title: Glittering Images

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Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars is a 2012 book by American cultural critic Camille Paglia, in which the author discusses notable works of applied and visual art from ancient to modern times. Paglia wrote that she intended it to be a personalized "journey" through art history, focusing on Western works. Paglia writes that she felt inspired to write given that she worries 21st century Americans are overexposed to visual stimulation by the "all-pervasive mass media" and must fight to keep their capacity for contemplation.

The book features twenty-nine sections, with glossy full-color illustrations, each focused on a specific piece. Artists detailed include Titian, Manet, Picasso, and Jackson Pollock among others. After its October 16, 2012 release, the book received positive reviews from publications such as The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Wall Street Journal, while it also picked up more critical, negative reviews from publications such as The New York Times Book Review.

Summary

While touching on the themes of Paglia's previous work, Glittering Images focuses on modern cultural ignorance. Paglia wrote what she intended as a personalized "journey" through art history since she believes people today have become visually overexposed by the mass-media and disconnected from the past. In it, she argues, "the eye is assaulted, coerced, desensitized."

Paglia discusses twenty-nine examples of visual artwork. Paglia begins by describing the ancient Egyptian funerary images of Queen Nefertari, a royal whose name means "the most beautiful of them all". Paglia refers to how the civilization "dreamed of conquering the terrors of death", and she notes how "Egyptian painted figures float in an abstract space that is neither here nor there", describing the visual power of this "eternal present" depicted. She then turns to the Cycladic statuettes carved by Bronze Age residents of several Aegean Sea islands, which feature "coolly geometric" designs unlike that of the voluptuous figures carved by earlier, Stone Age people (such as the 'Venus of Willendorf') while still displaying vulvae markings and prominent breasts that convey femininity. These pieces of Cycladic art are cited as "daring explorations of form and structure" foreshadowing the future.

The author then describes the 'Charioteer of Delphi', a work from the fifth century BC that she writes embodies well the ancient Greek ideals of "young male beauty" and the building of character through personal striving. She states how she finds the chariot racing athlete "grave and dignified" with his meditative expression, giving a "look that would become canonical for gods and heroes in the classic tradition". She goes on to write about the 'Porch of the Maidens' in the Erechtheion in Athens, Greece, with columns carved into feminine shapes that she labels as "a remarkable display of female power" as "muscular strength" co-exists with womanly curves, and then the piece 'Laocoön and His Sons', a violent scene carved in marble in which sea serpents attempt to slay a man and his three sons that stridently addresses the problem of theodicy.

The book goes on next to the famous mosaic of Saint John Chrysostom in the Hagia Sophia, a piece that Paglia writes as having an "implacable intensity of gaze" making it a great piece of Byzantine art, and additionally to the late eighth century Ireland's Book of Kells, an "intricately decorated manuscript of the Gospels that is one of the most beautiful objects surviving from medieval Europe." The eighth piece included is Donatello's 'Mary Magdalene', a work of the Italian Renaissance created in 1453 that showed the artist's ability to be "harsh and imposing". Paglia then discusses Titian's 'Venus with a Mirror'; she writes about the artistic changes it symbolizes as the strong brushwork and liberal use of paint allow for warm flesh tones, Titian creating "opulent nudes that thrust sexual display and fantasy" onto the viewer.

Paglia next discusses Bronzino's 'Portrait of Andrea Doria as Neptune', writing that as a work of the Mannerism movement it shows a "polished theatricality" arresting to the viewer, and Gian Lorenzo Bernini's 'Chair of Saint Peter' in the Vatican City, a 17th-century work showing how Baroque art often "overwhelms the senses with flamboyant grandeur".

She takes a nuanced view of the lasting influence of pop art, writing that, generally, the artistic movement "projects an innocent child’s view of the world." She also argues that works by artists such as Andy Warhol, whom she praises, conveyed powerful subtleties with their pieces. The book details 'Marilyn Diptych', a 1962 silkscreen that replicates a photo of Marilyn Monroe over and over with image variations, and the work is lauded for strongly showing the "multiplicity of meanings" in the actress' life and legacy.

The book additionally cites Eleanor Antin's conceptual art project '100 Boots'. Paglia praises the work, writing that "boots, like their creator, are outsiders, eternal migrants questing for knowledge and experience."

Reception
Writer John Adams of The New York Times Book Review published a critical review of the book, viewing it as being "so agenda driven and so riddled with polemic asides that its potential to persuade is forever being compromised." Adams noted that the book avoided discussions of Giotto, Michelangelo, El Greco, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and van Gogh, which he criticized. He supported how Paglia "encourages us to read more closely and to look more imaginatively" at the world of art history, though concluded that her praise of George Lucas was assessing art "by its reach rather than its depth", and thus Paglia "has journeyed to the wrong continent, and what she has found glittering there is fool's gold."

Journalist Gary Rosen of The Wall Street Journal, however, praised the book's "impressive range" and accessibility for a general audience. He argued that "[f]or the most part, Ms. Paglia chooses well, from works both celebrated and obscure", and he stated that the author "is especially good at the difficult trick of providing context for the newcomer to art history without being tedious for a more experienced reader." In addition, The Philadelphia Inquirer ran a supportive article that labeled the book a "magisterial, poetically composed, and masterly study".

The Los Angeles Times published a supportive review by Michael S. Roth, an author and the president of Wesleyan University. He wrote, "Artists, questing outsiders, are still with us, still finding their way, making their way. Perhaps some of them will be inspired by the glittering images Camille Paglia offers here."

See also

Art history
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
What is a Masterpiece?

References

External links
Camille Paglia - Website

2012 non-fiction books
Art history books
Books about the visual arts
Books by Camille Paglia
English-language books
Pantheon Books books
Hagia Sophia


title: Balsam Mountain

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Balsam Mountain may refer to:
Balsam Mountain (Ulster County, New York) in the Catskills
Balsam Mountain (Greene County, New York) in the Catskills
Balsam Lake Mountain in the Catskills in New York
Balsam Cap in the Catskills in New York
Great Balsam Mountains off the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina


title: Saint Ilid

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Saint Ilid is a semi-legendary saint of Wales. He has at times been identified as Joseph of Arimathea, perhaps because he is referred to as a "man of Israel" and to have been born Jewish. Moreover, he is said to have returned from Rome with Caratacus, Saint Cyllin and Eigen and formed a religious college of twelve named Cor Eurgain (the choir of Eurgain), suggesting the early entry of Christianity into Britain. He may be commemorated in the village Llanilid. According to Thomas Morgan, Llanilid follows the tradition of Welsh place names attached to a parish in taking its title from the saint to whom the local church is dedicated. In Llanilid the local church is St. Ilid & St Curig's church, and Morgan states that this relates to Ilid a person who introduced Christianity to Wales in the 1st century. This research may be connected to that of famed literary forger Iolo Morganwg, who produced elaborate tales of Ilid going as far as stating that it was the Welsh names of Joseph of Arimathea. Morgan relates that "Llan" – "Ilid", refers to the 'parish of St Ilid'. This has been challenged by R. W. D. Fenn, who, after studying the Book of Llandaff and Nennius's Historia Brittonum writes in 1962 that the Latin equivalent of Ilid represents the name of a district, similar to Llandovery, and not a person. Fenn then writes that in 1566 Llanilid was dedicated to Ilid and Curig, whom he connects to the saints more commonly known in Christian tradition as Julietta and Quiricus. He links this through the Appendix of the Book of Llandaff which states that the church at Llanilid is first given as the 'Church of St Julitta'.

His feast day is 30 June.

References

Medieval Welsh saints
Year of birth unknown
1st-century Christian saints


title: Apache Trafodion

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Apache Trafodion is an open-source Top-Level Project at the Apache Software Foundation. It was originally developed by the information technology division of Hewlett-Packard Company and HP Labs to provide the SQL query language on Apache HBase targeting big data transactional or operational workloads. The project was named after the Welsh word for transactions. As of April 2021, it is no longer actively developed.

Features
Trafodion is a relational database management system that runs on Apache Hadoop, providing support for transactional or operational workloads in a big data environment. The following is a list of key features:

 ANSI SQL language support
 JDBC and Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) connectivity for Linux and Windows clients
 Distributed ACID transaction protection across multiple statements, tables, and rows
 Compile-time and run-time optimizations for real-time operational workloads
 Support for large data sets using a parallel-aware query optimizer and a parallel data-flow execution engine

Transaction management features include:

 Begin, commit, and rollback work syntax, including SET TRANSACTION
 READ COMMITTED transactional isolation level
 Multiple SQL processes participating in the same transaction concurrently
 Recovery after region server, transaction manager, or node failure
 Support for region splits and balancing

History
Trafodion was launched by HP as an open-source project on June 10, 2014.

A version of Trafodion was released on January 29, 2015.

Trafodion became an Apache Incubation Project in May 2015.

Trafodion graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project at the Apache Software Foundation in January 2018.

See also
 Big data
 Hadoop
 HBase
 NewSQL

References

External links

Trafodion
Bigtable implementations
Hadoop
Free database management systems
Structured storage


title: Carbohydrate counting

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Carbohydrate counting or “carb” counting is a meal planning tool used in diabetes management to help optimize blood sugar control. It can be used with or without the use of insulin therapy. Carbohydrate counting involves determining whether a food item has carbohydrate followed by the subsequent determination of how much carbohydrate the food item has in it.

What is carbohydrate?
Carbohydrate is one of three major macronutrients found in food. The other major macronutrients are protein and fat. Carbohydrate in its simplest form is known as glucose and can contribute to a rise in blood sugar. In people with diabetes, the body's ability to keep blood sugar at a normal level is impaired. Dietary management of carbohydrate consumed is one tool used to help optimize blood sugar levels.

Carbohydrate content of foods
Carbohydrate is found in a number of foods including fruits, starchy vegetables (such as peas, potatoes, and corn), grains, milk and yogurt, legumes, and desserts. In general, foods such as meat, eggs, cheese, fats, and non-starchy vegetables (such as greens and broccoli) have little to no carbohydrate. Other foods free of carbohydrate include small quantities of certain condiments, unsweetened coffee and tea, and sugar free sodas.

Carbohydrate content of foods is listed on the Nutrition Facts panel as “total carbohydrate”. Some food labels will list specific types of carbohydrate, such as “fiber, sugar, or other carbohydrate”. With carbohydrate counting, the “total carbohydrate” is used as the carbohydrate amount. Carbohydrate counting can be done by either adding up grams of total carbohydrate or adding "carbohydrate units". A carbohydrate unit is simply 15 g of carbohydrate.

How it is used
Carbohydrate counting can be used with or without insulin therapy.

Without insulin
When carbohydrate counting is used without insulin, it can be used as a tool to manage blood sugar levels. A certain number of carbohydrate grams or carbohydrate units is consumed with each meal and with each snack. In keeping the carbohydrate at a certain level, the blood sugar is able to remain within a normal level. The American Diabetes Association recommends starting at around 45-60 carbohydrate grams (3-4 carb units) at each meal, with potential to increase or decrease that amount.

With insulin
Carbohydrate counting may be used with either a fixed insulin dosage or with a more flexible insulin dosage. Carb counting for fixed insulin dosage is done in the same manner as carbohydrate counting without insulin. The only difference is that insulin is administered with the meal. With more flexible insulin dosage, the insulin is administered in regards to the amount of carbohydrate consumed. The insulin amount will vary based on the amount of carbohydrates consumed.

References

External links
American Diabetes Association

Diabetes
Nutrition


title: Ljubiša Dmitrović

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Ljubiša Dmitrović (; born 23 February 1969) is a Serbian football manager and former player.

Managerial career
Dmitrović served three terms as manager of Borac Čačak (2008–2009, 2011 and 2016). He was also manager of Mladost Lučani on two occasions (2009 and 2012–2013) and Sloboda Užice (2014). In 2015, Dmitrović spent some time in charge of Montenegrin club Jedinstvo Bijelo Polje.

References

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Men's association football defenders
Expatriate football managers in Montenegro
FK Borac Čačak managers
FK Borac Čačak players
FK Mladost Lučani managers
FK Sloboda Užice managers
Serbian expatriate football managers
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Montenegro
Serbian football managers
Serbian men's footballers
Serbian SuperLiga managers
Footballers from Čačak
Yugoslav men's footballers
Yugoslav Second League players
1969 births
Living people


title: Bradley White

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Bradley White (born January 15, 1982 in Troy, Ohio) is an American former cyclist. He owns Velo City Cycles, a bike shop.

Major results
2007
6th Prologue Tour of Hainan
2009
1st Stage 7 Tour of the Gila
Most Courageous Rider Stage 3 Tour of California
2011
Most Aggressive Rider Stage 1 USA Pro Cycling Challenge
2014
1st Stage 5 Tour de Langkawi
2015
19th Team Time Trial UCI Road World Championships

References

External links

1982 births
Living people
American male cyclists
Road racing cyclists
Sportspeople from Ohio
People from Troy, Ohio
Cyclists at the UCI Road World Championships


title: P. T. Daly

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Patrick Thomas Daly (1870 – 20 November 1943), known as P. T. Daly was an Irish trade unionist and politician.

Early life
Born in Dublin, Daly completed an apprenticeship as a printer, and in 1892 he joined the Dublin Typographical Provident Society. A supporter of James Connolly, he helped print Connolly's Workers Republic newspaper, and was a founder member of the Irish Socialist Republican Party (ISRP).

Irish nationalism
Frustrated by the lack of progress of the ISRP, he left and joined the Young Ireland Society and the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), soon becoming a member of its three-person executive.  He was elected to the Dublin Corporation for the IRB in 1903, holding the seat until 1910.  In 1905, he became manager of the Gaelic printer An Cló Cumann.

Daly was also active in Cumann na nGaedheal, and when it merged with the Dungannon Clubs to form the Sinn Féin League in 1907, he was elected as its president. The following year, he moved that it merge with Arthur Griffith's Sinn Féin, and served on the new party's first executive, also organising the Dublin Cumann. By 1910, he was part of a young clique which published Irish Freedom and sought to take control of the IRB, but he was expelled on charges of embezzling funds donated from the United States.

Labour movement
Heavily involved in the labour movement, Daly was elected to Parliamentary Committee of the Irish Trades Union Congress (ITUC) in 1905. Long known as a leading supporter of Jim Larkin in the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union (ITGWU), he ran the union in 1910 while Larkin was in prison. However, in 1909, he was appointed as editor of the Dublin Trades Council newspaper, a post which Connolly had hoped to win.  In 1910, Daly was elected Secretary of the Irish Trades Union Congress, serving until 1918, and in 1911 he was appointed as organiser of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, although that year he was jailed during a major strike for union recognition in Wexford.

In 1910, Daly left Sinn Féin to join Connolly's Socialist Party of Ireland, a merger of the ISRP and parts of the Independent Labour Party. He subsequently joined Connolly in founding the Irish Labour Party.  During the Dublin Lock-out of 1913, he was one of several leading figures in the Labour movement who were arrested, and the following year, he was a founding vice-chairman of the Irish Citizen Army.

After James Larkin suggested appointing Daly to lead the ITGWU in 1914, a long-standing disagreement with William O'Brien became public, O'Brien claiming that Daly was incompetent. Daly had also split with Connolly, who wrote that "Daly is as little trusted by the Labour men as he is by the Nationalists", and was able to instead become acting secretary himself.  Connolly also ensured that Daly was not selected as a candidate for the 1915 Dublin Harbour by-election.

In 1916, Daly was placed in Frongoch internment camp as the British Government considered him a threat during the Easter Rising; he was later moved to Reading Gaol. He worked with Delia Larkin in an attempt to resurrect the Irish Citizen Army, but this was unsuccessful, and led to further isolation in the ITGWU.

In 1919, Daly was elected as Secretary of the Dublin Trades Council, and he remained in the post until his death.  Under his leadership, and due to his dispute with O'Brien, the council withdrew from the Labour Party.  At the 1923 general election, Daly stood in Dublin North as one of four independent labour candidates sponsored by the trades council.  Although he was not elected, Daly took 2,075 votes, beating the official Labour Party candidate. Following disappointing results, the trades council reaffiliated with the Labour Party, and Daly focused his efforts on establishing the Workers' Union of Ireland. He served on the executive of the ITUC again from 1936 to 1939, and was elected as its president for 1939.

References

1870 births
1943 deaths
Early Sinn Féin politicians
Labour Party (Ireland) politicians
Members of Dublin City Council
Members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood
Trade unionists from Dublin (city)


title: Grass River (Manitoba)

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The Grass River is a historically important waterway in the Hudson Bay drainage basin in the Northern Region of Manitoba, Canada. It begins at the Cranberry Lakes approximately  east of Cranberry Portage and runs northeast  to its mouth on the Nelson River. The river was a critical route for earlier European explorers and was part of the "Upper Tract" of the fur trade into Canadian interior.

Route
The headwaters of the Grass River are in Third Cranberry Lake, approximately  east of Cranberry Portage. It then flows north to Elbow Lake, and turns sharply south to Iskwasum Lake after which it continues easterly to Reed Lake. This portion of the river is within Grass River Provincial Park. After Reed Lake, the river enters Tramping Lake, followed by the Wekusko Falls, Wekusko Lake and eastwards to Setting Lake. The river then passes Sasagiu Rapids Provincial Park, and Pisew Falls Provincial Wayside Park. It then enters Paint Lake and the Paint Lake Provincial Park. Continuing in a northeast direction, the Grass River passes through several remote lakes before its confluence with the Nelson River near Kelsey, Manitoba.

The river runs for , and drains a watershed of .

Description
The remote river flows through the Churchill River Upland portion of the Midwestern Canadian Shield forests and is surrounded by mixed forest with stands of black spruce, white spruce, jack pine, and trembling aspen. The shoreline is characterized by steeply sloping irregular rock ridges and poorly drained areas of muskeg. Typical of the Canadian Shield, the river runs through rolling hilly terrain with abundant glacially scoured rock outcrops.

Bird species include raven, common loon, spruce grouse, bald eagle and hawk owl. The Grass River area is largely pristine and home to moose, black bear, lynx, wolf, and beaver. There are also migrating herds of woodland caribou along the river's length.

Many portions of the river are not easily accessible, but there is some trapping, hunting, and recreational fishing activity. The Grass River basin contains burbot, lake whitefish, northern pike, sucker, walleye and yellow perch.

History
The Grass River was originally inhabited by people of the Shield Archaic tradition who migrated from the present-day Northwest Territories 5,000 years ago. The many petrographs located along the river date to this period. Approximately 2,000 years ago, pottery was introduced to the region and the Woodland Cree emerged as the dominant culture in the area . In the 1700s, the river became an important route for Cree hunters travelling to York Factory at Hudson Bay to trade their furs.

The first recorded Europeans to travel the Grass River were the Hudson's Bay Company fur traders and explorers Joseph Smith and Isaac Batt. In 1763, from York Factory they travelled up the Grass River to Cranberry Portage and then over to Lake Athapapuskow and down into the Saskatchewan River system. Smith died on the return journey. In 1774, explorer Samuel Hearne paddled up the Grass River to establish Cumberland House. In the summer of 1794, surveyor and explorer David Thompson travelled up the Grass River for the first of many times in his career mapping the interior of North America. Several fur trading posts were established along the river, most notably at Reed Lake House (1794) and Cranberry Lake (1804). In the early 20th century there was a mining boom, which saw further exploration by prospectors and ultimately several mining operations.

The course of the river was first noted (crudely) in a 1760 map obtained by Moses Norton, the Factor at Churchill Fort from several Indian traders. The name "Grass River" was first documented on Samuel Hearne's map of 1776. In 1876 geologist Robert Bell surveyed the lower portions of the river, but it was not until 1896 when explorer Joseph Tyrell completed the first survey of its entire length. Tyrell recorded that the Cree name for the river was Muskuskow' Sipi, meaning "Grassy River".

Canoe route
The Grass River is a popular wilderness canoe route due to its pristine state, Indigenous rock paintings, scenic waterfalls, and sport fishing. A trip down the full length of the river can take up to three weeks, but most canoeists travel shorter sections such as the Cranberry Portage to Split Lake route. The difficulty rating is intermediate, with moderate portaging and advanced lake travel.

See also
List of rivers of Manitoba

References

Rivers of Northern Manitoba
Tributaries of Hudson Bay


title: Rae Morris

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Rachel Anne "Rae" Morris (born 2 September 1992) is an English singer and songwriter. She released her debut album, Unguarded, in 2015. Her second album, Someone Out There, was released in January 2018.

Early life
Morris was born in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, and started playing the piano when she was four years old. She attended St. George's School and then studied A-levels in music and drama at Cardinal Newman College in Preston, Lancashire. She worked as a waitress at the grounds of Blackpool F.C.

Career

2011: Early live appearances

Morris gigged in Blackpool and around the North-West England during her college studies. She attracted the attention of BBC Radio Lancashire presenter Sean McGinty, who put her forward to perform on the BBC Introducing stage at the Reading and Leeds Festivals in August 2011. She was signed to Universal Music Publishing Group the same month and to Atlantic Records in September 2011. Morris had received attention from other labels but chose Atlantic because they "would take it slow" and "didn't blow any smoke up my arse".

During this period she was mentored by fellow Blackpool singer-songwriter Karima Francis, who helped develop her songwriting skills. She was also in a two-year relationship with Francis, which she said inspired the songs on her debut album "about going through that, exploring that sexuality and those feelings for the first time. Then coming out the other side of that as well, so that's the album".

2012–2014: EP releases
Morris released her debut single in March 2012, "Don't Go", following its use in the final episode of the sixth series of the television drama series Skins. She recorded an EP, For You, which she sold exclusively at her live performances in mid 2012, and in November released a second EP, Grow. Another EP, From Above, followed in 2013. Alongside her solo gigs during 2012 and 2013, Morris was a support act for artists including Bombay Bicycle Club, Lianne La Havas, Noah and the Whale, and Tom Odell. She contributed guest vocals to three tracks on Bombay Bicycle Club's 2014 album So Long, See You Tomorrow, including the single "Luna". Also in 2014, Morris co-wrote and featured on the Clean Bandit song "Up Again" (from their debut album New Eyes). Rae Morris was recently the MarkMeets featured artist of the month December 2014  Rae also opened for George Ezra on his European tour, as well as embarking on her own headlining UK tour.

2014–2015: Unguarded

During 2014, Morris released the singles "Do You Even Know?", "Cold" (featuring Fryars), and "Closer"—each with accompanying EPs—to promote her debut album, Unguarded, which she recorded primarily in Los Angeles with producer Ariel Rechtshaid. Morris was longlisted in the BBC Sound of 2015 poll, and Unguarded was released in January 2015 alongside the single "Under the Shadows", with another headlining tour following in February. Unguarded, which also features production from Jim Eliot and Fryars, debuted at number nine on the UK Albums Chart.

Later in 2015, Morris appeared in a television advertisement for fashion retailer Boohoo that featured the album's fifth single, "Love Again". She featured on Sivu's single "The Nile" and performed at festivals including Bestival, Glastonbury, Lytham Festival, T in the Park, and Truck Festival. The sixth single from Unguarded, "Don't Go", was released in association with breast cancer awareness charity Coppafeel!.

2018–2019: Someone Out There
Morris began work on the follow-up to Unguarded in late 2015. Touring to promote the album began in March 2017 and included a concert at Concorde 2 in Brighton supported by PAULi and Saskia Maxwell. In September a wider tour included Norwich, Nottingham, Salisbury Arts Centre, Leeds and Islington in London.

Working prominently with Fryars, Morris opted for a more electronic-oriented sound for her second album. Between July 2017 and October 2018, Morris released seven singles to promote the album - "Reborn", "Do It", "Atletico (The Only One)", "Push Me to My Limit", "Lower the Tone", "Someone Out There" and "Dancing With Character" - as well as various remixes. The album, titled Someone Out There, was released on 2 February 2018.

In July 2018, the song "Reborn" from Someone Out There was featured in the BBC's closing montage from the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

In October 2018, Morris said she was "going away for a few months to write the next era."

On 19 November 2018, Spice Girl Melanie C released "High Heels" featuring Sink the Pink, which was co-written with Morris.

On 4 June 2021, Morris released "Fish n Chips", a collaboration with TikTok star, grime artist, and fellow Blackpool native Soph Aspin.

2022: "No Woman Is an Island" and Rachel@Fairyland
On 18 February 2022, Morris announced she was supporting Tom Odell for several nights on his Monsters UK tour, and a single, "No Woman Is an Island", would be released on 25 February. In July 2022, her third album Rachel@Fairyland sold 1,098 copies in its first week to debut at number 150 in the UK Albums Chart, which was 130 places lower than her second album, Someone Out There, charted in 2018.

Personal life
Morris is married with frequent collaborator Fryars. Her brother William is married to Lucy Rose. On 26 May 2021, Morris announced via her Instagram that she was pregnant with her and Fryars' first child; their daughter, Marla, was born in June 2021.

Discography

Studio albums

Extended plays

Singles

Music videos

References

1992 births
Living people
Atlantic Records artists
English pop pianists
English women pop singers
English women singer-songwriters
English singer-songwriters
Musicians from Blackpool
21st-century English women singers
21st-century English singers
21st-century British pianists
21st-century women pianists


title: JS Hatsuyuki

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JS Hatsuyuki (DD-122) was the lead ship of the Hatsuyuki-class destroyers.

Development and design

Adopting Japan's first all-gas turbine engine (COGOG), equipped with well-balanced weapons such as helicopters, C4I systems, and various missiles, it is inferior to Western frigate at that time. It has been evaluated as a non-escort ship. Twelve ships were built as first-generation general-purpose escort vessels in the era of eight ships and eight aircraft, they supported the escort fleet for a long time, but now they are gradually retiring due to aging.

In addition, there are many changes to training ships, and up to three ships have been operated in the training fleet as Shimayuki-class training ships, but the decline has begun with the conversion of Hatakaze-class destroyers to training ships.

The core of the combat system is the OYQ-5 Tactical Data Processing System (TDPS), composed of one AN/UYK-20computer and five OJ-194B workstations and capable of receiving data automatically from other ships via Link-14 (STANAG 5514).

This is the first destroyer class in the JMSDF equipped with the Sea Sparrow Improved basic point defense missile system. The IBPDMS of this class uses FCS-2 fire-control systems of Japanese make and one octuple launcher at the afterdeck. And in the JMSDF, OTO Melara 76 mm compact gun and Boeing Harpoon surface-to-surface missile are adopted from the ship of FY1977 including this class. Also, ships built in FY1979 and beyond carried Phalanx CIWS and were retrofitted to previous ships.

Construction and career
She was commissioned into the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force in 1982 and was decommissioned in 2010 with 28 years of active service.

After that, on February 24, 2011, she departed from Yokosuka for Dokai Bay for dismantling.

References

Hatsuyuki-class destroyers
1980 ships
Ships built by Sumitomo Heavy Industries
Destroyers of the Cold War


title: María Fux

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María Fux (2 January 1922 – 31 July 2023) was an Argentine dancer, choreographer, and dance therapist. She developed a dance therapy system, in Argentina, later establishing dance schools in Argentina and Europe, training physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, doctors, teachers of dance and of gymnastics, psychotherapists, psychologists, and teachers working with people with disabilities.

Fux was invited to institutions, conferences, and seminars to witness their experiences with issues related to deafness, Down syndrome, intellectual disabilities, autistic individuals, elderly, and various other disabilities. She turned 100 in January 2022, and died on 31 July 2023, at the age of 101.

Awards
 Diploma, UNESCO (1996)
 Recognition from UN (1999)
 Illustrious citizen of the city (2002)
Gratia Artis Award (2007)
Silver Clover Award, Rotary (2008)
Bicentennial Medal (2010)
National Endowment for the Arts Award (2011)
Rosa Silver Award of Congress (2012)

Selected works
Fux published several books, which have been translated into Italian and Portuguese:

See also
 Dancing with Maria

References

External links

1922 births
2023 deaths
Dancers from Buenos Aires
Argentine female dancers
Argentine dancers
Argentine choreographers
Argentine women choreographers
Dance therapists
Women centenarians
Argentine centenarians


title: Beni Lar

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Beni Lar born (August 12, 1967) is a politician of the People's Democratic Party from Plateau State, Nigeria. She's a member of the Nigeria Federal House of Representatives from Langtang North, Langtang South federal Constituency of Plateau State. She was first elected to the house in 2007 and in 2019 she was re-elected to a fourth term in the house.

Biography and career

She is the eldest daughter of Solomon Lar, a former Governor of Plateau State and Prof. Mary Lar. She says,
“My father taught me that there is no difference between a male and a female (child). He taught me to be hard-working; so, I trained as a lawyer just like him."
She has "Urged Nigerians not to forget her father's legacy of unity, peace and love, adding,
"This is what we need to promote this nation."

In 2007, she was elected to the House of Representatives. In 2008, she served as the House of Representatives Chair on Women's affairs. , she represents the Langtang North and South constituency. She serves as Chairperson of the House of Representatives' Committee on Human Rights.

She has supported emergency funding for the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), increased penalties for child abuse and the creation of a National Child Protection and Enforcement Agency. In 2010, she participated in The GlobalPOWER® Women Network in Africa: Women Parliamentarians and Ministers United Against HIV/AIDS. She was one of only 11 women elected in 2007 who were re-elected in 2011 when the lower house was nearly 95% male. Other women elected included Mulikat Adeola-Akande, Abike Dabiri, Nkiru Onyeagocha, Uche Ekwunife, Nnena Elendu-Ukeje, Olajumoke Okoya-Thomas, Juliet Akano, Khadija Bukar Abba-Ibrahim, Elizabeth Ogbaga and Peace Uzoamaka Nnaji.

After 2013 attacks by herdsmen in Langtang South left seventy people dead, she urged the Nigerian Federal government to improve the conditions of local roads, so as to make it possible for security forces to arrive in a timely manner.
She has also called for the creation of grazing reserves for Fulani herdsmen, saying:
“All who eat meat should be considerate enough to let go of their land for the source of the meat. Nigeria is blessed with enough land for everybody, and Nigerians should be gracious enough to recognize that the meat that the herdsman provides is for the community."

In May 2014, she led a group of protesters from Nigerians United Against Terrorism, wearing T-shirts "with the inscription "#ReleaseOurGirls.", showing solidarity with the Nigerian military in its efforts rescue the victims of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping. One news source reports that some rally attendees received government funding.

Lar has been used as an example for strong women in government, although some argue that it was because of her privilege as her father's heir that granted her this power. She has advocated for women participation in government and is part of a new trend of more women in government than ever before following Nigeria's independence in 1914.

She has advocated for women's rights such as age of women to marry, abortion rights, and had a hand in the bills: The abolition of all forms of discrimination against women in Nigeria and other matters bill, and the Gender and Equal Opportunities Bill.

In 2017 Hon. Beni Lar spoke as the House Chair for the Science and Technology Committee and urged for the advancement of sustainable, reliable power for Nigeria.  She also has advocated for the option for students to choose what kind of religion they would like to learn about in school, rather than having a predetermined requirement. She presented this to the House and it was passed in part because of her point that because Nigeria is a secular state, religion and national values should be separated.

In 2019, Lar ran for the House re-election and won.

Quote
“We must say things that will cause the country to grow.”

See also
 Solomon Lar

References

External links
Interview with Beni Lar about human rights in Nigeria, from The Punch
Dreams for Nigeria , documentary about seven female Nigerian parliamentarians, including Beni Lar

Living people
Peoples Democratic Party members of the House of Representatives (Nigeria)
People from Plateau State
21st-century Nigerian women politicians
21st-century Nigerian politicians
Nigerian women lawyers
Nigerian human rights activists
1967 births
20th-century Nigerian lawyers
20th-century women lawyers


title: Chornukhyne

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Chornukhyne () is an urban-type settlement in the Alchevsk Raion of Luhansk Oblast in Donbas in eastern Ukraine. It was formerly in the Popasna Raion and then Perevalsk Raion. In the 2001 Ukrainian census, the town's population was 7,782. The current population estimate is

The Kalmius and Chornukha Rivers flow through the town. It is located  northeast of Donetsk.

Chornukhyne came under the control of the Luhansk People's Republic (LNR / LPR) following fierce fighting, in early 2015. It was taken shortly before nearby Debaltsevo in the Battle of Debaltseve. Following the 2022 annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine, Russia has claimed the territory as part of their LNR / LPR.

History
The territory was first settled in 1600 as the Chornukhynskyi Post () of the Kalmius Palanka of the Zaporizhian Sich cossack territory. In 1778, the settlement was a sloboda, and in 1892 it became a village. It was granted the status of an urban-type settlement in 1938.

On 7 October 2014, to facilitate the governance of Luhansk Oblast, the Verkhovna Rada made some changes in the administrative divisions, so that the localities in the government-controlled areas were grouped into districts. In particular, Chornukhyne was transferred from Perevalsk Raion to Popasna Raion. However, on 20 February 2015, Ukraine lost control of the settlement, and as of 2023 has not regained control.

Notable people
Nikolai Ilyin, top soviet sniper in ww2

See also
Repellent-1

References

External links
 Luhansk topographic map 1:100 000

Urban-type settlements in Alchevsk Raion
Perevalsk Raion
Slavyanoserbsky Uyezd


title: Eastar

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Eastar may refer to:

Eastar Jet, a South Korean airline
Chery Eastar, a Chinese mid-size car
Chery Eastar Cross, a Chinese compact MPV
Eastman Eastar, a brand of polysester polycyclohexylenedimethylene terephthalate

See also

Easter (disambiguation)
East (disambiguation)
Star (disambiguation)

East Star (disambiguation)
Eastern Star (disambiguation)
Star of the East (disambiguation)


title: JS Shirayuki

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JS Shirayuki (DD-123/TV-3517) was a  of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. The ship was commissioned in 1982.

Design
The Hatsuyuki class were designed as multi-purpose ships, with a balanced armament and sensor fit, so that the ships could carry out anti-submarine and anti-surface ship operations while being capable of defending themselves against air attack. A hangar and flight deck are carried for a single helicopter, which was initially the Mitsubishi HSS-2, a license-built Sikorsky Sea King, later replaced by Mitsubishi H-60s (licensed Sikorsky S-70s), with the Canadian Beartrap haul-down system fitted to ease operations of large helicopters. An octuple Mk 112 launcher for ASROC anti-submarine missiles is fitted forward, while additional close-in anti-submarine armament is provided by two triple 324 mm torpedo-tubes for Mark 46 anti-submarine torpedoes. The initial anti-aircraft armament consisted of a Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missile launcher aft, with an OTO Melara 76 mm gun forward. Eight Harpoon anti-ship missiles are carried in two quadruple mounts abaft the ship's funnel.

Construction and career
Shirayuki was ordered as part of the Japan Self-Defense Forces 1978 defense estimates as the second ship of the Hatsuyuki class, and was laid down at Hitachi's Maizuru shipyard on 3 December 1979. The ship was launched on 4 August 1981, and commissioned on 8 February 1983.

On 8 July 2013, Shirayuki,  and  were anchored at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. From 22 to 25 July, they left for a visit to Portsmouth, United Kingdom. After leaving Portsmouth, they sailed for Gdańsk Bay, Poland on 6 August then on 20 August, Brest, France. All three Japanese ships later made a four-day trip to Da Nang, Vietnam, was made on 21 October for the 40th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries. On 25 November, they passed the Kiel Canal in Germany.

On 16 February 2015, Shirayuki,  and  made a goodwill visit to Muara Port, Brunei Darussalam.

Shirayuki was decommissioned on 27 April 2016.

Citations

References

External links

1981 ships
Ships built by Hitachi Zosen Corporation
Hatsuyuki-class destroyers
Training ships of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
Destroyers of the Cold War


title: Women's tennis

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Women's tennis is one of the most popular sports for women. It is one of the few sports in which women command fame and popularity that equal those of their male counterparts. Women's Tennis Association is the main organisation which runs female tennis.

History

Women's tennis is present from the first Olympic Games in 1900 in Paris and 1908 in London, but the women's doubles only appeared in 1920 at the Antwerp Games.

One of the first superstars of women's tennis is Suzanne Lenglen, who after six titles won at Wimbledon and the Internationaux de France left amateur tennis to achieve a first professional tour in North America in 1926–1927.

However women's tennis did not really become established until the 1960s, and especially with the establishment of the Women's Tennis Association in the 1970s.

Features of women's tennis
In women's tennis matches the ball is usually played without effect (less than lift) and games tend to play more from the baseline; typing is generally less powerful than men. The game is made in a more tactical speed and anticipation. The service is also less powerful; it is relatively less important than for men. However, there has been a noted evolution in this field since the 1990s, women's tennis is improving and is growing more and more popular.

Controversy
Women's tennis has been marked by several cases, including cases of sexual abuse by trainers. The world of women's tennis is sometimes described as "homophobic" and "sexist".

See also
Battle of the Sexes
Women's tennis in Australia
Women's tennis in South Africa
Women's tennis in the United States

Bibliography
Le tennis féminin français, Vincent Cognet, Romain Lefebvre, Philippe Maria, Ed. du stade, 1999 ()
Les dessous du tennis féminin, Nathalie Tauziat, ed. J'ai lu, 2001 ()
N'oublie pas de gagner: Dans les coulisses du tennis féminin, Dominique Bonnot, ed. Stock, 20157 ()
Women's Tennis Tactics, Rob Antoun, Human Kinetics, 2007 ()

References

tennis
History of tennis


title: Rainbow Foods

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Rainbow Foods was a supermarket chain in Minnesota. Founded in 1983, it operated more than 40 stores across the state at its peak and was the second-largest grocery store chain in the Twin Cities, behind Cub Foods. However, the arrival of other grocery stores in the market, such as Aldi and Hy-Vee in the 2000s and 2010s caused the grocery store chain to shrink to 27 locations by May 2014. Soon after, nine more closed and eighteen were sold by then-owner Roundy's; only six of these kept the Rainbow name.

History
Rainbow Foods was founded by Sid Applebaum and D. B. Reinhart of Gateway Foods in 1983 and grew to become the second-largest grocery chain in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area.
The chain was sold to Texas-based wholesaler Fleming Companies in 1994. During the 1990s, Rainbow built several stores in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul suburbs. After the sale to Roundys in 2003, Rainbow began opening Leeann Chin restaurants in its stores, starting with the Maple Grove and Bloomington stores in July 2004; over the next couple of years, Leeann Chin opened 10 restaurants inside Rainbow Foods stores; by 2007, however, they were down to just two locations, which eventually closed.

Decline
The decline of Rainbow Foods arguably started in 2000, when Fleming put Rainbow and several other chains up for sale. At the time, possible buyers of Rainbow Foods included grocery giants Safeway and Albertsons. Albertsons was very close to buying Rainbow Foods, but backed out of the deal. When Fleming sold Rainbow Foods in 2003, Albertsons was a Rainbow suitor, but backed out again.

In 2003, Fleming Companies decided to sell 31 of the chains leases to Milwaukee based Roundys for 82.5 million dollars. Fleming decided to close the remaining 12 locations it had owned and pull out of the chain all together.
In a surprise move on May 7, 2014, Roundys announced that it had sold 18 of its Rainbow Foods stores to a consortium of area competitors and businesses for 65 million dollars. These competitors were Lunds and Byerlys, SuperValu owner of Cub Foods, the number one grocery store in Minnesota, Jerry's Enterprises, Haug Enterprises, and Radermacher Enterprises.

The company could not find a bidder for nine of the remaining stores it owned and they all closed on July 22, 2014.
 The stores that were purchased by the consortium were converted into Cub and Lunds and Byerlys, while six remained Rainbow locations owned by the various members of the consortium.

In September 2014, four months after buying the Rainbow Foods location in West St. Paul, supermarket owner Jerry's Enterprises said it now planned to close the store in November. In a letter sent to the city, Jerry's said the company had "developed plans based on business considerations" to close its Rainbow store at 1660 S. Robert St.
The Rainbow on Minneapolis' Lake Street was also slated to close, Jerry's said.
The stores joined nine other Rainbow supermarkets that were shut down in July, 2014, after Rainbow's owner Roundys left the Twin Cities market. After the closures the brand only had four remaining stores.

The two Rainbow Foods stores on Lake Street and on Robert Street were said to close by November 9, 2014. After the closures there were only four Rainbow stores left. Another Rainbow store, in Plymouth, was converted into a Cub in July 2016, which closed two years later and is now a Hy-Vee store. After this conversion, three Rainbow foods remained. On September 21, 2017, the Rainbow Foods at the Midway Shopping Center in St. Paul closed. It closed due to a soccer stadium being built on the property, requiring the existing store and part of the mall to be demolished.

The Richfield HUB location off 66th street closed in March 2018, leaving one remaining Rainbow location in Maplewood. On September 14, 2018, it was announced that the Rainbow Foods in Maplewood, would close on Monday, September 17, officially marking the end of Rainbow Foods after 35 years; its building was converted into a Hy-Vee, which opened in June 2021. At the time of its closing, the Maplewood Rainbow was owned and operated by SuperValu, which also owned the Cub across the street.

References

External links

Defunct companies based in Minnesota
Defunct supermarkets of the United States
Supermarkets of the United States


title: Gamma number

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In mathematics a gamma number may be:
A value of the gamma function
An additively indecomposable ordinal
An ordinal Γα that is a fixed point of the Veblen hierarchy


title: Emma Johnson (writer)

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Emma Johnson (born October 23, 1976) is an American journalist, blogger, author, shared parenting activist, and media personality. She is best known for her blog Wealthysinglemommy.

Early life
Johnson was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, and grew up in Sycamore, Illinois. She was raised by a single mom and has two younger brothers. She went to the local public schools as well as studying abroad in Luneville for her junior year in high school. She graduated from University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana in 1998 with a degree in print journalism and studied at Universidad San Francisco in Quito, Ecuador, and also worked at the student newspaper, The Daily Illini.

Early career
Emma Johnson is best known as a journalist and blogger at Wealthysinglemommy. After graduating from college Johnson held an internship at CNN in Atlanta. From there she worked as a general news reporter for the Valdosta Daily Times in Valdosta, Georgia, then spent six months editing an English language news digest in Sofia, Bulgaria. From there Johnson joined the East Valley Tribune in the Phoenix, Arizona metro area where she won several awards for her work as a health care reporter. Johnson moved to New York City in 2003 where she was hired at the Associated Press's then-new financial wire. Starting in 2005, Johnson worked as a full-time freelance business and personal finance journalist. Her articles have been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Glamour, Forbes, Men's Health, Woman's Day, Parenting, WIRED, SUCCESS, where she was a contributing editor, and MSN Money, where she hosted a video column.

Blog
As a blogger of Wealthysinglemommy, Johnson writes about her life as a professional, single parent in New York City, and gender equality. She is known for taking a strong stand that women should continue their careers and strive for financial independence after having children, for equally shared parenting, and that mothers should be open and honest with their children about their dating.

Since launching in August 2012, the blog gained an international following and media attention. The blog has been criticized for being unrealistic in her dating advice, and judgmental of other women's choices, including by bloggers at The Chicago Tribune.

Wealthysinglemommy has been cited by major media outlets including The New York Times. Parents magazine named Wealthysinglemommy "Best of the Web." Johnson was listed as one of AOL DailyFinance's "20 Personal Finance Influencers to Follow on Twitter" and one of "11 Female Finance Influencers You Should be Following" per U.S. News. Johnson and Wealthysinglemommy have been quoted as an expert in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, O the Oprah Magazine, NBC Today's blog, Headline News, HuffingtonPost Live, Woman's Day, Ryan Seacrest Radio, NPR, Business Insider, Fox News, The Houston Chronicle, CBS Radio, NBC Nightly News and Yahoo! Personal Finance.

Podcast

Johnson's podcast, "Like a Mother with Emma Johnson," featured interviews and commentary on issues facing professional mothers, including work, career, business, relationships, parenting, politics, and sex. Named to USNews’ "Top 15 Personal Finance Podcasts," Like a Mother has featured Arianna Huffington, Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stanger, Free-Range Kids’ Lenore Skenazy, Tinder founder Whitney Wolfe and feminist journalist Rebecca Traister.

Author
Johnson's first book, The Kickass Single Mom: Be Financially Independent, Discover Your Sexiest Self, and Raise Fabulous, Happy Children, was published October 17, 2017. The nonfiction book is published by Penguin Random House and named by New York Post as a ‘Smart, Must-Read.'

Johnson's second book, The 50/50 Solution: How Single Parents Can Blaze the Trail for Gender Equality, is to be published in mid-2023.

Activism
Emma Johnson founded Moms for Shared Parenting, a non-profit organization advocating for 50/-50 shared parenting.
From the website: "Our mission is to promote equally shared parenting, with a focus on what is best for children, while simultaneously closing the gender pay gap." Johnson has testified as an expert in favor of presumption of equally shared parenting at the United Nations, Google at state legislature hearings in Georgia and South Dakota. Emma’s shared-parenting activism has been featured in TIME, CNBC, Elle, Fox Business Radio, Parents magazine and Forbes.

Personal life
Johnson lives in New York City with her two young children. She married in 2005 and divorced in 2009. She is single. New York Observer named her to its "9 Most Eligible Singles" list.

Publications
 2017, The Kickass Single Mom: Be Financially Independent, Discover Your Sexiest Self, and Raise Fabulous, Happy Children
2018, 30‑Day Kickass Single Mom Money Makeover: Get Your Financial Act Together

References

1976 births
Living people
American women bloggers
American bloggers
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Media alumni
21st-century American women


title: Satya Prakash Malaviya

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Satya Prakash Malviya (25 June 1934 – 16 September 2018) was an Indian politician. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 1984 and 1990 from Uttar Pradesh. He served as Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Minister of Petroleum and Chemicals in Chandra Shekhar cabinet from 1990 to 1991.

Early life
Satya Prakash Malviya was born on 25 June 1934 at Malviyanagar in the city of Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh. His father was a professor. He earned Master of Arts and Bachelor of Law degree at Allahabad University. In 1962, he married Dr. Sarojini Malviya. The couple had one daughter.

Political career
Satya Prakash Malaviya was elected as Mayor of Allahabad in 1972. In 1974, he was elected as member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Allahabad South constituency on Bharatiya Kranti Dal ticket. During Emergency, he was arrested under Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA) and spent 19 months in Lucknow jail. In 1977, he was elected as member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Allahabad South on Janata Party ticket. He was made Minister of Self-governance and Transport in Uttar Pradesh state cabinet.

In 1984, he was elected as member of Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh on Lokdal ticket. He also served as Vice Chairman of Rajya Sabha from 1988 to 1990. In April 1990, he was again sent to Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh on Janata Dal ticket. In November 1990, he joined revolting section of Janata Dal MPs and formed Chandra Shekhar government. He was Minister of Petroleum and Chemicals and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs in Chandra Shekhar cabinet from November 1990 to June 1991.

In 2000, he joined Indian National Congress. In 2004 Lok Sabha election, he fought from Allahabad constituency on Congress ticket, but lost to Rewati Raman Singh of Samajwadi Party.

Positions held

 1972–1973 Mayor, Allahabad Corporation.
 1974–1977 Member of Legislative Assembly, Uttar Pradesh.
 1977–1980 Member of Legislative Assembly, Uttar Pradesh (2nd term).
 1977–1978 Minister of Local Self Government and Urban Development in Uttar Pradesh government.
 1979–1980 Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation in Uttar Pradesh government.
 1984–1990 Member, Rajya Sabha.
 1986–1987 Member, Committee on Petitions (Rajya Sabha).
 1988–1989 Member, General Purposes Committee (Rajya Sabha).
 1990–1996 Member, Rajya Sabha (2nd term).
 November 1990 – June 1991 Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Chandra Shekhar government.
 November 1990 – June 1991 Minister of Petroleum and Chemicals, Chandra Shekhar government.

Writings

 Chandra Shekhar : A Committed Socialist, Secularist and Democrat in Chandra Shekhar in Parliament: A Commemorative Volume (2016).

References

Members of the Cabinet of India
1934 births
Malviya Satya Prakash
Leaders of the Opposition in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
2018 deaths
Indian National Congress politicians
Janata Dal politicians
Janata Party politicians
Samajwadi Janata Party politicians


title: Column of the Vicariate

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The Column of the Vicariate or Colonna della Vicaria was a simple white marble column on a pedestal that formerly stood outside the Castel Capuano along Via dei Tribunali in Naples, Italy. It was used by the government first as a place for punishment of debtors.

Prior to the reign of the viceroy Don Pedro de Toledo, tradition holds that those unable to pay debts were either chained or approached the column  on their knees, then exposed their backside to the public, stating his penance, and stating cedo bonis (I cede my goods). It has been described as the sacrificial altar of the debtor.

Don Pedro of Toledo modified the tradition. In 1546, he ordered that the debtor instead had to approach the pillar and state his name, that of the lender in a clear and loud voice, and he had to stay for an hour bareheaded, embracing the column. A plaque in 1553 commemorated abolition of the former tradition. Later decrees required those who were debtors to wear certain hats with ribbons; failure to comply meant service in the galleys.

In later centuries, the column was used as a site to exhibit unclaimed cadavers, and crowds came to rubberneck the bodies for spectacle. The column was taken down in 1856 and moved to the Museum of San Martino.

References

Buildings and structures in Naples
Monuments and memorials in Naples
Monumental columns in Italy


title: 2001 African U-17 Championship

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The 2001 African U-17 Championship was the 4th edition (9th if editions of the tournament without hosts are included) of the biennial youth association football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for its nations, consisting of players under the age of 17. This edition took place in Seychelles from 17 February to 3 March, with the finalists and the winning semi-finalist qualifying for the 2001 FIFA U-17 World Championship.

Guinea were disqualified from competing in the final after FIFA suspended its national association a day earlier due to government interference, forcing the final to be postponed by a day and Guinea's semi-final opponents Burkina Faso competing the final in their place.

Qualification

Qualified teams

 (host nation)

Group stage

Group A

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Knock-out stage

Semi-finals

Third place match

With Guinea disqualified, this match was scrapped and Mali was awarded 3rd place, with 4th place being declared vacant. The final was played a day later on 3 March with Guinea's semi-final opponents Burkina Faso contesting the final against Nigeria.

Final

Winners

African participants at the 2001 FIFA U-17 World Championship
The teams below qualified for the 2001 FIFA U-17 World Championship.

Notes

References

External links
2001 edition summary via RSSSF

U-17 Africa Cup of Nations
2001 in African football
2001 in youth association football


title: List of people with the Korean family name Moon

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Moon (), also spelled Mun, is a Korean family name. The 2000 South Korean census found a total of 426,927 people and 132,881 households with this family name. This is a list of notable people with the family name Moon, sorted by area of notability and year of birth.

Culture and the arts
Mun Ikjeom (1329–1398), politician of the Goryeo Dynasty and a Neo-Confucian scholar
Mun Il-pyeong (1888–1939), Joseon Dynasty historian
Moon Shin (1923–1995), South Korean painter and sculptor
Moon Deoksu (1928–2020), South Korean poet
Mun Jeonghui (born 1947), South Korean poet
Jiha Moon (born 1973), South Korean contemporary artist
Mun Kyong-jin (born 1981), possibly deceased North Korean violinist
Nami Mun,  Korean American novelist and short story writer
Moon Hyung-in, South Korean biotechnology professor
Moon Young-nam (born 1960), South Korean television screenwriter

Entertainers
Moon Hee (born 1947), South Korean actress
Mun Tae-jun (born 1970), South Korean poet
Moon So-ri (born 1974), South Korean actress
Moon Jeong-hee (born 1976), South Korean actress
Moon Nam-sook, South Korean voice actress
Moon Hee-joon (born 1978), South Korean singer-songwriter, member of boy band H.O.T.
Eric Mun (born 1979), South Korean rapper and member of boy band Shinhwa
Moon Se-yoon (born 1982), South Korean comedian and television personality
Moon Chae-won (born 1986), South Korean actress
Moon Geun-young (born 1987), South Korean actress
Moon Byul-yi (born 1992), South Korean singer and rapper, member of girl group Mamamoo
Moon Tae-il (born 1994), South Korean singer, member of boy band NCT
Moon Jong-up (born 1995), South Korean dancer and singer, member of boy band B.A.P.
Moon Ga-young (born 1996), German-born South Korean actress
Moon Hee-jung, South Korean television screenwriter
Moonbin (1998–2023), South Korean singer, member of boy band Astro
Moon Jun-won (born 1987), South Korean actor
Moon Ji-hoon (born 1986), South Korean rapper
Moon Sang-min (born 2000), South Korean actor and model

Political figures
Moon Kook-hyun (born 1949), South Korean politician, leader of the Creative Korea Party
Mun Se-gwang (1951–1974), Japanese-born North Korean sympathizer who attempted to assassinate South Korean president Park Chung-Hee
Moon Chung-in (born 1951), South Korean politician
Moon Jae-in (born 1953), South Korean politician, civil servant and lawyer, 12th president of South Korea
Moon Sung-keun (born 1953), South Korean actor and politician

Religious figures
Moon Ik-hwan (1918–1994), South Korean theologian
Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012), South Korean religious leader, founder of the Unification Church, and his children
Heung Jin Moon (1966–1984)
Un Jin Moon (born 1967)
Moon Kook-jin (born 1970)
Mun Jeong-hyeon (born  1941), South Korean Catholic priest

Sports figures

Football
Moon Jung-sik (1930–2006), South Korean football player and manager
Mun In-guk (born 1978), North Korean footballer
Mun Seung-man (born 1989), South Korean former footballer
Moon Min-kui (born 1981), South Korean footballer
Moon Soon-ho (born 1981), South Korean footballer
Moon Joo-won (born 1983), South Korean footballer
Moon Byung-woo (born 1986), South Korean footballer
Moon Dae-seong (born 1986), South Korean footballer
Moon Je-chun (born 1987), South Korean footballer
Moon Jeong-joo (born 1990), South Korean footballer
Moon Ki-han (born 1989), South Korean footballer
Moon Sang-yun (born 1991), South Korean footballer
Moon Seon-min (born 1992), South Korean footballer
Moon Chang-jin (born 1993), South Korean footballer

Other
Moon Sung-kil (born 1963), South Korean professional boxer
Moon Kyung-ja (born 1965), South Korean basketball player and Olympic athlete
Moon Hyang-ja (born 1972), South Korean team handball player and Olympic gold medallist
Moon Eui-jae (born 1975), South Korean wrestler and Olympic silver medallist
Moon Tae-jong (born 1975), Korean American basketball player
Moon Dae-sung (born 1976), South Korean taekwondo athlete and Olympic gold medallist
Moon Kyeong-ha (born 1980), South Korean handball player and Olympic athlete
Mun Jun (born 1982), South Korean speed skater
Moon Pil-hee (born 1982), South Korean handball player and Olympic athlete
Moon Young-hui (born 1983), South Korean field hockey player and Olympic athlete
Moon Sung-min (born 1986), South Korean volleyball player
Moon Kwang-eun (born 1987), South Korean baseball player
Mun Ji-hee (born 1988), South Korean biathlete
Mun Sung-hak (born 1990), South Korean racing driver
Mun Yu-ra (born 1990), South Korean weightlifter
Moon Sung-hyun (born 1991), South Korean baseball player
Moon Jin-ju, South Korean wrestler

See also
List of Korean family names

References

Lists of Korean people
Lists of people by surname


title: IRC 0218

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The galaxy cluster IRC 0218 (also known as XMM-LSS J02182−05102) hosts the most distant strong gravitational lensing galaxy currently known at a redshift of z = 1.62.  The lens is one of the two brightest cluster galaxies and is lensing a background star-forming galaxy at a redshift of z = 2.26 into a bright arc and a faint counterimage.  The lens was discovered through a combination of Hubble Space Telescope and Keck telescope imaging and spectroscopy.  The discovery and subsequent analysis of the lens was published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters on June 23, 2014 by an international team of astronomers led by Dr. Kim-Vy Tran from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas and team members Dr. Kenneth Wong and Dr. Sherry Suyu from the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taipei, Taiwan.

The coordinates of the lens are 02h18m21.5s -05d10m19.9s.

References

Gravitational lensing
Galaxy clusters
Cetus


title: Curig

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St Curig was a Celtic Roman Catholic bishop and saint of Wales during post Roman times.

St Curig settled in Wales in the 7th century AD, during the reign of Maelgwn Gwynedd, for whom he was described as being a warrior.

Lore describes Maelgwn becoming angered by his warrior's newfound religious beliefs, and in response Curig "caused Maelgwn and his men to go blind (and forced) three of Maelgwn's sons (...) to give Gurig (sic) land."

Upon landing at Aberystwyth, "he travelled inland, and rested upon the summit of a high mountain, where he settled a green, which still bears the name of Eisteddfa Gurig, or Curig's seat." This is the site of the present day village of Llangurig.

In Thomas Jones' Gerald of Wales, St Harmon's Church is described as having (until the late 16th Century) a crucifix of St Curig's, "which extends slightly at the top, on both sides, in the shape of a cross, and which is covered round with gold and silver." Jones describes it as being used to cure patients.

He is sometimes associated with Saint Ilid or St Dona. He is remembered in the church of St Curig in Llangurig and the chapels called Capel Curig in Porthkerry, Langstone, Newport and Llanilid, all in Wales. The church of St. Julittas`s in Capel Curig is traditionally said to have been founded by him.

Curig is thought to have migrated to Brittany at the end of his life and there are several churches there bearing his name. He is said to have died at Landerneau and been buried at Locquirec.

He is commemorated on 16 June.

References

7th-century births
Welsh Roman Catholic saints
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown


title: John Smithies

text:
The Reverend John Smithies (1802–1872) was a Wesleyan Methodist missionary who served in Newfoundland, the Swan River Colony of Western Australia, and Tasmania.

Early days
Born in Yorkshire, Smithies was living in Sheffield in 1827 when he was received into the Methodist ministry. In 1828 the Wesleyan Missionary Society appointed him as a missionary to Newfoundland where he spent nine years. In 1832 he was married to Hannah, his fiancée from England who assisted him in his work of "visiting the sick, leading classes and prayer meetings, as well as conducting the school".  In 1837, following sectarian tensions on the island, he returned to England for two years, including 12 months in Derbyshire.

Western Australia
He was assigned to Western Australia in 1839 and, aboard the Prima Donna, landed near Fremantle on 22 June 1840 with his wife and four children, one of whom had been born at sea two weeks earlier. He was immediately introduced to an established fellow missionary, Francis Armstrong. Smithies' double mandate was "the pastoral care of colonists and the Christianization of the Aborigines".

Smithies established a mission near what is now Wanneroo  in July 1840. The "Perth Native School" was announced with an advertisement in the Inquirer on 18 August 1841, including the Board of Management and the Rules and Regulations.

By 1847, Smithies decided that York would be a better site for a Native Mission than Wanneroo.  In 1851, an application was made to Governor Fitzgerald for  of good wheat land at York (some kilometres to the north on east side of the Avon River) “to be held for the improvement of the Natives for ever”. There was a proviso that if there were no Aboriginals present, the land was to revert to the government.  Smithies wrote on 26 September 1851 that eight Aboriginals and one white man had travelled to York from Wanneroo with a bullock team, a journey which had taken three days. The party set up tents and cleared  of ground at the selected farm location ready for planting the next year. The mission was to be called Gerald Mission in honour of the Governor. The purpose of the mission was to train Aboriginal children in farm work.

On 13 November 1850, Smithies and his wife visited Eliza Brown, wife of Thomas Brown, at Grass Dale near York, and in one of her letters to her father, she said of Smithies: "S sat fast asleep in his chair nearly all the time of this polite visit."

In 1853, the Government granted the Mission land for the Mission, and a salary of £100 a year for Smithies. A further  were granted in the York townsite on which to build a schoolroom, a chapel and a Manse and provide Glebe lands.   The Mission was even given a right of commonage, a right to graze sheep, in the township, over an area of  on which to run “thirty horned cattle”.  This was opposed by engineer Solomon Cook who was in the process of constructing his mill in the town.

So much time and labour was spent on clearing  of land and the construction of buildings, and with Rev Smithies often unavoidably away and with few others helping him, the Aboriginal children drifted away from the mission school and the mission failed.  The Protector of Natives in York, Walkinshaw Cowan blamed the loss of students from the mission school to "yearning" or "strong particularity" to their own districts but also due to high death rates from influenza at the institution. In all, the Wesleyan church spent £12,000 on the missions to Aboriginals.

Van Diemen's Land
Smithies was transferred to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) in 1855 and remained there until his death in 1872.

Notes

References

1802 births
1872 deaths
Clergy from Yorkshire
English Methodist missionaries
English emigrants to colonial Australia
Methodist missionaries in Canada
Methodist missionaries in Australia
Newfoundland Colony people
Van Diemen's Land people


title: Du Yun

text:
Du Yun (traditional Chinese: 杜韻, simplified Chinese: 杜韵) is a Chinese-born American composer, performer, vocalist and performance artist. She won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her opera Angel's Bone, with libretto by Royce Vavrek.  She was a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow. Du Yun was named as one of the 38 Great Immigrants by the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 2018, and received a 2019 Grammy nomination in the category of Best Classical Contemporary Composition for her work Air Glow. In its decade review, UK's Classic FM listed Du Yun's winning of the Pulitzer as No. 6 in "10 ways the 2010s changed classical music forever." Rolling Stone Italia named her as one of the women composers who defined the 2010s.

Early life and education

Du Yun was born in Shanghai, China. She began studying piano at the age of four, attending the primary school Shanghai Conservatory of Music for piano. She studied composition at the middle school Shanghai Conservatory of Music with Deng Erbo. Du Yun later moved to the United States and graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with a Bachelor of Music degree in composition, under Randolph Coleman, and received a Ph.D. in music composition from Harvard University with Bernard Rands and Mario Davidovsky.

On her earlier years growing up in Shanghai, Du Yun recounted, in her contribution to WQXR, that neither of her parents went to college and both were factory workers in China.

When Du Yun studied in junior high school in Shanghai, she collected cassette tapes from singer Faye Wong, Chen Sheng, Dou Wei, Pink Floyd and Michael Jackson. She counts Dou Wei and Faye Wong as among the Chinese pop musicians who have had the most influence on her musical life. She credits filmmakers Wong Kar-Wai and Quentin Tarantino as some of the major influences on her style.

When she studied in high school, she spent pocket money on CDs that had impactful covers. Pink Floyd, Cocteau Twins, Björk, Sinead O'Connor, and Kraftwerk entered her world all at once. She indulged in Krautrock, and psychedelic rock.

During her first year of college, British band Portishead released a new album, and Du Yun fell into the world of trip hop. Her psychedelic style was later used in many of her works, and in 2012, she released her first studio album, Shark in You, which featured a variety of styles, from experimental dance music to cabaret and jazz electronic music.

Director Stan Lai has collaborated with Du Yun twice.  He said her music not only has the background of classical music, but also is multifaceted, influenced by pop and folk music.

Career
Du Yun won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for her opera Angel's Bone in 2017, making her the first Asian woman to win this prize in music. The opera's production in Hong Kong in 2018 won the best of the performances of the year by the South China Morning Post.

In 2006, Du Yun joined the composition faculty at the State University of New York-Purchase. In 2017, she joined the composition faculty at Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University.  She is the Professor of Composition at Peabody. In 2017, she was also appointed as the distinguished visiting professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

From 2014 to 2018, Du Yun was the Artistic Director of the MATA Festival in New York City.

An avid performer, Du Yun's engagements include the 2018 Lahore Biennial (Pakistan), the 2012 Guangzhou Art Triennial (Guangzhou Opera House, China), the National Academy Museum (USA), the inaugural Shanghai Project (China). She also leads her band Ok Miss, which exists as both rock band and chamber music ensemble.

In 2020, China's leading record label, Modern Sky, announced its three-year record deal with Du Yun.

Du Yun lives and works from New York City. She uses her whole name, Du Yun, not Du, for professional and personal uses.

Compositions

Her works include compositions for solo instruments, electroacoustic music, chamber music, orchestral works, opera, indie pop, punk, theatre, oral tradition music, sound installations, and performance art pieces. Du's works have been performed internationally in venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Guangzhou Opera House, the Salle Pleyel Paris, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Escola de Música do Estado in São Paulo, the Darmstädter Ferienkurse in Germany, and London's Southbank Centre. She has written for the New York Philharmonic, the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the LA Philharmonic, and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, as well as solo artists Hilary Hahn and Matt Haimovitz.

On April 10, 2017, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music for her second opera, Angel's Bone. The citation for the prize reads: "Premiered on January 6, 2016, at the Prototype Festival, 3LD Arts and Technology Center, New York City, a bold operatic work that integrates vocal and instrumental elements and a wide range of styles into a harrowing allegory for human trafficking in the modern world. Libretto by Royce Vavrek."

She is the composer of the musical Dim Sum Warriors, based on a graphic novel and bilingual iPad app series about Kung Fu-fighting dumplings by the Singaporean filmmaker, satirist, and cartoonist Colin Goh and Yenyen Woo. Dim Sum Warriors was made into a Chinese musical which was produced by Stan Lai. The musical debuted on August 11, 2017, to sold-out audiences at Theatre Above in Shanghai, and went on to tour in 25 major cities in China the following year.

Her work with the Palestine artist Khaled Jarrrar, "Where We Lost Our Shadows", is based on a trip that Khaled took with a family of Syrian refugee from Greece to Berlin. The work was co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall, London's Southbank Centre, the Kennedy Center, American Composers Orchestra and CalPerformances. Its documentary was on the National Geographic's Human Journey series. The work is for three soloists, orchestra and video.

In 2020, her site-specific opera Sweet Land, co-composed with composer Raven Chacon, premiered in LA with the opera company The Industry, directed by Yuval Sharon and Cannupa Hanska Luger. Sweet Land is a double-team work, with libretto by Aja Couchois and Douglas Kearney. The Los Angeles Times named it a best classical music moment in 2020, a parable of, and fantasia on, manifest destiny.
It won the Best 2021 New Opera by The Music Critics Association of North America. The album, released in 2021, was a Notable recording of 2021 by The New Yorker.

Du Yun's concert music is published by G. Schirmer, Inc.

Performing artist

Du Yun's performing persona on stage has been called "utterly extraordinary, unrestrained performance."

Du Yun leads the band Ok Miss. According to The New Yorker, "the one predictable thing about Du Yun … is her unpredictability. Dig deeper, though, and you can sense the conjoined strands of curiosity and compassion that run through everything she makes. On the first two nights of her Stone residency, her art-pop band, OK Miss, ventures through breathy Chinese pop, seductive trip-hop, and metallic skronk."

Visual art

Du Yun has done works for the Guangzhou Triennial, The Shanghai Project, Cordoba Contemporary Arts Center, and the Sharjah Biennial.

Other work
Du Yun is an advocate for women, racial equality and social justice. In an interview with NPR on gender in classical music, she said: "I think this is the issue — larger and deeper than the debate of discrimination at hand. Any sustainable and viable career paths cannot and should not depend on a few people's luck." Speaking to Foreign Policy on art's power in politics, she said: "A lot of times politics, global issues, are very black and white... There is a place for that, but it's also fantastic to have art side by side, from different viewpoints open for interpretations."

Du Yun founded and curated the Pan Asia Sounding Festival at National Sawdust in March 2018, as part of the Spring Revolution. "I want to demystify Asian culture. I want to question who owns the culture and bring together the divisions we have in society," she told the New York News Channel PIX11.

Du Yun started a global initiative, FutureTradition, to advocate folk arts and promote cross-regional collaborations. The works involve many collaborations across regions. When All About Jazz covered her keynote speech for the European Jazz Conference in 2019, Ian Patterson wrote:

Critical reception

Du Yun is regarded as a "leading force on the New York Scene," and "one of China's leading young composers."  Her onstage performing persona has been described as "adventurously eclectic" and "an indie diva with avant garde edge" by The New York Times. She has been selected by NPR as one of the 100 most influential young composers under 40 in 2011.  She was named one of the top 35 female composers in classical music by The Washington Post. Her work for Jennifer Koh, Give Me Back My Fingerprints, is listed as Top 25 Classical Music Tracks of 2019 by The New York Times. Her studio albums Angel's Bone, Dinosaur Scar, A Cockroach's Tarantella and Sweet Land are listed as Notable Recordings of The Year in 2017, 2018, 2020, and 2021 respectively, by The New Yorker.

In its decade review, UK's Classical FM listed Du Yun's winning of Pulitzer as No. 6 in "10 ways the 2010s changed classical music forever." Rolling Stone Italia named her as one of the women composers who defined the 2010s.

Works

Opera

 In Our Daughter's Eyes
 Sweet Land
 Angel's Bone
 Zolle with A Cockroach's Tarantella

Orchestral

 Slow Portraits
 Kraken
 Mantichora
 Hundred Heads
 Impeccable Quake

Soloist(s) and orchestra

 Where We Lost Our Shadows (2019)
 Thirst (2018)

Chamber music

 Vicissitudes No. 1
 by of... Lethean
 Your eyes are not your eyes
 Air Glow
 A Few Stops on the N Train
 A Few Stops on the 7 Train
 Tattooed in Snow
 Every Grass A Spring

Solo with or without electronics

 give me back my fingerprints
 The Veronica
 Run in a Graveyard
 When a Tiger Meets a Rosa Rugosa
 An Empty Garlic
 San
 Dinosaur Scar
 Ixtab, 10pm

Performance art

 How are you doing, the future that has never left
 How are you doing, the past that comes around the corner
 Run

Musical

 Dim Sum Warriors (book by Colin Goh)

Theatre

 Love in a Fallen City, 傾城之戀, 2021 in Mandarin (written by Eileen Chang directed by Timmy Yip 葉錦添 )
 Writing in Water, 水中之書, 2016 in Mandarin (written/dir by Stan Lai 賴聲川)
 Kung Fu (written by David Henry Hwang 黃哲倫)

Collaborations with Shahzia Sikander

 Disruption as Rapture
 Parallax
 Singing Suns
 The Last Post

Discography
Studio albums
Sweet Land (2021, Industry Records)
A Cockroach's Tarantella (2020, Modern Sky)
 Du Yun, JACK Quartet
Dinosaur Scar (2018, Tundra)
 International Contemporary Ensemble, Du Yun
 Air Glow – Grammy Nomination for Best Classical Contemporary Composition, 2019
Angel's Bone (2017, VIA Records, label name changed to National Sawdust Tracks in 2017)
 Lead cast: Abigail Fischer, Kyle Pfortmiller, Jennifer Charles, Kyle Bielfield
 The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
 Julian Wachner, conductor
 FA Angel's Bone
Shark in You (2012, New Focus Recordings), CD, digital and vinyl
 Shark in You

Compilations

 Retrospective (2018, Deutsche Grammophon)
 Hilary Hahn, violin
Overtures to Bach (2016, Oxingale Records/Pendatone)
 Matt Haimovitz, 'cello
 Juno Award Nomination for Classical Album of the Year, 2017
Orbit (2015, Oxingale Records/Pendatone)
 Matt Haimovitz, 'cello
 In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn Encores (2013, Deutsche Grammophon)
 Hilary Hahn, violin
 Cory Smythe, piano
 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance, 2014
Figment (2009, Oxingale Records)
 Matt Haimovitz, 'cello
Aliento (2009, New Focus Recordings)
 Claire Chase, flute and electronics
Abandoned Time (2008, New Focus Recordings)
 International Contemporary Ensemble

Collaborations

Notable collaborations include with visual artist Shahzia Sikander, flutist Claire Chase, and librettist Royce Vavrek.

Honors and recognitions
2023: Harvard Centennial Medal
2023: Vilcek Prize in Music
2022: Creative Capital Award
2021: Best 2021 New Opera - Music Critics Association of North America Award for Best New Opera  - Sweet Land
2021: Asia Society Hong Kong Center – Honoree in Performing Arts
2021: American Academy in Berlin – Berlin Prize
2021: Foundation for Contemporary Arts – Music/Sound
2019: Beijing Music Festival – Artist of the Year
2019: BraVo International Professional Music Award – Moscow – Best Classical Composition
2018: Great Immigrants – Carnegie Foundation
2018: Guggenheim Fellowship
2017: Pulitzer Prize for Music – Opera Angel's Bone
2017: Asian Cultural Council
2016: New York Foundation for the Arts, Sound, fellow
2015: Civitella Ranieri Foundation
2011: Detroit Symphony Orchestra's Elaine Lebenbom Award
2011: Philadelphia Music Project – Pew Charitable Trusts.
2009: Rockefeller Foundation – Bellagio
2008: Chamber Music America
2007: Fromm Music Foundation

References

External links

Profile page at sfcmp.org
Galli, Brianne (Apr. 2011). "Composer Du Yun's Daring Music is a Highlight of The Kitchen's 21c Liederabend Art Song Festival". ASCAP.  Obtained July 26, 2013.

1977 births
Living people
American people of Chinese descent
Pulitzer Prize for Music winners
American women classical composers
American classical composers
Chinese women classical composers
21st-century classical composers
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Oberlin Conservatory of Music alumni
Women opera composers
American opera composers
Chinese opera composers
Chinese performance artists
Chinese classical composers
21st-century American composers
Peabody Institute faculty
State University of New York at Purchase faculty
21st-century Chinese composers
Musicians from Shanghai
21st-century American women musicians
21st-century women composers


title: Halichoeres maculipinna

text:
Halichoeres maculipinna, the clown wrasse, is a species of tropical fish that lives throughout the Caribbean Sea and adjacent parts of the western Atlantic Ocean. It is a carnivorous, multi-colored wrasse that is common throughout its range.

Description
Halichoeres maculipinna is generally less than  long. The fish is slightly elongated with a nearly symmetrical upper and lower body. It has a pointed snout and rows of small teeth in its upper and lower jaws with two sets of canines in each (at the front and corners of its mouth). Its pectoral fin has fourteen rays, its dorsal fin has eleven rays and nine spines, and its anal fin has eleven rays and three spines.

Its dorsal side is yellow and is separated from its white ventral side by a black band. It has three red lines across the top of its head, and it may have a dark spot on its dorsal fin.

Habitat
The fish lives in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean. Its range extends from the state of North Carolina in the United States, to the island of Bermuda and as far south as Colombia. It is also found in Caribbean islands such as Cuba and the Cayman Islands as well as Central American countries such as Belize. The fish was once believed to live in Brazil, but a study conducted by Luiz A. Rocha in 2004 demonstrated that Brazilian populations belonged to a different species, Halichoeres penrosei.

Halichoeres maculipinna lives on the tops of coral reefs and in rocky areas. The fish is generally found  beneath the surface. It has also been reported to live within Venezuelan Sargassum beds.

Behavior

Diet
The fish is a carnivore. It primarily consumes invertebrates and ray-finned fish.

Reproduction
Like many other wrasses, the fish is a sequential hermaphrodite. It can change its sex from male to female. It mates through lek mating. During this process, males are noted to be particularly territorial.  Reproduction occurs through spawning.

Conservation status
While a quantitative assessment of the population of Halichoeres maculipinna has not been performed, it is widespread and fairly common throughout its range. The species faces no major threats beyond occasional collection for the aquarium trade.

References

External links

maculipinna
Tropical fish
Taxa named by Johannes Peter Müller
Taxa named by Franz Hermann Troschel
Fish described in 1848


title: Catherine Karkov

text:
Catherine E. Karkov is professor of History of Art and head of the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. Her research centres on early medieval art, especially Anglo-Saxon art, and she has published three monographs. Her first concerns Anglo-Saxon art; the second one on the relation between text and image in Anglo-Saxon literature; and the third on how Anglo-Saxon writers imagined England as a place, how Anglo-Saxon England is understood by modern audiences, and the "fraught history of 'Anglo-Saxon' studies".

Work
Her second book focuses on MS Junius 11, she argues that a complete edition of the manuscript leaves out the many illustrations at its own peril; these illustrations occur at dramatic moments in the four poems and help elucidate the allegorical import of many passages.

As editor of Slow Scholarship, Karkov highlighted the ways in which research quality is measured in the UK (via the Research Excellence Framework), over work, publishing models which reward research that aligns with the status quo, an increasingly precarious workforce in Higher Education all contribute to making new and innovative scholarship difficult. The collection developed theories from the Slow Food movement to propose ways of creating thoughtful, new scholarship.

Publications

Monographs
Imagining Anglo-Saxon England: Utopia, Heterotopia, Dystopia (Boydell, 2020)
Slow Scholarship: Medieval Research and the Neoliberal University (Boydell, 2019)
The Art of Anglo-Saxon England (Boydell, 2011)
The Ruler Portraits of Anglo-Saxon England (Boydell, 2004)
Text and Picture in Anglo-Saxon England: Narrative Strategies in the Junius 11 Manuscript (Cambridge UP, 2001)

Edited
Disturbing Times: Medieval Pasts, Reimagined Futures (Punctum Books: 2020, with Anna Kłosowska and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei)
Cross and Cruciform in the Anglo-Saxon World: Studies to Honor the Memory of Timothy Reuter (Morgantown: West Virginia UP, 2010; with Sarah Keefer and Karen Jolly)
Poetry, Place and Gender: Studies in Medieval Culture in Honor of Helen Damico (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Press, 2009)
Early Medieval Studies in Memory of Patrick Wormald (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009, with S. Baxter and J. Nelson)
Cross and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England (Morgantown: West Virginia UniUP, 2008, with Sarah Keefer and Karen Jolly)

References

External links
Catherine E. Karkov's page at the University of Leeds

Living people
Academics of the University of Leeds
Year of birth missing (living people)
British women academics
Women medievalists


title: Shakedown 3

text:
Shakedown 3 is a compilation album by Freemasons. It was released on 4 August 2014.

Composition
As with Freemasons' previous full-length release, Shakedown 2 (2009), Shakedown 3 features singles released since then by the producing team ("Believer", featuring Wynter Gordon, "Bring It Back" or "Tears", featuring Katherine Ellis), as well as some remixes for major artists, like Whitney Houston ("Million Dollar Bill"), Hurts ("Wonderful Life"), or John Newman (Cheating).

Small and Wiltshire also decided to revive the Pegasus alias, which they used for a song of the same name (released in 1998). Multiple tracks from this project are thus showcased along the other tracks from the compilation.

Release
The physical release of Shakedown 3 consists of three CDs: the first two are mixes, and the third one contains unmixed tracks, similar to their 2007 album Unmixed.

A separate digital release, Shakedown 3 (The Acapella Album), was released on 30 November. It includes a cappella and "DJ tools" tracks of songs from the album.

Track listing

Notes
 "Discopolis" contains sections from "Tears" by Freemasons feat. Katherine Ellis.
 Production / Remix and additional production on all tracks by Freemasons, except "Gorecki" : produced by Freemasons and Sarah De Courcy.

Covers
 "Gorecki" is a cover of the song of the same name by the English electronic music duo Lamb.
 "La Serenissima (Theme From Venice In Peril)" is a composition from La Serenissima (also released as "Venice In Peril"), a 1981 album by Italian chamber orchestra Rondò Veneziano.
 "Intoxicated" contains lyrics lifted from Mariah Carey's 1991 single "Emotions".
 "Discopolis" is a cover of the track of the same name by Lifelike and Kris Menace.

References

Freemasons (band) albums
2014 compilation albums
Sequel albums


Melaka International College of Science and Technology (MiCoST) is a college in Malacca, Malaysia.

Founded in 2006, MiCoST is belong to State Government of Melaka and is run by the Melaka State Foundation (Yayasan Melaka) under its subsidiary company, YM Mediscience Sdn Bhd.

MiCoST has diplomas programs in management, information Technology, health science and early childhood education.

Started from 2021 , Micost also offer Sijil Kemahiran Malaysia (SKM) Operasi Sistem Komputer Level 3 for those who not qualify for diploma after SPM.

Background
MiCoST began its operation in 2006 with the Diploma in Pharmacy program in cooperation with MARA University of Technology (UiTM). Students are awarded diplomas by UiTM upon the completion of the three-year program.

In 2010, MiCoST added diploma programs in Pharmacy, Human Resource Management, Office Management, Business Management, Accountancy.

In 2011, MiCoST became the Asia e-University's (AeU) learning centre for  Melaka, Negeri Sembilan and Johor. That same year, MiCoST began a partnership with University of Cyberjaya (UoC).

In November 2014, MiCoST established the Faculty of Information Technology and  Multimedia. This faculty offered five new programmes

 Game Design
 Graphic Design
 Interactive Media
 Digital Animation
 Computer Science (Open Source Computing)

In 2016, MiCoST added four diploma programmes in partnership with UiTM:  Business Studies, Science, Pre-Diploma Science & Pre-Diploma Perdagangan.

Courses

Sijil Kemahiran Malaysia (SKM)
 LEVEL 3 COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEM

Pre-diploma
 SCIENCE (UiTM COLLABORATION)
 COMMERCE (UiTM COLLABORATION)
 BUSSINESS STUDIES (UiTM COLLABORATION)

Diploma

 SCIENCE (UiTM COLLABORATION)
 PHARMACY (UiTM COLLABORATION)
 BUSINESS STUDIES (UiTM COLLABORATION)
 PSYCHOLOGY (UoC COLLABORATION)
 OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH (UoC COLLABORATION)
 EARLY CHILLHOOD EDUCATION (UoC COLLABORATION)
 PHARMACY (MiCoST)
 BUSINESS STUDIES (MiCoST)
 ACCOUNTANCY (MiCoST)
 OFFICE MANAGEMENT (MiCoST)
 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (MiCoST)
 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION (MiCoST)
 DIGITAL ANIMATION  (MiCoST)
 GAME DESIGN (MiCoST)
 GRAPHIC DESIGN (MiCoST)
 INTERACTIVE MEDIA (MiCoST)
 COMPUTER SCIENCE (OPEN SOURCE COMPUTING) (MiCoST)

DOCTORATE
 BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (DBA)

University Partners

 Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
 University of Cyberjaya (UoC)
 Asia e University (AEU)
 Mahsa University

See also
 List of universities in Malaysia

References

External links

Colleges in Malaysia
Universities and colleges in Malacca
Educational institutions established in 2006
2006 establishments in Malaysia


title: Fontana del Formiello, Naples

text:
The Fontana del Formiello (Fountain of the Formiello) is a historic public fountain located at the rear exterior of the Castel Capuano, facing Piazza Enrico de Nicola, and across the street from the church and convent of Santa Caterina a Formiello in Naples, Italy. The term Formiello comes from the forms or containers for water spouts found in the convent. The fountain had been placed in storage during the late 19th century, and reconstructed at this site in 1930.

Mastro Joseppe and Michel De Guido were commissioned in 1573 to reconstruct a medieval fountain, originally called Fontana Reale con Abeveratoio, suggesting it was a watering station for horses. Three lion masks disgorge water, while the superior structure has a heraldic shield of the viceroy. The Shield is that of Don Pedro Tellez Giron, Duke of Osuna. A plaque in Latin states that: "While Philip II (of Spain) governed, here stopped travelers to venerate the waters of the Sebeto River, that the choirs of the Aonidi, and the waves of Parnassus, here provide you the source of Melpomene, who sings the aria of the works of the king."

It is rumored that in the 17th century the viceroy Don Pedro Antonio of Aragon added a statue of Philip IV of Spain, but the placement was rebuffed by the people of Naples.

References

Fountains in Naples


title: Im Ji-eun

text:
Im Ji-eun (born February 27, 1973) is a South Korean actress.

Filmography

Television series

Film

Awards and nominations

References

External links
 Im Ji-eun Fan Cafe at Daum

1973 births
Living people
South Korean television actresses
South Korean film actresses