title: Meridian Centre

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The Meridian Centre is a 5,300 seat arena in downtown St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, located at 1 David S. Howes Way. The arena is the home of the Niagara IceDogs of the Ontario Hockey League and the Niagara River Lions of the Canadian Elite Basketball League.

History
In December 2011, after years of debate, St. Catharines City Council voted 9–3 to approve the construction of a multi-use spectator facility with 4,500 to 5,300 seats, at a maximum cost of $50 million. The project was to be funded with $17 million from the civic project fund, $5 million in fundraising, $1 million from the federal gas tax fund.

In October 2012, city councillors voted 11–2 to pay $45 million to Ball-Rankin Construction to build a new 4,500-seat facility, to be completed by September 2014. Ball-Rankin donated a pair of 25-metre elevated walkways to connect the centre to the city's downtown area on St. Paul Street, at a cost of $2 million.

Naming rights
Meridian Credit Union was given the naming rights of the facility in recognition of its $5.23 million contribution to the project. The name of the arena was announced in September 2013.

St. Catharines Sports Hall of Fame
The St. Catharines Sports Hall of Fame was founded in 1990 to recognize the outstanding accomplishments of both women and men, athletes and builders whom have significantly contributed to the development of sport in St. Catharines and went on to success at Provincial, National and/or International levels of competition. Upon completion of the Meridian Centre, the St. Catharines Sports Hall of Fame was relocated to concourse level of the arena.

Arena information
The arena offers four main concession stands as well as multiple food carts and seat vendors. The IceDogs also run a retail store inside the Meridian Centre. The arena offers basic concession fare but also has other menu items not typically found including jalapeño sausages, macaroni and cheese and fresh salads. Beer including craft beers and local wines can be found throughout the concourse. The arena also has the IceDogs store which is the main retail store for the IceDogs and sells all fan gear.

Sports
The primary tenant at the Meridian Centre is the Niagara IceDogs of the Ontario Hockey League. The Niagara IceDogs won their first game at the Meridian Centre on October 16, 2014, against the Belleville Bulls by a score of 7–4 in front of a sellout crowd of 5,300, the largest attendance in franchise history. This record was later broken when standing room tickets were sold during the 2015–16 playoffs with an attendance of 5,580.

In 2015, the Meridian Centre welcomed a secondary tenant in the Niagara River Lions of the National Basketball League of Canada. The addition of the River Lions basketball court also allows for important Brock University men's and women's basketball games to be relocated to the larger venue of the Meridian Centre. The River Lions joined the Canadian Elite Basketball League in 2018.

The Meridian Centre hosted the 2016 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship in January 2016. The final, a 3–2 overtime victory for the United States over Canada, resulted in the largest hockey crowd in arena history at 5,516. Overall, the total tournament attendance of 34,523 surpassed the previous record of 16,855.

On September 29, 2016, the Meridian Centre hosted a pre-season exhibition game between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League. After regulation and overtime, the game remained scoreless. Matt Moulson would ultimately give the Sabres the 1-0 shoot-out win.

The Meridian Centre hosted the 2017 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the annual Canadian women's curling championship, between February 16 and 26, 2017. Team Ontario, led by Rachel Homan, defeated Team Manitoba in the final by a score of 8–6. The overall attendance throughout the tournament was 56, 804.

In June 2018, the Meridian Centre hosted the 2018 FIBA Under-18 Americas Championship.

In 2020, St Catharines and the Meridian Centre hosted the 2020 CEBL Bubble. The tournament took place at the venue with teams quarantining at city hotels. The Edmonton Stingers were named the champions at the end of the tournament.In 2021 Meridian Centre hosted 3 UFC events.

Concerts and other events
On October 21, 2014, St. Catharines' native band City and Colour performed as the headline act for the centre's grand opening. The arena has also hosted such acts as John Mellencamp, The Tragically Hip, Chris De Burgh, Blue Rodeo, Tim Hicks, Old Dominion, Elton John, Daniel O' Donnell, Metric, Johnny Reid, Hedley and Death Cab For Cutie.

They have also played host to Harlem Globetrotters basketball games, WWE NXT and Cirque du Soleil. Comedians such as Jeff Dunham and Jerry Seinfeld have also performed shows at the venue. Other guests who have made appearances include Theresa Caputo. The center has also held numerous cheerleading competitions, expos and skating shows.

The opening ceremony of the 2022 Canada Summer Games was held at the Meridian Centre on August 6, 2022.

Gallery

See also
 Scotiabank Convention Centre – convention centre located in Niagara Falls

References

External links
 Meridian Centre

Indoor arenas in Ontario
Indoor ice hockey venues in Canada
Ontario Hockey League arenas
Sports venues in St. Catharines
Music venues in Ontario
2014 establishments in Ontario
Meridian Credit Union


title: Ridge Bond

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Ridgely McClure "Ridge" Bond (July 12, 1922 – May 6, 1997) was an American actor, singer and businessman, who is best known for playing the role of Curly in the musical Oklahoma! on Broadway and on tour. He retired from acting when the musical closed in 1954, and entered the insurance business.

Life and career
Bond was born in McAlester, Oklahoma. He attended the University of Tulsa, where he played a leading role in the play Green Grow the Lilacs, which was later adapted as Oklahoma!. He served in the U.S. Navy in World War II.  After his discharge, he joined the Broadway cast of Oklahoma! in 1946, soon taking over as Curly for Howard Keel, and, according to Deseret News, he played the role of Curly for the longest period of any actor during the original Broadway production. He then toured with the show and played the role in the 1951 and 1953 Broadway revivals. He reportedly performed this role 2,600 times during his career.  He was also the only Oklahoma native to play the role.

In 1953, Bond was instrumental in assisting Oklahoma state representative (and later Governor) George Nigh to promote the show's title song in becoming the Oklahoma state song. After Oklahoma! closed in 1954, Bond retired from acting and joined American Family Life Insurance Co. as a district coordinator in its Tulsa office. He continued in the insurance business.

Honors
In 1991, Bond was the recipient of the Lynn Riggs Award, presented by Rogers State University. In 1993, the Oklahoma Heritage Association named Bond an Ambassador of Goodwill.

Bond's likeness, in character as Curly (along with Laurie), was featured on the U.S. postage stamp commemorating the 50th anniversary of Oklahoma!  Also in 1993, Bond was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame.

Family life
Bond married restoration artist Maxine Vincent (1921–2008) on September 25, 1943. They were married for 54 years, and had two children, musician and sound engineer Geoffrey Bond and Pamela Bond-Simmons.

He died in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1997, aged 74. He and his wife are buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Claremore, Oklahoma.

Notes

References

External links

The Ridge Bond Archive Home Page
Photo of Bond as Curley, with Patricia Northrop as Laurey
1947 Photo of Patricia Northrop and Ridge Bond from 1947 "national company"
Photo of Bond's grave

1922 births
1997 deaths
People from McAlester, Oklahoma
American male musical theatre actors
American male stage actors
American male voice actors
Male actors from Tulsa, Oklahoma
20th-century American male actors
20th-century American singers
Businesspeople from Tulsa, Oklahoma
20th-century American male singers
United States Navy personnel of World War II
20th-century American businesspeople
University of Tulsa alumni


title: Echo (1901 sternwheeler)

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Echo was a sternwheel steamboat that was operated on the Coquille River on the Southern Oregon Coast from 1901 to 1910.

Construction
Echo was built in 1901 at Coquille at the Ellingson yard.  Echo was  long, with a beam of  and depth of hold of ,  The overall size of the vessel was 76 gross and 49 net tons.

Operations
In 1901 only three steamers served on the river between Coquille and Myrtle Point, these were the propeller Reta (18 registered tons) the sternwheeler  Echo (53 registered tons) and Welcome (21 registered tons).   Between these three vessels they hauled 1,554 tons of freight upriver and 2,834 tons downriver.  Upriver, the biggest single item was general merchandise, 800 tons.  Downriver was almost entirely agricultural products, with the biggest single item being 1,035 tons of milk. 10,187 passengers were carried up and downriver.

In October 1908, Echo, under E.H. James, master, departed Myrtle Point every day at 8:00 a.m. arrived at Coquille City at 10:00 a.m., then departed Coquille City at 1:00 p.m. and returned upriver to Myrtle Point at 4:00 p.m.

Collision with Dixie
In the week prior to May 4, 1905, Echo collided with the launch Dixie at Coquille City.  Echo stern was twisted, and Dixie sustained some scratches, but there was no serious damage to either vessel.

Sinking and salvage
At an unknown date, Echo sank in the Coquille River but was raised.

Ownership change
In the first part of February 1910, Echo was operating on the run between Coquille City and Myrtle Point.  At this time, the interest of Chief Engineer C.I. Kime in the vessel was bought out by Allen Panter.  Allen Panter was the son of Capt. W.R. Panter, who owned the remaining interest in the steamer.  Part of the deal also included transfer of an interest in the steamer Myrtle, which was used on the south and north forks of the Coquille River, and on runs upriver from Coquille when the water was low.

Disposition
In 1910, Echo was dismantled and the machinery installed in a new sternwheeler, Dora, which was brought to Myrtle Point on the evening of October 19, 1910, by Captain Panter.  Dora was reported to be larger and "better in every way" than the Echo.

See also
 Steamboats of the Coquille River
 Echo (sternwheeler 1865)
 Echo (steam tug)

Notes

References
 Historic Oregon Newspapers
 Newell, Gordon R. ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest,  Superior Publishing, Seattle WA (1966)

1901 ships
Coos Bay Mosquito Fleet
Steamboats of the Coquille River
Ships built in Oregon


title: 1928 Stanford football team

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The 1928 Stanford football team represented Stanford University in the 1928 college football season. Under fifth-year head coach  Stanford played its home games on campus at Stanford Stadium and were members of the Pacific Coast Conference. The team was ranked No. 4 in the nation in the Dickinson System ratings released in December 1928.

After playing in the Rose Bowl for the last two seasons, and three of the last four, Stanford did not play a postseason game, but did end its season on a high note with a shutout over Army before 86,000 at Yankee Stadium}

Schedule

References

External links
 Sports Reference – 1928 Stanford football schedule

Stanford
Stanford Cardinal football seasons
Stanford football


title: Vitale Barberis Canonico

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Vitale Barberis Canonico is an Italian fabric mill that was established in 1663. It is located in Pratrivero, about 50 miles northeast of Turin in the Piedmont region of northwest Italy.

The company has remained a family-owned business for 13 generations. Francesco Barberis Canonico is the current creative director.

The company's largest customer is the Italian fabric mill and luxury menswear fashion house Ermenegildo Zegna. In 2012, the wool mill was chosen by the Ferrari brand for the "tailor-made" project, which includes the possibility of personalizing one's car with Vitale Barberis Canonico fabrics.

In 2013, the year of the 350th anniversary of the wool business of the Barberis Canonico family, the wool mill became a member of Gli Henokiens, the international association reserved for family businesses with at least two hundred years of history.

In 2016, the company, which opened a historical archive for trendy fabrics from the 19th century onwards, exported 80% of the 9 million meters produced per year.

See also
Italian fashion
Made in Italy
Dormeuil
E. Thomas
Loro Piana
Luciano Barbera
Marzotto

References

External links

Textile companies of Italy
Manufacturing companies established in 1663
Italian companies established in 1663
Luxury brands
Privately held companies of Italy


title: Gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Women's uneven bars

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The women's individual uneven bars competition of the 2014 Commonwealth Games took place on July 31 at the SSE Hydro arena in Glasgow, Scotland.

Results

Qualification

Qualification took place on July 28 as part of the team and individual qualification event.

Final

References

External links
Official results

Gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
2014 in women's gymnastics


title: Arch Grants

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Arch Grants is a Missouri non-profit corporation whose mission is to advance economic development through entrepreneurship.

History
Founded in 2011, Arch Grants launched its international Business Plan Competition as a strategy to build the next generation of successful businesses within the St. Louis region. Five years ago, Missouri was ranked as the next-to-worst state in terms of its entrepreneurial activity  and as large corporations left St. Louis or merged with companies headquartered elsewhere in the wake of the recession, Arch Grants was founded to attract and retain high-growth companies to drive economic development efforts throughout the St. Louis region.

As of July 2014, Arch Grants has funded 55 companies that have generated $6.5 million in revenue, attracted $17.7 million in additional capital, and created 192 net new jobs for St. Louis. In addition, 98% of the companies in the business are still headquartered in St. Louis.

Arch Grants' unique model and success have drawn national media attention including The Wall Street Journal, Businessweek, Forbes, The Huffington Post, TechCrunch, and NPR as well as several local media channels including the Saint Louis Business Journal  and Saint Louis Magazine.

Key personnel

 Gabe Lozano, the founder of LockerDome, sits on the advisory board. Rex Sinquefield is a sponsor of the non-profit. Elizabeth Zucker is the President of Arch Grants, Jerry Slitcher J.D is Chairman, Matt Balder as Treasurer, Stefanie Thelen as Secretary, all from different companies.

Normal personnel/workers
Gabe Angieri • Executive Director

Jess Belomo • Director of Entrepreneur Recruitment

Alfred Jackson • Director of Portfolio

Jamie Kussman •  Development Operations Manager

Sara Mesiano • Portfolio Associate

Sara Westbrooks • Program Manager

See also
 Kranzberg Arts Foundation

References

External links

Entrepreneurship organizations
Non-profit corporations
Midtown St. Louis
Community building
Companies based in St. Louis
Organizations based in St. Louis
Non-profit organizations based in St. Louis


title: Frankenia fruticosa

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Frankenia fruticosa is a species of Frankeniaceae native to Knersvlakte, South Africa.  A woody shrub, it grows to a height of 35 cm.  It has small, rough leaves and white flowers.  It is most commonly found on the southern sides of the quartz covered slopes that typify the area.

References

Frankenia
Endemic flora of the Cape Provinces
Plants described in 2014
Taxa named by John Charles Manning


title: Gopalpur Zoo

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Gopalpur Zoo is situated in Gopalpur village, Kangra district, Himachal Pradesh in India, en route the Dharmshala – Palampur road.  It is surrounded by Dhauladhar Range of the Himalayas. The zoo is adorned with maple trees, horse chestnut trees, chil and greenery  .
The major attractions of the zoo are: Asiatic lion,    leopard, Himalayan black bear, sambar deer, barking deer, goral, wild pigs, Bhutan Grey Peacocks, Cheer Pheasant, Red Jungle Fowl peacocks, vultures, eagles, etc.

See also

Zoos and Aviaries of Himachal Pradesh
There are three recognized zoological parks at Gopalpur, Renuka and Kufri and three aviaries at Shimla, Sarahan and Chail.

National Parks in Himachal Pradesh
 Great Himalayan National Park, Kullu District:  Area 765 km2
 Pin Valley National Park, Lahaul and Spiti district: Area 675 km2

References

External links
 Himacahal Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation
 Ecotourism Society of Himachal Pradesh
 Himachal Pradesh Forest Department

Zoos in India
Buildings and structures in Kangra district
Tourist attractions in Himachal Pradesh
Year of establishment missing


title: Stall-Erik och snapphanarna

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Stall-Erik och snapphanarna is a Swedish film project directed by and starring Anders Olofsson. The narrative is set between 1658 and the early 18th century and tells the story of the snapphanar, a pro-Danish guerrilla movement that fought against Sweden in the 17th century. Olofsson, an amateur filmmaker who works as a cleaner by day, began to shoot the film in 1996. His ability to recruit many established actors, as well as the long production process, has received publicity in several regional and national newspapers. The film was set to be finished in 2020. However, in early 2020, Olofsson set a goal to involve 100 celebrities in the film, and thus revised his estimated completion time to 2025.

Cast

Notes

Swedish drama films
Upcoming films


title: Simon G. Powell

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Simon G. Powell is a British writer, film-maker and musician. His work has been primarily concerned with the use of psilocybin in human history and the present day and with the relationship between humanity and nature as well as the philosophical questions regarding the underlying intelligence behind the universe. He is particularly concerned with the concept of biophilia.

Career

Powell graduated from University College London in 1992. From the 1990s onwards he then used psilocybin on over one hundred occasions, as well as similar drugs such as ayahuasca and has documented his experiences (such as a discussion of his journey to the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew) and used them as springboards for wider discussions of the meaning of hallucinogenic experiences and how they connect us to what he perceives of as forms of universal and natural intelligence.

As well as writing and making films and music, Powell also regularly gives talks regarding topics such as psilocybin and natural intelligence.

He lives in London.

Works

Books

 The Psilocybin Solution: The Role of Sacred Mushrooms in the Quest for Meaning - with a foreword by Graham Hancock (2011)
 Darwin's Unfinished Business: The Self-Organizing Intelligence of Nature - written with Dorion Sagan (2012)
 Magic Mushroom Explorer: Psilocybin and the Awakening Earth (2015)

Films

 Manna: Towards a New Understanding of Nature (2003)
 Metanoia: A New Vision of Nature (2007)

References

British male musicians
British writers
British filmmakers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Cécilia Berder

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Cécilia Berder (born 13 December 1989) is a French right-handed sabre fencer, 2018 team world champion, two-time Olympian, and 2021 team Olympic silver medalist.

Career
Berder was born in 1989 in Morlaix, and grew up in the nearby city of Quimper. A very energetic child, she was pushed by her parents toward sport. Her first choice was rock climbing, but the class was full, so she opted for fencing at Escrime Quimper Cornouaille.

She first tried foil, the traditional teaching weapon, but found it boring. Coach Serge Larher suggested she try sabre, even though the class had only boys.
After her baccalauréat, she joined the centre for promising young athletes in Orléans, where she trained with the likes of Anne-Lise Touya and Léonore Perrus. She won the bronze medal in the 2007 Junior European Fencing Championships at Prague.

In 2008, Berder was selected as reserve for the Beijing Olympics. The same year, she took her first national senior title. In the 2009 World Championships at Antalya, she climbed her first international podium with a team silver medal after France was defeated in the final by Ukraine. The next season, Berder climbed her first podium in the World Cup with a bronze medal in the Orleans Grand Prix, hosted by her own club. France was defeated again by Ukraine in the 2010 World Championships at home in Paris, this time in the semi-finals. In the small final, they overcame the United States, weakened by the injury withdrawal of Olympic champion Mariel Zagunis, to earn the bronze medal. In 2011, Berder made her way to the final of the Orléans Grand Prix, where she was defeated by Zagunis.

In the 2013–14 season Berder won her first World Cup title in Antalya, defeating reigning Olympic champion Kim Ji-yeon along the way. She also earned her first medal in the European Championships with a team silver in Strasbourg. In the World Championships, she got to the table of 16, a personal best to date, but was stopped by Zagunis. In the team event, France defeated Hungary, then host Russia and Italy to meet the United States in the final. France stood their ground for most of the match, leading 20–15 at some point, before giving way in the seventh leg. They were eventually beaten 39–45. Berder finished the season 16th in world rankings, a personal best.

Berder is pursuing a master of journalism at the École supérieure de journalisme de Paris.

Berder is competing at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She defeated Ibtihaj Muhammad in the second round.

Medal Record

Olympic Games

World Championship

European Championship

Grand Prix

World Cup

References

External links

Profile at the European Fencing Confederation

1989 births
Living people
French female sabre fencers
People from Morlaix
Fencers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic fencers for France
Sportspeople from Finistère
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for France
Mediterranean Games medalists in fencing
Fencers at the 2013 Mediterranean Games
Fencers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for France
Olympic medalists in fencing
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
21st-century French women
Fencers at the 2023 European Games
European Games gold medalists for France
European Games medalists in fencing


title: Party of New Forces (Belgium)

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Parti des forces nouvelles (PFN) or Party of New Forces was a Belgian far-right political party active in Wallonia. Although they share a name it is not directly connected to the Party of New Forces in France.

Emergence
The PFN first emerged in 1975 under the name Forces Nouvelles, initially operating as a coalition of like-minded extremists rather than a political party. Early members of the group had come from the Front de la Jeunesse. Its early years were dominated by internal struggles, resulting in the group doing little publicly between 1975 and 1980 due to this strife.

In 1979 the group was instrumental in the formation of Eurodroite, an alliance of European far-right political parties that also included the Italian Social Movement (MSI), the French PFN and Fuerza Nueva amongst others.

Ideology
Ideologically the party tended towards the neo-fascist or neo-Nazi end of the far-right and sought early contact with the MSI. It celebrated the heritage of Rexism and shared with it contempt for parliamentary democracy and support for corporatism in economics. The group also adopted a strongly anti-American strain to its discourse. Whilst anti-immigration has been at the centre of its appeal the PFN has also focused on anti-Semitism and has been active in promoting Holocaust denial. Its anti-immigrant rhetoric frequent included calls to biological racism. Repatriation of immigrants was a central part of their position. The group has also campaigned vigorously against abortion.

Elections
The group contested the 1989 regional elections but failed to attract much support, capturing only 1.1% of the vote in Brussels. The PFN spent much of the 1980s competing with the Front National for votes and tended to come off worse. Thus in Brussels in 1985 the PFN won 0.7% of the vote to the FN's 0.5% (the FN having been formed only that year) but by the 1988 municipal elections this had shifted to 0.5% for the FN to 0.9% for the FN whilst by 1991 the FN had won seats in the Chamber of Representatives. Nonetheless, it did manage to gain pockets of local support, with its vote rising as high as 15% in some districts.

Decline
The PFN supported the use of publicity stunts in order to raise its profile and took a stand at the Brussels International Book Fair where its stock of Holocaust denial material attracted police attention. A scuffle broke out when the police attempted to remove the stall, with the incident widely covered in the Belgian press. The incident however exacerbated internal divisions and in 1989 Willy Freson and the Liège group of the PFN split to form their own movement, Agir. Robert Destrouder, a member of the PFN secretariat, also switched over to this new group.

After 1989 the PFN continued to decline, with many party members switching allegiance to the FN thereafter. Having been seriously weakened by these splits and having failed to make any headway in the elections it contested the PFN formally dissolved in 1991. Following its disappearance some members joined the Walloon Regional Front, a short-lived group that was itself absorbed by the FN in 1993 whilst others went into a new group, Renouveau Nationaliste (formed in 1993), a group closely associated with the French and European Nationalist Party.

References

Defunct political parties in Belgium
Far-right political parties in Belgium
Francophone political parties in Belgium
Holocaust denial in Belgium
Neo-fascist parties
Political parties established in 1975
Political parties disestablished in 1991
Neo-Nazism in Belgium


title: Nippu Jiji

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The , later published as the Hawaii Times, was a Japanese-English language newspaper based in Honolulu, Hawai'i. Established as the Yamato Shimbun by Shintaro Anno in 1895, the paper began as a six-page semi-weekly printed on a lithograph machine, and changed hands four times before being taken over by Yasutaro "Keiho" Soga in 1905. Soga changed the name of the paper to the Nippu Jiji, Japanese for "newspaper for telling timely news," on November 3, 1906, and under his direction the paper was expanded to a twelve-page daily printed on a rotary press with a circulation of 15,000.

The paper gained prominence through its support of the territory-wide strikes of sugarcane plantation workers in 1909 and 1920, publishing sympathetic editorial columns and featuring extensive reports on the often slave-like living and working conditions of the, in many cases indentured, laborers. Also active in covering legislative attempts to curb the practice of Japanese language education in the islands (and the subsequent lawsuit against the territorial government), the Nippu Jiji became a key source of information for Japanese Americans in Hawaii before World War II and continued to wield a significant influence through the war years and after. The paper ceased operations in 1985.

Early history
In its early years, the Nippu Jiji was a paper directed at Hawaii's Japanese plantation workers. These laborers and, later, their families, made up the bulk of its subscription, and so the paper's content was largely catered to their interests and concerns. In 1909, exploitative conditions on the plantations was at the top of the list, and under Yasutaro Soga's direction the Nippu Jiji became active in disseminating information related to the newly formed labor movement. The paper published in-depth accounts of the conditions in the fields and company housing, pushing the issue further into the public eye and pulling plantation owners and haole politicians into the debate. The strike failed, although it was the first to unite workers from multiple plantations and the island-wide work stoppage ultimately cost plantation owners $2,000,000 and forced them to make some concessions. Soga was convicted of conspiracy to incite violence for his role in organizing the strike, and sentenced to ten months in Oahu Prison. Some ten years later, the Nippu Jiji similarly supported a second, also unsuccessful, strike.

In 1919, the Nippu Jiji became the first Japanese language newspaper in Hawaii to introduce an English section, an attempt to reach out to American-born Nisei and, in Soga's words, "promote better understanding between the Japanese and the Americans." It was also a move to counteract widespread distrust of Japanese Americans, heightened by Japan's military successes in Russia and China, as well as the fact that the immigrant Issei and their children had by then become the islands' largest ethnic group. In 1921, Lawrence M. Judd (then a territorial senator) introduced an American Legion backed bill to require all foreign language publications to provide full translations of their content. Part of a larger movement to "Americanize" Hawaii's large and multi-ethnic immigrant population, the bill would have forced publishers to either expand at a tremendous cost increase or shrink their foreign language section to make room for the translations, and Soga editorialized against it. (The bill was later changed to require translations only from newspapers whose publishers had previously been convicted of violence, intimidation or promoting distrust between groups of people. Soga's 1909 conspiracy conviction, and the law itself once passed, were largely ignored.)

Soon after, the Nippu Jiji became involved in a political controversy regarding the 163 Japanese language schools then operating in Hawaii. The territorial legislature began imposing restrictions on instructor certifications, textbook content, and the amount of time students were allowed to spend at Japanese school in 1920 (after several unsuccessful attempts to pass more restrictive laws in 1918 and 1919). The Federal Commission of Education declared in 1920 that the 20,000 students attending these schools were being "retarded in accepting American customs, manners, ideals, principles, and standards." In April 1923, the territorial legislature enacted the Clark Bill, establishing a per-student tax on the language schools and forcing schools unable to afford the tax to close. Some teachers and parents elected to push back and sued to repeal the restrictions; the Nippu Jiji, drifting away from the leftist stance it took during the sugar strikes, printed articles opposing litigation and urging the community instead to work with the politicians who had drafted the laws.

World War II and later years
Martial law was declared in Hawaii a few hours after the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, and Governor Joseph Poindexter conceded his authority to Commanding General Walter Short. Five days later the Nippu Jiji, along with every other Japanese-language newspaper, was forced to close. Yasutaro Soga and others at the paper were interned. However, the military government soon discovered that without the Japanese newspapers they had no way of communicating with the many Issei who could not read English, and on January 9, 1942, the Nippu Jiji and its main pre-war rival, the Hawaii Hochi, were ordered to reopen and operate under Short's directives. Military supervising staff were assigned by the censorship office, and took over administration of the newspaper and much of the English writing. Existing staff members translated the English articles into Japanese, which were then sent on to FBI or Army linguists for approval before going into print. As part of the military government's policy of pushing for the assimilation and Americanization of the Islands' Japanese American population, both papers were forced to change their names to English titles, and on November 2, 1942, the Nippu Jiji became the Hawaii Times (and would continue to publish under this name until its closure).

With the Hawaii Herald (formerly the Hawaii Hochi) as its only competition during the war, the Times maintained its place in the community as an influential and widely read newspaper, and continued to reach a large audience for years after the war. The paper closed in 1985, and nearly 30,000 photos and documents left behind were claimed by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Professor Dennis M. Ogawa and the Hawaii Times Photo Archives Foundation. The collection is currently being processed for public access.

See also
Hawaii Hochi
Japanese in Hawaii
Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920
Japanese language education in the United States

References

External links
Nippu Jiji Photograph Archive, Densho Digital Repository
Nippu Jiji Photo Collection website
Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Nippu Jiji Archival Collection

1895 establishments in Hawaii
1985 disestablishments in Hawaii
Japanese-language newspapers published in the United States
Defunct newspapers published in Hawaii
Japanese-American culture in Honolulu
Japanese-American history
Newspapers established in 1895
Publications disestablished in 1985


title: 2014 Strømsgodset Toppfotball season

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The 2014 season was Strømsgodset's 8th season in Tippeligaen following their promotion back to the top flight in 2006, and the first as reigning champions since 1971. The club ended in 4th position, securing them a spot in the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League 1st qualification round.

It was Ronny Deila's seventh and last season in charge, as he left on June 6 to become the manager of Celtic F.C. Former Strømsgodset forward David Nielsen, who had started the year as the new assistant manager, took over as interim manager on June 7. He signed the permanent deal, lasting until the end of the 2017-season, on August 6.

In the cup they were knocked out by 2. divisjon side Tromsdalen in the third round, while in the UEFA Champions League qualifications they were knocked out by Steaua București in the 2nd qualifying round.

Review and events

Pre-season
After winning the 2013 Tippeligaen, only their second league title, Strømsgodset saw some of their most important players leave for other clubs. Their deep-lying midfielder, Stefan Johansen, was sold to Celtic F.C. for a fee of 20 million NOK (£2 million), a club record sale. The two top scoring strikers with 20 league goals combined, Ola Kamara and Adama Diomande, both left the club. Kamara's loan from SV Ried ended, and he signed for Austria Wien, while Diomande was sold from Strømsgodset to Dinamo Minsk for a reported fee of €350,000. Furthermore, box-to-box midfielder Abdisalam Ibrahim, on loan from Manchester City in the 2013 season, signed for Olympiacos. These four players were a large part of the Strømsgodset team in 2013: Only goalkeeper and captain Adam Larsen Kwarasey played more than Johansen and Ibrahim (with 27 matches), while Diomande was involved in 25 matches and Kamara in all 14 league matches (scoring 12 goals) during his loan spell. It was evident that the club had to replace these players if they were to challenge for the title again.

Marius Høibråten, a 19-year-old defender from Lillestrøm had already signed a contract with Strømsgodset in October 2013. He replaced players like Razak Nuhu, whose loan spell from Manchester City ended, and Ole Amund Sveen, who left for Hødd. Two young midfielders, Patrick Olsen and Francisco Júnior, were signed on loan from their respective clubs Inter and Everton. These would replace Ibrahim, and provide depth to the squad in these positions.

Mohammed Abu was the fourth signing, as replacement for Stefan Johansen. The Ghanaian midfielder was highly regarded in Strømsgodset after loan spells from Manchester City in 2010-11 and 2012. However, he had failed to impress on loan spells in other clubs, partly due to injuries. In a move that all parties wanted, Strømsgodset signed the player for a club record fee of approximately NOK 4 million. Coincidentally, Stefan Johansen had been the one to replace Abu after the latter's second loan spell ended.

Strømsgodset hoped that striker Thomas Sørum, who had been injured for most of 2013, would return to form and provide the goals they needed now that Kamara and Diomande had left. They also tried to sign another striker, Marvin Ogunjimi, who scored twice in ten minutes in a friendly match before the season. Internal club discussion at Mallorca made it difficult for Strømsgodset to finalize the deal before the Norwegian transfer window closed. The deal would eventually go through in the summer transfer window.

As for the goalkeeper position, the club knew that club captain Adam Larsen Kwarasey was likely to be called up to the Ghana squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, and needed a backup for the Tippeliga matches to be played during the World Cup. Lars Stubhaug, who had served as backup goalkeeper in 2013, had signed for Rosenborg BK,. The four young goalkeepers on the team were believed inexperienced for first team matches. Anders Gundersen was closest, and played reserve team matches in the latter half of 2013, but mistakes during the pre-season friendlies made the club call Sead Ramović out of retirement. The Bosnian 35-year-old was signed as a backup goalkeeper, but claimed he wanted to fight for the first team spot.

Additionally, Danish ex-player David Nielsen was brought in before the season began as the new Assistant Manager. Nielsen, who spent the 2008 season playing as a striker at Strømsgodset, had proven himself by managing Nest-Sotra to promotion to the 2013 1. Divisjon. He was head-hunted by Strømsgodset a replacement for Ronny Deila. In June, when Deila was made Manager with Celtic F.C., the Strømsgodset board would promote him to Manager after having been with the club 6 months.

Stadium expansion

As champions of the 2013 Tippeliga, Strømsgodset won the Norwegian slot in the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League, entering in the 2nd qualifying round. If they were to be eliminated in the 3rd round or playoff stage, they would enter the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League.

Marienlyst Stadion, as a Category 3 stadium, would not be eligible for the Champions League playoff-rounds (or later stages) or for the Europa League group stage (or later). In order to fulfill the demands of a Category 4 stadium, the stadium mainly needed to be expanded to 8,000 seats. There were also other minor details that needed to be upgraded.

Drammen municipality (the owners of the stadium) and the club decided to rebuild the south end, which was a simple standing terrace. The construction works reduced the capacity of the stadium from about 7,500 to 6,427 after the third home game of the season, until the new end was opened for the match against Vålerenga on 19 July 2014. The south end was rebuilt with a new concrete foundation, and safe standing rail seats. These types of seats were also installed in the central part of the terraces in the north end. Afterwards, the new capacity was 8,935 for league games, or 8,060 for European matches. Roof and toilet facilities were added after the season.

Season

League
Strømsgodset started the season well, winning four out of the first five games. This put them at the top of the table after the third round, a position they stayed in until round six, when Molde went ahead. Their first loss was 0-3 away against Vålerenga on May 1. At home they won seven out of the first eight matches, before losing 0-2, also this time against Vålerenga. This put an end to their long streak of 46 undefeated matches at home in the Tippeliga, which was a new record in the league. They stabilized near the top of the table, holding the second position for most rounds. After round 18 of 30, they had 34 points, placing them in the 3rd position, behind Molde and Odd. August and September was, however, disastrous for the team. With only one win, they dropped to 5th in the table, far behind Molde, who went on to secure the league title on 4 October. Strømsgodset finished the season somewhat better, and with a 2-0 win at home versus the champions on 2 Nov, they secured the 4th position and a place in the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League 1st qualification round.

Norwegian Cup
In the cup, after a solid win in the first round, Strømsgodset again struggled against lower league teams. In the 2nd round, they needed extra time to secure a win over Ørn-Horten. The 3rd round match versus Tromsdalen also had to be decided after extra time, but this time, Strømsgodset lost.

Europe
The club was unseeded in the 2nd qualifying round and drew the highest-ranked team, Steaua București. The first match was played at home on 16 July, in front of 5,056 spectators. Though Strømsgodset was described as the best team in the match reports, the away team scored the only goal of the match. In the return match, Steaua won 2-0 after two late goals, and the European adventure was over for Strømsgodset.

Players
One of the most exciting events was the emergence of 15-year-old midfielder Martin Ødegaard. On an amateur contract when the season began, he was eligible to feature in up to three Tippeliga matches for Strømsgodset. He made his debut for Strømsgodset in a match against Aalesund at Marienlyst Stadion on 13 April 2014, becoming the youngest footballer ever to play in the Tippeliga. In the match, he set up the second goal, scoring an assist in his debut. After featuring in the starting line-up against Vålerenga on May 1, and being one of the better players on the pitch, it became clear that the three matches would not be enough for Strømsgodset. He signed a professional contract for 2014 and 2015 with Strømsgodset on 5 May 2014. On 16 May 2014, he scored the fourth goal for Strømsgodset in a home match against Sarpsborg 08 FF which Strømsgodset won 4-1, making him the youngest person to score a goal in the Tippeliga. His major breakthrough happened with the away match against Sandnes Ulf, where he was involved in all three goals of his team, scoring one and having one assist. He was also fouled for a penalty, which was missed by Sørum. After the match, media were discussing his possible debut on the Norway national team This would become a reality the same year. Ødegaard made his international debut for Norway against the United Arab Emirates on 27 August 2014, becoming the youngest debutant for the senior team at the age of 15 years and 253 days. On 13 October 2014, he became the youngest player to feature in a qualifier for the UEFA European Championship.

Another player impressing the fans was Iver Fossum. The box-to-box midfielder, born in 1996, made his debut in the previous season, with four matches as a sub. In 2014, he was one of the most consistent players, starting 10 of the first 17 matches in the league, scoring twice. He also featured in both Champions League qualification games. Despite Strømsgodset signing players on loan from big clubs, it was local youngster Fossum who became the unsung hero.

Striker Thomas Sørum got off to a good start of the season, scoring 43 seconds after being subbed on in the first match. Unfortunately, after six matches and two goals, he was injured again, missing the next four league games and two cup ties. He then played 17 minutes against Rosenborg in the 11th round, scoring 7 minutes after being subbed-on at halftime, before being carried off on a stretcher 10 minutus later with a head injury. He returned in the 17th round, scoring again, but failed to make the team after the arrival of Marvin Ogunjimi.

Unlike the title-winning 2013 season, the two centre backs Jørgen Horn and Kim Andre Madsen spent most of the first half of the season injured. Taking their places were mainly home-grown Lars Sætra and new signing Marius Høibråten from Lillestrøm. Unfortunately for Strømsgodset, Sætra rejected a new contract and left the club in July, signing for Swedish club Hammarby. The talented young centre back from Sogndal, Gustav Valsvik was bought in the summer transfer window to make up for the loss. Furthermore, Jeb Brovsky from New York City FC and Stefan Aškovski from FK Partizan were signed on loan to help cover for the injured defenders. However, both players failed to make an impression on the team.

Another home-grown player left Strømsgodset in the summer; Winger Muhamed Keita was sold to Lech Poznan. To replace him, Bassel Jradi was signed from FC Nordsjælland, but did not play much.

Sead Ramović retired without playing a match, when Anders Gundersen was selected for the first game after Adam Larsen Kwarasey joined the Ghana WC squad. Gundersen played all three league matches during Kwarasey's absence. Without Ramović, and with Hermann Rhodén, Eirik Johannesen and Borger Thomas all out on loan, the club was forced to place 16-year-old Morten Sætra on the bench. He played a friendly against IFK Göteborg in June, but did not play in the league.

Competitions

Tippeligaen

Results summary

Results by round

Results

Table

Norwegian Cup

Champions League

Qualifying rounds

Player details

Transfers

Winter

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Team kit
The official kit manufacturer for Strømsgodset is Diadora. This is the fourth year of the five-year-deal from 2011. The home shirt is deep blue, while the shorts and socks are white. The away kit has the reverse colours, with a white shirt and deep blue shorts and socks.

The club started the 2014 season without a main sponsor, but signed a major two-year deal with the nationwide bank DNB in June. The deal may be extended for another two years if both parts are willing.

Awards

See also
Associated Wikipedia articles
2014 in Norwegian football

References

Strømsgodset Toppfotball seasons
Stromsgodset
Stromsgodset


title: Herbert P. Buetow

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Herbert P. Buetow (1898–1972), former president of 3M was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He received a B.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1921. He was married to Luella Witt Buetow and had one daughter Janet Buetow Smith.

Career
In a career spanning over 42 years at 3M, Buetow served as an auditor, controller, treasurer, director, executive vice president, president and chairman of the finance committee. He was the company's sixth president serving from 1953 to 1963. While president, 3M's annual sales and employment roughly tripled, the company became an international operation and the company was often cited as one of the best managed companies in the United States.

Buetow was also an active participant in employee recreational programs, playing on the company bowling team, golf team and once managed the baseball team. He even once wrote a humor column for the employee publication during his first years with 3M. In May 1968 his many contributions to 3M's growth and success were recognized in a tribute from the Board of Directors during the annual meeting when he retired as director and chairman of the finance committee.

Awards
Throughout his life Buetow kept active in the business, social and civic affairs in St. Paul. In 1961 he received the Great Living American award from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Buetow was also the president of the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce in 1964 and he served on a long list of committees and boards including the Community Chest, Ramsey County Tuberculosis and Health Association and Junior Achievement.  From 1936 to 1938 he served as the founding president of the Twin Cities Chapter of the Controllers Institute of America (currently known as Financial Executives International). Buetow was a director of both the First Trust Company of St. Paul and the First National Bank of St. Paul and for seven years was the president of the First Merchants Bank of St. Paul. Buetow was also active in the St. Paul Winter Carnival.

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1898 births
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title: National Wildlife Health Center

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The National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC) is a science center of the United States Geological Survey. NWHC is located in Madison, Wisconsin, on a 24-acre plot of land that includes a main building and tight isolation building (TIB). The facility houses Bio-safety Level 3 (BSL-3) and Bio-safety Level 2 (BSL-2) laboratories on site.

The center studies several diseases that affect American wildlife including bat white nose syndrome, chronic wasting disease (CWD), avian influenza, and sylvatic plague, among others.

In addition to the study of disease, NWHC has the capability to diagnose the causes of mass wildlife die-offs.  This is done via necropsy and the work of several pathologists, biologists, and other scientists.  The scientists are able to run toxicology, heavy metal and tissue analyses to determine cause of death.  A notable instance of this capability in use was during the mass die-off of birds, primarily red-winged blackbirds, in Beebe, Arkansas, on December 31, 2010. The NWHC determined the die-off to be the result of blunt trauma, most likely caused when the birds were frightened out of their nests at night by fireworks.

Honolulu Field Station
In addition to the main facility in Madison, Wisconsin, the NWHC maintains a field station in Honolulu, Hawaii.  The Honolulu field station is responsible for researching diseases that effect Pacific Ocean wildlife, including birds, sea turtles, and coral reefs. Generally staff for the NWHC Honolulu field station numbers around four staff, either federal employees or contractors.

References

External links
 National Wildlife Health Center - official site

Buildings and structures in Madison, Wisconsin
United States Geological Survey
Veterinary research institutes
Veterinary medicine in the United States
Research institutes in Wisconsin


The Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2014 () is a bill that would appropriate supplemental funds for FY2014 to specified federal agencies and programs to respond to the increased apprehensions of unaccompanied minors along the southwestern border, fight wildfires, and support Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile defense system. The bill would provide $2.7 billion in supplemental funding.

The bill was introduced into the United States Senate during the 113th United States Congress. The House bill "Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014 (H.R. 5230; 113th Congress)" is intended to address the same issues as this one.

Background

The children's immigration crisis refers to the surge in unaccompanied children from Central America seeking entrance to the United States. The surge has increased rapidly, doubling in volume each year, reaching crisis proportions in 2014 when tens of thousands of women and children from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador migrated to the United States. Many of the children had no parent/legal guardian available to provide care or physical custody and quickly overwhelmed local border patrols.

The provisions of H.R. 7311, William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, signed into law by George W. Bush give substantial rights and protection to unaccompanied children from countries which do not have a common border with the United States. This made expeditious deportation of the large number of children from Central America difficult and expensive, prompting a call by President Barack Obama for an emergency appropriation of nearly $4 billion and resulted in discussions on how to interpret or revise the 2008 law in order to expedite handling large numbers of unaccompanied children.

Provisions of the bill
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Research Service, a public domain source.

The Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2014 would appropriate supplemental funds for FY2014 to specified federal agencies and programs to respond to the increased apprehensions of unaccompanied minors along the southwestern border, fight wildfires, and support Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile defense system.

The bill would provide appropriations for the United States Department of Justice (DOJ); the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); and the United States Department of State to cover necessary expenses to respond to the significant rise in unaccompanied children and adults with children at the southwest border.

The bill would provide appropriations for the U.S Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Forest Service to cover anticipated wildfire suppression funding shortfalls if funds previously provided for wildfire suppression will be exhausted imminently and USDA notifies the appropriations committees of the need for additional funds.

The bill would amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to require certain adjustments to discretionary spending limits for FY2015-FY2021 for wildfire suppression operations in the wildland fire management accounts at the United States Department of the Interior and the USDA.

The bill would provide appropriations for the Department of Defense (DOD) to assist the government of Israel with procurement of the Iron Dome defense system to counter short-range rocket threats.

The bill would designate funding provided in the Act as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget And Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.

The bill would specify authorized, restricted, and prohibited uses of appropriated funds.

Procedural history
The Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2014 was introduced into the United States Senate on July 23, 2014 by Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD).

On July 28, 2014, President Barack Obama released a statement of administration policy in support of the bill, urging "Congress to act swiftly to pass the bill to allow a timely and effective response to these pressing needs."

Debate and discussion
On July 9, 2014 a hearing on the crisis was held by the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. The testimony of Statement of Craig Fugate Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency U.S. Department of Homeland Security was that "We are talking about large numbers of children, without their parents, who have arrived at our border—hungry, thirsty, exhausted, scared and vulnerable." Senator Dianne Feinstein compared the crisis to the American refusal to accept Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany aboard the MS St. Louis. The President's request for additional funds was met in both houses of Congress by proposals to modify or eliminate the rights granted by the 2008 reauthorization of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000

A 2014 Mother Jones article suggests many of these unaccompanied children are attempting to escape abusive situations. Analysis of Border Patrol statistics shows a correlation between gang-related killing of children in Central America, particularly San Pedro Sula in Honduras, and the surge in migration.

The bill would provide $2.7 billion in supplemental funding, about $1 billion less than the $3.7 billion requested by President Obama. President Obama supported the bill anyway, despite the lower funding amount. According to the administration, "this bill responsibly addresses the humanitarian situation without injecting partisan provisions that are unworkable and would increase costs without solving the problem." The Administration compared this bill favorably with the House bill "Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014 (H.R. 5230; 113th Congress)".

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

References

External links

Library of Congress - Thomas S. 2648
beta.congress.gov S. 2648
GovTrack.us S. 2648
OpenCongress.org S. 2648
WashingtonWatch.com S. 2648
Congressional Budget Office's report on S. 2648

Proposed legislation of the 113th United States Congress
United States federal appropriations in the 113th Congress


title: Antonio Remiro Brotóns

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Antonio Remiro Brotóns (born 17 September 1945) is a Spanish international lawyer and academic. He is an emeritus professor of public international law at the Autonomous University of Madrid and a member of the Institut de Droit International and the Permanent Court of Arbitration.

Career

Remiro Brotóns was born in 1945 Elche, Spain. He received a LL.D. from the University of Bologna in 1969 while residing in the Collegio di Spagna. He defended a thesis entitled Il mantenimento della pace e della sicurezza internazionale americana nel quadro dell'Organizzazione degli Stati Americani e della carta delle Nazione Unite. This earned Remiro Brotóns the 1969 "Vittorio Emanuele II" prize for best thesis of the Faculty of Law of University of Bologna. From 1971 to 1981, he taught at the University of Murcia, where he became a professor and was appointed dean of the Faculty of Law and vice-chancellor of the university. Since 1981, Remiro Brotóns is a professor of public international law at the Autonomous University of Madrid. Here he served as dean from 1983 to 1985.

Remiro Brotóns has been counsel and lawyer for many governments, including the Spanish government, in the area of public international law. He has defended El Salvador, Nicaragua, Bolivia and his native Spain in contentious cases before the International Court of Justice. He also was counsel and lawyer for Argentina during the aftermath of the Laguna del Desierto incident.

Remiro Brotóns has been a lecturer at several research and higher education institutions, among them Panthéon-Assas University, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, El Colegio de México and the Hague Academy of International Law. In 2010, he received a degree honoris causa from the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo due to his contributions to international law in Latin America. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Other

Remiro Brotóns has appeared in Spanish television and radio multiple times. From 1990 to 1992, he presented Telecinco's daily news bulletin on international politics Entre Hoy y Mañana. Remiro Brotóns taught law to Felipe VI of Spain during 1992 and 1993. He is a member of the Board of Editors of Oxford Bibliography On Line: International Law.

References

1945 births
Living people
People from Elche
20th-century Spanish lawyers
Academic staff of the Autonomous University of Madrid
Academic staff of the University of Murcia


The 2014–15 Georgia State Panthers men's basketball team represented Georgia State University during 2014–15 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team's head coach]was Ron Hunter serving his fourth season at GSU. The Panthers played their home games at the GSU Sports Arena competing as members of the Sun Belt Conference. They finished the season 25–10, 15–5 in Sun Belt play to win the Sun Belt regular season championship. They defeated Louisiana–Lafayette and Georgia Southern to become champions of the Sun Belt tournament. They received an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament where they defeated Baylor in the second round before losing in the third round to Xavier.

Preseason notes
 Despite playing at Louisville during the 2013–14 season, shooting guard Kevin Ware was granted an NCAA waiver to play immediately at Georgia State due to hardship resulting from an internationally witnessed compound fracture in his leg during a 2013 NCAA tournament Elite Eight game against Duke. Though returning the following season after partial recovery, Ware only saw limited minutes early in the season, and suffered a major setback in a mid-December game against Missouri State, when he was kicked in the same right leg that had been fractured. He did not play for the rest of the season, making him eligible for an NCAA hardship waiver, popularly known as a "medical redshirt". He withdrew from the team entirely after the end of the season, choosing to transfer out, and chose Georgia State because the school was close to his family's current Atlanta-area home.

Preseason rankings and accolades
Georgia State was voted unanimously in the preseason conference coaches poll to win, picking up all 11 votes.
Junior R. J. Hunter was voted preseason basketball player of the year as well as the conference player of the year.
R. J. Hunter and Ryan Harrow were both selected for the preseason all conference first team. Curtis Washington was selected for the preseason all conference third team.

Season notes
During the regular season opener on the 15th of November, the Panthers beat the regular season record for margin of victory against Tennessee Temple, beating them by 60 points. The previous record was set in 1986 against Piedmont.
During the regular season opener on the 15th of November, the Panthers set a school record for assists at 27.
During the conference game against Arkansas State, RJ Hunter tied the school record for total points made during his career at 1,515, tying him with Rodney Hamilton. His record currently stands at 1,620.
During the January 31st game against Arkansas State, Ryan Harrow scored his 1,000th career point, being the second-fastest Panther in school history to make the mark.
During the February 14th win against Texas State, R. J. Hunter set a new record for 3-point attempts in a career at 642.

Regular season championship title
Toward the end of the regular season, three teams would find themselves tied for first place. ULM, Georgia Southern and Georgia State were all in a position to win the championship, which brought with it a number 1 seed in the Sun Belt Tournament, as well as an automatic bid to the NIT if that team did not win the conference tournament. Heading into the first matchup against first place instate rivals Georgia Southern, the Panthers found themselves half a game behind, with a win over the Eagles set to push them ahead in the rankings to first place. While the Panthers held the lead for most of the game, including a 6-point lead at the half, the Eagles surged at the end in front of a sellout crowd of 4,325 to win the game, 58–54.

The loss set the Panthers back behind both ULM and Georgia Southern. The following Saturday, ULM would beat the Eagles in Statesboro, giving the Warhawks first place in conference, followed by the Eagles and finally the Panthers in third. Following that point, both teams would lose two more games with the Panthers only losing one, creating a three-way tie going into the final week of Sun Belt play. A scheduling quirk would have Georgia State play at ULM on the final Thursday of regular season play, followed by Georgia Southern at home on the final Saturday. Prior to the Thursday game against ULM, it was announced that the Sports Arena, the home court of the Panthers, was sold out for the game against Georgia Southern. The Panthers would go on to beat ULM as the Eagles beat UT-Arlington, pushing the Warhawks out of first place with no chance to recover, and making the final regular-season game at the Sports Arena the determining game for the winner of the Sun Belt regular season title.

The GSU women's basketball game would precede the men's game, with fans pouring in before that game had begun. During the first half of the game, leading Sun Belt scorer Ryan Harrow fell with an injury to his knee, being helped off the court and unable to put pressure on his leg. He would check back into the game with 4:40 remaining in the first half only to be taken back out after 2 and a half minutes for the rest of the game. Without Harrow, the Panthers finished the first half with an 11-point lead. However, after returning for the second half, the Eagles would cut that lead to four with a score of 38–34 after back-to-back three-pointers were scored along with a two-point jumper. R. J. Hunter went on to pull the lead back by scoring 10 consecutive points, after which the Eagles did not threaten again. Sun Belt commissioner, Karl Benson, was on hand to present the Sun Belt trophy to the team after the win, which gave the Panthers back-to-back Sun Belt Basketball regular season titles.

Regular season awards and accolades
Ryan Harrow was named the Atlanta Tipoff Club's Georgia Men's College Player of the Year
R. J. Hunter was awarded the Sun Belt Player of the Week award three times over the course of the regular season
R. J. Hunter was awarded Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year award for the second year in a row, being the fourth player in Sun Belt Conference history to achieve the feat

Post season

Post Season Awards and Accolades
Both R. J. Hunter and Ryan Harrow were given all conference first team honors.
Kevin Ware was named the Sun Belt Tournament MVP.
R. J. Hunter was named Sun Belt Male Student-Athlete of the Year by the Sun Belt Conference for the second year in a row.
Ryann Green was included in the Sun Belt Conference's leadership team.

Sun Belt Tournament
Due to the Sun Belt Conferences tournament format, only the top eight basketball teams were eligible to compete, with the top two seeds receiving double byes straight into the tournaments semifinals. After competing for the conference regular season title in the final regular-season game, Georgia State and Georgia Southern received those top seeds, respectively. The Panthers faced Louisiana-Lafayette in their first game, the same team that had eliminated them from the title game of the previous season's Sun Belt tournament. The Panthers would end up beating the Ragin' Cajuns 83–79 after allowing them to come back in the final minutes.

Georgia Southern would beat ULM in their first game, setting the Panthers and the Eagles for a rematch of the unofficial regular season title game. The game would be one of the lowest scoring tournament games since such statistics have been tracked, ending in the Panthers favor with a final score of 38–36. After the final buzzer rang, the Panthers' head coach Ron Hunter rushed off the sidelines to embrace his son R. J. Hunter and began hopping as they met, both falling on the floor. It would be reported later that he had torn his Achilles tendon during the celebration. This, along with the dominating performance of Kevin Ware in the title game, would surround the Panthers in the media during the run up to the NCAA tournament, where the 14 seed would face third seed Baylor.

NCAA tournament
The Panthers would face Baylor in Jacksonville, Florida, at Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena. While the game was kept close throughout the first half, Baylor managed to take a three-point lead at half time by throwing up a buzzer-beating three-pointer that bobbled its way into the basket. After pulling away from the Panthers in the second half, Baylor would watch Georgia State claw its way back into the game in the final two minutes, erasing a 12-point deficit and making it a two-point game with under a minute left. After sending Baylor to the free throw line with less than 20 seconds remaining, the Panthers got the ball to R. J. Hunter, who drained a deep three-point shot with 2.8 seconds remaining to take a 1-point lead. While watching the ball go into the net, coach Ron Hunter, sitting on a stool due to his injured Achilles tendon, fell off the stool onto the court. The Panthers would pull off the upset, beating Baylor 57–56 and continuing into the third round of the tournament. The events on the court would make the team "the darlings of the NCAA tournament", shooting the Panthers, and especially R. J. and Ron Hunter into fame. Numerous memes and videos would be made in reference to Coach Hunter's fall, while the father-son story would result in news specials and national exposure to the team.

The Panthers faced Xavier in the third round of the tournament, where their season ended with a 67–75 loss.

Aftermath
After the season ended, attention to the Hunter family and the Georgia State program grew almost immediately as the TV channel covering the game switched its feed over to the post game press conference, airing video of a crying Ron Hunter explaining how proud of his team and his son he was. As the week continued, it would turn out that Georgia State would be the fourth most mentioned team on Twitter after Iowa State, Kentucky, and UAB respectively. At the same time, the second and fourth most talked about moments of the tournament were Georgia State beating Baylor and R.J. Hunter hitting the game winning three-pointer, respectively, while R. J. Hunter was the most talked about player in the tournament. Stories were run in local and national media, having interviews with Ron and R. J., as well as articles on the trainer that helped Ron up after his fall from the stool after he fell, and the reaction to R. J.'s game winning shot of the Georgia State men's golf team.

After arriving back in Atlanta, it was reported that Hunter would meet with the Athletic Department of Georgia State to plan for ways to keep Georgia State at a high level in basketball, and also to negotiate Hunter's contract. It was later reported that Hunter had negotiated raises for his assistant coaches, and put pressure on the administration to begin the process of building a practice facility for the basketball team and improving the Sports Arena for the coming season. It was later reported that Ron and R. J. would join the Turner Sports broadcast team as guest analysts in their Atlanta studio during the following weeks games.

Roster

Schedule

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References

Georgia State Panthers men's basketball seasons
Georgia State
Georgia State
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The Tsunami Warning, Education, and Research Act of 2014 () is a bill that would authorize the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to spend $27 million a year for three years on their on-going tsunami warning and research programs.

The bill was introduced into the United States House of Representatives during the 113th United States Congress.

Background

A tsunami, also known as a seismic sea wave, is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water, generally an ocean or a large lake. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions (including detonations of underwater nuclear devices), landslides, glacier calvings, meteorite impacts and other disturbances above or below water all have the potential to generate a tsunami.

Tsunami waves do not resemble normal sea waves, because their wavelength is far longer.  Rather than appearing as a breaking wave, a tsunami may instead initially resemble a rapidly rising tide, and for this reason they are often referred to as tidal waves.  Tsunamis generally consist of a series of waves with periods ranging from minutes to hours, arriving in a so-called "wave train".  Wave heights of tens of metres can be generated by large events.  Although the impact of tsunamis is limited to coastal areas, their destructive power can be enormous and they can affect entire ocean basins; the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was among the deadliest natural disasters in human history with at least 290,000 people killed or missing in 14 countries bordering the Indian Ocean.

Summary of provisions
The bill authorizes the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to continue through 2017 its on-going programs to forecast tsunamis. The bill would authorize NOAA to spend $27 million a year on this program over fiscal years 2015, 2016, and 2017.

Procedural history
The Tsunami Warning, Education, and Research Act of 2014 was introduced into the United States House of Representatives on July 31, 2014 by Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D, OR-1). The bill was referred to the United States House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. On September 8, 2014, the House voted to pass the bill in a voice vote. The bill was received in the United States Senate on September 9, 2014 and referred to the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Debate and discussion
Rep. Bonamici, who introduced the bill, said that "the coastlines of the United States already play an integral role in the economic prosperity of this country and we must strengthen their preparedness and resiliency so they can continue to play that role going forward." Bonamici also said that the bill "will improve the country's understanding of the threat posed by tsunami events" because it will "improve forecasting and notification systems, support local community outreach and preparedness and response plans, and develop supportive technologies."

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) also supported the bill, saying that, because of the devastating nature of tsunamis, "we must learn more about tsunami events, provide better and more accurate tsunami forecasting, and reduce impacts on at-risk communities."

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

References

External links

Library of Congress - Thomas H.R. 5309
beta.congress.gov H.R. 5309
GovTrack.us H.R. 5309
OpenCongress.org H.R. 5309
WashingtonWatch.com H.R. 5309
 Animation of DART tsunami detection system
 How to survive a tsunami – Guide for children and youth
 National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program Coordinated U.S. Federal/State effort
 NOAA Center for Tsunami Research (NCTR)
 NOAA Tsunami – General description of tsunamis and the United States agency NOAA's role

Proposed legislation of the 113th United States Congress
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The following is a list of episodes of the animated series Magic Adventures of Mumfie.

Series overview
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Episodes

Season 1 (1994)
Note: These thirteen episodes were later re-edited into a movie entitled "Magic Adventures of Mumfie: The Movie" by BMG Home Video. This edit is officially given the name of "Mumfie's Quest" by Britt Allcroft Productions and was released under this name in 2014 by Lionsgate.

Specials (1995–96)

Season 2 (1998)
All episodes in this season were animated by Phoenix Animation Studios. Even though they were produced in 1996, they weren't aired until 1998. Lionsgate accidentally lists episode 27 as part of the D'Ocon episodes, when it was in fact animated by Phoenix. These episodes are listed in the order they are listed in the Season 3 episode "The Album".

Season 3 (1998)
Note: All episodes in the season were animated by D'Ocon Films Productions.

Prospective reboot
In May 2014, Britt Allcroft started production on a new season of Mumfie. On July 2, 2015, it was revealed that the kids' division of Zodiak Entertainment, which was behind shows such as Zack & Quack and Totally Spies!, had begun development of the show. In 2022, it was announced that the series had been pre-sold to many networks overseas.

References

Lists of British animated television series episodes
Lists of children's television series episodes


title: St Mark (Hals)

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St. Mark is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1625. It was purchased by Russian philanthropist Alisher Usmanov from the art dealer Colnaghi, London in September 2013 for the Pushkin Museum and donated by him to that museum in November that year, where it still hangs.

Description
The painting depicts St. Mark in traditional iconography as a gray-haired old man in a rough cloak, leaning on a pile of books of the biography of Christ written by him. At his elbow shows the head of a lion – an indispensable attribute of Mark. The waist section of the figure and the small size of the canvas (68.5 x 52.5 cm) indicate its chamber purpose. The space of the room is barely marked, which focuses the viewer's attention on the subject's face and hands, which are sharply characterized. The painting is made with oil on canvas in warm colors, with a predominance of brown, which corresponds to the color scheme of the Golden Age of Dutch art.

The Four Evangelists of Frans Hals
Initially, the picture was part of a series of paintings of the four Evangelists: Luke, Matthew, Mark and John. The art historians Seymour Slive and Klaus Grimm agree the series dates to the mid-1620s.

Nothing is known about the commissioner of the paintings and the circumstances of their creation. Perhaps the paintings were made for the Catholic or Lutheran church, although the small size and intimate nature of the painting suggests that they were made for a small private chapel, or perhaps for the hidden Catholic church (schuilkerk) in Haarlem, or even for a private house. Catholic services were allowed in Haarlem in April 1581, but home chapels were before. It is also possible that the customer was a Protestant, or the artist painted them for himself, as Hendrick ter Brugghen did with a similar cycle, or Rembrandt with the apostles. Klaus Grimm and Seymour Slive agree that the order was most likely private, rather than secular. Until the 18th century, the canvases were in Holland.

The four evangelists by Hals were documented in 1910 by Hofstede de Groot, who wrote "The Four Evangelists. - Four separate pictures, each of them a half-length, showing the hands and attributes of the saint. Canvas, each 27 1/2 inches by 22 inches. Sales. - Gerard Hoet, The Hague, August 25, 1760 (Terw. 231), No. 134 (120 florins, Yver). The Hague, April 13, 1771, Z. No. 35. F.W. Baron van Borck, Amsterdam, May 1, 1771, No. 34 (33 florins, Yver)." At the time he was writing, these paintings were considered lost:

History
This painting was documented in the 18th century but was rediscovered in the 1970s, when it was identified by Claus Grimm as one of four lost paintings by Hals of the evangelists. At the time the painting had a collar painted over the beard and robe and was attributed to Luca Giordano.

In his 1989 catalog of the international Frans Hals exhibition, Seymour Slive included a photo of the before picture to show why the painting had been lost for so many years.

Before and after restoration:

See also
 List of paintings by Frans Hals

References

Bibliography

Paintings by Frans Hals
Hals
Paintings in the Pushkin Museum
Books in art
Lions in art


title: Thomas John Newbold

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Thomas John Newbold (8 February 1807 – 29 May 1850) was an English soldier in the service of the East India Company, known as a traveller and orientalist.

Life
The son of Francis Newbold, a surgeon of Macclesfield, he was born there on 8 February 1807. He obtained a commission as ensign in the 23rd regiment Madras light infantry under the East India Company in 1828. Arriving in India in that year, he passed an examination in Hindustani in 1830, and in Persian in 1831.

From 1830 to 1835 Newbold was quartermaster and interpreter to his regiment. Moved to Malacca in 1832, he became lieutenant in 1834. While in command of the port at Lingy, he detained a boat supplying a belligerent, in a conflict in relation to which government of Malacca desired to maintain a strict neutrality. On his prosecution by the owner, the legality of the seizure could not be maintained; but Newbold's conduct was approved by the court, and he was reimbursed his expenses. Arriving at the presidency with a detachment of his corps in August 1835, he was approved aide-de-camp to Brigadier-general E. W. Wilson, C.B., commanding the ceded districts, an appointment which he held until 1840. He was appointed deputy assistant quartermaster-general for the division in 1838, and deputy assistant adjutant-general and postmaster to the field force in the ceded districts in 1839.

Newbold left India on leave of absence early in 1840, and visited Jebel Nákas ("Bell Mountain"), a tourist attraction in the Sinai peninsula in June of that year. He was elected a member of the Asiatic Society on 5 June 1841, and during a residence of some months in England read several papers before the society.

Newbold was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 6 January 1842. He was promoted to the rank of captain on 12 April, and was recalled to India in May. Arriving at Madras, he was appointed assistant to the commission at Kurnool, and also to command the horse. He was assistant to the agent to the governor of Fort St. George at Kurnool and Bunganahilly from 1843 to 1848, when he was appointed assistant to the resident at Hyderabad. He was permitted to go to Egypt for two years in June 1845. He died at Mahabuleshwar on 29 May 1850.

Works
In the Royal Society's catalogue forty-six scientific papers are mentioned of which Newbold was the author. During his residence of three years in the Straits of Malacca, where he had constant contact with the Malayan peninsula, he accumulated material for papers contributed to the journals of the Asiatic societies of Bengal and Madras. These papers formed the basis of his Political and Statistical Account of the British Settlements in the Straits of Malacca … with a History of the Malayan States on the Peninsula of Malacca, London, 2 vols. 1839.

Newbold also investigated the mineral resources of India, and was an authority on the geology of Southern India, which he investigated with great thoroughness.  He was among the first to describe Neolithic ashmounds from peninsular India. The results of his observations were published from time to time in scientific periodicals. He was also an oriental scholar, and studied Eastern poetry.

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1807 births
1850 deaths
British East India Company Army officers
19th-century British geologists
English orientalists
Fellows of the Royal Society


title: Víctor Centurión

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Víctor Hugo Centurión Miranda (born 24 February 1986) is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.

Career
Víctor Centurión's international debut was in May 2014.

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Living people
Paraguayan men's footballers
Paraguay men's international footballers
Paraguayan expatriate men's footballers
Paraguayan Primera División players
Categoría Primera A players
Club Olimpia footballers
Club Libertad footballers
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Club Sol de América footballers
Deportivo Cali footballers
Sportivo Iteño footballers
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Expatriate men's footballers in Colombia
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title: Anna Cheyne

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Anna Cheyne HRUA (9 April 1926–10 September 2002) was a British artist and sculptor working with diverse media including batik, ceramics, papier mâché, stone, fibreglass and bronze. Cheyne was born and educated in England but moved to Northern Ireland after her marriage to architect Donald Cheyne.

Biography

Born Anne M Newbolt, she left school at the age of thirteen and worked as a farmhand for two years before studying at Kingston School of Art where she gained a National Diploma in Design in Painting and Sculpture. She then continued her studies at the Slade School of Fine Art where she received the Slade Diploma in Painting and Sculpture. Cheyne married the Belfast born architect Donald Cheyne in 1950 and the couple moved to Belfast in 1954.

Cheyne founded and ran a company that supplied pottery materials to artists until 1982, when she sold the business to concentrate fully on her art. Subsequently she worked in a wide range of mediums that included pottery and painting but it is as a sculptor that she was best known having received a number of public commissions. Amongst the first of Cheyne's public works was her ornamental plasterwork design for a ceiling in the Old Town Hall, Belfast in 1982. Other notable public commissions include a 1994 bronze plaque for the National Maternity Hospital, Dublin; a coat of arms for the headquarters of the Northern Ireland Fire Authority at Lisburn in 1991; Regeneration for Blackstaff Square, Belfast, in 1993; and My Lady of Chimney Corner for Antrim Borough Council in 1998. To mark the one-hundredth anniversary of the Balmoral Show in 1996 the Royal Ulster Agricultural Society commissioned Cheyne to produce a six-foot bronze depicting agricultural scenes over the previous century.

Cheyne had a number of solo shows during her career including at the Peacock Gallery, Craigavon in 1984, at the Rooksmoor Gallery in Bath in 1988 and at the Cavehill Galley in Belfast during 1991. In 1988 she took part in a Dublin ceramic workshop led by Eduardo Paolozzi. Cheyne debuted with the Royal Ulster Academy of Arts in 1978 where she showed two ceramic sculptures. She joined the Royal Ulster Academy Association in the mid-1980s. In 1990 Cheyne became an Associate of the Royal Ulster Academy where she was elected an Academician in 1994. She was a member of the Sculptors' Society of Ireland and the Association of Artists of Ireland. The Ulster Arts Club Gallery hosted a solo exhibition of Cheyne's paintings and sculpture in 1994. In the same year Cheyne showed in a two person exhibition at the Cavehill Gallery, Belfast, and she was a prizewinner at the Ulster Arts Club Small Works show. In 1995 Cheyne was one of thirteen artists inducted into The National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland, along with fellow Ulster artists Alicia Boyle and George Russell. Her self-portrait was a 'personal exercise' in which she experimented with batik, exploring the possibilities for its use in portraiture.

Cheyne was a member of the South Antrim branch of the Alliance Party, and a founding member of the Lisburn branch of Women Together a peace group chaired by Saidie Patterson. The group were actively promoting peace throughout Northern Ireland by supporting working class women who were facing financial hardship and sectarian strife.

Death and legacy
Anna Cheyne died at Lisburn's Lagan Valley Hospital in September 2002. She outlived her husband but she was survived by three daughters and two sons. Lisburn City Council presented a posthumous retrospective of Cheyne's work at the Island Arts Centre in 2003, and another in 2008. The Anna Cheyne Visual Art Award, inaugurated in 2003, was named after her. It is a biennial competition for artists with the winning works being purchased by the Lisburn City Art Collection for permanent display.

Cheyne's work can be seen in many public collections including those of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, The National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland, and Royal Ulster Academy Diploma Collection.

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1926 births
2002 deaths
20th-century Irish sculptors
21st-century Irish sculptors
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Sculptors from Northern Ireland
Women sculptors from Northern Ireland
Artists from Lisburn
Nonviolence advocates
Pacifists from Northern Ireland


title: Tomb of the Hakims

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Hakim's Tomb (; "Hakeemon ka Maqbara") is a 16th-century tomb located in the city of Hasan Abdal, Pakistan, across from the Gurdwara Panja Sahib. The tomb complex also includes the Tomb of Lala Rukh, traditionally attributed to a Mughal princess. The tomb was built for two doctors (Hakims) to the Mughal court, the brothers Hakim Abdul Fateh Gilani Masiuddin, and Hakim Humayun Khwaja Gilani.

History
The tomb was ordered to be built by the Mughal emperor Akbar's minister and superintendent of construction, Khawaja Shamsuddin Khawafi. Khwaja had intended the tomb to be built for himself between 1581 and 1583, but the two royal Hakimss were buried there at the command of Emperor Akbar in 1597. Akbar visited the site after returning from one of his trips to Kashmir.

Architecture
The tomb is octagonal and is a two-story structure. A large Persian style iwan gateway arch  is found on each of the cardinal sides of the tomb, and span the height of both story. Flanking the large iwans are 4 smaller niches - also built in the Persian style. The tomb is fronted by a small fish pond.

References

Buildings and structures in Punjab, Pakistan
Mausoleums in Punjab, Pakistan
Monuments and memorials in Punjab, Pakistan
History of Punjab
Mughal tombs


title: Sally Farmiloe

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Sarah Farmiloe (14 July 1948 – 28 July 2014) was a British actress, best known for Howard's Way. She appeared as Dawn Williams in the first and second series.

She was the daughter of Tom Farmiloe, a well-to-do farmer and yacht-broker, and his wife Pam. Sally Farmiloe had a daughter, Jade, in 1992 by Jeremy Neville; the couple split when she was pregnant. Farmiloe garnered considerable tabloid coverage for her affair with the politician Lord Archer from 1996 to 1999. She reunited with Neville and married him in 2002. She adopted her best friend's daughter, Kat, after the friend's death.

Farmiloe was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2012. She died two years later after the cancer had metastasised to her bones and liver.

Select filmography
 Spanish Fly (1975)
 Spectre (1977)
 Bergerac (television series, 1981)
 Howards' Way (television series, 1985–86)
 The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (television movie, 1987; uncredited)

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1948 births
2014 deaths
British television actresses
Deaths from cancer in England
Deaths from breast cancer
Actresses from Reading, Berkshire
Place of death missing


title: Richard F. Bach

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Richard Franz Bach (1888-1968) was an American curator with the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was known as a supporter of collaboration between museums and the industrial arts.

Career
Richard F. Bach graduated with an A.B. from Columbia University in 1909 and during 1909-1919 was an instructor and curator at the Columbia School of Architecture. He served as the Acting Librarian of Avery Library from 1918 to 1920. In 1918, Bach was appointed Associate in Industrial Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this position, Bach's main role was to facilitate use of the Museum’s collections as practical resources by manufacturers, designers, artisans, and craftsmen. Bach was also primarily responsible for organizing a series of popular exhibitions devoted to American industrial art. Over the course of his career at the Museum, Bach also served as Director of Industrial Relations (1929-1941), Dean of Education and Extension (1941-1949), and Consultant in Industrial Arts (1949-1952). After World War II, Bach tried unsuccessfully to provide services at the Museum for veterans, attempting to coordinate the efforts of rehabilitation and occupational therapist with the Museum's Education Department.

As the Director of Industrial Relations, Bach supervised the Museum’s Neighborhood Exhibitions, a series of thematic shows of Museum objects that traveled to various parts of New York City between 1933 and 1941. The purpose of the program was "to reach people in outlying districts [...] for whom a visit to the Museum seems a journey," "to serve crowded quarters of the city in which facilities for recreation and enjoyment are limited," and "to make available to the high schools of the city original objects of art which may serve as source material for study in relation to regular school subjects." The program included over fifty installations in four boroughs, drawing an attendance of over 1.5 million visitors in the first five years, and was installed in various public locations including "three settlement houses, thirteen high schools, six library branches, four colleges, one museum, two "Y" branches, and one City administration building." Locations which hosted these installations included the Queens Borough Public Library in Elmhurst, Queens, the Hudson Park Library branch of the New York Public Library in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, Washington Irving High School, and Christopher Columbus High School.

During the late 1940s, Bach corresponded with United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization regarding copyright division, seeking support and guidance for design copyright legislation in the United States. From 1952 to 1961, he served as an educational advisor to the American Institute of Interior Designers. He also served as a member and leader of a number of arts and education organizations including the American Federation of Arts, the Architectural League of New York, and the Advisory Board on Vocational Education of the New York City Board of Education.

Publications
"Industrial art: A war emergency." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 13(9): 194–196 (1918).
"Museums and the factory: Making the galleries work for the art trades." Scribner’s Magazine LXXI(6): 763–768 (1922).
Museums and the Industrial World. The Gilliss Press, New York, N.Y. (1926).
"Fourth exhibition of work by manufacturers and designers." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 15(3): 49–51 (1929).
"Contemporary American Industrial Art: Twelfth exhibition." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 26(10): 228 (1931).

References

External links
Early Industrial Arts Exhibition Catalogs from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries.
Guglielmo, Antoniette M. 2012. "The Metropolitan Museum of Art as an Adjunct of Factory: Richard F. Bach and the Resolution Between Gilman's Temple and Dana's Department Store." Curator: The Museum Journal 55/2: 203–14.
Guglielmo, Antoniette M. Digitizing the Libraries' Collections: Industrial Art at the Metropolitan Museum, 1917-1940. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
 Richard F. Bach Papers, 1915-1962. Held by the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.

1888 births
1968 deaths
American art curators
Columbia College (New York) alumni
People associated with the Metropolitan Museum of Art


title: 2016 United States Olympic trials (swimming)

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The 2016 USA Swimming Olympic trials were held for the third straight quadrennial at CenturyLink Center Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska from June 26 to July 3, 2016. Those qualifying competed for the United States in Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Qualification criteria

A maximum of 52 swimmers (26 of each sex, not including open water swimmers) were chosen for the 2016 Summer Olympics.  To make the Olympic team, a swimmer must place in the top two in one of the thirteen individual events.  To be considered for the U.S. 4×100-meter and 4×200-meter freestyle relay teams, a swimmer must place in the top six in the 100-meter and 200-meter freestyle, respectively.  Swimmers must have achieved a time standard to be eligible to compete in the U.S. Olympic trials:

 Information retrieved from USA Swimming.

Events
The meet featured twenty-six individual events all swam in a long course (50-meter) pool—thirteen events for men and thirteen events for women.  Events 200 meters and shorter were held with preliminaries, semifinals and finals, while events 400 meters and longer were held with preliminaries and finals.  Semifinals featured sixteen swimmers in two heats; the finals included eight swimmers in a single heat.  Preliminaries were seeded with ten lanes.  Event order, which mimicked that of the 2016 Olympics, with the exception of the Olympic relay events, was:

U.S. Olympic Team
The following swimmers qualified to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics (for pool events):

Men
Nathan Adrian, Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger, Kevin Cordes, Caeleb Dressel, Conor Dwyer, Anthony Ervin, Jimmy Feigen, Townley Haas, Ryan Held, Connor Jaeger, Chase Kalisz, Jay Litherland, Ryan Lochte, Cody Miller, Ryan Murphy, Jacob Pebley, Michael Phelps, Blake Pieroni, David Plummer, Josh Prenot, Tom Shields, Clark Smith, and Jordan Wilimovsky.

Sources:

Women
Cammile Adams, Kathleen Baker, Elizabeth Beisel, Maya DiRado, Hali Flickinger, Missy Franklin, Molly Hannis, Lilly King, Katie Ledecky, Simone Manuel, Melanie Margalis, Katie Meili, Lia Neal, Cierra Runge, Allison Schmitt, Leah Smith, Olivia Smoliga, Dana Vollmer, Amanda Weir, Abbey Weitzeil, and Kelsi Worrell.

Source:

Results
Key:

Men's events

Women's events

References

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Olympic Trails swimming
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Sports competitions in Omaha, Nebraska
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United States Summer Olympics Trials