title: Central Institute of Road Transport

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The Central Institute of Road Transport (CIRT) is a Government of India undertaking, established under the then Ministry of Shipping and Transport and the Association of State Road Transport Undertakings (ASTRU). It is a nodal agency, known to be only one of its kind,  providing a platform for higher research and training on road transportation and assists in testing, guidance and consultancy in the field.

Profile
The Central Institute of Road Transport (CIRT) is a Government of India undertaking, established in 1967, with an aim to improve the public transport system in India by developing efficient management systems through research and by providing testing and consultancy activities in the field of road transportation. The institute is located on the Pune-Nasik Highway in Pune in the state of Maharashtra, India. The institute works under the Association of State Road Transport Undertakings (ASTRU), which controls the State Road Transport Corporations.

The Institute makes services available to public and private sectors and undertakes projects and provides testing facilities through its various laboratories. CIRT is an accredited National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) laboratory and is a Government of India approved centre for vehicle and spare parts certification. A Governing Council consisting of government officials and State Transport representatives oversees the institute's activities under the Vice President of ASRTU, who acts as the ex-officio chairman.

CIRT ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 Certified by TUV Suddeutschland of Munich, Germany and holds memberships with the Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS) and the Association of Management Development Institutions in South Asia (AMDISA).

Mandate
The institute is formed with a specified set of mandate
 To introduce modern organizational management principles and practices in the area of public transportation
 To provide a platform for higher research on transport development
 To provide consultancy services for the improvement of organizational and operational efficiency
 To provide training to transport professionals across the country on public transportation
 To assist Government and its agencies for evolving policies and legislation in road transport sector
 To prepare and prescribe standards, specifications and norms of vehicles and spare parts through quality evaluation and monitoring
 To act as the central agency for dissemination of information and technology with special emphasis on safety, environment and productivity
 To undertake research on quality upgradation of transport systems

Laboratory facilities

CIRT is equipped with modern equipment under its various laboratories.

Facilities

Other than the laboratories, CIRT has been accorded with modern facilities such as a library stocking over 10,000 titles, 100 professional journals and several educational films and videos, classrooms, gymnasium, tennis and badminton courts, guest houses, hostels and residential accommodation.

CIRT also maintains a computer centre, catering to the communication and data storage requirements of the institute.

Research and consultancy
CIRT has developed a platform for higher research in the areas of traffic management, planning of rapid transit systems for buses, bicycles etc., bus terminals, driver training institutes and integrated border check posts, road safety audit and Innovative Driving Test System (IDTS) using RFID technology. The Institute provides consultancy services for bus fleet procurement under JNNURM scheme, preparation of feasibility studies for infrastructure development projects, organizational restructuring of transport companies and advice on issues related to Motor Vehicles Act and Central Motor Vehicles Rules.

Courses
CIRT conducts regular courses for the employees of the State Transport organizations, which are classified into four types.

Foundation Courses: These are four to eight week programs, meant for management trainees and is conducted at the CIRT campus. The subject of the programs are decided mutually between CIRT and the relevant State Transport Undertaking.

Management Appreciation Programs: The program aimed at upgradation of senior supervisory level officers for their promotion to managerial cadre. The program is if 4 weeks duration and is conducted at the CIRT campus.

Short Duration Functional Programs: These programs are CIRT campus based or other chose venues and imparts studies in Maintenance Management, Traffic Management, Materials Management, Industrial Relations, Human Resource Management, Management Information Systems, Computer Applications and Financial Management.

In-Situ Programs: This program addresses specific problems of the client organization and is conducted at the client's premises.

International collaborations
CIRT has entered into collaborative arrangements with various international institutions such as:

Transport Research Laboratory of the United Kingdom: Joint research projects and exchange of professional staff.

University of Westminster: Exchange of faculty

University of Newcastle (Australia): Exchange of faculty

University of Loughborough: Exchange of faculty

TUV, Munich: MOU for testing automobile components, upgrading facilities and training personnel

UTAC, Paris: MOU for testing automobile components, upgrading facilities and training personnel

Institute of Road Safety Research, Hague: Negotiations are underway for establishing a Centre for Road Safety on CIRT campus.

Publications
CIRT publishes a journal, Indian Journal of Transport Management, (ISSN 0970-4736) at quarterly intervals, which covers the relevant topics in the transport sector such as transport policies, public and private sector participation, financing, affordability and quality of transport services. The journal is circulated in India and abroad and is listed catalogued by the American Library of Congress.

It also publishes research articles, papers and information on transportation.

See also

 Vehicle
 Automated highway system
 Road train
 Vehicle recovery
 Right- and left-hand traffic
 Road
 Public transport
 Traffic
 Traffic congestion
 Transport engineering

References

External links
 on Wikimapia
 Indian Journal of Transport Management on WorldCat

Transport organisations based in India
Research institutes in Pune
Educational organisations based in India
Transport research organizations
Road transport organizations
1967 establishments in Maharashtra
Research institutes established in 1967


title: I'm a Mess

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"I'm a Mess" may refer to:

 "I'm a Mess" (Bebe Rexha song), 2018
 "I'm a Mess" (Ed Sheeran song), 2014
 "I'm a Mess" (Avril Lavigne and Yungblud song), 2022
 "I'm a Mess", a song from Big Black's 1983 EP Bulldozer
 "I'm a Mess", a song from Nick Lowe's 2001 album The Convincer
 "I'm a Mess", a 2011 song by Jason White
 "I'm a Mess", a song from The Rasmus's eponymous 2012 album
 "I'm a Mess", a song from Cimorelli's 2016 album Up at Night


title: Champagne Downtown

text:
Champagne Downtown is the third studio album by the Minnesota indie rock band Halloween, Alaska. It was released on April 7, 2009, on enhanced CD and via online distributors such as iTunes and Amazon MP3.

In the enhanced CD release, the band included instrumental versions of the entire album in MP3 format.

In the song "In Order," the band deliberately censored the phrase "f--- the Third Eye" around 1:46. The awkward execution, also besides the fact the entire mix was censored rather than solely the voice track, led many fans to initially believe the bleeping out was unnecessary and forced by either their label or their families. However, the band has expressed that this was an intentional edit; after hearing both the censored and uncensored version of the song, they decided they liked the "old school" sound of the censored version and decided to keep it.

Track listing
All tracks are listed as being written by Halloween, Alaska.

However, it has been expressed in interviews that lead singer James Diers is the primary lyricist for the band, with additional contributions from drummer David King.

References

2009 albums
Halloween, Alaska albums


title: I'm a Mess (Ed Sheeran song)

text:
"I'm a Mess" is a song recorded by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran for his second studio album, x (2014). It features production from frequent collaborator Jake Gosling. It entered the UK Singles Chart at number 72 and rose to number 49 due to strong download sales.

Writing and production

Following the release of his debut studio album, +, in 2011, Sheeran started writing material for his next release. Instead of rush-run and launch an album the next year, the singer decided to take time and focus on writing material that would help expand his career in the United States, like fellow British musician Adele and band Coldplay. "I'm a Mess" premiered on 22 June 2014 via MTV, a day before the release of ×, his second album in the United Kingdom and the United States. The track together with "Thinking Out Loud" were the last songs he wrote for × and were inspired by his then-girlfriend, Athina Andrelos. On 16 July 2014, during the album unveiling in a room in RAK Studios, he noted that he wrote "I'm a Mess" while he was in the shower.

In an interview with New Zealand Herald, he described "I'm a Mess" as him being in a bad situation after he hurt a person, "I think it's important to stay double-sided. I'm very aware I have a lot of flaws too and I think I wear them on my sleeve with this album." Talking to News.com.au, he identified the song as "fairly self-explanatory" and recalled, "'I’m a Mess' was definitely written at my lowest point. It actually turned out a lot nicer than what was going on at the time, the lyrics aren’t too mental. That came at the end of a lot of things meeting. After that I was fine. Writing that song sorted everything out." Sheeran said that "I'm a Mess" is his favourite track from ×.

The production of "I'm a Mess" was done by Sheeran's regular collaborator, Jake Gosling and was recorded at his Sticky Studios in Windlesham, Surrey. Gosling together with Geoff Swan served as the song's engineers while William Hicks did the vocal editing and provided additional vocals. Mark "Spike" Stent mixed the track at Mixsuite UK whilst Stuark Hawkos mastered it at Metropolis Mastering in London. All the programming and instrumentation was provided by Sheeran, Gosling and Chris Leonard. A live version of "I'm a Mess" was released as a B-side on the 7" release of "Thinking Out Loud".

Composition
"I'm a Mess" is a pop song with folk music influences and a length of four minutes and five seconds. Its instrumentation included electric guitar notes, backing vocals and a beating drum. According to Sony/ATV Music Publishing's digital sheet music for the song, "I'm a Mess" is composed in the key of C# minor and set in common time signature, and has a groove of 140 beats per minute. Sheeran's vocals span from the low note of Bb3 to the high note of Bb5. Neil McCormick of The Daily Telegraph described "I'm a Mess" as an "edgy, rocky drama", whilst according to Jason Lipshutz of Billboard Sheeran uses his "classic folk voice and sensibility" to deliver the song's lyrics. MTV News' Emily Blake noted that the stripped-down production of the song helps the focus to be on Sheeran's voice. She further elaborated, "like most of his folk-leaning pop numbers, it’s a track that makes you feel like Sheeran’s singing just to you" and " when his voice comes down to a near whisper — making the whole thing that much more intimate."

According to Caitlin White of the same publication, "I'm a Mess" is a "lovelorn song" which shows a different side of Sheeran; instead of being brokenhearted, "he’s the one that messed up". He is "self-reflective" and "self-critical" with one of the verses contain lyrics as, "And oh, I’ve only caused you pain" and the chorus features the line, "Easy baby, maybe I’m a liar". Billboards Colin Stutz concluded, "Sheeran's intimate voice carries over simple guitar strokes as he describes a night of loneliness and longing that erupts with fiery passion."

Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of ×.

Locations
Recorded at Sticky Studios, Windlesham, Surrey
Mixed at Mixsuite UK
Mastered at Metropolis Mastering, London

Personnel

Songwriting – Ed Sheeran
Production – Jake Gosling
Engineer – Jake Gosling, Geoff Swan
Vocal editing – William Hicks
Mixing – Mark "Spike" Stent
Mastering engineer – Stuart Hawkos
Programming and instrumentation – Ed Sheeran, Chris Leonard, Jake Gosling
Additional vocals – William Hicks

Charts

Certifications

References

External links

Ed Sheeran - I'm A Mess (x Acoustic Sessions) on YouTube
Ed Sheeran - I'm A Mess (Live From Wembley Stadium) on YouTube

2014 songs
Ed Sheeran songs
Song recordings produced by Jake Gosling
Songs written by Ed Sheeran


title: Roman Catholic Diocese of Pankshin

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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pankshin () is a diocese located in the city of Pankshin in the Ecclesiastical province of Jos in Nigeria.

History
On March 18, 2014 the Diocese of Pankshin was established from territory of the Archdiocese of Jos and the Diocese of Shendam.

Ordinaries
Michael Gobal Gokum (consecrated 12 Jun 2014–present)

See also
Roman Catholicism in Nigeria

References

Pankshin
Christian organizations established in 2014
2014 establishments in Nigeria
Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Jos


title: Axel-Springer-Preis

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The Axel-Springer-Preis is an annually awarded prize. The Award is given to young journalists in the categories print, TV, radio, and online journalism due to the decisions of the Axel-Springer-Akademie.

History
The prize was awarded for the first time in 1991. It is named after the founder and owner of today's Axel Springer AG, publisher Axel Springer (1912–1985). The award ceremony will take place on his birthday, 2 May, in Berlin annually. Meanwhile, the modalities of the price has been changed and updated. In 1999 no award ceremony took place. Since 2001, an award is presented in four categories: Press, Radio, Television and the Internet.

Prize money
From the prize givers of the Axel-Springer-Akademie, a prize of 54,000 Euro is total awarded. The award comes in the print category with 6000 euros for each best work in three different categories (three 1st prizes). In the remaining three categories of television, radio and the Internet three prizes in each category will be awarded, each with 6000 € (1st prize), 4000 € (2nd prizes) and 2000 € (3rd prices).

 the total prize money is 38,000 euros for main prizes in gold, silver, bronze (10,000 euros, 5,000 euros, 3,000 euros), excellence awards "local journalism", "entertainment and humor" and "tech in journalism" (each 5,000 euros) and George Weidenfeld Special Prize (5,000 euros)

Award criteria
Works which were published for the first time in a German-speaking media broadcast by a German-language station or published on the Internet during the previous year can be submitted. The author should not be older than 33 years of age. This limit also applies to co-authors who were significantly involved in the development work. In each category can be submitted per author a work, in the print category one work per author in the three categories.

Contributions should be devoted to "current political, economical, cultural, sporting and social issues."

Jury and Board of Trustees
Jury members were among others Gabor Steingart and Nina Grunenberg (press), Axel Buchholz, Rainer Cabanis and Carmen Thomas (radio), as well as Heinz Klaus Mertes, Gerd Ruge, Steffen Seibert and Maria von Welser (TV). Claus Strunz, Hans-Dieter Degler, Carola Ferstl, Jan-Eric Peters (also printed), Rowan Barnett and Sebastian Turner belonged to the Internet jury.

The Board of Trustees includes, among others, former award winner Mathias Döpfner and Friede Springer.

Award winners

1993–1994
 Award winners 1993
 Jürgen Dahlkamp, (Journalist)
 Christian Kracht (Author)
 Ildikó von Kürthy (Author)

 Award winners 1994
 Mario Kaiser (Journalist)
 Jörg Schönenborn (WDR-Editor)
 Christoph Scheule (BR-Correspondent)
 Stefan Willeke (Journalist)

1995–2000
 Award winners 1995
 Category Press: Stephan Haselberger (Welt am Sonntag); Ulf Poschardt (Süddeutsche Zeitung); Antje Potthoff (Der Spiegel)
 Category Radio: Bernd Diestel (Antenne Bayern); Andrea Oster (1 Live); Katrin Prüfig, Maren Lohmann-Puttfarcken, Thorsten Geil, Marc Thomas Spahl (Radio Hamburg)
 Category Television: Wolfgang Luck; Robert Tasso Pütz (West 3); Ina-Maria Ruck (WDR); Antje Schmidt (ZDF)

 Award winners 1996
 Category Press: Heike Faller (Geo Saison); Christoph Reuter (Geo); Dominik Wichmann (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
 Category Radio: Marina Borovik (Hessischer Rundfunk); Marion Neumann (WDR); Katrin Prüfig, Maren Lohmann-Puttfarcken, Thorsten Geil, Marc Thomas Spahl (NDR)
 Category Television: Anja Riediger (MDR); Jutta Schilcher, Claudia Wörner (Bayerisches Fernsehen); Holger Trzeczak (Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg)

 Award winners 1997
 Category Press: Klaus Brinkbäumer (Der Spiegel); Holger Gertz (Süddeutsche Zeitung); Moritz Rinke (Der Tagesspiegel)
 Category Radio: Alexa Brogli (Radio Z); Dörte Lucht (Radio Brocken); Andreas Otto (Radio ffn)
 Category Television: Verena Egbringhoff (KiKa); Ina-Maria Ruck (WDR); Boris Weber (RTL)

 Award winners 1998
 Category Press: Susanne Frömel (Die Welt); Florian Hanig (Merian); Annabel Wahba (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
 Category Radio: Daniel Ernst (Radio Regenbogen); Timo Schnitzer (Berliner Rundfunk 91,4); Sandra Schwarte, Henning Orth (DeutschlandRadio)
 Category Television: Jens Fintelmann, Thomas Seekamp (ARD); Ilka Franzmann (Arte); Gordon Godec (ARD)

 Award winners 1999 (not awarded)

 Award winners 2000
 Category Press: Ralf Eibl (Die Welt); Marcus Jauer (Süddeutsche Zeitung); Mario Kaiser (Die Zeit)
 Category Radio: Stephan Holzapfel (DeutschlandRadio); Oliver Schubert (Antenne Mecklenburg-Vorpommern); Lutz Wilde (Radio Bremen)
 Category Television: Arne Birkenstock, André Schäfer (ARD); Steffen Schneider (WDR); Marcus Vetter (Südwestfernsehen)

2001–2010

 Award winners 2001
 Category Press: Matthias Kalle (Süddeutsche Zeitung); Jana Simon (Der Tagesspiegel); Henning Sußebach (Berliner Zeitung)
 Category Radio: Philip Banse (Deutschlandfunk); Daniela Kahls (MDR Info); Franziska Schiller (DeutschlandRadio)
 Category Television: Maria Blumencron (ZDF); Jana Matthes, Andrea Schramm (WDR); Anja Reschke, Dietmar Schiffermüller (ARD)
 Category Internet: Jutta Heess (3sat); Sybille Klotz (fibrestar); Ute Schönfelder (Radio Bremen)

 Award winners 2002
 Category Press: Rico Czerwinski (Der Tagesspiegel); Thomas Hahn (Süddeutsche Zeitung); Bas Kast (Der Tagesspiegel)
 Category Radio: Sofie Johanna Donges (Welle hr3); Stephan Holzapfel (DeutschlandRadio); Marc Weiss (Radio NRW)
 Category Television: Marc Eberle (Arte); Marion Kainz (WDR); Ariane Vuckovic (ZDF)
 Category Internet: Dara Hassanzadeh ZDF; Roman Mischel (onlinejournalismus.de); Alexander Stirn (spiegel.de)

 Award winners 2003
 Category Press: Claudia Fromme (Süddeutsche Zeitung); Christine-Felice Röhrs (Der Tagesspiegel); Anne Zielke (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
 Category Radio: Tobias Häusler (Radio NRW); Steffen Prell (Radio Multikulti); Michael Watzke (Antenne Bayern)
 Category Television: Jan Hinrik Drevs (NDR); Katharina Gugel, Ulf Eberle (ZDF); Christine Thalmann, Jens Rübsam (SFB1)
 Category Internet: Philipp Müller (ZDF.reporter)

 Award winners 2004
 Category Press: Christoph Amend (Der Tagesspiegel); Catrin Barnsteiner (Die Welt); Roland Schulz (Die Zeit)
 Category Radio: Alexander Baltz (Radio Schleswig-Holstein); Frank Kühn (WDR); Dirk Steinmetz (BLR & RadioDienst)
 Category Television: Matthias Frickel (Deutsche Welle); Gunther Hainke (ZDF); Frank Kleemann (ProSieben)
 Category Internet: Carola Padtberg (ZDF); Elise Schirrmacher (WDR); Marcus Schuster (ZDF)

 Award winners 2005
 Category Press: Adam Soboczynski (Die Zeit); Mathias Plüss (Weltwoche); Sandra Schulz (mare)
 Category Radio: Ralph Erdenberger (WDR); Jürgen Bangert (Radio NRW); Simone Roßkamp (RBB)
 Category Television: ; Henning Rütten (beide ARD); Sanja Hardinghaus (RTL)
 Category Internet: Sebastian Christ, Manuel J. Hartung, Alexander Krauss, Daniel Opper, Christina Stefanescu, Christian Störmer (Redaktion streitBar.org); Boris Inanici (ARD); Steffen Leidel (Deutsche Welle)

 Award winners 2006
 Category Press: Lara Fritzsche (Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger), Steffen Kraft (Süddeutsche Zeitung), Dimitri Ladischensky (mare)
 Category Radio: Julia Zöller (BR), Jochen Hubmacher (SWR), Michael Beisenherz (Radio NRW)
 Category Television: Monika Schäfer (ARD), Ariane Reimers (WDR), Andreas Postel (ZDF)
 Category Internet: Katrin Meyer (ZDF), Christoph Scheuermann (WDR), Helge Bendl/Klaus Kranewitter (Stern)

 Award winners 2007
 Category Press: Karsten Kammholz (Berliner Morgenpost), Kai Feldhaus (Bild-Zeitung), Markus Feldenkirchen (Der Spiegel)
 Category Radio: Kilian Kirchgeßner (Deutschlandfunk), Marko Rösseler (WDR 2), Philipp Roggenkamp (NRW)
 Category Television: Juliane Fliegenschmidt, Julia Friedrichs, Eva Müller (ARD), Dirk Laabs (arte), Christian Rohde (NDR)
 Category Internet: Lars Abromeit (geo.de), Florian Güßgen (stern.de), Redaktionsteam jetzt.de (jetzt.de)

 Award winners 2008
 Category Press: Axel Lier (Berliner Morgenpost); Julian Reichelt (BILD); Barbara Hardinghaus (Der Spiegel)
 Category Radio: Julia Friese (RBB); Marlis Schaum (WDR 5); Meral Al-Mer (RBB)
 Category Television: Chiara Sambuchi (ZDF); Katharina Wolff (ARD); Benjamin Cantu
 Category Internet: Sebastian Göllner (sport.ard.de); Kathrin Klöpfer und Julia Kiehne (heute.de); Stephanie Lachnit (einslive.de)

 Award winners 2009
 Category Press: Jürgen Bock (Stuttgarter Nachrichten), Jan Grossarth (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), Alice Bota (Die Zeit)
 Category Radio: Anne Allmeling, Elif Senel (WDR 5), Ulrike Jährling (Deutschlandradio Kultur), Christoph Pfaff, Anneli Beyer (delta radio)
 Category Television: Rebecca Gudisch, Tilo Gummel (WDR), Florian Bauer (ARD), Lutz Ackermann, Anita Blasberg, Marian Blasberg (ZDF)
 Category Internet: Sebastian Christ (stern.de), Team 4 der Axel-Springer-Akademie (macht-maschine.de), Patrick Gensing (npd-blog.info)

 Award winners 2010
 Category Press: Johannes Bruggaier (Mediengruppe Kreiszeitung), Karen Krüger (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), Johannes Gernert (Sonntaz)
 Category Radio: Magdalena Bienert (RBB), Sven Preger (WDR), Jörg-R. Schneider (RBB)
 Category Television: Laetitia von Bayer (ZDF Neo), Timo Großpietsch (NDR), Dennis Gastmann, Thomas Hipp, Marco Lange, Matthias Sdun (NDR)
 Category Internet: Volker Denkel, Katharina Wilhelm (hr online), Niklas Schenck (faz.net), Jan Hendrik Hinzel, Simon Kremer, Marc Röhling (Souk-Magazin)
 Special Award 20 Years Fall of the Wall: Marc Baron, Katharina Eißner, Sarah Fenske, Julia Finger, Jennifer Fuhr, Maria Gerber, Judith Innerhofer, Matthias Kluckert, Celine Lauer, Nina Paulsen, Simon Pausch, Karolin Schneider, Thore Schröder, Sophia Seiderer, Kristof Stühm, Sabrina Treisch, Sonja Vukovic, Johannes Wiedemann, Oriana zu Knyphausen (LITTLE BERLIN - Ein Dorf deutscher Geschichte, www.littleberlin.de)
 Special Award 20 Years Fall of the Wall (outstanding contribution): Sabrina Ehrle, Patricio Farrell, Pierre-Christian Fink, Ralf Fischer, Gianna Grün, Julia Hahn, Lena Jakat, Johannes Jolmes, Wolfgang Kerler, David Klaubert, Oskar Piegsa, Carmen Reichert, Jade-Yasmin Tänzler, Insa Winter (zwanzig nach – das Magazin zum Mauerfall)

2011–2020

 Award winners 2011
 Category Press: Katrin Blum (Stuttgarter Zeitung); Alard von Kittlitz (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung); Gerald Drißner (Magazin Datum)
 Category Radio: Tina Hüttl (Deutschlandradio); Carolin Courts (WDR 5); Nadine Dietrich (Deutschlandfunk)
 Category Television: Fritz Ofner (3Sat); Anke Humold (NDR); Basil Honegger (SF1)
 Category Internet: Michael Hauri, Felix Zeltner, Maria Marquart/Ole Reißmann

 Award winners 2012
 Category Press: Carolin Pirich (Die Zeit); Britta Stuff (Welt am Sonntag); Michael Bee (Berliner Morgenpost)
 Category Radio: Helene Pawlitzki (WDR); Katja Garmasch (1Live); Nora Sevbihiv Sinemillioglu (SWR2)
 Category Television: Marcel Mettelsiefen (SWR); Juliane Möcklinghoff (NDR); Christian Wilk (ZDF)
 Category Internet: Julius Tröger and Annika Bunse (Berliner Morgenpost); Marcel Mettelsiefen and Jonathan Stock (spiegel.de); Anna Jockisch (2470 Media)

 Award winners 2013
 Category Press: Oliver Hollenstein (Süddeutsche Zeitung); Daniel Etter (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung); Karin Prummer (Financial Times Deutschland)
 Category Radio: Felicitas Reichold (SWR2); Till Krause (Bayern 2); Anna Mayrhauser (SWR2)
 Category Television: Michael Strompen, Jo Schück (ZDF); Programmvolontäre des WDR (WDR); Roman Lehberger (RTL)
 Category Internet: Amrai Coen und Bernhard Riedmann (Vimeo.com/Spiegel), Team 11 der Axel Springer Akademie (zoom-berlin.com), Georg Eckelsberger, Fabian Lang, Paul Pölzlbauer, Florian Skrabal und Sahel Zarinfard (dossier.at)

 Award winners 2014
 Category Press: Amrai Coen (Die Zeit); Veronica Frenzel (Der Tagesspiegel); Christopher Kissmann (Magdeburger Volksstimme)
 Category Radio: Christiane Hawranek, Marco Maurer (B5 Aktuell); Anna Osius (WDR5)
 Category Television: Maryam Bonakdar, Anika Giese (NDR); Eva-Maria Lemke (ZDF); Diana Voigtländer, Nadja Mönch (MDR);
 Category Internet: David Bauer, Amir Mustedanagic, Philipp Loser (tageswoche.ch); Paul Blickle, Christian Groß (zeit.de); Team 13 der Axel Springer Akademie (wahllos.de)

 Preisträger 2015
 Category Press: Daniel Gräber (Der Sonntag), Massimo Bognanni (Handelsblatt), Anne Kunze (Die Zeit)
 Category Television: Philipp Grüll (BR), Sarah Judith Hofmann, Jan Bruck (DW), Christin Gottler, Sejla Didic-Pavlic (WDR)
 Category Radio: Mareike Aden (Deutschlandfunk), Manfred Götzke (Deutschlandfunk), Tobias Brodowy (WDR 5)
 Category Internet: Isabelle Buckow, Christian Werner (sueddeutsche.de), Jonathan Sachse, Daniel Drepper, Stefan Wehrmeyer (correctiv.org), Stefanie Fetz, Sammy Khamis (strytv)

 Preisträger 2016
 Gold: Bastian Berbner (Die Zeit)
 Silver: Ronja von Rönne (Welt am Sonntag)
 Bronze: Dominik Stawski (stern crime)
 Kategorie Investigative Recherche: Bastian Schlange (Correctiv)
 Kategorie Visualisierung: Paul Ronzheimer (bild.de)

 Preisträger 2017
 Gold: Lena Niethammer (Der Tagesspiegel)
 Silver: Tarek Khello & Christian Werner (Fakt)
 Bronze: Hannes Vollmuth (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
 Kategorie Investigative Recherche: Björn Stephan (Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin)
 Kategorie Visualisierung: Team 20 der Axel Springer Akademie (sachor jetzt!)

 Preisträger 2018
 Gold: Barbara Bachmann für "Sex, Lügen und YouTube" (Reportagen, 6. April 2017)
 Silver: Ann-Katrin Müller für "Vater unser" (Der Spiegel, 30. Dezember 2017)
 Bronze: Nora Gantenbrink für "Ein ganzes Leben" (Stern, 17. August 2017)Johannes Böhme for "Sorgenkinder" (SZ-Magazin, 7. Juli 2016)
 Kategorie Kreative Umsetzung: Team 22 der Axel Springer Akademie for "Alyom, Syriens Kinder, das Giftgas & wir"
 Kategorie Investigative Recherche: Stefanie Dodt für "Komplizen? VW und die brasilianische Militärdiktatur" (ARD, 24. Juli 2017)
 internationaler Sonderpreis: Ján Kuciak

 Preisträger 2019
 Gold: Anna Feist für "Menschenschmuggler – Das Geschäft mit den Flüchtlingen" (ZDFinfo, 24. August 2018)
 Silver: Paul Middelhoff für "Was ist aus euch geworden?" (Die Zeit, Nr. 31/2018, 26. Juli 2018, S. 8–9)
 Bronze: Elisa Britzelmeier für "Der tote Junge im Baum" (Süddeutsche Zeitung, 2. Juli 2018)
 Category Entertainment and Humor: Daniel Sprenger für mehrere Beiträge in der Rubrik "Realer Irrsinn" in Extra 3 (NDR)
 Kategorie Kreative Umsetzung: Christina Metallinos, Helene Reiner, Tobias Schiessl, Sophie von der Tann und Ann-Kathrin Wetter für "Die News-WG" (Bayerischer Rundfunk auf Instagram)

 Preisträger 2020
 Gold: Miguel Helm für "Sie ist 13, er 52" (Die Zeit Dossier, Nr. 27/2019, 27. Juni 2019, S. 13–15)
 Silver: Alexandra Rojkov für "202499" (Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Nr. 35/2019, 29. August 2019, S. 8–15)
 Bronze: Jonas Breng für "Doktor Gammel holt ein Kind" (stern Extra. Zeit für Helden. 01/2019. S. 34–49)
 Category Entertainment and Humor: Esra Karakaya für Karakaya Talk (YouTube-Talkshow von Funk)
 Category Local Journalism: Jörn Zahlmann für Beitragsserie "Zeitsprung" der Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung
 George Weidenfeld Special Prize: Manisha Ganguly für den Einsatz von Open-Source-Technologien im Investigativjournalismus

2021–2030
 Award winners 2021
 Gold: Alina Schulz (Y-Kollektiv)
 Silver: Erica Zingher (Die Tageszeitung)
 Bronze: Björn Stephan (Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin)
 Category Entertainment and Humor: team of Juliane Wieler, Friederike Schicht and Daniela Woytewicz (WDR and MDR)
 Category Digital Implementation: Sebastian Koch (Mannheimer Morgen)
 Category Local Journalism: Henning Rasche (Rheinische Post)
 George Weidenfeld Special Prize: Katsyaryna Andreeva and Darya Chultsova (Belsat TV)

 Award winners 2022
 Gold: Lucas Stratmann, Katharina Schiele
 Silver: Amonte Schröder-Jürss
 Bronze: Nora Voit, Maria Christoph
 Category Entertainment and Humor: André Dér-Hörmeyer, Benedikt Dietsch, Simon Garschhammer, Janne Knödler
 Category Local Journalism: Anna Westkämper, Paul Gross
 George Weidenfeld Special Prize: Alla Koshlyak

Literature
 Axel-Springer-Preis. In: Programmbericht zur Lage und Entwicklung des Fernsehens in Deutschland., Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Landesmedienanstalten in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Ullstein, 1997

References

External links

German journalism awards
Awards established in 1991
1991 establishments in Germany
Axel Springer SE


title: Kashf al-Yaqin

text:
Kashf al-Yaqin or Kashf al-Yaqin fi Faḍā'il Amīr al-Mu'minīn (Arabic: کشف الیقین)(English: Certainty Uncovered) is a short book on the life of Imam Ali ('Alī Ibn Abī Ṭālib'), the first Imam of the Shi’ites, which was written by the Shi'ite scholar Allamah Al-Hilli.

Author
The Sheikh Jamal al-Din Abu-Mansur Hasan is the son of Sadid al-Din Yusuf, the son of Zayn al-Din `Ali, the son of Muhammad, the son of Mutahhar, known as `Allamah Hilli and `Allamah `ala al-Itlaq.

Sheikh `Amili, in his book on Tadhkirat al-Mutabahhirin, says, "Sheikh `Allamah Jamal al-Din Abu-Mansur, Hasan ibn Yusuf ibn `Ali ibn Mutahhar Hilli, is a pure learned scholar, most well-versed of all scholars, researcher, trustworthy, jurisprudent, traditionalist, theologian, and a dignified man unrivaled in the rational and transmitted science. His virtues cannot be counted."

He was taught theology and rational science by Muhaqqiq Hilli and Muhaqqiq Tusi. Muhaqqiq Tusi also learned jurisprudence (Fiqh) from him. Hasan ibn `Ali ibn Dawud, writing about him in his book, says, "He was a great Shi`ite scholar of his time, having numerous books and leading Imamiyyah in the rational and transmitted sciences in his time. His honorable father, may his soul rest in peace, was a dignified jurisprudent and lecturer."

Motive of Writing

During the life of `Allamah Hilli, Sultan Khodabandeh chose Shi’ism as his sect, had coins minted in the name of the twelve Imams and had it circulated in the country in AH 708. Allameh Hilli wrote the book on the request of Sultan Khodabandeh.

Content
The author divided the book in one preface and four parts. Some of the chapters of the book are as follow:
 Ali's virtues before his death
 Ali's virtues in boyhood and maturity
 Ali's generosity and magnanimity
 Ali's courage in battle of Khandaq
 The unity of Ali and the holy prophet
 Virtues of Ali's spouse
 The holy prophet's prayer for Ali
 Ali and the Aide of the holy prophet and Fatimah
 Ali's posthumous miracles

Characters
In Kashf al-Yaqin, most of the resources referred to are Sunni sources such as Mosanad Ahmad, Manaqib Kharazmi, Khasaes of Tabari, Al Yavaqit,  Asbab Al Nozul Al Vahedi and Manaqib of Ibn Maqadili. Allameh Majlesi is also referred to and used of the book in the book of Al Bihar.

Translation
This book is translated from its original Arabic into several languages, including Persian and English. The English translation of Kashf al-Yaqin is made by Dr. Ali Akabar Aghili Ashtiani. The book also has four Persian translations as follow:

 Rashaf Al Moeen by Majd Al Udaba
 A translation by unknown author
 A translation by Hamid Reza Azir
 The mirror of certainty by Sayyed Mojtaba Alavi Tarakamahei

References

Religious books


title: 12 Hours of Reims

text:
The 12 Hours of Reims (official name: 12 Heures internationales de Reims) were a sports car endurance racing series held from 1953 to 1967 at the Reims (Gueux) circuit in the Marne district of the Champagne region in north-eastern France. The 1926 Coupe d’Or was the first 12-hour endurance race held at Reims and is considered to be the direct ancestor of the modern endurance series.

12 Hours of Reims race names

 1953: 12 heures internationales - 40th Grand Prix de l'ACF
 1954: 12 heures internationales - Voiture Sport Reims
 1956: 42nd Grand Prix de l'ACF - 12 heures internationales Reims
 1957: Les 12 heures internationales - Les Grands Prix Reims
 1958: V 12 heures internationales - 44th Grand Prix de l'ACF
 1964: Trophée France-Amérique - Les 12 heures internationales de Reims
 1965: Grands Prix de France Reims - Trophée Fédération française des Sports Automobiles
 1967: 12 heures internationales Reims

The 12 Hours of Reims by year

External links
Amis du Circuit de Gueux (Palmares)
 Circuit Reims-Gueux (1926-1969) on Google Maps (Historic Grand Prix Circuits)

References

Endurance motor racing
Reims
Marne (department)
Sport in Reims
Recurring sporting events established in 1953


title: Alyssum artvinense

text:
Alyssum artvinense, the Artvinian alyssum, is a species in the family Brassicaceae that is endemic to only five locations in Erzurum Province and Artvin Province in northeastern Turkey. It can be found on igneous rocky and stony slopes, in forest clearings, from elevations of 320–1,850 m. It is threatened by habitat loss and habitat degradation from dams, roads and erosion.

References

artvinense
Endangered plants
Endemic flora of Turkey
Plants described in 1909


title: Vaught House (Huntsville, Alabama)

text:
The Vaught House (also known as the Nicholson House) is a historic residence in Huntsville, Alabama.  It was built in 1900 in what was then the East Huntsville Addition, a suburb made up primarily of company houses for nearby cotton mills.  Its Victorian architecture style set it apart from its more modest bungalow neighbors.  The house has an irregular plan, and its hipped roof features several dormers and gables.  Centered on the façade is a single-story pedimented portico leading to the main entrance, and above it is a small pedimented balcony accessed from the upstairs bedroom.  Both pediments are decorated with jigsawed designs.  Both doors on the front feature rectangular transoms.  A curved porch runs from the main portico around the southwest corner of the house; it originally featured Stick-Eastlake style frieze and balustrade, but was later replaced with a solid frieze and closely spaced rectangular balusters.  The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.  It is included in the Five Points Historic District, which was listed on the National Register in 2012.

References

National Register of Historic Places in Huntsville, Alabama
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama
Victorian architecture in Alabama
Houses completed in 1900
Houses in Huntsville, Alabama
Historic district contributing properties in Alabama


title: Émilie Fortin Tremblay

text:
Émilie Tremblay (née, Marie-Émilie Fortin; January 4, 1872 – April 21, 1949) was one of the first white women to cross the Chilkoot on the way to the Yukon gold fields. She was French-Canadian and the founder, and first president, of the Society of the Ladies of the Golden North. She was also president of the Yukon Order of Pioneers Auxiliary. A businesswoman, she owned and operated a store in the Yukon in what is now a heritage building.

Biography
Tremblay was born in 1872 in Hébertville, (Notre-Dame-d'Hébertville) Quebec. Her father, Cleophas Fortin, moved the French-Canadian Catholic family to Chicoutimi; her mother was a school teacher. Tremblay received her education at the grammar school associated with the Sisters of the Congregation of St-Roch convent. Her family moved to Cohoes, New York around 1887. It is there that, in 1893, she met and married Pierre-Nolasque "Jack" Tremblay (died July 16, 1935). He was from Chicoutimi, but had made a fortune on a mining claim at Miller Creek.

After honeymooning, they traveled over 5,000 miles before reaching Fortymile on June 16, 1894. She was one of the first white woman to cross the Chilkoot on the way to the Yukon gold fields, years before the Klondike Gold Rush. They made their home at Miller Creek in a one-room log cabin that had been previously occupied by miners. Glass bottles served as window panes. They grew radishes and lettuce on the sod roof which they had turned into a garden. They returned to Cohoes in November 1895, then travelled to Quebec City and Montreal, before returning to Cohoes where Tremblay nursed her sick mother for two years. In March 1898, they left again for the Yukon, settling in Bonanza. Jack prospected from 1898 to 1913, earning enough to be well off but not rich, allowing them to travel through Europe for several months. The couple had no children, but adopted a niece, Emily.

In 1913, after Jack's retirement, the couple moved to Dawson. Here, they bought a building at the corner of King Street and Third Avenue, and Tremblay opened a dry goods shop, "Madame Tremblay's", while they lived in the apartment above. This store is now a heritage building. In 1922, Tremblay founded and was the first president of the Society of the Ladies of the Golden North, and in 1927, she served as president of the Yukon Order of Pioneers Auxiliary.

After Jack's death in 1935, Tremblay traveled to Vancouver to attend the "Ladies of the Golden North" convention, and to Quebec City where she received honors from the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire, of which she was a life member. She was honoured with a lifetime membership and received a commemorative medal in 1937 at the coronation of King George VI. She traveled to Saguenay, Quebec where she described her adventures, and then to New York City, before returning to the Yukon to sell her shop. In 1940, at the age of 67, Tremblay married the gold miner Louis Lagrois, six years her elder, moving with him to a log cabin at Grand Forks. In August 1946, she visited San Francisco to attend the annual convention of the former Yukon Pioneers. Her last years were spent in a retirement home in Victoria, British Columbia where she died in 1949. The first francophone school in the Yukon, Ecole Emilie-Tremblay, is named in her honor.

References

External links
 Emilie Tremblay: A Bibliography of Archival and Library Material Available in the Yukon Archives (2013)

1872 births
1949 deaths
Franco-Yukonnais people
People from Alma, Quebec
Settlers
Canadian explorers
French Quebecers


title: Ikot Akpa-Ekop

text:
Ntan Ide Ekpe is a village in Onna Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. It is surrounded by Ikot Edem Udoh Village, Ikot Obio Itong, Ukam and Ikot Akpa Ekop, all in Akwa Ibom State.

Ntan Ide Ekpe village has agricultural crops like: Palm tree, Palm wine tree, yam, cassava, okro, and many other crops. It has fruits like mango, paw paw, pears, oranges and many other fruits. The people of Ntan Ide Ekpe uses a general market within the location called Urua Ukam i.e. "Ukam market" apart from the village' owned general market refer to as Urua Ntan. This market (Urua Ukam) is attended by many villages in the neighborhood.  People from other states like Abia state and Imo state to buy farm produce at wholesales as they cheap.

References

Populated places in Akwa Ibom State


title: Life Goes On (The Kinks song)

text:
"Life Goes On" is a song by the British rock band The Kinks. Appearing on their album Sleepwalker, it was written by the band's main songwriter, Ray Davies.

Background
At a concert, Ray Davies described the song as being about "a man who tries to commit suicide and fails," jokingly calling it "a nice, happy sort of song."

The Kinks' guitarist, Dave Davies, said of the song's guitar solo, "Ideally, if I'm emotionally stimulated, I feel like I can play anything. With 'Life Goes On', we sat down and Ray just started playing it. It was the song that was really important: the emotion it created, the hollowness of it, but the fullness, as well. Those kinds of things really get me going. It just came out, because it was still that period where you could go into a studio and make a decent recording in a couple of days; you didn't have to spend three weeks just trying to get a sound on a drum computer. You could actually go in and do a song and the solos at the same time. I play off Ray's vocals, the way he expresses himself. Although I love guitar, it's still only an instrument that should help the song. That's my musical role, in a way."

Release

"Life Goes On" was released as the ninth and final track on The Kinks' 1977 album Sleepwalker. Following the album release, the song was released as the B-side to the American version of Sleepwalker second single, "Juke Box Music", in May of that year (in the U.K. and Germany, the song "Sleepless Night" was used instead.) The single failed to chart. The song has since appeared on the box set The Arista Years.

Critical opinion

AllMusic critic Denise Sullivan said, "A gentle acoustic guitar riff and organ lead into the touching story of 'Life Goes On' from the Kinks' 1977 album, Sleepwalker. As Ray Davies tells the story about a friend's suicide in an admonishing voice full of yearning, whining, and disbelief, brother Dave plays along empathetically with his layered rhythm guitar lead. It's an epic song filled with beautiful harmonies and musical touches that match the lyric. Plus, it closes out the album – as was the habit with the Kinks – with a song that sums up the action preceding it, musically and lyrically. Yet, it also stands entirely on its own and serves as the perfect segue to the follow-up album, in this case, Misfits. It's a feat worth noting when one song serves such multi-purposes."

Rolling Stone writer Billy Altman said that "in 'Life Goes On', we are warned that 'life'll hit you when you least expect it.' Yet in the end, there always remains a faint glimmer of hope: 'Take that frown off your head/'cause you're a long time dead.

References

1977 songs
The Kinks songs
Songs written by Ray Davies


title: AztecCormorant

text:
AztecCormorant is the third full-length studio album by London-based composer/producer Matthew Gilbert Linley, and was released in January 2014 under the same project name. The tracks 'And Lo' and 'In Serenades' were featured on Tom Robinson's July and November 2014 BBC 6 Music Mixtapes.

Track listing

Personnel

Musicians
Matthew Gilbert Linley: Synths, organs, celeste and piano, drums and percussion.
Maud Waret: Vocals.
Roger Linley: Double bass, bass guitar.
Brian Lee: Violin, spoken word on 9.
Geoff Irwin: Viola.
Masumi Yamamoto: Harpsichord.
Anna Drysdale: French horn.
Feargal Murray: Vocals on 9.

Production
Recorded and produced by Matthew Gilbert Linley in London, except:
Drums recorded at Tileyard Studios by Nikolaj Bjerre.
Mixed in London by Mark Peters of Engineers.
Mastered by Duncan Cowell at Sound Mastering London.

References

External links
 AztecCormorant Soundcloud page
 Engineers' Facebook page
 BBC Website Artist Page

2014 albums


title: San Strato a Posillipo

text:
San Strato a Posillipo is a parish church in the Posillipo neighborhood of Naples, Italy.

The church was founded in 1266 by commission from Greek orthodox converts, and built atop the remains of a Greco-Roman temple. In 1572, the church was rebuilt. Further reconstructions occurred in the 18th century, and after earthquakes in 1930 and 1980. The wooden statue of San Strato was completed by Giacomo Colombo, a pupil of Francesco Solimena. The church was closed to cult till 1982, as the church underwent restoration.

References

Churches in Naples
16th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy
Renaissance architecture in Naples
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1572
1572 establishments in Italy


title: Pico Sacro

text:
Pico Sacro is a summit in the central Galician Massif and the municipality of Boqueixón. In antiquity it was known as Mount Ilicino, and features a hermitage, a cave, the remains of a medieval castle and a triangulation station. The mountain rises  and is known for its unique shape and a legend about the Apostle James. A deep and narrow cave sits just below the peak, and legend places a dragon there protecting one of the entrances to hell.

Background
In , Queen Lupa sent the disciples of the Apostle James, Theodore and Athanasius, to Pico Sacro to collect her oxen to help build a tomb for the apostle. Lupa did not tell them that there was a cave with an entrance to Hell, and that a dragon lived there. The faith of the disciples protected them from the dragon and tamed the oxen.

The Camino Sanabrés, a branch of the Way of Saint James, passes by the foot of the mountain originating in Granja de Moreruela. The crest of the mountain is divided by a deep trench known as the "Rúa da Raíña Lupa" (English: Queen Lupa's path). The origin of the  gap is unknown; it may be a natural fissure, or the result of mining performed by the Romans or the Moors. Fanciful tales attribute the cut to Queen Lupa or the sword of a Titan. Historian  hypothesized that the trench could have been used as a moat for the castle on the summit.

The Benedictine Monastery of San Sebastián was built below the mountain's peak at the beginning of the 10th century by Sisnando I, bishop of Iria Flavia. The monastery was later dismantled by Archbishop Alonso de Fonseca to build a castle.

The  was built in the Early Middle Ages near the top of the mountain, replacing a small chapel near the Monastery of San Sebastián. In the 15th century this fortress was destroyed during the Irmandiño revolts, but was later rebuilt by Archbishop Alonso de Fonseca to defend against the House of Altamira.

Veneration
When an epidemic of Saint Anthony's fire was raging in Galicia, those afflicted would to go to the mountain and, after making an offering of bread at the summit, pray the following prayer:
Holy Peak, Holy Peak,
consecrated by the blessed Saint James,
deliver me from this angry fire,
through the intercession of the Virgin Mary,
and Our Father and a Hail Mary.

Or, simply: "Sacred Peak, Sacred Peak, heal me from the malady that consumes me.

The academic Vicente Risco believes that this prayer dates from the 13th century, and notes that it is not addressed to any saint, but to the mountain itself as if it could hear and heal the person making the prayer.

Gallery

See also
Libredon
Ulla (river)

Notes

References

Bibliography

Galician Massif
Mountains of Galicia (Spain)


title: Bernice Cross

text:
Bernice Cross (1912–1996) was an American artist and art instructor born in Iowa City, Iowa, who was based in Washington, D.C. for most of her professional career. Known for her originality, creative imagination, sense of humor, and love of fantasy, she painted with a deceptive simplicity and handled color and form with subtlety and a sure touch.

Early life and education

Cross was an only child. She was born on August 22, 1912, to Frank Wallace Cross, a lifelong Iowa resident, and Constance Mabel Bunting whose family came from England. Her full name is Bernice Francena Cross. In her late teens Cross enrolled at the Wilmington Academy in Wilmington, Delaware. A few years later she began study at the Corcoran School of Art and, in about 1933, became a student at the Phillips Gallery Art School in Washington, D.C. Begun in 1927 the Wilmington Academy was run by N. C. Wyeth. In 1933 C. Law Watkins established the Phillips School at Studio House, adjoining the gallery.

Mature style

Although critics credited her with growing maturity over the next few decades, Cross rarely departed from an approach that was noted for its spontaneity, sense of fantasy, and good humor. Over the five decades of her professional career she experimented with a variety of techniques and the tone of her work was sometimes light and airy and other times dark and Gothic but, as the critic for the New York Sun pointed out, she was a painter whose work was always recognizably her own, that is one who, he wrote, "has her own signature."

During the 1930s, Cross made genre paintings of circus people, African-Americans, and characters out of fairy tales. She also painted still lifes, particularly flower arrangements. She drew attention to the two-dimensional area of her canvas through experiments with surface texture and she established a balance between realism and abstraction that favored the latter. Her paintings were often childlike and made to please children. They gave a deceptive appearance of primitivism but were sophisticated in their composition, balance of forms, and use of color contrasts. She became known for the whimsy she displayed and a light-hearted, youthful spirit. Some of her early paintings show racial caricatures that went unremarked at the time, but today appear to be insensitive.

In 1933 Cross was awarded first prize for a still life painting in a student exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery and two years later she won first prize in the Greater Washington Independent Art Exhibition, shown in galleries of nine downtown department stores.

During the middle years of the 1930s Cross worked for the District of Columbia section of the Federal Art Project. On commission from that organization she painted a mural in the children's hospital of the District of Columbia sanitarium at Glenn Dale, Maryland. Covering the whole wall above the wainscoting on the left side of the entrance lobby it showed figures out of the Mother Goose nursery rhymes. The mural generated controversy when the District of Columbia's public health officer, calling it grotesque and overly "modern," ordered it to be painted over. After protests by Cross and the Washington arts community, the District's health commissioner employed a panel of children to determine that the mural should remain.

During the latter part of the 1930s and throughout the next decade Cross's work was shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions. Washington, D.C. was the most common location: the Phillips Gallery and its Studio House, the Little Gallery at the Intimate Bookshop, and the Whyte Gallery. She was also given a solo exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Gallery (1938) and the American British Art Center (1943), both in New York, and at the Boyer Galleries (1936) in Philadelphia. In 1949 she showed at the Corcoran, Phillips, and Barnett Aden Galleries in Washington, at the Chequire House gallery in Alexandria, Virginia, and in both solo and group exhibitions at the Bertha Schaefer Gallery in New York.

In 1936 a critic praised the subtlety of color in her paintings of this period, the skill she showed in organizing elements, and, in general, her sure touch. The writer appreciated the individual quality with which she invested the figures in her paintings and called attention to the "fantastic world of gay and colorful legend" which they invoked.

In 1938 Cross attended classes given by Karl Knaths at the Phillips Gallery School of Art. These were the first of a series of annual classes he would give during the winter session of the school over the next decade. A painting of 1940 called "Little Dove's Stove" shows the influence of Knaths in its restricted palette; use of carefully positioned, bold, outlined shapes; and absence of three-dimensional illusion. It is nonetheless an entirely original work, the more so since Cross departed from convention by creating it on velvet rather than canvas or board.

Although she did not continue to paint on velvet, Cross's work in the 1940s continued to show an adventurous experimentation with technique. This mainly manifested in an interest in surface texture. She would leave parts of a surface unpainted to show the bare canvas, use brush and knife to build up layers of pigment, and add mica or ordinary sand to her paintings. At the end of the decade a critic noted the appearance of dark works having a ghostly quality and a mannerist treatment of figures giving them an archaic simplicity. In 1949 this critic summarized the evolution of her painting over the prior 15 years: "In her first exhibited paintings Bernice Cross developed a world of children and for children... She still inclines to fantasy, but the touch is sure and each unit of composition is mobilized effectively to make art of an integrated whole. Which brings us to a seeming paradox; the imagination roams at will, but the painting is disciplined."

Art instruction

In 1936 Cross and fellow artist Julia Eckel opened a studio where they taught art classes. and later that year Cross displayed works by some of the children she had taught in an exhibition at the Phillips Gallery. She continued teaching at this studio for some years and, in the late 1940s, began to teach classes at the Phillips Art School. During the 1950s she taught at the Washington Workshop Art Center, Washington, D.C., and early in the 1960s she taught at the YMCA of Washington, D.C.

Her obituary in The Washington Post says that Cross also taught at Hood College, Frederick, Maryland, and American University, Washington, D.C.

Personal life

In 1937 Cross married a curator of the Phillips Gallery, James M. McLaughlin. An artist himself, he had known her since joining the gallery as an assistant in 1933 and from time to time in the 1940s they would participate in joint exhibitions of their work. After marrying the two lived in an apartment located on a street behind the gallery buildings. In 1950 they commissioned the architect, Henry Klumb, a highly regarded student of Frank Lloyd Wright, to design a studio for their use in Arlington, Virginia. They had no children and divorced some time in the 1950s.

Later life and work

In 1950 and for the remainder of her productive life Cross continued to exhibit at the Whyte, Bader, and Barnett Aden galleries in Washington, D.C. In 1951 she had one show in New York, a solo exhibition at the Bertha Schaefer Gallery. In the late 1950s she participated in an innovative scheme called the Art Rental Gallery which allowed people to rent works with option to buy. She also exhibited at the Washington Workshop Art Center (where she was teaching), at the Corcoran Gallery, and at the AC-BAW Gallery in Mount Vernon, New York. The last-named is a community-based artists' cooperative founded in 1976 and still operating.

Cross's style changed little from the 1940s through the end of her productive years. As one critic put it, she had a distinctive style that was "unaffected by abstract expressionism or any of the other 'isms' that have swept the country." As well as fanciful figures and still lifes, she produced a growing number of portraits. The imaginary characters and vases of flowers were sharply drawn, colorful, and richly textured while the portraits tended to be dark, almost monochrome, and seen as ghostlike, inhabiting a cold grey, dreamlike environment. Her paintings enjoyed favorable reviews by critics in Washington and New York, but in 1956 one critic wrote that her colors were sometimes too thin and other times too bright, "destroying otherwise mysterious and evocative compositions." Those who appreciated her work praised her originality, creative imagination, sense of humor, and love of fantasy and they drew attention to the surface effects she employed. One wrote of the manner in which her naïveté contrasted sharply with her evident sophistication, "both esoteric and refined."

Collections

Cross's works appear in the Phillips Collection, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, other prominent museums, and many private collections.

Exhibitions

This selected list comes from news accounts and a list provided by the Phillips Collection. Note that the museum now known as the Phillips Collection has had four names: the Phillips Memorial Art Gallery (1920–23), the Phillips Memorial Gallery (1923–48), the Phillips Gallery (1948–61), and its current name (1961–present).

1933 Still life award, student exhibition, Corcoran Gallery
1935 First prize, Group Exhibition, Greater Washington Independent Art Exhibition in galleries of nine downtown department stores
1935 Group exhibition, Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, DC
1936 Group exhibition, Boyer Galleries, Philadelphia
1936 Group exhibition, Phillips Memorial Gallery,  Washington, DC
1936 Group exhibition, Studio House, Washington, DC
1936 Solo exhibition, Little Gallery at the Intimate Bookshop, Washington, DC
1937 Group exhibition, Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, DC
1937 Group exhibition, Washington Room, Phillips Memorial Gallery at Studio House, Washington, DC
1938 Duo exhibition, Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, DC
1938 Group exhibition, Studio House and Little Gallery in Georgetown
1938 Solo show Contemporary Arts, New York
1939 Group exhibition, Whyte Gallery, Washington, DC
1939 Group exhibition, Contemporary Arts, New York
1939 Group exhibition, Little Gallery in Georgetown
1940 Group exhibition, Phillips Memorial Gallery at Studio House, Washington, DC
1941 Group exhibition, Allocations Gallery, Washington, DC
1941 Group exhibition, Little Gallery, Washington, DC
1942 Group exhibition, American University, Washington, DC
1942 Solo exhibition, Intimate Gallery, Washington, DC
1943 Group exhibition, American British Art Center, New York
1944 Solo exhibition, Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, DC
1946 Group exhibition, Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, DC
1946 Solo exhibition, Whyte Gallery, Washington, DC
1948 Group exhibition, Whyte Gallery, Washington, DC
1948 Solo exhibition, Phillips Gallery, Washington, DC
1949 Duo exhibition, with James McLaughlin, Barnett-Aden Gallery, Washington, DC
1949 Group exhibition, Biennial, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
1949 Group exhibition, Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York
1949 Solo Exhibition Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York
1949 Solo exhibition, Phillips Gallery, Washington, DC
1949 Solo exhibition, Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York (first one-person show in NY since 1938)
1949 Group exhibition, Chequire House gallery, Alexandria, Virginia
1950 Group exhibition, Barnett Aden Gallery, Washington, DC
1950 Solo exhibition, Whyte Gallery, Washington, DC
1951 Bernice Cross Retrospective, Phillips Gallery, Washington, DC
1951 Group exhibition, Whyte Gallery, Washington, DC
1951 Solo Exhibition Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York
1953 Group exhibition, Barnett Aden Gallery, Washington, DC
1953 Group exhibition, the Washington Workshop, Washington, DC
1953 Two-person exhibition, Phillips Gallery, Washington, DC
1954 Group exhibition, Bader Gallery, Washington, DC
1956 Solo exhibition, Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, DC
1957 Group exhibition, Playhouse Theater lounge, Washington, DC
1957 Group exhibition, Art Rental Gallery, Washington, DC
1958 Group exhibition, Art Rental Gallery, Washington, DC
1959 Group exhibition, Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, DC
1959 Group exhibition, Art Rental Gallery, Washington, DC
1960 Group exhibition, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
1962 Group exhibition, Barnett Aden Gallery, Washington, DC
1966 Group exhibition, Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, DC
1970 Solo exhibition, Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, DC
1988 Group Exhibition, AC-BAW Gallery Mount Vernon, NY
1988 Group exhibition, Bader Gallery, Washington, DC

References

Painters from Washington, D.C.
American women painters
1912 births
1996 deaths
Modern painters
20th-century American painters
20th-century American women artists
American art educators


title: NASAT

text:
NASAT may refer to or be confused with:

 National All-Star Academic Tournament - a national high school all-star quiz bowl championship tournament in the United States
 NASA TV - television channel for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, a US space exploration agency
 Naša TV - a television station in the Republic of Moldova


title: Middle Third

text:
Middle Third may refer to:
Middle Third (County Tipperary barony), Ireland
Middle Third (County Waterford barony), Ireland
Middle-third rule, in structural engineering


title: Afire Love

text:
"Afire Love" is a song recorded by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran for his second studio album, × (2014). The song is about Sheeran's late grandfather who suffered from Alzheimer's disease. The record, which was produced by Snow Patrol member Johnny McDaid, samples elements of "Remembering Jenny" composed by Christophe Beck for the soundtrack to the American television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

The song was released as an "instant grat" digital download to the iTunes Store on 16 June 2014, serving as the third of seven promotional singles from ×. Due to high streaming rates, all of the album's 12 tracks including "Afire Love" charted in the United Kingdom.

Background and composition
The song is about Sheeran's late grandfather who suffered from Alzheimer's disease for 20 years. He died of the disease in December 2013, two weeks after Sheeran began writing about it. Sheeran finished writing the song at his grandfather's funeral. Prior to the release of the album, Sheeran had also paid tribute at the 2014 Grammy Awards, in which he wore a necktie belonging to his grandfather.

The lyrics discusses Sheeran's reaction to the disease as a child all the way up until his grandfather's funeral. In the verses prior to the first chorus, Sheeran recounts the circumstances present upon his grandfather's disease. For instance, he sings the moment when his grandfather lost his capability of recognizing the face of his grandson: "My father told me, son/ It's not his fault he doesn't know your face/ And you're not the only one." The chorus tells the "powerful love between his grandparents", in which his grandfather said to his grandmother: "Put your open lips on mine and slowly let them shut/ For they're designed to be together/ With your body next to mine, our hearts will beat as one/ And we're set alight, we're afire in love." The song concludes with Sheeran and his family seemingly singing "hallelujah" at the funeral.

Sheeran recorded "Afire Love" in Cocoloco studio in Los Angeles, and Sphere and Metropolis studios in London. It was produced by Snow Patrol member Johnny McDaid, and engineered by Mcdaid and Geoff Swan. The track samples elements of "Remembering Jenny", which was composed by Christophe Beck for the soundtrack to the American television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The ballad is piano-driven and has a "grooving" beat.

Release and reception
The song was released as an "instant grat" digital download to the iTunes Store on 16 June 2014, serving as the third of seven promotional singles from his second studio album, × (2014). It was available for digital download upon pre-order of the album. It topped the iTunes chart in the United States.

Due to high streaming rates, "Afire Love" and the rest of the album's 12 tracks charted in the United Kingdom. It entered the UK Singles Chart at number 71 and rose to number 59.

Neil McCormick of The Daily Telegraph describes "Afire Love" an "anthemic singalong".

Credits and personnel
Credits are taken from × liner notes:

 Vocals by Ed Sheeran
 Written by Sheeran, Johnny McDaid and Foy Vance
 Produced by Daid
 Engineered by Daid and Geoff Swan
 Mixed by Mark "Spike" Stent
 Mastered by Stuart Hawkes
 Contains elements from "Remembering Jenny" composed by Christophe Beck for Buffy The Vampire Slayer

 Guitar by Sheeran
 Guitar, Bass, Backing vocals, Percussion, Piano, Programming and Hammond by McDaid
 Drums by Geoff Leaa
 Live Strings by Davide Rossi
 Backing vocals by Foy Vance
 Additional vocals and gang percussion by Coco Arquette, Courteney Cox, and Eamon Harkin

Charts

Certifications

References

External links

2014 songs
Ed Sheeran songs
Songs written by Ed Sheeran
Songs written by Johnny McDaid
Songs about death


title: Lionel White (cricketer)

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Lionel Algernon White (9 November 1850 – 25 June 1917) was an English soldier and cricketer who played four first-class cricket matches for Kent County Cricket Club in 1869.

Early life
White was born at Wateringbury near Maidstone in Kent in 1850, the son of Thomas White and his wife Louisa (née Winton). His father ran a  farm at Wateringbury and Lionel was educated at St Pauls School in London where he played cricket in the school XI, captaining the team in 1868.

Cricket
A right-handed batsman, White made his first-class debut for Kent against Sussex in early July 1869, opening the batting. He recorded a duck in his first innings, but scored 34 runs in his second, his highest first-class score. He played against Nottinghamshire towards the end of the month and appeared twice for the Gentlemen of Kent amateur side in non-first-class matches, before playing in two other top-level matches for Kent during August, first against Nottinghamshire and then, in Kent's final match of the season, against Surrey. White scored 84 runs in his four matches and took one catch; he did not bowl.

Military service
White joined the 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot in 1869, his service in the military effectively ending his top-class cricket career. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant, rising to the rank of lieutenant in 1871. He served in the later stages of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 in the Commissariat and Transport Department and, after being promoted to the rank of captain in 1880, in the Soudan Expedition during 1885 with the 1st battalion, Shropshire Light Infantry. He was promoted to major later in 1885 and retired with the honorary rank of lieutenant colonel in 1892. Much of his military service was spent in the Caribbean.

During his military service White was able to play some cricket. In 1872 he scored a century for a team of St Pauls old boys against the school XI and in 1880 he played matches whilst stationed in Cheshire.

Later life and family
White married Florence Astwood at Roath in Cardiff in 1880; the couple had two daughters. He retired to Tunbridge Wells where he died June 1917 at the age of 66. His cousin Edward White was also a first-class cricketer who played 29 times for Kent between 1867 and 1875. The cousins appeared together in the final two Kent matches Lionel White played in as well as in one match for the Gentlemen of Kent.

References

External links

1850 births
1917 deaths
People from Wateringbury
English cricketers
Kent cricketers
Cricketers from Kent


title: The Way of the Warrior (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)

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"The Way of the Warrior" is the first episode from the fourth season of the American syndicated science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, counting as the 73rd and the 74th episodes overall as it is a double-length episode.  Michael Dorn joins the cast of Deep Space Nine as Worf, a character originating on the preceding series, Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures on Deep Space Nine, a space station located near a stable wormhole between the Alpha and Gamma quadrants of the Milky Way Galaxy. In this episode, war breaks out between the Klingons and the Cardassians, two alien races with unsteady alliances with the United Federation of Planets; the Klingons' aggression jeopardizes the peace between them and the Federation, and Worf, as the only Klingon officer in Starfleet, is brought in to deal with the situation. In the chronology of the fictional Star Trek universe, this takes place one year after the events of the film Star Trek Generations, Worf's previous appearance.

"The Way of the Warrior" ranked third in its time slot with a Nielsen rating of 8.5. The episode introduces a new version of the opening credits sequence, which would continue to be used for the remainder of the series.

Plot

A Klingon armada led by General Martok arrives at Deep Space Nine; Martok tells Captain Sisko they are there to defend their Federation allies against potential invasion from the Dominion, a hostile empire led by the shape-shifting Changelings. As the Klingon soldiers spread throughout the station, they cause disruptions, and beat up the Cardassian tailor and former spy Garak. A Klingon ship detains Kasidy Yates's freighter to search the ship for Changelings. It takes a show of force from Sisko in the Defiant to convince the Klingon commander to back off; but the Klingons continue detaining ships just outside Deep Space Nine's jurisdiction.

Sisko sends for the sole Klingon in Starfleet, Lieutenant Commander Worf, to help deal with the Klingons. Although Worf is considering resigning from Starfleet, he investigates the Klingon fleet and discovers its true purpose: the Klingon Empire plans on attacking Cardassia. The Cardassian military government has been overthrown in favor of the civilian Detapa Council, but the Klingons believe that the coup was engineered by the Dominion as a way to take control of Cardassia. Sisko warns Martok that such an attack would jeopardize the Federation's alliance with the Klingons, but Martok orders the invasion to proceed. Sisko allows Garak to overhear news of the invasion; he in turn warns Cardassia. Once the Federation condemns the invasion, the Klingon Empire withdraws from the Khitomer Accords, ending its alliance with the Federation. Klingon chancellor Gowron invites Worf to join the invasion, but Worf refuses out of loyalty to Starfleet, jeopardizing his family's social status in the Klingon Empire.

Sisko convinces the Detapa Council to flee Cardassia and seek refuge at DS9, escorted by the Defiant. At the rendezvous point, the Cardassians are attacked by Klingon ships; the Defiant joins the battle, rescuing the Council. When the Defiant returns to DS9, Sisko informs Gowron that the council members are not Changelings, but Gowron orders his fleet to attack DS9 anyway. DS9 defends itself with newly upgraded weapons systems, destroying many Klingon ships; Klingon boarding parties beam into DS9, but the crew fights them off and regains control of the situation.

With Starfleet reinforcements on their way, the Klingon ships have no choice but to retreat. Over Martok's protest, Gowron calls off the invasion of Cardassia, but refuses to cede the outlying Cardassian planets the Klingons have already seized.  Worf decides to remain in Starfleet and accepts the post of Strategic Operations Officer on DS9.

Arc significance
 In this episode, Worf joins the crew of Deep Space Nine, but alienates himself from Gowron, even though Gowron became Chancellor as a result of Worf's intervention in the episode "Reunion" of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
 The Detapa Council took power after the Cardassian secret police agency, the Obsidian Order, was weakened by a disastrous attack against the Dominion late in the third season of Deep Space Nine.
 The Klingons' war against Cardassia turns out, in the fifth season, to have been engineered by the Dominion as a means of creating disorder among potential rivals. Weakened by the war, Cardassia ends up joining with the Dominion after all in an attempt to regain its former glory.
 The Klingon Empire abandons the Khitomer Accords, established in film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, and remains on hostile terms with the Federation until the following season.

Production

This episode reveals a new bald look for Benjamin Sisko. Before Star Trek Avery Brooks starred in the television series Spenser for Hire as Hawk, in that role his head was shaved and he wore a goatee. His contract for Deep Space Nine stipulated that he not shave his head, and it was not until season 4 and this episode that he was allowed to do so.

Michael Dorn joined the cast of Deep Space Nine as Worf, the character he played for seven seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Dorn had been glad to see the end of the time-consuming makeup required to portray a Klingon, but when producer Rick Berman asked if he might be consider coming back, he surprised himself and said yes to the opportunity. Dorn talked with the writers and producers about how his character could be a catalyst for change,
and how Worf brings a different perspective to the show.

Director James L. Conway really enjoyed directing the episode. It was an action packed script and had to introduce Michael Dorn. He didn't have any more time than usual, but did have more extras. The two-hour double episode was filmed over sixteen days, in two eight-day filming weeks. Conway saw "Way of the Warrior" as an opportunity to prove himself and put everything he could into the episode, and demonstrate his potential to be the director on the next Star Trek feature film.

A new spacecraft design model is shown in the episode, the very large Negh'Var, which is the flagship of the Klingon fleet. Other ships shown include the Vor'cha, which was first seen in "Reunion" on The Next Generation. The Vor'cha was designed by Rick Sternbach and the physical model was built by Greg Jein according to The Star Trek Encyclopedia by Okuda and others. Although the shots are often brief, there are spacecraft from the Cardassians, Klingons, and Federation shown in this episode, especially a wide range of Klingon spaceships. (see also Spacecraft in Star Trek)

Reception

"The Way of the Warrior" ranked third in its time slot with a Nielsen rating of 8.5.

In 2012, Zack Handlen, reviewing this episode for The A.V. Club, said it was "a terrific 90 minutes of television, building to its conclusions slowly but without hesitation, using threats the show has spent the last three seasons carefully establishing to shift the main arc in an unexpected direction." He commended the writers for the use of the Klingons, saying: "It's hard to remember the last time the Klingons have come across as dangerous on a Trek series." He praised the writing of characters including Sisko, Martok, Worf, Quark, Odo and Garak. In 2014, Keith R.A. DeCandido of Tor.com rated the episode ten out of ten. He called it "the perfect season-opener, giving everyone a moment in the sun, introducing a new character to the ensemble, and kicking the storyline from a year ago into high gear" and praised all the performances, as well as the episode's effectiveness at integrating Worf into the main cast. DeCandido highlighted the scene where Quark compares the Federation to root beer as "one of the single best conversations in any Star Trek series ever." Finally, he praised Avery Brooks "whose charisma shines through" and that Sisko is "the biggest badass in the room".

In 2015, Geek.com recommended this episode as "essential watching" for their abbreviated Star Trek: Deep Space Nine binge-watching guide, remarking that "this episode contains one of the coolest space battles in the entire series" and a plot involving the Klingons and Deep Space Nine. In their binge watching guide, Wired said the episode contained the best scene from the series, "in which Quark and Garak talk politics and put the appeal of the Federation in a whole new light".

The episode was frequently rated among the best episodes of Deep Space Nine and of all Star Trek.

In 2012, Den of Geek ranked this the eighth best episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, commending it for effectively incorporating Worf into the series.
In 2018, Vulture rated "The Way of the Warrior" the fifth best episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, calling the introduction of Worf the perfect addition to the show. In 2020, SciFiNow ranked this first of the top ten episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
In 2020, The Digital Fix ranked this episode as the seventh best episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. They thought the episode was "a great Worf story" in which Worf makes his mark as a new member of the cast without dominating the other characters.

Hollywood.com rated "The Way of the Warrior" among the best of the Klingon-centric episodes in Star Trek.
In 2014, Io9 listed this episode 38th in its list of the top 100 Star Trek episodes.
In 2016, Empire ranked this the 22nd best episode of all Star Trek. In 2016, Vox rated this one of the top 25 essential episodes of all Star Trek.
In 2018, CBR ranked "The Way of the Warrior" as the seventh best episodic saga of all Star Trek.

In 2016, Radio Times ranked the attack of the Klingons in this episode as the 40th greatest moment in all Star Trek, including films and television up to that time.

In 2017, CBR ranked Gowron's flagship, the Negh'Var warship, the third most powerful spacecraft of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. CNET ranked it among the most powerful and important fictional spacecraft of the Star Trek franchise.

Releases
In November 1996, "The Way of the Warrior" was released on LaserDisc format in the United Kingdom. On August 5, 1998, "The Way of the Warrior" was released on LaserDisc format in Japan, as part of the 4th Season Vol. 1 box set.

"The Way of the Warrior" was released on VHS by Paramount Home Video. Paramount re-released the episode in 1997 as part of the "Star Trek: The Greatest Battles" gift set.

It was released on DVD as part of the season four box set on August 5, 2003. In 2006, the episode was also released as part of the DVD box set "Star Trek Fan Collective - Klingon". This episode was released in 2017 on DVD with the complete series box set, which had 176 episodes. The set had 48 discs and also included several features.

Novel
A novelization of the episode was written by Diane Carey, and published by Simon and Schuster.

References

External links

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (season 4) episodes
1995 American television episodes
Television episodes directed by James L. Conway


title: Saladino

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Saladino is a surname.  Notable people with the name include:

 Gaspar Saladino (1927–2016), American letterer and logo designer
 Irving Saladino (born 1983), Panamanian long jumper
 Joseph P. Saladino (born 1993), American YouTube personality and prankster, known as Joey Salads
 Joseph S. Saladino (born 1962), New York politician
 Tyler Saladino (born 1989), American baseball player


title: San Gennaro al Vomero

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San Gennaro al Vomero is a Neoclassic-style church, located on the corner of via Solimena and via Giovanni Bernini, near the piazza Vanvitelli in Naples, Italy.

In part due to the 19th century urban renewal of Naples, the parish of San Gennaro al Vomero was established by Cardinal Guglielmo Sanfelice in this new reclaimed areas, and serve part of what had been the parish of Santa Maria del Soccorso all'Arenella. The architect was Luigi Bottino and the engineer Andrea Taglialatela. Construction began in 1892. The church was damaged during the 1930 earthquake and restored by 1931. Similar fate occurred after the 1980 earthquake, but restoration was slower.

References

Churches in Naples
19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy


title: Pond frog (disambiguation)

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The pond frog is a genus of true frogs.

Pond frog may also refer to:

 Central Asian pond frog, a frog found in China, Tajikistan, and possibly in Afghanistan
 Daruma pond frog, a frog endemic to Japan
 Green pond frog, a frog found in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka
 Seoul pond frog, a frog found in Korea
 Yunnan pond frog, a frog found in China and possibly Myanmar

See also

 Frog Pond

Animal common name disambiguation pages


title: Martyn Andrews

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Martyn Andrews is a British TV executive producer, television presenter, broadcast journalist, actor and singer. He is currently works at TRT World News in Istanbul. He develops and produces TV formats and documentaries, makes other freelance television and radio appearances for various media outlets and also writes for several travel websites, lifestyle publications and inflight magazines. His various TV contracts and personal travels have taken him to over 170 countries around the world.

Andrews has created, authored, co-produced and hosted a range of television shows on several major networks. He was the cultural face of RT (Russia Today TV) presenting from their London studios for seven years with nine previously in Moscow, Russia.  In 2020 he produced and hosted RT's mini-series “The Lowdown” debunking myths about the Coronavirus and was one of RT's main live correspondents in London covering the COVID-19 pandemic. He has also appeared on CNN's Connect The World, on ITV's daily chat show The Alan Titchmarsh Show and worked on programmes in series 1 and 3 in "How The Other Half Lives" for Channel 5/Spun Gold TV in London/Moscow alongside Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford. He reported live for 2 months from the 2014 Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Sochi for RT International news and CTVam broadcast in Canada and The Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow.

Early life

Born Andrew Martin in Liverpool, England, at 18 years old he became a member of the "National Youth Music Theatre" of Great Britain. In 2000 he gained a BA (hons) Degree in Performance from Mountview Theatre School and in 2005 studied the NCTJ Journalism course at the No Sweat College London.

Andrews first ever major television presenting opportunity was for a BBC youth special "Songs of Praise" shown to over 18 million viewers. Appreciating Andrew's musical talents the BBC later asked him back as a guest soloist on the live TV event "Merseyglory", staged in front of 40,000 people at Everton's Goodison Park Stadium.

As a professional performer Andrews took lead roles in several UK and European major musicals ranging from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express to Whistle Down the Wind before re-training and moving full-time into broadcast journalism.

Career

In 2003 Andrews was invited by the network RTVI in Tel Aviv to work on the English speaking documentary series Undiscovered Egypt. From sleeping alone in the Giza pyramids to discovering Egyptian secrets, Andrews' story was also featured in the book "The Pyramid Quest" written by Dr. Robert M. Schoch. Martyn then moved to New York City in 2004 to head up the award-winning TV documentary series "My Abyss", a dangerous diving show for Overseas Media Ltd in Manhattan - training and filming in dozens of exotic locations around the globe including Hawaii, Thailand, Bermuda and Australia.

Returning to the UK in 2005, he began writing travel articles and went on to produce and co-host the live UK based chat show Lounge Living TV alongside Charlotte Jackson, the "Live Big Brother Event" for Endemol/T4 and became the face of Italy's main language DVD series before being offered the opportunity to move to Russia. In 2005 Andrews moved to Moscow for the launch of the new international news channel Russia Today TV (later renamed RT). Co-presenting in the channel's first ever hour on air (10 December 2005), Andrews co-ordinated and exec produced the award-winning live studio programme "Entertainment Today" which he also co-hosted for three years, as well as presenting one of the networks first programmes in 2006, the food and travel show "Culinary Quest".

Andrews became known by audiences around the world in 2007 after he became the host of RT's most popular extreme travel series, Wayfarer, an adventure TV show that saw him report from minus 40 to plus 40, through 11 time zones in over 75 cities in Russia and the former Soviet Republics. Over three series he lived with Eskimos in the Polar Circle, trained with Russian Cosmonauts and the Russian army, scuba dived in dangerous karst lakes, explored secret tunnels and bunkers of the Kremlin, base jumped from the Caucasus Mountains, was set on fire at Mosfilm studios, played with tigers in Siberia, played on Tchaikovsky's piano, paraglided over warzones and danced with locals in Outer Mongolia.

His other TV shows broadcast on RT included the award-winning weekly culture show Moscow Out which Andrews exec produced, authored and presented from 2009 - 2011, Venice of the North: A Season in St Petersburg - a travel series on Russia's stunning former capital, Russian Around a historical travel series in 2011 on Russian culture filming in London, Paris, Florence and Rome, A Prime Recipe a food strand, The Golden Ring - A Tour in Time. He reported live from the Eurovision Song contest in Moscow 2009. In 2010 Martyn was also Channel M's live studio travel expert in Manchester, England.

In 2012 he became the Arts and Culture Reporter for RT's evening magazine show Prime Time. In 2013 he became one of the faces of RT's new breakfast show Privet Russia and also started social and human interest reports for RT International. Martyn reported live on the Soyuz rocket launch in Kazakhstan and Martyn's stories on Russia's developing LGBT community and the Winter Olympics in Sochi raised his profile internationally.

In the summer of 2014 Martyn moved back to London full-time for the launch of RT UK (a daily opt out for RT's British viewers) where he was Senior
producer and Social Affairs and News Correspondent for RT UK news filming different consumer, social and human interest stories from all over the UK. In 2020 he presented and produced “The Lowdown” show discussing the coronavirus pandemic and from January 2021 he became one of the networks main live news broadcasters covering COVID-19 and political updates.

A selection of Martyn's TV shows have been broadcast on RTD (RT's documentary channel), CYRT Cyprus, Euronews, Airirang TV in South Korea, Aeroflot's long haul in flight service and the Sapsan train networks.

Journalism

Andrews is used by press and media all over the world. He has appeared as a panel member on various TV shows, compared business conferences, appeared as a guest speaker at numerous travel events, presented hotel corporate videos, voiced documentaries, idents and adverts and has been master of ceremonies at dozens of live corporate and private events.

As a print journalist he has had dozens of articles published featuring freelance travel advice, restaurant reviews, interviews and personal features in the UK, American and worldwide press including his popular blog in Conde Nast Traveller magazine.

OK! Magazine has stated that Martyn was "One To Watch" and Beige Magazine in London published an article with headline "The Rising Tsar".  In January 2015 he was awarded a gratuitous diploma by Vladimir Putin for his television work at the Sochi Olympics.

References

External links

British television journalists
People from Crosby, Merseyside
1979 births
Living people
British television presenters
RT (TV network) people
English expatriates in Russia


title: Bloodstream (song)

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"Bloodstream" is a song recorded by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran from his second studio album, × (2014). It was written by Sheeran, Rudimental, and Snow Patrol members Johnny McDaid and Gary Lightbody, and produced by Rick Rubin.

The song was released as an "instant grat" digital download to the iTunes Store on 17 June 2014, serving as the fourth of seven promotional singles from ×. It entered the UK Singles Chart at number 81 and rose to number 60.

In December 2014, "Bloodstream" was remixed by Rudimental. This version of the song was released on 29 March 2015 as a joint single between Sheeran and Rudimental, serving as the fourth single from × and the lead single from Rudimental's second studio album, We the Generation (2015). This remix peaked at number 2 on the UK Singles Chart.

Background
"Bloodstream" was written by Sheeran, Rudimental, and Snow Patrol members – Johnny McDaid and Gary Lightbody, and produced by Rick Rubin at Shangri-La in Malibu, California. The song is about Sheeran taking MDMA during a wedding celebration in Ibiza. He claims that during the experience he "fell in love with a beanbag" and that "[he] felt anxiety, [he] felt love, [he] felt warm, [he] felt a bit weird". Sheeran made a live PA to perform the song during Rudimental's set at Glastonbury on 27 June 2014.

Charts

Certifications

Ed Sheeran and Rudimental version

At the BBC Music Awards on 11 December 2014, it was revealed by Sheeran that a remixed version of "Bloodstream" would serve as the fourth single from ×. He told MTV News, "I've done a song with Rudimental that is actually a song on my album. We've just re-done it and it's heavy, it's going to be great. They've re-done it, it's going to be sort of their first single off their new record...It's really good."

Background
In an interview with The Sun, regarding the collaboration, Rudimental's DJ Locksmith said, "We were working in LA and [Sheeran] rocked up to our studio with The Game and Ellie Goulding. We made four tracks and revisited one this year to give it a Rudimental spin. We've known Ed for years. I remember when we first saw him getting noticed by everyone, he gave us one of his tracks to remix and he said it was one of the best remixes he'd ever had. We'd never recorded with him before, but we kept the connection and he's a massive name now. The song is so sick, so insane. We can't wait to show it to people."

The reworked song's audio was uploaded on 11 February and the song was released on 29 March.

Music video
A music video featuring actor Ray Liotta was released on 23 March 2015. The video is directed by Emil Nava.

Live performances
Sheeran performed "Bloodstream" on 13 April 2015 on the results show of the second series of The X Factor in New Zealand.

Track listing

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications and sales

Release history

References

2014 songs
2015 singles
Ed Sheeran songs
Rudimental songs
Song recordings produced by Rick Rubin
Songs written by Ed Sheeran
Songs written by Gary Lightbody
Songs written by Johnny McDaid
Songs about drugs


title: Silver Medal for Merit

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The Silver Medal for Merit, post-nominal letters SMM, was instituted by the President of the Republic of South Africa in April 1996. It was awarded to veteran cadres of the Azanian People's Liberation Army, the military wing of the Pan Africanist Congress, for exceptionally meritorious service and particular devotion to duty during the "struggle".

Azanian People's Liberation Army
The Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) was the para-military wing of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). It was established in 1961 to wage an armed "struggle" against the Nationalist government inside South Africa. On 27 April 1994, the Azanian People's Liberation Army was amalgamated with six other military forces into the South African National Defence Force (SANDF).

Institution
The Silver Medal for Merit, post-nominal letters SMM, was instituted by the President in April 1996. It is the middle award of a set of three decorations for merit, along with the Gold Decoration for Merit and the Bronze Medal for Merit.

The Azanian People's Liberation Army's military decorations and medals were modelled on those of the South African Defence Force and these three decorations are the approximate equivalents of, respectively, the Southern Cross Decoration and Pro Merito Decoration, the Southern Cross Medal (1975) and Pro Merito Medal (1975), and the Military Merit Medal.

Award criteria
The decoration could be awarded to veteran cadres of the Azanian People's Liberation Army for exceptionally meritorious service and particular devotion to duty during the "struggle".

Order of wear

The position of the Silver Medal for Merit in the official military and national orders of precedence was revised upon the institution of a new set of honours on 27 April 2003.

Azanian People's Liberation Army

Official APLA order of precedence:
 Preceded by the Gold Decoration for Merit (GDM).
 Succeeded by the Bronze Medal for Merit (BMM).

South African National Defence Force until 26 April 2003

Official SANDF order of precedence:
 Preceded by the Merit Medal in Silver (MMS) of Umkhonto we Sizwe.
 Succeeded by the Danie Theron Medal (DTM) of the Republic of South Africa.
Official national order of precedence:
 Preceded by the Merit Medal in Silver (MMS) of Umkhonto we Sizwe.
 Succeeded by the Correctional Services Medal for Merit, Non-Commissioned Officers of the Republic of South Africa.

South African National Defence Force from 27 April 2003

Official SANDF order of precedence:
 Preceded by the Merit Medal in Silver (MMS) of Umkhonto we Sizwe.
 Succeeded by the iPhrothiya yeSiliva (PS) of the Republic of South Africa.
Official national order of precedence:
 Preceded by the Merit Medal in Silver (MMS) of Umkhonto we Sizwe.
 Succeeded by the iPhrothiya yeSiliva (PS) of the Republic of South Africa.

Description
Obverse
The Silver Medal for Merit was struck in silver, to fit in a circle 38 millimetres in diameter. It depicts the Azanian People's Liberation Army emblem in a dark blue enameled roundel, in the centre of a five-pointed starburst of radiating points.

Reverse
The reverse displays the embellished pre-1994 South African Coat of Arms.

Ribbon
The ribbon is 32 millimetres wide and dark blue, with two 6 millimetres wide white bands in the centre, spaced 4 millimetres apart.

Discontinuation
Conferment of the Silver Medal for Merit was discontinued upon the institution of a new set of South African honours on 27 April 2003.

References

Military decorations and medals of Azanian People's Liberation Army
Awards established in 1996
Awards disestablished in 2003
1996 establishments in South Africa
2003 disestablishments in South Africa


title: John Seally

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John Seally (1741 or 1742–1795) was an English writer, in later life a clergyman.

Life
Born in Somerset, he was educated at Bristol grammar school, with a view to ordination. His uncle and potential patron died, and he entered a solicitor's office; but moved on to learn business under the merchant Malachy Postlethwayt. Supported by his mother, he then became a journalist.

During a visit to Manchester, Seally persuaded an heiress to elope with him but her father caught up with them at Worcester. He worked as a writing-master and accountant. Around 1767 he established a school in Bridgwater Square, Westminster, and after some years took holy orders. During a stay in Rome in 1774 he obtained admission to the Accademia degli Arcadi by a eulogy on Maria Maddelana Fernandez Corilla, poet-laureate of Italy. In 1790 he was presented to the vicarage of East Meon with Froxfield and Steep.

Seally was elected fellow of the Royal Society on 30 June 1791, and was also M.A. and LL.D. He died in Queen Square, Westminster, in March 1795. A correspondent in the Evangelical Magazine mentioned that Seally had been chaplain to the Earl of Kintore, was buried in Ellisfield, Hampshire, and was aged 49 on his death.

Works
Seally published novels, poems, and school books, including:

 The Loves of Calisto and Emira, or the Fatal Legacy, London, 1776; a French translation was published in Paris (1778).
 Moral Tales after the Eastern manner, London (1780?).
 The Marriage of Sir Gawaine, an opera, 1782.
 A complete Geographical Dictionary, 2 vols., London, 1787. The astronomical section was provided by Israel Lyons.
 The Lady's Encyclopaedia, 3 vols., London, 1788.

He contributed occasional verses to magazines, and launched a short-lived political paper signed Britannicus. He ran for some time the Universal Museum and the Freeholder's Magazine, and was involved in the St. James's Magazine, edited by Robert Lloyd.

Family
Seally married (as he thought) in 1766, a reputedly rich widow of twice his age, but found, some years later, that she had no money and had a husband, the Rev. William Lewis. After separation from Mrs. Lewis he married Mary, eldest daughter of Joseph Humphreys, rector of Ellisfield, Hampshire, and of North Stoke, Somerset, who survived him.

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Attribution

1795 deaths
18th-century English Anglican priests
English writers
English male journalists
Fellows of the Royal Society
Year of birth uncertain
English male non-fiction writers