title: River of Stars

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River of Stars, a historical fantasy, is the twelfth novel by Canadian fantasy author Guy Gavriel Kay. It was published in April 2013 by Roc Hardcover. It is Kay's second work set in an alternate history of China, taking place 400 years after his previous novel, Under Heaven. The novel is a fictionalized account of the Disaster of Jingkang and the beginning of the Jin–Song Wars during the Song Dynasty.

Plot
The novel is set in the empire of Kitai, an analogue of twelfth-century Song dynasty China, around five hundred years following the events of Under Heaven. Kitai has vast wealth and a rich civic culture centered on ci lyrical poetry, but the empire's military, intentionally weakened by the imperial civil service following the events of Under Heaven, has proven unable to resist incursions by tribes of the northern steppe., Kitai's borders have receded south of the long-abandoned Long Wall, and the empire has established an uneasy peace with the Xiaolu Empire on the steppe, which, despite its military superiority, has grown economically dependent on Kitai.

The events of the novel closely parallel the historical Disaster of Jingkang and the defeat of the Kaifeng-based Song dynasty by the invading Jin dynasty. The novel follows two protagonists: Ren Daiyan, a self-taught archer and swordsman whose fortuitous encounters with an up-and-coming magistrate lead him to become first an outlaw of the marsh and then a military officer, and Lin Shan, a talented ci poet given a man's education by her father. After an encounter with the exiled poet Lu Chen thrusts her into the world of court intrigue in the imperial capital of Hanjin, Lin is introduced to Emperor Wenzong and eventually becomes a favored courtier. Ren and Lin intersect and become lovers amid various intrigues in the capital. They find themselves aligned with Hang Dejin, the emperor's aging prime minister, against Hang's deputy and eventual successor, Kai Zhen, who has risen to power by building the emperor a massive pleasure garden. The expansion of the garden requires a system of oppressive taxes and requisitions, leading to banditry and unrest in rural Kitai.

Amid the unrest, the imperial court commits itself to a policy of military adventurism in the north, encouraging the restive Altai tribe to rebel against the Xiaolu. This strategy fails disastrously, and after easily conquering the Xiaolu, the Altai mount a scorched-earth invasion of Kitai, violently sacking Hanjin and capturing most of the imperial family. Ren, the only Kitan general capable of defeating Altai forces in the field, rescues Shan and an imperial heir, Prince Zhizheng, and conducts a fighting retreat to the south. Ren reorganizes the Kitai military and rapidly reconquers territory in the north. He quickly becomes a folk hero but is viewed with suspicion by his superiors, and is imprisoned on trumped-up treason charges when Zhizheng, to guard against his family's restoration in the north, proclaims himself emperor of a rump Kitan state and negotiates an unfavorable peace with the Altai. Lin, meanwhile, settles in the south on the estate of her old acquaintance Lu Chen.

The novel concludes ambiguously, with Hang Hsien, Zhizheng's prime minister and the son of Hang Dejin, offering Ren a choice between suicide and a life in obscurity following a faked death.

Major characters
Ren Daiyan: a military commander and onetime bandit, born the second son of a village clerk in western Kitai.
Lin Shan: a renowned ci poet educated as a man, who marries into a distant branch of the imperial family and becomes a favored courtier.
Lu Chen: the foremost ci poet of his day, once a prominent member of the imperial court's conservative faction and exiled following the ascent of Hang Dejin.
Lu Chao: Lu Chen's brother and a diplomat sent to explore a Kitai-Altai alliance against the Xiaolu.
Zhao Ziji: Ren's trusted companion-in-arms and second-in-command, once a junior army officer ambushed by a youthful Ren's bandit gang.
Hang Dejin: the prime minister of Kitai, leader of the court's reformist faction, and onetime tutor of Emperor Wenzong.
Wan'yen: the war-leader and de facto ruler of the Altai.
Wang Fuyin: a respected magistrate of Kitai, once a prefectural official whose life was saved by a young Ren Daiyan, and frequently Ren's benefactor.
Lin Kuo: Lin Shan's father, a gentleman-scholar who passed the imperial civil service examinations on his second attempt, but who has never held office.
Qi Wai: Lin Shan's husband in a companionate marriage; an impassioned collector of historical artefacts and a member of the imperial clan.
Wenzong: the Emperor of Kitai.
Kai Zhen: the deputy prime minister of Kitai and Hang Dejin's rival, eventually the prime minister himself.
Tuan Lung: Ren Daiyan's teacher as a youth, who instilled in him an understanding of Kitan history and culture, and later an itinerant healer and sometime-charlatan.
Hang Hsien: Hang Dejin's son and assistant, and eventually the prime minister to Emperor Zhizheng.
Bai'ji: Wan-yan's brother.
Xi Wengao: Hang Dejin's predecessor as prime minister, leader of the court's conservative faction, and a renowned poet who hosts Lin Shan, her father, and Lu Chen early in the novel.

Reception
Critical reception has been mostly positive. The Washington Post rated the book favorably, writing that it was "a major accomplishment, the work of a master novelist in full command of his subject". The A.V. Club gave a mostly favorable review, stating "The novel as a whole may not always succeed, but when it does, it’s astounding."

Awards
River of Stars won the 2014 Copper Cylinder Award in the adult novel category.

References

Further reading

2013 Canadian novels
Historical fantasy novels
Novels by Guy Gavriel Kay
Novels set in the Song dynasty
Novels set in the Jin dynasty (1115–1234)
Roc Books books


title: George Leslie (footballer)

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George William John Leslie (9 July 1907 – 22 November 1986) was an English professional footballer who played as a centre-half in the Football League for Walsall. Leslie was also on the books at Charlton Athletic but failed to make a first-team appearance. He additionally featured for Slough Town, Red Star Olympique in Paris, France, Guildford City and Colchester United.

Career
Born in Slough, Leslie began his career with Slough Town before making a move to Charlton Athletic in 1930. He failed to break into the first-team, instead opting to move to France to ply his trade, featuring for Paris-based Red Star Olympique. He returned to England in 1932, joining up with Football League club Walsall. With Walsall, Leslie featured in an FA Cup giant killing when his Third Division North side defeated First Division Arsenal 2–0 in the third round of the 1932–33 competition.

Leslie would go on to make 88 Football League appearances for Walsall, scoring twice before drifting back into non-league football with Guildford City. Colchester United manager Ted Davis signed him from Guildford for the newly formed Southern League club in the summer of 1937. Leslie made his debut for the U's in their first-ever professional match on 28 August 1937 as Colchester fell to a 3–0 defeat to Yeovil & Petters United at the Huish. Leslie suffered from a string of injury problems while with Colchester as he was required to undergo a cartilage operation in May 1938, and suffered further setbacks in October 1938, requiring further fitness training at Highbury, London. On his return to first-team action, Leslie was named club captain, having been voted as the best centre-half in the Southern League for the 1937–38 campaign. He was just behind Jack Hodge in becoming the first player for the club to reach 100 first-team appearances. Leslie ended his time with Colchester during the 1939–40 season, when the league was abandoned due to the onset of World War II. He made his final appearance in a 0–0 draw against Ipswich Town Reserves on 2 September 1939, bringing his total appearances to 102 in all competitions.

Following the war, Leslie assisted fellow former Colchester United player Cecil Allan in running the Colchester Casuals junior side.

Death
Leslie died in Colchester at the age of 79 on 22 November 1986.

Honours

Colchester United
1937–38 Southern League Cup winner
1937–38 Southern Football League Mid-Week section runner-up
1938–39 Southern Football League winner
1938–39 Southern Football League Mid-Week section runner-up

All honours referenced by:

References

1907 births
1986 deaths
Footballers from Slough
English men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Slough Town F.C. players
Charlton Athletic F.C. players
Red Star F.C. players
Walsall F.C. players
Guildford City F.C. players
Colchester United F.C. players
English Football League players
Southern Football League players
English expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in France


title: Depot Creek (Sudbury District)

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Depot Creek is a river in Sudbury District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada, near the community of Cartier. It is in the Great Lakes Basin and is a left tributary of Carhess Creek.

The creek begins at Depot Lake in geographic Hess Township, flows south through Paddy's Lake into geographic Cartier Township, and reaches its mouth at Carhess Creek. Carhess Creek flows via the Onaping River, the Vermilion River and the Spanish River to Lake Huron.

See also
List of rivers of Ontario

References

Sources

Rivers of Sudbury District


title: Ultra-high-energy gamma ray

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Ultra-high-energy gamma rays are gamma rays with photon energies higher than 100 TeV (0.1 PeV). They have a frequency higher than 2.42 × 1028 Hz and a wavelength shorter than 1.24 × 10−20 m. The existence of these rays was confirmed in 2019. In a 18 May 2021 press release, China's Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) reported the detection of a dozen ultra-high-energy gamma rays with energies exceeding 1 peta-electron-volt (quadrillion electron-volts or PeV), including one at 1.4 PeV, the highest energy photon ever observed. The authors of the report have named the sources of these PeV gamma rays PeVatrons.

Importance
Ultra-high-energy gamma rays are of importance because they may reveal the source of cosmic rays. Discounting the relatively weak effect of gravity, they travel in a straight line from their source to an observer. This is unlike cosmic rays which have their direction of travel scrambled by magnetic fields. Sources that produce cosmic rays will almost certainly produce gamma rays as well, as the cosmic ray particles interact with nuclei or electrons to produce photons or neutral pions which in turn decay to ultra-high-energy photons.

The ratio of primary cosmic ray hadrons to gamma rays also gives a clue as to the origin of cosmic rays. Although gamma rays could be produced near the source of cosmic rays, they could also be produced by interaction with cosmic microwave background by way of the Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin limit cutoff above 50 EeV.

Ultra-high-energy gamma rays interact with magnetic fields to produce positron-electron pairs. In the Earth's magnetic field, a 1021 eV photon is expected to interact about 5000 km above the earth's surface. The high-energy particles then go on to produce more lower energy photons that can suffer the same fate. This effect creates a beam of several 1017 eV gamma ray photons heading in the same direction as the original UHE photon. This beam is less than 0.1 m wide when it strikes the atmosphere. These gamma rays are too low-energy to show the Landau–Pomeranchuk–Migdal effect. Only magnetic field perpendicular to the path of the photon causes pair production, so that photons coming in parallel to the geomagnetic field lines can survive intact until they meet the atmosphere. These photons coming through the magnetic window can produce Landau–Pomeranchuk–Migdal showers.

References

External links
Search for Galactic PeV Gamma Rays with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
Air shower detection of diffuse PeV gamma-rays

Gamma rays


title: Radio P2

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Radio P2 may refer to:

DR P2, Danish radio station
NRK P2, Norwegian radio station
Sveriges Radio P2, Swedish radio station

See also
P2 (disambiguation)


title: HouseQuake

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HouseQuake is a 2009 American documentary film written and directed by Karen Elizabeth Price.

Synopsis
This documentary film covers the Democratic Party's successful attempt to take control of the United States House of Representatives from Republicans in 2006. It focuses on the strategy employed by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Rep. Rahm Emanuel and follows Democratic challengers and Republican incumbents in seven races across the country through election night.  The significant gains made by Democrats constituted a wave election. Democrats subsequently lost control to Republicans in 2010. Emanuel became President Barack Obama's first Chief of Staff in 2009 and was elected Mayor of Chicago in 2011.

Subjects

 Naftali Bendavid
 Donna Brazile
 George Bush
 James Carville
 Wesley Clark
 Emanuel Cleaver
 Bill Clinton
 James Clyburn
 Charlie Cook
 Tammy Duckworth
 Brad Ellsworth
 Rahm Emanuel
 Diane Farrell
 Newt Gingrich
 Stanley Greenberg
 Baron Hill
 John Hostettler
 Steny H. Hoyer
 Frank Luntz
 Tim Mahoney
 John McCain
 Jerry McNerney
 Joe Negron
 Barack Obama
 Norman Ornstein
 Nancy Pelosi
 Richard Pombo
 Charles Rangel
 Tom Reynolds
 Peter Roskam
 Phyllis Schlafly
 Christopher Shays
 Heath Shuler
 Mike Sodrel
 Chris Van Hollen
 Richard Viguerie
 Josh Kurtz

Reception
The Washingtonian Made note that the documentary "takes a behind-the-scenes look at how the Democrats made a comeback in 2006" by following and illustrating how Rahm Emanuel "orchestrated one of the country’s most historic congressional elections."  The film opens by showing Emanuel's appointment as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and follows with a brief summation of what factors made the 2006 midterm elections important for the Democrats.

Political analyst Bill Schneider wrote in National Journal that the film's most startling scene is not written for the film, but was a story told by author Naftali Bendavid when Bendavid "recounts an incident at the end of Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign, when staff members gathered to celebrate victory."

Recognition
The film was a 2009 winner of the 'Directorial Discovery Award' at Rhode Island International Film Festival.

References

External links

 HouseQuake at the Internet Movie Database
 HouseQuake at Brainstorm Media

2009 documentary films
2009 films
2000s English-language films
American documentary films
English-language documentary films


title: Media in Boulder, Colorado

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Boulder is a center of media in north-central Colorado. The following is a list of media outlets based in the city.

Print

Newspapers
The Daily Camera is the city's primary newspaper, published daily. Other newspapers published in the city include:
50 Plus Marketplace News, seniors' lifestyle, monthly
Boulder County Business Report, business news, twice monthly
Boulder County Kids, children's entertainment, quarterly
Boulder Weekly, alternative newspaper, weekly
Colorado Daily, five days a week

Magazines

Radio
Boulder is a principal city of the Denver-Boulder radio market. In its Fall 2013 ranking of radio markets by population, Arbitron ranked the Denver-Boulder market 19th in the United States. The market includes seven counties in north-central Colorado:  Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, and Jefferson.

The following is a list of radio stations which broadcast from and/or are licensed to Boulder:

AM

FM

Local listeners can also receive the signal of radio stations broadcasting from nearby communities including Aurora, Denver, Centennial, Greeley, Greenwood Village, Longmont, and Loveland.

Television
Boulder is in the Denver television market. In addition, local viewers can receive the signal of television stations broadcasting from nearby communities including Fort Collins and Greeley.

The following is a list of television stations that broadcast from and/or are licensed to Boulder.

References

Boulder


title: Radio P1

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Radio P1 may refer to:

DR P1, Danish radio station
NRK P1, Norwegian radio station
NRK P1+, Norwegian radio station, via DABradio and online
Sveriges Radio P1, Swedish radio station

See also
P1 (disambiguation)


title: Yaser Abu-Mostafa

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Yaser Said Abu-Mostafa (Arabic: ياسر سعيد أبو مصطفى) is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology, Chairman of Paraconic Technologies Ltd, and Chairman of Machine Learning Consultants LLC. He is known for his research and educational activities in the area of machine learning.

Academic biography
Abu-Mostafa studied at Cairo University, where he earned the BSc degree in 1979. He earned the MS degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1981 and the PhD degree at the California Institute of Technology in 1983. He has been on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology since 1983.

In 1987, Abu-Mostafa cofounded the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), a major machine learning meeting.
He is known for his recent textbook on machine learning.
He has also developed an online course about machine learning.

References

External links
 Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa professional home page

1957 births
Living people
American people of Egyptian descent
Egyptian emigrants to the United States
Georgia Tech alumni
California Institute of Technology alumni
California Institute of Technology faculty
American computer scientists


title: Bread Street Kitchen

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Bread Street Kitchen is a restaurant owned by chef Gordon Ramsay within the One New Change retail and office development in London.

History
The restaurant cost £3 million, and the opening was delayed by a year and was subsequently expected to open on 26 September 2011. A week prior to that date, Gordon Ramsay posted on Twitter, "Holy Cr*p 1 week to go! Not to sure if we are going to make it on time." It actually opened on 26 October, located near St Paul's Cathedral in London, inside the One New Change retail and office development across two floors. It is next door to one of Jamie Oliver's Barbecoa restaurants. The interior of the restaurant was fitted out by Russell Sage Studios using reclaimed materials and exposed concrete struts.

It was announced in June 2014 that Ramsay intends to replicate Bread Street Kitchen in a new restaurant in Hong Kong, due to open in the following September.
On 23 June 2015 Gordon Ramsay officially opened Bread Street Kitchen in Singapore, at Marina Bay Sands. This marks his first foray into Asia. On 4 June 2015 Gordon Ramsay announced he will be opening Bread Street Kitchen in Atlantis, The Palm Dubai during the autumn of 2015.

After spending three years in Lan Kwai Fong, Bread Street Kitchen Hong Kong has moved into a prime real-estate space atop The Peak at The Peak Galleria in February 2019.

Menu
The restaurant is fitted out with an open kitchen, a raw bar and a wood-burning oven. It has a wine balcony storing 2000 bottles. Dishes on the menu include a burger made of beef short ribs, a mutton pie, as well as suckling pig.

Reception
Food critic Jay Rayner visited the restaurant for The Observer in October 2011. He described it as "loud and brash", but enjoyed several dishes such as a sea bass with aubergine purée, and a veal chop which he thought could have been improved by resting it longer. But he thought that the tamarind chicken wings were overpriced and of poor quality, the burger on the menu was "overminced to a paste, destroying both flavour and texture". He felt that the restaurant might improve with time. Tracey MacLeod said that "nearly everything ... was good" in her review in The Independent. She liked the burger and suggested that that mutton pie was going to become the restaurant's signature dish. She found that her waitress wasn't as familiar with the menu as she would have liked, and that the service was very slow.

The review in Metro gave the restaurant three out of five, but said that this was based on the interior and not the food. It said that the veal chop was "weirdly truncated and misshapen, as though it had a slab shaved off to appease the bottom line" and the crab tagliolini was "cat food". However, it did praise the chicken wings and the venison with sour cherries and celeriac purée.

Time Out magazine gave the restaurant a rating of four out of five, however Harden's restaurant guide gave it a score of four (where 1 is high and five is low) for food, ambience and service and said that it was "nothing special". Tanya Gold visited the restaurant nine months after it opened for The Spectator, saying that the service was fast and remarked positively about the food she tried.

See also

 Bread Street Kitchen, Singapore

References

External links

2011 establishments in England
2011 in London
Restaurants established in 2011
Restaurants in London


title: En Purushanthaan Enakku Mattumthaan

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En Purushanthaan Enakku Mattumthaan () is a 1989 Indian Tamil-language drama film, directed by Manobala and written by P. Kalaimani. The film stars Vijayakanth, Suhasini and Rekha. It was released on 3 February 1989. The film was remade in Hindi as Mera Pati Sirf Mera Hai by the same director. It was also remade in Telugu as Naa Mogudu Naake Sontham and in Kannada as Hatamari Hennu Kiladi Gandu.

Plot
Vatsala lives a wealthy lifestyle with her husband, Marudhu, who works for her father, and a daughter named Sharda. Vatsala and Marudhu do not get along and Vatsala suspects that Marudhu is having an affair. Her suspicious nature gets a boost when a woman named Saradha as Vatsala moves into a house next door. Vatsala starts vile rumours about Saradha having an affair with Marudhu. As a result of these rumours, no one is willing to marry Saradha, she is mocked by everyone in the community and even loses her bank job. Saradha decides to teach Vatsala a lesson by moving her belongings into her house, claiming that she is indeed Marudhu's mistress. The surprising thing is Marudhu agrees to this arrangement and permits her to live with them. Unable to assert herself, Vatsala leaves the house and goes to live with her parents.

Things are going well with Saradha, until one day when daughter goes missing. Sharda hectically attempts to locate Pinky but in vain. Then the police arrive to arrest Saradha on the charge of kidnapping Pinky and possibly killing her. The police indicate that they can prove that Saradha did indeed kidnap Pinky as she has a motive for continuing to live with Prakash as his mistress and wanted Pinky out of the way. It was Vatsala's plan to insult Sharda further by giving away her daughter to Nassar who wants to take revenge on Saradha as he lost his bank job because of her. Marudhu saves his daughter and gets Nassar arrested.

When Vatsala visits the temple and is completely shock to see the wedding arrangements between Marudhu and Saradha. She realises the error of her ways and apologises for her behaviour. Marudhu who is happy with the plan reveals that the marriage is for the temple deity not their marriage. Marudhu and Vatsala gets united while Saradha leaves for another town.

Cast
 Vijayakanth as Marudhu
 Suhasini as Saradha
 Rekha as Vatsala
 Janagaraj as Lawyer
 V. K. Ramasamy as Vatsala's father
 Vennira Aadai Moorthy as Marudhu's neighbour
 Nassar as Bank employee
 Thyagu as Vatsala's brother
 LIC Narasimhan as Bank manager

Soundtrack
The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja.

Reception
The Indian Express wrote, "the film proceeds to interchange climax through contrived poignant sequences and with turns and bashups and some honeyed numbers tuned by Ilayaraja who seems to have taken special care".

References

External links

1980s Tamil-language films
1989 drama films
1989 films
Films directed by Manobala
Films scored by Ilaiyaraaja
Indian drama films
Tamil films remade in other languages


title: Reality Check (Australian TV series)

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Reality Check is an Australian television panel discussion program focusing on reality television which debuted on ABC1 on 13 August 2014. The program is hosted by Tom Ballard with a panel of three guests who are industry experts, behind the scenes producers, judges or former contestants to reflect on their experiences. It is produced by Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder, who also produced panel show The Gruen Transfer, which dissected the advertising industry.

Episodes

References

External links
Reality Check website

Australian non-fiction television series
Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming
Television shows set in New South Wales
2014 Australian television series debuts
English-language television shows


title: Cvrcka

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The Cvrcka () is a river which flows through Bosnia, the largest left bank tributary of the river Vrbanja.

It rises on the northern slopes of Čemernica, on the same drainage divide as the Jakotina, another tributary of the same river, and the streams that flow into the Ugar. It is formed by two rivers: Međurača (source at about 1,200 m) and Vukača (source at about 1,150 m). Its estuary is between Večići and Vrbanjci (310 m above sea level).

See also
 Kotor Varoš

References

Rivers of Bosnia and Herzegovina


title: Domenico di Zanobi

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Domenico di Zanobi, formerly known as the Master of the Johnson Nativity, was an Italian Renaissance painter. His exact dates of birth and death are not known. He is documented as a mature artist from 1467 until 1481.

Domenico di Zanobi's paintings were first grouped together in 1966 by the American art historian Everett Fahy, who recognized about two dozen paintings in a similar style. Since none of these paintings are signed, Fahy named their artist the "Master of the Johnson Nativity," after the panel of the Nativity in the Johnson Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In 1996, the Florentine scholar Annamaria Bernacchioni identified this artist as Domenico di Zanobi, a documented assistant of Filippo Lippi in Florence and Prato, based on her discovery of the carpenter's bill for the Coronation of the Virgin at the Museo della Misericordia in San Miniato. This painting, attributed by Fahy to the Master of the Johnson Nativity, was reportedly commissioned by the Chellini family in 1476 from a painter named "Domenico." Since the painting is clearly not by Domenico di Michelino, who also worked for the Chellini family, Bernacchioni suggests that it's by Domenico di Zanobi, who shared a workshop with Domenico di Michelino in Florence's Via delle Terme by 1467. The identification has since found acceptance among art historians.

Aside from the influence of his teacher, Domenico's art evolved through contact with Andrea del Castagno, Alesso Baldovinetti, and Sandro Botticelli. He also collaborated with the young Filippino Lippi in an Annunciation at the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence.

He painted primarily religious subjects, including altarpieces and many small panels for private devotion.

Notes

Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
15th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Catholic painters


title: SirVincent Rogers

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SirVincent Rogers (born May 9, 1986) is a former gridiron football offensive lineman who played professionally for 12 years. He spent the bulk of his career with the Ottawa Redblacks of the Canadian Football League (CFL) where he won the 104th Grey Cup. He played college football at the University of Houston and attended Jasper High School in Jasper, Texas. He has also been a member of the Miami Dolphins, Hartford Colonials, Arizona Rattlers, Las Vegas Locomotives, Jacksonville Sharks, Toronto Argonauts, and Edmonton Elks.

Professional career

Miami Dolphins
Rogers was signed by the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League on April 30, 2009. He left the team on August 6, 2009.
He was re-signed by the Dolphins on February 16, 2010. He was released on March 9, 2010.

Hartford Colonials
Rogers was signed by the Hartford Colonials of the United Football League (UFL) in 2010 and released on September 3, 2010. He re-signed with the Hartford Colonials in 2011 but the team folded.

Arizona Rattlers
Rogers was signed by the Arizona Rattlers of the Arena Football League (AFL) in October 2011. The Rattlers went on to win ArenaBowl XXV.

Las Vegas Locomotives
Rogers played for the Las Vegas Locomotives of the UFL during the 2012 season.

Jacksonville Sharks
Rogers signed with the AFL's Jacksonville Sharks on January 11, 2013. He was placed on the Sharks Other League Exempt list in February 2013.

Toronto Argonauts
Rogers was signed by the Toronto Argonauts of the CFL on February 21, 2013. He spent two years with Toronto, playing and starting in 26 games with the team.

Ottawa Redblacks
Upon entering free agency, Rogers signed with the CFL's Ottawa Redblacks on February 11, 2015. Rogers played in 30 games for the Redblacks during his first two seasons in Ottawa. He was named a CFL All-Star in 2015 and was awarded the distinction of being the CFL's Most Outstanding Linemen for that season. Rogers won the 104th Grey Cup to conclude the 2016 season. Following the season he was re-signed by the Redblacks to a new two-year contract.

Edmonton Eskimos / Elks
Rogers signed with the Edmonton Eskimos for the 2019 season, but was injured before the season began and sat out all year. He did not play in 2020 due to the cancellation of the 2020 CFL season. He signed a one-year contract extension with the Edmonton Elks on February 4, 2021. He played in three games for the Elks in 2021 and was released on December 28, 2021.

Ottawa Redblacks
On January 28, 2022, Rogers signed a one-day contract with the Ottawa Redblacks and announced his retirement from professional football.

References

External links
Ottawa Redblacks bio
Just Sports Stats
Toronto Argonauts profile
NFL Draft Scout

1986 births
Living people
African-American players of American football
African-American players of Canadian football
American football offensive linemen
Arizona Rattlers players
Canadian football offensive linemen
Edmonton Elks players
Houston Cougars football players
Las Vegas Locomotives players
Ottawa Redblacks players
People from Jasper, Texas
Players of American football from Texas
Toronto Argonauts players
21st-century African-American sportspeople
20th-century African-American people


title: Donald Snygg

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Donald Snygg (September 24, 1904 – February 1, 1967) was a teacher, a scholar, and a successful basketball and football coach. He is best known for and identified with the beginnings of Phenomenological Psychology.

Early years

Donald Snygg (born Oram Donald Snygg) was the second child and first son of Edward Emil Snygg and Florence Woolston Snygg, merchants in Magnet, Nebraska. His older sister, Rachael, was a teacher and homemaker. His younger brother, Edward (Ned), manufactured and fitted artificial limbs.

Snygg received his primary and secondary education in a one-room schoolhouse and in 1924 obtained his B.A. from the Nebraska State Teachers' College (now Wayne State College) in Wayne, Nebraska. He attended summer school at Columbia University in 1926 and spent additional summers between 1929 and 1932 at the University of Iowa where he earned his M.A.

Between 1924 and 1930, he was a science instructor at Randolph High School in Randolph, Nebraska. He was also the school's principal from 1925 to 1930, and as basketball and football coach, he led Randolph's teams to a series of winning seasons remembered by some as the Snygg Era.

In 1930, Snygg was hired as Superintendent of Public Schools in Verdigre, Nebraska, but in 1933, as the Depression deepened, the School Board, in good conscience, could no longer employ both Snygg and his wife. The Snyggs resigned and moved to Canada where he began his doctoral studies.

Graduate school

At the University of Toronto, Snygg studied psychology under K. S. Bernhardt, E. A. Bott, and W. Line. He conducted experiments in learning with humans and rats.
Rats, he found, preferred a simple path to their goal over a shorter but more complicated path. Snygg completed his Ph.D. at Toronto in 1935 and stayed on to lecture and do research there for the next two years while also serving as Psychologist to the Toronto Juvenile Court.

Oswego years

In 1937, Snygg joined the faculty of Oswego State Normal School (now SUNY Oswego) in Oswego, New York as chairman of the Psychology Department.
Snygg often used summers to teach at other institutions, including, Columbia University, the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, the University of Illinois in Champaign–Urbana, Illinois, and the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin.
Snygg remained at Oswego until his untimely death in 1967 from a massive heart attack, suffered while shoveling snow. His many contributions to the community and State of New York are documented in his obituary.

Phenomenological psychology

In a seminal article, published in Psychological Review in 1941, Snygg asserted that past theories of personality had failed and that a new approach was needed.
He argued that, to understand why people behave as they do, it is essential to understand how they see the world. To predict and influence how they might behave in the future, one needs to understand the mechanisms by which this world view changes.
Other publications followed, most notably the book Individual Behavior, co-authored with Arthur Combs and published in 1949.
Snygg's work on personality is often connected with that of other pioneers in the field, including Gordon Allport and Carl Rogers. About Snygg's phenomenological psychology, C. George Boeree wrote: "(it) fails to gain the attention it deserves because it is too simple, too clear, too practical."

Family
While Snygg was principal of Randolph High School, he hired Elaine Morrow, of Iowa, as the school's home economics teacher. In 1927, they married.

Don and Elaine had three children, all of whom followed academic careers. John Morrow Snygg taught mathematics and physics, first at Hunter College in New York City, and then at Upsala College in East Orange, New Jersey, and authored books on Clifford Algebra.
Charles Edward Snygg also became a mathematics teacher, first at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, then at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California, and later worked as an engineer at Lockheed-Martin in Sunnyvale, California.
Frances Louise Snygg (named after a family friend, Canadian mystery writer Frances Shelley Wees) became a modern dance teacher and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.

After Elaine died, Snygg married zoologist Carlita Nesslinger Georgia, who brought two daughters, Fredericka Georgia and Deborah Georgia, into the family.

Legacy

In late 1966, months before his death, Snygg was designated University Professor, a position shared by only a select few in the SUNY system.

Two scholarships, The Donald Snygg Scholar-Athlete Award, in recognition of his support of intercollegiate athletics at Oswego, and The Donald Snygg Graduate Scholarship, for post-graduate students of psychology, were established in his name.

During the period 1968–2014, a building named Snygg Hall, in his honor, stood on campus at SUNY Oswego.

References

Further reading

 Snygg, D. (1935) The Relative Difficulty of Mechanically Equivalent Tasks, A Study In Human and Animal Learning, thesis, University of Toronto
 Snygg, D. (1941). The Need for a Phenomenological System of Psychology, Psychological Review, 48(5) September, 404–424.
 Snygg, D. & Combs, A. W. (1949). Individual Behavior, A New Frame of Reference for Psychology. New York, NY: Harper & Brothers. ASIN: B000NSIPU6.
 Ainsworth, M. D. S. (1983). Models Of Achievement, Reflections Of Eminent Women In Psychology. A.N. O’Connell & N.F.Russo (Eds.), 200–219. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
 Combs, A. W. (2006). In Search of Fulfillment: The Quest of Psychologist/Educator Arthur W. Combs. chapter 5. ed. Anne C. Richards. Freeperson Press, Novato, California.

External links
 The Field Psych Trust, Honoring the Life and Professional Contributions of Arthur W. Combs, Ph.D. Anne C. Richards. ed.

1904 births
1967 deaths
20th-century American psychologists
Humanistic psychologists
American humanists
Educational psychologists
People from Cedar County, Nebraska


title: Parque Thays

text:
The Parque Thays is a public space in Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The park is located in the corners of Libertador avenue y Callao avenue.

It was named after the French landscape architect Carlos Thays.

One of the sculptures can be seen in this place is Torso Masculino Desnudo ("Nude Male Torso") by Colombian artist Fernando Botero.

The land on which the park is located is the formerly occupied Italpark amusement park, which was closed in 1990.

References

Tourist attractions in Buenos Aires
Thays


title: 2013–14 Championnat National

text:
The 2013–14 Championnat National season was the 16th season since its establishment. The previous season's champions were Créteil. The season began on 9 August and ended on 23 May 2013. In the end of the season, Orléans, Luzenac and Gazélec Ajaccio were promoted to Ligue 2.

Teams

DNCG rulings
The DNCG ruled that Le Mans FC, who was relegated in 2012–13 Ligue 2, was relegated to the Division Honneur due to financial reasons.  FC Rouen, who ended as 5th on the 2012–13 Championnat National, was relegated to the Division Honneur due to the club accounting and its debts. Also, CS Sedan Ardennes, who was relegated in 2012–13 Ligue 2, was relegated to the Championnat de France amateur 2 due to its judiciary liquidation.

The teams were replaced by FC Bourg-Péronnas who ended the 15th position, ES Uzès Pont du Gard (16th) and Paris FC (17th). The three teams were supposed to be relegated in the 2012–13 Championnat National, as it had plans to change its number to 18 teams in this division.

Stadia and locations

Managerial changes

League table

Results

Top goalscorers

Source: Official Goalscorers' Standings

References

External links

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title: Yamaha RX-5

text:
The Yamaha RX-5 is a programmable digital sample-based drum machine built by Yamaha, in 1986.

Features

The RX-5 has 24 built-in digitally sampled drum sounds and another 28 on the RX5 ROM cartridge that was included with every RX5. The sounds include bass drum, snare drum, rimshot, toms, hi hat, cymbal (ride or crash), hand clap, tambourine, cowbell, and shaker. The included cartridge contains mainly Latin percussion instruments. The RX5 has 12 individual outputs for each vertical drum pad pair. Each pair has a fixed set of sounds at its disposal, for example 6 bass drum samples at the first two buttons. There is a workaround to have other sounds in each location. When you customise a sound to one of the 10 copied sounds presets, they become available on all pads.

The RX-5 also features "Attack" and "Decay" envelope controls, a pitch envelope, and effects such as reverse, damp, pitch bend, and accent.

Sequencer
The sequencer section can record up to 100 patterns with time signatures ranging from 01/32 to 99/2 in either Real Time or Step Time record modes with lengths of 1-99 bars. Real Time recorded patterns can be quantized to the nearest 1/2 to 1/48 note. Patterns can be arranged in up to 20 songs.

Storage
The RX5 has a RAM/ROM cartridge slot for storing custom edited sounds and loading in new sounds as well. The RX5 was shipped by Yamaha with one additional cartridge of sounds—the "RX5 ROM". Three additional Waveform ROM Cartridges were made to suit various genres: WRC-02 "Jazz/Fusion," WRC-03 "Heavy Metal," and WRC-04 "Effects." There were also a few third-party cartridges made, containing TR-808 and TR-909 samples, but they are rather rare. Various projects to create compatible USB connected cartridges are in progress.
Additionally, a custom ROM cart utilizing flash memory and a Teensy microcontroller, the RX5USB is available and allows the loading of custom sounds to the RX-5.

References

Further reading
 Yamaha RX-5 User's Manual

External links
 Vintage Synth Explorer: Yamaha RX-5
 Yamaha RX-5 resource | free samples, manual and schematics
 Yamaha Black Boxes | Yamaha RX5 Digital rhythm programmer

Drum machines
Musical instruments invented in the 1980s


title: Julius Heinrich Petermann

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Julius Heinrich Petermann (August 12, 1801, in Glauchau – June 10, 1876, in Bad Nauheim) was a German Orientalist.

Biography
In 1829, Petermann received his PhD in Berlin for a dissertation on the Targum Jonathan of the Pentateuch. Between 1830 and 1837, he was first a lecturer, then from 1837 an associate professor of Oriental philology at the University of Berlin. Between 1852 and 1855, Johann Gottfried Wetzstein, the German consul in Damascus, and the Prussian king sponsored his travel to Syria, Mesopotamia and Persia. From 1868 to 1869, he was consul in Jerusalem. He learned Armenian from the Mekhitarist Father Eduard on the island of San Lazzaro, which is part of Venice. In his Grammatica Linguae Armeniacae he offers proof that Armenian is an Indo-European language. In 1851, he wrote about the Armenian culture and music and in 1866 about their history. Petermann was interested in religious minorities such as the Samaritans, Druze, Mandaean, Yazidis, Parsees and Ahl-i Haqq. Information on these groups is found in his two-volume travelogue Journeys in the Orient. His research on the Samaritans and the Mandaeans was pioneering. He learned the Samaritan pronunciation from a Samaritan priest of Hebrew tradition in Nablus. He began his writings on these ethnic groups with a critical edition of the Samaritan Pentateuch, which comprised the first two volumes. Volumes 3 to 5 were released by Karl Vollers. Petermann published the first edition and Latin translation of two Mandaean writings, the Ginza and Sidra Rabba respectively, ("The Treasure", "The Great Directory") in his Thesaurus sive liber magnus.  He obtained a total of two collections of oriental manuscripts from 1532 for the Royal Library in Berlin. In 1840, he founded a series of concise textbooks, Porta linguarum Orientalium, on oriental languages, each with an anthology. In this series he published books on Arabic, Syriac, Armenian, Hebrew and Samaritan. Petermann was a member of the Berlin Masonic Lodge, Friedrich Wilhelm zur gekrönten Gerechtigkeit.

Works
Grammatica linguae armenicae (1837), Berlin
De Ostikanis, Arabicis Armeniae gubernatoribus, Berlin, 1840
Contributions to a history of the latest reforms of the Ottoman Empire, German and Turkish (with Ramiz Efendi), Berlin, 1842
Epistola ad Philemonem speciminis loco ad fidem versionum Orientalium veterum, Berlin, 1844
Pater Ignatii Patris Apostolici quae feruntur Epistolae, Leipzig, 1849
Pistis Sophia: opus gnosticum (1851)
Contributions to the history of the Crusades from Armenian sources, Berlin, 1860
Journeys in the Orient, 1st edition. 2 vols. Leipzig, 1860 and 1861
Journeys in the Orient, 2nd edition. Leipzig, 1865
Thesaurus sive liber magnus liber vulgo Adami appellatus, 2 parts, Leipzig, 1867 (Syriac and Latin versions of the Ginza Rabba)
Attempt at a Hebraic morphology based on the Speech of Present-day Samaritans, 1868
Pentateuchus Samaritanus, 5 vols. Berlin, 1872–91.
Porta linguarum Orientalium (Editor) Vol. 1–4, 6, Berlin
Brevis linguae hebraicae, 1864
Brevis linguae arabicae, 1867
Brevis linguae armenicae, 1872
Brevis linguae chaldaicae, 1872

References

External links
 Works by Julius Heinrich Petermann at the German National Library (German)

German Freemasons
German orientalists
1801 births
1876 deaths
German male non-fiction writers
Armenian studies scholars
Scholars of Mandaeism
Translators from Mandaic


title: HMS Pearl (1708)

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HMS Pearl was a 42-gun fifth-rate of the Royal Navy. Her crew was involved in the hunt and death of Blackbeard in 1718.

Early career
The Pearl was launched by Richard Burchett of Rotherhithe on 5 August 1708. She was commissioned in July 1708 under the command of Captain Henry Lawson, who commanded her at first in the Bristol Channel in 1709, moving to the Channel Islands in 1710, and then into the English Channel in 1711. She went on to cruise off the coast of Portugal, where she captured two French privateers, the Bizarre on 8 September 1711, and the Victorieuse on 18 September 1711. Captain Caesar Brookes took over command in 1712, serving in the North Sea, before Pearl was paid off in December that year.  She recommissioned in July 1715 under the command of Captain Charles Poole, and served with Admiral George Byng's fleet in the English Channel, and then on the coast of Scotland during the Jacobite rising of 1715.  In 1716 she commissioned under Captain George Gordon, who served first in the Baltic and North Sea, before sailing to Virginia in 1717.

Anti-piracy operations
By 1718 the Pearl was stationed in Virginia, under Captain Gordon, and with Robert Maynard as her first lieutenant. That year, Governor Alexander Spotswood issued an order for the capture of the pirate Blackbeard. Blackbeard, who had supposedly retired, was living in the neighbouring Province of North Carolina, and Spotswood felt that he was an immediate threat to Virginia commerce should he resume his pirating career. Using information gathered from a captured member of Blackbeard's crew, Spotswood dispatched 33 crewmen from the Pearl and 24 crewmen from HMS Lyme and commandeered two merchant sloops, which they used to sail down the coast to North Carolina. With Maynard in command, the group finally located Blackbeard's ship, the Adventure, and attacked, resulting in his subsequent death and post-mortem decapitation by Maynard.

The Pearl remained in American waters until 1719, returning to Britain to be paid off in December 1719.  She was broken up at Deptford Dockyard between December 1722 and January 1723. The succeeding , launched in 1726, was ordered as a rebuild of the 42-gun ship.

Citations

References

Ships of the Royal Navy
1700s ships
Ships built in Rotherhithe
Ships involved in anti-piracy efforts


title: 2014 Volta a Portugal

text:
The 2014 Volta a Portugal was a men's road bicycle race held from 30 July to 10 August 2014. It was the 76th edition of the men's stage race to be held, which was established in 1927. As part of the 2014 UCI Europe Tour, it is rated as a 2.1 event.

The Spanish cyclist Gustavo César from  won the race.

Participating teams
In total, 16 teams competed.
National teams:

Portugal (national team)
International teams:

Schedule

Stages

Prologue
30 July 2014 — Fafe to Fafe, , individual time trial (ITT)

Stage 1
31 July 2014 — Lousada to Maia,

Stage 2
1 August 2014 — Gondomar to Braga,

Stage 3
2 August 2014 — Viana do Castelo to Montalegre–,

Stage 4
3 August 2014 — Boticas to Mondim de Basto–,

Stage 5
4 August 2014 — Alvarenga to Santo Tirso–Alto da Nossa Senhora da Assunção,

Stage 6
5 August 2014 — Oliveira do Bairro to Viseu,

Stage 7
7 August 2014 — Belmonte to Seia–Alto da Torre,

Stage 8
8 August 2014 — Sabugal to Castelo Branco,

Stage 9
9 August 2014 — Oleiros to Sertã, , individual time trial (ITT)

Stage 10
10 August 2014 —  to Lisbon,

Classification leadership

References

External links

2014
Volta a Portugal
Volta a Portugal


title: Plaza Vicente López y Planes

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The Plaza Vicente López y Planes is a public space in Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Limits the property of Paraná, Montevideo, Arenales and Juncal Vicente Lopez streets; the square of moderate size (if not smaller) then you have a plant that takes an almost triangular in appearance having its northeast end the beginning Las Heras avenue.

One of the peculiarities of this place is that she was walking in the 1909 Santiago Ramón Estrada singing some of his songs that would later come to national scenarios of greater importance.

About the Parish Montevideo street commonly called "The Slave" (Sacred Heart of Jesus) Church officially stands and Eucharistic Heart of Jesus. Beautiful eclectic building in which Gothic and Romanesque details predominate built between the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as a votive gift from a wealthy family in the order of nuns called Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

The square honors the author of the Argentine national anthem: Vicente López y Planes is flanked by high and very flowery spring trees of the broads and jacarandaes species, bearing within it a great ombú following urban design and landscape requirements Carlos Thays who despite being born in France he became a naturalized Argentine and preferred to the streets, squares and locals parks had flora of the country rather than imported.

References

External links

Tourist attractions in Buenos Aires
Lopez


title: Pietro Perona

text:
Pietro Perona (born 3 September 1961) is an Italian-American educator and computer scientist. He is the Allan E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computation and Neural Systems at the California Institute of Technology and director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center in Neuromorphic Systems Engineering. He is known for his research in computer vision and is the director of the Caltech Computational Vision Group.

Academic biography
Perona obtained his D.Eng. in electrical engineering cum laude from the University of Padua in 1985 and completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in 1990.
His dissertation was titled Finding Texture and Brightness Boundaries in Images, and his adviser was Jitendra Malik.
In 1990, Perona was a postdoctoral fellow at the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley.
From 1990 to 1991, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems.
He has been on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology since 1991, and he was named Allan E. Puckett Professor in 2008.

Research
Perona’s research focuses on the computational aspects of vision and learning.
He developed the anisotropic diffusion equation, a partial differential equation that reduces noise in images while enhancing region boundaries.
He is currently interested in visual recognition and in visual analysis of behavior.

Perona and Serge Belongie lead the Visipedia project, which facilitates research on visual knowledge representation, visual search, and human-in-the-loop machine learning systems.

Perona pioneered the study of visual categorization (including the publication of the Caltech 101 dataset) for which he was awarded the Longuet-Higgins Prize in 2013.
He is also the recipient of the 2010 Koenderink Prize for Fundamental Contributions in Computer Vision, the 2003 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition best paper award, and a 1996 NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award.

Media coverage
Perona has been quoted or had his research featured in various national media outlets, including the New York Times, Science Friday, The New Yorker, and the Los Angeles Times.
In 2003, Perona and Stephen Nowlin organized the NEURO art exhibition, which brought together contemporary artists and scientists to explore neuromorphic engineering.

References

External links
 Pietro Perona professional home page

Living people
University of Padua alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
California Institute of Technology faculty
Italian computer scientists
American computer scientists
Computer vision researchers
Machine learning researchers
1961 births


title: Kaikudunna Nilavu

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Kaikudunna Nilavu is a 1998 Indian Malayalam film,  directed by Kamal and written by Ranjith. The film stars Jayaram, Dileep, Ranjitha,  and Shalini in the lead roles. The film has songs by Kaithapram. The background score was by Johnson. The film was dubbed in Tamil as Nilave Unakkaga. The film was an average run at the box office.

Cast
Jayaram as Mahendran
Dileep as Kichamani
Ranjitha as Bhama
Shalini as Veni
Bharath Gopi as Veni's Grandfather
Unnikrishnan Namboothiri as Muthassan
Kalabhavan Mani as Lakshmanan
Augustine as Constable
Nandhu as Kichamani's friend
P Sukumar  as Subhramaniyan
Murali as Ravuthar, Police Officer
T. P. Madhavan as Bhama's father

Soundtrack

References

External links

1998 films
1990s Malayalam-language films
Films directed by Kamal (director)
Films with screenplays by Ranjith


title: Ente Entethu Mathrem

text:
Ente Entethu Mathrem () is a 1986 Indian Malayalam family drama film directed by J. Sasikumar and written by Kaloor Dennis from a story by A. R. Mukesh. The film stars Mohanlal, Karthika, Baby Shalini and Lalu Alex. The film has music composed by Johnson.

Plot
The movie starts with Bindu going home to visit her sick mother. She collects flowers to give to her mother. At the hospital her mother gets a new doctor and her father tells the doctor about his wife's story. Menon owns a construction company. He has daughter Sreekutty. His wife died during childbirth. Sreekutty craves to have a mother like all her classmates. Sheela is Menon's newly appointed P.A. Sreekutty and Sheela soon starts to have close bond and Sreekutty takes sheela to her school on mother's day and introduces sheela as her mother. Seeing their close relationship Menon asks Sheela to marry him, but she refuses him since she is already engaged. Sheela's wedding date is fixed and she invites Menon and Sreekutty to her wedding. But soon Sreekutty gets bitten by their dog who has rabbies and is hospitalised. Hearing this news Sheela comes back to take care of Sreekutty and she asks her mother to postpone the wedding so she can take care of sreekutty. Sreekutty recovers under Sheela's care and she goes back to her home for wedding. But when she goes back she learns that her fiancé has married another women. After that Sheela and Menon gets married. The duo with Sreekutty leads a happy life. But after the birth of Sheela's first child things began to change. Sreekutty becomes jealous of all the attention the baby is getting. Things gets worse and one day Sreekutty rans away from the house amidst an argument towards Menon's work site and accidentally dies. Witnessing this Sheela becomes mentally and physically sick. Years go by and Menon and Sheela's daughter Bindu is studying at a convent boarding school. She has an uncanny resemblance to Sreekutty. On vacation Bindu goes home to visit her mother and she is very excited. But by the time Bindu reaches Sheela, her condition gets worse and she dies.

Cast
Mohanlal as Menon
Karthika as Sheela
Shobana as Ambili
Baby Shalini as Sreemol, Bindu (double role)
Lalu Alex as Gauthaman
Mala Aravindan as Sathyasheelan
Innocent as Vakkachan
Sukumari as Padmavathi/Sheela's mother
Valsala Menon as Mother Superior
Santhakumari as Kalyaniyamma
Lalithasree as Rudrani
James as Mathai

Soundtrack
The music was composed by Johnson and the lyrics were written by R. K. Damodaran.

References

External links

1986 films
1980s Malayalam-language films
Indian romantic drama films
Films directed by J. Sasikumar
Films scored by Johnson


title: Phoenix Racquets

text:
The Phoenix Racquets were a charter franchise of World Team Tennis (WTT). The team was founded as the Denver Racquets and won the 1974 WTT championship in the league's inaugural season, before moving to Phoenix in 1975. Following the 1978 season, eight of the 10 WTT franchises folded leaving only the Racquets and the San Francisco Golden Gaters prepared to participate in the 1979 season. WTT suspended operations of the league in March 1979, ending the Racquets existence.

Team history

Inaugural season

The Racquets were founded by San Diego businessmen Bud Fischer and Frank Goldberg along with Ben Press in 1973. The team began play in WTT's inaugural 1974 season, and played their home matches at the Denver Auditorium Arena in 1974. Press served as a nonplaying assistant coach for the Racquets.

The Racquets' inaugural match was a 35–26 loss at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena to the San Francisco Golden Gaters on May 8, 1974.

The team got off to a rough start in the inaugural season of WTT winning only two of their first 10 matches. However, the Racquets went 28–6 from there and won the Pacific Section Championship with a record of 30 wins and 14 losses.

WTT playoff series in the division semifinals and division championship series in 1974, were played over two legs, one match on the home court of each team. The team with the best aggregate score over the two matches was the winner. As the higher seed, the Racquets had the choice to play either the first or the second match at home. The Racquets met the San Francisco Golden Gaters in the Western Division Semifinals and won both matches, 29–17, at home and 32–24, in Oakland to advance to the Western Division Championship Series against the Minnesota Buckskins.

The Racquets chose to play the opening match at home and won it against the Buckskins, 29–18. Françoise Dürr of the Racquets beat Ann Haydon-Jones, 6–1, in women's singles and then teamed with Kris Kemmer Shaw to beat Wendy Turnbull and Mona Schallau in women's doubles by the same 6–1 score. The Buckskins came back in Minnesota to win the second match, 26–25. Despite the Buckskins' victory in the match, the Racquets kept the score close by winning three of the five sets. This gave the Racquets a victory in the series by a cumulative score of 54–44 and made them Western Division Champions.

In the WTT Finals, the Racquets met the Philadelphia Freedoms who had the league's best regular-season record and were led by their player=coach and WTT Most Valuable Player Billie Jean King. The Racquets swept the best-of-three series, 27–21 at home and 28–24 in front of 5,134 fans in Philadelphia, to win the championship. In the second match, Andrew Pattison's 6–0 set win in men's singles proved too much for the Freedoms to overcome despite winning three of the five sets in the match. Buster Mottram started that set for the Freedoms against Pattison. King sent Brian Fairlie in as a substitute after Mottram fell behind, 3–0, and managed only three points in those three games. Fairlie didn't fare better, not getting any points in his first two games.

The second match of the finals opened with Dürr falling behind King, 4–0, in women's singles. Dürr won the next four games to tie the set before falling, 6–4. Pattison's men's singles victory gave the Racquets a 10–6 lead. The Freedoms followed with a 7–6 tiebreaker victory in women's doubles posted by King and Julie Anthony over Dürr and Kemmer Shaw that cut the Racquets lead to 16–13. It was the only women's doubles set Dürr and Kemmer Shaw lost in the playoffs. Fairlie and Fred Stolle cut the Racquets' lead to 22–20 with a 7–6 set win over Pattison and Tony Roche in men's doubles. When Anthony and Stolle broke Roche's serve in the second game of the final set, the Freedoms were ahead 2–0 in the set, and the match was tied at 22. The Racquets broke back in the next game on Anthony's serve, and the teams both held serve for the next five games. With the set tied at 4, and the Racquets leading the match, 26–24, Denver broke Roche's serve to give themselves a chance to serve for the championship. Roche followed by serving out the match.

Following the clinching win in the second match, Racquets player-coach Roche admitted he didn't think it would mean quite so much to win the first World Team Tennis championship. Roche said, "It's great. I'd compare it to a Davis Cup team effort. We started off with a lousy record. Something like 2 and 8. Everybody felt team pressure. Then one night after a loss to Los Angeles, we all went out, had a few beers, and decided to relax. It paid off, and now I feel great."

Pattison's stellar play earned him the Playoffs Most Valuable Player Award. Pattison downplayed his award saying, "There is no most valuable player in a team effort." Roche was named Coach of the Year. The other members of the Racquets' championship team were Dürr, Kemmer Shaw, Stephanie Johnson and the brother and sister Jeff and Pam Austin.

Pattison's playoff performance was somewhat surprising. He won only 17 of 40 (.425) sets he played in men's singles during the regular season. He won 5 of 6 (.833) in the playoffs. Dürr was solid for the Racquets all season. She won 4 of 6 (.667) women's singles sets in the playoffs and 30 of 39 (.612) overall. Dürr and Kemmer Shaw won 5 of 6 (.833) women's doubles sets in the playoffs and 26 of 40 (.650) overall. Roche and Pattison won 4 of 6 (.667) men's doubles sets in the playoffs and 27 of 38 (.711) overall. Roche and Kemmer Shaw won 3 of 5 (.600) sets in the playoffs, including the championship-clinching set, and 21 of 29 (.724) overall.

None of the Racquets players went back to Denver after winning the championship. They all went to New York City to play in the US Open.

Following the season, Fischer, Goldberg and Press put the team up for sale, and a new ownership group that included Reggie Jackson and his agent Gary K. Walker bought the Racquets on February 6, 1975, and moved them to Phoenix, Arizona.

Move to Phoenix
The Racquets broke even in their first season in Phoenix finishing with 22 wins and 22 losses, second place in the Western Division. The Racquets played their home matches at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

The Racquets hosted the Western Division Semifinal Match against the Los Angeles Strings and dominated the Strings in a 20–8 victory.

The Western Division Championship Series was a best two-of-three match series. The Racquets fell in two straight matches to the San Francisco Golden Gaters, 25–24 and 26–20, ending their season.

Return to prominence
On October 29, 1975, the Racquets announced that they had acquired the rights to negotiate with superstar Chris Evert from the Golden Gaters. Under the terms of the deal, the Racquets would send a player to be named later and undisclosed cash consideration to the Golden Gaters if they were able to sign Evert. If the Racquets failed to sign Evert before the 1976 season, the rights to her would revert to the Golden Gaters. The Golden Gaters had tried unsuccessfully to sign Evert after the 1975 season. When the trade was announced, Golden Gaters owner Dave Peterson said, "Chris indicated she had a strong preference for starting her World Team Tennis career in Phoenix. I feel her decision was greatly influenced by the fact that her closest friend, Kris Shaw, is on the Phoenix roster. We hated to make the deal. If it were just a matter of money we would have signed Chris, but money wasn't the major factor." After signing Evert, the Racquets sent Françoise Dürr to the Golden Gaters to complete the deal.

In 1976, the Racquets raced to the top of the Western Division standings with a record of 30 wins and 14 losses, 2 games ahead of the Golden Gaters. However, for the second straight season, the Racquet fell in the playoffs to the Golden Gaters in two straight matches, 32–16 and 24–18. The Racquets' new superstar Evert was named Female Most Valuable Player and Female Rookie of the Year.

Under the leadership of new player-coach Ross Case, the Racquets had their second consecutive first-place finish (and third in four seasons) in 1977, with a record of 28 wins and 16 losses, 3 games ahead of the Golden Gaters. Chris Evert repeated as Female Most Valuable Player.

The Racquets swept the Sea-Port Cascades in the Western Division Semifinals, two games to none, 30–14 and 27–26. Meanwhile, the Golden Gaters fell in their semifinal series to the San Diego Friars, eliminating the chance that the Racquets and Golden Gaters could meet in the playoffs for the fourth straight season. The Racquets dropped the first match of their series against the Friars, who had a losing record during the regular season, 29–26. However, the Racquets came back to win the second and third matches, 27–20 and 30–22, to win the second Western Division Championship in franchise history and first since the team moved to Phoenix.

In the WTT Finals, the Racquets faced the defending champion New York Apples. The Apples swept the Racquets in two straight matches, 27–22 and 28–17, to end the season for Phoenix. Key points in the series were Sandy Mayer's 6–1 set win for the Apples over the Racquets' Butch Walts and Virginia Wade of the Apples dominating Chris Evert in a 6–0 set win.

Final season
Following her back-to-back female most valuable player awards, Chris Evert sought to leverage her value to WTT and as the year-ending number 1 player in the world each of the previous three years (1975 to 1977). Since the Racquets were unable to meet her demands, Evert's rights were traded to the Los Angeles Strings who signed her to a multi-year $1.2 million contract. Without Evert, under the leadership of their new coach Syd Ball, the Racquets slipped to a record of 14 wins and 30 losses in 1978, last place in the Western Division.

Following the 1978 season, eight of the 10 WTT franchises folded leaving only the Racquets and the Golden Gaters prepared to participate in the 1979 season. A few weeks after most of the franchises announced they were folding, WTT announced the creation of three new expansion franchises in Dallas, Los Angeles and San Diego and said that there would be five more expansion franchises chosen from a pool of candidates.
WTT suspended operations of the league in March 1979, ending the Racquets existence.

Season-by-season records
The following table shows regular season records, playoff results and titles won by the Phoenix Racquets franchise since its founding in 1974.

Home courts
The following table shows home courts used by the Phoenix Racquets franchise.

Individual honors
The following table shows individual honors bestowed upon players and coaches of the Phoenix Racquets franchise.

Hall of Fame players
The following players who are enshrined in the International Tennis Hall of Fame played for the Phoenix Racquets franchise:
 Françoise Dürr
 Chris Evert
 Tony Roche

Final roster
The Phoenix Racquets final roster for the 1978 season was
 Syd Ball, Player-Coach
 Sue Barker
 Rayni Fox
 Dean Paul Martin, Jr.
 Kristien Shaw
 Butch Walts

Titles

See also

References

External links
 Official World TeamTennis Website

Defunct World TeamTennis teams
Tennis in Arizona
Tennis in Colorado
1973 establishments in Colorado
1975 establishments in Arizona
1975 disestablishments in Colorado
1979 disestablishments in Arizona
Sports clubs and teams established in 1973


title: TRXYE

text:
TRXYE is the third extended play (EP) (first signed with a major label) by Australian singer Troye Sivan, released on 15 August 2014 by Universal Music Australia through EMI Music Australia. The EP was preceded by the release of the singles "The Fault in Our Stars" and "Happy Little Pill".

Background
On 5 June 2013, Sivan was signed to EMI Music Australia, a Universal Music Australia label, but did not reveal this information until a year later. On 26 June 2014, he announced (while at VidCon) that he would release a five-song EP on 15 August 2014, and uploaded a YouTube video simultaneously on his channel revealing the cover art of the EP.

Singles

"The Fault in Our Stars" was released on 5 May 2013 as a campaign to help raise money for the Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation in Perth, Australia. The song had great success, and Sivan added an updated version of the song to the EP. A new version of the song was released as a promotional single on 13 June 2014. This version was included on the EP.
"Happy Little Pill" was released on 25 July 2014 as the first official single from the EP. It charted in thirteen countries, including the United States where it reached number 92 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Commercial performance

TRXYE debuted at number five in the United States, selling 30,000 copies after only three days of sales. By July 2015, the EP had a combined downloads of its five tracks of 371,000 in the United States, and 73,000 copies of the album in sales with 39 million streams by September 2015.
In Australia, sales of the EP counted towards the single "Happy Little Pill", causing the single to rise from number 34 to number 10 for the week commencing 24 August 2014.

Track listing

Charts

Release history

References

2014 EPs
Synth-pop EPs
Universal Music Australia EPs
Troye Sivan EPs
Albums produced by Lindsay Rimes


title: London on da Track

text:
London Tyler Holmes (born March 27, 1991), known professionally as London on da Track, is an American record producer, rapper, and songwriter. He is a frequent collaborator of fellow Atlanta rapper Young Thug and has also worked with Kodak Black, Nicki Minaj, Juice WRLD, Birdman, Lil Wayne, Lil Baby, Rich Homie Quan, Gucci Mane, Giggs, Drake, Post Malone, T.I., 21 Savage, 50 Cent, Sfera Ebbasta, Summer Walker, Roddy Ricch and Ariana Grande, among others.

Early life
Holmes was born on March 27, 1991, in Memphis, Tennessee, but moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where he spent the majority of his childhood. He learned to play piano and keyboards during church. After high school, Holmes briefly attended Full Sail University in Florida, although he never graduated.

Career
London began rapping at the age of sixteen with the group Dem Guyz. The group used to download beats on SoundClick for 99 cents, although most of the beats cost $100 for exclusive rights. As a way to save money, London drew upon his experience playing piano arrangements in church and began making beats for rappers. With the help of online software he was able to refine his craft. He gained local acclaim when he began producing beats for the Rich Kidz . Soon after, others began asking for his compositions. Early on in his career, London would give away his beats for free as a means to build connections and garner more publicity. The first song he produced that received radio play was "Pieon" by Rich Kidz. The success of "Pieon" motivated London to continue producing. In 2011, he recorded his first of many collaborations with Young Thug, "Curtains". London continued to give his beats away for free before signing his first label deal with Cash Money Records.

In August 2014, American rapper and Cash Money Records chief executive officer (CEO) Bryan "Birdman" Williams, called London "the best producer in the business, as we speak today". London's frequent collaborator, Atlanta-based rapper Young Thug has stated London is his favorite producer to work with and will go down as "the greatest producer ever". Complex included him on their 2013 list of "25 New Producers To Watch For". In August 2014, three singles, produced by London on da Track, charted on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time, with "Lifestyle" at 16, "About the Money" at 42, and "Hookah" at 85. In 2018, he appeared in Black Ink Crew: Chicago. That same year, he was named to Spotify's Secret Genius Ambassador's list. In 2019, he appeared in Netflix's Rhythm + Flow, as a producer advisor in the finale.

In 2020, London worked with Ariana Grande on a song called "Positions", The song debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming his first chart topper as a composer, lyricist and a producer. The song also debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart.

Personal life
Holmes has 4 children; a daughter with singer Summer Walker born in 2021, as well as another daughter and 2 sons from previous relationships.

Discography

Mixtapes
The DefAnition (with Dae Dae) (2016)

Singles

As lead artist

As featured artist

Production discography

Charting singles

References

External links

1991 births
African-American record producers
American hip hop record producers
Cash Money Records artists
Living people
Musicians from Atlanta
Southern hip hop musicians
Ableton Live users
21st-century African-American people


title: Rob (given name)

text:
Rob is a masculine given name, frequently a shortened version (hypocorism) of Robert and Robin. It may refer to:

Rob Adams (architect) (born 1948), Australian architect and urban designer
Rob Bailey (cricketer) (born 1963), English cricketer
Rob Bailey (director), English television director
Rob Bailey (musician), Australian musician
Rob Beckett (born 1986), English stand-up comedian and presenter
Rob Brown (disambiguation)
Rob Brydon (born 1965), Welsh comedian, actor, radio and host of Would I Lie To You?, singer and impressionist
Rob Burch (footballer) (born 1983), English retired football goalkeeper
Rob Burch (politician) (born 1946), American politician
Rob Cantor (born 1983), American singer-songwriter
Rob Davies (disambiguation)
Rob Davis (disambiguation)
Rob Deer (born 1960), American baseball player
Rob Dibble, former MLB pitcher and announcer
Rob Dyrdek, American entrepreneur, actor, producer, reality TV personality, and former professional skateboarder.
Robert Edwards (disambiguation)
Rob Elliott, host of Wheel of Fortune Australia (1997 - 2003)
Rob Gronkowski, American football player
Rob Halford, heavy metal vocalist, lead singer for Judas Priest
Rob Harley (born 1990), Scottish rugby union player
Rob Havenstein, NFL player
Rob Hopkins (born 1968), English activist and writer, founder of the Transition Towns movement
Rob Jacobs (born 1943), Dutch association football former player and manager
Rob James (disambiguation)
Rob Jetten (born 1987), Dutch politician
Rob Johnson (disambiguation)
Rob Kaminsky (born 1994), American major league baseball pitcher
Rob Kardashian, American reality television star
Rob Knox (1989–2008), British actor
Rob Krimmel (born 1977), American basketball coach, current head coach for the Saint Francis University Red Flash
Rob Lowe, American actor
Rob Manfred (born 1958), American businessman, lawyer, sports executive, and current commissioner of Major League Baseball
Rob Mariano (born 1975), American reality television competitor, winner of Survivor: Redemption Island
Rob Moore (disambiguation)
Rob Morris (American football) (born 1975), American former National Football League player
Rob Morris (Freemason) (1818–1888), American poet and Freemason
Rob Nelson (born 1979), American biologist and documentary filmmaker
Rob Nosse, American politician
Rob Oppenheim (born 1980), American professional golfer
Rob Palmer (disambiguation)
Rob Parker (disambiguation)
Rob Portman, United States Senator
Rob Paulsen, American voice actor
Rob Reiner , American actor and film director
Rob Riggle, American actor, comedian,and host
Rob Ryan, NFL coach
Rob Scheller (born 1927), Dutch art historian
Rob Schneider (born 1963), American actor, comedian, screenwriter and director
Rob Senderoff (born 1973), American college basketball coach
Rob Stewart (actor) (born 1961), Canadian actor
Rob Stewart (filmmaker) (born 1979), Canadian filmmaker
Rob Swearingen (born 1963), American politician
Rob Thomas, American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist best known for being the lead singer of the rock band Matchbox Twenty.
Rob Vickers (born 1981), English rugby union player
Rob Walker (disambiguation)
Rob Warner (footballer) (born 1977), English retired footballer
Rob Warner (mountain biker) (born 1970), English mountain biker, motocross rider and TV presenter
Rob Watson (disambiguation)
Rob Wilson (disambiguation)
Rob Zombie (born 1965), American musician, film director, screenwriter and film producer

English masculine given names
Masculine given names
Hypocorisms


title: Athaliah Molokomme

text:
Athaliah Molokomme was the attorney general of Botswana until 2017 and is the first woman to hold that position. Molokomme has been committed to advocacy for women's rights at conferences, workshops, and seminars around the world. Dr. Athaliah Molokomme was appointed as Permanent Representative of Botswana to the UN in Geneva and Ambassador to Switzerland in May 2018.

Early life and education
Athaliah Maoka Lesiba Molokomme was born on 4 December 1959 in Francistown, Botswana. She was the second of nine children born to teachers Imelda Mishodzi Molokomme and Rufus Oka Kabiwa.

Molokomme holds degrees from the University of Botswana and Swaziland. In 1983, she obtained a master's degree in law from Yale Law School in the United States. She also obtained  a PhD in law from Leiden University. Her thesis, Children of the Fence: The maintenance of extra-marital children under law and practice in Botswana, was published soon after.

Education
She has a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Botswana and Swaziland; a Masters in Law from Yale Law School, USA and a Doctorate in Law from Leiden University, the Netherlands. She attained a Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London. She was senior a lecturer at the University of Botswana from 1981 to 1996.

Career
Molokomme has worked as a politician and a professor. Between 1981 and 1996, she taught law as a senior lecturer at the University of Botswana, and has researched and published extensively in the fields of family law, women and law, customary law and employment law.

Since the 1990s Molokomme has been a regular speaker at national, regional and international conferences, workshops and seminars in her areas of expertise.

She is a founding member of several organisations, such as Emang Basadi, Women and Law in Southern Africa (WLSA), and Women, Law and Development International (WLDI).

From July 1998, she was the founding head of the Gender Unit at the Secretariat of the Southern African Development Community, where she was an advisor on gender issues and developed policies and programmes on the empowerment of women and gender mainstreaming, until May 2003 when she was appointed a judge of the High Court of Botswana.

She was the first female attorney general of Botswana in 2005. In April 2014 it was expected that Molokomme would resign from her position as attorney general to contest the presidency of the International Criminal Court Assembly of State Parties, but she did not resign.

Molokomme is an active member of the Justice Leadership Initiative. Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Botswana to the UN and other International Organizations in Geneva.

“In Setswana, we say ‘go ruta mosadi ke go ruta sechaba’ meaning that ‘to educate a woman is to educate a nation’.”– Athaliah Molokomme, Speech at the Embassy of France, The Hague, 10 March 2014 on International Women's Day.

She serves on several Boards including the Africa Group on Justice and Accountability; the Nuremberg Advisory Council; the Justice Leadership Group and Justice Rapid Response.

Publications

 Molokomme, A. (1991). " Children of the fence": the maintenance of extra-marital children under law and practice in Botswana (No. 46). African Studies Centre.
 Molokomme, A. (1990). Disseminating family law reforms: Some lessons from Botswana. The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 23(30-31), 303–329.
 Molokomme, A. (1986). Custom, Law and Ethnicity: Effects on the Status of Women in Botswana. Canadian Woman Studies.

Honors and awards
Among the awards she has received are the Women's Human Rights Award from Women, Law and Development International in 1993, and the Presidential Order of Meritorious Service for Exceptional Service to Botswana in 1999.

See also
 First women lawyers around the world

References

1959 births
Living people
Leiden University alumni
Botswana judges
Botswana women judges
University of Botswana alumni
University of Eswatini alumni
Yale Law School alumni
Academic staff of the University of Botswana


title: Hidde Jurjus

text:
Hidde Jurjus (born 9 February 1994) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Eerste Divisie club Groningen.

Club career
On 27 August 2020, he signed a two-year contract with the German club KFC Uerdingen 05.

Jurjus returned to De Graafschap on 4 June 2021, signing a two-year contract with his childhood club.

In June 2023, Jurjus signed for recently relegated Eerste Divisie club Groningen on a two-year contract with the option for a further year.

References

External links

 Voetbal International profile

1994 births
Living people
Footballers from Oost Gelre
Men's association football goalkeepers
Dutch men's footballers
Netherlands men's under-21 international footballers
De Graafschap players
Jong PSV players
Roda JC Kerkrade players
KFC Uerdingen 05 players
FC Groningen players
Eredivisie players
Eerste Divisie players
People from Lichtenvoorde
Dutch expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Germany
Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Germany


title: Gerino da Pistoia

text:
Gerino da Pistoia, also Gerino di Antonio Gerini, (1480–1529) was an Italian painter and designer of the Renaissance.

Biography
Not much is known about Gerino except through his works and a few lines by Giorgio Vasari. Gerino was a pupil of Pietro Perugino and trained in his workshop. He traveled to Rome with Pinturicchio.

The Courtauld Gallery was awarded a grant in 2011 to restore and study a surviving work of his Virgin and Child between Saint John the Baptist and Saint John the Evangelist (1510) which was originally made for the church of Sant'Agostino in Sansepolcro.

Some of his works include:
 Madonna with St. Michael and St. Peter, in the annex to the oratory of the church of San Alessandro in Milan
 Madonna (1502), painted relief, Museo Civico, Sansepolcro
 San Jacopo, Basilica of Our Lady of Humility
 Madonna and Child with Saints Anthony Abbot and Nicolas of Bari, church San Giorgio a Porciano, Lamporecchio
 Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes (1513), fresco in dining hall of the convent San Lucchese, Poggibonsi
 St Jerome Penitent, Museum of the Cathedral of San Zeno, Pistoia
 Franciscan saints, fifty medallions by Gerino and his students (1501–1509), corridor of the convent of the sanctuary of Chiusi della Verna

References

 Jodie Rogers Mariotti, historienne d'art, spécialiste de Gerino from Pistoia Pistoia Gerino from the Verna. A sixteenth-century fresco cycle in the light returned, Ed. Pazzini, 2007 ()

1480 births
1529 deaths
15th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
16th-century Italian painters
Fresco painters


title: Solomons nightjar

text:
The Solomons nightjar (Eurostopodus nigripennis) is a species of nightjar in the family Caprimulgidae.
It is found in the Solomon Islands archipelago. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It avoids human activity, and (like other nightjars) is nocturnal.

It was recently split from the white-throated nightjar based on differences in vocalizations, morphology, and range.

Juvenile plumage is duller than that of adults.

It feeds on flying insects.

Breeding and Nesting
Solomons nightjars typically nest on flat ground 20-30m from the ocean in a mix of leaf litter, sand, and limestone coral, with clutches of a single egg. Eggs are off-white with large blotched speckling. Nestlings are threatened by fire ants and feral cats.

References

Solomons nightjar
Endemic birds of the Solomon Islands
Solomons nightjar
Solomons nightjar


title: Robin Pröpper

text:
Robin Pröpper (born 23 September 1993) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Twente in the Eredivisie. He formerly played for De Graafschap.

Personal
He is the younger brother of Vitesse-midfielder Davy Pröpper.

Career statistics

References

External links

 Voetbal International profile

1993 births
Living people
Footballers from Arnhem
Men's association football midfielders
Dutch men's footballers
De Graafschap players
Heracles Almelo players
FC Twente players
Eredivisie players
Eerste Divisie players


title: Karim Tarfi

text:
Karim Tarfi (born 5 July 1993 in Jette) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder. He formerly played for Anderlecht and De Graafschap.

External links
 Voetbal International profile

1993 births
Living people
Belgian men's footballers
Belgium men's youth international footballers
Belgian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands
R.S.C. Anderlecht players
De Graafschap players
Eerste Divisie players
People from Jette

Men's association football midfielders
Footballers from Brussels
Belgian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands


title: Vance C. Larmore House

text:
The Vance C. Larmore House is a historic residence near Hammondville, Alabama.  Larmore came to DeKalb County from Abingdon, Virginia, around 1838.  One of the earliest white settlers in the county following the Cherokee removal, he built one of the largest farms in the mountainous area, amassing 1700 acres (690 ha) by 1860.  In the mid-1840s, Larmore built a two-story I-house, a Vernacular form brought from the East to what was then the frontier.  The house is clad in clapboard, and has a Victorian-detailed front porch, which was a later addition.  The interior has a center-hall plan on each floor, as well as a one-story ell off the rear, containing a kitchen and dining room.  The house was listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage in 1979 and the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

References

National Register of Historic Places in DeKalb County, Alabama
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama
Houses completed in 1845
Houses in DeKalb County, Alabama
Properties on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage


title: New Caledonian nightjar

text:
The New Caledonian nightjar (Eurostopodus exul) is a poorly known species of nightjar in the family Caprimulgidae.
It is endemic to New Caledonia.

Description
It has silvery-grey plumage with dark blotches and streaks and a blackish crown and dark grey brown
underparts with a small white throat patch.

Conservation
It is considered possibly extinct, as it is known only from the holotype which was collected in 1939.
The specimen was of a bird taken in coastal savanna. The possibility of decline in population was probably caused by predation by introduced cats and rats, alongside habitat destruction.

References

New Caledonian nightjar
Birds of New Caledonia
Critically endangered fauna of Oceania
New Caledonian nightjar


title: Dean Koolhof

text:
Dean Koolhof (born 15 December 1994) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder. He formerly played for De Graafschap, MVV Maastricht and Helmond Sport.

Personal
Dean is the son of former football player and manager Jurrie Koolhof

References

1994 births
Living people
Dutch men's footballers
De Graafschap players
MVV Maastricht players
Helmond Sport players
Eredivisie players
Eerste Divisie players
People from Duiven
Men's association football midfielders
Footballers from Gelderland


title: 2013–14 Division 1 Féminine

text:
The 2013–14 Division 1 Féminine season was the 40th since its establishment. Lyon were the defending champions. The season began on 1 September 2013 and ended on 1 June 2014. The winter break was in effect from 23 December 2013 to 18 January 2014.

Teams

There were three promoted teams from the Division 2 Féminine, the second level of women's football in France, replacing the three teams that were relegated from the Division 1 Féminine following the 2012–13 season. A total of 12 teams currently compete in the league with three clubs suffering relegation to the second division, Division 2 Féminine.

Teams promoted to Division 1 Féminine
 Muret
 Hénin-Beaumont
 Soyaux

Teams relegated to Division 2 Féminine
 Issy-les-Molineaux
 Toulouse
 Vendenheim

Stadia and locations

League table

Note: A win in D1 Féminine is worth 4 points, with 2 points for a draw and 1 for a defeat.

Results

Statistics

Top scorers

Source: Official Goalscorers' Standings

Top assists

Source: Official Assists' Table

References

External links

 Standings and Statistics

Fra
2013
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title: Black Soul Choir

text:
Black Soul Choir may refer to:

The Black Soul Choir, album Cardinal on Init Records
"Black Soul Choir", song by 16 Horsepower from Sackcloth 'n' Ashes, covered by DevilDriver Beast (DevilDriver album)
Black Soul Choir (album), Wolves Like Us 2014


title: Edward Nathaniel McDonald

text:
Edward Nathaniel McDonald (May 9, 1832 - June 10, 1899) was a US businessman, the principal stockholder and president of the Globe Mills, and president of McDonald Grain and Milling Company.

Early years
McDonald was born in Oswego, New York, in 1832. He was of Scotch-Irish parentage and son of Colon and Jane Winslow McDonald. He was the youngest of eleven children. When 12 years old he went to Canada, where he remained until he was 16 years old, when he returned to Washington County, New York, where he learned the blacksmith trade.

Career
He came to California, arriving in San Francisco October 17, 1853, and in San Pedro the 25th of the same month. He worked at blacksmithing for Alexander & Banning until 1858, when he went into the mercantile business at San Pedro. Soon after, he moved his stock of goods to Wilmington, where he sold out and entered the employ of Banning & Company as superintendent of the building of wharves and warehouses. In 1859, in company with S. H. Wilson, he went into the sheep raising business on Catalina Island and continued in that business until 1862, when, by the dry season and low prices he lost all his property. He became employed again by Banning & Co., as wagon master, and soon had general charge of their freight business and workshops, where he continued until after the American Civil War. In 1865, he engaged in the butcher business in Wilmington. In 1866, he went to Arizona to fill a government contract, where he netted $15,000 in one year. Returning to his home in Wilmington in 1867, he invested his money in land and sheep with good success, and continued in the sheep business for 14 years. From 1886 to 1890, during the land boom, he sold much of his land at a large profit, and invested largely in Los Angeles city property. In 1876, he built the McDonald block on North Main Street. In 1892, he built another block across the street from the first one.

During the later years of his life he was engaged in the grain business, and built several fine warehouses for storing grain. Together with Will E. Keller, McDonald went into the feed and grain business with a capital of $15,000, under the firm name of the McDonald Company. Initially a $100,000 a year business, it increased to $12,000,000 per year by 1915. Later, this company made its headquarters at Los Angeles, where they built a feed mill at the corner of Molino and Palmetto streets and were organized as the McDonald Grain and Milling Company with a capital of $200,000, McDonald being the president and Keller the secretary and manager. As the business increased, they also went into flour milling, putting up their first mill at 913 East Third street in 1898. McDonald was the principal stockholder and president of the Globe Mills.

Personal life
October 19, 1865, McDonald married Miss Mary Hamilton Winslow of Washington County, New York. They had two sons, Winfred Savage, born March 1, 1871, died June 22, 1896; Ransom Waldon, born October 26, 1872, died November 26, 1886. McDonald amassed quite a large fortune, valued at about $160,000. He died after a lingering illness, at his home in Wilmington, on June 10, 1899, leaving no descendants, his wife alone surviving him.

References

1832 births
1899 deaths
People from Oswego, New York
Businesspeople from New York (state)
Millers
People from Wilmington, Los Angeles
19th-century American businesspeople


title: Franz Georg Hermann

text:
Franz Georg Hermann (29 December 1692, Kempten - 25 November 1768, Kempten) was a German painter in the Baroque style.

Life and work
His first studies were with his father, the court painter, . Then, at the age of fifteen, the Benedictines awarded him 900 Guilders to study in Rome, where he attended at the Accademia di San Luca under Sebastiano Conca and, from 1713-14, lived in a room attached to the workshop of the sculptor Pierre Le Gros the Younger. He took further training in Venice with Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini and returned to Germany in 1718. Initially, he worked at Ottobeuren Abbey or in Füssen at St. Mang's Abbey, where he created ceilings and altarpieces. In 1725, he was appointed court painter by , the Prince-abbot.

Later, he worked in Immenstadt and Ettal. At St. Lorenz Basilica in Kempten, he painted the St. Nikolaus Dome and Benedict's Chapel in 1736 and returned in 1748 to create five oval altarpieces.

In the State Rooms of the Fürstäbtliche Residenz (a monastery complex), he painted the ceilings and walls as well as portraits of former Prince-abbots in the Residence Hall. He spent the years 1740 to 1742 painting the banquet hall at the "Ponikauhaus", an official residence for the Prince-abbot. In 1757, he produced his most extensive works for the library at Schussenried Abbey.

Overall, very few major religious structures within a twenty-mile or 30 km radius of Kempten are without frescoes, altarpieces or other works by Hermann.

Frescoes from the Schussenried Abbey library

References

Further reading
Cordula Böhm: Franz Georg Hermann. Der Deckenmaler des Allgäus im 18. Jahrhundert. Dissertation, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 1968.
Georg Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. Baden-Württemberg II. Munich and Berlin 1997.
Georg Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. Bayern III. Schwaben. Munich and Berlin 2008.
 Franz Georg Hermann, 1692-1768: Festschrift der Stadt Kempten (Allgau) zum 300. Geburtstag am 29. Dezember 1992, (exhibition catalog), T. Dannheimer 1992

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1692 births
1768 deaths
18th-century German painters
18th-century German male artists
German male painters
Religious artists


title: Soufian Echaraf

text:
Soufian Echaraf (born 19 May 1994) is a Dutch-Moroccan footballer who plays as a midfielder for IR Tanger.

Club career
He formerly played for De Graafschap, but didn't make the grade and joined amateur side Hercules in summer 2016.

References

External links
 Voetbal International profile

1994 births
Living people
Footballers from Utrecht (city)
Dutch sportspeople of Moroccan descent
Men's association football midfielders
Dutch men's footballers
USV Elinkwijk players
De Graafschap players
Eerste Divisie players


title: 2014–15 Croatian Football Cup

text:
The 2014–15 Croatian Football Cup was the twenty-fourth season of Croatia's football knockout competition. The defending champions are Rijeka, having won their third title the previous year by defeating Dinamo Zagreb in the final.

Calendar

Preliminary round
The draw for the preliminary round was held on 11 August 2014 with matches scheduled on 27 August 2014.

* Match played on 26 August.

** Match played on 3 September.

First round
First round proper will consist of 16 single-legged matches, with 16 winners of the preliminary round joined by 16 clubs with the highest cup coefficients. Matches are scheduled for 24 September 2014.

* Match played on 23 September.

** Match played on 15 October.

Second round
The second round was contested on 29 October 2014 by 16 winners from the first round in eight single-legged fixtures.

* Match played on 28 October.

Quarter-finals
Quarter-final ties will be played over two legs, scheduled for 11 February and 4 March 2015. The round featured eight winners from the second round. The unseeded draw for quarter-final pairings was held on 4 November.

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Semi-finals
Semi-final ties will be played over two legs and are scheduled for 8 and 22 April 2015. The round featured four winners from the quarter-final. The unseeded draw for semi-final pairings was held on 6 March.

Dinamo Zagreb won 2–1 on aggregate.

RNK Split won 2–1 on aggregate.

Final

The final was played over one leg on 20 May 2015.

References

External links
Official website

Croatian Football Cup seasons
Croatia
Croatian Cup, 2014-15


title: Kristopher Vida

text:
Kristopher Vida (born 23 June 1995) is a Hungarian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Kisvárda.

Club career

Early career
Vida started his career by joining Goldball FC’s youth team in 2000 at the age of four. He stayed there for five years until he moved to Vasas Budapest. After a four years in the club's youth system, with a short  stint at Videoton FC, he moved to Honvéd Budapest in 2009.

Netherlands
In 2011, he was signed by Dutch side Twente Enschede after a successful trial. He made his professional debut in the club’s second team playing in Eerste Divisie in 2013. At the end of the season, he changed his club and joined De Graafschap in the second division. In the 2014–15 season, as a starter he helped the club win promotion to the Dutch first division, Eredivisie. Unfortunately, the team did not perform well, resulting in relegation at the end of the 2015–16 season, following which Vida left the club. and Kristopher Vida left the club.

DAC Dunajská Streda
On 29 June 2016, Vida signed with Slovak Super Liga team DAC Dunajská Streda. His time with Dunaszerdahely started off with some difficulties, but the role and importance of the player changed with Csaba László’s arrival. In his first season in Fortuna League, he scored five goals in 29 matches, contributing to the club's unbeaten run of 17 games.

Piast Gliwice
On 26 February 2020, he signed a three-and-a-half-year deal with defending Polish champions Piast Gliwice. On 9 August 2022, he left the club by mutual consent.

Kisvárda
On 9 August 2022, Vida returned to Hungary and signed with Kisvárda.

Career statistics

External links
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References

1995 births
Footballers from Budapest
Living people
Hungarian men's footballers
Hungary men's youth international footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Vasas SC players
Budapest Honvéd FC players
Jong FC Twente players
FC Twente players
De Graafschap players
FC DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda players
Piast Gliwice players
Kisvárda FC players
Eerste Divisie players
Eredivisie players
Slovak First Football League players
Ekstraklasa players
Nemzeti Bajnokság I players
Hungarian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands
Expatriate men's footballers in Slovakia
Expatriate men's footballers in Poland
Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Slovakia
Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Poland


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Wyke may refer to:

Places in England
Wyke, North Dorset, an area of Gillingham
Wyke Regis, Dorset
 Wyke, Shropshire
Wyke Champflower, Somerset
 Wyke, Surrey
 Wyke, Bradford, an area of Bradford, West Yorkshire
Wyke, an area of Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire
 Wyke College, a school
Wike, West Yorkshire, a hamlet in Leeds district, West Yorkshire

People
Charlie Wyke (born 1992), English footballer
 Charles Lennox Wyke (1815-1897), British diplomat
John atte Wyke (fl.1373-1386), English MP
Maria Wyke (born 1957), English professor of Latin
Roger Wyke (died c.1467), English member of Parliament

Broadcast call signs
 WYKE-CD, a low-power television station (channel 24, virtual 47) licensed to serve Inglis/Yankeetown, Florida, United States
 WXZC, a radio station (104.3 FM) licensed to serve Inglis, Florida, which held the call sign WYKE from 2011 to 2018

See also
Lower Wyke, Hampshire, England
Middle Wyke, Hampshire, England
North Wyke, Devon, England
Wyke Farms
Wyke House, Middlesex, England
 Wykes, a surname