title: Mario Basiola

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Mario Basiola (12 July 1892 – 3 January 1965) was an Italian operatic baritone.

Early years and education
Mario Basiola was born in Annicco in the province of Cremona to Alessandro, an artisan basketweaver, and Marta Milanesi. He spent his youth mostly working in the fields, never receiving a proper school education. He began singing in church, but military service took him to Rome, where he remained as a soldier during World War I.

There he participated in a contest to enter the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and out of sixty competitors, he was one of five chosen. He was placed with baritone Antonio Cotogni, one of the greatest representatives of the mid-to-late-19th century Italian vocal school. He studied with Cotogni from June 1915 to the latter's death in 1918, becoming one of his favorite students.

His study with Cotogni was crucial for his acquiring a technique and style that allowed him to portray the situations in the verismo literature without compromising his “vocal organization.” Basiola at times denounced the era in which he worked (especially in certain interpretive tastes), and did not display the tendency toward sensational and boisterous vocalism as much as some of his contemporaries. Instead he maintained the capacity to deal with singing (especially in the Verdi literature) with correctness and measure, malleable timbre and fluent sureness in the upper voice that made him “one of the few baritones of his generation capable of representing the true traditional Italian school.” This early training period was very profitable for him but also very difficult: when he was expelled from the Conservatory for “insufficient voice” caused by a bout of "physical wasting," Cotogni came to his aid again. Initially, Basiola's voice was not well defined because of its "amphibious" color that lay somewhere between tenor and baritone. When it settled into its high baritone, the young singer learned his roles “note for note, breath for breath, ... gesture for gesture from his revered teacher,” basing everything on Cotogni's principle of intentionality (itself fundamental in 19th century vocal schooling): in order to emit a good and correct sound, the singer should first imagine it, hear it within himself, and make every effort to realize this idealized sound with his own voice, thus avoiding intrusion of the sound into cavities that diminish or exclude the fundamental harmonics. In his first performances at Santa Cecilia, he sang the duets from La forza del destino and Don Carlo with tenor Giacomo Lauri-Volpi. In 1916 he sang his first wartime benefit concerts in and around Rome, including arias from Massenet's Hérodiade, Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles, Mozart's Don Giovanni and others in the presence of Cotogni, who praised his student enthusiastically.

Career

Debut and Italy
Basiola made his debut on June 20, 1918 in La traviata at the Teatro Morgana in Rome. In November he sang his first Barbiere di Siviglia, which earned him good reviews. In 1919 he toured the Italian provinces, essaying his first Rigoletto and Alfonso in La favorita. He was signed for Catalani's Loreley and Luporini's I dispetti amorosi at the Teatro del Giglio. In 1920, Emma Carelli signed him for Pagliacci (for which he was to sing a stunning Tonio in the 1934 complete HMV recording featuring Gigli as Canio) at the Teatro Verdi in Florence. Throughout the ensuing year he sang primarily in regional theaters in Italy, taking on the standard baritone repertory, ranging from Malatesta in Don Pasquale and Verdi roles like Don Carlo in Ernani, to veristic works like Fedora and La Wally. By 1922, he was being paired with stars like Elvira de Hidalgo and Toti Dal Monte. A brief tour took him to Egypt. He debuted at Port Said as Alfonso, a role that “exalted his legato singing, for which Cotogni had taught him all the subtlest nuances and even where to breathe in order to deliver such broad, sustained phrases.”

America
1923 was a very important year for Basiola: he was cast for a U.S. tour with the San Carlo Opera Company, headed by impresario Fortunato Gallo. He debuted on October 3 at New York's Century Theatre in Aida and Otello. Through 1925 he sang in all the major American theaters, mainly in Verdi roles but also (as arch-villain Barnaba) in La Gioconda, Tonio in Pagliacci (in which he was to make a stunning complete recording in 1934 for HMV back in Italy with the great Gigli as Canio) and Escamillo in Carmen, with robust success: critics praised his vocal sonority and homogeneity throughout all registers, with such a wide range and clarity of color as to compare it to a tenor's voice. In June 1924 Basiola sang at the Ravinia Festival, performing with Lauri-Volpi in Lucia di Lammermoor and Rigoletto. For the 1925-1926 season, renowned impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza engaged him for the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where he remained until 1932. He debuted on November 11, 1925 in Aida alongside Elisabeth Rethberg and Giovanni Martinelli, under the direction of Tullio Serafin, followed by Madama Butterfly with Beniamino Gigli. His theatrical activity was very intense at the time, with almost no month in which he did not appear at the Metropolitan or other major U.S. theaters. Among his most notable performances from this first season at the Metropolitan Opera were a Faust with Feodor Chaliapin and a Gioconda (replacing Titta Ruffo) with Rosa Ponselle. In 1926 he essayed Alfio in Cavalleria rusticana (which became his most role at the Metropolitan), and the title role in Rigoletto with Marion Talley. In May 1926 he went to Cuba, and in July returned to the Ravinia Festival, where he sang in Montemezzi's L'amore dei tre re in addition to Don Pasquale. In the 1926–27 season, he debuted in Spontini's La vestale, then appeared in Lucia di Lammermoor and Il barbiere alongside Amelita Galli-Curci, and then again in I pagliacci.

On July 12, 1927, Basiola married the soprano Caterina Gobbi and returned to Italy for a short time. He returned to open the 1927–28 Metropolitan Opera season with La forza del destino. On April 9, 1928 his first child, daughter Marta Maria Rosa, was born and shortly afterward christened at St. Patrick's Cathedral, sponsored by Rosa Ponselle and the ambassador Emmanuele Grazzi. In the meantime, he never stopped learning new roles. Memorable was his debut in Meyerbeer's L'africana in Atlanta, which he subsequently repeated at the Metropolitan Opera. In 1929 he gained special acclaim with Ernani and Il trovatore, often alongside Lauri-Volpi. In December, he debuted in Respighi's La campana sommersa. His last performances at the Metropolitan (February 1932) were alongside Georges Thill in Faust and Lily Pons in Les contes d'Hoffmann. He also took part in the first American performance(s?) of Pizzetti's Fra Gherardo (March 21, 1929), Rimsky-Korsakov's Sadko (January 25, 1930), Lattuada's Le preziose ridicole (December 10, 1930) and Montemezzi's La notte di Zoraima (December 2, 1931).

His sojourn in America was important for him but did not bring with it guaranteed adulation, given the presence of such baritones as Titta Ruffo, Giuseppe De Luca and Antonio Scotti - competitors idolized by the American public. He was often used as a substitute or understudy for such better-known rivals, and for this he regretted not always being considered on a par with such eminent colleagues.

Back in Italy, Basiola returned to sing in the provinces, but soon became one of the most popular baritones, given certain qualities - possessed by few others - needed to interpret certain 19th-century repertory being revived in those years due to the shortage of successful new works, including triumphs in 1933 — alongside Giannina Arangi-Lombardi at the Teatro Carlo Felice in L’africana and at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Bellini's I puritani with Lauri-Volpi, Mercedes Capsir and Ezio Pinza. After his debut at the San Carlo in Naples and a successful 1934 Otello with the Verona Philharmonic ("a proper, controlled Iago, drawing out the character without overdoing it”), Basiola celebrated the Ponchielli centenary in Cremona, interpreting Amenofi in Il figliuol prodigo. The following year for the centenary of Bellini's tragic early death in 1835, he performed as Ernesto in Il pirata in Rome and La straniera at La Scala.

He traveled to Poland, Spain and again to America, where on September 1, 1935 his second child, Mario (Tullio) Jr, was born, who was also destined to become a baritone like his father. In 1936, after performing Perosi's oratorio Il Natale, he sang alongside Tito Schipa in Cilea's L’arlesiana at La Scala, where, to give Basiola the opportunity to show off his sonorous high notes, the composer added the phrase "Bravi, ragazzi miei" to the third act.

Later career
In these years Basiola's activity reached its maximum intensity, with debuts of even more new roles, performances with all the greatest Italian singers of the day, in all the major theaters of Italy. In 1939 he made two tours abroad, being invited to Cairo for Massenet's Thaïs and to Covent Garden in London for revivals of Tosca, Trovatore and Traviata. He can be heard on live recordings of the latter two, with Jussi Björling and Beniamino Gigli, respectively, as well as on a recording of an EIAR radio broadcast of the Leoncavallo rarity Edipo Re. The 1939–40 season was his last at La Scala, where he took part in a famous revival of Donizetti's Linda di Chamounix, the baritone role of old Antonio having been one of the most famous interpretations of Basiola's old teacher Cotogni. The start of World War II took him back to singing for wounded soldiers as he did in World War I early in his career.

After the war he gradually became less active, focusing mainly on provincial theaters. In July 1948 he joined a company for a long tour in Australia: despite some successes, the rest of the company was only mediocre, and Basiola was often the only name singled out for good review. Back in Milan, tired and partly disappointed, he opened a singing school with his wife, his most notable student being baritone Aldo Protti. He sang increasingly rarely in public, but in 1951 at Cremona he once again took on villainous Barnaba in La Gioconda, an opera of which he was very fond and which had been a staple of his repertory.

He died in Milan on January 3, 1965.

Legacy
Historically Basiola's voice was located in a transitional, intermediate time between late 19th-century vocalism and verismo tastes, somewhat like Carlo Galeffi (also a student of Cotogni). While he lived and worked at a time when deformative tendencies were impinging on the interpretative forms of 19th-century repertoire, Basiola nurtured the legacy of his schooling: he was a high baritone, with a voice clear and free of the defects of the modern dramatic baritone, with its dark, opaque timbre acquired with artificiality and encumbrances in emission. Basiola also avoided the search for any easy effects that were outside of a purely vocal technical nature. Verismo vocalism, besides being antithetical to the search for “aristocratic” phrasing, tended to place the tessitura in the lower middle voice, causing other singers to forget the technical features that would allow them to dominate the high notes with ease, instead causing them to push in order to fatten the voice, which in turn weighed down its easy emission. Basiola, on the contrary, possessed a voluminous but also mellow voice, with great intensity of vibration throughout the entire gamut of sounds, an extensive range that allowed him to touch and sustain support high A-flat, and a tenor-like ring in the high notes. Basiola was also capable of the kind of mezza voce that comes from good technique in emission. This allowed him to alternate dramatic and incisive expressions with whispered sounds “a fior di labbra,” especially in the Donizetti and Bellini roles or the mournful pleadings of Verdi's baritone roles. Managing to resolve vocal  difficulties without force and maintaining the soft suppleness of the voice gave him the opportunity to enrich the characters such as Tonio, Barnaba, Rigoletto, making them figures that weren't unilaterally gloomy and vindictive. His broad phrasing and the sonority of his voice also allowed him to create characters that were both noble and imposing. Over time Basiola had to make some concessions to verismo vocalism, and his incessant activity did bring about some cloudiness of the voice, but his technique and style made him much in demand, especially in works from the second half of the 19th century. What he could not entirely achieve was to put an unmistakably personal stamp on his interpretations. Nevertheless, Basiola was his immense technical and artistic value during his career and to modern historians of the voice and singing.

Repertoire
Basiola's repertoire comprised nearly 70 roles.

References

1892 births
1965 deaths
Italian operatic baritones
20th-century Italian male opera singers


title: Benjanun Sriduangkaew

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew is a Thai writer of science fiction and fantasy who is also known for controversial online criticism. She was a finalist for the 2014 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and the 2014 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction, for Scale-Bright.

Life
Sriduangkaew was born in Pattani Province in southern Thailand. After attending university in Bangkok, she worked in Manila, Jakarta, and Hong Kong. In 2013, Sriduangkaew said that she had earned her bachelor's degree "some twelve years ago" and that she had not been fluent in English at the time.

Work
Sriduangkaew began publishing short fiction in 2012, with "Courtship in the Country of the Machine Gods", and established a name for herself with a string of high-profile short stories in Clarkesworld Magazine and elsewhere, which led to her nomination for the John W. Campbell Award.

Her first long-form publication was the urban fantasy novella Scale-Bright, published in 2014. A follow-up to her three Sun-Moon Cycle stories, it is a love story about a young woman from Hong Kong who has to rescue her sister from Heaven. Reviewing the novella for Tor.com, Niall Alexander described it as "an achievement without equal", appreciating its "delicately drawn characters", "affecting narrative", and the author's prose skills.

Her second novella, Winterglass, was published in 2017. It is a science-fantasy retelling of the story of the Snow Queen. A Publishers Weeklys reviewer considered that the "promising novella" provided "variations on the theme of strong female characters" but was marred by an "uneven plot and some missed opportunities for complex worldbuilding".

Her third novella, And Shall Machines Surrender, was published in 2019. It is a science fiction story focusing on artificial intelligences and their relationships to humanity. Reviewing the novella in The Future Fire, J. Moufawad-Paul wrote: “And Shall Machines Surrender is the perfect example of how much can possibly be packed into a novella. The equal depth of style, story, characterization, and world-building is quite striking”; and, “Due to the strength of And Shall Machines Surrender — its clarity and intricacy, its ability to compress complexity into a minimalist structure — it is almost criminal that Sriduangkaew is not a household name”.

Online activity
In 2014, Sriduangkaew was revealed to have been the controversial blogger and book reviewer "Requires Hate" (also known as "Requires Only That You Hate", as well as "Winterfox"). Using these internet identities, she published violent critiques of what she considered to be racist, sexist, heteronormative, or colonial themes in works of science fiction and fantasy; these critiques included both personal insults and threats of murder and rape. Media outlets and social media users referred to Sriduangkaew as a "notorious troll". Many of her targets were themselves young, female, transgender, and/or persons of color. In reporting on Sriduangkaew's online activities, the Daily Dot wrote that it is not certain whether or not she is indeed a Thai writer, or whether Benjanun Sriduangkaew is a pseudonym or her real name.

In October 2014, Sriduangkaew posted an apology on her blog, admitting to being "a horrendous asshole" and causing pain to others, while also denying certain allegations that she had made rape threats, stating that other accounts had impersonated her. She shut down her original "Requires Only That You Hate" blog but started another under a new title, which remained active until 2020.

A blog post by fellow writer Laura J. Mixon critiquing Sriduangkaew's behavior won Mixon the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer.

Reaction to the revelation of Sriduangkaew's alternate online identities caused consternation among science fiction writers and fans. In a blog post in 2015, Sriduangkaew claimed she had become the target of harassment and cyberstalking campaigns after her internet identities were revealed, while conceding that "I've been shitty in the past".

Bibliography
Novels
 Machine’s Last Testament, Prime Books (2020),

Novellas
 Scale-Bright, Immersion Press (2014),
 Winterglass, Apex Publications (2017),
 And Shall Machines Surrender, Prime Books (2019),
 Mirrorstrike, Apex Publications (2019),
 Now Will Machines Hollow the Beast, Prime Books (2020),
 Shall Machines Divide the Earth, Prime Books (2021),
 Where Machines Redeem the Lost, Prime Books (2021),
 Now Will Machines Devour the Stars, Prime Books (2022)
 Shall Machines Bite the Sun, Prime Books (2023)

Novelettes
 Then Will the Sun Rise Alabaster, Prime Books (2019),

Collaborations
 Methods Devour Themselves (with J. Moufawad-Paul), Zero Books (2018),

Short fiction
 "Chang’e Dashes from the Moon" (2012)
 "Courtship in the Country of Machine-Gods" (2012)
 "Woman of the Sun, Woman of the Moon" (2012)
 "Fade to Gold" (2013)
 "Annex" (2013)
 "The Crows Her Dragon's Gate" (2013)
 "Vector" (2013)
 "The Bees Her Heart, the Hive Her Belly" (2013)
 "Silent Bridge, Pale Cascade" (2013)
 "Autodidact" (2014)
 "Golden Daughter, Stone Wife" (2014)
 "When We Harvested the Nacre-Rice" (2014)
 "Synecdoche Oracles" (2014)
 "And the Burned Moths Remain" (2015)
 "The Petals Abide" (2015), Clarkesworld
 "The Insurrectionist and the Empress Who Reigns Over Time" (2015)
 "The Occidental Bride" (2015)
 "The Beast at the End of Time" (2016)
 "Dream Command" (2016)
 "The Finch’s Wedding and the Hive That Sings" (2016)
 "That Which Stands Tends Toward Free Fall" (2016)
 "Comet’s Call" (2016)
 "Under She Who Devours Suns" (2016)
 "The Prince Who Gave Up Her Empire" (2016)
 "We Are All Wasteland On The Inside" (2016)
 "Parable of the Cocoon" (2017)
 "The Sun Shall Lie Across Us Like Gold" (2017)
 "The Universe as Vast as Our Longings" (2017)
 "No Pearls as Blue as These" (2017)
 "After-Swarm" (2017)
 "You and I Shall be as Radiant" (2017)
 "The Owls of Juttshatan" (2018)
 "Red as Water, White as Ruin" (2018)
 "The Five Secret Truths of Demonkind" (2018)
 "Tiger, Tiger Bright" (2019)
 "Where Machines Run with Gold" (2019)
 "That August Song" (2019)
 "We Will Become as Monsters" (2020)
 "The City Still Dreams of Her Name" (2020)

Collections
 The Archer Who Shot Down Suns: Scale-Bright Stories (2014), collecting the stories "The Crows Her Dragon's Gate", "Woman of the Sun, Woman of the Moon" and "Chang'e Dashes from the Moon",

References

External links

 Sriduangkaew's blog

Benjanun Sriduangkaew
Living people
Internet trolls
Benjanun Sriduangkaew
Year of birth missing (living people)
Women science fiction and fantasy writers
Benjanun Sriduangkaew
21st-century novelists
Benjanun Sriduangkaew
Benjanun Sriduangkaew
Benjanun Sriduangkaew
21st-century short story writers
Benjanun Sriduangkaew


title: Annamaria Lusardi

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Annamaria Lusardi is an Italian-born economist and the Denit Trust Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Economics and Accountancy at The George Washington University School of Business. In 2011 she founded and continues to serve as the Academic Director of the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center. Her interests focus on financial literacy and financial education.

Education
Annamaria Lusardi studied at Bocconi University, located in Milan, Italy. In 1986 she graduated with a BA in economics. Lusardi continued her studies in the United States at Princeton University, where she earned a PhD in economics in 1992.

Career
After graduating from Princeton, Lusardi taught economics at Princeton University, the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and Columbia Business School. She also taught at Dartmouth College since 1992 as an Associate Professor of Economics. In 2006, Lusardi became a Professor Economics at Dartmouth. From 2009 to 2019, she was the Joel Z. and Susan Hyatt Professor of Economics at Dartmouth. In 2010, Lusardi began working at the George Washington School of Business where she is a chair professor. Since 2014, Lusardi has served as the Denit Trust Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Economics and Accountancy at the School of Business.  Lusardi is  the director of the George Washington University Financial Literacy Center, a joint initiative between Dartmouth College, the RAND corporation, and the Wharton School.  In 2014 she was elected chair of the Research Committee of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development/International Network on Financial Education.

Lusardi served as the faculty advisor to the office of Financial Education of the U.S. Treasury from September to December in 2009. Additionally, Lusardi testified to the lack of financial capability and literacy among Americans and the necessity of financial education in high schools before the U.S. Subcommittee on Children and Families of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Italy also sought Lusardi's advice. In 2017, Lusardi was appointed as the director of the Committee for Financial Education.

Teaching
Annamaria Lusardi has a focus in the field of Economics, Financial Literacy and Financial Education. She is a current professor at The George Washington University School of Business teaching Financial Decision Making - Implication for the consumer and professional, Macroeconomics for the Global Economy, and Personal Financial Management. She shows the theoretical and empirical implications of financial illiteracy on an economy. She also uses her expertise in retirement and estate planning in showing the contrast between financial literacy and illiteracy.

Awards and honors
In 2013, Lusardi received the William E. Odom Visionary Leadership Award from the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, and the National Numeracy Network's inaugural 2012 Steen Award. She is the recipient of the Fidelity Pyramid Prize, a $50,000 award to authors of published applied research that best helps address the goal of improving lifelong financial well-being for Americans. The University of Vaasa (Finland) awarded her an honorary degree of Economics and Business Administration in 2019.
She has also received awards or scholarships from FINRA, SABE, Skandia and Williams A. Forbes.

Selected publications

(Awarded the Fidelity Pyramid Prize.)

References

External links
Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center webpage
On Google Scholar: Annamaria Lusardi

Living people
Italian economists
Italian women economists
Princeton University alumni
Bocconi University alumni
George Washington University faculty
George Washington University School of Business faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Burton (Pembrokeshire electoral ward)

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Burton is the name of an electoral ward in Pembrokeshire, Wales. The ward consists of the communities, of Burton and Rosemarket. The community of Burton consists of part of Pembrokeshire Coast National Park

A ward of Pembrokeshire County Council since 1995, it was previously a ward of the former Preseli Pembrokeshire District Council.

History
At the first election for the new Pembrokeshire County Council in 1995, an Independent, previously a member of Preseli Pembrokeshire District Council was elected.

At the second election, in 1999 the Conservative Party fielded candidates in Pembrokeshire for the first time and Burton was one of the three seats that were captured. David Wildman narrowly defeated the sitting Independent member.

By the third election, in 2004 Wildman. having been elected as a Conservative in 1999, defeating the sitting Independent councillor, had subsequently joined the Independents himself.

Wildman was returned unopposed in 2008 and  2012.

A by-election was held in the Burton Ward on 11 April 2013 following the retirement of David Wildman. The successful candidate stood as an 'Independent Plus' candidate, supporting the ruling group on the authority.

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References

Pembrokeshire electoral wards


title: Dipa Karmakar

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Dipa Karmakar (born 9 August 1993) is an Indian Gymnast from Tripura State. She is the first female gymnast from India to compete in the Olympics. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, in the vault event final, she finished in 4th place.

At the Rio Olympics, she lost an Olympic medal by just 0.15 points; due to her historic achievement at Rio Olympic, she became a well known Gymnast as well as a face of gymnastics in India. In the final she performed a difficult Prodonova vault and completed against worlds' top Gymnasts such as Simone Biles of United States, Maria Paseka and Giulia Steingrubber, who won Gold, Silver and Bronze medal respectively.

Karmakar first gained attention when she won a bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, becoming the first Indian female gymnast to do so in the history of the Games. She also won a bronze medal at the Asian Gymnastics Championships and finished fifth at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, both firsts for her country.

Karmakar represented India at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, becoming the first Indian female gymnast ever to compete in the Olympics, and the first Indian gymnast to do so in 52 years.  She finished in fourth position in Women's Vault Gymnastics event at Rio, with an overall score of 15.066.

In July 2018, she became the first Indian gymnast to win a gold medal at a global event, when she finished first in the vault event of the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Challenge Cup at Mersin, Turkey.

She is one of the only five women who have successfully landed the Produnova, which is regarded as the most difficult vault of those currently being performed in women's gymnastics.

She is a recipient of the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in the Republic of India. For her performance in Rio Olympics 2016, the Government of India conferred upon her the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna award in August 2016.

Early life and career
Hailing from Agartala in Tripura, Karmakar started her school life and education in Abhoynagar Nazrul Smriti Vidyalaya; she started practicing gymnastics when she was only 6 years old and has been coached by Soma Nandi & Bishweshwar Nandi since.

When she began gymnastics, Karmakar had flat feet, an undesirable physical trait in a gymnast because it affects their performance.  Through extensive training, she was able to develop an arch in her foot.

In 2008, she won the Junior Nationals in Jalpaiguri. Since 2007, Karmakar has won 77 medals, including 67 gold, in state, national and international championships. She was part of the Indian gymnastics contingent at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi,India,Asia.

Senior career

Early career (2011–2013)

In February, Karmakar competed in the 2011 National Games of India, representing Tripura. She won gold medals in the all-around and all four events: floor, vault, balance beam and uneven bars.

Commonwealth and Asian medals and WC finals (2014–2015)

In July, at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, Karmakar won a bronze medal in the women's vault final, thanks largely to her Produnova vault, which has a difficulty value of 7.00. She received an average two-vault score of 14.366. She became the first Indian woman to win a Commonwealth Games gymnastics medal, and the second Indian overall, after Ashish Kumar.

At the 2014 Asian Games, Karmakar finished fourth in the vault final with a score of 14.200, behind Hong Un-jong, Oksana Chusovitina, and Phan Thị Hà Thanh.

At the Asian Championships, held in Hiroshima from 31 July – 2 August, Karmakar won the bronze in women's vault while finishing 8th on balance beam.

In October 2015, Karmakar became the first Indian gymnast to qualify for a final stage at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. She scored 14.900 on vault in the qualification round to secure her place for the finals, where she finished 5th with a two-vault average of 14.683.

2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

Rio Olympics and further (2016–present)

On 10 August 2016 at the 2016 Olympic Test Event, Karmakar became the first female gymnast from India to qualify for the final vault event at the Olympics, with a score of 14.833. She missed out on the bronze medal, finishing fourth in the finals of the event with a score of 15.066 on 14 August 2016 at the Gymnastics Center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Karmakar is only the fifth woman in gymnastics history to land the Produnova vault, or the handspring double front. The Produnova is an artistic gymnastics vault consisting of a front handspring onto the vaulting horse and two front somersaults off. The vault currently has a 6.4 D-score, and is the hardest vault performed in women's artistic gymnastics.

Schedule and 2016 Olympics results

Karmakar nursed an injury throughout the latter half of 2017; she had injured her knee while practicing for the trials of the 2017 Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships. She underwent a corrective surgery for her anterior cruciate ligament in April the same year and was unable to participate in any events for the remainder of the competitive season. She also withdrew from the selection trials for the Indian team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games, citing her lack of preparedness. Her coach said that although she was healthy again, the lengthy rehabilitation process had restricted her training.

Karmakar won a gold medal in the vault event of FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Challenge Cup at Mersin, Turkey in July 2018. She thus became the first Indian gymnast to win a gold medal at a global event. In the same competition, she reached the finals of the balance beam event, finishing fourth.

Karmakar failed to qualify for vault final at the 2018 Asian Games. She hurt her right knee, on which she had undergone surgery for an injury, while landing during a practice session ahead of her participation in the women’s qualification for team and apparatus finals. She also pulled out of team final.

Suspension
In a confirmation from the International Testing Agency in February 2023, it was revealed that Karmakar was serving a 21 month suspension after testing positive for a banned substance and that the suspension would end in mid-July, 2023.

Awards

 Arjuna Award (2015)
Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award (2016)
 Padma Shri (2017) - fourth highest Indian national honour.
 2017: Among Forbes’ list of super achievers from Asia under the age of 30.
Dronacharya Award - to her coach Bishweshwar Nandi.
Gold - FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Challenge Cup at Mersin, Turkey
Bronze - FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup at Cottbus, Germany

Sponsorship
Since 2017, Karmakar has been supported by the GoSports Foundation under the Rahul Dravid Athlete Mentorship Programme.

See also

 Sports in India - Overview of sports in India
 Gymnastics in India - Overview of Gymnastics sport in India

References

External links

1993 births
Living people
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for India
Gymnasts at the 2010 Asian Games
Gymnasts at the 2014 Asian Games
Gymnasts at the 2018 Asian Games
Gymnasts at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Indian female artistic gymnasts
People from Agartala
Olympic gymnasts for India
Recipients of the Khel Ratna Award
Commonwealth Games medallists in gymnastics
Sportswomen from Tripura
21st-century Indian women
21st-century Indian people
Recipients of the Padma Shri in sports
Asian Games competitors for India
Recipients of the Arjuna Award
Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Doping cases in gymnastics


title: Andrew Cornick

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Andy Cornick (born 9 June 1981) is a Welsh field hockey player.

He represented Wales in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

He has played club hockey in the Men's England Hockey League for Oxted and Hampstead & Westminster.

References

1981 births
Living people
Welsh male field hockey players
Field hockey players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games competitors for Wales
Hampstead & Westminster Hockey Club players
Men's England Hockey League players


title: Ignatius Malgraff

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Ignatius Malgraff (born 17 February 1993 in East London, South Africa) is a South African field hockey player.

Malgraff represented South Africa in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow

Honours

Club
2016 PHL Men - Player of the Tournament

References

External links

Living people
1993 births
Sportspeople from East London, South Africa
South African male field hockey players
Field hockey players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games competitors for South Africa
2014 Men's Hockey World Cup players


title: Coquille (steamboat)

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Coquille was a steamboat built in 1908 for service on the Coquille River and its tributaries.  Coquille served as a passenger vessel from 1908 to 1916, when the boat was transferred to the lower Columbia River.  Coquille was reconstructed into a log boom towing boat, and served in this capacity from 1916 to 1935 or later.

Initial construction
Coquille was built by Frank Lowe at Coquille, Oregon in 1908 for the Coquille River Navigation Company for passenger service on the Coquille River.  The vessel was steam-powered and propeller-driven.
The hull was built from Port Orford cedar.  On completion, the overall size of the vessel was 63 gross and 46 net tons. Coquille was   long, with a beam of  and  depth of hold.  The official steamboat registry number was 205472.

Coquille was launched on October 10, 1908.

Reconstruction
Coquille was rebuilt several times.   With the addition of new machinery and an upper cabin in 1912 or 1913, the boat was measured at 77 gross and 60 net tons.  While still in passenger service, Coquille was reconstructed again, and reduced somewhat in size, to 62 gross and 46 net tons.  Coquille was reconstructed a third time, in 1916, when the vessel was converted to towing service.

Collision with Wolverine
On September 16, 1909, a rival boat, the motor vessel Wolverine collided with Coquille, at Johnson's Mill.  No damage was sustained by either vessel.

On October 18, 1909, it was reported that two steamboat inspectors and a secretary had departed Portland, Oregon bound by steamer to Coos Bay to investigate first the collision of the ocean-going steamer Breakwater with the riverine steamer Alert, and second, the charges that had been brought by Orsan R. Willard, owner of Wolverine against T.R. Panter, owner of the river steamer [[Coquille (steamer)|Coquille]] to the effect that while Wolverine had been docked, Coquille had been deliberately rammed into the launch.   The hearing on the Willard accusation was scheduled to be held on October 23, 1909 in Coquille, Oregon.

On October 28, 1909, the Steamboat Inspection Service announced its decision.  The license of Orsan R. Willard, master of Wolverine would be suspended for 30 days, and the license of Thomas W. Panter, master of Coquille, would be suspended for 60 days.

Second deck addedCoquille was intended to be the fastest vessel on the Coquille river, but this did not prove to be the case.  As built, Coquille had a single cabin.  In 1912 or 1913 a second, upper, cabin was added to Coquille.  Unfortunately this made the vessel top-heavy, so that when the steamer came around the sharp bend in the river near Prosper, all passengers had to move to the lower cabin to stabilize the boat.

The upper deck was added under the direction of Hank Dunham, who also had a more powerful engine installed at the same time.  The engine was new, and had been built in Portland, Oregon.  This made the vessel top-heavy, so that "in anything like a wind swayed so that people were afraid to ride on her."  This occasioned a second reconstruction, which occurred sometime before the sale of the vessel to Portland interests in January 1916.  These changes were reported to have been satisfactory.

Child overboard
On December 23, 1912, it was reported that a child, a young girl, had fallen overboard near the Lyons and Johnson mill at Bandon.  The child was not missed on the steamer for 15 minutes.  She was found and rescued by the mill's engineer, who heard her crying  and found her floating on her back in the deep water under the mill wharf.

In January 1913, there were four vessels operating on the Coquille River which transported both passengers and freight.  Of these, two ran from Bandon to Myrtle Point and the other two covered only the route from Bandon to Coquille.  In addition to these four vessels, there were two passenger only boats operating on the river between Bandon and Coquille, the steamer Coquille and the motor vessel Wolverine.

In January 1913, Coquille made two round trips daily between Bandon and Coquille City, and had been doing so since June 1, 1912.  The steamer left Bandon at 6:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. and arrived in Coquille at 9:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.  From June 1, 1912 to January 1, 1913, Coquille had carried about 21,000 passengers, which worked out to about 100 passengers per day.  The steamer was reported to have Morris chairs for passengers, electric lighting and "many other conveniences of modern river travel."

"Deportation" of IWW sympathizer
On the afternoon of July 11, 1913, the citizens of Bandon "deported" a newspaper editor, Dr. Bailey K. Leach, a chiropractor, because he had published editorials sympathetic to the Industrial Workers of the World, who were rumored to be planning to "invade" Bandon, by placing Dr. Leach on board Coquille, bound for Coquille City, with orders never to return.  Dr. Leach was reported to have been "accompanied by a committee of Bandon businessmen" while on board Coquille.  In addition, the steamer Favorite, "loaded with businessmen" accompanied Coquille on the journey upriver.  According to the UPI story, "[t]here were no sympathizers to object to the deportation of Dr. Leach, and he was a sorry figure, alone and friendless.  Practically the entire citizenship was present to witness his departure ..."

Sinking
On February 18, 1914, Coquille was reported to be back in service after having been recently raised.  Following rebuilding at Prosper, Coquille was reported to be making better speed.

Transfer to Myrtle Point Transportation Company
On November 20, 1915 the owners of Coquille, the Coquille River Transportation Company sold out all their interests in the river transport business to their chief competitor, the Myrtle Point Transportation Company, which was composed primarily of the numerous Panter family.  At this time, the stock of the Coquille River Transportation Company was held by C.W. Ashton and E.W. Schetter, with O.R. "Ott" Willard having sold his interests the previous summer.

With the purchase of Coquille, and the Coquille River Transportation company's other boat, the motor vessel Charm, Russell Panter and the Panter family now controlled eight vessels on the river.  The other Panter boats were the gasoline launches Pronto, Norma and Maple, and the sternwheelers Telegraph, Dora, and Myrtle.

The new owners now controlled all river transport on the Coquille except for two remaining opposition boat, Dispatch and Favorite, both owned by the Farmers Transportation Company.

A new schedule was put out, with Coquille leaving Coquille at 7:00 a.m., and, on the return trip, departing Bandon at 2:00 p.m., making one round-trip per day.  Stacy Panter would be the new pilot and Carl Donaldson would be the new engineer.

Transfer to Columbia River

On January 25, 1916, it was reported that the previous week a sale of the Coquille to the Shaver Transportation Company, a Columbia River towing concern, had been concluded.  The vessel would be transferred as soon as weather permitted.  Shaver at that time was a large concern with a dozen or more boats in operation.

The new owners intended to place Coquille in service on the Willamette River.  At this time, the overall size of the vessel was  62 gross and 46 net tons, with a length of , beam of  and depth of hold of .

The sale occurred after Capt. J.W. Shaver, of Shaver Transportation, travelled to the Coquille River to inspect the vessel.  Myrtle Point Transportation Company agreed on the sale price, and further agreed to transfer the vessel to the Columbia.

Favorable weather for the transfer came about the next month.  On February 17, 1916, Coquille departed Bandon at 9:50 am., passed by Coos Bay en route to the Columbia River.  Coquille arrived at Astoria on February 19, 1916.  The vessel was intended to be placed into towing service.

Shaver planned to reconstruct Coquille for towing by, among other things, eliminating the passenger accommodations, cutting away the after section of the vessel's deckhouse, leaving one stateroom on each side, and lowering the smokestack to allow the boat to pass under bridges.  Coquille burned coal on the trip to the Columbia, but Shaver planned to convert the vessel into an oil-burner.  It was reported that Shaver intended to use Coquille on the lower Columbia river to bring logs out of creeks and sloughs, so that larger vessels could tow them to Portland.  Although the length and beam of the vessel were unaffected, this reconstruction reduced the overall size of Coquille to 53 gross and 36 net tons.  The home port for Coquille was changed to Astoria.

Sale by Shaver
On February 28, 1918, Shaver Transportation sold Coquille to Knappton Mill and Lumber Company.  The new owners placed Capt. J.H. Lamley in charge of Coquille, which they planned to use to tow log rafts the Grays and Deep rivers, both of which were Washington state tributaries of the lower Columbia river.  This sale left nine boats in the Shaver flotilla.  Coquille had been the only propeller-driven steamer belonging to Shaver.

 Service with Knappton Towing
On May 2, 1919, when Coquille and another Knappton towboat, Defender were towing the hulk Ontepro down the Columbia River, the tow struck a drawbridge at Youngs Bay belonging to the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway.  On December 4, 1919, a lawsuit was filed against the Knappton Mill company in federal district court, which sought $8,756.37 in damages.  Coquille remained in service with the Knappton Towboat Company as of July 1, 1922.Coquille was still registered as being in service in 1935, with a home port of Astoria, under the ownership of the Knappton Towing Co.  Crew at that time was shown as five, and the vessel's machinery was listed as generating 225 horsepower.  Knappton Towing's office was located at the foot of 14th Street, in Astoria.

Modern cultural depiction
Murals showing Coquille and other steamboats were painted on the exterior walls of the Coquille City Hall in 1997.

 See also
Steamboats of the Coquille River

 Notes

 References
 Historic Oregon Newspapers
 Newell, Gordon R. ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest'',  Superior Publishing, Seattle WA (1966)

1908 ships
Coos County, Oregon
Steamboats of Oregon
Passenger ships of the United States
Steamboats of the Columbia River
Tugboats of the United States
Ships built in Oregon
Industrial Workers of the World in Oregon
Shaver Transportation Company
Transportation in Wahkiakum County, Washington
Transportation in Clatsop County, Oregon
Astoria, Oregon


title: Rupinder Pal Singh

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Rupinder Pal Singh (born 11 November 1990) is a professional field hockey player, who represents India in the Indian Hockey Team. He plays as a fullback and is known for his abilities as one of the best drag flickers in the world. He represented India in the 2014 Commonwealth Games at Glasgow, 2014 Asian Games at Incheon, 2016 Olympic Games held at Rio de Janeiro, and at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, held at Gold Coast, Australia. He was part of the Indian hockey team that won a bronze medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Early life
Rupinder Pal Singh was born in a Sikh family in Faridkot, Punjab, India. The six-foot four inch-footer, is the youngest of the family, who took up hockey at the age of eleven. He is related to international hockey player, Gagan Ajit Singh. His interest in hockey got a boost when got selected for the Chandigarh Hockey Academy.

Career
Singh's international debut was in May 2010 in Sultan Azlan Shah Cup in Ipoh. His side went on to win the 2010 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup. The following year, Rupinder scored his first international Hat-trick against Great Britain in the 2011 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup. In the same tournament, Singh won the Top-scorer Award and was named in the Sultan Azlan Shah XI Team. At the 2014 Men's Hockey World Cup, Rupinder was named as the team's Vice-captain. He came out of retirement in May 2022 and was supposed to lead Indian team in Asia cup starting on May 23 in Jakarta, Indonesia but will not as he is ruled out of the tournament due to a wrist injury. Birendra Lakra, earlier named as vice-captain, will now lead men in blue alongside SV Sunil as new vice-captain of the team.

Hockey India League
Rupinder was bought by the Delhi franchise for a hefty sum. The Delhi team was named Delhi Waveriders. During an interview, Rupinder was quoted saying "I was surprised when the Delhi side picked me up for such a huge amount, but the tournament gave me a good platform to hone my skills, spending time with players like Sardar Singh and Nicolas Jacobi made me improve my game a lot and it showed in my performance, Even though we lost to Ranchi in the final, the team had a good run in the tournament". He proved his worth, scoring seven goals for the team, which finished second in the league. In the 2nd season, Rupinder's side won the 2014 Hockey India League, with Singh scoring 7 goals. Rupinder was declared the Player of the Tournament at the 2016 Hockey India League, and due to his significant contributions, Delhi Waveriders went on to secure the 3rd position at the HIL that year. In 2017, he captained the Delhi Waveriders, taking the team to the semi-final stage.
Rupinder has been regularly playing for Indian Overseas Bank (Chennai based Indian Bank) for many years.

Career achievements
 2010 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, India won the Gold
 2011 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, won Top-scorer Award, named in Sultan Azlan Shah's XI
 2011 Asian Men's Hockey Champions Trophy, India won the Gold
 2011 Men's Hockey Champions Challenge I, India won the Silver
 2012 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, India won the Bronze
 2012 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy, India stood 4th
 2012 Asian Men's Hockey Champions Trophy, India won the Silver
 2012–13 Men's FIH Hockey World League Round 2, scored 7 goals
 2013 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, won Top-scorer Award
 2013 Men's Hockey Asia Cup, India won Silver, scored 6 goals
 2014 Men's Hockey World Cup
 2014 Commonwealth Games, India won the Silver
 2014 Asian Games, held in Incheon, India won Gold
 2014 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy, India stood 4th
 2014-15 Men's FIH Hockey World League, India won the Bronze
 2016 Asian Men's Hockey Champions Trophy, India won the Gold
 2016 Olympic Games held at Rio de Janeiro
 2016 Asian Champions Trophy, India won the Gold, and he won the "Top Goal Scorer of the Tournament" (11 goals) and the "Best Player of the Tournament" award
4-Nations Invitational Tournament, held in Melbourne, he won the "Top Goal Scorer of the Tournament" award (6 goals)
 2017 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, India won the Bronze
 2017 Hockey World League Finals held in Bhubaneshwar, India won the Bronze, and he won the "Fan's Choice Award"
2018 4-Nations Invitational Tournament, held in Tauranga and Hamilton, in New Zealand
2018 Commonwealth Games, held at Gold Coast, Australia
2018 Asian Games, held in Jakarta, India won the Bronze
2020 Tokyo Olympics, held in Tokyo, India won the Bronze

References

External links
Rupinder Pal Singh at Hockey India

Rupinder Pal Singh at stick2hockey.com
Rupinder Pal Singh at rabobankhockeyworldcup2014.com

Field hockey players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Field hockey players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Living people
Indian Sikhs
1990 births
Asian Games medalists in field hockey
Field hockey players at the 2014 Asian Games
Field hockey players from Punjab, India
Indian male field hockey players
Asian Games gold medalists for India
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for India
Field hockey players from Delhi
Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic field hockey players for India
Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey
Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
Field hockey players at the 2018 Asian Games
Asian Games bronze medalists for India
Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
Hockey India League players
Delhi Waveriders players
Male field hockey defenders
Olympic bronze medalists for India
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Amsterdamsche Hockey & Bandy Club players
Recipients of the Arjuna Award
2014 Men's Hockey World Cup players
Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games


title: Dean Corren

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Dean Russel Corren (May 16, 1955 – May 3, 2023) was an American politician and scientist who served in the Vermont House of Representatives from the Chittenden 7-3 district from 1993 to 2000, as an independent and member of the Progressive Coalition. He unsuccessfully ran for lieutenant governor of Vermont in 2014. Corren was the third member of the Progressive Party elected to the state legislature.

Corren was born in New York City, and educated at Middlebury College and New York University. He was appointed to serve on the Electric Commission in Burlington, Vermont, in 1988, by the Republican and Progressive members of the city council against the wishes of the Democratic members despite Corren being a Democrat.

Corren ran for a seat in the state house in the 1990 election, but was defeated. He was elected to the state house as an independent in the 1992 election and reelected in the 1994 election. He was reelected to the state house in the 1996 and 1998 elections as a member of the Progressive Coalition. Corren ran for lieutenant governor of Vermont in the 2014 election with the nominations of the Democratic and Progressive parties, but was defeated by Republican nominee Phil Scott.

Early life and education
Dean Russel Corren was born on May 16, 1955, in New York City. He was raised in Katonah, New York, and moved to Burlington, Vermont in 1988. Corren graduated from Middlebury College with a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1977, and later graduated with a master's degree in energy science from New York University.

Corren married Karen Amirault and Cindy Wolkin, and had one son. He was Jewish.

Career

Local politics
In 1988, the Democratic member of the city council in Burlington, Vermont, wanted to appoint Richard Frothingham to the Electric Commission, but the Republican and Progressive members of the city council instead appointed Corren, who was also a member of the Democratic Party. Allen Gear, a Republican member of the city council, stated that they thought it did not matter what person was appointed to the commission as long as that person was a member of the Democratic Party. Nancy Chioffi, a Democratic member of the city council who also served as its president, stated that the "Democrats were not asking for much, and they didn't get anything" following Corren's appointment. Corren later became chair of the Electric Commission. He was appointed to serve another three year term on the council in 1991.

Corren supported Peter Clavelle during the 1993 Burlington mayoral election.

Vermont House of Representatives

Elections
Corren considered running for a seat in the Vermont House of Representatives from the Chittenden 7-3 district in the 1990 election as either an independent or Progressive Coalition candidate. He chose to run as an independent candidate, but was defeated by Democratic nominees Hamilton E. Davis and Alice Cook Bassett while coming ahead of Republican nominee June Trono. A recount was conducted and maintained Davis and Bassett's victory. During the campaign he was endorsed by the Rainbow Coalition and accused Davis, the chair of the Vermont Hospital Data Council, of using a press conference for political purposes.

Corren ran as an independent candidate in the 1992 election and was elected alongside Democratic nominee Sandy Baird and both were reelected in the 1994 election. He ran with the nomination of the Progressive Coalition in the 1996 election and won reelection alongside David Zuckerman, another member of the Progressive Coalition, and both were reelected in 1998. Corren chose to not seek reelection in the 2000 election while Zuckerman was reelected alongside Bob Kiss.

Tenure
During Corren's tenure in the state house he served on the Government Operations committee. When he joined the state house Corren was aligned with the Progressive Coalition caucus which included representatives Terry Bouricius and Tom Smith. In 1996, he sponsored legislation to impeach Judge Althea Kroger, accusing her of lying under oath and making false accusation against Judge Elizabeth Gretkowski.

Lieutenant gubernatorial campaign
Corren announced on May 7, 2014, that he would run for Lieutenant Governor of Vermont with the Progressive nomination. He qualified for public campaign funds, with $50,000 in the primary and $150,000 in the general election, after raising over $18,000 with contributions below $50 which was more than the $15,000 required. On August 16, Corren launched his campaign at an event hosted by Jerry Greenfield and Ben Cohen. Corren won the Democratic primary without opposition and the Progressive primary as a write-in candidate. The Vermont Democratic State Committee voted thirty-one to four in favor of endorsing Corren on September 20, although the party did not give him access to voter lists. He participated in a debate against Republican nominee Phil Scott and Liberty Union nominee Marina Brown. Scott defeated Corren in the general election. Corren considered running for lieutenant governor or governor in the 2016 election, but chose not to.

Corren's campaign sent out a text message asking for people to vote for him using a list of people that included those who had not opted in to receive the message which was illegal. In 2015, William Sorrell, the Vermont Attorney General, filed a lawsuit against Corren with $72,000 in penalties alleging that he had violated campaign financing laws by asking for the Democratic Party to send an email supporting him to their 19,000 member list. T. J. Donovan succeeded Sorrell as Attorney General and dismissed the charges against Corren stating that it would be unfair to continue the prosecution and the chilling effect it had on candidates seeking public campaign financing.

Death
Corren died from a cardiac event on May 3, 2023.

Political positions
Corren voted in favor of legislation to prohibit smoking in public areas. In 1993, the state house voted eighty to fifty-six, with Corren against, in favor of a one percent sales tax increase suggested by Howard Dean. He opposed the North American Free Trade Agreement and attempted to have a majority of the Vermont legislature go on record against the treaty. He supported the creation of a single-payer healthcare. The state house voted seventy-nine to sixty-eight, with Corren in favor, in favor of allowing civil unions for same-sex couples.

Electoral history

References

External links
 Official campaign website

1955 births
2023 deaths
20th-century American Jews
20th-century American politicians
20th-century American scientists
21st-century American Jews
American chief technology officers
Candidates in the 2014 United States elections
Middlebury College alumni
New York University alumni
People from Katonah, New York
Scientists from New York (state)
Tidal power
Vermont Democrats
Vermont Independents
Vermont Progressive Party politicians
Jewish American scientists
Scientists from Vermont
Deaths from cardiovascular disease


title: Larkana Bulls

text:
The Larkana Bulls was a limited overs cricket team based in Larkana, Sindh, Pakistan. The team was established in 2013-14.

Squad
Squad of Larkana Bulls:

Shahid Afridi (C)
Zahid Mehmood
Ahsan Ali
Shahnawaz Dahani
Carlos Brathwite
Imran Tahir
Ayaz Jamali
Ghulam Yasin
Imran Chandio
Imtiaz Ali
Mohammad Siddiq
Mohammad Urs
Mohammad Waqas
Nasrullah Memon
Noor Din
Rameez Ahmed
Shabbir Ahmed
Azam Khan (WK)

Result summary

T20 results

Captains' record

Sponsor
2013-14 kit sponsors of the Larkana Bulls team was Mughal Steel.

See also
 Pakistan Super League

References

External links
Twenty 20 Record page for Larkana

Cricket clubs established in 2013
2013 establishments in Pakistan
Cricket teams in Pakistan
Bulls
Cricket in Sindh


title: Mopsechiniscus franciscae

text:
Mopsechiniscus franciscae is a species of tardigrade native to Antarctica. One of the most resilient species on Earth, it can survive conditions such as extreme temperatures, high pressure, poison, dehydration, radioactivity, and even vacuum, partly due to its ability to go into hibernation when deprived of water.  Found in samples of moss growing on gravel along the shore of Victoria Land, the species has a reddish color, the gut can appear green after feeding.  Males measure a quarter of a millimeter in length, and females are 50 percent larger.

References

Echiniscidae
Fauna of Antarctica
Animals described in 2014


title: Hydrogenics

text:
Hydrogenics is a developer and manufacturer of hydrogen generation and fuel cell products based on water electrolysis and proton-exchange membrane (PEM) technology.  Hydrogenics is divided into two business units: OnSite Generation and Power Systems. Onsite Generation is headquartered in Oevel, Belgium and had 73 full-time employees as of December 2013. Power Systems is based in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, with a satellite facility in Gladbeck, Germany. It had 62 full-time employees as of December 2013. Hydrogenics maintains operations in Belgium, Canada and Germany with satellite offices in the United States, Indonesia, Malaysia and Russia.

Business overview

OnSite Generation
The OnSite Generation business segment is based on water electrolysis technology, which involves the decomposition of water into oxygen () and hydrogen gas () by passing an electric current through a liquid electrolyte. The resultant hydrogen gas is then captured and used for industrial gas applications, hydrogen fueling applications, and is used to store renewable and surplus energy in the form of hydrogen gas. Hydrogenics' HySTAT electrolyzer products can be used both indoors and outdoors.

Power Systems
The Power Systems business segment is based on PEM fuel cell technology, which transforms chemical energy resulting from the electrochemical reaction of hydrogen and oxygen into electrical energy. (Edgar) Its HyPM products can handle electrical power outputs ranging from 1 kilowatt to 1 megawatt. The company also develops and delivers hydrogen generation products based on PEM water electrolysis.

Power to Gas

Power-to-Gas is an energy process and storage technology, which takes the excess power generated by wind turbines, solar power, or biomass power plants and converts carbon dioxide and water into methane using electrolysis, enabling it be stored. The excess electricity can then be held in existing reserves, including power and natural gas grids. This allows for seasonally adjusted storage of significant amounts of power and the provision of -neutral fuels in the form of the resulting renewable energy source gas.

History
In 1988, Hydrogenics was founded under the name Traduction Militech Translation Inc. In 1995, it entered into the fuel cell technology development business and Traduction Militech Translation changed its name to Hydrogenics in 1990.

In 2002, Hydrogenics acquired EnKAT GmbH, which formed its Hydrogenics Europe division. It also acquired Greenlight Power Technologies, Inc., a competing fuel cell testing business, in 2003. A year later, in 2004, the company acquired Stuart Energy, a manufacturer of hydrogen-generation products based on alkaline electrolyte technology.

In 2007, Hydrogenics narrowed the focus of its fuel cell activities by exiting the fuel cell testing business and working more on forklift power and backup power markets. That same year, Heliocentris partnered with Hydrogenics and SMA Solar Technologie to incorporate Hydrogenics' fuel cell power modules into stationary backup power systems.

In September 2010, Hydrogenics formed an alliance with CommScope Inc., a Hickory, North Carolina-based multinational telecommunications company. Per the alliance, CommScope invested US$8.5 million in Hydrogenics as part of a joint product development program.

Hydrogenics signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Iwatani Corporation, a Japanese industrial energy company, in April 2012. The companies began to collaborate on hydrogen solutions in the Japanese energy market, including utility-scale hydrogen energy storage, hydrogen generation and fuelling, fuel cell integration, and industrial hydrogen generation. Later that month Hydrogenics and Enbridge Inc. entered into a joint venture to develop utility-scale energy storage beginning in Ontario. Under the agreement, hydrogen produced during periods of excess renewable generation will be injected into Enbridge's existing natural gas pipeline network. In June 2013, Hydrogenics announced that its Power-to-Gas facility was operational with the first direct injection of hydrogen into a gas pipeline.

Hydrogenics entered into a joint venture with South Korea-based Kolon Water & Energy to provide power generation in that country in June 2014.

In 2019 Hydrogenics was acquired in large parts by Cummins as part of their New Power division. Hydrogenics is now owned 81% by Cummins and 19% by Air Liquide. The name of the company has since been changed to Accelera.

Projects
In June 2000, General Motors and Hydrogenics released their codeveloped HydroGen1, a vehicle powered by a first generation proton exchange membrane fuel cell system. The following year, in October, the two companies developed low-pollution technology to power cars and trucks.

In December 2002, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) selected Hydrogenics to develop a next-generation hybrid fuel cells bus; Hydrogenics integrated its vehicle-to-grid technology into a 12.5 meter New Flyer Inverno 40i transit bus. Hydrogenics' FC Hybrid Tecnobus midibus was exhibited in Europe in 2005.

In January 2010, Hydrogenics began development of a next-generation power system to be used for surface mobility applications on the moon for the Canadian Space Agency. The system includes an electrolyzer that produces both hydrogen and oxygen using solar power, and a fuel cell system that can be used for mobility, auxiliary, and life support systems. Heliocentris and FAUN Umwelttechnick collaborated with Hydrogenics to develop a hybrid waste disposal vehicle for BSR (Berliner Stadtreinigung) in August of that year.

In July 2012, Hydrogenics joined a consortium with EU members to build the world's largest steady state hydrogen storage facility in the Puglia region of Italy. The system is part of the R&D smart grid project "INGRID."

In April 2013, Hydrogenics won a contract to supply a 1 megawatt hydrogen energy storage system to German utility E.ON in Hamburg. The system will use electrolyzers based on Hydrogenics' proton exchange membrane (PEM) technology for hydrogen production and use excess power generated from regional renewable energy sources, primarily wind energy. In November the first of E.ON's P2G facilities provided by Hydrogenics became operational. The Falkenhagen facility uses wind-powered electrolysis equipment to transform water to hydrogen, which is then mixed with natural gas.

In February 2014, Hydrogenics was awarded two projects with the United Kingdom government. Hydrogenics will provide its technology to build hydrogen fuel stations throughout the UK.

Hydrogenics was selected as a Preferred Respondent for a power-to-gas project in Ontario by the Independent Electricity System Operator. (IESO), a corporation responsible for operating the electricity market and directing the operation of the bulk electrical system in the province of Ontario, Canada, in July 2014.

See also
Power to gas

References

External links
 Official site

Sustainable energy
Fuel cell manufacturers
Electrolysis
Energy companies of Canada
Membrane technology
Technology companies of Canada
Manufacturing companies based in Mississauga
Cummins


title: Kenny Bain

text:
Kenneth Bain (born 16 March 1990) is a Scottish field hockey player who plays as a forward for Dutch club Hurley and the Scottish national team.

He represented Scotland in the  2010 and 2014 Commonwealth Games. In August 2019, he was selected in the Scotland squad for the 2019 EuroHockey Championship.

Club career
Bain played for Kelburne in Scotland and hdm in the Netherlands before he moved to Hurley in 2011. In 2015 he joined Amsterdam. After the head coach Alyson Annan left in 2016 he moved to HGC. After one season with HGC he returned to Hurley.

References

External links

1990 births
Living people
Field hockey players from Glasgow
Male field hockey forwards
Scottish male field hockey players
Field hockey players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Field hockey players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Haagsche Delftsche Mixed players
Amsterdamsche Hockey & Bandy Club players
HGC (field hockey) players
Men's Hoofdklasse Hockey players
Commonwealth Games competitors for Scotland
Scotland men's international field hockey players


title: Statue of Horace Greeley (Herald Square)

text:
Horace Greeley, also known as the Greeley Memorial, is an outdoor bronze sculpture of Horace Greeley by Alexander Doyle, located in Greeley Square Park in Manhattan, New York. The statue, cast in 1892 and dedicated on May 30, 1894, sits atop a Quincy granite pedestal. It contains the following inscription:

See also

 Statue of Horace Greeley (City Hall Park), also located in Manhattan
 Tributes to Horace Greeley

References

External links
 New York Typographical Union No. 6: Study of a Modern Trade Union and Its Predecessors by George A. Stevens, Issue 6, (pg. 632), State Department of Labor (1913)

1894 establishments in New York (state)
1894 sculptures
Bronze sculptures in Manhattan
Horace Greeley
Monuments and memorials in Manhattan
Outdoor sculptures in Manhattan
Sculptures of men in New York City
Statues in New York City
Greeley


title: Nuno Montenegro

text:
Nuno Montenegro (born 1970, Lisbon, Portugal) is architect from the University of Lisbon (1995) having studied in Italy with Vittorio Gregotti and Aldo Rossi at Università Iuav di Venezia (IUAV).
Master in Urban Regeneration (2010). and Ph.D. candidate in Urban Planning (FAUL) he is a research member of the City Induction project (ICIST) (R&D. FCT). His scientific work has been widely published and cited in the field of technologies applied to architecture and urban planning
Nuno Montenegro professional experience spans nearly two decades of activity. Its projects and plans stand today published in many countries, in internationally recognized magazines such as Interior Design magazine (IDM) New York (2010) and ArquitecturaViva (AV) Madrid (2008) among many others.
Awarded in several International Competitions and Events has been invited to participate in conferences, lectures, seminars and exhibitions worldwide.
Since 2014 Nuno Montenegro teaches Architectural Design at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon.

References

External links
 http://www.montenegroandpartners.com
 http://architizer.com/firms/montenegro-architects/
 https://www.linkedin.com/company/977972?trk=prof-0-ovw-curr_pos
 https://independent.academia.edu/NunoMontenegro

Portuguese architects
Technical University of Lisbon alumni
1970 births
Living people


title: Nicky Parkes

text:
Nicholas Christopher Andrew Parkes (born 11 February 1990) is a Scottish field hockey player who plays as a midfielder for English club Surbiton and the Scottish national team. Nicky is a product of the highly successful Western Wildcats junior section. His talent was obvious from an early age and he represented Western, West District and Scotland at junior age groups. An established first team player before going to Cambridge University , he quickly established himself in the Cambridge team. He captained Cambridge to a victory in the 2012 Varsity match. After Cambridge he played for Shieffield Hallam HC.

He represented Scotland in the 2014 Commonwealth Games at Glasgow and the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. In August 2019, he was selected in the Scotland squad for the 2019 EuroHockey Championship.

References

External links

1990 births
Living people
Male field hockey midfielders
Commonwealth Games competitors for Scotland
Scottish male field hockey players
Field hockey players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Field hockey players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Surbiton Hockey Club players
Men's England Hockey League players
Place of birth missing (living people)


title: Source Han Sans

text:
Source Han Sans is a sans-serif gothic typeface family created by Adobe and Google. It is also released by Google under the Noto fonts project as Noto Sans CJK. The family includes seven weights, and supports Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean. It also includes Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters from the Source Sans family.

Design
The Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters are taken from the Source Sans Pro family, and adjusted to fit in with Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) text. For example, in the normal weight Latin and Latin-like characters are scaled to 115% of their original size, hence they appear larger than Source Sans Pro at the same point size.

For the Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters, the underlying design was designed by Ryoko Nishizuka from Adobe. Multiple type foundries drew the glyphs for different languages based on the designs: Changzhou Sinotype and Arphic Technology for Chinese,  for Japanese, and Sandoll Communications for Korean. Ken Lunde of Adobe consolidated the glyphs and created the final font resources, while Google provided funding, testing resources and input.

Source Han Sans has five versions: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese for Taiwan, Traditional Chinese for Hong Kong, Japanese and Korean. Because of the different conventions and standards in each region, the same character in Unicode may have different shapes in different versions.

The font family includes seven font weights: ExtraLight, Light, Normal, Regular, Medium, Bold, and Heavy. At its release, the fonts contains 65,535 glyphs, the maximum limit for CID-based fonts.

The font currently covers all of the characters in Unified Repertoire and Ordering of the Unicode Standard in version 2.001, but still doesn't cover all of CJK Compatibility Ideographs and extensions of the CJK Unified Ideographs.

Release
The 28-font OTC version of Source Sans Pro became available in version 1.001.

Source Han Sans version 2.000 is a major update of the font family, the major changes include:
 Several glyphs proposed for CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G were included and accessible via the 'ccmp' GSUB feature.
 The Hong Kong flavor of Traditional Chinese was introduced.
 The glyphs for bopomofo were redesigned.
 The glyphs for half-width jamo were replaced.
 Macintosh 'name' table strings were omitted.
 Regular weight is style-linked to the Bold weight.
 The deprecated 'hngl' GSUB feature was removed.
 The 'vert' GPOS (not GSUB) feature was added to support combining jamo in vertical writing.
 Some glyphs for newer versions of Unicode were added.
Version 2.001 added a new character stands for Japanese era name Reiwa, and several glyphs for Hong Kong locale.

Version 2.002 fixed some bugs, and also moved 4 of the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G characters to their designated codepoint, with the corresponding 'ccmp' GSUB feature removed.

Version 2.003 introduced variable font format into Source Han Sans as .otc suffix with CFF2 format table, which caused display issues with Windows 10. A version of variable font with glyf format table and .ttc suffix is released in version 2.004 for Windows along with other minor fixes.

Noto Sans CJK fonts are released as individual fonts separated by version and weight, or as OTC fonts containing all versions separated by weight, or OTC fonts containing all weights separated by version, or a single OTC font containing all versions and weights.

Disputes
Before version 2.000, Source Han Sans only supported Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese, and the initial name given to the Traditional Chinese version is Source Han Sans TWHK, which is the initials for Taiwan and Hong Kong, however the Traditional Chinese version is based on Taiwan's Standard Form of National Characters instead of traditional printing press style (or known as jiu zixing) which is widely used in Taiwan and Hong Kong or Hong Kong's List of Graphemes of Commonly-Used Chinese Characters. Both latter groups voiced their opinions and said that the name of TWHK is misleading, which later caused heated discussions between these users. It is later announced that Hong Kong (HK) version will be split with Taiwan (TW) version in 2015.

Source Han Sans version 2.000 introduced at November 2018 added Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong) as Source Han Sans HK/HC, which follows Hong Kong's List of Graphemes of Commonly-Used Chinese Characters, but no plans were announced to support traditional printing press style for Traditional Chinese users in Source Han Sans.

Source Han Sans HW (2015)
Introduced as part of Source Han Sans Version 1.002 update, Source Han Sans HW fonts are based on the corresponding Source Han Sans fonts, but include half-width glyphs for ASCII and small number of additional characters in Regular and Bold font weights.

Noto Sans Mono CJK
Noto Sans Mono CJK fonts are monospaced versions of Noto Sans CJK, which includes glyphs in 4 variants. Only regular and bold weight fonts were released.

Noto Sans Mono CJK was introduced in Noto Sans CJK version 1.002 package.

OTC fonts include Noto Sans Mono CJK, except for the region-specific Subset OTC fonts.

Source Han Code JP (2015)
Source Han Code JP (源ノ角ゴシック Code JP) is a duospaced font family using Latin glyphs from Source Code Pro, with Latin glyphs are scaled to match Japanese characters, and their widths are adjusted to be exactly 667 units (two-thirds of an EM). The remaining characters were from Source Han Sans JP fonts with glyph set supporting only Japanese.

See also
 Noto fonts
 Open-source Unicode typefaces

Adobe Open Source Fonts
 Source Sans Pro
 Source Code Pro
 Source Serif Pro
 Source Han Serif

References

External links

Adobe Fonts page
Source Han Sans Traditional Chinese
Source Han Sans Simplified Chinese
Source Han Sans Japanese
Source Han Sans Korean
Google Noto Sans CJK
GitHub pages: Source Han Sans, Source Han Code JP

Grotesque sans-serif typefaces
CJK typefaces
Adobe typefaces
Free software Unicode typefaces


title: HMS Vestal (1833)

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HMS Vestal was a 26-gun  sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.  She was built to a design by Sir William Symonds and was launched in 1833.

On her maiden voyage, she departed for the West Indies on 19 October 1833, and arrived in Barbados on 3 December of that year. In October 1835, Vestal seized the Spanish slave ship Amalia. This was to a regular part of her Caribbean duties. During 1838 and 1839, she was in Havana protecting British interests off the coast of Mexico. During the following years she visited Canada, Jamaica, the United States, Argentina and Tasmania.

On 26 August 1852, Vestal ran aground on the Hemstead Ledge, west of The Needles, Isle of Wight whilst on a voyage from Portsmouth, Hampshire to the West Indies. After throwing her guns overboard, she was refloated and taken back to Portsmouth for inspection and repair. She was decommissioned in 1860; and broken up in 1862.

References

Citations

Sources

1833 ships
Sixth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy
Ships built on the River Medway
Maritime incidents in August 1852


title: Daniel Kyriakides

text:
Daniel Kyriakides (born 21 March 1995) is a Welsh international field hockey player who plays as a midfielder or defender for Wales and Great Britain.

James Kyriakides is his elder brother.

Club career
Kyriakides plays club hockey in the Men's England Hockey League Premier Division for Hampstead & Westminster, whom he joined from Cardiff & Met.
He has also played in the Bundesliga for Crefelder HTC and for Reading and Swansea City HC.

International career
He made his senior GB debut against India on 29 April 2017.

He represented Wales in the 2014 Commonwealth Games & 2018 Commonwealth games.

References

External links

1995 births
Living people
Welsh male field hockey players
British male field hockey players
Male field hockey defenders
Male field hockey midfielders
Field hockey players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games competitors for Wales
Hampstead & Westminster Hockey Club players
Reading Hockey Club players
Men's England Hockey League players
Expatriate field hockey players
Welsh expatriate sportspeople in Germany
2023 Men's FIH Hockey World Cup players


title: Schraalenburgh

text:
Schraalenburgh may refer to:

Dumont, New Jersey
South Schraalenburgh Church
Schraalenburgh North Church


title: 2016 Washington State Senate election

text:
The 2016 Washington State Senate elections is one of the biennial legislative elections in Washington in which about half of the state's 49 legislative districts choose a state senator for a four-year term to the Washington State Senate. The other half of state senators are chosen in the next biennial election, so that about half of the senators, along with all the members of the Washington State House of Representatives, are elected every two years. 25 seats are regularly scheduled to be up this cycle, along with 1 additional seat holding a special election to fill an unexpired term: the 36th district, currently held by appointed Senator Reuven Carlyle, whose former incumbent Jeanne Kohl-Welles vacated the seat.

A top two primary election on August 9, 2016 determines which candidates appear on the November ballot. Candidates were allowed to declare a party preference. The general election took place on November 8, 2016.

The 2016 Election maintained effective Republican control of the Senate, because self-identified Democrat Tim Sheldon caucuses with the Republicans.

Overview

Composition

Results

District 1

District 2

District 3

District 4

District 5

District 9

District 10

District 11

District 12

District 14

District 16

District 17

District 18

District 19

District 20

District 22

District 23

District 24

District 25

District 27

District 28

District 36

District 39

District 40

District 41

District 49

Notes

References

Washington State Senate elections
Senate
Washington State Senate


title: Enca (singer)

text:
Ruensa Haxhiaj (; born 19 October 1995), known professionally as Enca (), is an Albanian singer.

She rose to fame after releasing "A po t'pëlqen" in 2014, gathering over 100,000 views on YouTube within 24 hours. Haxhia made her music debut in 2012 with "The Best Of" and "Kjo Verë". She later joined Big Basta in Kënga Magjike and continued to work with other acclaimed artists. She participated in Top Fest twice, and reached the semi-finals in her second attempt. She also participated in Zhurma Show Awards  in 2016, where she won four awards, including the first place.

Life and career

Ruensa Haxhiaj was born on 19 October 1995 in Tirana to an Albanian Orthodox family. Initially, she started posting cover versions of various songs on video-sharing platform YouTube. She started using Keek, a social media for video statuses and gained her own fan base. She sang short parts of various songs, posted videos of her daily life, etc. She also participated in the talent show The Voice of Albania in which she failed twice in a row to pass the blind auditions. Although her debut didn't receive significant feedback, she continued working on her solo career. She was featured in various songs, mainly those of rappers. She participated in the Top Fest twice, in 2013 and 2014. At the 2016 Zhurma Video Music Awards, she won two awards for "Best Pop" and "Best Female" with the music video for her song "Dreq". At the same awards ceremony, she and rapper Noizy jointly won two awards for "Internet Prize" and "Best Video" with the music video for their collaboration "Bow Down".

Haxhia announced her single "A po t'pëlqen", a Kosovar Gheg penned pop-dance song on Keek. She then released the music video in late-July and received an enormous feedback. Besides her national attention, she also gathered a big number of international fans. The song, which gathered hundreds of thousands of views within its first week.

Discography

 2012 – "The Best Of"
 2012 – "Kjo Verë"
 2012 – "100" featuring Big Basta & Etnon
 2012 – "All That" feat. Big Basta
 2013 – "Dua të jesh ti", Top Fest 2013.
 2013 – "Jepe Tash"
 2013 – "Real Love" feat. Ardit
 2013 – "E ke rradhën ti"
 2013 – "Baby Girl & Gangsta Boo" feat. B Genius
 2014 – "Ata nuk e din" feat. Noizy
 2014 – "Ishim ne", Top Fest 2014
 2014 – "A po t'pëlqen"
 2014 – Enca & Mozzik "Edhe njo"
 2015 – Soul Killa
 2015 – Call Me Goddess
 2016 – Dreq
 2016 – Bow Down ft. Noizy
 2017 – Love on my body
2017 – Ciao
2018 – Dua
 2018 – Kujt Po I Han feat. Don Phenom
 2018 – Rendez Vous
 2019 – "Balad"
2019 – Hajde ft. Muharrem Ahmeti
2019 – Jealous
 2019 – MWAH
 2020 – " Amor (ft Zaza & Mixey) "
 2020 – "Young and Pretty" – cover
 2020 – "Perhaps" – cover
 2020 – "Ku Mete"
 2020 – "Break Down" (ft. Don Xhoni)
 2021 – "Ndoshta"
 2021 – "Rakia"
2021 – "Suavele"
2022– "Kalle"

Awards and nominations

Top Music Awards

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|Female Artist of the Year
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Zhurma Show Awards

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|Best Styling
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||"Soul Killa"
|Best Pop
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|Best Pop
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|Best Female
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|Best Song
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|Best Video/First Prize
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|Internet Prize
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References

1995 births
21st-century Albanian women singers
Albanian actresses
Albanian Internet celebrities
Albanian songwriters
Living people
Musicians from Tirana
Universal Music Group artists


title: Theophil Spoerri

text:
Theophil  Spoerri  (10 June 1890, in La Chaux-de-Fonds – 24 December 1974, in Caux), was a Swiss writer and academic.

Family
Theophil Spoerri was the son of a Methodist Preacher called Jakob Gottlieb Spoerri and of his wife Maria Eugenie Thiele/Spoerri.

He had a cousin, also named Theophil Spörri (1887 – 1955) who was a prominent Swiss Methodist theologian and with whom he is sometimes confused.

He had a nephew, from his mother's side of the family, called Daniel Isaac Feinstein.   When the boy was 11 his father was arrested and killed.   Daniel was then adopted by his uncle, Theophil Spoerri and changed his name to Daniel Spoerri.    Daniel Spoerri subsequently gained prominence as an artist.

Professional biography
Spoerri studied at Zürich, Siena and Paris.  He obtained his doctorate at Bern in 1916.  His dissertation was published in Milan in 1918 under the Italian-language title “Il dialetto della Valsesia” (”The dialect of Valsesia”).   Between 1912 and 1922 he worked as a high school teacher in Bern.

Between 1922 and 1956 he was an Associate Professor of Romance Philology at the University of Zurich where his students included the future novelist Max Frisch.   In respect of university administration he was made Dean in 1932, and university Rector between 1948 and 1950.   Between 1942 and 1951, together with his colleague Professor Emil Staiger, he produced a quarterly publication entitled “Trivium. Schweizerische Vierteljahresschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Stilkritik” (”Trivium: Swiss quarterly journal for literary knowledge and criticism“)

Spoerri held an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva (1950).   He published several essays on Dante Alighieri, and was a holder of the Golden Dante-Medal (Florence 1962).

Spoerri's religious upbringing gave him a powerful religious, social and political commitment.   In 1940 he joined with others to form an anti-Nazi organisation called the Gotthard League, becoming its first president.   He was also a member of the Neue Helvetische Gesellschaft (New Helvetic Society) and of the Oxford Group along with the Moral Re-Armament movement that grew out of it.

The strong religious element in his make-up was also apparent in his academic research work which covered writers such as Blaise Pascal, Jean Racine, Dante Alighieri, Ludovico Ariosto und Torquato Tasso.

Works
 Renaissance und Barock bei Ariost und Tasso. Versuch einer Anwendung Wölfflin'scher Kunstbetrachtung, Bern 1922
 Von der dreifachen Wurzel der Poesie, Zürich/Leipzig 1925
 Die drei Wege des Erkennens in Wissenschaft, Dichtung und Offenbarung, Berlin 1926
 Französische Metrik, München 1929
 Die Götter des Abendlandes : Eine Auseinandersetzung mit dem Heidentum in der Kultur unserer Zeit, Berlin 1930
 Einführung in die Göttliche Komödie, Zürich 1946
 Grundkräfte der europäischen Geschichte : Wie die Welt von Grund auf anders werden könnte, Hamburg 1951
 Die Struktur der Existenz : Einführung in die Kunst der Interpretation, Zürich 1951
 Der Weg zur Form : Dasein und Verwirklichung des Menschen im Spiegel der europäischen Dichtung, Hamburg 1954
 Der verborgene Pascal. Eine Einführung in das Denken Pascals als Philosophie für den Menschen von morgen, Hamburg 1955
 Kleines Präludium zur Poesie : vom Geheimnis des Schönen und von den Grenzen der Poesie, Hamburg 1957
 Dante und die europäische Literatur : Das Bild des Menschen in der Struktur der Sprache, Stuttgart 1963
 Dynamik aus der Stille. Die Aktualität Frank Buchmans, Luzern/Wuppertal 1971

Reading list (mostly in German)
 Überlieferung und Gestaltung : Festgabe für Theophil Spoerri zum 60. Geburtstag am 10. Juni 1950, Zürich 1950
 Das Trecento : Italien im 14. Jahrhundert. [Von] Hans Conrad Peyer, Konrad Huber, Reto R. Bezzola, Peter Meyer, Walter Rüegg, Kurt von Fischer (Ringvorlesung, gehalten an der Philosophischen Fakultät I der Universität Zürich im Wintersemester 1959/60. Theophil Spoerri zum 70. Geburtstag), Zürich 1961
 Theophil Spoerri persönlich. Lettres à sa famille et ses amis, hrsg. von Pierre Spoerri, 1975
 Pierre Spoerri [*1926], Mein Vater und sein Jüngster. Theophil Spoerri in seiner Zeit, Stäfa 2002 -
 Christian Baertschi in: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz s.v.

References

External links

Swiss writers in German
20th-century Swiss writers
1890 births
1974 deaths
People from La Chaux-de-Fonds


title: Jethro Eustice

text:
Jethro Ray Eustice (born 1 November 1989) is a South African field hockey player who plays as a defender for the South African national team. He is also a former cricket player for KZN Inland.

He represented them in the 2014 Rabobank Men's Hockey World Cup in Den Haag, the 2014 Commonwealth Games at Glasgow and the 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup.

During the  Spain vs South Africa match, Jethro earned his 150th cap.

He also played provincial under 19 cricket for KZN Inland, where he had captained the side against Free State U19 in Bloemfontein. He is the grandson of former Transvaal cricketer Raymond Eustice

References

External links

1989 births
Living people
South African male field hockey players
Male field hockey defenders
Olympic field hockey players for South Africa
2014 Men's Hockey World Cup players
Field hockey players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Field hockey players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
2018 Men's Hockey World Cup players
Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Commonwealth Games competitors for South Africa
Sportspeople from Benoni
South African cricketers
Field hockey players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
2023 Men's FIH Hockey World Cup players
University of KwaZulu-Natal alumni

2018 FIH Indoor Hockey World Cup players
2023 FIH Indoor Hockey World Cup players


title: Gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Women's vault

text:
The women's individual vault competition of the 2014 Commonwealth Games took place on July 31 at the SSE Hydro arena in Glasgow, Scotland.

Dipa Karmakar became the first female Indian gymnast to win a medal at the Commonwealth Games.

Results

Qualification

Qualification took place on July 28 as part of the team and individual qualification event.

Final

References

External links
Official results

Gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
2014 in women's gymnastics


title: Ron Butlin

text:
Ron Butlin (born 1949 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish poet and novelist who was Edinburgh Makar (Poet Laureate) from 2008 to 2014.

Education
Butlin was educated at the University of Edinburgh. He later became writer in residence in 1982 and 1984 at the university.

Bibliography
He has written several novels, collections of short stories, poems and plays. His work has been widely anthologised in Britain and abroad, and translated into over a dozen languages. His debut novel, The Sound Of My Voice, was republished in 2002 with an introduction by Irvine Welsh who called it “one of the greatest pieces of fiction to come out of Britain in the Eighties”.

Butlin is married to the Scottish-Swiss novelist and short story writer Regi Claire.

Opera Libretto
He has written seven libretti for opera, mostly for Scottish Opera, and frequently in collaboration with composer Lyell Cresswell.

Bibliography
Novels
 The Sound of My Voice (1987)
 Night Visits (1997)
 Belonging (2006)
 Ghost Moon (2014)

Short Story Collections
 The Tilting Room (1983)
 Vivaldi and the Number 3 and Other Impossible Stories (2004)
 No More Angels (2007)

Poetry
 The Wonnerfuu Warld o John Milton (1974)
 Stretto (1976)
 Creatures Tamed by Cruelty (1979)
 The Exquisite Instrument: Imitations from the Chinese (1982)
 Ragtime in Unforgettable Bars (1985)
 Histories of Desire (1995)
 Without a Backward Glance (2005)
 The Magicians of Edinburgh (2012)
 The Magicians of Scotland (2015)
 Here Come the Trolls! (verse for children, 2015)
 The Offering (2017)

Reviews
 Murray, Glen (1980), review of Creatures Claimed by Cruelty, in Cencrastus No. 2, Spring 1980, pp. 43 – 45
 Holton, Brian (1983), review of The Exquisite Instrument, in Hearn, Sheila G. (ed.), Cencrastus No. 11, New Year 1983, p. 43,

Opera

 Markheim
 Dark Kingdom
 Faraway Pictures
 Good Angel, Bad Angel
 The Perfect Woman
 The Money Man
 Wedlock

References

1949 births
Living people
Scottish poets
Scottish novelists
Scottish science fiction writers
Scottish short story writers
Scottish opera librettists
Scottish dramatists and playwrights


title: Horace Greeley (disambiguation)

text:
Horace Greeley (1811–1872) was editor of the New-York Tribune and an 1872 presidential candidate.

People
 Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht (1877–1970), German economist and politician

Sculptures
 Statue of Horace Greeley (City Hall Park), Manhattan, New York
 Statue of Horace Greeley (Herald Square), Manhattan, New York

Other uses
 Horace Greeley High School, Chappaqua, New York
 Horace Greeley Award, New England award for public service journalism

See also
 Tributes to Horace Greeley
 Horace Greeley presidential campaign, 1872


title: Judge Mujrim

text:
Judge Mujrim () is a 1997 Hindi-language action film produced by Jayant B. Shah under the Shiv Shakti Productions banner and directed by Jagdish A Sharma. It stars Jeetendra, Sunil Shetty, and Ashwini Bhave . The music was composed by Bappi Lahiri.

Plot
Judge Pratap Sinha (Jeetendra) is a renowned judge who does not pass judgement by sitting down on the judge's chair, but he himself investigates and brings the criminals to their fate. His wife, Sujata (Sujata Mehta), is a famous lawyer. He also has a sister Ashwini, (Ashwini Bhave), a brave police officer.

The city's Mafia Don D. V. M's (Kiran Kumar) brother Jaggi commits a gruesome murder of a journalist, Bharti. He is arrested and tried by judge Pratap Sinha, who passes a death sentence on Jaggi.

One day while judge Pratap is going to the court, he sees Sunil (Sunil Shetty) stabbing a man to death. With Pratap as a witness, he tells Ashwini to arrest Sunil, who is shocked because Sunil is her lover. The court sentences Sunil to death. In jail, Sunil meets notorious criminal Mangal (Mukesh Khanna), who is Pratap Sinha's enemy. Before Sunil is hanged, D. V. M. tells judge Pratap that Sunil is innocent and that D. V. M. himself had trapped Sunil. Judge Pratap is stunned. To save the respect of the law, Pratap has to break the law. He runs away with Sunil from jail. Behind judge Pratap and criminal Sunil are the full police force on one side and on the other is D. V. M's henchmen. Criminal Mangal in the further course of story joins Pratap Sinha as his son was cared by the judge while Mangal was in jail.. at the end,DVM kidnaps Ashwini..to rescue her in the final fight comes pratap sinha,  sunil,  mangal ..finally dvm gets killed while sunil chases him with gun shooting the statue above the court, which falls with sharp end on DVM killing him..thus film ends with lovers unite sunil and ashvini ..

Cast
 Jeetendra as Judge Pratap Sinha
 Sunil Shetty as Sunil/Dhaaga (dual role)
 Ashwini Bhave as Inspector Ashwini Sinha
 Sujata Mehta as Mrs. Sujata Sinha
 Johnny Lever as Havaldar Amar Lokhande/ Akbar Charsi/ Anthony Bhai & Mother(four role)
 Mukesh Khanna as Mangal Singh (Horse Man)
 Kiran Kumar as D.V.M
 Ashok Saraf as PA Natwar
 Surendra Pal as PA Ranjeetey
 Vikas Anand as Prosecutor
 Ayesha Jhulka as an item number "Laila O Laila "
 Kunika as an item number "Parda Parda"
 Archana Puran Singh as an item number "Qatra Shabnam Ka"

Soundtrack
Music was composed by Bappi Lahiri and lyrics were written by Anwar Sagar. The song "Laila O Laila" was inspired on Kadhalan's song "Mukkala Mukkabla". Film is also remembered for the song " Bin Sajni Ke Jivan Acha Nahi Lagta".

References

External links

1997 films
1990s Hindi-language films
Films scored by Bappi Lahiri
Indian courtroom films