Important Notice
The Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute merged with the Spatial Industries Business Association in 2022 to form the new peak geospatial body Geospatial Council of Australia (GCA). https://geospatialcouncil.org.au/story/

The Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI) is the professional association for surveyors and spatial science workers, including cartography, hydrography, remote sensing, engineering and mining surveying, photogrammetry and spatial information in Australia. The Institute's members are involved in communities of practice such as land administration, land development, natural resource management, forestry, agriculture, defence, marine environment, local government, health, education, transport, tourism, and many more. The institute deals with policy, administration, collection, measurement, analysis, interpretation, portrayal and dissemination of spatially- related land and sea information, together with associated planning, design and management.

SSSI is located in eight different regions across Australia, providing services in the six states and two territories. The institute's headquarters are located at National Surveyors House in Canberra, Australia.

Background

The spatial sciences range from the traditional practices of surveying and cartography to the more recent practices using GPS, remote sensing and GIS. The spatial sciences involve the skills and understanding to capture, store, manage, manipulate, analyse, model, visualise, set-out and govern information that can be referenced to location.

Information that can be related to a location is termed spatial information. Though predominantly perceived as geo (earth) related, spatial information can range from the anatomic to astronomic scale, from the real to the abstract entity, over any time period.

SSSI acquire, integrate, manage, analyse, interpret, map or distribute information about a location in space and time. They develop, design, and provide related equipment, software and value-added services; undertake applied research, knowledge management and technology development; and manage, educate and train others.

Objectives
The institute's purpose & objectives are to support members in application and practice of surveying and spatial science. This is supported by promoting and representing professional interests of members that work in the discipline of surveying & spatial science. Additionally, the institute also facilitates the exchange of ideas and knowledge between members of the institute via lectures and conferences.

In short, the institute provides with the following benefits to its members:

 Advocacy
 Events
 Professional Development
 Certification
 Migration Skill Assessment

History

The Spatial Sciences Institute (SSI) represents the interests of the spatial information community within the Asia-Pacific region. The Spatial Sciences Institute (SSI) is a not-for-profit professional body  with headquarters in Canberra, Australia. Its membership spans the disciplines of surveying, information technology, town planning, cartography, archeology, spatial information (GPS, remote sensing and GIS) professions and others.

In 1952, six State Institutes combined to form Institute of Surveyors Australia (ISA), the result of more than seventy years of intermittent effort.

Institute of Surveyors Australia (ISA), Australian Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (AURISA) and Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Association of Australia (RSPAA) amalgamated to form SSI in 2003.

The SSI merged with the Institute of Surveyors Australia (ISA) to form the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI) in July 2009.

In 2009, SSSI participated in Q150 (the 150th anniversary of the founding of Queensland) by placing permanent memorials to early explorer/surveyors of Queensland at significant locations. They include a memorial to surveyor to Francis Peter MacCabe at the Calliope River Historical Village ()

The current name, "Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute", has been chosen by a democratic process which gave all members of both SSI and ISA a vote in choosing the name.  Initially, a call for suggested names was distributed with over 200 names proposed. A two stage vote was held with a short list of four names offered after the first round of voting and a substantial majority selecting the final name. Over 1200 members participated in both stages of the vote evenly spread across both SSI and ISA memberships.

Leadership

Past Presidents

Board Members
The Board of management of the Institute are responsible for the governance, strategic planning, fiduciary oversight and monitoring against the strategic plan.

The members of the Board of Directors are
 The President
 The President-Elect
 Six Regional Directors
 Director of the Hydrography commission
 Chair of the Young Professionals Special Interest Group

Consultative Council handles membership, professional development, certification and service delivery.

Commissions
Membership of the institution are divided into Commissions, with the first ones being

 Land Surveying;
 Hydrography;
 Engineering and Mining Surveying;
 Spatial Information and Cartography and
 Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry

The role of a Commission Committee is to formulate and discuss policy for the Commission and to advice the Directors on matters relating to the Commission.

Membership
Membership categories are necessary in a professional institute to differentiate between differing levels of qualification and experience. Movement through the membership occurs via an articulation process which involves satisfying the prescribed progression and professional certification criteria.

Membership Categories

 Honorary Fellows
 Fellows
 Member
 Associate member
 Affiliate
 First year graduate
 Second year graduate
 Part time student
 Overseas Membership
 Student

Special Interest Groups
Special Interest Groups are based on specific grouping of members of the Institute. A representative from these groups are invited by Directors to participate at any meeting, Committee, Council or Board of the institute.

Young Professionals

The Young Professionals are members of the institute who are under 36 years old. Their role within the Institute is to foster member and growth of the institute through service delivery to young surveying and spatial professionals; representation of young surveying and spatial professional in the Institute; provision of leadership to young professionals within the profession; and the engendering of the community awareness of the surveying and spatial sciences and the Institute.

There is a Young Professionals regional committee within each state, and these committees work with the broader regional committees of each region as well as the commissions to deliver events, opportunities and networking for members.

Women in Spatial
This special interest group, is based on a grouping of members on a specific topic or subject. Most regions hold special events for women in surveying & spatial sciences to encourage women to engage and develop skills.

Other efforts

Certification
SSSI offers a certification program to enable members and non-members to gain recognition of their competencies through a formal “portfolio-based” process. Certifications are available for general competencies and specialist competencies including spatial information, hydrographic surveying, remote sensing, and engineering surveying.

Migration Skill Assessment
The Institute carries out an authorised assessment of skills and qualifications for migration to Australia.  Only Surveyor ANZSCO 232212 general skilled occupation can be assessed by SSSI.

Events & Awards
The Institute conducts various events & awards for its members to facilitate knowledge sharing and networking.

LOCATE : A geo-spatial conference which is conducted annually
APSEA: The Asia Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards are conducted to celebrate achievement of top spatial and surveying professionals
SEASC: South East Asia Survey Congress is a surveying event that will be conducted for the first time at Darwin, Australia in 2019
E-CPD : A webinar which is accessible by SSSI members.

Publications

The official publication of SSSI is POSITION which is published once in two months. It is an Australian magazine of surveying, mapping and geo-information while Geo-message is a monthly newsletter.

The Journal of Spatial Science is an academic journal owned jointly by SSSI and Mapping Sciences Institute, Australia. This journal publishes original peer-reviewed research and review papers that contribute to the theory and practice of the survey and spatial sciences. The Journal also publishes professional papers that describe aspects of professional practise and implementation of techniques related to cartography, geodesy, geographic information science, hydrography, photogrammetry, remote sensing or surveying.

Partners

National

 The Institution of Surveyors NSW - represents land surveying, and engineering and mining surveying professionals in New South Wales
 Surveyors Board of South Australia represents land surveying, and engineering and mining surveying professionals in South Australia
 The Mapping Sciences Institute Australia is a learned society established to engender the professional development of individuals and organisations involved in the many facets of the mapping sciences

International

 The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) is a multidisciplinary association. The Association for GIS Professionals, URISA is a leading provider of learning and knowledge for the GIS community
 The Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors (ICES) is an international qualifying body dedicated to the regulation, education and training of surveyors working within civil engineering
 The International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) is an international, non-government organisation whose purpose is to support international collaboration for the progress of surveying in all fields and applications
 The Australasian Hydrographic Society is the South West Pacific and South East Asian regional focus for those interested in hydrography and related sciences

See also
ANZLIC
Surveying in Australia

References

Professional associations based in Australia
Surveying organizations
Geographic societies
Geodesy organizations
Geomatics organizations
Remote sensing organizations
Photogrammetry organizations


title: Rozzi Crane

text:
Rosalind Elizabeth "Rozzi" Crane (born May 2, 1991) is an American singer-songwriter from San Francisco. At 19 years old, Crane made her name known by being discovered by Maroon 5
lead singer Adam Levine. Soon after she was touring the country with Maroon 5. Levine and Crane parted ways in 2016. Crane released her first album Bad Together (2018).

Life and career
Crane attended Marin Academy High School and became a strong member in their musical program.

In 2009, Crane attended the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California as a member of the inaugural class of the Popular Music program. During her first year, Crane's original compositions were licensed for the first time when four of her songs were featured in Lifetime Television's second most-watched film ever, Sins of the Mother. During her sophomore and junior years, Crane was a background vocalist for Don Henley and Sergio Mendes.

In 2012, she became the first artist signed to Adam Levine's record label, 222 Records, where she launched three EPs, Rozzi Crane in 2013, Space and Time in 2015, respectively. Crane met bassist and primary collaborator Sam Wilkes in 2009 and he remains the bassist and musical director of Crane's band as of 2014.

Crane was featured on the Maroon 5 song "Come Away to the Water", which was part of The Hunger Games soundtrack and has toured with the band. In 2013, Crane went on tour with the band for their Overexposed Tour. In 2014, Crane toured as an opening for Gavin DeGraw and Parachute, meanwhile in 2015 she opened for Maroon 5 during their Maroon V Tour in United States and Canada. Also in 2015, she became the opener for Owl City's On the Verge Tour for his latest album Mobile Orchestra.

In April 2015, Elvis Duran picked Crane as his Artist of the Month and she performed her single "Psycho" live on NBC's Today show hosted by Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb. Crane was also featured on Jimmy Kimmel Live and performed her single "Never Over You"

Crane is currently signed to Small Giant Records/Columbia Records. On January 12, 2018, she released "Uphill Battle," the first song in a succession of releases that led to the release of her first full-length album, Bad Together, later that year on Small Giant/Columbia Records. Crane's first single "Never Over You" was released on February 9, 2018.  Additionally, Crane released a video of the recording at Capitol Records. In 2019, Crane recorded a cover version of "Creep" by Radiohead, for the first season soundtrack of The Morning Show, where she also appears in the episode "A Seat at the Table" as a lounge singer.

In May 2020, Crane launched a podcast with co-host Scott Hoying called Ugh! You're So Good!, featuring guests such as Jonathan Van Ness, Christina Perri, Adam Rippon, and Rickey Minor. Season 2 of Ugh! You're So Good! premiered February 2021. Crane has released 2 singles in 2020. She released "Best Friend Song" late August 2020, bemoaning her loss after her best-friend "Tatti" moved out, and released "Orange Skies", a ballad on the wildfire crisis in her hometown of California, early October.

Her EP Hymn For Tomorrow was released in 2021, with its first single "Hymn for Tomorrow" released February 2021. The music video for "Hymn For Tomorrow" features her partner Alex Wolff.

On April 22, 2022, she released another EP entitled Berry, which features an appearance from Nile Rodgers. A deluxe version, with tracks from Hymn For Tomorrow and new bonus tracks, one of which features PJ Morton, was released in November of 2022.

Filmography

Television

Concert tours
Opening act
 Maroon 5 – Overexposed Tour (2013)
 Maroon 5 and Kelly Clarkson – 2013 Honda Civic Tour (2013)
 Gavin DeGraw – Make a Move Tour (2014)
 Maroon 5 – Maroon V Tour (2015)
 Owl City – On the Verge Tour (2015)
 Betty Who – Betty: The Tour (2019)

Discography

Albums
 Bad Together (2018)
 Berry (Deluxe) (2023)

EPs
 Rozzi Crane (2013)
 Space (2015)
 Time (2015)
 Hymn for Tomorrow (2021)
 Berry (2022)

Singles
 "Crazy Ass Bitch" (Remix) featuring Kendrick Lamar (2014)
 "Psycho" (Remix) featuring Pusha T (2015)
 "Never Over You" (2018)
 "Uphill Battle" (2018)
 "Joshua Tree" (2018)
 "Lose Us" featuring Scott Hoying (2018)
 "Best Friend Song" (2020)
 "Orange Skies" (2020)
"Hymn For Tomorrow" (2021)
"I Can't Go To The Party" (2021)
"June" (2021)
"Mad Man" (2021)
"fflow" (2022)

Songwriting credits

 "Collect My Love (feat. Alex Newell)" by The Knocks (2016)
 "Love Songs" by Daryl Braithwaite (2020) [certified gold in Australia]

Music videos

References

External links

Singers from California
1991 births
Living people
USC Thornton School of Music alumni
222 Records artists
21st-century American singers


title: Masters W65 pole vault world record progression

text:
This is the progression of world record improvements of the pole vault W65 division of Masters athletics.

Key

References

Masters Athletics Pole Vault list

Masters athletics world record progressions
Pole


title: Česko Slovensko má talent

text:
Česko Slovensko má talent (Czechia Slovakia's Got Talent or Czecho Slovakia's Got Talent) is a Czech-Slovak reality television series. It is a talent show competition that started in August 2010 and originated from the Got Talent franchise. The show is a Thames production (formerly Talkback Thames) distributed by FremantleMedia and is produced in association with Syco TV.

The show is broadcast on two channels: Prima (Czech Republic) and TV JOJ (Slovakia). Anyone of any age with any sort of talent can audition for the show. Acts compete against each other to gain audience support while trying to become "the winner of Czecho Slovakia's Got Talent".

Presenters
Key
 Presenter of Česko Slovensko má talent

Judging panel
Key
 Judging panel

Series overview

External links
Česko Slovensko má talent TV Joj
 Česko Slovensko má talent TV Prima

2010 Czech television series debuts
2010 Slovak television series debuts
Television series by Fremantle (company)
Got Talent
Czech reality television series
Slovak reality television series
Czech music television series
Slovak music television series
2010s Czech television series
2010s Slovak television series
Czech television series based on British television series
Slovak television series based on British television series
TV Nova (Czech TV channel) original programming
TV JOJ original programming
Television shows filmed in the Czech Republic
Television shows filmed in Slovakia


title: First National Bank (Huntsville, Alabama)

text:
The First National Bank is a historic bank building in Huntsville, Alabama.  The temple-form Greek Revival structure was built in 1835–1836.  Designed by locally famous architect George Steele, it occupies a prominent position, facing the courthouse square and sitting on a bluff directly above the Big Spring.  It was the longest-serving bank building in Alabama, operating until 2010 when Regions Bank moved their downtown branch to a new location.  The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

History
The First National Bank building is situated on the west side of Courthouse Square, on a bluff above the Big Spring and Big Spring Park.  The site is where the founder of Huntsville, John Hunt, built his cabin in 1805.  The first bank to open in what was then the Mississippi Territory was the Planters and Merchants Bank, chartered in 1817.  Beginning in 1818, they occupied a small brick building on the square, which had been built as a mercantile store two years prior.  Despite its long list of wealthy local investors, the bank soon became over-leveraged.  Governor Israel Pickens ordered the bank to be shut down in 1822, but legal challenges staved off dissolution until 1825.  The bank's building burned sometime between 1828 and 1830.

Pickens won re-election as governor in 1823, running on a platform that included the establishment of a state bank.  The bank was founded in 1824 in the capital, Cahaba, moving to Tuscaloosa along with the government in 1826.  Assets came from bond sales and trust funds owned by the State.  Branches were established in Mobile, Montgomery, and Decatur in 1832.  Feeling slighted that the North Alabama branch was given to the younger and smaller Decatur, Huntsville legislators fought for a branch, which was awarded in 1835.  Construction of the building was completed the following year.

The availability of credit further fueled the land rush known as Alabama Fever.  The banks provided enough revenue to the state government that the legislature abolished state taxes.  The good times were short-lived, as the bank quickly became over-leveraged in the Panic of 1837.  Benjamin Fitzpatrick was elected governor in 1841, promising to shut down the state bank.  The charter expired in 1844, and was not renewed; the bank's debts were not settled until 1853.

The same year, the Northern Bank of Alabama was founded in the old State Bank building.  It operated until the Civil War, when Union troops occupied Huntsville in 1862.  During the war, the building was used as a commissary.  At the end of the war, the National Bank of Huntsville was founded, using assets hidden from Union troops inside the building.  In 1889 the bank changed its name to the First National Bank of Huntsville.  First National merged with the Exchange Security Bank of Birmingham to form the First Alabama Bank in 1971.  First Alabama changed its name to Regions Bank in 1992.  Regions occupied the building until February 2010, when they moved their downtown branch to a larger location and donated the building to a non-profit redevelopment group.

Architecture
The National Bank represented a shift in architectural design, both for architect George Steele, and for North Alabama as a whole.  Prior to submitting a bid for the bank, most of Steele's work was in the Federal style, which was popular in the first quarter of the 19th century.  Steele drew inspiration for his design from a trip to Washington, D.C. and Charlottesville, Virginia.  The building is similar in form to the Bank of Pennsylvania and has a similar floorplan to the First Bank of the United States in Philadelphia, both buildings featured in pattern books of the day.  Steele also won the bid for the second Madison County Courthouse, another temple-form Greek Revival building located across from the bank and completed in 1840.

The main block of the building is 53 feet (16 m) wide by 77 feet (23.5 m) long.  The hexastyle portico and façade are constructed of locally quarried limestone blocks, with the rest of the building constructed of stuccoed brick.  The Ionic columns support a plain entablature, adorned only with the name of the bank (currently Regions).  The 15 foot (4.5 m) tall double entry doors are made of red cedar, and have five square relief panels each.  Two smaller doors, which open directly into front offices, flank the main door, each of which is topped with a four-panel transom; these doors were added in 1899.  An iron-railed balcony formerly stretched across the middle portion of the front, but was removed sometime between 1934 and 1973.  Windows on the second floor façade and sides are sashes, with five narrow, vertical panes in the top and two in the bottom.  First floor windows along the sides are six-over-six sashes.  The small cupola and weather vane atop the copper gable roof are from the second Madison County Courthouse, which was demolished in 1914.

The main entrance to the building opens into a vestibule which is flanked by the two offices.  The vestibule opens into the main lobby area, which is bisected by the mahogany tellers' desk.  Between the teller stations, the desk has columns and entablature that mimic the façade.  A tellers' room and the director's room are behind the desk, on either side of the bank vault.  A fireplace mantel in the director's room also mimics the façade with Ionic pilasters.  A service room and stair hall are at the rear of the building.  The second floor was living quarters for the cashier, which was required by law when the bank was built.

Behind the main block, off the southeast corner, is a two-story wing, originally used as slave quarters.  There are four rooms on each floor, and four more in the basement.  A stair loggia with a deck above opened onto a sidewalk between the main building and Fountain Circle; the loggia was enclosed and access to the deck removed sometime after 1934.  The northwest side was originally an open courtyard overlooking the Big Spring, but further additions now cover the entire area.  The basement was used to house slaves who were being kept as collateral for mortgages by their owners.  Windows on both floors on the Fountain Circle side are the same as those on the second floor of the main building.  A door to the basement was removed and replaced with a night drop.

References

National Register of Historic Places in Huntsville, Alabama
Bank buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama
Greek Revival architecture in Alabama
Commercial buildings completed in 1836
Buildings and structures in Huntsville, Alabama
Slave cabins and quarters in the United States


title: Mysteries of Yoshitsune I & II

text:
Moon Saga: Mysteries of Yoshitsune I & II is a duology of theatre stage plays written, composed and directed by Japanese recording artist Gackt. The original productions are notable for the first major use of projection mapping in theatre stage plays. The original soundtrack was released on October 1, 2014 and compiles music from the plays. It consists of two music CDs, one for each chapter, the first of which was performed in 2012, while the second was performed in 2014.

Theatre play

The , is a theatre stage play written, directed, and composed by Gackt, who acted in the lead role. The costume and artwork design was done by Clamp. It premiered on July 15 at Akasaka ACT Theatre in Tokyo, continued at Misono-za in Nagoya, at Assembly Hall in Fukuoka, at Umeda Arts Theater in Osaka, and ended with additional dates on October 2 at Tokyo International Forum, for a total of 60 shows. At several plays, with help of Ashinaga organization, orphans from the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake were invited and also received a monetary donation for scholarship. On July 12, 2013, a limited DVD recording of the "Chapter 1" was released.

On August 2, 2014 a novel was released by the same name as the theatre production. The sequel "Chapter 2" began its run on August 8, 2014, at Meiji-za in Tokyo and continued at Shin Kabukiza in Osaka, at NTK Hall Forest Hall in Nagoya, and at other halls and theaters around the country. The production run ended on October 31 at Omiya Sonic City Hall in Saitama, for a total of 40 shows. For the female character Hiyori, public auditions were held. In June 2015 was released limited DVD recording of the "Chapter 2". On March 9, 2016 was released the standard DVD edition.

Moon saga
Conceptually, the story of "Moon" is separated in four chapters, roughly, first chapter from the year 700 to 1300, second from 1300 to 1600, third from 1600 to current time, and fourth from current time to future. The work from 2002 (Moon) and 2003 (Crescent, movie Moon Child, novel Moon Child Requiem) covered the fourth chapter, from 2005 (Diabolos) took place between the second and third chapter, while from 2012–2014 (theatre play and novel) and 2016 (Last Moon) depict the first chapter. The whole story is set in both Europe and Asia, depending on the story and meaning wanted to be expressed.

The story from the first chapter follows the "darkside inhabitants"—darts, who were scattered all over Europe, fighting for different countries even against fellow inhabitants. The second chapter described how they tried to make something that would surpass them and for purpose of fighting, so were created 13 "shitos" (使徒, apostle, disciple), but their bodies were incomplete and could not appear under the sun. From the third chapter, now known as "vampires", is followed their life. They didn't pursue their purpose of life, and as become aware of the darkness inside them, raises the question what is now purpose of their existence.

In the story vampires were presented as a way of expressing the reflection of humans. They long for immortality, believing it to be a wonderful thing, while vampires know how painful such an existence is and seek a peaceful death. The "Moon Saga" is a symbolic story about the repetition of human sins, war and the question of what is the ultimate meaning of human life. Regarding the theatre stage play, in The New Paper interview stated that nevertheless the reasons for fighting in the end remains sorrow, and that "in this century, a lot of countries are still fighting small wars. I would like to tell everyone that fighting is meaningless. We can find another way to resolve problems".

Mysteries of Yoshitsune I
The theatre play is set in the late Heian (794–1185) and early Kamakura period (1185–1333) in Japan. The main character is young adult Minamoto no Yoshitsune, from the Minamoto clan. Like previous chapters, it is a historical fiction, a world with supernatural powers and spirits (Mononokes). The idea was to create a story where the Oni (Japanese demons) were the origin of vampires, and eventually of the central character. In the Heian period existed those called as Mononoke (spirits), and Mononofu, who were born between humans and Mononoke, and with special powers dominated both Mononoke and humans. The story from Mysteries of Yoshitsune spreads out when the member with inherited blood crossed over to Europe, and became the progenitor of the later vampires.

In the first chapter, after the death of their father Minamoto no Yoshitomo, Minamoto no Yoshitsune and his half-brother Minamoto no Yoritomo were separated, and finally reunited. They peacefully lived in Kamakura. Yoshitsune was served with four companions, called as Four Heavenly Kings, Musashibō Benkei, Ise Saburo, and the Satō brothers Tsugunobu and Tadanobu, with whom had close relationship ties. By their side was Kage (Japanese word for "shadow"), a Mononoke whose life had been saved by Yoshitsune and had haunted him ever since, and his protege, Hiyori, as well Minamoto no Yoshinaka and female warrior Tomoe. However, some including Yoritomo's wife could not conceal their hatred toward Yoshitsune. Around that time, in his residence in Kamakura, Yoritomo was developing a strategy to wipe out the Taira clan, led by Taira no Koremori in the Hokuriku region, thus Yoritomo's vassal, Kajiwara Kagetoki, suggested a secret plan to Yoritomo that would also destroy Yoshitsune and the others’ peaceful lives. Because of Kagetoki's suggestion, Yoritomo granted an audience to Yoshinaka, who willingly departed due to his previous lack of recognition by Yoritomo, despite the opposition by Tomoe who warned him they will not return alive. Yoshitsune and his companions felt that these were the last days they would see the Moon together.

Yoshinaka recklessly marched with his 30,000 troops to the capital via Hokuriku, and managed to win against a Taira force of 100,000 in the Battle of Kurikara. Once again, he won in the following Battle of Shinohara, but no reinforcements or provisions arrived and thus, with the advice of Tomoe, resolved to advance on the capital with the remaining army. He succeeded and was awarded a rank by the Imperial Court. Yoritomo infuriated with the result, on a promise to send reinforcements, he sent Yoshinaka's army west from the capital to Mizushima in Bitchū Province. Yoshitsune and his army also headed into battle as follow-up reinforcements, believing that his brother Yoritomo wanted to help Yoshinaka. However, during the Battle of Mizushima the reinforcements did not arrive, instead Yoshinaka was informed that they had retreated. His army was crushed, while Tomoe was shot trying to protect Yoshinaka.  His sorrow became rage, and decided to change his clan's name Minamoto to Kiso, and carry a revenge against the Minamoto's, as well exterminate all the evil ones and unite the world. His actions were regarded as treachery, and thus Yoritomo ordered Yoshitsune and his companions to destroy Yoshinaka.

Kage headed for Yoshinaka ahead of the others, but Yoshinaka already made a blood pact with a Mononoke named En, and thus En attacked Kage. Two Mononoke fought, which ended with Kage's sacrifice to finish En. Not knowing of Kage's death, Yoshitsune faced off against Yoshinaka. As Yoshinaka's heart could not be reached with words, Yoshinaka provoked him with his sword to fight, and when he was going to deliver the killing blow, the sleeping demon that dwelt deep within Yoshitsune's body was awakened, Yoshitsune's body flew into the air, and with his blades sliced Yoshinaka. Yoshinaka was mortally wounded, and being held by crying Yoshitsune, stated that Yoshitsune must inherit the clan's name and take control of this chaotic world. Although they understood each other, Yoshitsune kept calling his name in great grief.

Track listing

References

External links
 Official Moon Saga theatre website

2012 plays
2014 plays
2014 soundtrack albums
Gackt albums
Soundtrack compilation albums


title: Joe Daher

text:
Joseph G. Daher (1913 – September 21, 1993) was an American college basketball and football coach. A graduate of Juniata College, Daher coached the Manhattan Jaspers from 1942 to 1943 as well as the VMI Keydets basketball program from 1943 to 1945. He also coached three sports at Morris Harvey College (now known as the University of Charleston) in Charleston, West Virginia for three years. In 1940, Daher coauthored a book entitled "Fundamentals of Basketball" with the great Clair Bee. Additionally, Daher spent two seasons as a pitcher with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1933 and 1934.

Coaching career
Daher began coaching at Morris Harvey College, which has now been known as the University of Charleston since 1978. From 1939 to 1942, Daher coached the Golden Eagles in basketball and baseball, and assisted the football team as well. He then left for Manhattan College, where, in his first and only season, led the Jaspers basketball squad to an 18–3 record. This ranks him 15th all-time at Manhattan in terms of wins, and first in winning percentage.

Following a year in Manhattan, Daher then joined the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia as the tight ends football coach, as well as head basketball coach. In two seasons, the Keydets were 2–24 under Daher, an .077 winning percentage. This ranks Daher 26th at VMI in total wins and 27th (last) in terms of winning percentage.

Personal life
Daher was born in 1913 to his parents George Joseph and Selma Daher. He had a sister, Sadie, and three brothers, Vincent, Bernard, and Mitchell. He graduated from Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. At Juniata, Daher played and lettered in three sports. Daher then earned his master's degree at Bucknell University, where he was a pitcher on the Bison's baseball team.

In the latter stages of World War II, Daher took a hiatus from coaching and enlisted in the Army in 1945. At the time he was residing in Roanoke, Virginia. Daher spent the later part of his life living in Dayton, Ohio. He was married for 49 years to his wife Marguerite Alouf, who died in June 2015.  They are survived by their four children: Richard, Selma, Joseph, and John.  Daher was made an honorary member of the VMI Class of 1947.

Head coaching record

Basketball

References

1913 births
1993 deaths
Basketball coaches from Pennsylvania
Basketball players from Pennsylvania
Bucknell Bison baseball players
Charleston Golden Eagles baseball coaches
Charleston Golden Eagles football coaches
Charleston Golden Eagles men's basketball coaches
Charleston Golden Eagles men's basketball players
Juniata Eagles baseball players
Juniata Eagles football players
Manhattan Jaspers men's basketball coaches
Baseball players from Pennsylvania
VMI Keydets basketball coaches
VMI Keydets football coaches
American men's basketball players
United States Army personnel of World War II


title: Koggala

text:
Koggala (; ) is a small coastal town, situated at the edge of a lagoon on the south coast of Sri Lanka, located in Galle District, Southern Province, Sri Lanka, governed by an Urban Council. Koggala is bounded on one side by a reef, and on the other by a large lake, Koggala Lake, into which the numerous tributaries of the Koggala Oya drain. It is approximately  south of Colombo and is situated at an elevation of  above the sea level.

History
Koggala has one of the longest beaches in Sri Lanka, and is located in close proximity to the popular tourist resort of Unawatuna, Koggala in comparison is relatively uncluttered as a tourist destination and mostly unexplored.

Koggala was significantly affected by the tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, where the waters measured  high.

It is the birthplace of noted Sri Lankan author Martin Wickramasinghe and there is a museum, Martin Wickramasinghe Folk Art Museum, dedicated to his arts and popular traditions in the town.

Approximately  east of Koggala is the Kataluva Purvarama Maha Viharaya temple, which was originally built in the 13th century and has some late 19th century additions. The temple is renowned for its Kandyan-style paintings in the main shrine, dating from the late 19th century. The paintings of musicians, dancers and European figures illustrates an interesting piece of social history. Some of the Jatake tales (episodes from the Buddha's series of 550 previous lives) are painted here, and purportedly are 200 years old. There are also some cameo-style paintings of Queen Victoria and the Queen Mother, done in gratitude of Queen Victoria's role in ensuring the free practice of Buddhism outlined in the Kandyan capitulation of Lanka in 1815.

Koggala is also the home to the Giniwella Kathaluwa and the ancient Temples. The Kathaluwa Buddhist temple is known for its murals and for the preserved first printing press, brought by the Dutch to Sri Lanka.

The area is also famous for its distinct stilt fishermen, who erect a single pole in the chest-deep water on the beach, just few meters off-shore, where they perch on a cross bar and using bamboo fishing rods cast their lines out beyond the surf break to catch small fish.

Transport
Koggala is located on the Coastal or Southern Rail Line (connecting Colombo through to Matara), and the A2 highway, connecting Colombo to Wellawaya.

Facilities
 Koggala railway station
 Koggala Airport

Attractions
 Martin Wickramasinghe Folk Art Museum
 Koggala Lake
 Koggala Beach
 Turtle Hatcheries
 Kataluva Purvarama Maha Viharaya
 Stilt Fisherman

Post and telephone
 Sri Lanka 00 94
 Area code 228
 Postal code 80630

See also
 List of towns in Galle Province, Sri Lanka
 List of beaches in Sri Lanka

References

Populated places in Galle District
Populated places in Southern Province, Sri Lanka
Seaside resorts in Sri Lanka


title: Joyce Scott

text:
Joyce Scott FRSASA 'is an Australian artist working in drawing, oil painting and ceramics.' 'She has held ten independent exhibitions, is represented internationally and has received five awards.' 'Scott, née Mottershead, was born in Poynton, Cheshire, England in 1938 and migrated with her family to Adelaide, South Australia in 1951.'

Highlights
Joyce Scott studied ceramics ‘in the early 1970s under the tutelage of Milton Moon, a dynamic teacher’.  She '... received a Diploma of Design, Ceramics and a Graduate Diploma of Education (Art) from the Adelaide College of Art, and later qualified for a Bachelor of Education from the South Australian College of Advanced Education.'  In 1976, Scott was made a Fellow of the Royal South Australian Society of Arts.

'A long-running relationship between the artist and Greenhill Galleries commenced with her first exhibition in 1974.'  Art Critic Ivor Frances reported in a newspaper review, Pottery is Exciting, that ‘The [exhibition] pottery is large and sculptural, subtly coloured in harmonious glazes ..  Joyce Scott has overcome many of the firing problems which occur in making large, light ceramic articles .. [and] the glazes crawl and break into fractured earth colours, browns and greens, all over the surface.’

'In awarding ... [Scott] first prize for the 1974 Carillion City Festival Ceramics Award, judge Kenneth Hood, then Curator of Decorative Arts and Senior Curator at the National Gallery of Victoria, described her entry as of "exceptional quality" and said: "Joyce Scott was clearly a potter of major talent ... [who] manages to combine a feeling of massiveness with a sense of lightness, even elegance, and the combination of the two is exceedingly satisfying .. The pot springs up from its small base and its almost circular contour is modified and altered in one or two places in the most subtle way.  The whole pot was covered with a glaze which has considerable variation of tone and colour".'

As a young artist and teacher, Scott was engaged in the political transformations of the 1970s.  The United Nations declared 1975 to be International Women’s Year, with conferences and celebrations held worldwide, including a broad programme of events in Adelaide, South Australia.  As part those activities, Scott participated in an exhibition of women artists held at the Adelaide Festival Centre.

Later that year, Scott took part in a delegation of Australian potters as guests of the People's Republic of China.  The party of 10, led by Australian Potter Ivan McMeekin and accompanied by Diplomat Geoffrey Marginson, spent 35 days studying pottery techniques in urban and regional settings.  This delegation formed part of cultural exchanges consequent to the opening of diplomatic relations between the two countries in 1972.

Scott held her first major exhibition outside her home state at Solander Gallery, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.  Rowland Richardson, Head, North Adelaide School of Art, reviewed the opening in the Spring 1978 edition of Pottery in Australia.  He wrote that ‘The forms are mainly hand built with dry or matt "earth" glazes sprayed on. The sun, usually seen as a negative form, is often surrounded with a lattice of clay depicting the shimmering, radiating heat. A sun which bakes dry the landscape, but is still very much at the centre of it. However, the more recent work has a totemic feel to it. It is stronger, more geometric, and is decorated with a formal engobe pattern. [Joyce Scott] is a thoroughly professional artist, sketching a lot, determinedly independent and unaffected by fashions. I believe she is one of the few ceramic artists who have been able to imbue their work with a uniquely Australian feel.’

'As part of an ongoing relationship with the political left, in the early 1980s Scott donated artwork to exhibition fundraisers of the Australian Labor Party.'  A personal letter of appreciation from the then Leader of the Opposition, John Bannon, records her contribution.

Subsequently, '... in 1983, the late John Bannon, then Premier of South Australia, opened an exhibition of Scott’s ceramics at Bonython Art Gallery.'  'The exhibition was reviewed by Stephen Skillitzi in the Spring 1983 edition of S.A. Crafts.  Skillitzi, then Lecturer in Charge of Ceramics at the South Australia School of Art, praised the 'intrinsic warmth and richness of clay, amber and black oxides, and white glaze are fused into composites that are bold in their simplicity and yet rich in their delicate detail of applied brushed and incised textural patterns and line and soft torn clay slab additions.’  After surveying a number of individual artworks, Skillitzi concluded ‘These strongly conceived yet delicately executed and cogent statements in stoneware underline Joyce Scott’s gradual refinement and maturation into a ceramic artist with significant vision.’

Wild Grass was the title of Scott’s first drawing exhibition.  A review of the exhibition by the prominent art critic Neville Weston in The Advertiser newspaper said ‘Joyce Scott’s [1985 drawing] exhibition at Greenhill Galleries .. suggests that the landscape feel, which has always been a strong feature of her ceramics, is no longer pot bound … it is an exciting exhibition.’ In correspondence to the artist about the exhibits, Australian painter and 'master of contemporary landscape' Geoff Wilson magnanimously observed 'you show the same fascinating ease with your drawings as with your ceramics. I wouldn't dare tackle such complex subjects.'  He further commended Scott on the 'rewarding success' of selling all exhibited works.

'During the late 1980s and early 1990s Scott lectured in the School of Art and Design Education at the University of South Australia.'  'She coordinated Units in Sculpture, Clay, Glaze Technology, Visual Research and Core Studies across all years of the Graduate Programme.'

‘In 1986 and ’89 her work gained international recognition, and among her achievements she received two Honourable Mentions in the form of certificates presented for outstanding achievement at [both] the First and Second International Ceramics Contests in Nagoya, [Mino], Japan. Her work has since been acquired by a number of state and international art museums’ said Dr Noris Ioannou.  'Japanese pottery and porcelain is acknowledged as the world’s finest and Scott amplified her international recognition with an Honorable Certificate, Silver Prize at the 1988 International Pottery Exhibition of The Japanese Pottery Association, Tokyo.'

The August 1989 edition of Craft Arts International was fronted by Scott’s work and carried a four-page feature article on her ceramics by Dr Doug Boughton, the then Head of the School of Art and Design Education, South Australian College of Advanced Education.  Boughton described ‘Each piece [as] uncompromising in its "earthiness", a feeling created through the glowing warmth of the earth reds, burnt oranges, and yellow ochres which appear to shimmer across the surfaces almost like the illusion of a mirage on a desert landscape. Stain and glaze are used on clay with a sensitivity and authority that would seem to be more the province of a painter than a ceramist. It is not a surprise that Joyce Scott regards the flat areas of her pieces as a "canvas of clay" on which she works her magic with variations of tone and intensity of hue.’  Boughton quoted the artist as saying: "I am endeavouring to produce a series of forms and images influenced and inspired by the Australian landscape. I want to celebrate the vitality of the land, and uncover a different reality. This involves a two-way vision, looking outward, and looking inward at the essence of life.’’’

The 1995 edition of Craft Arts International published a second feature article on Scott by historian and freelance writer Dr Noris Ioannou.  In this article, entitled Eye of the Sun, Dr Ioannou said ‘Scott‘s work is a joyous celebration of sun, life and the fecundity of the South Australian Landscape. Her large, abstracted, slab-built vessels seem to rise from a primeval base to suggest stylised natural terrain; alternatively, the forms suggest microcosmic views of the placental womb. Whatever the imagery implies, the central idea is that of birth, regeneration, and fertility.’  He continued ‘Underpinning her evocative imagery is the concept of containment, as symbolised by the principal form of her work, the vessel. For Scott, the vessel represents the earth, the timelessness of nature and the heavens. The metaphor of the vessel as the earth also extends to its representation of human life, both individual and collective. Earth, material culture, and human life are therefore interlinked and symbolised through the fired clay vessel. As such, Scott, through her ceramic sculptures, is essentially exploring the universal human condition. Above all, however, it is the balance of this fragile planet — both the life on it, as well as the inner equilibrium which each and every person seeks to achieve - that she especially seeks to symbolise in her new sculptures.’

Awards

Represented
Scott's work is represented in the:
 National Gallery of Australia
 Rockhampton Art Gallery
 Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
 Adelaide College of the Arts and Education
 Artbank, Australia
 Arts Council of Bunbury
 Museum of Contemporary Ceramics, Grottaglia, Italy
 South Australian Studio Potters Collection
 Jupiters Hotel and Casino
 Hyatt Regency, Adelaide
 And private collections in Australia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Italy, Japan and the United States.

Exhibitions

Independent
Between 1974 and 1993, Scott held nine ceramics exhibitions:
 Greenhill Galleries, SA, 1974
 Greenhill Galleries, SA, 1976
 Solander Galleries, ACT, 1978
 Greenhill Galleries, SA, 1980, Opened by Dr Gregor Ramsey, Director, ACAE
 Bonython Gallery, SA, 1983, Opened by the Hon. John Bannon, Premier, SA
 Holdsworth Gallery, NSW, 1986
 Greenhill Galleries, WA, 1987
 Greenhill Galleries, SA, 1988, Opened by Sir Rupert Hamer, KCMG
 Kensington Gallery, SA, 1993, Opened by Patti Warashina, USA Artist

In 1985 she presented Wild Grass, an exhibition of drawing at Greenhill Galleries, SA, opened by Dr John Skull, Dean,  SACAE.

Group

Joyce Scott has exhibited in numerous invitation exhibitions in all Australian States. These include:
 Mitchell Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, New South Wales, 1974
 International Women’s Year, Festival Theatre, Adelaide, South Australia, 1975
 The International Bendigo Award, Victoria, 1976
 Fringe Festival, Halmaag Gallery, 1976
 Australian Craft, touring Australia and abroad, 1978
 Twelve South Australian Potters, Potters Society, Sydney, New South Wales, 1978
 Ceramics Conference Exhibition, Sydney, New South Wales, 1978
 Modern Masters Caltex Award, Royal Society of Arts, Adelaide, South Australia, 1978
 Festival Craft Exhibition, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania, 1981
 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Greenhill Galleries, 1982
 National Ceramics Conference Exhibition, Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide, South Australia, 1983
 Darling Downs National Ceramics Award, Queensland, 1984
 Autumn Drift, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, 1984
 Kensington Gallery, South Australia, mixed media exhibition, 1990
 Adelaide Festival of Arts, Kensington Gallery, South Australia, 1998
 An Old Salt, Oil painting;  Salt of the Earth, SALA Festival and the Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Winter 2015
 The Innocent, Oil painting;  Point of View, Royal South Australian Society of Arts Gallery, Spring 2015
 Sounds of Silence, Pencil on cartridge;  Monochromatic, Royal South Australian Society of Arts Gallery, Summer 2015/16
 Sheppie on a Persian Rug, Oil painting;  Out of the Box, Royal South Australian Society of Arts Gallery, Fringe/Autumn 2016
 Let's Go, Oil painting;  Rainy Days, Royal South Australian Society of Arts Gallery, Autumn 2016
 Memories, Oil painting;  Captured Moments, SALA Festival and the Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Spring 2016
 Premonition, Oil painting;  Caring For Our Planet, 7th Solar Art Prize, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, 2016
 The Young Violinist, Oil painting;  Proud To Be 160, RSASA Anniversary Exhibition, Artworks by Significant Past Members, 2016  opened by His Excellency the Honourable Hieu Van Le AC Governor of South Australia
 Adelaide Remembers, Oil painting;  Authentic Adelaide, Adelaide Town Hall, RSASA, 2016  opened by The Lady Mayoress Genevieve Theseira-Haese, Adelaide City Council
 Imagine If This Was You, Oil painting;  Imagine, RSASA, 2017
 Graduation, Oil painting;  Winds of Change, RSASA, 2017
 Gypsy and Sheppie, Oil painting;  Wet, Wild & Woolly, RSASA, 2017
 For Ever, Oil painting;  New Life, RSASA, 2017
 Turquoise and Gold, Ceramics ;  A Family Affair, RSASA, 2017
 Tranquility, Oil on Board;  A Walk in the Park, RSASA, Summer 2018

Publications

International

 The Masters of Modern Ceramics 1986, Faenza, Italy
 La Ceramica Moderna, Italy, 1987
 Heat Wave, ʼ88 International Pottery Exhibition, Tokyo
 2a Biennale Internazionale Di Ceramica Contemporanae
 Ceramic Landscapes, Crafts Arts International, 1989
 Whirl Wind, 2nd International Ceramics Competition, Mino, Japan, 1989
 Eye of the Sun, Crafts Arts International, 1995

Australian

 Pottery in Australia:
 Greenhill Galleries, 1974
 Festival of Arts Exhibition, 1976

 Solandar Gallery, 1978
 Night Eclipse, 1980
 Daybreak, 1980
 Festival Craft Exhibition, 1982
 Bonython Exhibition, 1983
 Olive Earth, 1987
 Greenhill Galleries, 1987
 Capturing the Wonder of Nature's Lifecycle, 1995
 Force Intensified, Australian Crafts, 1977
 Artists and Galleries of Australia and New Zealand, 1979
 Potters' Directory & Information Book, 1981
 Cameo Reflections, S.A. Crafts, 1983
 Clay Statements, Australian Contemporary Ceramics, 1985
 Craft Australia: year book 1984
 Ceramics in South Australia 1836-1986, from Folk to Studio Pottery, 1986

 Adelaide Festival of Arts ʼ88, Art and Australia, 1987
 International Mino Exhibition, Japan, Craft Australia, 1987
 South Australian Ceramic Inglewood Award 1988

 Craft Arts Maganize, Annual Buyers' Guide Supplement 1988-89
 Artfile, 1992
 Kalori, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, 2016, Cover page and feature article
 Members Sketchbook II, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, 2016, Two page survey
 A Visual History: The Royal South Australian Society of Arts, 1856-2016, Volume One
 A Visual History: The Royal South Australian Society of Arts, 1856-2016, Volume Two, Two page entry

External links
  Joyce Scott, Artist Photo Gallery

References

1938 births
People from Poynton
Australian ceramicists
Australian potters
Living people
Women potters
Australian women ceramicists


Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film is a 2006 documentary about writer Hunter S. Thompson directed by Tom Thurman.

Overview
Interviews with Hunter S. Thompson's inner circle of family and friends.

References

External links

2006 films
Documentary films about writers
Works about Hunter S. Thompson
American documentary films
2006 documentary films
2000s English-language films
2000s American films
English-language documentary films


title: High Ridge, Maryland

text:
High Ridge is an unincorporated community in Howard County, Maryland, United States. A postal stop operated from May 25, 1892, through December 1895 and until May 1899 as "Highridge".

The community is roughly bounded by the Patuxent River boundary between Howard and Prince George's County, Maryland Route 216, and Interstate 95. The modern community is mostly residential, with the installation of high-tension power lines and infill development leading local concerns.

References

External links
High Ridge Park

Unincorporated communities in Howard County, Maryland
Unincorporated communities in Maryland


title: Boycott of Maryland's 1st congressional district

text:
The boycott of Maryland's 1st congressional district (also known as the Boycott of Ocean City and Boycott of the Eastern Shore) was conducted in response to 2014 congressional legislation that interfered with the ability of the District of Columbia to pass its own laws. The boycott was prompted by an appropriation amendment by Maryland Representative Andy Harris that would nullify D.C. laws on marijuana decriminalization.

Background
In March 2014, the D.C. Council voted overwhelmingly to eliminate jail time for possession of marijuana, calling it necessary to combat deep racial disparities in drug arrests in the city. In a January 2014 poll by The Washington Post, roughly eight in 10 city residents supported legalizing or decriminalizing marijuana.

On June 25, 2014, House Republicans blocked funding for the D.C. law. The effort to keep the District from loosening its marijuana laws was led by  Andy Harris, a Republican in Congress representing Maryland's 1st District which includes the Eastern Shore and Ocean City. The Harris amendment bans the D.C. government from spending any funds on efforts to lessen penalties for Schedule I federal drug crimes. Once enacted, the measure will interfere with D.C.'s decriminalization law and a possible legalization ballot initiative.

Appropriations riders are a strategy frequently used to block unfavorable local legislation. It took a decade for medical marijuana backers to remove a rider preventing the District from moving forward with the system. D.C. currently lacks voting representation in Congress and all locally passed laws must be sent to Congress for review and approval.

In February 2015, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser implemented the popular legislation legalizing possession of marijuana.  Harris said if one of his fellow Republicans captures the White House in 2016, he hopes they revisit Bowser's actions and prosecute her.

Opposition to Harris
The interference by Harris was viewed as a defeat for District of Columbia home rule, and the ability of its Democratic mayor and the D.C. council to self-govern. Harris explained his initiative by saying "Our constitution is very specific on how the federal enclave of the District of Columbia is to be treated". Some speculated that Harris' interest in a leadership position in Congress prompted his amendment.

It was uncertain if the legislation would force the city to shut down its entire medical marijuana program, which started in 2013. In April 2014, Maryland became the latest of three states that have passed similar laws eliminating jail time for marijuana possession when Martin O'Malley signed a bill to move possession of less than 10 grams of marijuana from a criminal to a civil offense. Harris argued that the D.C. law was "bad policy" assessing a fine of $25—a fraction of the $100 fine in Maryland.

On July 2, the ACLU and NAACP were among 41 other local and national organizations in delivering letters to all members of Congress urging them to oppose policy riders that would undermine the District's local autonomy. The groups, collectively representing millions of Americans, pledged a united front in opposing measures that they say "target" the district.

Boycott planning and announcement
The nonprofit group D.C. Vote called for an all-out boycott of vacation spots in the 1st Congressional District, saying Harris "acted in wanton disregard" of the views of D.C. residents.

Before announcing the boycott, D.C. Vote said it had contacted local officials in the 1st district, informing them that the call for a boycott was not a reflection on them as businesses. It was emphasized that a similar attack on their local jurisdictions' laws would never be tolerated. D.C. Vote Director Kimberly Perry explained that while District residents may not have a vote in Congress, they can vote with their wallets. Alternate vacation spots in Delaware, Virginia and even Maryland were suggested instead of the Eastern Shore.

Mayor Vincent Gray encouraged the boycott, saying "I don't think we should support someone who doesn't support us, who doesn't support democracy, period". Gray also suggested that those D.C. residents who do visit Harris's district might picket his office. In response, Harris attacked the mayor for his loss in the primary election.

Organizers identified  "#BoycottMD1D" as their Twitter hashtag.

Reaction by politicians and businesses
Harris rebuffed efforts by D.C. Councilmember David Catania to meet with him about the boycott.

Businesses in the Eastern Shore said that they hoped that other measures could be pursued besides a boycott of their businesses and said they welcome visitors of all political affiliations.

Harris said city residents "know better" than to boycott his district's beauty spots. "Spending the weekend on the beautiful, family friendly Eastern Shore is more important than increasing drug use by D.C. teenagers."

Other forms of protest
An initiative was launched encouraging businesses to ban Maryland Rep. Andy Harris and his congressional staff from their establishments. At least one bike shop posted a picture of Harris with the words "Not Welcome".

In 2015, protest efforts were re-energized following a segment on HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Organizers arranged buses to the Eastern Shore to educate tourists and protest Washingtonians' lack of voting rights, encouraging more calls to Harris' office.

References

2014 in Maryland
Consumer boycotts
Boycotts
Protest tactics
2014 protests
Protests in the United States
Politics of Maryland
Cannabis in Washington, D.C.
Cannabis activism


title: Miyuki Okumura

text:
is a character artist and manga artist from Saitama Prefecture. She is well known as the character illustrator and artist for Sanrio's Cinnamoroll and Jewelpet franchises.

Biography
Miyuki Okumura was born in Saitama Prefecture and attended Fukuoka Central High School. After she graduated, she attended college at the Joshibi Junior College and graduated with a degree in design. She then joined Sanrio after doing the official character art for the Cinnamoroll franchise and became well known after its release. In 2008, she and Yuko Yamaguchi worked together and illustrated the characters of the Jewelpet franchise in 2008. In 2010, Okumura also did the character design for Wish Me Mell series.

References

Japanese graphic designers
Japanese women graphic designers
Artists from Saitama Prefecture
Living people
Jewelpet
Manga artists from Saitama Prefecture
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Masters W70 pole vault world record progression

text:
This is the progression of world record improvements of the pole vault W70 division of Masters athletics.

Key

References

Masters Athletics Pole Vault list

Masters athletics world record progressions
Pole


title: Palazzo Diomede Carafa

text:
The Palazzo Diomede Carafa, also known as Palazzo Santangelo, or Santagelo Carafa, is a monumental Renaissance palace on Via San Biagio dei Librai #119–121 in central Naples, region of Campania, Italy. Across the street from the facade is the church of San Nicola a Nilo; on the Eastern flank, across a vicolo of the same name, is the church of Santi Filippo e Giacomo.

History
The palace was first built in the 15th century and restored soon after. A plaque, dated 1466, recalled work by the owner Diomede Carafa. It is said he engaged the architect Masuccio Secondo or Angelo Aniello Fiore in this work. The latter worked for the family tombs in the church of San Domenico. The palace passed from the son of Diomede, to the Counts of Maddaloni, and then the Carafa family of Columbrano. After the death of the Duchess Faustina Pignatelli, wife of Francesco Carafa di Columbrano, the palace fell into disrepair, until acquired in 1815 by Francesco Santangelo, a wealthy lawyer, and converted into a museum displaying archeologic collections.

The palace has twelve faded niches depicting members of the Carafa lineage. The upper stories have a pattern of alternating colored stone.

See also
San Nicola a Nilo, a Baroque-style Roman Catholic church

References

Carafa Santangelo, Naples
Carafa Santangelo, Naples
15th-century establishments in Italy


title: SlingShot (Cedar Fair)

text:
SlingShot is a reverse bungee ride manufactured by Funtime and featured at several Cedar Fair amusement parks, including Cedar Point, Carowinds, and Canada's Wonderland. The first installation opened at Kings Island in 2002, but the park retired the ride in 2022. An additional fee is required to ride, which is separate from park admission.

History
Slingshot at Cedar Fair park locations first opened at Kings Island in 2002. A similar installation opened at Cedar Point in 2014. It was built by Funtime.

The ride utilizes a fluctuating price structure, where the cost increases or decreases depending on the day of the week. Riders can also purchase an on-ride video recording for an additional fee.

Ride

Kings Island
SlingShot opened in 2002 and was located in the Oktoberfest area of the park. The capsule launched  into the air reaching speeds up to .

In May 2022, Kings Island made the decision to retire SlingShot permanently, citing that the reason was to "make way for future plans". The news came less than two months after a teen was killed in Florida on a drop tower ride manufactured by the same company. WSAZ confirmed that the Ohio Department of Agriculture had looked into other rides in Ohio that were also manufactured by Funtime, including SlingShot at Kings Island.

Cedar Point

SlingShot is  tall and is located on the Gemini Midway, next to the Gemini. Riders in a two-person capsule are attached to cables and a patented spring propulsion device incorporating up to 720 specially designed springs. The capsule is launched  into the air at  and bounced up and down until it comes to rest at the launch point. The ride is the second highest at Cedar Point, about  shorter than Top Thrill Dragster and  higher than Millennium Force.

Carowinds
SlingShot located in the Carousel Park area. The capsule is launched  into the air at speeds of .

Canada's Wonderland
SlingShot is located in the Action Zone area. The capsule is launched  at speeds up to 100 km/h.

References

External links

 Official SlingShot Cedar Point page
 Official Sling Shot Kings Island page

2002 establishments in Ohio
2014 establishments in Ohio
2014 establishments in North Carolina
2015 establishments in Ontario
Amusement rides introduced in 2002
Amusement rides introduced in 2014
Amusement rides introduced in 2015
Amusement rides manufactured by Funtime
Carowinds
Cedar Fair attractions


title: Colombian Olympic Committee

text:
The Colombian Olympic Committee or COC ( – COC) is the governing Olympic body of Colombia. Its mission is the coordination of efforts to protect the Olympic movement and consolidate its development, compliance with the rules of the Olympic Charter and promote the preparation, selection and participation of athletes in the Olympic Games and other national and international competitions.

The Colombian Olympic Committee is headquartered in Bogotá, Colombia.

History
The Colombian Olympic Committee was created 3 July 1936 and recognized by the IOC in 1948.

List of presidents
The following is a list of presidents of the COC:

Executive committee
The committee of the COC is represented by:
 President: Baltazar Medina
 Vice Presidents: Jose Luis Echeverri Azcarate, Helmut Bellingrodt
 Secretary General: Ciro Solano Hurtado
 Treasurer: Rafael Lloreda Currea
 Members: Ana Edurne Camacho Corredor, Irma Lucia Ruíz Gutiérrez, Juan Luis Zapata Fuscaldo, Pedro Luis Uribe Roldan
 IOC member: Luis Alberto Moreno
 Athlete Representative: Paulo Villar
 Chief Prosecutor: Helder Navarro Carriazo
 Deputy Prosecutor: Javier Vergara Garzon
 Manager: Armando Farfan Pena

Associated federations

See also
 Colombia at the Olympics
 Colombia at the Pan American Games
 Colombian Paralympic Committee

References

External links

Colombia at the Olympics
National Olympic Committees
Olympic
1936 establishments in Colombia
Sports organizations established in 1936


title: Scleria iostephana

text:
Scleria iostephana is a plant in the family Cyperaceae. It grows as a stout perennial sedge up to  high.

Distribution and habitat
Scleria iostephana grows naturally in tropical Africa. Its habitat is forests, woodlands, grasslands, bogs and marshes.

References

iostephana
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Flora of West-Central Tropical Africa
Flora of East Tropical Africa
Flora of Zambia
Plants described in 1956


title: Paul Solman

text:
Paul Solman is an American journalist focused on economics, business, and politics since the early 1970s. He has been the business and economics correspondent for the PBS NewsHour since 1985, with occasional forays into art reporting.

His work has been recognized with eight Emmys, five Peabodys, a Loeb award, and a James Beard award for media.

Career
Solman began his career in business journalism as a Nieman Fellow, studying at the Harvard Business School. A 1966 graduate of Brandeis University, where he edited the weekly newspaper, he was the founding editor of the alternative Boston weekly The Real Paper in 1972. He was the East Coast Editor of Mother Jones magazine in the late 1970s.

He co-authored, with longtime PBS executive and writer Thomas Friedman, Life and Death on the Corporate Battlefield in 1983. He joined The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (now The PBS NewsHour) in 1985. Solman taught at the Harvard Business School from 1985 to 1987.

In 1994, with his professor at Brandeis, sociologist Morrie Schwartz, he helped create—and wrote the introduction to—the book Morrie: In His Own Words, which preceded Tuesdays with Morrie but failed to outsell it by several orders of magnitude.

From 2007 to 2016, he was a faculty member at Yale University's International Security Studies program, teaching in its "Grand Strategy" course. He also lectured for years at the Yale Young Global Scholars  program, the Warrior-Scholar program  at Yale, has taught at West Point, among many universities, and was the Richman Distinguished Visiting Professor at Brandeis in 2011. He has also taught economics at Gateway Community College in New Haven, Connecticut, where he founded the Yale@Gateway speaker series.

Solman co-produced, with Bob Burns, and presented a series of companion videos to McGraw-Hill economics textbooks.

His 2015 book Get What's Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security, a collaboration with economist Laurence Kotlikoff and author Philip Moeller, was a bona fide bestseller; the book was reissued in May 2016 due to changes in Social Security regulations.

Solman was a visiting fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford University in 2016.

With his former Yale student David McCullough and longtime Harvard professor Robert Glauber, Solman created the American Exchange Project in 2018, a nonpolitical nonprofit domestic "foreign exchange" program that introduces high school seniors from everywhere in America to each other and sends and embeds them, for free, in communities utterly unlike their own.

Solman is president of the board and an active recruiter of communities and support.

Personal life
Solman is married to Jan Freeman, a former language columnist for The Boston Globe. He has two grown daughters and seven grandchildren.

His father Joseph Solman was a painter and co-founder of The Ten art movement.

Awards (partial)
 Emmys (1978, 1982, 1984 (2), 1998, 2005, 2007, 2009)
 Peabody Awards (1987, 2004, 2019, 2020, 2022)
 Gerald Loeb Award for Television business journalism: "China Rising" (2006)
 James Beard Foundation Award (2018)

References

{{|url=http://www.americanexchangeproject.org|title=American Exchange Project|}}

21st-century American economists
American television personalities
1944 births
Living people
American people of Belarusian-Jewish descent
Harvard Business School alumni
Nieman Fellows
Brandeis University alumni
PBS people
Gerald Loeb Award winners for Television


title: Masters W75 pole vault world record progression

text:
This is the progression of world record improvements of the pole vault W75 division of Masters athletics.

Key

References

Masters Athletics Pole Vault list

Masters athletics world record progressions
Pole


title: Masters W80 pole vault world record progression


title: W. B. Mathews

text:
W. B. Mathews (1865–1931) was a "pioneer figure in the water development program of Los Angeles" and chief counsel for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. He was also city attorney of Los Angeles.

Personal
William Burgess Mathews
was born in Ohio in 1865, and the family moved to Kentucky a year later, where he grew up. He was graduated from Centre College. He moved to Los Angeles in 1889.

He died in Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, on December 9, 1931, after an operation for intestinal trouble. He left his widow, Susan (died December 22, 1946); two daughters, Margaret Abbott of San Francisco and Caroline Mathews; and three sons, John H. Mathews, William W. Mathews and Samuel S. Mathews. A funeral service was conducted by the Reverend Herbert Booth Smith in Immanuel Presbyterian Church, and burial followed in Inglewood Cemetery.

Vocation

Water law
Mathews became known as "one of the outstanding water law attorneys of the West".

He was admitted to the bar in Kentucky in 1888 and in California in 1889, when he was associated with LeCompte Davis and later with Thomas J. Curran. Mathews was one of the incorporators of the Johnhub Water Company of Colton, California, in 1897. He was elected Los Angeles city attorney in 1900 and was reelected twice, serving until 1909. He was then named general counsel of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, a position he held until 1929.

It was under the direction of Mr. Mathews that the city consummated the purchase of the City Water Company, a step that started the city on its long march toward obtaining an adequate water supply. He also directed the legal battle that resulted in the city acquiring the right to the water in the Los Angeles River. He bore the brunt of the legal work in the city's water development program in the Owens Valley . . . .

In 1929, Mathews took on a similar job with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, and he was a member of the Colorado River Commission.

Politics
In July 1906 Mathews announced his candidacy for nomination on the Republican ticket for Congress, but in August he dropped out because, he said, the committee in charge had not allowed enough time for campaigning.

Legacy

Mathews was memorialized in the name of Lake Mathews (previously the Cajalco Reservoir) in Riverside County, the western terminus for the Colorado River Aqueduct. It was dedicated to him in November 1940.

References

1865 births
1931 deaths
Centre College alumni
Los Angeles City Attorneys
California Republicans


title: Monte Money

text:
Monte Bryan Money is an American guitarist and vocalist from Las Vegas, Nevada. He is the former lead guitarist and backing vocalist of American rock band Escape the Fate. He is currently the lead singer and guitarist for his own band, Beyond Unbroken with his brother Michael Money.

Career

Escape the Fate (2004–2013)

Monte Money was the lead guitarist of Escape the Fate. He has released four albums with the band and is one of the founding members.

On September 16, 2013, Escape the Fate issued a statement from their Facebook page stating that Monte and his brother had refused to go on the "Wrong Side of Heaven" tour with Five Finger Death Punch, and that they would be replacing them for the tour. Along with this announcement, line up changes were also mentioned. TJ Bell would move from the being the bassist to the rhythm guitarist. Former bassist and founding member Max Green would be returning to the band for the tour. It was later announced in an Alternative Press video featuring lead singer Craig Mabbitt that Max Green would be returning to bass permanently, and Kevin Gruft would become the new lead guitarist.

Monte later issued a statement, "Over the past few weeks, I have become aware of the mis-truths being told by Craig Mabbitt over Twitter, Facebook, and various entertainment sites about my role with Escape the Fate. As ETF fans know, I spent many years of my life completely devoted to the band, and never worked harder at anything to achieve its success." He mentions the band's advisors have been saying that Escape the Fate is bankrupt.

Beyond Unbroken (2013–present)

After leaving Escape the Fate, Monte and his brother Michael have started a new solo project called Money Brothers. Monte says “After a great decade in the band and working with the guys, I just felt like I wanted to start a new journey and explore a new musical path. I will always love what we've created and all of the crazy fun times the guys and I had". They only released two singles. Their first single titled "Break Free" was released in October 2013 and Their second single titled "Clarity (Behind the Curtain)" was released in February 2014.

Monte had revealed a name change from the solo project Money Brothers to a new band called Beyond Unbroken.

On October 30, 2015, their new single titled "Under Your Skin" was released.

On February 22, 2016, the single "Dont Wake the Dead" was released. On March 30, 2016, The band released their first music video for the single "Losing My Mind" debuting on Alternative Press.

On August 29, 2017, after over a year after the release of "Losing My Mind" the band released a new single entitled "Overdose" accompanied by an animated video. On September 1, 2017, the band's debut EP "Don't Wake the Dead" was released.

On February 7, 2020, the band released two singles titled "Enemy" and "In My Head". On April 3, 2020, the band's debut album "Running Out of Time" was released.

Gear

 Ibanez S5470F Prestige (seen in Picture Perfect, You're Insane, and This War Is Ours music videos)
 Gibson Les Paul Standard (black, stock pickups) (seen in Not Good Enough For Cliche, The Flood, and Something music videos)
 Gibson Les Paul Custom (black, stock pickups) (Used by his brother, Michael Money, in Ungrateful music video)
 Dean Razorback V (Black) (seen in Situations music video)
 Ibanez Prestige RGD seven string (drop A) (Floyd Rose) (seen in Ungrateful, City of Sin, and Issues music videos)
 Peavey Wolfgang
 Ibanez Halberd (black with Ibanez Edge bridge) (seen in Gorgeous Nightmare)

Discography

with Escape the Fate
Escape the Fate (EP) (2005)
There's No Sympathy for the Dead (EP) (2006)
Dying Is Your Latest Fashion (2006)
Situations (EP) (2007)
This War Is Ours (2008)
Escape the Fate (2010)
Ungrateful (2013)

with Money BrothersBreak Free (Single, 2013)Clarity (Behind the Curtain) (Single, 2014)

with Beyond UnbrokenDon't Wake the Dead (EP) (2017)Running Out of Time (2020)
Collaborations
"On Top of the World" by The Dead Rabbitts (Edge of Reality (EP), 2012)
 "Offline" and "Lost in Space" by Paul Bartolome (Gravity, 2018)
 "Devils In the Details" by Paul Bartolome (Screaming Through the Radio'', 2020)

References

External links

 Monte Money on Twitter

Living people
Escape the Fate members
Lead guitarists
1986 births
Guitarists from Nevada
Musicians from Las Vegas


title: Cyclanthera brachystachya

text:
Cyclanthera brachystachya, the exploding cucumber (but not to be confused with Ecballium elaterium), in the cucurbit or gourd family (Cucurbitaceae), is a herbaceous vine usually grown for its curiosity value, but the fruit is also edible.

The unusual fruit are bilaterally symmetrical, bulbous and spiny.  They explode when ripe as a means of seed dispersal.

Origin and distribution

The plant is endemic from Southern Mexico through Colombia and Ecuador.

Food uses
The fruit can be used raw when small (less than 2 cm) in salads, or cooked when mature (2.5 cm, exploded).

Cultivation
It is propagated by its puzzle piece -shaped seed, and grown in conditions similar to other cucurbits like cucumbers and melons. It prefers warm, hot climates with regular watering. Once established the vine can grow quickly up to 10–15 feet.  Although preferably grown over some kind of support, it can also be grown along the ground.  The plant produces both male and female flowers on the same plant in mid-summer.

Photos

References

External links

brachystachya
Articles containing video clips


title: Administrative divisions of Metro Manila

text:
Metro Manila, the capital region of the Philippines, is a large metropolitan area that has several levels of subdivisions. Administratively, the region is divided into seventeen primary local government units with their own separate elected mayors and councils who are coordinated by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, a national government agency headed by a chairperson directly appointed by the Philippine president. The cities and municipality that form the region's local government units are further divided into several barangays or villages (formerly called barrios) which are headed by an elected barangay captain and barangay council.

The region as a whole is geographically divided into four districts, of which the first district is the central capital City of Manila, the second and third districts located to the east and north of the City, respectively, and the fourth district covering the remaining areas of the region south of the City and the Pasig River.

Districts
Unlike other administrative regions in the Philippines, Metro Manila is not composed of provinces. Instead, the region is divided into four geographic areas called "districts." The districts have their district centers at the four original cities in the region: the city-district of Manila (Capital District), Quezon City (Eastern Manila), Caloocan (Northern Manila, also informally known as Camanava), and Pasay (Southern Manila). The districts serve mainly to organize the region's local government units for fiscal and statistical purposes.

Cities and municipality

Administrative divisions

The political and administrative boundaries of the National Capital Region has not changed since its formation in 1975 as a public corporation under Presidential Decree No. 824. They are composed of sixteen independent cities, classified as highly urbanized cities, and one independent municipality: Pateros.

Barangays

The cities and municipality of Metro Manila are divided into barangays with populations ranging from under 1,000 to over 200,000. In the City of Manila, Caloocan and Pasay, the barangays are grouped into zones for strategical purposes. As of 2015, there are 1,710 barangays in Metro Manila.

Other divisions

Congressional districts
In terms of congressional representation, the region has 32 congressional districts with each city comprising one or more districts. The lone municipality of Pateros shares a congressional district with the first district of Taguig.

Council districts
In terms of Sangguniang Panlungsod (city council, or in the case of Pateros, Sangguniang Bayan or municipal council) representation, each city is divided into city or municipal council districts. These are coextensive to congressional districts above, except that those cities that elect their representative at-large (Las Piñas, Malabon, Mandaluyong, Muntinlupa, Navotas, Pasay, Pasig and San Juan) their city council representation is divided into two districts.

For Taguig, its two congressional districts, with the first district taken without Pateros, are used to determine representation to its city council. For Pateros, it is divided into two districts, independent of Taguig.

Each district sends in an equal number of councilors.

Old districts
Metro Manila cities may also be divided into traditional districts, such as the former municipalities (now city districts) that make up the City of Manila and the historical municipalities and estates like Novaliches, Balintawak, San Francisco del Monte and Diliman that were amalgamated to form Quezon City. Neither division has its own government. In Pasay, traditional districts include Malibay, Santa Clara, San Rafael and Maricaban.

Gated communities
Some cities in Metro Manila may also be divided into several gated communities, also known as subdivisions, which may or may not constitute their own barangays or low-level local government units. Some examples are: Dasmariñas Village in Makati; Ayala Alabang in Muntinlupa; Marina Bay, Merville, Tahanan Village and Better Living Subdivision in Parañaque; Greenhills in San Juan; La Vista, White Plains, BF Homes, Greenmeadows and Filinvest Homes in Quezon City.

Historical divisions

Before 1901

Before 1901, the Province of Manila which today encompasses most of Metro Manila and the northern part of the neighboring province of Rizal was divided into 24 municipalities with Intramuros (then known as Manila) as its capital.

1901–1942
Except for the City of Manila which amalgamated six smaller municipalities in June 1901, the Province of Manila was absorbed by the newly created Province of Rizal with Pasig as its provincial capital.

1942–1947

The City of Greater Manila was formed in January 1942 combining the City of Manila and Quezon City, as well as six other municipalities from Rizal: Caloocan, Makati, Mandaluyong, Parañaque, Pasay and San Juan.

1947–1975
The seven municipalities of the City of Greater Manila were restored and reorganized under the Province of Rizal.

In November 1975 through Presidential Decree No. 824, Metropolitan Manila was created out of four cities and thirteen municipalities (twelve from the province of Rizal and the municipality of Valenzuela from Bulacan) which covers the present-day territory of Metro Manila. It was declared the National Capital Region of the Philippines in June 1978.

References

Geography of Metro Manila

Subdivisions of the Philippines
History of Metro Manila
Politics of Metro Manila


title: Heinrich Kohl

text:
Heinrich Kohl (4 May 1877, Kreuznach – 26 September 1914, Moronvilliers) was a German architectural historian and archaeologist.

He took classes in architecture at the technical universities in Munich, Dresden and Berlin. In 1902 he passed the first state examination for Regierungsbauführer, then later passed the second state examination for attaining "government architect" status (1907). Within this time frame he attended lectures on archaeology at the University of Freiburg (1904). In May 1914 he obtained his habilitation in architectural history from the Technical University of Hannover.

In 1902-1904, under the guidance of Otto Puchstein and Bruno Schulz, he took part in the excavation at Baalbek. In the summer of 1905, along with Carl Watzinger, he investigated the synagogue ruins in Palestine (Galilee). In the summer of 1907, with Puchstein, he performed excavatory work of the ancient Hittite capital of Hattusa (Asia Minor). In November 1907, he studied the ruins of Qasr al-Bint Firaun at Petra.

During World War I, as an Oberleutnant assigned to the Saxon Reserve Infantry Regiment (Sächsischen Reserve-Infanterieregiments), he was killed on 26 September 1914 at Moronvilliers, a French village not far from Reims.

Selected works
 Kasr Firaun in Petra, 1908 – Qasr al-Bint Firaun in Petra.
 Boghasköi. Die Bauwerke, 1912 (with Otto Puchstein, Daniel Krencker) – Hattusa, its structures.
 Antike Synagogen in Galilaea, 1916 (with Carl Watzinger) – Ancient synagogues in Galilee.
 Baalbek - Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen und Untersuchungen in den Jahren 1898 bis 1905, 1921 (with Bruno Schulz,  Daniel Krencker, Otto Puchstein, Hermann Winnefeld) – Baalbek: Results of excavations and investigations in the years 1898–1905.

References

1877 births
1914 deaths
People from Bad Kreuznach
German architectural historians
Archaeologists from Rhineland-Palatinate
German male non-fiction writers
German military personnel killed in World War I
German Army personnel of World War I


title: Kyle Winter

text:
Kyle Johan Winter (born 20 September 1974) is an American Indonesian former rugby union player. He played senior level Division I rugby with the Mystic River Rugby Club in the American Rugby Premiership and has represented Indonesia on the national level.  He also played rugby league with the Boston Thirteens in the USARL.

Early life and education
Winter grew up in Hyde Park, New York and graduated from Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School in 1992, where he was a member of the varsity soccer and rowing teams. While in high school, he also represented the Hudson Valley in rowing in the Empire State Games.

Upon graduation, he enrolled at Boston University, where he was first introduced to rugby after failing to make the rowing team. At B.U., he was also a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, but transferred to SUNY New Paltz after one year. There, he played rugby for the newly promoted Hawks in their first ever season in Division 1 in 1993 up until their playoff run in 1996.  He then attended Northeastern University, playing rugby for the Northeastern University Rugby Club throughout the remainder of his college career until his graduation in 1999.

Rugby career
After college, Winter played briefly with Clontarf Rugby in Dublin, Ireland, making just a handful of appearances as a utility forward with their junior sides before the 2001 foot-and-mouth outbreak halted the majority of the 2001 rugby season. Following the lifting of the travel ban, Winter joined Bus Éireann RFC in the Leinster junior league for the remainder of their season.

Mystic River Rugby
Upon returning to the United States, Winter began his career with Mystic River in 2002, where he was a prop / utility forward. Secondary roles with the club included second row and the number 8 position.  He played twelve years with the Mystics helping them to five Northeast Championships and five straight USA Rugby Division I Sweet 16 tournaments between 2008 and 2012, including three trips to the National Quarter-Finals. Due to injuries during the 2015–2016 season, Winter saw his playing time split between the Mystic's D1 side and the D2 Mystic Barbarians, suiting up for only two league matches that year.

Indonesia
Winter, whose father emigrated from Bandung, Indonesia, was named to the 42-man training squad for the Indonesian National Rugby Team (known as the Rhinos) after a trial session while in Bali in 2008. In 2009 he attended the national training camp held in Jakarta.  He first wore the Indonesian jersey in June 2009 when he was selected to play for the Indonesian XV squad in the inaugural Minister's Cup, scoring a try and earning a position on the 28-man roster that would travel to Manila, the Philippines to compete in the HSBC Asian 5 Nations Tournament, part of the Rugby World Cup qualifier tournaments for countries in the Asian Rugby Football Union.

On 1 July 2009, Winter made his international test match debut for Indonesia as the starting loose-head prop against Guam. Later that week, he would again start in the front row against Iran in the tournament consolation final, where the Rhinos would lose 48-13 and place 4th in the tournament.

Boston Thirteens
In 2009, Winter signed with the Boston Thirteens in the American National Rugby League where he played prop, though he was forced to miss much of the second half of the season due to national team duties with Indonesia. Winter re-signed with Boston for the 2010 season, suiting up for all six matches at prop. He continued with the Boston Thirteens after the AMNRL/USARL split in 2011 as a utility forward.  The following year, he was traded to Oneida FC, playing in just three matches before retiring from rugby league after the 2012 season.

New England Immortals
Winter was named to the New England Immortals RLFC, a representative side consisting of the top players from the New England area.  He made his rugby league rep side debut in July 2010 in an exhibition match against Canada at the 2010 AMNRL "War at the Shore" tournament.

Personal life
In 2015, Winter was hired as the graphic designer to lead the rebranding campaign of the Lebanese Rugby League Federation, which included a new design for the Lebanese national team crest in the lead up to their 2017 Rugby League World Cup run.

His father and uncle both represented Indonesia in association football and water polo respectively.

References

1974 births
Living people
American people of Dutch-Indonesian descent
People from Hyde Park, New York
American rugby union players
Indonesian international rugby union players
Indonesian rugby union players
Rugby union props
Northeastern University alumni
Northeastern Huskies rugby players
Boston University Terriers athletes
Boston 13s players
American rugby league players
Mystic River Rugby players
Footballers who switched code


title: William Bentinck-Smith

text:
William Bentinck-Smith (1914–1993) was a Harvard University administrator and for many years editor of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, known for his "encyclopedic" knowledge of Harvard's history.

He was born in Boston and graduated from Harvard College in 1937. In World War II he served in the Navy, ending his service as a lieutenant commander.
He wrote several books on Harvard College and its history, and especially its faculty and library system. At the time of his death he had completed two of three volumes of a history of Harvard's hundreds of endowed professorships.

References

Harvard University administrators
Harvard College alumni
1914 births
1993 deaths
United States Navy personnel of World War II
20th-century American academics


title: The Parallax View (book)

text:
The Parallax View (2006) is a book by Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. Like many of  Žižek's books, it covers a wide range of topics, including philosophy, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, politics, literature, and film. Some of the authors discussed in detail include Jacques Lacan, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, Immanuel Kant, Martin Heidegger, Alain Badiou, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Daniel Dennett, Antonio Damasio, Franz Kafka, and Henry James.

The book was described by Žižek as his magnum opus, and it is considered notable because Žižek attempts therein to outline his system of thought. According to Žižek's introduction to the book, it is divided into three main sections (philosophical, scientific, and political) in order to introduce "a minimum of conceptual order." Although the book was largely well-received, some questioned whether it truly had a systematic approach.

The most enduring concept developed throughout the book is the parallax, which refers to the different apparent position of an object when it is seen from different perspectives. Žižek uses this idea, which comes from Kojin Karatani's Transcritique, to rework the Hegelian dialectic from a materialist perspective.

Interpretation

Parallax
A parallax shift refers to the apparent motion of an object when it is seen from different perspectives. Using this notion, Žižek claims that both positions viewing the object are Kantian antinomies, meaning that they are completely incompatible and irreducible ways of seeing something. Fredric Jameson argues that Žižek is after the "absolute incommensurability of the resultant descriptions or theories" of whatever object is discussed. Traditionally, this would be seen as a problem for the Hegelian dialectic, which some interpret as involving thesis and antithesis coming together in a synthesis, rather than remaining entirely opposed. Žižek argues, however, that this is an incorrect view of the dialectic. Instead, Žižek writes, Hegel does not overcome the Kantian division, but rather asserts it as such. The Hegelian synthesis, in other words, is the recognition of the insurmountable gap between two positions. This synthesis can only be achieved through a parallax shift.

Ontology
Adrian Johnston maintains that  Žižek is an "emergent dual-aspect monist." This refers to the belief that, although there is ultimately one substance that makes up the world, it appears divided and refracted into "distinct, disparate attributes." Žižek purports a substance that is constantly "fracturing itself from within so as to produce parallax splits between irreconcilable layers and tiers of existence." In other words, the multiple appears because of a split in the Real. This could be contrasted to the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, who maintain that multiplicity is the "primary ontological fact."

Neuroscience
In neuroscience, Žižek confronts contemporary theorists like Daniel Dennett and Antonio Damasio in terms of materialism and idealism. According to Johnston, Žižek asserts that although the mental arises from material neuronal processes, it nonetheless "breaks away" from being determined by those processes. In Johnston's words, "the mental phenomena of thought achieve a relatively separate existence apart from the material corporeality serving as the thus-exceeded ontological underbelly of these same phenomena."

Politics

Žižek makes two major political points. The first involves a split between the economy and politics. He insists that although the economy is the real area where struggle occurs and that politics is simply a shadow of that, the battle must still be fought in politics. Additionally as the book concludes, he describes Herman Melville's Bartleby as a new key figure in politics; Bartleby's consistently repeated phrase, "I would prefer not to," marks a purely formal refusal that must be adopted politically. According to Jodi Dean, Žižek advocates for a "withdrawal from resistance and from charity... a withdrawal from the whole variety of micropolitical practices..." He offers, ultimately, a political figure of "unbearable, inert, insistent, immobile violence."

Psychoanalysis
There are a number of Lacanian and psychoanalytic concepts that are reworked throughout the course of the book. The parallax concept, for example, has important implications for Lacan's concept of the Real. Whereas the Real for Lacan meant a hard kernel that resisted symbolization, for Žižek the term refers to the "gap in perspectives." Another concept that Žižek redefines is the superego. According to Jameson, Žižek's revision looks beyond the superego as the "instance of repression and judgment, of taboo and guilt" toward a new definition that states that the superego today has become "something obscene, whose perpetual injunction is: 'Enjoy!'" Whereas the superego was once thought by Freud to prohibit certain activities, today, Žižek argues, it commands people toward the pursuit of pleasure. Jameson claims that the "death drive" is another one of Žižek's persistent fundamental themes. In his revision of the Freudian Thanatos, Žižek suggest that the death drive's true horror is that it lives through us, embodied in life itself. The concept of jouissance also receives a revision; according to Žižek, the envy of the Other's jouissance accounts for "collective violence, racism, nationalism and the like, as much as for the singularities of individual investments, choices and obsessions..." One final and crucial concept in the book involves the Lacanian "gap." According to Jameson, this refers to the doctrine that "the human subjectivity is permanently split and bears a gap within itself, a wound, an inner distance that can never be overcome."

Reception
Dean wrote that, although the book may not necessarily be a magnum opus, as Žižek suggested, it is certainly his best book since The Ticklish Subject, which was published in 1999. Fredric Jameson assessed the book positively, writing that the chapter on cognitive science is a "superb achievement," and that the political lesson of the book is "as indispensable as it is energizing"; he considered these sections to stand as "major statements." He expressed some reservation, however, about the book's style; he claimed that the book functioned as a "theoretical variety show," and that the drawback of such a style is that, at the end, the reader is "perplexed as to the ideas that have been presented, or at least to the major ones to be retained." In a similar vein, Alexei Bogdanov described the book as a "vast battlefield of opinions, where the author's own position is often hard to pinpoint." Johnston also noted this aspect of the book, observing that although the book purports to be systematizing, "certain readers might experience a feeling of frustration in their attempts to discern the systematic unity supposedly underlying and tying together the wide-ranging discussions of the vast amount of diverse content contained in this text." Ultimately, Johnston asserts that there is an "integrated logic/pattern" to the book. Jameson discussed a similar problem and noted that, in theorizing the parallax explicitly, Žižek may have produced a new concept and system, despite the inherently "anti-philosophical" position of the concept.

References

Works cited
Bogdanov, Alexei. "The Parallax View by Slavoj Žižek." The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 51, No. 4, Special Forum Issue: At the Edge of Heaven: Russian Poetry Since 1970 (Winter 2007), pp. 812–814
Dean, Jodi. "The Object Next Door." Political Theory, Vol. 35, No. 3 (June 2007), pp. 371–378.
Jameson, Fredric. "First Impressions". London Review of Books, Vol. 28, No. 17, 7 September 2006, pp. 7–8
Johnston, Adrian. "Slavoj Žižek's Hegelian Reformation: Giving a Hearing to The Parallax View." Diacritics, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Spring, 2007), pp. 2–20
 Žižek, Slavoj. The Parallax View. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2006.

2006 non-fiction books
Books by Slavoj Žižek
MIT Press books