title: 1934 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

text:
The men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1934 European Athletics Championships was held in Turin, Italy, at the  Stadio Benito Mussolini on 9 September 1934.

Medalists

Results

Final
9 September

Participation
According to an unofficial count, 16 athletes from 4 countries participated in the event.

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References

4 x 400 metres relay
4 x 400 metres relay at the European Athletics Championships


title: Exocyst complex component 6b

text:
Exocyst complex component 6B is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EXOC6B gene.

Function

In yeast and rat, Sec15 is part of a multiprotein complex that is required for targeted exocytosis.

References

Further reading


title: Sam Dede

text:
Samuel Dedetoku, popularly known by his stage name Sam Dede (born 17 November 1965), is a Nigerian veteran actor, director, politician and lecturer. Sam Dede as he is widely known in movies studied Theatre Arts at the University of Port Harcourt.

Biography
Sam Dede was born on 17 November 1965 in Lagos and moved to Sapele.

Career
He entered the Nollywood industry in 1995 and rose to prominence for his role in the film Ijele. In 2005, Dede won the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in the 2004 film The Mayors. He was honoured with SVAFF 2014 Special Recognition Award for his lifetime achievement and contributions to Nigerian cinema. He was nominated for the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in 2018 for his performance in the 2017 film In My Country.

He was appointed as the Director-General of the Rivers State Tourism Development Agency in 2012 and served in the position for a short period of time. He is also a lecturer in the University of Port Harcourt teaching acting to upcoming actors. One of his students, Yul Edochie went onto become a lead actor in Nollywood. He however said in 2012 that he would not drop acting for politics.

Selected filmography
Our Jesus Story (2020)
The Good Husband (2020)
The Legend of Inikpi (2020)
Kamsi (2018)
In My Country (2017)
The Lost Number (2012)
The Mayors (2004)
The Last Burial (2000)
Issakaba (2000)
Igodo (1999)
Blood Money (1997)
Mission to Nowhere
Darkest Night
Blood and Oil
Bumper to Bumper
Never Die for Love
5 Apostles
Undercover
Ijele
Ashes to Ashes
Gone
Black book

See also
 List of Nigerian actors
 List of Nigerian film producers
 List of Nigerian film directors

References

External links
Official website

1965 births
Living people
Nigerian male film actors
Nigerian male stage actors
Nigerian film directors
Rivers State politicians
Academic staff of the University of Port Harcourt
21st-century Nigerian male actors
Nigerian actor-politicians
Media people from Rivers State
Male actors from Rivers State
Heads of Rivers State government agencies and parastatals
University of Port Harcourt alumni
Nigerian male television actors
Nigerian politicians
People from Rivers State


title: Xplorair

text:
The Xplorair is a project of compact VTOL aircraft without rotating airfoil from aerospace engineer Michel Aguilar, funded by the French Armed Forces procurement agency DGA and supported by various European aeronautics firms such as Dassault Systèmes, EADS Innovation Works, MBDA, Altran Technologies, Sogeti, Turbomeca, COMAT Aerospace and the Institut Pprime. Announced in 2007, the project aimed to develop a UAV prototype scheduled for flight in 2017, followed by a single-seater personal air vehicle (PAV) whose commercialization could occur the decade after.

The Xplorair is intended to be flown in the future above cities by anyone with a ground vehicle driver's license (thanks to a fully automated, SATS-like flight mode), but it has no wheels and does not function as a roadable aircraft.

Xplorair PX200

The PX200 (Personal Xplorair 200 km/h) is the single-seater Xplorair model currently in development. A  scale model of the Xplorair PX200 was exhibited at Paris Air Show 2013. A radio-controlled flying full-scale model, including a seat but still unmanned, was scheduled for take-off at Paris Air Show 2017. The first manned prototype should be ready before 2020, then certified and brought to market before 2030 at a public price between $60,000 and $120,000. Two-seater and four-seater models are also planned.

Main characteristics of the Xplorair PX200:

 Dimensions:
 Dry weight:
 Cruise speed:
 Maximum speed:
 Cruise altitude:
 Range:
 Fuel economy:
 Use of biofuel from algaculture. Other fuels could be used, like kerosene, methane, hydrogen.
 Use of eco-friendly materials, in particular natural fiber (bamboo, linen…)

Early developments

In 2002, French aerospace engineer Michel Aguilar, then 52 years old, retired from DGA to work as a full-time independent contractor on his Xplorair project, a VTOL aircraft where the common rotating airfoils (like propellers, rotors or ducted fans) are replaced by a new type of small jet engine directly fitted within wing's body, the thermoreactor. The aircraft would rely a lot on the Coandă effect for vertical take-off, increased lift and reduced drag.

A four-seater scale model was presented at Paris Air Show 2007. The year after, Aguilar founded the nonprofit organization Xplorair in order to gain expertise from specialized engineering consulting firms.

Thermoreactor jet engine

In 2011, Michel Aguilar's thermoreactor project received $2 million over three years in a subsidy from the Government of France through the Defense procurement agency DGA and the DGCIS of the Ministry of the Industry, under their RAPID award scheme supporting innovative technological projects of small and medium enterprises.

A consortium gathering Turbomeca, COMAT Aerospace and the Institut Pprime has been formed to evaluate the thermoreactor jet engine and develop the technology.

The thermoreactor is a small jet engine, ramjet-pulsejet hybrid. It uses a combustion at constant volume (isochoric) under the Humphrey cycle, whose thermal efficiency is greater (about 20%) than combustion at constant pressure (isobaric) of the Brayton cycle classically used in turbomachinery.

The combustion chamber is fed through a control valve and an inlet pipe by compressed air from a rotary vane pump aside in the fuselage, which extracts ambient air and moderately compresses it into a storage tank.

The thermoreactor has a square cross section and very compact dimensions (). Thermoreactors are small enough to be fitted within wing's body as an array next to each other. Each thermoreactor develops a thrust of 170 newtons. The Xplorair PX200 includes 20 thermoreactors: 7 in each front wing, and 6 in aircraft tail. During take-off and landing, the 20 thermoreactors work together, providing 3,400 newtons of thrust. The cruise altitude of  is reached in 4 minutes for  of fuel burnt. Only one thermoreactor at each front wing's tip would then be needed to maintain a cruise speed of . The simultaneous activation of all thermoreactors during flight is still possible and would bring the speed to , at the cost of a poorer fuel efficiency.

Coandă effect and further developments

In 2008 the project is first supported by Dassault Systèmes with the Passion for Innovation Program, EADS Innovation Works (the R&D department of Airbus) and MBDA. The project evolves in a single-seater aircraft with inverted V-tail nicknamed the Colibri because it would perform a vertical angled take-off like a hummingbird.

The exhaust gas temperature (EGT) of the thermoreactor using the Humphrey cycle being lower than in the conventional Brayton cycle by hundreds of degrees, the exhaust airflow out of the propelling nozzles at the trailing edge of the front wings can be directed onto the upper surface of the rear wings. The speedier airflow and the resulting Coandă effect around the curvature allow a higher lift coefficient and a smaller wingspan. This technique is quite similar to the blown wing used notably on the Breguet 941, Boeing YC-14 and Antonov An-72.

Xplorair is also supported since 2013 by Altran Technologies and Sogeti who develop the aerostructure and the avionics of the aircraft, now called the Xplorair PX200 (Personal Xplorair 200 km/h). Since the previous studies, aerodynamics evolved again with an upward V-tail and the use of the Coandă effect onto the upper surface of rear biplane tiltwings. During take-off or landing, these rear tiltwings rotate 90° and the leading edge of the lower rear wing connects to the trailing edge of the front wing, directly onto jet nozzles. The exhaust gas follows the curved surface due to the Coandă effect, and the slipstream is diverted downcast, providing powered lift for VTOL operation.

To avoid noise pollution, Sogeti also develops acoustic reflection techniques by shear rate modulation on jet. Reduction of about 15 dB, i.e. 30 times less sound power, is expected.

The Coandă effect is also used on the Xplorair to reduce form drag. While cruising, compressed air is injected as a radial jet at nose and leading edges, orthogonally to the ambient airflow, then covers the whole wetted area. This reduces the form drag, and could even make it negative with enough jet speed. This technique has been tested for the first time in 1918 by French physicist Constantin Chilowsky on shells, then various authors took over the idea to improve projectiles, including Henri Coandă for his own research on aerodynamics. This is why Aguilar refers to the "Chilowsky effect" rather than "Coandă effect" for this drag reduction scheme. This technique applied in air is similar to the submarine supercavitation technique used in some torpedoes like the VA-111 Shkval.

The PX200 aerostructure also allows for wing-in-ground-effect (WIG). The Xplorair could cruise at low altitude above seawater or special highways that would be built for such personal air vehicles, in order to reduce the lift-induced drag and thus improve the fuel efficiency.

In June 2014, Aguilar founds the private limited liability corporate entity ACG Aviation to develop the concept further.

Patents

, Michel Aguilar filed 10 patents on the Xplorair and the thermoreactor:

See also
 Vertical take-off and landing (VTOL)
 Flying car (disambiguation)
 Personal air vehicle

External links
 Xplorair website
 ACG Aviation website

  (French), Altran, 19 June 2013

References

Experimental aircraft
Personal air vehicles


title: Dnaj (hsp40) homolog, subfamily c, member 9

text:
DnaJ (Hsp40) homolog, subfamily C, member 9 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the DNAJC9 gene.

References

Further reading


title: Antonio Momplet

text:
Antonio Momplet (1899 – 10 August 1974) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He worked in Spain, France, Argentina and Mexico.

Life and career
Antonio Momplet was born in Cádiz, Andalusia. He worked as a journalist and translator of foreign films in Barcelona until 1927, when he moved to Paris and began to work for Gaumont. In the mid 1930s he moved back to Spain where he directed four feature films and founded the film journal Cine Art, which quickly became influential. To avoid the Spanish Civil War, he moved to Argentina in 1937, and made eight feature films the following years. In 1943 he moved to Mexico to join the film industry there, and made a number of Mexican films both as director and writer for others, before he moved back to Buenos Aires in 1946. In 1952 he returned to Spain. During his final Spanish period he made films such as the Spaghetti Western parody Due contro tutti, before he retired in 1964. He settled in Cadaqués where he died in 1974.

Filmography
Director
 La farándula (1935)
 Hombres contra hombres (1937)
 La millona (1937)
 Turbión (1938)
 El hermano José (1941)
 Novios para las muchachas (1941)
 En el viejo Buenos Aires (1942)
 Los hijos artificiales (1943)
 Amok (1944)
 Remolino de pasión (1945)
 Dizziness (Vértigo) (1946)
 Bel Ami (1947)
 La cumparsita (1947)
 A media luz (1947)
 La otra y yo (1949)
 Yo no elegí mi vida (1949)
 Toscanito y los detectives (1950)
 Café Cantante (1951)
 La mujer sin lágrimas (1951)
 La hija del mar (1953)
 Viento del norte (1954)
 Buongiorno primo amore! (1957)
 Las de Caín (1959)
 Julia y el celacanto (1961)
 The Invincible Gladiator (El gladiador invencible) (1962)
 Due contro tutti (1962)
Writer
 Petróleo (1936)
 Hombres contra hombres (1937)
 La millona (1937)
 Turbión (1939)
 Napoleón (1941)
 Los hijos artificiales (1943)
 Amok (1944)
 El corsario negro (1944)
 He Who Died of Love (1945)
 Lágrimas de sangre (1946)
 La mujer de todos (1946)
 Vértigo (1947)
 A media luz (1947)
 Café Cantante (1951)
 Viento del norte (1954)
 Julia y el celacanto (1961)
 Jandro (1965)
 The Invincible Gladiator (El gladiador invencible) (1962)

References

1899 births
1974 deaths
People from Cádiz
Spanish expatriates in Argentina
Spanish expatriates in France
Spanish expatriates in Mexico
Film directors from Andalusia
Spanish male writers
Male screenwriters
20th-century Spanish screenwriters
20th-century Spanish male writers


title: Avaz Mohammad Beyk

text:
Avaz Mohammad Beyk (, also Romanized as ʿAvaẕ Moḩammad Beyk; also known as ʿAvaẕ Moḩammad Beyg) is a village in Dorungar Rural District, Now Khandan District, Dargaz County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 102 in 25 families.

See also

 List of cities, towns and villages in Razavi Khorasan Province

References

Populated places in Dargaz County


title: Margaret McDermott Bridge

text:
The Margaret McDermott Bridge is a conventional concrete pier-and-beam freeway bridge with cable-stayed bike lines over the Trinity River in Dallas, Texas. It replaced the late-1950s to early-1960s Interstate 30 (I-30) bridge, which reached its end of life.  It was partially designed by Santiago Calatrava, and is part of the Trinity River Project and the Horseshoe Project.  It was named for Margaret McDermott, an area philanthropist.

History

As part of the Trinity River Project and Horseshoe Project, the Margaret McDermott Bridge was one of three new Santiago Calatrava-designed bridges planned to cross the Trinity River. However, plans for the McDermott Bridge were scaled back, and plans for a third bridge along I-35E were scrapped, due to budget issues. On December 12, 2005, construction of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge began, and it opened on March 29, 2012.

The Margaret McDermott Bridge was planned to replace the existing I-30 bridge over the Trinity River. It was originally scheduled to begin construction in 2011 and be completed by 2014. However, in late 2011 funding for the bridge was moved to come from within the Project Pegasus initiative, with construction contracts awarded in mid-2012. The new plan featured "toned-down" elements of its original arch design, although Calatrava was still scheduled to perform the design work.

After delays, construction on the bridge began in 2012, costing over $200 million. Specifically, the arched pedestrian and bicycle bridges cost $115 million, while the actual freeway bridge was paid for by the state and cost an additional $120 million. The main concrete part of the bridge, which carries I-30 traffic, opened in 2013. The  steel suspension arches on both sides of the bridge, which also house the pedestrian and bicycle paths, are separate from the concrete part. In April 2014, footings for the arches were constructed, while steel fabrication took place at Tampa Steel Erecting Company's plant in Florida. The superstructure subcontractor to CRC Joint Venture, American Bridge, expected steel components to arrive on site in Dallas during the fall of 2014. The steel arches were completed in 2017, and the entire bridge was planned to open by the end of the year.

Despite the concrete part of the bridge being open to I-30 traffic, the arched pedestrian and bicycle bridges are still closed, due to concerns with cables that connect the arch to the base of the bridges, and their resistance to heavy winds. When they vibrate from these winds, this has resulted in multiple incidents where the stress from the vibrations caused several cable anchor rods to fail. Furthermore, the stress has also caused the bridges to crack significantly and resulted in multiple occasions in which rods were cracked and twisted, with the small diameter of the rods resulting on putting more stress on them. The lack of testing and the multiple issues plaguing the bridges led to a large dispute; Calatrava blamed the contractor for a lack of testing and using the wrong parts, and state transportation officials blamed Calatrava and the city of Dallas.  Due to that, coupled with the need to add additional painting and lighting, the arched bridges to open to pedestrian and bicycle traffic in June of 2021.

In April 2019, the Dallas City Council approved a repair expected to cost over $7 million and take over three years. The arched pedestrian bridge has resulted in a dispute between the City, TxDOT, and now the engineering firm responsible for the dangerous final product. So far, there are not reports that cables have struck vehicles. In January 2021, the Dallas Morning News reported that the bridge could be open to pedestrians to walk and bike over the Trinity River before the end of the year.

The bridge officially opened to pedestrians and cyclists in June 2021.

Architecture
The bridge consists of a conventional concrete pier-and-beam concrete part which has a  main span. The concrete part carries 10 main lanes of I-30 traffic with one reversible high-occupancy vehicle lane and four frontage road lanes.  The decorative steel arches are both  tall, and house paths for bicycle and pedestrian facilities.

See also

References

McDermott
Through arch bridges in the United States
Interstate 30
Bridges on the Interstate Highway System
Neo-futurist architecture
Bridges by Santiago Calatrava
Cable-stayed bridges in the United States
Road bridges in Texas
Steel bridges in the United States
Bridges completed in 2017


title: The Best Day (Thurston Moore album)

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The Best Day is the fourth solo studio album by the American alternative rock musician Thurston Moore, released on October 20, 2014 on Matador Records. The album cover is a photograph of Moore's mother, Eleanor Moore, circa 1940 and a photograph of Moore's parents as artwork.

Release
The Best Day was announced for release in March 2014 on Sonic Youths official news blog. A month prior to its announcement, Moore released "Detonation" as a standalone 7-inch single, backed with "Germs Burn" as its B-side, on the independent English label Blank Editions as part of its Solo Series.

A formal announcement of The Best Day, including cover art, a track listing and release dates, was made on August 20 by Matador Records. The album was released on October 20 in Denmark, France, Sweden and the United Kingdom; October 21 in Spain and the United States; and October 24 in Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Officially licensed streams of the album were made available on NPR Music and The Guardians official web sites a week prior to its international release. The Best Day will be issued as a double LP, single CD and as a digital download, with the first 100 U.S. LP pressings featuring an autographed poster.

Track listing

Personnel
The Thurston Moore Band
 Thurston Moore – vocals, guitar
 James Sedwards – guitar
 Debbie Googe – bass
 Steve Shelley – drums

Release history

References

2014 albums
Thurston Moore albums
Matador Records albums


title: Warang Citi (Unicode block)

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Warang Citi is a Unicode block containing characters for Warang Citi (Varang Kshiti) script which is used by some to write the Ho language.

History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Warang Citi block:

References

Unicode blocks
Ho language


title: Astragalus chiwensis

text:
Astragalus chiwensis is a species of milkvetch in the family Fabaceae. It is native to Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

References

chiwensis
Taxa named by Alexander von Bunge


title: Ben Webster (disambiguation)

text:
Ben Webster (1909–1973) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

Benjamin or Ben Webster or may also refer to:
 Benjamin Nottingham Webster (1797–1882), English actor
 Ben Webster (actor) (1864–1947), English actor
 Benjamin Webster (politician) (1867–1923), American politician in Wisconsin
 Ben Webster (businessman) (1930–1997), Canadian businessman
 Ben Webster (footballer) (born 1986), English footballer

See also


title: Irvine Phillips

text:
Irvine Lewis Phillips Sr. (June 10, 1905 – April 4, 1999) was an American football player.  He played college football at University of California, Berkeley and was a consensus selection at the end position on the 1928 College Football All-America Team.

Phillips was raised in Salinas, California.  He enrolled at the University of California in the Class of 1929.  While at Berkeley, Phillips was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Skull and Keys, Theta Tau, Winged Helmet, Beta Beta, the Big "C" Society, the Athletic Council, the Vigilance Committee, and the Senior Peace Committee.  He was also a member of the football and track teams, receiving three varsity letters in each sport and serving as captain of the football team in his senior year.  After the 1927 season, Phillips was selected as a second-team All-American by the Central Press Association, and a third-string All-American by the Associated Press. Following his senior year, he was also selected as a consensus first-team All-American\.

After graduating from Berkeley, Phillips was married and lived in Pajaro, California, with his wife Marion. In 1930, he was employed as a farm superintendent.  Irvine and his wife had four children: Irvine L., Jr. (born c. 1932), Sara (born c. 1935), Marion Adeline (born c. 1937) and Delphine (born 1939).  By 1940, Phillips and his family had moved to Long Beach, California, where Phillips was employed as a public school teacher.

Phillips lived in Carmel, California, in his later years. He died in 1999, aged 93.

References

1905 births
1999 deaths
American football ends
California Golden Bears football players
All-American college football players
People from Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
Players of American football from Salinas, California


title: Torgils Lovra

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Torgils Lovra (17 November 1909 – 11 January 1998) was a Norwegian editor.

He was born in Erfjord as a son of farmers. He finished his secondary education at Rogaland landsgymnas in 1933.

During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, he joined the Fascist party Nasjonal Samling. In November 1941 he was installed as editor-in-chief of the newspaper Tromsø. In 1944 he briefly edited the magazine I fritiden, an organ for the welfare organization Sol i Arbeid. He also wrote poetry. In 1944 he was enlisted as a German agent by Rolf Arthur Jensen, a Norwegian journalist working for Referat III F of the Sicherheitspolizei. Lovra received the agent name Kristoffer and sent to Sweden. He was to infiltrate Norwegian resistance groups and to report to the German legation in Stockholm. Little came from his efforts, according to historian Tore Pryser.

In 1961 he started the apolitical newspaper Nesodden Budstikke, a local newspaper for Nesodden. It went defunct after four issues. He died in January 1998.

References

1909 births
1998 deaths
Journalists from Oslo
Members of Nasjonal Samling
Norwegian magazine editors
Norwegian newspaper editors
Norwegian expatriates in Sweden
20th-century Norwegian writers


title: Big Girls Cry

text:
"Big Girls Cry" is a single by Australian singer-songwriter Sia, from her sixth studio album 1000 Forms of Fear (2014). The single was not released internationally; it was only released in Australia and some parts of Europe. It charted in Belgium and hit the top 40 in Australia and France.

Electronic duo Odesza released a "choppy, chillwave" remix of "Big Girls Cry" on 5 December 2014. On 15 October 2014, Sia performed the song at The Recording Academy. On 2 April 2015, "Big Girls Cry" was released as the third single in the United Kingdom. Sia performed it live on Australian television show Sunrise on 21 April 2015.

Music video
On 2 April 2015, a video for the song was released on Sia's Vevo YouTube channel. The video features Maddie Ziegler in her trademark flesh-coloured leotard and blonde Sia bob facing the camera, in front of a black background, contorting her face and using her hands to express a slew of emotions. At one point a pair of hands come into the frame (shown in behind-the-scenes footage to be Sia's own hands) manipulating Ziegler's face and covering her mouth, they appear to lift Ziegler by the throat into the air until only her kicking feet are shown, then Ziegler drops back into the frame to resume her emotive facial contortions. The single shot video with various lighting and a plain black background is comparable to Lorde's "Tennis Court".

Sia revealed, in a behind-the-scenes video for "Elastic Heart", that she would be making a trilogy of videos with Ziegler. As in the first two videos in the series ("Chandelier" and "Elastic Heart"), the clip for "Big Girls Cry" was directed by Sia and Daniel Askill and choreographed by Ryan Heffington. As of June 2022, the video had received more than 300 million views. Since mid 2018, the video has not been available for viewers in Australia and New Zealand.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

References

External links

2014 singles
2014 songs
Sia (musician) songs
Songs written by Sia (musician)
Songs written by Chris Braide
Music videos directed by Daniel Askill
2010s ballads
Pop ballads


title: The Rape of Europa (Titian)

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The Rape of Europa is a painting by the Venetian artist Titian, painted ca. 1560–1562. It is in the permanent collection of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Boston, Massachusetts. The oil-on-canvas painting measures .

Subject
The title of the painting refers to the mythological story of the abduction of Europa by Zeus (Jupiter to the Romans). In the myth, the god assumed the form of a bull and enticed Europa to climb onto his back. Once there, the bull rode into the sea and carried her to Crete, where he revealed his real identity. Europa became the first Queen of Crete, and had three children with Zeus.

Although the source of Titian's inspiration is thought to have been based on the scene from Book II in Ovid's Metamorphoses, a more direct influence might be a description of a painting of the rape of Europa found in Achilles Tatius's novel, Leucippe and Clitophon. Achilles Tatius's novel was translated into Italian and printed in 1546 in Venice, only a few years before Titian was thought to have painted The Rape of Europa. Achilles Tatius's description of the dolphins, Europa's scarf, a Cupid, Europa's covering, and "her position on the back of the bull—not with a leg on each side but with her feet on the bull’s right side and her left hand on his horn" is echoed in Titian's portrayal of the same scene.

Description
Titian is unequivocal about the fact that this is a scene of rape (abduction): Europa is sprawled helplessly on her back, her clothes in disarray. The painting depicts Europa on the back of the bull, just off the shore of her homeland. Although the act of sexual violence is not depicted in the painting, it is implied through Europa's open-legged posture and her expression of fear as she is dragged off by Zeus. Her danger is also implied by her waving a red silk scarf and by the sea monster in the foreground of the painting. In other parts of the painting, two putti in the sky chase after Europa, and one rides on a dolphin in the sea.

Yael Even has theorized that Titian could have created this painting not due to any particular attachment to the subject, but in order to assert his abilities as a painter.

Provenance
The painting was one of the "poesie" painted by Titian for Philip II of Spain. With Diana and Callisto and Diana and Actaeon, both now shared by London and Edinburgh; it was one of three Titian poesie given by Philip V of Spain to the French ambassador, the Duke of Gramont, who in turn presented them to Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France from 1715 to 1723. For most of the 18th century it was in the Orleans Collection in Paris. It was purchased by Bernard Berenson on behalf of art collector Isabella Stewart Gardner in 1896.

Titian's poesie series for Philip II

 Danaë, delivered to Philip 1553, now Wellington Collection, with earlier and later versions.
 Venus and Adonis, Museo del Prado, delivered 1554, and several other versions
 The Rape of Europa, c. 1560–1562, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
 Diana and Actaeon, 1556–1559, owned jointly by London's National Gallery and the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh
 Diana and Callisto, 1556–1559, owned jointly by London's National Gallery and the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh
 Perseus and Andromeda, Wallace Collection, c. 1553–1562
 The Death of Actaeon, National Gallery, never delivered and not always counted in the series, c. 1559 onwards

Exhibitions
The painting was included in the 1857 Manchester Art Treasures exhibition. From August 12, 2021, to January 2, 2022, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum displayed all six Titian poesie in an exhibit titled Titian: Women, Myth & Power. It was the first time since the 16th century that the six paintings were physically united.

See also
 List of works by Titian

Further reading
FitzRoy, Charles, The Rape of Europa: The Intriguing History of Titian's Masterpiece, London: Bloomsbury, 2015.
Silver, Nathaniel, ed., Titian's Rape of Europa, Boston, Massachusetts: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2021.

References

1560s paintings
Mythological paintings by Titian
Paintings of Europa (consort of Zeus)
Fish in art
Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Paintings based on Metamorphoses
Water in art
Paintings formerly in the Spanish royal collection
Paintings formerly in the Orleans Collection
Zeus
Putti


title: Miss Meadows

text:
Miss Meadows is a 2014 American dark comedy thriller film written and directed by Karen Leigh Hopkins. The film stars Katie Holmes, James Badge Dale, Callan Mulvey and Stephen Bishop. The film was released on November 14, 2014, by Entertainment One Films.

Plot
Miss Mary Meadows is a young woman who works as a substitute first-grade elementary school teacher who enjoys taking long walks in her suburban neighborhood, wearing traditional clothing and tap-dancing shoes. Unknown to everyone, she is a secret vigilante who kills local thugs who accost her or when she witnesses them committing crimes. She always carries a small semi-automatic pistol in her purse and speaks in a childlike, innocent manner. She lives by herself in a small house and talks occasionally with her mother over the telephone about what she did during the day.

Investigating the vigilante killings is a local sheriff. He soon meets and develops an attraction to Miss Meadows due to her old-fashioned clothing and style of speech. When he begins to suspect that the woman he finds himself drawn to may be the suspect he is looking for, the sheriff is torn between whether to arrest or protect her.

When Miss Meadows meets an ex-convict named Skylar, who she learns served time for molesting young children, she begins to fear for her young students' safety. When Miss Meadows approaches and threatens to kill Skylar if he continues hanging around the school or around her kids, he begins stalking her.

It is eventually revealed that all of the telephone conversations that Miss Meadows has been having with her mother over the course of the film are imaginary. As a young girl, Mary Meadows witnessed her mother's murder in a drive-by shooting outside a local church after attending the wedding of a family friend. This traumatic incident left Miss Meadows so emotionally scarred that she entered a fantasy world in which she imagined that her mother was still alive, then began to go after and kill criminals whom she viewed as a threat to society.

The various criminals that Miss Meadows kills on-screen include a trucker who tries to abduct her at gunpoint in the opening scene, a young man who committed a mass shooting at a local diner, and the town's Catholic priest whom Miss Meadows finds sexually molesting a young boy.

When Miss Meadows learns that she is pregnant after a sexual encounter with the sheriff, she decides to accept his proposal of marriage. On the day of the wedding, Skylar kidnaps Heather, one of Miss Meadows's students, from her house, forcing Miss Meadows to go to Skylar's house (wearing her wedding dress) to try to stop him, only to end up a captive herself. When she manages to free Heather and struggle with Skylar over her gun, the sheriff, passing by after leaving the church, sees Heather running from Skylar's house as she shouts for help. Meanwhile, Skylar takes Miss Meadows' gun from her purse, aims it at her and asks, "Do you really think you can save the world? Well, try saving yourself first!" Just then, the sheriff arrives and fatally shoots Skylar in the head. Seeing Miss Meadows' gun still clutched in Skylar's hand, he notes "it has his prints now". He and Miss Meadows proceed back to the church.

One year later, Miss Meadows and the Sheriff are married; she still wears her tap shoes and he has taken up the accordion. Now parents to a baby daughter, they are content to be peculiar together. As Miss Meadows prepares to go out before dinner, the sheriff tells her "be careful"; she replies "I always am", leaves the house, and does another little tap dance on the sidewalk.

Cast

Production
Principal photography and production began on August 6, 2013, in Cleveland, Ohio.

Release
The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 21, 2014. The film was released on November 14, 2014, by Entertainment One Films.

Reception
Miss Meadows received negative reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 25%, based on 20 reviews, with an average rating of 4.62/10. On Metacritic, the film has a rating of 43 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

References

External links

2014 films
2014 thriller films
American thriller films
American vigilante films
Films shot in Cleveland
Fictional schoolteachers
2010s English-language films
2010s American films
English-language thriller films


title: J'son (character)

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J'son is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is the father of Star-Lord and Victoria (a Captain from Spartax).

Publication history
Emperor Jason of Spartax first appeared in Marvel Preview #11 and was created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne. Emperor Jason was the father of the Star-Lord character who had been introduced in Marvel Preview #4.

Prince Jason of Spartax is a character that first appears in Inhumans vol. 3 #2 in the year 2000. He was originally intended to be Jason from Marvel Preview #11, but earlier in history.

After 2004 when Peter Quill was introduced into the Earth-616 continuity, the problems that were caused by Quill's presence in the then present-day Marvel Universe were never officially explained by Marvel Comics.

In 2013, King J'son of Spartax was introduced in Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3 #0.1. As reimagined by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Steve McNiven, this character is definitively identified as being the father of the Star-Lord who existed in the present-day Marvel Universe of Earth-616. Due to the continuity issues that this revised origin story caused, Marvel Comics decided that there were two versions of Star-Lord and that the events of Marvel Preview #11 and other appearances of the "classic" Star-Lord were to be officially designated as occurring in Earth-791.

Fictional character biography
When J'son's ship crash lands on Earth, he is taken in by Meredith Quill. The two form a relationship while J'son makes repairs to his ship. Eventually, J'son is forced to leave to return home and fight in a war. He leaves, not knowing Meredith is pregnant with Peter Quill.

Years later, J'son is revealed to be the King of the Spartax planetary system. J'son joined other members of the Galactic Council to declare the Earth off-limits to extraterrestrial interaction. Once his son defended Earth from a Badoon attack, J'son sent Spartoi soldiers to capture him, and his team called the Guardians of the Galaxy. However, the Guardians managed to escape and flee.

In an attempt to finally get rid of the Guardians and make his son join him, all of the Guardians were separately dealt with by the Spartoi and its allies under Captain Victoria, J'son's illegitimate child. However, they didn't count with the Guardians' ally Captain Marvel, who saved Peter Quill from J'son and the Spartoi Empire. As he was escaping, Quill discredited J'son to the whole empire revealing him as a heartless murderer. The entire Spartoi Empire rebelled against J'son, who was forced to flee.

With no longer an empire or fortune as seen in The Black Vortex storyline, J'son became the villain known as Mister Knife and started building a criminal empire. He put a bounty on his son, and also assembled the Slaughter Squad to recover the Black Vortex.

Because of the price put on his head, Star-Lord began raiding Mister Knife's crime syndicate, unaware that he was dealing with his own father. After the Slaughter Squad managed to finally capture Star-Lord while he was on a date with Kitty Pryde, Mister Knife revealed his identity to his son.

After Peter escaped with the help of Kitty Pryde, who traveled all the way from Earth to save him, J'son was tracked down to a planet where Thanos' son Thane is and convinced him to join his cause.

After Star-Lord and Kitty Pryde decided to steal the Black Vortex from J'son with the sole purpose to annoy him, Mister Knife sent the Slaughter Lords to hunt them down and recover the Vortex. After numerous failed attempts to recover the Vortex, Mister Knife managed to get his hands on it. As part of a deal with Thane, he submitted to the Black Vortex and used his cosmically enhanced power to encase the entirety of Spartax in his amber construct. The trapped Spartax was later traded to the Brood by Mister Knife, in exchange for taking advantage of their expansion and acquiring one planet for every ten worlds they conquered ever since.

At a moment when Captain Marvel retrieved the Black Vortex, she was cornered by Thane and J'son, who demanded she give them the Vortex back. When Thane tried to use his powers to encase Carol in amber, she used the Black Vortex as a shield and deflected the attack towards J'son.

J'son remained encased in the amber construct floating through Spartax's orbit, until he was found by the Collector, who was too late to recover the Vortex, but settled for adding J'son to his collection. J'son's amber construct imprisonment was later recovered by his daughter Victoria and brought back to Spartax.

Powers and abilities
J'son of Spartax uses Spartax weapons and under his Mister Knife persona, wields a fortress capable of destroying planets.

Other versions

Earth-791
Jason first appears in Marvel Preview #11, but after Peter Quill's introduction to Earth-616 in 2004, this issue and other appearances of "classic" Star-Lord have been officially designated as occurring in Earth-791 due to continuity issues. In this issue, Star-Lord meets his father and learns of his past. Years earlier, Jason was summoned by his father when war broke out between the Spartoi and the Ariguans. On his way back home, he was forced to crash land on Earth, where he fell in love with a human woman named Meredith Quill. The two began a year-long relationship before Jason was forced to leave to wage war for Spartax. Wishing to shield Meredith from the pain of his departure, Jason erased her memories of him. Meredith would later go on to give birth to his son Peter Quill. Jason would eventually go on take his father's place as emperor. After telling Star-Lord this story, Jason offered him a place as heir to the throne. Peter refused, and in his stead, Jason adopted Kip Holm as future heir.

Inhumans vol. 3
Jason is from the Spartoi Empire where the Spartoi are a sister race to the Shi'ar, separating from their cousins millions of years ago. He was the only son of the previous Emperor Eson, and therefore was Prince and sole heir to the throne. Rejecting his idealism, the ruling Council of Ministers prevented J'son from taking the throne. The future emperor would be educated, as per Spartax tradition, by being brought up on dozens of the Empire's planets working many professions, including servant, miner, poet, soldier and pilot - excelling in the latter two.

When Ronan the Accuser of the Kree Empire forced the Inhuman Royal Family to attempt to assassinate the Empress Lilandra, ruler of the neighboring Shi'ar Empire during a wedding ceremony that would symbolically unite the Shi'ar and Spartoi, J'son (who had been seen with the Inhumans) was accused of being part of the plot. For this, he was banished and deemed unworthy of the throne.

While the events of Inhumans vol. 3 take place in Earth-616, this incarnation of Jason causes continuity issues with the J'son introduced in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. For this reason, it is assumed that these are two difference characters, although no official explanation has been given for these continuity issues.

In other media
J'son appears in the animated series Guardians of the Galaxy, voiced by Jonathan Frakes. He is the Emperor of Spartax and the father of Peter Quill by Meredith Quill as well as being the father of Captain Victoria. In addition, he is a secret ally of Thanos. The episode "Black Vortex" featured a version of J'son called J. Jonah J'son (also voiced by Frakes) who is the boss of Arthur Douglas and a parody of J. Jonah Jameson.
In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Ego is the father of the Marvel Cinematic Universe version of Star-Lord rather than J'son. Director and writer James Gunn explained why he made the change: "I just don't like the character [J'son] very much", he said. "I also thought it was too much like a Star Wars thing because of the royalty and all of that".

References

External links
 J'son at Marvel Wiki
 J'son at Comic Vine

Fictional mass murderers
Characters created by Chris Claremont
Characters created by John Byrne (comics)
Comics characters introduced in 1977
Fictional crime bosses
Fictional emperors and empresses
Guardians of the Galaxy characters
Marvel Comics supervillains


title: 2014 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres

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The women's 400 metres event at the 2014 African Championships in Athletics was held August 11–12 on Stade de Marrakech.

Medalists

Results

Heats
Qualification: First 2 of each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.

Final

References

2014 African Championships in Athletics
400 metres at the African Championships in Athletics
2014 in women's athletics


title: Super Yo-Yo

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is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takashi Hashiguchi. The series was serialized in Shogakukan's CoroCoro Comic magazine between December 1997 and August 2000, and was translated into English and published in Singapore by Chuang Yi.

In 1998, the manga series was adapted into a 22-episode anime television series produced by Xebec, it ran from November 1998 to September 1999. The television series has been dubbed into English in Singapore by Odex and released in 2003.

A Game Boy video game adaptation has been published by Hudson Soft in Japan on September 18, 1998.

Plot
Shunichi Domoto is a 5th grade boy. He usually helps the sport teams in his school due to his talent in sports. One day his friend, Beso Kimura lost his Yoyo in a Yoyo duel against a bully boy, Benkei Musashimaru and ask Shunichi for help. Shunichi challenges Benkei to a Yoyo duel then defeats him. After that he was challenged by the exceptionally gifted Yoyoer, Seito Hojoin and get beaten because he ridiculed the Yoyo game. So, Shunichi enters Japan's Yoyo championship to get his revenge from his loss with Seito. Throughout this Championship, he learns new Yoyo Skills, meets new friends and powerful rivals.

Manga volume list

Anime

Cast
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 Tsuyoshi Whapa

Music

Opening themes
 "SOMEDAY LET'S GO TOGETHER" performed by rub-down (Episodes 1–14).
 "Loop & Loop" performed by Showtaro Morikubo (who also voiced the main character) (Episodes 15–22).

Ending theme
 "Future" performed by Chiaki Nakajima.

Soundtrack
A soundtrack album titled  has been released by Polystar in Japan on September 1, 1999.

Episode list

Release
The anime series has been released on VHS in 5 volumes by Bandai Visual.

Notes

References

External links

1998 anime television series debuts
1999 Japanese television series endings
Anime series based on manga
Children's manga
Odex
Shogakukan franchises
Shogakukan manga
Sports anime and manga
TV Tokyo original programming
Xebec (studio)
Yo-yos
Japanese children's television series
Comics based on toys
Television shows based on toys
Video games based on toys


title: USCGC Raymond Evans

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USCGC Raymond Evans is the tenth vessel in the United States Coast Guard's  cutter.
All the vessels are named after members of the Coast Guard, or its precursor services, who are remembered for their heroism.
Names had already been assigned for the first fourteen vessels, when Commander Raymond Evans died, and the USCG Commandant announced that the next Sentinel class cutter would be named after him. Joseph Napier, who was originally scheduled to be the namesake of the tenth vessel, had his name moved to the beginning of the second list of heroes names, and will now be the namesake of the fifteenth vessel.

The vessel was delivered to the Coast Guard, for pre-commissioning trials, on June 25, 2014.
On August 20, 2014, an open house was held to allow residents of Key West, Florida to tour the vessel.
The vessel was commissioned on September 6, 2014.

Design
The  cutters were designed to replace the shorter  s. Raymond Evans is equipped with a remote-control 25 mm Bushmaster autocannon and four, crew-served M2HB .50-caliber machine guns. It has a bow thruster for maneuvering in crowded anchorages and channels. It also has small underwater fins for coping with the rolling and pitching caused by large waves. It is equipped with a stern launching ramp, like the  and the eight failed expanded Island-class cutters. It has a complement of twenty-two crew members. Like the Marine Protector class, and the cancelled extended Island-class cutters, the Sentinel-class cutters deploy the Short Range Prosecutor Rigid-hulled inflatable (SRP or RHIB) in rescues and interceptions.

According to Marine Log, modifications to the Coast Guard vessels from the Stan 4708 design include an increase in speed from , fixed-pitch rather than variable-pitch propellers, stern launch capability, and watertight bulkheads.

Raymond Evans has an overall length of , a beam of , and a displacement of . Its draft is  and it has a maximum speed of over . The Sentinel-class cutters have endurances of five days and a range of .

Career
In early January, while operating off the coast of Guyana with USCGC Stone (WMSL-758), Raymond Evans boarded a suspected narcotics trafficking vessel. After testing the packages found on board, 970 kilograms of cocaine were recovered and the suspected traffickers were detained.

References

2014 ships
Sentinel-class cutters
Ships built in Lockport, Louisiana


title: Robert Citerne

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Robert Citerne (born 10 February 1961 in Paris) is a French wheelchair fencer, who earned four gold medals out of seven Paralympic participations. He is also three-time World champion and eight-time European champion in individual and team events.

Citerne has right hemiplegia since he was six months old. He took up fencing at the age of 19 after his physical therapist suggested it to him. He joined in 1987 the France national team, of which he is still a member. He is known in the fencing community as “Bob le Ouf”, literally “Crazy Bob” because of his exuberant personality.

Citerne is IT manager at the Levallois Sporting Club, of which he is a member as an athlete. He is also city councillor of La Garenne-Colombes in charge of disability-related issues.

References

External links

1961 births
Living people
French male foil fencers
French male épée fencers
Paralympic gold medalists for France
Paralympic silver medalists for France
Paralympic bronze medalists for France
Wheelchair fencers at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
Wheelchair fencers at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
Wheelchair fencers at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
Wheelchair fencers at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
Wheelchair fencers at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Wheelchair fencers at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
Fencers from Paris
Paralympic medalists in wheelchair fencing
French male sabre fencers
Paralympic wheelchair fencers for France


title: Walter Lyon (cricketer)

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Walter John Lyon (28 February 1841 – 16 March 1918) was an English cricketer who played in first-class cricket matches for Cambridge University between 1861 and 1863. He was born at Barton-under-Needwood in Staffordshire and died at Tutbury, also in Staffordshire.

Lyon was educated at a private school called Highstead in Torquay, Devon and at Trinity College, Cambridge. As a cricketer, he played in six first-class matches over three seasons, five for Cambridge University and one for a "Gentlemen of the North" side for whom he made his highest score of 22. His Cambridge matches included the 1861 University Match against Oxford University; batting in the lower order, he made 15 and 16 as Cambridge won the match by 133 runs. He did not appear in the University Matches with Oxford in 1862 and 1863. He played a lot of amateur non-first-class cricket for teams such as Free Foresters through to the 1880s and beyond.

Lyon graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1864. The following year, he and his younger brother Charles moved to Tutbury to take over the cotton mill previously owned by their uncle, Charles Webb.  The cotton mill was transferred to Rocester in 1888, after which the mill in Tutbury was used for grinding locally mined gypsum. Tutbury being sited on the county boundary, Lyon was a Justice of the Peace for both Staffordshire and Derbyshire.

References

1841 births
1918 deaths
alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Cambridge University cricketers
English cricketers
Gentlemen of the North cricketers
people from Barton-under-Needwood
people from Tutbury


title: Boy with a Glass and a Lute

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Boy with a Glass and a Lute is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1626 and now in the Guildhall Art Gallery, London.

Painting
The painting shows a boy with a lute who is holding a glass above his head with his right hand; with his left hand, he balances a lute which rests on a table.

Name
In his 1910 catalog of Frans Hals works Hofstede de Groot wrote:82. THE LAUGHING MANDOLINE-PLAYER. M. 214. A young man with long dishevelled hair sits holding up in his right hand a glass full of wine, at which he looks with a smile. His dark costume is trimmed with blue; his cap hangs on the back of his head, to the left. With his left hand he holds up one end of a mandoline, the other end of which rests on a table. Signed on the right with the monogram; panel, 36 inches by 30 inches.

Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1891, No. 72.

Hals' positioning of a figure looking upwards was common to many of his genre paintings of the 1620s:

This painting is probably related to The Fingernail Test:

See also
 List of paintings by Frans Hals

References

1626 paintings
Paintings by Frans Hals
Food and drink paintings
Collection of the Guildhall Art Gallery
Musical instruments in art


title: Rob Beschizza

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Rob Beschizza is a British-American writer, artist and journalist, the editor of the culture website Boing Boing and the founder of txt.fyi, a publishing platform described by Wired as an example of "antisocial media". His works include minimalist video games, short stories, generative software that produces psychedelic art, wine descriptions, and journalistic euphemisms, among other subjects. Beschizza has appeared as a news commentator on television networks including NBC, CNN and Al Jazeera.

Beschizza, formerly a technology correspondent and a crime reporter, is a graduate of Goldsmiths College and became a naturalized US citizen in 2015.

In 2014, Beschizza produced an unauthorized edit of David Lynch's 1984 motion picture Dune with the dialogue systematically removed, which was itself taken down after a copyright claim.

References

External links

 Profile at Muckrack
 2017 interview with Rob Beschizza
 2015 Interview with Rob Beschizza

Living people
American male bloggers
American bloggers
British bloggers
Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London
21st-century American non-fiction writers
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: UNAM School of Medicine

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UNAM School of Medicine may refer to:
UNAM School of Medicine (Namibia)
 School of Medicine, UNAM, Mexico


title: Didier Barra

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Didier Barra (1590 - 1656) was a French Renaissance painter.

Not much is known about Barra's life except through his works. He was born in Metz, but left for Italy in 1608. In Naples he was very successful, especially for his cityscapes. He primarily painted scenes featuring decrepit ruins or near-barren buildings in a nearly-surrealist, apparently post-apocalyptic landscape. Until the mid-twentieth century Barra's works were believed to be by one "Monsù Desiderio". However the works formerly attributed to Desiderio have since been identified as the work of at least three artists: Barra, François de Nomé, who was also from Metz, and a third, as yet unnamed painter. The similarities in both themes and style, and the fact that there were occasions where Barra and de Nomé collaborated, have made attributions challenging. One work executed by Barra Saint Standing in a Niche is part of the Courtauld Gallery collection. He died in Naples in 1656.

References

1590 births
1656 deaths
17th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
French Renaissance painters
Artists from Metz


title: Bas Kosters

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Bas Kosters (born June 5, 1977, in Zutphen) is a Dutch fashion designer, known for his colourful designs and the use of prints. In 2003 he graduated from the Fashion Institute in Arnhem with the collection 'Two Teacups and a Frying Pan', with this collection he also won the Robijn Fashion Award. In 2005 he established the Bas Kosters Studio in Amsterdam. In 2009 he won the Dutch Fashion Incubator Award and in 2010 he won the Dutch Fashion International Incubator Award.

Biography
Bas Kosters was born and raised in the Dutch town Zutphen. He studied fashion at the Rijn IJssel College in Arnhem where he graduated in 1997. Then he studied Fashion Design at the AKI Academy of Fine Arts in Enschede until his graduation in 2001. In 2003 he got his master's degree at the Fashion Institute Arnhem, his graduation collection earned him the Robijn Fashion Award. In 2004 Bas Kosters designed a stroller for Bugaboo International, the collaboration was repeated in 2011. In 2005 he established Bas Kosters Studio. Since 2006 he regularly presents new collections, both during Amsterdam Fashion Week, and the London Fashion Week, like his collection The Munchies. In 2012 he presents the collection 'That puts the 'U’ in Ugly', that includes the 'penis pants' a legging with a print of penises. This item (officially called 'Is that a cock or your legs') gets a lot of international attention. Bas Kosters is fascinated by clowns and even dedicated a collection to them: Clowns Are People Too.

Anti Fashion Party
Since 2007 Bas Kosters has been organizing the Anti Fashion Party twice a year. It's meant as a counterpart of the 'glamorous' Amsterdam Fashion Week".

Collections
 2014: Clowns are people too, A/W
 2014: The Munchies, S/S
 2013: The Rebellious Shadow, A/W
 2012: LOVE “FUCK YEAH”, S/S
 2012: 12Tree, A/W
 2012: That puts the ‘U’ in Ugly, S/S
 2011: Fashion Mutant Pret a Porter, A/W
 2011: Par-Tea collection, S/S
 2010: Living Too Hard Pret a Porter, A/W
 2009: Freedom Collection
 2008: Mini Dance Collection
 2007: Le Salon Explosif
 2006: Dans les rues d’Amsterdam
 2003: Two teacups and a fryingpan
 2001: Containerkoninginnen (Dumpster Queens)
 2000: Parade

Awards
 2018, Cultuurfonds Fashion Stipend
 2010, Dutch Fashion International Incubator Award, Dutch Fashion Awards
 2009, Dutch Fashion Incubator Award, Dutch Fashion Awards
 2003, Robijn Fashion Award

Websites
 Official website
 Extra Kak Magazine on Issuu

References

1977 births
Living people
Kosters
People from Zutphen


The 1929–1930 Central European Cup for Amateurs was the first edition of the Central European International Cup for amateur teams. It was won by Poland, who took part for the first and only time.

Final standings

Matches

References

Central European International Cup


title: Seán Kavanagh

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Seán Kavanagh (born 20 January 1994) is an Irish footballer who plays for Shamrock Rovers as a defender.

Career

Fulham
Born in Dublin, Ireland, Kavanagh started his youth career at Belvedere before joining Fulham in 2011. While making his progress at the club's academy, Kavanagh struggled with injuries, but managed to regain his fitness.

After progressing the club's academy for the past three years, Kavanagh made his first team debut for Fulham in a 1-0 home loss on 20 August 2014 against Wolverhampton Wanderers at Craven Cottage. After the match, Kavanagh told the club's website that his debut for Fulham was a proud moment. Kavanagh scored his first goal for the club in the 1–0 win over Norwich City. However, Kavanagh's season was later interrupted when he suffered injuries twice during the season: once with a thigh injury in November and another with a knee injury in January. Despite this, Kavanagh played a role when he provided assist for Ross McCormack and then provided another assist for Matt Smith, in a 1–0 win over Blackpool. After a handful of first team appearances, he signed a contract extension with the club, keeping him until 2018. Though playing in midfield under the management of Kit Symons, Kavanagh made nineteen appearances and scoring once for the 2014–15 season.

In the 2015–16 season, Kavanagh struggled to be in the first team, having spent most of the time being on the substitute bench and was limited even further following the arrivals of James Husband and Luke Garbutt. It wasn't until on 21 November 2015 when Kavanagh made his first appearance of the season, playing 90 minutes, in a 1–1 draw against MK Dons. He made another appearance in the next game against Preston North End. Kavanagh went on to make seven appearances for the club before returning to his parent club in May 2016.

In the 2016–17 season, Kavanagh featured twice for Fulham, both coming from the EFL Cup. After being told by the club that he would be loaned out, he joined League Two side Hartlepool United until the end of the season. He made his Hartlepool United debut, where he started the whole game, in a 1–0 loss against Grimsby Town on 7 January 2017. Kavanagh then quickly established himself in the starting eleven, playing in the left-back position. However, he suffered injuries that kept him out on two occasions. As a result, his loan spell at Hartlepool United ended on 7 April 2017. His last appearance for Hartlepool United came on 4 March 2017, where he played 39 minutes, in a 3–1 win over Exeter City.

Shamrock Rovers
After appearing once for Fulham in the 2017–18 season, Kavanagh returned to Republic of Ireland, where he joined Shamrock Rovers for an undisclosed fee. Kavanagh had been set to join Derry City but joined Shamrock Rovers at the last moment. He also said that he took 'unbelievable' pay cut to join the club, saying: "the football here will suit me rather than trying to hang around the lower leagues in England."

Kavanagh made his Shamrock Rovers' debut, starting the whole game, in a 0–0 draw against Dundalk in the opening game of the 2018 League of Ireland Premier Division season. In the next two matches, he scored two goals in two matches, which both matches were a win against Bray Wanderers and Derry City. Since making his debut, Kavanagh quickly established himself in the starting eleven for the side. However, he was sent-off in the 84th minutes for a foul on Billy Dennehy, in a 1–0 win over Limerick. After serving a one match ban, he returned to the first team from suspension, playing 90 minutes, in a 1–0 win over Sligo Rovers on 30 March 2018.

International career
Kavanagh has represented Republic of Ireland's U16, U17 and U19 before representing U21.

At the U21 side, Kavanagh was called up for the first time in September 2014. He made his Republic of Ireland U21 debut, where he came on as a substitute in the second-half, in a 4–1 loss against Norway U21 on 9 October 2014. It wasn't until on 4 September 2015 when he scored his first goals, in a 4–1 win over Qatar U23. However, in a 3–1 loss against Lithuania U21 on 13 November 2015, Kavanagh was sent-off in the closing stage of the game for a foul on Deimantas Petravičius. Despite serving a three match suspension, he went on to make 11 appearances and scoring 2 times for the U21 side.

Career statistics

Personal life
Growing up in Dublin, Ireland, Kavanagh grew up supporting Liverpool and idolized full-back John Arne Riise, who was at Fulham when Kavanagh was at the club's academy. Riise left the club, months before Kavanagh made his Fulham debut.

Honours
Shamrock Rovers
 FAI Cup (1): 2019
 League of Ireland (1): 2020

References

External links

Ireland profile at the FAI

1994 births
Living people
Republic of Ireland men's association footballers
Republic of Ireland men's under-21 international footballers
Republic of Ireland men's youth international footballers
Republic of Ireland expatriate men's association footballers
Irish expatriate sportspeople in England
Expatriate men's footballers in England
Men's association football defenders
Fulham F.C. players
Mansfield Town F.C. players
English Football League players
Association footballers from Dublin (city)
Belvedere F.C. players
Hartlepool United F.C. players
League of Ireland players
Shamrock Rovers F.C. players


title: Atómico

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Atómico, is a television show produced by Maraba Productions for Venevisión. Hosted by Alfredo Lovera as Himself, Mariana Álvarez as Herself, Joshua García as Himself and Natalia Moretti Herself.

History
Atómico it began airing as a similar program to El Club de Los Tigritos and Rugemania with Interactive Games, Music, cartoons, Series. in 2006, the program ended to begin issuing Venevisión telenovelas. As of March 3, 2014, as established by the "La ley de resorte de Venezuela", Venevisión telenovela removed 3 hours to transmit Atómico.

Presenters
Alfredo Lovera as Himself
Mariana Álvarez as Herself
Joshua García as Himself
Natalia Moretti as Herself
Antonella Baricelli as Herself (2005-2006)
Alex Goncalves as Himself (2005-2006)
Sheryl Rubio as Herself (2005-2006)

Guests
Víctor Drija
Los Hermanos Valentinos (Appear during the circus performance)

Programs broadcast

Current broadcast
Chica vampiro
Somos tú y yo
Sam & Cat
The Penguins of Madagascar
SpongeBob SquarePants
ICarly

Programs that are no longer transmitted
Some of these series are transmitted on Saturday and Sunday Atómico repetitions. Others are issued occasionally.

No puede ser
Bondi Band
Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness
Power Rangers Jungle Fury
The Fairly OddParents
Victorious
Marvin Marvin
Big Time Rush
Planet Sheen
El Club de Los Tigritos
Fanboy & Chum Chum

Programming 2001-2004
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title: Barid

text:
The barīd (, often translated as "the postal service") was the state-run courier service of the Umayyad and later Abbasid Caliphates. A major institution in the early Islamic states, the barid was not only responsible for the overland delivery of official correspondence throughout the empire, but it additionally functioned as a domestic intelligence agency, which informed the caliphs on events in the provinces and the activities of government officials.

Etymology
The etymology of the Arabic word barid has been described by historian Richard N. Frye as "unclear". A Babylonian origin has been suggested by late-19th-century scholars who offered the following disputed explanation: berīd = Babyl. buridu (for the older *(p)burādu) = 'courier' and 'fast horse'. It has also been proposed that, since the barid institution appears to have been adopted from the courier systems previously maintained by both the Byzantines and Persian Sassanids, the word barid could be derived from the Late Latin veredus ("post horse") or the Persian buridah dum ("having a docked tail," in reference to the postal mounts).

History

Background
The Muslim barid was apparently based upon the courier organizations of their predecessors, the Byzantines and Sassanids. Postal systems had been present in the Middle East throughout Antiquity, with several pre-Islamic states having operated their own services. A local tradition of obliging the population living next to roads to carry the luggage of passing soldiers and officials, or of having the entire population contribute pack animals to the state as in Ptolemaic Egypt, has been documented since at least the time of the Achaemenid Empire and had been enforced by Roman legislation in the 4th century.

Umayyads
The barid operated from Umayyad times, with credit for its development being given to the first Umayyad caliph Mu'awiyah ibn Abi Sufyan (r. 661–680). Mu'awiyah's successor Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (r. 685–705) strengthened the organization, making additional improvements to it after the end of the Second Fitna. The Umayyads created a diwan or government department to manage the system and a separate budget was allocated for its costs.

Abbasids
Following the Abbasid Revolution in 750, the barid was further strengthened by the new dynasty and became one of the most important institutions in the government. The second Abbasid caliph al-Mansur (r. 754–775) placed particular importance on the service and utilized it as an intelligence tool with which he could monitor affairs throughout the empire. Under his successors, oversight of the barid was often entrusted to a prominent official or close associate of the caliph, such as the Barmakid Ja'far ibn Yahya or Itakh al-Turki.

9th–11th centuries
After the political fragmentation of the Abbasid Caliphate in the ninth and tenth centuries, the central diwan al-barid was overseen by the Buyids (945–1055), but the organization seems to have declined during this period. The service was eventually abolished by the Seljuq sultan Alp Arslan (r. 1063–1072), who considered its capacity for intelligence-gathering to have been diminished. Some other Muslim states, such as the Samanids of Transoxiana (9th and 10th centuries), maintained their own barid systems at various times.

Mamluks
In the thirteenth century a new barid was created in Egypt and the Levant by the Mamluk sultan Baybars (r. 1260–1277).

Functions

Correspondence and travel

The barid provided the caliphs with the ability to communicate with their officials in the various regions under their authority. Its messengers were capable of delivering missives throughout the empire with great efficiency, with reported travel speeds as fast as almost a hundred miles per day. The barid was not a mail service, and did not normally carry private letters sent by individuals; rather it usually only carried correspondence, such as official reports and decrees, between government agents.

To facilitate the swift delivery of its messages, the barid maintained an extensive network of relay stations, which housed fresh mounts, lodging and other resources for its couriers. The average distance between each barid station was, at least in theory, two to four farsakhs (six to twelve miles); according to the 9th-century geographer Ibn Khurradadhbih, there were a total of 930 stations throughout the empire. This relay network was flexible and temporary postal stations could be set up as needed; during military campaigns, for example, new barid stations would be established so that a line of communication could be maintained with the advancing army.

Besides carrying correspondence, the barid was sometimes used to transport certain agents of the state, providing a form of fast travel for governors and other officials posted to the provinces. The Abbasid caliph al-Hadi (r. 785–786), for example, used the barid service to make the journey from Jurjan to the capital Baghdad after he had received news of his father's death. Use of barid resources was tightly controlled, however, and special authorization was required for other government agents to use their mounts or provisions.

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 Surveillance

In addition to its role in as a courier service, the barid operated as an intelligence network within the Islamic state. The postmasters (ashab al-barid) of each district effectively doubled as informants for the central government, and regularly submitted reports to the capital of the state of their respective localities. Any events of significance, such as local trial proceedings, fluctuations in prices of essential commodities, or even unusual weather activity, would be written about and sent to the director of the central diwan, who would summarize the information and present it to the caliph.

Besides the affairs of the provinces in general, barid'' agents also monitored the conduct of other government officials. Postmasters were to look out for any instances of misconduct or incompetence and inform the caliph of any such behavior. They also reported on the acts and decrees of the local governor and judge, as well as the balance of the treasury. This information enabled the caliph to stay apprised of the performance of his agents, and to dismiss any who had become corrupt or rebellious.

See also
 Yam (route) – courier service of the Mongol Empire
 Ulaq (Ottoman Empire) – courier service of the Ottoman Empire
 Furaniq – couriers in general in the medieval Islamic world
 Cursus publicus – courier service of the Roman and Byzantine Empires
 Frumentarii – Roman officials, originally collectors of wheat, later increasingly secret agents (as they travelled considerably)

Notes

References

Medieval Islamic world
Postal history
Government of the Abbasid Caliphate
Government of the Umayyad Caliphate
Defunct intelligence agencies
Caliphal correspondence
7th-century establishments in the Umayyad Caliphate


The 1931–1934 Central European Cup for Amateurs was the second and last edition of the Central European International Cup for amateur teams. It was won by Romania, who took part for the first and only time.

Final standings

Matches

Winner

Statistics

Goalscorers

References

Central European International Cup


title: Kick Up the Fire

text:
Kick Up The Fire are a British garage punk band from South East London. They released their debut EP Kick Up The Fire in 2010 which was later followed by their second EP Money Men in 2012

Band members
 Kenny Wastell – lead vocals, guitar
 Thom Wicks – bass guitar, vocals
 Marek Bereza – guitar
 Andrew Hutson – drums

References

British indie rock groups


title: Fairfax Field

text:
Fairfax Field was a wartime (WWII) facility of the United States Army Air Forces and later, the United States Air Force.
The installation was north of Kansas City, Kansas.  Used as a pre-war Naval Air Station, the United States Army Air Forces leased the municipal airfield and built an Air Force Plant and modification center for North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber production.  Military use of the site continued as late as 1957 by the Strategic Air Command's 3903rd Radar Bomb Scoring Group for bombing practice.

Background
The airfield was first used in 1921 for an air meet and became the 1925 Sweeney Airport and the 1928 Fairfax Airport. A naval reserve air base was established at Fairfax Field in 1935; a Navy squadron and a Marine squadron were established on July 12.  In 1937 Fairfax acted as an "army reserve base" with Douglas O-46 observation planes, and by 1938 the airport had four runways, including one  long. Fairfax's "U.S. Naval Reserve aviation base", had a 30-day pre-flight training course in 1940.

Navy Elimination Air Base
The "Marine Air Flight Program" established by 1 September 1940 at Fairfax's "Navy Elimination Air Base" (E-base) used "a physical and mental examination…ten hours of dual instruction…check rides and a fifteen-minute solo flight" for screening candidates to become Naval Aviation Cadets.  A Fairfax "naval flying cadet… crashed into the Missouri river two miles northwest of the Fairfax air base" [sic] on 16 June 1942, Fairfax's naval aviation training moved in July to the new United States Naval Aviation Reserve Base at Olathe about 20 miles away. Fairfax still had "Barracks U.S. Navy" in 1946.

WWII B-25 production, training, and modifications
Survey work for Air Force Plant NC had begun in December 1940, and the city of Kansas City, Kansas, purchased the airport in February 1941.  The USAAF leased the Fairfax Airport from the city and the Works Projects Administration sponsored expansion of the four civilian runways.  The government purchased a  alfalfa field  for the plant and for right-of-way to the airfield.  B-25 production began in December 1941, and Fairfax's first B-25D was accepted in February 1942.  The Fairfax Modification Center was a dual hangar built May–October 1942 along the south taxiway for altering the new B-25s (a west extension and several outbuildings were added.)  The 76th AAF Technical Training Detachment activated on 4 February 1943 (designated 5 October) and administered a 6 week hydraulics course for AAF mechanics under the direction of the Aircraft Accessories Corporation. About 300 students were admitted before the school was closed in October as a duplicate of a Chanute Field course.  The 81st AAF Technical Training Detachment activated 22 February 1943 and designated, effective 30 August, to supervise apprentice crew chiefs at the Modification Center. January AAF policy was for each mechanic selected as a crew chief to be assigned an aircraft as it left the factory, review its modifications at the center, and deploy with it to the field unit. B-25 modifications only took a week until the B-25G gunship modifications for Pacific War anti-shipping missions, which took 2–3 months.  Peak enrollment was 296 mechanics on 27 June, and the apprenticeship program was abandoned (the detachment inactivated on 31 October 1943.)

WWII ferrying
Air Transport Command moved the 2d Ferrying Squadron of the 5th Ferrying Group from Dallas Love Field to Fairfax on April 15, 1943, and the squadron ferried out 157 B-25s during May  Of 1,881 deliveries in 1943 by the Ground Ferrying Squadron all but 129 were B-25s, but at the end of that year Fairfax pilots began ferrying Martin B-26 Marauders from the Omaha modification center and Consolidated B-24 Liberators from a St. Paul facility.  From May-Sep 1944 a detachment of Women Airforce Service Pilots was at Fairfax.  The 33d Ferrying Group was designated on 1 April 1944 from the 2d Ferrying Squadron, which had been separated from the 5th Group on 1 January 1944 (393 officers and 578 enlisted men at the end of 1944). Womens Air Service Pilots were organized at Fairfax on 1 May 1944, and from Fairfax the 33d delivered 6,202 aircraft to CONUS bases and 251 abroad.  On 22 September 1944 the 33d Ferrying Group began daily scheduled Military Air Transport (MAT) flights with military cargo/passengers to Minneapolis and Omaha (2 more daily flights were later added.)  In October 1944, the modification center became an adjunct to the final assembly line.  On 9 November 1944 the 33d Group furnished plane and crew to fly Senator Harry S. Truman from Fairfax to Washington for ceremonies following his election as Vice-President, and in early 1945 the 33d controlled ten operating locations..  During the Fairfax transition to P-80 production, the 33d Ferrying Group was discontinued.

WWII air freight
On 2 March 1945, Military Air Transport moved an air freight terminal to Fairfax from Kansas City, Missouri, and had 362 personnel in June, the largest operating location in the division. For ferrying, Fairfax became an operating location of Rosecrans Army Airfield on 15 April 1945 with its pilots traveling to Fairfax for sorties.  In 1945, 1,044 military transports used the field in July (e.g., President Truman for visits to Independence, Missouri).  Plans for B-29 and F-80 aircraft production at Fairfax were never implemented, and B-25J production was terminated on August 15, 1945, after a total of 2,290 B-25Ds (152 Navy PBJ-1D variants) and 4,318 B-25Js had been built by the plant.  The federal Reconstruction Finance Corporation set up a depot in the Fairfax district to liquidate war surplus not sent to depots or elsewhere for government use (reusable materials like aluminum and steel were reclaimed.) Seventy-two incomplete but flyable B-25Js were sold to the public.  A USAAF C-47 crashed on September 15, 1945 on take off into the north bank of the Missouri River's curve, killing all 24 aboard.  The Air Transport Command operating location at Fairfax was discontinued by 6 December 1945 (9 C-47s and 80 pilots/co-pilots transferred west to Topeka Army Airfield which had been chosen for a central MAT flight facility by November 1945.)  The 4101st Army Air Force Base Unit (Reserve Training) was activated at Fairfax on 12 July 1946 (redesignated 2472d AF Reserve Training Center on 28 August 1948) and at the beginning of USAF planning, Fairfax activated the Reserve's 564th Bombardment Squadron on 6 January 1947 which sent 127 pilots to 1948 summer camp.

Kansas City Bomb Plot
Fairfax in 1945 had an early 2AF Radar Bomb Scoring (RBS) site which used an SCR-584 radar for evaluating bomber training  The Kansas City RBS unit became a detachment of Colorado Springs's 206 AAFBU in July 1945, and in 1954 was Det 5 of the 10th RBSS.  The detachment scored Convair B-36 Peacemaker runs during 1953, the 1955 SAC Bombing and Navigation Competition, and the 1957 "Operation Longshot".  The Kansas City aiming point for the 1957 operation was "the base of the northeast corner of the Columbian Steel Tank Company" at the corner of 12th/Liberty streets. in the West Bottoms.  In 1959, SAC's simulated bomb runs on Kansas City were scored using a longer range radar at Missouri's Joplin Radar Bomb Scoring Site (10RBSS Det 2) to the south which had moved from Oklahoma's Hollis Radar Bomb Scoring Site in July.

In October 1948, 37 Air Force Reserve planes at Fairfax flew 1,844 hours and in 1949, the 564th was replaced by the 442d Troop Carrier Wing (activated 27 June).  Despite a 1948 plan for Fairfax to "be withdrawn from surplus", in "October 1949 the U.S. Air Force terminated its lease on Fairfax Airport, and the city of Kansas City, Kansas, regained control of the facility".  On May 22, 1950, Fairfax's 2472d AF Reserve Training Center and 442d Troop Carrier Wing moved to Naval Air Technical Training Center Olathe.

Fairfax Municipal Airport
Fairfax's 4610th Air Base Squadron temporarily evacuated Fairfax Municipal Airport due to a fire during the Great Flood of 1951 and on 1 October 1952, the squadron "opened" the nearby Grandview Air Force Base in Missouri (Grandview's beneficial occupancy began 2 years later.)  In 1952 the squadron was renamed the 4676th Air Defense Group which began flying F-86 Sabres from Fairfax at the end of 1953.

In 1953, an F-94 crashed on attempting a return, killing the pilot and radar operator.  From 18 December 1953 – 1 March 1954, the 326th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron was assigned to Fairfax, and an F-84 crashed near the city's business district killing the pilot and three residents.

On September 1, 1954, Air Defense Command (ADC) was placed under Continental Air Defense Command and all Fairfax ADC units moved nearby to the new Grandview Air Force Base near Kansas City, Missouri.

References

Installations of the United States Air Force in Kansas
1948 establishments in Kansas
1950 disestablishments in Kansas
Military installations closed in 1950
Formerly Used Defense Sites in Kansas
Great Flood of 1951
Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces Air Transport Command


title: Joel Jaffe

text:
Joel Jaffe (born January 15, 1952), also known as J. Jaffe, is an American audio engineer, record producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and president and co-founder of Studio D Recording, Inc.

Jaffe has worked with artists including Huey Lewis and the News, Ringo Starr, Buddy Greco, Melissa Etheridge, The Stylistics, Eddie Money, Santana, and Bonnie Raitt.

Early life
Joel Jaffe was born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, to Jay and Dorothy (Née Watkins) Jaffe. He began taking piano lessons from his mother at age six, as well as studying classical and jazz piano with other instructors. He began taking guitar lessons at age twelve after seeing The Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show. In high school he formed the band The Illusions, performing at dances and parties, then at nightclubs opening shows for such artists as The Four Tops, The Everly Brothers, and The O'Jays.

Selected discography

References

External links

1952 births
Living people
People from the San Francisco Bay Area
Music of the San Francisco Bay Area
Record producers from Ohio
American audio engineers


title: Holly Clyburn

text:
Holly Clyburn (born 7 February 1991) is an English professional golfer who currently plays on the Ladies European Tour. She was a member of the victorious 2012 Great Britain and Ireland Curtis Cup team and won her first professional tournament at the Deloitte Ladies Open in 2013, her rookie year on tour.

Amateur career
Clyburn was twice a member of the Great Britain and Ireland Curtis Cup team, selected in both 2010 and 2012. At the 2012 event, she won three of her five matches, playing in all sessions and contributing three points to a first victory for GB&I since 1996. She also qualified for the 2012 Women's British Open for the first time finishing tied for 26th, the second highest placed amateur. Clyburn turned professional in October 2012.

Professional career
In December 2012, Clyburn tied 25th at the Lalla Aicha Tour School to earn her tour card for the 2013 Ladies European Tour.   In her rookie year of 2013, she won her first tournament, the Deloitte Ladies Open in Amsterdam, and finished 7th on the LET Order of Merit. The latter was helped by two additional top 10 finishes, tied 6th at the Turkish Airlines Ladies Open and 3rd at the Ladies Scottish Open. In addition Clyburn appeared at two majors, the Women's British Open where she tied for 36th and the Evian Championship, where she tied for 27th. She was narrowly beaten to the title of LET Rookie of the Year by Charley Hull, when Hull placed higher in the final tournament of the season.

In 2014, Clyburn secured more top ten finishes, including tied for 6th at the Lalla Meryem Cup, tied for 9th at the Turkish Airlines Ladies Open, and runner-up to Florentyna Parker at the Ladies Italian Open. She appeared at major championships the Women's British Open and came through qualifying for the U.S. Women's Open but missed the cut at both.

In March 2015, Clyburn secured her second professional victory at the ALPG season ending event, the Bing Lee Fujitsu NSW Women's Open. The win was her first on the ALPG Tour.

Professional wins (4)

Ladies European Tour (1)

ALPG Tour wins (2)

LET Access Series wins (1)
2012 Banesto Tour Valencia

Team appearances
Amateur
European Ladies' Team Championship (representing England ): 2009, 2010, 2011
Curtis Cup (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 2010, 2012 (winners)
Espirito Santo Trophy (representing England): 2010
Vagliano Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 2011
Astor Trophy (representing Great Britain and Ireland): 2011 (winners)

Professional
International Crown (representing England): 2016
The Queens (representing Europe): 2017
European Championships (representing Great Britain): 2018

References

External links

English female golfers
Ladies European Tour golfers
LPGA Tour golfers
Sportspeople from Grimsby
1991 births
Living people


title: George Deiderich

text:
George R. Deiderich (March 19, 1936 – July 2, 1999), nicknamed Lulu Deiderich, was an American football player who was a consensus All-American guard for the Vanderbilt Commodores football team of Vanderbilt University.  Afterward, Deiderich played professionally for three seasons in the Canadian Football League (CFL).

Deiderich was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  He attended Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania, where he played for the Valley Forge Cadets high school football team.

Deiderich enrolled at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee in 1955, where he played for coach Arthur Guepe's Vanderbilt Commodores football team from 1956 to 1958.  He was a two-year starter at guard for the Commodores, and the team compiled a three-year win-loss-tie record of 15–10–5 during his college career.

He was a first-team All-Southeastern Conference selection in 1957 and 1958, and was recognized as a consensus first-team All-American in 1958, when he received first-team honors from the Associated Press (AP), America Football Coaches Association (AFCA), Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), and Look magazine, and second-team honors from United Press International (UPI).

After his college career, Deiderich was chosen by the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL) in 23rd round, with the 272nd overall pick, of the 1959 NFL Draft.  Instead, however, he chose to sign with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League, and he played two and a half seasons for the Alouettes from  to .  Memorably, he had a 52-yard interception return for a touchdown while playing defense for the Alouettes in 1960.  He finished his CFL pro career with the Ottawa Rough Riders during the second half of the 1961 CFL season.  During his three-season CFL career, Deiderich appeared in 19 regular season games.

Deiderich died in 1999 in Gallatin, Tennessee; he was 63 years old.

See also

 Vanderbilt Commodores
 List of Vanderbilt University people

References

1936 births
1999 deaths
All-American college football players
American football guards
Montreal Alouettes players
Ottawa Rough Riders players
Sportspeople from Franklin, Tennessee
Vanderbilt Commodores football players


title: Field hockey at the 2014 Asian Games

text:
Field hockey at the 2014 Asian Games was held in Incheon, South Korea from 20 September to 2 October 2014.

The winners of the tournament qualified as Asian representatives to the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Medal summary

Medal table

Medalists

Qualification
Top 6 Asian teams, South Korea, India, Pakistan, Japan, China and Malaysia could enter the men's competition directly. For the next six spots a qualification tournament was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 15 to 23 March 2014.

Women's qualification tournament was held in Bangkok, Thailand from 15 to 23 February 2014. All four teams qualified for the Asian Games but later Chinese Taipei withdrew from both tournaments, Iran also pulled out from the men's competition.

Men

Women

Draw
The teams were distributed according to their position at the FIH World Rankings using the serpentine system for their distribution.

Men

Pool A
 (8)
 (13)
 (14)
 (30)
 (36)

Pool B
 (9)
 (11)
 (22)
 (27)
 (40)

Women

Pool A
 (5)
 (13)
 (21)
 (53)

Pool B
 (9)
 (10)
 (33)
 (40)

Final standing

Men

Women

References

2014 Asian Games events
2014
Asian Games
2014 Asian Games


title: One and a Half Summer

text:
One and a Half Summer () is a 2014 Chinese television series produced by Beijing Shiji Lecheng Media. Starring an ensemble cast from South Korea, Taiwan, and China, the series premiered on Dragon TV on 23 June 2014.

Synopsis
"One and a Half Summer" tells the story of a young man named Zhang Hao (Nichkhun) searching for the love of his life that he met in Santorini during a vacation to Greece. Believing that he was destined to be with this mysterious woman, he went all the way to China from New York City just to find this mystery girl named Luo Man. However when Zhang Hao goes to Nanyang University, he found out that the "Luo Man" (Xu Lu) he was searching for was perhaps another woman whom he never knew before.

At Nanyang University, Zhang Hao meets and befriends Luo Man's band-mate Li Xiuqi (Jiang Jinfu), Ma Juncai, Wen Tingting, and Wang Minqiang. He also finds out that the mystery woman he has searching for is Shu Qing (Yu Wenwen), who was already engaged at the time. Zhang Hao was deeply saddened after being  rejected by Shu Qing, but nevertheless learned to move on as time passed by.

Through their encounters, Zhang Hao and Luo Man fell in love. This causes tension between Zhang Hao and Li Xiuqi, Luo Man's childhood friend and secret admirer occurs. Zhang Hao decides to give way for Li Xiuqi, but soon realizes that he could not hide his feelings. Just as Zhang Hao was about to confess his love for Luo Man, his mom called him to go back to New York.

After their final band performance, Zhang Hao revealed that he was leaving. Luo Man, upon hearing this, was especially hurt. One year later, a gathering was held at Santorini where everyone except Luo Man attended. It was told that Luo Man traveled across various countries, leaving her school friends behind. While Zhang Hao was talking to Li Xiuqi, he coincidentally sees Luo Man walking at the beach front.

The final question is: who will Luo Man choose in the end?

Cast
 Nichkhun as Zhang Hao (voiced by MICHAÉL)An international college junior who came to China from New York to find Shu Qing, the woman he believed is destined for him at a vacation in Greece. He is very cheerful and friendly, and a food-lover. He became friends with many dormers including Luo Man, who begins to develop unusual feelings towards him.
 Xu Lu as Luo ManA philosophy junior. Her father is a professor at her college, and she tries to help him by forming a band to save his flailing teaching career. Along the way, she meets the charming Zhang Hao. Despite their unfortunate band encounter, she starts to fall in love with Zhang Hao.
 Jiang Jinfu as Li XiuqiA junior law student who also serves as the student council president. Seen as the "perfect guy", he is considerate, helpful, principled and gets along with everyone. He is Luo Man's childhood friend who is also in love with her.
 Kelly Yu as Shu QingA junior cello student who trips the heart of Zhang Hao on her trip in Santorini. She is glamorous, aloof, and taciturn. She loves Zhang Hao, but decides to reject him to be with Tang Bowen, whom her parents want. Under the auspices of the seriousness of her father's expectations, she begins playing the cello although she longs to play rock. For this reason, she secretly performs rock music at different bars and gigs.
 Wei Daxun as Ma JuncaiAn economic management junior who repeatedly claim to be a very sensitive Pisces. He is aggressive, loquacious, and romantic. He loves to catch the eyes of the women by using his photoshopped images on social networking pages, but nevertheless gets rejected every time he meets them in real life. A bar incident where Wen Tingting defended him against his date rejecting him led them to become couples.
 Gao Longke as Wen TingtingA philosophy junior. She is a good singer who grew up in a wealthy environment. She loves to dress up because she believes that is the best way to capture a man's heart. She initially felt in love with Li Xiuqi and tried to do everything for him, but ended up with Ma Juncai after getting out of her unrequited love towards Xiuqi.
 Meng Jia as Song QingAn accounting junior, she is very thrifty and hard working. She easily gets mad when someone destroys the silence of the atmosphere because she cannot focus on her studies.
 Li Chang as Wang MinqiangA computer science junior, he is a very silent person who likes playing video games. He does not like to bathe and change clothes, causing people to distance from him. He is the only person from his hometown to enter college.
 He Yanxi as Fan BingbingA junior student who loves to eat. Her goal is to find a man that will accept her for who she is. One year after Zhang Hao left China, she ostensibly ends up with Wang Minqiang.
 Nick Chou as Tang BowenA director and CEO of a company. He is very serious but also romantic. He is the fiancé of Shu Qing and desperately does everything to please her no matter what it takes.
 Zhu Dan as Ding LingAn owner of a bar named M Pub Project, who an elegant and meticulous. She remains to be single at age 32 until she meets Luo Haibin whom she crazily fell in love with. Despite their differences, they eventually became a couple.
 Zhou Xiaoou as Luo HaibinA music teacher, who is  a former singing idol. He is dedicated to giving Luo Man a good life because he failed to give her and her mother an epicurean life when Luo Man's mother was still alive. He accidentally met Ding Ling in an unfortunate situation, which eventually led them to becoming a couple.

Soundtrack

International broadcast
It aired in Thailand on True4U from April 20, to August 10, 2015.

References

External links
  One and a Half Summer on Sina.com

Chinese romance television series
2014 Chinese television series debuts
2014 Chinese television series endings
Television series set in the 2010s
Television shows set in Greece
Television shows set in China
Dragon Television original programming
2010s college television series


title: List of songs recorded by Fall Out Boy

text:
Fall Out Boy is an American pop punk band from Wilmette, Illinois. Formed in 2001, the band is composed of vocalist and guitarist Patrick Stump, bassist Pete Wentz, guitarist Joe Trohman and drummer Andy Hurley. The group's songwriting is typically led by Wentz (lyrics) and Stump (lyrics/singing), although both Trohman and Hurley are also co-credited for the band's compositions. After a number of extended plays (EPs) and a mini album, the band released its debut full-length album Take This to Your Grave in May 2003. In the same year, the band released a cover of Jawbreaker's "Save Your Generation", as well as the Christmas-themed "Yule Shoot Your Eye Out".

In 2004 the band released three new songs on the EP My Heart Will Always Be the B-Side to My Tongue, which was followed in 2005 by second album From Under the Cork Tree. Infinity on High was released in 2007, when the band also collaborated with Timbaland on "One and Only". The following year they released a cover of Michael Jackson's "Beat It" featuring John Mayer, as well as their fourth album Folie à Deux. In 2009, Fall Out Boy went on hiatus and released the compilation album Believers Never Die.

Fall Out Boy returned in 2013 with Save Rock and Roll, which featured a range of guest contributors including Courtney Love and Elton John. Later in the year they also released PAX AM Days, a short EP influenced by the band's hardcore punk background. In 2014 the band contributed the single "Immortals" to the Big Hero 6 soundtrack, which was later featured on their sixth studio album American Beauty/American Psycho. In 2016, the group recorded a cover of the Ghostbusters theme song with Missy Elliott for the film of the same name. In 2018, the band released their 7th album, MANIA, which was their last album until 2023, when they released their 8th studio album, So Much (for) Stardust.

Songs

Footnotes

References

External links
List of Fall Out Boy songs at AllMusic
Fall Out Boy official website

Songs

Fall Out Boy