title: Taulant Seferi

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Taulant Fatmir Seferi (born 15 November 1996) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for UAE Pro League club Baniyas, on loan from Ukrainian Premier League club Vorskla Poltava. Born in North Macedonia, he represents the Albania national team.

Club career

Early career
Seferi started his youth career at his hometown club FK Milano Kumanovë. Then in 2011 he moved at FK Rabotnički.

Rabotnički
He made his debut with FK Rabotnički on 5 October 2013 against Bregalnica Štip at the age of 16 years, 10 months and 20 days by coming on as a substitute in the 90'+1 minute in place of Krste Velkoski. He scored his first goal on 23 November 2013 against Shkëndija Tetovo where he came on as a substitute in the 61st minute in place of Demir Imeri and scored in the 81st minute the last goal of the match which finished in the 5–0 victory. He finished his first season at Rabotnički with 16 appearances and 3 goals. Then he played 12 matches in the 2014–15 season.

Young Boys
In 2015 Seferi moved to Switzerland joining BSC Young Boys. Initially he played one match with the under-21 team in 1. Liga Classic. Then he debuted with the first team on 14 February 2015 against Grasshoppers coming on as a substitute in the 78th minute in place of Renato Steffen. Five days later he made it his UEFA debut playing in the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League - Round of 32 match against Everton coming on as a substitute once again in place of Renato Steffen in the 79th minute. He became a regular member of the first team under coach Uli Forte participating in every team's match. In March 2015 he suffered a hard knee injury which made him have a knee-operation. The injury kept him out of play for one year and half. He returned to the pitch in October 2016 playing with the under-21 team. He returned to the first team on 5 February 2017 playing against Sion as an 88th-minute substitute in place of Thorsten Schick.

On 10 July 2019, Seferi was loaned out to Neuchâtel Xamax FCS for the rest of the season.

Tirana
Seferi joined Albanian club and reigning Kategoria Superiore champions KF Tirana on 4 January 2021 on loan for the remainder of the 2020-21 season. He made his debut for the club in the league on 16 January 2021 in a 2–1 home win against Kastrioti, coming on in the 53rd minute for Ardit Toli. His first goal came on 31 January 2021 against Apolonia, where he scored the winner in the 77th minute with a right-footed shot from an Ernest Muçi assist. After signing permanently with Tirana on a three-year contract, Seferi was loaned out to champions Teuta Durrës for their Champions League qualification matches.

Seferi was one of the main players for Tirana as they won the 26th Kategoria Superiore title in the 2021–22 season, scoring 19 goals in 35 appearances. Despite being level on goals with Laçi's Saliou Guindo for the league's Golden Boot award, Seferi missed it because he had played more matches than him. During this season, he also formed a notable partnership with the young emerging striker Redon Xhixha, with the duo having scored or assisted 49 of Tirana's 64 league goals.

International career

Macedonia

Senior
Seferi played his first international game with the Macedonia national team on 26 May 2014 in a 2–0 win against Cameroon, coming on as a substitute for Besart Abdurahimi in the 57th minute of that game. By doing so, he became the youngest player ever to appear for Macedonia at 17 years and 6 months, overtaking the previous record holder Goran Pandev. Before Seferi, Pandev held that mark at 17 years, 10 months and 11 days during the friendly match against Turkey on 6 June 2001.

Albania

Under-21
In January 2017 media reported that the newly appointed Albania under-21 national team coach Alban Bushi had convinced Seferi to play for the side. In a press conference later, coach Bushi declared that he had invited Seferi for a gathering stage at the same month but Seferi was not permitted by club due to a preparation stage. The Albanian Football Association proceeded to give Seferi the Albanian passport to make him eligible for Albania U21 in the competitive tournament 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification. On 18 March 2017, he was re-invited again at under-21 national side for a double friendly match against Moldova U21 on 25 and 27 March 2017. Two days later he received the Albanian citizenship by president Bujar Nishani among Elvir Maloku & Çlirim Shabani, to become eligible to play for Albania in competitive matches. He made his debut for Albania under-21 against Moldova on 25 March playing as a starter in a goalless draw. In other match against the same opponent two days later, Seferi played once more as a starter in a 2–0 victory.

Seferi was called up for the friendly match against France U21 on 5 June 2017 and the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification opening match against Estonia U21 on 12 June 2017. He played against France U21 as a first-half substitute for Endri Çekiçi as Albania was defeated 3–0. On 8 June 2017, Seferi received the go ahead from FIFA to be eligible to play for Albania U21 in competitive matches. He made his competitive debut for Albania U21 against Estonia U21 on 12 June 2017 playing the full 90-minutes match in a goalless draw.

Senior
Seferi received his first senior call-up by manager Edoardo Reja for the closing fixtures of UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying against Andorra and France in November 2019. He made his senior debut for Albania against the first one, playing as a second-half substitute as the match ended in a disappointing 2–2 draw at Elbasan Arena.

Seferi was used sparingly in the team's campaign in 2020–21 UEFA Nations League C, collecting only 90 minutes from just three appearances. Albania topped their group and was promoted to League B. On 5 June 2022, Seferi scored his first international goal for Albania in a 1–1 away draw against Iceland in the opening fixture of 2022–23 UEFA Nations League B.

Career statistics

Club

International

Scores and results list Albanian goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Seferi goal.

Honours
Tirana
 Kategoria Superiore: 2021–22

Rabotnički
 Macedonian First League: 2013–14
 Macedonian Cup: 2013–14

Young Boys
 Swiss Super League runner-up: 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17

References

External links

1996 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Kumanovo
Men's association football wingers
Men's association football forwards
Albanian men's footballers
Albania men's under-21 international footballers
Albania men's international footballers
Macedonian men's footballers
North Macedonia men's youth international footballers
North Macedonia men's under-21 international footballers
North Macedonia men's international footballers
Dual men's international footballers
FK Rabotnički players
BSC Young Boys players
FC Wohlen players
Neuchâtel Xamax FCS players
KF Tirana players
FC Vorskla Poltava players
Baniyas Club players
Swiss Super League players
Swiss Challenge League players
Ukrainian Premier League players
UAE Pro League players
Macedonian expatriate men's footballers
Albanian expatriate men's footballers
Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Albanian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Albanian expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine
Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland
Expatriate men's footballers in Ukraine
Expatriate men's footballers in the United Arab Emirates


title: Xiaoguishan station

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Xiaoguishan Station (), is a station of Line 2 of Wuhan Metro. It entered revenue service on December 28, 2012. It is located in Wuchang District. The previous name is South Tiyu Road Station.

Station layout

Gallery

References

Wuhan Metro stations
Line 2, Wuhan Metro
Railway stations in China opened in 2012


title: Vahan Cardashian

text:
Vahan Cardashian (; December 1, 1882June 11, 1934) was an Armenian-American political activist and lawyer.

Born in the city of Caesarea (now Kayseri), Ottoman Empire on December 1, 1882, or 1883, Cardashian studied in the local French lyceum and Talas American College. He emigrated to the United States in 1902. He got accepted at Yale University in 1904 and earned a law degree in 1908. In the same year, he wrote a book entitled The Ottoman Empire of the Twentieth Century. Cardashian entered the New York State Bar Association in 1909 and began practicing law. In 1913, he was the Fiscal Agent of the Ottoman Empire in the United States. Prior to the Armenian genocide of 1915, he served as a counselor and statistician to the Ottoman Chamber of Commerce in America. He was a counselor for the Ottoman Embassy in Washington, D.C., and then to the Ottoman Consulate General in New York from 1910 to 1915. He authored several books on the Armenian Question. Some authors claim otherwise, but in his 1934 obituary, it's stated that Cardashian was survived by his sister, mother and brother.

In early 1919, he founded the American Committee for the Independence of Armenia (ACIA), the predecessor of the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA). He continued his efforts until his death in 1934.

References

External links

1880s births
1934 deaths
People from Kayseri
Armenians from the Ottoman Empire
American people of Armenian descent
20th-century American lawyers
Ethnic Armenian lawyers
Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire to the United States
Armenian political scientists
20th-century political scientists


title: Al-Wakrah SC (basketball)

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Al Wakrah Basketball Team () is a Qatari professional basketball team based in the city of Al Wakrah, in southern Qatar. Al Wakrah's basketball team currently competes in the top tier of basketball, the Qatari Basketball League. It is part of the Al-Wakrah Sport Club multisport club.

Honours

Domestic
Emir of Qatar Cup

 Runners-up (1): 2000–2001

Roster

Last Update: November 30, 2020

Notable players
To appear in this section a player must have either:
- Set a club record or won an individual award as a professional player.
- Played at least one official international match for his senior national team
 Earnest Ross
 Kenny Gasana
 Jimmy Williams

Managerial history
 Ihab Galal (2003–)

See also
Al-Wakrah Sport Club
Qatari Basketball League

References

External links
Official website
Asia-basket.com - Team Profile

Basketball teams established in 1959
Basketball teams in Qatar


title: Albin Sandqvist

text:
Albin Sandqvist also known by the mononym Albin is a solo Swedish singer. He was part of the Swedish band Star Pilots, a solo electronic / dance pop act.

Albin has also pursued a solo career and in 2005 had a solo hit single "I'll Be Waiting". The maxi single included backing vocals by Marcus Öhrn and Sussie Ottebring with Lee Farmer on guitar. The maxi single also had a remix of the track by Punkstar.

Discography

Singles

References

Swedish male singers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people


title: Hongshan Square station

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Hongshan Square Station () is an interchange station of Line 2 and Line 4 of Wuhan Metro. It entered revenue service on December 28, 2012. It is located in Wuchang District.

Station layout

Gallery

Station

Entrance

Paired cross-platform transfer

Hongshan Square station offers paired cross-platform interchange for passengers riding between 4 directions of the two lines. The configuration for the two stations is similar to that of Mong Kok and Prince Edward stations in Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway.

Those who going to Wuhan railway station, can transfer at Hongshan Square Station by crossing the platform, and vice versa.

References

Wuhan Metro stations
Line 2, Wuhan Metro
Line 4, Wuhan Metro
Railway stations in China opened in 2012


title: MyRegistry.com

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MyRegistry.com is a universal gift registry service. The company also offers its gift registry software as a service (SaaS) to businesses of all sizes.

History
MyRegistry.com operates through its website, browser plug-ins, and apps to serve as a third-party organizer alongside other online gift registry services for weddings, baby showers, birthdays, and other gift-giving occasions. MyRegistry.com was notably used by Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland ahead of her 2013 wedding.
MyRegistry.com also enables potential gift-givers to donate cash via PayPal rather than a physical gift.  Cash Gift Funds can be created for "honeymoon funds." This function has received mixed reviews as it can be perceived to be crass commercialism counter to traditional western norms of wedding etiquette, despite having some utility to newlywed couples. Although not addressing MyRegistry.com specifically, the Emily Post Institute and others have decried both giving cash as a wedding gift and expanding gift registry beyond weddings to other occasions such as college graduation.
MyRegistry.com has gained notoriety in part due to their interoperability with Pinterest. Shopko joined with www.MyRegistry.com to offer a universal gift registry to its customers. The registry was available in Shopko and Shopko Hometown stores and to online shoppers prior to the company's closure in 2019. Costco has teamed up with MyRegistry.com to offer registry services for engaged couples and expectant parents as well as other universal gift registries. MyRegistry.com is also available in Spanish, making MyRegistry the only end-to-end Spanish language Universal Gift Registry, with every feature for every gift-giving occasion accessible to the Spanish-speaking community.

References

2005 establishments in New Jersey
Companies based in New Jersey
Internet properties established in 2005


The 2014–15 Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 was the 53rd season of the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 since its establishment in 1962. A total of 16 teams contested the league, with USM Alger as the defending champions. Following the death of Albert Ebossé Bodjongo, the Algerian Football Federation suspended all football indefinitely. The league resumed on Week 3 starting 12 September 2014, with all matches on that week were preceded with a minute silence in memory of Ebossé.

Team summaries

Promotion and relegation
Teams promoted from 2013–14 Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2
 ASM Oran
 NA Hussein Dey
 USM Bel-Abbès

Teams relegated to 2014-15 Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2
 CA Bordj Bou Arréridj
 CRB Aïn Fakroun
 JSM Béjaïa

Stadiums and locations

Primary venues used in the Ligue 1:

Personnel and kits

Results

League table

RC Arbaâ was to participate in the 2016 CAF Confederation Cup as a runners-up of the 2014–15 Algerian Cup in place of MO Béjaïa, because MO Béjaïa take part to 2016 CAF Champions League as a runners-up to a championship. However RC Arbaâ withdrew from the competition because that does not have a Fifa license, it was replaced by CS Constantine.

Result table

Leader week after week

Positions by round

Clubs season-progress

Season statistics

Top scorers

Hat-tricks

Media coverage

See also
2014–15 Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2
2014–15 Algerian Cup

References

Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 seasons
Algeria
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title: Nifene

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Nifene is a high affinity, selective nicotinic α4β2* receptor partial agonist used in medical research for nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, usually in the form of nifene (18F) as a positron emission tomography (PET) radiotracer.

Nifene has been used to assess the efficacy of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors in animal models, because the neurotransmitter acetylcholine competes with the binding of nifene at the nicotinic receptor site.  Learning and behavior studies in animal models using nifene have suggested a potential role of the nicotinic receptors located in distinct white matter tracts.  Nifene studies in animal models of lung cancer have suggested an upregulation of the nicotinic receptor in the lung tumors.  Novel PET and SPECT imaging agents as potential receptor antagonists have been developed based on the structure of nifene; niodene for SPECT, nifrolene for PET  and niofene for PET/SPECT. These new derivatives take advantage of the unique in vivo imaging properties of nifene. Human studies with (18F)-nifene make it a promising nicotinic α4β2* receptor PET radiotracer for scientific research and has exhibited reliable test-retest reproducibility. Human white matter thalamic radiations (or tracts) were well demarcated and quantified using (18F)-nifene.

References

External links
ChemSpider

Radiopharmaceuticals
Fluoroarenes
Pyridines
Pyrrolines


title: Zhongnan Road station

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Zhongnan Road Station () is an interchange station of Line 2 and Line 4 of Wuhan Metro. It entered revenue service on December 28, 2012. It is located in Wuchang District.

Station layout

Gallery

Station

Entrance

Paired Cross-Platform Transfer

Zhongnan Road Station offers paired cross-platform interchange for passengers riding between 4 directions of the two lines. The configuration for the two stations is similar to that of Mong Kok and Prince Edward stations in Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway.

Passengers riding on Line 2 from Hankou wishing to reach Wuchang railway station, can transfer at Zhongnan Road Station by crossing the platform.

References

Wuhan Metro stations
Line 2, Wuhan Metro
Line 4, Wuhan Metro
Railway stations in China opened in 2012


title: The Trunk

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The Trunk is a low budget, black and white 1961 British mystery film directed by Donovan Winter and starring Phil Carey, Julia Arnall and  Dermot Walsh.

Plot
Trouble ensues when Lisa marries Henry, a British lawyer. Lisa's jealous ex-boyfriend Stephen decides to take revenge by convincing her that she has killed Diane, her husband's ex-girlfriend. Lisa gives Stephen the money he wants to keep quiet and dispose of the corpse. Unfortunately, the dead woman's other ex-lover, Nicholas, sees the two together. After getting his money from Lisa, Stephen puts Diane's body in a trunk and drives to an isolated area. There he discovers that the woman is not feigning death; she has been killed by the jealous Nicholas, in a manner that will incriminate Stephen.

Cast
 Phil Carey as Stephen Dorning
 Julia Arnall as Lisa Maitland
 Dermot Walsh as Henry Maitland
 Vera Day as Diane
 Peter Swanwick as Nicholas Steiner
 John Atkinson as Matt
 Betty Le Beau as Maria
 Tony Quinn as Porter
 Robert Sansom as Bank Manager
 Pippa Stanley as Mrs. Stanhope
 Richard Nellor as Sir Hubert
 Nicholas Tanner as Policeman

Critical reception
TV Guide wrote, "the movie is badly produced and too seamy for its own good." In The New York Times, Bosley Crowther wrote, "now that the British are importing American actors to commit homicide in their low-budget movies, they seem to have lost their flair."  Crowther called it a "foolish melodrama" that is "several kilometers removed from Agatha Christie."  Sky Movies called it a "creepy little thriller" that is "hugely enjoyable. The director doesn't miss a trick at tightening up the suspense."

External links

References

1961 films
1960s mystery films
British independent films
British mystery films
Columbia Pictures films
1960s English-language films
1960s British films


title: Battle of Prairie Dog Creek (1876)

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The Battle of Prairie Dog Creek, also known as the Skirmish at Tongue River Heights, or the Battle of the Tongue River (1876), part of the Great Sioux War of 1876, occurred on June 9, 1876, at the confluence of Prairie Dog Creek and the Tongue River primarily in Wyoming Territory.

The battle
On June 9, 1876, soldiers and civilians under the command of Brigadier General George R. Crook, were encamped on the Tongue River at the mouth of Prairie Dog Creek. With Crook, were over 950 United States cavalry and infantry soldiers, and about 100 civilians. While the soldiers were in camp on June 9, some observed two mounted Cheyenne warriors riding along the bluffs on the north bank of the Tongue River. Then, about 200 concealed Cheyenne warriors suddenly fired a volley of .44 Henry, and .50 caliber rifles from the bluffs into Crook's camp. Another small band of warriors had remained hidden to the east of Crook's camp, with the intention of stealing the soldiers' horses when their attention was diverted. Crook ordered an attack. Companies C, G, and H, of the 9th U.S. Infantry crossed the river, and after wading through the rivers' frigid water, scaled the nearly vertical bluffs. Companies A, E, I, and M of the Third U.S. Cavalry, the battalion under the command of Captain Anson Mills also responded, and crossed the river just to the west, and on the left flank of the infantrymen. Accompanying the cavalry was the newspaper reporter John F. Finerty, the "Fighting Irish Pencil Pusher" for the Chicago Times. After reaching a grove of cottonwood trees, the cavalry dismounted. Leaving every fourth man as a horse holder, the cavalrymen advanced dismounted up the bluffs. After reaching the top, the soldiers drove back the Cheyenne warriors who had fired into the camp earlier, north about half a mile, away from the crest of the ridge. But at a second ridge line, the Cheyenne's reformed. Soldiers then drove them from it, crossing into Montana Territory. Warriors reformed a third time, but this final effort lasted only briefly, and the Cheyenne warriors retreated north. The warriors intending to steal the soldiers' horses did not attempt to do so, the horses being closely guarded. Thus ended the Battle of Prairie Dog Creek.

Aftermath
In the fight, the casualties were two Cheyenne's killed or wounded, two soldiers who suffered minor wounds, one of the soldiers' mule's killed, and two of the soldiers' horses wounded. The soldiers seemed to have rather enjoyed the skirmish, since it relieved the boredom in their otherwise mundane life in bivouac. Since the soldiers' mounts were well secured, the Cheyenne's suffered only a lost opportunity to steal some horses. Most of the same combatants that fought at Prairie Dog Creek on both sides, would soon move north and see action at the Battle of the Rosebud, only eight days later. And many of the Cheyenne warriors would also fight in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, just 16 days after Prairie Dog Creek.

The battlefield
The battlefield is located on private land, at the confluence of Prairie Dog Creek and the Tongue River in northern Sheridan County, Wyoming, and southern Rosebud County, Montana near present-day Decker, Montana.

Order of battle
United States Army, Department of the Platte - Brigadier General George R. Crook, Commanding.
 2nd United States Cavalry Regiment,
Company A, Captain Thomas Bull Dewees, First Lieutenant Daniel Crosby Pearson
Company B, First Lieutenant William Charles Rawolle
Company D, First Lieutenant Samuel Miller Swigert, Second Lieutenant Henry Dustin Huntington
Company E, Captain Elijah Revillo Wells, Second Lieutenant Frederick W. Sibley
Company I, Captain Henry Erastus Noyes, Second Lieutenant Frederick William Kingsbury
 3rd United States Cavalry Regiment,
Company A, First Lieutenant Joseph Lawson, Second Lieutenant Charles Morton
Company B, Captain Charles Meinhold
Company C, Captain Frederick Van Vliet
Company D, Second Lieutenant James Ferdinand Simpson
Company E, Captain Alexander Sutorius, First Lieutenant Adolphus H. Von Luettwittz
Company F, Second Lieutenant Bainbridge Reynolds
Company G, First Lieutenant Emmett Crawford
Company I, Captain William Howard Andrews, Second Lieutenant James E. H. Foster
Company L, Captain Peter Dumont Vroom
Company M, Captain Anson Mills, First Lieutenant Augustus Choutea Paul, Second Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka
 4th United States Infantry Regiment,
Company D, Captain Avery Billings Cain
Company F,
 9th United States Infantry Regiment,
Company C, Captain Samuel Munson
Company G, Captain Thomas Bredin Burrowes, First Lieutenant William Lewis Carpenter
Company H, Captain Andrew Sheridan Burt, Second Lieutenant Edgar Brooks Robertson
 Civilians and Scouts, Assistant Surgeon Julius Herman Patzki

Native Americans, about 200 warriors.
 Northern Cheyenne.

Notes

1876 in the United States
Battles involving the Cheyenne
Battles of the Great Sioux War of 1876
Conflicts in 1876
June 1876 events


title: The New York City Jazz Record

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The New York City Jazz Record is a monthly New York City based publication that includes features, reviews and concert announcements regarding jazz music. It is available in print form (black and white hardcopy) as well as online at www.nycjazzrecord.com (in full color). It was launched in May 2002 by co-founders Laurence Donohue-Greene (Managing Editor) and Andrey Henkin (Editorial Director/Production Manager) under the name AllAboutJazz-New York. The gazette's name change switched permanently to The New York City Jazz Record as of March 2011.

Saxophonist Joe Lovano says of The New York City Jazz Record: "Simply the hippest journal about jazz in New York that has ever been published." It has been nominated on many occasions as "Best Jazz Periodical" by the Jazz Journalists Association (2006, 2007, 2009–2022) and is distributed throughout New York City at hundreds of locations - from jazz clubs and record stores to instrument stores, schools and universities. The New York City Jazz Record includes extensive features and CD reviews dedicated to promoting NYC jazz performances and events.

References

External links
 Official website

Jazz publications
Magazines established in 2002
2002 establishments in New York City
Jazz magazines


title: Escher String Quartet

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The Escher String Quartet is an American string quartet based in New York City, where they serve as Artists of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Their name derives from the Dutch artist M. C. Escher.

Biography

The Escher Quartet was founded in 2005 in New York City, where its original members were studying at the Manhattan School of Music. The group tours the US as well as internationally and has performed in Europe, Australia, and China. Among the venues where the ensemble has performed are the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, Kennedy Center in Washington DC, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and Wigmore Hall in London.

The quartet served on the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme from 2010 until 2012. They were also invited by Pinchas Zukerman to serve as Quartet in Residence at the Young Artists Programme at Canada's National Arts Centre and were invited by Itzhak Perlman to the Perlman Music Program on Shelter Island, New York. From 2007 until 2009, the quartet was in residence at Stony Brook University. Escher has been mentored by the Emerson String Quartet and has collaborated with artists that include Leon Fleischer, David Finckel, Wu Han, Benjamin Grosvenor, jazz vocalist Kurt Elling, and jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman

In 2013 the Escher Quartet was awarded the Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Career Grant. In 2015 the quartet was awarded the Martin. E. Segal Award by Lincoln Center.

Members

Adam Barnett-Hart, violin
Brendan Speltz, violin
Pierre Lapointe, viola
Brook Speltz, cello

Former Members

Aaron Boyd, violin

Recordings

The Escher String Quartet is best known for its recordings of Alexander von Zemlinsky's complete string quartets. In 2015, the quartet began releasing recordings of Mendelssohn's complete string quartets on the BIS label.
Music@Menlo: Bridging the Ages, Disc 5. 2008. Music@Menlo Live
Amy Cheney Beach Piano Quintet / Alan Louis Smith Vignettes: Covered Wagon Woman. 2011. Chamber Music Society Studio Recordings
Stony Brook Soundings, Vol. 1, 2011. Bridge Records
Alexander Zemlinsky String Quartets, Vol. 1, 2013. Naxos
Alexander Zemlinsky String Quartets, Vol. 2, 2014. Naxos
Mendelssohn: String Quartets No. 1 in E Flat Major and No. 4 in E Minor, 2015. BIS
Mendelssohn: String Quartets No. 2 in A Minor and No. 3 in D Major, 2015. BIS
Mendelssohn: String Quartets No. 5 in E Flat Major and No. 6 in F Minor, 2016. BIS
Dvořák: American Quartet; Tchaikovsky: Quartet No. 1; Borodin: Quartet No. 2, 2018. BIS
Samuel Barber: String Quartet in B minor, Op.11; Charles Ives: String Quartet No. 1 (From the Salvation Army) and String Quartet No. 2, 2021. BIS
Pierre Jalbert: String Quartet No. 4, Air in Motion, and String Quartet No. 6 (“Canticle”), 2023. Orchard Classics – with Carol Wincenc (flute)
Pierre Jalbert: String Quartet No. 5 Terra Incognita, 2023. Orchard Classics

References

External links

Musical groups from New York City
Musical groups established in 2005
American string quartets


title: Creepers (video game)

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Creepers is a video game developed by Canadian studio Destiny Software Productions for MS-DOS and published by Psygnosis in 1993.

Gameplay

Reception
Scott A. May for Compute! said "Creepers plays well, but it lacks the zest and individuality needed to stand out in this popular genre."

David S. Moskowitz for VideoGames & Computer Entertainment said "Creepers is just as enjoyable and addictive as one would expect from Psygnosis [...] computer-puzzle fans have very little to complain about."

Ken Hill for Computer Gaming World said "All in all, Creepers is a disappointment. Something about the whole premise just doesn't work; the ideas here just aren't as fresh as they were in the original Lemmings."

Reviews
PC Player (Germany) - Mar, 1993
Tilt - Feb, 1993
PC Games (Germany) - Apr, 1993
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - Apr, 1993

References

1993 video games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Psygnosis games
Puzzle video games
Real-time strategy video games
Video games about insects
Video games developed in Canada


title: Mortgage Assumption Value

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The mortgage assumption value (MAV) is the cash equivalent, at the current point in time, of all future savings that could be achieved by assuming an existing low-interest-rate home mortgage loan rather than taking out a new higher interest rate loan and accounting for the time value of money.

This value is associated with a specific mortgage and fluctuates as currently, available interest rates vary relative to the subject mortgage. Value is created and grows whenever the prevailing interest rate for a new mortgage loan is greater than and increasing when compared to the interest rate of the assumable mortgage. Similarly, the mortgage assumption value shrinks as market rates fall and hits zero if the market rate is less than or equal to the rate on the assumable mortgage.

VA loans can be assumed by anyone and are not required to be passed on to another veteran.

Calculation

The mortgage assumption value can be calculated as the net present value of the sum of the future monthly payment savings due to the assumable loan rate being lower than the prevailing new loan interest rate. The calculation may take different forms, below are two examples:

Calculate the monthly payment for a new hypothetical loan using the prevailing rate, current unpaid principal balance of the assumable loan, and remaining term in months on original assumable loan.  Take the difference between this higher payment and the original assumable payment yielding the monthly savings amount.  Last, discount using the prevailing rate the series of monthly savings to current value at prevailing rates.
Discount the remaining series of payments from the assumable loan using the prevailing rate as the discount rate. Then take the difference between this net present value and the actual unpaid principal balance. This also yields the mortgage assumption value and is computationally simpler than the first approach.

Example

An illustrative example using the 30-year fixed rate mortgage (historically the most common mortgage type in the United States) for comparison:

A $100,000 assumable mortgage loan with a 4.00% rate has a corresponding monthly loan payment of $477.42. In this example let’s say the loan is assumed after 3 years (36 months) and that the unpaid principal balance will have reduced to $94,499.  Now calculate the payment at a prevailing rate of 6.00%, principal of $94,499 and term of 27 years (original 30 years less 3 years until assumption) and the hypothetical payment is would be $589.66. Take the difference between this hypothetical payment and the actual assumable payment to calculate a monthly savings of $112.24.  Now discount using a prevailing rate of 6.00% the 324-month (27 years) series of $112.24 hypothetical cash flows to yield a [net present value] of $17,988.

See also
 Mortgage note
 Mortgage assumption

References

External links
 U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
 Zumption Assumable Mortgage Resource Center

Mortgage industry of the United States
Mortgage
Loans


title: Ruth Almén

text:
Ruth Sofia Almén (24 September 1870 in Solberga rectory, Bohuslän – 19 November 1945 in Johanneberg, Gothenburg), was a Swedish composer, pianist, teacher, author and poet.

Biography
Almén studied counterpoint with Wilhelm Stenhammar in Gothenburg, harmony with Gustaf Hägg in Stockholm, composition with Franz Neruda and Knud Jeppesen in Copenhagen, and instrumentation with Karl Westermeyer in Berlin. She also studied piano with Richard Andersson in Stockholm, Knut Bäck in Gothenburg, Heinrich Barth in Berlin, and Robert Lortat in Paris. Ruth Almén was active as a musical teacher in Gothenburg.

Musical work
Sonata op. 1
Sonata op. 2
Violinsonat a-moll op 3
Preludium und Sarabande für Klavier op. 4
Drei Praeludien für Klavier Op. 5
Pianokonsert (Pianoconcert)

References

Further reading

Swedish women writers
Swedish composers
Swedish pianists
Swedish women pianists
Swedish women poets
1870 births
1945 deaths
People from Bohuslän
Swedish women composers


title: Ludwig von Gleichen-Rußwurm

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Heinrich Ludwig Freiherr von Gleichen-Rußwurm (25 October 1836, Castle Greifenstein in Unterfranken - 9 July 1901, Weimar) was a German impressionist painter and graphic artist who was one of the pioneers of that style in Germany. He was a grandson of Friedrich Schiller.

Life
He was the only child of Baron Adalbert von Gleichen-Rußwurm and his wife Emilie, Friedrich Schiller's youngest daughter. King Ludwig I was his godfather. He first attended school in Meiningen, where his family spent the winter and his father had a seat in the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen's advisory legislature. Later, he studied in Jena, Heidelberg and Geneva, followed by an internship with the Agricultural Academy at the University of Hohenheim.

During a stay in Frankfurt, he met the Baroness Elisabeth von Thienen-Adlerflycht, daughter of the Danish chargé d'affaires, and they were married in 1859. She died shortly after childbirth in 1865. Their son, Alexander von Gleichen-Rußwurm, became a well-known writer and philosopher. His sense of loss led him to pursue his artistic inclinations. Leaving Alexander in the care of his mother Emilie, he moved into an apartment with a studio in Weimar, studying with Max Schmidt and Theodor Hagen at the Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School. In 1872, he had his first exhibition in Berlin. During a stay in France in 1876, he came under the influence of the Barbizon school and developed an interest in etching.

After 1880, he spent the winter in Berlin and travelled extensively during the summer. Together with Alexander, he participated in creating the Goethe-Schiller Archive, donating items from his family's collection. In 1889, he was named an honorary member of the Goethe-Gesellschaft and, five years later, was elected Chairman of the Deutsche Schillerstiftung.

References

Further reading
 Heiner Dikreiter: Freiherr von Gleichen-Rußwurm. Catalog of the Memorial Exhibition, Würzburg 1957
 Städtische Galerie Würzburg: Ludwig von Gleichen-Rußwurm. Exhibition of 18 December 1983 - 19 February 1984
 Der Impressionist Ludwig von Gleichen-Rußwurm in, Yearbook 2008 of the Arnsteiner Heimatkunde-Vereins e.V., Arnstein 2008,

External links

 Entry in the Große Bayerische Biographische Enzyklopädie by DeGruyter @ Google Books

1836 births
1901 deaths
Landscape painters
Impressionism
People from Lower Franconia
19th-century German painters
19th-century German male artists
German male painters


title: Munster Junior Football Championship

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The Munster Junior Football Championship is a gaelic football tournament between the six counties of Munster: Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary, Clare and Waterford. It is the third-tier county teams playing off in a single-elimination tournament with 2 quarter finals instead of 4 (as of 2014). The cup was first given to the winners in 1957. Kerry have won the most titles, 42 in all.
The winner will play against the champions of the other provinces in the All-Ireland Junior Football Championship.

Roll of Honour

Top winners

List of finals

 1913 Replay ordered after an objection
 1916 Limerick awarded title on an objection after Cork had won the final 1–0 to 0–2

See also
 Leinster Junior Football Championship
 Connacht Junior Football Championship
 Ulster Junior Football Championship

References

External Information

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title: Science of Star Wars (miniseries)

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Science of Star Wars is a 2005 TV documentary miniseries aired by the Discovery Channel. The series features mainly archive footage from the actors of the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga.

The series explores and discusses various aspects of Star Wars from a scientific perspective. It compares many of the technologies in Star Wars and their similarities to modern technological progress and development. The series is divided into three episodes, one for the specific discussion of various related topics.

See also
Star Wars Tech

References

External links
Science of Star Wars on IMDb
Science of Star Wars on Discovery Channel on TheForce.Net

Star Wars documentaries

Discovery Channel original programming


title: Dragon Ball Xenoverse

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Dragon Ball Xenoverse is an action role-playing fighting game based on the Dragon Ball franchise developed by Dimps and published by Bandai Namco Games. It was released in February 2015 for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows.

A sequel, Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 was released in 2016.

Gameplay
The game is set almost entirely within a number of 3D areas, which are mostly modeled after notable locations in the Dragon Ball universe, accessed from the main hub – the Toki-Toki City. Fighters can traverse the levels free-roaming in large spaces and can fight on ground, in the air and underwater. The game features spoken dialogue from a majority of main characters while in battle, and characters show facial expressions when they strike an opponent or take damage. Although limited, the players have some freedom to explore the planet Earth as it exists in the Dragon Ball universe along with a handful of other locations, including the aforementioned Toki-Toki City.

Xenoverse is the third Dragon Ball game to feature character creation, the first being Dragon Ball Online and the second being Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi. Player-created character has the option of becoming an apprentice of the original Dragon Ball characters in order to learn their special moves and access specific costume items. With character customization, players are able to customize their character's race, gender, facial hair, body features, clothing and character's voice effects. There are five available playable races: Saiyans, Namekians, Earthlings, Majins and Frieza's race; all of which have race specific advantages and bonuses as well as shortcomings.

The online multiplayer is accessed from the Toki-Toki City, which serves as a hub where players can form groups and take on cooperative, time-traveling missions.

Plot
Xenoverse features an entirely original story starring the player's custom character. The story itself borrows elements from the Dragon Ball Online MMO, which sees returning villains Towa and Mira manipulating the history of the Dragon Ball universe. Time Patrol Trunks asks Shenron to send him a hero who would help him restore the timeline.

After resolving changes in history during the Saiyan Saga, the Future Warrior is introduced to the leader of the Time Patrol, the Supreme Kai of Time, and her bird, Tokitoki. After resolving more changes in the midst of the Frieza Saga, the Warrior encounters Towa and Mira and engages in a battle with the two, barely defeating Mira. After returning to the Time Nest, The Supreme Kai of Time tells Trunks and the Warrior that Towa is stealing energy to break the seal containing the Demon Realm by manipulating events in history, and that there was a previous attempt to invade the Time Nest that had failed.

The Warrior is sent back to the battle with Frieza and eventually to the Cell Games to resolve further changes in history, culminating in a battle with Towa and Mira. After their defeat, Towa and Mira go to Trunks' original timeline and after manipulating time, Trunks is nearly erased from existence. The Warrior is sent to rescue Trunks from Androids 17 and 18. As she escapes, Towa reveals that she made two changes to the timeline that put Trunks in danger. With no clues as to when the second change occurred, the Warrior is met with a mysterious individual that offers to take them there, which the Player accepts. The Warrior then rescues Trunks from Cell, who had absorbed Trunks' original 17 and 18. Trunks and the Player defeat Cell, and the Warrior returns to the Time Nest.

Shortly after a change in history in the Buu Saga, the Warrior is sent to stop Towa and Mira, destroying Mira in the process and stopping Towa's plans. After successfully defeating Kid Buu, the Supreme Kai of Time discovers and destroys a Majin emblem that the mysterious figure left on the Warrior, identifying the figure as the Demon God, Demigra. The Supreme Kai of Time reveals that Demigra was the previously mentioned invader of the Time Nest and was imprisoned outside of time for 75 million years, but appears to be growing stronger.

After fixing changes to the final battles in the Buu Saga, Demigra then enters the events of Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, attempting to take control over Beerus through his magic, which fails. Beerus and the Warrior fight Demigra together, succeeding in halting Demigra's plans, and Beerus and Whis follow the Warrior to the Time Nest. Shortly after Beerus and Whis depart, Demigra is revealed to have escaped from his prison. The Supreme Kai of Time gathers the Dragon Balls to summon Goku to assist the Warrior with fighting allies and foes that had fallen under Demigra's control.

Demigra then directly enters the Time Nest and consumes Tokitoki before attacking the Warrior. Eventually Goku arrives to assist in the battle, with Goku and the Warrior pursuing Demigra to the Time Vault. However, Demigra successfully defeats the two and destroys the Time Vault. However, the Warrior is sent back to the moment of their defeat by Tokitoki and pursues Demigra to a final battle, where Demigra is destroyed and Tokitoki is saved. Meanwhile, Towa recovers Mira's power core, and promises to restore him to his full strength again.

Some time later, the Time Patrol discover that Demigra had timed attacks with his magic to disrupt history. Manifesting as wormholes, the first change appears during Bardock's assault on Frieza's forces. However, as Bardock is about to be killed by Frieza, he is pulled through a wormhole. As Trunks begins looking for further changes from Demigra's wormholes, he sends the Warrior to the events of Dragon Ball Z: Broly - Second Coming. Broly is eventually pulled through a wormhole as well. It is discovered that Broly (and Bardock) was sent to the events of the destruction of Namek and Goku's fight with Frieza for the sole purpose of killing Goku. However, due to the wish being made by Dende and the Z Fighters, everyone is sent to Earth. Broly is defeated by the combined forces of the Warrior, Bardock, and Vegeta, and the wormhole is destroyed by the explosion of Namek.

Downloadable Content

Another wormhole is discovered to be altering the events of Dragon Ball GT, which results in Great Ape Baby and Super 17 being consumed by wormholes. The Warrior is eventually sent to the events of the Shadow Dragons Saga, and after defeating Omega Shenron, is consumed by a wormhole alongside Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta and Omega Shenron. They are all deposited in a wasteland alongside Baby and Super 17, with Trunks deducing that the wormholes were created for the express purpose of gathering enemies to finally defeat Goku. However, the three are defeated and Trunks arrives to greet Vegeta and return the three villains to their rightful places. As the Warrior and Trunks return, they are treated to a meal made by the Supreme Kai of Time, but not without Trunks warning about the Supreme Kai's cooking.

Development
Dragon Ball Xenoverse is the first game developed by Dimps to feature full 3D battles, similar to Spike's Budokai Tenkaichi and Raging Blast series. It was first announced as the Dragon Ball New Project, until the actual title was revealed on June 10, 2014 during E3 2014.

The 2014 V-Jump #7 issue, in which the game was announced, draws attention to a mysterious figure watching the first battle between Goku and Vegeta from the shadows. With red hair, a scouter, and the Capsule Corporation logo on his sleeve, this character's identity was not clear. However, it was later revealed that this character is in fact a newly created character, confirming the game's character creation feature.

Promotion
Pre-order releases from participating retailers of the game come with the exclusive Shenron Black Metalcase, Super Saiyan 4 Vegeta as a playable character and two exclusive versions of Frieza Soldier's Battle Suits for the player character. A collector's edition, called the Trunks Travel Edition, which includes a figurine of the character Trunks, has also been announced. Jaco the Galactic Patrolman, a character from the manga Jaco the Galactic Patrolman, a prequel to Dragon Ball, appears as a Japanese pre-order bonus, along with a Master Roshi costume set to customize the player's character with, a Trunks card for Dragon Ball Heroes, and a code that unlocks Trunks in Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle.

Release
Dragon Ball Xenoverse was originally released on February 5, 2015, in Japan and was slated for release on February 13 elsewhere, before being delayed. Following a two-week delay, it was released on February 24 in North America and February 27 in remaining territories.

Reception

Critical response

Dragon Ball Xenoverse received "mixed or average reviews". On review aggregating website Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating in the 0–100 range, the PlayStation 4 version holds the score of 69/100 based on 50 reviews, while the Xbox One version holds 67/100 based on 18 reviews.

Popular Japanese video game magazine Famitsu gave the game an overall score of 30/40 saying that it "isn't without its faults and flaws" noting the repetitiveness of in-game missions and lag in team battles as its main drawbacks, concluding that the game is "aimed at Dragon Ball fans" and it might "appeal to fighting game fans and gamers that love fast action games". IGN gave the game a score of 6.7 out of 10, praising its "true-to-form graphics", unique story and customizable characters while criticizing its "shallow combat" and "unfair missions", noting that the game might appeal to "someone who enjoys anime, fighting, and role-playing games". Hardcore Gamer gave the game a 3.5 out of 5, praising the "create-a-character functionality", game mechanics and multiplayer mode, while criticizing the in-game camera movement and distancing from the established Dragon Ball continuity. GameTrailers gave it a slightly lower score of 6.0, noting the same flaws mentioned by both Famitsu and IGN, such as the "shallow combat" and repetitiveness as well as its potential appeal to mainly the franchise's established fan base rather than general audience while also noting that "those without such a strong attachment to the franchise may not be able to stomach the compromise."

GameSpot also gave the game a score of 6 out of 10, praising its detailed character customization system and a "new, interesting take on a tired story" while also criticizing its loose controls, repetitiveness and unbalanced gameplay. Destructoid gave it a score of 4.5 out of 10 or "below average", stating that it "has some high points, however they soon give way to glaring faults". While giving praise for the game's fighting mechanics and aesthetics as well as its similarity to source material, the general game design from balancing issues to repetitiveness is heavily criticized; saying that "Dragon Ball Xenoverse has some of the worst design decisions ever embedded into a video game", going on to conclude that "it certainly has its moments and the core fighting mechanics are great, however the game falls flat in too many other areas to be standout title." The review also specifically noted the lingering online service related technical difficulties and poor performance on certain platforms.

Toonami, during their aired video game review segments, gave the game a more favorable critique, giving it a score of 8 out of 10, stating that compared to the last few Dragon Ball games, Xenoverse "finally got it right" and that it's "a must" for Toriyama fans.

Sales
As of March 17, 2015, 1.5 million copies have been shipped worldwide. The game was the second best-selling for PlayStation 4 on PlayStation Store for the month of February 2015, behind Dying Light. In April 2015, Bandai Namco Entertainment announced that more than 2.5 million copies had been sold. In February 2016, Bandai Namco Entertainment announced that a total of 3.13 million copies had been shipped worldwide. As of July 2018, Dragon Ball Xenoverse and Xenoverse 2 have collectively shipped over 10million units worldwide.

Sequel

On May 17, 2016, Bandai Namco announced a sequel titled Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows. It was released for said consoles and Steam in October 2016, and for the Nintendo Switch on September 22, 2017.

References

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PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation 4 games
Xbox 360 games
Xbox One games
Windows games
Video games developed in Japan
Bandai Namco games
Dimps games
Xenoverse
Shueisha franchises
Fighting games
Video games with gender-selectable protagonists
Video games with cel-shaded animation
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games about time travel
Toei Animation video game projects
Video games using Havok
Video games with customizable avatars


The 2014–15 Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2 will be the 49th season of the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2 since its establishment, and its fourth season under its current title. A total of 16 teams will contest the league.

Team overview

Stadia and locations

League table

Results table

Season statistics

Top scorers

See also
 2014–15 Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1
 2014–15 Algerian Cup

References

Algerian Ligue 2 seasons
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Algeria


title: Newcastle upon Tyne City Police

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Newcastle upon Tyne City Police was the Home Office police force and a constabulary that served the city of Newcastle upon Tyne.

It was formed in 1836 when Newcastle was one of Europe's biggest industrial cities. It was the first modern police force, formed three years before the County Police Act of 1839. The force had stations at Pilgrim Street in the City Centre, Arthur's Hill, Headlam Street, and Red Barnes, with section stations at Walker, Heaton, Kenton and Benwell village. The Pilgrim Street station was also a fire station. Each foot beat had a large police box where officers could rest and 'ring-in' to their main station and the public had access to a phone for advice or to summon help.

At its peak Newcastle City had almost 1,000 police officers with MGB sports cars in its motor patrol fleet as well as its own specially tailored uniforms. On 1 April 1969 it was amalgamated into the Northumberland Constabulary under the Police Act 1964.

Newcastle upon Tyne City Police lost its identity after the 1969 mergers when the new Northumberland Constabulary was formed. Based at Pilgrim Street police station (now closed and relocated at Forth Banks), the old Newcastle City police HQ, like many multifunctional police forces, also housed the Magistrates Courts and fire station. It was designed by Cackett, Burns, Dick and MacKellar and opened in 1934. The classical elements of Corinthian columns and Egyptian solidity is clearly present, and it is also noted for its mock Babylonian sculptures. It only ended its use as police headquarters after the establishment of Northumbria Police after 1974 which moved to Ashington, then Ponteland sometime later. It also housed one of the two server storage systems for Northumbria Police that backs up and shares contingency information (disaster recovery) with its twin in Ponteland. This changed in 2011 when a new computer system became operational and the disaster recovery system was moved to South Shields.

References

Defunct police forces of England
History of Northumberland


title: Forest Sami

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The forest Sami () are Sami people who live  in the woods and who, unlike the reindeer-herding Sami people (the "fell Sami"), do not move up into the fells during the summer season. Historically, there have been forest Sami in Sweden in the area ranging from northern Ångermanland to the far north. In the early 1600s the term granlapp was also used to refer to the Sami people who paid taxes only to Sweden, compared to the semi-nomadic fell Sami, who, since they worked in the fells that straddled the Swedish-Norwegian border, had to pay taxes to both countries. When Ernst Manker studied the life of the forest Sami in the early 20th century, nearly all of their habitations had been abandoned. Only one forest Sami village remained, in Malå in Västerbotten, an area known as Stenundslandet in Anundsjö.

Background
Historically, there were forest Sami in the northern parts of Ångermanland and further north in Sweden. The two southernmost Sami regions, Åsele and Lycksele, were not inhabited by fell Sami prior to 1606, but rather only by forest Sami, as was the Kemi lappmark in modern Finland. The forest Sami in Kemi, Åsele, and Lycksele became assimilated into Finnish and Swedish society beginning in the 17th century. There are still forest Sami cultures present in the woods in Norrbotten and in Malå in Västerbotten  and in central Lapland of Finland.

Granlappar
By the 1500s, there was already a difference between the forest Sami and the fell Sami. The forest Sami remained in the lowlands in summer, pasturing their reindeer in bogs, while the fell Sami moved their herds high onto the fells, above the tree line, for summer pasturage. At that time, the forest Sami were called granlappar (Spruce Lapps). As a result of this cultural divide, the two groups were subject to different forms of taxation. In 1585 Olof Andersson Burman, a government liaison to the Sami (lappfogde) in Luleå and Piteå, wrote:

This meant that taxation was based on whether a person was a forest Sami or part of another Sami community. In the early 17th century, the term granlapp also referred to Sami people who were taxed only by Sweden, while the fell Sami could be taxed in both Sweden and Norway, as the fells in which they grazed their reindeer included land in both countries.

Forest Sami villages
Due to laws adopted in 1886 about the hunting of reindeer, some villages were established for easier administration of reindeer herding. For example, ten forest Sami villages near the town of Vittangi used the same name. These were located in Gällivare, Jokkmove, Ståkke, Arjeplog, Malmesjaur, Eastern Kikkejaur, the western parts of Kikkejaur and Mausjaur, and Malå.

In 1956, the Swedish Sami village in Jokkmokk was dismantled, as reindeer herding was halted in the area. Instead, two separate Sami villages were established in the southern and northern parts of Jokkmokk.

Distribution and numbers
In Piteå in 1553, 47% of the Sami population were forest Sami. In 1555, in Luleå, 73% were taxpaying forest Sami and 35% other Sami people. Similar differences in population size between the two groups continued throughout the 16th century.

Petrus Læstadius wrote in his journal in 1827 that the forest Sami had by that point become fewer than the Sami people. Nevertheless, he noted that in Arvidsjaur the population were still all forest Sami, with significant populations also in Arjeplog, Jokkmokk. and Gällivare.

In 1882, a committee was formed to investigate the situation of the Sami people in Sweden, and further data was made public:
In Enonstekis, there were two forest Sami families from Pajala with 600 reindeer.
In Jukkasjärvi, there were three forest Sami families with about 500 reindeer.
In Gällivare, there was a bigger population of forest Sami at 6,500.
In Jokkmokk, there were two forest Sami villages.
In Arjeplog, there were forest Sami families who had stopped herding reindeer and started fishing instead.

Visten

Until the early 1900s forest Sami were spread over large geographic areas, with each household having its own territory. In each territory, there were settlements known as visten, each with a goahti, a Sami hut or tent. When Ernst Manker studied the forest Sami during the first decade of the 20th century, almost every viste had been abandoned for abodes that looked more like the homes of the Swedish majority culture: houses and farms.

Fishing and hunting origin
The forest Sami paid taxes that were different from those paid by the fell Sami in the 17th century based on their different modes of subsistence. Forest Sami during this period lived a less nomadic life, since they were less involved with herding reindeer. In the 1670s Samuel Rheen said that the forest Sami in Jokkmokk lived mostly on hunting and fishing. Nicolaus Lundius reported in the same period from Umeå that the forest Sami had less money than other Sami people.

A few forest Sami were reindeer owners in the 17th century. A protocol issued in 1699 stipulated that Ture Turesson was the owner of 100 reindeer in Rusksele.

Religion

Very little is known about the religious beliefs of the forest Sami in pre-Christian times. It is known is that they believed in nature spirits, and that meaningful places, such as mountains and lakes, had their own spirit world. The male head of each family used a ceremonial drum to contact that spirit world. There were also noaidis, who were men considered more capable of establishing contact with the spirits. Bears were known to be part of a special cult, and the forest Sami people had intricate ceremonies revolving around them.

Languages
Most forest Sami people used Swedish as their main language, but the Sami language was also used to a certain degree. In Luleå, both the forest Sami and other Sami people also spoke the Lule Sami language. In Piteå the fell Sami spoke the Pite Sami language, while the local forest Sami spoke mostly Swedish or the Ume Sami language. The forest Sami in Malå and eastern Sorsele also spoke Ume Sami.

In Lycksele and Åsele the forest Sami were almost entirely assimilated into Swedish society during the 19th century. Their old language was permanently lost. Sami literature from the 17th and 18th centuries, by Olaus Stephani Graan and Pehr Fjällström, respectively, demonstrate that at that time there were still many speakers of Ume Sami. The spread of the Ume Sami language is discussed by J.A. Nensen in the 19th century, when the forest Sami in Åsöee used a dialect considered a variety of Ume Sami. Nensen stated that their language was clearly separate from the southern dialect of the Sami languages, which was used by the other Sami population in Vilhelmina.

End of forest Sami culture
With the decline of reindeer herding in large parts of Norrland, the forest Sami culture almost disappeared, since they no longer continued their traditional lifestyle. In Kemi, Finland, the Finnish forest Sami for the most part lost their distinct identity and were assimilated into the other Sami groups, adopting their languages. Similar changes occurred in Åsele and Lycksele during the 18th century.

Stensundslandet
Only one forest Sami village, Stenundslandet in Malå, survived into the 19th century. Nils Persson (1804–1880) was the last known forest Sami to continue in the traditional lifestyle. In 1842 Persson received authorization from the municipal leaders to conduct reindeer work, which he continued until his death. The reindeer business was subsequently taken over by his daughter Sara Johanna and her husband Lars Jonsson, but they eventually abandoned the traditional lifestyle.

See also

Karin Stenberg

References

Social history of Sweden
Sámi peoples


title: Augustin Lavallée

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Jean-Baptiste Augustin Lavallée (August 22, 1816 – February 15, 1903) was a music teacher, violin maker, conductor and blacksmith in Quebec. His surname also appears as Paquet or Paquet dit Lavallée.

He was born near Verchères, Lower Canada, the son of Jean-Baptiste Paquet and Charlotte Lalu. In 1842, Lavallée married Caroline Valentine. He settled in Verchères towards the end of that year. Around 1848, he moved with his family to Saint-Hyacinthe, where he worked with pipe organ manufacturer Joseph Casavant. Lavallée also taught music and conducted the village band. In 1852, he opened an instrument repair shop. In 1865, he moved his business to Montreal. He operated in partnership with his son Charles from 1888 to 1894 as Lavallée & Fils; they are believed to have manufactured over 200 violins. Lavallée then retired and Charles took over the operation of the business.

His son Calixa became a famous pianist and composer, who wrote the music for O Canada.

He died in Montreal at the age of 86.

References

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1903 deaths
People from Verchères, Quebec
French Quebecers
Canadian musical instrument makers


title: 1919 Stanford football team

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The 1919 Stanford football team represented Stanford University in the 1919 college football season.

Season summary
This was the first time Stanford had fielded a football team since 1905. From 1905 to 1917, Stanford played rugby in place of football. In 1918, Stanford did not field an official team due to World War I, though an unofficial squad made up of volunteers from the Students' Army Training Corps stationed at Stanford (some of whom were not Stanford students) hurriedly organized to play several games, all blowout losses.

Bob Evans, who had coached Stanford men's basketball team the previous season, was named coach of the football team to go along with his basketball coaching duties. In his only season as football coach, Evans led the team to a 4–3 overall record.

In their first conference game in the Pacific Coast Conference, Stanford won its first-ever game against Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State); the team lost its other conference game, the Big Game against rival California.

Schedule

References

Stanford
Stanford Cardinal football seasons
Stanford football


title: Mojave Forks Dam

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The Mojave Forks Dam, most often known as the Mojave River Dam, is an earth-fill dry dam across the Mojave River in San Bernardino County, California in the United States. Completed in 1974 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), the dam is located at the confluence of the West Fork Mojave River and Deep Creek, and can store approximately  of water.

History
The Mojave River forks were first identified as a potential dam site in 1875, and flooding in the 1930s confirmed the need for a flood control facility along the Mojave River. However, it would be 30 more years before the state endorsed such a project. The West Fork Flood Control and Reservoir Project were authorized in 1960, and the USACE created a final design by 1966. Construction began in June 1967, and the embankment was topped out in May 1971. The project was formally completed and operational by 1974.

Federal engineers found in 2019 that the dam falls short of national safety standards and could erode and collapse in an extreme flood.

Dimensions and location
The dam is  high from the foundations,  high above the riverbed, and  long. The main embankment, a rolled earthfill design, contains  of material. A smaller auxiliary dam is located directly to the west of the main dam, while the concrete spillway is on the east side of the dam.

The reservoir controls runoff from a rugged drainage basin of  on the north slope of the San Bernardino Mountains. Although the entire Mojave River basin covers , the comparatively small area behind the dam contributes the vast majority of the water in the river, the remaining 95 percent of the watershed being desert. The towns of Victorville, Hesperia and others in the Victor Valley region along the Mojave River, as well as towns further downstream such as Barstow, are the primary beneficiaries of the project.

Operations
Because the dam serves strictly for flood control, the reservoir is usually low or non-existent; however, it can fill quickly following heavy winter storms. Flood waters are released as quickly as possible without exceeding the capacity of downstream levees. Unlike most dams, the Mojave Dam outlet has no gates, meaning that the outflow is directly dependent on the water level behind the dam. All river flows below  pass unimpeded through the dam's outlets. The dam is designed to contain a design flood of , to a maximum outflow of . The reservoir is generally drained within 2–3 days of a flooding event.

Because the dam reduces the sharp peaks of flash floods in the Mojave River channel, it also provides incidental groundwater recharge benefits in the Victor Valley area.

Recreation
Although there is no permanent pool at Mojave Forks, the dam and the surrounding area are part of Mojave River Forks Regional Park, which provides camping and hiking facilities. The Pacific Crest Trail also runs parallel the eastern end of the dam as it travels between the valleys of Deep Creek and the West Fork Mojave River.

See also
Cedar Springs Dam/Silverwood Lake
Los Angeles Flood of 1938
Mojave Narrows Park

References

Dams in California
Mojave River
Victor Valley
Buildings and structures in San Bernardino County, California
Earth-filled dams
Dams completed in 1971
1971 establishments in California
United States Army Corps of Engineers dams


title: Katarina Živković

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Katarina Živković (, born 2 July 1989) is a Serbian singer and television personality from Leskovac. She rose to prominence as a contestant on the singing competition show Zvezde Granda in 2007. Her debut album, titled Ludo srce, was released in 2013.

Živković won the third series of the Serbian reality television show Farma (2010) with 54% of public votes, receiving the cash prize of €100,000.

Discography
Studio albums
Ludo srce (2013)
Porok (2017)

Filmography

References

External links

1989 births
Living people
Musicians from Leskovac
 Serbian folk-pop singers
Serbian folk singers
21st-century Serbian women singers
Serbian turbo-folk singers
Grand Production artists


title: St Joseph's Catholic School, Laverstock

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St Joseph's Catholic School is a coeducational Roman Catholic secondary school in Laverstock, near Salisbury in Wiltshire, England.

It is a voluntary aided school administered by Wiltshire Council and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Clifton. The school offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils.

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Secondary schools in Wiltshire
Catholic secondary schools in the Diocese of Clifton
Voluntary aided schools in England


title: Darío Espina Pérez

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Darío Espina Pérez (October 25, 1920 – September 6, 1996) was a Cuban banker, agricultural engineer, lawyer, writer, and the founder and president of La Academia Poética de Miami, a literary society established in 1989.

Biography
Pérez was born in Limonar, Matanzas, Cuba, on October 25, 1920, to a family dedicated to beekeeping, Espina went on to author nearly forty technical and literary books and to co-author several more, all edited in collaboration with his wife, Hilda Díaz Espina. His writing received a number of awards, including the Premio Garcilaso de la Vega in 1995, given by the Instituto de Cultura Peruana for his poem La Naturaleza. In 1995 Espina was recognized as the teacher of the decade by the Cuadratura del Círculo Poético Iberoamericano in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the death of José Martí.

He received his elementary education in public schools and through exams received a scholarship from the Ministry of Agriculture to study to become an agricultural sciences teacher in the Álvaro Reynoso Principal Agricultural School in Colón, Cuba. After earning a bachelor of science degree, he attended the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering at the University of Havana, where he graduated with the degree of Agricultural Engineer in Sugar Chemistry. He later returned to the University of Havana to earn his law degree.

Espina's activities in Cuba were centered on the banking and agriculture industries. He was part of the accounting department at the Banco Continental Cubano, chief of construction for the Public Works Ministry's "Via Blanca" project, a math professor at the Álvaro Reynoso Provincial Agricultural School, and an inspector at the Provincial Schools of Agriculture; he also held various posts at the Banco de Fomento Agricola e Industrial, was consultant and deputy administrator at the Banco Núñez in Havana, manager of a branch of the Banco de la Construcción, professor and Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural Engineers of the University of Havana, professor in the Faculty of Law of the University of Pinar del Río, chief of the appraisal department at the National Institute of Agrarian Reform in 1959, and, finally, officer of the Banco Nacional de Cuba until he left Cuba in 1961 during a scientific congress in Spain.

In 1961, Espina was granted asylum in the United States. Outside of Cuba, Espina continued to be an active professional through his position beginning in 1962 as sector specialist, consultant, and project manager with the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB) in Washington, D.C. Espina worked and lived in various countries in Latin America, including Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Ecuador, Haiti, and Costa Rica.

In 1981, Espina retired from the IDB and settled in Miami, Florida, with his wife, lawyer Hilda Díaz Espina, and their three children, physicians Hilda Tejero and Darío M. Espina and management and information technology specialist Carlos Espina. He died in Miami on September 6, 1996.

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Notes and references

Further reading

External links

 The Darío Espina Pérez papers are available at the Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries. This archival collection documents the professional activities of Darío Espina Pérez in his capacity as poet, lawyer, agricultural engineer, historian, literary critic, and founder and president of La Academia Poética de Miami.

1920 births
1996 deaths
Cuban emigrants to the United States
Cuban exiles
Cuban male writers
20th-century Cuban lawyers
Exiles of the Cuban Revolution in the United States


title: Templar House

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Templar House was a high-rise flat (apartment) building in the New Lodge neighbourhood of Belfast, Northern Ireland, notable for its controversial role as a British Army observation post during The Troubles in Northern Ireland. The post included high-technology observation devices such as electronic monitoring equipment, cameras, and night vision.

The location of the outpost provoked demonstrations against it by the Irish Republican community.

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Buildings and structures in Belfast


title: El rápido de las 9.15

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El rápido de las 9.15 is a 1941 Mexican black-and-white drama film directed by Alejandro Galindo. It premiered on September 11, 1941.

Cast
Virginia Fábregas
Alfredo del Diestro
Miguel Inclán
Carlos López Moctezuma
Alejandro Cobo
Enrique García Álvarez
Gloria Marín
Edmundo Espino
Carmen Conde
Roberto Banquells
Rafael Baledón
Lucila Bowling
Ángel T. Sala
Salvador Ibáñez

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1941 films
Mexican black-and-white films
1940s Spanish-language films
1941 drama films
Mexican drama films
1940s Mexican films


title: Pirates Press

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Pirates Press is a vinyl manufacturing and production located in Emeryville, California, that was founded in 2004. The company was started in the bedroom of owner Eric Mueller and has grown into a full-scale operation that now includes offices in Emeryville, California, New Jersey, and Czech Republic. It is the manufacturing and production wing of its sister company Pirates Press Records.

Company history
Pirates Press was founded in 2004 by Eric “Skippy” Mueller in San Francisco, California. Mueller started Pirates Press with the intent to ‘protect independent labels, bands, artists and businesses from being swindled and handicapped by big corporate manufacturers who really don’t care about them.’”
The company has seen 75-100% yearly growth since its inception. In 2005, Pirates Press produced about 250,000 vinyl. In 2008, the company produced around 1.75 million vinyl for its customers. In 2009, Pirates Press produced over 2 million records for its customers. Clients include Tom Petty, White Stripes, Beck, Slayer, Eric Clapton, Madonna, and more.

The company is one of only a few remaining vinyl pressers in the United States.
Pirates Press has also brought back the manufacturing of flexi disc which are done on-site at the company’s warehouse. Pirates Press uses the world's oldest vinyl manufacturing plant where each record is pressed on a manual machine whereas the US plants use suction-cup machines. This traditional pressing style allows employees to "...concoct original color compounds and press records by hand. This means customers have access to just about anything they can dream up, from orange marble to translucent red; solid white to half-purple and half-green; even glitter and glow-in-the-dark." Pirates Press' engineers have created a technology that can digitally recreate a record before it is cut to analyze what the grooves would look like with different input settings or a different version of the master. Product is pressed by GZ Media in the Czech Republic.

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Recorded music
Manufacturing companies based in California
Companies based in San Francisco
2004 establishments in California
Music of the San Francisco Bay Area
Flexi discs


title: James L. Kauffman

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James Laurence Kauffman (18 April 188721 October 1963) was a highly decorated officer in the United States Navy with the rank of Vice Admiral. He distinguished himself as Commanding officer of destroyer  during World War I and received the Navy Cross, the United States second-highest decoration awarded for valor in combat.

Kauffman rose to the flag rank during World War II and held several important assignments in both, European and Pacific theaters. He retired as Commandant Fourth Naval District with headquarters in Philadelphia in 1949. His son, Draper Kauffman, also served in the Navy and retired as Rear Admiral in 1970s. The were both the namesakes of .

Early career

James L. Kauffman was born in Ohio on 18 April 1887 in Miamisburg, Ohio, the son of John A. Kauffman and Laura Hunt. He attended public school in Miamisburg and graduated from the Steele High School in Dayton, Ohio. Kauffman then attended Pennsylvania Military College in Chester, Pennsylvania for one year, before receiving an appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland on 29 June 1904. While at the Academy, he reached the rank of Cadet Ensign and was nicknamed "Reggie" by his classmates.

Among his classmates were several future admirals including: Harry A. Badt, Paul H. Bastedo, John R. Beardall, Abel T. Bidwell, Joseph J. Broshek, Arthur S. Carpender, Jules James, Walter K. Kilpatrick, Thomas C. Kinkaid, Willis A. Lee Jr., William R. Munroe, William R. Purnell, Francis W. Rockwell, John F. Shafroth Jr. and Richmond K. Turner.

He graduated with Bachelor of Science degree on 15 June 1908 and served successively as Passed Midshipman aboard the protected cruiser USS Milwaukee and armored cruiser USS Tennessee with the Pacific Fleet. While aboard Tennessee Kauffman visited the Philippines, China, and Japan and returned to the United States in March 1910.

Kauffman was assigned to the destroyer USS Hopkins under Lieutenant Harold G. Bowen, stationed at Mare Island Navy Yard following a Boiler explosion. He was commissioned Ensign on 6 June 1910, after completing two years of service at sea then required by law. After a period of Hopkins repairs and service with the Reserve Fleet, he was appointed commanding officer of the Hopkins in November 1912. Kauffman was promoted to Lieutenant (junior grade) on 6 June 1913 and commanded his ship until January 1914, when he was relieved by new commanding officer more senior in rank and transferred to the capacity of ship's executive officer. He participated with the Hopkins in the naval operations in Mexican waters during Veracruz Expedition in summer 1914 and was detached in November that year.

He was subsequently ordered to the Engineering Experiment Station at the Naval Academy, where he assumed duty as Assistant Manager. Kauffman participated in the testing of gasoline motors and other experimental work in the development of aviation and was promoted to Lieutenant on 29 August 1916. He was transferred to the battleship USS Texas at New York Navy Yard in November 1916 and served aboard that ship until March the following year, when he was transferred to the receiving ship at Norfolk Navy Yard.

World War I

Following the United States' entry into World War I, Kauffman was assigned to the transport ship USS Tenadores and served as ship's executive officer during her first wartime voyage with the troops and supplies to Europe. He was detached one month later and returned to the United States for service as Commanding officer of USS Rainier in July 1917 at Mare Island Navy Yard, California. The Rainer was originally a civilian schooner and Kauffman commanded that vessel just for one month, before returned to Mare Island for duty in connection with the fitting out of newly commissioned destroyer USS Caldwell under lieutenant commander Byron McCandless.

Kauffman served as executive officer under McCandless and sailed again to the European waters, where he took part in the anti-submarine patrols off the coast of Queenstown, Ireland. He was promoted to the temporary rank of Lieutenant commander on 1 January 1918 and assumed command of destroyer USS Jenkins in June that year. Kauffman engaged in the exacting and hazardous duty of patrolling the waters infested with enemy submarines and mines, and escorting and protecting convoys of troops and supplies.

For his service with destroyer Jenkins, Kauffman was decorated with the Navy Cross, the United States second-highest decoration awarded for valor in combat. He was also appointed Officer of the Order of Leopold II by the King of Belgium, Albert I.

Interwar period

Upon the Armistice, Kauffman returned to the United States in March 1919 and assumed command of newly commissioned destroyer USS Barney at Philadelphia Navy Yard. He commanded his ship during the voyage with the Atlantic Fleet to Istanbul, Turkey, where he witnessed the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Kauffman then conducted patrol cruises along the Atlantic coast of the United States and later in the Caribbean, before he was ordered to Washington, D.C. for duty at the Bureau of Engineering in January 1921.

Kauffman served in the Engineering's Radio Division until June 1923, when he assumed duty as Aide and Flag Secretary on the staff of Admiral Samuel S. Robison, Commander-in-Chief, Battle Fleet. While in this capacity, he was promoted to Commander on 4 June 1925. Kauffman was transferred to the Office of Naval Intelligence in February 1927 and joined the U.S. Naval Mission to Brazil, where he had duty in connection with that navy's destroyers until the end of January 1931.

Following his tour of duty in South America, Kauffman was assigned to his World War I battleship USS Texas, and assumed duty as Navigator under Captain Julius C. Townsend. He took part in the visit of the Panama Canal and was promoted to capacity of ship's executive officer in April 1931. Kauffman then took part in the patrol cruises with the Pacific Fleet and was ordered to the Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island in June 1933.

Upon the graduation in May 1934, Kauffman assumed duty as Executive officer of the Naval Station Newport under Captain Herbert C. Cocke until 30 June 1936, when he was promoted to Captain and assumed command of light cruiser USS Memphis. He commanded his ship during the Good will cruise to the Caribbean and later took part in the operations with the Pacific Fleet.

In January 1938, Kauffman was appointed Commandant of the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, where he oversaw constructions and repairs of many ships and submarines including USS Fulton, USS Tuna and USS Gudgeon. He remained at Mare Island until January 1940, when he was appointed commander of Destroyer Squadron 36 located at San Diego, California. Kauffman was transferred to command of Destroyer Squadron 7 in December 1940.

World War II

Service in Atlantic
With the outbreak of the World War II, Kauffman assumed additional duty as Commander Destroyers, Support Force, Atlantic Fleet and participated in convoying troops and ships to Newfoundland and Iceland during intensive U-Boot activity from March to September 1941. For his service in this capacity, he received a letter of commendation from Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox.

Kauffman was promoted to Rear admiral on 1 November 1941 and appointed a member of the General Board of the Navy in Washington. He was detached from this post on 7 December, only one day after Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and ordered to Iceland, where he was tasked with the establishing of Naval Operating Base Iceland at Hvalfjörður to ensure Nazi Germany would not seize that country.

He arrived to Iceland few days later aboard battleship USS Arkansas and became the Commandant of that base. There were no quarters ashore for him nor his staff and Kauffman transferred his flag to gunboat USS Williamsburg to make more space for receiving ship and provided quarters for Army's Port authority. He moved his staff ashore, when the naval facility known as Camp Knox was completed in May 1942. For his service in this capacity, Kauffman was later decorated with Order of the Falcon by the Government of Iceland.

In June 1942, Kauffman was transferred to Key West, Florida, where he assumed duty as Commandant of the Seventh Naval District and Commander Gulf Sea Frontier. he was responsible for the Allied effort to fight German U-boats in the area stretching from Jacksonville, Florida, to the Mexican coast, including the entire Gulf of Mexico and its strategic entrances. He served in this capacity until February 1943 and received Legion of Merit for his service against German submarines. Kauffman also received Cuban Order of Military Merit, and Order of the Southern Cross and Navy War Service Medal by the Government of Brazil.

Kauffman was subsequently ordered to Washington, D.C. and joined the headquarters of United States Fleet under Admiral Ernest J. King as the senior member of the Allied Antisubmarine Board. While in this capacity, he took part in the inspections of the Allied antisubmarine air and ship stations on both sides of the Atlantic and was stationed as an observer in London, England for brief period.

Service in Pacific

While still serving on the Antisubmarine Board, Kauffman was ordered to the Pacific theater in October 1943 and served as Board observer attached to Aircraft Squadrons, Pacific, during the attacks on Tarawa and later Kwajalein. He assumed command of cruiser-destroyer forces of Pacific Fleet (COMDESPAC) with headquarters on Hawaii in January 1944 and was responsible for the maintenance of the ships under his command at a state of training, readiness, discipline and morale. Kauffman's command provided ships, personnel and material for U.S. Seventh Fleet and he was decorated with his second Legion of Merit at the end of his tenure in October 1944.

Kauffman reported to General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander Southwest Pacific Area, and Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, Commander Allied Naval Forces, Southwest Pacific Area, and Seventh Fleet, at their headquarters in Hollandia, New Guinea and assumed duty as Commander of newly established Philippine Sea Frontier. He helped organized this command and was tasked with the mission of safeguarding and protecting shipping in the area under his cognizance. During the early days of Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944, Kauffman served as Senior Officer Present Afloat.

He established his headquarters initially at Leyte Gulf until August 1945, and then shifting to Manila. During the early days of the fighting at Leyte Gulf he also acted as Senior Officer Present Afloat. Kauffman remained in the Philippines until July 1945, when he was ordered back to the United States. For his service in that capacity, he was decorated with Navy Distinguished Service Medal and also received Distinguished Service Star by the Government of Philippines. Kauffman was meanwhile promoted to the temporary rank of Vice admiral on 3 April 1945.

Postwar service

Following his return stateside, Kauffman was appointed Commandant, Fourth Naval District with headquarters at Philadelphia Navy Yard. He also reverted to his peacetime rank of Rear admiral for his assignment in Philadelphia. Kauffman retired from the Navy on 1 May 1949 after 41 years on active service and was advanced again to the rank of Vice admiral on the retired list.

One day after he retired from the Navy, Kauffman became the President of Jefferson Medical College and Jefferson Medical Center. He also held additional duty as chairman of the board of the Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute and remained in both positions until the end of June 1959. He then became chairman of the board of directors for the Central Philadelphia Branch of the American Red Cross. Kauffman was decorated with Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit "Carlos J. Finlay" by the Government of Cuba during his tenure at Jefferson Medical College.

As a religious man, Kauffman helped establish the mission structure of the Church of the Holy Trinity in South Philadelphia and commenced and continued the Sunday radio broadcasts of the church's worship services, largely as an outreach for people hospitalized or otherwise unable to attend the services. He later moved to Washington, D.C., but died of a heart attack at Bethesda Naval Hospital, Maryland on 21 October 1963, aged 76. Kauffman was buried with full military honors at the United States Naval Academy Cemetery at Annapolis, Maryland.

His wife, Elizabeth Draper Kauffman (1886–1966) is buried beside him. They had two children: a son, Draper, who graduated from the Naval Academy and distinguished himself as Commander of first Underwater Demolition Teams. He was decorated with two Navy Crosses and several other decorations and retired as Rear admiral in 1973; and a daughter, Elizabeth Louise, who married Prescott Sheldon Bush, Jr., the brother of future President of the United States, George H. W. Bush.

Military decorations

Here is the ribbon bar of Vice admiral James L. Kauffman:

See also
, named for VADM Kauffman and his son RADM Draper Laurence Kauffman

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1887 births
1963 deaths
People from Miamisburg, Ohio
United States Navy personnel of World War I
United States Naval Academy alumni
Naval War College alumni
United States Navy admirals
United States Navy World War II admirals
Recipients of the Navy Cross (United States)
Recipients of the Navy Distinguished Service Medal
Recipients of the Legion of Merit
Officers of the Order of Leopold II
Recipients of the Order of the Falcon
Recipients of the Distinguished Service Star
Burials at the United States Naval Academy Cemetery


title: Comics in Focus: Chris Claremont's X-Men

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Chris Claremont's X-Men is a documentary focusing on  comic book writer Chris Claremont's run writing The X-Men from 1975 to 1991. The film features interviews with Claremont himself as well as members of his creative team, including editors Louise Simonson and Ann Nocenti, artist Art Adams, and former Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter.

Background
Chris Claremont's X-Men is a co-production between Respect! Films and Sequart Organization, directed by Patrick Meaney, produced by Meaney and Jordan Rennert, and executive produced by Julian Darius and Mike Phillips. On November 7, 2011, the filmmakers launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the film. By December 7, 2011, the project had surpassed its initial goal of $3,500 to reach $4,131 at the campaign's end.

Plot
The film is an in-depth look at Claremont's run on The X-Men (later The Uncanny X-Men) series, which he wrote from 1975 to 1991. In interviews with Claremont, Simonson, Nocenti, Adams, and Shooter, the film tells the story of how Claremont's writing revived Marvel's failing X-Men title and rebuilt it into a successful franchise. Chris Claremont's X-Men explores Claremont's contributions to the X-Men, including his development of popular characters Wolverine, Phoenix, and Storm.

Release
Chris Claremont's X-Men premiered on October 14, 2013, in New York City and was released on May 13, 2014, through Vimeo on Demand and DVD.

The film was subsequently expanded into a feature-length version that was released on February 6, 2018, by XLRator Media, which added material about the X-Men films, as well as more background on Claremont's life before writing X-Men.

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2013 films
Documentary films about comics
X-Men
Crowdfunded films
Kickstarter-funded documentaries


title: Ash Grove, Kansas

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Ash Grove is an unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Kansas, United States.

History
A post office was opened in Ash Grove in 1916, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1944.

Education
The community is served by Sylvan–Lucas USD 299 public school district.

References

Further reading

External links
 Lincoln County maps: Current, Historic, KDOT

Unincorporated communities in Lincoln County, Kansas
Unincorporated communities in Kansas