title: Yes! (Jason Mraz album)

text:
Yes! is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Jason Mraz. The album was released on July 11, 2014, Atlantic Records. The album's lead single "Love Someone" was released on May 19, 2014.

The album is a collaboration between Jason Mraz and the members of indie-rock-folk band Raining Jane: Mai Bloomfield, Becky Gebhardt, Chaska Potter and Mona Tavakoli, with whom Mraz has been working since 2007, and who are his backing band on the record, as well as co-writers of majority of the songs.

Critical reception

Yes! was met with generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 62, which indicates "generally favorable reviews", based on 6 reviews.

Matt Fruchtman of Slant Magazine gave the album two out of five stars, saying "his wide-lens worldview leaves Yes! feeling like the musical equivalent of a G-rated sitcom." Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic gave the album four out of five stars, saying "The exclamation point that punctuates its title suggests Jason Mraz may be a little enthusiastic on Yes! but that's a feint, hiding how this 2014 record is the next logical step on the singer/songwriter's road of seduction. Gone is the celebrated wordplay, a self-conscious maturation that was perhaps inevitable, but also absent are the smooth soul flourishes of 2012's Love Is a Four Letter Word."

Commercial performance
The album debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 102,000 copies in the United States.

In Canada, the album debuted at number two on the Canadian Albums Chart with 12,000 copies, falling behind Rise Against's The Black Market.

Track listing

Notes
 signifies a co-producer

Personnel
Credits adapted from AllMusic.

Jason Mraz – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, Fender Rhodes, piano, synthesizer bass, engineering, mixing, production

Raining Jane
Mai Bloomfield – cello, glockenspiel, hi-string guitar, marimba, papoose, vocals
Becky Gebhardt – bass, upright bass, sitar
Chaska Potter – electric guitar, mandolin, ukulele, vocals
Mona Tavakoli – drums, percussion, vocals

Additional musicians
Mike Mogis – banjo, dobro, e-bow, electric guitar, mellotron, pedal steel, synthesizer bass
Andy Powers – banjo, dobro, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, pedal steel
Ben Brodin – drums, percussion, piano, organ
Chris Joyner – drones, organ, piano, tanpura
Nate Walcott – organ, piano, Wurlitzer
Brian Jones – drums
John O'Reilly – drums
Stewart Myers – bass
Maryann Galewood – handclapping
Amber Elliot – handclapping
Ms. Tina – handclapping
Colin Killalea – inspiration [sic], vocal arrangement
Regan Sprenkle – vocal arrangement

Technical personnel
Mike Mogis – engineering, mixing, production
Chris Keup – engineering, production, additional production
Stewart Myers – engineering, production, additional production
Justin Hergett – engineering, mixing assistant
David Kalish – engineering
Ben Brodin – assistant engineering
Tony Maserati – mixing
James Krausse – mixing assistant
Chris Gehringer – mastering

Additional personnel
Tony Corey – production management
Jeff Nicholas – creative direction
Sam Riback – A&R
Douglas Gledhill – design
Ryan McCann – design
Patrick Morales – design
Jen Rosenstein – band photo

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

References

2014 albums
Jason Mraz albums
Atlantic Records albums


title: University for Derry Committee

text:
The University for Derry Committee or University for Derry Action Committee was a group campaigning for the New University of Ulster to be located in the city of Derry.

Background
In 1963, John Lockwood was commissioned by the Government of Northern Ireland to produce a report into university education in the province.  It was widely believed that he would conclude that the single existing institution, Queen's University Belfast, did not provide sufficient capacity, and would recommend the creation of a new university in Northern Ireland.  A large number of groups put forward the case for siting the new campus in their own town or city, and gradually three frontrunners emerged: Craigavon, a new town under development near Belfast; Armagh, a small city regarded as Ireland's religious capital; and Derry, the second largest city in Northern Ireland.

Lockwood was due to report early in 1965, and by the end of December 1964, its proposed recommendations had begun to leak.  Basil McFarland, former UUP Mayor of Derry, stated publicly that he did not believe that the report would "do Derry much good".  In response, the Derry-based leaders of the Catholic, Presbyterian, Anglican and Methodist churches published a joint statement in support of a university for the city.  This, together with the conviction that a university would attract new industry, inspired local teacher John Hume to create the University for Derry Committee.

Membership
Founded in late January 1965, the committee was chaired by Hume.  Its other members were Desmond Sidebottom, Brian Gallagher, Michael Canavan, Arthur Jack and Gerald Black - members of both the city's Protestant and Catholic communities.  Aidan Clark, Desmond McCourt and John Carmony from Magee College served in an advisory role.  In the committee's founding statement, it stated that government policy appeared to be deliberately isolating the city of Derry.

Activities
On 8 February 1965, the committee organised a major public meeting at Derry Guildhall, attracting more than 1,500 people to hear speeches by the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) Mayor of Derry Albert Anderson and leader of the Nationalist Party Eddie McAteer, both of whom remarked upon how the issue had united the two communities in the city.

The Lockwood Report was issued on 10 February.  It recommended locating a "New University of Ulster" in the small town of Coleraine, in a strongly Protestant area on the north coast, and this decision was immediately supported by the Government.  A delegation from the committee was in Belfast for the announcement, and the following day, it met with Prime Minister Terence O'Neill, Minister of Education Herbert Kirk, and the Attorney-General for Northern Ireland, Edward Warburton Jones.  Jones was the MP for the City of Londonderry seat, and was particularly concerned by the strength and breadth represented by the committee.

The Committee organised a major day of protest on 18 February, in an attempt to sway political opinion.  Anderson declared a public holiday in the city, and he and McAteer led a convoy of 2,000 vehicles to protest at the government buildings at Stormont.  Back in Derry, citizens were encouraged to mark the protest with a two-minute silence, and pubs were closed for the day.

Government vote
The Government called a vote on the Lockwood proposals, and in order to discourage its MPs from voting against the report, it declared it to be a vote of confidence.  The plans were accepted by a majority of 27 in favour to 19 against, supporters including several MPs who had previously supported Derry's bid, in particular the Attorney-General, Jones, who attempted to justify his vote to local party members by claiming that Irish nationalists would benefit from any split in government ranks.  Robert Samuel Nixon, UUP MP for North Down, claimed in May that several prominent Derry-based unionists had opposed building the new university in their own city.  Although he described them as "nameless, faceless men", he did name them: Gerald Stanley Glover, former Mayor of Derry; John Brown; J. S. Bond; and Sydney Buchanan.  The majority of them claimed that they had simply accepted a decision which had already been made and had lobbied for Magee College to remain open, and Nixon was expelled from the UUP Parliamentary group.

Following the vote, the Committee was wound down.  John Hume subsequently claimed that the decision not to build the new university in Derry was the immediate cause of the Northern Ireland civil-rights movement and ended any hope of a peaceful solution to sectarian divides in the state.

References

1960s in Irish politics
History of Derry (city)
Organizations established in 1965
Organizations disestablished in 1965
Politics of Derry (city)
Education in Derry (city)
1965 in Northern Ireland


title: Haji Camp, Karachi

text:
Haji Camp () is one of the neighbourhoods of Lyari Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. The Hajji pilgrims lived here before taking the ships to Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj.

There are several ethnic groups in Haji Camp including Muhajirs, Sindhis, Punjabis, Kashmiris, Seraikis, Pakhtuns, Balochis, Memons, Bohras, Ismailis and Christians.

See also
 Usmanabad

References

External links
 Karachi Website.

Neighbourhoods of Karachi


title: Boxing at the 2006 Asian Games – Men's +91 kg

text:
The men's super heavyweight (+91 kilograms) event at the 2006 Asian Games took place from 9 to 13 December 2006 at Aspire Hall 5, Doha, Qatar.

Schedule
All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00)

Results
Legend
RET — Won by retirement
RSCO — Won by referee stop contest outscored
WO — Won by walkover

References

External links
Official website

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title: Tweed Regional Gallery

text:
Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre is a regional art gallery in Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia. Lonely Planet Australia describes it as "an exceptional gallery... home to some of Australia's finest in a variety of media."

In June 2009 the gallery featured in an episode of the ABC television program, Collectors.

On 15 March 2014 the gallery opened a new Margaret Olley Art Centre, which cost $4 million to construct. Funding included $1 million from the federal government's Community Infrastructure Grants Program. The new Centre houses the 76,000 objects from the studio of artist Margaret Olley, who died in 2011 aged 88.

References

External links

Art museums and galleries in New South Wales


title: Žanko Savov

text:
Žanko Savov (; born 14 September 1965) is a Macedonian football coach and former striker.

Playing career
Born in Udovo, Valandovo, SR Macedonia, back then within SFR Yugoslavia, he started his career in the Yugoslav Second League playing with FK Belasica and FK Pelister between 1988 and 1991.  By 2016 he is listed among FK Vardar legends at club official website.  He played with Vardar between 1991 and 1995 having won three national championships and two cups.  Vardar official website considers him as the player that dominated Macedonian football at the first three seasons of the Macedonian First Football League.  He was also the player of the match at the final of the first edition of the Macedonian Cup as he provided Vardar the honor of conquering the trophy by scoring the only and winning goal at the last minute of the game against FK Pelister.

Besides playing in Far East in South Korean K-League side Jeonbuk Hyundai Dinos between 1995 and 1998, he also played in Serbian side FK Radnički Niš.

Honours
Vardar
Macedonian First League: 3
Winner: 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95
Macedonian Cup: 2
Winner: 1993, 1995
Cementarnica 55
Macedonian Cup: 1
Winner: 2003

References

External sources

1965 births
Living people
People from Valandovo Municipality
Men's association football forwards
Macedonian men's footballers
FK Belasica players
FK Pelister players
FK Vardar players
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors players
FK Radnički Niš players
FK Cementarnica 55 players
Yugoslav Second League players
Macedonian First Football League players
K League 1 players
First League of Serbia and Montenegro players
Macedonian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in South Korea
Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in South Korea
Expatriate men's footballers in Serbia and Montenegro
Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Serbia and Montenegro
Macedonian football managers
FK Borec managers
FK Osogovo managers


title: Joshua Routledge

text:
Joshua Routledge (27 April 1773 – 8 February 1829) was an engineer and inventor of the early 19th century during the Industrial Revolution.

Mechanical engineering as a profession was on the rise and the advent of the steam age opened up viable career alternatives for many young Englishmen who, like Joshua Routledge, grew up in an agriculture-based society.

Early life
Born on 27 April 1773 and baptised on the 29th in Riccall, Yorkshire. Joshua Routledge was third of twelve children. Generations of Routledges were established as yeoman farmers and weavers in Riccall, a village about 9 miles (14 km) south of the city of York.

Joshua's father was a blacksmith by trade, but he seems to have been pious, curious and adventurous by nature. The Industrial Revolution allowed the advancement of all sorts of radical new ideas in tandem with mechanical innovations. Religious, political, and social reformers took to the highways and byways spreading discontent with the status quo, John Wesley being one reformer whose message took hold in Yorkshire. Wesley's brand of fervent evangelical Methodism encouraged lay preachers, which appealed very much to the working classes, William Routledge (1744-1822) for one. It is known that William with wife Sarah Bell (1746-1819), one-year-old Joshua and his two-year-old sister Dinah (1771-1791), joined a group of Methodists sailing to Nova Scotia, Canada in 1774. Records indicate that the family sailed on board the vessel Two Friends, embarking from Hull, Yorkshire the "week of 28th February to 7th March" and arriving in Halifax on 9 May 1774.

It is certain that the family returned to Yorkshire before 1778 when Joshua's brother Joseph was born in Elvington, a village located about 7 miles southeast of York. Later on, they joined the Methodist movement as active members of the York Circuit, and according to an account by J. D. Greenhalgh published in 1882, William Routledge was among a list of "Wesleyan Methodist ministers admitted...in the year 1800."

Career
Nothing is recorded of Joshua Routledge's early education, but supposedly he learned something about the smithing trades from his father. In 1798 Routledge was in Leeds, Yorkshire where his occupation is given as "whitesmith" (tinsmith) on a marriage certificate recorded at St Peter's Parish Church, Leeds. This was the occasion of his first marriage, on 5 November, to Mary King. A daughter, Ann, was born there in 1803.

The Round Foundry
Routledge may have apprenticed at the historic Round Foundry in Leeds. Matthew Murray (1765–1826) and David Wood (1761–1820) partnered in building the Round Foundry circa 1795 and were later joined by James Fenton (1754–1834) and silent partner William Lister. Fenton, Murray, & Wood quickly gained a reputation for innovative thinking and sound technical practices. The firm became famous as designers and builders of textile machinery and steam engines that rivalled the Soho Works in Birmingham operated by steam-age pioneers James Watt and Matthew Boulton.

Routledge Engineer's Rule
By 1800, Routledge had become Manager at the Round Foundry. Somehow, along the way, he learned the value of logarithms and thereby had the means of developing a method of measuring "all kinds of metals and other bodies" needed for engineering purposes. Using the principles of Edmund Gunter's (1581–1626) logarithmic scales and William Oughtred's (1574–1660) sliding rule, Routledge combined a 12-inch brass slide containing the logarithmic scales with an ordinary 2-foot ruler to which he added a table of commonly used references called gauge points. This rule became known as the Routledge Engineer's Rule.

According to a handwritten, unsigned document on file at Bolton Archives (Lancashire) Routledge acquired a patent for his improved slide rule in 1813 but, to date, no record of this has been traced. It is certain that, in 1805, he published the first known Instructions for the Engineer's Improved Sliding Rule and that numerous editions followed before and after his death in 1829, the most recent being in 1983.

A letter from his parents, dated 1811, records that Routledge was associated, at that time, with Thompson, Swift and Co, iron founders and steam engine makers located in Little Bolton, Lancashire, and a notice published in the Manchester Mercury dated 12 November 1811 informs that his partnership with that firm had been dissolved by mutual consent.

Improved Rotary Steam Engine
In 1816 Routledge had a prosperous ironmonger (hardware) business at 26 Deansgate in Bolton. That business allowed him time to engage in other engineering pursuits as well as support his inventive activities. Thus, in February 1818, he acquired a patent for "An Improvement or Improvements Upon the Rotary Steam Engine." A newspaper account dated 8 August 1822 and quoted in Historical Gleanings Bolton & District describes him as the "spirited and ingenious inventor" of a portable, steam-powered machine that broke stones for road repair at the "astounding rate of 70 or 80 tons in ten hours," something "never before contemplated."

About this time, his name appears among the original shareholders of Bolton Gaslight and Coke Company supplying gas to the towns of Great and Little Bolton

In 1822 he entered into a short-lived partnership (dissolved 1824) with William Kay of Bury Lancashire to supply iron pillars to the specification of William Fairbairn for the "fireproof" Hudcar Mill, said to be state-of-the-art for cotton mills of the day. The Hudcar Mill, built for manufacturer Thomas Haslam, was demolished in 1977. Pigot and Dean's Directory of 1821–22 styles the partnership of Kay and Routledge as Brass and Ironfounders and Engineers.

Routledge undertook another engineering project with Joseph (1765–1842) and Thomas Ridgway (1778–1839) to extend and rearrange the pioneering Wallsuches Bleach Works in Horwich, Lancashsire sometime before leaving England, in 1824, for Warsaw, Poland. Wallsuches Bleach Works is preserved as a Grade II listed complex, described as a "rare survival of a once large scale important industry in the Bolton area".

In Poland, Routledge engaged with Thomas Evans & Co of Warsaw to erect a large steam corn mill. This foundry was the forerunner of Lilpop, Rau i Loewenstein, another noteworthy engineering firm distinguished by its expertise in the manufacture of railroad engines and other heavy-duty industrial machinery.

Family Connections
Joshua Routledge was twice married, first in 1798 to Mary King about whom nothing more has been found, except that a daughter Ann (1803–1814) came from that union.

Hick Family
A contemporary of Routledge by the name of Benjamin Hick (1787/90–1842) also received training at the Round Foundry, and the two ambitious young men left Leeds for greener pastures sometime around 1810. Both settled in Bolton Lancashire where engineering advances in the machinery needed for large scale cotton milling would soon bring about boom times for the whole region. Joshua witnessed the marriage of his sister Elizabeth (1783–1826) to Benjamin Hick in April 1811. Hick went on to found the highly respected Bolton engineering firm Benjamin Hick & Sons, later Hick, Hargreaves & Co.

Elizabeth and Benjamin had five children: Mary born in 1813, John in 1815, Benjamin in 1818, William in 1820, and Eliza Rachel in 1821. John Hick, besides his notable engineering career while extending the family firm, distinguished himself as Bolton town councillor for 9 years before serving as a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1868 to 1880.

Abel and Bowker Families
Soon after witnessing the marriage of Elizabeth and Benjamin, Joshua followed suit, marrying Frances Abel on 14 July 1811. Frances was the widow of James Abel (1770–1801), a prominent Freemason in Bolton. She had two children from that marriage, Mary Ann who died in 1802 aged 2 years and 9 months and Samuel (1802–1842). Upon marrying Joshua she became stepmother to his daughter Ann who died on 19 August 1814 and was buried, alongside her half siblings, in the Abel family plot at St Peter's Parish Church.

Frances (1777–1844) came from the politically and socially active Bowker family. Her elder brothers, William Bowker (b 1768) and Jonathan (b 1770), made significant contributions to the building and running of Great and Little Bolton during the early 1800s. Bowker's Row, a small street in the heart of Bolton, is named for them. Both Jonathan and William are found on a list of "Bolton Politicians in 1806," and William was elected Boroughreeve in 1812.

During 1819, in reference to the infamous Peterloo Massacre, William Bowker, as Boroughreeve, wrote a letter advising the local Magistrate that the leading men of the town intended to protest by "meeting publicly to address the Prince Regent on the late proceedings at Manchester on the 16th of August last." Joshua Routledge was among the signers of the letter.

Last Days
Tragically, Routledge contracted a cancerous tumor while in Poland where he died on 8 February 1829 in a state of near penury, having received little or no payment or support from his employers during his illness. An 1888 newspaper article quoted one of the last entries in his diary: "F [Fanny, his wife] been up to Evans for money, but he did not give any; did nothing but abuse me as usual; and she abused him as ill, but he is callous to everything."

After Joshua's death, Frances returned to Bolton with their three children: William (1812–1872), Frances (1814–1872), and Henry (1817–1884). William and Henry went into engineering along with their half-brother Samuel Abel. William and Henry both inherited the inventive spirit of their father, having, between the two, qualified for numerous mechanical patents in their day. Their sister Frances remained unmarried and nothing more of her career is known.

Legacy
The Routledge Engineer's Rule proved to be the model for further slide rule improvements during the 19th and even into the 20th century, including Wilkinson's Routledge's Spinners' Rule, Armstrong's Drafting Rule, Hawthorne's Locomotive Rule, Carrett's General Engineering Rule, and Noble's Eureka Slide Rule. In 1921, James Noble, an engineer at Sheffield, published the 7th edition of his Instructions for the Use of the Eureka Slide Rule in which he acknowledges the "Routledge Rule," stating that "ere long it will have to be taught in all towns throughout the Kingdom, as anyone who has the Rule well in hand will work out questions while another is committing them to paper."

References

External links
 Science Museum Working model of a Rotary Steam Engine patented by J. Routledge, 1818
 Instructions for the use of the Practical Engineer's & Mechanic's Improved Slide Rule as arranged by J. Routledge, engineer.
 Slide Rules Routledge Engineer's Rule by Rabone and Sons
 Classic Slide Rules Routledge Engineer's Rule by Bradburn and Sons

Engineers from Yorkshire
English inventors
1773 births
1829 deaths
19th-century English people
19th-century British engineers
People of the Industrial Revolution
British steam engine engineers
People from Selby District


title: Afromachilis

text:
Afromachilis makungu is the only known member of the genus Afromachilis of the family Machilidae, which is from the order Archaeognatha. It is found in Katanga, a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It has one synonym, Paramachilis makungu Wygodzinsky, 1952

References

Archaeognatha
Invertebrates of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Insects described in 1952
Monotypic insect genera


title: Allium vasilevskajae

text:
Allium vasilevskajae, or Vasilevskaya's onion, is a species of onion that is endemic to Syunik Province in Armenia. It was found in stony places and on screes in the upper montane zone, from elevations of 2,200–2,300 m. It is only known from two collections made half a century ago.

References

vasilevskajae
Endemic flora of Armenia


title: Summer on the Lakes

text:
Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 is a nonfiction book by American writer and transcendentalist Margaret Fuller based on her experiences traveling to the Great Lakes region.

Background
Margaret Fuller wrote the book based on her travel journals while visiting the Great Lakes region and places like  Chicago, Milwaukee, Niagara Falls, and Buffalo, New York. Along the way, she interacted with several Native Americans, including members of the Ottawa and the Chippewa tribes, which she considered anthropologically in the book and, ultimately, presented as people in need of sympathy. During her trip, she was accompanied by Caroline Sturgis Tappan, a close friend and confidante who also was a catalyst to many of Fuller's ideas about art, women, and mysticism.

The genre of the book is difficult to classify. Scholar Dorothy Z. Baker noted that the book has been variously defined as "Transcendental travelogue, a sketchbook, and a social and political tract".

Publication history and response
Fuller began working on the book upon her return to New England. She completed the manuscript on her 34th birthday in 1844.
In preparing the book, she did further research on the region at the library at Harvard College; she is believed to be the first woman allowed to use Harvard's library.

The book was published in May 1844 by Little & Brown; it went into three printings in Fuller's lifetime. Critic Evert Augustus Duyckinck called it "the only genuine book, I can think of, this season." Some critics, however, disliked the lack of coherence in the book. Critic Caleb Stetson in the Christian Examiner wrote that the book was made up of "things connected by no apparent link of association with the objects which seem to fill her eye and mind... except for the fact that they occurred in the course of her reading or were called up from the depths by some mysterious association".

An abridged version edited by her brother Arthur Buckminster Fuller was published posthumously in 1856 in a collection titled At Home and Abroad; or, Things and Thoughts in America and Europe.

References

External links

1844 books
Great Lakes region (U.S.)


title: Acanthophyllum takhtajanii

text:
Acanthophyllum takhtajanii, or Takhtadjyan's allochrusa, is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. It is endemic to Armenia, where it is only found in one location near Surenavan in the Urts Mountains in steppe at 800 m elevation. It is threatened by shifting agriculture and overgrazing.

References

Caryophyllaceae
Critically endangered plants
Endemic flora of Armenia


title: Allopentarthrum

text:
Allopentarthrum is a genus of true weevil. It contains the following species:

 Allopentarthrum elumbe (Boheman, 1838)

Cossoninae


title: 1975 Copa del Generalísimo final

text:
The Copa del Generalísimo 1975 final was the 73rd final of the King's Cup. It was played at the Vicente Calderón Stadium in Madrid on 5 July 1975, Real Madrid defeating Atlético Madrid in a penalty shoot-out after a 0–0 draw.

Match details

See also
Madrid derby

References

1975
1974–75 in Spanish football
Atlético Madrid matches
Association football penalty shoot-outs
Real Madrid CF matches
Madrid Derby matches
July 1975 sports events in Europe


title: Rozka Korczak

text:
Rozka or Ruzka Korczak (1921, Płock – 1988) was a Polish partisan leader during World War II. A Polish Jew, she served in the United Partisan Organization (Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye) and, alongside Vitka Kempner and founder Abba Kovner, assumed a leadership role in its successor group, the Avengers (Nokmim)--the only known undefeated ghetto uprising in the history of the Holocaust.

Early life
Korczak was born in April 1921 in Bieslko, to a cattle dealer. Her family moved to a small village in Płock where she attended public school. In eighth grade, she organized a Jewish student strike to protest Anti-Semitism in the school. As a teenager, she joined a Zionist organization called HaShomer HaTzair (the young guard).

During World War Two
During the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939, Korczak  fled to Lituania and met Vitka Kempner in Vilna thanks to HaShomer HaTzair. Upon Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, she co-founded the United Partisan Organization (FPO) with Abba Kovner  and Kempner in 1942. They smuggled weapons into the Vilna Ghetto and smuggled Jews out.

As the situation worsened in the ghetto, she left it in September 1943 with the last group of fighters passing through the sewers and took refuge in the forests of Rudninkai and Naroch. After the liberation of Vilnius by the Red Army in July 1944, she and her companions focused on helping Jewish refugees and emigration to Palestine. She arrived there on December 12, 1944.

References

1921 births
1988 deaths
People from Płock
Polish emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
Israeli people of Polish-Jewish descent
Hashomer Hatzair members
Jewish female partisans
Jewish resistance members during the Holocaust
Vilna Ghetto inmates
Deaths from cancer in Israel
Zionists


title: Vitka Kempner

text:
Vitka Kempner (; 14 March 1920, Kalisz – 14 February 2012) was a Polish Jewish partisan leader during World War II. She served in the United Partisan Organization (Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye) and, alongside Rozka Korczak and founder Abba Kovner, assumed a leadership role in its successor group, the Avengers (Nokmim).

Early career
Kempner was 19 when the Germans invaded Poland, and she fled to Vilnius, Lithuania. When Lithuania fell to the Germans eight months later, Kempner and tens of thousands of other Jews were forced into a ghetto, where she met Korczak and Kovner. During World War II, their United Partisan Organization, or the FPO, was one of the most famous and successful Jewish partisan groups during the war, responsible for acts of sabotage against the Nazis. Kempner played an integral leading role in the organization, and is famous for blowing up a Nazi train line with a homemade bomb. She and her compatriots smuggled weapons through the city's sewer system, Kempner eventually becoming one of Kovner's closest lieutenants.

The Avengers
After a failed ghetto revolt drove them out of Vilnius, the United Partisan Organization became the Avengers. This militia was based in Rudniki Forest, and from there, they continued to sabotage Nazi operations. They destroyed Vilnius's power and water systems, operating in secret and looting peasant homes to stay alive. They lived in the forest for nine months, until Vilnius was occupied by Soviet forces, aided by the partisans.

Post-war
After the war ended in 1945, Kempner and Kovner continued to fight against the Nazis. They helped evacuate hundreds of European Jews to British Palestine. Kovner also formed a new resistance group known as Nakam, or Revenge. Their goal was to take revenge on the Germans by poisoning the waterworks of important cities, but Kovner was arrested before they could put their plans to action. On April 13, 1946, Kempner and others infiltrated a bakery that supplied bread for Nazi POWs in Nuremberg. They coated 2,300 loaves of bread with arsenic before a guard was alerted and they were forced to flee. Many of the POWs fell ill, but none were reported dead.

Family life

Kempner and Kovner married in 1946. In the same year, they moved to British Palestine, where they had two children. Kovner became a poet, and Kempner a clinical psychologist. They had forty years together before Kovner died in 1987. Kempner died in her home in Israel on 14 February 2012.

Kempner is remembered in the song Shtil, di nakht iz oysgeshternt by Hirsh Glick, which celebrates her heroic attack on a German convoy in the Vilnius sector in 1942.

References

1920 births
2012 deaths
People from Kalisz
Polish emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
Israeli people of Polish-Jewish descent
Jewish female partisans
Nakam
Vilna Ghetto inmates


title: Allopentarthrum elumbe

text:
Allopentarthrum elumbe is a widespread species of true weevil that is found from Hawaii, Colombia, French Guiana, the Galápagos Islands, the West Indies, Ascension Island, Africa, Madagascar, Malaysia, Japan, Papua New Guinea, Lord Howe Island and Samoa. It inhabits tropical forest habitats across its range.

References

Cossoninae
Beetles described in 1838


title: Boxing at the 2006 Asian Games – Men's 91 kg

text:
The men's heavyweight (91 kilograms) event at the 2006 Asian Games took place from 5 to 12 December 2006 at Aspire Hall 5, Doha, Qatar.

Schedule
All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00)

Results
Legend
RSCI — Won by referee stop contest injury
RSCO — Won by referee stop contest outscored
WO — Won by walkover

References

External links
Official website

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title: Footloose Widows

text:
Footloose Widows is a 1926 silent film feature comedy produced and distributed by Warner Bros., directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Louise Fazenda and Jacqueline Logan.

A print is preserved in the Library of Congress collection. A 16mm copy is housed at the Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research.

Cast
Louise Fazenda as Flo
Jacqueline Logan as Marian
Jason Robards, Sr. as Jerry
Douglas Gerrard as Grover
Neely Edwards as The Ex-Mayor
Arthur Hoyt as Henry
Jane Winton as Mrs. Drew
Mack Swain as Ludwig, Marian's husband in retrospect
John Miljan as Mr. Smith
Eddie Phillips as "Tuxedo" Eddie
Henry A. Barrows as Hotel Manager

References

External links

thumb size version lobby poster(Wayback recovered)
Warner Bros. original poster
 lobby poster

1926 films
American silent feature films
Films directed by Roy Del Ruth
Films based on American novels
Silent American comedy films
Warner Bros. films
American black-and-white films
1926 comedy films
1920s American films


title: Boxing at the 2006 Asian Games – Men's 81 kg

text:
The men's light heavyweight (81 kilograms) event at the 2006 Asian Games took place from 6 to 13 December 2006 at Aspire Hall 5, Doha, Qatar.

Schedule
All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00)

Results
Legend
RSCH — Won by referee stop contest head blow
RSCO — Won by referee stop contest outscored

References

External links
Official website

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title: Peter Hallock

text:
Peter Rasmussen Hallock (November 19, 1924, Kent, Washington – April 27, 2014, Fall City, Washington) was an American organist, choirmaster, liturgist, countertenor, and composer and arranger of church music (anthems, hymns, psalm settings, and music for the Episcopal liturgy). Though he occasionally gave concerts, lectures, and seminars around the United States, his career was centered in Seattle, Washington. From 1951 to 1991 he served as organist and choirmaster at St. Mark's Cathedral, Seattle, during which he was conferred the title of Canon Precentor, the first layperson in the Episcopal Church (United States) to be so honored. Later, he served as organist at St. Clements (Seattle) until 2013. He also founded the Compline Choir from its predecessor chant study group in 1956; he led the choir until 2009. He never married.

Biography

After WWII, when he was discharged from the Army, Hallock pursued organ studies at the University of Washington, and also studied at the Royal School of Church Music. In 1986, with Carl Crosier, he founded Ionian Arts, a music publishing business.

Selected Compositions
 Psalms 134 & 4
 Psalm 23
 Psalm 91
 Psalm 139
 Bring Us, O Lord God
 Draw On Sweet Night
 Easter Canticle
 If We Could Shut the Gate
 Ionian Psalter
 Lamentations of Jeremiah 1: 1-2
 The Lord Is My Light
 Peace
 Phoenix
 To the Supreme Being
 Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem

Notes

References
The Life and Works of Peter R. Hallock (b. 1924), Doctoral Dissertation by Jason Anderson, DMA, 2007
Prayer As Night Falls Companion material to the book by long-time member of the Compline Choir, Kenneth Peterson
An interview with Peter Hallock, Video interview conducted in August 2013 at Peter's home, with session footage of the Byrd Ensemble singing three of Peter's compositions

External links
Works available from the Peter R. Hallock Institute
Works available from IONIAN ARTS, Inc.
Works available from GIA Publications, Inc.
Obituary from the Compline Choir
Obituary from the Seattle Times
Obituary from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Caution: contains factual errors)

American church music
1924 births
2014 deaths
American male composers
American composers
American male organists
People from Kent, Washington
University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences alumni
American organists
Countertenors


title: High School Affiliated to Minzu University of China

text:
The High School Affiliated to Minzu University Of China (), colloquially Mindafuzhong abbreviated to MDFZ (), is the affiliated high school of Minzu University of China, and is one of the prestigious high schools in Beijing.

Notable Alumni

Achievement
Since its establishment in 1913, the school has been given awards by State Ethnic Affairs Commission and Beijing Municipality Education Commission.

Notable alumni

Academics

Law and Politics
 Ulanhu () - Vice-President to the People's Republic of China (1983-1988).

Business and Media

Writers

Others

High schools in Beijing
Minzu University
Educational institutions established in 1913
1913 establishments in China


title: Gold Drum and Bugle Corps

text:
The Gold Drum and Bugle Corps is an Open Class competitive junior drum and bugle corps. Based in Oceanside, California, Gold performs in Drum Corps International (DCI) competitions.

History
Sources:

The Hawthorne Gold Drum and Bugle Corps was founded in 2005 in Hawthorne, California, by Dr. Donald Flaherty & Juan C. Leguizamon. Dr. Flaherty was the corps' executive director until 2022.

For its first five seasons, the corps competed only within the state of California. In 2010, the corps relocated to Oceanside, in order to be accessible to more of the youth of Southern California and changed its name to Gold Drum and Bugle Corps.

The corps first ventured out of California in 2011, traveling to Salt Lake City for one performance, then on to Loveland and Denver, Colorado for DCI's Drums Along the Rockies regional competitions.

Gold first attended the DCI World Championships in 2007, when DCI traveled west to Pasadena. Since 2012, Gold has traveled to the Midwest to attend the DCI World Championships in Michigan City, Marion, and Indianapolis, Indiana.

In 2013, Gold was joined by students from the Laizhou Martial Arts Institute of Laizhou, China as performers in the corps' show, "East Meets West." The school had been featured performers in the 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony.

Sponsorship
The Gold Drum and Bugle Corps is sponsored by Gold Youth Arts Organization, Inc., a 501(c)(3) musical organization. The Executive Director is Kevin Valentine.

Show summary (2005–2023)
Source:

References

External links
Official website

Drum Corps International Open Class corps
Musical groups established in 2005
Organizations based in California
2005 establishments in California


title: Zedd discography

text:
Russian-born German DJ Zedd has released two studio albums, one compilation album, 13 music videos, three extended plays, 37 singles (including two as a featured artist) and 30 remixes.

Albums

Studio albums

Compilation album

Extended plays

Singles

As lead artist

As featured artist

Other appearances

Video games
Zedd has a total of 3 songs which appear in the Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) arcade series. One of these, "Break Free", was also present in Dance Rush.

Production discography

Remixes

Music videos

As lead artist

As featured artist

Notes

References

Discography
Discographies of German artists
House music discographies


title: Greetings from California

text:
Greetings from California is the debut studio album by The Madden Brothers, whose members consist of Joel and Benji Madden from pop punk band Good Charlotte, which was released on September 16, 2014, in the United States. The album's first single, "We Are Done", premiered on May 30, 2014, on 102.7 KIIS FM. The music video for the single premiered on June 30, 2014. The album was made available for pre-ordering on the iTunes Store on July 4, 2014, with "California Rain" made available for immediate download.

The album is split into two "sides". The first filled with upbeat, sunny pop rock produced by their long-time collaborator Eric Valentine, who also produced Good Charlotte's The Young and the Hopeless and The Chronicles of Life and Death. Side two is produced by Joe Chiccarelli, is inspired by  "70s-era FM pop".

Track listing

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Release history

References

External links

2014 debut albums
The Madden Brothers albums
Capitol Records albums
Albums produced by Joe Chiccarelli


title: DHA City

text:
DHA City Karachi is a housing estate being built in Gadap Town, which is located in the outskirts of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. The project spans over 11,640 acres.

Located 56 kilometers from Karachi, the community is planned to be self-dependent for water and electricity.  According to the Defence Housing Authority (DHA) master plan unveiled in 2011, construction costs are forecasted at 1 billion dollars and include two theme parks, one hospital, one university, 20 colleges and 40 schools.

Transport

Airport
DHA City Karachi is located at a distance of 35 km from Jinnah International Airport, the largest airport of Pakistan.

Road

DHA City is accessible from the city of Karachi as well as Hyderabad by M-9 Motorway. The project is situated at a distance of 56 km from the city core area of Karachi.

To connect the DHA City Karachi with the DHA, the project developers planned the Malir Expressway. Sindh government started construction on Malir Expressway in 2022. The Expressway once completed in 2024 will cut down hour-long journey into just a 20 minute drive.

As per the DCK Transportation Plan there will be a myriad of road networks, major intersections, collector roads, service roads, roundabouts, one way regimes and the concept of using maximum public transport.

Public Transport
Public transportation consists of two street car trams, articulated modern buses, pedestrian areas and parking lots.

Bus Rapid Transit
The Karachi Bus Rapid Transit System (BRT) has been extended to DHA City Karachi.

See also
 City District Government
 Karachi
 Sindh
 LDA City

References

External links
 DHA Karachi
 Karachi Metropolitan Corporation

Neighbourhoods of Karachi
Gadap Town


title: Frederick Porter Smith

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Frederick Porter Smith (1833–1888) was one of the first British medical missionaries to China, in the 19th century.  The Wesleyan Missionary Committee sent him to Hankow, China, for both philanthropic and evangelical reasons late in 1863.

Writings
He wrote several books on China while there and after his return; his 1871 work is only the second English-language work to mention soybean sprouts. Smith also reported on the use of tobacco and of opium in his territory, opining that moderate opium use was "not incompatible with the health of those who practice it".

Works
 The Rivers of China (1869)
 A Vocabulary Of Proper Names, In Chinese And English: Of Places, Persons, Tribes, And Sects, In China, Japan, Korea, Annam, Siam, Burma (1870)

 Chinese Materia Medica: Vegetable Kingdom (1911) (with George Arthur Stuart)

References

English Methodist missionaries
Methodist missionaries in China
Christian medical missionaries
1833 births
1888 deaths
British expatriates in China


title: Ruyi Masood Textile Park

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Ruyi Masood Textile Park is an integrated industrial-textile park located in M-3 Industrial Estate in Faisalabad, Punjab province of Pakistan.

References

Buildings and structures in Faisalabad
Industrial parks in Pakistan


The International Fingerprint Research Group (IFRG) is forensic identification researcher group that gather together to exchange scientific knowledge in forensic identification.

The IFRG is regrouping the most active researchers in the world in the forensic identification field and was founded in September 1974. IFRG conferences are attended through personal invitations only.

Foundation and principles
The International Fingerprint Research Group (IFRG) is regrouping every second year to discuss and investigate various aspects of fingermark evidence, including development techniques and fingerprint identification. The IFRG strives to gather together researcher under the Gordon Research Conferences principles, encouraging formal and informal exchanges, where international representatives present and discuss frontier research in the biological, chemical, and physical sciences, and their related technologies.  It also support integration of young scientist in the field.

Conferences

 1974 - London, UK
 1984 - London, UK
 1987 - Quantico, USA
 1988 - Washington D.C., USA
 1991 - Washington D.C., USA
 1993 - Washington D.C., USA
 1995 - Ne’urim, Israel
 1996 - Hertfordshire, UK
 1999 - Ottawa, Canada
 2001 - Naurod, Germany
 2003 - Hertfordshire, UK
 2005 - The Hague, The Netherlands
 2007 - Canberra, Australia
 2009 - Lausanne, Switzerland
 2011 - Linköping, Sweden
 2013 - Jerusalem, Israel
 2015 - Patiala, India
 2017 - Beijing, China
 2019 - Sheffield, UK
 2021 - Postpone COVID
 2023 - The Hague, Netherlands

Documentation produced

The IFRG produce the following documentation:

 “Guidelines for the Assessment of Fingermark Detection Techniques,” Journal of Forensic Identification, vol. 64, pp. 174–200, 2014.

See also
 Forensics

References

 The International Fingerprint Research Group

External links
 IFRG Website

Forensics organizations
Criminal investigation
Organizations established in 1974
International scientific organizations


title: Board of Revenue, Sindh

text:
The Board of Revenue of Sindh, Pakistan is responsible for collecting all tax revenue of the Government of Sindh. Board of Revenue is the Controlling authority in all matters connected with the administration of Revenue collection including land taxes, land revenue, preparation of land record and other matters relating to providing relief to those affected by calamites.

The department is headed by the senior member. It is an extremely influential BPS-21 post and wields tremendous power. Currently the office of the senior m Below the senior member in hierarchy comes the secretary board of revenue. Munawar Ali Mahesar, an officer of ex-PCS, BS—19, has held the post of secretary board of revenue Sindh for 3 times, the highest number by any officer.

External links
 http://borsindh.gov.pk/ Board of Revenue, Sindh

Government agencies of Sindh


title: The Vault (Coffee Shop)

text:
The Vault is an unmanned self-serve coffee shop, bakery, book store and center for the arts located in Valley City, North Dakota. In June 2014 The Vault received international attention for its unique business model.

History

The Vault was the result of a three and a half year renovation project of a former bank building in Valley City, North Dakota. The bank was originally built in 1920 as The Bank of Valley City, later it became Farmer's and Merchant Bank, and was later abandoned. The building was purchased in 2000 by Paul Stenshoel, and the main room of the lower level gifted to David Brekke in 2009 for use as a coffee shop and community center.

Honor System

The Vault has no employees or price scanners. Customers take products and pay via credit card, check or cash on the honor system. There are cameras but their main purpose is intended to be to provide a safe atmosphere. The food and drink are priced, but the books are priced as patrons see fit. In the interview by Boerner, Brekke said that customers have been "15% more honest, than thieving."

Media coverage

On June 20, 2014 Aaron Boerner of KVRR Fargo covered story on The Vault focusing on its unique business model. On June 23 the story was aired by CNN nationally. On the morning of June 24 the story was aired on TV stations across the United States, leading to a subsequent interview by NY Daily News.

References

External links
. Official site of The Vault.
. The KVRR video as aired on CNN.
. Video of The Vault being discussed on Good Morning Connecticut.
. Video of The Vault being discussed on Abilene Today.
. Article by NY Daily News.

Restaurants in North Dakota
Coffeehouses and cafés in the United States
Valley City, North Dakota


title: Boxing at the 2006 Asian Games – Men's 75 kg

text:
The men's middleweight (75 kilograms) event at the 2006 Asian Games took place from 5 to 12 December 2006 at Aspire Hall 5, Doha, Qatar.

Schedule
All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00)

Results
Legend
RET — Won by retirement
RSC — Won by referee stop contest
RSCI — Won by referee stop contest injury
RSCO — Won by referee stop contest outscored

References

External links
Official website

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title: I Get Hot

text:
I Get Hot is the debut studio album from the American contemporary R&B group LeVert, released in  via independent imprint Tempre Records. The album did not chart in the United States; however, the lead single, "I'm Still", peaked at #70 on the Billboard R&B chart.

Track listing

Personnel

LeVert
 Gerald Levert – lead vocals, backing vocals
 Sean Levert – percussion, backing vocals
 Marc Gordon – keyboards, backing vocals

Additional musicians
 Billy Biddle – keyboards
 Randy Cantor – keyboards
 Matt Rose – keyboards
 Mick Rossi – keyboards
 Dexter Wansel – keyboards
 David Webster – keyboards
 Kae Williams Jr. – keyboards
 Robert Cunningham – guitars, backing vocals
 Russell Evans – guitars
 Norman Harris – guitars
 Willie Ross – guitars
 Quinton Rueben – guitars
 Mike Ferguson – bass, backing vocals
 Dwayne Simon – drums, backing vocals
 Perry Wilson – drums
 Donald Murphy – backing vocals

Production
 Harry J. Coombs – producer
 Eddie Levert – producer
 Gerald Levert – producer
 Dexter Wansel – producer
 Matt Rose – producer
 Walter Williams – producer
 Gene Leone – engineer
 Arthur Stoppe – engineer
 Mike Tarisa – engineer
 Barry Craig – assistant engineer
 Scott MacMinn – assistant engineer
 Glenn McKee – assistant engineer
 Chris Pukay – assistant engineer
 Billy Terrill – remixing (1, 5, 7, 8)
 Nimitr Sarikananda – mastering at Frankford/Wayne Mastering Labs (New York, NY)
 Ruben Benson – art direction
 Bob Alford – photography

References

External links

1985 debut albums
Albums recorded at Sigma Sound Studios
LeVert albums


title: Janet McLachlan

text:
Janet McLachlan  (born August 26, 1977)  is a Canadian 4.5 point wheelchair basketball player who won a bronze medal at the 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Birmingham, and gold at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto.

Biography
Janet Margaret McLachlan was born in North Vancouver, British Columbia, on August 26, 1977. She was born into a family with a long history of participation in sports. Her father played Canadian football for the University of British Columbia, was drafted by the Canadian Football League, and played rugby in British Columbia and New Zealand.  Her mother won both the Canadian over-65 singles and over-65 doubles tennis championships in 2009, and represented Canada at the World Senior Tennis Championships. McLachlan attended the University of Victoria, earning a Bachelor of Science degree, and the University of Alberta, where she earned a Bachelor of Education degree.

McLachlan played basketball for  the University of Victoria Vikes from 1995 to 2000, during which time they won national championships in 1998 and 2000. She was also a member of the Canadian International University Sports Federation (FISU) Games team in Beijing in 2001. In addition, she played rugby with the Team Canada A and B squads from 2002 to 2005. In an attempt to gain selection for the Canadian national team for the 2006 Women's Rugby World Cup, she badly mangled her knee.

An Edmonton Rockers teammate suggested that McLachlan try playing wheelchair basketball in order to stay fit while recovering, and put McLachlan in touch with Danielle Peers of the Edmonton Inferno. She made the national team in 2008, in time to participate in the  2008 Summer Paralympic Games in Beijing. She then went to the University of Alabama, one of five universities in the United States with a wheelchair basketball team. She studied interior design, and became particularly interested in residential design incorporating accessibility and longevity. The University of Alabama  gave her the opportunity to practice and hone her wheelchair basketball skills. In return, she helped the University of Alabama's Crimson Tide  win back-to-back Championships in 2009 and 2010. She was named the tournament MVP in 2010.

McLachlan was part of the Canadian team that won bronze at the 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Birmingham, England, where she was top scorer and rebounder in any team, with seven double-doubles in seven games. Afterwards she accepted an offer to join the Trier Dolphins in Germany in 2010, playing along with Canadian teammate Tara Feser.  In 2012, she signed with Giulianova in the Italian Wheelchair Basketball League.  She again led all players in scores and rebounds at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. She still played for the BC Breakers as well from 2006, and was named MVP at the 2010, 2012 and 2014 tournaments. She was part of the team that won a gold medal at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto in July 2014, and silver at the 2015 Parapan American Games in August 2015.

In 2013, McLachlan won first place in the Stanley Park Open wheelchair tennis tournament in the women's singles division.

Awards
 Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2013)
 Wheelchair Basketball Canada Female Athlete of the Year (2011)
 BC Wheelchair Basketball Female Athlete of the Year (2009)

References

External links

 Interview: Janet McLachlan (Canada) | 2014 IWBF Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship

1977 births
Canadian women's wheelchair basketball players
Living people
Paralympic wheelchair basketball players for Canada
Sportspeople from North Vancouver
Wheelchair basketball players at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Wheelchair basketball players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Wheelchair basketball players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics


title: The Master Strikes

text:
The Master Strikes (Also known as Fist of Tiger or Crazy Tiger Fist) is 1980 Hong Kong comedy martial arts movie set in 1920s and 1930s China. the film was directed by Kao Pao-shu and starring Casanova Wong, Meng Yuen-Man and Ching Siu-Tung.

Plot

The film is set in the Qing period before Sun Yat-sen's revolt. Chen, a bodyguard, is entrusted by Lung Tung Chien to protect a rare treasure. After having a hard time to protecting the treasure (sleeping on the top to make sure the treasure is safe), he finds out it has been stolen. As a result, he becomes violently insane. The two con men Lung and Li find out about Chen and the treasure's connection, and they decide to help Chen to find the treasure in an attempt to get rich.

Cast

Casanova Wong as Chen
Meng Yuen-Man as Li
Ching Siu-Tung as Lung (action director)
Yen Shi Kwan as Lung Tung Chien
Meg Lam Kin-Ming
Max Lee Chiu Jun as Beggar Su
Chap Lap-Ban as old prostitute
Hon Kwok Choi as waiter at the restaurant (cameo, uncredited)
Wong Mei Mei
Tony Leung Siu Hung as thug (assistant action director)
Eddy Co Hung
Fong Ping as prostitute
Mama Hung as prostitute
Yuen Bo
Lee Fat Yuen as thug (extra, uncredited)

Reception

Carl Davis of DVD Talk rated it 2.5/5 stars and compared it negatively to the contemporaneous films of Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung.  J. Doyle Wallis, also writing for DVD Talk, rated it 2.5/5 stars and called it "a bit of low budget, martial comedy silliness."

References

External links

1980 films
Hong Kong action films
1980 martial arts films
Hong Kong martial arts films
1980s Hong Kong films


title: Alopecurus creticus

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Alopecurus creticus, the Cretan meadow foxtail, is a species of foxtail grass.

It is a bunchgrass native to Bulgaria, Serbia, North Macedonia, Greece, the east Aegean Islands, Crete and Turkey. It can be found in marshes and wet places near sea level, and wet grasslands near freshwater sub-saline grassy flats.

It is threatened by coastal development and marsh draining.

References

creticus
Bunchgrasses of Europe
Flora of Southeastern Europe
Flora of Crete
Flora of Malta


title: USA Marathon Championships

text:
The USA Marathon Championships is the annual national championships for marathon running in the United States. The race serves as a way of designating the American national champion for the marathon. The men's race was first contested in 1925 and a women's race was added to the program in 1974.

Since 1968, in years which the Summer Olympics are held the event serves as a way of selecting the athletes who will represent the United States at the Olympic Games, with the top three eligible finishers selected to be on the Olympic team and the fourth and fifth eligible finishers being designated as alternates. During these years, the race is more commonly referred to as the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials and it is much more competitive.

Men's results

Multiple winners

Women's results

Multiple winners

Records

See also
USA Half Marathon Championships
USA Cross Country Championships
USA Indoor Track and Field Championships
USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships

References

General
USA Champions Men's Marathon. USATF. Retrieved on 2014-07-08
USA Champions Women's Marathon. USATF. Retrieved on 2014-07-08
2012 US Olympic trials Marathon History Media Guide. Retrieved on 2014-07-08

External links
USA Track and Field website

Marathon
Recurring sporting events established in 1925

Marathon
Marathon
USA Marathon Championships


title: Alopecurus setarioides

text:
Alopecurus setarioides is a species of foxtail grass that is found in France, Greece, Italy and Turkey. It prefers wet places, including ditches.

References

setarioides
Bunchgrasses of Europe
Flora of France
Flora of Greece
Flora of Italy
Flora of Turkey


title: Sultan Al Ghaferi

text:
Sultan Al Ghaferi () (born 18 September 1986) is an Emirati professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for UAE Pro League club Al Dhafra. He transferred from Baniyas to Al Ain in the summer of 2013.

External links

References

1986 births
Living people
Baniyas Club players
Al Ain FC players
Al Wahda FC players
Al Jazira Club players
Al Dhafra FC players
People from Abu Dhabi
Emirati men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
United Arab Emirates men's international footballers
UAE First Division League players
UAE Pro League players


title: Voto, Spain

text:
Voto is a municipality in Cantabria, Spain.

References

Municipalities in Cantabria


title: Meruelo, Spain

text:
Meruelo is a municipality in Cantabria, Spain.

References

Municipalities in Cantabria


title: Solórzano

text:
Solórzano is a municipality in Cantabria, Spain.

References

Municipalities in Cantabria


title: June 2014 Borno State attacks

text:
From 20 to 23 June 2014, a series of attacks occurred in Borno State, Nigeria.  91 women and children were kidnapped in the attacks and more than 70 people were killed.

Background
Boko Haram is an Islamic terrorist group opposed to what it considers to be the Westernization of Nigeria, which they have stated is the root cause of criminal behaviour in the country. Thousands of people have been killed in attacks perpetrated by the group, and the federal government declared a state of emergency in May 2013 in Borno State in its fight against the insurgency. The resulting crackdown, however, has failed to stabilise the country.

Boko Haram's attacks have intensified in 2014. In February, the group killed more than 100 Christian men in the villages of Doron Baga and Izghe. Also in February, 59 boys were killed in the Federal Government College attack in Yobe State.

By mid-April, Boko Haram had been blamed for nearly 4,000 deaths in 2014. Militants then attacked a school and kidnapped 276 girls, of which 57 escaped, in Chibok.  The incident brought international attention on the situation in Nigeria, and Western nations promised to help fight Boko Haram. Negotiations to trade the girls for captured militants took place, but the talks stalled and president Goodluck Jonathan announced the government would not consider a trade. As of June, the girls were still unaccounted for. The Nigerian military says they are aware of where the girls are being held, but are afraid to use force for fear that Boko Haram will kill the girls if attacked. Vigilante groups have formed throughout the North, with modest success in repelling attacks.

Attacks, however, have continued.  On 20 May 118 people were killed in a pair of bombings in Jos. The following day, two dozen people were killed in a raid on a village. On 1 June, around 40 people were killed in a bombing in Mubi. On June 2, 2014, in an event that has been called the Gwoza massacre, "No fewer than 300 villagers were reportedly killed in three communities around Gwoza local government area of Borno State".

Kidnappings
Over several days, around the weekend of 21–22 June, suspected Boko Haram militants attacked the village of Kummabza and three others in the Damboa district of Borno State, according to eyewitnesses. The attackers took 60 women and girls, and 31 boys in the attack. Some of the women were married and the children were as young as three. Vigilante leader Aji Khalil said four villagers who tried to escape the attackers were shot. An eyewitness said closer to 30 men had been killed in the attack.

After the attack, elderly villagers walked  to report the attack and seek help. Borno governor Kashim Shettima ordered an official probe, but when the news leaked the national government denied any abductions had taken place. A government spokesperson stated there was "nothing on the ground to prove any act of abduction" and claimed Shettima had determined the missing women had merely moved to another village. A local politician and multiple eyewitnesses, however confirmed the abduction report to Agence France-Presse. An intelligence officer with Nigeria's Department of State Security confirmed to the Associated Press that an attack had taken place on condition of anonymity. However, he reported that the abductions had taken place a week earlier, between 13 and 15 June.

Bombings and shootings
On 21 and 22 June, suspected Boko Haram militants attacked the villages of Chuha A, Chuha B, and Korongilim near Chibok.  The attackers were met by military and vigilante resistance. The towns were destroyed and at least 40 villagers were killed in the fighting. Six vigilantes and about twenty-five militants were also killed in the attacks. A government official described the scene: "Corpses of affected people ... littered the three villages."

On 23 June, a bomb explosion at a college in Kano killed 8 people and injured about 20 others. On the night of 28 June, a bomb exploded at a brothel in Bauchi that resulted in 11 deaths and 28 injuries.

Analysis
Analyst Jacob Zenn suggested the new attacks showed that international efforts to launch a counterattack against Boko Haram were stalled. Security analyst Ryan Cumming said the new kidnappings may be an attack to direct attention from the Chibok kidnappings, and to intensify pressure to make a hostage exchange deal.

Aftermath
On 7 July 2014 it was reported that more than 60 of the kidnapped women had escaped from Boko Haram.

References

2014 murders in Nigeria
Boko Haram kidnappings
Massacres perpetrated by Boko Haram
Mass murder in Borno State
Improvised explosive device bombings in Nigeria
Kidnapped Nigerian children
Kidnappings in Nigeria
Mass murder in 2014
Terrorist incidents in Nigeria in 2014
June 2014 events in Africa
Mass kidnappings of the 2010s


title: San Pedro del Romeral

text:
San Pedro del Romeral is a municipality in Cantabria, Spain.

References

Municipalities in Cantabria


title: Ribamontán al Mar

text:
Ribamontán al Mar is a municipality in Cantabria, Spain.

References

Municipalities in Cantabria


title: Echedemos

text:
Echedemos (; fl. 190 BC) was a Greek statesman of ancient Athens.

Biography

Echedemos, son of Mnesitheos, Kydathenaieus, was a member of an important family, part of Athenian aristocracy.

He had at least two sons, Mnesitheos and Arketos, born circa 200 BC or slightly later.

In 190 BC, Echedemos was the head of the Athenian embassy that negotiated a truce between the Roman Republic and the Aetolian League.

In 185/184 BC he played a significant role in the reorganization of the Delphic Amphictyonic League.

In the year of 170/169 BC he is thought to have been the city's mint master.

Embassy
Echedemos was the leader of the Athenian embassy (princeps legationis eorum) that mediated in a conflict between Aetolians and Romans in 190 BC.

These negotiations are reported in detail by the Greek historian Polybius (The Histories, XXI.4–5) and Roman historian Livy (The History of Rome, XXXVII.6–7).

Amphictyonic League
In 185/184 BC Echedemos played a significant role in the reorganization of the Delphic Amphictyonic League.

This is attested by two inscriptions, one from Delphi and one from Athens.

Epigrams

Echedemos is probably the subject of two epigrams from the Palatine Anthology, by the Athenian poet Artemon.

In one poem, in which Echedemos is still a boy "in his prime", the poet is in love and steals a kiss from him:

The poet's dread has been interpreted as referring to the high social status and power of Echedemos's family, who could cause considerable harm to the poet if his advances were judged too bold.

In the second poem, in which Echedemos has grown up, he is given a much more elaborate set of compliments:

Here, he is called "a second Attic Phoebus", Phoebus (literally "radiant") being a common epithet of Apollo. This comparison is certainly a reference to his beauty, but could also refer to a personal device he later stamped on Athenian coins. Echedemos is also called "the lord of the land of Cecrops", i.e. lord of Athens, indicating his high social standing and wealth. Two final lines, lamenting the former glory of Athens, indicate the date for the epigram in the beginning of the 2nd century BC when ever waning power of Athens allowed Romans to increase their influence in Greece and broader Hellenistic world (conflict with Aetolians being one example).

Coinage

Some time in the second century BC Athens have established a new iconography of coinage, with obverse featuring a head of Athena and reverse showing an owl with additional images, symbols and inscriptions identifying, among other things, the people responsible for minting the coins.

Among these Athenian New Style coins there is a whole series bearing letters EXE on the reverse, possibly dating from 170–169 BC. These have been cited as a proof that Echedemos was the Athenian mint master at the time. The office of the mint master was given almost exclusively to members of the Athenian aristocracy, conferring the almost royal honour to place one's name and emblem on the city's coins.

Below the monogram, the coins bear a small device of a head or bust of Helios, with a crown of rays above seemingly rich curly voluminous hair. This emblem could be an allusion to the fair looks of Echedemos, paralleling the comparison to Apollo in an epigram by Artemon.

Portrait

A portrait on a ring from the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore was tentatively identified as that of Echemedos.

The portrait is a garnet intaglio of circa 220 BC. It is set into an original elaborate gold swivel ring. The work can be confidently dated as it is signed by engraver Apollonios (ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟ[Σ or Υ]), who also carved and signed a portrait of a very young Antiochus III (also called Antiochus the Great, ruled Seleucid Empire in 222–187 BC). Apollonios might have also been responsible for making coin dies for Antiochus III, as some of his coins bear monogram ΑΠΟ, although this is controversial. Several seal impressions — one of Antiochus III, one of Antiochus IV, and six of an unknown nobleman — excavated in Seleucia on the Tigris in modern Iraq, all unsigned, have been ascribed to Apollonios or his circle on stylistic grounds. Influence of his work has been deduced in coins of Antiochus III minted in Antiokheia. Apollonios was certainly an engraver of the first rank, but nothing else is known about him as his is a very common name. He has been hypothesized to be an Athenian who worked for some time in the Seleucid and possibly other Hellenistic courts.

Dating of the ring to around 220 BC agrees with what is known about Echedemos. His two sons were born circa 200 BC, so twenty years earlier he must have been fairly young.

Remarkably, two ancient partial impressions of this (or a very similar) ring have been excavated in Aetolian Kallipolis, near modern Lidoriki in Greece. They were found, among many other portraits, in the clay sealings from the "House of the Archives" that was burnt down, along with the whole city, shortly after the Battle of Pydna in 168 BC. They come from the correspondence between two prominent Aetolian generals (Agetas Lochagou and Lochagos  Ageta) and important people of the time, including Roman general Scipio Africanus.

The ring was reportedly found at Panticapaeum (modern Kerch) in the Crimea. If this is indeed the case, there are several ways it could get from Athens to the Bosporus. Athens partly depended in its grain supply on the colonies of the Black Sea, and Echedemos could have sent the ring as a present to a king, a dignitary or even a merchant in the area during trade negotiations. Alternatively, it could travel back home with mercenaries of the northern Black Sea coast, who are known to have served all over Hellenistic world, even as far as Ptolemaic Egypt.

Identification is by no means concrete. Other suggestions include: an uncertain, perhaps Bosporan, king; a royal courtier, possibly Hermeias, the chief minister of Seleucus III; and, given the absence of any insignia, a private individual. Older identification as Bosporan king Asander (110–17 BC, ruled 44–17 BC) has since been disproven.

Notes

References
 Adolf Furtwängler (1900). Die antiken Gemmen: Geschichte der Steinschneidekunst im Klassischen Altertum.
 Robert Allen Gross (2008). Hellenistic royal iconography in glyptics. Doctoral thesis, Rutgers University.

 Gisela M. A. Richter (1956). Catalogue of Engraved Gems: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. 2006 reprint, online preview

External links

 Ring with a possible portrait of Echedemos, Walters Art Museum.

2nd-century BC Greek politicians
2nd-century BC Athenians
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
Ancient Greek ambassadors


title: Ruente

text:
Ruente is a municipality in Cantabria, Spain. It is situated in the lowest part of the Cabuerniga valley and it is the biggest village in the zone.

La Fuentona

Ruente is well known for its natural water source, La Fuentona, and the medieval bridge and modern park which are situated next to it.

References

Municipalities in Cantabria


title: Zhou Yuelong

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Zhou Yuelong (; born 24 January 1998) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He has been runner-up at three ranking events, the January 2020 European Masters, the 2020 Snooker Shoot Out, and the 2022 Northern Ireland Open.

Career
Between 2011 and 2014, Zhou was regularly selected to play in the wildcard round of Chinese ranking events. He could only win two of the nine he played in and was knocked out in the first round in both of those. Zhou won the 2013 IBSF World Snooker Championship which enabled him to join the snooker tour for the 2014–15 season.

2014/2015 season
Zhou turned pro in 2014. His first win as a professional came at attempt number one as he defeated Alfie Burden 5–3 to qualify for the 2014 Wuxi Classic, where he lost 5–3 to Graeme Dott in the first round. Zhou defeated compatriot Liang Wenbo 6–2 to qualify for the International Championship and won his first ever match at a ranking event by eliminating Chris Melling 6–1, before being edged out 6–5 by Ricky Walden. He made his debut in a ranking event outside China at the UK Championship, but lost 6–1 to Jimmy Robertson in the first round. At the minor-ranking Xuzhou Open, Zhou saw off Barry Pinches to reach the quarter-finals where Thepchaiya Un-Nooh beat him 4–2. This helped him finish 15th on the Order of Merit. Zhou's second last 32 appearance at a ranking event this season came at the China Open and, after winning the first two frames, he lost 5–2 to David Gilbert. He was the world number 75 after his debut season on tour.

Zhou was selected to take part in the non-ranking 2015 Snooker World Cup with 15-year old Yan Bingtao as part of China's "B" team; China were allowed a second team as the hosts. They were 50/1 outsiders but topped their group, knocking out England in the process, and then in the knock-out stages beat Australia, Wales and Scotland in the final and pocketed a cheque of US$200,000 between them. Defeated finalist Stephen Maguire stated that he believed he had watched two future world champions.

2015/2016 season
Zhou saw off Sam Baird 6–4 to qualify for the 2015 International Championship and beat Martin Gould 6–2 and Sanderson Lam 6–0 to reach the last 16 of a ranking event for the first time, where he lost 6–5 to Thepchaiya Un-Nooh. His World Cup win gained him entry into the Champion of Champions and he edged out reigning world champion Stuart Bingham 4–3, before losing 6–3 to Kyren Wilson in the quarter-finals. In the UK Championship Zhou defeated Craig Steadman 6–3, before exiting 6–1 in the second round to Shaun Murphy. He qualified for the China Open and lost 5–2 to John Higgins in the opening round. Zhou almost played in the World Championship for the first time, but was defeated in the final qualifying round 10–7 by compatriot Zhang Anda. He entered the top 64 in the world rankings for the first time at the end of the season, as he was 54th.

2016/2017 season
Zhou got to the last 16 of the 2016 International Championship with wins over Anthony McGill and Mark Joyce, but lost 6–2 to John Higgins. He progressed through to the same stage of the UK Championship by defeating his World Cup partner Yan Bingtao 6–5 and was beaten 6–2 by Shaun Murphy. Zhou dropped just two frames in four matches at the Welsh Open to reach his first ranking event quarter-final, but was whitewashed 5–0 by Scott Donaldson. He beat Christopher Keogan 10–5, Ian Preece 10–8 and Ben Woollaston 10–9 to qualify for his first World Championship and said he hoped to draw Ronnie O'Sullivan in the opening round. Instead he faced Ding Junhui and was defeated 10–5. Zhou broke in to the top 32 in the world rankings for the first time at the end of the season.

2017/2018 season
Zhou reached the semi-finals of a ranking event for the first time at the European Masters. He defeated Robbie Williams, Oliver Lines, Michael Georgiou, Peter Lines, and Anthony McGill, before losing 6–4 to Stuart Bingham. He has also reached the final of the Championship League (it was a non-ranking event), but lost 3–2 to John Higgins.

2018/2019 season
In his match against Lyu Haotian at the Indian Open, Zhou made his first official maximum break in the fourth frame, but eventually lost the match 3–4. Zhou also qualified for the World Snooker Championship again after beating Robin Hull, Liam Highfield, and Eden Sharav in the qualifying rounds. He recorded his first win in the tournament by defeating Mark Allen 10–7, but lost to Ali Carter 13–9 in the second round.

2019/2020 season
In January 2020, Zhou reached his maiden ranking final at the European Masters after wins over Mark Williams and Barry Hawkins, and Gary Wilson. The semi-final against Wilson started at 8pm and finished after midnight in a deciding frame. The following day Zhou was beaten by Neil Robertson 9–0 in the final, becoming the second player ever to be whitewashed in a two-session ranking event final. Zhou reached another ranking final in February, but lost to Michael Holt at the Shoot Out.

With the outbreak of COVID-19, Zhou returned to his home in west China. Facing a multitude of travelling and quarantine complications, he did not return for the resumption of the season, and missed the World Championship. He finished the season ranked 25.

2020/2021 season
Zhou had a stellar performance in the UK Championship, reaching his first Triple Crown semi-final. After his win over John Higgins in the last 16, Higgins tipped him to become the next Chinese player to make a major breakthrough in snooker. Zhou made his second maximum break of his career at the Scottish Open in his win over Peter Lines.

At the World Championship Zhou, ranked 17, was the top seed in the qualification rounds. He beat Xu Si 6–5, after producing a remarkable clearance to level the scores 5-5. However, in the final qualifying round he lost to Liam Highfield 10–7. Zhou finished the season ranked 17.

2021/2022 season
Zhou reached the quarter-finals of the second ranking tournament of the season, the British Open, losing in the deciding frame to Elliot Slessor. However, the rest of his season was comparatively unsuccessful. He missed three ranking events early in the season, and only reached the last 16 twice, in the German Masters and the Turkish Masters, losing to Judd Trump on both occasions. After Ding Junhui's fall from the top 16 at the UK Championship, Zhou was expected to make his Masters debut in January, but was pipped by compatriot Zhao Xintong. Zhou lost in the final qualifying round of the World Championship for the second year in a row to finish the season ranked 23, a drop of six places.

Performance and rankings timeline

Career finals

Ranking finals: 3

Non-ranking finals: 1

Pro-am finals: 2 (1 title)

Team finals: 4 (2 titles)

Amateur finals: 2 (1 title)

References

External links

Living people
Chinese snooker players
Sportspeople from Chengdu
1998 births
21st-century Chinese people


title: Valdáliga

text:
Valdáliga is a municipality in Cantabria, Spain.

References

Municipalities in Cantabria


title: Clara-Jumi Kang

text:
Clara-Jumi Kang (, born in Mannheim, Germany on 10 June 1987) is a South Korean-German classical violinist. She won the Indianapolis International Violin Competition in 2010 with five additional prizes. Korean newspaper Dong-A Times listed her among Korea's one hundred "most inspiring and influential people" in 2012. She was named the Kumho Musician of the Year in 2013.

Childhood and education
Kang's parents are famous Korean opera singers: her father is Wagnerian bass Philp Kang, and her mother is soprano Han Min-hee. Clara-Jumi Kang started playing the violin aged three. A year later she became the youngest student ever to enter the Mannheim Musikhochschule, where she studied under Valery Gradov, who had also taught Frank Peter Zimmermann. When Kang was five she moved to Lübeck to study under Professor Zakhar Bron, and performed her first official concerto. German magazine Die Zeit featured six-year-old Kang on its cover, depicting her as a 'Wunderkind'. Aged seven she won a full scholarship to the Juilliard, after the school's violin instructor Dorothy DeLay heard Kang's playing. Kang suffered a serious injury to her hand aged 11 and was not able to play for many years. By 16 Kang had taken her Bachelor and Master's degrees at the Korean National University of Arts under Nam-Yun Kim. While a student in Korea she placed highly in several international violin competitions. She later studied at the Munich Musikhochschule with Christoph Poppen from 2011 to 2013.

Performing and recording career
Clara-Jumi Kang debuted with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra aged five. She has placed highly or won many international violin competitions, including the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis.

Kang has performed with orchestras worldwide, including the Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Kremerata Baltica, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de Belgique, The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, NCPA Orchestra, Beijing, Macao Orchestra, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg Symphony, Kiel Philharmonie, Nice Philharmonie, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, KBS Symphony Orchestra, and the Korean Chamber Ensemble. She has worked with conductors including Valery Gergiev, Lionel Bringuier, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Andrey Boreyko, Christoph Poppen, Vladimir Spivakov, Yuri Temirkanov, Gidon Kremer, Gilbert Varga, Lü Jia, Myung-whun Chung, Heinz Holliger and Kazuki Yamada.

Kang recorded Beethoven's Triple Concerto in C Major, Op. 56 for Teldec Classics when she was nine. She released her first solo album, Modern Solo, for Decca in 2011. Her second album, Schumann Brahms Sonatas · Romances, was a chamber duet with classical pianist, Yeol-Eum Son, in 2016. Her Beethoven all Violin Sonatas recording with pianist, Sunwook Kim for Accentus in 2020 received outstanding reviews and nominations.

Awards
2007: Third Prize, International Tibor Varga Violin Competition
2009: First Prize, Seoul International Music Competition
2009: Second Prize, Joseph Joachim Hannover International Violin Competition
2010: First Prize (and five special prizes), International Violin Competition of Indianapolis
2010: First Prize, Sendai International Music Competition
2012: Daewon Music Award
2014: Kumho Musician of the Year
2015: Fourth Prize, International Tchaikovsky Competition

Discography
2011: "Modern Solo" (Decca Classics)
2016: "Schumann Brahms Sonatas · Romances" (Decca Classics)

References

External links
Official website

German classical violinists
South Korean classical violinists
Women classical violinists
German women violinists
South Korean women violinists
1987 births
Living people


title: 1974 Copa del Generalísimo final

text:
The Copa del Generalísimo 1974 final was the 72nd final of the King's Cup. It was played at Vicente Calderón Stadium in Madrid on 28 June 1974, with Real Madrid beating Barcelona 4–0 for their 12th title.

Match details

See also
El Clásico

References

1974
Copa
FC Barcelona matches
Real Madrid CF matches
El Clásico matches
June 1974 sports events in Europe


title: Obelisk Square

text:
Obelisk Square can refer to the following public squares:
Place de l'Obélisque, a central plaza in Dakar, Senegal
Obelisk Square (Indianapolis), formally known as the Veterans Memorial Plaza, part of the Indiana World War Memorial Plaza in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States


title: Jianglin

text:
Jianglin may refer to:
Wu Jianglin, see List of members of the 11th National People's Congress
Liu Gong, Prince of Jianglin, son of Emperor Ming of Han
Jianglin (EP), an EP by Top Combine


title: British Institute of Eastern Africa

text:
The British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, and is dedicated to supporting historical, archaeological, and other social science and humanities research in eastern Africa. The BIEA is sponsored by the British Academy.

The BIEA was founded in 1959 as the British Institute of History and Archaeology in East Africa. Its first director was the archaeologist Neville Chittick. The institute changed its name to the "British Institute in Eastern Africa" in 1970, and the BIEA's current facilities in Kileleshwa, Nairobi, include an extensive research library and office resources for visiting scholars. The BIEA sponsors a Graduate Attachment Scheme, as well as Humanities Research Fellowship program and an Archaeology Research Fellowship program.

Membership to the BIEA is open to all.

Publications
Two academic journals are currently produced by the BIEA, Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa and the Journal of Eastern African Studies.

Directors
Neville Chittick (1961-1983)

John Sutton (1983-1998)

Paul Lane (1998-2006)

Justin Willis (2006-2009)

Ambreena Manji (2010-2014)

Joost Fontein (2014-2018)

Jane Humphris (2018-present), London

Freda Nkirote (2018-present), Nairobi

References

External links
 https://www.biea.ac.uk/

British overseas research institutes
Organizations established in 1959
1959 establishments in Kenya


title: Joe Booher

text:
Donald Joe Booher (February 22, 1941 – February 12, 1993) was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series and Goody's Dash driver. He spent his time running a farming business when he was not racing. He was killed while competing in the 1993 Goody's Dash Cup season-opening Florida 200 at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Prior to 1993, he had made 21 career starts in NASCAR's Winston Cup Series. He also competed in the ARCA stock car series.

On February 12, 1993, Booher was competing in the Florida 200, the season opener of the NASCAR Goody's Dash Series for 4-cylinder compact cars. Running in mid-field during the second lap of the race, Booher's Chevrolet Beretta clipped the left front quarter panel of Carl Horton's Pontiac and went out of control. He then tagged the wall and was hit in the right front by Rodney White. The accident caused a brief red flag period before the race was restarted. White was in critical condition after suffering compression fractures of his vertebrae and was taken to Halifax Medical Center, but he survived and was not paralyzed. Horton was not hurt in the accident. After being taken to the same hospital, the 51-year-old Booher died of massive head and internal injuries.

Motorsports career results

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

Winston Cup Series

Daytona 500

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

References

External links
Statistics

1941 births
1993 deaths
ARCA Menards Series drivers
Filmed deaths in motorsport
Filmed deaths in the United States
NASCAR drivers
Racing drivers from Indiana
Racing drivers who died while racing
Sports deaths in Florida
People from West Lafayette, Indiana


title: Tri-State PGA Championship

text:
The Tri-State PGA Championship is a golf tournament that is the championship of the Tri-State section of the PGA of America. The Tri-State area includes all of West Virginia, the northwest corner of Maryland, and western Pennsylvania.  It has been played annually since 1931 at a variety of courses in that area.

Winners

2022 Kevin Shields
2021 Rob McClellan
2020 John Aber
2019 Devin Gee
2018 Kevin Shields
2017 Justin Collins
2016 Roy Vucinich
2015 Kevin Shields
2014 Denny Dolci
2013 Rob McClellan
2012 Joe Boros
2011 Rob McClellan
2010 Barry G. Evans
2009 Barry G. Evans
2008 Brad Westfall
2007 Brad Westfall
2006 Bob Ford
2005 Sean Farren
2004 Sean Farren
2003 Barry G. Evans
2002 Bob Ford
2001 John Aber
2000 John Mazza
1999 Bob Ford
1998 Barry G. Evans
1997 Ed Vietmeier
1996 Ned Weaver
1995 Bob Ford
1994 Bob Ford
1993 Ed Vietmeier
1992 Harry Toscano
1991 John Aubrey
1990 Cleve Coldwater
1989 Scott Davis
1988 Roy Vucinich
1987 Dale Loeslein
1986 Ron Milanovich
1985 John Mazza
1984 Bob Ford
1983 Mike Evans
1982 Bob Ford
1981 Jim Ferree
1980 Bob Ford
1979 Mike Evans
1978 Jim Ferree
1977 Roy Vucinich
1976 Chuck Scally
1975 Chuck Scally
1974 Norm Rack
1973 Roland Stafford
1972 Roland Stafford
1971 Chuck Scally
1970 Billy Capps
1969 Chuck Scally
1968 Roland Stafford
1967 Billy Capps
1966 Joe Taylor
1965 Ed Furgol
1964 Frank Kiraly
1963 Ed Furgol
1962 Ed Furgol
1961 Lew Worsham
1960 Andy Borkovich
1959 Mike Krak
1958 Mike Krak
1957 Joby Conner
1956 Mike Pavella
1955 Carl Beljan
1954 Mike Pavella
1953 Joe Taylor
1952 Tom "Red" Blaskovich
1951 Mike Pavella
1950 Bobby Cruickshank
1949 Bobby Cruickshank
1948 Rut Coffey
1947 Dick Shoemaker
1946 Dick Shoemaker
1945 Sam Parks Jr.
1944 Monty Onoretta
1943 Sam Parks Jr.
1942 Ted Luther
1941 Perry Delvecchio
1940 Arthur Clark
1939 Dick Shoemaker
1938 Ted Luther
1937 Sam Parks Jr.
1936 Tony Joy
1935 Perry Delvecchio
1934 Perry Delvecchio
1933 Emil Loeffler
1932 Ted Luther
1931 Perry Delvecchio

External links
PGA of America – Tri-State section
Honor Roll, Awards, & Winners

PGA of America sectional tournaments
Golf in Maryland
Golf in Pennsylvania
Golf in West Virginia
Recurring sporting events established in 1931
1931 establishments in the United States


title: Tata Zest

text:
Tata Zest is a compact sedan produced by Tata Motors. The car was revealed at Indian Auto Expo 2014 along with its hatchback version, the Tata Bolt. The car was launched in Indian markets on 12 August 2014.

The Zest is part of Tata's Falcon programme and is based on existing platforms on the Tata Indica Vista and Indigo Manza are built. The car is built by Tata Motors at Ranjangaon factory.

Variants

The Zest is available in petrol and diesel versions; the Fiat-sourced 1.3-litre Quadrajet diesel engine (in two states of tune 75 PS and 90 PS) which is already being used on Indica Vista and Manza and the petrol version of is powered by a new Revotron 1.2-litre turbocharged, 90 PS engine. All come with a 5-speed manual transmission, with the option of an automated manual on diesel versions.

The Zest range includes XE, XM, XMA, XMS and XT trim options; Zest XE priced at Rs. 4.64 Lacs is the base variant of the manual petrol Tata Zest which comes with features such as a tilt adjustable steering wheel, driver information display, a cup holder in the centre console, tilt adjustable steering wheel, dual tone interiors, adjustable front head rests, an under seat storage drawer, air conditioning and heating, a tachometer and door pockets on all 4 doors. Zest XM priced at Rs. 5.25 Lacs s the mid variant of the petrol Tata Zest which comes with features such as power windows, central locking, front power outlet, front fog lamps and adjustable front and rear headrests. Zest XMA (diesel only) (A/T) priced at Rs. 6.99 Lacs is the mid variant of the automatic diesel Tata Zest that comes well equipped with features such as power windows, a Bluetooth compatible double-din stereo, ABS with EBD, front & rear fog lamps, alloy wheels. Zest XMS has been priced at Rs. 5.43 Lacs. Zest XT priced at Rs. 5.99 lakh is the top-end variant of the manual petrol Tata Zest that comes well equipped with features such as projector headlamps, reverse camera, touch screen stereo, steering mounted audio controls, front fog lamps, alloy wheels, ABS with EBD, front airbags, rear parking sensors, and climate control.

Tata Motors launched the new Zest Quadrajet 1.3 XTA as a top end variant. The trim gets an AMT transmission that is mated to 1.3-litre Quadrajet diesel engine that is capable of producing 90 PS of power with max torque output of 200 Nm.

Following the launch of the Tata Tigor in 2017, the Zest was discontinued for private purchase and could only be bought as a taxi. It was permanently discontinued in April 2019.
It nearly sold 1.5 lakh units.

International markets
Tata Motors also launched the Zest in Nepal. It is the company’s first product under the HORIZONEXT umbrella. It is available across Nepal in over 18 Tata Motors passenger vehicle sales outlets.

Safety
The Zest for India with no airbags nor ABS received 0 stars for adult occupants and 1 star for toddlers from Global NCAP in 2016.
The Zest for India with 2 airbags and no ABS received 4 stars for adult occupants and 2 stars for toddlers from Global NCAP in 2016 (similar to Latin NCAP 2013).

References

External links

Zest
Sedans
Front-wheel-drive vehicles
Global NCAP superminis
2010s cars
Cars introduced in 2014


title: In Humor and Sadness

text:
In Humor and Sadness is the first full-length studio album by '68. The album was released on July 8, 2014.

Writing and recording
Guitarist and vocalist Josh Scogin said that he "wrote a lot of the songs and then would go in the studio and record it that day or the next day," and that drummer McClellan would record a song after only hearing it for the first time that day. Said Scogin, "it’s a very impulsive record, very sorta wing-it style, let’s try this, and there’s no time for looking back." A week prior to recording Scogin set up a small studio inside Matt Goldman's studio where he would write and record songs, "four or five, maybe six songs." Once official recording began, the songs were recorded very quickly, since Scogin choosing to leave in the "mistakes," because it felt "very human." Since recording was going too quickly,  Scogin had pressure to write more songs, which he enjoyed, saying that he writes "stressful music," and that "you can really feel it."

Josh Scogin used "a lot of very old, vintage combo amps, pushing them way too hard," which resulted in damaging producer Matt Goldman's amps. The sounds of guitars cutting out is because the amps were actually breaking, and those sounds were left in. Michael McClellan has no recollection of this.

Release and promotion
The band announced the release a full-length album on May 28, 2014. On June 2, 2014, the song 'Track 1' was premiered via SoundCloud. On June 9, 2014 'Track 2' was premiered by way of two YouTube videos which needed to be played in sync.

Track listing
All songs written by Josh Scogin.

Personnel
In Humor and Sadness personnel adapted from CD liner notes.

'68
 Michael McClellan – drums
 Josh Scogin – vocals, guitar

Additional musicians
 B. (Birds in Row) – guest vocals on "Track Three: g"
 Ghost Cat – gang vocals on "Track Three: g"
 Matt Goldman – keys, additional drums and percussion

Production
 Matt Goldman – recording, producing, mixing
 Josh Scogin – production

Artwork
 Forefathers – layout, design
 Kyle Kenehan – photos
 Aaron Marsh – photos

Charting

References

2014 debut albums
'68 (band) albums


title: Samuel Finley Breese Morse (sculpture)

text:
Samuel Finley Breese Morse is an outdoor bronze sculpture depicting American painter and inventor Samuel Morse by Byron M. Pickett, located in Central Park in Manhattan, New York. The portrait statue measures 13' x 5'6" x 5' and sits on a Quincy granite pedestal. It was dedicated on June 10, 1871.

References

External links

1871 establishments in New York (state)
1871 sculptures
Bronze sculptures in Central Park
Monuments and memorials in Manhattan
Outdoor sculptures in Manhattan
Sculptures in Central Park
Sculptures of men in New York City
Statues in New York City


title: Vikedal (disambiguation)

text:
Vikedal, alternately spelled Vikadal, may refer to:

Places
Vikedal, a village in Vindafjord municipality, Rogaland county, Norway
Vikedal (municipality), a former municipality in Rogaland county, Norway
Vikedal Church, a church in Vindafjord municipality, Rogaland county, Norway
Vikadal, Vestland (also spelled Vikedal), a village in Kvam municipality, Vestland county, Norway

People
Ryan Vikedal, a former member of the band Nickelback


title: Jim Bartels

text:
Henry James "Jim" Nape Bartels (July 25, 1945 – April 20, 2003) was a Hawaiian museum curator and historian, who was the curator of ʻIolani Palace and later Washington Place.

Biography
Bartels was born July 25, 1945, in Honolulu. He was educated at Punahou School. Graduating from the University of Hawaii in 1967, Bartels received a bachelor's degree in fine arts and a graduate degree in Asian and Pacific art.
He served in the Navy from 1967 to 1970 and was based in Saigon during the Vietnam War.

From 1975 to 1998, Bartels served as the curator and later managing director of ʻIolani Palace. During his twenty-year career, he headed the final phase of the palace restoration and saw the return of many priceless artifacts. He resigned after a dispute with Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa, the President of the Friends of ʻIolani Palace, who is said to have sat on one of the two thrones in the museum for a photograph in Life magazine.

He later served as the director of Washington Place, the former private residence of Hawaii's last monarch Queen Liliʻuokalani, helping to convert it from the Governor's mansion to a historic museum. Bartels also appeared on the documentaries The American Experience: Hawaii's Last Queen (1994) and Conquest of Hawaii (2003).

In November 1980, Bartels married his childhood friend Regina Kawānanakoa (1947–2016), who was a cousin of Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa. The marriage ended in divorce but the two remained close friends for the remainder of Bartels's life. She was at his bedside before his death.

On April 20, 2003, Bartels died of infection, despite having been successfully treated for multiple myeloma, in the Hoag Presbyterian Hospital, Newport Beach, California. He was buried at St. Andrew's Cathedral, next to Washington Place.

References

1945 births
2003 deaths
Deaths from multiple myeloma
Punahou School alumni
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumni
Historians of Hawaii
Native Hawaiian writers
Native Hawaiian academics
American curators
American military personnel of Native Hawaiian descent
Deaths from cancer in California