title: Glen Choga Lodge

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The Glen Choga Lodge is a historic lodge in rural Macon County, North Carolina.  It is located in a clearing on the south side of Little Choga Road (North Carolina Route 1402), in Nantahala National Forest.  The lodge is a large U-shaped two-story log structure with a metal roof.  The Glen Choga Lodge is the only saddle notched Adirondack-style lodge made of Wormy Chesnut Logs known to still exist. It was built in 1934–35, at a time when Little Choga Road was a major route between Franklin and Murphy, North Carolina.  The builders were Alexander Breheurs Steuart and his wife Margaret Willis Hays; they operated the lodge as a summer vacation destination until 1941 and the United States entry into World War II.  It did not reopen for commercial use after the war, and has been converted into a private summer residence.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Macon County, North Carolina

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
Houses completed in 1935
Houses in Macon County, North Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Macon County, North Carolina


title: Paribus

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Paribus is an American company and creator of the price tracking app of the same name, which syncs with a user's email account to scan for receipts and negotiates with online companies to refund the difference if there is a price drop shortly after a purchase.

History
Paribus was founded in 2014 by Eric Glyman and Karim Atiyeh. The company is based in Brooklyn, New York. The name is derived from the Latin phrase ceteris paribus, meaning "all others things being equal."

Glyman built Paribus to simplify the process of receiving a refund following a price drop, which can be complicated to track and often go unclaimed. He and fellow Harvard University alumnus Atiyeh conceived of the idea and started working on the concept in the summer of 2013. After launching in beta in September 2014, the app launched publicly at TechCrunch Disrupt New York on May 5, 2015. Paribus released its iOS app on August 6, 2015, and its Android app on April 28, 2016.

In October 2015, Paribus announced that it had raised $2.1 million in seed funding, following its participation in the Y Combinator summer program and Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt NY. The funding round was led by General Catalyst Partners, and also included Greylock Partners, Foundation Capital, Soma Capital and Mick Johnson, Facebook's former director of product.

In October 2016, it was announced that Paribus had been acquired by Capital One. Since then, Paribus has continued to launch new products to help save users time and money and has reportedly found more than $20,000,000 in savings for their over 3,000,000 users.

Software
Paribus connects to a user's email account to scan messages for receipts from e-commerce retailers. The app tracks the user's purchases and, if an item goes on sale shortly after the purchase, Paribus contacts customer service departments in the user's name to file a price adjustment claim and request a refund of the difference. It is also able to detect coupons or promo codes that could have been applied to a purchase, and have the coupon redeemed retroactively. The app is free. After the acquisition closed with Capital One, Paribus users now keep 100% of the difference. It is available on the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and on Android smartphones and tablets.

At its launch, the service worked with 18 major retailers, including Amazon.com, Best Buy, Walmart, Target, Macy's and Newegg. This list had grown to 29 retailers in the United States by December 2017. The company states that the average user saves between $60 and $100 per year. As of October 2016, it had over 700,000 users.

See also
 Tech companies in the New York metropolitan area

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Capital One
American companies established in 2014
Companies based in Brooklyn
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title: List of American breads

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This is a list of American breads. Bread is a staple food prepared from a dough of flour and water, usually by baking. Throughout recorded history it has been popular around the world and is one of humanity's oldest foods, having been of importance since the dawn of agriculture.

This list includes breads that originated in the United States.

American breads

 Adobe bread – type of bread typical of the Pueblo peoples of the Southwestern United States, it is often shaped like animals typical of the region. The dough often contains meat, vegetables, seeds, or nuts.
 Amish friendship bread
 Anadama bread – traditional yeast bread of New England in the United States made with wheat flour, cornmeal, molasses and sometimes rye flour.
 Banana bread – first became a standard feature of American cookbooks with the popularization of baking soda and baking powder in the 1930s; appeared in Pillsbury's 1933 Balanced Recipes cookbook.
 Beaten biscuit – Southern food from the United States, dating from the 19th century. They differ from regular American soft-dough biscuits in that they are more like  hardtack. In New England they are called "sea biscuits", as they were staples aboard whaling ships.
 Biscuit – in the United States and parts of Canada, and widely used in popular American English, is a small bread with a firm browned crust and a soft interior.
 Boston brown bread – also known as New England brown bread
 Bulkie roll – New England regional variety of sandwich roll
 Cornbread
  Cuban bread
 Frybread
 Graham bread – invented by Sylvester Graham in 1829 for his vegetarian diet, it was high in fiber, made with non-sifted whole-wheat flour and free from the chemical additives that were common in white bread at that time such as alum and chlorine.
 Hot water corn bread
 Hushpuppy – savory food made from cornmeal batter that is deep fried or baked rolled as a small ball or occasionally other shapes.
 American muffin
 Muffuletta – both a type of round Sicilian sesame bread and a popular sandwich originating among Italian immigrants in New Orleans, Louisiana using the same bread.
 Parker House roll – invented at the Parker House Hotel in Boston during the 1870s and still served there, it is a bread roll made by flattening the center of a ball of dough with a rolling pin so that it becomes an oval shape and then folding the oval in half.
 Pepperoni roll
 Popover
 Pullman loaf
 San Francisco sourdough - a specialty form of French bread with a crispy brown crust and a distinctly "sour" taste, which derives from the fructilactobacillus sanfranciscensis bacteria in the fermented sourdough starter. French bakers are suspected to have introduced sourdough bread to the San Francisco area during the California Gold Rush in the 1850s
 Salt-rising bread
 Scali bread
 Sloosh
 Texas toast – type of packaged bread (not sold toasted as the name implies) which is sold sliced at double the typical thickness of most sliced breads

See also

 Cuisine of the United States
 History of California bread
 List of American foods
 List of American sandwiches
 List of baked goods
 List of breads
 List of bread dishes
 List of bread rolls
 List of buns

References

External links

American breads
Lists of breads
Breads


title: Suzanne Oboler

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Suzanne Oboler is a Peruvian-American scholar and Professor of Latin American and Latina/o Studies at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York.

Oboler is the author of Ethnic Labels, Latino Lives: Identity and the Politics of (Re)Presentation in the United States and the founding Editor of the journal Latino Studies (2002-2012). She has edited several books, including Latinos and Citizenship: The Dilemma of Belonging; Behind Bars: Latino/as and Prison in the United States (2006), and co-edited Neither Enemies nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos (2009). Oboler is also co-Editor in Chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latino/as in the United States.

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Latin Americanists
Living people
John Jay College of Criminal Justice faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
American people of Peruvian descent
American print editors
Place of birth missing (living people)
American social sciences writers


title: Mont Boisjoli

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Mont Boisjoli is a hill that rises to approximately  in Hatley, Quebec, Canada.

History
The hill has officially carried the name "Mont Boisjoli" since 1983. In the 1940s, a  skiing station called Ski Montjoye opened on the hill, and in the 1970s a chalet was constructed to accommodate visitors and events. Eventually, the ski station closed.

Hatley Group, its current owner, purchased the property from the City of Sherbrooke for CA $526,500 in 2009.

Recreation
The hill is open year-round, and hikers may use its trails for free. In the winter, visitors may slide down the mountain using inner tubes or mini-tubes for a fee. According to the Hatley Group website, there are plans to install infrastructure for tri-ski sleds, mini luge, river tubing, and to extend the hiking trails in the park.

References

External links
 Official website of the park

Mountains of Quebec under 1000 metres


title: Alberto Camenzind

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Alberto Camenzind (7 June 1914, in Lugano – 29 September 2004, in Astano) was a Swiss architect from Ticino. He also became a professor at the prestigious Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich ("Zürich Technical University").

Early years
Alberto Camenzind was the son of, Eduard Camenzind, a hotelier originally from Gersau in the (officially German speaking) Canton of Schwyz, by his marriage to Chiara d'Ambrogio. He attended secondary school in Lugano. Between 1933 and 1939 he studied architecture with, among others, Professor William Dunkel at the Zürich Technical University, where fellow architecture students included Max Frisch (subsequently better remembered as a writer than as an architect) and Justus Dahinden.

Professional career
On completing his studies he worked at the studios of the architects Otto Rudolf Salvisberg and William Dunkel. Returning south, in 1942 he opened his own architectural studio in Lugano, working in association with Bruno Brocchi between 1959 and 1991.  His early work as an independent architect included houses in Cademario (1953) and Sorengo (1957). Camenzind's first public commission was a secondary school (today a "Media School") in Bellinzona (1958), followed by the main building for the RTSI (the Swiss Italian language TV/Radio station), completed between 1958 and 1961, undertaken by Camenzind in collaboration with Augusto Jäggli and Rino Tami. He was also responsible for the headquarters, at Agno, of the Swiss Alfa Romeo importer (1963) which has subsequently been converted into a Migros supermarket) and the Gmür House (1963 "la Casa Gmür") in Brissago.

Outside Switzerland Camenzind became much better known in 1964 when he was appointed a co-director for the "EXPO 64" exhibition in Lausanne. As chief architect he was responsible for designing "multi-cell format" exhibition halls for the event. Particular attention was paid to the repeating "Swiss Way" ("Weg der Schweiz") Leitmotif that was a feature of this "Expo".

In 1965 he was appointed to a professorship at the Zürich Technical University, where he became a professor emeritus in 1981.

Collaborating with the structural engineers Pier Luigi Nervi and the French architect Eugène Beaudouin, Camenzind was the lead architect for the "Bureau International du Travail", built at Geneva for the ILO between 1969 and 1975. At the time this immense structure was Switzerland's largest office building, with a length of 200 meters and a height of 50 meters.

Closer to home, one of his last major projects was the Quartiere Maghetti (1984) in the Ticinese capital, characterized by exposed concrete and dry stone wall facings.

Honours and committees
Alberto Camenzind was granted honorary citizenship of Lugano in 1964. He was a member of the Swiss and Ticinese Memorial Preservation Commissions ("Denkmalpflegekommission[en]"), between 1964 and 1968 he was President of the Swiss Central Architects' Federation and, between 1965 and 1972, a member of the Federal Fine Arts Commission ("Eidgenössischen Kunstkommission").

Retirement and death
He retired to Astano in 1997, and it was here that he died in 2004.

References

Architects from Ticino
Academic staff of ETH Zurich
1914 births
2004 deaths
Swiss architects


title: Xu Xiaoxi

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Xu Xiaoxi (; born November 18, 1981 in Chengdu) is a Chinese film director and screenwriter. He belongs to a new generation of filmmakers from China that are educated in the West. Since 2010, he co-directs all his films with the Spanish director Roberto F. Canuto and together open a film production company in China, Almost Red Productions.

Xu obtains some international recognition after he received awards in international film festivals. Due to the distinct personal style of his movies, Xu is considered in some circles as a promising figure in the Chinese industry.

Biography

Xu Xiaoxi was born in Chengdu, Sichuan. He was influenced into filmmaking since childhood, since his father was a cinematographer in those times. He bought him a video camera when he was eight years old. He remembers to start writing stories and record it with his friends.

After high school, he wanted to travel and experience different cultures. He later moved to South Africa to study Fine Arts, majoring in Painting at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Xu gained experience and good skills in drawing, painting, photography, and video art. He worked as a video artist in his final year project The Fluxus of ID, a tribute to Maya Deren. He used video images as the prime means of expression regarding perceptions of cultural identity in a globalized world. In 2006, he graduated the university and received the bachelor's degree of Fine Arts.

After graduation, Xu decided to persuade a filmmaking career and continue his international experiences, so he enrolled in a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) at a filmmaking program at the New York Film Academy in the Los Angeles campus near Universal Studios, Hollywood. There, he directed many short films in celluloid and digital format and collaborated in many others, mainly as a cinematographer (most notorious was Toto Forever, obtaining a nomination for Best Cinematography from his academy at the Kodak Cinematography Scholarships Awards). He graduated in 2009 with Desire Street as their thesis film.

From 2008, his films joined the festival circuit and achieved awards. These films were created with his usual collaborator, Roberto F. Canuto. They had first met when they studied the same master in Los Angeles. His two graduation projects became his most renowned films, Mei Mei (Year One graduation) and the feature Desire Street, co-directed with Canuto (master graduation). Desire Street, which was re-cut and eventually re-released in 2011, received awards at the Asturian Film Festival 2014 and a Special Mention for Best International Feature Film at Mix Mexico International Film Festival 2011, together with other nominations and special screenings.
During the postproduction of Mei Mei, the director started the collaboration with the composer who would become part of the team and signature of his work since then, Andrea Centazzo, Italy's top orchestral percussionist and a reference in the avant-garde contemporary music.

Back in China, Xu and Canuto founded officially their own production company, Almost Red Productions, where they alternate the fiction narrative projects with commercial/advertisement works. In 2013, they released the Chinese and Spanish production short film Ni Jing: Thou Shalt Not Steal. This film won the Best Film Award (Riverside Saginaw International Film Festival, Michigan, USA) and runner-up for Best Short Film with the Best Actress award going to actress Sherry Xia Ruihong (Asturian Film Festival, Spain), two nominations for the film in the GAVA Awards, 2014 as Best Short and Best Screenplay, together with other nominations and international screenings. In addition to the fiction works, Almost Red Productions creates commercials and collaborates with some non profit organizations, like Concentric Circles, a company that aims to improve the health system in poor rural areas of China.

His film Floating Melon was released in late 2015 and he introduced the project as the second part the trilogy, Invisible Chengdu, after Ni Jing: Thou Shalt Not Steal.

Floating Melon was filmed in his hometown, Chengdu, and with non professional actors. The world premiere took place in Spain at the 53rd FICXIXON, Gijón International Film Festival in November 2015 and in China at the Art Gallery Shujingtang Alley Art Space in Chengdu (Sichuan) in June 2016. It received an Audience Award at the 15th Aviles Acción Film Festival (Spain) and the Audience Choice Award and Best Cinematography Award (Guo Yong) at the III Asturian Film Festival of Proaza, 2016 (Spain). In the first 12 months after the release, it has been presented in over 40 international film festivals in Europe, America, Asia and Africa.

In 2016, he directed his first film in Spain, at the hometown of his collaborator Canuto, Asturias, using the language of the region, Asturian, titled Advent (Asturian: Ad-vientu), a psychological mystery drama film. At the world premiere of Advent that took place at the 54th Gijón International Film Festival, obtained the Audience Award Día D'Asturies for Best Short Film.

Sunken Plum, the film that completed the trilogy Invisible Chengdu, was released in 2017. It is a melodramatic comedy with touches of mystery and social realism (with a mix genre typical of the directors). The film uses non-professional actors and the filming took place in Sichuan, mainly in downtown Chengdu, the lake "Bai Ta" and a remote village in the mountains of Sichuan, "Nan Bu".

Filmography

Xu Xiaoxi has directed many shorts and a feature film, but most of his works remain unreleased. Before attending the Master of Fine Arts at NYFA, he directed documentary shorts and experimental works, most notably the video art The Fluxus of ID, a tribute to Maya Deren. During his masters, he directed projects in 16mm film, The Red One camera and other digital formats, like Rope, The Meal or Lila and his first year graduation film, Mei Mei. His master's graduation feature film, Desire Street (2011), was the work that brought him more attention, awards and international recognition but in 2013 and beyond, he has continued to produce under Almost Red Productions in China, and also co-directs with Roberto F. Canuto. The first productions of Xu in China attracts media attention, with press interviews and TV coverage.

Invisible Chengdu trilogy (2017)

Invisible Chengdu (Spanish: El Chengdu Invisible) is Roberto F. Canuto and Xu Xiaoxi's trilogy of short films filmed in Sichuan and using the local language of Sichuan, Sichuanese Mandarin. This set of films reflects the underground scene of Chengdu. It includes Sunken Plum (2017), Floating Melon (2015), and Ni Jing: Thou Shalt Not Steal (2013). The trilogy tell stories about people normally segregated and that have to survive in the shadows of the Chinese society, that is against diversity and individuality.

Sunken Plum (2017)

Sunken Plum () is Roberto F. Canuto and Xu Xiaoxi's latest short film, it was released in October 2017. Produced by "Almost Red Productions" (China) in association with "Arkadin Ediciones" (Spain). It is a melodramatic comedy with mystery elements and tells the story of a transgender woman who works in a nightclub in Chengdu. She gets a visit from her cousin to let her know that her mother is deceased. As the only son, she feels obligated to return to her birthplace, but can not appear as a woman in front of her family.

Filmed in October 2016 and partially produced with a crowdfunding project, and co-produced between Spain and China, the film uses non professional actors.

Advent (Ad-vientu) (2016)

Advent (Asturian: Ad-vientu; ) is a 2016 Spanish and Chinese co-production psychological drama film, written and directed by Roberto F. Canuto and Xu Xiaoxi. It is the first movie of the directors filmed in Spain.

Advent was shot in Asturias, with locations in the medieval center of the city of Avilés, the historical Cemetery La Carriona and some beaches and walkways of Carreño, mainly in Perlora and Xivares. It is spoken in Asturian (something unusual in the Spanish cinema).

Advent tells the story of Suso, a dazed young unemployed man that tries to discover the identity of an unusual girl, who he spies on a secluded beach, as she reminds him of his dead mother. She runs throwing herself off a cliff, but it will not be the last time that she crosses his path. The main character is performed by David Soto Giganto, an actor from the Youth National Company of Classic Theater and in the rest of the cast we find actors mainly from the Dramatic Art Academy of Asturias, like Ici Díaz o Beatriz Meré, together with other experienced actors as Lidia Méndez o David Blanka.

The premiere of Advent took place at the 54th Gijón International Film Festival on the 25 of November 2016 and the film obtained the Audience Award Día D'Asturies for Best Short Film. It started the international festival circuit in 2017.

Floating Melon (2015)

Floating Melon (; Spanish title Sandía amarga) is a 2015 Spanish and Chinese co-production drama film written and directed by Roberto F. Canuto and Xu Xiaoxi. It is a low budget independent short movie that tells the story of Xiao Cheng, when he finds his lover dead in his bed, after a lethal drug overdose. In the dark roads of Chengdu, Xiao Cheng, scared of the consequences, sent a message asking for help to his friend. She thinks that the best solution is to hide the body, but when they return to the apartment, they found the unexpected.

The film has a strong film noir influences and it is performed by non professional actors and it includes themes very delicate, often censored in China, specially the representation of the homosexuality in young people, a community that need to protect themselves due to the lack of protective laws in the country. The story is partially based in true events, but the atmosphere is close to the film noir genre, to reflect the only situation where queer people can express themselves, community that needs to live in the shadows of the night in the Chinese society.
It tells the story of Xiao Cheng, a young Chinese guy that ask for help to a friend to resolve a big trouble, the guy with whom he spend the afternoon is dead on his bed from the effect of a drug, not something the Chinese authorities look kindly on.

The world premiere of the film we held in Spain, at the 53rd Gijon International Film Festival in November 2015. It received the audience award for best short film, Asturian section, at the 15th Aviles Action Film Festival and at the Audience Choice Award for Best Film and Best Cinematography at the 3rd Asturian Film Festival of Proaza. In China, the film premiere was held at an art gallery, Shujingtang Alley Art Space in Chengdu on June 12, 2016 and the reactions where very positive. The premiere in China was held relatively underground (due to the censorship laws of the country).

Ni Jing: Thou Shalt Not Steal (2013)

Ni Jing: Thou Shalt Not Steal (Original ; Spanish Title Ni Jing: No Robarás) is his first film produced in China by his company Almost Red in co-production with Spain.
A naive Chinese girl is forced to confront betrayal after she awakes in a remote forest covered in blood.

Ni Jing received accolades: Best Short Film in the world premiere at Riverside Saginaw International Film Festival 2013, Best Actress (Sherry Xia Ruihong), runner up for Best Short Film, and a nomination for Best Actor (Yinhui Wan) at the 9th Asturian Film Festival, 2014. The Ni Jing Spanish premiere took place at the prestigious FICXIXON, Gijón International Film Festival in 2013.

The critical reactions from the various presentations were very positive:

 Fenixnet Entertainment News in China: "The film represent very truthfully the local society of Chengdu and the good communication among the directors, that belong to different cultures, creates great results".
 Sichuan Daily News (lead newspaper of the region): "Audiences at the press screening were captivated for the atmosphere and the rhythm of the film"

Ni Jing: Thou Shalt Not Steal played in the International Festival Circuit around 2014.

Desire Street (2011)

Desire Street is Xu Xiaoxi and Roberto F. Canuto's first feature film, produced as a graduation work in their Master of Fine Arts at the NYFA in Hollywood. The story follows three family members (mother, daughter and son) as they try to survive their loneliness and obsessions by going through different sexual experiences and relationships with a prostitute. The reference of the directors was the Mexican melodramas of the 1960s. They exaggerate the representation of the characters to accentuate the irony that is a basic element in the story, creating many situations of comedy. At the end of the story the family became the main reference for the individual survival.
The reception at film festivals was very good, scoring positive reviews and awards (Best Film at Asturian Film Festival in Spain and Special Mention Best Feature at Mix Mexico International Film Festival):

 Jury conclusion at Mix Mexico International Film Festival, 2011: Desire Street has "a very well structured script, strong story and great characters".
 Jury conclusions at the Asturian Film Festival, 2014: "Desire Street develops, with technical mastery and a good treatment of the script, the generation gap and the family and sexual conflicts in a multiethnic society".
 Film critic from Dickie King at MTG.com, 2011: "The characters could be from an Almodovar movie as they seem to need to behave in extraordinary ways in order to draw some sexual, psychological advantage... The use of subjective camera movement, composition and mirrored reflections are effective in conveying a real sense of false perceptions... The collaborations of Roberto Canuto and Xu Xiaoxi make them the future wave as these two engaging directors bring together fresh insight with redesigned camera work."

The premiere of Desire Street in Spain took place in 2014 at the Asturian Film Festival (obtaining the "Best Film Jury Award" and a nomination for Best Actress: Alejandra Walker). In China was screened at the Contemporary Art Museum A4 of Sichuan also in 2014.

Mei Mei (2009)

Mei Mei, his first year graduation film at "New York Film Academy", was written by Xu Xiaoxi and Roberto F. Canuto. The film premiere at Hungary's Slow International Film Festival, a successor to the 32-year-old prestigious Hungary Film Festival born of the Film Art Initiative. Mei Mei was screened in late August 2009 to an international crowd and was received as one of the festival's finest. After the screening the reactions were very positive, and it was received as one of the festival finest works. Some of the media mention that Mei Mei is a "beautiful and heartbreaking love story".
In addition to the festival selection, the film received a nomination for Best Cinematography at the Kodak Scholarship Awards 2009, in representation of NYFA from Universal Studios, Hollywood. The director of photography of Mei Mei was the filmmaker and usual collaborator of Xu, Canuto.

References

External links

 Xu Xiaoxi Bio and info at Douban (Chinese Movie Database)

 Directors Interview Roberto F. Canuto & Xu Xiaoxi at El Rollo Higiénico, Revista de Arte y Cultura (Spanish)
 Interview Roberto F. Canuto & Xu Xiaoxi at Alderiques D'Asturies (Spanish)
 "Advent" Interview with Producer at Cadena SER (Spanish)
 News Award in Gijon International Film Festival at 20 minutos (Spanish)

1981 births
Living people
Chinese film directors
Artists from Chengdu
Chinese cinematographers
Nelson Mandela University alumni
New York Film Academy alumni


title: Bob Bilodeau

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Bob Bilodeau (born August 23, 1953) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. The Atlanta Flames selected him in the 9th round (133rd overall) of the 1973 NHL Amateur Draft; the Cincinnati Stingers also selected him in the 11th round (122nd overall) of the 1973 WHA Amateur Draft.

Bilodeau played seven seasons of professional hockey, including four seasons with the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League.

Personal
His older brother Yvon Bilodeau was a 1971 draft pick of the Philadelphia Flyers.

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1953 births
Living people
Atlanta Flames draft picks
Canadian ice hockey defencemen
Cincinnati Stingers draft picks
Des Moines Capitols players
Estevan Bruins players
Hershey Bears players
New Westminster Bruins players
Omaha Knights (CHL) players
Tulsa Oilers (1964–1984) players
Weyburn Red Wings players
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States


The 2014–15 Ukrainian Premier League Reserves and Under 19 season are competitions between the reserves of Ukrainian Premier League Clubs and the Under 19s. The events in the senior leagues during the 2013–14 season saw Tavriya Simferopol Reserves relegated with Arsenal Kyiv Reserves and Sevastopol Reserves expelled and Olimpik Reserves entering the competition.

Managers

Final standings

Top scorers

See also
2014-15 Ukrainian Premier League

References

Reserves
Ukrainian Premier League Under-21 and Under-19 seasons


title: Michelle Collins (disambiguation)

text:
Michelle Collins (born 1962) is an English actress and television presenter.

Michelle Collins may also refer to:

Michelle Collins (athlete) (born 1971), American sprinter
Michelle Collins (comedian) (born 1981), American comedian


title: 2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 1500 metres

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The 1500 meters distance for men in the 2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was contested over six races on six occasions, out of a total of seven World Cup occasions for the season, with the first occasion taking place in Obihiro, Japan, on 14–16 November 2014, and the final occasion taking place in Erfurt, Germany, on 21–22 March 2015.

The defending champion was Koen Verweij of the Netherlands. Denny Morrison of Canada won the cup. Verweij had to settle for 11th place.

Top three

Race medallists

Standings
Standings as of 22 March 2015.

References

Men 1500


title: Walter Signer (cyclist)

text:
Walter Signer (born 25 May 1937) is a former Swiss cyclist. He competed in the team pursuit at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

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1937 births
Living people
Swiss male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Switzerland
Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Cyclists from Zürich


title: GM-94

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The GM-94 (Гранатомет Магазинный образца 1994 Granatomet Magazinnyy obraztsa 1994, lit. "magazine-fed grenade launcher, model of 1994") is a pump action grenade launcher for use by Russian special and security forces. Development of the GM-94 grenade launcher began in 1993, under the guidance of Vasilij Gryazev, chief designer of the KBP design bureau (Konstruktorskoye Byuro Priborostroyeniya; (Конструкторское Бюро Приборостроения; KBP), in Tula, Russia.

Description
The GM-94 is a short range weapon, allowing it to be used in close urban environments. With a minimum safe distance of only 10 meters, the GM-94 is well suited to close, room-to-room fighting. Its simple design and operation allows it to operate in dusty and dirty environments and even after being immersed in water.

The launcher is capable of firing VGM-93.900 high explosive fragmentation, VGM-93.100 thermobaric, VGM-93.300 smoke and VGM-93.200 tear gas canisters, VGM-93.600 rubber slugs and other non-lethal payloads.

The VGM-93.100 thermobaric grenade contains around 160 grams of explosive filler. It can penetrate up to 8 mm of mild steel or interior wall with its blast, while producing minimal primary fragmentation.

In June 2005, GM-94 with thermobaric VGM-93.100 ammunition was adopted by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. In October 2007, the Russian armed forces adopted the launcher designated as LPO-97 (Legkiy Pekhotnyy Ognemet; Легкий Пехотный Огнемет; ‘light infantry flamethrower’) developed in the KBP Instrument Design Bureau on the basis of the GM-94 with a thermobaric grenade, in 2008 GM-94 was adopted for the branches of the Federal Security Service. The weapon was used in the battle of Nalchik in 2005 and in Crimea 2014. Though the launcher was initially intended for use by Russian security forces, the GM-94 has been spotted as far afield as Kazakhstan, where it is in service with the Kazakhstani paramilitary police tactical unit Sunkar ("Hawk") and in the hands of non-state combatants during the overthrow of the Gaddafi regime in Libya 2011.

Russian forces have used this weapon to fire non-lethal tear gas grenades on protesters in Ukraine in March 2022.

Users

See also
 China Lake grenade launcher
 DP-64
 Neopup PAW-20
 RG-6 grenade launcher
 RGM-40 Kastet
 RGS-50M
 RGSh-30

References

Bibliography

Grenade launchers of Russia
KBP Instrument Design Bureau products
Riot guns
Riot control weapons
Teargas grenade guns
Military equipment introduced in the 2000s


title: Werner Weckert

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Werner Weckert (born 23 August 1938) is a Swiss former cyclist. He competed in the team pursuit at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

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1938 births
Living people
Swiss male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Switzerland
Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Cyclists from Zürich


title: Hans Bloesch

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Hans Bloesch (26 December 1878 – 28 April 1945) was a Swiss author, editor, correspondent and librarian.

Life and career
Hans Bloesch was born in Bern, where his father was the head librarian in the Bern city library. He studied German, history and philosophy at the University of Bern and went to work around 1900 as a private secretary and librarian for Adrien Dollfus (1858–1921) in Paris. In 1902 he finished his doctorate in Bern. In 1905 he supervised the editorial staff of the Berner Fremdenblatt, and from 1906-08 he taught at the German School in Rome. During this time, he also worked as a correspondent for a number of Swiss and German newspapers.

In 1909 he married violinist Adele Stöcker (1875–1978) and moved back to Bern where he worked as an editor. In 1919 he took the position of librarian for the city and the university. In 1927 he was elected to the position of head librarian, where he served until two months before he died in 1945.

Works
Selected works include:

Das Junge Deutschland in Seinen Beziehungen zu Frankreich
Heinrich Wölflis Reise nach Jerusalem: 1520/1521
Jeremias Gotthelf
Die Bernische Musikgesellschaft 1815–1915

References

20th-century Swiss historians
Swiss male writers
20th-century Swiss journalists
Writers from Bern
1878 births
1945 deaths
19th-century Swiss journalists


title: Harvey Thomas Strosberg

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Harvey Thomas Strosberg,  (born September 1, 1944) is a Canadian lawyer. He is a senior partner at the law firm of Strosberg, Sasso, Sutts LLP.

Early life
Harvey Strosberg was raised in Windsor, Ontario, and graduated from Kennedy Collegiate Institute.   At Kennedy Collegiate Institute, he was an avid participant in team sports, including football, basketball and track and field.   He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Windsor and a Bachelor of Laws degree from Osgoode Hall Law School.

Legal career
Strosberg was an articling student for John Sopinka on Bay Street in Toronto, Ontario before Sopinka became a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Strosberg was called to the bar in 1971 and became a Queen's Counsel in 1982.

Strosberg served as Commission Counsel to Mr. Justice Horace Krever in the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Confidentiality of Health Records in Ontario (1977-1980).

Strosberg has been a bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada since 1987 and was its 55th Treasurer from 1997–1999.
His portrait at the Law Society was painted by Curtis Hooper.

Strosberg was named a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers in 1991.

Strosberg has recovered more than $3.6 billion for his class action clients. Mr. Strosberg was co-lead counsel in the Hepatitis C class action, co-lead counsel in the YBM Magnex securities class action, co-lead counsel in the Vitamins price fixing class action and lead counsel in the Money Mart class action. He has also acted or is acting as lead or co-lead counsel in class actions against, among others, The Bank of Nova Scotia, Merck & Co., Inc., Guidant Corporation, NovaGold Resources Inc., Ford, General Motors, VW in the Volkswagen emissions scandal and the Federal Government of Canada. A part of the VW case settled for $2.1 billion.

Strosberg was recognized by Lexpert as one of Canada's top 25 commercial litigation counsel. He was appointed by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice as Plaintiff's Counsel Representative to oversee the administration of a class action settlement relating to the Walkerton tragedy and as a member of the Joint Committee overseeing the administration of the Hepatitis C class action settlement.

Strosberg's firm has represented wrongfully convicted persons including William Mullins-Johnson, Anthony Hanemaayer, Robert Baltovich and James Driskell in their civil lawsuits.

In 2010, Strosberg secured the largest cost award in Canadian history, $11 million to the plaintiff's lawyers.

In October 2010, Mr. Strosberg suffered a debilitating stroke, which took away his ability to speak. His remarkable recovery has allowed him to return to the courtroom. In 2012 he was lead plaintiff's counsel in the case of Mandeville et al. v. Manufacturers Life Insurance Company.

Strosberg is currently seeking the largest punitive damage award in Canadian history against the Canadian Transit Corporation and the owners of the Ambassador Bridge for their handling of property owned on the Canadian side of the crossing.

Strosberg has been partners with some of the most accomplished lawyers in Canada.  Mr. Strosberg's former partners include Allan Rock and Patrick Ducharme.

Academic career
Strosberg taught a course in class action law at the University of Windsor law school with his partner David Robins and until recently, lectured annually at the University of Ottawa.

Public service
In 1995, Strosberg served as the first Board chair of LPIC, the organization which eventually became LawPro. He led the investigation into and proposed the solution to the Law Society of Upper Canada's approximately $154 million insurance fund deficit.

He served as a member of the Board of Directors for Legal Aid Ontario (1999- 2002).

He has also been a panelist at the Ontario Bar Association Cross Border Litigation Program, the Metropolitan Toronto Law Association Class Action Update, the American Bar Association, the Canadian Council on International Law and the Superior Court of Ontario Seminar for Judges.

Awards and honours
Strosberg's work as a civil litigator has been widely recognized in the form of honorary degrees and medals. In 2002 the Law Society of Upper Canada awarded him an Honorary LLD.  He received a DCL from the University of Windsor in 2003. He also received an LLD from Assumption University (Windsor, Ontario) in 2004.

Strosberg was awarded the Law Society Medal in 2010.

Most recently, one year after he suffered the stroke, he was awarded the Ontario Bar Association Award of Excellence in Civil Litigation in 2011. His speech was delivered at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel.

Personal life
Strosberg is married to Cathy Strosberg.   His first marriage ended in divorce.  Strosberg had three children with his first wife:  Elaine, Sharon and Jay.   They all went on to become lawyers as well.

He is the nephew of Olympian Irving Meretsky.

Strosberg was friends with judges Edward Ducharme of the Ontario Court of Appeal and Paul Stephen Andrew Lamek of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, and delivered both of their eulogies.

Bibliography
 The Class Action Struggle Continues: Challenges for Canadian Class Actions into the Millennium; Report to Convocation on Insurance (1996)
 Tort Actions Among Family Members (with Kathryn L. McKerlie) in The Law Society of Upper Canada's Special Lectures (1993)
 Family Law: Roles, Fairness and Equality Programme (1993).

Strosberg is currently the editor of the Canadian Class Action Review.

References

1944 births
Treasurers of the Law Society of Upper Canada
Living people
University of Windsor alumni
People from Windsor, Ontario
Osgoode Hall Law School alumni
Lawyers in Ontario
Canadian King's Counsel


title: Hans Heinemann

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Hans Heinemann (born 14 August 1940) is a former Swiss cyclist. He competed in the team pursuit at the 1960 Summer Olympics and the road race at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

References

External links

1940 births
Living people
Swiss male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Switzerland
Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Cyclists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
People from Rapperswil-Jona
Sportspeople from the canton of St. Gallen


title: Egon Scheiwiller

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Egon Scheiwiller (11 February 1937 – 4 September 2023) was a Swiss cyclist. He competed in the team pursuit at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

References

External links

1937 births
2023 deaths
Swiss male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Switzerland
Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from the canton of St. Gallen


title: 1993 Blockbuster Bowl

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The 1993 Blockbuster Bowl game was a post-season college football bowl game between the Stanford Cardinal and the Penn State Nittany Lions played on January 1, 1993, at Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. It was the third edition of the bowl game, and a Bowl Coalition game.

The legendary status of both head coaches was the pregame focus—Penn State's Joe Paterno was attempting to get his 15th bowl game win, and Stanford's Bill Walsh had won three Super Bowls with the San Francisco 49ers—but the game itself was dominated by Stanford, which scored on its first possession and led the entire game, winning 24–3.

Teams

Stanford

Stanford was led by head coach Bill Walsh, who was in the first year of his second stint as Stanford's coach. He had coached Stanford from 1977 to 1978, leading the team to bowl games in each season; then departed to coach the NFL's San Francisco 49ers, where he turned the team into a dynasty, winning three Super Bowls in the 1980s. After a career as a television football analyst, Walsh chose to come back as Stanford's head coach, stating, "This is my bliss."

On the field, Stanford was led by quarterback Steve Stenstrom, who had thrown for 2,399 yards and 14 touchdowns on the year, and tailback Glyn Milburn, who led the team with 851 yards rushing and eight touchdowns and had returned three punts for touchdowns.

Penn State

Head coach Joe Paterno was making his 23rd bowl game appearance in his 27th year at Penn State. Offensively, the team relied upon wide receiver O. J. McDuffie, who had 63 pass receptions for 977 yards and nine touchdowns during the season; and running back Richie Anderson, who ran for 900 yards and 18 touchdowns.

Game summary
On its first possession, Stanford drove 71 yards on eight plays and scored on a two-yard pass from Steve Stenstrom to Ryan Wetnight. Penn State answered with a drive that ended with a 33-yard field goal from V. J. Muscillo. Stanford added another touchdown before the half on a five-yard run from J. J. Lasley to extend the Cardinal lead to 14–3.

In the second half, after an Eric Abrams field goal, Stenstrom added another touchdown completion with a short pass to Milburn, who ran 40 yards for the score, to end the day with 210 passing yards and two touchdowns. On defense, the Cardinal held the Nittany Lions scoreless after the first quarter, and limited them to just 82 offensive yards in the second half. Cornerback Darrien Gordon was named the game's MVP after breaking up six passes, making seven tackles, and holding receiver McDuffie in check.

Scoring

First quarter
Stanford – Ryan Wetnight 2-yard pass from Steve Stenstrom (Eric Abrams kick)
Penn State – V. J. Muscillo 33-yard field goal

Second quarter
Stanford – J. J. Lasley 5-yard run (Abrams kick)

Third quarter
Stanford – Abrams 28-yard field goal
Stanford – Glyn Milburn 40-yard pass from Stenstrom (Abrams kick)

Fourth quarter
No scoring.

Aftermath
Walsh coached two more seasons at Stanford, both with losing records. He retired from coaching for good in 1995 and died of leukemia in 2007. Cornerback Gordon played nine seasons in the NFL and played in four Super Bowls. Tailback Milburn played eight NFL seasons and made the Pro Bowl twice. Quarterback Stenstrom played five NFL seasons. John Lynch, who anchored Stanford's defense at strong safety, was a nine-time Pro Bowl selection.

Paterno would remain as Penn State's coach until 2011, winning many more bowl games. He was fired with three games left in the 2011 season due to his involvement in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal, having previously announced his intent to retire at the end of the season; he died shortly afterward from complications of lung cancer. Receiver McDuffie went on to a successful eight-year career with the Miami Dolphins and Richie Anderson was a Pro Bowler for the New York Jets.

The Blockbuster Bowl would go through several name changes and currently exists as the Pop-Tarts Bowl.

References

Blockbuster Bowl
Pop-Tarts Bowl
Penn State Nittany Lions football bowl games
Stanford Cardinal football bowl games
Bowl Coalition
Sports competitions in Miami Gardens, Florida
1993 in sports in Florida
January 1993 sports events in the United States


title: Kırıt, Tarsus

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Kırıt is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Tarsus, Mersin Province, Turkey. Its population is 167 (2022). It is situated in the southern slopes of the Toros Mountains. Turkish state highway D.750 is to the east of the village. Its distance to Tarsus is  and to Mersin is .

References

Neighbourhoods in Tarsus District


title: 1931–32 Rochdale A.F.C. season

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The 1931–32 season saw Rochdale compete for their 11th season in the Football League Third Division North where they finished in 21st position with 11 points.

Rochdale finished bottom of the Third Division North after managing just four wins. During the season they went on a record-breaking run of 17 straight defeats.

Statistics

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Final league table

Competitions

Legend

Football League Third Division North

FA Cup

Lancashire Cup

Manchester Cup

References

External links
 Up the Dale 1931–32
 Rochdale 1931–32 at Soccerbase.com (select relevant season from dropdown list)

Rochdale A.F.C. seasons
Rochdale


title: 2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 5000 and 10000 metres

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The 5000 and 10000 meters distances for men in the 2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup were contested over six races on six occasions, out of a total of seven World Cup occasions for the season, with the first occasion taking place in Obihiro, Japan, on 14–16 November 2014, and the final occasion taking place in Erfurt, Germany, on 21–22 March 2015.

Jorrit Bergsma of the Netherlands won the cup for the third straight season.

Top three

Race medallists

Standings
Standings as of 21 March 2015 (end of the season).

References

Men 5000


title: Swaminarayan Akshardham (New Jersey)

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Swaminarayan Akshardham is a Hindu temple complex in Robbinsville, New Jersey, U.S. The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, one component of the campus, was inaugurated and opened to the public on August 10, 2014. The Akshardham in Robbinsville was then expanded and re-inaugurated on October 8, 2023, and is the world's second-largest Hindu temple and the largest and most-visited Hindu temple outside Asia.

BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir
The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Robbinsville in Central New Jersey is a Hindu place of worship built by the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha and consecrated by Pramukh Swami Maharaj. The BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, led by Mahant Swami Maharaj, is a denomination of the Swaminarayan branch of Hinduism. The mandir is built of hand-carved Italian Carrara marble, Indian pink stone and limestone. The mandir was constructed according to guidelines outlined in ancient Vedas, or Hindu scriptures. The mandir is open daily to visitors and for worship (darshan). In addition to the mandir, the complex includes a congregation hall.

Mandir and daily rituals
The mandir is a shikarbaddha mandir, built according to principles laid out in the Shilpa Shastras, Hindu texts prescribing standards of sacred architecture. Within the mandir, murtis, the sacred images of the deities, have been consecrated. The central shrine holds the murtis of Swaminarayan and Gunatitanand Swami, together worshipped as Akshar-Purushottam Maharaj. Similarly, different shrines hold other murtis, including Radha and Krishna; Shiva and Parvati; Sita and Ram; Hanuman; Ganapati; and the lineage of BAPS gurus who are Swaminarayan's spiritual successors.

According to Hindu beliefs, once the divine has been invoked in a murti, it becomes an embodiment of the Divine. Accordingly, Swaminarayan swamis, or monks, offer devotional worship to the deities throughout the day. Before dawn, they awaken the deities by singing prabhatiya (morning hymns). The deities are then bathed and offered food and garments depending on the time of the day and season. Food that has been offered to the deities is considered sanctified and distributed to the devotees as prasadam. Aarti, a ritual where devotees sing the glory of God while a lighted wick is circulated before the murtis, is performed five times a day and named mangala aarti, shanagar aarti, rajabhoga aarti, sandhya aarti and shayana aarti, respectively. Finally, swamis adorn the murtis with night garments and ask the deities to retire for the night.

Construction
The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Robbinsville, New Jersey was first proposed and envisioned by Pramukh Swami Maharaj in 1997 as a part of Swaminarayan Akshardham in North America. The mandir's construction commenced in 2010. The mandir was built in the Nagaradi style using 68,000 cubic feet of Italian Carrara marble. The marble obtained from quarries in Europe was shipped to Rajasthan, India where hundreds of artisans carved the stones. After the finished pieces of stone were assembled in workshops, engineers sequentially numbered the pieces and shipped them to Robbinsville. Upon their arrival, the pieces were organized using the numbering system to facilitate the mandir's construction.

A decorative mandap, or enclosure, was built around the mandir to shield it from harsh weather and facilitate its year-round use. The structure is 87 feet wide, 133 feet long, and 42 feet high. The entrance to the mandap, called the Mayur Dwar, contains carvings depicting peacocks, elephants, and celebrated Hindu devotees of past eras.

The mandir was constructed primarily through the efforts of artisans and volunteers who provided an estimated 4.7 million human hours. Volunteers engaged in various tasks during the construction process, including design and engineering, carving coordination & stone shipping, site preparation, lighting and electrical wiring, polishing, cleaning the assembled marble, tent-building, meal preparation, and offering medical services.

Opening
The mandir was officially opened to the public on August 10, 2014, after the murtis were consecrated in the presence of Pramukh Swami Maharaj and senior swamis of BAPS. A number of dignitaries were present during the opening ceremony, including New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer, Pennsylvania Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick, New Jersey Rep. Frank Pallone, New Jersey Attorney General John Jay Hoffman, and Indian Consul General Dnyaneshwar Mulay. The opening was part of a three-day celebration and featured a grand yagna in which participants prayed for world peace and a women's cultural program focused on interfaith harmony. Over 20,000 visitors participated in the various events. An expansive Shayona Cafe opened in June 2022, serving gourmet South Indian and North Indian cuisine.

Akshardham Mahamandir

Construction

The installation ceremony of the first marble pillar of the Akshardham Mahamandir took place on September 4, 2017. The celebration was marked with tours of the complex and cultural programs culminating with the Vedic ceremony in the presence of Mahant Swami Maharaj.

Controversy

On May 11, 2021, six workers involved in the construction filed suit in federal court alleging the temple administrators violated labor laws. In relation to this, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Labor, and Department of Homeland Security visited the site on "court-authorized law enforcement activity." The lawsuit alleges wage theft, forced labor, and human trafficking, and may be the largest forced-labor lawsuit brought in the U.S. since 1995. The suit alleges that over 200 Indian men, most of them members of the Dalit caste, were brought to the U.S. to do dangerous manual labor for 13 hours per day, for compensation of only $450 per month, $400 of which was paid to their accounts in India. It further alleges that their passports were taken and that they were confined to the compound under constant surveillance. Spokespersons for BAPS said that the allegations would be shown to be without merit.

On July 13th, 2023, over two dozen of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against BAPS withdrew their names from the case, alleging that a US based lawyer named Swati Sawant had coerced them into making the complaint as part of a conspiracy to delay the construction of the temple. The former plaintiffs allege that they were coerced with both threats of imprisonment and promises of US citizenship and large sums of money for them and their families. The withdrawal of the lawsuit was announced by Rajasthan High Court Advocate Aaditya SB Son, through labour unions Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh and Patthar Gadhai sangh. The press release by Advocate Aditya SB Soni claims that there exists affidavits, interviews, and statements proving the veracity of the plaintiffs claims.

Charitable initiatives
Since 2012, BAPS Charities has hosted charitable events at the Robbinsville mandir, such as health fairs and seminars led by volunteer medical professionals. Donations collected from annual walk-a-thons have supported humanitarian causes, like planting 300,000 trees to support the Nature Conservancy's initiative to plant 1 billion trees by 2025.

During the COVID-19 global pandemic, BAPS Charities has provided relief and assistance worldwide. On March 29, 2020, all six BAPS shikharbaddha mandirs in North America broadcast a special mahapuja performed by the swamis to pray on behalf of all those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Over 12,000 families in North America participated.

Within one month of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, 5,500 N95 face masks were donated to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in Hamilton and New Brunswick, Capital Health Hospitals, Penn Medicine at Princeton Medical Center and Robbinsville Township and other medical organizations throughout New Jersey. Over 4,000 hot meals were served to first responders in New York and New Jersey, including Robbinsville Township Police Department and Fire Department and Saint Francis Medical Center. BAPS Charities delivered care packages to seniors in New Jersey. A food drive was also organized to collect non-perishable food items for the Robbinsville Township Food Pantry and NJ Rise.

On April 30, 2021, BAPS Charities hosted a vaccination drive in conjunction with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at the mandir. US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy praised BAPS Charities for hosting vaccination clinics at mandirs which increased accessibility for the elderly.

Gallery

See also

 Swaminarayan Akshardham (Delhi)
 Swaminarayan Akshardham (Gandhinagar)
 Indians in the New York City metropolitan area
 Oak Tree Road

References

External links
 BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha  The organization responsible for the creation of Akshardham

Swaminarayan temples
Hindu temples in New Jersey
Religious buildings and structures completed in 2014
Religion in New Jersey
Robbinsville Township, New Jersey
2014 establishments in New Jersey
Buildings and structures in Mercer County, New Jersey
Hinduism in the United States
Indian-American culture in New Jersey
Asian-American culture in New Jersey


title: List of ACF Fiorentina records and statistics

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ACF Fiorentina is an Italian football team based in Florence, founded in 1926.
The list encompasses the major honours won by Fiorentina and the records set by the players and the club.

Honours

National titles
Serie A:
 Winners (2) : 1955–56; 1968–69
 Runners-up (5): 1956–57; 1957–58; 1958–59; 1959–60; 1981–82

Coppa Italia:
 Winners (6) : 1939–40; 1960–61; 1965–66; 1974–75; 1995–96; 2000–01
 Runners-up (5): 1958, 1959–60, 1998–99, 2013–14, 2022–23

Supercoppa Italiana:
 Winners (1) : 1996
 Runners-up (1): 2001

European titles
European Cup:
 Runners-up (1): 1956–57

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup:
 Winners (1) : 1960–61
 Runners-up (1): 1961–62

UEFA Cup:
 Runners-up (1): 1989–90

UEFA Europa Conference League:
 Runners-up (1): 2022–23

Minor titles
Coppa Grasshoppers
 Winners (1) : 1957

Mitropa Cup
 Winners (1) : 1966

Anglo-Italian League Cup
 Winners (1) : 1975

Serie B
 Winners: 1930–31; 1938–39; 1993–94

Serie C2 (as Florentia Viola)
 Winners: 2002–03

Serie A record by opponent
Following is a table detailing ACF Fiorentina's record against each opponent in Serie A. It includes only results from seasons disputed in a single group round robin format. The data is updated to the end of the 2014-15 season.

ACF Fiorentina in European competitions

Player records

Appearances
Only including appearances in competitive matches, including substitutes.

Most appearances in all competitions

Most appearances in Serie A

Goalscorers
Only including goals scored in competitive matches, including substitutes.

Top goalscorers in all official competitions

Top goalscorers in Serie A

Club records

 Biggest home win:
 8–0 v Modena (1941–42)
 Biggest home defeat:
 0–5 v Juventus (2011–12)
 Biggest away win:
 7–1 v Atalanta (1963–64)
 Biggest away defeat:
 0–8 v Juventus (1952–53)
 Most points in a season:
 70 (2012–13)
 Fewest points in a season:
 15 (1937–38)
 Most wins in a season:
 22 (2005–06)
 Fewest wins in a season:
 3 (1937–38 & 1970–71)
 Most defeats in a season:
 22 (2001–02)
 Fewest defeats in a season:
 1 (1955–56 & 1968–69)
 Most goals in a season:
 95 (1958–59)
 Fewest goals in a season:
 26 (1970–71 & 1978–79)
 Most goals conceded in a season:
 69 (1946–47)
 Fewest goals conceded in a season:
 17 (1981–82)

 First Italian club to play in a European Cup final, in the 1956–57 European Cup.
 First Italian club to win an official UEFA competition, in the 1960–61 European Cup Winners' Cup.

References

Fiorentina
ACF Fiorentina


title: Mondovisione

text:
Mondovisione is the eleventh studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Luciano Ligabue. Despite being released on 26 November 2013, the record became the best-selling album of the year in Italy, and it was later certified septuple platinum by the Federation of the Italian Music Industry.

Track listing

Charts

Peak positions

Year-end charts

Certifications

See also
 List of best-selling albums by year (Italy)

References

Italian-language albums
2013 albums


title: Diana Yakovleva

text:
Diana Alekseyeva Yakovleva (; born 13 April 1988) is a Russian foil fencer, silver medal in the 2014 European Fencing Championships and team silver medal in the 2014 World Fencing Championships.

Career

Yakovleva won the team gold medal in the 2006 and 2007 Junior European Championships. She took part in the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade, where she was defeated in quarter-finals, but won the silver medal with Russia. She claimed gold both in the individual and team events of the 2011 U23 European Championships in Kazan.

She joined the senior national team in 2013. She climbed her first World Cup podium with a silver in Shanghai. She reached the final at the European Championships in Zagreb, but ceded to reigning Olympic champion Elisa Di Francisca and came away with a silver medal. She earned a bronze medal in the 2013 Summer Universiade after losing the semi-finals to teammate Larisa Korobeynikova. For her first participation in World Championships she reached the quarter-finals, where she was defeated by teammate Inna Deriglazova.  In the team event, Russia were defeated by France in the semi-finals, but prevailed over South Korea to earn the bronze medal. She finished the season No.6 in world rankings.

The 2013–14 season was less successful. She reached the quarter-finals in Saint-Petersbourg and Marseille, but ceded in the first round of the European Championships against France's Ysaora Thibus. In the team event, Russia cruised to the final where they met Italy, which had stayed unvanquished all season. Russia unexpectedly took an early lead, but Italy managed to come back at the end, dooming Russia to a silver medal. In the World Championships at home in Kazan, she sustained a bruise to her knee and was stopped in the second round by Korea's Oh Ha-na. In the team event, Russia met Italy again in the final and were defeated again.

Yakovleva studied at the Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism.

References

External links

  (archive)
  (archive)

1988 births
Living people
Russian female foil fencers
Martial artists from Moscow
Universiade medalists in fencing
Universiade silver medalists for Russia
Universiade bronze medalists for Russia
Fencers at the 2015 European Games
European Games medalists in fencing
European Games gold medalists for Russia
Medalists at the 2009 Summer Universiade
Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade
21st-century Russian women


title: Securities Laws (Amendment) Act, 2014

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Securities Laws (Amendment) Act, 2014 is a legislation in India which provided the securities market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) with new powers to effectively pursue fraudulent investment schemes, especially ponzi schemes. The bill also provides guidelines for the formation of special fast trial courts.

History
After the Saradha Group financial scandal, the Government of India formed an inter-ministerial group to find ways to close off loopholes the regulations which allowed such pyramid schemes to operate. The Securities Law (Amendment) Ordinance was promulgated on 17 July 2013, then for a second time in September 2013. It lapsed on 15 January 2014. The bill couldn't be presented in the winter session of Parliament as the standing committee on finance had not finalized the report. It promulgated for a third time on 28 March 2014.

On 24 July 2014, Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved the bill. The bill was introduced by Minister of State for Finance Nirmala Sitharaman in the Lok Sabha on 4 August 2014. She also introduced bills to amend Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956 and Depositories Act, 1996. The bills were introduced in the name of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, but he himself was unable to attend the house. The bill was passed by the Lok Sabha on 6 August 2014.

Summary
The ordinance passed in March 2014 had 30 clauses, whereas the bill contained 57 clauses. The bill amended three pre-existing market related laws. It retained the powers given to SEBI in the ordinance, but also introduced safeguards against misuse.

The new law gave SEBI the power to search and obtain information, including call records, about any suspected entity from within or outside the firm. However, before conducting such searches SEBI must obtain a warrant from a Mumbai court. Any unregistered scheme with a capital of more than a  crore was deemed a collective investment scheme, allowing SEBI to regulate it. Under pre-existing regulations, all collective investment schemes had to register with SEBI. However, many came to SEBI's attention only after complaints from defrauded investors.

Depending on the nature of the crime, minimum penalties may range from  lakh to  lakh. The minimum penalty for securities related crimes was set at  lakh. The minimum penalty for insider trading was at  lakh. The maximum penalty for insider trading was set at  crore or three times the profit, whichever was higher. SEBI was given the authority to initiate recovery and sale of assets. SEBI has also been given the power to enhance a penalty or settle an ongoing legal proceeding. Guidelines for special courts were also included in the bill.

See also
 Saradha Group financial scandal
 Securities and Exchange Board of India (Alternative Investment Funds) Regulations, 2012

References

Securities and Exchange Board of India
Indian business law
Acts of the Parliament of India 2014
2014 in Indian economy
Modi administration
Securities (finance)


title: Charlie McCoy (cyclist)

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Charlie (Charly) McCoy (born 14 December 1937) is a former British cycling record holder and Olympian.

Cycling career
McCoy competed in the team pursuit at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

McCoy also represented England in the 4,000 metres pursuit at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia in 1962.

He rode for his local Amateur team, Melling Wheelers and was coached by Eddie Soens. He broke the British 25 mile Time Trial record in 1961, finishing with a time of 55m 01s.

References

External links

1937 births
Living people
British male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Great Britain
Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Liverpool
Cyclists at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games competitors for England


title: Kızılçukur, Tarsus

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Kızılçukur is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Tarsus, Mersin Province, Turkey. Its population is 291 (2022). It is situated in the southern slopes of the Toros Mountains. Berdan River is  to the west of the village. Its distance to Tarsus is  and to Mersin is .

References

Neighbourhoods in Tarsus District


title: Judy Lucero

text:
Judy A. Lucero (pen name, #21918) was a Chicana prisoner poet, cited as a legend among Latina feminists. Lucero had a particularly tough life, becoming a heroin addict after being introduced to drugs at the age of eleven by one of her stepfathers, losing two children and dying in prison at the age of 28 from a brain hemorrhage.

Poetry
Lucero's poems were published in 1973 in De Colores Journal, Memoriam: Poems of Judy Lucero after her death.

In her poem "I Speak an Illusion" she "articulates the contradictions of her Chicana experience while lamenting the apparently unbreakable bonds that incarcerate her."

Juan Gómez-Quiñones and Irene Vásquez highlight her work as advocating women's strength, such as in "Jail-Life Walk" which they refer to as "simply gripping".

References

American poets of Mexican descent
American people who died in prison custody
Chicana feminists
Year of death missing
Year of birth missing
Prisoners who died in American detention


Ming Antu's infinite series expansion of trigonometric functions. Ming Antu, a court mathematician of the Qing dynasty did extensive work on the infinite series expansion of trigonometric functions in his masterpiece Geyuan Milü Jiefa (Quick Method of Dissecting the Circle and Determination of The Precise Ratio of the Circle). Ming Antu built geometrical models based on a major arc of a circle and the nth dissection of the major arc. In Fig 1, AE is the major chord of arc ABCDE, and AB, BC, CD, DE are its nth equal segments. If chord AE = y, chord AB = BC = CD = DE = x, the task was to find chord y as the infinite series expansion of chord x. He studied the cases of n = 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 100, 1000 and 10000 in great detail in volumes 3 and 4 of Geyuan Milü Jiefa.

Historical background
In 1701, French Jesuit missionary Pierre Jartoux (1669-1720) came to China, and he brought along three infinite series expansions of trigonometric functions by Isaac Newton and J. Gregory:

These infinite series stirred up great interest among Chinese mathematicians, as the calculation of  with these "quick methods" involved only multiplication, addition or subtraction, being much faster than classic Liu Hui's π algorithm which involves taking square roots. However, Jartoux did not bring along the method for deriving these infinite series. Ming Antu suspected that the Europeans did not want to share their secrets, and hence he was set to work on it. He worked on and off for thirty years and completed a manuscript called Geyuan Milü Jiefa. He created geometrical models for obtaining trigonometric infinite series, and not only found the method for deriving the above three infinite series, but also discovered six more infinite series. In the process, he discovered and applied Catalan numbers.

Two-segment chord

Figure 2 is Ming Antu's model of a 2-segment chord. Arc BCD is a part of a circle with unit (r = 1) radius. AD is the main chord, arc BCD is bisected at C, draw lines BC, CD, let BC = CD = x and let radius AC = 1.

Apparently,

Let EJ = EF, FK = FJ; extend BE straight to L, and let EL = BE; make BF = BE, so F is inline with AE. Extended BF to M, let BF = MF; connect LM, LM apparently passes point C. The inverted triangle BLM along BM axis into triangle BMN, such that C coincident with G, and point L coincident with point N. The Invert triangle NGB along BN axis into triangle; apparently BI = BC.

BM bisects CG and let BM = BC; join GM, CM; draw CO = CM to intercept BM at O; make MP = MO; make NQ = NR, R is the intersection of BN and AC. ∠EBC = 1/2 ∠CAE = 1/2 ∠EAB;  ∠EBM = ∠EAB; thus we obtain a series of similar triangles: ABE, BEF, FJK, BLM, CMO, MOP, CGH and triangle CMO = triangle EFJ;

  namely

So ,

and

Because kite-shaped ABEC and BLIN are similar,.

  and
 Let

Thus   or
 Further: .

then

 Square up the above equation on both sides and divide by 16:

And so on
 .

Add up the following two equations to eliminate  items:

 (after eliminated  item).

......................................

Expansion coefficients of the numerators: 1, 1, 2, 5, 14, 42, 132 ...... (see Figure II Ming Antu original figure bottom line, read from right to left) are the Catalan numbers; Ming Antu discovered the Catalan number.

Thus:

in which  is Catalan number. Ming Antu pioneered the use of recursion relations in Chinese mathematics

substituted into

Finally he obtained

In Figure 1
BAE angle = α, BAC angle = 2α
× x = BC = sinα
× q = BL = 2BE = 4sin (α /2)
× BD = 2sin (2α)
Ming Antu obtained
 That is

 Ie

Three-segment chord

As shown in Fig 3,BE is a whole arc chord, BC = CE = DE = an are three arcs of equal portions. Radii AB = AC = AD = AE = 1. Draw lines BC, CD, DE, BD, EC; let BG=EH = BC, Bδ = Eα = BD, then triangle Cαβ = Dδγ; while triangle Cαβ is similar to triangle BδD.

As such:
 ,

Eventually, he obtained

Four-segment chord

Let  denotes the length of the main chord, and  let the length of four equal segment chord =x,

+......

.
Trigonometry meaning:

.

Five-segment chord

that is
。

Ten-segment chord

From  here on, Ming Antu stop building geometrical model, he carried out his computation
by pure algebraic manipulation of  infinite series.

Apparently  ten segments can be considered as a composite 5 segment, with each segment in turn  consist of two subsegments.

,

He computed the third and fifth power of infinite series  in the above equation, and obtained:

+......

Hundred-segment chord

A hundred segment arc's chord can be considered as composite 10 segment-10 subsegments, thus
sustutde  into , after manipulation with infinite series he obtained:

Thousand-segment chord

......

Ten-thousand-segment chord
............

When number of segments approaches infinity
After obtained the infinite series for n=2, 3, 5, 10, 100, 1000, and 10000 segments, Ming Antu went on to handle the case when n approaches infinity.

y100, y1000 and y10000 can be rewritten as:

..........

..............

..................

He noted that when n approaches infinity, the denominators 24.000000240000002400, 24.000002400000218400×80 approach 24 and  24×80  respectively, and  when n -> infinity, na (100a, 1000a, 1000a) becomes the length of the arc;  hence

.....

Ming Antu then performed an infinite series reversion and expressed the arc in terms of its chord

............

References

 Luo   A Modern Chinese Translation of Ming Antu's Geyuan Milv Jifa, translated and annotated by Luo Jianjin, Inner Mongolia Education Press 1998(明安图原著 罗见今译注 《割圆密率捷法》 内蒙古教育出版社  This is the only modern Chinese translation of Ming Antu's book, with detailed annotation with modern mathematical symbols).
 Yoshio Mikami The Development of Mathematics in China and Japan, Leipzig, 1912

Chinese mathematics


title: Joe McLean (cyclist)

text:
Joseph P McLean (born 30 July 1935) is a former British cyclist. He competed in the team pursuit at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

He also represented England in the 4,000 metres individual pursuit, at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia. He was also a member of Melling Wheelers and was the British Cycling Federation senior sprint champion.

References

External links

1935 births
Living people
British male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Great Britain
Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Liverpool
Cyclists at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games competitors for England


title: Rowan Peacock

text:
Rowan Peacock (born 31 October 1939) is a South African former cyclist. He competed in the team pursuit at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

References

External links

1939 births
Living people
South African male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for South Africa
Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Cape Town


title: Brock Coyle

text:
Brock Coyle (born October 12, 1990) is a former American football linebacker. He played college football at Montana and signed with the Seattle Seahawks as an undrafted free agent in 2014.

College career
Coyle played college football at the University of Montana in Missoula. As a true freshman in 2009, he collected thirty tackles and two interceptions as a linebacker, then  redshirted in 2010 following off-season surgery. In 2011, he played in all fourteen games for the Grizzlies, and was the team's sixteenth leading tackler despite not starting a single game. In 2012, Coyle enjoyed a breakout season when he started eleven games and tallied 107 tackles. His average of 9.73 tackles a game ranked him 28th in the nation, and he was an honorable mention All-Big Sky Conference selection.

As a fifth-year senior in 2013, Coyle had his finest college season with the Grizzlies while starting at inside linebacker, leading the team with 125 total tackles, which put him among the nation's leaders. He forced four fumbles and intercepted two passes, giving him five interceptions for his college football career, and was a second-team All-Big Sky  selection.

While at Montana, Coyle was teammates with future NFL linebacker Jordan Tripp and cornerback Trumaine Johnson.

Professional career

Seattle Seahawks
Although Coyle went undrafted in the 2014 NFL Draft, he was signed to a professional contract by the Seattle Seahawks just minutes after the draft's completion. Seahawks coaches praised Coyle for his productive play during the NFL preseason while he filled in for injured middle linebacker Bobby Wagner. Coyle started his first NFL regular season game at middle linebacker for the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday November 2, 2014, while playing against the Oakland Raiders.

Coyle had a successful career with the Seahawks, mostly as a core special teamer, while also starting 5 games. Coyle tallied 33 tackles and 1.0 sack in three years. One of Coyle's best games was when he started at Strongside linebacker against the Buffalo Bills. On Monday Night Football, Coyle had his first career sack, along with 8 tackles on the night. When Coyle was given time, Carroll was generally pleased with his play.

San Francisco 49ers
On March 10, 2017, Coyle signed a one-year contract with the San Francisco 49ers.

On March 14, 2018, Coyle signed a three-year contract extension with the 49ers. He was placed on injured reserve on September 12, 2018, after suffering a concussion in Week 1.

On March 14, 2019, Coyle was released by the 49ers, and subsequently announced his retirement from the NFL, stating that a broken bone in his back prevented him from returning.

References

External links
Seattle Seahawks: Brock Coyle
University of Montana Athletics: Brock Coyle
Official Website: Brock Coyle

Living people
1990 births
American football linebackers
Players of American football from Montana
Sportspeople from Bozeman, Montana
Montana Grizzlies football players
Seattle Seahawks players
San Francisco 49ers players
Bozeman High School alumni


title: Siamesed cylinders

text:
Siamesed cylinders are engine cylinders arranged in such a way that they have no channels between them to allow water or other coolant to circulate.

Cylinders are generally arranged in this manner when the engine block is of limited size or when stability of the cylinder bores is of concern, such as in racing engines. The advantage is that the engine block will be reduced in size, or the bore can be increased in size.  The disadvantage is a higher temperature between two cylinders, requiring a stronger engine block to avoid distortion of the metal, and better gasket sealing between the two bores.

Related articles (example engines with siamesed cylinders)

 Chevrolet Stovebolt engine
 Chevrolet small-block engine (first- and second-generation)#4.125 in bore family (1970–1980)
 Oldsmobile 403 small-block V8 (1977-1979)
 Ford Godzilla engine
 Ford Racing versions of the Ford (Windsor) small block engine
 Honda B engine
 Mazda E engine
 Honda K engine
 Toyota A series of engines (including both performance engines like the 4age and small economy engines like the 3A, 4A)

References

Engine cooling systems
Engines


title: Kocaköy, Tarsus

text:
Kocaköy is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Tarsus, Mersin Province, Turkey. Its population is 57 (2022). It is situated in the Çukurova plains. Its distance to Tarsus is  and to Mersin is . Although its name mean "big village" actually it is one of the least populous settlements in Tarsus district.

References

Neighbourhoods in Tarsus District


title: Kanji Kubomura

text:
is a former Japanese cyclist. He competed in the team pursuit at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

References

External links

1943 births
Living people
Japanese male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Japan
Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Gunma Prefecture


title: Ralph Helmick

text:
Ralph Helmick (born 1952) is an American sculptor and public artist.

Early life and education

Helmick was born in Pittsburgh, PA, the middle of three sons of an electrical engineer and a homemaker. While in elementary school he partook in the Carnegie Museum’s renowned Tam O’Shanter art classes for children, whose alumni include Andy Warhol, Annie Dillard, Philip Pearlstein and Jonathan Borofsky.  His family later moved to Williamsville, NY, outside Buffalo.
Helmick received a BA in American Studies from the University of Michigan.  He studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and then earned an MFA in sculpture from a joint program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University.

As a child then a student, he was very influenced by the science and the design of the Foucault pendulum and Muybridge’s sequential photos.

Career
Helmick has created over 50 complex, layered sculpture commissions, working in various materials (metal, stained glass, cast resin, found objects) to realize large-scale public artworks in courthouses, parks, airports, schools, hospitals, museums, and other civic spaces across the US. His works play on human perception, and often employ anamorphosis, an optical phenomenon where images are resolved from a precise perspective. The dynamic relationship between science and art is a frequent inspiration for his designs.

Helmick's award-winning works include the Arthur Fiedler Memorial on the Charles River Esplanade; the Stevie Ray Vaughan Memorial at Austin's Auditorium Shores; Rabble at the North Carolina Museum of Art; Landing at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport; Heart and Mind at the Oregon Institute of Technology. In 2019 The Constellation won the prestigious CODAaward for International Institutional Artwork.

He was a 2009 Artist-in-Residence at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation in Charlotte, NC.  In 2014, he juried the Public Art Network Year in Review. His own commissions had been awarded the PAN YiR on eight previous occasions.

Helmick Sculpture is based in Newton, Massachusetts.

Prominent works

Edifice (2018)
Notre Dame Stadium, Notre Dame, IN

The work consists of a reproduction of the campus landmark of the Main Building made up of 4,100 small pewter heads hung on 2,221 cables suspended from the ceiling. The pewter heads, which are silver except for the golden ones making up the dome, were created by scanning the likeness of students, staff and faculty members. The work is meant to symbolize the diversity and cohesion of the community. The scans were conducted in November 2017 and the work installed in October 2018. Edifice hangs on the second floor of the  Duncan Student Center, which is part of the Notre Dame stadium.

The Constellation (2018)
The Founder’s Memorial Park, Abu Dhabi, UAE

The Constellation is a monumental public artwork that forms the centerpiece of The Founder’s Memorial Park in Abu Dhabi, a permanent national tribute to the UAE’s founding father, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan [1918-2004], a transformative leader who championed peace, tolerance, women’s rights and the environment.

n + 1 (2018)
Tampa International Airport/ Tampa, Florida
A streamlined sculpture of an adult leatherback sea turtle floats beneath a cloud of small hatchlings that articulate the same form at a larger scale. This “double portrait” illustrates biological fact (the multitude of newborns from which a single individual may survive to adulthood) while simultaneously evoking an intergenerational spiritual connection. Nature and Spirit.

Field Guide (2017)
Polytrauma & Blind Rehabilitation Center/ Veterans Administration Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California

An epic latticework screen stands outside the entrance to the VA’s Polytrauma & Blind Rehabilitation Center. While from a distance one’s first impression is of a vast linear abstraction, graphic clues soon give way to recognition of overlapping local plant and animal forms.  At once serious and sly, sophisticated and innocent, Field Guide aims to promote contemplation on several levels, offering a challenge in which viewers can find aesthetic engagement, intellectual stimulation, and a renewed connection to Nature.

Schwerpunkt (2016)
The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT/ Cambridge, Massachusetts

One hundred unique sculptures of neurons are suspended in the 3-story entrance of this world class research institute. Executed in different configurations and a range of sizes, they cascade in a seemingly random array, their gold-leafed surfaces reflecting light throughout the space. When viewed from a single perspective on the balcony, the forms optically cohere into a macroscopic rendering of a human brain.

Floating World (2014)
Biorenewables Complex, Iowa State University / Ames, Iowa

This three-story suspended sculpture uses eight laser-cut steel panels to depict changing horizons that illustrate the evolution of agriculture from the nineteenth-century to the modern day.
These historical panels are interspersed with abstract perforated "mist" layers, and framed above by a "sun" sequence, and below by a succession of terrazzo floor graphics.

It is inspired by the paintings of Grant Wood, and by compositional strategies employed in Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e, literally "floating world").

Rara Avis (2001)

Midway Airport / Chicago, Illinois

This  sculpture of a red cardinal is made of around 1,800 handcrafted small sculptures of aircraft.

Rara Avis was recognized by the Public Art Network Year in Review in 2002.

Jurisprudents (2000)

Melvin Price Federal Courthouse / E. St. Louis, Illinois

This is a sculpture of two  tall heads facing each other across a courthouse atrium, each composed of around 1,500 small sculptures.

The design for this commission evolved in the wake of the acquittals of O. J. Simpson and the police who beat Rodney King.

Jurisprudents received the GSA National Design Honor Award for Art in 2000.

Stevie Ray Vaughan Memorial (1994)
Lady Bird Lake / Austin, Texas

Stevie Ray Vaughan Memorial commemorates Vaughan, the blues guitarist. It features a realistic figure of the musician in a meditative pose, with a shadow of the musician playing the guitar. It is installed at Auditorium Shores on Lady Bird Lake, where Vaughan performed many concerts. It is one of the city's most popular tourist attractions, and has been awarded "Best Public Artwork in Austin" by The Austin Chronicle multiple times.

Arthur Fiedler Memorial (1984)

Charles River Esplanade / Boston, Massachusetts

This is a large-scale sculptural bust of Arthur Fiedler, the late conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, formed from stacked aluminum plates.

The sculpture is located on an island across from the Hatch Shell, the site of many concerts conducted by Fiedler. The art critic Sebastian Smee cites it as an example of high quality public art in Boston.

Collaboration
Helmick and artist-engineer Stuart Schechter (1958- ) collaborated on a number of projects, working as Helmick & Schechter from 1993 to 2008.

Gallery

References

External links
Helmick Sculpture Website
 Ralph Helmick in the CultureNOW database

1952 births
Living people
American sculptors
University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture alumni
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts alumni


Details of the 2014 All-Ireland Minor B Hurling Championship.

Overview

Kerry are the defending champions, having beaten Wicklow in the 2013 All-Ireland final. The championship began on 7 August 2014.

Fixtures/results

Quarter-finals

Semi-final

Final

References

2014 All-Ireland Minor B Hurling Championship


title: Nobuhira Takanuki

text:
Nobuhira Takanuki (born 9 May 1938) is a Japanese former cyclist. He competed in the team pursuit at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

References

External links

1938 births
Living people
Japanese male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Japan
Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Kanagawa Prefecture


title: Riccardo Ajmone-Marsan

text:
Riccardo Ajmone-Marsan (1889-1958) was an Italian footballer
who played for Juventus.

Biography
Riccardo Ajmone-Marsan was introduced - together with the brothers Alessandro and Annibale - to the team of the White-Blacks by Umberto Malvano, one of the founders of Juventus F.C. Riccardo, Alessandro and Annibale convinced their father Marco to pay the rent of the Velodrome Umberto I.

In 1921 Riccardo married Adelina Lavini (1901-1990), by whom he had three children: Maria (1922-1922), Giuliana (1923-2017) and Giorgio (1926-2008).

He was also known as Ajmone I, to distinguish him from his two brothers and teammates Alessandro and Annibale.

Career
Playing as goalkeeper for the second team in Turin, Riccardo won the Second Category in 1905, beating the reserves of Milan and Genoa in the final national round. On 10 April 1910 he made his debut in the first team scoring the decisive goal in a 1-0 win over Andrea Doria.

On 11 February 1912 he played his last match against Inter Milan, which ended in a 4-0 defeat.

In total he played - wearing the black and white striped shirt - 9 matches and scored 2 goals for Juventus F.C., the last one scored in a 2-1 defeat against US Milanese on 24 April 1910.

References

Further reading

1889 births
1958 deaths
Footballers from Turin
Italian men's footballers
Juventus FC players
Men's association football goalkeepers
Men's association football midfielders


title: Katsuya Saito

text:
is a former Japanese cyclist. He competed in the team pursuit at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

References

External links

1940 births
Living people
Japanese male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Japan
Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Aichi Prefecture
Asian Games medalists in cycling
Cyclists at the 1958 Asian Games
Asian Games gold medalists for Japan
Medalists at the 1958 Asian Games


title: Ntolonapemk, Eastern Surplus Superfund Site

text:
Ntolonapemk, also known as the Eastern Surplus Company Superfund Site and Maine State Survey No. 96.02, is a prehistoric archaeological site in Meddybemps, a small town in Washington County, Maine.  Located near the outlet of Meddybemps Lake, it is one of the only major inland prehistoric habitation sites in the county, with evidence of more than 8,000 years of use.  The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

Description
"Ntolonapemk" is a historic name given to the site by the local Passamaquoddy tribe, meaning "Our Relative's Place".  It is located on the south shore of Meddybemps Lake, at its outlet into the Dennys River.  The site was locally well known as a place where small stone artifacts could be found, and was used as a storage site for military surplus goods by the Eastern Surplus Company beginning in 1946.  In the 1980s it was identified as a Superfund site, and cleanup began in 1998.  The area was first identified by state archaeologists in 1967, and underwent an in-depth excavations in 2000 and 2001.  The site is located along what was a well-traveled Native route between Passamaquoddy Bay and the interior of Maine, and has yielded evidence of periodic occupation of the site from the Early Archaic (c. 8000 BCE) to the time of European contact and beyond.

More than 200 features have been found at the site, include large number of fire hearths, garbage pits, and storage pits.  Artifacts found at the site include more than 70,000 animal bones, most of them consist with use as food.  Alewife and other small anadromous fish were prominent in this assemblage, and were found across the time span of the site.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Maine

References

Washington County, Maine
Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Maine
National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Maine


title: Koçmarlı, Tarsus

text:
Koçmarlı is a  village in the municipality and district of Tarsus, Mersin Province, Turkey. Its population is 160 (2022). It is situated in the southern slopes of the Toros Mountains. Its distance to Tarsus is  and to Mersin is .

References

Neighbourhoods in Tarsus District


title: Miguel Martorell

text:
Miguel Martorell (24 November 1937 – 14 August 2021) was a Spanish cyclist. He competed in the team pursuit at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

References

External links

1937 births
2021 deaths
Spanish male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Spain
Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Mallorca
Cyclists from the Balearic Islands


title: Margo Winkler

text:
Margo Winkler is an American actress, who often played minor roles as receptionists, clerks or judges. She is known for her minor roles in several of Martin Scorsese's films which her husband Irwin Winkler produced. She is best known for her roles in Goodfellas (1990) as Belle Kessler and as the receptionist in The King of Comedy (1983) whom Robert De Niro's character approaches on numerous occasions. She is also known for her role as Barbara in Life as a House (2001). She made her screen debut in 1970 in Stuart Hagmann's The Strawberry Statement. In 1999 she appeared in her son Charles Winkler's picture Rocky Marciano, and her last appearance was in 2006 in her husband Irwin Winkler's Home of the Brave as a waiting room mother.

References

External links

American film actresses
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women


title: VNPF

text:
VNPF may refer to:

 Vanuatu National Provident Fund
 Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation


title: Jerusalem Quartet

text:
The Jerusalem Quartet is an Israeli string quartet, which made its debut in 1996. Their performance repertoire is wide and includes works of  Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and Dmitri Shostakovich.  They have toured extensively worldwide and three of their recordings have won BBC Music Magazine Awards.

They have recorded thirteen albums for the Harmonia Mundi label. The Jerusalem Quartet celebrated their 20th season in 2016 by releasing a two-CD album of Beethoven's six string quartets op. 18, and touring the United States, Australia, and several European countries.

Members
The original line-up included the violist Amihai Grosz. Grosz joined the Berlin Philharmonic as a principal in 2010, and also plays with the Philharmonic Octet Berlin.
Alexander Pavlovsky - first violin
Sergei Bresler - second violin
Ori Kam - viola
Kyril Zlotnikov - cello; the instrument is loaned to him by Daniel Barenboim and was played by Jacqueline du Pré

Protests
Due to the ensemble's name and their being perceived as cultural ambassadors for Israel, the Jerusalem Quartet has been subject to protests during their performances.  In 2010, a performance at London's Wigmore Hall which was being broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 was disrupted by multiple hecklers.  The broadcast had to be halted.

References

External links
Jerusalem Quartet official site

String quartets
Israeli classical music groups
BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists