title: Kansas House Bill 2453

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Kansas House Bill 2453, also known as the Religious Freedom Act, is a piece of legislation proposed in the state of Kansas that would allow people to refuse to provide services in any way related to any relationship (same-sex or otherwise) under the name "marriage, domestic partnership, civil union or similar arrangement" if their objection to doing so is based on their religious beliefs. Representative Charles Macheers (R-Shawnee) introduced the legislation on January 16, 2014. It passed in the House but was not taken up by the Kansas Senate.

Background
Kansas does not have any legislation preventing discrimination on the basis of either sexual orientation and gender identity. Based on an executive order by Governor Kathleen Sebelius, Kansas has prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity (in government employment only) since 2007, and has since been repealed on February 10, 2015 by another Executive Order by the Governor of Kansas Sam Brownback.

Although same-sex marriage is now legal throughout the United States since June 26, 2015, under the Obergefell v. Hodges decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. Supporters of this legislation felt religious individuals and institutions needed protection from getting sued or otherwise punished for denying services to gay and lesbian couples.

Provisions
The legislation says that no individual or religious entity shall be required by any governmental entity to do any of the following, if it would be contrary to the sincerely held religious beliefs of the individual or religious entity regarding sex or gender:

Provide any services, accommodations, advantages, facilities, goods, or privileges; provide counseling, adoption, foster care and other social services; or provide employment or employment benefits, related to, or related to the celebration of, any marriage, domestic partnership, civil union or similar arrangement.
Solemnize any marriage, domestic partnership, civil union or similar arrangement.
Treat any marriage, domestic partnership, civil union or similar arrangement as valid.

Reception
The legislation passed the state's Republican-dominated House on February 12, 2014, by a 72–49 vote. State Senate President Susan Wagle said she anticipated that the bill would not pass the Senate: "A strong majority of my members support laws that define traditional marriage, protect religious institutions, and protect individuals from being forced to violate their personal moral values. However, my members also don't condone discrimination." On February 18, the Catholic bishops of Kansas reiterated their support.

Representative Emily Perry (D-Overland Park) criticized the bill, citing a hypothetical example of emergency services personnel such as a police officer who, arriving at the scene of a domestic violence dispute, could endanger lives by refusing protective services. Holly Weatherford, spokeswoman for the Kansas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, said "Kansas would be the first state to legalize discrimination on the part of employees—government employees." The Kansas Chamber of Commerce said it wanted coverage of private businesses and nonreligious entities removed from the bill. Others disputed whether a distinction can be made between acting on the basis of a same-sex marriage and acting on the basis of sexual orientation.

On February 19, Senator Jeff King (R-Independence), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said his committee would not consider the legislation, ending its consideration.

The bill's opponents characterize it as establishing second-class citizenship for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, while its supporters believe it prevents the state from requiring anyone to perform an action he or she sincerely believes to be wrong as a matter of religious principle.

See also
 Arizona SB 1062
 Indiana SB 101
 LGBT rights in Kansas
 State Marriage Defense Act
 List of Kansas state legislatures

References

External links
 Text of the bill

Kansas Legislature
Same-sex marriage in the United States
Kansas statutes
2014 in Kansas
Discrimination against LGBT people in the United States
LGBT in Kansas
2014 in LGBT history


title: Church of the Pilgrims (Washington, D.C.)

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The Church of the Pilgrims is a Presbyterian Church (USA) congregation located in Washington, D.C., in the United States. The congregation was founded in 1903 as the Second Southern Presbyterian Church and took its current name in 1919. The congregation resides in a Gothic Revival church located at 22nd Street NW and P Street NW. The building was designed by architect Benjamin C. Flournoy of Baltimore, Maryland, and completed in March 1929.

History

Formation and first pastor
The congregation got its start about September 1902. Several residents of the city sent a petition to the Virginia synod of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (commonly described as the Southern Presbyterian Church), asking them to send an evangelist to the city for the purpose of organizing a new congregation. The synod agreed, and The Reverend B. F. Bedinger was sent to the city about November 1, 1902. Within a week, he had organized about 40 members into a body of like-minded worshippers. The group began meeting and worshipping together in December 1902, and the congregation formally organized on January 25, 1903, as the Second Presbyterian Church South ( Second Presbyterian Church). Bedinger served as the first pastor, Dr. Otho M. Muncster and E. H. Cumpston as the first elders, and Dr. George DuBose, James J. Royster, and William S. Feland the first deacons. There were 43 members of the congregation, and 18 members of the Sunday School. The congregation first worshipped in a house located at 2145 P Street NW.

Bedinger stayed with the church for seven months before leaving. Left without a pastor, the congregation dwindled to 26. On January 31, 1904, Rev. Harry Waddell Pratt, an energetic pastor in his 30s, accepted the call to be the congregation's first permanent pastor. The congregation grew swiftly, and by September 1904 had purchased land on 22nd Street NW between P and Q Streets for a permanent church home. Ground for the new structure was broke on October 24, 1904, and the cornerstone laid on November 24. The congregation occupied the new church on January 1, 1905, with 82 members of the congregation in attendance.

Second pastor and building addition
Rev. Pratt resigned in the fall of 1910 to take a position as pastor of a Southern Presbyterian Church congregation in Abbeville, South Carolina. His replacement was Reverend Andrew Reid Bird, D.D., a 31-year-old from Baltimore, Maryland. The Rev. Dr. Bird was formally installed on March 6, 1911.

In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson, himself the son of a Southern Presbyterian Church minister, began worshipping occasionally at Church of the Pilgrims. Wilson became a close friend of Dr. Bird's, and the two spent many days golfing together.

By 1917, the Second Presbyterian Church South congregation had outgrown its existing structure. With World War I raging, the church had no money or materials to build with, and construction workers were all assigned to war production industries. To obtain building materials, Rev. Bird asked his congregation to donate their manual labor to the expansion effort. Men of the congregation demolished a building at 5th Street NW and New York Avenue NW for free; in exchange, the owner donated second-hand building materials to the church for construction of an addition. The addition was built in 1918 by Rev. Bird, men from the congregation, and a local Boy Scouts of America troop. With the addition, the church could now seat 200 people at a time.

In 1919, Rev. Dr. Bird convinced the congregation to change its name to Church of the Pilgrims. The new name was first used in December 1919.

New building
With the congregation having grown significantly under both Pratt and Bird, Rev. Bird began traveling extensively throughout the Deep South to raise funds for a new church building. The response was enthusiastic. The nine-year fundraising campaign culminated in 1927, with more than $200,000 ($ in  dollars) in donations from congregations throughout the Deep South. The church used a portion of the funds to purchase a large lot just south of its existing structure. Architect Benjamin C. Flournoy, of the Baltimore firm of Flournoy and Flournoy, was hired to design the structure.

Flournoy designed a complex that included a church, a Sunday School building, and a parsonage. Each structure was three stories high, and contained a basement. The basement of the church contained a social hall and meeting rooms (with one room specifically set aside for use by the Boy Scouts). The basement of the school building housed a bowling alley. The three structures were arranged to mimic the layout of a medieval abbey, and resemble Late English Gothic architecture. The church building had a single tower, and the parsonage was in the rear. The brick, concrete, and stone structure had was  long on 22nd Street NW, and extended  back from the street. It was expected to have a seating capacity of 1,000.

Ground was broken for the new building on June 25, 1927. By April 1928, the cost of the building had risen to $250,000 ($ in  dollars), and by late May 1928 to $300,000 ($ in  dollars). A new fund-raising effort was begun to raise the needed extra funds. Among the donations raised at this time was a pledge by Sarah Ecker Watts Morrison, wife of Governor Cameron A. Morrison of North Carolina, to donate a $20,000 ($ in  dollars) pipe organ to the finished church. The Rev. Dr. John B. Frazier, a Southern Presbyterian minister and former chief chaplain in the United States Navy, conducted much of this fundraising, emphasizing that the Church of the Pilgrims was going to be a gift to the nation from the Southern Presbyterian Church.

Construction began in May 1928, with the George A. Fuller Co. conducting the work. By July 1928, the cost of the completed structure was $400,000 ($ in  dollars). Rev. Bird repeatedly called for members of the church to donate their manual labor in constructing the edifice. On July 30, 1928, Bird and other members of the congregation actually dug a trench for the foundation of an arch on the property. Seating in the church was scaled back to 750, the building capable of adding mezzanine seating for another 250. The cornerstone of the new church was laid on October 13, 1928, by Rev. Dr. Frazier.

The new Church of the Pilgrims held its first service at 11 A.M. on Easter Sunday, March 31, 1929. Clad in Rockwood limestone from Colbert County, Alabama, the church's pews were inscribed with names of congregations making donations to the church. The final cost of the complex was $400,000 ($ in  dollars).

The church itself was dedicated in May 1929. The organ, Skinner Organ Co. Opus 744, was installed in late May or early June 1929.

The Rev. Dr. Bird retired as pastor of Church of the Pilgrims in 1956, and died three years later.

References
Notes

Citations

External links

Church of the Pilgrims official website

Presbyterian churches in Washington, D.C.
Presbyterian Church in the United States churches
Christian organizations established in 1903
1903 establishments in Washington, D.C.
Churches completed in 1929
Dupont Circle
Gothic Revival architecture in Washington, D.C.


title: Maddie Ziegler

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Madison Nicole Ziegler (; born September 30, 2002) is an American actress and dancer. She appeared in Lifetime's reality show Dance Moms, from 2011 (at age 8) until 2016, and starred in a series of music videos by Sia, beginning with "Chandelier" and "Elastic Heart", which have in total attracted more than 6 billion views on YouTube. Ziegler has appeared in films, television shows, concerts, advertisements and on magazine covers.

Ziegler was a judge on the 2016 season of So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation, toured with Sia in North America and Australia in 2016 and 2017 and has given dance tours with her sister, Mackenzie. Her 2017 memoir, The Maddie Diaries, was a New York Times Best Seller. Her film roles include Camille Le Haut in the animated film Ballerina (2016), Christina Sickleman in The Book of Henry (2017), the title role in Music (2021), Mia in the high school drama The Fallout (2021), Velma in Steven Spielberg's 2021 West Side Story and Lindy in Fitting In (2023).

Ziegler was included by Time magazine on its list of the "30 most influential teens" in each year from 2015 to 2017. She was included in the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the Hollywood & Entertainment category. Her social media presence includes an Instagram account with more than 13 million followers.

Early life and education
Ziegler was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Melissa Ziegler-Gisoni and Kurt Ziegler, who owned a mortgage company. She is of Polish, German and Italian descent. Her parents divorced when she was six years old, and her mother married Greg Gisoni in 2013. Ziegler began taking ballet lessons at the age of two and joined the Abby Lee Dance Company at age four, where she trained in tap, ballet, lyrical, contemporary, acro and jazz. Ziegler has a younger sister, Mackenzie, a singer and dancer who appeared with her on Dance Moms, two older half-brothers from her father's previous marriage, and two older step-siblings from the previous marriage of her stepfather, Greg Gisoni, a vice president at Westinghouse Electric Company.

Ziegler attended Sloan Elementary School in Murrysville, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, until 2013, when she left to be homeschooled. Ziegler was raised in Murrysville, but as a teenager she began to work and spend most of her time in Los Angeles.

Career

Dance Moms and music videos
With Abby Lee Dance Company, Ziegler won numerous titles at regional, state and national dance competitions, including the 2014 Dancers Choice Award for Favorite Dancer 17 & Under. In 2010, she performed for Paula Abdul's reality television program Live to Dance. In 2011, eight-year-old Ziegler and her mother appeared on the first season of Lifetime's Dance Moms, a reality show about the young dancers on Abby Lee Miller's Abby Lee Dance Company Elite Competition Team and their often quarrelsome mothers. Ziegler "emerged as the preternaturally polished standout on six seasons" on the show, where she continued to appear alongside her mother and younger sister, Mackenzie, until 2016, their last season on the show. In 2013, she made guest appearances on a spin-off program, Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition. Dance Moms helped to make Ziegler "one of the most famous dancers in the entertainment world currently. ... [She inspires] other dancers to pursue their dreams with originality and grace."

Ziegler has appeared in music videos for such artists as Alexx Calise, Sia and Todrick Hall. She gained wide notice, at the age of 11, by starring in the 2014 video for "Chandelier" by Sia, which won the ARIA Music Award for Best Video. Sia discovered Ziegler on Dance Moms. The video also received nominations at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards for Video of the Year and Best Choreography, winning the latter. It was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Music Video in 2015. It has received more than 2.5 billion views on YouTube, and at one point it was the 13th most viewed YouTube video of all time. Ziegler said of the choreography: "It ... was really out of the box and it expanded me a lot, because I'm used to competition dances where you're like, Point your legs! But this time it was like, you just need to let go and feel it."

In 2015, Ziegler starred with Shia LaBeouf in "Elastic Heart", another Sia video, which has accumulated more than 1 billion YouTube views. Later that year, Ziegler starred in the music video for "Big Girls Cry" to complete her trilogy of videos from Sia's album 1000 Forms of Fear. She danced to Sia's vocals on several television shows in 2014 and 2015, including The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Dancing with the Stars, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Saturday Night Live, as well as at the Hollywood Bowl. By the end of 2015, she had performed with Sia on the Ellen DeGeneres Show three times. She also performed to "Chandelier", alongside Sia and Kristen Wiig, at the 2015 Grammy Awards. The "Chandelier" and "Elastic Heart" videos were both selected as part of PopSugar's 2016 list of "25 of the Best Dance Videos of the Last Decade". In 2016, Ziegler starred in a fourth Sia video, "Cheap Thrills", from the album This Is Acting, in which she "delivers another powerful performance". This was followed by a fifth Sia video, later that year, for "The Greatest". Kathleen Hildebrand wrote in Süddeutsche Zeitung that anyone who has seen Ziegler's "iconic" movement will never again return to "boringly ordinary" MTV videos. Ziegler continued the collaboration with Sia and the group LSD in the music videos for "Thunderclouds" (2018) and "No New Friends" (2019). She also dances in the 2020 music video for Sia's single, "Together".

Other activities, 2012–present

Acting

In 2012, Ziegler's first professional acting job was portraying the character Young Deb on an episode of the Lifetime series Drop Dead Diva. In 2014, Ziegler appeared as a guest star in Episode 34 of HitStreak Summer, a made-for-mobile series. She continued her acting career in 2015 with guest spots on the Disney Channel series Austin & Ally and ABC Family's Pretty Little Liars. In January 2016, she guest starred in the episode "Ballet and the Beasts" on Nickelodeon's Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn. She returned to Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn in January 2017 in the episode "Keeping Up with the Quadashians".

Ziegler voiced the character Camille in the animated film, Ballerina (2016), released in the US in 2017 as Leap!, and played Christina in the feature film The Book of Henry (2017). Colin Trevorrow, the director of The Book of Henry, told Entertainment Weekly that Ziegler "is extraordinarily capable. ... She finds whatever emotion she needs to dial in very quickly. No one taught her how to do that she just knows." A reviewer for Santa Monica Daily Press wrote that, in The Book of Henry, "Ziegler ... does a wonderful job with a character forced to hide her pain". In 2019, she narrated a tribute film about her friend Simone Biles for BBC Sport. Ziegler co-starred as the title character in a musical film written and directed by Sia, titled Music, released in February 2021. Chris Willman, in Variety, called Ziegler's performance as a non-verbal autistic teenager "not always credible" but commented that she had "no limitations in ... dancing up a storm". Although she received the 2021 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress for the role, she received several favorable reviews.

Ziegler co-stars in the high school drama film The Fallout, which premiered in March 2021 at South by Southwest, where it won the Grand Jury Prize in the Narrative Feature Film Competition. It was released on HBO Max in January 2022 and in theatres where HBO Max was not available. Ziegler's performance as the popular but lonely Mia was called "stoic yet sensitive and vulnerable", "a staggering performance" and "astounding ... fully realized and complex". She plays Velma in Steven Spielberg's version of West Side Story and stars as Lindy in the film Fitting In (initially titled Bloody Hell), written and directed by Molly McGlynn, which premiered at South by Southwest in March 2023. A review in Collider said that Ziegler's "strong performance" "elevated" the film, while The Daily Beasts thought her "natural performance leaves a lasting impression. ... Ziegler is a striking screen presence, and she brings a quiet charisma ... relatable and empathetic". Another in The Daily Texan praised her graceful and "vulnerable performance", while an article in The Globe and Mail noted "Ziegler's dry wit and vulnerability".

Ziegler has been cast as Elliott Labrant in an upcoming comedy film, My Old Ass, written and directed by Megan Park, who directed The Fallout.

Modeling, endorsements and fashion
Ziegler has modeled for, or represented, such brands as Clean & Clear, Capezio, including their Betsey Johnson line, Target, Ralph Lauren and Tiffany & Co. She has also been featured on numerous magazine covers and in fashion editorials, including Schön!, Elle, Nylon, Vs., Seventeen, Harper's Bazaar, People, Dazed, Cosmopolitan, i-D, Billboard, Teen Vogue, Stella, Maniac, Vanity Fair Italia, Flaunt, Paper, Galore and Russh.

Ziegler and her sister released a fashion line, The Maddie & Mackenzie Collection in 2014. At the 2015 New York Fashion Week, Ziegler acted as a correspondent for Elle. She launched a casual fashion line, MaddieStyle, for girls and juniors, in 2016. In 2017, she appeared as a guest judge in an episode of Project Runway and on the cover of Sia's 2017 album Everyday is Christmas. In 2018 Ziegler collaborated with Sia on a lipstick, VIVA GLAM Sia, to benefit the M.A.C. AIDS Fund. Ziegler has a make-up collaboration with Morphe Cosmetics and a fashion collaboration with Fabletics. In 2020, she was the model for Kate Spade's signature fragrance advertisements. In 2023, Ziegler and her sister launched a back-to-school fashion collection with American Eagle Outfitters.

Dancing and dance judging
Ziegler appeared as the featured dancer in the ABC TV special The Wonderful World of Disney: Disneyland 60 in February 2016, during the song "Part of Your World", sung by Kelsea Ballerini and choreographed by Travis Wall. A Huffington Post reporter called the number "stunning and graceful". In April 2016, six of her pre-taped performances were projected onto the big screens during Sia's Coachella set, and Ziegler appeared live with Sia at YouTube's Brandcast event in New York City. In May 2016, Ziegler appeared on the season finale of The Voice with Sia, dancing to "Cheap Thrills". The following month, she starred in another Todrick Hall video, "Taylor in Wonderland", based on Alice in Wonderland, dancing to a mash-up of Taylor Swift songs. Also in June, Ziegler joined Fox's So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation, a television competition for dancers, ages 8 to 14, where she was one of the judges and a guest performer, and danced at Sia's concert at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado. In September 2016, Ziegler performed with Sia at the launch of Apple's iPhone 7 and at the iHeartRadio Music Festival.

She joined Sia on the singer's "Nostalgic for the Present Tour" from September to November 2016. Ziegler and her sister conducted a dance workshop tour of Australia in January 2017. In March 2017, Ziegler performed at the Dubai World Cup with Sia. In September, Ziegler danced to Sia's song "Rainbow", from the soundtrack to My Little Pony: The Movie, dressed in a wig and outfit that simulated the look of Sia's character in the film. She again performed with Sia on a mini-tour of Australasia in November and December 2017, and later in December, she and Sia returned to the Ellen show to perform Sia's song "Snowman". Ziegler and her sister conducted another dance workshop tour of Australia and New Zealand in July 2018 and in the UK in 2019. In July 2019, Ziegler performed at the Fuji Rock Festival with Sia in Japan. She and her sister were guest judges in 2020 on the Quibi dance competition show Floored.

Writing and social media
Ziegler wrote the foreword to Abby Lee Miller's 2014 memoir, Everything I Learned about Life, I Learned in Dance Class. Ziegler interviewed her friend Millie Bobby Brown for a cover article in the November 2016 issue of Interview magazine. In 2017, she released her own memoir, The Maddie Diaries, which became a New York Times Best Seller. Ziegler also wrote a trilogy of novels for middle-grade readers. The series centers on a 12-year-old dancer, Harper, whose family relocates to a new state, as she negotiates the pre-teen challenges of making new friends while earning her place on a competitive dance team. The first novel, The Audition, was released in 2017, The Callback was released in 2018, and The Competition followed in 2019.

Ziegler has an active social media presence, with more than 13 million Instagram followers, over 1.2 million Twitter followers and over 3 million followers on Facebook. Sia's videos of her dancing have accumulated more than six billion total views on YouTube. Ziegler's YouTube channel has more than 3.6 million subscribers.

Philanthropy
In 2012, Ziegler, along with her mother and sister, partnered with Starlight Children's Foundation to help raise awareness for chronically ill youth. In 2016, Ziegler and her sister made a public service announcement for DoSomething.org's Birthday Mail campaign, which enables people to send homemade birthday cards to children living in homeless shelters. The same organization placed the Ziegler sisters on their 2016 list of charitable young celebrities. Ziegler also performed with Travis Wall at Nigel Lythgoe's Dizzy Feet Foundation gala in 2016 to raise funds for dance education programs for low-income children and scholarships for talented students at dance schools in the U.S.

Since 2016, Ziegler has partnered with Dancers Against Cancer, appearing in public service announcements to raise awareness and funding for people battling cancer. She starred in a 2017 ASPCA Public service announcement, set to Sia's song "Puppies Are Forever", to encourage people to adopt shelter and rescue dogs. In 2018, Ziegler teamed up with Sia and MAC Cosmetics, with an ad, choreographed to Sia's song "Helium", for a lipstick with all proceeds to benefit the company's AIDS Fund. She appeared on Celebrity Family Feud on July 7, 2019, together with her sister, mother, aunt and dancer Charlize Glass, playing for "My Friend's Place", where they have volunteered in the past, which provides meals for homeless youth in Los Angeles.

Reputation and accolades

Reviews called Ziegler's work in "Chandelier" "a dazzling dance performance" (Billboard magazine); commented that she "dances with such impressive flexibility" (The Guardian); thought that her "crisp moves and theatrical mugging were a great fit for Ryan Heffington's imaginative choreography" and praised her "charisma that makes this video mesmerizing: Her dancing makes your memory tingle" (Rolling Stone); and said that she "interprets the song's lyrics into something that is deranged, isolated, manic and profound" (Dazed magazine). People magazine joked that she is "a super-human graceful alien sent from Planet Talented to make us mere mortals look really clumsy". A 2015 feature in The Huffington Post praised her artistry:

Ballet choreographer Troy Schumacher told New York magazine in 2016: "She has, fascinatingly, really created her own world of dance. When we talk about great dancers, it's definitely a persona that leaves a lasting impression – it's not necessarily the most technically perfect dancer. She's only 13, but there's a strong sense of personality that comes through in her movement that is somewhat iconic." Billboards Jason Lipshutz wrote that Ziegler's live participation in Sia's Nostalgic for the Present Tour "transforms a staged affair into a live one, and a great lineup into an indispensable arena experience" and that she "possesses an astounding control of her physicality. ... [Her] presence adds a mischievous energy, as if replicated movements can't capture the heart behind those wide eyes and deranged smiles." Leslie Ventura of Las Vegas Weekly noted that, on the tour, Ziegler's dancing added "dimension and weight to the dramatic vocals." Britt Robson of the Star Tribune added, "The clear-cut star was Ziegler, obviously Sia's alter ego. ... Ziegler was a riveting whirlwind, contorting her appendages and facial expressions with equal aplomb, topped by forward flips". Jon Pareles of The New York Times wrote that her "frenetic moves and flickering expressions ramp up the songs' emotional stakes". Reviewing Sia's concert in 2017, Richard He of The Guardian called Ziegler "a physical virtuoso to match Sia's vocal acrobatics, embodying the songs' emotional turmoil." David James Young of Junkee felt that Ziegler's performance "cements her status as one of the great dancers of the modern era. ... She leaves everything out there on the stage". Bonnie Malkin of The Guardian wrote that Ziegler's "face and body are extraordinary. ... So expressive, so wild in her movement, so magnetic."

Ziegler was named by Time magazine as one of the "30 most influential teens of 2015"; she made the list again in 2016 and in 2017. She was also on the Harpers Bazaar 2015 list of "19 Rising Style Icons Aged 19 and Under". Billboard selected Sia and Ziegler's performance of "Elastic Heart" on Saturday Night Live 2015 as one of the 10 Best SNL musical performances since the 1990s, "12-year-old dance phenom Maddie Ziegler ... displayed power, vulnerability, and more than a little weirdness". Ziegler won a 2016 People's Choice Award, a 2016 Teen Choice Award and a 2017 Teen Choice Award. She won a 2017 Shorty Award in one category and received an audience honor in another. In 2018 and 2019, The Hollywood Reporter named Ziegler among Hollywood's top thirty stars under age eighteen. In 2018, for the third year in a row, Ziegler won the award for Choice Dancer at the Teen Choice Awards. She was included in the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the Hollywood & Entertainment category.

Awards and nominations

Personal life
From early 2017 to mid-2018, Ziegler dated Australian teenager Jack Kelly, the son of former New York Yankees infielder Pat Kelly. From 2019 to early 2023 she dated singer-songwriter Eddie Benjamin.

Filmography

Film

Television

Music videos

Tours
 Nostalgic for the Present Tour with Sia (2016–17)
 The Ziegler Girls 2017 tour of Australia (with Mackenzie Ziegler)
 Maddie & Mackenzie Australia & New Zealand Tour 2018 (with Mackenzie Ziegler)
Maddie and Mackenzie UK tour

See also
 List of dancers

References

External links

 Interview of Ziegler at Paris Fashion Week by Vogue (2021)
 YouTube dance videos:
 Maddie and Mackenzie Ziegler Dance Like Fall's Major Trends (Glamour, 2015)
 Maddie Ziegler Learns a Dance Routine with The Rockettes (Teen Vogue, 2015)
 Michael Dameski & Maddie Ziegler (dancing duet to snippet of Sam Smith's "Fire on Fire", 2019)

2002 births
Living people
21st-century American actresses
Actresses from Pittsburgh
American child actresses
American child models
American female dancers
American female models
American film actresses
American people of German descent
American people of Italian descent
American people of Polish descent
American television actresses
American voice actresses
American women philanthropists
Female models from Pittsburgh
Participants in American reality television series
Philanthropists from Pennsylvania


title: Sverre Valen

text:
Sverre Valen (9 May 1925 – 18 March 2023) was a Norwegian choir conductor. He founded and directed Sandefjord Girls Choir (Sandefjord Jentekor), Bel Canto-koret, the Valen Choir (Valen-koret) and Valens Solistensemble, many of which have won awards and toured internationally. He became Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 1992.

Early life and education
Born in Levanger, Central Norway to a father who worked as an Adventist pastor, the family would move several times during Valen's upbringing. He got a varied musical education in his youth, playing the piano, various other instruments, and taking singing lessons for four years. He went on to study at the Norwegian Academy of Music.

Career as choir conductor
Valen married song instructor Mary Johannessen in 1952. In 1956, the couple moved to Sandefjord where they started Sandefjord Girls Choir. In 1969, the choir won its class in the BBC (later EBU) competition Let the Peoples Sing. They won NRK's national competition for youth choirs 15 times. On tours in Europe, the choir performed in cathedrals like Cologne Cathedral, Notre Dame de Paris and St. Peter's Basilica. In 1976, the choir toured the US for three weeks as part of the United States Bicentennial. The tour ended with a performance in Carnegie Hall, for which they received an excellent review in The New York Times. Valen stopped conducting the choir in 1997.

Recruiting many of the best singers of the Sandefjord Girls Choir, he started Valen's Soloist Ensemble (Valens Solistensemble) in 1985 and conducted it until 2000.

In 1961, Valen founded the women's choir Bel Canto which he conducted for ten years.

Valen founded the Valen Choir (Valen-koret) for mixed voices in 1964 and conducted the choir to 1995. The choir had a mixed repertoire, including both sacred and secular choir traditions from various time periods. In 1974, the choir was awarded Spellemannprisen for best recording of the year in classical music.

The last choir Valen conducted was Adventistsangerne, a choir representing the Adventist community in Norway which he started in 1984. Aged 88, he held his last concert with the choir in Norderhov Church on 8 June 2013.

Valen died on 18 March 2023, at the age of 97.

Awards
 Sandefjord city's Cultural Award (1972)
 Vestfold county Cultural Award (1975)
 St. Olav's Medal (1981)
 Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav (1992)
 Honorary member of the Association of Norwegian Choir Conductors  (1995)
 Sandefjord inhabitant of the century, class for culture (1999)

Selected recordings
 Jul med Sandefjord Jentekor (1970). With Sandefjord Girls' Choir.
  Jul (1980). With the Valen Choir.
 Grieg i våre hjerter (1993). With Valen's Soloist Ensemble.
 Lovsang under kirkehvelv (1999). With Adventsangerne.

References

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1925 births
2023 deaths
Norwegian conductors (music)
Male conductors (music)
Norwegian Academy of Music alumni
People from Levanger
Musicians from Sandefjord
21st-century conductors (music)
21st-century Norwegian male musicians
Norwegian Seventh-day Adventists
Recipients of the St. Olav's Medal
Spellemannprisen winners


title: Omar Hurricane

text:
Omar Hurricane is a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in the thermonuclear and inertial confinement fusion design division. Prior to Lawrence Livermore, he worked at the UCLA Institute of Plasma & Fusion Research. His research focuses on weapons physics, high energy density physics (HEDP) science, the theory of plasmas, and plasma instability.

Education

Dr. Hurricane attained his B.S in Physics and Applied Math from Metropolitan State University of Denver in 1990. He graduated with an MS in physics from University of California, Los Angeles in 1992, and gained his PhD from UCLA as well in 1994.

Career
Following numerous internships, Omar Hurricane began his professional career as a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA. He then went on to become the senior scientist at UCLA's Institute of Plasma Fusion and research. He is currently a Program Leader at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

He has published widely in journals and conference papers. Hurricane was the lead author of a 2014 paper presenting the results of fusion experiments demonstrating Fuel Gain greater than unity. He received the Edward Teller Award in 2021.

References

Living people
21st-century American physicists
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory staff
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Katie Seymour

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Katie Seymour (9 January 1870 – 7 September 1903) was a British Victorian burlesque and Edwardian musical comedy entertainer who was remembered primarily for her dancing. She was considered, if not the first, one of the first to perform a style of dance called the skirt dance. Seymour began in song and dance routines at a very young age and would go on to appear in a string of highly successful long-running musicals staged at London's Gaiety Theatre during the 1890s. She fell ill in 1903 while on a theatrical tour of British South Africa and died not long after her return voyage home.

Early life
Catherine Phoebe Seymour was born in Nottingham to showfolk, William John Seymour and Phoebe Towers. Her father was a music hall comedian and singer, while her mother came from a noted family of actors. Seymour never attended dance classes, but instead received her early instructions from her mother who had been trained in an Italian style of classical dance.

Career 1875–1890
She first appeared on stage in 1875 as a member of Mr. Chatterton's Children's Pantomime Company
and the following year, billed as, 'the Little Wonder', six-year-old Seymour sang and danced a version of the hornpipe on 13 March at The Town Hall, London. That Christmas at London's Adelphi Theatre she was one of eighteen children to perform in a pantomime E. L. Blanchard based on the fairy tale, Little Goody Two-Shoes and Her Sweetheart Little Boy-Blue. In the play, which also included eleven-year-old Connie Gilchrist as Harlequin, Seymour played Colin, a peasant boy, Puck, and a tricksy dancing spirit. A few years later, in fall 1879, she was Tim, a tiger, in a burlesque piece at London's Philharmonic Theatre entitled, Drury-lane and Park-lane.

By 3 April 1881, Seymour was listed as one of the variety performers with the Middlesex Music Hall, Drury Lane and by 14 September 1884, she was a performing at the Sun Palace of Varieties, Knightsbridge. The following month she was appearing at both the Middlesex Music Hall and the Royal Foresters' Music Hall, Graydon's Palace of Varieties, Cambridge Road. By February 1885 at Deacon's Music Hall, Clerkenwell, Seymour was appearing in a comedy sketch with the Three Brothers Horn entitled Juggins Junior. From February 1886 through July 1889 Seymour appeared as a variety entertainer at the Royal Holborn Theatre, London Pavilion and the Empire Theatre of Varieties (now the Empire, Leicester Square).

Over the 1889–90 season Seymour toured America as a dancer with Professor Hermann's Transatlantiques Vaudevilles company. During the tour one American press release described Seymour as having hair that streamed down her shoulders like rivers of gold. and another declared Dainty Katie Seymour dances like a fairy or butterfly. By July 1890 she was a member of the Bank Holiday Company at London's Oxford Music Hall.

Career 1891–1902
Seymour made her debut at the Gaiety Theatre on 31 September 1891 as a dancer in Joan of Arc an opéra bouffe by John L. Shine, Adrian Ross and composer Frank Osmond Carr. In mid-December Joan of Arc transferred to the Shaftesbury Theatre where it remained through January 1892. A critic with the St. James Gazette wrote of Seymour's first night's performance in Joan of Arc:
Miss Katie Seymour, who used to dance so prettily at music-halls, now dances more prettily in a pas seul, pas de deux (her cleverest performance) and a pas de trois. Miss Lethbridge is really the more graceful of the two, but Miss Seymour is the more piquant.

On 6 February 1892 at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, Seymour danced in the debut of Blue-Eyed Susan, a comic opera by George R. Sims, Henry Pettitt and Frank Osmond Carr based on Douglas Jerrold's Black Eyed Susan. Seymour stayed with Black Eyed Susan through June, after which she assumed the role of Fettalana to Letty Lind's Cinder-Ellen and Sylvia Grey's Linconsina for the last few performances at the Grand Theatre of the popular burlesque comedy, Cinder Ellen up too Late.

Over the summer and early fall of 1892 Seymour toured with Cinder-Ellen up too Late and remained with the show when it reappeared at the Gaiety Theatre at the beginning of October for a run that would continue until mid-December. A few days after Christmas she was engaged at the Empire Theatre to dance in, Round the Town, described as a characteristic ballet in five tableaux by Katti Lanner and George Edwardes.

After an eight-month run in Round the Town, Seymour returned to the Gaiety Theatre on 9 September 1893, where she would remain until 1901, to appear in Edwardes' revival of Audran's comic opera La Mascotte, and on 21 October, Don Juan, a burlesque by James T. Tanner, with lyrics and music by Adrian Ross and Meyer Lutz, respectively. During the eight-month run of Don Juan, Seymour teamed up with Edmund Payne in a separate piece entitle, The Candle and the Moth, in which the two performed the Bon-Bon Dance.

Don Juan closed at the end of June 1894 and was followed that November with Seymour in the role of Miss Robinson, a fitter with the Royal Store, in The Shop Girl, a musical comedy H. J. W. Dam and Adrian Ross. The Shop Girl proved to be a huge success with a phenomenal two-year run. From July through November 1896 she was Phoebe Toodge, May's (Ellaline Terriss) maid, in My Girl, another musical comedy from Tanner and Ross. On 5 December Seymour opened as Lucille, a slack wire walker, in The Circus Girl, a musical comedy in two acts by James Tanner and Walter Apllant (aka W. Palings), with lyrics by Harry Greenbank and Adrian Ross, music by Ivan Caryll, with further music from Lionel Monckton. Another hit, The Circus Girl remained at the Gaiety until mid-April 1898 and was followed a month later by A Runaway Girl, a musical comedy by Seymour Hicks and Harry Nichols with music by Ivan Caryll and Lionel Moncton. A Runaway Girl, in which Katie Seymour played Alice, Lady Coodle's maid, closed on 13 July 1900 after run of nearly twenty months. She next played Rosa, another maid (Lady Punchestown's) in The Messenger Boy, a musical comedy in two acts by James T. Tanner and Alfred Murray, lyrics by Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank, with music by Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton, with additional numbers by Paul Rubens. Seymour remained with A Messenger Boy through February 1901.

Counter to George Edwardes' advice, Seymour chose to leave the Gaiety to share top billing with James E. Sullivan in a revival of The Casino Girl that was produced at the Knickerbocker Theatre, Broadway on 8 April 1901. The Casino Girl ran until 11 May after which, toward the end of June, she was engaged at the Knickerbocker as a feature dancer in The Strollers, a musical comedy by Harry B. Smith and Ludwig Englander that starred Francis Wilson.

In May 1901 it was reported in the press that Seymour had become the first woman in New York City to be arrested for speeding. She was stopped on Fifth Avenue, not far from Central Park, for driving at an excessive speed and escorted to a nearby police station where she was assigned a court date and required to pay a modest deposit to encourage her attendance.

By October 1901 Seymour had returned to London where gave her opinion of the state of American dancers to the press:There are no American dancers except perhaps toe dancers and the cake-walk style. Dancing is not cultivated there as it is here. I am very glad to be at home again.

Later that month Seymour began an engagement at the Alhambra Theatre as variety entertainer that would extend into December and the next year, on 3 February, she opened at the Holloway Empire Theatre billed as Katie Seymour and Chorus of Lady Singers and Dancers.

Death
Seymour died of a renal affliction at a nursing home in the Maida Vale district of London on 7 September 1903. She had become ill while on a tour of South Africa with one of George Edwardes' theatrical companies. Seymour was survived by her husband, Harry Athol, a music hall comedian who had been a member of Professor Hermann's Transatlantiques Vaudevilles during her first American trip. Seymour's well attended funeral services were held at her residence on Burton Road, Brixton and were concluded at Lambeth Cemetery, Tooting.

Resources and notes

1870 births
1903 deaths
British female dancers
British burlesque performers
Music hall performers
19th-century British dancers


title: Logie Award for Most Popular Live Show

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The Logie for Most Popular Live Show was an award presented at the Australian TV Week Logie Awards. It was first awarded at the 8th Annual TV Week Logie Awards ceremony, held in 1966, as a replacement for the Most Popular Program category. However, this award category was eliminated in 1968 and the Most Popular Program category was reintroduced.

States

New South Wales

Queensland

South Australia

Tasmania

Victoria

References

Awards established in 1966


title: Termite-inspired robots

text:
Termite-inspired robots or TERMES robots are biomimetic autonomous robots capable of building complex structures without a central controller. A prototype team of termite-inspired robots was demonstrated by Harvard University researchers in 2014, following four years of development. Their engineering was inspired by the complex mounds that termites build, and was accomplished by developing simple rules to allow the robots to navigate and move building blocks in their environment. By following these simple rules, the robots could construct complex structures through a process called stigmergy, without requiring constant human instruction or supervision.

Background
Social insects such as termites are capable of constructing elaborate structures such as mounds with complex tunnel systems.  They are capable of doing so without an overall plan for the design of a structure, without directly communicating information with each other about how to construct a structure, and without a leader to guide them in constructing a specific structure. Roboticists have been interested in the problem of whether robots can be designed with the limited sensory and motor capabilities of insects such as termites and yet, by following simple rules, construct elaborate and complex structures.

Robots
As part of the TERMES project, the Harvard team designed each robot to perform a few simple behaviors: to move forward, move backward, turn, move up or down a step the size of a specially designed brick, and to move while carrying a brick on top of it. To perform these locomotor behaviors, each robot was equipped with whegs. To detect features of its environment and other robots, each robot was equipped with the following sensors: seven infrared sensors to detect black and white patterns for navigation; an accelerometer to detect tilt angle for climbing; and five ultrasound sonar detectors for determining distance from the perimeter and to nearby robots. To lift, lower, and place the specially designed bricks, each robot had an arm with a spring-loaded gripper to hold a brick while carried. The project's specially designed construction bricks were 21.5 cm × 21.5 cm × 4.5 cm, which was bigger than the footprint (17.5 cm × 11.0 cm) of the robots.

Constructing structures
During the Harvard trials, groups of termite-inspired robots constructed structures by stigmergy.  That is, instead of directly communicating with each other, the robots detected features of their environment and followed simple rules for moving and placing bricks in response to the configuration of bricks that existed at a given time. The rules for constructing a given structure were designed to guarantee that different structures emerged depending on the number of robots involved and on the initial placement of bricks.

The TERMES robots constitute a proof of concept for the development of relatively simple teams of robots that are capable of constructing complex structures in, for example, remote or hostile locations. The Harvard researchers who built the initial termite-inspired robots have speculated that future robots could be designed to build a base for human habitation on Mars in preparation for the arrival of human astronauts. More immediate possibilities include teams of termite-inspired robots that are capable of moving sandbags and building levees in flood zones.

References

External links
 Official website of the Harvard TERMES project

Robotics
American inventions
2014 robots


title: Sea Island red pea

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Sea Island red pea is an heirloom landrace of cowpea from the Gullah corridor of the Sea Islands. They are an integral part of Gullah cuisine and have been listed on the Ark of Taste.

History

Prelude
The centre of diversity of the cultivated cowpea is West Africa, leading an early consensus that this is the likely centre of origin and place of early domestication.  Charred remains of cowpeas have been found in rock shelters located in Central Ghana dating to the 2nd millennium BCE. By the 17th century cowpeas began to be cultivated in the New World via the Trans-Atlantic slave trade; being used as slave food and provisions.

Origins
Sea Island red peas came to the Sea Islands from the Mende of modern Sierra Leone, where from 1750 to 1775, 50,000 enslaved Sub-Saharan Africans, predecessors to the Gullah, were kidnapped. They were mainly abducted from "Rice Coast", between modern Guinea and Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone and Liberia, due to their expertise and experience in the cultivation of Carolina gold rice.

Modernity
Due to lack of social upward mobility many Gullah have left their traditional life in search of better opportunities. This has led to the loss of many speakers of the Gullah language, and along with years of Gullah being displaced and forcefully extracted from their cultural homeland due to massive resorts and golf courses being constructed, the Sea Island red pea has been viewed as a tool that can be used to preserve their culture into modernity.

Cultivation
The Sea Island red pea, as a landrace, tends to have variations in its coloration and size of its seed coat.

They should be sown prior to frost, roughly late May and mid-July and climb resulting in the use of a trellis, domestically. They should be sown about 1in deep spacing roughly 4in apart. They tolerate bad soil and replenish nitrogen in the soil. To mitigate chances of cross-pollination they should be separated by at least 20 ft from other cowpea varieties. Viable seeds should be saved when the pods are dry and crisp.

Culinary use
They may be used in a similar manner to the cowpea or black-eyed pea to make hoppin' John, acarajé, or waakye. American chef Sean Brock claims that traditionally, hoppin' John would have been made with Carolina Gold rice and Sea Island red peas. He has worked with farmers to re-introduce these varieties to the market place.

Traditionally, Gullah would prepare the peas by adding them to perloo or by making red peas and rice.

See also
Gullah people
Gullah language
Sea Island cotton
Black-eyed pea
Dixie Lee pea

References

Edible legumes
Gullah culture
Cuisine of the Southern United States
Holiday foods
Culture of the African diaspora
Lowcountry cuisine
Soul food
Historical foods in American cuisine
Vigna
Crops originating from Africa
Food plant cultivars
Nitrogen-fixing crops
Plant subspecies


title: Kochi Rani Mondal

text:
Kochi Rani Mondal () is a Bangladeshi national women's Kabaddi player who was part of the team that won the bronze medal at the 2010 Asian Games.

References

External links
 Women's sports in Bangladesh
 Bronze challenges

Living people
Bangladeshi Hindus
Place of birth missing (living people)
Asian Games medalists in kabaddi
Kabaddi players at the 2010 Asian Games
Bangladeshi kabaddi players
Female kabaddi players
Asian Games bronze medalists for Bangladesh
Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
Year of birth missing (living people)
Kabaddi players at the 2018 Asian Games


title: James O'Brien (oceanographer)

text:
James J. O'Brien  (born August 10, 1935, died September 20, 2016) was an emeritus Robert O. Lawton Professor of Meteorology and Oceanography at Florida State University. He believed sea levels were rising but predicted a more modest  rise instead of  by 2100 targeted by some other scientists. He stated that "sea level in Florida is going to continue to rise period. Unless we go back into an Ice age, we will continue to rise at over  in 10 year. That's without any global warming."

O'Brien got his bachelor's degree from Rutgers University before obtaining his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Texas A&M University.

He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 2000.

Notes
Prof. James J. O'Brien from FSU is not the same person as Jim O'Brien, Chair and Co-founder of the Irish Climate Science Forum. The latter Jim O'Brien is best known for his promotion of the idea that climate change is not problematic and that it will benefit the planet.

References

1935 births
2016 deaths
American oceanographers
Florida State University faculty
Texas A&M University alumni
Rutgers University alumni
Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters


title: Ismat Ara Nishi

text:
Ismat Ara Nishi () is a Bangladeshi national women Kabaddi player who was part of the team that won the bronze medal at the 2010 Asian Games.

References

External links
 Women's sports in Bangladesh

Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Asian Games medalists in kabaddi
Kabaddi players at the 2010 Asian Games
Bangladeshi kabaddi players
Female kabaddi players
Asian Games bronze medalists for Bangladesh
Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Ivy Collegiate Academy

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Ivy Collegiate Academy () is a coeducational college preparatory day and boarding school enrolling students in grades 7-12.

Ivy Collegiate Academy is located in Tanzi District, Taichung, Taiwan, and is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

History
Ivy Collegiate Academy was founded in 2005 by Dr. Lee Yuan Hei. Dr. Lee’s vision was to develop an American style boarding school.

Dr. Lee’s vision is incorporated into the curriculum and student activities. Every senior must take Lives of Consequence, a two day a week course on ethics and leadership.

ICA involves students as part of the management of the school. The student government (STUGO) operates a peer tutoring service and a 9pm snack service, as well as committees on food, greening, fundraising, activities and community service. ICA utilizes the prefect system where senior and junior prefects assist resident hall advisors in dormitory operations.

ICA’s program of Leadership through Service involves the entire school in service projects such as Common Good Day. In November every house develops and implements a community service project.

ICA has adopted the Down Syndrome Association of Taiwan for both joint programs and fund raising. Each year ICA also raises funds for an orphanage in Nepal that helps earthquake victims has donated money to help earthquake victims in Taiwan.

References

2005 establishments in Taiwan
Educational institutions established in 2005
International schools in Taichung


title: Bloomfield Police Department (New Jersey)

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The Bloomfield Police Department (BPD) is the primary law enforcement agency in Bloomfield, New Jersey. It consists of 122 police officers.

Location
The department is headquartered in its own building at 1 Municipal Plaza.

Organization
The department is administered through a number of divisions, bureaux and units.
 Chief's Office
 Communications Division
 Community Policing Unit
 Criminal Investigation Division
 Patrol Division
 Traffic Bureau
 Youth Aid Bureau
 Record Bureau

The officers of the department are represented in labor negotiations by Local 32 of the Police Benevolent Association.

History

In July 2010, Officer Bruce Calkin required hospitalization after being injured in a fight in the department's parking lot with a fellow officer.

In December 2013, a number of police officers sued the department. They claimed they had been suspended because they were in the military reserves. The department in turn claimed the officers were falsely excusing their absences from work as being required by military service.

On 10 February 2014, Acting Police Chief James Behre publicly claimed a city councilman asked him to advance the careers of two particular policemen in exchange for support in becoming the permanent police chief. Two days later Behre was put on paid administrative leave pending a "fitness for duty" review.

Marcus Jeter
In 2012, Marcus Jeter was arrested for eluding police and resisting arrest and assault. In 2014, Jeter was cleared of all charges after his attorney filed a public records request and obtained a police dashcam video which the prosecution insisted was unobtainable. Bloomfield officers Orlando Trinidad and Sean Courter were charged with official misconduct, tampering with public records, and false documents and false swearing, while a third officer (Albert Sutterlin) was allowed to retire after pleading guilty to tampering with evidence. Trinidad and Courter were suspended without pay. In 2012, when the incident happened, the internal affairs department exonerated both officers. Trinidad maintained he was in the right, even though the footage shows otherwise. The mayor vowed to purge the police department of bad police officers after this incident

On January 13, 2015, Superior Court Judge Michael Ravin denied a motion to dismiss the charges against the officers. Under a plea deal offered by the prosecution, Trinidad and Courter would have to spend five years in state prison. In June 2015, the trial was postponed to resume October 5.

On November 5, 2015, the jury found Orlando Trinidad and Sean Courter guilty of official misconduct, conspiracy to commit official misconduct, tampering with public records, falsifying or tampering with records and false swearing. Orlando Trinidad was also found guilty of a lesser charge of simple assault. Both were sentenced to five years in state prison. Marcus Jeter received a $1.6 million settlement from the city for his false arrest and wrongful prosecution.

References

Bloomfield, New Jersey


title: Maleka Parvin

text:
Maleka Parvin () is a Bangladeshi national women Kabaddi player who was part of the team that won the bronze medal at the 2010 Asian Games. She also participated in 2014 Asian Games.

References

External links
 Women's sports in Bangladesh
 Bronze challenges

Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Asian Games medalists in kabaddi
Kabaddi players at the 2010 Asian Games
Asian Games bronze medalists for Bangladesh
Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Robert O. Lawton

text:
Robert O. Lawton (1924–1980) was a professor at Florida State University (FSU). He was born in Greenwood, South Carolina and attended Wofford College until joining the army during World War II. He became a Sergeant in the Infantry and was injured in combat in Germany. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. At FSU he served in various administrative roles, particularly as the Dean of College of Arts and Sciences from 1966 to 1972.  After his death in an automobile accident in 1980, the school named the award of University Distinguished Professor after him. He received an honorary degree of L.H.D. from Wofford College in 1968–69.

References

External links
Robert O. Lawton award citation for the Distinguished Service Cross, at MilitaryTimes

1924 births
1980 deaths
Florida State University faculty
People from Greenwood, South Carolina
Recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross (United States)
Wofford College alumni


title: Fatema Akhter Poly

text:
Fatema Akhter Poly () is a Bangladeshi national women Kabaddi player who was part of the team that won the bronze medal at the 2010 Asian Games and 2014 Asian Games.

References

External links
 Women's sports in Bangladesh

Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Asian Games medalists in kabaddi
Kabaddi players at the 2010 Asian Games
Bangladeshi kabaddi players
Kabaddi players at the 2014 Asian Games
Female kabaddi players
Asian Games bronze medalists for Bangladesh
Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
Year of birth missing (living people)
Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
Kabaddi players at the 2018 Asian Games


title: Aaron Goldberg (botanist)

text:
Aaron Goldberg (November 4, 1917 – December 13, 2014) was an American botanist and parasitologist. He died in December 2014 at the Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland, at the age of 97.

Career
Ph.D. (1962) George Washington University
He received his B.A. in 1939 from Brooklyn College, an M.S. in 1954 from De Paul University, and a Ph.D. from George Washington University in 1962. He worked for the US Department of Agriculture as a parasitologist till 1972. Since then he has been a Research Associate in Botany with the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution) in Washington, D.C. Member of the Botanical Society of America.

Achievements
He is best known for the Goldberg system, a treatise on the classification, evolution, and phylogeny of the Monocotyledon and Dicotyledons.

Work
Aaron Goldberg (1967). "The genus Melochia L. (Sterculiaceae)". Contributions from the United States National Herbarium, Vol. 34, pt. 5.

Aaron Goldberg and Harry A. Alden (2005). Taxonomy of Haptanthus Goldberg & C. Nelson, Systematic Botany, 30(4): pp. 773–778
Aaron Goldberg. "Genus Melochia (Sterculiaceae)", Flora North America  in press

References

American botanical writers
1917 births
2014 deaths
Smithsonian Institution people
American male non-fiction writers
20th-century American botanists
Brooklyn College alumni


title: Jerome's

text:
Jerome's Furniture Warehouse is a family-owned chain of discount furniture stores in Southern California, with its headquarters in San Diego, California. The company's key owner and figurehead is Jerome "Jerry" Navarra.

History
In 1954, Jim Navarra and his two partners started a furniture store named Strep's Warehouse. In 1960 Jim Navarra became the sole owner, and in 1968 he renamed the store Jerome's Furniture Warehouse after his son Jerome. Reluctant to sell furniture for a living, Jerome "Jerry" Navarra originally thought he might attend medical school. However, in 1970 after finishing a business degree at San Diego State University, he spent six months helping out at the store. Having enjoyed the experience, Jerry Navarra decided to stay, with the store eventually becoming his responsibility.

Between 1980 and 1990, four branches were added in the San Diego Metro Area: San Marcos, Chula Vista, El Cajon, and Scripps Ranch. The original downtown store was moved in 2000 to West Morena Boulevard. Between 2009 and 2013 four more locations were added, which opened up the Los Angeles market.
By 2015 Jerome's had a total of 11 stores and a turnover of over $147 million, and had attained a top-fifty furniture retail ranking. Its strategies include selling its goods for a standard competitive price without periods of discounting, and offering free design services.

Jerry Navarra has been both the namesake and the face of Jerome's Furniture since 1973 when he first appeared in a Jerome's TV ad. By 2012 he had appeared in more than 4,000 commercials, and now includes his family, the third generation of Navarras to join the family business.
In 2008, Jerome's won the Western Home Furnishings Association's (WHFA) annual Retailer of the Year Award.

References

External links

Companies based in San Diego


title: Sharmin Sultana Rima

text:
Sharmin Sultana Rima () is a Bangladeshi national women Kabaddi player who was part of the team that won the bronze medal at the 2010 Asian Games and 2014 Asian Games.

References

External links
 Women's sports in Bangladesh
 Bronze challenges

Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Asian Games medalists in kabaddi
Kabaddi players at the 2010 Asian Games
Bangladeshi kabaddi players
Kabaddi players at the 2014 Asian Games
Female kabaddi players
Asian Games bronze medalists for Bangladesh
Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
Year of birth missing (living people)
Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
Kabaddi players at the 2018 Asian Games


title: A Time to Keep Silence

text:
A Time to Keep Silence (1953) is a travel book by British author Patrick Leigh Fermor. It describes Fermor's sojourns in monasteries across Europe, and is praised by William Dalrymple as a "sublime masterpiece".

This was an early publication from the Queen Anne Press,  a small private press, created in 1951 by Lord Kemsley, proprietor of the Sunday Times. In 1952 Kemsley made Leigh Fermor's friend Ian Fleming its managing director.  The press concentrated on producing finely printed and bound editions, often with small limitations. A Time to Keep Silence was printed in a limited edition of 500 copies with illustrations by John Craxton.

After revision, an open edition was published by John Murray in 1957. This was republished by Penguin in 1988 with a new foreword written in 1982.

The monasteries discussed include the Abbey of Saint Wandrille, Solesmes Abbey and La Grande Trappe. He also describes a visit to the abandoned rock monasteries of Cappadocia near Urgub. At St Wandrille he initially experienced a strong sense of depression, restlessness, insomnia and loneliness but this 'miserable bridge-passage' cleared after a few days. He grew to admire the scholarship and learning of the Benedictine Order there and benefited from the rhythm of the daily cycle. In contrast, he found the life at the Trappist monastery incomprehensibly austere. He concludes the essay with a brief overview of English monasticism.

The title is from the Book of Ecclesiastes ().

References

1953 non-fiction books
British travel books
Christian monastic literature
NYRB Classics


title: Montell Griffin vs. Roy Jones Jr. II

text:
{{Infobox boxing match
| fight date = August 7, 1997
| Fight Name = Unfinished Business
| location = Foxwoods Resort Casino, Ledyard, Connecticut, US
| image =
| fighter1 = Montell Griffin
| nickname1 = Ice
| record1 = 27–0 (18 KO)
| height1 = 5 ft 7 in
| weight1 = 174 lb
| style1 = Orthodox
| hometown1 = Chicago, Illinois, US
| recognition1 = WBC light heavyweight champion
| fighter2 = Roy Jones Jr.
| nickname2 = Junior
| record2 = 34–1 (29 KO)
| hometown2 = Pensacola, Florida, US
| height2 = 5 ft 11 in
| weight2 = 175 lb
| style2 = Orthodox
| recognition2 = [[The Ring (magazine)|The Ring]] No. 2 ranked pound-for-pound fighter3-division world champion
| titles = WBC light heavyweight title
|result =  Jones Jr. wins via 1st-round KO
}}

Montell Griffin vs. Roy Jones Jr. II, billed as Unfinished Business'', was a professional boxing match contested on August 7, 1997 for the WBC light heavyweight championship.

Background
Jones and Griffin had previously fought earlier in 1997 on March 21. Jones, who was the number one ranked pound-for-pound fighter in all of boxing, was making the first defense of the WBC light heavyweight title he had won on November 22, 1996 after defeating Mike McCallum against the undefeated Montell Griffin, who held the WBU light heavyweight title and was the top ranked light heavyweight by the WBC. Griffin was able to control the early portion of the fight, but Jones eventually rebounded and took control of the latter portion of the bout. The fight was still close entering round nine, as Jones took a narrow lead on two of the judge's scorecards (77–75 and 76–75), while Griffin held a 76–75 lead on the third. Griffin would control most of the first two minutes, but Jones was able to hurt Griffin with a right hand as the second minute ended. Jones then attacked Griffin in hopes of scoring a knockout victory, causing Griffin to voluntarily take a knee to avoid further punishment. While Griffin was on his knee, however, Jones illegally hit Griffin with a right-left combination. Jones initially thought he had picked up the victory via knockout, but referee Tony Perez announced that he had disqualified Jones for the illegal blows and Griffin was awarded the victory by disqualification, becoming the new WBC light heavyweight champion and the first person to defeat Jones as a professional. Griffin originally talked of a unification match with then-WBA and IBF light heavyweight champion Virgil Hill, but agreed to a rematch with Jones instead.

The Fight
Though their first fight was closely contested through nine rounds, the rematch would last only 151 seconds. Less than 20 seconds into the fight, Jones sent Griffin down into the ropes with a left hook for an official knockdown. Following the knockdown, Jones stalked towards Griffin, constantly attacking him with power punches. Griffin attempted to keep Jones at bay with his jab but was unable to establish himself as he had in the previous fight. Then with around 42 seconds left in the round, Jones caught Griffin flush with a leaping left hook that put Griffin down on his back. Griffin attempted to get back up but was unable to find to his footing and was counted at the 2:31 mark of the first round. Jones was then declared the winner by knockout, once again becoming the WBC light heavyweight champion.

References

1997 in boxing
Griffin 2
1997 in American sports
1997 in sports in Connecticut
August 1997 sports events in the United States


title: Dolly Shefali

text:
Dolly Shefali () is a Bangladeshi national women kabaddi player who was part of the team that won the bronze medal at the 2010 Asian Games.

References

External links
 Women's sports in Bangladesh

Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Asian Games medalists in kabaddi
Kabaddi players at the 2010 Asian Games
Bangladeshi kabaddi players
Female kabaddi players
Asian Games bronze medalists for Bangladesh
Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Dejvická Farmers' Market

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Dejvická Farmers Market is located in Prague near Dejvická Metro Station.  It is open on Saturdays from March until November. Offerings includes fruits, vegetables, bread, pies, juices, and seafood.

References

Website
Market website

Retail markets in the Czech Republic
Economy of Prague


title: Volokolamsk Highway

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Volokolamsk Highway (Russian: Волоколамское шоссе) is a novel written by Alexandr Bek, published in Russian in 1944, with later translations into English, Hebrew, Spanish, Chinese, German and many other languages during the 1940s and '50s. The novel, based on real events in October, 1941, during the Battle of Moscow, describes defensive fighting over several days by a single battalion of the 316th Rifle Division against elements of German Army Group Center. Both for its realism and for its practical advice on infantry tactics in modern war, Volokolamsk Highway became standard reading for junior officers in the Red Army and later Soviet Army, the forces of the arising State of Israel, and most socialist and revolutionary movements during the latter part of the 20th century. The novel has been out of print in English for several decades.

Creation and inspiration
After a short term of service as a volunteer in the 8th (Krasnaya Presnya) Volunteer Rifle Division, Bek, who already had an established reputation as a writer, was reassigned as a war correspondent. In March, 1942, he was attached to the former 316th Rifle Division, now the 8th Guards "Panfilov" Rifle Division, where he met then-Captain Baurjan Momysh-Uly. Bek had been told of Momysh-Uly's heroic conduct as a Senior Lieutenant in command of the 1st Battalion of the 1077th Rifle Regiment in the October battles before Moscow. Bek saw this as the basis of a lightly-fictionalized novel to commemorate the defenders of the Soviet capital. Momysh-Uly was very reluctant to cooperate, but he eventually gave his story, and Bek captured his reluctance in the novel. In the end, Momysh-Uly strongly disapproved of Bek's book, which he claimed to be an unrealistic depiction of events, and criticized the author relentlessly for the remainder of his life. He later produced his own series of books to tell the story from his perspective.

Plot summary
The structure of the novel is as an interview between a war correspondent and the commander of the battalion. The opening paragraph is as follows: The remainder of the novel is almost entirely told in the first person by Momysh-Uly, and is in two parts.

Part One begins with Momysh-Uly and the correspondent negotiating the terms of their collaboration. Momysh-Uly then recounts the arrival of the battalion along the Ruza River west of Moscow in October, 1941. In order to combat fear among his men he finds it necessary to order the execution of a sergeant who has deserted the line and shot himself through the hand. The next day he goes on to try to convince his men that their duty is not to die for their country, but to make their enemies die for theirs. Division commander I.V. Panfilov arrives in the battalion's position on Oct. 13. He points out that while the defensive positions of the battalion are good, Momysh-Uly has made no provisions for offensive action in the no-man's-land between the Ruza and the Germans. A party of picked men then successfully stage a deep raid at night against a German-held village, raising the morale of the entire battalion.

The story then goes back to July. The division is being organized near Alma-Ata, from men from Kazakhstan (like Momysh-Uly) and Kirghizia. The remainder of Part One describes the formation and training of the division, the growing personal relationship between Momysh-Uly and Panfilov, and the sound advice the former takes from the latter.

Part Two begins with the battalion dug in very thinly along the Ruza, trying to cover a sector 8 km wide. Other sectors are coming under attack from German tanks. Panfilov visits for an hour, and persuades Momysh-Uly to send two platoons into no-man's-land to set up ambush positions along the two roads leading to his sector, and describes how they should fall back to the main position. One platoon is very successful in this operation, but the second cuts and runs after its first encounter.

On Oct. 23 the main position comes under attack, with an artillery barrage directed by a spotting aircraft. Much of the barrage falls on dummy positions, and the battalion takes few casualties. Just as German infantry are about to attack, the Russian artillery observer is wounded by German shellfire, and Momysh-Uly (who is a former artilleryman) takes over, directing fire from the eight guns supporting his battalion from a church steeple. This fire blunts the German attack.

At the close of the day, Momysh-Uly learns that Germans to his north have penetrated the front, and that the scratch battalion to his south has been routed; he is facing encirclement. He helps lead a counter-attack to the north, then orders a retreat eastwards to a grove of woods. Following this, he is presented with 87 stragglers from the routed scratch battalion. At first he wants nothing to do with them, as they had already broken and run once. On impulse he decides to test them, by leading them into a night counter-attack against the Germans in the village they have captured just east of the Ruza. To his surprise, all 87 follow him and redeem themselves by killing Germans, destroying a lot of their equipment, and burning their bridge across the river. He then welcomes them to join his battalion. He further orders them to recover their battalion guns, which delays the withdrawal of the rest of the battalion, almost fatally. In the end, Momysh-Uly devises a tactic to enable his entire combat group to escape from encirclement, breaking through German forces bogged down in the mud, and the troops rejoin the division in Volokolamsk, much to the approval of Gen. Panfilov.

Impact of the Novel
Bek also wrote two sequels, Several Days and General Panfilov's Reserve. The series gained international, as well as Soviet, recognition: Published in Hebrew in 1946, Volokolamsk Highway "held an almost cult status in the Palmach and later in the Israeli Army" according to media researcher Yuval Shachal, and became a standard tactical handbook in the Israeli Defense Forces. Inspired by the novel, future Israeli Chief of the General Staff Motta Gur once held a "Panfilov Roll Call" for two soldiers who deserted from his company when he was a young officer, shaming them in front of the other troops; he wrote that it was a common practice in the IDF at the time. During 2005, Ehud Barak told "we, as young officers, were raised on Momyshuly." Volokolamsk Highway was popular in Cuba, as well. Fidel Castro told Norberto Fuentes that "the idea to use the love of the Motherland for convincing people to support me, came to me after reading the novel." The novel was well known among members of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces; in 1961, Raul Castro told a journalist that every regimental commander was "compelled to have a copy". In Jesús Díaz's acclaimed 1987 novel Las iniciales de la tierra, the protagonist cites Bek's book as a major influence on his life. The novel was also included in the list of "compulsory reading" for members of the Chinese Communist Party and People's Liberation Army personnel. On 27 June 1963, the East German Ministry of National Defense issued its Order no. 50/63 - drafted on the initiative of Walter Ulbricht - which introduced Volokolamsk Highway as part of the political education program for the soldiers of the National People's Army. In the official history of the NVA, historian Major General Reinhard Brühl had cited it as having a major influence on the soldiers.

References

1944 novels
Novels set during World War II
Soviet novels


title: The Broken Road (travel book)

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The Broken Road (2013) is a travel book by British author Patrick Leigh Fermor. Published posthumously by John Murray, the book, edited and introduced by his biographer Artemis Cooper and travel writer Colin Thubron, narrates almost all of the final section of the author's journey on foot across Europe from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople in 1933 and '34.

The first book, A Time of Gifts (1977), narrates Leigh Fermor's journey as far as the Middle Danube. The second volume, Between the Woods and the Water (1986), begins with the author crossing the Mária Valéria bridge from Czechoslovakia into Hungary and ends when he reaches the Iron Gate, where the Danube formed the boundary between the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Romania. He never published the third volume, but in 2011 Leigh Fermor's publisher, John Murray announced that it would publish the final volume, drawing from his diary at the time and an early draft that he wrote in the 1960s, subsequently releasing it in September 2013.

The cover design is by Ed Kluz; John Craxton who designed the other volumes, had died in 2009.

References

2013 non-fiction books
British travel books
Books published posthumously
English non-fiction books
John Murray (publishing house) books
NYRB Classics


title: Trinity Seven

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is a fantasy romantic comedy manga series written by Kenji Saitō and illustrated by Akinari Nao. It has been serialized in Fujimi Shobo's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Dragon Age since 2010 and collected in twenty-nine tankōbon volumes as of May 2023.

A light novel adaptation by Kenji Saitō with illustrations by Akinari Nao is being published by Kadokawa Shoten, and the first volume was released in November 2014. An anime television series adaptation by Seven Arcs Pictures aired on TV Tokyo from October to December 2014. An anime film adaptation titled Trinity Seven the Movie: The Eternal Library and the Alchemist Girl premiered in February 2017. A second film adaptation titled Trinity Seven: Heavens Library & Crimson Lord premiered in March 2019.

Plot

Arata Kasuga lived a normal life together with his cousin and childhood friend Hijiri Kasuga in a small town. However, everything changes on the day of the Black Sun, which caused the Breakdown Phenomenon which destroys the town where he lived and takes Hijiri away. As Hijiri starts disappearing, she hangs a grimoire around his neck, asking it to protect Kasuga. Shattered by losing Hijiri and all of his other friends and family, Arata asks for his world to be good again, which leads to the grimoire artificially reconstructing his normal life and making him forget both the destruction of the city and Hijiri's disappearance. Lilith Asami, a mage, is sent to investigate the ruins, and she finds the powerful spell in their stead. She makes Arata remember the actual events, and consequently the spell is broken, but not without the grimoire telling him that Hijiri is still alive. Arata decides that his only option is to become a mage himself so he could rescue Hijiri, and so he joins the Royal Biblia Academy, a secret school for mages that deals with magical issues around the world. There he is introduced to the Trinity Seven, seven powerful mages who are at the top of their respective fields (Lilith being one of them) and who will help him in his goal of becoming a powerful magician and learning the truth about Hijiri and the Black Sun. He soon finds out that one of the Trinity Seven, Arin, looks almost exactly like his missing cousin, although she shows a completely different personality.

Media

Manga

The series was serialized in Fujimi Shobo's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Dragon Age since 2010. The first complied volume was released on July 7, 2011.  On October 10, 2014, Yen Press announced at their New York Comic Con panel that they licensed Trinity Seven for release in North America, with the first volume releasing on May 19, 2015.

A spin-off manga written by Saito and illustrated by Sutarō Hanao, titled , launched in Dragon Age on November 9, 2015, and ended on December 9, 2016. Chako Abeno launched a second spin-off, titled , in Dragon Age on February 9, 2017.  The manga ended on June 9, 2018.

Light novel
On November 4, 2014, a spinoff light novel adaptation of Trinity Seven was announced. It was written by Kenji Saito and illustrated by Akinari Nao. The novel series covered the past of the main characters, and events not yet shown in the manga. The first novel was released on November 8, 2014, titled Trinity Seven The Novel: Night Episode and Lost Memory. The second novel, titled Trinity Seven The Novel: Eternity Library and Alchemic Girl, was released on December 29, 2014. The third novel, titled Trinity Seven The Novel: Holy Shrine Maiden and the Eighth Library, was released on January 9, 2018.

Anime
An anime television series adaptation by Seven Arcs Pictures aired on TV Tokyo from October 7 to December 23, 2014, and other channels on TVA, TVO and AT-X. The series is directed by Hiroshi Nishikiori and Hiroyuki Yoshino is in charge of series composition.  The series has been licensed by Sentai Filmworks in North America, while Madman Entertainment holds the license for Australia and Animatsu Entertainment in the United Kingdom.

OVA

Films
A film adaptation of the manga series was announced in the Monthly Dragon Age magazine's August 2016 issue in July 2016. The cast and staff from the anime series returned to reprise their roles in the film. The film, titled Trinity Seven the Movie: The Eternal Library and the Alchemist Girl, premiered on February 25, 2017.

On July 3, 2018, the official website of the manga announced that a second film adaptation is in production. The second film, titled , premiered on March 29, 2019. The cast and staff from the anime series returned to reprise their roles in the second film.

Reception
As of June 2017, the manga has over three million copies in print.

See also
 Saint Seiya: Meiō Iden – Dark Wing—Another manga series by the same author
 I'm Standing on a Million Lives—Another manga series by the same illustrator

References

External links
 Official website ()
 Anime official website
 Official TV Tokyo website

Anime series based on manga
Fujimi Shobo manga
Harem anime and manga
Kadokawa Dwango franchises
Romantic comedy anime and manga
School life in anime and manga
Sentai Filmworks
Seven Arcs
Shōnen manga
TV Tokyo original programming
Urban fantasy anime and manga
Video games developed in Japan
Yen Press titles
2017 films


title: Edward Bernard Scharfenberger

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Edward Bernard Scharfenberger (born May 29, 1948) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as the tenth bishop of the Diocese of Albany in Upstate New York since 2014.

Biography

Early life and education
Scharfenberger was born on May 29, 1948, in Bushwick, Brooklyn. He is the oldest of five children of Edward Scharfenberger Sr. and Elaine Magdal. Scharfenberger has Russian Jewish ancestry through his mother. His father died in 2015 at the age of 94, and his mother died on November 6, 2019, at the age of 99.

Scharfenberger attended Our Lady of Miraculous Medal Elementary School in Ridgewood, Queens, and graduated from Cathedral Preparatory Seminary High School in Queens in 1965. In 1969, Scharfenberger graduated with a bachelor's degree in English from Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception in Douglaston, Queens. He earned a Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree in 1972 from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.

Ordination and ministry
Scharfenberger received his priestly ordination on July 2, 1973, in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome by Bishop James Hickey, rector of the North American College. He was incardinated into his native diocese, the Diocese of Brooklyn.

Scharfenberger earned a Licentiate in Sacred Theology from the Academy of St. Alphonsus in Rome in 1977 and a Licentiate of Canon Law from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.  in 1980.  He graduated with a J.D. degree from Fordham University in New York City in 1990 and was admitted to the New York State Bar Association in 1991.

Scharfenberger served as pastor of St. Matthias Parish in Ridgewood from 2003 to 2014. In addition to doing pastoral work for decades, he held various roles in the diocesan curia. He served as a member of the diocesan tribunal, a judicial vicar, an adviser to the canonical ordinary, and a promoter of justice and member of the committee for sexually abused children. From 2013, Scharfenberger was the episcopal vicar for the Borough of Queens.

Scharfenberger is polyglot and speaks fluent Italian, Spanish and German. He speaks enough Polish to celebrate Mass, and knows some Hebrew, Russian and Portuguese as well.

Bishop of Albany
On February 11, 2014, Pope Francis appointed Scharfenberger as bishop of the Diocese of Albany. He was consecrated by Cardinal Timothy Dolan on April 10, 2014, at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Albany.

Apostolic Administrator of Buffalo
On December 4, 2019, Francis appointed Scharfenberger as apostolic administrator of Diocese of Buffalo in New York, following the resignation of Bishop Richard Malone.  According to The New York Times, Malone resigned his post following a Vatican investigation on the handling of sex abuse allegations in Buffalo. Scharfenberger's role was a temporary one; he was expected to lead the diocese until a permanent bishop was appointed. The Times reported that in recent years, Scharfenberger had "gained a reputation for taking a more empathetic approach in his handling of the abuse crisis." At a news conference announcing his appointment, Scharfenberger said, "I am here to walk with you, and I am [here] to help you heal." Scharfenberger's responsibilities as Bishop of Albany were left unchanged.

On January 15, 2021, Bishop Michael Fisher was installed as bishop of the Diocese of Buffalo, taking over for Scharfenberger.

Views

Abortion
Scharfenberger advocates laws against abortion. In February 2017, Scharfenberger criticized three Catholic politicians,  Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan, State Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy and US Congressman Paul Tonko, for supporting and attending a rally for Planned Parenthood. In January 2019, Scharfenberger wrote an open letter to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in response to the passage of the Reproductive Health Act:

Interfaith dialogue
On March 8, 2016, at an interfaith event, Scharfenberger said: "Christians cannot be anti-Semitic and be Christian." In July 2019, Scharfenberger was appointed by Pope Francis as consultor to the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews.

On October 18, 2018, Scharfenberger celebrated the feast day of Our Lady of Walsingham with Dean Leander Harding at the Episcopal Cathedral of All Saints in Albany, a celebration observed both by Catholics and Anglicans. Afterwards, Scharfenberger told the congregation that there were more similarities than differences between the two denominations.

Sexual abuse crisis
Scharfenberger said in 2018 that laypeople should investigate bishops accused of sexual abuse and failure to address cases of sexual abuse. In responding to Cardinal Donald Wuerl's suggestion that a committee of bishops should investigate allegations into other bishops in the aftermath of the sexual abuse scandal of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Scharfenberger said that "we have reached a point where bishops alone investigating bishops is not the answer."

On April 28, 2020, Scharfenberger sent a letter to 23 suspended, as well as accused, Diocese of Buffalo clergy, informing them that due to the Diocese's bankruptcy agreement, the diocese could no longer pay them or provide them with retirement funds, health care, car insurance or dental care, effective May 1, 2020.

Health
Scharfenberger was diagnosed with colon cancer in November 2021, and underwent surgery.

Images

See also

 Catholic Church hierarchy
 Catholic Church in the United States
 Historical list of the Catholic bishops of the United States
 List of Catholic bishops of the United States
 Lists of patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops

References

External links

Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany Official Site

21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in the United States
Roman Catholic bishops of Albany
Pontifical North American College alumni
Catholic University of America alumni
1948 births
People from Bushwick, Brooklyn
Living people
American people of German descent
American people of Russian-Jewish descent
Bishops appointed by Pope Francis


title: Sandy Mactaggart

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Alastair Auld Mactaggart  (March 11, 1928  July 3, 2017), known as Sandy Mactaggart or Sandy Auld Mactaggart, was a Scottish-born Canadian educator and philanthropist.

Mactaggart was born in Glasgow. After being evacuated to Canada during World War II in the late 1930s, he attended schooling at Lakefield College School (Ontario) and at Choate Rosemary Hall (Connecticut). He later attended Harvard University, studying architecture and graduating cum laude in 1950 with a Bachelor of Arts.

He would go on to attend Harvard Business School, receiving a degree in business administration in 1952. That same year he would move to Edmonton, Alberta with Harvard dorm-mate Jean de La Bruyere to found Maclab Enterprises (/), a property development company. He would involve himself in the local arts and culture scenes of Edmonton, one of the co-founders the Citadel Theatre in 1965, and a founder of the Edmonton Art Gallery.

He is also involved with his alma mater, Harvard, serving on the Harvard Resources Committee and in the leadership of the Harvard Alumni Association as well as the directorship of Harvard Clubs in Canada. He has also served as treasurer of the American University of Beirut, president of the C.D. Howe Institute and Chief Executives Organization, and as a member of the Advisory Board of the Royal Society of Canada.

Mactaggart served on the University of Alberta Board of Governors from 1983 to 1994, on the school's Real Estate Advisory Committee, and as chairman of the University of Alberta Foundation from 1989 to 1994. He was chancellor of the university from 1990 to 1994. During his term as chancellor, he oversaw a period of changes in government funding, and introduced the concept of visiting committees of community leaders invited to tour the campus, a concept he had become aware of via his alma mater, Harvard.

He has donated an area of  situated in the Whitemud Creek ravine, the Mactaggart Nature Sanctuary, as well as several pieces of Chinese costumes and art, worth $37 million; to the University of Alberta.

In 2010, he moved to the Bahamas with his wife, Cécile for health reasons, after donating his Edmonton home worth $23 million to the University of Alberta.

He received the James L. Fisher Award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education in 1995. He was also appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1997, and the Alberta Order of Excellence in 1998. Sandy Mactaggart Award at the University of Alberta is named after him.

Sandy Mactaggart married Cécile Erickson in 1959. He died on July 3, 2017, in Islay, Scotland, aged 89.

References

1928 births
2017 deaths
University of Alberta
Harvard Business School alumni
Harvard University alumni
Members of the Alberta Order of Excellence
Scottish emigrants to Canada
Officers of the Order of Canada
Chancellors of the University of Alberta


title: Pakistan at the 1985 South Asian Games

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Pakistan participated in the 2nd South Asian Games held in Dhaka, Bangladesh between 26 and 20 December 1985. Its medal tally of 59 placed it second amongst the seven nations. The country participated in the following sports: athletics, boxing, kabbadi, swimming, weightlifting and wrestling.

Athletes
 Athletics:
 Boxing:
 Kabbadi:
 Swimming:
 Weightlifting:
 Wrestling:

References

1985 South Asian Games
1985 in Pakistani sport
Pakistan at the South Asian Games


title: Rafute

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Rafute is a pork belly dish in the Okinawan cuisine of the island of Okinawa, Japan. Rafute is skin-on pork belly stewed in soy sauce and brown sugar. It is traditionally considered to help with longevity.  Rafute was originally a form of Okinawan Royal Cuisine.

In Hawaii, rafute is known as "shoyu pork," which is served in plate lunches. In the early 1900s, Okinawan immigrants in Hawaii introduced rafute into the local cuisine which later inspired other variations such as shoyu chicken. Okinawans owned and ran many restaurants and okazuya throughout Hawaii in the 1940s.

Gallery

See also

, many started by Okinawans

References

Pork dishes
Okinawan cuisine
Hawaiian cuisine
Japanese cuisine


title: Live (Nik Bärtsch album)

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Live is a live album by Swiss pianist and composer Nik Bärtsch's band Ronin recorded in Switzerland in 2002 and first released on the Tonus Music label.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Michael G. Nastos called it "compelling, commanding, well worth a close listen, and a prelude for things to be heard stateside. This may be a difficult recording to acquire, but worth the search". On All About Jazz Budd Kopman noted "When listening to Live, it becomes clear that, while the feeling of improvisation, of taking off, of winging it, is very strong, where it is happening is frustratingly unclear".

Track listing
All compositions by Nik Bärtsch.
 "Modul 14" - 13:52
 "Modul 17" - 9:17
 "Modul 11" - 12:15
 "Modul 16" - 11:37
 "Modul 8_9" - 15:50
 "Modul 15" - 15:08

Personnel
 Nik Bärtsch – synthesizer, electric piano
 Björn Meyer – bass
 Kaspar Rast - drums
 Andi Pupato – percussion

References

Nik Bärtsch live albums
2003 live albums


title: Dada Harir Stepwell

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Bai Harir Sultani Stepwell is a 15th century stepwell in Asarwa area 15 km off Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

History

The stepwell was built in 1485 by Dhai Harir, a household lady of Mahmud Begada according to the Persian inscription in the stepwell. She was the superintendent of the royal harem.

Dhai Harir built a mosque and a tomb in which she was buried. The well bears two inscriptions, one in Sanskrit on the south, and one in Arabic on the north wall, of the first gallery.

The Arabic writing reads:

A Sanskrit inscription says that the step-well was built in December 1499 AD. It was during the reign of Mahmud Shah that Bai Harir Sultani, locally known as Dhai Harir, built the step-well. The name later corrupted into Dada Hari. It costed 3,29,000 Mahmudis ( 3 lakh) at that time. The ornate step-well has spiral staircases pieced into the sidewall of the well shaft and descending to the different platform levels.

Structure

Built in sandstone in Solanki architectural style, the Dada Harir stepwell is five stories deep.
The well is designed in five levels, the east level being octagonal in shape. Each level is provided with finely sculptured pillars and volute capitals. The niches are full of finely sculptured stone work and parapets of kumbha or geometric friezes. The builder has also provided stone ledges for people to take rest. Each stair also contains a square domed kiosk with an overhanging chajja (cover of a roof). The pillars and platforms rise vertically one on top of the other. The steps are open to the sky, whereas the kutas (landings) are closed with stone slabs. The well shaft is circular. There are passage ways at all levels which connect the shaft to the octagonal space above the tank. The shaft wall is covered with geometric designs. From the first story level, three staircases lead to the bottom water level of the well, which is considered a unique feature.

At the level of the ground, it is 190 feet long by forty wide. At the east end, from a domed canopy, a descent of eight steps leads to a covered gallery. A second flight of nine steps leads to another gallery, and a third of eight steps to the lowest gallery two or three foot above the level of the water. At each landing a corridor runs along the sides and leads to other galleries that cross the well at intervals.

Built along an east–west axis, entrance is from the East, the two spiral staircases are in West, near the well. The structural system is typically Indian style with traditional trabeat with horizontal beams and lintels. At the bottom of the well is a square stepped floor in the shape of a funnel extending to the lowest plane. This is chiseled into a circular well. Above the square floor, columns, beams, wall and arched openings spiral around; a feature that continues to the top. The top part of the well, however, is a vertical space open to the sky. The four corners of the square are strengthened with stone beams, set at 45 degrees angle. The motifs of flowers and graphics of Islamic architecture blend very well. The dominant carvings on the upper floors are of elephants ( in size, each of a different design).

Gallery

See also
 Mata Bhavani's Stepwell
 Amritavarshini Vav
 Adalaj Stepwell
 Jethabhai's Stepwell
 Ahmedabad

References

External links

 Dada Harir Vav
 Ranked #19 out of 121 things to do in Ahmedabad
 Dada Harir Stepwell on Gujarat Tourism Official Website
 Bad times for Dada Hari ni Vav in Gujarat

Stepwells in Gujarat
Buildings and structures of the Gujarat Sultanate
Buildings and structures completed in 1499
Buildings and structures in Ahmedabad
Tourist attractions in Ahmedabad
Monuments of National Importance in Gujarat


title: Pakistan at the 1987 South Asian Games

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Pakistan participated in the 3rd South Asian Games held in Calcutta, India in November 1987. The country participated in all of the 10 sports: athletics, basketball, boxing, football, kabbadi, swimming, table tennis, volleyball, weightlifting and wrestling. Its medal tally of 66 placed it second amongst the seven nations. Weightlifting was its most successful event, where it won 29 medals (6 gold, 23 silver).

Athletes
 Athletics:
 Basketball:
 Boxing:
 Football:
 Kabbadi:
 Swimming:
 Table Tennis:
 Volleyball:
 Weightlifting:
 Wrestling:

References

1987 South Asian Games
1987 in Pakistani sport
Pakistan at the South Asian Games