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15830099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A9r%C3%A9%2C%20Hautes-Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es | Péré, Hautes-Pyrénées | Péré (; ) is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France.
See also
Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department
References
Communes of Hautes-Pyrénées |
15830111 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricaud | Ricaud | Ricaud may refer to the following places in France:
Ricaud, Aude, a commune in the Aude department
Ricaud, Hautes-Pyrénées, a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department |
15830118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chand%20cabinet%2C%202002 | Chand cabinet, 2002 | On October 11, 2002, King Gyanendra of Nepal, appointed an interim cabinet with Lokendra Bahadur Chand as its Prime Minister.
Ministers
References
2002 in Nepal
Cabinet of Nepal
Government of Nepal
2002 establishments in Nepal
2003 disestablishments in Nepal |
15830137 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricaud%2C%20Hautes-Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es | Ricaud, Hautes-Pyrénées | Ricaud (; ) is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France.
See also
Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department
References
Communes of Hautes-Pyrénées |
15830146 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Scandling | William Scandling | William F. "Bill" Scandling (June 17, 1922 – August 22, 2005) was an American businessman and philanthropist who was one of the founders of Saga Corporation, a multi-billion dollar food service and restaurant company. Scandling donated money to his alma mater Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He also funded the redevelopment of the Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development at the University of Rochester which was renamed to honor his wife in 1993.
Biography
Scandling grew up in Rochester, New York, and attended several Rochester area high schools, graduating from Brighton High School in 1940.
He started work as a salesman for a Men's Clothier spending some time travelling through the midwest. He was called to military service in July 1942 and served in the Pacific theater
for the Army Air Forces during World War II.
In his military service he eventually rose to the rank of Technical Sergeant working for the Army Airways Communication System.
At the close of the war Scandling enrolled at Hobart College with financial support from the G.I. Bill and became a member of The Kappa Alpha Society. In 1948 Scandling, along with fellow veteran-classmates Harry W. Anderson and W. P. Laughlin, took over operation of the Hobart dining hall which had been nearing bankruptcy. The following year they started providing dining services for William Smith College. Scandling graduated from Hobart in 1949 with a degree on Economics. He and his partners continued to operate their cafeteria business and incorporated it in the late 1940s. After learning that Geneva was built on an old Native American village called Kanadasaga, it was decided that Saga Corporation would be a fitting name for the new company.
In the summer of 1952 Saga opened operations at their third account at Kalamazoo College.
In 1962 Saga's national headquarters opened in Menlo Park, California. In 1968 Saga went public, offering 321,000 shares of common stock. By 1970 Saga was serving meals to hospitals and retirement communities in addition to college cafeterias and was also operating its first two restaurant chains Black Angus and the Velvet Turtle. By 1973 Saga was serving more than 400,000,000 meals a year. Other restaurant chains operated by Saga included Straw Hat Pizza and MacArthur Park. At its height Saga ran food service contracts for more than 400 universities, colleges, hospitals, and retirement homes.
Scandling served as Saga Corporation's president from 1968 to 1978. He said that one of his proudest achievements was in 1984 when Saga was named one of the 100 best companies in America to work for, according to his family.
In 1986, Scandling and his partners sold Saga to Marriott Corporation in a hostile takeover valued at more than $400 million. Despite the sale Scandling had opposed the takeover and wrote about it in a 1994 book The Saga of Saga: the Life and Death of an American Dream. Writing in the Winter 1997 issue of the Pultney Street Survey alumni and alumnae magazine for Hobart and William Smith Colleges Dana Cooke wrote about Saga corporation that "In the 39 years it existed, the company changed the face of college food service nationwide, introducing contracting and service concepts to the industry. It pioneered a staff-empowerment management style decades before such philosophies came into vogue."
Scandling was awarded an honorary degree from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in
1967. In 1998 Saga Corporation founders Scandling, Anderson, and Laughlin were awarded the Medal of Excellence from the Hobart Alumni Association. At that time the Colleges and Marriott had a ceremony to note the legacy of Saga Corporation and the main dining hall in the Scandling Center was formally renamed Saga.
Scandling's first wife Margaret Warner Scandling died in 1990. In 1995 Scandling married Yvette Farquharson-Oliver. The Scandling's had a son named Michael and resided in Atherton, California.
Scandling died August 22, 2005, in Montreal at the age of 83.
Scandling was a member of many professional societies. He was a member of the Menlo Country Club in Woodside, California, and the Seneca Yacht Club in Geneva, New York.
Scandling established the Scandling Family Foundation in 2000.
Philanthropy
Scandling served on the Board of Trustees for Hobart and William Smith Colleges for 20 years and was the chairman for 11 from 1972 to 1983. In 1984, the Scandling Student Center at Hobart and William Smith Colleges was named to honor Scandling's generous philanthropic commitment to the Colleges. The Colleges' 65 foot research vessel was renamed from HWS Explorer to William F. Scandling in his honor.
In 2003, Scandling made the largest gift in the history of Hobart and William Smith Colleges ($15 million).
Scandling's gifts to Hobart and William Smith Colleges totaled more than $30 million.
In 1997 then President of Hobart and William Smith Colleges Richard H. Hersh was reported by Dana Cooke to have said: "Most colleges like ours have patron saints and guardian angels, who are key to their
surviving and thriving. Bishop Hobart, William Smith, a few presidents, and Bill Scandling are in that category for us." in the Winter 1997 issue of the Pultney Street Survey alumni and alumnae magazine.
The Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development at the University of Rochester (established 1958) was renamed in 1993 to honor the memory and legacy of his
late wife, Margaret Warner Scandling, who had graduated from the University of Rochester in 1944.
Mr. Scandling made gifts over the years totaling more than $14 million to the Warner School.
In addition to Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and the University of Rochester, Scandling was a major contributor to Johns Hopkins University where he established The Paul R. McHugh Endowed Chair in Motivated Behaviors in 1998,
Deep Springs College where he served on the Board of Trustees for 8 years,
the Salk Institute where a $1 million gift funded the William Scandling Developmental Chair for an Assistant Professor
,
and Northern Arizona University.
The Scandlings created the Scandling Family Foundation in 2000.
Scandling and the foundation also contributed to many community-based organizations and causes such as the Peninsula Habitat for Humanity, the Marine Science Institute in Redwood City, California, the Equestrian Therapy Program at the Stein Education Center main campus of Vista Hill Foundation center in San Diego, as well as the John Hart Hunter Educational Foundation of The Kappa Alpha Society. Scandling also contributed to political fundraising drives such as the Campbell (R) for Senate campaign.
See also
Kappa Alpha Society Alumni
Bibliography
(1994) The Saga of Saga: The Life and Death of an American Dream 382 pp.; Vista Linda Press; Mill Valley, CA; .
References
External links
The Saga Foundation founded by William P. Laughlin, co-founder of the Saga Corporation is dedicated to raising awareness and creating models for action to increase nuclear safety and security.
1922 births
2005 deaths
Businesspeople from Rochester, New York
Hobart and William Smith Colleges alumni
United States Army Air Forces soldiers
United States Army personnel of World War II
20th-century American businesspeople |
15830149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9jaumont | Réjaumont | Réjaumont may refer to the following places in France:
Réjaumont, Gers, a commune in the Gers department
Réjaumont, Hautes-Pyrénées, a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department |
15830158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Rosengard | Steven Rosengard | Steven Rosengard is an independent American fashion designer. He designs his eponymous line in Chicago, Illinois, and was a contestant in season four of the Bravo reality television show Project Runway.
Childhood and education
Rosengard grew up in the south suburbs of Chicago and is the youngest of four children. A graduate of Morgan Park Academy, Rosengard entered the fashion design program at Columbia College Chicago. After one year, Rosengard left Columbia to travel abroad; upon returning from travels to France, Italy, and England, Rosengard enrolled in the Dutch Studies program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Career
In 2005, Rosengard began working with clients to create custom couture under his eponymous label. Featured in Chicago Fashion Week, Rosengard emerged as a designer on the Chicago fashion scene before his appearance on Project Runway, a reality show on Bravo in which designers compete against each other in a variety of fashion challenges.
In 2006, Rosengard auditioned for season three of Project Runway and made it through all rounds of auditioning, but in the end was selected to be an alternate. His audition video, along with footage from his actual audition with Tim Gunn and Nick Verreos was shown on "Road to Runway: Season 3 - Casting Special".
In 2007, Rosengard was selected to be a contestant on the fourth season of Project Runway. The designers competed for the opportunity to show their Spring 2008 collection at New York Fashion Week, an editorial feature in Elle magazine, $100,000 (furnished by TRESemmé) to start their own line, the opportunity to sell their line on Bluefly, and a 2008 Saturn Astra. Rosengard was eliminated in the season's fifth episode.
Upon his return to Chicago after filming for Project Runway ended, Rosengard designed "The Perfect Rose Dress" for Gaga's, a Chicago-based boutique specializing in children's formal attire. The dress was featured on In the Loop with iVillage.
References
American fashion designers
Project Runway (American series) participants
Morgan Park Academy alumni
Artists from Chicago
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
15830159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente%20Nicolau%20de%20Mesquita | Vicente Nicolau de Mesquita | Vicente Nicolau de Mesquita (July 9, 1818 in São Lourenço, Portuguese Macau – March 20, 1880 in São Lourenço, Portuguese Macau) was an officer of the Portuguese Army in Macau. He is widely remembered for his role at the Portuguese attack of Baishaling, in 1849. He was the oldest of the five children of noted Macanese lawyer, Frederico Albino de Mesquita and Clara Esmeralda Carneiro - both Macau natives. He married twice; first to Balbina Maria da Silveira; second to his sister-in-law Carolina Maria Josefa da Silveira.
Baishaling Incident
Immediately after a Chinese mob assassinated Governor Ferreira do Amaral on August 22, 1849, Chinese Imperial troops mobilized on the Guangdong Province-Macau frontier. The Portuguese population of Macau viewed this as an overtly threatening move by the Chinese to retake Macau. On August 25, 1849, with a numerically smaller group of 36 soldiers from his Artillery Battalion, against a defending force of 400 men and 20 cannons, the then Second Lieutenant Mesquita attacked and pacified the Chinese fort at Baishaling. This coup guaranteed Macau's security and upon his return to the city, Mesquita was received as a national hero.
Later years
In later years, Mesquita was wracked by depression due to his slow and inadequate promotion in the Portuguese military, allegedly due to being Macanese. He was further saddened by the lack official recognition of his role in protecting Macau. As a result, he suffered a series of severe nervous breakdowns - the last of which prompted his permanent retirement. His professional and personal life deteriorated rapidly afterwards. His madness reached its zenith on March 3, 1880 - at his fashionable home: nº 1, Largo da Bica do Lilau - when Mesquita murdered his second wife, a daughter and gravely wounded two other of his children. Afterwards, on that same day, Mesquia committed suicide by throwing himself down a well at his home.
Under these circumstances, the then present Governor of Macau would not accord him a military burial, nor would the Bishop of Macau allow his remains to be placed in consecrated ground. Some thirty years later, on August 28, 1910, in conformity with public opinion on the importance of this man to the history of Macau, were his remains re-interred in the Cemitério de São Miguel with full military and ecclesiastical honors.
Military career
June 9, 1835 - voluntarily enlisted in Batalhão do Principe Regente.
August 29, 1848 - promoted to second lieutenant in the Artillery Battalion of Macau, by patent letter.
December 12, 1850 - promoted to first lieutenant in the same Battalion by patent letter.
July 9, 1863 - made effective major, by decree of the same date.
February 7, 1867 - promoted to lieutenant colonel.
October 27, 1873 - promoted to colonel.
Notes
References
Forjaz, Jorge. Familias Macaenses. Macau: Instituto Português do Oriente, 1996. .
Teixeira, Manuel. Vicente Nicolau de Mesquita - Separata editada na inauguração do monumento ao herói do Passaleão. Macau: Leal Senado, 1940
Teixeira, Manuel. Vicente Nicolau de Mesquita - 2ª ed. Macau: Tipografia "Soi Sang", 1958.
1818 births
1880 deaths
19th-century Macau people
Macanese people
Murder–suicides in Asia
1880s suicides |
15830189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Catholic%20Diocese%20of%20Novo%20Mesto | Roman Catholic Diocese of Novo Mesto | The Diocese of Novo Mesto (; ) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in the city of Novo Mesto in the Ecclesiastical province of Ljubljana in Slovenia.
History
April 7, 2006: Established as Diocese of Novo Mesto from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Ljubljana
Leadership
Bishops of Novo Mesto (Roman rite)
Bishop Andrej Glavan (7 April 2006 – 30 June 2021)
Bishop Andrej Saje (30 June 2021 – present)
See also
Roman Catholicism in Slovenia
External links
GCatholic.org
Catholic Hierarchy
Roman Catholic dioceses in Slovenia
Christian organizations established in 2006
Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 21st century |
15830198 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9jaumont%2C%20Hautes-Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es | Réjaumont, Hautes-Pyrénées | Réjaumont (; ) is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France.
See also
Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department
References
Communes of Hautes-Pyrénées |
15830209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Arroman | Saint-Arroman | Saint-Arroman may refer to the following places in France:
Saint-Arroman, Gers, a commune in the Gers department
Saint-Arroman, Hautes-Pyrénées, a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department |
15830221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Maryland%20fire%20departments | List of Maryland fire departments | Fire departments in the U.S. state of Maryland function in the principal cities, towns and communities in each county.
Allegany County
The borough of Wellersburg is in Somerset County, Pennsylvania where The Wellersburg District Volunteer Fire Company provides coverage as Station 630, but does provide primary fire protection and first responder service to portions of Allegany County as Station 630.
The CDP of Bloomington is in Garrett County, Maryland where it provides coverage as Station 100, but does provide primary fire protection to portions of Allegany County as Station 36.
The community of New Creek is in Mineral County, West Virginia, but does provide primary fire protection to portions of Allegany County, serving both counties as Station 38.
Anne Arundel County
All volunteer stations in Anne Arundel County have at least 2 career firefighter on staff 24x7, with the exception of Ferndale and Odenton.
Baltimore County
Stations 1-19, 54-58, and 60 are fully staffed by career members of the Baltimore County Fire Department. Stations 20-51, 53, 74, 85, and 156 are independent companies staffed solely by volunteers. Station 175 is staffed by the Maryland Air National Guard.
A^ Central Alarmers (Rehab 155) was absorbed by the White Marsh Volunteer Fire Company in 2015.
B^ Violetville Volunteer Fire Company (Station 34) was absorbed by Lansdowne Volunteer Fire Department (Station 36) on February 1, 2017.
C^ Middleborough Volunteer Fire Company (Station 23), Rockaway Beach Volunteer Fire Company (Station 24), and Hyde Park Volunteer Fire Company (Station 25) merged on November 21, 2017 forming the Essex Volunteer Fire Company (Station 51).
D^ Sparrows Point Fire Department (Station 51) was a fire station operated at the former site of the Bethlehem Steel mill. Station 51 was disbanded with the closing of the mill and the fire station became a part of Baltimore County Fire Department as Station 57. The Baltimore County Fire-Rescue Academy is adjacent to the station.
E^ Middle River Volunteer Fire Company (Station 22) and Middle River Volunteer Ambulance Rescue Company (Station 52) merged on August 31, 2016, forming the Middle River Volunteer Fire & Rescue Company (Station 74).
F^ Boring Volunteer Fire Company (Station 42) and Arcadia Volunteer Fire Company (Station 43) merged on September 1, 2017, forming the Upperco Volunteer Fire Company (Station 85).
Baltimore City
Baltimore City Fire Department
Calvert County
Caroline County
The town of Marydel is in Caroline County, Maryland but the fire company is physically located across the state line in Kent County, Delaware, where it also provides coverage, causing the discrepancy in the numbering system.
A portion of the county is covered by Queen Anne-Hillsboro Volunteer Fire Co. from Queen Anne's County. The town of Hillsboro is in Caroline County, while the town of Queen Anne lies in both Queen Anne's and Talbot Counties.
Carroll County
Cecil County
Charles County
Dorchester County
Frederick County
Garrett County
Harford County
Howard County
12 Waterloo
7645 Port Capital Dr. Jessup MD
Engine 121, P125, B128, BC 1
13
{Glenwood in Woodbine Maryland
1 Engine 1 ALS transport Tanker Brush Truck
14
Merriweather in Columbia Maryland
6025 Symphony Woods Rd, Columbia, MD 21044
Kent County
Montgomery County
See Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service.
Prince George's County
Prince George's County Fire/EMS Department
Queen Anne's County
St. Mary's County
Somerset County
Talbot County
Queen Anne-Hillsboro Volunteer Fire Co. from Talbot County. The town of Hillsboro is in Caroline County, while the town of Queen Anne lies in both Queen Anne's and Talbot Counties.
Washington County
Wicomico County
The town of Delmar, Maryland is in Wicomico County, Maryland but the fire company is physically located across the state line in Delmar, Delaware, in Sussex County, Delaware, where it also provides coverage.
Worcester County
Defunct
See also
Engine House No. 8 (Baltimore, Maryland)
Great Baltimore Fire
Howard County Fire and Rescue (Maryland)
Maryland State Fire Marshal
Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service
Poppleton Fire Station
References
Maryland |
15830247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Babe | My Babe | "My Babe" is a Chicago blues song and a blues standard written by Willie Dixon for Little Walter. Released in 1955 on Checker Records, a subsidiary of Chess Records, the song was the only Dixon composition ever to become a number one R&B single and it was one of the biggest hits of either of their careers.
Background
Dixon based "My Babe" on the traditional gospel song "This Train (Is Bound For Glory)", recorded by Sister Rosetta Tharpe as "This Train". He reworked the arrangement and lyrics from the sacred (the procession of saints into Heaven) into the secular (a story about a woman that won't stand for her man's cheating): "My baby, she don't stand no cheating, my babe, she don't stand none of that midnight creeping."
Recording
In his autobiography, Dixon recalled:
Little Walter recorded the song on January 25, 1955. Accompanying his vocal and harmonica were Robert Lockwood, Jr. and Leonard Caston on guitars, Willie Dixon on double-bass, and Fred Below on drums. Guitarist Luther Tucker, then a member of Walter's band, was absent from the recording session that day. "My Babe" was re-issued in 1961 with an overdubbed female vocal backing chorus and briefly crossed over to the pop charts.
Releases and charts
Ray Charles had famously, and controversially, pioneered the gospel-song-to-secular-song approach with his reworking of the gospel hymn "It Must Be Jesus" into "I Got a Woman," which hit the Billboard R&B charts on January 22, 1955, later climbing to the number one position for one week. Within days of the appearance of Charles's song on the national charts, Little Walter recorded "My Babe" and Checker released it while "I've Got a Woman" was still on the charts. The single eclipsed Charles's record by spending 19 weeks on the Billboard R&B charts beginning on March 12, 1955, including five weeks at the top position, making it one of the biggest R&B hits of 1955. The B-side of "My Babe" was the harmonica instrumental "Thunderbird," following the pattern established by the release of Little Walter's number one hit single from 1952, "Juke," of featuring a vocal performance one side and a harmonica instrumental on the flip side.
Recognition and influence
In 2008, "My Babe" was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in the "Classic of Blues Recording – Singles or Album Tracks" category. The song has been recorded by artists with a variety of backgrounds, including rock, R&B, country, and jazz.
References
1955 songs
Little Walter songs
Songs written by Willie Dixon
Blues songs
Checker Records singles
Ike & Tina Turner songs |
15830250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Arroman%2C%20Hautes-Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es | Saint-Arroman, Hautes-Pyrénées | Saint-Arroman (; ) is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France.
See also
Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department
References
Communes of Hautes-Pyrénées |
15830265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Cr%C3%A9ac | Saint-Créac | Saint-Créac may refer to the following places in France:
Saint-Créac, Gers, a commune in the Gers department
Saint-Créac, Hautes-Pyrénées, a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department |
15830293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Cr%C3%A9ac%2C%20Hautes-Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es | Saint-Créac, Hautes-Pyrénées | Saint-Créac (; ) is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France.
See also
Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department
References
Communes of Hautes-Pyrénées |
15830308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salles%2C%20Hautes-Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es | Salles, Hautes-Pyrénées | Salles (; ) is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France.
See also
Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department
References
Communes of Hautes-Pyrénées |
15830316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina%20Pizzolongo | Lina Pizzolongo | Lina Pizzolongo (January 25, 1925, Montreal - September 21, 1991, Toronto) was a Canadian vocal coach and concert pianist. She was married to baritone Louis Quilico and was the mother of two children Donna and Gino Quilico, also a baritone.
Career
She studied first at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal, with Yvonne Hubert, then at the "École normale de musique" in Paris, with Alfred Cortot and Marguerite Long, and at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome with Carlo Zecchi. She performed as a soloist with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and the CBC Radio Orchestra. She taught as an instructor first at the Montréal Conservatory, and later at the University of Toronto from 1970 to 1987, and the McGill University from 1987 to 1990. As a vocal coach and accompanist, she was the primary influence in the careers of her husband Louis and son Gino.
External links
Lina Quilico (Canadian Encyclopedia of Music)
1925 births
1991 deaths
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia alumni
Canadian women pianists
Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal alumni
Musicians from Montreal
Academic staff of the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal
Academic staff of the University of Toronto
Academic staff of McGill University
20th-century Canadian pianists
20th-century Canadian women musicians
20th-century women pianists |
15830322 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sers | Sers | Sers may refer to:
Sers, Armenia
Sers, Charente, France
Sers, Hautes-Pyrénées, France
Sers, Tunisia
SERS may refer to:
Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)
Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme, a housing strategy in Singapore
Pennsylvania State Employees' Retirement System (SERS), a public pension system |
15830332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Whitley%20%28prison%20warden%29 | John Whitley (prison warden) | John P. Whitley (born January 1944 in Hammond, Louisiana) is a former Louisiana corrections officer who served as the warden of Louisiana State Penitentiary (or Angola Prison), the largest maximum-security in the United States, from 1990 to 1995. Time magazine credited Warden Whitley with turning around hopelessness and violence at Angola with "little more than his sense of decency and fairness."
Early life and education
John Whitley attended Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana, and graduated in 1968. He enlisted in the United States Army that year, and served during the Vietnam War before his discharge in 1970. Shortly after, he began his career in corrections.
Career
Whitley started his career as a corrections officer at Angola in 1970. He rose through the ranks during the prison's most violent years, becoming Deputy Warden.
He was promoted to warden of another Louisiana prison, Hunt Correctional Center, and left the state to run a private prison in Texas. In 1990 Louisiana recruited him to return to Angola to restore order. At a time of frequent stabbings, suicides and escapes, a United States Federal Judge declared a state of emergency at the prison in response to an ACLU suit against the state for the horrendous conditions.
Within two years, Whitley had stemmed the violence. He established incentives for good behavior, such as extra visits, and increased educational opportunities with literacy tutoring, and computer and paralegal courses. He enabled some trustworthy and deserving inmates to travel outside the prison as part of athletic teams and inmate bands that provided entertainment for churches, nursing homes, and other charitable organizations.
Whitley launched an outreach program to all criminal justice programs in the State of Louisiana. He offered to send both prison officials and inmates to college classrooms to help both students and faculty better understand the realities of prison management and prison life.
Philosophy
Like several Louisiana wardens before him, Whitley was committed to an open door policy with the media. He told editors of the inmate-produced newsmagazine, The Angolite, that he would continue the decades-long policy of lack of censorship. This had enabled the inmates to produce reporting on difficult issues and to win major national journalism awards for investigating problems at the prison.
He also said that he would continue to welcome outside media and cooperate with them: "We're not going to have anything to hide in Angola," he said. "And, if there's something that's wrong in the prison, I want to know about it, and my staff better correct it—because I intend to be proud of this prison and the way we operate it." Under Whitley, The Angolite began to produce material for uncensored radio and television journalism. Whitley believed these efforts were related to the prison's other outreach programs designed to educate the public about prison life and issues. As he explained to National Public Radio's Fresh Air host, Terry Gross, about his philosophy that lay behind the lack of censorship: "We want … different views of prison. Some of the views, I don't like. It upsets me sometimes, but it's true. We're looking for the truth."
Challenge
In July 1991, inmate welders were ordered by a corrections department employee to build a "hospital examining table". They soon learned that it was a gurney to enable executions by lethal injection. This took place hours after an execution by electric chair had taken place. One of the welders had a brother who had been executed at the prison. Learning of these plans, hundreds of fellow inmates staged a work strike.
When Whitley learned what was happening, he locked up the strikers. He also brought in SWAT teams to prepare for the strike. But he also told the media that deceiving the inmate workers was wrong and the work order should never have been issued. He understood that it put the inmates in a bad position, and he was not going to subject them to building the lethal injection gurney. With that statement, he ended the strike without violence and gained the respect of both the inmate population and his security force.
Even the conservative Baton Rouge Morning Advocate commended him in two editorials for admitting the prison had erred and correcting the mistake. "It's refreshing to see a high-ranking government official admit mistakes and attempt to rectify them. It's a sign of integrity and responsibility." Time magazine invited Whitley to New York City to share his management philosophy with its corporate officers and editors, and profiled him in a three-page feature. He is the only American prison warden to be so profiled. The Russian language magazine, Amerika, followed suit with a six-page profile of Whitley.
Accomplishments
Angola first earned accreditation from the American Correctional Association during Whitley's tenure. This was a concrete measure of the success of reforms he had enacted to increase the safety under which both inmates and employees live and work on the prison farm.
Having accomplished his goal of turning Angola into the safest maximum security in America, Whitley retired as warden in 1995. In what "may have been a first in the history of U. S. prisons," more than 100 inmate leaders pooled their money to throw Whitley a farewell party. It was attended by prison employees and officials, and covered by news media throughout Louisiana.
After leaving Angola, Whitley ran a private prison in Florida. He was called back to Louisiana to serve as the Court Expert for the U.S. Middle District Court of Louisiana. It continued to oversee the state's prisons compliance with a 1975 federal court order about conditions. He served in that position until 2003.
Recognition
Whitley received numerous awards and honors during his tenure as Warden. Several of those were: Profile in "Time" Magazine, December 1992; Alumni of the Year" Southeastern Louisiana University 1993; Profile in "AMERICA", a Russian-Language Magazine, January 1994; Panelist, Time/Warner forum on Crime & Punishment - Feb. 1994; Profile by CBS News (Mike Wallace) - "In the Killing Fields of America" - Jan. 1995
References
External links
Time (magazine)
http://www.southeastern.edu/alumni_donors/alumni_assoc/programs/recognition/past_alumni/1993_jwhitley/index.html
1944 births
Living people
American prison officers
American prison wardens
Penal system in Louisiana
People from Hammond, Louisiana
Southeastern Louisiana University alumni
United States Army soldiers |
15830336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin%20Boldak%20bombing | Spin Boldak bombing | The Spin Boldak bombing happened on February 18, 2008, when a car full of explosives detonated near a Canadian military convoy in a market in Spin Boldak, Afghanistan. The attack killed 38 Afghans and injured at least 25 civilians. In addition, four Canadian soldiers were lightly injured.
This suicide bombing occurred just one day after the 2008 Kandahar bombing, the deadliest terrorist attack during the Afghanistan War up until then.
Kandahar Governor Asadullah Khalid said the bombing would not have happened if the Canadians listened to him when he tried to discourage them from going to Spin Boldak.
References
2008 murders in Afghanistan
Mass murder in 2008
21st-century mass murder in Afghanistan
Suicide car and truck bombings in Afghanistan
Terrorist incidents in Afghanistan in 2008
February 2008 events in Asia
February 2008 crimes |
15830351 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet%2050%20Freighter | Fleet 50 Freighter | The Fleet 50 Freighter was a Canadian twin-engine biplane general utility aircraft designed and built by Fleet Aircraft. This peculiar-looking aircraft had promise as a freighter and general use aircraft, but it was underpowered and only five were built.
Development
Design was started in 1936 to create a general purpose twin-engined utility aircraft for the Canadian market. It was designed as a short take-off freighter with features added to ease cargo handling. The Freighter was a biplane with the lower wing an inverted gull wing with either a float or wheel landing gear. Two radial piston engines were mounted in nacelles on the upper wing panels.
The fuselage structure was welded steel tubing with duralumin formers, and a semi-monocoque duralumin nose section. The wings were stressed-skin metal structure on the inboard panels and fabric-covered wood beams and duralumin ribs on the outboard panels. The fuselage had room for two crew and up to ten passengers. Large doors and a roof-mounted chain hoist were fitted for use in the cargo role.
The prototype designated the 50J first flew on 22 February 1938, powered by two 285 hp (213 kW) Jacobs L-5MB 7-cylinder radial engines. It was later re-engined with 330 hp Jacobs L-6MB engines and re-designated the 50K. A further four aircraft were built, all with L-6MB engines.
None of the aircraft was operated for long, as the design was underpowered and could not maintain altitude on only one engine. The last aircraft went out of service in 1946.
The remains of one airframe are held by the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.
Specifications (50K landplane)
References
Citations
Bibliography
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985). London: Orbis Publishing, 1985, p. 1817.
50
1930s Canadian civil utility aircraft
Biplanes
Inverted gull-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1938
Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft |
15830357 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sers%2C%20Hautes-Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es | Sers, Hautes-Pyrénées | Sers is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France.
See also
Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department
Gallery
References
Communes of Hautes-Pyrénées |
15830361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20Brian%20Haselgrove | C. Brian Haselgrove | Colin Brian Haselgrove (26 September 1926 – 27 May 1964) was an English mathematician who is best known for his disproof of the Pólya conjecture in 1958.
Haselgrove was educated at Blundell's School and from there won a scholarship to King's College, Cambridge. He obtained his Ph.D., which was supervised by Albert Ingham, from Cambridge in 1956.
Personal life
Haselgrove was married to fellow mathematician Jenifer Haselgrove. After having suffered minor epileptic fits for several years caused by a brain tumor, he died in Manchester in May 1964.
References
External links
1926 births
1964 deaths
People educated at Blundell's School
20th-century English mathematicians
Number theorists
Deaths from brain cancer in England
Alumni of King's College, Cambridge |
15830365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzer%2C%20Hautes-Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es | Uzer, Hautes-Pyrénées | Uzer is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France.
See also
Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department
References
Communes of Hautes-Pyrénées |
15830394 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils%20Reuterholm | Nils Reuterholm | Nils Esbjörnsson Reuterholm (1676–1756) was the governor of Kopparberg County (later renamed Dalarna County) in Sweden from 1732 to 1739 and then the governor of Örebro County from 1739 to 1756.
He was made a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in the year of its foundation, 1739.
Swedish politicians
Governors of Örebro County
Governors of Kopparberg County
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
1676 births
1756 deaths
Age of Liberty people |
15830401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olmstedville%2C%20New%20York | Olmstedville, New York | Olmstedville is a hamlet in the town of Minerva in Essex County, New York, United States, in the Adirondack Park.
Historically, it has been the largest settlement in the town of Minerva. Today, it has its own post office (ZIP Code 12857) and Minerva Central School is located there. One of two stations of Minerva Fire & Rescue is also located in Olmstedville. The community still remains as the largest hamlet in the town. Telephone service is provided by the 518-251 exchange in North Creek.
References
Hamlets in New York (state)
Hamlets in Essex County, New York |
15830409 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passale%C3%A3o%20incident | Passaleão incident | The Passaleão incident (), also known as the Battle of Passaleão (or Pak Shan Lan) or Baishaling incident, was a conflict between Portugal and China over Macau in August 1849. The Chinese were defeated in the only military confrontation, but the Portuguese called off further punitive measures after a naval explosion killed about 200 sailors.
Changes in Portuguese policy
The Portuguese governor João Maria Ferreira do Amaral had adopted a confrontational stance towards the Chinese, as displayed in the earlier revolt of the faitiões (October 1846). In early 1849 he proposed to extend a road from the walls of the city to the Chinese border. This required the relocation of some Chinese graves. Further, he ordered Chinese residents within the walls to pay taxes to the Portuguese authorities and no longer to the imperial mandarins.
Amaral also placed stricter controls on the lorcha traffic and tried to stop the mandarins from collecting customary dues from the Tanka people who lived on boats in the harbour, since Macau was a free port. The mandarins retained two customs houses, one at the Inner Harbour (Praia Pequena) and one at the Outer Harbour (Praia Grande). They refused to close them at Amaral's request, so on 5 March he proclaimed them closed. The mandarins still did not budge and, on 13 March, they were forcibly expelled. Amaral informed the mandarins of Zhongshan that if they ever visited Macau they would be received as foreign dignitaries.
By all these moves the mandarins—and the Chinese state—stood to lose significant revenue. The Chinese inhabitants of Macau were inflamed. Placards offering a reward for the head of Amaral were posted in Guangzhou (Canton). The governor, however, had achieved his goal of Macanese independence from China: for the legations of Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States accredited to China had chosen to stay in Macau while awaiting permission to enter China.
Assassination of Amaral
Matters came to a head on 22 August, when Amaral and his aide-de-camp, Lieutenant Jerónimo Pereira Leite, left the town through the Portas do Cerco (Barrier Gate) to give alms to an elderly Chinese woman whom Amaral was supporting. The two were only a few hundred yards within the gate when a Chinese coolie frightened Amaral's horse with a bamboo pole and signalled to his comrades in hiding. The one-armed governor held the reins with his teeth in order to draw his pistol. Before he could do so, he was set upon by seven Chinese, led by Shen Zhiliang and armed only with edged weapons, and dragged from his horse. Leite, also armed, was dismounted and fled on foot. Intending to collect the reward in Guangzhou, the assassins cut off Amaral's head and remaining hand as proof. The Portuguese authorities later retrieved the rest of his corpse and traced a trail of blood out of the gate.
The assassination quickly became well known in Guangzhou, where the evidence was widely seen and the perpetrators openly bragged. When the Portuguese—supported by the Americans, British, French and Spanish—protested the assassins' escape to the Chinese government, the latter claimed complete ignorance of the event.
Since Amaral had earlier dissolved the Senate of Macau (because it had opposed his imposition of taxes), there was a power vacuum after the assassination. Some senior officials requested assistance from Britain and the United States. The USS Plymouth and Dolphin took up defensive positions in the harbour, while HMS Amazon and Medea landed some Royal Marines to defend Portuguese civilians and British nationals.
Battle of August 25
In the aftermath of the assassination, sensing Portuguese weakness, the Chinese moved troops closer to the city. On 25 August, the guns of the imperial fort of Latashi (拉塔石), known to the Portuguese as Passaleão, about one mile north of the city, opened fire on the walls of Macau. The field artillery and naval guns of the Portuguese returned fire, but could do little damage to the Chinese fort. With about 400 men and 20 cannons, the Chinese greatly outnumbered and outgunned the Portuguese garrison. In this situation, Vicente Nicolau de Mesquita, an artillery sub-lieutenant, volunteered to lead an attack on Baishaling with a company of about thirty-six men and a howitzer. The howitzer got off only one shot before its carriage broke down, but the shell caused a panic among the Chinese troops. Mesquita then led a charge, and the surprised Chinese broke and ran. Now in control of the fort but unable to hold it, Mesquita had the guns spiked and exploded the powder magazines. One Portuguese was wounded and about 15 Chinese were killed. Although Mesquita was treated as a hero in the twentieth century, both in Portugal and in Macau, he was not immediately recognised for the valour of his actions.
To calm the Portuguese, Xu Guangjin, Viceroy of Liangguang, ordered the arrest of Shen Zhiliang, the lead conspirator. He was captured by officials in Shunde County, who also recovered Amaral's head and arm, on 12 September 1849. Although Xu believed that Amaral deserved his fate, he had Shen Zhiliang executed at Qianshan on 15 September.
Aftermath
After their initial victory, the Portuguese received support from Britain, France and the United States. They brought in reinforcements from Portuguese India (Goa) and metropolitan Portugal (Lisbon). Following negotiations, the Chinese agreed to return Amaral's head and arm in January 1850, and the governor's entire body was returned to Lisbon for burial. The Portuguese proceeded to assemble a naval flotilla for a punitive expedition. The frigate Dona Maria II, the corvettes Irís and Dom João I and some armed lorchas gathered in the harbour on 29 October 1850 to fire a salute in honour of King Ferdinand II on his birthday. After the salute, and just before the local elites could board the Dona Maria II for the celebrations, the frigate exploded. The cause was sabotage by the keeper of the magazine with a grudge against the captain. Nearly 200 men died and the expedition was called off. A memorial to the victims of the Dona Maria II tragedy, erected in 1880, still stands by the site of the old fort in Taipa.
Notes
References
Sources
1849 in China
1849 in Portugal
Conflicts in 1849
History of Macau
19th century in Macau
China–Portugal relations
Portuguese Macau
Battles involving Portugal
Battles involving the Qing dynasty |
15830410 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitary%20Fragments | Solitary Fragments | La soledad (English: Solitary Fragments) is a 2007 Spanish drama film written and directed by Jaime Rosales. It was Rosales's second film: he had previously made, The Hours of the Day. Solitary Fragments (La soledad), divided in five chapters, follows a dual narrative, the characters' lives unfold as a series of everyday concerns over health, work, shelter, relationships and money. Made with a small budget and with actors from the theater scene, the film was nominated for 3 Goya Awards, Spain's most prestigious film awards. It won all three awards, including the Best Film and Director award. Voted by Spanish film critics as Best Film of the year for that reason, it was given the Fotogramas de Plata Award.
Plot
Adela, a young woman recently separated from her husband and with one-year-old baby, is tired of her life in a small hometown Leon. She leaves behind the mountains and the country life to move to Madrid. She gets a job as a hostess and moves into an apartment with Carlos and Ines, a nice young couple. The three get along well then, sharing meals, doubts and leisure. Antonia, Ines's mother, has a small neighborhood supermarket. She leads a fairly quiet life with her boyfriend Manolo. Antonia has two more daughters: Nieves and Helena, the eldest. However, little by little, Antonias's pleasant life begins to crumble. First, a doctors detects that Nieves has cancer. Later, the already tense relationship between her daughters gets more complicated when Helena asks her mother borrowed money to buy an apartment on the beach.
Adela has no major difficulties in adapting to urban life, even though the father of her baby does not help her economically. While traveling by bus, she is one of the victims of a terrorist attack, leaving her life in tatters. From that moment she should find the strength to return to a normal life.
Cast
María Bazán - Helena
Petra Martínez - Antonia
Sonia Almarcha - Adela
Miriam Correa - Inés
Nuria Mencía - Nieves
Jesús Cracio - Manolo
- Carlos
José Luis Torrijo - Pedro
Juan Margallo - Padre Adela
Awards and nominations
To see the complete list of awards and nominations, see this link.
Goya Awards
Best Director (Jaime Rosales, winner)
Best Film (winner)
Best New Actor (José Luis Torrijo, winner)
Spanish Actors Union
Best Actress (Petra Martínez, nominee)
References
Interview with Jaime Rosales tras recibir los Premios Goya, 20 minutos, February 5, 2008
Son pocos, son valientes El País, February 10, 2008
External links
2007 films
2007 drama films
2000s Spanish-language films
Films set in Madrid
Best Film Goya Award winners
Spanish drama films
2000s Spanish films |
15830416 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Catholic%20Archdiocese%20of%20Maribor | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maribor | The Archdiocese of Maribor (, ) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Slovenia. Its episcopal see is Maribor.
History
1859 : Maribor (then Marburg) became the see of the Diocese of Lavant
March 5, 1962: Established as Diocese of Maribor from the Diocese of Lavant
April 7, 2006: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Maribor
It was reported in January 2012 that the Archdiocese of Maribor was in deep financial difficulties and just before bankruptcy. The whole amount of debts, provoked by high-risk investments was 800 million euros. The Archbishop of Maribor, Marjan Turnšek, and the Archbishop of Ljubljana, Anton Stres, have resigned due to their involvement after the request by Pope Francis.
United titles
Lavant (since March 5, 1962)
Special churches
Former Cathedral:
Stolna cerkev sv. Jurija, Ptuj
Minor Basilica:
Bazilika Marije, matere usmiljenja, Maribor
Bazilika Marije Zavetnice s plaščem, Ptujska Gora
Leadership
Bishops of Maribor
Maksimilijan Držečnik (5 March 1962 – 13 May 1978)
Franc Kramberger (6 November 1980 – 7 April 2006); see below
Archbishops of Maribor
Franc Kramberger (7 April 2006 – 3 February 2011); see above
Marjan Turnšek (3 February 2011 - 31 July 2013)
Stanislav Lipovšek, Bishop of Celje, Apostolic Administrator (31 July 2013 – 26 April 2015)
Alojzij Cvikl, S.J. (14 March 2015 - present)
Coadjutor archbishop Anton Stres (31 January 2009 – 28 November 2009), did not succeed to see; appointed Archbishop of Ljubljana
Coadjutor archbishop Marjan Turnšek (28 November 2009 – 3 February 2011)
Suffragan dioceses
Celje
Murska Sobota
See also
Roman Catholicism in Slovenia
References
External links
Official site
GCatholic.org
Catholic Hierarchy
Roman Catholic dioceses in Slovenia
Christian organizations established in 1962
Roman
Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century |
15830436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced%20literacy | Balanced literacy | Balanced literacy is a theory of teaching reading and writing the English language that arose in the 1990s and has a variety of interpretations. For some, balanced literacy strikes a balance between whole language and phonics and puts an end to the so called reading wars. Others say balanced literacy, in practice, usually means the whole language approach to reading.
Some proponents of balanced literacy say it uses research-based elements of comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, phonemic awareness and phonics and includes instruction in a combination of the whole group, small group and 1:1 instruction in reading, writing, speaking and listening with the strongest research-based elements of each. They go on to say that the components of a balanced literacy approach include many different strategies applied during Reading Workshop and Writing Workshops.
On the other hand, critics say balanced literacy, like whole language, is a meaning-based approach that when implemented does not include the explicit teaching of sound-letter relationships as provided by systematic phonics. Also, it is reasonably effective only for children to whom learning to read comes easily, which is less than half of students.
Reading
During balanced literacy Reading Workshops, skills are explicitly modeled during mini-lessons. The mini-lesson has four parts: the connection, the teach (demonstration), the active engagement and the link. The teacher chooses a skill and strategy that he or she believes her class needs to be taught based on assessments that he or she has conducted in her classroom. During the connection phase, he or she connects prior learning to the current skill he or she is currently teaching. The teacher announces the teaching point or the skill and strategy that he or she is going to teach. In this approach, the teacher shows kids how to accomplish the skill by modeling the strategy in a book the students are familiar with. The teacher likewise uses a "think aloud" in this method to show students what he or she is currently thinking and then allows the students to work this out in their own books or in her book during the active engagement. During the link phase, he or she reminds students about the strategies they can do while they are reading.
Shared reading is when the students read from a shared text. Often this is a big book, a book on screen using a website or documents camera. If possible students should have their own copies also. Students and the teacher read aloud and share their thinking about the text.
During mini-lessons, interactive read-aloud and shared reading the class will create anchor charts. These anchor charts remind students how and when to use different skills and strategies.
Guided reading is a small group activity where more of the responsibility belongs to the student. Students read from a leveled text. They use the skills directly taught during mini-lessons, interactive read aloud and shared reading to increase their comprehension and fluency. The teacher is there to provide prompting and ask questions. Guided reading allows for great differentiation in the classroom. Groups are created around reading levels, and students move up when they note that the entire group is ready. During guided reading time the other students may be engaged in reading workstations that reinforce various skills or partner or independent reading. They often work in pairs during this time. Stations can include a library, big book, writing, drama, puppets, word study, poetry, computer, listening, puzzles, buddy reading, projector/promethean board, creation station, science, social studies.
Independent reading is exactly what it sounds like: students reading self-selected text independently. Students choose books based on interest and independent reading level.
Word study content depends on the grade level and the needs of the student. Kindergarten begins with phonemic awareness, then adds print for phonics, sight word work, and common rimes/onset. In first and second grade phonics work intensifies as students apply their knowledge in their writing including adding endings, prefixes, suffixes, and use of known sight words to study other words. What does it mean to "know" a word? The student can read it, write it, spell it and use it in conversation.
Writing
The second half of balanced literacy is the writing component giving students practice writing, for extended periods of time, on topics of their choice. Allowing students to write about topics they find interesting gives them a sense of ownership.
There are four main components of the writing workshop: the mini-lesson, check-in, writing/conferring time, and sharing.
The mini-lesson is a whole class activity. The teacher introduces a skill or strategy they want students to be able to apply during the independent writing time. Examples of skills or strategies could include: using strong verbs; how to transition from one idea to another; the importance of adding vivid details; how to organize writing with a beginning, middle, and end, and tips for writing a good introduction or conclusion.
Just before the students begin writing, the teacher will check in to see where each student is in the writing process. This is a quick check-in to check their status and make sure someone is not stuck in one area.
After modeling the skill or strategy taught during the mini-lesson, students then begin writing independently, putting those new skills to work. Students utilize all the steps of the writing process: brainstorming, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. Depending on the size of the writing piece, this may take place in one session, or over several days. While the students are writing, the teacher is conferencing one-on-one with each student. Meeting with students individually, allows the teacher to target specific skills for each student. Each conference lasts approximately five minutes with the goal being to meet with each student at least once a week. At times, peer conferencing may also take place, where students seek feedback from their peers.
The final step in the writing workshop is sharing. This is a crucial element, almost as much as the writing itself. This process allows students to show off their work and take ownership for what they have written.
Implementation
Balanced literacy is implemented through the Reading and Writing Workshop Model. The teacher begins by modeling the reading/writing strategy that is the focus of the workshop during a mini-lesson (see above description) Then, students read leveled texts independently or write independently for an extended period of time as the teacher circulates amongst them to observe, record observations and confer. At the culmination of the workshop session, selected students share their strategies and work with the class.
It is recommended that guided reading be implemented during the extended independent reading period. Based upon assessment, the teacher works with small groups of students (no more than 6 students in each group) on a leveled text (authentic trade book). The teacher models specific strategies before reading and monitors students while they read independently. After reading, the teacher and students engage in activities in word study, fluency, and comprehension. The purpose of Guided Reading is to systematically scaffold the decoding and/or comprehension strategy skills of students who are having similar challenges.
Direct Instruction in phonics and Word Study are also included in the balanced literacy approach. For emergent and early readers, the teacher plans and implements phonics based mini-lessons. After the teacher explicitly teaches a phonemic element, students practice reading and/or writing other words following the same phonemic pattern. For advanced readers, the teacher focuses on the etymology of a word. Students who are reading at this stage are engaged in analyzing the patterns of word derivations, root words, prefixes and suffixes.
The overall purpose of balanced literacy instruction is to provide students with a differentiated instructional program which will support the reading and writing skill development of each individual.
Comprehension strategies
Children are taught to use comprehension strategies including: sequencing, relating background knowledge, making inferences, comparing and contrasting, summarizing, synthesizing, problem-solving, distinguishing between fact and opinion, finding the main idea, and supporting details.
During the Reading and Writing Workshop teachers use scaffolded instruction as follows:
Teacher modeling or showing kids what a reader does when reading a text, thinking aloud about the mental processes used to construct meaning while reading a book aloud to the class.
Active Engagement during the mini-lesson; students try the work they were shown by the teacher.
"Link" Students are reminded of all the strategies they can do as readers and writers.
Independent practice where children begin to work alone while reading books by themselves, trying out the work they have been taught by the teacher, not only on that day but any previous lessons as well.
Application of the strategy is achieved when the students can correctly apply comprehension strategies to different kinds of texts and are no longer just practicing but are making connections between and can demonstrate understanding through writing or discussion.
Throughout this process, students progress from having a great deal of teacher support to being independent learners. The teacher support is removed gradually as the students acquire the strategies needed to understand the text by themselves.
Reception and critics
Critics such as Diane Ravitch say that balanced literacy may use elements of phonics and whole language but it focuses mainly on reading strategies such as "predicting what they will read, visualizing what they will read, inferring the meaning of what they have read, reading alone, reading in a group, and so on". Others, such as Louisa C. Moats, say that balanced literacy is just whole language "wearing the fig leaf of balanced instruction".
Neuroscientist Mark Seidenberg, a proponent of the science of reading and the teaching of phonics, writes that balanced literacy purports to end the reading wars "without resolving the underlying issues", and that "balanced literacy provided little guidance for teachers who thought that phonics was a cause of poor reading and did not know how to teach it". In particular, he does not support practices such as the three-cueing systems or encouraging struggling readers to skip over or guess puzzling words.
Timothy Shanahan, a well known literacy educator and researcher, is on record as saying he does not support the reading workshop because "it definitely is not research based" and the workshop method is not particularly supportive of reading instruction.
Critics further state that teachers should use methods derived from best practices and supported by scientific research, and children need instruction in systematic phonics.
See also
Analytic phonics
Dual-route hypothesis to reading aloud
Phonics
Reading education in the United States
Simple view of reading
Synthetic phonics
Whole language
References
Further reading
Fountas, Irene and Pinnell, Gay Su; The Fountas & Pinnell Literacy Continuum: A Tool For Assessment, Planning and Teaching (2017)
Fountas, Irene and Pinnell, Gay Su. Guiding Readers and Writers/Grades 3-6'', Portsmouth, NH,Heinemann, 2001.
Learning to read
Literacy |
15830460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982%20United%20States%20gubernatorial%20elections | 1982 United States gubernatorial elections | United States gubernatorial elections were held on November 2, 1982, in 36 states and two territories. The Democratic party had a net gain of seven seats. This election coincided with the Senate and the House elections. As of , this remains the last election cycle in which a Republican won the governorship of Oregon.
Election results
A bolded state name features an article about the specific election.
States
Territories and federal district
See also
1982 United States elections
1982 United States Senate elections
1982 United States House of Representatives elections
Notes
References
November 1982 events in the United States |
15830483 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dhan%20Kawauchi | Kōhan Kawauchi | (February 26, 1920 – April 6, 2008), also known as Yasunori Kawauchi, was a Japanese screenwriter who created various tokusatsu series, including the first, Moonlight Mask, in 1958. He was originally from Hakodate, Hokkaido.
His series Warrior of Love Rainbowman (1972) is considered to be an inspiration for Go Nagai's Cutie Honey. Other tokusatsu shows he created include Seven Color Mask (1959) and Messenger of Allah (1960). He also wrote the screenplay for Seijun Suzuki's Tokyo Drifter.
Personal life
Kawauchi converted to Islam in 1959. This led to his creation of the tokusatsu superhero series Messenger of Allah in 1960.
Filmography
Created
Warrior of Love Rainbowman (1972)
Seven Color Mask (1959)
Messenger of Allah (1960)
Writer
Ramayana (1943) - first work
Tokyo Drifter (1967)
References
1920 births
2008 deaths
20th-century Japanese musicians
Conservatism in Japan
Converts to Islam
Japanese lyricists
Japanese Muslims
People from Hakodate
Writers from Hokkaido
20th-century Japanese screenwriters |
15830497 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldas%20S.C. | Caldas S.C. | Caldas Sport Clube is a Portuguese professional football team based in Caldas da Rainha. Founded on 15 May 1916, the club competes in the Campeonato de Portugal.
History
Between 1956 and 1959, Caldas participated in the Portuguese Liga, the top level of Portuguese football, but they currently play in the Campeonato de Portugal. In 2018, Caldas reached the semi-finals of Taça de Portugal, along with Desportivo das Aves, Sporting CP and FC Porto.
External links
Caldas Sport Clube official website
Sport in Caldas da Rainha
Football clubs in Portugal
Association football clubs established in 1916
Sport in Leiria
1916 establishments in Portugal
Primeira Liga clubs |
15830505 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lullaby%20Land%20%28album%29 | Lullaby Land (album) | Lullaby Land is the third studio album by Vampire Rodents, released on October 25, 1993, by Re-Constriction Records. The album utilizes strings, horns, and timpanis backed with industrial music tropes.
Music and lyrics
Daniel Vahnke's lyrics focus on topics such as referring to the UN is a genocide monitor, daring Muslims to nuke Belgrade, cattle drive-by shootings, and "the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi". The album has much more emphasis on guitars than either of their previous releases, while retaining their usual sound.
The tracks "Trilobite" and "Nosedive" were made in collaboration with 'electronic junk punk' band Babyland and were first released on the Rivet Head Culture compilation under the band name Recliner. This collaboration would continue throughout the Rodents' career.
Reception
Lullaby Land has been well received by critics, some even considering it among the greatest industrial albums ever recorded. Exclaim! called it their best work, saying "these folks can turn collage into counterpoint the way only masters of the avant-garde have done; Zappa comes to mind for those old enough to remember the delirious metamorphoses on Absolutely Free." Aiding & Abetting also gave it a positive review, saying "layer upon layer of samples and instruments combine into an almost symphonic orgy of sound." and compared it favorably to Public Enemy's Fear of a Black Planet. Keyboard said "Unlike the single-mindedness of death metal (which has some of the terroristic sounds and voices), this music offers more color and intellectual possibilities. But it also has industrial music's sense of intensity."
Much was said about the eclecticism of the music, with i/e praising the band for pushing the boundaries of industrial music, saying "with no repeated chorus rhymes and musical riffs, they forge ahead, staying away from stale techno and industrial treachery" and that "nobody creates the different moods and emotional states that the Vampires create." Buzz (magazine) agreed, saying "The Rodents have scoffed at conventional song formation and continue to do so, incorporation cello and violin into a deranged stew that sounds something like Robocop dismembering an orchestra. Off the beaten path as far as electronic music goes: you can dance, but these guys force you to think, too." RIP also praised the variety of the album, saying "Lullaby Land is a seething cauldron on cello (!), guitar, live percussion, and a very eccentric repertoire of samples that often implode into a 1000 points of noise," concluding that "I was particularly taken with the moody ambience of Akrotiri and propulsive density of Bosch Erotiqe."
The oppressive atmosphere of the album was also subject to praise, with Welcomat describing the music as "a merciless castigation of contemporary society" that "unfolds against a gothic backdrop and laments the strangle hold materialism, rudeness and decadence have on society." Gear credited the band with creating a cinematic experience with their music, saying they "want to create classic horror movies and are using music, not film, as their medium. Bypassing the too easy and predictable formula of blood and screams, the Rodents' vision involves nail-biting strings, don't-open-that-door horn blasts, bump-in-the-night drum beats, and mortuary vocals to provide a chair-arm gripping listening experience." Plazm noted that "it would be really hard to compare this to anything. There's just this strong emotional power that this band has through their music and leaves me dumbfounded to describe this piece of art to the fullest way."
Track listing
Accolades
Personnel
Adapted from the Lullaby Land liner notes.
Vampire Rodents
Andrea Akastia – cello, violin
Jing Laoshu – percussion
Daniel Vahnke (as Anton Rathausen) – lead vocals, sampler, guitar, musical arrangement
Victor Wulf – synthesizer
Additional musicians
Marc C. Bennet – electric guitar (3, 14)
Dan Gatto – lead vocals (1, 15)
Pall Jenkins (as The Sandman) – lead vocals (5)
Jared Louche – lead vocals (9)
Production
Joan McAninch – mastering
Release history
References
External links
Lullaby Land at Bandcamp
Lullaby Land at Discogs (list of releases)
1993 albums
Vampire Rodents albums
Re-Constriction Records albums
Sound collage albums |
15830539 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Catholic%20Diocese%20of%20Celje | Roman Catholic Diocese of Celje | The Diocese of Celje (; ) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church located in the city of Celje in the Ecclesiastical province of Maribor in Slovenia.
History
April 7, 2006: Established as Diocese of Celje from the Diocese of Maribor
Leadership
Bishops of Celje (Roman rite)
Anton Stres (7 April 2006 — 31 January 2010)
Stanislav Lipovšek (24 April 2010 – 18 September 2018)
Maksimilijan Matjaž (since 5 March 2021)
Special churches
Minor basilica:
Bazilika Marijinega obiskanja, Petrovče by Celje
Bazilika sv. Marije lurške, Brestanica
See also
Roman Catholicism in Slovenia
Sources
Official site
GCatholic.org
Catholic Hierarchy
Roman Catholic dioceses in Slovenia
Christian organizations established in 2006
Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 21st century |
15830549 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayton-Wright%20Messenger | Dayton-Wright Messenger |
The Dayton-Wright T-4 Messenger was a light, single-seat reconnaissance aircraft built in the United States by the Dayton-Wright Company in 1918 in the hope of gaining a production contract from the United States Army. It was a small conventional single-bay biplane with a neatly streamlined fuselage and staggered, equal-span wings. The undercarriage was of fixed tailskid type and the pilot sat in an open cockpit. Although diminutive, the design in fact started life as a scaled-up version of the Dayton-Wright Bug and shared a family resemblance to the de Havilland DH.4 that Dayton-Wright was building under licence during World War I. When the US Army was not interested in the aircraft, plans were made to sell it on the civil market, but these came to nothing and the prototype was the only example ever built.
Specifications
See also
References
Citations
Bibliography
Messenger
1910s United States military reconnaissance aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1918 |
15830551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Hafer | Dick Hafer | Dick Hafer (May 29, 1927 – December 15, 2012) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist born in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania.
Hafer began playing clarinet at age seven and switched to tenor sax in high school. His first professional gig was with Charlie Barnet's orchestra in 1949. He played with Claude Thornhill from 1949 to 1950 before returning briefly to play with Barnet again. After this he played with Woody Herman (1951–55), Tex Beneke (1955), Bobby Hackett (1957–58), Elliot Lawrence (1958–60), and Benny Goodman (1962). In 1963 he recorded on two Charles Mingus albums.
In 1974 he moved to Los Angeles and worked mostly as a studio musician. He released two albums under his own name in the 1990s. Hafer died in La Costa, California.
Discography
As leader
In a Sentimental Mood (Progressive, 1991)
Prez Impressions (Fresh Sound, 1994)
As sideman
With Johnny Hartman
The Voice That Is! (Impulse!, 1964)
With Herbie Mann
Salute to the Flute (Epic, 1957)
With Charles Mingus
Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (Impulse!, 1963)
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (Impulse!, 1963)
References
[ Dick Hafer] at Allmusic
1927 births
2012 deaths
People from Wyomissing, Pennsylvania
American jazz saxophonists
American male saxophonists
Jazz musicians from Pennsylvania
American male jazz musicians
20th-century American saxophonists |
15830554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%91uble%20River | Ñuble River | The Ñuble River or Rio Ñuble is a river in Ñuble Region, located in the southern portion of central Chile. Its main tributaries are Chillán and Claro River. The Ñuble River discharges into the Itata River.
Nuble River Level
It is a Class IV section, which means that the rapids are very challenging, but you don't need to be a professional to run this section. The biggest reason why this section has seldom been run is that it is hard to access – it requires three automobile river crossings as well as extreme off-roading skills. Farmers who live in the area usually use horses to commute back and forth from the village.
See also
List of rivers of Chile
External links
Nuble River
Rivers of Chile
Rivers of Ñuble Region |
15830567 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoppkorv | Hoppkorv | Hoppkorv was the seventh album by the American blues rock band Hot Tuna, and their last studio album recorded for Grunt Records. Unlike previous albums, Hot Tuna relied entirely on an outside producer for this effort, Harry Maslin. In addition to four new original songs by Jorma Kaukonen and one by Nick Buck, the album includes covers of Buddy Holly's "It's So Easy", Muddy Waters' "I Can't Be Satisfied", and Chuck Berry's "Talkin' 'bout You."
The album reached number 116 on the Billboard charts. In 1996, RCA released the CD box set Hot Tuna in a Can which included a remastered version of this album, along with remasters of the albums Hot Tuna, First Pull Up, Then Pull Down, Burgers and America's Choice
Hoppkorv is Swedish for "Jumping Hot Dog" or "Jumping Sausage" in Google Translate... Using Google Translate, in Norwegian, Hoppkorv means the children's game "Hopscotch"..
Track listing
Personnel
Jorma Kaukonen – vocals, guitar
Jack Casady – bass
Bob Steeler – drums, percussion
Additional Personnel
Nick Buck – keyboards
John Sherman – 2nd guitar on "Bowlegged Woman, Knock-Kneed Man"
Karen Tobin – background vocals
Production
Harry Maslin – producer, engineer
Pat Ieraci (Maurice) – production coordinator
Bill Thompson – manager
Allen Sudduth – assistant engineer
David Gertz – assistant mixing engineer
Michael Casady, Ron Dudley – equipment
Acy Lehman – art direction
Gribbitt (Tim Bryant) – album design
Chris Whorf – album design
Roger Rossmeyer – cover photos, liner photos
Jerry Leiberwitz (Leibowitz) – sleeve painting
Recorded and Mixed at Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco
Mastered by Rick Collins, Kendun Recorders, Burbank
References
Hot Tuna albums
1976 albums
Albums recorded at Wally Heider Studios
Grunt Records albums |
15830568 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto | Crypto | Crypto commonly refers to:
Cryptography, the practice and study of hiding information
Cryptocurrency, a type of digital currency based on cryptography
The primary meaning of the term is controversial, culiminating in the crypto naming controversy.
Crypto or krypto may also refer to:
Cryptography
Cryptanalysis, the study of methods for obtaining the meaning of encrypted information
CRYPTO, an annual cryptography conference
Crypto++, a cryptography software library
Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government—Saving Privacy in the Digital Age, a cryptography book by Steven Levy
Crypto AG, a Swiss manufacturer of encrypted communications products
Finance
Crypto.com, a cryptocurrency exchange
Biology and medicine
Cryptococcus (fungus), a genus of fungus that can cause lung disease, meningitis, and other illnesses in humans and animals
Cryptococcosis (also called cryptococcal disease), a disease caused by Cryptococcus
Cryptosporidium, a protozoan that can cause-intestinal illness with diarrhea in humans
Cryptosporidiosis, a parasitic intestinal disease in mammals caused by Cryptosporidium
Fiction
Crypto (film), a 2019 American crime drama thriller film
Krypto, a dog in the popular comic, cartoon, and movie series
Krypto the Superdog, an animated series featuring Krypto
Games
Cryptosporidium (Destroy All Humans!), a protagonist in the Destroy All Humans! video game series
Krypto (game), a mathematical strategy card game
Crypto, a character in the video game Apex Legends
See also
Crypto Wars, governmental attempts to limit access to strong cryptography
List of cryptocurrencies
Cripto, a protein-coding gene in Homo sapiens, appearing in embryo development and in cancer |
15830603 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluiz%C3%A3o | Aluizão | Estádio Aluízio Ferreira, usually known as Estádio Aluízio Ferreira and nicknamed Aluizão, is a football stadium located in Porto Velho, Rondônia state, Brazil. The stadium is owned by the Governo de Rondônia and it was built in 1957. Its formal name honors Aluízio Ferreira, who was the first governor of the former Território Federal do Guaporé (nowadays Rondônia) from 1942 to 1957.
History
The stadium construction concluded in 1957. The inaugural match was played on May 17 of that year, when Ferroviário-RO beat Flamengo-RO 3–1. The first goal of the stadium was scored by Flamengo's Nezio.
On August 22, 1965, Bahia beat Ypiranga-RO 9–1, which was the stadium's highest score at the time.
The stadium's attendance record currently stands at 7,427, set on February 27, 1995, when Botafogo beat Ji-Paraná 3–1.
On June 10, 2001, the new stadium's highest score was set, when Genus beat Shallon 13–0.
References
External links
Estádio Aluízio Ferreira at Templos do Futebol
Football venues in Rondônia
Estadio Aluizio Ferreira |
15830620 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Catholic%20Diocese%20of%20Murska%20Sobota | Roman Catholic Diocese of Murska Sobota | The Diocese of Murska Sobota (; ) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church located in the city of Murska Sobota in the Ecclesiastical province of Maribor in Slovenia.
History
April 7, 2006: Established as Diocese of Murska Sobota from the Diocese of Maribor
Leadership
Bishops of Murska Sobota (Roman rite)
Bishop Marjan Turnšek (April 7, 2006 - November 28, 2009); appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maribor
Bishop Peter Štumpf, S.D.B. (November 28, 2009 – present)
See also
Roman Catholicism in Slovenia
External links
Official site
GCatholic.org
Catholic Hierarchy
Roman Catholic dioceses in Slovenia
Christian organizations established in 2006
Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 21st century |
15830636 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara%20Gee | Tamara Gee | Tamara Diane Wimer (born October 11, 1972), known professionally as Tamara Gee (formerly Isis Gee), is an American pop singer and songwriter. She grew up singing and performing from the age of 5, and was a professional vocalist by the time she was 12 years old, winning various singing competitions throughout her adolescence and adulthood, as well as a beauty pageant. Gee opened for vocalist Tony Bennett and his orchestra after being the featured vocalist on various albums throughout her teen years. She released her debut album Hidden Treasure with Universal Music in 2007, while living in Poland. Her single from the album, "For Life", was voted unanimous winner of Piosenka dla Europy, the Polish final for the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest. Tamara and her song "For Life" was the first Polish entry in history to qualify out of a semifinal. A portion of Gee's Eurovision performance was shown on The Oprah Winfrey Show on "The World's Got Talent" episode with Simon Cowell where Gee sang with former participants Celine Dion and Julio Iglesias. In 2007 Gee co-wrote and performed "Fate" on DJ Schiller's album Sehnsucht. The album went triple platinum and was nominated for a Grammy. She released her solo EP Christmas Angel in 2009. On November 27, 2014, Tamara released a new highly anticipated album "Love, Tamara" of which she wrote with and was produced by Multi Grammy Award winning producer/songwriter Walter Afanasieff (Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, etc.).
Gee is the co-founder, co-owner, co-creator, spokeswoman, and creative director of Nebu Milano, an Italian cosmetic brand launched in Milan in 2013.
Biography
Early life, education
Tamara Gee is of Polish descent. She was born in Seattle, Washington, in the United States as Tamara Diane Wimer. At 8 years old she began singing the National Anthem as a soloist for major Seattle sporting events at the Seattle Seahawks, Seattle Mariners and Seattle SuperSonics games in arenas of 65,000+ people and was singing regularly at such events until her early 20s. Throughout her adolescence, Gee sang and toured the United States with the Seattle Girls Choir studying with Jerry Wright and the Northwest Girls Choir as well as trained privately with vocal coach Maestro David Kyle (Ann Wilson, Geoff Tate, Chris Cornell, Layne Staley, etc.) who Gee stated, taught her how to belt in her chest voice. She began her professional career in music at age 12, performing pop, R&B, classical, jazz, Broadway, and country music. In a Tygodnik Angora Magazine article, Gee shared that the most memorable singing contest she ever entered as a child was when she was 12 years old, both winning the contest and $1,000.00 cash.
Gee attended Kentwood High School in Covington, Washington from 1988 to 1991 receiving awards such as "Most Inspirational Student" and "Most Likely To Succeed". Gee also received music scholarships at the University of Washington, Central Washington University, Pierce College and Highline Community College. She has sung at various events for individuals such as Bill Gates, Paul Allen and the Mayor of Seattle. At 17, Gee received the Best Female Vocalist Award in a singing contest with IMTA (International Modeling and Talent Association) in Los Angeles. California Soon after, she went on to win a scholarship and beauty pageant (preliminary to Miss America) also winning the Talent Award.
At the age of 19 she opened for Tony Bennett and his large orchestra, also touring and recording with various orchestra's and big jazz bands. Before Gee turned 21, she had been the featured vocalist on an array of albums including recording with the Jazz Police, a 24 piece jazz band from Seattle on their 1992 album Phantom Suite. The album was released with Universal Music Group. Gee was also the vocalist for Room to Move, featuring on the band's album No Time for Daydreams, as well as the featured vocalist with the Bobby Medina Band (Ray Charles, Herbie Hancock, etc.).
During her Asia tour she also performed with McCoy Tyner (John Coltrane, Stanley Clarke, Bill Evans). After moving to Los Angeles, Gee worked with songwriter Steve Dorff (Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand, Whitney Houston).
In 2000, she starred in Jericho.
Polish releases
In 2004 she married Adam Gołębiowski and moved to Warsaw, Poland. She continued to pursue her career in Poland and released her debut album Hidden Treasure with Universal Music in 2007. Grammy Award-winning engineer Simon Gogerly assisted and mixed the entire album, as well as her single "For Life". KK co-produced three tracks on the album.
In 2007, Gee worked with German DJ Schiller (Christopher von Deylen) on his new album Sehnsucht, co-writing and performing the song "Fate", which was released with Universal Music. The album and song received Platinum, selling over 200,000 units in a few months time. The album went triple platinum and was nominated for a Grammy.
In 2007, Gee also took part in Dancing with the Stars: Taniec z Gwiazdami on TVN in Poland. She reached the quarter-final, ranking a top 5 position out of 14 couples. Her dance partner was world champion Ukrainian dancer Zora Korolyov. During her last performance, she broke her ribs, hit her dance partner's knee, and ended up in the hospital. She performed at the semifinal of Taniec z Gwiazdami (season 6) and in the final of the program, Gee was the special guest featured singing Caruso with a large orchestra. In August 2008 in Kraków, Gee and Korolyov were chosen as one of four couples from the program's history to take part in a Guinness Book of World Records event, where they are recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records for teaching 1,600 couples to dance the cha-cha.
In 2008, Gee recorded and performed her Christmas compositions from her album Christmas Angel with the Harlem Gospel Choir in New York City and Warsaw, Poland. According to the liner notes, the album was dedicated to her cousin Mindy, who had died in a car crash earlier that year.
Eurovision Song Contest
Gee's song "For Life", which she had written and produced, was chosen from among over one hundred songs as one of twelve entries to participate in Piosenka dla Europy, the Polish national final for the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest. During the live broadcast on February 23, 2008, her entry was selected to represent Poland at Eurovision 2008. She received the maximum points by both the jury and text voting from the public.
At the semi-final, Gee qualified for the final receiving 42 points and placing 10th; the top 10 entries qualified for the final. As of 2014, Gee was the first Polish representative to have ever reached the Eurovision final with the new format of semifinals and final selection rules which were designed due to the 40+ countries in the contest presently (My Słowianie by Donatan and Cleo became the next song to qualify for the final with this format in the 2014 contest). In the final, "For Life" placed 24th out of 25 entries, having received a total of 14 points from the United Kingdom and Ireland.
She was also voted the most beautiful contestant in Eurovision by the National Broadcaster of Serbia RTS, and was nominated as one of the top 5 best female vocalists in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008. In the poll website Eurovision ESC Today, Gee was nominated in two categories – Best Performance by a Vocalist and Best-Dressed Performer. She rated 3rd in an online poll as "Best female vocal performance" in the 2008 Contest.
On May 11, 2009, a portion of Gee's Eurovision performance was shown on The Oprah Winfrey Show during "The World's Got Talent with Simon Cowell" episode. In the clip Gee is shown singing amidst Celine Dion, ABBA and Julio Iglesias. She was also featured singing on European television programs such as The Late Late Show in Ireland. In 2009, Gee re-appeared during Piosenka dla Europy to perform as a guest act.
Before Eurovision she had performed in over 35 countries in one year's time, including at venues such as the Scala Club in London.
Recent years
Music videos
In 2007, she signed to Universal Music Poland where she released the album Hidden Treasure and an associated music video with the single. As of 2013 she has released four music videos for songs she has written, including "Hidden Treasure," "What You See," "For Life," and "How About That."
Recent releases
In 2010 she recorded the duet ballad single "Live" with Jacques Houdek and co-produced the song with Canadian writer and producer Tino Izzo (Celine Dion). The song was recorded in London and released as a single by Croatia Records.
In 2012 she released an EP single and the first song she and Anders Hansson produced together, entitled "How About That". Hansson is the author of the Agnes Carlsson songs Release me and "On and On". Gee wrote, programmed and arranged "How About That" in Italy and co-produced with Anders' team of producers from Sweden, including Marta Grauers, Erik Arivander (Lady Gaga – Alejandro), Felix Person and Adam Gee. The song official videoclip was entirely shot in the Italian city of Brindisi, directed by Nicola Cozzoli with cinematography by Giuliano Tomassacci.
In November 2014, Gee released her highly anticipated album "Love, Tamara" of which she wrote with and was produced by Walter Afanasieff (Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Andrea Bocelli, Barbra Streisand, Leona Lewis, Christina Aguilera and others). As of 2013, she is managed by Jim Morey Management in Los Angeles. (Mariah Carey, Michael Jackson, Miley Cyrus) The first single from her album was released on February 14, 2014, entitled "Your Alibi" along with a music video clip featuring some scenes of Gee and Afanasieff recording in Los Angeles. Also in November 2014, Gee was on the cover of the high luxury beauty and fashion magazine "Milano World" and her album "Love, Tamara" was released in Italy with the magazine.
NEBU Milano
After moving part-time to Italy with her husband, in 2011 Gee and her husband co-founded and co-created Nebu Milano, an Italian cosmetic brand that sells 24 carat golden plated cosmetics with Swarovski Crystal elements. Gee is the spokeswoman, creative director and co-owner of the brand which was launched in Milan on November 21, 2013, in Mazzolari perfumeries. Gee and Nebu Milano have been featured in various Italian magazines, including Vogue Italia released during fashion week in Milan, Reve Italian Beauty Magazine, a 2014 edition of Italian magazine "Shopping For You" and fashion and beauty magazine "Milano World", where Gee was on the cover and reviewed as the perfect fit of beauty and talent in representing the brand, comparing her vocal capacity to Celine Dion. Gee and the brand have also been featured in Polish editions of Elle, InStyle, Gala and Twoj Styl, where the brand won Best New Brand of the year 2014 at the magazines' annual gala event. Gee was also on the cover of Shopping For You in 2011. In November 2014, Gee was showcased in various articles related to the brand in Milano World magazine. As of 2016, Nebu Milano is available in perfumeries around the world. Gee has combined the creativity and ownership of the brand with her music.
Voice
Tamara is a soprano with a vocal range that spans over four octaves and is known for her powerful belt and strong vocal tambour. She has been named the next Celine Dion.
Personal life
Tamara Gee is living in Los Angeles and traveling to a variety of countries globally for concerts and appearances related to Nebu Milano.
Discography
Studio albums
1993: No Time for Daydreams
2000: Blazin'''
2002: Phantom Suite/The Music of Daniel Barry/Red Fish Blue Fish2007: Hidden Treasure2009: Christmas Angel2014: Love, Tamara''
Singles
References
External links
Tamara Gee on YouTube
1972 births
Living people
American expatriates in Italy
American expatriates in Poland
Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 2008
Singers from Seattle
Polish women singers
Polish pop singers
Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Poland
Kentwood High School (Washington) alumni
21st-century American singers
21st-century Polish singers
21st-century American women singers |
15830654 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total%20Drama%20Action | Total Drama Action | Total Drama Action (abbreviated TDA) is a Canadian animated television series. It is the second season of Total Drama. The show premiered on Teletoon at 6:30pm ET/PT on January 11, 2009. This season was also created by the makers of 6teen, another Teletoon program. Unlike previous seasons, Teletoon did not air new episodes every week.
Plot
Like Total Drama Island, the previous season of Total Drama, much of Total Drama Action chronicles the events of the eponymous fictional reality show. The Total Drama series itself is an "animated reality television series," which stars the cast and crew of the fictional series, parodying many aspects of reality television. After last season's winner forgoes their prize money of C$100,000 (US$73,129.00) for a challenge (open to all 22 of Total Drama Island contestants) in which the winner would receive C$1,000,000 (US$731,485.00), the money was left in limbo after a situation resulted in a 14-way tie.
As such, show host Chris McLean (voiced by Christian Potenza) had no choice but to commission a second season with all 14 tied contestants. Two weeks after the aforementioned tie, the contestants who tied are told to arrive at an abandoned movie studio lot in Toronto, Ontario, where the new season, titled Total Drama Action, would take place. Due to its location, Chris told the contestants that the challenges would all be in the form of various movie genres. The accommodations of the contestants are handled by the underpaid Chef Hatchet (Clé Bennett), similar to how they were handled in the previous season. The outhouse, which was used as a confessional in Total Drama Island, has been replaced with a makeup trailer.
After the quick elimination of two contestants, the couple Bridgette (Kristin Fairlie) and Geoff (Dan Petronijevic), a second challenge determined the team captains of the two competing teams: the Screaming Gaffers, headed by Gwen (Megan Fahlenbock), and the Killer Grips, headed by Trent (Scott McCord). From then on, challenges would alternate between "reward challenges" where winners would receive a special prize, and "elimination challenges" where the losing team would vote off one of its own in an elaborate "Gilded Chris Ceremony".
The pattern of reducing the contestants down was briefly interrupted on two occasions: once when Izzy (Katie Crown) was reinstated following a voting irregularity where her alter-ego, "E-Scope", was voted off, and another time when Courtney (Emilie-Claire Barlow), a contestant who did not originally qualify for Total Drama Action, successfully sued the show and was added to the game. The players eliminated would make the "Walk of Shame" and to the "Lame-o-sine", where they leave the movie studio.
Once seven contestants were left, the Screaming Gaffers and the Killer Grips were dissolved, and the challenges became more individual-oriented. Chris hired Owen as his ringer to sabotage the other contestants and create drama. Eventually, two contestants were left standing: Duncan (Drew Nelson) and Beth (Sarah Gadon), with both contestants being considered official winners depending on the country of airing.
Episodes
Total Drama Action premiered on January 11, 2009, at 6:30 p.m. on Teletoon and premiered on June 11, 2009, on Cartoon Network. In the U.S., Cartoon Network creates a disclaimer with a TV-PG-D rating before the previous show's recap. In the UK it aired on April 11, 2011, at 10:00 GMT as part of Disney XD's Easter Shows.
Episode finale variations
The show's producers created two alternate endings for the final episode, such that the winner seen in one country's broadcasts is the runner-up in other countries (and vice versa) where the show airs. In Canada, Duncan was aired as the winner as well as in Denmark, Latin America, Norway, the Philippines, and in the United States. Beth is also depicted as the winner in airings from Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, France, Hungary, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
Characters
The main Total Drama Action cast consists of host Chris McLean, assistant Chef Hatchet, and the contestants that make up the castmates. The remaining contestants from Total Drama Island also appear in the show but serving in lesser capacities as commentators on The Aftermath.
Staff
Contestants
Season summary
Elimination table
Production
Like Total Drama Island, Total Drama Action was developed and produced by Fresh TV, targeting an age group of 10-to 16-year-olds. Many of the show's settings, as well as the show's opening sequence, are deliberately made to be as close as to their Total Drama Island counterparts as possible; Camp Wawanakwa, the setting of Total Drama Island, was also revisited on several occasions, most notably as the site of some of the season's challenges. All of the cast of Total Drama Island return in the same roles as that of Total Drama Island, though some had their roles reduced as their characters were not as prominent in this season. As with Total Drama Island, two endings were commissioned for the series, one with each of the final two competitors winning; after the airing of the penultimate episode and prior to the season finale, viewers were prompted to the show's website (either at Teletoon for viewers in Canada or Cartoon Network for American viewers) to vote for the desired ending. Unlike Total Drama Island, however, the alternate ending was available as a webcast on the show's website immediately following its airing.
Reception
Total Drama Action has received generally positive reviews from critics and fans, though not as much as its predecessor. Most critics agree the season does not live up to the first season, Total Drama Island, and others say that the season was more "childish" and "bad". However, some critics and fans did enjoy Total Drama Action as much as the first season along with a majority of critics praising the character development of the characters who had small roles in the first season. Total Drama Action received a 7.6 on Metacritic by fans, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". Like the critics, many fans believed that this season did not live up to the previous season, Total Drama Island.
Media
DVD releases
Total Drama Action has only been publicly sold on DVD in Australia. The first half of the season was released on a Region 4 DVD, on November 2, 2011." The second half of the season was released exclusively to Australia, on July 4, 2012.
See also
Notes
References
External links
Total Drama Action Interactive
A TDA Podcast
Total Drama Action.com
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2000s Canadian satirical television series
2010s Canadian satirical television series
Canadian children's animated action television series
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2009 Canadian television seasons
2010 Canadian television seasons |
15830659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Hall%20%28Australian%20politician%29 | Edmund Hall (Australian politician) | Edmund Henry Hartley Hall (13 August 1878 – 28 July 1965) was an Australian politician who represented the Western Australian Legislative Council district of Central Province from 1928 until 1947, and the Legislative Assembly seat of Geraldton from 1947 until 1950. He was a member of the Country Party.
Biography
Born to Edward Hall, a labour, baker and contractor, and Ellen (née Craggs) in the port city of Geraldton, Western Australia, Hall was educated locally before gaining employment at the post office, where he worked in various locations over 20 years. By 1911, he was the postmaster at Laverton, and on 20 April 1916, he married Catherine Forster at St Andrew's Church, Subiaco, with whom he was to have one son and four daughters.
On 5 August 1918, he enlisted and was appointed Second Lieutenant with the First Australian Imperial Force, on account of his 7 years' earlier service with the Rifles in Geraldton. He was assigned to the Australian Light Horse Regiment, and reported to Blackboy Hill, but did not leave Australia and was discharged on 1 December 1918. He then continued his career with the postal service, then became a storekeeper and agent in Geraldton. On 24 November 1920, he was elected to Geraldton Municipal Council, and served eight years as a councillor.
In May 1928, he contested one of the three Legislative Council seats in Central Province, which had historically been Labor-held, and won it. He went on to sit in the Council for 19 years, serving on select committees into the Hire Purchase Act, the distribution of funds provided by the Commonwealth to aid wheat growers, and the care and reform of juvenile delinquents.
He resigned his seat before the 1947 Assembly election to contest the seat of Geraldton, following the retirement from politics of the former Labor Premier, John Willcock, who had held the seat for 30 years. Hall won the seat by 11 votes against Bill Sewell, and served a single term before being defeated by Sewell at the 1950 election.
On 4 July 1950, his wife Catherine died. Little is known of his later life, and he died on 28 July 1965 at Martindale Hospital in the Perth suburb of Applecross, and was buried at Karrakatta Cemetery.
References
1878 births
1965 deaths
Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council
Western Australian local councillors
National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Western Australia
People from Geraldton
Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery |
15830676 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rishikesh%20Shah | Rishikesh Shah | Rishikesh Shah (May 16, 1925 – November 13, 2002) was a Nepalese writer, politician and human rights activist.
Career
Political
Shah was a member of the Nepal Prajatantrik Party from 1948 to 1949. Between 1951 and 1953, he was the general secretary of the Nepali Rastriya Congress. He then became general secretary of the joint Nepali Congress-Nepali Rashtriya Congress front until 1956. Shah was Minister of Finance from 1960 to 1962. In 1962 he became chair of the Constitution Drafting Commission. Between 1967 and 1971 he represented the graduate constituency in the National Panchayat. In the Panchayat, he was one of the most prominent advocates of democratic reforms.
Diplomatic
Shah was the Nepalese ambassador to the United States and the first Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations between 1956 and 1960. In 1961 Shah was elected by the United Nations General Assembly to chair the International Commission to investigate the death of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld, who had suffered an air crash over Congo. Shah was one of the candidates to succeed Hammarskjöld, but was defeated by U Thant. In 1962, Shah was appointed special ambassador.
Academic
Shah lectured in English and Nepali at Tri-Chandra College 1945–1948. During the period 1947–1948 he served as Chief Inspector of Schools.
Shah served as visiting professor at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India in 1970. In 1971 he served as Regents' Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., and the East-West Center, Honolulu.
Shah authored several works about Nepalese politics and history.
Organizational
Shah was president of the Nepal Council of World Affairs and in 1988 he became the founding president of the Human Rights Organisation of Nepal (HURON). Later, he left HURON.
References
1925 births
2002 deaths
Nepali Congress politicians from Karnali Province
Finance ministers of Nepal
Government ministers of Nepal
Ambassadors of Nepal to the United States
Permanent Representatives of Nepal to the United Nations
Nepalese human rights activists |
15830683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Quincy%20%281628%E2%80%931698%29 | Edmund Quincy (1628–1698) | Edmund Quincy II (; 1628–1698) was an American Massachusetts Colonist, soldier, planter, politician, and merchant. He emigrated to colonial Massachusetts in 1633 with his father, Edmund Quincy I.
Early life
Edmund Quincy II was born in England in 1628. He was the son of Edmund Quincy I. In 1633, at around 5 years old, he emigrated to colonial Massachusetts with his father.
Career
Edmund was magistrate, representative to the general court and a Lt. Colonel in a Massachusetts militia regiment. In 1689 was a member of the provisional government (Committee of Safety). This was a time of turmoil in the colonies and England. The disliked Governor Edmund Andros of the Dominion of New England was placed under investigation by the Committee, while in England the Glorious Revolution (James II fled to France) and the Bill of Rights brought fundamental changes to the political structure. Colonel Quincy started work in on the family property, called the Quincy Homestead, around 1696.
Personal life
His mother Judith Pares Quincy then married Robert Hull; John Hull's father. John and Edmund were step-brothers as well as in-laws. John and Judith Quincy Hull raised Daniel Quincy from the age of seven.
His first wife was Joanna Hoar, sister of Leonard Hoar (President of Harvard College); and they had 10 children:
Daniel Quincy (7 Dec 1650-1690) married Anna Shepard. Ancestors of Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams;
John Quincy (5 Feb 1652-died young);
Mary Quincy (4 Jan 1654-1676) married c 1670 to Ephraim Savage. Other sources give the year 1649 for her birth year.;
Johanna/Joanna Quincy (16 Feb 1654-18 May 1695) married David Hobart;
Judeth Quincy (25 April 1655 – 8 May 1679) married Rev. John Raynor, Jr.;
Elizabeth Quincy (28 July 1656-?) married 1681 Rev. John Daniel Gookin.;
Edmond Quincy (9 May 1657-died age 4 months);
Ruth Quincy (29 Oct 1658-?) married 19 Oct 1686 John Hunt.;
Ann Quincy (3 September 1663 – 1676);
Experience Quincy married William Saul.;
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Edmund and his second wife, Elizabeth, the widow of Rev. John Elliot of Newton and daughter of Major General Daniel Gookin, had 2 children.
Edmund Quincy (1681-1737) III was very active in colonial affairs, like his father.; His son was Josiah Quincy I.
Mary Quincy (c1684-29 March 1716) married Rev. Daniel Baker, of Shirborne.;
His grave was once marked with two granite columns embossed with lead. The lead was stripped for use by the colonists during the Revolution. This was noted by President John Adams.
Descendants
Many of Edmund's descendants were active in the American Revolution, some of the more notable being John Quincy Adams and Dorothy Quincy. The family intermarried with other local South Shore families, especially with the Hobarts of nearby Hingham.
Notes and references
See also
Quincy political family
People from colonial Massachusetts
Members of the colonial Massachusetts House of Representatives
Politicians from Quincy, Massachusetts
1628 births
1698 deaths
English emigrants to Massachusetts Bay Colony
Colonial American merchants
American planters |
15830698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tami%20Sagher | Tami Sagher | Tami Sagher is an American comedy writer, producer, and actress.
Biography
A native of Chicago, Sagher studied mathematics at the University of Chicago before joining Boom Chicago and then Second City.
Career
TV
Sagher has written for the TV shows 30 Rock, Psych, MADtv and Inside Amy Schumer. She was a staff writer on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, leaving before the show's final season.
Sagher then spent two seasons as writer-producer on the Netflix series Orange is the New Black. From 2020 to 2021, Sagher was a writer-executive producer on the Hulu series Shrill.
National Public Radio
In addition, Sagher has contributed to This American Life.
Performance
Her performing includes playing an improv performer in Don't Think Twice, starring in the short film The Shabbos Goy, as well as various appearances on TV sitcoms and sketch shows. In particular, she appeared in Season 5 of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Honors
Sagher has been nominated for 4 Writers Guild of America Awards:
Three for MADtv;
One (2008 in the category of Best Comedy Series) for the third season of 30 Rock.
References
External links
American film actresses
American television actresses
American television producers
American women television producers
American television writers
Living people
American women television writers
Writers Guild of America Award winners
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Upright Citizens Brigade Theater performers
21st-century American women
American comedy writers
Comedians from Chicago |
15830750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation%20Public%20School | Foundation Public School | Foundation Public School (FPS) are a group of private schools based in Karachi, Hyderabad and Islamabad Pakistan, educating children from the ages of three and a half to eighteen, including O and A Levels. The school has nine campuses, one in Hyderabad offering Intermediate diplomas, and was founded in 1981.
House system
There are three inter houses and students are randomly divided among them at the time of admission. The houses, named after important personalities in Pakistan's history, are: Jinnah (blue) named after Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Liaquat (red) named after Liaquat Ali Khan and Iqbal ( yellow) named after Muhammad Iqbal.
Inter school sports days are part of the yearly activities including football however excluding basketball at FPS. Students compete in sports related activities and represent their respective houses. The house with the most points wins the annual sports trophy.
Curriculum
FPS prepares students for the International Examinations conducted by Cambridge Assessment International Examinations (CAIE) which issues the General Certificate of Secondary Education in Ordinary Level, and/or Advanced Level examinations.
The Hyderabad campus is the only campus to offer a Matric Diploma and Intermediate Diploma under the Sindh Board of Secondary Education.
Subjects taught at FPS include Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology, Computer Studies, Pakistan Studies, Urdu, Islamic Studies, English Literature, Economics, Accounting, Business Studies, Environmental Studies, Sociology, English Language, World History, Art & Design, Additional mathematics and Economics.
All students that are citizens of Pakistan must write an examination testing their knowledge on Pakistan's History and Geography. The CIE board offers Islamiyat and Pakistan Studies to meet those requirements. Non Muslims are exempted from Islamiyat but still have to write an exam based on Pakistan's History and Geography.
Students are given an option to choose their optional subjects in grade 10 while all students are required to take the five compulsory subjects which are English as First Language, Mathematics Syllabus D, Urdu as Second Language, Islamiyat and Pakistan Studies.
The O Level examinations are given in two phases. In grade 10, all students sit for Islamiyat, Pakistan Studies and Urdu as Second Language. The remaining exams are given in grade 11 which include two compulsory subjects and five optional subjects. All examinations are written while representing FPS
Athletics
While the name FPSonians has existed it has not been used to represent FPS teams. Teammates have preferred the short acronym of the school name as the label to their team which is FPS.
FPS has formed teams in the following sports that compete regularly among other schools in the country:
Football (soccer)
Cricket
Table tennis
Throw ball
Football (soccer)
Initially when football was gaining popularity in the country there was no formal team representing FPS. Many students were playing for local clubs and later on schools across the country started forming official football teams. FPS was one of the pioneers in bringing football as a sports to school and its team soon became active in competing against other schools.
FPS has participated in championship tournaments organized by Karachi United Football Club (KUFC)
It has arranged an inter-school Football Tournament in which teams from other schools in Karachi compete against each other to win the championship.
Team players from the school have made their name in the FPS's team and later played for other schools while doing their A Levels.
Cricket
The oldest of all the teams FPS has had is the cricket team. The team has lost popularity as football is taking over but other campuses of FPS have maintained a cricket team. FPS has participated in inter-school tournaments.
Table tennis
In 2012, the table tennis team reached the finals against Beaconhouse School System (Jubilee Campus).
Throw ball
FPS has a girls' throw ball team who plays against other schools in Culligan Girls Throwball Tournament.
Extracurricular activities
Humanitarian
In July 2012, FPS sent students to participate in a seminar related to the dumping of waste in Arabian Sea that connects to the coast of Karachi.
FPS is working on making community service work mandatory for all A-Level schools in the city. This will be a condition on all students in order to proceed to their second year of A-Levels. An activity like this is closely similar to the requirements of the Ontario Secondary School Diploma which requires students to complete a minimum of 40 hours of community service before they can graduate.
Notable alumni
Mahira Khan who is a prominent Pakistani Video jockey and actress graduated from FPS in 2001.
References
External links
Official website
Cambridge schools in Pakistan
School systems in Pakistan
Educational institutions established in 1981
1981 establishments in Pakistan |
15830777 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutu%20District | Gutu District | Gutu is the third largest district in Masvingo Province, southern Zimbabwe, after Chiredzi and Mwenezi. It is the northernmost district in the province. The name "Gutu" is historically reported to have emerged from "Chinomukutu wemiseve" – meaning, "the one with a load of arrows". This is according to oral historical folklore of the "Gumbo" clan who are said to have taken over the area from the "Shiri" clan through killing them by poisoning the fruit trees in the "Gona" area. Mupandawana is the largest district service centre. It was designated as a "growth point" during the early years of independent Zimbabwe together with such places as Gokwe in the Midlands Province and Juru in Mashonaland East province. Mpandawana gained town status in April 2014.
It was home to the late Oliver Munyaradzi, Simon Muzenda, former vice president of Zimbabwe as well as Vitalis Zvinavashe, a Commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces and politician. Dr Costa Maonei, former District Medical Officer, comes from the southern tip of the District. The late Air Vice Marshal Josiah Tungamirai was also a native of Gutu. Gutu Mission Hospital found in the district, is one of a number of centers for HIV/AIDS treatment in the province. The population is mostly the Karanga, a Shona sub-tribe. It is one of a few districts in the province where the standard of living is above average. Gutu Rural District council is in charge of the day-to-day running of the district.
Geography
Climatically, the area falls under Natural Region III. Natural Regions (NRs) in Zimbabwe's context are areas delineated on the basis of soil type, rainfall and other climatic factors. It is one of a few districts in the country that suffers from over-population. Its population density of 22.08 per square kilometer is among the highest in the country.
Gutu district center had a population of 10-12000 in 1989. Like other districts in the country, medical facilities in the district suffer from shortage of manpower.
Mpandawana Growth Point, a famous business center in Zimbabwe, is found in the district.
Government and politics
General elections 2008
The district was divided into four parts by the electoral commission for the general elections of 2008. Candidates from both the MDC and ZANU-PF and independents will compete for the four constituency seats available and winner will go one to represent the district in Zimbabwe's new House of Assembly.
Matuke Lovemore (Zanu-PF), and Chirume Oliver (MDC Tsvangirai) will contest the Gutu central seat while in Gutu east, Chikwama Bertha (Zanu-PF), Revai Tichaona (Independent), Makamure Ramson (MDC Tsvangirai) will fight it out. In Gutu north, the candidates are Maramwidze Edmore (MDC Tsvangirai), and the late Provincial hero Frank Machinya(Zanu-PF) while Mandevu Tarirai (Zanu-PF), and Maguma Stanley (MDC Tsvangirai) are vying for the Gutu west seat.
The results came as follows: of the five seats, four seats were won by MDC Tsvangirai, and one went to Zanu PF.
Notable residents
Paul Tangi Mhova Mkondo, nationalist, part of the first group of Gonakudzingwa restriction camp political prisoners, insurance executive, indigenous businessman, commercial farmer, philanthropist.
Simon Muzenda, nationalist, former Zimbabwean deputy prime minister and vice-president
Divine Ndhlukula, businesswoman, farmer
Naftali Rabson Mupata Tanyongana, Educator
Elisha Tavagadza,- EMV Engineer-currently based in Europe
Simbarashe Mazorodze, Information Technology Consultant based in Harare.
[Penemene Chomurwiti Chivasa Chitsa ], Intelligent Headman and Son of Chief Chomurwiti Gutu who resided in Chitsa
See also
Shenjere Village
References
Districts of Masvingo Province |
15830785 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory%20Verzhbitsky | Grigory Verzhbitsky | Grigory Afanasyevich Verjbitsky () (born January 25, 1875, Letychiv, Podolia Governorate — died December 20, 1942 Tianjin, China) was one of the leaders of the White movement in Transbaikal and Primoriye during the Russian Civil War, Lieutenant-General (1918).
Verjbitsky was graduated from the Odessa Infantry Engineering School in 1897. He was a participant of the Russo-Japanese War and World War I and he became a colonel in 1915. Verjbitsky joined the Omsk Provisional Government of Admiral Kolchak and was appointed as a commander of the 3rd Steppe Siberian Corps becoming Lieutenant-General.
After the defeat of Admiral Kolchak's armies in the Ural and Western Siberia, Verzhbitsky took part in the Great Siberian Ice march. After arrival at Chita, Ataman Grigory Semyonov trusted into his hands the 2nd Separate Rifle Corps of the Far Eastern Army from February to August 23, 1920. Verjbitsky escaped to China and even was a deputy of the Constituent Assembly of the Far Eastern Republic but did not participate in its work.
He headed the Provisional Priamurye Government Army of Spiridon Dionisovich Merkulov from 1921 to 1922. After the final defeat from the Soviets Verzhbitsky settled down in Harbin heading the branch of the Russian All-Military Union. The Japanese sent him to Tianjin in 1934, where he died eight years later.
Verjbitsky was awarded with:
Order of St. George of the Fourth Degree
Order of St. George of the Third Degree
Order of St. Anna, 2nd class
Order of St. Anna, 4th class
Order of Saint Stanislaus (Imperial House of Romanov), 3rd class
Order of St. Vladimir, 4th class
Cross of St. George with a palm branch by his soldiers.
References
Бушин А. Ю. Во имя России: генерал-лейтенант Г. А. Вержбицкий // Белая армия. Белое дело. — Екатеринбург. — 2000. — № 7.
1875 births
1942 deaths
People from Letychiv
White movement generals
White Russian emigrants to China
Russian All-Military Union members
History of Zabaykalsky Krai
Primorsky Krai
Russian military personnel of the Russo-Japanese War
Russian military personnel of World War I
People of the Russian Civil War
Recipients of the Order of St. George of the Third Degree
Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 2nd class
Recipients of the Order of Saint Stanislaus (Russian), 3rd class
Recipients of the Order of St. Vladimir, 4th class
Recipients of the Cross of St. George |
15830828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Embryo%20Hunts%20in%20Secret | The Embryo Hunts in Secret | , released in July 1966, is the first film made by Japanese director Kōji Wakamatsu independently of any movie studio. It was released just months after he had left Nikkatsu and formed his own company, Wakamatsu Productions.
Plot summary
The film revolves around a mentally unstable man who keeps his girlfriend tied up in his small apartment and tortures her. He prefers to keep her naked, and she is subjected to various types of bondage, whipped, and tortured with a razor blade. He also brushes her hair, and applies make-up on her, though, and as the film goes on he continues to have a mental breakdown due to his deteriorating sanity. In the end the girl gets free and has her revenge against him.
At the time of its release Wakamatsu was quoted as saying "For me, violence, the body and sex are an integral part of life" which would predict the outcome and plot of the film.
Cast
Notes
References
External links
IMDb entry
1966 films
BDSM in films
Films directed by Kōji Wakamatsu
Pink films
Japanese black-and-white films
1960s pornographic films
1960s Japanese films |
15830860 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail%20of%20Tears%20%28disambiguation%29 | Trail of Tears (disambiguation) | Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of Native American nations from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States following the passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Trail of Tears may also refer to:
Places
Trail of Tears State Forest in southern Illinois
Trail of Tears State Park in Missouri
Art, entertainment, and media
Film
The Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy, a 2006 documentary
Music
Artists
Trail of Tears (band), a Norwegian musical group
Albums
Trails of Tears (Jacques Coursil album), 2010
Trail of Tears (Billy Ray Cyrus album), 1996
Trail of Tears (The Renderers album), 1990
Songs
"Trail of Tears", a song by Guadalcanal Diary, from their 1984 album, Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man
"Trail of Tears", a song composed by Roger Cook, Allen Reynolds and Randy Handley and recorded by John Denver, on his 1985 album, Dreamland Express and by Hal Ketchum on his 1992 album Sure Love
"Trail of Tears", a song by British pop star Midge Ure, released on his 1996 solo album Breathe
"Trial of Tears", a song by Dream Theater, from their 1997 album, Falling into Infinity
"Trail of Tears", a song by Eric Johnson, from his 1986 album, Tones
"Trail of Tears", a song by Nuclear Assault, from their 1989 album, Handle with Care
"Trail of Tears", a song by Testament, from their 1994 album, Low
Television
"Trail of Tears" (Strangers with Candy), a Season 3 episode of the television comedy Strangers with Candy
See also
Highway of Tears murders |
15830891 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clatter%2C%20Powys | Clatter, Powys | Clatter is a small village in Powys, Wales located in the community of Caersws on the main A470 road between Carno and Caersws village.
External links
Photos of Clatter and surrounding area on geograph.org.uk
Villages in Powys
Caersws |
15830912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massy%20Stores | Massy Stores | Massy Stores (formerly Hi-Lo Foods Stores) is a nationwide supermarket chain in Trinidad and Tobago. It is a subsidiary of the Massy Group (formerly Neal & Massy) of companies and part of the IGA network. Originally opened by Cannings Foods Limited, Hi-Lo was rebranded as Massy Stores in 2014 as part of an effort to make consumers familiar with other businesses operating under the Massy Group.
References
External links
Official Website
Supermarkets of Trinidad and Tobago |
15830936 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Whittlesey | Charles Whittlesey | Charles Whittlesey may refer to:
Charles Whittlesey (geologist) (1808–1886), American geologist and archeologist
Charles Frederick Whittlesey (1867–1941), American architect
Charles White Whittlesey (1884–c. 1921), American soldier
Charles Whittlesey (lawyer) (1819–1874), Connecticut lawyer, Union soldier and briefly Virginia Attorney General
Charles Whittlesey (politician) (1807–1863), American politician in Iowa |
15830984 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Konwlo | Victor Konwlo | Victor Konwlo (born 1 February 1975) is a Liberian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder for Canon Yaoundé in Cameroon, AS Cannes and AS Nancy in France, AZ in the Netherlands, and Paços de Ferreira and Caldas in Portugal.
In 2001, he also had a trial with Scottish side Raith Rovers, but he was not offered a contract.
References
External links
1975 births
Living people
Liberian men's footballers
AS Cannes players
AS Nancy Lorraine players
AZ Alkmaar players
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 2 players
Eerste Divisie players
Expatriate men's footballers in France
Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands
Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal
Caldas S.C. players
Men's association football midfielders
Liberia men's international footballers |
15830991 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%202004%20%28Italy%29 | List of number-one hits of 2004 (Italy) | This is a list of the number-one hits of 2004 on FIMI's Italian Singles and Albums Charts.
See also
2004 in music
List of number-one hits in Italy
References
External links
FIMI archives
ItalianCharts.com
2004 in Italian music
Italy
2004 |
15831000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Ridge%20Music%20Center | Blue Ridge Music Center | The Blue Ridge Music Center is a music venue, museum, and visitor center on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Galax, Virginia. The center celebrates the music and musicians of the Blue Ridge Mountains through concerts, exhibits, and programs. The site is a partnership between the National Park Service and Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation.
See also
List of music museums
Sources
External links
Music museums in Virginia
Music archives in the United States
Music venues in Virginia
Music venues completed in 1985
Museums in Grayson County, Virginia
Music organizations based in the United States
Blue Ridge Parkway
1985 establishments in Virginia
Appalachian music
Old-time music
National Park Service museums |
15831002 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transamerican%20Love%20Story | Transamerican Love Story | Transamerican Love Story is an American reality dating show in which suitors woo transgender woman Calpernia Addams. Addams chooses a suitor by process of elimination. When the show first aired, viewers could vote their preferences online, but it was Addams who chose whom to eliminate. Calpernia is accompanied by her friend Andrea James; each episode is hosted by comedian Alec Mapa.
Transamerican Love Story is the first reality dating show in the United States in which contestants compete for the attention and approval of a transgender woman. Logo TV, a digital cable channel with LGBT content, announced the series in November 2007, and premiered the first episode the following February. The series finale aired on March 31, 2008.
Zack Rosen of the Washington Blade praised the series, describing it as "refreshing for its lack of sensationalism". Heather Havrilesky of Salon agreed, and admired Calpernia's composure in the reality show environment. In 2009, Transamerican Love Story won a GLAAD Media Award in the "Outstanding Reality Program" category, tying with I Want to Work for Diddy.
MTV Networks published the complete series on DVD in 2008. The series is also distributed on Amazon Video, and was previously distributed through Netflix, iTunes, and LOGOonline.
Overview
The show employs the competition-dating format established by The Bachelor (2002), a long-running series with numerous spin-offs and imitators. The bachelors in Transamerican Love Story are men who are "open to dating a trans woman". They lodge together in a mansion while Calpernia stays in a separate cottage on the estate. The contestants compete in group challenges, and the winners are granted time with Calpernia.
Before deciding which contestant to eliminate in the evening's ceremony, Calpernia confers with her friends Andrea James and (show host) Alec Mapa. James and Mapa have occasion to chat with the bachelors, and they share some of their insights with Calpernia. Viewers also vote their preferences online, but it is Calpernia who chooses whom to eliminate. In the elimination ceremony, Calpernia feeds a chocolate to those suitors whom she invites to stay. In the final episode, when only three suitors remain, they are given makeovers before Calpernia meets with them individually to tell each man whether it is him she has chosen.
Most of Transamerican Love Story was filmed in the Greater Los Angeles Area of Los Angeles County, California. Portions of episode six were filmed in the Western US cities of Ventura, California and Las Vegas, Nevada.
The suitors
Eight men compete in the show. They range in age from 24 to 47.
Call-out order
Contestants are arranged in the order in which Calpernia calls their names during the elimination ceremony. In episode five, no competition winner is declared. In episode six, each of the three remaining men gets a date with Calpernia. Episode seven is a clip show, and has no elimination ceremony. In episode eight, Calpernia turns down two of the three remaining suitors before declaring the remaining man the winner.
The contestant won the competition.
The contestant won a date with Calpernia.
The contestant won a date with Calpernia, but was eliminated.
The contestant was eliminated.
The contestant was to be eliminated, but Calpernia let him stay.
Episodes
Production
Transamerican Love Story was one of three new reality television shows that Logo premiered in 2008, accompanied by Gimme Sugar and Shirts & Skins. It was produced by World of Wonder Productions with the assistance of Oh Really! Productions, a company that had recently begun producing The Big Gay Sketch Show for Logo.
After World of Wonder developed the concept for Transamerican Love Story, Logo called Calpernia Addams in the summer of 2007 to offer her the starring role, which she accepted. Addams is an actress, musician, writer, and activist from Nashville, Tennessee. She was 36 years old when the show was filmed.
Her friend, transgender activist Andrea James, co-stars in the series, and was a consulting producer. In a 2013 interview, James explains that she saw an opportunity for social progress in a program that accurately represented men who are attracted to trans women. Typically, she says, in US media trans-attracted men are stigmatized and shamed, and that can make them hate themselves—and "lead to unhealthy and even dangerous situations for trans women." "No one knows how hard it is for us to date!" Addams adds. Both Addams and James hoped the show would also undermine the media stereotype of trans women as "tragic and serious".
Transamerican Love Story was not World of Wonder's first transgender program. Their documentary series TransGeneration (2005) won a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary in 2006, and Sex Change Hospital (2007) was a nominee for the same award in 2009. Transamerican Love Story contestant Jim Howley, who is himself transgender, appeared in the premiere episode of Sex Change Hospital.
Response and epilogue
Zack Rosen of the Washington Blade called the show "refreshing for its lack of sensationalism". Heather Havrilesky, in her review for Salon, observed: "The show’s producers (thankfully) resist the urge to throw in big, manipulative Fox-style surprises. While some of the men get freaked out by each other, Calpernia is likable and accepting and takes the whole crazy assortment of characters in stride."
"A reality dating show is… a very difficult circumstance in which to get to know someone", wrote Calpernia Addams, a few weeks after the finale aired. "I look[ed] at it as… a fun romp… rather than a deadly serious path to matrimony." The following July, Calpernia reported that she and competition-winner Shawn "had some dinners and get-togethers, but… have not continued to date". A few days later, she told an interviewer: "The amazing thing that Logo did with this was they showed trans people dating as being so normal, like it really is. I think it’s going to open it up for trans women to feel worthy of love and for guys to not be afraid to date us."
About two months after the final episode aired, Addams, Howley, Andrea James, and Alec Mapa all appeared together in the 2008 Los Angeles Pride parade. Later that summer, Jim Howley did a photo shoot with portrait photographer Eric Schwabel for a feature in The Advocate on the human body. Schwabel also photographed Addams the following February.
On June 18, 2009, a few weeks after Transamerican Love Story won a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Reality Program, Calpernia Addams and Andrea James debuted a short comedy film at the 33rd Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco. They had begun developing the film—called Transproofed—more than a year prior. Transproofed is the story of a trans woman, Ava, who feels unready to tell the man she's been dating that she's transgender; but when Ava's friend Joyce pressures her into hiding any evidence in her apartment that she's trans (with a long career as a showgirl), Ava feels more and more uneasy. Addams and James wrote, directed, produced, and scored the film. Addams takes the role of Ava, and James plays the role of Joyce.
GLAAD Media Award
At the 20th GLAAD Media Awards in May 2009, Transamerican Love Story tied with I Want to Work for Diddy for the GLAAD Media Award in the "Outstanding Reality Program" category. Calpernia Addams and Laverne Cox were at the awards ceremony in San Francisco to accept the honors for the respective shows.
Also in attendance was Transamerican Love Story finalist Jim Howley. He reports that when Transamerican Love Story won, he impulsively ran past the security personnel and onto the stage. After Addams' acceptance speech, he approached the lectern, introduced himself, and said a few words about transgender progress. Howley was one of the subjects of Sex Change Hospital, which was a nominee that year in the "Outstanding Documentary" category. He attended the awards ceremony with Clair Farley, a trans woman who was the subject of the 2007 documentary Red Without Blue. The couple married in 2011.
In 2016, two transgender-related series once again tied for GLAAD's "Outstanding Reality Program" award: I Am Cait (starring Caitlyn Jenner) and I Am Jazz (starring Jazz Jennings). Chris McCarthy, general manager of Logo and VH1, told Adweek in 2015 that without Transamerican Love Story and other portrayals of diverse trans issues, "there would be no I Am Cait." Said World of Wonder co-founder Randy Barbato, "We always thought our subjects were ready for prime time. Not that many people agreed with us."
Video releases
MTV Networks published the complete series in a four-disc DVD set in 2008. It is distributed online through Amazon Video, and has also been distributed through Netflix, iTunes, and LOGOonline.
See also
There's Something About Miriam (2004) - A similar show, surrounding a trans-woman finding a male romantic partner. However, the show was much more controversial, in keeping the leads' gender status a secret.
The Bachelorette (2003)
A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila (2007)
My Transsexual Summer (2011)
References
Further reading
External links
2008 American television series debuts
2008 American television series endings
2000s LGBT-related reality television series
Celebrity reality television series
GLAAD Media Award-winning shows
American dating and relationship reality television series
English-language television shows
Logo TV original programming
Transgender-related television shows
2000s American LGBT-related television series |
15831020 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.M.%20Williams%20Outback | R.M. Williams Outback | R.M. Williams Outback (or simply Outback) is a bi-monthly magazine of Australia. The magazine was established in 1998 with first issue in September. Its center of focus and target audience are toward Australians living and working in the Australian Outback. It commonly features stories, articles and advertisements about life on a ranch, work, and products thereof. It is published in Australia and circulated primarily in Australia and New Zealand, although subscription is available world wide.
The magazine is the recipient of the Australian Magazine Award.
See also
R. M. Williams
References
External links
Official website
1998 establishments in Australia
Bi-monthly magazines published in Australia
Lifestyle magazines published in Australia
Local interest magazines
Magazines established in 1998
Magazines published in Sydney
Australian outback |
15831064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrow%20History%20Prize | Harrow History Prize | The Harrow History Prize or the Townsend Warner Preparatory Schools History Prize is an annual history competition for children at British preparatory schools. It currently attracts around 800 entrants each year.
History
The prize was established in 1885 by E. E. Bowen, a housemaster at Harrow School. He wanted to encourage a move away from purely classical education and offered a prize in history to pupils of Elstree Preparatory School. In 1895 the Dragon School also started to take part, and the competition had spread to thirteen other schools by 1905 with 39 entrants taking part that year. In 1905, George Townsend Warner head of history at Harrow (and father of Sylvia Townsend Warner) took on the running of the competition until his death in 1916. Over many years the prize was repeatedly won by St Cyprian's School whose Headmistress Mrs Vaughan Wilkes was a great believer in history teaching and in the prize itself. After 1916 administration was shared between Mr Henry of Harrow and Henry Marten, later Sir Henry Marten, of Eton and the prize was renamed after Townsend Warner. In 1940 the number of participating schools had risen to 40, by which time both Henry and Marten had withdrawn. There were difficulties during World War II because of the disruption this caused to prep schools, but the competition was kept running by Major C F Letts until 1956 when the Independent Association of Preparatory Schools (IAPS) took over. By this time there were 70 schools and over 500 entrants in the competition. The competition has continued to grow since then, and a special centenary competition was run in 1985.
Winners
Notable winners, both from St Cyprian's, included Dyneley Hussey (1905) and Cyril Connolly (1916), with his colleague Eric Blair (George Orwell) in second place. Orwell later wrote scathingly of the prize as a "piece of nonsense". Another runner up was the historian Arthur Bryant. Westminster Under School. British Conservative Party politician Kwasi Kwarteng is also a recipient of the prize as he won it in 1988 while studying at Colet Court.
Papers 1 and 2
There are two exams in this competition, Paper 1 consisting of testing of dates and battles, and 2 is made up of essays.
References
External links
Harrow School
Educational awards in the United Kingdom
1885 establishments in the United Kingdom
Awards established in 1885
Annual events in the United Kingdom
Preparatory schools in the United Kingdom |
15831071 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster%20Street%20station | Webster Street station | The Webster Street station was a train station located at Webster and North 15th Streets in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Located on the Omaha Belt Line, which was operated by the Omaha Road and the Missouri Pacific Railroad as a local railroad passenger depot, the station was built in 1887. In 1902 the New York Times noted the station for its innovations in the treatment of passenger luggage.
The Swedes in Omaha used the Webster Street Station to connect with their ethnic communities in Oakland, Pender, Wakefield, and Wausa.
References
Former railway stations in Omaha, Nebraska
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1887
Omaha
Omaha |
15831083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Murchison | Carl Murchison | Carl Allanmore Murchison (1887–1961) was an American psychologist and an early promoter of the discipline of psychology. Unlike most psychologists who became prominent in the history books, Murchison was not an influential theorist or researcher. Instead, he was an extremely active organizer, publisher, and editor.
Murchison received his Ph.D. in social psychology from Johns Hopkins University in 1923. He taught at Clark University from 1923 to 1936. During most of this time he served as the chair of the psychology department.
Carl Murchison edited The Psychological Register in 1929, and the first Handbook of Social Psychology in 1935. He founded and served as editor of a total of five psychology journals, all of which still exist today. These include the Journal of Psychology, the Journal of General Psychology, co-founded with Edward Titchener and the Journal of Social Psychology, co-founded with John Dewey.
References
Clark University faculty
20th-century American psychologists
1961 deaths
1887 births |
15831093 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20Carno | River Carno | The River Carno () is a river in Powys, mid Wales, and a tributary of the River Severn.
The river is named after the village of Carno, which is close to the source in the foothills of the Cambrian Mountains. From Carno it flows roughly parallel to the A470 road, past Clatter and through Pontdolgoch, before emptying into the Severn at Caersws.
Carno |
15831116 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visakha%20Express%20%28film%29 | Visakha Express (film) | Visakha Express is a 2008 Indian Telugu-language thriller film directed by Vara Mullapudi who co-wrote the film with Chandra Sekhar Yeleti and Harsha Vardhan. The film stars Allari Naresh, Rajiv Kanakala, Preeti Jhangiani, and Sindhu Tolani. The basic plot of the story is taken from Patricia Highsmith's novel Strangers on a Train (1950), which is about two strangers and an exchange of murders.
Plot
Two strangers, Dr. Raja (Rajiv Kanakala) and Ravi Varma (Allari Naresh) meet each other on a train, Visakha Express. Raja is annoyed with the problems caused by his drunkard father (Kota Srinivasa Rao) and in an unconscious situation shares his problems with Ravi Varma. A few days later, his father injures himself in an accident and is brought to the hospital, who dies of poisoning and the blame is put on the doctor. In fact, it is Ravi Varma who has designed the death on the train.
Ravi Varma marries Suchitra (Preeti), who is an ex-girlfriend of Raja. Ravi Varma is dissatisfied with the relationship between his wife and Raja and wanted to eliminate her. So Ravi Varma kills Raja's father and throws that case on Raja. He also blackmails Raja that if he kills his wife Suchitra, he will save him. The remaining story is about how Raja saves his ex-girlfriend and kills Ravi Varma.
Cast
Rajiv Kanakala as Dr. Raja
Allari Naresh as Ravi Varma
Preeti Jhangiani as Suchitra
Kota Srinivasa Rao as Mohan Rao, Raja's father
Sindhu Tolani as Kokila
Ali as Superintendent of Police
Mumaith Khan as Geetha
Vijaya Rangaraju as Inspector
Dharmavarapu Subramanyam as Doctor
Shankar Melkote as Dr. Melkote
Narsing Yadav as Venu, wine shop owner
Sivannarayana Naripeddi
Raghu Karumanchi as Constable
Soundtrack
Reception
Reviewing the film for Rediff.com, Radhika Rajamani wrote, "The film, which starts off as a whodunit finally boils down to a question of personal vendetta. In the end we are left wondering whether it is worth two hours of sitting through the film to get to the ending." Sify rated the film 3/5 and stated, "Story is good, but the screenplay by Chandrasekhar Yeleti and direction by Vara are disappointing. As the audiences come out of the theatre, they would certainly sympathize with the story. A unanimous feeling that it has not been handled with skill pervades their judgment."
References
External links
Film review
2008 films
2000s Telugu-language films
Films based on American novels
Films based on works by Patricia Highsmith
Indian thriller films
2008 thriller films
Indian crime thriller films
2008 crime thriller films |
15831125 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha%20Belt%20Line | Omaha Belt Line | The Omaha Belt Line was a long railroad that circumnavigated Omaha, Nebraska, starting in 1885. The organization behind the line, called the Omaha Belt Railway, was incorporated two years earlier, in 1883. Carrying passengers and cargo, the original line was operated by the Missouri Pacific Railroad, with the first line from the Sarpy County line into Downtown Omaha.
History
The line was first associated with the Union Pacific Railroad, whose officers first registered it as a "pet project" in 1883. In 1885, a young railroad tycoon named Jay Gould noticed that the Omaha Belt Line would be a perfect route to run his burgeoning Missouri Pacific Railroad around Omaha, thereby giving his railroad direct access to Downtown Omaha, something his railroad had previously only been able to reach via Union Pacific-owned tracks, which Missouri Pacific's line from Kansas City connected with at Portal, NE, just west of Papillion, NE.
While being constructed with Union Pacific employees and materials, the Belt Railway had only weak ties to UP on a business level, so, the always ambitious Gould decided he would expropriate Union Pacific of the 15-mile rail line around Omaha. To ensure local agreement, Gould, known for his charisma and strategic use of easily swayed government officials, stacked the Omaha Belt Board of directors with local officials whom Gould had frequent, personal contact with - except S.H.H. Clark, who was a former president of the Union Pacific - eager to work for Gould's growing empire. This acquisition of the Omaha Belt Railway from the Union Pacific was viewed as a masterfully enacted business coup in later years. The line was finished using materials from both railroads. That use of combined resources was the subject of a later dispute between the railroad companies which they carried to the US Railway Commission. The case was eventually dropped. By the 1920s, 178 trains per day went in and out of Omaha carrying mail, passengers, and freight.
The line was abandoned and removed piecemeal throughout the 1980s and 1990s as freight customers moved to bigger facilities away from the rail line and public transportation service in Omaha became less popular and dominated by an inefficient bus system. Today a portion of the Belt Line has been turned into the MoPac Trail (MoPac being the age-old nickname of the Missouri Pacific Railroad), also known as the "Field Club Trail", a recreational trail in Omaha. A small portion of the Belt Line Railway is still in use on the extreme south end of the line, which now serves as a "spur"(a dead end railroad track that provides access to one or more industries) to several South Omaha industries near Dahlman Avenue. It is operated by the Union Pacific Railroad.
Lines and properties
Missouri Pacific's Omaha Belt Line included the main yard at Nicholas Street in North Omaha, the "Alley" switching district in Downtown Omaha, the "short belt" industrial area and the Westside Junction near 48th and Leavenworth streets. The Belt Line interchanged with several other roads including the Union Pacific, the Chicago and Northwestern Railway, the "Omaha Road" Railway and the Illinois Central. The Belt connected with the Missouri Pacific Railroad's original mainline at Westside Junction, as well as the newer mainline to Kansas City and St. Louis at Dahlman Ave. in South Omaha. The Missouri Pacific railroad also had branches into Lincoln, Wahoo and Nebraska City.
See also
History of Omaha
Missouri Pacific Railroad
References
Railway lines in Omaha, Nebraska
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Railway lines opened in 1883
1883 establishments in Nebraska
1960s disestablishments in Nebraska
Closed railway lines in the United States |
15831151 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STRS | STRS | STRS or Strs may refer to:
Short tandem repeats, in DNA testing
St. Thomas Residential School, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
Sir Thomas Rich's School, Longlevens, Gloucester, England
South Thames Retrieval Service, a medical transport service affiliated with Evelina Children's Hospital, London
Sprouse-Reitz (NASDAQ symbol: STRS), a defunct American retail chain
Strauss Group (Tel Aviv Stock Exchange symbol: STRS), an Israeli food company
See also
STR (disambiguation)
California State Teachers' Retirement System, (CalSTRS) |
15831191 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant%27Elia | Sant'Elia | Sant'Elia, Elia being the Italian name for the prophet Elijah, may refer to:
Places
Places in Italy:
Sant'Elia a Pianisi, a commune in the Province of Campobasso
Castel Sant'Elia, a commune in the Province of Viterbo
Sant'Elia Fiumerapido, a comune in the Province of Frosinone
Sant'Elia (Rieti), a frazione of Rieti
Sant'Elia (L'Aquila), a frazione of L'Aquila
Sant'Elia (Santa Flavia), a frazione of Santa Flavia in the Province of Palermo
Places outside Italy
Mount Saint Elias a peak in North America climbed in the 19th century by the Duke of Abruzzi.
People
Sant'Elia di Enna (829–904), an Italian monk from Enna, venerated as a saint in the Catholic and Orthodox churches
Sant'Elia Speleota (863–960), an Italian saint from Reggio Calabria, venerated in the Catholic and Orthodox churches
Antonio Sant'Elia (1888–1916), an Italian architect from Como
Facilities and structures
Basilica di Sant'Elia, a church dating from the 11th century at Castel Sant'Elia
Stadio Sant'Elia, a football stadium in Cagliari, Italy
See also
Monte Sant'Elia (disambiguation)
Elia (disambiguation)
Saint Elias (disambiguation), Elias derived from Greek for the Italian Elia
Saint Elijah (disambiguation), Elijah derived from Hebrew for the Italian Elia |
15831207 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Hardee | John Hardee | John Hardee (December 20, 1918 – May 18, 1984) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.
Hardee toured with Don Albert in 1937–38 while he was in college; he graduated in 1941. He directed a Texas school band and served in the Army during World War II. In 1946 he played with Tiny Grimes and then recorded as a bandleader for Blue Note Records between 1946 and 1948, issuing eight releases. In the 1940s and early 1950s he played with Clyde Bernhardt, Cousin Joe, Russell Procope, Earl Bostic, Billy Kyle, Helen Humes, Billy Taylor, and Lucky Millinder. In the 1950s he retired from music and became a schoolteacher. In 1959, he played saxophone on Dallas R&B group The Nightcaps (Texas band) LP Wine, Wine, Wine. He was credited as "Jon Hardtimes" and, although he performed with them occasionally, was not an official member of the group.
Discography
Leader
John Hardee Swingtet & Sextet: Various Artists – The Blue Note Swingtets (Blue Note, 1946) with Tiny Grimes, Gene Ramey and Sid Catlett
John Hardy Quartet & Quintet: The Tenor Sax Album – The Savoy Sessions (Savoy Records)
Tired
John Hardee 1946–1948
Hardee’s Partee
The Forgotten Texas Tenor
Tenor Sax (Blue Note, 1946)
Al Haig, Coleman Hawkins, Wardell Gray, John Hardee: Al Haig Meets The Master Saxes, Volume One (Spotlite Records, 1977)
A Little Blue (Black And Blue, 1999)
Sideman
Tiny Grimes: The Complete 1944-1950, Vol. 1 & 2 (Blue Moon)
John Hardee mit Russell Procope Big Six & Billy Kyle’s Big Eight: Giants Of Small-Band Swing, Vol.1 (OJC, 1946)
Helen Humes: 1945–1947 (Classics)
Billy Kyle: 1937–1938 (Classics)
References
Scott Yanow, [ John Hardee] at Allmusic
American jazz saxophonists
American male saxophonists
1984 deaths
1918 births
20th-century American saxophonists
Jazz musicians from Texas
20th-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians
Savoy Records artists
Black & Blue Records artists |
15831218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top%20Gear%20%28series%205%29 | Top Gear (series 5) | Series 5 of Top Gear, a British motoring magazine and factual television programme, was broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two during 2004, consisting of nine episodes between 24 October and 26 December; a compilation episode, titled "Best of Top Gear", was aired on 2 January 2005, and charted the best moments from Series 4 and 5.
Episodes
Best-of episodes
References
2004 British television seasons
Top Gear seasons |
15831280 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty%20Youngblood | Betty Youngblood | Betty Youngblood was President of Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, MI from 2002 to 2007. Previously she was President and Professor of political science at Western Oregon University and chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Superior. She was preceded as president of Lake Superior State by President Arbuckle and succeeded by Dr. Rodney L. Lowman.
References
Living people
People from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
Lake Superior State University faculty
Western Oregon University faculty
University of Wisconsin–Superior
Heads of universities and colleges in the United States
Year of birth missing (living people) |
15831283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah%20Gates | Elijah Gates | Elijah Gates (December 17, 1827 in Garrard County, Kentucky – March 4, 1915 in St. Joseph, Missouri) was an American politician, and colonel in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
Early and personal life
Gates moved to Platte County, Missouri, sometime around 1846, and subsequently settled on a farm in Buchanan County. In 1852, he married Maria Stamper, and they had twelve children.
Military career
At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Gates enlisted in the Confederate Army, starting as a captain in the Missouri State Guard under the command of General Sterling Price, and was later promoted to colonel of the 1st Missouri Cavalry Regiment. He commanded his regiment at the Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas in March 1862, during the Siege of Corinth, Mississippi, and at the Battles of Iuka, Second Corinth, Champion Hill, Big Black River Bridge and at the Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi. He also temporarily commanded the 1st Missouri Brigade. In 1864, Gates participated in the Atlanta Campaign and the Battle of Allatoona, Georgia, and lost an arm at the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee. During his service, he was wounded five times, captured by Union forces three times, and had four horses shot from underneath him. On April 9, 1865, the same day Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, Colonel Gates was engaged in one of the last battles of the Civil War, the Battle of Fort Blakeley in Alabama.
Political career
Following the war, Gates returned to his farm. In 1874, he was elected as Sheriff of Buchanan County, serving in that post until 1877. From 1877 to 1881, he served as State Treasurer of Missouri. Following his tenure as State Treasurer, he served as United States Marshal for the Western District of Missouri under President Grover Cleveland, and was engaged in the transfer and bus business in St. Joseph, Missouri until his death at 87 years old.
References
1827 births
1915 deaths
State treasurers of Missouri
People from Platte County, Missouri
Politicians from St. Joseph, Missouri
People from Garrard County, Kentucky
Confederate States Army officers
People of Kentucky in the American Civil War
People of Missouri in the American Civil War
Missouri State Guard
Missouri sheriffs
Missouri Democrats
United States Marshals
Cleveland administration personnel
American politicians with disabilities
American amputees
19th-century American politicians
19th-century American military personnel |
15831300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellegen%27s%20theorem | Tellegen's theorem | Tellegen's theorem is one of the most powerful theorems in network theory. Most of the energy distribution theorems and extremum principles in network theory can be derived from it. It was published in 1952 by Bernard Tellegen. Fundamentally, Tellegen's theorem gives a simple relation between magnitudes that satisfy Kirchhoff's laws of electrical circuit theory.
The Tellegen theorem is applicable to a multitude of network systems. The basic assumptions for the systems are the conservation of flow of extensive quantities (Kirchhoff's current law, KCL) and the uniqueness of the potentials at the network nodes (Kirchhoff's voltage law, KVL). The Tellegen theorem provides a useful tool to analyze complex network systems including electrical circuits, biological and metabolic networks, pipeline transport networks, and chemical process networks.
The theorem
Consider an arbitrary lumped network that has branches and nodes. In an electrical network, the branches are two-terminal components and the nodes are points of interconnection. Suppose that to each branch we assign arbitrarily a branch potential difference and a branch current for , and suppose that they are measured with respect to arbitrarily picked associated reference directions. If the branch potential differences satisfy all the constraints imposed by KVL and if the branch currents satisfy all the constraints imposed by KCL, then
Tellegen's theorem is extremely general; it is valid for any lumped network that contains any elements, linear or nonlinear, passive or active, time-varying or time-invariant. The generality is extended when and are linear operations on the set of potential differences and on the set of branch currents (respectively) since linear operations don't affect KVL and KCL. For instance, the linear operation may be the average or the Laplace transform. More generally, operators that preserve KVL are called Kirchhoff voltage operators, operators that preserve KCL are called Kirchhoff current operators, and operators that preserve both are simply called Kirchhoff operators. These operators need not necessarily be linear for Tellegen's theorem to hold.
The set of currents can also be sampled at a different time from the set of potential differences since KVL and KCL are true at all instants of time. Another extension is when the set of potential differences is from one network and the set of currents is from an entirely different network, so long as the two networks have the same topology (same incidence matrix) Tellegen's theorem remains true. This extension of Tellegen's Theorem leads to many theorems relating to two-port networks.
Definitions
We need to introduce a few necessary network definitions to provide a compact proof.
Incidence matrix:
The matrix is called node-to-branch incidence matrix for the matrix elements being
A reference or datum node is introduced to represent the environment and connected to all dynamic nodes and terminals. The matrix , where the row that contains the elements of the reference node is eliminated, is called reduced incidence matrix.
The conservation laws (KCL) in vector-matrix form:
The uniqueness condition for the potentials (KVL) in vector-matrix form:
where are the absolute potentials at the nodes to the reference node .
Proof
Using KVL:
because by KCL. So:
Applications
Network analogs have been constructed for a wide variety of physical systems, and have proven extremely useful in analyzing their dynamic behavior. The classical application area for network theory and Tellegen's theorem is electrical circuit theory. It is mainly in use to design filters in signal processing applications.
A more recent application of Tellegen's theorem is in the area of chemical and biological processes. The assumptions for electrical circuits (Kirchhoff laws) are generalized for dynamic systems obeying the laws of irreversible thermodynamics. Topology and structure of reaction networks (reaction mechanisms, metabolic networks) can be analyzed using the Tellegen theorem.
Another application of Tellegen's theorem is to determine stability and optimality of complex process systems such as chemical plants or oil production systems. The Tellegen theorem can be formulated for process systems using process nodes, terminals, flow connections and allowing sinks and sources for production or destruction of extensive quantities.
A formulation for Tellegen's theorem of process systems:
where are the production terms, are the terminal connections, and are the dynamic storage terms for the extensive variables.
References
In-line references
General references
Basic Circuit Theory by C.A. Desoer and E.S. Kuh, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1969
"Tellegen's Theorem and Thermodynamic Inequalities", G.F. Oster and C.A. Desoer, J. Theor. Biol 32 (1971), 219–241
"Network Methods in Models of Production", Donald Watson, Networks, 10 (1980), 1–15
External links
Circuit example for Tellegen's theorem
G.F. Oster and C.A. Desoer, Tellegen's Theorem and Thermodynamic Inequalities
Network thermodynamics
Circuit theorems
Eponymous theorems of physics |
15831312 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manoir%20de%20Brion | Manoir de Brion | The Manoir de Brion (), also known as the Château de Brion, is a former Benedictine priory of the abbey of Mont Saint-Michel, France.
It is located near the village of Genêts, in Normandy, and was founded in 1137 by the abbot Bernard du Bec. Several kings and members of the royal court stayed at the Manoir de Brion while on pilgrimage to Mont Saint-Michel, including Charles VI in 1393, Louis XI in 1462 and Francis I of France in 1532. The explorer Jacques Cartier was also presented to King Francis I at the Manoir de Brion before his 1534 voyage to Canada, where one of the Magdalen Islands would be named Île Brion. During the Second World War, the building was used as a hospital to shelter wounded soldiers. The British writer Vincent Cronin resided there until his death in January 2011.
References
Benedictine monasteries in France
Brion, Manoir
Brion |
15831356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero%20seek | Zero seek | Zero seek is a mechanical engineering design component of most computer-controlled data storage devices, including floppy disk drives, tape drives, and early hard drives.
Most early data storage devices were controlled primarily by stepper motors, which are able to move in very small, precise rotational movements. These movements were commonly used to define separate physical spaces where data is to be stored, such as the rotations being used to move a read/write head across the surface of a recording media to define tracks of cylinders of data on the media.
Although the movement of the stepper is precise, when a device is first powered on, the computer usually cannot immediately determine where the stepper is positioned. It needs to do something in order to calibrate the movement of the stepper so that it can know where the stepper is positioned.
The most common method of stepper synchronization is the zero seek, which is to move the stepper until it is able to find track zero. Once track zero has been located, that position is then used to locate all other positions, by continuously staying aware of the number steps the stepper motor has taken.
In the event of a severe data error when either reading or writing, it is possible that there has been a synchronization failure and the computer has lost track of the correct position of the stepper. The computer will then perform a zero seek in order to realign the stepper on track zero and get it back in alignment, just in case that was the cause of the problem.
Zero seeking takes two primary forms: the hard end-stop and the sensed end-stop.
A hard end-stop is often nothing more than a physical barrier against which the stepper mechanism collides and cannot move further. Hard end-stops can be quite noisy because the stepper will usually attempt to advance as far as it ever possibly would normally advance, whether the end-stop is nearby or far away. If nearby, the mechanism collides with the end-stop and continues to attempt to move against it, causing considerable noise and vibration. In some cases the end-stop can go out of alignment after much of this pounding abuse by the synchronization process.
A sensed end-stop uses some sort of electronic sensor to determine when the mechanism has reached track zero. The most common form of sensor is the light-beam sensor, using a light-emitting diode and a photosensor. An opaque blade attached to the mechanism cuts the lightbeam just as the mechanism reaches track zero, signalling that the mechanism has arrived and is in alignment. Sensed end-stops are silent because movement of the mechanism stops immediately after track zero has been found.
Mechanical engineering |
15831358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather%20Brooke | Heather Brooke | Heather Rose Brooke (born 1970) is a British-American journalist and freedom of information campaigner. Resident since the 1990s in the UK, she helped to expose the 2009 expenses scandal, which culminated in the resignation of House of Commons Speaker Michael Martin, dozens of MPs standing down in the 2010 general election and multiple MPs being jailed.
Brooke is Professor of Journalism at City University London's Department of Journalism. She is the author of Your Right to Know (2006), The Silent State (2010), and The Revolution Will Be Digitised (2011).
Early life
Education
Brooke was born in Pennsylvania in the United States to parents originally from Liverpool, England, and has dual United States/United Kingdom citizenship. She grew up in Seattle, Washington, where her mother worked for Boeing and graduated from Federal Way High School.
According to The Scotsman, she briefly moved to England as a teenager, but returned to the United States when she was 15. She attended the University of Washington Department of Communication, where she graduated in 1992 with a double major degree in journalism and political science. While there, she wrote for the student newspaper, The Daily, covering news stories and acting as the paper's sex columnist, writing with what she called a "feminist" slant.
Early career
An internship with The Spokesman-Review in Olympia, Washington to cover the state legislature gave her an early exposure to using public records requests to investigate the expenses of politicians, although she found little beyond taking advantage of frequent flyer miles. After graduation, she worked for a year at the Spokesman-Review, but it lacked the funds to keep her on longer. She then became a crime reporter for the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, where she reported on murder cases and uncovered flaws in South Carolina's forensic crime lab.
Describing herself as "burnt out" from covering over 300 murders, Brooke took a break from journalism. When her mother died in a car accident in 1996, and her father moved back to England, she no longer had family in America and decided to relocate to the United Kingdom. She enrolled for a master's in English literature at the University of Warwick, then moved to East London with her husband, where she took a job with the BBC as a copywriter. Boyd Tonkin wrote in 2010 that when she arrived in the UK she was immediately introduced to the "British disease": "the overweening haughtiness of bureaucratic jobsworths, and the deference of citizens." She became a neighbourhood activist, describing local public officials as having a surprisingly hostile attitude compared to local governments in the United States.
Freedom of Information writing and activism
With the enactment of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Brooke began work on a book explaining how to use the law, which was not scheduled to come into effect for another five years. Originally titled Your Right to Know: How to Use the Freedom of Information Act and Other Access Laws, the book was reissued in October 2004 as Your Right to Know: A Citizen's Guide to Freedom of Information, with a foreword by Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian. In October 2006 it was revised and published in paperback and hardcover editions that included a foreword by satirist Ian Hislop.
BBC minutes
In early 2007, Brooke won a landmark legal case that led the BBC to disclose the minutes of its Board of Governors' meeting of 28 January 2004. At that meeting, the governors had decided to dismiss director general Greg Dyke and issue an apology to the government in response to the Hutton Inquiry. Brooke, along with journalists from The Guardian, had requested the minutes shortly after the Freedom of Information Act came into force, but the BBC resisted disclosure for nearly two years. In December 2006, the case came before the Information Tribunal, which the following month ruled that the BBC should disclose the minutes.
MPs expenses
In October 2004, Brooke started to request details of MPs' expenses, via the House of Commons Freedom of Information Officer, Bob Castle. However, the information was in a bulk format, and could not be broken down to individual MPs.
In January 2005, the Freedom of Information Act 2000 came into force, allowing members of the public to request disclosure of information from public bodies. She started out requesting all 646 MPs' expenses, but the Commons claimed that would be too costly. She then asked for request for travel information (refused); then for the names and salaries of MPs' staff, blocked personally by the Speaker of the House of Commons Michael Martin. She then asked for information on second homes for the details for all MPs, but this was also refused.
In 2006, Brooke reduced her request to 10 MPs—the leaders of the parties and a few ministers. After again being refused, in July 2006 she made an appeal to the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas. Her request was considered for a year, together with two other similar requests on MPs' expenses which had been appealed to the Commissioner in 2005, from Jonathan Ungoed-Thomas of The Sunday Times. The Information Commissioner ordered the release of some information on 15 June 2007. House of Commons authorities objected to this order in June 2007 and MPs had, in May 2007, voted in favour of the Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill which sought to exempt MPs from the 2000 act. The amendment bill was ultimately withdrawn prior to second reading in the House of Lords because peers were unwilling to sponsor the bill.
In February 2008, after referral to an Information Tribunal, it was ruled that Commons authorities had to release information on 14 MPs. The Speaker appealed against the decision on behalf of the House of Commons, challenging the requests for publication of expenses for 11 serving MPs: Gordon Brown, David Cameron, John Prescott, Menzies Campbell, Margaret Beckett, George Osborne, William Hague, Mark Oaten, George Galloway, Barbara Follett and Ann Keen; and three former MPs: Tony Blair, Peter Mandelson and John Wilkinson. The appeal was heard at the High Court of Justice, which ruled on 16 May 2008 in favour of releasing the information:
No appeal was lodged against the High Court ruling, and the details were made public on 23 May 2008. In January 2009, the Leader of the House of Commons, Harriet Harman, tabled a motion to exempt MPs' expenses from being disclosed under a Freedom of Information request. Labour MPs were placed under a three line whip to force the motion through the Commons. However, opposition parties stated they would vote against the proposals, and large scale public opposition emerged. The proposals were ultimately dropped on 21 January 2009. The Commons authorities announced that full disclosure of all MPs' expenses would be published on 1 July 2009, after the 2009 European Elections in early June 2009.
In May 2009, The Daily Telegraph obtained unedited details of all MPs' expenses, including address details which showed the practice of "flipping", that is, changing the registered main address for various tax and expense purposes. The disclosures led to several MP's resignations and a national scandal.
Aftermath and recognition
On 23 February 2010 BBC Four showed a dramatised account about Heather Brooke's campaign for disclosure of MPs' expenses, titled On Expenses. The role of Heather Brooke was played by Anna Maxwell Martin. Brooke still serves as a visiting professor in the journalism department of City University London and has done since the expenses scandal. She was the first international winner of the FOI award in 2009 at the Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards. In March 2010 she was awarded the Judges' Prize in the British Press Awards, and the Special Commendation Award at the Tenth Annual Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards. She also made the 2010 Happy List for her persistence that "led to the MPs' expenses scandal, introducing us to house flipping, duck houses and other fiddles. The happiness came, first, with the delicious details; second with the moral superiority we can now feel over those who legislate and lecture us on how to live."
The Washington Coalition for Open Government granted Brooke a "Key Award", "in honor of a good deed in advancement of open government." The Coalition also gave her a pre-conference reception and keynote placement in their first Washington State Open Government Conference. The Keynote was a through debriefing of operations conducted to liberate Britain. Brooke included a personal account of her role in the MPs expenses scandal in her second book, The Silent State: How Secrecy and Misinformation are Destroying Democracy (2010).
In recognition of her work, the UK Press Gazette ranked Brooke as number 5 in their Top 10 list of journalists in February 2013.
WikiLeaks reporting and The Revolution Will Be Digitised
Brooke has continued to blog about freedom of information issues, as well as writing and speaking at conferences. She was commissioned in 2010 to write her third book, The Revolution Will Be Digitised (2011), exploring "the world of computer hackers, internet whistleblowers and pro-democracy campaigners," and including in-depth research on WikiLeaks. Brooke stated "It was clear to me from my own reporting and campaigning around freedom of information that society is undergoing a radical transformation. The amount of knowledge in the world is now so vast and technology so adept at zero-cost duplication that no government, company or organisation can hope to keep control." She went on to say that, "When I met Julian Assange of Wikileaks he was still a little-known figure but his stories of battles fought to free information and ambitions to free even more in future spurred me to begin writing this book."
While working on The Revolution Will Be Digitised (2011), Heather Brooke received a copy of the documents from a disgruntled WikiLeaks volunteer consisting of the raw material of the United States diplomatic cables leak. Brooke worked with The Guardian to edit and publish the material, while concerned about genuine harm minimisation. In an op-ed published in The Guardian on 29 November 2010, she wrote: "Leaks are not the problem; they are the symptom. They reveal a disconnect between what people want and need to know and what they actually do know. The greater the secrecy, the more likely a leak. The way to move beyond leaks is to ensure a robust regime for the public to access important information."
Brooke also starred in We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks as a pundit giving commentary based on her freedom of information campaigning experience and dealings with Julian Assange. In the film, Brooke said re: Wikileaks' publishing of the US State Department's diplomatic cables, "It was that whole Wizard of Oz moment. We all look at these politicians – oh wow, they're so powerful – and then it was the little dog pulling the curtain away."
Bibliography
Your Right to Know: A Citizens Guide to Freedom of Information. Pluto Press, 2004.
The Silent State: Secrets, Surveillance and the Myth of British Democracy. William Heinemann, 2010.
The Revolution Will Be Digitised. William Heinemann, 2011.
References
External links
WikiQuote Page of Heather Brooke quotations
heatherbrooke.org – Personal website
Heather Brooke on Twitter as Newsbrooke
Journalisted – Articles by Heather Brooke
The Guardian Author Profile & List of Contributions: Heather Brooke
The NS interview: Heather Brooke
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15831369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foule%20sentimentale | Foule sentimentale | "Foule sentimentale" is a 1993 popular song written, composed and performed by the French artist Alain Souchon. The song was released as a single in October 1993 and was the first one from his 1993 album C'est déjà ça. It achieved success in France.
Lyrics and music
In this song, Alain Souchon criticizes "the superfluity of the materialistic society". In the lyrics, he also cites Paul-Loup Sulitzer and Claudia Schiffer as examples of people highlighted in the media for their success in their respective fields, saying thus all that causes great harm to the TV viewers.
Critical reception
According to the magazine Platine, this song was "clean and efficient".
The song won the award of the song of the year at the 1994 Victoires de la Musique and the Victory of Victories of the original song of the last twenty years in 2005.
Chart performances
The song appeared on the French SNEP Singles Chart from 30 October 1993 to 9 April, then from 23 to 30 April 1994. Thus it stayed for 26 weeks on the chart and jumped from #14 to #1 on 12 February 1994. The song has become one of the most emblematic songs of the singer.
Covers and tributes
In 1997, the song was covered by Les Enfoirés and features on their album Sol en Si (track 15, 5:09), released on 6 October. It was performed by Francis Cabrel, Michel Jonasz, Catherine Lara, Maxime Le Forestier, Maurane, Zazie and Alain Souchon himself.
In 2006, the song was also covered in Portuguese-language by the female singer Bia under the name "Tão Sentimental" (3:14), that features on her album Coeur Vagabond.
The song also exists in the Russian-language by DJ Smash under the name "Москва ждёт Февраль" (4:17). Rose and Renan Luce covered it live in the French television show Pour Haïti, broadcast on 24 January 2010 on France 2.
In The Netherlands, Herman Van Veen used the music of the song in one of his children theatre shows about Alfred J. Kwak. The song is called Andere Namen.
As tribute to this song, French singer-songwriter Renaud wrote the song "Sentimentale mon cul" in 2006 on his album Rouge Sang.
Charts
Certifications and sales
References
1993 singles
Alain Souchon songs
SNEP Top Singles number-one singles
Songs written by Alain Souchon
1993 songs
Virgin Records singles |
15831371 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampleforth%20Abbey | Ampleforth Abbey | Ampleforth Abbey is a monastery of Benedictine monks a mile to the east of Ampleforth, North Yorkshire, England, part of the English Benedictine Congregation. It descends from the pre-Reformation community at Westminster Abbey through the last surviving monk from Westminster, Sigebert Buckley (c. 1520 - c. 1610). As of 2023 the monastery has 46 monks, and sometimes will have 50 nuns of the monastery organization.
History
The Abbey was founded in a house given to Father Anselm Bolton by Lady Anne Fairfax, daughter of Charles Gregory Fairfax, 9th Viscount Fairfax of Emley. This house was taken over by Dr Brewer, President of the Congregation, on 30 July 1802. Since leaving Dieulouard in Lorraine, where its members had joined Spanish and Cassinese Benedictines to form the monastery of St Laurence, the community had been successively at Acton Burnell, Tranmere, Scholes, Vernon Hall and Parbold Hall, under its superior, Dr Marsh.
On its migration to Ampleforth Lodge Dr Marsh remained at Parbold and Father Appleton was elected the first prior of the new monastery. Shortly afterwards Parbold was broken up and the boys of the school there were transferred to Ampleforth. The priory was erected into an abbey in 1890 by the Bull 'Diuquidem' and an important and flourishing college was founded. John Cuthbert Hedley, Bishop of Newport, was an alumnus, as was a superior of Ampleforth, Abbot Smith. The monastery was completed in 1897. The first abbey church was begun in 1857 and demolished in 1957. The existing Abbey church was begun in 1924 and consecrated in 1961, having been designed by notable architect Giles Gilbert Scott, replacing the mid-19th-century church of Charles Hansom.
Coat of arms
Blazon: Per fesse dancetté Or and Azure a chief per pale Gules and of the second charged on the dexter with two keys in saltire Or and Argent and on the sinister with a Cross Flory between five martlets of the first. (College of Arms, London 1922). Ensigned with an abbot's crosier in pale behind the shield Or garnished with a pallium crossing the staff argent and a galero with cords and twelve tassels disposed on either side of the shield in three rows of one, two, and three all Sable.
List of abbots
1900–1924: Oswald Smith OSB
1924–1939: Edmund Matthews OSB
1939–1963: Herbert Byrne OSB
1963–1976: Basil Hume OSB
1976–1984: Ambrose Griffiths OSB
1984–1997: Patrick Barry OSB
1997–2005: Timothy Wright OSB
2005–2021: Cuthbert Madden OSB
2021–present: Robert Igo OSB
Foundations
Ampleforth College
The monastery founded a school at Ampleforth in 1802. It is now the coeducational independent boarding school Ampleforth College, with about 600 pupils. In 2017 the college separated from the Abbey by splitting the site and each having its own independent governance. Monks from Ampleforth Abbey continue to oversee the spirituality scheme of the College.
Parishes
In addition to the work at Ampleforth, some of the monks are assigned as parish priests to parishes across four dioceses.
St Benet's Hall
Ampleforth had a permanent private hall at St Benet's Hall, Oxford, which was founded in 1897 for the purpose of enabling monks to study for secular degrees. It accepted lay undergraduates and graduate as well as monastic members. It ceased operation as a permanent private hall at the beginning of October 2022.
Saint Louis
Ampleforth founded a daughter house, the priory at St Louis, Missouri, in 1955. The priory gained independence in 1973 and became Saint Louis Abbey in its own right in 1989.
Zimbabwe
In 1996 Ampleforth set up the community of Christ the Word in Zimbabwe, which had three members as of 2020.
Child-abuse scandal
In November 2017, as part of its larger mandate, the national Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) undertook an investigation into the prevalence of paedophilia in the English Benedictine Congregation and its failures in protecting young people over many decades, focusing on the abbeys of Downside in Somerset, Ealing in London and Ampleforth in North Yorkshire. The final report outlined a series of failures at Ampleforth but also noted the ongoing efforts of both the Abbey and College to address the safeguarding concerns. It found credible allegations of physical, emotional and sexual abuse perpetrated by monks and lay members of Ampleforth. In addition safeguarding concerns were noted about some monks relating to grooming, inappropriate touching and pornography addiction. The Ampleforth monks named in the report included: Fr. Piers Grant-Ferris, Fr. Gregory Carroll, Fr. Bernard Green (deceased 2013) and a number of unidentified monks referred to as RC-F3, RC-F8, RC-F27, RC-F16, RC-F18, RC-F91 and RC-F95. Abbot Christopher Jamison, then newly elected President of the English Benedictine Congregation, welcomed the report, apologising for the abuse and the congregation's failure to address it and urging other victims to come forward. Fr. Piers Grant-Ferris was convicted in 2006 of twenty counts of indecent assault. Peter Turner, formerly known as Fr. Gregory Carroll, was jailed for more than 20 years for his offences of child abuse.
Gallery
See also
Ampleforth College
St Benet's Hall, Oxford
English Benedictine Congregation
Benet Perceval
References
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Ampleforth Abbey (English Benedictine Congregation Web)
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15831397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Arizona%20State%20University | History of Arizona State University | The history of Arizona State University began March 12, 1885 with the founding of the establishment originally named the Territorial Normal School at Tempe. The school was founded after John Samuel Armstrong first introduced House Bill 164, “An Act to Establish a Normal School in the Territory of Arizona” to the 13th Legislative Assembly of the Arizona Territory. Instruction was instituted on February 8, 1886, under the supervision of Principal Hiram Bradford Farmer. Land for the school was donated by Tempe residents George and Martha Wilson, allowing 33 students to meet in a single room.
Founding
Arizona State University was founded in 1885 as the Territorial Normal School at Tempe by an act of the Thirteenth Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona. But without the skillful political maneuvers of the young legislator John S. Armstrong and the support of town founder Charles T. Hayden the institution might not have been located at Tempe.
The advocacy of territorial Governor Anton P. K. Safford helped Arizonans recognize the need for an institution to train teachers to work in the public schools, but it was not until the Thirteenth Legislative Assembly was seated in 1885 that the political will to address secondary and higher education was manifest. The Assembly would consider in this session big-ticket appropriations for a mental health facility, a university and a normal school. Citizens of Tucson also hoped the Thirteenth would restore the territorial capitol to their city since it was moved back to Prescott in 1878. As a result, a number of political prizes were available for barter during this legislative session, and because of the substantial $100,000 appropriation attached to the mental health facility, it was this institution that many sought as their first priority.
At twenty-eight years old John Armstrong was the second youngest representative in the Thirteenth Legislative Assembly, a Democrat in his first term who was elected on a platform of securing both the mental health facility and the university for predominantly Republican Maricopa County. Upon his election he immediately applied for appointment to the House Education Committee. In a surprise move he was appointed chair of that committee by Speaker R. G. Rollins of Tucson, but his appointment was balanced by the assignment of the formidable C. C. Stephens of Tucson as chair of the council (Senate) Committee on Education. Any bill to establish a normal school or a university would have to be approved by both the House and Council and signed by the Governor.
There are conflicting accounts of when John Armstrong decided to pursue the normal school for Tempe. The appointment of Stephens as chair of the Council education committee and of E. W. Risley of Tucson to the related House committee suggested that the Tucson interests could not secure the votes to return the capitol to their city. They were positioning themselves to bargain for the university. Armstrong apparently recognized the opportunity and built a coalition to bring the normal school to Tempe in exchange for supporting a public school reform bill and for locating the mental health facility in Phoenix.
On February 26, 1885, Armstrong introduced House Bill no. 164, “An Act to Establish a Normal School in the Territory of Arizona.” The bill would establish a territorial normal school at Tempe to train public school teachers and also teach "husbandry" (agriculture) and the mechanical arts. $5,000 was proposed for founding the institution and $3,500 was set aside for two years of operating expenses, after which the institution would be supported by tax revenue. The founding appropriations would be provided if the citizens of Tempe donated land for the school within 60 days of the bill's passage.
HB 164 passed the House Education Committee on March 3, and on March 5 Mr. Stephens introduced Council Bill no. 76, "An Act to Organize the University of the Territory of Arizona and to locate it at Tucson." This bill was read and referred to the Council Committee on Education. Back in the House on March 6, Armstrong called for suspension of the rules and a vote on HB 164. The members agreed and passed the bill later that day. Stephens spent the weekend assessing the prospects for his university bill and realized he needed Armstrong's support for House approval. On Tuesday, March 10, Stephens moved that HB 164 and CB 76 be considered by committee of the whole, bypassing his own Council Education Committee and ensuring that the bills would be considered together.
On the morning of March 11, Council passed HB 164, sending the bill to the governor for signature and ensuring the establishment of the normal school at Tempe. During the afternoon session the House passed CB 76, establishing the university at Tucson. Governor F.A. Tritle signed both bills on March 12, 1885.
All that remained was securing for the school from the citizens of Tempe. One account states that Charles Trumbull Hayden arranged for a town meeting in January in which the citizens of Tempe agreed that a normal school was desirable, and that George and Martha Wilson's cow pasture was the best location. The Wilsons originally agreed to donate in exchange for $500 raised by the citizens of Tempe at that meeting. Now they would have to donate their entire pasture, which was needed to support their business, the Pioneer Meat Market, to meet the requirement. On May 5 the Wilsons donated the entire in exchange for $500, creating the core of the original campus and ensuring the establishment of Arizona State University.
Early years
Principal Hiram Bradford Farmer opened the Territorial Normal School's four classroom building to 33 students on February 8, 1886, the first institution of higher education to open in Arizona. The Normal School was charged to provide "instruction of persons, both male and female, in the art of teaching, and in all the various branches that pertain to a good common school education; also, to give instruction in the mechanical arts and in husbandry and agricultural chemistry, in the fundamental law of the United States, and in what regards the rights and duties of citizens."
Admission requirements were a minimum age of 16 years and successful completion of an entrance examination. Advanced placement by examination was accepted with 22 weeks of attendance. Principal Farmer taught all subjects. “Sub-normal” classes were offered to students lacking a high school diploma until 1923. Upon completion of the requirements a diploma and teaching certificate were awarded.
In 1899, the requirement for a diploma increased to a three-year course with a test of proficiency in academic and professional (teacher instruction) studies. By 1900 there were six faculty members and 131 students.
As a result of the opening of the Normal School at Flagstaff, in 1901 the legislature instituted the official and legal name Tempe Normal School that was presented in all official publications starting in 1903. The Department of Manual Arts (1906) and classes in Agriculture (1912) were introduced into the curriculum in accordance with requirements of the founding legislation. On March 20, 1911, President Theodore Roosevelt visited Tempe Normal School and spoke to the community from the steps of Old Main, two days after he dedicated Roosevelt Dam. In his thirteen-minute speech he presented his vision for education of children, educational training and the development of the Valley.
In the 1920s the Alumni Association led political efforts to rename the Normal School and advance to a more robust teachers college curriculum. In 1923 admission requirements were raised to a high school diploma. The Tempe State Teachers College established in 1925 boasted 41 faculty members and 672 students, and by 1929 the Arizona State Teacher's College offered a four year-college curriculum leading to the Bachelor of Education. A two-year curriculum was also available to secure a certificate of eligibility to teach in Arizona elementary schools.
Students completing the four-year course were eligible for graduate work in education at a university, and they would receive secondary certificates permitting them to teach in Arizona high schools. The requirement for a diploma and a grade school teaching certificates increased to a three-year curriculum.
Gammage years
In the early 1930s, Arizona State needed national accreditation to be recognized as an educational institution of quality, but eligibility requirements of accrediting organizations specified that a large percentage of faculty must hold advanced degrees, particularly doctorates. As a result, under the leadership of President Ralph Swetman many faculty contracts were terminated and new faculty hired. In 1933 Grady Gammage became President of the Arizona State Teacher's College, and later that year the North Central Association (NCA) granted Arizona State Teacher's College at Tempe its first permanent and unconditional accreditation. In 1937 Arizona State offered its first graduate degree, the Masters in Education. Although courses were offered in other academic and professional disciplines, the school remained a teachers college until 1945.
Arizona State College at Tempe dropped the teacher's college appellation in 1945, and it was now governed by the newly established Arizona Board of Regents. The college offered a more diverse curriculum, but the only advanced degree available there was still the Master of Arts in education. Military personnel who trained for their World War II service in the valley remembered the abundant sunshine and relaxed civilian lifestyle they witnessed before deployment. They returned to settle in the Valley of the Sun and advance their education with GI Bill dollars. As a result, ASC enrollment tripled between 1940 and 1949 to 4,094 students, and Valley manufacturing and industry exploded in this period as well.
In 1953 the Arizona Board of Regents (dominated by University of Arizona alumni), authorized the establishment of a College of Arts and Sciences and called for the United States Department of Education to evaluate the ASC program. Dr. Ernest V. Hollis’ 1954 report declared that ASC was "rapidly becoming a university" and proposed the establishment of four colleges: Liberal Arts, Education, Applied Arts and Sciences, and Business and Public Administration. The Hollis Report precipitated howls of displeasure from southern Arizona that echoed through the Board of Regents and the Arizona Legislature, but in the November 1954 Regents meeting Governor John Howard Pyle cast the deciding vote to accept the recommendations, which were implemented the following year.
Meanwhile, a war of words erupted in legislative chambers, major city newspapers and alumni magazines over Hollis’ declaration that a second Arizona university was emerging in the desert. Arizona State College student leaders collected petition signatures, legislation was crafted and buried in committees, and Eugene Pulliam's Arizona Republic justified references to Arizona State University as a matter of accuracy in journalism. But the powerful State Senator Harold Giss of Yuma unwittingly poured gas on the fire when in March 1958 he introduced legislation to name the institution Tempe University. Hundreds of angry students laid siege at the state capitol in Phoenix until Giss appeared at the balcony and promised to withdraw the bill. An embarrassed President Grady Gammage admonished the student behavior, and quietly appointed Alumni Association Executive Director James Creasman to coordinate the statewide initiative drive that would give Arizonans their second public university.
Five hundred and ninety-nine students formed a committee to collect petition signatures in the spring of 1958, assisted by the Alumni Association and the "Citizens for Arizona State University" led by Walter Craig and John B. Mills. They needed 28,859 valid signatures, but by July 1 they had collected 63,956 signatures and they delivered them to the capitol by armored car. Meanwhile, the "Citizens for College and University Education" returned fire with editorials, radio ads and pamphlets declaring that the "name change" movement was wasteful duplication and poor educational policy. Mrs. Kathryn Gammage, first year football coach Frank Kush and college administrators and faculty toured the state to promote Arizona State University, while C.W. Laing and Tom Lillico barnstormed the state in their Yes 200 Piper aircraft. Opening day at the new Sun Devil Stadium featured the letters AS painted in the end zone, with room for the U to be added, while the opposition burned "No 200" into the turf at midfield.
Election day dawned on November 4, 1958, and an army of 1,500 student volunteers was deployed to assist with voter information and transportation to the polls. A communications center was established in the Memorial Union, and the students gathered outside as the polls closed at 7:00. The teleprinter chattered election results in favor of ASU two to one, and at 10:00 the Citizens for College and University Education conceded the election. Celebrations began, but thirty minutes later a wire service reported returns two to one against ASU and the tension was renewed. At 11:00 the teleprinter declared the previous reports inaccurate and Proposition 200 approved by a two to one margin. The celebration was renewed with the Sun Devil Marching Band, cheerleaders and pom-pom girls leading 5,000 jubilant students to Sun Devil Stadium. All that remained was the gubernatorial proclamation enacting the initiative results, and so on December 5, 1958, the governor signed the executive order that created Arizona State University.
ASU established itself as a university in name, and it had the public support and regent authorization to offer advanced degrees, but the talented faculty, graduate students and laboratory facilities needed to establish university research programs in the sciences were generally not available at ASU in 1958. University administrators and faculty realized that fulfilling the promise of a university required much more than a name change, and as early as 1955 they worked overtime to create a research university from scratch.
Building a research university
National Science Foundation grant applications from Arizona State College in the 1950s and early 1960s often focused on teacher training programs or “Summer Institutes” in various science disciplines. However, there were several faculty who served as the university pioneers in attracting federal grants for scientific research, mainly in the fields of biology, water management, meteoritics and solid state science.
In the mid-1940s Dr. Herbert Stahnke received research support from the Arizona State Legislature through two appropriations bills for research projects relating to scorpions, snakes and other venomous animals. This work led to establishment of the Poisonous Animals Research Laboratory in 1945, which produced anti-venom for venomous species native to the southwest region. Stahnke's zeal was honored by the college in this period since he was one of a handful of faculty writing research grants at that time, and he eventually received support from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. His provocative research led to a number of television appearances and a lecture tour of Europe in 1961. In the early 1970s Stahnke's laboratory was threatened with elimination when university administrators questioned the quality of his anti-venom and the role of public universities in providing this service, but the lab remained in operation until 1988.
H. H. Nininger was a lay scientist and collector of meteorites who became an internationally recognized expert on the subject. In the late-1950s he expressed interest in an association with ASU to support his research. While an early NSF proposal for Nininger's meteoritics field research failed, he established a relationship with George Boyd (the university's first Director of Research) that ultimately resulted in a grant of $240,000 from the National Science Foundation for the purchase of the Nininger Meteorite Collection, the largest meteorite collection hosted by a university and considered among the top five in the world. Given Nininger's world-class stature as an expert in meteoritics, and a general re-examination of science education in America in response to the Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite, ASU's acquisition of this collection in 1960 caught the attention of NSF and NASA.
Soon afterward Dr. Carleton Moore was appointed to serve as the first director of ASU's Center for Meteorite Studies, which exists to this day. Dr. Moore acquired thirty-five research grants in materials science and geology from NASA, NSF and USGS from 1963 to 1987. Moore was selected to evaluate Moon dust and Moon rocks acquired from NASA's Apollo missions in the 1970s, and his research was particularly well-publicized. This work resulted in a large number of public speaking opportunities in Arizona, and set the stage for externally funded research in planetary geology and astrophysics by subsequent ASU faculty.
University scientific research also required laboratories, and founding dean Lee P. Thompson of the College of Engineering established collaborations with several industrial firms like General Electric, Motorola and AiResearch that enabled the purchase of expensive and specialized equipment. Early labs were built to support research in fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and turbine engine development. The results of this research facilitated development of marketable technologies by Arizona businesses.
In 1960 the arrival of ASU President G. Homer Durham from the University of Utah marked the beginning of attempts to actively recruit research science faculty. Appointments of well-credentialed faculty such as Carleton Moore, Charles M. Woolf, Troy Péwé and LeRoy Eyring confirmed ASU's ability to attract top notch researchers. These faculty members recognized the potential of ASU and were willing to build the infrastructure that eventually attracted many talented research faculty and resulted in the award of hundreds of science PhD's.
Meanwhile, President Durham also led efforts to expand ASU's curriculum by establishing several new colleges (the College of Fine Arts, the College of Law, the College of Nursing, and the School of Social Work) and through reorganizing what became the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Expanding capacity
The next three presidents—Harry K. Newburn (1969–71), John W. Schwada, (1971–81), J. Russell Nelson (1981–89) and Interim President Richard Peck (1989)—led the university to greater academic stature in the face of increasing demand for educational services. But early in this period ASU experienced the growth pains of a maturing university when the Arizona Board of Regents dismissed the irascible Morris Starsky, a tenured professor of philosophy, for cancelling class to participate in an anti-racism protest in Tucson and other improprieties. Even though two ASU faculty committees and President Newburn acquitted Starsky, the university was later censured by the American Association of University Professors for violating Starsky's academic freedom.
In 1984 ASU responded to explosive growth in the Phoenix metropolitan area by establishing the ASU West Campus. ASU West was originally intended to serve as an upper division university that drew its student body from the Maricopa County community college system, one of the largest in the country. As demand increased the institution expanded into a four-year program and it sought separate accreditation.
Under the leadership of Dr. Lattie F. Coor, from 1990 to 2002, ASU grew to serve the Valley of the Sun through multiple campuses and extended education sites. He established the ASU East campus (now known as the Polytechnic campus) at the former Williams Air Force Base, and he founded the ASU Downtown Center as the host for the College of Extended Education. His commitment to “four pillars” of diversity, quality in undergraduate education, research, and economic development underscored the university's significant gains in each of these areas over his 12-year tenure. In 1994 ASU science researchers were honored by the Carnegie Center for Advancement of Teaching when they awarded Research 1 status to the university. The recognition was considered a remarkable feat for a university that is ineligible for the substantial research dollars associated with medical schools and land grant agriculture programs. Another part of Dr. Coor's legacy was the most successful capital campaign in university history to date, raising more than $300 million primarily through private donations from the local community. Among the campaign's achievements were the naming and endowing of the Barrett Honors College, the Katherine K. Herberger College of Fine Arts, and the Morrison School of Management and Agribusiness at ASU East.
Recent developments
During the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal, ASU's reputation received negative press coverage when it was alleged in court filings that one of the defendant parents had named ASU as a university they were specifically trying to avoid. It was reported in connection with such coverage that the non-selective university has been the "butt of jokes" in American television shows for many years, as well as the 2015 film Ted 2.
References
External links
Evolution of a University, a series on ASU's history and future plans printed in The State Press from Nov. 4–6, 2008
50 years ago, voters endorse name change for Arizona State
Longtime employees look back at past 50 years’ ASU presidents
Crow’s vision attracts both praise, criticism
New American University plan ahead of schedule
Arizona State University
Arizona State University |
15831404 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This%20Is%20Barbara%20Mandrell | This Is Barbara Mandrell | This Is Barbara Mandrell is the fourth solo studio album by American country music singer Barbara Mandrell, released in May 1976.
This was Mandrell's first album with ABC/Dot Records, her new record company. Mandrell had previously been signed to Columbia Records from 1969 to 1974, though only achieving modest success, especially with her albums. The first single off this album, "Standing Room Only", became her first Top 5 Country hit. Mandrell had only had four Top 10 hits under her previous record company over the course of five years. Following "Standing Room Only", two further singles were released. The second, "That's What Friends Are For", peaked at #16 and the third, "Love Is Thin Ice", only reached the Top 25. The album sold slightly better than her previous albums had done, peaking farther on the Top Country Albums chart at #26. This album set the stage for Mandrell's eventual success in the following decade, with further Top 10 singles, some of them reaching #1. Unlike most of Barbara's other albums, This Is Barbara Mandrell, consists of 11 tracks instead of 10.
Track listing
"That's What Friends Are For" (Ed Penney, Robert Shaw Parsons)
"Standing Room Only" (Charles Silver, Susan Manchester)
"The Beginning of the End" (Kent Robbins)
"Husband Stealer" (Gary Paxton, Gary Paxton Jr.)
"She Don't Have to Stop and Rock the Baby" (Danny Hice, Ruby Hice)
"Love the Second Time Around" (John Schweers)
"Love Is Thin Ice" (Geoffrey Morgan)
"Can't Help But Wonder" (Sharon Sanders)
"Will We Ever Make Love in Love Again" (Bud Reneau, Sarah Jones)
"Mental Revenge" (Mel Tillis)
"Just in Case" (Hugh Moffatt)
Personnel
Barbara Mandrell - lead vocals
Mike Leech, Steve Schaffer - bass guitar
Hayward Bishop, Larrie Londin, Kenny Malone - drums
Jim Buchanan, Johnny Gimble, Tommy Williams - fiddle
Harold Bradley, Jimmy Capps, Steve Gibson, Glenn Keener, Grady Martin, Billy Sanford, Jerry Shook, Chip Young - guitar
Charlie McCoy - harmonica
David Briggs, Ron Oates, Bobby Ogdin, Hargus "Pig" Robbins - piano
John Hughey, Hal Rugg - steel guitar
Joe Zinkan - upright bass
Charlie McCoy, Farrell Morris - vibraphone
Lea Jane Berinati, Janie Fricke, Herman Harper, The Jordanaires, The Nashville Edition, D. Bergen White - backing vocals
Archie Jordan - string arrangements (tracks 1,3,5,6)
Charts
Album – Billboard (North America)
Singles – Billboard (North America)
References
1976 albums
Barbara Mandrell albums
Albums produced by Tom Collins (record producer)
Dot Records albums |
15831408 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose%20Calingasan | Jose Calingasan | Jose Calingasan is a Filipino politician. He was a former member of the House of Representatives representing the 4th District of Batangas. He is also a co-founder of Lakas CMD. He also served as an Ambassador to Bangladesh during the administration of Fidel Ramos.
Notes
People from Batangas
Filipino diplomats
Living people
Lakas–CMD (1991) politicians
Members of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from Batangas
Ambassadors of the Philippines to Bangladesh
Year of birth missing (living people) |
15831441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick%20a%20Box | Pick a Box | Pick a Box was an Australian game shows that first aired on radio in 1948 until the early 1960s; subsequently, the concept transferred to TV and was broadcast from 1957 and 1971. The program was hosted by the husband and wife duo Bob and Dolly Dyer
History
Radio program
Beginning initially as a radio program in 1948, it was heard Australia-wide on was then the Macquarie Broadcasting Service (now Nine Entertainment Co.).
It was originally produced in Sydney, New South Wales at studio 2GB. The program successfully made the move to television, debuting at on Saturday 2 March 1957, less than six months after the new medium had been launched in Australia. Nevertheless, the program continued to be heard on radio for some years.
Television version
The TV version in addition to the radio version was filmed in the studios of Sydney's ATN-7 and was broadcast on ATN-7 and Melbourne's GTV-9, which were initially affiliated.
This changed, however, when Frank Packer, owner of TCN-9, bought a controlling share in GTV-9 and formed the National Television Network, which later became the Nine Network. As a result, in 1963 ATN-7 and HSV-7 came together to form the Australian Television Network, now known as the Seven Network. The affiliation changes meant that Pick a Box became part of the newly formed Seven Network and its Melbourne broadcast moved from GTV-9 to HSV-7.
The program was initially broadcast on Saturday nights and sponsored by the Colgate-Palmolive Company of Australia. Three years later, on 4 July 1960, the show was moved to Monday nights at and was sponsored by BP.
Presenters
Bob Dyer, who produced and packaged the show for the Seven Network, decided in 1969 that it was time to start thinking about ending the show. After approximately 900 episodes, Pick a Box broadcast its final episode on 28 June 1971. As they owned the program, the Dyers then reviewed most of the archived episodes – kept a few as souvenirs and discarded most of them. The couple then retired to Queensland where Bob pursued his other great love, fishing.
In 1971 the show was still the seventh most popular in the country.
Format
The format for each episode consisted of two contestants participating in a multi-question trivia quiz. The contestant who correctly answered a set number of questions, was invited to choose from one of 30 boxes. Without disclosing the box's contents (which could be either valuable or a booby prize), Dyer would offer the contestant a cash payment in lieu of the prize. Here appears one of the program's catch phrases, "The money or the box?"
To increase the risk/suspense, he would sometimes offer increasing amounts of cash to contestants who chose the box. After receiving the cash or prize, contestants had the option of leaving the show undefeated, or returning to play for more prizes, at the risk of losing those already won.
This format remained largely unchanged throughout its entire run.
Famous contestants
The first contestant to make a name for himself was Ken Eccleston who gained fame over 10 weeks in 1958 when he achieved what was then the longest win on the program. After claiming the official title of "Mr Pick a Box" during a closely fought contest with Melbourne entrant George Morris, Eccleston retired from the game with a total of AU£3873/5/-, or AU$7746.50. ($121,477.99 in 2018 currency, adjusted for inflation)
Two other famous contestants were Frank Partridge, the last Australian to be awarded the Victoria Cross in World War II, and George Black, who went on to become a question writer for the show.
However, by far the program's most successful contestant was Barry Jones, who won a total of 208 episodes spanning eight years between 1960 and 1967, winning over A$58,000.
He was known for taking issue with Dyer about certain expected answers, most famously in response to a question about "the first British Governor-General of India", where he pointed out that Warren Hastings was technically only the Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal Presidency. Jones' appearances on Pick a Box lasted from 1960 to 1968.
Jones later became a member of the Parliament of Victoria and then of the Federal Parliament, a minister in the Hawke government and president of the Australian Labor Party. He was also chosen as an Australian Living Treasure.
Pick a Box was added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia Registry in 2010. An excerpt of Episode 170, featuring Barry Jones, has been published online.
The show's later remake, Ford Superquiz, featured Hutton "Red" Gibson as a contestant. Gibson, who had already won thousands of dollars as a Grand Champion on the game show Jeopardy! in his native United States, had a prolonged run of several weeks as champion on Superquiz.
Episode status
Out of the 900+ episodes made, 73 are stored at the National Film and Sound Archive, including the final episode, according to a search of the archive's website.
Superquiz
Ford Superquiz was a remake of the show hosted by Bert Newton and his wife Patti Newton and produced by the Reg Grundy organisation for the Nine Network. It began in 1981 and ran for two seasons with the number of boxes reduced to 20. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company of Australia.
Superquiz was a remake of the show in 1989 hosted by Mike Walsh and Deborah Hutton on Network Ten. The number of boxes was further reduced to 12 in this version.
Super Quiz is a series of games and books as well as a syndicated quiz column and online quiz game created by Ken Fisher.
See also
It Pays to Be Funny, Bob Dyer's other television game show, ran from 26 February 1957 to around November of the same year
List of Australian game shows
List of Australian television series
References
External links
Pick a Box at memorabletv.com
Pick A Box on Australian Screen
1940s Australian game shows
1950s Australian game shows
1960s Australian game shows
1970s Australian game shows
Seven Network original programming
Television shows set in New South Wales
1957 Australian television series debuts
1971 Australian television series endings
Black-and-white Australian television shows
English-language television shows |
15831447 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulcrum%20%28Anglican%20think%20tank%29 | Fulcrum (Anglican think tank) | Fulcrum is an evangelical Anglican think tank representing the evangelical centre of the Church of England. Formed in 2002, Fulcrum aims to renew the moderate centre of the evangelical tradition in the Church of England. Fulcrum is normally viewed as representative of the open evangelical tradition within the Church of England.
History
Fulcrum was co-founded by Francis Bridger, Graham Kings and others in response to strong and extreme responses from some evangelical quarters of the Church of England to the appointment of Rowan Williams as Archbishop of Canterbury. In 2003 the first official meeting of Fulcrum took place and the appointments of Chair, vice-chairs, administrator and theological advisor were made.
The equivalent organization in the Episcopal Church of the USA is Covenant, an organization which aims to renew the centre of the Christian tradition in North America and particularly within Anglicanism.
Purpose
A fulcrum is the point of balance in a pivot. Fulcrum chose this name because it seeks to renew the evangelical tradition at the centre of the Church of England. According to its website, "Fulcrum embraces an historic orthodoxy that is generous in spirit, confident in the contribution evangelicals can make to Anglicanism". In the current climate of uncertainty in the Anglican Communion, Fulcrum seeks to promote an unpolarised evangelicalism.
It has been described as a "moderate evangelical grouping [...] which was formed, really, in order to uphold the prohibition on gay sex but to welcome women priests".
Publications
Fulcrum publishes articles regularly through its website on a wide range of issues that affect the Church of England.
Fulcrum does not publish a journal outside of its website, but the journal Anvil is representative of the constituency associated with Fulcrum.
References
Anglican organizations |
15831481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20members%20of%20the%20Mexican%20Academy%20of%20Language | List of members of the Mexican Academy of Language | The Mexican Academy of Language () divides its members into several categories: numerarios ("full"), honorarios ("honorary") and correspondientes ("correspondent").
Director
The academy's 15th and current director is Dr. José G. Moreno de Alba.
Full members
The Académicos de número of the Mexican Academy are, in order of seniority:
José Luis Martínez
Miguel León-Portilla
Andrés Henestrosa†
Alí Chumacero
Ernesto de la Torre Villar
Silvio Zavala
José G. Moreno de Alba (director)
José Pascual Buxó
Clementina Díaz y de Ovando
Tarsicio Herrera Zapién
Carlos Montemayor
Arturo Azuela
Leopoldo Solís
Ruy Pérez Tamayo (assistant director)
José Rogelio Álvarez
Guido Gómez de Silva
Eulalio Ferrer Rodríguez
Ernesto de la Peña
Margit Frenk
Ramón Xirau
Gonzalo Celorio (secretary)
Margo Glantz
Enrique Cárdenas de la Peña
Jaime Labastida (treasurer)
Mauricio Beuchot
Gustavo Couttolenc
Elías Trabulse
Vicente Quirarte (librarian/archivist)
Julieta Fierro
Felipe Garrido
Adolfo Castañón
Diego Valadés
Concepción Company Company
Agustín Basave Fernández del Valle
Fernando Serrano Migallón
Patrick Johansson Kéraudren
Yolanda Lastra
Rosa Beltrán
Angelina Muñiz-Huberman (2021)
Honorary members
The Académicos Honorarios have included:
Mexican
Antonio Alatorre
Carlos Fuentes
José Justo Gómez de la Cortina
Alfonso Herrera
Octavio Paz
Foreign
Dámaso Alonso
Germán Arciniegas
Samuel Arguedas
Miguel Antonio Caro
Rufino José Cuervo
Atilio Dell'Oro Maini
Laureano García Ortiz
Antonio Gómez Restrepo
Lorenzo Marroquín
Luis Eduardo Nieto Caballero
Salomón de la Selva
Gutierre Tibón
Aurelio Tió
Correspondent members
Notable académicos correspondientes have included:
Miguel Alessio Robles, Salvador Díaz Mirón, Genaro Estrada, Pablo González Casanova, Luis González y González, José Gorostiza, Francisco de Icaza, Amado Nervo, Manuel José Othón, Manuel Payno, Sergio Pitol, Vicente Riva Palacio, Luis G. Urbina, and Felipe San José y González and Natalio Hernández.
References |
15831521 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Morris%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201872%29 | Hugh Morris (footballer, born 1872) | Hugh Morris (1872 – 20 September 1897) was a Welsh footballer who played as a forward for Manchester City, Sheffield United and Grimsby Town in the 19th century. Born in Chirk, Wales, he gained three caps for the Welsh national team.
Career
Club career
Morris was first spotted by Ardwick when playing for Chirk in the Welsh cup and the Manchester side duly signed him in 1891. Morris was the leading goalscorer for the club in the 1891–92 Football Alliance season, scoring 10 goals in 22 appearances, including a hat-trick against Walsall Town Swifts. The following season Ardwick were admitted to the newly formed Football League Second Division and Morris played in the club's first ever Football League fixture, scoring twice as Ardwick beat Bootle 7–0. Morris continued to play regularly for Ardwick before he was transferred to Sheffield United, then of the First Division in December 1893. He became a regular in United's first team for the following 18 months, having rejected an offer to play in the United States in 1894, and made 39 league appearances, scoring nine goals for the Yorkshire club. In September 1895 Morris was suspended for "lodging in a public house" (the club was run on strict Methodist lines at the time and this was against the terms of his contract), before being transferred back to Ardwick, now renamed Manchester City, in the following November along with Joe Davies and Bob Hill. Returning to Hyde Road, Morris made 20 appearances in his second spell at the Manchester club, before moving to Grimsby Town in May 1896 where he played for a further season. Morris moved to Southern League side Millwall in the summer of 1897, but contracted tuberculosis not long after his transfer and died before he could make his debut.
International career
While at Sheffield United, Morris won his first cap for Wales in a British Home Championship match against Scotland on 24 March 1894. Morris scored twice, but Wales lost 5–2. Morris gained a second international cap in a 9–1 defeat to England in March 1896 and earned the last of his three international caps in March 1897, a 4–0 defeat against England at his former club ground Bramall Lane.
References
1872 births
People from Chirk
Footballers from Wrexham County Borough
1897 deaths
Welsh men's footballers
Wales men's international footballers
Men's association football forwards
Manchester City F.C. players
Sheffield United F.C. players
Grimsby Town F.C. players
Millwall F.C. players
English Football League players
19th-century deaths from tuberculosis
Tuberculosis deaths in Wales |
15831527 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1404%20papal%20conclave | 1404 papal conclave | The 1404 papal conclave (October 10 to October 17) – the papal conclave of the time of the Great Western Schism, convened after the death of Pope Boniface IX, it elected Cardinal Cosimo Gentile Migliorati, who under the name of Innocent VII became the third pope of the Roman Obedience.
Cardinal electors
Pope Boniface IX died on October 1, 1404. At the time of his death, there were only 12 cardinals in the Roman Obedience of the Sacred College. Nine of them participated in the election of his successor:
All the electors were Italians. Five of them were elevated by Pope Urban VI, and four by Boniface IX.
Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church was at that time Corrado Caraccioli, bishop of Mileto.
Absentee cardinals
Three cardinals, two created by Urban VI and one by Boniface IX, did not participate in this conclave:
Hungarian Alsani was the only non-Italian Cardinal in the Roman Obedience.
The election of Pope Innocent VII
Several churchmen and laymen urged "Roman" Cardinals not to elect the successor of Boniface IX and to recognise Benedict XIII of Avignon as Pope (or, at least, to wait for his death and then elect the new pope together with his adherents). Among the supporters of this point of view was Cardinal Protodeacon Ludovico Fieschi, who did not attend the conclave and later did not recognise its result.
In spite of this, nine cardinals present in Rome entered the conclave on October 10. Initially, they subscribed the conclave capitulation, which obliged whoever was elected to do everything possible (including abdication) in order to restore the unity of the Church. After seven days of deliberations Cardinal Cosimo Gentile Migliorati was unanimously elected pope and took the name of Innocent VII. Five days later Cardinal Fieschi officially abandoned the Roman Obedience and recognised Benedict XIII as true pope, so the rite of papal coronation on November 11 was performed by the new Protodeacon Landolfo Maramaldo.
Notes
Bibliography
Martin Souchon: Die Papstwahlen in der Zeit des grossen Schismas, Verlag von Benno Goeritz, 1888
External links
Salvador Miranda: List of participants of the papal conclave of 1404
Konklave 1404
1404
15th-century Catholicism
15th-century elections
1404
Western Schism |
15831536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Has-Beens%20and%20Never-Weres | Has-Beens and Never-Weres | Has-Beens and Never-Weres is the tenth 12" vinyl record album by DIY home recording pioneer and one-man band R. Stevie Moore.
Track listing
Side one
"Intelligence" (3:45)
"Near Tonight" (4:15)
"Love Is the Way to My Heart" (2:42)
"Skin Mags" (6:48)
"Bonus Track" (LP Only) (1:15)
"You Came Along Just in Time" (3:00)
"I'm Out of My Mind" (7:20)
Side two
"Sit Down" (4:35)
"Banana Jerseyjam" (1:08)
"I Will Want to Die" (4:50)
"Martyrdom" (4:10)
"Pow Wow" (3:43)
"The Residents" (2:20)
"What's the Point?" (2:42)
"If You See Kay" (2:40)
"14 Months Back" (1:50)
External links
RSM's Has-Beens and Never-Weres webpage
1990 albums
R. Stevie Moore albums
New Weird America albums |
15831541 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penegoes | Penegoes | Penegoes () is a village in Powys, Wales, between Cemmaes Road and Machynlleth, on the A489 road, and the primary settlement of the community of Cadfarch.
The Afon Crewi, one of several streams feeding into Afon Dulas, itself a tributary of the Afon Dyfi, has created a fairly broad and flat valley. Penegoes church is on the level northernside of the valley with the ground sloping down gently to the stream. The church represents the focus of what is now a dispersed settlement. Only a single habitation, Llwyn, adjoins it but others lie off the main road at regular intervals to west and east.
The Welsh dedication of the church and the form of the oval churchyard suggests that it is of early medieval origin. St Cadfarch was reputedly a 6th-century saint and a disciple of St Illtyd.
The churchyard adopts an irregular form but has been extended at its west end where the original curvilinear course can still be detected as a scarp bank amidst the tightly packed graves. Two adjacent wells on the opposite side of the road to the church are reputed to have had curative properties, as reported by the Royal Commission at the beginning of the 20th century: Ffynnon Penegoes and Ffynnon Gadfarch. The rectory and its outbuildings are dated to the late 18th or early 19th century and have a Grade II listing. Reputedly they are on the site of an earlier rectory where the landscape painter, Richard Wilson RA (1714–1782), was born. Llawr-Penegoes, 250m east of the church.
Plas Dolguog
Plas Dolguog, an early 17th-century manor house, with Victorian extensions, now a hotel. The house was built in 1632 for the Herbert family. It is now a country house hotel.
References
Villages in Powys
Cadfarch |
15831617 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallstaff%2C%20Baltimore | Fallstaff, Baltimore | Fallstaff is a neighborhood in the Upper Park Heights area of Northwest Baltimore, Maryland, and is one of the city's northwesternmost communities. The area, which is mostly middle class, is part of the center of Baltimore's Orthodox Jewish community, and also has a heavy African-American and immigrant population.
Fallstaff is home to several Baltimore City Public Schools, including Northwestern High School and Fallstaff Elementary Middle School (formerly Fallstaff Middle School).
The main street that run through the area is Park Heights Avenue in Pikesville. Other streets include Fallstaff Road, on which both schools are located, and Clarks Lane. Fallstaff Road is mostly a residential side street on which duplexes, single-family houses, apartments, and condominiums are located. One block of Fallstaff Road is one way in order to reduce traffic from rat running. On the other hand, Clarks lane, which also is lined with similar types of structures, is two ways throughout and handles more traffic. Clarks Lane starts out across from the Reisterstown Road Plaza (sharing a traffic light with the parking lot) and continues to the city/county line, where it changes name to Sanzo Road, and ends shortly thereafter at Smith Avenue.
Slayings in May 2004
Fallstaff is generally considered to be a safe, low-crime area. But in May 2004, the murders of three children shook up the community and resulted in ongoing media coverage. Two relatives were charged with the murders, and their first trial resulted in a mistrial. They were convicted in their second trial and received life sentences. The children were buried in their native Mexico.
Now through all the years since 2004, Fallstaff has been a quiet, low-crime area and consider to be safe near West Baltimore County.
Blue Police Light cameras are available starting at Fallstaff Road to Reistertown Road.
(Which began in 2005)
Fallstaff Road
Located in the Fallstaff area, the road is not too far from Baltimore County. The road starts as a one-way street at Crest Heights Road, then a two-lane road towards Northwestern School, although there is a 2-way stop, motorists that are going slight right will bring motorist to Cross Country Boulevard. Fallstaff ends at Willow Glen Drive in Baltimore County. Cross Country Boulevard has another road to the right after passing Greenspring Avenue to Rogers Avenue. Motorists going straight will bring them to Kelly Avenue in Mount Washington which is North Baltimore to Falls Road (crossing the Kelly Avenue bridge and I-83). Most of the area is a historical area. While traveling in that area, an MTA Light Rail station is available on Smith Avenue, but motorists must take Sulgrave Avenue and then Newbury Street to get to the Light Rail station.
See also
List of Baltimore neighborhoods
References
External links
Northwest District Maps
Collection of Baltimore Sun articles on Fallstaff slayings
Fallstaff Improvement Association, Inc. - a community association serving this area
Jewish communities in the United States
Jews and Judaism in Baltimore
Neighborhoods in Baltimore
Orthodox Jewish communities
Orthodox Judaism in Baltimore |
15831619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Response%20Framework | National Response Framework | The United States National Response Framework (NRF) is part of the National Strategy for Homeland Security that presents the guiding principles enabling all levels of domestic response partners to prepare for and provide a unified national response to disasters and emergencies. Building on the existing National Incident Management System (NIMS) as well as Incident Command System (ICS) standardization, the NRF's coordinating structures are always in effect for implementation at any level and at any time for local, state, and national emergency or disaster response.
NRF authority
The NRF formally replaced the National Response Plan (NRP) on March 22, 2008, sixty days after its publication in the Federal Register. Until that time, the NRF served as information on the national intent for homeland security policy to replace the NRP on that date.
NRF five key principles
Engaged partnership means that leaders at all levels collaborate to develop shared response goals and align capabilities. This collaboration is designed to prevent any level from being overwhelmed in times of crisis.
Tiered response refers to the efficient management of incidents, so that such incidents are handled at the lowest possible jurisdictional level and supported by additional capabilities only when needed.
Scalable, flexible, and adaptable operational capabilities are implemented as incidents change in size, scope, and complexity, so that the response to an incident or complex of incidents adapts to meet the requirements under ICS/NIMS management by objectives. The ICS/NIMS resources of various formally defined resource types are requested, assigned and deployed as needed, then demobilized when available and incident deployment is no longer necessary.
Unity of effort through unified command refers to the ICS/NIMS respect for each participating organization's chain of command with an emphasis on seamless coordination across jurisdictions in support of common objectives. This seamless coordination is guided by the "Plain English" communication protocol between ICS/NIMS command structures and assigned resources to coordinate response operations among multiple jurisdictions that may be joined at an incident complex.
Readiness to Act: "It is our collective duty to provide the best response possible. From individuals, households, and communities to local, tribal, State, and Federal governments, national response depends on our readiness to act."
NRF core
The NRF consists of the core document and annexes. The NRF core covers:
Roles and responsibilities at the individual, organizational and other private sector as well as local, state, and federal government levels
Response actions
Staffing and organization
Planning and the National Preparedness Architecture
NRF implementation, Resource Center, and other supporting documents incorporated by reference
NRF annexes
NRF ESF Annexes
The NRF Emergency Support Function Annexes include the following enumerated protocols:
ESF #1 - Transportation
ESF #2 – Communications
ESF #3 – Public Works and Engineering
ESF #4 – Firefighting
ESF #5 – Information and Planning
ESF #6 – Mass Care, Emergency Assistance, Housing, and Human Services
ESF #7 – Logistics Management and Resource Support
ESF #8 – Public Health and Medical Services (PHMS): the primary agency responsible for PHMS is the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS). The authority to coordinate ESF 8 has been bestowed upon the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) by the Secretary of HHS. PHMS provides the ability for HHS to coordinate and lead efforts to supplement local, Tribal, and State resources to ensure that the needs of individuals impacted by disasters, public health emergencies, or medical emergencies, are met. This Federal assistance can be provided through activation of the Stafford Act, or through the Public Health Service Act.
ESF #9 – Search and Rescue
ESF #10 – Oil and Hazardous Materials Response
ESF #11 – Agriculture and Natural Resources
ESF #12 – Energy
ESF #13 – Public Safety and Security
ESF #14 – Cross-Sector Business and Infrastructure
ESF #15 – External Affairs
NRF Support Annexes
The Support Annexes include:
Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CIKR)
Financial Management
International Coordination
Private-Sector Coordination
Public Affairs
Tribal Relations
Volunteer and Donations Management
Worker Safety and Health
NRF Incident Annexes
The Incident Annexes include:
Incident Annex Introduction
Biological Incident
Catastrophic Incident
Cyber Incident
Food and Agriculture Incident
Mass Evacuation Incident
Nuclear/Radiological Incident
Terrorism Incident Law Enforcement and Investigation
The Oil and Hazardous Materials Annex has been superseded by ESF #10
Historical context
The NRF represents the American state of the art in the blueprint application of strategic staff planning that has at its roots the model of the Prussian General Staff in 1870, after which the United States Army adopted that form of staff organizational structure and function. This model includes dedicated doctrinal components for an institutional emphasis on leadership training at all organizational levels, combined with continuous historical analysis for acquiring generally understood strategic lessons.
In the specific instance of the NRF model for best-practice strategic staff planning under Comprehensive Emergency Management (CEM) after Homeland Security Presidential Directives 5 and 8, the NRF incorporates military field components as directed by the President or released by the Secretary of Defense. In their parallel command structure to ICS/NIMS under national coordination, these military assets support the operations of ICS/NIMS civilian resources in a given incident scenario under management by objectives. Under the Secretary of Homeland Security, the NRF Resource Center exists a living system that can be revised and updated in a dynamic transparent fashion, where the online Resource Center will allow for ongoing revisions as necessary to reflect the continuous analysis of real-world events and the acquisition of CEM lessons subsequently learned.
See also
National Incident Management System,
Notes
References
National Response Framework Document, NRF Resource Center
NRF Core
NRF Annexes
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Emergency Management Institute course IS-800.B National Response Framework, an Introduction
"National Response Framework Released", United States Department of Homeland Security, Office of the Press Secretary, January 22, 2008.
United States Department of Homeland Security
Disaster preparedness in the United States
Disaster management tools |
15831631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouarij | Bouarij | Bouarej (also spelled Bouarij, Bouârej, Buariji or Bwareg) is a village located on the eastern side of the Church Mountain, Beqaa.
Population
Bouarij has 1,274 registered voters in the 2009 elections. The population follow Sunni Islam. In the municipal Lebanese elections of 2004, Bouarej counted 1,905 registered voters of which 1,141 voted.
References
External links
Bouarej, Localiban
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106000420825&view=1up&seq=13&skin=mobile Buarij: Portrait Of A Lebanese Muslim Village : Fuller, Anne H:
Populated places in Zahlé District
Sunni Muslim communities in Lebanon |
15831651 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeeburg%2C%20Guyana | Zeeburg, Guyana | Zeeburg is a village located on the West Coast of Demerara in Guyana, South America. Zeeburg is 30.6km far from the capital of Guyana. The village, in the administrative region Essequibo Islands-West Demerara (Region 3) was named by the Dutch during their occupation of Guyana.
Zeeburg is bordered on the north by the Atlantic Ocean, to the east by DeGroot En Klyn and to the west by DeWillem. Like most West Demerara villages, Zeeburg is bordered to the south by sugar cane fields.
The majority of people residing in Zeeburg are of East Indian descent, usually called Indo-Guyanese (descendants of the Indian indentured labourers) most of whom work on the sugar plantation of Uitvlugt/Leonora Estate and the vibrant fishing port which is based at the popular Zeeburg koker.
Zeeburg is also the home of Zeeburg Secondary School which always played a critical role in the education system of Region 3 since its existence and the traditional Zeeburg market that is held every Saturday.
References
Populated places in Essequibo Islands-West Demerara |
15831664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WUFE | WUFE | WUFE (1260 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an oldies format. Licensed to Baxley, Georgia, United States, the station is owned by South Georgia Broadcasters, Inc. and features programming from ABC Radio .
In 2015, the station rebranded as "96.7 Lite FM." The station reverted to its original brand and oldies-format "The Big WUFE" in 2020.
References
External links
UFE
Radio stations established in 1954
1954 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
UFE |
15831667 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron%20%28band%29 | Byron (band) | Byron (stylized byron) is a Romanian alternative rock band formed in Bucharest in 2006. Dan Byron (real name Daniel Radu), former guest of Agathodaimon and ex-member of Urma and Kumm, initially wanted to start a solo project, but it soon developed into an actual band. Their music is hard to define; it would best be described as art-rock / adult-alternative with a lot of influences from different musical areas, mostly blues, progressive rock and jazz. All lyrics are written in English and touch aspects of modern man's condition.
History
Formation and Forbidden Drama (2006–2008)
In early 2006, Dan Byron began writing for what would later become byron's debut release. The band was assembled later that year, with guitarist Costin Oprea being the first to join in September. Keyboard player 6fingers (also in gothic metal band Magica) was recruited afterwards, soon followed by Cristi Mateşan on drums. To complete the line-up, the band was joined by bass player Gyergyay "Szabi" Szabolcs, freshly returned from Budapest. Rehearsals start in October 2006 and the band takes the stage for the first time on 1 December – a sold-out gig at Lăptăria Enache, one of Bucharest's most famed live music venues. Noteworthy later gigs include Art & Aids Bucharest, Stufstock 2007 at Vama Veche, and a special concept – a 3-band, 3-venues simultaneous concert held together with Timpuri Noi and Trupa Veche.
The debut album, Forbidden Drama, structured in acts, like a theater drama, was finished in September – with Victor Panfilov as musical producer, mixing and mastering at Real Sound Studio, Bucharest. The album is manufactured and distributed by the Romanian label A&A Records. Forbidden Drama has been released on 12 October 2007, at Fabrica club in Bucharest, followed by a month-long national promotion tour (Forbidden Tour).
Acoustic Drama (2008–2009)
In January 2008, bassist Gyergyay Szabolcs quits the band due to personal reasons and is replaced by Jacob Glick. In this line-up, on 3 April 2008, the band played a special unplugged show at Teatru 74, an unconventional theater venue in the medieval citadel of Târgu Mureş. Old songs, as well as a couple of new ones, were rearranged for a full unplugged performance featuring instruments such as seven different guitars, a banjo, a mandolin, a cajón, an upright bass, an acoustic bass, a string quartet and a piano. The concert featured several guests, most notably Alexandru Andrieş and Paula Seling.
The show was recorded and released as the live DVD Acoustic Drama in October 2008, the first unplugged DVD ever released by a Romanian band. There were no later overdubs in the studio, as the band wanted the acoustic experience to be as natural as possible. The DVD contains 14 songs, a photo gallery, the video for "Blow Up My Tears" single (directed and shot by Oleg Mutu, edited by Victor Panfilov) and many "making of" features. A notable song is "Departe", a translated version of "Far Away" off Forbidden Drama, with Romanian lyrics provided by Alexandru Andrieş.
The DVD was released with a special unplugged show at Palatul Copiilor in Bucharest, followed by a national tour spanning four major cities – Sibiu, Târgu Mureş, Iaşi and Cluj. For the tour, the band hooked up with sponsors Nokia, promoting their new multimedia smartphones Nokia Nseries. A special website was created, where fans could record their live experiences and follow the band as they toured the country. Several videos were also uploaded on YouTube, featuring tour performances recorded with Nseries phones.
A Kind of Alchemy (2009–2010)
In October 2009 the band released their second album, A Kind Of Alchemy. The release marks an evolution in the band's sound, with blues, progressive and funk influences, employing a wider diversity of instruments. In Dan Byron's words, "The mood is nocturnal, rather intimate, sometimes playful or even exuberant".
The 14 new songs came in a illustrated book, as the graphic aspect is just as important as the music.
In June 2010, the band applied a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License on their first and second studio albums which can now be downloaded freely from their blog.
Perfect and Live Underground (2011–2012)
Perfect was released on 17 February 2011, at The Silver Church Club in Bucharest (with the special guest – Grimus band).
Feature of this album is that it consists of covers byron made of songs played by other Romanian artists (Kumm, Luna Amară, Timpuri Noi etc.), and the lyrics totally on Romanian language.
In October 2011, the band has released a video for the fifth track from this album – "Granița-n raniță" (directed by Mattia Molini, for 5 days, in New York).
On 26–27 November 2010, byron played in Salina Turda (Turda salt mine) for their second DVD, Live Underground. There were two different live shows: the first unplugged concert, without spectators, was at Terezia mine, and the second electric – in amphitheatre at Rudolf mine. The special guests joined the band, such as Nicu Alifantis, Maria Ioana Mântulescu, Rene Popescu and Alexandru Gorneanu. The DVD was released on 3 May 2012, with participation of HBO Romania. It also has released on Blu-ray (limited edition).
In June 2012, the band released an official application for Android and iOS to let the others get the latest news and exclusive content from them.
In January 2013, byron announced their 4th album, which working title was Long Story Short. Afterwards it was changed to 30 Seconds of Fame like an innuendo on Andy Warhol's famous expression about 15 minutes of fame. The album was released on 16 March and was the first byron's album, which has an identical Romanian version, called 30 de secunde de faimă.
After that, the band was working with music producer Adam Balazs for the soundtrack of the original HBO Romania series Rămâi cu mine (Stay with me). An OST album called Melancolic was released in February 2014.
Band members
Current members
Dan Byron – vocals, guitar, flute (ex- Kumm, ex- Urma) (2006–present)
Sergiu "6fingers" Mitrofan – keyboards, guitar, backing vocals (ex- Magica) (2006–present)
László Demeter – bass (ex- Slang) (2012–present)
Dan Georgescu – guitar
Andrei Ilie – drums, (2021–present)
Former members
Gyergyay Szabolcs – bass (2006–2008)
Jacob Glick – bass (2008)
Vladimir Săteanu – bass (2008–2010)
Cristi Mateşan – drums (2006–2010)
Marcel Moldovan – drums (2010–2011)
Costin Oprea – guitars (2006–2013)
Live members
Ovidiu Baciu – drums (2008–2009)
Vlad Bolborea – drums (2011–2012)
Gabriel Bălaşa – percussion (2010–2012)
Discography
Studio albums
Forbidden Drama (2007)
A Kind of Alchemy (2009)
Perfect (2011)
30 Seconds of Fame (2013)
Melancolic (2014)
Eternal return (2015)
Noua (2019)
Efemeride (2023)
DVD albums
Acoustic Drama (2008)
Live Underground (2012)
Singles
"Road Trip" (2012)
References
External links
byron website
Official byron blog
byron on facebook
byron on bandcamp
byron on Jamendo
byron on Myspace
byron on Progarchives
Forbidden Drama album reviews
A Kind of Alchemy album reviews
Romanian alternative rock groups
Musical groups established in 2006 |
15831672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WULS | WULS | WULS (103.7 FM) is a Christian radio station broadcasting a bluegrass and Southern gospel format. It is licensed to Broxton, Georgia, United States. The station is currently owned by WULS, Inc. and features programming from ABC Radio.
History
The station went on the air as WXEA on 14 February 1992. On 28 December 1992, the station changed its call sign to the current WULS.
References
External links
Southern Gospel radio stations in the United States
ULS |
15831681 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%C3%B3teo%20%28municipality%29 | Timóteo (municipality) | Timóteo is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, located by the Piracicaba River. The population as of 2020 was 90,568 inhabitants. The city is situated in the metropolitan area of the Steel Valley (Vale do Aço). It is the hometown of Aperam South America (old Acesita), a steel factory specialized in the production of stainless steel, now named Aperam.
The municipality contains part of the Rio Doce State Park, created in 1944, the first state-level conservation unit in Minas Gerais.
External links
Official homepage
References
Municipalities in Minas Gerais |
15831684 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight%20Angel | Midnight Angel | Midnight Angel is the fifth solo studio album by American country music singer, Barbara Mandrell, released in October 1976. The album peaked at number 24 on the Top Country Albums chart. Two singles were released, "Midnight Angel", which peaked at number 16 on the Top Country Singles chart, and "Married, But Not to Each Other", which peaked at number three. Following its success on the singles chart, "Married, But Not to Each Other" was included on Mandrell's Lovers, Friends and Strangers album in May 1977.
Content
Like Barbara's previous album, Midnight Angel was not as successful as future releases. However, the album set the stage for her future recordings under the label. With her second album under ABC/Dot, the subject matter of her songs got sexier, as exemplified in "Pillow Pleasure", "Slippin' Around Again", and the pop-tinged "I Never Said I Love You." Like Barbara's previous album, This Is Barbara Mandrell, Midnight Angel also consisted of 11 tracks.
Track listing
"From Saturday Night to Sunday Quiet" (John Schweers)
"Partners" (Kent Robbins)
"Better Off by Myself" (Geoffrey Morgan)
"Fool's Gold" (Robert John Jones)
"It's a Beautiful Morning With You" (Archie Jordan)
"Pillow Pleasure" (John Schweers)
"Midnight Angel" (Bill Anthony, Bob Morrison)
"I Count You" (Barbara Mandrell, Schweers)
"I Never Said I Love You" (Archie Jordan, Hal David)
"Slippin' Around Again" (Roger Bowling, Jumpin' Gene Simmons)
"Married, But Not to Each Other" (Denise LaSalle, Francis Miller)
Personnel
Barbara Mandrell - lead vocals
Gordon Stoker, Hoyt Hawkins, Lea Jane Berinati, Janie Fricke, Neal Matthews, Ray Walker, The Jordanaires - backing vocals
Mike Leech - bass guitar
Kenny Malone - drums
Tommy Williams - fiddle
Jimmy Capps, Steve Gibson, Glenn Keener, Jack Mollette, Billy Sanford, Jerry Stembridge, Chip Young - guitar
Charlie McCoy - harmonica
Farrell Morris - percussion
Bobby Ogdin, Hargus "Pig" Robbins - piano
John Hughey - steel guitar
Archie Jordan - string arrangements (tracks 1,5,9,11)
Charlie McCoy, Farrell Morris - vibraphone
Charts
Album – Billboard (North America)
Singles – Billboard (North America)
1977 albums
Barbara Mandrell albums
Dot Records albums
Albums produced by Tom Collins (record producer) |
15831692 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHJD | WHJD | WHJD (920 AM) is a radio station licensed to Hazlehurst, Georgia, United States. The station is owned by Broadcast South, LLC.
References
External links
HJD |
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