title: Frances Ames

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Frances Rix Ames (; 20 April 1920 – 11 November 2002) was a South African neurologist, psychiatrist, and human rights activist, best known for leading the medical ethics inquiry into the death of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, who died from medical neglect after being tortured in police custody. When the South African Medical and Dental Council (SAMDC) declined to discipline the chief district surgeon and his assistant who treated Biko, Ames and a group of five academics and physicians raised funds and fought an eight-year legal battle against the medical establishment. Ames risked her personal safety and academic career in her pursuit of justice, taking the dispute to the South African Supreme Court, where she eventually won the case in 1985.

Born in Pretoria and raised in poverty in Cape Town, Ames became the first woman to receive a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Cape Town in 1964. Ames studied the effects of cannabis on the brain and published several articles on the subject. Seeing the therapeutic benefits of cannabis on patients in her own hospital, she became an early proponent of legalization for medicinal use. She headed the neurology department at Groote Schuur Hospital before retiring in 1985, but continued to lecture at Valkenberg and Alexandra Hospital. After apartheid was dismantled in 1994, Ames testified at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission about her work on the "Biko doctors" medical ethics inquiry. In 1999, Nelson Mandela awarded Ames the Star of South Africa, the country's highest civilian award, in recognition of her work on behalf of human rights.

Early life
Ames was born at Voortrekkerhoogte in Pretoria, South Africa, on 20 April 1920, to Frank and Georgina Ames, the second of three daughters. Her mother, who was raised in a Boer concentration camp by Ames' grandmother, a nurse in the Second Boer War, was also a nurse. Ames never knew her father, who abandoned his wife and three daughters.

With her mother unable to care for her family, Ames spent part of her childhood in a Catholic orphanage where she was stricken with typhoid fever. Her mother later rejoined the family and moved them to Cape Town, where Ames attended the Rustenburg School for Girls. She enrolled at the University of Cape Town (UCT) medical school where she received her MBChB degree in 1942.

Medical career

In Cape Town, Ames interned at Groote Schuur Hospital; she also worked in the Transkei region as a general practitioner. She earned her MD degree in 1964 from UCT, the first woman to do so. Ames became head of the neurology department at Groote Schuur Hospital in 1976. She was made an associate professor in 1978. Ames retired in 1985, but continued to work part-time at both Valkenberg and Alexandra Hospital as a lecturer in the UCT Psychiatry and Mental Health departments. In 1997, UCT made Ames an associate professor emeritus of neurology; she received an honorary doctorate in medicine from UCT in 2001. According to Pat Sidley of the British Medical Journal, Ames "was never made a full professor, and believed that this was because she was a woman."

Biko affair
South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, who had formerly studied medicine at the University of Natal Medical School, was detained by Port Elizabeth security police on 18 August 1977 and held for 20 days. Sometime between 6 and 7 September, Biko was beaten and tortured into a coma. According to allegations by Ames and others, surgeon Ivor Lang, along with chief district surgeon Benjamin Tucker, collaborated with the police and covered up the abuse, leading to Biko's death from his injuries on 12 September. According to Benatar & Benatar 2012, "there were clear ethical breaches on the part of the doctors who were responsible" for Biko.

When the South African Medical and Dental Council (SAMDC) along with the support of the Medical Association of South Africa (MASA), declined to discipline the district surgeons in Biko's death, two groups of physicians filed separate formal complaints with the SAMDC regarding the lack of professionalism shown by Biko's doctors. Both cases made their way to the South African Supreme Court in an attempt to force the SAMDC to conduct a formal inquiry into the medical ethics of Lang and Tucker. One case was filed by Ames, along with Trefor Jenkins and Phillip Tobias of the University of the Witwatersrand; a second case was filed by Dumisani Mzamane, Yosuf Veriava of Coronationville Hospital, and Tim Wilson of Alexandra Health Centre.

As Ames and the small group of physicians pursued an inquiry into members of their own profession, Ames was called a whistleblower. Her position at the university was threatened by her superiors and her colleagues asked her to drop the case. By pursuing the case against the Biko doctors, Ames received personal threats and risked her safety. Baldwin-Ragaven et al. note that the medical association "closed ranks in support of colleagues who colluded with the security police in the torture and death of detainees [and] also attempted to silence and discredit those doctors who stood up for human rights and who demanded disciplinary action against their colleagues."

After eight years, Ames won the case in 1985 when the South African Supreme Court ruled in her favor. With Ames' help, the case forced the medical regulatory body to reverse their decision. The two doctors who treated Biko were finally disciplined and major medical reforms followed. According to Benatar & Benatar 2012, the case "played an important role in sensitising the medical profession to medical ethical issues in South Africa."

Cannabis research
Ames studied the effects of cannabis in 1958, publishing her work in The British Journal of Psychiatry as "A clinical and metabolic study of acute intoxication with Cannabis sativa and its role in the model psychoses". Her work is cited extensively throughout the cannabis literature. She opposed the War on Drugs and was a proponent of the therapeutic benefits of cannabis, particularly for people with multiple sclerosis (MS).

Ames observed first-hand how cannabis (known as dagga in South Africa) relieved spasm in MS patients and helped paraplegics in the spinal injuries ward of her hospital. She continued to study the effects of cannabis in the 1990s, publishing several articles about cannabis-induced euphoria and the effects of cannabis on the brain.

Personal life
Ames was married to editorial writer David Castle of the Cape Times and they had four sons. She was 47 years old when her husband died unexpectedly in 1967. After her husband's death, Ames's housekeeper Rosalina helped raise the family. Ames wrote about the experience in her memoir, Mothering in an Apartheid Society (2002).

Death
Ames struggled with leukemia for some time. Before her death, she told an interviewer, "I shall go on until I drop." She continued to work for UCT as a part-time lecturer at Valkenberg Hospital until six weeks before she died at home in Rondebosch on 11 November 2002. Representing UCT's psychiatry department, Greg McCarthy gave the eulogy at the funeral. Ames was cremated, and according to her wishes, her ashes were combined with hemp seed and dispersed outside of Valkenberg Hospital where her memorial service was held.

Legacy

South African neurosurgeon Colin Froman referred to Ames as the "great and unorthodox protagonist for the medical use of marijuana many years before the current interest in its use as a therapeutic drug". J. P. van Niekerk of the South African Medical Journal notes that "Frances Ames led by conviction and example" and history eventually justified her action in the Biko affair.

Ames's work on the Biko affair led to major medical reforms in South Africa, including the disbanding and replacement of the old apartheid-era medical organisations which failed to uphold the medical standards of the profession. According to van Niekerk, "the most enduring lesson for South African medicine was the clarification of the roles of medical practitioners when there is a question of dual responsibilities. This is now embodied inter alia in the SAMA Code of Conduct and in legal interpretations of doctors' responsibilities".

Ames testified during the medical hearings at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1997. Archbishop Desmond Tutu honored Ames as "one of the handful of doctors who stood up to the apartheid regime and brought to book those doctors who had colluded with human rights abuse." In acknowledgement of her work on behalf of human rights in South Africa, Nelson Mandela awarded Ames the Order of the Star of South Africa in 1999, the highest civilian award in the country.

Selected publications
Mothering in an Apartheid Society (2002)

References

Further reading

Hoffenberg, Raymond (May 1994). Doctors and society – the Biko lecture. South African Medical Journal, 84: 245–249.
McLean, G.R.; Trefor Jenkins (2003). The Steve Biko Affair: A Case Study in Medical Ethics. Developing World Bioethics, 3 (1): 77–95.
Taitz, Jerold (May 1986). Medical Mores, Judicial Review and the Last Days of Steve Biko. The Modern Law Review 49 (3): 374–381.
Veriava, F. (2004) Ought the Notion of ‘Informed Consent’ to be Cast in Stone? Vrm v The Health Professions Council of South Africa. South African Journal on Human Rights, 20 (2): 309–320.

1920 births
2002 deaths
Alumni of Rustenburg School for Girls
White South African anti-apartheid activists
Cannabis researchers
Scientists from Cape Town
Scientists from Pretoria
South African human rights activists
South African neurologists
South African women neuroscientists
South African whistleblowers
Steve Biko affair
People who testified at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa)
University of Cape Town alumni


title: Alberta Human Rights Commission

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The Alberta Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is a quasi-judicial human rights body in Alberta, Canada, created by the provincial government.

The Commission was established under and tasked with administering the Alberta Human Rights Act (AHRA). Its mandate is to reduce discrimination in Alberta "through the resolution and settlement of complaints of discrimination, and through human rights tribunal and court hearings." In relation to complaint resolution and settlement, the primary purpose of the tribunals is adjudicative.

It is headed by the Chief of the Commission and Tribunals, who is tasked with informing Alberta's Minister of Justice of human rights issues, as well as providing guidance to Commission members regarding such functions as their tribunal hearings, and to the Commission director regarding the overall objective of the Commission. Both the Chief and Commission members are appointed by Order in Council.

The AHRC differs from the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC), which deals with complaints relating to treatment by the federal government or a federally-regulated business.

Organization
The functions of the Commission are laid out in the Alberta Human Rights Act. In particular, section 16(1) states that the function of the Commission is:(a) to forward the principle that all persons are equal in dignity, rights and responsibilities without regard to race, religious beliefs, colour, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical disability, mental disability, age, ancestry, place of origin, marital status, source of income, family status or sexual orientation,

(b) to promote awareness and appreciation of and respect for the multicultural heritage of Alberta society,

(c) to promote an environment in which all Albertans can participate in and contribute to the cultural, social, economic and political life of Alberta,

(d) to encourage all sectors of Alberta society to provide equality of opportunity,

(e) to research, develop and conduct educational programs designed to eliminate discriminatory practices related to race, religious beliefs, colour, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical disability, mental disability, age, ancestry, place of origin, marital status, source of income, family status or sexual orientation,

(f) to promote an understanding of, acceptance of an compliance with this Act,

(g) to encourage and coordinate both public and private human rights programs and activities, and

(h) to advise the Minister on matters related to this Act.

Members and leadership
The Commission is headed by the Chief of the Commission and Tribunals, who is tasked with informing Alberta's Minister of Justice of human rights issues, as well as providing guidance to Members of the Commission regarding such functions as their tribunal hearings, and to the Director of the Commission regarding the overall objective of the Commission. Section 15 of the Alberta Human Rights Act provides that the Chief and members of the Commission are appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.

The current Chief of the Commission and Tribunals is Kathryn Oviatt, who was appointed in November 2022. Prior to October 2009, the position was simply referred to as the Chief Commissioner. Previous chiefs include:

 Dr. Evaristus A. Oshionebo – September 2022 – November 2022
 Collin May – July 2022 – September 2022
 Kathryn Oviatt – January 2022 – July 2022
 Michael Gottheil – August 2018 – January 2022
 William D. McFetridge (acting) – August 2017 – August 2018
 Robert A. Philp – July 1, 2014 – June 30, 2017
 David Blair Mason – 2009–2014
 Brenda F. Scragg (acting) – 2008–2009
 Charlach Mackintosh – 1994–2008
 Jack O'Neil – 1993–1994
 Fil B. Fraser – 1989–1992
 Stan Scudder – 1986–1989
 Marlene Antonio – 1981–1986
 Bob Lundrigan – 1979–1981
 Max Wyman – 1973–1979

, Members of the Commission are:

 Nduka Ahanonu
 Sandra Badejo
 Faraz Bawa
 Doris Bonora, K.C.
 Cynthia Dickins
 Jessica Gill
 Teresa Haykowsky
 Duncan Marsden
 Ali Memon
 D. Jean Munn, K.C.
 Evaristus Oshionebo
 Erika Ringseis
 Karen Scott
 Wilma Shim
 Salimah Walji-Shivji, K.C.
 Nathalie Whyte

Indigenous Advisory Circle
The Alberta Human Rights Commission established an Indigenous Advisory Circle in August 2021 to assist the Commission with the implementation of its Indigenous Human Rights Strategy. The Circle provides advice and guidance on best practices, community engagement, and priority actions.

The Circle is composed of 12 Indigenous individuals from across the province. Members are chosen through an open competition process. In selecting Circle members, the Commission strives to include people with diverse experience and expertise (including women, 2SLGBTQ+ individuals, and persons with disabilities) from multiple cultural backgrounds. The Commission also strives to ensure the Circle includes both urban and rural perspectives.

Tribunal
The quasi-judicial Tribunal office is the independent adjudicative arm of the Alberta Human Rights Commission. Members of the Commission (who serve on human rights tribunals) are neither employees of the Government of Alberta or the Commission; they are private citizens appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.

Controversial decisions

Mihaly v The Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta
Since 1999, Ladislav Mihaly, who trained as an engineer in Czechoslovakia in the 1970s, has sought accreditation as an engineer in Alberta, but the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA) said that he did not meet its requirements. He refused to submit to any of the technical examinations but did take a required ethics examination—and failed it, twice. Almost a quarter of Alberta's engineers are immigrants who submitted to the same examinations that Mihaly refused or failed. In 2008, he took his case to the Alberta Human Rights Commission, which ruled in February 2014 that APEGA must pay Mihaly $10,000, provide him with a personal mentor and form a committee to re-evaluate his credentials. APEGA successfully appealed the decision.

Lund v Boissoin

On July 18, 2002, Dr. Darren Lund, a professor at the University of Calgary, filed a complaint with the Alberta Human Rights Commission against Reverend Stephen Boissoin and the Concerned Christian Coalition.

Boisson had letter published in the Red Deer Advocate that stated, "Where homosexuality flourishes, all manner of wickedness abounds" and "Homosexual rights activists and those that defend them, are just as immoral as the pedophiles, drug dealers and pimps that plague our communities." Lund's complaint alleged that Boisson's letter constituted discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, as prohibited by Alberta's Human Rights, Citizenship and Multiculturalism Act.

A one-member Alberta Human Rights Panel accepted Lund's arguments that the letter was "likely to expose homosexuals to hatred and/or contempt." The Canadian Civil Liberties Association intervened in the case, condemning the views expressed in the letter but arguing they should not be subject to legal sanction.

On May 30, 2008, the Alberta Human Rights Panel ordered Boissoin and the Concerned Christian Coalition to refrain from publishing future disparaging remarks about homosexuals and provide Lund with a written apology and in $5,000 damages.

On December 3, 2009, the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta overturned the decision of the Alberta Human Rights Panel. The Court found that the contents of the letter did not violate the Alberta Human Rights Act, and that the remedies that had been imposed were either unlawful or unconstitutional. The Court also identified "troubling aspects of the process leading to the decision of the Panel," including the inclusion of the Concerned Christian Coalition as a respondent. In October 2012, the Court of Appeal of Alberta upheld the decision and agreed with the lower court that Boissoin's letter was "a polemic on a matter of public interest and does not qualify as reaching the extreme limits... to expose persons to hatred or contempt," within the meaning of the Alberta Human Rights Act.

See also

 List of Canadian tribunals

Federal
Canadian Human Rights Commission
Canadian Human Rights Tribunal
BC

British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal
British Columbia Human Rights Code

Ontario
Ontario Human Rights Commission
Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario
Quebec

 Quebec Human Rights Commission
 Human Rights Tribunal of Quebec

Other

 Manitoba Human Rights Commission
 Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission
 Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission

References

External links
Alberta Human Rights Commission
Tribunal decisions released after January 1, 2000 — via CanLII

Alberta law
Human Rights Commission
Human rights organizations based in Canada


title: Too Good to Be Forgotten

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Too Good To Be Forgotten: Changing America in the '60s and '70s is a 1998 memoir by David Obst, published by John Wiley & Sons.

It is Obst's account of the 1960s and the 1970s. Book segments include Obst's childhood, his studies and travels, and his interactions with historically significant political figures during the subject decades.

The start of each chapter includes the list of the subject year's popular films, television, and record albums. Alex Kyczynski of The New York Times argued that the inclusion of the lists was a "waste" of space.

Reception
Jamie Stiehm of The Baltimore Sun wrote that the book "succeeds in his mission of breathing life into a series of snapshots of his youth and capturing the tempo of the times".

Kyczynski wrote that the book had "painfully didactic prose" and that it was "a pretty lackluster tribute to the baby boomer generation."

References

American memoirs
1998 non-fiction books


title: Hareem Farooq

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Hareem Farooq (; born 26 May 1992) is a Pakistani theatre, film, and television actress and film producer, known for her work in the serial Diyar-e-Dil and Pawnay 14 August. She co-produced Janaan followed by her 2018 film Parchi. She is the first female celebrity to get the honor of hosting Pakistan Super League in the same year (2018).

Early life
Hareem Farooq was born on May 26, 1992, in Islamabad and spent most of her time in that city before she moved with her family to Karachi. Her parents are both doctors, her father being a public health PhD and international consultant while her mother is a dermatologist. The actress received early education from Karachi Grammar School. She did her bachelor's degree in Sociology and Journalism from Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, after which she began her career in acting.

Singer Abdullah Qureshi is her cousin.

Career
Farooq began her career in 2012 in theatre playing the leading role of Fatima Jinnah in Pawnay 14 August and Jahan Ara Begum in Aangan Terha which originally played by Bushra Ansari. The following year, she made her big screen debut with a leading role in the 2013 horror thriller film Siyaah. Farooq made her television debut with Mausam alongside Ahsan Khan and Yumna Zaidi in 2014. Her roles in romances Dusri Biwi and Mere Humdum Mere Dost brought little recognition to her. Her portrayal of a young-to-old family devoted lady in ensemble family drama Diyar-e-Dil proved to be a major breakthrough for her. She was then starred in Sanam as a victim of bipolar disorder alongside Osman Khalid Butt and Maya Ali. In the same year, she played the lead role in the film Dobara Phir Se and was a co-producer of the feature film Janaan where she also appeared in a cameo role. She appeared in the comedy flick Parchi as the lead role in which she played the character of a female don, with co-stars Ali Rehman Khan, Ahmed Ali Akbar and Usman Mukhtar in lead roles.

In addition to a successful and growing acting career, in 2015, Farooq ventred into productions, by joining her childhood best friend and producer of her debut film, Imran Raza Kazmi as a partner in IRK Films and went on to produce Janaan with him, followed by her 2018 blockbuster Parchi.

In the year 2018, she also went into forming a global entertainment company, IHA Entertainment with Arif Lakhani and Imran Raza Kazmi, which soon entered into an agreement with top entertainment in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), as the first distribution firm.

Hareem is also the first female celebrity to get the honor of hosting The Pakistan Super League in February 2018, where she hosted the 3rd PSL opening ceremony in Dubai.

She has also signed on to become the official Spokesperson for Loreal Professional, Pakistan in 2017.

Filmography

Films

Television

Accolades

References

External links

Actresses from Islamabad
Quaid-i-Azam University alumni
21st-century Pakistani actresses
Living people
Pakistani film actresses
Pakistani television actresses
Pakistani film producers
Actresses in Urdu cinema
1992 births
Karachi Grammar School alumni


title: Emanuel Trípodi

text:
Emanuel Trípodi (born January 8, 1981), is an Argentine football goalkeeper.

Club career
Trípodi made his professional debut for Unión, then he was transferred to CAI where he lived an unusual fact: he scored a goal. after this, in 2009 he joined Quilmes, he managed to get promoted two times with Quilmes. in 2013 he joined Boca Juniors.

References

External links

1981 births
Men's association football goalkeepers
Argentine men's footballers
Quilmes Atlético Club footballers
Boca Juniors footballers
Club Atlético Sarmiento footballers
Argentinos Juniors footballers
Chacarita Juniors footballers
Club Agropecuario Argentino players
Argentine Primera División players
Living people
People from Comodoro Rivadavia
Footballers from Chubut Province


title: Clarissa Sligh

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Clarissa T. Sligh (born 1939) is an African-American book artist and photographer based in Asheville, North Carolina. At age 15, she was the lead plaintiff in a school desegregation case in Virginia. In 1988, she became a co-founder of Coast-to-Coast: A Women of Color National Artists' Project, which focused on promoting works completed by women of color.

Early life and education
Sligh was born in Washington, D.C. She grew up in a large working-class family and "went to segregated schools in a predominantly white Virginia county." In 1955, at the age of 15, she was the lead plaintiff in a school desegregation case in Virginia (Thompson v County School Board of Arlington County).

Sligh attended the traditionally African-American Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virginia, where she earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1961. In 1972, she received a bachelor's degree in Visual Arts from Howard University in Washington DC, and in 1973, an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1999, she received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Visual Arts from Howard University.

Career
Before working as an artist, Sligh had a job at NASA where she worked in the crewed space flight program. In 1987, Sligh was able to leave her day job to focus on working as an artist.

Her work has been exhibited at the Jewish Museum in New York City, and at  the National African American Museum Project, at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, the forerunner to the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Her work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota,

Field of work
Sligh considers herself foremost a storyteller. Her photographs and artist books center on politics, family life, questions of identity, and personal experience. Her work also engages more broadly in creative explorations of history, social justice, and transformation. In her work, Sligh combines photographs and other images with text; as she added more text, she moved from creating prints to book works.

According to Carla Williams, Sligh's work reflects on our perceptions of normality and our roles in different frameworks such as family, society, gender and ethnic groups. As Williams says, "In school readers from her childhood, Sligh discovered the model from which to confront the realities of her own life." Sligh has created books reflecting directly on her experience as the lead plaintiff in a 1955 Virginia school desegregation case (Thompson v County School Board of Arlington County): an essay, The Plaintiff Speaks (2004), and an artist book, It Wasn’t Little Rock (2004 and 2005).

Sligh has also created artist books that engage with her own experiences as a Black child reading books, including Reading Dick & Jane with Me (1989), a narrative about learning to read as a Black child, and My Mother, Walt Whitman and Me (2019), focusing on a copy of Leaves of Grass that her mother found in the trash and brought home.

Coast-to-Coast National Women Artists of Color Projects
In 1988, Sligh co-founded the Coast-to-Coast National Women Artists of Color Project with Faith Ringgold and Margaret Gallegos. From 1988 to 1996, this organization exhibited the works of African American women across the United States.

According to this source, Sligh also worked with other organizations that display art made by African American females. The organizations included the National Women's Caucus for Art (1985-1994), The Artist Federal Credit Union, New York (1986-1987), Printed Matter (1992-1996), and the artists advisory board of the Womens Studio Workshop (2004-2007).

In 1990, Sligh was one of three organizers of the exhibit "Coast to Coast: A Women of Color National Artists' Book Project" held January 14 – February 2, 1990, at the Flossie Martin Gallery, and later at the Eubie Blake Center and the Artemesia Gallery. Faith Ringgold wrote the catalog introduction titled "History of Coast to Coast." More than 100 Women of Color artists were included. The catalog included brief artist statements and photos of the artists' books, including works by: Emma Amos (painter), Beverly Buchanan, Elizabeth Catlett, Dolores Cruz, Dorothy Holden, Martha Jackson Jarvis, Young-Im Kim, Viola Leak, Howardena Pindell, Faith Ringgold, Adrian Piper, Joyce J. Scott, Freida High Tesfagiorgis, Denise Ward-Brown, Bisa Washington, and Deborah Willis.

Awards
 1988: Women's Studio Workshop, Artist in Residence, Book Arts
 1998: National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts grant
 2004: Women's Studio Workshop, Artist in Residence, Book Arts
 2006: Leeway Foundation's Art and Change Grant

Works and publications
What's Happening With Momma?, Women's Studio Workshop Press, 1988
Reading Dick and Jane with Me, Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1989
Voyage(r): A Tourist Map to Japan, Nexus Press, 2000
Wrongly Bodied Two, Women's Studio Workshop Press, 2004
It Wasn't Little Rock, Visual Studies Workshop Press, 2005
Wrongly Bodied: Documenting Transition from Female to Male, self-published with the Leeway Foundation, 2009
''Transforming Hate: An Artist's Book, 2016

References

External links
Guide to the Clarissa Sligh Papers
Clarissa Sligh on the African American Visual Artists Database

Living people
1939 births
African-American photographers
American photographers
African-American writers
American writers
American women writers
Hampton University alumni
Howard University alumni
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni
Book artists
Women book artists
21st-century African-American people
21st-century African-American women
20th-century African-American people
20th-century African-American women
African-American women writers


title: Fiji International

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The Fiji International was a men's golf tournament in Fiji, originally sanctioned by the PGA Tour of Australasia. The event was Fiji's first internationally broadcast golf tournament to a worldwide audience across more than 30 countries in over 400 million homes, a first for a single sporting event in Fiji.

The inaugural tournament was held from 14–17 August 2014 at Natadola Bay Championship Golf Course. It was a tier one event on the PGA Tour of Australasia and was co-sanctioned with OneAsia. The purse for the event was US$1,000,000. The 2015 event was played in October with a A$1,125,000 purse and was again co-sanctioned by OneAsia.

Beginning in 2016, the event was co-sanctioned with the European Tour. From 2017 it was also co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour. Prize money was A$1,500,000 in 2016 and 2017 and A$1,250,000 in 2018.

Winners

Notes

References

External links
Official site
Coverage on the PGA Tour of Australasia's official site
Coverage on the Asian Tour's official site
Coverage on the European Tour's official site

Former PGA Tour of Australasia events
Former European Tour events
Former Asian Tour events
Golf tournaments in Fiji
Recurring sporting events established in 2014
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2018
2014 establishments in Fiji
2018 disestablishments in Fiji


title: Urs Glutz von Blotzheim

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Urs Glutz von Blotzheim (20 October 1751, Büsserach – 8 December 1816) was a Swiss military officer and politician.

Urs Glutz von Blotzheim was the son of the military officer Jacob Joseph Nicholas from the patrician class of the city of Solothurn, belonging to the noble family of Glutz von Blotzheim, and Anna Margaritha Josepha, born Wallier von Wendelstorf. From 1762 to 1769 he went to the Jesuit college in Solothurn, the predecessor of today's Kantonsschule Solothurn. In 1770 he was commissioned into the Swiss regiment Sury of the Kingdom of Sardinia. He was a member of St. Ursensift, an organization of Catholic laity.

In 1798 he was a member of the provisional government of Solothurn. He then was a member of Solothurn's Education Council from 1800 to 1801, a member of the Administrative Chamber from 1801 to 1803, and a provisional Senator from 1801 to 1802, serving on the Kleinrat and as Head of the Department of the Interior. From 1896 to 1815 he was the treasurer (Seckelmeister) of the town of Solothurn. In 1814 he became a member of the Altrat  and from 1814 to 1816 served as treasurer for the provisional government.

1783 he married Magdalena von Sury, daughter of Altrat member Robert Georg. His sons were the writer and journalist Robert Glutz von Blotzheim and the priest Josef Konrad Glutz von Blotzheim.

References

1751 births
1816 deaths
People from Thierstein District
Swiss Roman Catholics
Swiss politicians
Swiss mercenaries


title: Charter School for Applied Technologies

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Charter School for Applied Technologies (CSAT) is a charter school located in Buffalo, New York.

Charter School for Applied Technologies was founded in 2001 as a K–6 school serving about 700 students. It has since then expanded into a K–12 school with three different campuses. It is the largest charter school in New York State. It is also one of the only charter schools in New York State to offer a K–12 education.

There are three different buildings for the elementary school (K–5), middle school (6–8) and the high school (9–12). All three are located in Buffalo, New York, 14207 (except the middle school, which is in zip code 14214).

The elementary school, Charter School for Applied Technologies Elementary School, opened in 2001. It is the main building and is located at 2303 Kenmore Ave.
The middle school, Charter Middle School for Applied Technologies Middle School, in the former (until 2013) Holy Angels Academy, is located at 24 Shoshone St. The 2014–2015 school year was the first year of CSAT being occupied in the former Holy Angels Academy building.
The high school, Charter School for Applied Technologies High School, is located at 2245 Kenmore Ave.
Charter School for Applied Technology has an enrollment of about 2367 students from over 18 local school districts in Erie and Niagara County.  Approximately 80% of students reside in the city of Buffalo.
CSAT's mission is to prepare students to attain family-sustaining careers by integrating career exploration and a lifelong learning culture.

References

External links

Charter schools in New York (state)
2001 establishments in New York (state)


title: Kidskin

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Kidskin or kid leather is a type of soft, thin leather that is traditionally used for gloves (hence the phrase 'kid gloves,' used since at least 1888 as a metaphor for careful handling). It is widely used for other fashion purposes such as footwear and clothing. Kidskin is traditionally made from goatskin - more specifically, the skin of young goats (or 'kids'), although equivalent leathers such as lambskin and chickenskin (actually a form of calfskin) give the same effect.

Usage
Kid leather is, and has been used for a number of purposes other than gloves and footwear. Early flexible hair rollers were sometimes made from kidskin, giving a very tight curl.

Papermaking
While vellum is often made using calfskin, kidskin can also be used and in some cases, was preferred. David Laurent de Lara, describing himself as illuminating artist to Queen Victoria, favoured Italian kid vellum for his work.

A form of early medieval parchment, called carta lustra, acting as tracing paper was made using kidskin.

Dolls
Kid was particularly widely used in doll-making during the nineteenth and early twentieth century as a popular material for both French and German doll bodies, particularly fashion dolls.

Musical instruments
Kid-leather is often used in the construction of musical instruments such as the bag of the tsampouna, a form of Greek bagpipes. It was also an option for drumheads such as those on tambourines, and specifically, on the Bulgarian daire.

Industrial uses
The Dalén light, used in lighthouses, uses a paraffin-wax saturated kidskin diaphragm in its construction.

Types

In 1916 it was noted that there were over sixty types of goatskin, distinguished by the tanning and finishing processes used. Some of these types are:

 Bronze kid - Cochineal-dyed for a bronzed finish.
 Cadet kid
 Cheveril - A very flexible kid leather used in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
 Diphera - Mid-19th century type of fine kid used for bonnets.
 Dongola - Skin from the sheep, kangaroo or goat.
 French kid - A high quality kidskin.
 Glacé (or glazed) kid - Extremely glossy, shiny finish, often made in more readily available sheepskin, although true kidskin makes better quality glacé kid.
 Gold (or silver) kid - Kidskin gilded for a metallic finish.
 Kangaroo kid - Kidskin finished to emulate kangaroo leather.
 Mat kid - Beeswax and olive-oil treated kidskin with a dull, soft matte finish.
 Morocco
 Patent kid - japanned leather.
 Pebbled
 Royal kid
 Suede kid - Kidskin with a suede finish.
 Vici kid - A trademark for high quality chrome-tanned kidskin with a soap and oil finish, developed by Robert H. Foerderer in Philadelphia in the mid-1880s.

References

Leather crafting
Gloves
Hides (skin)


title: Manuel Vicentini

text:
Manuel Vicentini (born August 29, 1990), is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper who plays for Belgrano, on loan from Sarmiento.

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1990 births
Argentine people of Italian descent
Men's association football goalkeepers
Argentine men's footballers
Boca Juniors footballers
Club Atlético Sarmiento footballers
Club Atlético Belgrano footballers
Argentine Primera División players
Primera Nacional players
Living people


title: Bert Officer

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Albert Edward "Bert" Officer (15 November 1899 – 21 December 1957) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda and Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Early life
Officer was born Albert Edward Wood, the son of Minnie Wood, in St Kilda on 15 November 1899. He grew up in the St Kilda area.

War service
Officer enlisted soon after turning 18 and served in Europe during the final months of World War I.

Football
After returning to Australia, Officer played football with Grosvenor before transferring to St Kilda for the 1922 VFL season. He struggled to gain a place in the St Kilda side, playing only six games over his three seasons at the club.

Officer transferred to Hawthorn during the 1924 season and played 12 games in their first VFL season in 1925. He failed to play a senior game after that but was the leading goal-kicker for Hawthorn's reserve team in 1926. Officer transferred to Oakleigh in 1929 when they were admitted to Victorian Football Association.

Later life
Bert Officer married Elizabeth Mary McCormick at St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne in November 1931. The wedding was delayed twice, as they could not afford the costs as he had to have two operations to have shrapnel removed from his legs received during World War I. They had three children together and Bert Officer worked for the Commonwealth Investigation Service in Melbourne, Hobart and Perth.

Albert Officer died suddenly from a heart attack in December 1957 and is buried at Brighton General Cemetery.

References

External links

Bert Officer's playing statistics from The VFA Project

1899 births
1957 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Melbourne
St Kilda Football Club players
Hawthorn Football Club (VFA) players
Hawthorn Football Club players
Oakleigh Football Club players
People from St Kilda, Victoria
Australian military personnel of World War I
Military personnel from Melbourne


title: Brent Key

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Donald Brent Key (born August 1, 1978) is an American college football coach and former player. Key is currently the head football coach at his alma mater, Georgia Tech.

Playing career
Key grew up in Trussville, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama. He attended and played football at Hewitt-Trussville High School. Key played guard at Georgia Tech, starting all four years.

Coaching career
While as an assistant coach at the University of Central Florida (UCF), Key was selected to be the heir apparent to George O'Leary following his retirement. Following the 2013 season in which UCF won the Fiesta Bowl, Key reportedly declined the head coaching job at UAB to remain with the Knights.

Prior to being hired at Georgia Tech, Key was the offensive line coach at the University of Alabama for three seasons. Key was hired at Alabama on February 15, 2016, replacing Mario Cristobal, who remained on staff as tight ends coach.

Before his time at Alabama, Key was the offensive coordinator, assistant head coach, offensive line coach, and recruiting coordinator for the UCF Knights. Key played under George O'Leary at Georgia Tech, where he later served as a graduate assistant before joining O'Leary at UCF. Key served as UCF's recruiting coordinator beginning in 2007, in addition to being UCF's offensive line coach. After the 2012 season, Key was promoted to assistant head coach and then to offensive coordinator following the 2013 season.

Key was named interim head coach for Georgia Tech in 2022, following the firing of  Geoff Collins. He went 4–4 as interim head coach, with his most notable wins being over #24 Pittsburgh and #13 North Carolina. Because of the team’s improvement during his tenure, the interim tag was taken off on November 29 as Key was named Georgia Tech’s 21st head football coach.

Head coaching record

References

External links
 Georgia Tech profile
 UCF profile

1978 births
Living people
American football offensive guards
Alabama Crimson Tide football coaches
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football coaches
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football players
UCF Knights football coaches
Western Carolina Catamounts football coaches
Players of American football from Birmingham, Alabama
Coaches of American football from Alabama


title: Food Chain Workers Alliance

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The Food Chain Workers Alliance (FCWA) is a national coalition of 31 worker-based organizations of workers in many sectors of the food chain, including agriculture, processing, selling, and serving.  Its program areas include strategic campaigns, leadership development, policy and standards, and education and communications.  FCWA members represent over 300,000 workers. The Alliance is based in Los Angeles, California, and was founded in 2009.

History
Prior to 2008, a number of organizations of workers along the food chain had been struggling with ways to integrate their work with the new national interest in food systems, and some had begun talking with each other about possible ways to collaborate with each other.

In January 2008 the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United), thanks to a suggestion from a Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation program officer, organized an initial meeting of several organizations and in May 2008 convened eight organizations at the Labor Notes Conference in Detroit. At this meeting, the groups came together to get to know each other better, to share information on their work, and to talk about the idea of collaborating with each other. These groups included ROC United, the Center for New Community, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, el Comité de Apoyo a los Trabajadores Agrícolas, the International Labor Rights Forum, and the Northwest Arkansas Workers' Justice Center (NWAWJC).  All the groups decided that they did indeed want to work together – the real guiding vision that everybody agreed to at that point was that all of these organizations, with their high-stakes campaign experience, their membership, and their piece of the food chain, coming together would be incredibly strategic to build real power for all the workers along the food chain.

After the Labor Notes conference through quarterly conference calls the organizations continued to share information about their own campaigns and to support each other's campaigns whenever possible.

The groups then decided to hold an in-person retreat to talk more in-depth about what an alliance could do.  Thanks to the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, which raised funds from the Ford Foundation, nine organizations came together in Chicago in July 2009 to officially create the Food Chain Workers Alliance.  In addition to the groups listed above, Just Harvest USA, the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York, and the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1500 also participated. NWAWJC could not attend but afterwards confirmed their membership in the Alliance.

At the meeting the DataCenter shared research that it had conducted on the work and the demographics of the membership of each organization and the possibility of common corporate targets among all the groups. Then the representatives of the nine organizations spent almost two days sharing experiences and talking about their vision for an alliance.  Thus the Food Chain Workers Alliance was born.

Program areas
Food Chain Workers Alliance program areas:
 Worker Leadership and Solidarity
 Movement Building

In June 2012, the FCWA released a comprehensive report on workers in the food system. This report is called "The Hands That Feed Us: Challenges and Opportunities for Workers Along the Food Chain."

The Alliance supports members' organizing campaigns, explores potential coordinated campaigns between various members of the Alliance, and acts in solidarity with other workers' organizations.

Member organizations
 Alliance for Fair Food
 Brandworkers International
 California Institute for Rural Studies
 Cincinnati Interfaith Workers Center
 Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW)
 Comité de Apoyo a los Trabajadores Agrícolas (CATA)
 Community to Community Development (C2C)
 Fair World Project
 Farmworker Association of Florida (FWAF)
 International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF)
 Migrant Justice
 Mississippi Workers' Center for Human Rights
 Northwest Arkansas Workers' Justice Center (NWAWJC)
 OUR Walmart
 Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC-United)
 Rural and Migrant Ministry
 The Street Vendor Project
 UNITE HERE Food Service Division
 UE Research and Education Fund (UEREF)
 United Food and Commercial Workers Local 770 (UFCW Local 770)
 Teamsters Joint Council 7
 Warehouse Workers for Justice
 Warehouse Workers Resource Center

References

External links
FCWA Official site
The Food Chain Workers Alliance. "The Hands That Feed Us: Challenges and Opportunities for Workers Along the Food Chain." June 6, 2012. <http://foodchainworkers.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Hands-That-Feed-Us-Report.pdf>.

Workers' rights organizations based in the United States
Organizations established in 2009
Labor relations in the United States
Non-profit organizations based in Los Angeles
2009 establishments in California


title: Sadie's

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Sadie's is a New Mexican cuisine restaurant chain from the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico. They have three locations in Albuquerque, and they also sell their own New Mexico chile, salsa, jerky, and other New Mexico related products throughout the United States and Canada.

History
Sadie's of New Mexico was founded by Sadie Koury in 1954. Sadie's sister Betty-Jo, who ran the restaurant with Sadie, took up the family business once Sadie retired. Betty-Jo and her husband, Bob Stafford. Billy and Brian, the sons of Betty-Jo and Bob, worked at the 4th Street restaurant.

Food challenge
A food challenge called "the world's largest New Mexican style sopapilla" was shown on Man v. Food, during the season 4 Man v. Food Nation tour. The challenge featured a 9-pound sopapilla filled with red and green New Mexico chile, carne adovada, beef, chicken, and cheese. The challenge was eventually taken off the menu in 2014, because only 11 people have ever been able to complete the challenge, but some professional eaters have been able to accept the challenge since.

Reception
Officialbestof.com named Sadie's "Best New Mexican Restaurant" in 2011. In 2014 they won Scovie Awards' "Best Red Chile", and they got second place for "Green Chile" and "Mild" salsa.

References

External links

Restaurants established in 1954
Restaurant chains in the United States
Restaurants in Albuquerque, New Mexico
1954 establishments in New Mexico


title: Wilhelm Konrad Hermann Müller

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Wilhelm Konrad Hermann Müller (27 May 1812, Holzminden – 4 January 1890, Göttingen) was a philologist of Germanic studies.

From 1830 he studied philology and theology at the University of Göttingen as a student of Karl Otfried Müller. In 1841 he started work as a lecturer of German language and literature at Göttingen, becoming an associate professor in January 1845. From 1856 up until his death in 1890, he was a full professor of philology at Göttingen.

Works
With Georg Schambach, he was co-author of a book on Lower Saxon legends and fairy tales, titled "Niedersächsische Sagen und Märchen" (1855). With Friedrich Karl Theodor Zarncke, he was an editor of a four-part Middle High German dictionary ("Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch", 1854–1866) that was initiated by Georg Friedrich Benecke. Other noted works associated with Müller include:
 De Corcyræorum republica, 1835 – On the republic of the Corcyreans. [what is now modern-day Corfu ]
 Geschichte und System der altdeutschen Religion, Göttingen 1844 – History and system of the old German religion.
 Mythologie der deutschen Heldensage, Heilbronn 1886 – Mythology of the German heroic saga.

References

1812 births
1890 deaths
Academic staff of the University of Göttingen
University of Göttingen alumni
German philologists
People from Holzminden


title: Kenneth Ekman (ice hockey)

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Karl-Axel Kennert "Kenneth" Ekman (born 5 May 1945) is a Swedish former professional ice hockey defenceman. He competed as a member of the Sweden men's national ice hockey team at the 1972 Winter Olympics held in Japan.

He is grandfather of the hockey player Oliver Ekman-Larsson and the football player Amanda Ilestedt and a cousin of Fåglum brothers.

References

External links

1945 births
Living people
Ice hockey players at the 1972 Winter Olympics
Olympic ice hockey players for Sweden
Rögle BK players
Swedish ice hockey defencemen
Tingsryds AIF players


title: Effat Nssar

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Effat Nssar (; born July 21, 1964) is a retired Egyptian football midfielder and current football coach. He is the son of a Kuwaiti father and an Egyptian mother. He played for Zamalek & Masry in Egypt.

Honours

Club
Zamalek SC
Egyptian Premier League: 3
 1988, 1992, 1993
Egypt Cup: 1
 1988
African Cup of Champions Clubs: 2
 1993, 1996
CAF Super Cup: 1
1994
Afro-Asian Club Championship: 1
 1987

References

External links

1964 births
Living people
Egyptian men's footballers
Egypt men's international footballers
Egyptian expatriate men's footballers
Zamalek SC players
Egyptian Premier League players
Men's association football midfielders


title: Apostolos Taskoudis

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Apostolos Taskoudis (; born April 22, 1985) is an amateur Greek freestyle wrestler, who competed in the men's welterweight category. Taskoudis finished sixth in the 66-kg class when Greece hosted the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, and has also captured three gold medals in the 74-kg division in beach wrestling at the World Championships (2012 to 2014). In 2015 he won the gold medal (70-kg class) at the Mediterranean Beach Games in Pescara. Throughout his sporting career, Taskoudis has been training for San Georgios Wrestling Club in his native Serres, under his personal coach Avtandil Bzalava.

Early years

Taskoudis qualified for the Greek squad, as a 19-year-old teen, in the men's welterweight class (66 kg), when his nation hosted the world to the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He filled up an entry by the International Federation of Association Wrestling and the Hellenic Olympic Committee, as Greece received an automatic berth for being the host nation. Amassed the home crowd inside Ano Liossia Olympic Hall, Taskoudis opened the prelim pool with a marvelous victory over India's Ramesh Kumar by a 10–8 verdict, before losing his succeeding match 6–12 to Armenia's Zhirayr Hovhannisyan. Despite a single defeat, Taskoudis secured his spot for the medal rounds due to the most number of technical points he obtained from the pool. He was overpowered by eventual Olympic champion Elbrus Tedeyev of Ukraine in the quarterfinal match 2–6, and then followed it with a 4–6 setback in a playoff against Japan's Kazuhiko Ikematsu for a fifth-place finish, dropping him to sixth.

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External links

1985 births
Living people
Greek male sport wrestlers
Olympic wrestlers for Greece
Wrestlers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Serres
21st-century Greek people


title: Centipede mathematics

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Centipede mathematics is a term used, sometimes derogatorily, to describe the generalisation and study of mathematical objects satisfying progressively fewer and fewer restrictions. This type of study is likened to studying how a centipede behaves when its legs are removed one by one.

The term is attributed to Polish mathematician Antoni Zygmund. Zygmund is said to have described the metaphor of the centipede thus: "You take a centipede and pull off ninety-nine of its legs and see what it can do." Thus, Zygmund has been known by many mathematicians as the "Centipede Surgeon".

The study of semigroups is cited as an example of doing centipede mathematics. One starts with the notion of an abelian group. First delete the commutativity restriction to obtain the concept of a group. The restriction of existence of inverses is then removed. This produces a monoid.  If one now removes the restriction regarding the existence of identity, the resulting object turns out to be a semigroup. Still more legs can be removed. If the associativity restriction is also discarded one gets a magma or a groupoid. The restrictions that define an abelian group may be removed in different orders also.  The study of ternary ring has been cited as an example of centipede mathematics. The progressive removal of axioms of Euclidean geometry and studying the resulting geometrical objects also illustrate the methodology of centipede mathematics.

The following quote summarises the value and usefulness of the concept: "The term ‘centipede mathematics’ is new to me, but its practice is surely of great antiquity. The binomial theorem (tear off the leg that says that the exponent has to be a natural number) is a good example. A related notion is the importance of good notation and the importance of overloading, aka abuse of language, to establish useful analogies." — Gavin Wraith.

References

External links
Procrustean Mathematics

Philosophy of mathematics


title: Maine State Guard

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The Maine State Guard was the state defense force of the state of Maine during World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War. As a state defense force, the State Guard served as a stateside replacement for the Maine National Guard when the National Guard was federalized. Like the National Guard, the State Guard was a reserve military force composed of members who held full-time civilian jobs and periodically met for drills, unless called into active service by the governor. However, unlike the National Guard, as a state defense force, the Maine State Guard was solely a state military force, which was immune from federalization and could not be deployed outside the State of Maine.

History of predecessor units
Prior to the creation of the National Guard of the United States, the United States armed forces consisted of a relatively small professional, full-time military supported by state militias. During the War of 1812, the relatively large size of the various Maine militias was enough to discourage enemy interventions at Wiscasset, Bath, and Portland. In the American Civil War, Maine once again raised multiple units to fight for the United States, along with State Guard, Home Guard, and Maine Coast Guard companies for service in Maine. In the Spanish–American War, Maine mustered two units: the 1st Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment and the Maine Volunteer Heavy Artillery Battalion.

Civil War
At least five militia companies of the Maine State Guard were raised for duty in Maine during the Civil War. Since they were lettered A, B, E, G, and I, there may have been nine or more of these companies. Vice President Hannibal Hamlin was a member of Company A, and when that company was mustered into service on 7 July 1864, became a private at Fort McClary in Kittery. In some citations of the original article, his unit is confused with the Maine Coast Guard.

World War I
Maine's National Guard was federalized during World War I. As a result, the War Department authorized the state to raise an infantry regiment which would be equipped by the federal government and left under state control. The Maine State Guard was then created to replace the absent National Guard.

World War II
The federalization of the entire National Guard on the onset of World War II left states without a military force to protect infrastructure, respond to disasters, repel potential enemy incursions, and handle other emergencies that would normally fall to the National Guard.

The Maine State Guard was reactivated during World War II to replace the Maine National Guard by handling its stateside responsibilities, including assuming responsibility for natural disaster response and quelling civil disturbances. The State Guard was headquartered in Camp Keyes, which was the headquarters of the Maine National Guard. At one point, three companies of the Maine State Guard
used their own vehicles to assist in the search for six German prisoners of
war who had escaped while working in the woods.

Vietnam War
The Maine State Guard was reorganized in the spring of 1969 at a cadre level, reaching a strength of 97 officers, 272 enlisted men, and a smaller number of inactive guardsmen designated as the Maine State Guard Reserve. The state appropriated $8,700 annually for the State Guard. Although the unit was never activated, they drilled regularly through the Vietnam War, but was reduced to a force existing only on paper following the end of the conflict.

Legal status
State defense forces are authorized by the federal government under Title 32, Section 109 of the United States Code. Twenty-three states and the territory of Puerto Rico currently maintain active state defense forces. Maine state law also authorizes the governor to organize a state defense force under Title 37 of the Maine Revised Statutes. Therefore, the Maine State Guard could be reactivated by the Governor of Maine through executive order using the existing legal framework for state defense forces, or by a legislative act.

See also

Maine Wing Civil Air Patrol

References

External links
 Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Years Ending June 30, 1945 and June 30, 1946 & History of the State Guard From Its Inception to 30 June 1946

Military in Maine
State defense forces of the United States


title: Frank Solomon

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Frank Solomon (30 May 1906 – 21 December 1991) was an American-born New Zealand Rugby Union player. He has played national provincial rugby for Auckland and international rugby for the All Blacks. Considered a pacific pioneer in New Zealand rugby, Solomon became the first Samoan to play for the All Blacks. He was the older step-brother of former All Black Dave Solomon and the great-uncle of former All Black Josh Kronfeld.

Solomon was the first U.S. national of Samoan descent to play for a New Zealand national rugby team. The second was Jerome Kaino in 2004.

Early life
Solomon was born on 30 May 1906 in the American Samoan capital of Pago Pago as the oldest of two. He was born 6 years after 'Eastern Samoa' (present day American Samoa) became a U.S. Territory, which divided Samoa into two administrative territories according to the Tripartite Convention. The governor of American Samoa at the time of Solomon's birth was Rdml. Charles Moore from Decatur, Illinois. While the United States occupied the eastern portion, the Germans occupied the western portion (consisting of Savaii and Upolu) known as German Samoa at the time. It wasn't until 1914, New Zealand occupied the German territory without resistance from the Germans. Thus changed the name from German Samoa to Western Samoa until 1997. Solomon's father was the mayor of the former Fijian capital of Levuka and during that time where he and his step-brother Dave were educated, Solomon and his family moved to the Samoan capital of Apia before finally reaching to Auckland, New Zealand in 1921. It was at that time Solomon spent his last school days at Seddon Memorial Technical College (now Auckland University of Technology).

International  rugby career

Solomon had achieved the unusual distinction of winning a New Zealand Maori jersey. It wasn't unusual on the strength of his playing ability, as he had plenty of that, or for the fact that he wasn't a regular in first-class player, as that was also a common scenario at the time, but for the fact nobody had bothered to check that he was actually Maori. With Islanders being something of a novelty in New Zealand back then, it was automatically assumed his skin owed its colour to Maori blood, and into the team he went.

He was one of the better players on that 1927 internal tour, and nobody caught up with the fact he was there under false pretences. After appearing in seven of the first eight matches, he had to pack his bags and go back to Auckland to avoid being sacked from his job.

Solomon won his test cap in 1931 making him the first ever Samoan to wear the All Black jersey. He gave a strong display at Eden Park in a match New Zealand was lucky to win. He toured Australia in 1932, winning the test spot after missing an ordinary All Black effort in the first match, and became, in combination with Hugh McLean, one of the most impressive units in the team as well as having the distinction of leading the All Black Haka before the game. Surprisingly, that was the end of his international football, although he remained an Auckland regular until shortly before the war, eventually playing 54 games in the blue and white. Strongly built, at 6 ft (1.83m) and a tick under 14 stone (89 kg), he was often mentioned as one of Auckland's better forwards.

He, like brother Dave, had three trials for the 1935-36 team to Britain, but, unlike Dave, Frank missed out. There was a feeling this may have been a mistake, especially early in the tour when the All Blacks were still struggling to come to grips with the three-fronted scrum and an experienced head may have proved invaluable. Frank Solomon played his last representative matches for Auckland in 1939, before turning out a few times for the Barbarians and ending his career with a few service matches in England.

Military career
Wartime saw Solomon serving with the 2NZEF where he quickly became a Company Sergeant Major, and later a commissioned lieutenant.

Death
Solomon died in Auckland on 21 December 1991, aged 85.

Legacy
A delightful character, he rose to a high position in Samoan society and, when the big migration to New Zealand started in the 60s and 70s, he was a man of some influence in this country. The many people who were proud to call him a friend remember him as a real gentleman.

The Solomon influence in rugby extended far beyond his playing days; he was a figure of importance to the Polynesian players who later came to Ponsonby and his All Black jersey, presented to the Western Samoa Rugby Union in 1986, was a treasured memento. Former All Black flanker Josh Kronfeld is a great-nephew, and no doubt reminded some long-time followers of his famous relative.

References

1906 births
1991 deaths
New Zealand sportspeople of Samoan descent
New Zealand rugby union players
New Zealand international rugby union players
People from Pago Pago
New Zealand Army officers
New Zealand military personnel of World War II
Rugby union flankers


title: Kjell-Rune Milton

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Kjell-Rune "Mille" Milton (26 May 1948 – 6 September 2023) was a Swedish professional ice hockey defenceman.

Milton competed as a member of the Sweden national team at the 1972 Winter Olympics held in Japan.

Milton died on 6 September 2023, at the age of 75.

References

External links

1948 births
2023 deaths
Frölunda HC players
Kölner Haie players
Modo Hockey players
Swedish ice hockey defencemen
Olympic ice hockey players for Sweden
Ice hockey players at the 1972 Winter Olympics
Ice hockey people from Umeå


title: Show Me a Hero

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Show Me a Hero is a 2015 American miniseries based on the 1999 nonfiction book of the same name by former New York Times writer Lisa Belkin about Yonkers mayor (1987–89) Nick Wasicsko. Like the book, the miniseries details a white middle-class neighborhood's resistance to a federally mandated scattered-site public housing development in Yonkers, New York, and how the tension of the situation affected the city as a whole.

The miniseries was written by David Simon and journalist William F. Zorzi, with whom Simon worked at The Baltimore Sun and on the HBO series The Wire. It was directed by Paul Haggis. Six episodes were ordered by HBO; the miniseries premiered on August 16, 2015.

Background
The story is set between 1987 and 1994 in Yonkers, New York, a city north of New York City in Westchester County, and focuses on efforts to desegregate public housing. Federal judge Leonard B. Sand ruled against Yonkers and issued a desegregation order, mandating that public housing for 200 units – possibly scattered-site public housing ("SSPH"), which became the example of new public housing – be built in the middle-class, mostly white, east side of Yonkers. By 1988, the city had already spent $11 million in legal fees fighting against the order, including a failed effort to appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. The case and resulting politics resulted in national focus on issues of race, class, and housing. Mayor Nick Wasicsko ran on the platform opposing the judge's order, but before taking office, in the face of the issue being supported by a federal appeals court, became an advocate for desegregation in Yonkers. Wasicsko and the city councillors who supported him worked out a plan to meet the court order, using the SSPH system to build the 200 homes at eight different sites of only 25 homes each, spread across a city with more than 10,000 homes. Despite this, four councillorsa majorityrefused to vote to uphold the law, consistently opposing any limited desegregation. For refusing to follow the court order, the city of Yonkers was crippled by heavy, possibly bankrupting fines – estimated to be close to $1 million a day from a compounded charge that started at $100 a day. Basic services stopped and parks and libraries were shuttered, with 630 city workers facing mandatory lay-offs in order to maintain enough budget for police and fire services. There were ongoing protests, including Wasicsko and others receiving death threats, such as letters containing  bullets with a note that “You won’t see the next one”. Wasicsko was forced to comply. The suit was finally settled in May 2007.

In addition to the Yonkers City Council members and other local politicians, two groups took opposing sides on the issue: Save Yonkers Federation, led by Jack O'Toole, who were anti-desegregation and voted to defy the federal order, and the Citizens and Neighbors Organized to Protect Yonkers ("Canopy"), who supported the court order, wanting to end the crippling fines. New York Secretary of State Gail Shaffer was appointed by then governor Mario Cuomo as the chair of the Yonkers Emergency Financial Control Board, which was in charge of the city's finances in 1988 as the fines reduced all city services and the city became bankrupt. The Housing Education Relocation Enterprise (H.E.R.E.) was a community-based organization that supported the tenants moving into the scattered-site public housing.

Yonkers hires city planner Oscar Newman, originator of the defensible space theory, to work with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development on the housing plan. Newman's theories emphasize the value of small groups of townhouses with yards, rather than multi-story apartment blocks, to provide a sense of ownership for the low income residents, while being immersed in the activities and culture of middle-class neighborhoods. The challenges of the existing projects are shown through the lives of a number of families living there.

Cast
 Oscar Isaac as Nick Wasicsko, former police officer, then Yonkers City Council member running for election to be mayor of Yonkers, eventually the youngest big-city mayor (1987–89) in the nation
 Carla Quevedo as Nay Noe Wasicsko, City Hall staffer, Mayor Wasicsko's wife
 Peter Riegert as architect and city planner Oscar Newman, originator of the defensible space theory
 Jim Belushi as Angelo R. Martinelli, a six-term Mayor of Yonkers who is Wasicsko's opponent in the election to be mayor of Yonkers
 Alfred Molina as Henry J. "Hank" Spallone, Yonkers City Council member who was passionately anti-housing, who became mayor of Yonkers based on his refusal to follow the desegregation order
 Winona Ryder as Vinni Restiano, Yonkers City Council president who advocated for integration
 Bob Balaban as Judge Leonard B. Sand, who ordered desegregation
 Jim Bracchitta as Nicholas Longo, Yonkers City Council member who was outspoken in his criticism of the federal ruling
 Allan Steele as Edward Fagan, Yonkers City Council member who was outspoken in his criticism of the federal ruling
 Terry Kinney as Peter Smith, the Yonkers Housing Authority director
 Jon Bernthal as Michael H. Sussman, civil rights attorney and former federal prosecutor; represents the local NAACP chapter
 Michael Stahl-David as James Surdoval, Wasicsko's political consultant
 Catherine Keener as Mary Dorman, an East Yonkers homeowner who was part of the Save Yonkers Federation
 Bruce Altman as Buddy Dorman, Mary's husband
 Ilfenesh Hadera as Carmen "Alma" Febles, a single mother from the Dominican Republic
 LaTanya Richardson Jackson as Norma O'Neal, a home health aid living in the projects, who is struggling with losing her sight
 McKinley Belcher III as Dwayne Meeks, Norma O'Neal's son and a minivan manufacturer
 Natalie Paul as Doreen Henderson, a young woman born in public housing but raised in the suburbs, who is drawn back to the housing projects where her life spirals out of control just as the crack epidemic intensifies
 Dominique Fishback as Billie Rowan, a troubled teenager who lives in the projects and gets involved with a local petty criminal
 Melanie Nicholls-King as Janet Rowan, Billie Rowan's mother
 Clarke Peters as Robert Mayhawk, neighborhood consultant who runs the Housing Education Relocation Enterprise (H.E.R.E.), to assist with the integration of scattered-site public housing
 Jenna Stern as Gail Shaffer, Secretary of State of New York, chairs the Yonkers Emergency Financial Control Board

Production

Development
Simon said that Gail Mutrux (who runs the production company Pretty Pictures), a producer Simon knew from working with her on Homicide, had sent him a copy of Belkin's book. In 2001, Simon sent Zorzi, who at that time was assistant city editor at The Baltimore Sun, a copy of the book, which he was taking to HBO as a potential project. In 2002, Zorzi quit his job at The Sun and began working on this miniseries, on what became a long-term project.

The story was in development for over a decade, with co-writer Zorzi working on the passion project during that time, even as he and Simon were working on The Wire. HBO had an option on the book, but it spent years in script re-writes with Zorzi as Simon and Zorzi were both busy working on other projects.

Simon says that Mayor Nick Wasicsko's story is what drives the narrative, and that if the character's arc wasn't right, the series would fail. Simon calls Isaac the key to making it work. Wasicsko's wife, Nay Wasicsko-McLaughlin, who worked at City Hall during the time of the conflict, was a consultant on the show. Wasicsko-McLaughlin met with Isaac, which Isaac said was vital to the story.

Simon refers to Yonkers as one of the first locations of the birth and growth of scattered site housing and the integration of architect and city planner Oscar Newman's work on defensible space theory and his 1972 work "Creating Defensible Space," and that this story went on to impact methods of public housing programs on a national scale. Yonkers was the very public staging ground.

Director Paul Haggis states that when he heard about Simon's project, he told his agents to agree his participation, even without him reading the script. Once he had read it, he asked to direct not one or two episodes, as requested, but the entire series. This was the first time that Haggis, who typically both writes and directs his pieces, didn't write the material himself. He said he did this because it was so important to him to work with Simon.

Filming
The miniseries began shooting on October 1, 2014, and wrapped shooting on location January 25, 2015. Show Me a Hero made use of primary locations in Yonkers, New York, including the William A. Schlobohm Houses public housing projects, which was the subject of a July 2012 FBI investigation of drugs and firearm trafficking by a gang called the Strip Boyz. The Schlobohm Houses were one of the examples of a 1980 federal case – initially started in 1979 by the Carter Justice Department – then brought as a friend of the court case by a local NAACP chapter who sued the city of Yonkers with claims of segregation by the city, where the poorest residents were forced into living in the western part of town. The claim was that out of a city of almost 200,000 people with an area of approximately 21 square miles, that almost all non-white residents lived in 7,000 units of low income housing within the space of 1 square mile, in public housing that was located on the west side of Saw Mill River Parkway. The high concentration was the result of years of concentrated 40+ year old racial covenants prohibiting non-whites from living east of the Parkway.

Another Yonkers location was The Grinton I. Will branch of the Yonkers Public Library, where scenes of town gatherings were shot. The Cottage Place Gardens was used to substitute for the garden-style Mulford Gardens public housing project, as it has since been torn down. Some scenes were also shot at the Yonkers City Hall, within the Yonkers City Council Chambers where those actual events took place. Additionally, Haggis said that Mary Dorman's house was the actual location. Additional Yonkers locations used were The Department of Buildings at 87 Nepperhan Avenue and Oakland Cemetery. Scenes portraying the Dominican Republic were shot in Puerto Rico.

Working with the show's art department, graffiti artist Chris Capuozzo, with assistance of his photographer wife Denise Ranallo Capuozzo, who documented the graffiti in Yonkers during the time of the show, created temporary reproductions of period graffiti at the Schlobohm Houses and on Palisade Avenue.

Music
The show makes an extensive use of Bruce Springsteen music, with Springsteen's music often appearing during scenes that feature Wasicsko. The scenes in the housing projects incorporate period hip hop and rap by acts like Digable Planets and Public Enemy. Steve Earle's song, "When The People Find Out," from his 1990 album The Hard Way, is used in the closing credits. In most of Simon's other works, he has made use of diegetic sound – music that is incorporated within the scenes in a practical way (i.e., musicians playing music, boom boxes playing). In Show Me a Hero, Simon used music to cue the main character Wasicsko with a protagonist's aural identity that has elements of emotion conveyed by Springsteen's early music. The show used a total of 12 tracks by Springsteen.

Themes
Creator Simon said the appeal of the story was a focus on the disintegration of American politics and its corrosive dysfunctional nature in urban cities. Simon wrote that the series "...addresses class and racial segregation in our society, is more about our calcified political processes than directly relevant to the core grievances underlying current events." Simon said that the show depicts a city that is paralyzed by both fear (of integration) and money (valuations of real estate properties). He saw the story as allegorical of current America with refusal to share and the collapse of civilized behavior (with rage and fury quickly fracturing a city) due to the hyper-segregation of the poor in large WWII era high rise housing projects — ironically not the proposed scattered-site town houses that were actually being mandated.

Regarding the impetus for the choice of the shows he makes: in an interview on Slate, Simon referred to the concept of reportorial instinct, which comes from the efforts by journalists to create new discussion points that are centered upon issues of societal friction; with Show Me a Hero, Simon's methodical instinct is to focus on these. The idea is not part of a larger whole, a bigger picture, with each of his shows taking up real estate within that vision; it is both disparate and less organized than a global overview. He is not trying to duplicate The Wire, he's trying to tell a new story here.

The name of both the show and the book that it is based upon comes from an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy."

Release

Broadcast
The miniseries premiered in Canada on HBO Canada on August 16, 2015 – airing concurrently with the American broadcast. It premiered in Australia and the United Kingdom on August 17, 2015, on Showcase and Sky Atlantic, respectively. The miniseries was released on Blu-ray and DVD on February 2, 2016.

Episodes
In the United States, HBO broadcast the miniseries in 2-hour blocks on consecutive Sunday nights.

Reception

Critical response
Show Me a Hero received critical acclaim from reviewers although U.S. cable original programming viewership was low. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 96% 'Certified Fresh' approval rating with an average rating of 8.6/10 based on 54 reviews. The website's consensus reads, "Show Me a Hero is an impressively crafted period drama whose timely themes prove as absorbing as its engaging, compassionately drawn characters." On Metacritic, it has a score of 85 out of 100 based on 33 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". Tim Goodman of The Hollywood Reporter cited the strong storytelling as making the unsexy story rewarding, with a commendably even focus on both racism as well as the problems of systemic bias of public housing systems. Ginia Bellafante of The New York Times focused on the relevance to current day issues of race and economics.

Oscar Isaac received universal praise. Alan Sepinwall from HitFix cited his performance as being especially strong, describing him as compulsively watchable even during long scenes with a lot of dialogue, while Daniel Fienberg of The Fien Print said Isaac is the key to the story and is compelling, inhabiting his character fully. Sepinwall also said the writers did an excellent job of illustrating the conflict, which in its essence is not compelling, but in this depiction, becomes great. Fienberg cites the somewhat dry nature of the source material, and laughingly embraced what he called the "perversely uncommercial" nature of the show. Brian Lowry from Variety also commended Isaac's central role. Emily Nussbaum of The New Yorker calls Isaac's "a star performance agile enough to elevate scenes that might veer into agitprop."

Of the supporting cast, Catherine Keener drew critics' attention most positively. David Wiegand wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle, "Keener makes Dorman the touchstone of the story, as she constructs an ordinary woman whose values and beliefs are largely unexamined and derive from a lack of exposure to alternative ways of thinking. At heart, she is not an evil person, just fearful of what she doesn’t know. Her moment of enlightenment is so beautifully written and performed, the scene should be preserved as an example of absolute perfection ... Keener’s is only one of the truly great performances that make 'Hero' compelling". Nussbaum also praised Keener's performance, writing that she plays her with "warm humility", while for The Wrap Mark Peikert said that "Keener brings every scene she’s in to life".

Jacqueline Cutler of the New York Daily News cited the portrayals of the four women who are the focal points of the story, noting the strength of LaTanya Richardson Jackson's performance. Matt Zoller Seitz from Vulture opined that the supporting characters are the heart of the story and establish the resonance that careful viewers of Simon's show will find rewarding. NPR's David Bianculli calls the show nuanced, requiring focus and attention but worth the effort. Andy Greenwald from Grantland notes Simon has created a show that is both brilliant and vibrant despite being absurdly uncommercial. In comparison to the last two Simon produced shows, that had more of a downbeat feel, Greenwald sees this show being a return to form, as being both powerfully compelling as well as great entertainment. Greenwald also commends Haggis for his excellent direction throughout.

Detractors included Jeff Simon (no relation) of The Buffalo News, who cited Peter Riegert's facial hair choice – comparing it unfavorably to Horace Greeley – and leveling complaints of the choice of actors who are known for chewing the scenery. Other issues were the tone of the piece as well as the lack of drama. This critic acknowledged that he hadn't watched all episodes that were provided to critics before air dates. NPR TV critic Eric Deggans felt the show was too long, and called it slow.

The New York Times featured a discussion between Simon and Senator Cory Booker, drawing parallels between Booker's family's experience growing up in New Jersey where his family was the only black family – and had to take difficult measures to buy their house – and the situation in Yonkers, as well as comparable historical and current scenarios today [2015]. In 1969, to move into town, Booker's family went to Harrington Park, New Jersey's Fair Housing Council represented by a Caucasian couple to break the social covenants of the town housing market.

Awards and nominations

References

Further reading
 Belkin, Lisa. Show Me a Hero: A Tale of Murder, Suicide, Race, and Redemption. Boston: Little, Brown, 1999. . . First chapter of Belkin's book.
 De Souza Briggs, Xavier N., and Joe T. Darden. Effects of Scattered-Site Public Housing on Neighboring Property Values in Yonkers, New York. Cambridge, Mass.: Joint Center for Housing Studies, Graduate School of Design [and] John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1996. .
 De Souza Briggs, Xavier N., Joe T. Darden, Angela Aidala. In the Wake of Desegregation: Early Impacts of Scattered-Site Public Housing on Neighborhoods in Yonkers, New York APA Journal. Chicago: Journal of American Planning Association. Vol. 65, No. 1. Winter 1999. .
 Haynes, Bruce D. Red Lines, Black Spaces The Politics of Race and Space in a Black Middle-Class Suburb. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. . .
 Heyward, Andrew, et al. "Not On My Street." 48 Hours. New York: CBS, Inc, 1988. September 29, 1998 TV news feature. .
 Kavanagh, Bill, Linda Porto, Donna Bailey, Sylke Froechtenigt, Peter Stein, and Miki Navazio. Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story (website) . New York: Kavanagh Productions Inc, 2007. Documentary.
 Newman, Oscar. Creating Defensible Space. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, 1996. . .

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title: Belfast, Nebraska

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Belfast is a ghost town in Greeley County, Nebraska, in the United States.

History
The railroad was extended to Belfast in the late 19th century. The community takes its name from Belfast, in Northern Ireland.

Belfast had a post office briefly from 1908 until 1909.

While no buildings are still standing at the site, deep holes indicate foundations and cellars. Numerous concrete floors can be seen and large pieces of metal are scattered throughout the site. The railroad grade is very clear to someone looking down from a nearby hill. The area is now used for grazing cattle.

References

Geography of Greeley County, Nebraska
Unincorporated communities in Nebraska


title: Robin Himmelmann

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Robin Himmelmann (born 5 February 1989) is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.

Career
Himmelmann joined FC St. Pauli in 2012 from Schalke 04 II. After many years of being number one goalkeeper at the club, he lost his spot and agreed the termination with the club in January 2021.

In February 2021, Himmelmann signed a contract for the remainder of the 2020–21 season with Belgian First Division A club Eupen. After the club had initially announced in June 2021 that his contract would not be extended, he ended up signing a one-year deal with Eupen in July 2021.

In January 2023, Himmelmann joined 2. Bundesliga club Holstein Kiel on a short-term contract until the end of the season, with the option for a further year.

References

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1989 births
Living people
People from Moers
Footballers from Düsseldorf (region)
Men's association football goalkeepers
German men's footballers
SV 19 Straelen players
1. FC Union Solingen players
Rot-Weiss Essen players
FC Schalke 04 II players
FC St. Pauli players
K.A.S. Eupen players
Holstein Kiel players
Regionalliga players
2. Bundesliga players
Belgian Pro League players
German expatriate men's footballers
German expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium


title: Ford–Countess House

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The Ford–Countess House (also known as the Hezekiah Ford House) is a historic residence near Huntsville in Madison County, Alabama.  Hezekiah Ford came to Madison County from Cumberland County, Virginia, in 1813, and began purchasing land on which to build a cotton plantation.  He acquired the land on which the house stands in 1820, and built the two-story, brick I-house soon after.  Ford died in 1839, and the land was owned by his wife, Nancy, until her death in 1844.  Hezekiah's brother, John, then assumed ownership, and the plantation stayed in his family until 1904.  It reached a peak of 280 acres (113 ha), and the family owned 69 slaves in 1860.  James W. Burcum owned the property from 1904 until 1911, when it was sold to Stephen H. Countess of Tuscaloosa.  The Countess family still owns and farms the land, although the house has not been occupied since 1995.

The plantation house is a two-story, brick I-house with Federal details.  A one-room wing off the northeast rear of the house was enlarged circa 1845 with the addition of a second room and second story.  The main block has a gable roof with chimneys in each gable end.  The front façade has a full-width, shed roof supported square posts with Victorian brackets which originally covered a porch; a small side stair and platform in front of the twin front doors currently occupy the space.  Most of the windows on the house are two-over-two sash windows, although the first floor façade originally had twelve-over-twelve windows.  The main block interior consists of two rooms on each floor, with Federal fireplace mantels in each room.  The rear ell is also divided into two rooms on each floor, although a stair hall has been partitioned off from the southern room on the second floor.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

References

National Register of Historic Places in Madison County, Alabama
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title: Horace, Nebraska

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Horace is an unincorporated community in Greeley County, Nebraska, in the United States.

History
Horace, like Greeley County, was named for Horace Greeley, a newspaper editor and politician of the mid-19th century who encouraged western settlement with the motto  "Go West, young man".

A post office was established in Horace in 1890, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1942.

Several buildings still stand on the site.

References

Unincorporated communities in Greeley County, Nebraska
Unincorporated communities in Nebraska


title: Malaysia at the 1978 Asian Games

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Malaysia competed in the 1978 Asian Games held in Bangkok, Thailand from 9 to 20 September 1978. Athletes from Malaysia won overall six medal and finished 12th in a medal table.

Medal summary

Medals by sport

Medallists

Athletics

Men
Road event

Women
Track event

Basketball

Men's tournament
Group B

Seventh to fourteenth place classification

Ranked 7th in final standings

Women's tournament
Final round

Ranked 5th in final standings

Boxing

Field hockey

Men's tournament
Bronze medal match

Ranked 3rd in final standings

Football

Men's tournament
Preliminary round; Group C

Semifinal; Group 2

Ranked 7th in final standings

References

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Asian Games


title: Håkan Pettersson (ice hockey)

text:
Håkan Pettersson (11 May 1949 – 10 May 2008) was a Swedish professional ice hockey player.

He competed as a member of the Sweden men's national ice hockey team at the 1972 Winter Olympics held in Japan.

References

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1949 births
2008 deaths
Olympic ice hockey players for Sweden
Timrå IK players
Swedish ice hockey forwards
Ice hockey players at the 1972 Winter Olympics
Ice hockey people from Sundsvall


title: Langtang Ri

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Langtang Ri is a mountain in the Langtang Himal of the Himalayas. At an elevation of  it is the 106th highest mountain in the world. Located on the border between the Bagmati Zone of Nepal and Tibet, China, it is part of a group of high peaks that include Shishapangma (8,013 m) and Porong Ri (7,292 m).

Langtang Ri was first climbed on 10 October 1981 by a Japanese expedition.

See also
 List of mountains in China
 List of mountains in Nepal

References

Mountains of Tibet
China–Nepal border
International mountains of Asia
Seven-thousanders of the Himalayas
Mountains of the Bagmati Province


title: Middle Osborn Island

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Middle Osborn Island is an island off the coast of the Kimberley region in Western Australia.

Located on the western side of Admiralty Gulf and a part of the Bonaparte Archipelago, the island encompasses an area of . It is part of the Osborn Island group, which includes South West Osborn, Borda, Carlia, Steep Head and Kidney Island as well as West, North and Centre Rock.

The island is a volcanic plug.

The traditional owners of the area are the Uunguu peoples of the Wunambal language group, whose name for the island is Ngurraali.

The group was named in 1891 by Phillip Parker King after John Osborn, one of the Lords of the Admiralty.

The air-breathing land snails, Kimberleymelon tealei and Carinotrachia admirale are both endemic to the island.

In 2008 a boat carrying refugees that had travelled via Indonesia arrived at the island. The then immigration minister, Chris Bowen was attacked by the opposition over his "porous border protection policies". Another boat arrived in 2010 with only two passengers and one crew on board.

References

Bonaparte Archipelago


title: 1st of the Month Vol. 2

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1st of the Month Vol. 2 is the second EP by American rapper Cam'ron. The EP was released on August 1, 2014, by Killa Entertainment. The EP features guest appearances from Nicki Minaj, Rod Rhaspy,  Yummy Bingham, Jim Jones, and Hell Rell.

Background
In October 2013, Cam'ron announced that he would release an EP and an episode of his web series every month starting on January 1, 2014. In February 2014, he gave an update on the EP plans, saying: "I got the First of the Month project coming out probably next month. Dame put together the A-Trak collaboration which is called Federal Reserve. me and Smoke DZA got a project going on. It’s like five different projects, basically what we’re doing now is just trying to figure out the timing for everything. It’s probably 150 new songs done." In an April 2014, interview with Mass Appeal, he explained why he decided to release a series of EPs, saying: "Just setting everything up. Music has changed and it’s always fun, but I like to make money while I’m making music, so I just had to figure out a new strategy. Things are changing and if you don’t change with the times you gon get stuck in the past. I’ve been working on this thing called The First of the Month. I’m putting out an EP every month with a 30-minute episode so you’re not waiting a year or more for the next album."

In May 2014, in an interview with MTV News, he spoke about the features on the EPs, saying: "The people that’s gonna be on this project is Nicki Minaj, 2 Chainz, Wiz Khalifa, Estelle and Gunplay, so far." He also announced the first EP would be released on July 1, 2014, saying: "The first one is July 1 for the visual, July 3 for the music. And we’ll put it out — the visual — every first of the month. So, August 1 will be another visual, September 1. And then, whatever the first Tuesday is of every month, we’ll be doing the music, as well." On July 15, 2014, the EP's first single "So Bad" featuring Nicki Minaj and Yummy Bingham was released. On the same day, the music video was released for "So Bad". On August 7, 2014, the music video was released for "C.F.W.U. (Cantfuckwithus)" featuring Jim Jones and Hell Rell. On August 15, 2014, the music video was released for "Sweetest".

Critical reception

1st of the Month Vol. 2 was met with generally positive reviews from music critics. David Inkeles of XXL gave the album an XL, saying "1st of the Month, Vol. 2 is a true-to-form gem, and a nod to Cam’s early aught brilliance. It gives listeners a dose of an artist they might have thought they’d lost, or at least conceded to the laurels of an incredibly successful career. But even at its most single/radio-reaching moments, like on the Nicki Minaj-assisted “So Bad,” Vol. 2 feels and sounds like the Cam’ron we know and love. It is one of the most surprisingly great things you’ll hear all summer." Steven Goldstein of HipHopDX gave the album three and a half stars out of five, saying "1st Of The Month, Vol. 2 exceeds in allowing Cam’ron to flex range without ever looking too out of place, and serves as a medium for both somber reflection and self-indulgent celebration. If nothing else, the EP is a worthy refresher from one of Hip Hop’s most unusual personalities, and a teaser of what could come on projects with Dipset and A-Trak."

Track listing

References

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Cam'ron albums


title: Hans Hansson (ice hockey)

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Hans Nils Erik Hansson  (born 26 November 1949) is a Swedish former professional ice hockey player.

He competed as a member of the Sweden men's national ice hockey team at the 1972 Winter Olympics held in Japan.

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People from Dalarna
Swedish ice hockey centres
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title: O'Connor, Nebraska

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O'Connor is an unincorporated community in Greeley County, Nebraska, in the United States.

History
O'Connor was founded in 1877 by a colony of Irish Catholics. It was named for Bishop James O'Connor, a member of the Catholic Colonization Association.

O'Connor was once candidate for county seat.

A post office in O'Connor operated from 1880 until 1904.

As of 2014, O'Connor consists solely of a Catholic church and its attendant parsonage.  Nearby are occasional farm houses.

The Church was recently permanently closed and is no longer available to enter unless permission is expressly given by the parish and someone unlocks the barricades.

References

Unincorporated communities in Greeley County, Nebraska
Unincorporated communities in Nebraska


title: Bentley Baxter Bahn

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Bentley Baxter Bahn (born 28 August 1992) is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for  club Waldhof Mannheim.

Career
Bahn was born in Hamburg. He made his league debut for St. Pauli's senior team on 2 August 2014 in a 1–1 home draw with Ingolstadt.

In January 2015 he joined 3. Liga side Stuttgarter Kickers on a permanent basis, signing a contract until 2017. His previous club, FC St. Pauli, though secured themselves a return option for summer 2016. He made his league debut for the club on 28 February 2015 in a 2–0 away victory over Fortuna Köln. He was subbed in for Vincenzo Marchese at halftime. He scored his first competitive goal for the club on 4 April 2015 in a 2–0 home victory over Borussia Dortmund II. His goal, scored in the 86th minute, made the score 2–0 to Stuttgarter Kickers.

In June 2016, Bahn joined 3. Liga club FSV Frankfurt on a two-year contract, arriving alongside Christopher Schorch. He made his competitive debut for the club on 30 July 2016 in a 1–1 away draw with Holstein Kiel. He scored his first competitive goal for the club on 16 October 2016 in a 6–0 home victory over Fortuna Köln. His goal, scored in the 30th minute, made the score 2–0 to FSV Frankfurt.

In September 2017, Bahn was signed by 3. Liga club FSV Zwickau. He made his competitive debut for the club on 8 September 2017 in a 2–0 away victory over Preußen Münster. He scored his first competitive goal for the club on 23 September 2017 in a 1–0 home victory over Werder Bremen II. He scored in the 86th minute.

In July 2018, Bahn moved to Hallescher FC. He made his competitive debut for the club on 28 July 2018 in a 2–0 away defeat to his former club, Zwickau. He scored his first competitive goal for the club on 11 August 2018 in a 2–0 home victory over 1. FC Kaiserslautern. His goal, scored in the 19th minute, came from the penalty spot.

In July 2020 Bahn joined Hansa Rostock on a two-year contract.

In June 2022, Bahn signed with Waldhof Mannheim.

Personal life
He was given two forenames, Bentley and Baxter. However, he has stated, that Baxter is the one by which he is usually called.

Career statistics

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1992 births
Men's association football midfielders
German men's footballers
Footballers from Hamburg
Hamburger SV II players
FC St. Pauli players
FC St. Pauli II players
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FSV Frankfurt players
FSV Zwickau players
Hallescher FC players
FC Hansa Rostock players
SV Waldhof Mannheim players
2. Bundesliga players
3. Liga players
Regionalliga players