title: Evelin Novak

text:
Evelin Novak (born 1985 in Čakovec) is a Croatian soprano.
Novak was born in Croatia. At the age of 12 she started her singing education, four years later she won two first prizes at international competitions in Croatia. At the age of 17 she became the youngest student at the Music Academy in Graz, Austria. Afterwards she studied at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart with Dunja Vejzović, where she received her diploma in spring 2008.

Biography

From April 2009 until June 2011, Novak was holding a scholarship of the Liz Mohn Kultur- und Musikstiftung at the International Operastudio of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin. In the 2009/10 season she sang on the opera stage Servant in Simon Boccanegra, Berta in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly. The season 2010/11 included additionally 1. Dame/Die Zauberflöte, Tebaldo/Don Carlo, Arminda/La finta giardiniera and Die Vertraute/Elektra.

She gave her debut as Berta/Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Bayerische Staatsoper München in March 2010.

In the summer of 2011 Novak gave her debut with Saffi in Der Zigeunerbaron (director: Brigitte Fassbaender) at the Seefestspiele Mörbisch (recorded for TV and DVD).

Since season 2011/12 she is a member of Staatsoper Berlin, where she made her debut as Eurydike/Orphée aux enfers in December 2011, followed in season 2012/13 by her first Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, as well as the new production of Frank Martin's Le Vin herbé, followed in 2014 by Jenny/Mahagonny (new production). She also sang her first Violetta/La traviata there.

In summer 2012 she made her debut as Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen at the , Austria, also recorded for DVD. The year after she sang her first Mimì/La bohéme there. Further guest appearances led her to Graz (Gasparone) and Barcelona Liceu (Micaëla/Carmen production Calixto Bieito).

Novak is also a regular guest on numerous concert stages in Germany and her home country Croatia, e.g. with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra. In autumn 2011, she appeared with Dvořák's Stabat Mater at Theater Heidelberg. She sang concerts under Daniel Barenboim at Berlin Philharmonie. She recorded La rondine in Munich for the Bayerischer Rundfunk.

References

External links
Performance schedule, Operabase
, "Song to the Moon" from Rusalka, Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony Orchestra, Eduardo Strausser conducting

Living people
1985 births
Croatian operatic sopranos
State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart alumni
People from Čakovec


title: Proeme lyciformis

text:
Proeme lyciformis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Martins in 1978.

References

Oemini
Beetles described in 1978


title: Proeme plagiata

text:
Proeme plagiata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Buquet in 1860.

References

Oemini
Beetles described in 1860


title: Proeme rufoscapus

text:
Proeme rufoscapus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1910.

References

Oemini
Beetles described in 1910


title: Midway Manor

text:
Midway Manor is a country house and farm in Wingfield parish, about  south of Bradford on Avon in Wiltshire, England.

The house is approximately midway between Bradford on Avon and Wingfield, on the B3109 road. It was originally an Elizabethan Manor Farm flanked by two large stone barns. In about 1723, the Midway estate was the property of the Shrapnel family who were prosperous cloth merchants from Bradford on Avon. Lieutenant-General Henry Shrapnel (1761–1842), inventor of the Shrapnel shell, was born at Midway Manor which remained with the Shrapnel family until 1871.

The house had stone cannonballs mounted in various places on the front façade, and a carving of the Shrapnel shell exploding with the Latin inscription Ratio Ultima Regum ("the Last Argument of Kings"), a phrase Louis XIV of France had cast on the cannons of his armies. This carving is now immediately outside the Manor's entrance gates. On the back of the gate piers, the names of some of the battles that were won with the aid of the Shrapnel shell are engraved. These include the battles of Waterloo, Talavera, the Kyber Pass, Salamanca, San Sebastian, Bidassoa, Bella Formosa, Tsage, Abyssinia, Monte Video, Maida, Ghuzznee (Ghazni), Bussaco, Table Bay, Kioze as well as the Crimean and Burmese wars. On top of each gate pier are four of the original spherical case shots. The late-19th century gate piers are Grade II listed since 1988.

In 1892, the manor became the property of Henry Baynton who removed the front façade, necessitating an almost complete rebuilding of the house with stone provided from the barns which were then demolished.

References

Country houses in Wiltshire


title: Proeme seabrai

text:
Proeme seabrai is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Martins in 1978.

References

Oemini
Beetles described in 1978


title: Jack Trammell

text:
John "Jack" Kent Trammell (born January 23, 1964) is a college professor and was the Democratic candidate in the 2014 general election for Virginia's 7th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives, which was held on November 4, 2014. Trammell  faced Dave Brat, who defeated incumbent Eric Cantor in the Republican primary; and Libertarian nominee James Carr. Both Trammell and Brat are professors at Randolph–Macon College.

Early life and education
Trammell was born in Berea, Kentucky, in the infirmary on campus at Berea College where his parents were attending as an undergraduate married couple. He spent time as a child in Kentucky, and then New York City when his father was at Columbia University, and as an adult moved to central Virginia.

His family ancestry dates back to the American colonial period, when Thomas Trammell immigrated to Virginia in 1671, arriving at the port of Alexandria as an indentured servant.

Trammell was a political science undergraduate at Grove City College, where he earned his B.A. He then received advanced degrees or certificates in education, special education, history education, and research methodology, including Master's and PhD degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University, also taking classes through the University of Virginia.

Professional career
Trammell has worked in the procurement area in state government, and as a special education and history teacher in central Virginia's public schools. He currently works at Randolph–Macon College as the Director of Disability Support Services and as an associate professor of Sociology.

Trammell has authored over 20 books, including works of nonfiction, fiction, and children's literature. He writes in many diverse areas ranging from education to history, and has written a number of columns on the American Civil War for The Washington Times. His latest book, The Richmond Slave Trade: The Economic Backbone of The Old Dominion, was published in 2012. He is currently the president of the Blue Ridge chapter of the Virginia Writers Club.

Trammell has focused his professional career on helping people cope with disabilities.

Politics

1980s and 1990s
Trammell's involvement with the Democratic Party began at Grove City College. He worked for the Michael Dukakis presidential campaign in 1988 and on Bill Clinton's 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns in Kentucky, where he also wrote local position papers and statewide editorials.

2014 midterms elections

Trammell ran for Congress in 2014, to represent the Virginia 7th Congressional district, which is in the Richmond, Virginia, area of the state, facing Dave Brat. He was selected during the weekend of June 7–8, several days before the Republican primary, during a conference call among Democrats of the district. According to Trammell's website, his platform focuses on the need for educational reform, including special education and greater access to college, student loan relief, job creation, accountability in massive public private projects like the expansion of U.S. Route 460, and basic healthcare for every American.

Trammell was defeated by Brat, with James Carr finishing third.

Personal
Trammell and his wife Audrie reside on a farm in Louisa County near Mineral, Virginia, with several horses, sheep, and other animals. Jack has three grown children, while Audrie has four.

Books
 Return to Treasure Island (2000)
 Math in History (2001)
 Conversations in History - Historical Events & the People Who Starred in Them (coauthored with Joe Gorman) (2005)
 The Postsecondary Student Survey of Disability-Related Stigma: Development of a Disability Stigma Measurement (2009)
 Down on the Chickahominy: The Life and Times of a Vanishing Virginia River (2009)
 Appalachian Dreams (2011)
 The Richmond Slave Trade: The Economic Backbone of The Old Dominion (2012)
 The Fourth Branch of Government: We the People with Guy Terrell (2016)

References

External links

Living people
American political scientists
Grove City College alumni
People from Berea, Kentucky
Randolph–Macon College faculty
Virginia Commonwealth University alumni
Virginia Democrats
1964 births
People from Louisa County, Virginia


title: Molinard

text:
The Maison Molinard was founded in 1849 in Grasse, Provence, in the south of France, a historic centre of Europe's perfume industry. It has remained an entirely family-run business to this day, and is also one of the oldest of its kind in France after Galimard established in 1747 (though not run by original founding family). At that time, Molinard produced floral waters and Eau de Cologne, which was sold in its "little shop" in the Grasse town centre. In 1860 the firm began creating new single floral fragrances from Jasmin, Rose, Mimosa and Violet in discreet, elegant bottles made of Baccarat crystal.

In 1900, the company moved into an old perfume factory, where the distillery structure was designed by Gustave Eiffel and perfumery is still based there today.
Molinard's first customers were wealthy foreigners from England and Russia that came to the French riviera and also bought Molinard's eau de Cologne and other floral fragrances.

In 1920, the famous bottle-designer Julien Viard (1883-1938) created a number of outstanding glass flacon designs for company perfumes. 1921 the firm launched one of the first solid perfume, Concréta, a fragranced natural flower wax used directly as a perfume.

During 1920s and 1930s Art-Deco interwar period the company also hired renowned glassmaker René Lalique of Lalique to design and produce a number of magnificent bottles for Molinard that are sought after collectors items today.

References

http://www.molinard.com/en/histoire.html
http://www.grasse.fr/spip.php?rubrique395
http://www.grasse.fr/spip.php?page=espace_pro_presta&id_rubrique=486&id_article=773
http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/europe/france/provence-and-the-french-riviera/grasse/25975/parfumerie-molinard/attraction-detail.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/09/travel/savoring-south-of-france/index.html

Cosmetics companies of France
Perfume houses
Manufacturing companies established in 1849
1849 establishments in France
Grasse


title: United Kingdom in the Napoleonic Wars

text:
Between 1793 and 1815, under the rule of King George III, the Kingdom of Great Britain (later the United Kingdom) was the most constant of France's enemies. Through its command of the sea, financial subsidies to allies on the European mainland, and active military intervention in the Peninsular War, Britain played the central role in Napoleon's downfall even as all the other major powers switched back and forth.

Overview
With the execution of King Louis XVI in 1793, the French Revolution became a contest of ideologies between the conservative, royalist Kingdom of Great Britain and its allies and radical Republican France. Napoleon, who came to power in 1799, threatened invasion of Great Britain itself, and with it, a fate similar to the countries of continental Europe that his armies had overrun. Therefore, the British invested all the money and energy it could raise into the Napoleonic Wars. French ports were blockaded by the Royal Navy.

After a relatively quiet pause from 1801-1803, war resumed in Europe when the British declared war on France and ended the uneasy peace maintained by the Treaty of Amiens. Napoleon's plans to invade Britain failed due to the inferiority of his navy, and in 1805, Lord Nelson's fleet decisively defeated the French and Spanish at the Battle of Trafalgar, which was the last significant naval action of the Napoleonic Wars.

The series of naval and colonial conflicts, including a large number of minor naval actions, resembled those of the French Revolutionary Wars and the preceding centuries of European warfare. Conflicts in the Caribbean, and in particular the seizure of colonial bases and islands throughout the wars, could potentially have some effect upon the European conflict. The Napoleonic conflict had reached the point at which subsequent historians could talk of a "world war". Only the Seven Years' War offered a precedent for widespread conflict on such a scale.

Napoleon also attempted economic warfare against Britain, especially in the Berlin Decree of 1806. It forbade the import of British goods into European countries allied with or dependent upon France, and installed the Continental System in Europe. All connections were to be cut, even the mail. British merchants smuggled in many goods and the Continental System was not a powerful weapon of economic war. There was some damage to Britain, especially in 1808 and 1811, but its control of the oceans helped ameliorate the damage. Even more damage was done to the economies of France and its allies, which lost a useful trading partner.  Angry governments gained an incentive to ignore the Continental System, which led to the weakening of Napoleon's coalition.

The British army remained a minimal threat to France; the British standing army of just 220,000 at the height of the Napoleonic Wars hardly compared to France's army of a million men—in addition to the armies of numerous allies and several hundred thousand national guardsmen that Napoleon could draft into the military if necessary. Although the Royal Navy effectively disrupted France's extra-continental trade—both by seizing and threatening French shipping and by seizing French colonial possessions—it could do nothing about France's trade with the major continental economies and posed little threat to French territory in Europe. In addition, France's population and agricultural capacity far outstripped that of Britain.

Many in the French government believed that isolating Britain from the Continent would end its economic influence over Europe and isolate it. Though the French designed the Continental System to achieve this, it never succeeded in its objective. Britain possessed the greatest industrial capacity in Europe, and its mastery of the seas allowed it to build up considerable economic strength through trade to its possessions from its rapidly expanding new Empire. Britain's command of the sea meant that France could never enjoy the peace necessary to consolidate its control over Europe, and it could threaten neither the home islands nor the main British colonies.

Sideshows like the Gunboat War against Denmark, the Walcheren Campaign against the Netherlands and the War of 1812 against the United States could not hurt Napoleon, but the Spanish uprising of 1808 at last permitted Britain to gain a foothold on the Continent. The Duke of Wellington and his army of British, Spaniards and Portuguese gradually pushed the French out of Spain and in early 1814, as Napoleon was being driven back in the east by the Prussians, Austrians, and Russians, Wellington invaded southern France. After Napoleon's surrender and exile to the island of Elba, peace appeared to have returned, but when he escaped back into France in 1815, the British and their allies had to fight him again. The armies of Wellington and Von Blucher defeated Napoleon once and for all at the Battle of Waterloo.

Civilian support network

Britain mobilized a vast civilian support network to support its soldiers. Historian Jenny Uglow (2015) explores a multitude of connections between the Army and its support network, as summarized by a review of her book by Christine Haynes:
a whole host of other civilian, actors, including: army contractors, who provided massive quantities of tents, knapsacks, canteens, uniforms, shoes, muskets, gunpowder, ships, maps, fortifications, meat, and biscuit; bankers and speculators, who funded the supplies as well as subsidies to Britain's allies...revenue agents, who collected the wide variety of taxes imposed to finance the wars; farmers, whose fortunes rose and fell not just with the weather but with the war; elites, who amidst war maintained many of the same old routines and amusements; workers, when the context of war found opportunities for new jobs and higher wages but also grievances that led to strikes and riots; and the poor, who suffered immensely through much of this....[And women who]  participated in the war not just as relations of combatants but as sutlers, prostitutes, laundresses, spinners, bandage-makers, and drawing-room news-followers.

Financing the war

A key element in British success was its ability to mobilize the nation's industrial and financial resources and apply them to defeating France. With a population of 16 million Britain was barely half the size of France with 30 million. In terms of soldiers the French numerical advantage was offset by British subsidies that paid for a large proportion of the Austrian and Russian soldiers, peaking at about 450,000 in 1813.  Most important, the British national output remained strong and the well-organized business sector channeled products into what the military needed. The system of smuggling finished products into the continent undermined French efforts to ruin the British economy by cutting off markets. The British budget in 1814 reached £66 million, including £10 million for the Navy, £40 million for the Army, £10 million for the Allies, and £38 million as interest on the national debt. The national debt soared to £679 million, more than double the GDP. It was willingly supported by hundreds of thousands of investors and tax payers, despite the higher taxes on land and a new income tax. The whole cost of the war came to £831 million. By contrast the French financial system was inadequate and Napoleon's forces had to rely in part on requisitions from conquered lands.

See also
British Army during the Napoleonic Wars
 War of the First Coalition
 War of the Second Coalition
 War of the Third Coalition
 War of the Fourth Coalition
 War of the Fifth Coalition
 War of the Sixth Coalition
 War of the Seventh Coalition

References

Works cited

Further reading
 Andress, David. The Savage Storm: Britain on the Brink in the Age of Napoleon (2013)
 Bamford, Andrew. Sickness, Suffering, and the Sword: The British Regiment on Campaign, 1808–1815 (2013).  excerpt
 Bates, Stephen. Year of Waterloo: Britain in 1815 (2015).
 Black, Jeremy. "British Strategy and the Struggle with France 1793–1815." Journal of Strategic Studies 31#4 (2008): 553–569.
 Bryant, Arthur.  Years of Endurance 1793–1802 (1942) online; and Years of Victory, 1802–1812 (1944) online well-written surveys of the British story
 Bryant, Arthur.  Years of Endurance 1793–1802 (1942), well-written survey of the British story
 Christie, Ian R.  Wars and Revolutions Britain, 1760–1815 (1982)
 Cookson, J. E. The British Armed Nation 1793–1815 (1997)
 Coss, Edward J. All for the King's Shilling: The British Soldier Under Wellington, 1808-1814 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2012).
 Das, Amita; Das, Aditya.  Defending British India Against Napoleon: The Foreign Policy of Governor-General Lord Minto, 1807–13 ( Rochester: Boydell Press, 2016) . online review
 Davey, James. In Nelson's Wake: The Navy and the Napoleonic Wars (2016).

 Ehrman, John.  The Younger Pitt: The Consuming Struggle (Volume 3) (1996)
 Emsley, Clive. Britain and the French Revolution (Routledge, 2014).
 Esdaile, Charles J. "The British Army in the Napoleonic Wars: Approaches Old and New." English Historical Review 130#542 (2015): 123–137.
 Feldbæk, Ole. "The Anglo-Russian Rapprochement of 1801: A prelude to the peace of Amiens." Scandinavian Journal of History 3.1-4 (1978): 205-227.
 Glover, Richard. Peninsular Preparation: The Reform of the British Army 1795–1809 (1963)  excerpt and text search
 Haythornthwaite, Philip J.  Wellington's Military Machine, 1792–1815 (1989)

 Lavery, Brian.  Nelson's Navy: The Ships, Men, and Organization, 1793–1815 (2nd ed. 2012)
 Linch, Kevin, and Matthew McCormack. "Wellington's Men: The British Soldier of the Napoleonic Wars" History Compass (2015) 13#6 pp. 288–296.
 Muir, Rory.  Britain and the Defeat of Napoleon: 1807–1815 (1996)
 Muir, Rory.  Wellington: The Path to Victory 1769–1814 (2013) vol 1 of two-volume scholarly biography excerpt and text search
 Nester, William R. Titan: The Art of British Power in the Age of Revolution and Napoleon (2016)

 Ross, Steven T. European Diplomatic History, 1789–1815: France Against Europe (1969)
 Willis, Sam. In the Hour of Victory: The Royal Navy at War in the Age of Nelson (2013) excerpt and text search

19th-century military history of the United Kingdom
Napoleonic Wars
Wars involving the United Kingdom
Napoleonic
France–United Kingdom military relations


title: Cannibal (Wretched album)

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Cannibal is the fourth album by American extreme metal band Wretched. It was released on June 10, 2014, through Victory Records. The album features former guitarist John Vail, who plays a guitar solo on the song "Engulfed in Lethargy". It is the band's final album to feature vocalist Adam Cody before his departure in 2023.

Track listing

Credits
Wretched
 Adam Cody – vocals
 Joel Moore – guitars, production, engineering
 Steven Funderburk – guitars
 Andrew Grevey – bass
 Marshall Wieczorek – drums, percussion, executive producer, engineering

Additional musicians
 John Vail – guitar solo on "Engulfed in Lethargy"

Production
 Jason Suecof – mixing
 Alan Douches – mastering
 Raf the Might – art, illustration
 Randy Pfeil – layout
 Daniel Clark Cunningham – photography

References

2014 albums
Wretched (metal band) albums
Victory Records albums


title: San Joaquín de la Vega

text:
San Joaquin de la Vega is a locality Miranda population of the municipality (Zulia), belonging to the parish of San Antonio del Táchira. It is one of the most populated areas of the municipality Miranda being overtaken by the Board of Ciruma and Ports of Altagracia respectively.

San Joaquin is a rural town with a population of about 7,500 inhabitants, has some access roads in poor condition, its inhabitants have water pipes, however the supply is poor and not have all sanitation, a problem that has not been solved by government authorities, so many buy water. Beneath the land of that location has several wells with clean fresh water but not all have the resources to take it. The population is engaged in agriculture, animal husbandry and tourism despite its remote location far from the lake and is a popular destination on the eastern shore of the lake and the inhabitants of the neighboring villages because of their traditions.

Probably named after the saint with the same name.

Vegetation
Has landscape of dry forest and wet forest and compound relief, mainly of hills and ridges. The present town is the heir of Miranda Municipality entity comprising the same territory between 1884 and 1989.

Etymology
San Joaquin is named after the saint with the same name because the inhabitants were devoted at that time. The town's origins are closely linked with the first settlements of slaves and peasants who worked on the neighboring estate; this population remained, in the last years of the colony, occupied in his farming and creating a small society of aristocrats, freedmen and slaves, where the names of the first thirteen settlers continue linked to the history of our people, through their descendants.

References

External links
 Listing San joaquin de la Vega on Your Archives (Spanish)

Cities in Zulia
Villages in Venezuela


title: Ashley Hansen (softball)

text:
Ashley Elizabeth Hansen Church (born May 5, 1990) is an American, former collegiate All-American, right-handed softball player originally from Chandler, Arizona. Hansen played at Stanford University from 2009 to 2012 as a shortstop and is the school doubles leader and also ranks top-5 in the Pac-12 Conference and the NCAA Division I for the career category.

Playing career
She was a four-time First Team All-Pac-12 player and was also named the Newcomer of the Year (2009), Player of the Year (2011) and Defensive Player of The Year (2012) during her career. She was named the 2011 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year. She was then only the second position player to win the award, along with UCLA's Stacey Nuveman in 2002. Hansen also played on the US National Team in 2009 and 2010. Hansen helped team USA win the gold medal at the 2010 ISF Women's World Championship.

Statistics

References

External links

1990 births
Living people
Stanford Cardinal softball players
Sportspeople from Chandler, Arizona
Softball players from Arizona


title: Life as a Dog

text:
Life as a Dog is the debut studio album by American hip hop recording artist K.Flay. The album was announced in April 2014 and was funded by fans through PledgeMusic. The album was released to consumers who crowd funded the album on June 10, 2014 and was released via digital distribution on June 24, 2014.

Reception

The San Francisco Chronicle said of the album "The new songs are colored with do-or-die inspiration, mixing her rapid-fire verses with sleek melodies and intricate electronic arrangements." Entertainment Weekly stated that the album "pairs spaced-out rap beats and chiming indie rock that K.Flay tops with her frequently tricky flows, making a chocolate-in-my-peanut-butter situation that should please rap-loving indie rockers, or the other way around"

"Can't Sleep" is featured in the 2021 film The Suicide Squad.

Track listing

Charts
The album reached No. 14 on the Billboard Rap Albums chart and No. 133 on the Billboard 200 for July 12, 2014.

References

2014 debut albums
K.Flay albums


title: Andrea Betzner

text:
Andrea Betzner (born 10 July 1966) is a former German tennis player. Betzner won two WTA doubles titles during her tennis career. In Fed Cup, she played in 1985 in the German team.

Andrea has competed in the Australian Open, at Wimbledon, the French Open, the US Open and many other events.

Book author
She has written a book about tennis. Its German title is Unterschiede der Treffstabilität im Tennis: der Einfluß von körperlicher Reife und sportartspezifischer Belastung.  This roughly translates as Differences in accuracy stability in tennis: the influence of physical maturity and sport-specific loading.

WTA finals

Doubles (2–1)

ITF finals

Singles (0–2)

Doubles (1–0)

References

External links

German female tennis players
1966 births
Living people
West German female tennis players
Tennis people from Baden-Württemberg


title: Alise

text:
Alise may refer to:

People
Variant of Alice (given name)
Variant of Alix (given name)
Variant of Élise
Dame Alise, Alix Pahlavouni wife of Constantine of Baberon (died c. 1263), Armenian noble
Alise Post (1991) American BMX racer
Alise Alousi, Iraqi American poet living in Detroit
Marie-Alise Recasner, American actress

Places
Alise-Sainte-Reine a commune in the Côte-d'Or, site of pre-Roman town
Alise, name of ancient Alesia (city) taken by Julius Caesar in the Wars in Gaul

Other
 Alise (album), by Dzeltenie Pastnieki
 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)
 Princess Alise, a fictional character in the 2014 animated film The Swan Princess: A Royal Family Tale

See also
 Elise (disambiguation)
 Alice (disambiguation)
 Alis (disambiguation)


title: Newsbeuter

text:
Newsbeuter was a text-based news aggregator for Unix-like systems. It was originally written by Andreas Krennmair in 2007 and released under the MIT License. The program is aimed at power users and strives to be "" It supports the major feed formats including RSS and Atom and can import and export subscription lists in the OPML format. Newsbeuter (podbeuter) also supports podcasting and synchronization. As of 2017, the project is no longer maintained; the original developers advise users to switch to Newsboat, an actively maintained fork of Newsbeuter.

Name
"Newsbeuter" is a pun on the German word , which means "hunter-gatherer". According to Clifford Wolf, who is credited for coming up with the name, "during the stone age, people hunted and gathered their food, and these days, they hunt and gather news and information."

Operation
Newsbeuter is entirely controlled by the keyboard, and its default keybindings resemble those of vi. The program supported synchronization with Google Reader since version 2.2, but this feature was removed when Google discontinued Google Reader. Support for alternatives such as The Old Reader and NewsBlur was introduced in version 2.8.

Configuration
Newsbeuter's appearance and keyboard shortcuts are configured with a single text file.

Reception
Newsbeuter was the most popular news reader among Arch Linux users in 2012, and received 1.8% of votes in the "Best RSS Reader" category in a 2013 survey by Linux Journal. The program is often featured in magazine articles and software lists to demonstrate the power and versatility of the command line interface.

As an alternative to compiling the source files, Newsbeuter can be installed from pre-built binary packages on Debian, Ubuntu, Arch Linux, Gentoo, Slackware, FreeBSD, OpenSUSE, Fedora, Mandriva, PLD Linux, and  through the Homebrew package manager.

See also

 List of feed aggregators
 Comparison of feed aggregators

References

External links

Development blog

Free software programmed in C++
Free news aggregators
Free software that uses ncurses
Software using the MIT license
Console applications


title: Pu (Taoism)

text:
Pu is a Chinese word meaning "unworked wood; inherent quality; simple" that was an early Daoist metaphor for the natural state of humanity, and relates with the Daoist keyword ziran (literally "self so") "natural; spontaneous". The scholar Ge Hong (283-343 CE) immortalized pu in his pen name Baopuzi "Master who Embraces Simplicity" and eponymous book Baopuzi.

Terminology
Pu can be written with either of the variant Chinese characters  or , which are linguistically complex.

Characters
Both  and  are classified as radical-phonetic characters, combining the semantically significant "tree" radical  (commonly used for writing names of trees and wooden objects) with the phonetic indicators pu  or bu .

The Chinese character pu  was first recorded on Chinese bronze inscriptions from the Spring and Autumn period (771-476 BCE), and the character pu  was first recorded in Chinese classics from the Warring States period (475-221 BCE).

When the People's Republic of China promulgated simplified Chinese characters in 1956, the established variant pu  (with 6 strokes) was chosen to replace the traditional Chinese character pu  (with 16 strokes).

One of the two (c. 168 BCE) Mawangdui silk manuscript versions of the Daodejing, discovered in 1973 by archeologists excavating a tomb, uses a rare textual variant character for pu : wò  "a house tent (esp. with a wooden roof)", written with the "tree radical" and wu  "room; house" phonetic. The "B" text, like the received version, uses pu  8 times in 6 chapters; the "A" text uses wò  6 times in 4 chapters and has lacunae in chapters 19 and 57. The (c. 121 CE) Shuowen jiezi defines wo  as muzhang  "wood canopy", and the (early 3rd century) Guangya defines it as choumu  "curtain; cover". These variant words pú < *phrôk  "unworked wood" and wò < *ʔôk  "house tent" are semantically and phonologically dissimilar.

Pronunciations and meanings
The comprehensive Chinese character dictionary Hanyu Da Zidian (1987: 2:1291, 2:1154) lists 2 pronunciations and 8 meanings for the character , and 6 pronunciations and 11 meanings for ; which are summarized below.

The glyph  can be read:
pǔ
"unworked wood",
"cut down; fell trees"
"nature; essence; intrinsic quality" (compare English in the rough)
"simple; plain; unadorned; unaffected"
"(economics) net cost"
pú
"grow thickly (of plants); shrub"
"an oak tree"
"attached; affixed"

The glyph  can be read to mean:
pǔ
"unworked wood; natural; plain; etc." (= pǔ )
"large"
"uncured meat"
pū
 "root; basis; origin"
"beat; hit; an instrument of torture" (= pū )
pò
"tree bark; (esp.) magnolia bark" in houpo  "Magnolia officinalis bark (used in Traditional Chinese medicine)"
in pòshù  "Celtis sinensis, Chinese hackberry"
pō
in pōdāo  "a kind of two-handed sword"
Pú
"a surname", namely Park (Korean surname)
Piáo
 "a surname"

The Erya, which is the oldest Chinese dictionary, defined pu  and supu  as "oak" names (in "Explaining Trees" chapter 14). First, pu  is defined as bao  (14:45). Guo Pu's Erya commentary identified this pu tree as yupu  "Quercus acutissima, saw-tooth oak" (which occurs in the Shijing below). Bao  is usually read fu "drumstick", and Guo noted this name bao denoted "a kind of oak [] that grew in clumps", and quotes the Shijing usage as baoli  instead of baoli  "bushy oak" (see below). The Bencao Gangmu says there are two varieties of hu  "Quercus mongolica, Mongolian oak", the bao  is small and grows in clumps while the li  is tall and has large leaves. Second, supu  is defined as xin  "heart; mind" (14:64). Guo identifies supu (cf. reverse pusu  in the Shijing below) as husu  (with hu  "Mongolian oak"), the "Quercus dentata, daimyo oak". While xin "heart; mind" is a common Chinese word, this Erya definition is the only known context in which it names a tree. The Yijing uses xin to mean "thorn; prick",: "Among varieties of wood it means those which are firm and have much pith".

The Shuowen Jiezi, the first Chinese dictionary of characters, simply defines pu  as mupi  "tree bark; wood with bark", and pu  as musu  "plain wood; unworked lumber" (later meaning "lignin" in scientific terminology).

Returning to the central Daoist meaning of pu,
Pas and Leung challenge the stereotyped  "uncarved block" translation of pu: "The idea implied in it comes closer to "wholeness," which is also contained in "uncarved block," except that "uncarved block" has been reified. As a result, what was an excellent analogy of the Tao has become sterile and counterproductive."
Citing the pu translations of Séraphin Couvreur "wood that has not been worked on; simple, without ornament, without disguise" and Bernhard Karlgren "wood in its natural state, not worked: rough, plain, natural, simple"; Pas and Leung conclude, "it is obvious where the expression "uncarved block" came from, but the addition of "block" is an interpretation. The term means "plain wood," "uncarved wood.""

Etymology
Reconstructions of Old Chinese pronunciations have transformed Chinese etymology. Old Chinese reconstructions of pu or bu  include:
bú < *pûk or *b'ûk
bú < *puk or *b'uk "shrubby trees", pŭ < *p'uk "rough; unadorned", and pò < *p'ǔk "trim unworked wood; robust, solid"
pú < *phruk
bú < *puk or *buk
pú < *phrôk "to trim wood", "in a natural state, unworked"
 pŭ < *pʰˤrok "unworked wood"

Victor Mair suggests that pu < *phluk  "unhewn log" is "almost certainly related to the English word "block," which probably derives from the Indo-European root bhelk (beam)".

Axel Schuessler says the etymology of pú < *phrôk "to trim wood" could either be an "aspirated iterative derivation" from bāo < *prôk  "cut up, peel, pluck", or "belong to the homophonous etymon with the basic meaning 'in a natural state, unworked', as in pú  'in a natural state',  'unworked precious stone'."

Early textual references
Pu occurs in some of the earliest Chinese classics, frequently in Daoist ones.

Shijing
Two odes in the Shijing "Classic of Poetry" use pu  compounds to mean "an oak".

Pusu  occurs in Ode 23: "scrubby oaks", "a clump of oaks", "low shrubby trees". The Mao commentary describes the pusu as a 小木 "small tree". The Erya (above) writes this reversible compound as supu .

Yupu  is the name of Ode 238, which records using this tree for firewood: "the yih and the p'oh", "the oak clumps". Commentaries describe the yupu as a "dense and shrubby tree".

In addition, Ode 132 has baoli : "the bushy oaks", "a clump of oaks", "luxuriant oaks". The Erya has baoli , writing bao as  "an oak" instead of  "bushy; luxuriant".

Shujing
The Shujing "Classic of History" (Zhoushu , Zicai  "Chinese catalpa lumber" section) uses pu once in the compound pozhou  (po "trim unworked wood" and zhuo "hack; chop off"): "as in working with the wood of the rottlera, when the toil of the coarser and finer operations has been completed, they have to apply the paint of red and other colours", "It is as when one works on catalpa wood; when he has toiled in trimming and carving it, he should take measures for making it red or green". Legge notes that pu means "the rough fashioning of the work" and zhou means "the fine finish given to it". Karlgren quotes the Han commentator Ma Rong that po  denotes "wood that has not yet been worked into a utensil; unworked wood", and concludes  po means "to treat the unworked wood (in the first rough cutting); to trim" is a variation of the same stem as pu  "in a natural state; simple".

Daodejing
Six Daodejing chapters use pu , two of them twice, for a total of 8 occurrences.

Chapter 19 parallels the near-synonyms su  "raw silk; white; plain; simple; quiet" and pu  "unworked wood; plain; simple", and was the source for Ge Hong's pen-name Baopuzi "Master who Embraces Simplicity".
Evince the plainness of undyed silk, Embrace the simplicity of the unhewn log; Lessen selfishness, Diminish desires; Abolish learning and you will be without worries. (19).
Holmes Welch describes pu "the Uncarved Block" and su "Raw Silk" as symbols that Laozi used to expound his basic doctrine of "the return to our original nature". In modern usage, pu and su mean "plain," but originally pu "was wood as it came from the tree before man had dressed it", while su "was silk that man had never dyed or painted."

Chapters 28 and 57 mention simple pu in reference to shengren  "sages", Chapter 15 similarly refers to ancient Daoist adepts and describes pu as dun  "sincere; honest; plain".
If eternal integrity suffices, You will return to the simplicity of the unhewn log. ... When the unhewn log is sawn apart, it is made into tools; When the sage is put to use, he becomes the chief of officials. For Great carving does no cutting. (28)
The sage has a saying: "I take no action, yet the people transform themselves; I do not interfere in affairs, yet the people enrich themselves; I desire not to desire, yet the people of themselves become simple as unhewn logs." (57)
Those of old who were adept in the Way were ... hesitant, as though crossing a stream in winter; cautious, as though fearful of their neighbors all around; solemn, as though guests in someone else's house; shrinking, as ice when it melts; plain, as an unhewn log; muddled, as turbid waters; expansive, as a broad valley. (15)
Among all the Daodejing occurrences of pu, chapter 28 is the only case in which the transmitted and excavated versions are significantly different – the transmitted text has an extra grammatical particle zhi  "a possessive marker; a 3rd person pronoun" after yong  "use; employ". Robert G. Henricks explains this small grammatical change between the standard text saying the sage yong zhi "uses it" and the excavated silk text saying yong "is used". The transmitted version  "When the uncarved wood is broken up, it is turned into concrete things. But when the sage uses it, he becomes the leading official." should be read  "When uncarved wood is cut up, it's turned into vessels. When the Sage is used, he becomes the Head of Officials." D. C. Lau says the traditional passage "seems to say that when the uncarved block shatters it becomes vessels. A vessel is a specialist who is only fitted to be an official. Hence the sage when he makes use of these vessels becomes the lord over the officials.", but in Mawangdui passage, "The meaning is very different. The uncarved block is a symbol for the sage. Just as the uncarved block becomes vessels when it shatters so does the sage become the chief of the officials when he allows himself to be employed, and just as the uncarved block is ruined when it becomes useful, so does a sage become ruined when he becomes useful." The word qi  "vessel; utensil" is translated here as "tools", "concrete things", "vessels", "specialists", and "officials".

Chapters 32 and 37 both address houwang  "feudal lords and kings" and describe the Dao as wuming  "nameless", while 37 also calls pu "nameless".
The Way is eternally nameless. Though the unhewn log is small, No one in the world dares subjugate it. If feudal lords and kings could maintain it, The myriad creatures would submit of themselves. (32)
The Way is eternally nameless. If feudal lords and kings preserve it, The myriad creatures will be transformed by themselves. After transformation, if they wish to rise up, I shall restrain them with the nameless unhewn log. By restraining them with the nameless unhewn log, They will not feel disgraced; Not feeling disgraced, They will be still, Whereupon heaven and earth will be made right by themselves. (37)
Chapter 37 has a minor textual difference between buyu  "not desire" in the standard version and buru  "not disgrace" in the Mawangdui version.

Lau explains pu in the Daodejing primarily means "the uncarved block is in a state as yet untouched by the artificial interference of human ingenuity and so is a symbol for the original state of man before desire is produced in him by artificial means".

The (c. 3rd century CE) Heshang Gong commentary version of this Daoist text interchangeably writes pu as both  and . Three chapters (28, 32, 37) use  in both text and commentary, and one (15) uses  in both. One (19) uses  in text and  in commentary, and another (57) uses  in text and  in commentary.
"If they change and want to rise, the ego will suppress them by means of the [] simplicity of the nameless."; "The ego is the personality. The [] simplicity of the nameless is Tao. If all beings change into their selves, but afterwards revert to desire and exhibit shrewdness and hypocrisy, the princes and the king are obliged to suppress personality by means of Tao and Te." (37)
"Simple like [] unworked wood."; "What is simple is material and firm. The form of unworked wood is not yet carved. Within one ought to take care of the spirits, outwards one ought not to be pretentious." (15)
"Look at simplicity and hold fast to [] naturalness."; "To look at simplicity corresponds to holding fast to simplicity and keeping to truth as well as to not looking at externals. To hold fast to [] naturalness corresponds to looking at real naturalness in order to show it to the subjects. Thereby one may become a model." (19)
"I am without desires, and the people are [] simple of themselves."; "If I am always without desires, if I do away with externals, then the people will follow me and remain [] simple and natural." (57)

Of nine Daodejing chapters without  or  in the text, three (3, 38, 41) use  in commentary, and six (17, 64, 68, 71, 80, 81) use . For examples,
"He [the saint] always induces the people not to know and not to desire."; "Return to [] simplicity and retain purity." (3)
"Sincere words are not beautiful."; "Sincere words are true words. What is not beautiful is [] simple and real." (81)

Welch paraphrases the Daodejing relationship among pu, de "inherent character; inner power", and wuwei "non-action; non-doing". Outwardly, one cannot achieve de "until you have erased the aggressive patterns etched by society into your nature. You must return to your natural self, to [pu]. You must discard morality and ambition, for if you keep these you will never be capable of compassion, moderation, and humility. When you discard some of your wishes, you will have them all." Inwardly, one performs several cultivations. "For, to achieve the outward [pu] you will have to cultivate a [wuwei] of the mind. And when the mind is quiet, [pu] will deepen. It will become a faculty for intuitively sensing the order of the universe—the [Dao] that can be named."

Zhuangzi
Pu occurs 20 times in the (ca. 3rd century BCE) Daoist classic Zhuangzi. The standard Zhuangzi text writes pu both with the 16–stroke character  six times in three chapters (9, 13, and 31) and with the 6–stroke variant character  fourteen times in six chapters (7, 10, 12, 14, 16, and 20), which evidences the heterogeneous textual origins. For instance, the word pubi (with bi  "low; mean; vulgar; unsophisticated") is written both  "crude, mean [heart]" (chapter 31) and  "simple and unsophisticated [people]" (10).

A frequently occurring Zhuangzi metaphor contrasts returning to pu  "unhewn log" with carving qi  "vessels" (which means "specialist; official" in Daodejing 28).
In a world of ultimate integrity, men would dwell together with the birds and the beasts. ... Equally without desire, this is called [] "the simplicity of the unhewn log". With [] the simplicity of the unhewn log, the people would attain their nature. ... Therefore, if [] the simple, unhewn log remained intact, who would carve a sacrificial vessel from it? ... The [] carving of the unhewn log into [] instruments is the fault of the craftsman; the impairment of the Way and integrity with humaneness and righteousness is the error of the sage. (9)
Liezi "came to believe that he had barely begun to learn. ... He took no sides in affairs and [] whittled himself back to the simplicity of the unhewn log. Clodlike, he stood alone in his physical form. Sealed off against perplexity, in this manner he remained whole to the end." (7)
"I have heard it said, 'After all the carving and chiseling, [] Return to the simplicity of the unhewn log'." (20)

Another Zhuangzi chapter uses this term fupu  "return to simplicity".
If you were to meet someone who understands great plainness, who subscribes to nonaction and [] returns to the simplicity of the unhewn log, who embodies his nature and embraces his spirit, so as to wander through the common world, you would really be surprised! (12)

See also
 Buddhist ethics
 Tabula rasa
 Ziran

References

Footnotes

Further reading
 Baxter, William H. (1992), A Handbook of Old Chinese Phonology, Mouton de Gruyter.
 Girardot, Norman J. (1988), Myth and Meaning in Early Taoism: The Themes of Chaos (Hun-Tun)], University of California Press. pp. 70, 56, 117.
 Karlgren, Bernhard (1950), "The Book of Documents", Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 22:1–81.
 Kraemer, Kenneth (1986), World Scriptures: An Introduction to Comparative Religions, Paulist Press.
 Legge, James (1871), The She King or Book of Poetry, in The Chinese Classics, vol. 4, Oxford University Press.
 Legge, James, tr. (1865), The Shoo King, in ''The Chinese Classics, vol. 3, Oxford University Press.

External links
 pu (Daoism), Britannica Online Encyclopedia
 Houpo 厚朴, Hong Kong Baptist University School of Chinese Medicine.

Taoist philosophy


title: DARPA Spectrum Challenge

text:
The DARPA Spectrum Challenge was a competition held by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to demonstrate a radio protocol that can best use a given communication channel in the presence of other dynamic users and interfering signals.

The challenge was not focused on developing new radio hardware, but instead was targeted at finding strategies for guaranteeing successful communication in the presence of other radios that may have conflicting co-existence objectives. The challenge entailed head-to-head competitions between each team's radio protocol and an opponent's in a structured wireless testbed environment, known as ORBIT, that is maintained by the Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB) at Rutgers University.

The challenge awarded first place teams in the September 2013 preliminary event, and first and second place teams in the March 2014 final event with cash prizes totaling $200,000.  Each event consisted of a Competitive and Cooperative Tournament.

Qualifying teams
Out of the 90 teams that registered for the Spectrum Challenge, the top 18 teams were selected to compete in the preliminary and final event:

References

DARPA
Virginia Tech
Challenge awards

Competitions in the United States


title: Viktor Andrushchenko

text:
Viktor Viktorovych Andrushchenko (; born 10 May 1986) is a Ukrainian ice hockey player. He is currently playing with Sokil Kyiv of the Ukrainian Professional Hockey League (BXL).

Andrushchenko made his Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) debut playing with HC Dinamo Minsk during the 2008–09 KHL season.

References

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1986 births
Living people
HC Dinamo Minsk players
HK Mogilev players
HC Shakhtyor Soligorsk players
Sokil Kyiv players
Ice hockey people from Kyiv
Ukrainian ice hockey forwards


title: Beijing Queer Chorus

text:
Founded in 2008 at Beijing, the Beijing Queer Chorus (北京酷儿合唱团) is now, with around 60 regular performing members, the first public performing LGBT chorus in mainland China. BQC is a member of the GALA Choruses.

The Chorus was known as Shining Jazzy Chorus.

Introduction

Beijing Queer Chorus (BQC) is a semiprofessional mixed choir founded in 2008. It is the first publicly performing LGBT+ choir in Mainland China, and is one of the first two Asian choirs attending international LGBT choral festivals. BQC currently has over 100 members registered.

To practice the idea "Sing for a Better World", BQC conducts various public music events on a regular base and actively participate in music communications domestically and internationally. After attending LGBT Chorus festival around the world for several times, it jointly hosted the first Queer Chorus Festival in Mainland China along with six LGBT+ choirs. Through chorus shows and cultural communication in Tianjin, Hong Kong, Taipei, Tokyo, London, Seattle, Portland etc., chorus members hope to break down the barriers among individuals and groups.

BQC has collaborated with partners including the British, Dutch, and German embassies in Beijing, China, TEDx, VICE China, and the Broadway Musical RENT. It also promotes AIDS prevention activities and attends environmental protection events.

Recent history

The chorus was founded in October 2008 as the Shining Jazzy Chorus. Currently, they perform two concerts each year. In June 2013, they performed with Seattle Men's Chorus assistant director, Eric Lane Barnes. The following month of that year, they met with Gary Locke. In April 2014, they changed their name to the Beijing Queer Chorus.  In the same year, two BQC singers attended Various Voices Dublin 2014. In July 2016, 14 BQC singers attended the GALA choruses festival in Denver, U.S. In December 2016, they celebrates 8th anniversary. In March 2018, they toured Northwestern U.S.

References

External links
 Official website
 music collection at Douban

LGBT culture in Beijing
Musical groups established in 2008
Chinese choirs
LGBT choruses
LGBT organizations based in China
Organizations based in Beijing
2008 establishments in China
Musical groups from Beijing


title: 1991 OFC U-17 Championship

text:
The 1991 OFC U-17 Championship was the 4th edition of the OFC's under-17 Championship. It was held in Napier, New Zealand. The tournament was played as a single group, with all teams playing each other twice.

The winning team qualified for the 1991 FIFA U-17 World Championship

Australia won their fourth title from four attempts, finishing the tournament undefeated.

Participation
The tournament was contested by three teams.

Group stage

Top scorers
4 goals

 Vas Kalogeracos

 Alex Kiratzoglou

 Gary Kingi

3 goals
 Lorenzo Campagna

References
ozfootball.net - Australia Under 17's Matches for 1991
RSSSF - Oceania Preliminary Competition for the U-17 World Cup 1991
ultimatenzsoccer.com - Junior All Whites

OFC U-17 Championship
1991 in youth association football


title: Avedørelejren

text:
Avedørelejren is a former military base in Avedøre, Hvidovre Municipality, some 10 km west of Copenhagen, Denmark. It has now been converted into a mixed-use development. It is home to Filmbyen and the Circus Museum.

History
The military camp was built between 1911 and 1913 to a design by Helge Boysen-Møller. It was originally only intended for use during the summer season. The installation has over the years been home to a wide range of military units. It closed in 1995. The buildings were then sold to Hvidovre Municipality (80%) and the film company Zentropa.

Description
The street Filmbyen bisects the area. The buildings in the southern part of the area are generally built in red brick. This area is home to the oldest surviving buildings. They were designed by the architect Viggo Møller with inspiration from the Bedre Byggeskik movement. They have been combined with new housing and a day care. The northern part of the area mostly consists of former workshop buildings in yellow brickwork.

See also
 Østerfælled Barracks

References

Hvidovre Municipality
Barracks in Copenhagen


title: Gerald N. McAllister

text:
Gerald Nicholas McAllister (February 16, 1923 – June 10, 2014) was an American Episcopal bishop. He was the third bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma from 1977 to 1989.

Early life and education
McAllister was born in San Antonio, Texas on February 16, 1923 to Walter Williams McAllister and Leonora Elizabeth Alexander. He was educated at the local public schools and graduated from Southern Arizona School of Boys and later attended the University of Texas at Austin between 1939 and 1942. In 1942, during WWII, he left university to join the Merchant Marines as an ordinary seaman but later entered the US Air Force. He served as a B-17 radar navigator-bombardier with the Eighth Air Force Pathfinder School in England from 1943 to 1945. After the war, he returned to the United States and ran a ranch between 1946 and 1948. He then enrolled at the Virginia Theological Seminary to study for the priesthood and graduated in 1951. He was also awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity by the seminary in 1977.

Ordained ministry
McAllister was ordained to the diaconate on September 30, 1953, and to the priesthood a year later, on September 24, 1954. He married Helen Earle Black on October 2, 1953 and together had four children. His initial post was as deacon, and later priest-in-charge of the Church of the Epiphany in Raymondville, Texas, the Church of the Incarnation in Corpus Christi, Texas, and St Francis' Church in Victoria, Texas from 1951 until 1963. In 1963, he became a canon to the ordinary in the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas while in 1970 he became rector St David's Church in San Antonio, Texas. In 1967, McAllister was celebrant at the White House wedding of Lynda Bird Johnson, daughter of president Lyndon Baines Johnson, to Marine Captain Charles S. Robb.

Bishop
On November 20, 1976, he was elected as the third Bishop of Oklahoma on the 10th ballot, and was consecrated bishop on April 15, 1977 in Oklahoma City by Presiding Bishop John Allin. During the time of McAllister, outreach became a priority. The Venture in Mission program raised 2.3 million dollars and committed half of that to overseas missions. The concept of total ministry became a diocesan priority. Cluster ministries were instituted, hospital chaplains and college chaplains were added, two Episcopal schools flourished, and two residential facilities were opened for the elderly. At the end of McAllister's time as bishop, the diocese was more financially sound and had grown to 80 congregations, missions, parishes, and two conference centers. He retired in 1989. Later he served as a bishop-in-residence at the Seminary of the Southwest and chaplain to Clergy Families in the Diocese of West Texas from 1991 to 1993.

Death
Bishop McAllister died in his native San Antonio, Texas on June 10, 2014, aged 91.

References

20th-century Anglican bishops in the United States
21st-century Anglican bishops in the United States
People from San Antonio
1923 births
2014 deaths
Episcopal bishops of Oklahoma


title: La Peur (short story)

text:
"La Peur" is an 1882 short story by Guy de Maupassant. It was first published in the October 23, 1882 issue of Le Gaulois, and later included in Contes de la bécasse in 1887. The short plot concerns the relation of incidents of fear told on the deck of a boat bound for Africa.

Maupassant also wrote a second similar story also called La Peur in 1884 for the Figaro, set on a train.

External links

 Fear by Guy de Maupassant

1882 short stories
Short stories by Guy de Maupassant


title: Flag of Navarre

text:
The flag of Navarre, the flag of the autonomous community of Navarre, was designed in 1910 by Arturo Campión, Julio Altadill, and Hermilio de Oloriz.  In 1910, the design was approved by the Provincial Council of Navarre and it was sanctioned by the Organic Law of Reintegration and Improvement of the Regional Government of Navarre (Ley Orgánica de Reintegración y Amejoramiento del Régimen Foral de Navarra, or LORAFNA) of August 10, 1982, which was established in Article 7.2: "The flag of Navarre is red-colored, with a shield in the center."

The shield is the coat of arms of Navarre, which consists of golden chains arranged against a red background, with an emerald in the center of the pattern linked to the eight chains, with a Royal Crown, a symbol of the ancient Kingdom of Navarre, added on top of the shield.

The flag of Navarre began to be used as a symbol for the region from 1910 onwards.  The color red was chosen for the flag because this was the color of the field of the coat of arms.

Previously, there had been no flag for Navarre per se, but just a royal standard for its monarchs.  This was a personal symbol of the king that he included with his coat of arms.  The first record of a red background for a flag dates from the 14th century, when the soldiers of King Charles II of Navarre, who intended to occupy Paris, wore distinctive berets of this color, according to
Martín Larrayoz.

Subsequently, Luis Correa, chronicler of the Duke of Alba during the conquest of Navarre in 1512, mentions a standard or ensign of the same red color when he mentions "in the forward lines three hundred men-at-arms on foot with a banner colored red with certain stripes of gold on it that they all guarded and swore to never surrender."

Official flags

Historical models

Variant flag

See also
 Coat of arms of Navarre

References

External links
 Ley Foral 24/2003, de 4 de abril, de Símbolos de Navarra.
  Descripción de la bandera ofrecida por el Gobierno de Navarra
 Nafarroako Erresuma
 El régimen jurídico de los símbolos de Navarra; Miguel José Izu Belloso; Instituto Navarro de Administración Pública, Pamplona, 2011.

Flags of Spain
Navarre
Navarre
Flags introduced in 1982


title: La Peur (1936 film)

text:
La Peur, also known under the title Vertige d'un soir is a 1936 French film by Russian director Viktor Tourjansky. The film is based on Joseph Kessel's adaptation of the story Fear by Stefan Zweig.

See also
Angst (1928)
Fear (1954)

References

External links

1936 films
1936 drama films
French drama films
1930s French-language films
Films directed by Victor Tourjansky
Films based on works by Stefan Zweig
French black-and-white films
1930s French films


title: La Peur

text:
La Peur may refer to:

La Peur (album), a 1982 album by Johnny Hallyday, or the title song
"La Peur" (short story), an 1882 short story by Guy de Maupassant
La Peur, a 1930 novel by Gabriel Chevallier
La Peur (1936 film), a film based on Stefan Zweig's 1910 novel Die Angst
La Peur (2005 film), a short film directed by Meta Akkus
The Fear (2015 film), a French film


title: Andrew Yuen

text:
Andrew Yuen may refer to:

 Andrew Yuen Man-kit (born 1972), Hong Kong actor
 Andrew Yuen Man-fai
 Andrew Yuen Chi-lok


title: Ivy Renfroe

text:
Ivy Leigh Renfroe (born February 16, 1991) is an American softball player.  Renfroe is the oldest of three softball playing sisters, all enrolled with Tennessee.  Renfroe was a pitcher for the Tennessee Lady Volunteers from 2010 to 2013.  Renfroe earned a Women's College World Series All-Tournament team honors in 2010.  Renfroe also earned an All-SEC honor all four years of her career.

Early life
Renfroe was born on February 16, 1991, in Jackson, Tennessee. Renfroe is a 2009 graduate of Trinity Christian Academy. Her siblings are Ellen Renfroe and Anna Renfroe. She is the daughter of Marty and Emily Renfroe.

2010 – 2011 (Tennessee)
As a freshman at the University of Tennessee, Renfroe recorded a 31–6 record as the team's ace. Just the second pitcher in school history to have 30+ wins, including a win at the women's college world series (Monica Abbott).  Renfroe was an All-SEC performer (2nd Team), as well as an All-SEC freshman performer.  She was named to the All-Southeast region team as well.  Renfroe was also named to the Women's College World Series All-Tournament team with a 2–2 record in the tournament. In 2011, as a sophomore, Renfroe continued her excellent performance in the circle, recording a 19–4 record, as she shared the ace position with her sister Ellen. She was named an All-SEC preseason member. She was also on the Top 50 USA Softball Player of the Year Watchlist.

2012 – 2013 (Tennessee)
During Renfroe's Junior year in 2012, she continued to be successful. She had a 25–9 record in her Junior campaign and helped the team to a Women's College World Series appearance. Although the Lady Vols were sent home in consecutive games, Renfroe still had an excellent season. In addition to her 25 wins, Renfroe was named to the SEC spring Academic Honor Roll. Renfroe entered her Senior year in 2013 with high hopes, and pitched to the expectations. Renfroe ended her career with a strong campaign, recording a 22–5 record. An All-SEC performer, Renfroe started 21 games, the least over her career, however threw in 20 games in relief, as she prefers. Renfroe helped the Lady Vols finish runner-up in the Women's College World Series, with a 1–1 record, including a win over Texas in the Semifinals to move Tennessee into the championship series against the Oklahoma Sooners.

Career statistics

Tennessee Lady Vols

References

1991 births
Living people
Tennessee Volunteers softball players
Sportspeople from Jackson, Tennessee
Softball players from Tennessee


title: Bunnies on the Bayou

text:
Bunnies on the Bayou is a 501(c)(3) organization which hosts an annual party and fundraising event each year on Easter Sunday. The organization is organized by and primarily serves members of the LGBT community of Houston, Texas, in the United States. According to its website, the organization's mission is to raise funds for "various charitable, educational and cultural programs that seek to improve the quality of life for individuals in the LGBT community and promotes education and awareness of individual human rights within greater Houston area. The fundraiser is one of Houston's largest outdoor events and has been called the city's" largest annual outdoor cocktail party".

History
The event originated in 1979, when a group of friends hosted a birthday celebration on Easter at an apartment complex on Clay Street. News of the event spread; invitations were distributed and a sound system was installed the following year. During the HIV/AIDS pandemic of the 1980s, party organizers began charging "admission" in the form of food for local charitable organizations. Over time, the event continued to grow and admission evolved from food to monetary contributions. In the 1990s the group formally formed into a 501(c)(3) organization.

Bunnies on the Bayou has been held at Wortham Center Fish Plaza in downtown Houston since the 1990s. In 2022 and 2023 the event was held in Sesquicentennial Park.

With the COVID-19 pandemic scrapping the 2020 event, the 42nd was deferred to 2021. After a two-year break due to the pandemic, the event was once again held in 2022.

Events

Bunnies on the Bayou
Bunnies on the Bayou is the organization's largest annual event, which is a large outdoor party held on Easter Sunday. The event typically features live music and DJs as well as drag performances. Many attendees wear costumes and bunny ears.

Other Events
Bunnies on the Bayou also host other events throughout the year including Snow Bunnies in the winter, masquerade themed Bunnies in Heat, Honey Bunnies, Basket Bash, and an annual VIP Party.

Fundraising
Funds raised by Bunnies on the Bayou is distributed to charities in Houston which serve "underrepresented communities." Beneficiaries have included AIDS Foundation Houston, Montrose Grace Place, Hatch Youth, and others. Since its inception, the fundraiser has raised more than $1.7 million for local charities.

References

External links

  (Archived from the original)
 Beneficiaries , Bunnies on the Bayou
 Bunnies on the Bayou Gallery by Buck Bedia (2013), Houston Chronicle
 Bunnies on the Bayou Sets New Record (2012), Out Smart
 Muscles on display! Shirtless men and Easter bonnets keep Bunnies on the Bayou hopping' by Clifford Pugh (2013), CultureMap Houston

1979 establishments in Texas
Annual events in Texas
Charities based in Texas
LGBT culture in Houston
LGBT events in Texas
LGBT organizations in the United States
Organizations based in Houston
Recurring events established in 1979


title: My Illegal Wife

text:
My Illegal Wife is a 2014 Filipino romantic comedy film directed by Tony Y. Reyes starring Pokwang and Zanjoe Marudo. The film, produced by Skylight Films and distributed by Star Cinema officially premiered in the Philippines on June 11, 2014.

Cast

Main cast
Pokwang as Clarisse
Zanjoe Marudo as Henry
 Ellen Adarna as Clarize

Supporting cast
Pooh as Alex
Beauty Gonzalez as Donna
Joy Viado† as Cora
Anita Linda† as Magda
Mikylla Ramirez as Hazel
John Steven De Guzman as Liam
Empoy Marquez as Anjo
Edgar Allan Guzman as Brian
Jimmy Santos as Zossimo
Pilita Corrales as Lala
Jackie Aquino as Dr.Monch
Hyubs Azarcon as Dennis
Jobert Austria as Nelson
Clayton Olalia as Husband of Donna
Mae Paner as Madam(as Mae Paner aka Juana Change)
Inday Garutay as Ice Cream Vendor
Cloyd Robinson as Priest
Grae Fernandez as Teen Henry
 John Bermundo as Teen Brian
Jojo Bolado as OFW Passenger

The Bullies
Justine Banez
Joshua Claridad
Ramon Dinglasan
Ryu Nakayama
Karlo Angelo Nunag

Production

Casting and Development
On May 16, 2014, Star Cinema released news through their website about their next film, topbilled by Marudo and Pokwang with the title: "Coming soon: ‘My Illegal Wife’" and accompanied by a spoof image of ABS-CBN's The Legal Wife primetime series. They first introduced the cast, including Zanjoe Marudo, Pokwang, and Ellen Adarna as well as the storyline.
The film, which started shooting on April 7, is their second film together after Cinco in 2010. In that case, both wanted to do more scenes that will show their improvement as a team, particularly having bed and love scenes on-screen.

The director noted that Marudo can be the next Vic Sotto, who is the "Prince of Comedy", as the director can see his skills on becoming like one. Coincidentally, Marudo is a fan of Sotto.

Promotions
The team had a story reference on March 28 under Skylight Films. During the reference, Pokwang promises that their team-up will bring laughter and kilig. One month when their first shoot on April 7 started, both the main actors excitedly posted exclusive sneak peeks on their Instagram accounts. In the same way, entertainment writer Mell Navarro posted a behind-the-scene photo of one of Pokwang and Marudo's scenes through his Facebook account on May 9.

On May 30, the full trailer of the film was uploaded in YouTube. The team, then, attended their grand press conference on June 2 at 11 a.m., accompanied by a livestream. In addition, the Marudo and Pokwang have had guestings in ABS-CBN to promote their upcoming film, including The Buzz, Gandang Gabi Vice, and ASAP, wherein they had a dance production number on the latter.

Sources
There are numerous television and movies that the film used to spoof. In fact, their title is a spoof of ABS-CBN's The Legal Wife primetime series. Note that only the title is spoofed, not the storyline. Other sources parodied include:
numerous scenes in Got to Believe series
Kim Chiu's line: "Isn't it amazing, isn't it surprising" from Bride for Rent
Bea Alonzo's rain scene in She's the One
Sarah Geronimo in It Takes a Man and a Woman
Piolo Pascual and Toni Gonzaga's confrontation scene in Starting Over Again
Janet Lim Napoles as the head of Philippine-based Yakuza searching for 3 gold plates inserted in Henry's abdomen.
Maja Salvador and Angel Locsin's slapping scene line: "Walang Sa'yo Nicole! Akin Lang ang ASAWA KO!"

References

External links
 My Illegal Wife Official website

2014 films
Star Cinema films
Skylight Films films
Philippine parody films
Filipino-language films
2014 romantic comedy films
Philippine romantic comedy films
Films directed by Tony Y. Reyes


title: Shaunzinski Gortman

text:
Shaunzinski Toronnie Gortman (born December 7, 1979) is a former professional women's basketball player for the WNBA. Born in Columbia, South Carolina, she was the ninth pick in the 2002 WNBA draft.

South Carolina statistics
Source

WNBA career statistics

Regular season

|-
| align="left" | 2002
| align="left" | Minnesota
| 29 || 2 || 12.7 || .361 || .326 || .778 || 2.1 || 0.7 || 0.4 || 0.2 || 0.9 || 3.1
|-
| align="left" | 2003
| align="left" | Minnesota
| 24 || 0 || 8.3 || .438 || .263 || .750 || 1.3 || 0.6 || 0.4 || 0.0 || 0.8 || 2.1
|-
| align="left" | 2004
| align="left" | Washington
| 4 || 0 || 6.0 || .000 || .000 || .000 || 1.0 || 0.5 || 0.0 || 0.3 || 0.5 || 0.0
|-
| align="left" | 2006
| align="left" | Seattle
| 20 || 0 || 13.2 || .364 || .167 || .778 || 2.4 || 0.9 || 0.6' || 0.1 || 1.3 || 2.8
|-
| align="left" | Career
| align="left" | 4 years, 3 teams
| 77 || 2 || 11.1 || .380 || .284 || .774 || 1.9 || 0.7 || 0.4 || 0.1 || 0.9 || 2.6

Playoffs

|-
| align="left" | 2004
| align="left" | Washington
| 1 || 0 || 2.0 || .000 || .000 || .000 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0
|-
| align="left" | Career
| align="left" | 1 year, 1 team
| 1 || 0 || 2.0 || .000 || .000 || .000 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0

Vital statistics
Position: Guard
Height: 5 ft 10 in
College: University of South Carolina
Team(s): Minnesota Lynx, Washington Mystics, Seattle Storm

References

External links
 Interview with Gortman when she was a senior at the University of South Carolina

1979 births
Living people
American women's basketball players
Basketball players from Columbia, South Carolina
Minnesota Lynx players
Seattle Storm players
South Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball players
Washington Mystics players


title: Lycodon zoosvictoriae

text:
Lycodon zoosvictoriae, , commonly known as Zoos Victoria’s wolf snake, is a species of wolf snake. It was discovered in Cambodia in June 2014.

References

zawi
Reptiles described in 2014
Reptiles of Cambodia
Endemic fauna of Cambodia


title: Tropical Storm Fern

text:
Severe Tropical Storm Fern was a damaging storm that struck Yap in the 1996 Pacific typhoon season. A tropical depression formed on December 21, when a low-level circulation center began to produce deep convection. The depression strengthened into a tropical storm the next day, and was given the name Fern by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC). The storm slowly intensified into a Category 1 typhoon on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale, according to JTWC. Fern peaked north of Yap on December 26, with JTWC assessing winds of 150 km/h (90 mph), while the Regional Specialized Meteorological Center, Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) assessed peak winds of , just below typhoon strength. The storm soon became sheared and weakened slowly. Fern continued to weaken to a tropical depression on December 30. Both agencies stopped advisories later on the same day.

Fern made a direct hit at Yap on Christmas Day. A cargo ship was abandoned after it was damaged by high winds offshore. On the island, Fern caused $3 million (1996 USD) of damage. Roads and bridges were significantly damaged, and other public facilities were destroyed. Crops and private properties also received damage. A state of emergency was declared in Yap State two weeks later, and became a disaster area two months later.

Meteorological history

In the middle of December, twin monsoon troughs were established in the extreme western Pacific Ocean, which will later spawn storms Greg, and Fern itself in the northern hemisphere. The trough in the southern hemisphere spawned cyclones Ophelia, Phil, and Fergus. Around that time, convection began to increase near the equator, and was associated with a westerly wind burst. A low level circulation center was noted by JTWC on December 19 at 0600 UTC. Two days later, convection consolidated near the circulation center, and JMA began tracking it at 0000 UTC as a tropical depression. JTWC issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert at 1500 UTC, as sea level pressure began to deepen, and signs of upper level divergence were found in the system. The first advisory for Tropical Depression 42W followed three hours later, on December 17 at 1200 UTC. JTWC upgraded the depression to a tropical storm on December 22 at 0000 UTC as it traveled westerly, and was given the name Fern. According to JTWC, the wind speeds meandered at minimal tropical storm strength. JMA proceeded to upgrade the depression into a tropical storm at 1800 UTC, with winds of , and a pressure reading of . On Christmas Eve, Fern slowly traveled toward Yap. The storm passed over Yap the next day, strengthening to  at 0000 UTC, according to JTWC. JMA assessed Fern had winds of  at the same time. Fern also began its recurvature that day, beginning its turn north.

Eighteen hours later on Christmas Day, JTWC upgraded Fern to a typhoon, with winds of . JMA continued to keep it as a severe tropical storm at that time. On December 26 at 1200 UTC, Fern reached its peak at 150 km/h (90 mph) north of Yap after its recurvature, according to JTWC. JMA assessed that Fern reached its peak of , with a pressure reading of  twelve hours later. On December 28, Fern began to weaken when it encountered a shear line. On the next day, JTWC downgraded Fern back to tropical storm strength, with winds of . At the same time according to JMA, the storm had weakened to , with a pressure reading of . Both warning centers downgraded Fern into a tropical depression by December 30, as it continued to travel along a shear line. JTWC issued the final warning at 0600 UTC, while JMA stopped tracking the depression at 1200 UTC. JTWC continued to track the low until December 31, where it stalled north of Guam.

Impact and aftermath
At sea, a cargo ship en route from Guam to Yap was abandoned after it was damaged by high winds. The passengers entered a life raft, and were later found by a Navy search and rescue airplane. They were soon rescued by a Maltese tanker. No one was injured when the accident occurred.

Yap was directly hit by Fern on Christmas Day, causing about $3 million (1996 USD) of damage. The Weather Service Office received a peak wind gust of , and a pressure reading of . The island received gusts around  for several hours. One person was injured on the island, and no deaths were attributed to the storm. Roads and bridges were severely damaged, accounting for half of the damage. Homes and other private properties were also significantly damaged. Most crops on the island, such as coconuts, bananas, papayas, and breadfruit, were destroyed by the storm. Public facilities, like schools and hospitals, suffered widespread destruction.

On January 3, 1997, a state of emergency was declared for Yap by Acting President Jacob Nena, stating that Fern caused "an imminent threat to health, safety and welfare of the people of the affected areas." Two months later, on March 20, United States President Bill Clinton declared Yap State a disaster area, allowing the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to start the damage assessment of the area. The FEMA funding was only for public facilities, and did not include private properties. The request for individual assistance was not approved by FEMA, as damage to private properties were not much, and assistance from the national government and Yap State were sufficient.

Notes

References

External links
JMA General Information of Severe Tropical Storm Fern (9626) from Digital Typhoon

1996 Pacific typhoon season
Western Pacific severe tropical storms


title: Hydnellum fuscoindicum

text:
Hydnellum fuscoindicum is a species of tooth fungus in the genus Hydnellum. It is found in the Pacific Northwest in moss around western hemlocks. It produces fruit bodies with a violet-black cap, violet flesh, and violet spines on the cap underside. The odor and taste are very farinaceous. The fungus was first described by Kenneth A. Harrison in 1964 as a species of Hydnum, then transferred to Sarcodon in 1967 by Rudolph Arnold Maas Geesteranus. He placed this species in section Violacei of Sarcodon, along with H. fuligineoviolaceum and H. joeides.

References

External links

fuscoindicum
Fungi described in 1964
Fungi of the United States
Fungi without expected TNC conservation status


title: Sepaicutea costata

text:
Sepaicutea costata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Martins and Galileo in 2005.

References

Oemini
Beetles described in 2005


title: Urquhart House

text:
The Urquhart House (pronounced Er- Kit) is a historic residence in Huntsville, Alabama. The property was acquired by Allen Urquhart in 1813, and the house was built soon after. The dogtrot house was built in several phases, with the eastern "pen" being the original section. It was originally built as a one-room log house with a 7-foot (2.1-meter) ceiling. The house was extensively modified around 1835; the ceiling was raised to , and many Federal-period details were added, including beaded chair rails and baseboards, an elaborate mantle, and lath and plastered walls. The second floor and western pen may have been added at this time; most of the original details were removed from the western pen in the early 20th century, making it difficult to date its construction. When it was completed, the house's dogtrot form was established, including loft rooms over both pens and the breezeway. An addition was made in the 1860s or 1870s to the rear of the western pen which features a Greek Revival mantle. In circa 1915–1930, a kitchen was added to the rear of this room, and an enclosed porch was built in the ell along the rear of the house. A front porch was added in the middle of the 20th century.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.  It was included on the Alabama Historical Commission's Places In Peril list for 2013; after years of neglect, the building is nearing collapse.

References

National Register of Historic Places in Huntsville, Alabama
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama
Federal architecture in Alabama
Houses completed in 1813
Houses in Huntsville, Alabama


title: Sepaicutea fisheri

text:
Sepaicutea fisheri is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Lane in 1972.

References

Oemini
Beetles described in 1972


title: Sepaicutea unicolor

text:
Sepaicutea unicolor is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Martins in 1981.

References

Oemini
Beetles described in 1981


title: Sphagoeme acuta

text:
Sphagoeme acuta is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Martins and Galileo in 1994.

References

Oemini
Beetles described in 1994


title: Sphagoeme aurivillii

text:
Sphagoeme aurivillii is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Gounelle in 1909.

References

Oemini
Beetles described in 1909


title: Sphagoeme lineata

text:
Sphagoeme lineata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Martins in 1981.

References

Oemini
Beetles described in 1981


title: Sphagoeme nigrotibialis

text:
Sphagoeme nigrotibialis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Martins in 1973.

References

Oemini
Beetles described in 1973


title: Sphagoeme ochracea

text:
Sphagoeme ochracea is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Fisher in 1927.

References

Oemini
Beetles described in 1927


title: Sphagoeme paraensis

text:
Sphagoeme paraensis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Martins in 1977.

References

Oemini
Beetles described in 1977


title: Sphagoeme sahlbergi

text:
Sphagoeme sahlbergi is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1893.

References

Oemini
Beetles described in 1893


title: Sphagoeme suturalis

text:
Sphagoeme suturalis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Martins in 1977.

References

Oemini
Beetles described in 1977


title: Stenoeme aguilari

text:
Stenoeme aguilari is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Galileo and Martins in 2010.

References

Oemini
Beetles described in 2010


title: Stenoeme annularis

text:
Stenoeme annularis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Martins in 1980.

References

Oemini
Beetles described in 1980


title: Herbert Spiro

text:
Herbert John Spiro (September 7, 1924 – April 6, 2010) was an American political scientist and diplomat. Born in Hamburg, Germany, where he attended the Wilhelm-Gymnasium, he and his family emigrated to the United States in 1938, fleeing Nazi persecution. He served with the United States Army in World War II. His training at Camp Ritchie places him among the list of over 20,000 Ritchie Boys. Afterwards received bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from Harvard University. The author of thirteen books on politics and government, he taught at Amherst College and the University of Pennsylvania. During the Ford administration, he served as United States Ambassador to Cameroon and to Equatorial Guinea, though the latter country declared him persona non grata. He later returned to academia as a professor at the Free University of Berlin. In the early 1990s, he ran for state and then national office as a Republican from Texas, but was not elected.

Early life
Spiro was born in Hamburg, Germany to Jewish parents. His family name is a corruption of Speyer, a town in the Rhineland which once had a significant Jewish community, but he reminisced that in the U.S. it often led people to mistake him for a Greek American. His father worked for a distribution firm. He attended the Wilhelm-Gymnasium. Despite the increasing Nazification of Germany, he states that in liberal Hamburg he experienced no discrimination whatsoever until after Kristallnacht. His family emigrated from Germany just a month later, in December 1938; they passed through New York where their relatives had earlier fled, before settling in San Antonio, Texas. There, Spiro attended Brackenridge High School, and went on to San Antonio Junior College. In a news interview a few years after his arrival, he expressed his disappointment at the relative absence of "wild west heroes" and American Indians in Texas, contrary to the image of the state that he had formed from the Western fiction popular in his native Germany.

Formally an enemy alien, Spiro was not subject to the draft, but after naturalizing in 1944 he volunteered for a  military intelligence position. He served with the 11th Armored Division and received the Bronze Star Medal with oak leaf cluster. He spent 1945 and 1946 as an administrative assistant to the United States Department of War, stationed in Vienna.

Early academic career
After returning to the U.S., Spiro entered Harvard University. He stated that he had originally wanted to attend the University of Texas at Austin, but his mother encouraged him to apply to Harvard instead after hearing that a distant cousin had also been accepted. There, he wrote his senior honors thesis on Marxist critiques of democracy, with William Yandell Elliot as his advisor. He received his master's degree in 1950 and his Ph.D. in 1953, with a doctoral dissertation on accountability in government. He spent the following year in his native Germany as a Fulbright Fellow, and then returned to Harvard in 1954, where he continued as an instructor until 1957. He got engaged to Elizabeth Anna Petersen of Radcliffe College, the daughter of Howard C. Petersen, in February 1958. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in political science in 1959, and lived in Rhodesia and the Central African Republic for the next year.

In 1961, Spiro moved from Harvard to Amherst College, where he was Associate Professor of Political Science until 1965. Afterwards he joined the University of Pennsylvania as Professor of Political Science, where he remained until 1970. He then joined the Department of State as a member of the Policy Planning Staff.

As ambassador to Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea
In July 1975, President Gerald Ford nominated Spiro to succeed C. Robert Moore as United States Ambassador to Cameroon, with concurrent accreditation to Equatorial Guinea. His wife and younger son Alexander accompanied him to Cameroon, while his older son Peter boarded at St. Albans School and visited Cameroon on his summer holidays.

Spiro's accreditation to Equatorial Guinea lasted only about half a year, however, as the country declared him persona non grata in March 1976. The United States had closed its embassy in Malabo in 1971 after one American stationed there murdered another, but still maintained diplomatic relations. Spiro and Consul William C. Mithoefer Jr. had nearly finished one of their regular visits to Equatorial Guinea when Equatoguinean Deputy Protocol Director Santiago Nchama presented them with a letter accusing the U.S. government of engaging in subversive activities in the country and complaining about U.S. foreign and domestic policy, including the Vietnam War and U.S. nuclear weapons. A few days later, Equatorial Guinea's foreign ministry sent a telegram to the State Department announcing that the two U.S. diplomats were barred from returning to the country. His posting in Cameroon lasted until May 1977, when he was succeeded by Mabel M. Smythe, the first woman in the post.

Electoral politics and later life
Spiro taught at Free University of Berlin's John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies from 1980 to 1989. After returning to Texas, he ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1992 and in 1994, and for the U.S. Senate in the 1993 special election, but failed to be elected. His son Alexander married Vanessa Daryl Green of Potomac, Maryland at the Metropolitan Club of the City of Washington in May 1993; DC Circuit judge Laurence Silberman performed the ceremony. He died in San Antonio in 2010, and was buried at the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery. He was survived by his sons Peter Spiro and Alexander Spiro, his ex-wife Elizabeth Spiro Clark, and four grandchildren.

Works

. Reviewed by Henry L. Roberts.

. Reviewed by John Hughes and Thomas R. Adam.

. Reviewed by Charles Andrain and Stanley Diamond.

References

External links

Inventory of the Herbert J. Spiro Papers, University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries (UTSA Libraries) Special Collections.

1924 births
2010 deaths
People educated at the Wilhelm-Gymnasium (Hamburg)
Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
Harvard University alumni
Harvard University faculty
American political scientists
Amherst College faculty
University of Pennsylvania faculty
Ambassadors of the United States to Cameroon
Ambassadors of the United States to Equatorial Guinea
Academic staff of the Free University of Berlin
Candidates in the 1992 United States elections
Candidates in the 1994 United States elections
20th-century American politicians
Brackenridge High School alumni
Ritchie Boys


title: Dadong Arts Center

text:
The Dadong Arts Center () is an art center in Fengshan District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

History
The construction of the center started in September 2008. It was completed in March 2012.

Architecture
The center was designed by MAYU architects, de Architekten Cie and constructed by Arup and Tien-Hun Engineering Consultant Inc. It consists of theater, exhibition center, library and education center.

Transportation
The center is accessible from Dadong Station of Kaohsiung MRT.

See also
 List of tourist attractions in Taiwan

References

External links

2012 establishments in Taiwan
Art centers in Kaohsiung
Buildings and structures completed in 2012


title: Angels (2014 film)

text:
Angels is a 2014 Indian Malayalam-language social thriller film inspired by the 2012 South Korean film Confession of Murder directed by debutant Jean Markose. The film stars an ensemble cast consisting of Indrajith Sukumaran, Asha Sarath, Joy Mathew, Baiju, Prem Prakash, Vijayakumar,  and Lakshmi Priyaa Chandramouli. The screenplay was written by Jean Markose and Toni Tomy, with dialogues co-written by Shabu Kilithatil.

Plot
S. P. Hameem Hyder is a brilliant police officer in the Special Armed Police Department. He does his work efficiently but is an egoist to some extent. Due to external pressures, he is forced to step aside from a case he has been dealing with. He is offended by this and wants to take revenge on those behind forcing his recusal. His earlier crime investigation becomes the focus of the reality crime show Views 24x7, and it is at this juncture that priest Varghese Punyaalan and Journalist Haritha Menon enter his life. Both of them want to know about Hyder and his earlier investigations, but their interests are unrelated and have different motivations. In their attempts to attain their goal, each becomes aware of the other, and the resulting conflict builds the rest of the storyline.

Cast

 Indrajith Sukumaran as S. P. Hameem Hyder
 Asha Sarath as TV anchor Haritha Menon
 Joy Mathew as Father Varghese Punyaalan
 Baiju as S.P. Ashok Kumar
 Prem Prakash as Channel Production Head
 Vijayakumar as Sub Inspector Poly
 Lakshmi Priyaa Chandramouli as Zaina
 Dinesh Panicker as D.I.G Rajan Punnose
 Aneesh G Menon as Rishi
 Parvathi Menon as Princess Malavika
 Anjali Aneesh as Nandita
 Thara Kalyan as Dr. Sandra Mary
 Indrans as attender
 Baby Annie as Jency Jacob
 Parvathy R. Krishna
 Lakshmi Sanal
 Majid as Bishop
 Jobi Varghese (cameo appearance)

Production
Filming took place at Chitranjali Studios in Thiruvananthapuram. The film is Produced by Linu Issac, Hisham Basheer, Saju Azad, Maya Kartha under the banner of Cloud 4 Cinemas. Music is composed by Jakes Bejoy, with Sujith Sarang as cinematographer and Sreejith Sarang as editor. Principal filming completed on 5 June 2014.  During filming, there was a shoot day when director Jean Markose was incapacitated due to a high fever, and Indrajith stepped in to temporarily direct a hospital scene featuring Tara Kalyan. Film producer Linu Issac stated "Indran (Indrajith) rocked it."

Jean Markose is a radio jockey from Dubai and has directed several short films in Dubai. He narrated the script to Indrajith, his wife's cousin, who "immediately signed the deal with a handshake" as he liked the "powerful social message" it had.  According to director Markose, the film is a "social thriller that revolves around ‘Views 24x7,’ a popular crime and investigative show".  Indrajith's role is that of a police officer who was tagged as a "loser" and hence different from other traditional cop roles. Asha Sarath was signed to play a journalist named Haritha, with the actress stating that Haritha was "as unscrupulous as Geetha", her character in Drishyam.

References

External links

2010s Malayalam-language films
2014 directorial debut films
2014 films
Indian thriller films
Indian remakes of South Korean films
Films shot in Thiruvananthapuram
Films scored by Jakes Bejoy


title: Stenoeme bellarmini

text:
Stenoeme bellarmini is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Gounelle in 1909.

References

Oemini
Beetles described in 1909


title: Stenoeme iheringi

text:
Stenoeme iheringi is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Gounelle in 1909.

References

Oemini
Beetles described in 1909


title: Stenoeme kempfi

text:
Stenoeme kempfi is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Martins in 1980.

References

Oemini
Beetles described in 1980


title: Temnopis castanea

text:
Temnopis castanea is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Martins in 1978.

References

Oemini
Beetles described in 1978


title: Legion of Shadows

text:
Legion of Shadows is the eighteenth album by Nox Arcana, marking their 10-year anniversary. The album was announced as a dedication to their fans, and was one of two albums that Nox Arcana released in 2013 on Halloween — the second being Crimson Winter (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), William Piotrowski's first solo project and score for the vampire film Crimson Winter.

In addition to the original compositions, Legion of Shadows includes Vargo's Gothic rendition of Bach's classical piece "Toccata and Fugue"

Track listing
All original music composed and performed by Joseph Vargo. "Toccata and Fugue in D minor" composed by Johann Sebastian Bach, with arrangement and additional instrumentation by Joseph Vargo.

 "We Are Legion" — 1:58
 "The Hidden Realm" — 2:07
 "Skeletons In The Closet" — 3:13
 "Shivers" — 2:40
 "Distant Memories" — 2:55
 "Ancient Flame" — 4:00
 "Loveless" — 3:11
 "Dreamscape" — 3:34
 "Evil Genius" — 3:34
 "Ghost In The Mirror" — 2:41
 "Toccata" — 4:56
 "Lorelei " — 2:34
 "Black Phoenix" — 3:33
 "Spirits Of The Past" — 3:02
 "On Dark Wings" — 3:10
 "Haunted Dreams" — 2:49
 "Into The Night" — 3:13
 "Rites Of Passage" — 4:26
 "Arise" — 2:07
 "Legion Of Shadows" — 2:50
 "Heart Of Darkness" — 5:51
 The song "Heart Of Darkness" ends at 4:10. An untitled hidden track begins at 4:25.

References

External links
 Nox Arcana's official website
[ Legion of Shadows] at Allmusic
[ Crimson Winter] at Allmusic

Nox Arcana albums
2013 albums


title: Temnopis fasciata

text:
Temnopis fasciata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Galileo and Martins in 2003.

References

Oemini
Beetles described in 2003