title: Metaltech (band)

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Metaltech (met'l tek) are a three piece Scottish metal/techno/rock/industrial dance music band from Edinburgh. They consist of Erik Tricity (Erik Grieve) performing vocals, rhythm guitar, programming and production, Lord Thrapston Flagellator, pronounced fla-jella-tor (Emmett Christie) playing bass guitar and the Insidious Doktor Mayhem (Rory Alsop) providing lead guitar and pyrotechnics.

Their music is an amalgamation of rock/metal guitars, funk/slap bass, synthesizers, techno inspired programmed drums and tongue-in-cheek lyrics.

Metaltech are renowned for their theatrical performances and over the top behaviour, with band members donning masks, Kabuki style make up and eccentric costumes, all themed in neon orange, black and white. Their stage show involves frequent audience interaction with items such as glo-sticks and party poppers being thrown into the crowd, as well as the use of bubble guns, confetti cannons and fireworks.

History: Band formation
Metaltech formed in January 2009 and played their first gig at the Ark in Edinburgh on 1 February 2009. After a few small gigs, the band was then offered a support slot with Alec Empire of Atari Teenage Riot that resulted in increased recognition. After using their strong image to stand out in a nationwide television advertising campaign for T-Mobile, they landed gigs at Rockness, The Wickerman Festival and Belladrum, three Scottish music festivals.

In 2011, they came second in the running in the Best Metal category at the Scottish Alternative Music Awards, and were nominated and played live at the Scottish New Music Awards. Having released two EPs and working around Scotland including a mini tour with Japanese band Psydoll, the band went on to perform in London at the fetish venue, Club Antichrist. This performance introduced additional performers in the shape of the Kamikaze Girls, who, dressed as latex sex dolls pole danced during the song Sex on the Dancefloor. Metaltech then provided support for Angelspit at The Classic Grand in Glasgow. Later supporting KMFDM, Metaltech were also the opening act at the Infest (festival) in 2013. The beginning of 2014 saw the band tour Scotland with Psydoll for a second time.

Recordings
Metaltech released their first EP, Alkomatic, on 10 July 2010 on Alex Tronic Records.  Their second Alex Tronic Records EP, Sex on the Dancefloor, was released on 3 September 2010 and featured remixes by other artists on the Alex Tronic label (Erik Tricity Electro Sex Mix, Vout Congo Helium Mix, Alex Tronic Tantric Trance Mix, and Neu Gestalt Mix).

In August 2010, Bannerman's Bar in Edinburgh released volume 6 of their Under the Bridge compilation album series. Track 6 is Metaltech's "This Kiss"

In September 2011, United Noise Records released Remix Theory digital download 11 track album, with Metaltech's Burn Your Fucking Planet remixed by K-Nitrate (as the K-Nitrate Kyohen Network Remix), and by System:FX as the Ignite Mix)

On 15 August 2011, Metaltech released the album, Burn Your Planet, also on Alex Tronic Records. The Skinny said Metaltech had; "an obvious knack for knocking out extremely danceable industrial, the kind of music that you couldn't stop your head rhythmically swaying to, even if you wanted, and then filling the gaps with abundant 80's style guitar lines: simple, uncomplicated, melodic".

Brutal Resonance said; "can the masked trio make a studio product that captures the same energy, showmanship and white-hot skill they put into every gig they play? The answer is an undeniable 'yes'. From the opening of the first track to the last Metaltech indelibly stamp themselves into your brain".

Discography

Alkomatic EP  (2010)

 Alkomatic EP  is the debut EP from Scottish metal band Metaltech, released in 2010. The album cover's artwork was provided by Erik Tricity.

Track listing

Sex on the Dancefloor EP  (2010)

 Sex on the Dancefloor EP  is Metaltech's second EP, featuring four remixes of the title track. The album cover's artwork was provided by Erik Tricity.

Track listing

Burn Your Planet  (2011)

 Burn Your Planet  is Metaltech's first full-length album, released in 2011 and mastered at Finiflex Studio in Edinburgh.

Track listing

Awards
In 2011 Metaltech were nominated in the Group of the Year category in The Scottish New Music Awards, and in the Heavy Metal category in The Scottish Alternative Music Awards.

Radio play
Metaltech visited Leith FM (Now Castle FM) in Edinburgh on 2 December 2009 to be interviewed by Laura Kerr, and to play a few tracks.

Dark Essence Radio in Australia played Metaltech's "Slice" on 25 March 2013 between Rammstein's Ich Will, and SITD's Beacon of Hope.

Radio Russelsheim in Germany played Metaltech on 22 August 2013 during their IG Metal and Rock evening show.

Tours, festivals and concerts
One of Metaltech's early live performances was supporting Alec Empire from Atari Teenage Riot in 2009. They are regular performers on the British music festival scene, and have performed at events such as Rockness, The Wickerman Festival, Belladrum, Alba Industrial and Infest 2013. They have also performed at the London fetish venue Club Antichrist, supporting Global Citizen, and at legendary Glasgow venue King Tut's Wah Wah Hut supporting Marionette. They have made multiple appearances at The Classic Grand in Glasgow, supporting acts such as KMFDM, Angelspit, Dope Stars Inc., Surgyn and Analog Angel, and have unleashed their party style stage show supporting Hanzel Und Gretyl at Bannerman's Bar in Edinburgh.

In February 2014, they were the support act for Japanese Cyberpunks Psydoll. Throughout this tour they were shadowed by American photographer and film maker Allan Amato, who recorded the band as part of an upcoming feature about their journey through the music world.

On 30 August 2014, Metaltech had their first outing to Nottingham, playing at The Maze with System:FX and Tapewyrm.

On 9 September 2014, Metaltech headlined the inaugural Orkney Rock Festival, in Kirkwall, Orkney. The Orcadian – a local newspaper interviewed Alsop and Tricity for a very positive news article.

February 2015 saw them play at The Moorings in Aberdeen once again, followed by a slot supporting fellow Scottish industrial/EDM/rock band Je$us Loves Amerika's Falling Down EP launch and then a high-profile opening support slot for American stoner rock band Monster Magnet at the Garage in Glasgow, with Robert MacGregor (guitarist with Electric Mother) as a guest.

Acoustech
Metaltech has an acoustic alter-ego, Acoustech, comprising Erik Tyledisfunction, Laird Tarpaulin Combineharvester and Rory Spachemen. This band plays acoustic instruments, Erik on 6-string, Rory on 6 and 12 string guitars, and Laird on a custom fretless acoustic bass made by luthier Chris Larkin, and their songs are folk and country rearrangements of Metaltech's amplified songs. They first played on 10 February 2011, headlining an Edinburgh Unplugged folk night at Edinburgh's renowned Royal Oak pub, and an online rivalry has continued ever since.

Band members
Permanent
Erik Tricity (Erik Grieve) – programming, keyboards, rhythm guitar
The Insidious Doktor Mayhem (Rory Alsop) – lead guitar
Lord Thrapston Flagellator (Emmett Christie) – bass guitar

Others
Snow King (Classical timpanist and creator of Industrial project Plastic Noose) has also played guest bass for Metaltech twice in place of Christie at live gigs.
Bob MacGregor – writing credit and guitars on Slam Trance and Dreams on the Burn Your Planet album. Guest second guitar slot for 14 February 2015 supporting Monster Magnet

Notes

References
 [ Metaltech] at AllMusic

External links
 Official homepage
 Metaltech's YouTube Channel
 Metaltech's gigs page on Bandsintown.com
  Metaltech's Record Company Page

Scottish rock music groups
Scottish electronic music groups
British industrial rock musical groups
British industrial metal musical groups
Masked musicians
Musical groups from Edinburgh
British industrial music groups
Scottish alternative rock groups


title: LaSalle Street Cable Car Powerhouse (Chicago)

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The LaSalle Street Cable Car Powerhouse at 500 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois (northwest corner of LaSalle and Illinois Streets) is a rare surviving artifact of Chicago's cable car system, which at its peak in the 1890s was one of the largest in the country, in terms of riders and equipment. Three separate companies operated thousands of cable cars over 82 miles of track. The three story powerhouse was built by the North Chicago Street Railroad Company in 1886-1887 for $35,000. "It was a striking presence in the River North area, which was a jumble of low-scale factories, warehouses and shipyards," said a Commission on Chicago Landmarks Designation Report from 2000. The railroad company was organized by Charles Tyson Yerkes, the leading transit entrepreneur in Chicago during the late 19th century. At the height of his influence, Yerkes controlled eight separate street railway companies and 250 miles of track in the city.

Chicago historian Greg Borzo calls the LaSalle Street Cable Car Powerhouse, "the crown jewel of Chicago’s cable car remnants." He also notes, "This powerhouse drove two cables: one that pulled cable cars through a tunnel under the Chicago River along LaSalle Street and around the downtown and another shorter cable that pulled cars along Illinois Street between Clark Street and Wells Street."   Those cables, in turn, pulled the thousands of cable cars that, at the peak of their operation, brought approximately 100,000 workers into downtown Chicago each day.

The LaSalle Street Cable Car Powerhouse helped make possible the rapid development of the city's outlying North Side neighborhoods during one of the greatest boom periods in the history of Chicago.

Cable cars operated in Chicago until 1906.

The LaSalle Street Cable Car Powerhouse was designated a Chicago Landmark on June 27, 2001.  Today it is a restaurant.  It used to be Michael Jordan's Restaurant until 2000.

References

Cable car railways in the United States
Chicago Landmarks
Railway buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places
Transportation in Chicago
Cableways on the National Register of Historic Places
Railway buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois
Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois
1887 establishments in Illinois


title: Social Democratic Party (Serbia)

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The Social Democratic Party (, SDS) is a centre-left political party in Serbia.

The party was founded and is headed by Boris Tadić, who was previously president of the Democratic Party and the former President of Serbia. Between June and October 2014, the name of the party was the New Democratic Party (, NDS). In May 2019, the party formed a union with Democratic Party and Together for Serbia. It supports accession of Serbia to the European Union and it is a member of the Progressive Alliance.

History
Tadić revealed in February 2014 his intention to secede from the Democratic Party and to form a new party to take part in the 2014 parliamentary election. But, after realizing that they don't have enough time to register a new party before the election, Tadić and his supporters made a deal with the Greens of Serbia. As part of this deal, Tadić and his supporters joined the Greens of Serbia, and then on 10 February 2014 the name of the party was changed to the "New Democratic Party – Greens". Although Ivan Karić was still officially president of this party, Tadić became its de facto leader. Party then participated in the 2014 parliamentary election under that name in coalition with Together for Serbia, League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina and some other minor parties. This coalition won 5.7% of the electoral vote and 18 seats in the National Assembly of Serbia. Of these, 11 seats were allocated to the "New Democratic Party – Greens", but only one to the original Greens (Ivan Karić) and 10 to the group around Boris Tadić.

After the 2014 parliamentary election, a divergence emerged in the "New Democratic Party – Greens" between the original Greens and group of members that joined the party with Tadić. On 14 June, Tadić and his supporters decided to secede from the Greens and form "New Democratic Party" as a separate party, while the name of the "New Democratic Party—Greens" was changed back to the "Greens of Serbia". In the National Assembly, 10 deputies of the New Democratic Party are part of the parliamentary group of 12 deputies together with Ivan Karić of the Greens and Blagoje Bradić of Together for Serbia, and they are in the opposition to the current Government of Serbia.

First internal party elections were held on 4 October 2014. Boris Tadić was elected president of the party. On the same day, the official name of the party was changed to the "Social Democratic Party".

As of January 2017, the Social Democratic Party holds four seats in the National Assembly of Serbia. It exists in a parliamentary alliance with the People's Movement of Serbia, which holds one seat.

On 10 January 2022, it was announced that the Democrats of Serbia, a break-away faction from the Democratic Party, will merge with SDS.

In the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, SDS was associated with the Socialist Group.

Presidents of the Social Democratic Party (2014–present)

Electoral results

Parliamentary elections

Presidential elections

References

External links
Official website

2014 establishments in Serbia
Political parties established in 2014
Pro-European political parties in Serbia
Progressive Alliance
Social democratic parties in Serbia
Democratic Party (Serbia) breakaway groups
Centre-left parties in Europe


title: Joey Manahan

text:
Jose Maria Brias "Joey" Manahan (born 1971) is a Filipino American politician from the state of Hawaii. Joey Manahan is a former member of the Honolulu City Council and served as the Chair of the Budget Committee and Vice-Chair of the Transportation Committee.

Manahan was also the Oahu representative and President of the Hawai‘i State Association of Counties’ (HSAC) Executive Committee, whose members consist of the four island counties of the State of Hawai‘i – Kauai, Oahu, Maui, and Hawai’i counties. HSAC advocates for county programs and services and represents the county governments before the Hawai‘i State Legislature, administrative agencies, and the federal government.

He has served a combined 13 years in elected office in both the Honolulu City Council and the Hawai‘i State House of Representatives.

As a member of the Democratic Party, Manahan is a former member of the Hawaii House of Representatives, serving from 2007 through 2013, and as vice speaker in 2011 and 2012.

Early life
Manahan was born in Makati, Philippines, in 1971. He is the grandnephew of Manuel Manahan, who served in the Senate of the Philippines.

Manahan's father died when he was young. He moved with his mother to the San Francisco Bay Area at the age of 10, where he attended Bellarmine College Preparatory School. His mother remarried in 1991, when the family moved to Hawaii. Manahan attended community college in California, before transferring to the University of Hawaii.

Political career
While he studied at the University of Hawaii, Manahan became interested in his identity as a Filipino American and worked with Filipino immigrants. Through this program, he was introduced to Dennis Arakaki, a member of the Hawaii House of Representatives, who mentored him. He later worked for Arakaki as a legislative assistant, and for State Senator Donna Mercado Kim.

Manahan was first elected to the State House in 2006, winning by 11 votes. In 2012, Manahan announced that he would not seek reelection to the State House, and would instead run for the Honolulu City Council in the 2012 elections, and he won.

Manahan represented Honolulu City Council District 7, which includes Kalihi, lwilei, Kalihi Kai, Mapunapuna, Salt Lake, Aliamanu, Hickam, Foster Village, Ford Island, and Sand Island. Manahan has held several leadership positions like vice speaker of the Hawaii House of Representatives and the chair of the Committee on Budget, as well as vice-chair of the Committee on Transportation for the Honolulu City Council.

As a state representative, Manahan initiated two key projects for his district—the Modernization of Farrington High School and the Kuhio Park Terrace Modernization project.

He ran in the 2014 election to represent  in the United States House of Representatives, but finished sixth in the Democratic primary held in August 2014.

Personal
Manahan is married to Maan Santos.

References

External links

Living people
Hawaii politicians of Filipino descent
Democratic Party members of the Hawaii House of Representatives
Honolulu City Council members
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumni
People from Makati
American politicians of Filipino descent
Filipino emigrants to the United States
1971 births
Bellarmine College Preparatory alumni
Asian-American city council members
Asian-American people in Hawaii politics
21st-century American politicians


title: Baltiska Hallen

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Baltiska Hallen (The Baltic Hall) is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the Stadionområdet area of Malmö, Sweden. It opened in 1964 in memory of the 50th anniversary of the Baltic Exhibition in 1914. The arena has a capacity of 4.000 people and is the home of HK Malmö.

Events
It has served as host to numerous of events such as the 1964 Table Tennis European Championships, 1967 IHF World Men's Handball Championships, 1996 Davis Cup, 2006 Men's World Floorball Championships and 2006 European Women's Handball Championships.

Over the years, it played host to The Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash, Ulf Lundell and Gilbert O'Sullivan.

References

External links

Stadionområdet (Malmö)
Sports venues completed in 1964


title: Raymondinidae

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Raymondinidae are the only family in the trilobite superfamily Raymondinacea, which lived during the Middle and Upper Cambrian.

Taxonomy
The Raymondinidae consists of three subfamilies, but is assumed to be polyphyletic.
 Raymondininae (= Pilgrimiidae)
Raymondina, Amquia, Exigua (= Brassicicephalus), Llanoaspidella, Paracedaria
 Cedariniinae
Cedaria, Cedarina
 Llanoaspidinae
Llanoaspis, Arcuolimbus, Genevievella, Metisaspis

References

Ptychopariida
Trilobite families
Cambrian trilobites
Cambrian first appearances
Cambrian extinctions


title: Peter Pou

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Pedro Juan Pou Hermoso (born February 22, 1992), better known by his stage name Peter Pou, is a dance singer signed to the Spanish record label, Blanco y Negro Music.

Musical career
Early in 2013, Peter Pou met the Spanish producer Daniel Ambrojo who decided to start a project together. At the age of 21, he started his musical career releasing "Invisible" featuring the Spanish singer Ethernity. In May of that same year, his second collaboration "Feeling Free" was released, this time featuring Oscar Martinez (DJ and broadcaster of Los 40 Principales radio station) which was performed by Peter Pou during its presentation in June.

At the beginning of September he released his third single "Can You Feel The Love" featuring DJ Valdi, who's worked as a DJ in several Spanish TV Shows such as El Hormiguero. The song became very successful in the Spanish dance radios, reaching number 4# on the Maxima FM 51 Chart in December 2013. It was included in the best dance compilations of the country such as: “I Like Fiesta 2013”, “Blanco & Negro DJ Series 2013, Vol. 7”, “Ahora 014”, “El gallo Máximo Compilation 2013, “40 Hot Mix”. The remixes of “Can You Feel The Love” will be out on March 11, 2014.

Peter Pou will release his first solo single "You Are My Sexy Girl" in spring 2014.

Discography

Singles
2014: "You Are My Sexy Girl" [Blanco Y Negro Music]
2013: "Can You Feel The Love" (feat. DJ Valdi) [Blanco Y Negro Music]
2013: "Feeling Free" (feat. Oscar Martínez) [Clipper Sounds]
2013: "Invisible" (feat. Danza DJs & Ethernity) [Blanco Y Negro Music]

Remixes
2014: "You Are My Sexy Girl" (Extended Version) [Blanco Y Negro Music]
2014: "Can You Feel The Love" (feat. DJ Valdi) (Zakary Remix) [Blanco Y Negro Music]
2014: "Can You Feel The Love" (feat. DJ Valdi) (Submission DJ Remix) [Blanco Y Negro Music]
2014: "Can You Feel The Love" (feat. DJ Valdi) (Kato Jiménez & Jesús Sánchez Remix) [Blanco Y Negro Music]
2014: "Can You Feel The Love" (feat. DJ Valdi) (GioSer Hernandez & MPV Remix) [Blanco Y Negro Music]
2014: "Can You Feel The Love" (feat. DJ Valdi) (Geo Da Silva & Jack Mazzoni Remix) [Blanco Y Negro Music]
2014: "Can You Feel The Love" (feat. DJ Valdi) (Carlos Jean Remix) [Blanco Y Negro Music]
2013: "Can You Feel The Love" (feat. DJ Valdi) (Extended Version) [Blanco Y Negro Music]
2013: "Feeling Free" (The Zombie Kids Remix) (feat. Oscar Martínez) [Clipper Sounds]
2013: "Feeling Free" (Baccanali Djs Remix) (feat. Oscar Martínez) [Clipper Sounds]
2013: "Feeling Free" (Alex Guerrero Remix) (feat. Oscar Martínez) [Clipper Sounds]
2013: "Feeling Free" (Javi Torres Remix) (feat. Oscar Martínez) [Clipper Sounds]
2013: "Feeling Free" (Kike Puentes Remix) (feat. Oscar Martínez) [Clipper Sounds]

See also
Blanco y Negro Music

References
 https://web.archive.org/web/20140305045346/http://www.peterpou.com/
 https://web.archive.org/web/20140221233642/http://www.blancoynegromanagement.com/2014/01/16/peter-pou/
 http://www.beatport.com/artist/peter-pou/338034
 https://www.facebook.com/peterpoumusic
 http://foros.vogue.es/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=207280

1992 births
Living people
21st-century American singer-songwriters
21st-century American male singers
American male pop singers
American male singer-songwriters
Everybody Dance Now


title: Jen Selter

text:
Jennifer Leigh "Jen" Selter (born August 8, 1993) is an American Internet celebrity and fitness model. She attracted significant media attention for her debut at a young age, initially on the photo-sharing app Instagram. As of February 2023, Jen Selter had 13.6 million followers on Instagram. Selter grew up Jewish.

See also
 Instagram model

References

External links

 Jen Selter |Head of Ambassador Program BlendJet

1993 births
Living people
American female models
21st-century American Jews
21st-century American people
People from Roslyn Heights, New York
21st-century American women


title: Grand River Township

text:
Grand River Township may refer to the following townships in the United States:

 Grand River Township, Adair County, Iowa
 Grand River Township, Decatur County, Iowa
 Grand River Township, Madison County, Iowa
 Grand River Township, Wayne County, Iowa
 Grand River Township, Sedgwick County, Kansas
 Grand River Township, Bates County, Missouri
 Grand River Township, Cass County, Missouri
 Grand River Township, Daviess County, Missouri
 Grand River Township, DeKalb County, Missouri
 Grand River Township, Bowman County, North Dakota


title: Phisalixella

text:
Phisalixella is a genus of pseudoxyrhophiid snakes endemic to the island of Madagascar. They are harmless to humans.

Species
Three species are currently recognized.

Phisalixella arctifasciatus (Duméril, Bibron, & Duméril, 1854)
Phisalixella tulearensis (Domergue, 1995)
Phisalixella variabilis  (Boulenger, 1896)

References

Further reading

Pseudoxyrhophiidae
Reptiles of Madagascar
Snake genera


title: Kate Rogal

text:
Kate Rogal (born November 2, 1983) is an American actress. Best known for appearing on The Sopranos, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Psych, and Blue Bloods.

Early life
Rogal is the daughter of actress Lori Cardille who starred in George A. Romero's Day of the Dead (1985). She graduated with a BFA from the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama in 2006, and apprenticed with the United Stuntman's Association.

Career
Rogal has performed mostly in supporting roles, her most notable roles are Kate Favor on Psych, Jez in Gravy, and Gretchen in Concussion. In theater Rogal starred in the off-Broadway play Muckrakers.

Rogal is an artist, working mostly with beads and other textile mediums.

Personal life
Rogal married actor Dana Ashbrook in 2015.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

American film actresses
Living people
Carnegie Mellon University College of Fine Arts alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)
1986 births


title: Rush Cricket Club

text:
Rush Cricket Club is a cricket club in Rush, County Dublin, Ireland. The club fielded three adult men's teams in 2021 with the first team playing in Division 2 of the Leinster Senior League. The second team are in Division 4. The third team are in Division 11.
The second team won division 5 in 2019.

Notable former players include Ireland captain William Porterfield and England World Cup winning captain Eoin Morgan. The club has developed a strong youth policy with players being involved in Irish underage sides at all age groups over the winter of 2016/17. The club has won 5 underage titles from 2013-2018 in the U11, U13 and U15 age groups. The first team has also won the National cup on 3 occasions in 2015, 2016 and 2018. The Cricket Leinster winter training squads included 24 players from the club in the various age groups ranging from under 11 to under 17.

References

External links

Cricket clubs in County Dublin
Leinster Senior League (cricket) teams
Sports clubs and teams in Fingal


title: Scarlet Road

text:
Scarlet Road is a 2011 documentary that explores the life of Australian Rachel Wotton, a sex worker who is based in New South Wales (where prostitution is decriminalised) and sells sex to clients who have disabilities. Directed by Catherine Scott and produced by Pat Fiske for Paradigm Pictures, the film premiered at the Sydney Film Festival on 11 June 2011. Subsequently, there was a public screening and reception at the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly in Canberra.  Scarlet Road was a 2011 Walkley Documentary Award finalist.

Background
Wotton is a member of Scarlet Alliance, the "Australian Sex Workers' Association". In late 2000, Wotton collaborated with other sex workers and related organisations, such as People with Disability Australia Inc., to form the "Touching Base Committee". The committee explored the concept of providing commercial sex for people with special needs and the corresponding training that would be required for participating sex workers. As of February 2014, Touching Base is an incorporated charitable organisation based in New South Wales and provides information, education and support for clients with disabilities, sex workers and disability service providers.

Filmmaker Catherine Scott had known Wotton for 11 years when she proposed the idea for Scarlet Road; however, Wotton was initially reluctant, due to the sensitive nature of the subject matter. They continued to discuss the idea and the documentary was eventually completed over a three-year period. Wotton later commented on the documentary approach saying: "This film was a collaboration thing. Cathy worked closely with me and listened not just to my voice but to those of other sex workers." Wotton explained her motivation for making the film in greater depth after its launch in 2011:

Part of my reason for doing the film was to wipe away the 'us and them' mentality. We're all one car accident away from being in the same position as these guys. Tomorrow we could all wake up out of coma and not be able to eat let alone have sex or touch ourselves. What I say to people is imagine the next time you go to have sex or masturbate having to call your mum and have her organise it all for you ... People with disabilities want to be viewed as whole beings. Think about how important your sexuality is to how you are perceived. These people aren't seen like that, so you can imagine how that makes them feel.

Following the release of the film, Wotton stated in an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald: "I am a sex worker and I make my money from clients seeing me. Some clients just happen to have a disability."

Reception
The film garnered a variety of positive reviews. In a 2012 article for The Age on whether movies can help overturn stereotypes surrounding sex and disabilities, Shane Green described the film as moving and noted that it: "continues to win international acclaim".

Following 2012 screenings at the SXSW festival in Texas, Badass Digest reviewer Zack Carlson concluded: "Scarlet Road isn’t flashy, artsy or clever. It’s better than that: a plain, old effective documentary that benefits from its simplicity and objectivity." Jezebel noted that some of the most uplifting moments featured mothers discussing their sons' desire to purchase sexual services. Writing for Bitch Flicks, Erin Tatum, a reviewer with cerebral palsy, said: "Ultimately, the audience can recognize that there’s a great deal of intersectionality in the way that both sex workers and disabled people are policed and shamed about their sexual expression. Rachel reminds us that the two groups can work together to lessen collective stigma."

Notably, the film has also been shown at both the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly, Canberra and Parliament House, Sydney. Wotton also briefed MPs in Adelaide before a March 2012 screening of the film as part of a broader debate about the decriminalisation of the buying of sexual services in states beyond New South Wales, and a specific call by South Australia Dignity for Disability MP Kelly Vincent for disability services funding to pay for access to sex therapy or a prostitute.

Selected screenings
Sydney International Film Festival, Sydney, Australia (2011)
Art Gallery of New South Wales – cast and crew screening, Sydney, Australia (2011)
SBS TV – Australian television premiere (2011)
 SXSW, Austin, US (2012)
Sheffield Doc/Fest, Sheffield, UK (2012)
 14th Annual Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Greece (2012)
ACT Legislative Assembly – public screening and reception, Canberra, Australia (2012)
Documentary Edge Festival – screened as part of human rights programme, Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand (2013)
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Toronto, Canada (2013)
Clinton Street Theater Sex Workers Film Series, Portland, US (2014)
Sexuality and Disability Expo, Sydney, Australia (2014)
Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) – with Q&A session, Melbourne, Australia (2014)

See also
 Prostitution law

Accolades
The film received a 2011 Walkley Documentary Award nomination, was a finalist for the Foxtel Australian Documentary Prize, and won the people's choice award at the 10th Oceania Film Festival (FIFO) in Tahiti in 2013.

References

External links

Touching Base

Australian documentary films
2011 films
Films about prostitution in Australia
2010s English-language films


title: Sir David Dundas, 1st Baronet

text:
Sir David Dundas, 1st Baronet (7 December 1749 – 10 January 1826) was a surgeon who was created 1st Baronet of Richmond.

Dundas was the son of Ralph Dundas and Mary née Ferguson.  He was appointed Sergeant Surgeon to the King in 1792. He was Household Apothecary at Kew but not officially Apothecary to the King. He assisted at the post mortem on Princess Charlotte on 7 November 1817 and was Physician to the Duke of Kent from 1816 to 1817 and Surgeon to the Duke of Kent from 1818 to 1820.

Dundas was a prominent figure in the Royal College of Surgeons and was Master of the College in 1804, 1811 and 1819. He was made a baronet in 1815.

He married 20 July 1775, Isabella Robertson (died 1827), and had twelve children, three of whom became respectively second (William), third (Major General James Fullerton) and fourth (Admiral John) Baronets. The Baronetcy became extinct on the death of the fourth Baronet.

References

Sources
Dundas David Sir. 1st Bt

1749 births
1826 deaths
Scottish surgeons
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom


title: Billroth Hospitals

text:
Billroth Hospitals is a hospital chain which is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It was founded by Dr. V. Jeganathan on 30 November 1990. Billroth Hospital has its branches in Shenoy Nagar, R A Puram, and Tiruvallur.

Founder
V Jeganathan was born on the 19 December 1953, and he died on the 17 May 2007. He died from a heart attack. As well as being the founder, and director of Billroth Hospitals he was also a well known Surgical Gastroenterologists, Laser, and Laparoscopic Surgeon.

Departments

 Institute of Chest Medicine
 Institute of Cardiology
 Institute of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
 Institute of Ophthalmology
 Institute of Plastic Surgery
 Institute of Endocrinology
 Institute of Dental Sciences
 Institute of Bariatric & Metabolic Surgery
 Department of Orthopaedics
 Institute of Dermatology
 General Surgery
 General Medicine
 Institute of Podiatric
 Institute of Radiology
 Institute of Paediatric
 Institute of Oncology
 Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
 Institute of Neuro Surgery
 Institute of Nuclear Medicine
 Institute of Neurology
 Institute of IVF
 Institute of Gastroenterology
 Institute of ENT
 Institute of Urology & Nephrology

Home Care

 Home Care
 Ambulance Services
 Pharmacy Services
 Lab Collection Services
 Physiotherapy Services
 Nursing Services

Facilities
Ambulance & Emergency Services
Critical Care Unit
Diagnostic Services such as Dual Source CT and several Others.
Dialysis
Endoscopy
Pharmacy Services

Achievements
Fast Track Cardiac Surgery.
In this 4-day fast track surgery, Day 1 is operation, Day 2 is ICU mobilization, Day 3 is Ward care and Day 4 is the discharge of the patient.
Bloodless Heart Surgery was performed by a team of doctors under the Chief Cardiac surgeon Dr. S Thiagarajamurthy
Surgery was performed on a patient who underwent an aortic valve replacement procedure and coronary artery bypass surgery who refused a blood transfusion.

See also
 Healthcare in Chennai

References

firstExternal links

 Official Website

Hospital networks in India
Healthcare in Chennai
Hospitals in Chennai
Hospitals established in 1990
1990 establishments in Tamil Nadu


title: Betzenberg

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The Betzenberg () is a 285-metre-high hill in the German city of Kaiserslautern. It rises about 50 metres above the city and gives its name to the quarter in which it stands. It was well known because it also gave its name to what is now the Fritz Walter Stadium (formerly the Betzenberg Stadium or, colloquially, the Betze).

Hill
The Betzenberg lies south of Kaiserslautern Central Station and the main railway axis from Ludwigshafen to Saarbrücken. The southern end of the Betzenberg transitions into the Palatine Forest.

City quarter

Kaiserlautern's Betzenberg quarter is fairly young. It was laid out in 1967; only the built-up area below and around the Fritz Walter Stadium is older. In order to create the district, parts of the former Palatinate Forest protected landscape that were not part of the Palatine Forest Nature Park (both placed under conservation orders in 1967) were incorporated.

Sights
 Fritz Walter Stadium
 Betzenberg Wildlife Park
 Bremerhof, destination on the southern edge of the district
 Humberg Tower, an observation tower on the northern edge of the Palatine Forest Nature Park

References

Mountains and hills of the Palatinate Forest
Kaiserslautern
Mountains and hills of Rhineland-Palatinate


title: Laura Drasbæk

text:
Laura Drasbæk (born 22 December 1974) is a Danish actress. She has appeared in more than thirty films since 1990.

Selected filmography

References

External links

1974 births
Living people
Actresses from Copenhagen
Danish film actresses
Danish television actresses
20th-century Danish actresses
21st-century Danish actresses


title: Bohun swan

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The Bohun swan, also known as the Bucks Swan, was a heraldic badge used originally in England by the mediaeval noble family of de Bohun, Earls of Hereford, and Earls of Essex.

Origin
The widespread use of the swan as a badge derives from the legend of the Swan Knight, today most familiar from Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin. The Crusade cycle, a group of Old French  chansons de geste, had associated the legend with the ancestors of Godfrey of Bouillon (d. 1100), King of Jerusalem and the hero of the First Crusade.  Godfrey had no legitimate progeny, but his wider family had many descendants among the aristocracy of Europe, many of whom after his death made use of the swan as a heraldic emblem.  In England such a family was that of de Bohun, Earls of Hereford and Earls of Essex.

Usage by de Bohun

Surviving examples of usage of the Bohun swan by the de Bohun family include:
The Counter seal of Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford (1276–1322), attached to the Barons' Letter, 1301, shows the Bohun Swan above the escutcheon and supporting its guige strap.
Two Bohun swans collared and chained with necks entwined at the feet of the effigy of Margaret de Bohun (1311–1391), daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford (1276–1322) and wife of Hugh de Courtenay, 2nd Earl of Devon (1303–1377), on her tomb chest in the south transept of Exeter Cathedral.

Extinction of de Bohun senior line
Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford (1341–1373) died without male issue, leaving as his co-heiresses two daughters:
Eleanor de Bohun (c. 1366–1399), the eldest, who married Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, the fourteenth and youngest child of King Edward III (1327–1377).
Mary de Bohun (c. 1368–1394), who married King Henry IV.

Descent
Following the extinction of the Senior male line of the de Bohun family the Bohun swan badge was used by descendants of the two heiresses: by the royal House of Lancaster descended from Mary de Bohun and by the Stafford family descended from Eleanor de Bohun and by the Junior Branch by a female Heiress in late 14th Century.

Lancaster

After the marriage in 1380 of Mary de Bohun (d. 1394) to the Lancastrian Henry Bolingbroke, the future  King Henry IV (1399–1413), the swan was adopted by the royal House of Lancaster, which continued to use it for over a century. The swan gorged and chained with a crown or is especially associated with Lancastrian use and echoes the white hart similarly gorged and chained used by King Richard II (1377–1399), deposed by Henry Bolingbroke, which he began to use as a livery badge from 1390.  Richard II's treasure roll of 1397 includes, together with several of his own white hart badges, a swan badge with a gold chain, perhaps presented by one of his Lancastrian enemies mentioned above: "Item, a gold swan enamelled white with a little gold chain hanging around the neck, weighing 2 oz., value, 46s. 8d".  He declared to Parliament that he had exchanged liveries with his uncles as a sign of amity at various moments of reconciliation.

After Henry Bolingbroke seized the throne in 1399, the use of the swan emblem was transferred to his son, the future King Henry V (1413–1422), who was made Prince of Wales at his father's coronation, and whose tomb in Westminster Abbey displays motifs of swans.

The Dunstable Swan Jewel made in about 1400 is  presumed to have been intended as a livery badge possibly given to his supporters by  the future Henry V of England, who was Prince of Wales from 1399. It is in the form of a white enamelled swan gorged with a gold collar in the form of a crown with six fleur-de-lys tines, held by a gold chain.

The Bohun swan was also used by Henry V's grandson Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, who died in the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471.  In 1459 Edward's  mother Margaret of Anjou insisted that he should give swan livery badges to "all the gentlemen of Cheshire"; the type and number are unknown.

Stafford

Eleanor de Bohun, Mary's sister, had in 1376 also married into the Plantagenet royal family, in the person of Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (d. 1397), another prominent Lancastrian supporter, the youngest son of King Edward III, and the swan badge was used by his Stafford descendants, but as a secondary badge to their own Stafford knot. The de Bohun sisters Mary and Eleanor were co-heiresses to the huge Bohun estates, and disputes over the settlement of these continued until late into the next century, when most of their descendants had been killed in the Wars of the Roses, perhaps encouraging the continued assertion of Bohun ancestry.  Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, a descendant of the Beauchamps, of Eleanor de Bohun, of Thomas of Woodstock and of John of Gaunt, used the swan with crown and chain as his own badge.  He was certainly active in trying to obtain possession of the Bohun lands, and appears also to have plotted to seize the throne, for which he was executed in 1483 by Richard III.

Courtenay

Another heir of the de Bohuns was the Courtenay family, Earls of Devon, descended from Margaret de Bohun (1311–1391), daughter and heiress of Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford (1276–1322) and wife of Hugh de Courtenay, 2nd Earl of Devon (1303–1377). The Courtenays frequently used the Bohum swan as one of their supporters, with or in place of the usual Courtenay boar, on their heraldic achievements. Surviving examples are:
Seal of Sir Philip Courtenay (d.1463) of Powderham, showing the Bohun swan as the dexter supporter.
Courtenay Mantlepiece, Bishop's Palace, Exeter, showing the arms of Peter Courtenay (d.1492), Bishop of Exeter and Bishop of Winchester: Or, 3 torteaux a label of 3 points azure each point charged with 3 plates in pale with supporters the Bohun swans, each collared with a crown and chained or.

Luttrell of Dunster

The Luttrell family, feudal barons of Dunster, of Dunster Castle in Somerset, also used the Bohun swan as supporters. This was due to their descent from the Courtenays. Sir Andrew Luttrell (d.1378/81) of Chilton, in the parish of Thorverton, Devon, married Elizabeth Courtenay (d.1395), widow of Sir John de Vere, son of the Earl of Oxford, and a daughter of Hugh de Courtenay, 2nd Earl of Devon (1303–1377) by his wife Margaret de Bohun (d.1391), eldest surviving daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, by Elizabeth, daughter of King Edward I. In 1374 Elizabeth Luttrell purchased the reversion of Dunster Castle and manor, the manors of Minehead and Kilton, and the hundred of Carhampton from Lady Mohun, the wife of Sir John V de Mohun, 2nd Baron Mohun (c.1320–1375), feudal baron of Dunster. Dunster Castle continued to be held by her descendants until 1976. Bohun swan supporters survive on the Easter Sepulchre monument of Hugh Luttrell (died 1522) of Dunster, in St Mary's Church, East Quantoxhead, Somerset. A modern example is on the huge stone sculpted heraldic achievement of George Fownes Luttrell (1826–1910) above the new main entrance door to the castle, built as part of his remodelling. The Bohun swan also features in the centre of the  "Luttrell Table Carpet" (c.1520), now in the Burrell Collection in Glasgow.

Buckinghamshire

The Flag of Buckinghamshire uses the Bohun swan on its flag as it dates back to the Anglo-Saxon Times, when Buckinghamshire was known for breeding swans for the king.

Further reading
Wagner, Anthony, The Swan Badge and the Swan Knight, Archaeologia, vol.97, 1959, pp. 127–38
Nichols, John Gough, On Collars of the Royal Livery, No.5, The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol.172, October 1872, pp. 353–60

References

Sources

Cherry, John. "The Dunstable Swan Jewel", Journal of the British Archaeological Association, XXXII, 1969
Stratford, Jenny, The swan badge and the Dunstable Swan, and other pages as specified, in Richard II's Treasure; the riches of a medieval king, website by The Institute of Historical Research and Royal Holloway, University of London, 2007

Heraldic badges
Swans in art


title: Khanchobany

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Khanchobany was a Turkic semi-nomadic tribe formed in the 17th century in Shirvan. Khanchobany means "Khan's shepherd". House of Sarkar was a noble clan from Khanchobany tribe. Tribe also gave his name to a folk dance Khanchobany. Khanchobany tribe were living primarily in Khanchobany mahal of Shirvan Khanate, because of being noble clan, mahal was not subject to any form taxation.

References

Turkic peoples of Asia


title: Bengt Sundkler

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Bengt G. M. Sundkler (May 7, 1908, Degerfors, Västerbotten, Sweden - April 5, 1995, Uppsala, Sweden) was a Swedish-Tanzanian Church historian, missiologist, professor and bishop of Bukoba.

Biography

Sundkler was the son of Gustaf Sundkler, a merchant, and Lilly Bergman. His father was the son of Carl Gustaf Sinclair (1849-1919), the last member of the Swedish Counts dynasty Sinclair. After studying at the universities of Uppsala, Strasbourg and Paris, Bengt Sundkler became doctor of divinity (teol.dr)1937 with a thesis on the breakthrough of missionary thinking in Sweden by the Swedish Lutheran Mission 1835-75. Earlier, he had already in 1933 published the book How old is the sacrament of infant baptism and in Paris in 1937 published study Contributions a l'étude de la pensée missionaire dans le Nouveau Testament. He was then working as a Church of Sweden missionary in Tanganyika 1937-42 and as the superintendent of the Lutheran Haya Church there 1942-45 He then returned to Sweden and was appointed associate professor of missiology at Uppsala University in 1945 and was the 1942-45 research secretary of the International Missionary Council in London. Between 1949-74 he was chair professor of Church History and history of Christian missions at Uppsala University. When the Haya Church 1961 introduced the episcopate, he was called back there as the first holder and was Bishop of Bukoba in Tanzania 1961-64.

1961-65, Sundkler was a member of the World Council of Churches Central Committee and delegate of the Haya Church at the WCC World Synod in Uppsala in 1968. In 1959-61, he was vice president of the International Missionary Council. He was an honorary doctorate in theology at the universities of Aberdeen, Tübingen, Oslo and Helsinki.

Missiologist and Church historian

Sundkler was an acknowledged position as a researcher in ecumenism and mission work, and was a well known scholar of African church history. He wrote several books on the subject, including Bantu Prophets in South Africa in 1945, which was translated into several languages. As ecumenist he documented Church of South India from 1900 to 1947, a cross denominational church merger in India. The book Christian Ministry in Africa were published in 1960. As a university teacher in Sweden he published Missionens värld in 1963 and a Swedish missionary atlas 1957. He wrote of the Swedish Tanzania Mission's history in the books Young Church in Tanganyika (1948) ‘Bara Bukoba’’ 1974. His most comprehensive work is the 1200-page African church history A History of the Church in Africa, published posthumously in 2000.

Sundkler published several works on the subject of Nathan Söderblom, including in 1968 the biography Nathan Soderblom his Life and Work.

Bibliography

A bibliography Sundkler's publications is included in Sigbert Axelson's book, The Church Crossing Frontiers. Essays on the Nature of Mission in Honour of Bengt Sundkler.

References

Further reading
Carl Johan Hellberg, "Biskop Bengt av Bukoba." Swedish Missiological Themes / Svensk Missionstidskrift 84 (1996), s. 5–16.

External links
Google Scholar report
Eric J. Sharpe: The Legacy of Bengt Sundkler

1908 births
1995 deaths
Swedish theologians
Historians of Christianity
Academic staff of Uppsala University
Swedish Lutheran bishops
20th-century Swedish historians
Swedish people of Scottish descent
Burials at Uppsala old cemetery
Swedish historians of religion
Lutheran bishops of Bukoba
20th-century Swedish Lutheran bishops


title: Sinqa

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Sinqa (Quechua for "nose", Hispanicized spelling Sencca, also Senqa) is a  mountain in the Andes of Peru northwest of the city of Cusco. It lies in the Cusco Region, Cusco Province, Cusco District, and in the Anta Province, Cachimayo District.

Like Pachatusan, Pillku Urqu and Wanakawri, Sinqa is one of the mountains in the vicinity of Cusco which have been venerated as apus (sacred mountains).

Gallery

See also
 Anawarkhi
 Araway Qhata
 Muyu Urqu
 Pikchu

References

Mountains of Peru
Mountains of Cusco Region


title: Jacob Bolotin

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Jacob W. Bolotin (January 3, 1888 – April 1, 1924) was the world's first totally blind physician.

Born in 1888 to a poor immigrant family in Chicago, United States, Bolotin fought prejudice and misconceptions about the capabilities of blind people in order to win acceptance to medical school and then into the medical profession. He fought his way into and through the Chicago Medical School, graduated with honors at 24, and became the world's first totally blind physician fully licensed to practice medicine. He was particularly recognized for his expertise on diseases of the heart and lungs. Bolotin used his many public speaking engagements to advocate for the employment of the blind and their full integration into society. After he died at the young age of 36, his funeral was attended by 5,000 people.

Legacy
In 2007, a biography of Botolin, The Blind Doctor: The Jacob Bolotin Story by author Rosalind Perlman was published. In 2008, Perlman designated the National Federation of the Blind to present the Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award given to innovating individuals working in the field of blindness.

References

External links

1888 births
1924 deaths
American blind people
Physicians from Chicago
20th-century American physicians
Physicians with disabilities
American scientists with disabilities


title: Mykola Kostyak

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Mykola Mykhailovych Kostyak (born December 1, 1954,  village, Donetsk Oblast) is a Ukrainian politician. He was Chief of Local State Administration and Governor of Kherson Oblast. from June 18, 2010 until February 24, 2014, and was a member and head of the regional organization of the Party of Regions.

Biography
Kostyak was born in Michurine village, Telmanivskiy Area in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
In 1971 he graduated from the Crimea Agricultural Institute. In 1972 he worked as a member of the kolkhoz named after Telman in Telmanivskiy Area. From 1973-1976 he was in the service of the Armed Forces Of the USSR.
From 1981 to 1983 he worked as a hydraulic engineer, later as the main hydraulic engineer and as the main agronomist of the “Hammer and Sickle” kolkhoz in Telmanivskiy Area.

In the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election Kostyak unsuccessfully tried to win a seat in Ukraine's parliament for Party of Regions.

From June 18, 2010 until February 24, 2014 Kostyak was Chief of Local State Administration and Governor of Kherson Oblast.

He was awarded the Order of Merit III class, as well as a title of the Honoured Worker of Agriculture of Ukraine.

References

1954 births
Living people
Party of Regions politicians
Politicians from Kherson
Governors of Kherson Oblast
Recipients of the Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class


title: Betzenberg (disambiguation)

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Betzenberg is a hill and quarter of the German city of Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate.

Betzenberg may also refer to:

 a colloquial name for the Fritz Walter Stadium in Kaiserslautern
 Betzenberg (Schönbuch), a mountain in Baden-Württemberg, Germany

See also
 Pitzenberg


title: Carole Spiers

text:
Carole Spiers is a British entrepreneur, public speaker and author best known for her work in the field of stress management, counselling and employee wellbeing.

Career
Spiers is the founder and CEO of the Carole Spiers Group, an international Stress Management Employee Counselling consultancy working mainly in the contrasting cultures of UK and the Middle East. She is a RELATE trained counsellor and post-trauma debriefer in addition to acting as an Expert Witness before the UK courts.

Spiers is Chair of The International Stress Management Association (UK), a registered charity and the lead professional body for workplace and personal Stress Management, Wellbeing and Performance. On their behalf, in 1999, she launched National Stress Awareness Day. She was also a member of the committee for the UK Government initiative 'Securing the Health of the Nation'.

Being an international motivational speaker Spiers delivers keynote addresses to conferences and seminars. From 2006–2008, she was the President of the London Chapter of the Professional Speaking Association.

In 2014, she was appointed Communications Partner for Mosaic, a charity founded by HRH Prince of Wales in 2007, who through its mentoring programmes, inspire young people from deprived communities, worldwide, to realise their talents and potential.

Spiers supports the UK Government Older Worker's Campaign whose remit is to provide help and support for older people who want to get back in, or stay in, work and employers who could benefit by employing older people.

Media work
Being the author of Tolley's Managing Stress in the Workplace and Show Stress Who's Boss!, which has been translated into Arabic and available in the United Arab Emirates and India. Spiers' clients include AstraZeneca, Costco, Commercial Bank of Dubai, Debenhams, Dubai Cables, Emirates Airlines, Gasco (Abu Dhabi), Givaudan, House of Fraser, Indesit, Ooredoo (Qatar) and Mubadala.

Spiers is a weekly business columnist for Gulf News, writing on stress-related issues facing Middle East management, and a past columnist for Khaleej Times. Her work has appeared in publications including HR Review, Stressbusting, and has been a guest broadcaster of programs discussing issues related to workplace stress and bullying on LBC, BBC, Studio One-Dubai, CNN and BBC Radio. Spiers has also been interviewed or quoted in media including BBC and The Guardian.

Humanitarian work
During the former Yugoslavian Civil War in the 1990s, on behalf of the voluntary organisation Befrienders Worldwide, Spiers repeatedly visited Novi Sad to train humanitarian aid-workers in crisis intervention and post-traumatic stress, as well as counselling many refugees. She served as a Samaritan telephone crisis volunteer from 1979 – 2009 and visited prisoners in Wormwood Scrubs prison supporting their Listener scheme, a peer support service which aims to reduce suicide and self-harm in prisons. Since 2003, she has been working as a partner of the Dreamcatcher Foundation – South Africa working on the townships of South Africa's Southern Cape delivering micro-business training programmes and one to one coaching sessions to local entrepreneurs living in township communities by providing marketing expertise for those wishing to develop their own businesses in their local communities.

Selected bibliography

References

External links
  Carole Spiers Group Official site
 Professional Speaking Association
 International Stress Management Association

Living people
British writers
1951 births


title: Jimmy Mordecai

text:
Jimmy Mordecai (July 11, 1905 - May 7, 1966)  also known as James Mordecai was a Harlem-based jazz tap dancer in the 1920s and 1930s. He featured in the 1929 short film St. Louis Blues (1929 film) starred in the 1930  Vitaphone Varieties musical short film Yarmekraw based on James P. Johnson's song of the same name.

Career
Mordecai was born in New York City on July 11, 1905. His father was Samuel Mordecai and his mother Edith Wilhelm. His parents immigrated to the United States from British West Indies in 1901 through Cuba. He was in the cast of a 1924 touring show called "Cotton Land," with music by James P. Johnson.

He was a member of a popular dance trio, Wells, Mordecai and Taylor – Dickie Wells (né Richard Wells; 1907–1949) and Ernest Taylor (died 1934) – the trio also was known as the Hot Feet Boys and the Three Klassy Kids, with whom he performed at the Cotton Club in 1930 with a Duke Ellington revue called Brown Sugar (Sweet But Unrefined). In that revue, he danced with Cora LaRedd, a renowned tap dancer active at the time.

In 1929, Mordecai began a brief film career, featured opposite Bessie Smith in Dudley Murphy's short, "St. Louis Blues." Basically a vehicle for Smith (her only known film appearance) and for the music of W.C. Handy and the bandleader James P. Johnson, the film featured Mordecai as "Jimmy the Pimp," Smith's two-timing lover. Mordecai also played the lead role in Murray Roth's 1930 film "Yamekraw," and a minor role in Dudley Murphy's 1933 "The Emperor Jones," which starred Paul Robeson.

By 1936, Mordecai was the host and master of ceremonies at The Theatrical Grill, a Harlem nightclub on West 134th Street managed by Dickie Wells (Mordecai's former dancing partner and a notorious Harlem gigolo—not to be confused with jazz trombonist Dicky Wells).

A Jimmie Mordecai was cited, along with one Arizona Coffman, in a February 15, 1943 conviction in the City Magistrates Court of the City of New York, for selling liquor without a license from the basement of a Harlem establishment called the Frog Club, but it is unclear that this is the same Jimmy Mordecai.

Mordecai died in New York City on May 7, 1966, from a heart attack. He left a wife, Lucille Graves, and four children. Richard (Junie), Lionel (snookie), Joyce and Paul.

James Mordecai is survived by his son Paul Mordecai and his grandchildren Suzanne Mordecai, Lisa Mordecai and Hadrian Mordecai. He also has surviving grandchildren from his deceased daughter  Joyce Ware. Darrylin Ware, Kevin Ware, Gail Ware, Kenneth Ware, Page Ware and Leah Ware.

Filmography
St. Louis Blues (1929)
Yamekraw (1930)

References

American male dancers
American tap dancers
1905 births
1966 deaths


title: Kelly McGonigal

text:
Kelly McGonigal (born October 21, 1977) is a health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University who is known for her work in the field of "science help" which focuses on translating insights from psychology and neuroscience into practical strategies that support health and well-being. Mainstream media articles about inner-conflict-related aspects of modern lifestyles regularly quote her. A longtime advocate of self-compassion and mindfulness as stress-coping strategies, McGonigal has altered her focus on the problematic aspects of stress; in a talk at the TEDGlobal 2013, she emphasized the importance of an individual's subjective belief in themselves as someone who is able to cope successfully as being a crucial factor in their actual response to stress.

Background and career

McGonigal, who is the identical twin of game designer Jane McGonigal, was brought up in New Jersey by public school teacher parents who emphasized intellectual attainment. Although she is now grateful for their protectiveness, McGonigal says it seemed like "lockdown" at the time, she describes her upbringing as "both good and stressful".

She received a B.A. in psychology and a B.S. in mass communication at Boston University, and her Ph.D. at Stanford University, where she is a lecturer in psychology and teaches a public course on willpower.

Advocacy
A practitioner of meditation, McGonigal was the chief editor of peer-reviewed journal the International Journal of Yoga Therapy from 2005 to 2012 and advocated yoga and similar mindfulness practices as a way to re-charge and direct attention and mental resources so as to achieve desired outcomes. The rationale was based on studies on the effect of meditation on the brain, and the Ego depletion model, also called the 'strength' theory of self-control, proposed by a team led by Roy Baumeister. McGonigal's simple summary of the 'strength' theory of self-control: "Self-control is like a muscle. When used, it gets tired". As a writer and researcher on self-control, McGonigal has frequently been cited for her views on how willpower can be built up and directed. Having emphasized the role of meditation practices for fighting stress to enable better functioning in challenging circumstances, McGonigal altered her standpoint somewhat in 2013, and now emphasizes the attitude taken to stress as the crucial factor.

Willpower

McGonigal defines willpower as "the ability to do what you really want to do when part of you really doesn't want to do it", and says that humans experience conflicts between impulse and self-control in personal and social contexts, giving examples such as: craving for sweet foods, the urge to be sarcastic or complaining, and the desire to procrastinate. Humans have evolved adaptations to control their instincts and successfully resist impulsive drives, because living in groups requires self-control and this—McGonigal says—means taking the harder option. According to McGonigal, willpower failure or success can spread through a group, because humans tend to mirror the behavior of those they are socially connected with.

The part of the self that enables us to act in a way that is consistent with our long-term goals is based in the prefrontal cortex, and McGonigal advocates body-mind practices that she says prioritize the function of the prefrontal cortex, rather than parts of the brain that are orientated toward instant responses, which is the brain's default setting when under stress.
According to McGonigal, the practice of meditation is an effective way to establish the primacy of the prefrontal cortex, thus enabling a choice to do the harder thing, when that is required for attaining a long-term goal. McGonigal believes exercising self-control can help build up willpower in the same way as, over time, physical exercising can increase capacity to exercise. She says: "If you do it with awareness and intention, it can make you stronger. The strength develops over time, even if you feel temporarily weaker. But I think this only works when you have this mindset, and feel like you are consciously choosing to "use" your willpower. If you feel like you are being drained by everything you "have" to do (or not do), that lack of autonomy is even more stressful than exercising self-control."  The promise of happiness from cravings often misleads in McGonigal's view, and she gives techniques of mindfully focusing attention on the actual experience when indulging a craving or temptation, so as to compare it with the expectation of reward that preceded it.

One use of willpower that McGonigal sees as counterproductive is thought suppression or trying not think about temptations such as cravings. McGonigal believes thoughts become more intrusive through thought suppression, and it is best to simply register that an unwanted thought has occurred without believing in it or acting on it. Energy to pursue activities is less scarce than to resisting temptation, says McGonigal, suggesting that people give their brains healthy "wants" such as vegetables or a walk after lunch, so that weight loss becomes a by-product of choice.

Learning to be a friend and mentor to ourselves rather than equating self-control with self-criticism is the attitude that she advocates.

Stress as a friend
In a talk given at TEDGlobal 2013 that has more than 30 million online views on the TED website, McGonigal said she had re-evaluated her ideas about stress in the light of new research on how the beliefs held about stress, such as thinking of stress as bad, can affect health. Citing a study suggesting that those who believe stress is bad for them suffer an adverse effect on their life expectancy, she now emphasizes that choosing to view one's stress response as helpful creates the "biology of courage", while connecting with others under stress can create resilience. According to McGonigal, "[t]he old understanding of stress as an unhelpful relic of our animal instincts is being replaced by the understanding that stress actually makes us socially smart – it's what allows us to be fully human." The thesis behind the TED talk and book have subsequently been found by some as possibly flawed.

Books
Yoga for Pain Relief: Simple Practices to Calm Your Mind and Heal Your Chronic Pain (2009, )
The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It (2012, )
The Neuroscience of Change: A Compassion-Based Program for Personal Transformation (2012, )
The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It (2015, )
The Joy of Movement: How Exercise Helps Us Find Happiness, Hope, Connection, and Courage (2019, )

References

External links
 Where Science and Compassion Meet Website of Kelly McGonigal.
 How to make stress your friend Kelly McGonigal talk at TEDGlobal 2013
 MIND Reviews "The Upside of Stress" - Scientific American MIND Reviews "The Upside of Stress" (Scientific American).

Stanford University faculty
1977 births
Living people
21st-century American psychologists
Positive psychologists
American twins
Identical twins


The 2014 Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks baseball team represents the University of Louisiana at Monroe in the 2014 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Warhawks play their home games in Warhawk Field.

Personnel

Returning starters

Roster

Schedule and results

Rankings

References

Louisiana-Monroe
Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks baseball seasons
Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks baseball team


title: Donovan Forbes

text:
Donovan Barrington Forbes is a former American football quarterback. He was the starting quarterback of the Texas Longhorns for one game in 1989, and a backup from 1986-1989. He was the second black quarterback to ever start a game for the University of Texas.

High school
Donovan Forbes was a three-sport star athlete at Baytown Sterling where he made all-District in football, basketball and baseball. He was voted to the 1985 Texas High School All-Star team by the Texas High School Coaches Association and was ranked as one of the top ten quarterback recruits in the South. As a sophomore, he played defensive back and he started at quarterback in both his junior and senior years of high school. He was also a starter on the basketball team where he earned All-District first team honors and a star pitcher in baseball as well.

College Football
Forbes was a tall, strong-armed quarterback adept at running the option whose career never met up to its promise as he struggled with weight, injuries, academic issues, fumbles and limited opportunities.

After redshirting for the 1985 season he spent 1986 as a back-up quarterback to Bret Stafford. He first saw playing time in the Oklahoma game in which he and Stafford combined to complete a then school record 22 of 39 passes in a losing effort. He saw limited action in 3 other games that season.

Forbes played in only one game, against Oregon State, in 1987, and only two games in 1988. But he played an important, if infamous, role in the last of those 1988 games. In the final game of the season, against in-state rival Texas A&M, Texas had come back from a 28-point deficit to trail by only 4 with 4 minutes left. With Texas threatening to score again, Forbes was brought into the game with Texas on the Aggies 34 yard line and 3:20 left in the game. On a 3rd down option play, Forbes made a bad pitch which the Aggies recovered, and Texas never got the ball back again. Texas finished the season at 4-7, its worst record since 1956.

In spring practices in 1989, Forbes had performed well, and he was expected by most to compete for the starting job in the fall, but he was then dismissed from school for academic reasons in May and was only able to play in the fall after a successful appeal. He came into the summer practices still expected by some to start, but didn't get his chance until the end of the season; and then, only because of injuries to starting quarterback Peter Gardere. Late in the season against TCU, Gardere suffered a shoulder injury in the 2nd quarter and backup Mark Murdock was ineffective, giving Forbes his chance. He rallied the Longhorns from a 17-10 deficit, completing 8 of 9 passes for 117 yards including a 36-yard touchdown pass to Kerry Cash to win 31-17 and was then named the Associated Press Southwest Conference offensive player of the week.  A minor quarterback controversy arose as a result, but despite Forbes' play the week before, Gardere got the start against Baylor the next week. Texas got off to a bad start and Gardere was pulled in the first half for Forbes who wasn't able to do much better as Texas lost 50-7. In the last game of the season and the final game of his career, Forbes finally got his one chance to start when Peter Gardere was ailing. Texas took an early lead in that game, and was up 10-7 at halftime, but could not overcome several miscues from every aspect including two missed field goals, a wide open A&M receiver in the UT secondary, a penalty for too many people on the field that turned a botched A&M punt into another TD for A&M, and three interceptions and a fourth down pass incompletion by Forbes.

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American football quarterbacks
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The African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) is a non-profit Accra-based think tank.

ACET economists, researchers, and support staff advise African governments—including Ghana, Liberia, Mozambique, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone—on economic matters. They produce reports and organizes meetings and conferences and other events to promote development in Africa through economic transformation (as opposed to growth). They advise on increasing FDI inflows, recommend export promotion policies and strategies, and steer education and skills development.

History
ACET was founded in 2008 by K.Y. Amoako, a Ghanaian-born former United Nations Under-Secretary-General and head of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.  Yaw Ansu became its chief economist. The organization began producing reports and providing advice and statistical information which led to the developing, negotiating, and administering of agreements between governments and petroleum and mineral companies.  Shortly thereafter ACET staff published Looking East, an analysis of technology transfer opportunities created by Chinese investment in Africa.

In 2014 ACET produced and published an overall report entitled Growth with Depth: The 2014 African Transformational Report.

In 2015 the organization released the results of a study showing that Ghana's economy can be significantly strengthened through improvements in agriculture. That year its members also organized a conference, Mining Governance in Ghana.

References

External links
 ACET website

Non-profit organisations based in Ghana
International development in Africa


title: 1940 Pacific typhoon season

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The 1940 Pacific typhoon season marked an interruption in meteorological records in both the Philippines and Hong Kong due to the start of World War II. There were 43 reported tropical cyclones, including 27 that attained typhoon status. The first storm was observed in February, and the first typhoon formed two months later, killing three people along Mindanao. Several storms formed in June and July, including reports of a typhoon in the newspapers that killed 52 in South Korea, and another typhoon reported in newspapers that killed one person on Samar after dropping heavy rainfall. The strongest typhoon of the season originated in July and attained a minimum pressure of , as reported by a ship northeast of the Philippines.

On August 18, a typhoon moved near or over northeastern Luzon, killing nine people. In early September, a typhoon passed through the Bonin Islands south of Japan and later moved near Kyushu; heavy rainfall caused a reservoir to collapse in Ōita Prefecture, killing 50 people. On September 18, a typhoon caused a tram collision in Tokyo due to poor visibility, killing 20. Another typhoon struck southern Taiwan on September 29, causing 50 fatalities. On October 19, Wake Island recorded typhoon-force winds for the first time since observations began five years prior. A strong typhoon passed near Guam on November 3 with winds of 200 km/h (125 mph), damaging most of the buildings on the island and killing five. Three storms affected the Philippines in December, the second of which was the most notable; it killed 63 people and left 75,000 homeless on Catanduanes. The third of the Philippine storms dissipated on December 24, ending activity for the season. There was another December typhoon that killed two people on a ship to the northeast of Guam.

Systems
Data for most of the storms were provided through the World Wide Consolidated Tropical Cyclone data file known as TD-9636. The document utilized several sources to indicate where storms were located, and as a result there were duplications. During the season, the Philippine Weather Bureau issued monthly bulletins, which later provided info for tropical cyclone tracks. The agency used weather stations that were established by Spain and the United States after each country ruled over the archipelago. The weather data ceased in August 1940, which were later rebuilt in 1945. Also in 1940, meteorology records were disrupted in Hong Kong, which were later restored in 1947, due to World War II.

February and April
On February 1, a tropical cyclone formed over western Mindanao in the Philippines. It moved northwestward across Palawan island and was last noted later on February 1. Historical weather maps show only a circulation near 9 N 121 E.  This was a weak system, likely a depression but may have been a weak Tropical Storm.

Two months later, a tropical depression developed on April 9 to the east of Yap in the western Caroline Islands. It moved west-northwestward, passing south of the island without gaining much intensity. The depression later bypassed Palau to the north, dissipating on April 13 about 400 km (250 mi) west-northwest of the island.

On April 23, a tropical cyclone was observed east of Palau, moving to the west-southwest. It curved south of the island before turning to the west-northwest. While the storm was approaching Mindanao, a ship reported a minimum pressure of 985 mbar (29.09 inHg) and force 12 on the Beaufort scale, indicating that the system was a typhoon. Early on April 26, the typhoon made landfall just south of Port Lamon on eastern Mindanao, where a pressure of  was reported. Along the coast, the storm produced strong winds and heavy rainfall, and killed three people after capsizing a boat. The storm later crossed over Negros island and near Cebu, where winds of  were reported. The storm later entered the South China Sea, dissipating near Palawan on April 28.

June and July

A preexisting low pressure area organized into a tropical cyclone on June 9 near Chuuk State. It moved to the northwest as a tropical depression, influencing the trade winds on Yap. On June 13, the storm executed a small loop to the southwest, later turning back to the northwest. It eventually intensified into a typhoon, producing a pressure of  in the Ryukyu Islands while passing to the east. The system was no a longer a tropical cyclone by June 16, either due to dissipation or becoming an extratropical cyclone that continued to the northeast toward Alaska.

Toward the end of June, a tropical depression moved across the Philippines through the Visayas, first observed on June 26. After moving westward into the South China Sea, the depression turned to the northeast, reaching the Luzon Strait. Later, the depression recurved back to the west, dissipating over China on July 3.

On June 29, a tropical cyclone developed southeast of Palau. It moved to the northwest, remaining east of Palau and the Philippines. Later classified as a typhoon, the system turned to the west and struck Taiwan, then known as Formosa, on July 7. It moved across the island, crossed the Taiwan Strait, and dissipated over China on July 9.

Another tropical depression formed on July 4 near Chuuk. It moved generally to the west-northwest, although it curved southwestward on July 6. The next day, the system passed about 480 km (300 mi) south of Guam, by which time it attained typhoon status. It resumed its movement to the northwest, remaining east of the Philippines. On July 11, a nearby ship reported a pressure of  and winds of Force 12 on the Beaufort scale. Two days later, the typhoon passed about 95 km (60 mi) west of Naha, Okinawa into the East China Sea, after turning more to the north. On July 14, the typhoon turned to the northeast into the Sea of Japan, moving between Japan and South Korea. It later crossed Hokkaido, dissipating on July 17 in the Sea of Okhotsk.

On July 8, the Australian Associated Press reported that there was a typhoon about 195 km (120 mi) east of Samar. The storm dropped heavy rainfall over a period of a week, the most since 1919 in one area, which caused river flooding and one death. On July 12, local newspapers also reported a typhoon striking Seoul, South Korea, killing 52 people and leaving thousands homeless. However, neither of the two storms were mentioned in the Monthly Weather Review summary for the month.

A short-lived tropical cyclone appeared on July 11 in the South China Sea, but dissipated the next day. Another short-lived system developed on July 13 near Yap, dissipating on the next day. A few days later on July 18, a tropical cyclone formed west of Guam; the system moved westward and was no longer observed by July 23.

On July 12, a tropical depression formed to the east-southeast of Guam. It moved westward, passing through the Marianas Islands on July 14. Around July 18, the storm turned toward the north, passing east of Taiwan. Three days later, the storm approached the Japanese island of Ishigaki 100 km (60 mi) to the west, where a pressure of  confirmed the system attained typhoon status. On July 23, the typhoon turned to the northeast and moved across the Korean Peninsula. The storm turned to the east, later moving across northern Honshu on July 24, and dissipating two days later.

Another tropical depression formed east of Guam on July 21. It tracked westward, passing near the island on July 23, and later shifted more to the west-northwest. On July 26, a ship reported a low pressure of , indicating that the system was a typhoon. The system later passed between the Philippines and Taiwan as it entered the South China Sea, but no land areas reported strong winds, suggesting the typhoon was either very small or had weakened from its peak. On July 29, the typhoon made landfall between Hong Kong and Shantou in southeastern China, quickly dissipating.

On July 24, a tropical depression appeared east of Guam, and soon after passed near the island while tracking northwestward. The system eventually passed between Okinawa and Taiwan, reaching a position 100 km (60 mi) southwest of Naha, Okinawa on July 30; a station  on the island reported a pressure of , suggesting the storm attained typhoon status. By the next day, the storm was no longer being tracked in the East China Sea, although the Monthly Weather Review summary indicated that the typhoon continued to the northwest, attaining a pressure of . The storm reached a position northeast of Shanghai and dissipated on August 4 after crossing the Shandong Peninsula.

August

Activity in August began when a tropical depression formed on August 1 to the west of Guam. It exhibited a parabolic track, moving west-northwestward before turning to the south, ultimately dissipating on August 4; it never intensified beyond tropical depression status. Another short-lived tropical depression formed on August 1 near Guam, dissipating on August 3 after having moved to the north and west.

On August 11, a tropical cyclone appeared east of Luzon. Over the next few days, it moved across the Philippines, passing near the island of Mindoro on August 13. The system moved across the South China Sea, intensifying into a typhoon as it approached Vietnam. Although it paralleled the coast, the system dissipated over the Gulf of Tonkin on August 17.

A tropical depression formed on August 13 to the southwest of Guam. It gradually strengthened while tracking west-northwestward, becoming a typhoon on August 16. Two days later, the storm passed near or over northeastern Luzon and moved into the South China Sea. After approaching Hong Kong, the typhoon turned to the west-southwest, paralleling the southern China coast. Although the track for the storm ended on August 22, the Monthly Weather Review summary indicated that the typhoon crossed Hainan. The storm then moved across the Gulf of Tonkin and dissipated on August 25 over Vietnam. In Luzon, stations reported a minimum pressure of  in Palanan, Isabela. The storm produced widespread flooding in Luzon, which damaged crops and cut communications, and killed nine people. In Ilocos Norte, the typhoon caused a shipwreck, although the passengers and crew were rescued. Later, the typhoon brought gusts of 134 km/h (83 mph) to Hong Kong.

A short-lived tropical depression formed east of Guam on August 14, dissipating a day later. The next tropical system developed about 565 km (350 mi) north of Yap on August 19. It moved generally to the northwest, interrupted a brief turn to the northeast before resuming its trajectory. It quickly intensified into a typhoon, and Naha, Okinawa reported a pressure of  on August 23. After passing near the island, the typhoon turned sharply to the northeast. It moved along the southern coast of Japan before coming ashore west of Tokyo on August 26. Soon after, the storm reached open waters and later passed over eastern Hokkaido, dissipating on August 28.

On August 21, a tropical depression formed near Yap. After moving erratically to the south and northwest, the system dissipated on August 25 to the east of the Philippines. There was another short-lived depression on August 28 to the east of Guam, dissipating a day later.

Another tropical depression formed on August 24 to the east-southeast of Guam. After passing south of the island, the system maintained a steady west-northwest trajectory and quickly intensified into a typhoon. On August 29, the storm passed east of the Batanes islands that are between Taiwan and Luzon; a station there recorded a pressure of . A day later, the typhoon made landfall in northern Taiwan, and after crossing the island, moved ashore in southeastern China near Fuzhou with a pressure of . The storm remained distinct over land, turning to the northeast and passing west of Shanghai. On September 3, the system dissipated off the south coast of South Korea.

The last storm to form in August developed on August 30 to the northwest of Guam. It briefly moved to the north-northeast before maintaining a steady northwest track. The system attained typhoon status, later dissipating on September 4 near Okinawa.

September

On September 2, a tropical depression developed to the east of Guam. The system moved northwestward, remaining east and north of the Marianas Islands. Around September 6, the system passed through the Bonin Islands to the south of Japan, where a station recorded a pressure of ; this indicated that the storm attained typhoon status. The storm turned to the west, influenced by a high pressure area over Japan. It is possible the storm executed a loop, or it traversed to the north, before resuming a westerly track on September 9. The typhoon later passed over southern Kyushu, later turning abruptly to the northeast and east. On September 12, the system dissipated over central Honshu. While moving through the Bonin Islands, the typhoon destroyed schools, government offices, and power plants. Several people were killed, and 500 were left homeless. Later, the storm disrupted shipping in and around Kyushu, damaging the port at Nagasaki. In Ōita Prefecture, rains from the typhoon caused a reservoir on Kyushu to collapse, killing 50 people.

Also on September 2, a tropical depression formed between Guam and Luzon. It moved to the northwest, then turned to the northeast, intensifying into a typhoon; this was based on a pressure reading of  from a nearby ship. On September 6, the system dissipated.

A short-lived tropical depression formed on September 3 in the South China Sea, dissipating the next day while moving eastward. There was another short-lived tropical depression that developed on September 4 near the Marianas Islands, but dissipated within one day. Another tropical depression formed on September 4 to the west of the Marianas Islands, which moved to the south and later northeast, dissipating on September 6. On September 10, a tropical depression formed northeast of Luzon, lasting only two days while moving in a circular track.

On September 9, a tropical depression formed near Chuuk. Two days later, the system passed south of Guam while maintaining a general west trajectory, although it later turned to the north-northwest. By September 13, the system attained typhoon status. Three days later, the storm's track shifted to the north-northeast, bringing it near Hachijō-jima on September 18 which recorded a pressure of . That day, it approached southeastern Honshu but remained offshore. After accelerating to the northeast, the system was no longer observed on September 20 to the southeast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. While passing east of Japan, the typhoon caused a tram collision due to poor visibility, killing 20 people.

On September 22, a well-developed typhoon was first observed east-southeast of Guam. The storm moved to the west and later west-northwest, bypassing the island to the south. On September 29, the system entered the Balintang Channel between Taiwan and Luzon, where a station recorded a pressure of  at Basco, Batanes. That day, the typhoon passed over or very near southern Taiwan as it continued to the northwest. On September 30, it made landfall about 160 km (100 mi) northeast of Xiamen, weakening over land. The storm turned to the north and northeast, reaching the East China Sea and dissipating on October 2. In Taiwan, the typhoon killed 50 people and wrecked 5,000 houses.

The final September storm originated east of Guam on September 29. It moved westward, intensifying into a typhoon and passing north of Guam. After varying its track toward the north or south, the typhoon dissipated on October 5.

October

On October 8, a tropical depression formed west of Luzon. Its track shifted from the northwest to the southwest and later back to the northwest. On October 12, the system passed through the Paracel Islands, where a pressure of  was recorded. The storm attained typhoon status, moving ashore in Vietnam on October 15. The tropical cyclone database listed a separate tropical cyclone that lasted from October 11 to 15 in the South China Sea that also struck Vietnam.

A typhoon was observed on October 13 to the northeast of Guam, with nearby ships reporting a pressure of . After moving to the northwest, the system turned to the northeast and was no longer observed after October 17.

On October 19, a typhoon passed near Wake Island, where a pressure of  was recorded. Winds reached 220 km/h (140 mph), which was the first instance of typhoon-force winds on the island since observations began in 1935. The winds were strong enough to cut radio communications and damage the Pan American World Airways base. The only people on the island were two dozen Pan American workers, who survived by staying in a storm shelter that previously never experienced gale-force winds. After striking the island, the typhoon turned to the northeast, crossing the International Date Line on October 21.

A tropical depression formed on October 29 near Pohnpei. It moved to the northeast initially, but on October 31 began tracking to the west. On November 3, the system passed just south of Guam as a typhoon, where a pressure of  was recorded. Winds reached over 200 km/h (125 mph), and there was a slight decrease during the passage of the eyewall. The typhoon turned to the northwest, passing near the Bonin Islands. On November 8, the typhoon accelerated to the northeast, crossing the International Date Line on November 10. When the storm struck Guam, it damaged nearly every building on the island. Most of the damage occurred after the center of the storm passed and the onslaught of easterly winds began. The Navy Yard at Piti was heavily damaged. At Sumay, the storm damaged Marine Barracks Guam, the Pan American Airways hotel used for China Clipper service passengers, and a hangar. The storm also sank a U.S. Navy yard patrol boat and blew ashore the dredge YM-13. Downed trees killed two or three people, and five people in total died on the island, the others likely due to drowning. After the storm, Naval Governor George McMillin sought aid from the American Red Cross to assist residents in rebuilding. It was considered among the worst typhoons on record in Guam.

November and December
On November 22, a tropical depression developed near Chuuk and moved westward. It crossed over Palau on November 24, and later turned more to the northwest. The system paralleled the east coast of Mindanao, briefly moving ashore on November 26. It turned to the northeast, dissipating on November 29.

The first in a series of storms to form in December was first observed on December 2 to the east of Samar. The storm moved to the west across the island and through the central Philippines, with a station in Samar reporting a minimum pressure of . This indicated the system attained typhoon status. While moving westward, it moved through Panay and later across Palawan before entering the South China Sea. On Panay island, Capiz recorded typhoon-force winds, and throughout the Visayas, the storm damaged roads and bridges, but caused no deaths. The system dissipated on December 6.

On December 3, a tropical depression formed about 485 km (300 mi) east of Yap. Tracking westward, it intensified into a typhoon on December 5 while approaching the Philippines. The system turned to the northwest, moving over eastern Samar and crossing Catanduanes island with a recorded pressure of . Subsequently, there is contradictory information on the path; the storm either continued to the northwest, dissipating over northeastern Luzon on December 8, or it turned to the southwest. Capalonga in eastern Luzon reported a pressure of  on December 8, and later, a station on Marinduque island reported a pressure of . The Monthly Weather Report tracked the storm over the Philippines into the South China Sea, reporting its dissipation on December 13 to the east of Vietnam. Across its path through the Philippines, the typhoon brought heavy rains and strong winds, which downed trees and power lines. On Catanduanes, the storm left about 75,000 people homeless, and killed 60. At Labo, Camarines Norte, ten people died when a tree fell onto a house. Another three people drowned between Polillo Island and Camarines Norte.

A tropical cyclone was observed on December 8 southeast of Guam. It moved northwestward and passed about 160 km (100 mi) north of the island on December 10, where a pressure of  was recorded. The typhoon turned to the west and later to the southwest. Around December 14, the system stalled to the east of the Philippines, later drifting to the east. On December 19, the system weakened, although it remained a distinct entity as it recurved back to the south and west. On December 24, the storm dissipated after striking Mindanao.

The final storm of the season was observed on December 18 to the northeast of Guam. It affected a nearby ship on December 20, causing the deaths of two members of the crew in the subsequent day. The typhoon tracked to the northeast, crossing the International Date Line on December 21.

See also

1940 Pacific hurricane season
1940s North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons
1940 Atlantic hurricane season
 1900–1950 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone seasons
 1940s Australian region cyclone seasons
 1940s South Pacific cyclone seasons

References

1940s Pacific typhoon seasons
Tropical cyclones in 1940
1940 meteorology
1940 in Asia
1940 in Oceania


title: Ann Veronica Janssens

text:
Ann Veronica Janssens is a Belgian contemporary visual artist born in 1956 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. She lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. Her work is an invitation to ephemeral experiences, which are at times delirious or vertiginous, and lead to the loss of control or landmarks, generating a sentiment of visual, physical, temporal or psychological fragility.

Janssens has explored practical and theoretical research connecting space, time, body and brain, by bringing together artists and researchers in neurosciences, astrophysics, biology, geology, art history and philosophy.

In 2012 she was appointed Head of Studio at the Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Work

Janssens' work presents decisive visual experiences. Her work is inspired by nature, science, and minimalism. Variations in the atmospheric light in Kinshasa, the city in Congo where she grow up, made a deep impression on her, as did the handling of geometry and light in Mies van der Rohe's work, notably his Barcelona Pavilion. Originally she wanted to be an architect, like her father, but she began to move away from this discipline as it struck her as rather too functional. She explored artistic discoveries that included sculptures of Henry Moore, and was influenced by Maria Wierusz Kowalski (known as  Tapta), with whom she had worked as assistant at La Cambre art school in Brussels.

Janssens mainly does site-specific works. She takes a specific space as her starting point and adds forms and volumes to the existing architecture. Often she chooses unexpected, unobvious places like a stairway, a ceiling or a window ledge. Her interventions bring the specific qualities of an environment to light. She sets out signposts intended to let viewers define themselves against reality. In what way does our point of view determine our perception? How does the viewer relate vis-à-vis a specific place?
For a public space art project such as The Neon Parallax in Geneva, for example, she used a misspelled text found on the ground as starting point for a large neon installation on the rooftop of a building.

Originally she worked chiefly with industrial materials – concrete, wood and glass – and primary forms. Since 1990 her work increasingly displays a more immaterial character: light, sound and fog instead of rough building materials. These works lead to a drastic total-experience that completely changes the viewer's perception of the space.

Further reading

Artist’s books
 Ann Veronica Janssens. Chapelle Saint-Vincent Grignan, Ronny Van De Velde ed., Berchem, 2013
 L’éclipse de l’objet, l’éclipse du sujet, l’éclipse de l’âme comme la neige, Nico Dockx, Ann Veronica Janssens, Jan Mast, Krist Torfs, 2010-2011
 Experienced, Base Publishing, Brussels, 2009
 0032 2, Edition Camille von Scholz, Brussels, 2001
 Het raadsel van de verdwenen kat/l'énigme du chat perdu, Ann Veronica Janssens / Hans Theys, Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Brussels, 1999
 Maroc 1993, Michel François / Ann Veronica Janssens, Fondation pour l'architecture, Bruxelles, 1993
 Éclipse. Les artistes/the artists, Monika Droste / Michel Francois / Luc Grossen / Ann Veronica Janssens, Brussels, 1981

Essays
 "Physical Realisations of the Unthinkable / Concrétisations physiques de l’impensable ", Guillaume Desanges, Catalogue S.M.A.K, 2015
 "Women’s work Is never Done, An anthology", Catherine de Zegher, 2014
 "Physical realisations of unthinkable", Guillaume Desange, 2015
 "Endless andness the politic of abstraction according to Ann Veronica Janssens", Mieke Bal, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013
 "Expérience esthétique et art contemporain", Marianne Massin, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2013
 "Woman Artists at the Millenium", Carol Armstrong & Catherine de Zegher, MIT press, 2006
 "Quoting Caravaggio", Mieke Bal, The University of Chicago Press, 1999
 "Inside the Visible: An Elliptical Traverse of Twentieth Century Art in, of, and from the Feminine ", Catherine de Zegher, MIT Press, 1996.
 "Travelling concepts", Mieke Bal, University of Toronto Press, 2002
 "Narratology, Intro. to the Theory of Narrative 3rd edition", M. Bal, University of Toronto Press, 2009

References

1956 births
Living people
20th-century English women artists
21st-century English women artists
Artists from Brussels
Artists from Kent
British contemporary artists
Light artists
Minimalist artists
People from Folkestone


title: Table tennis at the 2015 European Games

text:
Table tennis at the 2015 European Games in Baku took place from 13 to 19 June 2015 at Baku Sports Hall. 126 athletes, 63 men and 63 women, competed in four events.

Qualification

2016 Summer Olympics
Organisers confirmed that the winners of the men's and women's singles events will qualify automatically for those events at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Medalists

Medal table

Participating nations
A total of 126 athletes from 34 nations competed in table tennis at the 2015 European Games.

References

Sports at the 2015 European Games
2015 in table tennis
2015


title: Francesc Xavier Bultó

text:
Francesc Xavier Bultó Marquès (Barcelona, 17 May 1912 – Barcelona, 3 August 1998), popularly known as Paco Bultó, was a Spanish Catalan businessman, founder of Montesa along with Peter Permanyer, and of Bultaco. He was born into a family of Catalan bourgeoisie dedicated mainly to textiles. He is known as a motorcycle engineer and designer.

In the first company, Permanyer was the businessman and manager, and Bultó had experience with motorcycles. They produced light bikes with two-stroke engines, which outperformed heavier English bikes with four-stroke engines. In 1958, the Spanish government demanded some cuts from industry, and Permanyer wanted to abandon the sport-bike branch. Bultó coined his famous motto "market follows the chequered flag" and left the company. Together with some former employees, he started his own venture called Bultaco. The first model, Bultaco Tralla 101, came to the market 1959. The bikes were manufactured at Bultó family farm, and his children acted as test drivers for all prototypes.
Francisco Xavier Bultó died on 5 August 1998, at age 86.

References

1912 births
1998 deaths
Businesspeople from Catalonia
Spanish industrialists


title: Ulrike Grossarth

text:
Ulrike Grossarth (born 1952) is a German artist, dancer, and academic. Since 1998 she has been professor of mixed media art at Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. She was awarded the 2009 Käthe Kollwitz Prize by the Academy of Arts, Berlin for her collective body of work.

Life
She was born in 1952 in Oberhausen, Germany.  She studied dance at Else-Lang-Schule in Cologne, in Dresden, and at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, and was involved with Joseph Beuys' Free International University, an offshoot of the Fluxus movement.

She teaches at Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in Germany, where her role as professor of mixed media art incorporates performance art, installation art, video art, and assemblages.

Work
Her art is influenced by the ideas of Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. Her 2009 installation Szeroka 28: A European Memory-Room refers to the Holocaust.

Exhibitions
 2014: "Were I made of matter, I would color", Retrospective. Generali Foundation, Vienna

References

External links
HfBK Dresden (in German)
Her website (in German)

1952 births
Living people
People from Oberhausen
German female dancers
Folkwang University of the Arts alumni