title: Mona Moore

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Mona Mary Moore (20 March 1917 – 20 September 2000), also known as Mona Bentin and later as Deborah Bentin, was a British painter and illustrator, best known for her work during World War Two for both the Recording Britain project and for the War Artists' Advisory Committee. Her work also appeared regularly in a number of magazines including Good Housekeeping, the Radio Times and The Listener.

Early life
Moore was born in London and attended school at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields before, at the age of fourteen, obtaining a scholarship to St Martin's School of Art. In 1933 she was awarded another scholarship which allowed her to remain at St. Martin's until she was nineteen. Moore then studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts where she learnt the techniques of lithography. She left the Central School in 1939 and the same summer married Tony Bentin, who had also been an art student.

World War Two

At the start of the Second World War, Tony Bentin served with the Royal Artillery on an anti-aircraft battery in England whilst Moore obtained work as an artist with the Pilgrim Trust on the Recording Britain scheme. Moore had connections in the Gower Peninsula, near Swansea, and was allowed to work there, painting landscapes for the project. After her first stay of two weeks on Gower, the Trust authorised her to return there and work on more landscapes. Moore arrived back in Swansea in March 1941, shortly after the city had suffered three days of bombing raids, known as the Swansea Blitz. Seeing the devastation of the city centre, she decided to stay in Swansea and record the bomb damage and the ongoing recovery work. One morning, returning to complete a picture started the previous day near Swansea Castle, Moore found the pile of rubble she been working on had been cordoned off as overnight an unexploded bomb had been detected beneath it. A photograph of Moore sketching at her easel on the rubble heap the previous day was printed on the front of the South Wales Evening Post on 18 March 1941.

The Pilgrim Trust next gave Moore the task of recording construction work at a site in Norfolk, where a new airfield was being built. Despite having the correct permit to sketch at the location, the RAF arrested her and she was held in custody for several hours until interviewed by a local police inspector and released. Moore also painted street-scenes in Great Yarmouth for Recording Britain and in all, had twenty views of Wales and eight from Norfolk accepted for the project.

In August 1941, the War Artists' Advisory Committee commissioned Moore to record the Women's Land Army working on the harvest in Essex. Moore completed a number of paintings on the subject and was paid 15 guineas for three of them by WAAC. Kenneth Clark, the director of the National Gallery privately commissioned Moore to go, in secret, to Blaenau Ffestiniog to the disused slate mine where the paintings from the Gallery had been evacuated during the Blitz. Later in life, Moore would recall the "remarkable experience" of entering the slate mine and seeing "priceless Rembrandts, Van Dycks and Turners, etc stacked in racks". Moore spent three weeks at Blaenau Ffestiniog and Clark later gave the drawings she produced there as "thank-you" presents to the staff who had engineered the evacuation of the collection. Moore's paintings from East Anglia were included in the June 1942 exhibition of the Queen's pictures held at the National Gallery in London. Also, during the war, in 1944, Moore produced 16 colour lithographs and the cover illustration for the book Sea Poems by Myfanwy Piper which were well reviewed. Moore's painting The Agony in the Garden won the £200 first prize in a competition for religious images.

Later life
After the War, Moore worked regularly as an illustrator for the Radio Times, the Daily Express, Good Housekeeping and The Listener. Her work for the Radio Times included illustrations for broadcasts of The Cherry Orchard by Chekhov and They by Rudyard Kipling. In 1948 she produced two posters for the London Transport Executive, entitled London's Open Air, The Trees. She designed the jacket covers of Alan Sillitoe's first two books, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning in 1958 and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner the following year. Moore and her husband both became followers of the Subud spiritual movement and also both changed their names, eventually being known as Phillip and Deborah Bentin. In the 1960s, an eye infection which did not respond to treatment led to Moore becoming blind and ended her artistic career. Moore wrote an unpublished autobiography and gave oral history interviews to both the academic Gill Clarke and the Imperial War Museum. Paintings by Moore are held by the Imperial War Museum, IWM, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum. Works by Moore were included in War Fields, the 2004 loan exhibition organized by the IWM at the Wolsey Art Gallery in Ipswich.

References

1917 births
2000 deaths
20th-century English painters
20th-century English women artists
Alumni of the Central School of Art and Design
Alumni of Saint Martin's School of Art
British Subud members
British war artists
English illustrators
English watercolourists
Painters from London
Prisoners and detainees of the British military
Women book artists
Book artists
Women watercolorists
World War II artists


title: Mule ramp

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A mule ramp, or horse ramp, is a very gently sloping ramp that can be negotiated by pack animals. Originally, mule ramps were used in steep terrain in the open countryside. They usually have steps.

Use indoors
From road and track construction the principles of design found their way into building architecture. An interior mule ramp consisted of a spiral, curved or straight ramp within a building that had a gentle incline and non-slip floor. Such ramps may be continuous but more often have transverse steps at large intervals. These are found in churches, castles and other buildings. Later, the very similar equestrian staircases were built as showpieces in palaces, for riders to climb to the upper floors on horseback.

The term mule ramp first appears in specialist literature in the 19th century. The name is probably derived from attempts to explain the name, Mule Tower (Eselsturm), for the northeast tower of Regensburg Cathedral (11th century). This tower had a continuous spiral ramp. The argument that it was specifically designed for pack mules does not bear scrutiny because its dimensions are much too small for such a purpose.  On the other hand, neither the term mule ramp nor similar designations are known for ascents of this kind that have been used with certainty by pack and draught animals.

See also
 Cordonata
 Equestrian staircase
 Spiral staircase

Literature

References

Stairways
Equestrianism


title: Liobagrus kingi

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Liobagrus kingi, the King's bullhead, is a species of catfish in the family Amblycipitidae (the torrent catfishes) endemic to China, where it is known to occur in the lake Dianchi basin, in its tributaries and effluent river, the Zhangjiu, and two tributaries of the Jinshajiang (upper Yangtze) river in Sichuan and Yunnan. It has not been recorded in the lake since the 1960s. This species grows to a length of  SL.

References

External links

Liobagrus
Endemic fauna of China
Freshwater fish of China
Taxa named by Tchang Tchung-Lin
Fish described in 1935


title: 2014–15 Women's EHF Champions League qualifying

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This article describes the qualifying of the 2014–15 Women's EHF Champions League.

Format
Eight teams took part in the qualification tournaments. They were drawn into two groups of four teams, where they played a semifinal and a final or third place match. The winners of the qualification tournaments, played on 20–21 September 2014, qualified for the group stage. The draw took place on 26 June 2014, at 14:00 local time, in Vienna, Austria.

Seedings
The seedings were published on 23 June 2014.

Qualification tournament 1
HC Leipzig had the right to organize the tournament.

Bracket

Semifinals

Third place game

Final

HC Leipzig won 5–4 on penalties.

Qualification tournament 2
RK Radnički Kragujevac had the right to organize the tournament.

Bracket

Semifinals

Third place game

Final

References

External links
Official website

2014–15 Women's EHF Champions League


title: Coeloptera gyrobathra

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Coeloptera gyrobathra is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.

The wingspan is about 21 mm. The forewings are pale brown, with a whitish costal edge with fine short fuscous strigulae (fine streaks). The hindwings are grey.

References

Archipini
Moths described in 1925
Moths of Australia
Taxa named by Alfred Jefferis Turner


title: Belvedere House, Dublin

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Belvedere House is a historic townhouse located on Great Denmark Street bookending North Great George's Street in Dublin, Ireland. It was built by George Rochfort, 2nd Earl of Belvedere between 1775 and 1786 at a cost of £24,000. The design and stucco of the interior ceilings was carried out by Michael Stapleton, a leading stuccodor  and craftsman of his time. In 1841 it became a Jesuit college which houses the school Belvedere College.

It is allegedly haunted by the ghost of Rochfort's mother, Mary Molesworth, 1st Lady of Belvedere, who died there.

Belvedere House is located near the Garden of Remembrance and  James Joyce Centre.

Building
The building is a detached symmetrical 5-bay, 4-storey over basement structure which was refaced in red brick in the 1950s. It has a rusticated portland stone facade to the raised basement level. The balustrade of the first floor level is also faced in portland stone while there is a granite parapet and frieze over the top floor.

References

Bibliography

Houses in County Dublin
Houses completed in 1775
Irish Jesuits
Museums in Dublin (city)


title: Concrete goose

text:
The concrete goose, also known as a porch goose or lawn goose, is a popular lawn ornament in the United States. Concrete geese reached the peak of their popularity in the 1980s, but are still common in the Midwestern United States.

It is not uncommon for owners of concrete geese to dress them in costumes for seasonal holidays, to match the weather, or just as decoration.

References

Garden ornaments
Geese
Birds in popular culture
Novelty items
Culture of the Midwestern United States


title: Listed buildings in Sound, Cheshire

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Sound is a civil parish in Cheshire East, England.  It contains three buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings, all of which are listed at Grade II.  This grade is the lowest of the three gradings given to listed buildings and is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest".  The parish is mainly rural, and the listed buildings consist of two farmhouses and a school.

References

Citations

Sources

Listed buildings in the Borough of Cheshire East
Lists of listed buildings in Cheshire


title: Jordan Clarkson

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Jordan Taylor Clarkson (born June 7, 1992) is a Filipino-American professional basketball player for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for two seasons with Tulsa before transferring to Missouri, where he earned second-team all-conference honors in the Southeastern Conference (SEC). After forgoing his senior year in college to enter the 2014 NBA draft, Clarkson was selected by the Washington Wizards in the second round with the 46th overall pick and was immediately traded to the Los Angeles Lakers. He was named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team. Clarkson was traded to the Cavaliers in 2018. In December 2019 he was traded to the Jazz. On March 24, 2015, Clarkson along with Jeremy Lin, became the first Asian-American starting back court in NBA history. In 2021, Clarkson was named the NBA Sixth Man of the Year.

Early life and high school career
Clarkson was born in Tampa, Florida, to African-American Mike Clarkson and Filipina American Annette Tullao Davis. Davis' mother, Marcelina Tullao Kingsolver, was from Bacolor, Pampanga, Philippines. Both his parents served in the United States Air Force and divorced when Clarkson was young, with Clarkson's father later remarrying Janie Clarkson. He moved to San Antonio, Texas around the age of six.

He attended Karen Wagner High School in San Antonio. As a sophomore, he averaged 10 points per game while earning honorable mention all-district accolades. As a junior, he averaged 20 points, six rebounds and four assists per game, leading his team to a 32–8 record and the Class 5A state semi-finals.

On November 11, 2009, Clarkson signed a National Letter of Intent to play college basketball at the University of Tulsa.

As a senior, he averaged 18.9 points, 6.1 rebounds, 3.4 assists, and 2.1 steals, leading his team to a 38–2 record and a semi-final loss in the state championship. He was also named San Antonio High School Player of the Year.

College career

Tulsa
In his freshman season at Tulsa, Clarkson was named to the 2011 Conference USA All-Freshman team after being named the Conference USA Freshman of the Week four times in 2010–11. In 27 games (nine starts), he averaged 11.5 points, 2.1 rebounds, and 1.9 assists in 24.9 minutes per game.

In his sophomore season, he was named to the All-Conference USA first team and the NABC All-District 11 team. In 31 games (all starts), he averaged 16.5 points, 3.9 rebounds and 2.5 assists in 33.9 minutes per game.

Missouri

In May 2012, Clarkson transferred to Missouri and subsequently sat out the 2012–13 season due to NCAA transfer rules.

In his redshirted junior season, he was named to the 2014 All-SEC second team. He was also named to the Wooden Award Midseason Top 25 list in January 2014 and won three Southeastern Conference Player of the Week honors. In 35 games (all starts), he averaged 17.5 points, 3.8 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 1.1 steals in 35.1 minutes per game.

On March 31, 2014, Clarkson declared for the NBA draft, foregoing his final year of college eligibility.

Professional career

Los Angeles Lakers (2014–2018)

On June 26, 2014, Clarkson was selected with the 46th overall pick in the 2014 NBA draft by the Washington Wizards. He was later traded to the Los Angeles Lakers on draft night for cash considerations, and joined the team for the 2014 NBA Summer League. On August 25, 2014, he signed with the Lakers. During his rookie season, he received multiple assignments to the Los Angeles D-Fenders of the NBA Development League, and did not play for the Lakers for most of the first half of the season. However, he ended up starting 38 games for the Lakers, primarily at point guard, and averaged 15.8 points, 5.0 assists, and 4.2 rebounds as a starter. On March 24, 2015, he had a season-best game with 30 points and 7 assists in a loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder. Starting alongside Jeremy Lin, the pair became the first Asian-American starting backcourt in league history. On March 30 and April 1, Clarkson recorded back-to-back double-doubles. For the season, he was named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team. In the prior 30 years, there had been only four other second-round picks that were named to the first team. Clarkson after joining the Lakers garnered a huge following in the Philippines owing to his Filipino heritage and the existing fanbase of the NBA team in the country.

On November 3, 2015, Clarkson scored a career-high-tying 30 points in a 120–109 loss to the Denver Nuggets. On February 12, 2016, Clarkson played for Team USA in the Rising Stars Challenge, where he recorded 25 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists and 4 steals in a win over Team World.

On July 7, 2016, Clarkson re-signed with the Lakers on a four-year, $50 million contract. In the Lakers' season opener on October 26, 2016, Clarkson scored a team-high 25 points off the bench in a 120–114 win over the Houston Rockets. On November 15, 2016, he recorded a career-high five steals in a 125–118 win over the Brooklyn Nets. On March 12, 2017, he tied his career high with 30 points off the bench in a 118–116 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers. On March 24, 2017, he had career highs of 35 points and eight 3-pointers in a 130–119 overtime win over the Minnesota Timberwolves.

On November 13, 2017, Clarkson scored a season-high 25 points in 26 minutes off the bench in a 100–93 win over the Phoenix Suns. On January 19, 2018, he set a new season high with 33 points in a 99–86 win over the Indiana Pacers.

Cleveland Cavaliers (2018–2019)
On February 8, 2018, Clarkson was traded, along with Larry Nance Jr., to the Cleveland Cavaliers in exchange for Isaiah Thomas, Channing Frye and a 2018 first-round draft pick. In his debut for the Cavaliers three days later, Clarkson scored 17 points in a 121–99 win over the Boston Celtics. The Cavaliers reached the 2018 NBA Finals, where they were defeated in four games by the Golden State Warriors.

On December 12, 2018, Clarkson scored 28 points in a 113–106 win over the New York Knicks. On February 13, 2019, Clarkson scored a career-high 42 points in a 148–139 triple-overtime loss to the Brooklyn Nets.

Utah Jazz (2019–present)
On December 24, 2019, Clarkson was traded to the Utah Jazz in exchange for Dante Exum and two future second-round draft picks. On January 30, 2020, Clarkson scored a season-high 37 points in a 100–106 loss to the Denver Nuggets.

On November 21, 2020, Clarkson re-signed with the Jazz on a four-year, $52 million contract.

On February 15, 2021, Clarkson scored a season-high 40 points in a 134–123 win over the Philadelphia 76ers. He ended the 2020–21 season averaging a career-high 18.4 points per game and led the NBA with 203 three-pointers off the bench. He won the NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award over Jazz teammate Joe Ingles, who was the runner-up. Clarkson was the first Utah player to win the award.

On October 28, 2021, Clarkson and Jalen Green became the first two players of Filipino descent to play in the same NBA game in time for the Houston Rockets' Filipino Heritage Night celebration.

On March 12, 2022, Clarkson scored a career-high 45 points on 15-for-21 shooting from the field in a 134–125 win against the Sacramento Kings.

On December 15, 2022, Clarkson led the Jazz to a 132–129 overtime victory over the New Orleans Pelicans with a game-leading 39 points and 8 rebounds. On January 14, 2023, Clarkson scored 38 points and grabbed 9 rebounds during a 118–117 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers.

On July 7, 2023, Clarkson signed a contract extension with the Jazz.

National team career

In 2011, talks were initiated for Clarkson to play for the Philippine national team, also known as Gilas. However, Clarkson did not meet the FIBA eligibility requirements to be considered a Filipino citizen as he acquired his Philippine passport after age 16. He is eligible, though, to play as a "naturalized" player.

Clarkson visited the Philippines in August 2015 on the invitation of Manny Pangilinan, the then-president of Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP), the national basketball federation of the Philippines, to observe the training of Gilas, aside from fulfilling his commitments as an endorser of Smart Communications, which was also presided by Pangilinan. In an interview, SBP Executive Director Sonny Barrios confirmed that Clarkson has carried a Philippine passport since he was 12 did not need to undergo the naturalization process to represent the Philippines in international competitions. Clarkson did not make the final cut due to scheduling conflicts with the Los Angeles Lakers. The Lakers agreed to let Clarkson play, but the NBA collective bargaining agreement requires that national team play should not interfere with the Lakers' team requirements, which expected players to report on September 28; however, the tournament ran until October 3. Clarkson expressed his disappointment that he could not represent the Philippines in the 2015 FIBA Asia Championship. Clarkson was initially included in the 17-man pool for the Philippines lineup for the final Olympic Qualifying Tournament for the 2016 Rio Olympics. However, due to time constraints and a complicated eligibility process, the team instead opted for Andray Blatche as its naturalized player due to lack of size.

In August 2018, the NBA cleared Clarkson to play for the Philippine national team in the 2018 Asian Games that was held from August 18 to September 2, 2018, with a one-time exception, allowing Clarkson to play for the Philippines for the first time. His first game with the national team was against China where Clarkson led all scorers with 28 points but fell short of the match 82–80. In his second game with the national team, Clarkson once again led his team with a 25-point performance but could not overcome Korea. The team bowed out of a podium finish. Clarkson managed to get his first win with the national team, defeating Japan 113–80, in which he recorded 22 points, six rebounds and nine assists. Clarkson ended the tournament with a win, beating Syria 109–55 with a 29-point performance earning the Philippines a fifth-place finish, its best in 16 years.

On August 2022, SBP announced that they have accepted Clarkson as a naturalized player for the fourth window of the 2023 World Cup Asian qualifiers and future FIBA tournaments. On August 25, 2022, Clarkson made his FIBA debut and scored 27 points in a loss against Lebanon in the FIBA World Cup Asian qualifiers.

Clarkson was included in the 21-man pool for the 2023 FIBA World Cup, where he was eventually included in the final 12-man lineup as the team's naturalized player. In conclusion of the 2023 FIBA World Cup, he played 5 games for the Philippines averaging 26.0 points, 4.6 rebounds, 5.2 assists, 1.2 steals, 0.2 blocks in 36 minutes of playing.

Career statistics

NBA

Regular season

|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|L.A. Lakers
| 59 || 38 || 25.0 || .448 || .314 || .829 || 3.2 || 3.5 || .9 || .2 || 11.9
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|L.A. Lakers
| 79 || 79 || 32.3 || .433 || .347 || .804 || 4.0 || 2.4 || 1.1 || .1 || 15.5
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|L.A. Lakers
| style="background:#cfecec;"| 82* || 19 || 29.2 || .445 || .329 || .798 || 3.0 || 2.6 || 1.1 || .1 || 14.7
|-
| style="text-align:left;" rowspan=2|
| style="text-align:left;"|L.A. Lakers
| 53 || 2 || 23.7 || .448 || .324 || .795 || 3.0 || 3.3 || .7 || .1 || 14.5
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|Cleveland
| 28 || 0 || 22.6 || .456 || .407 || .810 || 2.1 || 1.7 || .7 || .1 || 12.6
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|Cleveland
| 81 || 0 || 27.3 || .448 || .324 || .844 || 3.3 || 2.4 || .7 || .2 || 16.8
|-
| style="text-align:left;" rowspan=2|
| style="text-align:left;"|Cleveland
| 29 || 0 || 23.0 || .442 || .371 || .884 || 2.4 || 2.4 || .6 || .3 || 14.6
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|Utah
| 42 || 2 || 24.7 || .462 || .366 || .785 || 2.8 || 1.6 || .7 || .2 || 15.6
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|Utah
| 68 || 1 || 26.7 || .425 || .347 || .896 || 4.0 || 2.5 || .9 || .1 || 18.4
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|Utah
| 79 || 1 || 27.1 || .419 || .318 || .828 || 3.5 || 2.5 || .8 || .2 || 16.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|Utah
| 61 || 61 || 32.6 || .444 || .338 || .816 || 4.0 || 4.4 || .5 || .2 || 20.8
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan=2|Career
| 661 || 203 || 27.5 || .440 || .338 || .826 || 3.4 || 2.7 || .8 || .2 || 15.9

Playoffs

|-
| style="text-align:left;"|2018
| style="text-align:left;"|Cleveland
| 19 || 0 || 15.1 || .301 || .239 || .833 || 1.7 || .7 || .4 || .2 || 4.7
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|2020
| style="text-align:left;"|Utah
| 7 || 0 || 28.6 || .464 || .347 || 1.000 || 3.4 || 2.1 || .9 || .0 || 16.7
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|2021
| style="text-align:left;"|Utah
| 11 || 0 || 27.1 || .406 || .351 || .962 || 3.1 || 1.5 || .6 || .3 || 17.5
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|2022
| style="text-align:left;"|Utah
| 6 || 0 || 28.3 || .548 || .375 || .889 || 3.2 || 1.3 || .5 || .2 || 17.5
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career
| 43 || 0 || 22.2 || .413 || .329 || .933 || 2.5 || 1.2 || .6 || .2 || 11.7

College

|-
| style="text-align:left;"|2010–11
| style="text-align:left;"|Tulsa
| 27 || 9 || 24.9 || .433 || .303 || .793 || 2.1 || 1.9 || .7 || .1 || 11.5
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|2011–12
| style="text-align:left;"|Tulsa
| 31 || 31 || 33.9 || .435 || .374 || .784 || 3.9 || 2.5 || .9 || .5 || 16.5
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|2013–14
| style="text-align:left;"|Missouri
| 35 || 35 || 35.1 || .448 || .281 || .831 || 3.8 || 3.4 || 1.1 || .2 || 17.5
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career
| 93 || 75 || 31.7 || .440 || .322 || .804 || 3.3 || 2.7 || .9 || .3 || 15.4

Awards and honors

High school
 First team All-District 27-5A (2009–2010)
 First team All-Region (2009–2010)
 San Antonio Express News Super Team (2009–2010)
 First team All-State by the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches (2009)
 WOAI-TV Player of the Year for the San Antonio area (2009)
 San Antonio High School Player of the Year (2010)
 McDonald's All-American finalist (2010)
 Faith Seven Game MVP (2010)

College
 C-USA All-Freshman Team (2011)
 First-team All-C-USA (2012)
 Second-team All-SEC (2014)

NBA
 NBA All-Rookie First Team (2015)
 Rookie of the Month (March 2015)
 Rising Stars Challenge participant (2016)
 NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award (2021)
 NBA All-Star Weekend Skills Challenge Winner (2023)

Personal life
Clarkson has dual citizenship with the Philippines and the United States. His Filipino citizenship is by virtue of ancestral descent. As of 2022, he is in a relationship with American singer-songwriter Maggie Lindemann. He has a daughter and lives in San Antonio, Texas.

References

External links

 Missouri Tigers bio
 Jordan Clarkson at draftexpress.com

1992 births
Living people
21st-century African-American sportspeople
African-American basketball players
American men's basketball players
American sportspeople of Filipino descent
Asian Games competitors for the Philippines
Basketball players at the 2018 Asian Games
Basketball players from San Antonio
Cleveland Cavaliers players
Filipino men's basketball players
Filipino people of African-American descent
Los Angeles D-Fenders players
Los Angeles Lakers players
Missouri Tigers men's basketball players
American people of Kapampangan descent
Philippines men's national basketball team players
Point guards
Shooting guards
Tulsa Golden Hurricane men's basketball players
Utah Jazz players
Washington Wizards draft picks
Karen Wagner High School alumni
2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup players


title: Center Grove

text:
Center Grove may refer to the following places in the United States:

 Center Grove, Indiana in Johnson County
 Center Grove, Iowa in Dubuque County
 Center Grove, Missouri, a ghost town
 Center Grove, Texas in Houston County

See also
 Center Grove Township, Dickinson County, Iowa
 Center Grove High School in Greenwood, Indiana


title: PNP Lady Patrollers

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The Philippine National Police Lady Patrollers is the name of the official women's volleyball team of the Philippine National Police that competes in the Shakey's V-League. The team is composed of policewomen and civilian guest players.

As part of its sports development and police-community relations advocacy, the PNP established a women's volleyball team that competed in the 2013 (10th) Shakey’s V-League Open Conference Tournament held in San Juan Sports Arena, San Juan City last August 18 to October 22, 2013. The first PNP Women Volleyball team was formed through the Center for Police Strategy Management (CPSM). They were called the “PNP Lady P.A.T.R.O.L.ers” in relation to the call agenda of the PNP for transformation. The PNP joined the league to use broadcast media as a venue to promote the PNP P.A.T.R.O.L. Plan 2030 or the "Peace and Order Agenda for Transformation and upholding of the Rule-Of-Law" as its call agenda for countering unfavorable issues that is currently depicting the PNP. Police Chief Inspector (PCINSP) Ma. Angela M. Salaya of Information Technology Management Service, who was detailed as IT Officer of The CPSM is the Project Manager that formed the team. Then Police Senior Superintendent Manuel C. Gaerlan was tapped as the Team Manager and Bob Malenab was tasked to become the Team Coach. The 10th Open Conference was composed of different teams from Philippine Navy, Philippine Air Force, Philippine Army, Meralco, Smart- Maynilad, Cagayan Valley and Far Eastern University.  The team once again joined the league in 2014 (11th) Shakey's V-League Open Conference.

In 2017, the PNP Lady P.A.T.R.O.L.ers Beach Volleyball Team composed of PO1 Karen Kay Quilario and PO1 Lourdilyn Catubag won the Gold Medal in the 2017 World Police and Fire Games last August 8-21, 2017 at Los Angeles California, USA besting formidable players of Russia, Germany, Canada and Brazil. The PNP Beach Volleyball Team was composed of PCSUPT Manuel R. Gaerlan (Team Manager) and PCINSP Ma. Angela M. Salaya (Project Manager) together with Team 2 PO1 Cassandra Ledda and PO1 Jessan Tano and Coaches SPO2 Dang Quiao and SPO2 Marilyn Mateo and Team Mentor PBGEN Noel A. Baraceros, Director, Center for Police Strategy Management.

The team composed of players from Police Regional 11 also joined the 2019 World Police and Fire Games at Chengdu, China last August 5 -18, 2019 and placed 4th over-all behind teams from Brazil, China and Hong Kong.

Honors

Team

2013 Roster for the Shakey's V-League 10th Season Open Conference
PNP PERSONNEL
1.	SPO3 Jennifer S. Mia
2.	SPO1 Ma. Ahleli D. Asuncion
3.	PO1 Aidie L. Castro
4.	PO1 Ma. Veronica Concepcion
5.	NUP Maribeth Briones
6.	NUP Jane D. Enguancho

PNP Guest Players
7.	Michelle Datuin
8.	Ghileen Labrador
9.	Kristine Ann A. Dave
10.	Frances Xinia D. Molina
11.	Janine Nicole L. Marciano
12.	Melissa Kamille Ogana
13.	Robey L. Remigio
14.	Justyne Mae Tadeo

Coaching Staff
1.  PSSupt Manuel R. Gaerlan (Team Manager/Head Coach)
2.  PCInsp Ma Angela M. Salaya (Project Manager)
3.  Bob Malenab (Coach)
4. PSI Ramonita B. Pajanostan (Asst Coach)
5.  SPO1 Mechelle G. Guillermo Asst Coach)

 for the Shakey's V-League 11th Season Open Conference

Coaching staff
 Head Coach: Argie Dave
 Assistant Coach(es): Ramonita Pajanostan

Team Staff
 Team Manager: Ysmael Yu
 Team Utility:

Medical Staff
 Team Physician:
 Physical Therapist:

2017 WORLD POLICE AND FIRE GAMES (LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA)
1. PBGen Manuel R Gaerlan - Team Manager
2. PCInsp Ma. Angela M. Salaya - Project Manager
3. PO1 Karen Kay Quilario
4. PO1 Lourdilyn J. Catubag
5. PO1 Cassandra E. Ledda
6. PO1 Jessan I. Tano
7. SPO2 Rosenda C. Quiao
8. SPO2 Marilyn V. Mateo

2019 WORLD POLICE AND FIRE GAMES PLAYERS (CHENGDU, CHINA)
1. PltCol Ma. Angela M. Salaya - Project Manager
2. PMSG Norine G Lapating
3. PCPL Karen Kay Quilario
4. PCPL Jessan E Tano
5. PCPL Jennifer D Conde
6. PAT Helen T Antiquando
7. PAT Charlotte Louise B Diaz
8. PAT Laura Jay C Dimapilis
9. PAT Floricel A Magsigay
10. PAT Princess Joy A Oliveros
11. PAT Johanna Marie C Pacunla
12. PAT Lisl Camille C Vegafria

References

External links
 www.v-league.ph - Official website

P
2013 establishments in the Philippines
Volleyball clubs established in 2013
Women's volleyball teams in the Philippines


title: David Borrelli (politician)

text:
David Borrelli (born 28 April 1971) is an Italian politician and member of the European Parliament.

Biography
In 2005 Borrelli started the Meetup group "Grilli Treviso", which later merged into the M5S.

Borrelli was elected to Treviso city council in 2008 and served to 2013, the first M5S city councillor in a provincial capital.
Working as a computer specialist, he co-founded an IT company in 2011.

In 2010 Borrelli ran for regional elections in Veneto, gathering 80.000 votes (3.16%) but was not elected.

In March 2014 Borrelli received 501 preferences at that online selections for M5S candidate MEPs. He was then elected to the European Parliament in the 2014 European election from North-East Italy with 26,090 preference votes.

He is a member of the European Parliament committees for International Trade (INTA) and for Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE), as well as of the European Parliament's Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries, with South Africa, and of the Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean.

He is a member of Rousseau Association which is responsible for the management of the core operating system of the Movement and he is responsible for LEX Europe, a piece of software for Rousseau OS that allows M5S supporters to propose amendments to the European legislation.

On 13 February 2018, Borrelli left the M5S and joined the Non-Inscrits group in the European Parliament.

References

External links

1971 births
Living people
People from Treviso
Politicians of Veneto
21st-century Italian politicians
MEPs for Italy 2014–2019
Five Star Movement MEPs


title: Tetiana Protcheva

text:
Tetiana Protcheva is recognized as a Ukrainian master of embroidery.  She has exhibited her masterpieces in the United States, Expo 2020 Dubai, EXPO 2005 Japan, EXPO 2010 Shanghai,  Australia, Scotland, Israel, Japan, France, Brazil, Sweden and many other countries. In the summer of 2010, Tetiana represented Ukraine at EXPO 2010 in China.

Life and Work
Protcheva was interested in embroidery since childhood. Her favorite colors and themes tell the ancient history of Ukraine; she uses black and red – the colors of the central region of Ukraine – with traditional simple designs, and regular geometrical shapes.

Protcheva designs clothes. She took sewing classes at school and then later in life started designing and sewing men's neckties. Her son proudly wore one of her neckties to school and came home with a smile on his face as he told his mother, "You have an order for more neckties." Now Protcheva decorates sweaters, jackets, blouses, and shirts with Ukrainian ornaments.

Protcheva invented the 3D embroidery style, which entered the Book of Records of Ukraine and created a new direction entitled "Glowing Art." Working under the Glow Gallery international project, she has come up with a unique collection of embroidered portraits of prominent personalities, such as Steve Jobs, Andy Warhol, Leonardo da Vinci, and Jesus Christ that glow in the dark, as if coming back to life, and produce an unforgettable emotional and cultural effect.

In order to spread information about embroidery as the grand unifying symbol of Ukraine and present a positive image of the country, Pretcheva decided to create an embroidered map of Ukraine. Every oblast of Ukraine is embroidered on the map by artists of that oblast. According to the design, the symbols of the map reflect their respective ethnic regions. The project involved craftspeople to study, renovate, revive, preserve and demonstrate ancient multi-century heritage of spiritual culture, and to implement it harmoniously into the modern culture.

See also

 Фіалко Д. Побачити світ крізь вушко голки [Текст] / Д. Фіалко // Україна молода. — 2011. — No. 135.

References

External links
«Рукотвори»
«Музей вишивки»
«Facebook profile»

Ukrainian embroiderers
Living people
1962 births
20th-century Ukrainian women artists
21st-century Ukrainian women artists
Artists from Kyiv


title: List of Brazilian films of 1944

text:
A list of films produced in Brazil in 1944:

See also
 1944 in Brazil

References

External links
Brazilian films of 1944 at the Internet Movie Database

Brazil
1944
Films


title: Dadamaino

text:
Eduarda Emilia Maino (2 October 1930 – 13 April 2004), known as Dadamaino, was an Italian visual artist and painter. She was a member of the Milanese avant-garde of the 1960s.

Biography
Eduarda Emilia Maino, nicknamed "Dada" for Eduarda, was born in Milan, Italy. Dadamaino first completed a medical degree before taking up art at the end of the 1950s. She frequented a group of young artists who followed Lucio Fontana and the spatialism movement. Members of the group included: Piero Manzoni, Gianni Colombo, Enrico Castellani and Agostino Bonalumi.

In 1958, Dadamaino produced a series of works called Volumi, which were exhibited in her first solo show at the Galleria dei Bossi in Milan the same year.

Shortly after, Dadamaino joined Azimuth, a group funded by Piero Manzoni, and the Germany-based Group Zero formed by Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Günther Uecker.

The following years brought important experiments, among them the occupation with color grading and interferences between 1966 and 1968. Dadamaino intensively examined the effects of spectral colors to which she added black, white and brown in order to interrelate them. In 1967, at the peak of this development, she made her well known "ricerca del colore", an "exploration of the color". In squared plates Dadamaino analyzes the reciprocal effect of color and form, by grading each color in light and dark shades and contrasting it in lamellar stripes, she creates motion in the observer's eye. These were works of special aesthetic and  one of her most important period of creation.

Dadamaino counted Lucio Fontana and Yves Klein as major influences.

Exhibitions
Dadamaino had two solo shows at the Venice Biennale in 1980 and in 1990.

 1962 : Nul group exhibition, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
 1983 : Retrospective, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
 2000 : Retrospective, Bochum museum, Bochum, Germany
 2011 : "Volumes 1958-60", The Major Gallery, London, United Kingdom
 2013 : Dadamaino, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
 2013 : Dadamaino, Tornabuoni art, Paris, France

Collections
Dadamaino’s works can be seen in collections such as:

GAM, Turin
MART, Rovereto
 Museo del Novecento, Milan
 Museion, Bolzano
 Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble
 Centre Pompidou, Paris
 Hilti Art Foundation, Liechtenstein
 Tate Modern, London
 Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
 Guggenheim, Venice
 Kunstmuseum Reutlingen / konkret, Reutlingen

References

1930 births
2004 deaths
20th-century Italian women artists
20th-century Italian painters
Italian contemporary artists
Italian women painters
Artists from Milan


title: Dwight Powell

text:
Dwight Harlan Powell (born July 20, 1991) is a Canadian professional basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Stanford Cardinal and is a member of the Canadian national team.

High school career
Powell was born in Toronto, Ontario to a white Canadian father and Jamaican mother. He attended Earl Haig Secondary School in Toronto, Ontario for grade 9. He then moved to the U.S and attended IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida. As a senior, he averaged 23.2 points, 11.6 rebounds, 4.4 assists and 2.3 blocks per game.

Considered a five-star recruit by Rivals.com, Powell was listed as the No. 8 power forward and the No. 25 player in the nation in 2010.

College career
As a freshman at Stanford University in 2010–11, Powell earned Pac-10 All-Freshman Team honours. He started in 26 of 31 games, averaging 8.1 points and 5.2 rebounds per game.

As a sophomore in 2011–12, the Cardinal won the NIT championship, and Powell earned Pac-12 All-Academic Honorable Mention selection. He started in 11 of 35 games, logging an average of 5.8 points and 4.6 rebounds per game.

As a junior in 2012–13, Powell earned second-team NABC All-District, first-team All-Pac-12, and Pac-12 All-Academic second-team honours. He was also named the Pac-12 Most Improved Player of the Year. Powell started in all 34 games, averaging 14.9 points to go with 8.4 rebounds per game.

As a senior in 2013–14, Powell earned first-team All-Pac-12 honours for the second straight year and was named to the NCAA All-South Regional Team. He was also named the Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year and a Pac-12 All-Academic Honorable Mention selection. Powell started in all 36 games, putting up an average of 14.0 points and 6.9 rebounds per game.

Professional career

Boston Celtics (2014)
On June 26, 2014, Powell was selected with the 45th overall pick in the 2014 NBA draft by the Charlotte Hornets. On July 12, Powell's rights were traded, along with Brendan Haywood, to the Cleveland Cavaliers in exchange for Scotty Hopson and cash considerations. He then joined the Cavaliers for the NBA Summer League and signed with them on August 23. On September 25, he was traded, along with John Lucas III, Erik Murphy, Malcolm Thomas and the Cavaliers' 2016 and 2017 second-round picks, to the Boston Celtics in exchange for Keith Bogans and two future second-round picks. During his time with the Celtics, he was assigned multiple times to the Maine Red Claws of the NBA Development League.

Dallas Mavericks (2014–present)
On December 18, 2014, Powell was traded, along with Rajon Rondo, to the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for Jae Crowder, Jameer Nelson, Brandan Wright, a 2015 first-round pick and a 2016 second-round pick. On January 14, 2015, he scored a season-high 11 points on 5-for-7 shooting in a loss to the Denver Nuggets. He was assigned multiple times to the Texas Legends during his rookie season.

In July 2015, Powell joined the Mavericks for the 2015 NBA Summer League. On November 3, 2015, he recorded his first career double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds in a loss to the Toronto Raptors. Four days later, he recorded a then career-high 15 points and 7 rebounds in a 107–98 win over the New Orleans Pelicans. He tied his career high of 15 points on January 17, 2016, in a loss to the San Antonio Spurs. On March 28, 2016, Powell made his first NBA start and scored a career-high 16 points in a 97–88 win over the Denver Nuggets.

On July 8, 2016, Powell re-signed with the Mavericks. On December 3, 2016, he set a new career high with 17 points in a 107–82 win over the Chicago Bulls. On April 9, 2017, he scored 21 points against the Phoenix Suns.

On January 3, 2018, Powell tied his career high with 21 points in a 125–122 loss to the Golden State Warriors. On February 28, 2018, he again tied his career high with 21 points in a 111–110 overtime loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder.

On March 6, 2019, Powell set a career high with 26 points in a 132–123 loss to the Washington Wizards. On April 3, 2019, he scored 25 points in a 110–108 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves.

After exercising his option for the 2019–20 season, he signed a contract extension with the Mavericks on July 6, 2019.

On December 4, 2019, Powell set a season-high 24 points while recording five rebounds, four assists, one steal and two blocks in a 121–114 win against the Minnesota Timberwolves. He had a perfect shooting night, going 9 of 9 from the field and 2 of 2 from the three-point line. Once the fourth quarter started, Powell experienced a left arm injury and got ruled out of the game.

On January 21, 2020, in a game against the Los Angeles Clippers, Powell suffered a season-ending Achilles tendon injury while attempting to drive to the basket.

Powell was one of only 4 other players in the NBA to play all 82 games in a season in the 2021–22 NBA season, as well as breaking the Mavericks franchise record for most consecutive field goals made with 18 in a stretch of 4 games.

On July 9, 2023, Powell re-signed with the Mavericks.

National team career
On May 24, 2022, Powell agreed to a three-year commitment to play with the Canadian senior men's national team.

NBA career statistics

Regular season

|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Boston
| 5 || 0 || 1.8 || .800 || .000 || .500 || .2 || .0 || .4 || .0 || 1.8
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2014–15
| style="text-align:left;"| Dallas
| 24 || 0 || 9.5 || .435 || .273 || .774 || 2.0 || .4 || .3 || .3 || 3.4
|-
| align="left" |
| align="left" | Dallas
| 69 || 2 || 14.4 || .493 || .125 || .739 || 4.0 || .6 || .5 || .3 || 5.8
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Dallas
| 77 || 3 || 17.3 || .515 || .284 || .759 || 4.0 || .6 || .8 || .5 || 6.7
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Dallas
| 79 || 25 || 21.2 || .593 || .333|| .719 || 5.6 || 1.2 || .8 || .4 || 8.5
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Dallas
| 77 || 22 || 21.6 || .597 || .307 || .770 || 5.3 || 1.5 || .6 || .6 || 10.6
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Dallas
| 40 || 37 || 26.5 || .638 || .256 || .667 || 5.7 || 1.5 || .9 || .6 || 9.4
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Dallas
| 58 || 19 || 16.7 || .619 || .238 || .782|| 4.0 || 1.1 || .6 || .5 || 5.9
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|Dallas
| style="background:#cfecec;"| 82* || 71 || 21.9 || .671 || .351 || .783 || 4.9 || 1.2 || .5 || .5 || 8.7
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|Dallas
| 76 || 64 || 19.2 || .732 || .000 || .667 || 4.1 || .9 || .6 || .3 || 6.7
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 587 || 242 || 19.0 || .599 || .292 || .741 || 4.5 || 1.0 || .6 || .5 || 7.6

Playoffs

|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Dallas
| 2 || 0 || 1.5 || .000 ||  ||  || .5 || .5 || .0 || .0 || .0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Dallas
| 4 || 0 || 16.0 || .474 || .000 || .545 || 4.3 || 1.0 || .3 || .0 || 6.0|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Dallas
| 7 || 0 || 7.4 || .875 ||  || .833 || 1.9 || .9 || .3 || .0 || 2.7
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Dallas
| 18 || 18 || 13.8 || .629 || .000 || .609 || 2.6 || .2 || .2 || .3''' || 3.2
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 31 || 18 || 11.9 || .603 || .000 || .625 || 2.5 || .5 || .2 || .2 || 3.3

References

External links

Stanford Cardinal bio

1991 births
Living people
Black Canadian basketball players
Boston Celtics players
Canadian expatriate basketball people in the United States
Canadian men's basketball players
Canadian people of Jamaican descent
Centers (basketball)
Charlotte Hornets draft picks
Dallas Mavericks players
IMG Academy alumni
Maine Red Claws players
National Basketball Association players from Canada
Power forwards (basketball)
Basketball players from Toronto
Stanford Cardinal men's basketball players
Texas Legends players
2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup players
Earl Haig Secondary School alumni


The White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (WHIAANHPI) is a United States governmental office that coordinates an ambitious whole-of-government approach to advance equity, justice, and opportunity for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AA and NHPIs). The Initiative collaborates with the Deputy Assistant to the President and AA and NHPI Senior Liaison, White House Office of Public Engagement and designated federal departments and agencies to advance equity, justice, and opportunity for AA and NHPIs in the areas of economic development, education, health and human services, housing, environment, arts, agriculture, labor and employment, transportation, justice, veterans affairs, and community development.

The Initiative seeks to highlight the tremendous unmet needs in AA and NHPI communities and the dynamic community assets that can be leveraged to meet many of those needs. The Initiative focuses on cross-cutting priority areas that span all issue areas and agencies, including advancing disaggregated AA and NHPI data collection and dissemination, workforce diversity, ensuring access (especially linguistic access and cultural competence) for limited English proficient individuals, and building capacity for the AA and NHPI community. The Initiative also works to encourage AA and NHPI involvement in public service and civic engagement opportunities.

Background and context
The Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA and NHPI) community is the fastest-growing racial group in the country. The AAPI community grew 46 percent from 2000 to 2010 and will more than double to over 47 million by 2060. There are approximately 22 million AAPIs and Native Hawaiians residing in the United States (approximately 6% of the U.S. population), representing over 40 countries and ethnic groups that speak over 100 different languages and dialects. In 2018, AAPIs wielded $1 trillion in purchasing power, fueled by an economic boom for the fast-growing segment of the US population.

Organization
When President Biden signed Executive Order 14031 on May 28, 2021, the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders and the White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders were established at the Department of Health and Human Services. Each entity of the Initiative works to "advance equity, justice, and opportunity for AA and NHPI communities in the United States."

Biden Administration
On May 28, 2021, President Biden signed Executive Order 14031 reestablishing the Initiative at the Department of Health and Human Services and renaming it the White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (WHIAANHPI). On December 9, 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Katherine Tai would become a Co-Chair of the Initiative alongside Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra.

Executive director and commission
On May 28, 2021, Biden appointed Krystal Ka'ai to be Executive Director of the Initiative. Ka'ai previously served as Executive Director of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus and is the first Native Hawaiian to lead the Initiative.

On December 20, 2021, Biden announced his intent to nominate 25 individuals to the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders including Amy Agbayani, Teresita Batayola, Ajay Bhutoria, Luisa Blue, Kimberly Chang, Emily Chen, Kerry Doi, Grace Huang, Victoria Huynh, Mia Ives-Rublee, Kamal Kalsi, Michelle Kauhane, Daniel Dae Kim, Kevin Kim, Sarah Min, Simon Pang, Ai-jen Poo, Naheed Qureshi, Raynald Samoa, Sonal Shah, Smita Shah, Robert Underwood, and KaYing Yang.

Priorities
According to Executive Order 14031, the Initiative is tasked with advancing "equity, justice, and opportunity for AA and NHPI communities by coordinating Federal interagency policymaking and program development efforts to eliminate barriers to equity, justice, and opportunity faced by AA and NHPI communities, including by advancing policies, programs, and initiatives." This includes:

 identify and eliminate any existing institutional policies or barriers within Federal programs and services that may disadvantage or burden AA and NHPI communities;
 improve safety, access to justice, and violence prevention for AA and NHPI communities, including by preventing, reporting, addressing, and better tracking acts of hate and bias (such as acts of hate and bias at the intersection of gender-based violence);
 promote inclusion and belonging for AA and NHPI communities, including by expanding public education and knowledge of AA and NHPI people and their diverse cultures, languages, and histories;
 expand the collection and use of disaggregated data at the Federal, State and local level on AA and NHPI communities, and facilitate improved research on policy and program outcomes for AA and NHPI communities, in coordination with the Interagency Working Group on Equitable Data established by Executive Order 13985;
 end language access and other barriers faced by AA and NHPI communities in accessing government benefits and services;
 improve health outcomes, eliminate health disparities, and expand access to quality, affordable, and culturally competent medical and mental healthcare services for AA and NHPI individuals and communities;
 end disparities in educational outcomes for AA and NHPI youth and students of all ages, and address barriers to learning, including bullying, harassment, and other forms of discrimination at school;
 address the concentration of poverty facing many AA and NHPI communities, including by identifying and addressing disparities in access to safe, affordable housing and homeownership;
 expand economic opportunity for AA and NHPI families, including by advancing opportunities for AA and NHPI entrepreneurs and small businesses, supporting access to jobs and workforce training for AA and NHPI communities, promoting AA and NHPI participation and success in the private sector, ensuring workplaces are free from race and national origin harassment and other forms of employment discrimination, and ensuring AA and NHPI communities can access consumer and finance protections;
 increase opportunities for civic engagement, such as electoral participation, within AA and NHPI communities;
 improve the equitable allocation of Federal resources, including through Federal funds, contracts, grants, and awards, to AA and NHPI communities and AA and NHPI-serving organizations;
 support AA and NHPI communities in responding to and recovering from national or regional crises and public health emergencies, including the COVID-19 pandemic and related economic crisis;
 secure climate and environmental justice for AA and NHPI communities who are particularly impacted by the climate crisis and are overburdened by environmental degradation; and
 identify ways to foster the recruitment, career and leadership development, retention, advancement, and participation of AA and NHPI public servants at all levels of the Federal workforce.

Efforts by Biden's Initiative
Under Biden, the White House Initiative on Asian Americans Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (WHIAANHPI) has participated in various efforts across government agencies and nonprofits to promote equity and alleviate issues stemming from COVID-19. Through the use of public outreach and funding, these efforts have been robust in tackling a variety of issues faced  by the AANHPI community. These are a few examples of those efforts: [7]

 In October 2021, the Justice Department announced that its Office of Justice Programs (OJP) would award more than $21 million to state and local partners to investigate and prosecute hate crimes and assist hate crime victims.
 The "Slow the Spread" campaign and the "Building Vaccine Confidence" campaign, which includes public information about vaccines in 14 AA and NHPI languages.
 In July 2022, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) made available over $19 million in American Rescue Plan (ARP) funding for the Fair Housing Initiatives Program to address discriminatory housing practices related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
 The American Rescue Plan provided more than $36 billion in support to institutions of higher education, including institutions that primarily serve AA and NHPI students, to ensure learning continues during the COVID-19 pandemic.
 The Department of Interior's Office of Insular Affairs provided $55 million in CARES Act grants to support Pacific Islander communities in United States territories and Insular Area Pacific Islander populations in the contiguous United States prepare for, prevent, and protect against COVID-19.
 HHS's Health Resources and Services Administration awarded $20 million to six Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act award recipients in August 2021 to strengthen vaccination efforts, respond to and mitigate the spread of COVID-19, and enhance health care services and infrastructure in their communities

Through the Indigenous Communities program, the Department of Commerce's Economic Development Agency (EDA) is allocating $100 million in American Rescue Plan funding specifically for Indigenous communities, including Pacific Islanders, which were disproportionately impacted by the pandemic

COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act
On May 20, 2021, President Biden signed into law the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, which allowed the U.S. Justice Department to review hate crimes related to COVID-19 and establish an online database. The Act makes hate-crime reporting more accessible at the state and local levels by increasing language accessibility to reporting resources and authorizes grants to state and local governments for crime-reduction programs to prevent and respond to hate crimes. The Act was signed into law in the context of a 189% surge in anti-Asian hate crimes from 2020 to 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders

The President's 25-member Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders is co-chaired by the Health and Human Services Secretary and a second head of an executive department or agency designated by the President. As of 2022, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Katherine Tai co-chair the Advisory Commission.

The 25 member commission consists of leaders appointed by the President who reflect the rich diversity of AA and NHPI communities throughout the United States. The members work across a variety of sectors reflecting the need for increased equity for the AA and NHPI community in the United States. The members of the commission are: Xavier Becerra, Katherine Tai, Sonal Shah, Amy Agbayani, Teresita Batayola, Ajay Bhutoria, Luisa Blue, Kimberly Chang, Emily Chen, Kerry Doi, Grace Huang, Victoria Huynh, Mia Ives-Rublee, Kamal Kalsi, Michelle Ka'uhane, Daniel Dae Kim, Kevin D. Kim, Sarah Kim, Simon Pang, Ai-jen Poo, Naheed Qureshi, Raynald Samoa, Smita N. Shah, Robert A. Underwood, and KaYing Yang.

The Commission provides advice to the President on:

 the development, monitoring, and coordination of executive branch efforts to advance equity, justice, and opportunity for AA and NHPI communities in the United States, including efforts to close gaps in health, socioeconomic, employment, and educational outcomes;
 policies to address and end anti-Asian bias, xenophobia, racism, and nativism, and opportunities for the executive branch to advance inclusion, belonging, and public awareness of the diversity and accomplishments of AA and NHPI people, cultures, and histories;
 policies, programs, and initiatives to prevent, report, respond to, and track anti-Asian hate crimes and hate incidents;
 ways in which the Federal Government can build on the capacity and contributions of AA and NHPI communities through equitable Federal funding, grantmaking, and employment opportunities;
 policies and practices to improve research and equitable data disaggregation regarding AA and NHPI communities;
 policies and practices to improve language access services to ensure AA and NHPI communities can access Federal programs and services; and
 strategies to increase public- and private-sector collaboration, and community involvement in improving the safety and socioeconomic, health, educational, occupational, and environmental well‑being of AA and NHPI communities.

White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders
Co-chaired by the Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and the U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Katherine Tai, the White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders contains both an Interagency Working Group and Regional Network.

Interagency Working Group

President Biden's Executive Order (EO) 14031 establishes a federal Interagency Working Group (IWG) as part of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (WHIAANHPI). The IWG is composed of senior-level Executive Branch officials who have been designated by their respective agencies to coordinate WHIAANHPI's work across the federal government. The IWG works to advance equity, justice, and opportunity for AA and NHPI communities by coordinating federal interagency policymaking, program development, and outreach efforts to address barriers impacting AA and NHPI communities. Examples of these objectives include: identifying federal programs in which AAPIs may be underserved; fostering research and data collection on AAPI populations and subpopulations; increasing public and private sector community involvement in improving the health, environment, and opportunities for AAPIs; and identifying ways to recruit and advance AAPIs in federal service.

Regional Network

The White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (WHIAANHPI) is charged with coordinating and supporting an existing Regional Network (RN) of federal officials who facilitate improved communication, engagement, and coordination between the federal government and Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA and NHPI) communities throughout the United States.

The Regional Network (RN) institutionalizes the work of the Interagency Working Group (IWG) on a more local level across 10 federal regions. The RN facilitates the exchange of information across regional offices, coordinates community engagement efforts with other federal agencies, and collaborates with Initiative staff and IWG members in D.C. to potentially incorporate specific community recommendations into agency plans. Through regional roundtables, technical assistance programs, regular planning calls, resource-sharing, in-person convenings, and webinars, the RN works on the ground to respond to community needs.
The Regional Network includes over 400 federal agency officials based in 10 federal regions. They seek to build relationships between the federal government and AA and NHPI communities by coordinating outreach efforts and connecting community stakeholders with federal resources across regional offices.

Each Regional Network branch includes several states and or U.S. territories:

 Region 1, New England  Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont
 Region 2, New York/New Jersey: New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands
 Region 3, Mid-Atlantic: Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia
 Region 4, Southeast: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee
 Region 5, Great Lakes: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin
 Region 6, South Central: Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas
 Region 7, Midwest: Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska
 Region 8, Rocky Mountain: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming
 Region 9, Northern California
 Region 9, Southwest: Arizona, Southern California, and Nevada
 Region 9, Hawaii and the Pacific: Hawai'i, American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Marshall Islands, and Republic of Palau
 Region 10, Pacific Northwest: Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington

History

Clinton Administration
On June 7, 1999, President Bill Clinton signed Executive Order 13125 to establish the first White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders "in order to improve the quality of life of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders through increased participation in federal programs where they may be underserved (e.g., health, human services, education, housing, labor, transportation, and economic and community development)." The Executive Order called on all federal departments to mobilize their resources to address the unmet needs of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

Prior to the signing of Executive Order 13125, the last United States Presidential Executive Order related to AAPIs was Executive Order 9066, which led to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Under the Clinton Administration, the Executive Order housed the Initiative under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in the Health Resources and Services Administration.

Executive director and commission
The first Initiative Executive Director Shamina Singh was appointed by Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala. Prior to her work at the Initiative, Singh served as special assistant to the Secretary at the U.S. Department of Labor and worked on specialized health care issues for the Service Employees International Union.

The first President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders was chaired by former Congressman Norman Mineta. The 15-member President's Advisory Commission was seated through June 7, 2001.

Priorities
The Interagency Working Group under the Clinton Administration was chaired by then Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Kevin Thurm. The IWG was composed of leaders from 32 federal agencies and departments. As part of the Executive Order, each federal agency and department was required to draft an integrated agency plan including measurable objectives and implementation goals to better serve the AAPI community.

The first commission report highlighted four key themes:
 AAPIs have been "MIH" – "Missing In History" – as taught in classrooms, as reflected in the media and the arts and as understood by government policymakers and program planners. In much of the data used by the federal government, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are invisible, relegated to a residual category of "Other."
 Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NHPIs) often remain a footnote or asterisk as part of the broad "Asian American and Pacific Islander" category, ignoring their importance and dignity as diverse, indigenous peoples. Barely ever noted is the manner in which the United States acquired Hawaii, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa.
Asian Americans are stereotyped as a "model minority": passive, compliant, overachieving and without problems or needs.
Asian Americans continue to be viewed as perpetual foreigners, forever "aliens" whose loyalty and place in America is always questioned.

The report left several recommendations, including that federal agencies improve data collection measures, ensure linguistic access in AAPI languages, protect civil rights and equal opportunity for AAPIs, strengthen community capacity, and recognize NHPIs in federal programs and services.

Bush Administration

On June 6, 2001, President George W. Bush signed Executive Order 13216, renewing the Initiative and changing the Order's title from: "Increasing Participation of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Federal Programs" to "Increasing Opportunity and Improving Quality of Life of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders." At this time, Deputy Secretary Claude A. Allen of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was named Chair of the Interagency Working Group.

On May 17, 2004, President Bush signed Executive Order 13339, superseding Executive Order 13125 and moving the Initiative from the Department of Health and Human Services to the U.S. Department of Commerce.

President Bush signed Executive Order 13403 on May 12, 2006, once again reauthorizing the Initiative.

Executive director and commission
In 2001, John Quoc Duong was named executive director of the initiative. Prior to assuming his appointment, Duong served as vice president of Bridgecreek Group, Inc. and was deputy director of the Office of Community Relations for California Governor Pete Wilson. Under Duong's leadership, there were 4 staff members and 15 members on the commission.

In 2004, Eddy Badrina was appointed as executive director of the Initiative. Prior to joining the initiative, Badrina was an appointee to the White House Liaison Office at the U.S. Department of State, working on the Bush Administration's transition efforts.

In 2006, Jimmy D. Lee began his term as executive director for the initiative. Before joining the initiative as executive director, Lee was a commissioner on the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and served as executive director of the Chicago Chinatown Chamber of Commerce and a former special assistant to the governor in the State of Illinois. He left the position to run for Congress in the State of Illinois.

The executive order included new criteria for selecting Commissioners to serve on the President's Advisory Commission for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, including requirements that candidates "have a history of involvement with the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities; are from the business enterprise sector; are from civic associations representing one or more of the diverse Asian American and Pacific Islander communities; are from the fields of economic, social, and community development; or have such other experience as the President deems appropriate."

Priorities
Under the Bush Administration economic development became the priority of the Initiative. Executive Order 13339 stated its purpose as "providing equal economic opportunities for full participation of Asian American and Pacific Islander businesses in our free market economy where they may be underserved and thus improving the quality of life for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders."

The President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islander and the Federal Interagency Working Group worked primarily on the following goals during this time:
 Developed, monitored and coordinated federal efforts to improve Asian American and Pacific Islander participation in government programs;
 Fostered research and data collection for Asian American and Pacific Islander businesses and communities; and
 Increased their level of participation in the national economy and their economic and community development.

Obama Administration
On October 14, 2009, President Obama signed Executive Order 13515, reestablishing the Initiative and superseding Executive Orders 13125 and 13339. The Executive Order moved the Initiative from the Department of Commerce to the Department of Education. President Obama appointed then Secretary of Education Arne Duncan along with then Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke as heads of the Interagency Working Group.

Amendments to the Executive Order include Executive Order 13585, Executive Order 13652, and Executive Order 13652 which all ensure the continuance of the Federal Advisory Committees.

Executive director and commission

Kiran Ahuja was appointed on December 14, 2009, to the position of Executive Director of the Initiative. Prior to her work at the Initiative, Ahuja served as founding Executive Director of the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum (NAPAWF) and worked at the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division.

In 2015, Doua Thor became the Executive Director of the Initiative, following the departure of Ahuja. Prior to taking on the position, Thor had worked with the Initiative as a senior advisor and member of the President's Advisory Commission. A refugee herself, Thor is the former Executive Director of the Southeast Asian Resource Action Center (SEARAC).

The commission included 20 members and was chaired by Dr. Tung Thanh Nguyen with Dr. Mary Ann Young Okada as Vice Chair. Other Commissioners include: Dr. Nina Ahmad; Michael Byun; Lt. Col. Ravi Chaudhary; Lian Cheun; Billy Dec; Jacob James Fitisemanu, Jr.; Bill Imada, Kathy Ko Chin, Daphne Kwok, Dee Jay Mailer, Diane Narasaki, Shekar Narasimhan, Maulik Pancholy, Linda X. Phan, Sanjita Pradhan, Lorna May Ho Randlett, Bo Thao-Urabe, and Dr. Paul Y. Watanabe.

Past Administration co-chairs of the Initiative are Chris Lu, who served with Secretary Arne Duncan during his tenure as Cabinet Secretary and Assistant to President Obama, and Gary Locke during his term as Secretary of Commerce.

Priorities

Under the Obama Administration, the Initiative has worked to expand the outreach capacity of the Commission and IWG. The IWG created and implemented agency plans to increase the AAPI community's access to federal programs and services, housing four subcommittees that coincide with the initiative's four cross-cutting goal areas of research and data disaggregation, language access, workforce diversity, and capacity building. These subcommittees respond to the community, share best practices, and recommend strategic goals that can be incorporated into agency plans

The Initiative also formed a regional IWG, called the Regional Network, of more than 250 regional administrators, district directors, and regional staff to help facilitate information sharing and coordinate community engagement with the AAPI community across the federal regional agencies. The Regional Network meets quarterly to share information and discuss ways in which regional offices can work together, convenes regional roundtables with local AAPI communities, builds partnerships between the federal regional offices, the commission, and the local and state commissions, and submits an annual progress report on its engagement efforts.

The Initiative has also worked more extensively on data disaggregation, hosting a national symposium in partnership with National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education to relay best practices for data collection, analysis, and dissemination.

In addition, the Initiative has advised federal agencies on disaster response efforts after the Gulf Coast Oil Spill, released an AAPI women's record, developed educational tools and resources on the Affordable Care Act, and helped launch the Senior Executive Service (SES) Development Program. The initiative has also seen the creation of a Nail Salon Interagency Working Group, created a federal resources page with grants and training information, and worked with the Federal Asian Pacific American Council (FAPAC) on challenge issues for the community.

Other key accomplishments and priorities of the Initiative under the Obama Administration include:
 Organizing the first-ever White House Summit on AAPIs. Nearly 2,000 community members and federal officials from over 40 states and the Pacific Islands came together to share their experiences and gain tools to mobilize their communities to further expand opportunities for AAPIs through federal resources and programs. Six Cabinet Secretaries and multiple federal agency leaders joined the Summit and highlighted their work benefiting the AAPI community.
 Advancing data collection, analysis, and dissemination on AAPI communities. The Initiative launched Data.gov/AAPI, the most comprehensive hub of government data on AAPIs. The Initiative also convened data experts during two iCount Symposiums and released a best practices report to promote innovative approaches and methodologies to further disaggregate race and ethnicity data within federal agencies.
 Supporting Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities. The Initiative led the Administration's first-ever regional summit in Guam to discuss specific needs of the community for grant programs, capacity building, and technical assistance. The Commission held its first-ever listening session in Hawaii to discuss Native Hawaiian needs and opportunities. In addition, the Initiative supported the Department of Interior in its engagements to create an administrative procedure for re-establishing a government-to-government relationship.
 Promoting Public-Private Partnerships. During the first-ever National Philanthropic Briefing on AAPIs in 2012, the Ford Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and Kresge Foundation made a commitment of $1 million, the first-of-its-kind coordinated public and philanthropic investment in the AAPI community.
 Engaging a new generation of young leaders in understanding the federal resources dedicated to college affordability, bullying prevention, mental health, pathways to public service, naturalization, and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy through the E3! Ambassadors Program and annual White House AAPI Youth Forums.
 Expanding healthcare access for AAPI communities. Nearly 2 million previously uninsured AAPIs became eligible for coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and the Initiative worked to get AAPIs covered under the ACA through collaboration with the Department of Health and Human Services, community health centers, and ethnic media.
 Welcoming and creating opportunity for immigrants and new Americans through the Stand Stronger Citizenship Awareness Campaign, in-language outreach around the DACA program, and roundtables with the Task Force on New Americans.
 Forging educational equity for AAPI students through support of Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs).
 Supporting AAPI-owned businesses. Through coordination with the Minority Business Development Agency and AAPI chambers of commerce, the Initiative works to ensure AAPI businesses are equipped with the knowledge to compete for grants and government contracts.
 Protecting vulnerable AAPI workers. The Initiative participates in two interagency working groups addressing the needs of vulnerable workers in high-risk and low-wage industries and the myriad of health and safety issues affecting AAPI nail salon workers, who account for 40 percent of the national nail salon workforce.
 Protecting the civil rights of AAPI communities. The Initiative launched the interagency AAPI Bullying Prevention Task Force to analyze data and formulate effective policies to better understand and address bullying. The Task Force hosted more than 25 listening sessions, and the Initiative launched the Act To Change national public awareness campaign with translated resources and a coalition of 50+ supporting organizations and influencers, including George Takei and Jeremy Lin, encouraging youth to take the pledge against bullying.

Trump Administration
On May 13, 2019, President Trump signed Executive Order 13872 once again reestablishing the Initiative. The order effectively reversed the transfer made by President Obama and moved the Initiative from the Department of Education back to the Department of Commerce. President Trump appointed then Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and then Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao serve as the Co-Chairs of the Initiative.

The order also established an Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) to help broaden access to more employers and other economic resources for the AAPI community.

Executive director and commission
On November 13, 2017, Holly Ham was appointed as Executive Director of the Initiative. Prior to this appointment, Ham served as Assistant Secretary for Management at the U.S. Department of Education, also in the Trump Administration.

On December 17, 2019, the Department of Commerce confirmed that Tina Wei Smith, a former Department of Labor appointee, would replace Ham as Executive Director.

On January 27, 2020, Vice President Mike Pence swore in 13 members of the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders including Paul S. Hsu, Congresswoman Amata C. Radewagen, Herman Martir, Governor Eddie Calvo, Doris Flores Brooks, Grace Y. Lee, Prem Parameswaran, Michelle P. Steel, Chiling Tong, Jennifer Carnahan, George Leing, Jan-Ie Low, and Keiko Orrall.

Publications
The FY 2016-2017 federal Agency Plans incorporating a strategic outline for addressing AAPI needs are publicly available on the Initiative website.

The Initiative also highlights the yearly progress federal departments and agencies have made in attaining agency plan benchmarks and goals. It has also released a report of its own accomplishments over the past four years.

In September 2011, the Initiative produced a Guide to Federal Agency Resources.

In May 2014, the Initiative published the Report from the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders titled "Building the American Mosaic." The report communicates the current role of commissioners and also offers recommendations to federal departments and agencies in building a stronger federal infrastructure for AAPIs.

As of May 2021, the Initiative has compiled several resources for AAPI and NH communities on its website.

References
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Executive Office of the President of the United States
Presidency of the United States


title: George Rochfort, 2nd Earl of Belvedere

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George Augustus Rochfort, 2nd Earl of Belvedere (12 October 1738 – 13 May 1814) was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician.

Early years

George Augustus Rochfort was born on 12 October 1738, son of Robert Rochfort, 1st Earl of Belvedere and Hon. Mary Molesworth. The Rochfort family, originally called De Rupe Forti, had settled in Ireland in 1243. Sir Maurice de Rochfort was Lord Justice of Ireland in 1302. Gerald Rochfort was summoned to Parliament as a baron in 1339. George's great-grandfather was the prominent lawyer Robert Rochfort, Attorney General of Ireland and Speaker of the House of Commons in 1695, and Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 1707. The family estate of Gaulstown lay on the shore of Lough Ennell in County Westmeath.

George's father, Robert Rochfort, was a favourite courtier of King George II of Great Britain. He was made an Irish peer as Baron of Bellfield in 1737, and then Earl of Belvedere in 1756. He was estranged from his mother during his childhood, after his father locked her away after an alleged affair with George's uncle, Arthur.

Politician

From 1756 to 1774 George Rochfort was styled Viscount Belfield. He was Member of Parliament for Philipstown from 1758 to 1761, and Member of Parliament for Westmeath from 1761 to 1774.

The 1761 Irish general election followed the death of George II. George Rochfort, the Right Honorable Lord Belfield, won the election. He was supported by The Honorable Captain Richard Rochfort, Esq. and opposed by Mr. George Rochfort and Gustavus Lambert. The election thus seems to have been very much a family affair. Mr. George Rochfort supported the "Patriots", who demanded that parliaments last only seven years before being dissolved, rather than for the lifetime of the king, as was the custom.

In 1762 George Rochfort was Sheriff of County Westmeath, and from 1772 to 1814 Governor of County Westmeath. An anonymous writer named "Dymoke" published a Review of the House of Commons in the Freeman's Journal in 1774. The purpose was to "rouse the electors of Ireland to a due exertion of their lawful powers, and stimulate them to fix on proper men to maintain their rights and privileges in parliament." He noted that Belfield, who was muster-master-general of Ireland and a Governor of the County of Westmeath, had voted for the stamp act. Dykmore declared that "The present members [Lord Belfield; Anthony Malone] for the County of WESTMEATH will never represent it again if the Electors have either sense, honour, or remembrance".

Irish peer

On 13 November 1774 Rochfort succeeded to the titles of Baron Belfield, Viscount Belfield and Earl of Belvedere after his father's death. He released his mother. She was prematurely aged, spoke in little more than a whisper but in a harsh, agitated and uneven manner, and was dressed in the style of thirty years earlier.

From 1775 to 1776 Rochfort was Grand Master of the Freemasons Grand Lodge of Ireland. On 20 August 1775 he married Dorothea Bloomfield, daughter of John Bloomfield and Jane Jocelyn. George Rochfort took his mother with him when he and his new wife visited the continent, but she found the travel too difficult. They left her to recuperate in a convent in France while they visited Italy for a few months, spending the winter in Florence. The next year the couple returned to London, where George's mother stayed with a friend in Kensington Palace for a year. She then returned to Ireland and lived first with George in Dublin and then with his sister, now Countess of Lanesborough, and her young family. She died a few years after her husband.

Rochfort had Belvedere House built on Great Denmark Street, Dublin, at the great sum of £24,000. The site had been owned by Nicholas Archdall. The building had been started by the first Earl, with Robert West as the architect. Rochfort and his wife apparently did not plan to complete the work, and in 1777 offered it for sale. Later they decided to complete the house for their own use, and gave the job to Michael Stapleton. It was finally completed and occupied in 1786, and probably stood alone at first, since in 1787 Rochfort was recorded as living in North Great George's Street. George's mother is thought to have died there.

During the struggle over the Acts of Union 1800, Rochfort's position on the union of the crowns of Britain and Ireland was uncertain. A letter of 25 January 1800 from Lord Altamont to the Earl of Lucan said "Ld Belvedere has touched Government cash & possibly may not exert all his influence to give value in return for it".

Rochfort's first wife died on 6 April 1803, and on 10 November 1803, he married Jane Mackay, daughter of Reverend James Mackay. They had one son, who died in infancy. George Augustus Rochfort died in Great Denmark Street, Dublin on 13 May 1814 at the age of 75. He is buried in St Sinian, Clonfad Parish Church, of the Church of Ireland. His tomb is adorned with a full-scale neoclassical sculptural group by John Bacon the younger. It represents the earl on his death bed, with his young wife weeping at the end. He is supported by Faith and an angelic figure is beckoning him to heaven.

Rochfort had no surviving children, and his three peerages became extinct. On his death, his sister Jane inherited the whole settled part of his great estate, since his brothers had died without children. He left his entire unsettled estate to his wife. This consisted of at least 2,500 Irish acres, bringing in a large income. The fortune was passed down to his wife's children by her second marriage to Abraham Boyd. The eldest son and heir  was George Augustus Boyd-Rochfort, and he assumed the arms and surname of Rochfort.

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title: Ink wash animation

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Ink wash animation (水墨动画, shuimo donghua) is an animation style that is unique to China. This style combines both Chinese traditional aesthetics of Shui-mo and modern animation techniques. It first appeared in 1961 with the first Chinese ink-wash animation Tadpoles Searching for Mother. After the 1990s, film studios gradually gave up ink-wash animation production due to the high demand in cost and techniques.

Development

In the late 1950s, inspired by China's legendary painter Qi Baishi's water-ink painting, Chinese animation industry pioneers began to explore ways to turn Chinese traditional paintings into cartoon form. Developed by cinematographer Duan Xiaoxuan, The first ink-wash animation film, Tadpoles Searching for Mother, received the Best Animated Film Prize at the First Hundred Flowers Awards, as well as several international prizes. Since then, more ink-wash films were produced.

But by the 1990s, animation studios without government funding were urged to produce cheap television series instead of costly ink-wash production. Techniques that had once been identified as state secrets were used to shoot commercial advertising. Feeling from Mountain and Water, produced in 1988, is said to be the last masterpiece of Chinese ink-wash animation film.

Major works

Tadpoles Searching for Mother (1961)

The film is based on a children's story written by Fang Huizhen and Sheng Lude. A group of newly born tadpoles decide to seek their mother who they've never met before. On the way, they mistake golden fish, a crab, a tortoise and a fish for their mother, and they gather new clues about their mother's appearance through each encounter.

This 14-minute film has been internationally recognized in many film festivals, including the Locarno International Film Festival in 1961, the 4th Annecy International Animation Film Festival in 1962, and the 3rd Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films in 1978.

On the surface, the film appears to be simple. However, each frame required complex techniques and much work in order to present the artistic style of ink-wash painting. The techniques were even regarded as a "state secret".

The Cowboy's Flute (1963)

Produced in 1963, this film uses Chinese ink paintings to depict the charming relationship between a young cow herding boy with extraordinary flute playing skills and his faithful water buffalo. The boy falls asleep in a tree, and he dreams that he has lost his buffalo. It turns out that the buffalo is drawn to the beautiful scenery of a waterfall and refuses to return to the herding boy. The boy then plays the flute, and the melody helps bring the buffalo back to him.

There is no dialogue in the film. Story is told through animation and the accompanying music, therefore the film is entirely accessible to a non-Chinese speaking audience. The flute melody was played by China's most famous bamboo flute soloist Lu Chunling. The film was awarded the Golden Prize at the Odense International Fairy Tale Film Festival in Denmark. Some deemed ink-wash animation the "fifth Chinese invention".

This film's title is also referred to by some as The Buffalo Boy and His Flute or The Buffalo Boy's Flute (Buffalo Boy for short), or The Cowherd's Flute.

The Deer's Bell (1982)

Feeling from Mountain and Water (1988)

Named after a phrase for landscape painting, Feeling from Mountain and Water became the last water-ink animation. The film tells the simple tale of an impoverished elderly zither musician and a young boy. The zither musician falls ill on his way back home. The boy kindly takes him to his house and takes care of the musician. To thank the boy, the musician begins to teach the boy the zither and becomes his mentor and friend. The film eschews dialogue, yet the animation and music make the film rich in emotion and philosophical ideas.

The 18-minute film is regarded by many as the masterpiece of Chinese ink-wash animation. The musical accompaniment of the film is mainly featured by zither, however, "some of the most moving moments of the film unfold purely through the image to the sound of rushing winds or total silence".

Decline

Cultural Revolution
During the ten-year turmoil of Cultural Revolution, many animation producers were attacked, and the development of animation industry was suspended. The Cowboy's Flute became the target of criticism because of its representation of pastoral life instead of class struggles.

Market economy reform
When ink-wash animation was first produced in 1960s, China was under the planned economy. Film studios were owned and supported by the state. Fundings were granted to animation production at the standard of 8000RMB per minute. Consequently, artists and technicians in the production teams were able to fully engage in artistic creation and innovation without financial or commercial burdens.

However, starting in the late 1980s, China began its transition into market economy. State-owned studios lost their government funding, and were urged to produce cheap television series in order to support themselves. Ink-wash animation production was regarded as "costly" and "unnecessary".

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title: Fire Departments of Pakistan

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Fire Departments of Pakistan provides fire brigade and emergency services in Pakistan Commanding Officer ShadowWqve Deputy Commanding officer Rated Sider.

A fire department or fire brigade is a public or private organization that provides predominantly emergency firefighting and rescue services for a certain jurisdiction, which is typically a municipality, county, or fire protection district. A fire department usually contains one or more fire stations within its boundaries, and may be staffed by career firefighters, volunteer firefighters, or a combination thereof (referred to as a combination department).

The National Institute of Fire Technology provides advance training to fire departments in Pakistan. The National Institute of Fire Technology is based in Islamabad and is affiliated with the Directorate of Civil Defense of the Ministry of Interior.

See also
 National Institute of Fire Technology
 Punjab Rescue 1122
 Civil Defense
 Karachi Fire Department
 List of fire departments

References

External links
 Directorate of Civil Defense
 Karachi Fire Brigade in shambles

Fire departments of Pakistan


title: Ben Kelly (designer)

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Ben Kelly is a British interior designer, who owns interior design firm Ben Kelly Design. He has also won awards for graphic design.

Biography
Ben Kelly grew up in the village of Appletreewick, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Kelly trained at Lancaster College of Art from 1964 to 1969, and graduated in Interior Design from the Royal College of Art in 1974. He was awarded the title Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) in 2007. Kelly is an Honorary Doctor, and Professor of Interior Design at London's Kingston University. In 2018, Kelly was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal College of Art.

He is cited by The Visual Dictionary of Interior Architecture and Design as a "hugely influential interior designer", and by Kingston University as "one of the UK's most influential interior designers".

Historic England has listed the Kelly designed Haçienda nightclub in Manchester as one of the 100 Places that tell the remarkable story of England and its impact on the world.

Studio

In 1974, manager Malcolm McLaren asked Kelly to refurbish a basement rehearsal room for The Sex Pistols in Denmark Street, London, which McLaren had bought from Badfinger. Kelly had designed the store front for Vivien Westwood and McLaren's Seditionaries boutique. In 1977, Kelly was also arrested with Westwood and McLaren when police raided The Sex Pistols' legendary Silver Jubilee cruise, organised by Richard Branson to launch the single "God Save the Queen". Kelly was also known at the time by his alter ego "The Photo Kid", and he still uses the name on social media.

Kelly collaborated with the graphic designer Peter Saville on numerous projects who acknowledged basing much of his early work on Kelly's. Kelly and Saville won a Designers and Art Directors Award for the sleeve of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's 1980 self-titled first album.

Kelly is best known for his interior design of The Haçienda nightclub in Manchester, which he converted from a yacht showroom in 1982, retaining its red brick façade, inner columns and large iron doors. Kelly was recommended to design The Haçienda by Saville. Kelly also did much other work for Factory Records, including their 1990 company office in Charles Street, Manchester.

In 1995, Kelly designed Saville's legendary Mayfair apartment in London that was also shared by Meiré und Meiré. The mood and mythologies of that space inspired and informed a shoot with Nick Knight for the July 2009 'Sex' issue of Wallpaper magazine. Kelly has designed several gyms for Gymbox in London, and is also a furniture designer. Kelly has recently completed a number of collaborations with Virgil Abloh; Josephine Nightclub in Paris, and a DJ touring set that Abloh travels with and debuted at Art Basel Miami.

Influences
On arriving in London in 1971, Kelly was greatly influenced by Kenneth Anger's films and visiting the 'When Attitudes Become Form' exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Kelly cites Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp as his two main influences.

Kelly has acknowledged the bright colours, bold lines and disposable aesthetics of Max Clendinning designs, as well as Ralph Adron's visualisations of Clendinning's work.

Style
Kelly's style can be summarised by his description of his dream interior being "A mash up between Andy Warhol's original Silver Studio, Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau, Adolf Loos' Kärntner Bar in Vienna and Frank Gehry's house in LA!"

The design of The Haçienda has been described as post industrial. Peter Saville observed at the time that Punk had levelled the ground and there was a strong feeling that it was a post-revolutionary moment.

The colour International orange, which he used in The Haçienda and many subsequent projects, is considered a Kelly signature.

Legacy
Kelly and Saville's work has been referenced numerous times by Raf Simons.

As a tribute to both the anniversary of The Haçienda and the grand opening of the UK's first Yohji Yamamoto Y-3 exclusive store, a special Adidas FAC51-Y3 model was created in 2007.

Manchester City and Puma's 2019/20 football jersey featured Kelly's signature black and yellow stripes.

Virgil Abloh states, "the diagonal lines of my brand's logo are very similar to the work of Ben Kelly. My whole thing is very much about urban credibility, I work with people I can share with my generation as it's an access point for a young kid because the art world is so far off in the distance and protected from them".

The 2002 film 24 Hour Party People tells the stories that centred around The Haçienda, with a reproduction of the club built for the movie.

Vitra Design Museum and ADAM - Brussels Design Museum coproduced the 'Night Fever: Designing Club Culture' exhibition to explore how architecture and interior design merged with sound, light, fashion, graphics and visual effects to create epicentres of pop culture.

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