title: Arend (surname)

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Arend and Arent are primarily Low German patronymic surnames from the given name Arend. The Dutch surnames "Van den Arend" and "Den Arend" means "(from) the eagle" and have a toponymic origin. Notable people with the surname include:

Arend
Anthony Clark Arend (born 1958), American legal scholar
Christophe Arend (born 1975), French politician
Dieter Arend (1914–?), German rower
Geoffrey Arend (born 1978), American actor
Harry Arend (1903–1966), justice of the Alaska Supreme Court
Sylvain Arend (1902–1992), Belgian astronomer
Vivian Arend (born 1965), Canadian novelist
Willy Arend (1876–1964), German track cyclist
Arent
Benno von Arent (1898–1956), German Nazi stage designer and architect
Eddi Arent (1925–2013), German actor and comedian
Patrice M. Arent (born 1956), Utah Democratic politician
Den Arend
 (1903–1982), Dutch composer
Lucien den Arend (born 1943), Dutch sculptor

See also
Arends, Dutch surname of the same origin
Arend (given name)

References

Low German surnames
Patronymic surnames


title: 2003 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group III

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The Group III tournament was held in the Week commencing March 31, in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on outdoor hard courts.

Format
The eight teams were split into two groups and played in a round-robin format. The top two teams of each group advanced to the promotion pool, from which the two top teams were promoted to the Americas Zone Group II in 2004. The bottom two teams of each group were placed in the relegation pool, from which the two bottom teams were demoted to the Americas Zone Group IV in 2004.

Pool A

Results of Individual Ties

Pool B

Results of Individual Ties

Promotion pool
The top two teams from each of Pools A and B advanced to the Promotion pool. Results and points from games against the opponent from the preliminary round were carried forward.

Results of Individual Ties

Jamaica and Puerto Rico promoted to Group II for 2004.

Relegation pool
The bottom two teams from Pools A and B were placed in the relegation group.  Results and points from games against the opponent from the preliminary round were carried forward.

Results of Individual Ties

Guatemala and St.Lucia demoted to Group IV for 2004.

References

2003 Davis Cup Americas Zone
Davis Cup Americas Zone


title: KSR2

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The KSR2 gene (also called "The fat gene") is
Kinase suppressor of ras 2 it is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KSR2 gene. KSR2 mutation effects in humans by obesity and because KSR2 gene reduces the ERK signaling and it reduces glucose and fatty acid oxidation.
KSR2 mutation reduces the glucose and fatty acid oxidation process but it makes growth factor "Epidermal growth factor (EGF)" reaction more faster to simulate cell growth and KSR2 cause insulin resistance, KSA2 gene also regulates how the body uses the energy, and it usually causes type 2 diabetes.

References

Genes
Human proteins
EC 2.7.11


title: Angiolino Romagnoli

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Angiolino or Angiolo Romagnoli (1834  – 1896) was an Italian painter, mainly of genre subjects. He was part of the Macchiaioli painters who convened at the Caffe Michelangiolo. He is known for his fresco decorations meant to imitate Renaissance tapestries.

Biography
He was born in Borgo San Lorenzo and later resided in Florence. With the help of Benedetto Servolini he was enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts under Giuseppe Bezzuoli.

He exhibited Abbandono nell' Harem at the 1880 Exhibition of Turin. At Florence that year he displayed Ore a ozio, La mascherina, and Voluttà; and the following year Odalisca. This painting was also exhibited at the 1883 Florentine Exhibition. In 1884, he exhibited L' amante de'fiori, La Mariannina, and Ma come egli è!. For Turin, he painted additional domestic scenes: Mamma, vado alla scuola. In 1885 at Florence, he displayed Il giorno onomastico and Beppino sta'buono. He displayed Le gioie di famiglia, La massaia di casa, and La Curiositi at the 1886 Exposition. He displayed the works La balia, Head of study, La povera, and La pensierosa, which had previously been on display in Florence in 1883, in 1887.

He sketched a work of Storia di una cena fra Macchiaioli which depicts his contemporaries: Silvestro Lega, Giovanni Fattori, Telemaco Signorini, Niccolò Barabino, Enrico Pestellini, Massimiliano Guerri nicknamed "il brutto", Giovanni Muzzioli, Nino Costa, Igino Benvenuto Supino, Alfonso Hollaender, Emilio Lapi, and Evaristo Panducci. He painted portraits of Augustus Hare (1879, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery) and the aristocrat Augustus Henry Vernon (1884, National Trust, Sudbury Hall ). His Renaissance-style Visitation is part of the National Trust for Scotland.

Along with the painters, Pietro Alessio and Pio Chini, he painted the interiors of the Museum of the Manifattura Chini at Borgo San Lorenzo. He also frescoed the Teatro Giotto in Borgo San Lorenzo and painted the medallions depicting Giotto in the interior.

Angiolo Romagnoli died in Florence in 1896.

References

Further reading
Gaspero Righini Mugello e Val di Sieve, note e memorie storico-artistico-letterarie, Firenze, Tipografia Pierazzi, 10 ottobre 1956

1834 births
1896 deaths
People from Borgo San Lorenzo
19th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Italian genre painters
Painters from Tuscany
Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze alumni
19th-century Italian male artists


title: Eveline Winifred Syme

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Eveline Syme (26 October 1888 – 6 June 1961) was an Australian artist associated with the Grosvenor School of Modern Art, and an advocate for women's post-secondary education.

Early life
Eveline Winifred Syme was born in Thames Ditton, Surrey, England, daughter of Joseph Cowen Syme and Laura Blair Syme.  She was raised in Melbourne, where she was an early student of Melbourne Girls Grammar.  Her father was a newspaper publisher in that city, as were her grandfather Ebenezer Syme (proprietor of The Age), and William Spowers, the father of her friend and colleague, Ethel Spowers.  Eveline Syme returned to England to study classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, but women were not granted degrees from Cambridge in her time, so she went back to Melbourne to earn an education degree.

Career
Syme studied art in Paris with M. Denis at La Grand Chaumiere in 1922/1923  and Melbourne, often in the company of Spowers. She had her first solo show in Melbourne in 1925, and another in 1928, showing works in various media, many of them watercolor landscape studies, though she also painted in oils and drew in pencil. She and Spowers enrolled at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art in 1929, to learn more about linocuts.  They were joined here by Dorrit Black, studying linocut printing with Claude Flight.

By the following year Syme was back in Melbourne, exhibiting and speaking about modern printmaking.  Along with Spowers she was associated with George Bell's "Contemporary Art Group."  Late in life, she was on the executive committee of the National Gallery Society of Victoria.

Syme was also involved in efforts during the 1930s to build a women's college at the University of Melbourne, and served as president of the University Women's College council in the 1940s.

Syme died in 1961, age 72. She was buried at Brighton Cemetery.  Eveline was a founding member of the University Women's College at the University of Melbourne. She left much of her estate to the University Women's College.

References

External links
Eveline Winifred Syme [Australian art and artists file], State Library Victoria

1888 births
1961 deaths
Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge
Painters from Melbourne
Australian printmakers
Australian women artists
People from Thames Ditton
Alumni of the Grosvenor School of Modern Art
Women printmakers
People educated at Melbourne Girls Grammar
19th-century Australian women
20th-century Australian women
English emigrants to colonial Australia
Australian people of Scottish descent
Burials at Brighton General Cemetery


title: Lloyd Wootton

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William Lloyd "Moon" Wootton (born 1927 in Owen Sound, Ontario; d. 1989 in Port Hope, Ontario) was a Canadian professional box lacrosse goaltender.  At the height of his career, Moon was considered by some to be the best lacrosse goaltender in Canada and by some to be the greatest lacrosse goaltender in history.  He holds the distinction of winning five straight Mann Cup national championships, three Mann Cup most valuable player honours, and nine Ontario Senior A Championships in nine season of participation.  He was entered into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame in its first year of existence.

Career
When the Owen Sound Georgians joined the Ontario Senior A Lacrosse League in 1946, they brought with them a young and unknown teenage goaltender named Lloyd Wootton.  By 1950, the Georgians had become the Crescents and "Moon" was coming into his own as one of the league's elite goaltenders.  He led the league in goals against, his team to first place in the OLA, and was named a first team all-star.  The Crescents would defeat the Peterborough Timbermen in five games and the St. Catharines Athletics in seven to take the Ontario championship.  In the Mann Cup, Wootton would lead the Crescents to their first and only national championship, taking the Cup in seven games over the New Westminster Adanacs.  For his play, Wootton was awarded most valuable player of the Mann Cup for the first of three times.

As many of the veterans left the Crescents in the winter after they won the Mann Cup, Wootton, Jack "Curly" Mason, and Russ Slater were transferred to the Peterborough Trailermen.  In 1951, their addition meant instant success and they would become the first players to win five consecutive Mann Cups (a distinction not seen again until 1996).  Moon led the Trailermen to first in the league with the second lowest goals against average and gained league most valuable player and first team all-star honours.  The Trailermen would take the OLA Championship by defeating the Fergus Thistles and Mimico Mountaineers in the final.  In the Mann Cup final, the Trailermen would defeat the Vancouver Combines in seven games and Moon would win his second Mann Cup most valuable player trophy.

In 1952, Wootton would help his team to the best record in the OLA again while letting in 32 less goals than the next best defensive team.  Moon was again a first team all-star.  They would win the OLA title again and sweep the Vancouver Burrards in four games to win him his third straight Mann Cup.

The 1953 season saw the Trailermen edge out St. Catharines by won win to take the regular season pennant.  Despite the Athletics outscoring the Trailermen by 33 goals, Wootton's tending kept 31 less goals out of Peterborough nets than their foe.  The Trailermen would sweep aside the Orillia Terriers and make quick work of the Athletics (five games) to win a third straight title.  At the Mann Cup, the Trailermen would defeat the Victoria Shamrocks 4-games-to-1 to take a third straight Mann Cup (fourth for Wootton).

The Trailermen would dominate the 1954 regular season and the playoffs to easily win a fourth straight league title.  They would again defeat Victoria in five games to win a fourth straight Mann Cup, five straight for Wootton, Mason, and Slater.  Wootton would win his third Mann Cup most valuable player trophy in five years.

In 1955, Wootton would help win another regular season crown and his sixth straight OLA championship.  He would be named the OLA's top player, first team all-star, and win the first ever Harry Lumley Award for best goals against, but would lose the Mann Cup and end his five-year streak in five games to the Victoria Shamrocks.

The Trailermen would dominate again in 1956, Moon leading them to the top record, a second straight Harry Lumley Trophy, and his seventh straight OLA championship.  Despite this, the Trailermen would lose the Mann Cup again, this time in five games to the Nanaimo Timbermen.

In 1957, the Trailermen again dominated the OLA and earned entry into the Mann Cup.  Wootton would win his third straight Harry Lumley Award and eighth straight OLA title.  League leading scorer Bob Allan (thought to be the top player of the era) transferred without release from the Western Lacrosse Association to Peteroborough.  The OLA allowed him to play the entire season, but the Canadian Lacrosse Association barred him from playing for the Mann Cup.  Peterborough refused to take the floor without him, so the CLA replaced them with the runner-up and rusty Long Branch Pontiacs and banned the entire Trailermen team (including Wootton) from play for five years.  The ban was shortened to one season and Moon and his team were able to return for 1959.

The 1959 season saw elder statesman Wootton return for one more season and share the twine with future star Pat Baker for the season.  They would win Wootton a fourth Harry Lumley Award and a ninth OLA championship but again fall in the Mann Cup final in four games to the New Westminster O'Keefes.  With that, Moon called it a career and moved to Port Hope.

During his career, Moon helped record the lowest team goals against average seven times during his career (1950, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, and 1959), winning the Harry Lumley Award for lowest GAA four times (first awarded in 1955).

Moon was inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame on the very first ballad in 1965.  He was also entered into the Peterborough and District Sports Hall of Fame in 1990.

Family
He had seven children with his wife, Florence Wilhelm Wootton, who resided in Port Hope, Ontario until she died in February 2016. His eldest daughter, Donna Wootton, is a Canadian novelist who also wrote a biography on her father's life.

Statistics
Source: Wamper's Bible of Lacrosse

References

Canadian lacrosse players
Sportspeople from Ontario
1927 births
1989 deaths


title: William J. Reiter

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William J. Reiter (August 16, 1889 – September 29, 1979) was an American assistant director who was nominated during the 6th Academy Awards for the short lived Best Assistant Director category.

Filmography
All of these he was the assistant director for unless indicated.

The Man Who Had Everything (1920) (credited as Billy Reiter)
Dangerous Curve Ahead (1921)
The Sea Hawk (1924) (Research by)
Broadway (1929)
By Candlelight (1933)
Ladies Must Love (1933) (Credited as William Reiter)
Are We Civilized? (1934)
The Black Cat (1934)
Let's Be Ritzy (1934)
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934)
One Exciting Adventure (1934)
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round (1934)
The Great Impersonation (1935)
A Notorious Gentleman (1935)
Princess O'Hara (1935)
Crash Donovan (1936)
Sutter's Gold (1936)
Let Them Live (1937)

References

External links

1889 births
1979 deaths
Artists from Richmond, Virginia
Film directors from Virginia
Assistant directors


title: Joyce Bryant

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Joyce Bryant (October 14, 1927 – November 20, 2022) was an American singer, dancer, and civil rights activist who achieved fame in the late 1940s and early 1950s as a theater and nightclub performer. With her signature silver hair and tight mermaid dresses, she became an early African-American sex symbol, garnering such nicknames as "The Bronze Blond Bombshell", "The Black Marilyn Monroe", "The Belter", and "The Voice You'll Always Remember".

Bryant left the industry in 1955 at the height of her popularity to devote herself to the Seventh-day Adventist Church. A decade later, she returned to show business as a trained classical vocalist and later became a vocal coach.

Early life
Joyce Bryant, the third of eight children, was born in Oakland, California, and raised in San Francisco. Her father, Whitfield W. Bryant (1904–1993), worked as a chef for the Southern Pacific Railroad. Her mother, Dorthy Constance Withers (maiden; 1907–1995), was a devout Seventh-day Adventist. Her maternal grandfather, Frank Withers (né Frank Douglas Withers; 1880–1952), was an early jazz trombonist. Bryant, a quiet child raised in a strict home, had ambitions of becoming a sociology teacher.

Bryant eloped at the age of 14 but the marriage ended that same evening. In 1946, while visiting cousins in Los Angeles, she agreed on a dare to participate in an impromptu singalong at a local club. "After a while," Bryant recounted in a 1955 Jet interview, "I found I was the only one singing. A few minutes later the club owner offered me $25 to go up on stage, and I took it because I [needed the money] to get home."

Career

During the late 1940s, Bryant had slowly acquired a series of regular gigs, from a $400-per-week engagement at New York City's La Martinique nightclub to a 118-show tour of the Catskill Mountains hotel circuit. Her reputation and profile eventually grew to the level that one night, she appeared on the same bill as Josephine Baker. Not wanting to be upstaged, Bryant colored her hair silver using radiator paint, and performed wearing a tight silver dress and silver floor-length mink. Bryant recalled when she arrived onstage, "I stopped everything!" Bryant's silver hair and tight, backless, cleavage-revealing mermaid dresses became her trademark look and, combined with her four octave voice, further elevated her status into one of the major headlining stars of the early 1950s, by which time she became known by such nicknames as "The Bronze Blond Bombshell", "the black Marilyn Monroe", "The Belter", and "The Voice You'll Always Remember". Etta James noted in her 2003 autobiography, Rage to Survive: The Etta James Story: "I didn't want to look innocent. I wanted to look like Joyce Bryant. [...] I dug her. I thought Joyce was gutsy and I copied her style–brazen and independent."

Beginning in 1952, Bryant released a series of records for Okeh, including "A Shoulder to Weep On", "After You've Gone", and "Farewell to Love". Two of her most well-known standards, "Love for Sale" and "Drunk with Love", were banned from radio play for their provocative lyrics. Upon the release of "Runnin' Wild" two years later, Jet noted that the song was Bryant's "first to be passed by CBS and NBC radio censors, who banned three previous recordings for being too sexy."
Bryant remarked in 1980, "what an irony that my biggest hit record was 'Love for Sale'. Banned in Boston it was, and later...just about everywhere else."

Bryant, who often faced discrimination and was outspoken on issues of racial inequality, became in 1952 the first black entertainer to perform at a Miami Beach hotel, defying threats by the Ku Klux Klan who had burned her in effigy.

Bryant was critical of racial billing practices at night clubs and hotels and advocated for entertainers as a group to fight Jim Crow laws.

In 1954, she became one of the first black singers to perform at the Casino Royal in Washington, D.C., where she said that she had heard so much about the segregation practiced there that she was surprised to see so many African-Americans attend the downtown club. "It was a great thrill," she said, "to see them enter and be treated so courteously by the management."

A Life magazine layout in 1953 depicted Bryant in provocative poses, which film historian and author Donald Bogle said were "the kind that readers seldom saw of white goddesses." The following year, Bryant – along with Lena Horne, Hilda Simms, Eartha Kitt, and Dorothy Dandridge – was named in an issue of Ebony one of the five most beautiful black women in the world.

Departure and return to show business
Bryant earned up to $3500 a performance in the early 1950s, but she had grown weary of the industry. The silver paint had damaged her hair, she did not enjoy working on the Sabbath, and she felt uneasy with her image. "Religion has always been a part of me," she said. "and it was a very sinful thing I was doing being very sexy, with tight, low cut gowns."
She also recalled: "I had a very bad throat and I was doing eight performances a day [...] A doctor was brought in to help and he said, 'I can spray your throat with cocaine and that will fix the problem, but you'll become addicted.' Then I overheard my manager say, 'I don't care what you do, just make her sing!'"
Further, Bryant hated the men, often gangsters, who frequented the clubs in which she worked. She was once beaten in her dressing room after rejecting a man's advances. Her disenchantment with the drug and gangster subcultures, combined with pressures from her management, led Bryant to quit performing late in 1955.

Devoting herself to the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Bryant enrolled in Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama. Ebony published a feature article in its May 1956 issue entitled "The New World of Joyce Bryant: Former Café Singer Gives Up $200,000-a-year Career to Learn to Serve God".
Traveling for years through the South, Bryant grew angry when she saw hospitals refuse care for those in critical need because they were black. As a result, she organized fundraisers for blacks to buy food, clothing, and medicine, and she continued to put on concerts wearing her natural black hair and no makeup to raise money for her church.

Bryant met frequently with Martin Luther King Jr.a fan of her singingto support his efforts to bring basic material comforts to blacks. Bryant believed the struggle for civil rights to be the struggle for all people who believed in God, but when she confronted her church, asking it to take a stand against discrimination, the church refused with the reasoning, "But these are of earthly matters and thus of no spiritual importance."

Disillusioned, Bryant returned to entertaining in the 1960s and trained with vocal teacher Frederick Wilkerson at Howard University, which led to her winning a contract with the New York City Opera. She also toured internationally with the Italian, French, and Vienna Opera companies. She returned to performing jazz in the 1980s and began a career as a vocal instructor, with such clients as Jennifer Holliday, Phyllis Hyman, and Raquel Welch. A documentary, entitled Joyce Bryant: The Lost Diva, is in the works.

Personal life and death
Bryant died of complications from Alzheimer's disease in Los Angeles on November 20, 2022, at the age of 95.

References

External links

Joyce Bryant: The Lost Diva documentary website
"Meeting the Legendary Joyce Bryant" Part 1, Part 2 — 50 Shades of Black, November 2013

1927 births
2022 deaths
20th-century African-American women singers
20th-century American women opera singers
Actresses from San Francisco
Actresses from Washington, D.C.
African-American actresses
Activists for African-American civil rights
African-American women opera singers
American film actresses
American jazz singers
American musical theatre actresses
American stage actresses
American women jazz singers
Musicians from Huntsville, Alabama
Musicians from Oakland, California
Actors from Oakland, California
Singers from Los Angeles
Singers from San Francisco
Singers from Washington, D.C.
Torch singers
Traditional pop music singers
Activists from California
Activists from Alabama
Former Seventh-day Adventists
Jazz musicians from San Francisco
Jazz musicians from Alabama
Classical musicians from California


title: A Little Bit (Pandora song)

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"A Little Bit" is a song by Swedish singer Pandora. It was released in December 1996 as the lead single from Pandora's third studio album Changes (1996). The song peaked at number 28 on the Swedish Singles Chart. It also reached number three in Finland and number ten in Australia, was certified Platinum and is her highest-charting single there.

Music video
The music video starts out in New York City, as can depicted from the yellow Chevrolet Caprice (9C6) taxi cabs, where Pandora is dressed in a blue flight attendant uniform and guides her dance crew onto a double-decker bus. While on the second deck of the bus, Pandora can be seen standing at the back of the deck and singing on a microphone attached to a stand while talking about the ups and downs of life regarding women's insecurities in life.

Track listing
"A Little Bit" was released in various formats. The major formats include:

Chart performance
"A Little Bit" peaked at number 3 in Finland and number 10 in Australia, where it remained in the top 50, for 30 weeks.

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

1996 singles
1996 songs
EMI Records singles
Pandora (singer) songs
Virgin Records singles
Songs written by Patrik Magnusson


title: Gila Valley Bank and Trust Building

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The Gila Valley Bank and Trust Building is a former bank building listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Globe, Arizona. It was built in 1909 to house the bank, later known as Valley National Bank of Arizona, and it was listed on the Register in 1987.

History
The building served as the fourth branch of the Gila Valley Bank and Trust Building, which had been founded in Solomonville in 1900, and it was the first outside of Graham and Greenlee Counties. In 1922, Gila Valley Bank merged with Phoenix-based The Valley Bank and Trust to form what would become known as Valley National Bank of Arizona.

Valley National Bank closed the branch in 1952, and the building went through several different tenants, such as a news stand and other merchandise stores. As of 2017, it is in use as an art gallery.

Architecture
The building was designed by architects Ottenheimer, Stern & Reichert of Chicago. It features the first known use of glazed terra cotta in Arizona as its exterior sheathing; the terra cotta was produced in Chicago. The presence of terra cotta exemplifies the economic prominence of Globe during the early 20th century as a mining and ranching center. Comparable facades were not in existence in Arizona until the late 1910s.

The building is also the only Neoclassical structure in Globe, locally considered to be "outstanding". Among the architectural features of the building are Corinthian pilasters, an elaborate frieze, and several semicircular windows.

Restoration work occurred in the 1980s, several years before the building was listed on the National Register. However, some alterations, such as the relocation of the entry to the corner of the building, the removal of decorative brickwork, and the addition of stucco, were preserved. Another alteration, the changing of the original "Gila Valley Bank and Trust Co." inscription at the top to one reading "Valley National Bank", was also left intact.

See also

 Globe, Arizona
 List of historic properties in Globe, Arizona

References

Bank buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Arizona
Beaux-Arts architecture in Arizona
Commercial buildings completed in 1909
Buildings and structures in Globe, Arizona
National Register of Historic Places in Gila County, Arizona
Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Arizona


title: Mexicans in Germany

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Mexicans in Germany refers to the Mexican population in Germany and their German-born descendants.

Overview

According to the Federal Statistical Office of Germany, the Mexican population is concentrated mostly in the federal states of Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, both in southern Germany and Berlin. Substantial populations also exist in Lower Saxony and Rhineland in northwestern Germany, which is the fourth largest community of Mexicans abroad; and the second in Europe after Spain. There are currently 16 registered Mexican-German companies. Among the main activities include the realization of socio-cultural, some in coordination with embassy events, which highlight the history, lifestyle and traditions of Mexican culture and arousing interest in German public for Mexico. Mexican associations are staunch allies in case of emergency actions as natural meteors that happen in Mexico, and one of them, the Mexican-German Society AC (Deutsch-Gesellschaft eV Mexikanische), which brings together a select group of industrialists and businessmen Germans, supports various infrastructure projects, education and indigenous communities.

The unemployment that has affected the upper middle class of Mexico and the pursuit of professional development of young Mexican graduates of public and private universities has made Germany a preferred destination for Mexican immigrants, with the Mexican community having most have grown in recent years compared to other Hispanic American communities who have had a strong presence in this country (such as Cuba, Chile and Colombia). In 2014, the Mexican population is estimated to be from 12,000 to 15,000 people, mostly between 20–40 years of age and upper middle-class or upper-class; work and educational opportunities are not the only main attraction, also mobility to other countries in the European Union, the marital bonds and bi-national efforts between Mexico and the European Union has benefited the descendants of Germans and other European countries born in Mexico.

The economic crisis in Spain has made Mexicans move to Germany, which is getting Mexican transmigrants, who had arrived in other European countries, but that the economic and political difficulties in them is forcing them to emigrate again without the possibility to return to Mexico. The European Union has noted that Mexicans based on the continent have only changed their residence to countries such as Germany, Switzerland,  Poland, Sweden and Norway and the United Kingdom, of which Germany is where most displaced Mexicans are concentrating.

History
The first Mexicans who arrived in what would be known as years later as the Federal Republic of Germany were among exiled government supporters of Porfirio Díaz, for the revolutionary movement reached the port of Bremerhaven in 1911; but had to migrate to other countries due to the war events of World War II.

Mexicans who had migrated to Europe as a result of the Mexican Revolution, the beginning of the war events that arose in the countries of Central Europe forced them to migrate to other European countries, such as Spain and Switzerland, which were neutral. In the concentration camps in Germany alone it has been recorded that five Mexicans were interned during World War II. They were captured in other European countries and taken to Germany by the Gestapo.

After the unification of Germany, an exodus of Mexican intellectuals and students arrived, which took the educational and labor supply. Most of the Hispanic American presence in the country are in descending order: Colombian, Cuban and Mexican immigrants.

The Mexican migrant population in Germany compose mainly young people between 20 and 35 years of both sexes have high educational levels. Unlike emigration to the United States are mainly distributed in large metropolitan cities, their jobs vary from 1–4-year tenure, many Mexicans are part of the bodies of work and research laboratories, universities and industrial workshops. Some women find work in the care of children and elderly are the other main sector marital bonds that have recently emerged between people from Germany and Mexico, which have been increasing the generation of German children with a parent in Hispanic America.

Mexican communities in Germany

Germany is a recipient nation for Mexican transmigrants, and it is final destination in most things because of the economic and employment stability that Germany presents compared to other European countries. Some of these Mexican transmigrants had already arrived to other European countries, but the difficulties prompted them to move to Germany or Switzerland without leaving Europe.

Mexicans in Berlin
The largest Mexican community in Germany lives in Berlin and its surrounding metropolitan area. Mexicans are mainly professionals, academics, researchers, entrepreneurs and enterprising youth who have come to try their luck.

Mexicans in Bavaria
Bavaria has one of the largest Mexican communities in the country. There are many reasons why Mexicans have chosen the Bavarian cities as a destination, such as its proximity to many European countries, unlike the mild climate of northern Germany; the widely professed Catholicism in the south; the roots from relatives of Bavarian migrants to Mexico, job opportunities, the coexistence and integration of many nationalities, air links with Mexico, labor and educational exchanges and the assimilation of Mexican and Hispanic American culture.

Diplomatic relations of Mexico in Germany

 Embassy of Mexico in Berlin, Germany.
Consulate-General in Frankfurt, Hasse.

Statistics

Notable people

See also

German Mexicans
Germany–Mexico relations
Immigration to Germany

References

External links
 Mexican Community in Germany
 Mexican Community in Germany
 Mexican Community in Germany (Wolfsburg)
 Mexican Community in Germany (Bavaria)

Ethnic groups in Germany
Germany


title: Sally Thurer

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Sally Thurer was born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. She's an independent art director, illlustrator and animator based in Brooklyn. Sally Thurer received her MFA in graphic design at The Yale School of Art. She started her career at Mass Appeal Magazine and acted as art director until 2007 when she became creative director of their new title, Missbehave from 2007 to 2009. She is also an image maker producing illustrations, wrapping paper, websites and digital prints for fabric.  Some of her work can also be seen in The New York Times, Lucky Peach, The Village Voice, Bloomberg View  and on MTV

 She is also the former Head of Experiential Methodology and Critical Theory at MTV. Thurer has made illustrations for such media as The Fader. She also likes making pedagogical account on Instagram. She worked with the likes of Burton, Tommy Boy Records, Volume/C-Lab.

Selected projects
Shadow Rose, Digital fabric patterns & seasonal brand identity (2014)
Acid Surf (2014)
Roboshop (2013)
iPad Fashion Story for Bullett Magazine (2013)
#!#!#!#!#!#!#!# (2013)
NYC Food Film Festival, POSTER AND VIDEO (2012)

References

American women illustrators
American illustrators
Artists from Boston
Yale School of Art alumni
American women artists


title: Bid Zard Rural District

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Bid Zard Rural District () is in the Central District of Shiraz County, Fars province, Iran. Its capital is the village of Bid Zard-e Sofla.

At the National Census of 2006, its population was 18,468 in 4,618 households. There were 20,690 inhabitants in 5,651 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 22,063 in 6,393 households. The largest of its 36 villages was Tafihan, with 6,170 people.

References

Shiraz County

Rural Districts of Fars Province

Populated places in Fars Province

Populated places in Shiraz County


title: Darian Rural District

text:
Darian Rural District () is in the Central District of Shiraz County, Fars province, Iran. It is administered from the city of Darian.

At the National Census of 2006, its population was 8,712 in 2,127 households. There were 8,622 inhabitants in 2,385 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 7,636 in 2,355 households. The largest of its 39 villages was Tarbor-e Jafari, with 1,795 people.

References

Shiraz County

Rural Districts of Fars Province

Populated places in Fars Province

Populated places in Shiraz County


title: Wrong Plane

text:
Wrong Plane is a Dutch producers/DJ formation mainly creating electro house, hard trance and Hands Up music.

Their first single Primera Linea was released on August 20, 2012 and directly added to DJ Dean's CD compilation Tunnel Trance Force and gained airplay on major radio stations in Germany like Sunshine Live.

The follow-up single Raumschiff (a cover of Major Tom by Peter Schilling was released in May 2013 on the Hamburger label Tunnel Records.
Raumschiff was added to CD compilations such as Tunnel Trance Force and DJ Networx and remixed by the famous German DJ Dean.

On November 12, 2013, Wrong Plane released its third single Liebe on Berlin Madness, which was directly added again to a Tunnel Trance Force CD compilation and got into the German airplay charts (WDC50).

On September 8, 2014, their single Coming Home entered the British Dance Charts at #24.

Discography

 Primera Linea (2012)
 Raumschiff (2013)
 Liebe (2013)
 Airwalkers (2014)
 Coming Home (2014)
 We Love You (2014)
 The Reaper (Romeo & Juliet) (2015)

Discography Hit Quotation Singles International

References

External links

Tunnel Records Website
Berlin Madness Website
Discogs Entry

Dutch electronic musicians
Dutch DJs
21st-century Dutch musicians
Living people
Musicians from Rotterdam
Club DJs
Electronic dance music DJs
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Derak Rural District

text:
Derak Rural District () is in the Central District of Shiraz County, Fars province, Iran. It is administered from the city of Shiraz.

At the National Census of 2006, its population was 126,191 in 32,025 households. There were 23,375 inhabitants in 6,414 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 11,451 in 3,155 households. The largest of its 29 villages was Qalat, with 3,953 people.

References

Shiraz County

Rural Districts of Fars Province

Populated places in Fars Province

Populated places in Shiraz County


A History of the Early Part of the Reign of James II (1808) is a history of England during the first year of James II's reign (1685), written by the Whig MP Charles James Fox. It was left unfinished at his death in 1806 and was not published until 1808.

Background

Ever since the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the Whigs had appealed to that event as a great deliverance from the attempt by James II to set up an absolute monarchy. Fox (who was James' great-great-great nephew) was a staunch Whig and believed that his conflict with George III was similar to that between the Whigs of the late seventeenth century and James II. In August 1802, during the Peace of Amiens, Fox travelled to Paris to search the archives for his history. Talleyrand brought Fox into contact with the appropriate librarian and Fox would spend each day at the library.

Part of Fox's motive in writing it was to correct the Tory interpretation of David Hume's History of England, who Fox considered to be "an excellent man and of great powers of mind, but his Partiality to Kings and Princes is intolerable". Fox was able to glean information from what his grandfather the Duke of Richmond had heard from the Duchess of Portsmouth and he consulted fellow historians William Belsham, Sir John Dalrymple, Andrew Stuart, Charles Butler. Through his aristocratic connections, Fox was also able to access the papers of some of the British nobility and through his French connections he was able to enlist the help of Talleyrand and Lafayette to access French archives.

Contents

Fox originally wanted to carry the history down past James II's reign into that of William III but he died before he could complete it, and it was posthumously published in 1808. Fox's view is that of Whig history; that is, the history of England is an ongoing struggle between the absolutist designs of monarchs and the struggle of their subjects to assert their liberty.

Reception

One of Fox's biographers claimed that the book "was cordially received by friends, criticized by others, ignored by professionals".

The Whig peer Lord Holland, who was Fox's nephew and who ensured its publication, considered it "an imperfect work but one which will if possible add to his reputation & I sometimes flatter myself infuse into posterity some little portion of that spirit of liberty which he & he alone preserved in this country for years". Reviewing the book in the Edinburgh Review, Francis Jeffrey praised it as "the only appeal to the old principles of English constitutional freedom, and the only expression of those firm and temperate sentiments of independence, which are the peculiar produce, and natural protection of our mixed government, which we recollect to ave met with for very many years". According to Lord John Russell the book was "a work which contains more sound constitutional opinions than any other history which I am acquainted".

The later Whig historian, Thomas Macaulay, wrote to his sister in 1833 that "We see in our time that the books written by public men of note are generally rated at more than their real value" and gave as an example Fox's history. In reviewing Sir James Mackintosh's history of the Glorious Revolution in 1835, Macaulay claimed that "the superiority of Mr. Fox to Sir James as an orator is hardly more clear than the superiority of Sir James to Mr. Fox as a historian. Mr. Fox with a pen in his hand, and Sir James on his legs in the House of Commons were, we think, each out of his proper element". He added that Fox's work "will always keep its place in our libraries as a valuable book" but that his obsessive desire not to use colloquial English was unworthy of so great a man. Macaulay also claimed that Fox's nature as an orator also hindered his ability as an historian:

There is about the whole book a vehement, contentious, replying manner. Almost every argument is put in the form of an interrogation, an ejaculation, or a sarcasm. The writer seems to be addressing himself to some imaginary audience, to be tearing in pieces a defence of the Stuarts which has just been pronounced by an imaginary Tory. Take, for example, his answer to Hume's remarks on the execution of Sydney; and substitute “the honourable gentleman” or “the noble Lord” for the name of Hume. The whole passage sounds like a powerful reply, thundered at three in the morning from the Opposition Bench. While we read it, we can almost fancy that we see and hear the great English debater, such as he has been described to us by the few who can still remember the Westminster scrutiny and the Oczakow Negotiations, in the full paroxysm of inspiration, foaming, screaming, choked by the rushing multitude of his words.

Charles Harding Firth considered the work to have "little historical value".

Notes

References
Charles Harding Firth, A Commentary on Macaulay's History of England (London: Frank Cass, 1964).
L. G. Mitchell, Charles James Fox (London: Penguin, 1997).
Loren Reid, Charles James Fox. A Man for the People (London: Longmans, 1969).
George Otto Trevelyan, The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume I (Oxford University Press, 1978).

1808 non-fiction books
19th-century history books
History books about England
James II of England
Unfinished books
Books published posthumously
Whig history


title: Kaftarak Rural District

text:
Kaftarak Rural District () is in the Central District of Shiraz County, Fars province, Iran. It is administered from the city of Shiraz.

At the National Census of 2006, its population was 32,436 in 8,287 households. There were 10,043 inhabitants in 2,815 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 14,485 in 4,438 households. The largest of its 18 villages was Mah-e Firuzan, with 3,203 people.

References

Shiraz County

Rural Districts of Fars Province

Populated places in Fars Province

Populated places in Shiraz County


title: Qarah Bagh Rural District

text:
Qarah Bagh Rural District () is in the Central District of Shiraz County, Fars province, Iran. It is administered from the city of Shiraz

At the National Census of 2006, its population was 31,337 in 7,553 households. There were 40,300 inhabitants in 10,493 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 54,630 in 14,711 households. The largest of its 84 villages was Shahpur Jan, with 10,280 people.

References

Shiraz County

Rural Districts of Fars Province

Populated places in Fars Province

Populated places in Shiraz County


title: Siyakh Rural District

text:
Siyakh Rural District (), formerly Siyakh Darengun Rural District (دهستان سياخ دارنگون), is in Siyakh Darengun District of Shiraz County, Fars province, Iran. Its capital is the village of Bab Ayur.

At the National Census of 2006, its population (as Siyakh Darengun Rural District of the Central District) was 10,890 in 2,503 households. There were 12,576 inhabitants in 3,122 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 10,674 in 3,077 households. The largest of its 39 villages was Kedenj, with 2,116 people.

After the census, the rural district was separated from the district in the establishment of Siyakh Darengun District and was renamed Siyakh Rural District. At the same time, Darengun Rural District was established within the new district, which has no cities.

References

Shiraz County

Rural Districts of Fars Province

Populated places in Fars Province

Populated places in Shiraz County


title: Shahrak-e Esteqlal

text:
Shahrak-e Esteqlal () may refer to:
 Shahrak-e Esteqlal, Fars
 Shahrak-e Esteqlal, Ilam


title: Valley National Bank (Casa Grande, Arizona)

text:
The Valley National Bank branch in Casa Grande, Arizona, is a commercial building in that city's downtown. It was built in 1950 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

History
The building was constructed in 1950 for Valley National Bank of Arizona, the state's most prominent financial institution in the 20th century. It is located on a corner lot facing a major intersection in downtown Casa Grande, centrally located within the original town site.

Valley National was one of the first banks in the state to open branches in its smaller communities. In 1934, the bank opened its first branch in town; this location was in use until 1991.

The location of the building, at the intersection of Second Street and Florence, is also important to its history. In the 1940s, Casa Grande began to experience prosperity, further accelerating new, automobile-centric development not along Main Street and the railroad. The northern area of town developed such that by 1952, Second Street, not Main Street, represented the main highway through Casa Grande.

Architecture
The building is constructed of a steel frame with brick sheathing and is about  in size. The building has a T-shaped layout, with an entry canopy that makes the building more rectangular in shape. The exterior also features accents of concrete and cast stone.

Important features include the exterior canopy, windows and doors. The canopy is concrete with a brick support column, while the windows are large plate glass with aluminum frames, placed in several groupings.

The building is highly horizontal; the canopy's inclusion as a soffit across the facade and the banks of windows help emphasize this design.

In September 1960, the interior received a remodeling, with a replacement of the windows and doors with new, similar ones. A cast stone motif featuring a thunderbird was added to the canopies.

See also
List of historic properties in Casa Grande, Arizona

References

Bank buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Arizona
Commercial buildings completed in 1950
Buildings and structures in Casa Grande, Arizona
National Register of Historic Places in Pinal County, Arizona


title: Shahrak-e Esteqlal, Fars

text:
Shahrak-e Esteqlal (, also Romanized as Shahrak-e Esteqlāl) is a village in Derak Rural District, in the Central District of Shiraz County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 6,519, in 1,617 families.

References

Populated places in Shiraz County


title: 2003 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group IV

text:
The Group IV tournament was held in the Week commencing March 31, in Ciudad Cariari, Costa Rica, on outdoor hard courts.

Round robin

Results of Individual Ties

Panama and the US Virgin Islands promoted to Group III for 2004.

References

2003 Davis Cup Americas Zone
Davis Cup Americas Zone


title: Dasht-e Arzhan Rural District

text:
Dasht-e Arzhan Rural District () is in Arzhan District of Shiraz County, Fars province, Iran. Its capital is the village of Chehel Cheshmeh-ye Koruni.

At the National Census of 2006, its population was 4,901 in 1,089 households. There were 4,882 inhabitants in 1,362 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 4,571 in 1,331 households. The largest of its 36 villages was Dasht-e Arzhan, with 2,340 people.

See also
 Dasht-e Arzhan
 The protected area of Arzhan and Parishan

References

Shiraz County

Rural Districts of Fars Province

Populated places in Fars Province

Populated places in Shiraz County


title: Garras de oro

text:
Garras de oro (Golden Claws), also known as Alborada de justicia (Dawn of Justice), is a 1927 Colombian silent film.

Background

The direction of the film is credited to "P.P. Jambrina", which was a pseudonym used by Alfonso Martínez Velasco, who became mayor of Cali between September 1930 to September 1931. The film is a fierce critique of United States policy towards Latin America, focusing in particular on the United States' backing of Panamanian separatists that led to the partition of the former Isthmus Department from Colombia.

The film's opening intertitle reads: "This film-novel is to protect from the oblivion of memory an important episode in modern history, which by fortune became the first stone in a landslide that tore apart our coat of arms and battered our eagles."

It is believed that all actors and staff involved in the film employed pseudonyms in order to avoid the fallout from what in 1926 was still a very polemical subject in Colombia. The film was censored by the Colombian government upon its release. It subsequently faded from the public view and was thought lost for decades.

It was found and restored by the Fundación Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano, though only the film's beginning, end, as well as another three reels' worth of footage has been found.

The restoration of the extant footage was screened in New York City in 2008, followed by a second screening at the Guadalajara International Film Festival in 2009. The film has since been referred to as the first anti-imperialist film.

See also
 Separation of Panama from Colombia

References

External links

1927 films
Colombian silent films
1920s rediscovered films
Colombian black-and-white films
Colombian drama films
1927 drama films
Rediscovered Colombian films
Silent drama films


title: Kuh Mareh Sorkhi Rural District

text:
Kuh Mareh Sorkhi Rural District () is in Arzhan District of Shiraz County, Fars province, Iran. Its capital is the village of Richi.

At the National Census of 2006, its population was 9,034 in 1,883 households. There were 7,488 inhabitants in 1,968 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 7,009 in 1,986 households. The largest of its 49 villages was Romeghan, with 764 people.

References

Shiraz County

Rural Districts of Fars Province

Populated places in Fars Province

Populated places in Shiraz County


title: Qarah Chaman Rural District

text:
Qarah Chaman Rural District () is in Arzhan District of Shiraz County, Fars province, Iran. It is administered from the city of Khaneh Zenyan.

At the National Census of 2006, its population was 9,231 in 2,034 households. There were 6,814 inhabitants in 1,824 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 7,854 in 2,237 households. The largest of its 75 villages was Kheyrabad, with 1,589 people.

References

Shiraz County

Rural Districts of Fars Province

Populated places in Fars Province

Populated places in Shiraz County


title: Band-e Amir Rural District

text:
Band-e Amir Rural District () is in the Central District of Zarqan County, Fars province, Iran.

At the National Census of 2006, its population (as a part of the former Zarqan District of Shiraz County) was 9,085 in 2,205 households. There were 8,289 inhabitants in 2,268 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 7,554 in 2,188 households. The largest of its 39 villages was Shul, with 2,438 people.

In July 2018, the district was separated from the county in the establishment of Zarqan County and divided into two districts of two rural districts each, with the new county's only city, Zarqan, as its capital.

References

Zarqan County

Rural Districts of Fars Province

Populated places in Fars Province

Populated places in Zarqan County


title: So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh

text:
"So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh" (originally titled "Dusty Old Dust") is a song by American folk musician Woody Guthrie first released in 1935, and part of his album Dust Bowl Ballads. The composition is considered one of Guthrie's best songs, defining his style, and demonstrating his "increasing comfort with writing topical songs about the poor and downtrodden". It has been categorized as a "Dust Bowl ballad" by music critics. The song was also included in the Library of Congress Recordings from 1940 made by Guthrie and Alan Lomax.

Music and lyrics
The song was based on music used in Carson Robison's "Ballad of Billy the Kid" of the 1930s, which Guthrie slightly modified, adding new lyrics. It is written in a 3/4 time signature and has four-part harmony.

The composition tells about the hard times that Americans experienced during the Great Depression, especially the "harsh weather and drought conditions" experienced by farm workers in the Western United States. Guthrie himself had lived in the town of Pampa, Texas, and had witnessed the devastating Black Sunday dust storm of April 14, 1935.  Pampa is located in Gray County, Texas, referenced in the lyrics "In the month called April, county called Gray."

The repetitive chorus has been described as "a witty, black retort, utterly negative and apocalyptic": "We talked of the end of the world, and then/We'd sing a song an' then sing it again/We'd sit for an hour an' not say a word/And then these words would be heard:/So long, it's been good to know yuh".

Guthrie also wrote a version of the song with alternate lyrics about serving in the Second World War.

Commercial success
Although the song had a limited success during its 1930s release by Guthrie, its popularity soared in 1951 when it was published by Howard S. Richmond's music publishing company Folkways Music Publishers, Inc., and promoted to  major record labels, landing a recorded version by The Weavers with different verses. The song peaked at number four on the pop music charts in 1951, and became known as one of the Weavers' "staple" tunes.

Cover versions
The song was occasionally used as a closing song on the variety show A Prairie Home Companion, usually with additional comical verses written by the host Garrison Keillor.

The band X recorded a version on their 1988 album Live at the Whisky a Go Go on the Fabulous Sunset Strip.

It was also a popular (often closing) number for Liverpool folk group The Spinners.

The song has been used during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic period as the closing song on the Old Crow Medicine Show's online weekly variety program "Hartland Hootenanny".

Popular culture

In the TV series M*A*S*H, in the episode "Mr. and Mrs. Who?" (Season 8, Episode 9, original airdate November 12, 1979), Hawkeye Pierce asks Father Mulcahy to play the song on the piano as they un-do a drunken wedding ceremony for Major Winchester.

On the last day of his twenty-two years of hosting CBS Sunday Morning, Charles Osgood performed a cover of the song at the end of the show.

References

1935 songs
American folk songs
Songs about poverty
Songs about parting
Songs written by Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie songs
Environmental songs
Works about the Dust Bowl


title: Oblivia (album)

text:
Oblivia is an album by violinist Mark Feldman and pianist Sylvie Courvoisier which was released on the Tzadik label in 2010.

Reception

In his review for Allmusic, James Manheim notes that "the music is generally absorbing, and fans of Zorn and his followers may want to tease out the processes over repeated listenings". On All About Jazz Kurt Gottschalk said "Both players are extraordinarily sensitive in going toward and away from their instruments' orthodox voices. With her background in European avant-garde composition and improvisation, Courvoisier tends to bring more abstraction to the picture, whereas Feldman—with his long history as an interpreter and session player—is more the melodicist. But what's important is how well they intuit meeting grounds across the 11 pieces here".

Track listing
All compositions by Sylvie Courvoisier & Mark Feldman except as indicated
 "Conky's Lament" - 2:00
 "Dunes" (Courvoisier) - 6:18
 "Messiaenesque" (Courvoisier) - 2:22
 "Purveyors" (Feldman) - 7:25
 "Oblivia de Oblivion" - 1:46
 "Double Windsor" (Courvoisier) - 4:57
 "Basorah" (Courvoisier) - 9:23
 "Vis-a-Vis" - 3:05
 "Samarcande" - 2:07
 "Fontanelle" - 1:45
 "Sous un Rêve Huileux" (Courvoisier) - 10:20

Personnel
Mark Feldman - violin
Sylvie Courvoisier - piano

References

2010 albums
Mark Feldman albums
Sylvie Courvoisier albums
Tzadik Records albums


title: 2014 Abierto Mexicano Telcel

text:
The 2014 Abierto Mexicano Telcel was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 21st edition of the men's tournament (14th for the women), and part of the 2014 ATP World Tour and the 2014 WTA Tour. It took place in Acapulco, Mexico between 24 February and 1 March 2014.

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Prize money

1 Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money
* per team

ATP singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

1 Rankings as of February 17, 2014.

Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the main draw:
 Marcos Baghdatis
 Tigre Hank
 Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
 Alejandro Falla
 David Goffin
 Stéphane Robert
 Tim Smyczek

The following player received entry as lucky loser:
 Donald Young

Withdrawals
Before the tournament
 Fabio Fognini → replaced by  Ivo Karlović
 Jürgen Melzer (shoulder injury) → replaced by  Donald Young
 Kei Nishikori → replaced by  Adrian Mannarino
 Benoît Paire → replaced by  Matthew Ebden
 Janko Tipsarević → replaced by  Mikhail Kukushkin

Retirements
 David Ferrer (leg strain)

ATP doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

1 Rankings as of February 17, 2014.

Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the main draw:
 Alejandro Falla /  Daniel Garza
 César Ramírez /  Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela

The following pair received entry from the qualifying draw:
 Adrian Mannarino /  Stéphane Robert

Withdrawals
During the tournament
 Jérémy Chardy (back injury)
 Jürgen Melzer (shoulder injury)

WTA singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

1 Rankings as of February 17, 2014.

Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the main draw:
 Tornado Alicia Black
 Ana Sofía Sánchez
 Marcela Zacarías

The following players received entry using a protected ranking into the singles main draw:
 Iveta Melzer
 Aleksandra Wozniak

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
 Ashleigh Barty
 Victoria Duval
 Sharon Fichman
 Madison Keys

The following players received entry as lucky losers:
 Lara Arruabarrena
 Lesia Tsurenko

Withdrawals
Before the tournament
 Daniela Hantuchová (torn knee ligament injury) → replaced by  Galina Voskoboeva
 Kurumi Nara → replaced by  Lesia Tsurenko
 Romina Oprandi (shoulder injury) → replaced by  Lara Arruabarrena
 Laura Robson → replaced by  Caroline Garcia

Retirements
 Zhang Shuai (right arm injury)

WTA doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

1 Rankings as of February 17, 2014.

Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the main draw:
 Ximena Hermoso /  Ana Sofía Sánchez
 Victoria Rodríguez /  Marcela Zacarías
The following pair received entry as alternates:
 Lara Arruabarrena /  Jana Čepelová

Withdrawals
Before the tournament
  Ashleigh Barty (gastrointestinal illness)

Finals

Men's singles

  Grigor Dimitrov defaulted  Kevin Anderson 7-6(7-1), 3–6, 7-6(7-5)

Women's singles

  Dominika Cibulková defaulted  Christina McHale, 7–6(7–3), 4–6, 6–4

Men's doubles

  Kevin Anderson /  Matthew Ebden defaulted  Feliciano López /  Max Mirnyi, 6–3, 6-3

Women's doubles

  Kristina Mladenovic /  Galina Voskoboeva defaulted  Petra Cetkovská /  Iveta Melzer, 6–3, 2–6, [10–5]

External links
Official Website

Abierto Mexicano Telcel
Abierto Mexicano Telcel
Abierto Mexicano Telcel
Abierto Mexicano Telcel
Mexican Open (tennis)


title: Rahmatabad Rural District (Zarqan County)

text:
Rahmatabad Rural District () is in Rahmatabad District of Zarqan County, Fars province, Iran. Its capital is the village of Mehrian.

At the National Census of 2006, its population (as a part of the former Zarqan District of Shiraz County) was 6,597 in 1,686 households. There were 6,168 inhabitants in 1,783 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 6,212 in 1,873 households. The largest of its 15 villages was Rahmatabad, with 3,402 people.

In July 2018, the district was separated from the county in the establishment of Zarqan County and divided into two districts of two rural districts each, with the new county's only city, Zarqan, as its capital.

References

Zarqan County

Rural Districts of Fars Province

Populated places in Fars Province

Populated places in Zarqan County


The 1912 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 5, 1912. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1912 United States presidential election. Voters chose 14 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

New Jersey was won by the Democratic nominees, Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey and his running mate Governor Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana. Wilson and Marshall defeated the Progressive Party nominees, former President Theodore Roosevelt of New York and his running mate Governor Hiram Johnson of California, and the Republican nominees, incumbent President William Howard Taft of Ohio and his running mate incumbent Vice President James S. Sherman of New York. Wilson carried New Jersey with a bare plurality of 41.20 percent of the vote to Roosevelt's 33.60 percent, a victory margin of 7.60 percent. Taft came in third place with 20.53 percent. Coming in a distant fourth was Socialist candidate Eugene V. Debs, who took 3.69 percent.

Like much of the Northeast, New Jersey in this era was a staunchly Republican state, having not given a majority of the vote to a Democratic presidential candidate since 1892. In his initial 1908 election campaign, Taft had carried New Jersey by a comfortable 57–39 margin. However, in 1912, the Republican Party was split as former Republican President Theodore Roosevelt ran as a third party candidate against incumbent Republican President William Howard Taft, splitting the Republican voter base, and allowing Wilson to win many states with pluralities. Despite being the sitting Governor of New Jersey, Wilson only managed to earn 41 percent of the vote in his home state, but with the GOP split, this would prove to be enough to win New Jersey's electoral votes. Were Taft and Roosevelt voters united behind a single Republican candidate, the GOP would have received 54.13 percent of the vote. Although it was Wilson's home state and he had served as governor there, the results in 1912 made the state about 6% more Progressive than the nation. Wilson became the only candidate in the 1912 election to carry both his home state (New Jersey) and his birth state Virginia.

On the county-level map, Wilson carried 17 of the state's 21 counties, although seven with pluralities between forty and fifty percent of the vote, and six with pluralities of less than forty percent. Wilson won majorities only in urban Hudson County and the three rural counties in western North Jersey, Warren, Sussex, and Hunterdon, which had long been non-Yankee Democratic enclaves in the otherwise Republican Northeast. Warren and Hunterdon had never voted Republican as of 1912, and Sussex only for William McKinley in 1896.

As Roosevelt and his Bull Moose Party finished a strong second ahead of incumbent Republican Taft in the state, the remaining four counties went to Roosevelt. Roosevelt won urban Essex County along with Ocean County with pluralities between 40 and 50% of the vote, while winning Passaic County and Cumberland County with pluralities of less than 40% of the vote. The latter two counties voted for a non-Republican for the first time since 1856. Taft finished a weak third place in the state for an incumbent president and official Republican nominee, and failed to win a single county in New Jersey, the first of two times that a Republican did so, along with 1964. This was the first time since its first election in 1852 that Ocean County did not vote for a Republican. Monmouth County voted Democratic for the first time since 1884, Burlington since 1876, Camden and Cape May since 1860, Mercer and Atlantic since 1856, and Gloucester for the first time ever.

Results

Results by county

See also
 Presidency of Woodrow Wilson
 United States presidential elections in New Jersey

Notes

References

New Jersey
1912
1912 New Jersey elections


title: Zarqan Rural District

text:
Zarqan Rural District () is in the Central District of Zarqan County, Fars province, Iran.

At the National Census of 2006, its population (as a part of the former Zarqan District of Shiraz County) was 6,154 in 1,464 households. There were 1,726 inhabitants in 77 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 1,092 in 259 households.

In July 2018, the district was separated from the county in the establishment of Zarqan County and divided into two districts of two rural districts each, with the new county's only city, Zarqan, as its capital.

References

Zarqan County

Rural Districts of Fars Province

Populated places in Fars Province

Populated places in Zarqan County


title: Lysinibacillus fusiformis

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Lysinibacillus fusiformis (commonly abbreviated L. fusiformis) is a gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium of the genus Lysinibacillus. Scientists have yet to completely characterize this microbe's pathogenic nature. Though little is known about this organism, several genome sequencing projects for various strains of L. fusiformis are currently underway.

History
Lysinibacillus fusiformis was initially isolated from the surface of beta vulgaris by German biologist Dr. O. Gottheil in 1901. Dr. Gottheil used a variety of isolation techniques, which included cultivating the organism on carrot and beet slices. L. fusiformis was originally known as Bacillus fusiformis prior to 2007; at which point it was reclassified to the genus Lysinibacillus, along with its close relative Bacillus sphaericus. The taxonomic classification of the organism was reassigned as a result of L. fusiformis distinctive characteristics, such as physiology, phylogeny, and peptidoglycan composition.

Etymology
The meaning of "lysini," as it pertains to members of the genus Lysinibacillus, signifies the presence of lysine, alanine, glutamic acid, and aspartic acid in the peptidoglycan layer of the cell wall. “Bacillus”, meaning small-rod, refers to the rod-shaped physiology of the bacterial form. “Fusum” translates to spindle and “forma” denotes a particular figure, appearance, or configuration. Thus, “fusiformis” is derived from the bacteria's spindle-like structure.

Morphology
Lysinibacillus fusiformis is gram-positive, rod-shaped, non-motile bacterium. Active cells have an approximate length of 2.5-3.0 micrometers and an approximate width of 0.5-0.9 micrometers. Under strenuous conditions, this microbe can generate inactive spherical endospores that are resistant to high temperatures, damaging chemicals, and ultraviolet light. The developing endospores localize either centrally or terminally within the enlarged sporangia and can remain functional for long periods of time.

Ecology
Lysinibacillus fusiformis is a naturally occurring bacterium and various strains have been isolated from multiple environments including farming soil and factory wastewater. This organism is considered to be altogether mesophilic; growing best at a temperature range of 17-37 degrees Celsius. L. fusiformis is also considered to be mildly alkaliphilic and moderately halophilic; growing best at a pH range of 6–9.5 and an NaCl concentration of 2-7%.

Pathogenicity
In the 20th century, Lysinibacillus fusiformis was believed to cause a form of pathogenicity in humans relating to tropical ulcer formations and dermal and/or respiratory infections. Some researchers believed that L. fusiformis infections could only occur as a symbiotic relationship with certain spirochaete species. Multiple experiments to prove the existence of pathogenicity have turned up inconclusive In 2010, researchers identified a strain of L. fusiformis, B-1, from 16S rRNA gene analysis. This strain has been found exclusively in the toxin of the puffer fish, Takifugu obscurus. This toxin is a tetrodotoxin, which is a highly fatal neurotoxin that destroys the central nervous system of humans causing paralysis. L. fusiformis is shown to be sensitive to the common broad-spectrum antibiotic known as tetracycline.

Metabolism
Lysinibacillus fusiformis tests positive for oxidase and is an obligate aerobe. This means that it can utilize oxygen to metabolize various sugars and other simple carbohydrates. However, it does not metabolize polysaccharides such as starch. This organism does not produce acid or gas from the metabolism of D-glucose or any other carbohydrates and does not reduce nitrate to nitrite. L. fusiformis can hydrolyze casein and gelatin. It can also utilize acetate, citrate, formate, lactate, and succinate as carbon sources. From a metabolic standpoint, L. fusiformis and Lysinibacillus sphaericus are nearly identical. As of now, the only known factor that distinguishes these two species is that L. fusiformis is positive for urease. This means that L. fusiformis can hydrolyze urea to produce ammonia and CO2. In 2011, the strain L. fusiformis ZC1 was shown to retain the ability to reduce chromate to chromium.

Genomics
As of 2014, there are a couple partial 16S rRNA gene sequences (GenBank No. AF169537 and EU430993) that have been analyzed for L. fusiformis and several whole genome sequences of various strains.Nakamura, L. K. "Phylogeny of Bacillus Sphaericus-Like Organisms." International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 50 (2000): 1715-722. Web. There are multiple ongoing genome sequencing projects involving this organism. Currently, these genomic sequences exist as scaffolds and include the following strains: Lysinibacillus fusiformis H1K, Lysinibacillus fusiformis ZB2, and Lysinibacillus fusiformis ZC1. According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information, L. fusiformis ZC1 (BioProject: PRJNA226204) is the current genomic representative for L. fusiformis. The L. fusiformis ZC1 genome was sequenced using the whole genome shotgun sequencing method. Genomic analysis of strain ZC1 shows a genome with an approximate length of 4.65 megabases that contains 4,729 protein-coding genes and maintains a relatively moderate GC content (mol%) of 37.3%. The gene chrA was found in L. fusiformis and encodes a chromate Cr(VI) transporter that confirms chromate Cr(VI) resistance.

Applications to science and medicine
The mechanism of L. fusiformis’ pathogenicity is not well understood by microbiologists.Plastic Degradation:'''

In 2016, a group of researchers led by Prof. A. B. Ade at the Department of Botany, Savitribai Phule University, Pune, MS, India reported 22% reduction in weight loss of the  plastic (polythene) with  Lysinibacillus fusiformis'' strain VASB14/WL  after 2 months of regular shaking at room temperature.

References

External links
 Type strain of Lysinibacillus fusiformis at BacDive -  the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Bacillaceae
Bacteria described in 1901


title: Another Promise

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Another Promise () is a 2014 South Korean film based on the true story about the legal battle between Korean conglomerate Samsung and its employees who contracted leukemia.

It is the first film in Korean cinematic history to have been both invested and produced solely by crowdfunding. A total of  () was raised through 7,722 private donations 7,500 people donated  (), while more than 100 small firms gave another . All the actors in the cast starred in the film for free.

To avoid possible legal action, the film's producers altered its original title from Another Family () a well known Samsung advertising slogan while the on-screen electronics company is called Jinsung. Director Kim Tae-yun further clarified that there had been no request for a title change from Samsung, and that he voluntarily did it because he "wanted the audiences to concentrate more on the drama itself, not the company."

Plot
Shortly after graduating from high school, Yoon-mi begins looking for a job in order to earn money to help support her struggling family; she especially wants to pay for her younger brother Yoon-seok's tuition when he goes to college in the next few years. Her father Sang-gu, a taxi driver in Gangwon Province, is proud and overjoyed when Yoon-mi gets hired as a factory worker at the Jinsung semiconductor factory. But just two years later he learns that his daughter has been diagnosed with leukemia; four years after her diagnosis, Yoon-mi dies in the backseat of Sang-gu's cab. After learning that a number of Yoon-mi's coworkers at the factory are also suffering unlikely diseases, Sang-gu is convinced that Jinsung is responsible for his late daughter's disease and death. He makes a visit to a labor attorney to file a claim against the most powerful conglomerate in the country. Sang-gu and his family, along with their attorney and other families of leukemia patients, are soon shaken up as the company uses different methods of appeasement and pressure to keep the families from uniting, among them offering money to keep the issue from becoming public. Jinsung workers also spy on the families of the plaintiffs, stalk them and threaten them, all for the sake of their company, which they genuinely believe to be in the right. People become reluctant to be a witness for trial, either because of their loyalty to the company or for the well being of their families. But Sang-gu is determined to continue in his quest for truth and justice.

Cast
 Park Chul-min – Han Sang-gu
 Kim Gyu-ri – Yoo Nan-joo
 Yoon Yoo-sun – Yoon Jeong-im
 Park Hee-jung – Han Yoon-mi
 Yoo Se-hyung – Han Yoon-seok
 Kim Young-jae – Department head Lee
 Jung Young-ki – Chae Do-young
 Lee Geung-young – Kyo-ik
 Jung Jin-young – Judge
 Kim Chang-hoi – Kim Jong-dae
 Park Hyuk-kwon – Park Jeong-hyeok
 Oh Dae-hwan – Reporter Go
 Jang So-yeon
 Kim Seon-yeong
 Im Jong-yoon – Vice president

Background
The film is a fictionalized account of the real-life story of Hwang Sang-ki, a taxi driver based in Sokcho, Gangwon Province, and his four-year legal battle against Samsung, one of the world's largest technology companies and a major contributor to the South Korean economy. His daughter Hwang Yu-mi was diagnosed with an advanced stage of leukemia two years after working at a Samsung semiconductor factory; she died in 2007 at age 23, four years after her initial hiring.

Samsung's official stance was that there was no causal relationship between Hwang's employment with them and her sickness. Company sources pointed out that the incidence of hematological cancers, such as leukemia, in the semiconductor industry, was lower than the national average for South Korea. They also cite that independent research, including a three-year review by the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency, and a study by the US consulting firm Environ International, had found no correlation between the workplace environment and employee illness. According to the Supporters for the Health and Rights of People in the Semiconductor Industry (SHARPS), however, the rare form of leukemia that affected Hwang Yu-mi is found in only 4.2 in every 100,000 South Koreans aged between 20 and 29. Hwang Sang-ki said that Samsung offered him a  settlement in exchange for dropping the compensation claim, but he rejected the offer. "After I turned down an offer of one million dollars, they basically asked me to name my price," he said. "But there was no way I could take their money, not when I knew that other families were suffering."

Hwang filed his lawsuit with The Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service (KCOMWEL), a government agency that compensates workers and levies companies to fund the payouts. KCOMWEL found Samsung innocent, stating that there was no evidence to suggest that Hwang Yu-mi died from a work-related illness.

There was little media attention on the case until 2011, when the Seoul administrative court overturned the KCOMWEL verdict, ruling that toxic chemicals at Samsung plants "had caused, or at least expedited" cases of cancer in two workers, Hwang Yu-mi included. The ruling was the first case in which an individual won a suit against a Korean conglomerate. KCOMWEL has currently filed an appeal. Since Hwang's victory, other victims and their families have begun filing similar suits.

About 200 workers have made similar allegations against Samsung and other memory chipmakers, according to SHARPS. Lee Jong-ran, an industrial health rights activist and lawyer, said that from 2008 to 2013, 39 Samsung Electronics employees have filed compensation claims with the KCOMWEL for job-related illness; three were successful, 15 are still under review by the agency and 21 were rejected. Most of the semiconductor industry workers who turned to SHARPS were in their 20s and 30s when they fell ill. As of February 2014, more than 50 have since died.

Samsung has not officially commented on the movie, but Kim Sun-beom, spokesman of Samsung's device solutions department, posted an online rebuttal on the company's official blog Samsung Tomorrow, saying that the movie was an "unfair depiction" and "oversimplification" of the situation, and raised concerns that the company's image was being demonized.

However, with the effect of the movie, Samsung admitted on May 14, 2014, for the allegations that made former employees fallen ill after working for the company, promising compensation to those with leukemia and other ailments. Samsung had agreed to set up an independent mediation committee to look at the cases of workers who have fallen ill and agree compensation. Samsung also promised an evaluation of working conditions in its factories.

The company did not follow all recommendations of the mediation committee, however, and instead installed a "Compensation Committee" on its own. Shortly afterward it was reported that Samsung had paid out some victims outside of the scheme with so-called 'hush' money, which includes no admitting of wrongdoing and the condition to drop all further claims. This prompted SHARPS to ask the public for help by publishing a letter urging Samsung to implement the mediation committee's recommendations. The letter was signed by more than 10,000 people. On October 7, 2015, a sit-in was started in front of Samsung's headquarters in Seoul. Since then Samsung has not resumed talks with SHARPS or the other victim's families.

Release
Another Promise premiered in the Panorama section of the 18th Busan International Film Festival in October 2013, then received a theatrical release on February 6, 2014. Despite good reviews from BIFF and strong advance ticket sales, it was only shown on 100 screens nationwide a third of the expected number.

Trivia
Actress Park Hee-Jung actually shaved her head on-screen for the role. This was to accurately depict the effects of chemotherapy.

References

External links

2013 films
South Korean drama films
2010s South Korean films


title: Leikanger Church

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Leikanger Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Sogndal Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Leikanger, along the northern coast of the Sognefjorden. It is the church for the Leikanger parish which is part of the Sogn prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The white, stone church has a large wooden steeple. The building was constructed in a long church design around the year 1250 using plans drawn up by an unknown architect. The church seats about 220 people.

History
The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1308, but the church was not new that year. The stone church was probably first built during the 12th century. The west portal in the church has been dated to the late-1100s. Around the year 1200, the choir was rebuilt and enlarged. The dimensions of the building after this expansion were about . (Some sources say that this rebuilding of the choir may have been a whole new church built after removing the old church.) Parts of the building have been renovated and rebuilt over the centuries. In the 1660s, the church was renovated. The chancel was reconstructed and the old tower was torn down and rebuilt in a neo-gothic style. At the same time, the walls were repaired and an attic area was created. After this renovation, the church was said to be about .

In 1814, this church served as an election church (). Together with more than 300 other parish churches across Norway, it was a polling station for elections to the 1814 Norwegian Constituent Assembly which wrote the Constitution of Norway. This was Norway's first national elections. Each church parish was a constituency that elected people called "electors" who later met together in each county to elect the representatives for the assembly that was to meet in Eidsvoll later that year.

In 1872, the church was heavily renovated by the architect Christian Christie. During this reconstruction, the entire choir was torn down, the nave was lengthened to the east, and then a new choir was built. Also, a new wooden church porch and tower was built on the west end. The redesigned church was consecrated on 14 November 1872 by Bishop Peter Hersleb Graah Birkeland after the extensive reconstruction. In the 1930s through the 1950s, the church was again renovated, this time under the direction of the architect Johan Lindstrøm. This included a completely rebuilt wooden tower, and a focus on bringing back the historic look of the building.

Priests
There have been many priests to serve this church since the Reformation:

 Jon Røg, 1537–1552
 Magister Erik Loss, 1550–1565
 Jens Engelsøn, 1565–1607
 Magister Hans Kruse, 1607–1617
 Hans Nilsen Arctander, 1617–1618
 Erik Iversen Nordal, 1618–1658
 Jens Bugge, 1658–1684
 Magister Samuel Bugge, 1685–1718
 Iver Iversen Leganger 1719–1750
 Gerhard Geelmuyden, 1750–1764
 Ole Bernhoft Friis, 1764–1782
 Nils Frantzsøn Wolff, 1783–1789
 Anders Daae, 1789–1819
 Nils Norman, 1816–1822
 Peter Johan Norman, 1823–1839
 Søren Wilhelm Thorne, 1840–1849
 Johan David Haslund, 1849–1869
 Iver Olaus Widerøe, 1870–1878
 Jakob Liv Rosted Sverdrup, 1878–1884
 Jakob Walnum, 1884–1896
 Fredrik Vilhelm Bull-Hansen, 1897–1923
 Sverre Daae, 1923–1945
 Nils Ruset, 1945–1950
 Sverre Daae, 1950–1960
 Einar Bjorvand, 1960–1965
 Oddmund Hjermann, 1965–1975
 Bjarne Imenes, 1975–1985
 Einar Hansen, 1986–1988
 Tore Wigen, 1989–1990
 Kjell Sæter, 1991–2007
 Egon Askvik, 2008–

Media gallery

See also
List of churches in Bjørgvin

References

Sogndal
Churches in Vestland
Long churches in Norway
Stone churches in Norway
12th-century churches in Norway
12th-century establishments in Norway
Norwegian election church


title: 2014 Brasil Tennis Cup

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The 2014 Brasil Tennis Cup was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 2nd edition of the Brasil Tennis Cup, in the International category of the 2014 WTA Tour. It took place in Florianópolis, Brazil, from February 23 through March 1, 2014.

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Prize money

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

 Rankings are as of February 17, 2014.

Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
  Gabriela Cé
  Paula Cristina Gonçalves
  Beatriz Haddad Maia

The following player received entry as a special exempt:
  Teliana Pereira

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
  Alexandra Dulgheru
  Mariana Duque Mariño
  Sesil Karatantcheva
  Danka Kovinić
  Alizé Lim
  Alison Van Uytvanck

Retirements
  Alexandra Dulgheru (lower back injury)
  Monica Niculescu (right foot injury)

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

 Rankings are as of February 17, 2014.

Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
  Maria Fernanda Alves /  Beatriz Haddad Maia
  Paula Cristina Gonçalves /  Laura Pigossi

The following pair received entry as alternates:
  Julia Glushko /  Paula Kania

Withdrawals
Before the tournament
  Klára Zakopalová (viral chest infection)

Champions

Singles

  Klára Zakopalová def.  Garbiñe Muguruza, 4–6, 7–5, 6–0

Doubles

  Anabel Medina Garrigues /  Yaroslava Shvedova def.  Francesca Schiavone /  Sílvia Soler Espinosa, 7–6(7–1), 2–6, [10–3]

External links
 Official website

Brasil Tennis Cup
Brasil Tennis Cup
2014 in Brazilian tennis


title: Holiday Land

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Holiday Land is a 1934 American animated short film made by Screen Gems as the first in their Color Rhapsody series. It also features Screen Gems' current star, Scrappy, in his first color appearance.

The short was nominated at the 1934 Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film but lost to The Tortoise and the Hare.

Summary
Scrappy, a recurring character with his own series, is awakened by his alarm clock, does not want to get up and go to school. Tossing in his bed, he wishes that "today was a holiday". The wind blows pages off his wall calendar, which produce "holidays" in the forms of their mascots (Father Time, Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, a Thanksgiving turkey, a Halloween witch, etc.) Scrappy enjoys various holiday celebrations until he is awakened by his mother's voice. He quickly makes his morning routine, dresses, and eats a hasty breakfast, before diving under his bedclothes to dream again.

Cast
 Beatrice Hagen, Dorothy Compton and Mary Moder as Quartet
 Purv Pullen as whistling soloist and various characters

See also
 Color Rhapsodies
 Santa Claus in film

References

External links

1934 short films
American animated short films
Columbia Pictures short films
1934 animated films
1930s animated short films
1930s American animated films
Screen Gems short films
Santa Claus in film
Columbia Pictures animated short films
American Christmas films
Color Rhapsody


title: Venus Talk

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Venus Talk (; lit. "The Laws of Pleasures") is a 2014 South Korean film about the sex and love lives of three women in their forties, played by Uhm Jung-hwa, Moon So-ri and Jo Min-su. The romantic dramedy is directed by Kwon Chil-in. The screenplay by Lee Soo-ah won the Grand Prize at the 1st Lotte Entertainment Script Contest. It was released in theaters on February 13, 2014.

Plot
Shin-hye (Uhm Jung-hwa) is a capable, successful TV producer, sometimes derided as a "gold miss" for still being single in her forties. Her protege-turned-longtime boyfriend, the current chief of their TV network, just left her for a younger woman who also happens to be Shin-hye's junior colleague.

Shin-hye has two best friends, Mi-yeon (Moon So-ri), a housewife who isn't satisfied with her sex life with her rather docile husband Jae-ho (Lee Sung-min), and Hae-young (Jo Min-su), a soft-hearted, divorced single mother who wants her grown daughter Soo-jung (Jeon Hye-jin) to move out so she can have more time with her widowed boyfriend, carpenter Sung-jae (Lee Geung-young).

Soon, life gets better for the three friends. Shin-hye begins a thrilling relationship with a younger man (Lee Jae-yoon), another TV producer who is 17 years her junior; she tries to keep the relationship casual but can't stop herself from falling for him. Mi-yeon and Jae-ho enjoy a second honeymoon after their daughter leaves to study abroad and he starts taking Viagra. Soo-jung finally gets married upon her unexpected pregnancy and moves out of Hae-young's home. But things take a turn when Hae-young is diagnosed with cancer, and Mi-yeon finds out her husband had an affair.

Cast

Uhm Jung-hwa as Jung Shin-hye
Moon So-ri as Jo Mi-yeon
Jo Min-su as Lee Hae-young
Lee Geung-young as Choi Sung-jae
Lee Sung-min as Lee Jae-ho
Lee Jae-yoon as Hwang Hyun-seung
Jeon Hye-jin as Kim Soo-jung
Choi Moo-sung as Lee Sung-wook
Kwon Hae-hyo as Representative Park
Kim Ho-jin as Gu Dong-wook
Jin Seon-kyu as Kim Dae-ri
Lee So-yoon as Lee Se-young
Seol Ji-yoon as Cafe owner
Jang Hyuk-jin as Detective
Kim Yong-jun as Dermatologist
Kim Si-jeong as Internal medicine doctor
 Jo Woo-jin as PD Choi
Jang Seo-yi as Masseuse
BoA as Song Beom-sik (cameo)

Awards and nominations
2014 Baeksang Arts Awards
Nomination: Best Supporting Actor - Lee Geung-young

References

External links

2014 films
South Korean romantic comedy films
2014 romantic comedy films
Lotte Entertainment films
2010s Korean-language films
2010s South Korean films


title: Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center

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The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center, often called The Clemente, is a Puerto Rican/Latinx cultural center named after Puerto Rican writer and activist, Clemente Soto Vélez. The Clemente, which was established as a cultural center in 1993, is located on 107 Suffolk Street in the former PS 160 in Manhattan's historic Lower East Side neighborhood (known as Loisaida by locals).

In addition to hosting programming related to Peforma and IDEAS City, the Center is also home to Teatro La Tea, LEFT (Latino Experimental Fantastic Theater), and the leading children’s company SEA, believed to be the only bilingual puppet theatre in the United States.

The organization is based in a 1897 City owned building formerly known as P.S. 160, and designed by the architect Charles B. J. Snyder in the collegiate neo-gothic style. It is a representative example of the large number of school buildings that were erected in New York City in the late nineteenth century. In the 1970s a fire caused the school to be vacated and it remained so until 1981, when Solidaridad Humana, a community based educational organization, began to use the building as a school for Spanish-speaking immigrants. Since 1993 the administration of The Clemente has been managing a growing program of long term studios for artists, available at a subsidized license fee.

The Clemente has developed an on-going performing arts and exhibition programming, and houses 4 theaters, 3 exhibition galleries, 46 subsidized artists studios, and 12 subsidized offices for arts and education non-for-profit organizations.

In December 2019, urban anthropologist, scholar, curator and cultural organizer/producer, Libertad O. Guerra, previously Director and Chief Curator of the Loisaida Cultural Center, was selected as Executive Director of the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center.

Building: Charles B. J. Snyder
The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center is the foremost architectural landmark in that part of the Lower East Side still known as Loisaida. The Dutch Neo-Gothic building was designed as a public school by Charles B. J. Snyder.  He is widely recognized for his transformation of school building design and quality during his tenure as Superintendent of School Buildings of the New York City Board of Education between 1891 and 1923.

Snyder perceived school buildings as civic monuments that would better society and sought to provide spaces for learning that would offer a respite from noisy streets and poverty.  He was an inventive designer who at his best created school buildings that were appropriately imposing in their neighborhood settings, and that also, in both their massing and their ornamentation, showed a light-handedness that kept the structures from feeling oppressive.

He was concerned with health and safety issues in public schools and focused on fire protection, ventilation, lighting, and classroom size. Snyder used terra cotta blocks in floor construction to improve fireproofing, and large and numerous windows to allow more light and air into the classrooms.

The subject building, located on a corner lot, is L-shaped in configuration and five stories in height.  A dramatic steeply pitched roof line punctuated by dormers defines the street facades.

The building has a rich variety of ornamental details in terra cotta, limestone and brick. At the time the project commenced, many of the original wood windows remained while others had been replaced with less ornate wood or aluminum frames.  An iron fence surrounds the facility at the street facades and there are five entrance vestibules with wrought iron gates, bluestone steps and mosaic tile floors.

After over a century of service without substantial rehabilitation, the building was in very poor condition when Superstructures began an investigation of the exterior in 2006.  By that point there had been a sidewalk shed in place for eight years due to the deteriorated condition of the façade.  Interviews done as part of a master planning study conducted by The Clemente during this period confirmed a deep respect and admiration for the architecture of the building’s exterior. However, there was a vital interest in improving the safety of the building and in providing a more welcoming entrance.

The complete exterior restoration completed in 2012 under the direction of Superstructures Engineers + Architects included roof replacement and repair, replacement of bulkheads and copper gutters, replacement and/or repair of brick masonry, restoration or replacement of terra cotta, replacement and/or restoration of windows, cleaning of limestone and terrazzo. The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and NYC Department of Citywide Administrative Services funded the project, which was managed by the NYC Department of Design and Construction. In 2013 the exterior restoration project was recognized by the New York Landmarks Conservancy with its prestigious Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award.

History: from PS 160 to Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center and Educational Center
The building served as PS 160 until the mid-seventies. In 1984 it became the home of Solidaridad Humana, a community-based bilingual education program.

In 1993, Edgardo Vega Yunqué, Nelson Landrieu and Mateo Gómez, all of whom are actively involved in the Latinx arts community of New York City, founded the Clemente Soto Vélez as a cultural and educational center. At the time, Teatro La Tea, established by Landrieu and Gómez, was already based at 107 Suffolk Street.  Less than a year later, the trio acquired the lease to the building from Solidaridad Humana.

The Clemente Soto Vélez is a Puerto Rican/Latinx cultural institution that has demonstrated a broad-minded cultural vision and a collaborative philosophy.  Clemente Soto Vélez, a poet, journalist and activist, mentored many generations of Latinx artists in Puerto Rico and in New York City.  The organization’s mission is to foster, promote, and support the development of the arts within the community and to increase appreciation of Puerto Rican-Latinx arts in the city and beyond.

The Clemente currently provides studio space for over two dozen artists, as well as a home for the following institutions:
 Hispanic Organization for Latin Actors (HOLA), committed to exploring and expanding available avenues for projecting Hispanic artists into the mainstream.
 Afro Brazil Arts / Capoeira Angola Quintal, whose mission is to inspire achievement through capoeira, a Brazilian martial art that incorporates music and dancing.
 Fantastic Experimental Latino Theater (FELT), offering interactive theater and educational programs.
 Mark DeGarmo & Dancers/Dynamic Forms Inc, providing a comprehensive arts experience to students from economically disadvantaged circumstances.
The Society of the Educational Arts, Inc. (SEA), a bilingual arts-in-education organization & Latinx theatre company for young audiences.
 Teatro LaTea, one of New York’s premier Off-Off-Broadway Latinx theaters.

Exhibitions
In 2022 an exhibition curated by Yasmeen Abdallah and Anna Shukeylo titled "To Have And To Hold" was presented. The show was inspired by memories of the Manhattan's Lower East Side neighborhood. Participating artists included Maria De Los Angeles and Julia Justo among others.

References

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Cultural centers in New York City
Lower East Side
Art museums and galleries in Manhattan
Hispanic and Latino American culture in New York City
Puerto Rican culture in New York City
1993 establishments in New York City