title: Tacettin Öztürkmen

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Tacettin Öztürkmen (born 3 November 1913, date of death unknown) was a Turkish cyclist. He competed in the team pursuit event at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

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1913 births
Year of death missing
Turkish male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Turkey
Cyclists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing
20th-century Turkish people


title: Rotem Kowner

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Rotem Kowner (; born 11 July 1960) is an Israeli historian and psychologist specializing in the history of modern Japan, and a full professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Haifa.

Early life
Rotem Kowner was born in Mikhmoret and lived his early years in the Kibbutz of Ma'ayan Tzvi. At the age of three, his family moved to Haifa, where he grew up and went to the Hebrew Reali School. Upon graduation, he entered the Israeli Navy and subsequently served as an officer on a missile boat.

Academic career
After majoring in East Asian Studies and psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he studied for a year at the Free University of Berlin and then for six years at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. Upon receiving his PhD, he continued in postdoctoral studies at the Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University, and at the Hebrew University. In 1998 he began teaching at the University of Haifa as a senior lecturer and was promoted to professor in 2004. Kowner worked extensively to mark the centenary of the Russo-Japanese War and to stress its regional and global repercussions. He was involved in organizing international conferences, initiated collaborative works, and published several books as well as many articles about this topic. Since 2010, his research focus has shifted to the examination of the development of race and racism in modern East Asia and in Japan in particular. Kowner maintains that the question of race, the distress over foreign racism, and the implementation of racist policies in its own colonies have been among the most critical and painful issues in the history of modern Japan and that they were also among the determinants of its national decision-making, at least until the end of World War II.

Kowner has been as a visiting professor at Tokyo's Waseda University, the University of Geneva, and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and serves on the editorial board of several academic journals. He is the co-founder of the biennial conferences of Asian Studies in Israel and the Israeli Association of Japanese Studies (IAJS). He has been member of the university's Senate, Board of Governors, and executive committee of his own university and currently serves as the director of its liberal arts program. He sits on the executive committee of the Maritime Policy & Strategy Research Center (HMS).

Works

Selected books
 1997 – On Ignorance, Respect, and Suspicion: current Japanese attitudes towards Jews. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism. ASIN B007HF0B82.
 2005 – The Forgotten War between Russia and Japan and Its Legacy. Ma'arachot. 539 pp.
 2006 – Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War. Scarecrow Press. . 640 pp.
 2007 – The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War. Routledge, UK. . 369 pp.
 2007 – Rethinking the Russo-Japanese War 1904/05. Brill/Global Oriental. . 539 pp.
 2008 – Globally Speaking: Motives for Adopting English Vocabulary in Other Languages. Multilingual Matters. .  349 pp.
 2009 – The A to Z of the Russo-Japanese War. Scarecrow Press. . 640 pp.
 2013 – (with Walter Demel) Race and Racism in Modern East Asia: Western and Eastern Constructions. Brill. . 618 pp.
 2014 – From White to Yellow: The Japanese in European Racial Thought, 1300–1735. McGill Queen's University Press. . 706 pp.
 2015 – (with Walter Demel) Race and Racism in Modern East Asia (Vol. II): Interactions, Nationalism, Gender and Lineage. Brill. . 674 pp.
 2017 – Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War, 2nd rev. and expanded edition. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1442281837. 898 pp.
 2019 – (with Guy Bar-Oz, Michal Biran, Meir Shahar, Gideon Shelach). Animals and Human Society in Asia: Historical, Cultural and Ethical Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3030243654. 466 pp
 2022 – Tsushima. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198831075. 336 pp
 2022 – (with Iris Rachamimov) Out of Line, Out of Place: A Global and Local History of World War I Internments. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1501765421. 333 pp.
 2023 – Jewish Communities in Modern Asia: Their Rise, Demise and Resurgence. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1009162586. 446 pp.
 2023 (with Yoram Evron) Israel-Asia Relations in the Twenty-First Century: The Search for Partners in a Changing World. Routledge. ISBN 978-1032328805. 330 pp.
 2024 – (with Yoram Evron and P.R. Kumaraswamy) East-West Asia Relations in the Twenty-First Century: From Bilateral to Interregional Relationships. Routledge. ISBN 978-1003326595. 270 pp.

Selected articles
 1998 – "Nicholas II and the Japanese Body: Images and Decision Making on the Eve of the Russo-Japanese War." The Psychohistory Review 26, 211–52.
 2000 – "Lighter than Yellow, But Not Enough: Western Discourse on the Japanese 'Race', 1854–1904." The Historical Journal 43, 103–31.
 2000 – "Japan's Enlightened War: Military Conduct and Attitudes to the Enemy during the Russo-Japanese War. In The Japanese and Europe: Images and Perceptions., edited by Bert Edström, 134–51. Japan Library.
 2001 – "Becoming an Honorary Civilized Nation: The Russo-Japanese War and Western Perceptions of Japan." The Historian 64, 19–38.
 2004 – "The skin as a metaphor: Early European racial perspectives on Japan, 1548–1853." Ethnohistory 51, 751–78.
 2011 – An Obscure History – Jews in Indonesia. Inside Indonesia 104.
 2017 – "When Strategy, Economics, and Racial Ideology Meet: Inter-Axis Connections in Wartime Indian Ocean." Journal of Global History 12, 228–50.
 2017 – "Race and Racism (in Modern Japan)." In Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese History, edited by Sven Saaler and Christopher Szpilman, 92–102. Routledge.
 2022 – "Time to Remember, Time to Forget: The Battle of Tsushima in Japanese Collective Memory since 1905." The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 20, issue 12, no. 3. Article 5716.
 2022 – "The Mir Yeshiva’s     Holocaust Experience: Ultra-Orthodox Perspectives on Japanese Wartime     Attitudes towards Jewish Refugees." Holocaust and Genocide Studies 36, no. 3, 295–314.
 2023 – “A Holocaust Paragon of Virtue’s Rise to Fame: The Transnational Commemoration of the Japanese     Diplomat Sugihara Chiune and Its Divergent National Motives.” American Historical Review 128, no. 1, 31–63.

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References

Israeli historians
1960 births
Living people
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Academic staff of the University of Haifa
Israeli Japanologists


title: 2014 Pendle Borough Council election

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The 2014 Pendle Borough Council election took place on 22 May 2014 to elect members of Pendle Borough Council in Lancashire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.

After the election, the composition of the council was
Conservative 19
Labour 18
Liberal Democrats 11
British National Party 1

Background
Before the election the Conservatives had 19 councillors, the most for the party on the council for the previous 30 years, while Labour had 17 councillors, the Liberal Democrats had 12 and there was 1 British National Party councillor. This was a change from the situation at the last election in 2012, after Labour councillor Abdul Aziz had defected to the Conservatives in September 2013 after having been suspended by Labour. The council was run by the Conservatives, with support from the Liberal Democrats.

16 seats were contested at the election, with Labour defending 6 seats, the Conservatives 5, Liberal Democrats 4 and the British National Party 1. Among those defending seats at the election was the leader of the Labour group on the council, Mohammed Iqbal in Bradley ward.

During the campaign Pendle was visited by the Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron, both the Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman and the shadow chancellor Ed Balls, and the Liberal Democrat Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander to support their respective parties.

Election result
There was little change in the party composition of the council with Labour gaining one seat from the Conservatives, while the Conservatives took one seat from the Liberal Democrats. Labour's gain came in Reedley, where Yasser Iqbal defeated the Conservative councillor for the previous 40 years, Pauline McCormick, by 36 votes. However Conservative Lyle Davy became the youngest councillor in the country at the age of 18 after taking Coates from the Liberal Democrats by 49 votes, after the Liberal Democrats had held the ward for the previous 16 years. Meanwhile, Brian Parker held Marsden for the British National Party by 6 votes over the Conservatives, in the only seat won by the British National Party at the 2014 United Kingdom local elections. Overall turnout at the election was 38.82%.

Following the election Conservative Joe Cooney continued as leader of the council after the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats reached an agreement, with the Conservatives taking 6 seats on the council executive, while the Liberal Democrats took 4 seats on the executive.

Ward results

Barrowford

Boulsworth

Bradley

Brierfield

Clover Hill

Coates

Craven

Earby

Horsfield

Marsden

Reedley

Southfield

Vivary Bridge

Walverden

Waterside

Whitefield

By-elections between 2014 and 2015
A by-election was held in Old Laund Booth ward on 3 July 2014 after the Liberal Democrat former leader of the council, John David, resigned from the council due to ill health after having held the seat since 1986. The seat was held for the Liberal Democrats by Brian Newman with a majority of 161 votes.

References

2014 English local elections
2014
2010s in Lancashire


title: Joan Carter

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Joan Carter (born July 2, 1943 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American businessperson and philanthropist. She is President of UM Holdings Ltd. which she co-founded with John Aglialoro. Since 1973, UM Holdings has owned and operated a variety of business, primarily in the health and fitness industries. UM Holdings was the owner of Cybex International and EHE International., both of which were sold in 2016.

Education and achievements
She is a graduate of The College of Wooster, and was awarded the College's 2005 Distinguished Alumni Award. In 2010, Carter was elected President of The Union League of Philadelphia, the first woman to hold that position in the League's 150 year history. She was also awarded the Temple University 2011 Musser Award, the Adam Smith Award  in 2012 by Economics Pennsylvania, the IWF Women Who Make a Difference Award in 2018, and 2018 Distinguished Citizen Award from the Valley Forge Freedoms Foundation.

Boards
Carter serves as chairman of the board of the Legacy Foundation formerly the Abraham Lincoln Foundation and FreedomWorks. She currently serves on the board of Philly Pops, The Foundation for Individual Liberty  and as trustee emeritus for the College of Wooster.  Additionally Carter served on the board of Lourdes Health System., the Reason Foundation.  Carter served as director for the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia from 1994 to 2001 and as its chair from 1998 to 2001. She was a director for Carr America  (formerly NYSE: CRE) from 2003 to 2006  when Carr was sold to the Blackstone Group. She was vice chairman of the board of Cybex International from 1997 to 2016  when Cybex was sold to Brunswick Corporation in 2016. She was a director from 2001 to 2019 for Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company and chair of that board's marketing committee.

Personal life
Carter is married to John Aglialoro, producer of the Atlas Shrugged movie trilogy, on which Carter served as associate producer. She authored The History of the Atlas Shrugged Movie Trilogy  and co-authored Atlas Shrugged: The Novel, the Films, the Philosophy. She has two children, and two step-children, and eight grandchildren.

References

External links
 Profile at UM Holdings

  at BizJournals

1943 births
Living people
Businesspeople from Pittsburgh
College of Wooster alumni
American women business executives
American business executives
21st-century American women


title: Mind Raft

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Mind Raft is the solo debut EP released by former Dirty Projectors member Deradoorian. Its sound has been contrasted starkly with that of the Projectors' music.

Critical reception

Mike Powell of Pitchfork gave Mind Raft a 5.8 out of 10, saying, "the songs wander and churn when it feels like they could develop, and ultimately, it's a record that I'll never mind having on but probably rarely reach for." Scott Tavener of Exclaim! described the EP as "an auspicious, if incomplete, introduction."

Track listing

References

External links

2009 debut EPs
Albums produced by David Longstreth


title: Gikas Hardouvelis

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Gikas A. Hardouvelis is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Bank of Greece (NBG), and Professor of Finance and Economics in the Department of Banking and Financial Management of the University of Piraeus in Greece.

He was the Minister of Finance of the Hellenic Republic from June 2014 to January 2015.

Hardouvelis has a lengthy and broad career in four separate areas: Academia in the United States and Greece, central banking at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Bank of Greece, banking in two Greek systemic banks, and government, having worked closely as an expert technocrat with three different prime ministers from across the political spectrum.

Currently he is also active in several non-profit organizations in Greece. He is the President of MIET, a Greek cultural foundation for the support of the humanities, fine arts, and sciences. He is a Trustee of Anatolia College, a non-profit primary, secondary and tertiary private educational institution. He is also the First Vice Chairman of the board of directors and member of the executive committee of the Foundation for Economic & Industrial Research, a non-profit research institute.

Career in banking
Gikas A. Hardouvelis was elected chair of the Board of Directors of the National Bank of Greece (NBG) by its board members in July 2021. In the previous two years, he was already a member of the Board of NBG, serving as the Senior Independent Director.

He initially joined NBG in 1996 as the Director of Strategic Planning & Research and Group Chief Economist. He also headed and expanded the Bank's Risk Management Division and created both the Assets-Liabilities Management as well as the Investor Relations departments. In 2005, he joined EFG Eurobank Ergasias as the Chief Economist of the group and the Head of Economic Research, and later became a Member of the executive committee.

Hardouvelis has played a critical role in the establishment of the Athens Derivatives Exchange (presently merged with the Athens Stock Exchange) as a founding member of its board of directors (1997-2000). He was also a member of Board of Directors of National Securities, S.A. from 1995 to 2000.

Career in central banking
Hardouvelis has worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as an Economist, Senior Economist and then Academic Adviser (1987 – 1993). His NY Fed research on margin requirements, and on the yield curve's ability to predict economic activity had a major impact in academia and in policy decisions.

He joined the Bank of Greece (the Greek central bank) in 1994–1995, as an Adviser and Alternate of the Governor at the European Monetary Institute (the precursor to the ECB). At the Bank of Greece, he actively participated in the decisions on the formation of the rules that govern the ECB architecture, plus on the rules that would allow EU countries to become member of the Euro Area.

Active participation in government: Minister of Finance
Hardouvelis’ government activity in Greece spans across the political spectrum as he was called by Prime Ministers originating from different political parties to serve as an expert technocrat.

In June 2014, he was appointed Minister of Finance of the Hellenic Republic by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, who headed a coalition government of the leading center-right New Democracy party together with the center-left PASOK.

Hardouvelis’ time in office as Finance Minister marked the beginning of an economic turnaround, immediately following a six-year deep economic crisis. The economy began growing again with economic sentiment improving, Foreign Direct Investment picking up and unemployment declining. Hardouvelis negotiated the almost closure of the 2nd Economic Adjustment Program and the country's exit from the tight surveillance by its official lenders, the so-called “Troika” (the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European Central Bank). Aspects of the negotiation are popularly known as the “Hardouvelis e-mail.” After his departure in early 2015, when a new government came to power and flirted with Grexit, growth stalled and turned negative.

During his term in office, Hardouvelis also enacted legislation for the establishment of DTC (Deferred Tax Credit), which counts as regulatory capital by SSM, the European bank supervisor. DTC was substantial in magnitude and shielded Greek banks from yet another forced recapitalization. As of June 2022, DTC continues to be approximately 63% of the total regulatory capital of Greek systemic banks.

Director of the Economic Office of the Prime Minister
Prior to being Minister of Finance, Hardouvelis had already served previous governments twice. This was from the position of the Director of the Economic Affairs Office of the Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic. The first time was from May 2000 to March 2004, when he served under Prime Minister Costas Simitis and the government of PASOK.

The second time as Director of the Economic Affairs Office of the Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic took place during the Greek economic crisis from November 2011 to May 2012, when he served under Prime Minister Lucas Papademos, who was also a technocrat and headed a coalition government. Hardouvelis was involved in the negotiations with bondholders about a partial write-down of public debt (the so-called Private Sector Involvement or PSI) and the subsequent bank recapitalization framework, as well as in the negotiations with the country's official lenders to design the second economic adjustment program for the period 2012–2014.

Academic career and research
Hardouvelis is a Full Professor of Finance and Economics in the Department of Banking and Financial Management of the University of Piraeus in Greece since 1994. Earlier, he was in the United States. From 1989 to 1993 he was Associate Professor and then Full Professor of Finance at the Business School of Rutgers University in New Brunswick. Prior to Rutgers University, he was assistant professor of economics at Barnard College, Columbia University in New York City (1983–1989).

His academic research extends in the fields of Finance and Macroeconomics and is published in many internationally renowned journals, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, The Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Business, and others.

He was included in the Hall of Fame of the top-50 referenced authors worldwide in applied econometrics over the period 1989 to 1995.

The yield curve and future economic activity
Hardouvelis’ academic research at the New York Fed on the predictive ability of the yield curve for future economic activity is pioneering. It is still widely followed by academics and market participants. Specifically, in 1988–89, together with Arturo Estrella he showed a clear connection between the financial sector and the real sector of the US economy. They developed a (probit) model of the probability of a future recession. Since then, the model has correctly forecasted the subsequent U.S. recessions in real time with a lead time of about one year and no false positives.

Margin requirements matter
In 1988, following the stock market crash of October 1987, Hardouvelis published an influential study concluding that in periods of high stock market margin requirements and in periods when margin requirements increase, excess volatility is low and deviations from fundamentals tend to subside. This work generated active discussion and a debate among academics and market practitioners and between the various US Exchanges. It influenced the reform of the legal framework governing the markets of futures on stock indices in the US.

The correct Euro/Drachma exchange rate
In January 1998, Hardouvelis co-authored with Dimitris Malliaropulos a study on the correct exchange rate between the domestic currency, the drachma, and the soon to be created Euro Area currency, the euro. This took place a few months before Greece joined the ERM2 and before the drachma exchange rate was locked to the euro. The study concluded that the Greek drachma was not overvalued relative to its long-term equilibrium value. This finding was in sharp contrast with the prevailing view of market analysts, economists, and policy makers. The study was both influential and prophetic, as it made a precise prediction for the exchange rate at which the drachma was eventually tied to the euro two years later, namely 1 euro = 340.75 drachmas.

A current index of economic policy uncertainty for Greece
Hardouvelis together with George Karalas, Dimitris Karanastasis, and Panayiotis Samartzis have constructed a widely followed monthly Economic Policy Uncertainty Index for Greece and several EPU sub-indices (regarding Monetary and Fiscal Policy, Currency, Banking and Pension Uncertainty). The indices go back to 1998 and are updated monthly with an extra month, as new information comes in for each new month. The index and its sub-indices are publicly available.

Early life and education
Hardouvelis was born in 1955 in the village of Poulithra in Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece to Angelos G. Hardouvelis (b.1915, d. 2000) and Zaharoula P. Constantinou-Hardouvelis (b.1925, d.1992). At the age of 12, after a regional competition, he won a full scholarship and for seven years he attended boarding school at Anatolia College in Thessaloniki, graduating in June 1974.  After high school, in September 1974 he moved to the United States on full scholarship from Harvard University. During his four years at Harvard, he earned both a B.A. (with the honor of magna cum Laude) and an M.Sc. degree in Applied Mathematics (both degrees in 1978). Later he earned a Ph.D. in economics from U.C. Berkeley (1985). Since 1982, he is married to Susan Bezjian Hardouvelis and together they have two sons.

References

External links
Gikas A. Hardouvelis Personal Website
Citations in Google Scholar, Google Scholar h-index
Gikas A. Hardouvelis Page in SSRN
National Bank of Greece, Management & Organizational Structure
Department of Banking & Financial Management, University of Piraeus, Greece
European Commission, Financial assistance to Greece

1955 births
Columbia University faculty
Finance ministers of Greece
20th-century Greek economists
Greek government-debt crisis
Harvard University alumni
Living people
Rutgers University faculty
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Academic staff of the University of Piraeus
People from Leonidio
21st-century Greek economists


title: Dryotribini

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Dryotribini is a tribe of beetles in the subfamily Cossoninae.

Genera
Agrilochilus - Allopentarthrum - Amaurorhinus - Ampharthropelma - Arecocryptus - Arecophaga - Atopoxydema - Barretonus - Benius - Caenopentarthrum - Catolethrobius - Catolethrus - Caulophilus - Caulotrupis - Cotaster - Cotasteroloeblia - Dryotribodes - Dryotribus - Echinomorphus - Elgoniella - Entium - Hexacoptus - Howdeniola - Iliolus - Isodryotribus - Lixomimus - Macrorhyncolus - Mahnertia - Microcopes - Micromimus - Microtribodes - Microtribus - Necrodryophthorus - Nesmicrocopes - Ochronanus - Paralicus - Peltophoridus - Pentarthrodes - Pentarthrophasis - Pentatemnodes - Pentatemnus - Pentebathmus - Pogonorhinus - Pseudomesoxenus - Salvagopselactus - Sengletius - Sericotrogus - Stenomimus - Stenotoura - Stenotribus - Stilbocara - Synommatodes - Toura - Trichopentarthrum - Uluguruella - Unas - ?Allaorus - ?Eiratus - ?Etheophanus - ?Exeiratus - ?Paedaretus - ?Stilboderma

References

 Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A.; Lyal, C.H.C. 1999: A world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (excepting Scolytidae and Platypodidae). Entomopraxis, Barcelona.
 Kuschel, G. 1964: Insects of Campbell Island. Coleoptera: Curculionidae of the subantarctic islands of New Zealand. Pacific insects monograph, 7: 416–493.
 Leschen, R.A.B.; Lawrence, J.F.; Kuschel, G.; Thorpe, S.; Wang, Q. 2003: Coleoptera genera of New Zealand. New Zealand entomologist, 26: 15–28.
 LeConte, J.L. & Horn, G.H. 1876: The Rhynchophora of America North of Mexico. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 15(96): i-xvi + 1–455.
 Macfarlane, R.P. et al. 2010: [Chapter] NINE Phylum ARTHROPODA SUBPHYLUM HEXAPODA Protura, springtails, Diplura, and insects. pp. 233–467 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.): New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume 2. Kingdom Animalia. Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand.

External links

 bugguide.net

Cossoninae


title: Tzi-Bʼalam

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Tzi-Bʼalam was the tenth ruler of Copan. He was nicknamed Moon Jaguar by archaeologists. He was a son of Bʼalam Nehn, the 7th ruler. He was enthroned in May 553. His surviving monuments were found in the modern village of Copán Ruinas, which was a major complex during the Classic period. The most famous construction dating to his reign is the elaborate Rosalila phase of Temple 16, discovered entombed intact under later phases of the temple during archaeological tunneling work.

Notes

References

6th-century monarchs in North America
Kings of Copán
578 deaths
Year of birth missing
6th century in the Maya civilization


title: Yunus Nüzhet Unat

text:
Yunus Nüzhet Unat (4 August 1913 – 27 July 1999) was a Turkish cyclist. He competed in the team pursuit event at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

References

External links

1913 births
1999 deaths
Turkish male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Turkey
Cyclists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing
20th-century Turkish people


title: Galip Cav

text:
Galip Cav (3 November 1912 – 1950) was a Turkish cyclist. He competed in the team pursuit and time trial events at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

References

External links

1912 births
1950 deaths
Turkish male cyclists
Fenerbahçe cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Turkey
Cyclists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Istanbul
20th-century Turkish people


title: T. S. Gurung

text:
T. S. Gurung (1923-1989) was a social and political worker of Darjeeling, India.

Life
Born in October 1923 at Kohima in Nagaland, Shri T. S. Gurung was educated in Guwahati and Shillong. He worked for the welfare of local population and was elected to the Rajya Sabha from West Bengal in 1986.

He was murdered in January, 1989.

1923 births
1989 deaths
Rajya Sabha members from West Bengal
Communist Party of India (Marxist) politicians from West Bengal
Gurung people


title: List of largest daily changes in the Nasdaq Composite

text:
This is a list of the largest daily changes in the Nasdaq Composite from 1971.

Largest percentage changes

Largest point changes

Largest intraday point swings
This table shows the largest intraday point swings since 1985.

Largest intraday percentage changes

Largest intraday percentage turnovers

Largest daily percentage changes per year

 Year has not yet ended.

See also
Nasdaq Composite
Closing milestones of the Nasdaq Composite
List of largest daily changes in the Dow Jones Industrial Average
List of largest daily changes in the S&P 500 Index
List of largest daily changes in the Russell 2000
List of stock market crashes and bear markets

References

External links
 http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3047-nasdaq_alltime.html
 https://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=%5EIXIC+Historical+Prices

Nasdaq
Economy-related lists of superlatives


title: Kʼakʼ Chan Yopaat

text:
Kʼakʼ Chan Yopaat was the eleventh dynastic ruler at Copán. He was crowned as king in AD 578, 24 days after the death of Tzi-Bʼalam. At the time of his rule Copán was undergoing an unprecedented rise in population, with residential land use spreading to all available land in the entire Copán Valley. The two surviving stelae of Kʼakʼ Chan Yopaat contain long hard-to-decipher hieroglyphic texts and are the oldest monuments at the site to survive without being either broken or buried. He had a long reign, ruling at Copán for 49 years, and he died on 5 February 628. His name is recorded on four stelae erected by his successors, one of which describes a rite performed with relics from his tomb in AD 730, almost a hundred years after his death.

Notes

References

6th-century monarchs in North America
Kings of Copán
628 deaths
Year of birth missing
6th century in the Maya civilization


The Garrison Literary and Benevolent Association was a 19th-century association of young African-American males whose purpose was promoting the abolition of slavery and the reformation of society.

Origins
This all-male club began in New York City in March 1834, under the leadership of Henry Highland Garnet, William H. Day, and David Ruggles. 150 African-American youths, all under 20, gathered in a public school for its first meeting.

Controversy with name
The inclusion of abolitionist Wm. Lloyd Garrison's name was controversial and drew immediate reactions. For example, a city official informed the young men that in order to continue using public facilities, they needed to find another name for their club. The defiant young scholars decided to keep the name and move to a private location instead.

"The young men passed several resolutions rejecting the 'uncalled for usurpation' of authority, keeping Garrison in the title, authorizing the Executive Committee to rent a meeting room, and declaring that the name would be passed down 'to posterity.' It was then ordered that a silk society banner be painted. 'It was pleasant to hear the little ones cry -- Garrison! Garrison! forever,' proclaimed the visitor."

Preamble
The preamble to the constitution of this organization was published in The Liberator (Garrison's newspaper) on April 19, 1834.

See also
Benefit society
Free African Union Society, Newport, Rhode Island
Free African Society, Philadelphia

External links
Hofstra University, Professor Alan J. Singer site

Notes

American abolitionist organizations
Organizations established in 1834
African-American organizations
Organizations based in New York City
African-American history in New York City
19th century in New York City
1834 establishments in New York (state)


title: The Black Market (Rise Against album)

text:
The Black Market is the seventh studio album by American punk rock band Rise Against, released on July 15, 2014 through Interscope Records. A melodic hardcore album, The Black Market comprises twelve songs that focus on mid-tempo rhythm, vocal hooks, and strong bridge sections. The album's thematically introspective lyrics are a departure from the band's typical social and political topics, and revolve around dark subject matter.

After touring in support of their 2011 album Endgame, Rise Against took a year-long hiatus, and began recording The Black Market in January 2014 at the Blasting Room in Fort Collins, Colorado. The band members employed new recording techniques, such as greater usage of analog signals on a Kemper amplifier, and an Evertune bridge to keep the guitars in tune. The Black Market debuted at number three on the Billboard 200, becoming Rise Against's fourth consecutive album to chart within the top ten. The album also charted highly in several other countries such as Canada, where it became Rise Against's third consecutive album to reach number one on the Canadian Albums Chart.

Critics praised the more introspective lyrics on The Black Market, but were divided in their opinions on the music; some found the music to be formulaic and stale, while others felt it was more nuanced than previous Rise Against material, and that it complemented the lyrics. To promote the album, Rise Against toured throughout 2014 and 2015 with several other rock bands, such as Touché Amoré, Pennywise, and Killswitch Engage.

Background and recording
Rise Against released their sixth studio album, Endgame, in 2011. A commercial success, the band toured in support of the album for two years, and released the compilation album Long Forgotten Songs: B-Sides & Covers 2000–2013 in 2013. Guitarist Zach Blair noted how the extensive touring took a toll on the band members. He said, "You’re constantly gone. You don't feel like you live anywhere". He also discussed how the other three band members' lives had evolved, and were away from their families for months on end. "It's an interesting thing to kind of realize that and kind of get out of the bubble, get out of the bus, and go 'Oh, geez, we actually have lives outside of what we do.'" Rise Against took a year-long hiatus, and reconvened in January 2014 to begin work on The Black Market.

The band chose Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore to produce the album. The duo had produced four of Rise Against's last five albums, and the two parties developed a strong rapport with each other over the years. The album was recorded at the Blasting Room in Fort Collins, Colorado. When asked about the Blasting Room, Blair said: "You go up there and just live, breathe, and eat your record. There aren't any distractions, and that's really what works for us". The Black Market featured new recording techniques for Rise Against. The band tweaked its guitar tones by using more analog signals on a Kemper amplifier, and used an Evertune bridge to keep the guitars in tune. This facilitated a greater focus on the creative aspects of recording, rather than just technical ones. As singer Tim McIlrath put it: "I want the songs to feel a certain way. I want the songs to hit the guy and the girl who don't really care about guitar tones." Stevenson wanted to maintain the rawness of McIlrath's vocals as opposed to smoothing them out like on previous albums.

As Rise Against's primary lyricist, McIlrath elected to have introspection as the major theme of the album. At first, McIlrath wanted to write about the role of Rise Against for himself and the listeners. As the songwriting sessions progressed, McIlrath began to write about more personal experiences, which he described as "a cathartic experience." He continued, saying, "So the silver lining was how you deal with it. It was a form of therapy, and what I wanted to do on this album was confront all of it." The theme of introspection differed from the band's previous material, which often focused on social and political issues. McIlrath noted the new theme arose from the idea that the band members were seven albums into their career, and that the lyrics necessitated a new approach. He also said that the introspection theme affected the music on the album, as the band members took the approach of "what else can we say that we haven't said before?"

Composition

Music and lyrics

AllMusic's Gregory Heaney described The Black Market as a more toned-down version of Endgame, while Andy Biddulph of Rock Sound said it was the amalgamation of all of Rise Against's previous material. Biddulph wrote how the album featured the "pressing riffs" of The Sufferer & the Witness (2006) mixed with the pop punk sound of Appeal to Reason (2008). Max Qayyum of Punknews.org disagreed with this view, and said The Black Market was the greatest departure from the band's original sound, and that it had a distinct rock sound when compared to the band's previous material. The album's lyrics are thematically introspective, and often focus on dark subject matter. This is reflected in the album's title, which was inspired by the "marketplace of emotions" McIlrath had to sift through to write the lyrics.

Songs
The first song on The Black Market, "The Great Die-Off", begins with instrumentation on a violin before transitioning into a fast guitar section with heavy bass. According to McIlrath, the song is about "a generation's type of thinking dying off, as the people who think it die off [...] it's about bigotry, which persists as long as these people do". The next two songs, "I Don't Want to Be Here Anymore" and "Tragedy + Time" feature more personal messages; "I Don't Want to Be Here Anymore" is about resolving to escape from the dark moments in one's life, while pop punk-driven "Tragedy + Time" tells the listener to push through hardship and that life will eventually get better. "The Eco-Terrorist in Me" is a short, fast-paced hardcore punk song, similar to songs from Rise Against's 2003 album Revolutions per Minute, and features screaming vocals. Its lyrics advocate for environmental and animal activism via eco-terrorism.

James Hickie of Kerrang! said "Sudden Life" has "arena-tantalizing melodies", and is about the fading will to live. McIlrath noted that the band experimented with the sonics on "Sudden Life", and how he felt it sounded similar to the music of U2 and Foo Fighters. "A Beautiful Indifference" chastises armchair activists during Occupy movements, while "Methadone" tells of a crumbling relationship. The next song, "Zero Visibility", fuses classic rock riffs with numerous tempo changes. McIlrath said "Awake Too Long" is about taking in the negativity in the world, and the desire to "close your eyes and be ignorant to all of it". The penultimate song is an acoustic ballad called "People Live Here", which references gun control and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The final song, "Bridges", "skirts between tempos and does so cleverly, maintaining energy throughout," according to Qayyum.

Release

On April 14, 2014, Rise Against posted a video on their Facebook page teasing a new album with images of the band members in-studio and the message "Coming Soon." Two months later, Rise Against posted another teaser video, which revealed their seventh studio album, titled The Black Market, would be released July 15. To promote the album, Rise Against embarked on world tour throughout 2014, with supporting bands Touché Amoré and Radkey for North American performances, and the bands Pennywise and Emily's Army for European performances. This was followed by guest appearances on Linkin Park's The Hunting Party Tour, and a summer tour in 2015 with Killswitch Engage and Letlive.

In the United States, The Black Market debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 and sold 53,000 copies in its first week. It was their fourth consecutive album to debut in the top ten on the Billboard 200, and it spent eleven weeks on the chart. Elsewhere on Billboard charts,  The Black Market peaked at number one on the Top Alternative Albums, Top Rock Albums, and Top Hard Rock Albums charts. On the Canadian Albums Chart, The Black Market became Rise Against's third consecutive album to peak at number one. It was certified gold by Music Canada in 2014, denoting shipments of 40,000 copies.

The Black Market first single, "I Don't Want to Be Here Anymore", reached number twenty-one on the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart, their lowest peak single since the inception of chart in 2009. The single did find more success on the Alternative Songs and Mainstream Rock charts, peaking at numbers thirteen and five respectively. Internationally, "I Don't Want to Be Here Anymore" peaked at number ninety-two on the Canadian Hot 100, and number sixty-nine on Australia's Top 100 Singles Chart, Rise Against's only single to chart within the top 100 in Australia. The Black Market second single, "Tragedy + Time", did not chart on the Hot Rock Songs chart, but it did peak at number twenty-six and twenty-eight on the Alternative Songs and Mainstream Rock charts respectively. "The Eco-Terrorist in Me" was released as a separate 7-inch single on April 18, 2015, coinciding with Record Store Day. The song featured two B-sides: the previously unreleased "About Damn Time" and "We Will Never Forget", a spoken word performance by American journalist Bill Potter.

Accompanying music videos were shot for the two singles. The video for "I Don't Want to Be Here Anymore" features documentary-style footage of Chicago residents discussing gun violence in the city, overlaid with statistics about several acts of global violence, including the Mexican Drug War, the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping, and animal poaching. The "Tragedy + Time" video features the band performing amidst a series of white blocks as darkened shadows blur their image. These clips are interspersed with clips of a naked redheaded woman kneeling in front of the same blocks. Rise Against also produced a video for "People Live Here" despite it not being a single. The video follows the daily lives of a businessman and a man living on low income. According to Radio.com, the video criticizes people who insulate themselves from the lives of others by remaining in their own bubble.

For its 6th anniversary, the band released an expanded version of the album on July 15, 2020, which included the Japanese bonus track "Escape Artist" and the B-sides from "The Eco-Terrorist in Me" Single.

Critical reception

The Black Market was met with mostly positive reviews. On Metacritic, it scored 76/100 from 7 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". James Hickie of Kerrang! gave the album a perfect score, and called it "a magnificent wake-up call [...] one of the year's best and most intellectual records". Most critics however did not give The Black Market as good of a score, but were generally positive in their opinions. AllMusic's Gregory Heaney noted that although it may not be Rise Against's best album, it was its most timeless album, and commended the more universal lyrics. Ryan Bray of Consequence of Sound described The Black Market as a "healthy, mixed bag", while Andy Biddulph of Rock Sound wrote "The Black Market falls into the unfortunate category of being a good album by a great band." Punknews.org's May Qayyum wrote a more negative review, in which he said the album had potential but was ultimately disappointing and a misstep in the band's discography.

Heaney said The Black Market music worked in tandem with the personal lyrics, as it allowed the listener to experience other emotions besides outrage; this sentiment was shared by Hickie. Both Bray and Exclaim! Peter Sanfilippo felt the album's music did not significantly differ
from the music featured on Endgame, and that Rise Against's melodic hardcore sound had grown stale. By contrast, the Sputnikmusic review complimented the music, and noted how musical variation in The Black Market eschewed the monotonous nature of Endgame. The reviewer ultimately said that it was Rise Against's best album since The Sufferer & the Witness. Biddulph wrote the use of pop rock driven melodies "ensures they’re not at their worst, but the middling nature of this album means the Chicago veterans are certainly nowhere near their finest".

Several critics appreciated the more personal lyrics, as they provided a much-needed reprieve from the aggressively political lyrics found in nearly all of the band's previous albums. Bray felt there was a "winning quality" in listening to the more personal songs as opposed to songs about failed relationships, while Heaney said the more personal songs prove that "a move doesn't have to be loud to be bold". Biddulph found the personal songs to be a rare glimpse of human vulnerability from Rise Against, but that they were undermined by more political songs such as "The Eco-Terrorist in Me". Mischa Pearlman of Alternative Press noted how most of the lyrics were open to interpretation, and that regardless of how the listener interpreted them, they were forged with "visceral emotion".

The Black Market was included in Kerrang! and Rock Sound lists of the fifty best albums of 2014, at number six and thirty-three respectively.

Track listing
All lyrics written by Tim McIlrath, except where noted; all music composed by Rise Against

Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of The Black Market.

Rise Against
 Tim McIlrath – lead vocals, rhythm guitar (guitar solo on "Zero Visibility")
 Zach Blair – lead guitar, backing vocals
 Joe Principe – bass guitar, backing vocals
 Brandon Barnes – drums, percussion

Artwork
 LeAnn Mueller – photography
 Dina Hovsepian – album artwork

Additional musicians
 Chad Price (of All) – backing vocals
 Ian Short – violin on "The Great Die-Off" and "People Live Here"
 Adrienne Short – viola on "The Great Die-Off" and "People Live Here"
 Amy Morgan – cello on "People Live Here"

Production
 Bill Stevenson – production, engineering
 Jason Livermore – production, engineering
 Andrew Berlin, Chris Beeble – engineering, additional production
 Chris Lord-Alge – mixing
 Keith Armstrong & Nik Karpen – additional engineering
 Dmitar "Dim-E" Krnjaic – additional assistance
 Ted Jensen – mastering

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

2014 albums
Albums produced by Bill Stevenson (musician)
Interscope Records albums
Rise Against albums


title: Helen Craig (actress)

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Helen Craig (May 13, 1912 – July 20, 1986) was an American actress, perhaps best known for her role on Broadway as the main character, Belinda, in Johnny Belinda.

Early years
The daughter of copper executive Edward A. Craig, Helen Craig was born on May 13, 1912, in San Antonio, Texas. She had a sister, Marian, and two brothers, Robert and Edward Jr.

Television
As well as films, Craig appeared in numerous plays, and on television she had frequent appearances in The Waltons, Kojak and The Bionic Woman.

Stage
Craig was "a graduate of the Orson Welles' celebrated Mercury Theatre". Her Broadway credits include Russet Mantle (1936), Soliloquy (1938), The Unconquered (1940), Johnny Belinda (1940), As You Like It (1941), Lute Song (1946), Land's End (1946), The House of Bernarda Alba (1951), Diamond Orchid (1965), and More Stately Mansions (1967).

Her work in Johnny Belinda required her to learn sign language, which she used throughout the play as she portrayed the deaf title character. She also had to learn to not react to lines spoken by other actors in the play. Preparation for the role included four weeks' study with a teacher who read the script and taught Craig the appropriate signs.

Personal life
Craig was married to actor John Beal from 1934 until her death. They had two daughters, Theodora Emily and Tandy Johanna.

Death
Craig died of cardiac arrest on July 20, 1986, in New York City, aged 74.

Partial filmography
 The Snake Pit (1948)
 They Live by Night (1948)
 The Sporting Club (1971)
 Rancho Deluxe (1975)
 The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975)
 Heroes (1977)

References

External links

1912 births
1986 deaths
Actresses from San Antonio
American film actresses
American stage actresses
American television actresses
20th-century American actresses


title: Rubin Stadium

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Rubin Stadium is a football stadium in Kazan, Russia. It is located in the training ground of FC Rubin Kazan, and served as their home stadium until 1960. It has a capacity of 7,847. It was used as a venue for the 2013 Summer Universiade.

References

FC Rubin Kazan
Football venues in Russia

Sport in Kazan
Buildings and structures in Kazan


title: Robert Dewar (diplomat)

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Robert Scott Dewar  (born 10 June 1949), is a retired British diplomat who was previously the British Ambassador to Ethiopia and Madagascar and High Commissioner to Mozambique and Nigeria.

He has served as the UK Permanent Representative to the African Union (2004-2006) and the UK Permanent Representative to the Economic Community of West African States (2007-2011). He was a member of board of trustees of the British Red Cross until 2019. He was made a member of the Order of St Michael and St George in 2006.

References

1949 births
Living people
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Madagascar
High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Mozambique
High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Nigeria
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Ethiopia


title: George Danzer

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George Danzer  (born 17 July 1983 in São Paulo, Brazil) is an entrepreneur and former German professional poker player, based in Salzburg, Austria who is a four-time World Series of Poker bracelets winner, winning the inaugural $10,000 Seven Card Razz Championship and then the $10,000 Seven-Card Stud High-Low Championship at the 2014 World Series of Poker. He won his third bracelet winning the $5,000 Mixed Event 8-Game event at the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific. His total live tournament winnings exceed $1.9 million

In his youth he excelled at Chess and played the World Youth Championship for Portugal as the sub 10 Portuguese Champion.

In May 2006, he finished 3rd at the Worlds Heads Up Championship in Barcelona.

World Series of Poker
At the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event, he became known as the player who is seen receiving a series of bad beats at the Main Event, which resulted in increasing the stack of the then chip leader Dmitri Nobles. During the ESPN broadcast Danzer is seen leaving the table to steam off, only to return and congratulate his opponent.

He made the final table at the 2007 World Series of Poker in the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better event outlasting 678 players in his ninth-place finish.

At the 2010 World Series of Poker, Danzer finished 3rd in the $10,000 2–7 Draw Lowball Championship in a field of 101 players for $115,295 behind runner-up Eric Cloutier and the winner David "Bakes" Baker.

At the 2012 World Series of Poker, he finished 2nd in the $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8 or Better event $140,825 behind the winner Oleksii Kovalchuk and then finished 3rd in the $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Single Draw event for $115,295 behind runner-up Mike Wattel and winner Nick Schulman.

At the 2013 World Series of Poker, he made the final table the $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or Better event finishing in 6th place for $34,348.

At the 2014 World Series of Poker, Danzer won his first bracelet by winning the $10,000 Seven Card Razz event for $294,792. He later won his second bracelet by winning the $10,000 Seven-Card Stud High-Low Championship event, earning $352,696.  He won his third bracelet by winning the AU$5,000 8-Game Mixed event at the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific, earning AU$84,600.

His performance at the 2014 World Series of Poker (which included events at the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific) secured him the 2014 WSOP Player of the Year Award.

He won his 4th WSOP bracelet is 2016 in the $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split-8 or Better Championship for $338,646.

As of 2017, his total live tournament winnings exceed $2,700,000.

World Series of Poker bracelets

An "A" following a year denotes bracelet(s) won at the World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific

Online poker
As a member of Team PokerStars Pro, Danzer plays under his own name "GeorgeDanzer" among his highlights online are two World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) titles, the first in the 2009 WCOOP $320 Pot Limit Omaha [1 Rebuy/1 Add-on, 6-max] event for $109,545 and his second in the 2012 WCOOP $320 No Limit Hold’em [Ante Up] event for $69,717.09 and four Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) titles his first was in 2010 winning the $162 Fixed-Limit Badugi (Medium) event for $10,345.70, in the 2012 SCOOP he won his 2nd and 3rd title, the $2,100 NL Single Draw 2-7 (High) event for $34,040 and then the $2,100 NL Hold'em [4-Max] (High) event for $155,000 then winning his fourth SCOOP title in the $2,100 PL Omaha [Turbo, Zoom] (High) event for $129,645.

Career

inSight (2018)
Since mid-2018, George Danzer is the CEO of the agency inSight gg GmbH, which specializes in individual influencer marketing on the Twitch and Youtube platforms.

Youblicity (2019)
Since March 2019, he has also been managing director of Youblicity GmbH, a technology provider for advertising in live streams.

References

External links
Homepage of Pokerplayers George Danzer and Jan Heitmann
Team Pokerstars blogs

1983 births
Living people
German poker players
World Series of Poker bracelet winners
WSOP Player of the Year Award winners
Sportspeople from São Paulo
Category:Sportspeople from Salzburg


title: Britain's Got Talent (series 9)

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The ninth series of British talent competition programme Britain's Got Talent was broadcast on ITV, from 11 April to 31 May 2015. The series saw the "Wildcard" format introduced in the sixth series being modified in this series to include a "Public Wildcard" – like the "Judges' Wildcard" any act eliminated in the semi-finals, primarily those that lost out in the Judges' vote, could be reinstated by the public, based on the one that received the most votes from them before the final. Although speculations and rumours began to emerge after the previous series ended, claiming that some of the judges would be leaving before the ninth series, these were later dismissed as being unfounded by ITV, on 16 January 2015.

The ninth series was won by dog tricks duo Jules O'Dwyer & Matisse, with magician Jamie Raven finishing in second place and Welsh choir Côr Glanaethwy third. During its broadcast, the series averaged around 9.9 million viewers. The ninth series saw the programme have to answer allegations of animal cruelty against a ventriloquist, while the producers caused controversy over the handling of O'Dwyer's performance in the final that Ofcom later ruled to have been misleading following complaints by viewers.

Series overview
Following open auditions held the previous year between October and December, the Judges' auditions took place between January and February 2015, within Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham and London. Unlike previous years, where a guest judge had to stand-in for another, no issues occurred that caused a member of the judging panel to be absent, while the auditions were held in a more standard manner for this year, though with the "Golden Buzzer" format remaining a part of them since its introduction to the show in the previous series.

Of the participants that took part, forty-five made it past this stage and into the five live semi-finals – of these acts, dance troupe Boyband, singer Calum Scott, choir Revelation Avenue, dance act Entity Allstars, and comedy singer Lorraine Bowen, each received a golden buzzer during their auditions – with nine appearing in each one. In a minor change to the show's "Wildcard act" format, the series saw the introduction of the "Public Wildcard". Like the "Judges' wildcard", if a semi-finalist was eliminated in their semi-final at the Judges' vote, they became eligible to be picked as a wildcard act by the public, who would vote on which one they would like to reinstate into the final once all the semi-finals had been aired, with their choice being the one to have received the most votes by the time the final was due to be aired. While the Public Wildcard was extreme martial artist Jesse-Jane McParland, who lost out in the tied Judges' vote in the final semi-final, the Judges' Wildcard for this series was dance troupe Boyband, who lost the Judges' vote in the fourth semi-final. As a result, it led to a total of twelve acts taking part in the series' final.

The following below lists the results of each participant's overall performance in this series:

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 Judges' Wildcard Finalist |  Public Wildcard Finalist |  Golden Buzzer Audition

  Ages denoted for a participant(s), pertain to their final performance for this series.
  The age of the dogs used by Jules O'Dwyer, other than Matisse, and that of the dog used by Marc Metral, were not disclosed during their time on the programme.
  The latter value denotes the age of the dog, as disclosed by its owner.

Semi-finals summary
 Buzzed out |  Judges' vote |
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Semi-final 1 (25 May)
Guest Performer, Results Show: Ricky Martin

Semi-final 2 (26 May)
Guest Performer, Results Show: Jack Pack

Semi-final 3 (27 May)
Guest Performer, Results Show: Alesha Dixon

Semi-final 4 (28 May)
Guest Performer, Results Show: Olly Murs

  Boyband were later sent through to the final as the judges' wildcard.

Semi-final 5 (29 May)
Guest performers, Results Show: Collabro

  Jesse-Jane McParland was later sent through to the final as the public's wildcard.

Final (31 May)
Guest Performers, Results Show: Andrea Bocelli, and cast of Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance

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Ratings

Criticism & controversies

Marc Métral ventriloquism act
In April 2015, following the audition of Marc Métral, several animal rights groups raised complaints that his performance, involving the use of a dog, purported to portraying a form of animal cruelty on television. The routine he used involved his dog wearing a specially designed "ventriloquist mask" – a special device used by ventriloquists on human volunteers, in order to make them into special dummy character for their routines - and was conducted in a similar manner to that of a participant on the seventh series of America's Got Talent in 2012. Métral refuted the claims by stating that he cared deeply for the well-being of his dog, while Simon Cowell refuted the claims a month later, owing to his involvement in dog charities, defending the broadcast of the footage on Twitter by explaining that the audition was allowed to be shown because both himself and the production staff had involved the RSPCA to oversee the welfare of Métral's dog before, during, and after his performance.

Misleading dog act
The ninth series became notable for the controversy surrounding the performance of Jules O'Dwyer, and in particular the routine of her dog tricks act in the final. The nature of the complaint focused on the fact that while O'Dwyer had been clear that her occupation involved training and use multiple dogs for her routines, she hadn't disclosed the fact that she had to use two dogs with similar appearances for the final, as her main dog Matisse was unable to perform a trick involving a tightrope section. When this came to light in an interview the morning after the final on 1 June 2015, Ofcom were forced to launch an investigation after 1,000 complaints were raised by viewers who felt misled by the performance's broadcast.

Although no formal action was taken by the programme against O'Dwyer and producers, after Cowell launched his own investigation into the incident, an apology had to be issued for the confusion caused by the failure not to disclose this detail as clearly as possible. However, on 17 August, Ofcom found in their investigation that while there had been no intention to deceive viewers, both the production staff and ITV were responsible for allowing Britain's Got Talent to mislead people, and ruled that they had breached broadcasting codes that require television and radio programmes to not be misleading and present facts as accurately as possible.

References

2015 British television seasons
Britain's Got Talent


title: Harsh Deo Malaviya

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Harsh Deo Malaviya (1917-1989) was a journalist and economist with socialist ideas. He participated in the Quit India Movement and was imprisoned several times. He was a close associate of Acharya Narendra Dev.

He authored a number of books on articles on land reforms, non-alignment, Indo-African issues and world peace. He represented the State of Uttar Pradesh in Rajya Sabha from 1972-8.

Bibliography
 Socialist Ideology of Congress. A Study in Its Evolution. (1966)
 Indian National Congress: A Brief History (1974)

References

20th-century Indian economists
Journalists from Uttar Pradesh
Writers from Prayagraj
Quit India Movement
Rajya Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh
1917 births
1989 deaths
Politicians from Prayagraj
Indian male journalists


title: Chan Imix Kʼawiil

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Chan Imix Kʼawiil was the twelfth ruler of the Maya city state Copán. His nickname was Smoke Jaguar.

Smoke Imix was crowned 16 days after the death of Kʼakʼ Chan Yopaat. He is thought to have been the longest-reigning king of Copán, ruling from 628 to 695. He is believed to have been born in 604 CE and to have become king at the age of 23. Archaeologists have recovered little evidence of activity for the first 26 years of his reign, but in 652 CE there was a sudden rise in monument production, with two stelae being erected in the Great Plaza and a further four in important locations across the Copán Valley. These monuments all celebrated a kʼatun-ending. He also erected a stela at the Santa Rita site  away and is mentioned on Altar L at Quiriguá in relation to the same event in 652. It is thought that he was trying to stamp his authority throughout the whole valley after the end of some earlier restriction to his freedom to rule as he wished.

After this sudden spate of activity, Smoke Imix continued to rule until almost the end of the 7th century; he dedicated another nine known monuments and made important changes to the architecture of Copán, including the construction of Structure 2 which closes the northern side of the Great Plaza and a new version of Temple 26, nicknamed Chorcha. Smoke Imix ruled Copán for 67 years and died on 18 June 695 at the age of 90, an age that was so distinguished that it is used to identify him in place of his name on Altar Q. His tomb had already been prepared in the Chorcha phase of Temple 26 and he was buried just two days after his death.

In popular culture
Chan Imix is a playable leader (as "Smoke-Jaguar") of the Maya state in the 2001 video game Civilization III.

Notes

References

7th-century monarchs in North America
Kings of Copán
604 births
695 deaths
7th century in the Maya civilization


The 1929–30 Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball team represented the University of Pittsburgh during the 1929–30 NCAA men's basketball season in the United States. The head coach was Doc Carlson, coaching in his eighth season with the Panthers. The team finished the season with a 23–2 record and were named national champions by the Helms Athletic Foundation (two seasons earlier, the Panthers were also named Helms national champions). Chuck Hyatt was named a consensus All-American for the third consecutive season, led the nation in scoring for a second time in his career, and capped off his collegiate career by being named the national player of the year.

Schedule and results

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Source

References

Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball seasons
Pittsburgh
NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament championship seasons
Pittsburgh Panthers Men's Basketball Team
Pittsburgh Panthers Men's Basketball Team
1920s in Pittsburgh


title: Pyrenasaurus

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Pyrenasaurus is an extinct genus of lizard that includes only one species, the type species Pyrenasaurus evansae, which lived around the Pyrenees mountains during the Late Eocene. P. evansae was named in 2014 on the basis of three dentaries (bones that form the lower jaw), one from the Phosphorites du Quercy in Quercy, France and two from the Sossís fossil locality in Catalonia, Spain. The paucity of known material makes its relationships uncertain; it is either a true skink in the family Scincidae or a close relative of skinks in the larger group Scincoidea. Pyrenasaurus is very small for a lizard, with a dentary length of only . It also has very few teeth for a lizard, with only eleven tooth positions in the dentary. Other unusual anatomical features include the shortness straightness of the jaw, the lack of a Meckelian groove on the inside of the dentary, and the enlargement and lateral compression of the posterior-most dentary teeth. Pyrenasaurus may have been a fossorial or burrowing lizard because a short, straight dentary with few teeth is also present in numerous living fossorial lizards, having evolved independently in many lineages. However, the extremely small size of Pyrenasaurus may have inhibited its ability to burrow. The enlarged posterior teeth of Pyrenasaurus suggest it had a specialized diet, but what it was eating remains unknown because no living lizards have similar dentitions.

References

Skinks
Eocene lizards
Eocene reptiles of Europe
Paleogene France
Paleogene Spain
Fossils of France
Fossils of Spain
Fossil taxa described in 2014


title: Rhyncolini

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Rhyncolini is a tribe of beetles in the subfamily Cossoninae.

Genera
Amasinus - Anolethrus - Anotheorus - Aphanommata - Apomimus - Apotrepus - Brachyscapus - Carphonotus - Catamimus - Caulosomus - Coptodes - Coptus - Cotasterosoma - Elassoptes - Euryrrhinus - Exostenoscelis - Eutornopsis - Heptarthrum - Hexarthroides - Himatium - Isochronanus - Leptodemasius - Macrancylus - Muschanella - Neohexarthrum - Neorhyncolus - Omeretes - Oodemas - Pachymastax - Pachyops - Pachystylus - Pentarhyncolus - Phloeophagosoma - Phloeophagus - Proleptomimus - Protamorphoceras - Protoplatypus - Pseudencoptus - Pseudocatolethrus - Pseudomimus - Pseudotanaos - Rhyncolus - Stenancylus - Stenomimodes - Stenoscelidus - Tetraclerus - Tomolips - Xenomimites - Xenotrupis

References

External links

 Subfamily Cossoninae - atlas of weevils (Curculionidae) of Russia

Cossoninae
Beetles described in 1856
Beetle tribes


title: Tomović

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Tomović (Cyrillic script: Томовић) is a Serbian patronymic surname derived from a masculine given name Tomo. It may refer to:

Branko Tomović (born 1980), actor
Dimitrije Tomović (born 1996), Serbian footballer
Nenad Tomović (born 1987), footballer
Rajko Tomović (1919–2001), scientist
Vasilije Tomović (born 1906), chess master

Surnames of Serbian origin
Patronymic surnames


title: Recipe Rehab

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Recipe Rehab is an American cooking competition television program that originally debuted as a short-form web series on YouTube on April 2, 2012, and subsequently became a half-hour television series on October 6, 2012 as part of the ABC station-primarily syndicated Litton's Weekend Adventure block. As such, it was the first web series produced as a YouTube original program to become a weekly network television series. Since September 28, 2013, Recipe Rehab has aired on CBS as part of Litton's CBS Dream Team Saturday morning block; first-run episodes continued to air until July 25, 2015, with reruns airing until September 26. The television program is designed to meet educational programming requirements defined by the Federal Communications Commission.

Format
The program features healthy lifestyle and competition elements, with each episode featuring two competing chefs who each develop their own healthier versions of the featured family's recipe. The winning dish is determined by a panel of certified nutritionists (as of the 2014–15 season, Stephanie Clarke and Willow Jarosh, both registered dietitians with master's degrees in science) and the family featured in the given episode. Each dish is rated on a categorical score from 1 to 10, based on the total percentage of total fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, sugar and sodium content reduced in the "rehabbed" recipe in comparison to the original; the ease and length of preparation between the two "rehabbed" recipes (both categories are determined by the nutritionist panel); and the taste of the healthier dish (which is determined by the family). These scores are combined into the maximum cumulative score of 30, determining the chef with the episode's winning recipe.

The YouTube format was an eight-minute program featuring two of three chefs – Daniel Boome, Laura Vitale and Mareya Ibrahim – who alternated depending on the episode. The television version is a 30-minute format, which initially saw Boome reassigned to hosting duties with three new chefs – Calvin Harris, Candice Kumai and Tana Amen – being brought into the rotation. After the show moved from Litton's Weekend Adventure to the CBS Dream Team in 2013, the program became hosted by Evette Rios, with Richard Rosendale and Vikki Krinsky serving as the competing chefs. Episodes also feature multiple-choice trivia questions at the end of the first and, in some episodes, second segments regarding a particular element of nutritional value, as well as "food fact" graphics at the bottom of the screen during the preparation segments that pertain to the nutritional value, origins and uses of a particular ingredient used in the recipes.

Both formats show the preparation of each dish by the two chefs – who are given either 45 or 60 minutes to prepare the dish depending on the ease of the individual recipe, with the segments condensed due to time constraints – during each episode; the preparation segments encompass the first two segments of the television format. In the television format, the third segment features the family preparing the dish with the ingredients and certain food preparation utensils used in the chef's recipes (which are delivered in separate red- and yellow-colored boxes – individually colored to define each chef's recipe – which also contain tablet computers pre-programmed with the instructions for both recipes as well as nutritional fact comparisons between the original recipe and the "rehabbed" red and yellow recipes).

Deviating from the regular competition format, the television version occasionally features special "ask the chef" episodes, featuring questions submitted to one of the chefs by the children of various families that have participated in past and upcoming episodes during the taping of the at-home cooking segments about healthy food alternatives, and demonstrations of recipes preparable in approximately ten minutes.

History
Recipe Rehab was first launched on YouTube on April 2, 2012 as a co-production of Everyday Health and Trium Entertainment, with the initial episodes made available on the video sharing website's Everyday Health channel. The program was one of several web series directly funded by YouTube as a part of its initiative to provide premium original video content. Everyday Health wanted to move Recipe Rehab to broadcast television to allow cross-promotion between the two versions, and entered into a partnership with Litton Entertainment to produce the show as a television series.

Upon its debut on October 6, 2012, the television version of the show initially aired on Litton's Weekend Adventure (a syndicated educational programming block produced by Litton for ABC's owned-and-operated stations and affiliates), replacing a self-titled series produced by Everyday Health on the block's now-defunct "Health and Wellness Hour" (consisting of health and culinary programs that filled the block's third hour during its first three seasons); this version expanded the program's format to 30 minutes. An executive for Everyday Health indicated that it was expected that Recipe Rehab would earn more revenue from product placements and similar arrangements than from advertising sales.

Litton moved Recipe Rehab from Weekend Adventure to the CBS Dream Team (an educational program block formed through a time-lease agreement with Litton to program CBS' children's programming time period on Saturday mornings) upon the block's launch on September 28, 2013, for the series' second television season. Recipe Rehab was among the two programs (along with All In) that were not included on the CBS Dream Teams fall 2015 schedule when it was announced on July 30, 2015 (five days after the last episode of the series aired).

References

External links

 – Recipe Rehab show website on CBSDreamTeam.com

2010s American children's television series
2010s American cooking television series
2013 American television series debuts
2015 American television series endings
American children's education television series
Litton Entertainment


title: Louis Domingue

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Louis Boileau-Domingue (born March 6, 1992) is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender for the Hartford Wolf Pack of the American Hockey League (AHL) while under contract with the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL).

Domingue was selected by the Phoenix Coyotes in the fifth round, 138th overall, of the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, with whom he spent the first portion of his career. He has also played in the NHL for the Tampa Bay Lightning, Vancouver Canucks, New Jersey Devils, Calgary Flames, and Pittsburgh Penguins.

Playing career

Early career
Domingue was drafted 13th overall by the Moncton Wildcats in the 2008 Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) Entry Draft, and he played major junior hockey in the QMJHL with both the Wildcats and the Quebec Remparts. In 2010 he was selected to play in the CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game. Domingue was subsequently drafted by the NHL's Phoenix Coyotes and, on June 1, 2011, he was signed by the team to a three-year, entry-level contract.

Domingue was assigned to play the 2011–12 season with the Remparts, where he led all QMJHL goaltenders with a .914 save percentage before making his professional debut the following year, playing the 2012–13 season with both the Portland Pirates of the American Hockey League (AHL) and the Gwinnett Gladiators of the ECHL.

Phoenix/Arizona Coyotes
In the 2014–15 season, after Arizona traded its backup goaltender Devan Dubnyk to the Minnesota Wild, Domingue was called up to the NHL for the first time to back-up starter Mike Smith. Domingue made his NHL debut appearing in relief and allowing two goals in a 7–2 defeat to the Ottawa Senators on January 31, 2015. The following day, Domingue received his first NHL start, and recorded his first win, in a 3–2 victory over the then-Eastern Conference-leading Montreal Canadiens. He finished the season as Smith's full-time backup.

In the 2015–16 season, Domingue was again recalled, following an injury to Mike Smith. Originally intended to back-up Anders Lindbäck during Smith's injury, Domingue's strong play moved him ahead of Lindbäck and into the temporary starting role. On June 27, 2016, Domingue signed a two-year contract extension with Arizona.

Tampa Bay Lightning
Domingue began the 2017–18 season as Arizona's backup goaltender. With an injury to newly acquired starter Antti Raanta from the New York Rangers, Domingue was unable to hold the fort, going winless in seven games. On October 29, 2017, Domingue was placed on waivers by the Coyotes, but cleared waivers the next day, and was the assigned to the Coyotes' AHL affiliate, the Tucson Roadrunners, on October 31, 2017. On November 14, 2017, before appearing with the Roadrunners, the Coyotes traded Domingue to the Tampa Bay Lightning in exchange for goaltender Michael Leighton and forward Tye McGinn.

On June 22, 2018, the Lightning signed Domingue to a two-year, $2.3 million contract extension. On December 10, 2018, Domingue was named the NHL's second star of the week. On February 2, 2019, Domingue helped the Lightning record a 3–2 win over the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden. The win was Domingue's ninth straight win. The win tied him with John Grahame (2005–06) and Andrei Vasilevskiy (2017–18) for the longest win streak by a Lightning goaltender. On February 10, 2019, Domingue set the franchise record with his tenth straight win, which came in a 5–2 Lightning victory over the Florida Panthers at BB&T Center. On February 19, 2019, Domingue extended his win streak to 11-games in a 5–2 win over the Philadelphia Flyers at Wells Fargo Center. Domingue's streak came to an end against the Boston Bruins on February 28, 2019.

On September 20, 2019, Domingue was placed on waivers by the Lightning. He cleared the following day, and was assigned to the Syracuse Crunch to begin the 2019–20 season. In four games with the Crunch, Domingue posted a 2–1–1 record.

New Jersey Devils and Vancouver Canucks
On November 1, 2019, Domingue was traded to the New Jersey Devils in exchange for a conditional seventh round draft pick in the 2021 NHL Entry Draft. He initially joined AHL affiliate, the Binghamton Devils, before he was recalled by the Devils to serve as backup to Mackenzie Blackwood. Domingue struggled to assert himself as the Devils backup, collecting just 3 wins in 16 appearances, before he was placed on waivers and reassigned to the AHL with Binghamton.

On February 24, 2020, Domingue was traded to the Vancouver Canucks in exchange for Zane McIntyre. He immediately joined the club due to an injury to Jacob Markström. He made a lone appearance with the Canucks in a 5–3 defeat to the Columbus Blue Jackets on March 1, 2020, and remained with the club after the COVID-19 pandemic pause, as the Canucks' third-string goaltender in the return-to-play postseason.

Calgary Flames
As a free agent, Domingue joined the Calgary Flames, on a one-year, two-way contract on October 11, 2020. In the shortened 2020–21 season, Domingue was primarily used in a depth role, assigned to the Flames extended taxi squad. He made three appearances with AHL affiliate, the Stockton Heat, before making his lone appearance with the Flames, allowing three goals in a 4–2 defeat against his former club, the Vancouver Canucks, on May 18, 2021.

Pittsburgh Penguins
In the following off-season, having left the Flames as a free agent, Domingue extended his career in the NHL by agreeing to a one-year, two-way contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins on September 2, 2021. Domingue spent most of the regular season in the AHL with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, the Pittsburgh team's minor league affiliate, recording a 10–9–4 record and a .924 save percentage. He appeared in two games with the Pittsburgh Penguins, going 1–1–0 with a .952 save percentage. After the Penguins' starting goaltender Tristan Jarry injured his foot weeks before the 2022 Stanley Cup playoffs, Domingue was called up to serve as temporary backup goaltender to Casey DeSmith.

Domingue was unexpectedly called into service in Game 1 of the first round matchup against the New York Rangers after DeSmith exited midway through the second overtime period with a lower body injury, and stopped all 17 shots he faced before Evgeni Malkin won the game for Pittsburgh in triple overtime. Domingue noted that he had not expected to play and had eaten "quite the meal" of spicy pork and broccoli between the first and second overtime periods. "Spicy pork and broccoli" soon became an meme among Pittsburgh fans, and the team itself. DeSmith was subsequently ruled out for the remainder of the playoffs, leaving Domingue as the team's starting goaltender. He then recorded his first victorious postseason start in Game 3 on May 7 to give the Penguins a 2–1 series lead. The series attracted media attention for Domingue's success versus the Rangers' starting goaltender Igor Shesterkin, the favourite for the Vezina Trophy, who was pulled from the net in both games 3 & 4. The series turned against the Penguins in game 5 when captain Sidney Crosby was forced to exit midway through, and he allowed a bad goal late in Game 6. Consequently, they lost Games 5 & 6. Jarry returned to the net for Game 7, but they were eliminated.

New York Rangers
As a free agent from the Penguins, Domingue joined his seventh club in agreeing to a two-year, $1.55 million contract with the New York Rangers on July 13, 2022. On October 2, he was assigned to the Hartford Wolf Pack of the AHL.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

Awards and honours

Records

Tampa Bay Lightning
Longest win streak by a Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender, 11 (2018–19)

References

External links

1992 births
Living people
Arizona Coyotes draft picks
Arizona Coyotes players
Binghamton Devils players
Calgary Flames players
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
Canadian ice hockey goaltenders
Gwinnett Gladiators players
Hartford Wolf Pack players
Ice hockey people from Quebec
Moncton Wildcats players
New Jersey Devils players
Pittsburgh Penguins players
Portland Pirates players
Quebec Remparts players
Springfield Falcons players
Stockton Heat players
Syracuse Crunch players
Tampa Bay Lightning players
Vancouver Canucks players
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins players


title: Winthrop D. Putnam

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Corporal Winthrop D. Putnam (September 18, 1837 – January 15, 1907) was an American soldier who fought in the American Civil War. Putnam received his country's highest award for bravery during combat, the Medal of Honor. Putnam's medal was won for his actions at the Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi on July 2, 1863. He was honored with the award on April 4, 1898.

Putnam was born in Southbridge, Massachusetts, entered service in Peoria, Illinois, and was buried in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Medal of Honor citation

See also
List of American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients: M–P

References

1837 births
1907 deaths
American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor
People from Southbridge, Massachusetts
Union Army officers
United States Army Medal of Honor recipients
People of Illinois in the American Civil War
Burials in Wisconsin
Military personnel from Massachusetts


title: Great Western Valkyrie

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Great Western Valkyrie is the fourth studio album by American rock band Rival Sons. The album, which is the first to feature new bass player Dave Beste (in place of founding member Robin Everhart), was released in June 2014. It garnered positive reviews from critics who praised the band's musicianship in recapturing late 60s hard rock. Great Western Valkyrie peaked within the top 40 of countries like Finland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK, and spawned three singles: "Electric Man", "Open My Eyes" and "Good Things". To promote the record, the band toured across Europe and North America with appearances at music festivals and talk shows.

Promotion
On April 14, 2014, the band announced that they planned four tour dates in the UK to promote Great Western Valkyrie on its release date, beginning with London's Scala club and finishing at Manchester's Gorilla club. On October 17, they made their UK television debut performing "Electric Man" on Later... with Jools Holland. On December 17, they announced a 22-city spring 2015 tour in Europe,  starting at Leeds Academy in the UK and ending at the Schüür concert hall in Lucerne, Switzerland, with some appearances at music festivals like Monsters of Rock. They followed that up with an 18-city North American tour, beginning with Toronto's Phoenix Concert Theatre and finishing at Vancouver's Commodore Ballroom. On September 10, 2015, they toured with Black Sabbath as one of the opening acts of their farewell The End Tour.

Critical reception

Max Bell of Classic Rock critically lauded the album, giving high praise to the band's penchant for "hardcore rock music with clever lyrics, brilliant guitar playing and superb vocals." Carl Purvis of No Ripcord commented on the band's musicianship throughout the record, finding bassist Dave Beste's chemistry with drummer Michael Miley "every bit as conversant as the original pairing", praising the trademark grooves created by guitarist Scott Holiday's "endless conveyor belt of pulverizing riffs" and being impressed by Jay Buchanan's vocal performance for having "the range of Chris Cornell and the soul of Bill Withers." AllMusic's Thom Jurek also praised the musicians for crafting tracks with various aesthetics that are influenced by their "worship of late-'60s psych, blues-rock, and hard rock", concluding that: "Great Western Valkyrie continues to revel in retro-rock, but it does so with fine songwriting, arrangements, and — above all — taste added to the instrumental firepower. Combined, these strengths make this a full step up from Head Down."

Chart performance
Great Western Valkyrie charted within the top 40 of several countries, surpassing what Head Down achieved. The album debuted at numbers three and five in Finland and Norway respectively, ten and nine spots higher than their previous album. It also debuted at numbers 12 and 14 in Switzerland and the UK respectively (whereas their previous record charted at numbers 30 and 31 respectively). However, it fared less better in Austria, the Netherlands and France, entering at numbers 41, 55 and 60 respectively for one week.

Track listing
All lyrics by Jay Buchanan, except "Destination on Course", by Scott Holiday. In parentheses are the songs' subtitles which feature on the back cover of the album sleeve.

Personnel
Rival Sons
Jay Buchanan — vocals
Scott Holiday — guitar
Dave Beste — bass guitar
Michael Miley — drums

Additional musicians
Ikey Owens — keyboards
Mike Webb — keyboards on "Where I've Been"
Kristen Rogers — backing vocals

Production
Dave Cobb — production
John Netti — engineering, mixing
Pete Lyman — mastering

Source:

Charts

References

2014 albums
Rival Sons albums
Earache Records albums
Albums produced by Dave Cobb


title: San Giacomo alla Lungara

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San Giacomo alla Lungara is a church in Rome (Italy), in the Rione Trastevere, facing on Via della Lungara. It is also called San Giacomo in Settimiano or in Settignano, due to its vicinity to Porta Settimiana, built by Septimius Severus and included by Aurelianus within the city walls.

The church has medieval origins: it probably dates back to the papacy of Leo IV in 9th century. However, the former documents attesting its existence are papal bulls promulgated in 1198 and 1228, when the church was declared a branch of St. Peter's Basilica by Pope Innocent III. In 12th century Pope Innocent IV allowed it to the Sylvestrine Congregation; in 1620 the Vatican Chapter entrusted the church to the Franciscans and then to the Penitent Nuns, which, in 1644, charged Luigi Arrigucci (1575–1644) with the restoration of the building: because of these restorations, the church lost its basilican layout with three naves and became a single nave church with coffering on the ceiling. In the same period the nuns also built the annexed cloister, devoted to the prostitutes wishing to change their life; the cloister was demolished in 1887, during the building of the Lungotevere. In the same period the church, after having suffered 15 years of abandon and risked itself the destruction, was finally renovated.

Across the Lungotevere it is possible to see the Romanesque towerbell, dating back to the 12th century and the only surviving Medieval feature.
The interior of the church displays a single nave. The most famous work of art is the Memorial to Ippolito Merenda by Gian Lorenzo Bernini: a gravestone with the shape of a puckered sheet, sustained with both hands and teeth by a winged skeleton. The high altar houses a painting by Giovanni Francesco Romanelli portraying James the Apostle.

Bibliography

Giacomo alla Lungara
Baroque architecture in Rome
Romanesque architecture in Lazio
Roman Catholic churches in Rome
Churches of Rome (rione Trastevere)


title: List of Mister World countries

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The following list consists of countries and territories that have sent a delegate to the Mister World male pageant. 7 of the current delegations have won at least once in history, since the first edition in 1996.

List
This list contains countries and territories that have sent a delegate to the pageant at least once since 1996.

Notes
 Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Spain have participated in all 10 editions.
 As of the last edition in 2019, no country have won the Mister World title twice.
 As of 2019, 122 countries, or territories, has joined the pageant.
 50 countries debuted in the first edition in 1996; 6 in 1998; 5 in 2000; 9 in 2003; 12 in 2007; 17 in 2010; 1 in 2012; 3 in 2014, 3 in 2016 and 16 in 2019.
 57 countries have entered the Mister World pageant at least once, but never placed.

See also
 Mister World
 Mister World country rankings

References
Mister World country participation lists - Pageantopolis.com

External links
Official Mister World website - www.mrworld.tv

Countries
Mister World


title: 9LV

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9LV is a Naval Combat Management System (CMS) from the Swedish company Saab. The 9LV was established when Philips Teleindustri AB (1975 renamed Philips Elektronikindustrier AB), a subsidiary of Philips of the Netherlands, was selected as the supplier of the torpedo and dual purpose gun fire control system including a radar fire control director for the Royal Swedish Navy Norrköping-class torpedo boats.

Prior to the Norrköping class, Philips provided torpedo fire control to  and Plejad-class torpedo boats, as well as to  and s, and also anti-submarine fire control for the s and .  However, not until the air defence fire control and radar fire control director was introduced, the name 9LV was established; LV is the Swedish abbreviation for "luftvärn", i.e. air defence.

9LV is currently used on several classes of naval combatants, including the Australian s, the Swedish s, the Canadian s and the Australian  ships. It will be used on the Norwegian Coast Guard’s new Jan Mayen-class vessels.

Name etymology
The heritage of the name 9LV can be traced back to the late 1960s and Philips Teleindustri (Järfälla, SE).  Philips gave the number nine to the product from Sweden.

LV is the Swedish abbreviation for Ground Based Air Defence (GBAD), in Swedish "Luftvärn".

Often, a specific ship class 9LV configuration is identified by a three digit number, consisting of one complexity digit and a two digit serial or country code. The first digit is defined by the following table.

Naval Combat Management introduction
A Naval Combat Management System (CMS) is the computer system that connects a naval ship's sensors, weapons, data links, support measures and other equipment to the officers and staff performing the tasks in combat through the cycle of the OODA loop. Typical functions include sensor control, sensor data fusion, threat evaluation, weapons assignment, weapons control etc.

9LV Mk1 (1968–1977)
To meet the requirements of the Royal Swedish Navy weapon control system on the Norrköping-class, the 9LV200 system was developed from 1968 by Philips Swedish subsidiary ("Philips TeleindustriAB", PTAB).  The contract was awarded PTAB 1969.

The solution included was based on analogue computers with a newly developed hydraulically controlled director platform and a frequency agile Ku-band fire control radar, Ceros. The solution also included an X-band track-while-scan target acquisition radar. In the Royal Swedish Navy, the system was denoted "ARTE 722".

Mk1 included a fixed program digital computer.

9LV Mk2 (1977–1983)
The patrol boat Jägaren ("The hunter") was built as a test vessel with the Norwegian gun boats Storm and Snögg as references.  Later Bergens Mekaniske Verksteder built another 16 patrol boats based on Jägaren. The patrol boats were equipped with 9LV Mk2 (Arte 726).  The system was called 9LV Mk2 during the period Arte726 A-D.
After the Patrol Boats had been decommissioned these radars where modernised and fitted to the modernised Koster-class minehunters.

9LV Mk2.5 (1983–1987)
The 9LV Mk2.5 introduced a new high level language (RTL/2) and also upgrades to the hardware architecture with new processors and busses. The Swedish Navy Arte726E is an example of 9LV Mk2.5.

9LV Mk3 (1987–2005)

Based on the experiences from 9LV Mk2.5, a major redesign of 9LV was performed for 9LV Mk3, starting around 1985. It featured a module based architecture called Base System 2000 (Bassystem 2000), as an addition of the commercial OS-9 real-time operating system. The new programming language Ada was introduced in cooperation with the company Rational.  After the acquisition of the Ericsson "H Division" developing a competing Combat Management System (Maril systems) January 1, 1990, several key architectural features were transferred into 9LV Mk3.

Features of 9LV Mk3 included a fully distributed system, based on Ethernet LAN, with small, location independent, applications implemented in Ada. It also featured a "system family" concept, with all ship classes based on a common code base (reference book on reuse) and multi-function consoles, allowing any operator to perform any task from any position.

9LV Mk3E (1998–2008)
Aiming to benefit from the fast development of commercially available hardware, the software base of Mk3 was transferred to Intel based processors on cPCI, running MS Windows NT instead of the real-time OS-9 used in Mk3.

9LV Mk4 (2008–)

In order to facilitate integration and partnerships, the Mk4 was developed towards the Naval Open Architecture. Mk4 employs DDS to create modularity and introduces the Java programming language for certain applications. The first deployment of some limited 9LV Mk4 software components were as part of the Lockheed Martin Canada CMS330 Combat System used on the Halifax-class frigate where Saab acted as a sub-supplier to Lockheed-Martin Canada. Later versions of CMS330 do not utilize 9LV Mk4 components.

One important milestone for 9LV Mk4 was the firing on 30 August 2015 of the ESSM missile

from HTMS Naresuan during Exercise CARAT 2015, less than three years after the signing of the contract for the missile.

As Saab has evolved the architecture of 9LV with virtualization, containerization and other technologies, the generation indicator ("Mk4") is becoming less emphasized and is not even mentioned in marketing, instead the term NextGen is used.

Awards and recognition

Company heritage of 9LV development
The history of C2S, the creator of 9LV
 1938: Standard Radiofabrik is established
 1956: SRT (Standard Radio & Telefon AB) is founded
 1964: SRT builds a factory in Veddesta, Järfälla outside Stockholm
 1968: Philips Teleindustrier is established; opening ceremony with the Swedish King
 1971: Stansaab is created out of the computer part of SRT, (owners are the state, Saab and ITT)
 1973: ITT leaves their ownership of Stansaab
 1975: Stansaab get a big order regarding AOC in Moskva
 1976: Philips Elektronikindustrier (merger with Philips Teleindustrier)
 1978: Datasaab created from merger of Stansaab & Datasaab
 1981: Ericsson buys Datasaab and keeps Alfaskop while SRA procures radar systems, later to be Ericsson Radio Systems
 1982: Ericsson Information Systems (EIS) established
 1982: SRA Communications AB is established
 1983: Marconi leaves ownership of SRA to Ericsson Radio Systems
 1988: Command & control and radar technology becomes Ericsson Radar Electronics (ERE)
 1990: Bofors Electronics (BEAB) acquires Philips, Ericssons (ERE) military production
 1991: BEAB joins Nobeltech
 1993: Nobeltech changes name to Celsiustech
 2000: Saab buys Celsiustech; new names are SaabTech Systems and SaabTech Electronics
 2003: SaabTech created from Saab Avionics & SaabTech Systems
 2005: Saab Systems created
 2009: Saab Security and defence solutions

Command and control history within Saab
1966 a work group started (name SESAM) to work on the next generation combat management system. This led to the first drafts on what was later to become NIBS (Näckens InformationsBehandlingsSystem). The group came up with an entirely digital combined combat and fire control solution with two operator positions able to evaluate at least 10 targets. The three operator consoles where of Stansaab type. The order was later given to Stansaab; the software was delivered by Teleplan.

 1988: SESUB (Strids- & Eldledning SUBmarin); contract awarded to Datasaab (modern NIBS)
 1996: SESUB 940 entire solution awarded to CelsiusTech

References

Bibliography
 .

Military computers
Saab


title: Weston Cemetery Prairie

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The Weston Cemetery Prairie is a mesic tallgrass prairie remnant, described variously as being 5.61 acres (2.2 hectares) or 3.2 acres (1.3 hectares) in size, located 0.5 miles (0.8 km) east of Weston, Illinois, an unincorporated community in McLean County, Illinois. Weston Cemetery Prairie is a remnant of the vast tallgrass, black soil prairies that once covered more than 13 million acres of Illinois. This cemetery prairie is listed as a Category I site on the Illinois Natural Areas Inventory and is actively managed with periodic burns and exotic species control efforts.

History
Weston Prairie is a surviving fragment from a parcel of land that was set aside by early residents in 1870 to serve as a township cemetery. The Weston Cemetery Company in 1869 or 1870 purchased  from local resident Anton Adam, who with his wife Cynthia reserved three plots within the cemetery for the family, according to an 1884 deed filed with the office of the McLean County Recorder. Although the parcel appears to have fallen out of active use as a burial ground around 1900, part of the parcel escaped the plow and was still in existence in the 1970s when surviving fragments of Illinois tallgrass prairie were located and inventoried. According to available records, more than 80 people have been laid to rest at the cemetery, with the earliest known burial believed to be 1870 or 1871, and the latest in 1955 or 1956, though most of the burials occurred between 1880 and 1915.

Description
The main  of high-quality prairie is owned by Yates Township and managed by the ParkLands Foundation. A narrow buffer strip that extends back to Weston along the southern edge of the train tracks was donated to the Natural Land Institute (NLI) by Florabelle (Adam) Kelleher in 1982, and the NLI donated it to the ParkLands Foundation in 1986. Florabelle Kelleher was the granddaughter of Anton and Cynthia Adam. Her sister, Iva "Pearl” Adam was interred at Weston Cemetery on Dec. 6, 1900.

The prairie is noted for exceptional plant diversity, with nearly 100 separate species identified on the tiny site.  Forbs include the dwarf prairie rose, prairie shooting star, spiderwort, prairie gentian, compassplant, and woody betony.  According to a count by botanist Roger Anderson, distinguished professor emeritus at ISU, Weston Cemetery contains 71 native prairie plant species, as well as 47 introduced plants. Prairie flowers on the site include four species of aster   (sky blue, heath, smooth and hairy); three types of sunflowers (sawtooth, false and prairie); four goldenrods (tall, grass-leaved, early and rigid); dog bane; cream wild indigo; false toadflax; downy gentian; spiked lobelia; violet wood sorrel; false dragonhead; common mountain mint; and many others. Prairie grasses found at the cemetery include big bluestem and little blue stem, yellow star, blue-eyed, prairie dropseed and Indian grass.  Current management practices being implemented to protect the prairie habitat are prescribed burning and exotic species control.

Access
From U.S. Route 24, access to the prairie can be achieved by means of a half-mile-long ungraded dirt road easement. There are no trails at the cemetery prairie, so visitors are encouraged to tread lightly. Large groups are discouraged, and visitors are prohibited from collecting plants or seeds.

The nearest limited-access highway interchange is Exit 187 on Interstate 55.

See also
 List of protected grasslands of North America

References

Grasslands of Illinois
Nature reserves in Illinois
Protected areas of McLean County, Illinois