title: Gustave Augustin Rouxel

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Gustave Augustin Rouxel (February 2, 1840 – March 16, 1908) was a French-born bishop of the Catholic Church. He served as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New Orleans from 1899 to 1908.

Biography
Born in Redon, Ille-et-Vilaine, France, Gustave Rouxel was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of New Orleans on November 4, 1863.  On February 10, 1899 Pope Leo XIII appointed him as the Titular Bishop of Curium and Auxiliary Bishop of New Orleans.  He was consecrated a bishop by Archbishop Placide Chapelle on April 9, 1899. The principal co-consecrators were Bishops Thomas Heslin of Natchez and Jose Maria Ignacio Montes de Oca y Obregón of San Luis Potosí (Mexico).  He continued to serve as an auxiliary bishop until his death on March 16, 1908, at the age of 68.  He is buried in the Cathedral-Basilica of Saint Louis King of France in New Orleans.

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Episcopal succession

1840 births
1908 deaths
People from Redon, Ille-et-Vilaine
French emigrants to the United States
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans
20th-century American Roman Catholic titular bishops
French Roman Catholic bishops in North America
Roman Catholic bishops in Louisiana
19th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the United States


title: David Griffin (basketball)

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David Griffin (born November 16, 1973) is an American professional basketball executive who is the executive vice president of basketball operations for the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Prior to the Pelicans, served as the general manager for the Cleveland Cavaliers, who won the NBA championship in 2016 and reached the NBA Finals in three consecutive seasons under his watch. Griffin also worked as an analyst for NBA TV.

Early life
Griffin was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. He attended high school at Brophy College Preparatory. He enrolled at the University of Arizona but transferred to Arizona State University in 1993 in order to accept an internship with the Phoenix Suns organization. Griffin completed a bachelor's degree in Political Science in 1995.

Early basketball career

Griffin started as a tournament director for the NIKE Desert Classic pre-draft camp. He was also an assistant coach at Scottsdale Community College. Later, he worked as part of the basketball press information team during the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia.

Executive career

Phoenix Suns
Griffin spent 17 seasons with the Phoenix Suns, beginning with an internship with the team's public relations department in 1993 while he was still a student at Arizona State University. He was hired as a full-time media relations assistant after three years as an intern. Being noticed by Jerry Colangelo and then-coach Danny Ainge for his detailed notes for the media, Griffin joined the team's basketball operations side via the video department in 1997. He spent his last three years in the club as senior vice president of basketball operations after being named to the position in June 2007.

Cleveland Cavaliers
In September 2010, Griffin was named vice president of basketball operations for the Cleveland Cavaliers. On February 6, 2014, he was named the acting general manager for the Cavaliers, after the firing of Chris Grant from that position. In his first trade since becoming acting GM, Griffin traded forward Earl Clark, center Henry Sims, and draft picks to the Philadelphia 76ers for center Spencer Hawes. On May 12, 2014, the Cavaliers announced that Griffin would be named as permanent, full-time general manager.

In the following weeks after being named permanent GM, Griffin brought in Euroleague Champion and Coach of the Year David Blatt as head coach, drafted Andrew Wiggins with the number one pick in the 2014 NBA draft, signed LeBron James back four years after the infamous "Decision", and acquired All-Star forward Kevin Love from the Minnesota Timberwolves in a trade. In order to acquire Love, Griffin gave Wiggins and former 1st overall pick Anthony Bennett to the Wolves. As a result of these moves and many others, Griffin placed second in the NBA Executive of the Year Award voting for the 2014–15 season. Griffin and the Cavaliers won the 2016 NBA Finals after defeating the 73-win Golden State Warriors in seven games, becoming the first team in league history to overcome a 3–1 deficit in the Finals.

Griffin's Cavaliers set offensive records in the 2017 playoffs, setting a playoff scoring efficiency record by scoring 120 points per 100 possessions, but ultimately lost in five games in the 2017 Finals to a revamped Warriors team that added Kevin Durant to their 73-win core.

On June 19, 2017, both Griffin and Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert announced that they would not renew their contract together after no agreement between the two sides could be reached. He would ultimately be replaced by the Cavaliers' assistant general manager, Koby Altman, over a month later on July 24. Gilbert was widely criticized for failing to come to terms on a new contract with Griffin.

For a Sports Illustrated article released Thursday August 1, 2019, David Griffin expressed in detail his experience working with and building a supporting cast of team members around LeBron James. He described the ordeal and time in Cleveland doing so as "miserable" and elaborating how "he privately wept the night the Cavaliers won the title, saying he was so obsessed with winning that he "didn't love the game anymore."

New Orleans Pelicans
On April 17, 2019, the New Orleans Pelicans named Griffin as the executive vice president of basketball operations. Griffin represented the Pelicans during the 2019 NBA draft lottery, where they won the right to the number 1 overall pick which they used to select Zion Williamson. In May 2021, after Williamson fractured his ring finger, Griffin accused opposing teams of physically targeting the star. He said, "There's more violence encouraged in the paint against Zion Williamson than any other player I've seen since [Shaquille O'Neal]...It was egregious and horrific then, and the same is true now."

On October 29, 2021, following a loss to the Sacramento Kings, Griffin reportedly found himself in conflict with Kings assistant head coach Alvin Gentry, who had been the Pelicans' head coach. According to reports, the two men engaged in argument and had to be physically separated.

Personal life
Griffin is originally from Phoenix, Arizona, and now resides in Sonoma, California with his wife Meredith. Griffin was raised by a single mother in a Maryvale neighborhood of lower middle-class West Phoenix. He has a younger brother Daniel and he went to the Jesuit-run Brophy Prep for high school. He had three bouts with testicular cancer– in 2006, 2011 and 2017. In between the Cleveland and New Orleans stints, Griffin appeared frequently on NBA TV and hosted a weekly Sirius XM radio show called ‘Deals and Dunks’ with Pelicans broadcaster Joel Meyers as co-host. Griffin also enjoys playing piano and was reported to have attempted to win the heart of star forward Zion Williamson with a song, in the NBA Bubble in Orlando. This has been denied by both Williamson and Griffin himself during a Pelicans media event.

References

1973 births
Living people
Arizona State University alumni
Cleveland Cavaliers executives
National Basketball Association general managers
New Orleans Pelicans executives
Phoenix Suns executives
Sportspeople from Phoenix, Arizona


title: 200 metres hurdles

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The 200 metres hurdles is a rarely run hurdling event in track and field competitions. Sometimes, this event is referred to as the low hurdles. It was run twice in the Summer Olympics, in 1900 and 1904.

All-time top 25
straight = performance on straight track
y = 220 yard course
h = hand timing
A = affected by altitude

Men
Correct as of September 2021.

Notes
Below is a list of other times equal or superior to 22.50:
Don Styron also ran 22.1  (1960, 1961), 22.2  (1960, 1961), 22.3  (1960, 1961).
Andy Turner also ran 22.30 (2010).
Ancel Robinson also ran 22.3  (1957).

Women
Correct as of September 2021.

Notes

Below is a list of other times equal or superior to 26.16:
Meghan Beesley also ran 25.28 (2015).
Pam Kilborn-Ryan also ran hand-timed 25.8 (1969), 25.9 (1971), 26.0 (1969) and 26.1 (1969).
Patricia Girard also ran 25.82 (1999), hand-timed 26.1 (1998) and 26.11 (1998).
Ebony Morrison also ran 25.83 straight (2021).
Shamier Little also ran 25.88 straight (2019), 25.90 straight (2018) and 26.00 straight (2017).
Yadisleidy Pedroso also ran hand-timed 25.7 (2012) and 26.06 (2015).
Rhonda Whyte also ran 26.05 straight (2019).
Valeria Bufanu also ran a hand-timed 26.1 (1970).
Teresa Sukniewicz also ran a hand-timed 26.1 (1970).
Cassandra Tate also ran 26.15 straight (2018).

Masters athletics
The event is the official distance for the M80+ and W70+ divisions of Masters athletics.  The height for all hurdles in these age groups is 27" (69 cm) and arrangement of the hurdles is different from the previous version.  The distance to the first hurdle is 20 metres, which corresponds with the markings for the last half of a 400 metres hurdle race, standard on most tracks.  Because, like the flat 200 metres, the race only covers half a standard track, a wind reading is required.

27-inch hurdles
The idea of using 27-inch (68.6 cm) hurdles was introduced in Europe in 2000. The increment does not exist on standard hurdles, which caused resistance from some NGBs, but the rules were adopted worldwide.  Many modern hurdles will not go to that height or would at least require modification to cut the hurdle.  Most facilities that have spent thousands of dollars to buy regulation hurdles would certainly not let their hurdles be damaged like this. Since it is a requirement, major championship meets have purchased a few sets of modern modified hurdles, which then creates the logistical problem of shipping these few hurdles between meets in order for the competitors to have an opportunity to race over proper hurdles. As a substitute, many older hurdle designs are easier to modify to get to the proper height and most facilities are less protective of the old, rusty hurdles in the junk pile. Also many training hurdles (used to teach smaller, youth beginners) will go to 27 inches and lower.

Records
After setting the world record for the 300 metres hurdles during its last year on the official program at age 80, at age 81, Canadian Earl Fee set the still standing world record of 36.95 (+0.0) at the NCCWMA Regional Championships in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico on September 5, 2010.  Almost four years later, Fee also set the M85 record of 42.70 (+0.4) in the same meet, this time being held in San Jose, Costa Rica on August 23, 2014.  The M90 record of 51.31 was set a month earlier by American Ralph Maxwell with the benefit of high altitude in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA at the Rocky Mountain Masters Games.

Australian Marge Allison holds the W70 record of 36.71 (+0.7), set August 12, 2015 in Lyon, France, at the 2015 World Masters Athletics Championships.  Allison also holds the W65 record set four years earlier at the same championships.  Canadian Christa Bortignon set the W75 record of 39.89 (+0.0) at a domestic meet in Kamloops, British Columbia on May 18, 2013.  American sprinting legend Irene Obera learned hurdles sufficiently to set the W80 record 42.24 (+1.2) on July 20, 2014, at the USATF Masters Championships in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

References

Events in track and field
Hurdling


title: Harry Kerr (sport shooter)

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Harry Kerr (31 August 1856 – 17 June 1936) was a Canadian sports shooter. He competed in two events at the 1908 Summer Olympics winning a bronze medal in the team military rifle event.

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1856 births
1936 deaths
Canadian male sport shooters
Olympic shooters for Canada
Shooters at the 1908 Summer Olympics
People from Ovingham
Sportspeople from Northumberland
Olympic bronze medalists for Canada
Olympic medalists in shooting
Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics
20th-century Canadian people
British emigrants to Canada


title: 2013–14 Czech Extraliga season

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The 2013–14 Czech Extraliga season is the 21st season of the Czech Extraliga since its creation after the breakup of Czechoslovakia and the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League in 1993.

Regular season

Playoffs

Play-in Round
 HC Vítkovice Steel - HC Bílí Tygři Liberec 3:0 (2:0, 3:1, 6:2)
 HC ČSOB Pojišťovna Pardubice - HC Slavia Praha 3:2 (3:0, 3:4, 4:2, 0:1, 6:4)

Play-off final: PSG Zlín - HC Kometa Brno 4:1 (3:0, 3:0, 4:1, 1:3, 5:3). PSG Zlín has won its second league title (after 10 years).

Relegation

References

External links

2013–14 in Czech ice hockey leagues
Czech Extraliga seasons


title: Sadura

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Sadura is a village located in Anantnag district in the Indian administered union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It has a railway station which lies on Banihal-Anantnag railway line.

Demographics

Occupation

Most of the people of Sadura are associated with the Walnut business. Agriculture production is significantly low as most part of its cultivable land came under railways. Apple gardens are also a source of income.

Education

Sadura has a literacy rate of more than 60%. There are three schools, namely Salfia Muslim Institute, Aziz Memorial Institute, Leads Institute of Virtual Education, Government Primary School, Government Girls Primary School and one Government High school.

Transport

People have at least 90% of their transport here is also public transporters which carries different routes like from Sadura to Anantnag Sadura to Larkipora Sadura to Vessu Sadura to railway station Sadura for patient there is Ambulance donated for public by  S B Mall sadura which runs free of cost for every on for 7/24. Sadura has one Railway Station which connects Sadura with Srinagar, Baramulla and Banihal.

By Rail and Road

Sadura Railway Station and Anantnag Railway Station are the nearby railway stations to Sadura. However Jammu Tawi is major railway station,  near to Sadura. Sadura is  away from main town Anantnag, it just takes 15 minutes drive from Anantnag to reach Sadura. Commercial vehicle can be boarded near Janglat Mandi to reach Sadura via Kamad, other ways to reach is to board bus at KMD Anantnag and depart at Vessu. Another way is take Train from Anantnag and Depart at Sadura.

See also
 :Akingam
 :Achabal
 Kokernag

References

Villages in Anantnag district


title: Venezuela women's national under-18 softball team

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Venezuela women's junior national softball team is the junior national team for Venezuela. The team competed at the 1999 ISF Junior Women's World Championship in Taipei, Taiwan where they finished fifth.  The team competed at the 2007 ISF Junior Women's World Championship in Enschede, Netherlands where they finished fourth.

References

External links
 International Softball Federation

S
Women's national under-18 softball teams


title: Prosper De Mulder Group

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Prosper De Mulder Group, commonly known as PDM Group, was a British group of companies that operated in a number of fields associated with the food chain. It was acquired by the German-based SARIA Group and the name was changed to SARIA in 2014. The company provided services to the agricultural and food sectors (recycling waste from meat and food industries), as a producer of green forms of energy, and as a manufacturer of products for human consumption, pet food, aquaculture, oleochemistry and agriculture.

History
Prosper De Mulder was founded in 1926 in Doncaster by the De Mulder family and Prosper joined aged 16. It now employs over 1000 staff at 23 sites across the United Kingdom. Prosper De Mulder remained as Chairman until his death and was actively involved with the company until his late 80's. Away from work Mr De Mulder was active within the local Freemasons and was interested in sailing and flying.
PDM Group increased its market share in the rendering (animals) industry in Britain; between 1968 and 1975, PDM acquired 79 U.K. rendering facilities, either closing, or absorbing them.
PDM Group has expanded its range of food waste recycling services and has developed a business investing in Anaerobic Digestion (AD) operation to the UK. ReFood UK is reported to combine SARIA's expertise in operating AD plants with "PDM's UK food waste recycling capabilities". There are plans for a network of AD plants in the UK and use the by-product as a fertilizer

Sale of shares and name change

In 2010, German-based SARIA Group acquired a 10% interest in the group, increasing that to a controlling 51% a year later with the De Mulder family retaining the remaining shares. The company changed its name to 'SARIA' in 2014 and in February 2016, the De Mulder family sold their remaining shares to the SARIA Group.

Competition Commission investigation
PDM Group have been the subject of a Competition Commission investigation over a number of years. Following a 1993 Monopolies and Mergers Commission (MMC) report into the supply of animal waste in England and Wales and in Scotland, PDM Group were required to give undertakings to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. These undertakings related to the manner in which PDM had conducted its business with trading practices that had been found by the MMC to operate against the public interest. The principal issue identified in the MMC's report, in respect of PDM's trading practices, related to discriminatory pricing, and in particular the finding that there practices had harmed smaller competitors and restricted competition.

In addition, the MMC found that PDM's financial reporting were "not suitably transparent and gave a distorted account of the true profitability of its rendering business". PDM had was also found to have breached earlier undertakings relating to its gut-room business  and to acquisitions, which had led to a restriction of competition.

Investigations regarding products not intended for human consumption
Rotherham council's environmental health department began an investigation in 1995 after it received a letter from an anonymous local butcher that Wells By Products, a PDM subsidiary, was illegally selling poultry not intended for human consumption. Police subsequently discovered a nationwide distribution network, using unmarked lorries, false names and paperwork to sell meat, heavily disguised to look white, which moved through a series of middlemen on to supermarkets.  The investigation concluded that five meat traders had set up a secret boning shed operation at Wells By-Products’ factory at Darlton, near Newark. There, green bits of flesh, mould and feathers were removed from pet food grade meat. The meat was then hosed down and left to steep in salt baths. It was then packed and labelled as fit for humans.  The scam had gone on for three years.

During the subsequent trial, which lasted for seventy days, the court heard that the conspirators had made profits of £2.5 million.  On 22 December 2000, five men were jailed for a combined 24 years for supplying 1,300tons of potentially lethal condemned poultry for human consumption.  Andrew Boid the former manager of the Wells By-Products factory was jailed for eight years: seven years for conspiracy and one year for fraud.

Doncaster based Nortech Foods, part of the PDM Group was investigated by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in 2005. The investigation was launched after beef dripping made from fat not intended for human consumption was found to be on sale. The FSA investigation in conjunction with the local authorities centred on how the product entered the food chain and the extent of the problem.

The FSA said that the batch of dripping was highly unlikely to pose any risk to health because of the high temperature at which it was processed. The fat was derived from carcasses that had been through the normal hygiene and BSE controls. Nortech Foods disposed of all its remaining stock and carried out a trade withdrawal to recover from its customers any remaining dripping.

Fine for environmental offences
John Knight (Animal By Products) Ltd., based in Silvertown, London, was fined for the third time in three years in October 2012 at Thames Magistrate's Court. Newham Council received around 300 formal complaints during 2011 from local residents concerning smells emanating from the factory. The fine of £120,000 plus £66,150 costs is believed to be the largest fine ever obtained by a local authority for an offense of this nature under the Environmental Protection Act 1990. The company was found guilty of nine counts of failing to properly prevent emissions of offensive odours beyond the factory boundary in breach of its regulatory Environmental Permit.  The company were previously fined £75,000 with £75,000 costs in 2011 due to odours emitted from the factory and £10,000 with £10,500 costs in 2009 when a pile of meal was left outside rotting.

Company structure
PDM Group includes the following companies:
Acacia Foods Ltd,
Chettles Ltd
De Mulder & Sons Ltd
Frazer (Butchers) Ltd
Granox Ltd (Widnes)
J L Thomas and Company Ltd
John Knight (Animal By Products) Ltd
ReFood UK Ltd
Nortech Foods Ltd
Perimax (Scotland) Ltd
T Quality Ltd
Wells By Products Ltd.

Role in spread of bovine spongiform encephalopathy

PDM Group grew through the 1960s to 1990s at which time it reportedly controlled 70% of Britain's meat rendering industry. PDM Group was linked with the outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). Numerous commentators have investigated a link between PDM and the outbreak of BSE and CJD.

Those linking PDM Group to BSE included David Hichclifffe, Member of Parliament for Wakefield. In early day motion 1006 (Session 1995–1996), which was tabled on 17 June 1996, he said “..Prosper De Mulder, the rendering company whose products are believed to have been a major source of BSE in cattle..”. The purpose of this early day motion was however to highlight a joint Observer World In Action investigation into the relationship between John Whitfield, MP for Dewsbury from 1983 to 1987 and PDM. During this time it was reported Mr Whifield had acted as PDM's solicitor and arranged meetings on their behalf to lobby Government Ministers not to abandon the use of meat and bone products in animal feeds. It also highlighted a donation of £10,000 that PDM had made to the Dewsbury Conservative Association in 1992 at a time when Mr Whitfield was seeking re-election.

In 2001, an employee of PDM Group, conceded it was "quite possible" that products manufactured by PDM (Prosper De Mulder) was ultimately responsible for cases of BSE worldwide.

References

Companies based in Doncaster


title: Brazil women's national under-18 softball team

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Brazil women's junior national softball team is the junior national under-17 team for Brazil. The team competed at the 1999 ISF Junior Women's World Championship in Taipei, Taiwan where they finished tenth.  The team competed at the 2011 ISF Junior Women's World Championship in Cape Town, South Africa where they finished seventh.   The team competed at the 2013 ISF Junior Women's World Championship in Brampton, Ontario where they finished seventh.

References

External links
 International Softball Federation

Women's national under-18 softball teams
Softball in Brazil
Softball


title: Ministry of Transport and Communications (Botswana)

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The Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC) is a government ministry of Botswana.

History
It was previously known as Ministry of Works and Transport (Botswana).

See also

 Ministry of Finance (Botswana)

References

External links
 Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC)

Government ministries of Botswana
Botswana
Transport organisations based in Botswana


title: Apple Configurator

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Apple Configurator 2 is an application developed by Apple Inc. and is available for free download on the Mac App Store. It was first launched in 2012. It replaces the Apple Configurator, which was first launched in March 2012, and iPhone Configuration Utility.

The application allows for mass-configuration of  iOS, iPadOS and tvOS devices for business and educational organizations.  It provides remote management by an IT administrator to help set up and maintain standard configuration and software across a number of devices.

References

MacOS-only software made by Apple Inc.
2012 software
Apple Inc. software
MacOS


title: Chris Ramsey

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Chris Ramsey may refer to:

 Chris Ramsey (footballer) (born 1962), former footballer
 Chris Ramsey (comedian) (born 1986), English stand-up comedian and actor
 Chris Ramsey (adventurer) (born 1976), British adventurer and sustainable living advocate
 Chris Ramsey, a character from the ABC daytime soap opera Port Charles.

See also
 Chris Ramsay (fl. 2010s–2020s), Canadian magician and YouTuber


title: Alessandro Pieroni

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Alessandro Pieroni (18 April 1550 in Impruneta – 24 July 1607 in Livorno) was an Italian architect and painter. He was active mainly in a Mannerist style, working for the courts of Grandukes Francesco I and Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Biography
Pieroni was also known as the Sandrino dall' Impruneta. He was born in Florence in 1550 where he graduated from the Accademia del Disegno in 1570.  He began his career as an assistant to Alessandro Allori. Allori led the team between 1587 and 1591, including Pieroni, Giovanni Bizelli, Giovanni Maria Butteri, and a young Cigoli in decorating the ceilings of the corridors of the Uffizi in Florence.

For the chapel of San Giovan Gualberto in the Abbey of San Michele in Passignano, Pieroni painted an altarpiece of San Giovan Gualberto pardons the murderers of his brother before the crucifix of San Miniato.

For the visit of Grand-Duke Ferdinand to Pisa in 1588, Pieroni completed, along with the painter Filippo Paladino, a canvas for the church of the Santo Stefano dei Cavalieri, depicting scenes from the life of Santo Stefano Martire. He also helped design the facade. Giorgio Vasari likely also participated in the design of the ceiling decorations. He painted an altarpiece for the Principi Chapel in the church of San Lorenzo.

While serving as an artist in the court, he was commissioned works to celebrate the weddings of the Medici. In 1589, he was among the artists engaged in the elaborate decorations to celebrate the marriage of Ferdinando I and Cristina di Lorraine, painting the Defeat of Gian Galeazzo Visconti at Mantua. With Bernardo Buontalenti, he also made scenography for the Theater at the Uffizi, for the 1600 presentation of the comedy La Pellegrina and also made decorations to celebrate the wedding of Marie de' Medici to Henry IV of France.

As an architect, he worked with Bernardo Buontalenti in the design of fortifications of the Belvedere in Florence and the Corsini Chapel in church of the Carmine, and the facade of Santa Maria del Fiore. In Volterra, he helped design the Chapel of St Paul for the Admiral Jacopo Inghirami (and paint the main altarpiece).

Many of his architectural skills were focused on Livorno. When confronted by the Grand Duke about the size of the Cathedral of Livorno (built 1594-1606), he replied that public works can never be too large. He also helped design the church of the Madonna (begun in 1607), the church of the Greci Uniti (1606), and the Synagogue of Livorno (1603). He helped design porticos for the Piazza d'Armi.

His son Giovanni de Galliano Pieroni was an architect; in addition, the elder Pieroni collaborated with Don Giovanni de' Medici, the illegitimate son of Cosimo who dabbled in architecture, mainly the facade of Santo Stefano dei Cavalieri in Pisa.

Pieroni died on 24 July 1607 in Livorno where a street, Via Alessandro Pieroni, is named after him.

References

1550 births
1607 deaths
16th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
17th-century Italian painters
Mannerist painters
People from Impruneta


title: San Jose Fire Department

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The San Jose Fire Department (SJFD) provides firefighting, rescue and emergency medical services to the city of San Jose, California, United States. The San Jose Fire Department protects the third largest city in California (after Los Angeles and San Diego) and the tenth largest city in the nation.

Coverage
The San Jose Fire Department's jurisdiction covers San Jose’s incorporated city limits and unincorporated areas of the County of Santa Clara totaling approximately 180 square miles and 1.2 million residents.

SJFD is the emergency service provider for a number of high-hazard occupancies, including an International Airport; a municipal airport; 7 major hospitals (including 3 trauma centers, and 7 emergency departments); the SAP Center, home of the NHL San Jose Sharks, (maximum occupancy 20,000); San Jose State University (the oldest public institution of higher education on the West Coast), student population of 31,906; three regional super malls; and over 108 high-rise structures.

Call Volume
The San Jose Fire Department responded to 94,500 incidents in Fiscal Year 2017-2018. This included 3,500 fires and 7,000 rescue, HazMat, USAR and other non-fire related emergencies. The remaining 61% were medical related emergencies.

Services
The San Jose Fire Department is an “all risk” department meaning that it has the trained personnel and equipment to mitigate a variety of emergencies, and provides a wide array of emergency services and support services throughout the city. These include the following:

•	Fire Suppression: Firefighters and fire apparatus that respond to extinguish fires of all types, including structure fires, vehicle fires, and vegetation fires and other fires.

•	Advanced Life Support (ALS): All San Jose Fire Engine Companies and Truck Companies have firefighters trained to provide specialized medical care (unless, of course, they are marked out BLS for the entire shift). All firefighters are Emergency Medical Technicians. Some are EMT-Paramedics, meaning they have the special training and skills to treat patients with drugs, to intubate patients who are not breathing, to gain intravenous access, to provide defibrillation to patients in cardiac arrest, and a variety of other medical services.

•	Urban Search and Rescue (USAR): Rescue teams are prepared to handle Confined Space, Low-Angle, High-Angle, Trench, Swift-water, Open water, Flood, Collapse and a variety of other technical rescues. Several department USAR members also serve on the FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force, Urban Search and Rescue California Task Force 3. The San Jose Fire Department USAR team has been certified as a Type I resource, the highest level of USAR capability.

•	Hazardous Materials (HazMat): A Hazardous Incident Team is trained to the HazMat Specialist level to identify hazardous materials using technical test procedures and contain, neutralize or otherwise mitigate dangerous gases, liquids or solids. The San Jose Fire Department HazMat team has been certified as a Type I resource, the highest level of HazMat capability.

•	Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting: The department provides airplane crash fire suppression and rescue services by a specially equipped and trained crew based at the Norman Mineta San Jose International Airport.

•	Fire Prevention: Firefighters and Fire Prevention Inspectors help ensure schools, businesses, and multi-occupancy dwellings follow fire safety codes and are safe for residents. While on emergency incidents such as medical calls, firefighters routinely check for smoke detectors and offer detectors or replace batteries.

•	The Arson Unit: Responsible for investigating the origin and cause of fires. The unit is staffed by Investigators who are cross-trained as law enforcement officers with powers of arrest. Personnel in the unit are designated peace officers under California Penal Code Section 830.37(a).

•	Public Education: Firefighters meet with the public to do home safety inspections, teach families about “Exit Drills in the Home,” teach fire safety techniques such as “Stop, Drop and Roll” in schools, and distribute fire or home safety literature. Some times the firefighters will do open houses at some of their fire stations.

•	Emergency Preparedness: The Fire Department’s firefighters work with the public to encourage basic preparedness for routine or major catastrophes.

Operations
The San Jose Fire Department currently operates out of 33 fire stations located throughout the city, organized into five battalions. Each battalion is commanded by a Battalion Chief.

Engines, Trucks, Rescue Medics and Battalion apparatus are staffed throughout the year. Some Wildland apparatus are not staffed during summer months. Under "Other", vans, utilities, reserve engines, air units, fire support units, rescue units, USAR trailers, and the USAR boat are unstaffed - personnel from Engines, Trucks and Rescue Medics staff those apparatus when they are needed to respond. Wildland engines are prefaced with a "6" to indicate they are Type VI engines based on the National Wildfire Coordinating Group rating criteria.

In November 2018, San Jose voters passed ballot measure T. This measure provides bond funds to support the building and repair of critical city infrastructure. Some of the projects planned for Measure T funds include construction of a new fire station in the Willow Glen neighborhood (Fire Station 37 at Lincoln Ave. and Curtner Ave.), rebuilding Fire Stations 8 and 23, and building two additional new stations. During calendar 2019, the city will adopt a new 5-year fire department infrastructure plan, which will include the timing for building and staffing those stations.

Organization
The San Jose Fire Department is organized into five bureaus of operations: the Bureau of Administrative Services (BAS), the Bureau of Field Operations (BFO), the Bureau of EMS and Training (BET), the Bureau of Support Services (BSS), and the Bureau of Fire Prevention (BFP). Fire Communications is under BFO and is staffed by non-sworn Fire Department dispatchers. These highly-skilled dispatchers meet or exceed the criteria required for the SJFD Communications Center to be nationally accredited.

Battalion 1

Battalion 2

Battalion 5

Battalion 10

Battalion 13

Early history
El Pueblo of San Jose (the Town of San Jose) was protected by volunteer firemen with the founding of the Pueblo in 1777. It wasn't until 1854 that these volunteer bucket brigades would transform into the official San Jose Fire Department, labeled the San Jose Hook and Ladder Co. No. 1.

Originally consisting of volunteer firefighters in its infancy, the San Jose Fire Department (SJFD) was formally established by the city of San Jose on the 27th of January, 1854, with the formation of the San Jose Hook and Ladder Co. No. 1.  The San Jose Fire Department has since been in service for over 165 years and is one of the oldest fire departments in the United States.

Notable Fires
 Chinatown Fire of 1887
The suspicious fire began in the Chinese quarter of San Jose. The cause of the fire was never determined. To this day, many believe that racial tensions and anti-Asian sentiment led to the fire being intentionally set. Chinatown's structures were constructed mainly of wood, and the fire devastated the entire neighborhood which burnt to the ground. Because of the 1887 fire, Chinatown never fully rebuilt itself and its absence from the city can still be seen to this day. A plaque memorializing the fire can be found on the Fairmont Hotel near Plaza de Cesar Chavez in downtown San Jose.

 Santana Row Fire of 2002
The construction of Santana Row, an upscale shopping, housing, dining and entertainment complex, faced a major setback in 2002 when an 11-alarm fire (5-alarm within SJFD) went ablaze. The fire took several fire companies to put out, and the effort immediately became defensive as the San Jose firefighters turned their attention towards protecting surrounding homes and businesses from flying embers. The Santana Row Fire was the biggest fire in the history of the city.

 Donner-Houghton House Fire
In the early morning of July 17, 2007, a suspicious fire consumed the historic landmark located at 156 E. St. John Street in San Jose which once housed early San Jose Mayor Sherman Houghton and his wife, Donner Party survivor Eliza Donner Houghton. The San Jose Police Department was the first on the scene to evacuate squatters who took shelter in the historic house. The four-alarm fire left the historic house charred and irreparable, and the city decided to slowly demolish the building to ensure public safety and to also allow fire investigators to determine the cause of the incident. The city tried to salvage parts of the house in an effort to save as much history as possible. After investigation, it was believed that the fire was started by squatters who lived in or around the vacant house. The squatters often started small fires to stay warm and to cook meals. Mattresses and chairs were found on the property, indicating their occupancy. The city of San Jose faced criticism for allowing the historic house to be vacant for so long, allowing unwanted squatters to break in and seek quarters inside unsafe living conditions.

Fallen Firefighters

References

External links

 San Jose Fire Museum
 Craig Allyn Rose SJFD Photography
 SJFD News and Info Twitter

Fire departments in California
Government of San Jose, California
Organizations based in San Jose, California
1854 establishments in California
Government agencies established in 1854


title: Dough Castle

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Dough Castle (Irish: Dumhach Ui Chonchuir – "sandbank of the O'Connors") is a ruined tower house at Lahinch in County Clare, western Ireland. It was established by the O'Conors in the early 14th century, but nothing remains of the original structures.

Geography
Dough Castle is located in the townland of Dough in the civil parish of Kilmacrehy, County Clare. It lies to the south of the combined estuary of the Inagh and Dealagh rivers.

History
The castle was originally established by the O’Connors, then lords of Corcomroe, in 1306. It served as their principal stronghold and was sited at the strategically important mouth of the Inagh River, where it could control both land and water traffic. A castle here is mentioned in 1422, but all the structures that survive today are of later origin.

In 1471, the chieftain was murdered in the castle by his nephews and was buried at the end of what is now the main street of Lahinch. A cairn was erected in his memory, and this gave rise to the official Irish name for Lahinch, Leacht Ui Chonchuir, or "O'Connor’s Cairn".

In 1584 it was held by the family of Sir Donal O'Brien. one of whom, Daniel, gave "hospitable and humane" shelter to English settlers who were threatened by the Irish rebellion of 1641.

In return for his actions, Dough castle was spared from being demolished or slighted by the Cromwellian army. In 1654, Cromwellian officer Colonel Stubber saved the castle from demolition, and in 1675 the castle still had the full tower with a two-storey house (it was described as a tall battlemented tower with a large two-storey dwelling house attached to one side). Large windows with flat arches and slab lintels replaced the older slit windows.

The present ruin is the result of various collapses due to the castle having been built upon sandbanks. One side had fallen before 1839, and a considerable mass, with the chimney, fell in 1883. These sandbanks were reported to be the home of Donn Dumhach (Donn of the sandhills), a sí prince who according to tradition still haunts the scene. The sandhill near the bridge is also reported to be haunted. No trace has been found of a supposed underground passage, filled with valuables, leading from the castle to Liscannor.

Today
Due to poor foundations on sand, the castle collapsed several times and today it is in ruins, with little more than part of the O'Brien tower remaining on Lahinch Golf Course near where the Dealagh joins the Inagh River. There was another castle in the vicinity, O'Brien's Castle, built by Turlough O'Brien of the O'Brien clan in 1588 to defend against the Spanish, but nothing remains of this fortress.

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Castles in County Clare
Buildings and structures completed in 1306
Tower houses in the Republic of Ireland


title: Czech Republic women's national under-18 softball team

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Czech Republic women's junior national softball team is the junior national under-17 team for Czech Republic. The team competed at the 1999 ISF Junior Women's World Championship in Taipei, Taiwan where they finished thirteenth.  The team competed at the 2003 ISF Junior Women's World Championship in Nanjing, China where they finished twelfth.  The team competed at the 2011 ISF Junior Women's World Championship in Cape Town, South Africa where they finished ninth. The team competed at the 2013 ISF Junior Women's World Championship in Brampton, Ontario where they finished thirteenth.

References

External links
 International Softball Federation

Softball
Women's national under-18 softball teams
Softball in the Czech Republic
Youth sport in the Czech Republic


title: Bonneval Abbey

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Bonneval Abbey may refer to:
 Bonneval Abbey (Eure-et-Loir), a former Benedictine monastery in Bonneval, Eure-et-Loir, France
 Bonneval Abbey (Aveyron), founded as a monastery of Cistercian monks in Le Cayrol, Aveyron, France, now inhabited by Trappistine nuns


title: Chacon Creek (Nueces River tributary)

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Chacon Creek, is a stream tributary to the Nueces River via Picosa Creek, Turkey Creek, Espantosa Slough and into the Nueces through Line Oak or Soldier Sloughs.  Its source is at the conjunction of Elm Creek with Salado Creek, , in Maverick County. Its mouth is at its confluence with Picosa Creek in Zavala County, Texas.

See also
List of rivers of Texas

References

Tributaries of the Nueces River
Bodies of water of Maverick County, Texas
Rivers of Zavala County, Texas
Rivers of Texas


title: Croitoru

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Croitoru, Croitor are Romanian-language surnames derived from the occupation of croitor, meaning "tailor".

Adrian Croitoru (born 1971), Romanian judoka
Alexandra Croitoru (born 1975), Romanian photographer
B. Croitoru (Ştrul Leiba Croitoru) birth name of Ion Călugăru (1902–1956), Romanian writer, journalist and critic
Constantin Croitoru (born 1952), former Chief of the Romanian Air Force Staff
Florin Croitoru (born 1993), Romanian weightlifter
Ion Croitoru (1963–2017), Canadian professional wrestler
Lucian Croitoru (born 1957), Romanian economist
Marius Croitoru (born 1980), Romanian professional football manager
Ştrul Leiba Croitoru, birth name of Ion Călugăru

Occupational surnames
Romanian-language surnames


title: Portnyagin

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Portnyagin () is a Russian masculine surname derived from the occupation of portnyaga, portnoy, meaning tailor. Its feminine counterpart is Portnyagina. The surname may refer to

Dmitry Portnyagin (born 1988), Russian businessman
Igor Portnyagin (born 1989), Russian football player
Paul Portnyagin (1903–1977), Russian Greek-Catholic priest, teacher and orientalist

See also
Pontryagin

Occupational surnames
Russian-language surnames


title: Theodorus W. Brevard

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Theodorus Washington Brevard (September 24, 1804 – 1877) was a Florida settler who served as Florida Comptroller for nearly ten years from April 3, 1851, to November 27, 1854, and from January 24, 1855, to December 14, 1860. He is the namesake of Brevard County, Florida.  He was born in North Carolina in 1804.

He was the son of Alexander Brevard (b. 1755), an officer in the Continental Army, and Rebecca Davidson. He married Caroline Elizabeth Mays and was the father of Theodore W. Brevard, Jr.

He settled in Tallahassee, Florida in 1847.

References

1804 births
1877 deaths
Florida lawyers
Florida Comptrollers
Florida pioneers
History of Brevard County, Florida
History of Florida
People from Lincolnton, North Carolina
Politicians from Tallahassee, Florida
19th-century American politicians
19th-century American lawyers


title: Borbach

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Borbach may refer to:
Borbach (Ennepe), a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Borbach (Ruhr), a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

See also
Borbach Chantry, a building in West Dean, Sussex, England


title: Martin Lecián

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Martin Lecián (31 October 1900 – 6 October 1927) was a Czechoslovak serial killer who murdered 3 policemen and a prison officer and attempted to kill 7 other policemen. He was executed on 6 October 1927. His case was very famous, with several articles appearing in newspapers that glorified his actions.

Biography
Lecián was born on 31 October 1900 in Uherský Ostroh, and was brought up in a youth detention center. Immediately after his release, he began to commit crimes and was twice punished by the Regional Court of Uherské Hradiště. During his military service, he fled five times. After his last desertion, he met Maria Krenovska and together they started stealing treasures all over Moravia. They opened the door by pulling out the 4 to 5 mm thick coffin cloak to destroy the locking mechanism, and then opened the cash register without having to inhale any ashes. He used this method as he was suffering from tuberculosis.

In Prostějov, however, both Lecián and Krenovska were detained and transferred to a hospital in Olomouc. From there on 10 December 1926 Martin escaped with a dangerous criminal named Szekely, injuring two guards on the way. They then committed a series of thefts, but on 21 December they split up in Bučovice, with Lecián staying in Moravia while Szekely left for Slovakia. Both of them were announced as sought after criminals by the District Chief of Staff in Vyskov.

On 19 January 1927 Lecián committed his first murder in Slavkov u Brna, killing municipal police officer Rudolf Hanák with four shots from his weapon, as the officer had attempted to interrupt his burglary. The next day he attempted to kill the shop owner and a police officer in Poledňák. A month later he murdered guard František Marčík at the Grafony in Jihlava. In mid-February, Lecián was identified by a Jihlava gendarme on a train. Lecián shot him several times, and eventually jumped out of the moving train. A search was announced for him with a reward of 10,000 korunas for his capture.  Despite this, Lecián began to wear a mask and continued his criminal activities. The public celebrated his courage, and songs were written about him, presenting him as a gallant cassarer who robbed the rich.

His popularity ended on 8 March, when he shot twice in Veselí nad Moravou at Chancellor Antonín Stuchlı, who was expecting a child shortly after his wedding. Lecián then shot down military chief Chvalovsky shortly afterwards. Subsequently, armed soldiers and gendarme engaged the murderer in several shootings. At one of them, near Polešovice, Lecián was injured, but still managed to escape the police. Only on 23 April was he detained in Nový Bohumín by civil police officers Halíř and Kaluža. A four-month investigation followed, followed up by a six-day trial. On 31 September 1927 Lecián was sentenced to death for his crimes. However, on 25 September, along with the deserter Kašparik, he tried to escape. They were forced to seize the weapon and kill the guard Ferenc Kisse but were eventually recaptured after a brief shootout. As a result, he was denied a pardon from the President of the Republic. Martin Lecián was executed at the courtyard of the Olomouc military prison on 6 October 1927 at 6:00.

Successors
Six years after Lecián's execution, František Ondráš tried to overcome him. He described himself as his "heir", and he claimed that he would be worse than Lecián was in his life. Ondráš managed to kill two gendarmes, but he himself was killed from fear by his two companions, the Gerspitzer brothers. Both were sentenced to death.

After several years, the other person who tried to imitate Lecián was Jozef Prekop, a cousin of his, from Červený Kameň near Púchov. However, he was soon injured in a shootout and arrested in the Vinohrady hospital, where he asked for treatment.

See also
 List of serial killers by country

References

Literature
 JEDLIČKA, Miloslav. The most famous mordes of the First Republic. Prague 2011.
 KELENBERGER, Jiří. Martine, you grow up for the gallows. Prague 1992.
 PLACHÝ, Jiří; PEJČOCH, Ivo. Masaryk's feet. Cheb 2012, pp. 65–84.
 URBÁŠEK, Pavel. Martin Lecián - postrach of Moravia. The truth about a robbery legend. Moravian Voluntary Journal 1996, No. 1, pp. 25–35, No. 2, pp. 129–135, pp. 3 pp. 274–282, pp. 4 pp. 382–393.
 URBÁŠEK, Pavel. Prerov's episode of the famous robber and murderer of Martina Leciana. Sborník SOA Přerov, 5, 1997, s. 43-61.
 URBÁŠEK, Pavel. Criminal. An example of Martin Lecian. In: People in Moravia in the first half of the 20th century. Brno 2006, p. 319-329.

External links
 JUDr. Michal Dlouhý: Gentlemen and Kastars. Historical Kaleidoscope. 26 January 2010.
 Kriminalistika.eu - "Criminology: Crime Museum"
 Rozhlas.cz: History of Czech Crime - Terror of Moravia (Article)
 Rozhlas.cz: History of Czech Crime - Terror of Moravia (24 min audio)

1900 births
1927 deaths
Czechoslovak people convicted of murder
Executed Czechoslovak serial killers
People from Uherský Ostroh
Czech serial killers
People executed for murdering police officers
People executed by Czechoslovakia by hanging


title: Boroviće

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Boroviće may refer to:
Boroviće (Raška), village in Serbia
Boroviće (Sjenica), village in Serbia


title: Upper Alsace

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Upper Alsace (southern Alsace) was a landgraviate of the Holy Roman Empire centred on Ensisheim and Landser, north of the County of Ferrette (Pfirt). The counts of Habsburg ruled the territory from the 1130s down to its cession to France in the 17th century.

History

In 1130, the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Lothair III of Supplinburg in order to diminish the power of the Hohenstaufen family in the region, merged three local regions into several larger fiefs. The County of Sundgau, County of Ferrette, and the parts west of the Rhine from the Duchy of Swabia were merged to form the new Landgraviate of Upper Alsace. In 1188, the first mentions of the Landgraviate appear in official records, however the date of probable creation was around 1130. The Landgraviate included the prementioned areas, along with several Seigneuries and city-states located in Upper Alsace.

Albert III, Count of Habsburg, received the landgraviate of Upper Alsace from the Emperor Frederick I in 1186. Frederick's son, Duke Frederick V, was his lord with the title of Duke of Alsace (Elisatiae dux).

On 9 May 1469, Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy acquired the landgraviate of Upper Alsace and the county of Ferrette for 50,000 Rhenish florins. At the time of its purchase, the landgraviate was heavily mortgaged and pawned. Landser was mortgaged to Thüring von Hallwill for 7,000 florins. On 20 September Charles appointed Peter von Hagenbach as the "grand bailiff (Landvogt) of Ferrette and Alsace" with his seat at Ensisheim. This official was a successor of the previous Austrian-appointed Landvogt, and thus in the service of the landgrave of Upper Alsace. The Landvogtei (bailiwick) of Alsace itself was an imperial office then mortgaged to the Electoral Palatinate.

On 14 April 1646, the imperial ambassador Trauttmansdorff, during negotiations to end the Thirty Years' War, offered "Upper and Lower Alsace and the Sundgau, under the title of Landgraviate of Alsace" to the French. There was no such territory, since Alsace was at the time divided into several jurisdictions held by competing powers. The Archduke Ferdinand Charles held the landgraviate of Upper Alsace, while a relative held the Landvogtei (bailiwick) of Hagenau with a protectorate over the Décapole (a league of ten imperial cities).

Landgraves

The Landgraviate was owned by the 'Landgrave of Upper Alsace', which was always a member of the House of Habsburg from 1324 by inheritance.

The first Landgrave of the area was Werner II, Count of Habsburg, and was succeeded by his family. The last Landgrave was Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria.

See also
 Upper Rhine
 University of Upper Alsace

Notes

References

Sources
 Kaeppelin, Charles E. R, and Mary L. Hendee. Alsace Throughout the Ages. Franklin, Pa: C. Miller, 1908.
 Putnam, Ruth. Alsace and Lorraine: From Cæsar to Kaiser, 58 B.C.–1871 A.D. New York: 1915.

History of Alsace
Counties of the Holy Roman Empire
Landgraves of the Holy Roman Empire


title: Schnider

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Schnider is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Andreas Schnider (born 1959), Austrian theologian, academic teacher, author, publisher, consultant and politician of the (ÖVP)
 Jan Schnider (born 1983), Swiss beach volleyball player
 Pascale Schnider (born 1984), Swiss cyclist
 Gert Schnider, Austrian board game player

Occupational surnames


title: John Laval

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John Laval (September 21, 1854 – June 4, 1937) was an American bishop of the Catholic Church. He served as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New Orleans from 1911 to 1937.

Biography
Born in Saint-Étienne, Loire, France, Laval was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of New Orleans on November 10, 1877.  On September 7, 1911 Pope Pius X appointed him as the Titular Bishop of Hierocaesarea and Auxiliary Bishop of New Orleans.  He was consecrated a bishop by Archbishop James Blenk, S.M. on November 29, 1911. The principal co-consecrators were Bishops Cornelius Van de Ven of Alexandria in Louisiana and John Shaw of San Antonio.  He continued to serve as an auxiliary bishop until his death on June 4, 1937, at the age of 82.  He is buried in the Cathedral-Basilica of Saint Louis King of France in New Orleans.

References

Episcopal succession

1854 births
1937 deaths
People from Saint-Étienne
French emigrants to the United States
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans
20th-century American Roman Catholic titular bishops
Roman Catholic bishops in Louisiana


title: Intelsat II F-3

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Intelsat II F-3, also known as Canary Bird was a communications satellite operated by Intelsat. Launched in 1967 it was operated in geostationary orbit, spending most of its operational life at a longitude of 15 degrees west.

The third of four Intelsat II satellites to be launched, Intelsat II F-3 was built by Hughes Aircraft around the HS-303A satellite bus. It carried two transponders, which were powered by body-mounted solar cells generating 85 watts of power. The spacecraft had a mass of  at launch, decreasing through expenditure of propellant to  by the beginning of its operational life.

Intelsat II F-3 was launched atop a Delta E1 rocket flying from Launch Complex 17B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The launch took place at 01:30:12 on March 23, 1967, with the spacecraft entering a geosynchronous transfer orbit. It fired an SVM-1 apogee motor to place itself into its operational geostationary orbit. The spacecraft was operated at a longitude of 15° west, over the Atlantic Ocean. It was briefly relocated to 35° west in 1972, but had returned to 15° west by the following year.

It acquired the unofficial nickname Canary Bird because of the association of the mission with Maspalomas Station, the ground station which is located in the Canary Islands.

As of February 7, 2014 the derelict Intelsat II F-3 was in an orbit with a perigee of , an apogee of , inclination of 5.81 degrees and an orbital period of 23.94 hours.

References

Intelsat satellites
Hughes aircraft
Spacecraft launched in 1967
Transatlantic telecommunications


title: Chinese ritual mastery traditions

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Chinese ritual mastery traditions, also referred to as ritual teachings (, sometimes rendered as "Faism"), or Folk Taoism (), or also Red Taoism (mostly in east China and Taiwan), constitute a large group of Chinese orders of ritual officers who operate within the Chinese folk religion but outside the institutions of official Taoism. The "masters of rites", the fashi (), are also known in east China as hongtou daoshi (), meaning "redhead" or "redhat" daoshi ("masters of the Tao"), contrasting with the wutou daoshi (), "blackhead" or "blackhat" priests, of Zhengyi Taoism who were historically ordained by the Celestial Master.

Zhengyi Taoism and Faism are often grouped together under the category of "daoshi and fashi ritual traditions" (). Although the two types of priests have the same roles in Chinese society—in that they can marry and they perform rituals for communities' temples or private homes—Zhengyi daoshi emphasize their Taoist tradition, distinguished from the vernacular tradition of the fashi.

Ritual masters can be practitioners of tongji possession, healing, exorcism and jiao rituals (although historically they were excluded from performing the jiao liturgy). The only ones that are shamans (wu) are the fashi of the Lushan school.

The fashi

The ritual masters ( fashi) are defined, in opposition to formally ordained Taoist priests, as:

Sarah Coakley (Cambridge University) distinguishes fashi as "kataphatic" (of filling character) in opposition to Taoists as "kenotic" (of emptying character), and links them to other Sino-Tibetan indigenous religions:

They are known by different names throughout China, other popular ones being "ritual officers" (faguan) as they at times call themselves, or "redhead" Taoist priests ( hongtou daoshi). There are also localised names, such as "orthodox lords" (duangong), "altar masters" (zhangtanshi), or "earth masters" (tulaoshi) in Guizhou.

They are also in competition with other orders who perform similar services: monks and tantric masters under the auspices of Buddhism, and tongji medium.

The difference between ritual masters and Deities' mediums is that instead of being subject to territorial gods like the mediums, the ritual masters can marshal the powers of local Deities.

Red Taoist orders

Lushan school
The Lushan (Mount Lu) school (, also  or ), also known as Sannai school (), is present in Fujian, southern Zhejiang and Taiwan. It is very active nowadays, and is related to the worship of the goddess Chen Jinggu ("Young Quiet Lady") the Waterside Dame ( Línshuǐ Fūrén), who is very popular in the same area. It is also related to the cult of Wang Laomu, and competing with Maoshan Taoism.

The tradition shows similarities with Yao and Zhuang ritual traditions, and has incorporated elements of Tantra, such as the use of mudra and vajra. Lushan fashi perform rituals as the head of celestial troops while invoking the "Three Ladies" (sannai): Chen Jinggu and her two disciples, Lin Jiuniang and Li Sanniang. Although Lushan fashi are men, in performance they wear the ritual red skirt of Chen Jinggu and a crown or headdress with the words "Three Ladies" painted on it. Lushan fashi also practice a shamanic voyage rite called "crossing the roads and the passes" (guo luguan).

Pu'an school
The Pu'an school () is present in west-central Fujian, southern Jiangxi and Taiwan. The historical figure of the Buddhist monk Pu’an is worshipped by the practitioners as their "founding master" (zushi). Their texts, rituals and iconography incorporate Tantric themes adapted in a Taoist style, and have elements of the Zhengyi and Lushan traditions.

Xujia school
The Xujia school () is another form of ritual masters.

Northern orders
 Yuehu
 Zhuli
 Shenjia , families of hereditary specialists of gods and rites
 Yinyang masters or fengshui masters, using the Lingbao scriptural tradition

See also
 Confucianism
 Fuji (planchette writing)
 Nuo folk religion
 Dajiao
 Taoist schools
 Yao folk religion

Bibliography
 Taiwan Folk Religion Society. Faism and Folk Religion 2009,  2009. , Tai bei shi : Wen jin, 2011.09.
 Yu-chi Tsao. On Ritual of Pu-An Fa-Jiao (): The Case Study of Hexuan Taoist Altar in Tainan. Master's Thesis, Graduate Institute of Religious Studies, 2012.
 John Lagerwey. China: A Religious State. Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong Press, 2010.
 John Lagerwey. Popular Ritual Specialists in West Central Fujian. Shehui, minzu yu wenhua zhanyan guoji yantao hui lunwen ji . Taipei: Hanxue yanjiu zhongxin. 435–507. 2001
 Edward L. Davis. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture. Routledge, 2005.
 The Lady Linshui: How a Woman Became a Goddess. In: R. Weller and M. Shahar (eds). Unruly Gods. Divinity and Society in China. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i. 1996
 Lushan Puppet Theatre in Fujian. In: Daniel L. Overmyer (ed.). Ethnography in China Today: A Critical Assessment of Methods and Results. Taipei: Yuan-liou, 243–56. 2002
 Julian F. Pas, Man Kam Leung, Historical Dictionary of Taoism. (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2014. ).

 Randall L. Nadeau. The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Chinese Religions. John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
 Dick van der Meij. India and Beyond. Routledge, 1997.
 Overmyer, Daniel. Local Religion in North China in the Early Twentieth Century: The Structure and Organization of Community Rituals and Beliefs. In: Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section 4: China, Vol. 22. Brill, 2009.

References

Chinese folk religion
Taoist schools
East Asian religions


title: Kin (Pat Metheny album)

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Kin (stylized as KIN (←→)) is a studio album by American jazz guitarist Pat Metheny and his Unity Group, an expanded version of 2012's Unity Band, with multi-instrumentalist Giulio Carmassi and saxophonist Chris Potter. Kin was released in February 2014 by Nonesuch Records. It was recorded in June 2013 at MSR Studios in New York.

Background
Metheny has said that his idea behind Kin was to push the quartet-led concept that led to Unity Band further forward by adding more orchestration to the instrumental core of the band, so that Kin would be "more like the Technicolor, IMAX version of what a band like this could be—but with that hardcore thing still sitting right in the middle of it all." The album also re-explores the concepts of world view, unity and the global village explored on previous Pat Metheny Group albums such as Letter from Home and We Live Here.

Reception
The reviewer Thom Jurek of AllMusic.com awarded the album 4 stars. Geoffrey Himes at JazzTimes wrote, "Melody writing is the most underrated skill in jazz today, perhaps because it's also the rarest. There are thousands of jazz musicians who congratulate themselves on writing in 7/4 and 9/4 and on shifting their solos from tonal to atonal and back again. But how many of them can write a ballad that someone might want to hum to a lover?" Rob Mallows of London Jazz News wrote, "The album gives the listener a full understanding of what Metheny, now nearly sixty, is all about and where he feels comfortable in his role as grand master of contemporary jazz."

Track listing

Personnel
 Pat Metheny – acoustic and electric guitars, guitar synthesizer, electronics, orchestrionics, synthesizers
 Chris Potter – tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, clarinet, alto flute, bass flute
 Giulio Carmassi – piano, trumpet, trombone, French horn, cello, vibraphone, clarinet, flute, recorder, alto saxophone, Wurlitzer, whistling, vocals
 Ben Williams – acoustic and electric bass
 Antonio Sánchez – drums and cajón

Charts

References

2014 albums
Pat Metheny albums
Instrumental albums
Nonesuch Records albums


title: Thailand women's national under-18 softball team

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Thailand women's junior national softball team is the junior national team for Thailand.  The team competed at the 2003 ISF Junior Women's World Championship in Nanjing, China where they finished fourteenth.

References

External links
 International Softball Federation

Softball
Women's national under-18 softball teams
Softball in Thailand
Youth sport in Thailand


title: 1945 Taça de Portugal final

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The 1945 Taça de Portugal Final was the final match of the 1944–45 Taça de Portugal, the 7th season of the Taça de Portugal, the premier Portuguese football cup competition organized by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF). The match was played on 1 July 1945 at the Campo das Salésias in Lisbon, and opposed two Primeira Liga sides: Olhanense and Sporting CP. Sporting CP defeated Olhanense 1–0 to claim their second Taça de Portugal.

Match

Details

References

1945
Taca
Sporting CP matches
S.C. Olhanense


title: Hamburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia

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Hamburg is an unincorporated community in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States.  Hamburg is located approximately  southwest of Edinburg, Virginia.

References

Unincorporated communities in Virginia
Unincorporated communities in Shenandoah County, Virginia


title: Hamburg, Virginia

text:
Hamburg, Virginia may refer to:

Hamburg, Page County, Virginia
Hamburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia


title: Jakub Stehlík

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Jakub Stehlík (born October 29, 1990) is a Czech professional ice hockey defenceman. He currently plays with HC Vítkovice Ridera in the Czech Extraliga (ELH).

He began his career with Orli Znojmo in the Austrian Hockey League (EBEL), before Stehlík made his Czech Extraliga debut playing with Piráti Chomutov debut during the 2012–13 Czech Extraliga season.

References

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1990 births
Living people
Czech ice hockey defencemen
Orli Znojmo players
Piráti Chomutov players
People from Znojmo
Ice hockey people from the South Moravian Region
SK Horácká Slavia Třebíč players
HC Vítkovice players
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title: Peter Dohmen

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Peter W. Dohmen (1904–1977) was a well-known and highly accomplished German liturgical artist who migrated to the United States with his family after the Second World War. In pre-war Germany, he had won numerous competitions for large frescoes, up  to 10 stories high, and art works for public buildings. When he refused several times invitations to become a member of the Nazi party, which recruited accomplished people, he was put on the "black list" and no longer qualified for governmental contracts.

After the war, he decided to leave Germany for the USA, saying that Europe would always be at war. He and the family were on one of the first trains from Cologne to Hamburg, to the American Embassy to apply for immigration for the family. The visas were finally granted after a five-year wait.

Education and early career
Dohmen was born on May 28, 1904, near Cologne, Germany. At an early age, he showed his talent for art. As a young student he painted some beautiful, religious oil paintings with traditional religious themes. He was eager to learn more from the best art teachers in Europe and applied for scholarships to some of the leading art academies. His efforts paid off when he received a scholarship from the German government. He then attended some of the most prominent art academies of Europe, including Cologne, Düsseldorf, Aachen, and the Higher Institute of the Royal Art Academy in Antwerp, Belgium.

He studied under some of the most noteworthy and prominent professors of art at the time, such as Professor Johan Thorn Prikker, Dominikus Boehm and Baron Professor Isidore Obsomer, Director of the Royal Art Academy in Antwerp.

After completing his studies, Dohmen was briefly an art teacher at the Institute for Christian Art in Dortmund before becoming the manager of a highly regarded art studio in Austria, where he worked in fresco murals, mosaic murals and stained glass windows. In 1936, he returned to Germany to establish his own art studio in Cologne.

Peter Dohmen Studios in Germany
Dohmen became well known as an artist in Germany during the 1930s for his monumental art works, including stained glass windows, large frescoes on major public buildings and Byzantine glass mosaics.

In 1937, he made an exciting, historic discovery in the dome of the Ursula Kirche, an ancient church in Cologne. He found that underneath the paint of the vaulted ceilings were beautiful religious paintings dating back to the 13th century. The Minister of Culture commissioned him to restore and save the very valuable frescoes.

Later, the government also commissioned him with the execution of historic fresco murals (3,000 sq. ft.) in the Knights Hall of a medieval citadel in Juelich, Germany.

In 1938, he was offered a professorship at the State Art Academy in Koenigsberg, Germany. However, a few weeks before taking this position, a law was passed requiring that those teaching at a state school had to be members of the Nazi party. Given his dislike of the Nazis, he declined. He wanted to leave Germany, but the government had already made it difficult to leave and eventually impossible.

During the war, the Dohmen family lost their homes twice from Allied bombs. They and most Germans lived in their basements for months to be protected from the constant bombings, at night by the British, during the day by Americans. They had to flee several times with just the clothes they could carry in backpacks, to escape the battle front and once to escape the Nazis. He had helped four of his school friends, who were Jewish, to escape across the border out of Germany.  Eventually he was blackballed by the government because of his outspoken opposition toward the Nazi party.

His studio in Cologne was destroyed by bombing during the war. He decided that once the war was over, he would leave Germany and go to America. After the war, as soon as the railroad started running again, he and the family took the train to the American Embassy in Hamburg to apply for an immigration visa. It took five years, and when the visa was granted, the family sold their house and furniture and migrated to the United States. German monetary restrictions allowed the family to only take the equivalence of $10 per person. A relative in Saint Paul, Minnesota, had sponsored the family. They arrived there during one of the harshest winters in years.

After turning down several employment offers from leading stained glass studios in the US, he established the Peter Dohmen Studios in Saint Paul. His more modern art style was just what young architects were looking for and had not been able to find. These architects did not want the very traditional church art, often referred to as "kitsch". His timing had been perfect and he soon started receiving contracts for some very prominent institutions.

Peter Dohmen Studios in St. Paul
Among his major works are the mosaic murals at Carleton College in Minnesota, stained glass windows in the library of the University of Notre Dame and the windows in the Chapel of the Resurrection at Valparaiso University, Indiana.

Dohmen married the daughter of a well-known businessman in Cologne. They had two sons just before the war broke out. In the 1950s, he and his wife designed the stained glass windows in the United States and they were fabricated in some of the most reputable fabrication studios in Germany, using only the highest grade glass and materials, such as mouthblown antic glass. This glass gives the windows a crystal-like character. The windows were then shipped in sections to the US for installation.

Dohmen's works can be found in numerous churches in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Oklahoma, North- and South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa and Wisconsin. He also did the breathtaking Byzantine glass mosaic columns in the Veterans Administration building in St. Paul, introducing art which had been used for thousands of years, and can be seen at the Vatican, St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice, and many of the extraordinary buildings of old Europe. Other Minnesota locations of Dohmen's stained glass art are Messiah Episcopal Church in Saint Paul, Pilgrim Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, Richfield United Methodist Church and Saint James Lutheran Church in West St. Paul.

He was often invited to display his works of art in art exhibitions in Europe and the US.

He retired in 1972 and died in May 1977 in Koenigswinter, Germany. He left behind some of the most extraordinary works of arts for others to enjoy.

In 1961, Dieterich Spahn worked as his apprentice and assisted in the production of two of the Valparaiso windows. In 1971, after Dohmen decided to retire, Spahn and the New York artist Mel Geary bought the Peter Dohmen Studio. Spahn has carried on in the great tradition and has designed many outstanding stained glass windows in his own style over the past 40 years. His studio is in Minnetonka, Minnesota.

The Chapel of the Resurrection at Valparaiso University
Dohmen completed four large stained glass windows in the Chapel of the Resurrection, three chancel windows and a lone window in the western wall of the chapel.  The chancel windows constituted the largest stained glass commission in the United States at the time of their installation, each measuring 85-feet-tall by 22-feet-wide.  They are known as the Munderloh windows, after the donors, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred C. Munderloh of Detroit, Michigan. The window in the western wall was given by Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Meier and is known as the Meier window.

The chapel project was completed in phases spanning over five years. The Meier window was dedicated on the same day as the chapel itself, September 27, 1959. The center Munderloh window was dedicated on February 5, 1961. The two flanking Munderloh windows were finally dedicated several years later, on January 10, 1965.

Dohmen worked closely with Dr. A. R. Kretzmann, the liturgical consultant of the Chapel of the Resurrection to create windows that have since been referred to as "sermons in color".

The Munderloh Redemption Window
The center window, the Redemption Window, tells the stories of the New Testament. The first division of this window shows the rising sun of a new day in Christ. A Messianic Rose, along with symbols of the Lion of the tribe of Judah and the Stem of Jesse, all come together to describe the prophetic fulfillment that is Jesus Christ – the word made flesh. The divisions that follow this depict well-known stories of the New Testament, including Christmas, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter. The final divisions of the center window look forward to Christ's return to creation. The book with seven seals along with trumpets sounding to the Four Corners of the earth are displayed here. This window is concluded with the Chi-Rho, a symbol for Christ and his eternal presence. Some text also appears interspersed with the images of the Redemption Window. In the center of the window, the mark "IC-XC-NIKA" appears. This early text, which translates as "Jesus Christ, the Conqueror" comes from an Ephesian tomb from the third century AD. Also appearing in the center of this window is the Latin "In Luce Tua, Videmus Lucem"' This text from the 36th Psalm is also the motto for Valparaiso University.

The Munderloh Creation Window
The window on the far right is the Creation Window. Like each of the Munderloh windows, this window is read clockwise, starting in the upper-right corner and continuing through each of the ten divisions of the window. The first division bears the marks of the planets, followed by the creating hands of God in the second division. The next divisions feature well-known Old Testament stories, from Adam and Eve, to the Ten Commandments and symbols of the ancient kings. This first window concludes with images of peace, most specifically with a dove, which soars more than 80 feet above the chancel.

The Munderloh Sanctification Window
The third Munderloh Window is the Sanctification Window. The initial divisions of this window show symbols of the early church: scrolls (the Holy Scripture) and a dove (Pentecost) are among these symbols. The next division includes images of Christian martyrdom and moves into images of contemporary Christian life. Music, nations, scientific advances and world mission all appear in the images of this window. The elements of the Eucharist along with other symbols of priestly office also are present here. This final window concludes with Luther's coat of arms and the torch of the university. Both of these symbols are excellent symbols of Valparaiso University.

The Meier Window
The Meier Window is designed to present "music and its place in the life of the Christian". The art of this window depicts both the light-hearted and austere nature of art, specifically music, in a Christian life. Many instruments also find their way into the window, the entire work set against, "a striking red motif, the symbol of Christ’s saving redemption and of our personal salvation". The Meier Window contains 3,400 pieces of stained glass.

Tragedy and return to Europe

The Dohmens lives were upended by the controversial police killing of their 27-year-old son, Volker H. Dohmen, on May 19, 1964, in Long Beach, California, where he had represented the family firm on the West Coast. After an argument with other patrons at a Hollywood bar, one of those he argued with called police and reported that Volker had kidnapped his fiancée (a claim she denied). Plainclothes police went to Volker's apartment at 2 am, witnesses said police did not identify themselves as police officers; Volker, who possessed a gun, thought the men with guns were associated with the men they argued with at the bar and denied them entry; he fired two shots out of the apartment window to try and dissuade the officers as they started breaking into his apartment and firing. Neighbors called police and reported Volker cried out "My god, I'm hit! Call the police. Somebody please call the police." Apparently wounded, Volker jumped 20-feet from the window and began running; he first stopped at a community pool with his arms raised, but—upon seeing a group of uniformed policemen near a marked police car—he ran towards them while unarmed, with his arms upraised, dressed only in his undershorts. The police yelled "halt or I'll shoot" and then killed him in a volley of fire that struck him with 4 pistol shots and 2 shotgun blasts. His fiancée was falsely told Volker had broken his arm and was in the hospital. He had committed no crime. A jury ruled the killing was a "justifiable homicide" while "resisting lawful arrest." The family then hired private investigators who took witness interviews that filled in the full account of the killing, including that Volker was clearly unarmed at the time of the volley of fire that ended his life. The Dohmen's then filed a $3M claim against the City of Long Beach and the 5 officers (Volker's fiancée sued separately for $25,000); the Long Beach City Council denied the claims (calling it "an unfortunate set of circumstances"), the parents' declining health made them decide against the rigors of trial. In May 1966, the Dohmens, surviving son Lothar, and Volker's fiancée published a bittersweet memorial to Volker and the injustice of his killing in the Minneapolis Tribune. Volker had been a 2-time state chess champion, captain of the Macalester College soccer team, as well as the local Minneapolis Kickers, so his parents established 3 trophies for soccer and chess championships in his name. The family had a 4,000-word open letter published in an LA-area newspaper addressed to the people of Long Beach to restore their son's name. In 1970 the Dohmens, citing deep bitterness with the American justice system, returned to Germany.

References

German stained glass artists and manufacturers
American stained glass artists and manufacturers
1904 births
1977 deaths


title: Jan Rutta

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Jan Rutta (born July 29, 1990) is a Czech professional ice hockey defenceman for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Rutta won back-to-back Stanley Cups with the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2020 and 2021.

Playing career
Rutta made his Czech Extraliga debut playing with Piráti Chomutov debut during the 2012–13 Czech Extraliga season.

After seven seasons with Chomutov, Rutta left the Czech Republic in signing a one-year contract with the Chicago Blackhawks of the NHL on 8 June 2017. After attending his first training camp with the Blackhawks, Rutta made the opening night roster for the 2017–18 season. On 9 October, Rutta scored his first NHL goal against goaltender Frederik Andersen in a game against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Rutta secured a blueline role within the Blackhawks during the season, and on 8 March 2018 was signed to a one-year $2.25 million extension. With the Blackhawks missing the post-season, Rutta appeared in 57 games while adding offensively with 6 goals and 14 assists for 20 points.

In the following the 2018–19 season, with the Blackhawks continuing to struggle out of the gate, Rutta was placed on waivers after contributing with 2 goals and 6 points in 23 games on 23 December 2018. After clearing he was assigned to AHL affiliate, the Rockford IceHogs. On 11 January 2019, Rutta was traded by the Blackhawks, along with a 2019 seventh-round pick to the Tampa Bay Lightning in exchange for Slater Koekkoek and a 2019 fifth-round pick. He was slated to continue in the AHL with the Lightning's affiliate, the Syracuse Crunch. On 3 March, Rutta made his debut with the Lightning in a 3–2 win over the Detroit Red Wings at Amalie Arena. He played out the tail end of the regular season with the League leading Lightning, posting 2 assists in 14 games. He maintained his place in the lineup through the playoffs, recording 2 assists in a four-game series sweep defeat to the Columbus Blue Jackets. On 4 May Rutta was re-signed to a one-year, $1.3 million contract extension to continue with the Lightning.

During the 2020–21 season, on 15 June 2021, Rutta scored his first career NHL playoff goal in the Lightning's 4–2 win against the New York Islanders.

Following four seasons within the Lightning organization, Rutta left as a free agent and was signed to a three-year, $8.25 million contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins on 13 July 2022.

After just one season in Pittsburgh, Rutta was traded to the San Jose Sharks on 6 August 2023, as part of a three-team package deal for Erik Karlsson.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

Awards and honors

References

External links

1990 births
Living people
Chicago Blackhawks players
Czech ice hockey defencemen
Piráti Chomutov players
Pittsburgh Penguins players
Rockford IceHogs (AHL) players
Ice hockey people from Písek
San Jose Sharks players
Stanley Cup champions
Syracuse Crunch players
Tampa Bay Lightning players
Undrafted National Hockey League players
Czech expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
Sportovní Klub Kadaň players


title: Athletics at the 2001 Summer Universiade – Women's 10,000 metres

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The women's 10,000 metres event at the 2001 Summer Universiade was held in Beijing, China on 29 August.

Results

References

Athletics at the 2001 Summer Universiade
2001 in women's athletics
2001


title: List of mines in Afghanistan

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The following list of mines in Afghanistan is subsidiary to the lists of mines in Asia article and Lists of mines articles. This list contains working, defunct and future mines in the country and is organised by the primary mineral output(s) and province. For practical purposes stone, marble and other quarries may be included in this list. Operational mines are demarcated by bold typeface, future mines are demarcated in italics.

Copper
Balkhab Copper Mine
Mes Aynak mine
Shaida Copper Mine

Gold
Zarkashan Mine

Afghanistan


title: 1998 Wigan Warriors season

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The 1998 Wigan Warriors season was the 103rd season in the club's rugby league history and the third season in the Super League. Coached by John Monie, the Warriors competed in Super League III and finished in 1st place, and went on to win the  Grand Final at Old Trafford against Leeds Rhinos. The club also competed in the 1998 Challenge Cup, and finished as runners-up following a surprise defeat in the final against Sheffield Eagles.

Table

Squad

Transfers

In

Out

References

External links
Wigan Warriors Rugby League Fan Site
Wigan - Rugby League Project

Wigan Warriors seasons
Wigan Warriors


title: Dan Lehane

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Dan Lehane (died 26 September 1920) was a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and one of the instigators of the Rineen Ambush in which six RIC policemen were killed. He was the brother of Patrick Lehane who was wounded in the reprisal that followed and then tied and thrown into a burning house. The  Auxiliaries paid Dan Lehane a visit at his house at Cragg near Lahinch, where he was interrogated at gunpoint, but refused to inform the officers. Lehane was wounded and died four days later.

References

Irish Republican Army (1919–1922) members
1920 deaths
1920 in Ireland
History of County Clare
Year of birth missing


title: Libor Šulák

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Libor Šulák (born 4 March 1994) is a Czech professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for Avangard Omsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He has formerly played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Detroit Red Wings.

Playing career
Šulák made his Czech Extraliga debut playing with Piráti Chomutov during the 2013–14 season.

During the 2015–16 season playing with Orli Znojmo, Šulák recorded six goals and 12 assists in 52 games and was named the league's rookie of the year. In the following  2016–17 season with Orli Znojmo, Šulák placed fourth on the team with 10 goals and 18 assists and a team-best plus-19 rating in 54 games.

After two productive years with Znojmo, Šulák was initially signed to a two-year contract with Finnish club, Lahti Pelicans of the Liiga on 13 April 2017. However, on 24 May 2017, Šulák was mutually released from his contract using an NHL out-clause in signing to a two-year, entry-level contract with the Detroit Red Wings.

Šulák competed in the ensuing Red Wings training camp and pre-season in preparation for the 2017–18 season. On 2 October 2017, Šulák was reassigned on loan to Finland by the Red Wings, joining his previously arranged club, the Lahti Pelicans. During the 2017–18 season, he recorded nine goals and 23 assists. He led all defensemen in scoring with a career-high 32 points. After the completion of the Liiga season, Šulák was reassigned to the Red Wings AHL affiliate, the Grand Rapids Griffins, on 23 March 2018.

Šulák made his NHL debut with the Detroit Red Wings to open the 2018–19 season on 4 October 2018. He was scoreless in the Red Wings first six games of the season before he was reassigned to the Griffins of the AHL on 16 October 2019. Šulák remained in the AHL for the remainder of the year, posting five goals and 14 points in 61 regular season games.

As an impending restricted free agent to the Red Wings, Šulák opted to return to Europe and continue his career in the KHL, securing a contract with Russian club, Severstal Cherepovets, on 4 June 2019. In the 2019–20 season, Šulák struggled to adapt with Severstal contributing just 2 points in 19 games from the blueline. On 24 November 2019, Šulák was released from his contract and signed for the remainder of the season in returning to the Finnish Liiga with KooKoo.

After an impressive 2021–22 season, captaining Admiral Vladivostok of the KHL and posting eight goals and 26 points in 49 regular season games, Šulák was signed to a one-year extension on 19 January 2022. With Vladivostok out of playoff contention, Šulák extended his season by moving to the SHL and signing for the remainder of the campaign with Örebro HK on 15 February 2022.

International play
Šulák represented the Czech Republic at the 2012 IIHF World U18 Championships, where he recorded three assists in six games. Šulák represented Czech Republic at the 2014 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, where he recorded no points in five games.

Šulák represented the Czech Republic at the 2017 IIHF World Championship, where he recorded one assist in two games.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

References

External links

1994 births
Living people
Admiral Vladivostok players
Avangard Omsk players
Czech expatriate ice hockey players in Slovakia
Czech expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
Czech ice hockey defencemen
Detroit Red Wings players
Grand Rapids Griffins players
KooKoo players
Lahti Pelicans players
Ice hockey players at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic ice hockey players for the Czech Republic
Örebro HK players
Orli Znojmo players
Oulun Kärpät players
People from Pelhřimov
Piráti Chomutov players
Severstal Cherepovets players
Sportovní Klub Kadaň players
Undrafted National Hockey League players
Ice hockey people from the Vysočina Region
Czech expatriate ice hockey players in Finland
Czech expatriate ice hockey players in Sweden
Czech expatriate ice hockey players in Russia


title: Tsunetoshi Tanaka

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was a Japanese politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives (1969–1972, 1980–1996).

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2014 deaths
Japanese politicians
Year of birth missing


title: Alan Ganoo

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Alan Ganoo (born 17 January 1951) is a Mauritian politician who has been elected to serve as member of the Legislative Assembly and National Assembly on 9 occasions.

Early life and education
Alan Ganoo was born in Port Louis, his father was a police sergeant and he grew up with four sisters and two brothers. Under British rule of the 1800s his ancestors migrated to Mauritius from Maharashtra, India.

He completed his secondary education at Royal College Port Louis. He studied law at Middle Temple and at King's College, London and has practised as a barrister since 1975.

Political career
He joined the Mauritian Militant Movement (MMM) in the 1970s and was elected to the Legislative Assembly for the first time in 1982. He was elected leader of the MMM party in 2013. In May 2015 Alan Ganoo and several other politicians left the MMM where he was Deputy Leader an formed a new party called Mouvement Patriotique. He has so far been elected for 9 times in the same constituency (No.14) namely in 1982, 1987, 1991, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2014 and 2019. A few weeks before the 2019 elections there was a dispute over the ownership of the party that he had created in 2015. In October 2019 his newly-formed party became part of the Alliance Morisien, led by the MSM and which won the General Elections.

Alan Ganoo has held office of Minister in Ministry of Justice and Attorney-General (1991-1993), Minister of Housing (1996-1997), Minister of Public Utilities (2000-2005), Acting Minister of Fisheries (2004 to 2005) and Minister of Land Transport and Light Rail (2019–present). Other parliamentary positions that he has held were Speaker (1982), Opposition Whip (1987-1990), Deputy Chief Whip (1990) and Leader of the Opposition (2013).

Between 2012 and 2015 Alan Ganoo has also held positions on parliamentary committees such as Member of Committee of Selection, Chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee, Member of the Standing Orders Committee, Member of the Select Committee on Live Broadcasting of House Proceedings and Chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee in 2015.

As from 12 November 2019 he holds the portfolio of Minister of Land Transport and Light Rail following his election as the first member for Constituency No.14, Savanne and Black River during the 2019 General Elections.

References

1951 births
Living people
Alumni of King's College London
Members of the National Assembly (Mauritius)
Speakers of the National Assembly (Mauritius)
Mauritian Militant Movement politicians
Place of birth missing (living people)
Mauritian politicians of Indian descent
Government ministers of Mauritius
Foreign Ministers of Mauritius


title: Sprint hurdles at the Olympics

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The sprint hurdles at the Summer Olympics have been contested over a variety of distances at the multi-sport event. The men's 110 metres hurdles has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since the first edition in 1896. A men's 200 metres hurdles was also briefly held, from 1900 to 1904. The first women's sprint hurdling event was added to the programme at the 1932 Olympics in the form of the 80 metres hurdles. At the 1972 Games the women's distance was extended to the 100 metres hurdles, which is the current international standard.

The Olympic records are 12.91 seconds for the men's 110 m hurdles, set by Liu Xiang in 2004, and 12.20 seconds for the women's 100 m hurdles, set by Kendra Harrison in 2016. The fastest time recorded at the Olympics for the men's 200 m hurdles was 24.6 seconds by 1904 winner Harry Hillman. Maureen Caird won the last women's Olympic 80 m hurdles race in 1968 with a record of 10.39 seconds. The men's 110 m hurdles world record has been broken at the Olympics on six occasions: 1908, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1972 and 2004. The women's 100 m hurdles world record has been broken only once, by Annelie Ehrhardt at the inaugural 1972 Olympic final. In contrast the 80 m hurdles world record was set at the Olympics in 1932 (four times), 1936, and 1952 (twice).

Only three athletes have won two Olympic sprint hurdles gold medals: on the men's side, Lee Calhoun, and Roger Kingdom, and on the women's side Shirley Strickland. Strickland is also the only athlete to win three such Olympic medals, having won a bronze medal before her victories. Alvin Kraenzlein is the only athlete to have won two hurdles medals at the same Olympics, having taken the 110 m and 200 m titles. Historically, hurdlers also competed in other individual sprinting events (Harrison Dillard and Fanny Blankers-Koen were also 100 metres Olympic champions), but this became rare after the 1950s.

The United States has been the most successful nation in the men's event with 19 gold medals and 56 medals in total. Though less dominant in the women's events, the U.S. also has the most women's gold medals, with five.

Medal summary

Men's 110 metres hurdles

Multiple medalists

Medals by country

Women's 80 metres hurdles

Multiple medalists

Medalists by country

 The German total includes teams both competing as Germany and the United Team of Germany, but not East or West Germany.

Women's 100 metres hurdles

Multiple medalists

Medalists by country

200 metres hurdles
For a brief period, a men's Olympic 200 metres low hurdles race was held. It was a relatively common event in the early 1900s. With only two appearances in 1900 and 1904, the event's removal as an Olympic event marked the beginning of a steady decline of its popularity over the course of the 20th century and it is now a rarity. The 1900 event was won by Alvin Kraenzlein, who won four gold medals that year, including the 110 m hurdles title. The second and final 200 m hurdles champion, Harry Hillman, was again a multiple gold medallist, as the American won the 400 metres sprint and 400 metres hurdles Olympic titles at that games.

Intercalated Games
The 1906 Intercalated Games were held in Athens and at the time were officially recognised as part of the Olympic Games series, with the intention being to hold a games in Greece in two-year intervals between the internationally held Olympics. However, this plan never came to fruition and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) later decided not to recognise these games as part of the official Olympic series. Some sports historians continue to treat the results of these games as part of the Olympic canon.

At this event a men's 110 m hurdles race was held. For the top two finishers, American hurdler Robert Leavitt and British athlete Alfred Healey, this was the peak of their respective careers. Bronze medalist Vincent Duncker of Germany was the joint 100 metres world record holder at the time.

References
Participation and athlete data
Men's 200 metres Hurdles Medalists. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-02-07.
Men's 110 metres Hurdles Medalists. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-02-07.
Women's 100 metres Hurdles Medalists. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-02-07.
Women's 80 metres Hurdles Medalists. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-02-07.
Olympic record progressions
Mallon, Bill (2012). TRACK & FIELD ATHLETICS - OLYMPIC RECORD PROGRESSIONS. Track and Field News. Retrieved on 2014-02-07.
Specific

External links
IAAF 110 metres hurdles homepage
IAAF 100 metres hurdles homepage
Official Olympics website
Olympic athletics records from Track & Field News

Olympics
Sprint hurdles


title: Martin Mazanec

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Martin Mazanec (born August 5, 1989) is a Czech professional ice hockey defenceman. He currently plays with EC Peiting in the Oberliga.

Mazanec made his Czech Extraliga debut playing with Piráti Chomutov debut during the 2013–14 Czech Extraliga season.

References

External links

1989 births
Living people
Czech ice hockey defencemen
AZ Havířov players
EC Peiting players
Les Aigles de Nice players
Milton Keynes Lightning players
Motor České Budějovice players
Piráti Chomutov players
IHC Písek players
Sportovní Klub Kadaň players
Ice hockey people from České Budějovice
MsHK Žilina players
Czech expatriate ice hockey players in Germany
Czech expatriate ice hockey players in Slovakia
Czech expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Czech expatriate sportspeople in England
Czech expatriate sportspeople in France
Expatriate ice hockey players in England
Expatriate ice hockey players in Italy
Expatriate ice hockey players in France


title: Puerto Rico women's national under-18 softball team

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Puerto Rico women's junior national softball team is the junior national under-17 team for Puerto Rico.  The team competed at the 2007 ISF Junior Women's World Championship in Enschede, Netherlands where they finished seventh.  The team competed at the 2011 ISF Junior Women's World Championship in Cape Town, South Africa where they finished tenth.   The team competed at the 2013 ISF Junior Women's World Championship in Brampton, Ontario where they finished sixth.

References

External links
 International Softball Federation

Women's national under-18 softball teams
Softball in Puerto Rico
Softball