title: Water in Pristina

text:
Pristina, the capital city of Kosovo, is one of the municipalities with the most severe water shortages in the country. Citizens of Pristina have to cope with daily water curbs due to the lack of rainfall and snowfall which has left the city's water supplies in a dreadful condition. The current water resources do not fulfill the needs of the overgrowing population of Pristina. The water supply comes from the two main reservoirs of Batllava and Badovci. However, there are many problems with the water supply that comes from these two reservoirs which supply 92% of the population in Pristina. As such, the authorities have increased their efforts to remedy the situation and to make sure that such crises do not hit the city again.

Natural water resources

Rivers

There is no river flowing within the city of Pristina. Some time ago the rivers of Veluša and Prištevka used to flow through Pristina. However, none of these rivers are visible anymore since they were covered. This was done because people were throwing garbage in the river and the smell resulting from this garbage was so bad which prompted the local authorities to cover both rivers. Currently, Pristina acquires its water from rivers which are located in nearby areas but not in Pristina itself.

Underground water

The current mayor of Pristina, Shpend Ahmeti, is actively searching for alternative water resources. He has stated that there are many sources of underground water which can be exploited in order to improve the situation of the water supply for Pristina. The main underground water resources in Pristina are the wells which have been identified in “Pajtimi” valley, the “Llukar” village, and “Germia” park

The wells in Pajtimi Valley are out of functioning because the valley was used as a construction material waste deposit, which has covered up the wells. Prior to being used for this purpose, the wells used to supply some neighborhoods with water. Hydrogeologists have confirmed that the valley is rich in underground water resources. According to hydro geologists the valley could be a subject of study for recognizing and utilizing new water resources.

Two wells have been identified in the Llukar village; however, they have been out of functioning since 1983.
Underground water resources exist in the Germia park as well. Currently, the water that comes from the springs flows to Germia swimming pool.

Water supply and distribution

Overview and history of the water supply
Pristina started to be supplied with water, which was mainly coming from Germia and Kolevica resources (wells), at a very early period of time.

In 1961, the Regional Water Company began to supply Pristina with water coming from the Badovc Lake, which supplied water for a population of 38.593 citizens. In 1979, Pristina began to grow in terms of population and construction. Therefore, the need for more water grew. As a result, the Regional Water Company started to provide larger quantities of water to respond to the growing water demand. The water was mainly coming from the reservoir of Batllava and underground resources of Kosovo Polje and Obilić.

Since the end of the Kosovo War (1998–99), the “Regional Water Company Batllava” underwent some changes. However, in 2007, it became a joint stock company called the “Regional Water Company Pristina”. Currently the “Regional Water Company Pristina” provides water supplies and other services for 40% of the population of Kosovo, making it the largest water company in Kosova. Presently, it supplies Pristina, Gračanica, Kosovo Polje, Obiliq, Lipjan, Shtime, Drenas, and Podujevo municipalities with water.

Water quality

National Institute of Public Health (NIPH), which is within the Ministry of Health, is the responsible organ for monitoring the quality of water.
In general, Kosovo is considered to have good tap water quality which also includes Pristina as one of its most developed cities. Moreover, the water coming from kitchen taps is drinkable.

Water usage
 Industrial purposes
 Personal purposes
 Domestic purposes
 Irrigation purposes
 Car washing
 Gardening
 Fishing
There is a poor quality of data on water resources in Kosovo, including Pristina. A high portion of the data and information is unreliable, including the data and information on the growth of population, demand for water, usage of water, quality of water, pollution of water and climate change.

Batllava reservoir

Coordinates:

Batllava Lake is an artificial lake located in the region which entails the municipalities of Podujeva, Pristina, Gjilan, and Mitrovica. It is filled with water from Batllava river which is a sub-branch of the Llapi River. Its basin encompasses an area of 225 km² while the total surface area of the lake stands at 2.25 km².

The average flow in the lake of Batllava is 1.06 m³ per second. The total storage volume of Batllava reservoir is estimated to be 30 million m³ of which 25.1 million m³ is exploitable. It has five main sub-basins, which are further divided into smaller ones. Currently, 64% of the population of Pristina is supplied with drinking water from Batllava reservoir. The basin of Batllava Lake has just recently been cleaned up in order to have clean water when the basin is refilled again. This action took place on 22 February 2014

Badovc reservoir

Coordinates:

Badovc Lake is an artificial lake located in the region which entails the municipalities of Pristina, Lipjan, and Novo Brdo. It is filled with water from the Gračanica river. Its basin encompasses an area of 104 km² while the total surface area of the lake stands at 0.89 km².
The average flow in the lake Badovc is 1.08 m³ per second. The total storage volume of Badovc reservoir is 26.4 million m³ of which 20 million m³ is exploitable.
Currently, 28% of the population of Pristina is supplied with drinking water from Badovc reservoir.  Badovc Lake was cleaned as well in light of the plans to transfer water from other lakes.

Problems with the water supply

Climate
Kosovo has a continental climate, which is characterized by warm summers and relatively cold and snowy winters. Since Pristina is located in the region of “Rrafshi i Kosovës”, the climate is very dry. The climate in Pristina is characterized by very hot summers with a temperature ranging from 20 °C to 37 °C and cold winters with a temperature ranging from -10 °C to - 26 °C. In the winter of 2012, there were blizzards and snow throughout Kosovo, including Pristina. In the winter of 2013, there were heavy rains and floods.

Currently, in the winter of 2014, Pristina is facing a drought. It is the driest winter in the past 20 years. There is a severe lack of both rain and snow. This draught has caused the water levels to decrease in both the Batllava and Badovc basins. If the weather continues the same pattern, the reservoirs may be emptied soon.  As a result, the people of Pristina and nearby areas risk being left with no water supply.

Leakages in the system
Leakages or water technical losses are one of the main concerns for the water supply network in Pristina. The percentage of water not being distributed to the end consumer, but instead being lost through the distribution network is high, mainly due to the old infrastructure and the lack of investments. However, the exact amount of water which is leaked throughout the distribution system cannot be measured; instead, it can be approximated through non-revenue water. The downside of using this measurement method to approximate the technical losses of water stands in the fact that the non-revenue water, apart from leakages that happen throughout the system, also takes into account the illegal connections on the system which represent commercial losses. The amount of non-revenue water in Pristina has slightly decreased from 2011 to 2012. Nonetheless, it still remains high. This difference between the water produced and the amount of water billed in Pristina on 2011 was slightly more than 25 million m³, whereas on 2012 it decreased to around 24 million m³.

Illegal connections to the water system
In 2012, The Council for Defense of Human Rights and Freedoms considered water shortages on the behalf of the Regional Water Supply Pristina as an abuse towards human rights. The company's response for not supplying Pristina neighborhoods with water was the commercial losses (illegal connections) and redundant water wasted for home irrigation, car washes, and others in substantial quantities. Accordingly, it is unfeasible and abusers should be reprimanded.

Planning and Management

Water plant in Shkabaj
The Regional Water Company Pristina with the support of Germany’s KfW, the European Union, and other donors initiated the project "Water Plant in the Village Shkabaj". The project encompasses three phases. Phase one aimed to build a new reservoir and upgrade pipe infrastructure. It was completed in May 2012 with a cost of €8 million. Phase two aims to continue upgrading pipe infrastructure to inhibit water loss in five Pristina neighborhoods. It will cost approximately €17 million. Phase three aims to build a new waste-water treatment plant that will have 700 liters per second capacity, with a further possible addition of 500 liters per second in order for the secure and reliable provision of water supply for 24 hours. It will serve three municipalities: Pristina, Fushë Kosovë and Kastrioti. A study that costs approximately €150,000 was initially conducted in order to test the viability of this phase.

Other Projects
Due to the water crisis that has hit Pristina, both municipal and central authorities are making efforts to improve the situation. Currently, efforts are being made in transferring water from Ujman Lake to Badovc Lake. The transferring of the water is being done through the channel of Ibar-Lepenac which is being cleaned and tested.

There are active efforts being done in finding additional water resources, mainly from the underground resources in Pristina. Recently, three new wells were dug successfully in the Germia Park which are expected to improve the situation. The local authorities have also recognized nine wells in the Pajtimi Valley which according to the local authorities are going to be functionalized and utilized soon. These wells have a capacity of sixty liters per second. The municipality of Pristina has planned to clean up these wells in conjunction with the regional water company.

The wells in village Llukar are being functionalized and are expected to increase the water level in Batllava Lake. These two wells can produce up to fifty litres per second each. In addition, in order to combat this situation of severe water shortages, the regional municipalities have made efforts in improving the inspection of rational water usage. These efforts are expected to improve the situation in the short term.

References

Geography of Pristina
Economy of Pristina
Pristina


title: Libera Trevisani Levi-Civita

text:
Libera Trevisani Levi-Civita (17 May 1890 – 11 December 1973) was an Italian mathematician born in Verona.

Biography
Libera Trevisani earned her classical lyceum A levels in 1908 at the "Bernardino Telesio" Lyceum in Cosenza. In the 1908–1909 academic year, she matriculated at the University of Padova.

In 1912, she graduated at the University of Padova, under the guidance of the mathematician Tullio Levi-Civita, with a thesis titled Sul moto medio dei nodi nel problema dei tre corpi ("About the average motion within the three body problem"). This thesis extended Levi-Civita's researches on the average asymptotic motion existence, for a point represented by the generic solution of a linear system with periodic coefficients, to the problem of the three bodies, whenever this is referred to the moon theory. The results achieved by Trevisani were so satisfactory that her mentor decided to present them to 28 April 1912 meeting at the Istituto veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti (Veneto's Institute of sciences, letters and arts). The note was published in the Atti (Records) in the same year.

In April 1914, the young Libera Trevisani married her mentor, Tullio Levi-Civita.

In 1944 she was elected president of the reinstated  (Federazione Italiana Laureate e Diplomate di Istituti Superiori – Federation of Italian Graduated Women in Higher Education) which had been dissolved in 1935 by the fascist regime. She remained in office until 1953 and carried on institutional initiatives aimed at the empowerment of women and the protection of women's rights.

In 1945 Libera retrieved Susanna Silberstein from the Florentine convent where her parents had placed her just before they were rounded up by the Nazis in 1943, and she later adopted her.

Notes

1890 births
1973 deaths
20th-century Italian mathematicians
University of Padua
20th-century women mathematicians
Italian women mathematicians
20th-century Italian women


title: Heathcote, Ilkley

text:
Heathcote is a Neoclassical-style villa in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, England. Designed by architect Edwin Lutyens, it was his first comprehensive use of that style, making it the precursor of his later public buildings in Edwardian Baroque style and those of New Delhi. It was completed in 1908.

In December 2014 English Heritage designated it a Grade I listed building, raising it from the Grade II* designation that it received in 1979. In its new listing for Heathcote, English Heritage called it a "pivotal" building in Lutyens's career, and "an imaginative and inventive essay in Mannerism". The gardens are Grade II listed in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.

House

In 1906, Lutyens was commissioned by John Thomas Hemingway (1857–1926), a wealthy self-made Bradford wool merchant, and his wife Emma Jane, to replace their existing villa, which was at the lower, southern end of a sloping site,  in extent. Lutyens was given a free rein in the design. He built the new villa at the top of the site, in a size and style intended to dominate the neighbouring villas. Lutyens had already mixed elements of classical architecture into his earlier, vernacular and Neo-Georgian designs, and his correspondence with Herbert Baker displayed a growing enthusiasm for classical architecture. Later, he acknowledged a stylistic debt at Heathcote to the 16th-century Italian architect Michele Sanmicheli. Lutyens has been criticised for using a grand style more suited to a public building than to the Hemingways' dwelling. Lutyens came to call his new style "Wrennaissance", after Christopher Wren.

The house is built of local ashlar: yellow Guiseley stone decorated with grey stone from Morley, with rustication on the ground floor and on the tall chimneys. The main features of the house and gardens are symmetrical around a north-south axis. English Heritage have identified a compositional influence from the 17th-century French architect François Mansart. The house has a three-storey central block, set back between two flanking two-storey pavilions to east and west, each with an additional one-storey outer wing. Each of these five components has a hip roof, made of red pantiles.

Entry is from King's Road, via a walled entrance court, to a door in the centre of the north elevation. The central hall leads out to a terrace garden giving a view southwards towards Ilkley Moor. The south, garden elevation is more elaborate than the north, with wrought-iron balconies, additional setbacks in the central bay, and Doric pilasters on the flanking pavilions. English Heritage have called the south elevation a "witty reinterpretation" of Michele Sanmicheli's Porta Palio in Verona.

For the interior design, Lutyens continued the classical theme. The vestibule floor was white marble. The hall had green Siberian marble columns, a black marble staircase and a vivid green carpet. Blue was used for some other surfaces, and for the Lutyens-designed furniture. He also designed star-shaped light fittings. Other interior features designed by Lutyens which remain intact include the fireplaces, cabinets and cupboards.

Emma Jane Hemingway died in the house in 1937. The company NG Bailey used the building as offices from 1958 to 2011. After a planning application to split it into two apartments was unsuccessful, it was converted back into an eight-bedroom house in 2012.

Gardens
The gardens were laid out by Lutyens, with pools and parterres, and retaining walls for the terracing, including that of the central lawn. The Grade I listing of 12 December 2014 combined numerous garden and courtyard features that were individually Grade II* listed, as well as some outbuildings and a pair of cottages fronting onto King's Road.

The planting of the gardens was by garden designer Gertrude Jekyll.

See also
Grade I listed buildings in West Yorkshire
Listed buildings in Ilkley

Notes

References

Neoclassical architecture in Yorkshire
Villas in the United Kingdom
Grade I listed buildings in West Yorkshire
Grade I listed houses
Houses in West Yorkshire
Houses completed in 1908
Works of Edwin Lutyens in England
Grade II listed parks and gardens in West Yorkshire
Gardens by Gertrude Jekyll
Ilkley
1908 establishments in England


title: List of seaside resorts in Germany

text:
The following is a list of state-accredited seaside resorts in Germany. They are first sorted by seas (Baltic and North Sea), then by German states (Länder), then by districts (Landkreise). After every resort's name, the officially designated status is mentioned in German language (e.g. "Ostseeheilbad").

For a complete list of inland and coastal spas, see List of spa towns in Germany.

Baltic Sea

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern features Germany's longest coastal area, with a total of 2000 km. A part of the state's coast with its historical spas is promoted as the "German Riviera".

Nordwestmecklenburg
 Boltenhagen – Ostseeheilbad
 Insel Poel – Ostseebad

District and city of Rostock
 Graal-Müritz – Ostseeheilbad
 Heiligendamm, town of Bad Doberan – Ostseeheilbad
 Kühlungsborn – Ostseeheilbad
 Nienhagen – Ostseebad
 Rerik – Ostseebad
 City of Rostock
 Diedrichshagen
 Hohe Düne
 Markgrafenheide
 Warnemünde – Ostseebad

Vorpommern-Greifswald
 Lubmin – Ostseebad
 Ueckermünde – Seebad
On Usedom Island:
 Amber Spas:
 Koserow – Ostseebad
 Loddin – Ostseebad
 Ückeritz – Ostseebad
 Zempin – Ostseebad
 Kaiserbad:
 Ahlbeck, municipality of Heringsdorf – Ostseeheilbad
 Bansin on Usedom Island, Heringsdorf municipality – Ostseeheilbad
 Heringsdorf – Ostseeheilbad
 Karlshagen – Ostseebad
 Trassenheide – Ostseebad
 Zinnowitz – Ostseeheilbad

Vorpommern-Rügen
 Dierhagen – Ostseeheilbad
 Insel Hiddensee – Ostseebad
On Fischland-Darss-Zingst peninsula:
 Ahrenshoop – Ostseeheilbad
 Born a. Darß - Seebad
 Prerow – Ostseebad
 Wieck a. Darß - Seebad
 Wustrow– Ostseeheilbad
 Zingst – Seeheilbad
On Rugia Island:
 Baabe – Ostseebad
 Binz – Ostseebad
 Breege mit Juliusruh – Ostseebad
 Göhren – Ostseebad
 Lauterbach, town of Putbus - Ostseebad
 Sassnitz - Ostseebad
 Sellin – Ostseebad
 Thiessow – Ostseebad

Schleswig-Holstein

Lübeck
 Travemünde, city of Lübeck – Ostseeheilbad

Ostholstein
 Burg auf Fehmarn, municipality of Fehmarn – Ostseeheilbad
 Dahme – Ostseeheilbad
 Grömitz – Ostseeheilbad
 Großenbrode – Ostseeheilbad
 Haffkrug, municipality of Scharbeutz – Ostseeheilbad
 Heiligenhafen – Ostseeheilbad
 Kellenhusen – Ostseeheilbad
 Neustadt in Holstein – Ostseebad
 Niendorf, municipality of Timmendorfer Strand – Ostseeheilbad
 Scharbeutz – Ostseeheilbad
 Sierksdorf – Ostseebad
 Timmendorfer Strand – Ostseeheilbad
 Weissenhäuser Strand, municipality of Wangels – Ostseebad

Plön
 Heikendorf – Ostseebad
 Hohwacht (Ostsee) – Ostseeheilbad
 Laboe – Ostseebad
 Schönberg (Holstein) mit Holm – Ostseebad

Rendsburg-Eckernförde
 Damp – Ostseebad
 Eckernförde – Ostseebad
 Strande – Ostseebad
 Schönhagen, municipality of Brodersby – Ostseebad

Schleswig-Flensburg
 Glücksburg – Ostseeheilbad

North Sea

Lower Saxony

Aurich (East Frisia)
Baltrum - Nordseeheilbad
Dornumersiel, municipality of Dornum - Nordseebad
Juist – Nordseeheilbad
Norddeich, town of Norden – Nordseeheilbad
Norderney – Nordseeheilbad

Cuxhaven (City and district)
Cuxhaven, city - Nordseeheilbad
Duhnen, city of Cuxhaven
Otterndorf, Samtgemeinde Land Hadeln - Nordseebad
Wremen, Samtgemeinde Land Wursten - Nordseebad

Friesland (Frisia)
Dangast, town of Varel - Nordseebad, Heilquellen-Kurbetrieb
Horumersiel-Schillig, municipality of Wangerland – Nordseeheilbad
Wangerooge – Nordseeheilbad

Leer (Ostfriesland)
Borkum – Nordseeheilbad

Wesermarsch
Burhave, municipality of Butjadingen – Nordseebad
Tossens, municipality of Butjadingen – Nordseebad

Wittmund (East Frisia)
Bensersiel, Town of Esens – Nordseeheilbad
Carolinensiel-Harlesiel, town of Wittmund
Langeoog
Neuharlingersiel – Nordseeheilbad
Spiekeroog – Nordseeheilbad

Schleswig-Holstein

Dithmarschen
Friedrichskoog

Nordfriesland
Amrum with Nebel, Norddorf and Wittdün
Nieblum
Nordstrand (Gemeinde)
Pellworm
Sankt Peter-Ording - Nordseeheilbad and Schwefelbad
Utersum
Wyk auf Föhr
On Sylt Island:
Hörnum (Sylt), Kreis Nordfriesland, Schleswig-Holstein – Nordseeheilbad
Kampen (Sylt) - Nordseebad
List (Sylt) - Seebad
Rantum (Sylt) - Nordseebad
Wenningstedt - Nordseebad
Westerland

Pinneberg
Helgoland

Historical German seaside resorts

In modern Lithuania
 Memel (nowadays called "Klaipėda", with Mellneraggen)
 Nidden ("Nida)
 Polangen ("Palanga")
 Preil ("Neringa")
 Schwarzort ("Juodkrantė")

In modern Poland
 Cammin in Pommern ("Kamień Pomorski")
 Dievenow (Dziwnów)
 Henkenhagen ("Ustronie Morskie")
 Kolberg ("Kołobrzeg")
 Misdroy ("Międzyzdroje")
 Stolpmünde ("Ustka")
 Swinemünde ("Świnoujście")
 Zoppot ("Sopot")

In modern Russia
 Cranz ("Zelenogradsk", with Rosehnen)
 Palmnicken ("Jantarny")
 Rauschen ("Svetlogorsk")
 Rossitten ("Rybachy")

See also
List of spa towns in Germany
Tourism in Germany
Seaside resort
List of beaches

External links

 Spa association Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (German)
 Spa association Niedersachsen (German)
 Spa association Schleswig-Holstein (German)
 International Association of Top Seaside Resorts, including Heringsdorf

References

Seaside resorts
Germany
Seaside resorts
Seaside resorts
Germany
Atlantic Ocean-related lists


title: Chinese community in Paris

text:
As of 1990, the majority of Asians living in the Paris area were ethnic Chinese originating from several countries. The largest group includes ethnic Chinese from Indochina, and a smaller group originates from Zhejiang.

History
During World War I, the French brought workers from Zhejiang to work in the war efforts. When the war ended, several thousand remained, most of whom originated from Qingtian, while most of the imported Chinese workers went back to China. These Chinese worked as stall-holders in fairgrounds.

In the 1920s, there was a community of Chinese students living in Paris. Many of them had become political activists. Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping lived in a flat near Place d'Italie. In 1921, they published Youth, a Chinese-language newspaper, from this flat.

A group of Chinese from Wenzhou, Zhejiang settled Paris in the 1930s. According to the 1936 Census, slightly more than 2,000 Chinese lived in Paris.

As of the 1930s the Chinese population included employees of French companies, including workers in leather shops and factories such as those owned by Renault. Other Chinese included artisans and tradespeople. After World War II additional Chinese from Zhejiang arrived. During that period many Chinese became leather goods wholesaler dealers and manufacturers.

Michelle Guillon, author of "The Chinese and Chinese Districts in Paris", wrote that "before 1975" the Chinese in Paris "were not perceived as immigrants but rather as a little group that added a touch of exoticism to the capital, thanks to their restaurants in the Latin Quarter."

Immigrants from Cambodia and Vietnam had arrived in Paris since the colonial era but had arrived in the largest numbers post-1975. Guillon wrote that there was a likelihood of "many members of the Chinese minorities (Cantonese and Teochew) among these refugees" and that these refugees had been persecuted in Laos and Vietnam in the 1970s, but "it is impossible to work out any count on the criteria of legal nationality" since they had stayed in Laos and Vietnam and had taken Laotian and Vietnamese nationalities many years prior.

The French dispersed refugees so they would not join communities where foreigners were already settled, and the government set up many shelter and lodging centres in central and western France. However the ethnic Chinese from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam banded together after leaving the shelter and lodging centres and settled in Paris. Later groups of ethnic Chinese Indochinese immediately went to Paris after arriving at Charles de Gaulle Airport.

Ethnic Chinese Indochinese families living in provincial French cities felt isolation. They moved to Paris as ethnic Chinese companies opened there. In the 1980s, additional Chinese from Zhejiang arrived.

In 1998, Guillon wrote that the Chinese now were "a constituent part of the Parisian population."

In 2011, several muggings assaults on ethnic Chinese occurred in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, causing ethnic Chinese to hold demonstrations against violence. David Chazan of the BBC wrote that they are perceived as being prosperous and therefore are targeted.

In 2016, protests staged by ethnic Chinese occurred after several Chinese in Aubervilliers were attacked. The Franco-Chinese Friendship Association stated that from November 2015 to August 2016 over 100 ethnic Chinese in Aubervilliers had been robbed. 49-year old Chaoling Zhang (张朝林 Zhāng Cháolín), beaten in a robbery, died on  16 August 2016.

Demographics

As of 1990, in the City of Paris there were 7,590 Chinese citizens and 1,272 former Chinese citizens naturalized as French. The combined total was 8,862. During that year, in the City of Paris there were 128 Taiwanese citizens and 36 former Taiwanese citizens naturalized as French, making a combined total of 164.

As of 1990, in the Île-de-France region there were 11,263 Chinese citizens and 2,564 former Chinese citizens naturalized as French, making a combined total of 13,827. During that year, there were 248 Taiwanese citizens in the region and 80 former Taiwanese naturalized as French, making a combined total of 328.

As of 1998 the ethnic Chinese population includes those who were born in Cambodia. Guillon wrote that due to integration of ethnic Chinese into Cambodian society, the Chinese adoption of Khmer names, and intermarriage between Chinese and Khmer, there is difficulty in differentiating between Chinese and Khmer people in Paris. Guillon wrote that Chineseness became re-emphasized in these Cambodian-born Chinese due to the nature of their exile from Cambodia.

Geography

The areas of Chinese settlement include the Porte de Choisy area in the 13th arrondissement (the Paris Chinatown), the Belleville area in northeast Paris, and the Temple and , which is mostly in the 3rd arrondissement but also has portions in the southern 10th arrondissement and the western 11th arrondissement; this area, in the historical centre of Paris, is in proximity to the Centre National d'Art Contemporain Georges Pompidou. The Parisian public perceives the Porte de Choisy and Belleville areas as being the major Chinatowns. The area with the highest proportion of Asians is the Temple/Arts-et-Metiers area.

7,000 Asians live in the Choisy area. Major banks of China such as the Bank of China and the International Commercial Bank of China, as of 1998, have operations in this area.

As of 1998, Belleville has the largest Chinese restaurants in area in Paris.

As of 1998, 8,000 Asians live in the Temple/Arts-et-Metiers area, making up about 4-9% of the population. The main Asian group is the Wenzhou people. 70-90% of the residents, of 1998, had or once had Chinese citizenship.

Ethnic Chinese from Wenzhou began arriving in Aubervilliers in the 1980s and 1990s to participate in the textile industry.  4,000 ethnic Chinese live in Aubervilliers.

As of 1998, most Asians living in Marne-la-Vallée are Chinese. They had previously lived in Paris but moved to Marne-la-Vallée to get an increased quality of life. The residents of this area do ethnic shopping in Paris, and there are few ethnic shops and businesses in Marne-la-Vallée.

In popular culture
Marinette Dupain-Cheng, the female protagonist of the animated television series Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, is a French-Chinese student with the secret superhero identity of Ladybug.

Notable people
 Anne Cheng, academic
 François Cheng, academic
 Lucie Zhang, actress

See also
 Demographics of Paris
 Japanese community of Paris
 Chinese diaspora in France
 Vietnamese community in Paris
 Chinese in Paris

References

Citations

Sources

 Guillon, Michelle. "The Chinese and Chinese Districts in Paris" (Chapter 11). In: Sinn, Elizabeth (editor). The Last Half Century of Chinese Overseas. Hong Kong University Press, 1 January 1998. , .

Further reading

 "Mme YA HAN CHUANG - Chinese migrants in Paris. Beyond “integration” : the political formation of a minority / Les migrants chinois à Paris. Au delà de l’"intégration" : la formation politique d’une minorité." - University of Paris-Sorbonne
 "Position de thèse"  - Available at Academia.edu

Asian diaspora in Paris
Paris
Paris
Ethnic groups in Paris


title: HMS Lynx (1913)

text:
HMS Lynx was one of 20 s built for the Royal Navy in the 1910s. Completed in 1914 she saw active service in the First World War.

Design and description
The Acasta class was based on an enlarged , a very fast Yarrow Special of the . The Acastas had an overall length of , a beam of , and a normal draught of . The ships displaced  at deep load and their crew numbered 73 officers and ratings.

The destroyers were powered by a single Parsons steam turbine that drove two propeller shafts using steam provided by four Yarrow boilers. The engines developed a total of  and were designed for a speed of . Lynx reached a speed of  from  during her sea trials. The Acastas had a range of  at a cruising speed of .

The primary armament of the ships consisted of three BL  Mk VIII guns in single, unprotected pivot mounts. One gun was on the forecastle and two were aft of the superstructure. The destroyers were equipped with a pair of single rotating mounts for 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes amidships and carried two reload torpedoes.

Construction and career
Lynx was ordered under the 1911–1912 Naval Programme from the London and Glasgow Shipbuilding Company. The ship was laid down at the company's Govan shipyard on 18 January 1912, launched on 20 March 1913 and commissioned in January 1914.

Lynx left Cromarty with two half-divisions of the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla on 15 December 1914 as part of the response to the German bombardment of Scarborough. At 05:15 on 16 December 1914 she sighted the German destroyer , and summoned her destroyer squadron to investigate. In a brief skirmish which took place with a force of German destroyers and cruisers, Lynx was hit several times by German shells. She sustained minor damage to a propeller and her forward magazine was flooded but only had one man wounded. Her steering gear jammed and the rest of the force made the error of following her, thus ending the pursuit.

On 9 August 1915 Lynx struck a mine off the Moray Firth by the German raider Meteor and sank. Sixty-three men were lost, including her captain. Four officers and twenty-two ratings survived.

References

Bibliography

Further reading
 Massie, Robert (2004). Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea. London: Jonathan Cape. .

External links

Acasta-class destroyers
World War I destroyers of the United Kingdom
1913 ships
Maritime incidents in 1915
Ships built on the River Clyde
Ships sunk by mines
World War I shipwrecks in the North Sea


title: Abraham Taylor

text:
Abraham Taylor (fl. 1727–1740), was an English Independent minister and dissenting academy tutor, known as a controversialist.

Life
He was a son of Richard Taylor (d. 1717), independent minister at Little Moorfields, London. His name occurs in a list (December 1727) of "approved ministers" among congregationalists in the London district, and in 1728 he became minister at Deptford.

Taylor's writings attracted the notice of William Coward, who selected him as one of nine preachers for a weekly lecture in defence of Calvinism at Paved Alley, Lime Street, in the City of London. While these lectures were proceeding in 1730–1, Taylor was ordained (1 January 1731), having been selected as divinity tutor for a new dissenting academy, established by the King's Head Society (itself founded 1730). It was an extended course of study (six years), in which more stress was to be laid on theological orthodoxy than on other learning.

Soon Taylor clashed on a point of Calvinist theology with John Gill, another of the Lime Street lecturers. When Coward first projected (early in 1735) his scheme of founding a college, after his death, Taylor appeared a rival to Philip Doddridge as its head. He obtained a degree of D.D. about the same time as Doddridge (1736). Hugh Farmer believed in mid-1737 that Taylor was favoured;  Samuel Clarke and David Jennings deprecated his influence with Coward.

Taylor, however, mismanaged his money affairs. He lost character with Coward, and ceased to be tutor in 1740; he ended his ministry at Deptford soon after. He died in poverty, when and where being unclear.

Works
Taylor's first publication, an attack on Samuel Chandler, appeared in 1729. It was entitled A Letter to a Friend, occasioned by a rhapsody delivered in the Old Jewry by a reverend bookseller [Chandler] … at the shutting up his evening entertainment for the last winter season, 1729. In 1730 he published a Letter in reply to the Enquiry (into the causes of the decline of dissent) by Strickland Gough.

Among Taylor's other publications (mainly sermons) was A Practical Treatise of Saving Faith, 1730, 3 parts. Appended to his funeral sermon (1733) for John Hurrion is Some Account and it was reprinted with Hurrion's Works, 1823, 3 vols. The Lime Street lectures (delivered from 12 November 1730 to 8 April 1731) were collected, 1762, in 2 vols.

Notes

Attribution

18th-century English people
English Congregationalist ministers
Dissenting academy tutors


title: 2014 Atlantic Coast Conference women's lacrosse season

text:
The 2014 ACC women's and men's lacrosse conferences will include Notre Dame and Syracuse after those teams joined the ACC in July 2013. The 2014 ACC women's lacrosse conference will now include eight teams. This will be the only year that the ACC women's lacrosse conference will include these eight teams as Maryland will leave the ACC for the Big Ten at the end of the 2014 season. Boston College plays in the women's ACC conference, but not the men's conference.

The finalists from the 2013 NCAA championship game, Maryland and UNC, are in the ACC conference in 2014. Additionally, Syracuse was in the final four of the 2013 NCAA championship tournament, and UVA and Duke were in the final eight. Syracuse lost to Maryland by a goal in that tournament, while UNC won the championship with a 13-12 victory against Maryland. UNC's victory marked the first championship for that program, and broke Northwestern's two year streak as NCAA champions. Members of the 2014 ACC conference won two of the last four championships, with Maryland beating Northwestern in 2010. Before that Northwestern won five championships in a row.

NCAA tournament performance (last five years)

Returning All-Americans in the ACC

High School matrix

Boston College

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Duke

Duke starters

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Maryland
In the previous season Maryland lost in the final of the NCAA tournament to North Carolina in the third overtime, 12-13. This season Maryland returns 9 of 15 players from that championship game. In comparison, North Carolina returns 12 of 17 players. Maryland was 22-0 going into the final game against North Carolina and had defeated North Carolina twice during the season.

Maryland starters

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North Carolina

North Carolina depth chart
North Carolina won its first championship in 2013 after current head coach Jenny Levy started the school's women's lacrosse program in 1996. In 2014 North Carolina returns 12 of the 17 players in the 2013 championship game. Brittney Coppa, one of UNC's four team captains for 2014 and a three-year starter, will miss the 2014 season after tearing her ACL in January 2014 in a game against the U.S. National Team. Inside Lacrosse ranked UNC's incoming Freshman class as the best in the country.

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Maggie Bill is a freshman at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who accomplished the rare feat of playing on two varsity college sports teams, the women's lacrosse and soccer teams, that both won national championships in their previous seasons. Bill committed to play both sports in the middle of her sophomore year in high school. She scored 12 goals when she was five years old in her first organized lacrosse game. UNC women's lacrosse Coach Jenny Levy said Bill's high school recruiting video was the best she has ever seen. Bill's soccer team won the state championship in her last two years in high school. She was a first-team All-American in lacrosse in her sophomore year in high school. Bill is the second of six children with two brothers and three sisters.

College career

Soccer: Bill played in 12 of 25 games in her first season at UNC.

Lacrosse: She was the No. 2 incoming freshman in lacrosse in the U.S. and earned a starting spot on UNC's midfield. She practiced with the lacrosse team for two weeks before scoring two goals in a close loss to the U.S. national lacrosse team in an exhibition match. After starting the first game of UNC's lacrosse season, she scored four goals in UNC's sixth game against Penn on March 2, 2014. Womenslax.com named Bill rookie of the week after her performance against Penn.

High School in Long Island
Maggie Bill played for St. Anthony's High School on Long Island, New York in the Nassau Suffolk Catholic High School League. She was a first-team All-American in lacrosse her sophomore year in high school after missing her soccer season due to a torn  ACL. She committed to UNC before her sophomore season in lacrosse. She also played point guard on the basketball team in addition to soccer and lacrosse.

Freshman year: Started on the varsity lacrosse team, suffered a torn ACL in at end of the lacrosse season, lacrosse team won league championship

Sophomore year: missed the soccer season due to a torn ACL, lacrosse team won league championship

Junior year: Won league and state championships in soccer, lacrosse team won league championship, MVP in championship game

Senior year: Won league and state championships in soccer, soccer championship game MVP, lacrosse team won league championship for the sixth straight year. Bill had 65 goals (3.6 per game) and 18 assists (1.0 per game) in lacrosse her senior year.

Notre Dame

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Syracuse

Syracuse starters

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Virginia

Virginia starters

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References

Atlantic Coast Conference women's lacrosse


title: Chinese in Paris

text:
Chinese in Paris () is a 1974 French-Italian comedy film directed by Jean Yanne. The movie features an hypothetical Chinese invasion of western Europe and the life in Paris under communist Chinese rule.

Cast
 Jean Yanne - Régis Forneret
 Nicole Calfan - Stéphanie
 Michel Serrault - Grégoire Montclair
 Kyōzō Nagatsuka - General Pou-Yen
 Jacques François - Hervé Sainfous de Montaubert
 Georges Wilson - Lefranc
 Macha Méril - Madeleine Fontanes
 Bernard Blier - President of France
 Paul Préboist - Civil servant
 Fernand Ledoux - Frugebelle
 Daniel Prévost - Albert Fontanes

References

External links

See also
 May 68
 Cultural Revolution
 Chinese community in Paris

1970s science fiction comedy films
Films directed by Jean Yanne
French science fiction comedy films
1974 comedy films
1974 films
1970s French-language films
1970s French films


title: Quintet for Piano, Strings and Horn (Draeseke)

text:
Felix Draeseke's Quintet for Piano, Strings and Horn in B-flat major, Op. 48, was composed in 1888 and published a year later by  of Leipzig. It was dedicated to Adolph Stern.

Scoring and structure
The work is scored for piano, violin, viola, cello and horn in F. It is structured in four movements:

 Allegro con brio, ma non troppo vivace
 Andante grave
 Scherzo: Presto leggiero
 Finale: Allegro con brio – Allegro vivace e leggiero''

It was performed 29 June 1889 in Wiesbaden if not necessarily premiered then.

Recordings

In 2017, Tyxart Records released a recording of the Quintet paired with the Sonata for Clarinet and Piano along with other chamber works for horn. There are at least two other recordings as of 2017, on Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm coupled with a work by Robert Schumann and another on Classic Produktion Osnabrück (also released in 2017).

References
Notes

Sources

External links

The Finale of the Quintet, performed by the Coburger Draeseke Ensemble in 2011

Compositions by Felix Draeseke
1888 compositions
Draeseke
Compositions in B-flat major


title: New York Women's Bar Association

text:
The New York Women's Bar Association (NYWBA) is a non-profit organization devoted to improving the status of women in society, educating women lawyers, assisting them in professional development and advancement, and promoting the fair and equal administration of justice. The Association accomplishes these goals through the work of its committees, the presentation of continuing legal education programs, and the evaluation of judicial candidates. Through its affiliation with the Women's Bar Association of the State of New York (WBASNY), the Association also reviews and comments on proposed legislation and policy initiatives at the state, federal, and international levels that concern women and children.

Founders
The New York Women's Bar Association was founded in 1934 and incorporated as a not-for-profit bar association in 1935 as a chapter of the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York. Eleven women signed the Certificate of Incorporation: Beatrice Fliegel, Doris Silver Freeman, Lillian B. Garrell, Estelle Ruth Grollman, Margaret Fuller Karlin, Minnie Kelter (Goldberg), Lauretta Rose, Hilda G. Schwartz, Florence Perlow Shientag (Frankel), Freda Spinard (Baileson), and Rose Lehman Stein.

History
The New York Women's Bar Association was formed in 1934 after several of its founders were denied membership by the New York City Bar Association. When Hilda G. Schwartz (later Judge Schwartz) applied, she was turned down and told that there were no restroom facilities for women. The 1935 Certificate of Incorporation, filed on Ms. Schwartz's blue backs, contained all of the provisions found in the City Bar's Certificate, including all of the "purpose" provisions of a full-service bar association – with a single additional provision, which reads, "To define and elevate the status of women."

The NYWBA held its first annual reception on May 25, 1936, welcoming 50 new women lawyers. The event was at the George Washington Hotel, as women were then not welcome at any bar association facilities.

In 1937, the New York City Bar Association allowed the NYWBA to hold its second reception at its building. More than 200 women gathered for a celebration for the first time in sixty-eight years when women were allowed in that facility on equal terms with men. The following May, the City Bar voted to accept women members, and then-President Stein expressed the hope that "other bar associations which still stubbornly keep out a large group of lawyers because of their sex will do likewise." Many of the association's founders were among the first group of thirteen women sworn in as City Bar members.

Board of Directors 2022-2023
The NYWBA Officers and Board of Directors, and the NYWBA Delegates to the WBASNY Board of Directors are listed below.

NYWBA Officers 2022-2023

 President: Magnolia D. Levy
 Vice President: Jocelyn L. Jacobson
 Vice President: Melissa Ephron-Mandel
 Vice President: Sabrina E. Morrissey
 Treasurer: Lissett C. Ferreira
 Recording Secretary: Vivian Rivera Drohan
 Corresponding Secretary: Morgan F. Mouchette
 Immediate Past President: Amanda B. Norejko

NYWBA Member Serving as a WBASNY Officer

 WBASNY President: Deborah G. Rosenthal

References

External links

Organizations based in New York City
American municipal bar associations
History of women in New York City
1934 establishments in New York City


title: Scheidegg (Rigi)

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The Scheidegg () is a mountain summit of the Rigi massif, overlooking Goldau in the canton of Schwyz on its north mountainside, and Gersau and the Gersauerbecken on its south side. The cable car station 160 metres east of it is called Rigi Scheidegg.

The summit is connected by two cable cars, one, the Luftseilbahn Kräbel–Rigi Scheidegg (LKRS), on the north side connecting to the Kräbel station on the Arth-Rigi Bahn (ARB), and another one, the Luftseilbahn Obergschwend–Rigi Burggeist (LORB), on the south side leading down to Obergschwend in the municipality of Gersau. Alternatively it is possible to walk from Scheidegg to Rigi Kaltbad or Rigi Klösterli by a panoramic footpath on the eastern and western mountainside of the Rigi massif. Much of the path uses the trackbed of the former Rigi–Scheidegg railway that once linked Kaltbad and Scheidegg.

The summit of Scheidegg was once the site of a large hotel, built in 1830. The reduction in tourism due to World War I, and the subsequent change in tourism from overnight stays to day trips, resulted in the closure of the hotel and its eventual demolition in 1943/4.

The Cinema Museum in London has rare home movie footage of the town in 1946.

See also
List of mountains of Switzerland accessible by public transport

References

External links

Rigi Scheidegg on Hikr

Mountains of the Alps
Mountains of the canton of Schwyz
Mountains of Switzerland


title: Toga se niko nije setio

text:
Toga se niko nije setio (; translation: No one thought of that) is a quiz show produced by Prva Srpska Televizija. The show is unique because it tasks players with finding obscure answers to questions and trying to obtain a low score. It started airing on April 5, 2014. The show is the local version of Pointless, produced by Endemol UK.

Overview

Toga se niko nije setio is a quiz show in which players are tasked with not only finding correct answers, but finding the most obscure answers among them. The game features four teams, each consisting of two players. Players must try and survive being eliminated by obtaining the lowest score and make it to the final round for a chance to win the jackpot prize. Teams can appear on the show up to two times, the exception being if they have made it to the final round on their first attempt.Prior to the show, 100 people are each given 100 seconds to give as many answers as they can to the questions that will be asked to the teams during the show. Correct answers are assigned a point value equal to the number of panelists who gave them, so that less commonly given answers have lower values than those given by many panelists. Incorrect answers incur a penalty of 100 points. Players on the show attempt to give answers worth as few points as possible, aiming to have the lowest score amongst the players in each round.

Celebrity edition
First two episodes were celebrity editions. First winners were actors Aleksandar Radojičić and Viktor Savić, who donated 60,000 RSD to the "Boško Buha" theater.

Prize
The winner gets 20,000 RSD. The jackpot prize is 50,000 RSD, but when someone guesses the "pointless answer", 5000 RSD are added to the jackpot.
First jackpot winners were Aleksandar Radojičić and Viktor Savić, who won 60,000 RSD for charity.

If the jackpot is not won in one episode, it goes to the next one, so the next jackpot will be 50,000 RSD, plus jackpot from previous episode.

Largest jackpot was won on April 26, 2014, by Dragan & Branka. The jackpot prize was 170,000 RSD.

Seasons

Season 1

 Celebrity edition
 Jackpot winners

References

Serbian game shows
2014 Serbian television series debuts
Pointless
Prva Srpska Televizija original programming
Non-British television series based on British television series


title: Helmbachweiher

text:
The Helmbachweiher is a lake in the central Palatine Forest in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It lies near the Helmbach stream about two kilometres from its confluence with the Speyerbach on the forest estates of the municipalities of Elmstein, Kirrweiler and Venningen.

The lake is comparable to the woogs of the Middle Ages and was created in 1970 by the impoundment of the Kohlbach, a right tributary of the Helmbach. It has an area of  and is up to  deep. Its primary role is as a Kneipp bathing pool. In the immediate vicinity of the lake is a forester's lodge, the Forsthaus Helmbach, an adventure playground, a barbecue area and an educational garten.

External links
 Data
 Helmbachweiher

Reservoirs in Rhineland-Palatinate
Palatinate Forest
LHelmbachweiher
Ponds of Rhineland-Palatinate


title: Mayfield Fortification

text:
The Mayfield Fortification is a historic American Civil War earthworks at 8401 Quarry Road in Manassas, Virginia.  It is one of a series of fortifications constructed by the Confederate Army to defend the critical Manassas railroad junction in 1861.  The fort consisted of earthworks with log revetments, and was built by local Confederate troops and slave labor.  After 1862 the fort was sporadically occupied by Union forces.

The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.  It is now a city park.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Manassas, in Manassas Park, and in Prince William County, Virginia

References

Buildings and structures in Manassas, Virginia
Forts in Virginia
Virginia municipal and county parks
Military installations established in 1861
American Civil War on the National Register of Historic Places
Military facilities on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Manassas, Virginia
1861 establishments in Virginia
Tourist attractions in Manassas, Virginia


title: Afronyctemera

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Afronyctemera is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Vladimir Viktorovitch Dubatolov in 2006.

Species
 Afronyctemera camerunica
 Afronyctemera itokina (Aurivillius, 1904)
 Afronyctemera marcida
 Afronyctemera plana

References

Dubatolov, V. V. (2006) "On the generic status of the Afrotropical Nyctemera species (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae)". Atalanta. 37 (1/2): 191-205.

Nyctemerina
Noctuoidea genera


title: St Aidan's Church, Bamburgh

text:
St Aidan's Church is a Grade I listed Church of England building in the Diocese of Newcastle.

History

According to Bede, St Aidan built a wooden church outside the castle wall, on the site of the current church, in AD 635, and he died here in AD 652; (a wooden beam preserved inside the church is traditionally said to be the one on which he rested as he died).

The present church dates from the late 12th century  (though some pre-conquest stonework survives in the north aisle). The chancel, said to be the second longest in the country (60 ft), was added in 1230; it contains an 1895 reredos in Caen stone by W.S. Hicks, depicting northern saints of the 7th and 8th centuries.

The older, eastern section of the church, has Saxon-style timber roof structure.

Note that after the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the mid 1500s, the monks were forced to leave. After the Reformation, St Aidan's became the parish church for the village but its maintenance was neglected; by 1600, it was in poor condition. Repairs were eventually completed. Over the subsequent centuries additional repairs were undertaken, including significant restorations during the 1800s, the last one in 1895.

The church's crypt holds the remains of 110 individuals who died in the 7th and 8th century; they had originally been buried in the castle's Bowl Hole graveyard. The remains were found during a project between 1998 and 2007. Finally, in 2016, they were moved into the crypt. Since November 2019, the crypt can be viewed by visitors through a small gate. An interpretive display and digital ossuary are also available for visitors as "Accessing Aidan"; they are managed by the Bamburgh Bones consortium: the Bamburgh Heritage Trust, St. Aidan's Parochial Church Council, Northumberland Coast AONB Partnership and Northumberland County Council.

Memorials

The church contains a 14th-century tomb recess with an effigy of a Knight.  There are wall monuments to: Sir Claudius Forster, 1st Baronet of 1623, the Forster family of 1711, the Sharpe memorial 1839 by Chantrey.

The north aisle contains an effigy of local heroine Grace Darling dating from 1844 by Charles Raymond Smith. This formed part of the original Monument to Grace Darling in the churchyard but was later replaced due to deterioration of the stonework. The memorial is placed so that it can be seen by passing ships, and is by Anthony Salvin and Charles Raymond Smith, 1844.

The churchyard contains one Commonwealth war grave, of an airman of World War II.

A brass plaque to Arthur Lionel Smith.

Memorial to Major General George Younghusband.

Organ

The church had a two manual pipe organ by Harrison and Harrison dating from 1883. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.

References

Church of England church buildings in Northumberland
Grade I listed churches in Northumberland
Andrew


title: Blattbach

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The Blattbach is a tributary of the Helmbach, roughly  long, in the Palatinate Forest in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It rises in the central part of the forest and flows eastwards before discharging into the Helmbach. The Blattbach is located entirely within the territory of the municipality of Elmstein.

Tributaries
Miedersbach (right),

References

Elmstein
Rivers of Rhineland-Palatinate
Palatinate Forest
Rivers of Germany


title: Luca Tribondeau

text:
Luca Tribondeau (born 3 August 1996) is an Austrian freestyle skier. He was born in Wolfsberg.
He competed in slopestyle at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 2013. He competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, in slopestyle.

References

External links

1996 births
Living people
Freestyle skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Austrian male freestyle skiers
Olympic freestyle skiers for Austria


title: First cabinet of Odilon Barrot

text:
The first cabinet of Odilon Barrot was the government of France from 20 December 1848 to 2 June 1849 under President of the Council Odilon Barrot.
It was formed after the election of Louis Napoleon as President on  20 December 1848, the day that he took his oath.
It replaced the cabinet of General Cavaignac.
After the May 1849 elections to the Legislative Assembly it was replaced by the second cabinet of Odilon Barrot.

Ministers

The ministers were:

Changes
 On 29 December 1848, Léon Faucher substituted Léon de Maleville as Interior Minister; Théobald de Lacrosse substituted Faucher as Public Works Minister; Louis Buffet substituted Jacques Alexandre Bixio as Agriculture Minister.

References

Sources

French governments
1848 establishments in France
1849 disestablishments in France
Cabinets established in 1848
Cabinets disestablished in 1849


title: 45th Battalion (Manitoba), CEF

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The 45th Battalion (Manitoba), CEF, was an infantry battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the Great War.

History
The 45th Battalion was authorized on 7 November 1914, embarked for Britain on 13 March 1916 aboard the  and disembarked at Folkestone Harbour on 23 March 1916. The battalion was stationed at Shorncliffe Army Camp, and provided reinforcements to the Canadian Corps in the field until it was absorbed by the 11th Reserve Battalion, CEF on 6 July 1916. The battalion was disbanded on 17 July 1917.

The 45th Battalion recruited throughout Manitoba and was mobilized at Brandon, Manitoba.

The 45th Battalion was commanded by Lt.Col. F.J. Clarke from 17 March 1916 to 13 July 1916.

The 45th Battalion was awarded the battle honour THE GREAT WAR 1916.

Perpetuation
The 45th Battalion (Manitoba), CEF, is perpetuated by The 26th Field Artillery Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery.

See also

 List of infantry battalions in the Canadian Expeditionary Force

References

Sources

 Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919 by Col. G.W.L. Nicholson, CD, Queen's Printer, Ottawa, Ontario, 1962

045
Military units and formations of Manitoba


title: Knolly Clarke

text:
Knolly Ulric Alexander Clarke (born 7 January 1935) is a retired Anglican priest from Trinidad and Tobago. He served as Dean of Trinidad from 1994 to 2004.

Early life
Clarke was born on 7 January 1935 in Tunapuna. His father worked with the Trinidad Government Railway and he attended primary school in Sangre Grande. He attended Tranquillity Secondary School, Port of Spain, and Progressive Private School. After leaving secondary school he taught at Richmond Street Boys’ Primary School and then went on to Codrington College, Barbados. At first, however, he wanted to be an engine driver: "My father was Station Master in the old days of the railway. My vocation started at Good Shepherd
St Oswald Church, Caroni]], in Tunapuna as a server, and my mentor was Bishop Benjamin Vaughan, Dean of the Cathedral. After leaving school I taught two years at Richmond Street Boys’ Primary and then went to Codrington, where on completion of the Diploma in Theological Studies I was ordained Deacon at St Michael's Cathedral in Barbados, returned to Trinidad, and after 1961 priestly ordination was assigned as Assistant Priest at St. Stephen's in Princes Town". In Princes Town, Clarke met and married nurse Estella Millington, a union that has produced three children, Christopher Martin, Marisa and Marcus.

Education and career
Clarke was ordained at first as deacon of St. Michael's Cathedral, Barbados in 1961 and then as priest in Trinidad also in 1961. He first served as Assistant Priest at St Stephen's in Princes Town. In 1963, Clarke went to All Saints in Port of Spain as assistant curate, during which time he decided to further his studies and obtained a Licentiate of Theology at the University of Western Ontario. On completion of his studies in Canada he returned to home to St. Stephen's where he served for a further five years. He then took up a scholarship to study at McGill University where he completed the Master of Sacred Theology in 1973.  On his return to Trinidad he was again assigned  to St Stephen's, he was made Canon in 1974 and was then assigned to St. Agnes Parish in St. James where he spent seven years. Clarke later spent 12 years at St Paul's in San Fernando. He was appointed Dean of the Cathedral in 1994.  He obtained his Doctoral degree at Sewanee: The University of the South.

On retirement in 2004, Clarke worked as Associate General Secretary with the Caribbean Council of Churches. He currently serves as Priest in Charge at Christ Church, Cascade a small parish in suburban Port-of-Spain. He also coordinates and lectures in the Ethics and Moral Values programme at the Cipriani College of Labour and Co-operative Studies. Clarke is the Anglican representative the on the Inter Religious Organisation of Trinidad and Tobago. Clarke also serves as Chairman and Dean of the Sehon Goodridge Theological Society a non-profit inter-denominational organization that seeks to promote theological study, interfaith dialog and named in honor of the late Archbishop of the Windward Islands Sehon Goodridge.

Involvement in Trinidad and Tobago attempted coup (1990)
According to the Commission of Enquiry into the attempted coup of 1990 in Trinidad and Tobago, Clarke was enlisted to function as a go-between between the insurgent Jamaat-al-Muslimeen and the T&T army to relay the insurgents' demands and the army's responses. The Commission's report stated:

"We find that Canon Clarke at all material times functioned as a messenger relaying messages among Imam Abu Bakr, Bilaal Abdullah and Col. Theodore. He was never a mediator properly so called and did not function as a mediator."

The report went on to say that if it were not for the actions of Clarke as a messenger, there would have been more bloodshed during the tense, six-day standoff.

"Canon Clarke’s return to the Red House on Saturday afternoon probably prevented the murder of the hostages in Parliament. We are convinced that, if he had not returned with the amnesty document, Bilaal Abdullah would have made good his threat to have the NAR Parliamentarians executed."

Honours
In 2002 an Honorary Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him by University of Western Ontario. In 2007 he was awarded the Hummingbird Medal in Gold by Government of Trinidad and Tobago.

References

1935 births
Deans of Trinidad
Alumni of Codrington College
Living people
People from Tunapuna–Piarco
Recipients of the Hummingbird Medal


title: Barefoot (2014 film)

text:
Barefoot is a 2014 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Andrew Fleming and distributed by Roadside Attractions. It was written by Stephen Zotnowski and is a remake of the 2005 German film Barfuss. Its story follows Jay, the son of a wealthy family who meets Daisy, a psychiatric patient who was raised in isolation, as he takes her home for his brother's wedding. It stars Evan Rachel Wood, Scott Speedman, Treat Williams, Kate Burton and J. K. Simmons.

The film was produced by WhiteFlame Productions and premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on February 2, 2014, before receiving a limited release on February 21, 2014. It grossed $11,767 during its opening weekend and $15,071 worldwide. It received negative reviews and has a 14% approval rating based on 21 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.

Plot

Jay Wheeler, the "black sheep" son of a rich family, works as a janitor at a Los Angeles, California psychiatric hospital as part of his probation. While walking through the hospital one night he overhears another janitor, Frakel, telling a patient that he's a doctor in order to rape her. After hearing this, Jay knocks out Frakel and tells the patient, Daisy Kensington, to go back to bed. Daisy, having been admitted to the hospital after being raised in isolation and being barefoot all her life, decides to follow Jay out of the hospital.

Rather than send Daisy back, Jay brings her home for his brother's wedding in New Orleans, Louisiana to convince his family that he has straightened out his life. While she impresses them with her genuine, if unstable, charm, she also admits to Jay that she was in the hospital for killing her mother. While at the wedding Jay's father, suspecting that something is amiss, presses her for information, causing Daisy to have a panic attack. As Jay gets her into a cab, surrounded by his family, he tells them the truth about his job, only having come home to get money to pay back a loan shark. When Jay and Daisy return to his parents' house they search through his father's cars for keys and find a set in a classic RV, in which they set out for home. Despite getting along while driving Jay leaves Daisy at a bus station in Shreveport, Louisiana, intending to abandon her, but ends up having a change of heart and goes back for her.

Their journey becomes a fun adventure, despite the fact that they are both being hunted; Daisy for escaping the hospital and Jay for taking her and violating his probation. As Jay is the only one who can drive, they pull over so he can sleep. During the night Daisy wakes him up due to a cop having pulled up behind. While Jay hides in the cupboard Daisy tells the cop that her boyfriend, "Beaver," ran away when he saw the flashing lights. The cop tells her that his father's name was Beaver, before proceeding to check the RV. After checking the bathroom, which smells bad because they can't flush it, he leaves and walks into the bush on the side of the road to find "Beaver." While the cop is distracted Daisy throws away the keys to his car, so that she and Jay can escape, causing Jay to see her in a different light. A few nights later they go to a carnival, which Daisy has never been to before, claiming that it is "the best day of her life."

Later when they make a stopover, Jay makes a phone call to Dr. Bertleman, the doctor who was handling Daisy. She then overhears him say that he is going to take her back to Los Angeles only to bring her back to the psychiatric hospital. She runs away crying to the RV alone and attempts to drive away before Jay can get to her. As she only knows the basics that Jay taught her, she ends up driving around the parking lot in circles before crashing the RV. As Jay opens the door, she climbs out crying, as other people come to check on them. Jay then hurries them both into a diner. Jay, curious about Daisy, not truly believing she's schizophrenic as her doctor believes, asks her about whether the voices told her to kill her mother. Daisy tells him that it wasn't her who heard voices, but her mother. Her mother was screaming one night but Daisy didn't go to her, and when she woke up in the morning her mother was dead, causing Daisy to believe that she killed her mother. As Jay vehemently tells Daisy that she didn't kill her mother, a group of cop cars show up at the diner to arrest Jay and Daisy, assuming that one of the bystanders to the crash called them. As Jay kisses Daisy, the cops come into the diner and handcuff Jay.

When Jay's mother finds out he's in jail, she persuades his father to bail him out, which he does. When Jay returns to his apartment, he finds the door smashed open and his belongings torn apart. Glancing out the window he sees one of the loan shark's goons waiting for him outside, just as the loan shark looks up and sees him. After fleeing his apartment complex, Jay goes to the psychiatric hospital to see Daisy, but the security and Dr. Bertleman tell him to leave.

Desperate, Jay goes to the train station and lies down on the tracks, so that he'll be deemed suicidal and be taken to the psychiatric hospital. Dr. Bertleman, knowing that Jay is fine and that it was just a ruse, dismisses Jay, but after Jay insists that he is suicidal, the doctor puts him in solitary confinement. Before Jay is taken away, he tells the doctor that it wasn't Daisy who heard voices but her mother. While at the hospital, another patient gives Jay information on Daisy's well-being and confirms that they're being kept apart.

That night Frakel sneaks the loan shark's goon into the hospital, where he then goes and strangles Jay using a chain. As Jay is struggling to get him off, the patient who was giving him information takes out the goon by hitting him in the head with a broom. After this Jay wakes up in the hospital, where Dr. Bertleman apologizes to Jay about Frakel and tells him he was right about Daisy's mother, who was schizophrenic. Dr. Bertleman then decides to release them both from the hospital. Before Jay goes to meet Daisy, he gets a letter from his father, which contains a $40,000 check to pay off his debts. Jay then meets Daisy at the hospital entrance, where they hug and kiss before leaving together, hand in hand.

As the credits start to roll, the last scene shows Daisy and Jay riding a merry-go-round.

Cast
 Evan Rachel Wood as Daisy Kensington
 Scott Speedman as Jay Wheeler
 Treat Williams as Mr. Wheeler
 Kate Burton as Mrs. Wheeler
 J. K. Simmons as Dr. Bertleman
 Ricky Wayne as Mr. Frakel
 Thomas Francis Murphy as Mr. Bryant

Reception
Barefoot received mostly negative reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes it holds a 17% rating, with an average score of 4.2/10, based on 23 reviews.

Barbara VanDenburgh of the Arizona Republic rated the film 1.5 out of 5 stars and called the film an "offensively infantilizing [...] spectacularly wrong-headed, chemistry-free romance, and too dumb to know how sexist it is" and calling Evan Rachel Wood's character "a cartoon character" similar to the Little Mermaid who "all but brushes her hair with a fork".

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2014 films
2014 romantic comedy-drama films
American romantic comedy-drama films
Films directed by Andrew Fleming
Films set in Louisiana
American remakes of German films
Roadside Attractions films
2014 comedy films
2014 drama films
2010s English-language films
2010s American films


title: São Paulo Sevens

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São Paulo Sevens is an annual women's Rugby sevens tournament, and one of five stops on the IRB Women's Sevens World Series. São Paulo joined in the second year of the Series.

Cup winners

2014

The 2014 edition of the tournament took place at Arena Barueri, São Paulo on 21–22 February 2014. A total of twelve teams competed: The eight "core" teams, and four invited teams.

Core Teams

Invited Teams

2015

The 2015 edition of the tournament took place at Arena Barueri, São Paulo on 7–8 February 2015. A total of twelve teams competed:

2016

The 2016 edition of the tournament took place at Arena Barueri, São Paulo on 20–21 February 2015. A total of twelve teams competed:

References

World Rugby Women's Sevens Series tournaments
International rugby union competitions hosted by Brazil
Rugby sevens competitions in South America
Rugby sevens competitions in Brazil
2014 establishments in Brazil
Recurring sporting events established in 2014


title: Martin Vargic

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Martin Vargic is a Slovak artist and author, best known for his book "Vargic's Miscellany of Curious Maps", and "Map of the Internet".

Maps

Vargic publishes all of his works (chiefly maps and charts) on his website, halcyonmaps.com.

On 15 January 2014, Vargic published the "Map of the Internet" on Deviantart. It is a conceptual artwork that depicts the largest websites and software companies as sovereign nations on a stylized political map of the world, scaled according to their traffic and Alexa ratings. It was first featured in media on 30 January 2014, after a design and technology blog Gizmodo wrote an article on the subject.

Following week, the map was featured on a wide variety of news sites and blogs in over 20 countries, most notably on The Independent, Fox News, The Huffington Post and Business Insider.

In addition to the "Map of the Internet", Vargic has recently published a wide variety of other maps, notably "The World - Climate Change", depicting the world after 260-ft sea level rise, the "Map of Stereotypes" and a number of other maps and charts.

In September 2015, Vargic published his first book, Vargic's Miscellany of Curious Maps.

References

External links

Living people
Slovak artists
1998 births


title: Oscar Wester

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Oscar Wester (born 21 June 1995) is a Swedish freestyle skier. He placed seventh in slopestyle at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 2013. He represented Sweden in slopestyle at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang. His brother, Jacob Wester, also represents Sweden in skiing.

References

External links

1995 births
Living people
Freestyle skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Freestyle skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Swedish male freestyle skiers
Olympic freestyle skiers for Sweden
21st-century Swedish people


title: 2014 São Paulo Women's Sevens

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The 2014 São Paulo Sevens is the inaugural São Paulo Sevens tournament, and the third of six tournaments in the 2013–14 IRB Women's Sevens World Series.  It was held on February 21 and 22 at Arena Barueri, São Paulo.

Format

The teams were drawn into three pools of four teams each. Each team played everyone in their pool one time. The top two teams from each pool advanced to the Cup/Plate brackets while the top 2 third place teams competed in the Cup/Plate. The rest of the teams from each group went to the Bowl brackets.

Teams

A total of twelve teams will compete: The nine "core" teams, and three invited teams.

Core Teams

Invited Teams

Pool Stage

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Knockout stage

Bowl

Plate

Cup

References

External links
Official website

2013–14 IRB Women's Sevens World Series
São Paulo Sevens
2014 in women's rugby union
2014 rugby sevens competitions
2014 in Brazilian sport


title: Jesper Tjäder

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Jesper Tjäder (born 22 May 1994) is a Swedish freestyle skier. He won the overall slopestyle World Cup in 2014, and competed for Sweden at the 2014, 2018, and 2022 Winter Olympics; winning a Bronze medal in Slopestyle at the latter.

Personal life
Tjäder was born in Östersund, Sweden, on 22 May 1994. His parents introduced him to skiing at the age of three.

Career
Tjäder competed in slopestyle at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 2013, and he represented Sweden in slopestyle at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, where he finished 24th. At the 2013–14 FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup, Tjäder won the overall slopestyle cup and placed third overall. Tjäder returned to the Winter Olympics for 2018 in PyeongChang, where he placed 23rd in the slopestyle competition. Tjäder again returned to the Winter Olympics for 2022 in Beijing, where he placed 3rd and secured a bronze medal in the slopestyle competition.

Tjäder progressed freeskiing by innovating tricks and building never-seen-before rails.

Tjäder currently holds the world record for the longest rail slide on skis.

References

External links

1994 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Östersund
Freestyle skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Freestyle skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Freestyle skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Swedish male freestyle skiers
Olympic freestyle skiers for Sweden
X Games athletes
Olympic medalists in freestyle skiing
Olympic bronze medalists for Sweden
Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics
21st-century Swedish people


The 2014 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team represented the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in the 2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was led by third-year head coach Norm Chow and played their home games at Aloha Stadium. They were members of the Mountain West Conference in the West Division. They finished the season 4–9, 3–5 in Mountain West play to finish in fourth place in the West Division.

Schedule

Schedule Source:

Projected depth chart

References

Hawaii
Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football seasons
Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football


title: 50th Expeditionary Signal Battalion

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The 50th Expeditionary Signal Battalion-Enhanced is a United States Army unit which is part of the 35th Signal Brigade located at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The
Brigade's mission is to provide worldwide contingency, force projection, forced-entry signal support to  the XVIII Airborne Corps for power-projection operations during war and operations other than war.

In 2018, 50th Expeditionary Signal Battalion-Enhanced  (50th ESB-E), 35th Theater Tactical Signal Brigade is serving as the ESB-E pilot unit. 50th ESB-E supports the XVIII Airborne Corps. Potentially this ESB-E will provide capabilities that are scalable, from small units  (forcible-entry alongside paratrooper jumps), to larger, mature operations, as an expeditionary force keeps growing on the ground.

History
The 50th has been supporting the needs of the Army for 114 years, longer than any other active-duty signal unit. With missions ranging from underwater cabling to disaster relief home and abroad to convoy security, to peacekeeping, the 50th Signal Battalion has seen it all.

The unit has served with distinction in the Philippines, Japan, Iceland, France, Germany, Iraq, Afghanistan, Liberia, Somalia, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Panama, Jamaica, and Honduras. The 50th stormed the beaches at Normandy and led from the front in Desert Storm. It was the first and only Airborne Signal Battalion when it joined the XVIII Airborne Corps in the 1950s, though the airborne tab was dropped as a part of force modularity in 2006.

References

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title: 51st Expeditionary Signal Battalion

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The 51st Signal Battalion is a United States Army unit which is part of the 22d Corps Signal Brigade located at Joint Base Lewis–McChord, Washington. Its mission is to rapidly deploy worldwide to engineer, install, operate, maintain, and defend the LandWarNet in support of full spectrum operations. The battalion deployed to Iraq in  and in  and sent elements to Afghanistan in 2010 and 2011. The unit was deployed as of January 2015, and 2019.

History

World War I
The 51st Signal Battalion was constituted on 1 July 1916 into the Regular Army as the 5th Telegraph Battalion, Signal Corps. The unit was later activated on 12 July 1917 at Monmouth Park, New Jersey. On 1 October 1917, the battalion was re-designated as the 55th Telegraph Battalion. Soon thereafter, the battalion deployed to France and joined the American Expeditionary Force. During World War I, the battalion participated in three campaigns – Lorraine 1918, St. Mihiel, and Meuse-Argonne.

In 1935, the battalion took part in the Pine Camp maneuvers, which at the time were the largest peacetime maneuvers ever.

World War II
The battalion returned to New York on 27 June 1919 and moved to Camp Vail, New Jersey. The battalion was re-designated on 18 March 1921, as the 51st Signal Battalion. On 5 August 1925, the battalion returned to Fort Monmouth, New Jersey and would remain there until after World War II.
The battalion received additional training at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia, Camp Blanding, Florida, and Camp Stewart, Georgia. The battalion participated in the Louisiana Maneuvers prior to deploying for Europe. On 4 March 1943, the battalion headed to North Africa and staged and participated in the Invasion of Sicily, followed by a mission to provide communications support to forces arriving in Italy in October 1943. For its service in World War II, the battalion was credited with five campaigns and received the Meritorious Unit Commendation.

Korean War
On 1 March 1945, the unit was reorganized and redesignated as the 51st Operation Signal Battalion. Then again, on 8 September 1950, the unit became known as the 51st Signal Battalion, Corps. During the Korean War, the battalion supported I Corps in ten campaigns and received two Meritorious Unit Commendations and the Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation. The battalion remained in Korea after the hostilities as part of Eighth Army. After the Korean War cease fire, the battalion was reorganized and redesignated as the 51st Signal Battalion. The battalion remained in Korea until 16 March 1981 when it moved to Ludwigsburg, West Germany in support of VII Corps.

Gulf War
On November 8, 1990, the battalion was mobilized for immediate deployment to Saudi Arabia in support of Gulf War. For its participation, the battalion received three campaign streamers. On April 15, 1991, the unit returned to Germany. Three years later, on April 16, 1993, the 51st relocated, less personnel and equipment, to Fort Bragg, North Carolina and on October 1, 1993, the unit was re-designated the 51st Signal Battalion (Airborne) by reflagging an existing signal battalion on post.

With the transfer, less personnel and equipment, of the parent 35th Signal Brigade to Fort Gordon, GA, to reflag the existing 93d Signal Brigade in 2007, effectively inactivating the brigade on post and vastly reducing the number of Signal personnel within XVIII Airborne Corps, the 51st was closed out at Fort Bragg and the lineage was transferred to Fort Lewis, WA, as a non-Airborne unit, again as part of the "new" 35th Signal Brigade.

Reorganization to 22nd Signal Brigade
On 16 November 2021, the battalion became a subordinate unit of the 22nd Corps Signal Brigade.

Honors

Decorations
  Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered EUROPEAN THEATER
 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950-1951
 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOREA 1953-1954
 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 2003-2004
 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2005
 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2008-2009
  Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950-1953
Company B additionally entitled to:
  Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ
 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOREA 1952

References

Further reading

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title: Berrimilla II

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Berrimilla II is a 33 ft yacht, most famous for performing two remarkable circumnavigations and for being the 77th vessel to transit the North West Passage since Amundsen’s Gjoa in 1903–06; her transit was the 114th (some vessels have done more than one). She was owned and skippered by Australian yachtsman Alex Whitworth.

1st circumnavigation (Dec 26, 2004 – Jan 7, 2006)
Berrimillas first circumnavigation began with the 2004 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, continued via an unscheduled stop in Dunedin, New Zealand, after a severe knockdown and on to Cape Horn and Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands/Malvinas.

Thence she sailed direct to Falmouth, Cornwall, UK, talking with the International Space Station Expedition 10 along the way.

She finished 11th overall and second in her division in the 2005 Fastnet race and returned direct from Falmouth to Hobart and then to Sydney in time to start in the 2005 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.

2nd circumnavigation (Apr 10, 2008 – Mar 16, 2010)
The voyage was first conceived as a passage from Sydney, Australia to Falmouth, UK via the North West Passage, with a stopover on Devon Island to meet up with a group of NASA scientists to witness a total solar eclipse of August 1, 2008. The scientists were part of the Haughton-Mars Project, hence Berrimillas blog was titled "Berrimilla Down-Under-Mars".

Berrimillas voyage started on April 10, 2008. She sailed direct to Alaska from Sydney and then via the North West Passage to Falmouth, UK where she was laid up for the winter. The original intention was to return north of Russia to the Bering Strait – the Northern Sea Route – but the permit to do so arrived too late to complete the voyage safely before the winter freeze. Berrimilla sailed her second 2009 Fastnet race and returned to Australia via Lisbon, Cape Town and the Kerguelen Islands in 2010.

Crew
Alex Whitworth was Berrimillas permanent skipper, and Peter Crozier, Corrie McQueen and Kimbra Lindus were part of the crew at different periods of two circumnavigations.

Records
During the two circumnavigations Berrimilla became the first and the only vessel to:

 Sandwich a Fastnet race between two consecutive Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, all under sail
 Sail to England twice to compete in the Fastnet race and then return
 Sail from Australia to England via the North West Passage
 Circumnavigate the world under sail via the North West Passage
 Circumnavigate the world via both Cape Horn and the North West Passage. David Scott Cowper did it first, but in different boats.

In the disastrous 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, Berrimilla placed 1st in PHS Division.

References

External links

Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race yachts
Fastnet Race
Individual sailing vessels
Ships of Australia
1977 ships


title: Ernst Ludwig Wilhelm von Bismarck

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Colonel Ernst Ludwig Wilhelm von Bismarck (7 April 1772 in Magdeburg – 20 June 1815 in Namur) was a Prussian officer during the Napoleonic Wars.

Biography
Bismarck, born in Magdeburg on 7 April 1772 was the son of Georg Wilhelm I von Bismarck (1741–1808) and Friederike Luise Eleonore von Alvensleben. As a child, he was adopted by his uncle Achatz Christoph von Bismarck (1737–1796) and his wife née von Kaphengst, as an heir. When that couple had an own son, Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Achatz von Bismarck (1786-1856), Bismarck lost his position as an heir.

In 1799 Bismarck was a grenadier captain in von Kleist's regiment in Magdeburg. On 4 July 1800 he was made a knight of the Order of Saint John. In 1811 he was a major in the Foot Guards Regiment of King Frederick William III of Prussia in Potsdam. In 1814 he was a lieutenant colonel in the 1st Elbe Landwehr Regiment, and took part in the later stages of the Siege of Magdeburg. The 1st Elbe Landwehr Regiment was part of the 6th Brigade of Prussian II Corps during the Waterloo Campaign and Bismarck was its colonel. On 16 June 1815 the regiment fought at the Battle of Ligny suffering about 300 casualties. On 20 June Bismarck was killed leading his regiment in the attack on Namur which was being held by General Teste's division, the rearguard of Grouchy's wing of the French Army of the North, during the French army's retreat to Paris.

Family
In Bittkau, on 10 November 1807,  Bismarck married Sofie Charlotte von Plotho, daughter of Edler Lord Bittkau and Charlotte von Itzenplitz. They had six children.

See also
House of Bismarck

Notes

References

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1772 births
1815 deaths
Ernst Ludwig Wilhelm
Prussian commanders of the Napoleonic Wars
Military personnel from Magdeburg


title: Zećira Mušović

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Zećira Mušović (born 26 May 1996) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Women's Super League club Chelsea and the Sweden national team.

Early life
Mušović was born in Falun, Sweden in 1996 to a family of Bosniak origin. Her family had previously lived in the town of Prijepolje in Yugoslavia. In 1992, her parents and three older siblings fled to Sweden to escape the Yugoslav Wars. They settled in the province of Scania, where Mušović joined the youth system of Stattena IF, a football club in the city of Helsingborg. Zećira has said she misses Prijepolje, and often visits Bosnia and Herzegovina: "I miss Prijepolje. I have many relatives there. Prijepolje is a very beautiful city and I have a lot of love for it. I also have a lot of relatives in Bosnia and every year I try to visit my favorite city, Sarajevo."

She has an older brother and two older sisters. She describes her brother as her role model and began playing football because of him.

Club career
Mušović began playing football for Stattena IF as a nine-year-old. She spent two seasons with the club's senior women's team in Division 2 in 2011 and 2012, helping the club secure promotion in the latter campaign.

She transferred from Stattena to LdB FC Malmö in October 2012. In 2013 she understudied Þóra Björg Helgadóttir, who was named Goalkeeper of the Year as Malmö secured the 2013 Damallsvenskan championship. Malmö rebranded as FC Rosengård for the 2014 Damallsvenskan and Mušović was elevated to first team contention when Helgadóttir left the club during the mid-season break.

German import Kathrin Längert then vied with Mušović for Rosengård's goalkeeper position. When Mušović secured increasing first team participation in the 2015 Damallsvenskan, the club announced they were pleased with her development and awarded a new 2.5-year contract in May 2015.

Mušović received two setbacks ahead of the 2016 Damallsvenskan season. First Rosengård signed Canadian goalkeeper Erin McLeod, then Mušović broke her arm while playing for Sweden U-23s. In the event McLeod suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury, so the club had to bring in veteran Sofia Lundgren as cover.

After some long conversations with Rosengård director of football Therese Sjögran, Mušović agreed to remain at the club although she was unhappy at losing her place in the team once McLeod recovered from her injured knee. Instead of making a transfer request, she resolved to improve aspects of her own game by training alongside her experienced Canadian rival.

In October 2017 Mušović was given a new three-year contract by Rosengård. She declared: "FC Rosengård has always been and will always be the club in my heart". McLeod's lucrative contract was not extended, causing her team-mate and then wife Ella Masar to quit the club in solidarity.

International career
Mušović captained Sweden under-19s to the 2015 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship final stage in Israel. She was disappointed when FC Rosengård stopped her attending the tournament because they needed her for club fixtures. The disappointment was compounded when Sweden under-19s won the competition.

Despite having lost her position as first choice at club level, Mušović was called up by incoming Sweden national team coach Peter Gerhardsson for the opening 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifiers. She attended several matches as a non-playing substitute, then won her first senior cap in March 2018, securing a debut clean sheet in a 3–0 win over Russia at the 2018 Algarve Cup.

Mušović endured a difficult second appearance for Sweden, when she deputised for Hedvig Lindahl in a friendly against Italy in October 2018. Her handling error allowed Daniela Sabatino to score the only goal of the match. In May 2019 she was one of three goalkeepers selected by Sweden for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, alongside Lindahl and the uncapped Jennifer Falk. She did not play during the World Cup, and continued in her early years with the national team to struggle to earn starts, in particular during major tournaments.

Mušović was part of the Swedish delegation to the 2020 Summer Olympics, where Sweden ultimately reached the final, losing to Canada. She did not take the pitch during the tournament, but drew notice as one of the players to publicly criticize the initial scheduling of the final, which resulted in its being moved to accommodate high temperatures in Tokyo at the time.

On 13 June 2023, Mušović was included in Sweden's 23-player squad for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023. With Lindahl out, the choice for starting goalkeeper was between her and Falk, with Mušović ultimately earning the distinction. She played the team's first two matches in Group G, victories over South Africa and Italy. In the round of 16 match against the United States, she made 11 saves; the United States did not score a goal during regular or extra time. Sweden ultimately advanced to the quarter-finals after a 5–4 penalty shootout win, and Mušović was named player of the match, being widely regarded as the principal reason her side had advanced. The match significantly raised her international profile. Sweden went on to beat a favoured Japan in the quarter-final. A loss to Spain in the semi-final sent them to the third-place match, where Mušović kept a clean sheet in a 2–0 victory over hosts Australia, securing her second World Cup bronze.

Career statistics

International

Personal life
Mušović is in a relationship with Swedish professional ice hockey player Alen Bibić. In 2018, Mušović graduated with a degree in economics from Lund University. Her older brother Huso Mušović was himself a lower division footballer.

Mušović maintains a personal blog at her own website. She has firm political views and challenged two of her social media contacts over their support for the controversial Sweden Democrats party at the 2018 Swedish general election.

Honours
FC Rosengård
 Damallsvenskan: 2013, 2014, 2015
 Svenska Cupen: 2016, 2017, 2018
Svenska Supercupen: 2015, 2016
Chelsea
 FA Women's Super League: 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23
 FA Women's League Cup: 2020–21
 Vitality Women's FA Cup: 2021–22, 2022–23
Sweden
 FIFA Women's World Cup Third place: 2019, 2023
 Summer Olympics Runner-up: 2020
 Algarve Cup: 2018, 2022

References

External links
 zeciramusovic.com – personal website

  (archive)

 Profile at soccerdonna.de

1996 births
Living people
Swedish women's footballers
Sweden women's international footballers
Chelsea F.C. Women players
FC Rosengård players
Damallsvenskan players
Stattena IF players
Women's association football goalkeepers
2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players
Swedish people of Serbian descent
Footballers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic footballers for Sweden
Sportspeople from Falun
Swedish people of Bosniak descent
Olympic medalists in football
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Sweden
UEFA Women's Euro 2022 players
2023 FIFA Women's World Cup players


title: P. Allan Dionisopoulos

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P. Allan Dionisopoulos (May 9, 1921 – July 6, 1993) was an American political scientist and legal scholar. A nationally recognized authority on the U.S. Constitution, his works have been quoted in U.S. Supreme Court decisions, as well as by a U.S. District Court in a Watergate-related case.

After earning several degrees from the University of Minnesota, Dionisopoulos earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1960.

Dionisopoulos was a professor of political science at Northern Illinois University. He died in 1993 of congestive heart failure in Kishwaukee Community Hospital, DeKalb, Illinois.

References

1921 births
1993 deaths
American legal scholars
American political scientists
Northern Illinois University faculty
University of Minnesota alumni
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
20th-century political scientists


title: The Counterfeiters of Paris

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Le cave se rebiffe is a 1961 French comedy film directed by Gilles Grangier, written by Michel Audiard and starring Jean Gabin, Bernard Blier and Martine Carol. The film was retitled The Counterfeiters of Paris for English-speaking countries.

Le cave se rebiffe is the second in the Max le Menteur trilogy, following Touchez pas au grisbi and preceding Les tontons flingueurs. The film trilogy is an adaptation of three novels written by Albert Simonin.

Cast
 Jean Gabin : Ferdinand Maréchal, aka 'le Dabe'
 Bernard Blier : Charles Lepicard
 Martine Carol : Solange Mideau
 Franck Villard : Éric Masson
 Maurice Biraud : Robert Mideau (aka 'le Cave')
 Antoine Balpêtré : Lucas Malvoisin
 Ginette Leclerc : Léa Lepicard
 Françoise Rosay : Mme Pauline
 Albert Dinan : commissioner Rémy
 Gérard Buhr : detective Martin
 Heinrich Gretler : M. Tauchmann
 Clara Gansard : Georgette
 Robert Dalban : detective Maffeux
 Jacques Marin : detective Larpin
 Charles Bouillaud : engraver
 Marcel Charvey : doctor
 Paul Faivre : Mathias, concierge
 Hélène Dieudonné : wife, concierge
 Gabriel Gobin : horse trainer Vincennes
 René Hell : old garage owner
 Lisa Jouvet : nurse
 Albert Michel : postman
 Antonio Ramirez : horse trainer Caracas
 Pierre Collet : taxi driver
 Max Doria : customs officer
 Claude Ivry : Lucienne

Plot

Éric, a crooked secondhand car dealer in Paris, is having an affair with the flirtatious Solange, whose unemployed husband Robert is a skilled printer and engraver. With two crooked friends, Charles and Lucas, he discusses the idea that they could use the ineffectual Robert to run off some counterfeit banknotes. For this they would need authentic paper and a reliable fence. In fact, they decide, they need to call in an expert and the best man for the job is Ferdinand, living in retirement in Venezuela.

Ferdinand agrees to help but on condition he has half the profits, which sets the other three working on a plot to reduce his take. Aware of their scheming, Ferdinand forms a close rapport with the shy Robert. When Robert has run off the counterfeit notes and delivered them to the fence, he is given an attaché case full of genuine notes which he takes to the airport. On boarding a plane for Venezuela, which has no extradition treaty with France, he finds Ferdinand waiting for him.

Humiliated and out of pocket, the three dupes descend to blows and then start slapping the faithless Solange who started it all.

References

External links

1961 films
Films set in Paris
French comedy films
1960s French-language films
French black-and-white films
Films directed by Gilles Grangier
Films with screenplays by Michel Audiard
Films with screenplays by Albert Simonin
Films scored by Michel Legrand
Counterfeit money in film
1960s French films


title: Plocamopherus tilesii

text:
Plocamopherus tilesii is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Polyceridae.

Distribution
This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean, from Japan south to Australia.

References

Polyceridae
Gastropods described in 1877