title: World War I Aeroplanes Fokker D.VII

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The World War I Aeroplanes Fokker D.VII is an American homebuilt aircraft that was designed by Herbert Kelley and produced by World War I Aeroplanes Inc of Poughkeepsie, New York. When it was available the aircraft was supplied in the form of plans for amateur construction. The aircraft is a replica of the First World War Fokker D.VII fighter aircraft.

Design and development
The Fokker D.VII features a cantilever strut-braced biplane, a single-seat open cockpit, fixed conventional landing gear with a tailskid and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft fuselage is made from welded steel tubing with the wings constructed from wood, all covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its biplane wing configuration has a span of . The acceptable power range is  and the standard engine used is a  Mercedes-Benz powerplant.

The aircraft has a typical empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of .

Specifications (Fokker D.VII)

References

Fokker D.VII
1990s United States sport aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
Homebuilt aircraft
Replica aircraft


title: Yampil, Donetsk Oblast

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Yampil (; ) is an urban-type settlement in Lyman urban hromada, Kramatorsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. It is located to the southeast of Lyman, lying north of local road T05-13. Previously, it was administered as part of Lyman Raion. It is also home to Yampil railway station. Population:

History
On June 19, 2014, Ukrainian forces reportedly secured the settlement from pro-Russian separatists during the war in Donbas.

On April 28, 2022 the town was occupied by Russia as part of its invasion of Ukraine during the battle of Donbas. On September 30, the town was liberated by Ukrainian forces.

References

Urban-type settlements in Kramatorsk Raion
Lyman urban hromada


title: Nicholas Wachira

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Nicholas Wachira (born 19 November 1982) is a Kenyan former middle-distance runner who competed mostly in the 800 metres. He represented his country at the 2001 and 2003 World Championships reaching semifinals at both occasions. In addition, he won gold medals at the 1999 World Youth and 2000 World Junior Championships.

Competition record

Personal bests
Outdoor
400 metres – 47.93 (Bydgoszcz 1999)
800 metres – 1:44.34 (Nairobi 2003)
1000 metres – 2:18.13 (Nice 2001)
1500 metres – 3:38.44 (Zürich 2004)
Indoor
800 metres – 1:47.37 (Stuttgart 2003)
1000 metres – 2:23.64 (Boston 2004)

References

1982 births
Living people
Kenyan male middle-distance runners
World Athletics Championships athletes for Kenya


title: Jim George (author)

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Jim George was an American author. He has co-authored several works with his wife Elizabeth George. He is a two-time finalist for the Gold Medallion Book Award.

Early life
George was born in Columbus, Kansas on May 14, 1943, to Preston George and Lois Onesti.

George graduated from The University of Oklahoma in 1966 with a Bachelor of Pharmacy. He earned his Master of Divinity from Talbot School of Theology in the late 1970s. He received his Master of Theology from Talbot School of Theology in the early 1980s.

In 1966, Jim joined the United States Army Reserve as a Combat Medic private. He retired from the US Army Reserves as a major in medical service corps in 1999.
George also worked as a pharmacist in Westwood, Los Angeles at Wadsworth Veterans Affairs Hospital.

Publications
George released his first book, A Man After God's Own Heart, in 2002. For several of Jim's publications, he later wrote study guides and devotionals.

Works

Personal life
In 1965, Jim married Elizabeth White in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. The couple met while attending The University of Oklahoma. Elizabeth is an author, speaker, and woman's Bible teacher. They have two children.

References

External links
Jim George Homepage
Author Profile on Harvest House Website
Jim George Facebook

1943 births
Living people
20th-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American businesspeople
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American male non-fiction writers
American self-help writers
Christian novelists
Pentecostal writers
University of Oklahoma alumni


title: Sycacantha nereidopa

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Sycacantha nereidopa is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya and Uganda.

The larvae feed on the fruit of Coffea species, including Coffea arabica.

References

Moths described in 1927
Olethreutini
Sycacantha


title: Huma (company)

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Huma (previously known as Medopad) is a British healthcare technology company based in London, UK. It produces applications that integrate health data from existing hospital databases as well as patient wearables and other mobile devices and securely transmits it for use by doctors.

Company
In April 2020, Medopad (as it was previously known) rebranded as Huma after acquiring BioBeats and Tarilian Laser Technologies, both British healthtech companies. The company's focus shifted from remote monitoring of patients with rare and chronic diseases towards gathering biological data for use in preventative healthcare. The company also announced that it had appointed Alan Milburn as its first chairperson.

Products

Enterprise
Medopad allows hospitals to pool their patient data into a single platform so it can be served to doctors' mobile devices in real-time. Healthcare professionals can securely access lab results, images, clinical notes, and primary care data via iPads and other mobile devices. In November 2013, Medopad became the first enterprise-class mobile health information system to receive CE approval.

Some of the clinical applications that Medopad include editing patient records by voice recognition or typing, scheduling, lab results, image viewing including X-rays and CT scans, electronic support documents, taking and sending photos, video conferencing, primary records, transmitting real-time vital signs, collecting and managing demographic and contact details, Apple HealthKit integration, and arbitrage system to sort and prioritise patients, hospital admission, and access to more third party applications integrated into Medopad through the Clinical App Store.

Medopad's pricing structure takes the form of an annual software as a service license fee in the UK. In June 2014, it was reported that Medopad would cost hospitals between £50 and £90 per month per user to license. Carl Reynolds, head of Open Health Care UK told New Scientist that an open system that worked on multiple devices would be preferential to Medopad, as it would avoid locking hospitals into a single system.

In January 2018, Medopad joined UK Prime Minister Theresa May on her trade mission to China meeting general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping.  During the trip it announced over £100m of commercial contracts with major Chinese and international organisations including China Resources and Peking University.

Cancer
In April 2015, Medopad launched a chemotherapy application for monitoring cancer patients designed specifically for the Apple Watch.

Investors
Some of Medopad's institutional investors are Healthbox and Sandbox Industries. Lord Howard Flight and Tony Brown, Non-Executive Director of the NHS both invested individually, as did entrepreneur and investor Tom Chapman.

References

Further reading

External links

Big data companies
Software companies based in London
Medical technology companies of the United Kingdom
Electronic health record software companies


title: Rosy Thomas

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Rosy Thomas  (1927–2009) was an Indian writer of Malayalam literature.

Biography
She was born in 1927 in Kerala. She was the daughter of Mary Paul and literary critic M. P. Paul. She married Malayalam playwright and literary critic C. J. Thomas, but was widowed at the age of 31. Her best known work is a memoir on her husband C. J. Thomas, Ivan Ente Priya C. J. She died on 6 December 2009 .

Selected works
Ivan ente priya C. J. (Biography)
Urangunna Simham (Memoir on M. P. Paul)
Annie (Novel)
Jalakakkazhcha (Essays)
Malavellam
Amerikkayil oru malayalippennu (Travelogue)

Translations
Boccaccio
Animal Farm
So Many Hungers

References

Malayalam-language writers
Women writers from Kerala
1927 births
2009 deaths
Indian memoirists
Indian women essayists
Indian women non-fiction writers
Indian women biographers
20th-century Indian biographers
Indian women novelists
20th-century Indian novelists
Indian women travel writers
Indian travel writers
Novelists from Kerala
20th-century Indian essayists
20th-century Indian women writers
Indian women memoirists
20th-century memoirists


title: South Australian Rally Championship

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2014 South Australian Rally Championship Calendar

*Robertstown Walky 100 was postponed due to flooding rain.
**Walky Stages

References
Results for Previous Events

Rally competitions in Australia


title: Aria Finger

text:
Aria Finger is the former CEO of DoSomething.org. She is currently the Chief of Staff to Reid Hoffman. She also co-hosts, along with Hoffman, the podcast Possible.

Background

Finger attended Washington University in St. Louis where she graduated magna cum laude in economics and political science in 2005.

Finger also serves as an adjunct professor of nonprofit business management at New York University.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American chief operating officers
New York University faculty
American women chief executives
American nonprofit chief executives
Washington University in St. Louis alumni


title: The Great God Pan (sculpture)

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The Great God Pan (cast 1898–1899) is a bronze sculpture by American sculptor George Grey Barnard. Since 1907, it has been a fixture of the Columbia University campus in Manhattan, New York City.

Description

The sculpture depicts the Greek god Pan, a half-man, half-goat deity associated with pastoral living, rustic music, and carnality. Barnard's Pan is mature and strongly muscled, with a long tangled beard, the ears and cloven hooves of a goat, but no horns or tail. He reclines lazily on his side atop a rock, playing his reed pipe and dangling one hoof over the edge of the rock.

The bronze sculpture is approximately  tall,  long, and  wide. It weighs . Its green granite base is  high,  long, and  wide.

The inscription on the back reads: "George Grey Barnard – Sculptor". The inscription on the right front corner reads: "Geo. Gray Barnard / Sc. 1899. Cast in one piece by / Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company / Founders New York 1899," and is accompanied by the founder's mark.

History
Barnard conceived the sculpture in 1894. Originally it was intended to be a fountain sculpture for the courtyard of The Dakota, a luxury apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Alfred Corning Clark, an heir to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune, was Barnard's most important early patron. Clark's father had built The Dakota, and bequeathed the building to Clark's teenage son Edward in 1882. Clark visited Paris in 1895 and commissioned Barnard to proceed with the larger-than-life-size sculpture, but it was never installed at The Dakota.

Alfred Corning Clark died unexpectedly at age 51 in April 1896. His family privately offered Pan to the city in November 1896, to be the centerpiece of a fountain in Central Park:
The "Pan," which was sketched in Paris, but executed in this country, the plaster cast forming part of the exhibit at Logerot Gardens, was ordered by Mr. Clark for the court of the Dakota flats; but convinced that this superb work of art should belong to the public, he directed his heirs to present it to the city, on the condition that it be placed in Central Park, the Clark estate paying all expenses of casting and erection.
The city's Art Commission approved acceptance of the gift, but the city's Parks Commission spent six months debating the suitability of the work and considering various Central Park locations before declining the Clark family's offer. The New York Evening Telegram published a June 10, 1897, cartoon entitled "The Two Orphans", which lampooned Barnard's Pan and Frederick William MacMonnies's Bacchante and Infant Faun, the latter having been rejected for the Boston Public Library the year before.

Edward Severin Clark, continuing his late father's support for Barnard's work, funded the casting of Pan in bronze and loaned the bronze cast to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and international expositions.

Bronze casting

Barnard wanted his plaster sculpture cast in bronze in a single piece—as opposed to assembled from separately-cast pieces—but could not find a French foundry willing to attempt it. French-born Eugene F. Aucaigne, manager of the Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company of Mount Vernon, New York, took on the challenge. Following months of preparation and construction of an extremely complex and heavy mold, Aucaigne oversaw the successful casting of Pan in bronze in August 1898. It was the largest bronze sculpture cast in a single piece in the United States at that time.

Barnard's plaster model for the sculpture's base featured a rock surrounded by reeds and cattails, with a standing crane to visually balance Pan's head. He also modeled Laughing Faun, a small mask to cover the water spouts around the sculpture's base. The idea of Pan as a fountain sculpture was abandoned following the Parks Commission's rejection; Barnard's base was never cast in bronze, and the faun masks were not used.

Barnard tried to manipulate the Parks Commission into reconsidering its rejection of Pan, presenting the sculpture's placement in Central Park as a fait accompli in a national magazine. When the commission balked at this, a boulder fronting on Central Park Lake was proposed as an alternative site. The commission dithered for four more years, before again rejecting Pan for Central Park.

Exhibitions
Barnard included the plaster cast of Pan in his first one-man exhibition, held in November 1898 under the glass roof of the Logerot Hotel winter garden, at Fifth Avenue and 18th Street in New York City.

The bronze Pan was loaned for a year to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, beginning in spring 1899.

Barnard exhibited Pan and Struggle of the Two Natures in Man at the Exposition Universelle in Paris from April to November 1900. The bronze Pan was installed outdoors along the Champs-Élysées, and the marble Two Natures inside the Petit Palais des Beaux-Arts. He was awarded a Gold Medal for the two sculptures.

Barnard exhibited Pan and Two Natures at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, from May to November 1901. The bronze Pan was installed in front of the art gallery and the marble Two Natures within the gallery. He was awarded a Gold Medal for the two sculptures.

In November 1902, the bronze Pan was among the four works shown by Barnard at the National Sculpture Society exhibition at Madison Square Garden, New York City.

The bronze Pan was exhibited at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, as part of an industrial display inside the Palace of Manufactures. The Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company was awarded a Gold Medal for its accomplishment in casting the sculpture, but Barnard was not recognized for Pan artistic merit.

The plaster cast of Pan was included in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's one-man exhibition of Barnard's work, November–December 1908.

Columbia University

Following the second rejection of Pan for Central Park, Edward Clark and his mother donated the bronze sculpture to Columbia College (now Columbia University). The sculpture was placed upon a green-granite Neoclassical base with three bronze lion-head water spouts for use as a fountain. Charles Follen McKim, of McKim, Meade & White, designed the architectural setting for Pan: a "D"-shaped granite fountain basin, circular pool, stepped platform, and exedra (curved stone bench). The Pan Fountain was installed in 1907 on The Green at Amsterdam Avenue and 120th Street, then the northeast corner of the campus.

The sculpture inspired a poem by Ralph Perry, editor of the 1916 yearbook, The Columbian:
To the Great God Pan

In 1959, to make way for construction of the Seeley W. Mudd Engineering Building, Columbia relocated the Pan statue and its granite base—but not its architectural setting and fountain—to Amsterdam Avenue and 119th Street. It was relocated again in 1963, to a courtyard between Fayerweather and Avery Halls. To make way for a 1975 expansion of Avery Hall, Pan was relocated to its current site: north of West 116th Street, between Lewisohn Hall and the Low Memorial Library.

Critical reception
In 1903, Lorado Taft wrote:

Having come home [following 12 years in Paris] with the avowed object of assisting in the development of a "national art," Mr. Barnard must have been rather bewildered to find himself promptly engaged upon a large statue of the "Great God Pan," intended to surmount a rustic fountain within the court of an apartment building. It never reached its destination, but was called higher, to the adornment of Central Park. In common with each of Mr. Barnard's works in turn, it has been pronounced "one of the strangest and most original things yet done by an American sculptor." Its whimsical novelty is as marked as the skill of its execution,—an execution no less cleverly adapted to bronze than most of Mr. Barnard's sculpture to stone. One wonders how he ever happened to make this monstrous creature. What inspiration could the sculptor of the "Two Natures" find in such a subject? Probably some moss-stained figure of classic Italy gave him the idea, and he overlooked its anachronism in his love of muscular modelling, and of nature in general, which Pan may still be permitted to typify. The subject is not very interesting, however; the head is too powerfully grotesque, and the misshapen legs are unpleasant. The transition of the latter from the human to the brutish form should have been made more plausible. Frémiet, with far less felicity of surface handling, could have made those legs convincing. The venerable master would have made us feel sure that if ever there had been such monstrosities, they must have been just as he saw fit to fashion them.

In 1908, J. Nilsen Laurvik wrote:
In the sculpture of Barnard, as in the work of Rodin, we see the vital, almost consuming energy that appears to bestir itself within the clay or marble as it flows out in the undulating, rhythmic movements of thews [sinews] and muscles, in the suggestions of the delicate yet withal powerful bony structure of the body under its finely drawn covering of soft flesh and smooth envelope of skin, as in the prostrate figure of the Two Natures, where the shoulder blades and the delicate ridge and furrow of the backbone are modeled with a supple, caressing, quivering touch as of life itself. This is no less true of his well-known bronze figure Pan, which adorns the northeastern corner of Columbia University campus. With the discerning, this lazy creature of infinite good nature has already become a sort of a classic in the art of our country—one of the very few so far, and one destined to remain incomparable for some time to come. In its suavity and suppleness of modeling it reveals Barnard's virtuosity in a striking manner. It has all the freedom and spontaneity of what we are pleased to term a "sketch" with the dignity and impressiveness of what we so often mistake for a "finished" composition. The modeling of the mobile features of the old god's luxuriant face, executed in eight final sweeps of the sculptor's two thumbs, is in itself a tour de force indicative of the man's perfect mastery of his medium. To say that he thinks and feels in clay would hardly be an exaggeration.

See also
 Greek mythology in western art and literature

Notes

References

External links

1907 establishments in New York City
1899 sculptures
Bronze sculptures in Manhattan
Columbia University campus
Ancient Greece in art and culture
Musical instruments in art
Nude sculptures in New York (state)
Outdoor sculptures in Manhattan
Relocated buildings and structures in New York City
Sculptures by George Grey Barnard
Sculptures of Pan (god)
Statues in New York City


title: Zyliss

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Zyliss is a Swiss manufacturer of kitchen utensils. Originally a private company, Zyliss is now a brand owned by DKSH, a Swiss holding company.

History
Zyliss was founded by trained bicycle mechanic, Karl Zysset (1907—1998) in 1951. The names Zyliss is based on a combination of the founder's surname and the town of Lyss, Switzerland where the first factory was established.

The company launched its first product, the onion chopper, with the slogan "Zig-Zig Zyliss".

Timeline
In 1982, the company was sold to two investors who in turn sold the operation in 1985 to the Diethelm Keller Holding Group, now DKSH.

In 2001, Zyliss partnered with the design firm, IDEO to develop a series of kitchen products that have gone on to see worldwide success.

In 2003, the company reduced its number of employees from 105 to 80 and the company's management announced that the production site of Zyliss would be relocated. After a protest in Switzerland the move was cancelled. Thirty staff of the fifty in the Swiss team moved to China during the mid-2000s. The headquarters were also moved to Zurich in December 2005.

In 2008, Zyliss partnered with global design firm, RKS Design, to develop a new brand language including the Red Dot-winning salad spinner.

In 2006, the company, Zyliss AG, was delisted and was consolidated into DKSH. Today, Zyliss is operated by DKB Household Switzerland AG, the household utensil subsidiary of DKSH. This subsidiary currently has 120 employees and in addition to Zyliss they also operate the brand Cole & Mason (salt & pepper grinders and herb and spice tools) and the appliance brands Koenig and Turmix.

Inventions
Three notable inventions have been developed by Zyliss including the "Susi" garlic press, the salad spinner, and an onion chopper. The Susi garlic press has an accompanying tool cleaner, and has been produced since the mid-20th century. The company also began creating the Zyliss vise (a home improvement tool) in the 1970s and has sold a slicing mandoline. The company has worked with IDEO on projects including the salad spinner, specifically on the aesthetic and visual components.

References

External links
Zyliss Switzerland
Zyliss United States
Kitchen Remodeling

Kitchenware brands
Home appliance brands
Food preparation utensils
Manufacturing companies based in Zürich
Manufacturing companies established in 1951


title: Ricky Andrew

text:
Ricky Andrew (born 2 December 1989) is a rugby union coach and former player. He played professionally at wing and Fullback for Ulster and Nottingham, was player/head coach for Spanish side CAU Rugby Valencia, and is currently a pathway coach with the Ulster academy.

A graduate of the Hughes Insurance Ulster Academy, he made his debut for Ulster in the 2011/12 season. Over the next three seasons he appeared in the Pro12 and Heineken Cup, before moving to Nottingham in the English Championship for the 2015-16 season. After that he spent some time playing and coaching for Rainey Old Boys in the All-Ireland League, before being appointed head coach at CAU Rugby Valencia in 2017. As of 2022 he is a pathway coach with the Ulster Rugby academy.

References

1989 births
Living people
Ulster Rugby players
Rugby union fullbacks
Rugby union wings
Rugby union players from Ballymena


title: Hugues Le Roux

text:
Robert Charles Henri Le Roux (1860–1925), known by the pen name Hugues Le Roux, was a French writer and journalist who wrote primarily about the French colonies and travel.

Early life
He was the son of Charles Clovis Le Roux and Henriette Gourgaud. Robert was a journalist for "La Revue Politique et Littéraire," "Le Temps," "Le Figaro," "Le Journal," and "Le Matin." In addition, Robert Charles wrote books and novels.

On 11 January 1920, he became a senator until his death on 14 November 1925. Earlier in his career, he was the private secretary of Alphonse Daudet. He had written for Daudet, "La belle Nivernaise" and "Tartarin sur les Alpes"

Work
 L'Attentat Sloughine, J. Lévy, Paris, 1885
 Médéric et Lisée, J. Lévy, Paris, 1887
 Le Frère lai, 1888
 Chez les filles, Victor Havard, 1888
 L'Enfer parisien, Victor-Havard, Paris, 1888
 Notre patron Alphonse Daudet, 1888
 Les jeux du cirque et la vie foraine, illustrations de Jules Garnier, Plon, 1889
 Le Chemin du crime, Paris, Harvard, 1889, 265 p.
 Les Larrons, G. Charpentier, Paris, 1890
 Les Fleurs à Paris, Quantin, Paris, 1890
 Au Sahara, Mar pon & Flammarion, 1891
 Portraits de cire, Paris, Lecene, oudin, 3e éd.,1891, 446 p. Souvenirs de Maupassant
 Tout pour l'honneur, C. Lévy, Paris, 1892
 Marins et soldats, C. Lévy, Paris, 1892
 Les mondains, Calmann Levy, 1893, 331 p.
 Gladys Paris, Calmann Lévy, 5e édition, 1894, 325 p.
 Je deviens colon. mœurs algériennes, 3e édition, Calmann-levy, 1895
 Notes sur la Norvège, C. Lévy, Paris, 1895
 "Le Festéjadou" recits du sud - calmann levy editeur 1895
 Ô mon passé...Mémoires d’un enfant, Calman Lévy, 1896
 Le maître de l’heure, Calmann-levy, 1897
 Les Amants byzantins, Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1897
 Nos filles. Qu’en ferons-nous? , Calmann Lévy, 1898.* Nos fils - Que feront-ils? 1899
 Gens de poudre, 1899
 L’attentat Sloughine, mœurs terroristes années 1890 à 1920, Paris, Ernest Flammarion, 1900
 Le Bilan du divorce, 1900
 Ménélik et nous, Paris, Librairie Nilsson, 1901,446 pp.
 Voyage au Ouallaga. Itinéraire d’Addis-Ababa au Nil bleu (avec une carte hors texte), dans le bulletin de la société de géographie, Masson, 1901
 Prisonniers marocains, l’épopée d’Afrique, Calmann-levy, 1903
 Chasses et gens d’Abyssinie, Calmann-levy , 1903
 Le Wyoming, 1904
 Ô mon passé, illustrations De J. Jamet. Paris, Ideal-Bibliothèque Pierre Lafitte Et Cie, 1910, 113 p.
 Au champ d’honneur, Plon, 1916
 Niger et Tchad, Mission Hugues Le Roux, Ministère des Affaires étrangères, 1918
 Te souviens-tu ?, Plon 1920

Theatre
 L'Instantané, vaudeville avec Gaston Arman de Caillavet, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens, octobre 1901

References

External links

Notices d'autorité : Fichier d'autorité international virtuel • Bibliothèque nationale de France • Système universitaire de documentation • Library of congress • Gemeinsame Normdatei • Base Léonore • WorldCat
Côte d'Ivoire : mission Hugues Le Roux, 1918 disponible sur Gallica

1860 births
1925 deaths
French journalists
French male non-fiction writers
French senators of the Third Republic


title: Endre Church

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Endre Church () is a medieval church in Endre on the Swedish island of Gotland, in the Diocese of Visby, built from the 12th to early 14th century. It contains medieval murals and several medieval furnishings, and belongs to the Church of Sweden.

History and architecture
The presently visible church was preceded by an older, Romanesque church. Of this church, only the tower, built in the 12th century and heightened in the 14th, remains. A few stone sculptures have also been re-used in the later church, e.g. one sculpture depicting a dragon and another a lion. These are now immured in the southern façade of the church. The rest of the church dates from the 13th century (the choir and sacristy) and the early 14th (the nave). The building material of the church is limestone.

Apart from the aforementioned Romanesque sculptures, the exterior of the church is also adorned with sculpted portals, both Romanesque and Gothic in style.

Internally, the church is decorated with medieval murals made by the artist known as the Master of the Passion of Christ in the middle of the 15th century. The paintings were uncovered during a renovation in 1915. The church also have several preserved stained glass window panes, one of only a few cases of medieval stained glass in Sweden still in its original location. The altarpiece is furthermore medieval, from the late 14th century, as is a preserved church tabernacle. The triumphal cross dates from circa 1300, and the baptismal font, possibly made by the artist Hegvald, is a Romanesque piece from the 12th century, richly decorated.

The church lies in a cemetery that is surrounded by a low limestone wall, in which a medieval lychgate still survives.

Endre Church belongs to the Church of Sweden and lies within the Diocese of Visby.

References

Further reading

External links

Official site (in Swedish)

Churches in Gotland County
Churches in the Diocese of Visby
12th-century churches in Sweden
Churches converted from the Roman Catholic Church to the Church of Sweden


title: Quentin Crewe

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Quentin Hugh Crewe (14 November 1926 – 14 November 1998) was an English journalist, author, restaurateur and adventurer. He wrote regularly for the Evening Standard, Queen magazine, the Daily Mail and Sunday Mirror, among others. Crewe travelled much of the world, writing 11 books on the subject of his journeys, biographies and cuisine, including an expedition to the "empty quarter" of Saudi Arabia. Crewe was co-proprietor of various restaurants, including the now-defunct Brasserie St. Quentin in Knightsbridge, London.

Early life

Crewe was born Quentin Hugh Dodds in 1926, the second son of Major (James) Hugh Hamilton Dodds, CMG, a career diplomat (amongst other postings, Consul-General at Nice), and Lady Annabel Crewe-Milnes, the daughter of the Marquess of Crewe. In 1945 his family changed their name to Crewe after his mother inherited what remained of Lord Crewe's estates. His older half-brother, Terence O'Neill, was a politician who served as the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland from 1963 to 1969.

Crewe was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy at age 6 and a doctor predicted he would be dead by 16 years old. He was not told this. His father was keen that he should be a sportsman, and tried to teach him to shoot, fence or ride, without any success. Crewe would regularly fall over.

During Crewe's early childhood, his father was British Consul in Sicily, before being transferred to the French Riviera when his friendship with Haile Selassie made it impossible to remain in Italy. With his parents living abroad, Quentin spent much of his childhood in the care of various relatives in England. He was educated at Eton, where he was expelled after copying a fire door key and secretly going to London for a day. He went on to Trinity College, Cambridge to study law and economics, but spent so much time partying that he was expelled for indolence. He was falling over so much that he took to walking with a stick, although he did achieve sporting success as a cox. Crewe's condition steadily deteriorated until he was using a wheelchair full-time by age 29.

Crewe was married three times: in 1956, to Martha Sharp, with whom he had a son and a daughter; in 1961, to Angela Huth, with whom he had a son and a daughter; and in 1970, to Sue Cavendish, with whom he had a son and a daughter.

Career

Crewe is credited with inventing the modern restaurant review, which is not only about the food but aims to entertain as well as inform. He notoriously described Wilton's restaurant on Jermyn Street as where the aristocracy were served nursery food by waitresses dressed as nannies.

Recognition

Crewe appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs twice, on 21 January 1984, and on 16 June 1996.

Books

 A Curse of Blossom: A year in Japan (1960)
 The Frontiers of Privilege. A Century of Social Conflict as reflected in The Queen (1961)
 Great Chefs of France: The Masters of Haute Cuisine and their Secrets, with Anthony Blake (1978)
 Quentin Crewe's International Pocket Food Book (1980)
 The Simon and Schuster International Pocket Food Guide (1980)
 In Search of the Sahara (1983)
 The Last Maharaja: A Biography of Sawai Man Singh Li, Maharaja of Jaipur (1985)
 Touch the Happy Isles: Journey Through the Caribbean (1987)
 In the Realms of Gold: Travels through South America (1989)
 Well, I Forget The Rest: The Autobiography of an Optimist (1991)
 Food from France (1993)
 Crewe House: The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia (1995)
 Letters from India (1998)

References

1926 births
1998 deaths
People educated at Eton College
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
English male journalists
People with muscular dystrophy
Daily Mail journalists
Daily Mirror people
Writers from London


title: Michel Disdier

text:
Michel Disdier (born 10 February 1974) is a French professional racing driver. He has raced motorcycles in Europe and stock cars in Canada and the United States, running in the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.

Racing career
Disdier first raced motorcycles in Europe, winning the French Moto-Cross Endurance 125cc Championship at age 16. In 1993, he won the Formula Ford B French title, and six years later, the Formula France Championship. After becoming an exchange student to the United States, with his host family living in North Carolina, a popular NASCAR state, Disdier became interested in stock car racing, and made his debut in the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series in 2007 in the NAPA Autopro 200 at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve for Trident Racing, finishing 29th. In 2008, Disdier joined Bowsher Motorsports to run in the ARCA Re/MAX Series, finishing 13th in his first race at Salem Speedway. The following year, Disdier was entered for ten races with Bowsher in the No. 21 Ford, running two in 2008 and the remaining eight in 2009. Disdier returned to ARCA in 2013 with Cunningham Motorsports at Daytona International Speedway, finishing 11th, a career-high.

In January 2014, Disdier was allowed by NASCAR to race on superspeedways, and tested in the Camping World Truck Series' Preseason Thunder at Daytona in the No. 07 of SS-Green Light Racing, splitting the truck with Jimmy Weller III and Todd Peck. He was later signed by the team to race in the season-opening NextEra Energy Resources 250 with SS-Green Light owner Bobby Dotter serving as spotter, making Disdier the first Frenchman to race in NASCAR since the 1970s. After starting 33rd, Disdier finished 24th, 17 laps behind race winner Kyle Busch. He returned to the team in 2016 for the Daytona race and avoided wrecks to finish 11th. He later joined Young's Motorsports in 2018 for a race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, in which he finished 19th.

Motorsports career results

NASCAR
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Camping World Truck Series

Canadian Tire Series

 Season still in progress
 Ineligible for series points

ARCA Racing Series
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

 Season still in progress
 Ineligible for series points

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External links

Living people
1974 births
Sportspeople from Nice
French racing drivers
Formula Ford drivers
ARCA Menards Series drivers
NASCAR drivers


title: Miri Yusif

text:
Mir Yusif Mir Heydar oglu Mirbabayev (, Мирјусиф Мирһејдәр оғлу Мирбабајев, born 27 October 1977), better known as Miri Yusif, is an Azerbaijani rapper, singer-songwriter. Miri Yusif first emerged as a hip hop artist, part of Dayirman, which released their debut album Qurd in 2001.

In 2010s, despite the commercial dominance of hip-hop during this period, he found success with his reggae and soul fusion album "Karma", peaked at number 1 in the Azerbaijani Albums Chart in 2010.

References

External links

1977 births
Living people
21st-century Azerbaijani male singers
Azerbaijani rappers
Azerbaijani singer-songwriters
Azerbaijani male singer-songwriters
Musicians from Baku


title: Sycacantha orphnogenes

text:
Sycacantha orphnogenes is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The larvae feed on Acanthus arboreus.

References

Moths described in 1939
Olethreutini
Sycacantha
Endemic fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo


Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (SMART) is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wichita State University covering both theoretical and practical aspects of teaching on the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The journal publishes articles on scholarly and pedagogical topics. The editor-in-chief is Kristie Bixby (Wichita State University) and the journal adheres to the guidelines in The Chicago Manual of Style.

History
The journal began as Ralph – A Newspaper for Undergraduate Teaching: Medieval and Renaissance Humanities, first published in 1974 at Kent State University, with Joanne Kantrowitz credited as the founding editor. Ralph moved to Central Missouri State University in 1977, and was edited by Robert Kindrick and Robert Graybill; Kindrick was to remain with the journal for decades, until his death in 2004. The name was changed to SMART in 1982. While until then it was published in newspaper format, in 1982 it changed to journal format, and came out three times a year. Between 1980 and 1990 the journal also published four volumes of selected papers under the title Teaching the Middle Ages; these papers were culled from four different "Teaching the Middle Ages Conferences".

In 1990, SMART moved again, this time to Indiana State University, and began to publish twice a year, with a new numbering (New Series). From 1993 to 1997 the journal was on hiatus, resuming publication at the University of Montana, and in 2002 moved (with Robert Kindrick) to Wichita State University.

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External links

Education journals
Academic journals established in 1974
1974 establishments in the United States
Wichita State University
University of Montana
Indiana State University
University of Central Missouri
Kent State University
Biannual journals
English-language journals


title: Sanedhip Bhimjee

text:
Sanedhip Bhimjee was a famous Kathak Dancer and Choreographer in Mauritius. He was born on 17 March 1970 in Madagascar and he started his career with modeling. He started learning Kathak since the age of 18 in Indira Gandhi Institute. He first appeared in the stage with Pramila Virahsawmy at Plaza Theatre in Rose Hill for the occasion of Gujarati festival in Mauritius. When Sanedhip saw Anna Patten dancing for the first time he was mesmerized and knew that a new dimension of kathak would flourish from both talents known as Mauritian Kathak. Sanedhip was  a very famous Kathak Dancer and Choreographer in Mauritius. His company, Art Academy Ltd, in Mauritius was previously run by himself and his partner Anna Patten.

Career

Below is a list of Shows that Sanedhip has choreographed and also participated as a Dancer:

 Shakti Yug (2005)
 Festival International Kreol (2007)  (as part of the Ministry of Tourism)
 Nayika au Plaza (2003)
 Katha’zz (2010)
 Sutra of the Lotus

References

1970 births
2014 deaths
Kathak exponents


title: Amazing Love

text:
Amazing Love may refer to:

Music

Albums
Amazing Love (Hillsong album), a 2002 album from Hillsong Church
Amazing Love (Graham Kendrick album), a 1990 Christian live album
Amazing Love, a 1973 album by Charley Pride
 Amazing Love, a 2005 album by Chris Jasper

Songs
"Amazing Love" (song), a 1973 song by Charley Pride
"Amazing Love", a 2002 song by Hillsong from Amazing Love
"Amazing Love", a 1990 song  by Graham Kendrick from Amazing Love
"Amazing Love", a 2004 song by  Michelle Williams from Do You Know
"Amazing Love", by Phil Perry
"Amazing Love", a 1959 song by Joe Williams
"You Are My King (Amazing Love)", a 2001 song by Phillips, Craig and Dean; also recorded by Newsboys

Other uses
Amazing Love: The Story of Hosea, a Christian film from Five & Two Pictures


title: Sycacantha regionalis

text:
Sycacantha regionalis is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

References

Moths described in 1934
Olethreutini
Sycacantha
Endemic fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo


title: Sycacantha penthrana

text:
Sycacantha penthrana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Uganda.

References

Endemic fauna of Uganda
Moths described in 1965
Olethreutini
Sycacantha


title: Argyroploce percnochlaena

text:
"Argyroploce" percnochlaena is a species of moth of the  family Tortricidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

References

Moths described in 1938
Olethreutini
Endemic fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo


title: Rupert Raj

text:
Rupert Raj (born 1952) is a Canadian trans activist and a transgender man. His work since his own gender transition in 1971 has been recognized by several awards, as well as his inclusion in the National Portrait Collection of The ArQuives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives.

Personal life
Raj was born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1952. His father was East Indian and his mother Polish; they met in Stockholm where Raj's father, Amal Chandra Ghosh, worked as a nuclear physicist. After the birth of their first child, the family moved to Ottawa, Canada, where Amal took up a position as a professor of physics at Carleton University. Both parents were killed in a car accident in August 1968, when Raj was sixteen, and the five children (three brothers and one sister) moved into four different homes until they respectively reached 18 or 21 years of age.

In 1971, at age 19, Raj scheduled an appointment with the Harry Benjamin Foundation's endocrinologist, Dr. Charles Ihlenfeld. Since Raj was not yet 21, the age of majority in New York, his older brother provided consent. Dr. Ihlenfeld examined Raj and administered his first shot of testosterone.

Raj graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Carleton University in 1975, and moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, following two friends, both trans women activists who had been involved in the Association of Canadian Transsexuals (A.C.T.) in Toronto. Raj continued his activism by starting a petition to get Ontario to cover sex-reassignment surgery through the provincial health insurance plan, OHIP—an effort that was unsuccessful at the time.

In May 1977, Raj moved with his partner (a pansexual trans man) and the partner's two children to Calgary, Alberta, because they had learned that surgeons at the Foothills Hospital, in affiliation with the University of Calgary's gender clinic were performing phalloplasties for female-to-male (FTM) transsexuals. While they were both approved for phalloplasty, neither of them had the surgery at that time; at only 100 pounds, the surgeons concluded that Raj did not have enough tissue to work with. Raj did, however, undergo the panhysterectomy at this time. After waiting for another 34 years, he finally underwent "bottom surgery" (not phalloplasty, but metoidioplasty) in Montreal, Quebec in 2012 at age 60.

Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Transsexuals and Gender Review

In January 1978, Raj started an organization for trans people (including trans men and women, as well as cross-dressers), the Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Transsexuals (FACT); the organization's newsletter was Gender Review: A FACTual Journal. FACT continued some of the earlier work of the ACT. The first issue of Gender Review was published in June 1978 and included a story on “Transsexual Oppression” concerning Montrealer Inge Stephens; information about transsexual resources; a listing of publications by Dr. Harry Benjamin and Dr. Charles L. Ihlenfeld; a bibliography of books and articles by and about trans people; and news items about Mario Martino, trans woman Canary Conn's appearance on the Phil Donahue show, and other notices. Raj moved back to Ottawa and then to Toronto in the following years, but continued to edit the journal until February 1982.

In December 1981 Raj decided to focus on the unique, specific needs of trans men. At the time, there were very few trans advocacy groups for trans men in particular. Raj's work, based in Toronto, Canada, joined that of Mario and Becky Martino's Labyrinth Foundation's Counseling Services (Yonkers, NY); Johnny A's F2M (meetings in New York, NY; Rites of Passage newsletter out of Tenafly, NJ); Jude Patton's Renaissance group in Santa Ana, CA; and Jeff S.’s group in Southern California. Raj resigned from his role at both FACT and Gender Review, and both were taken over by Susan Huxford, a trans woman from Hamilton, ON with whom Raj had begun working in late 1979.

Metamorphosis Medical Research Foundation and Metamorphosis Magazine

Raj had planned to partner with Mario Martino (also known as Angelo Tornabene) in Yonkers, NY to research, develop, and market a penile prosthetic device as an alternative to phalloplasty. It was for this reason that Raj named the new organization the Metamorphosis Medical Research Foundation (MMRF). At the same time, however, Raj wanted to provide support for other trans men, and serve as an information broker between the medical/psychological community and trans men and their loved ones. Beginning in 1979 and through the MMRF years, Raj was also an active correspondent with Lou Sullivan, and Raj’s friendship and activism played an important role in Sullivan’s later work in founding the San Francisco-based support and education group “FTM” in 1986.

Consequently, Raj founded the bi-monthly magazine Metamorphosis (February 1982  February 1988). The magazine promised information on various aspects of trans men written by Raj and others, clinical research, hormones, surgery, tips to effectively passing as male in public, and legal reform for trans people. Metamorphosis became the most important international magazine for FTMs in the 1980s. Most of its subscribers were American, but there were also trans men from Canada, Great Britain, Europe, Australia and New Zealand who eagerly paid to get the sought-after news, information and resources.

In 1988, Raj decided to close MMRF and end publication of Metamorphosis due to cumulative burnout.

Gender Worker and Gender NetWorker

Raj formed a new organization in June 1988, Gender Worker (later named "Gender Consultants" when his then wife joined his entrepreneurial enterprise as a co-consultant), and published a new newsletter Gender NetWorker specifically designed for “helping professionals and resource providers” who worked with transsexuals and transvestites (aka cross dressers) (1988, two issues).
Between 1990 and 1999, Raj was not publicly active as a trans activist, opting to mainstream into cisgender, straight society for those nine years in hopes of healing from massive burnout. Raj re-emerged in 1999 to begin a support group in Toronto called the Trans-Men/FTM Peer-Support Group. Since then, Raj has been active in Toronto as a psychotherapist, gender specialist, and trans-positive professional trainer.

RR Consulting and Beyond
In April 2002, Raj founded “RR Consulting,” a part-time, home-based, private psychotherapy and consulting practice serving trans, genderqueer, intersex and two-spirit adults and their loved ones, and also gender-independent kids and their parents. He also assessed trans people for readiness for either cross-sex hormone therapy or sex-reassignment surgery. Additionally, he provided trans-focussed training workshops on the medical, psychological, social, vocational, legal and spiritual/existential aspects of gender identity and gender transitioning for hospitals, health centres, universities, colleges and corporate workplaces.
In November 2002, Raj started working as a mental health counselor at Sherbourne Health Centre (SHC) in Toronto, providing individual, couple and family therapy for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgender, gender-questioning and sexually-questioning clients and their loved ones, and also co-facilitated SHC's “Gender Journeys” (a psychoeducational group for people considering transitioning to their identified gender) from 2006 to 2013. He retired from Sherbourne in 2015.

Beyond his clinical work, Raj was active in the trans, genderqueer, intersex and two-spirit communities in Toronto, participating in numerous community advisory committees for local community agencies, spearheading the first annual Trans Pride Day at SHC in 2004 (which was later renamed to include intersex and two-spirit people), delivering public speeches at the 2011 Honoured Dyke Group event of Pride Toronto (honouring the Trans Lobby Group, of which Raj was the sole trans male member), the 2012 Toronto Trans March, and the 2014 Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR) held at Toronto City Hall, proclaiming it as an official day in Toronto along with the raising of the first Ontario trans flag. On July 1, 2018, he marched in the Trans* Pride Toronto March, proudly carrying the Trans Coalition Project (Toronto) banner with Toronto Trans Alliance leader, Stephanie Woolley and Trans Lobby Group leader, Susan Gapka. On August 4, he led Fierté Simcoe Pride’s Trans* Rally/March in Orillia, Ontario, along with trans youth leader, Brandon Rhéal Amyot. Raj officially retired in 2017, and now lives in southern Europe.

"Voluntary Gender Work" and Burn-out
Rupert Raj coined the term "voluntary gender worker" to describe the unofficial (and often unrecognized) labor that transgender activists (including himself) do. In a speech given at the 2016 Moving Trans History Forward Founders Panel, Raj described the work that he had done over the past thirty years, including (but not limited to) "providing information, referrals, education, counseling, [...] free education, doing training workshops, offering newsletter and magazine subscriptions on transsexualism, gender dysphoria, and gender reassignment to psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, social workers, physicians, and nurses, as well as researchers academics, educators, students, lawyers, policy makers, and politicians."  Raj works to bring attention to the risks that voluntary gender work brings to those who in a 1987 essay titled "Burnout: Unsung Heroes And Heroines In The Transgender World," originally published in The Transsexual Voice. Raj runs through an abbreviated list of activists he knows who are suffering burnout before turning to his own person experience. At the time of writing, he stated that "I am not yet ready to resign, even though I have been suffering symptoms of 'burn-out' for about a year now (and wish I could go on a sabbatical leave for a few month). Yet I/we desperately need resources in order that [we] might survive."  Almost thirty years later, Raj announced that he had taken indefinite medical leave as a result of said burn-out, and he officially retired from his job as a psychotherapist at Toronto's Sherbourne Health Centre .

Education and Professional Affiliations
In 2001, Raj graduated from The Adler School of Professional Psychology (main campus based  in Chicago) with a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology. Raj is a member of the Canadian Professional Association for Transgender Health (CPATH) (2007 – present), and in 2015 became a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) and joined the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO).

Publications and Presentations
To date, Raj has published four trans-focused clinical research papers. He has written a book chapter in the 1997 edited collection Gender Blending. Raj is also the co-editor (with Prof. Dan Irving of Carleton University) of Trans Activism in Canada: A Reader. The book includes chapters from a total of 43 transgender and cisgender contributors in British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec, and a foreword by Prof. Aaron Devor of the University of Victoria and an afterword by Prof. Viviane Namaste of Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec.

Since 1999, Raj has designed and delivered more than 20 distinct trans-focused training workshops and presentations in Canada, the US and the UK. In April 2006, he taught an accredited elective course for The Adler School of Professional Psychology (Ontario campus) in Toronto, employing his "TransPositive Therapeutic Model" (2002), supporting transsexual/transgender adults. Building on this basic model, Raj's "TransFormative Therapeutic Model" (2008) supported therapists working with couples and families with trans members, as well as gender non-conforming youth and their parents.

From 1982 to 1991, Rupert compiled/edited an international trans poetry anthology, Of Souls and Roles,  Of Sex and Gender (likely the first of its kind), which he donated in manuscript form to The ArQuives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives in 2006. From 1991 to 2014, he added several more poems and modified the title: “Of Souls & Roles, Of Sex & Gender: A Treasury of Transsexual, Transgenderist & Transvestic Verse from 1967 to 1991." The volume includes nearly 400 poems penned by 169 trans people throughout Canada, the US, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, and was donated to The Transgender Archives where it is currently available via PDF.

In 2017, an article Raj wrote, "Worlds in Collision", appeared in the anthology of writing about Toronto's queer history, Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer. His sociohistorical memoir, Dancing The Dialectic: True Tales of A Transgender Trailblazer was first published in 2017; a second edition  was published in 2020.

Recognition

Raj has received a number of awards, including a listing in the International Who’s Who In Sexology (First Edition, The Institute for Advanced  Studies in Human Sexuality in San Francisco, 1986). In 2000, Xanthra McKay a 23 minute video entitled "Rupert Remembers," in which Raj discusses trans spaces and activism in Toronto during the 1970s and 1980s. Raj has been awarded two Lifetime Achievement Awards: the City of Toronto's Access, Equity, and Human Rights Pride Award (2001) and the Community One Foundation's Steinert and Ferreiro Award, a recognition of leadership in Canadian LGBTTIQQ2S communities (2010).

In 2011, The Trans Health Lobby Group (THLG) won an award from Pride Toronto as the “Honoured Dyke Group." The THLG was co-founded by Rupert Raj, Susan Gapka, Michelle Hogan, Joanne Nevermann and Darla S.; subsequent early members included Shadmith Manzo, Martine Stonehouse and Davina Hader. Raj was the only active trans-male member.

In 2013, Raj was honoured by The ArQuives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives in Toronto, the largest community-based LGBTQ archive in the world, through his induction into The ArQuives' National Portrait Collection. Original Plumbing, a Brooklyn-based trans* male quarterly periodical, included Raj in its 2013 Heroes issue, along with other trans* historical figures and activists. Raj is featured in the 1999 video, "Rupert Remembers," in a 2000/2001 Canada-wide TV documentary series, "Skin Deep" , and in a 2001 video, "Rewriting the Script: A Love Letter to Our Families," reflecting the experiences of queer South Asians and their families . Also in 2013, the Trans Lobby Group, which Raj co-founded as the Trans Health Lobby Group, won an Inspire Award in Toronto for “Community Organization of the Year Award” (Note: The THLG changed its name by deleting “Health” to reflect a broader mandate beyond merely health care, including advocating for politico-legal human rights provincially and federally.) More recently, the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity has featured Rupert's work on their resources page for transgender, intersex, and Two Spirit people.

In 2022, Raj was selected to receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Simon Fraser University, in Burnaby BC. SFU's honorary degree is the highest honour conferred by the university. The degrees are awarded to distinguished individuals in recognition of their scholarly, scientific or artistic achievement, or in recognition of exceptional contribution to the public good. In October 2022, Rupert was presented with Fantasia Fair's 2022 Transgender Pioneer Award. Established in 2002, this award is the transgender community’s longest existing award, honouring the lifetime achievements of those who have changed the world so trans people could come together in safety and comfort. In 2023, an entry on Raj was added to the online Canadian Encyclopedia.

Notes
At this point, Raj was still using his earlier chosen name, Nicholas (or Nick) Christopher Ghosh. In later years, he started using the name "Rupert Raj" as a pseudonym, to separate his trans activism (under the name Rupert Raj) from his personal life (where he used the name Nick Ghosh). In 1988, he made "Rupert Raj" his legal name, using it in his activism and personal life, stopping the use of "Nick Ghosh."

References

External links
 Rupert Raj fonds at The ArQuives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives

1952 births
Living people
Canadian people of Indian descent
Canadian people of Polish descent
Transgender rights activists
Transgender male writers
Canadian LGBT rights activists
Canadian transgender writers
Writers from Ottawa
Canadian psychologists


title: Anthozela anonidii

text:
Anthozela anonidii is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

References

Moths described in 1940
Enarmoniini
Moths of Africa
Endemic fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo


title: Dave Davis (athlete)

text:
Dave Davis (born August 20, 1937) is an American Shot Putter.  He was on the 1960 United States Olympic Team.  The circumstances of his failure to throw in those games are one of the quirky stories of the Olympics.  Davis almost did not get to the Olympic Trials.  As Cordner Nelson wrote at the time, he found himself 45 miles north of the Stanford University stadium at the time his event was about to begin.  This was not the first time he had gotten lost on the way to a big meet.  Davis spent $18 to rent a seaplane to fly him to the Palo Alto harbor, where he convinced a city employee to drive him to the stadium while he changed his clothes.  Arriving after the first two rounds had been completed, he took his qualifying throw with no warm up and made it to the final.  In the final, he surpassed Bill Nieder's earlier throw to move into third place.  Injured with his leg heavily taped, Nieder was unable to improve and was pushed to the "alternate" position, while the team was made up of three University of Southern California alumni (though Davis and Parry O'Brien were officially competing for the Southern California Striders).

At the Olympics, it was Davis who was injured.  Olympic Team coach Payton Jordan replaced Davis with the alternate Nieder.  The Associated Press sent out a picture of Davis congratulating Nieder on his advancement to the Olympics when it was clear his injury would prevent his participation.  Nieder went on to win the gold medal and set the world record, leading an American sweep of the medals.

Davis was a big, strong man, known for warming up by "calmly" lifting 350 pound weights, techniques he later taught to Brian Oldfield.

While competing for Canoga Park High School in 1956, Davis set the National High School Record for the shot put at 62' 7½" which lasted just 5 days.  Two weeks later at the CIF California State Meet he easily won the 16 Lb. Shot Put event, at the time a separate event from the standard high school 12 Lb., but lost to high school version to a new national record by Homer Robertson.  He also finished third in the discus throw.

At USC, he won the 1958 NCAA Championship.  In 1963 he won the United States championship.  He continued throwing until 1972 setting his personal best of 19.72 in 1967.

References

American male shot putters
1937 births
University of Southern California alumni
Track and field athletes from California
Living people
Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States
Athletes (track and field) at the 1959 Pan American Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1963 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 1959 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 1963 Pan American Games


title: 2014 Women's EuroHockey Indoor Championship II

text:
The 2014 Women's EuroHockey Indoor Nations Championship - Division II was a lower division of EuroHockey Indoor Nations Championship, that was played on January 24–26, 2014 in Šiauliai, Lithuania. The winner and runner up got promoted to 2016 Women's EuroHockey Indoor Nations Championship, while the last place holder got relegated to 2016 Women's EuroHockey Indoor Nations Championship - Division III.

Results

Group A

Group B

5th-8th place Group

Medal Group

Final ranking

References

External links

2014
Sport in Šiauliai
International women's field hockey competitions hosted by Lithuania
EuroHockey Indoor Championship II
EuroHockey Indoor Championship II
EuroHockey Indoor Championship II
Women 2


title: PodCastle

text:
PodCastle is a weekly audio fantasy fiction podcast. They release audio performances of fantasy short fiction, including all the subgenres of fantasy, including magical realism, urban fantasy, slipstream, high fantasy, and dark fantasy. As of 2022, Shingai Njeri Kagunda and Eleanor R. Wood share editing duties with support from Assistant Editor Sofía Barker and audio producers Devin Martin and Eric Valdes, and the show is mainly hosted by Matt Dovey, with occasional guest hosts.

History
PodCastle was the third show conceived by Escape Artists, Inc. founder, Serah Eley, which also produces Escape Pod, Pseudopod and Cast of Wonders. PodCastle launched on 1 April 2008 with Rachel Swirsky as founding editor and Ann Leckie as assistant editor. Swirsky left in 2010 to focus on her own writing, and went on to win the 2013 Nebula Award for Best Short Story for her "If You Were A Dinosaur, My Love". While editor at PodCastle, Leckie's 2013 novel, Ancillary Justice, won multiple awards, including the 2014 Hugo Award for best novel.

Editors Anna Schwind and Dave Thompson stepped down at the end of March 2015 and were slated to be replaced by Kitty NicIaian and Dawn Phynix, with Leckie continuing to serve as associate editor. However, the new editors were unable to take the helm, and Rachael K. Jones and Graeme Dunlop began sharing editing and hosting duties instead.

In 2017 the editorial reins were handed over to an international cohort headed by co-editors Khaalidah Muhammad Ali and Jen R. Albert, with Setsu Uzumé (later known as Summer Fletcher) hosting. Khaalidah stepped down to concentrate on her own writing in early 2019 and was replaced by C. L. Clark ("Cherae"); in mid-2021, Albert and Clark both departed to concentrate on their respective careers and were replaced by Shingai Njeri Kagunda and Eleanor R. Wood. Summer Fletcher stepped down from the assistant editor and host roles at the end of 2021 and was replaced by Sofia Barker and Matt Dovey respectively.

Content
PodCastle has released hundreds of stories on a weekly basis with stories generally between 2,000 and 6,000 words long, written by authors such as Peter S. Beagle, Nancy Kress, Jeff VanderMeer, N.K. Jemisin, Kelly Link and Ken Liu. Although focused on short fiction, PodCastle has also run reviews and longer stories, both as hour-plus "Giant" episodes and as multi-part serials.

PodCastle is distributed under a Creative Commons license that allows non-commercial redistribution, requires attribution, and forbids derivatives.  The fiction itself remains copyrighted by its respective authors.  PodCastle contracts with authors for non-exclusive audio rights and pays semi-professional rates. In 2013 the site averaged 79,900 monthly downloads of the podcast. Podcasts such as Podcastle, Pseudopod, and EscapePod provide a means of accessing speculative fiction online.

Reception
Eugie Foster, for The UK SF Book News Network, wrote that "short fiction audio podcast magazines like Escape Pod and its sister publications, Pseudopod and PodCastle, have caught the interest and imagination of fiction enthusiasts, and doing a wonderful job at reviving awareness in both new short fiction and classic works".

Accolades

See also
 Fantasy podcast

Notes

References

External links

Audio podcasts
Fantasy fiction magazines
Magazines established in 2008
2008 podcast debuts
Weekly magazines published in the United States
Fantasy podcasts
American podcasts
Monologue podcasts


title: Liparis fissipetala

text:
Liparis fissipetala is a species of orchid native to southern China (Chongqing and Yunnan). It has also been considered to be the sole species in the genus Ypsilorchis.

References

Orchids of China
fissipetala


title: Der Frosch mit der Maske

text:
Der Frosch mit der Maske (translation: The Frog with the Mask), aka Face of the Frog, is a 1959 West German-Danish black-and-white crime film directed by Harald Reinl and starring Siegfried Lowitz and Joachim Fuchsberger. It was the first of a very successful series of films based on works by Edgar Wallace produced by Rialto Film in West Germany. This film was adapted from the 1925 novel The Fellowship of the Frog.

Plot

Cast

Production
The film is adapted from Edgar Wallace's novel The Fellowship of the Frog (1925). Previous versions were made in 1928 in the US (as a serial) and in 1937 in the UK, both titled The Mark of the Frog.

The project was deemed risky, as so far no German crime film had really succeeded at the box office after World War II. The initiative to try came from , head of Constantin Film who approached his friend Preben Philipsen with the idea. Philipsen acquired the rights for the movie adaption of The Fellowship of the Frog and The Crimson Circle from Penelope Wallace, with an option on other novels by her father should the films be successful. Barthel decided on Reinl as director and fixed production cost at a maximum of 600,000 Deutsche Mark. As scriptwriter the producer hired Egon Eis who had worked on the 1931 adaption of The Squeaker. Eis' script for the Frog, delivered in January 1959 under the pen name "Trygve Larsen", stuck closely to the novel. Jochen Joachim Bartsch, a friend of Reinl, also worked on the script. The "comic relief" character, played by Arent, was added by the script writers, he does not exist in the novel. Some characters were much reduced in significance (Broad and Maitland), some were dropped altogether (Maitland's sister). Another change was making Fuchsberger's character the nephew of Sir Archibald, the head of Scotland Yard. In addition, the name for Brockmann's character was changed: in Wallace's novel he was called "Harry Lime" (or Lyme). Since this had been the name of Orson Welles' character in Carol Reed's The Third Man (1949), the producers decided to change it, to Philo Johnson.

Cinematography took place from 24 April to 9 June 1959. The studio for interiors was Palladium Atelier at Kopenhagen. Exteriors were also shot in and around Kopenhagen. A small team, including Reinl and his director of cinematography Kalinke travelled to London for two days to shoot some stock footage to be used in back projection.

Release
The FSK gave the film a rating of 16 years and up, unsuitable for screening on public holidays. Four scenes had to be cut to receive even this rating and avoid an "adults only" one.

The film premiered on 4 September 1959 at the Universum in Stuttgart. With an audience of 3 million in Germany the film was an extraordinary success.

The film's box office success ultimately spawned the Edgar Wallace series of films by Rialto of 32 films that ran through 1972. The series heavily influenced the style and content of German crime and mystery films throughout the 1960s, as well as giving rise to outright copycat films made by other studios such as Artur Brauner's CCC Film.

Home Media
The film made its DVD debut on 29 January 2008 by Infinity Entertainment Group as a part of The Edgar Wallace Collection which included several other adaptions of the works of writer Edgar Wallace.

In popular culture
In 2004, the German spoof film Der Wixxer was released, which heavily parodies the 1960s German Edgar Wallace films. It contains many references to the classic Edgar Wallace films, and in one scene, the Frog with the Mask is also referenced: At a conference of super villains, he appears as a man in a frog costume, who is also an obvious parody of Kermit the Frog, since he talks with a Kermit-style high-pitched voice and in one scene also ironically says "Applause, applause, applause!" - a common catch phrase of Kermit in the German dub of The Muppet Show.

References

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1959 films
1950s mystery thriller films
German mystery thriller films
West German films
1950s German-language films
Films directed by Harald Reinl
Films based on British novels
Films based on works by Edgar Wallace
Films set in England
Films shot in Denmark
Danish black-and-white films
German black-and-white films
Remakes of American films
Remakes of British films
Constantin Film films
Danish thriller films
1950s German films


title: Nuala O'Connor (technologist)

text:
Nuala O'Connor is Senior Vice President and Chief Counsel for Digital Citizenship for Walmart.  From 2014 to 2019, O’Connor served as the President and CEO of the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT). O'Connor is an expert on digital human rights and civil liberties, technology policy, privacy, and information governance. From 2003–2005, O'Connor served as the first Chief Privacy Officer for the US Department of Homeland Security.

Early life and education

Nuala O'Connor was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1968 and grew up in New York City. In 1985, O'Connor attended Princeton University, where she was a member of the Princeton Tigerlilies, Princeton Triangle Club, and Cloister Inn. O'Connor graduated from Princeton University in 1989 with an AB in American Studies and English. O'Connor has also earned an M.Ed in Administration, Planning & Social Policy from Harvard University and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.

Career
Civil and digital rights advocacy groups such as the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the ACLU praised O'Connor for protecting American's privacy rights as the first Chief Privacy Officer for the US Department of Homeland Security, a position in which she was responsible for evaluating the department for privacy impacts and "mak[ing] sure that privacy is considered and is codified". In the public sector, O'Connor has experience working on global technology policy for the US Department of Commerce as its Deputy Director of the Office of Policy & Strategic Planning, Chief Privacy Officer, and Chief Counsel for Technology.

O'Connor has held numerous positions in the private sector. At Amazon.com, O'Connor worked as the Vice President of Compliance & Customer Trust and Associate General Counsel for Privacy & Data Protection. At General Electric, O'Connor served as the Global Privacy Leader and was responsible for privacy policy and practices. O'Connor has also worked as legal counsel to DoubleClick, managing class actions and settlements.

CDT's former President & CEO, Leslie Harris, said of O'Connor, "Nuala is a brilliant choice to lead CDT. She is a passionate advocate for civil liberties, highly expert about the emerging global challenges and fully committed to CDT's mission. She is a bold leader who will guide CDT into its next chapter. I have had the honor of working with CDT's talented and thoughtful team for almost nine years. I am confident that they will thrive with Nuala at the helm."

Awards and recognition
O'Connor is a recipient of numerous awards, including the 2005 IAPP Vanguard Award, the 2010 Executive Women's Forum's Woman of Influence award, and was named to the Federal 100. O'Connor has also been named "Geek of the Week" by the Minority Media & Telecom Council. She has served on numerous boards and advisory committees, including the Walmart President’s Inclusion Council; WALPAC; the Knight Commission on Trust, Media & Democracy; the Center for Democracy & Technology; the Data Quality Campaign, and the National Cyber Security Alliance/StaySafeOnline.

See also
 Center for Democracy and Technology

References

External links
Center for Democracy and Technology

Living people
Princeton University alumni
Harvard Graduate School of Education alumni
American women business executives
Northern Ireland emigrants to the United States
Georgetown University Law Center alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
United States Department of Homeland Security officials
21st-century American women


title: Vasilios Makridis

text:
Vasilios Makridis (; born March 27, 1939) is a retired Greek alpine skier who has competed at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. During his career, he has never taken part in competitions recognized by International Ski Federation. His best result was 56th place in slalom and he finished on 78th place in the giant slalom.

References

External links
Vasilios Makridis at Sports Reference

1939 births
Living people
Greek male alpine skiers
Alpine skiers at the 1964 Winter Olympics
Olympic alpine skiers for Greece
Sportspeople from Veria


title: Benjamin Booker

text:
Benjamin Booker (born Benjamin Roderick Evans; June 14, 1989) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and guitarist. He cites The Gun Club, Blind Willie Johnson and T. Rex as influences.  His music was described by the Chicago Tribune as "a raw brand of blues/boogie/soul,", by The Independent as "frenzied guitar-strumming and raw, soulful vocals that are hair-raising in intensity" and by Spin as "bright, furious, explosive garage rock."

Early life
Benjamin Booker was born in Virginia Beach, Virginia. His family relocated to Tampa, Florida, where he attended all-ages DIY punk shows as a teenager. He attended Orange Grove Middle School, a magnet school for the performing arts, followed by Hillsborough High School, where he studied in the International Baccalaureate Program. He then attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, studying journalism with intentions of going into music journalism. After college, he moved to New Orleans to work for a non-profit organization and began playing shows. He self-released the four-track EP Waiting Ones in 2012, a collection of "low-fi blues-influenced folk-punk recordings and handclap percussion" that gained the attention of music blog Aquarium Drunkard. The track "Have You Seen My Son" eventually landed on Sirius XM satellite radio. In 2013, he began touring as an electric duo and signed with ATO Records to produce his debut album.

Career

2013–2016: Benjamin Booker
Booker's self-titled debut album was recorded in December 2013 at The Bomb Shelter, an analog studio in Nashville. Produced by Andrija Tokic (Alabama Shakes, Hurray for the Riff Raff), the album was released on August 19, 2014 via ATO Records in the United States and Rough Trade Records in Europe.  The first single from the album, "Violent Shiver," was released in April 2014. The album received early praise, debuting in the top 10 of Billboards Alternative Albums and Independent Albums charts and leading to Benjamin Booker being named an "artist you need to know" by Rolling Stone, "the best of what's next" by Paste and a "contender for rock record of the year" by Spin. Benjamin Booker also performed on late night television programs Late Night with David Letterman, Conan and Later With Jools Holland.

Since release, in addition to touring with Jack White and Courtney Barnett, Booker, accompanied by drummer Max Norton and bassist Alex Spoto, has played international headlining tours and performed at a number of festivals. In 2013, he performed at FYF Fest, the Newport Folk Festival, the Austin City Limits Music Festival, Voodoo Experience and Lollapalooza, where Rolling Stone named his performance the festival's "best rock star moment... best experienced live and turned up to 11". Internationally, he has appeared on the lineups of France's Festival Les InRocks Philips and Australia's St Jerome's Laneway Festival.

2017: Witness

Booker's second album Witness was released on June 2, 2017. The album was announced with the premiere of its title track "Witness" (featuring Mavis Staples) alongside an essay written by Booker which detailed the experience that led him towards writing the album's title track. The song "Witness" was called "a piano-pounding hymn for Black Lives Matter" by The New York Times.  The title track's references to police brutality and activism garnered Booker coverage in politically-leaning outlets including Mic, which noted the album's "urgent synthesis of blues, gospel and soul — forms with long histories of translating black pain into uplifting and enduring compositions … with a raw and unforgiving candor that's reminiscent of downtown New York punk." The opening track "Right on You" was shared on April 19 by The Fader which called it "a staticky, high-tempo ballad that packs a punch". The third song to be released from the album, "Believe", was premiered by Time magazine on May 23. Since the album's release on June 2, 2017, WNYC has described Booker as "a punk & grit-infused songwriter whose ecstatic and soulful sounds channel vintage soul-rock, gospel, and blues." On June 19, "Witness" was shared by Pitchfork alongside a review saying Benjamin "makes retro music feel modern, reflecting on racism in America while drawing on blues, soul, and gospel."

Following the tours to support Witness, Booker was relatively quiet for the remainder of the decade. In September 2020, he released the single "Black Disco" with proceeds going to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Discography

Studio albums
 Benjamin Booker (2014)
 Witness (2017)

Live albums
 Live at Third Man Records (2015 – exclusively on vinyl)

EPs
 Waiting Ones (2012)
 Spotify Sessions (2014 – Digital exclusive via Spotify)

Singles
 "Violent Shiver" (2014)
 "Witness" (2017)
"Black Disco" (2020)

References

External links
 Benjamin Booker
 Benjamin Booker at ATO Records

1989 births
Living people
American rock guitarists
American male guitarists
Musicians from Virginia Beach, Virginia
ATO Records artists
African-American rock musicians
Guitarists from Virginia
21st-century American guitarists
21st-century American male musicians
Third Man Records artists
Rough Trade Records artists
African-American guitarists


title: Enarmoniodes mirabilis

text:
Enarmoniodes mirabilis is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

References

Moths described in 1940
Enarmoniini
Endemic fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo


title: Livewire (Valiant Comics)

text:
Livewire is a fictional superhero that appears in comic books published by Valiant Comics. Created by Bob Layton and Joe St. Pierre.  Livewire first appeared in Harbinger #15 (March 1993). She later played a major role in the Secret Weapons (1993) series.

In the relaunched Valiant Universe, Livewire first appears in Harbinger's first arc. Livewire has been featured in Unity as a founding member since 2013.

Fictional character biography (Valiant Entertainment)

Harbinger Foundation
A psionic teletechnopath, able to control machines with force of will alone, Amanda McKee was orphaned at a young age, and sent to live in a group home. It was there that billionaire visionary and founder of the Harbinger Foundation, Toyo Harada, discovered her and took her into his care, rescuing her from the abusive environments of her early life. For this Amanda became unfailingly devoted to Harada and his mission. Assuming the name Livewire, Amanda became a star pupil of the Harbinger Foundation, eventually becoming one of Harada's most trusted aides.

All that changed, however, when Peter Stanchek joined the Harbinger Foundation. Faced with a power that nearly equaled his own, Harada's facade of control began to fray and his domineering tendencies became clearer and clearer to Livewire. Still faithful to Harada's vision, but believing that Peter could help balance his immense power, Livewire aided Harada's wayward student in his escape from the Harbinger Foundation and sent herself into exile following her betrayal.

Unity
Months later, when Aric of Dacia returned from space as the leader of a freed legion of Vine slaves and claimed Romania as the homeland of his new people, Harada reactivated Livewire and asked her to join his elite strike team, Unity. Utilizing her power to control machines, Livewire was able to strip the X-O Manowar armor from Aric and don it herself - with the intent of handing it over to Harada in turn. With the most powerful weapon in the universe at her command, Livewire easily subdued Aric's people and quickly defused a nuclear strike by rival nations bent on annihilating X-O Manowar.

Bonding with the armor, however, unlocked the full potential of Livewire's abilities, giving her full access to the records of the Harbinger Foundation. With all of Harada's darkest secrets now exposed to her, Livewire at last realized the true extent of his evil and quickly marshaled the Unity team against her former mentor.

Now fully expelled from the Harbinger empire, Livewire joined Ninjak in the service of England's MI-6, and traveled to Taiwan to investigate strange happenings related to the mysterious Dr. Silk...

Fictional character biography (Valiant Comics)
The original incarnation of Amanda McKee is a Harbinger training at the Harbinger Foundation with her boyfriend, Edward T. Sedgewick. After abandoning the foundation, the two are forced to live on the run in hiding from Toyo Harada. This causes immense strain on their relationship, causing them to separate but remain close friends.

Geomancer Geoff McHenry eventually recruits Amanda and Edward to join his Secret Weapons team. Their time on the team is short lived, as they are deemed to volatile to be among the public, and are surrendered back into the Harbinger Foundation.

Once again under control of the foundation, Amanda undergoes a lobotomy that alters her being, turning her into a devout warrior that joins Toyo Harada and helps him fulfill his dream of a new world order. The operation also causes Amanda to lose her memory of her relationship with Edward.

In other media

Web series
Livewire appears in the web series Ninjak vs. the Valiant Universe portrayed by Ciera Foster.

References

Comics characters introduced in 1993
Fictional characters with electric or magnetic abilities
Female characters in comics
Valiant Comics superheroes


title: Brachioxena sparactis

text:
Brachioxena sparactis is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.

References

Moths described in 1928
Eucosmini


title: Saleem Takla

text:
Saleem Takla (, also spelled Selim Taqla; 1849 – August 8, 1892) was a Lebanese-Ottoman journalist who founded of Al-Ahram newspaper with his brother Beshara Takla.

Early life and education
Saleem Takla was born in Kfarshima, Lebanon in 1849 to Khalil and Nada Takla. The Takla family was Melkite Greek Catholic. When he was 12, he was sent to school in Beirut, first to a grade school organized by Cornelius Van Alen Van Dyck and then to the National School in Abey founded by Butrus al-Bustani. During that time, the 1860 Druze–Maronite conflict dramatically impacted the region. After completing his studies, Takla taught at the Patriarchal College in Beirut founded by Gregory II Youssef.

Moving to Alexandria and Founding Al-Ahram
In 1874 Takla moved to Alexandria, Egypt. During this period, Alexandria was “both a bridgehead of European colonialism and a crucible of Egyptian national integration and identity.” More people were becoming literate, thanks in part to the development of new schools in the city, and conflicts and crises throughout the Middle East piqued public interest in world events. Furthermore, Alexandria was becoming a center of the news and publishing businesses, with many European news services, printing presses, and publishers setting up shop in the city. A large population of translators in the city, many of them Syro-Lebanese (like Takla), further aided the newspaper business by allowing Arabic newspapers to better report on international events using sources in other languages. Finally, Isma'il Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt from 1863–1879, and his successors patronized several Alexandria newspapers, which certainly aided the development of the industry.

As Syro-Lebanese immigrants, the Takla brothers benefited from belonging to a community recognized for “their knowledge of languages,” familiarity “with the practice of Arabic journalism,” and “close connections with Egypt's political and commercial élite.” In the newspaper business, “offering news of events in Syria and in the Syrian community” gave new papers access to a niche market, specifically the Syrian community in Alexandria.

Despite all of these advantages, the Takla brothers “moved cautiously.” They “spent seven months attempting to find subscribers, and even printed up a facsimile copy for promotional purposes, before actually going to press.” Finally, in 1876, the Takla brothers began publishing al-Ahram (meaning the Pyramids), “for a long time the most prestigious daily in the Arab world”. The next year, in 1877, they began publishing Sada al-Ahram (meaning Echo of the Pyramids), followed by al-Waqt (meaning the Time) in 1879 and al-Ahwal (the Conditions) in 1882.

Political action and censorship
As described above, Alexandria in the 1860s and 1870s offered many benefits to newspapers, including the patronage of Isma'il Pasha. However, that support came with the expectation that newspapers would support the government. This policy was enforced not only through government patronage, but also by law. According to Juan Cole:

“In October 1863 the Egyptian foreign minister made it known that Ottoman censorship laws would henceforth be more strictly applied in Egypt, through a special government department overseeing newspapers. Newspapers were to abstain absolutely from any criticism of governmental actions and avoid any discussion of matters, the mention of which might affect relations with foreign powers. Reporters had to report news from the provinces in a manner that kept to the facts, avoiding any criticism of officials. Editors were responsible for orally reporting the content of articles to the Press Bureau before going to press. Newspapers contravening these articles of the law would receive three warnings, after which they would be closed down and large fines would be imposed.”

These declarations aside, the environment of Alexandria moderated the force of censorship laws. The large foreign presence in Alexandria, including Syro-Lebanese like the Takla brothers, helped limit enforcement of the laws, since many foreigners enjoyed some form of protected status in Egypt, a system that began with the Capitulations of the Ottoman Empire. The educational system further provoked resistance to censorship by developing and enlarging the intellectual class. Furthermore, by allowing newspapers more license, Isma'il Pasha hoped “to use the press to fight off the increasing influence of Britain and France over Egyptian internal affairs” and therefore “allowed a livelier Arabic political press to grow up that had some hope of surviving financially.”

Eventually, the Takla brothers did run afoul of censorship laws. They first “had their Sada al-Ahram suspended and fined for finding fault with Isma'il, and on its second serious offense the Publications Department simply ordered it out of existence.” However, the Takla brothers had other newspapers, and this setback did not prevent them from continuing to attempt to exert political influence using their other outlets.

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1849 births
1892 deaths
Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire to Egypt
Egyptian newspaper editors
Egyptian newspaper founders
Egyptian newspaper publishers (people)
Lebanese newspaper founders
Lebanese journalists
19th-century journalists
Male journalists
19th-century male writers
People from Kfarshima
Lebanese Melkite Greek Catholics


title: Thylacogaster monospora

text:
Thylacogaster monospora is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria.

The larvae feed on Garcinia ovalifolia, Garcinia xanthochymus, Allanblackia floribunda, Ricinodendron africanum and Symphonia globulifera.

References

Moths described in 1939
Eucosmini


title: Bellerophon Taming Pegasus

text:
Bellerophon Taming Pegasus is an outdoor sculpture by Jacques Lipchitz, depicting Bellerophon and Pegasus.  It was the final sculpture worked on by Lipchitz, and was completed after his death in 1973.

The work depicts the human figure of Bellerophon, standing on a high plinth, tying a rope around the neck of the thrashing Pegasus, whose tail, legs and wings splay dramatically around the central figures.  It has been interpreted as a representing man taming nature.  In the words of the artist, "You observe nature, make conclusions, and from these you make rules… and law is born from that".  It takes inspiration from Lipchitz's earlier work, Birth of the Muses, which depicts Pegasus landing on Mount Olympus.

The sculpture was commissioned by architect Max Abramovitz for Columbia Law School in 1964. It was cast in bronze at Pietrasanta in Italy, shipped in pieces to be constructed in New York City, and dedicated on November 28, 1977.  It is installed above the west entrance of Jerome Greene Hall on Revson Plaza, on the Columbia University campus in Manhattan. Nearby on the plaza are casts of Henry Moore's Three-Way Piece: Points, Tightrope Walker by Kees Verkade, Life Force by David Bakalar, and Flight by Gertrude Schweitzer.

The 23 ton sculpture measures approximately  by , and stands on a  high pedestal, making it, after the Statue of Liberty, the second-largest metal statue in New York City, as of 2022.

The Tate Gallery in London holds a plaster "sketch" from 1964, presented by the Lipchitz Foundation in 1982.
Another 1964 plaster "sketch" is held by the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.

A 12 foot bronze cast - about half the size of the original - is at the Broadgate development in London.  Another cast was installed in Kansas City in 2000.

See also

 1977 in art
 List of public art in the City of London

References

External links
 Pegasus and Bellarophon Dominate the Law School's Sky by Diana Greenwald (February, 2008), Columbia Spectator

1977 establishments in New York City
1977 sculptures
Animal sculptures in London
Animal sculptures in New York City
Bronze sculptures in New York City
Bronze sculptures in London
Columbia University campus
Modernist sculpture
Outdoor sculptures in London
Outdoor sculptures in Manhattan
Sculpture by Jacques Lipchitz
Sculptures of classical mythology
Sculptures of horses


title: Platyrhacidae

text:
Platyrhacidae is a family of polydesmidan millipedes distributed in Southeast Asia and tropical Central and South America.

Description
Platyrhacids are often large and colorful. They can be distinguished from most other polydesmidans by having ozopores situated further inward from the paranota margins, ozopores surrounded by a broad, flat ring, and presence of compound setae on the labrum and often on the epiproct (a posterior extension of the telson).  The gonopods in males are relatively simple, although up to five gonopodal  processes ("branches") may be present in some genera from Borneo. Large platyrhacids in Borneo may grow up to  long and exhibit colors of blue, green, and yellow with black spots or stripes. The largest known species in the order Polydesmida, however, is a platyrhacid species found in Sumatra, Gigantorhacus mirandus, which can reach 134 mm (5.3 in) in length.

Distribution
Platyrhacids occur in two disjunct geographic areas. The majority of species occur in Southeast Asia, including the Greater Sunda Islands and the Philippine archipelago. The rest occur in the New World Tropics from Nicaragua to Peru, as well as on some Caribbean islands.

Classification
The Platyrhacidae is part of the larger suborder Chelodesmidea. The family Platyrhacidae is subdivided into several groups, formerly considered tribes but elevated to the status of subfamilies in 2013.

Barydesminae - Neotropical America
Barydesmus
Nyssodesmus
Tyrodesmus
Diodontodesminae - Solomon Islands
Diodontodesmus
Erythrhacinae
Hoplurorhachinae - Borneo
Phyodesminae- Borneo
Phyodesmus
Polydesmorhachinae -Palawan island, Philippines
Psammodesminae - Neotropical America
Psammodesmus
Psaphodesminae - Indonesia, east of Wallace's line
Taphodesminae
Taphodesmus

Unplaced
The following genera have not yet been placed into a subfamily
Hoffmanorhacus
Nanorrhacus
Proaspis

Classification history
The family (originally misspelled "Platyrrhacidae") was named by Reginald Pocock in 1895 to include the single genus Platyrhacus. Shortly after, Orator F. Cook added Acanthodesmus, Odontodesmus, and Trachelodesmus. By 1897, additional works by Cook, Pocock, and Filippo Silvestri had increased the number of genera to 37.

The North American genera Euryurus, Auturus, and Illiniurus, were long-considered to constitute a sub-group of Platyrhacidae (i.e. the subfamily Euryurinae or tribe Euryurini in various classifications), until separated as a distinct family (Euryuridae) by Hoffman in 1998 and allied closer to Xystodesmidae. Similarly and concurrently, several neotropical genera previously placed in other subgroups of Platyrhacidae were removed and elevated to full family status: the Aphelidesmidae.

References

External links
Photographs of Platyrhacidae

Polydesmida
Millipede families


title: Eucosma cathareutis

text:
"Eucosma" cathareutis is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae described by Edward Meyrick in 1938. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In 2010 Józef Razowski, Leif Aarvik and Jurate De Prins wrote "The taxonomic position of this species is unknown. It is not a true member of the genus Eucosma Hübner, 1823."

References

Moths described in 1938
Eucosmini
Endemic fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo


title: Álvaro Marinho

text:
Álvaro Marinho (born 15 March 1976) is a Portuguese sailor. Together with Miguel Nunes he competed in the 470 at four Olympics from 2000 to 2012. His best result was at the 2000 Summer Olympics where he finished fifth.

References

External links

1976 births
Living people
Portuguese male sailors (sport)
Olympic sailors for Portugal
Sailors at the 2000 Summer Olympics – 470
Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – 470
Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – 470
Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – 470
Place of birth missing (living people)