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41013059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kar%20Chang | Kar Chang | Kar Chang () is a village in Kuhsaran Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 185, in 63 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mian%20Rud%2C%20Qaem%20Shahr | Mian Rud, Qaem Shahr | Mian Rud (, also Romanized as Mīān Rūd) is a village in Kuhsaran Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 182, in 58 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par%20Chinak | Par Chinak | Par Chinak (, also Romanized as Par Chīnak) is a village in Kuhsaran Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 103, in 29 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013062 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reykandeh | Reykandeh | Reykandeh (, also Romanized as Rīkandeh) is a village in Kuhsaran Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 846, in 268 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saru%20Kola | Saru Kola | Saru Kola (, also Romanized as Sārū Kolā) is a village in Kuhsaran Rural District of the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran province, Iran.
At the 2006 National Census, its population was 2,470 in 709 households. The following census in 2011 counted 2,693 people in 815 households. The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 2,402 people in 823 households; it was the largest village in its rural district.
References
Qaem Shahr County
Populated places in Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seyyed%20Abu%20Saleh | Seyyed Abu Saleh | Seyyed Abu Saleh is a village in Kuhsaran Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 336, in 113 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013067 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seyf%20Koti | Seyf Koti | Seyf Koti (, also Romanized as Seyf Kotī) is a village in Kuhsaran Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 143, in 49 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oregon%20Ducks%20starting%20quarterbacks | List of Oregon Ducks starting quarterbacks | These quarterbacks have started for the Oregon Ducks. They are listed in order of the date of each player's first start at quarterback.
Starting quarterbacks
These are the quarterbacks who had the most starts for the season. Note: game statistics include bowl game results.
References
Oregon Ducks
Oregon Ducks quarterbacks |
41013140 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamuk%2C%20Iran | Lamuk, Iran | Lamuk () may refer to:
Bala Lamuk
Pain Lamuk |
41013142 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leinweber | Leinweber | Leinweber is a German surname.
Notable people with this surname include:
Chris Leinweber (born 1981), Canadian ice hockey defenceman
David Leinweber, head of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Computational Research Division's Center for Innovative Financial Technology
Harry Leinweber (1907–1992), insurance underwriter and a municipal and provincial level politician
Judi Leinweber (born 1950), Canadian alpine skier who competed in the 1968 Winter Olympics References
Walter Leinweber (1907–1997), German ice hockey player who competed in the 1932 Winter Olympics
External links
Leinweber at Surnamedb.com |
41013164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9dia%20Semedo | Nédia Semedo | Nédia Semedo (born 14 November 1978 in Faro, in the Algarve region) is a retired Portuguese athlete who competed in the middle-distance events. She represented her country at the 2004 Summer Olympics narrowly missing the semifinals. Her biggest successes are the silver medal at the 2001 Summer Universiade and the sixth place at the 2002 European Championships.
Competition record
Personal bests
Outdoor
400 metres – 54.87 (Seia 2003)
800 metres – 2:00.49 (Lisbon 2004)
1000 metres – 2:40.11 (Lisbon 2004)
1500 metres – 4:09.46 (Funchal 2001)
One mile – 4:36.78 (Lisbon 1999)
Indoor
400 metres – 54.78 (Espinho 2005)
800 metres – 2:01.11 (Espinho 2003)
1000 metres – 2:41.55 (Madrid 2005)
1500 metres – 4:13.58 (Espinho 2003)
References
1978 births
Living people
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Portugal
Portuguese female middle-distance runners
Portuguese sportspeople of Cape Verdean descent
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
Universiade silver medalists for Portugal
Sportspeople from Faro, Portugal |
41013168 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20McGill%20Krumm | John McGill Krumm | John McGill Krumm (March 15, 1913 – October 23, 1995) was an American bishop and author. He was the sixth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio.
Early life and education
Krumm was born on March 15, 1913, in South Bend, Indiana, the son of William Frederick Krumm and Harriett Vincent McGill. He studied at the University of California at Los Angeles and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy in 1935. He also studied at the Virginia Theological Seminary, graduating with a Bachelor of Divinity in 1938. He also earned his Doctor of Philosophy in church history from the Yale Divinity School in 1948. He was awarded a Doctor of Sacred Theology by Kenyon College in 1962, a Doctor of Divinity by Berkeley College and the General Theological Seminary, respectively, in 1975, and a Doctor of Humane Letters by the Hebrew Union College.
Ordained ministry
Krumm was ordained deacon in June 1938 and priest on December 24, 1938. He served as vicar of St Timothy's Church in Compton, California, St Anne's Church in Lynwood, California, and St George's Church in Hawthorne, California, from 1938 to 1941. Between 1941 and 1943 he was assistant at St Paul's Church in New Haven, Connecticut, until he became rector of St Matthew's Church in San Mateo, California, in 1943. In 1948, he was appointed Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in Los Angeles. In 1952, he moved to New York City to become chaplain at Columbia University, a post he retained till 1965. Then, between 1965 and 1971, he served as rector of the Church of the Ascension in New York City.
Bishop
In 1970, Krumm was elected the sixth Bishop of Southern Ohio, and consecrated on March 20, 1971, by the presiding bishop, John E. Hines. As bishop, he was a member of the Standing Commission on Ecumenical Relations and was involved with the Consultation on Church Union. He was also one of the first bishops to ordain women in 1977, after the Episcopal church approved the ordination of women to the priesthood. Krumm retired in 1980 and became Bishop of the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe, residing in Paris until his resignation in 1984. In 1983, he became bishop-in-residence at St Paul's Church in Tustin, California, and also Assistant Bishop of Los Angeles. Krumm died suddenly on October 23, 1995, in Tustin, California, after suffering a heart attack.
Bibliography
Roadblocks to Faith (Morehouse-Gorham, 1954)
Why I am an Episcopalian (Nelson, 1957)
Modern Heresies (Seabury Press, 1961)
Christianity and the New Morality (Henderson, 1965)
The Art of Being a Sinner (Seabury, 1967)
Denver Crossroads (Forward Movement, 1979)
Why Choose the Episcopal Church? Description and contents (Forward Movement, [1974] 1996, rev. ed.)
References
External links
New York Times obituary
Profile at Project Canterbury
1913 births
1995 deaths
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Virginia Theological Seminary alumni
20th-century American Episcopalians
Episcopal bishops of Southern Ohio
Bishops of the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe
20th-century American clergy |
41013172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marko%20Todorovi%C4%87 | Marko Todorović | Marko Todorović may refer to:
Marko Todorović (actor) (1929–2000), Serbian actor
Marko Todorović (basketball) (born 1992), Montenegrin professional basketball player
Marko Todorović (revolutionary) (1780–1823), on the List of Serbian Revolutionaries |
41013202 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maleh | Maleh | Maleh, el Maleh, el Malih, el Melah, etc. (, 'salty') may refer to:
Rivers
Wadi el Maleh, wadi (stream) in West Bank
Oued el Melah, wadi in Tunisia, Gafsa and Tozeur governorates
Oued el Maleh, wadi in Aïn Témouchent Province Algeria
Populated places
El Malah District, Aïn Témouchent Province, Algeria
El Malah, municipality in El Malah District, Algeria
Al-Malih, Syrian village
Other uses
Maleh (surname)
See also
Sayh al Malih, place in Oman
Khirbet al-Malih ('ruins of al Malih'), Palestinian hamlet in West Bank
Malich (disambiguation) |
41013205 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20McCombie | Thomas McCombie | Thomas McCombie (1819 – 2 October 1869) was a journalist, historian, novelist, merchant and politician in colonial Victoria, a member of the Victorian Legislative Council, and later, the Victorian Legislative Assembly.
Biography
McCombie was born in Tillyfour, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the son of Charles McCombie and his wife Anne, née Black. McCombie arrived at Melbourne (then in the Port Phillip District of New South Wales) in April 1841.
1845 he was a member of the committee appointed at a public meeting held in Melbourne on 28 September to frame a petition to the Imperial Parliament in opposition to the proposal of New South Wales to pledge the credit of Port Phillip for an immigration loan for her own benefit. McCombie was one of the first members of the Melbourne Town Council. In 1846 he took an active part in exerting pressure on the Superintendent of Port Phillip, Charles La Trobe, to expend the moneys voted by the Sydney Legislature for public works in Melbourne, and which La Trobe had withheld owing to his distrust of local administration. On 15 June McCombie submitted the following motion to the Council, which was carried by nine votes to five: "That the Legislative Committee be instructed to prepare an humble petition to her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen praying for the removal of Charles Joseph La Trobe, Esq., from the office of Superintendent of the district of Port Phillip on account of his systematic mismanagement of the money voted for the service of the province, his neglect of public works of paramount consequence, and his repeated breaches of faith in his official transactions with this Council in matters of high public importance." On 3 August following McCombie presided at a great public meeting held in Melbourne, when a resolution was carried for the despatch of a petition to the Home Government for the removal of La Trobe. The petition was courteously acknowledged, but not acted on.
In 1848 McCombie took an active part in what was known as the non-election movement, under which it was proposed to abstain from sending members from Port Phillip to the Sydney Legislature. As, however, a local candidate persisted in standing for the city of Melbourne, McCombie proposed the nomination of Henry Grey, 3rd Earl Grey, and he was returned by a large majority. In the outside districts the non-electionists were not so successful. They put the Duke of Wellington, Lords Palmerston, Brougham, and John Russell, and Sir Robert Peel in nomination for the five seats, but in the result five local candidates were returned. On the subject of these proceedings McCombie addressed lengthy letters to Hawes, the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, and to Lord John Russell. He also took an active part in the anti-transportation movement, subscribing a hundred guineas towards the funds of the Australasian League in 1851.
Though McCombie had been one of the most prominent advocates of the separation of Port Phillip from New South Wales, he was not elected to the mixed Legislative Council when in 1851 the colony of Victoria was constituted. In 1856, however, when responsible government was conceded, McCombie was returned to the Upper House for the Southern Province. He was a member of the second John O'Shanassy Ministry without portfolio from March 1858 to October 1859. Latterly McCombie eschewed public life, and was connected with the press in Geelong. He was the author of, New Plan of Colonial Government (1845); Waste Land Acts Considered (1846); Australian Sketches, reprinted from Tait's Magazine (1847); History of the Colony of Victoria (London, 1858). He also tried his hand at writing fiction. His two best known novels are, Arabin: or, The Adventures of a Colonist in New South Wales (1845), and, Frank Henly: or, Honest Industry Will Conquer, (1867).
In March 1868, McCombie was elected to the lower house seat of Gippsland South, which he held until resigning around March 1869.
In 1869 McCombie sailed with his family aboard the Talbot bound for London. After suffering greatly McCombie died on 2 October 1869 in Scotland aged 50; he was survived by his wife and two daughters of their four children.
References
1819 births
1869 deaths
Members of the Victorian Legislative Council
Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
19th-century Australian politicians
19th-century Australian journalists
19th-century Australian male writers
19th-century Australian historians
Australian male journalists |
41013218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnaby%20Barnewall | Barnaby Barnewall | Barnaby Barnewall (died 1493) was an Irish barrister and judge, and a founder member of the military guild, the Brotherhood of Saint George.
He was born at Crickstown, County Meath, to the leading Anglo-Irish family of Barnewall; Robert Barnewall, a close relative, was created the first Baron Trimleston in 1461. Barnaby is sometimes described as a brother of Sir Christopher Bernevall, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, but the great difference in their ages (Christopher was born about 1370) makes it more likely that Barnaby was his nephew.
He was "bred to the law": at that time two families, Barnewall and Plunket, dominated the Irish judiciary to a remarkable degree. He was studying law in London in 1460, and the following year was made a judge of the Court of King's Bench (Ireland). He was charged with raising troops in County Meath in 1463, and in 1473 was appointed Collector of Revenues for Dublin and Drogheda.
He was one of the original members of the Brotherhood of Saint George, a military order set up in 1474 for the defence of the Pale, which was for a time the only standing army in Ireland. It seems to have achieved little and was suppressed in 1494, a year after his death.
In 1468 he founded a chantry at Dunshaughlin, jointly with the Lord Deputy of Ireland, John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester.
In 1487, in common with all of his judicial colleagues, he made the mistake of supporting the claim of Lambert Simnel, pretender to the English Crown. Simnel's cause was crushed at the Battle of Stoke Field: the victorious King Henry VII was merciful to the rebels and Barnewall, together with his colleagues, was pardoned in 1488.
He resided at Stackallen, near Slane. He died in 1493: his epitaph in the parish church at Stackallen was still visible in 1830. He married Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Fitz-Christopher Plunket, who presided in the King's Bench during Barnaby's early years on the Court; they had no children.
References
Lawyers from County Meath
1493 deaths
Year of birth unknown
Justices of the Irish King's Bench
15th-century Irish lawyers |
41013243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abjar | Abjar | Abjar (, also Romanized as Ābjar) is a village in Nowkand Kola Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 571, in 149 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013245 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrapol | Afrapol | Afrapol (, also Romanized as Afrāpol) is a village in Nowkand Kola Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,102, in 293 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahangar%20Kola-ye%20Now%20Kandeh | Ahangar Kola-ye Now Kandeh | Ahangar Kola-ye Now Kandeh (, also Romanized as Āhangar Kolā-ye Now Kandeh; also known as Āhangar Kolā) is a village in Nowkand Kola Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 572, in 144 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamshir | Alamshir | Alamshir (, also Romanized as Alamshīr) is a village in Nowkand Kola Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,957, in 782 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013251 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owjabandan | Owjabandan | Owjabandan (, also Romanized as Owjābandān; also known as Ojābandān) is a village in Nowkand Kola Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 110, in 29 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bala%20Lamuk | Bala Lamuk | Bala Lamuk (, also Romanized as Bālā Lamūk; also known as Lamūk) is a village in Nowkand Kola Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,080, in 559 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013255 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choft%20Sar%2C%20Qaem%20Shahr | Choft Sar, Qaem Shahr | Choft Sar (; also known as Choft Sar-e Shūrkā) is a village in Nowkand Kola Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 172, in 42 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamaz%20Koti | Chamaz Koti | Chamaz Koti (, also Romanized as Chemāz Ketī and Chamāz Katī; is a village in Nowkand Kola Rural District of the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran province, Iran.
At the 2006 National Census, its population was 5,552 in 1,423 households. The following census in 2011 counted 6,113 people in 1,759 households. The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 5,436 people in 1,771 households; it was the largest village in its rural district.
"Village of kebabs"
The people of Chamaz Koti village are famous for several things, the most important of which is that they have an excessive interest in barbecuing and are eating barbeque for any reason. In this village, there are a large number of kebab shops that are actively serving the people and make a living in this way. The people, especially the youth of this village, have been inviting each other to eat kebabs on various occasions for years. It has become almost a daily routine. Along with the freshness of mutton, skillful cooking of kebab, which has become professional over the years, is also one of the things that has brought people from other villages to this place.
Zarin Nava tomb palace
According to the pilgrimage record inside the mausoleum, the name of the deceased is Agha Seyyed Mohammad, the son of Seyyed Ali Zarin Navaei, and this work was registered as one of Iran's national works on March 25, 1379 with the number 3327. Zarin Nava tomb tower (sayze nava in local dialect) is located in Chamazketi village between the old and current cemetery of the place and among the old trees, and agricultural lands surround this complex. It is the 9th century AH.
References
Qaem Shahr County
Populated places in Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013261 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Div%20Kola-ye%20Olya | Div Kola-ye Olya | Div Kola-ye Olya (, also Romanized as Dīv Kolā-ye ‘Olyā; also known as Dīv Kalāy and Dīv Kolā-ye Bālā) is a village in Nowkand Kola Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 484, in 130 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Div%20Kola-ye%20Sofla | Div Kola-ye Sofla | Div Kola-ye Sofla (, also Romanized as Dīv Kolā-ye Soflá and Dīv Kalā-ye Soflá; also known as Dīv Kalā-ye Pā’īn, Dīv Kolā Pā’īn, and Gurakhair) is a village in Nowkand Kola Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,087, in 303 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashtian | Dashtian | Dashtian (, also Romanized as Dashtīān) is a village in Nowkand Kola Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 34, in 12 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013268 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duk%2C%20Mazandaran | Duk, Mazandaran | Duk (, also Romanized as Dūk; also known as Dūk-e Bālā) is a village in Nowkand Kola Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 675, in 192 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furija | Furija | Furija (, also Romanized as Fūrījā; also known as Pūrījā) is a village in Nowkand Kola Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 24, in 10 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013276 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gileh%20Kola | Gileh Kola | Gileh Kola (, also Romanized as Gīleh Kolā) is a village in Nowkand Kola Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 501, in 132 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013333 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20Concerto%20for%20Two%20String%20Orchestras%2C%20Piano%2C%20and%20Timpani | Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano, and Timpani | Bohuslav Martinů's Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano, and Timpani (H. 271) was written in Switzerland in 1938 during deteriorating diplomatic relationships throughout Europe. Commissioned by Paul Sacher for the Basel Chamber Orchestra, it reflects intense impressions, from both the composer's personal life and the political events of the time.
The Concerto is structured upon the concerto grosso, the three movements scored as 1. Poco Allegro, 2. Largo, 3. Allegro; its outer movements are characterized by a mood of anxiety expressed through syncopated rhythms, while its Largo centres upon a defiant, declamatory statement; the concerto as a whole lasting circa 21 minutes in total.
The cover of the manuscript score bears the dedication to my dear friend Paul Sacher to commemorate the quiet and fearful days spent at Schönenberg amongst the deer and the threat of the war. Martinů finished the last movement of the sketch on the same day of the signing of the Munich Treaty. It was first performed by the Basel Chamber Orchestra conducted by Paul Sacher in Basel on February, 1940. Martinů travelled from Paris to attend the Basel performance, despite the difficult international situation. The Swiss composer Arthur Honegger was among the audience of its first performance.
Other contemporary compositions with a similar instrumentation as Martinů's Double Concerto are Bela Bartók's Divertimento for String Orchestra, also commissioned by Paul Sacher for the Basel Chamber Orchestra in 1938, and Sir Michael Tippett's Concerto for Double String Orchestra (1938–39).
Recordings
1951 Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik
BRNO State Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Mackerras
1994 Prague Radio Symphony, Charles Mackerras
1992 City of London Sinfonia - Richard Hickox
Recording of - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1j_K752Wac
Notes
Compositions by Bohuslav Martinů
Martinu, Double Concerto
Music commissioned by Paul Sacher
Music dedicated to Paul Sacher |
41013369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine%20Fran%C3%A7ois%20Eug%C3%A8ne%20Merlin | Antoine François Eugène Merlin | Antoine François Eugène Merlin (27 December 1778 – 31 August 1854) was a French soldier and general of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, who fought in central Europe, the Peninsular War and at Waterloo. Later in life, he became a politician and sat in the Chamber of Deputies as a supporter of the July Monarchy.
Early life and career
Antoine François Eugène Merlin was born in Douai on 27 December 1778, the son of lawyer and politician Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai and Jeanne Brigitte Dumouceaux. He first entered military service in 1793 aged 14, attached to the staff of General Cambray during the war in the Vendée. On 30 October 1795, he joined the 7th Chasseurs a Cheval as a Second Lieutenant, became aide-de-camp to General Songis on 10 December 1795, and spent the next two years serving in the Army of the North.
In 1798, Merlin took part in the French invasion of Egypt, acting as an aide-de-camp to General Bonaparte. He fought at the battle of the Pyramids, the capture of Katieh (where he was provisionally promoted to Lieutenant), the sieges of Jaffa and Acre, and the battle of Abukir. He returned to France with his commander in 1799.
His promotion confirmed by the Directory on 19 October 1799, Merlin was further promoted to Captain in the 1st Chasseurs a Cheval on 26 March 1800. Serving first in the Army of the Reserve and then the Army of Italy, he became aide-de-camp to General Dupont and fought at Marengo. He was promoted to Chef d'escadron on 20 January 1801, transferred to the 14th Cavalry on 19 November, and then to the 4th Hussars on 3 August 1803. He served in Hanover from 1803 to 1805.
Merlin was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour on 14 June 1804.
First empire
In 1805, Merlin's regiment was recalled to the Grande Armée and he served in it for the next three years, fighting at the battles of Austerlitz, Jena and Friedland. He distinguished himself at the capture of Lübeck, and promoted to Major on 20 February 1807. On 20 July 1808 he became a chevalier de l'Empire, and served the following year under Marshal Bernadotte in Antwerp.
On 1 September 1810, Merlin was appointed Colonel of the 1st Hussars, who had been fighting in the Peninsular War since 1808. Joining his regiment in Spain, he distinguished himself at Sabugal where he dispersed a British regiment and recaptured an artillery piece they had just captured. For this feat, he was made an officer of the Legion of Honour.
The following year, Merlin fought at the Battle of Salamanca where he protected the French army's retreat. In October 1812, his regiment was transferred to General Curto's brigade of the Army of Portugal. On 14 July 1813 he was promoted to Général de Brigade and recalled to the Grande Armee in Saxony.
During the German Campaign of 1813, Merlin led the 2nd Brigade of Lorge's 5th Light Cavalry division within Arrighi's III Cavalry Corps. He fought at Leipzig and Hanau, and was publicly praised by Napoleon who made him second-in-command of the 4th Guards of Honour. Transferred to IV Corps in December 1813, he spent the remainder of the war engaged in the defence of Mainz.
Following Napoleon's abdication, Merlin was made inactive, but he was made a Knight of the Order of St Louis by Louis XVIII.
Merlin rallied to Napoleon during the Hundred Days, and seized the fort of Vincennes on 20 March 1815. He then organized, and became major of the new 2nd regiment of Chasseurs à Cheval of the Imperial Guard. On 13 June 1815, he was given command of the 2nd brigade in Subervie's 5th Cavalry Division of the Army of the North. During the Waterloo campaign, this formation fought on the French left at Ligny and in the defence of Plancenoit at the battle of Waterloo.
Post war career
After the Second Restoration, Merlin went into exile with his father, who was one of 38 men outlawed by the new regime. The two men boarded the American vessel Alice in Antwerp and set sail for the United States, but were shipwrecked near Vlissingen in the mouth of the Scheldt on 24 February 1816.
Merlin was able to return to France in 1818, but was accused of complicity in the conspiracy of Béfort in August 1820. Acquitted by the Chamber of Peers in February 1821, he was able to live quietly in retirement until the July Revolution.
Returning to duty under the new regime in 1830, Merlin was made a Commander of the Legion of Honour on 21 March 1831 and added to the general staff. Leading a brigade in the reserve cavalry division of the Army of the North during the Ten Days' Campaign, he was present at the Siege of Antwerp. He was promoted to lieutenant general on 30 September 1832 and held a succession of military posts culminating with the command of the 18th division on 7 June 1834.
Elected to represent Avesnes in the election of 1834, Merlin sat among the conservatives in the Chamber of Deputies, and was a partisan of the new dynasty. He became a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor on 30 January 1837, a Count (on the death of his father) on 21 December 1838, and a Peer of France on 7 November 1839. He retired from the military on 30 May 1848.
General Merlin died in Eaubonne on , and was buried in the cemetery there. His name is inscribed on the south side of the Arc de Triomphe.
Family
Merlin married Louise Gohier (1788–1853), the only child of Louis-Jérôme Gohier and a descendant of Pierre Du Moulin, on 7 August 1806. The couple had no children.
References
1778 births
1854 deaths
People from Douai
People of the Battle of Waterloo
Generals of the First French Empire
Members of the 3rd Chamber of Deputies of the July Monarchy
Members of the Chamber of Peers of the July Monarchy
Peers of France
Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour
Knights of the Order of Saint Louis
Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe |
41013434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20Reviews%20in%20Food%20Science%20and%20Nutrition | Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition | Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition is a food science journal published monthly by Taylor & Francis. It was originally established in 1970 as Critical Reviews in Food Technology, but changed to its current name in 1975. The editor-in-chief is Fergus M. Clydesdale (University of Massachusetts Amherst). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 7.860, ranking it 3rd out of 89 journals in the category "Nutrition and Dietetics" and 4th out of 139 journals in the category "Food Science and Technology".
References
External links
Nutrition and dietetics journals
Taylor & Francis academic journals
Monthly journals
Review journals
Academic journals established in 1970
English-language journals
Food science journals |
41013441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolterdalen | Bolterdalen | Bolterdalen is a valley in Nordenskiöld Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It is located south of Adventdalen, and the Bolterelva river flows through the valley.
References
Valleys of Spitsbergen |
41013449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farther%20Along%20%28novel%29 | Farther Along (novel) | Farther Along is an American novel written by Donald Harington. It was published in 2008.
Plot
The Bluff Dweller decides to abandon modern living, to vanish from society, so he begins living like a Native-American inside a cave up in the Ozark Mountains. The Bluff Dweller nearly drinks himself to death, but two women save him.
Characters
The Bluff Dweller – the protagonist of the novel and only identifier for his name that is given by Harington, former curator of a museum of U.S. historical treasures, who has left his life to live in a stone cave, and to take on the appearance of the people who used to live in such places, "Bluff Dwellers".
Eliza Cunningham – an attractive historian who wants to study the paramour of a former governor of the state. She is also the love interest of the Bluff Dweller.
French horn – a mysterious narrator of the novel, may be a woman's monologue.
References
External links
Review of Farther Along by Julie Failla Earhart
Summary of Farther Along by BOOK JACKET
2008 American novels |
41013515 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20awards%20and%20nominations%20received%20by%20Ewan%20McGregor | List of awards and nominations received by Ewan McGregor | The following is a list of awards and nominations received by Scottish actor Ewan McGregor.
Major awards
Golden Globe Awards
Primetime Emmy Awards
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Audience awards
Golden Schmoes Awards
0 wins of 1 nomination
Kids' Choice Awards
0 wins of 1 nomination
MTV Movie + TV Awards
1 wins of 8 nominations
Teen Choice Awards
0 wins of 1 nomination
Critics associations awards
Awards Circuit Community Awards
0 wins of 2 nomination
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
0 wins of 1 nomination
Critics Choice Television Awards
1 win of 1 nomination
Detroit Film Critics Society Awards
0 wins of 1 nomination
Film Critics Circle Australia Awards
0 wins of 1 nomination
Nevada Film Critics Society Awards
1 win of 1 nomination
Online Film & Television Association Awards
2 wins of 4 nominations
Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards
0 wins of 2 nominations
Seattle Film Critics Awards
0 win of 1 nomination
St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards
1 win of 1 nomination
Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards
0 wins of 1 nomination
Film festival awards
Capri-Hollywood Film Festival Awards
1 win of 1 nomination
Hamburg Film Festival Awards
0 wins of 1 nomination
Hollywood Film Festival Awards
2 wins of 2 nominations
San Sebastian International Film Festival Awards
1 win of 2 nominations
International awards
Australian Film Institute Awards
0 wins of 1 nomination
BAFTA Scotland Awards
2 wins of 3 nominations
BAFTA/LA Britannia Awards
1 win of 1 nomination
British Independent Awards
1 win of 2 nominations
CinEuphoria Awards
0 wins of 1 nomination
Empire Awards
5 wins of 6 nominations
European Film Awards
2 wins of 2 nominations
Evening Standard British Film Awards
0 wins of 1 nomination
Golden Camera Awards
1 win of 1 nomination
Goya Awards
0 wins of 1 nomination
Irish Film and Television Awards
0 wins of 1 nomination
London Critics Circle Film Awards
1 win of 3 nominations
Order of Arts and Letters France Awards
1 win of 1 nomination
Miscellaneous awards
20/20 Awards
0 wins of 1 nomination
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
0 wins of 1 nomination
Gotham Awards
1 win of 1 nomination
Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards
0 wins of 1 nomination
IF Awards
0 wins of 1 nomination
Satellite Awards
2 wins of 4 nominations
Saturn Awards
0 wins of 3 nominations
Village Voice Film Poll Awards
0 wins of 1 nomination
References
McGregor, Ewan |
41013540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berts%20bekymmer | Berts bekymmer | Berts bekymmer () is a diary novel, written by Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson and originally published in 1994. It tells the story of Bert Ljung during the calendar year he turns 15 during the autumn term in the 9th grade at school in Sweden. The book only uses chapter titles, but no names. The book also introduces a new concept, "Dagens dikt" ("Poem of the day"), a poem connected to the chapter plot.
Book cover
The book depicts a short-haired Bert, wearing a red sweater, sitting on a stool at Christmastime looking into the mirror. His pet turtle Ove lies on his neck. Next to a Christmas tree, with its roots placed in a jar, and on the floor is a broken, heart-shaped, gingerbread with the letters B + G (Bert + Gabriella).
Plot
Bert has started the 9th grade at school, and has love problems. No longer, he feels ashamed for liking Gabriella, since she has started the 7th grade. Before a PE lesson, the girls of the class have forgotten closing their door to the changing room. Bert walks past, staring, when suddenly Sanna shows up and pulls up Bert's shorts.
Åke has fallen in love with Isabella Riez in class 9F, who comes from El Salvador, and hates Europe meaning they started up everything mean on Earth, like colonies, black slave, industry and English (a school subject where Åke has bad notes). In class 9F, Åke also has a friend called Douglas.
At a toilet, Bert notices someone has written a telephone number to call once you want to have sex. Calls, and think Gabriella is behind, but soon learns it's the number to Travtjänst.
Klimpen makes a short return from Motala, now as a member of religious organization "Lennarts ord", before returning to Motala. In Heman Hunters, it's fought over which music the band will play.
Åke turns 15 years old and gets a moped.
Bert's classmate gets cancer, but the doctors managed to save him, and Bert and his friends visit him at the hospital. Meanwhile, Beckaskolan is appointed Sweden's most moldy school.
Around Saint Lucy's Day, Bert writes over Åke driving engine tuned moped, and throws it into the lake of Nöckeln, later reporting it stolen. Bert also joins the school choir because Gabriella does.
Bert also describes the market day Höstskojet in Öreskoga, when the guys they have teased last year now want revenge, but this year Björna isn't there to defend them, since he is a hospital. At the market is also a "test your might"-punching ball, where Bert gets two points and is appointed "-En fjärt" ("-a flart"), while Hannu Vresi Määrkku in class 7D wins with 390 points, and is appointed "superstarkt muskelberg" ("superstrong muscle-mountain"). Bert also loses an amateur wrestling match against Lill-Erik.
Bert also visits Dalecarlia for a bass seminar, and being out of money, he stands alone by the country road hitchhiking home. Hoping to ride with some hot girls, but instead encounters a German family with an Audi car on their way to Öreskoga to visit some friends, dropping off Bert at the town square.
The book closes on Christmas Eve (24 December). Bert has gotten a parcel with condoms by his grandmother for Christmas present. Bert also talks over telephone with Nadja. Nadja thinks Bert has grown, and reminds Bert over feeling ashamed for his name, pretending his name was Åke (see Berts dagbok).
Trivia
In this book, Bert uses Charlie Tjenis a major nickname for his penis, not Vilde Bill (Wild Bill) as usual.
See also
:sv:Figurer i Bert-serien (Characters in the "Bert" series; in Swedish)
References
Bert och badbrudarna, Rabén & Sjögren, 1993
1994 children's books
Sequel novels
Bert books
Rabén & Sjögren books
1994 Swedish novels |
41013591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hossein%20Zakeri | Hossein Zakeri | Hossein Zakeri (Persian حسین ذاکری), Prof. Dr. (born 27 December 1942) is an Iranian mathematician. He, along with Prof. R. Y. Sharp, are the founders of generalized fractions, a branch in theory of commutative algebra which expands the concept of fractions in commutative rings by introducing the modules of generalized fractions. This topic later found applications in local cohomology, in the monomial conjecture, and other branches of commutative algebra.
Biography
Zakeri was born in Urmia, the capital of West Azerbaijan Province. He was accepted in Sharif University of Technology as a top student and studied Electrical Engineering there for a few months. But he then resigned due to family's financial status. He worked as a schoolteacher for 3 years before choosing mathematics as his major and he completed his B.S. in University of Tabriz (1968 to 1972). He then studied his M.Sc. in the Institute of Mathematics of Kharazmi University in Teheran, directed at the time by Prof. Gholamhossein Mosaheb (1972 to 1974). He then did another M.Sc. (1979 to 1980), and a Ph.D. degree (1980 to 1982) under supervision of Prof. R. Y. Sharp in University of Sheffield, England. His thesis title was "Modules of Generalized Fractions and Their Applications in Commutative Algebra" which is the first published paper on the topic.
Zakeri is currently retired and works part-time. He was married to Parivash Tousheh in 1974. They have a daughter and a son.
Academic career
Zakeri was the head of department of mathematics of Tarbiat Modares University (1988 to 1990), head of the Institute of Mathematics of Kharazmi University (1991 to 1994), head of mathematics section of Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (1994 to 1996), and head of the commutative algebra research team in that institute (1994 to 1999).
Zakeri has been named the father of commutative algebra of Iran in 2012, for his efforts and contributions in Commutative Algebra to Iranian mathematical community. The 10th seminar of "Commutative Algebra and Related Topics" of Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (December 2013), and the 24th Iranian Algebra Seminar (November 2014), were held in honor of him and as appreciation of his work.
Zakeri has supervised 81 M.Sc. students, and 22 Ph.D. students until now. He has 34 published papers, most of which related to Generalized Fractions. In general there are more than 120 published articles (by him or others) citing Generalized Fractions in their content.
Awards
First Grade Graduate Medal (1972), department of mathematics, Tabriz University.
ATM Flett prize in pure mathematics for doctoral thesis, University of Sheffield, England (1982).
Abbas Riazi Kermani prize (1999).
Award for the outstanding visiting professor of Tarbiat Modares University (1999–2000).
Selected publications
Papers
Books
Linear Algebra, Mohammad Javad Emami, Hossein Zakeri, Adineh Mohammad Narenjani (1988).
Translations
Algebra, Thomas W. Hungerford. Translated by Aliakbar Alemzadeh, Hossein Zakeri, (1996).
References
Zakeri for sorting key
Living people
People from Urmia
Zakeri for sorting key
21st-century Iranian mathematicians
Zakeri for sorting key
Zakeri for sorting key
Zakeri for sorting key
Zakeri for sorting key
20th-century Iranian mathematicians |
41013596 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reception%20piece | Reception piece | In art, a reception piece is a work submitted by an artist to an academy for approval as part of the requirements for admission to membership.
The piece is normally representative of the artist's work, and the organization's judgement of its skill may or may not form part of the criteria for accepting a new entrant. The work itself is usually retained by the academy, and many academies have large and valuable collections acquired in this way. Alternative terms include diploma work at the Royal Academy in London (where some 18th and 19th century examples are on display), diploma piece, and in France at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, tableau de réception or morceau de réception. The term masterpiece originated in the same way under the earlier system of guilds, including those for artists.
Origins
The requirement to submit a reception or diploma piece is closely related to the practice in the medieval period and later of requiring a craftsman to submit one or more virtuoso or test-pieces to a guild to demonstrate his skill before he was granted membership.
Joining an academy
Membership of an academy may be by genre or technique and limited by numbers or age. The Royal Academy, London, for instance, at one time limited the number of engravers who could join, and where artistic styles and tastes change, new categories of membership may be created as necessary.
When Antoine Watteau applied to join the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, there was no suitable category for his fête galante works, so the academy simply created one rather than reject his application, describing him as a "peintre des festes galantes". While this acknowledged Watteau as the originator of the genre, it also prevented him being recognised as a history painter, the highest class of painter, and the only one from which the academy's professors were drawn. Charles-Antoine Coypel, the son of its then director, later said: "The charming paintings of this gracious painter would be a bad guide for whoever wished to paint the Acts of the Apostles."
In 1728, when Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin was admitted to the same academy for The Ray, it was as a "painter of animals and fruits".
Gallery
See also
Masterpiece
References
External links
Reception pieces visitor trail at the Louvre.
Visual arts terminology |
41013601 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo%20Pietropaolo | Paolo Pietropaolo | Paolo Pietropaolo is a Canadian radio host, producer, writer and musician based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Since January 2012, he has been the host of In Concert, a weekend classical music program on CBC Music.
He is the creator of The Signature Series, which explores the personalities of the key signatures in western music. He also co-created the successful and award-winning documentary series The Wire, along with Jowi Taylor and Chris Brookes. In 2006, Pietropaolo was the cultural correspondent in both English and French for CBC and Radio-Canada's television coverage of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy.
Prior to his career in radio, Pietropaolo studied ethnomusicology at the University of Toronto, and toured extensively in North America in a taiko drumming group led by Kiyoshi Nagata. In addition to his work as a broadcaster, he composes music for theatre and for his radio programs.
Awards
Pietropaolo is a two-time winner of the Prix Italia. In 2005, his series The Wire, the impact of electricity on music, won a Prix Italia, a Peabody Award, and a Director's Choice award at the Third Coast International Audio Festival in Chicago. He won a second Prix Italia in 2013 for The Signature Series.
References
External links
Paolo Pietropaolo at CBC Music
1976 births
Living people
CBC Radio hosts
Canadian people of Italian descent
Canadian composers
Canadian male composers
Musicians from Vancouver
Classical music radio presenters |
41013604 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ResCarta%20Toolkit | ResCarta Toolkit | ResCarta Toolkit is an open source software package used to create open access repositories for local history and published digital content. ResCarta Toolkit focuses on the use of open standard file formats and metadata standards to create archives that are sustainable over time. It includes software for creation of digital objects, indexing of metadata and content, display tools and checksum validation.
History
The first public version of the ResCarta Toolkit was released in January 2004 at the American Library Association meeting in San Diego, CA.
Technology
The ResCarta Toolkit is a set of Java applications and utility programs that create and maintain digital objects with associated metadata. The applications provide tools for the creation, collection, indexing and access to standardized digital objects. Digital objects are maintained on a local file system. The metadata is stored within each digital object. The ResCarta-Web application uses JSP and the Java Servlet API. ResCarta digital objects are made available primarily via a web interface, it also creates OAI_DC output for use by OAI-PMH v2.0 servers. Metadata is stored natively in Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS). ResCarta-Web supports in line metadata using COinS, and RSS. Most recent versions of the ResCarta Toolkit also support the use of BroadCast WAV format with full text automatic audio transcription (AAT) based on CMU Sphinx for storage and access to oral histories and news casts.
See also
Digital library
Institutional repository
Context Objects in Spans
Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)
References
External links
– official site
Free software |
41013618 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Wisconsin%20Experimental%20College | University of Wisconsin Experimental College | The University of Wisconsin Experimental College was a two-year college designed and led by Alexander Meiklejohn inside the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a great books, liberal arts curriculum. It was established in 1927 and closed in 1932. Meiklejohn proposed the idea for an alternative college in a 1925 Century magazine article. The magazine's editor-in-chief, Glenn Frank, became the University of Wisconsin's president and invited Meiklejohn to begin the college within the university. Despite pushback from the faculty, the college opened in the fall of 1927 with a self-governing community of 119 students and less than a dozen faculty. Students followed a uniform curriculum: Periclean Athens for freshmen and modern America for sophomores. The program sought to teach democracy and to foster an intrinsic love of learning within its students.
The college's students became known as free spirited outsiders within the university for their different dress, apathetic demeanor, and greater interest in reading books. The college's demographics were unlike the rest of the university, with students largely not from Wisconsin and disproportionately of Jewish and East Coast families. The college developed a reputation for radicalism and wanton anarchy, especially within Wisconsin. The students lived and worked with their teachers, called advisers, in Adams Hall, away from the heart of the university. They had no fixed schedule, no compulsory lessons, and no semesterly grades, though they read from a common syllabus. The advisers taught primarily through tutorial instead of lectures. Extracurricular groups, including philosophy, law, and theater clubs, were entirely student led.
The Great Depression and lack of outreach to Wisconsinites and UW faculty led to the college's slow decline. Enrollment decreased every year since the program began, which its statewide reputation exacerbated. After his son was expelled in 1931 by dean and Experimental College critic George Sellery, Meiklejohn recommended the college's dissolution. Public criticism of the college included student radicalism, lack of discipline, administrative issues, and financial issues. Meiklejohn wrote a retrospective of the college, which philosopher John Dewey reviewed favorably and noted for its contribution to educational philosophy. University of Wisconsin faculty and regents voted to dissolve the college in May 1932. Some advisers stayed to teach in the university, and Meiklejohn remained briefly before moving to Berkeley, California. The Experimental College influenced programs internal to the university, and was the precursor to its Integrated Liberal Studies undergraduate program.
Background
In June 1923, Alexander Meiklejohn had been asked to step down as president of Amherst College. He was recruited specifically to revitalize the college a decade earlier with the views on education for which he was known. Meiklejohn announced curriculum reform with a singular focus on "understanding human life as to be ready and equipped for the practice of it", and subsequently made the humanities coursework more interdisciplinary, added social sciences courses, and attracted new faculty members interested in the Socratic method. Meiklejohn had student support, but clashed with senior faculty and alumni, and was ultimately removed due to his administrative mismanagement and not his educational reforms.
Meiklejohn resolved to open a new, experimental liberal arts college in late 1924, but struggled to find funding. Seeking $3 million for the venture, he was rejected by Bernard Baruch and Abraham Flexner but through support from The New Republic Herbert Croly was offered planning funds from the magazine's main benefactor. The planning team included journalist Mark Sullivan, New School professor Alvin Johnson, and The Century Magazine editor-in-chief Glenn Frank. Frank had previously published Meiklejohn's work and was sympathetic to his cause.
In January 1925, Century published Meiklejohn's plan for a new and "experimental" college, "A New College: Notes on a Next Step in Higher Education". The proposed college would have a "unified" two-year curriculum and closer ties between faculty and students, who were to be "coequal partners". Meiklejohn called for a small school with a maximum of 35 professors and 300 students, with tutorial as the chief means of instruction. The planned program eschewed division by academic discipline and preferred holistic study of human civilization, particularly ancient Athens and the contemporary United States. The school sought to foster students who understood themselves in the context of their surrounding society as a "total human undertaking". Meiklejohn wanted students who would independently volunteer to live in self-governance. Meiklejohn biographer Adam Nelson wrote that for the 1920s, this idea of voluntary interest in study "seemed almost laughable". The augmented liberal arts program was a departure from vocational education trends of the time, as was its emphasis on smaller classes in a time of large lectures for burgeoning college populations.
Frank stepped down from the magazine in May 1925 to become the incoming president of the University of Wisconsin (UW). He invited Meiklejohn to open his school there and offered him a distinguished professorship. Meiklejohn planned the experimental college in secret and moved to Madison in January 1926 to teach in the philosophy department. Meiklejohn finished his experimental college proposal by April 1926. It was similar in style to his Century article and became codified as the Experimental College based on its colloquial reference in correspondence between Meiklejohn and Frank. Meiklejohn presented his proposal to the All-University Study Commission convened by Frank "to investigate the first two years of liberal college work". The university faculty received the proposal apprehensively, and criticized its vagueness, lack of control group, costliness, and effect on their livelihoods. It was eventually approved on the condition that the faculty could review its details and regular progress. The Wisconsin legislature approved two years of funding, and the Experimental College was scheduled to open in fall 1927.
Meiklejohn prioritized compatibility in his staff selection, and so hired ten of his friends who could work in "intimate fellowship". The college received hundreds of faculty applications in the summer of 1926, and the final makeup included six from Amherst, two from Brown, and one from Scotland, mostly in idealist philosophy and labor economics disciplines. The team met through the winter and into the 1927 spring to plan the program. They received 119 applications even though the program was unadvertised. Half of the applicant pool was interested in working with Meiklejohn specifically, and he was excited to work with "an entirely self-selected and therefore truly democratic community of learning."
Program
Meiklejohn's Experimental College proposal called for two years of compulsory and interdisciplinary study of civilizations: ancient Athens for freshmen, and contemporary America for sophomores. The plan had students and teachers living and working together in the same residence hall with no fixed schedule, no compulsory lessons, and no semester grades, but a common syllabus. Their only grade was to be the single final exam. The college aimed "to inspire students to want to learn" and to teach democracy through "the intrinsic value of learning" over bribery, coercion, and physical violence.
The teachers, called advisers, would instruct via small, weekly tutorials and occasional schoolwide lectures on their personal research. Adviser appointments were split with two-thirds in the Experimental College and one-third in the rest of the university, a compromise between Meiklejohn and the College of Letters and Sciences. The program's budget and appointments were negotiated directly with President Frank, bypassing the UW College of Letters and Science and its dean, George Sellery.
Meiklejohn saw books as the main instrument of a liberal education, and chose a great books curriculum so as to model the human intellect he wished to impart and to connect the timeless philosophical questions that occupy all such works. He wanted his college to read the same books and to debate the same questions simultaneously. Meiklejohn did not prefer one "great book" over another and saw them as interchangeable and in pursuit of the same essential questions about goodness, justice, and truth. Freshmen studied ancient Athens in the age of Pericles, reading authors such as Aeschylus, Herodotus, Homer, Plato, Thucydides, and Xenophon. Meiklejohn's curriculum accentuated the author's thoughts behind the work as related to general questions about society, and forwent emphasis on the texts themselves.
Plato's The Republic was the freshman year capstone, as "the apex of literary and philosophical achievement in ancient Athenian thought" and the book that best embodied their civilization. Meiklejohn asked the students to synthesize how the contents of their first year were "interrelated in the experience of the individuals and of the community as a whole". Over the summers, Meiklejohn assigned Middletown studies where students drew conclusions about American society based a view of their hometowns as typical of society. The returning sophomores were expected to exhibit self-regulation as the primary regulator of their understanding, to educate themselves self-sufficiently, and to wean themselves of the college institution. This freedom was taught so as to empower students towards independence while the advisers continued to hold pedagogical power. Henry Adams's The Education of Henry Adams was the sophomore year capstone, chosen for its complexity, self-criticism, and study of modern America's development. Meiklejohn biographer Adam Nelson compared the Ex College curriculum and Adams's autobiography as both lamenting "the tragedy of lost spiritual and intellectual unity" and enabling students to relate "their literary and lived experiences".
Extracurriculars
All extracurricular groups were student-led. Clubs included the Philosophy Club (held weekly at Meiklejohn's house), the Law Group, the Forum, and the Experimental College Players (a theater troupe). The Philosophy Club discussed topics such as the self and the relation between philosophy and science, for which Meiklejohn invited Clarence Ayres from Amherst to speak. The Law Group discussed liberty, state action, and laissez-faire, while the Forum discussed current events like war, behaviorism, and imperialism. The Players performed classical plays including Antigone, The Clouds, Euripides's Electra, and Lysistrata, which caused a particular stir for its cross-gender acting in erotic scenes. The English department chair and dean of women both castigated President Frank for letting the play run. Meiklejohn also invited several prominent speakers, including Bertrand Russell, Clarence Darrow, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Lewis Mumford.
Facilities
The college was based in Adams Hall, where students and their advisers lived and worked by the shore of Lake Mendota (except for Meiklejohn, who lived in a large house several blocks away). Adams Hall was constructed in 1926, with a Renaissance-style quad and eight identical divisions, each with its own common room, den, and facilities for 30 students, two advisers, and a fellow. The surrounding facilities afforded abundant sporting opportunities, and the site offered distance from the city and university. The students shared part of Adams Hall with non-Experimental College students, and the nearby common dining hall with the UW students in Tripp Hall. The other students were said to be bothered by the Experimental College's disregard for property, rambunctiousness, noise, and dining hall biscuit fights.
Rise
The first class arrived in fall 1927. The incoming Experimental College class was more diverse than the larger university's population. One third of students hailed from Wisconsin (as opposed to 90 percent in the university), most were from urban areas (the East Coast had particularly strong representation), one third were second-generation immigrants, and Meiklejohn estimated their Jewish population at 40 percent. The college was all-male, due in part to space availability and the regents' refusal of mixed-sex living arrangements, in keeping with American college conventions. The students were largely well-versed in current affairs, with higher scores on entrance exams and lower high school grades than their UW counterparts. Meiklejohn appreciated the challenges of reconciling this diversity and related this task to those facing the country's democratic governance.
Meiklejohn recommended student government to the fall 1927 class, but they couldn't decide on its form and ultimately voted against government. Put another way, they democratically voted against democratic governance in favor of anarchy. This disappointed Meiklejohn, but he thought they would eventually change their minds.
As freshmen struggled with the Athenian curriculum, he reverted to classification by academic discipline and offered companion texts in the field of the current work studied. In their dorms, the college students were known for their lack of respect for property, with three times the breakage in dorm assets than the rest of the university. Meiklejohn saw this as desirable and indicative of abetting nonconformity, and did not attempt to curb it. Meiklejohn had full reign over the college, so the university and its disciplinary proceedings could not intervene. Upon their exit two years later, students transferred to a number of Ivy League and prominent state universities. By this time, the college was known throughout the nation and Europe.
The college was reputed to be a radical institution. A judge presiding over a case involving three students in a socialist march declared the school "a hotbed of radical activity". Meiklejohn bemoaned this characterization of his school and blamed the college's media prominence for disproportionate coverage of an avant-garde minority. Two such cases included a former student who announced his Communist Party gubernatorial bid from jail, and another who organized a labor march with the college's students that ended in a face-off described as "bearded 'Experimenters'" against varsity athletes "bent on 'smashing the heads of the Reds'". The Experimental College students acted differently from those of the rest of the university. They grew beards, wore their hair long, carried an air of conspicuous apathy, and did not tend as meticulously to their outward presentation. They developed a tradition of wearing dark blue blazers with pearl gray trim, emblazoned with the owl of Athena, worn in the "spirit of fellowship" and to set the college apart from the university. Many of the advisers (including Meiklejohn) were indeed progressive-minded activists.
Despite their stereotypical "queerness", The Daily Cardinal reported in 1930 that a majority of Experimental College students participated in sport, and that a number joined intramural teams, pledged for Greek life, and joined campus clubs. However, the students abnormally read an average of 16 non-assigned books each semester and had an average of "only two dates a month", which the paper considered abnormal amid hints of homosexuality. As these claims became widespread, Meiklejohn imported psychiatrist Frankwood Williams from New York to study the students' sexual habits. He found the students to be "warped and twisted" as "normal for ... their age", praised the program for aiding their psychosexual growth where others inhibit, and concluded that the advisers made the students subservient to their demands even as they spoke in praise of student autonomy.
Decline
With the onset of the Great Depression in 1929, the Experimental College began a slow decline. Many students couldn't afford tuition, fewer had additional savings, and several dropped out. Along with books and campus salaries, the Experimental College became a budgetary luxury during a time of economic need for both students and the state, and its funding was in jeopardy. Meiklejohn started an Experimental College interest-fee loan fund for unfunded students, and asked advisers and monied students to donate. During this period, some sophomores absconded the college for two weeks to live like the vagrant hobos who traveled the Midwest by rail looking for work. They returned to write papers about their experiences, which Meiklejohn is said to have appreciated for its syncretism of experience and the great questions grounded in their readings.
A 1930 faculty review of the curriculum questioned the program's focus and choice of civilizations. The advisers entertained the Enlightenment, Middle Ages, and Renaissance as alternatives to their ancient Athens curriculum, but ultimately did not change course. By early 1930, Meiklejohn began to show a loss of faith in the experiment and in education reform, chiefly in the ability to teach "rational self-criticism". Around the same time, Meiklejohn received letters from the Baraboo, Wisconsin, schools superintendent and a Baraboo judge noting the Experimental College's sordid reputation in the state and its habit of repelling "ordinary" students whose parents were uninterested in the ramifications of such an education. Within the community, a January 1930 student committee reported a widespread lack of individual responsibility in their living arrangements. Parents began to complain about the college's public esteem, the qualities forming in their sons, and the curriculum. The experiment was in ill repute.
Enrollment dropped every year since the program's inception such that, when compounded by dropouts, the program was below half-capacity three years later. UW President Glenn Frank had warned of decreased enrollment in August 1928 and of its consequences for the college. UW College of Letters and Science Dean George Sellery offered support conditional on codified discipline and uniform final exams, which Meiklejohn refused. Sellery later refused to allow transfer students into the college. Meiklejohn wrote letters to Wisconsin high schools in April 1929 that acknowledged the college's stereotypes and welcomed demographic change, but the campaign backfired. He sent an adviser to tour the state and solve what he saw as a communication issue. The adviser found high school seniors largely interested in vocational training, and that the prospect of traditional college excited students to the point where they did not consider improvements upon that model. The adviser found students uninterested in the Experimental College's prospects.
The locals saw Meiklejohn as an outsider. He was foreign to Madison in his politics, social life, and personality. Dean Sellery and President Frank's professional relationship was untrusting and contemptuous, which extended to Meiklejohn due to his close association with Frank. Sellery had the support of the faculty, who were envious of the Experimental College advisers' arrangements for higher salaries. In objection to the college's reputation for radicalism, the son of the man who endowed Meiklejohn's professorship revoked his funding. Frank needed the donor's support, and so the incident marked Frank's waning support for the college. Sellery spoke out against the Experimental College in the first quarter of 1929, and Frank attempted to fire him in response. In 1931, Sellery received letters from spies who found Meiklejohn's son Donald, a philosophy doctoral student at the university and a part-time Experimental College adviser, engaged in sex acts against university policy. Sellery pursued expulsion and denied Meiklejohn and his son's separate requests for a lesser punishment. A week later, Meiklejohn asked the advisers to close the college.
Common public explanations for the college's closure include student radicalism, lack of discipline, administrative issues, and financial issues. The Nations Eliseo Vivas blamed its lack of grades as detrimental to student incentive, and judged the effort to create self-motivated students through freedom to be a failure. In School and Society, Professor Grant Showerman also credited the college's freedoms and lack of compulsions with its demise. Proponents of the Experimental College painted it as the foil of a conservative, standard college, and blamed educational stagnation on the existing order. Meiklejohn believed in a liberal education's power to change society through imagining alternatives to the status quo. He aimed to produce students who could counterbalance society with independence of thought, but admitted that he did not know how to facilitate this.
The University of Wisconsin faculty and regents voted to end the Experimental College in May 1932. There was a farewell banquet for 250 guests in June 1932. Meiklejohn did not judge the college's success by its permanence, which he did not expect—he said he attempted the college as a test. Meiklejohn asked Sellery to give his graduate student advisers university assistantships, but was denied. Meiklejohn began to work on adult education in the University of Wisconsin Extension Division in July 1932, where some of the Experimental College's ideas took hold. He later moved to Berkeley. Advisers who stayed after the program's end—such as classicist Walter Agard, philosopher Carl Bögholt, and political scientist John Gaus—were known as popular and innovative, and Agard became the Classics department chair.
Legacy
Meiklejohn wrote a retrospective of the Experimental College during the first half of 1932. John Dewey reviewed the published book and declared it "a contribution to the philosophy of American education". He saw the college to be a true expression of liberal education as it fostered rational faculties and self-criticism, and noted the college's place in fighting norms on a much larger timescale. For its ability to produce free-thinkers in an age without similar values, Dewey found the college "a tragic success".
Experimental College alumni celebrated reunions in 1942 at the University of Chicago, in 1957 at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, and in 1962 back in Madison. At St. John's, Meiklejohn addressed the audience and read his favorite poets. Over a hundred alumni announced a fund for the Alexander Meiklejohn Award for Academic Freedom through the American Association of University Professors. At the Madison reunion, alumni announced the Alexander Meiklejohn Lectureship on the Meaning and Methods of Education for Freedom. Their reunions featured notably intellectual speakers, and would take on the air of their college discussions. Over the next two decades, Meiklejohn would return to speak in Madison at the behest of the Memorial Union Forum Committee and philosophy department.
In The University of Wisconsin: A Pictorial History, Arthur Hove states that the Experimental College "had little discernible influence beyond the university", though it served as a prototype for the university's Integrated Liberal Studies (ILS) program, spawned interest in learning, and showed the university's role in making individuals as well as workers. Cronon and Jenkins' The University of Wisconsin: A History, 1925–1945 notes the college's recognition as the "best known example of [Wisconsin] curricular innovation" at the time, and blamed the college's closure on the depression but more so "the hubris of its architects" for not evangelizing its value to Wisconsinites and UW faculty. Cronon and Jenkins also saw the college's influence in Charles Russell Bardeen's fourth-year medical school preceptor program, the academic recommendations from the 1930 Fish and 1940 Daniels Committees, and the inception of Integrated Liberal Studies. Similar to the Experimental College, the Integrated Liberal Studies started in the late 1940s was a great books, liberal arts, tutorial curriculum. It was developed in part by Agard, the Classics professor and former Experimental College adviser. An English professor described ILS's ambience as that of a "small college" within a large university. Meiklejohn received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Madison in June 1964, where he was escorted by the first ILS director, Robert Pooley.
A 1939 announcement described him as "one of the university's greatest teachers". Notable alumni include Victor Wolfson, a Broadway playwright and founder of the college's theater group.
References and notes
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University of Wisconsin–Madison
Experimental schools
Universities and colleges established in 1927
Educational institutions disestablished in 1932
Great Books
1927 establishments in Wisconsin |
41013676 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PA%20Server%20Monitor | PA Server Monitor | PA Server Monitor is a server and network monitoring software from Power Admin LLC. PA Server Monitor focuses primarily on server and network health through numerous resource checks, reports, and alerting options. The agentless, on-premises software can monitor thousands of devices from a single installation. The monitored devices can be desktop computers, servers, routers and other devices.
The main function of the software is to monitor performance of servers and network devices in Windows and Linux environments. Data is kept on customers servers, not stored in the cloud.
An agentless monitoring software to watch ping, CPU, memory, disk, SNMP + traps, events, with available historical reports. Apps are available for iOS and Android.
History
Power Admin LLC is a privately held company founded by IT professionals, located in Shawnee, Kansas, outside of downtown Kansas City, Missouri area. Power Admin has been providing professional grade system monitoring products since 1992 for all types of business from SMBs to Fortune 500 companies.
Power Admin also developed two other popular utilities that are used all over the world.
PAExec allows a user to launch Windows programs on remote Windows computers without needing to install software on the remote computer first. This was written as an alternative to Microsoft's PsExec tool (originally by SysInternals's Mark Russinovich), because it could not be redistributed, and sensitive command-line options like username and passwords were sent as clear text. Source code is readily available on GitHub.
Power Admin also developed SpeedFanHttpAgent. The SpeedFan HTTP Agent exports and allows you to access SpeedFan's (utility by Alfredo Milani Comparetti) temperature data from across the network via a simple HTTP request.
What it Does
PA Server Monitor monitors event logs, disk space, running services, web page content, SNMP object values, log files, processes, ping response time, directory quotas, changed files and directories. Equipped to monitor thousands of servers/devices from a single installation, and more via satellite monitoring services.
It has extensive reporting to get status reports for servers/devices, group summaries, uptime and historic stats, providing actions and alerts by customizable email, SMS and other types of notifications, and suppression and escalation of certain notifications. It can also automatically restart services and run custom scripts.
Other capabilities include satellite monitoring of remote offices/locations across firewalls and/or across the internet without a VPN, agentless server monitoring and a bulk config feature to speed changes across many servers/devices.
Alerts in PA Server Monitor can use event suppression to cut down on false alerts, event deduplication system to further remove noise, and event escalation to give alerts increasing visibility as a problem persists for longer. Alert Reminders can also be used to make sure problems don't get forgotten about.
Device Support
PA Server Monitor is Windows-based, and many monitors use standard Microsoft Windows APIs (mostly based on Microsoft RPC). Standard protocols such as SNMP (including Traps), Syslog, IPMI, HTTPS, FTP, various mail protocols, SSH, etc. allows for monitoring non-Windows devices.
Architecture
PA Server Monitor is made of three main components: the Central Service, the Console and optional Satellite Monitoring Services. Because the product is agentless, nothing gets installed on monitored devices. In addition, since the software is installed on-premises, all data remains on-premises.
Central Service
The Central Service is the hub of the software. This is where the database is stored for historical reporting and trend analysis, alerts are sent from, and where all configuration is kept. The Central Service contains a web server from which the web interface and reports are viewed.
Console
The Console application is a native Windows application, and the "single pane of glass" from which all configuration, monitoring and reporting is done. The Console can be installed on multiple workstations, and they all connect to the Central Service through an HTTPS-based API.
Satellite Monitoring Service
The Satellite Monitoring Service enables remote and distributed monitoring. It is an optional monitoring engine (only available with the Ultra license) that can do all the same monitoring the Central Service can do. This can be installed in the same network as the Central Service to distribute monitoring load, or it can be installed at remote sites for monitoring devices that the Central Service cannot access. Even in the remote site case, all configuration continues to be done through the Console application. The Satellite Monitoring Service also connects to the Central Service through the HTTPS-based API.
Automatic Failover
An optional second Central Monitoring Server can be installed which will keep track of the status of the main Central Monitoring Server and should it fail, the Failover will automatically take over monitoring duties. Satellite Monitoring Services can automatically switch to the newly active Failover server during this period.
Monitors
Monitors are the basic function that contains a reference to a resource to be monitored, as well as thresholds to compare against, and a list of actions (alerts) to fire if there are problems. Monitors have several attributes to make them easier to conform to various environments.
Version History
v.9.2 (2023)
v.9.1 (2023)
v.9.0 (2022)
v.8.5 (2022)
v.8.4 (2022)
v.8.3 (2021)
v.8.2 (2020)
v.8.0 (2019)
v.7.2 (2018)
v.7.0 (2017)
v.6.3 (2016)
v.6.0 (2015)
v.5.6 (2014)
v.5.2 (2012)
v.4.0 (2011)
v.3.7 (2009)
v.3.6 (2008)
v.3.4 (2007)
v.3.3 (2006)
v.2.2 (2005)
v.2.0 (2004)
v.1.0 (First Beta Release (2004))
See also
Comparison of network monitoring systems
Computer performance
Remote administration
Application performance management
Website monitoring
Network management
System monitor
References
External links
PA Server Monitor
PA File Sight
PA Storage Monitor
Blog - Network Wrangler
System administration
Network management
Network analyzers
Computer performance |
41013715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajjiabad%2C%20Qaem%20Shahr | Hajjiabad, Qaem Shahr | Hajjiabad (, also Romanized as Ḩājjīābād) is a village in Nowkand Kola Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 594, in 150 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khomir%20Kandeh | Khomir Kandeh | Khomir Kandeh (, also Romanized as Khomīr Kandeh) is a village in Nowkand Kola Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 161, in 45 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013718 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khonar%20Darvish | Khonar Darvish | Khonar Darvish (, also Romanized as Khonār Darvīsh) is a village in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 111, in 34 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013720 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardow%20Rud%2C%20Qaem%20Shahr | Hardow Rud, Qaem Shahr | Hardow Rud (, also Romanized as Hardow Rūd; also known as Hardo Rūd) is a village in Nowkand Kola Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 824, in 218 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasegar%20Kola | Kasegar Kola | Kasegar Kola (, also Romanized as Kāsegar Kolā; also known as Kāsehgar Kalā and Kāsehgar Kolā) is a village in Nowkand Kola Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 564, in 162 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013726 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelagar%20Mahalleh%2C%20Qaem%20Shahr | Kelagar Mahalleh, Qaem Shahr | Kelagar Mahalleh (, also Romanized as Kelāgar Maḩalleh) is a village in Nowkand Kola Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,183, in 589 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerva%2C%20Mazandaran | Kerva, Mazandaran | Kerva (, also Romanized as Kervā; also known as Bālā Gervā-ye ‘Olyā, Bālā Karvā, and Bālā Kervā) is a village in Nowkand Kola Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 503, in 137 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013731 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehmal | Lehmal | Lehmal (, also Romanized as Lehmāl) is a village in Nowkand Kola Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 290, in 79 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavarem%20Kola | Mavarem Kola | Mavarem Kola (, also Romanized as Mavārem Kolā) is a village in Nowkand Kola Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 306, in 86 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013735 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now%20Deh%2C%20Qaem%20Shahr | Now Deh, Qaem Shahr | Now Deh () is a village in Nowkand Kola Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 282, in 71 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain%20Jadeh | Pain Jadeh | Pain Jadeh (, also Romanized as Pā’īn Jādeh) is a village in Nowkand Kola Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 504, in 129 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchi%20Kola%2C%20Qaem%20Shahr | Parchi Kola, Qaem Shahr | Parchi Kola (, also Romanized as Parchī Kolā) is a village in Nowkand Kola Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,546, in 403 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013742 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qadi%20Kola%2C%20Qaem%20Shahr | Qadi Kola, Qaem Shahr | Qadi Kola (, also Romanized as Qādī Kolā) is a village in Nowkand Kola Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 241, in 66 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rekabdar%20Kola | Rekabdar Kola | Rekabdar Kola (, also Romanized as Rekābdār Kolā and Rekābdār Kalā; also known as Seh Shanbeh Bāzār) is a village in Nowkand Kola Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 619, in 178 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013745 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rostam%20Kola%2C%20Qaem%20Shahr | Rostam Kola, Qaem Shahr | Rostam Kola (, also Romanized as Rostam Kolā) is a village in Nowkand Kola Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 478, in 124 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013748 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zahed%20Kola%2C%20Qaem%20Shahr | Zahed Kola, Qaem Shahr | Zahed Kola (, also Romanized as Zāhed Kolā, Zāhed Kalā, and Zēhed Kolā) is a village in Nowkand Kola Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 257, in 59 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilet | Zilet | Zilet (, also Romanized as Z̄īlet and Zīlet; also known as Zelet and Zelīt) is a village in Nowkand Kola Rural District, in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 557, in 140 families.
References
Populated places in Qaem Shahr County |
41013763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Gookin%20%28Sheriff%29 | Daniel Gookin (Sheriff) | Daniel Gookin was the first sheriff of Worcester County, Massachusetts.
He was born about 1687/8, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Samuel Gookins and his wife née Mary Larkin, and the grandson of Major-General Daniel Gookin.
Gookin was appointed the first sheriff of Worcester County, Massachusetts on June 30, 1741.
Death
Gookin died in June 1743.
Notes
Sheriffs of Worcester County, Massachusetts
People from Worcester County, Massachusetts
1743 deaths
18th-century American people
Year of birth missing
People from Cambridge, Massachusetts |
41013780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Weiss%20%28author%29 | Hans Weiss (author) | Hans Weiss (born 1950) is an Austrian writer (fiction and non-fiction), journalist and photographer
Hans Weiss lives and works as an independent writer and photographer in Vienna, Austria. His books sold more than five million copies worldwide and have been translated into twenty languages.
Life and career
Weiss was born in Hittisau, a remote village in Austria. He studied psychology, philosophy and sociology in Innsbruck and Vienna and graduated in 1976 with a PhD. His thesis about the horrible state of care in an Austrian psychiatric clinic caused a scandal. After legal disputes and an internal investigation the director of the clinic was dismissed. The PhD-theses led to widespread reforms in the psychiatric services in Austria.
Hans Weiss completed his studies at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna with an MA in sociology in 1978. In 1977 he got a four-month scholarship from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to study psychiatric services in Italy. In 1978–79 he went to Cambridge, England, and London with a scholarship from the British Council to study the psychiatric services in England.
His first book Gesunde Geschäfte (Healthy Business – about the malpractices of the pharmaceutical industry), written 1981 in collaboration with three colleagues, was an immediate bestseller in the German speaking world. For this book he worked as a salesman for the pharmaceutical companies Bayer and Sandoz and collected thousands of highly confidential files. Healthy business describes in detail how pharmaceutical companies bribe doctors and use patients as guinea pigs.
His next book Bittere Pillen (Bitter Pills – risks and benefits of the most frequently used drugs), written 1983 in cooperation with the same colleagues as his first book, was an even greater success – with more than three million copies sold. This comprehensive reference work is updated every three years and is up to the present day used by patients and doctors alike.
Since then, he wrote more than twenty books, as author or co-author, fiction and non-fiction. His main topics are unethical practices of multinational companies (The Black Book of Corporations), tax evasion tricks of global banks and companies (Antisocial Market Economy) and especially Medicine (Corrupt Medicine, The promises of the Beauty Industry).
Between 1982 and 1984 he directed award-winning TV-documentaries for the Austrian Broadcast Corporation ORF.
During the spring-term of 1989 he taught methods of investigation at the Institute for Journalism and Communications (University of Vienna).
For his often daring investigations he posed as a salesman for drug companies, as a consultant for big pharmaceutical companies, doctor, import/export-dealer, heir of a wealthy company owner, prison psychologist and patient.
Sometimes he is focussing his view on very small communities or on one person. For example, in the book "The People of Langenegg" (Die Leute von Langenegg), where he described life in the 1930s and 1940s in a remote Austrian peasant village.
Occasionally he writes fiction. For example, the novel Kulissen des Abschieds (Scenery of the goodbye), published in 1999 by Ullstein Verlag/Berlin. In his fiction work he intertwines personal experience with historic facts, for example in the book Mein Vater, der Krieg und ich (My father, the war and I), which was published in 2005 by Kiepenheuer & Witsch in Cologne, Germany. For this publication he used the secret diaries his father wrote during military service in World War II and during the holidays in his village. His father was a simple soldier with an anti-Nazi attitude, stationed in Norway at the Russian Front and captured as a prisoner of war in France.
His journalistic reports for the magazines Der Spiegel, Stern, Die Zeit or the Austrian newspaper Der Standard often caused heated political debates, for example the illegal employment of a nurse in the family of the Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel in 2006 or the lush farm subsidies to multimillionaires. In February 2018 he published a series of three articles in the German weekly Die Zeit, about the tax avoiding schemes of multinational companies in Austria.
In 1994/95 he lived in New York City and attended classes at the International Center of Photography. In 1998 and 2011 he completed courses at the Schule für künstlerische Fotografie (School of Art Photography) in Vienna. His photographs were on show in group exhibitions in the Museum der Moderne in Salzburg (2012, Rupertinum Salzburg (2012), Fotogalerie Vienna (2011), Saline Hallein (2010), Palazzo Zenobio in Venice (2009) and various other places. Single exhibitions at "Deutsches Haus New York" (2015) and Soho Photo Gallery New York (2016, 2017 and upcoming October 2018). In 2014/15 he again lived in New York City and published the diary Große Träume (big dreams) about his everyday live.
Awards, grants, honours
"Dr. Georg Schreiber-Media Award" for two investigative reports in the German magazine Spiegel, Munich, 2012
"Book lovers award 2008" for "Corrupt Medicine", Vienna 2009
"Bruno Kreisky Anerkennungspreis for the Political Book" – Award for the book "Antisocial market Economy" (Asoziale Marktwirtschaft); Vienna/Austria, 2004
"Book of the Year 1983 in Germany"- Award by the German Publishing Guild for the book Bittere Pillen (Bitter Pills – risks and benefits of drugs), Cologne, Germany, 1984
"Best Austrian TV-Documentary 1981" – Award for the film "Mad World" (Irre Welt), Vienna/Austria, 1981
British Council Scholar (a one-year scholarship at Bedford College, London and Fulbourn Hospital, Cambridge), 1978/1979
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Grant (four months) at the University of Florence (Italy), 1977
Books – as author or co-author
Große Träume- New York Diary (2015, e-book)
Expérimentation et tentation – contribution to the book Big Pharma, by Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, Paris: Les Arènes publishing company, 2013,
Schwarzbuch ÖBB – Unser Geld am Abstellgleis (The Black Book of the Austrian Railway System), Vienna: Deuticke, 2013,
Tatort Kinderheim (Crime Scene Children's Home), Deuticke, Vienna 2012,
Schönheit – die Versprechen der Beauty-Industrie (The Promises of the Beauty-Industry), Vienna: Deuticke, 2011,
Schwarzbuch Landwirtschaft – die Machenschaften der Agrarpolitik" (The Black Book of Austrian Agriculture), Deuticke, Vienna 2010,
Korrupte Medizin – Ärzte als Komplizen der Konzerne (Corrupt Medicine), Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2008,
Mein Vater, der Krieg und ich (My Father, the War and I), Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2005,
Asoziale Marktwirtschaft – Insider aus Politik und Wirtschaft enthüllen, wie die Konzerne den Staat ausplündern (Antisocial Marketing Economy – Insiders Expose the Plundering of the State by Transnational Companies), Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2004,
3 x täglich – kritische Gebrauchsinformationen zu 11.000 Arzneimitteln (three times a day – patient information about drugs), Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2003,
Schwarzbuch Markenfirmen (The Black Book on Corporations – The Unscrupulous Practices of the Transnational Corporations), original edition Vienna: Deuticke, 2001; new edition, Berlin: Ullstein Publishing Company, 2016;
Kulissen des Abschieds (Scenery of the Goodbye – a novel), Berlin: Ullstein, 1999,
Everything You Need To Know Before You Call the Doctor (US edition of Kursbuch Gesundheit, Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1990, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2006), New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2001; more than 1.3 million copies of this book were sold worldwide. US edition
Arbeit – fünfzig deutsche Karrieren (Working – Fifty German Careers); published in Hans-Magnus Enzensbergers Edition "The Other Library"; Frankfurt: Eichborn, 1990,
WER? – ein Negativ-Who-is Who von Österreich (WHO? – Prominent Austrians and their Careers during the Nazi-Time); Vienna: Kremayr & Scheriau, 1988,
Öko-Bilanz Österreich (Ecological Balance Sheet of Austria); Vienna:Falter/ and Cologne: Kiepenheuer und Witsch, 1988,
Die Leute von Langenegg (The People of Langenegg – photographed by Konrad Nußbaumer und written about by Hans Weiss), Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1986,
Gift-Grün – Chemie in der Landwirtschaft und die Folgen (Poison Green – Chemicals in Agriculture and the Consequences); Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1986,
Kriminelle Geschichten – Ermittlungen über die Justiz (Criminal Stories – Investigations about the Justice System in Germany and Austria); Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1985,
Stimmen aus den Alpen (Voices from the Alps) – contribution to the book "Im blinden Winkel" by Christoph Ransmayr, Vienna: Brandstädter-Publishing Company, 1985: This was a story about the last days of the Nazi-era in a small village in the west of Austria where Hans Weiss grew up. He made interviews with almost all of the villagers from both sides – Nazis and Anti-Nazis,
Bittere Pillen – Nutzen und Risiken von Arzneimitteln (Bitter Pills – Risks and Benefits of Drugs in Germany and Austria); Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1983, 1985, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2014, 2018; since 1983 more than three million copies sold,
Gesunde Geschäfte – die Praktiken der Pharma-Industrie'' (Healthy Business – The Shady Practices of the Pharmaceutical Industry); Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1981, 1982,
External links
Website Hans Weiss
www.artsy.net/artist/hans-weiss
From and about Hans Weiss in the catalog of German National Library
Letter to the editor Der Standard, 19 August 2006
The Black Book of Austrian Agriculture in farmsubsidy.org
The Boaster (Der Aufschneider) in Der SPIEGEL, 1 October 2011
Crime Scene Childrens Home (Tatort Erziehungsheim) in zeit.de, 23 August 2012
Austria – tax haven for multinational companies part 1 part 2 and part 3 in zeit.de, February 2018
1950 births
Living people
Austrian male writers
Alumni of Bedford College, London |
41013809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20the%20Big%20Cross | Battle of the Big Cross | The Battle of the Big Cross was a military engagement of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 between a force of United Irishmen rebels and a column of government troops. It was fought on 19 June 1798 on a spot on the Shannonvale-Ballinascarty road known locally as the "Big Cross", approximately four miles east of Clonakilty in West Cork. It was the only battle fought in the rebellion in County Cork.
Background
The attempted landing of a French invasion fleet in Bantry Bay in late 1796 surprised the Dublin Castle administration. In response, government forces, including regular troops, militia, yeomanry and fencibles were garrisoned all over West Cork. In early 1798, Major-General Sir John Moore was given command over a force of 3,000 soldiers in West Cork. A proclamation was issued by the authorities, stipulating that all weaponry be handed over to either government troops or local magistrates by 2 May under an amnesty.
During the searches for weapons in Cork County in May, Moore issued orders for his men to "treat the people with as much harshness as possible, as far as words and manners went, and to supply themselves with whatever provisions were necessary to enable them to live well." According to historian Thomas Pakenham, as Moore was present during these searches, he prevented "great abuses" from taking place. However, as Moore himself noted, "The terror was great. The moment a red coat appeared everyone fled." The official disarming of West Cork was completed by 23 May. Moore and his troops had found 800 pikes and 3,400 firearms, and large numbers of suspected United Irishmen were arrested. When the United Irishmen in Leinster, especially Wexford, rose in rebellion in late May and early June 1798, West Cork remained very quiet. Many of the government troops in West Cork were in Irish Catholics and were recruited from among the peasantry. There is strong evidence that government troops may have had United Irishmen members or sympathizers among their ranks.
Battle
A detachment of the Westmeath Militia was stationed in Clonakilty under Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Hugh O'Reilly. On the afternoon of the 18th, O'Reilly received orders that his troops were to transfer to Bandon, about 15 miles east of Clonakilty. Early on the morning of 19 June, the Westmeath Militia, equipped with two artillery pieces, were marching in acolumn when they were confronted by a force of 300-400 United Irishmen rebels, lightly armed and consisting mostly of local peasantry, at a local crossroads known as the "Big Cross" under the command of a man named Tadhg an Astna O'Donovan. Much of what we know of the engagement comes from local folklore or from the pen of Sir Hugh O'Donovan who is said to have appealed to the mostly Irish troops and United Irishmen among the Westmeath militia's ranks to join his party. He was instead met with gunfire, though the Westmeath militia's commanding officer Sir Hugh O'Reilly denied this happened.
In the short engagement that followed, the United Irishmen who had few firearms were routed. The United Irishmen were also attacked by the Caithness Legion, a Scottish fencible regiment relieving the Westmeath militia in Clonakilty. Estimates of rebel casualties have varied from 50 to 100. They included O'Donovan, possibly shot in the back during an almost successful assault on O'Reilly's troops, who suffered few casualties after the battle. Yeomanry troops dragged the bodies of the dead United Irishmen rebels into Clonakilty town and left them in front of the town's market house for several days. They were later dumped in a local strand at a spot now known as the Croppy Hole, with their relatives recovering them afterwards. Public notices were placed, written in both Irish and English, urging the local people to yield up to justice their leaders and instigators, surrender all their illegal weapons, return to their habitations and resume their industrious employments.
In popular culture
One of the participants in the battle, Padraig Ó Scolaidhe from Ardfield, wrote a song, "Cath Bhéal an Mhuighe Shalaigh", in the Irish language which would have been the vernacular of Ardfield at the time. A statue of the United Irish leader. Tadhg an Astna. was erected in Clonakilty town centre in 1905.
References
the Big Cross
O'Donovan family |
41013817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchi%20Kola | Parchi Kola | Parchi Kola () may refer to:
Parchi Kola, Qaem Shahr
Parchi Kola, Sari |
41013844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation%20Roundtable | Conservation Roundtable | The Conservation Roundtable is a collation of executives representing America's top hunting, fishing and environmental organizations, who meet annually to discuss opportunities for collaboration and conservation. The organizations of this Roundtable collectively represent ten million Americans, tens of millions of acres conserved, and hundreds of years of conservation experience.”
Founded by Simon C. Roosevelt, the Conservation Roundtable Conferences are sponsored by The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and hosted each year by Mr. Roosevelt and Allison Whipple Rockefeller at the Pocantico Conference Center on the Rockefeller Family estate. According to Dale Hall, CEO of Ducks Unlimited, "The primary purpose is to bring together the leadership of major non-government organizations to see how we can focus on substantive issues that we all share."
Former efforts include the publishing of an open letter to President Obama, Congressman John Boehner and Senator Harry Reid in Politico to encourage government “to find practical ways to make stewardship today more inclusive, concerted, and effective.”
While the Conservation Roundtable consists of non-government organizations, the group works alongside politicians and government offices. Most recently, a meeting of the Conservation Roundtable convened at the Department of the Interior under the auspices of the Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, co-hosted by Roosevelt, bringing together an even larger group of private conservation organizations and the senior most officials in the department. The purpose of the meeting was to advance collaborative thought and action on both the interior department's agenda and priorities of the NGOs.
Participants
Lowell Baier – Boone & Crockett Club, President Emeritus
Ben Carter – Dallas Safari Club, President
Jamie Clark – Defenders of Wildlife, President and CEO
Dale Hall – Ducks Unlimited, CEO
Winifred B. Kessler – The Wildlife Society, President
Fred Krupp – Environmental Defense Fund, President
Larry Schweiger – National Wildlife Federation, President and CEO
Mark Tercek – The Nature Conservancy, CEO
George Thornton – National Wild Turkey Federation, CEO
Howard Vincent – Pheasants Forever, President and CEO
Jamie Williams – The Wilderness Society, President
Chris Wood – Trout Unlimited, President
David Yarnold – The National Audubon Society, President
References
Nature conservation organizations based in the United States |
41013848 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharam%20language | Kharam language | Kharam is a Southern Naga language of India. Peterson (2017) classifies the closely related Purum language (and hence Kharam as well) as part of the Northwestern branch of Kuki-Chin. According Ethnologue, Kharam shares a high degree of mutual intelligibility with Purum.
The speakers of this language use Meitei language as their second language (L2) according to the Ethnologue.
Geographical distribution
Kharam Naga is spoken in the following locations of Manipur (Ethnologue).
Senapati district: Purumlikli, Purumkhulen, Purumkhunou, Waicheiphai, and Moibunglikli villages
Chandel district: Lamlang Huipi, Chandanpokpi, Khongkhang Chothe, Loirang Talsi, Salemthar, Zat’lang, and New Wangparan villages
References
Languages of Manipur
Endangered languages of India
Southern Naga languages |
41013851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%20William%20Seymour%20%28British%20Army%20officer%29 | Lord William Seymour (British Army officer) | General Lord William Frederick Ernest Seymour, (8 December 1838 – 9 February 1915), known as William Seymour until 1871, was a senior British Army officer.
Military career
Born the son of Admiral Sir George Francis Seymour, Seymour served in the Crimean War in 1854 and in the Anglo-Egyptian War in 1882. He became General Officer Commanding South-Eastern District in February 1891, and Commander of the British Troops in Canada in 1898. From November 1901 to 1902, he served as acting Military Secretary in the absence of Ian Hamilton. He became Lieutenant of the Tower of London on 1 September 1902, was promoted to full general on 25 October 1902, and retired in 1905. He also served as Colonel-in-Chief of the Coldstream Guards from 1911 to 1915.
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1838 births
1915 deaths
British Army generals
British Army personnel of the Anglo-Egyptian War
British Army personnel of the Crimean War
Coldstream Guards officers
Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
William Frederick Ernest |
41013923 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malheur%20Brewery | Malheur Brewery | Malheur Brewery (Brouwerij Malheur) is a brewery in Buggenhout, Belgium, formerly named De Landtsheer. It is known for its Malheur brew.
Description
The Malheur is a unique pale ale that is as close to a champagne as a beer can get. The yeast used is a similar to champagne yeast, which is what gives the beer the mouth feel, carbonation, and color of a "champagne", and more appealing than a Freixenet Brut. The ABV is lower than Freixenet. Aromas of huge lemon, lemon zest, orange peel, apricot, herbal, floral, grass, earth, pepper, honey, and spicy yeast esters. Taste is of grain, grape juice, and spices with an alcohol kick. It is often poured into a champagne glass rather than a beer mug, and served at room temperature.
References
External links
Introducing Brouwerij De Landtsheer
YouTube
Breweries of Flanders
Companies based in East Flanders
Buggenhout |
41013935 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangtab | Sangtab | Sangtab or Sang Tab () may refer to:
Sangtab, Nur
Sangtab, Simorgh |
41013950 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%20O%27Keeffe | Stuart O'Keeffe | Stuart O'Keeffe (born Stuart Denis O'Keeffe, 15 September 1981) is an Irish celebrity chef, food writer, and television personality best known for his appearance on the Food Network's Private Chefs of Beverly Hills and other TV shows. He was a brand ambassador for Tupperware and served as their North American chef from 2008 to 2011. O'Keeffe resides in West Hollywood, California.
After appearing on the Food Network, O'Keeffe was featured on Stuart's Kitchen which aired in Ireland, New Zealand and South Africa. O'Keeffe has also made appearances on Marie, CBS's The Talk, The Home and Family Show, and Republic of Telly. He can also be seen in commercials for Asiana Airlines, featured in their national "Fly with Color" campaign.
Early life
O'Keeffe was born in Limerick, Ireland. He has two brothers and one sister. Growing up in Nenagh, Ireland, he developed a passion for cooking by watching his mother put together meals. O'Keeffe reports that he would abandon his homework in favour of helping his aunt and mother prepare pastries and pies, and that he became a "right handy sous-chef" in the family kitchen by age 7. His mother influenced his cooking style by inspiring him to use the fresh, locally sourced ingredients.
Career
From 2000 to 2004, O'Keeffe attended the Dublin Institute of Technology and graduated with a B.A. in Culinary Arts. Shortly after, O'Keeffe travelled through Europe, moved to France, and learned high-end French cooking in Bordeaux by working in a small restaurant. O'Keeffe specialises in Continental and New American cuisine.
At 22, O'Keeffe moved to Napa Valley and was a chef in a hotel. By 2004, he had moved to Los Angeles and was cooking for A-list celebrities, private clients and parties in Hollywood. From 2008 to 2011, O'Keeffe was a spokesperson for Tupperware and was featured in company catalogues and promotional events throughout USA and Canada.
O'Keeffe had a run on Ireland's TV3 with a show called Stuart's Kitchen. His re-location to California and filming schedule stopped the network from picking up a second season but TV3 continues to develop specials and programming with O'Keeffe. O'Keeffe offers a complementary app through iTunes which enables people to make step-by-step recipes as they watch the show.
O'Keeffe is featured on OWN's Home Made Simple. He was a contributing Food Columnist for the Evening Herald from 2011 to 2012.
O'Keeffe has done private and promotional events with celebrity clients such as Sofia Vergara, Sharon Stone, Owen Wilson, Hilary Swank, the Kardashians, Jessica Lange, Joan Collins, Ryan Murphy and Kelly Clinton.
In June 2012, he was chosen to cook for a fundraising campaign dinner for President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at a Beverly Hills fundraiser organised by Ryan Murphy. O'Keeffe was one of only six chefs selected for the $25,000-a-head function. Right before the event, O'Keeffe was hit by a car while riding his motorcycle and due to his injuries, was unable to fulfill the obligation.
Private Chefs of Beverly Hills
In Dec. 2009, Food Network launched a show called the Private Chefs of Beverly Hills. The docu-soap follows 6 private chefs, including O'Keeffe, as they work for a premiere private chef placement agency called Big City Chefs. On call 24/7, the chefs cater eccentric and speciality events for celebrity and high-profile clients such as a Botox party and an event for a luxury doggy daycare. O'Keeffe is the only non-American chef featured. The show has aired for 2 seasons and 16 episodes.
Endorsements
From 2008 to 2011, O'Keeffe served as a brand ambassador for Tupperware. Part of the company's New Chef Initiative, O'Keeffe was named the North American Chef for the brand and did demonstrations to promote healthy eating and cooking using Tupperware products. He was also featured in company catalogues and cooked at promotional events with celebrities like Sofia Vergara.
O'Keeffe launched "Let's Cook!" in April 2012, an initiative that provides free cooking classes and demonstrations for people with arthritis. Partnering with Arthritis Ireland and healthcare company Abbott, the chef developed nutritionally balanced recipes for arthritis sufferers. For the classes, O'Keeffe incorporated culinary skills which maximise comfort for people with arthritis pain and symptoms.
In November 2012, O'Keeffe appeared on CBS's The Talk and teamed up with Udi's gluten free to make several gluten free recipes for the holiday season.
In 2013, O'Keeffe was selected to be a spokes model for Asiana Airlines and is featured in advertisements for their global campaign, Fly with Color.
References
External links
Official site
American television personalities
Male television personalities
Irish television chefs
Irish food writers
1981 births
Living people
Broadcasters from County Limerick
Broadcasters from County Tipperary
People from Nenagh
Irish emigrants to the United States |
41013966 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupie%20Doll | Groupie Doll | Groupie Doll (foaled April 14, 2008) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse. A specialist sprinter, she is best known for winning the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint in 2012 and 2013. Unraced as a two-year-old she showed good form as a three-year-old in 2011, winning three races including the Gardenia Stakes. In 2012, she emerged as a world-class sprinter, winning the Madison Stakes, Humana Distaff Handicap, Presque Isle Downs Masters Stakes, and Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes before taking the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint. In 2013 she repeated in the Masters Stakes and won a second Breeders' Cup. She was then sold as a prospective broodmare for $3.1 million. Her new owner chose to keep her in training into early 2014, running her against males in the Cigar Mile, and then in the Hurricane Bertie Stakes, where she won the final race of her career, to be retired and become a broodmare.
Background
Groupie Doll is a chestnut mare with a small white star bred in Kentucky by the Frankfort-based father and son team of Fred and William "Buff" Bradley who also bred and raced Brass Hat. She is by far the most successful racehorse sired by Bowman's Band, a Kentucky-bred stallion whose biggest win on the track came in the 2003 Meadowlands Breeders' Cup Stakes. Groupie Doll's dam Deputy Doll won two minor races, and was a great-great-great-granddaughter of the influential broodmare Boudoir, whose other descendants include Graustark, His Majesty, Secreto, Majestic Prince, Real Quiet and Daiwa Major.
During her racing career, the mare was owned by the Bradleys in partnership with Brent Burns and Carl Hurst and trained by Buff Bradley. Groupie Doll usually raced in a white hood.
Racing career
2011: three-year-old season
Groupie Doll began her racing career as a three-year-old in Kentucky. After finishing unplaced on her debut at Churchill Downs she recorded her first success by winning a maiden race over six and a half furlongs at the same venue in June. She then moved to Ellis Park Race Course where she won a seven furlong allowance race before being moved up in class and distance for the one mile Grade III Gardenia Stakes. Ridden by Greta Kuntweiler, she took the lead in the straight and won by three lengths from Secret File. She then finished second, carrying top weight in the Charles Town Oaks and second again, to the Brazilian filly Great Hot in the Grade II Raven Run Stakes at Keeneland. When tried over a longer distance in November she failed to reproduce her earlier form and finished unplaced behind Marketing Mix in the Grade II Mrs. Revere Stakes at Churchill Downs. Groupie Doll was sent to Florida and dropped in class for her final appearance of the year, winning an allowance race at Gulfstream Park on December 22.
2012: four-year-old season
Groupie Doll's four-year-old season began with three consecutive defeats at Gulfstream. She finished second to the Grade I winning colt Boys At Tosconanova in a one-mile allowance race in January, third to Awesome Maria and Royal Delta in the Grade III Sabin Stakes in February and third behind Musical Romance in the Grade II Inside Information Stakes in March. In the last of these races she was partnered by Rajiv Maragh, who rode her in all her subsequent races.
Groupie Doll won her next five races. Racing on the Polytrack surface at Keeneland on April 12 she recorded her first Grade I victory when she defeated seven opponents in the Grade I Vinery Madison Stakes in which she wore blinkers for the first time. Starting at odds of 3.9/1 she took the lead a furlong out and won by three lengths from She's Cheeky. Maragh said that the filly "finished with a lot of power. She was long gone by the eighth pole". In May she won another Grade I when she took the Humana Distaff Stakes on the dirt at Churchill Downs. On this occasion she took the lead at half way in the seven furlong event and drew away in the straight to win impressively by seven and a quarter lengths from Musical Romance. The winning time of 1:20.44 was a new track record.
After a four-month break, during which her training was disrupted by a hock injury, the filly returned in September and won the Grade II Presque Isle Downs Masters Stakes over six and a half furlongs on Tapeta. On October 6 at Keeneland she started 2/5 favorite for the Grade II Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes over six furlongs and won easily by six and a half lengths from Strike The Moon. On November 3, Groupie Doll started the 4/6 favourite for the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint over six furlongs on dirt at Santa Anita Park. Her opponents were headed by Dust and Diamonds, the winner of the Gallant Bloom Handicap at Belmont Park, and also included Strike The Moon, Great Hot and Musical Romance. Drawn ninth of the ten runners, Groupie Doll raced on the wide outside in the first quarter mile. She moved forward on the final turn, took the lead in mid-stretch and pulled away to win by four and a half lengths from Dust and Diamonds. After the race, Buff Bradley said, "We started with her from before she was born. My dad has worked a long time for this and we worked a lot of hours on the farm, and we've seen a lot of them not make it to the races. When you get here you know how special it is, and to be able to have one and keep this one healthy all through the campaign is exceptional". Three weeks after her Breeders' Cup win, Groupie Doll was matched against colts in the Cigar Mile Handicap at Aqueduct Racetrack. Starting the 21/20 she took the lead in the straight but was caught on the wire and beaten a nose by Stay Thirsty.
2013: five-year-old season
Groupie Doll missed the first half of the 2013 and did not appear until August, when she attempted to repeat her 2011 success in the Gardenia Stakes. She started the 1/5 favorite, but after stumbling at the start she finished third behind Devious Intent and Magic Hour. A month later, she won her second Masters Stakes at Presque Isle Downs, taking the lead inside the final furlong and winning by one and a half lengths from Purely Hot with the Canadian-bred four-year-old Judy the Beauty in third. On October 2, the mare started 1/2 favorite for the Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes at Keeneland but after Maragh was unable to obtain a clear run in the straight she finished third behind Judy the Beauty and Gypsy Robin.
On November 2 Groupie Doll defended her Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint title at Santa Anita. She was made the 7/2 favorite ahead of Dance Card (Gazelle Stakes), Sweet Lulu (Test Stakes), Dance To Bristol (Ballerina Stakes) and Judy the Beauty. For the second year in succession, Groupie Doll was drawn on the outside and had to race wide in the early stages. She took the lead in the straight and held off the late challenge of Judy the Beauty to win by half a length, with Dance Card half a length back in third. After the race, a visibly emotional Buff Bradley said; "She's the best, I'm so glad she got to show that today. No one on my team ever lost confidence in her. We've always known how good she is."
Less than a week after her second Breeders' Cup win, Groupie Doll was auctioned at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale. The bidding reached $3.1 million before she was sold to Mandy Pope's Whisper Hill Farm. It was announced that she would be sent to begin her career as a broodmare at the Timber Town stables at Lexington, Kentucky. However, before retiring to be a broodmare, she was raced again in 2013 in the Cigar Mile Handicap at Aqueduct on November 30. She finished fourth behind Flat Out after being denied a clear run in the straight.
On February 9, 2014, she decisively won her final race, the Hurricane Bertie Stakes.
Assessment and Honors
In the 2012 edition of the World Thoroughbred Rankings, Groupie Doll was rated the 46th best racehorse in the world, the best sprinter on dirt, the best sprinter in North America and the third best female sprinter in the world behind Black Caviar and Atlantic Jewel. In the Eclipse Awards for 2012 she was voted American Champion Female Sprint Horse taking 250 of the 254 votes. She was again voted Champion Female Sprinter for 2013 beating Mizdirection by 195 votes to 45.
In 2015, Ellis Park renamed the Gardenia Stakes, which she had won in 2011, in her honor. It is Ellis Park's only graded stakes race. "Everybody I spoke with thought it was the right thing to do", said the racing secretary of Ellis Park, Dan Bork. "As much as I hate to change the name of the Gardenia, if there's one horse that deserves it – a mare – it would be her."
Retirement
On March 5, 2015, Groupie Doll delivered her first foal, a colt by Tapit about a week before her original March 11 due date, Wayne Sweezey of Timber Town Stable confirmed March 28. There was a problem with the delivery and the premature colt was rushed immediately to Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital near Lexington for critical nursing care. Groupie Doll recovered well from foaling and did not display any post-delivery issues. Under the care of Dr Bonnie Barr, the colt was initially too weak to stand or nurse, but made great progress since the first couple of weeks and was eventually released. Groupie Doll was bred back to Tapit for a 2016 foal. She had five consecutive foals by Tapit, three of whom started and two of whom won one race each. She delivered a colt by Triple Crown winner Justify in 2020 and was bred to leading sire Into Mischief in that year, but failed to produce a live foal.
Pedigree
References
2008 racehorse births
Racehorses bred in Kentucky
Racehorses trained in the United States
Thoroughbred family 4-d
Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint winners |
41013975 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibney%20Dance | Gibney Dance | Gibney Dance, founded in 1991 by choreographer Gina Gibney, is a multi-faceted dance organization occupying two locations in New York City: one at 890 Broadway in the Flatiron District and the other at 280 Broadway in Tribeca. The organization’s activities are divided into the following three interrelated fields: Center, Company, and Community. The first, Center, refers to the facility and its programming, which provide rehearsal space to nonprofit and commercial renters in addition to classes, programs, and services to the New York dance community. Company refers to Gibney Dance Company, a professional contemporary dance company operating out of the Center. Finally, Community refers to Community Action, an outreach program uniting dancers with survivors of domestic violence in shelters around New York City. In 2008, Gibney Dance was inducted into Vanity Fair’s Hall of Fame for “making art and taking action”.
History
In 1991, choreographer Gina Gibney founded Gibney Dance in New York City as a performing and social action company. The following year, she began renting space in the historic 890 Broadway building to house her company’s rehearsals. The space, then called Studio 5-2, soon became home to a roster of professional-level dance classes taught by some of the city’s most sought-after teachers. Over the next two decades, Gibney and her company developed a repertory of eight evening-length works that were performed throughout the country as well as in Canada, Germany, and Turkey. From 1997 until 2007, Gibney Dance Company operated as an all-female troupe, a decision resulting from Gibney’s growing concern that women in professional dance were losing artistic and financial ground. Since 2007, the company has included both men and women.
In 2000, Gibney Dance founded the Domestic Violence Project, known today as Community Action. In 2010, the Center reopened as a greatly expanded, seven-studio facility encompassing nearly the entire fifth floor of the 890 Broadway building, whose other tenants include Ballet Tech and the American Ballet Theatre. The following year, Gibney Dance began offering an array of programs designed to serve the professional dance field in New York City. In 2013, with support from The Agnes Varis Trust, Gibney Dance’s Community Action reached its goal of offering 500 workshops each year to survivors of domestic violence. Also that year, the organization acquired yet another studio, bringing the facility to eight studios, making it one of the largest of its kind in New York City. In January 2014, at the invitation of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Gibney Dance created a strategic plan for the revitalization of 280 Broadway in order to preserve the space for the future of dance. The organization's vision for 280 Broadway is to create a preeminent training program, a tripartite performance complex, and a springboard for social action. The new space operates in tandem with existing programs at 890 Broadway.
Center
Gibney Dance 890 is a complex of nine studios located at 890 Broadway in New York City’s Flatiron District. Gibney Dance 280 is a complex of fourteen studios located at 280 Broadway in Lower Manhattan. Both spaces rent studios to commercial theatre and television productions, allowing them to offer rehearsal space to nonprofit renters at subsidized rates. Ongoing ballet classes taught by Jaclynn Villamil, Janet Panetta, Sharon Milanese, Amy Miller, Martha Chapman, and Elisa Osborne are held at 890 Broadway, along with Simonson and Trisha Brown techniques, somatic practices, and a number of other contemporary class offerings at 280 Broadway. Additionally, the Center offers a roster of programs and services designed to serve New York’s professional dance community, such as artist residencies, space grants, and feedback forums for choreographers.
Partner Organizations in 280 Broadway's Training Program include the Trisha Brown Dance Company, the New Dance Collective, the Playground, and Movement Research. New facilities at 280 Broadway include a center for professional development called the Learning and Leadership Studio, a hub for the organization's Community Action Program, a white-wall gallery for visual art, and a digital media workroom for artists. 280 Broadway also features three performance spaces and will host its first performance series, DoublePlus, in November and December 2014.
Company
Gibney Dance Company, founded in 1991, is a professional contemporary dance company led by artistic director Gina Gibney and associate artistic director Amy Miller. The company’s repertory includes eight evening-length works composed over the last decade that have been performed throughout the country and abroad. In her choreography, Gibney has collaborated with numerous artists, including composer Ryan Lott (Son Lux), lighting designer Kathy Kaufmann, costume designers Naoko Nagata and David C. Woolard, and visualist Joshue Ott.
Gibney Dance Company Repertory
Time Remaining (2002), made with collaborators Kitty Brazelton (music), Kathy Kaufmann (lighting), Naoko Nagata (costumes) and Normal Group for Architecture (scenic design)
Thrown (2004), made with collaborators Andy Russ (music), Kathy Kaufmann (lighting), and Naoko Nagata (costumes)
Unbounded (2005), made with Ryan Lott (music), Kathy Kaufmann (lighting), Naoko Nagata (costumes), and Anja Hitzenberger (video)
The Distance Between Us (2007), made with collaborators Ryan Lott/Son Lux (music), Kathy Kaufmann (lighting). Naoko Nagata (costumes), and Lex Liang (scenic design)
View Partially Obstructed (2009), made with collaborators Ryan Lott/Son Lux (music), Kathy Kaufmann (lighting), Lex Liang (scenic design and costumes), and superDraw/Joshue Ott (live animation)
Concrete mécanique (2010), made with collaborators Ryan Lott/Son Lux and yMusic Chamber Ensemble (music), Kathy Kaufmann (lighting), and Lex Liang (costumes)
Dividing Line (2013), made with collaborators Ryan Lott/Son Lux and ACME (music), Kathy Kaufmann (lighting), and David C. Woolard (costumes)
Community
Gibney Dance’s Community Action is a unique program that unites dancers with survivors of domestic violence in a series of workshops held in shelters throughout New York City. The goal of the program is to “bring the possibility of self-expression where it would otherwise not exist.” Through original movement creation and trust-building activities, Gibney Dance Company members work with survivors of domestic violence to address issues of choice, self-expression, and sharing. Since its inception in 2000, Gibney Dance’s Community Action has partnered with Sanctuary for Families and Safe Horizon, two of New York’s leading organizations dedicated to serving victims of domestic violence. Beyond its work in shelters, Community Action provides training sessions in its methodology both in New York and abroad. In April 2013, Gibney Dance Company travelled to Istanbul, Turkey to conduct a Community Action Residency at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, teaching its unique approach to empowerment through movement to Turkish dancers and social service providers. In May 2014, the Company travelled to Cape Town, South Africa to conduct its second Global Community Action Residency in partnership with iKapa Dance Theatre and the Saartjie Baartman Centre for Women and Children. In the fall of 2014, Gibney Dance opened a Community Action Hub at 280 Broadway, a facility devoted to the organization's outreach program featuring a research and workspace and a resource library.
Gina Gibney
Gina Gibney, originally from Ohio, attended Case Western Reserve University, where she graduated with high honors (summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) with a liberal arts degree. She went on to earn a Masters of Fine Arts degree in dance from Case Western University, where she worked with Kathryn Karipides and Kelly Holt. Her work has been honored with the Northern Ohio Live Arts Award, the Copperfoot Award for Choreography, Case Western Reserve University Young Alumni Award, Alpert Award (finalist), the OTTY (Our Town Thanks You) Arts Award, and by Sanctuary for Families, Safe Horizon and The Retreat and the Vanity Fair Hall of Fame. Gibney currently serves on the Board of Directors of Dance/NYC and Danspace Project, and has served as a Dance/USA Trustee. She is a frequent panellist and speaker on topics of dance, entrepreneurship, and social action.
Artist Statement:
“In my work, I want to reveal what it is to be human—in the most simple, basic terms. I want to create a choreographic world where strength and tenderness are equally important, where touch and separation are meaningful, and where movement takes on the quality of an intimate conversation. Much of my work is about connection. I want to create work that reminds us that we share a common environment and that our similarities are greater than our differences. As a choreographer, I am an observer. I try to look honestly at how dancers connect to movement and to the complex web of relationships. For example, I look for stillness, for that charged moment of non-movement and what that means to dancers examining their internal motivations and those of each other. I look for gestures that reach and enfold, hold and rebuff, contain and lose. I look for movement that has authenticity and weight. I look for focus that reaches deeply inward, yet is clear and open, with active awareness and a sense of reciprocity.”
Funders
Gibney Dance has received recognition and support from the following foundations and corporate donors: The Agnes Varis Trust, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Arnhold Foundation, Booth Ferris Foundation, Bossak Heilbron Charitable Foundation, Dextra Baldwin McGonagle Foundation, Engaging Dance Audiences (administered by Dance/USA and made possible with generous funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation), Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Eileen Fisher, Emma A. Sheafer Charitable Trust, The Gramercy Park Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, The Jerome Robbins Foundation and Trust, Jewish Communal Fund, Joseph & Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Macy’s, Materials for the Arts, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Morgan Stanley, New Music USA: Creative Connections, The New York Community Trust (Lila Acheson Wallace Theater Fund), The New York Community Trust (LuEsther T. Mertz Advised Fund), NYC Dance Response Fund (a program of Dance/NYC established by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation), New York University Community Fund, O’Donnell Green Music and Dance Foundation, Open Society Foundations, The Patrina Foundation, and Tisch Dance Summer Residency Festivals.
Press
“Gibney finds in dance the proper set of incendiary devices to fuel life change, ignite new perspectives on women’s roles, and hotwire the visual spectacle of live art.”
— Tim Duroche, Willamette Week, January 10, 2007
“With any justice, history will honor Gina Gibney Dance for exquisite, sensitive choreography that mattered in a time when so much cultural product did not”
— Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Village Voice, May 8, 2001
“Gina Gibney has established herself as a poet of modern dance today”
—Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times, April 21, 1998
“Vanity Fair nominates Gina Gibney Dance, because they not only make art but take action, bringing the wisdom they’ve acquired as dancers into the lives of women whose minds and bodies house the memory of domestic violence”
— Holly Brubach, Vanity Fair, April 2008
“Who better than dancers can help to physically express the inexpressible, which sets itself against words, hidden in the withdrawal of the body and the spirit?”
— Frédérique Doyon, Le Devoir, December 3, 2009
“Lower Manhattan's arts scene took a hit when Dance New Amsterdam vacated its TriBeCa home this fall. But a new tenant with equal dance-world credibility on Thursday signed a 20-year lease for the 36,000-square-foot space at 280 Broadway: choreographer Gina Gibney, founder of Gibney Dance.” – Pia Catton, The Wall Street Journal, January 9, 2014
“Since 1991, Gibney Dance has grown from being a performing company to including two dance centers and a community action program that serves to give greater visibility to the issue of domestic violence. Most recently, the organization has opened a second location, Gibney 280 (located downtown Manhattan at 280 Broadway) -- the same building that housed former Dance New Amsterdam (DNA).” – Trina Mannino, The Dance Enthusiast, June 18, 2014
"Ms. Gibney is currently one of contemporary dance’s most powerful figures in New York. The center of her new influence is 280 Broadway, a two-story building just north of City Hall on which she signed a lease in January. Ms. Gibney now has 17 studios, three theaters, and 51,000 square feet under her control." -Alex Traub, "The New York Observer", July 11, 2014
References
American dance groups
Performing groups established in 1991
1991 establishments in New York City
Dance companies in New York City |
41013981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland%20Jones-Bateman | Rowland Jones-Bateman | Rowland Jones-Bateman (10 November 1826 – 16 December 1896) was an English cricketer active in the 1840s, making eight appearances in first-class cricket. Born at St Pancras, London, Jones-Bateman was a batsman of unknown style who was mostly associated with Oxford University.
Career
The son of John Jones-Bateman, he was educated at Winchester College, before attending New College, Oxford and a student of Lincoln's Inn. While studying at the university, Jones-Bateman played first-class cricket for the university cricket club, debuting against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1846. He made six further first-class appearances for the university, all of which came against the MCC. He scored 84 runs at an average of 6.46, with a high score of 22. He later made a single first-class appearance for the MCC against Oxford University in 1849. Later a member of the Inner Temple, he was called to the bar on 30 April 1852.
He died at Otterbourne, Hampshire on 16 December 1896. His brother John Jones-Bateman also played first-class cricket.
References
External links
Rowland Jones-Bateman at ESPNcricinfo
Rowland Jones-Bateman at CricketArchive
1826 births
1896 deaths
Sportspeople from St Pancras, London
People educated at Winchester College
Alumni of New College, Oxford
English cricketers
Oxford University cricketers
Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
Members of Lincoln's Inn
Members of the Inner Temple
English barristers
19th-century English lawyers |
41013989 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorraine%20Baker | Lorraine Baker | Lorraine Baker-Strain (born 9 April 1964) is an English former middle-distance runner who competed in the 800 metres. She represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles 1984 and Barcelona 1992. In Los Angeles, she finished fifth in the final. She also won bronze medals at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh and the 1990 European Indoor Championships in Glasgow.
Career
Baker was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, England and was a member of the Coventry Godiva Harriers. A talented junior, she won the AAAs National Under 15 800 metres title in 1978 and the Under 17 title in both 1979 and 1980. In 1981, at the European Junior Championships, she finished fifth in the final in 2:07.39. She represented England at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, finishing sixth in 2:03.17. At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, Baker was the only British representative in the women's 800 metres. She excelled herself by reaching the final, placing fifth in a personal best of 2:00.03, just failing to break the two-minute barrier.
Having come close to breaking the two-minute barrier on a number of occasions, Baker at last succeeded at the Crystal Palace, London in July 1986, when she ran 1:59.99. This made her only the fourth British woman in history to run sub 2 minutes for the 800 metres, after Christina Boxer (1979), Shireen Bailey (1983) and Kirsty McDermott (1985). Two weeks later at the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, she won the bronze medal in the 800 metres final in 2:01.79, behind Kirsty Wade (McDermott) and Diane Edwards. In August, she achieved her lifetime best of 1:59.67 at the Berlin grand prix. Two weeks later at the European Championships in Stuttgart, she reached the semi-finals and ran 2:02.03.
Baker then suffered two years of injury problems, before returning to form in 1989 and gaining selection for the 1990 Commonwealth Games, held in New Zealand in January. In Auckland, she finished fifth in the final in 2:01.77. A month later, at the 1990 European Indoor Championships in Glasgow, she ran 2:02.42 to win a bronze medal behind Lyubov Gurina of the Soviet Union and Sabine Zwiener of West Germany. She continued as one of Britains most consistent 800 metre women for the next two years. At the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo, she reached the semi-finals running 2:01.32. In 1992, she qualified for her second Olympics. In the heats of the Barcelona Games, she ran her best time for six years, with 2:00.50, to reach the semi-finals, where she ran 2:02.17. Barcelona proved to be the conclusion of her international career.
Throughout her career, Baker placed second or third 16 times at senior national championships, without ever winning. At the AAA Championships, she was second three times (1981, 1986, 1991), at the UK Championships she was second three times (1982, 1983, 1992) and at the AAAs Indoors, she was second twice (1981, 1987). As of 2021, her best (1:59.67) ranks 19th on the UK all-time list. Her best as a junior (2:01.66 in Oslo 1982) still ranks fourth on the UK Under 20 all-time list. She also ranks sixth on the UK all-time list at 1000 metres with 2:35.51.
Personal life
Baker is the daughter of American-born Scottish professional footballer Gerry Baker, who earned seven international caps for the USA. Her uncle Joe Baker, was also an International footballer, earning eight England caps between 1959 and 1966. Her son, Ryan Strain, is a footballer with St. Mirren in Scotland (the team her father played for) and has represented Australia.
International competitions
All results regarding 800 metres.
National championships 800m
AAA Championships 2nd (1981, 1986, 1991) 3rd (1982, 1989, 1990)
UK Championships 2nd (1982, 1983, 1992) 3rd (1981, 1984, 1986, 1989, + 3rd 1991 1500m)
AAA Indoor Championships 2nd (1981, 1987)
Personal bests
600 metres — 1:26.97 (1990)
800 metres — 1:59.67 (1986)
1000 metres — 2:35.51 (1986)
1500 metres — 4:11.94 (1990)
References
1964 births
Living people
British female middle-distance runners
Olympic athletes for Great Britain
Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
English people of Scottish descent
Medallists at the 1986 Commonwealth Games |
41013990 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangtab%2C%20Simorgh | Sangtab, Simorgh | Sangtab (, also Romanized as Sangtāb and Sang Tāb) is a village in Talarpey Rural District of Talarpey District, Simorgh County, Mazandaran province, Iran.
At the 2006 National Census, its population was 786 in 215 households, when it was in the former Kiakola District of Qaem Shahr County. The following census in 2011 counted 732 people in 230 households. The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 772 people in 275 households, by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Simorgh County. It was the largest village in its rural district.
References
Simorgh County
Populated places in Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Simorgh County |
41013994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lighthouse%20and%20the%20Whaler | The Lighthouse and the Whaler | The Lighthouse and the Whaler is an American band from Cleveland, Ohio. Originally a folk rock trio, they eventually became a rock quartet. The group's second album, This is an Adventure, was produced by Ryan Hadlock and independently released in 2012 and received critical praise for its genre-bending melodic folk.
History
Early years and formation (2008–11)
The Lighthouse and the Whaler was formed by vocalist and guitarist Michael LoPresti in 2008. The name was inspired by Chapter 14 of Herman Melville's Moby Dick. "The Field Song", the band's first song, was a result of spontaneous collaboration that took place between Lopresti and former band members Aaron Smith and Evan Storey in a field when they were first starting. Soon after "The Field Song" was selected for the acclaimed Paste Magazine Sampler CD in Issue 29. In November 2009, the band co-produced and self-released its debut album, The Lighthouse and the Whaler, working with producer and musician, Dave Douglas, at his home studio. The band supported the release with a performance at SXSW 2010 and The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as well as tours and opening slots for bands like The Temper Trap, GIVERS and Motion City Soundtrack. Later in 2010 the band was named the "Best Indie" act in Cleveland by Cleveland Scene Magazine and was featured as a band of the month by BMI. That album went on to receive more attention from Paste, KEXP and Daytrotter.
This is an Adventure (2011–2014)
In August 2011, the band began recording This is an Adventure at Bear Creek Studios in Washington, where The Lumineers, Brandi Carlile, The Walkmen and Ra Ra Riot had previously recorded. The group lived in the barn attached to the studio while making the record under the production of Hadlock.
A three-song Pioneers EP was released in March 2012, in anticipation of This is an Adventure, which followed in September 2012. Released independently, the album was the second highest ranking DIY album on the CMJ 200 in 2012 and received attention from NPR World Cafe, Paste, FILTER, Daytrotter, Under the Radar magazine and others. Music from the album was featured on Gossip Girl, CSI:NY, Emily Owens MD and other shows.
In support of the album, The Lighthouse and the Whaler toured North America with Jukebox the Ghost, Matt Pond PA, Ra Ra Riot and Ewert and the Two Dragons, performing at CMJ Pop! Montreal, NXNE, SXSW and FILTER Culture Collide Festival. During Culture Collide, the band won Peter Gabriel's cover song contest to celebrate the 20th anniversary of So.
This is an Adventure debuted on the Billboard Heatseekers chart in March 2013. Due to the success of This is an Adventure the band released the Venice Remix EP on June 10, 2014, featuring remixes from Savior Adore, Chancellor Warhol and Adam Snow as well as a new radio edit of Venice. The band supported the release of the EP with a national tour supporting Matt Pond PA and additional dates with Run River North on either side of its release date.
Mont Royal (2015–Present)
In January 2015, The Lighthouse and the Whaler started recording its third album, Mont Royal, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The album was produced and mixed by Marcus Paquin, who previously worked with Local Natives, Arcade Fire and The National. It was released on August 28, 2015, by Roll Call Records in the United States of America and Fontana North in Canada. It was released by Smack Face Records in Australia and New Zealand. The first single, "I Want to Feel Alive," included a music video featuring Holland Roden of MTV's Teen Wolf.
Discography
Albums
The Lighthouse and the Whaler (2009)
This is an Adventure (2012)
Mont Royal (2015)
Talk (2022)
EPs
A Whisper, a Clamour EP (2008)
Pioneers EP (2012)
Venice Remix EP (2014)
Paths EP (2017)
References
External links
Official website
Facebook
Twitter
Indie rock musical groups from Ohio
Musical groups from Cleveland
Roll Call Records artists |
41013998 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Cox%20%28horticulturist%29 | Richard Cox (horticulturist) | Richard Cox (c. 1766 – 20 May 1845) was an English brewer and horticulturist who bred the apple varieties Cox's Orange Pippin and Cox's Pomona.
Cox operated the Black Eagle Brewery located at 27 White's Grounds, Bermondsey, London until 1820, when he retired with his wife Ann to The Lawns (later Colnbrook Lawn) in Colnbrook, Slough, Buckinghamshire (now Berkshire), England, to pursue his hobby of horticulture. The house sat on two acres of land in the vicinity of Rodney Way and Daventry Close on the north side of the old Bath Road (now the High Street), about a mile west of the modern-day boundary of Heathrow Airport.
In 1830 he planted pips in his orchard Satisfied with the quality of the fruit produced by two of his seedlings, in 1836 he supplied grafts to E. Small & Son, the local nurseryman who offered the first trees for sale in 1840. The two varieties, Cox's Orange Pippin and Cox's Pomona, remained mostly unknown until Charles Turner of the Royal Nurseries in Slough, impressed by their quality, began to offer them in his catalog in 1850. Other English nurserymen began to graft and sell Cox's Orange Pippin trees, and by 1883 it was one of the most popular apples in the country.
Cox died in 1845 without seeing the success of the apple varieties to which he gave his name.
By 2007, Cox's Orange Pippin, grown worldwide, was Britain's most popular apple, accounting for over 50% of UK orchard acreage, and 48% of sales. Ownership of the brewery passed to Noakes & Company after Cox's death and would continue operation under different owners, ultimately Courage, until 1930.
The original Cox's Orange Pippin tree in Colnbrook was blown down in a storm in 1911, but two trees, grafted from the original, were still standing in the orchard as of 1933. The site is currently occupied by a block of low-rise flats also called The Lawns.
Richard Cox outlived his wife by eight years and died in 1845, aged 79; both are buried in the churchyard at St.Mary's in Harmondsworth. A memorial orchard stands near the site of The Lawns in Colnbrook, consisting of Cox's Orange Pippin, Cox's Pomona, Ribston Pippin, and Blenheim Orange with metallic benches in the shapes of the letters C, O and X.
References
1766 births
1845 deaths
English horticulturists
English brewers |
41014022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiakola%20Rural%20District | Kiakola Rural District | Kiakola Rural District () is in the Central District of Simorgh County, Mazandaran province, Iran.
At the National Census of 2006, its population (as a part of the former Kiakola District of Qaem Shahr County) was 4,217 in 1,114 households. There were 4,422 inhabitants in 1,385 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 2,651 in 893 households, by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Simorgh County. The largest of its three villages was Bala Dasteh-ye Rakan Kola, with 1,399 people.
References
Simorgh County
Rural Districts of Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Simorgh County |
41014025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendocino%20Steam%20Donkeys%20Rugby%20Football%20Club | Mendocino Steam Donkeys Rugby Football Club | Founded in 2006, the Mendocino Steam Donkey Rugby Football Club is the first official Northern California Rugby Football Union team in the Mendocino County. Based in Ukiah, California, the team is county-wide.
Competitions
The men's side competes seasonally in Division III of the Northern California Rugby Football Union (NCRFU), a division of USA Rugby. Each year the Steam Donkeys play twelve matches in the division III northern California league against Redding, Humboldt County, San Francisco, Santa Rosa, Napa, and Yreka.
Club Logo
The Steam Donkey moniker is based on a steam-powered winch, or logging engine, as a tribute to the logging history of Mendocino County. It also conveys the hard-hitting style of play the club is known for.
History
Founded in 2005, the Mendocino Steam Donkeys Rugby Club started with only eight players. Outside of a few veteran players, many new players did not even know the basic rules of rugby, but with several practices devoted to the intricacies of the sport, that soon changed. Over the years, word about the club spread around the county, sparking interest and bringing players not only from Ukiah, which is the main hub of the club, but from outlying communities as well, from Potter Valley to Willits, Boonville to Hopland, Fort Bragg and Mendocino, stretching as far as Lake County.
The Mendocino Steam Donkeys Rugby Club played their first game in 2006.
Community outreach
The club is known for community engagement - especially working with children. In 2013, the club partnered with the Mendocino County Library, to promote children's literacy through "Rugby Reads" where the players read to children. Also in 2013, the club collected toys for underprivileged children donating them to the Ukiah Valley Christmas Effort as part of a coalition with service club, the Active 20-30 Club of Ukiah, and roller derby teams Mendo Mayhem and Deep Valley Belligerents.
External links
Mendocino Steam Donkeys Rugby Football Club — official website
References
Rugby union teams in California
Rugby clubs established in 2006
2006 establishments in California |
41014030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talarpey%20Rural%20District | Talarpey Rural District | Talarpey Rural District () is in Talarpey District of Simorgh County, Mazandaran province, Iran.
At the National Census of 2006, its population (as a part of the former Kiakola District of Qaem Shahr County) was 6,333 in 1,706 households. There were 6,211 inhabitants in 1,924 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 3,920 in 1,353 households, by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Simorgh County. The largest of its 12 villages was Sangtab, with 772 people.
References
Simorgh County
Rural Districts of Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Simorgh County |
41014051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964%20Winchester%20by-election | 1964 Winchester by-election | The 1964 Winchester by-election was held on 14 May 1964. It was held after the incumbent Conservative MP Peter Smithers was appointed as the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe. It was retained for the Conservative Party by their candidate Morgan Morgan-Giles.
Background
The by-election was one of four (the others being Bury St Edmunds, Devizes and Rutherglen being held on the same day in which the seat was being defended by a candidate supporting the incumbent Conservative government. With a general election due later in the year, the results were anticipated with interest as pointer to what might happen at the election. According to The Glasgow Herald, unlike the other three seats, Winchester was expected to be an easy win for the Conservatives, although it was expected that the Conservative majority would be cut.
Result
Aftermath
While the Conservatives held Winchester, it was reported that if the swing of 8.5% from Conservative to Labour were repeated at the general election it would give the latter a majority of over 170 seats. However, the result at Devizes showed a much lower swing to Labour. The Conservatives lost Rutherglen, but held Bury St Edmund's, the last of the seats to declare, with what was reported by The Glasgow Herald to be a smaller swing against them than expected. The same newspaper noted that while the four results gave a mixed picture, with Winchester seeing the biggest swing against the Conservatives, overall they cast doubt on opinion polls suggesting a significant national Labour lead and perhaps would give Harold Wilson "the first faint incredulous thoughts" that he might not prevail at the coming general election.
References
Winchester by-election
By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Hampshire constituencies
Winchester by-election
Politics of Winchester
20th century in Hampshire
Winchester by-election |
41014069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20African%20World%20Series | North African World Series | The North African World Series (also known as the "GI World Series") was a best two-out-of-three-game baseball championship played on October 3 and 4, 1943, between the Casablanca Yankees and the Algiers Streetwalkers, drawn from the ranks of American soldiers and sailors stationed in North Africa during World War II.
History
During World War II, Zeke Bonura, a major league baseball player, was posted to Oran, Algeria. He organized large-scale baseball operations, consisting of 150 teams in 6 leagues. Playoffs among the teams narrowed them to two finalists – the Casablanca Yankees, consisting of medics, with a season record of 32-2 in the Casablanca-Oran area, and the Algiers Streetwalkers, consisting of MPs, which had been 17-3 in the Algiers-Tunis League.
The North African World Series was a best two-out-of-three-game championship played on October 3 and 4, 1943, at St. Eugene municipal stadium in Algiers, Algeria, between the two teams. Attendance at the games was 4,000 people. Major General Everett Hughes, deputy theater commander, threw out the first ball.
The Casablanca Yankees won the series in two straight games. They won the first game 9–0, and then won the second game 7–6, after scoring three runs in the bottom of the ninth.
The best hitter in the series was Lieutenant Walt Singer, the only officer in the games, who played first base and also served as Casablanca's manager. A former Syracuse University All-American football player, Singer had also played football in the National Football League for the New York Giants. He had five hits, including the sole homer of the series, the pivotal hit in the second game.
Bonura promoted the North African World Series through coverage on the Armed Forces Radio Network. A play-by-play commentary of each game was broadcast by radio to all American military personnel in the Mediterranean theater. Press coverage appeared in the Armed Forces Weekly and the Stars and Stripes.
The winners were presented with baseballs autographed by General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the winning team received a trophy made from an unexploded Italian bomb.
References
1943 in baseball
Baseball finals
Baseball competitions in Africa
1943 in African sport
1943 in Algeria
1943 in Algerian sport
October 1943 sports events |
41014082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989%20US%20Open%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%20doubles | 1989 US Open – Men's doubles | The men's doubles tournament at the 1989 US Open was held from August 28 to September 10, 1989, on the outdoor hard courts of the USTA National Tennis Center in New York City, United States. John McEnroe and Mark Woodforde won the title, defeating Ken Flach and Robert Seguso in the final.
Seeds
Draw
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Bottom half
Section 3
Section 4
External links
Main draw
1989 US Open – Men's draws and results at the International Tennis Federation
Men's Doubles
US Open (tennis) by year – Men's doubles |
41014090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20J.%20Thomas | Frank J. Thomas | Frank J. Thomas may refer to:
Frank Thomas (outfielder) (Frank Joseph Thomas), American baseball player
Frank J. Thomas (printer), American photographer, typographer, and printer
See also
Frank Thomas (disambiguation) |
41014102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha%C3%A7ka%20SK | Haçka SK | Haçka SK, formerly Trabzon Akçaabat FK, is a sports club located in Akçaabat near Trabzon, Turkey. The football club plays in white and blue kits, and have done so since their formation in 1980.
Stadium
Currently the team plays at the 6,300 capacity Akçaabat Fatih Stadium.
League participations
TFF Third League: 1987–1997, 2009–2015
Turkish Regional Amateur League: 2015–2016
Super Amateur Leagues: 1980–1987, 1997–2009, 2016–present
Former name
1980–2012 Yalıspor
2012–2013 Trabzon Kanuni FK
2013–2015 Trabzon Akçaabat FK
2015–2016 Trabzon Kanuni FK
2016– Haçka SK
References
External links
Haçka SK on TFF.org
Sport in Trabzon
Football clubs in Turkey
Association football clubs established in 1980 |
41014103 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bala%20Dasteh-ye%20Rakan%20Kola | Bala Dasteh-ye Rakan Kola | Bala Dasteh-ye Rakan Kola (, also Romanized as Bālā Dasteh-ye Rakan Kolā; also known as Bālā Dasteh) is a village in Kiakola Rural District of the Central District of Simorgh County, Mazandaran province, Iran.
At the 2006 National Census, its population was 1,190 in 328 households, when it was in the former Kiakola District of Qaem Shahr County. The following census in 2011 counted 1,271 people in 410 households. The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 1,399 people in 479 households, by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Simorgh County. It was the largest village in its rural district.
References
Simorgh County
Populated places in Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Simorgh County |
41014105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borji-ye%20Kheyl | Borji-ye Kheyl | Borji-ye Kheyl (, also Romanized as Borjī-ye Kheyl; also known as Borj-e Kheyl) is a village in Kiakola Rural District, in the Central District of Simorgh County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 350, in 85 families.
References
Populated places in Simorgh County |
41014109 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dineh%20Sar-e%20Rakan%20Kola | Dineh Sar-e Rakan Kola | Dineh Sar-e Rakan Kola (, also Romanized as Dīneh Sar-e Rakan Kolā; also known as Dīneh Sar) is a village in Kiakola Rural District, in the Central District of Simorgh County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 298, in 75 families.
References
Populated places in Simorgh County |
41014111 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yal%C4%B1spor | Yalıspor | Yalıspor may refer to:
Trabzon Yalıspor, a sport club in Trabzon, Turkey
Maltepe Yalıspor, a sport club in Maltepe district of Istanbul, Turkey |
41014118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamal%20Kola | Jamal Kola | Jamal Kola (, also Romanized as Jamāl Kolā and Jamāl Kalā) is a village in Kiakola Rural District, in the Central District of Simorgh County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 184, in 53 families.
References
Populated places in Simorgh County |
41014120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molla%20Kola%2C%20Simorgh | Molla Kola, Simorgh | Molla Kola (, also Romanized as Mollā Kolā and Mollā Kalā) is a village in Kiakola Rural District, in the Central District of Simorgh County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 829, in 206 families.
References
Populated places in Simorgh County |
41014121 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najjar%20Kola-ye%20Jadid | Najjar Kola-ye Jadid | Najjar Kola-ye Jadid (, also Romanized as Najjār Kolā-ye Jadīd; also known as Najjār Kolā) is a village in Kiakola Rural District, in the Central District of Simorgh County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 336, in 95 families.
References
Populated places in Simorgh County |
41014123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain%20Dasteh-ye%20Rakan%20Kola | Pain Dasteh-ye Rakan Kola | Pain Dasteh-ye Rakan Kola (, also Romanized as Pā’īn Dasteh-ye Rakan Kolā; also known as Āzād Maḩalleh and Pā’īn Dasteh) is a village in Kiakola Rural District, in the Central District of Simorgh County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 436, in 113 families.
References
Populated places in Simorgh County |
41014124 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akademikarbreen | Akademikarbreen | Akademikarbreen (until 1995 spelled Akademikerbreen) is a glacier in Olav V Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It covers an area of about 500 square kilometers and is located east of Backlundtoppen and Svanbergfjellet. The glacier extends from Billefjorden to the eastern coast, and borders to Lomonosovfonna, Negribreen and Kvitbreen. It is named after two members of Russian Academy of Science.
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Glaciers of Spitsbergen |
41014125 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pahnaji | Pahnaji | Pahnaji (, also Romanized as Pahnājī; also known as Pahn Ḩājī and Pahn Ḩājjī) is a village in Kiakola Rural District, in the Central District of Simorgh County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 188, in 55 families.
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Populated places in Simorgh County |
41014127 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan%20Bela | Tan Bela | Tan Bela (, also Romanized as Tan Belā and Tonbolā) is a village in Dasht-e Kenar Rural District of the Central District of Simorgh County, Mazandaran province, Iran.
At the 2006 National Census, its population was 406 in 104 households, when it was in Kiakola Rural District of the former Kiakola District of Qaem Shahr County. The following census in 2011 counted 394 people in 115 households. The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 472 people in 168 households, by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Simorgh County. It was the largest village in its rural district.
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Simorgh County
Populated places in Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Simorgh County |
41014129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahangar%20Kola%2C%20Simorgh | Ahangar Kola, Simorgh | Ahangar Kola (, also Romanized as Āhangar Kolā) is a village in Talarpey Rural District, in the Central District of Simorgh County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 38, in 11 families.
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Populated places in Simorgh County |
41014130 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhteh%20Chi | Akhteh Chi | Akhteh Chi (, also Romanized as Akhteh Chī and Akhtehchī) is a village in Talarpey Rural District, in the Central District of Simorgh County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 445, in 116 families.
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Populated places in Simorgh County |
41014134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gushi%20Kola | Gushi Kola | Gushi Kola (, also Romanized as Gūshī Kolā; also known as Gūshtī Kolā) is a village in Talarpey Rural District, in the Central District of Simorgh County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. In 2006, its population was 309, in 88 families.
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Populated places in Simorgh County |
41014135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gushti%20Kola | Gushti Kola | Gushti Kola (, also Romanized as Gūshtī Kolā) is a village in Talarpey Rural District, in the Central District of Simorgh County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 28, in 9 families.
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Populated places in Simorgh County |
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