director)
 Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! (2015; director, episode storyboard, episode director)
 Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto (2016; director, writer, episode storyboard, sound director)
 Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! LOVE! (2016; director)
 Nanbaka (2016; director)
 Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! LOVE! LOVE! OVA (2017; director)
 Cute High Earth Defense Club HAPPY KISS! (2018; director, writer, episode storyboard, sound director)
 Grand Blue Dreaming (2018; director, writer, episode storyboard, episode director, sound director)
 RobiHachi (2019, director, storyboard, sound director)
 Teppen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Laughing 'til You Cry (2022, chief director)

Other
 Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985; episode director; as )
 Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (1986; episode storyboard, episode director)
 Deat Heat (1987; episode director)
 Dirty Pair OVA (1987; episode storyboard, episode director)
 Metal Armor Dragonar (1987; episode storyboard)
 Armor Hunter Mellowlink (1988; episode storyboard, episode director)
 Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (1998; co-producer)
 Ronin Warriors (1988; opening and ending coordinator; episode storyboard, episode director)
 Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket (1989; episode storyboard, episode director)
 Patlabor: The TV Series (1989; episode storyboard, episode director)
 Brave Exkaiser (1990; episode storyboard, episode director)
 Chibi Maruko-chan (1990; episode storyboard, episode director)
 Mobile Suit SD Gundam OVA (1990; episode storyboard, episode director)
 The Brave Fighter of Sun Fighbird (1991; episode storyboard, episode director)
 The Brave Fighter of Legend Da-Garn (1992; production chief; episode storyboard, episode director)
 Salad Jūyūshi Tomatoman (1992; episode storyboard, episode director)
 The King of Braves GaoGaiGar (1996; episode storyboard as "Tesaki Okuno")
 Ginga Hyōryū Vifam 13 (1998; episode storyboard, episode director)
 Japan Hikarian Railroad (1998; episode storyboard)
 Outlaw Star (1998; episode storyboard)
 Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (2000; episode storyboard)
 Brigadoon: Marin & Melan (2001; episode storyboard)
 s-CRY-ed (2001; episode storyboard)
 Lightning Attack Express (2002; episode storyboard)
 AM Driver (2004; episode storyboard; as "Tesaki Okuno")
 Gintama: The Movie: The Final Chapter: Be Forever Yorozuya (2013; supervisor, recording production)

References

External links

1961 births
Anime directors
Japanese animators
Japanese animated film directors
Japanese television directors
Japanese screenwriters
Japanese storyboard artists
Japanese voice directors
Living people
People from Tochigi Prefecture
Sunrise (company) people


title: Apolinar Hernández Balcazar

text:
Apolinar Hernandez Balcazar is a Mexican basket maker from San Martin Coapaxton, Tenancingo, State of Mexico, whose work has won various national awards.

The artisan lives in a rural area in central Mexico among orchards and cornfields, with pine forests in the higher mountains.  He works on his corn fields during the rainy season, concentrating on his weaving during the rest of the year. He learned basket weaving from his father, admiring the elder’s work and has tried to teach the same appreciation to this own children. He has also taught many other young people.

Hernandez Balcazar’s workshop is the patio of his house and the family participates in the production, making mostly various baskets, and holders for fruit, tortillas and eggs.  They also make baskets to hold gifts. He works with reeds and tender branches from three types of willow and other trees which he either buys or collects himself in the countryside.  Before weaving the fibers are soaked in water to make them more pliable. He generally uses his hands but if the piece is large, the feet are involved as well. A basket typically takes one 10-hour workday with the largest ones taking a week or more. Colors and textures are created by combining materials.  Patterns are created with various weaving techniques and combinations of materials and the most commons patterns are diagonal, crosshatched, geometric, triangular, squared and zigzag. The outsides are done as perfectly as possible, with knots and other imperfection left in the interior. He does not use dyes because he does not like how they look.

The pieces are mostly sold in state markets, through middlemen and sometimes directly to customers.

Hernandez Balcazar  has won national awards in Mexico and has a small, loyal group of collectors that pay anywhere from eight to 150 dollars for his work. His work can be found in collections such as that of FONART.  In 2001, he was named a “grand master” by the Fomento Cultural Banamex and an honorable mention at the Gran Premio de Arte Popular in 2010.

References

Mexican artists
Living people
Basket weavers
People from Tenancingo, State of Mexico
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: William Loftus (British Army officer)

text:
General William Loftus (1752 – 15 July 1831) was a British Army officer and Member of Parliament.

Early life and career
Loftus was born at Raynham in Norfolk early in 1752 and was later christened at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin where his ancestor Archbishop Adam Loftus is buried. Loftus was the second son of Captain Henry Loftus, by his wife Diana, daughter of William Bullock of Sturston Hall in Norfolk.  When Loftus was eighteen, his father purchased a commission for him in Ireland in the 17th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons, which was deployed to North America in 1775, where he saw action in the American War of Independence before returning to Ireland almost three years later.

Loftus was promoted to major-general in 1796, lieutenant-general in 1803 and full general in 1813. He served as Governor of Dumbarton Castle from 1807 to 1810 and as Lieutenant of the Tower of London from 1810, and from 1821, Colonel of the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) until his death.

Loftus died peacefully at his house in Wimpole Street on 15 July 1831 and was buried eight days later alongside his second wife Lady Elizabeth Loftus in the Townshend family vault at Raynham Hall.

Role in the American War of Independence
Loftus embarked for Boston from Cork on 10 April 1775 and arrived at a city under siege by local militia on 24 May.   Three weeks later, Loftus, a cavalry Cornet, volunteered to dismount for his first military action at Bunker Hill overlooking the city, under the command of General Sir William Howe, who on this occasion, was pleased to give him the rank of Lieutenant. The shock of one of the bloodiest battles of the war was followed by long winter months under siege in Boston, which ended in an ignominious evacuation in March 1776.  Loftus was seconded as an assistant engineer building fortifications in Halifax, Nova Scotia for the next few months (ibid.).

In July 1776, Loftus landed with his regiment on Staten Island, where the 17th joined forces with the newly recruited Hessian troops.  He distinguished himself with great gallantry in his first command on the Bedford Road under Sir William Erskine, personally commended by General Howe for his part in driving back the Americans and capturing General Sullivan, together with two Brigadier-Generals and ten field officers (ibid).  A few weeks later at Kip's Bay, Loftus was presented with the opportunity to change the course of history when he saw General Washington virtually unguarded and galloped to:

"...within a hundred yards of that General George Washington, whom he nearly captured.  The men whom he had with him were all knocked out of their saddles by the American riflemen concealed behind a fence.  Had he been fortunate enough to take such a prize, probably the whole course of events would have changed."

This account may well be apocryphal but it matches what is now known about a moment of fury on that day, 15 September 1776, when Washington briefly lowered his guard. A few weeks later, Loftus had the honour of being selected with twenty picked light dragoons, as General Howe's personal guard at Pelham Manor.  At White Plains, Howe chose him to lead the Hessian Grenadiers across the Bronx River, where he was wounded. His wounds were not critical and he was back in the field the following month, when he joined Lord Percy's brigade at the Battle of Fort Washington.  His regiment was unable to provide any hope for further promotion, so Loftus transferred to a company in the 44th regiment and was ordered by General Knyphausen to defend a pass at Kingsbridge with one hundred men.  The pass was defended, finally pushing the militia back in Kingsbridge in what was one of the heaviest defeats for the Americans in that war but Loftus was once again wounded, and withdrew to winter quarters, missing the action at The Battle of Trenton.  Loftus returned to active duty with Colonel Bird up the Hudson River to Peck's Hill in January 1777, where they blew up the American ammunitions stores. This was followed by a number of actions in New Jersey in 1777. Loftus was promoted to captain and returned to Ireland as aide-de-camp to the Lord Lieutenants of Ireland at Dublin Castle.

Rebellion in Ireland

Loftus was appointed as ADC to successive Lords Lieutenant of Ireland from 1778 until 1783.  He forged life-time friendships in this office, seen as "a good officer and so respectable in his character and connexxions". Loftus returned to active duty in the 3rd Regiment of Guards purchasing a company in 1784, and served as Lt-Colonel based in London.  He moved his family to Norfolk in 1790 (ibid.) and in 1794, raised the 24th Light Dragoons, appointed Brevet Colonel of that regiment(portrait left). In 1796, Loftus was made a Major General on the English staff and was sworn in as a Member of the Irish Parliament for Lord Ely and returned to Westminster as member for Great Yarmouth for Lord Townshend in the same year. Loftus was removed to the Irish staff in 1797 at the request of Lord Camden and appointed to be Commander in Chief in Munster based in Cork.  He reported back to Camden that the Catholics of Munster were in favour of "good order and government" and that if he wanted to root out sedition, he should look at "Dublin or the North". Loftus left the grateful citizens of Cork in 1798 to take command of Laughlinstown camp. In the same year, he commanded a brigade at the battle of Vinegar Hill and presided over a military court at the trial of Wolfe Tone.

In 1800 Loftus was transferred back to the staff in England but retained both Irish and Parliamentary seats to see the Act of Union through.

Family
Loftus married firstly on 18 February 1778, Margaret daughter of Maccerel King of Lesson Hall, Dublin. They had two sons and two daughters before she died on 4 May 1786. He was married secondly on 7 May 1790 to Lady Elizabeth Townshend, daughter of George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend. They had five sons and four daughters.

References

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title: Julius Lange (art historian)

text:
Julius Henrik Lange (19 June 1838, Vordingborg – 19 August 1896, Copenhagen) was a Danish art historian and critic.

Life
In 1858, he began his studies at the University of Copenhagen. A few years later, he accompanied a wealthy gentleman to Italy and, while there, developed an interest in art history. In 1870, he became a lecturer at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and, a year later, transferred to the University. In 1877, he became a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

His brother was Carl Lange, the psychologist.

Works
He wrote about ancient and contemporary art. Some of his outstanding works were:
Michelangelo og Marmoret (Michelangelo and Marble, 1871)
Om Kunstværdi (About the Value of Art, 1876)
Vor Kunst og Udlandets (Our Arts and the Foreign, 1879),
Det ioniske Kapitäls Oprindelse og Forhistorie (Origins and Pre-history of the Ionic Capital, 1877)
Guder og Mennesker hos Homer (God and Men in Homer, 1881)
Sergel og Thorvaldsen (Sergel and Thorvaldsen, 1885)
Bastien-Lepage og andre Afhandlinger, (Bastien Lepage and Other Essays, 1889)
Billedkunstens Fremstilling af Menneskeskikkelsen i dens ældste Periode, (Representation of the Human Figure in its Earliest Period, 1892)

Collections of his letters were published in 1903 and 1904. They have recently been reprinted as Breve fra Julius Lange, Kessinger (2010)

References

Danish art historians
University of Copenhagen alumni
People from Vordingborg Municipality
1838 births
1896 deaths


title: HMS Lily

text:
Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Lily or HMS Lilly:

 , of 12 guns and 110 tons, purchased in 1642 and under the command of Captain Isaias Blowfield when she was wrecked in September 1653 when she was driven ashore in a storm.
 , a 6-gun ketch launched in 1657 and sold in 1667.
 , a 6-gun sloop launched in 1672 and under the command of Captain William Sherwin when she foundered in 1674.
HMS Lily, a 16-gun brig-sloop. She was formerly the brig Sir Charles Grey, purchased in 1795 and named . She was renamed Lily (or Lilly) in 1800, captured by the French privateer Dame Ambert in 1804, and renamed Général Ernouf. She exploded and was lost in 1805 during an engagement with .
HMS Lilly, a brig, the former British East India Company packet ship Swallow, launched in 1779, purchased in 1804, and sold in 1811.
, a 16-gun  launched in 1837, converted to coal hulk C29 in 1860, renamed C15 and sold in 1908.
, a 4-gun  launched in 1861 and broken up in 1867.
, a 3-gun  launched in 1874 and wrecked off Labrador in 1889.
, an  launched in 1915, converted to a depot ship in 1923, renamed Vulcan II. She was renamed Adamant II in 1930 and sold the same year.

Notes

Citations

References

Royal Navy ship names


title: Cneoroideae

text:
Cneoroideae is a subfamily of flowering plants that belongs to the family Rutaceae. The subfamilies Dictyolomatoideae and Spathelioideae are now included in the subfamily Cneoroideae.

Taxonomy
In 1896, Engler published a division of the family Rutaceae into seven subfamilies. Two of Engler's monogeneric subfamilies, Dictyolomatoideae and Spathelioideae, are now included in the subfamily Cneoroideae, along with genera Engler placed in other families. The subfamily name Cneoroideae is attributed to Philip Barker-Webb in 1842.

Genera
Genera placed in Cneoroideae in a 2021 classification of the Rutaceae into subfamilies are:
 Bottegoa Chiov.
 Cedrelopsis Baill.
 Cneorum L.
 Dictyoloma A.Juss.
 Harrisonia R.Br. ex A.Juss.
 Ptaeroxylon Eckl. & Zeyh.
 Sohnreyia K.Krause
 Spathelia L.

References

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Rosid subfamilies


title: Daniel Raymond Burt

text:
Daniel Raymond Burt February 29, 1804 – January 7, 1884) was an American legislator and businessman.

Born in Florida, New York, in Montgomery County, New York, he moved to Ontario in 1826 and then to Tecumseh, Michigan, in 1830. He married Lydia Ashley (1805–1864) in 1831. Burt then moved to Wisconsin Territory settling in the town of Waterloo, in Grant County, Wisconsin, in 1835, where he developed roads, gristmills, and sawmills. The unincorporated community of Burton, Wisconsin, in the town of Waterloo, was platted and named for him. He served in the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature from 1840 to 1842 and 1847 to 1848 as a Whig. Burt then moved to Dunleith, Illinois (now East Dubuque, Illinois), in 1856, where he started the Burt Machine Company, which produced agricultural machinery. He married his second wife, Mary J. Ennor, in 1866. Burt died on January 7, 1884, in Wenona, Illinois, and was buried in East Dubuque, Illinois.

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1804 births
1884 deaths
People from Florida, Montgomery County, New York
People from Jo Daviess County, Illinois
People from Grant County, Wisconsin
American city founders
Businesspeople from Illinois
Businesspeople from Wisconsin
Wisconsin Whigs
Members of the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature
19th-century American politicians
People from Tecumseh, Michigan
19th-century American businesspeople


title: Gomidas Institute

text:
The Gomidas Institute (GI; ) is an independent academic institution "dedicated to modern Armenian and regional studies."  Its activities include research, publications and educational programmes. It publishes documents, monographs, memoirs and other works on modern Armenian history and organizes lectures and conferences.  The institute was founded in 1992 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. It is based in London and maintains a United States branch in Cleveland. British-Armenian historian Ara Sarafian serves as its executive director.  Since 1998, the institute has been publishing a quarterly journal titled Armenian Forum ( ). The institute is named after Komitas (Gomidas in Western Armenian pronunciation).

Noteworthy publications

Ottoman/Turkish Armenia and the Armenian genocide

Russian/Soviet/Post-Soviet Armenia and the Caucasus

Armenian Literature

Armenian Art and Architecture

Kurds and Kurdistan

See also
 Armenian studies

References

External links
 Gomidas Institute Website

Academic organisations based in the United Kingdom
1992 establishments in Michigan
Armenian studies


title: Louis Bernard Bonjean

text:
Louis Bernard Bonjean (4 December 1804 - 24 May 1871) was a French jurist who was a Senator under Napoleon III.
He was a prolific author. During the Paris Commune he was taken prisoner and later shot.

Early years

Bonjean was born in Valence, Drôme, on 4 December 1804.
His family was from Savoy. He studied law in Paris, and received a doctorate in 1830.
He participated in the July 1830 revolution.
He had planned to make a career in legal education, but gave up this ambition after competing unsuccessfully to become a professor.
In 1838 he obtained a position as an advocate for the King's Counsel and for the Court of Cassation.
He gained a reputation from various works that he published on jurisprudence.

Politician

Bonjean entered politics in 1848 and was elected as representative for Drôme on a Republican platform on 23 April 1848.
However, he took his place on the right of the House and joined the conservative and Catholic majority.
On 13 May 1849 he again ran for election for Drôme, and in March 1850 ran in a by-election in Paris, but did not succeed in either attempt.
However, he remained involved in politics.
At the start of 1851 the President gave him the post of Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, which he held for two weeks from 9 to 24 January.
He supported the coup of December 1851, and was one of the members of the Council of State of 1852, presiding over the Interior section.

Bonjean then entered the imperial judiciary. On 16 February 1855 he was named a senator. Although conservative, he sometimes leaned towards a more liberal position and came into conflict with the majority. On 14 August 1862 he was made a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour.
He was made first president of the Court of Riom in 1863 and President of Chamber at the Court of Cassation in 1865.
When the Siege of Paris began on 4 September 1870 he remained in Paris and helped with the defense as a member of the National Guard.
The Paris Commune took him hostage and imprisoned him in Mazas Prison.
He was among those shot at La Roquette by the troops of the Commune on 24 May 1871.

Selected works

Louis Bernard Bonjean was a prolific author, and also acted as an editor and translator. Selected works:

De la donation entre vifs 56 p. 1837 Paris impr. Terzuolo
Mémoire à consulter pour les colons de la Guyane française spoliés par la violation de la capitulation du 12 janvier 1809 avec le Portugal In-8°, 24 p. 1839 Paris impr. de Béthune et Plon
Traité des actions, ou Exposition historique de l'organisation judiciaire et de la procédure civile chez les Romains 2 vol. in-8° 1841-1845 Paris Videcoq
De la Propriété et de la prescriptibilité des îles du Rhin, extrait de la "Revue étrangère et française de législation" In-8°, 46 p. 1843 Paris Joubert
Chrestomathie, ou Choix de textes pour un cours élémentaire du droit privé des Romains In-8°, CXVI-484 p. 1843 Paris Videcoq et fils
De l'Inconstitutionnalité de la juridiction militaire en Algérie à l'égard des citoyens français non militaires In-8°, 32 p. 1843 Paris impr. de Rignoux
Socialisme et sens commun, 68 p. May 1849 Paris Vve Le Normant
Conservation des oiseaux, leur utilité pour l'agriculture 56 p. 1862 Tarbes impr. de Telmon
Du Pouvoir temporel de la papauté In-8°, 533 p. 1862 Paris impr. de C. Lahure
Cour impériale de Riom 7 Mai 1863 In-8°, 63 p. Riom, U. Jouvet
Les Allopathes et les homéopathes devant le Sénat, discours de MM. Dumas, Bonjean et Dupin. Séance du 1er juillet 1865, 125 p. 1865 Paris Garnier frères

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1804 births
1871 deaths
People from Valence, Drôme
Bonapartists
French Ministers of Agriculture and Commerce
Members of the 1848 Constituent Assembly
Members of Parliament for Drôme
French senators of the Second Empire
19th-century French lawyers
Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour
Executed French people
People executed by France by firearm


title: Paisley Rekdal

text:
Paisley Rekdal is an American poet who is currently serving as Poet Laureate of Utah. She is the author of a book of essays entitled The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations on Not Fitting In, the memoir Intimate, as well as six books of poetry. For her work, she has received numerous fellowships, grants, and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Residency, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes in both 2009 and 2013, Narrative's Poetry Prize, the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and several other awards from the state arts council. She has been recognized for her poems and essays in The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, Tin House, the Best American Poetry series, and on National Public Radio, among others. She was also a recipient of a 2019 Academy of American Poets' Poets Laureate Fellowship.

Early life and education
She grew up in Seattle, Washington, the daughter of a Chinese-American mother and a Norwegian father and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Washington, as well as a Master of Arts degree from the University of Toronto for Medieval Studies and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Michigan.

Career
Rekdal is a professor at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, and at Goddard College's low-residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program in Port Townsend, Washington. She is also credited with having created the community web project Mapping Salt Lake City.

Her work appeared in Black Warrior Review, Denver Quarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, Narrative Magazine, Nerve, New England Review, The New York Times Magazine, NPR, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and Blackbird.

She was appointed Poet Laureate of Utah in May 2017.

In 2018, Rekdal was awarded the Narrative Prize for a trilogy of poems, “Quiver,” “Telling the Wasps,” and “The Olive Tree at Vouves,” which combine "Keatsian lyricism with a mortal questioning of the nature of memory in the modern age."

Works

Poetry

Six Girls Without Pants, Eastern Washington University Press, 2002,

Nightingale. Copper Canyon Press. 7 May 2019.
West: A Translation. Copper Canyon Press. 2 May 2023.

Non-fiction

Intimate: An American Family Photo Album, Tupelo Press, 2012,

References

External links
Official website
Official Twitter Account
University of Utah faculty profile of Paisley Rekdal
"Of Perspective and Perception": An Interview with Paisley Rekdal (Interview Series, The Poetry and Literature Center at the Library of Congress)
Animal Eye by Paisley Rekdal – Coal Hill Review

Living people
University of Washington alumni
University of Toronto alumni
University of Michigan alumni
University of Utah faculty
Writers from Seattle
Poets from Washington (state)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Goddard College faculty


title: Beauchamp Day

text:
Beauchamp Day was an Irish sprinter who was Ireland's championship runner in the early 1910s. He regularly competed at the Australian gold fields of Kalgoorlie; his 1906 defeat there at the hands of Arthur Postle being an event of some notoriety. On 1 April 1907 he recorded a then-world record time for the 400 metre sprint.

References

Irish male sprinters
Date of birth unknown
Date of death unknown


title: Julius Lange

text:
Julius Lange may refer to:

 Julius Lange (painter) (1817–1878), German landscape painter
 Julius Lange (art historian) (1838–1896), Danish art historian
 Julius Lange (numismatist) (1815–1905), German numismatist

See also
 Lange (surname)


title: The 100 most prominent Serbs

text:
The 100 most prominent Serbs () is a book containing the biographies of the hundred most important Serbs compiled by a committee of academicians at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The committee members were Sava Vuković, Pavle Ivić, Dragoslav Srejović, Dejan Medaković, Dragomir Vitorović, Zvonimir Kostić, Vasilije Krestić, Miroslav Pantić and Danica Petrović. The book was published for the first time in 1993 on 20+617 pages, reprinted in 2001, and the third extended edition was printed in 2009 and 2013.

With the efforts of the president of the editorial board of the book Dejan Medaković, Milan Nedić was also included in the list, because he claimed that Nedić's government saved his family. The editorial board had problems with the inclusion of Nedić and Draža Mihailović, and the latter was not included in the final list. Nedić and Mihailović cooperated with the Axis powers during World War II.

The list

References

1993 non-fiction books
Serbs
Lists of Serb people
Lists of Serbian people
Biographical books
Serbian books
Cultural depictions of Serbian people
Cultural depictions of Serbian kings
Cultural depictions of Stefan Nemanja
Cultural depictions of Saint Sava
Cultural depictions of Alexander I of Yugoslavia
Cultural depictions of Peter I of Serbia
Cultural depictions of Karađorđe
Cultural depictions of Vuk Karadžić
Books about Nikola Tesla


title: Japanese destroyer Tachibana

text:
Two Japanese destroyers have been named :

 , a  of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I
 , lead ship of her class that served the Imperial Japanese Navy
 Tachibana-class destroyer, a class of destroyer built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II

See also
 Tachibana (disambiguation)

Imperial Japanese Navy ship names
Japanese Navy ship names


title: Sanana language

text:
Sanana may be:
 Kunja language (Papuan)
 Sula language


title: Kurtamysh

text:
Kurtamysh may refer to:
Kurtamysh Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which Kurtamysh Town Under District Jurisdiction in Kurtamyshsky District of Kurgan Oblast, Russia is incorporated as
Kurtamysh (inhabited locality), several inhabited localities in Kurgan Oblast, Russia
Kurtamysh River, a river in Kurgan Oblast, Russia on which the town of Kurtamysh stands


title: Cyanothamnus

text:
Cyanothamnus is a genus of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae, native to Australia. Plants in the genus Cyanothamnus are erect or spreading shrubs usually with pinnate leaves (simple leaves in C. anemonifolius and C. nanus) arranged in opposite pairs, the leaves or leaflets flat. The flowers are arranged singly or in cymes with minute bracts. The petals are usually pink or white, sometimes blue or yellowish-green.

Taxonomy
The genus was first described in 1839 by John Lindley in A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony. Most of the species now placed in the genus were first described in the genus Boronia, with which Cyanothamnus was synonymized. A molecular phylogenetic study in 2020 showed that as then circumscribed Boronia was polyphyletic, and Lindley's genus was revived. A 2021 classification of the family Rutaceae places Cyanothamnus in the subfamily Zanthoxyloideae.

Species
, Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:
Cyanothamnus acanthocladus (Paul G.Wilson) Duretto & Heslewood (W.A.)
Cyanothamnus anemonifolius (A.Cunn.) Duretto & Heslewood – narrow-leaved boronia, sticky boronia (Qld., N.S.W., Vic., Tas.)
Cyanothamnus baeckeaceus (F.Muell.) Duretto & Heslewood (W.A.)
Cyanothamnus bipinnatus (Lindl.) Duretto & Heslewood – rock boronia (Qld.)
Cyanothamnus bussellianus (F.Muell.) Duretto & Heslewood (W.A.)
Cyanothamnus coerulescens (F.Muell.) Duretto & Heslewood – blue boronia (N.S.W., Vic., S.A., W.A.)
Cyanothamnus defoliatus (F.Muell.) Duretto & Heslewood (W.A.)
Cyanothamnus fabianoides (Diels) Duretto & Heslewood (W.A.)
Cyanothamnus inconspicuus (Benth.) Duretto & Heslewood (W.A.)
Cyanothamnus inflexus (Duretto) Duretto & Heslewood (Qld., N.S.W.)
Cyanothamnus montimulliganensis (Duretto) Duretto & Heslewood (Qld.)
Cyanothamnus nanus (Hook.) Duretto & Heslewood – dwarf boronia, small boronia (N.S.W., Vic., Tas., S.A.)
Cyanothamnus occidentalis (Duretto) Duretto & Heslewood – rock boronia (Qld., N.S.W.)
Cyanothamnus penicillatus (Benth.) Duretto & Heslewood (W.A.)
Cyanothamnus polygalifolius (Sm.) Duretto & Heslewood – dwarf boronia, milkwort-leaved boronia, milkwort boronia (Qld., N.S.W.)
Cyanothamnus quadrangulus Duretto & Heslewood – narrow-leaved boronia (Qld., N.S.W.)
Cyanothamnus ramosus Lindl. (W.A.)
Cyanothamnus rigens (Cheel) Duretto & Heslewood – stiff boronia (N.S.W.)
Cyanothamnus subsessilis (Benth.) Duretto & Heslewood (W.A.)
Cyanothamnus tenuis Lindl. – blue boronia (W.A.)
Cyanothamnus warangensis (Duretto) Duretto & Heslewood (Qld.)
Cyanothamnus westringioides (Paul G.Wilson) Duretto & Heslewood (W.A.)
Cyanothamnus yarrowmerensis (Duretto) Duretto & Heslewood (Qld.)

References

Zanthoxyloideae
Zanthoxyloideae genera


title: Army Plots (1641)

text:
The 1641 Army Plots were two separate alleged attempts by supporters of Charles I of England to use the army to crush the Parliamentary opposition in the run-up to the First English Civil War. The plan was to move the army from York to London and to use it to reassert royal authority. It was also claimed that the plotters were seeking French military aid and that they planned to seize and fortify towns to become Royalist strongholds.

The exposure of the plots allowed John Pym and other opposition leaders to gain the upper hand by imprisoning or forcing into exile many of the king's supporters, including his wife Henrietta Maria. According to Conrad Russell, it remains unclear "who plotted with whom to do what" and that "Charles I's plots, like his grandmother's lovers, are capable of growing in the telling". Nevertheless, there were clearly real attempts to negotiate the movement of troops to London.

First Army Plot

The so-called "first army plot" unfolded between March and May 1641. Despite defeat in the Bishops' Wars, the recall of Parliament in November 1640 and its prosecution of William Laud and Strafford, as ever Charles sought to regain any ground lost to his opponents. Encouraged by the defection of Covenanters like Montrose, he hoped to break the alliance between the Scots and his opponents in Parliament. This ended in late February after the Scots published demands for the execution of Strafford and removal of bishops from the Church of England. When Parliament refused to condemn the Scots, Charles realised he could not reach agreement with his critics on terms that he considered acceptable.

His conclusion coincided with discontent among the English troops, which came to a head when Parliament diverted money intended for their wages to the Scots. This provoked fury among the officers, who commonly funded expenses in advance and depended upon payment of these for later reimbursement. They composed a letter listing their complaints, which was brought to London by James Chudleigh, a captain in the Earl of Northumberland's regiment. He shared its contents with the poet William Davenant, John Suckling and Henry Jermyn.

George Goring proposed that the army at York march south to threaten Parliament, while he seized Portsmouth in order to provide a landing place for external assistance. A second element was Suckling  along with Henry Jermyn, supported the move and hoped to occupy the Tower of London. This was linked to a plan to free Strafford who was being held there Meanwhile, Henry Percy was also independently planning to petition Parliament for financial support for the army.

At a meeting with the king and queen, Percy and Goring discussed the proposal to bring the main army south. Rumours began to circulate that the king would take command of the army and that French troops would be sent in support. However, the main body of the soldiery refused to accept the proposals and so it was abandoned. Goring told Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport, of the plans. Blount passed on the information indirectly to leading Parliamentarian John Pym in April. Davenant and Suckling, however, still planned to seize the Tower. Soldiers loyal to the king were placed in position, but the situation soon became known to Parliament, and a stand-off developed. Soldiers loyal to Parliament quickly took control of the Tower.

In the ensuing investigation, much was made of claims that the king and queen were plotting to obtain French military support. It was claimed that the queen had diverted her personal funds to the port of Portsmouth, of which Goring was in command, in order to turn it into a Royalist fortress. Evidence was also produced that the king was gathering funds to win military men over to his side.

As soon as the plot was discovered Percy sought to flee to France, but was assaulted and wounded by country people in Sussex. He was forced to go into hiding. He wrote a letter to his brother, giving an account of events, which the Parliamentarians later used as proof of the reality of the plot. After his capture, he tried to blame others. Royalists condemned him for betraying the King. Goring too distanced himself from the plans of Davenant and Suckling. His submission to Parliament allowed him to retain control of Portsmouth. Davenant, Jermyn and Suckling all fled to France, where Suckling died shortly afterwards, probably by suicide. The failure of the plot contributed to the condemnation and execution of Strafford as a traitor, and alienated many moderate Royalists from the king.

Second Army Plot

A few months later, rumours of a second plot began circulating. In May, Charles sent Daniel O'Neill to negotiate with army leaders, suggesting that they might move their forces south to "protect" both the king and moderate parliamentarians. O'Neill also sought to ensure the Scots Covenanter government remained neutral; like Ireland, Scotland was then separate from England, although Charles was king in all three. Pym sought to rally support to put local militias on alert against the proposed move, which again failed to find sufficient support among army commanders.

William Legge, who had been questioned after the first plot, was directly involved with the second. Along with two other M.P.s, Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester was expelled from the Long Parliament in December 1641 for alleged complicity in the Second Army Plot and was placed under arrest. O'Neill escaped to France, but soon returned and was arrested and imprisoned. This time Percy was also expelled from the House of Commons in December, after which he too left for France.

Consequences
The two army plots had the effect of hardening the differences between the two sides, and ultimately of strengthening the Parliamentary cause by allowing Parliament to gauge the extent of support for the king among army commanders. Pym was also able to establish the conditions for militias and pro-Parliamentary factions to defend towns potentially threatened by the Royalists. Leading Royalists were either forced into exile or deprived of power, further strengthening Parliament's hand.

The events made it increasingly clear that the king would not be able to impose his will with a threat of force. His attempt to arrest his leading opponents in Parliament without army backing in January 1642, was an abject failure. He fled from London to his strongholds in the Midlands a few days later. The queen left the country. When Charles made clear his intention to fight, Goring, still in control of Portsmouth, immediately declared in favour of the king. Jermyn and Davenant both returned to England to join the king. O'Neill escaped from prison in 1642 dressed as a woman, and also joined the Royalists. Percy and Wilmot joined the Royalists, but eventually fell out of Charles' favour for advocating negotiations with Parliament.

Notes

References

English Civil War
1641 in England
Conspiracies
Conflicts in 1641
17th-century coups d'état
Charles I of England
Henrietta Maria of France


title: Kurtamysh (inhabited locality)

text:
Kurtamysh () is the name of several inhabited localities in Kurgan Oblast, Russia.

Urban localities
Kurtamysh (town), a town in Kurtamyshsky District

Rural localities
Kurtamysh (rural locality), a village in Rakovsky Selsoviet of Ketovsky District


title: Makushino

text:
Makushino () is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.

Urban localities
Makushino, Kurgan Oblast, a town in Makushinsky District of Kurgan Oblast

Rural localities
Makushino, Novgorod Oblast, a village in Yedrovskoye Settlement of Valdaysky District in Novgorod Oblast
Makushino, Pskov Oblast, a village in Opochetsky District of Pskov Oblast


title: Harald Lie

text:
Harald Lie (21 November 1902 – 23 May 1942) was a Norwegian composer. He died young of tuberculosis and is mainly remembered for one composition, Skindvengbrev ("A Bat's Letter"), an orchestral song after his own wind quintet.

The poem Skinnvengbrev ("A Bat's Letter") is by Aslaug Vaa and was also later set by Geirr Tveitt; it begins "Eg trudde eingong du hadde gøymt deg, at både du og Gud ha gløymt meg,.." (English: "Once I thought you had gone hiding, that I was forgotten by you and By God, and I was the least of created things"). Kirsten Flagstad recorded Lie's orchestral song, together with a less well known song by Lie, Nykelen ("The Key"), with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Øivin Fjeldstad.

References

1902 births
1942 deaths
20th-century Norwegian composers
20th-century Norwegian male musicians
20th-century deaths from tuberculosis
Tuberculosis deaths in Norway


title: Trinity School, Sevenoaks

text:
Trinity School is a coeducational Christian secondary school and sixth form based in Sevenoaks, Kent, England. The school opened in September 2013 under the Free School initiative set forward by the coalition government. The current enrolment is more than 850 pupils. The first headmaster was co-founder Matthew Tate and the current being Dr. Matthew Pawson who has led the school since September 2016.

The school is based at the Wildernesse School site and was rated as a Good School by Ofsted in the 2015 report.

References

External links
 Official website

Schools in Sevenoaks
2013 establishments in England
Secondary schools in Kent
Christian schools in England
Free schools in England


title: Haim Kadmon

text:
Haim Kadmon  (1897 - 1985) 1920–1948 Senior official in British Mandatory government in Palestine 1948 - 1965 Administrator General and Official Receiver, Ministry of Justice, Government of Israel 1965–1983 Voluntary service in Ort Israel, Youth Hostel association, Magen David Adom

British Mandatory government – 1920 – 1948
Haim Kadmon entered the administration of regulating train traffic, then in the paymasters office of the police. After the legislation of the bankruptcy law he was sent to London to study in order to be appointed to the office of the Official Receiver. In due course he was appointed to be the Deputy Official Receiver. On leaving the Official Receiver's office he served in a senior position in the office of Trade and Industry.

Haim Kadmon was in charge of the administration of the bankruptcy of Gaza's mayor, Fachmi Husseini, who owned large tracts of land in the south of the country. The decision of the court under a British judge ordered the land to be transferred to the Keren Kayemet Leisrael on which lands five settlements were established in due course. Also when he served in the office of the Trade and Industries he contributed to strengthen the Jewish industry specially since Palestine was closed off from the world pending and during the second world war.

Israel government – 1948-1965
With the establishment of the State of Israel on 15 May 1948 Kadmon was immediately appointed as Administrator General and Official Receiver. In this capacity he formulated the functioning of the different departments – which included

 searching for property of absentee owners and administering their property,
 administering the property of those who were unable to do so on their own, (under age, mentally sick etc.) In their name, those who were "graduates" of the holocaust, he submitted claims for compensation to the German government.
 administering bequests and legacies to the State of Israel In this capacity Kadmon took action and convinced the Israeli government to sign treaties with a number of European governments according to which there was mutual exemption of estate taxes for charitable purposes.
administering property of different foreign organizations that were under German ownership (the Germans were expelled from the country as enemies because of the 2nd world war and he "inherited" the administration from the Mandatory Government) as well as the property of the Russian Government.
administering the property of bankrupt persons and companies – in this capacity his policy was to continue, whenever possible, the activity of the company in order to find a potential buyer and thus receive better compensation for the claimants and contribute toward the economic and industrial development. This policy was continued by his successors.

He composed (formulated) the law of "Enemy Property"

Under the law of inheritance the Administrator General was asked whenever potential heirs were sought.

Kadmon initiated the negotiations with the Templars, Lutheran organization, German Catholics and the Russian Government to purchase their property in Israel for the State of Israel. Beside the negotiations with the Templars, he chaired the others. The negotiations were successful and the property was transferred to the State of Israel.

Voluntary service
Upon retiring from Government service Kadmon occupied himself in fields he thought to be important. He was especially interested in investing in the enhancement of education of youth (in the wide sense). He joined the executive committee of Ort Israel (a network of scientific and technological schools and colleges of different levels up to academic degrees), the association of Youth Hostels and Magen David Adom (first aid  institution). He was active in the pedagogic committee of Ort and initiated the Comptrol committee which he chaired.

Biography
Haim Kadmon, born Kosloff, was born in 1897 in a small village in the province of Mogilev near Bialystok in Belarus. He was one of five children. He studied in a Heder (Orthodox) and then attended a public Jewish school. On graduation he intended to continue to a secondary school in Bialistok, but because of numerus clausus requirements he would not have been accepted unless he paid 500.- Rubal. He heard from his Hebrew teacher that in Palestine, in Tel Aviv-Yafo, existed the Herzlia gymnasium to which he applied to be accepted. He began his studies there in 1913. On returning for holiday to his family in Russia in 1914 he was caught up in the Communistic revolution. As he had to continue his studies there he enrolled in a technical school where he studied administration of regulating train traffic (he heard that the British Mandatory Government in Palestine was planning to develop the regulation of train traffic).

In 1919 he married Judith, an eye doctor, and together they decided to emigrate to Palestine arriving on the famous Ruslan ship. Upon arriving he entered service in the British Mandatory Government. While in service and after the bankruptcy legislation was enacted he was sent to London to study where he received his diploma of certified accountant so that he could be appointed to serve in the office of the Official Receiver. In due course he was appointed to be the deputy.

In 1958 Kadmon married his second wife Miriam. Haim Kadmon died in 1985.

References

1897 births
1985 deaths
Israeli government officials
People from Mandatory Palestine
Jews from Mandatory Palestine
People from Mogilev
Belarusian Jews


title: List of United States Supreme Court copyright case law

text:
This is a list of Supreme Court of the United States cases in the area of copyright law. In the United States Constitution, the Copyright Clause in Article 1, Section 8 endows Congress with the power to create a copyright system. To avoid individual states' attempts at creating their own copyright systems, Congress passed the Copyright Act of 1790, based on Great Britain's Statute of Anne. Over the decades since, copyright in the United States has become a more complicated system with longer terms and more tests, and has been the subject of many decisions by the Court.

The Supreme Court was the source of a number of concepts in the field, including fair use, the idea-expression divide, the useful articles or separability doctrine, and the uncopyrightability of federal documents.

This list is a list solely of United States Supreme Court decisions about applying copyright law. Not all Supreme Court decisions are ultimately influential and, as in other fields, not all important decisions are made at the Supreme Court level. Many federal courts issue rulings that are significant or come to be influential, but those are outside the scope of this list.

Because they share a clause of the Constitution and much the same justifications, there is considerable overlap between patent and copyright jurisprudence. As such, patent cases may appear in this list if they make their connections to copyright explicit in the opinions.

19th century

20th century

21st century

Warner Chappell Music, Inc. v. Nealy (2024)

Forthcoming cases
As of  , the Supreme Court has no copyright cases pending.

Dissents to denials of certiorari
When the Court refuses to hear a case, justices are entitled to write dissents to that denial of certiorari.

Further research
 Raza Panjwani, "Supreme Court Copyright Index"—A post listing Supreme Court copyright jurisprudence, organized by justice. Last updated in 2014.

See also
 List of United States Supreme Court patent case law
 List of United States Supreme Court trademark case law

Copyright law
Copyright
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