title: Gergely Bárándy

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Dr. Gergely Bárándy (born 28 November 1976) is a Hungarian lawyer and politician, member of the National Assembly from 2006 to 2018.

Biography
He was born in Budapest on 28 November 1976 as the son of lawyer Péter Bárándy, who served as Minister of Justice in the Cabinet of Péter Medgyessy. His grandfather was György Bárándy, a famous lawyer in Hungary. Gergely's mother, Zsuzsanna Kecskés is also a lawyer.

He finished József Attila Secondary Grammar School in 1995. He studied at Salzburg Secondary Grammar School from 1993 to 1994. He attended the Faculty of Law of Pázmány Péter Catholic University and in 2000 he received Doctor of Laws title. Between 2000 and 2003 he practised law. After passing the lawyer special examination he has worked as lawyer for the Bárándy & Co. Lawyer's Office from 2003. In the course of his university studies he was demonstrator. After obtaining degree, at first he worked as an assistant, then as assistant lecturer from January 2001, then as senior lecturer from February 2006 for the Department of Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law of Pázmány Péter Catholic University.

Bárándy was in several Hungarian and foreign offices. Between 2001 and 2004 he was secretary of Hungarian Criminology Association, now he is member of board of directors in this association. He was criminal expert in the Committee on Human Rights, Minorities, Civil and Religious Affairs of Parliament. He is president of National Legal and Administrative Branch of Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) and he is the Budapest delegate of the National Ethical and Coordinating Committee. He is member of Youth Political Cabinet of the National Board, National Educational and Training Cabinet of MSZP, Public Law Team of MSZP which prepares the elections.

In the 2006 parliamentary election he obtained a mandate from the party's Budapest Regional List. He is a member of the Constitutional, Judicial and Standing Orders Committee since 30 May 2006. He has been a member of National Jurisdiction Council from 17 October 2006. He secured a parliamentary seat from the party's National List during the 2010 parliamentary election. He became a Vice Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee for Preparation of Constitution in 2010.

He was re-elected MP via his party's national list during the 2014 parliamentary election. He was a member of the Justice Committee and vice-chairman of the Legislative Committee from 2014 to 2018. On 26 January 2018, he announced he will not run as a candidate in the 2018 parliamentary election, referring "the continuation became untenable for me". Resigning from his all party positions, Bárándy retired from politics and returned to his professional career of lawyer and legal historian.

Personal life
He is married. His wife is Dr Aliz Bárándy. They have a daughter Aliz Zsuzsanna.

Selected publications
He published several articles on the subject of criminal law. He has a complex intermediate language exam in English and advanced language exam in German.

 Velence fénykora - a Velencei Köztársaság államberendezkedésének kialakulása és kora (1999)
 A Tenger keresztes lovagjai - Velence részvétele a keresztes hadjáratokban (2004)
 A gyűlöletbeszéd Magyarországon (2009)

References

1976 births
Living people
21st-century Hungarian lawyers
21st-century Hungarian historians
Hungarian Socialist Party politicians
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2006–2010)
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2010–2014)
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2014–2018)
Writers from Budapest


title: Setka (prince)

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Setka is the name of an ancient Egyptian crown prince. He is known for his statuette in the shape of a seated scribe. He is also the subject of a theory that claims he was pharaoh of Egypt for a very short time.

Identity
Setka was the eldest son and crown prince of pharaoh Djedefre. He lived and worked during the 4th Dynasty. His family life is unknown, the names of his wives and children are lost. Since the names of three other sons of Djedefre, namely Baka, Harnit and Nykau-Djedefre, are archaeologically detected, these should be Setka's brothers or half-brothers. The daughters of Djedefre, Hetepheres III and Neferhetepes, would be Setka's sisters or half-sisters. His mother is unknown, too. It could be one of Djedefre's wives, Khentetka or Hetepheres II, but this is highly uncertain.

Office and career
According to the inscription on the podest of his statuette, Setka was Member of the elite, Eldest bodily son of the king, High lector priest of his father, Provost of the morning house and Head of the palace.

Possible reign as pharaoh
According to Egyptologist Aidan Dodson, it is possible that Setka was pharaoh in Egypt for a very short time (maybe one or two years). His assumption is based on the so-called Unfinished Northern Pyramid of Zawyet el'Aryan, which is located at Zawyet el'Aryan. This unfinished pyramid shaft was abandoned shortly after beginning and only a great sum of red and black ink inscriptions left by the workmen were found. These provide a royal cartouche name, which remains partially illegible. The first sign can be identified as a Ka-sign, but the first, introducing sign was copied by the pyramid excavator so fuzzy, that it remains undecipherable. Aidan Dodson is convinced of the depiction of a sitting Seth-animal, reading the royal name as Seth-Ka ("Seth is mine Ka"). In this case, Setka had actually followed his father onto the throne. Additionally, some scholars believe that Setka and his father Djedefre started some kind of family feud when he ascended the throne. This would explain why any contemporary document mentioning him was destroyed, except for his statuette, which was already placed in Djedefre's pyramid as a grave good. It could also explain why Djedefre and Setka chose their own burial sites at a remarkable distance from the Giza necropolis.

Dodson's theory is not commonly accepted, though. Egyptologists such as Rainer Stadelmann and George Reisner propose prince Baka as the owner of the unfinished pyramid. According to their theory, Baka (whose name was written with the signs of a ram and the Ka) simply used the original name form due his lifetime, but it was changed after his death into Bakarê ("soul and Ka of Râ"). In ancient Greek chronics Baka's name was hellenized into Bikheris. For this reason, the unfinished tomb shaft at Zawyet el'Aryan is also called "Pyramid of Bikheris".

Setka's statuette
Setka is known to scholars only by his statuette. It was found during the winter of 1901 by French archaeologist Émile Chassinat in Abu Rawash, when he excavated the Pyramid of Djedefre. Today the statuette is on display at the Louvre museum at Paris under its inventory number E 12639. Setka's statuette is the eldest known model of the so-called seated scribe typus. The artifact is made of polished granite and 30 cm high, 23 cm wide and 17 cm deep. The figure is shown in a cross-legged position, holding a papyrus sheet in its lap and an imaginary writing bulrush. The podest of the statue is made of polished limestone, its surface is engraved with Setka's name and titles. The papyrus sheet is decorated with the title Bodily son of the king.

References

Heirs to the ancient Egyptian throne
Princes of the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt
Djedefre
Heirs apparent who never acceded


title: The Gentle Barn

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The Gentle Barn is an American nonprofit 501(c)(3) animal sanctuary organization located in Santa Clarita, California; Dittmer, Missouri; and Christiana, Tennessee. Founded by Ellie Laks in 1999, The Gentle Barn's mission is to provide sanctuary for abused animals who would not otherwise be able to find homes.

History
The Gentle Barn was founded in 1999 on a half-acre property in Tarzana, California. Jay Weiner, who is also Laks' husband, joined the organization in 2002. In 2003, the organization moved to a six-acre property at its current location in Santa Clarita.
Laks cites a childhood love for animals as the inspiration for creating the sanctuary. She also credits animals with helping her heal after an abusive childhood.

The organization began allowing visitors the same year it opened and later added animal-assisted therapy programs for disabled and special-needs children and at-risk youth, including inner-city gang members, drug addicts, and abused children.

In 2012, The Gentle Barn took in 51 animals from the property of Roberto Celedon, a "backyard butcher" who was charged on 13 counts, including three felonies related to cruelty to animals. For its work in the case, The Gentle Barn was honored by Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich of the Fifth District of Los Angeles County.

In 2015, a second Gentle Barn was opened in Knoxville, Tennessee, but relocated to Christiana, Tennessee in 2018. In 2017, a third Gentle Barn was opened in Dittmer, Missouri. The Gentle Barn hopes to eventually open a location in every state in America.

The sanctuary

The current six-acre property in Santa Clarita, California has horse and cow pastures, a barnyard for the smaller animals, and an organic vegetable garden. It currently houses 170 animals, including cows, horses, pigs, sheep, chickens, llamas, emus, cats, dogs, and birds. The first cow rescued, Buddha, is often used for therapy sessions with quadriplegic children.
Animals at The Gentle Barn are treated with a holistic approach, including acupuncture and veterinary chiropractic methods. The property is completely vegan and does not allow any food products derived from animals.
The property is open for tours on Sundays. A separate facility, the Sun Chlorella Healing Center, is not open to the public and is used to treat the sickest and most traumatized animals.
The Gentle Barn requires $50,000 a month to operate. Most of the funds come through the website, from individual donors, corporate grants, and foundations. Major donors include Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi, Hilary Swank, Kirstie Alley, Toyota, CBS, William Morris Endeavor, and Princess Cruises. Actress and animal activist Pamela Anderson has also visited The Gentle Barn to feed turkeys on Thanksgiving. In 2011, a lock of hair given by Justin Bieber to Ellen DeGeneres was auctioned for over $40,000, with all proceeds going to The Gentle Barn.

See also

 Animal-assisted therapy
 Animal welfare
 Animal rights
 Cruelty to animals
 Overpopulation (animals)

References

External links

 Official website

The Gentle Barn on Foursquare

Animal charities based in the United States
Animal sanctuaries
Charities based in California
Organizations established in 1999
1999 establishments in California


title: Kahnuk Rural District

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Kahnuk Rural District () is in Irandegan District of Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Deh-e Rais.

At the National Census of 2006, its population was 8,200 in 1,898 households. There were 8,197 inhabitants in 1,978 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 9,267 in 2,961 households. The largest of its 139 villages was Espah, with 811 people.

References

Khash County

Rural Districts of Sistan and Baluchestan Province

Populated places in Khash County


title: Irandegan Rural District

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Irandegan Rural District () is in Irandegan District of Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran.

At the National Census of 2006, its population was 4,232 in 974 households. There were 2,973 inhabitants in 772 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 4,056 in 1,562 households. The largest of its 36 villages was Dadkan, with 417 people.

References

Khash County

Rural Districts of Sistan and Baluchestan Province

Populated places in Khash County


title: Andrew Drumm Institute

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The Andrew Drumm Institute was an orphanage for boys near Independence, Missouri. Built on a 370-acre working farm, it provided a means of support and education for disadvantaged boys starting in 1929.

History
Andrew Drumm, the founder of the Drumm Institute, was a successful cattle rancher who had made his fortune in California, Texas, and Oklahoma. Married but childless, he always helped the lesser privileged, especially children. The idea of the Institute was outlined in his will. His will described the creation of "a home, school and farm for orphaned or indigent boys." Drumm died in 1919, but he had drawn up his will in 1912.

Andrew Drumm acquired a farm in 1912 to form the basis of his plan to instill self-respect and agriculture skill in indigent boys that would come under the care of the institute. Issues with settling his estate after his death in 1919 delayed the opening of the institute until 1929. The Institute was self-supporting through a combination of the endowment from Andrew Drumm, and use of the farm output for food and revenue. The boys had farm and house chores to perform that matched their age and abilities, they and received a small allowance and any profit from their 4-H farm-based projects. The boys' education was a combination of schooling at the institute and well as off-site education at local schools. The institute hosted about 20 boys per year until 1944, when expanded facilities allowed an average of 35 per year, with another expansion in the 1960s leading to a peak of nearly 54 boys in 1970.

Expansion in the 1970s, changes in child labor laws, state licensing requirements and additional regulations limited the institute's ability to be self-sustaining through production and preparation of home grown food. After several failed attempts at re-purposing, an agreement permitting the development of a golf course on the grounds provided a new source of revenue. The institute is currently known as the Drumm Farm Center for Children.

One famous alumni of the institute, Richard Rhodes, wrote about his experiences there in his book A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood (1990).

Historic district
Andrew Drumm Institute was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 3, 2006. It is a historic district consisting of 10 contributing buildings, primarily the living quarters and classrooms for the boys. After the institute's change away from farming, many of the farm buildings and fencing deteriorated and were removed. A golf course has been built on 209 acres of the surrounding land.

References

Bibliography

Orphanages in Missouri
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri
National Register of Historic Places in Jackson County, Missouri
1929 establishments in Missouri


title: Eskelabad Rural District

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Eskelabad Rural District () is in the Central District of Taftan County, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. Its capital is the village of Eskelabad.

At the National Census of 2006, its population (as a part of the former Nukabad District of Khash County) was 6,527 in 1,461 households. There were 6,295 inhabitants in 1,578 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 6,015 in 1,800 households. The largest of its 72 villages was Deh-e Pabid, with 1,213 people.

In 2018, Nukabad District was separated from Khash County, elevated to the status of Taftan County, and divided into three districts, with the city of Nukabad as its only city and capital of the new county.

References

Rural Districts of Sistan and Baluchestan Province

Populated places in Sistan and Baluchestan Province


title: Frank Leverett

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Frank Leverett (March 10, 1859 – November 15, 1943) was an American geologist who specialised in glaciology.

Biography
Frank Leverett was born on March 10, 1859, in Denmark, Iowa, and was descended from a family that emigrated from Boston, Lincolnshire in 1663. Following an education in Denmark Academy from which he expected to become a farmer, Leverett taught in public schools for a year in 1878 before becoming an instructor in natural sciences at the academy for the following three years. Here he became interested in geology and so enrolled in Colorado College and subsequently Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts to study mineralogy and assaying, graduating with a bachelor of science from the latter in 1885. He then began work in a temporary job in Madison, Wisconsin, working with the United States Geological Survey. Leverett continued as an assistant until 1890 when he was given the position of assistant geologist, before becoming a geologist in 1901 and a senior geologist in 1928, until his retirement in 1929. Between 1909 and 1929 Leverett was a lecturer in glacial geology at the University of Michigan, the institution which awarded him an honorary degree of doctor of science in 1930.

Leverett was one of the leading authorities on Pleistocene glaciation and authored over 180 reports and papers. He was elected a fellow of both the Geological Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, becoming Vice President of the latter in 1928. He was an elected member of both the American Philosophical Society and the United States National Academy of Sciences.

Leverett married Frances Gibson on December 22, 1887, and later married Dorothy Park on December 18, 1895, after Gibson's death. He did not have children by either marriage. Leverett died on November 15, 1943, after a brief illness at his home in Ann Arbor, Michigan. A fortnight before his death a bust of Leverett was constructed by the sculptor Carleton Angell.

The Leverett Glacier in Antarctica, Leverett Glacier in Greenland, Lake Leverett in Washington (since drained), and plant species Sigillaria leveretti were named after Frank Leverett.

Professional writings
 The Illinois Ice Lobe; Frank Leverett; U.S. Geological Survey, Monograph, #38; Government Printing Office; Washington, D.C.; 1899
 Glacial formations and drainage features of the Erie and Ohio basins, Frank Leverett; U.S. Geol. Survey, Mon. 41, 802 pages, 25 p1s., 8 figs.;1902
 Surface Geology of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan; Frank Leverett; Michigan Geological and Biological Survey, Publication 7. Geological Series 5.; Lansing, Michigan: 1910
 Surface Geology and Agricultural Conditions of the Southern Peninsula of Michigan; Frank Leverett; Michigan Geological and Biological Survey, Publication 9. Geological Series 7.; Lansing, Michigan: 1911
 The Pleistocene of Indiana and Michigan and the History of the Great Lakes, Monograph 53; Frank Leverett & Frank B. Taylor, U.S. Geological Survey; Government Printing Office, Washington; 1915
 Moraines and shore lines of the Lake Superior region; Frank Leverett; U.S. Geological Survey Prof. Papers 154-A; p. 19, Pl.1; Government Printing Office; Washington, D.C.; 1929
 Relative length of Pleistocene glacial and interglacial stages; Frank Leverett; Science, vol. 72; pp. 193–195; 1930
 The place of the Iowan drive; Frank Leverett; Journal of Geology, Vol. 47; pp 398–407; pp. 400–402; 1939
 Note by Frank Leverett; Frank Leverett; Journal of Geology, vol. 50; pp. 1001–1002; 1942

References

External links
Field Notes of Frank Leverett

American geologists
1859 births
1943 deaths
People from Lee County, Iowa
Scientists from Ann Arbor, Michigan
Colorado College alumni
Iowa State University alumni
University of Michigan staff
United States Geological Survey personnel
Members of the American Philosophical Society


title: Gowhar Kuh Rural District

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Gowhar Kuh Rural District () is in Gowhar Kuh District of Taftan County, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. Its capital is the village of Gowhar Shahr-e Chah-e Darkhati.

At the National Census of 2006, its population (as a part of the former Nukabad District of Khash County) was 9,100 in 1,887 households. There were 8,383 inhabitants in 2,048 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 10,078 in 3,024 households. The largest of its 195 villages was Shirabad, with 751 people.

In 2018, Nukabad District was separated from Khash County, elevated to the status of Taftan County, and divided into three districts, with the city of Nukabad as its only city and capital of the new county. Gowharkuh Rural District was elevated to the status of a district and divided into two rural districts.

References

Rural Districts of Sistan and Baluchestan Province

Populated places in Sistan and Baluchestan Province


title: Cenchrus distichophyllus

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Cenchrus distichophyllus is a grass species native to Cuba.

Cenchrus distichophyllus is a perennial herb, forming clumps. Leaves are up to  long, tapering to a rigid tip. Spikelet is up to  long with bristly hairs, with an involucre half the length of the spikelet.

References

distichophyllus
Endemic flora of Cuba
Grasses of North America


title: Nazil Rural District

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Nazil Rural District () is in Nazil District of Taftan County, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. Its capital is the village of Bahrabad.

At the National Census of 2006, its population (as a part of the former Nukabad District of Khash County) was 10,573 in 2,491 households. There were 9,335 inhabitants in 2,161 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 11,097 in 3,201 households. The largest of its 167 villages was Kalleh Shahtut, with 521 people.

In 2018, Nukabad District was separated from Khash County, elevated to the status of Taftan County, and divided into three districts, with Nukabad as its only city and capital of the new county. Nazil Rural District became a district and was divided into two rural districts.

References

Rural Districts of Sistan and Baluchestan Province

Populated places in Sistan and Baluchestan Province


title: Favour Royal

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Favour Royal (previously known as Portclare)  is a manor and estate in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is located in the townland of Favor Royal Demesne, around  east of Augher, close to the Irish border. It is within the parish of Errigal-Trough which is part of the historic barony of Clogher.

History
Portclare was granted, in 1613, by James I to Sir Thomas Ridgeway, a prominent figure in the plantation of Ulster. Samuel Lewis recorded Ridgeway's grants as comprising  of arable land and extending over the present towns of Aughnacloy and Augher, including the districts of Lismore and Garvey, with all the intermediate country. In 1622 Ridgeway sold Portclare to Sir James Erskine, younger son of Alexander Erskine of Gogar. In 1665, ownership of the manor of Portclare was confirmed to the Erskines by Charles II, under the name Favour Royal. The estate was subsequently divided between Sir James Erskine's two granddaughters. Favour Royal comprises one part, while the other, lying to the west of Augher, is known as Spur Royal or Augher Castle.

John Moutray married the Erskine heiress of Favour Royal, and the original house was built by them in 1670. In 1816 the Moutrays briefly employed a local boy, John Hughes, as an apprentice gardener - Hughes would go on to become the Catholic Archbishop of New York in 1842. The old house was destroyed in 1823 by an accidental fire, and was replaced with a larger structure by Captain John Corry Moutray of Castle Coole. Captain Moutray commissioned the architect John Hargrave to design the new building, which was completed in 1825 in a Tudor revival style. Captain Moutray also commissioned the building of a private chapel on the estate, consecrated on 3 July 1835, which is now the parish church of St Mary's, Portclare. Favour Royal continued to be the family home of the Moutrays until 1976, when the house, demesne and contents were sold. It was occupied until the 1990s but is now derelict.

The demesne comprised  of fertile and highly cultivated land, and is finely diversified and richly wooded. The house is situated on the bank of the River Blackwater, and is built of freestone found on the estate. It is embellished with a noble portico, and with elegant architectural details. The demesne includes an ornamental lake and an 18th-century walled garden, and is listed on the Register of Parks, Gardens and Demesnes of Special Historic Interest. More recently it has been planted with coniferous forestry by the Forest Service Northern Ireland. Favour Royal Forest is one of Ireland's Millennium Forest sites. Several planning applications were submitted for permission to restore Favour Royal as a hotel and golf course, but these expired, and the house was on the market in 2013.

See also
Augher Castle, built by Sir Thomas Ridgeway

References

External links

Photos of Favour Royal on Flickr
People’s Millennium Forest Derrygorry & Favour Royal

Grade B+ listed buildings
Country houses in Northern Ireland
Buildings and structures in County Tyrone
Register of Parks, Gardens and Demesnes of Special Historic Interest
Forests and woodlands of Northern Ireland


title: Taftan-e Jonubi Rural District

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Taftan-e Jonubi Rural District () is in the Central District of Taftan County, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. Its capital is the village of Tamandan.

At the National Census of 2006, its population (as a part of the former Nukabad District of Khash County) was 9,351 in 1,974 households. There were 9,300 inhabitants in 2,185 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 11,725 in 3,206 households. The largest of its 125 villages was Narun, with 826 people.

In 2018, Nukabad District was separated from Khash County, elevated to the status of Taftan County, and divided into three districts, with the city of Nukabad as its only city and capital of the new county.

References

Rural Districts of Sistan and Baluchestan Province

Populated places in Sistan and Baluchestan Province


title: 2014 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships – Singles

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Ernests Gulbis was the defending champion, but chose to compete in Marseille instead.
Marin Čilić won the title, defeating Kevin Anderson in the final, 7–6(8–6), 6–7(7–9), 6–4.

Seeds

Draw

Finals

Top half

Bottom half

Qualifying

Seeds

Qualifiers

Lucky losers
  Samuel Groth

Qualifying draw

First qualifier

Second qualifier

Third qualifier

Fourth qualifier

External links
 Main draw
 Qualifying draw

Delray Beach International Tennis Championships - Singles
2014 Singles
2014 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships


title: Visionary fiction

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Visionary fiction is a fiction genre with New Age or mind, body, spirit themes and perspectives, including consciousness expansion, spirituality, mysticism, and parapsychology. It is sometimes classed as a subtype of speculative fiction. Examples include the novels The Celestine Prophecy The Alchemist, and Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah. The Book Industry Study Group's BISAC subject heading FIC039000 is "FICTION / Visionary & Metaphysical".

Although similar themes and content occur in the literature of numerous cultures in many ages, the term "visionary fiction" was suggested by Renée Weber, professor of philosophy at Rutgers University, and used by John Algeo in a 1982 article describing recent examples and earlier precursors.  By the year 2000 it had recognition as a distinct genre. Contemporary authors have formed organizations like the Visionary Fiction Alliance to clearly define what the genre is and what works belong to this category, advocate the use of this term for all fiction of the determined type, and promote authorship and readership of this form of fiction.

Definitions

While the basic definition of visionary fiction—the literary form that illustrates and demonstrates the process of growth in human consciousness—is now generally accepted, it remains an evolving genre with some controversy over what literature it includes. Following are some of the most frequently cited definitions, sometimes at variance with each other, which illustrate the range, historically and ideologically, of the term's usage.

"Visionary"

As a literary term, the word visionary is defined thus: "Visionary writing has the qualities of prophecy—perhaps it is apocalyptic in imagery, or it may be predictive in its insights, or it may contain a core of moral truth. Many of the Romantic poets (especially Blake) have been labeled visionary. Note that in its literary sense, visionary writing need not be religious in nature, though it frequently is."

Carl Jung

In his 1929 lecture, "Psychology and Literature," (also a chapter in Modern Man in Search of a Soul), psychologist Carl Jung divides all works of art into two distinct forms, psychological and visionary. "The psychological work of art always takes its materials from the vast real of conscious human experience—from the vivid foreground of life, we might say." What is currently classified as mainstream or realism. "The latter [visionary] reverses all the conditions of the former [psychological]. The experience that furnishes the material for artistic expression is no longer familiar. It is a strange something that derives its existence from the hinterlands of man's mind—that suggests the abyss of time separating us from pre-human ages, or evokes a superhuman world of contrasting light and darkness." Jung's model would classify all serious imaginative literature, including the classics like Homer, Virgil, and Beowulf, as Visionary Fiction.

Flo Keyes

In The Literature of Hope in the Middle Ages And Today, Flo Keyes endorses Jung's term, visionary fiction, while detailing the medieval romance's impact on modern Fantasy and Science Fiction: "Jung places greater value on what he calls visionary novels, novels in which fundamental human experiences are tapped and shaped and left to the individual to interpret. These visionary works are stories that break the bonds of everyday human experience."

Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown
Activists and Authors Walidah Imarisah and adrienne maree brown put together a group of activists to write short stories for Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements.  In materials for the book they put forward a different definition of visionary fiction  "We believe that radical science fiction is actually better termed visionary fiction because it pulls from real life experience, inequalities and movement building to create innovative ways of understanding the world around us, paint visions of new worlds that could be, and teach us new ways of interacting with one another. Visionary fiction engages our imaginations and hearts, and guides our hands as organizers."

Walidah Imarisha further said visionary fiction "allows us to imagine possibilities outside of what exists today. The only way we know we can challenge the divine right of kings is by being able to imagine a world where kings no longer rule us—or do not even exist. Visionary fiction offers social justice movements a process to explore creating those new worlds....This term reminds us to be utterly unrealistic in our organizing, because it is only through imagining the so-called impossible that we can begin to concretely build it. When we free our imaginations, we question everything".

Michael Gurian

American author and social philosopher Michael Gurian, one of the first to promote the genre on the web, wrote: "'Visionary fiction' is fiction in which the expansion of the human mind drives the plot. Where science fiction is characterized by storytelling based in expanded use of science to drive narrative, visionary fiction is characterized by storytelling based in expanded use of mental ability to drive narrative."

Visionary Fiction Alliance

The Visionary Fiction Alliance defines the term thus: "Visionary Fiction embraces spiritual and esoteric wisdom, often from ancient sources, and makes it relevant for our modern life. These gems of wisdom are brought forth in story form and in a way that readers can experience the wisdom from within themselves. It emphasizes and envisions humanity's transition into evolved consciousness. While there is a strong theme, it in no way proselytizes or preaches.
Visionary is a tone as well as a genre. The ‘visionary’ element can technically be present in any genre and set in any time."

Hal Zina Bennett

Visionary Fiction pioneer, Hal Zina Bennett describes the genre thus: "Visionary fiction often deals with the stuff that happens at the edge between inner and outer, glimpsing those moments when the ‘thin veil’, the boundary between inner and outer worlds, dissolves or is at least briefly drawn away. Every moment of our lives there's some of that interchange between inner and outer, of course. Our ‘visionary fiction’ focuses on that phenomenon itself. Stories written in this genre draw our attention to how our visions inform us and impact our lives... The ‘vision’ part of visionary fiction is the vehicle that carries us to the filmy veil separating our ability to know from what we can't know." Visionary fiction, he concludes, generally acknowledges something bigger, limitless, actually, beyond what Aldous Huxley called the ‘phenomenological’ world.

Edward J. Ahearn

Edward J. Ahearn's definition in Visionary Fictions: Apocalyptic Writing from Blake to the Modern Age, is summarized thus on the book's jacket cover: "Visionary writers seek a personal way to explode the normal experience of the ‘real,’ using prophetic visions, fantastic tales, insane rantings, surrealistic dreams, and drug- or sex-induced dislocations in their work. Their fiction expresses rebellion against all the values of Western civilization—personal, sexual, familial, religious, moral, societal, and political. Yet even though they are anti-realistic, they do react to specific aspects of modern reality, such as the recurring promise and failure of social revolution." To some current VF authors, Ahearn's “shock and awe” definition of VF may be extreme although it does provide an antidote against too saccharine an approach.

Inspirational fiction

The Wikipedia article inspirational fiction mentions Michael Gurian and others as promoting the term visionary fiction and cites it as "possibly a subgenre of inspirational fiction."

Characteristics

An analysis of available sources cites the following characteristics as essential to Visionary Fiction, noting that such elements, like the definition of Visionary Fiction, intentionally remains fluid to accommodate innovation.

Growth in consciousness

The primary characteristic of VF, according to the Visionary Fiction Alliance: "Growth of consciousness is the central theme of the story and drives the protagonist, and/or other important characters."
In "The Altered State of Visionary Fiction," Monty Joynes writes: "For me, the Visionary Fiction genre includes novels that deal with shifts in awareness that result in metaphysical understanding by the central characters.  The plot of the novel is generally more concerned with internal experiences than with external."
Michael Gurian also makes it preeminent: "Visionary fiction is fiction in which the expansion of the human mind drives the plot."
All commentators on the basic nature of VF seem to agree that growth in consciousness is the hallmark of Visionary Fiction. In any credible story, the characters must change, but in VF this change is from the inside out rather than from outside in. Growth in consciousness dictates that Visionary Fiction be optimistic. With realism, birth inevitably results in death. In VF, death tends to rebirth at a higher level.

Reader experience

Visionary Fiction author Jodine Turner writes: "Visionary Fiction is like the legendary Celtic Immram (the mythical heroes’ quest). The drama and tension of the characters’ adventures is one layer of the tale. All of the usual elements of suspense, conflict, even romance and mystery, are interwoven in the plot. The other layer, deeper and more archetypal, is that mystical inner journey of spiritual awakening. In Visionary Fiction, esoteric wisdom is embedded in story so that the reader can actually experience it, instead of merely learning about it." And author Margaret Duarte seconds this notion: "What separates VF from other speculative fiction is intention.  Besides telling a good story, VF enlightens and encourages readers to expand their awareness of greater possibilities."
Visionary Fiction renders the reading experience interactive. Readers have progressed beyond where they can just be told (the authority paradigm); instead, the visionary model gives them the bare essentials and invites them to try it (the Gnostic or experiential model). The best VF is multi-layered to suit readers at different awareness levels.

Spiritual component

The VF Alliance definition states: "[Visionary Fiction] embraces spiritual and esoteric wisdom, often from ancient sources, and makes it relevant for our modern life." Clearly differentiating itself from conventional religion and its associated genre, religious fiction, Visionary Fiction's spirituality is all-inclusive with an appeal that, according to the Visionary Fiction Alliance, "is universal in its worldview and scope." Since it lacks this universal ingredient, spiritually-oriented fiction that highlights a single issue,(recovery, women's’ rights, political reform), is not generally considered Visionary Fiction.

VF's spiritual focus does not require it to have a "feel good" flavor. While Edward Ahearn's dark apocalyptic leaning in his definition may be extreme, it serves to remind that the spiritual conflicts addressed in VF are serious, existential, and often life-threatening in the process of becoming life changing.

Paranormal perceptions

The word visionary indicates an ability to perceive beyond the normal purview. Growth in consciousness implies transcending the five senses when assigning validity to an extrasensory experience. Monty Joynes states, "The work is also ‘visionary’ in the aspect that the authors sometimes (or often) employ non-rational means such as dreams or extrasensory perceptions to develop the content of the book." Michael Gurian is more emphatic about the inclusion of this element, stating that in VF such extraordinary phenomena "not only happen, but drive the plot and its characters (i.e. without these experiences, there would be no plot or character)." The VF Alliance maintains that VF "oftentimes uses reincarnation, dreams, visions, paranormal, psychic abilities, and other metaphysical plot devices."
In his article "Visionary Fiction: Rediscovering Ancient Paths to Truth," Hal Zina Bennett addresses the use of paranormal elements in VF more mythically:
"Like a shaman's stories of the spirit world, where the spirits of animals, trees, sky, or the stars teach us how to live, visionary fiction introduces us to a reality beyond physical reality. They often carry us deep into a consciousness once thought to be the domain of seers, visionaries, oracles and psychics. The magic of this genre is the magic of human consciousness itself, our ability to see beneath the surface and create new visions of what our lives can be."
The use of a paranormal element does not make fiction automatically visionary. A detective story with a mentalist as the crime solver might only be considered visionary if it demonstrates how the psychic's gift produces a higher state of consciousness.

Distinguishing visionary fiction

Determining what is and what is not visionary fiction suffers all the ills of any classification system with the definition of genre in fiction being especially problematic.
For the last century, the library profession has held fiction in endemic disdain, and both the Dewey Decimal Classification system and the Library of Congress Classification system assign all fiction to a narrow range of numbers without any further breakout into fiction type. Largely as a response to seller and buyer demand, an ad hoc fiction genre system emerged during the 20th century, although some of its labels remain loosely defined or duplicative. Nevertheless, in recent years visionary fiction has emerged sufficiently into a recognizable genre that it can now be distinguished from its ancestors and close relatives.

Mainstream fiction (realism)

As noted above, Carl Jung divided all serious literature between psychological and visionary. He further explains the fiction type he designated psychological, and thus not-visionary, as taking "its materials from the vast realm of conscious human experience—from the vivid foreground of life." Flo Keyes elaborates: "In these works, the psychological components of the characters and their behavior have already been scrutinized by the author, and little room has been left for interpretation by the reader… Mainstream fiction as described here would encompass everything from Madame Bovary to the latest Danielle Steel novel, all of which concentrate on revealing our psychological motivations and responses to us rather than letting us discover them for ourselves in our reactions to what we have read." Today, we would substitute mainstream or realistic for psychological, and all such works are easily recognized as beyond the pale of visionary fiction.

Science fiction/fantasy

Works of fantasy by definition go apart from the world of the senses for story material, and thus are not mainstream or realistic. And, many works of speculative fiction/fantasy (paranormal, supernatural, utopian, dystopian, apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic, science fiction, magical realism, alternative history) have substance beyond the sensational and purpose beyond entertainment, some enough to be classified as VF. A rule of thumb to differentiate is given by author Margaret Duarte: "What separates VF from other speculative fiction is intention.  Besides telling a good story, VF enlightens and encourages readers to expand their awareness of greater possibilities."
Comparing Science Fiction to VF, Michael Gurian says: "Visionary fiction is not science fiction, yet if a skeptic needs ‘scientific proof’ of the reality of the visionary landscape, it can be connected to the new neural sciences—neurobiology, neuropsychology, neurophysics.  All visionary fiction is driven by new and uncanny experiences (mystical, spiritual and paranormal) in the neural web.  The new sciences have shown us over the last three decades how vast and limitless is the increasing power of the human mind.  As in so many eras of human life, where our science goes our literature follows."

Religious/spiritual/new age fiction

Since visionary fiction concerns itself with consciousness and its evolution, it requires a spiritual component. However, as Gurian notes, it should not be equated with religious fiction: "Religious fiction is a phrase that generally means Christian fiction. The most famous examples would be the Left Behind series.  In this kind of fiction, plot is driven by a religious topography.  Whether Christian, Jewish, Hindu in base, religious fiction is a footnote to the already written topography of the religion itself."

He says it is also not the same as New Age Fiction: "Where religious literature is pre-structured by a religion, ‘new age literature’ tends to be the opposite: employing loose adventure formats which can be laden with personal wisdom teaching.  The topography or structure of the narrative is not very important in new age literature: the teaching is most important."

Neither is it spiritual fiction: "I make a distinction between ‘spiritual fiction’ and ‘visionary fiction’ that others may find to be too fine.... In spiritual fiction (as in new age literature), spirituality rather than mental ability drives the plot," Gurian maintains.

Given its spiritual component, VF works are often found in some combination with spiritual and new age fiction. Gurian recognizes this and qualifies himself by noting that "a lot of visionary fiction is very spiritual" and acknowledging that "in the publishing market, visionary fiction, spiritual fiction, new age fiction and even new age nonfiction all blur together for marketing purposes." He predicts a clearer "distinction to be made over the next decades between novels that are written for the purpose of teaching spirituality and novels that are written about our growing mental abilities per se, with the story itself breaking new ground."
A rule of thumb to distinguish spiritual from visionary fiction: if the novel's spiritual focus is passive, that is, it features an external power (an institution, dogma, charismatic leader, practice, or talisman) that affects the individual, it is religious/New Age/spiritual fiction. If the focus is active with the spiritual power generated and motivated from within the individual and flowing outward to positively affect the environment, it is visionary fiction.

Metaphysical fiction

Although BISAC groups Visionary & Metaphysical together as a single Main Subject Category under Fiction, the genres are not identical.

Metaphysical Fiction was originally identified with Philosophical fiction, "in which a significant proportion of the work is devoted to a discussion of the sort of questions normally addressed in discursive philosophy. These might include the function and role of society, the purpose of life, ethics or morals, the role of art in human lives, and the role of experience or reason in the development of knowledge." Novels by Albert Camus, Herman Hesse, Philip K. Dick, Ayn Rand, and Umberto Eco are categorized as such.

The classical term metaphysical has evolved to include a much larger and more perplexing world. Instead of focusing on nature and purpose, it is now used to describe the world of spirits, faith healing, crystals and other paranormal elements. The scope of Metaphysical Fiction, too, has been enlarged accordingly, thus moving it closer to the realm of VF.

Still there is a distinction, which author Talia Newland makes: "Sometimes the terms are used synonymously but my understanding is that visionary fiction is more obviously ‘spiritual’ in nature, and that an individual's movement towards self-actualization is a primary theme.  In metaphysical fiction, though the philosophy underlies the story, the story takes precedence over expression of the philosophy; in visionary fiction the expression of the philosophy is more important than the story.
According to Karen Rider, "Metaphysical Fiction encompasses topics like energy healing, past lives, intuition...events or experiences that we may be able to subjectively experience or sense but cannot objectively measure or explain. In the narrative, metaphysical phenomenon is part of ordinary human experience in ways that create conflict for the characters, propelling the story forward to find out how will the character deal with these events." Again the active/passive focus rule above can be used to differentiate the Metaphysical Fiction from VF although more genre-crossing can be expected.

A June 2014 article on the Visionary Fiction Alliance website widely supported BISAC's marriage of the two genres into the single category: Visionary & Metaphysical.

Publishing and marketing

Publishing history

Prior to the 20-teens, visionary fiction as a genre experienced difficulty gaining a reputation as marketable with traditional publishers and thus dedicated shelf space in libraries and bookstores.

This faltering on the way to popular acclaim may be intrinsic to the genre's content. Speaking of visionary fiction, which necessarily deals with uncomfortable material and challenges the reader to change his level of consciousness, Carl Jung noted, "The reading public for the most part repudiates this kind of writing—unless indeed it is coarsely sensational—and even the literary critic seems embarrassed by it."
Because it was not already in demand by agents and publishers, quality writers stayed with more popular genres, while VF and similar genres attracted a disproportionate number of authors (many from other professions) with brilliant ideas but inferior writing skills. A few such works, like James Redfield's Celestine Prophecy, did rocket up the best-seller lists, which may have misled authors to assume that a sublime message trumps amateur writing.
Hal Zina Bennet says of such deficiencies: "What happens in most visionary fiction that I’ve read over the years is that it gets burdened down by the author's desire to get readers to believe what he or she believes. Characters disappear in the author's message, which is another way of saying that they are two-dimensional, thinly disguised vehicles that simply recite the author's beliefs."
Before 2000 a number of unsuccessful attempts were made to market VF as a distinct genre, most notably at Hampton Roads Publishing of which editor Bob Friedman said, "We tried mightily to get the retailing powers to start a visionary fiction shelf. We came close with Walden, but the suits at B&N, alas, took the position of ‘no one is coming into the store asking for visionary fiction’." In 2003 author and social philosopher Michael Gurian launched the website visionaryfiction.org that defined VF in his terms and expressed his hope "that like-minded writers will create a visionary fiction writers association."  His effort failed to get any direct traction when Gurian had relax participation in favor of his professional pursuits.  Nevertheless, credit his vision that inspired later efforts: "If this takes off, it opens new avenues for writers over the next generations.  I envision a publishing culture in which my children and their children have access to visionary fiction in the same way that I—because of the hard work of previous generations—have access to science fiction."

Current status

BISAC categorization

The genre system that evolved ad hoc through the mid-20th century was finally formed into an organized but flexible classification system of Marketing Categories through the work of the Book Industry Study Group founded in 1975. This non-profit organization developed the BISAC (Book Industry Subject and Category) Subject Headings, now considered the industry standard and a requirement for participation in many book listing databases. While it is now considered best practice for publishers, manufacturers, suppliers, wholesalers, and retailers, and has gained ground in some libraries, its use is not yet universal.

In the 2013 edition of BISAC, Visionary Fiction is assigned a first-level Main Subject Category (FIC039000 FICTION / Visionary & Metaphysical), thus giving the genre a specific slot in the coding scheme, which is gaining reflection in bookstore shelving and online classification schemes.

Conventional publishers

In December 2013 Len Vlahos, Executive Director of BISG, stated:  "BISAC Subject Codes are a voluntary industry standard. Many, if not all, large retailers use the BISAC Codes as a basis for identifying content, but then augment those codes based on their own customer intelligence. The retailers consider this augmentation to be a kind of special sauce. This is, of course, one of the challenges of voluntary standards, but we're still pleased at how widely adopted and used BISAC codes are."
The words voluntary and special sauce allow a latitude in categorization that could mean continued obscurity for VF titles if authors and agents continue to be published under other more "popular" categories, as has been the practice.

Barnes and Noble requires BISAC codes for all books, print and electronic, and yet on Barnesandnoble.com, neither Visionary Fiction nor Metaphysical Fiction appears in their category browser. Typing "visionary fiction" into the search box does bring up more than 7,000 results, but several items on the very first page are not even fiction. Thus the tendency to publish titles that are clearly VF labeled as a more popular or generic genre continues. Best-selling VF authors (Coelho, Redfield, etc.) are routinely shelved with Literature and Fiction. Lesser known authors may find themselves in the New Age section among mostly non-fiction titles.

The few traditional publishers that directly solicit and encourage VF works tend to be small and unstable.

Online vendors

While online vendor, Amazon, claims to adhere to BISAC strictly, its print offerings are usually pre-coded by the publishers with results similar to the above.

EBooks uploaded by the author also face hurdles during the categorization process. As Louisa Locke explains: "The ‘categories’ Amazon offers when you upload your book to KDP are based on BISAC categories.... What authors find confusing is that Amazon converts the BISAC categories into the Amazon browsing-path categories and subcategories that show up in the Kindle store––and the two are not always identical." To find Visionary Fiction listed in Amazon's Categories, requires the path Books> Literature & Fiction> Genre Fiction> Religious and Inspirational> Visionary Fiction. Typing visionary fiction in the Search box brings up an unwieldy 8,000+ results.

Smashwords, like Amazon, professes to follow BISAC, but Visionary Fiction does not appear at all in its listed Categories.

Cross genres and subgenres

The increased tendency of contemporary authors to cross genres, which increases the complexity of categorization, is especially evident with VF writers. Nevertheless, such hybrids, like Kate Atkinson's Life after Life (historical and visionary), have proved popular and can produce unique effects. Computer-based systems, now used in brick-and-mortar stores and on-line, support multi-category classification and further refinement in grouping, such as key words, thus making the listing of a single title under several genres and subgenres possible.

Since BISAC has not yet supplied the Visionary & Metaphysical Main Category with subcategories as it has done for other genres, all works of the two types are listed under the main heading without further differentiation. Until the BISAC Main Category is further refined, authors may use keywords to indicate subgenres for marketing and reader convenience.

Visionary Fiction Alliance

The Visionary Fiction Alliance (VFA) actively organizes and promotes the Visionary fiction genre. The VFA began as a web-ring formed in March 2012 by visionary authors Jodine Turner, Saleena Karim, and Shannan Sinclair, who joined forces to promote their genre via the Visionary Fiction Group at goodreads.com.
The Visionary Fiction group expanded to 12 authors before the VFA website live in August 2012. By May 2014 the VFA had 36 member authors ranging from seasoned veterans to developing novices; most of these authors created links on VFA which lead to the authors' personal websites.

The stated objective of the VFA reads: As the world evolves away from the Newtonian model of the five senses to the more evolved quantum model that includes the sense of spirit so resurgent today, Visionary Fiction is rapidly becoming the genre of choice to express that evolution and predict the breath-taking future that might follow the anticipated leaps. Under its broader umbrella are now gathering works previously classified as spiritual, metaphysical, or science fiction. The VFA aims to provide a home base and central clearing house for readers, writers, and researchers dedicated to this endeavor.

Its purposes are stated as such:

 Increase awareness of the genre
 Help readers discover, explore, and enjoy Visionary Fiction
 Mentor new writers who wish to explore this genre
 Provide resources for writers of Visionary Fiction
 Be a place where readers can find Visionary Fiction books and engage in discussion with the authors.

Scholarship

Major studies of visionary fiction

For an art and study ripe with implications for today's evolving personal and social milieu, formal studies of Visionary Fiction are few, even including university research papers. The following existing comprehensive works on the subject are relatively unknown, even to VF authors, although some have recently been highlighted on websites like that of the Visionary Fiction Alliance.

Carl Jung

Carl Jung, "Psychology and Literature" (1929 lecture), included in the volume Modern Man in Search of a Soul. Rather than the narrow subgenre it is often reduced to, Jung depicts Visionary Fiction as a super-genre that forms one of the two major divisions of artistic production: "I will call the one mode of artistic creation psychological, and the other visionary." Jung's contribution to Visionary Fiction is highlighted in a two-part series "Carl Jung and Visionary Fiction."

Flo Keyes

Flo Keyes, The Literature of Hope in the Middle Ages And Today (2006). This work explores the influence of medieval literature on modern fantasy literature as well as such literature's social function. Using Jungian theory, including his view of visionary fiction, it examines the connections between the genres and finds common ground among them in plots that often reflect the recurring cycle of life and the elements of psychological rather than literal realism. Works such as Malory's Le Morte D’Arthur, the Witch World series by Andre Norton, and More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon are examined in depth.

Edward J. Ahearn

Edward J. Ahearn, Visionary Fictions: Apocalyptic Writing from Blake to the Modern Age (2011). Starting with the stark premise that visionary writers seek to explode the normal experience of the "real", through devices like prophetic visions, fantastic tales, insane rantings, surrealistic dreams, and drug- or sex-induced dislocations in their work, Ahearn explores the work of a wide variety of authors who have contributed to the genre from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Beginning with William Blake, he traces the evolution of the form in texts by authors including Novalis, Lautréamont, Breton, William Burroughs, and contemporary feminists Monique Wittig and Jamaica Kincaid, among others.

Paul Maltby

Paul Maltby, The Visionary Moment: A Postmodern Critique (2002). This study aims to debunk any objective base for the visionary experience in general. It critiques the metaphysics and ideology of the visionary moment as a convention in twentieth-century American fiction, from the standpoint of postmodernism. Draws on the works of Don DeLillo, Jack Kerouac, Saul Bellow, Flannery O’Connor, Alice Walker, and William Faulkner. In turn his book has been castigated as a postmodern critique that "hardly deserves the name. Maltby's critique really issues from a particularly straitjacketed form of social constructionism."

Additional studies

Increased interest in Visionary Fiction as a genre has prompted multiple articles and commentary on the web since 2000, with activity surging since 2012. Weighing in with posts or interviews are prominent authors Hal Zinna Bennett, Monty Joynes, Dean Koontz, and Peggy Payne.
Studies into the visionary writing component in the Bible, Jewish and Christian literature, medieval epics (Keyes), romantic prose/poetry (Ahearn) as well as modern authorship appear on the web.

University courses

While some university programs, such as the James Gunn's Center for the Study of Science Fiction at Kansas University, have long adopted a visionary stance to the study of genre literature, courses in Visionary Fiction proper remain scarce with the subject normally addressed in general literature courses.  However, this is changing as demonstrated by recent course descriptions such as "Women's Visionary Literature" at Penn State, and "Visionary Literature: From Dante to Bob Dylan" at Canada's York University Educators like Dr. Mary Mackey, herself a best-selling Visionary author, continue to contribute to VF scholarship.

Awards and community

Awards

While a comprehensive contest that evaluates and awards Visionary Fiction offerings has not yet been established, various organizations bestow awards for VF as a category, usually chosen or submitted from a select field of authors. Additionally, titles that are mainly VF have received awards under categories other than VF in contests that did not have VF as a category.

A limited sampling:

Conducted annually, the Independent Publisher Book Awards honor the year's best independently published titles from around the world. Visionary Fiction is one of its categories.
In 2014 the "IPPY" Award for VF went to Mystic Tea, by Rea Nolan Martin (Wiawaka Press).
The Coalition of Visionary Resources (COVR) offers an annual award for Visionary Fiction.

Pope Annalisa by Peter Canova received the Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal for Visionary Fiction.
Jeffrey Small's debut novel The Breath of God won the 2012 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal for best fiction and was hailed as "visionary fiction" by Library Journal.
Kate Atkinson's Life after Life: a Novel, an innovative tale of reincarnation in World War II Britain, won the 2013 Goodreads Choice Awards for Historical Fiction.

References

External links

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The Last Ship is an original musical with music and lyrics by Sting and a book by
Lorne Campbell.

Following a UK national tour and subsequent six-week run at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto, it embarked on a US national tour with the official opening at the Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles on 22 January 2020. Inspired by Sting's own childhood experiences and the shipbuilding industry in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, an earlier version of the musical with book by John Logan and Brian Yorkey played at the Bank of America Theatre in Chicago, before moving to the Neil Simon Theatre on Broadway in 2014. The musical received two Tony Award nominations in 2015, for Best Original Score and Best Orchestrations.

Premise
The Last Ship was initially inspired by Sting's 1991 album The Soul Cages and Sting's own childhood experiences, particularly his relationship with his father who had been an engineer in a family of shipwrights. It tells the story about community and the demise of the shipbuilding industry in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, with the closure of the town's Swan Hunter shipyard. "I did everything in my power to escape Wallsend... I became successful, but I owe a debt to that community. This play is me trying to honour that community, trying to pay back what they gave me -- a sense of self but also the engine that allowed me to escape. That's the strange paradox. I love where I come from, I'm glad I escaped, at the same time I need to tell that story as a sort of 'soul debt'."

Production history
In September 2011, it was confirmed that British musician Sting was working on a musical, following rumours the previous year. A first reading took place in Manhattan in October that year, with a further reading in Newcastle in February 2012 and ultimately a full staged reading for the musical was held in 2013. In September 2013, the show was officially confirmed and it was announced that the show would premiere in Chicago in 2014.

The show has a book by John Logan and Brian Yorkey and is directed by Joe Mantello, with choreography by Steven Hoggett, set and costume design by David Zinn, lighting design by Christopher Akerlind and sound design by Brian Ronan.

The show features a score by Sting that includes mostly original material, as well as four previously written songs: "Island of Souls" and "All This Time" from The Soul Cages, "When We Dance" from the 1994 album Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984–1994, and "Ghost Story" from the 1999 album Brand New Day. Speaking in 2011, Brian Yorkey said: "He's writing great theater music... It's very, very distinctly Sting but it also is theatre music. It's not just pop music transposed into the theatre."

The Last Ship is Sting's first stage musical. He had previously co-written the score for the 2000 animated Disney musical film The Emperor's New Groove, although only two of his songs ended up in the film after heavy studio retooling.

Sting's eleventh studio album, titled The Last Ship, featuring music from, or originally intended for the musical, was released on 24 September 2013. The album marked his first release of original material since his 2003 album Sacred Love and his first foray into musical theatre. Sting had suffered from writer's block and credited the show with giving him a reason to write songs again. Sting held a series of concerts at The Public Theater in October 2013, featuring music from the show and told stories of the making of the musical. The concert was later broadcast on PBS as part of its Great Performances series.

After the "unsurprising" closure of the Broadway run of the show, many observers commented that Newcastle or another venue in the UK would have been "a more natural home" for the show, which was "a tough sell" for the US. "Tyneside accents and the decline of Britain’s industrial heartland aren’t naturally in the wheelhouse of Manhattan’s jewellery-rattling theatregoers." Sting has been dismissive of the argument.

The musical was produced later in the UK, with a new book. One of the major changes in the new production was the removal of the significant figure of a priest, as well as many religious references.

Roles and principal casts

Sting replaced Nail as Jackie White from 9 December 2014 until the show's Broadway closing on 25 January 2015.
Since the 2018 UK tour production, the roles of Joe Fletcher and Freddy Newlands have been played by the same actor.

Music

Musical numbers
The following is the list of musical numbers in the Broadway production. The musical uses a twelve-member orchestra consisting of keyboard, piano, guitar, bass, drums, Northumbrian smallpipe, flute, whistle, melodeon, fiddle, cello and percussion.

Act l
"Island of Souls" – Jackie White, Young Gideon, Peggy White, Father O'Brien, Young Meg, Company
"All This Time" – Gideon Fletcher
"August Winds" – Meg Dawson, Young Meg
"Shipyard" – Jackie White, Billy Thompson, Peggy White, Father O'Brien, Company
"If You Ever See Me Talking to a Sailor" – Meg Dawson, Women
"Dead Man's Boots" – Gideon Fletcher, Joe Fletcher, Young Gideon
"The Last Ship (Part One)" – Father O'Brien
"Sail Away" – Peggy White
"The Last Ship (Part Two)" – Jackie White, Father O'Brien, Company
"What Say You, Meg?" – Arthur Millburn
"We've Got Now't Else" – Jackie White, Davy Harrison, Billy Thompson, Tom Dawson, Shipyard Men
"When We Dance" – Gideon Fletcher, Meg Dawson, Arthur Millburn
"The Last Ship (Reprise)" – Gideon Fletcher, Jackie White, Father O'Brien, Company

Act ll
"Mrs. Dees' Rant" – Mrs. Dees, Women
"The Night the Pugilist Learned How to Dance" – Gideon Fletcher, Tom Dawson
"We've Got Now't Else (Reprise)" – Jackie White, Gideon Fletcher, Company
"So to Speak" – Father O'Brien, Gideon Fletcher
"Hymn" – Company
"Show Some Respect" – Peggy White, Gideon Fletcher, Jackie White, Meg Dawson, Company
"Island of Souls (Reprise)" – Meg Dawson, Young Gideon, Young Meg, Gideon Fletcher
"It's Not the Same Moon" – Gideon Fletcher, Meg Dawson
"Underground River" – Jackie White, Tom Dawson, Company
"Ghost Story" – Gideon Fletcher, Tom Dawson
"August Winds (Reprise)" – Gideon Fletcher, Tom Dawson
"The Last Ship (Finale)" – Company

Toronto (2019)

Act l
"In the Morning" – Company
"We've Got Now't Else (Overture)" – Jackie White and Company
"Island of Souls" – Company
"And Yet" – Gideon Fletcher and Ferryman
"Shipyard" – Jackie White, Billy Thompson, Adrian Sanderson, Peggy White, Davey Harrison and Company
"Sail Away" – Peggy White
"If You Ever See Me Talking to a Sailor" – Meg Dawson and the women of the Company
"Underground River" – Billy Thompson and Company
"Underground River (Reprise)" – Billy Thompson and Company
"Dead Man's Boots" – Gideon Fletcher, Old Joe Fletcher and Young Gideon
"When the Pugilist Learned to Dance" – Gideon Fletcher and Ellen Dawson
"August Winds" – Meg Dawson
"The Last Ship (Part One)" – Jackie White, Peggy White, Davey Harrison and Company

Act ll
"Mrs. Dees' Rant" – Mrs. Dees and the Women of the Company
"It's Not the Same Moon" – Meg Dawson and Ellen Dawson
"All This Time" – Ellen Dawson
"So to Speak" – Jackie White and Peggy White
"What Say You Meg?" – Gideon Fletcher and Meg Dawson
"The Last Ship (Reprise)" – Jackie White and Company
"Hadaway (Out of Your Tiny Minds)" – Davey Harrison and Company
"Underground River (Reprise)" – Peggy White and Jackie White
"When We Danced" – Gideon Fletcher and Meg Dawson
"We've Got Now't Else (Reprise)" – Peggy White and Company
"Show Some Respect" – Peggy White and Company
"The Last Ship (Finale)" – Company

Original Broadway cast album

The original Broadway cast recording was released on 16 December 2014.

Productions

Chicago and Broadway
On 19 September 2013, it was announced that the show would begin its world premiere with a pre-Broadway Chicago tryout. Tickets for the tryout went on sale on 14 February 2014. Previews for the Chicago run of the show began on 10 June 2014 at the Bank of America Theatre, the show opened on 25 June 2014, and played for 33 days total until 13 July 2014.

Following completion of the tryout in Chicago, The Last Ship transferred to the Neil Simon Theatre on Broadway in New York. Previews started playing at the Neil Simon Theater on 29 September 2014, and the official opening night was 26 October 2014. Sting joined the cast on stage during the curtain call on opening night. Celebrities including Billy Joel, Robert De Niro and Liam Neeson were in attendance. In a bid to help falling ticket sales, creator and musician Sting joined the cast for a limited run from 9 December 2014 to 24 January 2015, replacing Jimmy Nail.

Despite sales increasing with Sting in the cast and producers stating he had had a "galvanising effect", the decision was made to close the show on 24 January 2015.

Salt Lake City
The Last Ship was produced in Salt Lake City, Utah at the Roy W. and Elizabeth E. Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre at the University of Utah campus from 16 September 2016 through 1 October 2016, making its regional premiere in Salt Lake City in the first production after its Broadway run.

On 22 September, Sting joined the cast at the curtain call of that evening's performance, After a standing ovation, Sting thanked the "amazing cast" and said it was "surreal" to see the story of his English shipbuilding home transported to the middle of Utah.

"I loved the reaction," he said. "I loved sitting among you all and hearing you laugh and hearing you cry."

Turku, Finland
A new (non-replica) production of The Last Ship (fin. Viimeinen Laiva) opened in Turku, Finland, on 15 September 2017 at Turku City Theatre. The full show was performed in the Finnish language. Turku is a very famous shipbuilding city in Finland. One of the world's biggest cruise ships, the Royal Caribbean Oasis of the Seas, was built at the Turku shipyard.

United Kingdom and Ireland

In October 2017, it was announced The Last Ship would be embark on a UK and Ireland tour, beginning at Northern Stage in Newcastle upon Tyne 12 March 2018, closing 7 July 2018 at Lyric Theatre, part of The Lowry in Salford. The production features a new book by director Lorne Campbell. Notable casting included Joe McGann as Jackie White, Richard Fleeshman as Gideon Fletcher, Charlie Hardwick as Peggy White and Francess McNamee as Meg Dawson. Jimmy Nail had been due to reprise the role he created on Broadway of Jackie White, however negotiations stalled and his offer to perform on the tour was withdrawn.

Toronto
The show ran in Toronto, Ontario, at the Princess of Wales Theatre between 9 February and 24 March 2019. The production featured a new cast, including Sting as Jackie White.

US tour
The US tour of The Last Ship debuted on January 22 at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles. The musical then moved to San Francisco, opening on February 25 at the Golden Gate Theatre. The US tour, however, was then suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The tour was scheduled to stop in  Washington, DC, Minneapolis, and Detroit through April 2020.

Germany
The Theatre of West Pomerania and Theater Koblenz rescheduled their productions of The Last Ship in 2021 after the 2020 versions were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Theatre Lübeck had Premiere of their production, fully in German on the 11th of February 2022.

Awards

References

External links

2014 musicals
Broadway musicals
Musicals inspired by real-life events
Original musicals
Musicals set in the 20th century
Musicals set in England
Sting (musician)
Wallsend


title: Christian Friedrich von Leins

text:
Christian Friedrich von Leins (22 November 1814 in Stuttgart – 25 August 1892 in Stuttgart) was a German architect.

Life
He was the son of masonry foreman. Until 1837, Leins attended the Friedrich-Eugens-Gymnasium in Stuttgart, then served an apprenticeship at a local architectural firm. From 1837 to 1840, he lived in Paris, where he found employment with Henri Labrouste, while he received training from Eugène Flachat and Jules Petiet. Upon returning home, he passed the state exam for structural engineering.

He made trips to Bavaria and Austria in 1843, to study the Medieval and Renaissance architecture there. His work on a new building for the Russian Legation impressed the Crown Prince, so Leins was contracted to design the "Villa Berg", a new royal residence. In 1846, he accompanied the Prince's entourage to Palermo, seeking inspiration from the structures there. In 1853, he undertook another study trip to Italy, Spain and North Africa with Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer and Theodor Horschelt.

In 1858, he became a professor at the Technical University (now part of the University of Stuttgart). From 1870 to 1872 and again from 1878 to 1880, he was the head of the managing committee and served as a member of the first permanent Governing Board from 1881 until his death.
Over his career, he was involved in the construction, restoration or expansion of over 100 Protestant churches

In 1872, he was awarded the Knight's Cross, First Class of the Order of the Crown (Württemberg), which conferred a title of nobility. His personal papers and original drawings are preserved in the Stuttgart University Library.

Major projects
 1845–1853: "Villa Berg" (Summer Home of the Crown Prince Karl and his wife, Olga)
 1857–1859: "Königsbau" (Festival hall and bazaar) in Stuttgart, Schlossplatz (together with Johann Michael Knapp)
 1865: Evangelical Petruskirche in Wurmberg
 1865–1876: Johanneskirche in Stuttgart by the Feuersee (severely damaged in World War II and partially restored)
 1875: "Liederhalle" in Stuttgart (destroyed in World War II)
 1876–1877: Church in Saulgau
 1879: Göppingen Synagogue (destroyed in 1938)
 1879–1883: Evangelical Stadtkirche in Weingarten (Württemberg)
 1884–1886: Martinskirche in Ohmenhausen (Reutlingen)
 1884–1886: Evangelical Kirche-St.Gallus in Böhringen (Römerstein)

References

Further reading
 E. J. Zeller: Stuttgart’s Privat-Gebäude von 1806 bis 1844, Stuttgart 1845–1846, Lieferung 2, Tafel 7–8.

External links

1814 births
1892 deaths
19th-century German architects
Architects from Stuttgart


title: The World Is Waking

text:
The World Is Waking is the second studio EP and third overall by Christian band Unspoken, released on June 25, 2013 by Centricity Music. It received commercial success and garnered positive reception.

Critical reception

The World Is Waking garnered generally positive reception from music critics. At HM, Justin Croteau rated the album three-and-a-half stars out of five, noting the release as "a slow album, but that doesn’t mean it’s lacking", and the release "stands out [...] by adding exciting new elements to otherwise familiar Christian Contemporary (CCM) styles." Barry Westman of Worship Leader rated the album four-and-a-half stars out of five, writing that "The flow of this album is smooth, thematically and musically, with no bumps along the way", but it is "not as helpful to worship leaders". At CCM Magazine, Matt Conner rated the album three stars out of five, stating that the release contains "smart pop production".

At New Release Tuesday, Dawn Teresa rated the album four stars out of five, saying that this is "an energetic, solid record rooted in God’s word", which comes with "personal yet relatable lyrics [that] are delivered with a passion that ensures these songs will resonate in the listener’s heart." The Phantom Tollbooth's Michael Dalton rated the album three-and-a-half tocks, writing that the release "make the tree good; the songs are the good fruit." At Jesus Freak Hideout, Jen Rose rated the album three stars out of five, noting that "The World is Waking is tight and catchy, and every song shows enough hints of diversity to keep the record from becoming stale. In that sense, it's a step in the right direction."

At Indie Vision Music, Jonathan Andre rated the album three stars out of five, calling this an "emotional and enjoyable album". Ken Wiegman of Alpha Omega News graded the album a B+, stating that this "is an accessible album that is both pleasing to the ears and rich in content." In addition, Wiegman notes that "For starters, there is the sonic hook, the slight Latin-twist to the vocals and the sensible pop soundtrack, but then more importantly, there is the deeply meaningful worship that’s easy to connect with." At Christian Music Zine, Joshua Andre rated the album four-and-a-fourth stars out of five, indicating that "The World Is Waking is as sound, grounded and  honest and relevant lyrics" as any he listened to in 2013.

Commercial performance
For the Billboard charting week of July 13, 2013, The World Is Waking was the No. 42 most sold album on the Christian Albums chart.

Track listing

Charts

References

2013 EPs
Centricity Music albums


title: Isocoma azteca

text:
Isocoma azteca, common names Apache jimmyweed or Aztec goldenbush, is a plant species native to Arizona and New Mexico. It grows on sandy to clay soils, often with Atriplex sp., at elevations of .

Isocoma azteca is a shrub or subshrub up to  tall. Herbage is glabrous or with scattered stipitate glands but not resinous. Leaves are narrow, oblong to oblanceolate, up to  long, deeply lobed. Flowers are yellow with dark orange veins, 18-25 disc flowers per head.

References

azteca
Flora of Arizona
Flora of New Mexico
Plants described in 1991


title: 2014 Rio Open – Men's singles

text:
This was the first edition of the tournament.
Rafael Nadal won his 62nd tour-level title, defeating Alexandr Dolgopolov in the final, 6–3, 7-6(3).

Seeds

Draw

Finals

Section top half

Section bottom half

Qualifying

Seeds

 Stéphane Robert (qualifying competition)
 Martin Kližan (qualified)
 Dušan Lajović (qualified)
 Aljaž Bedene (qualified)
 Andreas Haider-Maurer (first round)
 Facundo Argüello (first round)
 Diego Sebastián Schwartzman (qualifying competition)
 Pere Riba (first round)

Qualifiers

Qualifying draw

First qualifier

Second qualifier

Third qualifier

Fourth qualifier

References
 Main Draw
 Qualifying Draw

Rio Open - Men's Singles
Rio
Rio Open


title: Brisbane Heritage Register

text:
The Brisbane Heritage Register is a heritage register containing a list of culturally-significant places within the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Under Section 113 of the Queensland Heritage Act 1992, all local government authorities in Queensland must maintain a local heritage register.

Criteria
Listings on the Brisbane Heritage Register are made on the recommendation of the council's architects and historians in consultation with the Heritage Advisory Committee.

Places on the heritage register must satisfy one or more of these criteria:
 illustrates the evolution or pattern in local history
 has rare, uncommon or endangered aspects of cultural heritage
 aids the knowledge and understanding of local history
 illustrates the important characteristics of a particular class cultural places
 has aesthetic significance
 was very creative or technologically advanced for its period
 has special links to a particular community or cultural group
 has special links to a significant local historical person or organisation

See also
:Category:Brisbane Local Heritage Register for list of sites on the Brisbane Heritage Register with Wikipedia articles

References

External links

 Search the Brisbane Heritage Register

Local heritage registers in Queensland
Culture of Brisbane


title: Baka (prince)

text:
Baka is the name of an ancient Egyptian prince. He is known for his destroyed statuette. He is also the subject of a theory that claims he was pharaoh of Egypt for a very short time. Thus, he might be identical to a scarcely known king named Bikheris.

Identity
Baka was a prince and son of pharaoh Djedefre. He lived and worked during the 4th Dynasty. His family life is unknown, and the names of his wives and children are lost. Since the names of three other sons of Djedefre, namely Setka, Harnit and Nykau-Djedefre, are archaeologically attested, these should be Baka's brothers or half-brothers. The daughters of Djedefre, Hetepheres III and Neferhetepes, would be Baka's sisters or half-sisters. His mother is unknown, too. She could be one of Djedefre's wives, Khentetka or Hetepheres II, but this is highly uncertain.

Possible reign as pharaoh
According to Rainer Stadelmann and George Reisner, it is possible that Baka was pharaoh in Egypt for a very short time (maybe one or two years). Their assumption is based on the so-called Unfinished Northern Pyramid of Zawyet el'Aryan, which is located at Zawyet el'Aryan. This unfinished pyramid shaft was abandoned shortly after being started and only a dozen of workmen's inscriptions in black ink were found. These provide a royal cartouche name, which remains partially illegible. The first sign can be identified as a Ka-sign, but the first (and former) sign was copied by the pyramid excavator so fuzzily that it remains undecipherable. According to Stadelmann and Reisner, the first sign shows a walking ram, as it does in the birth name of the prince. Baka simply put his citizen name into a royal cartouche due to his lifetime, but then the name was changed after his death into Bakarê ("soul and Ka of Râ"). In ancient Greek chronics Baka's name was hellenized into Bikheris. For this reason, the unfinished tomb shaft at Zawyet el'Aryan is also called the "Pyramid of Bikheris".

This theory is not commonly accepted, though. Aidan Dodson is convinced of the depiction of a sitting Seth-animal, reading the royal name as Seth-Ka ("Seth is mine Ka"). In this case, Setka had actually followed his father onto the throne.

References

Pharaohs of the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt
Princes of the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt
Djedefre


title: Kohei Kudo (snowboarder)

text:
is a Japanese snowboarder. He has represented Japan at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

References

1990 births
Snowboarders at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Living people
Olympic snowboarders for Japan
Japanese male snowboarders
Sportspeople from Sapporo
21st-century Japanese people


title: Logie Award for Most Popular Lifestyle Program

text:
The Logie for Most Popular Lifestyle Program is a Silver Logie award presented annually at the annual Australian Logie Awards. The award recognises the popularity of an Australian lifestyle program or series giving expert advice on lifestyle matters.

It was first awarded at the 32nd Annual TV Week Logie Awards ceremony, held in 1990 and originally called Most Popular Lifestyle Program.  It was briefly renamed Best Lifestyle Program. From 2018, the award category name was reverted to Most Popular Lifestyle Program.

The winner and nominees of Most Popular Lifestyle Program are chosen by the public through an online voting survey on the TV Week website. Better Homes and Gardens holds the record for the most wins, with twelve, followed by Burke's Backyard and Backyard Blitz with six wins each.

Winners and nominees

Multiple wins

References

External links

Awards established in 1990


title: Arbër Çyrbja

text:
Arbër Çyrbja (born 18 September 1993) is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder.

Club career
Born in Shijak, Çyrbja started his career with Teuta Durrës, where in 2011 he joined the under-19 side and scored 7 goals in 19 games as a right midfielder during the 2011–12 season. During the second half of the season he was invited to train with the senior side and was included in the senior team's Albanian Cup side.

He joined Albanian Second Division side Erzeni in September 2014 where he played 9 games and scored twice before moving back to the Albanian Superliga with Elbasani in January 2015.

Çyrbja returned to his boyhood club Teuta Durrës in July 2015 after only half season at Elbasani. He served as captain in the 2017–18 season, in which he played 34 league games and scored 7 goals, a new personal best.

On 23 June 2018, Kukësi announced to have signed Çyrbja ona two-year deal for a reported fee of €50,000. He deal also included an additional €50,000 to Teuta Durrës if Kukësi manages to sell the player to a foreign club.

International career
A former Albania youth international, Çyrbja has represented under-17 side, making two appearances.

Career statistics

Honours

Club
Kukësi
Albanian Cup: 2018–19

Teuta Durrës
Albanian Cup: 2019–20

References

External links

1993 births
Living people
People from Shijak
Sportspeople from Durrës County
Albanian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
KF Teuta Durrës players
KF Erzeni players
KF Elbasani players
FK Kukësi players
Kategoria Superiore players
Kategoria e Dytë players


title: Li Shuang (snowboarder)

text:
Li Shuang (;  ; born 27 June 1992) is a Chinese snowboarder. She represented China at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

References

External links

1992 births
Living people
Chinese female snowboarders
Snowboarders at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Snowboarders at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Olympic snowboarders for China
Snowboarders at the 2017 Asian Winter Games
Universiade medalists in snowboarding
FISU World University Games gold medalists for China
Competitors at the 2011 Winter Universiade
21st-century Chinese women


title: Let's Dance (German season 7)

text:
The seventh season of Let's Dance began on 28 March 2014. Sylvie Meis and Daniel Hartwich returned as hosts. Motsi Mabuse, Joachim Llambi and Jorge Gonzalez returned as judges. For the first time, all judges return to the judging panel in the same constellation.

Couples

Judges scores

Red numbers indicates the lowest score for each week.
Green numbers indicates the highest score for each week.
 indicates the couple eliminated that week.
 indicates the returning couple that finished in the bottom two/three.
 indicates the winning couple.
 indicates the runner-up couple.
 indicates the third-place couple.

Averages
This table only counts for dances scored on a traditional 30-points scale.

Highest and lowest scoring performances
The best and worst performances in each dance according to the judges' marks are as follows:

Couples' Highest and lowest scoring performances
According to the traditional 30-point scale.

Weekly scores and songs
Unless indicated otherwise, individual judges scores in the charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Jorge Gonzalez, Motsi Mabuse and Joachim Llambi.

Week 1

Running order

Week 2

Running order

Week 3

Running order

Week 4

Running order

Week 5

Running order

Week 6 "Movie Night"

Running order

Week 7

Running order

Week 8

Running order

Week 9

Running order

Dance Chart

 Week 1: Cha-Cha-Cha, Waltz or Quickstep
 Week 2: Jive, Foxtrot or Contemporary
 Week 3: One unlearned dance (including Paso Doble and Rumba)
 Week 4: Bollywood, Charleston or Hip-Hop and Disco
 Week 5: One unlearned dance (including Tango and Samba) and Team Dance
 Week 6: Two unlearned dances
 Week 7: One unlearned dance and Freestyle
 Week 8: Two unlearned dances and Cha-Cha Dance-off
 Week 9: Final unlearned dance, Favorite dance and Freestyle

 Highest scoring dance
 Lowest scoring dance
 Danced, but not scored

Call-out order
The table below lists the order in which the contestants' fates were revealed. The order of the safe couples doesn't reflect the viewer voting results.

 This couple came in first place with the judges.
 This couple came in last place with the judges.
 This couple was eliminated.
 This couple came in last place with the judges and was eliminated.

Let's Dance (German TV series)
2014 German television seasons


title: Ndwa'ngith language

text:
Ndwa'ngith was apparently an Australian language once spoken in the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland.  It is undocumented, without even word lists to record it.

Sutton (2001) distinguishes Ndwa'ngith from the similar-sounding Northern Paman languages Ndra'ngith, Ndrangith, and Ntrwa'ngayth.

References

Extinct languages of Queensland
Northern Paman languages
Unclassified languages of Australia


title: 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 200 metre freestyle

text:
The men's 200 metre freestyle competition at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 25–26 at the Yokohama International Swimming Pool.  The last champion was Ian Thorpe of Australia.

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in freestyle.

Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:

Results
All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats
The first round was held on August 25.

Semifinals
The semifinals were held on August 25.

Final
The final was held on August 26.

References

2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships


title: HMS Dauphin Royal (1796)

text:
HMS Dauphin Royal was a schooner of eight or ten guns that the Royal Navy purchased in 1796 in the West Indies. On 18 October 1796 she and  brought into Môle-Saint-Nicolas a small French privateer schooner, the Capitaine Generoux, of one gun, three swivel guns, and 25 men. Capitaine Generoux, of Santo Domingo, was two days out of Aux Cayes and had captured nothing. When Admiral Duckworth took command of the Leeward Island station in mid-1800, Dauphin Royal was listed among the vessels coming under his command. She was still listed as being on the station in 1801.

Citations

References

Schooners of the Royal Navy


title: Samir Sahiti

text:
Samir Sahiti (born 15 August 1988) is an Albanian professional footballer who plays for KF Trepça'89 in the Football Superleague of Kosovo.

References

External links

1988 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Mitrovica, Kosovo
Men's association football midfielders
Men's association football defenders
Kosovan men's footballers
KF Trepça '89 players
KF Trepça players
KF Hysi players
KF Renova players
KF Drenica players
FC Ferizaj players
KF Skënderbeu Korçë players
KF Bylis players
KF Vëllaznimi players
KF Flamurtari players
Football Superleague of Kosovo players
Macedonian First Football League players
Kategoria Superiore players
Kosovan expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in North Macedonia
Kosovan expatriate sportspeople in North Macedonia
Expatriate men's footballers in Albania
Kosovan expatriate sportspeople in Albania


title: Vasileostrovsky

text:
Vasileostrovsky (masculine), Vasileostrovskaya (feminine), or Vasileostrovskoye (neuter) may refer to:
Vasileostrovsky District, a district of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia
Vasileostrovsky tram depot, the oldest tram depot in St. Petersburg, Russia
Vasileostrovskaya, a station of the St. Petersburg Metro, St. Petersburg, Russia


title: Dingač (wine)

text:
Dingač is a Croatian premium quality red wine produced of the plavac mali crni grape variety in a limited homonymous area of the Pelješac sub-region of the Middle and South Dalmatia wine growing region.

At about 60ha of the locality Dingač it is possible to produce 2.000 to 3.000 hl a year of the premium wine dingač.

The wine has a dark red to purple - dark red color with blue reflections, it is harmonious  and full, pleasantly bitterish and astringent. The fragrance and particularly bouquet are marked and unique to that wine. Owing to the presence of dry berries in the grapes of plavac mali crni, in some years the ethanol content is so high that reaches the highest possible values the wine-making yeasts can produce in the natural way. Sometimes the fermentation may halt leaving in the wine some residual sugar, so two wine types are possible - dry and semi-dry.

Dingač is classified as the highest standard recognized by the Croatian law - "Vrhunsko Vino" ("Premium Quality Wine"). It was the first wine protected as "Premium Quality" (1965). The one of Dingač's production pioneers is family Violić.

References

Croatian wines


title: András Tibor Horváth

text:
András Tibor Horváth (born 22 March 1964) is a Hungarian politician, member of the National Assembly from the Hungarian Socialist Party's Fejér County Regional List from 2010 to 2014.

Horváth joined MSZP in 1990 and functioned as chairman of the party's Fejér County branch from 2001 to 2002 and since 2006. He served as Socialist group leader of the General Assembly of Fejér County between 2006 and 2010. Horváth was a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture between 14 May and 1 June 2010. He was appointed a member of the Committee on Sport and Tourism on 14 May 2010.

References

1964 births
Living people
Hungarian Socialist Party politicians
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2010–2014)
Politicians from Budapest