title: Jung Ying Tsao

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Jung Ying Tsao (; 1929–2011) was a connoisseur, collector, dealer, and scholar of traditional Chinese art.

Tsao has been publicly recognized by the World Congress of Chinese Collectors as the leading American collector of Chinese painting of his generation. Over his almost 50-year professional career based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he built and helped to build several important collections of Chinese painting, and was friends with significant figures in the Chinese art world. He authored a number of scholarly works on Chinese painting and calligraphy, and collections he assembled have been the subjects of research and exhibition projects by major museums, art academies, and publishing houses.

Biography
Tsao was born in Tianjin, China, in 1929 to a prominent family that became aligned with China's Nationalist Party, the Kuomintang. His father was named Cao Wenming. In his early years, due to the Chinese Civil War he migrated to Western China, then returned to the North, and finally in 1949, emigrated to Taiwan (Republic of China) to escape the Chinese Communist Revolution. In the 1950s, he managed his family's collection of Chinese paintings and studied Chinese painting connoisseurship under noted art authority Li Lin-ts'an, senior curator at the National Palace Museum (Taipei). He attended law school in Taipei and became a lawyer, then a judge. In 1963 he traveled to the United States and settled in Berkeley, California. Soon thereafter he gave up the practice of law; he became a professional art dealer in the mid-1960s, establishing the art gallery Fine East Fine Arts in San Francisco in 1974, and dedicating the remainder of his life to the preservation and promotion of traditional Chinese art.

Projects and collections
Although his family's collection of Chinese paintings included earlier works, Tsao, while living in Taipei in the 1950s, began to re-focus the collection on more recent artists, in particular those from the "Modern Period" (1840–1966) such as Qi Baishi. He ultimately built a balanced and encyclopedic collection of Modern Chinese painting. He also assembled a comprehensive collection of seventeenth century paintings, a major collection of paintings by the twentieth century landscape master Huang Binhong, and a collection of Chinese seals that ranges from the Warring States period (475 – 221 BCE) through the twentieth century. Tsao has been recognized as a guiding force behind several important private collections such as The Richard Fabian Collection and The Michael Gallis Collection. Many works from Tsao's collection are either parts of the permanent collection or promised gifts to museums including The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City), the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, and the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Tsao's collections, or collections he has built, have been prominently featured in numerous research, publication, and exhibition projects, including:

Publications

 Chen Siyuan, Craig Yee, Jung Ying Tsao. Modern Ink: The Art of Xugu. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2015. .
 Britta Erickson, Craig Yee, Jung Ying Tsao. Modern Ink: The Art of Qi Baishi. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2014. .
 Kenneth Wayne ed. Isamu Noguchi and Qi Baishi: Beijing 1930. Milan: 5 Continents Editions, 2013. .
 Wan Qingli, Zhao Li, Lu Fusheng, Qian Shaowu, Hou Yimin, Cai Xingyi, Shan Guolin. Selected Masterworks of Modern Chinese Painting: The Tsao Family Mozhai Collection (4 volumes). Shanghai: Shanghai Fine Arts Publishing House, 2010. .
 Stephen Little, Jonathan Spence, Chu-Tsing Li, Qianshen Bai, Richard Fabian. New Songs on Ancient Tunes: 19th – 20th Century Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy from the Richard Fabian Collection. Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2007. .
 Julia Frances Andrews, Michael Knight, Pauline Yao, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Between the Thunder and the Rain: Chinese Paintings from the Opium War through the Cultural Revolution, 1840–1979. San Francisco: Echo Rock Ventures, in association with the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco – Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture, 2000. .
 Li Chu-chin (Chu-tsing Li), Wan Ch'ing-li. Chun-kuo hsien-tai hui-hua-shih: Wan-Ch'ing chih-pu (1840–1911). Taipei: Shih-t'ou ch'u-pan, 1998.
 Jung Ying Tsao. The Paintings of Xugu and Qi Baishi. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1993. .
 Shen C. Y. Fu, Jan Stuart. Challenging the Past: the Paintings of Chang Dai-chien. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1991. .
 Jung Ying Tsao. Chinese Paintings of the Middle Qing Dynasty. San Francisco: San Francisco Graphic Society, 1987. .
 Kei Suzuki ed. Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Paintings (5 volumes). Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1982. .
 Jung Ying Tsao, Joe Huang, James H. Soong. The Four Jens. Far East Fine Arts, Inc., 1977.

Exhibitions and loans
 Alternative Dreams: 17th Century Chinese Paintings from the Tsao Family Collection. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), August 7 – December 4, 2016.<reif name="lacma 2016">Alternative Dreams: 17th Century Chinese Paintings from the Tsao Family Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), 2016.</ref>
 The 100th Anniversary Exhibition of Huang Binhong. National Art Museum of China, April 4 – May 10, 2015. (Short-term loan of "Album of 172 Sketches After Old Masters" and "Album of 20 Corresponding Sketches, Detailed and Abbreviated")
 The Tsao Family Collection of Seventeenth Century Chinese Painting. Long-term loan to Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), 2013 – ongoing.
 The Richard Fabian Collection. Long-term loan to Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2013 – 2015.
 The Carved Brush: Calligraphy, Painting and Seal Carving by Qi Baishi. Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, October 29, 2013 – July 13, 2014.
 Isamu Noguchi and Qi Baishi: Beijing 1930. University of Michigan Museum of Art, May 18 – September 1, 2013. Noguchi Museum, September 25, 2013 – January 26, 2014.
 Selected Masterworks of Modern Chinese Painting from the Mozhai Collection. Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing, 2010.
 New Songs on Ancient Tunes: 19th – 20th Century Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy from the Richard Fabian Collection. Honolulu Academy of Arts, August 30 – November 11, 2007.
 Between the Thunder and the Rain: Chinese Paintings from the Opium War through the Cultural Revolution, 1840–1979. Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, October 25, 2000 – January 14, 2001.
 Challenging the Past: the Paintings of Chang Dai-chien. Smithsonian Institution, Sackler Gallery, November 24, 1991 – April 5, 1992.

Friendships and recognition
Tsao was a younger contemporary and friend of the collector C. C. Wang, who collected classical paintings, and thus, was competitive with Tsao only around collecting paintings of the seventeenth century, where their interests overlapped. Tsao also built lasting friendships with fellow art appreciators who lived in or travelled to the San Francisco Bay Area, including the artist Zhang Daqian, professors of Chinese art history Michael Sullivan and Chu-tsing Li (pinyin: Li Zhujin) and their students Wan Qingli, Cai Xingyi, Britta Erickson and James Soong, scholar Fred Fang-yu Wang and the collectors Richard Fabian, Michael Gallis and Michael Shih. As China re-opened in the 1980s and 1990s, Tsao traveled there frequently, building friendships with the Shanghai Museum curators Xie Zhiliu and Zheng Wei, artists Li Keran, Zhu Jichan, Huang Junbi, Lou Shibai, dealer/collectors Robert Zhang (pinyin: Zhang Zongxian) and others. In 2008, Tsao was selected to represent all American collectors and give a keynote address at the first annual World Congress of Chinese Collectors in Shanghai. He was recognized by the organizers for collecting art not for investment, but rather, to elevate the spirit and nurture refinement.

After his passing in 2011, Mr. Tsao's heirs established the Mozhai Foundation (in reference to Tsao's studio name), a charitable family foundation dedicated to supporting research and educational programming in the field of traditional Chinese art and culture.

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1929 births
2011 deaths
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American art dealers
Chinese emigrants to the United States
American art collectors
20th-century Chinese lawyers
21st-century Chinese lawyers
20th-century Taiwanese judges
California lawyers
Lawyers from Berkeley, California
Chinese art dealers
Chinese Civil War refugees
Taiwanese people from Tianjin
Historians of East Asian art


title: Bajour (disambiguation)

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Bajour may refer to:

 Bajour District, a subdivision of Pakistan
 Bajour (musical), a Broadway musical
 Szymsia Bajour, a Jewish Polish-Argentine violinist


title: Badminton at the 1986 Asian Games – Women's singles

text:
The badminton women's singles tournament at the 1986 Asian Games in Seoul took place from 30 September to 4 October.

Schedule
All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)

Results

Finals

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Bottom half

Section 3

Section 4

References
 1st round results
 2nd round results
 Quarterfinals results
 Semifinals results
 Final results

Women's singles


title: Rajkumar (Tamil actor)

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Rajakumar is an Indian actor, who has worked in Tamil films. Rajakumar debuted in Balaji Tharaneetharan's critically acclaimed Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom (2012), Rajakumar has since appeared in pivotal roles in films including Naveena Saraswathi Sabatham (2013) and Naalu Policeum Nalla Irundha Oorum (2015).

Career
Rajakumar began his career with Balaji Tharaneetharan's critically acclaimed Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom (2012), portraying Balaji in a film inspired by real life events. The film became a sleeper hit, with the actor gaining reviews for his portrayal.
In 2013, Rajakumar appeared in the fantasy comedy Naveena Saraswathi Sabatham, portraying one of four trapped youngsters. The film opened to mixed reviews and had an average run at the box office. He was later seen playing a small role in Karthik Subbaraj's Jigarthanda, playing the friend of Siddharth.  He also played a small role in Vedalam as Arjun's friend. He reunited with Balaji Tharaneetharan and the cast of Nadavula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom in Seethakaathi (2018).

Filmography

Web series

References

External links

Living people
Indian male film actors
Male actors in Tamil cinema
21st-century Indian male actors
Tamil comedians
1980 births


title: John H. Cocke Memorial Bridge

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The John H. Cocke Memorial Bridge is a bridge along U.S. Route 15 in the state of Virginia that crosses over the James River.  Its northern terminus is at Bremo Bluff, VA and the Bremo Historic District in southern Fluvanna County and its southern terminus is at New Canton, Virginia in northern Buckingham County.  The bridge is named in honor of John Hartwell Cocke, a notable Virginian whose Bremo Plantation was nearby and who once owned the property on which it was built.

The current bridge is a 10-span continuous steel plate girder bridge that is 1,735.5 feet long.  It was completed in 2000 to replace an earlier bridge. The original bridge, built in 1934, was a combination beam and truss bridge 1,786 feet long with a roadway 24 feet wide.

Next to the JHC Memorial Bridge runs a deck plate girder bridge used by the privately owned Buckingham Branch Railroad to connect with the CSX Railroad line that runs along the north side of the James River. By 1885 the 17-mile Dillwyn to Bremo Bluff railroad spur had been built along with the rail bridge over the James at Big Rock. The current railroad bridge was built on the foundations of the original bridge which was washed away in 1972 by Hurricane Agnes.

See also

 List of crossings of the James River (Virginia)

References

External links
Route 15 over James Rv.,CSX RR, Rt 656 (UglyBridges.com)

Bridges over the James River (Virginia)
Buildings and structures in Fluvanna County, Virginia
Transportation in Fluvanna County, Virginia
Buildings and structures in Buckingham County, Virginia
Transportation in Buckingham County, Virginia
Bridges of the United States Numbered Highway System
U.S. Route 15
Steel bridges in the United States
Plate girder bridges in the United States
Road bridges in Virginia
Bridges completed in 2000
1934 establishments in Virginia


title: Chalastinus

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Chalastinus is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae, containing the following species:

 Chalastinus egensis (White, 1855)
 Chalastinus pantherinus Lacordaire, 1872
 Chalastinus recticornis Bates, 1875

References

Anisocerini


title: Chapareia

text:
Chapareia pinima is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, and the only species in the genus Chapareia. It was described by Lane in 1950.

References

Anisocerini
Beetles described in 1950
Monotypic Cerambycidae genera


title: Cyclopeplus

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Cyclopeplus is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae, containing the following species:

 Cyclopeplus batesi Thomson, 1861
 Cyclopeplus castaneus Gounelle, 1906
 Cyclopeplus cyaneus Thomson, 1861
 Cyclopeplus lacordairei Thomson, 1868
 Cyclopeplus peruvianus Tippmann, 1939

References

Anisocerini


title: Demophoo

text:
Demophoo hammatus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, and the only species in the genus Demophoo. It was described by Chabrillac in 1857.

References

Anisocerini
Beetles described in 1857
Monotypic Cerambycidae genera


title: 2014–15 Atalanta BC season

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The 2014–15 season was Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio's fourth consecutive season in Serie A after having been relegated to Serie B at the end of the 2009–10 season.

Players

Squad information

Transfers
Only first-team transfers (mainly players who appeared with the main squad in the previous campaign) are listed. Youth and/or reserve loans are excluded.

In

Total spending:  €8,300,000

Out

Total gaining:  €17,700,000

Competitions

Serie A

League table

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

Coppa Italia

Statistics

Appearances and goals

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References

Atalanta BC seasons
Atalanta


title: Pong Research

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Pong Research Corporation was a cell phone accessories company that invented the Pong Case, a cell phone case with an embedded antenna that reduces exposure to cell phone radiation.

History
Pong Research was incorporated in 2011 and in 2014 relocated to Leesburg, Virginia to Encinitas, California. The company was financially backed by Catterton Partners, the leading consumer-focused private equity fund with over $4.5 billion under management.
In 2014, the company changed its name to Antenna79, Inc. In 2016 Antenna79 merged with Invisible Gadget Guard, Inc. (a cell phone accessories company specializing in screen protection) to become Penumbra Brands, LLC.

Technology
The Pong Case antenna technology was created by PhD scientists educated at Harvard, MIT, UCLA and the University of Manchester. Using their knowledge of manipulating radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic fields, Pong invented a coupling and re-radiating antenna that redistributes cell phone near-field radiation. Pong's first product was for the iPhone 3G.

The cases were made of a hard polycarbonate called Lexan and contain a micro-thin, gold-plated coupled antenna system (CAS) that redirects wireless energy away from the user, thus reducing exposure to mobile device radiation well below the FCC Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) limit—without compromising the device's ability to communicate.

The cases use a passive antenna coupling technology works via a micro-thin gold-plated antenna embedded inside the Pong Case that redistributes the RF signal emitted from a mobile device away from the user's head and body without compromising the device's ability to communicate.  Pong has 8 patents granted and 20 filings pending.

In 2017 the Pong Case was renamed alara, which stands for "as low as reasonably achievable", in reference to the technology significantly reducing RF exposure without compromising the device's ability to communicate.

Lab test results
In October 2009, Wired magazine tested the product at Cetecom, an FCC-certified lab in Milpitas, California that tests cell phone radiation levels for handset manufacturers. Using a specific anthropomorphic mannequin head filled with a brain-tissue simulating fluid.  After a phone call simulation with and without the Pong case, it was found that the specific absorption rate (SAR) was reduced by 64.7% to 0.42 watts per kilogram.

References

2011 establishments in the United States
Companies based in California
Computer hardware companies


title: John Hill (ice hockey)

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John Hill (born November 26, 1960) is an American former ice hockey coach. Through his career he worked mostly at the collegiate level for several schools over more than 20 years.

Head coaching record

College

References

External links

1960 births
Living people
Alaska Anchorage Seawolves men's ice hockey coaches
Alaska Anchorage Seawolves men's ice hockey players
American ice hockey coaches
Columbus Blue Jackets scouts
Edmonton Oilers scouts
Ice hockey people from Virginia
Sportspeople from Hampton, Virginia


title: 2014–15 Cagliari Calcio season

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The 2014–15 season is Cagliari Calcio's 12th consecutive season in Serie A. The team is competing in Serie A and the Coppa Italia.

Players

Squad information

Competitions

Serie A

League table

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

Coppa Italia

Statistics

Appearances and goals

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References

Cagliari Calcio seasons
Cagliari


title: Oreostemma alpigenum

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Oreostemma alpigenum (formerly Aster alpigenus) is a perennial plant to subshrub in the family Asteraceae of the mountains of western United States, commonly known as tundra aster or Anderson's mountain crown.

References

Astereae
Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
Flora without expected TNC conservation status


title: Typhoon Meari (2004)

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Typhoon Meari, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Quinta was a typhoon that hit Japan in September 2004. Meari killed 27 people and caused nearly $800 million in damages.

Meteorological history

Late on September 18, an area of convection was noted 510 miles east of Guam. On the 20th, Tropical Depression 25W organized out of this mass and was located just 35 miles southeast of Guam. 25W turned more westward and began to accelerate as it moved along the southern periphery of a warm-core ridge. On the 21st, the system was upgraded to Tropical Storm Meari. It intensified steadily while moving more northwestward. The system was upgraded to typhoon intensity by late on the 22nd. Typhoon Meari possessed a very asymmetric circulation, elongated somewhat to the north and northeast. Meari became a strong 100-kn/115 mph typhoon by late on the 23rd, and was assigned the name Quinta by PAGASA. After reaching 120 kn/140 mph on the 24th, its strength plateaued for the rest of the day. As it passed 70 miles south of Okinawa early on the 26th, Meari was slowly weakening. The cyclone ceased movement on the 27th about 170 miles west of Okinawa as it became lodged between two anticyclones. A slow northward drift began later that day and vertical wind shear associated with the subtropical jet stream began to take its toll on Meari. By the 29th, Meari was beginning its approach to the Japanese island of Kyūshū. Typhoon Meari made landfall over the southern tip of Kyūshū around midday local time with maximum sustained winds of 70 kn/80 mph. Meari weakened back into a tropical storm late on the 29th. The forward motion began to accelerate as Meari increasingly interacted with the westerlies. The system was followed until the 30th, when it became a nontropical low, which continued tracking eastwards through the north Pacific.

Impact

The highest wind gust reported was  in Kagoshima early on the 29th. The lowest pressure measured during the passage of Meari was 975.5 mb, also at Kagoshima on the 29th. Three tornadoes were spawned in Japan, with two touching down in Okinawa Prefecture and one in Aichi Prefecture. The heaviest rains in Japan were saved for Osawe, where 904 mm fell between late on the 24th and the 30th, with 741 mm falling between late on the 28th and 29th. Reports indicate that at least 18 people died with several more reported missing as a result of Typhoon Meari. The worst affected areas were the prefectures of Mie and Ehime in Japan where torrential rains caused widespread flooding and mudslides destroyed several homes. Train and ferry services were suspended, stranding thousands of people. Damages from the storm amounted to $798 million (2004 USD).

See also

 Other tropical cyclones named Meari
 Other tropical cyclones named Quinta
 Typhoon Ma-on (2004)
 Typhoon Tokage (2004)

References

External links

Japan Meteorological Agency
Joint Typhoon Warning Center
Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration

2004 Pacific typhoon season
Typhoons in Japan
2004 in Japan


title: Trooper Hook

text:
Trooper Hook is a 1957 American Western film directed by Charles Marquis Warren and starring Joel McCrea as the title character and Barbara Stanwyck as the woman he frees from the Indians. The fact that during her captivity she has had a son by a much-feared chief makes her situation very difficult.

Plot
Apache Chief Nanchez orders the massacre of a US cavalry patrol surrounded by his warriors. Cavalry reinforcements arrive, and First Sergeant Clovis Hook takes Nanchez and most of his men captive, though a few escape. The soldiers then torch the Apache village, rounding up the women and children. A soldier spots a white woman among the prisoners. The woman possessively clutches a small boy named Quito. She is Cora Sutcliff, taken captive in a raid some years before while travelling to join her rancher husband, and she is the mother of the boy – Nanchez’s son. First Sergeant Hook takes command of the surviving cavalrymen, and they and their prisoners return to their fort.

When they arrive, the feeling of the women there is unsympathetic towards Cora. They reason that any sane white woman in her shoes would have killed herself before allowing herself to be "defiled" by an Indian. The Colonel's wife alone expresses sympathy, feeling that she might have done what Cora did to survive. She gifts Cora with a dress and underthings; Cora accepts them though she does not wear them because her son responds negatively to her new clothes.

Hook is assigned to escort Cora and her son to her husband. The next day, Cora and Quito wait for him at the general store while he arranges for their stagecoach tickets. A man insults Quito and Cora and grabs Quito. Cora hits the bully with a shovel, threatening to kill any man who lays hands on her son, the first words she has spoken since her rescue. Hook arrives and they set off in a stage driven by Mr. Trude, a capable if irascible driver. Quito and Hook begin to bond through mutual respect.

At a stop, Cora and Quito are barred from Wilson’s Restaurant by its owner, so Hook buys cheese sandwiches and they have a picnic by a stream. Cora asks him if he can understand wanting to live so much that you will put up with any humiliation. Hook reveals that as a prisoner of war in the Confederate prison at Andersonville, he pretended to be a dog for a month so that a dog-loving prisoner, who was dying and hallucinating with fever, would share his rations with him. Cora understands, and finds herself becoming attracted to him.

Meanwhile, Nanchez escapes, rounds up his remaining braves, and sets out to take back his son. He begins tracking the stage, planning how to attack it.

The stagecoach picks up and drops off other passengers, including a young cowboy, Jeff Bennett, whom everyone calls simply “Cowboy.” Cowboy is courteous toward Cora and Quito. At their next stop, the stagecoach takes on an aristocratic elderly Spanish woman, Senora Sandoval, and her granddaughter, Consuela (sic), who has left her convent school for an arranged marriage. Rancher Charlie Travers boards, flush with a large sum of money he won in a poker game and replete with dreams of what he will do with it.

Back at the swing station, Cowboy learns that Nanchez has escaped and is likely after his son. Cowboy sets out on a borrowed horse to catch up with the stagecoach. Unseen, Nanchez allows him to slip past. Cowboy warns Hook, and Hook tells Trude the news.

Hook tells his fellow passengers why Nanchez is stalking them. All but Travers support Cora’s decision to keep Quito. As Trude drives the stage at a breakneck pace it hits a rock, overturns, and damages the coach's suspension. Nanchez appears and offers a deal: The stage and its passengers will be allowed to proceed if they will give him Quito. Hook refuses the deal.

They are forced to spend the night in the desert while Trude makes repairs. Cowboy and Consuela get acquainted, and an attraction develops between them.

In the morning, Nanchez sends word that he will attack unless his son is returned to him. Travers offers Cora money to give up Quito. When Cora remains undeterred, Travers sneaks off to try to bribe Nanchez to spare the group. Nanchez kills him, leaving his money untouched. Surrounded, Hook has Trude restrain Cora and makes Cowboy hold a gun to Quito’s head within full sight of Nanchez, instructing Cowboy to shoot if Hook drops his arm as a signal during his parley with Nanchez. Hook tells Nanchez that his son’s life will be forfeit if he attacks. Thwarted, and knowing Hook will do what he has said he will do, Nanchez orders his band to retreat.

The repaired stagecoach reaches San Miguel, but Cora’s husband Fred is not there to meet her. Hook rents a buckboard to take them to Fred's ranch. When they arrive, Fred makes it clear he is willing to take Cora back, but not her son. Cora decides to leave with Quito. Fred points a rifle at Hook, affirming that Cora belongs to him, but that he and Quito can leave. Cora tells Fred their marriage is over, and asks Hook to take her and his son back to town.

Nanchez and his band appear and attack. Hook, Cora, Quito, and Fred pile onto the buckboard and run for it. A chase ensues. Hook drives the buckboard hellbent for election, while Fred rides in the back, firing his rifle at the pursuing Apaches. Fred kills Nanchez, but is himself shot and killed. Seeing Nanchez fall, the Apaches give up the chase; their rule is, if the chief is killed no action can be taken until a new chief is chosen. Hook stops long enough to bury Fred by the road before continuing to town.

Heading back to San Miguel, Hook tells Cora that he will be retiring in four months, if she will have him. She asks about the wife and family he had referred to repeatedly, and the sergeant explains they are a fiction he invented to get matchmaking wives to leave him alone. She slides closer and he slips his arm around her. The new-made family rides off into the sunset, with Quito learning how to drive a two-horse team.

Cast

Joel McCrea as First Sergeant Clovis Hook
Barbara Stanwyck as Cora Sutliff
Earl Holliman as Jeff Bennett
Edward Andrews as Charlie Travers
John Dehner as Fred Sutliff
Susan Kohner as Consuela
Royal Dano as Mr. Trude
Celia Lovsky as Señora Sandoval
Stanley Adams as Heathcliff
Terry Lawrence as Quito
Rodolfo Acosta as Nanchez (as Rudolfo Acosta)
Richard Shannon as Trooper Ryan
Sheb Wooley as Townsman
Jeanne Bates as Weaver's daughter
Patrick O'Moore as Col. Adam Weaver
Cyril Delevanti as Junius
Rush Williams as Cpl. Stoner
Alfred Linder
Paul Newlan as Mr. Wilson
Dee J. Thompson as Tess (as D. J. Thompson)
Mary Gregory
Charles Gray as Soldier

Production
Parts of the film were shot in Kanab Canyon, Three Lakes and the Gap in Utah.

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1957 films
1957 Western (genre) films
American Western (genre) films
Western (genre) cavalry films
Apache Wars films
Films shot in Utah
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Charles Marquis Warren
United Artists films
1950s English-language films
1950s American films
English-language Western (genre) films


title: Five O'Clock Follies

text:
The Five O'Clock Follies is a sobriquet for military press briefings that occurred during the Vietnam War. Richard Pyle, Associated Press Saigon bureau chief during the war, described the briefings as, "the longest-playing tragicomedy in Southeast Asia's theater of the absurd."

The briefings occurred in Saigon's Rex Hotel, and journalists alternately cracked cynical jokes and shouted at officials, often complaining about a credibility gap between official reports and the truth. Public affairs officer Barry Zorthian led the briefings. He once lamented that where the US government's word was once true until proven false, in Vietnam, it would be questioned until proven true.

Journalists updated the name during the Gulf War. Press briefings at that time were unofficially known as the "Four O'Clock Follies."

References

American political neologisms
Lyndon B. Johnson
Nicknames
Political history of the United States
Richard Nixon
Vietnam War and the media
1960s neologisms


title: Dazzling Mirage

text:
Dazzling Mirage is a 2014 Nigerian drama film, produced and directed by Tunde Kelani; it stars Kemi "Lala" Akindoju, Kunle Afolayan, Bimbo Manuel, Yomi Fash Lanso, Taiwo Ajai-Lycett and Seun Akindele. It also features special appearances from Adewale Ayuba, Sean Tizzle, Tunde Babalola and Steve Sodiya. The film is an adaptation of a novel of the same name by Olayinka Abimbola Egbokhare, adapted to screen by Ade Solanke. It tells the story of a young sickle-cell patient and the various social and emotional challenges she is faced with.

Cast
 Kemi 'Lala' Akindoju as Funmiwo
 Seun Akindele as Sanya
 Kunle Afolayan as Dotun
 Taiwo Ajai-Lycett as Sanya's Mum
 Bimbo Manuel as Funmiwo's Dad
 Yomi Fash Lanso as Lanre
 Carol King as Funmiwo's Mum
 Khabirat Kafidipe as Tade
 Aderounmu Adejumoke as Yejide
 Bukola Awoyemi as
 Ayo Badmus as
 Adewale Ayuba as Adewale Ayuba (special appearance)
 Sean Tizzle as Sean Tizzle (special appearance)
 Collins Enebeli as
 Tunde Babalola as
 Hakeem Adenekan as
 Steve Sodiya as

Production
It was announced in March 2012, just after the theatrical release of Maami, that Kelani would be adapting Olayinka Abimbola's Dazzling Mirage to the big screen. As of January 2013, the adaptation was confirmed to have commenced. Kelani believes the film to be his way of contributing towards public awareness of genotype-related issues like Sickle-Cell Anaemia, hoping young couples would pay attention to its importance. He states: "all of us are connected directly or indirectly to the sufferers of this ailment" "I have also had personal relationships with sufferers of this ailment and I consider it my responsibility to bring their story to fore." Kemi Akindoju had her screen test on 12 June 2013 and principal photography commenced on 18 September 2013.

Release
A promotional poster of Dazzling Mirage was unveiled on 24 June 2013; Onset pictures were also constantly released to the public during the course of filming. The first trailer for the film was released to the public on 1 December 2013 and a second trailer was released on 14 February 2014. The first official poster, together with a third trailer was released on 18 June 2014, ahead of the 2014 World Sickle-cell Awareness Day. The film screened at the Nollywood Film Festival in New Zealand; it premiered on 7 November 2014 at the Muson Centre, Lagos, and was generally released theatrically on 20 February 2015.

Accolades
Dazzling Mirage has been nominated in the "Best Costume Design" category at the 2015 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards.

See also
 Sickle-cell anaemia

References

External links

2014 films
English-language Nigerian films
Films about diseases and disorders
Films shot in Lagos
2014 romantic drama films
Nigerian romantic drama films
Films set in Lagos
Films directed by Tunde Kelani
Films based on Nigerian novels
2010s English-language films
English-language romantic drama films


title: Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Defiance)

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"Slouching Towards Bethlehem" is the eighth episode of the second season of the American science fiction series Defiance, and the series' twentieth episode overall. It was aired on August 7, 2014. The episode was written by Bryan Q. Miller and directed by Larry Shaw.

Plot
Nolan (Grant Bowler), Irisa (Stephanie Leonidas) and some E-Rep soldiers make a raid at the Need/Want to arrest Mahsuvus Gorath (Merwin Mondesir), an Irathient man who works for the Votanis Collective (VC). The E-Rep has information about a bomb in New York City and Mahsuvus can give them details of where it is. As Mahsuvus is interrogated, Amanda (Julie Benz) gets a phone call from a stranger who asks her to help Mahsuvus escape otherwise Kenya (Mia Kirshner) will die.

Nolan tortures Mahcuvus with shrills in order to give them the information they need but shrills do not work on Mahcuvus. Viceroy orders the use of an ego implant, so they can get the information they need from Mahcuvus' memories, even though the implant will be fatal. Amanda knows that if Mahcuvus dies she will never get Kenya back. She informs Nolan about the call and asks his help. Nolan tells her that he can not do anything about Mahcuvus but he asks her hailer so he can track the location of the blackmailer the next time he calls.

Irisa convinces Nolan to let her go and track the blackmailer since she can not be killed. On her way though, she has a new vision and changes her direction. She gets trapped by the Castithan woman Irisa attacked back in the Angel Arc and Irisa tells her that she was the one who started everything and who attacked her. While they talk, Sukar (Noah Danby) appears along with Bertie and all the people who got "attacked" and are now like Irisa. Irzu (Katie Douglas) tells Irisa that everything now begins and she names it "Arkrise".

Back in Defiance, Stahma (Jaime Murray) is interrogated as well about how she and her family is connected to Mahcuvus. She tells Berlin (Anna Hopkins) and Tommy (Dewshane Williams) that her husband has some business with him but nothing more. She then goes to Datak (Tony Curran) to warn him about it, especially after she learn that the E-Rep was going to implant an ego device to Mahcuvus, since she knows that Mahcuvus was providing him and Rafe (Graham Greene) with weapons to use to overthrow the E-Rep government. If the E-Rep finds out about this, they are going to kill all three of them, so she gives Datak a rifle and asks him to "take care" of the issue.

In the meantime, Kenya tries to escape and manages to get away for a while before her captor gets her again. Kenya manages to send a message to Amanda to not do what they asked her but when Kenya is recaptured, Amanda goes on with her plan to help Mahcuvus escape. She manages to get him out of the interrogation room but Nolan gets in time to stop her before they leave the town. This gives the opportunity to Datak to shoot and kill Mahcuvus but before he dies, Mahcuvus gives the location of the bomb to Nolan.

Amanda blames Nolan for what happened and for Kenya's death since now that Mahcuvus is dead, the VC people are going to kill her. Nolan promises her they will take Kenya back since VC do not know that Mahcuvus is dead. Nolan dresses up like Mahcuvus and pretends to be him to the exchange. Nolan shoots the blackmailers who escape and they leave Kenya behind. Amanda and Kenya finally meet each other again.

Reception

Ratings
In its original American broadcast, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" was watched by 1.62 million; up by 0.14 from the previous episode.

Reviews
"Slouching Towards Bethlehem" received mixed reviews.

Michael Ahr from Den of Geek rated the episode with 4.5/5 stating that "the magnificence of the writing all summer has been in the details. [...] [The details] are the little touches that have made this season great."

Katelyn Barnes of Geeks Unleashed rated the episode with 8/10 saying that it was pretty incredible. "I think the show is on more secure footing when it focuses on the town of Defiance and the intrigue there, but if the rest of this season can develop an interesting storyline out of this resistance effort, I’ll be happy to watch."

Rowan Kaiser from The A.V. Club gave the episode a B rating saying that he had become a little disappointed with the show over the course of the season. "Most other shorter-episode shows, including Defiance, work on a model of building toward the season finale or the penultimate episode...and that’s it. Everything goes in that direction. This can be fine if there are enough great individual procedural episodes to maintain interest, but TV dramas rarely seem to manage that anymore. [...] en episodes of build-up may not always be worth it. [...] If nothing else, “Slouching Toward Bethlehem” starts pushing Defiance toward a climax."

Andrew Santos of With an Accent gave a good review to the episode saying that overall it was still a very satisfying episode. "I’m just wondering what’s Kenya been up to. Wasn’t she dead? Stahma did kill her? I’m looking forward to seeing how Stahma reacts to this news that’s great for Amanda, but could surely mean trouble for Stahma."

Abbey White from Screen Spy gave a mixed review to the episode saying that even if it was not "bad" in any means, it felt disjointed. "It is clear we have reached the part of the second season where the writing is attempting to pull together the storylines from the first half and set up the second, however, it feels less like a transition and more like a scramble to put the pieces together."

Billy Grifter of Den of Geek gave a mixed review to the episode saying that the show took a turn for the worse this week. "Overall, this story was the first misstep I’ve detected this season, because Defiance has been getting progressively better as it has gone along. I’m hoping this is just an awkward chicane through which we can move on to better things that seem less designed to hold back information for no other reason than to reveal it later."

Notes
The title of the episode comes from a poem of the Irish poet W. B. Yeats, The Second Coming.   To the episode it refers to the "Arkrise" that Irzu talks about.

References

External links

2014 American television episodes
Defiance (season 2) episodes


title: 2014 Macedonia listeriosis outbreak

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The 2014 Macedonia listeriosis outbreak was an outbreak caused by Listeria food poisoning.

See also
 Listeriosis

References

2014 in the Republic of Macedonia
2014 disease outbreaks
Disease outbreaks in North Macedonia
Listeriosis outbreaks


title: Appietus

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Appiah Dankwah, popularly known as Appietus (born 12 March 1977) is a Ghanaian actor musician, music producer and sound engineer based in Accra, Ghana. The name Appietus gained prominence from his signature "Appietus in the mix". It was, however, coined from the phrase "Appiahs' Tools". He has been the winner of six music industry awards in the 10-year span from the start of his career. He won the Ghana Music Honours 2015 Best Music Producer and Sound Engineer award, Sun Shine Music Awards 2010 Best Sound Engineer award and the UK Ghana Music Awards, Best Sound Engineer in 2008. His remarkable work has also led him to represent the country in some international programs including WOMEX 2013 in Wales, UK, and Worldtronics in Berlin, Germany, 2012.

Life, career and style

Early life
Born Appiah Dankwah to Osei Poku and Susana Appiah in Accra, but from Aduman in the Ashanti Region, Appietus is married to Freda Appiah Dankwah with four children (Nkunim Appiah Dankwah, Nshira Appiah Dankwah, Enigye Appiah Dankwah and Ayeyi Appiah Dankwah). He attended Ebenezer Secondary School in Dansoman (Class of 1993). At a young age, he was enthused about playing an instrument and used any object he came across to make a noise. His father bought him his first toy piano to nurture his talent. Appietus took the opportunity to learn to play instruments at the Four Square Gospel Church, Mount Olivet Methodist Church and Alive Chapel Intentional and began learning the basics of sound engineering at Fredima Studios Adabraka, Accra, in 1995.

Career
He continued to grow his expertise and improved his sound engineering qualities from Fredima Studios at Adabraka in Accra. He later moved to Kay's Frequency at Asylum Down where he further enriched his production skills in the year 1998. He also worked at Kampsite Studios at Dansoman SSNIT flats in the year 2003 after graduating from Kay's Frequency. He finally established his own studio (Creative Studioz) at Dansoman Sahara in the year 2006. Creative Studioz started off as a partnership between Amandzeba and Appietus till the contract expired when Appietus took over as CEO till date.

He has had the opportunity to be on the panel for the Vodafone Icons in 2012 and 2013. He mentored the group that won the 2012 Vodafone Icons and from which an eminent artist Wiyaala has emerged.

In 2014, Appietus collaborated with COPILOT Music and Sound on a cover of Carlinhos Brown's "Maria Caipirnha (Samba da Bahia)".  The arrangement represented the musical instrumentation and styles of Ghana for Visa's "Samba of the World", a digital campaign for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

Style
Appietus is versatile in his work and has always preferred to give reverence to God on the success of his career. His versatility has been proven in his productions, from the various genres he produces and (or) records. His style has always been to adapt to the flow of what trends, he has recorded several genres of music (Afro-Pop, Hi-Life, Reggae, Gospel, Dance Hall, African Traditional, Hiplife, Azonto), which affirm his ability to easily adjust when the need arises. From his main profession as a sound engineer he has also actualized in some other professions such as singing and acting. He has just released his first single titled "Kuntunimu", which features Castro. He has further led the industry by introducing a reality show ''Appietus Idolz'', that sought to hunt musical talents.

Appietus Idolz
Appietus Idolz, was the first ever reality show to be organized in Ghana by a sound engineer. The idea was to produce real talents who were capable of making their own music after the competition. The show did not allow participants to sing songs of other eminent artists but rather sing one that they had originally composed to the beats of Apietus. The inspiration for this reality show came from the future of the music industry, as Appietus prospected a few upcoming rappers who needed someone to produce them. Upon various encounters with quite a number who wished that he produced them, he coined the idea to produce the best of all the talents who represented on his reality show. The winner of the show TJ, is currently being produced by Appietus under the label Creative Records.

Appietus Compilation
The Appietus Compilation is a mix of Ghana's finest music stars on one platform. Appietus collaborates with an array of music stars on a single compilation. The essence of the compilation was for him to put together tunes that will leave endless rhythms in the minds of consumers. He has within a period of seven years (2008–2015) released three compilations: The Revolution, Tip of the Iceberg, and Appietus Compilation Volume 3 (Azonto Fiesta).

Discography

Songs Recorded

Compilations

2008:The Revolution
2010:Tip of the Iceberg
2012:Appietus Compilation Volume 3 (Azonto Fiesta)

Single
 2014:Kuntunimu

Awards and nominations

Ghana Music Awards

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Ghana Music Awards

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|Best Recording Engineer
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Ghana Music Awards

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|Best Recording Engineer
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Ghana Music Awards

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|Best Recording Engineer
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UK Ghana Music Awards

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|Best Sound Engineer
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Ghana Music Awards

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|Best Sound Engineer
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Ghana Music Awards

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|Best Sound Engineer
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Sun Shine Music Awards

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|African Best Sound Engineer
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Ghana Music Awards

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Ghana Music Honours

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|Best Music Producer And Sound Engineer
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References

External sources
Appietus Facebook Page

Appietus Twitter Page

Appietus Instagram Page

Appietus' interview with DJ Abrantie of Capital Radio

Appietus speaks to DJ Edu of BBC

 TJ "Trust Jah"- Dem Try ( Winner Of The Appietus Idolz Season 1 )

Ghanaian musicians
1977 births
Living people


title: Spicule (nematode anatomy)

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In nematodes, spicules, also known as copulatory spicules, are needle-like mating structures found only in males.

Male nematodes may have one or two spicules which serve to open the vulva of females and facilitate the transmission of sperm, although sperm is not transferred directly by or through the spicules. The gubernaculum is another organ of the nematode male copulatory system which guides the spicules during copulation.

References

Nematode anatomy
Animal male reproductive system


title: I Just Want to Have Something to Do

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"I Just Want to Have Something to Do" is a song credited to the Ramones but was written by Joey Ramone and was released as the opening song of the band's 1978 album Road to Ruin.  It was also released on several of the band's compilation albums.  It was also used in the film Rock 'n' Roll High School.

Allmusic critic Donald A. Guarisco described "I Just Want to Have Something to Do" as "one of the best expressions of frustrated desire to ever grace the world of pop music."  The song is taken at midtempo, slower than the typical Ramones song.  The lyrics describe the singer's need to connect with the listener, and themes include ambivalence and anomie.  Authors Scott Schinder and Andy Schwartz comment on the surprising rhyme of Second Avenue with chicken vindaloo.  Ramones biographer Everett True calls this rhyme "evocative."  Music professor Robert Pattison suggests that this lyric was too much "fun," as opposed to "joyous," to be respectable enough to be included in a freshman anthology, but he nonetheless considers it a "rock classic."

Guarisco considers the music to effectively evoke the frustration described in the lyrics by using "twisted, ascending note patterns" in the verses to create a "yearning feel."  He also states that the music in the refrain enhances the yearning effect with its "sense of swing."  True states that the song evokes a sense of "pent-up energy" through "shards of guitar and feedback" which "riccochet past your ear."  Guarisco also praises Joey Ramone's lead vocal for the way his snarling and pleading build to an angry peak in the refrain.

"I Just Want to Have Something to Do" was included on several Ramones compilation albums, including Hey! Ho! Let's Go: The Anthology in 1999 and Greatest Hits in 2006.

References

1978 songs
Ramones songs
Songs written by Joey Ramone
Song recordings produced by Ed Stasium
Song recordings produced by Tommy Ramone


title: Józef Bachórz

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Józef Bachórz (born 1934) is a Polish philologist, professor of Gdańsk University, and an expert in Polish poetry. He was the recipient on the 2003 Johannes Hevelius Award in the humanities category, Order of Polonia Restituta in 2004, as well as a number of other awards.

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External links

1934 births
Living people
Polish philologists


title: Bachórz

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Bachórz may refer to:

Bachórz, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, a village in Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland
Bachórz River (:pl:Bachórz (potok)), a tributary of the Vistula
Józef Bachórz, Polish philologist
Simón Bajour, violinist, born Szymon Bachórz


title: 450 Tactical Helicopter Squadron

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450 Tactical Helicopter Squadron is a Royal Canadian Air Force helicopter squadron. During the Second World War, the numerical designation of 450 was originally given to No. 450 Squadron of the Royal Australian Air Force, which flew under that number from 1941 until 1945 in the Middle East and Italy. Canadian Article XV squadrons during the Second World War had used numbers from 400 to 449; however, due to an administrative error, the "450" designation was used when squadron formed at RCAF Station St. Hubert, Quebec, on March 29, 1968.

The squadron moved to CFB Ottawa (Uplands) in May 1970 and the squadron received Royal Assent for the designation 450 Transport Helicopter Squadron on May 20, 1970. On August 1, 1991, the squadron was re-designated 450 Composite Helicopter Squadron. This was followed by another name change on April 1, 1993, when the squadron became 450 Tactical Helicopter Squadron. In August the following year, 450 Tactical Helicopter Squadron was transferred back to 1 Wing at CFB St. Hubert.

450 Squadron was deactivated in 1996 before being officially disbanded on January 1, 1998. On May 2, 2012, the squadron was re-established to operate the CH-147F Chinook helicopters of the Royal Canadian Air Force, based out of CFB Petawawa.

The squadron has a dedicated concrete helipad, measuring , at Petawawa Heliport.

On June 20, 2023, there was an unknown incident over the Petawawa River involving one of the CH-147F helicopters. There were 4 crew on board at the time, 2 of whom were sent to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries while the search continued for the remaining 2. On June 21, 2023, the bodies of the remaining 2 crew members were recovered from the Ottawa River.

References

 Citations

Bibliography

External links

Canadian Forces aircraft squadrons
Military units and formations established in 1968
Canadian Armed Forces


title: Persecution of Christians by the Islamic State

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The persecution of Christians by the Islamic State involves the systematic mass murder of Christian minorities, within the regions of Iraq, Syria, Egypt and Libya controlled by the Islamic terrorist group Islamic State. Persecution of Christian minorities climaxed following the Syrian civil war and later by its spillover.

According to US diplomat Alberto M. Fernandez, "While the majority of the victims of the conflict which is raging in Syria and Iraq have been Muslims, Christians have borne a heavy burden given their small numbers."

On February 3, 2016, the European Union recognized the persecution of religious minorities, including Christians, by the Islamic State as genocide. The vote was unanimous. The United States House of Representatives followed suit on March 15, 2016, declaring that these atrocities against minorities were genocide.  On April 20, 2016, the British Parliament unanimously voted to denounce the actions against minorities as genocide.

Background
The mass flight and expulsion of ethnic Assyrians from Iraq and Syria is a process which was initiated during the start of the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the US and the Multi-National Force and later it was initiated during the start of the Syrian civil war and the spillover. Leaders of Iraq's Assyrian community estimate that over two-thirds of the Iraqi Assyrian population may have fled the country or been internally displaced during the U.S.-led invasion which lasted from 2003 until 2011. Reports suggest that whole neighborhoods of Assyrians have cleared out in the cities of Baghdad and Basra, and that Sunni insurgent groups and militias have threatened Assyrian Christians. Following the campaign of the Islamic State in northern Iraq in August 2014, one quarter of the remaining Assyrians fled the jihadists, finding refuge in neighboring countries.

Timeline

Northern Iraq (2014)

After the fall of Mosul, ISIL demanded that Assyrian Christians living in the city convert to Islam, pay jizyah, or face execution, by July 19, 2014. ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi further noted that Christians who do not agree to follow those terms must "leave the borders of the Islamic Caliphate" within a specified deadline. This resulted in a complete Assyrian Christian exodus from Mosul, marking the end of 1,800 years of continuous Christian presence. A church mass was not held in Mosul for the first time in nearly 2 millennia.

In October 2014, a release put out by the Assyrian International News Agency stated that 200,000 Assyrians had been driven from their homes by the violence and become displaced.

ISIL has already set similar rules for Christians living in other cities and towns, including its de facto capital Raqqa.

ISIL had also been seen marking Christian homes with the letter nūn for Nassarah ("Christian"). Several religious buildings were seized and subsequently demolished, most notably Mar Behnam Monastery.

By August 7, ISIL captured the primarily Assyrian towns of Qaraqosh, Tel Keppe, Bartella, and Karamlish, prompting the residents to flee. More than 100,000 Iraqi Christians were forced to flee their homes and leave all their property behind after ISIL invaded Qaraqosh and surrounding towns in the Nineveh Plains Province of Iraq.

Libya (2015)

On February 12, 2015, the ISIL released a report in their online magazine Dabiq showing photos of 21 Egyptian Copts migrant workers that they had kidnapped in the city of Sirte, Libya, and whom they threatened to kill to "avenge the [alleged] kidnapping of Muslim women by the Egyptian Coptic Church". The men, who came from different villages in Egypt, 13 of them from Al-Our, Minya Governorate, were kidnapped in Sirte in two separate attacks on December 27, 2014, and in January 2015.

Syria (2015)

On 23 February 2015, in response to a major Kurdish offensive in the Al-Hasakah Governorate, ISIL abducted 150 Assyrians from villages near Tell Tamer in northeastern Syria, after launching a large offensive in the region.

According to US diplomat Alberto M. Fernandez, of the 232 of the Assyrians kidnapped in the ISIL attack on the Assyrian Christian farming villages on the banks of the Khabur River in Northeast Syria, 51 were children and 84 were women. "Most of them remain in captivity, with one account claiming that ISIS is demanding $22 million (or roughly $100,000 per person) for their release."

On 8 October 2015, ISIL released a video showing three of the Assyrian men kidnapped in Khabur being murdered. It was reported that 202 of the 253 kidnapped Assyrians were still in captivity, each one with a demanded ransom of $100,000.

Egypt (2018)

On 2 November. 2018, Islamic State gunmen killed at least seven Coptic Christian pilgrims in Egypt on Friday and wounded at least 16 in an attack.  In April 2021, Islamic State gunmen executed a Christian businessman who was kidnapped in Egypt's Sinai.

Reactions

On 2 and 3 August 2014, thousands of Assyrians of the diaspora protested the persecution of their fellow Assyrians within Iraq and Syria, demanding a United Nations-led creation of a safe haven for minorities in the Nineveh Plains.

In October 2014, Kurdish-Danish human rights activist Widad Akrawi dedicated her 2014 International Pfeffer Peace Award "to all victims of persecution, particularly the Yazidis, the Christians, and all residents of the Kobanê region."  Chaldean Catholic Father Douglas Al-Bazi has spoken out strongly against the genocide.

In December 2015, at a town hall event, the 67th United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, called the systematic persecution a genocide. The same month, David Greene, a radio journalist at NPR, stated that around 1,000 Christians had been killed "in areas where Islamic State fighters are targeting religious minorities", without specifying a source.

In February 2016, Lars Adaktusson, a Swedish member of the European Parliament from the EPP Group, said of the unanimous vote to recognize atrocities as genocide: "It gives the victims of the atrocities a chance to get their human dignity restored. It's also a historical confirmation that the European Parliament recognized what is going on and that they are suffering from the most despicable crime in the world, namely genocide."

See also

References

2010s in Asia
21st-century Eastern Orthodoxy
21st-century Oriental Orthodoxy
Persecution of Christians
Christianity in Iraq
History of Christianity in Syria
History of Christianity in Egypt
Christianity in Libya
Ethnic cleansing by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Forced migration
Islam-related controversies
Persecution of Assyrians by ISIL
Persecution of Copts by ISIL
Racism in the Arab world
Terrorism in Iraq
Terrorism in Syria
Terrorism in Libya
Terrorism in the Middle East
People killed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Violence against Christians
Massacres of Christians
21st-century mass murder in Africa
21st-century mass murder in Asia


title: Dubai Financial Services Authority

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The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) is the financial regulatory agency of the special economic zone, the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is distinct from the UAE's federal Securities and Commodities Authority, whose jurisdiction covers the wider UAE outside the boundaries of the DIFC. It operates only within the special economic zone and is tasked with providing a regulatory environment of international standards.

The DFSA's regulatory mandate includes asset management, banking and credit services, securities, collective investment funds, custody and trust services, commodities futures trading, Islamic finance, insurance, an international equities exchange, and an international commodities derivatives exchange. In addition to regulating financial and ancillary services, the DFSA is responsible for supervising and enforcing anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) requirements applicable in the DIFC. The DFSA has also accepted a delegation of powers from the DIFC Registrar of Companies (RoC) to investigate the affairs of DIFC companies and partnerships where a material breach of DIFC Companies Law is suspected and to pursue enforcement remedies available to the Registrar.

Legal framework
Article 121 of the UAE Constitution enabled the Federation to create Financial Free Zones in the Emirates and, most importantly, to exclude the application of certain Federal laws in these Financial Free Zones. A number of laws created the DIFC and the necessary centre bodies, which include the DFSA. The laws set out the objectives, powers and functions of the central bodies. They also contain important exemptions and prohibitions in the DIFC.

History
The agency was established in 2004 as part of the establishment of the Dubai International Financial Centre.

Mismarking
In 2016, a trader at a company authorized by the Dubai Financial Services Authority was banned for six years from performing any functions in connection with the provision of financial services in the Dubai International Financial Centre after he mismarked his trading book.

Treatment of whistleblowers
In 2019, it was reported that the DFSA was accused of retaliating against a whistleblower in a drug money laundering case.

See also
Securities Commission
Economy of Dubai
List of financial regulatory authorities by country

References

Economy of Dubai
Government agencies of Dubai
Financial regulatory authorities of the United Arab Emirates


title: Claude Bushell

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Claude Hilton Bushell (25 June 1873 – 6 December 1930) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Wilberforce to farmer David Bushell and Izeppa Winton. He attended Richmond Public School and became a commercial traveller. He was then a storekeeper first at Cobar and then at Mandurama. Around 1900 he married Mary Pellett at Muswellbrook; they had four daughters. In 1917 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Lyndhurst, but he retired in 1920. Around 1928 he married his second wife, Janet Baker. He died in Parkes in 1930.

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1873 births
1930 deaths
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales


title: Marko Topchii

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Marko Topchii ( ; born January 7, 1991) is a classical guitarist from Ukraine. Topchii has won more than 100 awards worldwide in the international classical guitar competitions in the professional category. Among them, 55 first places in the competitions in the United States, Mexico, Australia, Japan, China, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, Indonesia, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, and Ukraine.

Biography

Birth and education
Marko Topchii was born in 1991 in Kyiv, Ukraine, to a family of musicians.Нe started studying the guitar at the age of four with Volodymyr Homenyuk and later with Borys Belsky.2011 - graduated from the Kharkiv National Kotlyarevsky University of Arts under Prof. Volodymyr Dotsenko, Merited Artist of Ukraine.2016 - completed a three-year postgraduate program at the Petro Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kyiv under Prof. Yuri Aleksik, Merited Artist of Ukraine.2019 - completed the professional studies program at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music under Prof. Judicaël Perroy.

Career
Being a multi-award-winning classical guitarist, orchestra soloist, and concertist, Marko has won more than 100 awards worldwide in the international classical guitar competitions in the professional category. Among them, 55 first places.
In the fall of 2018, he appeared on the cover of issue No. 391 of the Classical Guitar Magazine: Marko Topchii, Perennial Prize Winner. The issue also included the interview: Marko Topchii, Inside the World of One of the Most Successful and Widely Travelled Competitors.
In 2017, he appeared on the cover of the issue No. 12 of Polish classical guitar magazine Sześć Strun Świata (Six Strings of the World). The issue also included the interview.
Marko often performs with orchestras, having more than ten concertos for guitar and orchestra in the repertoire. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Salle Cortot (Paris), Yamaha Ginza Hall (Tokyo), Tchaikovsky Hall (Moscow).
Marko has recorded three solo CD albums:
2016 Fleur de Son Classics in Buffalo, NY as a winner of JoAnn Falletta International Guitar Concerto Competition,
2016 Contrastes Records in Seville, Spain as a winner of the International Classical Guitar Competition "Gredos San Diego" (Madrid, Spain),2018 Naxos Records as the winner of the Michele Pittaluga International Classical Guitar Competition.

 Topchii is an official D'Addario artist since 2012.

Awards
Topchii has won many awards worldwide in the international classical guitar competitions in the professional category.
To see the actual list please look at the tables below:

First prizes

Second prizes

Third prizes

Special prizes

Recordings
The conventional CD recordings are listed below:

Topchii has many video recordings on his official YouTube channel.

External links

References

Ukrainian classical guitarists
Ukrainian classical musicians
Ukrainian guitarists
Classical guitarists
21st-century guitarists
21st-century classical musicians
San Francisco Conservatory of Music alumni
Kyiv Conservatory alumni
Musicians from Kyiv
1991 births
Living people


title: Kristina Fetters

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Kristina Joy Fetters (February 5, 1980 - July 27, 2014) was an Iowa woman who was convicted of the murder of her 73-year-old great-aunt, Arlene Klehm, on October 25, 1994, when she was 14 years old. At age 15, Fetters became the youngest woman in Iowa sentenced to life in prison without parole on December 18, 1995. Following the 2012 Supreme Court decision of Miller v. Alabama, which declared mandatory life sentences for juvenile offenders to be unconstitutional, Fetters became the first inmate in Iowa to be re-sentenced in November 2013. The following month, she was recommended for compassionate parole due to a prognosis of inoperable stage-four breast cancer, and she was released to a hospice care center in Des Moines, Iowa in December 2013. She succumbed to her cancer in July 2014, at age 34.

Murder
In January 1994, Kristina Fetters was sent to Orchard Place, an unlocked facility in Des Moines for children with behavioral or mental health problems, and she was put on Prozac. On October 25, 1994, the morning of the murder, Fetters and her roommate, Jeanie Fox, escaped from the facility and hitchhiked to her great-aunt Arlene Klehm's home in northern Polk County, Iowa. Allegedly, Fetters had previously discussed with other girls at Orchard Place about her plan to rob and kill her great-aunt. When Fetters and Fox arrived at Klehm's home, the young girls waited for visitors to leave before entering the home. Once inside the home, Fetters reportedly struck Klehm on the head with a frying pan, then attempted to slit Klehm's throat before stabbing her in the back with a paring knife. The two girls attempted to rob the house, but after being unable to find the keys to the safe or Klehm's truck, they left the scene. After police were called to the house, they discovered the murder, and Kristina Fetters was arrested that night and confessed to the crime.

Fetters was ultimately charged with first-degree murder and her case was transferred from the juvenile court to district court, and she was tried as an adult. She pleaded insanity, arguing that she did not understand the full consequences of her actions, but a prosecution psychologist argued she carefully planned the killing. This was corroborated by the testimony of three residents of Orchard Place, including Jeanie Fox. After a day of deliberation, a Polk County jury convicted Kristina Fetters of first-degree murder. On December 18, 1995, she received the mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole under Iowa state law.

Prison
Fetters served her sentence at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women in Mitchellville, Iowa. She filed appeals of her conviction, but they were denied. In 2008, Fetters' attorneys filed a petition challenging her life sentence, arguing cruel and unusual punishment that was in violation of the Constitution and Iowa state law. In 2010, the case Graham v. Florida noted that key differences between children and adults must be considered in sentencing, citing brain research studies have shown that teenagers' brains continue to develop into their early twenties. Two years later, the case Miller v. Alabama banned mandatory life sentences without parole for juveniles. In 2013, as Fetters was preparing for a new sentencing hearing, she became gravely ill and was diagnosed with inoperable breast cancer.

Later life and death
In November 2013, Kristina Fetters was re-sentenced by a Polk County judge to life in prison with the possibility of parole. The judge also recommended that Fetters be immediately paroled due to her illness. In December 2013, the Iowa Parole Board voted to release Fetters on hospice-only parole. She became the first juvenile who was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison who was released. After seven months in hospice care, Fetters succumbed to her cancer on July 27, 2014; she died at age 34.

References

1980 births
2014 deaths
American people convicted of murder
American female murderers
Minors convicted of murder
People convicted of murder by Iowa
Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by Iowa


title: Shangara Singh Mann

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Shangara Singh Mann was an officer of the Indian National Army during World War II. He served as a captain and company commander during some of the earliest fighting against the British Indian Army in Assam, for which he was awarded the Sardar-e-Jung, the second-highest decoration bestowed by Azad Hind for valour in combat, and the Vir-e-Hind medal. Subhas Chandra Bose himself gave Singh Mann his medals in Rangoon. He was captured by the British and held in a prison in Multan from January 1945 to February 1946. Soon after he was released and he returned to his family in the Punjab, his life was disrupted by the partition of India. In 1959, he settled in Vadodara, Gujarat, where he remained as of 2001. He died aged 113.

References

Year of birth missing
Possibly living people
Indian National Army personnel
Indian Sikhs
Punjabi people
World War II prisoners of war held by the United Kingdom


title: Gabriel Marques (attorney)

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Gabriel S. Marques is an American attorney. Marques currently serves as the fiscal officer of Nassau County, New York and as an adjunct professor at Molloy College. He is also a member of the Conselho das Comunidades Portuguesas, a diaspora advisory council of the Portuguese government, and the current president of the National Organization of Portuguese Americans.

Early life
Marques received B.B.A. and M.B.A. degrees in finance from the Frank G. Zarb School of Business at Hofstra University, where he was a member of the Phi Eta Sigma honor society and the Hofstra University Honors College. In 2014, Marques received his Juris Doctor from Touro Law Center.

Career
Marques started his career in government in 2010 as a research analyst, before being appointed Deputy Comptroller of Nassau County in 2015. He has served as Nassau County's Fiscal Officer in the Office of the Comptroller since 2016.  He is also an adjunct professor at Molloy College.

In 2012, Marques organized the first recognition of Portugal Day in Nassau County by hosting the Portugal Day Celebration at the Nassau County Legislative Chambers. The event has since been held annually (renamed the New York Portugal Day Gala).

Marques was a member of the U.S. Delegation for the annual summit of international Portuguese diaspora leaders in Lisbon in May 2015, and was president of the Regional Advisory Council on Portuguese Communities in North America from 2016-17.  In 2018, he co-founded the Portuguese American Bar Association.  On February 21, 2019, Marques was elected president of the National Organization of Portuguese Americans.

Honors

 Knight Commander of the Royal Equestrian and Military Order of Saint Michael of the Wing (House of Braganza, Portugal; May 11, 2019).
"40 Under 40." Long Island Business News (February 7, 2019).
"Key to the Village of Mineola," awarded by Mayor Scott Strauss (2011).

References

Living people
American people of Portuguese descent
Hofstra University alumni
New York (state) lawyers
Touro Law Center alumni
1983 births
Molloy College faculty


title: Campbell Carmichael

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Ambrose Campbell Carmichael, MC (19 September 1871 – 15 January 1953) was an Australian politician, soldier and accountant, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for 12 years and a minister in the McGowen and Holman Labor governments.

Early life
Carmichael was born in Hobart, Tasmania, to shipping agent William Carmichael and Emma Willson, both Scottish-born. He was educated at Hobart and then held a variety of occupations, including coaching in Brisbane and farming on the Lachlan River, where he became involved in the Farmers and Settlers Association. Around 1893 he married Mabel Pillinger at Lake Cargelligo. In around 1900 he established a business in Sydney.

Political career
In 1904 Carmichael joined Labor and worked on George Beeby's unsuccessful campaign for Leichhardt at the 1904 election. He was the Labor candidate for Leichhardt in 1907 and he was successful, defeating the sitting Liberal Reform member Robert Booth, with a margin of 485 votes (6.1%). He was appointed an honorary minister in 1910 in the McGowen ministry, assuming the Public Instruction and Labour and Industry portfolios in 1911. He was dropped from the ministry in November 1911, but was returned as Minister of Public Instruction from March 1912, briefly also serving as Treasurer from April to May 1912 and adding Labour and Industry from December 1912 until June 1913. He retained the portfolio of Public Instruction in the first Holman ministry, until March 1915, when he resigned over a dispute concerning seniority in the cabinet.

In November 1915 he started a successful recruiting campaign for 1,000 recruits to join him in the Australian Imperial Force for the First World War, referred to as "Carmichael's thousand". He enlisted as a private in January 1916, serving in the 36th Battalion. He was awarded the Military Cross for action at Houplines in 1917, returning to the frontline, attaining the rank of captain. He returned to Sydney in February 1918 and spoke to the Labor executive, explaining that while he was in favour of conscription it had been defeated in two referendums and was a dead issue. He ran another recruitment campaign to raise a second "Carmichael's thousand", which left Sydney in June 1918, arriving in France in late September when the war was ending.

He drifted from Labor and "machine politics" and in March 1919 formed the People's Party of Soldiers and Citizens. The party fielded 30 candidates in 10 districts at the 1920 election, with Carmichael standing as a candidate for the five-member seat of Balmain. None of the party's candidates were elected with Carmichael coming closest, missing out by a margin of 426 votes (1.4%).

Later life
Carmichael retired from public life and became a public accountant. He wrote to his former colleague William Ashford in 1921 stating that the prosecution of Ashford in a Royal Commission was in his opinion, a "damned dirty piece of political malice" that sickened him of present-day politics. After the failure of his party he joined the Nationalist Party in 1922 but did not stand for election again. His wife Mabel died in 1931, and his second marriage, which took place in 1934 in Sydney, was to Olive Thorngate  Weston. He died at Darlinghurst on . He had no children from either marriage and his second wife, Olive, died 5 days after him.

References

1871 births
1953 deaths
Australian Army officers
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales
Australian military personnel of World War I
Australian recipients of the Military Cross
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Treasurers of New South Wales


title: John Cochran (Australian politician)

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John Patrick Cochran (8 March 1864 – 2 December 1926) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Lower Manning to mariner Thomas Cochran and Ellen Lennon. He worked as a labourer and a secretary, and was an official of the United Labourers' Union, a delegate to the Labor Council of New South Wales, and a member of the ULU's executive committee from 1894 to 1910, as secretary from 1906. He was also a member of the Australian Labor Party's central executive, serving in 1905 and from 1907 to 1908. In 1910 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Darling Harbour. He served as a backbencher until his retirement in 1920, becoming a clerk in the Department of Labour and Industry. He ran once more for office, contesting North Shore for Labor in 1922. Cochran, an unmarried Catholic, died in 1926 in Little Bay.

References

1864 births
1926 deaths
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales
Colony of New South Wales people


title: Ante Over

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Ante Over (also known as Handy Over, Eenie Einie, Auntie Over, Andy Over, Anti-Over, Annie I Over, Ante-I-over, Annie Annie Over, Annie Over, Annie Over the Shanty, Antony Over, Antny Over, Anthony Over, Andrew Over, Ankety Over, Eenie I over, Heather I Over and other regional variants)  is a children's game played in the United States and Canada, dating back to at least the mid-nineteenth century. The game requires a ball or any other small object and a barrier (usually a small gabled building) between the two teams over which the ball is thrown. It is played over a lower building that one can throw a ball over and be able to run all the way around it. The player calls out Annie-Annie Over and throws the ball over the building to the kids on the other side. If they catch the ball they can sneak around the building and throw the ball back or catch others and tag them. The players have to keep an eye open for them coming and beat them to the other side of the building. If a player makes it then that is their side but if they are tagged then they are on the other side. There can be an even number of kids on each side to start with. When there are three-four kids on a side they can split up and some go each way and then they don't know who has the ball. If the ball is not caught then they can wait a moment to try to fool the other players and then holler out Annie-Annie Over and throw the ball back. If the ball doesn't go over the building, the throwers can yell 'Pigtail!', and then try to throw it again. The ball must be caught in order to run around the building after other players. When the last kid on a team is tagged then that team wins.

Basic play
There are two teams, one on each side of the barrier. A player on the team that starts with the ball throws the ball over the roof to the other team, yelling some version of "Ante Over" to warn them that it has been thrown. If the other team fails to catch the ball before it hits the ground, then they will yell "Ante Over" and throw it back. If the team that is thrown to catches the ball, then the player holding the ball runs around the building and tries to hit one of the members of the opposing team with the ball. Players are "safe" if they succeed in running around the building without being hit. If a player is hit, they then join the team of the player who hit them with the ball. Gameplay continues until one team has all of the players  or just one is left.

Variations
In some areas, if the ball bounces off the wall or rolls back without going over the roof, the thrower will yell "Pig's tail", "pigtails", "Back, ball", or "Uncle" to let the other team know the ball has been thrown but did not go over. They then yell "Ante Over" again and make another attempt to throw the ball over the roof.

An indoor version of the game uses a curtain instead of a building. Any tall obstacle that obscures the other team works for the game, although a gabled roof is part of traditional play.

When a building is used instead of a fence or some other narrow object, in some variations the ball must touch the other side of the roof. Having the ball bounce this way can make it tougher for the other side to catch.  Some players even learn to finesse the ball rolling it up and over the roof.

When it is a fence, or a similar obstacle that can be seen through, it is more difficult for the players to cheat as the other side can see if the ball does or does not hit the ground.  When it is a building, or other opaque barrier, players can sometimes stealth to the other side, catching the other team by surprise.

One rule has it that the opposing player can only be hit below the waist as a safety precaution like in dodge ball.

In most versions players only have to run to the other side of the building to be "safe", while other versions require them to run all the way around the building.

References

Ball games
Children's games
Tag variants
Outdoor games


title: 2 Service Battalion

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The Canadian Army's 2 Service Battalion provides second-line Combat Service Support to 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group (CMBG), including transportation, supply, and maintenance to assigned formations for domestic and deployed operations. The service battalion also provides essential institutional support to CFB Petawawa lodger units.

Bibliography

Battalions of the Canadian Army
Army logistics units and formations of Canada


title: Triveni Ghat

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Triveni Ghat is a ghat situated in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand. It is the biggest and most famous ghat in Rishikesh at the banks of Ganges. Triveni Ghat remains overcrowded with devotee to take ritual baths to get cleansed from their sins. Being the most venerated ghat in Rishikesh, Triveni Ghat is even used by devotees to perform the last rites and rituals of their loved ones. The ghat is famed for the Ganga aarti performed to the chants of Vedic hymns. The sight of oil leaves, filled with diya and petals, which are released by devotees, floating on the pristine Ganga and the traditional aarti is a sight to behold. On the bank of Triveni Ghat, one can visit the Gita Mandir, Triveni Mata Mandir and Lakshminarayan Temple.

Images

Rishikesh
Ghats of India


The 2005–06 St. Francis Terriers men's basketball team represented St. Francis College during the 2005–06 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team was coached by Brian Nash, who was in his first year at the helm of the St. Francis Terriers. The Terrier's home games were played at the  Generoso Pope Athletic Complex. The team has been a member of the Northeast Conference since 1981.

Nash's team finished at 10–17 overall and 7–11 in conference play for a 9th-place finish. It marks the first time in 15 seasons that the Terriers have not made it to the NEC Conference Tournament.

Roster

Schedule and results

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References

St. Francis Brooklyn Terriers men's basketball seasons
St. Francis
2005 in sports in New York City
2006 in sports in New York City


title: Merrion Hall

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The Merrion Hall is a former Plymouth Brethren church built by Alfred Gresham Jones and completed in 1863 that was located near Merrion Square in Dublin, Ireland. It has been reconstructed and renovated and is now the Davenport Hotel, but the facade has been retained.

History
The church was built by Alfred Gresham Jones (1824–1888) for the Brethren. It was completed in 1863 at a cost of £16,000, and had a main hall capacity of 2500 to 3000 persons, plus many more standing.

The Brethren owe their origins to meetings in Dublin; the first public meeting of the group that came to worship at Merrion Hall was held at an auction room in Aungier Street in the 1820s. Until Merrion Hall was built, meetings continued in Aungier Street and at private houses in the city.

Merrion Hall was the largest Brethren Gospel Hall ever constructed. There were three completely oval galleries and a double deck preacher's platform almost identical to that of the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London. The lower hall in the basement contained a below-floor baptism pool.

The Brethren Assembly occupied the protected building until the late 1980s when it was sold to a developer and largely destroyed by a fire in 1991 and developed as the Davenport Hotel behind the original restored 1863 facade. The Italianate façade remains and is protected.

The building was used as a film location for the 1991 film Hear My Song portraying a Liverpool night club, such use being rather at odds with its original use. One of the few religious buildings mentioned in James Joyce's Ulysses is Merrion Hall.

Description

References

External links
 1863 Archiseek
 BrethrenPedia

Churches completed in 1863
Protestant churches in Dublin (city)
Plymouth Brethren
19th-century churches in the Republic of Ireland


title: HNK Vukovar 1991

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HNK Vukovar 1991 is a professional Croatian football club based in Vukovar, a city in Slavonia region. They were re-founded in 2012, and they currently play in the Croatian First Football League, the second level of Croatian football.

History

The club was founded on the same day in early February 2012 when the old club Vukovar '91, who played 1 season in Croatia's top division, was dissolved due to bankruptcy.

New club's first season in fourth-tier competition was successful, as they got promoted to the 3. HNL, third-tier competition. They remained there until 2022-23 season, when they got promoted to First football league, second-tier competition.

Recent seasons

Current squad

Out on loan

References

Association football clubs established in 2012
Football clubs in Croatia
2012 establishments in Croatia
Vukovar


title: Arash "AJ" Maddah

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A.J Maddah is an  Australian music promoter, who was the founder of Soundwave and Harvest Music Festival. He was also involved with the Big Day Out, the Australian Warped Tour and was the director of the Billy Hyde Stage Systems. In 2013, he was named as the most powerful person in the Australian music industry by the Australian Music Industry Directory.

On 4 December 2015 American Express filed a bankruptcy case against Maddah in the Federal Court of Australia. The case was filed prior to the cancellation of Soundwave Festival 2016.

In 2016 Maddah said he's "lost everything" since the end of Soundwave.

References

Living people
Music promoters
Australian entertainment industry businesspeople
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Luc Beausoleil

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Luc Beausoleil (born October 8, 1967) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player.

Junior career
Beausoleil played junior hockey in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) with the Laval Voisins and Laval Titan. He was awarded the 1986–87 Frank J. Selke Memorial Trophy as the QMJHL's Most Sportsmanlike Player and was named to the 1986–87 Second All-Star Team.

Professional career
Beausoleil began his professional career in 1988 with the Murrayfield Racers of the British Hockey League (BHL). He also played in the BHL with the Fife Flyers and Swindon Wildcats, and in France, before returning to North America in 1992 to join the Tulsa Oilers of the new Central Hockey League (CHL). He went on to play seven seasons with Tulsa, playing 363 regular season games and 39 playoff games for the Oilers between 1992 and 2000. He led the Oilers to capture the inaugural 1992–93 Ray Miron President's Cup as the champion of the CHL, and during the 1997–98 CHL season he established the CHL record of 30 power play goals in a single season, and scored 127 points in 68 games played to win the Joe Burton Award as the CHL's top scorer. During the 1999-2000 season, he was named to the CHL All-Star Team's starting lineup. In 2003, the Oilers retired Beuasoleil's #17 in a ceremony before a game on February 19. At the time, he was the team's all-time leading scorer and ranked third in league history in total goals scored.

Roller hockey
In 1997 Beausoleil played 20 games with the Ottawa Wheels in the Roller Hockey International league.

Awards and honours

References

External links

1967 births
Living people
Canadian ice hockey right wingers
Fife Flyers players
Laval Titan players
Laval Voisins players
Murrayfield Racers players
Ottawa Wheels players
Reno Renegades players
San Antonio Dragons players
Ice hockey people from Montreal
Swindon Wildcats players
Tulsa Oilers (1992–present) players
Tupelo T-Rex players
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in England
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Scotland
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Italy


title: Let Yourself be Loved

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“Let Yourself be Loved” is a song by indie rock band Diamond Carter. The song was featured on the band’s first album entitled Pink Balloon, released in September 2012. It was co-written by Diamond Carter’s front man, Tyler Tuohy, the band's producer, Michael Gigante and John Stamos, who also directed the song’s music video in March of 2014.

The video stars Tuohy alongside Nicky Whelan and was released as a feature music video on Yahoo! Music May 14, 2014. This was the first music video Stamos had recorded since “Hot Fun in the Summertime” with The Beach Boys in the early 1990s. The video received Twitter recognition from artists such as John Stamos, Howard Stern, Lori Loughlin, Amanda Cerny and Matt Sorum.

Origins
Not wanting to forget the idea of the song, along with the lyrics “Let yourself be loved,” Stamos recorded himself singing the line and humming the tune one night before going to bed. He later contacted his friend, Michael Gigante, about his recording and Gigante put him in touch with Tuohy from Diamond Carter. Together the three finished the song, adding music, verses and the rest of the chorus to what would be Diamond Carter’s first radio single.

Stamos says the song focuses on “being blocked and not letting people in,” while for Tuohy, the song tells a more specific story about a broken yet beautiful relationship. In Tuohy’s words, “when it was good it was really good, but when it was bad it was really, really bad.” The day Diamond Carter recorded “Let Yourself be Loved” for Pink Balloon was the day the relationship ended. The climactic event was so impactful for Tuohy as an artist, the music video for the song was shot in the same studio the breakup occurred, mirroring the events that took place that day. For Tuohy, the song shows evidence of misconstrued bliss that seems relevant at the beginning of a relationship, but loses dignity once intimacy is the only thing left to supersede solidarity.

References

2012 singles
2012 songs


title: Bettina von Zwehl

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Bettina von Zwehl (born 1971) is a German artist who lives and works in London. She has centred her artistic practice on photography, installation and archival exploration evolving through artist-residencies in museums. Her work explores representations of the human condition and human concerns through an observational approach combined with a distinctive use of the profile view and silhouette that continues to underpin her practice.

Career
Von Zwehl was born in Munich and studied in London, receiving a BA in Photography from the London College of Printing and an MA in Fine Art Photography from the Royal College of Art, London.

She began making portraits as a student at the Royal College of Art, using a 19th-century methodology that she encountered as a photographer's assistant in Rome, working on  film with a large-plate camera. Most of her work has been in the studio. Reviews of her early work often commented on its conceptual framing and the depiction of subjects in unusual physical or emotional circumstances, with an increased degree of vulnerability. At the same time, she has also been interested in profile photography. Citing the influence of Renaissance painting, she calls the profile portrait "one of the most powerful ways of representing a person."

In 2010 she was commissioned to take a series of outdoor portraits of athletes and paralympians preparing for the 2012 London Olympics. Recently she has been invited to create works in reaction to the collections of several museums, including the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), the Holburne Museum and the Freud Museum. In 2014 she collaborated with her friend and fellow artist Sophy Rickett on a project reacting to an album from the Sir Benjamin Stone Archive at the Library of Birmingham.

She was Artist in Residence for 6 months in 2011 at the V&A (2011) and Artist in Residence for 5 months in 2013–2014 at the Freud Museum, where she created a permanent installation for the Anna Freud Room in response to the life and legacy of Anna Freud.
‘Made up Love Song (2011) is the result of the residency at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Von Zwehl explored the collection of portrait miniatures at the museum, creating a durational portrait in miniature in 34 parts of Sophia Birikorang, a member of the visitor experience team at the V&A.

In 2013/14 she did a residency for The Freud Museum London producing permanent work for the Anna Freud Room in the Museum. Following her residency at the Museum she had a solo show Invitation to frequent the Shadows’ in 2016. The publication Lament was published to coincide with the exhibition and co-authored by Josh Cohen.

In 2018 von Zwehl was invited to be the first Artist-in-Residence at the New-York Historical Society. She received a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 2017 and in 2018 she spent 6 weeks in New-York researching the collections and making new work: Meditations in an Emergency (2018), a photographic series inspired by the teen protests following the tragedy at Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine’s Day 2018, and the collections of portrait silhouettes at the N-YHSM.

Wunderkammer (2020), is a site-specific photography and mixed-media installation in response to a year long research period at the Renaissance Kunst- und Wunderkammer (Chamber of Art and Wonders) of Ferdinand II at Castle Ambras in Innsbruck Austria.

Solo exhibitions (selected)
 An Anatomy of Control, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York (2000).
 Victoria Miro Gallery, The Project Space, London (2002).
 Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York (2004).
 The Photographers' Gallery, London (2005).
 Profiles III, Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood, London (2009).
 Road to 2012, Setting Out, Commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery, London (2010).
 Made up Love Song, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London (2011).
 Ruby’s Room, Holburne Museum of Art, Bath (2013).
 Laments and Sospiri, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London (2014).
Album 31 (collaboration with Sophy Rickett), Fotogaleriet, Oslo, Norway (2015)
Invitation to Frequent the Shadows, The Freud Museum, London (2016)
Meditations in an Emergency, New-York Historical Society Museum, NYC, USA (2018)
Wunderkammer, BTV Stadtforum Innsbruck, Austria (2020)

Group exhibitions (selected)
 Fiction, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London (2004).
 Photography 2005, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (2005).
 In Repose, The Galleries at Moore, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia (2008).
 Baby, Picturing the Ideal Human, National Media Museum, Bradford (2009).
 Another Face: Works from the Arts Council Collection, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyupon Tyne (2011).
 Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present, National Gallery, London (2012).
 3am: Wonder, Paranoia and the restless Night, Bluecoat Chambers, Liverpool (2013).
 Facing History: Contemporary Portraiture, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2015–2016)

Publications

Monographs
Bettina von Zwehl. Göttingen: Steidl / Brighton: Photoworks, 2007. With an essay by Darian Leader and interview with Charlotte Cotton. .
Made Up Love Song. London: V&A, 2014. With an essay by David Chandler. .
Lament. London: Art/Books, 2016. A collaboration with psychoanalyst and writer Josh Cohen (psychoanalyst) Josh Cohen. .
Wunderkammer. Salzburg: Fotohof, 2020. With an essay by Ciara Ennis. .

Anthologies and group exhibition catalogues
The Photograph as Contemporary Art. Thames & Hudson, 2004. .
The Portrait Now. New Haven, CA: Yale University Press, 2006. .
Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography. London: Phaidon, 2006. .
The Body in Contemporary Art. London: Thames & Hudson, 2009. ASIN B00C6OOPIQ.
Road to 2012. London: National Portrait Gallery, 2012. .
21st Century Portraits. London: National Portrait Gallery, 2013. .

Collections
Von Zwehl's work is held in the following public collection:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

References

External links
Bettina Von Zwehl website www.bettinavonzwehl.com
Gallery and video interview at National Portrait Gallery, discussing the Road to 2012 project
Gallery and biography at Purdy Hicks

Photographers from London
Photographers from Munich
1971 births
Living people
German women photographers
German contemporary artists


title: Lansing elephant incident

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In late September, 1963, a 12-year-old, 3,000-pound female dancing Asian elephant named Rajje (alternately reported as Raji, Little Rajjee, among other variations) rebelled against her trainer during a performance in a shopping center circus, and escaped into the streets of Lansing, Michigan, aggravated by the frenzied pursuit of nearly 4,000 local residents.

The incident ended with the shooting of the elephant by local police.  Provoked by the growing crowd, her rampage took her through the Men's wear, sporting goods and gift departments of a local Arlan's discount store, before leading police on a two-mile chase in which Rajje knocked down and injured a 67-year-old man, tried to move a car, and caused thousands of dollars in damage before being subdued.

Life Magazine quoted Rajje's trainer William Pratt at the scene as shouting, "Damn these people [...] They wouldn't leave her alone."

The incident was widely reported, including a photospread in Life magazine.  While the Lansing State Journal coverage stresses the danger of the incident during the "Big Beast" rampage, the Detroit Free Press notes witnesses cried out "Murderers! Murderers!" as police fired eight shots.

Author Nelson Algren cites the injustice and sad end of the pursuit of "Raji, the Pixie-Eared Elephant" in continuity with the ambush of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in his introduction to a 1968 biography of the outlaws.  Then teenage Lansing residents who had goaded the elephant on recalled the incident with sober regret in a local newspaper retrospective in 2011.

See also
 List of individual elephants

References

1963 animal deaths
1963 in Michigan
Lansing, Michigan
Elephants in the United States
Individual elephants


title: John Cohen (Australian politician)

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John Jacob Cohen (20 December 1859 – 25 March 1939) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Grafton to storekeeper Samuel Cohen and Rosetta Manser. He attended Ullamarra Public School and Grafton Grammar School and then Calder House in Redfern. He received a Bachelor of Arts with first-class honours in mathematics from the University of Sydney in 1879 and a Master of Arts in 1881. Having also studied architecture at night school, he moved to Mackay in Queensland in 1882 as a consulting engineer and architect, subsequently moving to Brisbane in 1884. He married Bertie Hollander on 12 March 1889; they had two sons. Cohen returned to Sydney in 1892 and was called to the bar in 1894. In 1898 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the National Federal member for Petersham, but by 1901 he was re-elected as a Liberal. A backbencher for most of his career, he was elected Speaker in 1917. In 1919, he resigned from parliament to become a Judge of the District Court, allegedly as part of a deal between William Holman and the Liberals that had led to the Nationalist government in 1917. Cohen remained on the District Court until 1929. He died in Woollahra in 1939.

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1859 births
1939 deaths
Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of New South Wales
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Speakers of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Judges of the District Court of NSW
20th-century Australian judges


title: Cycling at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Women's tandem 1 km time trial B

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The  Women's tandem 1 km time trial B at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, was part of the cycling programme, which took place on 27 July 2014.

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Women's tandem 1km time trial B
Cycling at the Commonwealth Games – Women's tandem 1 km time trial B