The Homeland Security Cybersecurity Boots-on-the-Ground Act () is a bill that would require the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to undertake several actions designed to improve the readiness and capacity of DHS’s cybersecurity workforce. DHS would also be required to create a strategy for recruiting and training additional cybersecurity employees.

The bill was introduced into the United States House of Representatives during the 113th United States Congress.

Background

Computer security (also known as cybersecurity or IT security) is information security as applied to computing devices such as computers and smartphones, as well as computer networks such as private and public networks, including the Internet. The field covers all the processes and mechanisms by which computer-based equipment, information and services are protected from unintended or unauthorized access, change or destruction, and is of growing importance in line with the increasing reliance on computer systems of most societies worldwide.

Provisions of the bill
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Research Service, a public domain source.

The Homeland Security Cybersecurity Boots-on-the-Ground Act would require the United States Secretary of Homeland Security to: (1) develop occupation classifications for individuals performing activities in furtherance of the cybersecurity mission of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), (2) ensure that such classifications may be used throughout DHS and are made available to other federal agencies, and (3) assess the readiness and capacity of DHS to meet its cybersecurity mission.

The bill would define "cybersecurity mission" as threat and vulnerability reduction, deterrence, incident response, resiliency, and recovery activities to foster the security and stability of cyberspace.

The bill would direct the Secretary, acting through the DHS Chief Human Capital Officer and Chief Information Officer, to include in such readiness assessment information on which cybersecurity positions are performed by: (1) permanent full-time departmental employees (together with demographic information about such employees' race, ethnicity, gender, disability status, and veterans status); (2) individuals employed by independent contractors; and (3) individuals employed by other federal agencies, including the National Security Agency (NSA). Requires the assessment to address vacancies within the supervisory workforce, job training, and recruiting costs.

The bill would direct the Secretary to develop: (1) a workforce strategy that enhances the readiness, capacity, training, recruitment, and retention of the DHS cybersecurity workforce, including a multiphased recruitment plan, a 5-year implementation plan, and a 10-year projection of federal workforce needs; and (2) a process to verify that employees of independent contractors who serve in DHS cybersecurity positions receive initial and recurrent information security and role-based security training commensurate with assigned responsibilities.

The bill would require the Secretary to provide Congress with annual updates regarding such strategies, assessments, and training.

The bill would require the Comptroller General (GAO) to study and report to the Secretary and Congress with respect to such assessments and strategies.

The bill would direct the Secretary to report to Congress regarding the feasibility of establishing a Cybersecurity Fellowship Program to offer a tuition payment plan for undergraduate and doctoral candidates who agree to work for DHS for an agreed-upon period of time.

Congressional Budget Office report
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Budget Office, as reported by the House Committee on Homeland Security on December 12, 2013. This is a public domain source.

H.R. 3107 would require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to undertake several actions designed to improve the readiness and capacity of DHS’s cybersecurity workforce. In particular, the bill would require that DHS prepare a report on that workforce—based on occupational classifications—assessing training, hiring, vacancies, and other factors that could affect readiness. The bill also would require DHS to develop a cybersecurity workforce strategy that would enable the department to develop and retain an effective cybersecurity workforce.

In preparing the assessments and strategy required by the bill, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) expects that DHS would be able to draw from several similar federal efforts—such as the National Cybersecurity Workforce Framework, the Information Technology Workforce Assessment for Cybersecurity, and DHS’s Coordinated Recruiting and Outreach Strategy—and therefore, that the cost of completing those new requirements would total less than $500,000.

The bill also would require DHS to maintain documentation verifying that contractors who serve in cybersecurity roles at DHS receive the training necessary to perform their assigned responsibilities. CBO anticipates that effort would require additional staffing and resources. Based on the cost of similar personnel, CBO estimates that implementing that requirement would cost approximately $2 million over the 2014-2019 period, subject to the availability of appropriated funds.

Enacting H.R. 3107 would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply.

H.R. 3107 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act and would not affect the budgets of state, local, or tribal governments.

Procedural history
The Homeland Security Cybersecurity Boots-on-the-Ground Act was introduced into the United States House of Representatives by Rep. Yvette D. Clarke (D, NY-9). The bill was referred to the United States House Committee on Homeland Security and the United States House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies. On December 12, 2013, the bill was reported (amended) alongside House Report 113-294. On July 28, 2014, the House voted in Roll Call Vote 457 to pass the bill 395-8.

Debate and discussion
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), who co-sponsored the bill, said that "DHS' success depends on how well it recruits, hires, and trains its cyber workforce."

Rep. Pat Meehan (R-PA) supported the bill, saying that "the cyber risk is among the most serious our nation faces today. Terrorist groups like Hamas, nation-states like Iran, China and Russia and criminal gangs across the world are constantly attempting to breach our systems. But existing laws that have been on the books for years are not designed to cope with the threat."

See also
List of bills in the 113th United States Congress

References

External links

Library of Congress - Thomas H.R. 3107
beta.congress.gov H.R. 3107
GovTrack.us H.R. 3107
OpenCongress.org H.R. 3107
WashingtonWatch.com H.R. 3107
Congressional Budget Office's report on H.R. 3107

Proposed legislation of the 113th United States Congress


title: Walter K. Martinez

text:
Walter Kenneth Martinez, Sr. (November 16, 1930 – May 11, 1986) was an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the New Mexico House of Representatives. A liberal member of the Democratic Party, he served as speaker of the House for eight years. before being removed from the position in 1979, when conservative Democrats allied with Republicans to elect a conservative Democrat as speaker.

Early life and education

Martinez was born in Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico, one of eleven children in poor but well-educated family. He studied law at the University of New Mexico and graduated in 1955. He became a general legal practitioner with the firm of Tibo Chavez and Boucher and established an office in Grants, New Mexico.

Career

In 1966, Martinez was elected to the New Mexico House of Representatives as a Democrat representing Valencia County, New Mexico. He served in the House for eighteen years. Until 1971, the House had been dominated by conservative Democrats, mostly from the south and east of New Mexico. That had begun to change after the Supreme Court "one man, one vote" decision in Baker v. Carr (1962), which forced electoral districts to be more balanced in size and led to growing numbers of liberal Hispanic and urban intellectual representatives. In 1971, when Martinez was in his third term, the position of speaker came open. After a tie on the first vote, Martinez was elected speaker by a one-vote margin.

For eight years Martinez was one of the leaders of the liberal "Mama Lucy Gang", which controlled the house and prevented conservative "Cowboy Democrats" from the ranching areas in the south of the state from controlling the main committees. Another leader was Raymond G. Sanchez. Martinez's achievements included equalizing school district funding across the state and developing New Mexico's severance tax permanent fund.

In 1977 Martinez was chosen as candidate for speaker of the Democratic caucus by 26–22, going on to reelection as speaker. The Cowboys did well in the 1978 election and demanded a strong presence in the committees. Martinez refused, which turned out to be a mistake.
He was then chosen the Democratic caucus by 30 votes to 11 for Gene Samberson. During the opening session of the house on January 16, 1979, eleven Democrats allied with twenty six Republicans to elect the Cowboy Democrat Gene Samberson as speaker by thirty seven votes against the thirty Democrats and three rogue Republicans who voted for Martinez. The Mama Lucy Gang remained out of power for the next four years.

Martinez and Joseph Fidel worked together to obtain funding for many projects in the Grants area. In 1981 Martinez was the main force behind the legislation that split Cibola County, New Mexico, out of Valencia County. Grants was the seat of the new county. In the 1982 election, the liberal Democrats formed a solid majority of the forty seven Democrat members, and the Martinez-backed candidate Raymond G. Sanchez was elected speaker without opposition from the Cowboys.

Personal life

Martinez was married to Dolores Nolasco. They had three children, a girl and two boys, all of whom became lawyers. His eldest son, W. Ken Martinez, served as a member of the New Mexico House of Representatives from 1998 to 2016. His daughter became a district judge. His youngest son served on the Grants Board of Education.

Martinez was diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) and left the House in 1984. He died in 1986 at the age of 55. An enclosed walkway linking the Capitol and the newly built Capitol Annex was dedicated to Martinez in 2001.The University of New Mexico School of Law posthumously awarded his the Distinguished Achievement award.

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1930 births
1986 deaths
People from Grants, New Mexico
People from Rio Arriba County, New Mexico
University of New Mexico alumni
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Members of the New Mexico House of Representatives
Speakers of the New Mexico House of Representatives
Deaths from motor neuron disease
Neurological disease deaths in New Mexico
20th-century American politicians
20th-century American lawyers


title: Steve MacGordon

text:
Stephenson MacGordon (February 29, 1892 – June 6, 1916) was a record-holding pioneer aviator who died in a crash in 1916.

Biography
He was born on February 29, 1892, in Menominee, Michigan, to Charles Hackley McGordon (1871–1921).

He was an instructor at the Curtiss Flying School.

He died on June 6, 1916, in Newport News, Virginia, when the tail of his plane lifted during landing. His propeller hit the runway and a fire killed him. His student in the rear seat escaped with minor injuries.

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1892 births
1916 deaths
Accidental deaths in Virginia
American aviators
Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in the United States
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1916


title: Qurama Mountains

text:
The Qurama Mountains (; Uzbek: Qurama tizmasi/Қурама тизмаси) is a mountain range in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and continues into Kyrgyzstan. The range is a water divide between Angren River to the north and the Syr Darya to the south. The highest point is the Boboiob at .

See also
Kamchik Pass

References

Mountain ranges of Kyrgyzstan
Mountain ranges of Uzbekistan
Mountain ranges of Tajikistan
Mountain ranges of the Tian Shan


title: Sante Ciacci

text:
Sante Ciacci (born 22 November 1941) is a former Sammarinese cyclist. He competed in the individual road race and team time trial events at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

References

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1941 births
Living people
Sammarinese male cyclists
Italian male cyclists
Italian people of Sammarinese descent
Olympic cyclists for San Marino
Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Rimini
Cyclists from Emilia-Romagna


title: Ceann na Creige

text:
Ceann na Creige is a Scottish Gaelic placename. It can refer to:

 Kennacraig, a hamlet on the Kintyre peninsula
 Eilean Ceann na Creige, a small island near Kennacraig
 Kincraig, a village between Kingussie and Aviemore


Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória is a civil parish in the municipality of Porto, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau and Vitória. The population in 2011 was 40,440, in an area of 5.43 km². It covers the historic part of the city of Porto.

References

Parishes of Porto


title: Emily MacManus

text:
Emily Elvira Primrose MacManus, CBE (18 April 1886 – 22 February 1978) was an Irish nurse who served in France during World War I and later matron at Bristol Royal Infirmary then at Guy's Hospital in London, serving at the latter during World War II. She was also the President of the Royal College of Nursing from 1942–1944.

Early life
MacManus was born in Battersea, London on 18 April 1886, to Leonard Strong McManus and Julia Emily McManus, née Boyd. Her father was the brother of Caroline, wife of Sir Edwin Cooper Perry and son of James and Charlotte McManus, originally from Killeaden, Kiltimagh, County Mayo, Ireland. Though not born in Ireland, her father told her that Killeaden would always be her home. She was the eldest of four surviving children and her siblings were Dermot Arthur (Diarmuid A. MacManus), Sarah and Desmond. Her father was a doctor and two of her aunts were nurses.

She was originally educated by a governess before attending a day school in Nightingale Lane, Clapham and a boarding school near Worthing.

Career
In 1908 MacManus entered Guy's Hospital in London as a trainee nurse. She received her nursing certificate in 1911 and then trained as a midwife at the East End Mothers’ Home in Whitechapel. She passed her midwife exams in May 1912 and went to Cairo as a holiday-relief nurse at the Government Hospital Kasr-el-Aini and the Lady Strangways Hospital at Port Said, after that as a private nurse and midwife in Egypt. From spring 1913 she worked at the West Norfolk and Lynn Hospital in King's Lynn. One year later, she returned to Guy's Hospital where she remained until the summer of 1915.

After the start of World War I she served as a nurse on the front lines in France. She joined the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve and arrived in France in August 1915, where she would treat injured soldiers in the trenches for 3 1/2 years as a Nursing Reserve Sister. MacManus later wrote in her biography Fifty Years Of Nursing - Matron of Guy's, published in 1956, it was the responsibility of nurses to create homeliness in the “midst of the mud and blood, dust and death, in which they spent most of their days”. She was awarded the Royal Red Cross.

In January 1919, she resigned her position at the No. 2 General Hospital in Le Havre and returned to London. She became a member of the College of Nursing, working in administration, and then rejoined Guy's. In 1922, she joined a Medical Research Council project on the impact of nutrition for children's development. The next year, she became matron of Bristol Royal Infirmary and was appointed principal matron for the Territorial Army Nursing Service.

In 1927 she was appointed matron of Guy's Hospital, a position she would hold until her retirement in 1946. She wrote Hospital Administration for Women, which was published in 1934, and co-wrote Nursing in Time of War with Philip Henry Mitchiner in 1939. When World War II started, she organised the evacuation of Guy's to Kent and commuted back and forth from London throughout the war. She was in charge when the Guy's was bombed during the London blitz in 1940. The same year, she went to Dover to see the arrival of the wounded soldiers from Dunkirk.

Throughout her career, MacManus was involved in the National Council of Nurses and the General Nursing Council for England and Wales. She was on the Royal College of Nursing council and was president from 1942 to 1944. In 1930 she was awarded an OBE for her service and in 1947, she was appointed a CBE.

Later career and death
After the end of World War II MacManus was exhausted. She retired from Guy's in 1946 and moved to Mayo. She visited the West Indies in 1947 to assist in an investigation by the Colonial Office on nursing practices in the British colonies, and went to Turkey in 1949 and the Netherlands in 1952 with the British Council. She published her autobiography Matron of Guy’s in 1956 and wrote a number of children's stories, including Mary and her Furry Friends, a series which was broadcast by the BBC in 1964. She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 23 May 1966.

MacManus died in the Sacred Heart Hospital in Castlebar, Mayo, on 22 February 1978, aged 91. She was buried in the cemetery of St Michael’s Parish Church in Ardnaree, Ballina. In 2007, Guy’s Hospital named a building Emily MacManus House in her honour.

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Works
 𝄪 Hospital Administration for Women, 1934, Faber and Faber, London
 𝄪 Matron of Guy's, London 1956, Andrew Melrose, with a foreword by L. A. G. Strong

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1886 births
People from Kiltimagh
1978 deaths
Irish nurses
Presidents of the Royal College of Nursing
People from Battersea
Health professionals from County Mayo


title: List of crossings of the Shannon

text:
This is a list of crossings of the Shannon river,  in Ireland (including bridges, tunnels, ferries and fords),  from its source in the Shannon Pot to the Shannon Estuary where the river widens before it flows into the Atlantic Ocean. Bridges not primarily intended for public use but which have limited access (generally only in the daytime and only for bicycle and foot traffic) are not included.

Crossings

References
Citations

Sources

Shannon
Shannon
Shannon
Shannon


title: William Wirt Virgin

text:
William Wirt Virgin (September 18, 1823 – January 23, 1893) was an American politician and jurist from Maine.

Early life and education
Virgin was born in 1823 in Rumford, Maine and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1844. He was admitted to the Maine bar in 1847 and moved to Norway, Maine, where practiced law until 1871.

Career
During the American Civil War, Virgin raised the 23rd Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment, which consisted of five companies from Oxford County and Androscoggin Counties. The Regiment did not see combat, instead acting as a guard of Washington D.C.

Virgin, a Republican, served two one-year terms in the Maine Senate (1865, 1866). In his 2nd and final term, Virgin served as the Senate President. In 1872, Virgin was appointed to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court as an associate justice. He served in that position until his death on January 23, 1893.

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1823 births
1893 deaths
Bowdoin College alumni
Maine lawyers
People from Rumford, Maine
People from Norway, Maine
People of Maine in the American Civil War
Presidents of the Maine Senate
Republican Party Maine state senators
Justices of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
19th-century American politicians
19th-century American judges
19th-century American lawyers


title: Domenico Cecchetti

text:
Domenico Cecchetti (born 13 May 1941) is a former Sammarinese cyclist. He competed in the individual road race and team time trial events at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

References

External links

1941 births
Living people
Sammarinese male cyclists
Italian male cyclists
Italian people of Sammarinese descent
Olympic cyclists for San Marino
Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Rimini
Cyclists from Emilia-Romagna


title: Business Stream

text:
Business Stream is a water retail business operating in both Scotland and England's competitive non-domestic water markets, with its headquarters in Edinburgh. It also has offices in Glasgow, Worthing and Bradford. The company is a subsidiary of Scottish Water, the publicly owned utility which serves the residential water market across Scotland.

Operation in Scotland

Having previously supplied all of Scotland's properties with water, Scottish Water split its non-domestic arm off to serve the fledgling market. The newly formed company, called Business Stream, acted as the incumbent non-domestic water and waste water supplier for organisations in the country.

In June 2020, Business Stream reported that since the market opened in 2008, it has helped its customers save over £272 million through discounts and water and energy efficiencies.

Operations in England

On 8 December 2011, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) published the Water for life market reform proposals, which suggested the introduction of competition to England's non-residential water market.

Business Stream registered for a licence to compete in the English market, as reported in the Sunday Times in 2009. It has since stated that it has secured contracts with Network Rail, Cancer Research UK, Lloyds Banking Group and the Ministry of Justice.

References

Companies based in Edinburgh
Renewable resource companies established in 2006
Water companies of the United Kingdom
Water management
2006 establishments in Scotland


title: 2014 Tampere Open – Men's doubles

text:
Henri Kontinen and Goran Tošić were the defending champions, but both players chose not to defend their title.

Ruben Gonzales and Sean Thornley won the title, beating Elias Ymer and Anton Zaitcev 6–7(5–7), 7–6(12–10), [10–8]

Seeds

  Jesse Huta Galung /  Andreas Siljeström (semifinals)
  Antal van der Duim /  Boy Westerhof (first round)
  Ruben Gonzales /  Sean Thornley (champion)
  James Cluskey /  Darren Walsh (quarterfinals)

Draw

Draw

References
 Draw

Tampere Open - Men's Doubles
2014 Men's Doubles


title: Lordelo do Ouro e Massarelos

text:
Lordelo do Ouro e Massarelos is a civil parish in the municipality of Porto, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Lordelo do Ouro and Massarelos. The population in 2011 was 29,059, in an area of 5.59 km².

References

Parishes of Porto


title: Burk Uzzle

text:
Burk Uzzle (August 4, 1938 in Raleigh, North Carolina) is an American photojournalist, previously member of Magnum Photos and president from 1979 to 1980.

Burk Uzzle (burkuzzle.com) has spent his life as a professional photographer.  Initially grounded in documentary photography when he was the youngest contract photographer hired by Life magazine at age 23, his work continues to reflect the human condition.  For sixteen years during the 1970s and 1980s, he was an active contributor to the evolution of Magnum and served as its President in 1979 and 1980.  While affiliated with the cooperative, he produced the iconic and symbolic image of Woodstock (showing Nick Ercoline and Bobbi Kelly hugging), helped people grasp an understanding of the assassination and funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and powerfully projects comprehension of what it means to be an outsider - from Cambodian war refugees to disenfranchised populations without voice or agency to portraits of communities not identified on a roadmap. His life, philosophy, and continuing work was explored in the critically acclaimed 2020 documentary feature film F11 and Be There by director Jethro Waters.

His archive spans more than six decades and captures much of the history of analog and digital photography.  His current bodies of work rest deep in issues of social justice.  A dozen years ago, Uzzle returned to North Carolina and now lives and works in two century old industrial buildings located in downtown Wilson not far from where he was born.

Solo exhibitions

 2017 "Perceptions + Recognitions : African-Americans in Eastern North Carolina," Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville NC (Catalogue)
 2016 "Burk Uzzle: American Chronicle," North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh NC
 2016 "All About America: Photographs by Burk Uzzle," Ackland Art Museum UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill NC (Catalogue)
 2016 "Burk Uzzle Retrospective," Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham NC
 2015 "Burk Uzzle: American Puzzles," Steven Kasher Gallery, New York NY
 2012 "Burned," Laurence Miller Gallery, New York NY
 2011 "Burk Uzzle," Flanders Gallery, Raleigh NC
 2010 "Martin Luther King, Jr.," Wilson Arts Council, Wilson NC
 2009 "Woodstock," Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa FL
 2009 "Woodstock 40th Anniversary," Laurence Miller Gallery, New York NY
 2008 "Burk Uzzle Recent Work," Barton College, Wilson NC
 2007 "Just Add Water: America in Color," Laurence Miller Gallery, New York NY
 2006 "Burk Uzzle," Michael Dawson Gallery, Los Angeles CA
 2005 "A Family Named Spot," The Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach FL
 2004 "Burk Uzzle," Laurence Miller Gallery, New York NY
 2001 "America in the Seventies," Bodo Nieman Gallery, Berlin Germany
 1998 "Daytona Bike Week," Gallery Contempo, St. Augustine FL
 1996 "Correspondence Between Islands," Danforth Gallery, Portland ME
 1994 "Burk Uzzle Recent Work," The Photography Gallery, Drew University, Madison NJ
 1992 "A Progress Report on Civilization," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk VA (Catalogue)
 1985 "Burk Uzzle," 253 Gallery, Norfolk VA
 1984 "All America: Photographs by Burk Uzzle," Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA
 1983 "Burk Uzzle," The Photographers' Gallery, London England
 1982 "Burk Uzzle," The Ffoto Gallery, Cardiff Wales
 1982 "Burk Uzzle," Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool England
 1980 "News from Cambodia," International Center of Photography, New York NY
 1979 "Burk Uzzle," Gallerie Agathe Gaillard, Paris France
 1979 "Burk Uzzle," Galerie Fiolet, Amsterdam Holland
 1979 "Burk Uzzle," Witkin Gallery, New York NY
 1979 "Burk Uzzle," Galerie Breitling, Berlin Germany
 1977 "Burk Uzzle," Aperion Workshop, Traveling exhibition
 1977 "Burk Uzzle," Columbia College, Chicago IL
 1974 "Burk Uzzle," Dayton Art Institute, Dayton OH
 1974 "Burk Uzzle," 831 Gallery, Birmingham MI
 1973 "Burk Uzzle," University of Massachusetts Art Gallery, Boston MA
 1971 "Burk Uzzle," Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
 1970 "Typically American," International Center of Photography, New York NY
 1969 "Burk Uzzle," Riverside Museum, New York NY

Museum and public collections

 Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 Art Institute of Chicago
 Arts Council of Great Britain
 Bibliothèque Nationale de France
 Cameron Art Museum
 Chrysler Museum of Art
 Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
 George Eastman House
 Greenville Museum of Art
 Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington at Seattle
 International Center of Photography NYC
 Library of Congress
 Metropolitan Museum of Art
 Museum of Modern Art
 Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University
 National Museum of Modern Art, Japan
 North Carolina Museum of Art
 Philadelphia Museum of Art
 Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
 Smithsonian Institution
 Stedelijk Museum
 University of Texas
 Weatherspoon Museum

Books, monographs, and anthologies

External links
 Burk Uzzle Official Website
F11 and Be There a feature documentary film about Burk Uzzle by Director Jethro Waters.
Burk Uzzle at Photography-Now.com

Remains photograph and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMIcn6LxVCM supporting film directed by Jethro Waters of the toppled Confederate Soldiers Monument in Durham, North Carolina.

References

1938 births
American photojournalists
Living people
People from Raleigh, North Carolina
Artists from North Carolina


title: Hall of the Amigos del País

text:
Hall of the Amigos del País was located in Los Angeles, California. Erected in 1844, it was the first social hall or club house ever built on the North American Pacific Coast. It was the hall of the Sociedad Económica de los Amigos del País (Friends of the Country), a society or club made up of the leading citizens of the town, both native and foreign born, who, during the 1840s, formed a group with the dual purposes of providing pensions and stimulating the reading of literature.

A lot, 100 varas square, free of taxes, was granted the society by the Ayuntamiento. An adobe building was erected and fitted up with a dancing hall, reading room and card tables. The hall was dedicated by a grand ball and a number of social entertainments were held. The Amigos for a time enjoyed their social privileges, and the society flourished. But it was a time of revolutions and political disturbances. In time social amenities gave place to political animosities. Although the members were "Friends of the Country," they became enemies to one another. The society ran in debt. Its membership fell off. The building was finally put up at a lottery. Andrés Pico drew the lucky number. The Amigos del Pais disbanded during the Mexican–American War. Their hall in the course of time became a saloon and afterwards it was "Los dos Amigos," ("the two friends") —the friend behind the bar and the one in front of it. The McDonald Block, on North Main Street, was later built on the site of the Amigos’ hall.

Reading room
The hall was the first attempt at a reading room and library during the Mexican era of Los Angeles’ history. A reading room was partitioned off from the main hall and a small library of books was collected. There were no daily newspapers in the reading room. A newspaper six months old was late news, and a book of the last century was quite fresh and readable. Again in 1856 and 1859, the Amigos furnished additional reading rooms in Los Angeles with donated books for members' use, which ultimately led to the development of the Los Angeles Library Association.

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Demolished buildings and structures in Los Angeles
Buildings and structures completed in 1844
Defunct clubs and societies of the United States
Libraries in Los Angeles
Defunct organizations based in California


title: 2014 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jump

text:
The men's triple jump events at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Athletics took place at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, United States on 25 and 27 July 2014.

Medalists

Records
, the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.

Results

Qualification
Qualification: Standard 15.90 m (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q).

Final
Summary:

References

Men's triple jump
Triple jump at the World Athletics U20 Championships


title: Charles Bartlett (film director)

text:
Charles Earl Bartlett (1888-?) was an American silent film director.

Filmography

As actor
1912
 A Four-Footed Hero : Jack
 The Massacre of the Fourth Cavalry de Frank Montgomery : Lieutenant Davis
 The Half-Breed Scout de Frank Montgomery : Jim, un pionnier
 An Indian Ishmael : Lieutenant
 A Red Man's Love de Frank Montgomery : Caporal Taylor
 Trapper Bill, King of Scouts : Bill le Trappeur
 Star Eyes' Stratagem de Frank Montgomery : Crow Face, un guerrier Sioux
 The Tattoo : Cy Hardy
 At Old Fort Dearborn; or, Chicago in 1812 de Frank Montgomery : Dan Rawlins
 The Massacre of Santa Fe Trail de Frank Montgomery
 The Girl from Golden Run
 A Shot in the Dark de Ben F. Wilson : Tom Selvige
 For Love, Life and Riches de Frank Montgomery : Tom Warren
1913
 An Indian Maid's Strategy  de Frank Montgomery : Lieutenant Breen
 Against Desperate Odds de Frank Montgomery :Bob, le Shérif
 The Trail of the Lonesome Mine
 Beyond the Law : Bill, l'adjoint du shérif
 En permission de 24 heures (Soldiers Three) : Ned
 The Grand Old Flag de Henry MacRae
 Love, Life and Liberty de Henry MacRae : Capitaine Mario
 In the Secret Service de Henry MacRae : Lieutenant Barrett
 One on Romance de Edwin Middleton
 The Song of the Telegraph de Frank Montgomery : Lieutenant Richards
 The Genius of Fort Lapawai : Bobby
 Regimental Pals
1914
 The Vanishing Tribe de Frank Montgomery : Deep Thunder
 The Moonshiners de Frank Montgomery : Bart, agent du fisc
 The Fuse of Death de Frank Montgomery : Lieutenant Countiss
 The Gambler's Reformation de Frank Montgomery : Weedon, un joueur
 The Cave of Death de Frank Montgomery : Deering, un prospecteur
 Kidnapped by Indians de Frank Montgomery : Capitaine Blake
 At the End of the Rope de Frank Montgomery : Manning, un colon
 Grey Eagle's Revenge de Frank Montgomery
 The Fate of a Squaw de Frank Montgomery : Larkin, un trappeur
 The Gypsy Gambler de Frank Montgomery : Romano, le père de Paulena
 Brought to Justice de Frank Montgomery : Shérif Tom Burden
 The Squaw's Revenge de Frank Montgomery : Dan, un colon
 The Call of the Tribe de Frank Montgomery : Dr Huff
 The Bottled Spider de Frank Montgomery : Rex, alias "The Spider" (l'araignée)
 The Redskins and the Renegades : Burns, de l'agence indienne
 Grey Eagle's Last Stand de Frank Montgomery : Tom Wells, le fils du Major
 The Fight on Deadwood Trail de Frank Montgomery : Griggs, un mineur
 The Raid of the Red Marauders : Hal Stevens, un soldat
 The Medicine Man's Vengeance : le "Medicine Man" blanc
 The Hopi Raiders : Capitaine Clark
 The Tigers of the Hills de Frank Montgomery : Lieutenant Howard
 An Indian's Honor de Frank Montgomery : Burns, un prospecteur
 Indian Fate de Frank Montgomery : Charles Bartells
 The Indian Ambuscade de Frank Montgomery : Jack, un jeune mineur
 The Paleface Brave de Frank Montgomery : Paul, le brave visage pâle
 Red Hawk's Sacrifice de Frank Montgomery : Binfield, un joueur
 Indian Blood de Frank Montgomery : Lieutenant Hayes
 A Dream of the Wild de Frank Montgomery : Tom
1915
 Pardoned de Tom Ricketts
 The Great Question de Tom Ricketts
 In Trust de B. Reeves Eason
 By Whose Hand? de Henry Otto
1916
 The Thunderbolt de William Bertram
1927
Don Desperado de Leo D. Maloney : Aaron Blaisdell

As director

 The Clean-Up
  Spider Barlow's Soft Spot
 The Water Carrier of San Juan
 Spider Barlow Cuts In
 The Key to the Past
 Drifting
  Alice of Hudson Bay
 On Secret Service
Out of the Ashes
 Visitors and Visitees
 The Sting of It
  Just as It Happened
1916
  The Girl Who Doesn't Know
  The Gold Band
  A Desperate Remedy
  The Small Magnetic Hand
  The Ancient Blood
  The Bruiser
  The Craving
 A Modern Sphinx
  The Silent Trail
  The Thoroughbred
  Spider Barlow Meets Competition
1917
 Jerry's Best Friend
  Jerry's Double Cross
  Jerry's Victory
  Hell Hath No Fury
1920
  Dangerous Love
1920
   Tangled Trails
  Headin' North

References

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American film directors
1888 births
Year of death missing
Articles containing video clips


title: Blankety Blanks

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Blankety Blanks  or Blankety Blank may refer to:

Blankety Blanks (U.S. game show), hosted by Bill Cullen in 1975
Game shows based upon the U.S. show Match Game:
Blankety Blanks (Australian game show), which aired from 1977 to 1978 and was hosted by Graham Kennedy
Blankety Blank, a British version which aired between 1979 and 2002 and was revived in 2021


title: Julio Augusto Henriques

text:
Júlio Augusto Henriques (15 January 1838 - 15 January 1928) was a Portuguese botanist and professor at the University of Coimbra. He developed the Herbarium of the University and Coimbra Botanical Garden. He also founded the Broterian Society, which brought together various scientists botanists, geologists and naturalists. He was a large admirer of the work of Charles Darwin. He also wrote many articles about the flora of Portugal.

Biography

Henriques was born on 15 January 1838, in the parish of Arco de Baúlhe.

In 1853, he married Zulmira Angelina de Magalhães Lima.

He went to school in the city of Braga. In 1854, he trained to become a lawyer at College of São Bento in Coimbra, (following his fathers wishes). He completed his law course in 1859, but then enrolled on a second college course in Philosophy at the University of Coimbra. After gaining a bachelor's degree in Philosophy, he went on to obtain a Ph.D. doctorate.

Henriques was a supporter of Darwinism. His final thesis in 1865, was entitled As espécies são mudáveis? (translated as Are species modifiable?) was a defence of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

In 1866, he became a tutor in Philosophy at the University of Coimbra. He soon became secretary of the Philosophy Faculty, which he held until 1873. In 1869, he became a substitute lecturer in botany, agriculture, zoology, chemistry and mineralogy.

He most favoured botany and the plant sciences, and then in 1873, this new found passion lead to him becoming head of the Botany and Agriculture. This also meant being in charge of the university botanical garden. Using other botanical gardens in Europe as his guide, he achieved new funding for the department. He acquired new laboratory resources, increased fieldwork opportunities for his botany students. He re-organised the books, to create a library, then he re-organised the botanical specimens to create a herbarium. This new plant collection attracted others, including a vast number of specimens from the German collector Heinrich Moritz Willkomm (who collected in Spain and Portugal). He also added to the Botanical Garden, by collaborating (via exchanges of plants and seeds) with other botanical gardens and plant organisations.

This invigoration within the botany department, turned Coimbra into a national centre for studying Portuguese flora.

In 1876, he wrote O Jardim Botanico, published by University Press.

In 1880, he was still in contact with Heinrich Moritz Willkomm, with several letters being sent between the two botanists.

In 1880, he founded the Sociedade Broteriana,  which was named in honour after Félix Avelar Brotero (a botanist and founder of the Botanical Garden. The botanical society brought together plant enthusiasts from all over Portugal, to write various articles in the society's bulletins. and disseminate information about plants throughout the country.

Henriques became to travel all over the country to collect more specimens for the University and the herbarium.  He also started classifying and identifying the herbarium collection (including Willkomm's and his) specimens.

He produced many articles and publications on the fungi, lichens, algae and vascular plants (such as Amaryllidaceae, Poaceae and Plantaginaceae) of Portugal and produced a regional flora of the Mondego Basin.

In 1882, Henriques published an article Carlos Darwin, which is devoted to Charles Darwin's life and works.

In 1883, he published Expedição scientifica á Serra da Estrella, in Secção de botanica, based on a botanical exploration taken of Serra da Estrela (Star Mountain range) in 1881. It listed 716 plants (including 600 vascular species).

In 1886, he published Uma excursão botanica na Serra do Caramullo in Bol. Soc Broteriana, various geological, topographical and flora observations from explorations taken in June 1884.

In 1886, he published Contribuição para o estudo da flora d'Africa: Flora de S. Thome about flora of the Portuguese commonwealth in Africa, he collected in São Tomé and Príncipe as well, and is responsible for publishing the first flora of these islands in 1886.  He was also interested in the development of agriculture on São Tomé and Príncipe and in Angola, publishing instructions on successful cultivation of certain crop species (particularly quinine for its protective qualities against malaria), and sending over thousands of species of potential agricultural interest.

In 1889, he published Lecanora newtoniana (a species of Lichen) in Ins. Guin.: 17 (1889).

He studied specimens from plant collectors, Frenchman Jules Alexandre Daveau (during 1852-1929) and M. Ferreira. (during 1860-1920).

In 1901, he published De Macieira até Castro Daire in Bol. Soc Broteriana various geological, topographical and flora details of various regions in articles.

Henriques did not hold a large number of administrative positions, preferring instead to concentrate on his teaching and running the gardens.

In 1907, the University of Uppsala (in Sweden) awarded him an honorary doctorate but, as a particularly humble man, he often refused other recognition's.

In 1915, he wrote a letter on 5 January from Jardim Botânico, Coimbra to Sir William Abbott Herdman, the letter is now stored by the Natural History Museum Archives in London.

In 1917, he wrote A Ilha de S. Tomé, sob o ponto de vista histórico-natural e agrícola.

He also wrote Plantas Da Borracha E Da Gutta-Percha (Portuguese Edition). It was re-published in paperback form on 27 January 2012.

He is the botanical author of Iris boissieri.

After his death in 1928, several articles Flora vascular de Transcow were published in Anais da Faculdade de Sciências do Porto in 1936 by Gonçalo Sampaio. This was a brief annotated list of 405 species of vascular plants collected by Henriques in July 1908.

In 1955, Portugaliae acta biologica: Sistemática, ecologia, biogeografia e paleontologia, Volumes 6-8 was also published.

In 1978, Sociedade Broteriana also published the letters sent between Julio Henriques and Heinrich Moritz Willkomm.

References

Other sources
R. T. Palian, 1849, "Júlio Henriques: Botânico e Mestre (esboço vigoráfico)", Portugaliae acta biologica, vol. Julio Henriques: V-XXXV.

1838 births
1928 deaths
Botanists active in Europe
Botanists with author abbreviations
19th-century Portuguese botanists
University of Coimbra alumni
20th-century Portuguese botanists


title: Charles Forder

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Charles Robert Forder (6 January 1907 – 10 October 2008) was Archdeacon of York from 1957 to 1972.

Forder was educated at Paston Grammar School, Christ's College, Cambridge and Ridley Hall, Cambridge and ordained in 1930.  After  curacies in Hunslet and Burley he held Incumbencies in Wibsey, Bradford, Drypool, Routh, Wawne and Micklegate.

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Archdeacons of York
Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge
2008 deaths
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Clergy from Norfolk
British centenarians
Men centenarians


title: Piotr Zawojski

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Dr. hab. Piotr Zawojski  (born 1963) is a Polish media expert. He is a tenured professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of Silesia () in Katowice, Poland.

Biography

Teaching career
Zawojski works in the fields of film, photography, new media and the area of cyberculture. He teaches history and theory of film and television, communication, digital photography, new media and cyberculture. Professor Zawojski is a guest lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts ()in Cracow and at the Jagiellonian University ()  in Cracow, one of the oldest universities in the world. He also frequently offers courses at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Radio and Television Faculty at the University of Silesia.

Educational programs
Zawojski has been heavily involved in youth and adult educational programs including Festiwal Filmów Kultowych (Cult Film Festival) in Katowice. He has supported several film festivals in Central Europe, promoting independent filmmakers. He also serves as an artistic director of digital_ia, an annual digital art festival in Poland.

Publications
Zawojski is the author of Elektroniczane obrazoświaty. Między sztuką a technologią (Electronic Imageworlds. Between Art and Technology) (2000), Wielkie filmy przełomu wieków. Subiektywny przewodnik (Great Films at the Centuries Turn. A Subjective Guidebook) (2007) as well as Cyberkultura. Syntopia sztuki, nauki i technologii (Cyberculture. Syntopy of art, science and technology) (2010) and Sztuka obrazu i obrazowania w epoce nowych mediów (Art of Image and Imaging in the Era of New Media) (2012).  He co-edited Wiek ekranów. Przestrzenie kultury widzenia/ A Century of Screen. Physical spaces associated with the Viewing Culture  (2002), science editor and the introduction author of Für eine Philosophie der Fotografie (Towards a Philosophy of Photography) by Vilém Flusser (2004), an editor of Digitalne dotknięcia. Teoria w praktyce/Praktyka w teorii (Digital Touch. A Theory in Practice/A Practice in Theory) (2010).

Professor Zawojski has published numerous works for leading Central European professional and academic journals: Studia Filmoznawcze (Film Studies), Kwartalnik Filmowy (Film Quarterly) of the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Sztuka i Filozofia (Art and Philosophy), Postscriptum, National Center for Culture quarterly Kultura Współczesna, Polish Academy of Sciences Annual Rocznik Historii Sztuki, Przegląd Kulturoznawczy, Format, Zeszyty Telewizyjne (Television Academy), Zeszyty Artystyczne, Art Inquiry. Additionally he has co-authored numerous academic papers. Zawojski is an expert in academic critique of modern film and of audio-visual culture, photography and cyberculture. He is a head editor for Opcje magazine and a frequent contributor to popular regional publications Ekran, Kino, artPapier, Świat Obrazu. He is also a member of the program board of magazine CyberEmpathy – Visual and Media Studies Academic Journal. Piotr Zawojski created and edited policy for television programming, viewing as well as monitoring analysis for the terrestrial national television carrier TVP. He was also regularly published in the Polish television industry publication.

Awards
Zawojski has received numerous local and national awards and has been invited to over 50 national and international conferences. He is a member of the International Association for Aesthetics and International Association of Art Critics (AICA).

See also

 Analog photography
 Cinema of Poland
 Digital versus film photography
 History of cinema
 List of famous Poles
 List of film festivals
 List of film formats
 List of film techniques
 List of motion picture-related topics (Extensive alphabetical listing and glossary).
 List of photographic processes
 List of video-related topics
 National Film School in Łódź
 New York Polish Film Festival
 Outline of film
 Polish film school
 Seattle Polish Film Festival

References
Cyberkultura: syntopia sztuki, nauki i technologii
Wielkie filmy przełomu wieków: subiektywny przewodnik
Sztuka obrazu i obrazowania w epoce nowych mediow
Wiek ekranów : przestrzenie kultury widzenia

External links
 Piotr Zawojski's website

1963 births
Living people
Film theorists
Polish film historians


title: Seeds (TV on the Radio album)

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Seeds is the fifth studio album by American art rock band TV on the Radio, released on November 18, 2014 through Harvest Records. It is the band's first album since the 2011 death of their bassist, Gerard Smith.

The album's first single, "Happy Idiot", was released on September 2, 2014.

Recording
Seeds was recorded in Los Angeles, at guitarist Dave Sitek's Federal Prism home studio. Sitek also produced the record. Lead singer Tunde Adebimpe explained, "It was nice to be somewhere where you're not exactly on the clock and worried about how much everything is costing you. It was pretty much the same situation as when we started making music."

Release
The band announced the album on July 29, 2014. Adebimpe stated in a press release:

Reception

Seeds was positively received by most critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 78, based on 30 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Many reviewers commented on the album's shift in aesthetic from the band's past work, attributing it to the passing of long-time band member Gerard Smith. Heather Phares of AllMusic wrote that "Seeds has a palpable sense of moving on for TV on the Radio [...] with the band confronting loss directly on the album's first half and accepting it on the second." She found the album to be "a fine tribute to Smith and the sound of enduring unimaginable loss." Mark Beaumont of NME observed that "grief and anger are channelled into a propulsive energy, driving the quartet's synthetic pop explorations with added garage-rock urgency" and ultimately concluding that the band "have returned from an uncertain period sounding remarkably fresh." Ian Gormely of Exclaim! described it as a "sublime catharsis after the group's tragic loss and a perfect distillation of what the band do best".

Track listing

Charts

References

2014 albums
Albums produced by Dave Sitek
TV on the Radio albums
Harvest Records albums


title: Neill Lochery

text:
Neill Lochery (born 1965) is a Scottish author and leading historian on the modern history of Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East.  He is a frequent contributor to newspapers and journal publications around the world.
Lochery is Professor of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Studies at University College London.

Author
He is the author of a series of critically acclaimed books. A number of his books focus on World War II.

His international bestseller, Lisbon: War in the Shadows in the City of Light, 1939-1945, recounts the pivotal role the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, played during World War II and how the small European country, guided by its authoritarian leader, António de Oliveira Salazar, survived the war not only physically intact but also significantly wealthier. The book is set within the context of a country that was frantically trying to hold on to its self-proclaimed wartime neutrality, but it was increasingly caught in the middle of the economic, and naval, wars between the Allies and the Axis.

In Brazil: The Fortunes of War, World War II and the Making of Modern Brazil, Lochery reveals a long-buried chapter of World War II, showing how the cunning statecraft and economic opportunism of Brazil's leaders, under the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas, transformed it into a regional superpower and uncovers the little-known origins of one of the world’s emerging economic powerhouses.
In 2013, he completed the first volume of a major work on the modern history of Portugal; Outside Looking In, 1933-1974. It tells the stories of the colourful array of international personalities who came to Lisbon during the one of the most controversial periods in its modern history, the period of the Portuguese Estado Novo. In his book Out of the Shadows, Neill Lochery provides an engaging and insightful account of Portugal's first 40 years of democracy that started from the Carnation Revolution in 1974.

Lochery has additionally produced a series of books on the Middle East: The Resistible Rise of Benjamin Netanyahu (2016), Loaded Dice (2007), The View from the Fence (2005), Why Blame Israel (2004), The Difficult Road to Peace (1999) and The Israeli Labour Party (1997). The View from the Fence, was shortlisted for the 2006 Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize and additionally featured in David Hare’s Broadway hit - The Wall.

Academic career
Lochery has an MA from Exeter University, and a PhD from Durham University (Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies).

He joined University College London in 1997 and is now Professor of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Studies in the faculty of Arts & Humanities.

Besides his ongoing research and teaching at University College London, in the past decade he has served as an advisor to several political leaders providing expert insight on current affairs of Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East. He also provides consultancy to companies on a broad range of topics: from risk assessments on the Middle East to more bespoke consultancy projects.

As well as giving a number of private and public seminars each year, he has op-ed and commentary articles published in The Wall Street Journal, The National Post (Canada), Jerusalem Post, The Scotsman, New York Sun, The Washington Post and United Press International.

Bibliography

Author
 Porto: Gateway to the World. London: Bloomsbury, 2020.
 Out of the Shadows: Portugal from Revolution to the Present Day. London: Bloomsbury Books, 2017.
 Benjamin Netanyahu. London: Bloomsbury Books, 2016.
 Brazil: The Fortunes of War, World War II and the Making of Modern Brazil. New York: Basic Books, 2014.  - (Foreign language publication in Brazil and Portugal)
 Lisbon: Outside Looking In 1933 – present day (volume 1) Queluz de Baixo: Editorial Presenca, 2013.
 Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-1945. New York: Public Affairs, 2011.  - (Foreign language publication in Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Latin America as well as an award-winning audio release )
 Loaded Dice: The Foreign Office and Israel. London and New York: Continuum (Bloomsbury), 2007.
 The View From The Fence. London and New York: Continuum (Bloomsbury), 2005.
 Why Blame Israel? The Facts Behind the Headlines. Cambridge: Icon Books, 2004.
 The Difficult Road to Peace. Netanyahu, Israel and the Middle East Peace Process. Reading: Ithaca Press, 1999.
 The Israeli Labour Party: In the Shadow of the Likud. Reading: Ithaca Press, 1997.

Contributions
 World Powers: Diplomatic Alliances and International Relations beyond the Middle East: "Israel and Britain: Tipping the Scales of Balance". Shindler, C. (ed.). London and New York. IB Tauris, 2014.
 The Middle East: Modern Controversies: "Creating a Palestinian State Would Not Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict". Ojeda, A. (ed.). Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2003.

External links
Neill Lochery official website: http://www.neill-lochery.co.uk/

References

1965 births
Living people
Academics of the University of London
Alumni of Durham University
Alumni of the University of Exeter
20th-century Scottish historians
Scottish male writers


title: Petrovsk (inhabited locality)

text:
Petrovsk () is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.

Modern localities
Urban localities
Petrovsk, Saratov Oblast, a town in Saratov Oblast

Rural localities
Petrovsk, Bryansk Oblast, a village in Semyachkovsky Rural Administrative Okrug of Trubchevsky District in Bryansk Oblast;
Petrovsk, Irkutsk Oblast, a village in Tulunsky District of Irkutsk Oblast
Petrovsk, Kozelsky District, Kaluga Oblast, a village in Kozelsky District of Kaluga Oblast
Petrovsk, Medynsky District, Kaluga Oblast, a village in Medynsky District of Kaluga Oblast
Petrovsk, Pskov Oblast, a village in Pechorsky District of Pskov Oblast
Petrovsk, Samara Oblast, a settlement in Chelno-Vershinsky District of Samara Oblast
Petrovsk, Tomsk Oblast, a village in Pervomaysky District of Tomsk Oblast

Alternative names
Petrovsk, alternative name of Bolshoye Petrovskoye, a village in Teryayevskoye Rural Settlement of Volokolamsky District in Moscow Oblast;
Petrovsk, alternative name of Petrovskoye, a selo in Semisolinsky Rural Okrug of Morkinsky District in the Mari El Republic;

See also
Petrovsky (inhabited locality), several inhabited localities in Russia
Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky (town), a town in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia


title: Jiří Diviš

text:
Jiří Diviš (born 16 March 1956) is a Swiss entrepreneur and manager originally from Czechoslovakia.

Career
In the 1970s, he was played basketball for the teams Baník Most and Slavoj Vyšehrad. He emigrated to Switzerland in 1979 and studied law there. After completing his studies, he began working in an international consulting firm that advised small and medium enterprises in management, strategy and organisation. In the 1990s, he represented the Swiss company Investenergy S.A. in the Czech Republic. This company also purchased the shares of Mostecká uhelná společnost, a.s. (MUS) for Appian Group. Jiří Diviš came to MUS as an advisor to his childhood friend Luboš Měkota, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company.

MUS case
In the period 1998–2002, Jiří Diviš was a member of the Supervisory Board of Mostecká uhelná společnost (MUS). In 2003, together with Marek Čmejla, he coordinated the strategic entry of Appian Group into Škoda Plzeň, which company, following Lubomír Soudek's era, was in a state of clinical death. Appian Group purchased a part of the company for 350 million Czech crowns from the State and the remainder from the receiver in bankruptcy for 450 million crowns. Appian's entrance into Škoda Plzeň saved this traditional industrial manufacturer from demise. The company then underwent successful restructuring, and today is a leading producer of transportation systems. Since 2003, Diviš has been a member of the Supervisory Board of Škoda Plzeň.

In 2013, the court of first instance in Bellinzona sentenced him to 46 months in prison for fraud, money laundering and falsifying documents. He was to have committed these crimes when Appian purchased a minority share in MUS from the Czech State in 1999. He has appealed against this decision to the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland in Lausanne (or, more precisely, he is preparing his appeal to the Federal Supreme Court in Lausanne).

References

1956 births
Swiss business executives
Living people


title: Susanne Hoeber Rudolph

text:
Susanne Hoeber Rudolph (April 3, 1930 – December 23, 2015) was an American author, political thinker and educationist. She was a William Benton Distinguished Service Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago and was actively interested in Politics, Political Economy and Political Sociology of South Asia, State Formation, Max Weber and the Politics of Category and Culture. The Government of India, in 2014, honored her, along with her husband, Lloyd I. Rudolph, for their services to literature and education, by bestowing on them the third highest civilian award, the Padma Bhushan.

Biography

Susanne Höber was the granddaughter of physiologist Rudolf Höber and daughter of Johannes Höber and Elfriede Fischer Höber, both of whom held doctoral degrees in political science from Heidelberg University. As an activist in Germany's Social Democratic Party, Johannes was imprisoned by the Nazis in 1934 and forced to move from Mannheim, where Susanne was born in 1930, to Düsseldorf. In 1939, when Susanne was nine, the family fled the Nazis and moved to Philadelphia, where Rudolf Höber was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Susanne Rudolph had her early college education at Sarah Lawrence College from where she obtained her BA in 1951 which she followed with an MA from Harvard University in 1953. Continuing her education, she secured her PhD from Radcliffe College in 1955. She taught political science at Harvard University until 1963, when the University of Chicago simultaneously offered her and her husband, Lloyd Rudolph, professorial positions. She joined University of Chicago in 1964 where she worked as the William Benton Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of Political Science.

Susanne was married to Lloyd I. Rudolph, himself a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Chicago and the co-author of her books. The couple has three children, Jenny, Amelia and Matthew. Susanne, along with her husband, divided their time between the USA and India, where they found a home in Jaipur.

Susanne Rudolph died on December 24, 2015.

Career
Susanne Hoeber Rudolph has served in many capacities of importance during her career.
 President - Association for Asian Studies (1986)
 President - American Political Science Association (2003–2004)
 Master of the Social Science Collegiate Division
 Director of the Center for International Studies
 Director of the South Asia Language and Area Center (1980–1998)
 Chair of the Department of Political Science
 Faculty — Department of Political Science and the College, University of Chicago (1964)
 Associate Professor — Department of Political Science and the College, University of Chicago (1964–72)
 Professor — Department of Political Science and the College, University of Chicago (1972-)
 Associate Dean of the College, University of Chicago (1973–75)
 William Benton Distinguished Service Professor — Department of Political Science and the College, University of Chicago (1990-)
 Professor Emerita — Department of Political Science and the College, University of Chicago (2002-)

Legacy
Susanne and Lloyd Rudolph's associations with the University of Chicago and India have assisted in the University's decision to open a major academic centre in New Delhi. The centre is envisaged to act as a platform for mutual support and collaboration between students and scholars from India and Chicago in the areas of academics and research.

Awards and recognitions
 Padma Bhushan - 2014
 William Benton Distinguished Service Professor Emerita
 India Abroad Friend of India Award -

Works
Susanne Rudolph has authored eight books, together with her husband, Lloyd Rudolph. The writings of Susanne were compiled by Oxford University Press, in 2008, into a three volume publication under the name, Explaining Indian Democracy: A Fifty-Year Perspective.

The other major works by Susanne Rudolph are:

She has also edited the book, Agrarian Power and Agricultural Productivity in South Asia besides writing many articles, some of which are:

See also
 Lloyd Rudolph
 The Rudolphs

Further reading
 Status Conscious
 Making U.S. Foreign Policy Toward South Asia: Regional Imperatives and the Imperial Presidency
 India's Election: Backing into the Future

External links
 India Abroad acceptance speech
 CSDS Golden Jubilee Lecture
 CSDS Golden Jubilee Lecture Introduction
 India Abroad Award and Friends of India Celebration Video
 List of Books on Barnes & Noble
 List of Books on Book Manager

References

1930 births
2015 deaths
Radcliffe College alumni
Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in literature & education
American women political scientists
American political scientists
American educational theorists
Presidents of the Association for Asian Studies
21st-century American women
Writers from Mannheim
American Indologists
Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States


AIM, the International Association of Mutual Benefit Societies (Association Internationale de la Mutualité) represents health mutual benefit societies (mutuals) and health insurance funds in Europe and worldwide. It was founded in 1950 and is based in Brussels.

Through its 61 members from 27 countries, health coverage is provided to over 200 million people in the world and to 160 million in Europe. Its members manage compulsory and/or voluntary health insurance and some deliver healthcare and social services through their own facilities.
As an international association, AIM is present in Europe, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East.

AIM's history
AIM was founded in January 1950 at the General Assembly in Paris under the French legal form of Association. By that time, the Association had its headquarters in Geneva.
Its official statutory name "Association Internationale de la Mutualité" therefore dates back to 1950. Its headquarters were transferred from Geneva to Brussels in 1998.
In 2008 AIM changed legal status: it went from an Association under French law to an Association with non-profit orientation under Belgian Law (ASBL).
The objective of the association in 1950 was–and still is–to defend mutuals’ interests. Among its members are (umbrella organisations of) healthcare mutual, but also other not-for-profit providers of healthcare coverage and national health funds.

AIM’s presidents
 2014 – until now: Christian Zahn (DE, Vdek)
 2011–2014: Jean-Philippe Huchet (FR, FNMF)
 2007–2011: Willi Budde (DE, BKK)
 2005–2007: Maurice Duranton (FR, FNMF)
 2002–2005: Ron Hendriks (NL, ZN)
 2000–2002: Ueli Müller (CH, KSK/CAMS – Concordat des Assureurs-maladie Suisses)
 1999–2000: Michel Schmitz (LU, CSM, ad interim President)
 1993–1999: Geert Jan Hamilton (NL, ZN)
 1978–1993: Robert Van den Heuvel (BE, ANMC)
 1965–1978: Louis Van Helshoecht (BE, ANMC)
 1950–1965: Otto Schmid (CH, KSK)

AIM's Missions as International Association
AIM works with European and international institutions to promote universal access to healthcare and health protection based on solidarity and democracy according to the principles of its members. It is also a platform for exchange of best practises within its members. AIM defends the specificity of the mutual model of social and solidarity economy and encourages social innovation. It is a member of Social Economy Europe.

AIM members share the mutual values of solidarity and democracy and the principle of not-for-profit orientation
 Solidarity: AIM members protect their own members without any discrimination on grounds of age or state of health.
 Democracy: our members involve their own members in deciding upon services, setting subscriptions and in the governance of their mutuals.
 Not-for-profit orientation: according to their statutes, AIM's members reinvest any surplus in the benefit of their members.

AIM's activities
AIM works on several subjects: health, insurance, social economy, disease prevention, education, healthy ageing, pension and fraud in healthcare. To cover all the topics, 12 working groups gather national experts to discuss the issues relevant for its members.

The Working Groups are the following:
European Affairs
Health Systems Reform
Disease Management/ eHealth
Long Term Care / Healthy Ageing
Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices
Health Technology Assessment
Mutual Values
Pensions
Environment and Health
Fraud
Education and E-learning Working Group
Disease Prevention

References

External links
 www.aim-mutual.org

Financial services companies established in 1950
Mutual insurance companies
Lobbying in the European Union
Social economy
Non-profit organisations based in Belgium
Business models
Mutualism (movement)
Medical and health organisations based in Belgium


title: 2014–15 Levante UD season

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The 2014–15 season was the 106th season in Levante’s history and the 10th in the top-tier.

Squad statistics

Appearances and goals

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Transfer in

Transfer out

Competitions

Overall

Friendlies

Primera División

League table

Results summary

Matches
Kickoff times are in CET and CEST.

Copa del Rey

References

Levante UD seasons
Levante UD


title: John Venimore Godwin

text:
John Venimore Godwin was an early photographer and Mayor of Bradford in 1865-1866.

Life
Godwin was born on 23 December 1814 in Dartmouth. He was the son of the Reverend Benjamin Godwin and his wife, Elizabeth. His father was the Baptist minister in Dartmouth, but he shortly moved to Great Missenden.

Godwin married Rachel and they had ten children. They lived in the 1847 rebuilt Micklefield House in Rawdon before moving to Crowtrees House. Godwin also owned the nearby Crow Trees Inn. He died at his home in Crowtrees on 20 January 1898 aged 83.

Legacy
John asked his father in 1832 when they were living in Oxford to write about his life. Over the next 18 years his father wrote over fifty letters which he gave to his son on his son's birthday 23 December 1855. These letters provided him and historians with an insight into the Baptists and the abolitionists.

Business people in Yorkshire were concerned by the competition created by the French woollen industry. In 1876 the Chambers of Commerce nominated Godwin and Henry Illingworth to investigate the French. Illingworth took the lead and he went on to chair Bradford Chamber of Commerce.

Godwin was elected Mayor of Bradford in 1865 taking over from Charles Semon.

Legacy
The A6181 (Godwin Street) in Bradford is named after John Venimore Godwin. Godwin's son John A. Godwin was the first Lord Mayor of Bradford in 1907.

References

Photographers from Yorkshire
Mayors of Bradford
1814 births
1898 deaths


title: Mudhal Thethi

text:
Mudhal Thethi in Tamil, Modala Thedi in Kannada is an Indian bilingual film, directed by P. Neelakantan and produced by B. R. Panthulu. This was the first film produced by Panthulu under Padmini Pictures banner. The Tamil version starred Sivaji Ganesan, Anjali Devi, N. S. Krishnan and T. A. Madhuram in lead roles. The film had musical score by T. G. Lingappa scoring for his first feature film. The film was a remake of Hindi film Paheli Tarikh (1954).

The film was simultaneously shot in Kannada retaining the same crew members with a slight change in the main star cast. The Kannada version titled Modala Thedi starred Panthulu, M. V. Rajamma, Dikki Madhava Rao and Chi. Sadashivaiah. The movie follows the narrative theme of the 1946 movie It's a Wonderful Life.

Plot
Sivagnanam works as a bank clerk.  Though his pay is meagre, he deals with a lot of cash at the bank. His family consists of wife Lakshmi, a daughter whose marriage is being negotiated and two school going children. The bank where he works crashes. Sivagnanam is unable to find another job.

Dejected, he tries to kill himself so that his insurance money would be made available to the family. His soul reaches the court of Yama, the god of death. Angered by what he deals an irresponsible act, Yama sends him back to earth to see the result of his death. He is able to observe the goings on but is unable to participate. He watches his son being picked up by the police for stealing food, his daughter is molested and his wife drowns herself in a well after murdering the rapist. He realizes his mistake. Thankfully the whole series of events has been a dream.

Cast

Tamil version
Sivaji Ganesan as Sivagnanam
Anjali Devi as Lakshmi
N. S. Krishnan as Sathanandam
T. A. Madhuram as Saanthamma
K. D. Santhanam
Srirangam Rangamani
P. Susheela
Rajagopal
'Baby' Uma as Sushila

Kannada version
 B. R. Panthulu
 M. V. Rajamma
 Dikki Madhava Rao
 Chi. Sadashivaiah
 Master Hirannaiah
 Sivaji Ganesan (guest appearance)

Production
Muthal Thethi was produced by B. R. Panthulu, as the maiden venture of his production company Padmini Pictures. The film is based on a story by Dada Mirasee and the screenplay and dialogue are by P. Neelakantan, who directed the Tamil version. The film was based on a Hindi film, Paheli Tarikh. The music was composed by T. G. Lingappa and the lyrics were penned by K. D. Santhanam and Udumalai Narayana Kavi. V. Ramamurthi was the cinematographer, with audiography by V. S. Raghavan. Art direction was by the veteran A. K. Sekhar, and make-up and costumes were by Hari Babu and M. G. Naidu respectively. The film was edited by Devarajan. The film was shot at Revathi Studios, and was backed by the veteran A. L. Srinivasan, under his banner, Madras Pictures.

Soundtrack
The music was composed by T. G. Lingappa. Lyrics were by K. D. Santhanam and Udumalai Narayana Kavi. Singers are N. S. Krishnan & T. A. Madhuram. Playback singers are M. M. Dandapani Desikar, T. V. Rathnam, K. Rani and A. P. Komala.

Tamil Track listing

Kannada Track listing

References

External links

 History 31 – 1955 : The Year Of Star Debuts

1950s multilingual films
1950s Tamil-language films
1955 films
Films directed by P. Neelakantan
Films scored by T. G. Lingappa
Hindu mythology in popular culture
Indian multilingual films
Kannada remakes of Hindi films
1950s Kannada-language films
Tamil remakes of Hindi films
Indian black-and-white films
Yama in popular culture
Films about father–daughter relationships
Films about dreams


title: Bad Girls Club (season 14)

text:
Bad Girls Club: Back for More is the fourteenth season of the Oxygen reality television series Bad Girls Club. It beganpremiered on August 11, 2015, and concluded on November 3, 2015. This is the seventh edition of Bad Girls Club to be filmed in Los Angeles. Life coach Laura Baron returns for a third season.

Residence
During shooting, the cast lived at 22133 Tulsa Street in the Chatsworth neighborhood of Los Angeles. According to the cast member Jelaminah Lanier, because of the excessive amount of damage done to the residence, Oxygen producers were forced to reuse the house for the following season, Bad Girls Club: Twisted Sisters. The property was once owned by the Spice Girls member Mel B.

Cast

Original Bad Girls

Replacement Bad Girls

Duration of cast

Episodes

Notes

References

External links

2015 American television seasons
Bad Girls Club seasons
Television shows set in Los Angeles


title: Hashmat Karzai

text:
Hashmat Karzai was an Afghan-American businessman and political advisor.

Biography
Hashmat Khalil Karzai was born in Afghanistan. He was a cousin of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Karzai ran security and construction companies in Afghanistan. He was a powerbroker in the Kandahar Province and was seen as a tribal leader of the Popalzai, a Pashtun tribe. He was a supporter of presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani. Some sources go as far as to call him his "campaign manager." Additionally, he held an American passport.

Personal life
Karzai had a pet lion and smoked cigars. He was called by many in Kandahar as the "Lion of Kandahar".

Death
Hashmat Karzai was killed by a suicide bomber at his private residence in Karz near Kandahar on July 29, 2014.

References

Afghan businesspeople
Hashmat
Year of birth missing
2014 deaths
Afghan murder victims
People murdered in Afghanistan
People from Kandahar Province
20th-century Afghan people
21st-century Afghan people
20th-century businesspeople
21st-century businesspeople


title: Brian Kincher

text:
Brian Kincher (born August 16, 1986) is an American male acrobatic gymnast. With Eirian Smith, he competed in the 2014 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships.

References

1986 births
Living people
American acrobatic gymnasts
Male acrobatic gymnasts
21st-century American people


title: La Mar

text:
La Mar, also known by its Maya name Rabbit Stone, is the modern name for a ruined city of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization located in the state of Chiapas in Mexico. La Mar's central hub was established on hills and faced the Santo Domingo Valley to the west. To protect themselves from their enemies, the people of La Mar built walls and ramparts that blocked the routes coming into the city from the valley.

La Mar clashed with the local Toniná and Sak tzʼi polities. During the 8th century AD, it was an ally of the nearby center Piedras Negras, and in both AD 792 and 794, La Mar helped Piedras Negras defeat the polity Pomoná. La Mar was ruled by an ajaw, one of whom is identified on Stela 12 at Piedras Negras as being named Parrot Chaak.

References

External links
Entry on Mesoweb

Maya sites in Chiapas
Former populated places in Mexico
Populated places established in the 8th century BC
8th-century BC establishments in the Maya civilization
8th century in the Maya civilization


title: Mammillaria carnea

text:
Mammillaria carnea is a species of cactus in the subfamily Cactoideae.

References

Plants described in 1837
carnea


title: Skales

text:
Raoul John Njeng-Njeng (born 1 April 1991), better known by his stage name Skales (an acronym for Seek Knowledge Acquire Large Entrepreneurial Skills), is a Nigerian rapper, singer, and songwriter. In 2000, he started writing rap songs in Kaduna, Nigeria. Between 2007 and 2008, he travelled to Jos to work with Jesse Jagz and Jeremiah Gyang. In 2008, he entered the Zain Tru Search competition and won the competition's North Central region. His debut single "Must Shine" received numerous spin on the Rhythm FM stations in Lagos, Jos and Abuja. He later relocated to Lagos and signed a record deal with Empire Mates Entertainment (E.M.E) in 2009.

Skales has collaborated with numerous artists, including Akon, ELDee, Tekno, Harmonize, Jeremiah Gyang, Banky W., and Knighthouse. His well-known songs include "Shake Body", "Mukulu", "Keresimesi", "Komole", "My Baby", "Take Care of Me" and "Denge Pose". After leaving E.M.E in May 2014, he set up the independent OHK Music record label. His debut studio album Man of the Year was released in 2015.

Early life and career
A native of Edo State, Raoul John Njeng-Njeng was born and raised in Kaduna State. He grew up in a single-parent household with his mother, who did menial jobs to nurture him. Skales became interested in music while regularly attending his mother's cassette store. He met producers Jeremiah Gyang and Jesse Jagz while attending the University of Jos (Unijos). He took part in the Zain Tru Search Competition during his time at Unijos and won the competition's North Central region. Skales left Unijos his junior year and attended Lead City University, where he graduated with a degree in office management and technology. His debut single "Must Shine" was released to critical acclaim. In an interview with This Day newspaper in 2013, Skales described himself as an entertainer whose music is influenced by his surroundings. His 2009 release "Heading for a Grammy" was inspired by Kanye West's "Jesus Walks". The experiences he was going through at the time helped shape the scope of the song, which is an ode to self empowerment.

2009–14: Empire Mates Entertainment
Skales signed a record deal with E.M.E after meeting Banky W. in 2009. He released the singles "Mukulu" and "Keresimesi" simultaneously. Both songs were produced by Sarz and released under the outfit. The music video for the latter track was directed by Clarence Peters and uploaded to YouTube on 28 November 2011. Skales was one of the main acts on E.M.E's debut compilation album, Empire Mates State of Mind (2012). He collaborated with Banky W., Wizkid, Shaydee, Niyola and DJ Xclusive on five of the album's seven singles. He also toured with some of the aforementioned acts on the EME US Tour, which kicked off on 4 July and ended on 2 September 2012. E.M.E acts performed in several different cities, including Houston, Dallas, Toronto, Vancouver, New York City, Providence, Calgary, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and Chicago. Skales supported Wizkid on his tour of London in 2012. On 17 October 2013, he performed at the 2013 edition of Felabration, a yearly concert dedicated to Fela Kuti. In February 2014, Vanguard newspaper reported that Skales left E.M.E following the expiration of his four-year recording contract. E.M.E executives believed they were not getting remunerated for investing in him and refused to renew his contract.

OHK Music establishment
In May 2014, Skales established his own record label, OHK music. The label is home to producer Drey Beatz and has affiliations with other music personnel within Nigeria. On 6 May 2014, Skales released the Jay Pizzle-produced track "Shake Body" as the lead single from his debut studio album Man of the Year. The accompanying music video for the song was uploaded to YouTube on 22 July 2014. Skales promoted the song by announcing the Shake Body video competition. It was reported that Skales signed a record deal with Timaya's Dem Mama Records following his departure from E.M.E. In February 2014, Skales debunked the reports and said he didn't sign with Dem Mama Records.

Personal life
In December 2011, Skales was involved in a car accident along the Lekki-Epe Expressway. The car he was in ran into a ditch and somersaulted. The accident left one dead and three injured.

He was among several other celebrities like Davido, and Super Eagles player John Ogu to criticize Desmond Elliot for pushing social media regulation back in October 2020.

On March 14, 2021, Skales announced his engagement to his girlfriend on Instagram.

Discography

Studio albums
Man of the Year (2015)
The Never Say Never Guy (2017)
Mr Love (2018)

Compilation albums
Empire Mates State of Mind (2012)

Selected singles

See also

 List of Nigerian musicians

References

External links
Skales at SoundCloud

Nigerian male rappers
21st-century Nigerian male singers
1991 births
Living people
Nigerian hip hop singers
Yoruba-language singers
University of Jos alumni
Lead City University alumni


title: Wilfred Andrews

text:
Wilfred Andrews (1892-1975) was Chairman of the Royal Automobile Club (RAC) and the first British President of FIA.

He was instrumental in securing the use of RAF Silverstone as a motor-racing venue: Silverstone Circuit.

He appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 27 June 1966.

He had two children, Roy and Barbara; Barbara married Kenneth Large from Goudhurst, Kent.

References

External links

 R.A.C. Honour Jim Clark 1965 British-Pathé newsreel showing Andrews presenting medals to various racing drivers

Place of birth missing
Place of death missing
Leaders of organizations
Auto racing executives
Presidents of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile
Formula One people
1892 births
1975 deaths


title: Eirian Smith

text:
Eirian Smith is an American female acrobatic gymnast. With Brian Kincher, she competed in the 2014 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships.

References

1998 births
Living people
American acrobatic gymnasts
Female acrobatic gymnasts
21st-century American women


title: Point of No Return (Havok EP)

text:
Point of No Return is an EP recorded by the thrash metal band, Havok. It was released May 22, 2012 through Candlelight Records. Music videos were made for the songs "Point of No Return" and "From the Cradle to the Grave". The track "Postmortem/Raining Blood" was featured as a bonus iTunes track for the 2011 album Time is Up.

Track listing
Tracks 1 and 2 written by David Sanchez Havok

Personnel
Havok
 David Sanchez – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
 Pete Webber – drums
 Reece Scruggs – lead guitar, backing vocals
 Jesse De Los Santos – bass

References

2012 EPs
Havok (band) albums
Candlelight Records albums


title: El Porvenir (Maya site)

text:
El Porvenir is the modern name for a ruined city of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization located in the Petén department of Guatemala. Ron Canter, in his paper "The Usumacinta River Portages in the Maya Classical Period" argues that El Porvenir was the first point at which the ancient Maya portaged to avoid the unnavigable portions of the Usumacinta River. A fragment of stone found at the site and aptly called the "El Porvenir Fragment" was also discovered that bore the name of Ha' K'in Xook, the sixth ajaw of Piedras Negras, suggesting a connection to the site.

References

External links
Entry on Mesoweb

Maya sites in Petén Department
Former populated places in Guatemala
Archaeological sites in Guatemala
Classic period in Mesoamerica


title: Echeveria pulidonis

text:
Echeveria pulidonis is a species of flowering plant in the family Crassulaceae, native to central Mexico, more specifically, Puebla and Veracruz.

Description
Habit: Forms rosettes of leaves, and as it ages, it will naturally form offsets, creating clusters of rosettes. Each rosette can reach 13–15 cm in diameter.

Leaves: Tapered to a sharp point. Green with red margins.

Flowers: Yellow.

Cultivation
Half-hardy. Dislikes water sitting on its leaves, but tolerates this more than some other Echeveria species do.

Taxonomy
Echeveria is named for Atanasio Echeverría y Godoy, a botanical illustrator who contributed to Flora Mexicana.

References

External links

pulidonis


title: 2013 Boels–Dolmans season

text:
The 2013 women's road cycling season was the fourth for the  Boels–Dolmans Cycling Team, which began as the Dolmans Landscaping Team in 2010.

Roster

As of 1 January 2013. Ages as of 1 January 2013.

Season victories

Results in major races

Single day races

Grand Tours

UCI World Ranking

The team finished eleventh in the UCI ranking for teams.

References

2013 UCI Women's Teams seasons
2013 in Dutch sport
2013 in women's road cycling
2013


title: Chartley Moss

text:
Chartley Moss is a 105.80 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Staffordshire, notified in 1987. The area has been designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, a Ramsar Convention protected  wetland site, and a national nature reserve. There is no access without a permit.

In 1995 Chartley Moss was twinned with Tsukigaumi Mire, Hokkaido, in a gesture of goodwill between scientists from Hokkaido University and the University of Nottingham.

See also
List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Staffordshire

References

External links
Chartley Moss designated site information (Natural England)

Bogs of England
Landforms of Staffordshire
Nature reserves in Staffordshire
Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Staffordshire
Sites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 1987


title: 1832 in Scotland

text:
Events from the year 1832 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Law officers
 Lord Advocate – Francis Jeffrey
 Solicitor General for Scotland – Henry Cockburn

Judiciary
 Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Granton
 Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose
 Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Boyle

Events
 21 January – The Marquis of Lothian's Waggonway is opened.
 4 June – the Scottish Reform Act, reforming the Scottish Westminster constituencies and enlarging the electorate from 5,000 to 60,000, is passed in Parliament contemporaneously with similar legislation for other constituents of the U.K., becoming law from 17 July. On 11 August around 50,000 gather on the Links in Edinburgh to celebrate the event.
 2 June – passengers are first carried over the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway, between St Leonards and North Esk by horse-drawn carriage.
 16 July – "The Bad Day": 31 sixareens (the traditional fishing craft of Shetland) are lost in a storm with 105 crew.
 September – a Jewish burial ground is established on part of the site that will shortly become Glasgow Necropolis.
 Edinburgh City Mission is established by David Nasmith.
 Glen Scotia distillery is established in Campbeltown.
 Elie Golf Club, North Berwick Golf Club and The Grange Club (an Edinburgh sports club) are established.
 John Thomson's The Atlas of Scotland is published in Edinburgh.
 George IV Bridge in Edinburgh is completed to the design of Thomas Hamilton.
 Stirling New Bridge is completed to the design of Robert Stevenson.
 The planned community of Port Wemyss, originally called Wemysshaven, near Portnahaven on Islay, is built by the local laird, Walter Frederick Campbell MP.
 Craignish Castle is rebuilt around this date.
 Agriculturalist William McCombie forms his herd of black Aberdeen Angus cattle.

Births
 26 February – Thomas Anderson, botanist (died 1870)
 20 May – Charles Umpherston Aitchison, colonial governor (died 1896 in England)
 12 August – Hely Hutchinson Almond, rugby player and educationalist (died 1903)
 19 December – John Kirk, physician, naturalist, companion to explorer David Livingstone and British administrator in Zanzibar (died 1922)
 James Burgess, archaeologist active in India (died 1916)
 George Anderson Lawson, sculptor (died 1904 in England)
 Frederick Thomas Pilkington, architect (born in England; died 1898)
 J. B. Selkirk (James Brown), poet and essayist (died 1904)

Deaths
 27 January – Andrew Bell, educationist and minister of religion (born 1753; died in Cheltenham)
 13 May – Andrew Duncan, physician (born 1773)
 30 May – John Clerk, Lord Eldin, judge and art collector (born 1757)
 23 June – Sir James Hall, geologist (born 1761)
 21 September – Sir Walter Scott, historical novelist and poet (born 1771)
 3 November – Sir John Leslie, physicist (born 1766)
 24 December – Thomas Morton, shipbuilder (born 1781)

The arts
 4 February – Chambers's Edinburgh Journal is established by William Chambers.
 14 August – première of Felix Mendelssohn's concert overture The Hebrides in London.
 21 September – historical novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott dies aged 61 at his home, Abbotsford House, leaving his novel The Siege of Malta unfinished; he is buried in the grounds of Dryburgh Abbey with Presbyterian and Episcopalian ministers in attendance. His novels Count Robert of Paris and Castle Dangerous are published this year.
 Tait's Edinburgh Magazine is established by William Tait.
 John Donald Carrick edits the poetry anthology Whistle Binkie.
 James Hogg, writing as "The Ettrick Shepherd", publishes the poems Altrive Tales.
 William Motherwell publishes his Poems, narrative and lyrical in Glasgow.

See also

 1832 in Ireland

References

Scotland
1830s in Scotland


title: Maxwell Brander

text:
Major General Maxwell Spieker Brander CB OBE (11 October 188430 October 1972) was a senior British Army officer during the Second World War.

Military career
Born on 11 October 1884, Maxwell Brander was educated at Bedford School and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He received his first commission in the British Army in 1906. He served during the First World War and was mentioned in dispatches. Promoted to the rank of major general in 1936, he was Director of Supplies and Transport at the War Office between 1937 and 1940, and Deputy Director-General of Mechanization at the Ministry of Supply between 1941 and 1947.

Major General Maxwell Brander became an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1925, and a Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1937. He retired from the British Army in 1949 and died on 30 October 1972.

References

Bibliography

External links
Generals of World War II

1884 births
1972 deaths
People educated at Bedford School
Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst
British Army generals of World War II
British Army personnel of World War I
English people of German descent
War Office personnel in World War II
Companions of the Order of the Bath
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Royal Army Service Corps officers


title: The Word Alive discography

text:
The Word Alive is an American metalcore band from Phoenix, Arizona. The band was formed by vocalist Craig Mabbitt in 2008. After one unreleased EP, Mabbitt was replaced by current vocalist, Tyler Smith, the same year. They were signed to Fearless Records. In 2022, the band changed their label and are currently signed to Thriller Records. They have released seven studio albums and two extended plays.

Albums

Studio albums

Extended plays

Singles

Music videos

References

Discographies of American artists


title: Sunscreen Innovation Act

text:
The Sunscreen Innovation Act (, ) is a 2014 law that amended the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to establish an expedited process for the review and approval of over-the-counter (OTC) sunscreens. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had not approved a new active ingredient in sunscreen since 1999, despite some sunscreens having been approved and used overseas for a decade. The new law gave the FDA one year to respond to the existing backlog of sunscreen ingredient approval requests, and then 18 months to reply to any future applications.

The bill was introduced during the 113th United States Congress by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R, KY-1) and Sen. Jack Reed (D, RI), and signed into law by President Barack Obama on November 26, 2014.

Background

Sunscreen (also commonly known as sun screen, sunblock, suntan lotion, sunburn cream, sun cream or block out) is a lotion, spray, gel or other topical product that absorbs or reflects some of the sun's ultraviolet (UV) radiation on the skin exposed to sunlight and thus helps protect against sunburn. Depending on the mode of action, sunscreens can be classified into physical sunscreens (i.e., those that reflect the sunlight) or chemical sunscreens (i.e., those that absorb the UV light).

Medical organizations such as the American Cancer Society recommend the use of sunscreen because it aids in the prevention of squamous cell carcinomas. Many sunscreens do not block UVA radiation, which does not cause sunburn but can increase the rate of melanoma and photodermatitis, so people using sunscreens may be exposed to high UVA levels without realizing it. The use of broad-spectrum (UVA/UVB) sunscreens can address this concern. Diligent use of sunscreen can also slow or temporarily prevent the development of wrinkles and sagging skin.

Provisions of the bill
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Research Service, a public domain source.

The Sunscreen Innovation Act would amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to establish a process for the review and approval of over-the-counter (OTC) sunscreens.

The bill would require the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to review and determine whether OTC sunscreens are generally recognized as safe and effective and ensure that any sunscreens marketed in the United States are appropriately labeled.

The bill would make sunscreens that have been marketed for five continuous years in the United States or other countries and in sufficient quantity eligible for review under this Act.

The bill would establish a framework for the review and approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of OTC sunscreens with new active ingredients. Sets forth time frame requirements for review. Requires applications for review to include safety and efficacy data as well as adverse drug experience information.

The bill would direct the Secretary to report on the progress made in issuing timely decisions on the safety and effectiveness of OTC sunscreens.

The bill would require the Secretary to make determinations on the testing and labeling of aerosol sunscreens and on whether a sunscreen may contain a label indicating a sun protection factor (SPF) greater than 50.

Congressional Budget Office report
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Budget Office, as ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on July 15, 2014. This is a public domain source.

H.R. 4250 would modify the review process that allows the marketing of certain new ingredients in non-prescription sunscreen based on a determination by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that they are generally recognized as safe and effective. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that implementing H.R. 4250 would cost $28 million over the 2015–2019 period, assuming appropriation of the necessary amounts. H.R. 4250 would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply.

H.R. 4250 contains no intergovernmental mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA).

The bill would impose private-sector mandates, as defined in UMRA, because it would allow FDA to require that marketing applications for certain sunscreen products be submitted in a new standardized format. CBO estimates that the direct cost of complying with those requirements would not exceed the annual threshold established by UMRA for private-sector mandates ($152 million in 2014, adjusted annually for inflation).

Debate and discussion
The Melanoma Research Alliance supported the bill. In a video produced by the group, a melanoma survivor said that "when I heard that there were actually ingredients that the FDA is basically holding hostage, it infuriates me, it's crazy."

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that in 2010 over 60,000 Americans were diagnosed with melanoma. The most common form of cancer in the United States is skin cancer.

In 2009, chemical company and sunscreen manufacturer Ashland Inc. "significantly expanded its existing sunscreen production facilities in Columbus, Ohio, after the FDA announced it expected to make decisions on the pending ingredient applications before the end of the year." Five years later, the FDA had still not made a decision and Ashland was unable to sell this type of sunscreen in the United States.

See also
List of bills in the 113th United States Congress

References

External links

Library of Congress - Thomas H.R. 4250
beta.congress.gov H.R. 4250
GovTrack.us H.R. 4250
OpenCongress.org H.R. 4250
WashingtonWatch.com H.R. 4250
Congressional Budget Office's report on H.R. 4250

Acts of the 113th United States Congress
Sunscreening agents


title: Lawrence Fernandes

text:
Lawrence Fernandes (1932-14 November 2005) was a socialist political leader from India. He was brother of George Fernandes.

Lawrence Fernandes was born on 1932 to John Joseph Fernandes and Alice Martha Fernandes (née Pinto), in Mangalore to a Mangalorean Catholic family. He was the second of six children, his siblings are George, Michael, Paul, Aloysius, and Richard.

During the Emergency, he was arrested on 1 May 1976 by the Government and brutally tortured and held in illegal custody before being transferred to the Bangalore Central Jail, to extract from him whereabouts of his elder brother
George Fernandes.  Madhu Dandavate, who was arrested and was in the same jail wrote a letter to Indira Gandhi that he is being inhumanely tortured and may even die. Even Lal Krishna Advani in his book mentions about torture Lawrence had to go through in jail during the Emergency. He was continuously beaten up leading to several fractures all over his body. At the time of his release at end of the Emergency he looked like a live skeleton. He was reduced to a mental and physical wreck in jail and after his release at the end of Emergency he lived many years as a wreck.

Lawrence later said

He served as former Mayor of Bangalore in 1980 and as a corporator of the Richmond Town ward before 1980. In 1987-88 he unsuccessfully contested as a Janata Dal candidate for the Bangalore North Lok Sabha Constituency.

He died at Bangalore on 14 November 2005.

Lawrence Fernandes Foundation for the welfare and benefit of the poor and need was launched in his memory by his brothers George Fernandes, Michael, Aloysius and others.

See also
Snehalatha Reddy
Michael Fernandes

References

1932 births
2005 deaths
Mangaloreans
Janata Dal politicians
Janata Dal (United) politicians
Politicians from Bangalore
Indians imprisoned during the Emergency (India)
Victims of police brutality
Mayors of Bangalore
Mayors of Mangalore
Karnataka politicians