title: ONGC Tripura Power Company

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ONGC Tripura Power Company Limited (OTPC) also known as Palatana Power Plant, is a thermal power plant station in Palatana, Udaipur in the Gomoti district of the northeastern Indian state of Tripura. It is a division of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation which is under the ownership of Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India. It is the first government owned-power plant in India and it is also known as the biggest Plant in Northeast India.

Capacity
726.6 MW Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) power plant at Palatana, Tripura, based on ONGC's domestic gas supply. The project is in advanced stage of implementation. EPC contract of about Rs. 2200 crores has already been awarded to BHEL on 11 August 2008.
The Generation Project is being domiciled in ONGC Tripura Power Company Ltd. ("OTPC" or "the Company"), a Special Purpose Vehicle promoted by ONGC, IL&FS Limited and Government of Tripura (GoT).

Transmission project
A 400 kV D/C Transmission system connecting Palatana (generation project site) in Tripura to Bongaigaon in Assam over a distance of around 650 km for the evacuation of power from the generation project.

The development and operation of the transmission system would be undertaken by North-East Transmission Company Limited (NETCL) a joint venture of OTPC, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL) and the North Eastern Region beneficiary states. OTPC has been granted in-principle approval for Mega Power Project (MPP) status by GoI on 27 July 2006 for the Project. The company is applying to MoP, GoI for final approval of MPP status and the same is expected to be obtained shortly.
For evacuating Power from the gas based 726.6 MW power Project Generators, a trunk transmission line is being developed by another Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), jointly promoted by Power Grid Corporation Ltd., OTPC and the North Eastern Region (NER) states. Inter-state and intrastate sub-transmission system and the distribution system within NER states shall be developed by Power Grid Corporation as the Central Transmission Utility (CTU)
The Transmission Project was initially envisaged to be domiciled in a separate SPV, North-East Power Transmission Company Limited ("NEPTC") and developed through a BOOT operator.  However given the criticality of timely completion of the Transmission System to the operations of the Generation Plant, a decision was taken to develop the transmission system as a component of the composite Project within OTPC. Subsequently, the process of merging NEPTC with OTPC was initiated; The petition for amalgamation of NEPTC with OTPC was approved by the Hon'ble Guwahati High Court in Sept 2007.
Subsequently, in late 2007, in consultation with the Ministry of Power (MoP), it was decided that the integrated project be developed as a regional project. The power allocation from the project was revised and about 640 MW was allocated to the NER beneficiary states and the balance 100 MW was to be retained by OTPC for merchant/short-term sale (based on assumed capacity of 740 MW). Pursuant to this development, the Transmission project was again carved out for development through a separate SPV. Accordingly, the Transmission JV was again incorporate as "North East Transmission Company Ltd"(NETC). The transmission project is progressing smoothly with the process of award of transmission tower construction packages for completion in tandem with the commissioning of the Generation Project.

Gas reserves

However, these natural gas reserves are yet to be commercially developed due to low industrial demand in the North-Eastern region. The complexities of logistics and attendant costs limit the economic viability of transportation of gas to other parts of the country where gas is in deficit. In order to optimally utilize the gas available in Tripura, ONGC proposes to initially develop a 726.6 MW Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) thermal power plant ("the Project") close to its gas fields in the state of Tripura and supply power to the deficit areas of North Eastern States of India.

Allocation of power
660 km long transmission line from the plant to Burnihat in Meghalaya through Silchar in Assam was completed by which power from the first unit could be catered to other states of the north-east. But the work for the 400 kV double circuit high tension line up to Bongaigaon from Burnihat is pending due to forest clearance. The Following are the distribution of electricity to the different Northeastern States of India from the OTPC.

OTPC will be selling the remaining 98 MW electricity.

References

Companies based in Tripura
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
Energy in Tripura
2013 establishments in Tripura


title: Robert Waleys

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Robert Waleys (fl. 1373–1388) of Ipswich, Suffolk, was an English attorney and Member of Parliament.

He was the son and heir of Richard Waleys, who was from Kersey, Suffolk. Waleys married a woman named Alice at some point before April 1365.

He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Ipswich in 1373, January 1377, October 1377, January 1380, 1381, November 1384, 1385, 1386, February 1388 and September 1388.

He was confined to Fleet Prison over a debt.

References

Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
14th-century English people
Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Ipswich
People from Ipswich


title: Elizabeth Thomson (politician)

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Elizabeth 'Liz' L. Thomson (born 1960 or 1961) is an American politician and a Democratic member of the New Mexico House of Representatives representing District 24 since January 15, 2017 and previously from January 15, 2013 to January 15, 2015.

Early life and education
Thomson graduated from the University of New Mexico with a B.S. degree in physical therapy.

Career

Physical therapy
Thomson's career has been spent as a pediatric physical therapist. In addition to her clinical work, she has served on the board of directors of the New Mexico chapter of the American Physical Therapy Association.

New Mexico Legislature
In 2012 Thomson ran for the New Mexico House of Representatives district 24 seat held by Republican representative Conrad James, beating the incumbent by less than 300 votes. She has announced her intention to seek reelection in 2014, in what will likely be a replay of the 2012 race against James.

Political views

Public health
Thomson introduced legislation to establish the New Mexico Fall Prevention Task Force.  The goal of the task force is to prevent older adult falls. (In New Mexico, falls are the leading cause of injury-related deaths, hospitalizations, and emergency department visits among older adults.)  The program includes an awareness campaign about modifiable fall risk factors as well as an increase in availability of fall prevention classes around the state. It was enacted by the legislature and signed into law in 2014.

Animal Welfare
Thomson has been a strong opponent of horse slaughter. In the legislature, Thomson sponsored House Bill 121 which would have banned the use of horses as a foodsource, and House Bill 120 which would have required horses be husbanded according to state regulations for livestock. Neither measure passed out of committee. Thomson also voted for a bill that would prohibit the use of performance-enhancing drugs by racehorses.

Personal life
Thomson is married and has two children.

References

External links
 Official page at the New Mexico Legislature

 Elizabeth L. Thomson at Ballotpedia

Place of birth missing (living people)
1960s births
Living people
Democratic Party members of the New Mexico House of Representatives
Politicians from Albuquerque, New Mexico
University of New Mexico alumni
Women state legislators in New Mexico
21st-century American politicians
21st-century American women politicians


title: Sebastian Fakt

text:
Sebastian Fakt (born July 25, 1995) is a Swedish ice hockey player. He is currently playing with Almtuna IS of the HockeyAllsvenskan.

Fakt made his Swedish Hockey League debut playing with Leksands IF during the 2013–14 SHL season.

References

External links

1995 births
Living people
Aalborg Pirates players
Leksands IF players
Swedish ice hockey forwards


title: Michele Fornasier

text:
Michele Fornasier (born 22 August 1993) is an Italian footballer who plays as a centre-back for  club Monopoli.

Club career

Early career

Born in Vittorio Veneto, Fornasier joined Fiorentina in 2007, but moved to England two years later, signing with Manchester United. Shortly after, Fiorentina filed a formal complaint to FIFA about the transfer. However, no action was taken by FIFA after Fiorentina failed to supply evidence for the case.

Manchester United
When playing for United, Fornasier lifted the 2010–11 FA Youth Cup and appeared with the Under-21 squad; he also appeared in the Dallas Cup twice (2012 and 2013) He left the club in June 2013 after making no first-team appearances.

Sampdoria
On 2 July 2013, Fornasier signed with U.C. Sampdoria. He made his professional debut on 5 December, starting in a 4–1 home win over Verona.

On 9 February 2014, Fornasier made his Serie A debut, starting in a 1–0 win over Cagliari. Fornasier ended the season with 10 appearances.

Pescara
On 23 January 2015, Fornasier was signed by Pescara in a temporary deal with an option to purchase. On 27 June, the Dolphins excised the option, with Lucas Torreira moved to Sampdoria effectively on 1 July 2016.

Venezia (loan)
On 22 January 2019, Fornasier signed to Venezia on loan with an option to buy.

Parma

Trapani (loan)
On 16 August 2019, Fornasier signed to Serie A club Parma and after he joined Serie B club Trapani on loan until 30 June 2020.

Cremonese
On 3 October 2020, he moved to Serie B club Cremonese. He only made one league appearance for Cremonese in the 2020–21 season as he was fighting injuries. His contract with Cremonese was terminated by mutual consent on 30 August 2021.

Monopoli
On 21 September 2021, he signed a three-year contract with Serie C club Monopoli.

International career
Fornasier was a youth international for Italy.

Career statistics

Club

References

External links

FIGC National Team Data

1993 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Vittorio Veneto
Footballers from the Province of Treviso
Italian men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Serie A players
Serie B players
Serie C players
ACF Fiorentina players
UC Sampdoria players
Delfino Pescara 1936 players
Venezia FC players
Parma Calcio 1913 players
SSD FC Trapani 1905 players
US Cremonese players
SS Monopoli 1966 players
Manchester United F.C. players
Italian expatriate men's footballers
Italian expatriate sportspeople in England
Expatriate men's footballers in England
Italy men's youth international footballers


title: New Farmers' Union

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The New Farmers' Union (, JS) was a centrist political party in Latvia in the inter-war period.

History
The party was established by the merger of several parties, and was officially known as the Latvian New Farmers' Union, the List of Non-Partisan New Farmers, Progressive Old Farmers and Labour Intelligentsia. It first contested national elections in 1922, when it won three seats in the 1st Saeima. It went on to retain its three seats in the 2nd Saeima after the 1925 elections.

Shortly before the 1928 elections it was proposed that the party should merge with the New Farmers-Small Landowners Party (J-S), which had also won three seats in the 1925 elections. Although the merger did not happen, many party members left to join J-S after the party failed to win a seat in the 1928 elections.

References

Centrist parties in Latvia
Defunct political parties in Latvia


title: Raffaella Modugno

text:
Raffaella Modugno is an Italian model who was crowned Miss Curve d'Italia Lazio 2011 ("Miss Curvy Lazio 2011"). She was the cover model of the German Maxim (2012) and Indian GQ (2013), and modeled for brands such as Dolce & Gabbana, Roberto Coin and Prada. In the end of 2013 she played a main role in the video for the song "Timber" by Pitbull.

In 2011 and 2012, she appeared in two Italian TV series: Qualunquemente and Teresa Manganiello, respectively. In 2014 she was named among the "25 Most Beautiful Women in the world" by the Italian webmagazine "BE! Magazine".

Early life
Modugno was born on 3 March 1988 in Ariano Irpino, Province of Avellino, Italy, to Joseph e Julia Modugno. She has a twin sister, Rosanna, and a brother, Vincent. As a teenager she was a basketball player, sport which she dedicated professionally 13 years of her life.

At 12 she started watching the Miss Italia contest with major interest.

Career

Pageantry
Raffaella Modugno started her career in beauty pageantry in 2007, when she competed for the first time in the Miss Italia contest. In the finals she was classified among the top 15 semifinalists. In between this and the next contest she would participate, she kept modeling for several brands.

In August 2011 she went for the Miss Curve d’Italia Elena Mirò Lazio 2011 (Miss Curvy Italy) and won it. The contest, promoted by the organization of Miss Italia, is intended for curvier candidates. Later in the same month she was again a candidate for the pageant Miss Italia 2011, but, even though she was one of the favourites to the crown, she was banned from the competition by the judicial department of the contest due to some sensual photos in lingerie she had taken while modeling. Against her, the Article 8 of the competition guidelines: «Nude poses and semi-nudity with strong emphasis on the provocative element.» Following the decision, a press release from the organization was made public and it stated:
«Raffaella Modugno, Miss Curve d’Italia Elena Mirò Lazio 2011, was excluded from the Miss Italia 2011 contest due to some photos published on the internet. The legal department of  Miss Italia and its director Patrizia Mirigliani have taken this decision after having examined—following numerous indications—photo shootings on the network showing ‘poses of nudity and others of semi-nudity with strong emphasis on the provocative element’.»
Besides her, two other contestants—Alice Bellotto and Tiziana Piergianni—were also eliminated for the same reasons.

Modeling
Being banned from Miss Italia gave Modugno even more notoriety and a boost to her career. In July 2012 she appeared on the cover of German Maxim, and her Mediterranean beauty and curvy body ended putting her later in the same year to pose for a series of photo shootings for a Riello company calendar in Nosy Be island, Madagascar. Besides it, she kept modeling for many fashion brands and campaigns, such as Roberto Coin, Bruno Caruso, Dolce & Gabbana, Prada, Tom Ford and Christian Louboutin. In December 2013 she posed for GQ Magazine (India issue).

At the end of 2013, she performed the main character as a femme fatale in the music video for the song "Timber" by Pitbull, featuring Kesha. Early in the same year she had played a key role in the video Sigame, by DJ Ju-Lio (feat. Manitú).

Personal life
In 2012, the international media publicised she was dating Diego Forlán, then a soccer player in Inter Milan, but in 2013 they reportedly had given an end to the short relationship.

In December 2012 when asked about her opinion on actress Mila Kunis' dismissal from Dior due to her weight gain she stated:
«I think it’s a futile reason, but evidently it’s weight enough for Dior as for many other brands, and this ends to conduct many models to anorexia. (…) This slenderness demanded for catwalk doesn’t correspond to the body of the Italian woman. We’re talking about size 36/38, which a 5’9’’ tall girl (minimum required for haute couture) hardly handles. (…) When I started modeling I didn’t have an identity, and I don’t deny having encountered obstacles for my career given my curvy body. But with time and experience I entered a market (size 44) which is more diverse to that seen in the catwalk, which shows the interest of many brands for curvy women.»
After participating in some film productions she stated she is currently investing in studying drama to impulse her career as actress.

In 2017, Modugno started dating singer Marc Anthony. Two years later—in December 2019—it was reported she was single again, whereas Anthony was dating model Jessica Lynne Harris.

Filmography

References

External links

 Raffaella Modugno for Riello Calendar

1988 births
Living people
Italian beauty pageant winners
Italian female models
Italian actresses
Italian twins


title: Gabriella Gatehouse

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Gabriella Gatehouse (born 21 October 1994) is a Brazilian-British model and beauty queen, best known for modelling for Nova Chiu at London Fashion Week in 2013, the first ever Miss Teen Galaxy England 2011, the first ever Miss Teenager England 2012 the first ever Miss Teen Royal Dynasty  2012 and winning Miss Earth England 2014 which gives her the right to represent England in Miss Earth 2014 pageant.

Biography

Early life and career beginnings
Gatehouse was born in Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil, the daughter of Jailza Gatehouse and Christopher Gatehouse. She attended Longdean School a Specialist Maths and Computing Academy in Hertfordshire and Oaklands College in Welwyn Garden City where she studied Information and communications technology.

In 2011 Gatehouse was scouted in London by Angel forever, where she modelled their jewelery as well as prom dresses. After wearing a Mac Duggal gown in the Miss Teen Galaxy International competition, she was invited to be Mac Duggal's model of the month for the November issue. She was then featured in Alexandra Burke's music video 'Let it go'. Since then Gatehouse has appeared in three international magazine covers, Fashion Affairs, Nossa, and SU Magazine. Gatehouse has modelled for over 10 Fashion shows including Pakistan Fashion Week, Pia Michi Fashion Show and in 2013 Gatehouse modelled for Nova Chiu at London Fashion Week. She has worked with Vogue, OK Magazine Pia Michi, Nova Chiu, Fashion Affairs Magazine, Mac Duggal, Nossa Magazine and Niji Magazine.

Pageantry
Gatehouse's career started off in pageantry. After winning Miss Teen Photogenic of the world in 2010 as well as Miss Teen Galaxy England in 2011, she went on to compete for the international title in Chicago, where she placed 1st runner up. She then flew to Florida to represent England in Miss Teen Royal Dynasty International, where she won as well as took home the awards of Miss Photogenic and Supermodel. Weeks later she won the Miss Teenager England competition and flew to Guatemala to compete for the Miss Teenager Universe crown.

Miss Earth England 2014
Gatehouse joined Miss Earth three weeks before the finals, where she was able to win the coveted crown and becomes the England's representative for Miss Earth 2014.

Miss Earth 2014
By winning Miss England Earth, Gatehouse flew to the Philippines in November to compete with almost 100 other candidates to be Alyz Henrich's successor as Miss Earth. However, despite her three special awards also the 1st ever British beauty queen to won National Costume award during the pageants preliminary activities, she was declared unplaced.

References

External links
Official Website

1994 births
Living people
Miss Earth 2014 contestants
British beauty pageant winners
People from Viçosa, Minas Gerais
British female models
Brazilian female models


title: AS Espoir Ambovombe

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AS Espoir Ambovombe is a Malagasy football club who currently plays in  the THB Champions League the top division of Malagasy football.
The team is based in the Ambovombe-Androy region in southern Madagascar.

References

External links
Soccerway

Espoir Ambovombe


title: B'nai B'rith Camp

text:
B'nai B'rith Camp may refer to:
B'nai B'rith Beber Camp
B'nai B'rith Perlman Camp
B’nai B’rith Camp (Oregon)
Camp B'nai B'rith of Ottawa


title: John Arnold (MP for Ipswich)

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John Arnold (died c. 1410), of Blaxhall and Ipswich, Suffolk, was an English Member of Parliament.

He married, at some point before 1387, a woman named Christine. She was probably a daughter of Thomas Terry, also of Ipswich.

He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Ipswich in September 1388, 1394, January 1397 and 1399; he was also coroner and bailiff of the town and an alnager in Suffolk.

References

14th-century births
1410 deaths
English MPs September 1388
English MPs 1394
English MPs January 1397
English MPs 1399
English coroners
Bailiffs
Alnagers
Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Ipswich


title: Uruk Trough

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The Uruk Trough is an important Sumerian sculpture found at the site of Uruk, Iraq. It has been part of the British Museum's collection since 1928. Along with the Uruk Vase, the trough is considered to be one of the earliest surviving works of narrative relief sculpture from the Middle East, dating to 3300-3000 BC, during the Uruk period. Simple relief sculpture is known from much earlier periods, from the site of Göbekli Tepe, dating to circa 9000 BC.

It is thought to have served as some sort of cult image in the temple of the goddess Inanna. The carving depicts a procession of sheep, but the meaning of this scene is unclear.

History and discovery
The trough was found at Uruk, an ancient city of Sumer and later Babylonia situated east of the Euphrates in southern Iraq. During the Uruk period (4000–3000 BC) Uruk was one of the largest cities  in southern Mesopotamia, stretching over  an area of . For a long time power seems to have been concentrated in the temples or religious organisations but eventually King Gilgamesh took over, building new structures and a massive city wall.  The Uruk Trough was probably  a venerated object in one of the temples in the city, perhaps devoted to the deity Inanna. The circumstances of its discovery are not known. The trough was purchased by the British Museum with the support of the National Art Collections Fund in 1928, just before the German Oriental Society carried out excavations at the site.

Description
The Uruk Trough is made of gypsum and is approximately  long. A fragment of one end of the object is now in the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin. Although called a 'trough' it is unlikely that it was used as such, as the decoration would have not been visible to viewers. It is more likely it was used as some sort of cult image, perhaps in the temple of Inanna, the principle goddess in ancient Mesopotamia at this time. The carving shows a procession of rams, ewes and lambs approaching or emerging from a reed building, similar one lived in by the Marsh Arabs in southern Iraq.  Experts have so far not been able to explain what the scenes mean, although the reed bundles on the building have been used subsequently as symbols of the goddess Inanna and the carvings may relate to the fecundity of the land under Inanna's protection.

See also
Uruk Vase for a contemporary object decorated in a similar style

References

Further reading
D. Collon, Ancient Near Eastern art (London, The British Museum Press, 1995)
J. Black and A. Green, Gods, demons and symbols of ancient mesopotamia (London, The British Museum Press, 1992)
H.W.F. Saggs, Babylonians (London, The British Museum Press, 1995)
P.P. Delougaz, 'Animals emerging from a hut', Journal of Near Eastern Studies-1, 27 (1968), pp. 186–7

4th-millennium BC works
1928 archaeological discoveries
Middle Eastern sculptures in the British Museum
Sculpture of the Ancient Near East
Uruk
Inanna
Reliefs in the United Kingdom
Sculptures of sheep
Cult images
Archaeological discoveries in Iraq


title: Nina Johnsrud

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Nina  Johnsrud (born 16 February 1959) is a Norwegian journalist who works as a crime reporter for the Oslo newspaper Dagsavisen. She was awarded the Fritt Ord Honorary Award for courageous journalism in 2012.

Education and early career
Johnsrud studied Spanish at the  University of Oslo and was then educated at Norsk journalisthøgskole (English: Norwegian Journalist College), now part of Oslo and Akershus University College. She has worked for the Lindesnes, Bergens Arbeiderblad, VG, Østlandets Blad and Klassekampen before starting as a journalist in Dagsavisen. She has also taught at Norsk journalisthøgskole.

Career in Dagsavisen
She started working in Dagsavisen in 1985. One of her interests was immigrants and minorities in Norway. She became involved in reporting on crime when she covered the conflict between the Young Guns and B-gjengen (English: The B-gang) gangs after a man was killed at Tøyen in 2001.

In July 2006, fours shots were fired at her house in Oppegård outside Oslo during the night. Three shots went through a window and one shot hit the front door. Johnsrud was sleeping in a tent at the time in the garden with her son. One source thought that the shooting was due to Johnsrud covering election fraud in the Oslo municipal elections by Yogaraja Balasingham.

Johnsrud was convinced that the shots related to her work as a crime journalist. In a commentary shortly after the incident, Aftenposten wrote that if Johnsrud had been targeted for her journalistic work, it "represented a grim new era in Norwegian journalism". Arfan Bhatti was charged for the shooting, but the charges were dropped in August 2007. The case has never been solved. Bhatti was later found guilty of shooting at a Jewish synagogue in 2006.

On 12 October 2012, Johnsrud wrote an article in Dagsavisen about Islamists associated with the Profetens Ummah group attending a course for prospective hunters. Passing the exam for hunters would make the persons in a position to apply for gun licences. The Islamists were reported to have expressed extreme views during the course. The leader of the course had reported the situation to the Norwegian Police Security Service. Ubaydullah Hussain, who was spokesperson for the Profetens Ummah, was interviewed in the article. Shortly after the article was published, Johnsrud received an email from Hussian which she perceived as threatening. The email stated that several persons were disappointed and it said "you should not be surprised if something or someone turn up in your life as well. With words or action, that I don't know". On 25 October 2012, Hussain was arrested and charged with threats against Johnsrud and another journalist. He was released after 53 days.

After the arrest, Johnsrud came forward as one of two journalists who had received threats. She called for increased focus on extremist groups. Editor Kaia Storvik in Dagsavisen decided to remove Johnsrud from covering Profetens Ummah and related subjects. Johnsrud publicly criticised the newspaper for this decision.

In November 2012, she was awarded the Fritt Ord Honorary Award for courageous journalism and defending free speech.

Ubaydullah Hussain was convicted for threats against Johnsrud in February 2014 in Oslo District Court. For this and some other criminal offenses, he was sentenced to 120 days in prison, of which 60 days was suspended. Hussain did not immediately indicate whether he would appeal the sentence.

Johnsrud participated in establishing the SKUP foundation for investigating journalism in 1990.

References

Norwegian newspaper journalists
1959 births
Living people


title: FC Grand Olympique de Menabe

text:
FC Grand Olympique de Menabe is a Malagasy football club who currently plays in  the THB Champions League the top division of Malagasy football.
The team is based in the Menabe region  in western Madagascar.

References

External links
Soccerway

Grand Olympique


title: Thomas Addis Emmet (bishop)

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Thomas Addis Emmet, SJ August 23, 1873 – October 5, 1950) was an American-born bishop of the Catholic Church. He served as the Vicar Apostolic of Jamaica from 1930 to 1949.

Early life
Thomas Emmet was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Edward and Julia (O'Shaughnessy) Emmet. He received his primary and secondary education in Boston before enrolling in Boston College.

Emmet made his novitiate in Frederick, Maryland and professed vows in the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) on August 15, 1895. He continued his education at the College of the Sacred Heart in Woodstock, Maryland and was ordained a priest there by Cardinal James Gibbons of Baltimore on July 30, 1909.  He professed final vows on February 2, 1914.

Career
Emmet joined the faculty of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. before joining the faculty of St. George's College in Kingston, Jamaica. He went to become the headmaster at Georgetown Preparatory School in North Bethesda, Maryland.

On July 3, 1930 Pope Pius XI appointed Emmet as the Titular Bishop of Tuscamia and Vicar Apostolic of Jamaica. He was consecrated a bishop by Cardinal William Henry O'Connell of Boston on September 21, 1930. The principal co-consecrators were Auxiliary Bishops John Bertram Peterson of Boston and John Michael McNamara of Baltimore.

He continued to serve as the Vicar Apostolic until his resignation was accepted by Pope Pius XII on April 8, 1949, for health reasons.

Death
He died in Boston at the age of 77 on October 5, 1950.

References

1873 births
1950 deaths
Clergy from Boston
Georgetown University faculty
19th-century American Jesuits
20th-century American Jesuits
Jesuit bishops
American Roman Catholic missionaries
Roman Catholic missionaries in Jamaica
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Jamaica
20th-century American Roman Catholic titular bishops
American Roman Catholic clergy of Irish descent
Jesuit missionaries
American expatriates in Jamaica


title: Hubert Rohault de Fleury (painter)

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Hubert-Jean-Baptiste Rohault de Fleury (26 December 1828 – 11 October 1910) was a French painter and philanthropist. He was one of the initiators of the Basilica of Sacré-Cœur, Paris.

Life

Hubert Rohault de Fleury was born in the 8th arrondissement of Paris on 26 December 1828.
His brother was Georges Rohault de Fleury (1835–1904), who shared his deep religious beliefs.
Their father was Charles Rohault de Fleury (1801–1875) and their grandfather Hubert Rohault de Fleury (1777–1846), both architects.
His mother died in 1840, and his adolescence was difficult. At the age of 16 he gained permission from his father to join the merchant marine as an apprentice officer.

He traveled from Le Havre to Réunion, Calcutta, and Jakarta. After returning, he signed up for a voyage to Martinique and Haiti. On returning he resumed his studies of mathematics, planning to study at the École Polytechnique, but was unable to do so due to the French Revolution of 1848. In November 1848 he became an apprentice officer in the navy, and was sent to Panama where he came under the wing of the commandant Belvèze, an old family friend. He helped with the transport of troops to Italy in 1849.

Rohault de Fleury was not satisfied with the seagoing life. He tried to go into business but failed. He became absorbed in painting and drawing, which became a lifetime occupation. He met Louise Marcotte, and they were married at Notre Dame de Lorette in 1857.
Louise Marie Chantal Marcotte (1833–1873) was the second daughter of Charles Marcotte d'Argenteuil, the friend and benefactor of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.
Ingres drew a portrait of Louise Marie in 1868, and ten years later drew a portrait of Hubert Rohault de Fleury.
A first child, Jacques, was born in 1858. Louise had a miscarriage in 1862, then gave birth to Charlotte in 1864.
After this they decided to have no more children.

Rohault de Fleury became increasingly involved in the religious life. He exhibited once at the Salon in 1863 and was well-received, but although he continued to paint he did not attempt to sell his work.
At the start of the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871) Hubert Rohault de Fleury and Alexandre Legentil vowed to finance construction of the Sacré-Coeur Basilica if France was spared from assault. Despite the defeat of France, the country was not invaded and occupied.
After the situation had calmed down, Legentil and Rohault de Fleury, who were brothers-in-law, soon obtained approval for the project from the Catholic Church. It was taken up with enthusiasm by Cardinal Joseph-Hippolyte Guibert, the new archbishop of Paris.
Work on the basilica started in 1875 to a design by Paul Abadie.

Rohault de Fleury's wife died in 1873 and his father died in 1875.
He dedicated the remainder of his life to the construction of Sacré Coeur.
Falling ill in 1905 he retired to his daughter's home in Sceaux, where he died in 1910.

Selected publications

Hubert Rohault de Fleury was the author of the following publications:
Souvenirs de 1870–1871, par H. Rohault de Fleury   National Library of France
Historique de la basilique du Sacré-Coeur, pièces et documents réunis par H. Rohault de Fleury, ... Tome IV. 1891–1895  National Library of France
Basilique du Sacré-Coeur de Jésus à Montmartre  National Library of France
Un nouvel exploit de Mlle Jacqueline. [Par H. Rohaut de Fleury.]   National Library of France
Le Commandant de Belvèze. Lettres choisies dans sa correspondance. 1824–1875. (Publiées par Hubert et Georges Rohault de Fleury.)  National Library of France
Quelques histoires, par H. Rohault de Fleury (1)  National Library of France

References
Citations

Sources

Further reading

1828 births
1910 deaths
19th-century French painters
French male painters
20th-century French painters
20th-century French male artists
19th-century French male artists


title: Pummilla Tallinnaan

text:
"Pummilla Tallinnaan" is a song by Finnish rapper Tuomas Kauhanen featuring Mikko (full name Mikko Björk). The song peaked at number one on the Finnish Singles Chart.

Chart performance

References

Finnish songs
2014 singles
Number-one singles in Finland
2014 songs
Warner Music Group singles


title: The Golem and the Jinni

text:
The Golem and the Jinni (published as The Golem and the Djinni in the United Kingdom) is a debut novel written by Helene Wecker, published by Harper in April 2013. It combines the genre of historical fiction with elements of fantasy, telling the story of two displaced magical creatures in 19th century New York City. A sequel, The Hidden Palace, was published in June 2021.

Background
Wecker wished to write a story about the blending of Jewish and Arabic cultures, and her novel is a "metaphorical autobiography" according to scholar Brian Attebery. Wecker is Jewish and her husband Arab, and she said that elements of the story were inspired by "similarities between our families, the way that certain themes echo between them". A mythical creature from each tradition is portrayed in the book, in the golem and the jinni.

Plot summary
In the Polish town of Konin at the end of the 19th century, a corrupt kabbalist named Yehudah Schaalman creates a golem in the shape of a woman at the request of young Otto Rotfeld, who seeks a submissive, attentive, and curious wife. Rotfeld dies during a subsequent sea voyage to New York City, leaving the newly awakened golem in an unfamiliar environment. A rabbi in New York takes in the golem and, naming her Chava, starts teaching her to pass as human among the diverse groups of people living in New York. Meanwhile, a tinsmith in New York's Little Syria accidentally frees a jinni from a flask in which he has been imprisoned for a millennium. With no memory of how he was subdued, the jinni is virtually powerless and trapped in human form. He takes the name Ahmad and apprentices with the tinsmith while searching for a way to return to his natural form.

Chava and Ahmad eventually meet, recognizing each other as inhuman, and become friends, though they have different views on being inhuman while living in a human world. Chava seeks to be more human and fears losing control and exposing herself, whereas Ahmad holds a jaded view towards social restraints and engages in hedonistic pursuits. Chava and Ahmad's influence on the lives of the people around them comes to a climax as Chava's creator comes to New York, intent on finding the secret to eternal life. He is discovered to be a reincarnation of the evil sorcerer who trapped Ahmad.

Critical reception
The Golem and the Jinni received mostly positive reviews. Kirkus Reviews gave the novel a starred review stating Wecker "writes skillfully, nicely evoking the layers of alienness that fall upon strangers in a strange land". Entertainment Weekly gave the book an "A" grade saying: "The book's magic, filtered through the old-time hustle and bustle of the Lower East Side, lingers long after the final page." Reviewer Curt Schleier said: "The story is so inventive, so elegantly written and so well constructed that it's hard to believe this is a first novel." The Publishers Weekly review concluded with: "The ending dips into melodrama, but the human touches more than compensate in Wecker's spellbinding blend of fantasy and historical fiction." Criticism of the book focused on the book's length and narrative pacing, with one reviewer saying the story gets "swamped by pages and pages of the jinni's ancient backstory, historical minutiae and the histrionics and melodrama of the sorcerer's quest for eternal life."

In 2014 the novel was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel and the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and won the 2014 Mythopoeic Award.

The audiobook presentation, narrated by George Guidall, was a finalist for a 2014 Audie Award.

Themes
Reviewers noted the themes of immigration within the novel. The New York Times said the novel "neatly lends itself to allegory, contrasting several Old Worlds with the immigrant experience and its new class divisions." USA Today remarked that the novel is "a traditional story about assimilation, as the Golem and the Jinni navigate life under challenging constraints and are forced to suppress their true natures. The immigrants around them, too, struggle in a new world that is strange and suspicious of their presence. Above all, this is a story about the painful burdens of history and identity."

Reviewer Abigail Nussbaum, writing for Strange Horizons, believes the novel has a strong theme of loneliness, stating: "Chava and Ahmad are doubly isolated, unable to look inward and find solace in their community as the humans around them do, " and "...even human characters like Rabbi Meyer, Michael, and Arbeely are unable to find solace for their loneliness in communal living."

Sequel
The Hidden Palace: A Tale of the Golem and the Jinni was published on June 8, 2021.

References

Works cited

External links
 Official website
 Interview with Helene Wecker at FantasyLiterature.Com

2013 American novels
American fantasy novels
Fictional golems
Kabbalah
Jinn in popular culture
Golem
Novels set in Poland
Novels set in the 1890s
2013 debut novels
Love stories
HarperCollins books


title: World Art Day

text:
World Art Day is an international celebration of the fine arts which was declared by the International Association of Art (IAA) in order to promote awareness of creative activity worldwide.

Establishment
A proposal was put forward at the 17th General Assembly of the International Association of Art in Guadalajara to declare April 15 as World Art Day, with the first celebration held in 2012. This proposal was sponsored by Bedri Baykam of Turkey and co-signed by Rosa Maria Burillo Velasco of Mexico, Anne Pourny of France, Liu Dawei of China, Christos Symeonides of Cyprus, Anders Liden of Sweden, Kan Irie of Japan, Pavel Kral of Slovakia, Dev Chooramun of Mauritius, and Hilde Rognskog of Norway. It was accepted unanimously by the General Assembly.

The date was decided in honor of the birthday of Leonardo da Vinci. Da Vinci was chosen as a symbol of world peace, freedom of expression, tolerance, brotherhood and multiculturalism as well as art’s importance to other fields.

Past celebrations
The first World Art Day on April 15, 2012, was supported by all IAA national committees and 150 artists, including those of France, Sweden, Slovakia, South Africa, Cyprus and Venezuela, but the intention of the event is universal. Events varied from special museum hours to conferences and more. For example Venezuela held outdoor art exhibitions with paintings, sculptures, prints, video and more, as well as a Florentine cooking demonstration in honor of Da Vinci.

More events were held in 2013 all over the world including the Mbombela municipal art museum in South Africa. However, there was controversy at celebrations in Sweden when the Swedish minister of Culture, Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, cut into the genitals of a cake representing a black African woman. The performance art was meant to be a statement against genital mutilation but many found the depiction racist.

World Art Day has also been supported online, especially by the Google Art Project.

See also
Universal Day of Culture

References

External links

Arts festivals


title: Temperance Billiard Halls

text:
Temperance Billiard Hall Co. Ltd. was a company founded in 1906 in Pendleton, Lancashire, as part of the wider temperance movement, which built billiard halls in the north of England and London.

Several of the former halls are now Grade II listed buildings, such as the 1910 Temperance Billiard Hall, Fulham, London, now somewhat ironically a pub called The Temperance.

The Temperance Billiard Hall built in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, in 1907, also Grade II listed, is now a J D Wetherspoon pub called the Sedge Lynn.

Their first in-house architect was Norman Evans, who designed a dozen and a half halls from 1906 to 1911, including both of the halls mentioned above.

Thomas Retford Somerford (sometimes noted mistakenly as T. G. Somerford) was their second architect. His 1912-1914 hall at 134-141 King's Road, Chelsea, London is now a Grade II listed building. Somerford's hall at 411-417 Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, London is also still there, but the frontage has been sub-divided into a number of smaller shop units, and the upper storeys are used as a hotel.

Locations (July 1958)

London

Acton: 27 King Street
Battersea: 66 Battersea Rise (illustrated)

Chelsea: 131 King's Road (illustrated)
Clapham: 47 Clapham High Street (illustrated)
Croydon: 16 Katherine Street
Ealing: 34/42 Bond Street
Fulham: 90 High St
Hammersmith: 150 King Street
Highbury: 12 Highbury Corner
Hounslow: 1 High Street
Ilford: 257 High Road

Kingston: 17/19 Fife Road
Lavender Hill: 638/640 Wandsworth Road
Lewisham: 237 High Street
Morden: 36 Aberconway Road
Putney: 118 High Street
Richmond: 6 Red Lion Street
Streatham: 42 Streatham High Road
Tooting Bec: 2a Lynwood Road
Twickenham: 1 Richmond Road
Victoria: 104/112 Buckingham Palace Road
Walthamstow: Hoe Street, E17 (also known as the Queen's)
Wimbledon: 111 The Broadway
Wood Green: 1/3 High Road

Sussex
Worthing: 12 Bath Place

Greater Manchester
Eccles: Liverpool Road
Oldham: Union Street
Rochdale: Nelson Street
Urmston: Station Road

Manchester
Cheetham Hill: Cheetham Hill Road
Chorlton: Manchester Road
Gorton: Hyde Road
Harpurhey: Rochdale Road
Moss Side: Moss Lane East
Rusholme: Wilmslow Road

References

Temperance movement
1906 establishments in the United Kingdom
Cue sports in the United Kingdom


title: Sophie Elkan

text:
Sophie Elkan née Salomon (3 January 1853, Gothenburg –5 April 1921, Gothenburg), was a Swedish writer and translator.

Life

Sophie Salomon was born to the merchant Alexander Salomon and Henriette Abrahamson: her parents had migrated to Sweden from Germany. Her elder brother, Otto Salomon was educator. She was raised in a happy home and affected strongly by her intellectual mother. In 1872 she married her cousin, the music book seller Nathan Elkan (1834-1879), with whom she had a daughter, Kerstin (1877-1879). Her marriage was happy, and the death of both her spouse and daughter in december 1879 with tuberculosis caused a crisis; for the rest of her life, she dressed in black.

As a widow, she began to make translations, publish serials and papers, and debuted as a novelist in 1889. Her first novel, John Hall – en historia från det gamla Göteborg, was an immediate success. As a writer, she made much use of her own life and experiences in her novels.

As a person, she has been described as egocentric and nervous, but also as hospitable and charming. In 1894, she became acquainted with Selma Lagerlöf, who, as is evident from their correspondence, was in love with her. The two women visited Italy in 1895, and traveled to Egypt, Palestine, Italy, France, Belgium and Holland in 1899.
After her death, Lagerlöf inherited her personal possessions, which she used to convert a room in her home Mårbacka into an Elkan museum, known as Elkanrummet (Elkan Room).

In fiction
The relationship between Selma Lagerlöf, Valborg Olander and Sophie Elkan was portrayed in Selma, a TV series written by Åsa Lantz in 2008, with Helena Bergström as Selma Lagerlöf, Ingela Olsson as Valborg Olander and Alexandra Rapaport as Sophie Elkan.

Works
 Dur och moll: skizzer och berättelser. Visby: Gotlands Allehandas tr. 1889.
 Med sordin : Skisser och novelletter. Visby. 1891.
 Rika flickor: berättelse. Stockholm: Fr. Skoglund i distr. 1893.
 Säfve, Kurt & C:o: nutidsberättelse. Stockholm: Skoglund (distr.). 1894.
 Skiftande stämningar: ett novellhäfte. Visby. 1896.
 John Hall: en historia från det gamla Göteborg. Stockholm: Bonnier. 1899.
 Drömmen om österlandet. Nordiskt familjebibliotek, 99-3140236-9 ; 10. Stockholm: Bonnier. 1901.
 Konungen: en sannsaga. Stockholm: Bonnier. 1904.
 Konungen i landsflykt: en sannsaga. Stockholm: Bonnier. 1906.
 Från östan och västan: en novellbok. Stockholm: Bonnier. 1908.
 Anckarström : en historia från idyllens och revolutionernas tidehvarf.. Stockholm: Bonnier. 1910
 Erdmann, Nils	August Bondeson ;  Ola Hansson ; Sophie Elkan ; Axel Lundegård ; Daniel Fallström. Sveriges national-litteratur, 1500-1900 / utgifvet af Henrik Schück och Ruben G:son Berg, 20. Albert Bonniers, 1912.

References

Heggestad, Eva (1991). . Uppsala: Avd. för litteratursociologi vid Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen, Univ. Libris 7746142.
Sophie Elkan in Nordisk familjebok (second edition, 1907)
Svenskt författarlexikon: . [1, 1900–1940]. Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren. 1942. sid. 183–184. Libris 113133

Further reading

External links

1853 births
1921 deaths
19th-century Swedish women writers
19th-century Swedish writers
Swedish Jews
Swedish people of German-Jewish descent
Selma Lagerlöf


title: Cochemiea conoidea

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Cochemiea conoidea, common name Texas cone cactus or Chihuahuan beehive, is a species of cactus native to western Texas and to the Mexican states of Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, and Zacatecas. It is a part of the Chihuahuan Desert desert scrub and the Tamaulipan thorn scrub.

Cochemiea conoidea is an unbranched cylindrical cactus up to 24 cm (9.6 inches) tall and up to 8 cm (3.2 inches) in diameter. Outer tepals of the flowers are whitish with green midveins; inner tepals bright pink-rose to magenta. Fruits are pale yellow-olive with black seeds.

References

conoidea
Flora of Coahuila
Flora of Durango
Flora of Nuevo León
Flora of San Luis Potosí
Flora of Texas
Flora of Tamaulipas
Flora of Zacatecas


title: Roope Hintz

text:
Roope Hintz (; born 17 November 1996), nicknamed the "Ace of Spades", is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL).

Growing up in Finland, Hintz played within the Ilves organization before spending the 2012–13 season playing for the Tampa Bay Juniors in the Empire Junior Hockey League. He also played an early portion of the season with the Bismarck Bobcats of the North American Hockey League before returning to play for Ilves professionally in Finland. Hintz played in seven Liiga games but spent the majority of the season with Finland's U20 team. As the youngest player on the Ilves during the 2014–15 Liiga season, Hintz recorded five goals and 12 assists for 17 points through 42 games. Due to his Liiga play, Hintz was ranked by the NHL Central Scouting Bureau amongst the eligible European skaters before being selected 49th overall by the Dallas Stars in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft.

Hintz made the transition to the North American professional leagues during the 2017–18 NHL season. He played with the Stars' American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Texas Stars, during the 2018 Calder Cup Finals against the Toronto Marlies. Hintz's play during the 2018–19 season earned him a full-time position at the NHL level during the 2019–20 season and during 2021–22 began playing consistently as the top line center, and the top player on the team.

Early life
Hintz was born on 17 November 1996, in Tampere, Finland to parents Marika and Kai. Although he was born in Tampere, Hintz grew up and learned to skate in Nokia, Finland. He began his playing career with the Nokia Pyry at Pyry Skating School at the age of three. He was also a multi-sport athlete growing up, playing organized basketball, soccer and hockey. While both of his parents played basketball growing up, Hintz chose to follow his brother Miiko and play ice hockey.

Playing career

Ilves

Growing up in Finland, Hintz played within the Ilves organization before being encouraged to spend the 2012–13 season playing for the Tampa Bay Juniors in the Empire Junior Hockey League. He also played an early portion of the season with the Bismarck Bobcats of the North American Hockey League before deciding to turn professional and play for Ilves in Finland. During his 20 games with the Juniors, Hintz tallied 20 goals and 15 assists for 35 points as he got acclimated to the smaller ice surfaces in North America. Upon returning to Finland, Hintz made his Liiga debut playing with Ilves during the 2013–14 Liiga season. He played in seven Liiga games but spent the majority of the season with their U20 team. In November 2013, Hintz was chosen as the Finnish Youth Championship League's October Player of the Month.

During the 2014–15 Liiga season, which Hintz played with the Ilves, he recorded five goals and 12 assists for 17 points through 42 games. As the youngest player on the team, he finished eighth in points and seventh in assists.

HIFK
On 23 April 2015, after two seasons with Ilves, Hintz transferred to fellow Liiga club HIFK on a two-year contract. Hintz was ranked by the NHL Central Scouting Bureau amongst the eligible European skaters before he was selected 49th overall by the Dallas Stars in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft.

Hintz returned to the Liiga following the draft but suffered an injury and missed the start of the 2015–16 season. After missing the first 11 games of the season, Hintz returned to HIFK as their second-line center. Within the following 10 games, Hintz registered two goals and three assists while also averaging 18:09 of ice time per game. He also competed in the 2016 Channel One Cup with Finland's top national team and he recorded one goal and one assist in three games. Despite missing the first eleven games of the season, Hintz finished the season with 19 goals and 11 assists for 30 points through 44 games. Hintz continued his scoring prowess into the post-season and led the Liiga in scoring with three goals and 11 assists for 14 points through 14 games prior to HIFK being eliminated.

Dallas Stars
Following the conclusion of the 2016–17 Liiga season, Hintz signed a three-year, entry-level contract with the Dallas Stars. He attended the Stars' training camp prior to the 2017–18 season but was assigned to their American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Texas Stars. He made his AHL debut in the Stars' season opener on 5 October and scored in their 6–5 win over the Chicago Wolves. By December 2017, Hintz had recorded nine goals and eight assists through 31 games to lead team rookies in scoring. He continued to produce offensively as the second half of the season began and by March was tied for fifth on the team with 27 points. As a result of his play, Hintz was recalled to the NHL level on 5 March 2018. He rejoined the AHL team the following day without making his NHL debut. Upon rejoining the Stars' lineup, Hintz helped them make a 2018 Calder Cup playoffs push by scoring five goals in his last 10 games to tie for 11th among AHL rookies in goal scoring. During his first Calder Cup playoffs, Hintz played an important role in the Stars' push to the 2018 Calder Cup Finals against the Toronto Marlies. In the first round against the Ontario Reign, Hintz assisted on two important goals; Brian Flynn's game-winner in overtime and Denis Gurianov's game-winner in Game 4 that clinched the series. He then recorded three goals and three assists in the Conference Finals against the Rockford IceHogs, including the overtime Game 6 winner. His goal came with 8.5 seconds left in overtime to give the Stars a 2–1 win over the IceHogs. The Stars eventually lost to the Marlies in Game 7 of the Finals.

Following their Calder Cup loss, Hintz participated for the Stars in the 2018 NHL Prospect Tournament in Traverse City, Michigan. During the tournament, he centered the Stars' top line with various linemates including Nick Caamano and Jason Robertson. He continued to impress the Stars' coaching staff during their preseason games and spent time centering the top line with Jamie Benn and Alexander Radulov. As a result of his impressive training camp and preseason efforts, Hintz was named to the Dallas Stars roster to start the 2018–19 NHL season. He subsequently made his NHL debut on 4 October 2018, playing 9:59 and recording one shot on goal and four hits in a 3–0 win over the Arizona Coyotes. However, after playing in five games for Dallas and recording seven shots, Hintz was re-assigned to their AHL affiliate on 20 October. When speaking of the demotion, coach Jim Montgomery stated it was to get him going after he struggled in his five games. Upon returning to the AHL, Hintz earned a spot on their top line alongside Denis Gurianov and Michael Mersch as he recorded four points through his first three games. He remained in the AHL for nine games and produced 11 points before being recalled to the NHL level on 18 November 2018. That same night, Hintz played in his sixth NHL game and scored his first NHL goal at the Barclays Center in a 6–2 victory over the New York Islanders. During his time at the NHL level, Hintz recorded three points before being re-assigned to the Texas Stars on 6 December.

As the second half of the season continued, Hintz was sent down to the AHL three times and recalled three times. However, after being re-assigned shortly during the NHL All-Star Game break and Dallas' bye week, he eventually became a mainstay on the Dallas Stars lineup. By February, Hintz began to earn top-six minutes while playing on the left wing with Tyler Seguin and Alexander Radulov. Following an injury to Jamie Benn, Hintz earned a spot on the Stars' top line with Seguin and Radulov, where he scored the overtime game-winner to re-secure the Stars' wildcard spot for the 2019 Stanley Cup playoffs. Hintz finished the regular season with four goals and seven assists for 11 points through his final 14 regular-season games. As the Stars began their 2019 Stanley Cup push, Hintz helped the Stars beat the Nashville Predators in the Eastern Conference First Round to face the eventual winners, the St. Louis Blues, in the Western Conference Second Round. Despite having a weak start in his first NHL playoff series, Hintz worked with assistant coach Stu Barnes following Game 2 and went 15-for-29 in faceoffs during his Games 3 and 4. Beyond improving in faceoffs, Hintz also scored his first and second career playoff goals on 17 April 2019 to even up the series against the Predators. After eliminating the Predators, Hintz and the Stars faced the St. Louis Blues. After injuring his foot in Game 6, Hintz returned to the ice the following game with a fractured foot. He played through the injury and recorded two shots on goal and three blocked shots through 45 shifts. Prior to being eliminated by the Blues, Hintz and Radulov co-led the team in goal scoring with five goals each.

Hintz's play during the 2018–19 season earned him a full time position at the NHL level during the 2019–20 season. Throughout the month of October, he centered the top line with Jamie Benn and Corey Perry while leading the team in points and goals. While maintaining this pace, he also ranked 10th on the team in average time on ice at 16:28. His strong start to the season was cut short in November after he suffered a lower body injury during a game against the Montreal Canadiens. At the time of the injury, he led the Stars with nine goals and 11 points. Hintz was eventually placed on injured reserve retroactive to 2 November. In his return to the lineup on 23 November, Hintz scored which extended the team's point streak to 11. Hintz continued to produce following his injury and continued to rank first on the team in goals with 15 by late January. His suffered another upper body injury during a game against the Tampa Bay Lightning on 27 January 2020. Hintz returned to the top line with Benn and Seguin after missing two games. While skating on the top line, Hintz scored the game-tying goal and overtime game-winning goal in a February contest against the St. Louis Blues. He subsequently became the first Stars player since Mike Ribeiro to achieve such a feat. When the NHL paused play due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Hintz was tied with Benn for second on the team with 19 goals despite ranking eighth among its forwards in average ice time per game.

When the NHL resumed playing in August, Hintz and the Stars defeated the Calgary Flames, Colorado Avalanche, and Vegas Golden Knights to qualify for the Stanley Cup Finals. During their series against the Flames, Hintz played significantly more minutes than he did during the regular season. While he averaged 14:45 during the regular season, Hintz played 17 minutes in Game 4. The Stars eventually defeated the Flames in the six games to face off against the Colorado Avalanche in the Western Conference Second Round. During Game 1 of their series against the Avalanche, Hintz tallied his first post-season goal of the tournament to lead the Stars to a Game 1 victory. He eventually helped the Stars defeat the Avalanche in seven games to face the Vegas Golden Knights in the Western Conference Final. During their series, Hintz suffered an injury in Game 4 and was considered a game-time decision for Game 5. After eliminating the Knights, Hintz suffered another injury in the Stanley Cup Finals against the Lightning.

Following the Stars' elimination from the playoffs, Jim Nill signed Hintz to a three-year contract extension worth $9,450,000 with an average annual value of $3,150,000. During the off-season, Hintz took four weeks off to rest and recover in Finland but underwent an MRI upon his return to Dallas that revealed surgery was required. Despite the injury, Hintz was one of 13 forwards named to the Stars' 2020–21 opening night roster. He put up career highs in goals, assists, and points through the shortened season despite enduring an injury for most of the campaign.

During the 2021–22 NHL season, Hintz has played on the Stars' top line, alongside Joe Pavelski and Jason Robertson, who contributed heavily to the goal-scoring of the Stars for the season with the line combining for almost 44% of the Stars’ goals. On 30 November, Hintz recorded his first career NHL hat-trick to beat the Carolina Hurricanes 4–1. He reached the 30-goal mark after his first 65 games of the regular season.

Hintz began the 2022–23 season again on the Stars' top line, playing at or above a point-per-game pace for the first 20 games of his season. On 29 November 2022, Hintz signed an eight-year, $67.6 million contract extension to remain with the Stars. On 19 April 2023, Hintz recorded his first career postseason hat-trick in Game 2 of the Stars' 7–3 win against the Minnesota Wild in the first round series He became only the fourth Stars player ever to score a hat-trick in the playoffs and the first to do it in Dallas.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

References

External links

1996 births
Living people
Dallas Stars draft picks
Dallas Stars players
Finnish expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
Finnish ice hockey forwards
HIFK (ice hockey) players
Ice hockey people from Tampere
Ilves players
Texas Stars players


title: Light Work

text:
Light Work is a photography center in Syracuse, New York. The artist-run nonprofit supports photographers through a community-access digital lab facility, residencies, exhibitions, and publications.

History
The organization is housed at Syracuse University in the Robert B. Menschel Media Center. Founding directors Phil Block and Tom Bryan established it in 1973 and Jeffrey Hoone has led Light Work since 1982.
Its programs are supported by National Endowment for the Arts; New York State Council on the Arts; Robert and Joyce Menschel; Vital Projects Fund, Inc.; Syracuse University; Central New York Community Foundation; Joy of Giving Something, Inc., as well as by local subscribers.

Autograph ABP, the Community Folk Art Center, En Foco, the Everson Museum of Art, the Red House Art Center, the Urban Video Project (UVP), and others are collaborative partners of the center.

Jeffrey Hoone joined Light Work in 1980 and was assistant director from 1980-1982. He was director from 1982-2005, and executive director from 2005-2021. He retired from Light Work in 2021 and currently is the president of the Joy of Giving Something Foundation."

Programs

Artists-in-residence program
The program, which began in 1976, annually invites a dozen or more artists to Syracuse to work on new projects. Residency includes a stipend, a furnished apartment, staff support, and access to its facilities. In 2018, the program had an acceptance rate of 1.3%.
New work by artists-in-residence is published in a special edition of the center's magazine, Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual, including an essay commissioned by Light Work. Work by former artists-in-residence is also part of the Light Work collection.

, more than 500 artists from 16 different countries have participated in the program. Notable photographers who have participated in this Artists in Residence program include Amy Jenkins, Yijun Liao, Stuart Rome, Demetrius Oliver, Don Gregorio Antón, Ka-Man Tse, Robert J. Hirsch, Cindy Sherman, Anthony Hernandez, Pao Houa Her, Kris Graves, Carolyn Drake, Stuart Rome, Richard Bruce Snodgrass, and Nancy Floyd.

Light Work Lab
The Lab offers members technical assistance through a digital lab with DIY printing and scanning equipment, a digital service lab, private studios, black-and-white darkrooms, a lighting studio, and a library.

It also runs workshops and classes covering darkroom and technical foundations of photography to digital workflow and practical professional development.

Urban Video Project
The Urban Video Project (UVP) is a multi-media public art initiative of Light Work and Syracuse University with technology provided by Time Warner Cable. Its mission is to present exhibitions and projects that celebrate the arts and culture of Syracuse, where UVP operates one permanent exhibition site and one mobile projection unit along the city's Connective Corridor. UVP Everson projects an image near the size of an IMAX screen above the sculpture plaza of the Everson Museum of Art.

Exhibitions
Since its inception Light Work has presented over 400 exhibitions. Four are curated annually in its Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery. Other venues include Light Work’s Hallway Gallery, the Community Darkrooms Gallery, and the Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery. Light Work regularly collaborates with the Urban Video Project (UVP), the Everson Museum of Art, and other organizations and galleries in Syracuse. Satellite exhibitions are occasionally held at the Palitz Gallery at the Syracuse University Lubin House in New York City.

Collection
The Light Work Collection holds over 4,000 photographs and art objects.

Artists-in-residence such as Cindy Sherman, John Gossage, Sunil Gupta, and others, are represented with early work that was made during the time of their Light Work residency.

Publication
Contact Sheet covers the latest work by emerging and mid-career artists from around the world. Its five issues each year are designed and printed in the tradition of fine art photography monographs and are advertisement-free. Many important photographers have been included in the early stages of their careers, including Andres Serrano, Carrie Mae Weems, Hank Willis Thomas, and others.

References

External links

American photography organizations
Photography museums and galleries in the United States
Museums of American art
Museums in Syracuse, New York
Arts organizations established in 1973
1973 establishments in New York (state)
Syracuse University


title: Vaniusha and The Space Pirate

text:
Vaniusha and The Space Pirate () is a 1991 Soviet Russian stop-motion animation film by Vladimir Danilevich. This film was produced by Soyuzmultfilm studio. The film is about The Friendly Newcomer from another planet. The film is The Third Film of the tetralogy, which tells about the adventures of The Newcomer Vaniusha and his friends. Other three films called The Newcomer in The Cabbage, Vaniusha The Newcomer and Vaniusha and The Giant.

Plot summary
The Alien Prince arrives on Earth, He asks for help Vanyusha. The Space Pirate kidnapped The Alien Princess. Vanyusha with His friends help The Alien Prince and save The Princess.

In The Plot of This Film are mixed The Elements of The Folk Tales and The Science Fiction Stories.

Creators

See also
"The Newcomer in The Cabbage"
"Vaniusha The Newcomer"
"Vaniusha and The Giant"

External links
Vaniusha and The Space Pirate at Animator.ru
The Film at The Russian Movie base (rus) at Kinopoisk.ru

1991 animated films
1991 films
Russian animated films
Soyuzmultfilm
Soviet animated films
Russian and Soviet animated science fiction films


title: Tomás Salazar

text:
Tomás E. Salazar (born October 2, 1943 in Chapelle, New Mexico) is an American politician who served as a member of the New Mexico House of Representatives from January 15, 2013 to January 19, 2021.

Education
Salazar earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from New Mexico Highlands University, his Master of Arts in the mathematics from the University of Montana, and his PhD in mathematics from the University of New Mexico.

Elections
2012 Salazar challenged District 70 incumbent Democratic Representative Richard Vigil in the June 5, 2012 Democratic Primary, winning with 2,526 votes (55.3%) against Representative Vigil, and was unopposed for the November 6, 2012 General election, winning with 8,441 votes.

References

External links
Official page at the New Mexico Legislature

Tomas E. Salazar at Ballotpedia
Tomas E. Salazar at the National Institute on Money in State Politics

1943 births
Living people
Hispanic and Latino American state legislators in New Mexico
Democratic Party members of the New Mexico House of Representatives
New Mexico Highlands University alumni
People from San Miguel County, New Mexico
University of Montana alumni
University of New Mexico alumni
21st-century American politicians
People from Las Vegas, New Mexico


title: Edward Henry Ozmun

text:
Edward Henry Ozmun (August 6, 1857 – December 9, 1910) was an American lawyer, diplomat, and politician.

Biography
Edward Henry Ozmun was born in Rochester, Minnesota on August 6, 1857. His father was Abram Ozmun, who served in the Minnesota State Legislature and as mayor of Rochester.

Ozmun married Clara B. Goodman on November 21, 1894, and they had one daughter.

He went to the University of Wisconsin. He then received his bachelor's and law degree from the University of Michigan. He practiced law in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He served in the Minnesota State Senate from 1895 to 1898 as a Republican. Ozmun then served in the United States Consular Service. He was first stationed in Stuttgart, Germany. In 1905, he became consul-general at Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, serving until his death there on December 9, 1910.

Notes

1857 births
1910 deaths
Politicians from Rochester, Minnesota
Politicians from Saint Paul, Minnesota
University of Michigan Law School alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
American consuls
Minnesota lawyers
Republican Party Minnesota state senators
19th-century American politicians
19th-century American lawyers


title: Chisocheton crustularii

text:
Chisocheton crustularii is a tree in the family Meliaceae. It grows up to  tall with a trunk diameter of up to . The bark is greyish. The flowers are white. The specific epithet  is from the Latin meaning "pastry maker", referring to the tart-shaped flower disc. Habitat is rain forest. C. crustularii is endemic to Borneo and known only from Sarawak.

References

crustularii
Endemic flora of Borneo
Trees of Borneo
Flora of Sarawak
Plants described in 1979


title: History of the Five Dynasties

text:
History of the Five Dynasties may refer to:

 The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the era of Chinese history from 907 to 960
Old History of the Five Dynasties, a 974 history book on this period by Xue Juzheng and others
New History of the Five Dynasties, a 1073 history book on this period by Ouyang Xiu


title: List of 2014 box office number-one films in Japan

text:
This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekend box office in Japan for the year 2014.

Highest-grossing films

See also
List of Japanese films of 2014

References

2014
2014 in Japanese cinema
Japan


title: Norman Evans (architect)

text:
Norman Evans was a British architect, best known for the dozen and a half temperance movement billiard halls he designed for the Temperance Billiard Hall Co. Ltd.

Several of these former halls designed by Evans are now Grade II listed buildings, such as the 1910 Temperance Billiard Hall, Fulham, London, now somewhat ironically a pub called The Temperance.

The Temperance Billiard Hall built in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester in 1907, also Grade II listed, is now a J D Wetherspoon pub called the Sedge Lynn.

His assistant, Thomas Somerford, later designed billiard halls for Temperance Billiard Halls in his own right, as well as cinemas and other buildings.

References

20th-century English architects
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
Architects from Lancashire


title: Barstool Sports

text:
Barstool Sports is an American blog website and digital media company headquartered in New York City that publishes  sports journalism and pop culture-related content. It is owned by David Portnoy, who founded the company in 2003 in Milton, Massachusetts.

History

Launch and growth (2003–2016)
Barstool began in 2003 as a weekly print publication distributed for free at transit stops in the Boston metropolitan area that offered gambling advertisements and fantasy sports projections, but later expanded to encompass other topics. It launched on the Internet in 2007.  The site was headquarterd in Milton, Massachusetts, identifiable with a cardboard sign with the site's name written in ballpoint pen.

Portnoy hired Kevin Clancy in 2009 and launched Barstool New York, the blog's first major move outside the Boston area. Barstool ceased publication of the print version in 2010 and transitioned to a web-only model.

By 2013, Barstool Sports had expanded to five cities, including Philadelphia and Chicago, with a university-focused BarstoolU brand. Each franchise had its own editorial staff and voice and operated essentially autonomously from the main Barstool Sports blog. The blogger team published around 70 to 80 posts each weekday. According to Entrepreneur.com in December 2013, more than 4 million unique users visited Barstool each month, with more than 80 million page views.

Barstool Blackout Tour
In 2011 and 2012, the BarstoolU brand ran the "Barstool Blackout Tour", a series of electronic dance parties with as many as 2,500 attendees at venues in cities and college towns on the East Coast and in the Midwest. The parties were criticized for promoting excessive drinking and allowing underage drinking, as well as for assaults that have happened at the proceedings. In February 2012, then-Boston mayor Thomas M. Menino expressed concern through a spokesperson over the parties' promotion of "excessive drinking to the point of blacking out" and that such promotion would not be a good message for the city. Massachusetts Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission agents and club security at a House of Blues event in Boston the following month confiscated 300 fake identifications and refused admission for around three-fourths of the event's 2000 ticket holders. Shortly thereafter Portnoy announced that the company would not be scheduling more of the events in Boston, stating that "it just doesn't seem like Boston is friendly to nightlife of our sort, at least".

The Chernin Group investment (2016–2020)
By 2016, Barstool claimed to pull in 250 million views per month. On January 7, 2016, private equity firm The Chernin Group (TCG) purchased a 51% majority stake of Barstool Sports, valuing the company at between $10 and $15 million. According to Chernin Group president of digital Mike Kerns, Kerns was put in contact with Portnoy via mutual friend and former University of Kentucky quarterback Jared Lorenzen. After an initial phone call, Kerns flew to Boston to have dinner with Portnoy, discuss the Barstool vision, and begin preliminary investment talks.

Following the TCG investment, the company moved its headquarters from Boston to New York City. Portnoy continued to run the site and retained complete creative control as Chief of Content. On July 19, 2016, Erika Nardini, former chief marketing officer of AOL, was announced as the CEO of Barstool Sports. In 2020, Chernin relinquished control of Barstool as part of the Penn National Gaming partnership.

During the week of Super Bowl LI, Barstool broadcast a televised version of The Barstool Rundown live from Houston on Comedy Central. The show made headlines on February 2, 2017, after Indianapolis Colts punter Pat McAfee announced during a segment of that night's episode that he was retiring from the NFL to become a contributor to the site. On June 19, 2017, the site announced that Michael Rapaport would be joining Barstool Sports and hosting a podcast. Rappaport and Barstool quickly ended their relationship in a public feud involving Kevin Durant.

On October 18, Barstool Van Talk debuted on ESPN2. The show starred Pardon My Take personalities PFT Commenter and Dan "Big Cat" Katz. It was cancelled after one episode, with ESPN Inc. president John Skipper citing concerns about distinguishing the content of Barstool from that of ESPN. The show's removal came after past statements from Barstool president Dave Portnoy resurfaced, one of which involved calling current ESPN employee Sam Ponder a "slut".

Following a round of fundraising reported in January, Barstool is said to have received a valuation of $100 million. According to CEO Erika Nardini, The Chernin Group has invested $25 million in the website. On February 18, Michael Rapaport was fired after making a derogatory comment towards the site's fan-base.

On March 28, 2018, NBA player Frank Kaminsky launched a Barstool podcast, Pros and Joes, hosted by himself and three of his high-school friends.

Penn National Gaming investment and purchase (2020–2023)
On January 29, 2020, casino company Penn National Gaming (now Penn Entertainment) purchased a 36% stake in Barstool Sports for $163 million in cash and stock, valuing Barstool at $450 million. Penn National would have the option to pay an additional $62 million in 3 years to increase its stake to 50%. At that time, Penn National and Barstool had options that would increase the casino company's stake to control or full ownership, based on fair market value at the time. According to Vox Media, Barstool generated between $90 and $100 million in revenue in 2015, with the majority from podcasts, merchandise sales, and gambling deals. Penn's investment was seen as part of a growing trend of gambling and media companies to partner to capitalize on an anticipated boom in online gambling after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed sports betting in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association. Following the sale, The Chernin Group maintained a 36% stake in the company.

The company launched Barstool Sportsbook, a mobile application for sports betting, in Pennsylvania on September 18, 2020. During its first week of operation, it handled $11 million in wagers. In January 2021, the company announced that the Sportsbook would be expanding to the state of Michigan. Penn National announced that they would be matching all first-time deposits by donating to the Barstool Fund, raising a total of $4,550,280 for Michigan small businesses. As of January 2023, the application is available in the following states Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Colorado, Virginia, New Jersey, Tennessee, Arizona, Iowa, West Virginia, Louisiana, Ohio and Maryland.

On July 27, 2021, Barstool Sports was announced as the new title sponsor of the Arizona Bowl. The company will have exclusive international broadcast rights for the game for the duration of its contract. The 2021 edition of the Arizona Bowl was to be played at Arizona Stadium in Tucson on December 31. The game was canceled due to a COVID-19 outbreak. The 2022 Barstool Arizona Bowl was played on December 30, 2022, with the Ohio Bobcats defeating the Wyoming Cowboys 30–27, and featured various Barstool Sports media personalities on commentary and in on field roles.

On September 28, 2021, Barstool Sports partnered with Happi Foodi, a frozen meal brand, and launched a new line of ready-to-heat pizzas branded as One Bite Pizzas. One Bite Pizzas was initially launched in 3,500 Walmart stores, in addition to being made available via the One Bite App and online at walmart.com, freshdirect.com, and happifoodi.com.

In February 2023, Penn exercised its option to buy the remaining portion of the company for $388 million and become the sole owner of Barstool Sports.

Repurchase by David Portnoy (2023)
On August 8, 2023, David Portnoy announced that Penn Entertainment had ended its relationship with Barstool Sports and had divested ownership of the company back to him. Penn had announced a $2 billion agreement with ESPN to rebrand Barstool Sportsbook as ESPN Bet, and the sale was intended to relieve Penn of "non-compete and other restrictive covenants" tied to its ownership of Barstool. Portnoy stated that "the regulated industry is probably not the best place for Barstool Sports and the type of content we make". The agreement stipulates that Penn will receive 50% of the gross proceeds of any future sale of Barstool, but Portnoy stated that he planned to maintain his ownership of the site "till I die".

Content and audience
In 2013, Barstool was described as the "Bible of Bro Culture" and a must-read for the "dude zeitgeist" for its committed audience of young men, primary in the 18-35 age demographic, who felt disenfranchised by the mainstream media. Portnoy has described the site's topics as "sports/smut." The site contains a mixture of podcasts, blogs, and video series featuring company staff in what has been described as "a sort of online reality show: Every office argument and personal-life development was written up and fed to a growing legion of 'Stoolies'." The site is popular among professional athletes as well. Logan Couture claimed that a quarter of players in the NHL read Barstool.

Radio
In January, the company premiered Barstool Radio, a daily two-hour show on Sirius XM. The partnership expanded to a 24-hour channel in January 2018, which aired until January 2021. Barstool returned to radio in February 2021 with a daily sports betting-themed show called Barstool Sports: Picks Central, distributed by Westwood One.

Personalities
Portnoy, Barstool's founder, is an active blogger on the site under his self-appointed El Presidente character. He is also known as "The Mogul" and "Davey Pageviews". Notable former employees include Jenna Marbles, Pat McAfee, Dallas Braden, Paul Lo Duca, Michael Rapaport, Terry Rozier, Frank Kaminsky, A. J. Hawk, Asa Akira, Willie Colon, Julie Stewart-Binks, and Alexandra Cooper.

Podcasts
Barstool also produces numerous podcasts, including programming from David Portnoy, Spittin' Chiclets, Pardon My Take, The Kirk Minihane Show, Chicks in the Office as well as podcasts from Barstool bloggers and professional athletes and celebrities such as Deion Sanders, Alex Rodriguez, Josh Richards, Ryan Whitney, Paul Bissonnette, Colby Armstrong, Patrick Beverley, Jake Arrieta, Arian Foster, Paddy Pimblett, Molly McCann, Jim Florentine, Jamie Dukes, Taylor Lewan, Will Compton, and Mark Titus.

Rough N Rowdy
In November 2017, Barstool purchased the Rough N Rowdy Brawl, an amateur boxing competition held in West Virginia as part of an expansion into live boxing events and pay-per-view. After the acquisition, Barstool created a new division called Barstool Brawl to put on as many as 12 events per year. By the competition's second iteration after the Barstool acquisition in February 2018, it drew 41,000 buys.

Over-the-top media
Barstool offers streaming and Video on Demand content, which is available on Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, and Android TV. The Yak is a daily live show with a variety of Barstool personalities including Big Cat (Dan Katz), Rone (Adam Ferrone), Nick & KB (Nick Turani & Kyle Bauer), Kate, Lil Sasquatch, Brandon Walker and Steven Cheah sitting around a studio and talking about random subjects. The show is televised live on YouTube and later made available as a podcast. In 2021, SLING TV announced an exclusive channel for Barstool Sports. The Brandon Walker College Football Show featuring Brandon Walker is a live call-in show that is part of the Sling TV Barstool channel.

Charitable work
For Veterans Day in 2012, Barstool readers donated $15,000 in less than 24 hours to purchase a new wheelchair for a U.S. Army medic who had lost limbs in Afghanistan. In the aftermath of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, the site raised $240,000 for the victims of the attack.

In April 2017, listeners of the Barstool Podcast, Pardon My Take, raised over $50,000 for the Justin J. Watt Foundation.

The site also frequently raises funds supporting veterans' causes and animal welfare. Barstool donated $150,000 to the family of a Weymouth, Massachusetts police officer who was killed on duty in July 2018.

The company partnered with NFL quarterback Baker Mayfield in 2018 to release a clothing line benefiting Special Olympics Ohio.

In October 2019, Barstool founder David Portnoy donated $20,000 to Penn State's annual IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon, which raises money for pediatric cancer research and treatment.

In November 2019, Portnoy announced that he would match a Veteran's Day fundraising campaign for mental health and PTSD that ended up garnering $91,000.

Barstool Fund
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and related government restrictions, Barstool launched The Barstool Fund, a fundraising non-profit which provides financial support to small business owners across the United States. Over 200,000 people contributed to the fund and over $41 million has been raised. Many celebrities such as Tom Brady, Guy Fieri, Kid Rock, Aaron Rodgers and Elon Musk have given to the fund, on top of an initial $500,000 donation from Portnoy.

Controversies

Baby photo comments
In August 2011, the site received criticism over nude photos of American football quarterback Tom Brady's two-year-old son, which was accompanied by comments describing the size of the child's genitalia, which a former prosecutor suggested was sexualization of a minor. Portnoy argued that the comments were meant to be humorous in tone and were not intended to be seen as sexual.

Rape comments
Critics allege that comments on the site by Portnoy and others normalize rape culture. Comments that have sparked debate include a post on a 2010 blog in which Portnoy said  though I never condone rape if you're a size 6 and you're wearing skinny jeans you kind of deserve to be raped right?" Other elements that have received criticism include comments such as "we don't condone rape of any kind at our Blackout Parties ... however if a chick passes out that's a gray area". Portnoy, in response, has stated that, "...It's not our intent, with jokes, to poke fun at rape victims," while pointing out the satirical nature of the site's content. A Northeastern University protest group called Knockout Barstool held a demonstration outside of a 2012 Blackout party at Boston's House of Blues. Portnoy has been openly dismissive of the protest group, referring to them as "serial protesters", "nutbags" and "crazy bitches".

Copyright issues
According to The Daily Beast, Barstool has a culture of stealing materials from independent content creators and reposting them without attribution. In March 2019, Barstool was accused by comedian Miel Bredouw of having re-posted one of her videos to the site's Twitter account without attribution. After Bredouw eventually refused to rescind her complaint in exchange for $2,000, Barstool filed a counter-claim asking Twitter to reinstate the video, alleging that the take-down was an error.  Following the dispute, data from Social Blade revealed that on March 6, 2019, Barstool deleted over 60,000 posts from its Twitter account and 1,000 posts from its Instagram account.

References

External links

American sport websites
Internet properties established in 2007
Sirius XM Radio channels
Sports betting
Podcasting companies
Barstool Sports


title: Liljeblad

text:
Liljeblad is a Swedish and Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Emil Liljeblad (1876–1937), Finnish missionary and folkloristics researcher
Joni Liljeblad (born 1989), Finnish ice hockey player
Samuel Liljeblad (1761–1815), Swedish botanist and mycologist

Surnames of Finnish origin


title: Calum Stewart

text:
Calum Stewart (born 1982) is an uilleann piper, low whistle and wooden flute player and composer from Garmouth in Scotland, who performs primarily traditional Scottish, Irish and Breton music.

Career
Brought up in a musical household, Calum Stewart's playing style is rooted in the traditional music of his native northern Scotland. His distinct musical voice has been developed through collaborations within the English, Scottish, Irish, Breton and Scandinavian traditions.

In demand as a concert and recording artist, Calum has recorded and performed with The London Philharmonic Orchestra, The London Symphony Orchestra and Nitin Sawhney.

Calum Stewart regularly performs with Breton guitarist Heikki Bourgault.

Since 2014 he is also a member of the Band of Angelo Kelly (Kelly Family) and performs with him on his tours, Irish Christmas and Irish Summer. He also worked with Angelo Kelly on his studio Albums Irish Christmas (2016) and Irish Heart (2018).

Instruments

Wooden Flute (aka Irish Flute)
Uilleann pipes
Whistle (aka Tin whistle)
Low Whistle

Discography

Calum Stewart albums
Earlywood (2008, Earlywood Music)
Tales from the North (2017)

Calum Stewart & Heikki Bourgault albums

Calum Stewart & Heikki Bourgault (2010, Legba Prod)
Hunter's Moon (2014, Full Spate Music)

Other recording collaborations

Wooden Flute and Fiddle (Calum Stewart and Lauren MacColl) 2012 Make Believe Records
North by East (Calum Stewart and Gareth Davies-Jones) 2012 Heading West Music

Other recordings
Calum Stewart has also appeared on:

OK Pewter (Mabon), 2007 Easy on the Records
Bridges (Katie Doherty), 2007 Park Records
Live at the Grand Pavilion (Mabon), 2010 Easy on the Records
Mànran (Mànran), 2011 Mànran records
Windblown (Jamie Smith's Mabon), 2012 Easy on the Records
Manannan's Cloak (Barrule), 2015 Easy on the Records
Irish Christmas (Angelo Kelly), 2016 Flowfish records
Irish Heart (Angelo  Kelly), 2018 Electrola

References

External links
Official Website for Calum Stewart
Official Website for Calum Stewart & Heikki Bourgault
Calum Stewart on MusicBrainz

1982 births
Living people
Scottish flautists
Scottish tin whistle players
Uilleann pipers from Scotland
Scottish folk musicians


title: Rhein-Neckar Air

text:
Rhein-Neckar Air GmbH, commonly known as RNA, is a German company that offers regional scheduled flights out of Mannheim City Airport. All flights are operated by the German airline MHS Aviation. The company's tag line is Fliegen wie privat, which means like flying privately.

History
After Cirrus Airlines ceased operations in 2012, Mannheim City Airport was left without any scheduled airline service. Although well connected to Frankfurt Airport, the local economy demanded the re-establishment of direct flight connections from the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region to other German cities. Rhein-Neckar Air was consequently founded as a LLC with the support of local companies such as SAP, Heidelberg Cement and Südzucker.

Operations commenced on 10 March 2014, offering weekday flights between Mannheim City Airport and Berlin Tegel Airport. After a successful start, flights to Hamburg began later that year. Since 2016 RNA flies seasonally (April–October) to the island of Sylt, flights which were also offered from Münster/Osnabrück in 2016 and from Nuremberg in 2017; however both routes since ceased. The network has since been seasonally expanded with flights to Usedom which was also served from Kassel as of 2022.

According to the company 35,000 passengers used its service per year as of 2017, a figure that decreased to 22,000 by 2022.

In April 2023, RNA announced it would not resume its sole remaining year-round scheduled service to Hamburg, which it had suspended in 2020 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, due to insufficient booking numbers.

Destinations

Current destinations
As of April 2023, Rhein-Neckar Air serves the following scheduled destinations:

 Kassel - Kassel Airport seasonal charter
 Mannheim - Mannheim City Airport base
 Sylt - Sylt Airport seasonal
 Usedom - Heringsdorf Airport  seasonal

RNA also operates charter flights, including several local top division sports clubs, such as Adler Mannheim and TSG 1899 Hoffenheim.

Former destinations
 Berlin - Berlin Tegel Airport
 Hamburg - Hamburg Airport
 Münster/Osnabrück - Münster Osnabrück Airport  seasonal
 Nuremberg - Nuremberg Airport seasonal

Fleet
As of April 2023, MHS Aviation operates the following aircraft for Rhein-Neckar Air:

References

External links
flyrna.com

2014 establishments in Germany
Companies based in Mannheim


title: Baoshan railway station (Taiwan)

text:
Baoshan () is a railway station on the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) Linkou line located in Taoyuan District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan.

History
The station was opened for operation on 28 November 2005 but its operation was suspended on 28 December 2012.

Nearby stations
Taiwan Railways Administration
  <-- Linkou line --> Nanxiang

See also
 List of railway stations in Taiwan

2005 establishments in Taiwan
2012 disestablishments in Taiwan
Defunct railway stations in Taiwan
Railway stations opened in 2005
Railway stations closed in 2012
Railway stations in Taiwan opened in the 2000s


title: Paul Aidoo

text:
Paul Aidoo (born 30 November 1991) is a Ghanaian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Berekum Chelsea F.C., he attended Fijai Secondary School in Sekondi Takoradi from 2002 to 2005

References

1991 births
Living people
Ghanaian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Berekum Chelsea F.C. players
Footballers from Sekondi-Takoradi


title: Charles George Fane

text:
Admiral Sir Charles George Fane  (13 November 1837 – 23 February 1909) was a British Royal Navy officer who was Admiral superintendent at HM Dockyard Portsmouth.

Biography
Fane was born in 1837, the son of Colonel Fane, of Fulbeck, Hall, Lincolnshire. He entered the Royal Navy in 1851, and served as a midshipman in the Black Sea during the Crimean War.

He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1859, and served as 1st Lieutenant on the frigate HMS Galatea while it was commanded by the then Duke of Edinburgh. Promotion to Commander followed on 16 October 1868, and to Captain on 9 August 1875. From 1882 to 1884 he was senior officer on the Newfoundland Fishery Station, and in 1886 he was appointed in command of the battleship HMS Hector, which was part of the Channel Fleet. In 1888 he was appointed Captain-Superintendent of Sheerness Dockyard and an Aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria, serving as such until 5 August 1890, when he was promoted to flag rank as Rear admiral. He was Admiral-Superintendent of HM Dockyard Portsmouth from February 1892 to February 1896, and was promoted to Vice admiral on 9 November 1896. Throughout his career he served as Chairman of several Admiralty committees.

He was appointed a Knight Commander (military) of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the November 1901 Birthday Honours list, and invested by King Edward VII on 17 December 1901.

Fane was promoted to Admiral 24 January 1902, and retired from the navy later that month. In retirement he lived at his seat in Aberdeenshire, of which county he was a Justice of the peace.

He was elected a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London (FZS) in February 1869.

Fane died in Aberdeen on 23 February 1909, after an operation.

Family
Fane married in 1875, Mary-Ann Kenny, youngest daughter of Sir Edward Kenny, Canadian Senator from Nova Scotia.

References

1837 births
1909 deaths
Royal Navy admirals
Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
Fellows of the Zoological Society of London


title: Taoyuan Senior High School railway station

text:
Taoyuan Senior High School () is a railway station on the Taiwan Railways Administration Linkou line located in Taoyuan District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan.

History
The train station was opened on 28 October 2005 and was closed on 28 December 2012.

Nearby stations
Taiwan Railways Administration
  <-- Linkou line -->

See also
 List of railway and metro stations in Taiwan

References

2005 establishments in Taiwan
2012 disestablishments in Taiwan
Defunct railway stations in Taiwan
Railway stations opened in 2005
Railway stations closed in 2012
Railway stations in Taiwan opened in the 2000s


title: Travellers Fare

text:
Travellers Fare (normally rendered officially as Travellers-Fare) was a company owned by British Rail that provided catering services on the rail network in Great Britain.

History
Prior to 1973, railway hotels and catering came under British Transport Hotels, formed in 1962. In the late 1970s, BR's Shipping and International Services Division became Sealink UK from January 1979. In 1982 Travellers-Fare formally left BTH, having been the Travellers-Fare Division of BTH since 1 October 1973. It had been known as British Rail Catering until then. The peak of British rail catering had come in 1973 when 3.5 million meals were served. Quicker journey times meant less time to consume a full meal. In 1979 it celebrated a centenary of railway catering.

In the mid-1970s they were selling around two and a quarter million sandwiches a year. In 1977 its offerings were reprimanded by the Central Transport Consultative Committee, and that same year Prue Leith, a restaurateur and caterer, became the first woman appointed to the British Railways Board, charged with improving its much-criticised catering. In February 1978 they introduced the Gold Star Menu for businessmen on InterCity services, which featured poached haddock and grilled salmon maître d'hôtel. It offered a fixed four-course meal for around £5, and replaced the former table d'hôte service. The Great British Breakfast in the morning sold for £2.70 in 1978, and by 1984 it cost £7.30.

Innovations
In the early 1980s, under improved management, the standard of food became more diverse. New brands were introduced such as Quicksnack. Turnover at stations increased 61% from £46m in 1982 to £74m in 1987. Before 1985 operating losses at stations were averaging around £4m a year, which from 1985 became surpluses. Although the station catering was turning a profit, the catering on board the trains was not, and operating losses for these were around £6m a year in the mid-1980s. In May 1986, catering on-board trains became the responsibility of InterCity and not Travellers-Fare, which had a wider range of food from the buffet car.

The brand did not have enough penetration to sell on the trains; its on-board full (cooked) breakfasts had a lot of popularity nonetheless (around 500,000 a year in the 1980s) in the dining car (first class). The British Rail sandwich was not a big seller on trains.

Private ownership
By 1986 the private sector was running the catering at 85 stations. Standards were improving under private ownership, which led to 96 more stations being put under private operation in 1987.

As a precursor to the privatisation of British Rail, the company was sold to a management buyout team backed by 3i in December 1988. It had been bought for £12.5m, and had 270 outlets and around 3,200 employees. Travellers Fare Ltd (2184010) had been formed on 27 October 1987.

It was subsequently acquired in November 1992 by Compass Group for £31.7m, who merged it with their airport, retail and leisure businesses to form Select Service Partner (SSP) in 1997. It stopped trading as Travellers Fare on 4 March 1997. Compass sold SSP to two consortia led by EQT Partners and Macquarie Bank in 2006 for £1.8bn.

References

 British Rail 1974-1997: From Integration to Privatisation, page 251
 England Eats Out: A Social History of Eating Out in England from 1830 to the Present

1973 establishments in the United Kingdom
1973 in rail transport
British Rail brands
British Rail subsidiaries and divisions
Catering and food service companies of the United Kingdom
Companies based in the London Borough of Camden
Rail catering
Restaurants established in 1973
SSP Group
3i Group companies


title: Third Force (Ukraine)

text:
Political Party "Third Force" () is a political party in Ukraine that was created in 2005 by Vasyl Havryliuk.

External links
 Party profile at the Center of Political Information

Political parties in Ukraine