title: Dark Stares

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Dark Stares are a British alternative rock band from St Albans, Hertfordshire. Formed in 2009, the band is composed of brothers Miles Kristian Howell (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Taylor Howell (drums, guitars, backing vocals), Brett Harland Howell (bass guitar, backing vocals) and Harry Collins (lead guitar, backing vocals).

The band have produced three studio EPs: Tell Your Friends (2012), Octopon (2013) and Soul Contract (2014), all recorded at Outhouse Studios in Reading, Berkshire and released with AWAL, one live EP titled Zebra Session (2015) and a debut studio album in 2018: Darker Days Are Here to Stay.

History

Beginnings
The band began rehearsing in their shed in late 2009, under the name Kalazar. With the two youngest members of the band only 16, they played their first gig in December 2009, supporting XFM Manchester Unsigned 2007 winners, The Scratch. Eventually the band settled on the name Dark Stares, inspired by the theme tune of Welsh children's television series Funnybones. The brothers have "proud Welsh roots" on their father's side, as well as a Welsh surname.

Dark Stares is also a reference to the George R.R. Martin series of epic fantasy novels, A Song of Ice and Fire. They continued to perform extensively at small venues mainly in local counties and London, but also nationally, including shows with The Subways, Bleech, Touchstone, Canterbury, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Goldblade, What Now, Bo Ningen, The Static Jacks and Willy Moon.

As they became more locally established, they were invited by fellow St Albans band Enter Shikari to open for them at The Forum, University of Hertfordshire in December 2010. The sold-out show featured performances from Rolo Tomassi and Young Guns, as well as Don Broco and The Qemists.

Tell Your Friends (2010–12)
Their debut EP, titled Tell Your Friends, was recorded at Outhouse Studios, in Reading with Ben Humphreys and It Bites frontman, John Mitchell. Opening track "Whisky" received repeated airplay on XFM from Ian Camfield's Rock Show. AbsolutePunk interviewed the band on the release, who cited Nirvana and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club as influences. In October 2011 they were invited to perform as sole support to The Darkness for their "comeback" show at the prestigious 100 Club on Oxford Street, London. The gig sold-out quickly and was heavily attended by music journalists, as well as notable appearances from Queen guitarist Brian May and comedian Rufus Hound. In November 2011 the band were interviewed on BBC Introducing to discuss the debut release, and Powerplay Magazine reviewed the EP, declaring Dark Stares "to be on the radio soon – and getting the recognition they deserve." Black Velvet featured the band as "Supersonic Future Superstars" and labelled the EP "rock n' roll fantasy full of sonic supremacy."

Octopon and "Bad Machine" (2012–14)
In October 2012, the band released a music video for "Bad Machine" ahead of their second EP Octopon. The video quickly rose to over 100,000 views on YouTube. Hit the Floor speculated the EP name came from cult animated series The Pirates of Dark Water and had "the sleazy glamour of Audioslave, in their 'Cochise' days." The release was picked up on by national magazine Metal Hammer, which controversially quipped that the record was an imitation of the style of Queens of the Stone Age, claiming "they may have QOTSA's debt-collectors knocking on their door soon." Rock Sound magazine reviewed the release favourably, also drawing comparisons to Queens of the Stone Age and Foo Fighters respectively, and stated "we're more inclined to throw Muse into the equation." Powerplay Magazine followed-up their previous feature positively, stating "randomly dropping into any track would elicit a hypnotic pounding groove." In August 2013 the band officially launched the EP with a headline show at the Barfly in Camden, London.

Soul Contract and Zebra Session (2014–2017)
On 28 October 2014, the band announced their third EP Soul Contract, releasing a teaser video on YouTube featuring five new songs. On 24 November 2014 the EP was made digitally available worldwide, with a physical release scheduled for 6 April 2015. In January 2015 MAMA announced a Dark Stares headline show on 2 May 2015 at the Camden Barfly to officially launch the EP, with support from Alexis Kings and Franklin. In the same month they released Zebra Session, a live EP featuring four live versions of tracks from their previous studio releases with accompanying music videos.

Debut album: Darker Days Are Here to Stay (2018–present)
On 5 March 2018 the band announced their debut album with a pre-order available for physical release, including 100 signed copies. On 11 May 2018, the album was released worldwide. Classic Rock featured the album with a mixed review, labelling some songs as both "propulsive" and "electrifying".

Band members
Current members
 Miles Kristian Howell – lead vocals, guitar (2009–present)
 Taylor Howell – drums, percussion, guitar, backing vocals (2009–present)
 Harry Collins – lead guitar, backing vocals (2009–present)
 Brett Harland Howell – bass guitar, backing vocals (2009–present)

Discography

Extended plays

Studio albums

See also

 List of bands from England
 List of indie-rock musicians

References

External links
 , the band's official website

2009 establishments in England
Musical groups established in 2009
British alternative rock groups
English indie rock groups
Musical groups from St Albans


title: Zhou Haiyan

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Zhou Haiyan (; born 3 January 1990) is a Chinese track and field athlete who competes in middle-distance events. She holds personal bests of 2:03.00 and 4:13.32 minutes for the 800 metres and 1500 metres events, respectively. She was the champion in both races at the 2009 Asian Athletics Championships.

Born in Liaoning, she first competed on the Chinese Athletics Grand Prix circuit at age sixteen and took wins over both 800 metres and 1500 metres in Guilin. She came first in the 800 m at the Chinese Olympic trials, but did attain the qualifying standard time for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She finished sixth at the Chinese Athletics Championships later that year.

She reached the peak of her career in 2009. Over 800 m she went undefeated nationally, winning twice on the Grand Prix circuit and taking the titles at both the Chinese Championships and the 11th Chinese National Games, setting a personal best of 2:03.00 minutes at the latter meeting. She also achieved a personal best of 4:13.32 minutes for the 1500 m, which brought her second place at the national championships. At the 2009 Asian Athletics Championships Zhou came out on top of a tactical 1500 m race to win the 1500 m gold in 4:32.74 minutes (the slowest winning time for the championship). A sprint finish in the 800 m saw her edge Margarita Matsko to first place, making Zhou a double Asian middle-distance champion.

Her form dropped in 2010 (she did not win a race nationally that year) and she skipped the 2011 season. She ranked outside the top ten nationally in both 2011 and 2012.

References

External links

Living people
1990 births
Chinese female middle-distance runners
Runners from Liaoning
Asian Athletics Championships winners


title: Ian Hanavan

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Ian Hanavan (born August 15, 1980) is an American-born Belgian retired basketball player and current coach. He last coached Phoenix Brussels. Standing at , Hanavan played as power forward.

Professional career
In October 2007, Hanavan signed with Antwerp Giants.

On August 2, 2013, Hanavan signed with Okapi Aalstar for the 2013–14 season.

On August 23, 2016, the retirement of Hanavan was announced.

Coaching career
In 2018, Hanavan started his coaching career as assistant with the Beijing Ducks in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). On March 13, 2020, Hanavan was hired as head coach of Phoenix Brussels for the 2020–21 season.

On October 18, 2021, Hanavan was fired by Brussels after a disappointing 1–3 start in the BNXT League.

Personal
Hanavan received Belgian citizenship in 2009.

Honours

Club
APOEL B.C.
Cypriot Supercup (1): 2011
Okapi Aalstar
Belgian Supercup (1): 2014

Individual
BC Omniworld Almere
DBL All-Star (1): 2004
DBL Statistical Player of the Year (1): 2003–04

References

1980 births
Living people
Almere Pioneers players
American expatriate basketball people in Austria
American expatriate basketball people in Cyprus
American expatriate basketball people in the Czech Republic
American expatriate basketball people in the Netherlands
American men's basketball players
APOEL B.C. players
Basketball coaches from Illinois
Basketball players from Illinois
BBC Aalstar players
Belgian basketball coaches
Belgian men's basketball players
Brussels Basketball coaches
Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball players
Leuven Bears players
Okapi Aalstar players
Power forwards (basketball)
UIC Flames men's basketball players


title: Frank Sherlock

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Frank Sherlock is an American poet, and second Poet Laureate of Philadelphia.  He was a 2013 Pew Fellow in the Arts.

Life
Frank Sherlock was the 2014-15 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, and a 2013 Pew Fellow in the Arts for Literature.
His most recent collection of poems is Space Between These Lines Not Dedicated (Ixnay Press, 2014.) Sherlock approaches the work of a poet as conduit, and views writing poems as "collaborations of encounter." His projects are often collaborative.

The City Real and Imagined (Factory School, 2010) was written with the poet C. A. Conrad as a re-visioning of public spaces in what they refer to as "the City of Otherly Love." The two embarked on self-guided psycho-geographical wanders through Philadelphia, each beginning at LOVE Park.

Sherlock's time in New Orleans in 2006 resulted in a collaboration with poet Brett Evans, entitled Ready-To-Eat Individual (Lavender Ink, 2008). In an interview with Katy Henriksen for Oxford American: New Orleans & the Gulf Coast Issue, 2008: "The cases of DIY rebirth were everywhere around us, and it was a secret that had stayed within the region’s limits. Also, the effects of a city (with virtually no public services) trying to deal with a shared psychic wound of post-traumatic stress, its effect on the kids of New Orleans shuffled across town into schools with more security guards than teachers, the spike in street crime (partly as a result of these things) and other issues of displacement are largely untold stories in the national conversation. But there is also the light and dark magic of the city that cannot be explained in a straight-ahead journalist pursuit. Brett and I decided we could best talk about the state of the city post- [Hurricane] Katrina through the medium of poetry."

"I approach poetry as a cartographer," said Sherlock. "...mapping and remapping your surroundings according to your personal memory and associations and histories that you've heard." His project as Poet Laureate, "Write Your Block," gives Philadelphians the opportunity to explore their neighborhoods via poetry. Originally a project with the city's Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy, Write Your Block lives on at The Philadelphia Citizen, so people citywide can use poetry to map the personal landmarks, histories, traditions and experiences that help identify their communities.

In 2019 the literary community learned of a time in the late 1980s where he was with a white nationalism oriented skinhead punk group. His politics turned Left after he entered Temple University. He considers the white nationalist period of his life "a point of great shame for me" and the discovery of it led to debate.

Works
Books

Space Between These Lines Not Dedicated, ixnay press (2014) OCLC 887856523
The City Real & Imagined (w/ CAConrad), Factory School:  Heretical Texts v.5 (2010)
Over Here, Factory School: Heretical Texts v.4 (2009)
Ready-to-Eat Individual (w/ Brett Evans), Lavender Ink (2008) OCLC 1055273795

Chapbooks

Neighbor Ballads, Albion Books (2013)
Very Different Animals, Fact-Simile Press (2012)
Don't Forget Me in the Dimension You Choose to Live, Splitleaves Press (2010)
Feast Day Gone & Coming, Cy Gist Press (2010)
Over Here, Katalanche Press (2008)
Daybook of Perversities & Main Events, Cy Gist Press (2007)
Quatro, Dusie Press (2007)
Wounds in an Imaginary Nature Show, Night Flag Books (2007)
Spring Diet of Flowers at Night, Mooncalf Press (2006)
ISO, Furniture Press (2004)
End/Begin w/ Chants (w/ CAConrad) Mooncalf Press (2001)
Thirteen, Ixnay Press (1998)

Anthologies

BOOG Philly Reader, BOOG Books (2012)
Journeys South, City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program (2011)
OWS Anthology, People's Library (2011)
Elective Affinities, CSR Cooperative (2010)
Sturm and Drang: New Orleans Anthology, Big Bridge/ Trembling Pillow Press (2009)
Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry & Public Space, Palm Press (2008)

Public Works/Installations

Refuse Reuse: Language for the Common Landfill, Crane Arts Icebox, Philadelphia, PA (2012)
Kensington Riots Project, Philadelphia, PA (2012)
Neighbor Ballads, City of Philadelphia, PA Mural Arts Program.  South Philadelphia, PA (2011)
The B. Franklin Basement Tapes (w/ CAConrad), Nexus Foundation for Today's Art.  Philadelphia, PA (2005)

See also

References

External links

Meet Philadelphia Poet Laureate Frank Sherlock- Radio Times WHYY
Pew Fellow Frank Sherlock
Frank Sherlock- PENNSOUND Audio
Late Late Capital Bootleg Sessions

Municipal Poets Laureate in the United States
Living people
Poets Laureate of Philadelphia
1960s births
Temple University alumni
20th-century American writers
Pew Fellows in the Arts
20th-century male writers


title: 2001 FIBA Africa Championship squads

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This article displays the rosters for the participating teams at the 2001 FIBA Africa Championship.

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See also
 2000 FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup squads

References

AfroBasket squads
squads


title: Nahida

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Nahida is a genus in the butterfly family Riodinidae present only in the Neotropical realm.

Species
There are four species in the genus:
 N. coenoides (type Hewitson, 1869)
 N. ecuadorica Strand, 1911
 N. serena Stichel, 1910
 N. trochois Hewitson, 1877

References

External links

 TOL
 Nahida at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
 Naheda  at Butterflies of America Holotype images

Riodininae
Riodinidae of South America
Lepidoptera of Ecuador
Taxa named by William Forsell Kirby


title: Isochem

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Isochem is a French chemical-company specializing in custom synthesis. It was established in France in 1974.

Timeline and history
 1974: Isochem created in Gennevilliers
 1977: Pithiviers (formerly Agrifarm) site opened
 1979: First U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) audit and approval.
 1990: Isochem joins Group SNPE
 1991: Isochem acquires the Vert-le-Petit site (formerly IRCHA Fine Chemicals and Propeptide)
 2003: Acquisition of the Pont-de-Claix platform and the Hungarian subsidiary Framochem
 2010: Acquisition of Isochem by the German industrial holding company
 2012: Acquisition of Wychem (UK) by Isochem ,
 2014: Sale of Framochem subsidiary by Isochem
 2016: Sale of Wychem subsidiary by Isochem

Initially specialized in the extraction and hemi-synthesis of natural substances such as quinine, Isochem has expanded its expertise in the field of multi-step industrial production
 encompassing operations including Grignard, Friedel-Crafts, Sandmeyer, Vilsmeier-Haack Reaction, deprotonation using butyllithium, reduction using metal hydrides and hydrogenation.

In the 1990s, synergies with Groupe SNPE enabled Isochem to implement new technologies such as phosgenation, nitration, and the manufacture of amino-acid derivatives such as NCAs, UNCAs, and peptides.,

Industrial sites and specific expertise

Isochem's industrial sites include:
 Vert-le-Petit: Head office, phosgene chemistry
 Gennevilliers: Fractional distillation, cold reactions (-70 °C)
 Pithiviers: Hydrogenation under pressure, waste processing
 Pont de Claix: Active ingredients and intermediates for agrochemicals

Most sites have a research and development team; in addition, the Vert-le-Petit site has the equipment required to study process safety.

References

External links
  Official Website Isochem

Chemical companies of France
Companies based in Île-de-France


title: Danish Men's Curling Championship

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The Danish Men's Curling Championship is the national championship of men's curling in Denmark. It has been held annually since 1971.

List of champions

References
Past Champions|Hvidovre Curling Club (in Danish)

See also
Danish Women's Curling Championship
Danish Mixed Curling Championship
Danish Mixed Doubles Curling Championship
Danish Junior Curling Championships
Danish Senior Curling Championships

Curling competitions in Denmark
Men's sports competitions in Denmark
Recurring sporting events established in 1971
1971 establishments in Denmark
National curling championships
Curling


title: Jordan Hoffman

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Jordan Hoffman is an American freelance film critic and former actor, director, and producer. He is best known for his work with New York Daily News, The Guardian, Film.com, Vanity Fair, ScreenCrush, and The Times of Israel. He is also a contributor to Badass Digest and StarTrek.com.  He is the host of Engage: The Official Star Trek Podcast. He is a member of the New York Film Critics Circle.

Previously he was the movies editor at UGO.com.   He wrote, produced and appeared in films such as Ultrachrist! and Body/Antibody.

In 2004, he was named IFC's Ultimate Film Fanatic of the North East. In 2012, he appeared on episode 36 of the podcast On Cinema as a special guest to review the movie 300.

References

External links

American film critics
Living people
American male non-fiction writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American male writers


title: Nerekhta

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Nerekhta may refer to:
Nerekhta UGV
Nerekhta Urban Settlement, a municipal formation within Nerekhtsky Municipal District into which the town of oblast significance of Nerekhta, Russia is incorporated
Nerekhta (inhabited locality), several inhabited localities in Russia
Nerekhta (river), a river in Vladimir Oblast, Russia


title: Yuki Fujimoto

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is a Japanese football manager and former football player, He is the currently assistant coach of Singapore.

Club career
Spending most of his early career with regional league clubs in Japan, Fujimoto joins Hong Kong First Division League club Yuen Long District SA on a free transfer.

Club statistics
 As of 18 February 2014; Stats in Hong Kong only.

References

1986 births
Living people
Association football people from Saitama Prefecture
Japanese men's footballers
J2 League players
Thespakusatsu Gunma players
Fukushima United FC players
Hong Kong First Division League players
Yuen Long FC players
Men's association football midfielders
Guangzhou City F.C. non-playing staff


title: Elinor Freer

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Elinor Freer is an American pianist from Montana, who has performed in the United States, Europe, and China.

Education
She obtained degrees in music from the Cleveland Institute of Music and the University of Southern California and holds a Performer's Diploma from the Utrecht School of the Arts as well as a fellowship from the Steans Institute. She also was a participant of the Ravinia Festival and the Tanglewood Music Center.

Tours and performances
During her European tour she gave performances at the Concertgebouw and also participated at the Rotterdam's Valery Gergiev Festival. She also recorded numerous original works for Dutch Radio, including her performance at the International Musicians' Seminar held at Prussia Cove and her performance at the Gnessin State Musical College in Moscow. During her Chinese tour she represented her country's pianists amid cultural exchanges.

She also served as a soloist for the String Orchestra of the Rockies, the Brevard Music Center, the Chamber Orchestra of the University of Rochester, and many others. She performs at various festivals including Summer Music in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Mexican Festival de Música de Cámera, Lake Winnipesaukee Music Festival and Bowdoin Music Festival.

Awards
She is a winner of the Joanna Hodges International Competition and later on, became faculty member of both the Fort Hays and the University of Missouri. In 2003 she became Co-Artistic Director of the Skaneateles Festival.  Freer has performed in many city schools and hospitals, for which she has been awarded numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.

References

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American classical pianists
American women classical pianists
Musicians from Montana
Cleveland Institute of Music alumni
21st-century classical pianists
21st-century American women pianists
21st-century American pianists


title: Nalini Anantharaman

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Nalini Anantharaman (born 26 February 1976) is a French mathematician who has won major prizes including the Henri Poincaré Prize in 2012.

Life
Nalini Florence Anantharaman was born in Paris in 1976 to two mathematicians. Her father and her mother are Professors at the University of Orléans. She entered Ecole Normale Supérieure  in 1994.
She completed her PhD in Paris under the supervision of François Ledrappier in 2000 at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6).

She became a full Professor, at the University of Paris-Sud, Orsay in 2009 following time out at the University of California in Berkeley in the year before as a Visiting Miller professor. From January to June 2013 she was in Princeton at the Institute for Advanced Study. She is now a Professor at Université de Strasbourg.

Recognition
In 2012 she won the Henri Poincaré Prize for mathematical physics that she shared with Freeman Dyson, Barry Simon and fellow Frenchwoman Sylvia Serfaty. Anantharaman was included for her work in "quantum chaos, dynamical systems and Schrödinger equation, including a remarkable advance in the problem of quantum unique ergodicity". In 2011 she won the Salem Prize which is awarded for work associated with the Fourier Series. She also took the  from the French Academy of Sciences in 2011. In 2015, Nalini Anantharaman was elected to be a member of the Academia Europaea. She was an invited plenary speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians.

In 2018, for her work related to “Quantum Chaos”, Anantharaman won the Infosys Prize (in Mathematical Sciences category), one of the highest monetary awards in India that recognize excellence in science and research. In 2020 she received the Nemmers Prize in Mathematics.

Selected writings

References

1976 births
Living people
École Normale Supérieure alumni
Scientists from Paris
20th-century French mathematicians
French women mathematicians
French people of Indian descent
Dynamical systems theorists
21st-century French mathematicians


title: Land and water hemispheres

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The land hemisphere and water hemisphere are the hemispheres of Earth containing the largest possible total areas of land and ocean, respectively. By definition (assuming that the entire surface can be classed as either "land" or "ocean"), the two hemispheres do not overlap.

Determinations of the hemispheres vary slightly. One determination places the centre of the land hemisphere at  (in the city of Nantes, France). The centre of the water hemisphere is the antipode of the centre of the land hemisphere, and is therefore located at  (near New Zealand's Bounty Islands in the Pacific Ocean).

An alternative assignment determines the centre of the land hemisphere to be at  (in  near Piriac-sur-Mer, France). The centre of the water hemisphere is located at  (also near New Zealand's Bounty Islands in the Pacific Ocean). In comparison the geographic center of the Pacific Ocean, the main ocean of the water hemisphere, is further north-east, in eastern Kiribati south of Kiritimati, just west from Starbuck Island at . The oceanic pole of inaccessibility, known as Point Nemo and for being the so-called spacecraft cemetery, lies east at .

Distribution of geographical features
The land hemisphere has the substantial majority of the planet's land (80.1 percent), including nearly all of Asia (with Maritime Southeast Asia being the only notable exception) and most of South America. Africa, Europe, and North America are solely within the land hemisphere. However, even in the land hemisphere, the water area still slightly exceeds the land area (with 53 percent water to 47 percent land). This hemisphere is almost identical to the hemisphere containing the greatest human population. The land hemisphere also contains most of Earth's inland waters, including the African Great Lakes, Eurasia's Caspian Sea, the Great Lakes of North America, and Lake Baikal in Siberia.

The water hemisphere has only about one-fifth of the world's land, including Easter Island, the Hawaiian Islands, other Pacific islands, Maritime Southeast Asia, the southern tip of the Indochinese Peninsula, the southern portion of the Malay Peninsula, the Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, and the Southern Cone of the Americas. Antarctica, Australia, and Zealandia are solely within the water hemisphere. Some sources further divide land into "dry land" and "ice cap". Antarctica provides the water hemisphere with the majority of Earth's ice.

Most of the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, and the whole Southern Ocean, are in the water hemisphere. Proportionately, the water hemisphere is approximately 89 percent water (almost all pertaining to the World Ocean), 6 percent dry land and 5 percent polar ice cap.

The table below shows Alphonse Berget's estimates of the land area in each continent in the land and water hemispheres.

See also
 Geographical centre of Earth
 Ocean world

References

Hemispheres of Earth
Oceans
Physical geography


title: CxProcess

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CxProcess is the trademark of an image processing technology used in Minolta and Konica Minolta digital cameras.

Image processing in a camera converts the raw image data from a CCD image sensor into the format that is stored on the memory card. This processing is one of the bottlenecks in the speed of digital cameras.

Between 2001 and 2006, CxProcess was used in various Minolta and Konica Minolta digital compact cameras, bridge cameras and DSLRs. In order to distinguish the image processing algorithms from the image processor, the image processor was named SUPHEED (for superior image and speed) since 2003. It can be seen as the predecessor of Sony's Bionz image processor since their taking-over of Konica Minolta's camera business in 2006.

CxProcess was originally introduced with the Minolta Dimage 5 in 2001. SUPHEED was introduced with the Minolta Dimage A1 in 2003, which was also the first to implement CxProcess II.

Cameras such as the Minolta Dimage 7 series (Dimage 7, 7i, 7Hi), A1 and Konica Minolta Dimage A2 were using a MegaChips (MCL) DSC-2 MA07163 series of 32-bit RISC processors with MIPS R3000 core.
The cameras were running under Integrated Systems' (ISI) operating system pSOSystem/MIPS (pSOS+/MIPS V2.5.4, pREPC+/MIPS V2.5.2, pHILE+/MIPS FA V4.0.2, pNA+/MIPS V4.0.5).

The CxProcess III was implemented in the Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D (2004) and 5D (2005) utilizing SUPHEED II, a MegaChips DSC-3H MA07168 running under MiSPO's NORTi/MIPS, an RTOS following the µITRON standard.

While no longer named CxProcess III on SUPHEED II, this was also implemented in the Sony Alpha 100 (2006), utilizing a MegaChips MA07169.

Sony introduced their Bionz image processor in 2007 that was originally based on this same technology.

See also
Expeed – Nikon
DIGIC – Canon

References

Minolta
Konica Minolta
Camera firmware
Image processors


title: Nerekhta (inhabited locality)

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Nerekhta () is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.

Urban localities
Nerekhta, Kostroma Oblast, a town in Kostroma Oblast;

Rural localities
Nerekhta, Vladimir Oblast, a settlement in Kovrovsky District of Vladimir Oblast


title: 2001 Caribbean Series

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The forty-third edition of the Caribbean Series (Serie del Caribe) was held from February 1 through February 6 of  with the champion baseball teams of the Dominican Republic, Águilas Cibaeñas; Mexico, Naranjeros de Hermosillo; Puerto Rico, Cangrejeros de Santurce, and Venezuela, Cardenales de Lara. The format consisted of 12 games, each team facing the other teams twice, and the games were played at Estadio General Ángel Flores in Culiacán, Mexico.

Summary

Final standings

  * Had to attend family issues and was replaced by coach José López.

Individual leaders

All-Star team

Sources
Bjarkman, Peter. Diamonds around the Globe: The Encyclopedia of International Baseball. Greenwood.
Serie del Caribe : History, Records and Statistics (Spanish)
Estadísticas Serie del Caribe 2001 (Spanish)

Caribbean
2001
February 2001 sports events in North America
International baseball competitions hosted by Mexico
2001 in Caribbean sport
2001 in Mexican sports
Caribbean Series


title: Danish Women's Curling Championship

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The Danish Women's Curling Championship is the national championship of women's curling in Denmark. It has been held annually since 1979.

List of champions

External links
 DM Damer | Hvidovre Curling Club

See also
Danish Men's Curling Championship
Danish Mixed Curling Championship
Danish Mixed Doubles Curling Championship
Danish Junior Curling Championships
Danish Senior Curling Championships

Curling competitions in Denmark
Women's sports competitions in Denmark
National curling championships
Recurring sporting events established in 1979
1979 establishments in Denmark
Curling


title: PLK Most Valuable Player

text:
The PLK Most Valuable Player award is given annually at the end of the regular season of the Polish Basketball League (PLK), the highest professional basketball league in Poland, to the most valuable player of the league. Originally, the award was given by the now defunct Polish I Liga (Polish League 1), and was called the Polish League 1 Player of the Year. The current award, given by the Polish PLK League, began when that league started, with the 1995–96 season.

I Liga Player of the Year winners (1961–1995)
Player nationalities by national team:

PLK MVP winners (1996–present)

Player nationalities by national team:

 There was no awarding in the 2019–20 season, because the season was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic in Poland.

Multiple honors (1996–present)

Players

Player nationality

Teams

References

External links
Polska Liga Koszykówki - Official Site
Polish League at Eurobasket.com

Basketball most valuable player awards
MVP
European basketball awards


title: Afonso Poyart

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Afonso Poyart (born 1979) is a Brazilian film director, producer and writer. He made his feature film directorial debut with the 2012 action 2 Coelhos ("2 Rabbits") and directed the 2015 film Solace, starring Anthony Hopkins.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

1979 births
Living people
People from Santos, São Paulo
Brazilian film directors


title: Sergiu Matei

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Sergiu Matei (born April 23, 1992 in Chișinău), also known professionally as OT BEATZ, is a Moldovan professional footballer who currently plays for FC Petrocub Hîncești in the Moldovan National Division and music producer

Professional career
Sergiu Matei is the disciple of the Zimbru Chisinau Academy and made his debut in the professional football for the first team of Zimbru Chisinau in Moldova National Division against FC Tiraspol at the age of 17, in October 2009.

Between 2012 and 2015 Sergiu Matei played for the U-21 team of Moldova, he is second most capped U-21 player after Artur Patras.

Music career
Sergiu Matei is also a music producer, beatmaker, and DJ known as OT BEATZ. He is known for producing songs for artists like Tory Lanez, Oxxxymiron, Nafe Smallz, MARKUL, Porchy, L'One, ST, Prince Ea, The Motans and other minor worldwide artists.

He also released himself as an artist in 2014 with his first single track "BLVCK", later he releases his second single "Hey World" featuring Mikaella (now Misha Miller).The single is released with an official music video which features the official drummer of the Russian band "Amatory" Daniil [STEWART] Svetlov with a drum part on the drop.

Honours

Club

FC Veris

 Moldovan "A" Division

Winner: 2012–13

 Moldovan Cup

Runner-up: 2012–13

FC Spicul Chișcăreni

 Moldovan "A" Division

Third Place: 2016–17

FC Floresti

 Moldovan "A" Division

Runner-up: 2018

FC Petrocub Hîncești

 Moldovan National Division

Third Place: 2018

References

External links

 Sergiu Matei at FoxSports.com

Living people
1992 births
Moldovan men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Moldovan record producers
Hip hop record producers
Moldovan Super Liga players
FC Zimbru Chișinău players
FC Sfîntul Gheorghe players
FC Veris Chișinău players
FC Speranța Crihana Veche players
FC Academia Chișinău players
FC Spicul Chișcăreni players
FC Florești players
FC Petrocub Hîncești players


title: Dianne Hamilton

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F. Dianne Miller Hamilton (January 31, 1934 – November 9, 2021) was an American politician who served as a Republican member of the New Mexico House of Representatives who represented District 38 from 1999 to 2017. Citing health reasons, Hamilton announced in February 2016 that she would not seek reelection that November and retire at the end of the term.

She died on November 9, 2021, in Tijeras, New Mexico, at age 87.

Education
Hamilton earned her BS in education from University of Kansas.

Elections
1998 When District 38 Republican Representative Murray Ryan retired and left the seat open, Hamilton was unopposed for the June 2, 1998 Republican Primary and won the November 3, 1998 General election by 20 votes with 2,227 votes (50.2%) against Democratic nominee Librado Maldonado; Ryan had held the seat from 1969 until 1998.
2000 Hamilton was unopposed for both the 2000 Republican Primary, winning with 542 votes and the November 7, 2000 General election, winning with 3,680 votes.
2002 Hamilton was unopposed for the 2002 Republican Primary, winning with 591 votes and won the November 5, 2002 General election with 2,165 votes (61.2%) against Democratic nominee Gary Whitehead.
2004 Hamilton was unopposed for both the June 1, 2004 Republican Primary, winning with 902 votes and the November 2, 2004 General election, winning with 7,409 votes.
2006 Hamilton was unopposed for both the June 6, 2006 Republican Primary, winning with 1,303 votes and the November 7, 2006 General election, winning with 6,349 votes.
2008 Hamilton was unopposed for the June 8, 2008 Republican Primary, winning with 1,858 votes and the November 4, 2008 General election, winning with 7,754 votes.
2010 Hamilton was challenged in the June 1, 2010 Republican Primary, winning with 1,548 votes (68.8%) and was unopposed for the November 2, 2010 General election, winning with 6,384 votes.
2014 Hamilton was again unopposed in the Republican primary. She easily defeated Terry Fortenberry in the general election, earning 5,593 votes (57.8%) to his 4,087 (42.2%).
2012 Hamilton was unopposed for the June 5, 2012 Republican Primary, winning with 1,753 votes and won the November 6, 2012 General election with 7,183 votes (54.9%) against Democratic nominee Terry Fortenberry.

References

External links
Official page at the New Mexico Legislature

Dianne Hamilton at Ballotpedia
Dianne Hamilton at OpenSecrets

1934 births
2021 deaths
Republican Party members of the New Mexico House of Representatives
People from Silver City, New Mexico
Politicians from Kansas City, Missouri
University of Kansas alumni
Women state legislators in New Mexico
21st-century American politicians
21st-century American women politicians


title: Westwoodia

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Westwoodia is a genus of parasitoid wasps in the subfamily Ctenopelmatinae. A neotropical genus of butterflies was known as Westwoodia but is now referred to as Xenandra.

Description and distribution
The genus is endemic to Australia and has been previously documented in northeastern, southeastern and western Australia.
Like other genera in the subfamily Ctenopelmatinae, Westwoodia are koinobiont endoparasitoids of sawflies. All known Westwoodia host species are sawflies in the subfamily Perginae.

Species
 Westwoodia longipes
 Westwoodia ruficeps

References

Ctenopelmatinae
Ichneumonidae genera


title: Zombie Night (2013 film)

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Zombie Night is a 2013 American zombie horror film directed by John Gulager, written by Keith Allan and Delondra Williams from a story by Richard Schenkman, and starring Anthony Michael Hall, Daryl Hannah, Jennifer Taylor, Alan Ruck, and Shirley Jones.

Plot
In a small California town, two families must survive a zombie attack until sunrise.

Cast
 Anthony Michael Hall as Patrick Jackson
 Daryl Hannah as Birdy Lincoln-Jackson
 Alan Ruck as Joe Madden
 Rachel G. Fox as Tracie Jackson
 Shirley Jones as Nana Barbara Lincoln
 Jennifer Taylor as Karin Madden
 Daniel Ross Owen as Perry Madden
 Gibson Bobby Sjobeck as Nathan Madden
 Zoe Canner as Irina
 Tia Robinson as Janice
 Rogelio T. Ramos as Officer Vincent Lopez
 Diane Ayala Goldner as Officer Johnson
 Hayley Derryberry as Bloody Woman
 Destiny Hernandez as Teresa
 Keith Allan (as Keith Allen) as Looter
 Esteban Cueto as Grounds Keeper
 Meg Rutenberg as Rachel
 Jordan James Smith as Jared
 Nicholas S. Williams as Churchgoer
 James Mullen Henderson as Desperate Man
 Jane Osborn as Desperate Woman
 Daniel Moorehead as Dizzy
 Bryan R. Glaser as Bryan
 David Hill as Police Officer
 Diane Chambers as Decaying Old Woman In Cemetery

Production
Director John Gulager used amputees to portray zombies.  He cited special effects as one of the highlights of a zombie film.

Release
Zombie Night premiered on Syfy on October 26, 2013, and it was released on DVD on December 10, 2013.

Reception
Michael Storey of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette called it a sub-par zombie film that lacks humor or camp.  Brian Lowry of Variety called it "a brain-dead exploitation pic" that is "an almost comically amateurish effort".  Andrew Dowler of Now wrote, "Zombie Night brings enough energy, skill and gore to its basic Night Of The Living Dead story to provide light entertainment on a chilly night."

References

External links

2013 television films
2013 films
2013 horror films
2013 independent films
American horror television films
American zombie films
Syfy original films
The Asylum films
Films directed by John Gulager
2010s English-language films
2010s American films


title: Neya (inhabited locality)

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Neya () is the name of several inhabited localities in Kostroma Oblast, Russia.

Urban localities
Neya (town), a town;

Rural localities
Neya (rural locality), a settlement in Khmelevskoye Settlement of Ponazyrevsky District;


title: Caroline Coade

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Caroline Coade is an American violist who was born and raised in San Diego. She began playing violin at the age of 6 but switched to viola when she turned 14. She graduated from the Interlochen Arts Academy and then pursued her Bachelor of Music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory as well as the Artist Diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music followed by Master's from the Juilliard School. In those schools she was under guidance from Karen Tuttle, Joyce Robbins, Jeffrey Irvine, David Takeno, Dave Holland, and Eugene Becker. She is a participant of Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, Laurel Festival of the Arts and Marlboro Music Festival. She has played in the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras, as well as the New York Philharmonic. She currently serves as a member of the Chautauqua Institution Music Festival's faculty and Bowdoin International Music Festival as well, prior to which she also was a National Music Festival faculty member.

References

Living people
American violists
American women violists
Musicians from San Diego
Juilliard School alumni
Curtis Institute of Music alumni
Oberlin Conservatory of Music alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Floors-2-Go

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Floors-2-Go was a wood flooring retailer in the United Kingdom, established in 1999. In 2012, the company's affiliates took over Allied Carpets in a pre-pack administration deal.

History

Floors-2-Go was founded in 1999 as a family business, with the first store opening in Birmingham. In 2004, the firm floated on the London Stock Exchange. This saw the firm evolving from cash-and-carry (wholesale)-type warehouses to retail superstores.

In 2005, Floors-2-Go opened its first stores in Northern Ireland. Later that year, the company announced plans to expand to around 350 stores.

In 2007, Floors-2-Go was sold for £52.4 million to its directors and private equity firm Alchemy Partners, at which point is ceased trading on the London Stock Exchange.

Administration
In 2008, the firm entered administration for the first time, with its business hit by a slump in the housing market. The administrators, Kroll immediately closed 41 of the group's stores, which numbered 132 at the time. This resulted in 97 redundancies from a workforce of around 450 .

The firm was saved but entered administration for a second time in 2011. Senate Recovery, the administrators, closed a further 53 stores, but retained 35.

In 2014, the business entered administration for the third time. MB Insolvency were appointed administrators, and made a further reduction in the number of stores and staff... However, the business re-entered administration the following year, this time with a jail threat to the brothers who owned the chain.

The company was eventually dissolved in 2017.

References

External links

1999 establishments in the United Kingdom
Companies that have entered administration in the United Kingdom
Companies formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange
Carpet retailers of the United Kingdom
Defunct retail companies of the United Kingdom
Retail companies established in 1999
Retail companies disestablished in 2017


title: Kalpataru Das

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Kalpataru Das (7 February 1948 – 25 July 2015)  was an Indian politician from the Odisha state. He belonged to the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) party. He won the Odisha Legislative Assembly election, 1995 from Dharmasala constituency of Jajpur district, which he held consecutively from 1995-2014.
On 2 August 2012, he was given the portfolio of Panchayati Raj Minister. From 3 April 2014, he was an MP of Rajya Sabha. In 2013, he was State Panchayati Raj Minister and Parliamentary Affairs Minister. He died on 25 July 2015, aged 67. He was cremated on Sunday evening at Bhotaka in Tehsil Kuakhia, Jajpur district, from where he belonged, by his eldest son BJD MLA Pranab Balabantaray.

References

1950 births
2015 deaths
Biju Janata Dal politicians
Rajya Sabha members from Odisha
State cabinet ministers of Odisha
Odisha MLAs 1995–2000
Odisha MLAs 2000–2004
Odisha MLAs 2004–2009
Odisha MLAs 2009–2014


title: Mem (computing)

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In computational complexity theory, computing efficiency, combinatorial optimization, supercomputing, computational cost (algorithmic efficiency) and other computational metrics, the mem is a measurement unit for the number of memory accesses used or needed by a process, function, instruction set, algorithm or data structure.

Example usage, when discussing processing time of a search tree node, for finding 10 × 10 Latin squares: "A typical node of the search tree probably requires about 75 mems (memory accesses) for processing, to check validity. Therefore the total running time on a modern computer would be roughly the time needed to perform  mems." (Donald Knuth, 2011, The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A, p. 6).

Reducing mems as a speed and efficiency enhancement is not a linear benefit, as it trades off increases in ordinary operations costs.

PFOR compression

This optimization technique also is called PForDelta

Although lossless compression methods like Rice, Golomb and PFOR are most often associated with signal processing codecs, the ability to optimize binary integers also adds relevance in reducing MEMS tradeoffs vs. operations. (See Golomb coding for details).

See also
 CAS latency
 Clock signal
 Clock rate
 Computer performance
 Instructions per second
 Memoization

References

Breaking the Wall of the Quantum Computing Hype - MemComputing, Inc.

Analysis of algorithms
Computer performance
Software optimization


title: Falseuncaria brunnescens

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Falseuncaria brunnescens is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Shanxi, China.

References

Moths described in 1996
Cochylini


title: Liar Liar (Cris Cab song)

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"Liar Liar" is the first internationally charting single of American singer-songwriter Cris Cab released on Island Def Jam Records. The song was written by Cab, Dallas Austin and Pharrell Williams and produced by Austin and Williams. Though Pharrell is featured in the song and the accompanying music video he is not officially credited on the cover of the single as a featured artist.

Music video
A music video was released for the single was filmed by Aggressive, directed by Alex Topaller and Dan Shapiro and produced by Shapiro and Kelvin Carver. The video, shot in black and white shows, Cris Cab strumming his guitar, or singing or in a relationship with some mysterious women. The video is an array of such women, an "arresting symmetry"" in light and in shadow about some dangerous relationships with these attractive women showing off with their parallel mirrored images. Pharrell Williams makes cameo appearance in the video. Visuals and bits of intimate narrative are revealed and obscured by these reflections, teasing the viewer that there is tantalizing truth to be revealed. The video ends with one of the girls "capturing" Cab and tying him to a chair.

Chart performance
The single first charted on Dutch Top 40 in 2013 reaching number 9. Since its initial charting, it has become an international hit for him, peaking at number 14 on Dutch Single Top 100, number 25 in Germany and becoming a charting hit in France and in Belgium in both Flanders and French language markets.

Controversy
The melody could be considered reminiscent of The Lightning Seed's version of You Showed Me (originally released by The Turtles) but as yet this remains unverified.

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

External links
"Liar Liar" on iTunes

2013 singles
Songs written by Dallas Austin
Songs written by Pharrell Williams
Song recordings produced by Pharrell Williams
2013 songs
Number-one singles in Israel


title: 2014 PGA Tour Latinoamérica

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The 2014 PGA Tour Latinoamérica was the third season of PGA Tour Latinoamérica, the principal men's professional golf tour in Latin America, operated and run by the PGA Tour.

Schedule changes
The number of tournaments increased from 14 to 18. Events that were added to the schedule included; the Stella Artois Open, Lexus Panama Classic, Ecuador Open, TransAmerican Power Products CRV Mazatlán Open and the Bridgestone America's Golf Cup. The Puerto Rico Classic was dropped from the schedule having previously been played in both the 2012 and 2013 seasons.

Schedule
The following table lists official events during the 2014 season.

Unofficial events
The following events were sanctioned by the PGA Tour Latinoamérica, but did not carry official money, nor were wins official.

Order of Merit
The Order of Merit was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in U.S. dollars. The top five players on the tour earned status to play on the 2015 Web.com Tour.

Developmental Series
The following table lists Developmental Series events during the 2014 season.

See also
2014 PGA Tour Canada
2014 PGA Tour China

Notes

References

PGA Tour Latinoamérica
PGA Tour Latinoamerica
PGA Tour Latinoamerica


title: Rob Patridge

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Robert Wilson Patridge served in the Oregon House of Representatives from 1999 to 2005 as a Republican from Jackson County. Since 2013 he has served as the District Attorney of Klamath County and serves as the Chair of the Oregon Liquor Control Commission.

References

Republican Party members of the Oregon House of Representatives
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Willamette University alumni
Politicians from Salem, Oregon
Willamette University College of Law alumni
District attorneys in Oregon
Lawyers from Salem, Oregon


title: History of the Maccabiah Games

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The History of the Maccabiah, a quadrennial International Jewish multi-sport event, dates back to 1912 and the Games of the V Olympiad.

History

At the end of the 19th century, Jews in Europe weren't allowed to take part in official athletic competitions and were forbidden membership in sports associations. The vision for the Maccabiah started with Yosef Yekutieli; a Russian Jew that immigrated to Palestine in 1909 with his family. In 1912 Yekutieli obtained a booklet about the Stockholm Olympics that held in 1912. The booklet included many Jewish athletes who participated in the name of their country and the medals they won. This booklet was the origin of Yekutieli's idea: To help Jewish athletes participate in the Olympics.

With the start of World War I, Yekutieli was recruited into the Turkish army. Upon his return to Mandatory Palestine in 1918, Yekutieli returned to his job at the Eretz Yisrael Office. For almost a decade Yekutieli thought on ways to make his idea a reality, however, it wasn't until 1928 when Yekutieli presented his Jewish Olympics proposal to Menachem Ussishkin, the Chairman of the executive committee of the Jewish National Fund. As a way to promote interest, Yekutieli proposed that the First Maccabiah should take place in time for the 1800th anniversary of the Bar Kochba Rebellion.

Coincidentally, at about the same time, the Maccabi World Union was trying to come up with a way to allow athletes living in the Mandatory Palestine to participate in important international sporting events; a way that would also act as a form of international recognition of Palestine as the Jewish National Home. In 1929 Yekutieli went to Czechoslovakia to present his proposal in front of the Maccabi World Congress where his proposal was met with great enthusiasm by the Jewish Community in the diaspora and the Jewish population in Israel. The Maccabi Federation formed an organizing committee for the Maccabiah. The first Maccabiah, called the Maccabiada (), was organized with the help of many different sports organization, including the recently created Israeli football association, and devoted volunteers. Many of the tasks such as improvising sports sites and mobilize financial resources were driven by volunteers. Local communities took it upon themselves to raise the money to build a stadium in Tel Aviv, the Maccabiah Stadium. The last obstacle the committee had to overcome was the High Commissioner for Palestine: Sir John Chancellor. While Chancellor admired some Zionist leaders, his general attitude towards Jews was negative. Chancellor refused to approve the Maccabiah.

Approval of the Games & the Motorbikes Tour

The Maccabiah, could not take place without the approval of the British Palestine High Commissioner. In the fall of 1931, Great Britain appointed Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope as the new High Commissioner of Palestine. Wauchope, who showed great admiration to Zionist Palestine as well as the Jewish sports movement in general, approved the Maccabiah on the condition that it also host Arab and official British Mandate athletes in addition to Jewish sportsmen. The conditions were agreed on and the Maccabiada was scheduled for March 1932.

With the news of Wauchope's approval of the games, two separate delegations of Jewish motor-bikers set off from Tel Aviv on a promotional tour to the Jewish communities across Europe, where the vast number of Jews were living at the time. In 1930, one delegation left Tel Aviv to Antwerp, Belgium. A year later a second delegation left Tel Aviv for London. Yekutieli also toured with that delegation. On a second tour, May 10 through July 16, 1931, the intrepid band of Maccabiah bikers covered roughly 5,825 miles (9,375 kilometers) from Tel Aviv to Egypt and through a ship to many of the big cities in Europe including Nuremberg, Paris, and London. At the end of the tour, the group returned to Israel via Beirut.

The Maccabiada

The 1st Maccabiah opened on March 28, 1932. The Games were nicknamed "White Horse Olympics" because Tel Aviv's Mayor Meir Dizengoff led a parade honoring the Games through the city streets while riding a white horse. During these first games 390 sportsmen took part from 18 countries. The games included everything from swimming, football, and handball, to various athletics. The games were regarded as a great success and planning for its successor were already on their way by the end of that year.

Olympic Committee & 2nd Maccabiah

With the success of the first games, in 1933, with the help of Maccabi, Yekutieli founded the Palestine Olympic Committee which later became the  Israel Olympic Committee. Israel was formally invited to participate in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin - an invitation that was refused due to the growing fear of Nazi Germany. Instead, Yekutieli decided to proceed with a second Maccabiah.

The second Maccabiah were held on from April 2 to 10, 1935 despite official opposition by the British Mandatory government. The games were held after only three years instead of four as was customary in the Olympics. They decided on three years in order to not make it look like they were imitating the Olympics. Additionally, the Maccabiah served a more important goal - during the first Maccabiah a large portion of the athletes stayed in Israel, effectively bypassing the British White Paper. The organizers were hoping the second Maccabiah would function as a way to allow more athletes to make Aliyah. During the second games over 1,300 athletes from 28 nations participated.

3rd Maccabiah

Following the success of the 2nd Maccabiah, the 3rd Maccabiah was originally scheduled to be held in sprint of 1938. However, due to British concerns that the games would once again create large-scale illegal immigration, especially in light of the spread of Nazism in Germany and Europe the games were cancelled indefinitely. Following the outbreak of World War II and later on the 1947–1949 Palestine war, the games were postponed even further.

It was not until 1950 that the games were renewed. The 3rd Maccabah took place during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot from September 27 to October 8, 1950. The games were the first International sporting event to take place in The State of Israel. The games served as a Confluence of all outstanding Jewish athletes from around the world, after a 15-year break. The games also served a significant milestone in the life of the Jewish people, after The Holocaust and the 1947–1949 Palestine war. During those games, many prominent Jewish athletes from Eastern Europe were conspicuously absent from - some were killed in the Holocaust and the remaining were banned from participating by the communist regimes of their countries. The Maccabiah opening ceremony took place in a new 50,000-seat stadium in Ramat Gan that was especially built for the games.

4th Maccabiah to present day

The fourth Maccabiah took place during Sukkot of 1953. The games ballooned to almost 2000 athletes from over 20 countries. Following the 4th Maccabiah, it was decided that the Maccabiah be held every four years like the Olympics to gain an olympic recognition. The games were then changed to take place quadrennially on the year following the Olympics - a change that's been in effect ever since.

The most recent games, the 21st Maccabiah took place between July 12 to 26, 2022.

The Maccabiah and the Aliyah

The early Maccabiah games that took place in 1932 and 1935 served as a way to illegally bring Jews to Israel and to effectively bypass the limited Jewish immigration permitted by British authorities in the same period. It was for that reason, the 2nd Maccabiah was nicknamed "Aliyah Olympics". Some notable delegations to the 2nd Maccabiah completely stayed in the land of Israel after the games. Most notable, the Bulgarian delegation that brought 350 Jews, athletes, their family members, and an orchestra, which arrived in Jaffa Port, returned to Sofia, Bulgaria empty, sending only their equipment back. It is one of the reasons the British authority at the time refused to allow the 3rd Maccabiah to take place in the spring of 1938. The tradition of making an Aliyah continued onward during the 1950s with the 3rd and 4th Maccabiah games. Today, Jews who want to make Aliyah to Israel often do so during the Maccabiah.

References

External links
 The History of the Maccabiah, (video)

Maccabiah Games


title: Krzysztof Pływaczyk

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Krzysztof Pływaczyk (born 11 February 1983) is a Polish biathlete. He competed at the Biathlon World Championships 2011, 2012 and 2013. He competed at the 2006 in Torino and the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, in sprint and individual.

References

1983 births
Living people
Polish male biathletes
Biathletes at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Biathletes at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Olympic biathletes for Poland
Sportspeople from Wałbrzych


title: White Horse Inn (Broadway version)

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White Horse Inn is the title of the Broadway version of the operetta Im weißen Rößl. The original operetta by Erik Charell and composers Ralph Benatzky and Robert Stolz was based on the popular farce of the same name by Oscar Blumenthal and Gustav Kadelburg. It was premiered at Berlin's Großes Schauspielhaus on 8 November 1930 and ran for 416 performances. The Broadway version was premiered on 1 October 1936 at the Center Theatre in New York City. It had a libretto by David Freedman and lyrics by Irving Caesar. The original score was re-orchestrated by Hans Spialek.

Background
White Horse Inn opened in New York on 1 October 1936, at the Center Theatre. In 1931, Jacob Wilk, executive for Warner Brothers Films, had approached Erik Charell with regard to a possible American production of White Horse Inn. But it was not until February 1936 that The New York Times finally disclosed that a triumvirate of producers – Rowland Stebbins, Warner Brothers and the Rockefellers – would present White Horse Inn. "Such delay was due to the depression shortage of investment capital for large scale musicals, and a reluctance to mount Graham's translation, penned in an 'old-fashioned operetta' style".

Rather than Americanizing Harry Graham's UK script, Charell produced an all-new, all-American adaptation of the German text and lyrics. Broadway audiences preferred musical comedy rather than nostalgic operetta and that was what Charell intended to offer. In the opinion of Richard C. Norton, Broadway's White Horse Inn is "closer to the Berlin version in its farcical style".

David Freedman was ultimately contracted to prepare the new American libretto. At the time of his signing, he was one of the best known radio script writers. Irving Caesar was in charge of the lyrics. "Freedman's script is more contemporary and playful than Harry Graham's language in the London's version. The interpolations to the musical score and Irving Caesar's lyrics are equally modern.”

The whole score was freshly orchestrated by Hans Spialek. Scenery and costumes were designed by Professor Ernst Stern. Richard Watts stated in the New York Herald Tribune: "A beautiful colorful and sufficiently lively show...It is my private opinion that White Horse Inn is several times livelier than the previous European spectacle The Great Waltz, and at least as handsome".

White Horse Inn closed on Saturday, 10 April 1937, after 221 performances. In late March, according to The New York Times, the production had posted a profit in 25 out of 28 weeks of its run.

As in London, the basic narrative structure of the German original remained intact, but many more musical numbers were dropped or replaced. Characters' names and much of the topical humor were Americanized. Charell presented a cartoon-like Austrian emperor Franz Josef as a deus-ex-machina who restores happiness to all. His arrival in St Wolfgang gave Charell the opportunity to pull out all the stops and offer a spectacle of color. "If the original German Giesecke's character became purely comic transposed to London with its Hercules combination and Shirt-o-pants underwear, Freedman in the USA offered a sexier alternative with ladies' swimwear and his "Lady Godiva" suit, which would have made the girls appear naked, with buttons down the front" argues Richard C. Norton. This ensured that this Alpine romp was far from old-fashioned, but instead "an erotic spectacle that left audiences gasping".

As a librettist, Freedman was known as a writer of racy revue sketches for the Ziegfeld Follies. American shows were not bound by cinema's production code introduced in 1934. Indeed, Broadway shows of the decade were arguably sexier than film as a means of attracting a more sophisticated audience who could afford theatre ticket prices, whereas film from 1934 onwards was sanitized for a national, mid-west and more conservative, viewership.

On the other hand, as Richard Clarke states, some aspects had to be adapted for the more puritan American audiences, taking into account the context. The Nazis were not amused to see Aryan culture mixed with so called 'Nigger Jazz' by a group of theatre people who were not only mostly Jewish but also homosexual (Benatzky excepted on both counts). They considered Im weissen Rössl scandalous, especially the Esther Williams-style swimming pool scene in which the near-naked girls and boys emerged from the water ballet in a grand dance routine. For that reason, the bathing scene was not allowed and had to be changed, in order to tone down the nudity. In the same way, the homosexual aspects in general were erased for American audiences. Regarding the music, many jazz elements of the original were adapted, so that the modern aspects were reduced for a more folkloristic version.

Plot
Josepha Vogelhuber, widowed proprietress of the inn, is largely indifferent to the amorous intentions of her headwaiter, Leopold. Josepha prefers Dr. Otto Siedler, a visiting city solicitor who eyes fellow hotel guest Ottilie, daughter of a brash Berlin manufacturer, Giesecke. Sigismund Sülzheimer, son of Giesecke's business rival, has been sent by his father to marry Ottilie. But Sigismund ends up with yet another lady-on-holiday (lisping Klärchen), while Ottilie waltzes off with "The Devil's Advocate", as her father calls Dr. Siedler. This leaves Josepha heartbroken and Leopold insane with jealousy. None other than Emperor Franz Josef himself intercedes to dispense his own gentle wisdom to Josepha. By curtain fall, she yields to Leopold's wooing, Sigismund marries Klärchen, and Ottilie Dr. Siedler. Giesecke finally succumbs to the charms of St. Wolfgang and asks his new son-in-law to map out a peace treaty with the Sülzheimer family.

Americanization of the names
 Josepha became Katarina Vogelhuber.
 Wilhelm Giesecke/John Ebenezer Grinkle, became William McGonigle, manufacturer of the one-piece Lady Godiva bathing suit, which buttons up the front with no back.
 Sigismund Sülzheimer/Smith, was reinvented as Sylvester S. Somerset, a Massachusetts manufacturer of the Goona Goona, with buttons in the back, none in front.
 McGonigle's daughter Ottilie/Ottoline was renamed Natalie.
 Otto Siedler, later Valentine Sutton in London, reappeared as Donald Hutton.
 Kathi, postmistress, became Hanni, to avoid confusion with the starring Katarina.

Cast
 Leopold Brandmeyer, the Head Waiter: William Gaxton
 Katarina Vogelhuber, Proprietress of the White Horse Inn: Kitty Carlisle
 William McGonigle: Billy House
 Natalie, his daughter: Carol Stone
 Donald Hutton: Robert Halliday
 Professor Hinzelman: Frederick Graham
 Gretel, his Daughter: Melissa Mason
 Sylvester S. Somerset, Jr.: Buster West
 The Emperor: Arnold Korff

Musical numbers

The differences between the musical numbers of the British and the American versions can be seen in the tables above. The numbers which are new in the Broadway version are marked with the symbol: (*).

Erik Charell and his American producers took a free hand adapting the original Berlin score. For example, the producers demanded the obligatory introductory song for their heroine, and thus Katarina and ensemble were given a new Jára Benes song "Leave It to Katarina" which many critics admired.

While Im weißen Rößl in its multiple international productions always freely accommodated musical interpolations, Charell and the American producers sabotaged one of the show's greatest strengths, its hit score. Only three recognizable hit tunes ("The White Horse Inn", "Blue Eyes", and "I Cannot Live Without Your Love") were retained, but with new lyrics. None of the new songs achieved any popularity whatsoever. The only plausible rationale is that Warner Brothers, as was the then-common practice with musical films among all Hollywood studios, often junked a show's original stage score for other new and inferior songs they owned.

Critical reaction
White Horse Inn was unquestionably the most lavish and eagerly awaited musical theatre premier of the New York season (with the possible exception of Billy Rose's Jumbo). Advance word of the show's previous success created expectations. White Horse Inn elicited also a handful of rave notices from the most influential critics in New York.

Brooks Atkinson wrote in The New York Times: "A hospitable evening seasoned by good taste in lavish showmanship". White Horse Inn was advertised in the daily papers: "Music, maids and minstrels by the million. The biggest thing in town for the money."

Recordings

There is a cast album out on Sepia Records with the original 1936 Broadway cast. It is largely a live radio broadcast, when the cast came to a radio show to promote White Horse Inn. It consists of about 10 minutes of the show, but augmented to 20 minutes from a rare New York radio broadcast with British and German period recordings which best illustrate the melodic charms of this musical extravaganza.

While original cast recordings were commonly made from a show's hit songs in Berlin, London and Paris at the time, the practice in New York was not as widespread until the Oklahoma! 78rpm cast album won a huge public in 1943. For that reason, there was not any American recording of any songs in the White Horse Inns score made during the New York run until this tape was found in 2009.

Notes

References

  See also:

Broadway musicals
Operas set in Austria
Operas by Ralph Benatzky
Compositions by Robert Stolz
1936 musicals
1936 operas
Musicals set in Austria
Musicals set in hotels


title: Bertram Williams (sport shooter)

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Bertram Williams (18 December 1876 – 24 January 1934) was a Canadian sports shooter. He competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics winning a bronze medal in the team military rifle event.

References

1876 births
1934 deaths
Canadian male sport shooters
Olympic shooters for Canada
Shooters at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Canada
Olympic medalists in shooting
Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Nova Scotia
20th-century Canadian people


title: Adrenalina (Wisin song)

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"Adrenalina" () is a song recorded by Puerto Rican rapper Wisin, featuring Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin and American singer Jennifer Lopez for the former's second studio album, El Regreso del Sobreviviente (2014). It was written by Martin, Lopez, Wisin, Chris Jeday, Luis Enrique Ortiz Rivera, and José "Gocho" Torres, while the production was handled by Jeday. The song was released for digital download by Sony Music Latin on February 18, 2014, as the second single from the album. A Spanish language Latin dance song with hip hop and pop rock influences, its lyrics are sensual.

"Adrenalina" received widely positive reviews from music critics, who complimented its danceable rhythm and noted its featured artists as two Latin icons. The song was nominated for Latin Rhythm Airplay Song of the Year at the 2015 Latin Billboard Music Awards, as well as both Urban Song of the Year and Collaboration of the Year at the 2015 Premio Lo Nuestro. It was commercially successful, reaching the top five in Mexico and Spain, and on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart in the United States. It also reached the summit of the Billboard Latin Airplay, Latin Rhythm Airplay, and Latin Digital Song Sales charts. The song has received several certifications, including platinum in Mexico and double platinum in Spain.

An accompanying music video, released on March 3, 2014, was directed by Jessy Terrero and filmed in Miami, Florida. The visual depicts Martin and Lopez dancing sensually together, street chases, the underground atmosphere, and a final clandestine party. It was nominated for Video of the Year at the Premio Lo Nuestro and has received over 870 million views on YouTube. To promote "Adrenalina", the singers performed it on several television programs and award shows, including 2014 Premios Juventud.

Background and release
On October 30, 2012, Univision revealed that reggaeton duo Wisin & Yandel had recorded a song entitled "Adrenalina" along with Jennifer Lopez and Ricky Martin. The duo had previously collaborated with Martin on "Frío" (2011), and with Lopez on "Follow the Leader" (2012). Wisin explained that "Adrenalina" had originally been recorded for Lopez, but upon hearing the tones and the vibes, they decided to invite Martin: "We told him that it was an explosion of theme. The public needs to see people united, and rather for the music so that it does not die."

On January 26, 2014, Wisin shared the artwork for the single, announcing that the song would be released on February 17, 2014. Despite the previous announcements, Yandel of Wisin & Yandel had not participated in the song. In an interview with People en Español, Wisin talked about the collaboration:

On February 18, 2014, "Adrenalina" was released by Sony Music Latin for digital download as the second single from Wisin's second studio album, El Regreso del Sobreviviente (2014). The song was sent to international radio stations on February 24, 2014 and was released for streaming the following day. It became the Univision's 2014 World Cup song and was included as the third track on El Regreso del Sobreviviente, released March 18, 2014. A Spanglish version of the song was recorded under the same title by Martin featuring Lopez and Wisin; it was released for digital download and streaming by Sony Music Latin on February 25, 2014.

Music and lyrics

Musically, "Adrenalina" is a Spanish language up-tempo Latin dance song, with elements of hip hop and pop rock. It was written by Martin, Lopez, Wisin, Chris Jeday, Luis Enrique Ortiz Rivera, and José "Gocho" Torres, with its production being handled by Jeday. Both original and Spanglish versions of the song run for a total of 3 minutes and 55 seconds. The sensual lyrics include "Es que tu cuerpo es pura adrenalina que por dentro me atrapa / Me tiene al borde de la locura" (It is that your body is pure adrenaline that traps me inside / It has me on the verge of madness).

Critical reception
Upon release, "Adrenalina" was met with widely positive reviews from music critics. A writer of Radio Corazón labeled the track "a super combination" that raises "the adrenaline", describing it as "a song that is undoubtedly a hit and is one of the most talked about" tracks from El Regreso del Sobreviviente. Idolators Mike Wass described it as "an infectious Latin-infused dance anthem" and Remezcla's Marcos Hassan called it an athem that is "impossible to resist". Velvet Music editorial team stated that the song made a lot of noise since it features "the two Latin giants" Lopez and Martin, who joined "the unknown" Wisin. An author of Primera Hora named Lopez and Martin "the most international and the most desired Puerto Rican couple of the moment", while a writer of El Periódico de Catalunya introduced them as "two icons of Latin music in the US". Noelia Bertol from Cadena Dial ranked "Adrenalina" as one of "Ricky Martin six collaborations that have us moving the skeleton" and labeled it "a real great song". In 2016, El Comercio critic named the song a "megahit".

Accolades
In 2022, Cadena Dial ranked "Adrenalina" among the "10 songs to motivate you to do sports". The song has received a number of awards and nominations. It was nominated for Latin Rhythm Airplay Song of the Year at the 2015 Latin Billboard Music Awards, but lost to "6 AM" by J Balvin featuring Farruko. The track was also nominated for both Urban Song of the Year and Collaboration of the Year at the 27th Premio Lo Nuestro.

Commercial performance
"Adrenalina" became a big hit, following its release. The song debuted at number 12 on Billboards Hot Latin Songs chart on March 15, 2014, becoming Wisin's 4th entry, Lopez's 12th, and Martin's 39th. The following week it climbed to its peak at number two, being held off the top spot by "Odio" (2014) by Romeo Santos featuring Drake, while giving Wisin his second, Lopez her fifth, and Martin his 22nd top 10 hit. "Adrenalina" spent a total of 26 weeks on the chart and marked Wisin's highest-charting and longest running single at the time, surpassing "Que Viva La Vida" (2013). It also ties "No Me Ames" (1999) and "Ven a Bailar" (2011) as Lopez's longest-charting hits in her career. "Adrenalina" spent 10 weeks atop the US Latin Rhythm Airplay chart and reached the summit of both the US Latin Digital Song Sales and Latin Airplay charts. On Latin Pop Airplay, it peaked at number two, being held off the top spot by "Odio". "Adrenalina" debuted and peaked at number 94 on the US Billboard Hot 100 on March 22, 2014, becoming Wisin's first entry, Lopez's 24th, and Martin's 16th. The song also debuted and peaked at number 17 on Billboards Hot Rap Songs chart, becoming both Wisin and Martin's first entry, and Lopez's second.

In Spain, "Adrenalina" debuted at number 28 on March 2, 2014, and subsequently peaked at number three on the chart issue dated March 16, 2014. The song spent 52 weeks on the chart and was certified double platinum by the Productores de Música de España (PROMUSICAE), for track-equivalent sales of over 80,000 units in the country. In Mexico, the track peaked at number four and was certified platinum by the Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON), for sales of over 60,000 units.

Music videos

On February 10, 2014, Wisin and Martin shared photos of themselves along with Dominican director Jessy Terrero, Ed Coriano, and Henry Quintero on the set of filming "Adrenalina" music video. Martin and Lopez continued sharing photos and videos from the set on Instagram, which included sensual scenes depicting the two singers. In an interview with PopCrush, Lopez talked about recording the video:

The video, which was filmed in Miami, Florida and directed by Terrero, was released on March 3, 2014. It features Martin and Lopez dancing sensually together, while Martin seductively bit Lopez's ear in a scene. The same as Lopez's several other music videos, "Adrenalina" visual includes street chases, leather and the lack of clothing, the underground atmosphere, and a final clandestine party, while according to E! Online, Martin's appearance "gives it a different touch" and "triggers the sexual tension of the video". Idolators Mike Wass described the two as "the most beautiful 40-somethings on earth", praising Martin's "pretty" look and Lopez's "famous" buttocks that "steal the show". As of April 2022, the video has received over 870 million views on YouTube. It was nominated for Video of the Year at the 27th Premio Lo Nuestro. A similar music video was also filmed for the Spanglish version and was uploaded to Martin's YouTube channel on March 11, 2014.

Live performances and appearances in media
On March 29, 2014, Martin gave his first live performance of "Adrenalina" on the second season's finale of The Voice: Ahla Sawt. On July 17, 2014, the trio performed the song at the 11th Annual Premios Juventud. Later that year, Wisin performed the track at the 9th Annual Premios 40 Principales in December. At the 2015 iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina, Lopez brought out Wisin during her performance and sang the song with him. Wisin also performed the single along with his other hits during the 57th Viña del Mar International Song Festival on February 27, 2016. "Adrenalina" was included on the set lists for Martin's the Live in Mexico tour, the One World Tour, and the Ricky Martin en Concierto, with the guest appearance of Wisin in several dates. On December 1, 2018, Wisin & Yandel invited Martin as a guest to their Como Antes Tour and the three singers performed "Fiebre" and "Adrenalina" together at the José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum in San Juan, Puerto Rico. During the performance, Martin wore a black T-shirt with the flag of Puerto Rico drawn by his children, to raise funds for helping people and reconstructing houses, following Hurricane Maria. On February 24, 2019, Wisin & Yandel performed "Adrenalina" along with their other hits during the 60th Viña del Mar International Song Festival. In the same year, Wisin and his team performed a medley of "Aullando", "Me niego", "Escápate Conmigo", and "Adrenalina" on the first season of American singing competition television series La Voz.

"Adrenalina" has been used by several contestants on various dance competition television series. In 2015, on the tenth season of Argentine TV dance competition Bailando por un Sueño, Verónica Ojeda and Nicolás Scillama performed their Freestyle dance choreography with the song, while Bárbara Vélez and Ignacio Pérez Cortés danced to it as their Latin pop choreography. On the next season, Carla Conte and Marcos Beierbach danced to it, the following year. Milo Manheim and Witney Carson danced to "Adrenalina" with Riker Lynch on the 27th season of the American dance competition television series Dancing with the Stars in 2018. Their choreography received acclaim from the judges at the show, who gave them the score of 29 out of 30. Italian singer Mietta covered the track as "Farfalla" on the Italian singing competition television series Il cantante mascherato in 2020. The following year, Chilean singer Américo delivered a performance of the song on the Chilean television series ¿Quién es la máscara? as "Piña".

Track listing

Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from Tidal.

 Wisin vocal, composer, lyricist, associated performer, executive producer
 Jennifer Lopez vocal, composer, lyricist, associated performer, featured artist
 Ricky Martin vocal, composer, lyricist, associated performer, featured artist
 Chris Jeday composer, lyricist, producer
 Luis Enrique Ortiz Rivera composer, lyricist, assistant producer
 José Torres composer, lyricist
 David Cabrera assistant producer, co-producer, recording engineer
 Federico Vindver keyboards
 Jaycen Joshua mixing engineer
 Jose "Hyde" Cotto recording engineer
 Rudy Bethancourt recording engineer

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

Footnote

See also
List of Billboard Hot Latin Songs and Latin Airplay number ones of 2014

References

Jennifer Lopez songs
Ricky Martin songs
2014 singles
Sony Music Latin singles
Songs written by Ricky Martin
Songs written by Jennifer Lopez
Songs written by Wisin
Wisin songs
2014 songs
Music videos directed by Jessy Terrero


title: Maccabiah sports

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Maccabiah sports are official sports contested at the Maccabiah by the International Maccabiah Committee (IMC). Recent Maccabiah games included over 40 different sports.

Structure
Within the Maccabiah, four separate competitions take place: Junior, Masters, Open, and Paralympics. Junior games are open to any qualifying athlete of age 15 to 18 (depending on the event, as young as 13 years old might be able to qualify). The Masters games are designed for the older athletes from each deletion. Within the Masters games there are separate age classes. The open division is intended for the best athletes from each delegation and as such subject to the rules of the international governing body of that sport.

The Maccabiah also hosts a paralympics division which hosts various paralympic and wheelchair sports. The paralympic swimming competitions at the Maccabiah cover all swimming stroke in the 50-meter and 100-meter events. The Maccabiah typically hosts a para table tennis competition which includes both paralympic standing and a paralympic wheelchair category. The Maccabiah also hosts other events such as the para-cycling, wheelchair basketball, and paralympics half marathon.

Overview

Swimming

Swimming has been part of the Maccabiah since the first Maccabiah in 1932. Additionally, the Maccabiah games include open water competitions of 1,500 and 5,000 meters. Swimming competitions are conducted according to the rules of the International Swimming Federation (FINA).

Squash

Squash became an official sport in the 10th Maccabiah Games in 1977. The competition was held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which had two courts that were covered by a tin roof and open to the air. That year, the United States team consisted of the top Jewish hardball squash players in the country. The team was led by Glenn Whitman, former captain and number one player at Harvard University. Other players included Len Bernheimer, a top ranked amateur who previously played in college at Williams, Roger Alcaly, and Bill Kaplan, captain of Harvard's varsity squash team.

Ice hockey

Ice hockey entered the Maccabiah in 1997 with Canada winning the gold medal. The United States team was able to secure a silver place position. Ice hockey was not included in subsequent games but returned in 2013 as part of the 19th Maccabiah. The countries represented in three divisions were Canada, Israel, Russia, Ukraine and the USA. Canada won the Gold Medal in the Open Division after crushing USA 7-1. Canada also won the Gold Medal in the Juniors Division defeating USA 3-2. USA, however got some payback in the Masters Division as they defeated Canada 7-4, winning USA's first ever Gold Medal in Maccabiah Ice Hockey history.

Chess

Chess has been recognized as a sport and was included in the 2nd Maccabiah. During the 50s and 60s chess disappeared from the games. Chess was renewed at the 10th Maccabiah in 1977 and has grown considerably ever since. In the 17th Maccabiah, a Super-Tournament took place.

Maccabiah programs

A check (✔) denotes the program took place in that edition of the Maccabiah. An X mark (✘) denotes the games were not available for that specified edition of the Maccabiah. A bullet () denotes the program was available, however for one or more reasons the competition did not take place (typically due to insufficient amount of delegations).

References

Sports


title: Yoshika Arai

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Yoshika Arai (, née Tatsumi ; born 26 February 1982) is a Japanese middle- and long-distance runner who specialises in the 3000 metres steeplechase. Her personal best for that event is 9:55.93 minutes.

She took up the steeplechase event in 2007 and represented her country at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics, held in Osaka. Her first major medal came at the 2009 Asian Athletics Championships, where she won in a championship record.

Earlier in her career, Arai was a frequent runner-up to Minori Hayakari at the Japan Championships in Athletics, but she took national titles in both 2012 and 2013. She also placed fourth at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships.

Career
Born in Shimane Prefecture, she attended Matsue Kita High School, before going on to study at Shimane University. Following her graduation, she took up running professionally through corporate teams, including Wako, Noritz Corporation and Deodeo. During the early part of her career she mainly competed in the 800 metres and 1500 metres and regularly ranked within the top ten at the Japan Championships in Athletics.

She began to progress in the sport in 2007, after taking up cross country running and the steeplechase. She was chosen for the 2007 Asian Cross Country Championships in March and came eighth, helping the Japanese women's team (including Minori Hayakari and Eri Kotake) to second in the rankings. She gradually improved her steeplechase best in the outdoor track season, coming third at the Oda Memorial and culminating in a personal best of 9:57.02 minutes for second at the National Championships. This earned her a place at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics in Osaka, but she was much slower there and was eliminated in the qualifying rounds.

Arai focused on the steeplechase in 2008 and dipped under ten minutes again at the Barcelona Meeting, but was some way behind Hayakari and Kazuka Wakatsuki and the Japanese Championships and was not selected for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In 2009, she won at the Oda Memorial, then was runner-up to Hayakari at the Japanese Championships. While Hayakari competed at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, Arai was chosen as Japan's representative for the 2009 Asian Athletics Championships – there she defeated all-comers and won the gold medal in a championship record time of 10:05.94 minutes. She was again the Japanese runner-up at the 2010 nationals and she did not compete in 2011. National rival Hayakari beat her Asian championship record in 2011.

Arai returned to competition in 2012 and won her first national title at the 2012 Japan Championships in Athletics, as compatriot Hayakari (nearing forty) faltered in the final. Arai's winning time of 9:55.93 minutes was not sufficient for selection for Japan at the 2012 Summer Olympics, however. The following year she retained her steeplechase title at the 2013 Japan Championships in Athletics and placed fourth at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships.

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External links

Living people
1982 births
Sportspeople from Shimane Prefecture
Japanese female steeplechase runners
World Athletics Championships athletes for Japan
Japan Championships in Athletics winners


title: Orfeas (disambiguation)

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Orfeas, Ορφέας, is the Greek for Orpheus, a legendary figure in Greek mythology, chief among poets and musicians.

Orfeas may refer to:

Football clubs

 Orfeas Nicosia, a Cypriot football club
 Orfeas Elefteroupoli F.C., a Greek football club
 A.P.O. Orfeas, a Greek football club

People

 Orfeas Tzanetopoulos, 1967–74 mayor of Egaleo, Greece

Miscellaneous

 Orfeas, a former Greek municipal unit
 Orfeas (album), 2011 album retelling the Orpheus legend

See also
 Orpheus (disambiguation), the English and German spelling
 Orphée (disambiguation), the French spelling
 Orfeo (disambiguation), the Italian spelling
 Orfeu (disambiguation), the Portuguese spelling
 Orfey (disambiguation), Орфей, the Russian spelling


title: Secret (app)

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Secret was an iOS and Android app service that allowed people to share messages anonymously within their circle of friends, friends of friends, and publicly. It differs from other anonymous sharing apps such as PostSecret, Whisper, and Yik Yak in that it was intended for sharing primarily with friends, potentially making it more interesting and addictive for people reading the updates. It was founded by David Byttow, the former lead for Square Wallet, and Chrys Bader-Wechseler, a former Google product manager at Google+, Photovine and YouTube. Bader-Wechseler left the company in January 2015, with the stated reason that the company's shift away from beautiful design and towards more minimalistic design meant that he felt he was no longer the best person to be at the helm of the company. Byttow announced the shutdown of the app and the company on April 29, 2015.

History

Launch and initial buzz
In December 2013, TechCrunch reported the existence of Secret (then in stealth, so its purpose was unclear), and also that it was raising $1.2 million, based on a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

The app was released privately within Silicon Valley over the next two months. It started receiving press coverage in early February 2014, where it was revealed that the company had raised $1.4 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Google Ventures, Alexis Ohanian and Garry Tan through their Initialized Capital vehicle, Index Ventures, Matrix Partners, SV Angel, and Fuel Capital. A number of technology news websites billed Secret as the latest craze in Silicon Valley.

The company had three employees and raised $8.6 million in its Series A round in March 2014.

False rumors about an impending acquisition of Evernote were circulated via Secret in early February 2014. Business Insider reported rumors (circulated on Secret) that Secret was about to acquire Whisper, another anonymous sharing app.

On February 10, Mashable reported that clothing retailer Gap was the first brand to join Secret.
On February 13, 2014, Secret launched a Bug Bounty program for hackers who found vulnerabilities in its app. On February 14, Forbes reported that Secret would add more privacy controls. This happened on February 21: Secret added subscribe/unsubscribe options, post flagging, and unlinking options.

On May 21, Secret became available globally and also launched on the Android operating system. Secret added some more improvements in June: the launch of "Secret Dens" for schools and workplaces on June 9, and the ability to have a feed with only friends' posts on June 16.

On July 14, 2014, Secret announced that it had raised a $25 million Series B. Funders included Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Garry Tan and Alexis Ohanian, SV Angel, Fuel Capital, Ceyuan Ventures, and anonymous investors.

Legal challenges in Brazil
On August 18, 2014 a Brazilian court granted a preliminary injunction to a public prosecutor that prohibits companies such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft from distributing the app and also compels the three companies to remotely delete the app on users' devices. The prosecutor sought the injunction after receiving user complaints of bullying. Currently, a user's only means of redress against bullies is to send a letter in English to an American judge via the Brazilian foreign ministry, essentially leaving Brazilian users powerless. The decision itself is based on chapter 5, article 1 of the Brazilian constitution. The article states, "the expression of thought is free, anonymity being forbidden." The judge ruled this makes Secret's promise of anonymity unconstitutional. The three American companies were given ten days to comply before facing fines of 20,000 reals ($8,870) a day. The three American tech giants have the chance to appeal ahead of a final ruling.

After the Brazilian courts hearing, the developers included new features for both the Android and iOS versions of the app aimed at safeguarding user privacy. After the changes, users can only use photos taken at the time of a posting, rather than images previously stored on the device. This was a direct response to the court's concerns about the use of private images without consent. An improved screening process was also implemented to prevent certain feelings, keywords and images being published. The company's team investigates possible violations and users are notified of any potential breach.

Redesign and change of focus
In December 2014, the company announced it would launch a faster 2.0 version with new chat features.

In January 2015, Secret launched its first "geofenced feed" at the CES conference, where both making and viewing posts was restricted to people within the geographical location of the conference. Later that month, Secret co-founder Bader-Wechseler left the company, with the stated reason that the company's shift away from beautiful design and towards more minimalistic design meant that he felt he was no longer the best person to be at the helm of the company.

In March 2015, it was revealed that the company was working on new apps based on what they had learned about user needs from the Secret app, but intended to continue to retain the original product. It was also revealed that Secret Dens were being used extensively internally at companies such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter.

Shutdown of the app and the company
On April 29, 2015, Secret's founder and CEO David Byttow announced his decision to shut the company down, claiming that the way people were using the app, including the spreading of malicious rumors, was not in line with what he had originally envisioned. The app was removed from the iOS and Android stores. Byttow intended to use the next two weeks to wind the company down, return money to investors, and delete all user data accumulated by the company. Of the decision to shut down the company and return the money to investors rather than attempt to pivot, he wrote: "Innovation requires failure, and I believe in failing fast in order to go on and make only new and different mistakes." He also promised to eventually publish postmortems "so that others can learn from the unique mistakes and challenges we faced and the wisdom gained from such an incredible 16 months."

Reception

Reception upon release and growth
Technology commentators likened Secret to the shuttered app PostSecret and the app Whisper, all part of a growing trend towards anonymous and quasi-anonymous sharing, a pushback against Facebook's successful push to encourage real name use throughout the Internet.

An article in The Guardian argued that although Secret was fast becoming a craze, "we should be cautious about who we trust".

Detailed reviews of Secret were published in Technology Review and TechCrunch.

On July 31, 2014, Sarah Lacy published a lengthy critique of Secret in PandoDaily, noting that one of the app's main use cases was to spread malicious lies about people and organizations, and that she was puzzled that investors she considered ethical were considering investing in the company. She also suggested that there was a reasonable chance that the app would lead to teen suicides due to bullying and lies being spread about people. Secret co-founder David Byttow dismissed the post in a tweet, noting that it sent very little traffic to Secret's website. Paul Carr responded on PandoDaily, and Secret's PR representative expressed disappointment saying she didn't like it when people wrote bad things about others without talking to them first. Carr responded again, noting the irony of the tweet given Secret's main use case. Lacy wrote a follow-up post a week after her initial post, discussing events that had transpired over the week and their implications for her thesis.

Reception upon shutdown
Upon the shutdown of the app, Mike Isaac wrote in the New York Times that Secret's rapid rise, subsequent fall and eventual shutdown illustrated the "flash-in-the-pan" nature of many Silicon Valley companies. The article also noted that the co-founders had cashed out to the tune of $3 million each during an earlier round of fundraising, raising questions of their commitment to and confidence in the long-term vision and success of the company. Issie Lapowsky, writing for Wired Magazine, noted: "founder David Byttow seems to have realized what the rest of us have known all along: anonymity makes people into total assholes" but later in the article questioned whether, if Secret had enjoyed the traction that competitor Yik Yak had, Byttow would still shut the company down.

See also
 Anonymous social media
 Whisper (app)
 PostSecret
 Yik Yak

References

External links

Mobile social software
Anonymous social media


title: Joseph Harp Correctional Center

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Joseph Harp Correctional Center (JHCC) is an Oklahoma Department of Corrections state prison for male inmates located in Lexington, Cleveland County, Oklahoma. The medium-security facility opened in September 1978 and with a capacity of 1045 inmates is the largest medium-security prison in the state.

JHCC was named for Joseph Harp. who served as warden of the Oklahoma State Reformatory from 1949 to 1969. Regarded by his colleagues as an innovative leader and professional in the field of corrections, he recognized that a high school education was one of the greatest needs that many inmates had lacked which could prevent them from gaining legal employment and often times led to a life of crime. Under Harp's leadership, Oklahoma State Reformatory was one of the first correctional institutions to establish a fully-accredited high school inside prison walls.

According to JHCC, 84 percent of its inmates are incarcerated for committing a violent crime, and ten percent have committed first-degree murder. Inmates typically work in the Oklahoma Correctional Industries program, manufacturing furniture or performing data entry to convert old paper records to digital documents.

The center offers adult education programs and encourages inmates to earn a GED while serving their sentences. Offenders sentenced as youths for short periods typically arrive under the delayed sentence program. If the youth does well, he may qualify for release with a suspended sentence, if he does not do well, he will be formally sentenced.

Notable Inmates
Jonathan Scott Graham - Murdered Gary Dale Larson and raped his wife Janet in Edmond, Oklahoma on August 16, 1986. He was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences. Story was told on season 13, episode 11 of Forensic Files on trutv.

References

Prisons in Oklahoma
Buildings and structures in Cleveland County, Oklahoma
1978 establishments in Oklahoma


title: William Smith (sport shooter)

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William Smith (11 May 1877 – 12 March 1953) was a Canadian sports shooter. He competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics winning a bronze medal in the team military rifle event.

References

1877 births
1953 deaths
Canadian male sport shooters
Olympic shooters for Canada
Shooters at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Ottawa
Olympic bronze medalists for Canada
Olympic medalists in shooting
Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics
20th-century Canadian people