title: Janet Zollinger Giele

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Janet Zollinger Giele (born 1934) is an American sociologist and Professor Emerita of Sociology, Social Policy, and Women's Studies at Brandeis University.  She is best known for her research on the evolving lives of women, from the 19th century women's rights movements to women's contemporary work and family roles. In addition, her publications include the methodology of life course research and the history and growth of American family policy.
She has written or edited ten books and authored numerous articles, a body of work that has been widely cited in her field.

Biography

Giele grew up in Wooster, Ohio and graduated from Wooster High School in 1952. She earned her BA from Earlham College in 1956 as First Honor Student (valedictorian).  During her junior year, 1954–1955, she studied in Paris with a Barrett Scholarship from Earlham College and received a Certificat from L'Institut d'Etudes Politiques. Her 1961 PhD in sociology from Radcliffe College (of Harvard University) examined changes in the feminine role by comparing temperance and suffrage women's lives and ideology. This work was later published as Two Paths to Women's Equality.

Academic work
From 1962 to 1970, Giele taught sociology at Wellesley College. In 1970 she became a fellow of the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College. As a Senior Fellow at the Institute from 1972 to 1975, she served as Principal Consultant to the Ford Foundation's Task Force on Rights and Responsibilities of Women. Her first two books were the result of this work.  Women: Roles and Status in Eight Countries, which she co-edited, uses a framework that she devised to analyze the status of women in six dimensions: family formation, duration, and size; education; employment; family planning and health; political expression; and cultural expression. She found that the status of women is closer to that of men when social organization is very simple or highly complex. In peasant societies, the status of women is reduced relative to that of men and rises again with modernization. A review in Contemporary Sociology criticizes the book for not adequately explaining why women's status improves, either with further modernization, or in revolutionary societies that are not very complex. According to the reviewer the book should have given more weight to the role of women in reproduction and to Marxist feminist theorists linking class and sex discrimination. The same reviewer praises the book as a valuable and high quality comparative study suitable for readings in women studies.

Giele's work on the changing lives of women led her to the field of life course research. In Methods of Life Course Research (1998) she collaborated with her co-editor Glen H. Elder to articulate a theory of life course development. She also reported findings from her 1980s study of women graduates of Oberlin, Spelman, and Wellesley College. In The Craft of Life Course Research (2009) she demonstrates how four key background factors (identity, social networks, personal drive, and adaptive style) differ in white and African-American college-educated women who become either full-time homemakers, or who combine family and career.

In 2003, Giele coauthored the book Women and Equality in the Workplace: A Reference Handbook, described by one reviewer as "an authoritative reference work ... for any serious collection where questions of women's equality in the workplace need to be answered."
Giele's interest in changing roles of women led to her work on the growth of family policy. In 1974 her exploratory research was funded by the National Science Foundation. Between 1976 and 2004 she taught a graduate level course on Family and Children's Policy at the Heller School for Social Policy at Brandeis University and was the founding director of its Family and Children's Policy Center. Her many years of linking sociological insights to pressing policy concerns such as child poverty, disability, work-life balance, and elder care led to her massive overview of social policy that appears in Family Policy and the American Safety Net. This work provides a theoretical and historical framework that shows how all social policy is ultimately family policy. From Medicare to Social Security to home mortgage regulations to immigration reform, major social programs are in the last analysis meant to promote individual well-being and the common good by helping families to carry out their basic functions of caregiving, income provision, shelter, and transmission of citizenship.

Honors and awards

She has received fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson, Ford, and Rockefeller Foundations, the German Marshall Fund, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Radcliffe College made her an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa. Her research has been supported by the National Institutes of Mental Health, the Lilly Endowment, the National Institute on Aging, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Earlham College gave her its Outstanding Alumni Award and Radcliffe its Graduate Society Medal, honoring women who have earned a Radcliffe or Harvard Graduate degree and have made an outstanding contribution to their field. In 2004 the Heller School recognized her teaching of doctoral students with its first Mentoring Award.  In 2013, Pepperdine University established the Janet Zollinger Giele Distinguished Life Course Award to recognize women who have overcome significant obstacles to become leaders in their chosen field.

Personal life and community service

Giele is married to David L. Giele and has two children. She has served as a lay leader in her church, as a member of Wellesley Town Meeting, an alumni trustee of Earlham College, and Acting Dean of the Heller School. She has lectured at more than 50 colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad. From 2009 to 2012 she was the founding president of Wellesley Neighbors, a membership organization that is part of the national village movement which helps midlife and older adults continue to live independently.

Works

Books

References

External links

1934 births
Radcliffe College alumni
Brandeis University faculty
American sociologists
Living people
American women sociologists
People from Wooster, Ohio


title: Randall Stone

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Randall Warren Stone (born February 21, 1966) is an American political scientist and a professor at the University of Rochester, notable for his studies on international political economy, international relations, and Russian and European politics.

Stone has conducted extensive research on global economy, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and institutional design, and in 2012, was awarded the International Studies Association’s Chadwick F. Alger Prize for his book, Controlling Institutions: International Organizations and the Global Economy. Director of the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies at the University of Rochester, Stone speaks Russian, German, and Polish, and frequently travels to the region. Stone is also the author of Lending Credibility: The International Monetary Fund and the Post-Communist Transition (Princeton, 2002) and Satellites and Commissars: Strategy and Conflict in the Politics of Soviet-Bloc Trade (Princeton, 1996).

Stone earned a B.A. in government at Harvard University in 1988, and a Ph.D. in political science at Harvard University in 1993. He has been awarded grants by the NSF, SSRC, NCEEER, and IREX, and was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Berlin. His articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Review of International Relations, and Global Environmental Politics. Stone has also been cited by the New York Times, CNBC, PBS News, and Foreign Policy Magazine for his insight into current affairs in Ukraine and Crimea.

See also
 International Monetary Fund

References

External links

 Randall Stone. Department of Political Science. University of Rochester. Accessed June 5, 2014.

1966 births
Living people
University of Rochester faculty
Harvard University alumni
American political scientists


title: Mount Holly, Baltimore

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Mount Holly is a neighborhood in the Southwest District of Baltimore, located between the neighborhoods of Fairmont (south), Walbrook (east) and Garwyn Oaks (north). Its boundaries are drawn by Denison Street (east), Clifton Avenue (southwest), Gwynns Falls Parkway (north), Windsor Mill Road (northwest), and West North Avenue (south). Gwynns Falls Leakin Park is located to the west of Mount Holly.

Demographics
The population of Mount Holly, measured at 1,023 in 2011, was almost exclusively (96.5%) black. Median household income for the neighborhood in 2011 was $31,613, slightly below the citywide median of $38,721. Residents of Mount Holly living at an income below the poverty line were estimated at 26.1 percent in 2011, also below the citywide rate of 25.1 percent. The average sale price of homes in Mount Holly was $27,415 in 2013.

Public transportation
Two transit bus routes provide public transportation to the neighborhood's residents, with connections to the Baltimore Metro, Light Rail and MARC train as well as other bus routes. Both have stops along Clifton Avenue in Mount Holly.

 Route 15 (MTA Maryland) runs between Security Square Mall (west) and Perry Hall (east).
 Route 91 (MTA Maryland) traveling between Sinai Hospital (north) and City Hall (south), has a stop at Pennsylvania Station (Baltimore), providing passengers with access to Amtrak and the MARC Train. It also has stops at Metro and Light Rail stations.

See also
 List of Baltimore neighborhoods

References

Neighborhoods in Baltimore
Southwest Baltimore


title: H. de C. Hastings

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Hubert de Cronin Hastings (18 July 1902 – 4 December 1986), often referred to in contemporary works as H. de C. Hastings (and known to friends as "H. de C."), was chairman of the Architectural Press and editor of Architectural Review and Architects' Journal.

Early life and family

Hastings was born at Merton, Surrey, on 18 July 1902, the third son of Percy Hastings, proprietor of Architectural Press and founder of Architectural Review, and his wife Lilian Julie, née Bass. He was educated at Berkhamsted School, and worked first for his father's company before enrolling at Bartlett School of Architecture, part of University College, London. Disenchanted with the course's beaux arts leanings, he moved to UCL's art school, the Slade, where he was influenced heavily by cubism.

On 23 July 1927, Hastings married Hazel Rickman Garrard, a daughter of Charles Frederick Garrard and had two children with her: a son, John Hastings, and a daughter, Priscilla Hastings.

Early years as editor

In 1927, Hastings took over (alongside Christian Berman) the editing of Architectural Review and Architects' Journal; he set about rearranging the format, including changes in typography and image (for which he commissioned artwork from Eric Gill), but also the content. From then on, the weekly Journal would be concerned with practical architecture, while the monthly Review was concerned with architecture as an art, regularly featuring articles on painting, sculpture, interior design and architectural history.

In the following years, he employed a new generation of writers to contribute to the publications, including Osbert Lancaster, Robert Byron, Evelyn Waugh, Cyril Connolly, Sacheverell Sitwell, P. Morton Shand and (from 1930) John Betjeman; during the Second World War, Nikolaus Pevsner assisted, while J. M. Richards was serving in the armed forces. Hastings was known to have had difficult working relationships with some of these young writers he employed. Betjeman's relationship with Hastings was largely amicable, though at times, as Hasting's Telegraph obituary states, "Betjeman was openly impatient of the petty rules imposed by the management" and nicknamed him "Old Obscurity".

Although rarely contributing articles, he is known to have written several, under the pseudonym Ivor de Wolfe. He also authored The Alternative Society (1980), as well as a caricature book produced during his art-school years. As an individual, he was a "romantic" and an "idealist", but also a "perfectionist." He rarely talked publicly and was known to go on vacations without announcement and miss editorial meetings, returning, though, with a new draft article or photographs of continental cities.

CIAM
During the late 1930s Hastings contributed to the work of the International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM). In 1936, with William Tatton Brown and his wife Aileen, Hastings formed a three-strong 'Town Planning Committee' within CIAM exploring ideas related to 'linear cities'; Tatton Brown subsequently presented a paper based on the work, The Theory of Contacts and its Application to the Future of London, at the CIAM V Congress in Paris in September 1937. These ideas were then explored further through the MARS Group and its exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries in 1938.

Later years and legacy

Throughout the 1930s, he promoted modernism, with the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography commenting that he "saw the logic of this as a bright new future for society", although he later campaigned for 'new monumentalism' and 'new empiricism', before going on to favour the "picturesque" in town planning, in reaction to the more rigid axial-planning which was fashionable at the time amongst architectural circles; this led to his promotion of the notion of "townscape" and his criticism of poor planning in British architecture. A special publication of the Review which highlighted his criticisms was produced and influenced the creation of the Civic Trust.

In recognition of his service to architecture in Britain, he became the first architectural editor to receive the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture from the Royal Institute of British Architects. Their citation described him as a "leading campaigner in drawing attention to many of the most crucial and controversial issues that have concerned the architectural profession in this century."

Hastings died on 4 December 1986 at Bedham Farm, Fittleworth, Sussex; he was cremated and his ashes interred at Bedham.

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1902 births
1986 deaths
20th-century English architects
People from Merton (parish)
People from Fittleworth
Architects from Surrey
Architects from Sussex
Recipients of the Royal Gold Medal
Alumni of University College London


title: Listed buildings in Poynton with Worth

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Poynton with Worth is a civil parish in Cheshire East, England.  It contains 19 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings, all of which are at Grade II.  This grade is the lowest of the three gradings given to listed buildings and is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest".  The parish contains the town of Poynton and surrounding countryside.  The listed buildings include houses, farmhouses, two milestones, a guide post, a former generator house, a bridge over the Macclesfield Canal, an ice house, and a boundary stone.

See also

Listed buildings in Hazel Grove and Bramhall
Listed buildings in Marple, Greater Manchester
Listed buildings in Pott Shrigley
Listed buildings in Adlington

References
Citations

Sources

Listed buildings in the Borough of Cheshire East
Lists of listed buildings in Cheshire


title: Revenge of the Living Dead Girls

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Revenge of the Living Dead Girls () is a 1987 French splatter film directed by Pierre B. Reinhard, written by Jean-Claude Roy, and starring Véronique Catanzaro, Kathryn Charly, Sylvie Novak, Anthea Wyler, Laurence Mercier, Patrick Guillemin, Gabor Rassov, Christina Schmidt, and Cornélia Wilms. Toxic waste causes a zombie outbreak in France.

Plot
In France, the CEO of a chemical company looks to cheaply dispose of their plant's chemical waste. He and his secretary come up with the idea to dump it illegally. When the secretary contaminates a milk tanker, it causes several deaths in the town. The toxic waste, illegally dumped in a nearby graveyard, then causes the recently dead townspeople to rise as ravenous zombies, who seek revenge on the unscrupulous company and its employees.

Cast
 Véronique Catanzaro
 Kathryn Charly
 Sylvie Novak
 Anthea Wyler
 Laurence Mercier
 Patrick Guillemin
 Gabor Rassov
 Christina Schmidt
 Cornélia Wilms

Release
Revenge of the Living Dead Girls premiered in France on 16 September 1987.  It was released on DVD on 8 August 2006.

Reception
Dave Bow of The Portland Mercury rated it 2/4 stars and wrote that story is confused and the ending makes no sense.  Peter Schorn of IGN rated it 2/10 and called it a weak ripoff of The Return of the Living Dead.  Ian Jane of DVD Talk rated it 3/5 stars and called it "an entertaining slice of European sleaze".

References

External links

1987 films
1987 horror films
1980s French films
French horror films
French splatter films
French zombie films


The 2014–15 Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball team represented Northwestern University in the 2014–15 college basketball season. Led by second year head coach Chris Collins. The Wildcats were members of the Big Ten Conference and played their home games at Welsh-Ryan Arena. They finished the season 15–17, 6–12 in Big Ten play to finish in a tie for tenth place. They lost in the second round of the Big Ten tournament to Indiana.

Previous season
The Wildcats finished the season 14–19, 6–12 in Big Ten play to finish in a tie for tenth place. They advanced to the quarterfinals of the Big Ten tournament where they lost to Michigan State.

Departures

Incoming transfers

Incoming recruits

Class of 2014 recruits

Class of 2015 recruits

Roster

Schedule and results
Source

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Northwestern Wildcats
Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball seasons
Northwestern Wild
Northwestern Wild


title: Blankenhain (Crimmitschau)

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Blankenhain is a village in Crimmitschau, district of Zwickau, Saxony. Its area is  and its population is 911 including Großpillingsdorf (2018). The Blankenhain Castle is located in the village.

References

Former municipalities in Saxony
Crimmitschau


title: People Get Ready (band)

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People Get Ready is an American four-piece indie rock band based out of Brooklyn, New York. The band consists of Steven Reker, Luke Fassano (formerly of Yeasayer) James Rickman, and Jen Goma. They are known primarily for their live performances, which showcase a blend of rock show and performance art.

History
After moving to New York from Arizona in 2006 and ultimately finding work as a musician, composer, and dancer on several large projects, founding member Steven Reker decided to pursue his own musical ventures. The band made its debut in 2009, and was later signed to Brassland Records. In 2011, they recorded their first album at a farmhouse turned studio in upstate New York, with help from fellow Brassland musician Jherek Bischoff. Following the release of their self-titled debut in 2012, they went on to tour throughout the United States and Europe, and received critical praise for their unique live show. They then began recording their second album, Physiques, in 2013, and released it on Brassland in June 2014.

Discography
LP

- People Get Ready (2012)

- Physiques (2014)

EP

- Zelda Maria (2013)

References

Indie rock musical groups from New York (state)
Musical groups from Brooklyn
Musical quartets from New York (state)


title: Best Before Records

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Best Before Records is a British boutique independent record label based in London, England.

Best Before Records's artists are generally considered Alternative, Pop Punk, alternative rock, but some also include elements of various genres of metal. Some of their most well-known artists include or included ACODA, Mutiny On The Bounty, 22, The Chapman Family, Sharks, Dananananaykroyd, Johnny Foreigner, The Pistolas, The Heights and in 2014 signing Death and the Penguin,  American Fangs and Press to MECO.

The label's functions include sourcing new artists, producing albums, marketing/promoting and securing international licensees in the North American, European, Australian and Asian markets. The company provides traditional record company services along with (for some) management, digital marketing/promotion, production and manufacturing services catered to each artists individual requirements.

History
Best Before Records was launched in 2004 as part of a subsidy under the Channelfly and Mama Group corporate. In December 2009 Mama Group was acquired by HMV who had shown no interest in this part of the corporation therefore the label Best Before Records was taken over by label manager Anthony Shaw and became a fully independent label distributed by PIAS Entertainment Group in the UK and Europe.

After separating from its parent company, it continued to develop a strong label identity and effectively launching several new artist careers including ‘Dananananaykroyd’, ‘Johnny Foreigner’, 'The Heights' and ‘The Morning After Girls’. Taking on further bands like Sharks, 22, Mutiny On The Bounty, ACODA and most recently Death and the Penguin, American Fangs and Press to MECO.

In 2015, Best Before Records changed worldwide distribution to The Orchard and released several new albums.

Artists

Artists that have been signed, or are currently signed, to the label
  Press to MECO
  22
  American Fangs
  ACODA.
  Dananananaykroyd
  Death and the Penguin
  Johnny Foreigner (active with Alcopop! Records UK)
  Mutiny On The Bounty
  Sharks
  The Chapman Family
  The Heights
  The Morning After Girls
  The Pistolas

Releases

References

British independent record labels
Companies based in the London Borough of Lambeth
Best Before Records artists
Alternative rock record labels
Indie rock record labels
Hardcore record labels


title: List of historic buildings in Klamath Falls, Oregon

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This is a list of historic buildings in Klamath Falls, Oregon, many of which are located downtown.

Nineteenth century

1900-1910

1911-1919

1920-1929

1930-1939

1940-1949

Dates Unknown

Demolished

See also

 National Register of Historic Places listings in Klamath County, Oregon

References

Klamath


title: Scalebound

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was an action role-playing game developed by PlatinumGames from 2013 until its cancellation in 2017. It was scheduled to be released in 2017 for Windows and Xbox One, but Microsoft Studios announced its cancellation in January 2017. In the game, players would assume control of Drew, who is accompanied by a dragon called Thuban. Players could use a variety of weapons to defeat enemies, and could issue commands to the dragon, which assisted players during battles. Unlike other games developed by PlatinumGames, the game was to put more focus on graphical qualities and the role-playing aspect instead of action.

Gameplay
Scalebound was an action role-playing game played in a third-person perspective, in which players assumed control of Drew, as he progressed through the world of Draconis. Players are accompanied by a dragon called Thuban, who would assist Drew throughout the game. Drew and Thuban are bonded together, and Thuban's death would cause Drew to die as well and vice versa. Thuban is usually controlled by artificial intelligence, but players can give commands to the dragon when performing attacks. Drew can enter the Dragon Link mode, allowing the player to directly control the dragon from his perspective. In this mode, the perspective would shift to first-person, and Drew is very vulnerable to attacks. There are three types of dragons, each with different characteristics. The three types can be blended together through the game's customization options and the dragon's abilities, appearances and armor can be modified by the player. The dragon can be ridden, though not in the beginning of the game, and they can perform a special elemental attack with the berserker mode. The player can upgrade abilities by using the gems that enemies dropped sometimes.

In addition, players are equipped with melee weapons, such as swords and other ranged weapons. These weapons will eventually become degraded and lose their durability during combat. The game does not feature any crafting system, but players can obtain different weapons throughout the game. When encountering large enemies, players can swing to them and climb on them to perform attacks. Drew has a dragon arm, which can scan enemies for information, unleash pulse energy, and heal his dragon companion. The player can shapeshift into a half-dragon hybrid. When he shapeshifts, his abilities will be significantly strengthened. Players can gain skill points, which can be used to level-up Drew, by defeating enemies and taking care of Thuban like healing and assisting him in battle. Additional skill points would have given if players can defeat multiple enemies consecutively. The game featured a four-player co-operative multiplayer mode.

Development
The game was under development by PlatinumGames. The concept for the game was created when Platinum established in 2006 but the studio decided to move to develop Bayonetta instead of making Scalebound. The studio attempted to re-pitch the game again after the completion of Bayonetta, and a prototype was made but it failed to generate any interest, and the studio moved on to develop The Wonderful 101. When the development of The Wonderful 101 was almost finished, the idea for Scalebound was revised, and the game's development officially began in 2013.

Director Hideki Kamiya considered the game a new experience for the studio, as it was something that they had never worked on before. The studio hoped that they could create a game whose gameplay would have been unlike any other game previously developed by Platinum. Kamiya described it as a big challenge for the studio. He also considered the collaboration between Platinum and Microsoft a leap forward for the studio. According to him, Bayonetta-styled action and reflexes is not the core focus of the game, but he promised that the game's combat "will remain at the quality that’s always defined [Platinum's] action games". The team put more emphasis on graphics and visual quality to create a game that is "photo-realistic". The game was designed to be more accessible for new players and the team hoped that the game's fantasy setting can introduce it to a wider audience. Platinum also consulted Microsoft's user research labs to ensure that the game would suit the taste of a broad audience.

Scalebound would be the first action role-playing game developed by Platinum. Kamiya described the game as a dream come true for him, as he had always wanted to create a game where dragons are the players' companion as opposed to being enemies. In order to add a twist to the game's world and prevent it from being too typical, the team introduced Drew, a young man who comes from the modern world, to contrast with the fantasy setting of the game. The bonding between the game's protagonist and the dragon was not originally planned. Kamiya's original vision was to have monsters fighting against each other. However, they decided to add that later on because they wanted to increase player participation in the game. In order to tackle the problem of having two lead characters in a game, they focused the story on Drew and the gameplay on Thuban. As a result, Thuban can be customized extensively, while Drew cannot. Instead of the dragon, Platinum originally hoped to feature dinosaurs in the game, although the idea was later scrapped. It was once intended to be a dinosaur game, in which players can issue commands to other dinosaurs, for the Wii console.

Kamiya cited the 1987 Dragon Slayer action role-playing game Sorcerian as inspiration, including its fantasy theme, "gigantic monsters," different scenarios, "expansive possibilities", "tons of adventures" and enemies such as a hydra boss and "lots of amazing dragons". He also cited the 1987 PC-8801 MA release of the action role-playing game Hydlide 3, noting the influence of its "hardcore game design", as well as the dragons of the role-playing video game Dragon Quest.

The game's world, Draconis, features a giant mushroom that grows extensively. Pulse energy emanates from it that serves as the life foundation of every existing creature in the game. According to Yong-hee Cho, the game's art director, the Pulse took inspiration from the Force of Star Wars fame. Draconis is described to be non-linear which encourages exploration. When designing the game's world, the team hoped to strike a balance between realism and imagination. As a result, 80% of the game's world would be based on earth's landscape, while the remaining 20% would be environments shaped by the Pulse energy. According to Cho, when he first pitched his original enemy designs to Kamiya, they were rejected because they were considered to be too exaggerated. Kamiya later said that he wanted the enemies to be more realistic. In addition, the difficulty of enemies is not scaled according to Drew's strength and level, as Platinum hoped that without scaled difficulty, players can experience a sense of victory when they return to earlier areas to defeat easier enemies. Despite that, enemies behaviors change during the second encounter.

The initial deal between PlatinumGames and Microsoft was facilitated by agent Ben Judd. The game was officially announced at Microsoft Studios' press conference at E3 2014 with a cinematic trailer. The game missed E3 2015, but the game's gameplay was shown at Gamescom 2015, alongside Crackdown 3 and Quantum Break. The game's four-player co-operative multiplayer mode was also announced. Scalebound was set to be released worldwide for the Xbox One in late 2016 but was later delayed to 2017. The game's cancellation was announced on January 9, 2017.

Reflecting on the game's cancellation in May 2019, Platinum studio head Atsushi Inaba said it “wasn’t easy” to see publisher Microsoft receive criticism for the decision as he felt “both sides failed,” and that ultimately, the game “didn’t do all of the things that we needed to do as a developer”. In February 2020, Inaba said that while Scalebound remains an intellectual property fully owned by Microsoft, PlatinumGames would want to return to it if given the opportunity to.

In a video interview with Cutscenes, Kamiya apologized for the game's cancellation and stated the development team were not experienced enough in creating a title with an emphasis on online features.

Legacy
According to Platinum, several elements from Scalebound were reworked to appear in Bayonetta 3.

Notes

References

External links

Action role-playing video games
Cancelled Windows games
Cancelled Xbox One games
Hack and slash games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Open-world video games
PlatinumGames games
Unreal Engine games
Video games about dragons
Video games developed in Japan
Video games directed by Hideki Kamiya
Video games about parallel universes
Video games scored by Christopher Lennertz


title: Kaytranada

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Louis Kevin Celestin (born August 25, 1992), known professionally as Kaytranada (stylized as KAYTRANADA, shortened as KAYTRA), is a Haitian-Canadian music producer and DJ. Celestin rose to prominence after releasing a series of mixtapes, remixes, and original music projects beginning in 2010 under the alias Kaytradamus. By 2013, and under the moniker Kaytranada, he began gaining wider recognition and, the following year, signed a deal with XL Recordings, with whom he would release his critically acclaimed debut studio album 99.9% in 2016. In 2019, he released its follow-up, Bubba, for which he won two Grammy Awards including Best Dance/Electronic Album. Celestin is one half of the hip hop duo The Celestics, along with his brother Lou Phelps.

Early life
Kaytranada was born Louis Kevin Celestin on August 25, 1992, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Shortly after he was born, his family relocated to Saint-Hubert near Montreal where he was raised, and where he began his music career. Kaytranada's father was employed as a taxi driver and an estate agent, and his mother worked in healthcare. His parents divorced when he was 14. That same year, Kaytranada began to produce his own music after his brother Lou Phelps introduced him to FL Studio. The first song he ever sampled was Earth Wind & Fire's September, at 15 years old.  Kaytranada ended up dropping out of high school to pursue music full-time to help support his family financially.

In an April 2016 article with The Fader, Kaytranada disclosed that he was gay and discussed his anxiety about coming out to his family. In the same interview, he shared his hopes of avoiding being defined by his sexuality as he's seen peers be labeled in the industry. Later in May of that same year, during an interview with The Guardian, he further opened up about mental health struggles brought on by his sexuality, which he said contributed to an identity crisis.

Career
Celestin began his career under the name Kaytradamus in 2010. He released two projects as Kaytradamus before changing his name to Kaytranada in 2012. Kaytranada was on the roster of HW&W Recordings, an independent label based in Los Angeles and Toronto. Kaytranada has released 13 projects and 41 remixes. He has toured more than 50 Canadian, American, European and Australian cities.

In December 2014, he signed an exclusive recording agreement with XL Recordings. During 2015, Kaytranada opened for two nights of Madonna's Rebel Heart Tour, one in Canada and one in the United States. Speculation arose that Kaytranada and producer Rick Rubin had started working together when a photo of them surfaced online around February 2015. It was later confirmed that they had formed a partnership backed by Pulse Recordings.

His debut album, 99.9%, was released on May 6, 2016. The album includes features from GoldLink, AlunaGeorge, Syd, Anderson .Paak, and Vic Mensa, among others. He also collaborated with Craig David on the song "Got It Good", which is on David's sixth studio album, Following My Intuition. Kaytranada won the 2016 Polaris Music Prize for his album 99.9%. The album received a score of 8.0 from Pitchfork.

On December 13, 2019, his second album, Bubba, was released on RCA Records. It received a score of 8.1 from Pitchfork.

On March 14, 2021, Kaytranada won a Grammy for Best Dance Recording for '10%' and Best Dance/Electronic Album for 'Bubba'.

On October 13, 2022, it was leaked on Apple Music that Kaytranada would feature on 2 songs, I'm Lying and High Grade, of Lancey Foux's album LIFE IN HELL, which would release on October 28, 2022.

On April 7, 2023, Kaytranada and Aminé released "4eva" featuring Pharrell Williams, the first single from their joint album.

Kaytranada performed at the 22nd Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in April 2023.

Discography

Since 2010, Kaytranada has released two studio albums, two studio EPs, numerous singles, and at least a dozen beat tapes. He is also a prolific remix artist and has released a series of collaborative projects with The Celestics and Robert Glasper, among others.

Studio albums
 99.9% (2016)
 Bubba (2019)
 Kaytraminé (2023; with Aminé)

Production discography

Awards and nominations

References

External links

Official website
Kaytranada on Spotify
Kaytranada on Apple Music

1992 births
Living people
Haitian LGBT people
Canadian electronic musicians
Canadian house musicians
Canadian experimental musicians
Canadian Internet celebrities
Black Canadian musicians
Canadian gay musicians
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Canadian DJs
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title: Narrative Science

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Narrative Science was a technology company based in Chicago, Illinois, that specialized in data storytelling. As of December 17, 2021, Narrative Science was acquired by Salesforce and has been integrated into Salesforce's Tableau Software.

History

Narrative Science was founded in 2010 in Evanston, Illinois, after a student project in the Intelligent Information Lab at Northwestern University jump started the NLG technology. The first prototype of the company technology went by the project name StatsMonkey and was developed in the laboratory by Kris Hammond, Larry Birnbaum, Nick Allen and John Templon. StatsMonkey was created to allow stories based in data, specifically baseball stories at the beginning, to be written automatically by StatsMonkey. These baseball stories would include recaps based on game data like players, win probability and game score. Narrative Science licensed StatsMonkey and the related intellectual property from Northwestern and began commercial operations in early 2010. Afterwards the company decided to change direction, they no longer focused on the journalistic capabilities of their technology and focused on how the same technology could be used in the business world. This led to the development of a Natural Language Generation platform called Quill, which analyzes structured data and automatically generates intelligent narratives for business users who are not data fluent. Narrative Science has several investors, including SAP Ventures and In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the Central Intelligence Agency. In 2014, the Chicago company raised another $10 million in equity financing, led by customer USAA, for a total of $32 million raised since the company’s inception. In 2020, Narrative Science launched Data Storytelling for Good, their non-profit branch which provides their products for free to organizations doing good in their community.

In November, 2021, Narrative Science announced an agreement to be acquired by Salesforce. The deal closed on December 17, 2021, and Narrative Science was folded into Tableau. In the announcement of the close, Salesforce indicated that Narrative Science's products would no longer be sold.

Recognition

In 2017, Fortune listed Narrative Science as one of the 50 companies leading the artificial intelligence revolution. In 2015, CNBC named Narrative Science to their Disruptor 50 list.

Gartner named Narrative Science as one of the “Cool Vendors in Smart Machines” in 2014.

In 2013, the company was named to the Red Herring Top 100 for North America, which highlights promising startups in Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

Narrative Science won a 2013 Edison Award for Innovative Services in Collaboration and Knowledge Management.

In 2018, Narrative Science was part of the World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneers.

In 2018, Narrative Science won Crain's Most Innovative Company.

Competitors

According to Gartner's 2019 "Market Guide for NLG", the main NLG companies are (in alphabetical order): Arria NLG, Automated Insights, AX Semantics, Narrative Science, vPhrase and Yseop. Other similar companies in the area of natural language generation include Smartologic, Retresco, United Robots and Linguastat.

Criticism

The company received some early criticism from journalists speculating that Narrative Science was attempting to eliminate the jobs of writers, particularly in sports and finance.
Critics also argue that biases and assumptions in original data sets can lead to reinforced bias in the stories generated by natural language processors, such as Narrative Science. A CBS article compared artificially generated journalism in the financial sector to the property market bubble, as it leads to “everyone making investments in the same way for the same reasons”. The article claimed that computer-generated narratives have the “potential to amplify biases and assumptions, but at far greater speed and on a far wider scale than anything written by humans.”

An article from the Columbia Journalism School also criticized the limitations of “robo-journalism” software, as “it can’t assess the damage on the ground, can’t interview experts, and can’t discern the relative newsworthiness of various aspects of the story” and therefore, lacks a necessary human element.

See also
 Narrative Inquiry
 Natural Language Processing

References

Technology companies of the United States
Technology companies established in 2010
Natural language generation


title: Crackdown 3

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Crackdown 3 is an action-adventure video game developed by Sumo Digital and published by Microsoft Studios for Windows and Xbox One. It continues the series nearly nine years after the release of 2010's Xbox 360 video game Crackdown 2. Originally set to be released in 2016, the game was delayed a number of times. The game was released on 15 February 2019 and received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the return of its core features from its predecessors and level of enjoyment, but was also criticized for a lack of innovation and dated design.

Gameplay
Crackdown 3 retains the core gameplay of Crackdown and Crackdown 2, featuring a number of different organizations controlling the city of New Providence that players need to take down by killing their bosses and Kingpins, destroying their facilities, and destabilizing their infrastructures. Players can use a variety of weapons to achieve this end, from guns to grenades to rocket launchers, as well as their own physical power. Players can also drive any vehicle found in-game. Picking up a new weapon or driving a new vehicle for the first time will add it to the player's collection at any supply point. The game features the "Skills for Kills" system as found in previous games, in which killing enemies with different tools and finding pickups hidden throughout the city award the player with orbs, which increase the player's core skills – agility, firearms, strength, explosives, and driving. Each time a skill levels up, the player unlocks an additional maneuver or item related to that skill, such as ground-pounding by leveling up strength, or double-jumping by leveling up agility. Agility Orbs, Rooftop Races, Driving Rings, and Road Races are also located throughout the city, all of which will increase the related skill upon collection or completion; Hidden Orbs can be found as well, and will increase all of the player's skills at once.

Different activities are connected to different bosses and underbosses; completing these activities, such as destroying vehicle lockups, liberating monorail stations, and destroying machinery, allows the player to acquire more intel on each boss, and the boss location is revealed on the map once enough intel has been collected. The boss of each branch of TerraNova controls a certain element of defense for the final boss, and killing each of them weakens an aspect of the final boss's fortress. However, causing a certain level of chaos towards one branch of the organization will send more and more reinforcements from that branch as the player's heat level increases, and being at the highest level for too long can result in a city-wide lockdown, forcing the player to kill a certain number of reinforcements to lift it and access their supply points again.

Crackdown 3 features cooperative play in both campaign mode and Keys to the City mode, which allows free roam throughout New Providence.

Crackdown 3: Wrecking Zone
Another new element to the series is the inclusion of destructible environments in a competitive multiplayer mode, Wrecking Zone, in which nearly the entire map is destructible. However, the mode was quickly abandoned. Wrecking Zone has since been described as "dead".

Plot
Ten years after the events of Crackdown 2, a massive terrorist attack from an unknown source cuts electrical power around the entire world. The Agency is thrust back into action after the attack is traced to the city of New Providence, controlled by the mysterious but sinister corporation TerraNova, led by Elizabeth Niemand; New Providence is the only city that still has power. The player characters - super-powered Agents - are called into the field by Agency Director Charles Goodwin (Michael McConnohie) and led by Commander Isaiah Jaxon (Terry Crews) to drop into New Providence and dismantle Terra Nova any way they can. As Jaxon briefs the agents of their mission, their drop ship is attacked by TerraNova, resulting in the deaths of everyone on board.

Echo, a member of the New Providence rebel group known as the Militia, recovers the remains of one of the agents and regenerates them. Heavily outnumbered by TerraNova’s forces, Echo enlists the agent's help in fighting back by dismantling TerraNova's infrastructure - Logistics, Science, and Enforcement. As the agent fights TerraNova, they discover that the Science branch of TerraNova has been mining a mysterious green mineral called Chimera, which Goodwin deduces is responsible for the power outage - Chimera reportedly consumes electrical power. The agent also investigates the mysterious disappearance of many New Providence citizens, discovering they have been kidnapped by TerraNova in an attempt to brainwash and create an army of genetically enhanced super-soldiers. Audio logs found throughout the game allow the agent to learn the existence of an anonymous client who reportedly paid TerraNova to perform there

Eventually, the agent assaults Elizabeth Niemand's tower and ascends to the top, where they confront Niemand, who is piloting a massive Chimera-powered dragon mech; Neimand states her desire to use the Vitalis project to make herself immortal. The agent destroys the dragon mech, killing Niemand. In the aftermath, Goodwin offers Echo a position at the Agency, which she accepts. An agent's severed arm suspended in a Vitalis tank is then seen as the voice of the anonymous client addresses the agent, stating that the Agent is the end of the evolution of Chimera.

Development
Crackdown 3 was announced at Microsoft's press conference at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2014 in June 2014, as an Xbox One exclusive. While the game was still at an early stage at the time of its reveal, Microsoft's Phil Spencer said that the title came about from talks with Dave Jones who, after leaving Realtime Worlds, joined Cloudgine, a software company that is developing technology allowing game developers to take advantage of cloud computing features. Cloudgine had been previously rumored to be a core part of the Xbox One software, with their software used in a technology demonstration at a Microsoft developer's conference in April 2014, demonstrating the use of cloud computing to speed up the physics modeling and rendering in a fully destructible city environment. Spencer revealed that the demo world was the start of this newest Crackdown title, with ability to destroy any part of the city expected to be carried over to the final game. According to Spencer, Cloudgine would help to develop the core engine, while Reagent Games, a studio located in close proximity to Cloudgine also founded by Jones, would develop the gameplay and art assets for the game, with Sumo Digital developing the game's campaign mode and Crackdown 2 developers Ruffian Games (credited as "Elbow Rocket") developing the multiplayer. Microsoft Studios' creative director Ken Lobb asserted that the game would only be called Crackdown instead of Crackdown 3, stating that the game is set in the future of the first game but represents an alternate timeline from what Crackdown 2 provided.

The game was officially revealed as Crackdown 3 during Microsoft's Gamescom 2015 press conference on 4 August 2015. The focus on cloud-powered real time destruction was first demonstrated there, and Jones stated that Microsoft's cloud computing technology provides twenty times more power than playing the game on a single Xbox One console. Because of the game's reliance to Microsoft Azure for destruction engine, the full scale destruction will only be available in the game's online multiplayer modes, while campaign mode, regardless of number of players, will only have access to limited degree of destruction.

In January 2018, Epic Games acquired Cloudgine, and with that, Jones left Reagent to join Epic Games. Polygon reported at the same time that several Reagent programmers also left to go to Epic. During an interview at E3 2018, Microsoft Studio's Matt Booty stated that Sumo Digital was now the principal developer on Crackdown 3. Jones confirmed that in terms of development, Sumo Digital had always been the principal developer for the game; Cloudgine was there to help support cloud computing, with Reagent established as a consulting firm to allow Jones to help Sumo determine the direction to take Crackdown 3. Jones did not believe there was any stumbling blocks due with Cloudgine, Reagent, or himself leaving the development at that point, since they had done what they had needed for cloud computing support, and considered that now, "it's just the technology stack, it's pretty straightforward" for Sumo to complete. Despite their departures during development, both Cloudgine and Reagent were still credited in the game's packaging and on the end credits.

The game uses Unreal Engine 4 and features a Dolby Atmos soundtrack.

Delays
Crackdown 3 was set to be released worldwide in 2016, which was changed to 7 November 2017 simultaneously with the Xbox One X, but another delay was announced on 16 August 2017, moving the release back to an unspecified Q2/Q3 2018 date. In June 2018, the game was confirmed to be delayed again, pushing back to February 2019.

Reception

Crackdown 3 received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.

IGN noted the lack of innovation stating, "Crackdown 3 delivers on what made the original an enjoyable game, but never much more." Destructoid was also disappointed with the evolution of the series and wrote, "Crackdown 3 is a good Crackdown game, which, unfortunately, doesn't mean much anymore. Modern game design has surpassed the Crackdown model by leaps and bounds". EGMNow wrote of the game, "It’s a blast when you just feel like zoning out, hunting orbs, jumping across rooftops, and blowing up bad guys" and closed by saying, "It’s good, solid fun, but it’s not going to completely revolutionize the industry."

PC Gamer wrote, "Crackdown 3 comes along 12 years after Crackdown but without 12 years' worth of new ideas to share" and finished by saying, "It's an OK game that could've been exciting a decade ago." The Verge referred to Crackdown 3 as "the Netflix Original of games", by stating: "You know when there’s a show you really like, but then it dips in quality and eventually gets canceled, and the creators say they want to make a new season someday or maybe a remake, but it’s stuck in production hell for several years, then Netflix or whoever sinks a bunch of money into it, and it eventually gets released and it’s not quite as good as you remember the original, but it’s still pretty entertaining and hey, you’re paying for Netflix anyway so you’re not going to complain about getting it for 'free?' That’s Crackdown 3. It is video game as Netflix Original."

Notes

References

External links

 Crackdown 3 at MobyGames.com

Action-adventure games
Crackdown
Dystopian video games
Microsoft games
Open-world video games
Third-person shooters
Unreal Engine games
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title: Curtis Gonzales

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Curtis Gonzales (born 26 January 1989) is a Trinidad and Tobago international footballer who plays for Defence Force, as a defender.

Career
Gonzales has played club football for Ma Pau and Defence Force.

He made his international debut for Trinidad and Tobago in 2012.

References

1989 births
Living people
Trinidad and Tobago men's footballers
Trinidad and Tobago men's international footballers
Men's association football defenders
Ma Pau Stars S.C. players
Defence Force F.C. players
TT Pro League players
2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup players


title: Nikita Scherbak

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Nikita Sergeevich Scherbak (; born December 30, 1995) is a Russian professional ice hockey player who is currently playing for Ducs d'Angers of the Ligue Magnus.

He most recently played under contract with the Texas Stars of the American Hockey League (AHL). Scherbak was selected by the Montreal Canadiens in the first round (26th overall) of the 2014 NHL Entry Draft.

Playing career

Junior

Scherbak began his junior career in 2012 playing with Kapitan Stupino in the Russian Junior Hockey League. Scherbak was drafted by the Saskatoon Blades in the 2nd round of the 2013 CHL Import Draft.

He joined the Blades in 2013 where he led all rookies in goals (28), assists (50), and points (78) during the 2013–14 WHL season. His outstanding play was rewarded when he was invited to play the 2014 CHL Top Prospects Game.

Scherbak was rated as a top prospect who was viewed as a possible first round selection heading into the 2014 NHL Entry Draft. After his selection on July 22, 2014, he was  signed to a three-year entry-level contract with the Canadiens.

On September 22, Scherbak was traded to the Everett Silvertips from the Saskatoon Blades based on league rules which state that no more than two non-North American players may be on the same club's roster at any given time.

Professional
During the 2016–17 season, Scherbak made his NHL debut for Montreal Canadiens on January 7, 2017 against Toronto Maple Leafs and scored on the power play, on his first NHL career shot, to put the Canadiens up 3–2, with just 0.9 seconds left of the first period. Montreal won the game 5–3.

After starting the first 11 games of the 2018–19 season as a healthy scratch, Scherbak was assigned to the Laval Rocket, Montreal's AHL affiliate, for conditioning. He made his season debut on October 31, 2018 in a 2–1 loss against the Belleville Senators. On November 9, 2018, Scherbak scored his first goal of the 2018–19 season in a 5–1 victory over the Cleveland Monsters. He was recalled from the conditioning stint on November 14, 2018, but did not immediately rejoin the Canadiens because of a lower-body injury. On December 1, 2018, Scherbak was placed on NHL waivers by the Canadiens. He was subsequently claimed by the Los Angeles Kings.

On June 25, 2019, having completed his contract with the Kings, Scherbak was not tendered a qualifying offer by the club, releasing him as a free agent. The following day, while opting to return to Russia to continue his career, Scherbak was officially signed to a three-year contract with Avangard Omsk of the KHL. In his first KHL season in 2019–20, Scherbak opened with just 2 goals and 6 points through 16 games before he was released by Avangard Omsk. On November 5, 2019, Scherbak continued in the KHL, joining fellow club Traktor Chelyabinsk for the remainder of the season.

As an un-signed free agent entering the pandemic delayed 2020–21, Scherbak opted to return to North America, agreeing to a one-year AHL contract with the Texas Stars, affiliate of the Dallas Stars, on 23 January 2021. He was productive during his tenure with Texas, collecting 5 goal and 15 points through 28 appearances in the shortened season.

As a free agent in the off-season, Scherbak returned to Europe in securing a contract with Slovak Extraliga club, HC '05 Banská Bystrica, on 9 September 2021.

Career statistics

Awards and honours

References

External links

1995 births
Living people
Avangard Omsk players
Everett Silvertips players
Kapitan Stupino players
Laval Rocket players
Los Angeles Kings players
HC '05 Banská Bystrica players
Montreal Canadiens draft picks
Montreal Canadiens players
Ice hockey people from Moscow
National Hockey League first-round draft picks
Ontario Reign (AHL) players
Russian ice hockey right wingers
St. John's IceCaps players
Saskatoon Blades players
Texas Stars players
Traktor Chelyabinsk players
Stadion Hradec Králové players
HC Slovan Bratislava players
Ducs d'Angers players
Russian expatriate sportspeople in Canada
Russian expatriate sportspeople in Slovakia
Russian expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Russian expatriate sportspeople in the Czech Republic
Russian expatriate ice hockey people
Expatriate ice hockey players in Slovakia
Expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
Expatriate ice hockey players in Canada
Expatriate ice hockey players in the Czech Republic


title: Sharon Gamson Danks

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Sharon Gamson Danks is an American environmental planner and landscape designer known for her advocacy of environmentally friendly schoolyards. In 2013, she founded the nonprofit Green Schoolyards America to promote ecologically healthy city schoolyards. She designed outdoor playgrounds with blooming gardens, shaded ponds and nature trails. Her book Asphalt to Ecosystems: Design Ideas for Schoolyard Transformation describes ways to transform the "traditional school ground’s slab of asphalt into edible gardens" and it received an American Society of Landscape Architects award in 2012.

In May 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Danks, along with Green Schoolyards America and several other organizations, founded the National COVID-19 Outdoor Learning Initiative to help American K-12 schools move into fresh air spaces to reduce virus transmission. She helped create an online resource called the National Outdoor Learning Library to help educators plan their outdoor learning efforts. The online library features templates for constructing outdoor classroom spaces and lesson plans.

She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Publications
 Asphalt to Ecosystems: Design Ideas for Schoolyard Transformation, New Village Press (November 1, 2010)

References

External links
 National COVID-19 Outdoor Learning Initiative

Princeton University alumni
Environmental planners
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Ashoka Fellows
Ashoka USA Fellows
UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design alumni


title: List of Asian Games medalists in figure skating

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This is the complete list of Asian Winter Games medalists in figure skating from 1986 to 2017.

Events

Men's singles

Women's singles

Pairs

Ice dancing

References

External links
 Figure Skating results
 1996 Results
 1999 Results
 2003 Results
 2007 Results
 2011 Results

Figure skating
medalists

Asian Games


title: Charles Bell (British architect)

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Charles Bell FRIBA (1846–99) was a British architect who designed buildings in the United Kingdom, including over 60 Wesleyan Methodist chapels.

Career
Bell, who was born in 1846 and came from Bourne in Lincolnshire,  was educated at Grantham Grammar School. He was articled to the London architect John Giles. In 1870 he was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects and started independent practice. In 1888 he was working from Dashwood House, 9 New Broad Street, London.

His works include:

Public building

 Over Darwen Town Hall, Lancashire (1879)
 Newark Market Hall, Middle Gate.  Newark , Nottinghamshire (1883-4). Iron arched frame with brick frontage and Dutch Gable.

Commercial buildings

 Bacon Warehouse and Smokery, 42 & 44–46 St. John Street, Islington, London (1877) Warehouses. No. 42 for Dillamore & Rowley, cork manufacturers, Nos 44–46 for Edward Richard Parker, provision merchant. Nos 44–46. shows the ground floor with embellishments in Portland stone, with polished granite pilasters. The upper part, faced in Bath stone. At the back was a bacon smoking warehouse.

 New Warehouse, Ludgate Square, London for Messrs. Fourdrinier, Hunt and Co. 1878. Wholesale Paper Merchants.

Schools
 Kent College (originally the Wesleyan College), Canterbury (1885). Boys’ Methodist Public School.
 Fairfields Primary School, Basingstoke.(1887).  Red brick with filling-in of knapped flint work characteristic of the district. Bell described the school as Queen Anne, modified to suit their special purpose. There was ample light in each classroom by means of large windows; open fires heated the infants’ department, but innovative heating in the senior school was provided by a hot water boiler supplying radiating coils.
Mawney Primary School, Mawney Road, Romford, Essex. (1896), Nicely scaled with pitched roofs, tile hanging, two-bay arched entrance. Demolished and replaced in 2017.

Children's holiday home
Passmore Edwards Holiday Home for Children, Marine Parade,  Clacton on Sea. 1898. The Home later became a Convalescent Home and was demolished in 1986.

Cemetery layout and cemetery chapels

Hampstead Cemetery. 1876.  Bell designed the cemetery layout, lodges and cemetery chapels for the Hampstead Cemetery.  For the double cemetery chapel with a central arch surmounted by a short spire he is either copying or modifying a design which was widely used in Lincolnshire and the Midlands by the Lincoln architects Bellamy and Hardy.

Methodist churches
 Vale Royal Methodist Church, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent (1873; closed 2015)
 Rivercourt Methodist Church, King Street, Hammersmith, London (1875)
Roupell Park Methodist Church in Norwood Road, Lambeth (1879–80)
St Augustine in Baring Road, Grove Park, Lewisham (1885–86)
 Southlands Methodist Church, York (1886–87)
 Twickenham Methodist Church, Twickenham, London (1880)
 Leytonstone Methodist Church, Leytonstone, London (1880)
 Ryde Methodist Church, Ryde, Isle of Wight (1883)
 Ampthill Wesleyan Methodist Church, Bedfordshire opened 1884
 Trinity Wesleyan Methodist Church, Romford, Essex opened 1888
 Bermondsey Central Hall, South London Mission (1900: Bell's facade, which includes a Tudor gatehouse motif, was retained when the hall was rebuilt in 1968)

Gallery of Methodist churches by Charles Bell

Work in Lincolnshire
Bell also had an office in the 1880s in Grimsby in Lincolnshire. Bell described himself as of London and Great Grimsby on his drawing of the Liberal Club in Grimsby published in The Building News, 21 November 1884. His work in Lincolnshire included:

Holme Hill School, Grimsby, Lincolnshire (1876). Corner of Heneage Road and Wellington Street. The school was built for the Great Grimsby School Board to accommodate 1,165 children and cost  £11,749. Over the entrance a central roundel bearing relief carving of the town seal with figures of Grim and Havelock the Dane, and above a stone band, inscribed  “Great Grimsby Public Elementary Board School”. The School closed in 1967 and was extensively restored in 2014.
The Grimsby Fisherlads Institute. Building with a tower on a corner site. Later extended by the architect J. J. Creswell of Grimsby.

Duncombe Street Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Grimsby (1873). Decorative brickwork with arched windows. Demolished in 1935 to make way for the Methodist Central Hall.
Star Lane School, Bourne (1876). Built for the Bourne School boards. The architect was Charles Bell of 4 Union Street, London and the contractors Messrs George and William Priest of Grantham at a cost of £3,727. Single storey building  with projecting wings and central projection with the armorial of the School Board above the window, and two porches on either side. Gothic pointed windows with yellow and red brick. Red brick stringing. The school is now Bourne Abbey Church of England Primary Academy.
Wesleyan Chapel, Mavis Enderby.  (1877)

1 Temple Garden, Lincoln. House designed by Charles Bell for Mrs Whelpton in 1877.
Methodist Chapel, Spilsby. (1877–8).  Described as stock brick with geometrical tracery and no tower. The two manses on either side of the Chapel were also designed by Bell.
Methodist Chapel, Algitha Road, Skegness. (1881)
The Liberal Club, Central Market Place. Grimsby.(1884) The building ceased as a Liberal Club in 1899. Possibly destroyed in Second World War.

The Wesley Memorial Church, School and Manse, Epworth (1888–9).
The Wesleyan Church, St Catherine's, Lincoln.
Bourne Corn Exchange, 3 Abbey Road. (1870). Built for the Bourne Public Hall and Corn Exchange Company Limited. The contract for the construction work went to Robert Young of Lincoln in May 1870, after his tender of £1,150 was accepted. The Corn Exchange was substantially extended and re-built in 1990.

Notes and references

Sources
Antram N (revised), Pevsner N & Harris J, (1989), The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, Yale University Press.
Antonia Brodie (ed), Directory of British Architects, 1834–1914: 2 Vols,  British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects, 2001, Vol 1, pg. 154.

1846 births
1899 deaths
19th-century English architects
Architects from Lincolnshire
Associates of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects
People from Grantham


title: Hronovka and Regnerka

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Hronovka and Regnerka (collectively known as Prdlavka) are a pair of mineral springs located in Hronov in the Czech Republic. They are situated in the Jiráskovy sady park.

History
The springs were discovered in 1865 by priest Regner Havlovický behind the home of Czech writer Alois Jirásek. Havlovicky noticed a strange-coloured deposit flowing into the Metuje river from the spring. Deeming that the water had curative properties, Jirásek's father (owner of the property on which the springs were discovered) had, by 1869, built a spa with bathing facilities filled with water from the springs. The spa eventually became defunct, but was restored by the town authorities during World War II. The facility was later remodelled in 1977, with a full reconstruction in 2013, part of a wider regeneration project for Jiráskovy Sady.

Properties
Both springs provide rich alkaline-ferrous water, which those who use it believe to have medical benefits. For example, its alkaline reaction is said to decompose kidney, urinary and gall bladder stones. In addition to iron, the spring water also contains calcium, magnesium, iodine and sulphur, which gives it a strong smell, and sodium and potassium ions. The water is also high in arsenic acid, which locals say acts against the initial stages of sclerosis, high blood pressure and body fatigue.

References

External links
Mineral springs on official website of the town of Hronov
Article about Hronov
Construction of new structure for springs

Mineral water
Hronov


title: Carrozzeria Francis Lombardi

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The Carrozzeria Francis Lombardi was founded in 1947 in Vercelli, Italy, by noted pilot Carlo "Francis" Lombardi. They originally engaged in some aeronautical design, but this soon ended. Their most famous car was the Lombardi Grand Prix, which was also marketed under a variety of other names such as O.T.A.S. and Abarth. The company was closed in 1973.

History

Founded in 1947, they focussed exclusively on automobiles after 1950. Their first efforts were coupés on Fiat 1100 and 1400 basis; these were soon followed by station wagons with wood-panelled bodywork on 1100-basis. Francis Lombardi also made six-seater limousines from Fiat sedans of the period such as the 1400 and 1800. Intended for ministerial or representational use, they had stretched wheelbases and luxuriously fitted interiors. Famously, they built a Vatican-commissioned Fiat 2300-based limousine with a glass roof for Pope Paul VI in 1963 - this was the first "true" Popemobile.

1960s

Francis Lombardi also developed four-door versions of the Fiat 600, 850, and 127. This series of small four-door saloons was called Lucciola ("Firefly" in Italian) by Lombardi. The first one was the 600 Lucciola which appeared in early 1957; in addition to four doors without a B-pillar (the rear door opening backwards) it also had a floor mounted shifter unlike the regular 600. Francis Lombardi's greatest commercial success was with the luxuriously appointed Fiat 500 called "My Car"; which supported an annual production of about 6,000 cars in the sixties, up from about 1,500 towards the late fifties. The Fiat 850 Lucciola was also used by Spain's SEAT for their 850 four-door sedan, although eventually they developed their own, longer version.

At the end of the sixties, the Lombardi Grand Prix appeared, the closest thing to an independent design from the firm. This model had a convoluted history and was sold in small numbers under a variety of names until 1972, fitted with Fiat engines in various states of tune. Francis Lombardi continued to focus on modifying cars as well, building coupés on Fiat as well as on NSU basis (1000 TTS). In the 1970s they made special versions of the Fiat 128 and Lancia 2000, but in 1973 their doors were closed for good. Ten years later, Carlo Lombardi died.

References

Francis Lombardi
Francis Lombardi
Auto tuning companies
Car manufacturers of Italy


title: Crown Haven

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Crown Haven is a medium-sized community on the island of Abaco in The Bahamas. It can be found in the most northwestern part of the island within the North Abaco district.

The population of Crown Haven is 210.(2010 census).

References

Abaco Islands
Populated places in the Bahamas


title: Trevin Caesar

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Trevin Shonari Caesar (born 26 April 1989) is a Trinidad and Tobago footballer who plays as a forward for Club Sando. He made 15 appearances for the Trinidad and Tobago national team scoring three goals.

Club career
Caesar has played club football for Ma Pau, Caledonia AIA and North East Stars. In July 2014 he signed a one-year contract with the San Antonio Scorpions of the NASL.

After a season with United Soccer League side Austin Aztex in 2015, Caesar moved to USL's Orange County Blues on 13 January 2016. He spent the 2017 season with Sacramento Republic. He signed for Cambodian club Svay Rieng in March 2018.

Caesar joined SC Gjilani in August 2018. He played there until 1 February 2019, where it was announced, that he had left the club. He returned to Trinidad with Club Sando.

International career
Caesar made his international debut for Trinidad and Tobago in 2013.

Career statistics
Scores and results list Trinidad and Tobago's goal tally first.

References

1989 births
Living people
Trinidad and Tobago men's footballers
Trinidad and Tobago men's international footballers
Men's association football forwards
TT Pro League players
North American Soccer League (2011–2017) players
USL Championship players
Football Superleague of Kosovo players
Ma Pau Stars S.C. players
Morvant Caledonia United players
AC Port of Spain players
Austin Aztex players
San Antonio Scorpions players
Orange County SC players
Sacramento Republic FC players
Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng FC players
SC Gjilani players
Club Sando F.C. players
Trinidad and Tobago expatriate men's footballers
Trinidad and Tobago expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
Trinidad and Tobago expatriate sportspeople in Cambodia
Expatriate men's footballers in Cambodia
Trinidad and Tobago expatriate sportspeople in Kosovo
Expatriate men's footballers in Kosovo


title: Tenderoni (disambiguation)

text:
Tenderoni is a trademarked stovetop macaroni product, now no longer produced, and the slang term derived from it.

Tenderoni may also refer to:
"Tenderoni" (Chromeo song), a 2007 song by the Canadian band Chromeo
"Tenderoni" (Kele Okereke song), a 2010 song by UK performer Kele


title: Cleon John

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Cleon John (born 25 October 1981) is a Trinidad and Tobago international footballer who plays for North East Stars, as a goalkeeper.

Career
John has played club football for San Juan Jabloteh and North East Stars.

He made his international debut for Trinidad and Tobago in 2013.

References

1981 births
Living people
Trinidad and Tobago men's footballers
Trinidad and Tobago men's international footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
San Juan Jabloteh F.C. players
AC Port of Spain players
TT Pro League players


title: Tarkan (name)

text:
Tarkan is a Turkish given name. Notable persons with that name include:

Tarkan (singer) (born 1972), German-Turkish pop singer (full name: Tarkan Tevetoğlu)
Tarkan Gözübüyük (born 1970), Turkish guitarist
Tarkan Mustafa (born 1973), English footballer
Tarkan Tüzmen (born 1968), Turkish singer and actor

See also
Tarkan (disambiguation)

Turkish masculine given names
Masculine given names


title: Ronald Kirklin

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Brigadier General  Ronald Kirklin is a retired general officer in the United States Army. Kirklin was the 53rd Quartermaster General and Commandant of the Quartermaster School at Fort Lee, Virginia from 2014 to 2016.

Military education
Kirklin, a native of Lexington, Mississippi, graduated from Mississippi Valley State University as a Distinguished Military Graduate. He holds a master's degree in Adult and Continuing Education from Kansas State University and a master's degree in Strategic Studies from the United States Army War College. His military education includes the Quartermaster Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, the Command and General Staff College, and the United States Army War College.

Military career
Kirklin's military service began in the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, in Fulda, Germany, where from 1988 to 1991, he served as a Platoon Leader, General Supply Officer, and Squadron S4, Combat Support Squadron. After graduating from the Advanced Course, he was assigned to the 5th Infantry Division, at Fort Polk, Louisiana, from 1992 to 1993, as a Class IX Accountable Officer. From 1993 to 1996, he was assigned to the 124th Main Support Battalion, 2nd Armored Division, at Fort Hood, Texas, as the Supply and Services Officer, Support Operations Officer, and later as the Light Maintenance Company Commander. After completion of Company Command, he served as the Task Force XXI Combat Systems Manager, 4th Infantry Division.

From 1996 to 1999, Kirklin was assigned to Hohenfels, Germany, where he functioned as the Combat Service Support Observer/Controller on the Grizzlies and Timberwolves Maneuver Teams, and later as the Operations Group S4. From 1999 to 2000, he was a student at the Command and General Staff College, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Kirklin was then assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division, at Fort Hood, from 2000 to 2002, where he was the Executive Officer in the 215th Forward Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, and 1st Cavalry Division DISCOM S3. His following assignment was as the Course Director, Combined Captains Career Course, at Fort Lee, Virginia, from 2002 to 2004.

In 2004, Kirklin returned to Fort Hood, and was again assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division DISCOM, as Deputy Commander while deployed to Taji, Iraq, during Operation Iraqi Freedom. After re-deployment in March 2005, he assumed Command of the 215th Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, at Fort Hood, on 14 July 2005. As commander, he deployed the battalion to Operation Iraqi Freedom 2006–08, Diyala Province, Iraq, and then recovered the unit back to Fort Hood.

After relinquishing Battalion Command in March 2008, he attended the US Army War College, at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. After graduating from the War College in 2009, Kirklin returned to Fort Hood, and assumed command of the 4th Sustainment Brigade on 14 July 2009. He deployed as the 4th Sustainment Brigade to Tallil, Iraq, in support of Operation New Dawn in February 2011. Kirklin redeployed the Brigade from Tallil, Iraq, in December 2011, after serving as the final Sustainment Brigade to close out sustainment and retrograde operations to end Operation New Dawn. In January 2012, Kirklin was assigned to the United States Central Command J4, in Tampa, Florida, as Chief of Current Operations.

Kirklin became the Commandant of the Quartermaster School on 9 June 2014.  He was promoted to Brigadier General on 5 December 2014.

Awards and decorations

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Recipients of the Defense Superior Service Medal
Recipients of the Legion of Merit
Quartermasters General of the United States Army
United States Army personnel of the Iraq War
United States Army War College alumni
People from Lexington, Mississippi


title: List of Russian saints (until 15th century)

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Saints in the Russian Orthodox Church are confirmed by canonization which lists the decedent into the Community of Saints. After canonization, the saint is usually listed in the Menologium. The saint is honoured by illustrating him on icons, mentioning him in kondaks or troparions, narrating his achievements in the Lives of Saints, confirming a celebration date in the Orthodox calendar and building churches and monasteries holding his name. The office of canonization is usually the last prayer to the departed (parastasa, pannychis, lity) and first prayer to the saint (all-night vigil, moleben, megalynarion).

Canonization is usually divided into two categories: local and church-wide. The church-wide canonization is always performed by the highest church organ, that is the Metropolitan or Patriarch above the Council of Eparchs, the chief member above the Most Holy Synod in the synodal period, or the Patriarch of Moscow and all of Russia above the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church in contemporary Russia. The local canonization is performed in either one church or monastery, or in one eparchy, by the local episcope with the approval of the Metropolitan or Patriarch and the highest church organ, to honour one person or people who are better known in a particular region. In cases when the local canonization was performed without the blessing of the highest church organ, the previous canonization process won't be annulled but will be performed again as it should be. Sometimes the Head of the Church himself or the metropolitanate accomplishes the local canonization. Both local and church-wide canonizations are honoured the same way; they should not be expressed as higher and lower canonizations. A saint can be both local and church-wide, and in very rare cases he or she can be de-canonized. Canonization takes place under different time and reason; for example in the same day when the translation of the relics is accompanied by a wonder, or only several centuries later.

Church historians name either five or seven periods of canonization in Russia; those who state there were five periods typically merge the Nicholas II-period with the Synodal-period and the post-revolutionary with the post-Soviet era. However, the seven period-system is used here for a better understanding of the Russian canonization history. Those are the following: 1) 9th century – 1547, 2) 1547 and 1549 (Macarius Councils), 3) 1550–1721 (pre-Petrine period), 4) 1721–1894 (Synodal-period), 5) 1894–1917 (Nicholas II-period), 6) 1917–1987 (post-revolutionary period), 7) from 1988 (post-Soviet period).

Early history of Christianity in the Rus' lands
Christianity came to the Slavs already in the 1st century. According to early church historians, Apostle Andrew preached Christianity to Slavs and Scythians, in the area between Eastern Europe in the west, and Caucasus and at the Black Sea coast in the south and east, particularly in Scythia within the autocephalous Scythian eparchy. Other active eparchies included the Gothian, Sourozhian, Fullian and the Bosporian. In this period Christianity began to rise within this area. Christianity was spread in the 9th century by crucial happenings that are often characterized as baptisms; if excluding the first baptism of the Rus under Apostle Andrew, those are the preachings and enlightenings of Slavs by Cyril and Method, the baptism of and by Askold and Dir, the baptism of and by Olga and finally the actual baptism under Vladimir I in 988.

Hagiology

The hagiology in the first period was particularly influenced by the Greek tradition. The Russian Church was one of several metropolitanates of the Constantinople Orthodox Church (i.e. the Greek Church), and almost all of the Metropolitans were of Greek origin (exceptions include Hilarion and Kliment). Following several Mongol-Tatar raids on Kiev in the mid-13th century, the cathedra was eventually moved to Vladimir in 1283 and to Moscow in 1325.

The Russian Church became less depended by the Constantinople Orthodox Church over the years. After the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 the wish for autonomity gradually increased. For example, under Jonah the Russian Church factually became autocephalous. The formation of the Russian Tsardom under Ivan IV in 1547 and Metropolitan Macarius' Menologion made way for two so-called Macarius Councils in 1547 and 1549. The first one began on 1 February 1547 and includes both local and church-wide canonizations. Information about the following 1549 Council is less detailed – it is basically based on two sources; a mention of it by Ivan IV on the Stoglavy Council and the list of canonized people from the Lives of Saints of Metropolitan Jonah. Whether those were local or church-wide canonizations is not exactly known. Altogether 39 saints were canonized on those Councils. They were ideal models for the upcoming canonizations, and had a positive influence on the church and civic society.

The majority of saints were canonized in the period between 1550 and 1721, including around 123 local and 23 church-wide saints. Some were included in Synaxes (собор), groupings of saints of a region, such as Synaxis of All Saints of Novgorod or Synaxis of All Saints of Moscow. That period was marked by the happenings of the Schism of the Russian Church, caused by Patriarch Nikon's reforms, which resulted to de-canonizations (and later re-canonizations) of some saints, such as of Anna of Kashin and Maxim the Greek.

Following Peter I's western-influenced church reforms and centralization of the state in 1721 the Russian Church partially lost its independence from the state. The highest church organ was now the Most Holy Synod, a type of Council of Church Affairs, featuring non-clergical officials. In that period, from 1721 to 1894, the local canonization was completely removed as the tradition of honouring relics of local saints was seen as superstitious according to the Spiritual Regulation of 1721, and the church-wide canonizations greatly decreased. On the other hand, some of the most important saints were canonized in that period, such as the vast majority of Kiev Caves monks or Metropolitan Michael I.

A separate period within the Synodal period were the last years of the Russian Empire, ruled by Emperor Nicholas II (1894–1917). Nicholas II re-established the local canonization, and tried to recover the pre-Petrine format. For the first time since the last local canonization two centuries ago, the tradition has been reawaken in 1900, when 222 Orthodox believers led by St. Metrophanes were martyred during the anti-Christian Boxer Rebellion by the Yihetuan. A high point was the ceremonial canonization of Seraphim of Sarov, where the Emperor personally carried the coffin and thousands of people came to that celebration from all of over Russia. Another factor in the rapid growth of canonizations was the progressed hagiological and hagiographical researches between the 2nd half of the 19th century and the early 20th century in Russia. Furthermore, a future Council was expected to address questions regarding the gradual change to the traditional pre-Petrine system, but the date was always postponed until the revolutions. The church life flourished and reached records; for example, around 95,000 monks lived in Russia in 1914, while before that the number lied between 44,554 in 1894 and 25,207 in 1724.

The council from 1917 to 1918 also reviewed the practique of canonization, and can be viewed as a continuation of de-bureaucratization of the Synod. On the other side, the post-revolutionary years saw a radical secularization of the state. The new Soviet regime was even more hostile towards the Church and religion than the Russian Provisional Government. In the 1960s, when the Church strengthened inter-religious affairs, it canonized saints of other local churches, such as John the Russian and Herman of Alaska. Logically, the Russian Church overlept the myriad of martyrs died during severe Christian persecutions. Instead of local canonizations, the saints were often grouped into synaxes, to avoid conflicts with the atheist government. Between 1978 and 1979, the second and third volumes of the Reference Book of the Clergy allowed researching the pre-revolutionary hagiography.

A new era in church life started from 1988, during the Millennium of the Baptism of the Rus', when another Council was opened. In the following years canonizations that were previously unimaginable in the Communist regime were now performed, most notably of New Martyrs. Important canonizations include that of Dmitry Donskoy and Patriarch Tikhon.

Saint titles
A traditionally practique in the Orthodox canonization is to add saint titles before the name of the saint. In the first Christian years, those were mainly martyrs. In the late 10th century, before the Great Schism, canonization of hierarchs became possible, which made way to new saint titles, such as Enlightener and Equal-to-apostles. In the course of the years more titles were added, sometimes special titles were created after influential events (e.g. New Martyr).

The following list of saints include the saint title in italics. Saint titles including Wondermaker and Holy Unmercenaries are commonly not included next to the name of the saint as such qualities are obvious for the most saints. The following titles are listed here and in the sister page:

 Blessed (блаженный) – one who aspires keep a righteous life
 Equal-to-apostle (равноапостольный) – one who acts like the Apostles
 Great Martyr/megalomartyr (великомученик) – one who died of a particularly violent martyrdom (none in this list)
 Hieromartyr (священномученик) – a member of the clergy who died for his faith
 Martyr (мученик) – one who died for his faith
 Righteous Martyr (преподобномученик) – a monk or nun who died for his or her faith
 New Martyr (новомученик) – one who died for his faith in post-revolutionary era (none in this list)
 Passion-bearer (страстотерпец) – one who died for fulfilling God's laws by malicious and wicked coreligionists

 Fool-for-Christ/yurodivy (юродивый) – a person who deliberately acts like a fool for Christ, hiding his piety and blessing those who denigrate him
 Confessor (исповедник) – one who was tortured, but did not die
 Enlightener (святитель) – an eparch or episcope who is righteous and venerable
 Hieroconfessor (священноисповедник) – a confessor who is also a clergyman
 Right-Believing (благоверный) – a monarch who did much for the church
 Righteous (праведный) – one who lives righteous within the secular world
 Unmercenary (бессребреник) – one who did not accept payment for good deeds
 Venerable (преподобный) – one who lives outside the secular world, such as hermits or monks

Chronological list
The following list includes saints from the early years until the 15th century, most of which are Russians in the most different sense, while others are essential and important people in the Russian history. The period in which the saint was canonized is listed in the Number (#) column. The Portrait column typically illustrates the saint on icons or frescos, next to it are the name of the saint and his title, repeated just below in Russian. The following column describes in abbreviated form the saint's life and legacy. Name dates are listed both in old and new style dates, following a more precise date description. The Canonization column may list both local and church-wide canonizations; the question mark means the unknown date, but definite canonization, and a simple date without the type of canonization in brackets means the doubtful type of canonization.

See also
List of Metropolitans and Patriarchs of Moscow
List of saints
List of American Eastern Orthodox saints

Notes

References

External links
 Chronological list of Russian saints
 Description of Russian saints
 The Orthodox Encyclopedia
 Saints and sainthood. Canonization of saints
 Description of Canonization by the OCA

Russian
Saints
Saints


title: William Chambers (MP)

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William Chambers (by 1521–1559), of London, was an English politician.

He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for St Ives in 1558.

References

1559 deaths
English MPs 1558
Politicians from London
Year of birth uncertain


title: Dearest (2014 film)

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Dearest is a 2014 Chinese-language film directed by Peter Chan on kidnapping in China, based on a true story, starring Zhao Wei, Huang Bo, Tong Dawei, Hao Lei, Zhang Yi and Zhang Yuqi. It was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.

Plot
Following years of unrelenting search, Tian Wenjun (Huang Bo) and ex-wife Lu Xiaojuan (Hao Lei) finally locate their abducted son in a remote village. After the boy is violently taken away from the village, the abductor's widow Li Hongqin (Zhao Wei) — the boy's foster mother — also loses her foster daughter to a state-owned orphanage in Shenzhen. Heartbroken, Li goes on a lone but determined journey to get her daughter back.

Theme songs
 "Qin'ai de Xiaohai" (亲爱的小孩; "Dear Child") sung by cast members Huang, Tong, Zhao, Zhang Yi and Hao. It was originally sung by Su Rui as the theme song of the 1985 film The Unwritten Law.
 "Mei Yi Ci" (每一次; "Every Time") sung by Huang. It was originally sung by Zhang Hongsheng as an insert song in the 1990 TV series Kewang.
 "Yinxing de Chibang" (隐形的翅膀; "Invisible Wings") sung by Huang and parents of missing children. It was originally sung by Angela Chang in her 2006 album Pandora.

Cast
 Zhao Wei
 Huang Bo
 Tong Dawei
 Hao Lei
 Zhang Yi
 Zhang Yuqi
 Zhang Guoqiang
 Zhu Dongxu
 Yi Qing
 Wang Zhifei

Production
Principal photography for Dearest took place in Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Chengde. It began from January 2014 and concluded on 18 April 2014.

Portraying a rural mother, Zhao Wei spoke the Lower Yangtze Mandarin dialect (the predominant dialect in her hometown of Wuhu) rather than Standard Mandarin in the film.

Accolades

See also
 Lost and Love – another film dealing with child kidnapping in China

References

External links

 Trailer with English subtitles
 In China, Dad Uses Social Media To Find Missing Boy - the story that the film is based on

Chinese drama films
2014 drama films
Films about child abduction
Films set in China
Films shot in China
Films directed by Peter Chan
2014 films
2010s Mandarin-language films


title: Joseph Fischler

text:
Joseph Fischler was a Swiss cyclist. He competed in the team pursuit event at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

References

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Year of birth missing
Possibly living people
Swiss male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Switzerland
Cyclists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing


title: Edward J. Wickson

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Edward James Wickson (August 3, 1848 – July 17, 1923) was an American agronomist and journalist who was a leader in agricultural education in California in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Edward was the son of George Guest and Kitty Ray Wickson, the grandson of James and Jane Tuesman Wickson, immigrants to Canada in 1834.

Biography
Edward James Wickson was born on August 3, 1848, in Rochester, New York. He graduated from Hamilton College, New York, in 1868 or 1869 with distinction in classics and chemistry. After graduation, he joined his father's agricultural tools factory, but it was destroyed by fire in 1870, ruining the family's finances. In 1871, he joined the staff of the Utica Morning Herald, a champion of the state's cheese industry. This position led to his election as the secretary of the New York Dairymen's Association (1871) and as president of the Utica Dairymen's Board of Trade (1873). His expertise in matters pertaining to the dairy industry was such that in 1874 and 1875 he was chosen to speak to state dairymen's conventions from New England to the Midwest.

In 1875, Wickson moved to California to join the Pacific Rural Press (which later merged with California Farmer magazine). He became a special contributor in 1894 and was promoted to editor in 1899, a position he held until 1923. During his tenure at Pacific Rural Press, he wrote widely on the agricultural topics of the day and published several encyclopedic books on growing fruit and vegetable crops that remain useful resources for farmers. He also wrote on historical topics, such as the roots of the state's agriculture in the Spanish mission system, and he wrote various bulletins for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Wickson married Edna Harmon in 1875 at Washington College in Irvington (now a district of Fremont, CA).

Wickson was an advocate for the experimental horticulturist Luther Burbank and wrote about him in Luther Burbank; Man, Methods and Achievements, published in book form in 1902. They had both come to California in 1875, and they knew of each other very soon thereafter. By the 1880s, Wickson was praising Burbank's hybrids in the pages of Pacific Rural Press, so much so that Burbank renamed his green Perfection plum to the Wickson plum in 1894. Wickson is credited with being one of the two men (the other being former Stanford University president David Starr Jordan) who helped created the legend of Burbank as one of the great self-taught leaders of modern agricultural science. Wickson is also said to be one of the half dozen authors who anonymously wrote the text for the 12-volume set Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries, published by the Luther Burbank Press in 1914–15.

In 1876, Wickson organized California's first dairy association, and in 1879 he became one of the organizers of the California State Horticultural Society. He was elected secretary of the horticultural society, a position he held for 15 years. At the founding of the California Floral Society in 1888, Wickson was chosen as its first president; when he stepped down, he retained the title of honorary president.

In 1879, he joined the University of California as a lecturer in practical agriculture, specializing in dairy husbandry. All told, he worked in the UC system for 33 years, rising from lecturer to assistant professor of agriculture (in 1891), associate professor of agriculture, horticulture, and entomology (in 1892), professor of agricultural practice (in 1897) and superintendent of the Agricultural Extension service (in 1898). In 1906 he succeeded Eugene W. Hilgard as dean of the College of Agriculture, and he also became director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, holding both positions until his retirement in 1912. He was also an emeritus professor of horticulture from 1915 to 1923. In 1905–06, he helped to select the sites for what became the University Farm at Davisville (now Davis), the Southern California Pathological Laboratory at Whittier, and the Citrus Experiment Station at Riverside. Throughout his career in both agricultural publishing and education, he retained a strong bias towards knowledge gained in the field over laboratory-oriented forms of training. At the same time, he and Hilgard are credited as halting determined efforts by the Grange and other agricultural interests that would have split the College of Agriculture off from the University of California system.

From 1877 to 1906, he was a member (and later secretary and president) of the San Francisco Microscopical Society, an organization that championed the emerging use of microscopy for scientific research. The society went defunct after its laboratory was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake.

In 1913, Wickson spent six months in Europe as one of two California delegates on the American Commission to Study Agricultural Cooperation and Rural Credit in Europe.

Around 1919, Wickson consulted with real estate developer J.C. Forkner (eventual founder of the J.C. Forkner Fig Gardens) on the potential of fig farming as a viable commercial enterprise in California.

He died in Berkeley, California, on July 17, 1923. His papers are held in the University of California, Davis, Special Collections.

In 1969, the University of California, Berkeley, named an area of the campus around the north fork of Strawberry Creek as the Wickson Natural Area in his honor. This area contains the oldest stand of coast redwoods on the Berkeley campus.

Plant species named after Wickson
Wickson plum (developed by Luther Burbank, introduced as the Perfection in 1883 and renamed the Wickson in 1884)
Wickson crabapple (developed by Albert Etter and introduced in 1944)

Books
Rural California, 1923.
California Nurserymen and the Plant Industry, 1850–1910, 1921.
Second Thousand Answered Questions in California Agriculture, 1916.
California Garden Flowers, Shrubs, Trees, and Vines: Being Mainly Suggestions for Working Amateurs, 1915.
One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered, 1914.
Luther Burbank; Man, Methods and Achievements. San Francisco: Pacific Rural Press, 1902. Previously published as a series of articles in Sunset, beginning in December 1901.
The California Vegetables in Garden and Field, 1898. 2nd edition, 1910
The California Fruits and How to Grow Them. San Francisco: Pacific Rural Press, 1889. 10th edition, 1926
California Illustrated No. 1: The Vacaville Early Fruit District. California View Publishing Co., 1885. 2nd edition, 1888

References

External links

1848 births
1923 deaths
American horticulturists
American entomologists
American agronomists
University of California, Berkeley College of Natural Resources faculty


title: Adhik Shirodkar

text:
Adhik Shirodkar was an Indian  lawyer and politician. A prominent criminal lawyer from Mumbai, Shirodkar represented the Shiv Sena party in the Srikrishna Commission. He was a member of the Rajya Sabha (upper house of the Parliament of India). Shirodkar died on 19 April 2014.

References

Shiv Sena politicians
Rajya Sabha members from Maharashtra
2014 deaths
20th-century Indian lawyers
Year of birth missing
Politicians from Mumbai
Place of birth missing
Marathi politicians


title: Gustave Moos

text:
Gustave Moos (1905 – December 1948) was a Swiss cyclist. He competed in the team pursuit event at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

References

External links

1905 births
1948 deaths
Swiss male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Switzerland
Cyclists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing


title: Ernst Fäs

text:
Ernst Fäs was a Swiss cyclist. He competed in the team pursuit and the time trial events at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

References

External links

1909 births
1980 deaths
Swiss male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Switzerland
Cyclists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing