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Sula hanging parrot - Wikipedia |
The Sula hanging parrot (Loriculus sclateri) is a small species of parrot in the family Psittaculidae. It is endemic to forest and nearby habitats on the Banggai and Sula Islands in Indonesia.
The Sula hanging parrot has sometimes been treated as a subspecies of the Moluccan hanging parrot, but the two are increasingly treated as separate species based on their distinct differences in plumage and size (14 cm for the Sula hanging parrot versus 11 cm (4 in) for the Moluccan hanging parrot).[2] When recognized as separate species, the Sula hanging parrot has often been treated as monotypic, but the subspecies L. s. ruber from the Banggai Islands has recently been re-validated, leaving the nominate for the Sula Islands.[2] Both subspecies have an overall green plumage with red to the chin, rump and leading edge of the wing. In L. s. sclateri the mantle varies from all mustard-orange to red broadly edged by orange, while the mantle of L. s. ruber is red with very little orange edge. Furthermore, the red rump is brighter in L. s. ruber than in L. s. sclateri.[2]
The Sula hanging parrot is found throughout the Sula Islands, Banggi Island, Peleng, Melilis Island, Labobo Island, Seho Island, and other small surrounding islands. However, it is absent from Bengkulu Island and Sulawesi.[3]
The Sula hanging parrot is usually present in areas below 450 meters in old-growth forest, secondary forest, near agricultural land with scattered trees, plantations, and forest edges. It is usually found singly or in small groups. Pairs usually nest in tree and stump burrows, as they prefer narrow, long burrows with small holes.[4] To carry back nesting materials to build a nest inside the burrow, this species tucks in materials such as small twigs under its wing and then carries it back to their nesting site.[5] Breeding usually takes place from January to April while a second season happens from July to September. During breeding season the male performs an elaborate courtship display to attract a female. In the display, the male approaches the female with small steps and hops while making a warbling sound. He also extends his neck to show of his blue throat patch while raising his rump, displaying his tail feathers.[4] The species also engages in courtship feeding.[5] Females lay a clutch of 2 to 4 eggs. The female incubate the eggs for approximately 20 days while the male feeds her. Eggs are usually 15 – 18 mm long. Young birds fledge at around 32 days of age and are usually fully independent in 10–11 days.[4]
Like most other birds in the genus Loriculus, the Sulu hanging parrot is threatened by deforestation to make way for farms, mining operations, and logging. It is also threatened by the illegal pet wildlife trade.[5]
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East Village High School - Wikipedia | East Village High School (EVHS) is a public San Diego Unified high school located on the campus of San Diego City College in downtown San Diego, California enrolling grades 9 to 12. It was previously named San Diego Early/Middle College until 2016.[4]
This nontraditional high school offers free college enrollment to its students in the 11th and 12th grade. While earning their high school diploma, a student attending EVHS can earn up to a years worth of college credit.[5]
In 2014, East Village High School was named one of the top high schools in the United States in its[who?] 2014 list of best public high schools, ranking 338th among California high schools, and 1,511th nationally. EVHS achieved a Silver Medal Award based on its academic achievement.
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Soldati - 365 all'alba - Wikipedia | Soldati - 365 all'alba (i.e. "Soldiers 365 Days Before Discharge") is a 1987 Italian drama film directed by Marco Risi. The film, which deals with the military service seen as a traumatic experience, marked the switch of Risi from low-wattage comedies to more complex themes.[1]
Before coming into production, the screenplay was submitted to the Ministry of Defence to obtain the necessary permits to shoot in real barracks, but it received an outright refusal, as the Ministry feared to exacerbate the already harsh controversy that at the time had invested the Army because of a chain of suicides in the barracks as a result of hazing. The film, therefore, was filmed partly in Rome between the Empire Studios, the private school Nazarene College and the psychiatric hospital Santa Maria della Pietà, and Trieste, in the museum of national history.[2]
The year is 1987. In a barracks in Pontebba, various young people who differ from each other in character, ways of life and social background are gathered for military service. To target the recruits are first the older soldiers (the nonni), then lieutenant Fili, who shows particular dislike for private Scanna. The officer vents on the soldier his existential dissatisfaction, the disappointment for a lack of promotion, the morbid jealousy for his wife Anna. But despite the harassment, the dismissal is approaching. On the very last night, the young soldiers, fully armed, are called for a strange exercise and leave by plane to an unknown destination.
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Pap (nickname) - Wikipedia | Pap is a nickname of:
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Brown Bobby - Wikipedia | A Brown Bobby is a triangular doughnut. It is baked in a Brown Bobby machine, which resembles and is operated similarly to a waffle iron. These machines were created by the Food Display Machine Corporation in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., around the 1920s and possibly later.
The Food Display Machine Corporation was located at 500 North Dearborn Street in Chicago. Its president was H. Adams. In the mid-1920s, through advertisements in Popular Mechanics magazine and perhaps other means as well, these machines were marketed as a way to start a small business. The machine’s manual has 3 parts:
The seven business plans described are:
Some of the suggested locations for selling included candy stores, theatres, chain stores, bowling alleys, cigar stores, railway stations, dance halls, waiting rooms, garages, filling stations, general stores, and soft drink parlors.
One could also obtain boxes and bags from the company for packaging the doughnuts. The machines are no longer manufactured as the Food Display Machine Corporation has long been out of business. According to the Annual Report of the Federal Trade Commission for 1937 the company was issued a Cease and Desist order for misrepresenting possible or maximum earnings for its potato chip machines.[1]
The Brown Bobby machine resembled and operated similar to a waffle iron. Its surfaces were made of aluminium and were prepared for baking by coating with paraffin, though users today would most often use cooking spray. The machine had a high (600 watt/surfaces connected in parallel) and a low (300 watt/surfaces connected in series) setting. Cooking was done on the high setting, the low setting was for allowing the machine to remain idle. Machines were available as either a single (aka Brown Bobby Junior) for US$52 or as two machines riveted together into a single unit for US$100. Since these machines are no longer manufactured they are prized by their owners and often handed down to subsequent generations to continue a tradition of Brown Bobby making, especially during the holidays.
The Brown Bobby manual included 10 recipes for doughnuts, 4 icing recipes and a number of prepared doughnut mixes were also available. Recipes included Plain, Wholewheat, Bran, Spice, Nut, Tutti-Frutti, Chocolate and Oatmeal. The doughnuts were touted as “greaseless” because they were not deep-fried, but as the included recipe indicates, there was an amount of fat in the doughnut itself.
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Clement Liebert - Wikipedia | Clement Liebert (fl. 1433–1454) was a Franco-Flemish singer and composer of the early Renaissance, active in Rome and at the Burgundian court.
His life is only documented briefly for two periods. Like many composers who originated in the modern-day Low Countries, he spent time in Italy, and sang in the papal chapel in 1433. His presence is also recorded in the Burgundian court chapel, where he was employed as a singer from 1441 to 1454.[1]
Only one piece of music is securely attributed to him, a song entitled Comment porray.[1] The manuscript containing it, formerly in the Strasbourg Bibliothèque Municipale, was destroyed on 24 August 1870, during the Siege of Strasbourg in the Franco-Prussian War.[2]
It is not known if Liebert was related to Reginaldus Libert (Liebert), another Burgundian composer who was one of the first to use fauxbourdon in a setting of the Ordinary of the Mass. It is also possible that Clement Liebert is the same as a J. de Climen, a composer of around 1430, to whom a two-voice canon was attributed in a manuscript formerly from a Strasbourg library, now destroyed.[3]
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List of Top Gear (2002 TV series) episodes - Wikipedia |
Top Gear is a British television series that focuses on various motor vehicles, primarily cars, in which its hosts conduct reviews on new models and vintage classics, as well as tackling various motoring related challenges, and inviting celebrities to set a time on their specially designed race-course. The programme is a relaunched version of the original 1977 show of the same name.
For its first series, the show was presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and Jason Dawe, with support from an anonymous race driver, The Stig. The format of the first series was more similar to the original show than later series and had interviews with guests outside of the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car segment. Dawe was replaced by James May for the second series, where the show chose to focus only on car reviews, guest laps in the Reasonably Priced Car, the Cool Wall, and the Greatest Car Ever segment (exclusive to this series), with each episode also having a single short challenge. This strict format was later relaxed, with the third series showing more challenges; these challenges became longer from the fourth series as the races and the cheap car challenges were introduced. By series 7, there were fewer reviews of "affordable" cars that were the main focus of the original show, and the show became almost entirely focused on longer and partially-scripted challenges, with one or two car reviews (usually only featuring performance cars) per episode. Regular roadtrip-style special episodes were also introduced from series 9, often aired as a Christmas special.
This new format remained unchanged until the line-up was changed after the departure of Clarkson, Hammond and May at the end of the twenty-second series. Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc took over as the main hosts, with a team of co-presenters consisting of Chris Harris, Rory Reid, Eddie Jordan and Sabine Schmitz.[1][2][3] After the twenty-third series, Evans departed from the show, leading to LeBlanc being joined by Harris and Reid as the main hosts, with occasional appearances from Jordan and Schmitz.[4] LeBlanc departed the show following the twenty-sixth series in 2019,[5] and was replaced by new hosts Paddy McGuiness and Freddie Flintoff for the twenty-seventh series later that year.[6]
The following is a list of episodes, listed in order of their original UK air date along with featured cars, challenges, and guests. For more information on features and challenges included in each series, visit each series' respective page. Comprehensive lists of challenges and races can be found at Top Gear challenges and Top Gear Races. The list does not include shorter spin-off episodes produced for charity (Top Gear of the Pops, produced for Red Nose Day; Top Ground Gear Force and Stars in Fast Cars, produced for Sport Relief; and an Ashes to Ashes parody and Children in Need does Star in a Reasonably Priced Car for Children in Need), 'Best of' special episodes, and some other specials, such as 50 Years of Bond Cars, An Evening with Top Gear, and A Tribute To Sabine Schmitz.
As of 18 December 2022,[update] 240 episodes of Top Gear have aired.
In November 2015, the BBC announced "Top Gear: From A-Z", described as a "two-part extravaganza" in the form of a clip show composed of material from the previous twenty-two series of Top Gear.[23] It is narrated by comedian John Bishop with celebrities presenting their favourite highlights from the show;[24] the programme did not use the Top Gear studio.[24]
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Pyrgulina pupaeformis - Wikipedia |
Pyrgulina pupaeformis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[1]
This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Thailand and off Vietnam; also off New Caledonia.
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Wick, West Virginia - Wikipedia |
Wick is an unincorporated community in Tyler County, West Virginia, United States, along Sugar Creek.[2]
The community most likely was named after the local Wick family.[3]
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List of elementary schools in Chiba Prefecture - Wikipedia | This is a list of elementary schools in Chiba Prefecture.
This is a list of elementary schools of Chiba City:[1]
The former Katsuyama Elementary School (勝山小学校) and Yasuda Elementary School (保田小学校) merged into Kyonan Elementary in 2014, with the Katsuyama building becoming the Kyonan Elementary building.[3]
Municipal combined elementary and junior high schools:[4]
Municipal elementary schools:[4]
Municipal elementary schools:[5]
Hota Shiosai Elementary School (保田しおさい学校) is physically located in Kyonan, but it is a municipally-operated school by Katsushika City, Tokyo.[6]
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2008 Boxing World Cup - Wikipedia | The 2008 Boxing World Cup is a boxing competition between top ranked boxers in different weight categories. It was held in Moscow, Russia from December 10 to December 14.[1]
The format for the 2008 competition changed when it was announced that the event would take place under a new format and become a biennial event. Whereas before the competition was between teams, now it will be between the top ranked boxers in their weight categories. The winning country will be the one taking more medals than any other, without any group stages as previously.[2][3]
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Tour de Cure - Wikipedia | The Tour de Cure is a series of fund-raising cycling events held in forty states nationwide to benefit the American Diabetes Association. The Tour de Cure is a bicycle ride to raise money for diabetes research, and is not an actual race. Each location's ride routes are designed for everyone from the occasional rider to the experienced cyclist.
Over 33,000 riders participated in the 2007 Tour de Cure. In 2008, more than 38,000 cyclists in 78 Tour events raised nearly $16 million to support the mission of the ADA: to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.
In 2007 the ADA began recognizing those riders with diabetes as Red Riders through the Red Rider Program. This program was created and is organized by Mari Ruddy, a rider in the Colorado Tour de Cure.[1] The program supplies Red Riders with a bright red cycling jersey and a group for individual red riders to join.[2]
Each Tour de Cure event recruits volunteers to help set up and take down start and finish lines and rest stops, mark the routes and print out the guide sheets, assist riders who have run into mechanical difficulties, pick up and transport riders who need to drop out of the event (SAG), keep track of which riders have left and returned, keep riders on route and obeying local cycling laws (Route Marshals) and so on. Since 2015, volunteers with diabetes have been called Red Crew and have been provided with red T-shirts with a variant of the Red Rider/Red Strider logo.
In 2007, the Tour de Cure raised over $13 million for diabetes. In 2008, over $16 million for diabetes was raised in 78 events nationwide. Each ride has various fund-raising minimums, but in 2013, the base value for minimums nationwide was increased from $150 to $200.
Riders of the Tour de Cure may join numerous nationwide and local corporate sponsored teams. National sponsors include:
Greg LeMond, three-time Tour de France winner, is the national spokesperson.[10]
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Farsiwan - Wikipedia | Fārsīwān (Pashto/Persian: فارسیوان or its regional forms: Pārsīwān or Pārsībān,[1] "Persian speaker") is a contemporary designation for Persian speakers in Afghanistan and its diaspora elsewhere. More specifically, it was originally used to refer to a distinct group of farmers in Afghanistan[2][3][4][5] and urban dwellers. In Afghanistan, original Farsiwans are found predominantly in Herat and Farah provinces. They are roughly the same as the Persians of eastern Iran.[6] The term excludes the Hazāra and Aymāq tribes, who also speak dialects of Persian (Hazaragi and Aimaq).[7]
The Farsiwan are often mistakenly referred to as Tajiks.[1][8] Although the term was originally coined with the Persian lexical root (Pārsībān), the suffix has been transformed into a Pashto form (-wān) and is usually used by the Pashtuns to designate both the Tajiks and the Farsiwans.
Like the Persians of Iran, the Farsiwan are often distinguished from Tajiks by their adherence to Shia Islam as opposed to the Sunni Islam favored by the majority of Tajiks. However, there are also minor linguistic differences especially among the rural Farsiwan. The Farsiwan sometimes speak a dialect more akin to the Darī dialects of the Persian language, for example the dialect of Kabul,[9][10] as opposed to the standard Tehrānī dialect of Iran. However, most of the Fārsīwān speak the Khorasani dialect, native to the Afghanistan–Iran border region, namely Herāt and Farāh, as well as the Iranian provinces of Khorasan. Unlike the Hazara, who are also Persian-speaking and Shia, the Farsiwan do not show any, or very limited, traces of Turkic and Mongol ancestry.[11] Although the Qizilbash of Iran and Afghanistan are also Persian-speaking Shias, they are usually regarded as a separate group from the Farsiwan.[12]
Some confusion arises because an alternative name used locally for the Fārsīwān (as well as for the Tājiks in general) is Dehgān, meaning "village settlers", in the sense of "urban". The term is used in contrast to "nomadic".[13]
There are approximately 1.5 million Farsiwans in Afghanistan, mainly in the provinces of Herat, Farah[14] Ghor, and Mazar-i-Sharif. They are also the main inhabitants of the city of Herāt.[15] Smaller populations can be found in Kabul, Kandahar and Ghazni.[13][16] Due to the large number of refugees from Afghanistan, significant Farsiwan communities nowadays also exist in Iran (mostly in Mashhad and Tehran).
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Zedubani - Wikipedia |
Zedubani (Georgian: ზედუბანი) is a village in the Ozurgeti Municipality of Guria in western Georgia.[1]
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Selina Ostermeier - Wikipedia | Selina Marie Ostermeier (born 15 January 1999) is a German footballer who plays as a defender for Bayer 04 Leverkusen.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
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Verbrennungskommando Warschau - Wikipedia | Verbrennungskommando Warschau (German: Warsaw burning detachment)[1] was a slave labour unit formed by the SS following the Wola massacre of around 40,000 to 50,000 Polish civilians by the Germans in the early days of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944.
The purpose of the Verbrennungskommando was to remove evidence of the citywide campaign of mass murder that took place during the Uprising,[2] by collecting corpses into large piles and burning them in open-air pyres on Elektoralna and Chłodna Streets among others.[3] The squad was directly subordinated to SS-Obersturmführer Neumann and was also earmarked for execution after the completion of their work.
During the Warsaw Uprising, Polish civilians were indiscriminately killed by the Germans and their Ukrainian and Russian collaborators in punitive mass executions, the most notorious of which took place in Wola, Ochota, and Warsaw's Old Town, based on the explicit orders of Heinrich Himmler, who said: "Every inhabitant of Warsaw is to be shot. Prisoners will not be taken; the town is to be razed to the ground."[4]
Most of the atrocities were committed by troops under the command of SS men Oskar Dirlewanger,[5] Heinrich Reinefarth,[6] and Bronislav Kaminski.[4]
Between 8 and 23 August 1944, the Germans organised several dozen captured Poles into a cremation commando which they named Verbrennungskommando.[3] These men were forced to pick through the ruins and collect thousands of the victims' bodies under the strict supervision of German overseers. In the first two weeks the Verbrennungskommando cremated an estimated 6,000 bodies.[7]
Tadeusz Klimaszewski,[8] a prisoner who survived the cremation commando, and later wrote a memoir about the experience called Verbrennungskommando Warschau (published in 1959 in Warsaw), described his first day of corpse disposal at the Franaszek Factory in the following way: As far as one could see, the courtyard square was filled with the dead bodies. They were lying in the full sun, some piled up in the centre, others strewn next to each other, or propped individually along the edges with hands reaching toward the brick wall as if they had tried to save themselves. They must have been herded there as a large crowd, and had grenades thrown at them, because their bodies were terribly mangled.[9] The Verbrennungskommando members were not informed about Himmler's true intentions but were promised a return to "normalcy", as soon as the "bandits" were punished. They were told that their "duty" to burn the dead bodies was therefore in their interest. There was one Jewish prisoner among them.[citation needed]
After the war, most of the ashes dumped into bomb holes and ditches by the cremation commando were exhumed in 1947 and buried in Warsaw cemeteries.[8] They included 5,578 kilograms of human remains from Stalina Avenue, 2,180 kilograms from the military prison at Zamenhofa, 1,029 kilograms from 60 Wolska Street, 1,120 kilograms from Sowinski Park, 600 kilograms from 47 Dzielna Street, 600 kilograms from the Franaszek Factory, 192 kilograms from 59 Okopowa Street, and 120 kilograms from "Dobrolin" Wolska Street, among several other locations. The full list of burial sites was then delivered to the Regional Commission for the Investigation of Nazi German Crimes in Poland.[8]
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2008 Delhi Legislative Assembly election - Wikipedia |
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The Delhi state assembly elections 2008, which were held on 29 November 2008 for Legislative Assembly of Delhi, led to the formation of Sheila Dikshit's government of Indian National Congress.
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Paul Farren - Wikipedia | Paul Farren (born December 24, 1960) is a former American football offensive tackle in the National Football League. He played for the Cleveland Browns from 1983 to 1991.[1] Farren took over as the Browns' starting left tackle after Rickey Bolden was injured in 1989. Farren also played as a guard and a center when he attended Boston University.[citation needed]
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Lutheran Hill, Wisconsin - Wikipedia |
Lutheran Hill is an unincorporated community in the towns of Dane and Roxbury, Dane County, Wisconsin, United States.[1]
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Cynthia Cameron - Wikipedia |
Cynthia Cameron (born 26 March 1980) is an Australian taekwondo practitioner, born in Perth. She competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.[1]
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2008 Australian Open – Wheelchair men's doubles - Wikipedia | Defending champion Shingo Kunieda and his partner Satoshi Saida defeated the other four-time defending champion Robin Ammerlaan and his partner Ronald Vink in the final, 6–4, 6–3 to win the men's doubles wheelchair tennis title at the 2008 Australian Open.
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SkyMiles - Wikipedia | SkyMiles is the frequent-flyer program of Delta Air Lines that offers points (or "miles") to passengers traveling on most fare types, as well as to consumers who utilize Delta co-branded credit cards, which accumulate towards free awards such as airline tickets, business and first-class upgrades, and luxury products.[1] Created in 1981[2][3] as the "Delta Air Lines Frequent Flyer Program", its name was changed to SkyMiles in 1995.[4] Originally all airlines including Delta, only gave miles for airline travel and not credit card expenditures.[5] Delta claims to have been the first major U.S. airline without mileage expiration, so travelers can redeem awards at their leisure, but others have since followed.[6] The airline also has a separate SkyBonus program that provides small to mid-sized business owners with a way to earn points for trips taken by employees, good towards free flights, upgrades, Medallion status and other travel awards.[7] It has been ranked fairly highly according to some independent news outlets.[8]
In addition to its Delta Connection, Delta Shuttle and SkyTeam alliance partnerships, Delta offers frequent flyer partnerships with the following airlines [9][10]
In addition to the air miles, SkyMiles can be redeemed and even earned on SkyMiles cruises but that is actually a separate company.[18] Miles maybe used and accrued on Delta Vacations but that is also a separate company although Delta is the parent company.[19][20]
Delta offers four published tiers of elite status within the SkyMiles program. These are known as Medallion statuses and can be achieved by flying a certain number of Medallion Qualification Miles (MQM) or Medallion Qualification Segments (MQS) between January 1 and December 31 each year. Beginning in 2014, a certain number of Medallion Qualification Dollars (MQD) is required for the US members in addition to either the MQM or the MQS requirement.[21]
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Delta Private Jets Card holders receive Diamond Medallion tier status.[23]
Medallion status entitles members to unlimited complimentary upgrades, subject to availability, on most published economy fares on Delta and certain Delta-designated codeshare flights in North America within or between the United States (excluding Hawaii) and Bermuda, Canada, Central and South America, the Caribbean and Mexico.[24] In addition, preferred coach seating such as in the Economy Comfort section is set aside for medallion members for when first and business class upgrades are not available.[25][26] Although not a published benefit, certain top tier members of the program have been transferred at Delta hubs by an automobile and chauffeur pick up service (see photograph). There is also a Delta 360 level of status which is awarded by invite only to their very best customers. How to earn this status has not been published. There have been further updates in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic[27]
On July 31, 2008, Delta adjusted the cost of award tickets by implementing a four-tiered pricing system. For example, a domestic coach ticket cost 25,000, 32,500, 40,000, or 60,000 miles depending on availability.[28]
On July 27, 2009, Delta introduced "Rollover" for Delta Medallion members. Flyers who reach an elite tier in a program year are able to roll over any extra Medallion Qualification Miles (MQMs) above their earned tier to the next year. For example, a passenger who earned 65,000 MQM in 2010 will earn Gold Medallion status for reaching 50,000 MQMs and will begin 2011 with 15,000 MQMs rolled over from the previous year.[29][30]
On October 1, 2009, Northwest Airlines' former frequent flyer program, WorldPerks, officially became SkyMiles. This remained until the reservation system and website became Delta on January 31, 2010.[31]
In January 2011, Delta eliminated its mileage expiration policy, making it at the time the only major U.S. carrier to have a non-expiring mileage policy.[32][33] The announcement was made on 15 February 2011. (United Airlines matched their policy by 2019.)[34]
In January 2013, Delta announced that beginning in the 2014 program year qualifying for elite Medallion status will require meeting spending thresholds. Each tier of elite status will now require a certain amount of Medallion Qualification Dollars (MQDs), in addition to the existing mileage or segment requirements. 1 MQD is earned for every dollar spent on most Delta issued airline tickets and on Delta marketed flights on other tickets. Only the base fare and carrier imposed fees earn MQDs. Government fees and taxes, as well as ancillary services such as baggage fees, change fees, etc., do not earn MQDs.[35] Medallion members who spend at least $25,000 on a cobranded Delta American Express card annually are exempt from this new requirement.[36] On September 26, 2017 Delta announced that the Credit Card waiver for Diamond Medallions only, was being increased to $250,000 which effectively eliminates it for many travelers.[37]
In late February 2014 Delta announced significant changes to the SkyMiles program that shifts away from miles traveled to earning based on Medallion level and dollars spent, ceasing to be a frequent flyer program and becoming a spending program.[38][39] Also announced was a new mileage redemption structure that will approve Award seat availability. The minimum number of miles earned per dollar is 5 and the maximum per dollar is 13. SkyMiles members that use the Delta SkyMiles Credit Card by American Express will receive a bonus of 2 additional miles per dollar on Delta spent. It was also announced that the maximum number of miles that can be earned on any ticket is 75,000.[40]
The updates to the 2015 SkyMiles program will not impact how one earns different Medallion levels from the 2014 MQD scheme.[41] Partnerships with Airbnb have also been announced.[42][43]
The Delta Skymiles program was valued at $6.5 billion. The program was in effect mortgaged to keep the airline afloat in view of the catastrophic drop in demand for air travel due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Delta reported a 78% decline in miles redeemed in the first half of the 2020 year, resulting in a 60% drop in passenger revenue. However, frequent fliers continued to use their Delta SkyMiles credit cards, and cash from sales to American Express declined only 5% year-over-year to $1.9 billion.[44] Overall Delta raised 9 billion in this cashflow issue.[45] Most airlines, Delta included, instituted rollover of status and miles programs to keep its loyal customers in the wake of the pandemic.[46]
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Engineer officer - Wikipedia |
An engineering officer can be a Merchant Navy engineer, or a commissioned officer in the British Armed Forces with responsibility for military engineering.
In the Royal Navy (RN), Engineering Officers are responsible for the material condition of ships, submarines, and naval aircraft.
In the Royal Air Force (RAF), Engineering Officers are responsible for weapons and aircraft systems and electronics communications systems.[1]
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Nechita-Adrian Oros - Wikipedia | Nechita-Adrian Oros is a Romanian politician who formerly served as Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Cîțu Cabinet, led by Prime Minister Florin Cîțu, as of 23 December 2020[update].[1][2] He previously served in this position in the first cabinet and second cabinet led by Ludovic Orban. He is affiliated with the National Liberal Party (PNL).
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Bucharest metropolitan area - Wikipedia | The Bucharest Metropolitan Area (Romanian: Zona Metropolitană București) is a metropolitan area project formally established since 2016 that includes Bucharest, the capital city of Romania, and surrounding communes. If completed, it would have a population of about 2.3 million,[6] only slightly larger than that of the city proper (1.9 million). It would also be a member of the METREX network.[7]
According to Eurostat, Bucharest has a functional urban area of 2,412,530 residents (as of 2015[update]).[8]
The "Metropolitan Area" project has been initiated in 2003.[9] A survey in 2008 showed that about 70% of the population of the area favors the project.[10] The city proper has now 228 km2, but the metropolitan zone would reach 1,800 km2 in a first phase.[1] A possible name for it will probably be "Greater Bucharest".[11]
In an initial stage, the zone would include Bucharest and Ilfov County.[1] Then, there are several plans to further increase the "Metropolitan Area of Bucharest" to about 20 times the area of the city proper (from 228 km² to 5,046 km²). It would include 6 cities and 87 communes from the Ilfov, Giurgiu and Călărași counties, and would extend all the way towards the border with Bulgaria in the south, and towards the Prahova County in the north. In an intermediate stage, the extension of the zone would include 62 out of the proposed 93 candidate localities.[10] The "Bucharest Metropolitan Area" may become the biggest port on the Danube upon completion of the Danube–Bucharest Canal.
The enlarged "Metropolitan Area" Council will have 105 councilors, twice as many are now, and the Government will appoint a governor, a position which would be homologized to the prefect of Bucharest.
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Cliniodes paradisalis - Wikipedia |
Cliniodes paradisalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Heinrich Benno Möschler in 1886.[1] It is found in Jamaica, Cuba and on the Cayman Islands.
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Pruksa Real Estate - Wikipedia | Pruksa Real Estate Public Company Limited or simply Pruksa Real Estate (Thai: บริษัท พฤกษา เรียลเอสเตท จำกัด (มหาชน)) is one of the largest real estate developers company in Thailand. It has been listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand.[2][3] The company was founded on 20 April 1993 and has its headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand.[4]
Pruksa Real Estate focuses on residential houses, townhouse, condominium located in Thailand, Maldives and India.[5][6][7]
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1903 Nevada State Sagebrushers football team - Wikipedia |
The 1903 Nevada State Sagebrushers football team was an American football team that represented Nevada State University (now known as the University of Nevada, Reno) as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In its third season under head coach Allen Steckle, the team compiled a 2–4–2 record.[1][2]
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Shitennōji-mae Yūhigaoka Station - Wikipedia | Shitennoji-mae Yuhigaoka Station (四天王寺前夕陽ヶ丘駅, Shitennōji-mae Yūhigaoka-eki, T26)
is a metro station on the Osaka Metro Tanimachi Line in Tennoji-ku, Osaka, Japan.
There are two side platforms with two tracks on the first basement.
WikiMiniAtlas34°39′30″N 135°30′50″E / 34.6584°N 135.5139°E / 34.6584; 135.5139
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Rural Municipality of Grahamdale - Wikipedia |
Grahamdale is a rural municipality (RM) in the province of Manitoba in Western Canada. It lies in the Interlake Region. It was incorporated as a Local Government District (LGD) on 1 January 1945, and became a Rural Municipality in 1997.
The municipality exists in two sections that are separated by a part of the Fairford 50 Indian reserve. It extends from Gypsumville to Mulvihill and incorporates the former RM of Woodlea within its present boundaries.[2]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Grahamdale had a population of 1,278 living in 579 of its 886 total private dwellings, a change of -4.2% from its 2016 population of 1,334. With a land area of 2,365.94 km2 (913.49 sq mi), it had a population density of 0.5/km2 (1.4/sq mi) in 2021.[3]
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Betty Paterson - Wikipedia |
Elizabeth Deans Paterson MBE (1894 – 5 July 1970) was an Australian commercial artist, cartoonist and illustrator. She was best known for her pictures of babies and young children.
Elizabeth Deans Paterson was born in Carlton, Victoria in 1894, daughter of Elizabeth Leslie (née Deans) and artist Hugh Paterson.[1] Her older sister Esther Paterson (1892–1971) was also a commercial artist, illustrator and cartoonist.[2] Their uncle was Scottish-born landscape painter John Ford Paterson.[3]
Paterson sent her first drawing to The Bulletin in response to a bet by cartoonist David Low. Her drawing was published, she won the bet and began her career contributing illustrations to magazines.[4]
At the time of her first marriage in 1923 to Kenneth Fossie Newman, Paterson had already made a name for herself for her drawings and portraits of children.[5] She was divorced by her husband in 1931 and given custody of their daughter, Barbara, who later became an artist.[6][7]
By the mid-1920s she and her sister Esther had established themselves as commercial artists who were "the cleverest designers in Australia" of posters, illustrated books, calendars and Christmas cards.[8] In 1922 they held a joint exhibition in Queen's Hall, Melbourne which was opened by Prime Minister Billy Hughes. Her drawings of young children were noted for their "fetching impertinence".[9] Her 1931 solo exhibition was opened by the Melbourne lord mayor, Harold Gengoult Smith,[10] while in 1935 the lady mayoress, Mrs A. G. Wales, did the honours.[11]
Her work was published in many magazines, including The Australian Home Beautiful,[12] The Australian Woman's Mirror,[13] The New Triad,[14] and The Bulletin.[15] In the 1935 The Australian Woman's Mirror awarded an original drawing by Paterson each week to the person who made the best original contribution to the magazine.[16]
Portraits of Paterson by her sister Esther were finalists for the Archibald Prize in 1938 and 1939.[17]
Paterson was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1966 for her service to art and the community.[18]
In 1952 she married Albion Wiltshire.[19] Paterson died on 5 July 1970 at Middle Park in Victoria.[20]
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Madison County, Virginia - Wikipedia |
Madison County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 13,837.[1] Its county seat is Madison.[2]
Madison County was established in December 1792, created from Culpeper County.[3] The county is named for the Madison family that owned land along the Rapidan River. President James Madison is a descendant of that family.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 322 square miles (830 km2), of which 321 square miles (830 km2) is land and 1.2 square miles (3.1 km2) (0.4%) is water.[4]
A significant portion of western Madison County is within Shenandoah National Park, including Hawksbill Mountain, the highest point in both the park and in Madison County, Old Rag Mountain, one of the park's most popular tourist destinations, and Rapidan Camp, the presidential retreat built by Herbert Hoover. Hoover's Camp was built between 1929 and 1932. The camp consisted of 13 buildings with the main one being "The Brown House". In 2017, only three of these houses are still standing (The Brown House, The Prime Minister Cabin, and The Creel). The camp was built where two streams merge to form the Rapidan River because fishing was Hoover's favorite pastime. Hoover even made sure that the camp was built at an elevation where mosquitos would not be a nuisance while fishing. The camp was donated to the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1932 so other presidents could use it and in December 1935 it officially became a part of Shenandoah National Park.[5]
Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race.
As of the census[12] of 2000, there were 12,520 people, 4,739 households, and 3,521 families residing in the county. The population density was 39 people per square mile (15 people/km2). There were 5,239 housing units at an average density of 16 units per square mile (6.2 units/km2). The racial makeup of the county was 86.71% White, 11.41% Black or African American, 0.14% Native American, 0.50% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.29% from other races, and 0.93% from two or more races. 0.77% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There were 4,739 households, out of which 30.90% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.40% were married couples living together, 8.80% had a female householder with no husband present, and 25.70% were non-families. 21.80% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.50% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.60 and the average family size was 3.03.
In the county, the population was spread out, with 24.10% under the age of 18, 6.90% from 18 to 24, 27.60% from 25 to 44, 26.40% from 45 to 64, and 15.00% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females there were 95.00 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.60 males.
The median income for a household in the county was $39,856, and the median income for a family was $44,857. Males had a median income of $30,805 versus $24,384 for females. The per capita income for the county was $18,636. About 6.90% of families and 9.60% of the population were below the poverty line, including 12.70% of those under age 18 and 10.20% of those age 65 or over.
Madison County is a Republican stronghold and has not voted for a Democratic presidential nominee since 1940.
Madison County Public Schools has around 2000 students in four schools. Madison Primary School has grades K–2 and has around 370 students. Waverly Yowell Elementary School has grades 3–5 and around 410 students. William Wetsel Middle School has grades 6–8 and around 415 students. Madison County High School has grades 9–12 and has around 665 students. All statistics based on 2007–2008 VA DOE statistics. It is also home to Woodberry Forest School, a private, all-male boarding school.
In January 2023, the Madison County School Board banned 21 books from the high school library, including books by Stephen King, Toni Morrison, and Christian writer Anne Rice.[14]
Madison County High School is the county's only High School. Grades 9–12 attend MCHS. The total number of students at MCHS was 584 for 2013–2014.[15] Madison County's nickname is the Mountaineers and have two main logos. One is an inked drawing of a Mountaineer standing on a mountain. In the background, a caravan of people and covered wagons can be seen being led by the Mountaineer. The second main logo is a "M" with a "C" offset and connected to it standing for Madison County, the name of both the county and high school. The colors are blue and white. MCHS fields athletic teams in football, basketball, soccer, volleyball, wrestling, track, cross country, golf, baseball and softball. Swimming was added as a sport in 2011. Cheerleading teams are also fielded for football and basketball games. Madison is home to the 2012 Group A, Division 1 state champions in Forensics.
MCHS offers AP courses and dual enrollment courses through Germanna Community College. MCHS has full accreditation from the Virginia Department of Education with Virginia Standards of Learning passing rates ranging from 94 percent on the history to 86 percent on the science. MCHS graduates more than 90% of its students per year.
William H. Wetsel Middle School was opened in August, 1993 under the leadership of Principal, John Anderson. Grades 6 and 7 were moved from Waverly Yowell Elementary School and Grade 8 was removed from Madison County High School to form a Grades 6-8 middle school. William Wetsel, the school's namesake, was a former agriculture teacher and superintendent in Madison County.
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Ivan Shishmanov - Wikipedia | Ivan Shishmanov (Bulgarian: Иван Димитров Шишманов; July 4, 1862 – June 22, 1928) was a Bulgarian writer, ethnographer, politician and diplomat. He served as Ambassador of Bulgaria to the Ukrainian State and the Ukrainian People's Republic.
Ivan Shishmanov was born on June 22, 1862, in Svishtov in the Shishmanovs family. He studied at the Pedagogical School in Vienna from 1876 to 1882. He then studied philosophy and literature at Jena in 1884 and spent two years at Geneva. In 1888, he finished his Ph.D. studies in Leipzig under the direction of Professor Wilhelm Wundt.[1]
On December 28, 1888, he married Lidia Shishmanova,[2] the daughter of Mykhailo Drahomanov. In 1889, their son Dimitr was born, he would become a literary critic and playwright. In 1888 Shishmanov was one of the founders of the High School of Sofia. In 1894 he became Professor of General Literary and Cultural History, and comparative literary history. He was also the founder and editor of Folklore and Ethnography Collection (СбНУНК) from 1889 to 1902 and the Bulgarian Observer [bg] magazine from 1893–1900. Shishmanov was a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
He was also one of the founders of the State Drawing School, which later became the National Academy of Arts (1896).
Shishmanov was a member of the People's Liberal Party, and in 1903 he became Minister of Public Education, but in early 1907 he left office because of disagreement with the government's actions during the University crisis [bg]. As a minister of education, he opened the school for the blind in 1906.[3]
Shishmanov acted as a plenipotentiary representative of Bulgaria in the Ukrainian People's Republic during the reign of Pavlo Skoropadsky in 1918–1919. King Ferdinand I sent him to Kyiv.[4] He founded and served as the first president of the Bulgarian Department of the Pan-European Union. He donated a portion of his library to the Vardar Macedonia Student Association [bg].[5] Shishmanov was a member of the Macedonian Scientific Institute[6]
He died in Oslo on June 23, 1928, at the age of 65.
His son, Dimitr Shishmanov, writer and politician, was executed by the People's Court due to his work as the Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and then the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
In his research, he used a positivist methodology. He wrote works in the field of folk art and literature of national revival, as well as comparative works on European literature of the XVIII century and journalistic articles.
He wrote works on ethnography and literary science. An expert on Ukrainian literature, in particular the works of Taras Shevchenko, he investigated the influence of Shevchenko's poetry on Bulgarian revival, having written the work "The role of Ukraine in the Bulgarian revival. The Influence of Shevchenko on Bulgarian Poets before the Liberation Age" (1916).
The initiator and founder of the Bulgarian-Ukrainian Society (1920). Shevchenko Scientific Society member.
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Kushner Studios - Wikipedia | KUSHNER Studios [1] is a New York City based architectural firm known for its forward-thinking and creative residential, commercial, and hospitality projects. Founded by Adam Kushner in 1994, the firm seeks to redefine the nature and place of the practice of architecture to be inclusive of the traditionally independent disciplines of construction, development, and their related endeavors.
KUSHNER Studios was founded in Long Island during the summer of 1994 in the cellar of Adam Kushner’s parent’s home. As his practice grew, he transitioned into a shared office in the storied Cable Building, located at 611 Broadway. He took on his first employee a year later.
By 1997, KUSHNER Studios had outgrown its 611 Broadway space and relocated to its own office at 245 Canal Street. Continuing to grow steadily, by 2007 the firm had 30 employees and again sought out a new home in a commercial loft space at 390 Broadway. KUSHNER continued to work out of this space until 2019, when the studio’s rent skyrocketed, causing the firm to transition to its current office. Located at 55 Liberty Street in a landmarked, turn-of-the-century office tower, KUSHNER Studios shares space with Mr. Kushner’s other companies - his construction practice In House Group Inc. [2] MADCO3d[3], and his recently formed development arm: In House Development.
In 2021, KUSHNER Studios established a satellite office in Poland, further solidifying the firm’s presence on the international architectural scene.
123-125 Baxter Street (2007)
This new, 7-story residential building[4] features ground-floor retail space and 23 high-end condominium units including 2 penthouse units and an incorporated duplex townhouse with a private entrance and elevator. The development boasts NYC's first fully automated parking system[5] (and only the second in the United States) and a private gym, public common space, and private rooftop spaces. The project proposes an answer to the question of how a fixed object (and fixed image) of a building can exist alongside the public transience that is Chinatown while ultimately representing the timeless idea of how a home begins with connecting habitation and occupants with their natural world. Mr. Kushner’s construction company acted as general contractors for this project, making it the first substantial design-build endeavor for KUSHNER studios.
16 Minetta Lane (2022)
16 Minetta Lane[6] is a significant project for KUSHNER Studios as it fulfills founder Adam Kushner's vision of a completely integrated design/build/development paradigm. By looking both to the past and the present for inspiration, it proposes new possibilities for how one can exist in an urban context both by allowing for one’s privacy and still participating in the collective social experiences that cities offer. The purchase of this townhome was publicly chronicled in season two (episodes 1 & 2) of Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing New York (2013)[7]. It was also featured in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ)[8], Gothamist[9], and many other media outlets, and has become a top-visited site at the Annual OHNY Open House Tour Event[10].
136 Summit Avenue (2023)
A recently completed project, 136 Summit Avenue[11] sits on a perceived line that divides the city, socially and physically serving as a filter to mitigate this threshold condition. The building's curved form references a connection to the Jersey City City Hall on one end and to the growth of Jersey City's epicenter, the Journal Square area, on the other. The entrance on Summit Avenue spatially references the under-utilized traffic island fronting it, now recently refurbished. The base of the building acknowledges the site's geology and exposed bedrock seen in the area, nodding to the formidable Palisades Ridge begins ¼ mile due south of the site, as well as the great ruin of a mid-19th century church located directly to its south. This 99-unit, 148,000 sq. foot residential development is the company’s largest new building to date.
79 Barrow Street (2009)
This duplex apartment[12] features modernist high-end interior and exterior finishes, private outdoor space, two bedrooms, and two bathrooms. It combines two existing top-floor studios with a new mezzanine added. Its design utilizes various New York City iconography such as subway train doors and other Manhattan-centric ephemera. Incorporated within this framework are references to the traditional four basic elements: fire, earth, water, and air. This project, lovingly referred to as the Subway House[13], continues to garner critical acclaim; from international press and local media alike.
KUSHNER Studios is an award-winning firm and prides itself on the public recognition of its excellence in design and innovation. In both April 2017 and 2016, Kushner Studios was awarded the Architizer A+ Award [14] for the Gardiner Pool House design [15] in Gardiner, New York, given for its innovation in the adoption of 3D-printing technology. Within the hospitality design scene, Kushner Studios has been a finalist for the 17th International Hospitality Design Awards[16] for Kushner’s interior design of Ernesto’s[17] in 2020 and has been awarded the Fine Dining Award for Hotel and Hospitality Design for the design of En Restaurant [18] in the Summer of 2005. Kushner Studios has been widely published in various media sources, including print, digital, and television.
Early Background
Adam Kushner was born in Washington Heights, New York City in 1963, a child raised during the heady era of the Space Race and Woodstock. Having a father who worked on the Apollo LEM project for Grumman Aerospace cultivated Adam’s interest in crafting and building things. His interest was fueled by his dad’s encouragement and the Revel models he would bring home, and Adam soon graduated from Revel models to Erector Sets, a popular building toy from the late 1960s, as well as balsa wood airplanes (some with the particularly dangerous Cox single-piston engines).
As years passed he never strayed from this passion for physical fabrication. During a notable high school summer, he relished his work as a Long Island sole practitioner with an architect/contractor who allowed him to draft in the morning and frame residential additions in the afternoon. During his college and post-graduate years, he became passionate about welding, a technique that remains a hobby of his to this day. The concept of beginning with nothing and ending up with a tangible manifestation of an original idea held a powerful place in his life and career development.
Education
In 1975, Kushner and his family moved to Old Bethpage, Long Island, where he graduated from Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School in 1981. He went on to obtain his B.A. in Architecture in 1986 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, after which he worked for several small firms as well as the Manhattan satellite office for a well-known Boston-based firm ‘The Architectural Team’[19], where he was part of many successful and award-winning large scale residential developments. Following these endeavors, Mr. Kushner was hired to be the sole architectural designer for the well-known Manhattan-based architect/developer Henry George Green Architects in 1989. His primary task for over two years was to design a 28-acre waterfront residential/commercial development in Hastings-On-Hudson, a riverfront town located about 20 miles north of New York City. Part urban planning, part building design, this project proved to be an all-encompassing design effort that Mr. Kushner eagerly tackled, until the project was brought to a sudden halt by conflicts within the town’s leadership.
After this setback, in November of 1991, Mr. Kushner embarked on an 11-month around-the-world backpacking journey to reconsider his future. Upon his return from this adventure, he wasn’t ready to return to a 9-5. Instead, he attended Cornell’s architecture graduate school in 1992. Mr. Kushner had many professional opportunities and awards during his master’s degree studies. He was selected to represent Cornell University during a design Charette at Wassaic, New York in October of 1993, and received a teaching/research fellowship in 1993 and 1994. He was also selected to represent Cornell University in their International Internet Design Studio under a summer research fellowship in the Summer of 1994. He also was awarded the James Eidlitz Traveling Fellowship from Cornell University in the Summer of 1994. After his graduation from Cornell, Mr. Kushner returned to New York and started his architectural firm less than a year later.
Mr. Kushner has also taught at Pratt Institute’s Graduate School of Architecture, NJIT School of Architecture, NYIT, Rutgers University’s Arts Department, and was a Design Studio Instructor while attending Cornell University. Most recently he was invited to teach the first course in America on 3D printing in Architecture at CUNY Bernard Spitzer School of Architecture.
Personal Life
Mr. Kushner married Dr. Louise Chuu, an obstetrician-gynecologist soon after they met at Cornell University. They currently have twins whom they just have sent off into the world to attend college. Mr. Kushner, having an incurable case of wanderlust, has been on many global adventures, including an around the world eleven-month backpacking voyage throughout Asia, China, and the Indian subcontinent. He considers himself an avid New Yorker, having been born and raised there and enjoys the nuances and richness of human experience that all urban spaces offer.
Since 2012, Adam Kushner has focused on developing the nascent technology of full scale 3D printing through his company, MADCO3d[20], and bringing the building method to the world at large. At the City College of New York, he has given 3D printing lectures (from 2017-present), and has also taught a 3D printing graduate course (2021), the first in the country to teach such a course.
MADCO3d is a construction venture that uses large-scale 3D printing methods to produce architectural structures. Born out of a desire to innovate further, MADCO3d streamlines construction processes while maximizing sustainable output. In addition, by minimizing human hours put into designing and fabricating structures, MADCO3d keeps costs down relative to traditional building practices and avoids waste by precisely estimating how much material is needed for a project. Located in Rochester, New Hampshire, and Manhattan, New York, MADCO3d is able to fabricate building materials in house to be assembled onsite. MADCO3d's commitment to sustainability is further expressed through its use of recycled materials in its 3D-printing processes.
Currently, MADCO3d is led by Mr. Kushner, accompanied by Dan Bernard, and Tim Lucido and other partners.
Projects
MADCO3d began production of their first full-scale demo piece for a 3D-printed concrete house. The group has successfully created large-scale art using an otherwise little used method of large-scale 3D printing with their sand deposition printer. They are now partnered with Twente Additive Manufacturing[21] to expand their fabrication capabilities, using concrete extrusion with their trailer-sized robotic arm. This piece will serve as a precedent for local town officials and regulatory experts to examine to approve requests for building permits for 3D-printed structures. Additionally, KUSHNER Studios has received support from SikaUSA[22], the internationally recognized cement and materials giant, in their 3D-printing endeavors.
Austin House
This house[23][24] was inspired by the contemporary movement: the Tiny House. However, whereas most of the houses in this genre trend towards the idea of substituting experience with technology - virtual space supplanting real space and/or mobility over fixed objects - this project, using MADCO3d’s unique printing process, attempts to create small spaces that vacillate between moments of privacy and publicity. The project aims to be utilized as subsidized housing, working to help solve the overall national housing crisis. While still in the development phases, the company aims to have the design ready to actualize soon.
965 North Mountain Road
This project[25] holds a bit of an unexpected historical record, being the first permitted 3d printed structure in the United States. When Adam Kushner went to file it with the local building department he only was given 3 boxes to check off. Stick Built, Modular Construction or Masonry Construction. He pondered that before drawing a 4th box on the Permit application and writing ‘3d Printed’, checking off this new box. It was approved and plans for the project’s actualization began. Meant to showcase all of the possibilities of 3d printing, this project has been hampered over the last years by forces within the team’s control [their printer, which was not quite ready for such production at the time] to those without their control: [75’ trees crashing on the site, minus ten degree weather and even bears!]. The permit continues to be renewed and Kushner and his allied Madco3d will bring this building to fruition in the near future.
Barboletta
A triptych of sculpture designed by Monad Studio[26] and their founder Eric Goldenberg, Barboletta[27] was realized using Madco3d’s printing technologies. The pieces were exhibited in the Venice Biennial in 2021.
Founded in 2008 by Adam Kushner and Jason Prisco, In House Group is a general contracting firm that serves as a hands-on fabrication and construction related arm of Kusner Studios’ architectural practice. The company has morphed into a fully self-sufficient and successful firm, but is unique in having the knowledge and management systems initiated through its architect founders. This follows a relatively new trend in which architects become involved in the development and construction of the projects that they have designed. In addition to their construction services, In House Group has also ventured into development and real estate scenes under a sister company, In House Development.
Route 299 (Expected 2025)
The Route 299 venture is one of the first times that KUSHNER Studios and affiliates have decided to act as their own developers, using land that Mr. Kushner purchased a decade ago to build a single family house. Wanting to produce something that departed from more traditional houses, the studio took a radical approach. Instead of beginning with a client and their personal ideas, the firm decided to present something unique to the market and allow the world to find them instead. In the design of this project, Mr. Kushner attempts to bring the entire geologic history of the Hudson Valley into one cogent design statement. For aside from the direct ‘quotes’ found in known landmarks around the area, [Lake Awosting is one as well as the well known boulder called Spyglass at the foot of the Undercliff road] , the building’s massing recalls the large boulders that had fallen from the last glacier as it receded north up the Hudson Valley. This ‘statement piece’ is intended to be a thrilling and inspiring place to live. The design has recently been permitted and will be breaking ground shortly.
M34 (2023)
M34 - Gorzow, Poland: A symbol of Kushner Studios’ international reach, the M34, named after the building’s location in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland as well as a sly reference to a particularly troublesome crosstown bus stands 13-stories tall, is composed of a lower, 2-story shopping center, and an 11-story commercial tower. The 158,000 SF project was one of the first of many large strides that the firm would make to establish its presence in the international architecture world and it also happens to be the highest building in the region of Western Poland.
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Charles Townsend (BMX rider) - Wikipedia | Charles Heath Townsend (born January 25, 1967 in Kansas City, Kansas) is an "Old School/Mid School" former professional Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer whose prime competitive years were from 1985 to 1996. He has 2 kids.
Nicknames: Various and many dating back to his days as a young amateur. Many railroad related: "Steam Engine Charlie", "Speeding Locomotive Charlie", "Choo-Choo Charlie", "Amtrak".[1] Also "Black Magic" (which he had stenciled on the back of his racing pants in 1985[2]), "Big Chuck", "The Fleein' Korean",[3] "Chasemainian Devil".[4]
Note: Professional first are on the national level unless otherwise indicated.
*In the NBL it is B" Pro/Superclass/"A" Pro depending on the era; in the ABA it is "A" Pro.
**In the NBL it is "A" Pro (Elite Men); in the ABA it is "AA" Pro.
Note: This listing only denotes the racer's primary sponsors. At any given time a racer could have numerous ever changing co-sponsors. Primary sponsorships can be verified by BMX press coverage and sponsor's advertisements at the time in question.
*By this time Gary Turner (GT) Racing had brought Powerlite.
Note: Listed are District, State/Provincial/Department, Regional, National, and International titles in italics. "Defunct" refers to the fact of that sanctioning body in question no longer existing at the start of the racer's career or at that stage of his/her career. Depending on point totals of individual racers, winners of Grand Nationals do not necessarily win National titles. Series and one off Championships are also listed in block.
National Bicycle Association (NBA)
National Bicycle League (NBL)
American Bicycle Association (ABA)
International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)
Fédération Internationale Amateur de Cyclisme (FIAC)
Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)
National Bicycle Association (NBA)
National Bicycle League (NBL)
American Bicycle Association (ABA)
United States Bicycle Motocross Association (USBA)
International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)*
Fédération Internationale Amateur de Cyclisme (FIAC)*
Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)*
*Note: Beginning in 1991 the IBMXF and FIAC, the amateur cycling arm of the UCI, had been holding joint World Championship events as a transitional phase in merging which began in earnest in 1993. Beginning with the 1996 season the IBMXF and FIAC completed the merger and both ceased to exist as independent entities being integrated into the UCI. Beginning with the 1996 World Championships held in Brighton, England the UCI would officially hold and sanction BMX World Championships and with it inherited all precedents, records, streaks, etc. from both the IBMXF and FIAC.
Pro Series Championships
Bicycle Motocross News:
Minicycle/BMX Action & Super BMX:
Bicycle Motocross Action & Go:
BMX Plus!:
Bicycles and Dirt:
Snap BMX Magazine & Transworld BMX:
Moto Mag:
NBA World & NBmx World (The official NBA/NBmxA membership publication):
Bicycles Today & BMX Today (The official NBL membership publication under one name change.
ABA Action, American BMXer, BMXer (The official ABA membership publication under two name changes):
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Alloway, Queensland - Wikipedia | Alloway is a rural locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia.[2] In the 2016 census Alloway had a population of 490 people.[1]
Clayton is a neighbourhood ( WikiMiniAtlas24°56′00″S 152°22′00″E / 24.9333°S 152.3666°E / -24.9333; 152.3666 (Clayton)) in the north of the locality.[3]
Alloway is flat land about 30 metres above sea level used for farming, predominantly the growing of sugarcane. The Elliott River comprises the southern boundary of the locality. The North Coast railway line passed through the locality from south to north with the locality served by the Elliott railway station.[4][5]
The name Alloway is taking from the railway siding, which was in turned named after Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland (the birthplace of Robert Burns) on 8 July 1939 by the Queensland Railways Department.[2]
Elliott State School opened on 4 February 1886 and it is believed there was a "school at Bingera and Baranyan Homestead near Bundaberg" on the site prior to this. In 1960, it was renamed Alloway State School.[6]
Clayton State School opened on 31 July 1930 on a 5-acre (2.0 ha) site donated by Mrs Ernestina Julia Sarah Natzke. It closed in 1947 but reopened in 1952. It closed permanently on 31 December 1971.[7] On 16 January 1989 the Queensland Government decided to returned land to Mrs Ernestina Crank, the daughter and sole beneficiary of Mrs Natzke who had died in August 1988.[8] The school was at 430 Clayton Road ( WikiMiniAtlas24°55′25″S 152°21′19″E / 24.9237°S 152.3553°E / -24.9237; 152.3553 (30 September 2020)).[9]
The Clayton railway station on the North Coast railway line was located at WikiMiniAtlas24°55′29″S 152°21′50″E / 24.9246°S 152.3639°E / -24.9246; 152.3639 (Clayton railway station).[9]
In the 2016 census Alloway had a population of 490 people.[1]
Alloway State School is a government co-educational primary school (P-6) at 4334 Goodwood Road. In 2016, the school had an enrolment of 51 students with 6 teachers (3 equivalent full-time) and 5 non-teaching staff (3 equivalent full-time).[10] Alloway State school opened on 1 February 1886.[11]
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Abbé Larudan - Wikipedia | Abbé Larudan was an anonymous 18th Century French writer—possibly a clergyman for the Catholic Church, though this is unconfirmed—who is largely known for his Anti-Masonic writing, The Freemasons Crushed.
Abbé Larudan is best known for his exposé on Freemasonry called Les Franc-Maçons ecrasés, Suite du livre intitule l'Ordre des Franc-Maçons trahi, traduit du Latin (The Freemasons Crushed, a Continuation of the Book entitled The Order of Freemasons Betrayed[1]), published in Amsterdam in 1746. This book is presented as a sequel or an extended volume to the 1742 exposé on Freemasonry by Abbé Gabriel-Louis Pérau.[2] This book was the principle weapon used by Anti-Masons that came after Abbé Larudan, according to Georg Kloss.[3]
This Masonic exposure is most notable for being the first the posit the theory that Oliver Cromwell created the society of Freemasons for the sole purpose of overthrowing the English monarchy and placing himself at the head of the Commonwealth of England. This theory is founded upon two claims: first, that the ideologies of Freemasonry and Cromwell's political agenda are similar (i.e. liberty and equality for all people); and second, that he gathered this information from an anonymous Grand Master of English Freemasons.[4] According to Abbé Larudan, Cromwell initiated his closest friends—who were dedicated to his mission to free everyone from the tyrannical rule of the monarchs—into this secret society he called the Freemasons, and held them under severe oaths of loyalty, and that he received instruction to do this by divine providence. Abbé Larudan delivers the narrative of this origin of Freemasonry in such absurdly minute detail as to warrant suspicion, especially given the almost complete lack of detail provided for the actual rituals and ceremonies of Cromwell's associates into this newly founded secret society.[5]
According to Arthur Edward Waite it was a Catholic attempt to slander Freemasonry by assigning it a Protestant origin.[6]
The theory of the origin of Freemasonry as a cult of Oliver Cromwell has been refuted by most Masonic scholars, and is largely held as being an invention of Abbé Larudan's imagination.
In addition to this Cromwellian theory, Abbé Larudan provides supplements to the exposure of Masonic ritual and catechism, such as the floor drawings. These floor drawings are often called the trestle board or tracing board in Masonic ritual, which later became known as carpets, because they were originally the emblems of Freemasonry that were manually drawn on the floor,[7] and then later imprinted on carpets.[8] Abbé Larudan's trestle boards are unique in that they are depicting the space of the Lodge room in perspective.[9] But like his theory of Cromwell's invention of Freemasonry, Abbé Larudan's trestle boards are equally contrived from his own imagination, as they bear no semblance to any actual trestle boards, either Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft, or Master Mason designed prior or since this Masonic exposé.[10]
The Freemasons Crushed had hardly any impact when it was published, even among Anti-Masons. In fact, the whole Cromwellian origin of Masonry would have fallen into total obscurity had it not been revived by Léo Taxil a century and a half after Abbé Larudan. Taxil claims that the "Lord Protector" (i.e. Cromwell) was initiated as a Freemason.[11] This goes along with his infamous libel campaign against Freemasonry and Catholicism, known as the Taxil hoax.
Who the Abbé Larudan was is somewhat of a mystery. Other than his writings, he is totally unknown. Jacques Brengues speculated in his La Franc-Maçonnerie du bois (1973) that Abbé Larudan was Abbé Henri Charles Arnauld de Pomponne (1669-1756), because "Larudan" is an anagram for "Arnauld".[12] Other than this conjecture of identity derived from an anagram, there is no serious founding that Abbé Larudan was Abbé Henri Charles Arnauld de Pomponne. Further, Brengues' speculation is the only potential identity of Abbé Larudan that has ever been put forth.
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List of airports in Greece - Wikipedia |
This is a list of airports in Greece, grouped by type and sorted by location.
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula. It has land borders with Albania, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of mainland Greece, the Ionian Sea to the west and the Mediterranean Sea to the south.
Greece is divided into 13 regions (the official regional administrative divisions), including nine on the mainland and four island groups. The regions are further subdivided into 74 regional units. The country has many islands (approximately 1,400, of which 227 are inhabited), including Crete, the Dodecanese, the Cyclades and the Ionian Islands among others.
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Laxton's Superb - Wikipedia | The 'Laxton's Superb' is an apple cultivar that was developed in England in 1897. It is a cross breed between Cellini and 'Cox's Orange Pippin'[2] and is not a cross between Wyken Pippin and Cox Orange Pippin. It is a British apple with a green color and a dull red flush. It is a firm-textured dessert apple. The fruit is well known for its sweet and aromatic taste which is likened to the parent species it is derived from, the 'Cox's Orange Pippin'.
'Laxton's Superb' was first bred in 1897 by Laxton Brothers and introduced in 1922 having received an Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1921. Laxton Brothers were a famous Victorian era company of plant breeders from Bedford in England. Laxton Brothers were also well known for breeding numerous fruit varieties (apples and strawberries in particular).[6]
Thomas Laxton's company continued to trade after his death in 1893 as "Laxton Brothers" as the company was taken over by his sons and grandsons, until it ceased trading in 1957 when it was taken over by Bunyard Nurseries. Bunyard eventually shut down the company and the orchards were built upon. However, the Laxton variety of apple still lives on as the town of Bedford has planted an orchard of the Laxton apple trees.[7]
Winston Churchill was also believed to have ordered fruit trees and plants for his Chartwell estate in Westerham, Kent. There are also surviving Laxton apple trees at Bank Hall in Bretherton, Lancashire.
The Laxton Superb is self-fertile, but cross pollination will maximise the yield.
The Laxton Superb generally flowers from April to May annually. The tree will usually provide a heavy crop which is best to be harvested in October.[8] Stong tendency to biennal bearing.
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Carton House - Wikipedia |
Carton House is a country house and surrounding demesne that was the ancestral seat of the Earls of Kildare and Dukes of Leinster for over 700 years. Located 23 km west of Dublin, in Maynooth, County Kildare, the Carton Demesne is a 1,100 acres estate, from an original estate of 70,000 acres.[1] For two hundred years, the Carton Demesne was the finest example in Ireland of a Georgian-created parkland landscape. In the 2000s, much of the demesne was redeveloped into two golf courses and the house into a hotel complex.[2]
During a history spanning more than eight centuries, Carton Demesne has seen many changes. The estate first came into the ownership of the FitzGerald family shortly after Maurice FitzGerald, Lord of Lanstephan (c. 1105-1176), an Anglo-Norman noble, played an active role in the capture of Dublin by the Normans in 1170 and was rewarded by being appointed Lord of Maynooth, an area covering townlands which include Carton.
His son, Gerald FitzMaurice (c. 1150-1204), became jure uxoris 1st Baron of Offaly, and his descendant John, 4th Baron of Offaly (c. 1250-1316), became the 1st Earl of Kildare in 1315. Under The 8th Earl of Kildare (c. 1456-1513), a long-serving Lord Deputy of Ireland, the FitzGerald family reached pre-eminence as the virtual rulers of the Lordship of Ireland between 1477 and 1513. The Lordship of Ireland was replaced by the Kingdom of Ireland in 1542.
However, the 8th Earl's grandson, The 10th Earl of Kildare (1513-1537), better known to history as 'Silken Thomas', was executed at Tyburn in February 1537, with his five uncles, for leading an uprising against the English Crown. 'Silken Thomas', previously styled as Lord Offaly, had succeeded to the earldom in December 1534. Although the FitzGeralds subsequently regained their land and titles, they did not fully regain their position at either the Irish or British Courts until the 18th century, when The 19th Earl of Kildare (1675-1743) became a noted statesman.
The first record of a house at Carton was in the early seventeenth century when William Talbot, Recorder of Dublin, was given a lease of the lands by the 14th Earl of Kildare (d. February 1612) and is thought to have built a house. The house and lands were forfeited to the Crown in 1691 and in 1703 sold to Major-General Richard Ingoldsby, Master General of the Ordnance.
In 1739, as the Ingoldsby family had lost most of their money, the lease was sold back to the 19th Earl of Kildare, who employed Richard Cassels (1690-1751) to design the existing house. This was the same year the FitzGerald family bought Frescati House. Castle (originally Cassels) was also responsible for some other grand Irish houses, including: Castle Hume, on the shores of Lower Lough Erne in County Fermanagh; Summerhill House in County Meath; Westport House in County Mayo; Powerscourt House in County Wicklow; and, in 1745, Kildare House (later renamed Leinster House) in Dublin, which he also built for the FitzGeralds.
In 1747, the 20th Earl of Kildare (created His Grace the 1st Duke of Leinster in 1766) married Lady Emily Lennox, daughter of the 2nd Duke of Richmond and great–granddaughter of King Charles II. Lady Emily played an important role in the development of the house and estate as it is today. She created the Chinese Room (bedroom of Queen Victoria) and decorated the famous Shell Cottage on the property with shells from around the world. One of their 23 children was the famous Irish patriot Lord Edward FitzGerald, a leader of the 1798 rebellion.
Carton remained unaltered until 1815, when His Grace The 3rd Duke of Leinster (1791-1874) decided to sell Leinster House to the Dublin Society (renamed the Royal Dublin Society in 1820) and make Carton his principal residence. He employed Richard Morrison to enlarge and re-model the house. Morrison replaced the curved colonnades with straight connecting links to obtain additional rooms, including the famous Dining Room. At this time, the entrance to the house was moved to the north side.
Carton remained in the control of the FitzGeralds until the early twentieth century when the 7th Duke of Leinster (1892-1976) sold his life interest to a moneylender,[citation needed] Sir Harry Mallaby-Deeley, to pay off gambling debts of £67,500.[3] The 7th Duke, who was known as Lord Edward FitzGerald up until he inherited the dukedom in February 1922, was originally third in line to succeed, so he did not think he would ever inherit. However, both of his older brothers were unmarried and predeceased him.
His eldest brother was the 6th Duke of Leinster (1887-1922), who had succeeded as a child to the dukedom and estates in December 1893 but who suffered from serious psychiatric issues; the 6th Duke lived from 1907 until his death in February 1922 in a house in the grounds of Craig House Psychiatric Hospital in Edinburgh. Lord Edward's other older brother was Major Lord Desmond FitzGerald (1888-1916), an officer in the Irish Guards who was accidentally killed during a grenade demonstration at Calais during the First World War. So, Lord Edward inherited the dukedom and what remained of the Carton Estate in February 1922, thus becoming the 7th Duke. In this way, much of the Carton Estate was lost to the FitzGerald dynasty. Carton House and what remained of the Carton Estate was finally sold by the 7th Duke of Leinster and his son, the then Marquess of Kildare (1914-2004), in the late 1940s.
It is alleged that, in 1923, a local unit of the IRA went to Carton with the intention of burning it down. However, they were stopped when a member of the FitzGerald family brought a large painting of Lord Edward FitzGerald to the door and pointed out that they would be burning the house of a revered Irish patriot.[citation needed]
During the Second World War, Carton House was occupied by the Irish Army who used the building as the headquarters of the 2nd Infantry Division.[4]
In 1949 the house was purchased by the 2nd Baron Brocket (1904–1967), a multi-millionaire Tory peer and businessman and a member, by descent, of the ancient Ulster family of Ó Catháin (O'Cahan or O'Kane),[5] whose principal residence was Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire, England. Lord Brocket bequeathed Carton to his younger son, The Hon. David Nall-Cain who, having moved to the Isle of Man, sold the house in 1977[6] to the Mallaghan family.
In 2017 the Mallaghan family sold Carton House to John Mullen for €57 Million.
From 1977 to 2017, Carton House and Demesne was the property of the Mallaghan family, and in the 1980s and 1990s, the Irish Government came under public and political pressure to buy the house and its grounds but decided not to do so.[citation needed]
The house was used as a film location by many film-makers and broadcasters.[7] Two of the films made there were Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon in 1975 and The Big Red One in 1980. They starred Ryan O'Neal (as an 18th-century Irish adventurer, with a soundtrack by The Chieftains) and Lee Marvin respectively. The film Leap Year, starring Amy Adams, Matthew Goode, and Adam Scott, shot some scenes at Carton during 2009.[8]
Director Blake Edwards and wife actress, Julie Andrews, lived in Carton House over the summer and autumn of 1969 while filming the movie Darling Lili (1970). Rock Hudson, Andrews' co-star also lived on the grounds during filming. The actual house was used in the movie in several interior and exterior scenes.
More recently, Carton House was used as a prime location for the filming of the Irish drama Love/Hate.
In 2000, Carton was redeveloped as a "premier golf resort and hotel", an action condemned by heritage groups, including An Taisce, and criticised in Seanad Éireann (the Irish Senate) by Senator David Norris. A hotel was added to the main house, altering it drastically, while the estate's eighteenth-century grounds were converted into two golf courses.
Allegedly originally built by Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, and intended for his mausoleum. Its official name is The Prospect Tower.[9]
The famous Shell Cottage is a quaint cottage which once had a thatched roof and is decorated outside and inside with seashells. It was built for Her Grace Emily, Duchess of Leinster (1731-1814),[10] wife of His Grace The 1st Duke of Leinster. The cottage was the home of the singer, songwriter and actress Marianne Faithfull from the late 80's and through the 90's.
Carton House Golf Club has two courses, one designed by Mark O'Meara and opened in 2002, and the other designed by Colin Montgomerie and opened in 2003. The former is a parkland course, utilising the rolling land of the estate as well as the waters of the River Rye, while the latter is an inland links[11] and features head high pot bunkers, "fast-running" greens and narrow fairways.
Carton House was the venue for the European Tour's Nissan Irish Open in 2005 and 2006, having previously hosted the 2004 and 2005 AIB Amateur Open Championship. In 2006, Carton House was the first Irish golf club to be awarded the 'Committed to Green' environmental award by the International Committed to Green Foundation, and the International Association of Golf Tour Operators, European Golf Resort of the Year 2008. The 2013 Irish Open was held on the Montgomerie Course at Carton House (27–30 June). The winner was England's Paul Casey with an outstanding −5 (67) on the final day including an eagle on the last for a total of −14 to win by 3.
In 2020, Golf Ireland was established as the single governing body for golf in Ireland by the amalgamation of The Golfing Union of Ireland, the men's association founded in 1891) and Irish Ladies Golf Union (or ILGU; the ladies' association founded in 1893). The GUI had their national headquarters on the Carton House Demesne, which facility also comprised the GUI National Academy, a 22-acre (89,000 m2) teaching facility for up-and-coming golfers, as well as being a facility available to all golfers in Ireland.[12][13][14][15][needs update]
The IRFU have used the house and its demesne for training and a team base since 2010
A range of soccer teams come to Carton House for pre-season training. Newcastle United F.C. became the first team to train at the Platinum One group facility. Real Madrid became the second team to go to Carton House in 2009.[16] Shamrock Rovers F.C. also trained there ahead of the 2010 season. Chelsea F.C. and Birmingham City F.C. have trained at the facility.[17] It was visited by the Brazil national team during 2008. In July 2010, Wolverhampton Wanderers held a week-long training camp. During an interview for Irish TV, Wolves manager Mick McCarthy stated that Middlesbrough FC would be there later.[18] In July 2013 Birmingham City F.C. held a week-long training camp.[19] In 2016 Newcastle United F.C. spent a week at Carton House during pre-season, and returned for another week-long stay in pre-season 2017 and 2018. Burnley FC also visited during pre-season 2017.
Dublin GAA used Carton House Demesne for training during the summer of 2009.
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1959 Texas Western Miners football team - Wikipedia |
The 1959 Texas Western Miners football team was an American football team that represented Texas Western College (now known as University of Texas at El Paso) as a member of the Border Conference during the 1959 NCAA University Division football season. In its third season under head coach Ben Collins, the team compiled a 3–7 record (2–3 against Border Conference opponents), finished fifth in the conference, and was outscored by a total of 191 to 163.[1][2]
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Ebrahimabad, Khash - Wikipedia | Ebrahimabad (Persian: ابراهيم اباد, also Romanized as Ebrāhīmābād)[1] is a village in Gowhar Kuh Rural District, Nukabad District, Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 24, in 4 families.[2]
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5th Parliament of British Columbia - Wikipedia | The 5th Legislative Assembly of British Columbia sat from 1887 to 1890. The members were elected in the British Columbia general election held in July 1886.[1] William Smithe formed a government. Following his death in May 1887,[2] Alexander Edmund Batson Davie became premier. After Davie died in 1889,[3] John Robson became premier.
There were four sessions of the 5th Legislature:[4]
Charles Edward Pooley served as speaker from 1887 until 1889 when he was named to cabinet. David Williams Higgins succeeded Pooley as speaker.[5]
The following members were elected to the assembly in 1886:[1]
Notes:
By-elections were held for the following members appointed to the provincial cabinet, as was required at the time:[1]
By-elections were held to replace members for various other reasons:[1]
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1963 UC Davis Aggies football team - Wikipedia |
The 1963 UC Davis Aggies football team represented the University of California, Davis as a member of the Far Western Conference (FWC) during the 1963 NCAA College Division football season. Led by Will Lotter in his eighth and final season as head coach, the Aggies compiled an overall record of 6–2–1 with a mark of 3–1–1 in conference play, sharing the FWC title with Humboldt State and San Francisco State. The team outscored its opponents 151 to 74 for the season. The Aggies played home games at Toomey Field in Davis, California.
In eight seasons under coach Lotter, the Aggies compiled an overall record of 26–43–3, for a winning percentage of .382. They won or shared the conference championship twice, in 1956 and 1963.
The UC Davis sports teams were commonly called the "Cal Aggies" from 1924 until the mid-1970s.
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Arrochar, Staten Island - Wikipedia | Arrochar (uh-row-shr) is a neighborhood in northeastern Staten Island in New York City in the United States. It is located directly inland of Fort Wadsworth and South Beach, on the east side of Hylan Boulevard south of the Staten Island Expressway; the community of Grasmere borders it on the west. It is today primarily a neighborhood of one- and two-family homes and small businesses.[citation needed]
Prior to the arrival of Europeans in the late 17th century Staten Island, the area was the site of a Lenape encampment. The name "Arrochar" comes from the estate of William Wallace MacFarland in the 1840s, who named it for his hometown of Arrochar in Scotland, the seat of the ancient chiefs of the Clan MacFarlane.[1]
At the beginning of the 20th century the neighborhood became a fashionable gateway to the resort communities of South Beach and Midland Beach. The house of the MacFarland estate is now part of the grounds of St. Joseph Hill Academy, a Catholic girls school. Across Landis Avenue from St. Joseph Hill Academy sits St. John Villa Academy, a now-defunct all-girls Catholic high school. Throughout the 20th century it became a residential neighborhood for various ethnic groups, Italian-Americans being chief among them. Arrochar today is still inhabited by many Italians and has a growing Chinese-American community as well.[citation needed]
Arrochar is served by the elementary school P.S.39 and St. Joseph Hill Academy (which is both elementary and high school).
Arrochar once had its own train station, on the South Beach Branch of the Staten Island Railway. The station was located at Major Avenue.
This station was abandoned when the SIRT discontinued passenger service on the South Beach Branch to Wentworth Avenue at midnight on March 31, 1953, because of city-operated bus competition.[2][3][4][5] The tracks of the South Beach line have been removed and homes now stand on its former right-of-way.
Due to its proximity to the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, Arrochar is served by the SIM1, SIM5, SIM6, SIM7 and SIM10 express buses to and from Manhattan; the S53, S79 SBS and S93 buses to and from Brooklyn; and the S51, S52, S78 and S81 intra-borough buses.[6]
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2002 The Citadel Bulldogs football team - Wikipedia |
The 2002 The Citadel Bulldogs football team represented The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in the 2002 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Ellis Johnson served as head coach for the second season. The Bulldogs played as members of the Southern Conference and played home games at Johnson Hagood Stadium.[2][3][4]
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Sadhu Aufochs Johnston - Wikipedia | Sadhu Aufochs Johnston was the City Manager of Vancouver, BC from March 2016 until January 2021 where he was responsible for managing the operations of the City, including oversight of a budget of over $1.6B and over 7,000 staff.[1] As City Manager he spearheaded initiatives to address the growing housing and climate change crisis in Vancouver.[2] He was the Chief Environmental Officer of Chicago and Deputy Chief of Staff to Mayor Richard M. Daley, until he was appointed Deputy City Manager of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 2009.[3] Johnston previously served as the Executive Director of the Cleveland Green Building Coalition.[4] He is co-author of "The Guide to Greening Cities"[5] published by Island Press[6] in 2013. In 2008, Johnston co-founded the Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN)[7] and served as the Chair of the Executive Committee of STAR,[8] community sustainability rating system. Johnston served on the selection committee for the Partners for Places Fund,[9] a partnership between USDN and the Funders Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities as well as the Greenest City Fund[10] in partnership with the Vancouver Foundation.
Johnston was born in the United Kingdom to a Canadian father and a German Jewish[11] mother who was born in South Africa.[11][12] Johnston lived in many cities around the world with his mother, a psychotherapist, who raised him in communes from India to Colorado.[13][14] Although he is not of Indian heritage, he was named Sadhu as a result of his parents' extended stays in India during the 1960s and 1970s where they immersed themselves in alternative spirituality.[12] He is a dual US and Canadian citizen who spent several summers visiting his father, who worked as a carpenter,[12] and grandmother in Vancouver while growing up.[3]
He graduated from Oberlin College in 1998 where he studied environmental studies and politics.[4] He also studied at Vassar College.
Johnston was appointed Chief Environmental Officer and Deputy Chief of Staff of Chicago in July 2005 by Mayor Richard M. Daley.[4] During his time in Chicago, Johnston oversaw the development of theChicago Climate Action Plan (CCAP),[15] one of North America's first climate plans to integrate adaptation and mitigation initiatives.[16] Johnston was involved in the development and implementation in Chicago of green jobs, waste reduction, energy conservation, and green roof initiatives among others.
On September 1, 2009 Penny Ballem, the city manager of Vancouver, announced that Johnston would be hired as Deputy City Manager to lead the city's environmental efforts.[3][12][needs update] During his time in Vancouver, Johnston has led the development and implementation of the City of Vancouver's Greenest City Action Plan (GCAP).[17] The plan, which has been recognized globally has 10 goal areas, with ambitious targets in areas such as carbon, green transit, green jobs, waste, food, and green buildings. Vancouver has reduced the community-wide greenhouse gas emissions by over 6% since 1990, despite an over 30% increase in the population and an over 20% increase in jobs. Johnston has supported the establishment of CityStudio,[18] a first in the world partnership between a city and six universities and colleges to help solve urban challenges. Johnston highlighted Vancouver's efforts to improve local food infrastructure in a recent city video,[19] which was viewed across the world. Johnston provided a presentation of GCAP to ASEAN Sustainable Development Conference[20] in Thailand which provides a succinct overview of Vancouver's efforts.
In September, 2015, Johnston assumed the Acting City Manager role and in March 2016, after an international search, he was announced by City Council as the next City Manager.[21] As City Manager he was involved with a wide variety of initiatives at the city, such as the creation of major public space legacies like the Arbutus Greenway and the closure of Robson Street at the Vancouver Art Gallery to create a new plaza; addressing the housing crisis with temporary modular housing, new housing policies to create thousands of new rental units and successfully rolling out the first Empty Homes Tax in North America, which has generated tens of millions of dollars to invest in affordable housing; investments in arts, such as helping the Mural Festival transform many neighborhoods with public art; the implementation of the Greenest City Action Plan with carbon emission reductions, waste diversion programs, separated bike lanes, electric vehicle and car sharing proliferation across the city; and capital projects like the Burrard Bridge, Kilarney seniors centre, new childcare projects being built on parking garages downtown and the replacement of the Evelyne Saller Centre and Roddan Lodge in the DTES. These and many other initiatives in Vancouver are globally leading and have helped to shape other cities around the world. While taking all of this action, Vancouver was the only Canadian City to have a triple A credit rating from multiple credit rating agencies.[2]
Johnston has been recognized for his leadership in urban greening, including Crain's Chicago Business 40 under 40[22] and Vancouver Magazine Power 50.[23]
Johnston is married to Manda Aufochs Gillespie,[3] an environmental consultant and writer.[24] The couple, who met while attending Oberlin College, have two daughters.[11]
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Elizabeth Rose, Lady of Kilravock - Wikipedia |
Elizabeth Rose, 19th Baroness of Kilravock (8 March 1747 – 1 November 1815) was an eighteenth-century Scottish literary critic and author.
Elizabeth Rose was born on 8 March 1747 in Kilravock, Scotland.[citation needed] She was the daughter of Hugh Rose, 17th Baron of Kilravock, and Elizabeth Clephane.
She was educated with her brothers, and entirely by men. She played the violin like her male counterparts with the instrument supported against her shoulder.[1] Her uncle, John Clephane, advised her ‘‘Reading and writing and playing on the spinet is all very well …The two first deserve great application. The spinet, too has its merit ... methinks music is well as an amusement, but not as a study.’[2]
In 1779 she married Dr Hugh Rose of Broadley, who died two years later,[3] and they had two children. After the death of her brother, the 18th Baron of Kilravock, and a five-year long contest over succession rights,[4] she was granted title to most of the estates, including Kilravock. In 1788 she became the 19th Baroness of Kilravock and moved into Kilravock Castle.[5]
She was an avid reader and possibly the best-documented eighteenth-century Scottish woman reader.[6] In the years 1775–1780 alone she read 217 books.[7] Reading was intended to influence her own moral improvement and to prepare her for the world into which she had suddenly been thrust due to the premature deaths of her father, her brothers and her husband.[8]
She "was the choice companion, the leader of all cheerful amusements, the humorous story-teller, the clever mimic, the very soul of society."[5] Robert Burns described her as ‘a true chieftain's wife, a daughter of Clephane', with 'sterling sense, warm heart, strong passions, honest pride, all in an uncommon degree…’[3]
She died on 1 November 1815. As she had requested, she was buried in the old [St. Mary's][9] chapel of Geddes with her coffin resting on birch trees cut from the Kilravock estate. Her son, Hugh, succeeded her as the 20th Baron of Kilvarock.[10]
She was not the first very literary lady of the North, but her literature was not her greatest recommendation - Lachlan Shaw[1] Rose developed a literary reputation mainly because of her ‘indiscriminate and voracious reading’. This marked her out ‘in a country where there was little learning in either sex.'[11] She shared her reading with others as she actively sought to cultivate a specific philosophy of reading in the next generation of female readers. Her great friend was Euphemia Russel, the mother of Cosmo Innes,[12][13] and she moved in extensive circles.
Her reputation was far reaching. By the end of the century, she was well enough known for Anne Grant, who had never met her, to take Helen Dunbar's report of Rose's praise of her manuscript verse as significant encouragement in Grant's decision to publish her work. Grant described Rose's ‘elegant critisms’ as ‘an excellent cork jacket’ to keep her afloat as she ventured into the swampy world of publication.[11]
Rose composed verses but merely for private consumption within her reading circle.[14] Her own style of writing…was not natural, and she has scarcely written anything worthy of being preserved for its intrinsic qualities - Hew Rose[15] She became an author by providence rather than design. Her commonplace books and correspondence are her well-known works.
She kept a journal from 1771 until 1815. Within these journals she recorded every book she read and collected passages from those books in a series of voluminous commonplace books.[8] They also included other things she valued or needed. She kept financial records of estate business, alongside her annual reading lists of literature, philosophy, history, and natural science.
In her commonplace book, Poems, Rose excerpted poetry written by Samuel Johnson, Horace, Henry Mackenzie, and others, editing and revising their poetry to suit her own sense of poetics.[16] And on her personal copy of Mary Robinson’s A Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination, Rose made significant additions to the ‘List of British Female Literary Characters’.[17] She abridged David Hume's The History of England in its entirety, including Tobias Smollett's Continuation.[18] And in her final commonplace book she transcribed at length a sequence of James Beattie's attack on Hume's scepticism.[18]
At least 10 of her commonplace books are still in existence.[8] Although some argue that only nine of them are attributable to Rose.[16]
She was a prolific letter writer and she is now best known for her correspondence with her cousin Henry Mackenzie.[11] Mackenzie wrote Rose 127 letters spanning the years 1768 to 1815.[19] These, or extracts from them, were published in Letters to Elizabeth Rose of Kilravock on literature events and people 1768-1815.[20][21] Amongst other things, the letters show that Mackenzie shared excerpts from his books and asked her for her opinion on the novel as he was writing it.[16] Having sent her chapters from A Man of Feeling, Mackenzie commented ‘I am proud of having drawn a female character so much to your liking’. They did not always agree on the position of women, in another letter he wrote ‘You are hard on me for my idea of inferiority in your sex.’[22]
Mackenzie gave Robert Burns a letter of introduction to Rose before Burns’ Highland tour in 1787.[23] During one of Burns’ visits with Rose he was entertained by Rose's niece, who sang two Highland airs. At Burns request, Rose wrote down and sent these songs to him. In 1796 one of these songs was published in A Collection of Entirely Original Strathspey Reels, Marches, Quick Steps &c. titled as ‘Mrs. Rose of Kilravock's Strathspey’.[24]
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1985–86 Irish Cup - Wikipedia | The 1985–86 Irish Cup was the 106th edition of the Irish Cup, Northern Ireland's premier football knock-out cup competition. It concluded on 3 May 1986 with the final.
Glentoran were the defending champions after winning their 11th Irish Cup last season, defeating archrivals Linfield 1–0 in the 1985 final replay, after the first game ended 1–1.[1] They successfully defended the cup by beating Coleraine 2–1 in the final. In doing so, they became the first club in 18 years to win the trophy in consecutive seasons. Crusaders were the last club to achieve it, winning the 1967 and 1968 finals.[2]
This season also saw second replays abolished in rounds, though they would still be used to decide the final if necessary. The first tie to be affected by the change was the first round tie between Dungannon Swifts and Tobermore United. Dungannon Swifts won the tie 6–5 on penalties when the replay ended 0–0 after extra time. The old rules would have required a second replay to be played at a neutral venue after the first replay was drawn.
Cliftonville and Crusaders both received byes into the second round.
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Purvas - Wikipedia | The Fourteen Purva translated as ancient or prior knowledge, are a large body of Jain scriptures that was preached by all Tirthankaras (omniscient teachers) of Jainism encompassing the entire gamut of knowledge available in this universe. The persons having the knowledge of purvas were given an exalted status of Shrutakevali or "scripturally omniscient persons". Both the Jain traditions, Svetambara and Digambara hold that all the fourteen purvas have been lost.[1] According to tradition, the Purvas were part of canonical literature and deposited in the third section of Drstivada (the twelfth and last canon). Knowledge of Purvas became fairly vulnerable after Mahavira's nirvana (liberation) and on account of effects of famine, such that, eventually only one person—Bhadrabahu Svami had a command over it. In accordance with the prophecy of Mahavira, the knowledge of Purvas died within 1,000 years of his nirvana and eventually, the whole of Drstivada disappeared as well.(Bhagvati Sutra 20.8)[2] However, a detailed table of contents of the Drstivada and the Purvas has survived in the fourth Anga, Samavāyānga and Nandīsūtra. Furthermore, certain portions of Drstivada and Purvas is said to have survived in Satkhandāgama and Kasāyaprabhrta, especially the doctrine of Karma.
Following were the fourteen Purvas containing various descriptions and details:
The contents of the Purvas was so vast, that the tradition holds that, the first one is written by the volume of the ink that is equivalent to the size of one elephant. Second one is two times larger, and third one is two times larger than second one and so on. It was said that, all efforts to describe the knowledge of Purva in words were in vain. It provided detailed information about six kinds of reals or substances, all kinds of living creatures, the things which were to exist for eternal time, those which were to come into existence for a transient time and their time of extinction, five kinds of knowledge, truth, soul, karma, mantra, benefits of austerities, the lifestyle of ascetics and householders, birth, death and a detailed description of the whole universe. It also contained various knowledge on attainment of exceptional abilities including attainment of various magical powers.[citation needed]
The persons having the knowledge of purvas were known as Srutakevali or "scripturally omniscient persons".[1] They were one step away from attaining enlightened or Kevala Jnana. The following persons had the knowledge of Purvas after Mahavira:
These three persons also attained Kevala Jnana or enlightenment and were subsequently liberated. After Jambu Svami, the following Heads of the Jaina Order who were his successors had knowledge of the entire 14 Purvas:
The Indologist Hermann Jacobi is of the opinion that there is an element of truth in the existence of Purvas or ancient knowledge; however, he held a view that Dristivada contained an abstract of the Purvas, rather than the entire text of the Purvas itself. According to him, it is no coincidence that the knowledge of Purvas started fading away simultaneously with the redaction of the new canon. He is of the opinion that the Drstivada containing a disputation of the views of heretical traditions may no longer have served a purpose, once the rival traditions became extinct.[4]
On the other hand, Acarya Hemachandra's Parishishtaparva, also known as Sthaviravali (stories on the lives of elders or Jain patriarchs), contains detailed information as to how the knowledge of the Purvas was lost. Bhadrabahu Svami was the last person to have the knowledge of the entire 14 Purvas. He refused to teach the last four Purvas to his chief disciple Sthulibhadra, who had used his knowledge of the Purvas to display magical powers. Bhadrabahu, foreseeing the loss of the Purvas and a decline of morality and conduct, ultimately agreed to teach Sthulabhadra the rest of the Purvas, on the condition that he should not hand down the last four Purvas to anybody else. Hence, Sthulabhadra, in turn, taught his disciples Mahagiri and Suhastin only ten Purvas, for he was forbidden to teach the last four Purvas to anybody. Gradually, with the growth of schisms and the inability of monks to commit the scriptures to memory, the knowledge of the Purvas and of the Dristivada became extinct.[5]
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2010 Asia Cup - Wikipedia |
The 2010 Asia Cup (also known as Micromax Asia Cup) was the tenth edition of the Asia Cup cricket tournament, which was held in Sri Lanka from 15 to 24 June 2010. Only the test playing nations India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh were taking part in the competition. India defeated Sri Lanka by 81 runs in the final to win a record 5th Asia Cup title. Pakistani captain, Shahid Afridi was declared the man of the tournament for scoring the most runs in the tournament, 265, with an average of 88.33 and a strike rate of 164.59.
The trophy was made of a combination of silver, gold, copper and brass with a silver finish with mat and gloss finish. It stands to communicate the strength, purity, humility and persistence that not only represents the four metals but also the four participating nations.[2]
Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium was the only venue of Asia Cup 2010 as other stadiums in Sri Lanka, including the R. Premadasa Stadium, were undergoing renovation for the 2011 Cricket World Cup. All seven matches were Day/Night affairs.
Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium is a 16,800 seat cricket stadium in Sri Lanka.[3] The Stadium is situated in the Central Province, close to Dambulla on a 60-acre (240,000 m2) site leased from the Rangiri Dambulla Temple. The stadium is built overlooking the Dambulla Tank (reservoir) and the Dambulla Rock.
The squads of the four teams participating in the tournament were announced in early June by the respective cricket boards.[4]
Each side played each other once in the group stages. The top 2 teams based on points at the end of the group stages meet each other in a one-off final. Each win yielded 4 points while a tie/no result yielded 1-point. A bonus point system was also in place, where a team could earn an extra point, in addition to the four received from a win, for a total of 5 points if they achieved victory using 80% or less of available overs or kept the opposition score to less than 80% of their own.
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Dinesh Karthik was declared the Man of the Match for his match winning innings of 66 off 84 balls while Pakistan's Shahid Afridi was declared Man of the Series for scoring 265 runs in 3 matches during the tournament.[13]
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