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"Äckligt" (lit. "Disgusting") is a single by Swedish singing R&B duo Ansiktet, from their debut studio album #DENNYARNBMANNEN. It was released in Sweden as a digital download on 20 December 2011. The song has topped the Swedish Singles Chart.
Music video
A music video to accompany the release of "Äckligt" was first released onto YouTube on 2 January 2012 at a total length of four minutes and five seconds.
Track listing
Digital download
"Äckligt" - 4:02
"Äckligt" (Instrumental) - 4:09
Charts
Weekly charts and certifications
Year-end charts
Release history
References
2011 singles
2011 songs
Ansiktet (band) songs
Number-one singles in Sweden
Universal Music Group singles
Song articles with missing songwriters | 0.892558 |
Ozoir may refer to two communes in France:
Ozoir-la-Ferrière, in the Seine-et-Marne department
Ozoir-le-Breuil, in the Eure-et-Loir department | 0.924484 |
The La Mouette Samson is a French electric-powered ultralight trike, designed by Gérard Thevenot and produced by La Mouette of Fontaine-lès-Dijon. The aircraft is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.
Design and development
The aircraft was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category as a single- or two-seater, and also to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules when flown as a single-seater. It features a cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a two-seats-in-tandem open cockpit, tricycle landing gear and a single electric motor in pusher configuration.
The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with its single surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. Powerplant options are electric motors of for solo use and a motor for dual use. Due to its simple design the Samson can be folded up and stowed in the trunk of an automobile, with the wing carried on the roof rack. The aircraft has an empty weight of and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of .
The aircraft can be fitted with up to three batteries that give an endurance of 40 minutes at full power, or 80 minutes at normal cruise. The standard wing supplied is a La Mouette design.
Specifications (Samson)
References
External links
Samson
2010s French sport aircraft
2010s French ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Electric aircraft
Ultralight trikes
High-wing aircraft | 0.958407 |
"The Gentleman from San Francisco" () is a short story by the Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Ivan Bunin, written in 1915 and published the same year in Moscow, in the 5th volume of Slovo (Word) anthology. Translated into English by D. H. Lawrence (with Samuil Koteliansky), the story is one of Bunin's best known and regarded as classic.
Background
Bunin recollected the circumstances that led to the story's inception in a brochure called "The Origins of My Stories", compiled and published by P. Vyacheslavov. Thomas Mann's Death in Venice book sleeve, which had caught Bunin's eye in one of the Moscow book shops, served as a starting point for the story's associative chain. Some time later in Oryol Governorate it came back to him again, this time linked to the sudden death of a certain American citizen which occurred on the island of Capri. "Almost instantly the idea of a story [called initially] "Death on Capri" came to me and in four days I finished the piece. Everything else, San Francisco included, was pure fantasy. Nothing in it was real apart from the fact that once a certain American had really died after dinner in Quisisana hotel", Bunin wrote.
The rough copies and alternative versions of the story show the dynamics of its ever-changing history. Over the years Bunin, driven (in Chekhov's words) by the "brevity mania", was methodically cutting the text down in size (the last bout of such activity lasted from 1951 to the early 1953). Among the fragments cut were one lengthy description of a "Belshazzar feast" on board the Atlantida ship and a Tolstoyan monologue which the author deemed, apparently, too straightforward in its condemnation of the main character's way of life.
Synopsis
A 58-year-old American from San Francisco, having acquired a great fortune, sets off with his wife and daughter on a world tour. After a luxurious cruise, they arrive in Naples, where he is dismayed by the unusually bad winter weather and finds that the city does not meet his expectations. They then go to Capri, where he abruptly dies in the lobby of his fancy hotel, causing a stir among the rich clientele. The second half of the story is concerned with the change in the once-deferential staff's attitude towards the gentleman, and in the dehumanizing way in which his body is treated as it makes its journey out of Italy.
Critical reception
Upon its release the story was widely discussed and generally praised in the Russian press. According to critic Abram Derman, after Chekhov and Tolstoy's respective deaths nothing worthy of notice appeared in the Russian literature at all, up until "The Gentleman from San Francisco" release. "Bunin has developed greatly as an artist over the last few years, mainly by widening enormously his emotional scope. There is not a shade of irritation in his dislike of the American gentleman; his antipathy is embracingly wide, to a huge creative effect. With solemn, saintly sadness the author created one massive portrait of the global evil; the vast landscape of general sinfulness in which a proud modern man with an old heart habitates. And for the reader – the author's coldness towards his character feels not only well justified and logical, but very beautiful," Derman wrote in 1916. He found most remarkable the style of the story too, speaking of "rhythmic metallic beat of flawless, loaded phrases reminding... rhythms of resonating bells; richness and chastity of language where there's not a single word that would be either missing or superfluous."
More cautious was the Russkoye Bogatstvo magazine review. "The story is strong but it suffers from what the French call "its own virtues". The counterpoint between the outward gloss of the modern culture and its trifle insignificance in the face of death is exploited with gripping power, but the author drains the potential of this conflict down to the bottom, what with the image of the main character – an old American millionaire – being consciously confined to contours of a common stereotype. One cannot indulge with juggling symbols infinitely and get away with it. Symbols, when they are that recognizable, easily turn into schemes. …Both in "Aglaya" and "The Gentleman from San Francisco" a thesis runs at the forefront, psychology's being lost in the rear," wrote the reviewer.
External links
Господин из Сан-Франциско. The original text in Russian.
The Gentleman from San Francisco, English translation.
References
Short stories by Ivan Bunin
1915 short stories | 0.781518 |
Kevin Wade (born March 9, 1954) is an American screenwriter and television producer.
Early life and career
Wade was born in Chappaqua, New York, and attended Connecticut College. Before his writing career, Wade acted in two films for Mark Rappaport, including The Scenic Route (1978). He wrote the play Key Exchange, which was produced off-Broadway in 1981 and released as a film in 1985. Seven years later he received his first screen credit for Working Girl, which earned him nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay. Additional film credits include True Colors, Mr. Baseball, Junior, Meet Joe Black, and Maid in Manhattan.
For television, Wade created and executive produced the short-lived ABC drama series Cashmere Mafia. He also wrote the seven episodes that were broadcast by the network before the show was canceled. He joined the writing staff of the CBS drama Blue Bloods in its first season and has served as its executive producer/showrunner since the second season. In 2019 he was nominated for a Mystery Writers of America Edgar award for the episode “My Aim is True”.
Personal life
He was married to Polly Draper from 1983 to 1990. He has been married to Sasha Clifton since 1991 and has two children.
References
External links
Living people
American male screenwriters
American television writers
Television producers from New York (state)
Connecticut College alumni
1954 births
People from Chappaqua, New York
American male television writers
Screenwriters from New York (state)
Draper family | 0.290689 |
Westwoodhill is an area of the Scottish new town East Kilbride in South Lanarkshire.
Along with Murrayhill, it forms a boundary between Westwood and the Murray.
The eponymous Highway also connects these areas to Greenhills, Newlandsmuir and Mossneuk.
References
Areas of East Kilbride | 0.395592 |
Sneak Previews (known as Opening Soon...at a Theater Near You from 1975 to 1977 and Sneak Previews Goes Video from 1989 to 1991) is an American film review show that ran for over two decades on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). It was created by WTTW, a PBS affiliate in Chicago, Illinois. It premiered on November 26, 1975 as a monthly local-only show called Opening Soon...at a Theater Near You and was renamed in 1977 to Sneak Previews and it became a biweekly show in 1978 airing nationally on PBS. By 1980, it was a weekly series airing on over 180 stations, and it was the highest rated weekly entertainment series in the history of public broadcasting. The show's final broadcast was on October 4, 1996.
Format
The show featured two critics who would present short clips of movies in current release and then debate the merits of the films, energetically defending their remarks if the other critic disagreed. A designated "dog of the week" was also featured, with "Spot the Wonder Dog" barking on cue as an introduction.
Episodes from the first seven seasons ended with one of the hosts saying "See you at the movies." Many episodes from season eight through fourteen and again from season seventeen through twenty-one ended with the hosts' reminder to "save us the aisle seats." Episodes from season eighteen through twenty (when it was known as Sneak Previews Goes Video) ended with the hosts reminder to "don't forget to rewind that tape."
Some episodes were known as Take 2 shows which replaced the review of recently released films with themed topics such as "Women in Danger", and slasher films of the 1970s and early 1980s. On one occasion, Siskel and Ebert invited the viewer into a day in their lives as they screened films.
History
The show first aired in 1975 on a monthly basis under the name Opening Soon at a Theater Near You and, after two successful seasons, was renamed Sneak Previews. The show originally featured Roger Ebert, a film critic from the Chicago Sun-Times, and Gene Siskel, a film critic from the Chicago Tribune.
The two newspapers were competitors, and so were Siskel and Ebert. As Ebert wrote after Siskel's death in 1999:
The tension between the two men made the show's production difficult and time-consuming at first:
Over time the two men became close personal friends while remaining professional rivals, and Ebert described their relationship before Siskel's death as "no one else could possibly understand how meaningless was the hate, how deep was the love".
Post-Siskel and Ebert
The success of the show led WTTW to decide to syndicate it to commercial television. Siskel and Ebert left Sneak Previews in 1982, citing contractual differences with WTTW. They indicated that they were offered a contract and asked to "take it or leave it", and they chose the latter option. The two critics were soon featured in At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, a similar show created with Tribune Entertainment and replaced in 1986 by a Disney-produced long-running show first known as Siskel & Ebert & the Movies (later adopting the title At the Movies in 2008).
After Siskel and Ebert left the show, more than 300 critics auditioned to become their replacements, among them being legendary film critic Pauline Kael. Ebert's future co-host on At the Movies, Richard Roeper, auditioned while still a college student, for which he was obviously turned down.
In 1982, WTTW signed Neal Gabler and Jeffrey Lyons as replacements for Siskel and Ebert on Sneak Previews. Because Siskel and Ebert had trademarked the phrase 'Two Thumbs Up', Lyons and Gabler would simply give a 'yes' or 'no' judgement to a movie they reviewed. Each post-1982 episode (with the exception of 1989 to 1991) ended with the catch phrase "Don't forget to save us the aisle seats." Neal Gabler left Sneak Previews in 1985, citing philosophical differences with the direction of the show, and was replaced by Michael Medved. Before replacing Gabler, Medved had cameo appearances on the show, presenting the "Golden Turkey Awards," based on the book, and a variation of Siskel & Ebert's "Spot the Wonder Dog/Dog of the Week."
Cancellation
Although Sneak Previews continued on PBS for 14 years after Ebert and Siskel left, the program did not maintain the popularity it enjoyed during their tenure. In 1983, Tom Shales of The Washington Post negatively said of the two critics hosting at the time (Lyons and Gabler) as "two New York yokels...Jeffrey Lyons, to whom the notion of insight or analysis is more foreign than Jupiter, and Neal Gabler, who talks down to viewers as if they were all 3 years old and looks into the camera the way Dracula regards a vacant neck."
The show's title was changed to Sneak Previews Goes Video in 1989, and concentrated on home video releases, but returned to its original title in 1991. PBS continued to broadcast the program until the fall of 1996, when it was cancelled due to a lack of underwriting.
In popular culture
In the early-to-mid eighties to the early nineties, Sesame Street had a recurring parody sketch, "Sneak Peek Previews", which illustrated differences of opinion. In a run-down movie theater, Oscar the Grouch and Telly Monster together watched a short video segment, usually from the Sesame Street archives. After the video, Oscar invariably disliked it, and Telly enjoyed it, and they each told why. Siskel and Ebert appeared in one sketch in 1991 in which they instruct the hosts on how their thumbs up/thumbs down rating system works. At the end of sketch, Oscar asks if there could be a thumbs sideways ratings (the film rated in question was Walt Disney's Cinderella), and goads the two men about whether or not that would be acceptable, as Ebert likes the idea, but Siskel does not.
References
External links
Archived episodes of Sneak Previews on PBS
Film criticism television series
1975 American television series debuts
1980s American television series
PBS original programming
Television series by WTTW
1996 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Chicago television shows
Gene Siskel
Roger Ebert
Siskel and Ebert | 0.863782 |
Quaid-e-Azam Football Club or Quaid-e-Azam FC is a Football club in Islamabad, Pakistan, which was founded in 1971.
References
Football clubs in Pakistan
1971 establishments in Pakistan
Association football clubs established in 1971
Football in Islamabad | 0.506395 |
Appendage is Circa Survive's second EP. It was released on November 30, 2010 through Atlantic Records. It contains b-sides from the Blue Sky Noise sessions, as well as a demo of "Sleep Underground". As with Circa Survive's previous three albums and EP, Esao Andrews created the artwork.
Track listing
All tracks by Circa Survive
References
2010 EPs
Circa Survive albums
Atlantic Records EPs
Albums produced by David Bottrill | 0.156292 |
The Henry Chisholm was a wooden freighter that sank off the shore of Isle Royale in Lake Superior in 1898 and the remains are still on the lake bottom. The wreck was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
History
The Henry Chisholm (Official number 95610) was built in 1880 at Thomas Quayle & Sons shipyards in Cleveland, Ohio, which was considered the best wooden shipbuilders on the Great Lakes. She was a 265-foot wooden steam-powered freighter, 39 feet in breadth and 20 feet in depth, carrying three masts and a double expansion steam engine with twin Scotch boilers capable of producing 1707HP, powering a single screw. The hull was reinforced with steel and iron strapping, and was the largest wooden "steam barge" ever built in Cleveland, approaching the practical size limit for a wooden vessel of its type. The ship cost $125,999 to build, and was launched on August 28, 1880.
The ship was built for Alva Bradley of Cleveland, and named for Henry Chisholm, father of the steel industry in that city. It was used on the Great Lakes from the time it was built until 1898, and frequently set records for cargo capacity, often towing several barges at once.
The wreck of the Chisholm
The Chisholm left Duluth, Minnesota on October 16, 1898 bound for Buffalo, New York, carrying 92,000 bushels of barley and towing the 220-foot schooner John Martin. The next day a heavy storm blew in and the tow rope to the Martin was cast off. After the gale lessened, the Chisholm spent the next few days searching for the Martin. On October 20, 1898 the ship struck a reef near the Rock of Ages Light while attempting to enter Washington Harbor. Determining the hull was too badly damaged to refloat, the captain abandoned ship, sending several crewmembers to Victoria Harbor for assistance while taking the remainder of the crew into Washington Harbor. The Martin was later found, essentially unharmed and sailing under her own power.
Salvage began almost immediately, but the ship broke up and sank during storms a week later. The Scotch boilers were salvaged in 1901, but by that time the engine had slid downhill away from the wreck. The Chisholm sat mostly undisturbed until she was rediscovered by sport divers in the 1960s.
The wreck today
The Henry Chisholm sits in waters of 80 to 150 feet, lying on its side. Portions of the wooden hull are intermingled with the wreckage of the Cumberland, which had sunk earlier in 1877. The stern of the ship is broken away from the rest of the wreckage, and sits some distance away.
The steam engine, drive shaft and prop are intact in the stern section, sitting upright at the 120–150 foot depth. The steam engine is of the double expansion variety, 20 feet high, and is in nearly perfect condition, easily viewable and accessible through the sheared-off stern. Approximately 75 dives were made to the Chisholm in 2009 out of 1062 dives made to wrecks in the Isle Royale National Park.
References
Further reading
Shipwrecks on the National Register of Historic Places in Michigan
Great Lakes freighters
Maritime incidents in 1898
Shipwrecks of Lake Superior
1880 ships
Ships built in Cleveland
National Register of Historic Places in Isle Royale National Park
Wreck diving sites | 0.914353 |
Patrington railway station is a disused railway station on the North Eastern Railway's Hull and Holderness Railway in Patrington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was opened by the Hull and Holderness Railway on 27 June 1854. The station was closed to passengers on 19 October 1964.
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Disused railway stations in the East Riding of Yorkshire
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1854
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1964
Former North Eastern Railway (UK) stations
Beeching closures in England
Hull and Holderness Railway | 0.713926 |
Lepidodactylus moestus is a species of gecko. It is found in the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau.
References
Lepidodactylus
Reptiles described in 1867
Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters | 0.149544 |
A National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) is a type of plan submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by least developed countries, to describe the country's perception of its most "urgent and immediate needs to adapt to climate change". NAPAs are not supposed to include original research, but use existing information and include profiles of priority projects that are intended to address those needs that have been identified.
The UNFCCC maintains a database of NAPAs, and of country priorities that have been identified within NAPAs. As of November 2011, it contained reports from 46 LDCs.
The Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) was established to finance the preparation of NAPAs and to implement the projects that they propose. The LDCF currently has resources of at least US$415 million, of which US$177 million has been approved for 47 projects, attracting more than US$550 million in co-financing in the process.
Details
NAPAs are intended to provide LDCs with an opportunity to identify their "urgent and immediate needs" for adapting to climate change. As part of the NAPA process, LDC government ministries, typically assisted by development agencies, assess their countries' vulnerability to climate change and extreme weather events. LDCs then develop a prioritized list of adaptation projects that will help the country cope with the adverse effects of climate change. LDCs who submit NAPAs to the UNFCCC then become eligible for funding through the LDCF for NAPA projects. The LDCF was designed through the UNFCCC specifically to assist least developed countries, which are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. To date, forty five LDCs have written and submitted NAPAs to the UNFCCC, with Nepal as the latest country to submit its NAPA in November 2010. Three more countries (Angola, Myanmar, and Timor Leste) are scheduled to complete their NAPAs by the end of 2011.
Bangladesh
The Bangladesh NAPA proposes a range of priority adaptation projects with a focus on building the country's resilience to the impacts of climate change. These projects are designed to be implemented over the short to medium term, with a view to protecting vulnerable communities and ecosystems in Bangladesh from the impacts of climate change.
Some of the key adaptation priorities identified in the Bangladesh NAPA include:
Agriculture: The NAPA identifies the need to improve irrigation systems, promote drought-resistant crops, and introduce new agricultural technologies to help farmers cope with the impacts of climate change.
Water resources: The NAPA identifies the need to build small-scale water storage facilities, improve water management practices, and protect water sources from contamination.
Health: The NAPA identifies the need to improve disease surveillance systems, strengthen health infrastructure, and promote public awareness about the health impacts of climate change.
Coastal zones: The NAPA identifies the need to build coastal embankments, improve early warning systems for cyclones and storm surges, and promote alternative livelihoods for coastal communities.
Infrastructure: The NAPA identifies the need to improve the resilience of infrastructure to the impacts of climate change, such as by building flood shelters and strengthening transportation networks.
Cambodia
The National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) in Cambodia was developed to address the country's urgent and immediate needs for adapting to the impacts of climate change. Cambodia is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, including increased frequency and intensity of floods and droughts, as well as the potential loss of agricultural productivity and fisheries. The projects are designed to be implemented over the short to medium term, with a view to protecting vulnerable communities and ecosystems in Cambodia from the impacts of climate change.
See also
Local Adaptation Plans of Action
Climate change adaptation
References
Climate change policy | 0.994996 |
William Sims Bainbridge (born October 12, 1940) is an American sociologist who currently resides in Virginia. He is co-director of Cyber-Human Systems at the National Science Foundation (NSF). He is the first Senior Fellow to be appointed by the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. Bainbridge is most well known for his work on the sociology of religion. Recently he has published work studying the sociology of video gaming.
Career
Bainbridge began his academic career at the Choate Rosemary Hall preparatory school in his birthstate of Connecticut. He matriculated at Yale University and Oberlin College before settling on Boston University, where he received his B.A. in sociology in 1971. Initially, he studied music and became a skilled piano-tuner. In his free time, he constructed harpsichords and clavichords with the "Bainbridge" name, which still exist in a few households.
Bainbridge received his Ph.D. in sociology at Harvard University in 1975 and went on to study the sociology of religious cults. In 1976, he published his first book, The Spaceflight Revolution, which examined the push for space exploration in the 1960s. In 1978, he published his second and most popular book, entitled Satan's Power, which described several years in which Bainbridge infiltrated and observed the Process Church, a religious cult whose founders had been members of Scientology. The study was one of the last of this type of academic studies done before new rules were introduced restricting unregulated participatory observation and study.
After completing his doctorate, Bainbridge served as an assistant (1975-1980) and associate professor (1980-1982) of sociology at the University of Washington. During this period, he worked with departmental colleague Rodney Stark on the Stark-Bainbridge theory of religion. Upon returning to Harvard as a visiting associate professor of sociology (1982-1987), he co-wrote the books The Future of Religion (1985) and A Theory of Religion (1987) with Stark. As of 2013, their theory, which aims to explain religious involvement in terms of rewards and compensators, is seen as a precursor of the more explicit recourse to economic principles in the study of religion later developed by Laurence Iannaccone and others.
From this period until the 2000s Bainbridge published more books dealing with space, religion, and psychology. These included a text entitled Experiments in Psychology (1986), which included psychology experimentation software coded by Bainbridge. He also studied the religious cult the Children of God, also known as the Family International, in his 2002 book The Endtime Family: Children of God.
Bainbridge has also taught at Illinois State University (professor of sociology and anthropology; 1987-1990) and Towson University (professor of sociology and anthropology & department chair; 1990-1992). He then joined the National Science Foundation as the director of its sociology program (1992-1999) before holding a series of positions that prefigured his current appointment in 2006.
Bibliography
Books authored by Bainbridge include:
Cultural Science: Applications of Artificial Social Intelligence (2020),
The Social Structure of Online Communities (2020),
Virtual Local Manufacturing Communities: Online Simulations of Future Workshop Systems (2019),
Family History Digital Libraries (2018),
Computer Simulation of Space Societies (2018),
Dynamic Secularization (2017),
Star Worlds: Freedom Versus Control in Online Gameworlds (2016),
The Meaning and Value of Spaceflight (2015),
An Information Technology Surrogate for Religion (2014),
Personality Capture and Emulation (2014),
eGods: Faith versus Fantasy in Computer Gaming (2013),
The Virtual Future (2011),
Online Multiplayer Games (2010),
The Warcraft Civilization: Social Science in a Virtual World (2010),
Nanoconvergence (2007),
The Secular Abyss (2007),
God from the Machine: Artificial Intelligence Models of Religious Cognition (2006),
The Endtime Family: Children of God (2002),
Sociology (1997),
The Sociology of Religious Movements (1997),
Religion, Deviance and Social Control (with Rodney Stark) (1996),
Social Research Methods and Statistics (1992),
Goals in Space: American Values and the Future of Technology (1991),
Survey Research: A Computer-Assisted Introduction (1989),
Sociology Laboratory (1987)
A Theory of Religion (with Rodney Stark) (1987) () (Reprinted in 1996 and translated into Polish as Teoria Religi in 2000)
Dimensions of Science Fiction (1986).
Experiments in Psychology (1986)
The Future of Religion (with Rodney Stark) (1985)
Satan's Power: A Deviant Psychotherapy Cult (1978).
The Spaceflight Revolution (1976).
In addition, The Future of Religion was reprinted in Chinese in 2006 and Satan's Power: A Deviant Psychotherapy Cult was translated into Italian in 1994.
Bainbridge's edited and co-edited books include:
Handbook of Science and Technology Convergence (with Mihail C. Roco) (2016)
Convergence of Knowledge, Technology and Society (with Mihail C. Roco, Bruce Tonn, George Whitesides) (2013)
Leadership in Science and Technology (2012)
Progress in Convergence: Technologies for Human Wellbeing (with Mihail C. Roco) (2006)
Nanotechnology: Societal Implications—Maximizing Benefit for Humanity (with Mihail C. Roco) (2006)
Nanotechnology: Societal Implications—Individual Perspectives (with Mihail C. Roco) (2006)
Managing Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno Innovations: Converging Technologies in Society (with Mihail C. Roco) (2006)
Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction (2004)
Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance (with Mihail C. Roco) (2003)
Societal Implications of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (with Mihail C. Roco) (2001).
In addition to his books, Bainbridge has published over 200 articles and essays in various journals and encyclopedias. From 2013, when he published eGods, his work has shifted towards the study of the sociology of video gaming, beginning with the publication of a new article (co-authored with his daughter Wilma Alice Bainbridge) on the potentially interesting aspects of glitches in video games. He has also studied "personality capture" in software, the process by which one may save one's personality in a computer through the answering of vast personality surveys.
Awards and organizations
The Future of Religion won the "Outstanding Book of the Year" award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion in 1986 and A Theory of Religion won the "Outstanding Scholarship" from the Pacific Sociological Association in 1993.
Bainbridge is a founding member of the Order of Cosmic Engineers and is distantly related to Commodore William Bainbridge.
See also
Rodney Stark
References
<li>Bainbridge, William S. Curriculum Vitae . Retrieved October 12, 2006.
External links
Personal website (latest archived version, 2014)
Uploading Life: Send Your Personality to Space (Includes Bainbridge's work on spaceflight)
The Shape of Science Fiction as Perceived by the Fans (Study done in 1978 by William Bainbridge and Murray Dalziel)
Religion for a Galactic Civilization 2.0
American sociologists
Living people
Yale University alumni
Oberlin College alumni
Boston University College of Arts and Sciences alumni
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Researchers of new religious movements and cults
Sociologists of religion
1940 births
George Mason University faculty
American transhumanists
Choate Rosemary Hall alumni | 0.856206 |
Tux Droid is a Linux wireless Tux mascot (210mm × 180mm × 140mm - with lowered wings) with a programmable interface, allowing it to announce events by its gestures and by ALSA driven sound. The events are detected by specific gadgets, which are handled by the Tux Gadget Manager. The Tux Droid supports Linux kernel 2.4 or later and needs an 800 MHz CPU and 128 MB RAM. Communication from Tux Droid to the computer is via signalling operating in the 802.11 WLAN band, but not compatible with Wi-Fi. The receiver resembles a plastic fish, and connects to the host computer's USB port. An infrared remote control is supplied; signals from this are received by Tux Droid and sent to the host software over the wireless link. For media detection it needs an internet connection. The mascot is driven by Atmel AVR RISC microcontrollers.
The new version supports also Windows-based PCs. The Tux Droid can be used with Windows XP and Windows Vista (both at 32 Bit).
Information
Kysoh society has filed for bankruptcy in August 2010.
Official sites are unavailable.
Two communities are available to get help and information on Tux Droid.
See also
Speech synthesis
Tux
References
External links
https://www.tuxdroids.com/learn-more/ (Stock available in 2023)
http://tuxdroid.linuxfriendly.nl/index.php/s/SHJegqKJCoZJGs2/download (Windows and Linux Applications and Manuals)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxZmfh4TBuS1nVkgj2jBe0wveSlaYfPr4&jct=lAHCmPOucB5GfuaPiO9b719vbZe-IQ (Youtube playlist about the TUX Droid)
homepage of Tux Droid
Tuxdroid-community – Unofficial Community
joelmatteotti at github
Linux
Fictional penguins
Free software culture and documents
Virtual pets
Pets
Entertainment robots
Open-source robots | 0.009521 |
The Valea lui Iovan is a river in Romania, right tributary of the Cerna. Its source is in the Godeanu Mountains. It discharges into the Valea lui Iovan Reservoir. Its length is and its basin size is .
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Rivers of Romania
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Stylidium longicornu is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the genus Stylidium (family Stylidiaceae). It is an annual plant that grows from 10 to 30 cm tall. The obovate to spathulate leaves form a basal rosettes around the stem. The leaves are around 4–6 mm long. Inflorescences are unbranched racemes and produce flowers that are violet with white at the base and bloom from June to August in their native range. S. longicornu is endemic to the Kimberley region in Western Australia. Its habitat is recorded as being sand flats near sandstone. It grows in the presence of S. lobuliflorum, Rhynchospora, and Leptocarpus.
S. longicornu was first described by Sherwin Carlquist in 1979, but he noted that characteristics of this species have been recorded before. The description of S. ceratophorum given by Rica Erickson in 1958 noted that the corolla colour is either orange or mauve with a white throat. All other descriptions and observations of S. ceratophorum have only included colours such as golden-yellow (from dried specimens) or orange in their descriptions of flower colour, indicating that Erickson may have also seen S. longicornu in the field, however this would represent a range expansion beyond where Carlquist had observed it, which he postulated was possible.
See also
List of Stylidium species
References
Carnivorous plants of Australia
Eudicots of Western Australia
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This is a list of the 67 ultra-prominent summits (with topographic prominence greater than 1,500 metres) of Oceania, plus the two Ultras of the Southern Indian Ocean.
Western New Guinea
There are 12 ultra-prominent summits in Papua, Indonesia.
Papua New Guinea
There are 31 ultra-prominent summits in Papua New Guinea.
Hawaiian Islands
Of the six ultra-prominent summits of the Hawaiian Islands, two rise on the island of Hawaii, two on Maui, and one each on Kauai and Molokai.
New Zealand
New Zealand has ten ultra-prominent summits.
Pacific Islands
There are six ultra-prominent summits in the Pacific Islands, not including those of New Guinea, New Zealand, and the Hawaiian Islands which are listed separately.
Australia
The Commonwealth of Australia has two ultra-prominent summits.
Southern Indian Ocean
There are two ultra-prominent summits in the southern Indian Ocean.
Gallery
See also
Outline of Oceania
Mountain peaks of Hawaii
Ultra-prominent summit
Notes
References
Sources
Most of Oceania
Papua New Guinea
Indonesia
Oceania
Oceania
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1992 saw many sequels and prequels in video games, such as Dragon Quest V, Final Fantasy V, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Street Fighter II: Champion Edition, Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, and Super Mario Kart, along with new titles such as Art of Fighting, Lethal Enforcers, Mortal Kombat and Virtua Racing.
The year's highest-grossing video game worldwide was Capcom's arcade fighting game Street Fighter II for the second year in a row, while also being the year's highest-grossing entertainment product. The year's best-selling home system was the Game Boy for the third year in a row, while the year's best-selling home video games were Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and the Super NES port of Street Fighter II, which were both also the year's highest-grossing home entertainment products.
Top-rated games
Game of the Year awards
The following titles won Game of the Year awards for 1992.
Famitsu Platinum Hall of Fame
The following video game releases in 1992 entered Famitsu magazine's "Platinum Hall of Fame" for receiving Famitsu scores of at least 35 out of 40.
Financial performance
Highest-grossing arcade games
The year's highest-grossing game worldwide was Street Fighter II, which alone accounted for an estimated 60% of the global arcade game market, according to Coinslot magazine. The following table lists the year's top-grossing arcade games in Japan, the United Kingdom, United States, and worldwide.
Japan
The following titles were the top ten highest-grossing arcade games of 1992 in Japan, according to Gamest, Game Machine and Famicom Tsūshin (Famitsu) magazines.
United States
In the United States, the following titles were the highest-grossing arcade video games of 1992.
Australia
On Australia's Timezone monthly arcade charts published in the June 1992 issue of Leisure Line magazine, Capcom's Street Fighter II: Champion Edition was the top-grossing arcade conversion kit and Konami's X-Men was the top-grossing dedicated arcade cabinet.
Best-selling home systems
Best-selling home video games
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Street Fighter II each sold units worldwide in 1992, making them the year's highest-grossing entertainment products. The following home video games sold more than 1 million units worldwide in 1992.
The following table lists the year's top-selling home video game releases in several markets, including Europe, Japan, South Korea, and the United States.
Asia
In Japan and South Korea, according to Famicom Tsūshin (Famitsu) magazine, the following titles were the top ten best-selling home video game releases of 1992.
Europe
The following titles were the top three best-selling home video game releases of 1992 in Europe and the United Kingdom.
In the United Kingdom, the following titles were the top-selling home video games of each month in 1992.
United States
In the United States, the following titles were the top three best-selling home video games of 1992.
The following titles were the best-selling home video games of each month for video game consoles (home consoles and handheld consoles) in 1992.
The following titles were the top-selling personal computer games on the monthly PC Research charts in 1992, as reported by Electronic Games magazine.
Events
May 25 – FuncoLand founder David Pomije is named "Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year" by the TwinWest Chamber of Commerce.
July 2 – FuncoLand's parent company Funco Inc. files a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of one million shares of its common stock at $5 a share, with plans to use the proceeds from the sold shares to repay short-term debt and finance the opening of other FuncoLand locations.
July 13 – The first Chicago-area FuncoLand location opens in Bloomingdale.
August 12 – Funco's initial public offering, underwritten by Miller, Johnson & Kuehn Inc., is announced.
September 22 – The first south suburban Chicago-area FuncoLand location opens in Orland Park.
Atari Games Corp. v. Nintendo of America Inc.
Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc.
Sega v. Accolade
Activision (as Mediagenic) files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
New companies: Wow Entertainment Inc. (Sega AM1), Humongous Entertainment, Halestorm
Hardware releases
January 1 – Atari Corporation drops support for the Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit family, Atari 7800, and software for those systems.
April 11 – European launch of the SNES.
October – Sega releases the Model 1, Sega's first arcade system board supporting 3D polygon graphics.
December – the Apple IIGS is discontinued, ending the Apple II series.
Namco releases the System 22, an arcade system board that introduces 3D texture mapping and Gouraud shading.
Philips releases the CD-i multimedia home console
Super NES released in Europe and Australasia
Sega releases the Mega CD as Sega CD (an add-on for the Genesis) in North America, almost a year after the equivalent Japanese launch
JVC releases the Wondermega console in Japan, a combined Mega Drive and Mega CD.
Turbo Technologies Incorporated (TTI) releases the TurboDuo, an updated version of the TurboGrafx-16 with built-in CD-ROM drive and Super System Card for Super CD-ROM² support.
The Amiga 1200 computer is released. It's the final lower-cost Amiga model before Commodore's bankruptcy.
Nintendo releases the Super Scope for the Super NES.
Game releases
January–March
April–June
July–September
July 29 – Ecco the Dolphin is released, the first in the series.
August 27 – Nintendo releases Super Mario Kart, the first in the Mario Kart series, creating the mascot/go-kart subgenre of racing games.
September 1 – Domark releases Championship Manager for the Amiga and Atari ST.
September 24 – SNK releases Art of Fighting for the arcades.
September – Enix releases Dragon Quest V in Japan.
October–December
October – Sega releases Virtua Racing by Yu Suzuki and AM2 in the arcades, laying the foundations for subsequent 3D racing games and popularizing 3D polygon graphics among a wider audience.
October – Gremlin Graphics releases Zool for the Amiga, a character-based platformer following in the footsteps of Mario and Sonic.
October 8 – Midway Games releases the Mortal Kombat arcade game in North America, which features bloody "fatalities," digitized characters, and started a franchise of games and movies.
October 15 – Sega releases the controversial Night Trap video game for the Sega CD console.
October 21 – Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins is released for the Game Boy. The first appearance of Wario.
November – Accolade releases Star Control II.
November – Konami releases a console port of Prince of Persia for the Super NES.
November 21 – Sega publishes Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Mega Drive/Genesis). The game introduced Sonic's sidekick Miles "Tails" Prower and Sonic's Super Sonic transformation.
Interplay publishes Alone in the Dark, widely considered the first survival horror game and one of the first games with fully 3D polygonal characters.
Flashback is released by Delphine Software on the Amiga. The game is praised for its rotoscoped animation, giving movements fluidity unusual for the time. It is listed in the Guinness World Records as the best-selling French game of all time.
December – Dune II is released by Westwood Studios, creating the template for the modern real-time strategy genre.
December 4 – Mega Man 5 is released in Japan. On December 15, Mega Man 5 is released in the US.
December 10 – Fatal Fury 2 is released by SNK for the Neo Geo arcade and home platforms.
See also
1992 in games
References
Video games by year
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Lithodes santolla, also known as the southern king crab, Chilean king crab or centolla, is a species of king crab, found off southern South America including the offshore Falkland Islands. On the Pacific side, it is found in Chile from Talcahuano to Cape Horn. On the Atlantic side, it is found off Argentina and Uruguay. It lives in the benthic zone at depths of , with Uruguayan records being exclusively from great depths. In Chile, it mostly lives at depths to , but south of 40° S it can be found to . It is large crab that can reach up to in carapace length and it is the target of commercial fishing.
Physiology
L. santolla lives in cold-temperature and subantarctic waters. Ideal temperatures for its larval and juvenile development range from , and its larval stages are nonfeeding. It experiences respiratory acidosis and hyperglycemia after prolonged exposure to air; however, these levels eventually return to normal after reimmersion, making it capable of withstanding long periods of aerial exposure with no detrimental effect on mortality.
Fishing
The population of Lithodes santolla has seen a dramatic decline due to commercial fishing.
The lucrative centolla fishery around Tierra del Fuego led to an incident in August 1967 when the Argentine schooner was found fishing from Gable Island and had to be escorted out of Chilean waters by the Chilean patrol boat . This event among many others led to the Beagle crisis in the late 1970s.
The United States Food and Drug Administration lists the centolla crab and southern king crab as two separate species: Lithodes antarcticus and Lithodes santolla respectively. Other sources consider Lithodes antarcticus to be a synonym of Lithodes santolla.
References
External links
King crabs
Crustaceans of the eastern Pacific Ocean
Western South American coastal fauna
Crustaceans described in 1782
Invertebrates of Argentina
Invertebrates of Chile
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The 2011 Challenger of Dallas was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was a Challenger of Dallas competition that forms part of the 2011 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Dallas, United States, between 28 February and 6 March 2011.
Ryan Sweeting was the defending champion, but withdrew from the tournament.
Alex Bogomolov Jr. won the tournament after defeating Rainer Schüttler 7–6(7–5), 6–3 in the final.
Seeds
Draw
Finals
Top half
Bottom half
References
Main Draw
Qualifying Draw
Challenger of Dallas - Singles
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Florian Bauer (born 11 February 1994) is a German bobsledder.
He won a medal at the IBSF World Championships 2020.
References
External links
Florian Bauer at the German Bobsleigh, Luge, and Skeleton Federation
1994 births
Living people
German male bobsledders
Bobsledders at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic bobsledders for Germany
Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic medalists in bobsleigh
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Space Ship One is the seventh studio album by Paul Gilbert, best known as the guitarist of the hard rock band Mr. Big and formerly of Racer X. It was released in 2005.
Track listing
All songs written by Paul Gilbert, except where noted:
Track 13 originally recorded by the Beatles on the album Yellow Submarine.
Musicians
Paul Gilbert – guitar, vocals
Linus of Hollywood – bass guitar
Marco Minnemann – drums
Production
Larry Freemantle – art direction
Steve Hall – mastering
William Hames – photography
Tim Size – engineer
Tim Heyne – management
References
Paul Gilbert albums
2005 albums
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Twined knitting (also known as two-end knitting) is a traditional Scandinavian knitting technique. It refers to knitting where two strands of yarn are knitted into the fabric alternatively and twisted once and always in the same direction before every stitch. The technique is called tvåändsstickning in Swedish, tvebandsstrikking in Norwegian, and tvebinding in Danish. Their literal meaning is "two-end knitting", referring to the traditional way of knitting with both yarn ends from one ball of yarn.
While the right-side of the fabric resembles a one-end stocking-stitch fabric (as seen from the right side), the wrong-side of the fabric has a horizontally ridged surface due to the plaits created by the twisting of the two strands of yarn. Intricate relief patterns are characteristic of the technique.
Twined knitting produces a firmer and more durable fabric with greater thermal insulation than conventional one-end knitting. The technique has historically been used to knit mittens, gloves, socks, stockings, caps and sleeves for waistcoats.
Historical and cultural overview
The technique is predominantly associated with the forestry areas of Värmland, Dalarna, Härjedalen, Jämtland and Hälsingland in Sweden, and Hedmark, Oppland, Akershus and Buskerud in Norway. Archaeological finds from these areas provide evidence that the technique has been practiced since the sixteenth century. Practical knowledge of the technique still persists in these areas. Danish archeological findings of the technique have been dated to the seventeenth century. However, practical knowledge of the technique has ceased to exist in Denmark. Evidence of the technique has not yet been found in the remaining Nordic countries.
Sweden
The technique is historically significant to the Swedish county Dalarna. Two-end knitted garments continue to be included in several of Dalarnas traditional local costumes. The history of knitting in this region can be traced back to the mid-seventeenth century. Wool yarn was the most common knitting material, but linen and cotton yarn was sometimes used to knit socks, mittens and gloves.
Mittens and gloves were commonly twine-knitted in white (typically for women) or black (typically for men) wool yarn with a knitted or embroidered colourful pattern. Embroidered twine-knitted mittens with a fringe trimming are particularly associated with Dala-Floda were they are included in the traditional local costume. However, embroidered mittens with or without fringe trimmings are common in other parts of Dalarna as well as in Värmland and Härjedalen. Some two-end knitted mittens were intended to be worn inside unlined leather mittens, in which cases they were known as handskvantar, bälgvantar or körhandskar. On the island of Sollerön in Siljan, half-mittens and gloves were two-end knitted in white linen or cotton yarn for weddings, half-mittens being worn by the bride and gloves by the groom. The gloves and half-mittens were later reused by the couple on ceremonial occasions. The garments from Sollerön are characterised by their elaborate relief patterns. In Lima, twine-knitted cotton gloves were produced and exported during the nineteenth century.
Socks and stockings were typically two-end knitted in an undyed wool, linen or cotton yarn, often to be dyed after. During dyeing, the parts that would not show when the sock was worn, usually the foot, heel and top edge, were turned in and stitched to save dye. In order to protect the heel from wear, the heel was commonly covered with a piece of wadmal, leather or a scrap of knitted fabric.
Two-end knitted caps from Bjursås have a black brim and a red main body with stripes typically in black, red and green. Contrasting stitches in white cotton yarn appear across the cap, white cotton yarn appearing whiter than white wool yarn.
Sleeves were typically two-end knitted in white wool yarn with a pattern of stars, crosses, flowers and geometrical figures in black wool yarn. The sleeves were thereafter dyed red and sewn to a waistcoat in wadmal, broadcloth, or a printed woven fabric. In the local folk costume of Gagnef, the waistcoat is occasionally decorated with machine stitches. Traditional jackets and sweaters from Hälsingland include two-end knitted parts, typically their cuffs and the lower part of the body. Occasionally, they were entirely two-end knitted.Research has shown that more than 95 percent of the knitted objects collected from Dalarna and its surrounding areas that are kept at the Nordic Museum in Stockholm and in local museum collections in Dalarna, are knitted using this technique. No similar research has been made into the knitted objects from Värmland, Härjedalen, Jämtland and Hälsingland, but it is assumed that older knitted objects are likely to be partly or entirely two-end knitted.
Norway
Norwegian museum collection include primarily two-end knitted mittens, mostly in grey wool yarn knitted in stocking-stitch. These mittens have been worn with the inside out, exposing the horizontally ridged surface. Strands of yarn have been sewn to the inside to create a piled surface, increasing the mittens thermal insulation. In Värmland, two-end knitted mittens have also been worn with the inside out.
Modern times
Towards the end of the nineteenth century, the Continental style of knitting (also called left-hand knitting or picking) was introduced to the Swedish school system. As a result, twined knitting was to a significant extent abandoned in favour of conventional one-end knitting.
A twine-knitted glove, now known as Bornvanten, was found in an archeological excavation of Gamla Herrgården in Falun in 1974. The glove was found close to where Borns hyttegård once was located, thereof its name. The glove is 24 cm long and 11 cm wide. It is knitted in a fine wool yarn, about 5.5 stitches per cm, and has a fringe trimming. Radiocarbon dating dates the burial of the glove to 1490-1645. This makes it one of the oldest knitted objects in Sweden and the oldest two-end knitted object. Bornvanten initiated extensive research into the cultural history of twined knitting and a revived interest in the technique.
Traditionally, practical knowledge of twined knitting has been passed down from generation to generation. At present, courses in twined knitting are an important method to teach the technique. Social media such as Youtube has become a way of transferring practical knowledge of the technique. Currently, there is a growing interested in twined knitting. Several books in multiple languages have been published on the subject and knitting patterns are available on Ravelry.
Technique
Material
The twist and ply direction of the yarn influences the properties of the knitted fabric. S-twisted and Z-plied yarns become excessively twisted when knitting in this technique, complicating the untwisting of the two strands of yarn. The excessive twist can cause the right side of the fabric to develop a horizontally ridged surface. Z-twisted and S-plied yarns will instead untwist when knitting in this technique. This creates a smooth knitted surface that resembles a one-end stocking-stitch fabric (as seen from the right side). Preferably, Z-twisted yarns should have a firm close twist to avoid the yarn from untwisting completely. Most suited are high Z-twisted and low S-plied yarns.
The technique always refers to knitting with two strands of yarn, even when knitting a monochrome fabric. The strands of yarn can come from one or two balls of yarn. As the two strands of yarn are always twisted in the same direction, a cord will form while knitting that must be untwisted at regular intervals. Letting both strands of yarn come from one ball of yarn will relieve the untwisting of the two strands of yarn. If both yarn ends are to come from one ball of yarn, the ball of yarn needs to be a centre pull ball where both ends are accessible. A nostepinne, a mechanical ball winder or something equivalent will provide such a ball of yarn. By making one or two half hitches with the two strands of yarn around the ball of yarn, the strands of yarn can be untwisted by letting the ball of yarn hang by its own weight.
Method
The technique is typically knitted with fine yarn and thin knitting needles to create a firm and dense fabric. A rule of thumb is to use knitting needles that are 0.5 mm smaller in diameter than the recommended needle size of the yarn. Metal knitting needles are preferred. Traditionally, twine knitting is performed in the round with five double-pointed needles.
Casting on is performed with the two strands of yarn and one additional strand of yarn. There are three common casting on methods. When knitting mittens, gloves, socks and stockings, the strands of yarn left from casting on are typically braided as a decorative detail.
The English style of knitting (also called right-hand knitting or throwing) is applied, i.e. both yarns are carried in the right hand.
To knit, both strands of yarn are held in back and carried in the knitters right hand, the strands of yarn being separated by the index and the middle finger. The right needle is inserted into the next stitch on the left needle through the front loop as if to knit, knitting with the back strand of yarn that is brought over the front strand of yarn with the index finger.
To purl, both strand of yarn are held in front and carried in the knitters right hand, the strands of yarn being separated by the index and the middle finger. The right needle is inserted into the next stitch on the left needle through the back loop as if to purl, knitting with the back strand of yarn that is brought under the front strand of yarn with the index finger.
The technique is characteristic of its relief patterns. These are formed by knitting purled stitches, deep stitches (Swedish: djupmaskor) and crook stitches (Swedish: krokmaskor). A deep stitch is created by letting the front strand of yarn run in front while knitting one stitch with the back strand of yarn. If consecutive deep stitches are to be created, the strands of yarn must swap places before knitting the next stitch.
A crook stitch involves an odd number of stitches (1 purl, 1 knit, 1 purl). It is created by letting the strand of yarn used to purl the first stitch run in front while knitting the next stitch. A row of crook stitches is called a crook row (Swedish: krokvarv). Knitting two subsequent crook rows, shifting the rows by one stitch, produces a chain path (Swedish: kedjegång). An "O" stitch is produced by knitting a crook stitch on the first row and an inverted crook stitch on top on the following row (1 knit, 1 purl, 1 knit, letting the strand of yarn that is not used to knit run in front).
A purled deep stitch involves purling a stitch with both strands of yarn. Purled deep stitches can develop a structure that resembles ribbing in conventional one-end knitting.
Decorative braids in one or multiple colours are obtained by knitting the initial row in such a way that it resembles how the final braid is to appear. For example, a two-coloured braid entails alternating between the two colour. The second row is purled, bringing the back yarn under the front yarn. The third row is purled, bring the back yarn over the front yarn. Swapping the second and third row will give a braid in the opposite direction.
When knitting with two colours, two strands of yarn are used when the two colours are approximately of the same proportions. When winding two balls of differently coloured yarn, one colour is wound over the other. When there is a main colour and a contrasting colour, it is preferable to knit with two strands of the main coloured yarn and an additional strand of the contrasting coloured yarn. Long floats of the contrasting coloured yarn are avoided by catching the yarn at appropriate intervals.
References
Further reading
Dandanell, Birgitta; Danielsson, Ulla; Ankert, Kerstin (Ed.) (1984). Tvåändsstickat: Vackert, slitstarkt, varmt (in Swedish). LTs förlag: Stockholm. .
Dandanell, Birgitta; Danielsson, Ulla; Hansen, Robin Orm (Trans.) (1989). Twined knitting: A Swedish folkart technique. Loveland, Colorado: Interweave Press. .
Ling, Anne-Maj (2004). Two-End Knitting. Pittsville, Wisconsin: Schoolhouse Press. .
Meijsen, Carla (2014). Lekker Warm! Twijnend Breien – So Warm! Twined Knitting (In Dutch and English). Utrecht: The Dutch Knitters. .
Crafts
Handicrafts
Knitting
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Melvin Lamont McCants (born August 19, 1967) is an American retired basketball player. Along with James Farr, Derek Boyd and Chris Calloway, McCants led Chicago's Mount Carmel to the 1985 Illinois state basketball championship. It is the only Illinois AA high school boys basketball championship won by a Chicago Catholic League School. He was selected to the 1982 and 1983 State Farm Holiday Classic all-tournament teams.
After high school, McCants attended Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, to play under legendary coach Gene Keady. Along with teammates Troy Lewis and Todd Mitchell, the forward helped the Boilermakers win back-to-back Big Ten Conference titles and NCAA Tournament appearances, including a Sweet Sixteen in 1988. McCants played with the Los Angeles Lakers during the 1989–90 season.
External links
NBA stats @ basketballreference.com
1967 births
Living people
American men's basketball players
Los Angeles Lakers players
Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball players
Sioux Falls Skyforce (CBA) players
Small forwards
Undrafted National Basketball Association players
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Elliot Welles (birth name Kurt Sauerquell; 18 September 1927 – 28 November 2006) was a Holocaust survivor who for more than two decades until his retirement in 2003, directed the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League's task force on Nazi war criminals. Welles was a survivor of both the Riga Ghetto and the Stutthof concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.
Welles is known in particular for his work on the case of Boļeslavs Maikovskis, who had been charged with ordering the arrests that led to the mass execution of 200 Latvian villagers during the war. A native of Latvia, Maikovskis was sentenced to death in absentia by a Soviet court in 1965. He continued to live quietly in Mineola, New York, where he had settled after the war, before fleeing to Germany in 1987.
Because of Welles' tireless work on this case, Maikovskis (then 86) was put on trial in Germany in 1990. The trial was suspended in 1994 because of Maikovskis' failing health. Maikovskis died two years later.
Another well-known case that Welles assisted with was the extradition of Josef Schwammberger, a Nazi labor camp commander, from Argentina where he had been living for at least 40 years.
References
1927 births
2006 deaths
Austrian anti-fascists
Austrian Ashkenazi Jews
Austrian emigrants to the United States
American anti-fascists
American people of Austrian-Jewish descent
Jewish concentration camp survivors
Nazi hunters
Activists from New York City
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The School District of the City of Pontiac (or Pontiac School District, PSD) is a public school district headquartered in the Odell Nails Administration Building in Pontiac, Michigan, United States.
The school district serves all of the city of Pontiac, portions of Auburn Hills, Lake Angelus and Sylvan Lake as well as segments of the townships of Bloomfield, Orion, Waterford, and West Bloomfield.
The 2021 Board of Education consists of - Gill Garrett - President, Kenyada Bowman - Vice-President, William A. Carrington - Trustee, Caroll Y. Turpin - Trustee, Shaquana Davis-Smith-Treasurer, Michael McGuinness -Secretary and Kevin Groce - Trustee. Kelley Williams is the Superintendent.
The 2019 Board of Education consists of - William A. Carrington - President, Sherman Williams II – Vice-President, Caroll Y. Turpin - Secretary, Shaquana Davis-Smith - Trustee, Kenyada Bowman - Trustee, Mike McGuinness - Trustee and Kerry Tolbert - Trustee. Kelley Williams is the Superintendent.
History
In the 1960s the student body increased and the school district used high salaries to recruit teachers as the automobile industry economy prospered.
A February 1970 court order from federal judge Damon J. Keith ordered racial integration effective fall 1970 to ameliorate de facto racial segregation. According to the court order, no more than 40% of each school was to be African-American. The busing was to affect 10,000 students. In August 1971 several school buses were bombed with dynamite, and ten men were indicted in charges related to the incidents; one of them was an ex-Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon in the state. On October 25, 1971 the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear an opposition to the court order, keeping it in effect.
The busing order contributed to area racial tensions. That, along with an increase in unemployment, a loss of political support for school taxation due to an increase of the average age of the residents, financially harmed the district. As of 1981 20% of the area's residents were 65 and older, and a total of 58% of the community residents were at least 46 years of age; residents voted down tax millage proposals on eight occasions during the years 1979 to 1981. There was a 23% unemployment rate as of 1981. From 1972 to circa 1982 the enrollment declined from 21,028 to 17,216. In 1981 extracurricular activities were sharply reduced, and several athletes left the district due to the loss of athletic programs; they attended public schools in other school districts and private schools.
In June 2013 the Michigan Education Association's health insurance division stated that it was owed $11 million in premiums from the Pontiac district, so it planned to end benefits for teachers of the district on July 31 of that year; according to a lawsuit settlement, taxpayers in the district were required to pay $7.8 million of it. Administrators, secretaries, and teachers had been paying over 20% of their health care premiums out of pocket.
On Wednesday July 3, 2013 the state of Michigan conducted a preliminary review of the district, and the result was an indication of "probable financial stress". Governor of Michigan Rick Snyder stated that he was going to have a full review of the district conducted by a team appointed by him.
Demographics
In 1971 the district had 24,000 students, with 32% of them being black. In 1972-1973 there were 21,028. In the 1980-1981 school year the student body numbered 18,099. This declined to 17,216 students in 1982, with 27% of the students receiving welfare and a total of 37% of students qualifying for free or reduced lunches, a sign of poverty. A principal of an elementary school, Mattie McKinney, stated to the Associated Press that, in the agency's words, "The district's poverty is unusually striking this school year", and she directly stated that she had encountered more poverty in her students than she had previously. The district enrollment was projected to further decrease after 1982.
School uniform
All students are required to wear school uniforms. The school board considered adding uniforms in 2009.
Schools
Grades 9-12
Pontiac High School
International Technology Academy High School
Grades 7-8
Pontiac Middle School
Grades 6-8
International Technology Academy
Grades K-6
Alcott Elementary School
Herrington Elementary School
Jefferson/Whittier Elementary School
Owen Elementary School
Rogers Elementary School
Whitman Elementary School
WHRC Elementary School
Preschool
Frost Preschool (P.E.A.C.E Academy)
Other campuses
Kennedy Center
Former schools
Pontiac Central High School
Pontiac Northern High School
By December 2008 administrators were making plans to consolidate Pontiac Northern and Central high schools.
See also
List of school districts in Michigan
References
External links
Pontiac School District – Official site.
Schools in Pontiac, Michigan
Schools in Auburn Hills, Michigan
School districts in Michigan
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An is a type of corporation which existed under Japanese law from 2002 until 2008. It was superseded by the on December 1, 2008.
The intermediary corporation was designed to bridge the gap between companies which work for profits and NGO and other nonprofit organizations which work for public interest. Prior to the enforcement of the law on April 1, 2002, excepting the labor union whose establishing rules were regulated under specific laws, voluntary groups such as a condo association board and hobby club were operated under informal agreements and their assets were registered with one or more of group members. However, this meant that in the absence or negligence of the goodwill by the member registering assets, group's assets could be appropriated without becoming a criminal case. While they could be reclaimed through a civil suit, this does not resolve the problem of the ownership of assets. The intermediary corporation and its associated laws were designed to protect the group's assets while limiting the potential of lawsuits against individual members.
There were two types of intermediary corporations. were designed to resemble yūgen kaisha (limited companies) in formation and function, while were closer to gomei kaisha (general partnership corporations).
See also
Kabushiki kaisha
Godo kaisha
Mochibun kaisha
External links
Ministry of Justice page on intermediary corporations
Japanese business law
Japanese business terms
Types of business entity
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Jahangir Tafazzoli (1914–1990) was an Iranian journalist and government official during the Pahlavi period. He held various official posts and established a newspaper entitled Iran-e Ma (Persian: Our Iran). He committed suicide on 20 December 1990.
Early life and education
Tafazzoli was born in Mashhad in 1914. His father was Gholamreza Mossadegh Al Sultan. After completing his primary education, he graduated from Ferdowsi High School in Mashhad and received a bachelor's degree in literature from the University of Tehran.
Career and activities
Tafazzoli started his career as a teacher at Iranshahr High School in Yazd. He joined the Tudeh Party and was a representative of the Tudeh Party Youth Organization. He launched and edited a newspaper, Iran-e Ma, in Tehran which was first published on 11 June 1943. Through his paper Tafazzoli laid basis of his political career, but also he was arrested and detained during World War II due to his activities in the paper based on the allegations that he and others related to the paper were collaborating with the Nazis.
Tafazzoli was close to Ashraf Pahlavi and Abdolhossein Hazhir and was trusted by the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. During the premiership of Abdolhossein Hazhir he briefly served as the deputy prime minister. From 1954 to 1960 Tafazzoli was the Iranian official responsible for the Iranian university students in Europe. He was also named the representative of Iran at UNESCO which he held until 1960.
He was named the minister without portfolio and the head of press and broadcasting department in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Asadollah Alam in 1962. He was reappointed to the post on 19 February 1963 when Alam formed his second cabinet and remained in office until the end of the cabinet term in March 1964. During this period Tafazzoli was a member of the Majlis in the 18th term representing Birjand for the People's Party led by Asadollah Alam. Tafazzoli was named by Alam as a member of the board of directors of the export bank, Bank Saderat.
Tafazzoli was the ambassador of Iran to Algeria between 1969 and 1970. In 1971 he was appointed ambassador of Iran to Afghanistan which he held until 1974. He wrote the text of the Shah's public speech delivered in Qom on 25 February 1972.
Death, legacy and awards
Tafazzoli committed suicide on 20 December 1990. Yaghoub Tavakoli published the diaries of Jahangir Tafazzoli in 1997. Tafazzoli was the recipient of the Homayoun First Class Medal which was awarded to him in 1963.
References
20th-century Iranian diplomats
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1914 births
1990 suicides
1990 deaths
Ambassadors of Iran to Afghanistan
Ambassadors of Iran to Algeria
People from Mashhad
University of Tehran alumni
Iranian newspaper publishers (people)
Tudeh Party of Iran politicians
People's Party (Iran) politicians
People of Pahlavi Iran
Government ministers of Iran
Permanent Delegates of Iran to UNESCO
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Ángela Aguilar Álvarez Alcalá (born October 8, 2003) is a Mexican and American singer. She was born in Los Angeles while her mother was accompanying her father, Pepe Aguilar, on tour. Aguilar gained notable recognition after performing "La Llorona" at the 19th Annual Latin Grammy Awards in 2019. Her paternal grandparents are the actors and singers from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, Antonio Aguilar and Flor Silvestre.
Her debut solo studio album, Primero Soy Mexicana (2018), was met with critical acclaim and success. She has been nominated for a Grammy Award and two Latin Grammy Awards, becoming one of the youngest artists nominated for both awards.
Early life
Ángela Aguilar Álvarez Alcalá was born to Pepe Aguilar and Aneliz Álvarez Alcalá in Los Angeles, California on October 8, 2003, while her father was on tour. She was named after her great-grandmother Ángela Márquez Barraza Valle her father's paternal grandmother. Aguilar has dual citizenship with Mexico and the United States. Aguilar was born into a musical family, known as "La Dinastía Aguilar" (The Aguilar Dynasty). Aguilar's father is Mexican singer Pepe Aguilar, her paternal grandparents are Mexican singer-actors Antonio Aguilar and Flor Silvestre. Since a young age, Aguilar has frequently accompanied her father on tour throughout Latin America with her brother, Leonardo Aguilar.
In July 2018, Aguilar partnered with Voto Latino to encourage more Latino Americans to vote in American elections.
Career
2012-2017: Career beginnings
In 2012, at just nine years old, Aguilar released Nueva Tradición, alongside her brother, Leonardo. It featured four songs by Leonardo and four by Ángela. In 2016, Aguilar participated in the BBC 100 Woman festival in Mexico City. At just 13 years old, she was the youngest performer, she told BBC News that the music industry was dominated by men and hoped it would change.
In January 2018, Aguilar and her family launched an equestrian-musical style tour dubbed "Jaripeo Sin Fronteras". Aguilar accompanied her father, Pepe, her uncle Antonio, and her brother, Leonardo Aguilar.
2018–present: Primero Soy Mexicana and Mexicana Enamorada
On March 2, 2018, Aguilar released her first solo album, Primero Soy Mexicana, produced by her father, Pepe. The album featured eleven well known ranchera songs previously performed by other prominent music artists such as, Lucha Villa, Rocio Durcal, and her grandmother, Flor Silvestre. Aguilar performed the album's first single, "Tu Sangre en Mi Cuerpo" at the 2018 Premios Tu Mundo. On September 20, 2018, Aguilar was nominated for Best New Artist and her album, Primero Soy Mexicana was nominated for Best Ranchero/Mariachi Album at the 19th Annual Latin Grammy Awards. At the ceremony, she performed "La Llorona", where she received a standing ovation from the audience. Aguilar received widespread praise from various artists, including Mexican ranchera singer Vicente Fernández for her performance. On December 7, 2018, Aguilar's album Primero Soy Mexicana, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Regional Mexican Music Album.
On April 3, 2019, Aguilar was named the Artistic and Cultural Ambassador of Zacatecas, Mexico by Mayor Ulises Mejía Haro. On May 21, 2019, Aguilar was nominated for three awards at the 2019 Premios Juventud. She performed a medley of songs alongside mariachi singers Christian Nodal and Pipe Bueno. On July 23, 2019, Aguilar released an exclusive cover performance of "Shallow" on the Recording Academy's YouTube page, with permission from the songwriter, Lady Gaga. It is the first time that Aguilar has recorded in English.
On January 31, 2020, Aguilar released a tribute album to American singer, Selena, titled Baila Esta Cumbia. On September 24, 2021, she released her third album, Mexicana enamorada. On April 1, 2021, she released "En Realidad", the first single from her third studio album.
Personal life
Aguilar was born into a musical family, known as "La Dinastía Aguilar" (The Aguilar Dynasty). Aguilar's father is Mexican singer Pepe Aguilar, her paternal grandparents are Mexican singer-actors Antonio Aguilar and Flor Silvestre, her brother is Leonardo Aguilar.
Discography
Nueva Tradición (2012)
Primero Soy Mexicana (2018)
Mexicana Enamorada (2021)
EPs
Baila Esta Cumbia (2020)
Que no se apague la música (2020)
Guest Works
Nueva tradición (Family Disc) (2012)
MTV Unplugged (Pepe Aguilar) (2014)
Awards and nominations
Notes
References
2003 births
Living people
American women singer-songwriters
Singers from Los Angeles
21st-century American women singers
21st-century American singers
Mariachi musicians
Ranchera singers
American child musicians
American musicians of Mexican descent
Spanish-language singers of the United States
Hispanic and Latino American women singers
Women in Latin music
Singer-songwriters from California
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Jonathan Holland (born 30 August 1991) is a retired Irish rugby union player. He played as a fly-half for Munster and Cork Constitution.
Cork Constitution
Holland was awarded the 2012–13 Ulster Bank Young Player of the Year Award for Division 1A.
Munster
Holland made his Munster A debut on 19 November 2011, coming on as a substitute against Neath. He made his senior debut for Munster on 23 November 2013, coming on as a substitute against Cardiff Blues. Holland was awarded a development contract with the senior Munster squad for the 2014–15 season in March 2014. Holland was nominated for the John McCarthy Award for Munster Academy Player of the Year on 1 May 2014.
Holland made his first start for Munster on 19 September 2014, against Zebre in the Pro12. He signed a two-year contract with Munster in January 2015, advancing from a development contract to a full contract.
On 25 March 2016, Holland started against Zebre in a 2015–16 Pro12 game, scoring 10 points. On 2 April 2016, Holland started against Leinster, scoring all of Munster's points, including a try, in Munster's 16–13 defeat. On 1 September 2016, it was announced that Holland had been forced to retire from rugby with immediate effect after being advised to do so on medical grounds, having suffered a recurrence of a hamstring injury first sustained in November 2014.
Coaching
Holland joined Cork Constitution's coaching team ahead of their 2017–18 season, working with the backs.
References
External links
Munster Profile
Pro14 Profile
Living people
1991 births
People educated at Coláiste Chríost Rí
Alumni of University College Cork
Rugby union players from County Cork
Irish rugby union players
Cork Constitution players
Munster Rugby players
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Tahrir Square Alexandria ( , ) is a public town square in Alexandria, northern Egypt.
References
Buildings and structures in Alexandria
Squares in Egypt
History of Alexandria
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For mountains or other uses, see: Jabal.
Djebel (1937–1958) was a French Thoroughbred racehorse, who won 15 of 22 races during 1939–1942 including the Prix d'Essai, 2000 Guineas and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. He was later a leading sire in France and is responsible for the survival of the Byerley Turk sire line into the 21st century.
Breeding
Djebel was a bay stallion owned and bred by renowned horseman Marcel Boussac. He was sired by Tourbillon, who had won the French Derby and the Prix Lupin, and went on to become a notable sire. Djebel's dam, Loika, was a minor winner by Gay Crusader and out of Coeur a Coeur. Gay Crusader was the 1917 U.K. Triple Crown winner, and by the influential Bayardo. Coeur a Coeur was by Teddy, whose grandsire was the 1899 English Triple Crown champion Flying Fox. Therefore, Djebel traced back to Bay Ronald twice through his dam (both Bayardo and Teddy's dam-sire were by Bay Ronald).
Loika was originally not a success as a broodmare, producing just one foal, a minor winner, in her first five years. In 1936, she was bred to Tourbillion and Boussac offered her in foal at the Newmarket December Sales. She did not meet her reserve so she returned home to Haras de Fresnay-le-Buffard, where she delivered Djebel in January 1937. Loika went on to produce several other winners including Hierocles, two-time winner of the Prix d'Ispahan.
Racing career
In his 22 starts, Djebel won 15, placed second in three, and finished third in one. His wins included the 1942 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, the 2,000 Guineas Stakes (GB), Prix des Sablons, Prix Boiard (twice), Prix d'Harcourt (twice), Prix d'Hédouville (twice), Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud, Prix d'Essai, Prix Lagrange and Middle Park Stakes. He finished second in the Prix Morny, Grand Prix de St. Cloud, and Prix de Chantilly, and third in the 1941 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.
Djebel was originally trained by Albert Swann at Chantilly. He started five times in 1939 at age two. In his debut at Chantilly, he finished second to the odds-on Lighthouse. He then won the Prix de Chatou at Longchamp by three lengths before finishing second to Lighthouse in the Prix d'Aumale and second to eventual champion filly Furane in the Prix Morny, with Lighthouse back in fourth. At this point, World War II broke out, stopping all racing in France. Djebel was shipped to England in November for the Middle Park Stakes, held later than usual that year on Newmarket's July Course. Djebel won easily by two lengths over the eventual English champion two-year-old Tant Mieux. Djebel was named the Champion two-year-old colt in France.
Djebel's three-year-old campaign of 1940 was interrupted due to the turbulence of the war. In March at Longchamp, he won his first start of the year, then followed up with a win on May 1 in the 2000 Guineas. He would have been the favorite for the Derby in June but was unable to travel due to the escalating war in France. He did not race again until late October when he won the Prix d'Essai, a substitute event that year for both the French 1000 and 2000 Guineas. He finished the year with a disappointing third-place finish in a replacement for the Prix du Jockey-Club, staged that year at Auteuil.
Djebel began 1941 with three wins then finished second to Maurepas in both the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud and the Prix de Chantilly. He was the favorite for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe but finished third behind the then-unbeaten champion three-year-old Le Pacha.
For his five-year-old campaign in 1942, Djebel was trained by former jockey Charles Semblat, who stepped up the horse's training regimen. Djebel responded with a perfect season of seven wins, all at Longchamp. His wins included the Prix des Sablons and Prix Boïard in April, the Prix d'Harcourt in May, the Prix d'Hédouville in June and the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud in July. In the latter, he ended Le Pacha's unbeaten streak. Djebel was given a short rest before returning in September to win the Prix de Chantilly. He then finished his career by winning the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe where he again beat Le Pacha.
Stud record
Djebel was retired to stud in 1943 and initially received limited support due to the war. At first, his international appeal was also limited by the fact that he and his progeny could not be included in the General Stud Book (GSB) under the terms of the Jersey Act. The Jersey Act prohibited horses with American blood from being registered as Thoroughbreds in England, and Djebel's sire Tourbillon had three American ancestors in the third generation of his pedigree. Thus Djebel and his get were originally considered half-bred horses in England. In part due to their success, the Jersey Act was amended in 1949 to allow their inclusion in the GSB.
Djebel sired 36 stakes-winners which won 53 stakes-races. In France, he was the leading sire for four years (1947, 1948, 1949, and 1956), second in 1950, and in the top ten in 1952–54. In the twelve-year period from 1946 and 1958, his sons and daughters won 318 races, all together worth FF342,736,777.
His progeny included:
He had at least 35 sons at stud around the world, including Argentina, Brazil, France, Great Britain and Japan, plus sires, Emperor and Targui in Australia and New Zealand respectively.
Djebel is responsible for the continuation of the Byerley Turk sire line into the 21st century. Through Clairon, his line includes notable winners such as Sagace, Dr Devious, Don't Forget Me, Indian Ridge, Domedriver, Notnowcato and Dunaden. Multiple Group 1 winner Cirrus des Aigles is another descendant through My Babu.
Djebel was also fairly influential in the breeding of sport horses. My Babu's progeny include the eventer JJ Babu. Djebel is also seen in the pedigree of dressage horse Bolero. Also, the grand prix jumper Napur is related to him through his sire Damascus dam Kerala. My Babu was the sire of Kerala, and therefore one of Napur's grandsires.
In July 1958 Djebel died at Haras de Fresnay-le-Buffard at the age of 21.
Pedigree
References
1937 racehorse births
1958 racehorse deaths
Arc winners
Sport horse sires
Racehorses bred in Calvados (department)
Champion Thoroughbred Sires of France
Thoroughbred family 5-j
Byerley Turk sire line
Chefs-de-Race
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King Champion Sounds is an experimental post-punk free jazz band. The band has been compared to Sun Ra The Fall, and Ennio Morricone. The band consists of members of The Ex (G.W. Sok), Ivan The Tolerable and Detective Instinct (Oli Heffernan), and The Bent Moustache (Ajay Saggar).
History
Ajay Saggar's band The Bent Moustache was asked to open for Mike Watt and Saggar agreed with the proviso that he could create a special 30-40 minute piece especially for the show. After writing the music, Saggar contacted G.W. Sok to write lyrics and perform vocals. Next, Saggar invited Oli Heffernan on guitar and Mees Siderius on drums. Ditmer Weertman and Chris Moerland were then invited to contribute horns. The show was successful enough that Saggar decided to give the project a name and continue. King Champion Sounds played their first gig at the Paradiso in Amsterdam on 17 July 2013.
Musically, songs are initially written by Saggar who then forwards them to Sok to author lyrics. From there the songs continue to be built in stages. Their first album was entitled Different Drummer
Their third album, To Awake In That Heaven Of Freedom, featured guest appearances by J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr) and Mike Watt (Minutemen).
Discography
Different Drummer (2013)
Songs For The Golden Hour (2014)
To Awake In That Heaven Of Freedom (2016)
For A Lark (2018)
References
External links
King Champion Sounds on Bandcamp
2013 establishments in the Netherlands
Dutch art rock groups
Dutch punk rock groups
Musical groups established in 2013
Musical groups from Amsterdam
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Penicillium meloforme is an anamorph species of the genus Penicillium.
References
Further reading
meloforme
Fungi described in 1973 | 0.203652 |
Mathias Engebretsen (born 24 January 1993) is a Norwegian footballer who is playing as a defensive midfielder for Kvik Halden FK.
Hailing from Sponvika, he started his career in Berg IL, and went on to sign for larger clubs in the district, along with Simen Standerholden and Ole Strømsborg. Engebretsen started his senior career in Sarpsborg 08 FF. The team alternated between the first and second tier, but Engebretsen appeared in the Norwegian Premier League four times in 2011 and once in 2013.
Engebretsen was also loaned out to Moss FK in 2013. Ahead of the 2014 season he joined Kvik Halden FK.
References
External links
1993 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Halden
Norwegian men's footballers
Sarpsborg 08 FF players
Eliteserien players
Norwegian First Division players
Moss FK players
Men's association football midfielders
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Ortataxel is a drug used in chemotherapy.
, Spectrum Pharmaceuticals has the drug in a Phase 2 clinical trial.
References
Mitotic inhibitors
Benzoate esters
Carbamates
Secondary alcohols
Lactones
Acetate esters
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"The Cat Sat Asleep by the Side of the Fire" is an English nursery rhyme.
Lyrics
One of the most commonly used modern versions of the rhyme is:
The cat sat asleep by the side of the fire,
The mistress snored loud as a pig
Jack took up his fiddle, by Jenny's desire,
And struck up a bit of a jig.
Notes
Year of song unknown
English nursery rhymes
English folk songs
English children's songs
Traditional children's songs
Songs about cats
Songs about music
Songs about sleep
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Clive Syddall is a British filmmaker and television journalist noted for several campaigning documentaries.
Life and career
In 1969 after a year as a graduate trainee with Southern Television, he joined the BBC as a producer and director on 24 Hours, Midweek and later Panorama where he produced films from the front line in Northern Ireland, the Middle East and Southern Africa.
His credits included the BAFTA award winning BBC series River Journeys, the documentary Gang City – the story of the ongoing gang warfare in the Olympic City of Los Angeles for the BBC2, Lost in Africa - the fight to save 100,000 children separated from their parents by the civil war in Rwanda for Channel 4; and The Last Flight of Zulu Delta 576 (Channel 4). Investigation into the Chinook helicopter crash over the Mull of Kintyre killing 29 of Britain’s top secret service personnel originally blamed on the two pilots for gross negligence and their parent’s fight to clear their names.(1997)
He was Council member of the Royal Television Society, Trustee of Marie Curie 1991-1994 and Director of Kirtlington Park Ltd (2012–17).
In 2000 he formed a joint venture with Emmy-award winning director Bill Cran and formed PITV which produced a number of award winning programmes for international distribution.
Filmography
His credits as Executive Producer/Producer/or Director include:
Jihad – The Men and Ideas behind Al-Qaeda. Emmy Nomination – Outstanding Historical Programme. (2008)
Sinatra – Dark Star 1 x90’ (BBC1). Sinatra’s connections to the Mafia leaders. Grierson nomination for Best Arts Documentary. (2008)
1421 – The Year China Discovered America 120’. (1990)
An Islamic Conscience – The Aga Khan and the Ismailis – 60’ film for cinema, television and DVD to coincide with the Aga Khan’s Golden Jubilee. (2008)
A Bitter Harvest - The killing fields of Mindanao. For Twenty Twenty Television and Channel 4. (1987)
Pasternak - a major part of the celebrations marking the centenary of Pasternak’s birth and the first co-production between the British film industry and the Soviet state film company Video-film”. (1990)
Harem TV mini series. (2003)
Extreme Oil 3. Cine Golden Eagle Award. (2004)
Plague Wars documentary mini series. (1998)
A Death in Venice – BBC2 The Works. (1997)
An Ordinary Boy – New York International Film & TV Festival award. (1993)
The Shearing Touch – International New York Film & TV Festival award. (1991)
1867 – The Execution of Maximilian - Gold Medal Award, New York International Film & TV Festival. (1991)
References
British documentary film directors
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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Diploma za smrt (English: The Death Degree) is a 1989 Croatian crime drama film and three part miniseries directed by Živorad Tomić, starring Ranko Zidarić and Filip Šovagović.
Diploma za smrt is preserved by the Croatian State Archives.
Plot
Part One
In 1980's Zagreb, Bero (Ranko Zidarić) and Nik, the lawyer, (Filip Šovagović) are two best friends. Upon graduating from Zagreb Faculty of Economics, Bero struggles to find a decent job, so he does manual labour on a local market. His girlfriend Vlasta reveals him that she is pregnant but considers having an abortion because they still lack money to make a good living. Bero strongly opposes this idea, so he pushes himself to the limits by working hard on the market which eventually makes him ill. Bero's friend Nik uses his connections to find his friend a job as a deputy accountant manager in local wholesale company. In the meantime, Vlasta informs Bero that she had an abortion anyway, for which he leaves her. Once he started working on a new job, Bero found out that company's warehouse manager Grga is involved in a smuggling business, so he makes a plan with his buddy Nik to blackmail Grga into handing them over the management of his illegal operations. Once confronted with evidence against him, Grga reluctantly agrees to their demands. Once he took over Grga's business, Bero met Renata, their customer and owner of the Kruna boutique, with whom he soon develops a romantic relationship. During one night in a bar, Renata introduces Bero with: Borut, Zlatko, Stipe and Pavel who all appear very suspicious to Bero. When Bero asks Renata further questions about these people, she explains that they are actually an illegal business cartel, out of which Zlatko operates his pizza place, Stipe restaurant, Pavel motel on Zagreb-Karlovac Road while she operates her boutique. The real owner of these business is Jakov Guberina-Guba (Ivo Gregurević), who resides in Munich and regularly takes fifty percent of their profit. Bero talks Renata into allowing him to co-run the boutique with her, but parallelly starts plotting with Nik on how to take over their businesses. Renata introduces Bero to an alcoholic car shop owner Franc, who asks Renata for a loan in order to repay his debts. Renata laughs him off, but Bero encourages Franc by giving him his business card. Bero decides to marry Renata after which she lets him in charge of the boutique completely. In spite of Renata's opinion, Bero gives the loan to the Franc but also ties him with a mortgage agreement. After finding out of Bero's deal with Franc, she gets angry at Bero and tells him that this will bring him in confrontation with Guba. Renata's behaviour annoys Bero, so he angrily leaves their house. In the last scene we find out that Bero went to sleep over at Nik's place. After phone call from Renata, Nik's wife concludes that "Bero's marriage won't last for long".
Part Two
Bero runs the businesses successfully, so he buys his sister Mirjana a new apartment. His relationship with Renata further deteriorates after she accuses him of buying this apartment which her money which ends up in a quarrel. Renata soon gets a phone call from Nik, who tells her that Bero authorized him to file a divorce from her. When asking Nik about her boutique and money, he responds that all of this is no longer hers. Renata bursts into tears calling Nik a "lawyer scum". Afterwards, Nik remarks to Bero sitting across him that "he is really a pig", to which Bero cold bloodedly replies: "I know". In the meantime, Guba appears in Zagreb. He summons emotionally wounded Renata to his residence and starts asking questions about Bero. He then forbids her from leaving Zagreb. Guba then pays a visit to Bero in his boutique, telling him that he doesn't really care who is in charge of that place as long as he gets his provisions regularly, but Bero ignores him. Foreseeing the future confrontation, Bero and Nik hire their old buddy Božo as a bodyguard and tell him to get another guy. Soon Guba sends his henchmen Rus (The Russian) and Bager (The Excavator) to intimidate and beat up Bero, but as they appear before Bero, he calls his own bodyguards Božo and Bruno in aid. In the ensuing brawl Bero's bodyguards beat off the attackers. In the aftermath of the fight, Bero tells Bager and Rus to: "send his regards to Mr. Guberina". Bero and Nik then pay a visit to Franc to get their payment, but since he didn't have the money, they tell him to meet them next day in the public administration office in order to sign over his property to them. The gambling debts tied Borut also visits Guba, asking for more money but Guba rejects him, and gives him the twenty days deadline for repaying the debts. Drunk and depressed Franc gets visit from Guba's bodyguards but after he slaps Rus, the henchmen kill him by throwing a piece of car axle on his head. Borut tries his luck again by asking Bero for the loan to which Bero agrees. On a cartel meeting, Guba tells other members that Pavel is the only one who is running his business well and that if anyone else loses its money, this person will also lose his head. In the meantime, Borut also lost his property to Bero and talks Renata into fleeing the country with him. Renata double-crosses Borut, by informing Guba about his plans so he gets intercepted by Guba's henchmen. He tried to escape them, but they caught him up and Rus broke Borut's neck. Guba then invites Bero on a business lunch and tries to persuade him into becoming his business partner. Bero rejects him. Guba's henchmen respond by starting to trash Bero's businesses. One of Bero's bodyguards Božo suggests ambushing Rus and Bager in Bero's apartment in which they succeed. They subsequently persuade Rus and Bager to stab Guba to death. Guba's former henchmen then take his body to a construction site, where they bury it under a pile of liquid concrete.
Part Three
After Guba's death, Bero, Nik, Božo and Guba's old henchmen force Guba's cousin Zlatko to sign over his pizza place to Rus and Bager and then force him to leave to Umag. Boban calls Stipe, Pavel, and remaining members of the cartel on a meeting where he intensifies their payments to each month instead of every three months as they paid to Guba. Initially they revolt but then Nik intimidates them by demonstrating that he knows all about their criminal records. They then offer Stipe, the manager of a Riva restaurant to buy over his property, since Bero wanted to turn it into a Brazilian restaurant. Stipe rejects them with disdain, but soon after gets increasingly concerned that he might be eliminated next. Nik and Božo start plotting with Stipe's wife, whom he regularly beats, by offering her that they will kill Stipe and they also won't reveal that she is having an affair with a taxi driver, but they demand that she sells them the restaurant subsequently. After the wife agrees, Stipe gets run over by a car during the night. After Stipe's death, one of the remaining cartel member Pavel gets ever more defiant. In the meantime, Bero reconciles with his old girlfriend Vlasta and gives her Renata's old boutique. On the next meeting, Bero invites the remaining members at an opening ceremony to Stipe's old place which he now turned into a Brazilian restaurant, named Rio. Right before attending the ceremony at Rio, Nik receives a phone call from Pavel in which he informs him that he had his daughter kidnapped and that he wants to meet him in exchange for releasing the kid. Nik sees Pavel at his residence where Pavel tells him that he and his friend "have gone too far" but since Nik seems more reasonable, he wants him to kill Bero at the opening ceremony or else his daughter will float in Sava river. At first Nik goes on a rampage looking for his daughter and ends up beating Renata, because he thought that she knows where his daughter is. He also asks her: "You want me to kill Bero, don't you?" to which she responds in cries negatively. At the restaurant opening Bero gets concerned because Nik is not arriving. In the meantime, Nik successfully bribes Tuš, yet another cartel member who agrees to help him, but once they came to the apparent safe house, it turns out that Pavel already moved the kid to a different location while Nik only managed to get his daughter's school bag. Renata appears on the Rio opening and tells Bero that Pavel kidnapped Nik's daughter, after which Bero summons Pavel to the meeting room where he tries to beat him to release the kid. Pavel takes all the beating and right before Bero takes out his pistol to kill him, a desperate Nik enters the room and shots his friend to death. Pavel then calmly goes to the phone and instructs his men to release the kid. He then turns to Nik and tells him: "I might be scum but I keep my word". After Pavel leaves the room, Nik remains bluntly watching at his friend's dead body.
Cast
Ranko Zidarić as Bero Boban
Filip Šovagović as Nik
Ksenija Pajić as Renata
Ivo Gregurević as Guba
Fabijan Šovagović as Pavel
Dejan Aćimović as Božo
Krunoslav Šarić as Borut
Mladen Crnobrnja as Franc
Zdenko Jelčić as Stipe
Ljubo Zečević as Grga
Sources
Further reading
External links
1989 films
1980s Croatian-language films
Films set in Zagreb
1989 crime drama films
Croatian crime drama films
Yugoslav crime drama films
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The Severity of Alcohol Dependence Questionnaire (SADQ or SAD-Q) is a 20 item clinical screening tool designed to measure the presence and level of alcohol dependence.
It is divided into five sections:
Physical withdrawal symptoms
Affective withdrawal symptoms
Craving and relief drinking
Typical daily consumption
Reinstatement of dependence after a period of abstinence.
Each item is scored on a 4-point scale, giving a possible range of 0 to 60. A score of over 30 indicates severe alcohol dependence.
Some local clinical guidelines use the SADQ to predict the levels of medication needed during alcohol detoxification.
See also
Alcoholism
Substance abuse
AUDIT Questionnaire
CAGE Questionnaire
CRAFFT Screening Test
Paddington Alcohol Test
List of diagnostic classification and rating scales used in psychiatry
References
External links
Online Severity of Alcohol Dependence Questionnaire
Alcohol abuse screening and assessment tools | 0.908615 |
Or So the Story Goes is a web series created by Melissa Malone. As a horror anthology, each season brings to life a classic children's tale with a dark, modern twist; including Little Red Riding Hood, Peter Pan, Hansel and Gretel, Rumplestiltskin, and Jack and the Beanstalk.
Origin
Or So the Story Goes began as a teen outreach project to teach teen filmmaking. The groups' summer project would become the first season of the series, Little Rosemary. After minor success of the short, 3 part first season- a crew was put together and production of the official web series began- still using teens in the cast and crew.
Seasons
Little Rosemary
Based on Little Red Riding Hood. 12 Year-Old Hazel investigates the disappearance of her old friend, Rosemary. When Rosemary returns to town she is changed and seems to be leading many of the town's residents in a strange new cult.
This season stars Rainni Moran, Lilla Cabrera, Penelope Hinds, Blake Weissman and Melissa Malone.
Happy Thoughts
Based on Peter Pan. The Darling family moves to a new home in a new town hoping for a fresh start. They soon discover it is already by the ghost of a psychotic teenage boy and his previous victims- and he has a new obsession with their teenage daughter, Wendy.
This season is a paranormal horror and stars Noah Dunton, Melissa Malone, Rayna Loos, Hank Morris, Joe Lenihan, Diann Gogerty, Abigail Friend and Bryan Civitarese.
Sweet Truth
Based on Hansel & Gretel. Teen Vlogger Gretel and her best friend Hansel have only one goal- get as many views on their web show as possible. However, instead of a local party, they find themselves lost and at the mercy of a strange woman that lives in the woods.
This season is a found footage horror and stars Julia Bushman, Josh Elliott Pickel, Heather Girardi, Rainni Moran and Abigail Friend.
Golden Rule
Based on Rumplestiltskin. The residents of a small town find themselves on edge and fighting for their lives when a masked serial killer goes on a spree.
This season is a teen slasher and stars Rainni Moran, Melissa Malone, Hank Morris, Bryan Civitarese, Colmcille Donston, Diann Gogerty, Rayna Loos, Joe Lenihan, Penelope Hinds, Chris Christiana and Andreas Wyder.
Knock Knock
Based on Jack and the Beanstalk. After the death of his father, Jack Jacobs goes to extremes to help his family find the money to keep their home- but it comes with a terrible price.
This season is a home invasion horror and stars Joe Lenihan, Penelope Hinds, Melissa Malone, Diann Gogerty, Hank Morris, Rainni Moran, Tessa Zugmeyer, Bryan Civitarese and Daron Seaford.
The Jolly Rogers Case Files
A short comedic spin off from the Happy Thoughts season. The series follows Jane Hook and the Jolly Rogers in their misadventures in ghost hunting. The spin off has two seasons and stars Melissa Malone, Diann Gogerty, Bryan Civitarese and Chris Christiana.
Broadcast
The series premiered in September 2013 on YouTube and on the series official site. The latest season, Golden Rule is available for streaming on SeekaTV via the website, Roku and Apple TV.
Awards
Wins
Best Horror Series Vancouver Web Series Festival ("Sweet Truth")
Best Original Song Indie Series Awards 2016 ("Happily Ever After" by Judith Avers)
Best Horror Series Minnesota Web Fest 2017 ("Golden Rule")
Best Teen Series Baltimore Web Fest 2017 ("Golden Rule")
Best Soundtrack Indie Series Awards 2018 ("Golden Rule")
Notable Nominations
Best Horror Series Vancouver Web Series Festival 2017 ("Happy Thoughts")
Best Soundtrack Indie Series Awards 2016 ("Happy Thoughts")
Best Newcomer Actress International Online Web Fest 2016 (Abigail Friend, "Happy Thoughts")
Best New Media Performance Teen Actor Young Artist Award 2017 (Josh Elliott Pickel, "Sweet Truth")
Best Original Song Indie Series Awards 2017 ("Loaded" by Judith Avers)
Best Soundtrack Indie Series Awards 2017 ("Sweet Truth")
Best Actress New Zealand Web Fest 2017 (Rainni Moran, "Golden Rule")
Best Web Series International Online Web Fest 2017 ("Golden Rule")
Best Screenplay International Online Web Fest 2017 ("Golden Rule")
Best Horror Series Vancouver Web Series Festival 2018
Best Original Song Indie Series Awards 2018 ("45" by Judith Avers)
Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Indie Series Awards 2018 (Andrea Wyder, "Golden Rule")
Best Series die Seriale 2018 ("Golden Rule")
Best Original Song die Seriale 2018 ("3,2,1" by Judith Avers)
Best Screenplay die Seriale 2018 ("Golden Rule")
Best New Media Performance Young Artist Awards 2018 (Rainni Moran, "Golden Rule")
References
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András Kálmán Viktor Domahidy (23 February 1920 – 8 August 2012) was a contemporary Hungarian-Australian, novelist and librarian. His novels were written in Hungarian.
Born in Satu Mare, in northwestern Romania, András Domahidy completed a PhD in Law at Budapest University and served in the Royal Hungarian Army towards the close of World War II. In 1950 he emigrated to Australia, settling in Perth and obtaining a BA at the University of Western Australia. Until his retirement in 1985 he was a senior librarian at the university.
Domahidy started writing in the 1950s and his novels Vénasszonyok nyara (Indian Summer, 1969) and Árnyak és asszonyok (Shadows and Women, 1979) were published in Europe. Shadows and Women has since been published in English translation in Australia.
Bibliography
Novels
Vénasszonyok nyara [Indian Summer] (Rome, 1969; Budapest, 1987)
Árnyak és asszonyok (Bern, 1979; Budapest, 1985) [Shadows and Women Translated by Elizabeth Windsor (Perth: Aeolian, 1989) ]
External links
Aeolian Press
References
1920 births
20th-century Australian novelists
20th-century Australian male writers
Australian male novelists
Hungarian male novelists
2012 deaths
People from Satu Mare
People from Perth, Western Australia
University of Western Australia alumni
20th-century Hungarian novelists
20th-century Hungarian male writers
Romanian emigrants to Hungary
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The 2001 James Madison Dukes football team was an American football team that represented James Madison University during the 2001 NCAA Division I-AA football season as a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference. In their third year under head coach Mickey Matthews, the team compiled a 2–9 record.
Schedule
Notes
References
James Madison
James Madison Dukes football seasons
James Madison Dukes football | 0.319832 |
Kroeber or Kröber may refer to:
Alfred L. Kroeber (1876–1960), U.S. anthropologist
Karl Kroeber (1926-2009), U.S. professor of literature
Martin Kröber (born 1992), German politician for the SPD
Otto Kröber (1882–1969), German entomologist specialising in Diptera
Theodora Kroeber (1897–1979), U.S. writer and anthropologist
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (1929–2017), U.S. author, daughter of Alfred L. Kroeber | 0.929915 |
is a Japanese film director.
Career
Born in Nagano Prefecture, Yamaguchi graduated from Waseda University and began working at the Tōei studios in Kyoto. He directed a number of action movie series in the 1970s and has also helmed many TV movies.
Filmography
Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams (1970)
Wandering Ginza Butterfly (1972)
Gincho Nagaremono: Mesuneko Bakuchi (1972)
Sister Street Fighter (1974)
Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread (1974)
A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse (1975)
The Return of the Sister Street Fighter (1975)
Champion of Death (1975)
Karate Bearfighter (1975)
(1975)
G-Men '75 (1975-82) television series
Circuit no Ōkami (1977)
Karate for Life (1977)
School Wars: Hero (1984) television series
References
Living people
Japanese film directors
Waseda University alumni
People from Nagano Prefecture
1937 births
People from Kyoto | 0.81996 |
Miliband of Brothers is a 2010 satirical docu-drama following the lives and careers of British politicians David Miliband and younger brother Ed, who at the time were both contesting the 2010 Labour leadership contest. Written by David Quantick, the programme was first shown on More4. It was produced by the same production team as the similar 2009 documentary When Boris Met Dave.
The documentary charted the Miliband brothers' paths into politics interspersed with interviews from Tony Benn, Neil Kinnock and Oona King amongst friends and teachers, looking into how they both ended up with jobs in the cabinets of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. To add to the familial similarity, David Miliband was played by Henry Lloyd-Hughes and Ed by his brother Ben Lloyd-Hughes. The title, a pun on the phrase "Band of Brothers" was inspired by a comment by Caitlin Moran's "Celebrity Watch" column.
Sam Wollaston, reviewing the production in The Guardian wrote: "There are a few funny moments (I quite liked the Top Trumps – Leon Trotsky, revolutionary status: 82 points). Mostly it's just very hammy and very silly, as the Tory one was."
Cast
References
External links
Miliband of Brothers at Channel4.com
British television documentaries
Channel 4 original programming
2010 television films
2010 films
2010 in British politics
British satirical television shows
Political satirical television series
Ed Miliband
British political comedy television series
Works about British politicians
Cultural depictions of British men
Cultural depictions of politicians
2010s English-language films
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The River Edge Elementary School District is a community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through sixth grade from River Edge, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
As of the 2021–22 school year, the district, comprised of two schools, had an enrollment of 1,164 students and 96.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.1:1.
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "I", the second-highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.
River Edge and neighboring Oradell share a combined public school district for seventh through twelfth grades, River Dell Regional School District which was established in 1958. As of the 2021–22 school year, the high school district, comprised of two schools, had an enrollment of 1,606 students and 140.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.5:1. Schools in the district (with 2021–22 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are
River Dell Regional Middle School in River Edge (with 589 students in grades 7-8) and
River Dell Regional High School in Oradell (with 999 students in grades 9-12).
Awards and recognition
During the 1998-99 school year, Cherry Hill School received the Blue Ribbon Award from the United States Department of Education, the highest honor that an American school can achieve.
Schools
River Edge has a preschool along with two primary schools, both of which serve students in first through sixth grade. Schools in the district (with 2021–22 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are:
New Bridge Center (NA; PreK-K)
Eric James, assistant principal
Cherry Hill School (698 students in grades 1-6) which is on the south side of the borough.
Denise Heitman, principal
Roosevelt School (472 students in grades 1-6) which is located on the north side of the borough.
Michael Henzel, principal
Curriculum review is an ongoing process in River Edge. Current educational research, the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, as well as national subject standards are used in the curriculum development. This process ensures that each curricular area is comprehensive and reflects current educational thought.
The district's per pupil comparable costs are below average while teachers salaries are above the statewide median cost.
Administration
Core members of the district's administration are:
Cathy Danahy, superintendent of schools
Louise Napolitano, school business administrator and board secretary
Board of education
The district's board of education, comprised of seven members, sets policy and oversees the fiscal and educational operation of the district through its administration. As a Type II school district, the board's trustees are elected directly by voters to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with either two or three seats up for election each year held (since 2012) as part of the November general election. The board appoints a superintendent to oversee the day-to-day operation of the district.
References
External links
River Edge Elementary School District
School Data for the River Edge Elementary School District, National Center for Education Statistics
River Dell Regional School District
River Edge, New Jersey
New Jersey District Factor Group I
School districts in Bergen County, New Jersey | 0.994108 |
Clean Break may refer to:
Film and TV
Clean Break (film), a 2008 American film
Clean Break (TV series), a 2015 Irish crime TV mini-series
"Clean Break" (New Girl), a 2015 episode of the American TV series New Girl
"My Clean Break", a 2004 episode of the American sitcom Scrubs
Music
"A Clean Break (Let's Work)", a song by The Talking Heads from the 1982 album The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads
"Clean Break", a song by The Verve Pipe from the 1995 album I've Suffered a Head Injury
"Clean Break", a song by Axium from the 2003 album Blindsided
Other uses
A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, a 1996 policy recommendation report presented to Benyamin Netanyahu, the then-Prime Minister of Israel
Ancillary relief, the "clean break" settlement of a divorce by awarding a single capital sum, as opposed to requiring periodic payments
Clean Break, a blog published by Toronto Star reporter/business columnist Tyler Hamilton
Clean Break (novel), a 2005 fiction book by British children's author Jacqueline Wilson
Clean Break (theatre company), a British feminist theatre company founded in 1979
Clean-break Brexit, the potential withdrawal of the UK from the European Union (EU) without a withdrawal agreement
Clean Break speech, speech by Mahatma Gandhi about British colonialism in India, see Speeches about Indian independence | 0.879424 |
Kim Wan (born 27 March 1961) is a former table tennis player from South Korea. From 1984 to 1988, he won several medals in double events in the Asian Table Tennis Championships. He also won a silver and a bronze medal in the Table Tennis World Cup in 1984 and 1986, respectively. He competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
References
1961 births
Living people
South Korean male table tennis players
Asian Games medalists in table tennis
Table tennis players at the 1982 Asian Games
Table tennis players at the 1986 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1982 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1986 Asian Games
Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea
Asian Games silver medalists for South Korea
Asian Games bronze medalists for South Korea
Olympic table tennis players for South Korea
Table tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics | 0.330147 |
Louis Nzala Kianza (6 February 1946 – 26 November 2020) was a Democratic Republic of the Congo, Roman Catholic bishop.
Nzala Kianza was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and was ordained to the priesthood in 1972. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Popokabaka, Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1996 until his retirement in 2020. He also served as the apostolic administrator of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Idiofa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, from 2006 to 2009.
Notes
1946 births
2020 deaths
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Roman Catholic bishops of Popokabaka
21st-century Democratic Republic of the Congo people | 0.786648 |
Lieutenant Franciszek Ząbecki (; 8 October 1907 – 11 April 1987) was a station master at the village of Treblinka. During the German occupation of Poland in World War II, Ząbecki worked as a dispatcher for the Deutsche Reichsbahn; he also became a secret soldier in the underground Armia Krajowa (AK), collecting classified data and reporting to the Polish resistance on the Holocaust transports that went to Treblinka extermination camp. Over 800,000 Jews were murdered there in the course of Operation Reinhard, the deadliest phase of the Holocaust in Poland. Ząbecki himself estimated that number to be 1,200,000 people.
After the war, Ząbecki testified at the trials of German war criminals, including SS officer Kurt Franz, and the commandant of Treblinka extermination camp, Franz Stangl. His incriminating evidence against them included original German waybills produced by the Reichsbahn, which proved that the "Güterwagen" boxcars crammed with prisoners on the way to Treblinka were returning empty. Ząbecki secretly stole a batch of waybills in 1944 from the control house to serve as physical proof of the massacre. From July 1942 until the end of war, Ząbecki regularly delivered his reports about the Holocaust trains to the Polish government-in-exile.
Life
Franciszek Ząbecki was born in Łyszkowice to Rozalia and Franciszek Ząbecki, as one of their four children. After graduation, he worked for the railway between 29 September 1925 and 15 October 1929 in Bednary near Łowicz, first as an apprentice and then as the radiotelegraph operator. Ząbecki was drafted to serve at Zegrze Fortress from 15 October 1929 until 1 September 1931. Soon later, he relocated to Sokołów Podlaski, where his older brother Grzegorz worked at a sugar refinery. Franciszek found employment as a tax collector and got to know the locals.
On 4 September 1939, during the German invasion of Poland he reported to the Communication Battalion of the Polish Army in Zegrze as the reserve (plutonowy). Two weeks later, on the first day of the parallel Soviet invasion of Poland from the east, he was arrested in the village of Kołodno near Zbaraż and shipped to a Soviet POW camp. After two months, on 13 November 1939 Ząbecki was transferred to German jurisdiction in accordance with the Nazi-Soviet pact. He was sent to Parchim in Germany where he worked as a slave laborer on a farm in Klinken. He was released on 29 March 1941 for medical reasons and returned to Sokołów. Being a railwayman from before the invasion, he was put to work at the nearby Treblinka station on . There he secretly joined the resistance under the nom-de-guerre "Dawny" (the old-timer in Polish) and was asked by the Armia Krajowa (AK) to keep a watch on the German rail transports passing through the station. This intelligence became crucial following the German attack on Russian positions in occupied eastern Poland. Soon afterwards, Ząbecki was given the task of spying on the secretive Treblinka extermination camp for the AK. He kept cryptic notes with daily records of the extermination transports and also took the clandestine photograph of the burning Treblinka-II perimeter during the prisoner uprising.
Ząbecki was present at Treblinka for the first Holocaust train arrival from the German-occupied capital of Poland during the Grossaktion Warsaw, commencing the final destruction of at least 254,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto. He was one of only a few non-German witnesses of all Jewish transports thereafter, until the liquidation of the Treblinka death camp, with the last Jewish forced laborers sent to be murdered at the Sobibor extermination camp in five covered wagons on 20 October 1943.
Memoir published in 1977
As a former member of the Polish resistance movement in World War II, Ząbecki published a groundbreaking book in 1977 about his wartime experiences, containing original documents, his own Treblinka findings, as well as his postwar testimonies delivered at the Treblinka war-crime trials in Düsseldorf in 1965, 1966, 1968 and 1970, which he attended at the request of the German prosecutors.
In his book of facts about the camp history titled Wspomnienia dawne i nowe (Old and New Memories), Ząbecki estimated that no fewer than 1,200,000 people were murdered at Treblinka. Even though these estimates have been revised by others in the following decades, his book is still one of the leading sources of information for professional historians about the mass deportations to Treblinka from the Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland, their frequency, and volume.
Documentary film
Ząbecki was the subject of a documentary film made by WWFD Czołówka from Warsaw, the People's Army film division. It was popularized in schools and community centres around Poland during the German trial of Holocaust perpetrator Franz Stangl. Notably, when Ząbecki went to Düsseldorf to testify against him, he was offered a good life in the West by the defense attorneys in case he chose to defect. He declined the offer, and instead fully incriminated Stangl. He knew him personally from his visits at the extermination camp layover yard.
During the war, Ząbecki secretly watched the railway line from Siedlce to Małkinia Górna junction, which was shown in the film together with his clandestine work for the underground, and his daily recording of data. It was thanks to Ząbecki, that the scale of mass murder became known long before more advanced historical research was conducted in the following decades.
References
Treblinka extermination camp
Treblinka trials
1942 in Poland
Home Army members
Polish military personnel of World War II
Polish World War II forced labourers | 0.958467 |
Bananaz is a 2008 British documentary film by Ceri Levy about Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's virtual alternative band Gorillaz.
Information
During the years from 2000 to 2006, the director Ceri Levy filmed the creators of the Gorillaz behind the scenes, from the very first drawings and animations, to the music and the musicians, as well as the faces behind the voices of the characters and other content such as interviews with various Gorillaz collaborators and backstage footage of live concert performances. This documentary features 92 minutes of behind the scenes footage of the creators making the visuals and recording the music for the Gorillaz albums Gorillaz and Demon Days that was recording over the course of six years.
Release
Bananaz premiered on 7 February 2008 at the Berlin Film Festival and to the rest of the world on 9 February 2008. The documentary was shown in the festival until 15 February.
The documentary had its first North American premiere at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas showing at 12 and 15 March 2008 at Texas' Paramount Theater.
The Indie Lisboa Film Festival held in Lisbon, Portugal twice screened the film on 24 April and 2 May 2008.
The documentary was shown at the Edinburgh Film Festival that takes places in Edinburgh, United Kingdom in late June 2008.
Home media
On 20 April 2009, it was released on PAL/Region 0 DVD format.
References
External links
Blogspot (Review from Movie Digs)
Filmschoolrejects.com (Review from Filmschoolrejects.com)
Tunaflix.com (Review from tunaflix)
Reuters.com (Review from Reuters)
Bananaz at the Internet Movie Database
2008 animated films
Gorillaz
Documentary films about rock music and musicians
2008 films
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MS Stena Nautica is a ro-pax ferry currently in operation between Halmstad and Grenå for Stena Line. She was completed in 1986 as MS Niels Klim and served on the DSB Århus – Kalundborg along with her sister MS Peder Paars until 1991.
Concept and construction
In September 1983 DSB ordered two relatively large ferries for service on the intra-Denmark Århus–Kalundborg route from in Nakskov, Denmark. Although ordered by the ferry division of the Danish State Railways, the ships did not have the facilities for transporting trains, but were constructed to transport road freight and passengers. Both ships were named after characters from the works of Ludvig Holberg, a Norwegian-born writer considered to be the father of modern Danish literature. First of the ships, delivered in 1985, was named MS Peder Paars after the poem Peder Paars. The second, delivered a year later, was named MS Niels Klim after the protagonist in Niels Klim's Underground Travels.
Early career
That year both ships were taken over by Stena Line. The Peder Paars was renamed MS Stena Invicta and served on the Dover – Calais route for most of the 90s. The Niels Klim was renamed MS Stena Nautica but spent most of 1991 laid up in Århus. In 1992, she was chartered to B&I Line for use on their Irish Sea services and was renamed MS Isle Of Innisfree; Initially she served Pembroke Dock – Rosslare and later Holyhead – Dublin. However, her slow service speed of 17 knots frequently resulted in delays.
Current operations
In 1995, she returned to Stena Line and operated on their Lion Ferry subsidiary between Varberg / Halmstad and Grenå. She has since remained on that route, despite occasional charters, the closure of the Halmstad leg and the incorporation of Lion Ferry into Stena Line.
In 2002, she was rebuilt in order to transport more freight. Her lower passenger deck was converted into another vehicle deck, and her passenger certification was subsequently reduced from 2000 to 653, while her freight capacity increased from 604 lane meters to 1235.
Collision
On 16 February 2004, MS Stena Nautica had a mid channel collision with the freight ship, MS Joanna, in heavy fog. The Nautica was holed just above the engine room and took on a significant amount of water. Fortunately, sea conditions were calm, which meant the event could have been much worse. All passengers were evacuated to MS Stena Germanica. The Nautica was eventually towed to Varberg, and later to Gothenburg and Gdańsk for repairs. She reentered service four months later.
Fire
On 24 January 2013 the Swedish Baltic Sea ferry has broken out in the early morning as the fire rescue headquarters in Gothenburg. On board was at the time of the fire, 77 passengers and 40 crew members. The truck erupted in a fire on the car deck and it was fast under control. The fire was not able to spread. The ferry was in the Kattegat on the way from Danish Grenå to Varberg in Sweden.
References
Ferries of Denmark
Ferries of Sweden
Nautica
Ships of the British and Irish Steam Packet Company
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The Jožef Stefan Institute (IJS, JSI) () is the largest research institute in Slovenia. The main research areas are physics, chemistry, molecular biology, biotechnology, information technologies, reactor physics, energy and environment. At the beginning of 2013 the institute had 962 employees, of whom 404 were PhD scientists.
The mission of the Jožef Stefan Institute is the accumulation and dissemination of knowledge at the frontiers of natural science and technology for the benefit of society at large through the pursuit of education, learning, research, and development of high technology at the highest international levels of excellence.
History
The institute was founded by the State Security Administration (Yugoslavia) in 1949 for atomic weapons research. Initially, the Vinča Nuclear Institute in Belgrade was established in 1948, followed by the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb in 1950 and the Jožef Stefan Institute as an Institute for Physics in the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. It is named after the distinguished 19th century physicist Josef Stefan (), best known for his work on the Stefan–Boltzmann law of black-body radiation.
IJS is involved in a wide variety of fields of scientific and economic interest. After close to 60 years of scientific achievement, the institute has become part of the image of Slovenia.
Over the last 60 years it has created a number of important institutions, such as the University of Nova Gorica, the Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School and the Ljubljana Technology park.
Departments
Physics
F1 Theoretical Physics
F2 Low and Medium Energy Physics
F3 Thin Films and Surfaces
F4 Surface Engineering and Optoelectronics
F5 Condensed Matter Physics
F7 Complex Matter
F8 Reactor Physics
Chemistry and Biochemistry
B1 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
B2 Molecular and Biomedical Sciences
B3 Biotechnology
K1 Inorganic Chemistry and Technology
K3 Physical and Organic Chemistry
K5 Electronic Ceramics
K6 Engineering Ceramics
K7 Nanostructured Materials
K8 Synthesis of Materials K8
K9 Advanced Materials
O2 Environmental Sciences
Electronics and Information Technologies
E1 Automation, Biocybernetics and Robotics
E2 Systems and Control
E3 Artificial Intelligence
E5 Open Computer Systems and Networks
E6 Communication Systems
E7 Computer Systems
E8 Knowledge Technologies
E9 Intelligent Systems
Reactor Engineering and Energetics
R4 Reactor Engineering
Centers
Centre for Knowledge Transfer in Information Technologies
Networking Infrastructure Centre
Reactor Infrastructure Centre
Scientific Information Centre Library
Center for Technology Transfer and Innovation
Campuses
The institute has facilities in two locations. The main facilities and the headquarters are on Jamova 39 in Ljubljana, the other location is the institute's Podgorica Reactor Center located in Brinje, Dol pri Ljubljani near Ljubljana.
Research reactor
The institute's Podgorica Reactor Center is home to a pool type research reactor. The General Atomics TRIGA Mark II reactor is rated for a nominal 250 kW thermal. The reactor was first licensed in 1966 and is expected to continue operation at least into the 2030s.
The Central Radioactive Waste Storage of Slovenia is co-located at the institute's reactor facility. This facility is used for storage of the low and intermediate level solid radioactive waste from the Podgorica Reactor Center and other, non-institute small waste producers such as medical, research, and industrial applications of ionising radiation.
Selection of online services from the institute
VideoLectures.Net Collection of videos of scientific events
AnswerArt Question Answering system
SearchPoint Contextual Web Search
References
External links
Research institutes in Slovenia
Biochemistry research institutes
Organizations established in 1949
Physics institutes
Biological research institutes
Energy research institutes
Environmental research institutes
Computer science institutes
Nuclear research institutes
Vič District
Scientific organizations in Ljubljana
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Mohammad Khordadian ( Mohammad Khordādiyān; born 22 February 1957) is an Iranian-American choreographer, dancer and entertainer. His dance instruction tapes of Persian and Arabic dance have become popular inside Iranian society. In 2006, during a TV interview he came out and became one of the few Iranian celebrities who declared to be homosexual. He resides in Los Angeles, California.
Biography
The youngest of four children, Mohammad Khordadian was born in Sabzevar. Inspired by Jamileh, a famous Iranian female dancer of the 60s and 70s, he started dancing when he was a child. Then he joined the National Folk Company of Iran, a local troupe, and performed in Roodaki Opera House where he met his future wife, Jean Beaini.
Before leaving Iran he was a taxi driver in Tehran, after the Islamic Revolution he fled his country to build a new life as a dance teacher and performer in Los Angeles. He released Workout and Dance Lesson #1, his first video of dance instruction, in the early 1980s. In 1987, he published Persian dance #2. Despite legal prohibition of dance under the new regime, both his works found their way to Iranian families mainly through the black market and television stations run by Iranian exiles. On 22 March 2008, Khordadian and his company performed at Los Angeles Music Center.
Currently he lives in Los Angeles and gives lessons in Iranian dance to Iranian residents of the United States.
Trial
Following the death of his mother and because of his father's ill health, Khordadian returned to Iran to visit his family. This was his first visit after more than 20 years. In May 2002, as he was trying to leave the country, he was arrested in Tehran's Mehrabad Airport. He spent 21 days in solitary confinement and 40 days in the Evin Prison.
On 7 July 2002, Khordadian was convicted on charge of "promoting depravity and corruption among the youth" through his dance videotapes. His sentence to 10 years prison was later suspended, but he was barred from giving dance lessons for life, even outside Iran. The court also banned him from attending weddings for three years, except for his relatives'. He was finally released from prison and returned to Los Angeles. He later stated that he had not been tortured physically and the judge did not interrogate him over his private life.). The don't ask don't tell policy was utilized in denial of homosexuality by keeping quiet and overlooking homosexual issues by the Iranian government. In the case of Khordadian he was warned on entry to Iran to keep a low profile and limit his contacts to his immediate family - if he was successful, his treatment will be different from penalties typically levied by the Islamic Republic to transgender people. The authorities pretended that they were not aware of his presence in order to avoid punishing him. However, when this tactic failed and his presence had to be recognized, Khordadian was arrested and charged with issues unrelated to his sexual orientation, thereby persuading a “don’t ask” and “don’t tell” policy in this regard
Personal life
Khordadian married an English woman named Jean Beaini. After the Iranian Revolution he moved to London with his wife who was a ballerina. After working in a club as dancers, they went to Los Angeles in the United States where they eventually divorced. In 2006, Khordadian told Alireza Amirghassemi of Tapesh TV that he was gay. According to him, his family accepted his homosexuality. He met and dated a younger Iranian man while he was visiting Iran. They lived together in Dubai for a time but eventually separated. Khordadian and his ex-wife, Jean Beaini, met up again in England and worked together on writing a book about their relationship and the time they spent together in Iran during the Iranian revolution. The title of the book is, For the Love of Mohammad: A Memoir and it was published in July 2014.
See also
Iranian folk music
References
External links
Interview with BBC Persian
Iranian male dancers
Iranian choreographers
American choreographers
LGBT choreographers
Gay dancers
Living people
Iranian gay artists
Iranian LGBT entertainers
American LGBT entertainers
1957 births
Iranian emigrants to the United States
Iranian prisoners and detainees
People from Tehran
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The Fad Gadget Singles is the 1986 collection of singles by British musician Fad Gadget. The album versions of these songs are not only of differing lengths, they were also often alternative mixes. The songs span the career of Fad Gadget from "Back to Nature" / "The Box" (his first single, double A side) to "One Man's Meat", his final single before Fad Gadget reverted to his given name of Frank Tovey for the remainder of his recording career (he toured with Depeche Mode under the persona of Fad Gadget once again, only a few months before his death of a heart attack on 3 April 2002.)
"Back to Nature" / "The Box" was the second single ever to be released on Mute Records in October 1979. One b-side, "4M" from the "Life on the Line" single, is included on the collection.
Track listing
"Back to Nature" 5:44
"The Box" 4:14
"Ricky's Hand" 4:06
"Fireside Favourite" 4:07
"Insecticide" 3:04
"Lady Shave" 5:41
"Saturday Night Special" 4:31
"King of the Flies" 3:05
"Life on the Line" 3:54
"4M" 3:00
"For Whom the Bells Toll" 3:31
"Love Parasite" 3:16
"I Discover Love" 3:43
"Collapsing New People" 4:08
"One Man's Meat" 3:22
Footnotes
Fad Gadget albums
1986 compilation albums
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This is a list of earthquakes in 1983. Only earthquakes of magnitude 6 or above are included, unless they result in damage and/or casualties, or are notable for some other reason. Events in remote areas will not be listed but included in statistics and maps. Countries are entered on the lists in order of their status in this particular year. All dates are listed according to UTC time. Maximum intensities are indicated on the Mercalli intensity scale and are sourced from United States Geological Survey (USGS) ShakeMap data.
By death toll
Listed are earthquakes with at least 10 dead.
By magnitude
Listed are earthquakes with at least 7.0 magnitude.
By month
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
References
1983
1983 earthquakes
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The Government of Guillermo Lasso has governed the Republic of Ecuador since May 24, 2021, after the victory of Guillermo Lasso in the 2021 presidential elections.
History
2022 protests
In June 2022, anti-government protests broke out in Ecuador.
Fall of the government
In May 2023, the National Assembly officially began a second impeachment proceeding against President Lasso. As a result on 17 May 2023, Lasso dissolved the National Assembly by invoking a constitutional measure known as muerte cruzada, triggering the 2023 general election.
Cabinet
References
Lasso
Government of Ecuador
2021 establishments in Ecuador
Cabinets established in 2021
2020s in politics
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This is a list of diplomatic missions of Thailand, excluding honorary consulates.
Africa
Cairo (Embassy)
Nairobi (Embassy)
Tripoli (Embassy)
Antananarivo (Consulate-General)
Rabat (Embassy)
Maputo (Embassy)
Abuja (Embassy)
Dakar (Embassy)
Pretoria (Embassy)
Americas
Buenos Aires (Embassy)
Brasília (Embassy)
Ottawa (Embassy)
Vancouver (Consulate-General)
Santiago de Chile (Embassy)
Mexico City (Embassy)
Lima (Embassy)
Washington, D.C. (Embassy)
Chicago (Consulate-General)
Los Angeles (Consulate-General)
New York City (Consulate-General)
Asia
Manama (Embassy)
Dhaka (Embassy)
Bandar Seri Begawan (Embassy)
Phnom Penh (Embassy)
Beijing (Embassy)
Chengdu (Consulate-General)
Guangzhou (Consulate-General)
Hong Kong (Consulate-General)
Kunming (Consulate-General)
Nanning (Consulate-General)
Qingdao (Consulate-General)
Shanghai (Consulate-General)
Xiamen (Consulate-General)
Xi'an (Consulate-General)
Dili (Embassy)
New Delhi (Embassy)
Chennai (Consulate-General)
Kolkata (Consulate-General)
Mumbai (Consulate-General)
Jakarta (Embassy)
Tehran (Embassy)
Tel Aviv (Embassy)
Tokyo (Embassy)
Osaka (Consulate-General)
Fukuoka (Consulate-General)
Amman (Embassy)
Astana (Embassy)
Kuwait City (Embassy)
Vientiane (Embassy)
Savannakhet (Consulate-General)
Kuala Lumpur (Embassy)
George Town (Consulate-General)
Kota Bharu (Consulate-General)
Yangon (Embassy)
Kathmandu (Embassy)
Muscat (Embassy)
Islamabad (Embassy)
Karachi (Consulate-General)
Manila (Embassy)
Doha (Embassy)
Riyadh (Embassy)
Jeddah (Consulate-General)
Singapore (Embassy)
Seoul (Embassy)
Colombo (Embassy)
Taipei (Trade & Economic Office)
Ankara (Embassy)
Abu Dhabi (Embassy)
Dubai (Consulate-General)
Hanoi (Embassy)
Ho Chi Minh City (Consulate-General)
Europe
Vienna (Embassy)
Brussels (Embassy)
Prague (Embassy)
Copenhagen (Embassy)
Helsinki (Embassy)
Paris (Embassy)
Berlin (Embassy)
Bonn (Embassy extension office)
Frankfurt (Consulate-General)
Munich (Consulate-General)
Athens (Embassy)
Budapest (Embassy)
Rome (Embassy)
The Hague (Embassy)
Oslo (Embassy)
Warsaw (Embassy)
Lisbon (Embassy)
Bucharest (Embassy)
Moscow (Embassy)
Madrid (Embassy)
Stockholm (Embassy)
Bern (Embassy)
London (Embassy)
Oceania
Canberra (Embassy)
Sydney (Consulate-General)
Wellington (Embassy)
Multilateral organizations
Jakarta (Permanent Mission)
New York City (Permanent Mission)
Geneva (Permanent Mission to the United Nations Office and other international organizations)
Gallery
Non-resident ambassadors
(Athens)
(Paris)
(Islamabad)
(Pretoria)
(Ottawa)
(Ankara)
(Washington, D.C.)
(Brasilia)
(Moscow)
(Mexico City)
(Abuja)
(Lima)
(Budapest)
(Pretoria)
(Dakar)
(Nairobi)
(Bucharest)
(Abuja)
(Dakar)
(Abuja)
(Tripoli)
(Lima)
(Maputo)
(Wellington)
(Abuja)
(Santiago)
(Budapest)
(Ottawa)
(Abuja)
(Ottawa)
(Ottawa)
(Lima)
(Santiago)
(Abuja)
(Helsinki)
(Nairobi)
(Cairo)
(Pretoria)
(Wellington)
(Abuja)
(Dakar)
(Dakar)
(Ankara)
(Brasilia)
(Dakar)
(Mexico City)
(Dakar)
(New York City)
(Mexico City)
(Copenhagen)
(London)
(Dakar)
(Amman)
(Ottawa)
(Rome)
(Wellington)
(Astana)
(Helsinki)
(Amman)
(Pretoria)
(Dakar)
(Helsinki)
(Maputo)
(Colombo)
(Nairobi)
(New York City)
(Dakar)
(Rabat)
(Beijing)
(Maputo)
(Paris)
(Beijing)
(Athens)
(New York City)
(Mexico City)
(Dakar)
(Budapest)
(Beijing)
(Amman)
(Manila)
(Santiago)
(Buenos Aires)
(Nairobi)
(Rome)
(Wellington)
(Budapest)
(Canberra)
(Abuja)
(Brasilia)
(Brasilia)
(Nairobi)
(Dakar)
(Vienna)
(Budapest)
(Cairo)
(Nairobi)
(Amman)
(Islamabad)
(Nairobi)
(Dakar)
(Wellington)
(Brasilia)
(Rome)
(Tehran)
(New York City)
(Nairobi)
(Buenos Aires)
(Moscow)
(Port Moresby)
(Lima)
(Muscat)
(Pretoria)
(Pretoria)
Flags
Thailand is one of the two countries, the other being the United Kingdom, that uses diplomatic flags abroad.
See also
List of diplomatic missions in Thailand
Foreign relations of Thailand
Visa policy of Thailand
List of current ambassadors of Thailand
References
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand
Maps & Addresses of Thai Embassies globally
Thailand
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Jimmie Charles Hall (born November 29, 1947) is an American politician who served as a member of the New Mexico House of Representatives for District 28 from January 2005 to January 2019.
Early life and education
Hall was born in McCamey, Texas. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in animal science and Master of Arts in agriculture from West Texas State University (now West Texas A&M University).
Career
Prior to entering politics, Hall served in the United States Army and was the CEO of a bank.
Elections
In 2004, District 28 incumbent Rory Ogle was unopposed for the June 1, 2004 Republican primary but withdrew. Hall replaced him on the November 2, 2004 General election ballot and was unopposed, winning with 9,338 votes.
In 2006, Hall was unopposed for the June 6, 2006 Republican primary, winning with 1,104 votes and won the November 7, 2006 general election with 5,916 votes (56.4%) against Democratic nominee Shay Rose.
In 2008, Hall and returning 2006 Democratic challenger Shay Rose were both unopposed for their June 8, 2008 primaries. Hall won the November 4, 2008 General election, winning with 7,274 votes (53.6%) against Rose.
In 2010, Hall was challenged in the June 1, 2010 Republican primary but won with 2,292 votes (84.2%) and won the November 2, 2010 general election with 6,170 votes (60.9%) against Democratic nominee Cornelia Wells Lange.
In 2012, Hall was unopposed for both the June 5, 2012 Republican Primary, winning with 1,948 votes and the November 6, 2012 General election, winning with 10,815 votes.
References
External links
Official page at the New Mexico Legislature
Campaign site
Jimmie Hall at Ballotpedia
Jimmie C. Hall at the National Institute on Money in State Politics
1947 births
Living people
Republican Party members of the New Mexico House of Representatives
Politicians from Albuquerque, New Mexico
People from McCamey, Texas
United States Army officers
West Texas A&M University alumni
21st-century American politicians
Military personnel from Texas | 0.739221 |
Fredrik Ekblom (born 6 October 1970) is a Swedish race car driver from Kumla. After an early career in single-seaters he switched to touring car racing where he won multiple titles in his native Swedish Touring Car Championship and later in the TTA – Racing Elite League.
Career
CART
He made 13 Indy Lights starts in 1992 and 1993. He then made three starts in CART for three different teams and was entered in the 1994 and 1995 Indianapolis 500 races, but after passing rookie orientation in 1994, he never appeared for practice either year.
24 Hours of Le Mans
In 1997 and 1998 he drove in the 24 Hours of Le Mans for Courage Compétition and in 1999 for Nissan Motorsports.
Swedish Touring Car Championship
He began racing in the Swedish Touring Car Championship where he was the series champion in 1998 in a WestCoast Racing prepared BMW 320i. After two seasons away from the championship he went on to be champion twice more, winning his second title on his return to the series in 2003 with a Kristoffersson Motorsport–run Audi A4. He continued to drive in the series for Audi until 2006 before returning to WestCoast Racing in 2007 where he became champion for the third time. He stayed with the team for the following season where he finished runner–up to Richard Göransson. In 2009 Swedish Touring Car Championship season he moved to the E.ON Biogas Racing Team, driving a Volkswagen Scirocco which ran on bio–gas.
European Touring Car Championship
During his time away from the Swedish Touring Car Championship, Ekblom competed in the American Le Mans Series and then the European Touring Car Championship in 2002. He drove a BMW 320i for BMW Team Belgium He finished 6th in the championship with a trio of third–place finishes as his best results.
World Touring Car Championship
He competed in some rounds of the 2007 World Touring Car Championship season for BMW Team UK to help Andy Priaulx with his title campaign. He made his first appearance at the Race of Sweden before returning for the final two rounds of the season, he scored a single point at the final race in Macau.
Ekblom drove a Volvo S60 in seven rounds of the 2016 World Touring Car Championship for Polestar Cyan Racing, with a best result of fourth at Hungary race 1.
TTA / STCC
Ekblom signed a three-year deal with Volvo Polestar Racing to compete in the TTA – Racing Elite League starting in 2012. Ekblom secured third on grid at the final round in Gothenburg to claim the drivers' championship title. He finished fifth in the 2013 STCC – Racing Elite League. Despite missing two races, he came third in the 2014. The driver was runner-up in 2015, also with a Polestar Volvo S60.
After skipping the 2016 season, Ekblom joined Kristoffersson Motorsport to compete at the 2017 TCR Scandinavia Touring Car Championship with a dealer-supported Volkswagen Golf GTI.
Racing record
American Open Wheel
(key)
CART
24 Hours of Le Mans results
Complete Swedish Touring Car Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Complete European Touring Car Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Complete World Touring Car Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Complete Scandinavian Touring Car Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Complete TTA–Racing Elite League results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
References
1970 births
Swedish racing drivers
Swedish Touring Car Championship drivers
World Touring Car Championship drivers
Champ Car drivers
Indy Lights drivers
British Formula 3000 Championship drivers
Swedish Formula Three Championship drivers
24 Hours of Le Mans drivers
Living people
European Touring Car Championship drivers
People from Kumla Municipality
Sportspeople from Örebro County
Nismo drivers
Walker Racing drivers
A. J. Foyt Enterprises drivers
BMW M drivers
Racing Bart Mampaey drivers
Schnitzer Motorsport drivers
Fortec Motorsport drivers
Nürburgring 24 Hours drivers
Porsche Motorsports drivers
Volkswagen Motorsport drivers
Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia drivers | 0.987849 |
Dave's Picks Volume 3 is a three-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete concert recorded on October 22, 1971 at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, with bonus tracks from the previous night's show at the same venue. It was released on August 1, 2012.
The two concerts were keyboardist Keith Godchaux's second and third performances with the Dead. Though still a keyboardist and singer with the band, at the time Ron "Pigpen" McKernan was too ill to tour. Godchaux's first appearance with the Dead was October 19, 1971, at Northrop Auditorium, Minneapolis, Minnesota. His sixth performance with the Grateful Dead, from the same tour, has been released as Download Series Volume 3. The band had played the Auditorium Theater (with McKernan) just two months prior, performances which have been released in part on the album Dick's Picks Volume 35.
Dave's Picks Volume 3 is the third of the Dave's Picks series of Grateful Dead archival releases, the successor to the Road Trips series. It was produced as a limited edition of 12,000 copies.
Critical reception
On All About Jazz, Doug Collette said, "Previous entries in Grateful Dead archive series have documented the quietly courageous, not to mention authoritative, fashion, by which keyboardist Keith Godchaux made a place of himself in the iconic band's lineup late in 1971, having been enlisted when charter member Ron 'Pigpen' McKernan became too ill to tour regularly. But [none make] the case so vividly as does this latest entry in Dave's Pick's Volume 3."
Track listing
Disc 1
First set:
"Bertha" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 6:12
"Me and My Uncle" (John Phillips) – 3:24
"Tennessee Jed" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:33
"Jack Straw" (Bob Weir, Hunter) – 5:01
"Loser" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:28
"Playing in the Band" (Weir, Mickey Hart, Hunter) – 6:31
"Sugaree" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:20
"Beat It On Down the Line" (Jesse Fuller) – 3:55
"Black Peter" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:18
"Mexicali Blues" (Weir, John Perry Barlow) – 3:45
"Cold Rain and Snow" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 6:11
"Me and Bobby McGee" (Kris Kristofferson, Fred Foster) – 5:57
Disc 2
"Comes a Time" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:36
"One More Saturday Night" (Weir) – 4:37
Second set:
"Ramble On Rose" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:27
"Cumberland Blues" (Garcia, Phil Lesh, Hunter) – 5:58
"That's It for the Other One" > – 28:06
"Cryptical Envelopment" (Garcia)
"Drums" (Bill Kreutzmann)
"The Other One" (Weir, Kreutzmann)
"Cryptical Envelopment" (Garcia)
"Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:33
"Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter) – 6:53
"Casey Jones" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:54
"Johnny B. Goode" (Chuck Berry) – 3:50
Disc 3
Bonus tracks – October 21, 1971, Auditorium Theatre:
"Truckin'" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – 11:11
"Big Railroad Blues" (Noah Lewis) – 3:27
"The Frozen Logger" (James Stevens) – 0:54
"Dark Star" > (Garcia, Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Weir, Hunter) – 14:57
"Sittin' on Top of the World" > (Walter Jacobs, Lonnie Carter) – 3:21
"Dark Star" > (Garcia, Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir, Hunter) – 2:12
"Me and Bobby McGee" (Kristofferson, Foster) – 6:16
"Brown-Eyed Women" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:23
"St. Stephen" > (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 5:54
"Johnny B. Goode" (Berry) – 4:14
Personnel
Grateful Dead
Jerry Garcia – lead guitar, vocals
Keith Godchaux – keyboards
Bill Kreutzmann – drums
Phil Lesh – electric bass, vocals
Bob Weir – rhythm guitar, vocals
Production
Produced by Grateful Dead
Produced for release by David Lemieux
CD mastering by Jeffrey Norman
Recorded by Rex Jackson
Executive producer: Mark Pincus
Associate producer: Doran Tyson
Archival research: Nicholas Meriwether
Tape research: Michael Wesley Johnson
Cover art: Scott McDougall
Photography: Chip Williams
Art direction and design: Steve Vance
References
2012 live albums
Rhino Entertainment live albums
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Anders Fjordbach (born 4 November 1990) is a Danish racing driver who currently competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship.
Career
Fjordbach began his senior racing career in 2007, competing in the Yokohama 1600 Challenge Denmark and the Volkswagen Polo Cup Denmark, finishing 11th and 10th in the championships respectively. The following year, Fjordbach returned to the Polo Cup, finishing 5th. In 2009, an accident at Oschersleben during ADAC Procar competition led him to postpone his racing career, making his return in 2012. After several years competing in national championships, Fjordbach signed a contract with High Class Racing in 2013 to compete in the Danish Thundersport Championship; a partnership that would later lead to appearances at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
In 2015, Fjordbach won the Dubai 24 Hour in the 997 class, competing for Team Black Falcon. Two years later, Fjorbach claimed his second class victory at the event, also driving for Team Black Falcon in the equivalent Porsche Cup class. Later in 2015, Fjordbach began competing in the then-Blancpain Sprint Series, winning the Silver Cup class in his first event at Nogaro.
2017 marked the beginning of Fjordbach's career in prototypes, as he finished 9th in the LMP2 class of the European Le Mans Series. This experience led to a ride with Algarve Pro Racing during the 2018–19 Asian Le Mans Series season, with aims to win the P2 Am Trophy. One of Fjordbach's co-drivers on that team was Chris McMurry, father of American driver Matt McMurry, who competed for PR1 Mathiasen Motorsport in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. With the team short a driver, Fjordbach was called in for the 2019 12 Hours of Sebring. The team would finish second in class, 13 laps behind the leader.
2019 also presented Fjordbach with his first chance to compete at Le Mans, as High Class Racing were called in off the reserve list to compete in the LMP2 class. The team finished 16th overall, taking 11th place in class. In May of that year, Fjordbach tested the Ginetta G60-LT-P1 at Spa ahead of its re-introduction for the 2019–20 season.
For the 2021 season, Fjordbach had a double racing program with High Class Racing, competing in the World Endurance Championship and joining the team in their return to GT competition, as the team fielded an entry for himself and Mark Patterson in the new GT2 European Series. The duo claimed victory in the series' inaugural race at Monza in April. The following season, Fjordbach piloted the new Brabham BT63 GT2 for the High Class-backed Brabham Automotive Factory Racing team. Driving alongside Kevin Weeda, the team scored their first and only victory of the season at Misano.
Racing record
Career summary
* Season still in progress
Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)
GT2 European Series results - ProAm Class
Le Mans Cup results
European Le Mans Series results
IMSA Sportscar Championship results
Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results
References
External links
Anders Fjordbach at Racing Reference
1990 births
Living people
Danish racing drivers
24 Hours of Daytona drivers
24 Hours of Le Mans drivers
FIA World Endurance Championship drivers
WeatherTech SportsCar Championship drivers
European Le Mans Series drivers
Blancpain Endurance Series drivers
Sportspeople from Aalborg
NASCAR drivers
24H Series drivers
Asian Le Mans Series drivers
Phoenix Racing drivers
ISR Racing drivers
Nürburgring 24 Hours drivers
Le Mans Cup drivers
24 Hours of Spa drivers | 0.959421 |
Aleksandr Nikolayevich Postnikov-Streltsov (; born 23 February 1957) is the former commander-in-chief of the Russian Ground Forces (2010–2012). He currently holds the rank of Colonel General.
He was the Commander of the Siberian Military District since 2007. Previously, he held the positions of Chief of Staff and First Deputy Commander of the Siberian Military District (from 2006-2007), Chief of Staff and First Deputy Commander of the North Caucasus Military District (2004-2006), and Commander of the 20th Guards Army, Moscow Military District, (2002-2004).
References
External links
- General Mark Hertling's interactions with Postnikov
Russian colonel generals
1957 births
Living people
Frunze Military Academy alumni
Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia alumni
Recipients of the Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms" (Ministry of Defence of the Russia) | 0.750262 |
The White Rose was written by Lillian Garrett-Groag and premiered in 1991 at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, Calif. The play chronicles the arrest, interrogation and eventual execution of a group of University of Munich students who protested the Nazi regime at the height of World War II. The students assigned to themselves the name White Rose.
"The play has roles for seven males and one female. The strongest roles belong to Robert Mohr, the head of the Munich Gestapo, and Sophie Scholl, one of the students. Mohr, moved by Scholl's passion (and mindful that she is German, but not Jewish), attempts to save her by giving her a chance to recant, but she refuses. The play ends with a spotlight on Scholl snapping off, symbolizing her beheading, and Mohr musing, "The most we can hope for is to get by. Heroes and ... (carefully) demagogues will always shake things up for a while, but if we're clever, we'll still be here when they're gone." At which point, a Gestapo investigator attempts to be encouraging, noting that people like Mohr "are of enormous use to the Reich." Thus concludes the theme of the play, that people, not monsters, are responsible for great communal disasters, and each of those people had a "moment of choice," according to Garrett-Groag in her Foreword.
The White Rose won the AT&T Award for New American Plays.
Proposed film adaptation
On January 24, 1991, Bruce Kerner was interested in producing the film adaptation of The White Rose back in 1989 with Inge Scholl consulting on the film and production expected to start later in 1991 or in 1992.
Stage productions
In 2013, a professional production of The White Rose took place in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada (part of the Greater Toronto Area) at the Vaughan City Playhouse. Produced by Shadowpath Productions, it was directed by Tanisha Taitt and featured Alex Karolyi as Sophie Scholl.
Broadway production
On January 24, 1991, Bruce Kerner expressed interest in producing a Broadway production of The White Rose as well.
References
American plays
1991 plays
Plays about World War II | 0.594171 |
Potamites is a genus of lizards in the family Gymnophthalmidae. The genus is restricted to northern South America (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru) and southern Central America (Costa Rica and Panama). They are semiaquatic and found near streams.
Taxonomy and species
Until 2005, species now placed in Potamites were included in Neusticurus, another genus containing semi-aquatic lizards of South America. Despite the move, some still have an English name that refers to their former genus, including P. strangulatus, the big-scaled neusticurus. Even after this split, genetic studies revealed that Potamites was paraphyletic and to resolve this two species were moved to Gelanesaurus in 2016.
The genus Potamites currently contains 8 valid species. Further changes are likely, as P. ecpleopus as currently defined is paraphyletic, and it has been suggested that trachodus, usually considered a subspecies of P. strangulatus, should be recognized as a separate species.
Potamites ecpleopus – common stream lizard
Potamites erythrocularis
Potamites hydroimperator
Potamites juruazensis
Potamites montanicola
Potamites ocellatus
Potamites strangulatus – big-scaled neusticurus
Potamites trachodus (
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Potamites.
References
Gymnophthalmidae
Lizard genera
Lizards of Central America
Lizards of South America
Taxa named by Tiffany M. Doan
Taxa named by Todd Adam Castoe | 0.940847 |
Ryon Cristopher Healy (born January 10, 1992) is an American former professional baseball first baseman and third baseman. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics, Seattle Mariners, and Milwaukee Brewers as well as for the Hanwha Eagles of the KBO League.
Amateur career
Healy attended Crespi Carmelite High School in Encino, California. Undrafted out of high school, Healy enrolled at the University of Oregon, where he played college baseball as a first baseman for the Oregon Ducks. As a junior, Healy set a Ducks single-season record with 56 runs batted in (RBIs), and a career record with 118 RBIs. In 2011, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Cotuit Kettleers of the Cape Cod Baseball League, and returned to the league in 2012 with an all-star season for the Brewster Whitecaps.
Professional career
Oakland Athletics
The Oakland Athletics selected Healy in the third round of the 2013 Major League Baseball draft. Healy signed with the Athletics.
In 2014, Healy played for the Stockton Ports of the Class A-Advanced California League, finishing the season with a .285 batting average, 16 home runs, and 83 RBIs. While playing for the Midland RockHounds of the Class AA Texas League in 2015, Healy was named an All-Star. He was also named Texas League Player of the Week twice.
Without an invite to big league camp, Healy returned to Midland to begin the 2016 season. However, Healy went on to hit .338 with 8 home runs and 34 RBI in 36 games before earning a promotion to the Nashville Sounds of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League. He appeared in the 2016 All-Star Futures Game as Oakland's lone representative, and earned an unlikely promotion to the major leagues on July 15. In 49 games with Nashville, Healy hit .318 with 6 home runs and 30 RBI, splitting time at first base and third base.
Upon his promotion, Healy was immediately inserted by manager Bob Melvin as the team's third baseman, supplanting Danny Valencia. He recorded his first major league hit, a 3-run home run, on July 16 in a game against the Toronto Blue Jays. On July 24, Healy hit a walk-off home run against the Tampa Bay Rays, capping a three-run ninth-inning rally. On October 3, Healy was named the AL Rookie of the Month for the month of September, when he hit .355 with 7 home runs and 19 RBI to conclude his breakout season. In 72 games, Healy hit .305/.337/.524 with 13 home runs and 37 RBI, with a batting average that led all qualified AL rookies, reaching as high as third in the batting order.
Coming off of an impressive 2016, Healy was expected to enter 2017 as Oakland's permanent third baseman. However, plans changed when the team signed Trevor Plouffe on January 10, 2017, and was named the starting third baseman by general manager David Forst on January 18. The move allowed Healy to move to his natural position at first base. In early 2017, he has split time between first base and designated hitter. He finished the season with a .271 average with 25 home runs and 78 runs batted in.
Seattle Mariners
On November 15, 2017, the Athletics traded Healy to the Seattle Mariners for Emilio Pagan and Alexander Campos. In his first season with the Mariners, Healy hit .235 with 24 home runs and 73 runs batted in. The following season, Healy suffered multiple injuries while shifting from playing first base to third base. He was declared out for the season on August 2, 2019 as he would undergo hip surgery. He was outrighted off of the Mariners roster on October 28.
Milwaukee Brewers
On December 17, 2019, Healy signed a one-year contract with the Milwaukee Brewers. On October 30, 2020, Healy was outrighted off of the 40-man roster. He elected free agency on November 3, 2020.
Hanwha Eagles
On December 5, 2020, Healy signed a one-year, $800K deal with the Hanwha Eagles of the KBO League. Healy played in 67 games with Hanwha in 2021, batting .257/.306/.394 with 7 home runs and 37 RBI. On July 4, 2021, Healy was released by the Eagles.
Tampa Bay Rays
On March 19, 2022, Healy signed a minor league contract with the Tampa Bay Rays. Healy was released by the Rays organization on March 31.
Retirement
On January 1, 2023, Healy announced his retirement from baseball via an Instagram post.
He now runs a Realty Group in the Phoenix, AZ area.
References
External links
Ryon Healy Realty Group
1992 births
Living people
American expatriate baseball players in South Korea
Arizona League Athletics players
Arkansas Travelers players
Baseball players from Los Angeles
Brewster Whitecaps players
Cotuit Kettleers players
Hanwha Eagles players
Major League Baseball first basemen
Major League Baseball third basemen
Midland RockHounds players
Milwaukee Brewers players
Nashville Sounds players
Oakland Athletics players
Oregon Ducks baseball players
People from West Hills, Los Angeles
Seattle Mariners players
Stockton Ports players
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Tuckerman Babcock (October 24, 1960) is a political strategist who served as chairman of the Alaska Republican Party from 2016 to 2018.
Early life and education
Babcock has been living in Alaska since 1966. In 1983 he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government from Wesleyan University. In 1986, he attended the College of William and Mary.
Career
As executive director of the Governor's Reapportionment Board, Babcock oversaw the redistricting of the Alaska legislature during the 1991-1992 cycle. He then worked as special assistant of constituent relations and director of Boards and Commissions for Governor Wally Hickel. Babcock was a Commissioner at the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission between 1993 and 1996.
Together with Co-Chairman Frank Murkowski, Babcock managed the Dole presidential campaign in 1996. He was also part of the State Leadership Team for the presidential campaign of Steve Forbes in 1996 and 2000. In 1997, he worked in the staff of his later mother-in-law, State Senator Lyda Green and advised Sarah Palin in all of her campaigns between 1996 and 2008. However, the relationship between them stalled after Palin became a national public figure.
Twenty minutes after Governor Dunleavy took office, Babcock fired enured elections attorney Libby Bakalar. The Alaska American Civil Liberties Union sued for unlawful firing of employees. Babcock left his position without prior notice in 2019.
In 2022, federal Judge John Sedgwick found in favor of the terminated employees, though he ruled that Babcock could not be held personally liable for damages in the action. Between 1999 -2009, Babcock was the Manager of Government and Strategic Affairs at the Matanuska Electric Association (MEA), and later was its Director of Human Resources as well as Assistant Manager. The MEA board of directors ordered General Manager Wayne Carmody to fire Babcock "without cause." His tenure had been marked by substantially increased litigation costs, anti-union issues and discomfiture amongst employees.
Babcock has served as precinct officer and district chairman of Alaska Republican Party. He also was state vice chairman and also briefly served as the party's chairman in the year 2000. In 2016, he again ran for this office. During the Alaska Republican Party convention in Fairbanks April 28–30, 2016, Babcock ran against Fairbanks trial attorney Ann Brown to succeed Peter Goldberg. Babcock won the election and also became a delegate for the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland in the summer of 2016.
In the situation concerning three state Representatives who ran on the Republican ticket but afterwards joined in a centrist coalition with Alaska Democrats, thereby creating a bipartisan majority in the State House, he sent a critical open letter to the three lawmakers. He also supported an attempt of the Alaska GOP to block those three Representatives from running again in the primaries of the Republican party.
Political positions
Regarding the decision of Senator Murkowski and Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska to vote against the abolition of the Affordable Health Care Act (ACA) and its replacement by the GOP substitute, the American Health Care Act of 2017, Babcock stated that he was dismayed. He reminded Murkowski and Sullivan in a letter, that the American people were promised by Republicans, on non-negotiable terms, that the ACA would be repealed.
Personal life
Babcock was divorced from Kimberly Waychoff in 2005. He later married Kristie Babcock, the daughter of former Alaska State Senate President Lyda Green. Kristi owns a State Farm Insurance agency in Kenai. He has eight children and became a full-time parent after he was fired from MEA. The family lives on the Kenai Peninsula.
References
Alaska Republicans
Chiefs of staff to United States state governors
Living people
People from Anchorage, Alaska
People from Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska
People from Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska
State political party chairs of Alaska
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Siarka Tarnobrzeg () is a Polish professional football club, based in Tarnobrzeg, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, which will compete in III liga in the 2023–24 season, the fourth tier of the national football league system. In early 1990s, Siarka played in the Ekstraklasa, with such players as Cezary Kucharski, Andrzej Kobylański, Tomasz Kiełbowicz and Mariusz Kukiełka.
Honours
11th spot in the Ekstraklasa: 1993
Runner Up of the U-19 Polish Championships: 1979
Bronze Medal in the U-19 Polish Championship: 1999
Supporters and rivalries
The great character species have games between Siarka Tarnobrzeg and Stal Stalowa Wola; called the great derby of Subcarpathia (wielkie derby Podkarpacia).
References
External links
Siarka Tarnobrzeg at the 90minut.pl
Association football clubs established in 1957
1957 establishments in Poland
Tarnobrzeg
Football clubs in Podkarpackie Voivodeship | 0.990941 |
University Hill is a neighborhood and business district in Syracuse, New York, located east and southeast of Downtown Syracuse, on one of the larger hills in Syracuse. The neighborhood is bounded on the west by Almond Street and Interstate 81. It continues east to Ostrom Avenue and Thornden Park, where it borders the Westcott and University neighborhoods. Interstate 690 currently serves as the neighborhood's northern boundary.
University Hill is the major educational and medical district of Syracuse, as well as an important business district, with three of the top ten employers in the Syracuse region located there. The most expansive of these is Syracuse University, from which the neighborhood's name derives. "The Hill" is also to home a Veterans Administration Medical Center, the State University of New York Upstate Medical University, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, as well as Crouse Hospital and the Richard H. Hutchings Psychiatric Center. These five institutions account for over 16,000 full-time positions and over 20,000 students.
Demographics
Syracuse University, SUNY ESF, and Upstate Medical University together house nearly 10,000 students in student housing on the hill, with many others living in private, off-campus housing in the neighborhood.
As students make up the majority (around eighty percent) of the residents, census data might appear odd when comparing other neighborhoods. For example, the 2000 Census indicated that 66.8 percent of University Hill's population walked to work, more than six times the citywide average. Only limited parking is available in much of the neighborhood, making walking an attractive option. Student renting also explains the lack of owner-occupied housing, and low median household income.
It is estimated by the University Hill Corporation that over 20,000 people work on "The Hill," with a combined payroll of over $400 million annually. Only the downtown neighborhood employs more people in Syracuse.
The neighborhood has two business districts, Marshall Street and East Genesee Street. Marshall, the larger of the two, has dozens of shops, restaurants, and bars, as well as the Syracuse University Sheraton. East Genesee is lined with three upscale hotels, several shops and eateries, and Syracuse Stage, the performance venue of the Syracuse University drama department.
History
As part of the negotiations that brought the former Genesee College from Lima, New York to Syracuse, George F. Comstock, a member of the university's board of trustees, offered the school of farmland in this area of the city. In January 1871, Bishop Jesse Peck, the first chairman of the Board of Trustees, described what was, in effect, the university's first master plan: a scheme for the construction of seven new buildings on Comstock's hillside, each to be dedicated to a different academic discipline. Peck's vision for the new campus was one of stylistic eclecticism; on one occasion, he declared that the new university should "demonstrate the perfect harmony and indissoluble oneness of all that is valuable in the old and the new."
The Hall of Languages, completed in 1873, stood as the only manifestation of the university's first campus plan for a long time. The Panic of 1873 interrupted the institution's further development, and the Hall of Languages housed the entire University for fourteen years.
While the Hall of Languages was being built on his old property, George Comstock purchased of the Stevens farm to the north of University Place. By 1872, Comstock had deeded Walnut Park, the centerpiece of his new "Highlands" subdivision, to the City, and successfully parceled out residential lots to the local elite. This greensward, extending northward from University Place, was soon bordered on both sides by large and gracious homes. From the beginning, Comstock intended Syracuse University and the Highlands to develop as an integrated whole; a contemporary account described the latter as "a beautiful town...springing up on the hillside and a community of refined and cultivated membership...established near the spot which will soon be the center of a great and beneficent educational institution."
By the end of the 1880s, the university had resumed construction on the south side of University Place. Holden Observatory (1887) was followed by two Romanesque Revival buildings – von Ranke Library (1889), now Tolley Administration Building, and Crouse College (1889). Together with the Hall of Languages, these first buildings formed the basis for the "Old Row," a grouping which, along with its companion Lawn, established one of Syracuse's most enduring images. The emphatically linear organization of these buildings along the brow of the hill follows a tradition of American campus planning which dates to the construction of the "Yale Row" in the 1790s. At Syracuse, the Old Row continued to provide the framework for its growth well into the twentieth century. The university now has over 250 buildings on University Hill.
The Crouse College, Syracuse University, Estabrook House, Grace Episcopal Church, Hall of Languages, Syracuse University, Pi Chapter House of Psi Upsilon Fraternity, Sherbrook Apartments, Syracuse University – Comstock Tract buildings, Temple Society of Concord, and Walnut Park Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Future
University Hill continues to grow, led by expansions by Syracuse University and Upstate Medical University. In 2005, SU finished a new 150,000 square foot (14,000 m²) building for the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. A major problem facing University Hill is traffic. Many roads are only two-lane, and cannot handle rush hour traffic. Some streets have been widened but many are lined with houses and buildings, often historic, that prevent adding motor vehicle capacity.
Employers
SUNY Upstate Medical University: 9,100 employees
Syracuse University: 4,402 employees
Crouse Hospital: 3,100 employees
Syracuse Veterans Administration Medical Center: 1,400 employees
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry: 547 employees
See also
Archimedes Russell
Marshall Street, Syracuse
State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
State University of New York Upstate Medical University
Syracuse University
Carrier Dome
Walnut Park Historic District
Ward Wellington Ward
References
External links
University Hill Corporation
Neighborhoods in Syracuse, New York | 0.907099 |
Keith Gee is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He played as a forward in 12 games for the Brisbane Broncos from 1988 to 1989, including their first ever match. He also represented Queensland in a tour match against New Zealand in 1987.
Gee is the brother of four time Broncos premiership player Andrew Gee and former Gold Coast Seagulls player Mark Gee.
Playing career
Gee made his first grade debut for Brisbane in Round 1, 1988 against Brisbane in the club's inaugural game as the Broncos defeated Manly-Warringah 44–10. Gee scored his only try for Brisbane the following week in a 20–18 victory over Penrith.
In 1989, Gee joined the Gold Coast and played with the club for three seasons. His last season with the Gold Coast ended with a wooden spoon in 1991, with his final game in first grade being a 32–10 loss against North Sydney at North Sydney Oval.
Career Stats
Post playing
Gee contested the 2009 Queensland state election in the seat of Beaudesert as an independent candidate. He was not elected, finishing in fourth place on the first preference count with 7.8% of the votes.
In 2016, Gee was appointed coach of the Beaudesert Kingfishers.
References
External links
Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org
Australian rugby league players
Brisbane Broncos players
Living people
Gold Coast Chargers players
1963 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
Rugby league second-rows
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Ryan Martin is an American Middle distance runner. Martin tried out to compete for the United States in the men's 800 m at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England. He is a professional runner for Asics.
Personal
Martin was born in 1989 in Orange County, California, the son of Debra and Chris Martin.
High school
Martin ran four seasons of track during his stay at Santa Margarita Catholic High School. Ryan Martin is the current school record holder at 800 meters with his time of 1:53.23 set at the CIF California State Meet where he finished in second place, and is a member of the 4x800m record setting team (7:51.51) with Kary Yergler, Mark Hirschboeck, and Jon Telles
Martin was a State Runner-up, 2-time C.I.F. SS Champion (2006, 2007), Orange County Champion, and League Champion numerous times.
During his senior season of track in his senior year, he burst onto the track scene, ranking nationally with a time of 1:53.28 in the 800 meters.
College career
Martin attended the University of California in Santa Barbara; his majors were Business Economics and Art History. During his first year of track during the 2008–2012 season, Martin ran the 800 m for the first time, and led the Gauchos in the 800.
Martin advanced to the 2009 NCAA Outdoor finals of the 800m by placing second in Heat 3. The top two times in each heat, plus the next two fastest times overall, advanced to the final. Martin's time of 1:50.23 edged him past a runner from BYU who finished at 1:50.37. On Saturday, Martin finished eighth in the 800m final with a time of 1:52.12. It was a close race, with the winner crossing the line in 1:49.48. The fifth-place runner clocked a time of 1:50.60.
Martin earned points in Big West competition. In addition, he was ranked seventh nationally in the 800 metres with a time of 1:44.77. Martin skipped his freshman year of cross country, making 2008 his first season. He was on the All-Big West First Team for finishing top fourteen in league competition.
His time of 1:44.77 at the 2012 Big West Conference Championship was good for first on the all-time University of California Santa Barbara 800 metres list. He was the NCAA all american twice in the 800 in both 2011 and 2012. The two-time All-American at UCSB was one of the youngest runners in the race and narrowly missed a berth to the London Olympic Games.
Professional
In 2012, Martin placed 4th at the USA Trials. He made it through the semifinals of the 2012 United States Olympic Trials (track and field), but failed to qualify to the Olympics by placing 4th and running a 1:44.90 in his Final.
In 2013 Martin failed to qualify for the IAAF World Championships in Moscow, Russia by placing 23rd at the USA Outdoor Track Championships, running a 1:49.72.
At the 2014 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships Martin placed 6th in 1:52.62 in the final.
At the 2015 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships Martin placed 5th in 1:46.04 to qualify for the NACAC Championships in Costa Rica where Ryan won the 800 meters in championship and meet records running 1:45.79.
Personal bests
References
1989 births
Living people
Track and field athletes from California
American male middle-distance runners
Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States
Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 Pan American Games
UC Santa Barbara Gauchos men's track and field athletes
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Robert Lynn Echols (born January 13, 1941) is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.
Early life, education and military service
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Echols received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Southwestern College (now Rhodes College) in Memphis in 1962 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1964. He was in the United States Army in 1966. He served for 35 years in both the United States Army Reserves and the Army National Guard retiring as a brigadier general in 2001. His last assignment in the military was commander of the 30th Troop Command of the Tennessee Army National Guard.
Career
Echols was a law clerk to Judge Marion S. Boyd of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee from 1965 to 1966. He was a legislative assistant for Congressman Dan Kuykendall in the United States House of Representatives from 1967 to 1969. He was in private practice in Nashville, Tennessee from 1969 to 1992, serving as a night commissioner for Davidson County, Tennessee from 1974 to 1975.
On October 22, 1991, Echols was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee created by 104 Stat. 5089. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 13, 1992, and received his commission on March 18, 1992. He served as Chief Judge from 1998 to 2005, assuming senior status on March 1, 2007, and retiring fully from the bench on July 31, 2010.
References
Sources
1941 births
Living people
Judges of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
United States district court judges appointed by George H. W. Bush
20th-century American judges
Rhodes College alumni
University of Tennessee College of Law alumni
National Guard (United States) generals
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James Francis Creagan (born 1940) is a United States diplomat. From 1996 to 1999, he served as U.S. Ambassador to Honduras. Previously, he had served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the American Embassy to the Holy See and Italy, the Consul General in São Paulo, Brazil and the Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Brasília. Although he retired broadly from public service in 1999, he stepped in briefly in 2009 in Bolivia as special Chargé d'Affaires.
Creagan is the director of the Center for International Studies at the University of the Incarnate Word, where he teaches courses for the Government and International Affairs Department. Formerly, he served as president of John Cabot University in Rome.
In January 2016, Ambassador Creagan was named the Ambassador Eugene Scassa Visiting Professor of International Diplomacy at St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas where he teaches courses in the Political Science Department.
References
Sources
Biography from UIC Library's Electronic Research Collection
https://web.archive.org/web/20120217035812/http://uiw.edu/polisci/creagan.htm
1940 births
Living people
Ambassadors of the United States to Honduras
Texas A&M University faculty
Academic staff of John Cabot University
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Amorroma is a Belgian acoustic folk music duo of the present with roots in traditional European folk-dance music. The group was founded by Jowan Merckx in 2000, and consists of himself (composer, recorder, singer, bagpipes) and Sarah Ridy (harp).
Amorroma gives concerts as a duo but can also give concerts as a trio, quartet, quintet and sextet. The other members of the group are Vincent Noiret double bass, Maarten Decombel guitar, Elly Aerden singer and Toon van Mierlo bagpipes, accordion, saxophone. All musicians hold qualifications from the academy of music. Jowan Merckx obtained his recorder degree at the Lemmensinstituut in 1996 and Sarah Ridy obtained her harp degree at the College of Music in 2003 and her Baroque harp performance degree at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag in 2006 and her master's degree in 2009.
Prior to Amorroma, they were members of a group with Gwenaël Micault, Rheidun Schlesinger and Bert van Reeth. Bert van Reeth has arranged many pieces for Amorroma.
All melodies are composed by Jowan Merckx. In the music is the recorder used as a main musical instrument, with makes the music of Amorroma unique. Amorroma has a programme of dancemusic with a singer too. This programme is based on poems, written by Jowan Merckx and traditional French lyrics, with music composed by Jowan Merckx.
The name Amorroma consists of the two words Amor and Roma. For the Cathars these words have a contradiction. Amorroma uses this theme for her music to show all different feelings with form part of human being. The music is suitable for dancing and to listen to. Amorroma gives concerts at festivals, schools and folk-dance balls.
Les Tisserands
Amorroma takes part in the musical program Les Tisserands with vocal-music group Zefiro Torna and jazz duo Traces. The program is related to the religion grouping Cathars of the Middle Ages. The name Les Tisserands means weavers, the occupation that they often were practising. This musical program is from the present with influences of the middle ages, the renaissance, the baroque, jazz and folk. In the music are medieval lyrics used with some original melodies and some melodies are composed by Els van Laethem. All instrumental melodies are composed by Jowan Merckx.
musicians AmorRoma
Jowan Merckx: recorders, whistles, high bagpipes of Central France, gaïta, flugelhorn, percussion, vocals
Sarah Ridy: triple harp
Vincent Noiret: double bass
Elly Aerden: vocals
Maarten Decombel: mandola, guitar, vocals
Toon van Mierlo: uilleann pipes, low bagpipes of Central France, clarinet
Tristan Driessens: old Turkisch oud
musicians Les Tisserands
AmorRoma
with Bert van Reeth
Zefiro Torna
Els van Laethem: singer
Jurgen de Bruyn: lute
Liam Fennelly: viola da gamba, fiddle
Traces
Philippe Laloy: soprano saxophone
Vincent Noiret: contrabass
Rheidun Schlesinger harp
Discography
Merci, Jules (2014)
Chants d'amour et de mort en Wallonie (2013)
Carrousel (2011)
La-bas dans ces Vallons (2010)
Les Tisserands (2006)
Balance (2005)
Carduelis (2003)
Op Voyage (2000)
Reviews
Op Voyage (Folk World)
Les Tisserands (Psychedelic Folk)
External links
Official website
Majestic Studio
official site Zefiro Torna with programm Les Tisserands
Amorroma My Space
youtube Amorroma Duo, Heureux qui comme Ulysse
Belgian folk music groups
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AAB College () is a private university in Pristina, Kosovo. It was founded in 2000 as an institution of higher education in mass communication. In 2008, it had expanded to eight departments.
External links
Universities and colleges established in 2000
2000s establishments in Kosovo
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The Hues Corporation was an American pop and soul trio, formed in Santa Monica, California in 1969. They are best known for their 1974 single "Rock the Boat", which sold over 2 million copies.
Group name and background
Before achieving mainstream success they were the opening act for a list of headliners that included Frank Sinatra, Milton Berle, Nancy Sinatra, and Glen Campbell. The original band had a lineup of three singers and three sidemen. The sidemen were Joey Rivera from the Checkmates; Monti Lawston; and Bob "Bullet" Bailey, formerly of the Leaves. Bailey, Rivera, and Lawston left the band to form Goodstuff.
The group's name was a pun on the Howard Hughes Corporation, with the 'hue' (a synonym of 'color'). The band's members at the time of their first album were St. Clair Lee (born Bernard St. Clair Lee, April 24, 1944, San Francisco, California; died March 8, 2011), Fleming Williams (born December 26, 1943, Flint, Michigan; died February 15, 1998) and Hubert Ann Kelley (born April 24, 1947, Fairfield, Alabama). The original choice for the group's name was The Children of Howard Hughes, which their record label turned down.
Career
The group was formed in 1969. Songwriter Wally Holmes founded the group with his friend Bernard St. Clair Lee. Female singer H. Ann Kelley was found at a talent show in Los Angeles. As a result of notices placed in southern California record stores, Karl Russell turned up. They recorded a single "Goodfootin'" / "We're Keepin' Our Business" that was released by Liberty Records in 1970. It did not chart.
Still with Karl Russell, the group's first big break came in 1972, when they were invited to appear in the blaxploitation film, Blacula, starring William Marshall. They were also asked to record three songs for the film's soundtrack: "There He Is Again", "What The World Knows", and "I'm Gonna Catch You". After their participation in the Blacula-project Karl Russell was replaced by Fleming Williams and the group signed with RCA Records; their second single for the label, "Freedom For The Stallion", from the album of the same name, became a moderate hit, reaching #63 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The third single from the album, "Rock the Boat", became a #1 hit on the Billboard chart and the group's signature song. The bass player on the session for "Rock the Boat" was Wilton Felder, not James Jamerson as previously reported. "Rock the Boat" was written by Holmes, who also wrote the Blacula songs, and was released in the U.S. in February 1974 and in the UK in July of that year. It went to #1 for one week in the U.S. and #6 for two weeks in the UK, staying for 18 weeks in the U.S. chart with a gold disc awarded by the RIAA on 24 June 1974. The track sold well over two million copies. The song is considered one of the earliest disco songs. Some authorities proclaim it to be the first disco song to hit #1, while others give that distinction to "Love's Theme" by the Love Unlimited Orchestra, a chart-topper from earlier in 1974.
After the success of "Rock the Boat", the Hues Corporation's other charted singles on the Billboard Hot 100 included "Rockin' Soul" (1974, #18), "Love Corporation" (1975, #62), and "I Caught Your Act" (1977, #92).
The group was unable to duplicate the success of their earlier hits and disbanded sometime around 1980. Whereas some sources claim the year of disbanding as early as 1978, archive footage of a television special for the Chilean TV in 1979 promoting their performance at the Viña del Mar International Song Festival proves the opposite. Furthermore, in 1980 the Hues Corporation released one last single in the US and a sixth album in at least New Zealand, Argentina and South Africa. With the renewed popularity of disco music in the 1990s, the group reunited for tour dates and special events, including the PBS special Get Down Tonight: The Disco Explosion.
Group members
Karl Russell was replaced by Fleming Williams who sang the male lead part on "Rock the Boat". Williams left not long after its recording.
Williams was initially replaced by Tommy Brown. In an interview with Gary James, St. Clair Lee said that after some time Williams was brought back into the group and in turn replaced Tommy Brown.
Around 1975, Karl Russell rejoined the band taking over the role of lead singer after Fleming Williams had left for good.
Around 1979, Kenny James took over as lead singer from Karl Russell. James can be seen in the Chilean TV-footage from 1979 promoting their performance at the Viña del Mar International Song Festival and is also shown on the cover of the group's last album Boogie Me, Move Me from 1980.
Hubert Ann Kelley later left the group to become a minister.
In later years, circa the 1990s St. Clair Lee revived the group and recruited Bruce Glover and Elaine Woodard as the new members.
Fleming Wiliams died in the 1990s. Many sources claim the date of his death was September 1992, but other sources claim he died in February 1998. According to the Social Security Death Index, Fleming Williams died on February 15, 1998. His death has been attributed to a "long illness", although many others have also alluded to a long struggle with drugs. According to The New McCree Theatre in Williams' home town Flint, which in 2011 put on the play "Rock The Boat: The Fleming Williams Story" co-written by Williams' mother, Fleming Williams actually committed suicide in 1998.
Founding member St. Clair Lee died on March 8, 2011, in Lake Elsinore, California. He is said to have died from natural causes at the age of 66, as written in the Los Angeles Times obituaries in March. He was survived by his mother, sons, and sister.
Discography
Albums
Studio albums
Compilation albums
Best of the Hues Corporation – RCA Victor (1977)
Rock the Boat – Collectables (1991)
Rock the Boat – The Best of the Hues Corporation – RCA (1993)
The Masters – Eagle (1997)
The Very Best of the Hues Corporation – Camden (1998)
Singles
See also
List of Billboard number-one singles
List of artists who reached number one in the United States
List of Billboard number-one dance club songs
List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance Club Songs chart
Notes
References
External links
Hues Corporation discography featured in book: Goldmine Standard Catalog of American Records 1948-1991 by Martin Popoff
The Hues Corporation biography at soultracks.com
Gary James' interview with St. Clair Lee
The Hues Corporation at Soul Walking
N.Z. Broadcaster Peter Williams with St Clair Lee, Hubert Ann Kelly and Karl Russell.
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Charles Boynton "Chuck" Knapp (born August 13, 1946) was the president of the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia, United States. He served in that capacity from 1987 until his resignation in 1997.
Early life and education
Knapp was born in Ames, Iowa, on August 13, 1946. He received a bachelor's degree (B.S.) with honors and distinction from Iowa State University in 1968. While at Iowa State, Knapp joined the Iowa Gamma chapter of Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
He earned a combined master's degree (M.A.) and doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1972.
Academic and professional career
From 1972–1976, Knapp taught economics at the University of Texas at Austin. He then left academia from 1977-1979 to serve as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Labor in Washington, D.C., and, subsequently, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor from 1979 until 1981.
Returning to academia, Knapp became Associate Professor of Public Policy at George Washington University from 1981 to 1982. He moved to Tulane University in 1982 and continued teaching economics. He then became Executive Vice President of Tulane in 1985 and served in that capacity until accepting the UGA presidency in 1987. At that time, Knapp was the youngest president of any of the nation's major research universities.
During his presidency, Knapp was a founding member of the Georgia Research Alliance and was instrumental in the creation of the HOPE Scholarship. He chaired the board of directors of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges and served on the National School-to-Work Advisory Council.
Upon leaving UGA, Knapp became president of the Aspen Institute in Washington, D.C., and joined Heidrick & Struggles as a partner in their higher education practice. He also was appointed to the American Council on Education and the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges.
Legacy
Construction projects totaling more than $400 million were started during his administration, including the Biological Sciences Complex (1992), Ramsey Student Center for Physical Activities (1995), the Performing Arts Center, Hodgson Hall (1996), the music building (1996), the Georgia Museum of Art (1996), Rusk Hall (1996), and the UGA Welcome Center (1996).
Knapp was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award by the Iowa State University Alumni Association in 1994. In 2004, Knapp was named president emeritus of UGA by the Georgia Board of Regents.
In 2005, Knapp joined UGA’s Institute of Higher Education as a part-time Distinguished Public Service Fellow and professor of economics in The University of Georgia's Terry College of Business.
In 2013, Knapp was named interim dean of UGA's Terry College of Business.
Knapp currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia.
References
Sources
From Ahmedunggar to Lavonia Presidents at the University of Georgia 1785-1997, University of Georgia Libraries, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library Retrieved May 18, 2006.
Charles Knapp receives president emeritus designation, Columns faculty staff newspaper, UGA Office of Public Affairs, October 4, 2004 Retrieved May 18, 2006.
Charles Knapp, former president, will join university’s Institute of Higher Education, Columns faculty staff newspaper, UGA Office of Public Affairs, February 25, 2005 Retrieved May 18, 2006.
UGA Institute of Higher Education faculty page Retrieved May 18, 2006.
Georgia Senate Resolution 160 commending Dr. Charles B. Knapp Retrieved May 18, 2006.
Distinguished Achievement Award Winners, Iowa State Alumni Association Retrieved May 18, 2006.
Notes
William Prokasy, UGA's Vice-President of Academic Affairs at the time, served as the interim UGA president for 3 months from the time of Knapp's departure in the spring of 1997 until Michael Adams official start in the fall of that same year.
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Presidents of the University of Georgia
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The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of astrophysics and astronomy, established in 1895 by American astronomers George Ellery Hale and James Edward Keeler. The journal discontinued its print edition and became an electronic-only journal in 2015.
Since 1953 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (ApJS) has been published in conjunction with The Astrophysical Journal, with generally longer articles to supplement the material in the journal. It publishes six volumes per year, with two 280-page issues per volume.
The Astrophysical Journal Letters (ApJL), established in 1967 by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar as Part 2 of The Astrophysical Journal, is now a separate journal focusing on the rapid publication of high-impact astronomical research.
The three journals were published by the University of Chicago Press for the American Astronomical Society until, in January 2009, publication was transferred to IOP Publishing, following the move of the society's Astronomical Journal in 2008. The reason for the changes were given by the society as the increasing financial demands of the University of Chicago Press. Compared to journals in other scientific disciplines, The Astrophysical Journal has a larger (> 85%) acceptance rate, which, however, is similar to other journals covering astronomy and astrophysics.
On January 1, 2022, the AAS Journals, including ApJ, changed to an open access model, with access restrictions and subscription charges removed from previously published papers. Articles accepted after October 11, 2022, will be published under the Creative Commons license CC-BY-SA 4.0. Non-open access articles accepted before that date will be free to access but will still need permission to reuse.
History
The journal was founded in 1895 by George Ellery Hale and James E. Keeler as The Astrophysical Journal: An International Review of Spectroscopy and Astronomical Physics. In addition to the two founding editors, there was an international board of associate editors: M. A. Cornu, Paris; N. C. Dunér, Upsala; William Huggins, London; P. Tacchini, Rome; H. C. Vogel, Potsdam, C. S. Hastings, Yale; A. A. Michelson, Chicago; E. C. Pickering, Harvard; H. A. Rowland, Johns Hopkins; and C. A. Young, Princeton. It was intended that the journal would fill the gap between journals in astronomy and physics, providing a venue for publication of articles on astronomical applications of the spectroscope; on laboratory research closely allied to astronomical physics, including wavelength determinations of metallic and gaseous spectra and experiments on radiation and absorption; on theories of the Sun, Moon, planets, comets, meteors, and nebulae; and on instrumentation for telescopes and laboratories. The further development of ApJ up to 1995 was outlined by Helmut Abt in an article entitled "Some Statistical Highlights of the Astrophysical Journal" in 1995.
Editors
The following persons have been editors-in-chief of the journal:
George Hale (1895–1902)
Edwin Brant Frost (1902–1932)
Edwin Hubble (1932–1952)
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1952–1971)
Helmut A. Abt (1971–1999)
Robert Kennicutt (1999–2006)
Ethan Vishniac (2006–present)
See also
The Astronomical Journal
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
References
External links
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The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Astronomy journals
Astrophysics journals
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Stockbridge Township is a civil township of Ingham County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,896 at the 2010 census.
Communities
Stockbridge is a village located in the southeast corner of the township. The Stockbridge 49285 ZIP Code serves the majority of the township.
History
David Rogers was the first resident to settle in the area in 1834. When more travelers arrived, Stockbridge Township was established on November 26, 1836 as the first township in Ingham County. The village of Stockbridge, which was settled soon after, served as the main population center. The current township hall was constructed in Stockbridge in 1892. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and also as a Michigan State Historic Site in 1987.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which is land and (1.28%) is water.
Lakelands Trail State Park runs through part of the township and has its westernmost trailhead within the village of Stockbridge.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 3,435 people, 1,220 households, and 941 families residing in the township. The population density was . There were 1,281 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the township was 97.41% White, 0.32% African American, 0.49% Native American, 0.15% Asian, 0.44% from other races, and 1.19% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.57% of the population.
There were 1,220 households, out of which 37.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.8% were married couples living together, 8.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 22.8% were non-families. 19.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.76 and the average family size was 3.16.
In the township the population was spread out, with 27.6% under the age of 18, 6.9% from 18 to 24, 30.7% from 25 to 44, 23.7% from 45 to 64, and 11.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.4 males.
The median income for a household in the township was $44,295, and the median income for a family was $53,438. Males had a median income of $41,756 versus $27,500 for females. The per capita income for the township was $22,014. About 6.5% of families and 9.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 12.2% of those under age 18 and 8.8% of those age 65 or over.
Highways
runs through the northeast corner of the township and forms a small portion of the northern boundary.
runs north–south through the township and the center of the village of Stockbridge.
runs through the southeast portion of the township and also runs concurrently with M-52 through Stockbridge.
References
External links
Official website
Stockbridge Branch of the Capital Area District Library
Townships in Michigan
Townships in Ingham County, Michigan
Lansing–East Lansing metropolitan area
Populated places established in 1836
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Fijas is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Piotr Fijas (born 1958), Polish ski jumper
Tadeusz Fijas (born 1960), Polish ski jumper, brother of Piotr
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Zack is a 1920 play by British playwright Harold Brighouse.
It was one of several of Brighouse's plays performed by the Manchester's Gaiety Theatre.
Other performances
In 1976 Eric Thompson directed a production at the Royal Exchange, Manchester with Patricia Routledge as Mrs Manning, Lindsay Duncan as Sally Teale and Trevor Peacock as Zachariah Manning.
In 1988 Euan Smith directed "Zack" at the Watermill Theare, Newbury with Yvonne Bellamy as Mrs Manning, Alan Hendrick as Paul, Val Pelka as Zack, Helen Patrick as Virginia, Robin Brunskill as Martha Wrigley, and Isobel Rowley as Sally.
References
Plays by Harold Brighouse
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Dario J. Frommer (born October 22, 1963, in Long Beach, California) is a former member of the California State Assembly for the 43rd district who served from 2000 until 2006. He served as Majority Leader from 2004 until 2006. Frommer also served as Chair of the Health Committee. He is now a partner with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in Los Angeles.
Children
Frommer has one son Dario A. P. Frommer
References
External links
Join California Dario Frommer
1963 births
Living people
Politicians from Long Beach, California
Democratic Party members of the California State Assembly
University of California, Davis alumni
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Taphioporus is an extinct genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is known from Baltic and Rovno amber from the upper Eocene.
The generic name is a combination of the generic names Taphius (the old name for Pathius) and Cleoporus.
Species
†Taphioporus balticus Moseyko & Kirejtshuk, 2013
†Taphioporus carsteni Bukejs & Moseyko, 2015
†Taphioporus rovnoi Moseyko & Perkovsky, 2015
†Taphioporus rufous Bukejs & Moseyko, 2015
References
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Prehistoric beetle genera
Baltic amber
Rovno amber
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Marpesia harmonia, the pale daggerwing or Harmonia daggerwing, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in south-eastern Mexico and Guatemala.
References
Cyrestinae
Butterflies described in 1836
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Arthur Bernard Langlie (July 25, 1900 – July 24, 1966) was an American politician who served as the mayor of Seattle, Washington and was the 12th and 14th governor of the U.S. state of Washington from 1941 to 1945 and 1949 to 1957. He is the only mayor of Seattle to be elected governor of Washington.
Early life and education
Langlie was born in Lanesboro, Minnesota. His father, Bjarne Langlie, had emigrated from Norway. His mother, Carrie Dahl, was of Norwegian and Dutch ancestry. He moved with his family to Washington's Kitsap Peninsula at the age of nine. Langlie was graduated from Union High School, in Bremerton, Washington. Langlie earned a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Washington in 1925, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity.
Career
After graduating from the University of Washington, Langlie became a senior partner in the law firm of Langlie, Todd, and Nickell.
He practiced law in Seattle for nearly 10 years before winning a Seattle City Council seat in 1935 as a candidate of the New Order of Cincinnatus. He served as mayor of Seattle from 1938 to 1941. He became the Republican candidate for governor in 1940 and won a narrow victory. He is to date the only mayor of Seattle to be elected governor of Washington.
At 40, Langlie was the youngest governor in the history of the state until Daniel Jackson Evans took office in 1965 at 39. Langlie was defeated for re-election in 1944 by Democrat Monrad C. Wallgren but won the office back by defeating Wallgren in 1948. Langlie is the only Washington governor to regain that office after losing it.
In 1952, he was one of five people on the shortlist for the Republican vice presidential nomination. Dwight Eisenhower instead chose Richard Nixon. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate in 1956. Langlie's legacy as governor included the establishment of the Washington State Ferries system, the completion of road and bridge projects, and some of the first environmental measures adopted in the state of Washington.
Langlie left politics after failing in his 1956 campaign to defeat Democratic U.S. Senator Warren G. Magnuson. Los Angeles financier Norton Simon asked Langlie to take charge of the McCall publishing house that Simon had just acquired. In 1958, Langlie was named as the new president of the McCall Corporation.
References
Other sources
George W. Scott Arthur B. Langlie; Republican Governor in a Democratic Age (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington. 1971)
External links
Frederick G. Hamley Papers, 1934-1956. 6.83 cubic feet. At the Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Special Collections.
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Nikolai Aleksandrovich Menshutkin (; – ) was a Russian chemist who discovered the process of converting a tertiary amine to a quaternary ammonium salt via the reaction with an alkyl halide, now known as the Menshutkin reaction.
Biography
Menshutkin was born in a merchant family as the sixth son of Alexander Nikolaevitch Menshutkin. He graduated with honors from gymnasium in December 1857, but only by autumn 1858 managed to enroll to the Saint Petersburg State University, as he was still under the prescribed age of 16. He studied at the faculty of physics and mathematics and was nearly expelled in the autumn of 1861 due to some political disturbances. Nevertheless, by the spring of 1862 he attained the master's degree. During the last years he became interested in chemistry, which he studied under Dmitri Mendeleev. While he acquired a sufficient knowledge of theory he was lacking practice, as at that time the entire laboratory of the university consisted of only two small rooms. Therefore, he went abroad, and in the following three years spent two semesters with Adolph Strecker at the University of Tübingen, a year (1864–5) with Charles-Adolphe Wurtz at the University of Paris, and a semester with Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe at the University of Marburg.
In the meantime, many changes were introduced into the constitution of the Russian universities. In 1863 the universities obtained academic freedom, they chose for themselves the professors,
deans, and rectors, at the same time the means of teaching improved, and, owing to Mendeleev’s efforts, the laboratory at St. Petersburg University was enlarged. In 1865 Menshutkin returned to St. Petersburg, just after his PhD thesis was published in the Comptes Rendus of the French Academy under the title “Action du chlorure d’acetyle sur l’acide phosphoreux”. He defended it in March 1866 against Aleksandr Butlerov and Dmitri Mendeleev and in autumn began teaching a course on organic nitrogen compounds. On 6 April 1869, he defended his habilitation on “The Synthesis and Properties of the Ureides” and shortly was appointed as professor of analytical chemistry. In connection with his teaching he proceeded to rearrange the course of instructions and in 1871 brought out his well-known textbook, which survived 16 editions up to 1931 and had been translated into German and English. In 1871, Menshutkin became secretary of the faculty of physics and mathematics and in 1879 was appointed as dean, an office which he held until 1887.
The assassination of the Emperor Alexander II in 1881 was followed by the adoption of severe measures, from the effects of which the universities suffered in many ways. The autonomy granted in 1863 was revoked and all officials could only be appointed by the Minister of Public Instruction; the admission of students was hindered by accepting them only from certain schools, the fees were raised and the number of professorships reduced. The discontent by professors and students resulted in disturbances in 1887-8, which were followed by the resignation of the rector and several key officials. As a result, Menshutkin had to add teaching of organic chemistry to his duties. About this time he prepared his large handbook of organic chemistry, which appeared in three successive editions, and in 1888 he published a history of the development of chemical theory. Both books were written in Russian and not translated. One of Menshutkin’s most serious undertakings of the time was the building of the new chemical laboratories of the University. Only by 1890 money could be found for this purpose and in this year Mendeleev resigned his chair, leaving Menshutkin in the position of senior professor of the university. Menshutkin managed to build the laboratories by October 1894 and worked there for eight years.
In 1902 Menshutkin was transferred to the new Polytechnic Institute, about 6 km north of St. Petersburg, while retaining the professorship in the university. There he acted as professor of analytical and organic chemistry and dean of the mining division. From the establishment of the Russian Chemical Society in 1868, and until 1891, Menshutkin served as its secretary and became its president in 1906. As deputy of a province he was able to improve popular education and help establishing several new schools. At the end of 1905 he took an active part in the elections for the first Duma, and was one of the founders of the Party of Democratic Reform. Menshutkin had suffered for many years from disorder of the kidneys. He survived an attack at the end of 1906, but then suddenly died in February 1907.
Research
For his PhD thesis, Menshutkin studied the reactions of phosphonic acid and was able to prove that not all three hydrogen atoms in the molecule are equivalent and therefore the formula HP(O)(OH)2 is more likely than P(OH)3. In 1890 Menshutkin discovered that a tertiary amine can be converted into a quaternary ammonium salt by reaction with an alkyl halide.
Menshutkin further studied the influence of isomerism among alcohols and acids on esterification and showed that, both in respect of rate and limit, the primary, secondary, and tertiary alcohols differ from one another, and that unsaturated differ from saturated alcohols. The molecular weight of the alcohol concerned has also a considerable influence on the result, the limit rising generally with molecular weight, although the rate is diminished. The first series of experiments were made with acetic acid and alcohols and were extended to a variety of acids. Subsequently, the rate of chemical change was studied in the case of the formation of amides and anilides by the action of ammonia and aniline on acids by means of the same method as was employed in the esterification experiments. Here again the influence of isomeric differences was equally manifest. These researches led on to others, such as the study of the mutual displacement of bases in homogeneous systems, and the influence of temperature on the rate of several reactions.
Menshutkin further studied the effect of different solvents on the reaction rates. Although the solvent is unaltered after the reaction, its influence on the reaction rate was significant. The stabilization of the reactants, products and intermediate phases or transition states depended strongly on the polarity of the solvent, and therefore this polarity had a large influence on the reaction rate. Because of the formation of ionic products, the effect was especially strong in the Menshutkin reaction making it an ideal tool to study the effect of solvent on the reaction rate. The Menshutkin reaction is still used for this purpose.
Between 1889 and 1895 Menshutkin focused on amines, on the kinetics of their interaction
with alkyl halogen compounds and its dependence on the isomerism. Continuing these investigations down to the end of his life, he succeeded in establishing a large number of other relations between the structure or constitution and chemical activity, as well as physical properties, such as boiling point, melting point and specific gravity. He is regarded
as a pioneer in chemical kinetics, not for the priority, but for systematic development of this field.
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1907 deaths
Chemists from the Russian Empire
Russian inventors
Saint Petersburg State University alumni
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The 2023–24 season is Trabzonspor's 57th season in existence and 50th consecutive in the Süper Lig. They will also compete in the Turkish Cup.
Players
First-team squad
Kits
Supplier: Joma
Sponsors: Vestel (front) / Safiport (right sleeve) / QNB Finansbank (left sleeve) / WhiteBIT (back) / Rentgo (short)
Transfers
In
Out
Pre-season and friendlies
Competitions
Overall record
Süper Lig
League table
Results summary
Results by round
Matches
Turkish Cup
References
External links
Trabzonspor seasons
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Ivan Soroka (born 1 October 1994) is a rugby union player born in Ukraine, and who grew up in Ireland. He plays as a prop. Soroka previously played for Irish provincial side Connacht in the Pro14. Soroka joined Connacht for the 2016–17 season, having spent the preseason on trial with the team.
Early life
Soroka was born in Kyiv. He grew up in Dublin and attended Belvedere College, playing for the school's rugby team in the Leinster Senior Schools Cup and has since coached the team. While playing for Belvedere, Soroka also played for Leinster at under-age level.
Rugby career
Amateur career
Soroka played at amateur club level for UCD, Clontarf in the All-Ireland League. He won an under 20 Interprovincial championship in 2013, Leinster Senior Cup in 2015 and an AIL title in 2016 with the team.
Connacht
Soroka trained with provincial side Connacht in the 2016–17 preseason, being part of the team's squad for a friendly with Montpellier. In October 2016, it was announced that he had signed a one-year contract with the side, his first professional team. On 1 April 2017, Soroka made his debut for Connacht off the bench in the loss to Zebre.
International
Soroka was born in Kyiv, but has never represented any Ukrainian side. He is qualified to play for Ireland internationally, but did not represent any Irish under-age teams. Soroka has however played for the Irish national club team.
References
Living people
1994 births
Clontarf FC players
Connacht Rugby players
Irish people of Ukrainian descent
Expatriate rugby union players in Ireland
Rugby union props
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Alexandro-Nevsky District () is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the 25 in Ryazan Oblast, Russia. It is located in the south of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the urban locality (a work settlement) of Alexandro-Nevsky. Population: 11,818 (2010 Census); The population of the administrative center accounts for 34.0% of the district's total population.
History
Until June 18, 2012, the district was called Novoderevensky ().
Notable residents
Sergey Bizyukin (born 1982), activist, journalist and historian
Fyodor Shebanov (1921–1951), Soviet flying ace during the Korean War, born in the village of Studenki
References
Notes
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Newton is a village and former civil parish, now the parish of Bywell in Northumberland, England. It is situated close to the A69 road, north of Stocksfield and west of Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1951 the parish had a population of 78. Bywell parish has a population of around 450 and Newton is its most populous settlement. Newton, Newton Hall and Stelling were three separate civil parishes from 1866 to 1955, when they were merged into the existing Bywell civil parish.
Newton village
The ancient township of Newton in the 13th century was made up of a collection of small tenements which were owned by the Balliols of Bywell. In 1426, rents were four shillings a year for a cottage and a garden. The lands became the property of the Crown in the 17th century. They were sold in turn to the Fenwicks of Bywell, Joseph Bainbridge of Newcastle and in 1842 to the railway engineer William Hedley of Wylam. The estate was purchased in 1952 by the trustees of Viscount Allendale's estates for the sum of £80,000.
In the 20th century, the village had a Methodist chapel at its west end, the Women's Institute hall at its east end, and an agricultural engineering works. John and James Symm manufactured farm implements, and exported as far afield as Australia and South America. There were two farms in the village; both Town Farm and South Farm were converted to residential use by the end of the century.
Today, Newton has a village hall which operates as a registered charity, the "Newton & Bywell Community Hall Trust". The Duke of Wellington public house provides accommodation in the centre of the village. There is a regular bus service to Hexham and Newcastle from Shaw House on the A69, provided by Go North East and Arriva. The nearest railway station is at Stocksfield on the Tyne Valley line.
Newton Hall
Newton Hall is located some 800 metres to the north east of Newton. The Hall complex once incorporated the remains of Newton Hall Tower, a 13th-century defensive tower belonging to the de Insula family, that was demolished in the 1800s. Newton Hall country house was built for Robert Jobling in 1811, and was modified in 1835 by the architect John Dobson. The estate was later purchased by the Joicey family who owned a number of collieries in County Durham.
St James' Church, formerly a chapel of ease to Bywell St Peter, was rebuilt in 1874 for the politician John Joicey. The church is a grade II listed building. The ecclesiastical parish of Newton Hall St James was formed in 1877, comprising the townships of Newton, Newton Hall and Stelling. In 1874 a village school was built within the estate, which existed until the 1940s when numbers of children had greatly diminished.
The Hunday Tractor Museum was located at Westside Farm. It was opened by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in 1979, and won the Museum of the Year award in 1981. An art gallery opened in 2003 on the same site.
Mowden Hall School is a private preparatory school for children aged 3–13. It acquired its present site at Newton Hall in 1945. The school is part of the Cothill Trust, an educational charity with seven schools in England and France.
Newton Cricket Club competes in the West Tyne Senior Cricket League. It is one of the longest-established cricket teams in the country and plays its home matches at Mowden School.
Stelling
Rowland Hinde held Stelling as lessee under the Monastery of Hexham in 1539, and Henry Hinde purchased the estate in 1626. In 1836 Elizabeth Archer-Hinde bequeathed the property to the politician John Hodgson-Hinde, on condition of his assuming the name of "Hinde". Stelling Hall was rebuilt in 1870 and was the residence of Mark Fenwick, esq. In 1891 the estate extended to 318 acres and had a population of 53.
The hall became part of the National Children's Home in 1954, and has since been converted into luxury properties.
Photographs of Newton
References
External links
Newton and Bywell Local History
Images from Stelling Hall Children's Home
Sue Moffitt, an artist based at Newton Hall
Villages in Northumberland
Former civil parishes in Northumberland
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The Nordic Pavilion houses the national representation of the Nordic countries Sweden, Norway, and Finland during the Venice Biennale arts festivals.
Background
Organization and building
The pavilion, designed by Sverre Fehn, was built between 1958 and 1962. The open space was designed to let in light reminiscent of that of Nordic countries. Fredrik Fogh extended the building in 1987.
The cooperation between Finland, Norway and Sweden in Venice was initiated in 1962 after the completion of the Nordic Pavilion. Until 1984, the representation of each country was organized nationally. From 1986 to 2009 the pavilion was commissioned as a whole, with the curatorial responsibility alternating between the collaborating countries.
Between 2011 and 2015, Sweden, Finland, and Norway took turns curating the pavilion alone. In 2017, they began joint curation again.
For the 2022 Biennale, the pavilion is being redesignated as the Sámi pavilion in recognition of the three Indigenous artists selected for the exhibition: Pauliina Feodoroff, Máret Ánne Sara, and Anders Sunna. It is the first time the pavilion has hosted a group of only Sámi artists.
Representation by year
Art
1962 — FINLAND: Ahti Lavonen, Kain Tapper, Esko Tirronen; NORWAY: Rolf Nesch, Knut Rumohr; SWEDEN: Siri Derkert, Per Olof Ulltvedt
1964 — FINLAND: Ina Colliander, Simo Hannula, Pentti Kaskipuro, Laila Pullinen; NORWAY: Hannah Ryggen; SWEDEN: Torsten Andersson, Martin Holmgren, Torsten Renqvist
1966 — FINLAND: Heikki Häiväoja, Harry Kivijärvi, Sam Vanni; NORWAY: Jakob Weidemann; SWEDEN: Öyvind Fahlström
1968 — FINLAND: Mauno Hartman, Kimmo Kaivanto, Ahti Lavonen; NORWAY: Gunnar S. Gundersen; SWEDEN: Sivert Lindblom, Arne Jones
1970 — FINLAND: Juhani Linnovaara; NORWAY: Arnold Haukeland; SWEDEN: Did not participate
1972 — FINLAND: Harry Kivijärvi, Pentti Lumikangas; NORWAY: Arne Ekeland; SWEDEN: Did not participate
1976 — FINLAND: Mikko Jalavisto, Tapio Junno, Kimmo Kaivanto, Ulla Rantanen; NORWAY: Boge Berg, Steinar Christensen/Kristian Kvakland, Arvid Pettersen; SWEDEN: ARARAT (Alternative Research in Architecture, Resources, Art and Technology)
1978 — FINLAND: Olavi Lanu; NORWAY: Frans Widerberg; SWEDEN: Lars Englund
1980 — FINLAND: Matti Kujasalo; NORWAY: Knut Rose; SWEDEN: Ola Billgren, Jan Håfström
1982 — FINLAND: Juhana Blomstedt; NORWAY: Synnøve Anker Aurdal; SWEDEN: Ulrik Samuelson
1984 — FINLAND: Kain Tapper, Carl-Erik Ström; NORWAY: Bendik Riis; SWEDEN: Curt Asker
1986 — "Techne": Bård Breivik (NO), Marianne Heske (NO), Olli Lyytikäinen (FI), Kjell Ohlin (SE), Erik H. Olson (SE), Silja Rantanen (FI), Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd (SE), Osmo Valtonen (FI) (Curator: Mats B.)
1988 — Per Inge Bjørlo (NO), Rolf Hanson (SE), Jukka Mäkelä (FI) (Curator: Maaretta Jaukkuri, FI)
1990 — "Cavén, Barclay, Håfström": Per Barclay (NO), Kari Cavén (FI), Jan Håfström (SE) (Curator: Per Hovdenakk, NO)
1993 — Jussi Niva (FI), Truls Melin (SE), Bente Stokke (NO) (Curator: Lars Nittve, SE)
1995 — Eva Løfdahl (SE), Per Maning (NO), Nina Roos (FI) (Curator: Timo Valjakka, FI)
1997 — "Naturally Artificial": Henrik Håkansson (SE), Mark Dion (US), Marianna Uutininen (FI), Mariko Mori (JP), Sven Påhlsson (NO) (Curator: Jon-Ove Steihaug, NO)
1999 — "End of a Story": Annika von Hausswolff (SE), Knut Åsdam (NO), Eija-Liisa Ahtila (FI). (Curator: John Peter Nilsson, SE)
2001 — "The North is Protected": Leif Elggren (SE), Tommi Grönlund/Petteri Nisunen (FI), Carl Michael von Hausswolff (SE), Anders Tomren (NO) (Curators: Grönlund/Nisunen, FI)
2003 — "Devil-May-Care": Karin Mamma Andersson (SE), Kristina Bræin (NO), Liisa Luonila (FI) (Curators: Anne Karin Jortveit and Andrea Kroksnes, NO)
2005 — "Sharing Space Dividing Time": Miriam Bäckström and Carsten Höller (SE/DE), Matias Faldbakken (NO) (Curator: Åsa Nacking, SE)
2007 — "Welfare — Fare Well": Adel Abidin (IQ/FI), Jacob Dahlgren (SE), Lars Ramberg (NO), Toril Goksøyr & Camilla Martens (NO), Sirous Namazi (SE), Maaria Wirkkala FI (Curator: René Block, DE)
2009 — "The Collectors" (in collaboration with the Danish Pavilion): Elmgreen and Dragset, Klara Lidén (SE), Wolfgang Tillmans (DE) and others (Curators: Elmgreen & Dragset, DK/NO)
2011 — SWEDEN: Fia Backström, Andreas Eriksson (Curator: Magnus af Petersens)
2013 — FINLAND: Terike Haapoja (Curators: Mika Elo, Marko Karo, Harri Laakso)
2015 — NORWAY: Camille Norment (Curator: Katya García-Antón)
2017 — Siri Aurdal (NO), Nina Canell (SE), (SE), Jumana Manna (PS), (FI), and Mika Taanila (FI) (Curator: Mats Stjernstedt. Commissioners: Ann-Sofi Noring, Moderna Museet, Sweden, with Katya García-Antón, OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Norway, and Raija Koli, Frame Contemporary Art Finland, Finland)
Architecture
2023 – Girjegumpi: The Sámi Architecture Library by Joar Nango and collaborators
References
Bibliography
Further reading
External links
Finnish art
National pavilions
Norwegian contemporary art
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Vegard Stake Laengen (born 7 February 1989) is a Norwegian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career
Born in Oslo, Laengen competed for Norway at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. In August 2015 confirmed that Laengen would be leaving the team to join for 2016. He was named in the start list for the 2016 Giro d'Italia and the 2016 Vuelta a España. In June 2017, he was named in the startlist for the Tour de France.
Personal life
Laengen currently resides in Fredrikstad, Norway.
Major results
2009
10th Rogaland GP
2010
1st Overall Giro della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia
4th Road race, National Road Championships
9th Overall Tour Alsace
2011
National Road Championships
2nd Road race
4th Time trial
3rd Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
3rd Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
4th Overall Tour de l'Avenir
5th Overall Tour Alsace
7th Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften
2012
1st Stage 5 Tour de Beauce
5th Road race, National Road Championships
2013
2nd Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites
3rd Tour du Doubs
2014
9th Boucles de l'Aulne
2015
1st Overall Tour Alsace
1st Stage 3
2nd Overall Ronde de l'Oise
1st Stage 3
2nd Chrono Champenois
National Road Championships
3rd Road race
4th Time trial
3rd Hadeland GP
4th Ringerike GP
2016
2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
2017
6th Overall Tour of California
8th Gran Premio di Lugano
9th Overall Colorado Classic
Combativity award Stage 6 Tour de France
2018 (1 pro win)
1st Road race, National Road Championships
10th Overall Tour of Slovenia
2021
2nd Trofeo Andratx–Mirador d'Es Colomer
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
References
External links
Vegard Stake Laengen at Bretagne-Séché Environnement
Vegard Stake Laengen at Cycling Base
1989 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Fredrikstad
Norwegian male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Norway
Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Cyclists from Oslo
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Chamaesphecia anthraciformis is a moth of the family Sesiidae. It is found in Italy and on Sicily, Corsica and Sardinia. It is also found in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and the Levant.
The larvae feed on Euphorbia nicaeensis, Euphorbia atlantica, Euphorbia myrsinites, Euphorbia ceratocarpa and Euphorbia characia.
References
Moths described in 1832
Sesiidae
Moths of Europe
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Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan (2 March 1935 – 8 September 2008) was an Indian classical music violinist and music composer.
Early life
Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan was born on 2 March 1935 and was trained by his father, Ramaswamy Sastry. He was the brother of Kunnakudi Subbalakshmi.
Career
The violin was his forte. He was known for his dexterity and subtlety in handling the violin, he catered not only to the music scholar but also to the layman. His play reflected his own different moods and the demands of his audience with whom he established and enjoyed a good rapport. He dwelled with ease and competence in the high as well as the low octaves.
At the age of 12, he accompanied great stalwarts like Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar, Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer and Maharajapuram Santhanam in concerts. He also performed with Nadaswaram vidwans like T.N.Rajarathinam Pillai and Thiruvenkadu Subramania Pillai.
He stopped accompanying vocal artistes in 1976 to concentrate more on solo concerts. He was famous for his fingering techniques on the violin. His interest in new attempts and innovations led him to work with veteran thavil vidwan Valayapatti_A._R._Subramaniam. They performed over 3,000 shows together. Vaidyanathan had deep faith in the therapeutic merits of music.
Film music
He also made a significant contribution to Tamil devotional music. A. P. Nagarajan giving him his first break in the movie Vaa Raja Vaa. He had several hits such as Agathiyar in which "Sirkazhi govindarajan" Acted as Agathiyar. And Raja Raja Chozhan, for which he scored music, were also phenomenal hits.
Vaidyanathan made a special appearance in the 2005 Tamil movie Anniyan directed by Shankar, on the Tyagaraja Aradhana festival sequence for the song Iyengaaru Veetu which is a recreation of the real festival. He had guest appearances in many other films.
He tried his hand at film production with a feature film in Tamil Thodi Ragam, with T. N. Seshagopalan in the lead, which failed to enthuse the audience.
Discography
Their works include music for the following movies:
Awards
He was awarded the prestigious "Padma Shri" title by the Indian government, Kalaimamani award, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award by the Sangeet Natak Akademi in 1993, and the Karnataka Isaignani award. He has also won Best Music Director awards for his background scores for films. He received the Sangeetha Kalasikhamani award given by "The Indian Fine Arts Society" in 1996. He also received the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Music Director for the film Thirumalai Thenkumari in 1970 and the Tamil Nadu State Film Honorary Award - Raja Sando Award in 2000.
Other associations
Vaidyanathan, had a long association with the All India Radio. An able administrator, Vaidyanathan served as Secretary of the Tamil Nadu Iyal Isai Nadaga Mandram. As the Secretary of Thyagabrahma Sabha, Thiruvaiyaru in Thanjavur district, he conducted the Tyagaraja Aradhana for several years. He also served as president of the Raga Research Centre.
References
External links
Interview with Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan
1935 births
2008 deaths
Indian violinists
Carnatic instrumentalists
Carnatic violinists
Recipients of the Padma Shri in arts
Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Tamil musicians
Tamil Nadu State Film Awards winners
People from Tirunelveli district
Tamil film score composers
Kannada film score composers
20th-century violinists
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The Tomsk–Tayga railway line is the railway branch connecting the Trans-Siberian Railway with Tomsk.
Main information
The line is a single track throughout. Construction started in summer 1895 and completed in the end of 1896. Had at that time a length of 89 miles (95 kilometers). The need for the branches associated with the decision to build the Trans-Siberian Railway to bypass Tomsk, which was adopted in 1893.
The beginning of the branches was a 213-mile (227-th kilometer or about) the Medium-Siberian railway from nameless settlement of the Trans-Siberian Railway. Later the station became known as Tomsk–Tayga, and later Tayga. Now it is 3565-th kilometer of the Trans-Siberian Railway, on which is situated the town of Tayga, Kemerovo Oblast. The first 20 miles from the Tayga line runs along the watershed of the Katata/Cherbak (tributaries Yai) and Togakushi/Vasandani (tributaries Tom River), and then Vasandani and Ushaika Rivers. Station "Tomsk" was located on the 82 mile (87 km), to him from Vela Irkutsk road. The endpoint of the branch was on the Bank of Tom river at the Marina, Ceremonii.
Second track
The need for the construction of the second track was first officially recognized in 1993 after the accident at the Siberian chemical combine. Then, the Russian Government has allocated 10 billion Rubles for the completion of the liquidation of the accident consequences. The Governor of Tomsk Oblast Victor Kress has disposed to spend the money including the construction of a second track between Tomsk-2 and Tayga (87 km). In 1994 has been allocated 200 million Rubles, which were intended Corporation "Transstroy". However, the second tracks were not laid anywhere. Only between stations Tomsk-2 and Tomsk-1 was made mound and delivered the pillars under the electrification of the second track.
References
External links
Map of Tomsk Railway
Дмитрий Афонин. Путевые заметки. Сквозь ветви сосен (Тайга—Богашёво)
Дмитрий Афонин. Путевые заметки. Вокруг да около (Богашёво—Томск-II)
Дмитрий Афонин. Томск и Транссиб
Railway lines in Russia
Rail transport in Kemerovo Oblast
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Stringfellow Glacier () is a glacier just west of Henson Glacier, flowing north from the Detroit Plateau of Graham Land into Wright Ice Piedmont. Mapped from air photos by Hunting Aerosurveys (1953–57). Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for John Stringfellow (1799–1883), English designer of the first powered model airplane to make a flight, in 1848.
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Roy Emerson Stryker (November 5, 1893 – September 27, 1975) was an American economist, government official, and photographer. He headed the Information Division of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) during the Great Depression, and launched the documentary photography program of the FSA. It hired photographers to travel across the United States and document people in different areas and settings as part of showing the state of people in rural areas in those years. Specific projects were conceived to help assess effects of government programs.
He later worked several years on a documentary project for Standard Oil, established the Pittsburgh Photographic Library (PPL), consulted with other companies, and taught photo-journalism at University of Missouri. In his later years he returned to the West, living at last in Colorado.
Life
After serving in the infantry in World War I, Stryker went to Columbia University, where he studied economics. He used photography to illustrate his economics texts and lectures. At Columbia, he worked with Rexford Tugwell. When Tugwell became part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Resettlement Administration, Stryker followed him. Tugwell and Stryker refocused the attention of the Resettlement Administration to document the problems of the heartland, and in 1935 Stryker became the head of the Historical Section (Information Division) of the RA. The RA was renamed as the Farm Security Administration, and Stryker set up the photo-documentary project.
Stryker was a manager of the FSA's photographic project. The photographers involved attested to his skill in getting good work from them. He ensured that the photographers were well briefed on their assigned areas before being sent out, and that they were properly funded. However, Stryker has been criticized for his destructive editing, as he would sometimes physically deface negatives by punching holes in them.
"Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable," photographer and artist Ben Shahn has been quoted saying.
Stryker also made sure that mainstream publications had access to FSA photographs. This both helped focus public attention on the plight of the rural poor and set up the commercial careers of his photographers. Overall, from 164,000 developed negatives, some 77,000 different finished photographic prints were made for the press, plus 644 color images.
Photographers hired by Stryker for the FSA included Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, John Vachon, Marion Post Wolcott, Russell Lee, Jack Delano, Gordon Parks, John Collier, Carl Mydans, and Edwin and Louise Rosskam.
During World War II, the photographic unit of the FSA was reassigned to the Office of War Information. It was used to produce what was essentially propaganda and disbanded after a year. At the same time, the US Congress disbanded the FSA. The holdings of the FSA's photographic unit were transferred to the Library of Congress.
Stryker resigned from the government. He worked for Standard Oil in its public relations documentary project from 1943 to 1950, hiring some of the photographers he had worked with at FSA.
In selecting photographers for projects at Standard Oil (SO), Stryker sought those who possessed what he described as an
"insatiable curiosity, the kind that can get to the core of an assignment, the kind that can comprehend what a truck driver, or a farmer, or a driller or a housewife thinks and feels and translate those thoughts and feelings into pictures that can be similarly comprehended by anyone."
Photographers on the SO project included, among others: Berenice Abbott, Gordon Parks and Todd Webb; as well as Esther Bubley, Harold Corsini, Russell Lee, Arnold S. Eagle, Elliott Erwitt and Sol Libsohn, who would later follow Stryker to his next project in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After suggesting topics he wanted to be documented, Stryker gave his photographers the freedom to pursue their individual approaches to their subjects. As with all his projects, Stryker was adamant that his staff understand their subjects and their context before going out on an assignment.
From 1950 to 1952, Stryker worked to establish the Pittsburgh Photographic Library (PPL). In 1960, the collection was transferred to the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.
After leaving the PPL, Stryker directed a documentation project at Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation. Thereafter, he accepted consulting jobs on occasion and conducted seminars on photo-journalism at the Journalism School of University of Missouri. Stryker eventually returned to the West in the 1960s. He died in Grand Junction, Colorado.
The Roy Stryker Papers, including manuscripts, correspondence, and vintage prints from the Stryker-directed projects: Farm Security Administration (FSA), the Standard Oil (New Jersey) Co. and Jones & Laughlin Steel, are held in Photographic Archives, Archives and Special Collections, University of Louisville.
References
External links
The Standard Oil (New Jersey) Collection – A digital collection of photographs from the documentary project directed by Roy E. Stryker.
1893 births
1975 deaths
American civil servants
American photojournalists
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Alexander Jonathan Gordon (born February 10, 1984) is an American former professional baseball left fielder who played his entire career for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2007 to 2020. Prior to playing professionally, Gordon attended the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he played college baseball for the Nebraska Cornhuskers.
At Nebraska, Gordon won the Brooks Wallace Award, Dick Howser Trophy, and Golden Spikes Award in 2005. That year, the Royals selected Gordon with the second overall pick in the 2005 MLB Draft. Gordon made his major league debut in 2007 as a third baseman, but had an inconsistent beginning to his career. In 2010, the Royals demoted Gordon to the minor leagues for a substantial period of time, and moved Gordon from third base to the outfield. He returned to the Royals later that season as a full-time outfielder, and his play improved substantially. A member of the Royals' 2015 World Series championship team, Gordon signed a four-year free agent contract that offseason to remain with the team. Gordon won eight Gold Glove Awards, four Fielding Bible Awards, and a Wilson Defensive Player of the Year Award, all after the move to the outfield.
Early life
Gordon was born on February 10, 1984, to a family heavily involved in baseball. Gordon's father played baseball for the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and his brother played college baseball at the University of Nebraska Omaha. As a child, Gordon's family would sometimes make the drive from Omaha to Kansas City, Missouri, to attend Royals games. Gordon had a successful high school baseball career at Lincoln Southeast High School, where he was named the Gatorade Nebraska Player of the Year in 2002. He was also listed as one of the top high school prospects by Baseball America his senior year, and also received All-State honors in football that same year.
During his teen years, Gordon played American Legion Baseball. He won the organization's Graduate of the Year award in 2015.
College career
Gordon attended the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, majoring in criminal justice and playing third base for the university's baseball team. In his junior year in 2005, he swept the collegiate baseball awards for college player of the year, winning the Dick Howser Trophy, Golden Spikes Award, the Brooks Wallace Award, and the American Baseball Coaches Association Rawlings Player of the Year Award. He was also an ESPY Award Finalist for the Best Male College Athlete. Over the course of his collegiate career, he posted a .355 career batting average, with 44 home runs and 189 runs batted in (RBIs) and finished in the top ten in eight different offensive statistical categories at Nebraska. Additionally, Gordon was named the Big 12 Conference Player of the Year in 2004 and 2005 and was named to the First Team All-Big 12 Team in 2004 and 2005.
U.S. National Team
During his time at the University of Nebraska, Gordon was a member of the 2004 United States national baseball team, which included players from 15 different colleges. He helped lead Team USA to an 18–7 overall record, seeing the majority of his playing time at first base. He hit .388 with four home runs, 12 RBI and 18 runs scored in 24 contests and was named the top offensive player at the World University Baseball Championship in Tainan, Taiwan, after leading all players with a .524 average (11-for-21) with two home runs, five RBI, and eight runs scored in eight games.
Professional baseball career
Draft and minor leagues
Gordon was drafted in 2005 by the Kansas City Royals with the second pick overall, becoming the highest draft pick out of Nebraska since Darin Erstad was selected with the first pick of the 1995 Major League Baseball (MLB) draft. He hit 29 home runs and stole 22 bases with an on-base plus slugging over 1.000 in his first full season in minor league baseball with the Double-A Wichita Wranglers. By midseason, Gordon was receiving accolades for being one of the best hitting prospects in baseball. He participated in the Texas League All-Star game and was selected for the 2006 All-Star Futures Game. Declining to play for Team USA in 2006, Gordon led the Wichita Wranglers to the Texas League playoffs. He performed well in his first full minor league season, and won the Texas League Player of the Year Award and Baseball America's and Topps Minor League Player of the Year Award after the season ended. He also was named the MLB.com Double-A Offensive Player of the Year.
2006 Topps baseball card
Gordon's baseball card gained notoriety shortly after Gordon was drafted in 2006. Topps issued Gordon's rookie card prematurely, as only players on 25-man rosters or who have played in at least one Major League game are eligible. As a result, Topps stopped producing the card and cut holes in some of the existing cards. Examples that found their way into retail stores have garnered bids in the thousands of dollars on eBay.
Major leagues
Third base: 2007–2009
The Royals moved Gordon through the minor league system quickly, and he made his major league debut in 2007. In his first major league at-bat, Gordon struck out with the bases loaded against Curt Schilling but eventually got his first major league hit on April 5, 2007, against the Boston Red Sox. The hit came against Daisuke Matsuzaka. On April 10, 2007, he hit his first major league home run off pitcher Josh Towers of the Toronto Blue Jays.
Despite Gordon hitting .185 with three home runs and eight RBI through his first two months as an everyday starter, the Royals remained patient with him.
On September 2, Gordon had the first multi-home run game of his career, connecting off Boof Bonser of the Minnesota Twins in the second inning, and in the 3rd inning off Julio DePaula. On September 12, Gordon hit his 34th double of the year against the Minnesota Twins, establishing a Royals rookie record. Gordon performed better for the rest of the season, but broke his nose in the last game of the season. Gordon's late-season resurgence brought his batting average up to .247. He also hit 15 home runs and stole 14 bases.
Before the 2008 season, Gordon switched his uniform number from #7, the number he had as a rookie, to #4, his college number. On Opening Day, 2008 (which occurred on March 31), Gordon hit a two-run home run off Detroit Tigers ace Justin Verlander.
The Royals placed Gordon on the 15-day disabled list on August 23 because of a torn muscle in his right quadriceps. He would not return to Kansas City until September 12, although he did hit .311 in the month of September. Gordon finished the season with a .260 batting average and 16 home runs and led the Royals with 66 walks. However, he made the most errors (16) and had the lowest fielding percentage (.955) of all American League (AL) third basemen in 2008.
Gordon struggled at the beginning of the 2009 season, hitting just 2-for-21 (.095) with one home run and three RBIs in seven games before being injured while sliding. He underwent surgery on April 17 to repair a tear in the labral cartilage of the right hip, and was on the disabled list for twelve weeks. After playing a few games in the minors, Gordon came off the disabled list and rejoined the Royals on July 17 going 1 for 4 against the Tampa Bay Rays. Gordon stole home for the first time in his career on August 2 against the Rays, becoming the first Royal to do that since Mendy López in 2003. The Royals optioned Gordon to the Triple-A Omaha Royals on August 18 to free up a roster space for Kyle Farnsworth. Gordon had a batting average of .198 at his demotion, and had made five errors while appearing in only 29 games. After Omaha finished up its season, Gordon returned to the Royals in September. Between the return to Kansas City and the end of the season, Gordon got a hit in 15 of the final 20 games he played in, and hit home runs in back-to-back games against the Minnesota Twins.
Move to outfield: 2010–2013
Following a broken thumb suffered in Spring Training, Gordon began the 2010 season on a minor league rehab assignment with Class-A Advanced Wilmington. Gordon was activated from the disabled list on April 17. He was demoted to the minor leagues in May, where he played left field. Gordon had been hitting .194 before his demotion, and many considered this demotion to indicate that Gordon was running out of chances with the Royals. Rusty Kuntz, a coach in the Royals' organization stated that "If he can catch a fly ball in this mess, he’s going to be OK." While playing for Omaha, Gordon was named to the Pacific Coast League's All-Star team. Gordon was recalled from Triple-A on July 23, 2010, to take the place of David DeJesus in the Royals' outfield; DeJesus had been placed on the disabled list with a right thumb sprain. On July 30, Gordon hit his first career walk-off home run in a game against the Baltimore Orioles. Gordon hit .264 in the month of August, but then slumped to a .177 batting average during September. Gordon finished the 2010 season with a .215 and eight home runs, having appeared in only 74 games for the Royals.
In Spring Training in 2011, he led the major leagues in RBIs, with 23. 2011 would be a breakout season for Gordon, as his success during Spring Training carried over into the regular season. He and would string together a 19-game hitting streak during much of the month of April and hit more doubles than any player for the Royals had since 2007; his 45 doubles was tied for sixth in the major leagues. Gordon was selected as an American League finalist for the 2011 All-Star Final Vote, but Paul Konerko was elected. Gordon played in over 150 games in the season, which was the most games he had played in at the major league level since his rookie year. Gordon set career highs in batting average (.303), runs scored (101), stolen bases (17), and home runs (23). Defensively, he led all major league outfielders in assists, with 20 and won his first American League Gold Glove Award. Gordon's 20 outfield assists also set a Royals franchise record.
On February 9, 2012, Gordon signed a one-year, $4.775 million deal with the Royals to avoid arbitration. In the process, Gordon filed for $5.45, while the Royals countered with $4.15. Under the Royals' agreement, he could have earned an additional $25K if he had reached 700 plate appearances, putting him at the original midpoint. However, on March 30, he signed a four-year, $37.5 million extension with the Royals with a player option for 2016. Gordon earned $6 million in 2012, $9 million in 2013, $10 million in 2014 and $12.5 million in 2015, but declined to exercise his player option of $12.5 million for 2016. Gordon would otherwise have become a free agent after 2013.
Despite starting the 2012 season by hitting only .240 through early June, Gordon hit .323 from that point through the remainder of the season. He also drew five walks in a single game against the St. Louis Cardinals on June 17. Gordon finished the 2012 season with a .294 batting average and led the majors with 51 doubles. This tied him with Billy Butler for the second-greatest single-season number of doubles in team history, behind Hal McRae's 1977 season. In 2012, Gordon won a Fielding Bible Award as the best fielding left fielder in MLB. He also won the Gold Glove Award. Gordon's fielding percentage was higher than that of any other player who had played in at least 125 games as a left fielder.
He started the 2013 season strongly by hitting .329 during the first two months of the season. Gordon recorded multiple hits in a game 52 times during the season, and also hit two grand slamsone in April against the Detroit Tigers and one in July against the Cleveland Indians. He finished with the season with 90 runs scored, 168 hits, 27 doubles, six triples, 20 home runs, 81 RBIs, and a .265 batting average. Gordon earned his third consecutive Gold Glove Award for his defense in left field, his second Fielding Bible Award, and earned his first career All-Star selection.
Playoff appearances (Back-to-back World Series): 2014–2015
In the 2014 season, Gordon scored 87 runs, had 150 hits, 34 doubles, one triple, 19 home runs, 74 RBI, 12 stolen bases, and a .266 BA. On July 6, he was named to the 2014 All-Star Team for the second consecutive year. On August 6, he recorded his 1,000th career hit when he singled off Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Wade Miley. On August 26, he tied Wade Boggs for the most home runs hit by a Nebraskan in the Major Leagues.
The Royals qualified for the 2014 postseason. Gordon mostly struggled during the playoffs, batting only .204, including six doubles, four stolen bases, and one home run, with the home run coming in the 10th inning of Game 1 of the AL Championship Series against the Baltimore Orioles. Gordon represented the tying run in the 9th inning of Game 7 of the 2014 World Series, when with two outs, he lined a long single to left center. He reached third base when Giants' center fielder Gregor Blanco misplayed the ball, but was stranded when catcher Salvador Pérez fouled out to Pablo Sandoval to end the game and the series.
After the end of the 2014 season, Gordon was awarded the Hutch Award for his off-the field actions, including raising over $1 million for a nonprofit organization supporting cancer research and his support of youth baseball in his hometown of Omaha. Gordon was also awarded for his on-the-field performance, receiving the Gold Glove, Fielding Bible, and Platinum Glove awards for his defensive performance.
On July 8, 2015, against the Tampa Bay Rays, Gordon was injured attempting to chase down a fly ball hit by Logan Forsythe, which resulted in an inside-the-park home run as Gordon could not get back up. After being carted off the field, he was diagnosed with a left groin strain and was placed on the injured list. Gordon had just come off a seven-hit double header the night before against the Rays (tying the Royals record for most hits in a double header) in which he hit a double and a home run. The injury prevented Gordon from playing in the 2015 All-Star game, being replaced on the All-Star roster by Brett Gardner. At the time of the injury, Gordon had a .280 batting average and had hit 11 home runs. On September 2, Gordon was activated from the DL and went 2-for-3, with an RBI and run scored against the Detroit Tigers .
He finished the regular season with a .271 batting average/.377 on-base percentage/.432 slugging percentage with 18 doubles, 13 home runs, and 48 RBIs.
The Royals qualified for the postseason in 2015. Gordon hit a home run off of Luke Gregerson in the ninth inning of Game 3 of the 2015 AL Divisional Series. The Royals would go on defeat the Astros in five games, and would defeat the Toronto Blue Jays in the American League Championship Series. Gordon hit .250 in the series against Toronto. In Game 1 of the 2015 World Series, Gordon hit a ninth-inning home run off of New York Mets closer Jeurys Familia to tie the game at 4. The Royals would go on to win, 5–4, in 14 innings. Gordon became a World Champion when the Royals won the World Series in five games over the Mets, the first World Series won by the Royals since 1985. Combined in the postseason, Gordon hit .241 with 2 homers, 6 RBI and a .775 OPS. Gordon, along with all of the Royals, attended the World Series parade and pep rally in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, at Union Station on November 3.
Later career and retirement: 2016–2020
Gordon signed a four-year deal worth $72 million to remain with the Royals with a mutual option for the 2020 season on January 6, 2016. On May 22, 2016, Gordon collided with Royals' third-baseman Mike Moustakas while chasing a Melky Cabrera pop-up into foul territory down the left field line against the Chicago White Sox. Gordon suffered a scaphoid fracture in his right wrist and was placed on the disabled-list where he missed 29 games. He finished 2016 hitting .220/.312/.380 with a career high 148 strikeouts in 445 at-bats.
On May 4, 2017, Gordon was hit by a pitch from White Sox's pitcher Derek Holland. This was Gordon's 79th career hit by pitch, breaking Mike Macfarlane's franchise record. When asked about how he was able to be hit by so many pitches, Gordon responded "[I] don't move." While he stated that he did not lean in towards the pitch to give himself a better chance of being hit, Gordon did admit that he had done so during his college career. On September 19, Gordon hit the 5,694th home run of the MLB season against Ryan Tepera, breaking the record for the most home runs in an MLB season, with the previous record having been set in the 2000 season. For the season, he batted .208/.293/.315. His .315 slugging percentage in 2017 was the lowest of all qualified major league batters. Gordon's defense still provided value to the Royals, as Gordon again won the Gold Glove award.
Before the 2018 season, Gordon was inducted into the Lincoln Southeast High School Athletics Hall of Fame. On May 8, Gordon collected a season-high four hits, and he drove in five runs on September 15. In 2018, Gordon hit .245/.324/.370 with 13 home runs and 54 RBIs and won his sixth Gold Glove. Additionally, Gordon also won his fourth Fielding Bible award.
In 2019, he had his best offensive season since 2015. Early in April that season, Gordon recorded his first four-hit game since May 2018. In early May, Gordon hit two home runs, while also reaching 1,500 career hits in the same game, off of Jake Arrieta. In a blowout loss to the Oakland Athletics on August 26, Gordon made his first professional pitching appearance, pitching innings. Gordon rebounded to hit .266/.345/.396 with 13 home runs and 76 RBIs. He also won his seventh career Gold Glove.
On November 2, 2019, Gordon elected free agency. On January 22, 2020, he signed a one-year, $4 million contract to remain with the Royals for the 2020 season. On September 24, Gordon announced that he would retire from baseball at the conclusion of the 2020 season. His final career game was on September 27 against the Detroit Tigers, and received one at-bat in which he struck out to lead off the bottom of the first inning, his first leadoff appearance since April 2017. Gordon then went out to take his position in left field in the top of the second before being pulled back to the dugout and replaced by Franchy Cordero. Overall with the 2020 Kansas City Royals, Gordon batted .209 with four home runs and 11 RBIs in 50 games.
Personal life
Gordon and his wife, Jamie, have two sons and one daughter. They reside in Leawood, Kansas.
See also
List of Major League Baseball players who spent their entire career with one franchise
References
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