The Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014 (; ), also known as the Veterans Choice Act, is a United States public law that is intended to address the ongoing Veterans Health Administration scandal of 2014. The law expanded the number of options veterans have for receiving care and granted the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs more power to fire senior executives. The Veterans Health Administration scandal of 2014 began with the discovery that there was on-going systematic lying by the Veterans Health Administration about the wait times veterans experienced waiting to be seen by doctors. By June 5, 2014, Veterans Affairs internal investigations had identified a total of 35 veterans who had died while waiting for care in the Phoenix VHA system. Another audit determined that "more than 57,000 veterans waited at least 90 days to see a doctor, while another 63,000 over the last decade never received an initial appointment."

The bill was introduced into the United States House of Representatives during the 113th United States Congress under the name "Pay Our Guard and Reserve Act" as one of the October 2013 mini-continuing resolutions passed by the House during the United States federal government shutdown of 2013. President Obama signed it into law on August 7, 2014. The law includes access to healthcare at non-VA hospitals for rural veterans, as well as vast increases in staffing and facilities at existing VA medical centers.

Background

CNN reported on April 27, 2014 that at least 40 United States Armed Forces veterans died while waiting for care at the Phoenix, Arizona, Veterans Health Administration facilities. By June 5, 2014, Veterans Affairs internal investigations had identified a total of 35 veterans who had died while waiting for care in the Phoenix VHA system. An investigation of delays in treatment throughout the Veterans Health Administration system is being conducted by the Veterans Affairs Office of the Inspector General, and the House has passed legislation to fund a $1 million criminal investigation by the Justice Department. On May 16, 2014, the Veterans Health Administration's top health official, Dr. Robert Petzel, retired early at the request of Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki. On May 30, 2014, Secretary Shinseki, himself, resigned from office amid the fallout from the controversy.  As of early June 2014, several other VA medical centers around the nation have been identified with the same problems as the Phoenix facility, and the investigations by the VA Inspector General, the Congress and others are widening.

Provisions of the bill
The bill costs nearly $2 billion. Approximately $500 million would be used for hiring more doctors and nurses to work for the VA.
Veterans who live over 40 miles away from the nearest VA health clinic or who are unable to get an appointment in a reasonable time frame would be able to receive "choice cards" allowing them to seek treatment from a non-VA facility. This would be a pilot program lasting for two years. Veterans would be allowed to go to other providers that accept Medicare, the military's health program TRICARE, or at facilities run by the United States Department of Defense.
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs would have increased power to fire senior executives. The executives could be removed immediately from the payroll and would only have a week to appeal being fired. Three weeks later, a merit board would make a final decision in that person's case.
The bill would authorize the VA to build 26 new facilities.
The bill would require public colleges and universities to grant veterans in-state tuition.
The bill would improve the medical care that victims of military sexual assault receive.
The Act shifts the cost of the medical treatment and care to the veteran's private insurance plan and the Veterans Administration now requires joining the Choice program as a condition of receiving medical care, although this change has not been published.  Congressman Jeff Miller's House Committee report anticipated a $200,000,000 recovery from veterans' private health plans, but with only 84,386 appointments made through the first six months of 2015, shifting the cost to the private sector has not been successful.

Congressional Budget Office report
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Budget Office, as introduced in the Senate on June 10, 2014. This is a public domain source. Title III of S. 2450 was incorporated completely into H.R. 3230. This relationship was identified by the Congressional Research Service.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has prepared a preliminary analysis of Title III of S. 2450, the Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, as introduced in the Senate on June 10, 2014. That title would authorize and fund enhancements to several programs of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). In particular, VA would receive expansive authority for the next few years to contract with health care providers who are not employed by the VA, and VA would be required to use that authority to ensure that all eligible veterans would receive requested health care in a timely fashion. The effects of providing such broad new authority to VA are highly uncertain, and CBO has been able to make only a preliminary and partial assessment of the legislation. Based on that preliminary assessment, CBO estimates that enacting Title III of S. 2450 would increase direct spending by roughly $35 billion over the 2014-2024 period. CBO has not yet estimated the budgetary effects of the other titles of S. 2450.

VA currently has about 8.4 million veterans enrolled in its health care program. Of the remaining roughly 13 million living veterans, CBO estimates that about 8 million qualify to enroll in VA's health care program but have not enrolled. VA currently spends about $44 billion providing health care services to veterans, or about $5,200 per enrollee. (That amount does not include spending on programs that CBO expects would not be increased under this legislation, such as long-term care, caregivers, and ending veterans' homelessness.) Based on information from VA on veterans' reliance on VA, CBO estimates that this cost represents about 30 percent of the total amount of health care received by those veterans.

CBO estimates that, under Title III, enrolled veterans would ultimately seek to increase the amount of care they receive from VA by about 60 percent. In addition, CBO expects that some of the people who are eligible to enroll but not yet enrolled would choose to enroll because of the improvement in access to health care through VA. Most of the costs incurred to provide that care would be for care financed by other payers, including Medicare; a portion of those costs would thus be offset by savings to the Medicare program. All told, CBO expects that veterans would ultimately seek additional care that would cost the federal government about $50 billion a year, on net.

However, CBO expects that VA would have difficulty in quickly setting up a program to contract for health care nationwide and in establishing administrative processes to approve care by private health care providers. Moreover, the amount of care that veterans sought through VA might increase gradually over time. Thus, CBO expects that, of the amount of additional care sought by veterans, VA would provide only about 20 percent in 2015 and about 50 percent in 2016. VA would also spend a comparatively small amount in 2014 on administration and new hiring. Thus, CBO estimates that implementing title III would cost roughly $500 million in 2014, $10 billion in 2015, and $25 billion in 2016.

The magnitude of those budgetary effects is highly uncertain. A significant number of veterans could receive new and expanded health care benefits under S. 2450. How many would ultimately receive those benefits and the resulting costs will depend on a number of factors that are very difficult to predict. Further, the specific parameters of the new program would depend on regulations that would need to be developed. Because the behavioral changes that would result from enacting those provisions are so uncertain, this estimate should be viewed as falling in the middle of a wide range of possible outcomes.

Procedural history
The bill H.R. 3230 was introduced into the United States House of Representatives on October 2, 2013 by Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) as the "Pay Our Guard and Reserve Act". The bill was referred to the United States House Committee on Appropriations. The bill was one of the October 2013 mini-continuing resolutions passed by the House during the United States federal government shutdown of 2013. On October 3, 2013 the House voted in Roll Call Vote 516 to pass the bill 265–160.

The Choice Act proposal was introduced to the late senator John McCain on April 18, 2014 by disabled veteran Ricky C. Barnes of Phoenix, Arizona https://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/494376/ricky-c-barnes-has-been-inducted-into-the-prestigious-marquis-whos-who-biographical-registry. Mr. Barnes aspiration for non-VA care for all veterans began 1999 and was finally introduced to the United States House of Representatives in 2014. He was also instrumental in the uncovering of the 2014 Phoenix VA Scandal. On June 11, 2014, the United States Senate changed the name of the bill to the "Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014" and voted to pass the bill 93–3 in Roll Call Vote 187.

Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs Jeff Miller said that "many of the provisions included in today's Senate-passed bill are based on ideas that have already cleared the House, so I'm hopeful both chambers of Congress can soon agree on a final package to send to the president's desk." Miller was referring to the Veteran Access to Care Act of 2014 (H.R. 4810; 113th Congress) which contained similar provisions and passed the House on June 10, 2014.

The House and Senate established a conference committee to agree on amendments to the bill. The committee met on June 24, 2014. The House voted to agree to the conference report on July 30, 2014 with a vote of 420–5 in Roll Call Vote 467. The Senate voted to agree to the conference report on July 31, 2014 with a vote of 91–3 in Roll Call Vote 254. President Barack Obama signed the bill into law on August 7, 2014.

Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) were the two main senators who negotiated the bipartisan initiative. McCain said "is this a final solution to these problems? No, but it is a beginning." McCain also called the situation an "emergency" and said "if it's not an emergency that we've neglected these brave men and women who have protected our country, then I don't know what is."

Only three senators voted against the bill, Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Bob Corker (R-TN), and Ron Johnson (R-WI).

Expansion of Eligibility
On April 19, 2017, President Donald Trump signed a bill into law extending the act and expanding the eligibility for the program, where veterans are given the option for a private doctor if their VA wait is only 20 days (28 for specialty care) or their drive is only 30 minutes.(). Throughout his presidency, Trump falsely claimed on at least 156 occasions that his administration was the first to pass the bill, despite the fact that it was passed by Obama in 2014 before he was president.

Outcomes

Failures with the VA Choice program emerged in a 2017 whistleblower case concerning the Manchester VA Medical Center, in which one of the administrators of the VA Choice program, Health Net Federal Services, failed to schedule appointments for New Hampshire veterans, leaving some veterans with life-threatening conditions waiting for over six months just to see a doctor. On April 27, 2017, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 13793 (Improving Accountability and Whistleblower Protection at the Department of Veterans Affairs) to help whistleblowers and increase accountability at the Department of Veterans Affairs. In 2018, President Donald Trump signed the VA Maintaining Internal Systems and Strengthening Integrated Outside Networks Act of 2018 (VA MISSION Act of 2018) into law which made several improvements to the existing VA Choice program and amended the 2014 legislation.

See also
List of bills in the 113th United States Congress
List of Veterans Affairs medical facilities
Acts of the 113th United States Congress
Veteran Access to Care Act of 2014

References

External links

 Library of Congress - Thomas H.R. 3230
 beta.congress.gov H.R. 3230
 GovTrack.us H.R. 3230
 OpenCongress.org H.R. 3230
 WashingtonWatch.com H.R. 3230
  Senator Dick Durbin's Press Conference on the Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act

Acts of the 113th United States Congress
Healthcare reform legislation in the United States
History of veterans' affairs in the United States
United States Department of Veterans Affairs
United States federal veterans' affairs legislation


title: Belzile

text:
Belzile is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Alex Belzile (born 1991), Canadian ice hockey player
Alfred Belzile (1907–1994), Canadian politician and farmer
Charles H. Belzile (born 1933), Canadian Army general
Germain Belzile (1957–2021), Canadian economist
Gleason Belzile (1898–1950), Canadian politician


title: FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2019

text:
The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2019 were held from 4 to 17 February 2019 in Åre, Sweden. The host city was selected at the FIS Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on 5 June 2014. The only other applicant was Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, which later gained the 2021 championships.

Åre previously hosted the world championships in 1954 and 2007, and has held numerous World Cup events.

Schedule and course information

Schedule
Eleven events were held.

All times are local (UTC+1).

Course information

Medal summary

Medal table

Men's events

Women's events

Mixed

Participating countries
As of 5 December 2018, a total of 74 countries are scheduled to compete.

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References

External links

2019 in alpine skiing
2019
2019 in Swedish sport
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Alpine skiing competitions in Sweden
February 2019 sports events in Sweden
Sport in Åre


title: The Rockville LP

text:
The Rockville LP is the eighth studio album by American alternative rock group O.A.R. (Of A Revolution). It was released June 10, 2014 by Vanguard Records. This is their first album on the label.

Reception
The album debuted at No. 13 on Billboard 200, and No. 6 on Top Rock Albums, selling around 18,000 in the first week. The album has sold 55,000 copies in the United States as of July 2016.

Track listing

Personnel
O.A.R.
 Marc Roberge – vocals, guitar
 Richard On – guitar, backing vocals
 Benj Gershman – bass
 Jerry DePizzo – saxophone, guitar
 Chris Culos – drums

Additional personnel
 Mikel Paris – keyboards, percussion, backing vocals
 Jon Lampley – trumpet, sousaphone
 Gregg Wattenberg – guitar, piano, bass
 Nathan Chapman – guitar, backing vocals
 Stephanie Chapman – backing vocals
 Ian Driscoll – accordion, percussion
 Derek Fuhrmann – guitar, programming, backing vocals
 Jeffrey Allen – upright bass
 Dave Eggar – cello
 Dan White – baritone saxophone
 Mark Williams – guitar
 Kevin Kadish – guitar, programming
 Todd Clark – piano, backing vocals
 Nelly Joy – backing vocals
 Gunnar Olsen – drums
 John AliCastro – backing vocals
 Michael Lauri – backing vocals
 Mia Wattenberg – backing vocals
 Katie Kresek – backing vocals

Charts

References

O.A.R. albums
2014 albums


title: Ryan Campbell (lacrosse)

text:
Ryan Campbell is a Canadian professional lacrosse player. He is currently the captain for the SouthWest Cyclops of the Canadian Lacrosse League (CLL).

Campbell played three games with the Edmonton Rush of the National Lacrosse League (NLL) during the 2009 season.

Awards and honours

References

Living people
Edmonton Rush players
Sportspeople from Brampton
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Arthur Potts (politician)

text:
Arthur Howard Potts  (born ) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2014 to 2018 who represented the riding of Beaches—East York. He announced that he was running for the Ontario Liberal Party leadership in October 2019, but bowed out days later.

Background
Potts attended the University of Toronto and graduated with a bachelor's degree in political philosophy. He then obtained a master's degree in industrial relations from Queen's University. He worked as a lobbyist in the city of Toronto and at the provincial level; and gained some notoriety by buying dinner with the mayor at an auction. Among his clients was the Open Shop Contractors Association of Ontario, an organization that sought to open up tendering to all qualified contractors, regardless of their union affiliation.  Potts was a registered lobbyist for the Open Shop Contractors Association, following the merger of the Toronto Independent Contractors Association, which he founded, with OSCA. He also represented The Beer Store, assisting them in convincing the Ontario government to implement a deposit/return system on LCBO containers, as well as firms in the film, recycling and construction industries,  During this time he also served as President of BioWaste Treatment Technologies, which owned the Ontario rights to an Israeli-based anaerobic digestion technology that can divert upwards of 75% of mixed municipal waste from landfill, while creating clean water, energy and compost. He also co-founded Woodwaste Solutions, a firm specializing in waste wood reuse and recycling. He lives in Toronto, Ontario with his partner Lisa Martin, who has three children, while he has two daughters of his own, Robin and Dara.

Politics
In the 1994 municipal election he ran for councillor on Toronto City Council in Ward 8 (Riverdale) but lost to incumbent Peter Tabuns. In the 2014 Ontario election, he was elected in the riding of Beaches—East York in a tight race, beating incumbent New Democrat Michael Prue by 431 votes.

In July 2014, he was appointed as Parliamentary Assistant  (PA) to the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. Subsequently, he served as Parliamentary Assistant for the Minister of Environment and Climate Change.

In September 2016, Potts introduced a private member's bill called "Protecting Rewards Points Act" that would prevent loyalty points from expiring. Earlier in the year, Air Miles Canada announced that points collected but not used that were older than five years would expire. Potts introduced his bill to prevent this from happening. The bill was passed with unanimous approval in December 2016. Faced with the impending legislation, Air Miles announced that they would reverse their earlier decision. However the legislation still passed to prevent Air Miles and other loyalty point schemes from doing so in the future.

Potts was defeated in the 2018 Ontario election.

Election results

References

External links

1957 births
21st-century Canadian politicians
Living people
Ontario Liberal Party MPPs
Politicians from Toronto
Queen's University at Kingston alumni
University of Toronto alumni


title: White-winged tit

text:
White-winged tit may refer to:

 White-naped tit (Machlolophus nuchalis) of Asia
 White-winged black tit (Melaniparus leucomelas) of Africa


title: Defence Force Commendation Medal

text:
The Defence Force Commendation Medal was instituted by the State President of the Republic of Bophuthatswana in 1982. It could be awarded to all ranks for service of a high standard.

The Bophuthatswana Defence Force
The Bophuthatswana Defence Force (BDF) was established upon that country's independence on 6 December 1977. The Republic of Bophuthatswana ceased to exist on 27 April 1994 and the Bophuthatswana Defence Force was amalgamated with six other military forces into the South African National Defence Force (SANDF).

Institution
The Defence Force Commendation Medal was instituted by the State President of Bophuthatswana in 1982. It is the junior award of a set of three decorations for merit, along with the Defence Force Merit Decoration and the Defence Force Merit Medal.

Bophuthatswana's military decorations and medals were modelled on those of the Republic of South Africa and these three decorations are the approximate equivalents of, respectively, the Southern Cross Decoration and Pro Merito Decoration, the Southern Cross Medal (1975) and Pro Merito Medal (1975), and the Military Merit Medal.

Award criteria
The medal could be awarded to all ranks for service of a high standard.

Order of wear

Since the Defence Force Commendation Medal was authorised for wear by one of the statutory forces which came to be part of the South African National Defence Force on 27 April 1994, it was accorded a position in the official South African order of precedence on that date.

Bophuthatswana Defence Force until 26 April 1994

Official BDF order of precedence:
 Preceded by the Marumo Medal, Class I.
 Succeeded by the Marumo Medal, Class II.
Bophuthatswana official national order of precedence:
 Preceded by the Medal of the Order of the Leopard.
 Succeeded by the Marumo Medal, Class II.

South African National Defence Force from 27 April 1994

Official SANDF order of precedence:
 Preceded by the Military Merit Medal (MMM) of the Republic of South Africa.
 Succeeded by the Defence Force Medal of the Republic of Venda.
Official national order of precedence:
 Preceded by the National Intelligence Service Decoration, Bronze of the Republic of South Africa.
 Succeeded by the Defence Force Medal of the Republic of Venda.

The position of the Defence Force Commendation Medal in the order of precedence remained unchanged, as it was on 27 April 1994, when decorations and medals were belatedly instituted in April 1996 for the two former non-statutory forces, the Azanian People's Liberation Army and Umkhonto we Sizwe, and again when a new series of military orders, decorations and medals was instituted in South Africa on 27 April 2003.

Description
Obverse
The Defence Force Commendation Medal is a medallion struck in bronze, 38 millimetres in diameter, with an encircled leopard head in the centre and four double-ended arrow symbols around the perimeter. The undecorated suspender is attached to the medal by a double-ended arrow symbol beneath four converging lines.

Reverse
The reverse displays the Coat of Arms of the Republic of Bophuthatswana.

Ribbon
The ribbon is 32 millimetres wide and cobalt blue, with two 4 millimetres wide yellow bands in the centre, spaced 8 millimetres apart.

Discontinuation
Conferment of the Defence Force Commendation Medal was discontinued when the Republic of Bophuthatswana ceased to exist on 27 April 1994.

References

Military decorations and medals of Bophuthatswana
Awards established in 1982
Awards disestablished in 1994
1982 establishments in Africa
1994 disestablishments in Africa


title: List of compositions by Carlo Gesualdo

text:
This is a list of compositions by Carlo Gesualdo (1566–1613), the Prince of Venosa.

Madrigals

Place and year of publication follows after the book number. Poet given in parentheses, if known. Madrigals are listed alphabetically by book.

Book I (Madrigali libro primo), op. 1, five voices. (Ferrara, 1594)
 Baci soavi e cari (Giovanni Battista Guarini)
 Bella Angioletta, da le vaghe piume (Torquato Tasso)
 Come esser può ch'io viva (Alessandro Gatti)
 Felice primavera (Tasso)
 Gelo ha madonna il seno (Tasso)
 Madonna, io ben vorrei
 Mentre madonna il lasso fianco posa (Tasso)
 Mentre mia stella, miri
 Non mirar, non mirare (F. Alberti)
 O dolce mio martire
 Quanto ha di dolce amore
 Questi leggiadri odorosetti fiori
 Se da sí nobil mano (Tasso)
 Sí gioioso mi fanno i dolor miei
 Son sí belle le rose (Grillo)
 Tirsi morir volea (Guarini)

Book II (Madrigili libro secondo), op. 2, five voices. (Ferrara, 1594)
 All'apparir di quelle luci ardenti
 Candida man qual neve
 Cara amoroso neo (Tasso)
 Dalle odorate spoglie
 Hai rotto e sciolto e spento
 In più leggiadro velo
 Non è questa la mano (Tasso)
 Non mai non cangerò
 Non mi toglia il ben mio
 O com'è gran martire (Guarini)
 Se così dolce e il duolo (Tasso)
 Sento che nel partire

 Se per lieve ferita
 Se taccio, il duol s'avanza (Tasso)

Book III (Madrigali libro terzo), op. 3, five voices. (Ferrara, 1595)
 Ahi, disperata vita
 Ahi, dispietata e cruda
 Ancidetemi pur, grievi martiri
 Crudelissima doglia
 Deh, se già fu crudele
 Del bel de'bei vostri occhi
 Dolce spirto d'amore (Guarini)
 Dolcissimo sospiro (Annibale Pocaterra)
 Donna, se m'ancidente (six voices)
 Languisco e moro, ahi, cruda
 Meraviglia d'Amore
 Non t'amo, o voce ingrata
 Se piange, aime, la donna del mio core
 Se vi miro pietosa
 Voi volete ch'io mora (Guarini)

 Sospirava il mio core
 Veggio sí, dal mio sole

Book IV (Madrigali libro quarto), op. 5, five voices. (Ferrara, 1596)
 Arde il mio cor, ed è si dolce il foco
 A voi, mentre il mio core
 Che fai meco, mio cor
 Cor mio, deh, non piangete (Guarini)
 Ecco, morirò dunque
 Il sol, qualor più splende (six voices)
 Io tacerò, ma nel silenzio mio
 Luci serene e chiare (Ridolfo Arlotti)
 Mentre gira costei
 Moro, e mentre sospiro
 Or, che in gioia credea
 Questa crudele e pia
 Se chiudete nel core
 Sparge la morte al mio Signor nel viso
 Talor sano desio

Book V (Madrigali libro quinto), op. 13, five voices. (Gesualdo, 1611)
 Asciugate i begli occhi
 Correte, amanti, a prova
 Deh, coprite il bel seno (Ridolfo Arlotti)
 Dolcissima mia vita
 Felicissimo sonno
 Gioite voi col canto
 Itene, o miei sospiri
 Languisce al fin chi da la vita parte
 Mercè grido piangendo
 Occhi del mio cor vita (Guarini)
 O dolorosa gioia

 O tenebroso giorno
 O voi, troppo felici
 Poichè l'avida sete
 Qual fora, donna, un dolce 'Ohimè'
 Se tu fuggi, io non resto
 Se vi duol il mio duolo
 S'io non miro non moro
 T'amo mia vita, la mia cara vita (Guarini)
 Tu m'uccidi, oh crudele

Book VI (Madrigali libro sesto), op. 14, five voices. (Gesualdo, 1611)
 Alme d'Amor Rubelle
 Al mio gioir il ciel si fa sereno
 Ancide sol la morte
 Ancor che per amarti
 Ardita Zanzaretta
 Ardo per te, mio bene
 Beltà, poi che t'assenti
 Candido e verde fiore
 Chiaro risplender suole
 Deh, come invan sospiro
 Già piansi nel dolore
 Io parto, e non più dissi
 Io pur respiro in cosí gran dolore
 Mille volte il dí moro
 Moro, lasso, al mio duolo

 O dolce mio tesoro
 Quando ridente e bella
 Quel 'no' crudel che la mia speme ancise
 Resta di darmi noia
 Se la mia morte brami
 Volan quasi farfalle
 Tu piangi, o Filli mia
 Tu segui, o bella Clori

Sacred works

Sacrae Cantiones I, op. 9, five voices. (1603)
 Ave, Regina coelorum
 Venit lumen tuum Jerusalem
 Ave, dulcissima Maria
 Reminiscere miserationum tuarum
 Dignare me, laudare te
 Sancti Spiritus Domine
 Domine ne despicias
 Hei mihi Domine
 Laboravi in gemitu meo
 Peccantem me quotidie
 O vos omnes
 Exaudi Deus deprecationem meam
 Precibus et meritis beatae Mariae
 O Crux benedicta
 Tribularer si nescirem
 Deus refugium et virtus
 Tribulationem et dolorem
 Illumina faciem tuam
 Maria mater gratiae

Sacrae Cantiones II, op. 10, six, seven voices. (1603)
 Virgo benedicta
 Da pacem Domine
 Sana me Domine
 Ave sanctissima Maria
 O Oriens
 Discedite a me omnes
 Gaudeamus omnes
 Veni Creator Spiritus
 O sacrum convivium
 Adoramus te Christe
 Veni sponsa Christi
 Assumpta est Maria
 Verba mea
 Ardens est cor meum
 Ne derelinquas me
 O Beata Mater
 Ad te levavi
 Franciscus humilis et pauper
 O anima sanctissima
 Illumina nos
 The Bassus and Sextus parts of Sacrae Cantiones II were lost; a reconstruction was published in 2013 by James Wood.

Responsoria et alia ad Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae spectantia, for six voices (1611)
 Contains, apart from a setting of all 27 Tenebrae Responsoria, a setting of Psalm 51 and of the Benedictus.

References

External links

Gesualdo, Carlo


title: Sophie Kiwala

text:
Sophie Alison Kiwala  (born 1962) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2014 to 2018 who represented the riding of Kingston and the Islands.

Background
Kiwala was born and raised in Kingston, Ontario. She moved to Toronto shortly after finishing high school, and took courses at Humber College. In 1986 she married and moved with her husband to Turkey in the 1990s. She returned to Kingston in 1998 to look after her ailing mother. She studied political science at Queen's University. Later she worked as House of Commons Speaker Peter Milliken's office manager and then as Chief of Staff to MP Ted Hsu for seven years.

Politics
Kiwala ran for the Liberal nomination after incumbent Liberal MPP John Gerretsen announced in 2013 that he would not be running for re-election. She defeated three other candidates for the nomination, including former Kingston mayor Harvey Rosen. In the 2014 Ontario election, Kiwala was elected in the riding of Kingston and the Islands, defeating New Democrat candidate Mary Rita Holland by 6,022 votes.

During her tenure, she has served as a Parliamentary Assistant to several ministers, most recently as PA to the Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation.

In 2014, Kiwala focused attention on the issue of missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada. As part of her campaign to raise awareness, she publicized the Faceless Doll Project, an art project which uses faceless female dolls to represent the missing women. On October 23, 2014 she read a Members' motion in the legislature calling on the Ontario Legislature to support the National Aboriginal Organisations' call on the Federal government to initiate a public inquiry to study the issue.

In July 2020, Kiwala revealed that she was running for the Ontario Liberal Party again with the nomination set to take place in 2022. This led to a race between Kiwala and her former colleague Ted Hsu. Among priorities for the office, she listed the Long Term Care Act and encouraging "a much more compassionate view of individual residents".

Election results

References

External links

1962 births
21st-century Canadian politicians
21st-century Canadian women politicians
Humber College alumni
Living people
Ontario Liberal Party MPPs
Politicians from Kingston, Ontario
Queen's University at Kingston alumni
Women MPPs in Ontario


title: Rejoso, Pasuruan

text:
Rejoso is the name of a district (kecamatan) in Pasuruan Regency, East Java, Indonesia.  The following is a list of the villages in the district:

 Arjosari
 Jarangan
 Karangpandan
 Kawisrejo
 Kedungbako
 Kemantrenrejo
 Ketegan
 Manikrejo
 Pandanrejo
 Patuguran
 Rejoso Kidul
 Rejoso Lor
 Sadengrejo
 Sambirejo
 Segoro Puro
 Toyaning

References

Pasuruan Regency
Districts of East Java


title: James Rooke (British Army general)

text:
James Rooke ( – 4 October 1805) was an English general in the British Army and a politician.

Early life

He was the only son of Major James Rooke and his wife, Jane, daughter and heiress of Tracy Catchmay of Bigsweir House, Monmouthshire. He inherited large estates in Monmouthshire from his mother.

Career
Rooke joined the army in 1759, and by 1779 was a Lieutenant-Colonel of the 14th Foot. He was promoted colonel in 1780, major-general in 1787 and served as colonel commandant of the 4th Battalion, 60th (Royal American) Regiment of Foot from 1788 to 1796.

in 1796 he was given the colonelcy of the 38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot for life and promoted to full General in 1802.

He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Monmouthshire from 1785 until his death.

Personal life and death

Rooke had married Elizabeth Brown of St Briavels. Their son, Lieutenant-Colonel James Rooke, died of his wounds in Colombia fighting for independence in 1819. Their daughter, Eleanor, married Thomas Probyn, Governor of St Kitts.

Rooke died at age 63 and was buried in St Briavels, Gloucestershire in 1805.

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1805 deaths
British Army generals
Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Welsh constituencies
British MPs 1784–1790
British MPs 1790–1796
British MPs 1796–1800
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Welsh constituencies
UK MPs 1801–1802
UK MPs 1802–1806
West Yorkshire Regiment officers


title: Gaston Browne

text:
Gaston Alfonso Browne (born 9 February 1967) is an Antiguan politician serving as the prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda and leader of the Labour Party since 2014. Before entering politics, he was a banker and businessman.

Early life
Browne was born on 9 February 1967, days before the Associated State of Antigua was established, in the Villa area on the twin island of Antigua and Barbuda. His life as a teenager was extremely tough. As a child, he lived in Point with his paternal great-grandmother, who was in her eighties, at the time, partially blind, poor and aging. After her passing, he later grew up in Point, another impoverished area.

Education
After completing his secondary education, Browne attended the City Banking College in the United Kingdom, where he graduated with a BSc in banking and finance. Later, he attended the University of Manchester, acquiring an MBA in Finance.

Career
Following graduation, Browne secured a position with the Swiss American Banking Group, a major banking consortium in Antigua and Barbuda, comprising offshore and onshore banks and a trust company, eventually rising to the position of Commercial Banking Manager.

He entered the political arena in 1999, when he was elected to parliament for the constituency of St. John's City West. He was appointed Minister of Planning, Trade, Industry, Commerce and Public Service Affairs in his first term as an MP.

Browne challenged and won Lester Bird in the leadership race for Labour Party in November 2012 with a margin of 213 to 180. He was subsequently appointed as leader of the opposition in December 2012.

Prime Minister
Gaston Browne led the Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party to victory in the 12 June 2014 general election, after 10 years in opposition, winning 14 out of 17 seats. Browne was sworn in as Prime Minister on 13 June 2014. He defeated Baldwin Spencer's UPP, which had ruled for 10 years. Browne holds the additional office of Minister of Finance.

Aftermath of Hurricane Irma
On 6 September 2017 Hurricane Irma swept through Barbuda. Gaston Browne stated that the Category 5 storm had destroyed 95% of the structures and vehicles. Initial estimates showed that at least 60% of the island's residents were homeless because of the disaster. All communications with Barbuda were completely down for a time; most of the communications system had been destroyed.

On 8 September 2017, Browne described the situation as follows during an interview. "Barbuda right now is literally a rubble" with no water or phone service; he said there had been only a single fatality. The government had almost completed the evacuation of the entire island; nearly 1,800 people were transferred to Antigua.

On the same day, the first of three cargo planes arrived from the US, with over 120,000 pounds of relief for Barbuda. The cost was covered by the Government of Antigua and Barbuda and by donations from Martin Franklyn and the Coleman Company in the US. Also on 8 September, Browne discussed Barbuda's urgent needs with Administrator Mark Green of the United States Agency for International Development. USAID had already sent a Disaster Assistance Response Team and would continue to coordinate with the government and relief organizations.

Browne's government was facing a massive challenge. An estimate published by Time indicated that over $100 million would be required to rebuild homes and infrastructure. Philmore Mullin, Director of Antigua and Barbuda's National Office of Disaster Services, said that "all critical infrastructure and utilities are non-existent – food supply, medicine, shelter, electricity, water, communications, waste management". He summarised the situation as follows: "Public utilities need to be rebuilt in their entirety ... It is optimistic to think anything can be rebuilt in six months ... In my 25 years in disaster management, I have never seen something like this."

Republicanism

During a visit by the Earl and Countess of Wessex for the celebration of Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee, Browne asked the Earl if the couple would use their diplomatic influence to support reparations for slavery to Caribbean Community nations and announced that his country will transition to a republic. Following the death of the Queen, Browne announced that he would call for a referendum on the country becoming a republic within three years. In an interview for ITV he stated "This is not an act of hostility or any difference between Antigua and Barbuda and the monarchy, but it is the final step to complete that circle of independence, to ensure that we are truly a sovereign nation." and added that the country would remain a member of the Commonwealth regardless of the outcome.

Family and personal life
Browne is married to Maria Bird-Browne, niece of the second Prime Minister Lester Bird. The couple have a son, Prince Gaston Browne, who was Browne's fourth child, as he had three children prior to marriage. They had a second child, a daughter, in September 2020.

References

External links

Biography
Government's Official website

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Prime Ministers of Antigua and Barbuda
Finance ministers of Antigua and Barbuda
Leaders of political parties
Living people
Privatization controversies
People from Saint John Parish, Antigua
Antigua and Barbuda republicans


title: Tropiphorini

text:
Tropiphorini is a tribe of weevils in the subfamily Entiminae.

Genera
Achorius – Adaleres – Agatholobus – Amisallus – Amnemus – Amphidees – Anametis – Baryopadus – Basedowia – Bastactes – Bolivianus – Bothynorhynchus – Brachyolus – Byrsopages – Catasarcus – Catodryobiolus – Catoptes – Cecyropa – Chaodius – Cimbocera – Cindynus – Cnemotricha – Connatichela – Crocidema – Cylindromus – Cyphometopus – Dasydema – Decienus – Derelobus – Diamimus – Dichoxenus – Dirotognathus – Dyslobus – Echinopeplus – Ecrizothis – Elytrocallus – Enchymus – Entyus – Erepsimus – Essolithna – Eurynotia – Geniocremnus – Geonemides – Hadrorhinus – Haplolobus – Hellerius – Heteractus – Heterexis – Homaleptops – Homalorhinus – Hustachius – Hybreoleptops – Inophloeus – Irenimus – Leptopinara – Leptopius – Lipothyrea – Loxorhinus – Lysizone – Malvinius – Mandalotus – Megalometides – Megalometis – Melanolemma – Micramphidees – Miloderes – Miostictus – Neoevas – Neohustachius – Nicaeana – Oclandius – Ocynoma – Odontorhinus – Onesorus – Opseotapinotus – Orimodema – Orthomycterus – Paelocharis – Panscopus – Pantomorops – Paracimbocera – Paraleptops – Paranametis – Parergus – Peripagis – Peritaxia – Perperus – Phyxelis – Piazocaulus – Polycomus – Polyphrades – Priocnemus – Protolobus – Psapharus – Pseudoleptops – Pseudomelactus – Pseudorimus – Rhigopsis – Rhyparophilus – Sargon – Sclerococcus – Scotasmus – Sepiomus – Spartecerus – Stenocorynus – Strangaliodes – Synaptonyx – Synosomus – Tetraphysus – Thesius – Thotmus – Tropiphorus – Uroleptops – Vitavitus – Vossius – Xynaea – Xyneella – Zenagraphus – Zymaus

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.
 Marseul, S.A. de 1863: Catalogue des Coléoptères d'Europe et du Bassin de la Méditérranée en Afrique et en Asie. Deuxième édition. Laval, Imprimerie de Mary-Beauchêne. Paris: [2] + 300 pp.
 Kuschel, G. 2008: Curculionoidea (weevils) of New Caledonia and Vanuatu: ancestral families and some Curculionidae. In: Grandcolas, P. (ed.), Zoologia Neocaledonica 6. Biodiversity studies in New Caledonia. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 197: 99-250.

External links

Entiminae


title: Monica Joyce

text:
Monica Joyce (born July 16, 1958) is an English turned Irish turned American long distance runner.  She is the younger sister of Irish marathoner Regina Joyce.  Both sisters represented Ireland in the 1984 Summer Olympics, Regina in the Marathon and Monica in the 3000 meters.  Previous to the Olympics Monica had represented Ireland at the 1982 European Athletics Championships, the 1983 World Championship and the 1984 World Cross Country Championships.  She also ran in the 1985 World Cross Country Championships, finishing 12th and the IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships finishing 8th.  At home she was the Irish National Champion in the 1500 metres in 1982, 1983 and 1988 with Sonia O'Sullivan a main competitor.  Across the channel, she was the English National Champion in the 5000 metres in 1982 and 1985, beating her sister in 1982.

Both sisters grew up with their parents in Sussex, England.  She was winning cross country races as early as age 11.  Both sisters originally competed for England as junior athletes but switched to Ireland in 1982, based on the citizenship of their parents, for competitive reasons.  Before embarking on her international career, she competed for San Diego State University for two and a half years, finishing second in the 1500 metres at the NCAA Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships in 1981.   She married her college coach Fred La Plante, who continued to coach her.

She became a U.S. citizen in 2000.  She has continued running into masters age divisions, in 2002 she won the Gasparilla Distance Classic 15K outright at age 43.  At age 50, she beat the W50 World Record in the 5,000 meters at the Mt. SAC Relays, running 16:19.51.   That year she also added the 15K road running W50 world record, running 52:38 at the Gate River Run.  She also added American records in the 5K, 8K and 10K, the latter for a second time with a 30-second improvement.

References

1958 births
Living people
Irish female long-distance runners
World Athletics Championships athletes for Ireland
Olympic athletes for Ireland
Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics
World record holders in masters athletics
San Diego State Aztecs women's track and field athletes


title: Typhlorhinini

text:
Typhlorhinini is a weevil tribe in the subfamily Entiminae.

Genera
Cambefortinus – Cephalorostris – Hapactorrhynchus – Scrobops

References

 Kuschel, G. 1954: La familia Nemonychidae en la Región Neotropical (Aporte 15 de Coleoptera Curculionidae). Revista chilena de historia natural (Impresa), 54(9): 97–126.
 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.

External links

Entiminae
Polyphaga tribes


title: Clifford Owens

text:
Clifford Owens is an African-American mixed media and performance artist, writer and curator. Owens was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1971 and spent his early life in Baltimore. Owens is known for his works which center on the body and often include interactions with the audience and spontaneity.

Education and teaching
Clifford Owens attended the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), then transferred to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, from which he graduated with a BFA in 1998. He received his MFA in 2000 from the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University in 2000, and participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2001.

He attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine in 2004 and was an Artist-in-Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem 2005–2006.

Owens has taught at The Cooper Union, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers, as well as NYU, and was a lecturer at the School of Art, Yale University in fall 2011.

Work
At Owens' first solos show at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, he presented, Photographs with an Audience, a piece about how the history of performance art is intertwined with the history of photography. In it, he asked questions of the audience and those that had answered the same would have their picture taken as a group.

In his solo exhibition Anthology at MoMA PS1, Owens performed instructional scores submitted by black artists that he had invited to participate. One score written by artist Kara Walker, was withdrawn by her while the exhibition was on view but was performed by Owens three times at MoMA PS1.

Exhibitions
Clifford Owens’ art has appeared in numerous group and solo exhibitions. His solo exhibitions include at On Stellar Rays Gallery in New York in 2008, “Perspectives 173: Clifford Owens” Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2011), “Anthology: Clifford Owens” Museum of Modern Art PS1 (2011-2012), and "Better The Rebel You Know" in Cornerhouse, Manchester, England (2014).

His group exhibitions include "Distillation" in Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden (2003), "One Minute More" at The Kitchen, New York, NY. (2009), "Collected. Reflections on the Permanent Collection" at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY. (2010), "100 Years" at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY. (2010), "GNY: 5Year Review" at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY. (2010 "Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art" (Traveling show) at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2012), Grey Art Gallery (NYU), Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Walker Art Center (2012)., "This Kiss" at Danspace Project, St. Marks Church. Legacy Russell and Clifford Owens. (2013), "Remains" at Fergus McCaffrey (2017), "Clifford Owens: Five Anthology Scores" at Baltimore Museum of Art (2019), and "Breathing Room: Bound and Loose" at Baltimore Museum of Art (2020).

Collections
 Museum of Modern Art, New York
 The Studio Museum in Harlem

References

External links
 Yale School of Art. Artist Biography.
 Anthology. MOMA PS1. Exhibition publication.

1971 births
Living people
African-American contemporary artists
American contemporary artists
Artists from Maryland
American performance artists
Rutgers University alumni
University of Maryland, Baltimore County alumni
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American people
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture alumni


title: List of jazz venues in the United States

text:
This is a list of notable American venues where jazz music is, or has been, played. It includes jazz clubs, nightclubs, dancehalls and historic venues as well.

Alabama
 Carver Theatre, Birmingham

California

Los Angeles metropolitan area
 The Baked Potato, Studio City
 Billy Berg's, Hollywood
 Catalina Bar & Grill, Hollywood
 Donte's, North Hollywood
 Down Beat, Central Avenue
 Dunbar Hotel, Central Avenue
 The Haig, Hollywood
 Herb Alpert's Vibrato Grill & Jazz, Bel Air
 Jazz Bakery, Culver City
 Lighthouse Cafe, Hermosa Beach
 Lincoln Theater, Central Avenue
 Quality Cafe, Downtown
 Shelly's Manne-Hole, Hollywood
 Tiffany Club, Wilshire District

San Francisco Bay Area
 Black Hawk, Tenderloin, San Francisco
 Great American Music Hall, Tenderloin, San Francisco
 Keystone Korner, North Beach, San Francisco
 Kuumbwa, Downtown Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
 Maybeck Recital Hall, Berkeley
 Jazz Workshop, San Francisco
 SF Jazz Center, San Francisco
 Yoshi's Jazz Club, Jack London Square, Oakland

District of Columbia
 Blues Alley, Georgetown, Washington
 Bohemian Caverns, U Street, Washington
 KC Jazz Club (Kennedy Center), Foggy Bottom, Washington

Georgia
 Eddie's Attic, Decatur

Hawaii
 Blue Note Hawaii, Waikiki, Honolulu

Illinois

Chicago

Indiana
 Jazz Kitchen, Indianapolis

Louisiana
 Lulu White's Mahogany Hall, Storyville, New Orleans
 Maple Leaf Bar, Uptown, New Orleans
 Preservation Hall, French Quarter, New Orleans
 Snug Harbor, Faubourg Marigny, New Orleans
 Tipitina's, Uptown, New Orleans

Maryland
 Keystone Korner, Baltimore
 Sportsmen's Lounge, Baltimore

Massachusetts
 Iron Horse Music Hall, Northampton
 Ryles Jazz Club, Cambridge

Boston
 Hi-Hat
 Jazz Workshop
 Lulu White's
 Paul's Mall
Scullers Jazz Club, Allston
 Southland
 Storyville
 Wally's Cafe

Michigan

Detroit
 Baker's Keyboard Lounge
 Blue Bird Inn
 Cliff Bell's
 Orchestra Hall, or Paradise Theater

Minnesota
 Artists' Quarter, Twin Cities
 Dakota Jazz Club, Twin Cities

Missouri
 Subway Club, Kansas City
 Peacock Alley, St. Louis

Nebraska
 Dreamland Ballroom, North Omaha

New Jersey

Newark, New Jersey

New York

New York City

Manhattan

 52nd Street
 Downbeat Jazz Club
 Famous Door
 Hickory House
 Jazz Standard
 Jimmy Ryan's
 Kelly's Stables
 Onyx Club
 Three Deuces

Bowery
 Five Spot

 Columbus Circle
 Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola (Jazz at Lincoln Center)

 East Village
 8BC

 Greenwich Village
 Arthur's Tavern
 Blue Note
 Boomer's
 The Bottom Line
 Café Bohemia
 Café Society
 Condon's
 The Cookery
 Nick's
 Smalls Jazz Club
 The Village Gate
 Village Vanguard

 Harlem
 Alhambra
 Apollo Theater, generally prior to the 1960s
 Baby Grand
 Cotton Club
 Lenox Lounge
 Lincoln Theater
 Minton's Playhouse
 Clark Monroe's Uptown House
 Savoy Ballroom
 Smalls Paradise
 Patrick's Place

Lower East Side
 Slug's Saloon

Midtown Manhattan
 Birdland
 Carnegie Hall
 Iridium Jazz Club
 Metropole
 Roseland Ballroom

NoHo
 Studio Rivbea (see Sam Rivers)

SoHo
 Ali's Alley (see Rashied Ali)

Upper West Side
 Mikell's
 Smoke

Ohio
 Jazz Central, Dayton

Oregon
 Blue Monk, Portland
 Brasserie Montmartre, Portland
 Jack London Revue, Portland
 Jimmy Mak's, Portland

Pennsylvania

Philadelphia
 Earle
 Lincoln Theater
 Pearl Theatre
 Showboat
 Zanzibar Blue

Pittsburgh
 Con Alma
 Gullifty's, Squirrel Hill

Tennessee
 The Palace, Memphis

Texas
 Caravan of Dreams, Fort Worth
 Sardines Ristorante Italiano, Fort Worth
 Señor Blues, El Paso

Virginia
 The Birchmere, Alexandria

Washington
 The Triple Door, Seattle
 Dimitriou's Jazz Alley, Seattle

See also
 Jazz club
 List of jazz festivals
 List of concert halls
 List of contemporary amphitheatres
 List of opera houses

References

Jazz, United States
American music-related lists
Venues United States


title: 1894 Ogmore and Garw Urban District Council election

text:
The first elections to the Ogmore and Garw Urban District Council were held in December 1894. Six members were elected from both the Ogmore and Garw wards making a total of twelve members on the authority.

The Council replaced the Local Board. All the old Ogmore members were returned but only two of the old Garw members.

Ogmore Ward

Garw Ward

References

1894 Welsh local elections
1894
December 1894 events


title: Yvan Baker

text:
Yvan Baker  (born December 8, 1977) is a Canadian politician who was elected to represent the federal riding of Etobicoke Centre in the 2019 federal election. He is a member of the Liberal Party of Canada. Prior to entering federal politics, he served as the Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for the provincial riding of Etobicoke Centre from 2014 to 2018.

Background
Baker grew up in the West End Toronto neighbourhood of Etobicoke and attended Toronto French School. He graduated with a BBA from the Schulich School of Business at York University and went on to work for Scotiabank. He then accepted a position as an Executive Assistant to the Member of Parliament for Etobicoke Centre Borys Wrzesnewskyj before obtaining his Master of Business Administration from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. After graduation Baker became a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, working out of the New York and Toronto offices before starting his own consultancy based out of Toronto. Baker previously taught Master of Business Administration students at Schulich School of Business at York University.

Baker has also worked on several charitable initiatives and community projects. These include serving as a board director for Leave out Violence, the Emerging Leaders Network, and Global Grassroots, where he supported emerging female leaders in Rwanda on projects addressing issues such as lack of access to water, domestic violence and health education. He is a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.

He is in a relationship with Amanda Simard, the former Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for the provincial riding of Glengarry-Prescott-Russell.

Political career

Provincial politics
Baker was elected to the Ontario Legislature in 2014 as the MPP for Etobicoke Centre.  He served as parliamentary assistant to Minister of Finance Charles Sousa. Previously, Baker served as parliamentary assistant to Deb Matthews, president of the Treasury Board from 2014 to 2016.

His other legislative roles included parliamentary assistant to the Minister Responsible for Digital Government; commissioner, Board of Internal Economy; and vice-chair, Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs.

Private members' public bills
In May 2015, Baker introduced the Ontario Flag Day Act, 2015, which sought to proclaim May 21 of each year as Ontario Flag Day. The bill passed with the unanimous support of all three parties.

Baker also introduced the Pathways to Post-secondary Excellence Act, which would make it easier for high school students to research post-secondary educational institutions.  This would be done by centralizing data in the areas of admission, student experience and outcomes for recent graduates ". The bill was endorsed by the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance, Canadian Federation of Students, the College Student Alliance and the Graduate Student Alliance. The bill did not proceed past first reading.

In 2017, Baker proposed the Phones Down, Heads Up Act, a bill to fine pedestrians between $50 and $125 for texting while crossing the street. The bill attracted criticism from Ontario New Democratic Party MPP Cheri DiNovo and pedestrian-safety advocacy group Walk Toronto, who argued that there is little evidence that distracted walking is a risk, and that it shifts the safety onus from drivers to pedestrians.

Community involvement
In Etobicoke Centre, Baker hosted Community Recognition Awards annually which highlighted local individuals and organizations for making a difference in the community. The awards were available in four categories; Outstanding Volunteer Service to the Community, Outstanding Volunteer Service to Seniors, Outstanding Volunteer Service to the Community by Youth and Outstanding Service by Professional Staff. Approximately 30 individuals and organizations are honoured every year.

An annual Government and Community Services Fair was co-hosted every year by Baker and Etobicoke—Lakeshore MPP Peter Milczyn. In 2015, the event featured more than 110 exhibitors from the provincial government, agencies and community organizations.

Baker also hosted monthly Seniors Advisory Group meetings, which discussed topics that are important to seniors in Etobicoke Centre.

Federal politics
On October 30, 2018, Baker announced his intention to seek the Liberal Party of Canada nomination in the federal riding of Etobicoke Centre.

Election results

Federal

Provincial

References

External links

1977 births
21st-century Canadian politicians
Boston Consulting Group people
Canadian people of Ukrainian descent
Living people
Ontario Liberal Party MPPs
People from Etobicoke
Politicians from Toronto
Tuck School of Business alumni
York University alumni
Liberal Party of Canada MPs
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario


title: Ray Charles (disambiguation)

text:
Ray Charles (1930–2004) was an American singer-songwriter, musician and composer.

Ray Charles may also refer to:
Ray Charles (album), 1957
Ray Charles (musician, born 1918) (1918–2015), American musician and leader of The Ray Charles Singers
"Ray Charles" (song), 2011 single from American rap group Chiddy Bang
"Ray Charles", a song from La Fouine album Drôle de parcours

See also
Charles Ray (disambiguation)


title: Dewey-free classification

text:
Dewey-free (also Dewey free, Dewey-less, or word-based) refers to library classification schemes developed as alternatives to Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC).  Dewey-free systems are often based on the BISAC subject headings developed by the Book Industry Study Group, and are typically implemented in libraries with smaller collections.  Instead of using numerical notation to indicate a document's shelving location, Dewey-free systems organize documents alphabetically by natural language words.  Dewey-free systems have been implemented in both public and school libraries.

Motivations

A primary motivation for the development of Dewey-free systems is to eliminate DDC's numerical notation, which many library patrons find intimidating.  Abandoning numerical notation in favor of natural language words may also facilitate browsing.

Adoption of classification is often seen as part of a greater trend of using a "bookstore model" to deliver library services.  This trend gained traction in 1998 with an article by Los Angeles librarian Steve Coffman.  While some librarians see this as a beneficial approach that will make patrons more comfortable and increase circulation statistics, others disagree with the approach, particularly as large bookstores such as Borders Group have met severe financial challenges.

Many Dewey-free proponents believe that Dewey is outdated and ill-suited for non-academic environments.  DDC organizes documents not only by subject, but also by academic discipline.  This leads to materials on the same topic being filed in wildly disparate locations.  For example, Dewey places books about railroad trains in both the 380s and the 620s. The discipline-based orientation is also problematic for categorizing interdisciplinary works and non-academic titles, which make up the bulk of most public libraries' non-fiction holdings.

DDC has also faced a number of critiques for its biases.  Scholars and catalogers have specifically criticized its marginalization of
developing countries and continents,
Christian-centrism,
racism,
sexism,
homophobia,
and marginalization of intersex people. Some proponents of Dewey-free systems suggest that abandoning DDC in favor of new schemes may address these problems, but the literature doesn't include any analysis of BISAC Subject Headings for these issues, nor have any Dewey-free libraries documented strategies for addressing these issues within the taxonomies they have devised.

Librarians who work with children point to additional benefits within their collections. They note that school library workers often have little support and few resources for teaching the DDC system to children.  The numbers themselves are often opaque to younger students, who typically don't learn about decimals until late in elementary school.

Adoption
In the 1970s and 1980s, public libraries in the United Kingdom and United States designed new "reader-interest classification" systems as alternatives to DDC.  These systems organized materials in ways that are intuitive to non-academic users and employed modern terminology, resulting in collections that are more browsable.  However, a lack of standardization led libraries to abandon these systems.  Dewey-free classification schemes can be seen as new cases of reader-interest classification schemes.

In 2007, the Maricopa County Library District announced that its Gilbert Library would abandon DDC in favor of a BISAC-based system. The library district reported the change as a success, with non-fiction circulation improving sixfold.

In 2009, the Rangeview Library District became the first library district to fully convert to a BISAC-based scheme.  Rangeview's classification system, which is branded as "WordThink", is based on BISAC headings.

In 2011, the librarians at the Ethical Culture School in New York City developed a Dewey-Free system called Metis.  The school's novel approach incorporated focus groups of students from Kindergarten through the Fifth Grade in designing the system.

The Darien Library in Connecticut employs a hybrid approach to classification.  While books are still organized by DDC number, DDC categories are "clumped into eight broad categories," known as glades.  A glade groups together books from several Dewey classes that Darien librarians feel may be useful to similar groups.  For example, the Places glade is intended for international travellers, and combines books from the 400s (Languages) and 910s (Travel and Geography).

The Nyack Library used a "marketplace" system similar to Darien's glades.  However, after complaints from community members, the library reverted to a traditional DDC collection in 2013.

The King County Library System announced in 2014 that all 48 of its branches will convert their fiction picture book collections to a Dewey-free subject classification system.

Evaluation
There has been very little formal evaluation of Dewey-free systems, even by libraries that have implemented them.

Many libraries point to an increase in circulation statistics—either for a particular topic or for the non-fiction collection as a whole—as a measure of the success of their Dewey-free systems.  However, the correlation between circulation statistics and library classification scheme is not easy to demonstrate.  Dewey-free reclassification projects are often undertaken in conjunction with other projects that aim to better merchandise a library's holdings, so it can be very unclear how much of a circulation increase can be attributed to a new classification scheme.
Furthermore, library scholars typically warn against using circulation statistics as the sole metric of any project's success, because such statistics fail to account for materials used within the library, materials that were circulated but never read, or materials that were circulated but failed to provide users with the information they needed.

Call numbers are generally not indexed by Integrated Library Systems, so the adoption of word-based classification systems has had little impact on information retrieval quality within library catalogs to date.

Criticisms

Critics of the new systems argue that BISAC's broad categories actually impede browsing, as many different subtopics are interspersed with one another.  They prefer DDC's arrangement of materials by specific subject.  They also argue that many of the issues addressed by Dewey-free systems could be resolved much more easily with improved signage and book labels.

Even proponents of Dewey-free systems note that BISAC-based classification systems would be unsuitable for libraries with large or specialized collections.  Critics have also questioned the pedagogical value of Dewey-free classifications, questioning whether library patrons used to a Dewey-free system will have the skills necessary to navigate collections classified according to DDC or Library of Congress Classification.

Critics have also noted that using English words instead of numbers for all classification sends a message that libraries are only interested in serving English speakers.

References

Library cataloging and classification


title: Donald J. Savoie

text:
Donald Joseph Savoie  (born 1947) is a Canadian public administration and regional economic development scholar. He serves as a professor at l'Université de Moncton. In 2015, he was awarded the Killam Prize for his contribution to the field of social sciences.

Biography
Savoie has published many books, journal articles, and essays in edited collections. His publications include Federal–Provincial Collaboration, Breaking the Bargain: Public Servants, Ministers, and Parliament, Governing from the Centre: The Concentration of Power in Canadian Politics, Thatcher, Reagan, Mulroney: In Search of a New Bureaucracy, and What Is Government Good At? A Canadian Answer.

His biography Harrison McCain: Single-Minded Purpose was shortlisted for the National Business Book Award (2014).

He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1993 and promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada in 2022.

Publications
 Federal–Provincial Collaboration, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1981
 An overview of the importance of federal–provincial relations on regional development: the restructuring of 1982, Moncton: Canadian Institute for Research on Regional Development, 1984 ()
 Regional Economic Development: Canada’s Search for Solutions, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1986, reprinted 1987.
 La lutte pour le développement: le cas du Nord Est, Québec, Les presses de l’Université du Québec, 1988.
 Regional Policy in a Changing World, New York: Plenum Press, 1990.
 The Politics of Public Spending in Canada, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990, reprinted 1990 and 1991.
 The Politics of Language, Kingston: Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen's University, 1991, 23 p. (  )
 Regional Economic Development: Canada's Search for Solutions, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992, 341 p.
 Globalization and Governance, Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Management Development, 1993, 37 p. (  )
 Thatcher, Reagan, Mulroney: In Search of a New Bureaucracy, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994, reprinted 1994, 1995.
 Rethinking Canada's regional development policy: a view of the Atlantic, Moncton: Canadian Institute for Research on Regional Development, 1997, 67 p.
 Governing from the Centre: The Concentration of Power in Canadian Politics , Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999, reprinted 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004 and 2006.
 Community Economic Development in Atlantic Canada: False Hope or Panacea, Moncton: Canadian Institute for Research on Regional Development, 2000, 131 p.
 Aboriginal Economic Development in New Brunswick , Moncton: Canadian Institute for Research on Regional Development, 2000, 143 p.
 Pulling Against Gravity: Economic Development in New Brunswick During the McKenna Years, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001
 Breaking the Bargain: Public Servants, Ministers, and Parliament , Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003, reprinted 2003, 2004, 336 p.
 Visiting Grandchildren: Economic Development in the Maritimes, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006, reprinted 2006.
 Court Government and the Collapse of Accountability in Canada and the United Kingdom, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008, reprinted 2008.
 I'm From Bouctouche, Me, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009, 316 p.  (A memoir.)
 Power: Where Is It?, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010.
 Whatever Happened to the Music Teacher? How Government Decides How and Why, Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013, reprinted 2014, 336 p.
 Harrison McCain: Single-Minded Purpose, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013, 336 p.
 What Is Government Good At?: A Canadian Answer, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015, reprinted 2016, 388 p.
 Looking for Bootstraps: Economic Development in the Maritimes, Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2017, 440 p.
 Democracy in Canada: The Disintegration of Our Institutions Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019, 504 p.
 Thanks for the Business: K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving and the Story of Irving Oil, Halifax: Nimbus, 2020.

With B. Guy Peters (eds.)
 New Challenges of Governance, Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Management / Presses de l'Université Laval, 1995, 306 p. ( ISBN 2 -7637-7445-8 )
 Managing Incoherence: The dilemma of coordination and accountability, Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Management Development, 1995 (  )
 Taking Stock: Assessing Public Sector Reforms, Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 1998, 311 p. (  )
 Governance in the Twenty-first Century: Revitalizing the Public Service, Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 2001, 328 p. (  )

With Ralph Winter (eds.)
 Les provinces maritimes : un regard sur l'avenir / The Maritime Provinces: looking to the future, Moncton: Canadian Institute for Research on Regional Development, 1994, 288 p (.  )

With Maurice Beaudin
 The Struggle for Development: the case of the North East, Moncton: Presses de l'Université du Québec / Canadian Institute for Research on Regional Development, 1988, 282 p.
 New Brunswick in 2000, Moncton: Canadian Institute for Research on Regional Development, 1989, 200 p. (  )
 The challenges of the fishing industry in New Brunswick, Moncton: Acadia Publishing, 1992, 282 p. (  )

With André Raynauld
 Essais sur le développement régional, Montreal: University Press of Montreal, 1986, 242 p. (  )

Prizes and awards
Donald J. Savoie has won numerous prizes and awards, including: inaugural recipient of the Royal Society of Canada’s Yvan Allaire Medal for outstanding contribution in governance (2018), the 2015–2016 Donner Prize and the inaugural recipient of the 2016 Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick Book Award for Non-fiction for What Is Government Good At?, the 2015 Killam Prize in Social Sciences, the Order of New Brunswick (2011), finalist for the SSHRC Gold Medal for Achievement in Research (2003), the Vanier Gold Medal (1999), honoured by the Public Policy Forum at its twelfth annual testimonial awards (1999), made an Officer of the Order of Canada (1993), elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1992), selected the Université de Moncton's alumnus of the year (1991). Three of his books were short listed for the Donner Prize, The Politics of Public Spending in Canada was the inaugural recipient of the Smiley prize (1992) awarded by the Canadian Political Science Association for the best book in the study of government and politics in Canada and Les défis de l’industrie des pêches au Nouveau-Brunswick was awarded “Le Prix France-Acadie” (1993).

He has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Université Sainte-Anne (1993), Mount Allison (1997), Dalhousie University (2003), Saint Mary’s University (2011), Acadia (2014) and the University of Ottawa (2018). He was also awarded a Doctor of Letters from Oxford University (2000).

References

1947 births
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Living people
Members of the Order of New Brunswick
Companions of the Order of Canada
People from Kent County, New Brunswick
Public administration scholars
Université de Moncton alumni
Academic staff of the Université de Moncton
University of New Brunswick alumni
Presidents of the Canadian Political Science Association


title: British American Tobacco Bangladesh

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British American Tobacco Bangladesh is one of the largest multinational corporations, operated by British American Tobacco in Bangladesh. They are listed on the stock index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange and Chittagong Stock Exchange. It is doing its business over 100 years in this region. It was founded in Bangladesh in 1910. It had established its first depot at Armanitola in Dhaka. After partition in 1947, it was established in 1949. After the independence of Bangladesh from Pakistan, it was renamed as Bangladesh Tobacco Company (BTC) in 1972. But in 1998, it is again renamed as British American Tobacco Bangladesh (BATB). In Bangladesh, British American Tobacco Bangladesh has more than 1,200 people as direct employees and more than 50,000 people as indirect employees (mostly farmers).

British American Tobacco Bangladesh's motto is "success and responsibility go together". Shehzad Munim is the current managing director of BATB. He is serving as the first ever Bangladeshi MD in the history of BATB.

Brands
Benson & Hedges
John Player Gold Leaf
Lucky Strike
Capstan
Star
Royals
Derby
Pilot
Hollywood

References

Bangladeshi subsidiaries of foreign companies
Tobacco companies of Bangladesh
British American Tobacco


title: Jean Paul Farrugia

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Jean Paul Farrugia (born 21 March 1992) is a Maltese professional footballer who currently plays for Mosta, on loan from Sliema Wanderers.

International career
Farrugia played his first international game with the senior national team on 4 June 2014 in and against Gibraltar (1–0), after he came on as a substitute for André Schembri in the 74th minute of that game. He scored his first goal on March 26, 2017 against Slovakia.

International goals
Scores and results list Malta's goal tally first.

Honours
Hibernians
Maltese League (2): 2008–09, 2014–15
Maltese FA Trophy (1): 2012–13
Sliema Wanderers
Maltese FA Trophy (1): 2015–16
Birkirkara
Maltese FA Trophy (1): 2022-23

References

External links

1992 births
Living people
People from Pietà, Malta
Maltese men's footballers
Malta men's international footballers
Men's association football forwards
Hibernians F.C. players
Marsaxlokk F.C. players
FC Chiasso players
FC Spartak Trnava players
Slovak First Football League players
Maltese Premier League players
Swiss Challenge League players
Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland
Expatriate men's footballers in Slovakia
Maltese expatriate sportspeople in Slovakia
Maltese expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland


title: Shumway (software)

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Shumway is a discontinued media player for playing SWF files. It was intended as an open-source replacement for Adobe Flash Player. It is licensed under Apache and SIL Open Font License (OFL). Mozilla started development on it in 2012. It was preceded by a failed earlier project called Gordon, a JavaScript library with a similar concept and name, which interprets SWF files with onboard resources of a browser via SVG conversion. These names are an allusion to Flash Gordon and Gordon Shumway.

Shumway renders Flash contents by translating Flash file contents to HTML5 elements, and running an ActionScript interpreter in JavaScript. It supports both AVM1 and AVM2, and ActionScript versions 1, 2, and 3.

Development of Shumway has effectively ceased.  Although the project remains available on GitHub (see External links), in February 2016, the project was moved to the "Firefox Graveyard" and is thus considered defunct from Mozilla's point of view.  Mozilla's strategy in 2016 was to continue to support Adobe Flash, as an exception to its general policy of ceasing support for NPAPI plugins by the end of 2016.

See also

 Ruffle
 Google Swiffy
 Adobe Wallaby

References

External links

  – Shumway's landing page
 Shumway Wiki – GitHub
 Shumway – MozillaWiki

Adobe Flash
Mozilla
2012 software


title: Adrien Beard

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Adrien B. Beard (born October 13, 1969) is an American voice actor, storyboard artist, and producer. He provides the voice of Tolkien (Token) Black in South Park, as well as serving as the art director and lead storyboarder on the series.

Beard had won three Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on South Park and has been nominated for two others.

Filmography

Television

Video games

References

External links

1969 births
Living people
African-American male actors
American male voice actors
American art directors
American storyboard artists
American television producers
Primetime Emmy Award winners
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century African-American people


title: Anthony Hewitt (baseball)

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Anthony Hewitt (born April 27, 1989) is a professional baseball player who is a free agent. He was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the first round of the 2008 MLB Draft and spent seven seasons in the Phillies' minor league system, never reaching higher than Class Double-A baseball.

Early life
Hewitt was born in Brooklyn, New York, and attended public school there before transferring to the Salisbury School, a preparatory academy in Connecticut. Early in his life, Hewitt played basketball, but soon realized that his physique was most conducive to baseball and switched his emphasis to this sport. He was a New York Yankees fan, and "idolized" Alex Rodriguez. In high school, he played shortstop and was a strong hitter, the latter of which was the primary reason the Phillies drafted him in the first round of the 2008 MLB Draft.

Professional career
When the Phillies drafted Hewitt, he signed a contract that included a  signing bonus, as well as money to pay for eight semesters at Vanderbilt University, which Hewitt planned to attend in the offseason as a business or economics major in the hopes of learning how to manage his money. Hewitt began his career with the GCL Phillies, the rookie affiliate of the Phillies organization, with whom he posted a .197 batting average with one home run and nine runs batted in (RBIs). The next year, as a member of the Williamsport Crosscutters, Hewitt marginally improved his performance at the plate, hitting .223 with seven home runs and 30 RBIs. During his first two seasons, he played third base and outfield; ultimately, the Phillies made him an outfielder. His next two years were with the Lakewood BlueClaws; in 2010, he had a "miserable" season, compiling a .202 batting average, barely above the "Mendoza Line".

He understood the "high stakes" of his 2011 season, and he bounced back somewhat, totaling 14 home runs and 36 stolen bases to supplant his .240 batting average (both of which were professional career highs). Over the first few months of the season, he even had what one writer termed a "breakout" year before a mediocre second half of the season. In 2012, he was promoted to the Clearwater Threshers, of Class A-Advanced, with whom he posted a .241 batting average, 13 home runs, 50 RBIs and 13 stolen bases. He was promoted once again in 2013, joining a fellow first-round pick, Jesse Biddle, with the Double-A Reading Fightin' Phils. He seemed to be on an upward spiral, finally realizing his potential; he noted that he no longer sought to live up to others' expectations, and sought to live up only to his own, which helped him relax and play with confidence, according to manager Dusty Wathan, who also praised Hewitt's incessant strong work ethic. Concurrently, Hewitt once again improved his batting average (albeit minimally, going from .241 in 2012 to .244 in 2013), and hit a career-high 16 home runs. However, the 2014 season was his last in the Phillies' organization. After a "dismal" start to the season in Reading, he was demoted to Clearwater, from which the Phillies released him on June 12, 2014 after "failing to develop in seven disappointing seasons". Corey Seidman, a writer for Comcast SportsNet, summarized Hewitt's career with the Phillies as follows:

Following his release by the Phillies, Hewitt signed a minor league deal with the Baltimore Orioles but only played 13 games for the Orioles High-A affiliate the Frederick Keys. On March 24, 2016, Hewitt signed with the New Britain Bees of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, joining fellow former Phillies first round pick Greg Golson.

References

External links

Baseball players from Brooklyn
1989 births
Living people
Florida Complex League Phillies players
Williamsport Crosscutters players
Lakewood BlueClaws players
Clearwater Threshers players
Reading Fightin Phils players
Frederick Keys players
New Britain Bees players


title: João Emanuel Carneiro

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João Emanuel Carneiro Silva (born 17 February 1970), also known by his initials JEC, is a screenwriter, film director, and author of Brazilian telenovelas. His many works include: Central Station, Midnight, Orfeu, and Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum.

His greatest hit on television was Avenida Brasil that broke several TV audience records in Brazil and abroad, being sold to more than 130 countries. Aired originally between March-October 2012, the telenovela achieved an overall average of 42 rating points and a 69% share. The last episode scored an impressive 56 rating points and an 84% share, with more than 50 million (sic) viewers, becoming the most watched TV program of the year. Avenida Brasil, was considered by Forbes the most-commercially successful telenovela in Brazilian history, with total earnings estimated in $1 billion.

He was considered by Época, one of the 100 most influential Brazilians in 2012.

Biography
Carneiro began his writing career and director in 1991 with the Zero Zero movie, but achieved international popularity to sign the award-winning film script by Walter Salles, Central Station, starring by Fernanda Montenegro.

On television, he collaborated with Maria Adelaide Amaral in the script of the miniseries A Muralha (2000), Os Maias (2001) and in the telenovela Desejos de Mulher (2002). His first work as lead author was in Da Cor do Pecado (2004), which was a great success on Brazilian television. In 2006, wrote Cobras & Lagartos. In 2008, he wrote the telenovela A Favorita, his first in primetime.

Avenida Brasil written by him in 2012, became the most exported telenovela of Rede Globo, surpassing Da Cor do Pecado, which was the sales leader for other countries so far. The telenovela has been licensed for 150 countries over the past 20 months and dubbed into 19 languages as English, Spanish, Arabic, Greek, Polish, Russian and French. Besides Europe and Latin America, Avenue Brazil has been licensed to more than 58 countries in Africa and Middle East countries as well.

João Emanuel Carneiro is half brother of actress Claudia Ohana and son of writer, anthropologist and art critic Lelia Coelho Frota.

Career
Television

Films

Awards

References

External links

 João Emanuel Carneiro  at the Memória Globo

Brazilian male screenwriters
1970 births
Living people
Authors of Brazilian telenovelas
Brazilian male writers
Male television writers
Brazilian LGBT screenwriters


title: Carter Fountain

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The Carter Fountain is a distinctive feature  out in Wellington Harbour from Oriental Bay. Installed in 1973, it was named in memory of the parents of its donor Hugh Carter, who drowned only days after the fountain's inauguration.

Background

The Carter Fountain was a gift to the city of Wellington from local resident and businessman Hugh Carter, as a tribute to his parents George and Ella Carter and the people of Wellington. A plaque was installed on the band rotunda saying: "Carter Fountain. In Memory. This fountain was donated to the people of Wellington by the family of the late George and Ella Carter, who had a great love of their city. 16th March 1973". Carter was inspired by the Jet d'Eau fountain he saw in Geneva in the early 1960s. Construction began in 1972 and cost NZ$75,000. There was some controversy when the project was announced as some residents objected to the fountain on aesthetic reasons or because it might interfere with rowing, or thought the money it cost could have been better spent elsewhere.

The fountain was officially opened on 16 March 1973. Tragedy struck just days after the fountain was officially opened. Carter had moored his launch Kualani in the harbour for the opening of the fountain. He disappeared from the boat on the night of 20/21 March and his body was found in the harbour on 21 March. He was 55.

The fountain was originally maintained by the Wellington Harbour Board, and with the 1989 local government reforms, this responsibility transferred to the Wellington City Council.

Operation

The fountain spouts water  into the air. Following complaints from local residents about salt spray, a wind sensor was installed on the nearby band rotunda that prevents the fountain from operating above a given wind speed; sources vary whether this is . The band rotunda also holds the land-based electrical components for the fountain.

Monthly maintenance is carried out by an electrician, who reaches the fountain in a row boat. Twice a year, divers check on the submerged pump. The annual maintenance costs NZ$45,000, of which NZ$20,000 is for electricity. The cost for replacing the pump in 2009 was NZ$29,000, during which time the fountain was out of operation for half a year. Eight floodlights are used to light and colour the fountain. The halogen lights were replaced in 2013 by LED light at a cost of NZ$21,000, with the new lights lasting up to 50,000 hours compared to 2,000 hours previously, and being able to be remote controlled.

The fountain is operated up to four times a day:
Monday to Thursday: 07:30–09:00, noon–14:00, 16:30–18:00, 19:30–22:30
Friday: 07:30–09:00, noon–14:00, 16:30–18:00, 19:30–23:00
Saturday and Sunday: 08:30–16:30, 19:00–23:00

References

Monuments and memorials in New Zealand
Tourist attractions in Wellington City
Fountains in New Zealand
Buildings and structures in Wellington City
Outdoor sculptures in New Zealand


title: Delice (disambiguation)

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Delice or Delices may refer to:

Places

 Delice, a town and district in Kırıkkale province, Turkey
 Delice (İmranlı) a village in Sivas province, Turkey
 Delice, Mudurnu, a village in Bolu province, Turkey
 Delice River, a river in Turkey
 Delices, a village in Dominica
 Délices, a gold mine and village in French Guiana
 Les Délices, a former home of Voltaire

People
 Patrick Delice, a retired athlete from Trinidad and Tobago

Companies

 , a Tunisian dairy company

Other uses
 Délice d'Argental, a double cream cheese
 Délice de Bourgogne, a type of cheese
 Delice Paloma, a 2007 film


title: William Cayley (MP)

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William Cayley (c.1695 — 14 February 1768), of Scampton, Lincolnshire, was a British consul in the Iberian peninsula from 1726 to 1746, Member (MP) of the Parliament of Great Britain for Dover 7 February 1752 - April 1755., and a Commissioner of Excise from 1755 to 1767.

Family
His father was Simon Cayley, seventh son of Sir William Cayley, the second of the Cayley baronets.

Spain and Portugal
In 1722 William Cayley went to Lisbon as secretary to Sir Thomas Saunderson, the British minister there. The following year he was appointed chargé d'affaires in Lisbon. He was British consul in Cadiz from 1726 to 1739, and then, in 1739, on the outbreak of the War of Jenkins' Ear, consul in Faro, Portugal.

There is a collection of his diplomatic correspondence from 1735 onwards in the British Library, a number of letters reporting to the Duke of Newcastle and others, including Admiral Nicholas Haddock, on ship movements and other matters of interest to the British government, particularly causes of friction between Britain and Spain.

In 1746 he sought, and obtained, permission to resign his post in Faro and return to England.

MP and Excise Commissioner
In 1747 he stood unsuccessfully for Parliament for the constituency of Totnes. He sought government support for a safer seat. He was finally elected MP for Dover in 1752, with government backing. In 1754 he applied to the Duke of Newcastle for a government appointment in recognition of his work in Spain and Portugal. The following year he was appointed a Commissioner of Excise and gave up his seat in Parliament. He resigned on health grounds in early 1767.

In 1749 the manor of Scampton was devised to him by its joint coheirs. He died aged 73 in 1768 and was buried with his unmarried daughter at Ampthill, Bedfordshire. He had married and had one daughter, Sarah. He left Scampton to Richard Stonhewer with remainder to his cousins, the Cayleys of Brompton.

External links
"History of Parliament online"
"Cayley family History"
 Burial record on findagrave.com

References

1768 deaths
People from Scampton
Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Dover
British MPs 1747–1754
British MPs 1754–1761
Year of birth uncertain
William


title: Overscreening

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Overscreening, also called unnecessary screening, is the performance of medical screening without a medical indication to do so. Screening is a medical test in a healthy person who is showing no symptoms of a disease and is intended to detect a disease so that a person may prepare to respond to it. Screening is indicated in people who have some threshold risk for getting a disease, but is not indicated in people who are unlikely to develop a disease. Overscreening is a type of unnecessary health care.

Overscreening is problematic because it can lead to risky or harmful additional treatment when a healthy person gets a false positive result for screening which they should not have had. It also causes unnecessary stress for the person receiving the test, and it brings unnecessary financial costs that someone pays.

The general rule is that people should only be screened for a medical condition when there is a reason to believe that they ought to be screened, such a medical guideline recommendation for screening based on evidence from a person's medical history or physical examination.

Controversy and debate arise when new medical guidelines change screening recommendations.

Definition
Screening is a type of medical test which is done on health people who do not show symptoms of a medical condition. Screenings are correctly performed when done on a person who has significant risk of developing a medical condition, and incorrectly performed when done on a person whose risk is not significant.

There can be debate about when risk becomes great enough to become significant and merit a recommendation for screening, but in discussions about overscreening, this is not the cause of the problem. Overscreening almost always happens when a person is screened routinely and without any consideration of their risk for a medical condition.

One early use of the term "overscreening" as "unnecessary screening" was in 1992 in the context of cervical cancer screening.

A 1979 paper used the term "overscreening" to mean "false positive result in a screening".

Causes of overscreening

Same causes as unnecessary health care

Overscreening is a type of unnecessary health care, so the causes of unnecessary health care are also causes of overscreening. Some causes include financial biases for physicians to recommend more treatment in health care systems using fee-for-service and physician self-referral practices; and physicians' practice of defensive medicine.

Screening creep
Over time, recommendations to screen are made for populations with less risk in the past.

Clinical practice guidelines advise physicians to screen early to detect diseases. It has been considered that guideline committees might not appropriately do cost-effectiveness analysis, consider opportunity cost, or evaluate risks to patients when they broaden screening recommendations.

Diagnostic creep
Over time, the indicators for making a diagnosis are lower so that people with fewer symptoms are diagnosed with a disease sooner. Additionally, new diseases are named and treatment is recommended, including "subclinical diseases", "preclinical diseases", or "pseudodiseases", which are described as early versions of a disease which has not manifested.

Patient demand
Patient demand is a sort of self-diagnosis in which patients request treatment regardless of whether the treatment they request is medically indicated. Causes for patients requesting treatment include increased access to health information on the Internet and direct-to-consumer advertising.

Ethical concerns of screening under these circumstances have been described.

Distraction tricks by physicians
Physicians sometimes use screening as a placebo for patients who wish to have some kind of care. The physician may recommend screening to placate the patient's demand for fast recovery in times when the recommended action would be to do nothing except wait. Research suggests that patients are more satisfied with their treatment when it is or seems expensive because patients believe that the more care they get, even if it is not necessary, then at least doing something is better than doing nothing.

Arguments against overscreening

Overscreening is a type of unnecessary health care. One study about unnecessary screening before surgery reported that physicians order unnecessary tests because of tradition in the practice of medicine, anticipation that other physicians will expect the test results when they see the patient, defensive medicine, worries that a surgery may be canceled if the test is not done, and lack of understanding about when a test is actually indicated.

False positive medical test results
A false positive medical test result is a false-positive test result of medical screening. It happens when a test indicates that a person has a medical condition when actually the person does not.

Overscreening can be a problem because it can generate a false positive medical test result in a healthy person who does not have the medical condition which screening is supposed to detect. In such cases, the person who received the false positive test is more likely to get further unnecessary screening or even receive treatment for a condition which that person does not have. In either of these cases, the person becomes exposed to the risks and harms of treatment which they ought not be getting.

In general, people should not have medical screening unless the screening is indicated by the person's medical history, a physical examination, and a medical guideline. The rationale for this is that in cases in which a person is unlikely to have a medical condition, it can be more likely that a test will give a false positive result than it would be for the test to detect something which is unlikely considering the person's medical history. If a false positive result does occur in a patient unlikely to have that disease, then that patient will be likely to seek treatment.

Unnecessary costs
Overscreening tends to happen more in circumstances in which medical billing happens based on fee-for-service models rather than bundled payment. One reason for this is because health care providers have incentive to provide more services to increase their revenue. Furthermore, when patients are shielded from cost sharing, that also tends to increase rates of overscreening as when patients pay nothing for additional treatment, they tend to request more services even when they are not indicated.

Overscreening examples

Cancer screening

Prostate cancer screening

The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommended against PSA screening in healthy men finding that the potential risks outweigh the potential benefits. Guidelines from the American Urological Association, and the American Cancer Society recommend that men be informed of the risks and benefits of screening.  The American Society of Clinical Oncology recommends screening be discouraged in those who are expected to live less than ten years, while in those with a life expectancy of greater than ten years a decision should be made by the person in question based on the potential risks and benefits.  In general, they conclude that based on recent research, "it is uncertain whether the benefits associated with PSA testing for prostate cancer screening are worth the harms associated with screening and subsequent unnecessary treatment."

Breast cancer screening

Recommendations to attend to mammography screening vary across countries and organizations, with the most common difference being the age at which screening should begin, and how frequently or if it should be performed, among women at typical risk for developing breast cancer. Some other organizations recommend mammograms begin as early as age 40 in normal-risk women, and take place more frequently, up to once each year. Women at higher risk may benefit from earlier or more frequent screening. Women with one or more first-degree relatives (mother, sister, daughter) with premenopausal breast cancer often begin screening at an earlier age, perhaps at an age 10 years younger than the age when the relative was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Heart related tests

Electrocardiography

Electrocardiograms are sometimes inappropriately used to screen low-risk patients with no symptoms for cardiac disease, perhaps as part of a routine annual exam. There is not much evidence that this test in low-risk individuals can improve health outcomes. False positive results, however, are likely to lead to follow-up invasive procedures, unnecessary further treatment, and a misdiagnosis. The harms of a non-indicated annual screening have been determined to outweigh the potential benefit, and for that reason, screening without an indication is discouraged.

Young athletes are sometimes screened with ECG as a requirement for them to play sports, and the necessity of this and harms from false positive results are debated.

Heart imaging stress tests

Cardiac stress tests, including stress echocardiography and nuclear stress tests, are used to detect a block in blood flow to the heart. They do this by taking pictures of the heart while the heart is exercising. Persons who have symptoms of heart disease or who are high risk for a heart attack may need this test, while people without these symptoms and who are low risk generally do not.

Coronary computed tomography
Coronary artery calcium scoring is a diagnostic test in the field of cardiovascular x-ray computed tomography. It is used to screen for coronary artery disease. Asymptomatic people who have low risk, including a lack of family history of premature coronary artery disease, should not be screened with this test. Coronary computed tomography angiography should not be used to screen people who are asymptomatic. Additionally, this test rarely provides insight which cannot be gained from coronary artery calcium scoring.

Opinions about overscreening
Overscreening has been called "unethical".

References

External links
PSA Testing Controversy Reignites ‘Over-Screening’ Debate, PBS Newshour

Unnecessary health care
Medical tests
Prevention


title: Michal Horodník

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Michal Horodník (born 29 October 1996) is a Slovak footballer who plays as a midfielder for KFC Komárno in the 2. Liga.

Club career

MFK Košice
He made his debut for Košice on 20 May 2014 against Ružomberok, entering in as a substitute in place of a future Slovak international Erik Pačinda, in the 71st minute of the game.

References

External links
 Eurofotbal profile
 Futbalnet profile
 Corgoň Liga profile

1996 births
Living people
Slovak men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
FC VSS Košice players
FK Poprad players
Partizán Bardejov players
MFK Skalica players
KFC Komárno players
Slovak First Football League players
Sportspeople from Humenné
Footballers from the Prešov Region
2. Liga (Slovakia) players