title: Gun laws in Puerto Rico

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In Puerto Rico, the law regulates the sale, possession, and use of firearms and ammunition. As an unincorporated territory of the United States, Puerto Rico is an "appurtenant jurisdiction" to which the Insular cases apply. Except for provisions of the U.S. Constitution that apply by their own force, only those constitutional provisions extended by Congress apply to any of the appurtenant jurisdictions.

Firearm licenses and firearm-related crimes are defined in Act 404 of 2000.

On December 11, 2019, Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced signed the Puerto Rico Weapons Act of 2020, which went into effect on January 1, 2020. The law lowered fees, implemented a shall issue regimen, combined the possession license and carry license into a single license, instituted carry reciprocity and stand your ground.

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Licensing process
Individuals seeking to obtain a firearms license in Puerto Rico must complete a notarized license application using form PR-329, Application for Weapons License. With the completed form, individuals must also provide proof of their social security number, proof of date of birth and legal presence in the territory, a copy of their drivers license or other form of non-passport identification, a recent headshot photo, certificate of negative criminal record no more than 30 days old, a $200 check, and must be fingerprinted by the Police Bureau. Additionally, the applicant must be at least 21 years of age and must not meet the definition of a prohibited person under Section 922(g) of the Gun Control Act of 1968. Given that the applicant meets these requirements, the law requires the Police Bureau to approve the application within 30 days of submission as of 2021. The license holder may only purchase ammunition of the firearms' caliber. After the license is granted, the police are authorized to "passively, without disturbing the peace and tranquility of the individual under investigation or violating the privacy of the home" continue investigating the license holder to ensure that no false information was provided by the applicant during the application process. The license must be renewed every five years by submitting a sworn statement and paying a $100 fee.

Applications for gun licenses rose by 70% after Hurricane Maria in 2017 due to concerns over the widespread electrical outage and police absenteeism.

History
In 2015, as a result of a class-action lawsuit with over 800 plaintiffs, a lower court ruled that several provisions of the existing law were unconstitutional. The ruling was overturned after the state government appealed. The Puerto Rico Supreme Court declined to hear the case, leaving the appellate court's ruling in place.

In September 2016, a firearms instruction company sued the state government in federal court, arguing the unconstitutionality of several provisions of the law. There has been no ruling as of September 2020.

References

External links
 Guns in Puerto Rico: Locked and Loaded in the Tropics - National_Rifle_Association Presence in Puerto Rico

Law of Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico


title: The Darkness (2016 American film)

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The Darkness is a 2016 American supernatural horror film, directed by Greg McLean and co-written by McLean, Shayne Armstrong, and Shane Krause. The film stars Kevin Bacon, Radha Mitchell, David Mazouz, Lucy Fry, Matt Walsh, Jennifer Morrison, Ming-Na Wen and Parker Mack.

The film is about a family who visits the Grand Canyon and brings home a supernatural force that feeds off their fears and takes over their lives. Filming began in April 2014 in Los Angeles and ended in May the same year.

Blumhouse Tilt and High Top Releasing released the film on May 13, 2016 (Friday the 13th). It was largely panned by film critics, but grossed $10.9 million against a $4 million budget.

Plot
Peter and Bronny Taylor go on a vacation to the Grand Canyon in Arizona with Stephanie, their bulimic teenage daughter, Mikey, their adolescent autistic son, and another family, the Carters. Mikey discovers a small Kiva cavern, where he finds black rocks with symbols on them. He takes the stones.

When the Taylors return home, strange things begin to happen. Bronny finds that the kitchen taps keep turning on, and Stephanie sees handprints on a mirror, both of which Mikey blames on “Jenny.” After Stephanie gets home from school, she vomits into a container and puts it under her bed. Bronny catches her, and she and Peter learn that Stephanie has been throwing up for a while. They take her to a hospital for help, leaving Mikey at Bronny's mother's house. Bronny's mother finds Mikey trying to kill her cat, much to Peter’s disbelief.

At home, Bronny searches online for answers to the strange activity and learns about the Anasazi Indians, who believed that demons were bound to rocks hidden in caves. If the rocks are taken, the demons take the shape of a crow, snake, coyote, wolf, and buffalo. The family has already had encounters with a crow and a snake. The demons connect to young children who are dragged into their world, triggering an event known as 'The Darkness.' The only way they can be banished is if the rocks are returned to where they were found by someone who is not afraid.

Bronny and Peter later find Mikey covered in black marks from a fire in his room, blood pouring from his mouth. Later that night, Bronny has a nightmare of a wolf. Depressed, she starts drinking. In Mikey's room, the fire-damaged part of the wall is revealed to be a portal. Stephanie is choked by handprints appearing all over her wall and body. In the treehouse, Peter sees a coyote and the shadow of a demon in Stephanie's window. The force stops choking Stephanie as he rushes in. He then breaks down Mikey's bathroom door and finds him with marks all over the walls and ceiling.

Peter calls a number given to him by his boss. It belongs to a woman named Teresa, who is said to perform spiritual healings. Teresa comes over with her granddaughter, Gloria, who acts as an interpreter. As they cleanse the house, Teresa and Gloria go into Mikey's room and note that this is where the real evil lives. They recite a chant as Mikey tries to enter the portal.

Peter sees Mikey walking into the portal with the demons. He finds the stones and follows Mikey into the portal but cannot set the stones down due to his fear. He offers to swap places with Mikey, but Mikey ends the event of 'The Darkness' by picking the rocks up and putting them back down, as he is not afraid. The demons are banished, and Peter and Mikey jump out of the portal together. It disappears, and Gloria declares that the house is clean of evil energy.

Cast
 Kevin Bacon as Peter Taylor
 Radha Mitchell as Bronny Taylor
 David Mazouz as Michael Taylor
 Lucy Fry as Stephanie Taylor
 Matt Walsh as Gary Carter
 Jennifer Morrison as Joy Carter
 Ming-Na Wen as Wendy Richards
 Parker Mack as Andrew Carter
 Trian Long-Smith as Sammy Levin
 Paul Reiser as Simon Richards
 Ilza Rosario Ponko as Gloria Ortega
 Tara Lynne Barr as Kat
 Judith McConnell as Trish
 Krista Marie Yu as Tasha
 Alma Martinez as Teresa Morales
 A.J. Tannen as H. Quinlan

Production
On February 25, 2014, Kevin Bacon and Radha Mitchell signed on to star in the film. On March 5, director Greg McLean stated, "The story is based on a true story that was relayed to me first-hand many years ago about an actual haunting." On April 11, David Mazouz was added to the film. On May 6, Ming-Na Wen joined the cast of the film, and on May 7, Lucy Fry was added to the cast to play Stephanie, the Taylor family's daughter. Trian Long-Smith also joined the film on the same day, to play Sammy Levin, the savvy, bright and flirtatious intern working for Peter Taylor’s character. On May 9, Matt Walsh joined the cast of the film, to play Gary Carter. Parker Mack also joined the film. On May 14, Jennifer Morrison was added to the cast to play Joy Carter, Gary's wife and also a mother of a child.

Filming
Principal photography began in April 2014 in Los Angeles, and ended in May 2014. The film was shot with the camera Arri Alexa Plus 4:3, as revealed by cinematographer Toby Oliver.

Music
On June 2, 2014, Johnny Klimek was hired to score the film.

Reception

Box office
The Darkness was projected to gross $3–5 million from 1,755 theaters in its opening weekend. The film grossed $206,000 from its Thursday night previews and $2.1 million on its first day. It went on to gross $4.9 million in its opening weekend, finishing 4th at the box office, behind Captain America: Civil War ($72.6 million), The Jungle Book ($17.1 million), and fellow newcomer Money Monster ($14.8 million).

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 3%, based on 35 reviews, with an average rating of 2.7/10. The site's consensus reads, "The Darkness clumsily relies on an assortment of genre tropes, leaving only the decidedly non-frightening ghost of superior horror films in its wake." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 27 out of 100, based on 10 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C" on an A+ to F scale. It is currently Blumhouse Productions' worst reviewed film to date.

References

External links

2016 films
2016 horror films
American supernatural horror films
Films about autism
Films directed by Greg McLean
Films produced by Jason Blum
Films scored by Johnny Klimek
Films set in Coconino County, Arizona
Films shot in Los Angeles
American supernatural thriller films
Blumhouse Productions films
Universal Pictures films
2010s English-language films
2010s American films


title: Davit Narmania

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Davit Narmania (; born 7 March 1979) is a Georgian politician and the former Mayor of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, from 2014 to 2017. An economist with academic background, he was Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia from 2012 to 2014. He won the mayoral race in Tbilisi as the ruling Georgian Dream coalition candidate in July 2014.

Early career
Davit Narmania was born in 1979 in Zugdidi in then-Soviet Georgia. He graduated from the Tbilisi State University (TSU) with a degree in economics in 1996 and obtained a PhD from his alma mater in 2005. He worked for various governmental, non-governmental, and private organizations from 2001 to 2012 and lectured in economics at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs and TSU. He was a co-founder of the NGO Caucasian Institute for Economic and Social Research and an executive director thereof from 2009 to 2012.

Government minister
In 2012 Narmania joined the Georgian Dream (GD) coalition led by the tycoon Bidzina Ivanishvili and took part in devising the coalition's pre-election economic program. After the GD's victory in the October 2012 parliamentary election, Narmania assumed the office of Minister Regional Development and Infrastructure. At that time, the incoming cabinet planned to dissolve the ministry; Narmania's portfolio was considered to be temporary and it was planned to move him to the position of First Deputy Minister of Finances. Yet, Narmania served as Minister Regional Development and Infrastructure until his resignation on 14 April 2014 on the occasion of his nomination as the GD's candidate for the Mayor of Tbilisi at the scheduled June 2014 local elections.

Mayoral candidate
Narmania's candidacy for the capital's mayor was selected by Bidzina Ivanishvili shortly before his resignation as Prime Minister and officially announced by the GD in November 2013. Several politicians and commentators, including the GD members, were skeptical over Narmania's chances to win on account of his not being a native of Tbilisi. Narmania's campaign was based on promises to plant one million trees in Tbilisi to bolster the city's dwindling green space, expand drainage systems, create more recreational areas, and encourage small and medium-size businesses.

With Narmania garnering 46.09% of the vote in the 15 June 2014 election, the race went into a second round runoff held on 12 July and was won by him with 72.47% of the vote, while his principal rival and runner-up, Nika Melia of the United National Movement (UNM), received 27.53%. Melia conceded his defeat, but he claimed the voting process was influenced by the controversial arrest, on 1 July, of Tbilisi's ex-Mayor Gigi Ugulava, who spearheaded the UNM's election campaign. The election was marked by another controversy over the involvement of Narmania's mother, Nora Todua, in the voting process in the village of Koki, Zugdidi Municipality; a video released by the UNM depicted Todua, a local election commission member, asking a voter at the precinct to show her a marked ballot paper. Commenting on the issue, Narmania said that his mother did not violate the law and that she was "only motivated by motherly care". The Zugdidi Election Commission eventually issued a warning to Todua.

Mayor of Tbilisi
Narmania assumed his new office on 2 August 2014, becoming the 8th Mayor of Tbilisi.

References

1979 births
Living people
People from Zugdidi
Georgian Dream politicians
Government ministers of Georgia (country)
Mayors of Tbilisi
Tbilisi State University alumni
Academic staff of Tbilisi State University
Economists from Georgia (country)


title: Bombing of Okazaki in World War II

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The  was part of the strategic bombing campaign waged by the United States against military and civilian targets and population centers during the Japan home islands campaign in the closing states of World War II.

Background
Although the city of Okazaki was not a major population center and had no major targets of military significance, it was a satellite town supporting the metropolis of Nagoya. The Tōkaidō Main Line railway connecting Tokyo with Osaka also ran through the city, and it became one of the 57 regional population centers added to the list of targets by General Curtis LeMay in June 1945 following the destruction of Japan's main cites.

Air raids
On July 19, 1945, 126 B-29 Superfortress bombers of the USAAF 20th Air Force, 314th Bombardment Wing departed from Guam in the Mariana Islands. On the same day, air raids were also launched against Fukui, Hitachi, and Chōshi. The B-29s arrived over target at Okazaki after midnight on June 20, 1945, and found the target mostly obscured by clouds. Bombing commenced at 0052 hours from an altitude of 3900 meters, and a total of 12,506 Incendiary bombs were dropped on the city, destroying most of the city center. The Okazaki city hall survived the attack; however at 1230 hours, a flight of P-38 Lightning fighters strafed civilians lined up at the city hall awaiting emergency medical treatment. The estimated total civilian casualties were 203 people killed, 13 missing, 32,068 injured with 7312 houses destroyed and 230 houses partially destroyed. The bombing rendered about one third of the city's population homeless. The Imperial Japanese Navy’s Okazaki Air Field and a large textile plant owned by Nisshinbo Industries were undamaged in the attack, which was aimed solely at the destruction of the city's civilian population.

A year after the war, the United States Army Air Forces's Strategic Bombing Survey (Pacific War) reported that 32.2 percent of the city had been destroyed.

See also
 Strategic bombing during World War II
 Air raids on Japan
 Evacuations of civilians in Japan during World War II

References

External links
Pacific War Chronology
67 Japanese Cities Firebombed in World War II
Japanese government page

Notes

History of Aichi Prefecture
Bombing in World War II
Okazaki
Japan in World War II
Okazaki
Okazaki
World War II strategic bombing of Japan
1945 in Japan
Firebombings in Japan
Japan–United States military relations


title: Je te donne (album)

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Je te donne (English: I give to you) is an album by Léo Ferré released in 1976 by CBS Records.

History

Track listing
All songs written, composed, arranged and directed by Léo Ferré, except Coriolan, composed by Ludwig van Beethoven.

Original LP

Personnel
 Milan Symphonic Orchestra

Production
 Arranger & conductor: Léo Ferré
 Engineering: Davide Marinone
 Executive producer: Detto Mariano

External links
 Album listening & presentation (French)

Léo Ferré albums
French-language albums
CBS Disques albums
1976 albums


title: The Bone Clocks

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The Bone Clocks is a novel by British writer David Mitchell. It was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2014, and called one of the best novels of 2014 by Stephen King. The novel won the 2015 World Fantasy Award.

The novel is divided into six sections with five first-person  point-of-view narrators. They are loosely connected by the character of Holly Sykes, a young woman from Gravesend who is gifted with an "invisible eye" and semi-psychic abilities, and a war between two immortal factions, the Anchorites, who derive their immortality from murdering others, and the Horologists, who are naturally able to reincarnate.

The title refers to a derogatory term the immortal characters use for normal humans, who are doomed to mortality because of their aging bodies.

Plot
The book consists of six stories set during different times of Holly’s life.

A Hot Spell, 1984
Fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes runs away from home to live with her 24-year-old boyfriend. Before she leaves, her younger brother Jacko hands her a maze and tells her to memorize it. Arriving at her boyfriend's home, Holly finds him in bed with her best friend. She nevertheless decides to keep running away alone and meets Esther Little, an older woman who insists on giving her green tea in exchange for asylum. Holly consents to the strange offer, thinking the woman insane. Holly, who was once plagued by auditory hallucinations, then has a violent daymare involving her brother Jacko and several of the violent voices she recognizes from childhood. Afterwards she encounters Ed Brubeck, an acquaintance, who feeds  and helps shelter her. He talks about working on a strawberry farm in Kent. After securing the job by phone, Holly hitchhikes towards the farm. She is picked up by a young college-aged couple, Heidi and Ian, who believe in communism and take her to their home. After breakfast Holly washes up and then goes outside where she finds the couple dead. She is then attacked by a man called Rhîmes who mistakes her for Esther Little but soon comes to realize she has no powers at all. Rhîmes then tries to kill Holly but is stopped by the reanimated corpse of first Heidi and later Ian. Holly realizes that Ian is in fact Esther Little who has come to “claim sanctuary”. Esther embeds herself in Holly's brain but erases the incident from her memory.

Holly makes her way to the strawberry farm. While there she hears the news of Heidi and Ian's death but is unable to connect it with herself. She meets a young woman called Gwyn who says  she too was once a runaway, and that unless her home situation is violently bad, she should return. While Holly is considering it, Ed Brubeck arrives having guessed where she is and tells her she needs to return home as Jacko is missing and the police are not treating the case seriously as they believe he is with Holly.

Myrrh Is Mine, Its Bitter Perfume, 1991
Hugo Lamb, an amoral politics student at the fictional Humber College, Cambridge, encounters a beautiful woman who calls herself Immaculée Constantin at a choir rehearsal, who tells him that immortality is possible. Hugo then blacks out for two hours. At a local pub, he re-encounters Elijah D'Arnoq, a New Zealander he met in his first year, and persuades the aristocratic Jonny Penhaligon to join a poker match at the end of term. A fight breaks out between Richard Cheeseman, an aspiring novelist and critic, and a local band he criticized in print, which ends with Hugo threatening to take the band to court for grievous bodily harm, and stealing away the current girlfriend of his friend Olly.

Hugo has created a second bank account under the false identity of Marcus Anyder, an Astrophysics student at Imperial College London, and has acquired nearly £50,000 through various illicit deeds, including selling his mentor's vintage stamps as he recovers from a stroke, and cheating his friends at cards. His newest scheme involves manipulating Jonny into selling his father's Aston Martin Coda to a vintage car dealer he knows. Jonny, having lost over £15,000 through gambling and with his once prestigious family already deeply in debt, reluctantly agrees. A homeless man he gives money to in Piccadilly Circus follows him home and claims to be Immaculée Constantin. Hugo persuades himself that the encounters were his own imagination. He then goes to Switzerland for the Christmas holidays where an attractive bar manager, Holly Sykes, catches his eye, and he tries to win her over with some small degree of success. On 30 December, he receives a call from Cheeseman, who informs him that Jonny has committed suicide by driving his father's Aston off a cliff, with an inquest forthcoming.

On New Year's Eve, annoyed by his friends picking up women he suspects to be sex workers and rattled by accusations of theft and fraud, Hugo brings in the New Year at the bar Holly works at. In the morning, he receives a call from his father telling him that the police are looking for him, which he suspects is related to his most recent theft of vintage stamps. Furthermore, the women his friends slept with summon their pimps to the house in order to shake them down for money. Hugo manages to escape through the window of his room and runs into Holly, who warns him of an imminent whiteout coming. He stays overnight in her home and learns about her missing brother Jacko, who never resurfaced. He bluntly tells her to stop blaming herself for her brother’s death, and while stunned, the two later sleep together. Hugo, for the first time, falls in love, but discovers a postcard from Ed Brubeck, currently travelling around the world, and grows jealous. The morning after, Holly departs for work, telling Hugo she will have no hard feelings if he decides to leave. He goes to see her at the bar, but before he can he is intercepted by D'Arnoq and his companion, Baptiste Pfenninger. They invite him into their car, warning him there will be no turning back. Deciding that he has no chance of a long relationship with Holly and wary of the potential prosecution awaiting him back home, Hugo accepts. On the journey, D'Arnoq and Pfenninger tell him that they, along with Immaculée Constantin, are Anchorites, a group capable of telepathy as well as putting people on "hiatus" (i.e., causing time gaps and memory loss) and stopping the ageing process. Having vetted Hugo and finding him devious and amoral, they invite him to join.

The Wedding Bash, 2004
Ed Brubeck, now a 35-year-old war journalist, returns to England for Holly's younger sister's wedding. A war junkie, he had initially planned to move back to London to settle down with Holly and their six-year-old daughter Aoife, while secretly planning to return to Baghdad instead. While out for a walk he and Aoife encounter Immaculée Constantin who checks to see if Aoife has an invisible eye as her mother once did and, finding she does not, disappears.

During the wedding Ed is lost in the memories of his time in Iraq working with Aziz and Nassar, two Iraqis who take him into territory dangerous for foreigners and help him with interviews and photos. After dropping him off at his hotel they are murdered by a suicide bomber targeting the hotel where the foreign-born journalists live. Ed feels intense guilt over their deaths.

Ed strikes up a conversation with Holly's great aunt Eilish, who lives in a remote part of Ireland called Sheep's Head. She confesses something she's never told the rest of the family: she believes that Holly's little brother Jacko is not who he appears to be. Similarly to the 'changeling' myth, she thinks he returned from his near-fatal hospitalization as a different person. Ed is unsure how to react to this information.

After the wedding, settling down with Aoife for a nap, Ed is awakened by Holly and realizes that Aoife has gone missing. The two split up to find her with Ed going to Brighton Pier believing Aoife has gone in search of a fortune-teller she saw earlier, Dwight Silverwind. Silverwind has not seen Aoife but goes with Ed back to the hotel to try to find her. When they arrive Holly has a fit during which she intones the words "ten" and "fifteen". Silverwind suggests Holly might be psychic, something Ed noticed in Holly before but never previously believed. However he grabs the room key to 1015 and goes there where he finds Aoife. He makes up a story for the rest of Holly's family about how he was able to find Aoife but tells Holly the truth.

Crispin Hershey’s Lonely Planet, 2015
From 2015 to 2020, author Crispin Hershey, once a literary wunderkind, sees his fortunes decline. His latest novel has not sold well thanks to a brutally unfavourable review by Richard Cheeseman, now an established critic; he is estranged from his Canadian wife and two young daughters; and at a book fair, he is upstaged by new author Holly Sykes who has written an immensely popular book about her psychic visions called The Radio People. Crispin also encounters a young Asian-American woman who introduces herself as Soleil Moore and hands him a book of her poetry which he promptly trashes. At a literary festival in Colombia, Crispin decides to get his revenge on Cheeseman by putting cocaine in his suitcase and phoning in a tip. Only intending to humiliate him, he is horrified when Cheeseman is sentenced to six years in Colombian prison for drug trafficking.

As Crispin tours the globe, attracting less and less of an audience and gathering more debt, he encounters Holly again several times, becoming more persuaded with each encounter that she is not lying about her abilities. While on Rottnest Island with Holly and a teenage Aoife, Crispin witnesses Holly appear to have an epileptic seizure, where she speaks in what he believes to be an Australian Aboriginal language. In Shanghai, she correctly predicts the results of a coin toss ten times in a row, astonishing Crispin. She also warns him that whenever she is near him she thinks of "A spider, a spiral, a one-eyed man." He also receives another book from Soleil which he also disposes of.

As the years pass, Crispin and Holly grow close and become good friends. On a trip to visit her in Iceland, he is attacked by the now-immortal Hugo Lamb who interrogates him about Holly, Esther Little, and what she knows about Horologists and Anchorites. Finding Crispin's answers satisfactory, Hugo then wipes his memory, but not before hinting of telling Cheeseman that Crispin put him in prison. Later during the trip, Crispin learns Holly has cancer and likely has very little time to live. A new doctor, named Iris Fenby, wants Holly to try an experimental new treatment. Crispin starts a brief relationship with Holly's Spanish-language agent, one that later results in a son.

By 2020 Crispin, now heavily in debt, is teaching at an Ivy League college (fictional, but resembling Bard College) in the Hudson Valley, New York. He is visited by the newly released Cheeseman, now wearing an eyepatch. Crispin believes him to be the one-eyed man of Holly's prophecy. Cheeseman confronts him and tells him he spent his time in jail fantasising about killing Crispin, but at the climactic moment, he decides not to, and leaves.  Just afterwards, Crispin is visited by Soleil Moore, whom he does not remember, and who is horrified that he still has not read the works she gave him. She tells him he is part of "the Script" and that humans are being used and abused by higher beings, and she hoped Crispin would help her publish her works so this would become widespread knowledge. She then goes to her Plan B and shoots Crispin, knowing that the murder will make her and her work infamous. Before he dies, Crispin sees spirals on the carpet, a dead spider between a filing cabinet and the wall, and a toy pirate with an eye patch, thus fulfilling Holly's prophecy.

An Horologist’s Labyrinth, 2025
In 2025 Marinus begins to receive messages from Esther Little, who she had previously believed dead. Marinus is a being who has reincarnated into many bodies, including the doctor who once cured Holly of her "radio people" as a child and the doctor who helped put Holly's cancer into remission under the name Iris Fenby. Through Esther's messages Marinus realizes that Esther Little has been stowed away inside of Holly's memories since 1984.

Marinus (in her current form as Iris Fenby) contacts Holly and reveals herself to be part of a group of "atemporals" who call themselves Horologists. Horologists are beings who are naturally immortal, and either come back 49 days after the death of their previous host body into the body of a child who was already dying, or are able to transfer their souls into dying children when new bodies wear out. The Horologists' reincarnation processes are natural and harm no one, unlike their enemies, the Anchorites, who achieve their immortality by draining the souls of psychically gifted children into something called "Black Wine", which halts the ageing process. In one final revelation, Marinus explains that Holly's brother, Jacko, was in fact an atemporal leader called Xi Lo, inhabiting Jacko's body, and the child's seeming disappearance was actually due to Xi Lo falling in battle during the Horologist's first mission in 1984.

Holly is naturally skeptical, but after she is almost killed by a group of Anchorites she decides to work with Marinus and the Horologists. Marinus is able to locate Esther in Holly's memory and extract her by saying her 'long name', which is a compilation of all the names she has ever had throughout her various lifetimes. They then make a plan to go to the Chapel of the Blind Cathar in order to try to destroy its icon and thus the source of the Anchorites' power. The Blind Cathar, a heretic monk who willed the Chapel of the Dusk into being and has since become one with it, is the source of the Anchorites' rituals, and to destroy him and the temple would end their ability to prey on mortals.

Believing that Xi Lo / Jacko may have survived the battle in 1984 and still be hiding in the temple, Holly accompanies them. The Horologists engage in a "psychosoteric" war with the Anchorites that kills many of the Horologists but manages to buy Esther Little enough time to destroy the Blind Cathar. Marinus' body is destroyed, but she climbs inside Holly's mind and is able to protect her this way. As the chapel is crumbling around them, an opening appears and Holly goes through it. She realizes the space is actually the maze Jacko gave her in 1984 and asked her to memorize, and is able to find her way through. Along the way, she and Marinus are stopped by Immaculée Constantin, who threatens to destroy them with her mental powers. Marinus manages to distract her long enough for Holly to club her with a rolling pin. At the centre of the maze is a golden apple. Marinus leaves Holly's mind and asks her to touch it, transporting her to safety. Marinus realizes she has been left behind with Hugo Lamb, who admits that the reason he did not take the golden apple himself and leave Holly to die was because he truly loved Holly during their brief encounter together. Just as they are about to die, Marinus realizes there is another possible way for them to escape.

Sheep’s Head, 2043
Holly is now living in her great-aunt's house in Sheep's Head, Ireland. It has been five years since a period called the Endarkenment, during which climate change brought about a depletion of resources, and people are now forced to live off the land combined with government rationing. Holly is taking care of her teenage granddaughter Lorelei, orphaned after the death of her parents in a plane crash, and an orphaned young boy called Rafiq. Despite the fact that the rest of Europe is suffering terribly, Ireland is relatively stable due to the fact that the Chinese have brokered a deal with them, giving them oil and sporadic internet usage in return for leasing some of their land.  However, the Chinese abruptly pull their resources and, despite promises that the Irish government will be able to keep things stable, a mixture of rogue government troops and militiamen invade the town, taking solar panels and oil. Over an argument on how to split their resources, the invaders begin shooting at each other, sparing most of the locals and leaving them time to form a small militia of their own.

Back at Holly's home, a military vessel arrives asking for Holly Sykes by name. The vessel reveals that it is from Iceland, where law and order still prevails, and has been sent to repatriate Lorelei, whose father was from Iceland. One of the crew members is revealed to be the reincarnated Marinus. Holly asks him to use his powers of mind control to take Rafiq with Lorelei as he is diabetic and his insulin is running out. Marinus reveals that he has just enough skill to get the Icelandic soldiers to take both Lorelei and Rafiq with him, but Holly must be left behind. Holly says goodbye to her grandchildren, knowing she will likely never see them in person again, but resigned to her fate if it gives Lorelei and Rafiq a new beginning at life.

Characters
Holly Sykes: the daughter of publicans who was once plagued by what she thought were auditory hallucinations.
Hugo Lamb: an amoral university student who is recruited into the Anchorites.
Ed Brubeck: a classmate of Holly's from Gravesend who later becomes her partner.
Crispin Hershey: a petty middle-aged novelist who finds it difficult to accept that he is no longer as successful as he used to be.
Marinus: an atemporal being who is reincarnated into new bodies each time her old one dies.
Immaculée Constantin: an Anchorite who visits Holly as a young girl and who inducts Hugo Lamb into the Anchorites.
Jacko Sykes: Holly's little brother who is actually the reincarnated form of Xi Lo.

Allusions/references to other works
The Bone Clocks contains characters from other works by Mitchell, following precedents set in his earlier novels.  In interviews leading up to the release of this novel, Mitchell described this shared universe as an "uber-novel".
 Early on in the novel (around the first appearance of Marinus), a Chinese restaurant by the name of A Thousand Autumns is mentioned.
 Hugo Lamb, one of the novel’s narrators, appears as a boy in Black Swan Green, in which he is the protagonist Jason Taylor's cousin. The character Alan Wall also appears in Black Swan Green.
 There are mentions of Spyglass Magazine and the writer Felix Finch, both featured in Cloud Atlas and Utopia Avenue.
 Crispin Hershey, another of the novel's narrators, is ostensibly the author of The Voorman Problem, an excerpt from number9dream, as well as the writer of a work whose plot seems identical to "The Siphoners", a short story written by David Mitchell, which in turns seems to be the same post-apocalyptic universe described in the last section of the book. He is also briefly mentioned in Slade House and appears as a child in Utopia Avenue.
 The soul of Dr. Marinus from The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is revealed to be capable of reincarnation, and is another of the novel’s narrators, mostly as Dr. Iris Fenby. This particular incarnation of Marinus actually appeared in David Mitchell’s libretto for Michel Van der Aa's opera Sunken Garden, which David Mitchell said served as a "prologue" to The Bone Clocks.  Marinus, as Dr. Iris Fenby, also appears in Slade House and he appears in Utopia Avenue, alongside Esther Little.
 Jonny Penhaligon is implied to be a descendant of Captain Penhaligon of the British frigate Phoebus in The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. Jonny's sister Fern appears as a minor character in Slade House. There is also an Izzy Penhaligon in Utopia Avenue with whom Dean Moss has a one-night stand.
 Elijah D’Arnoq, another "Atemporal" like Dr. Marinus, is also from the Chatham Islands, like the Mr. D'Arnoq  in the first segment of Cloud Atlas.  The Afterword which appears in the paperback version reveals that Elijah is Mr. D’Arnoq’s son.
 Mo Muntervary, a physicist who first appeared in Ghostwritten, is a secondary character in the last of this novel's sections.
 The Prophetess, the schooner that appears in the first and third Cloud Atlas narratives, is the same vessel that Marinus remembers taking to Australia.
 The Chetwynd-Pitt family, whom Hugo Lamb stays with in Switzerland, reappears in Slade House.
 In the final section of the novel, Marinus mentions that the surviving Horologists have founded an organization called "Prescience", which is likely connected to the Prescients in the distant future portion of Cloud Atlas, who serve the same function of preserving technology and medicine in a savage, post-apocalyptic future.

References

External links
 Map of Holly's journey
 Review of The Bone Clocks by Rose Harris-Birtill for Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction 44.1. 120 (June 2015): 131–34.

2014 British novels
Novels by David Mitchell
World Fantasy Award for Best Novel-winning works
Novels set in Ireland
Fiction set in 1984
Fiction set in 1991
Fiction set in 2004
Fiction set in 2015
Fiction set in 2025
Fiction set in 2043
Novels set in Kent
Sceptre (imprint) books
Novels set in Iraq


title: Kevin Boroevich

text:
Kevin Grant Boroevich (born 4 October 1960) is a former New Zealand rugby union player of Māori and Croatian descent. His iwi is Te Rarawa, of the Far North. A prop, Boroevich represented King Country, Wellington and North Harbour at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, between 1983 and 1988. He played 26 matches for the All Blacks including three internationals.

References

1960 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Te Kūiti
New Zealand rugby union players
New Zealand international rugby union players
Wellington rugby union players
North Harbour rugby union players
Rugby union props
Māori All Blacks players
King Country rugby union players
New Zealand people of Croatian descent
Massey University alumni
People educated at Te Kuiti High School
Rugby union players from Waikato


title: Jordan Larsson

text:
Carl Henrik Jordan Larsson (born 20 June 1997) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Danish club Copenhagen and the Sweden national team. Starting his career with Högaborgs BK in Sweden in the early 2010s, Larsson represented Helsingborgs IF, NEC Nijmegen, and IFK Norrköping before joining Spartak Moscow in 2019. He made his full international debut for the Sweden national team in 2018 and was a squad member at UEFA Euro 2020.

Club career

Early career
While his father played for FC Barcelona between 2004 and 2006, Larsson played for the team's La Masia academy. He began his senior career at Högaborg in the Swedish Football Division 2, the fourth level of the sport in the country. On 19 June 2013, in a match against Tenhults IF, 15-year-old Larsson played alongside his 41-year-old father, who was making a comeback due to an injury crisis at Högaborg.

Aged 16 in January 2014, Larsson was tracked by another of his father's former employers, Manchester United. Instead, he signed a four-year deal for the city's main club Helsingborgs IF, the same transfer that his father had made 22 years prior.

Helsingborgs IF
Larsson made his first team debut in the Allsvenskan on 27 July 2014, coming on as a substitute for Mattias Lindström in the 73rd minute of a 1–1 home draw against Örebro SK. On 26 August, he made his first start away to Division 2 team Torslanda IK in the second round of the Svenska Cupen, scoring in each half of a 4–1 away win. That November, his father took over as the team's manager, and assured the public that he would not practise nepotism. The following 4 March in the group stage of the competition, Larsson opened a 2–2 draw against Superettan team Syrianska FC with a goal that received attention abroad for the quality of its technique, reminiscent of his father.

Larsson scored his first league goal for Helsingborg on 6 June 2015 in the second minute of a 3–0 win against Åtvidabergs FF, two weeks before his 18th birthday. On 19 July, he added two more in a 3–1 win over AIK at Olympia, and a further two on 20 August in an 8–1 win at fifth-tier Lunden ÖBK in the second round of the cup, which led to interest from IFK Göteborg.

After Helsingborg lost their relegation play-off to Halmstads BK in November 2016, Larsson, who scored a late goal that would have kept them up, was attacked by Hooligans from his own team, who rushed onto the pitch and tore off his shirt. His father subsequently planned to send him on holiday for his protection.

NEC
On 2 January 2017, Larsson transferred from Helsingborg to the Dutch Eredivisie as his father did in 1993, and signed for NEC. He made his debut eleven days later in a 1–0 win at Willem II, replacing Kévin Mayi after 59 minutes. He scored his first goals in Dutch football on 18 August, one in each half of a 3–1 home win over Almere City FC in the first game of the season. NEC finished the season with relegation to the Eerste Divisie via the play-offs.

IFK Norrköping
Larsson returned to the Allsvenskan on 2 January 2018, when he signed a three-year deal with IFK Norrköping. Mainly a substitute in his first season back in the league, he scored just once, in a 3–1 win over Kalmar FF on 15 April. Two weeks later he was sent off as the VitBlå suffered a first home defeat of the season to Trelleborgs FF, for a high challenge on Robin Nilsson. On 23 August, in the second round of the Svenska Cupen, he scored a hat-trick in a 10–0 win at sixth-tier Brottby SK.

In July 2019, in his first European tie, Larsson scored in a 2–1 (4–1 aggregate) win over Ireland's St Patrick's Athletic in the first qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League.

Spartak Moscow
On 2 August 2019, Russian Premier League club FC Spartak Moscow announced the signing of Larsson for around €4 million.

He scored his first goal for Spartak on 25 August in a game against PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara. On 27 October 2019, he scored twice after coming on as a substitute in the second half in a 3–0 victory over FC Lokomotiv Moscow.

Loan to AIK and release by Spartak
In March 2022, FIFA introduced special regulations related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The regulations allow foreign players in Russia to suspend their contracts until the end of the 2021–22 season and sign with a club outside of Russia until that date. On 4 April 2022, Larsson used the new rule to join AIK on a short-term deal, one of the only Spartak players to do so.

He made his debut for the club six days later in the home premiere against IFK Norrköping. Larsson went straight into the starting eleven and made an assist after 15 minutes when he lifted the ball from a corner to Alexander Milošević who scored the match's only goal. He scored his first goal for the club on 1 May 2022 during an away match against GIF Sundsvall which ended in a 2–0 victory.

He scored the second goal for the club on 21 May 2022 when AIK played 2–2 against IK Sirius at Friends Arena. The following match, Larsson scored the decisive goal against his old club Helsingborgs IF at Olympia, which AIK won 2–1. He made his last match for the club on June 26, 2022 when he played 61 minutes when AIK played 1–1 against Degerfors IF. During his time at the club, he produced 3 goals and 2 assists in 11 Allsvenskan matches.

On 27 June 2022, Larsson's contract with Spartak was terminated by mutual consent.

Schalke 04
On 5 August 2022, Schalke 04 signed him on a free  transfer until the end of the 2024–25 season.

Copenhagen
On 28 January 2023, Larsson joined Copenhagen in Denmark on loan for the rest of the 2022–23 season. On 13 June 2023, the move was made permanent.

International career
On 7 October 2015, in the first game of 2016 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, Larsson assisted and then was assisted by Gustaf Nilsson as Sweden won 2–0 against Belarus. They advanced from the qualifying round but were eliminated in the elite round.

He made his under-21 debut on 3 June 2016, coming on in added time for Arber Zeneli and scoring the winner in a 3–2 victory over Georgia at Rimnersvallen, in qualification for the 2017 European Championship.

Larsson was one of three forwards chosen by coach Håkan Ericson for the team at the 2016 Olympics in Brazil. However, he was withdrawn by his father and club manager, as Helsingborg only had one other striker available.

On 7 January 2018, he made his debut for the senior national team playing 64 minutes in a 1–1 friendly draw with Estonia in Abu Dhabi. Two years and two days later he scored his first international goal, the only one of a friendly win against Moldova in Qatar.

Larsson was called up for a major tournament for the first time when he was included in Sweden's 26-man squad for UEFA Euro 2020.

Personal life
He is the son of Henrik Larsson, who played in the same position for Högaborgs BK, Helsingborgs IF, Feyenoord, Celtic, Barcelona, Manchester United and the Sweden national team. The elder Larsson won trophies in the Netherlands, Scotland, Spain and England, totalling 242 goals for Celtic alone. Larsson was born in Rotterdam, days before his dad signed for Celtic. He is named after basketball player Michael Jordan. He has Cape Verdean descent through his paternal grandfather.

Career statistics

Club

International

Scores and results list Sweden's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Larsson goal.

Honours
Spartak Moscow
Russian Cup: 2021–22

Copenhagen
Danish Superliga: 2022–23
Danish Cup: 2022–23

References

External links

1997 births
Living people
Footballers from Helsingborg
People with acquired Swedish citizenship
Footballers from Rotterdam
Swedish men's footballers
Sweden men's youth international footballers
Sweden men's under-21 international footballers
Sweden men's international footballers
Dutch men's footballers
Swedish people of Cape Verdean descent
Dutch people of Swedish descent
Dutch sportspeople of Cape Verdean descent
Allsvenskan players
Division 2 (Swedish football) players
Men's association football forwards
Högaborgs BK players
Helsingborgs IF players
NEC Nijmegen players
IFK Norrköping players
FC Spartak Moscow players
AIK Fotboll players
FC Schalke 04 players
F.C. Copenhagen players
Eredivisie players
Eerste Divisie players
Russian Premier League players
Bundesliga players
Danish Superliga players
UEFA Euro 2020 players
Swedish expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Russia
Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Russia
Expatriate men's footballers in Germany
Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Expatriate men's footballers in Denmark
Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Denmark


title: Samuel March

text:
Samuel March (1861-10 August 1935) was a British trade union official and Labour Party politician active in the Poplar area of London.

A member of Poplar Borough Council from 1906 until 1927, he was Mayor of Poplar in 1920–21. During his mayoral term he was jailed for taking part in the Poplar Rates Rebellion.

He stood for parliament for the constituency of Poplar South at the 1918 general election but was not elected.
At the next general election in 1922 he was elected to the House of Commons and held the seat at the next three elections, standing down in 1931.

He was also a member of the London County Council for Poplar South from 1919 to 1925.

He died at his home in East Ham aged 74.

References

External links

1861 births
1935 deaths
UK MPs 1922–1923
UK MPs 1923–1924
UK MPs 1924–1929
UK MPs 1929–1931
Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Members of London County Council
Members of Poplar Metropolitan Borough Council
Mayors of places in Greater London
Transport and General Workers' Union-sponsored MPs


title: 2014 Advantage Cars Prague Open – Doubles

text:
The men's doubles of the 2014 Advantage Cars Prague Open tournament was played on clay in Prague, Czech Republic.

The 2014 Advantage Cars Prague Open doubles was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts in Prague, Czech Republic. Toni Androić and Andrey Kuznetsov were crowned champions, after defeating Roberto Maytín and Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela 7–5, 7–5

Seeds

Draw

Draw

External Links
 Main Draw

Advantage Cars Prague Open - Doubles
2014 Doubles


title: Cross Ange

text:
, also known as simply Cross Ange, is a Japanese mecha anime television series produced by Sunrise that aired from October 2014 to March 2015. A manga adaptation began publication in August 2014.

Plot

Through the development of groundbreaking information transfer and material generation technology called "Mana", various problems, such as pollution and war have disappeared, and days of peace have arrived in the world. However, the people who receive the benefit of the Mana live in a false peace. Those who cannot use the Mana, referred to by the derogatory term "Norma", who are seen as an opposition to the structures of society, live in oppression. Because this is the norm, the people who use Mana do not question it.

The first princess of the Misurugi Empire, Angelise Ikaruga Misurugi, was convinced of the belief of exterminating the Norma. But on the day she turned 16, and was baptised, her elder brother, Julio, exposed her as a Norma to the public. Angelise, bewildered by the revelation that she herself was a Norma all along, turns into a target of hate by the people in the blink of an eye and is exiled to Arzenal, an isolated military base where Norma are conscripted into service against their will to fight interdimensional creatures known as DRAGONs, and starts her new life as the Norma soldier named Ange.

As she struggles to adjust to her new identity, Ange's now stormy life takes one surprising turn after another as she embarks on a personal quest to correct the world she lives in, all while learning there may be a bigger conspiracy involving the DRAGONs, the world she lives in, and mana itself.

Media

Manga
A manga adaptation drawn by Kenjirō Takeshita was published between August 3, 2014 and June 28, 2015 on Kadokawa Shoten's ComicWalker website and collected in three volumes.

A light-hearted high-school-themed 4koma parody manga Cross Ange: Academy of Angels and Dragons drawn by Osaji was published on ComicWalker between October 5, 2014 and March 29, 2015. Each strip followed an anime episode. The manga was compiled in two volumes.

Anime

The anime series is produced by Sunrise and aired between October 5, 2014 and March 29, 2015 on Tokyo MX, MBS, TVA, BS11. The first opening theme is  by Nana Mizuki, and the first ending theme is  by Eri Kitamura. The second opening theme is " by Yoko Takahashi, and the second ending theme is  by Mizuki. The insert song featured in episodes five, nine, and twenty-two is "Necessary" by Mizuki.

The series was licensed by Sentai Filmworks for a digital and home media release in North America. Madman Entertainment (now known as Crunchyroll Store Australia) also licensed the series for streaming in Australia and New Zealand. The series was picked up by Crunchyroll for streaming in North America and other select parts of the world.

Video games
An action shooter game for the PlayStation Vita titled Cross Ange: Rondo of Angels and Dragons tr. was released on May 28, 2015. The player character is Naomi, who died in the original anime series before Ange arrives in Arzenal. The game features multiple endings depending on player choices. Cross Ange was included in the crossover games Super Robot Wars V and Super Robot Wars X.

Notes

References

External links

 Manga profile at Comic Walker

Anime with original screenplays
Mecha anime and manga
Shōnen manga
Sentai Filmworks
Sunrise (company)
Bandai Namco franchises
PlayStation Vita games
PlayStation Vita-only games
Tokyo MX original programming
Japanese LGBT-related animated television series
2015 Japanese television series endings
2015 video games
2015 comics endings


title: 1959 Egypt Cup final

text:
1959 Egypt Cup Final, was the final match of 1958–59 Egypt Cup, between Zamalek & Al-Ahly, Zamalek won the match by 2–1.

Route to the final

Game description

Match details

References

External links
 http://www.angelfire.com/ak/EgyptianSports/zamalekcup5859.html#Ahly

1959
EC 1959
Al Ahly SC matches


title: Bereden väg för Herran

text:
"Bereden väg för Herran" ("Make Way For the Lord") is a Christian hymn with lyrics by Frans Michael Franzén in 1812. Britt G. Hallqvist later rewrote the final verse lyrics. Describing Jesus coming into Jerusalem, it is a popular Advent song.

Publications
Riddarholmskyrkans handskrivna koralbok 1694.
Ovikens kyrkas handskrivna koralbok late 18th century
1819 års psalmbok as number 53 under the lines "Jesu kärleksfulla uppenbarelse i mänskligheten: Jesu anträde till sitt medlarekall (adventspsalmer)".
Svensk psalmbok för den evangelisk-lutherska kyrkan i Finland 1886 as number 4 under the lines "Adventspsalmer".
Sionstoner 1889 as number 551 under the lines "Psalmer".
Nya Pilgrimssånger 1892 number 25 of the lines "Om Kristus — Kristi ankomst"
Svenska Missionsförbundets sångbok 1920 as number 74 under the lines "B. Jesu födelse 73-99"
Frälsningsarméns sångbok 1929 as number 534 under the lines "Högtider och särskilda tillfällen - Jul".
Musik till Frälsningsarméns sångbok 1930 as number 534
Sionstoner 1935 as number 142 under the lines "Advent".
1937 års psalmbok as number3 under the lines "Advent".
Svensk psalmbok för den evangelisk-lutherska kyrkan i Finland 1943 as number 3 under the lines "Advent".
Sånger för Frälsningsarméns möten 1948 as number 141 under the lines "Hemlands- och speciella sånger".
Förbundstoner 1957 as number 33 under the lines "Guds uppenbarelse i Kristus: Advent"
Segertoner 1960 as number 160
Psalmer för bruk vid krigsmakten 1961 as number 3 verserna 1-4.
Frälsningsarméns sångbok 1968 as number 580 under the lines "Högtider - Advent".
Den svenska psalmboken 1986 as number 103 under the lines "Advent".
Svensk psalmbok för den evangelisk-lutherska kyrkan i Finland (1986) as number 4 without compound i titelraden till "Bered en väg för Herran", under the lines "Advent".
Lova Herren 1988 as number 87 under the lines "Advent".
Sångboken 1998 as number 4
Barnens svenska sångbok, 1999, under the lines "Året runt".
Julens önskesångbok, 1997, under the lines "Advent" (melody following the Boda tradition, and folk tune).

Recordings
An early recording was done by Engelbrekt's Church Choir on 6 March 1941, and the record was released in November 1950.

References

1812 songs
Advent songs
Swedish-language songs
Lutheran hymns
Songs about Jesus
19th-century hymns


title: Fawcet Wray

text:
Vice Admiral Fawcet Wray DSO (1873 – 1932) was a senior Royal Navy officer.

Naval career
Born on 25 September 1873, Fawcet Wray was educated at Bedford School and at Britannia Royal Naval College. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in 1894 and specialised in Gunnery. He was Flag Commander to Lord Charles Beresford between 1905 and 1908, commanded HMS Foresight between 1909 and 1910, HMS Defence between 1913 and 1914, and HMS Talbot in 1915 during the Gallipoli Campaign, for which he was commended by King George V and awarded the Distinguished Service Order. He commanded HMS Drake between 1916 and 1917, and HMS Berwick and HMS Caesar in 1918.

Captain Fawcet Wray was promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral on 2 May 1922 and to the rank of Vice Admiral on 2 July 1927. He died in Kitzbühel, Austria, on 4 March 1932. The Times reported that he collapsed whilst skiing and died almost instantly.

References

Fawcet Wray at the Dreadnought Project

1873 births
1932 deaths
People educated at Bedford School
Royal Navy admirals
Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
Royal Navy personnel of World War I


title: Beak Street

text:
Beak Street is a street in Soho, London, that runs roughly east–west between Regent Street and Lexington Street.

Location

On its south side, Beak Street is joined by Warwick Street, Upper John Street, Upper James Street, Bridle Lane and Great Pulteney Street. On its north side, Beak Street is joined by Kingly Street, Kingly Court, Carnaby Street, and Marshall Street. Beak Street is a one-way street for traffic.

History
The section between Regent and Warwick streets were once part of an ancient city highway that ran from Piccadilly to Oxford Circus.

The street is named after Thomas Beake, later one of the Queen's messengers, who, in the late 17th century, obtained the land on the north side, between Regent and Kingly streets. The name Beak Street first appeared in the ratebooks for 1689, and in 1691 it was ordered that the street be paved with stone.

The remaining section was known as Silver Street until 1883, and was part of Gelding Close until Bridle Lane, where, as Silver Street, it was part of the 'Pulteney estate'.

Inhabitants
The painter Antonio Canaletto lived at number 41 between 1749 and 1752.

Artist's model Betty May, and her husband Raoul Loveday who died at Aleister's Crowley Abbey of Thelema in 1923, lived in Beak Street for a time in 1922 before they went to Sicily.

In 1936, the first classes of the new London Theatre Studio took place in rooms in Beak Street which had once been used as practice rooms by Serge Diaghilev.

Listed buildings
There are a number of listed buildings in Beak Street. Numbers 19, 21, 23, 41 and 43, 73, 77, and 79 are all listed with Historic England.

References

External links

Streets in the City of Westminster
Streets in Soho


title: Repalle mandal

text:
Repalle mandal is one of the 25 mandals in Bapatla district of the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. It is under the administration of Bapatla revenue division and the mandal headquarters are located at Repalle. The mandal is situated on the banks of Krishna River of Velanadu region and is bounded by Bhattiprolu, Nagaram and Nizampatnam mandals.

History

On 1 October 1904, Guntur district was formed with eight mandals. In 1909, Repalle mandal was formed by carving out from Tenali mandal. In 1933, eleven of its villages were merged in Bapatla mandal and in 1981-82, Repalle mandal was further divided into Repalle and Pallpatla.

Demographics

 census, the mandal had a population of 111,989. The total population constitute, 54,956 males and 57,936 females —a sex ratio of 1056 females per 1000 males. 9,461 children are in the age group of 0–6 years, of which 4,824 are boys and 4,637 are girls. The average literacy rate stands at 72.99% with 74,830 literates.

Politics

Administration

The mandal is under the control of a tahsildar. The present tahsildar of the mandal is M.Nagi Reddy.  census, the mandal has 18 revenue villages and 28 gram panchayats. Repalle is the only town in the mandal.

The settlements in the mandal are listed below:

Note: M-Municipality

Politics

The mandal is one of the 4 mandals under Repalle (Assembly constituency), which in turn represents Bapatla (SC) (Lok Sabha constituency) of Andhra Pradesh.

Education

The mandal plays a major role in education for the rural students of the nearby villages. The primary and secondary school education is imparted by government, aided and private schools, under the School Education Department of the state. As per the school information report for the academic year 2015–16, the mandal has more than 13,889 students enrolled in over 128 schools.

See also
 List of mandals in Andhra Pradesh
 Villages in Repalle mandal. In kaithepalli village is   panchayethe under the villages are  Ramudu pallem

References

Mandals in Bapatla district


title: List of Russian restaurants

text:
This is a list of notable Russian restaurants. Russian cuisine is a collection of the different cooking traditions of the Russian people. Russian cuisine derives its varied character from the vast and multi-cultural expanse of Russia. Moreover, it is necessary to divide Russian traditional cuisine and Soviet cuisine, which has its own peculiarity. Its foundations were laid by the peasant food of the rural population in an often harsh climate, with a combination of plentiful fish, poultry, game, mushrooms, berries, and honey. Crops of rye, wheat, barley and millet provided the ingredients for a plethora of breads, pancakes, cereals, beer and vodka.  Soups and stews full of flavor are centered on seasonal or storable produce, fish and meats.

Russian restaurants

 , Portland, Oregon

 Russian Samovar - Restaurant and vodka bar in Manhattan, New York

See also

 List of Russian dishes
 Lists of restaurants

References

Russian


title: 2009 Monaghan County Council election

text:
An election to Monaghan County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 20 councillors were elected from four local electoral areas (LEAs) for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).

Results by party

Results by local electoral area

Carrickmacross

Castleblayney

Clones

Monaghan

External links
 Official website

Monaghan
Monaghan County Council elections


title: Hosianna, Davids son

text:
Hosianna, Davids son is an Advent song with music by Abbé Vogler (circa 1795) for mixed choir and church organ, with lyrics in Swedish-language. It's one of the more popular Christmas songs in Sweden and Finland.

Publication
J. A. Josephson: Zion 1867
Suomalainen lauluseppele 1871
Stockholms söndagsskolförenings sångbok 1882 en vers, as number 31 under the lines "Lofsånger".
Hjärtesånger 1895 as number 41 under the lines "Adventssånger".
Svensk söndagsskolsångbok 1908 as number 17 under the lines "Adventssånger".
Lilla Psalmisten 1909 en vers as number 15 under the lines "Kristus: Hans födelse, död och uppståndelse".
Svenska Missionsförbundets sångbok 1920 as number 73 under the lines "Jesu födelse".
Svenska Frälsningsarméns sångbok 1922 as number 23 under the lines "Högtider, Advent".
Kyrklig sång 1928 as number 64.
Svensk söndagsskolsångbok 1929 as number 32.
Frälsningsarméns sångbok 1929 as number 538 under the lines "Högtider och särskilda tillfällen - Jul".
Musik till Frälsningsarméns sångbok 1930 as number 538.
Sionstoner 1935 as number 145 under the lines "Advent".
Guds lov 1935 as number 20 under the lines "Advents- och julsånger".
Nu ska vi sjunga, 1943, under the lines "Andra vackra sånger och visor".
Sions Sånger 1951 as number 72.
Förbundstoner 1957 as number 32 "Guds uppenbarelse i Kristus: Advent".
Kyrkovisor 1960 as number 715 under the lines "Advent".
Frälsningsarméns sångbok 1968 as number 583 under the lines "Högtider - Advent".
Sions Sånger 1981 as number 178 under the lines "Tack och lov".
Levande sång 1984 (tillägg till Segertoner) som nummer 631 under the lines "Advent"
1986 as number 105 under the lines "Advent".
Finlandssvenska psalmboken 1986 as number 1 under the lines "Advent".
Finska psalmboken 1986 as number 1 under the lines "Advent".
Psalmer och Sånger 1987 as number 487 under the lines "Advent".
Lova Herren 1988 as number 92 under the lines "Advent".
Barnens svenska sångbok, 1999, under the lines "Året runt".

Recordings
An early recording was done by Solistkvintetten in Stockholm in October 1908. Kikki Danielsson recorded the song on her 1987 Christmas album Min barndoms jular.

References

1795 songs
18th-century hymns
Advent songs
Kikki Danielsson songs
Swedish-language songs
Cultural depictions of David
Songs about Jesus


title: Johnny Foreigner / Stagecoach

text:
Johnny Foreigner/Stagecoach is a split EP between Johnny Foreigner and Stagecoach. Released on November 15, 2010 through Alcopop! Records it features an original track from both bands as well as another track in which both bands perform a cover song of each other's songs and was limited to 500 copies.

Track listing

Personnel
Johnny Foreigner
 Alexei Berrow - vocals/guitar
 Kelly Southern - vocals/bass
 Junior Elvis Washington Laidley  - drums/vocals

Stagecoach
 Luke Barham - vocals/guitar
 Nick Tanner - lead guitar
 John Harrington - bass guitar/vocals
 Tom 'Chop' Lewis - mandolin/vocals
 Matt Emery - drums/vocals

References

2010 EPs
Split EPs
Alcopop! Records EPs
Johnny Foreigner albums


title: Community amateur sports club

text:
The Community Amateur Sports Club (CASC) scheme was introduced in 2002 by the then Labour government to support grass roots sport. The original legislation was drafted by Andrew Phillips. It recognises the importance of sport in the community by allowing local amateur sports clubs to register with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) as a sports club rather than a business for rates and tax purposes. As such, clubs can benefit from a range of tax reliefs, including Gift Aid and rate relief. Both property and non-property owning clubs can significantly benefit from the scheme.

A community amateur sports club (CASC) in the United Kingdom is an amateur sports club eligible for favourable treatment for taxation purposes, with some similarities to charitable status. The benefits include eligibility for Gift Aid tax relief on donations, relief from at least 80% of business rates, and special treatment for capital gains tax and corporation tax purposes.

The main criteria for registration are:

 "the club must be open to the whole community"
 "the club's main purpose must be to provide facilities for eligible sports, and to encourage people to take part in them"
 "the club must be organised on an amateur basis"

More than 6,200 clubs, including more than 425 rugby clubs, are registered as CASCs.

The Sport and Recreation Alliance (formerly the Central Council for Physical Recreation) maintains an information service cascinfo.co.uk which provides information about the CASC system.

History

Following the issuing of a consultation document by Her Majesty's Treasury in 2001, the Sport and Recreation Alliance (then CCPR) - who had campaigned for tax relief for clubs since 1999 - provided HMT with two proposals to help local sports clubs which HMT accepted:
 Following a Charity Commission policy change, sports clubs could register as charities; and
 Sports clubs could register as a Community Amateur Sport Club under a tax scheme

On 30 November 2001, the Charity Commission announced that it would now recognise as charitable: "The promotion of community participation in healthy recreation by the provision of facilities for the playing of particular sports."

Then on 17 April 2002, in his Budget, the Chancellor of the Exchequer introduced a package of tax reliefs to support Community Amateur Sports Clubs (CASCs) as an alternative route for those CASCs unable or unwilling to apply for charitable status.

Key dates

In 2002 the CASC scheme was established in Schedule 18 of the Finance Act with effect from April 2002 but has since been replaced with Chapter 9 Part 13 of the Corporation Tax Act 2010. CASCs were granted the opportunity to claim Gift Aid on donations meaning up to an additional £28 for every £100 donated. Since 6 April 2011 the amount that can be reclaimed has been reduced to £25 for every £100 donated.

The 2003 Local Government Act enabled registered CASCs to claim 80% mandatory rate relief on business rates providing CASCs "parity with charity" from April 2004. Local authorities can grant an additional 20% rate relief to clubs at their discretion.

In 2004, the threshold for exemption from corporation tax on trading and rental income were raised.

CASC rules
In order to be eligible for CASC status clubs need to meet certain qualifying conditions. For a club to be eligible for CASC status it must be able to demonstrate that it meets a number of conditions shown below.

Open to the whole of the community

Clubs will need to ensure that they are open to the whole community. One aspect of this is to ensure that the cost to participate is not prohibitive. To be considered open to the whole of the community:
 a club must be open to all without discrimination (membership or use of facilities)

When determining who can join or make use of a club's facilities, a CASC cannot discriminate on the grounds of ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, religion or belief, sex, age or disability – except when it's necessary for taking part in a particular sport.
 costs associated with membership must not represent a significant obstacle to membership, use of facilities or full participation in the club's activities

CASCs must ensure that costs associated with membership of the club are not a significant obstacle to membership or to the use of its facilities. If the sport is an expensive one, the club must show what it does to make membership affordable for the whole community.

Clubs where membership and participation costs are £520 or less a year will be considered to be open to the whole community.

Clubs where membership and participation costs are in excess of £520 a year will need to demonstrate that there are special provisions in place, and the provisions are used in practice, for members on low or modest incomes to be able to participate fully in the club's activities for £520 or less a year.

Examples include:
 Open days and taster sessions
 Free coaching and equipment loan
 Discounted and concessionary membership fees, possibly including means tested membership
 Charitable fund/bursaries for young people who may not be able to afford membership, coaching and / or equipment
 Clear advertisement of all the opportunities and packages available to play at the club

Clubs can charge a maximum annual membership fee of £1,612 or £31 per week and be a CASC but have to offer a range of concessions to people who can't afford membership at this level.

Participate fully

Members must be able to participate fully in a club's sporting activities. The Government recognises that sports clubs will have different membership structures and levels of access to the activities of the club and will vary by club and by sport.
 Clubs that are open seven days a week will need to provide a member with full access at least three days a week on days that suit the member, including weekends.
 Where a club is open on limited days of the week, for example at weekends only, or at certain times of the year, clubs must ensure that members have access to facilities at least half the time they are open, at times convenient to the member, so that any member can participate fully in the sporting activities of the club even if they are paying a lower amount than other members because they are on a low income.

Costs associated with membership and participation

The costs associated with membership of the club will include all the mandatory costs that arise as a result of taking part in a particular sport, and not just the annual subscription or membership fee. They will also include the cost of any specialised or mandatory equipment.

For example, membership fees may include insurance costs, joining fee and affiliation fees (if required) and exclude for example, optional coaching fees or national fees.

Costs associated with membership also include the cost of specialist equipment or items that are required to take part in a sport. There are a number of options for clubs to consider.
 A club can hire out equipment to members – they would need to account only for the hire cost.
 A club can loan equipment for free.
 A club can arrange a rota system to share equipment.

If a member has to provide their own specialised equipment then the cost must be included as part of the costs of being a member of the club. In calculating these costs a club does not need to take into account the most expensive equipment, just the cost of equipment that will allow a person to participate. For example, if a second-hand set of golf clubs is acceptable, then the typical cost of such a set needs to be included.

Specialised equipment or items do not include objects that a member would normally be expected to own, such as trainers, basic gym clothing and waterproofs.

If the club requires specific branded equipment or clothing then these costs will count towards the costs associated with the sport.

Temporary members

Some clubs will have some form of temporary membership to encourage new members into the sport without having to commit to pay for a full year's membership.

Clubs that allow temporary members to use their facilities will need to charge fees equivalent to the annual costs to full members, to include match fees and fees for hiring courts and so on. For example, if the annual costs of membership were £240 for twelve months then temporary membership for two months would need to cost no more than £40. All income from a temporary member will be considered as coming from a non-member and will count towards the clubs non-member income threshold.

Different membership rates for different people

Clubs may still be open to the community if they charge different groups of people different amounts. However, clubs will still need to ensure that they do not discriminate against any particular groups or individuals. For example, it may be acceptable to charge a lower fee for a membership class in return for reduced access to the club's facilities, subject to ensuring that the members continue to be able to participate fully in the sport.

Organised on an amateur basis

Clubs must be organised on an amateur basis although under the new rules clubs will be able to financially support players subject to a limit of £10,000 a year per club.

A club is organised on an amateur basis if it meets the following conditions:
 it is non-profit making
 it only provides its members and their guests with the sort of benefits an amateur sports club would normally provide ('ordinary benefits')
 it does not exceed the limit on paid players
 its rules provide that if the club is wound up, any property left after the payment of debts will be used for approved sporting or charitable purposes.

Paying players

Clubs will be allowed to pay a maximum of £10,000 a year in total to players to play for that club. There will be no limit on the number of players a club can pay at any one time.

The £10,000 limit includes the cost of benefits a player receives in consequence of playing for the club. For example, for an overseas player, the cost of flights, obtaining a visa and accommodation would need to be included.

Even where there has been no actual cost to the club this must be included. A common example is where a member provides accommodation free of charge to an overseas player. This is a benefit and will need to be factored in when the club calculates its payments to players.

The rule on paying players will have no effect on the tax position of the player or the club. It is simply a rule about qualification as a CASC. Players should be taxed under the normal rules for employment or self-employment as appropriate.

Reimbursement of travel and subsistence payments that were incurred as a result of an away match would not be a benefit, so long as the rest of the team, including players who are not paid players, also had their expenses reimbursed.

Payments to players must be agreed and minuted by the club's committee and the amounts must be determined on an arm's length basis.

Officials of the club will not be entitled to receive payments for playing for the club.

Travel and subsistence

Clubs will be allowed to pay appropriate and reasonable travel and subsistence costs to members who travel to away matches and sporting events as well as travel expenses where the time spent in travelling in each direction is two hours or more (four hours in total).

This applies to players and a small number of officials who will be participating in the match. Spectators and other supporters will not be eligible to receive expenses.

Clubs can reimburse reasonable overnight expenses where it is not practical to make the journey home. This includes costs such as a hotel and an evening meal within standard limits.

HMRC standard rates for travel and subsistence will apply to all CASCs.

Clubs will be allowed to pay expenses to members for the cost of touring with a club. Players will be expected to play, compete or train on at least 75% of the days on tour.

HMRC standard rates for overseas travel and subsistence will apply.

Where a club pays for a member to go on tour the club will need to demonstrate that the tour promoted and encouraged sporting participation.

Main purpose is the provision of facilities for, and the promotion of participation in, one or more eligible sports

In order to be eligible for the CASC scheme, a clubs main purpose must be to providing facilities for eligible sports and to encourage people to take part in them. As a result, under the new rules at least 50% of members must be participating members of the club, i.e. they participate in the sport at least 12 times a year.

An eligible sport is defined as a sport recognised by certain Sports Councils (Sport England, Sport Scotland, Sports Council of Wales, Sports Council of Northern Ireland and UK Sport).

Participating members

The main purpose of the club must be to provide facilities for an eligible sport and to encourage participation in that sport. To qualify as a CASC at least 50% of all members must be participating members, that is they must participate in the sporting activities of the club on a regular basis.

This threshold ensures that the main purpose of the club is clearly the provision of facilities for and promotion of, sport and is not used primarily as a social club.

To be considered a participating member, individuals will need to be participating in an eligible sporting activity on at least 12 occasions a year.

A participating member will be an individual who:
 plays in the sport (adults and juniors) or
 has a specific volunteer role in the running of the club which facilitates the effective provision of the club's eligible sport. Members that do not meet these conditions will be deemed to be social members.

The income condition

All CASCs must meet the new income condition which ensures that CASCs are mainly sports clubs rather than mainly commercial clubs with sports activities.

Clubs will be able to generate unlimited income from transactions with their members. Membership fees, income from transactions with members such as the sale of food and drink or equipment, hiring club premises for private parties and so on will be excluded from the income condition.

Investment income and donations received will also be excluded from the income condition.

The income condition will apply to the turnover or receipts received from broadly commercial transactions with non-members, where the club is offering a commercial service or supply, for example:
 sales of food and drink
 sales of equipment
 hiring out facilities.

Non-members include:
 guests
 parents of junior members (if they are not members in their own right)
 temporary members
 visiting players or teams.

The maximum amount of turnover or receipts that a club may receive under the income condition will be £100,000 a year, excluding VAT. Clubs generating higher levels of income will need to consider setting up a trading subsidiary.

The thresholds on the exemptions for UK trading income and property UK income will be increased to:
 £50,000 of receipts (from £30,000) for trading income
 £30,000 of receipts (from £20,000) for property income.

Where receipts exceed the threshold then, as now, all the income received will become chargeable to corporation tax.

The location condition

The location condition makes it clear that the CASC scheme is open to qualifying sports clubs in other European Community Member States or relevant territories.

The management condition

This condition is met where a club has managers that are fit and proper persons to be managers of the club. Club managers mean persons having the general control and management of the administration of the club.

References

External links
ACASC "The Association of Community Amateur Sports Clubs providing compliance information and guidance for individual CASC registered clubs and clubs aspiring to become CASC registered."
Cascinfo.co.uk "The definitive guide for Community Amateur Sports Clubs"
gov.uk "Gov.uk CASC portal"
sportscotland.org.uk "Sport Scotland CASC summary"

National governing body guidance for clubs
archerygb.org "Archery GB CASC guidance for clubs"
bowlsscotland.com "Bowls Scotland CASC guidance for clubs"
bef.co.uk "British Equestrian Federation CASC guidance for clubs"
englandathletics.org "England Athletics CASC guidance for clubs"
ecb.co.uk "English Cricket Board CASC guidance for clubs"
englandgolf.org "England Golf CASC guidance for clubs"
thefa.com "The Football Association CASC guidance for clubs"
lta.org.uk "Lawn Tennis Association CASC guidance for clubs"

Taxation in the United Kingdom
Sport in the United Kingdom


title: Statue of Honor

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Statue of Honor (), aka Atatürk Monument,  is a monument situated at Atatürk Park in İlkadım district of Samsun, Turkey dedicated to the landing of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Samsun initiating what is later termed the Turkish War of Independence. The monument became a landmark of Samsun.

History
The equestrian statue of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was commissioned in 1927 by the province governor of Samsun, Kâzım Pasha (İnanç) to the Austrian sculptor Heinrich Krippel, who had won the juried art competition to create the Victory Monument in Ankara depicting equestrian Atatürk. The construction of the bronze statue took place in Vienna from 1928 to 1931. It was mounted on its base in Samsun on October 29, 1931, the Republic Day. The monument was officially inaugurated on January 15, 1932. It is the thirteenth monument to Atatürk and Krippel's fourth artwork in Turkey.

The bronze statue depicting equestrian Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is  high while the total height of the monument is . In addition to the honorary to the artist of US$5,500, the construction of the monument cost US$37,000.

The statue's metal casting process was carried out at Vereinigte Metallwerke in Austria.

The 32 pieces were transported in boxes from Hamburg, Germany to Turkey aboard SS Nicea of the Deutsche Levante-Linie arriving in Samsun on October 15, 1931.

See also
Atatürk monuments and memorials

References

Bibliography

Buildings and structures in Samsun
Statues of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Tourist attractions in Samsun
Buildings and structures completed in 1932
Equestrian statues in Turkey
Landmarks in Turkey
İlkadım
Bronze sculptures in Turkey
1932 sculptures
Outdoor sculptures in Turkey


title: Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud

text:
"Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud" ("Go forth, my heart, and seek delight") is a summer hymn with a text in German by theologian Paul Gerhardt written in 1653. It was first published that same year in the fifth edition of Johann Crüger's hymnal Praxis pietatis melica. It was sung to several melodies, the most popular one composed by August Harder, and later became a Volkslied in an abridged version.

The song was rendered into several English-language versions. A Swedish version became a popular graduation song.

History
Gerhardt wrote the poem in 1653, five years after the end of the Thirty Years' War. The text of originally fifteen stanzas of six lines each begins with admiration of God's creation, observed in gardens and in nature. The second part, beginning with stanza 9, reflects paradise as an even greater garden.

The final two stanzas contain prayers: "... dass ich dir werd ein guter Baum" ("... that I become a good tree for you"); "Verleihe, daß zu deinem Ruhm ich deines Gartens schöne Blum und Pflanze möge bleiben" ("Grant that I may remain a beautiful flower and plant of your garden"); and "laß mich bis zur letzten Reis an Leib und Seele grünen" ("let me be green in body and soul until the final journey").

The song was first published the same year (1653) in the fifth edition of Johann Crüger's hymnal Praxis pietatis melica.

Many publications contain only stanzas 1 to 3 and 8. In the abridged version, the hymn became a Volkslied.

Translations
Among several other versions, Catherine Winkworth translated it as "Go forth, my heart, and seek delight". This hymn has not become part of hymnals, possibly because it is not focused on Jesus.

In Sweden, as "I denna ljuva sommartid", it has become a popular graduation song together with "Den blomstertid nu kommer".

Text
1. Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud
in dieser lieben Sommerzeit
an deines Gottes Gaben;
Schau an der schönen Gärten Zier,
und siehe, wie sie mir und dir
sich ausgeschmücket haben.

2. Die Bäume stehen voller Laub,
das Erdreich decket seinen Staub
mit einem grünen Kleide;
Narzissus und die Tulipan,
die ziehen sich viel schöner an
als Salomonis Seide.

3. Die Lerche schwingt sich in die Luft,
das Täublein fliegt aus seiner Kluft
und macht sich in die Wälder;
die hochbegabte Nachtigall
ergötzt und füllt mit ihrem Schall
Berg, Hügel, Tal und Felder.

4. Die Glucke führt ihr Völklein aus,
der Storch baut und bewohnt sein Haus,
das Schwälblein speist die Jungen,
der schnelle Hirsch, das leichte Reh
ist froh und kommt aus seiner Höh
ins tiefe Gras gesprungen.

5. Die Bächlein rauschen in dem Sand
und malen sich an ihrem Rand
mit schattenreichen Myrten;
die Wiesen liegen hart dabei
und klingen ganz vom Lustgeschrei
der Schaf und ihrer Hirten.

6. Die unverdrossne Bienenschar
fliegt hin und her, sucht hier und da
ihr edle Honigspeise;
des süßen Weinstocks starker Saft
bringt täglich neue Stärk und Kraft
in seinem schwachen Reise.

7. Der Weizen wächset mit Gewalt;
darüber jauchzet jung und alt
und rühmt die große Güte
des, der so überfließend labt,
und mit so manchem Gut begabt
das menschliche Gemüte.

8. Ich selber kann und mag nicht ruhn,
des großen Gottes großes Tun
erweckt mir alle Sinnen;
ich singe mit, wenn alles singt,
und lasse, was dem Höchsten klingt,
aus meinem Herzen rinnen.

9. Ach, denk ich, bist du hier so schön
und läßt du's uns so lieblich gehn
auf dieser armen Erden;
was will doch wohl nach dieser Welt
dort in dem reichen Himmelszelt
und güldnen Schlosse werden!

10. Welch hohe Lust, welch heller Schein
wird wohl in Christi Garten sein!
Wie muß es da wohl klingen,
da so viel tausend Seraphim
mit unverdroßnem Mund und Stimm
ihr Halleluja singen?

11. O wär ich da! O stünd ich schon,
ach süßer Gott, vor deinem Thron
und trüge meine Palmen:
So wollt ich nach der Engel Weis
erhöhen deines Namens Preis
mit tausend schönen Psalmen.

12. Doch gleichwohl will ich, weil ich noch
hier trage dieses Leibes Joch,
auch nicht gar stille schweigen;
mein Herze soll sich fort und fort
an diesem und an allem Ort
zu deinem Lobe neigen.

13. Hilf mir und segne meinen Geist
mit Segen, der vom Himmel fleußt,
daß ich dir stetig blühe;
gib, daß der Sommer deiner Gnad
in meiner Seele früh und spat
viel Glaubensfrüchte ziehe.

14. Mach in mir deinem Geiste Raum,
daß ich dir werd ein guter Baum,
und laß mich Wurzel treiben.
Verleihe, daß zu deinem Ruhm
ich deines Gartens schöne Blum
und Pflanze möge bleiben.

15. Erwähle mich zum Paradeis
und laß mich bis zur letzten Reis
an Leib und Seele grünen,
so will ich dir und deiner Ehr
allein und sonsten keinem mehr
hier und dort ewig dienen.
Go forth, my heart, and seek delight
In all the gifts of God's great might,
These pleasant summer hours:
Look how the plains for thee and me
Have decked themselves most fair to see,
All bright and sweet with flowers.

The trees stand thick and dark with leaves,
And earth o'er all here dust now weaves
A robe of living green;
Nor silks of Solomon compare
With glories that the tulips wear,
Or lilies' spotless sheen.

The lark soars singing into space,
The dove forsakes her hiding-place,
And coos the woods among;
The richly-gifted nightingale,
Pours forth her voice o'er hill and dale,
And floods the fields with song.

Here with her brood the hen doth walk,
There builds and guards his nest the stork,
The fleet-winged swallows pass;
The swift stag leaves his rocky home,
And down the light deer bounding come
To taste the long rich grass.

The brooks rush gurgling through the sand,
And from the trees on either hand,
Cool shadows o'er them fall;
The meadows at their side are glad
With herds; and hark! the shepherd lad
Sends forth his mirthful call.

And humming, hovering to and fro,
The never-wearied swarms no go
To seek their honey'd food;
And through the vine's yet feeble shoots
Stream daily upwards from her roots
New strength and juices good.

The corn springs up, a wealth untold,
A sight to gladden young and old,
Who now their voices lift
To Him who gives such plenteous store,
And makes the cup of life run o'er
With many a noble gift.

Thy mighty working, mighty God,
Wakes all my powers; I look abroad
And can no longer rest:
I too must sing when all things sing,
And from my heart the praises ring
The Highest loveth best.

I think, Art Thou so good to us,
And scatterest joy and beauty thus
O'er this poor earth of ours;
What nobler glories shall be given
Hereafter in Thy shining heaven,
Set round with golden towers!

What thrilling joy when on our sight
Christ's garden beams in cloudless light,
Where all the air is sweet,
Still laden with the unwearied hymn
From all the thousand seraphim
Who God's high praise repeat!

Oh were I there! Oh that I now,
Dear God, before Thy throne could bow,
And bear my heavenly palm!
Then like the angels would I raise
My voice, and sing Thy endless praise
In many a sweet-toned psalm.

Nor can I now, O God, forbear,
Though still this mortal yoke I wear,
To utter oft Thy name;
But still my heart is bent to speak
Thy praises; still, though poor and weak,
Would I Thy love proclaim.

But help me; let Thy heavenly showers
Revive and bless my fainting powers,
And let me thrive and grow
Beneath the summer of Thy grace,
And fruits of faith bud forth apace
While yet I dwell below.

And set me, Lord, in Paradise
When I have bloomed beneath these skies
Till my last leaf is flown;
Thus let me serve Thee here in time,
And after, in that happier clime,
And Thee, my God, alone!

Melodies and other music

When the song was first published, it was sung to the melody of "Den Herrn meine Seel erhebt". In 1667 Johann Georg Ebeling composed a new melody, published in the collection Pauli Gerhardi Geistliche Andachten (Sacred Contemplations of Paul Gerhardt). In this collection, which was intended for church and home, the melody appeared in the soprano of a four-part setting with two instrumental parts ad libitum.

The most popular melody was composed by August Harder. It was originally intended for the poem "Die Luft ist blau, das Tal ist grün" (The air is blue, the valley is green) by Ludwig Hölty. The organist Friedrich Eickhoff first applied it to Gerhardt's song in 1836. The hymn appears with this melody in the current Protestant hymnal, Evangelisches Gesangbuch, as number 503.

In the 1920s Walther Hensel wrote yet another melody which appeared in the then popular collection . Rudolf Mauersberger composed the sacred summer music (Geistliche Sommermusik)  (RMWV 11).

References

External links

 Steiger, Johann Anselm: "Geh' aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud" / Paul Gerhardts Sommerlied und die Gelehrsamkeit der Barockzeit (Naturkunde, Emblematik, Theologie) [Paul Gerhardt's Summer Song and the Erudition of the Baroque], De Gruyter 2007
 , Corona Virtual Choir (members of the MDR Rundfunkchor, 2020)

1653 works
17th-century hymns in German
Lutheran hymns
Songs about plants
Volkslied
Hymns by Paul Gerhardt


title: Roland Šmahajčík

text:
Roland Šmahajčík (born 17 May 1993) is a Slovak football forward who plays for FK Tatran Turzovka.

Club career

Spartak Myjava
He made his professional debut for Spartak Myjava against FK Senica on 19 April 2014.

References

External links

 Eurofotbal profile
 Futbalnet profile
 MFK Dubnica profile

1993 births
Living people
Slovak men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
FK Dubnica players
Spartak Myjava players
Slovak First Football League players
People from Žilina District
Footballers from the Žilina Region


title: 2014 Ludian earthquake

text:
The 2014 Ludian earthquake struck Ludian County, Yunnan, China, with a moment magnitude of 6.1 on 3 August. The earthquake killed at least 617 people, injuring at least 2,400 others. , 112 people remain missing. Over 12,000 houses collapsed and 30,000 were damaged. According to the United States Geological Survey, the earthquake occurred  WSW of Zhaotong city at 16:30 local time (08:30 UTC).

Tectonic setting
 The Ludian earthquake occurred at 16:03, Beijing time (08:03 UTC), on 3 August 2014. American geological surveys indicated that the epicenter was  WSW of Zhaotong city at a depth of , in the quake-prone province of Yunnan in southwestern China, about  from Zhaotong. It was especially felt in the province of Yunnan, and less in the provinces of Guizhou and Sichuan.

The magnitude of the earthquake was 6.1 on the moment magnitude scale, with an intensity of up to VII (Very strong) on the Mercalli intensity scale. The quake was the result of a strike-slip fault, whose fault plane has a southwest-northeast strike.

Seismicity in this region of southeast Asia is the direct result of the orogenic activity of the Himalayan mountain belt. Due to the complex interaction between the Eurasian Plate and Indo-Australian Plate from Afghanistan in the west to Burma and China in the east, many shallow sub-surface faults are present in both southwest China and neighbouring Myanmar.

Recent earthquakes
This particular part of Yunnan Province was struck by the Mw 6.3 Burma earthquake in 2003. Similar events have occurred in recent years due to strike-slip faulting in the nearby vicinity, such as the 7.7 1988 Lancang earthquake, the 2006 Yunnan earthquake of magnitude 5.0, which killed 19 people, the largest of recent times, the Mw 7.9 2008 Sichuan earthquake, which killed over 69,000 people, the Mw 6.9 2011 Shan earthquake, and more recently, the 2012 Yunnan earthquakes, which was the result of reverse faulting and not strike-slip faulting like the Ludian earthquake, killing 81 people and injuring 821 others.

Damage and casualties

The earthquake caused significant damage in the immediate vicinity of the epicenter, principally in the city of Zhaotong, where power outages and significant structural damage were reported. Chinese authorities announced that the quake left at least 391 dead, and over 1,801 injured.

According to the South China Morning Post, the tremor was felt in nearby towns, including the capital of Yunnan, Kunming, also in Chongqing, Leshan and Chengdu in the neighboring province of Sichuan. Road access to Longquan Village (龙泉村) of Longtoushan Town (龙头山镇), Ludian County, was blocked, where buildings collapsed. In Ludian, it was reported that around 12,000 homes had collapsed, many of them being aged brick structures.

Aftershock
Aftershock: 3 August 6:00 a.m. until 9 UTC in times or more (more than nine times more than M 3.0) up by China Seismic Bureau). The largest aftershock earthquake M 4.2.

Response and relief

The Chinese government sent a 30-man team to the epicentre region immediately after the earthquake struck, as well as 2,000 tents, 3,000 folding beds, 3,000 quilts, and 3,000 coats to provide shelter for the displaced and homeless. The majority of the injured have been transported to safe areas.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, who flew to the epicenter on the morning of 4 August, sent a joint working group to investigate and assist the locals in the rescue.

Donation
As of 17:00 (UTC+8) on 15 August 2014, Yunnan Province received 536 million Yuan in donated money and 50 million Yuan in donated goods.

Government and organizations

Company

Personal

See also

 List of earthquakes in Yunnan
 List of earthquakes in China
 List of earthquakes in 2014

References

External links

Ludian
Ludian
Earthquakes in Yunnan
Geography of Zhaotong
Strike-slip earthquakes
August 2014 events in China


title: Psychogeography (book)

text:
Psychogeography is a 2007 book written by Will Self and illustrated by Ralph Steadman.

Content
The book is centred on a collection of some of the articles written in a regular column by Self for the Independent newspaper.

It explores the experiences of walking and the psychological states and thoughts that are generated as a result across a wide geographical canvas. It begins with a discussion of a walk from London to New York (particularly refracted through the lens of 9/11). Overall the book takes in places as disparate as the Scottish Highlands, Istanbul, Morocco, Liverpool, Chicago, Siena, Australia, India, Brazil, Thailand and Ohio. According to some critics, it is particularly within the context of London that Self produces his most penetrating writing and ideas.

The title of the work refers to the tradition of psychogeography dating back to the Situationist International. Self's concept differs from its original form in a number of ways, however. His walking is not generally purposeless since he often has pre-arranged events to attend such as book signings whilst he is also drawn to particular tourist monuments (in addition to what he describes as the 'Empty Quarters' that are off the beaten track).

Part of the motivation for these journeys is to operate in a way that contrasts with the speed and pace of globalised travel; in this sense Self sees his mission, in part, as being an "insurgent against the contemporary world."

References

2007 books


title: Kongsvinger Ishall

text:
Kongsvinger Ishall is an indoor ice hockey arena located in Kongsvinger, Innlandet, Norway. The 2,000 seat arena is the home of the Kongsvinger Knights ice hockey team. The arena is located on the same spot as the former indoor ice hockey rink in Kongsvinger, Kongshallen.

History

Kongshallen
Kongshallen, or the first Kongsvinger Ishall, opened 12 January 1992, as the 25. indoor ice hockey arena in Norway. The arena had a capacity of 550. In January 2013, the demolition of the arena started, to make place for a new and improved arena.

Kongsvinger Ishall
Nye Kongsvinger Ishall, or the second Kongsvinger Ishall, with improved facilities and a capacity of 2000, was opened 23 November 2013, by Kongsvinger mayor Øystein Østgaard In its first home match after the opening, on 30 November 2013, Knights defeated local rivals Nes IK 7–2, in front of a crowd of 1995 people.

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Indoor arenas in Norway
Indoor ice hockey venues in Norway
2013 establishments in Norway
Sports venues in Innlandet
Kongsvinger