title: Bleachers (band)

text:
Bleachers is an American rock band from New Jersey and the official stage name of songwriter and record producer Jack Antonoff. Bleachers' rock music is heavily influenced by the late '80s, early '90s, and the high school-based films of John Hughes while still using modern production techniques. Their debut single "I Wanna Get Better" was released in February 2014, followed by three studio albums: Strange Desire (2014), Gone Now (2017), and Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night (2021).

Career

2013–2016: Origins and Strange Desire
While on the road with his band, Fun, Antonoff began working on a new project during his time in different cities. For about a year he kept the project a secret until February 18, 2014, when the first single "I Wanna Get Better" was released along with the launch of Bleachers' website, social media profiles, and a selection of tour dates. News of Bleachers was first publicly announced in a Facebook post by Brooklyn music studio Mission Sound in May 2013.

About making the first Bleachers album, Antonoff said, "I spent the past year working on the music but not talking about it, and eventually it became this psychotic alter-ego situation, where it was second nature to have this part of me that no one knew about. Except for a small group of people, most of which happened to be members of my immediate family, no one was aware that this music, or this album even existed... even though it existed so deeply to me." Antonoff also stated that Bleachers was never meant to be a departure from his position in Fun., and that he will remain in the band.

Bleachers' debut album Strange Desire was released July 10, 2014, from RCA Records. Variance Magazine called the single "Rollercoaster" a "brilliant summer anthem." Bleachers went on their debut Come Alive! tour, which features Night Terrors of 1927 and Joywave as opening acts, from March to April 2015. From there, they went on the Strange Desire World Tour from July to November of that same year. They juggled this with the Charli and Jack Do America Tour, a tour co-headlined by Bleachers and Charli XCX.

On September 25, 2015, Bleachers released Terrible Thrills, Vol. 2, a sequel to Strange Desire. The album contained songs from Strange Desire being covered by numerous female artists with modified tunes. When asked about the album, Antonoff told Billboard “I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice. The whole heart of this idea is for people to hear the album the way I hear it in my head, reinterpreted by the artists who sort of inspired it to be written in the first place.” Covers were contributed from artists such as Sara Bareilles, Charli XCX, and Sia. The band appeared as the fictional band Baby Goya and The Nuclear Winters in the 2015 film Hello, My Name Is Doris.

2017–2019: Gone Now and Love, Simon

Bleachers' second album Gone Now was released June 2, 2017. Its lead single "Don't Take the Money" has been described by Atwood Magazine as "an epic uplifting pop-rock anthem ultimately about how when love is real, its worth everything that comes along with it". In celebration of the album release, he brought his childhood bedroom on tour with him. He had it dismantled and rebuilt inside of a portable trailer. During May and June concerts, fans could enter the "moving, living art exhibit" and listen to the album prior to its official release. Antonoff explained in a press release, saying "when I thought about where this album was coming from and what it’s kissing goodbye I thought of this room. I wished I could play the album for people who care about Bleachers in this space that it is coming from and leaving." The band was on its Gone Now Era: Part 1 tour from September to November 2017. The tour featured Tove Styrke, Bishop Briggs, and Tangerine as openers.

In September 2017, Bleachers performed on MTV Unplugged at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey. The live session was later released as an album, also entitled MTV Unplugged. The album features 11 tracks from both Gone Now and Strange Desire and was released November 10, 2017. Antonoff produced the soundtrack of Love, Simon, released on March 16, 2018. He contributed five songs, with four being credited to Bleachers—"Alfie's Song (Not So Typical Love Song)", "Rollercoaster", "Keeping a Secret", and "Wild Heart"— and one credited to his real name, a duet with MØ titled "Never Fall in Love". Throughout 2019, Bleachers released the third volume of Terrible Thrills in a series of four vinyl records, each featuring covers of songs from Gone Now by female artists as well as new demos by Bleachers.

2020–present: Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night, upcoming fourth studio album and collaborations
In late 2019, Antonoff began recording the third Bleachers album. During this time the band embarked on a three-day "mini-tour" called the "I Love Making This Album but I'm Also Losing My Mind in Here & Need to Come Out and Play" Tour. On January 6, 2020, Antonoff announced on Twitter that a new Bleachers album would come within the year. In May, Bleachers was featured on Carly Rae Jepsen's song "Comeback" which was the first official release of the band in nearly two years.

On November 16, 2020, Bleachers released the first two singles from Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night, "45" and "Chinatown", the latter featuring Bruce Springsteen. The same day it was announced that the album would be released in 2021. "Stop Making This Hurt", the third single, was released on May 18, 2021. Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night was released on July 30, 2021. Bleachers announced a North American tour for Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night in May 2021. On October 28, 2021, Bleachers announced on Facebook that they will be performing two shows in March 2022 at Roadrunner, Boston dedicated to their first two albums: Strange Desire and Gone Now. On the January 15, 2022, episode of Saturday Night Live, which was hosted by Ariana DeBose, Bleachers replaced the originally scheduled Roddy Ricch.

On January 1, 2022, Jack Antonoff tweeted "I am going to put out a bleachers album this year". Later that month they announced "The 2022 Tour" featuring openers Allison Ponthier, Blu DeTiger, The Lemon Twigs, Beabadoobee, Charly Bliss, and Wolf Alice. However, no album was released in 2022. In November 2022, the band featured on a remix of Taylor Swift's "Anti-Hero". On March 24, 2023, he released a collab song with Lana Del Rey called Margaret, on Lana's album called Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.

On 20 September 2023, Bleachers released "Modern Girl" as the first single from their fourth studio album, referred to as "B4" in promotional material. A music video for the song was released the same day.

Band members
 Jack Antonoff – lead vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, programming, synthesizers, samples (2014–present)
 Zem Audu – keyboards, saxophone, backing vocals (2023–present; touring 2014–2023)
 Mikey Freedom Hart – guitar, keyboards, synthesizers, piano, bass, backing vocals (2023–present; touring 2014–2023)
 Sean Hutchinson – drums, sampling pad, synthesizers, bass, backing vocals (2023–present; touring 2014–2023)
 Mike Riddleberger – drums, sampling pad, backing vocals (2023–present; touring 2014–2023)
 Evan Smith – keyboards, synthesizers, saxophone, backing vocals (2023–present; touring 2014–2023)

Discography

Studio albums

Live albums

Compilation albums

EPs

Singles

Promotional singles

Other charted songs

Guest appearances

Notes

Tours

Headlining
Strange Desire World Tour (2014)
Come Alive! Tour (2015)
Charli and Jack Do America Tour (with Charli XCX) (2015)
Gone Now Era Tour (2017–2018)
I Love Making This Album but I'm Also Losing My Mind in Here & Need to Come Out and Play Mini-Tour (2019)
Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night Tour (2021)
How Dare You Want Tour (2022)

Opening
Tour Four (with Paramore) (2018)
At Their Very Best (2023, Finsbury Park)

References

External links

American pop music groups
Musical groups from New York City
RCA Records artists
Dirty Hit artists


title: Robert R. Wright

text:
Robert R. Wright, Jr. (August 16, 1844 – August 4, 1927) was an American politician who served as the mayor of Denver, Colorado from 1901 to 1904.

References

Mayors of Denver
1844 births
1927 deaths
People from Wilbraham, Massachusetts


title: Douglas Yates

text:
Douglas A. Yates is an American political scientist residing in Paris. He specializes in African politics and the politics of the oil industry in Africa and is known for his development of rentier state theory. He has authored or co-authored several books on the subject.

Biography

Yates was born in Hollywood, California in 1964. He earned his PhD in political science from Boston University in 1994 and moved to Paris in 1996. He has since written on neo-colonialism and the oil industry in Africa. He has authored or co-authored five books on the subject, including The Scramble for African Oil and The Rentier State in Africa.

Yates has collaborated with the Africa Regional Services of the United States Department of State as a speaker in its democracy promotion programs, travelling various African countries on training missions for government electoral workers, press corps, and judicial officers. Yates is also a regular contributor on CNBC, France 24 and Al Jazeera.

Douglas Yates currently serves as a Professor of Anglo-American Law at the Cergy-Pontoise University and as a Professor of international relations and African politics at the American Graduate School in Paris.

Bibliography

References

American political scientists
Boston University College of Arts and Sciences alumni


title: Henry V. Johnson

text:
Henry Viley Johnson (August 6, 1852 – June 29, 1931) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the Mayor of Denver from 1899 to 1901.

Biography
Johnson was born in Scott County, Kentucky, in 1852 and earned degrees from Georgetown College and the University of Kentucky. He moved to Denver in 1886 and worked as a lawyer.

Johnson was the United States Attorney for the District of Colorado from 1893 to 1897, and later served as the Mayor of Denver from April 1899 to April 1901.

Johnson was married and had four children;
 Junius W. Johnson (1878–1933), a civil engineer
 Henry "Harry" V. Johnson (1881–1966), a physician
 Margaret Johnson Harrison (1893–1987)
 Tom Loftin Johnson (1900–1963), a noted artist

Johnson, who was a cousin of Tom L. Johnson, Mayor of Cleveland, died in Denver in 1931 after contracting pneumonia.

Notes

References

External links

1852 births
1931 deaths
People from Scott County, Kentucky
Georgetown College (Kentucky) alumni
University of Kentucky alumni
Colorado lawyers
Colorado Democrats
Mayors of Denver
United States Attorneys for the District of Colorado
Burials at Fairmount Cemetery (Denver, Colorado)


title: Bank of New York Mellon v. Realogy Corp.

text:
Bank of New York Mellon v. Realogy Corporation, 2008 WL 5259732, is a case that was decided in Delaware's Court of Chancery in 2008.  The court held that a company's proposed debt exchange offer was not permissible under the terms of the documents governing the company's debt.  The case is frequently referenced in banking law and is used in several law school case books.

Facts
Realogy Corporation had several outstanding debts and sought to refinance many of its debt notes by offering to exchange the notes for term loans under a new $500 million term loan facility.  The new term loans would be issued under the credit facility and would be secured by a second lien on almost all of Realogy's assets.

Because the new term loans were to be secured by second liens under the credit facility, the proposed exchange offer would have allowed the "Senior Fixed Notes" to effectively become senior to the "Senior Toggle Notes" and the "Senior Subordinated Notes" to "leapfrog" in priority over the Senior Toggle Notes.

The trustee under the indenture sued Realogy on behalf of holders of the Senior Toggle Notes, arguing that the exchange offer breached the indenture.

Opinion
The court observed that an interpretation of the exclusion to the definition of "Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness" that required nothing more than compliance with the covenants would add no substance to the definition.  The exclusion would then be "mere surplusage."

Impact
Although the Delaware court did not allow Realogy to pursue its proposed refinancing structure and there is always a risk of litigation where one group of creditors may be adversely affected by a proposed transaction, the court’s reasoning may actually facilitate debt exchange offers by companies.

References

2008 in United States case law
Delaware state case law
2008 in Delaware
United States corporate case law
Law articles needing an infobox


title: J. M. Perkins

text:
James McDaniel Perkins (January 8, 1863 – October 29, 1926) was an American politician who served as the mayor of Denver, Colorado from 1913 to 1915.

References

Mayors of Denver
1863 births
1926 deaths


title: Brockman

text:
Brockman and Brokman may refer to:

People
 Ann Brockman (1896–1943) American painter
 Ann Brockman (writer) (c.1600–1660) English writer on medicine
 Benjamin T. Brockman (1831–1864), American Confederate Army officer
 Brent Brockman (born 1988), American soccer player
 Cecil Brockman (born 1984), American politician
 Charles Samuel Brockman (1845–1923), Australian explorer
 Charlie Brockman (1927–2005), American sportscaster
 Craig Brockman (born 1973), American record producer
 Edward Lewis Brockman (1865–1943), British colonial administrator
 Edmund Ralph Brockman (1828–1908), Australian politician
 Edmund Vernon Brockman (1882–1938), Australian politician
 George Julius Brockman (1850–1912), Australian explorer
 Helen Brockman (1902–2008), American fashion writer and designer
 Jake Brockman (disambiguation), several people
 James Brockman (1886–1967), American songwriter
 John Brockman (disambiguation), several people
 Jon Brockman (born 1987), American basketball player
 Lani Brockman (born 1956), American actress
 Leigh Brockman (born 1978), Australian rules footballer
 Peter Brockman (disambiguation), several people
 Robert Brockman (1941–2022), American businessman
 Ronald Brockman (1909–1999), Royal Navy admiral
 Shimshon Brokman (born 1957), Israeli Olympic sailor
 Slade Brockman (born 1970), Australian Senator
 Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (1902–1968), American actress
 Thomas Patterson Brockman (1797–1859), American politician
 William Brockman (disambiguation), several people

Fictional characters
 Kent Brockman, a character on The Simpsons

Places
 Brockman, California, an unincorporated community in Lassen County, California, United States
 Brockman Airport, an airport in Western Australia
 Brockman Building, a building in Los Angeles, California, United States
 Brockman Highway, a highway in Western Australia
 Brockman National Park, a national park in Western Australia
 Brockman River, a river in Western Australia
 Brockman 2 mine and Brockman 4 mine, mines in Western Australia

See also
 Brockmann
 Kees Broekman


title: In re Garlock Sealing Technologies, LLC

text:
In re Garlock Sealing Technologies, LLC is a court case heard in the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina which involves the entry into bankruptcy proceedings by Garlock Sealing Technologies, once a manufacturer of coated asbestos gaskets, as a result of potential liability from current and future settlements. The plaintiffs were over 4,000 asbestos victims suffering from mesothelioma, including many Navy veterans, as well as an unknown number of future mesothelioma victims. As noted by the court, mesothelioma "is always fatal, causing death essentially by suffocation within about eighteen months of diagnosis" and involves "a horrific death."

In March 2016 Garlock, and its parent company Enpro Industries, settled with plaintiffs for $480 million (only a portion of the $1.26 billion sought by the court-appointed plaintiffs committee).

Background
Garlock is a large manufacturer of gaskets that once contained chrysotile asbestos. Garlock stamps its name prominently on its products making it famous among the workers who install and replace its gaskets. Garlock's gaskets were installed in pipes, valves, and flanges which were in turn covered in heavy fire-retardant insulation that also contained asbestos but was manufactured by other parties. The asbestos contained by Garlock products is encased in a polymer-like substance. Garlock products only emitted asbestos fibers when cut or struck heavily, usually during removal. Removing such gaskets would necessarily require first removing the insulation covering them which would also release asbestos. The chrysotile asbestos previously used in Garlock's gaskets is roughly 1/100 to 1/2000 as carcinogenic as the friable amphibole asbestos used in the insulating tape just mentioned. Over a thirty-five year period Garlock was sued hundreds of thousands of times and forced to pay about $1.3 billion in judgements, settlements, and defense costs. Garlock exhausted its insurance coverage in 2010.

Case history

In 2010, Garlock filed under a special section of the bankruptcy code (Chapter 11, section 524(g)), which Congress enacted in 1994 because many asbestos companies were facing the prospect of bankruptcy due to the number of victims.  Beginning in the 1930s, the asbestos industry engaged in a cover-up of the lethal effects of asbestos that went on for decades. The product, which has not been banned in the United States, still kills over 3,000 people a year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The special bankruptcy law allows a company to set aside money in a trust to compensate - to a limited extent - its victims, while staying operational and profitable.  Filing under 524(g) allows most asbestos corporations to remain economically healthy, although trusts typically lack sufficient funds to fully pay every claim. The median payment percentage to an asbestos victim is 25 percent of a claim's value. Garlock's bankruptcy filing came after it exhausted its insurance due to about thirty years of asbestos-related litigation.

After filing under section 524(g) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in 2010, Garlock sought to limit its liability to current and future mesothelioma-related cases. The approach used by the court for calculating liability was put forth by Garlock's expert, Charles Bates, co-founder of the industry-consulting firm. Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law professor Lester Brickman was retained by counsel for Garlock to write an expert report describing the methods used by plaintiff law firms to arrive at inflated values for present and future claims.

The court decided to value Garlock's responsibility by "divorcing" it from Garlock's long history settling cases and the substantial jury verdicts against it.  The company "contended that it was manipulated into overpaying in settlements with plaintiffs lawyers who withheld evidence that their clients were exposed to other manufacturers' products."   The judge then ordered discovery on 15 cases, held a hearing and concluded that attorneys for the asbestos victims "withheld evidence that their clients were exposed to asbestos products from other companies."

Garlock's theory of its liability depended upon an analysis of the merits of the claims brought against it. The plaintiffs theory of liability was based on an extrapolation of Garlock's history of settling asbestos-related claims.

The lawyers for Garlock asked the judge for permission to investigate several other similar cases, and provided proof to the court that there was a pattern emerging of "withholding evidence" in mesothelioma cases. After discovery action of fifteen previously filed cases by plaintiffs against Garlock, Judge Hodges issued an opinion in his ruling that stated: "The last ten years of its participation in the tort system was infected by the manipulation of exposure evidence by plaintiffs and their lawyers. That tactic, though not uniform, had a profound impact on a number of Garlock's trials and many of its settlements such that the amounts recovered were inflated." The controversial decision by Judge George Hodges limited the total liability in mesothelioma-related lawsuits of Garlock to $125 million rather than a lower court's estimate of $1.25 billion, a reduction of approximately 90 percent.

The plaintiffs strongly challenged this finding and moved to "re-open the hearing on Garlock's liability," based on new evidence that Garlock was in possession of this evidence and indeed had been for decades, but hid this from the court and "presented false testimony at the estimation hearing."

In mid-October 2014, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge George Hodges ruled that all evidence supporting his decision to seal information in the case be unsealed as part of a broader examination of potential fraud in the case. However, Garlock continues to resist disclosing documents showing why the company settled its earlier cases.  Plaintiffs are seeking to compel Garlock to release this information, which Garlock says led to inflated settlements but the plaintiffs say were reached due to significant evidence of Garlock's liability.

In January 2015, Garlock agreed to pay $358 million over 40 years to settle all future (not current) asbestos-related injury claims, but in March 2016 both sides settled the case. Garlock agreed to pay $480 million to all current and future asbestos victims who may have a claim against them.

Civil RICO suit
In January 2014, Garlock attorneys filed suit against four prominent asbestos law firms for conspiracy, fraud and violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO); only the first page of the complaints were filed publicly, with the remainder filed under seal to protect confidential information about previous asbestos lawsuits. Since then, several other mesothelioma cases have used this opinion to alter or beg reconsideration for discovery in civil tort action.
The firms also strongly contest these allegations and at least one firm is currently embroiled in litigation over broad discovery requests.

Throughout 2014, the court case evolved in several directions at the same time. Defendants in the RICO case moved to have that case moved to the state of New York, stating that "Indeed, virtually all of the conduct alleged in the complaint occurred in New York, and not a single allegation concerns any events in North Carolina,"
According to an article in Legal Newsline, "The defendants deny the assertions in the lawsuit and believe critical evidence to prove their allegations include documents including at least three New York law firms – meaning the necessary evidence is located in New York." As the civil RICO act case heated up, more legal scholars began to follow the case and its far reaching implications for tort liability. Additionally, the U.S. Department of Justice filed an opinion in the case saying that Garlock's use of the 2019 filing procedure was correct, and Judge Hodges granting of disclosure of that information also correct, the judge erred in granting further access, and asked that his decision be reversed.

In March 2016, Garlock voluntarily dropped the RICO claims against Plaintiffs' attorneys and a federal judge agreed to stay the cases. As part of the greater settlement package the action will be dismissed with prejudice.

John Crane
John Crane Group filed to intervene but its petition was denied. John Crane Group then filed lawsuits against Simon Greenstone Panatier and Shein Law Center in 2016 in federal court in Illinois. The suit alleged that Shein withheld evidence in violation of the RICO Act in cases brought against John Crane by sufferers of mesothelioma. Specifically, the suits allege that the law firms failed to disclose during discovery that their clients had been exposed to products containing asbestos made by other companies and intentionally delayed filing claims against those companies' bankruptcy trusts. John Crane said that it would have avoided judgements and "substantial defense costs" if it had known this information.

Congressional bills
In January 2015, Texas Representative Blake Farenthold introduced legislation called "Furthering Asbestos Claims Transparency Act (FACT) Act of 2015." The bill would, among other things, require asbestos trusts in the United States to file quarterly reports about the payouts they make and personal information on the victims who receive them in a publicly accessible database. The bill passed out of committee in May 2015 and is awaiting a full vote by the House of Representatives.  In 2015, Senators Richard Durbin (D-IL) and Ed Markey (D-MA) introduced the "Reducing Exposure to Asbestos Database Act of 2015," which  would establish a public database about the location and identity of asbestos and asbestos-containing products in the United States.

Industry reaction
In mesothelioma cases in other states, this decision has opened the door to "Rule 2019 Filings" disclosure, and several companies are now seeing confidential records of previously settled suits to see if plaintiffs or legal counsel are involved in further cases of "double dipping." This has reversed a trend started in the early 2000s wherein asbestos lawyers had convinced judges to seal filings that would otherwise have been made public, under the rationale that they contained "commercial information."

See also
 Asbestosis
 Mesothelioma
 Asbestos and the law

References

External links
 "Previously sealed Garlock bankruptcy record now available online", Legal Newsline (5/20/15)
  "In Re Garlock Sealing Technologies, Llc., Et Al.:  Order Estimating Aggregate Liability." In Case No. 10-31607, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of North Carolina. Charlotte NC, 2014.
  Expert Report of Lester Brickman, Esq., Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, in Re Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC, et al., Case No. 10-Bk-31607, April 23, 2013. 2013.

Mesothelioma
2014 in United States case law
United States district court cases
Asbestos disasters


title: Papanui Inlet

text:
Papanui Inlet is the northernmost of two large inlets in the Pacific coast of Otago Peninsula, in the South Island of New Zealand.

The inlet's name is of Māori origin, and means large plain (papa, flat land, and nui, big). The name originally referred to the area of dunes and mudflats immediately to the north of the inlet, but was transferred to the inlet itself at the time of European settlement on the peninsula. The inlet was also known by Māori as Makahoe.

Like its near neighbour, Hoopers Inlet, Papanui Inlet is known for its diverse bird life. The inlet lies 3 km to the east of Portobello. A short road linking the two inlets enables Papanui Inlet to be reached by road from both Portobello and the city of Dunedin (of which it is administratively a part), the centre of which lies 18 kilometres to the west. Both inlets are shallow, becoming predominantly sand and mud flats at low tide.

The mouth of Papanui Inlet opens to the east, directly into the Pacific Ocean. While the southern shore of the inlet is flanked by steep hills, the northern shore is dominated by a large area of flat land known as Okia Flat, much of which is protected as Okia Reserve. Beyond this lies Wickliffe Bay, which is bordered by Victory Beach, Otago Peninsula's longest beach. This flat land effectively narrows the mouth of the inlet. The remains of the 1861 wreck of the SS Victory (for which the beach is named) are still visible close to the inlet's mouth at low tide. Both this wreck and a historic midden close to the southern shore of the inlet's mouth are registered as Category II historic sites by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.

Papanui Inlet is separated from Hoopers Inlet by a strip of land which is the isthmus to a hilly peninsula containing Cape Saunders and the peninsula's highest point, the 408-metre Mount Charles. A road, leading to Cape Saunders, skirts the southern shore of the inlet.

The inlet is registered as a Coastal Protection Area by the Otago Regional Council, due to its cultural and spiritual values to the Kai Tahu iwi, its status as an important habitat for bird and sea life, and for its historic sites.

References

Otago Peninsula
Landforms of Otago
Inlets of New Zealand


title: Viva la Vida (disambiguation)

text:
"Viva la Vida" is a 2008 song by Coldplay.

Viva la Vida may also refer to:

Films
 ¡Viva la vida!, a 1934 film directed by José María Castellví
 Viva la vie, a 1984 French film directed by Claude Lelouch

Music

Albums
 Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, 2008 Coldplay album
 Viva la Vida, 1991 album by Joan Sebastian
 Viva la Vida, 2012 album by Vikki Carr
 Vivalavida, 1999 album by Carnival in Coal

Songs
 "Viva la Vida", 1941 song from Billy the Kid (1941 film)
 "Viva la Vida", 1986 song by Michel Fugain
 "Viva la Vida", 2004 song by Roy Brown (Puerto Rican musician) on Balcon del Fin del Mundo
 "Viva la Vida", 2011 song by In Extremo from the album Sterneneisen
 "Viva la Vida", 2012 song by Vikki Carr
 "Viva la Vida", 2022 song by Hong Jin-young
 "¡Que Viva la Vida!", 2011 song by Wisin & Yandel

Tours
 Viva la Vida Tour by Coldplay

Paintings
 "Viva la Vida, Sandías" (1954), a painting by Frida Kahlo


title: M. D. Van Horn

text:
Marion DeKalb Van Horn (January 12, 1837 – August 14, 1895) was an American politician who served as the mayor of Denver, Colorado from 1893 to 1895. He died when he fell from a third story window of the Grand Central Hotel of which he was the proprietor.

References

Mayors of Denver
1837 births
1895 deaths
19th-century American politicians


title: R. G. Buckingham

text:
Richard G. Buckingham (September 14, 1816 – March 20, 1889) was an American politician who served as the mayor of Denver, Colorado from 1876 to 1877.

Buckingham attended Berkshire Medical College in Pittsfield, Massachusetts and received his MD in 1836. He operated a private practice in Lexington, Missouri for 21 years and then moved the practice to Denver, Colorado.

He was one of the founders of the Denver Medical Association in 1871. The same year, the Colorado Territorial Medical Society was founded and Buckingham was its first president. He advocated for the creation of what was originally named the Colorado Institute for the Education of Mutes.

Buckingham was nominated for governor under the Greenback Party in 1878, but was defeated by Frederick W. Pitkin.

References

Further reading

Mayors of Denver
1816 births
1889 deaths
19th-century American politicians
Physicians from Colorado


title: Peter Brockman

text:
Peter Brockman may refer to:

Peter M. Brockman, member of the Oregon State Senate
Peter Brockman, character in The Christmas Choir
Pete Brockman, fictional character in Outnumbered


title: Garrett M. Fitzgerald

text:
Garrett M. Fitzgerald (May 21, 1806 - September 24, 1859) was an American politician.

Born in Killarney, Ireland, he emigrated with his family to New York City. In 1841, he moved to Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Territory. He was a deputy sheriff and county treasurer. He served in the Wisconsin Constitutional Conventions of 1846 and 1847–1848. He served in the Wisconsin State Assembly, in 1850, as a Democrat, succeeding John Flynn, Jr. (also a Democrat). He died near Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Notes

1806 births
1859 deaths
People from Killarney
People from Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
Irish emigrants to the United States
19th-century American politicians
Democratic Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly


title: Adolfo Esteche

text:
Adolfo Esteche Sosa (born July 6, 1972) is a retired Paraguayan footballer who played for clubs of Paraguay, Chile and Argentina.

Teams
  Sportivo Luqueño 1994–1998
  Olimpia 1998
  Santiago Morning 1999
  Sportivo Luqueño 2000
  Olimpia 2001
  Deportivo Recoleta 2002
  Sportivo Luqueño 2003–2004
  Sportivo Eldorado de Misiones 2005

External links

1972 births
Living people
Paraguayan men's footballers
Paraguayan expatriate men's footballers
Club Olimpia footballers
Sportivo Luqueño players
Santiago Morning footballers
Chilean Primera División players
Expatriate men's footballers in Chile
Expatriate men's footballers in Argentina
Men's association football midfielders


title: R. exigua

text:
R. exigua may refer to:

 Reicheia exigua, a ground beetle
 Rimularia exigua, a lichenized fungus
 Rosenbergia exigua, a longhorn beetle


title: DJ A-Tron

text:
Aaron Williams (born April 10, 1993), best known as DJ A-Tron, is an American DJ, radio host, web personality, event producer, and entrepreneur. He was referred to by the LA Weekly as "The Twerk King". His business portfolio also includes a creative marketing and branding agency, management company, as well as an online jewelry store, The Work Shop.

Early life
When A-Tron was seven years old, he realized he loved to DJ and got his first set of turntables. He started DJing a lot more as he got older. He DJed in clubs and house parties.

A-Tron uses the DJ software Serato. A-Tron started creating mixes online. Starting on air at the age of 16 on his own internet radio show JerkinRadio which covered more than jerkin and also about being open and proud of who he was to the city, A-Tron split time as a teen between school and music. After graduating from St. Bernard High School (Los Angeles, California) in 2011, A-Tron started headlining at Hollywood clubs and throwing massive underground functions.

DJ career
Performing, A-Tron has toured worldwide, and performed at official events for the GRAMMY Awards, and BET Awards.

JerkinRadio is an internet radio station A-Tron opened in 2008 while in high school. The station grew to 100,000 monthly listeners due to endorsements from the jerkin scene's major figures.

A-Tron does many celebrities kids birthday parties and tours High School around California. He also performed at SXSW in Austin, Texas.

As a mixtape DJ and producer, A-Tron has released many mixtapes during his career. In 2013, A-Tron released "Skinny Ni**as" featuring Nipsey Hussle. It was announced in 2013 that A-Tron would release his debut mixtape with features from Nipsey Hussle, Joe Moses, TeeFlii, among others.
XXL (magazine) called DJ A-Tron "The Most Popular underground DJ" in Los Angeles.

Business career
Outside of his career as a DJ and personality, A-Tron is active in the entertainment business as a business entrepreneur working with Fox Sports and multi-platinum production band 1500orNothin.

In September 2013, A-Tron opened his online retail jewelry store, The Work Shop.

References

External links

1993 births
African-American record producers
American hip hop DJs
American hip hop record producers
Living people
DJs from Los Angeles
Record producers from California
West Coast hip hop musicians
21st-century African-American musicians


title: Freddy Cousaert

text:
Freddy Cousaert (1937 – 19 August 1998) was a Belgian DJ, club owner and concert promoter, who was influential in developing an audience for authentic rhythm and blues music in Europe, and, in particular, for his role in the career of Marvin Gaye.

Life
From the late 1950s, Cousaert ran a club in Ostend that became known for playing American R&B music which was, at the time, rarely heard in Europe. Eric Burdon, who visited the club as a teenager, said that "We were attracted by the sounds on the jukebox...  It wasn't the normal top 10 stuff. He had Ray Charles and Charles Brown, blues people." Cousaert regularly visited the Q Club in London, run by Jamaican-born Count Suckle, which was frequented by many musicians on the British R&B scene. By the late 1960s, Cousaert ran the Groove discotheque in Ostend, playing mid-tempo soul and ska music that later developed into what became known in Belgium as the Popcorn style. In the 1960s and 1970s, Cousaert also worked as a public relations executive for Muhammad Ali in Europe.

In 1980, American soul singer Marvin Gaye had completed a tour in Britain, had developed a serious dependence and addiction to cocaine, and was having to deal with major taxation issues with the US Internal Revenue Service. He contacted Cousaert, who persuaded him to relocate to Ostend. Gaye lived there with Cousaert and his family for several months in 1981, avoiding heavy drug use, exercising in a local gym, attending a local church, regaining his confidence and performing in concert in Ostend. With writer David Ritz, Gaye also wrote his comeback song, "Sexual Healing", while in Belgium. Cousaert was involved in Gaye signing a new contract with Columbia Records, before he returned to the US.

Cousaert continued to organise concerts in Belgium for R&B and soul singers. He was instrumental in setting up the regular Beach Festivals in Belgium. He died in 1998, aged 61, from heart failure following a cycling accident near Bruges.

References

1937 births
1998 deaths
People from Ostend
Belgian DJs
Road incident deaths in Belgium


Twyford Church of England Academies Trust is a multi-academy trust based in West London and affiliated to the London Diocesan Board for Schools. It currently consists of four academies in the London Borough of Ealing: Twyford Church of England High School, William Perkin Church of England High School, Ada Lovelace Church of England High School and Ealing Fields High School. The trust received permission in October 2014 to open a fourth academy named Ada Lovelace Church of England High School. The trust, in partnership with the local authority, is the hub for the Ealing Teaching School Alliance (ETSA), an alliance of local schools.

Description
Twyford Church of England Academies Trust was set up in October 2011 in order to allow the diocese to use the strengths built up at Twyford CofE High School to be developed beyond a single school.
The school was a larger than the average-sized secondary school with approximately 1458 pupils on roll, including 500 pupils in the sixth form. It was significantly oversubscribed with over 600 applications in 2013 for 190 places. It has specialist status in music and modern foreign languages; 150 places are offered to foundation (Christian) applicants, 30 to applicants who satisfied the criteria for world faith and ten places were offered to students with an aptitude for music.

The inaugural Executive Head Teacher was Dame Alice Hudson. Hudson was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the Queen's 2016 90th Birthday Honours for services to Education and received special mention in the official Cabinet Office press release; the citation for her award recognised her consistent work to improve educational standards in a career spanning over 30 years.

The London Diocesan Board for Schools, used the Trust and the free school initiative to fund a new school. The William Perkin Church of England High School opened in September 2013 with places for 1400 pupils.

Ealing Fields High School was opened by a parent-led group, as a free school in 2016. It merged into the trust in Spring 2017 when it was still in temporary accommodation, in its first year.Unique reference number 142654</ref>

At the same time the trust was consulting about its own free school, Ada Lovelace Church of England High School which opened, hosted in the surplus accommodation at William Perkin Church of England High School in September 2018. It moved into its own new building in Ealing in September 2020. It follows the 10/10 Curriculum model that has been developed in the other trust schools.

Schools

Secondary schools
Twyford Church of England High School
William Perkin Church of England High School
Ealing Fields High School
Ada Lovelace Church of England High School

Controversies

Admissions controversy
A member of the public challenged the September 2014 admission procedure which was applied when a trust school was over-subscribed, saying it breached section 88I(5) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998. The courts concurred. The issue was that the trust wished to reserve places for students whose parents had the strongest connection, firstly to an Anglican church and then to any faith-based place of worship. They had set up a points based system that was not wholly based on evidence of faith, but on willingness to clean the church and attend various hobby-based organisations. In addition the period of commitment was too extensive. The clause inserted for people of no faith meant they would be exempt, leading to differential systems.

See also

 Ark Academy

References

External links
Twyford C of E High School website
Twyford Academies Trust

Academy trusts


title: ADK Moderne Kaédi

text:
ADK Moderne Kaedi is a Mauritanean football club based in Kaédi the capital of the Gorgol Region.
The club plays in the Mauritanean Premier League.

Stadium
Currently, the team plays at the 5,000 capacity Stade de Kaédi.

References

External links
Soccerway

Football clubs in Mauritania


title: Cotriple homology

text:
In algebra, given a category C with a cotriple, the n-th cotriple homology of an object X in C with coefficients in a functor E is the n-th homotopy group of the E of the augmented simplicial object induced from X by the cotriple. The term "homology" is because in the abelian case, by the Dold–Kan correspondence, the homotopy groups are the homology of the corresponding chain complex.

Example: Let N be a left module over a ring R and let . Let F be the left adjoint of the forgetful functor from the category of rings to Set; i.e., free module functor. Then  defines a cotriple and the n-th cotriple homology of  is the n-th left derived functor of E evaluated at M; i.e., .

Example (algebraic K-theory): Let us write GL for the functor . As before,  defines a cotriple on the category of rings with F free ring functor and U forgetful. For a ring R, one has:

where on the left is the n-th K-group of R. This example is an instance of nonabelian homological algebra.

Notes

References

Further reading
Who Threw a Free Algebra in My Free Algebra?, a blog post.

Adjoint functors
Category theory
Homotopy theory


title: 2013–14 Georgia Lady Bulldogs basketball team

text:
The 2013–14 Georgia Lady Bulldogs women's basketball team will represent University of Georgia in the 2013–14 college basketball season. The Lady Bulldogs, led by thirty-fifth year head coach Andy Landers. The team plays their home games at Stegeman Coliseum, and are a member of the Southeastern Conference.

Roster

Schedule

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| colspan="12" | *Non-Conference Game. Rankings from AP poll. All times are in Eastern Time.
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Rankings

See also
 2013–14 Georgia Bulldogs basketball team

References

External links

Georgia
Georgia Lady Bulldogs basketball seasons
Georgia
Georgia Lady Bulldogs basketball
Georgia Lady Bulldogs basketball


title: Children's Depression Inventory

text:
The Children's Depression Inventory (CDI and CDI2) is a psychological assessment that rates the severity of symptoms related to depression or dysthymic disorder in children and adolescents. The CDI is a 27-item scale that is self-rated and symptom-oriented.  The assessment is now in its second edition.  The 27 items on the assessment are grouped into five major factor areas.  Clients rate themselves based on how they feel and think, with each statement being identified with a rating from 0 to 2.  The CDI was developed by American clinical psychologist Maria Kovacs, PhD, and was published in 1979.  It was developed by using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) of 1967 for adults as a model. The CDI is a widely used and accepted assessment for the severity of depressive symptoms in children and youth, with high reliability.  It also has a well-established validity using a variety of different techniques, and good psychometric properties. The CDI is a "Level B test," which means that the test is somewhat complex to administer and score, with the administrator requiring training.

History
The BDI was used as a model for developing the CDI. The BDI is a clinically based, 21-item, self-rated symptom scale for adults in determining whether or not they are experiencing depression and/or depressive symptoms. Though the BDI was already being used in assessing adults with depression, there was a need for the development of a similar test for children and youth. With those considerations in mind, Kovacs developed the CDI.

Development
The first phase of development of the CDI began in March 1975.  It was derived using children as subjects.  In total, there were four phases of development of the CDI, including three revisions to the original 1975 assessment.  The final version was developed and published in August 1979.  Kovacs reported that she and Aaron T. Beck worked together in using his adult scale of the BDI as a model for developing the CDI.

Background
The test was originally designed for English-speaking American children, aged eight years old or older.  Skills needed for taking the test are the lowest levels of reading and vocabulary comprehension, so it is suitable for children aged six years old or older.  The test is generally administered to children and youth between the ages of 7 and 17.  The CDI has been translated into many languages, and has been administered to children worldwide.

The CDI manual includes comprehensive information about psychometrics, norms, and item development. Many relevant charts are also included in the manual relating to reliability, constructs, and other areas.  Descriptions of CDI's scales are also provided, including examples of sample tests, along with associated tables of data and information. The directions for administration of the CDI are clear and easy to follow.  Information and directions about scoring the CDI, as well as the length of time it takes individuals to complete the CDI, are clear, detailed, and easy to understand.  The time it generally takes for an individual to complete the CDI is 15 minutes or less, while scoring time is 5–10 minutes.

The 27 items of the CDI are grouped into five factor areas, including 'Negative Mood', 'Interpersonal Problems', 'Ineffectiveness',  'Anhedonia', and 'Negative Self Esteem'.  The 27 items include statements related to the following areas: sadness, pessimism, self-deprecation, anhedonia, misbehavior, pessimistic worrying, self-hate, self-blame, suicidal ideation, crying spells, irritability, reduced social interest, indecisiveness, negative body image, school-work difficulty, sleep disturbance, fatigue, reduced appetite, somatic concerns, loneliness, school dislike, lack of friends, school performance decrement, self-depreciation (via peer comparison), feeling unloved, disobedience, and fighting.

The CDI is an objective and empirical test. Individuals can score between 0 and 54 on the CDI, with those results being converted to T-scores.  A cut-off score of 19–20 is generally accepted on the CDI, but is not an absolute.  Studies of the CDI have reported lower cut-off scores; therefore, individual cases must be taken into consideration.  Additionally, the CDI was designed for individual rather than group administration.  A score of 36 or higher on the CDI is generally accepted to reflect a person who has relatively severe depression.

As a norm-referenced test, the CDI was normed with public school students.  The standardization sample included the "responses of 1,266 Florida public school students in grades 2 through 8", including 674 girls aged 7–16 and 592 boys aged 7–15.  Individual data on the test-takers' ethnicity or race are unavailable.  Based on the total demographics of the school districts that were sampled, however, approximately "77% of the children were Caucasian and 23% were African American or Black, American Indian, or Hispanic."  "The population was largely middle class, although a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds were included."  Further, about 20% of the respondents came from single-parent families.

Reliability and validity
The Cronbach's alpha was used to obtain reliability measures. Across one group of nine studies, alpha measures were 0.71-0.89, reflecting good internal consistency.  The test adequately measures for depressive symptoms.  In another group of 16 studies of test-retest reliability, alpha measures were reported as 0.38–0.87.  Regarding the short factor subscales, alpha reliability measures for internal consistency reliability were 0.59–0.68. Further, studies in addition to those completed by Kovacs have shown moderate to high reliability.  One study used the Kuder-Richardson test of internal consistency and obtained results reflecting high reliability.

In correlating the CDI and factors of the CDI with similar psychological assessments for children and/or youth, studies have shown moderate to high correlations, while other studies have shown no correlations (in certain areas).

The validity of the CDI has been well-established.  Construct validity and discriminant validity has also been established.  Kovacs used experimental design to obtain discriminant validity between cases that were considered "normal" and those that were considered clinical.  Some studies have reflected discriminant validity, while others have not. Kovacs reported in 1992 that further research on discriminant validity was needed.

Special considerations

Most research on the CDI has been conducted with Caucasian participants of middle to lower class socioeconomic status throughout the world.  The CDI can be given to children and youth across cultures, though its "internal consistency and factorial structure vary somewhat in different juvenile cohorts."  Kovacs and other researchers have reported obtaining higher CDI scores for African-Americans (particularly boys), Japanese (substantially higher), Hispanic (significantly higher), and Egyptian individuals when compared to Caucasians.

Additionally, test scores for older children (aged 13 years old or older) tend to be higher than those of younger children (under 12 years old), though the difference is small and not significant.  This is explained with the consideration of the development and maturation of children at this age level, with changes occurring in brain structure occurring at these ages.  One study, however, reported that the CDI scores of younger (aged 6–11) children were higher than those of older (aged 12–18) children.

In an analysis of interview data of children who are diabetic, CDI score results may mimic those of having depressive symptoms.  However, important to keep in mind is that diabetes "elicits noticeable emotional upheaval (mostly in the depressive symptoms domain) that nonetheless resolves in about six months."

CDI test data is "sensitive to changes in independently determined psychiatric diagnostic status."  Test data also reflects that the test is sensitive to changes over time in depressive symptoms.

There are main effects in the constructs of 'Interpersonal Problems', 'Ineffectiveness', and 'Anhedonia' between boys and girls.  Girls scored higher than boys on these constructs, based on Kovacs' studies performed on the CDI as of 1992, reflecting that girls had a tendency for having greater distress in these areas.  While some studies have reported significant differences between CDI scores of girls and boys, and/or more depressive symptoms in girls than boys, other studies have found no significant differences.

Yet other studies have reflected higher CDI scores for boys than girls, including those in single-parent families.  Children of divorced parents were found to score significantly higher on the CDI than children of non-divorced parents.  Additional studies have found significant differences in CDI scores of children who have experienced sexual abuse; and those who have attention deficit disorder; or learning disabilities, in comparison with controls. Children who were rejected by their peers, when compared with controls, had significantly higher CDI scores in one study, but not in another when compared with children who were considered "average".

Children of individuals who are substance abusers also scored significantly higher on the CDI than children of non-substance abusers.  Another study researched levels of depression and self-esteem in gifted children, and found that boys were significantly more depressed than girls, based on their CDI scores.  Further, obese children scored as being more depressed on the CDI than their non-obese counterparts in one study.  Children who have posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and anxiety were more depressed, based on their CDI score results, than children who did not have PTSD or anxiety.  Females, aged 12–17, who had attempted suicide scored significantly higher on the CDI than psychiatric controls; and girls who were repeat attempters of suicide scored higher on the CDI than first-time suicide attempters.

Further considerations

A 2012 study researched the potential relationship between pediatric inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, and depressive symptoms.  A significant positive correlation was found between IBD and somatic complaints that reflect depressive symptoms. Researchers in this study stated that the CDI test item, "somatic complaints" could potentially be recognized as a sixth and separate factor on the test.

Limitations

CDI factorial structure and internal consistency have variations in differing juvenile cohorts. The CDI tends to reflect a greater number of false negatives than false positives. As with any test, the CDI is not perfectly valid.  It is possible for test-takers of the CDI to "fake good."  Individuals who take the CDI whose reading level is not age-appropriate may have difficulty with it, and therefore, their results may be incorrect.

It is important to account for and consider additional information about the individual rather than solely-using CDI test scores on which to base decisions.  A variety of individuals may administer the CDI, however, as a caution and for ethical purposes, only those professionals who are trained to interpret assessments should do so.

References

External links
Multi-Health Systems publishing website for the Children's Depression Inventory, 2nd edition
Pearson publishing website for Children's Depression Inventory, 2nd edition
Psychiatric rating scales for depression from Neurotransmitter.net

Screening and assessment tools in child and adolescent psychiatry
Depression screening and assessment tools


title: Gerardo Guerrieri

text:
Gerardo Guerrieri (4 February 1920 in Matera – 24 April 1986 in Rome) was an Italian film director, playwright, screenwriter, translator, theater critic, and essayist. He is particularly remembered for translating numerous plays into the Italian language,  including works by Anton Chekhov, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, August Strindberg, Eugene O'Neill, William Saroyan and William Shakespeare among others. His own works were avant-garde in design. He was notably the librettist for Renzo Rossellini's 1961 opera Uno sguardo dal ponte.

References

1920 births
1986 deaths
Italian male dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Italian dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Italian male writers
Italian opera librettists
People from Matera


title: José María Castellví

text:
Josep María Castellví Marimón (1900 in Barcelona – 1944 in Barcelona) was a Catalan film director. He made one of the first sound shorts, Cinópolis in France in 1931.

Filmography
1931 Cinópolis (France)
1932 Mercedes (film), - notable as the first Spanish "talkie" musical film
1934 ¡Viva la vida!. Comedy with José Santpere, Rosita Ballesteros, Conchita Ballesteros, Consuelo Cuevas, and Alady (Carles Saldaña Beut)
1940 Romeo and Juliet
1942 Cuarenta y ocho horas
1943 El camino del amor
1944 El hombre que las enamora

References

1900 births
1944 deaths


title: Aaron Flint Jamison

text:
Aaron Flint Jamison (born 1979) is an American conceptual artist and associate professor in the University of Washington School of Art + Art History + Design. He works with various media including sculpture, publication, video, and performance.

Life and work
Jamison was born in Billings, Montana. He received a B.A. from Trinity Western University, Vancouver, British Columbia, in 2002 and an M.F.A. from San Francisco Art Institute in 2006.

He co-founded the artist-run center Department of Safety (2002–2010) in Anacortes, Washington, and he was a co-founder of the art center Yale Union (YU) in Portland, Oregon. "Yale Union (YU) operated as a non-profit exhibition, production, and community space since 2010 through 2020, when it completed the transfer of ownership of the land and building to the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF)." "The transfer of the Yale Union to NACF to support the cultural continuance of Indigenous communities is unprecedented, a first,” said Joy Harjo, Mvskoke poet and former poet laureate of the United States.

Jamison is the founder and editor-in-chief of Veneer Magazine, a subscription-based art publication. Veneer is an 18-issue publication, the issues of which are, "lavishly produced, combining different paper stocks, and analogue and digital print techniques."

Jamison's work is held in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
 Artists Space, New York (2013)
 Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2015)
 Air de Paris, Paris (2015)
 Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2017)
 Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf (2017)
 Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2019)
 Opportunity Zones, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, (2019)

Group exhibitions
 Frozen Lakes, Artists Space (2013)
 Sequence 5, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2014)
 Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool (2014)
 Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, Whitney Museum of American Art (2015–2016)
 Incorporated! Ateliers de Rennes - Biennale d'art Contemporain (2016)
 Whitney Biennial (2017)
 Mechanisms, CCA Wattis, San Francisco (2017)
 Signal or Noise | The Photographic II, S.M.A.K., Ghent (2018–2019)

References

External links
 Air de Paris
 Yale Union
 Veneer Magazine
 Taylor, Phil. "Aaron Flint Jamison," Artforum, September 2015.
 Sladen, Mark. "Mark Sladen on information flow in the work of Aaron Flint Jamison," ArtReview, September 2014.
 Fiske, Courtney. "Aaron Flint Jamison," Art in America, January 2014.
 O'neil-Butler, Lauren. “Aaron Flint Jamison: 500 Words,” Artforum.com, November 2010.
 Watts, Jonathan P. “In Focus: Aaron Flint Jamison,” Frieze, Issue 156, August 2013.

Living people
1979 births
American conceptual artists
San Francisco Art Institute alumni
Artists from Portland, Oregon
People from Billings, Montana
Trinity Western University alumni


title: Franz Josef Giessibl

text:
Franz Josef Gießibl (born 27 May 1962 in Amerang) is a German physicist and university professor at the University of Regensburg.

Life
Giessibl studied physics from 1982 to 1987 at the Technical University of Munich and at Eidgenössische Technischen Hochschule Zürich. He received a diploma in experimental physics in 1988 with Professor Gerhard Abstreiter and continued with a PhD in physics with Nobel Laureate Gerd Binnig at the IBM Physics Group Munich on atomic force microscopy. After submitting his PhD thesis in the end of 1991, he continued for 6 months as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the IBM Physics Group Munich and moved to Silicon Valley to join Park Scientific Instruments, Inc as a senior scientist and later director of vacuum products from mid 1992 until the end of 1994. He joined the Munich office of management consulting firm McKinsey & Company from 1995 to 1996 as a senior associate. During that time, he invented the qPlus sensor, a new probe for atomic force microscopy and continued experimental and theoretical work on the force microscope at the chair of Professor Jochen Mannhart at University of Augsburg where he received a habilitation in 2001.

In 2005, he obtained offers for a chair at the University of Bristol (England) and University of Regensburg (Germany). In 2006, he joined the faculty at the Department of Physics at the University of Regensburg in Germany. From about 2005, he collaborated with the scanning tunneling microscopy groups of IBM Almaden Research Center and IBM Zurich Research Laboratory and from about 2010 with National Institute of Standards and Technology to help to establish combined scanning tunneling microscopy and atomic force microscopy at ultralow temperatures. He was a visiting fellow at the center for nanoscience and technology (CNST) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and a visiting professor at University of Maryland, College Park from fall 2015 to spring 2016.

Some of Giessibl's experimental and simulated images inspired the offset print editions Erster Blick (2000)  and Graphit (2004) by visual artist Gerhard Richter.

Franz Giessibl is married and has two sons.

Scientific contributions
Giessibl established atomic force microscopy as a surface science tool with atomic resolution, launching the field of Non-contact atomic force microscopy. Together with his team, he even obtained subatomic spatial resolution (F.J. Giessibl, S. Hembacher, H. Bielefeldt, J. Mannhart, Science 2000), and published papers on ground breaking experiments, instrumentation
and theoretical foundations
of atomic force microscopy.
Giessibl is the inventor of the  qPlus sensor, a sensor for Non-contact atomic force microscopy that relies on a quartz cantilever. His invention has enabled atomic force microscopy to obtain subatomic spatial resolution on individual atoms and submolecular resolution on organic molecules. Today, the qPlus sensor is used in more than 500 commercial and homebuilt atomic force microscopes around the world.

 1992: Built the first low-temperature force microscope for ultrahigh vacuum with Gerd Binnig (PhD adviser) and Christoph Gerber (F.J. Giessibl, C. Gerber, G. Binnig, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B 1991 and obtained atomic resolution on KBr with it (F.J. Giessibl, G. Binnig, Ultramicroscopy 1992)]. KBr has a very low reactivity, yet major challenges such as jump-to-contact of AFM tip and sample had to be overcome to obtain atomic resolution.
 1992: Proposed a mechanism allowing atomic resolution in noncontact-AFM Phys Rev B 1992).
 1994: Solved the problem of imaging reactive samples and obtained for the first time atomic resolution on Silicon 7x7 by force microscopy using frequency-modulation atomic force microscopy in noncontact mode with large amplitudes (Science 1995).
 1996: Invented the qPlus sensor, a self sensing AFM quartz sensor that is self sensing (piezoelectric effect), highly stable in frequency and stiff enough to allow sub-Angstrom oscillation amplitudes (Patents DE19633546, US6240771, Appl. Phys. Lett. 1998).
 1997: Introduces a formula that connects frequency shifts and forces for large amplitudes (Phys Rev B 1997).
 2000: Obtains atomic spatial resolution using qPlus sensor (Appl. Phys. Lett. 2000).
 2000: Observes subatomic resolution on tip features (F.J. Giessibl, S. Hembacher, H. Bielefeldt, J. Mannhart, Science 2000).
 2001: Invents an algorithm to deconvolute forces from frequency shifts (Appl Phys Lett 2001.).
 2003: Extended version of his habilitation thesis is published in Reviews of Modern Physics (RMP 2003).
 2003: Obtaines atomically resolved lateral force microscopy (F.J. Giessibl, M. Herz, J. Mannhart, PNAS 2003).
 2004: Achieves sub-Angstrom resolution on tip features using a qPlus sensor in a low temperature AFM using higher harmonic force microscopy (S. Hembacher, F.J. Giessibl, J. Mannhart, Science 2004).
 2005–2008: Helps to spread out qPlus sensor technology to IBM Research Laboratories Almaden and Rüschlikon, leading to measurements of forces that act during atomic manipulation (M. Ternes, C.P. Lutz, C. Hirjibehedin, F.J. Giessibl, A. Heinrich, Science 2008) and single-electron charges on single gold atoms (Science 2009).
 2012: Introduces carbon monoxide front atom identification (COFI), a method for the atomic and subatomic characterization of scanning probe tips (J. Welker, F.J. Giessibl, Science 2012).
 2013: Observes evidence for superexchange interaction and very low noise data of exchange interactions between CoSm tips and antiferromagnetic NiO (F. Pielmeier, F.J. Giessibl, Phys. Rev. Lett. 2013).
 2013: Observes atomic resolution in ambient conditions without special sample preparation (D. Wastl, A.J. Weymouth, F.J. Giessibl, Phys. Rev. B 2013).
 2014: Measurement of CO-CO interactions by lateral force microscopy (A.J. Weymouth, T. Hofmann, F.J. Giessibl, Science 2014).
 2015: Atomic resolution of few atom metal clusters and subatomic resolution of single metal atoms (M. Emmrich et al., Science 2015).
 2016: Simultaneous inelastic tunneling spectroscopy and AFM (N. Okabayashi et al., Phys. Rev. B 2016), AFM with superconductive tips (A. Peronio, F.J. Giessibl, Phys. Rev. B 2016), Multifrequency AFM using bimodal qPlus sensors (H. Ooe et al., Appl Phys Lett 2016).
 2018: Simultaneous inelastic tunneling spectroscopy and AFM shows bond weakening effect (N. Okabayashi et al., PNAS 2018).
 2018: Joint study with John Sader group on well- and ill posed force deconvolution schemes (J. Sader, B. Hughes, F. Huber, F.J. Giessibl, Nature Nanotechnology 2018).
 2019: Review article about qPlus sensors and applications (Review of Scientific Instruments 2019).
 2021: Measurement of very weak bonds to artificial atoms formed by quantum corrals (Science 2021'').

Selected publications

Books

Awards and honors

 1994: R&D 100 Award (together with Brian Trafas)
 2000: Deutscher Nanowissenschaftspreis
 2001: Rudolf-Kaiser-Preis
 2009: Karl Heinz Beckurts-Preis
 2014: Joseph F. Keithley Award For Advances in Measurement Science of the American Physical Society
 2015: Rudolf-Jaeckel Prize of the German Vacuum Society
 2016: Foresight Institute Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology
 2023: Innovation in Materials Characterization Award of the Materials Research Society (USA)
 2023: Fellow of the American Physical Society (USA)

Special Lectures
 2010: Ehrenfest Kolloquium Leiden (27 October 2010) (Netherlands)
 2013: Zernike Kolloquium Groningen (Netherlands)

References

External links
 Mark Wendman nanoscience blog

Academic staff of the University of Regensburg
21st-century German physicists
21st-century German inventors
Technical University of Munich alumni
1962 births
Living people
Microscopists
People from Rosenheim (district)


title: Julius Vähätalo

text:
Julius Vähätalo (born 23 March 1995) is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward, who is currently playing for MHk 32 Liptovský Mikuláš of the Slovak Extraliga.

Vähätalo was drafted 166th overall by Detroit Red Wings in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft.

Playing career
During the 2013–14 season, Vähätalo was an assistant captain for HC TPS's Jr. team, where he recorded 18 goals and 21 assists in 33 games, as well as three goals in 18 games for HC TPS.

After spending the first four seasons of his professional career with TPS, Vähätalo left the club in signing a contract with fellow Liiga club, Mikkelin Jukurit, on 18 April 2017.

International play
Vähätalo represented Finland at the 2015 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, where he did not record any points in five games.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

References

External links

1995 births
Living people
People from Rusko
Detroit Red Wings draft picks
Finnish ice hockey forwards
Mikkelin Jukurit players
HC TPS players
TuTo players
Ice hockey people from Southwest Finland
MHk 32 Liptovský Mikuláš players
IF Troja/Ljungby players
Finnish expatriate ice hockey players in Sweden
Finnish expatriate ice hockey players in Slovakia


title: Calomnion complanatum

text:
Calomnion complanatum is a species of moss native to Australia (New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania) and New Zealand. It is the type species of the genus Calomnion, growing on the trunks of tree ferns. It is a small, yellow-green plant rarely more than 10 mm tall.

Within New South Wales, Calomnion complanatum is an endangered species reported from only 4 populations, all in New South Wales: Cambewarra Mountain, Rocky Creek Canyon on the Newnes Plateau, and two sites on Mount Wilson (Zircon Creek and Waterfall Reserve). It is listed as endangered in Victoria but rare and not endangered in Tasmania or New Zealand.

References

Rhizogoniaceae
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of Victoria (state)
Flora of Tasmania
Flora of New Zealand


title: Peter Suedfeld

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Peter Suedfeld (born August 30, 1935) is a Hungarian-Canadian professor emeritus of psychology at the University of British Columbia.

Suedfeld is a researcher in the field of Restricted Environmental Stimulation Therapy (REST), and was the founding President of IRIS (the International REST Investigators Society). His archival and field research studied the reactions and adaptation of crews in the Antarctic, the Canadian High Arctic, and space vehicles. The findings were among the earliest to emphasize the positive and negative aspects of these experiences.  He urged space agencies to consider new methods for enhancing astronauts’ psychological well-being, rather than focusing on treating adverse effects.

Biography
Peter Suedfeld was born in Hungary to Jewish parents who died in the concentration camp at Auschwitz. The young Suedfeld escaped with the help of the International Red Cross and immigrated to the United States after World War II.  After three years of service in the United States Army, he received his BA from Queens College of the City University of New York in 1960, and his MA and PhD in experimental psychology from Princeton University in 1963.  He taught at the University of Illinois and Rutgers University prior to joining the University of British Columbia in 1972 as head of the Department of Psychology.  He later became Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies, and now holds Emeritus status.

Suedfeld is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (the National Academy), the Canadian Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association (6 Divisions), and the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research.  He is a full member of the International Academy of Astronautics, a Fellow International of the Explorers Club, and the only psychologist elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.  He has received the Canadian Psychological Society's Donald O. Hebb Award, its highest award for distinguished scientific contributions, as well as the Society's Gold Medal for distinguished and enduring lifetime contributions to Canadian psychology and its Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology. Other awards include the Canadian Polar Medal, Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee Medal, the highest award for scientific contributions from the International Society of Political Psychology, the Antarctica Service Medal of the U.S. National Science Foundation, and the Zachor Award of the Parliament of Canada for contributions by Holocaust survivors to Canadian society. He has chaired the Canadian Antarctic Research Program and the Life Sciences Advisory Committee of the Canadian Space Agency. He continues his research and organizational activities at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. In 2019 Suedfeld was admitted to the Order of Canada.

Research
His research, published in seven books and over 300 book chapters & journal articles, has focused on the strengths of people as they cope during and after experiencing extreme, unusual, challenging, and traumatic events and environments.  His methodology has included laboratory experiments in profound stimulus reduction, fieldwork in the Antarctic and the High Arctic, and interview and questionnaire studies with Holocaust survivors, prisoners in solitary confinement, and astronauts.  More recently, he has been developing and applying methods of quantitative content analysis to archival material produced by individuals in those groups as well as solitary sailors, early explorers, mountain climbers, and high-level political and military leaders in situations of personal, national, and international stress.

His work in the area of political psychology is largely based on the quantitative analysis of archival materials. The research has demonstrated that changes in integrative complexity  can be used to forecast the outcome of international crises (peaceful negotiation or war) as well as individual successes and that political leaders tend to be effective “cognitive managers” who direct resources as important problems need to be solved.

He has also engaged in a series of studies on survivors of genocide and persecution. His major findings indicate that contrary to professional prognoses and despite some long-lasting adverse consequences, Holocaust and other survivors generally do not suffer from full-blown posttraumatic stress disorder, and lead productive, successful, and satisfying lives within circles of families, friends, and colleagues.

The overall theme of his work is summarized in his seminal paper, “Homo Invictus: The Indomitable Species.”

References

External links
 Peter Suedfeld on Google Scholar

1935 births
Living people
Academic staff of the University of British Columbia
Princeton University alumni
Queens College, City University of New York alumni
Canadian people of Hungarian-Jewish descent
Canadian psychologists
Fellows of the Explorers Club
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Fellows of the American Psychological Association
Holocaust survivors
Hungarian emigrants to the United States
Hungarian Jews
Officers of the Order of Canada
Presidents of the Canadian Psychological Association


title: The Energy Journal

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The Energy Journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the International Association for Energy Economics and covering issues related to energy economics. It was established in 1980 and the editor-in-chief is Adonis Yatchew (University of Toronto).

Impact and reception
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 1.772, ranking it 23rd out of 88 journals in the category "Energy & Fuels".

See also

 Energy Economics
 List of economics journals
 List of energy journals
 Resource and Energy Economics

References

External links

Energy and fuel journals
Energy economics
English-language journals
Hybrid open access journals
Academic journals established in 1980
Quarterly journals


title: Manu Honkanen

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Manu Honkanen (born 29 April 1996) is a Finnish ice hockey player. He is currently playing with Tappara in the Finnish Liiga.

Honkanen made his Liiga debut playing with HC TPS during the 2013–14 Liiga season.

References

External links

1996 births
Living people
Finnish ice hockey forwards
Tappara players
HC TPS players
Ice hockey people from Turku
Ice hockey players at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics
Youth Olympic gold medalists for Finland


title: List of mills in Holmfirth

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This is a list of the wool, cotton and other textile mills in Holmfirth, Kirklees, West Yorkshire.

Austonley Holmfirth

Cartworth Holmfirth

Fulstone Holmfirth

Hepworth Holmfirth

Holme Holmfirth

Honley Holmfirth

Netherthong Holmfirth

Thurstonland Holmfirth

Upperthong Holmfirth

Wooldale Holmfirth

See also
Heavy Woollen District
Textile processing

References

Footnotes

The National Monument Record is a legacy numbering system maintained
by English Heritage.

References

Bibliography

External links

Holmfirth
Holmfirth
Holmfirth
Holmfirth
Holmfirth
History of the textile industry
Industrial Revolution in England


title: Castelvetere

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Castelvetere may refer to a pair of Italian municipalities of Campania:

Castelvetere in Val Fortore, in the Province of Benevento
Castelvetere sul Calore, in the Province of Avellino

See also
Castelvecchio Subequo, Italian commune in the Abruzzo region, named Castelvetere in the Middle Ages
Caulonia, Italian municipality of Calabria, named Castelvetere until 1863


title: Thomas Lowry (racehorse breeder)

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Thomas Henry Lowry (born 25 July 1865, Hastings, New Zealand, died 23 September 1944, Okawa, Hastings) was a New Zealand farmer, cricketer and racehorse breeder.

Educated at Christ's College, Christchurch and at Jesus College, Cambridge University, Lowry inherited the family property, Okawa, of 20,000 acres, in the Hawke's Bay region of the North Island when his father died in 1880. He married Helen ("Marsie") Watt, daughter of the New Zealand shipping magnate James Watt, in 1897. One of Marsie's sisters married Robert Baden-Powell's brother Francis; another married the British explorer Ewart Grogan.

Lowry played one first-class cricket match, captaining Hawke's Bay to victory over Taranaki in 1892. He constructed a cricket ground, "The Grove", on his property, which is still in use. He helped the Hawke's Bay Cricket Association bring out leading English professionals, including Albert Trott and Jack Board, to coach local players.

He developed Okawa, which had been largely a sheep and cattle farm, into one of New Zealand's leading racehorse studs. He owned several successful horses, such as Gondolier, Madrigal, Downfall (New Zealand Cup, 1908), Bobrikoff (24 wins from 52 starts, including the 1912 Auckland Cup) and Balboa (Auckland Cup, 1915). His most prominent breeding success was the mare Desert Gold, who won her first 19 races, finished with 36 wins from 59 starts, and held the New Zealand record for the amount of money won for 30 years. In 1916, 1917 and 1918 Lowry was the leading owner in New Zealand in terms of stakes won.

He and Marsie had five children between 1898 and 1904: Tom, who captained the Cambridge University cricket team and the New Zealand Test team and inherited Okawa; Jim (who won a tennis Blue at Cambridge University before returning to run part of Okawa); Ralph (Rugby union Blue at Cambridge, another Lowry farmer, and the author of the book Taihape: Be Happy, Die Happy); Gertrude (known as "Beet") (who married Tom's Cambridge University friend Percy Chapman, who captained the English Test cricket team); and Marion (who married Reg Bettington, Oxford University cricket captain and later medical specialist).

Marsie was awarded the OBE in 1918 in recognition of her charitable work for soldiers during World War I. Early in World War II the Lowrys donated 10,000 pounds to the New Zealand Patriotic Fund for the construction of the "Lowry Hut" at Maadi Camp in Cairo. The "hut" was actually an extensive building incorporating a range of facilities for allied soldiers. Their daughter Beet worked there throughout the war. Lady Freyberg said of her work: "her value as a morale-raiser to the NZEF [was] beyond price".

References

External links
 T.H. Lowry at Cricket Archive

New Zealand cricketers
Hawke's Bay cricketers
1865 births
1944 deaths
People educated at Christ's College, Christchurch
Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge
New Zealand farmers
New Zealand racehorse owners and breeders


title: Philip Hope-Wallace

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Philip Adrian Hope-Wallace CBE (6 November 1911 – 3 September 1979) was an English music and theatre critic, whose career was mostly with The Manchester Guardian (later known as The Guardian). From university he went into journalism after abortive attempts at other work, and apart from a stint at the Air Ministry throughout the Second World War, his career was wholly in arts journalism in newspapers, magazines and in broadcasting.

Life and career
Hope-Wallace was born in London, the third and youngest child and only son of Charles Nugent Hope-Wallace, MBE, principal clerk of the Charity Commission for England and Wales, and his wife, Mabel Florence, daughter of Colonel Allan Chaplin, of the Madras Army. A great-grandson of Admiral Charles Ramsay Bethune, 24th Laird of Balfour, he was also descended from John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun and George Nugent, 7th Earl of Westmeath. Philip attended Charterhouse School, after which, owing to a weak chest, he was sent to a sanatorium in Germany. He then moved to France, lodging with a Protestant clergyman in Normandy.

In 1930 Hope-Wallace went up to Balliol College, Oxford, to read modern languages. He graduated in 1933 during the Great Depression, and had difficulty in finding a job. He worked briefly for a commercial radio station at Fécamp, and from 1935 to 1936 was press officer for the Gas Light and Coke Company. While still in that post he obtained work on The Times as a special correspondent. At first he covered song recitals, and graduated to opera.

Unfit for military service, Hope-Wallace worked at the Air Ministry during the Second World War. After the war he returned to journalism, writing on music and theatre for The Daily Telegraph (1945–46) and then for The Manchester Guardian (from 1959 known as The Guardian), where he remained for the rest of his life. He also wrote for The Gramophone and Opera, and broadcast regularly for the BBC. He appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 30 March 1974. The programme was not archived by the BBC, but an unofficial tape copy was among a collection of over 90 episodes discovered by an amateur researcher and placed online in 2022. In 1975 he was appointed CBE for his services to the arts.

Hope-Wallace was unmarried. He died in London at the age of 67. The obituarist in The Times called him "a critic of the arts as wise and searching as anyone in his time … all his work was fuelled by an informed pleasure that his attractively languid personality never concealed … above all he was consistently readable."

Publications
A selection of his writings for the publications noted above, as well as several other British periodicals including the New Statesman, Opera (London), Punch, The Spectator, and Vogue appear in a volume edited by C.V. Wedgwood under the title Words and Music.

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1911 births
1979 deaths
People educated at Charterhouse School
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
English music critics
The Guardian journalists
Presidents of the Critics' Circle


title: Debora Agreiter

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Debora Agreiter (born 25 February 1991) is an Italian cross-country skier.  She competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, in skiathlon and women's classical.

Cross-country skiing results
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).

Olympic Games

World Championships

World Cup

Season standings

References

External links

1991 births
Living people
Cross-country skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Italian female cross-country skiers
Tour de Ski skiers
Olympic cross-country skiers for Italy
Cross-country skiers of Centro Sportivo Carabinieri
Sportspeople from Brixen
Skiers from South Tyrol


title: Tuckers Corners, Illinois

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Tuckers Corners is an unincorporated community in Flannigan Township, Hamilton County, Illinois, United States.

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Unincorporated communities in Hamilton County, Illinois
Unincorporated communities in Illinois


title: Veritas AG

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Veritas AG is an international, automotive corporation based in Gelnhausen, Germany, in the Main-Kinzig circle of the Hessen state. The family-owned company employs today over 4,300 people worldwide. In 2011 the turnover of the company was around €580 million.

History
Veritas was founded in 1849 as Berliner Gummiwaarenfabrik (Rubberware Factory of Berlin)  and is today the oldest rubber manufacturer in Germany. In 1883 the company signed a public stock and became Berliner Gummiwaarenfabrik AG.

In 1886 Berliner Gummiwaarenfabrik AG merged with Frankfurter Gummiwarenfabrik Wendt, Buchholz & Co., being the latter based in the city of Gelnhausen. The headquarters of the now Vereinigte Berlin-Frankfurter Gummiwaaren-Fabriken AG (United Rubber Factories of Berlin-Frankfurt) moved to Berlin, but a production plant remained in the Barbarossa street in Gelnhausen. In 1899 a fire burned down most of the production hall there at Gelnhausen.

In 1900 the Vereinigte Berlin-Frankfurter Gummiwaaren-Fabriken AG started to produce tires for automobiles. The corporation began to market tires; both with and without spikes, under the trade name Veritas. In 1905, these particular, spiked tires fitted with metal tacks, were a first-time; world novelty.

During the years before World War I, the corporation stood at its highest success levels. The company had grown into a large corporation, with two plants in Berlin, one in Gelnhausen, one in Bremen, as well as one in the then-Bohemian Grottau (what today is Hrádek nad Nisou). In 1929, and linking to the trade name of its successful tire, the corporation was renamed Veritas Gummiwerke AG (Veritas Rubber Works). The impact of the economic crisis of 1929 almost brought production to a halt. Only the operation at Grottau, now Czechoslovakian, was fully booked.

In 1933 the Berlin operation, in collaboration with the IG-Farben (Leverkusen) test laboratories, succeeded in introducing the synthetic rubber "Buna" for practical manufacture. The first innovation of the new material was the use in brake hoses for the German National Railway (Deutsche Reichsbahn).

The danger of a second world war moved the board of directors to abandon business in east-Europe. The Grottau operation was sold. That operation never generated a loss and was of great help for the whole corporation.

Because of the war, the management was moved from Berlin-Lichterfelde to Gelnhausen. Hence were the companies' archives rescued, because shortly after the move, the operation in Berlin-Lichterfelde was severely destroyed, as a result of the continuous air raids. The production buildings in Gelnhausen endured the war almost intact. Two years after the war ended, also the headquarters of the company were officially relocated from Berlin to the Gelnhausen works. Additionally, the war-winning forces' agreements kept Berlin away from west-Germany. The currency reforms brought new leverage and working enthusiasm in the Berlin and Gelnhausen works. However, the Berlin blockade put the plant there in raw material difficulties.

1955 presented excellent economical conditions. Veritas reinvested its profit and a generously equipped laboratory was erected in Gelnhausen. In the Veritas rubber facilities in Berlin and Gelnhausen, 700 workers and employees are active. 1968-69 came with  an enormous economic upswing and the turn over grew 30% compared to the previous year.

From 1978 on, Veritas in Gelnhausen purchased land in the Stettiner Street, and began construction of a new production facility. Particularly for the manufacture of rubber hose, the old plant had become very small. The production at Berlin gradually moved to Gelnhausen. In 1982 the Berlin-Lichterfelde operation closed. With it, 133 years came to an end, an era that started with the founding of the first Rubber factory in Germany (1849) and the cornerstone of what today is Veritas AG. A year later, at the Gelnhausen site a new compounding plant - one of the most modern in Germany - started production. From 2008 on, this plant produced all compounds needed for the Veritas Group, including the affiliated Poppe Group.

The acquisition of the Ulrich Gummiwerke AG took place in 1986. With the purchase of additional land, plus that belonging to the Ulrich AG company, permitted a generous, long-term plan for the segmentation of operations within the corporation. In 1990 and with Veritas' sponsorship, the first German state-technical school for rubber and plastic opened in Gelnhausen.

Strong recessions of the automotive industry through 1992-93 also led Veritas to considerable decline in revenue and new businesses. After 117 years; in 1993 and according to a plan, the old premises located in the Barbarossa street, were emptied.

Expansion
In its systems portfolio, an important milestone came about with the purchase of a rubber facility in Rülzheim. With the establishment in 1995 of the Veritas Dunakility Kft in Hungary, Veritas took the first step to become a Global Player within the automotive industry. The plant is located in the tri-country corner of Hungary-Austria-Slovakia, not far from Vienna and Bratislava, at the Hungarian banks of the Danube. Three years later Veritas Thüringen (Thuringia) GmbH was founded in Benshausen. Right across the Highway from the Volkswagen Plant in Puebla, Mexico; and also in 1998 Automotive Veritas de México was established.

A long prepared step, that signalized the expansion of the product range and the core-competences, was taken in 1999: the corporation changed its name. This step towards modernization was the renaming, from Veritas Gummiwerke AG to Veritas AG. The expertise does not anymore lay solely on the manufacture of rubber articles. Plastic and metal components equally belong to the product assortment that Veritas, as a successful worldwide supplier of automotive systems, is reckoned with.

The internationalization of Veritas grew further in 2005, with the acquisition of PS Fertigungstechnik GmbH in Austrian Mieders, where metal products were made. The product portfolio was broadened: additional to rubber also plastic and metal were supplied as part of the systems. By 2008, close to Istanbul Veritas Otomotiv was founded, as an additional location for injection molding.

In 2010 Veritas acquired OGW - Ostsächsiche Gumiwerke Polenz GmbH in Neustadt, in  the Saxony state. In 2012 this site was registered under the name Veritas Sachsen GmbH.

Current Veritas locations also include Veritas Automotive Systems, in Kunshan, China; as well as sales offices in Korea, Wolfsburg, and Troy, Michigan.

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External links

Manufacturing companies established in 1849
German companies established in 1849
Manufacturing companies of Germany


title: Niklas Salo

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Niklas Salo (born July 8, 1994) is a Finnish ice hockey player. He is currently playing with HC TPS in the Finnish Liiga.

Salo made his Liiga debut playing with HC TPS during the 2013–14 Liiga season.

References

External links

1994 births
Living people
Finnish ice hockey forwards
HC TPS players
People from Somero
Ice hockey people from Southwest Finland


title: Paul Hoecker

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Paul Hoecker (11 August 1854, Oberlangenau – 13 January 1910, Munich) was a German painter of the Munich School and founding member of the Munich Secession

Biography
His passion for art developed gradually, beginning at the Gymnasium in Neustadt, where he was known for his humorous drawings and caricatures of his instructors. In 1874, he became a student at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, which he attended until the spring of 1879. His most influential instructor was Wilhelm von Diez, who led him away from genre painting to a more impressionistic style

In 1882, he took a long journey, which included visits to Paris, the Netherlands, Holstein, the German seaports and then back to Munich, where he became friends with Fritz von Uhde, Bruno Piglhein and Max Liebermann. The next year, he had a display at the Munich International Art Exhibition, then travelled again to Paris and the Netherlands.
From 1884 to 1888, he lived in Berlin, but returned to Munich and began painting in naturalistic colors with strong lighting effects.

The Munich Academy
In 1891, at the young age of 36, he was appointed to the Munich Academy, where he replaced Friedrich August von Kaulbach, who had resigned suddenly. He was the first teacher at the academy to take his students on field trips, which often lasted two weeks. He was also one of the first "modern" teachers there, exposing his students to impressionism and the latest developments from the Barbizon School. His studio was often referred to as the "Geniekasten" (Genius Box).

Due to the pervasive influence of Franz von Lenbach, very little exhibition space was available for any art that was considered modern. In 1892, shortly after being appointed a professor, this problem motivated Hoecker to become one of the founding members of the Munich Secession, acting as its secretary. The Secession ultimately inspired similar movements in Berlin and other cities.

Scandal
In 1897, a scandal broke out when it was rumored that Hoecker had used a male prostitute as a model for a painting of the Madonna. Eventually, the scandal became more personal in nature, and he chose to resign from the academy. He then travelled to Capri, where he stayed at the Villa Lysis, home of industrialist and poet Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, who had left Paris in the wake of his own scandal. While there, Hoecker painted several portraits of Fersen's lover, Nino Cesarini, a professional model. Though the Jugend magazine published one of his Nino portraits in 1904 – a fully clothed version. By 1901 he returned to Oberlangenau. In 1910, he died of what was diagnosed as "Roman Malaria".

Posthumous recognition
Despite his important role for the Munich art scene of the late 19th century, Paul Hoecker is hardly known today. This is probably due to the fact that he left the professorship in connection with his homosexuality. In October 2019 a research group was formed at the Forum Queeres Archiv München to investigate the life and work of the painter. Part of the family owned estate of Paul Hoecker has found its way into the archive of the Forum Queeres Archiv München and was digitalized.

References

Further reading
 Friedrich Boetticher: Malerwerke des 19. Jahrhunderts. Dresden, 1891 - 1901.
 Bruckmanns Lexikon der bildenden Künste. Münchner Maler im 19. Jahrhundert, Munich 1982.
 Meyers Konversationslexikon c.1910.
 Birgit Jooss: „ … der erste Moderne in der alten Akademie“ – der Lehrer Paul Höcker, in: Die Scholle. Eine Künstlergruppe zwischen Secession und Blauer Reiter. Hrsg. von Siegfried Unterberger, Felix Billeter und Ute Strimmer. Munich 2007, S. 28-43
 Neue Pinakothek München: Die Münchner Schule 1850 - 1914. Exhibition Catalog, Munich 1979.
 Andreas Sternweiler (Hrsg.): Goodbye to Berlin, 100 Jahre Schwulenbewegung, Berlin 1997.
 Paul Hoecker und seine Schule. Von Fritz v. Ostini. In: Velhagen & Klasing's Monatshefte, XXVII. Jahrgang 1912/1913, 6 February 1913, S. 161 ff. m. Abb.

External links

 Research group at the Forum Queeres Archiv München
 Part of the family estate at the Forum Queeres Archiv München

1854 births
1910 deaths
Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
Impressionism
19th-century German painters
19th-century German male artists
German male painters
20th-century German painters
20th-century German male artists
Gay artists
Gay artists by nationality
German LGBT artists
German male artists


title: Rebecca Makkai

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Rebecca Makkai (born April 20, 1978) is an American novelist and short-story writer.

Biography
Makkai grew up in Lake Bluff, Illinois. She is the daughter of linguistics professors Valerie Becker Makkai and , a refugee to the US following the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Her paternal grandmother, , was a well-known actress and novelist in Hungary. Makkai graduated from Lake Forest Academy and attended Washington and Lee University where she graduated with a B.A. in English. She later earned a master's degree from Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English.

Makkai has taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is on the MFA faculties of Sierra Nevada University and Northwestern University. She is the artistic director of StoryStudio Chicago. Makkai has also taught at Lake Forest College and held the Mackey Chair in Creative Writing at Beloit College in Wisconsin.

She has two children and lives in Lake Forest, Illinois. She met her husband, Jon Freeman, at Bread Loaf.

Career
Makkai's debut novel, The Borrower, was released in June 2011. It was a Booklist Top Ten Debut, an Indie Next pick, an O Magazine selection, and one of Chicago Magazine's choices for best fiction of 2011. It was translated into seven languages.

Her second novel, The Hundred-Year House, is set in the Northern suburbs of Chicago, and was published by Viking/Penguin in July 2014. It received starred reviews in Booklist, Publishers Weekly and Library Journal. The book won the 2015 Novel of the Year award from the Chicago Writers Association and was named a best book of 2014 by BookPage.

Makkai's third novel, titled The Great Believers, is set during the AIDS epidemic in 1980s Chicago and was published by Viking/Penguin Random House in June 2018. The Great Believers won the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction. It was also a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, and won the LA Times Book Prize, the ALA Stonewall Award, and the Chicago Review of Books Award.

Makkai's debut short story collection, Music for Wartime, was published by Viking in June 2015. A starred and featured review in Publishers Weekly said, "Though these stories alternate in time between WWII and the present day, they all are set, as described in the story "Exposition", within "the borders of the human heart"—a terrain that their author maps uncommonly well." The Kansas City Star wrote that "if any short story writer can be considered a rock star of the genre, it's Rebecca Makkai."

Her short stories have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 and as well as in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009 and 2016; she received a 2017 Pushcart Prize, a 2014 NEA fellowship, and a 2022 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Makkai's fiction has also appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Tin House, The Threepenny Review, New England Review, and Shenandoah. Her nonfiction has appeared in Harpers, Salon.com, and The New Yorker website. Makkai's stories have also been featured on Public Radio International's Selected Shorts and This American Life.

Bibliography

Novels
 The Borrower, Viking (2011)
 The Hundred-Year House, Viking (2014)
 The Great Believers, Viking (2018)
 I Have Some Questions for You, Viking (2023)

Short story collections
 Music for Wartime, Viking (June 2015)

References

External links

Personal website
 REVIEW : The Hundred Year House by Rebecca Makkai at Upcoming4.me

1978 births
Living people
21st-century American novelists
American short story writers
American women novelists
American people of Hungarian descent
Novelists from Chicago
Lake Forest Academy alumni
Washington and Lee University alumni
Middlebury College alumni
21st-century American women writers
People from Lake Bluff, Illinois
People from Lake Forest, Illinois
Stonewall Book Award winners