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Eduard Spranger
Eduard Spranger (27 June 1882 – 17 September 1963) was a German philosopher and psychologist. A student of Wilhelm Dilthey, Spranger was born in Berlin and died in Tübingen. He was considered a humanist who developed a philosophical pedagogy as an act of 'self defense' against the psychology-oriented experimental theory of the times.
Spranger was the author of the book Lebensformen (Translated as Types of Men), which sold 28,000 copies by the end of 1920. Spranger theorizes that types of human life are structures in consciousness. His belief that personality types have a basis in biology, but can not be fully explained by biology. He wrote, "On a lower level, perhaps, the soul is purely biologically determined. On a higher level, the historical, for instance, the soul participates in objective values which cannot be deduced from the simple value of self-preservation." He criticized psychologists who reduced the psyche and society to abstract elements of science. Another characteristic of Spranger's thought is his interest in holism, which involves the discovery that "everything is part of everything else," and that the "totality of mind is present in every act." He asserts that quantitative calculations of sensations, reflexes, and citations from memory are meaningless units, that when synthesized, do not add up to the meaningful whole that we all live.
Thought
Spranger evaluated personalities in terms of six ideals or value orientations; theoretical, economic, aesthetic, social political and religious "types" of personality traits.
Spranger contributed to the pedagogy of personality theory, in his book Types of Men His value attitudes were:
The Theoretical, whose dominant interest is the discovery of truth
The Economic, who is interested in what is useful
The Aesthetic, whose highest value is form and harmony
The Social, whose highest value is love of people
The Political, whose interest is primarily in power
The Religious, whose highest value is unity
Those six in more detail are:
Theoretical: A passion to discover, systemize and analyze; a search for knowledge.
Utilitarian: A passion to gain a return on all investments involving time, money and resources.
Aesthetic: A passion to experience impressions of the world and achieve form and harmony in life; self-actualization.
Social: A passion to invest myself, my time, and my resources into helping others achieve their potential.
Individualistic: A passion to achieve position and to use that position to affect and influence others.
Traditional: A passion to seek out and pursue the highest meaning in life, in the divine or the ideal, and achieve a system for living. This instrument is sometimes offered along with the DISC assessment.
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Episode (video game)
Episode is an interactive story video game developed by Pocket Gems.
The app is a storytelling network and platform that features interactive stories built for mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets. Users enter one of 84,000 stories and make choices as the storyline progresses. With over 125 million installs, there have been over 4.4 billion episodes viewed on Episode so far, adding up to over 76,000 years of combined viewing time. The product also has a UGC creation platform that enables users to create their own stories, 12 million of which have registered.
Episode features three types of stories: user generated, in-house originals and IP licensed. Some IP stories include “Demi Lovato: Path to Fame”, “Pretty Little Liars”, “Clueless”, “Pitch Perfect: In Deep Treble”, "Mean Girls: Senior Year", "Mean Girls: Sorority Rush", “Cameron Dallas: It Started With a Lie”, “Falling For the Dolan Twins” and Episodes "Dirty Dancing.
References
External links
Official website
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Category:iOS games
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United States v. Schoon
United States v. Schoon, 939 F.2d 826 (1991), was a case decided by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The court's decision centered upon the legal defense of necessity as it relates to acts of civil disobedience and federal criminal charges.
Background
On December 4, 1989, Schoon and approximately thirty people entered the Internal Revenue Service's local office in Tucson, Arizona. They began chanting a demand that U.S. tax dollars not be sent to El Salvador, and threw fake blood throughout the lobby. They were ordered by federal police to disperse or face arrest. The protestors refused to leave, and were subsequently arrested. They were charged with failing to comply with an order of a federal police officer and obstructing government function.
At trial, Schoon offered evidence of the conditions in El Salvador at the time. He argued that his actions in the IRS building were necessary to prevent further violence in El Salvador. The district court refused to admit this evidence, ruling that while Schoon had clearly humanitarian aims, the necessity defense was not applicable to his case.
Opinion of the Court
Majority
The majority began by summarizing the factors that make up the necessity defense, all of which must be met for the defense to apply:
The defendant was faced with two bad options and chose the lesser;
He acted to prevent imminent harm;
He reasonably believed that his action could prevent that harm; and
He had no reasonable legal alternative
The court then explained that while those factors were not met in this case, and so Schoon's request could be denied on that basis alone, there was a "deeper, systemic reason" for rejecting Schoon's defense. This was a case of indirect civil disobedience, meaning that the law(s) violated were not the ones against which Schoon was protesting. The sit-ins used to protest racial segregation in the United States are an example of direct civil disobedience, since they involved violating the laws (segregated facilities) that were also the targets of the protest. In Schoon's case, by contrast, he was charged with noncompliance with a federal police officer's instructions and with obstructing the IRS's operations in the Tucson office, while his actions were to protest U.S. funds going to El Salvador.
Although the Ninth Circuit had routinely rejected the necessity defense as it applied to protestors, there had been no overall ruling that the defense was per se inapplicable. The court noted that necessity is a utilitarian defense, meaning that it applies where the harm caused by the defendant's actions outweighs the societal cost of inaction. For example, although it is illegal to escape from prison, the United States Supreme Court has ruled that the necessity defense applied to prisoners who escaped from a prison while it was on fire. The majority cited several other examples, such as a crew mutinying when their ship was not seaworthy and a court ruling that property could be destroyed to prevent the spread of fire.
This means that the defense only applies where the illegal actions actually prevent some greater harm. Moreover, society's condonation of something that the defendant sees as a harm precludes the raising of the necessity defense; it cannot be based on the defendant's subjective belief. Since the U.S. policy towards El Salvador had been established by the country's political leaders, Schoon could not raise the necessity defense without also being able to show that the policy was legally illegitimate, i.e. was unconstitutional or that it had not been properly enacted.
Since U.S. policy towards El Salvador had been Congressionally approved, there could be no harm that Schoon's actions sought to address. Necessity only applies where the cost of the defendant's illegal actions was outweighed by its benefit, but that benefit is zero where there is no harm being resolved. For this reason, Schoon could not raise the necessity defense at his trial.
Concurrence
Judge Fernandez issued a brief concurring opinion, in which he agreed with the ruling as it applied to this case. He expressed some doubt, however, as to whether the necessity defense should be grounded solely in utilitarianism. He instead suggested that it should be grounded in "a concept of what is right and proper conduct under the circumstances." He acknowledged that "[the majority] is also probably right about the outcome of all other cases of this type in the future," but believed that previous Ninth Circuit precedent was not consistent with creating an absolute rule for cases of indirect civil disobedience.
Notes
External links
Full text of the opinion from OpenJurist.
Category:United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit cases
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Holoptic
Holoptic refers to one of the ways in which the Arthropod eye develops, particularly the eyes of various species of insects. As opposed to dichoptic and cycloptic eyes, holoptic eyes meet along the median dorsal line of the head, in many species nearly covering the exterior of the head. Holoptic eyes are typical of several Dipteran males, in particular some Syrphidae, Tabanidae, Pipunculidae, and Acroceridae. Some other insect orders that include species with holoptic males and some in which the females are holoptic as well, include the Coleoptera, Anisoptera and Archaeognatha.
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WBEY-FM
WBEY-FM (97.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Country music format. Licensed to Crisfield, Maryland, United States, the station is currently owned by GSB Media, LLC, and features programming from ABC Radio, WestwoodOne, Maryland News Network, and United Stations Radio Network.
History
WBEY originally signed on in 1993, on 96.9 FM in Crisfield, Maryland. In the early 2000s, WBEY relocated its studios from Crisfield to Pocomoke City, Maryland.
Local and maritime weather forecasts are provided by AccuWeather.
WBEY operated from its former sister station's studios (WGOP) and transmitter site on Dunn Swamp Road in Pocomoke City until WBEY was sold to GSB Media in October 2018.
In October 2018, WBEY-FM was purchased from Bay Broadcasting Inc. (Michael Powell) by A. Wray Fitch and Greg Bojko under the joint company GSB Media, LLC for $237,500, making WBEY the sixth station and third format operated by GSB Media, LLC. It joined sister stations WCTG and WVES programmed as adult hits/variety (96.5 & 101.5 CTG WCTG), and WOWZ-FM/WOWZ-LP and WICO-FM programmed as Classic Country (WOW 101.1 & 99.3 That’s Country WICO-FM).
Affiliations
National and global news are provided by WestwoodOne.
Local News and weather is provided by Maryland News Network owned by Steve Clendenin.
External links
Bay Country 97.9’s website
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George Huntington (priest)
George Huntington (25 August 1825 – 8 April 1905) was an English high-church Anglican priest who was Rector of Tenby between 1867 and 1905.
Life
Born at Elloughton near Hull, on 25 August 1825, he was youngest of the family of four sons and three daughters of Charles William Huntington of Elloughton by his wife Harriet, daughter of the Rev. William Mantle, curate in charge of Syderstone, Norfolk. He was a cousin of the Rev. John Bacchus Dykes. After education at home he studied from 1846 to 1848 at St. Bees Theological College (closed in 1896). Ordained deacon in 1848 and priest in 1849 by the Bishop of Manchester, he first served as curate at St. Stephen's, Salford. In 1850 he removed to Wigan, where his work among the Lancashire colliers came to the notice of the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, who made him his domestic chaplain.
After acting as clerk in orders of Manchester Cathedral from 1855 to 1863, and receiving the Lambeth degree of M.A. in 1855, he became rector of St. Stephen's, Salford, in 1863. Huntington was active in Manchester during the cotton famine, and his 'Church's Work in our Large Towns' (1863) gave him a high reputation. On 6 January 1867 he was inducted into the crown rectory of Tenby, in Pembrokeshire, where he remained until his death at Bath on 8 April 1905. He was buried at Tenby.
Huntington was an earnest high churchman, and at first came into conflict with evangelical sentiment in Tenby. A mission conducted there in 1877 by ritualist clergy under Huntington's auspices led to controversy in which William Basil Jones, Bishop of St. David's, took part (cf. Three Letters on the Subject of the Late Tenby Mission 1877). But the hostility gradually disappeared, and Huntington was able to restore and beautify his church, with the active support of his parishioners. He was an impressive preacher, at once practical and somewhat mystical. He was also a governor of the county school, chairman of the managers of the parish schools, and an energetic freemason.
Besides the work mentioned, Huntington published sermons, addresses, articles in magazines, and three volumes exhibiting some power in describing character, viz. 'Autobiography of John Brown, Cordwainer' (1867), of which he represented himself as editor and which went into five editions; the 'Autobiography of an Alms-Bag' (1885) which depicts some local figures, and his 'Random Recollections' (1895) which contains attractive sketches of friends and neighbours.
Family
Huntington married on 26 April 1849 Charlotte Elizabeth, daughter of John Henry Garton of Hull, who survived him. By her he had issue, five daughters and two sons.
Notes
References
Endnotes
The Times, 14 April 1905;
Church Times, 14 April 1905;
obituary by J. Leach in Tenby and County News , 12 April 1905;
Crockford's Clerical Directory;
St. Bees College Calendar, 1848;
Brit. Mus. Cat.;
private information.
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Elkan Blout
Elkan R. Blout (July 2, 1919 – December 20, 2006) was a biochemist at Polaroid Corporation, Boston Children's Hospital, and the Edward S. Harkness Professor of Biological Chemistry, Emeritus at Harvard University.
Blout received his BA in chemistry in 1939 from Princeton University, and his Ph.D. in 1942 from Columbia University.
Blout was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1969. In 1990, he was awarded the National Medal of Science “for his pioneering studies of protein conformation and devotion to the scientific enterprise of the Nation.”
Blout died in December 2006, on Cuttyhunk Island.
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Port Hacking High School
Port Hacking High School is a high school situated in the Sutherland Shire, in the South-East region of Sydney, New South Wales. It was opened in 1959 and was the first comprehensive high school within the Sutherland Shire Council that provides education up to and including the Higher School Certificate level.
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Hilton, Cumbria
Hilton is a village in Cumbria, England in the civil parish of Coupland, about east of Appleby-in-Westmorland and at an elevation of . It has a rural economy, with much grazing of sheep, though the past was also home to lead mining.
History
By the end 19th century, it had a population of around 300 in an area of 4,984 acres there were many lead mines nearby and a smelt mill was situated in the village. In 1856 the St. John the Baptist Church was constructed in the area between Hilton and Murton which features a three-tier pulpit. Since the 1980s much of the previously common land of the village has been owned by the Ministry of Defence as part of the Warcop Training Area which has been expanded extensively over the years.
Hilton Mine
Some to the northeast of Hilton, between Hilton Fell and Murton Fell in Scordale, is the Hilton Mine . Initially it worked for galena (lead ore) in the nineteenth century by the London Lead Company, it was later worked under different owners for barium minerals, barytes and witherite in the early twentieth century. It also was a rare source of yellow coloured fluorite in the UK.
See also
Listed buildings in Murton, Cumbria
References
Category:Villages in Cumbria
Category:Eden District
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Cardiff Lions
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The Cardiff Lions RFC () is a gay and inclusive rugby union football club based in Cardiff, Wales. The club was founded in 2004 and is the first of two gay and inclusive rugby clubs in Wales. The Lions were admitted as members of the International Gay Rugby Association and Board in 2006.
History
Union Cup
The Lions have competed in the three Union Cup tournaments to date; 2005 in Montpellier and 2007 in Copenhagen and 2009 in London. The 2007 tournament was a great success: Ten Lions players and Lions fans were joined by 2 of the Newcastle Ravens and one player from the Bristol Bisons RFC. The club recorded victories over NOP Amsterdam Rugby Club (35–5), Malmö Devilants, twice, (30–5 and 35–0) and the Caledonian Thebans RFC (5–25), drawing with the Emerald Warriors 10–10 on the way. The club missed out in a tense final in Copenhagen to the Emerald Warriors RFC 10–5 after extra time.
2009 saw another successful year for the Lions in the Union Cup – taking part in the 10s tournament, the Lions played some superb running rugby to become undefeated 10s champions. They recorded victories over Kings Cross Steelers 2nd (19–0), Los Valents (26–12), Newcastle Ravens (0–22) and Caledonian Thebans (0–26). This set up a final against the Steelers 2nds, in which the Cardiff Lions emerged 29–7 victors. A number of the squad also helped out with the Bristol Bisons RFC who won the 7's tournament. Cardiff Lions Captain Justin Gyphion also picked up the top try scorers award to crown a highly successful weekend.
Bingham Cup
The Cardiff Lions travelled to New York, NY in May 2006 for the 3rd Mark Kendall Bingham Memorial Tournament where they came 6th in the Plate competition.
In June 2008 the Cardiff Lions travelled to Dublin for the 4th biennial Bingham Cup hosted magnificently by the Emerald Warriors. The structure of the competition and seedings put the Lions in the lower tier and competing for either the second tier Plate, third tier Bowl or fourth tier Shield. A travelling squad of 23 players and 6 support staff made a vast improvement on the previous Bingham Cup results:
Friday 13 June
Game 1, Cardiff Lions 41 Phoenix Storm 10
Game 2, Cardiff Lions 36 Copenhagen Scrum 0
Saturday 14 June
Game 3, Cardiff Lions 56 Manchester Village Spartans 2nds 0
Plate/Bowl decider, Cardiff Lions 31 Atlanta Bucks 0
Sunday 15 June
Quarter Final Plate, Cardiff Lions 21 Emerald Warriors 19
Semi Final Plate, Cardiff Lions 5 Sydney Convicts 2nds 27
These results left the Cardiff Lions in 3rd place in the Plate competition after winning the 3rd/4th play-off boat race at the closing ceremony against San Francisco Fog RFC 2nds. A huge improvement on the previous Bingham Cup and with a lot more teams taking part (32 from around the world).
The future
Next up for the club will be the Hadrian Cup in February. This is the annual 10's competition hosted by The Newcastle Ravens. The club also has ambitions to expand and improve the squad, developing links with local clubs.
See also
References
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Category:Welsh rugby union teams
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King Street (Alexandria, Virginia)
King Street is a major road in Alexandria, Virginia, United States and historic Old Town Alexandria. It extends westward from the Potomac River waterfront near the Torpedo Factory Art Center and nearby bustling tourist gift shops and restaurants, passing City Hall and the Alexandria General District Court.
History
In 1964 Richard Muzzrole begins nine years of excavations along King Street. In 1965 artifacts from King Street homes, shops, and taverns are excavated by Malcolm Watkins of the Smithsonian Institution. During the 1960s urban renewal prompted the demolition of a six block area along King Street. In 1965 Bulldozers revealed creamware, glasswork, porcelain, and pottery. Bulldozers preparing for parking garage construction revealed brick lined wells. In 1977 Pamela Cressey begins excavations at the King Street courthouse. Deep wear marks on wine bottles found within King Street privies reveal the practice of refilling bottles at taverns.
In 2007 the American Planning Association listed King Street as a "2011 Great Place in America" within the "Great Streets" category.
King Street is currently seen as an active strip of commerce and tourism that successfully accommodates both Alexandria's local residents as well as its visitors. Historically the street was used as access to the seaport and later as a main center of trade. The balance between past and present is noticeable with the vitality of the street's noteworthy character. Architectural and demolition regulations have been employed to allow for the continued visual appeal of 18th and 19th century buildings. Zoning laws, particularly those established in 2005 and 2007, are responsible for ensuring mixed use on this street. Various businesses, outdoor dining and other activities can be found all along King Street. One amenity to this street is the Market Square found at Alexandria City Hall as it is one of the oldest U.S farmers markets and is often used to provide venue space for concerts, festivals, and community events. Other features found on King Street include Alexandria City Hall, which is in the style of the period during the Second Empire, and clock tower that was designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe. The Torpedo Factory Art Center is another hotspot for tourism and is currently used as studio housing for artists.
Route
On reaching the Washington Metro and Amtrak stations and the George Washington National Masonic Memorial, King Street bends. Between Russell Road and Janney's Lane, green bike lanes exist. Wealthier residents fought against these. King Street passes Chinquapin Recreation Center, T.C. Williams High School and several historic churches, becoming Leesburg Pike as it leaves Alexandria at Bailey's Crossroads. King Street becomes State Route 7 west of Washington Street (State Route 400). In Old Town Alexandria, King Street is designated as the dividing line between north and south in the addressing system, while Duke Street (State Route 236) is designated as the dividing line in the West End area of Alexandria. King Street follows the original southwest border for the District of Columbia, becoming Leesburg Pike then Route 7 as it extends westward into Fairfax County.
Transportation
The Washington Metro has a station at King Street, just west of Old Town, on the Blue and Yellow Lines. Also, the King Street Trolley takes passengers on a ride along King Street every 15 minutes.
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Category:Transportation in Alexandria, Virginia
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Kafr Saad
Kafr Saad () is a city in Damietta Governorate, Egypt. It lies North East of the Nile Delta.
See also
List of cities and towns in Egypt
References
Category:Populated places in Damietta Governorate
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Latvia at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Latvia participated at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with 58 athletes in 9 sports, which tied the biggest Latvian delegation to the Olympics ever.
At the Games, Haralds Silovs became the first athlete in Olympic games to participate in both short track (1500m) and long track (5000m) speed skating, and the first to compete in two different disciplines on the same day.
Bobsledder Jānis Miņins, who was among the favourites in four-man bobsleigh, missed the Olympics, because of an appendix surgery he went through, when he had already arrived in Canada just days before the Olympic start. He participated also in several trainings for the four-man event, but after crashing twice, decided not to start.
Medalists
Alpine skiing
Men
Women
Biathlon
Men
Women
Bobsleigh
Two-man
Four-man
Cross-country skiing
Men
Women
Ice hockey
Men's tournament
Roster
Group play
Latvia played in Group B.
Round-robin
All times are local (UTC-8).
Standings
Final rounds
Qualification playoff
Luge
Short track speed skating
Men
Skeleton
Speed skating
Men
References
Category:Nations at the 2010 Winter Olympics
2010
Winter Olympics
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Cytinus
Cytinus is a genus of parasitic flowering plants. Species in this genus do not produce chlorophyll, but rely fully on its host plant. Cytinus usually parasitizes Cistus and Halimium, two genera of plants in the Cistaceae family. It has also been found on Ptilostemon chamaepeuce.
Several species are found in the Mediterranean Region, South Africa, with a possibly undescribed species from Madagascar.
Biology
C. capensis and C. sanguineus are dioecious, while C. hypocistis is monoecious.
C. hypocistis has been shown to infect mainly Halimium halimifolium and Cistus monspeliensis in Portugal.
Systematics
The genus Cytinus was previously included in the parasitic family Rafflesiaceae, but is now put into the family Cytinaceae (order Malvales), together with the genus Bdallophytum with four species.
Cytinus ruber is no longer considered a separate species, but is now a subspecies of C. hypocistis.
Uses
The young C. hypocistis is cooked as an asparagus substitute and an extract has been used in herbal medicine for dysentery, throat tumors and as an astringent. C. ruber is also edible and was used in folk medicine as an emmenagogue.
Species
Cytinus capensis — South Africa
Cytinus hypocistis — Mediterranean from Morocco to southern France and Turkey
Cytinus ruber - Mediterranean (sometimes listed as C. hypocistis ssp. clusii)
Cytinus sanguineus — South Africa
Cytinus visseri — South Africa
Footnotes
References
(2010): 658. Cytinus ruber Cytinaceae. Bot. Mag. 26(4): 314-321.
(2004): Phylogenetic inference in Rafflesiales: the influence of rate heterogeneity and horizontal gene transfer. BMC Evolutionary Biology 4: 40.
(2007): Host Specificity in the Parasitic Plant Cytinus hypocistis. Research Letters in Ecology. (with link to full text PDF)
Further reading
(2006): A new species of Cytinus (Cytinaceae) from South Africa and Swaziland, with a key to the Southern African species. Novon 16(3): 315-319. Abstract
External links
Cytinaceae References
Pictures of type specimens from South Africa
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Category:Flora of Europe
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In the Right Place
In the Right Place is the sixth album by New Orleans R&B artist Dr. John. The album was originally released on Atco Records in 1973 and became the biggest selling album of Dr. John's career.
The song "Such a Night" was also performed as part of The Band's The Last Waltz concert, made famous by Martin Scorsese's film. The song also appears in the music video of 3000 Miles to Graceland.
The song "Right Place, Wrong Time" became the biggest hit from the LP, reaching the Top 10 in both the U.S. and Canada. The album itself was Dr. John's highest charting album on the Billboard 200, spending 33 weeks on the chart and peaking at #24 on June 23, 1973.
Track listing
Personnel
Musicians
Mac Rebennack – vocals, piano on "Qualified", organ on "Peace Brother Peace" and percussion on "I Been Hoodood"
Allen Toussaint – piano, electronic piano, acoustic guitar, conga drums, tambourine, background vocals, vocal arrangements, arrangement and conducting
Gary Brown – electric and acoustic saxophones
The Meters
Leo Nocentelli – lead guitar
Art Neville – organ
George Porter Jr. – bass guitar
Joseph Modeliste – drums
Additional musicians
Ralph MacDonald – percussion on "Shoo Fly Marches On", "Such a Night" and "I Been Hoodood".
David Spinozza – guitar solo on "Right Place Wrong Time".
The Bonaroo Horn Section – horns
Robbie Montgomery and Jessie Smith – backing vocals
Technical
Allen Toussaint – producer
Karl Richardson – engineer
Allen Toussaint, Arif Mardin and Jimmy Douglass – remix engineers
James Flournoy Holmes – album design and paintings
References
Category:1973 albums
Category:Dr. John albums
Category:Albums produced by Allen Toussaint
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Shaquille Goodwin
Shaquille Goodwin (born September 1, 1994) is an American professional basketball player for Scafati Basket of the Italian Serie A2 Basket. Standing at 2.06 m (6'9"), he plays the power forward and the center positions. After playing four years of college basketball at Memphis, Goodwin entered the 2016 NBA draft, but he was not selected in the draft's two rounds.
High school career
Goodwin played high school basketball at Southwest Dekalb High School. He played four seasons at Southwest DeKalb High School, where he led the Panthers to back-to-back state title games in his final two seasons, He Won the 2012 Atlanta Journal-Constitution slam dunk contest championship and was named to the Georgia Class AAAA All-State and 6AAAA All-Region first teams in 2011-12. Goodwin was selected All-Metro first team by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2011-12 and As a senior, he averaged 21.2 points, 12.3 rebounds and 3.3 blocks per game.
College career
As a freshman Goodwin played 36 games, having a solid season, producing 7.4 points and 4.4 rebounds and 1.1 blocks per game, and being included to the Conference USA All-Freshman team. As a sophomore he played in 34 contests, and improved his numbers, averaging 11.5 points, 6.5 rebounds and 1.8 blocks per game, improving his playing time to 28.9 minutes per game. During the next season, his numbers dropped averaging 9.6 points and 7.1 rebounds per game. During his final year at college, Goodwin had an impressive year, having 14.7 points 7.5 rebounds and 1.8 blocks per game in 33 games.
Professional career
After going undrafted in the 2016 NBA draft, Goodwin joined AEK Larnaca of the Cypriot Basket League. On November, he left AEK Larnaca in order to join Science City Jena of the Basketball Bundesliga.
On July 1, 2017, Goodwin joined Rethymno Cretan Kings of the Greek Basket League. He averaged 12 points and 7.5 rebounds per game in Greek top division. On July 18, 2018, Goodwin signed with Scafati Basket of the Italian second division.
References
External links
ESPN.com Profile
Eurobasket.com Profile
RealGM.com Profile
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SNCF Class X 4900
SNCF's X 4900 is a diesel multiple unit railroad car of the Caravelle family.
They are derived from the two-car X 4630 DMU with which they share the same Saurer 330 kW engines as well as their hydraulic gear box. The railcars possessed more power than the other Caravelles as they are formed of two motor coaches and one intermediate trailer, this authorised them to run at a top speed of 140 km/h.
Aesthetics are different from the other Caravelles as the painting scheme chosen is English blue, white and grey. Interiors were designed with care and benches ignored in favour of individual seats.
The class was first allocated at Marseille-Blancarde engine shed, this led to the replacement of the X 2400 and X 2800 in the region. Their superior power led to their allocation to passenger service duties on steep gradient routes in the Southern Alps. The other members of the class were allocated to Sotteville-lès-Rouen engine shed.
The 4900s in Normandy ran coupled to X 4500 and X 4750 around Caen, Rouen, and Le Mans and as far as Rennes and Tours. The Southern 4900s joined the Norman railcars upon the arrival of the BB 67400 at Marseille. Despite the arrival in Normandy of the X 72500 and particularly of the X 73500, the 4900 have been taken out of service but in fact have kept to their regular schedule. The X 76500 delivered in 2004 will run between Caen and Rouen along the 4900s.
The three trains belonging to Basse-Normandie received an extensive servicing at the beginning of the 2000s and kept their original livery. The 10 trains belonging to Haute-Normandie received the TER as well as a modernised cab, identical to that of the X 4630 renovated DMUs. Thanks to their reliability, the X 4900 will be kept for another fifteen years, unlike the X 4300 and X 4500 which will be retired.
Inventory
2006 list of railcars of the X4900 class.
References
4900
Category:Diesel multiple units of France
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Puegnago del Garda
Puegnago del Garda (Gardesano: ) is a comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy.
It is bounded by the comunes of San Felice del Benaco, Manerba del Garda, Muscoline, Polpenazze del Garda and Salò.
History
Thanks to the finding of the remains of lake-dwelling villages in the small lakes of Sovenigo, it has been possible to ascertain that the area was already inhabited during the prehistoric era. When visiting Monte Boccale it is possible to encounter plaques belonging to the Romanesque period, the most spectacular being walled into the door of the parish church in San Michele.
The town experienced Lombard domination, as is demonstrated by documents listing the property of some Lombards; in the 14th century it was subjected to the dominion of Mastino della Scala and in the 15th century to domination from Venice. During the period under the Venetian Republic Puegnago became part of the Valtenesi area. The plague of 1630 did not spare the town, bringing great suffering and mourning.
Puegnago was subjected to the raids of bandits in the 17th century, among whom there was the terrible Dominisette, who subjected the population to appalling outrages. With the arrival of the war of Spanish succession, French and Spanish troops plundered Puegnago of the money of the Company of the Sacred Body of Christ and of many sacred works contained in the town. The population was proud of the assistance given to neighbouring towns after the battle of San Martino, when they aided the numerous injured soldiers.
From 1818 to 1825 Puegnago, Soiano and San Felice were gathered together, whereas only in 1928 was Puegnago joined to Raffa. The origin of the unusual name is thought to date back to the Roman era, from the Roman "Popinius" which became "Popiniacus" following a form of Romanisation.
References
Category:Cities and towns in Lombardy
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Western Conference (USL Championship)
The Western Conference is one of two conferences in USL Championship soccer.
Current standings
Members
Current
Notes
Conference Lineups
Clubs timeline
2015
Lineup for 2015
Arizona United SC
Austin Aztex
Colorado Springs Switchbacks
LA Galaxy II
Oklahoma City Energy
Orange County Blues
Portland Timbers 2
Real Monarchs SLC
Sacramento Republic
Seattle Sounders 2
Tulsa Roughnecks
Vancouver Whitecaps 2
2016
Lineup for 2016
Arizona United SC
Colorado Springs Switchbacks
LA Galaxy II
Oklahoma City Energy
Orange County Blues
Portland Timbers 2
Real Monarchs SLC
Rio Grande Valley FC Toros
Sacramento Republic
St. Louis FC
San Antonio FC
Seattle Sounders 2
Swope Park Rangers
Tulsa Roughnecks
Vancouver Whitecaps 2
Changes from 2015
Rio Grande Valley FC Toros, Swope Park Rangers and San Antonio FC were added as expansion franchises
Saint Louis FC moved in from Eastern Conference
Austin Aztex went on hiatus for the 2016 season
2017
Lineup for 2017
Colorado Springs Switchbacks
LA Galaxy II
Oklahoma City Energy
Orange County SC
Phoenix Rising FC
Portland Timbers 2
Real Monarchs SLC
Reno 1868 FC
Rio Grande Valley FC Toros
Sacramento Republic
San Antonio FC
Seattle Sounders 2
Swope Park Rangers
Tulsa Roughnecks
Vancouver Whitecaps 2
Changes from 2016
Arizona United SC was renamed Phoenix Rising FC
Orange County Blues was renamed Orange County SC
Austin Aztex folded
Reno 1868 FC was added as an expansion franchise
Saint Louis FC moved out to Eastern Conference
2018
Lineup for 2018
Colorado Springs Switchbacks
Fresno FC
Las Vegas Lights FC
LA Galaxy II
Oklahoma City Energy
Orange County SC
Phoenix Rising FC
Portland Timbers 2
Real Monarchs SLC
Reno 1868 FC
Rio Grande Valley FC Toros
Sacramento Republic
Saint Louis FC
San Antonio FC
Seattle Sounders 2
Swope Park Rangers
Tulsa Roughnecks
Changes from 2017
Fresno FC, Las Vegas Lights FC were added as expansion franchises
Vancouver Whitecaps 2 folded
Saint Louis FC moved in to Western Conference
2019
Lineup for 2019
Austin Bold FC
Colorado Springs Switchbacks
El Paso Locomotive FC
Fresno FC
Las Vegas Lights FC
LA Galaxy II
New Mexico United
Oklahoma City Energy
Orange County SC
Phoenix Rising FC
Portland Timbers 2
Real Monarchs SLC
Reno 1868 FC
Rio Grande Valley FC Toros
Sacramento Republic
San Antonio FC
Tacoma Defiance
Tulsa Roughnecks
Changes from 2018
Austin Bold FC, El Paso Locomotive FC and New Mexico United were added as expansion franchises.
Saint Louis FC and Swope Park Rangers moved out to Eastern Conference
Seattle Sounders FC 2 was rebranded as Tacoma Defiance.
2020
Lineup for 2020
Austin Bold FC
Colorado Springs Switchbacks
El Paso Locomotive FC
Las Vegas Lights FC
LA Galaxy II
New Mexico United
Oklahoma City Energy
Orange County SC
Phoenix Rising FC
Portland Timbers 2
Real Monarchs SLC
Reno 1868 FC
Rio Grande Valley FC Toros
Sacramento Republic
San Antonio FC
San Diego Loyal SC
Tacoma Defiance
FC Tulsa
Changes from 2019
San Diego Loyal SC was added as an expansion franchise.
Tulsa Roughnecks were rebranded FC Tulsa.
Fresno FC was disbanded.
Western Conference Playoff champions by year
Western Conference regular season champions by year
See also
Eastern Conference (USL Championship)
References
Category:USL Championship
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Tim Notting
Tim Notting (born 21 October 1978) is a former two-time premiership winning Australian rules footballer with the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Australian Football League career
He was recruited by Brisbane with the number 26 draft selection in the 1996 AFL Draft from Navarre. Notting is noted for his long right foot kicking, and has played in a variety of positions over his career.
After not managing a senior game in his first year on Brisbane's list in 1997, Notting made his debut for the Brisbane Lions in Round 8, 1998 against Essendon.
He received an AFL Rising Star nomination in 1999 and was a member of Brisbane's first two premierships in 2001 and 2002. In 2003 he missed their third consecutive premiership due to a knee injury, but he returned in 2004, playing in every game, including his 100th game. He also played in Brisbane's loss to Port Adelaide in the 2004 AFL Grand Final.
In 2006 Notting celebrated his 150th game for the Lions in a come-from-behind 10-point win over at the Gabba. It was to be the Lions' last win for the season as they lost their final six games by an average of 51 points.
In 2009 in Round 10, Notting played his 200th game in an 18-point win against at Etihad Stadium. In September 2009, Notting announced his retirement at the season end. He played his last game for the Lions in a 51-point loss to the in the First Semi Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
In October 2009, Notting announced that he would join the Labrador Tigers for the 2010 QAFL season.
He is married to Australian Olympic swimmer Jodie Henry. They have three children.
Statistics
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|- style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1998
|style="text-align:center;"|
| 39 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 24 || 30 || 54 || 8 || 7 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 4.8 || 6.0 || 10.8 || 1.6 || 1.4
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1999
|style="text-align:center;"|
| 39 || 12 || 13 || 10 || 78 || 42 || 120 || 42 || 7 || 1.1 || 0.8 || 6.5 || 3.5 || 10.0 || 3.5 || 0.6
|- style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2000
|style="text-align:center;"|
| 8 || 11 || 5 || 3 || 72 || 58 || 130 || 38 || 11 || 0.5 || 0.3 || 6.5 || 5.3 || 11.8 || 3.5 || 1.0
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|style="text-align:center;background:#afe6ba;"|2001†
|style="text-align:center;"|
| 8 || 24 || 25 || 25 || 221 || 186 || 407 || 124 || 32 || 1.0 || 1.0 || 9.2 || 7.8 || 17.0 || 5.2 || 1.3
|- style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
|style="text-align:center;background:#afe6ba;"|2002†
|style="text-align:center;"|
| 8 || 22 || 14 || 12 || 148 || 123 || 271 || 75 || 49 || 0.6 || 0.5 || 6.7 || 5.6 || 12.3 || 3.4 || 2.2
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2003
|style="text-align:center;"|
| 8 || 14 || 8 || 7 || 75 || 43 || 118 || 35 || 19 || 0.6 || 0.5 || 5.4 || 3.1 || 8.4 || 2.5 || 1.4
|- style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2004
|style="text-align:center;"|
| 8 || 25 || 30 || 21 || 177 || 132 || 309 || 89 || 43 || 1.2 || 0.8 || 7.1 || 5.3 || 12.4 || 3.6 || 1.7
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2005
|style="text-align:center;"|
| 8 || 21 || 14 || 13 || 196 || 146 || 342 || 113 || 37 || 0.7 || 0.6 || 9.3 || 7.0 || 16.3 || 5.4 || 1.8
|- style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2006
|style="text-align:center;"|
| 8 || 22 || 2 || 14 || 214 || 122 || 336 || 116 || 51 || 0.1 || 0.6 || 9.7 || 5.5 || 15.3 || 5.3 || 2.3
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2007
|style="text-align:center;"|
| 8 || 22 || 16 || 11 || 275 || 188 || 463 || 133 || 53 || 0.7 || 0.5 || 12.5 || 8.5 || 21.0 || 6.0 || 2.4
|- style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2008
|style="text-align:center;"|
| 8 || 18 || 5 || 8 || 166 || 144 || 310 || 67 || 52 || 0.3 || 0.4 || 9.2 || 8.0 || 17.2 || 3.7 || 2.9
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2009
|style="text-align:center;"|
| 8 || 12 || 6 || 1 || 88 || 75 || 163 || 53 || 31 || 0.5 || 0.1 || 7.3 || 6.3 || 13.6 || 4.4 || 2.6
|- class="sortbottom"
! colspan=3| Career
! 208
! 138
! 125
! 1734
! 1289
! 3023
! 893
! 392
! 0.7
! 0.6
! 8.3
! 6.2
! 14.5
! 4.3
! 1.9
|}
References
External links
Tim Notting at the Brisbane Lions website
Category:1978 births
Category:Living people
Category:Brisbane Lions players
Category:Australian rules footballers from Queensland
Category:Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
Category:Greater Western Victoria Rebels players
Category:Labrador Australian Football Club players
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Mwarungu
Mwarungu is a settlement in Kenya's Coast Province.
References
Category:Populated places in Coast Province
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Yamanashi Gakuin University
Yamanashi Gakuin University (山梨学院大学 Yamanashi gakuin daigaku) (YGU) is a university in Kōfu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. Yamanashi Gakuin was founded in 1946. Today, it is a comprehensive educational institution that includes a kindergarten, elementary school, junior high and high school, junior college, university and graduate school. (YGU) sits at the core of the whole institution, and aims to contribute to society by nurturing in students profound knowledge and creativity, a globalized perspective and deep understanding of and appreciation for Japanese culture.
Faculties and Departments
International College of Liberal Arts (iCLA) / Department of International Liberal Arts
Faculty of Law / Department of Law
Faculty of Law / Department of Politics & Public Administration
Faculty of Business Administration / Department of Business Administration
Faculty of Management Information / Department of Management Information
Faculty of Health and Nutrition / Department of Nutrition
Faculty of Sport Science / Department of Sport Science
Graduate School of Social Science
Areas of interest
Yamanashi Gakuin University is well known for a long-distance intercollegiate relay race and has produced 42 Olympians in its nearly 70-year history. Ten athletes participated in the London 2012 Summer Olympics–one of whom earned a medal in three swimming events, the first-ever Japanese female swimmer to do so. In 2004, YGU received a special prize from the Japan Olympic Committee and in 2010 and 2013 a special award from Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in recognition of their excellence in world sports.
Notable alumni
Naito Ehara (Class of 2015) - Olympic Swimmer (Rio de Janeiro Bronze medal)
Kanae Yamabe (Class of 2012) - Olympic Judoist (Rio de Janeiro Bronze medal)
Lien Chen-li (Class of 2011) - Olympic Judoist
Yuka Kato (Class of 2009) - Olympic Swimmer (London Bronze medal)
Mekubo Mogusu (Class of 2009) - Long-distance Runner
Karolina Styczyńska - Professional shogi player
Satomi Suzuki (Class of 2013) - Olympic Swimmer (London Silver and Bronze medal)
Takuto Otoguro - The youngest Japanese ever freestyle wrestling senior world champion.
External links
University Website
International College of Liberal Arts Website
YGU Program Profiled by The Japan Times (2015)
Category:Universities and colleges in Japan
Category:Universities and colleges in Yamanashi Prefecture
Category:Kōfu, Yamanashi
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Marieme Helie Lucas
Marieme Helie Lucas is an Algerian sociologist as well as an activist for women's rights and secularism. She occupied leadership positions in human rights groups starting in the 1980s.
Influences and activism
Along with a strong family tradition of activism, Lucas' social involvement was influenced by Algeria's period of decolonisation and the subsequent challenges to women's rights posed by religious fundamentalists. She left a university position in human rights research and teaching in the 1980s to help establish the group Women Living Under Muslim Laws (in 1984) and become its first international coordinator. She is also a founding member of the Women Human Rights Defenders Coalition.
Lucas co-founded Secularism is a Women's Issue in 2006. The organization advocates against allowing separate legal frameworks for people or specific faith communities, such as courts using Sharia law, arguing those regimes are often detrimental to women's rights. The group also collects and distributes information on the situation of secularists and atheists in countries where Muslims make up a large part of the population. It also advocates for secularism in Europe.
Current interests
Lucas is interested in how European societies respond to religious fundamentalism, as well as to xenophobic movements. Comparing theocracy (immutable law handed out by god) to democracy (laws evolving through decision by people), Lucas argues any rules based on religion are by nature anti-democratic. The debates around immigration in European countries adds a complex dimension to that debate, for Lucas: "Unfortunately, the European Left and Far-Left, that should be our natural allies, have not yet understood that they should not throw themselves in the arms of Muslim fundamentalists in order to counter the traditional extreme right parties…" She also works to uncover the history of atheism and feminism in countries where Islam has major influence.
Selected publications
External links
Lucas conference on secularism.
References
Category:Living people
Category:Algerian sociologists
Category:Secularism
Category:Algerian secularists
Category:Critics of Islam
Category:1939 births
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Hugo Hardy
Hugo James Hardy (16 October 1877 – 8 October 1936) was a German tennis player and jurist. He competed in the men's singles and doubles events at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, where he was the only non-American competitor.
A lawyer, Hardy was on the board of an early version of the Deutschen Reichsausschuß für Olympische Spiele (DRA), a predecessor to the German Olympic Committee that oversaw sports in the Weimar Republic.
Hardy was born in Hamburg, the son of banker James Nathan Hardy and Helena Ida Noemie Cahn.
References
Category:1878 births
Category:1936 deaths
Category:German male tennis players
Category:Olympic tennis players of Germany
Category:Tennis players at the 1904 Summer Olympics
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Linda LeBourdais
Linda Lillian LeBourdais (born March 31, 1945) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1987 to 1990.
Background
LeBourdais was educated at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, and worked as a public relations and marketing consultant in the fashion and retail sectors. She has served as president of the federal Liberal riding association in Etobicoke Centre, and of the Etobicoke Centre Women's Committee. LeBourdais was also the national director of Stay Alert ... Stay Safe, a national non-profit organization in the field of child safety.
Politics
In 1987 provincial election, she ran as the Liberal party candidate in the riding of Etobicoke West. She won the nomination on May 3 at a contentious nomination meeting. Other contenders including former MPP Leonard Braithwaite claimed that LeBourdais signed up a large block of members for which she failed to provide a list to other nominees. There was also an allegation that some of the members lived outside the riding. In addition, the three member arbritation panel appointed to review the decision resigned due to a conflict of interest. In July a newly appointed arbitration panel upheld the decision saying they were "unable to prove sufficient voting irregularities to overturn the meeting".
In the election held in September 1987, she won the election defeating Progressive Conservative Doug Holyday by 6,090 votes. She served as a backbench supporter of David Peterson's government for the next three years, and was a parliamentary assistant in 1988-89. She served as advocate from Ontario's clothing and apparel industry during her time in office.
Prior to the 1990 provincial election, LeBourdais was challenged for the Liberal nomination by a representative of a local Sikh group, which claimed the Peterson government was insufficiently responsive to minority communities. She won the nomination, but was defeated in the general election by Chris Stockwell of the Progressive Conservative Party.
Electoral record
After politics
She returned to the private sector after her defeat, and became president of Mentor Communications. In 2005, she was appointed as a member of Ontario's Social Benefits Tribunal.
References
External links
Category:1945 births
Category:Living people
Category:Ontario Liberal Party MPPs
Category:People from Etobicoke
Category:Politicians from Montreal
Category:Women MPPs in Ontario
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Dulce familia
Dulce familia is a 2019 Mexican comedy film directed by Nicolás López. The film premiered on 10 May 2019, and is stars Fernanda Castillo, and Vadhir Derbez. The plot revolves around Tamy (Castillo), a woman who faces her overweight when she is about to get married, because she wants to wear the same wedding dress as her mother, Verónica (Florinda Meza), a famous telenovela actress obsessed with her physical image and which due to its age has been relegated on television.
Plot
Dulce familia is a comedy about five women of different generations and their respective fears, eating disorders, diets and sugar addiction. Tamy (Fernanda Castillo) will undergo all unimaginable tortures to lose 10 kilos in two months and be able to use the wedding dress her mother used. In this impossible mission will be accompanied by her sisters (Regina Blandón and Paz Bascuñán) and her bitter mother (Florinda Meza) who make up this family.
Cast
Fernanda Castillo as Tamy
Vadhir Derbez as Beto
Florinda Meza as Verónica
Regina Blandón as Bárbara
Paz Bascuñán as Ale
Luciano Cruz-Coke as Director Canal
Roberto Flores as Sacerdote
Boris Quercia as Carlos
Ariel Levy as Presentador
Mirella Granucci as Melina
References
External links
Category:Mexican comedy films
Category:Mexican films
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Wenchang dialect
Wenchang dialect () is a dialect of Hainanese which is spoken in Wenchang, a county-level city in the northeast of Hainan, an island province in southern China.
It is considered the prestige form of Hainanese, and is used by the provincial broadcasting media.
Phonology
The initials of the Wenchang dialect are:
The semivowels and are in complementary distribution with ,
and may be treated as allophones of the same phoneme.
The voiced stops and occur with only about ten words each.
There are five vowels, , , , and .
The high vowels and may also occur as medials.
The possible finals are:
There are also two syllabic nasals, /m̩/ and /ŋ̍/, which occur in a total of three words.
Wenchang dialect has six tones on isolated syllabes:
References
Sources
Category:Hainan Min
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Ashaq Qaleh
Ashaq Qaleh (, also Romanized as Āshāq Qal‘eh, Ashāq Qal‘eh, Ashshāq Qal‘eh, and Esḩāq Qal‘eh; also known as Āshāqī Qal‘eh, Es-hagh Ghal”eh, Eshāqī Qal‘eh, and Is-hāq Qal‘eh) is a village in Tork-e Gharbi Rural District, Jowkar District, Malayer County, Hamadan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 248, in 53 families.
References
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Stanimir Belomazhev
Stanimir Belomazhev () is a Bulgarian athlete in ski orienteering and cross-country skiing. While he started out as a skier, his greatest success came in ski orienteering, being there a three-times European champion and double World vice-champion.
In February 2016 he won three titles at the first World Student Ski Orienteering Championships in Tula, Russia, in sprint, middle and pursuit.
in March 2016 he won bronze in long distance (28.5 km) at the European Ski Orienteering Championships (Obertilliach, Austria).
References
Category:Bulgarian orienteers
Category:Male orienteers
Category:Ski-orienteers
Category:1988 births
Category:Living people
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ND2
ND2 may refer to:
China Railways ND2 diesel-electric locomotive
MT-ND2, NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2
Neutral density filter (ND) with an attenuation factor of 2
North Dakota's 2nd congressional district
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1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay
The women's 4x100 metres relay event at the 1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Sydney, Australia, at International Athletic Centre on 25 August.
Medalists
Results
Final
25 August
Heats
25 August
Heat 1
Heat 2
Participation
According to an unofficial count, 54 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.
References
4 x 100 metres relay
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Anehola Union
Anehola Union () is a union of Ghatail Upazila, Tangail District, Bangladesh. It is situated 10 km southwest of Ghatail and 24 km north of Tangail, The District Headquarter.
Demographics
According to Population Census 2011 performed by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, The total population of Anehola union is 25665. There are households 6524 in total.
Education
The literacy rate of Anehola Union is 45% (Male-47.3%, Female-42.9%).
See also
Union Councils of Tangail District
References
Category:Populated places in Dhaka Division
Category:Populated places in Tangail District
Category:Unions of Ghatail Upazila
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George Hodgson
George Ritchie Hodgson (October 12, 1893 – May 1, 1983) was a Canadian competition swimmer of the early 20th century, and considered by many to be the greatest swimmer in Canadian history. Hodgson won the two longer freestyle swimming gold medals at the 1912 Olympics, the only categories in which he competed. He also competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
Personal life
George Hodgson was born in 1893 in Montreal, Quebec. He matriculated at McGill University in 1912, competing in swimming and water polo for the school. While there, he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity, and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in applied science in 1916. He was inducted into the Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1955, the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1968, into the McGill University Sports Hall of Fame in 1996, and died in Montreal in 1983.
Several members of George Hodgson's extended family were well involved in Canadian sports. His uncles Billy and Archie Hodgson were prominent athletes with the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association in the 1880s and 1890s, playing both ice hockey and lacrosse with the organisation. Archie Hodgson was a member of the first Stanley Cup winning team in 1893, the same year George Hodgson was born.
International career
George Hodgson, Canada's only Olympic gold medal winner in swimming until 1984, did not stay in competition very long. He won two gold medals at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, with times of 5:24.4s in the 400-metre and 22:00.0s in the 1500-metre freestyle. He had already set a world record of 22:23.0 in the first round of the race. He was eighteen at the time and retired immediately after one of the great races of all time. His unprecedented success was widely attributed to his innovation of the trudgen stroke, a hybrid between the front crawl and sidestroke.
It was for the 1500 meter Olympic championship and Hodgson broke world and Olympic records for 1000 yards and meters, and 1 mile in addition to the prescribed 1500 meter race distance. His Olympic record at 400 meters stood until 1924 when Johnny Weissmuller broke it at Amsterdam. He was Canada's lone swimmer in 1912.
Records
Olympic records
1912 gold (400 m freestyle)
1912 gold (1500 m freestyle)
Fastest freestyle mile in the 1911 Festival of Empire Games (now the Commonwealth Games)
See also
List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
World record progression 1500 metres freestyle
References
External links
George Hodgson (CAN) – Honor Swimmer profile at International Swimming Hall of Fame
George Hodgson Class of 1916 – Athlete profile at McGill University's Hall of Fame
Category:1893 births
Category:1956 deaths
Category:Anglophone Quebec people
Category:Canadian male freestyle swimmers
Category:World record setters in swimming
Category:McGill University alumni
Category:Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic gold medalists for Canada
Category:Olympic swimmers of Canada
Category:Sportspeople from Montreal
Category:Swimmers at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Category:Swimmers at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic gold medalists in swimming
Category:McGill Redmen players
WW1 War Record
Appointed Probationer Flight Sub-Lieutenant, RNAS, Ottawa, 18 January 1916.
18 January 1916 at Chingford, then Felixstowe on 16 June 1916, where he carried out anti-submarine patrols, flying Felixstowe F2A flying boats; posted to Southeast Area, 1 June 1918. Service no. R 184192.
Pilot of Porte Baby 9810 (large flying boat) at Lerwick, Shetland 18.8.18 while serving at Houton Seaplane Station, Orkney.
Posted to No.210 Training Depot Station, 2 October 1918; to Shorncliffe, 10 January 1919; on unemployed list, 22 January 1919.
Decorations:
Board of Trade Silver Medal for Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea - awarded on the recommendation of the President of the Board of Trade, announced in The Aeroplane, 27 March 1918; with F/Lt James Lindsay Gordon, Leading Mechanic (E) Sydney Francis Anderson, and Wireless Telegraphist (A.M.II) Bertram Harley Millichamp, ‘in recognition of their services in rescuing two men from an upturned float in the North Sea on May 29th last.’ awarded effective 29 May 1917; presented at Buckingham Palace, 4 September 1918. - Mention in Despatches - London Gazette dated 1 October 1917 for patrol duties in home waters. Air Force Cross - London Gazette dated 2 November 1918.
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Patrick Lindesay
Sir Patrick Lindesay, (24 February 1778 – 14 March 1839) was a Scottish military officer during the Napoleonic Wars and Peninsular War but is most noted as having served as Acting Governor of New South Wales, Australia in 1831. Mount Lindesay (Queensland), Mount Lindesay (New South Wales) and Lindesay River in Australia are all named after him.
Life
He was born in Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland, the son of Lt. Col. John Lindesay.
He was educated at Edinburgh University and in 1793 joined the army as an Ensign. He was thereafter gazetted as a lieutenant in the famed 78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot. He was promoted to Captain in September 1795. He moved to the 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot in October 1796 and was there promoted to Major in 1807. He then saw considerable action in Spain and Portugal during the Peninsular War.
In 1811 he saw his most major action and received a medal for his actions in the Battle of Albuera.
In 1814, his obituary states, he had a "final brush" with the Americans in the final battles between these countries.
From 1824 to 1826 he served in the First Anglo-Burmese War, commanding a division of the Expeditionary Army.
Australia
In November 1827, aged 49, he arrived in Sydney, Australia to succeed Col. William Stewart in the command of the garrison at Port Jackson. He became a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1827, and when the post of lieutenant-governor was abolished he took over the required duties of the post. From April 1829 he was a member of the Executive Council. After the controversial departure of the governor Sir Ralph Darling on 22 October 1831, Lindesay filled the role of Acting Governor until the appointment of Sir Richard Bourke as governor on 2 December 1831.
During this period he permitted one of the Captains in his Regiment, Captain Charles Sturt to take a leave of absence to explore the Murray River. On Sturt's return he brought many bird skins which were then delivered by Lindesay to the Edinburgh Museum. A later donation to Prof. Robert Jameson caused Jameson to state that Lindesay was "a distinguished officer and a very active naturalist".
Sturt later named a tributary of the Murray River the Lindesay River, in gratitude to his commanding officer.
The explorer Allan Cunningham later named a mountain on the border of New South Wales, in the McPherson Range, "Mount Lindesay" but this was later (c.1840) renamed Mount Barney. The name Mount Lindesay was then used to replace a mountain previously named "Mount Hooker" just north within Queensland. A second Mount Lindesay (New South Wales) was later named by Sir Thomas Mitchell, attaching to a dominant mountain in the Nandewar Range.
Late Life
In 1832 he was dispatched to India to command the garrisons at Bangalore. After the surrender of Mercara he received a bounty of £10,000. He then commanded the entire British forces in southern Madras until late 1835.
He returned to Britain in 1836 and was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath and Military Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order. He was promoted to the rank of Major General on 10 January 1837.
He is interred in St. Michael's Churchyard in Inveresk west of the main church in the older section. His grave in 2014 was wholly obscured by two yew trees.
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Category:British Army personnel of the War of 1812
Category:British Army personnel of the Napoleonic Wars
Category:78th Highlanders officers
Category:39th Regiment of Foot officers
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Tayloe House (Williamsburg, Virginia)
The Tayloe House is an 18th-century house in Williamsburg, Virginia. Located on E. Nicholson Street just east of Queen Street, the house was built from 1752 to 1759 and was restored in 1950–1951 by Colonial Williamsburg.
The house was purchased by John Tayloe II in 1759 from Dr. James Carter, resident surgeon of Williamsburg. Tayloe was an influential member of the King's Council under Lord Dunmore and of the first Republic Council under Governor Patrick Henry. Tayloe was a member of the House of Burgesses of Virginia in 1774.
A replica of the house was built in 2004 in Moorestown, New Jersey.
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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies
The UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES ) is a school of University College London (UCL) specializing in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, Russia and Eurasia.
The School teaches a wide range of subjects including the history, politics, literature, sociology, economics and languages of the region and is the largest centre for the study and research of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, and Russia in the United Kingdom. It has links with universities both across Europe and globally.
History
The School was inaugurated in London in 1915, as a department of King's College London, by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, who later became President of Czechoslovakia. In 1932 the School became an Institute of the University of London, no longer connected to any
college.
In 1999, the School merged with University College London (UCL).
Teaching
More than 60 academic staff work at the School, teaching and conducting research in the history, economics, politics, sociology, anthropology, culture, literature and languages of the countries of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, and Russia. In 2012/2013 the School had over 200 graduate students studying taught MA degrees or undertaking PhD research. In addition, the School has over 600 undergraduate students.
Research
Along with its undergraduate and graduate teaching, the School hosts a number of interdisciplinary research centres, groups and funded projects which aim to help us expand research and understanding of their specialist regions.
It is a major international centre for training the next generation of regional specialists, through a combination of academic rigour and the skills and knowledge required by employers. It also specializes in analyzing and disseminating information about changes in the region, publishing periodicals, papers and books, holding conferences, public lectures, seminars and briefings, and providing experts who can act as advisers to government, the media, and public and private institutions.
Library
Comprising around 357,000 volumes of books, pamphlets and periodicals, the School's library is unique in the UK for the quantity of research material on open access and for the extensive collection of newspapers from the region. Its collections of books, periodicals and archives are consulted by scholars from all over the world, and it has recently developed an important role in the provision of electronic and audio-visual material relating to its area of study. Central to the School since its founding, the Library moved from Senate House to the new building on Taviton Street in 2005.
The library is one of the leading research collections in Britain for the study of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The main fields of interest are the languages, literature, history, politics, economics, geography and bibliography of Russia and the western Republics of the former USSR, Poland, the Czech Lands, Slovakia, former Yugoslavia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Austria, Germany and Italy. Subsidiary fields of interest are the arts in general, demography, ethnography and religion. Material is also collected on the former German Democratic Republic (history, political and economic life), the history of Germany and Austria, the Lusatian Sorbs, and Slavonic and Ugro-Finnic studies in general.
The Library also houses the Bain Graffy Film Collection of films from and about Russia and Central and Eastern Europe.
Building
In May 2004 the foundation stone of the School's new building on Taviton Street in Bloomsbury was unveiled by the President of Poland, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, in the presence of The Princess Royal, Chancellor of the University of London. The school moved to the building in the summer of 2005 after nearly 90 years at Senate House. Václav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, delivered the keynote address of his visit to the UK at a ceremony to open the building in October 2005. Following Klaus's address, the Princess Royal unveiled the stone to mark the formal opening of the building, on the occasion of the School's 90th anniversary.
The building was designed by award-winning architects Short and Associates. The design of the building aims to be 'environmentally-friendly' not simply through the addition of elements such as solar panels, but by facilitating the passage of cool air around the building and so avoiding the need for air conditioning or other expensive, energy-using solutions – a first for the 'central London heat island'.
Notable alumni and staff
Acija Alfirević, academic and writer
Anthony Bailey (BA Eastern and Central European Studies, 1991), interfaith campaigner
Robin Baker (BA), former Vice-Chancellor of Canterbury Christ Church University
George Bolsover (Director of SSEES, 1947–76)
Michael Branch (BA; PhD, 1967; Director of SSEES, 1980–2001)
Sir Roger Carrick (Bulgarian, 1962), diplomat and former UK High Commissioner to Australia
Robert Conquest (Bulgarian, 1943), historian and poet
Norman Davies (lecturer then Professor of History, 1971–96)
Peter J. S. Duncan (senior lecturer of Russian Politics)
Robert I. Frost (PhD History), historian
Titus Hjelm (current lecturer in Finnish Studies), member of the power metal band Thunderstone
Sir Robert Hodgson (Chair of SSEES Council, 1943–45), diplomat
Clare Hollingworth (Croatian), journalist
Geoffrey Hosking (Chair and Leverhulme Research Professor of Russian History, 1984–2007), academic and co-founder of Nightline
Lindsey Hughes (Reader then Professor of Russian History, 1987–2007)
Andres Kasekamp (PhD History, 1996), Director of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute and Professor of Baltic Politics at the University of Tartu
David Kirby (former Professor of Modern European History), historian of the Baltic states
Ivo Lapenna (Reader in Soviet Law, 1964?–unknown), former President of the World Esperanto Association and academic lawyer
Alena Ledeneva (current Professor of Politics and Society)
Stephen Lovell (MA, PhD), academic
Clarence Manning (staff), academic and Slavicist
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (co-founder of SSEES, Professor of Slavic Research), first President of Czechoslovakia
Margaret Stevenson Miller (PhD), academic and women's rights campaigner
Roger Moorhouse (MA History and Politics, 1994), author and historian
Atukwei Okai (MPhil, 1971), Ghanaian poet, cultural activist and academic
Sir Bernard Pares (first Director of SSEES, Professor of Russian Language, Literature and History, 1919-1939)
László Péter (lecturer then Chair of Hungarian history, 1963–94)
Martyn Rady (current Masaryk Professor of Central European History)
Sir John Randall (BA Serbo-Croatian language and literature, 1979), former Deputy Chief Whip of the House of Commons
Anna Reid (History), historian, journalist and author
Jacek Rostowski (BSc, MA, 1973, then lecturer, 1988–95) former Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister of Poland
Jonathan Ross (Modern European History), British TV presenter
Andrew Rothstein (lecturer in Russian and Soviet History, 1946–50), journalist and founding member of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Mike Sarne (BA), actor, film director and singer of the 1962 UK number one song, "Come Outside"
Edward Schofield, curator at the British Museum and British Library
György Schöpflin (former Jean Monnet Professor of Politics), Hungarian Member of the European Parliament
Robert Service (former lecturer in Russian History), historian and author
Hugh Seton-Watson (Chair of Russian History, 1951–83)
R. W. Seton-Watson (co-founder of SSEES, Masaryk Professor of Central European History, 1922–45), political activist and historian
Robin Shepherd, political commentator
Nick Taussig (Master's in Russian Literature), author and film producer
Trevor Thomas (former lecturer in Czech and Slovak History)
Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu (former teaching fellow), former Prime Minister of Romania
References
External links
Official site
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Holy Family College (Wisconsin)
Holy Family College is a private Catholic liberal arts college in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Founded as an academy in 1885 by the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity, the college achieved four-year college status in 1935 and was then called Holy Family College. In 1972 the college became separately incorporated from the Franciscan order, and was renamed Silver Lake College of the Holy Family.
History
Holy Family College traces its history to 1885 when the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity established Holy Family Academy and Normal School to prepare young women who entered the religious community for teaching. They founded Holy Family College in 1935. The college began admitting lay women in 1957 and became coeducational in 1969.
The college was located in a wing of Holy Family Convent for 25 years. In the late 1950s, a capital campaign was launched to build a new college building on 36 acres adjacent to Holy Family Convent. The new Holy Family College building opened in 1960. In 1972 the college became separately incorporated from the Franciscan order, and was renamed Silver Lake College of the Holy Family.
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Silver Lake College of the Holy Family expanded programs to nontraditional students. Beginning in the mid 1980s, the college also offered degree-completion programs and professional development coursework.
The St. Joseph Parish church and school, located on campus, added space for meetings, classes and offices. It was named the Generose Enrichment Center for the first college president, Mother M. Generose Cahill, and opened in 2003.
George F. Arnold was appointed the college's first lay president and served from 2004 to 2013.
Clare Hall was renovated to offer on-campus student housing in 2009.
Dr. Robert B. Callahan became Holy Family College's 11th president in 2018.
In September 2019, Silver Lake College announced that it would be renamed Holy Family College, in a return to its Franciscan roots.
Enrollment
Enrollment is approximately 500 students from the United States and other countries.
32% male
68% female
14% minority
Academics
Holy Family College offers 21 undergraduate programs and three graduate programs.
Accelerated evening coursework on the main campus in Manitowoc and at outreach sites in the state are offered to those with associate degrees who are pursuing a bachelor's or graduate degree. Programs also include academic counseling and credit for prior learning. Other available coursework includes teacher certification and certificate programs ranging from business to ministry to social work.
Four-year nursing program
With a Bachelor of Science in nursing completion program already in place, Silver Lake College opened a four-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing program in its renovated, $1.5 million nursing wing in 2016.
Work college
In 2016 Silver Lake College initiated SLC Works, a program that incorporates jobs into students' schedules in order to give them work experience, build their résumés and apply money earned toward their student debt. In the 2016-17 academic year, all new full-time residential freshmen and transfer students began participating in SLC Works as a condition of enrollment.
Athletics
HFC athletic teams are known as the Lakers. The college joined the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) in 2016. Holy Family College competes in the NAIA as an independent institution. HFC offers men's basketball, women's basketball, women's volleyball, men's soccer, women's soccer, men's cross country, women's cross country, men's bowling, and women's bowling.
Accreditation
Holy Family College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, the National Association of Schools of Music, and the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.
State of Wisconsin certifications
The college's certifications include the Wisconsin Board of Nursing, Wisconsin Social Work Certificate, and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.
Memberships
Silver Lake is a member of the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.
Notes
External links
Official website
Official athletics website
Category:Franciscan universities and colleges
Category:Catholic universities and colleges in Wisconsin
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Category:Education in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin
Category:Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities
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Großer Falkenstein
The Großer Falkenstein or Great Falkenstein, is a mountain, high, in the Bavarian Forest about five kilometres southeast of Bayerisch Eisenstein in the Falkenstein-Rachel region of the Bavarian Forest National Park.
Views
From the summit cross there are extensive views to the west and south of the Großer Arber, the Großer Osser, the town of Zwiesel and the Großer Rachel.
To the west and lower is the Kleiner Falkenstein, also a worthwhile viewing point.
Ascent
An ascent to the summit is possible in around 2 hours following the trails marked Heidelbeere, Eibe, Silberblatt and Esche from the start points of Zwieslerwaldhaus, Kreuzstraßl and Scheuereck. Worth seeing is the so-called Höllbachgspreng, an area of rocky terrain with a gorge and stream that has several waterfalls and numerous runnels descending to the Höllbachschwelle, a small lake. The path through this area is very challenging and should only be attempted by experienced hikers.
Mountain hut
At the summit is a mountain hut owned by the Zwiesel branch of the Bavarian Forest Club, which is open daily during the summer and at weekends in winter. It has overnight accommodation. The hut, the Falkenstein-Schutzhaus, was built in autumn 1932 to plans by Straubing town architect, Oskar Schmidt, handed over on 7 January 1933 to the public and formally opened on 15 and 16 June 1933 as part of a field mass by the Ludwigsthal parish priest, Maier. At that time it already had 30 bedspaces.
On 12 September 1975, after 2 years of renovation and extension work, the hut was reopened at an event attended by 2,000 people. Since then it has had 60 bedspaces.
In January 2018 the members of the Bavarian Forest Club voted for the demolition and rebuilding of the mountain hut.
Geotope
The summit crag of the Großer Falkenstein has been designated as an important geotope (Geotope no.: 276R022) by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment.
References
External links
Falkenstein Schutzhaus
Falkenstein slide show at waldberge.de
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Category:Bohemian Forest
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187th Paratroopers Regiment "Folgore"
The 187th Paratroopers Regiment "Folgore" () is an active unit of the Italian Army based in Livorno in Tuscany. The regiment is part of the Italian army's Paracadutisti infantry corps and operationally assigned to the Paratroopers Brigade "Folgore".
Current structure
As of 2019 the 187th Paratroopers Regiment "Folgore" consists of:
Regimental Command, in Livorno
Command and Logistic Support Company "Aquile"
2nd Paratroopers Infantry Battalion "Tarquinia"
4th Paratroopers Fusiliers Company "Falchi"
5th Paratroopers Fusiliers Company "Pipistrelli"
6th Paratroopers Fusiliers Company "Grifi"
10th Paratroopers Maneuver Support Company "Draghi"
The Command and Logistic Support Company fields the following platoons: C3 Platoon, Transport and Materiel Platoon, Medical Platoon, and Commissariat Platoon. The regiment is equipped with VTLM Lince vehicles. The 10th Paratroopers Maneuver Support Company is equipped with 120mm mortars and Spike MR anti-tank guided missiles.
See also
Paratroopers Brigade "Folgore"
External links
Italian Army Website: 187th Paratroopers Regiment "Folgore"
References
Category:Paracadutisti Regiments of Italy
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Enemy at the Gate (Stargate Atlantis)
"Enemy at the Gate" is the 100th and final episode of the science fiction television series Stargate Atlantis. The episode aired on January 9, 2009 on the Sci Fi Channel in the United States, and on January 13, 2009 on Sky1 in the United Kingdom. Written by Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie as their fifth and final script in the fifth season, "Enemy at the Gate" was produced as the nineteenth episode of the season and was directed by Andy Mikita. It is dedicated to Don S. Davis (Stargate SG-1 George Hammond), who died from a heart attack in 2008.
"Enemy at the Gate" involves a Wraith plan to significantly upgrade a Hive Ship by integrating it with stolen Zero Point Modules from Asurans, and picks up a weak transmission from Earth from an alternate reality ("Vegas"), alerting the ship to Earth's location.
Plot
"Todd" (Christopher Heyerdahl) informs Atlantis that a group of Wraith have multiple ZPMs and they plan to use one of them to power a new super Hive Ship.
"Todd" urges the expedition to destroy it, but when the team reaches the hive, they realize that the ZPM has already made the ship far more powerful than expected, and causes significant damage to Daedalus before jumping into hyperspace.
The team then finds out that the Hive has picked up a subspace transmission from the alternate reality depicted in "Vegas", giving the Wraith the location of Earth. Earth sends Apollo and Sun Tzu to stop them, but the two ships are quickly disabled. Lt. Col. Sheppard (Joe Flanigan) gates to Earth and warns Carter (Amanda Tapping) of the situation. However, before their plan of fitting nukes on the F-302s is complete, they discover that the ship has already arrived, and is sending a large squadron of darts, which perform a kamikaze run into Area 51, destroying the Antarctic Ancient control chair, and ZPM losing hope of using the Antarctic drone weapons against the ship. Sheppard, however, plans on using his F-302 to break into the Hive, where he might detonate a nuclear weapon destroying the Hive from within.
Meanwhile, Carson Beckett (Paul McGillion) returns and flies the city to Earth, after finding more ZPMs from "Todd". However, the stardrive shuts down just as they approach the Milky Way. Zelenka (David Nykl) is able to implement a "wormhole drive", which sends the city to Earth within seconds. Meanwhile, in attempting to gate to Earth the Atlantis expedition connects to a Stargate aboard the Hive, which has been brought for the purpose of superseding Earth's gate to prevent dialing out. Woolsey (Robert Picardo) sends Teyla (Rachel Luttrell), Ronon (Jason Momoa), McKay (David Hewlett) and Lorne (Kavan Smith) to the Hive to destroy it. However, in the process, Ronon is killed. The team find Sheppard about to detonate the nuke, but stop him. Since the Hive is over Earth, they plan to remote detonate the nuke, after they safely gate to the Alpha Site. They find Ronon, who was brought back to life by the Wraith and rescue him. Meanwhile, Atlantis arrives to destroy the ship, but the powerful weapons push Atlantis into Earth's atmosphere. Before the shield fails, the Hive is destroyed by the nuclear warhead. Atlantis is burning up on re-entry, though Carson manages to control the city, and lands in the Pacific Ocean, subsequently cloaking and secretly moving Atlantis to the coast off San Francisco. In the end, the team takes time to admire the view of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Production
Even though "Enemy at the Gate" is the final episode in the series, its production number was 519, leaving 520 for "Vegas", which was filmed on location in Las Vegas, Nevada. The shooting of "Enemy at the Gate" overlapped with "Vegas", which was not unusual as Atlantis used to film multiple shows at the same time during its run. The VFX budget was over half a million dollars, only being seconded by "The Daedalus Variations" for the most VFX dollars spent on an episode in season 5.
Many of the happenings in "Enemy at the Gate" were originally planned because the episode was the 100th episode as well as a season finale. When the writers learned of the cancellation, they found the events even more appropriate to serve as series finale. In writing the episode, the writers had to take a lot of backstory into account. It needed to be addressed that the Atlantis characters did not necessarily know the recurring characters from the Stargate franchise such as Major Davis. Stargate Atlantis was originally intended to be continued by a two-hour movie, but MGM filed for bankruptcy in 2010 and shelved the Atlantis film indefinitely.
Because it was not very clear to the audience, Paul Mullie explained that the "Todd" character "is very much back to being a full-fledged human life sucker at the beginning of this episode", and gave this as the reason why Sheppard appears so cruel to "Todd". The original first scene included explanatory dialog, which was cut when SciFi asked for a Keller scene earlier in the show so that her appearance in the last third would not be as jarring. New explanatory dialog that Mullie added to the first act of the script was filmed but later cut for time. There are plans to make the trimmed and cut scenes available in a special extended version, likely to be released on DVD. Brad Wright temporarily considered to use the wormhole drive as a set-up for a similar drive in Stargate Universe, but instead, this technology is planned to appear as part of the story for the Atlantis film.
The last scene's possible connection to Star Trek is pure coincidence. The producers had wanted the city to come down on Earth near a recognizable landmark, as to be different from the previous five years of the show where Atlantis was always located in the middle of the ocean. Martin Gero and Carl Binder were insistent that it should be the Statue of Liberty, but the geography was not plausible enough for leaving the city cloaked for any length of time without anyone noticing and/or getting killed. So the producers settled on San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge.
Although the producers knew of Don S. Davis' (George Hammond) heart problems, his death "came as a total shock" to them. They originally talked about just showing an "in memoriam" card at the end of the show, but as Davis's death also meant the end of the character's arc, they decided to acknowledge it by renaming the ship.
Release and reception
After its US release, "Enemy at the Gate" received a Neilson rating of 1.5, making Stargate Atlantis the second-highest rated Sci Fi series of the week, with the lead being the finale of Sanctuary, which earned a 1.6 rating. In total, "Enemy at the Gate" was viewed by 2.02 million people, including 973,000 for in the 18 to 49 demographic, and 1.12 million age 25 to 54. In the UK, the finale was viewed by 633,000, placing Stargate Atlantis third in the top ten for Sky1 in that week, behind The Simpsons and season seven premiere of 24. However, IGN reviewer Tory Ireland Mell has given the episode a "mediocre" score of 5.8 out of 10, where the reviewer felt that everything on the episode was "forced", and felt the final scene was "uninspiring", though the episode was praised for the conversation between Sheppard and Carter. Sci Fi Wire said that the episode was a very "Satisfying conclusion" for the series end. The episode won the awards for "Best Overall Sound in a Dramatic Series" and "Best Sound Editing in a Dramatic Series" at the 2009 Leo Awards.
References
External links
Enemy at the Gate at mgm.com
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Category:American television series finales
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Mont-Saint-Hilaire line
Mont-Saint-Hilaire (also designated exo3) is a commuter railway line in Greater Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is operated by Exo, the operates public transport services across this region.
The Mont-Saint-Hilaire line was operated by the Canadian National Railway (CN) between 1859 and 1988. The line was not active until Exo's predecessor agency, the Agence Métropolitaine de transport (AMT), resumed passenger service in 2000.
There are 7 inbound and 7 outbound departures per weekday.
Overview
This line links the Central Station in downtown Montreal with Mont-Saint-Hilaire, on Montreal's South Shore.
The line offers seven departures every weekday morning towards Montreal and seven returns to Saint-Hilaire every weekday evening. It is also the only commuter train line not to have any train stations on the island of Montreal outside of Downtown Montreal. All the other train lines have at least 4 stops before leaving the island.
The trains are owned and managed by Exo, and operated by Bombardier's Transportation division.
Today, over 9,000 people ride this train daily.
History
CN service
This commuter route was opened by CN in 1859. Equipment in the late 1960s and early 1970s, operated once daily each direction, was a hodgepodge of ca 1930 coaches and an equally eclectic mix of yard switchers, freight and passenger diesel electric engines. Service was suspended in 1988, due to low ridership and old equipment used.
Central Station – Saint-Isidore shuttle service
During the Oka Crisis in the summer of 1990, the Société de transport de la communauté urbaine de Montréal (STCUM) organised a temporary rail shuttle service between Montreal Central Station and the town of Saint-Isidore due to the closure of the Honoré Mercier Bridge during said crisis. That service used part of the present-day Mont-Saint-Hilaire line between Montreal Central Station and Saint-Lambert station via Victoria Bridge, and then branched off to the CN Rouses Point Subdivision towards Saint-Isidore.
AMT service
The Mont-Saint-Hilaire line was re-opened in 2000 (between Montreal Central Station and McMasterville) by the AMT as a measure to mitigate traffic congestion caused by roadwork. Train service was progressively increased to respond to rapidly growing demand. The line was extended to its current terminus at Mont-Saint-Hilaire in 2002.
RTM/Exo service
On June 1, 2017, the AMT was dissolved and replaced by two new governing bodies, the Autorité régionale de transport métropolitain (ARTM) and the Réseau de transport métropolitain (RTM). The RTM took over all former AMT services, including this line.
In May 2018, the RTM rebranded itself as Exo, and rebranded each line with a number and updated colour. The Mont-Saint-Hilaire line became Exo 3, and its line colour was updated to a lighter pastel shade of violet.
List of stations
The following stations are on the Mont-Saint-Hilaire line:
The commuter line operates over the following Canadian National subdivision:
Saint-Hyacinthe Subdivision (between St-Hilaire [54.2] and Montreal [74.1])
References
External links
Official RTM website
Category:Exo commuter rail lines
Category:Transport in Montérégie
Category:Railway lines opened in 2000
Category:Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville
Category:Transport in Saint-Lambert, Quebec
Category:Transport in Longueuil
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Winnipeg Area Control Centre
The Winnipeg Area Control Centre is one of seven Area Control Centres in Canada operated by Nav Canada.
Located at 777 Moray Street in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the centre controls all air traffic in Manitoba under 60,000 feet (including waters in Hudson Bay, as well as parts of Saskatchewan (from border with Alberta to Thompson) and Ontario east of Thunder Bay (including waters of Hudson Bay and James Bay). To the east is Toronto Area Control Centre and to the west is Edmonton Area Control Centre.
References
Category:Air traffic control centers
Category:Aviation in Manitoba
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A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995–1997
A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995–1997 is the debut album by Bright Eyes. The album is the first commercial release by Conor Oberst and features his vocals and guitar. This album is the 19th release of Saddle Creek Records.
Track listing
Personnel
Conor Oberst – writing, singing, strumming, keyboards, low rhythm, drumming, sounds.
Ted Stevens – drumming on The Awful Sweetness of Escaping Sweat.
Todd Fink – sounds and drumming on I Watched You Taking Off.
M. Bowen – left handed drumming on One Straw (Please).
Neely Jenkins – backup singing on Feb. 15th.
Matthew Oberst, Sr. – lead strumming on "The 'Feel Good' Revolution"
References
Category:1998 debut albums
Category:Bright Eyes (band) albums
Category:Saddle Creek Records albums
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Bescot Yard
Bescot Yard is a railway yard in Bescot, a suburb of Walsall in the West Midlands, operated by DB Cargo UK. The yard is the major freight yard of the region, handling all of the rail freight movements and most of the railfreight traffic around the West Midlands.
History
Bescot is on the Walsall Line between Birmingham New Street and Walsall, part of the former Grand Junction Railway, opened in 1837. It was built to handle the coal and industrial traffic associated with the West Midlands. In April 1966, a remodelled Bescot Yard was opened which was capable of handling over 4,000 wagons daily.
Traffic from the West Midlands Domestic Coal network was diverted away from Bescot to Washwood Heath sidings in July 1987. This allowed for extra capacity at Bescot.
Bescot TMD is to the north-west of the yard. This entire complex of track is clearly visible from the northern end of the M6 and M5 motorway junction.
Present
After closure of the 1950s developed hump shunting yard, freight since the 2008 credit crunch have declined significantly, and the associated Bescot TMD now carries no allocation of locomotives. Washwood Heath sidings were closed to freight trains in the latter half of 2008 and all residual services were transferred back to Bescot yard.
DB Schenker services workings are still the mainstay of operations in the area, Direct Rail Services nuclear flask trains pass once or twice a week, and Freightliner Group Intermodal and Automotive trains also pass through. Regular Freightliner Coal trains also run around on the up goods on their way to Rugeley Power Station.
The yard can be viewed in operation from Bescot Stadium railway station, served by West Midlands Trains.
Gallery
See also
List of rail yards
Rail transport in Great Britain
References
Sources
External links
Bescot Yard @ trainspots.co.uk
Category:Rail yards in the United Kingdom
Category:Rail transport in the West Midlands (county)
Category:Buildings and structures in Sandwell
Category:Rail transport in Sandwell
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Brändö
Brändö is an island municipality of Åland, Finland. Characteristics of Brändö are the numerous assembly of islands and islets, most important of which are linked by bridges and causeways. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The municipality is unilingually Swedish and of the population are Swedish speakers.
References
External links
Municipality of Brändö – Official website
Map of Brändö
Category:Municipalities of the Åland Islands
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The Great American Scream Machine
The Great American Scream Machine is the name of two different roller coasters:
Great American Scream Machine (Six Flags Great Adventure), a defunct steel roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey, USA.
Great American Scream Machine (Six Flags Over Georgia), a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia in Austell, Georgia, USA.
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Yok Siam Year 1
Yok Siam Year 1 () is a Thai quiz show television program. It encouraged Thai people in each province using their ability joyfully about knowledges and being proud in their hometown. It broadcast on Monday - Friday 6:30 - 6:55 p.m. on Modern Nine TV. It had begun airdate on February 18, 2008 before ended on January 9, 2009. It was produced by Workpoint Entertainment.
In addition, Maha Vajiralongkorn, Crown Prince of Thailand gave certificates with his signature to the province that is the winner.
After Yok Siam Year 1 had ended airdate, Yok Siam Year 2 began airdate.
Competitions and rules
First round
In the first round, there were 76 provinces. Teams are divided into 19 groups, four provinces per one group. In each group, there were two matches. (two provinces per one match) In each team, there were 10 competitors with different jobs, and header of each team was well-known people in that province.
Competitors of each team had to answer the questions about knownledges in Thailand, by choosing two choice, ก (A) or ข (B). Which team reached three or five scores first, was the winner, and the winner would met another winner team in the group final. Which team won, was the Winner of the group, advanced to the Second round.
Note: red number means all competitors of each team answered wrong.
Seeding
Teams are divided into 19 groups, four provinces per one group.
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Group 5
Group 6
Group 7
Group 8
Group 9
Group 10
Group 11
Group 12
Group 13
Group 14
Group 15
Group 16
Note: Group 16 had no winner of the group.
Group 17
Group 18
Group 19
Second round
In the second round, there were 18 provinces advancing from the first round. (except group 16 without winner) Which team reached three scores first, was the winner, and advanced to the Third round.
Seeding
Teams were seeded into two pots – Pot 1 and Pot 2.
Matches
Note: red number with x means all competitors of each team answered wrong.
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| style = "background:#ccffcc;" | Nong Khai Province (Nakha Khanong Khong)
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| style = "background:#ffcccc;" | Yala Province (Phayak Yang Raeng)
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| style = "background:#ccffcc;" | Nonthaburi Province (Kan Yao Phayong)
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|4||style="background:#ccffcc;" | Ang Thong Province (Golden Rice Killer) ||3-1x
| style = "background:#ffcccc;" | Chumphon Province (South Gateway Warrior)
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| style = "background:#ffcccc;" | Yasothon Province (Bang Fai Pha-ngat)
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| style = "background:#ccffcc;" | Ranong Province (Chao Bun Tay)
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Third round
In the third round, there were ten provinces advancing from the second round. Which team reached 2 in 3 sets first, be the winner and advance to the fourth round.
Matches
Note: red number with x means all competitors of each team answered wrong.
Winner and runner-up
Special airdates
Yok Siam Trivia
The Yok Siam trivia special airdates took place before the final match between Ranong and Nonthaburi. There were 11 episodes.
See also
Yok Siam Year 2''
Notes
References
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Category:Yok Siam
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Category:2000s Thai television series
Category:2008 Thai television seasons
Category:2009 Thai television seasons
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Ursula King
Ursula King is a Paralympic swimmer from Australia. She was a classified "3" competitor at the 1984 New York Stoke/Mandeville Paralympics representing Australia in freestyle and butterfly events. She won silver in the 50m freestyle, and two bronzes in the 200 m freestyle and 25 m butterfly.
References
Category:Female Paralympic swimmers of Australia
Category:Swimmers at the 1984 Summer Paralympics
Category:Paralympic silver medalists for Australia
Category:Paralympic bronze medalists for Australia
Category:Living people
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Medalists at the 1984 Summer Paralympics
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Jeff Gianola
Jeff Gianola (born October 2, 1955) is the head news anchor for KOIN 6, the CBS affiliate station in Portland, Oregon.
Career
Gianola grew up in San Diego, California, and came to Portland's KATU, the city's ABC affiliate, in 1983 from a stint at a Santa Barbara, California, station where he was the general-assignment reporter. After doing the weather and morning anchoring at KATU for a few years, he was moved to evening anchor in 1985. He was teamed with Julie Emry, and the pair co-anchored KATU's evening newscasts for several years in the late 1980s and 1990s. Gianola left KATU for CBS affiliate KOIN, in August 1998. In September 1999, Gianola wrote, produced and starred in "Quick Tips for Easy Living", a lifestyle program that aired Saturday afternoons on KOIN. The program was cancelled in October 1999. Gianola's news partner was Anne State until she left broadcast news to care for her parents in April 2015. Gianola produced the documentary "No Perfect Answers: The Life and Architecture of Pietro Belluschi".
Gianola is the father of five children; two girls from a previous marriage and three children with his current wife, Shannon. The family lives in Tigard. Gianola is the president and founder of the Wednesday's Child Foundation. This foundation helps to raise funds for children in foster care to participate in activities such as camps, lessons, and sports teams.
Gianola played a television news reporter in the 2003 William Friedkin film The Hunted. His name appears on the train in several scenes. He also had a cameo in the 1999 Kelley Baker film Birddog.
References
External links
No Perfect Answers website
Category:1955 births
Category:Living people
Category:Television anchors from Portland, Oregon
Category:Male actors from San Diego
Category:People from Tigard, Oregon
Category:Male actors from Oregon
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Romanovich
Romanovich () or Romanowicz (Polish version) is a gender-neutral Slavic surname and a patronymic name that may refer to
Aleksander Romanowicz (1871–1933), general of cavalry in both Russian Imperial Army and Polish Army
Anatoli Romanovich (born 1979), Russian association football player
Nikita Romanovich (1522–1586), Muscovite boyar
Roger Romanowicz (born 1947), Australian association football player
Sergei Romanovich (born 1984), Russian association football player
Vasilko Romanovich (1203–1269), Russian prince
Walter Romanowicz (1918–1986), American association football goalkeeper
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Lupine Howl
Lupine Howl were a rock band formed in Bristol, England in 1999, by Sean Cook (vocalist, bassist), Mike Mooney (guitarist) and Damon Reece (drummer). The three had been dismissed from their respective roles in Spiritualized by that band's frontman, Jason Pierce.
The first single, "Vaporizer" was released in 2000 on their own Vinyl Hiss record label. It peaked at No. 68 in the UK Singles Chart. This was followed by a deal with Beggars Banquet Records and an LP, The Carnivorous Lunar Activities of Lupine Howl in 2001. The Bar at the End of the World followed in 2002, with Johnny Mattock replacing Damon Reece on drums.
Cook now also records as The Flies releasing All Too Human in 2007, and Mooney works with the Wild Swans and Applecraft.
Miscellanea
Lupine Howl spent some time working with fellow Bristolians Massive Attack in 2000, assisting them with recording sounds for their upcoming fourth album, which was eventually released as 100th Window in 2003. However, Massive Attack opted to not use any of the material from those sessions.
The band received some attention following their acrimonious split with Pierce, after Courtney Love had claimed Mooney had taken her virginity while she followed The Teardrop Explodes in Liverpool in the 1980s, a claim which he denied.
References
External links
Popmatters review of The Carnivorous Lunar Activities of Lupine Howl and a description of the band's formation
Category:Musical groups from Bristol
Category:English rock music groups
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Lois Baxter
Lois Ann Baxter (born 26 April 1947) is a British actress, best known for playing Marie Stanton in Coronation Street from 1976 to 1977, and Lady Caroline in the period drama When the Boat Comes In.
Baxter was born in Bridgwater, Somerset, the daughter of Dr John Baxter and Christine D. Baxter (née Arkens). The family later moved to Worthen in Shropshire where her father was a GP for many years. She attended Shrewsbury High School from 1951–1959 when she left for boarding school.
Other appearances include: The Black Stuff, Spyder's Web, Within These Walls, Hadleigh, Z-Cars, Van der Valk, Crown Court, Doctor Who (in the serial The Androids of Tara), Dickens of London, All Creatures Great and Small, Angels, Minder, The Cleopatras, Bergerac, Tales of the Unexpected, Dempsey and Makepeace, Casualty, Holby City and The Bill. She has guest-starred in the audio dramas Sapphire and Steel: Cruel Immortality, Circular Time and The Adolescence of Time.
Partial filmography
Ooh… You Are Awful (1972) - Jane Seaton (uncredited)
Dickens of London (1976) - Mary Hogarth
Doll's Eye (1982) - Receptionist
References
External links
Category:Living people
Category:English television actresses
Category:People educated at Shrewsbury High School, Shropshire
Category:1947 births
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Ampitana
Ampitana is a town and commune in Madagascar. It belongs to the district of Ambohimahasoa, which is a part of Haute Matsiatra Region. The population of the commune was estimated to be approximately 10,000 in 2001 commune census.
Only primary schooling is available. The majority 95% of the population of the commune are farmers. The most important crop is rice, while other important products are peanuts, beans, cassava and sweet potatoes. Services provide employment for 5% of the population.
References and notes
Category:Populated places in Haute Matsiatra
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H. Lawrence Hoffman
H. Lawrence Hoffman (23 October 1911 – 20 January 1977) was a commercial book jacket designer and illustrator who worked in New York City. He illustrated book covers for over 25 publishing companies, including Pocket Books, Popular Library, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, The Viking Press, and Random House. Over the course of his career, he created over 600 book jacket covers.
From 1941 to 1951, he was an art director and partner at Immerman Art Studios. From 1952 till the end of his career he worked as a free-lance artist and book illustrator. He taught illustration and lettering at The Cooper Union from 1960 to 1967 and commercial art at C.W. Post University from 1967 to 1976.
Beginning in 1943, Hoffman designed (sometimes along with Sol Immerman) all but 11 of the first 125 paperback covers for Popular Library. Hoffman repeated the cover illustration as a smaller line drawing on the title page.
One of his most significant works was to design the dust jacket and the 21 illustrations for “The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer: A New Modern English Prose Translation by R,M, Lumiansky” published in 1948 by Simon & Schuster. The book was selected as one of the 50 best books of the year by the American Institute of Graphic Arts.
Father to David Hoffman, filmmaker.
Illustrated
Beyond the Barriers of Space and Time by Judith Merril, hard cover, Random House; 1st edition (November 1, 1954)
Father Marquette and the Great Rivers by August Derleth, Vision Books, 1955
Cross in the West by Mark Boesch, Vision Books 1956
Fighting Father Duffy Jim Bishop and Virginia Lee Bishop, Vision Books, New York, 1956
Governor All Smith by James A. Farley and James C. G. Conniff, Vision Book, Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, New York, 1959More champions in sports and spirit by Ed Fitzgerald (1919-2001)(sports writer, editor Sport magazine), Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1959The Canterbury tales of Geoffrey Chaucer : a new modern English prose translation, translated by R.M. Lumiansky, Hoffman, Washington Square Press, 1960, 1967Alien Art, by Gordon R. Dickson, hardcover, E. P. Dutton (1973)
The Building Book: About Houses the World Over by Evelyn E. Smith, Howell Soskin publishers, New York, 1972
Cover Art
H. Lawrence Hoffman illustrated the covers of the following books:
The Pocket Book of Dog Stories, by Harold Berman (editor); MacKinley Kantor (introduction), Pocket Books, Inc., 1942
The Criminal C.O.D. by Phoebe Atwood Taylor aka Alice Tilton, Popular Library 14, 1943
Murder in Shinbone Alley by Helen Reilly, Popular Library # 20 1st Printing, 1943
Mutiny on the Bounty (novel) by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, Pocket Books # 216, 1943
McKee of Centre Street, by Helen Reilly, Popular Library paperback, 1944
The House on the Roof, by Mignon G. Eberhart, Popular Library #17, 1944
Mr. Pinkerton Has the Clue, by David Frome, Popular Library paperback, 1944
The Happy Highwayman, by Leslie Charteris, Pocket Books paperback (No. 272), January 1945
Challenge for Three by David Garth, Popular Library # 84, 1945
Sing a Song of Homicide, by James R. Langham, Popular Library paperback, 1945
Murder in the Willett Family, by Rufus King, Popular Library paperback, 1945
Sound of Revelry, by Octavius Roy Cohen, Popular Library, 1945
The Smiler with the Knife, by Nicholas Blake, Popular Library paperback, 1945
It Ain't Hay, by David Dodge, Simon & Schuster, 1946
Timbal Gulch Trail, by Max Brand, Popular Library paperback, 1946
Bucky Follows a Cold Trail, by William MacLeod Raine, Popular Library paperback, 1946
Hasty Wedding, by Mignon G. Eberhart, Popular Library paperback, 1946
Murder in Season, by Octavus Roy Cohen, Popular Library paperback, 1946
Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier, Pocket Books Inc. paperback, 1946
Drink to Yesterday by Mannining Coles, Bantam Books # 76, 1947
Murder '97 by Frank Gruber, New York: Rinehart & Company / Murray Hill Mystery 1st Edition 1948
City Boy: The Adventures of Herbie Bookbinder, by Herman Wouk, Simon & Schuster, 1948
We Took to the Woods by Louise Dickinson Rich, Pocket Books, 1948
Earth Abides, by George R. Stewart, Random House, 1949
A Little Night Music by Mary Jane Ward, Random House, 1951
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Pocket Books, 1952
The Bridges at Toko-Ri by James A. Michener, 1953
Bring 'em Back by Lillian Brown, Dodd, Mead & Co, N . Y., 1956
Kill My Love, by Kyle Hunt, Simon & Schuster; [Book club ed.] edition (1958)
RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT - 6th series by Robert L. Ripley, Pocket Books, 1959
Now We Are Enemies: The Story of Bunker Hill by Thomas J. Flemming, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1960
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene, Compass Books / Viking Press, New York, 1961
The News From Karachi by William Wood, Macmillan, New York, 1962Palace Under the Sea, by Elizabeth P. Heppner, Macmillan (1963)
The Portable Russian Reader: A collection Newly Translated from Classical and Present-day Authors by Bernard Guilbert Guerney, The Viking Press., New York, 1964
Modes of Thought by Alfred North Whitehead, New York: Free Press, 1968
Operation Manhunt by Christopher Nicole, Holt Rinehart and Winston 1970
Flight of Exiles by Ben Bova, E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, NY, 1972
References
External links
Cover photos of Hoffman's books.
Page about H. Lawrence's son, filmmaker David Hoffman.
Category:American illustrators
Category:1911 births
Category:1977 deaths
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Milton Keynes Council
Milton Keynes Council is the local council of the Borough of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, England. It is a unitary authority, having the powers of a non-metropolitan county and district council combined. The borough is divided into 19 wards, electing 57 councillors.
History
The council was formed by the Local Government Act 1972 as the Milton Keynes District Council, under Buckinghamshire County Council. The council was first elected in 1973, a year before formally coming into its powers and prior to the creation of the District of Milton Keynes on 1 April 1974. The council gained borough status, entitling it to be known as Milton Keynes Borough Council and to annually appoint a (ceremonial) Mayor of Milton Keynes.
It was envisaged through the Local Government Act 1972 that Milton Keynes as a non-metropolitan district council would share power with the Buckinghamshire County Council. This arrangement lasted until 1997 when the district council gained responsibility for services that had been provided within Milton Keynes by the county council. On becoming a Unitary Authority, the council renamed itself Milton Keynes Council.
Powers and functions
The local council derives its powers and functions from the Local Government Act 1972 and subsequent legislation. For the purposes of local government, Milton Keynes is within a non-metropolitan area of England. In its capacity as a district council it is a billing authority collecting Council Tax and business rates, it processes local planning applications, it is responsible for housing, waste collection and environmental health. In its capacity as a county council it is a local education authority and is responsible for social services, libraries and waste disposal. The council also appoints members to Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Authority and the Thames Valley Police and Crime Panel, both of which serve the borough.
Political control
One third of the council is elected each year for three years, followed by one year without election. Since 1996 political control of the council has been held by the following parties:
Since May 2014, the Labour Party has held office as a minority administration. The Labour Party continues in office with confidence and supply support from the Liberal Democrats.
Technology facilitation
In recent years, the Council has promoted the Milton Keynes urban area as a test-bed for experimental urban technologies. One of these projects is the LUTZ Pathfinder pod, an autonomous (self-driving) vehicle built by the Transport Systems Catapult. Trials took place in Milton Keynes in 2016.
References
External links
Category:Unitary authority councils of England
Category:Local education authorities in England
Category:Local authorities in Buckinghamshire
Category:Leader and cabinet executives
Category:Billing authorities in England
Category:1974 establishments in England
Council
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Arbër Zeneli
Arbër Avni Zeneli (born 25 February 1995) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for French club Reims and the Kosovo national team. He previously represented Sweden at youth international level.
Early life
Zeneli was born in Säter, Sweden from Albanian parents from Selac, a village near Mitrovica, but grew up in Falun, before moving to Borås with his family when he was 11 years old. Zeneli has named his father Avni as his greatest role model in life.
Club career
IF Elfsborg
Youth teams
Zeneli started playing football for Hälsinggården, but left as a 12-year old for IF Elfsborg's youth academy. On 29 October 2011, he scored a late winning goal in the final of Swedish Under-17 Championships against Brommapojkarna. The following year he helped his team reach the final in the same competition and he scored another goal, although this time IF Elfsborg lost to Malmö. On 5 November 2013, he won the Allsvenskan U21 with IF Elfsborg against Häcken after coming on as a substitute at 63rd minute in place of Arjan Mostafa.
First team
Having been promoted to the senior team in December 2013. On 1 March 2014, he made his debut with IF Elfsborg in the group stage of 2013–14 Svenska Cupen against Östersunds after being named in the starting line-up and he went on to play a total of three games in the competition which IF Elfsborg later won beating Helsingborg in the final.
Zeneli made his first Allsvenskan appearance on 31 March after coming on as a substitute at 75th minute in place of injured Simon Hedlund in a 2–1 away defeat against Åtvidabergs. He played 16 games during the 2014 season and finished the season by scoring his first senior goal that subsequently sealed the win for his team against Brommapojkarna and he dedicated the goal to his former coach Klas Ingesson who had died a couple of days earlier.
Heerenveen
On 10 November 2015, Zeneli joined Eredivisie side Heerenveen, on a three and a half year contract. Heerenveen reportedly paid a €2 million transfer fee. On 16 January 2016, he made his debut in a 5–2 home win against PEC Zwolle after being named in the starting line-up. On 23 January 2016, Zeneli scored his first goal for Heerenveen in a 3–1 win against Willem II in Matchday 19 of 2015–16 Eredivisie and his performance earned him the man of the match award.
Reims
On 25 January 2019, Heerenveen announced for the contract negotiations between Zeneli and Reims. On 26 January 2019, he joined Ligue 1 side Reims, on a five-year contract. Reims reportedly paid a €4 million transfer fee. On 2 February 2019, he made his debut in a 2–1 home win against Marseille after coming on as a substitute at 73rd minute in place of injured Mathieu Cafaro.
International career
Sweden
From 2010, until 2016, Zeneli has been part of Sweden at youth international level, respectively has been part of the U17, U19 and U21 teams and he with these teams played 35 matches and scored 7 goals. On 2 June 2015, he was named as part of the Sweden U21's 23-man squad for the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship in Czech Republic, where was declared the champion even though he was an unused bench in those matches.
Kosovo
On 24 August 2016, Zeneli decided to represent Kosovo at senior international level. On 2 October 2016, he received a call-up from Kosovo for a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification matches against Croatia and Ukraine. On 6 October 2016, Zeneli made his debut with Kosovo in a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Croatia after being named in the starting line-up.
Career statistics
Club
International
International goals
Scores and results list Kosovo's goal tally first.
Honours
Club
IF Elfsborg
Svenska Cupen: 2013–14
International
Sweden U21
UEFA European Under-21 Championship: 2015
References
External links
Category:1995 births
Category:Living people
Category:People from Säter Municipality
Category:Kosovo Albanians
Category:Swedish people of Kosovan descent
Category:Swedish people of Albanian descent
Category:Association football wingers
Category:Kosovan footballers
Category:Kosovo international footballers
Category:Swedish footballers
Category:Sweden youth international footballers
Category:Sweden under-21 international footballers
Category:Allsvenskan players
Category:IF Elfsborg players
Category:Eredivisie players
Category:SC Heerenveen players
Category:Ligue 1 players
Category:Stade de Reims players
Category:Kosovan expatriate footballers
Category:Swedish expatriate footballers
Category:Expatriate footballers in the Netherlands
Category:Kosovan expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
Category:Swedish expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
Category:Expatriate footballers in France
Category:Kosovan expatriate sportspeople in France
Category:Swedish expatriate sportspeople in France
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Bąk (surname)
Bąk (Polish pronunciation: ) is a Polish-language surname. It is sometimes written as Bonk due to its pronunciation. In Polish, the word has several meanings, including Botaurus (a genus of birds in the heron family), horse-fly, child, and bumblebee. The surname may refer to:
Arkadiusz Bąk (born 1974), Polish football player
Bożena Bąk, Polish badminton player
Jacek Bąk (born 1973), Polish football player
Justyna Bąk (born 1974), Polish long-distance runner
Mateusz Bąk (born 1983), Polish football player
Mirosław Bąk, Polish footballer
Thomas Bak, Polish-born German artist
Category:Polish-language surnames
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Eastern Electricity
Eastern Electricity plc was an electricity supply and distribution utility serving eastern England, including East Anglia and part of Greater London. It was renamed Eastern Group under which name it was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index until it was acquired by Hanson plc in 1995.
History
The Eastern Electricity Board (EEB) was formed in 1948 as part of the nationalisation of the electricity industry by the Electricity Act 1947. The Board was responsible for the purchase of electricity from the electricity generator (the Central Electricity Generating Board from 1958) and its distribution and sale of electricity to customers.
The key people on the Board were: Chairman H.D.B. Wood (1964, 1967), Deputy Chairman C.C. Hill (1964, 1967), Full time member P. Sydney (1964) J.S. Mills (1967).
The total number of customers supplied by the Eastern Electricity Board was:
The amount of electricity, in GWh, sold by the Eastern Electricity Board over its operational life was:{
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Post privatisation
In 1990 the assets of the board passed to Eastern Electricity plc, one of the regional electricity companies formed by the Electricity Act 1989. The company was privatised later in the year in a stock market flotation, one of many UK Government public share offers which saw formerly state-owned utilities sold off, including British Telecom, British Gas, and the UK's regional water companies. It subsequently became known as Eastern Group, with offices across the east of England including Norwich and Ipswich.
In 1995 Hanson plc gained control of Eastern Group. Hanson ownership lasted until 1997 when The Energy Group was demerged from Hanson plc and floated on the London Stock Exchange.
Then in 1998 the Energy Group was bought by TXU Europe. Following the acquisition Texas Utilities was renamed TXU, with The Energy Group becoming TXU Energi, part of TXU Europe.
In October 2002 TXU announced it was pulling out of Europe due mainly to the collapse of its UK operations. Powergen purchased TXU's UK businesses for £1.37bn ($2.9bn) later that year.
The company's distribution rights were sold on to EDF Energy, owners of London Electricity, SWEB Energy and SEEBOARD, three other former regional electricity companies. The Eastern, London and South-Eastern distribution networks were later sold on to UK Power Networks.
In 2006, artist Rory Macbeth painted Sir Thomas More’s entire novel Utopia onto an old Eastern Electricity building on Westwick Street in Norwich.
References
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Companies merged into Eastern Electricity Board (EEB)
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Category:Defunct companies based in London
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Dance suite
Dance suite may refer to the form of the musical suite known as the suite de danses.
Dance Suite is the name of the following works:
Dance Suite (Bartók), also known as Táncszvit and Tanz-Suite, a 1923 orchestral work by Béla Bartók.
Dance Suite (Bernstein) for brass quintet (1989), the last composition completed by Leonard Bernstein.
Tanz-Suite (Dance Suite), op. 29, a piano work by Hermann Reutter.
Tanz-Suite (Dance Suite), a 1923 work for chamber ensemble by Ernst Toch.
See also
A Suite of Dances, a 1994 ballet choreographed by Jerome Robbins to 'cello music by J. S. Bach.
Suite of Dances (from Dybbuk Variations), a 1980 ballet derived by Jerome Robbins from his 1974 ballet Dybbuk set to music by Leonard Bernstein.
Suite of Old American Dances, a 1949 work for concert band by Robert Russell Bennett.
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A Chance to Live
A Chance to Live is a 1949 American short documentary film directed by James L. Shute, produced by Richard de Rochemont for Time Inc. and distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox. It is part of The March of Time series and portrays Monsignor John Patrick Carroll-Abbing building and running a Boys' Home in Italy.
The film won an Oscar at the 22nd Academy Awards in 1950 for Documentary Short Subject. The Academy Film Archive preserved A Chance to Live in 2005.
References
External links
Category:1949 films
Category:1940s documentary films
Category:1940s short films
Category:American films
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Meili Xin Shijie
Meili Xin Shijie may refer to:
A Beautiful New World, a 1999 Chinese film directed by Shi Runjiu
Genesis (S.H.E album), a 2002 Mandopop album by the girl group S.H.E
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Kaleidoscope World (Swing Out Sister album)
Kaleidoscope World is the second studio album by the British band Swing Out Sister. It was released in 1989 and features the singles "You on My Mind" (UK #28), "Where in the World?" (UK #47), "Forever Blue" (UK #80), and "Waiting Game". With the addition of an orchestra, this album features a more sophisticated, easy listening/retro sound than their previous synth-oriented debut album, 1987's It's Better to Travel. The album reached #9 on the UK Albums Chart.
Background
The album was notable for being released on the newly reactivated Polygram subsidiary label Fontana Records, which had been a highly successful record label in the 1960s (something reflected in the stylised cover art for Kaleidoscope World). The album also features solos from the veteran harmonica player Tommy Reilly. Original band member Martin Jackson left Swing Out Sister during the making of this album. Although the liner notes give "special thanks to Martin Jackson" and his co-writing credits appear on the songs "Tainted" and "Between Strangers", they also point out that "Swing Out Sister are Corinne Drewery and Andy Connell." Jimmy Webb arranged and conducted the orchestra for "Forever Blue" and "Precious Words."
Video EP
In 1990 the video EP Kaleidoscope World – The Videos was released featuring videos for the singles and a video for "The Kaleidoscope Affair". Excerpts from "Coney Island Man" were also used as incidental music.
Track listing
LP and cassette version
"You on My Mind" – (3:32) (Andy Connell, Corinne Drewery, Paul Staveley O'Duffy)
"Where in the World" – (5:33) (A. Connell, C. Drewery)
"Forever Blue" – (4:17) (A. Connell, C. Drewery)
"Heart For Hire" – (4:25) (A. Connell, C. Drewery)
"Tainted" – (3:59) (A. Connell, C. Drewery, Martin Jackson)
"Waiting Game" – (4:15) (A. Connell, C. Drewery)
"Precious Words" – (4:13) (A. Connell, C. Drewery)
"Masquerade" – (4:46) (A. Connell, C. Drewery)
"Between Strangers" – (4:06) (A. Connell, C. Drewery, M. Jackson)
"The Kaleidoscope Affair" – (3:09) (A. Connell, C. Drewery)
CD version
"You on My Mind" – (3:32)
"Where in the World" – (5:33)
"Forever Blue" – (4:17)
"Heart For Hire" – (4:25)
"Tainted" – (3:59)
"Waiting Game" – (4:15)
"Precious Words" – (4:13)
"Masquerade" – (4:46)
"Between Strangers" – (4:06)
"The Kaleidoscope Affair" – (3:09)
"Coney Island Man" – (3:43) (A. Connell, C. Drewery)
"Precious Words (Instrumental) – (4:11)
"Forever Blue (String Mix) – (4:13)
"Masquerade (Instrumental) – (4:46)
Personnel
Adapted from the liner notes of Kaleidoscope World.
Swing Out Sister
Corinne Drewery – lead vocals, brass arrangements (1, 4, 10), string arrangements (1, 4, 10), additional backing vocals (2)
Andy Connell – keyboards, brass arrangements (1, 4, 5, 10), string arrangements (1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 14), additional backing vocals (2), drum programming (11)
Additional Musicians
Martyn Phillips – synthesizers, computer programming
Jess Bailey – string synthesizer (6)
Tim Cansfield – guitars (1), electric guitar (2, 10), guitar (3, 4, 6, 7, 9)
Vini Reilly – Spanish guitar (2)
Phil Palmer – guitar (6)
Chris Whitten – drums (1, 2, 3, 10)
Martin Jackson – drum programming (5, 7-10, 14)
Luís Jardim – percussion (1-8, 10, 12, 14), berimbau (8, 14)
Frank Ricotti – glockenspiel (2, 3, 4, 6, 13), vibraphone (2, 3, 4, 13), snare drum (4), timpani (4, 7, 12), percussion (6), tubular bells (6)
Jamie Talbot – saxophone (1)
Phil Todd – saxophone (1)
Dan Higgins – saxophone (2, 9)
Dave Bishop – saxophone (6)
Snake Davis – saxophone (6)
Pete Beachill – trombone (1, 6)
Bill Reichenbach, Jr. – trombone (2, 9)
Guy Barker – trumpet (1, 6), flugelhorn (4)
Simon Gardner – trumpet (1)
Gary Grant – trumpet (2, 9)
Jerry Hey – trumpet (2, 9), horn arrangements (2, 9)
John Barclay – trumpet (6)
Paul Staveley O'Duffy – brass arrangements (1, 4, 5, 10), string arrangements (1, 2, 4, 5, 10), drum programming (4, 6)
Jimmy Webb – orchestra arrangements and conductor (3, 7, 12, 13)
Richard Niles – brass and string arrangements (6)
Stephanie de Sykes – backing vocals (1)
Clare Torry – backing vocals (1)
Chyna Gordon – backing vocals (2, 3, 6, 7, 8)
Derek Green – backing vocals (2, 3, 6, 7, 8)
Nat Augustin – backing vocals (3, 7, 8)
Dee Lewis – backing vocals (3, 6, 7, 8)
Orchestra (Tracks 3 & 7)
Cello – Helen Liebmann, Paul Kegg, Ben Kennard and Roger Smith
Double bass – Mike Brittain and Chris Laurence
Flugelhorn – Graham Ashton and Mike Hobart
Flute – Andrew Findon
French horn – John Pigneguy and John Rooke
Harmonica – Tommy Reilly
Harp – Fiona Hibbert
Viola – Levine Andrade, Roger Chase and David Emanuel
Violin – Jim Archer, Bill Benham, Mark Berrow, Elizabeth Edwards, Roger Garland, Wilf Gibson, Tim Good, John Kitchen, Peter Oxer, George Robertson, Godfrey Salmon, Rolf Wilson and Gavyn Wright (leader)
Vocals – Lance Ellington
Production
Producers – Paul Staveley O'Duffy (Tracks 1-10, 12, 13 & 14); Swing Out Sister (Track 11).
Engineers – Paul Staveley O'Duffy (Tracks 1-10, 12, 13 & 14); Stuart James (Track 11).
Additional Engineers – Howard Bernstein, Richard Edwards and Roland Herrington.
Recorded at Lillie Yard Studios, Master Rock Studios and Sarm West Studios (London, UK).
Sleeve Design – Trevor Johnson and Tony Panas
Photography – Mark Bayley
See also
1989 in music
References
Category:1989 albums
Category:Swing Out Sister albums
Category:Fontana Records albums
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Luye railway station
Luye railway station () is a railway station located in Luye Township, Taitung County, Taiwan. It is located on the Taitung line and is operated by Taiwan Railways.
References
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John Stubblefield
John Stubblefield (February 4, 1945 – July 4, 2005) was an American jazz saxophonist, flautist, and oboist.
Stubblefield was an adaptable musician, having played with the World Saxophone Quartet (´86-´88), Reggie Workman (´89-´93), McCoy Tyner (´84 Clark), Freddie Hubbard (´85), and George Russell (´85). Stubblefield also served for a time as a jazz ensemble director at Rutgers University, following the departure of Paul Jeffrey in 1983.
Discography
As leader
Prelude (Storyville, 1976) with Onaje Allan Gumbs, Cecil McBee, Joe Chambers, James Mtume, Cecil Bridgewater
Confessin' (Soul Note, 1984) with Cecil Bridgewater, Mulgrew Miller, Rufus Reid, Eddie Gladden
Midnight Over Memphis (Denon, 1979)
Midnight Sun (Sutra, 1980)
Bushman Song (Enja, 1986) with Geri Allen, Charnett Moffett, Mino Cinelu, Victor Lewis
Countin’ on the Blues (Enja, 1987) with Hamiet Bluiett, Mulgrew Miller, Charnett Moffett, Victor Lewis
Sophisticatedfunk (Cheetah, 1990)
Morning Song (Enja, 1993) with George Cables, Victor Lewis, Clint Houston
As sideman
With Nat Adderley
Don't Look Back (SteepleChase, 1976)
Hummin' (Little David, 1976)
With Kenny Barron
Golden Lotus (Muse, 1980 [1982])
What If? (Enja, 1986)
Live at Fat Tuesdays (Enja, 1988)
Quickstep (Enja, 1991)
Things Unseen (1997)
With Lester Bowie
Fast Last! (Muse, 1974)
With Anthony Braxton
Town Hall 1972 (Trio, 1972)
With Stanley Cowell
Regeneration (Strata-East, 1976)
With Miles Davis
Get Up with It (1974)
With Craig Harris
F-Stops (Soul Note, 1993)
With Billy Hart
Amethyst (Arabesque, 1993)
Oceans of Time (Arabesque, 1997)
With Louis Hayes
The Crawl (Candid, 1989)
Una Max (SteepleChase, 1989)
With Julius Hemphill
Julius Hemphill Big Band (Elektra/Musician, 1988)
With Abdullah Ibrahim
African River (Enja, 1989)
With Joseph Jarman
As If It Were The Seasons (1968)
With Victor Lewis
Family Portrait (AudioQuest Music, 1992)
With Maurice McIntyre
Humility in the Light of the Creator (Delmark, 1969)
With Sam Rivers
Crystals (Impulse!, 1974)
With McCoy Tyner
Sama Layuca (Milestone, 1974)
The Turning Point (Birdology, 1991)
Journey (Birdology, 1993)
With Larry Willis
A Tribute to Someone (AudioQuest, 1994)
With Paul (PB) Brown
Paul Brown Quartet Meets The Three Tenors (1998)
References
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Category:2005 deaths
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Category:American male saxophonists
Category:American jazz soprano saxophonists
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Category:Enja Records artists
Category:Black Saint/Soul Note artists
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1911 in archaeology
The year 1911 in archaeology involved some significant events.
Explorations
24 July: Hiram Bingham III rediscovers Machu Picchu, Peru.
Excavations
Excavations of the ruins of Tell el-Amarna, Egypt, by Ludwig Borchardt of the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft (continues to 1914).
First excavations of ancient Samarra, Iraq, by Ernst Herzfeld (continues to 1914).
First excavations of Tell Halaf, Syria, by Max von Oppenheim (continues to 1913).
Excavations of the Hittite city of Carchemish, northern Syria, by D. G. Hogarth of the Ashmolean Museum with Leonard Woolley and T. E. Lawrence (continues to 1914).
First excavations of Hengistbury Head by J. P. Bushe-Fox.
First excavations at Beit Shemesh (continues to 1912).
Excavations at the necropolis of Tanagra (Boeotia) by Nikolaos Papadakis.
Publications
James Curle: A Roman Frontier Post and its People: the Fort of Newstead.
Grafton Elliot Smith: The Ancient Egyptians and the Origin of Civilization.
Finds
Venus of Laussel.
First artefacts found at Dolní Věstonice.
Magdalenian Girl.
Awards
Miscellaneous
Births
Leslie Peter Wenham, Yorkshire archaeologist (died 1990)
Deaths
19 August: John Robert Mortimer, Yorkshire archaeologist (born 1825)
References
Archaeology
Archaeology
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Komar, Altai Krai
Komar () is a rural locality (a selo) in Altaysky District, Altai Krai, Russia. The population was 193 as of 2013. There are 5 streets.
References
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Jonathan Viera
Jonathan Viera Ramos (; born 21 October 1989) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for UD Las Palmas on loan from Chinese club Beijing Sinobo Guoan F.C. as a left winger or an attacking midfielder.
Club career
Las Palmas
Born in Las Palmas, Viera finished his youth career with hometown's UD Las Palmas, where he earned the nickname Romário. He made his senior debuts with the reserve team, appearing in ten third division games in the 2008–09 season and suffering relegation; on 18 February 2010, he renewed his contract until June 2013.
Viera was definitely promoted to the main squad for 2010–11, as the team competed in the second level. He finished the campaign with 31 matches (26 starts) and six goals, including three in a 5–3 away win against FC Barcelona B on 15 May 2011, which all but certified the Canary Islands side's permanence.
In January 2012, amidst rumours of a transfer – Las Palmas inclusively had everything arranged with Granada CF but the deal eventually fell through – Viera assured he would stay with his club until the end of the season. He finished as the second-best top scorer in the squad at nine, only trailing another youth graduate, Vitolo, by one goal.
Valencia
On 6 May 2012, one month before the Las Palmas season ended, Viera signed with La Liga's Valencia CF for five years and €2.5 million. He made his official debut against FC Barcelona, playing 13 minutes in a 0–1 away loss.
Viera scored his first goal in the top flight on 29 September 2012, closing the score in a 2–0 home win over Real Zaragoza. On 30 August of the following year, he was loaned to Madrid-based Rayo Vallecano in a season-long move without the option of making the deal permanent afterwards.
Standard Liège
On 1 September 2014, Viera cut ties with the Che, immediately joining Standard Liège in Belgium. However, he only appeared in seven competitive matches, scoring in a 1–2 group stage loss at Feyenoord in the UEFA Europa League.
Return to Las Palmas
On 14 January 2015, Viera was loaned to Las Palmas until June. He contributed with seven goals in 21 appearances, as his team returned to the top division after a 13-year absence.
On 14 July 2015, Viera signed a permanent three-year deal for €900,000.
Beijing Guoan
On 19 February 2018, Viera joined Chinese Super League club Beijing Sinobo Guoan F.C. on a four-year contract for a fee of around €11 million. The player acknowledged the transfer "took care" of his future, and Las Palmas retained a buy-back option in the future. On 7 April 2019, he was named the competition's Player of the Month for the previous month.
On 28 April 2019, Viera completed the second hat-trick of his career by scoring three goals in a 4–1 home defeat of Dalian Yifang F.C. in the domestic league. In August, he was loaned to Las Palmas until the end of the year.
International career
Viera played once with the Spain under-21s, featuring the last minutes of the 1–1 friendly draw to Belarus in Alcalá de Henares. On 9 October 2017, as the full side had already qualified as champions for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, manager Julen Lopetegui handed him his debut, and he played the entire 1–0 away win over Israel.
Club statistics
Honours
Beijing Guoan
Chinese FA Cup: 2018
Individual
Chinese FA Cup Top Scorer: 2018
Notes
References
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Cowgate (disambiguation)
Cowgate is an area of Edinburgh.
Cowgate may also refer to:
Cowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne
Cowgate, Cumbria
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Marc Lottering
Marc Eugene Lottering (born 4 December 1967) is a stand-up comedian from Cape Town, South Africa, and grew up in the Retreat townships of the Cape Flats.
His first show was titled "AFTER THE BEEP" in 1997.
In 2001 he won the Vita Award for Best Actor in a Comedy, and he has also multiple Fleur du Cap Awards.
In 2010 he was part of the Bafunny Bafunny show at the Royal Albert Hall.
In 2010 he married his partner of ten years, Anwar McKay.
In 2017 he staged a musical with a full ensemble and original music called "Aunty Merle the Musical" - the show ran for three sold out seasons in Cape Town and opened for a season in Johannesburg in 2019 which was well received.
In 2019 he wrote a new stand up show entitled "Not A Musical" which runs in Joburg 27 May - 9 June before moving to Cape Town
References
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Category:1967 births
Category:Living people
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Mount Mentzel
Mount Mentzel () is a peak, high, standing east of Mount Zimmermann in the Gruber Mountains of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. it was discovered by the Third German Antarctic Expedition under Alfred Ritscher, 1938–39, and named for Rudolf Mentzel, the president of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Society).
References
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Category:Princess Astrid Coast
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Coca (pastry)
The coca is a pastry typically made and consumed in the Spanish Mediterranean coast.
All around the Mediterranean there are similar typical dishes.
Etymology
The word coca—plural coques—comes from Dutch during the Carolingian Empire, and shares the same roots as the English "cake" and the German "Kuchen".
Similarities
There are many diverse cocas, with four main varieties: sweet, savoury, closed and open. All of them use dough as the main ingredient, which is then decorated. This dough can be sweet or savoury. If it is sweet, eggs and sugar are added, and if it is savoury, yeast and salt. As regards the topping or filling, fish and vegetables are usual at the coast whilst inland they prefer fruit, nuts, cheese and meat. Some cocas can be both sweet and savoury (typically mixing meat and fruit).
Types of coca
Coca is almost any kind of bread-based product. Its size can vary from 5 cm up to 1 metre. There are various presentations:
the closed coca: a pie or pastry with filling.
the open coca: the archetypical coca formed by a pastry base and a topping.
the coca with a hole.
the plain coca: a coca without any topping, because it is added during the course of the meal. Somewhat similar to Mexican tacos.
Popular varieties
Amongst the lengthy list of varieties, the most common are:
Coca de recapte, a savoury coca with a variety of different ingredients, usually including sausage and vegetables, available generally.
Coca de trempó, from Mallorca and the Balearics.
Coca de Sant Joan, a sweet coca most typical of Catalonia, eaten on La revetlla de Sant Joan, St John's Eve.
Coca de llanda, from the area around Valencia.
Coca de xulla, often called coca de llardons, bearing bacon and other meat products, typical of any mountainous area.
Festivities
"Cocas are (...) strongly linked with our country's traditions." The coca is a dish common to rich and poor and a basic part of Catalan cuisine.
In Catalonia, the coca has a direct relationship with the festa or holiday. It is typical to buy or prepare cocas during holidays, especially during Easter (Pasqua), Christmas (Nadal) and St John's Eve (la revetlla de Sant Joan). Some cocas even have the names of saints and they are eaten on that saint's day (such as the Saint John's Coca, Coca de Sant Joan). Nonetheless, many eat them without any religious or festive reason, especially if we consider that in places like Italy, this dish doesn't carry any special significance. The Coca de Recapte obeys this logic exactly, since the "recapte" is a kind of picnic habitually taken out into the fields.
Similar recipes along the Mediterranean
Coca, being the Catalan variety of a Mediterranean dish, has local counterparts all over the Mediterranean, especially in its savoury kind. Apart from Italy, other countries also have similar cakes, pies and pastries. Three examples are the Pissaladière from Provence, the Lahmacun from Turkey and the Bouchée à la Reine from France and Luxembourg, where it is one of the national dishes. Similarly, sweet pies can be found all over Europe. The more specific King's cake (in Catalan, Tortell de Reis) is traditional in Occitania as well as in territories of Catalan culture as a part of the New Year holidays.
See also
List of pastries
References
External links
Fira de la Coca a Monistrol (Bages)
Category:Andorran cuisine
Category:Balearic cuisine
Category:Catalan cuisine
Category:Spanish pastries
Category:Valencian cuisine
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Internal Revenue Code section 861
Internal Revenue Code 861, , titled "Income from sources within the United States" is a provision of the Internal Revenue Code which lists "The following items of gross income shall be treated as income from sources within the United States", for purposes of various taxes imposed by Subchapter N (sections 861 through 999) of Chapter 1 of Subtitle A of the Code.
Among the taxes to which section 861 relates are:
the section 871(a) () tax on certain items of income of nonresident alien individuals not in connection with a United States business, generally equal to 30% of certain amounts received by such nonresident alien individuals;
the section 871(b) ) tax on certain items of income of nonresident alien individuals effectively connected with the conduct of a United States business;
the section 881 () and section 882 () taxes on the income of certain foreign corporations; and
the section 887 () tax on the "gross transportation income" of certain nonresident aliens and foreign corporations.
Section 861 sets forth a number of definitions for terms used in the section. A particularly widespread statutory argument used by tax protesters interprets these definitions to apply throughout the tax code, with the conclusion that only income described in section 861 is taxable. The IRS and federal courts have consistently rejected this interpretation, as in US v. Wesley Snipes et al.
External links
Cornell Law School
0861
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Palanques
Palanques is a small town and municipality located at the northern end of the Ports comarca, province of Castelló, part of the autonomous community of Valencia, Spain. According to the 2009 census, it has a total population of 35 inhabitants. It is located near Morella.
The town's main church is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary and the Ermita de la Verge dels Dolors is a small church dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows that lies within the town's municipal limit.
History
Palanques was a Muslim town until nearby Morella was conquered by James I of Aragon in the 13th century. There are remains of an ancient tower in the town's main square.
The town has lost much population in the last 100 years; it had 249 inhabitants in 1900 and 1,133 in 1950. After the abandonment of traditional agricultural practices, like dryland farming and sheep and goat rearing, by the local youth and General Franco's Plan de Estabilización in 1959 the population has declined progressively as people emigrated towards the industrial areas of Barcelona and coastal Castelló Province in search of jobs.
By 2000 Palanques had only a residual population of 21 inhabitants. Nowadays some of the houses of the town are in ruins and others have been converted into summer houses. Palanques revives during the summer season when many former residents return to the town to spend the holidays, for its climate is continental with mild temperatures on summer nights.
See also
Morella
References
External links
- Ajuntament de Palanques
Institut Valencià d'Estadística.
Portal de la Direcció General d'Administració Local de la Generalitat.
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North Grove School
The North Grove School is a historic one-room schoolhouse located at 26475 Brickville Road northwest of Sycamore, Illinois. Swedish immigrants built the school in 1878; while it was originally a Lutheran school, it became part of the DeKalb County public school system two years later. The school served area students in the first through eighth grades until 1952, when it closed during a wave of school consolidations. After its closure, the school building was briefly used by the local Community Club. It is the only one-room schoolhouse in DeKalb County that is at its original site and has not been significantly altered.
The school was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 15, 2012. A modern elementary school in Sycamore, which opened in 2010, is named for the school.
References
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Maria Luigia Borsi
Maria Luigia Borsi (born 1973) is an Italian opera singer. A lyric soprano, she is especially known for interpreting operas by Giacomo Puccini and Giuseppe Verdi. Among the qualities noted by the critical press are her breath control, phrasing, rich tone, and acting ability.
Education and vocal training
Maria Luigia Borsi was born in Sora (Frosinone), Italy. Her father is Tuscan (coming from the region of Tuscany), while her mother comes from the Italian region known as the Ciociaria, just south of Rome. Borsi began her vocal studies at a very young age while singing in a choir for children, La Corale "Domenico Savio", created by Don Lelio Bausani and received a degree in vocal performance from the Istituto Musicale Pietro Mascagni in Livorno, Italy. Her main voice teachers have included Lucia Stanescu, Antonietta Stella, Renata Scotto and Claudio Desderi.
She is married to American violinist Brad Repp
Career
In 2002, Maria Luigia Borsi was the winner of the International Voice Competition of San Remo, earning the title "Best opera singer of 2002" (The president of the jury was tenor Andrea Bocelli).
In 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2008 Borsi participated in tours of Asia, Australia, the United States and Europe together with tenor Andrea Bocelli.
In 2004, Borsi began her professional opera career at La Scala of Milan interpreting the role of Liú in Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot, conductor Carlo Rizzi. Also in 2004, Borsi performed the title role in La traviata (Violetta) for the re-opening of the Venetian opera house La Fenice, conductor Lorin Maazel.
In 2005, Borsi once again performed the title role in La traviata (Violetta) at the Opernhaus Zürich together with baritone Renato Bruson, tenor Giuseppe Sabbatini, tenor José Cura and baritone Giorgio Zancanaro.
In 2007 Borsi was a guest Artist at the Special Olympics World Summer Games closing ceremony in Shanghai, together with José Carreras.
In 2008, Borsi performed the lead female role (Desdemona) in the Salzburg Festival production of Giuseppe Verdi's Otello, conductor Riccardo Muti.
Maria Luigia Borsi is also known as a recitalist and has given solo recitals at venues like Wigmore Hall. She has been a recital companion for singers like José Carreras and Leo Nucci.
Recordings
Symphony No. 9 - Ludwig van Beethoven, "Live from Vatican City", cond. Lorin Maazel, label: Kultur
Turandot - Giacomo Puccini, cond. Keri-Lynn Wilson, label: La Fenice
Maometto - Peter von Winter, cond. Gabriele Bellini, label: Marco Polo (UK Gramophone Award 2004)
Don Giovanni - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, cond. Zubin Mehta, label: Helicon
Italian Soprano Arias - London Symphony Orchestra, cond. Yves Abel, label: Naxos
Awards and honors
Asteroid 82463 Mluigiaborsi, discovered by Italian astronomers Luciano Tesi and Giuseppe Forti in 2001, was named in her honor. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 7 February 2012 ().
References
External links
Personal Web Site
Atelier Musicale Srl, management
Reviews, articles, photos and future schedules for Maria Luigia Borsi from The Opera Critic
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Christian Duguay
Christian Duguay may refer to:
Christian Duguay (actor) (born 1970), American comic actor
Christian Duguay (director) (born 1956), Canadian director
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L. fulgida
L. fulgida may refer to:
Lampria fulgida, a robber fly
Lamprima fulgida, a stag beetle
Lucilia fulgida, a blow fly
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Nijitte Monogatari
is a Japanese manga series written by Kazuo Koike and illustrated by . It was published by Shogakukan since 1978 on and lasted until 2003. It was followed by two sequels, Shin Nijitte Monogatari and Shin Nijitte Monogatari Tsurujirō. It is one of the manga series with most volumes, with 110 volumes.
References
External links
Category:Kazuo Koike
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Category:2005 comics endings
Category:2012 comics endings
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1989 in Greece
Events in the year 1989 in Greece.
Incumbents
President – Christos Sartzetakis
Prime Minister of Greece – Andreas Papandreou (until 2 July), Tzannis Tzannetakis (2 July – 12 October), Ioannis Grivas (12 October – 23 November), Xenophon Zolotas (starting 23)
References
Category:Years of the 20th century in Greece
Greece
Category:1980s in Greece
Greece
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List of New York Yankees captains
There have been 15 captains of the New York Yankees, an American professional baseball franchise also known previously as the New York Highlanders. The position is currently vacant after the most recent captain, Derek Jeter, retired after the 2014 season, after 12 seasons as team captain. Jeter was named as the 11th officially recognized captain of the Yankees in 2003. In baseball, the captain formerly served as the on-field leader of the team, while the manager operated the team from the dugout. Today, the captain is a clubhouse leader.
The first captain officially recognized by the Yankees was Hal Chase, who served in the role from 1910 through 1912. Roger Peckinpaugh served as captain from 1914 through 1922, until he was traded to the Boston Red Sox. He was succeeded by Babe Ruth, who was quickly deposed as captain for climbing into the stands to confront a heckler. Everett Scott served as captain from 1922 through 1925. Ten years later, Lou Gehrig was named captain, serving for the remainder of his career. After the death of Gehrig, then manager Joe McCarthy declared that the Yankees would never have another captain. The position remained vacant until team owner George Steinbrenner named Thurman Munson as captain in 1976. Following Munson's death, Graig Nettles served as captain. Willie Randolph and Ron Guidry were named co-captains in 1986. Don Mattingly followed them as captain in 1991, serving until his retirement in 1995. Gehrig, Munson, Guidry, Mattingly and Jeter are the only team captains who spent their entire career with the Yankees. Jeter is the longest tenured captain in franchise history, the 2014 season being his 12th as team captain.
There is, however, some controversy over the official list. Howard W. Rosenberg, a baseball historian, found that the official count of Yankees captains failed to include Clark Griffith, the captain from 1903–1905, and Kid Elberfeld, the captain from 1906–1907, while manager Frank Chance may have served as captain in 1913.
In addition, right after The New York Times reported Rosenberg's research in 2007, Society for American Baseball Research member Clifford Blau contacted him to say he had found Willie Keeler being called the team's captain in 1908 and 1909, research that Rosenberg has confirmed.
Captains
Names in bold are officially recognized as Captains by the New York Yankees.
See also
New York Yankees all-time roster
List of New York Yankees coaches
References
External links
Captains
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Charles Stuart (East India Company officer)
Charles Stuart (c. 1758 – 31 March 1828) was an officer in the East India Company Army and is well known for being one of the few British officers to embrace Hindu culture while stationed there, earning the nickname Hindoo Stuart. He also wrote books and several newspaper articles extolling Hindu culture and tradition and urging its adoption by Europeans settled in India, and deploring the attitudes and activities of the Utilitarians and missionaries who deprecated Indian culture. He is mentioned in William Dalrymple's book White Mughals (2002).
Background and family
Stuart was said to be the son of Thomas Smyth, Mayor of Limerick and MP for Limerick City. His grandparents were Charles Smyth (1694–1783), also MP for Limerick, and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Prendergast, 1st Baronet.
His nephews included the diplomat Robert Stuart and the naturalist and surgeon James Stuart. The clergyman and footballer Robert King was his great-nephew.
In India
In his teens, Stuart left Ireland for India, where he remained for the rest of his life. He served in the army and starting as a cadet, he rose through the ranks to become a Major-General. His last command was the Saugor Field Force.
Stuart enthusiastically embraced Hindu culture and championed the same in his writings and discourse, which earned him the nickname Hindoo Stuart. V. C. P. Hodson's biography of Stuart mentions that he "had studied the language, manners and customs of the natives of this country with so much enthusiasm, his intimacy with them ... obtained for him the name of Hindoo Stuart".
Stuart took to Hinduism both in its religious aspects and as a way of daily life. He adopted many Hindu customs and routines of daily life, including bathing in the Ganges at Calcutta every morning. He amassed a collection of Hindu deities and icons of worship. Archie Baron says, in his book An India Affair:
"It was far easier to break into Muslim society than the exclusive and mysterious world of brahminical Hinduism which makes 'Hindoo Stuart' a rarity even among White Moghuls.... His Hinduism was on open display to the whole of Calcutta. As far as one can tell, this does not seem to have set back his career.”
He quickly took to wearing Indian clothes, and this became his normal garb when off the parade ground. He encouraged his Indian sepoys to wear full moustaches in the Indian style on parade. His commander-in-chief "ticked him off" due to his partiality towards sepoys sporting "Rajput moustaches or brightly coloured caste marks on their foreheads”. Declaring Indian garments best suited to the weather of India, he actively promoted their adoption by Europeans settled in India. He wrote newspaper articles on this subject frequently ("frequent and vigorous" contributions to the daily Calcutta Telegraph in the year 1800) and strongly encouraged European ladies in India to adopt the sari.
Stuart published his letters extolling the virtues of "elegant, simple, sensible, and sensual" Indian saris vis-a-vis "the prodigious structural engineering Europeon (sic) women strapped themselves into, in order to hold their bellies in, project their breasts out and allow their dresses to balloon grandly up and over towards the floor" along with some replies by "outraged" white women in a "deliciously silly volume" entitled The Ladies Monitor, Being A Series of Letters First published in Bengal on the Subject of Female Apparel Tending to Favour a regulated adoption of Indian Costume And a rejection of Superfluous Vesture By the Ladies of this country With Incidental remarks on Hindoo Beauty, Whale-Bone Stays, Iron Busks, Indian Corsets, Man-Milliners, Idle Bachelors, Hair-Powder, Waiting Maids, And Footmen. Some of the reasons he cites for European women to give up iron busks are: Firstly wearing iron busks makes women highly susceptible to lightning strikes (exhorting them with sentences such as "This is no laughing matter ladies for I am absolutely serious"). Secondly by discarding iron busks from their wardrobes, European women would immensely enhance the supply of iron in Bengal for farmers who desperately need new wagon wheels. Archie Baron says, in his book An India Affair::"For all this lubriciousness, Stuart should not be regarded as some dirty old man or prototype sex tourist....
In his book Vindication of the Hindoos (1808), Stuart criticised the work of European missionaries in India, claiming that:
"Hinduism little needs the meliorating hand of Christianity to render its votaries a sufficiently correct and moral people for all the useful purposes of a civilised society." In this book. Stuart defends Hinduism from assaults by missionaries explaining:
"Wherever I look around me, in the vast ocean of Hindu mythology, I discover Piety....Morality...and as far as I can rely on my judgement, it appears the most complete and ample system of Moral Allegory that the world has ever produced."
Throughout this book Stuart, warns of the dangers of the "obnoxious" missionaries and of attempts to convert Indians to Christianity, a process he describes as "impolitic, inexpedient, dangerous, unwise and insane". He asks "if their religion is insulted what confidence can we repose in the fidelity of our Hindu soldiers?" presaging, it is said, some of the causes of the Mutiny of 1857.
Legacy
Though Stuart often spoke of his conversion to Hinduism he had not entirely rejected Christian doctrines as he held the Hindu deity Krishna to be the Spirit of God who descends upon earth for the benefit of mankind which he believed was "not very inconsistent with Christianity" and "he was content to be buried in an Anglican cemetery, albeit along with his favourite idols".
Stuart died on 31 March 1828 and was buried with his deities at the South Park Street Cemetery in Calcutta, in a tomb which took the form of a Hindu temple.
His remarkable collection of antiquities forms the basis of the British Museum's ancient Hindu and Buddhist sculpture collection from the Indian Subcontinent, now known as the Bridge Collection.
References
Further reading
W. Dalrymple, White Mughals (2002)
V. C. P. Hodson (Major), List of Officers of the Bengal Army, 1758–1834, Part IV (1947)
Dictionary of National Biography – Stuart, Charles (Vol. 53, pp. 141–142)
External links
Article on Hindoo Stuart's Grave and other graves of South Park Street Cemetery
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424
Year 424 (CDXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Castinus and Victor (or, less frequently, year 1177 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 424 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Events
By place
Roman Empire
October 23 – Emperor Theodosius II nominates his cousin Valentinian, age 5, the imperial title nobilissimus Caesar ("most noble") of the Western Roman Empire. Valentinian is betrothed to Theodosius's own daughter Licinia Eudoxia, who is only 2 years old.
Roman usurper Joannes sends Flavius Aetius, governor of the Palace (cura palatii), to the Huns to ask for their assistance. After negotiating, he returns back to Italy with a large force.
Winter – A Roman army under the command of Ardaburius leaves Thessalonica (modern Central Macedonia) and marches for Northern Italy, where they make their base at Aquileia.
China
Shao Di, age 18, is deposed by a group of high officials and succeeded by his younger brother Wen Di as emperor of the Liu Song Dynasty. Shao is exiled to Suzhou, and later killed by an assassin.
Births
Death
Shao Di, emperor of the Liu Song Dynasty (b. 406)
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Easley Township, Macon County, Missouri
Easley Township is an inactive township in Macon County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.
Easley Township has the name of William Easley, a local county judge.
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James McAuley
James Phillip McAuley (12 October 1917 – 15 October 1976) was an Australian academic, poet, journalist, literary critic and a prominent convert to Roman Catholicism. Peter Coleman considered that "no one else in Australian letters has so effectively exposed or ridiculed modernist verse, leftie politics and mindless liberalism".
Life and career
McAuley was born in Lakemba, a suburb of Sydney. He was educated at Fort Street High School and then attended Sydney University, where he majored in English, Latin and philosophy. In 1937 he edited Hermes, the annual literary journal of the University of Sydney Union, in which many of his early poems were published until 1941.
He began his life as an Anglican and was sometime organist and choirmaster at Holy Trinity Church, Dulwich Hill, in Sydney. He lost his Christian faith as a younger man.
In 1943 McAuley was commissioned as a lieutenant in the militia for the Australian Army and served in Melbourne (DORCA) and Canberra. After the war he also spent time in New Guinea, which he regarded as his second "spiritual home".
McAuley came to prominence in the wake of the 1943–44 Ern Malley hoax. With fellow poet Harold Stewart, McAuley concocted sixteen nonsense poems in a pseudo-experimental modernist style. These were then sent to the young editor of the literary magazine Angry Penguins, Max Harris. The poems were raced to publication by Harris and Australia's most celebrated literary hoax was set in motion.
In 1952 he converted to Roman Catholicism, the faith his own father had abandoned, following an intense spiritual experience at a Catholic mission in New Guinea This was in the parish of St Charles at Ryde. He was later introduced to Australian musician Richard Connolly by a priest, Ted Kennedy, at the Holy Spirit parish at North Ryde and the two subsequently collaborated to produce between them the most significant collection of Australian Catholic hymnody to date, titled "Hymns for the Year of Grace". Connolly was McAuley's sponsor for his confirmation into the Roman Catholic Church. Although McAuley was influenced by both communism and anarchism in his undergraduate years, he remained staunchly anti-communist throughout his later life. In 1956 he and Richard Krygier founded the literary and cultural journal, Quadrant and was chief editor until 1963. From 1961 he was professor of English at the University of Tasmania.
A portrait of McAuley by Jack Carington Smith won the 1963 Archibald prize.
James McAuley died of cancer in 1976, at the age of 59, in Hobart.
Bibliography
Poetry
The Darkening Ecliptic (with Harold Stewart, 1944) Melbourne: Angry Penguins literary journal
Under Aldebaran (1946) Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
A Vision of Ceremony (1956) Sydney: Angus & Robertson.
The Six Days of Creation (1963) An Australian Letters Publication.
James McAuley (1963) 'Australian Poets Series' Sydney: Angus & Robertson.
Captain Quiros (1964) Sydney: Angus & Robertson.
Surprises of the Sun (1969) Sydney: Angus & Robertson.
Collected Poems 1936–1970 (1971) Sydney : Angus & Robertson.
A Map of Australian Verse (1975) Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
Music Late at Night (1976) London ; Sydney : Angus & Robertson.
Time Given:poems 1970–1976 (1976) Canberra : Brindabella Press.
A World of its own (1977) Canberra : Australian National University Press.
Prose
The End of Modernity: Essays on Literature, Art and Culture (1959) Sydney: Angus & Robertson.
A Primer of English Versification (1966) Sydney: Sydney University Press.
C. J. Brennan (1963) Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
Edmund Spenser and George Eliot: A Critical Excursion (1963) University of Tasmania.
Hobart (1964) Sydney: Current Affairs Bulletin.
Versification: A Short Introduction (1966) Michigan State University Press.
The Personal Element in Australian Poetry (1970) Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, Townsville. Sydney: Angus & Robertson.
The Grammar of the Real: Selected Prose 1959–1974 (1975) Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
The rhetoric of Australian poetry (1978) Surrey Hills: Wentworth Press.
Editions and Selections
Australian Poetry 1955 (1955) Sydney: Angus & Robertson.
Generations: poetry from Chaucer to the present day (1969) Melbourne: Thomas Nelson.
The Darkening Ecliptic (with Harold Stewart, 2017 reprint) Los Angeles: Green Integer,
Hymns
Hymns for the Year of Grace (n.d.) Sydney: Living Parish Series.
We Offer Mass (n.d.) Sydney: Living Parish Series.
Translation
Song of Songs (1966) Darton: Longman & Todd.
Footnotes
References
Sources
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Novosokolniki
Novosokolniki () is a town and the administrative center of Novosokolnichesky District in Pskov Oblast, Russia, located on the Maly Udray River at the junction of the St. Petersburg–Kiev and Moscow–Riga railways, southeast of Pskov, the administrative center of the oblast. Population:
History
It was founded in 1901 due to construction of the railway between Moscow and Riga. At the time, it was a part of Velikoluksky Uyezd in Pskov Governorate. The name is due to the nearby locality then known as Sokolniki, whose name in turn is derived from the Russian word "" (sokol, meaning "falcon"), since the residents specialized on breeding falcons for hunting. Novosokolniki was granted town status in 1925.
On August 1, 1927, the uyezds and governorates were abolished and Novosokolnichesky District, with the administrative center in Novosokolniki, was established as a part of Velikiye Luki Okrug of Leningrad Oblast. It included parts of former Velikoluksky and Nevelsky Uyezds. On June 3, 1929, Novosokolnichesky District was transferred to Western Oblast. On July 23, 1930, the okrugs were also abolished and the districts were directly subordinated to the oblast. On January 29, 1935, Western Oblast was abolished and the district was transferred to Kalinin Oblast, and on February 5 of the same year, Novosokolnichesky District became a part of Velikiye Luki Okrug of Kalinin Oblast, one of the okrugs abutting the state boundaries of the Soviet Union. On May 4, 1938, the district was subordinated directly to the oblast. Between July 25, 1941 and January 29, 1944, Novosokolniki was occupied by German troops. On August 22, 1944, the district was transferred to newly established Velikiye Luki Oblast. On October 2, 1957, Velikiye Luki Oblast was abolished and Novosokolnichesky District was transferred to Pskov Oblast.
Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Novosokolniki serves as the administrative center of Novosokolnichesky District, to which it is directly subordinated. As a municipal division, the town of Novosokolniki is incorporated within Novosokolnichesky Municipal District as Novosokolniki Urban Settlement.
Economy
Industry
Novosokolniki has enterprises of textile and food industries.
The Novosokolniki guyed TV mast is tall and was built in 1995.
Transportation
Novosokolniki is an important railway hub, located at the crossing of two lines. One railway connects Moscow and Velikiye Luki with Riga and runs in the east-west direction. Another railway, running in the north-south direction, connects St. Petersburg and Dno with Nevel. In Nevel, south of Novosokolniki, it splits into two railway lines, both running southeast into Belarus: one line to Vitebsk and another one to Grodno via Polotsk and Maladzyechna.
Novosokolniki has an easy access to the M9 Highway which connects Moscow and Riga. It is furthermore connected by roads with Velikiye Luki and Nevel. There are also local roads.
Culture and recreation
Novosokolniki contains six objects classified as cultural and historical heritage of local significance. The monuments are the railway station, protected as the site of events of the Revolution of 1905, as well as monuments to soldiers fallen in World War II.
References
Notes
Sources
Архивный отдел Псковского облисполкома. Государственный архив Псковской области. "Административно-территориальное деление Псковской области (1917–1988 гг.). Справочник". (Administrative-Territorial Structure of Pskov Oblast (1917–1988). Reference.) Книга I. Лениздат, 1988.
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