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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren%20Ellis
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Lauren Ellis
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Lauren Ellis may refer to:
Lauren Ellis (cyclist) (born 1989), New Zealand track cyclist
Lauren Ellis (musician), American blues musician
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Chuvisco Falls
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Chuvisco Falls is a waterfall in Brazil, located in the Fish River, bordering the municipalities of Santo Antônio do Rio Abaixo and São Sebastião do Rio Preto, in Minas Gerais. It has a very large pool with an average temperature.
Waterfalls of Brazil
Landforms of Minas Gerais
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Quinton%20Pringle
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John Quinton Pringle
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John Quinton Pringle (13 December 1864 – 25 April 1925) was a Scottish painter, influenced by Jules Bastien-Lepage and associated with the Glasgow Boys.
Early life
Pringle was born the son of a railway employee in Dennistoun, Glasgow. Though the family moved for a short time (1869 to 1874) to Langbank in nearby Renfrewshire (where his father had been appointed stationmaster), John received his education in Glasgow and later lived for some time in Maukinfauld Road, Tollcross.
He left school in 1876 and was apprenticed to an optical repairman. Twenty years later he set up in business on his own, offering optical and electrical repairs in his shop in No. 90 Saltmarket, near Glasgow Cross. It was a famously chaotically run shop, but Pringle kept it running as a business (albeit a sideline from his real love) for over 20 years.
Meanwhile, he pursued a vocation in painting. Pringle attended evening and Saturday morning classes (at the same time as Charles Rennie Mackintosh) between 1883 and 1888. In 1901 he won a gold medal for life drawing at the South Kensington national competition.
Life as a painter
Pringle left about 100 works. Many are small scale oil on canvas, with subjects often including his family, friends, backcourts or local surroundings. He did not paint in oils between 1911 and 1921. Pringle visited Normandy in 1910 and spent a couple of summers on the Shetland island of Whalsay, (where he stayed with the local doctor, W.G. Wilson). In both cases he produced a range of sea or landscapes, often experimenting with painterly effects. Later he produced portraits (often miniatures) on commission, some of which are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Pringle was influenced by the French painter Jules Bastien-Lepage, whose paintings had been exhibited in Glasgow, along with those of other French painters, during the 1880s. He was most obviously influenced in technique, though the interest local subjects are another shared concern. In later works he used paint dissolved in turpentine and applied this in short strokes using a square brush. His palette in any one painting was limited but intense - his technique often giving a luminous or shimmering effect.
He exhibited at the Vienna Secessionist Exhibition of 1902 and in the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, in 1914.
A Centenary Exhibition was held by Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow in 1964.
Pringle died in East Kilbride on 25 April 1925. He is buried in Sandymount, Shettleston, in the east end of Glasgow.
Paintings
"Greenock", watercolour, (1886), sold by McTears 20.09.02
"Parkheid", oil on canvas, (c. 1886), sold by Sotheby's March 2006
"Self Portrait", oil on canvas, (c. 1886), Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow
"Backcourt, Bartholomew Street", oil on canvas, (1887), British Museum
“Tarbet Loch Fyne", watercolour, (1888), Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow
“Children at a burn" (1889), oil on canvas, Tate Britain, London
"Repairing the bicycle" (the artist’ younger brother, Barclay Pringle), oil on canvas, (c. 1889), Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow
"Portrait of the artist’s elder brother, Christopher Nisbet Pringle” (c. 1890), oil on canvas, Tate Britain, London
"View from the artist’s window in Maukinfauld Road", oil on canvas, (c. 1890), Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow
"Muslin Street", (1896), oil on canvas, City Art Centre Edinburgh
"Mrs Newberry and Daughter", oil on canvas, (1902), Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow
"Bosham", Watercolour, (1903), Tate Britain London
"Man with a tobacco pouch" oil on canvas, (1903), sold by The Leicester Galleries 2006
"Two figures on a fence" oil on canvas (1904), Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow
"Girls at play", oil on canvas, (c. 1905), Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow
"Poultry Yard, Gartcosh", oil on canvas, (1906), National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
"Tollcross, Glasgow", oil on canvas, (1908), Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow
"Portrait of a boy, bust length, wearing a grey suit and a pink cravat in a summer landscape.", (1910), Allposter.com
"Caudebec" oil on canvas, (1910), Kelvingrove Art Galleries, Glasgow
"Mrs Helen Meldrum", black chalk drawing, (1923), Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow
"Mrs Helen Meldrum", oil on canvas, (1924), Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow
"The Window" (1924), oil on canvas, Tate Britain, London
Bibliography
Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford, (2004)
John Q Pringle 1864-1925-a centenary exhibition (the catalogue) by J Meldrum and A Auld, Glasgow Art Galleries and Museums (1964)
Scottish Arts Council Exhibition Catalogue (1981) by J Meldrum and D Brown
External links
images of Children at a burn, Portrait of the Artist’s elder brother, The Window
Explorer at aagm.co.uk (image of Curing Station, Whalsay)
John Quinton Pringle Art Prints - Easyart.com at en.easyart.com
John Quinton Pringle Website
1864 births
1925 deaths
19th-century Scottish painters
Scottish male painters
20th-century Scottish painters
Glasgow School
Artists from Glasgow
19th-century Scottish male artists
20th-century Scottish male artists
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Taihe Institute
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Taihe Institute (), otherwise known as Taihe or TI, is a Chinese think tank founded in 2013 in Beijing.
Activities
Taihe Civilizations Forum
The Taihe Civilizations Forum (TCF), launched in 2017, is an annual event organized by the Taihe Institute, with the aim of supporting “the harmonious development of common values and the advancement of human civilization.”
Seminars and Events
Taihe organizes regular seminars and meetings with foreign embassies, chambers of commerce in China, and academic and business institutions. The “China-France Dialogue for the Future” is a feature seminar regularly hosted by the Taihe Institute, together with the Alumni Association of China of the French National School of Administration (now the French National Institute of Public Service), and the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment.
Publications
Taihe as a think tank produces TI Library (《太和文库》), a collection of its researchers’ findings. Taihe also produces a monthly English publication – TI Observer, which invites policy makers, diplomats, industry experts, and thought leaders to share their insights on trending global issues. TI Observer vol. 21 (Non-Alignment 2.0) is referred by the American magazine Foreign Policy in its analysis of non-alignment theory.
In March 2019, “General Xue Lectures on Sun Tzu's Art of War,” authored by Xue Guo’an, a senior fellow of the Taihe Institute, and the first book listed under the “Taihe Institute Book Series,” was published by the state-owned CITIC Press Group.
COVID-19 disinformation
In August 2021, Taihe Institute, together with the Intelligence & Alliance Think Tank, published a report titled “U.S. Responsible for Global Spread of COVID-19.”
References
External links
Research institutes in China
Organizations established in 2013
2013 establishments in China
Organizations based in Beijing
China-focused think tanks
Foreign policy and strategy think tanks in China
United front (China)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panorpa%20maculosa
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Panorpa maculosa
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Panorpa maculosa is a species of common scorpionfly in the family Panorpidae. It is found in North America.
References
Panorpidae
Articles created by Qbugbot
Insects described in 1861
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montrosier
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Montrosier
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Montrosier is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France.
See also
Communes of the Tarn department
References
Communes of Tarn (department)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma%20May
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Norma May
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Norma May is a former female English international lawn bowler.
Bowls career
May was the English champion after winning the English National Championship in 1987 when she defeated Mary Price in the final of the singles.
She represented England in the fours event, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand.
References
Living people
English female bowls players
Bowls players at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
Year of birth missing (living people)
Commonwealth Games competitors for England
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photobacterium%20damselae%20subsp.%20piscicida
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Photobacterium damselae subsp. piscicida
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Photobacterium damselae subsp. piscicida (previously known as Pasteurella piscicida) is a gram-negative rod-shaped bacterium that causes disease in fish.
Hosts
Hosts of Photobacterium damselae subsp. iscicida include:
Barramundi/Asian sea bass (Lates calcarifer)
Disease
Pasteurellosis is also described as photobacteriosis (due to the change in the taxonomic position), caused by this halophilic bacterium. It was first isolated in mortalities occurring in natural populations of white perch (Morone americana) and striped bass (M. saxatilis) in 1963 in Chesapeake Bay, USA (Snieszko et al., 1964). Since 1969, this disease has been one of the most important in Japan, affecting mainly yellowtail (Seriola quinqueradiata) (Kusuda & Yamaoka, 1972). From 1990 it has caused economic losses in different European countries including France (Baudin-Laurencin et al., 1991), Italy (Ceschia et al., 1991), Spain (Toranzo et al., 1991), Greece (Bakopoulos et al., 1995), Turkey (Canand et al., 1996), Portugal (Baptista et al., 1996) and Malta (Bakopoulos et al., 1997). Gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata), seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) and sole (Solea spp.) are the most affected species in Europe Mediterranean countries, as well as hybrid striped bass (M. saxatilis x M. chrysops) in the USA. However, the natural hosts of the pathogen are a wide variety of marine fish (Romalde & Magariños, 1997).
This pathology is temperature dependent and occurs usually when water temperatures rise above 18-20 °C. Below this temperature, fish can harbour the pathogen as subclinical infection and become carriers for long time periods (Romalde, 2002).
Symptoms
Pastereullosis is also known as pseudotubercullosis because it is characterized by the presence, in the chronic form of the disease, of creamy-white granulomatous nodules or whitish tubercules in several internal organs, composed of masses of bacterial cells, epithelial cells, and fibroblasts. The nodules are most prominent in internal viscera, particularly kidney and spleen, and the infection is accompanied by widespread internal necrosis (Evelyn, 1996; Romalde, 2002; Barnes et al., 2005). Anorexia with darkening of the skin as well as focused necrosis of the gills are the only external clinical signs often observed. These lesions are generally missing in the acute form. The disease is difficult to eradicate with antibiotic treatments, and there is evidence that carriers under stressful conditions could suffer from reinfection (Le Breton, 1999).
Identification
Morphologically, the bacteria is a rod shaped cell, with no motility. Gram negative, with bipolar staining. The presumptive identification of the pathogen is based on standard biochemical tests. In addition, although Ph. damselae subsp. piscicida is not included in the API-20E code index, this miniaturised system can also be useful for its identification, since all strains display the same profile (2005004). Slide agglutination testing using specific antiserum is needed for a confirmative identification of the microorganism (Romalde, 2002).
Virulence
The virulence of the pathogen implies the production of polysaccharide capsular layer, and extracellular products, and is also depending on iron availability (Lopez-Doriga et al., 2000). The bacteria spreads via infected phagocytes, mainly macrophages. This spread can be rapid, and lethal effects may occur within a few days of challenge, affecting tissues containing large numbers of the pathogens (Evelyn, 1996).
See also
Photobacterium damselae subsp. damselae
References
External links
Type strain of Photobacterium damselae subsp. piscicida at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase]
Necrotizing fasciitis due to Photobacterium damsela in a man lashed by a stingray. Barber GR, Swygert JS. New England Journal of Medicine. 2000 342:824 [letter]
Vibrionales
Bacterial diseases of fish
Subspecies
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C29H36O4
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The molecular formula C29H36O4 (molar mass: 448.59 g/mol, exact mass: 448.2614 u) may refer to:
Algestone acetophenide, or dihydroxyprogesterone acetophenide (DHPA)
Pawhuskin A
Molecular formulas
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G27
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G27
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G27 may refer to:
, a tanker of the Brazilian Navy
Gribovsky G-27, a Soviet aircraft
Glock 27, an Austrian pistol
Logitech G27, a racing wheel
Heckler & Koch G27, a German battle rifle
, a Caldwell-class destroyer of the Royal Navy
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Park Square, Leeds
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Park Square is a Georgian public square in central Leeds, West Yorkshire. The square is grassed over and is a traditional Georgian park. The square is in Leeds' financial quarter and is surrounded by Georgian buildings, which are occupied as offices, many by barristers and solicitors.
History
Park Square was part of a fashionable West End housing development, known as the Park Estates which was developed at the end of the eighteenth century for the upwardly mobile wealthy, to give them some distance from industry and the river, but within easy reach of the commercial centre. It was laid out from 1788, being completed in its original form in 1810 with houses 'well built in the modern tradition'. Somewhat grander dwellings were available in nearby Park Place. In naming the area, the word 'street' was avoided in favour of terms such as 'Row', 'Parade', 'Place' and 'Square', considered more prestigious, as had already been done in Georgian developments such as Bath, Bloomsbury and Bristol.
It featured a private garden square and a church, St Paul's, on the south side which offered exclusive pew and interment rights to the residents.
However the initial aim of a purely residential area was not maintained when a large warehouse and cloth cutting works, St Paul's House, was built in 1878 for ready-made mass production tailor John Barran on St Paul's Street, with its rear aspect effectively taking up half the south side of the square. This was, however, in grand Arabic-Saracenic style by architect Thomas Ambler, and notable as the first planned and designed clothing factory. The building was modernised and converted to offices in 1977, with a new main entrance on Park Square South.
The other half of the south side of the square was taken up by St Paul's Church, (built 1793, demolished 1906). In 1938 Rivers House (21 Park Square South) was built on the site in Neo-Georgian style as offices for the Water Board. It is now private flats: Park Square Residences. Number 9, Park Square East is Vicarage Chambers, being on the site of the former vicarage of St Paul's Church.
For much of the 20th century a major feature was a bronze statue by Alfred Drury (1895) of Circe who changed the companions of Odysseus into swine, shown around her feet. This is also Grade II listed, but was moved to the Leeds Museum in 2008.
Former residents
Pioneering surgeon Berkeley Moynihan had his consultancy rooms on the square.
Sir Clifford Allbutt, inventor of the clinical thermometer had his consulting rooms at number 35.
After marrying in 1808, brewer Joshua Tetley settled in Park Square.
Edith Pechey, one of the first women doctors in the United Kingdom and a campaigner for women's rights, opened her own practice at number 8, Park Square.
Gallery
See also
City Square, Leeds
Millennium Square, Leeds
St Pauls House, Leeds
References
External links
Leodis Aerial View of Park Square in 1926
Leodis Photograph of Circe statue in 1972
Leodis Photograph of Circe statue in 1999
Squares in Leeds
Georgian architecture in England
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Šestajovice (Prague-East District)
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Šestajovice is a municipality and village in Prague-East District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 4,000 inhabitants.
Geography
Šestajovice is located east of Prague, in its immediate vicinity. It is urbanistically fused with Prague-Klánovice. It lies in a flat landscape of the Central Elbe Table.
History
The first written mention of Šestajovice is from 1227. From 1227 until the Hussite Wars, the village was property of the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star from the Zderaz Monastery in Prague, then the owners often changed.
Demographics
Transport
The D11 motorway from Prague to Hradec Králové passes through the municipality.
Sights
Šestajovice is poor in monuments. The only cultural monument is a sandstone cross, which dates from 1779. There is also a belfry.
References
External links
Villages in Prague-East District
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Priocnemis
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Priocnemis is a genus of pepsine spider wasp containing around 30 species.
Species list
Priocnemis aequalis (Banks, 1919)
Priocnemis agilis (Shuckard, 1837)
Priocnemis carbonarius (Smith, 1855)
Priocnemis conformis Smith, 1876
Priocnemis confusor Wahis, 2006
Priocnemis cordivalvata Haupt, 1927
Priocnemis coriacea (Dahlbom, 1843)
Priocnemis cornica (Say, 1836)
Priocnemis crawi Harris 1987
Priocnemis enslini Haupt, 1927
Priocnemis exaltata (Fabricius, 1775)
Priocnemis fallax Verhoeff, 1922
Priocnemis fennica Wahis, 1986
Priocnemis germana (Cresson, 1867)
Priocnemis hyalinata (Fabricius, 1793)
Priocnemis minorata Banks, 1912
Priocnemis minuta (Vander Linden, 1827)
Priocnemis monachus (Smith, 1855)
Priocnemis nebulosus Dahlbom, 1843
Priocnemis notha (Cresson, 1867)
Priocnemis ordishi Harris, 1987
Priocnemis parvula (Dahlbom, 1845)
Priocnemis pellipleuris Wahis, 1998
Priocnemis perturbator (Harris, 1780)
Priocnemis pusilla Schiødte, 1837
Priocnemis schioedtei Haupt, 1927
Priocnemis susterai Haupt, 1927
Priocnemis vulgaris (Dufour, 1841)
References
Hymenoptera genera
Pepsinae
Taxa named by Jørgen Matthias Christian Schiødte
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Vibeology
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"Vibeology" is the fourth single released worldwide from American singer Paula Abdul's Spellbound album. The song was written by Peter Lord, Sandra St. Victor and V. Jeffrey Smith. It was released as the third single from the album in Australia and the United Kingdom and as the fourth single in North America. "Vibeology" was first released as a single in October 1991 in Japan, followed by an Australian release in November and a UK release in January 1992.
"Vibeology" peaked at number 63 in Australia in December 1991 and at number 19 in the UK in January 1992. The single reached number 16 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in February 1992, becoming Abdul's first single to peak outside the top 10 in the US since the original release of "(It's Just) The Way That You Love Me" in 1988. It also reached number 17 on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart.
Background
Originally, Virgin Records had intended to release "Vibeology" as the third single from Spellbound following Abdul's performance of the song at the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards; however, it was delayed in favor of "Blowing Kisses in the Wind" which was receiving airplay at the time, creating demand for the song.
Track listings
US 12-inch record
Vibeology - Keith Cohen's House Mix (Peter Lord; Sandra St. Victor; V. Jeffrey Smith)
Vibeology - Keith Cohen's Club Mix (Peter Lord; Sandra St. Victor; V. Jeffrey Smith)
Vibeology - Keith Cohen's Vibe the House Dub (Peter Lord; Sandra St. Victor; V. Jeffrey Smith)
The Promise of a New Day - 12-inch Mix (Peter Lord; V. Jeffrey Smith)
Vibeology - Humphrey's Full-length Hip-Hop Mix (Peter Lord; Sandra St. Victor; V. Jeffrey Smith)
Vibeology - Humphrey's House Mix (Peter Lord; Sandra St. Victor; V. Jeffrey Smith)
Vibeology - Humphrey's Hip-House Mix (Peter Lord; Sandra St. Victor; V. Jeffrey Smith)
Vibeology - Humphrey's Hip-Hop Instrumental (Peter Lord; Sandra St. Victor; V. Jeffrey Smith)
Vibeology - Keith Cohen's LP Version (Peter Lord; Sandra St. Victor; V. Jeffrey Smith)
European 7-inch single
Vibeology - 7-inch Edit (Peter Lord; Sandra St. Victor; V. Jeffrey Smith)
Vibeology - Hurley's House 7-inch (Peter Lord; Sandra St. Victor; V. Jeffrey Smith)
European 12-inch record
Vibeology - Hurley's House Mix (Peter Lord; Sandra St. Victor; V. Jeffrey Smith)
Vibeology - Silky Sax Dub (Peter Lord; Sandra St. Victor; V. Jeffrey Smith)
Vibeology - Hurley's Underground Mix (Peter Lord; Sandra St. Victor; V. Jeffrey Smith)
Vibeology - Hurley's Underground Sax Dub (Peter Lord; Sandra St. Victor; V. Jeffrey Smith)
Vibeology - Album Version (Peter Lord; Sandra St. Victor; V. Jeffrey Smith)
UK 5-inch CD
Vibeology - 7-inch Edit (Peter Lord; Sandra St. Victor; V. Jeffrey Smith)
Vibeology - Hurley's House Mix (Peter Lord; Sandra St. Victor; V. Jeffrey Smith)
Vibeology - Silky Sax Dub (Peter Lord; Sandra St. Victor; V. Jeffrey Smith)
Vibeology - Hurley's Underground Mix (Peter Lord; Sandra St. Victor; V. Jeffrey Smith)
Vibeology - Hurley's Underground Sax Dub (Peter Lord; Sandra St. Victor; V. Jeffrey Smith)
Charts
Release history
References
Paula Abdul songs
1991 songs
1992 singles
Songs written by Sandra St. Victor
Virgin Records singles
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beit%20HaNassi
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Beit HaNassi
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The President's House, known in Hebrew as Beit HaNassi ('בֵּית הַנָּשִׂיא) and Mishkan HaNassi (מִשְׁכָּן הַנָּשִׂיא), is the official residence of the President of Israel. It is located in the Talbiya neighborhood of Jerusalem.
Etymology
In Modern Hebrew, beit means house, mishkan residence, and nasi president, the last being derived from the Biblical Hebrew word for prince. ''Ha' is the Hebrew definite article.
History
Before Beit HaNassi was built, President Chaim Weizmann lived in Rehovot in his own villa. Yitzhak Ben-Zvi used a cabin in Rehavia for his presidential duties while living in a regular apartment.
In 1963, a plan to build a residence for the incoming president, Zalman Shazar, was started. During Shazar's presidency, he declined the offer to have the future residence built as part of existing political buildings. As a result, the construction of a house in Talbiya was approved, to be built on a ten-dunam plot. In 1964, architect Aba Elhanani won the contest for the residence design. Beit HaNassi was inaugurated in 1971 by President Shazar. The design came under harsh criticism from different public figures.
During the visit to Israel of Pope Benedict XVI in 2009, President Shimon Peres inaugurated a new custom that all visiting world leaders would plant an olive tree in the Beit HaNassi "peace garden".
In October 2017, work was completed on a new, enlarged entrance to Beit Hanassi to enable faster processing of visitors to major events at the residence.
Gallery
References
External links
Art at Beit HaNassi
Official residences in Israel
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Presidential residences
Buildings and structures in Jerusalem
1971 establishments in Israel
Houses completed in 1971
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957%20Vuelta%20a%20Espa%C3%B1a
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1957 Vuelta a España
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The 12th Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain), a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the three grand tours, was held from 26 April to 12 May 1957. It consisted of 16 stages covering a total of , and was won by Jesús Loroño. Vicente Iturat won the points classification and Federico Bahamontes won the mountains classification.
Teams and riders
Route
Results
References
1957
1957 in Spanish sport
1957 in road cycling
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligowiec
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Ligowiec
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Ligowiec is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Swarzędz, within Poznań County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately north of Swarzędz and north-east of the regional capital Poznań.
References
Ligowiec
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Vino de calidad
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Vino de Calidad con indicación geográfica (VC) ('quality wine with geographic indication'), is classification for Spanish wine. The category was formed in 2003 along with Vino de Pago. The VC category is used for wines that do not fully meet the stringent standards of the DO category, but are above the standards of the Indicación Geográfica Protegida (IGP) category. As of 2019, there were 7 VCs.
The category of VC is within the denominación de origen protegida DOP ('protected denomination of origin') category, the mainstay of Spain's wine quality control system. As of 2019 there were 96 DOPs that are subdivided into DOCa (Denominación de origen Calificada), DO (Denominación de origen), Vino de Pago (VP), and VC. The sub-categories can be called DOP, or they can use the traditional terms of DOCa, DO, VP, and VC.
References
Wine regions of Spain
Appellations
Wine classification
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Public infrastructure
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Public infrastructure is infrastructure owned or available for use by the public (represented by the government). It is distinguishable from generic or private infrastructure in terms of policy, financing, purpose, etc.
Public infrastructure is a general term, often qualified specifically as:
Transport infrastructure – vehicles, road, rail, cable and financing of transport
Aviation infrastructure – air traffic control technology in aviation
Rail transport – trackage, signals, electrification of rails
Road transport – roads, bridges, tunnels
Critical infrastructure – assets required to sustain human life
Energy infrastructure – transmission and storage of fossil fuels and renewable sources
Hazardous waste – characteristics, disposal, handling of hazardous waste
Information and communication infrastructure – systems of information storage and distribution
Public capital – government-owned assets
Public works – municipal infrastructure, maintenance functions and agencies
Solid waste – generation, collection, management of trash/garbage
Sustainable urban infrastructure – technology, architecture, policy for sustainable living
Water infrastructure – the distribution and maintenance of water supply
Wastewater infrastructure – disposal and treatment of wastewater
Infrastructure
Infrastructure-based development
References
See also
List of government buildings
Infrastructure
Infrastructure
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopovo
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Hopovo
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Hopovo may refer to:
Staro Hopovo Monastery, a monastery in Srem, Vojvodina, Serbia
Novo Hopovo Monastery, a monastery in Srem, Vojvodina, Serbia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Lyon-Dalberg-Acton%2C%203rd%20Baron%20Acton
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John Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 3rd Baron Acton
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John Emerich Henry Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 3rd Baron Acton (born Dalberg-Acton; 15 December 1907 – 23 January 1989), was a British peer and soldier.
Early life and education
Acton was born in Bordighera, Liguria, Italy, the eldest son and third of nine children born to Richard Dalberg-Acton, 2nd Baron Acton, a diplomat in the foreign service. His mother was Dorothy Lyon, the only child of Thomas Henry Lyon, DL, of Appleton Hall, Cheshire. The fourth generation of his family abroad, the 2nd Lord Acton and his children officially became British citizens in 1911 by Act of Parliament.
The family was living in Germany when the First World War broke out. They were temporarily detained in Baden Baden in 1914. In 1915, Lord Acton became chargé d'affaires in Berne. In 1919, his father added the additional surname and arms of Lyon when Lady Acton inherited from her father. His mother died in 1923, when his youngest sister was just 2.
He was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and Trinity College, Cambridge. He succeeded to the family titles upon the death of his father in 1924.
His only brother, Richard William Heribert Peter Lyon-Dalberg-Acton (1909–1946), was killed in a plane crash in Gambia in 1946.
Honours
In December 1945, Acton was appointed to the Military Division of the Order of the British Empire as a Member. In February 1947, he was appointed to be a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Salop but resigned his commission in November the same year because he stopped living in the county. In the 1964 New Year Honours, Acton was appointed to the Order of St Michael and St George as a Companion.
Personal life
Acton was a devout Catholic. He was a founder and president of the multiracial National Club in Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Family
He married Daphne Strutt (d. 2003), daughter of The 4th Baron Rayleigh, on 25 November 1931. The couple had eleven children:
Pelline Margot Lyon-Dalberg-Acton (b. 24 December 1932)
Charlotte Lyon-Dalberg-Acton (1934–1935)
Catherine Lyon-Dalberg-Acton (b. 30 December 1939)
Richard Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 4th Baron Acton (30 July 1941 – 10 October 2010)
John Charles Lyon-Dalberg-Acton (b. 26 January 1943 — d. 25 December 2016)
Robert Peter Lyon-Dalberg-Acton (b. 23 June 1946)
Jill Mary Joan Lyon-Dalberg-Acton (b. 15 June 1947)
Professor Edward David Joseph Lyon-Dalberg-Acton (b. 4 February 1949)
Peter Hedley Lyon-Dalberg-Acton (b. 27 March 1950)
Mary Anne Lyon-Dalberg-Acton (b. 30 March 1951)
Jane Lyon-Dalberg-Acton (b. 25 January 1954)
He died in Mallorca, Spain in 1989.
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1907 births
1989 deaths
John
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Members of the Order of the British Empire
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
Deputy Lieutenants of Shropshire
People from Bordighera
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English Roman Catholics
20th-century Roman Catholics
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The Maranhão gubernatorial election of 1990 was held in the Brazilian state of Maranhão on October 3, alongside Brazil's general elections, with a second round on November 25. PFL candidate, Edison Lobão, was elected on November 25, 1990.
Candidates
1990 Brazilian gubernatorial elections
October 1990 events in South America
1990
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Patrick Gibson (artist)
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Patrick Gibson (1782?–1829) was a Scottish landscape-painter and writer on art.
Life
He was a native of Edinburgh. The date of his birth is usually given as December 1782, but on the other hand the parochial register of Dollar, Clackmannanshire states that he died in 1829, aged 54. He received a classical education in the High School, Edinburgh, and in a private academy, and studied art under Alexander Nasmyth and in the Trustees' Academy, then taught by John Graham.
From 1805 Gibson lived in Lambeth, exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1805, 1806, and 1807, and at the British Institution in 1811. In 1808 he was in Edinburgh, where he joined the Society of Associated Artists, to whose exhibitions he contributed till 1816, and he was represented in the modern exhibitions of the Institution for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts in Scotland in 1821 and 1822. In the earlier exhibition catalogues his name occasionally appears as "Peter" Gibson.
In 1826 Gibson became a founder member of the Scottish Academy, to whose exhibitions he contributed (1827–9) landscape and architectural subjects, both Scottish and foreign. In 1824 he had been appointed professor of painting in Dollar Academy, and he died there on 23 August 1829.
Works
In his works in oil, Gibson founded his style on Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin. His water-colours were executed with washes of subdued pigments. He was also an etcher, and published in 1818 a series of six Etchings of Select Views in Edinburgh.
Gibson contributed a comprehensive article on "Design" to the Encyclopædia Edinensis; and articles on "Drawing", "Engraving", and "Miniature-painting" to the Edinburgh Encyclopædia. His View of the Progress and Present State of the Arts of Design in Britain, in the Edinburgh Annual Register for 1816, noticed minor Scottish painters. He was author under the pseudonym of "Roger Roundrobin, Esq.", of a Letter to the Managers and Directors of the Royal Institution, Edinburgh in 1826. A treatise on Perspective, written shortly before his death, was printed but not published.
Gibson also contributed to the daily press; and David Laing (Etchings of Wilkie and Geddes) attributed to Gibson a notice of Andrew Geddes's exhibition in the Edinburgh Evening Courant, 15 December 1821.
Family
In June 1818 Gibson married Isabella, daughter of William Scott, a teacher of elocution; and his wife is stated to have been a musician and the composer of the tune Comfort.
References
Attribution
1782 births
1829 deaths
18th-century engravers
19th-century engravers
Scottish artists
Scottish engravers
19th-century Scottish writers
artists from Edinburgh
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Eileen Hutchins
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Eileen Morley Hutchins, born 28 June 1902 in Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire and died 9 October 1987 in Stourbridge was a Steiner school teacher, writer and founder of the Elmfield Rudolf Steiner School in Stourbridge.
Biography
Together with her sister Shirley, Eileen Hutchins experienced a strict upbringing. She was a gifted child, beginning to read Scott and Dickens at the early age of 14, but it was seeing her first Shakespeare performance that became, for her, a life-changing experience. It led her to study literature at Oxford University.
Initially she began to teach in Colwyn Bay, then moved to the Leeds High School in the 1920s, where she met Edith Rigby who introduced her to Anthroposophy and to the work of Rudolf Steiner. In November 1930 she joined the Maud Wilson Group of the Anthroposophical Society in Leeds and attended its meetings.
Elmfield School
Meanwhile, her sister Shirley Hutchins had started to work at a home for children with Special Needs near Birmingham called Sunfield after the original Anthroposophical curative home, the Sonnenhof in Arlesheim near Basle, Switzerland. Fried Geuter, the founder of the home heard of Eileen and wrote, asking if she would be willing to come to Sunfield and teach his and the other co-worker children. She began there in 1931 but soon a number of other children joined her and they needed a larger space. It was Lloyd and Theodora Wilson, Fried Geuter’s co-founder, Michael Wilson’s parents, who offered the budding school space in their home, Elmfield, in Selly Oak, Birmingham. In 1934 the school joined "The New School" as the second Rudolf Steiner school in Britain. Eileen taught first in the primary school, then later in the high school as the children grew older.
During World War I years it was not possible to keep the school open in Birmingham, so space was made for the children in the village of Clent, to which Sunfield Homes had moved. At the end of the war, Eileen Hutchins’ father bought a house for Elmfield in Park Hill, on the outskirts of Stourbridge, so Eileen was able to re-found the school, now as a day school.
Despite growing blindness and deafness as she grew older, Eileen Hutchins continued to direct the school until 1984 and also played a role within the countrywide Steiner schools movement. She edited its magazine Child and Man from 1968 until 1979 and taught for many years in the teacher training programmes. She wrote poems and plays, commentaries and handbooks on Waldorf education, translated the German poet Novalis and lectured both in the UK and abroad. She died at the age of 85.
Books
Parzival: An Introduction Rudolf Steiner Press; 2nd Revised edition (1 June 2012)
Introduction to the Mystery Plays of Rudolf Steiner Rudolf Steiner Press (1 August 2014)
The Curriculum of the First Waldorf School by Caroline von Heydebrand translated by Eileen Hutchins, Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship; 2nd Revised edition (1 January 2010)
Sacred Songs of Novalis Waverley Press (1956) ASIN B004BB137I
Articles
Eileen Hutchins wrote a large number of articles on Steiner education, some of which can be found below
Teaching of Writing by Eileen Hutchins. The Online Waldorf Library retrieved 2014.09.14
Articles by Eileen Hutchins in the Waldorf Journal Project, The Online Waldorf Library retrieved 2014.09.14
References
Schoolteachers from Herefordshire
Anthroposophists
1902 births
1987 deaths
People from Hay-on-Wye
Waldorf education
British writers
British women writers
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2001 Kroger St. Jude International – Doubles
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Justin Gimelstob and Sébastien Lareau were the defending champions but only Gimelstob competed that year with Jared Palmer.
Gimelstob and Palmer lost in the second round to Tommy Haas and Glenn Weiner.
Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan won in the final 6–3, 7–6(7–3) against Alex O'Brien and Jonathan Stark.
Seeds
All eight seeded teams received byes to the second round.
Draw
Final
Top half
Bottom half
External links
ATP draw
2001 Kroger St. Jude International
Doubles
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Custer CCW-5
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The Custer CCW-5 was a twin-engined, 5-seat aircraft of pusher configuration, which used a channel wing claimed to enable low speed flight and short take-offs. Two CCW-5s flew, eleven years apart, but the type never entered production.
The aircraft was the third and last of a series of Custer Channel Wing designs.
Design and development
In most situations an aircraft's lift comes chiefly from the low pressure generated on the upper surface by the locally enhanced higher air velocity. This latter may be the result of the movement of the aircraft through the air or, when lift at low air speeds is important for short take-off performance, produced by engine power. The channel wing, the brainchild of Willard Ray Custer, is an example of the latter, where the air velocity over the upper surface velocity in a U-shaped channel formed out of the wing was increased with a pusher propeller at the trailing edge. This near semi-circular channel laterally constrained the airflow produced by the propeller, even when the aircraft was at rest, producing higher flow velocities than over a conventional pusher wing. The need for wing mounted pusher engines made a pusher twin a natural configuration, and for his third channel wing design Custer chose to modify the existing Baumann Brigadier, a 5-seat mid wing pusher twin which itself did not reach production.
The CCW-5 retained the fuselage and empennage of the Brigadier, but replaced the whole center section with a pair of channels, starting at roots in the lower part of the fuselage. Only beyond the channels did the conventional wings regain their mid-wing configuration. A Continental O-470 flat six engine was mounted on slender vertical and horizontal struts at the center of each the channels, on the mid-wing line. These drove constant speed pusher propellers. The main undercarriage was much shortened by mounting its legs on the outer part of the channel section; the Brigadier nosewheel was retained.
The first of two CCW-5s flew on 13 July 1953 and was piloted by Walker Davidson at Oxnard, California. It was reported to have completed its test flying by autumn 1956, when production was scheduled to begin. This did not happen, though a second aircraft flew in June 1964. The delay was partly the result of financial problems. The CCW-5 performed well below the original estimates with a maximum achieved speed of compared with an estimated . It was claimed that the aircraft could fly under control at and that it could take off with a load at 70% power in .
The second CCW-5 was finished in 1964 with Continental IO-470P engines; it survives and is under restoration at the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania.
Specifications
See also
Notes
References
Channel-wing aircraft
CCW-5
1950s United States civil utility aircraft
Twin-engined pusher aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1953
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Teddy Griffith
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Teddy Griffith (born 18 March 1936) is a Barbadian cricketer. He played twenty-five first-class matches for Barbados and Jamaica between 1953 and 1967.
References
External links
1936 births
Living people
Barbadian cricketers
Barbados cricketers
Jamaica cricketers
Cricketers from Saint Michael, Barbados
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Irving Pérez
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Irving Adrián Pérez Pineda (born 16 May 1986) is a Mexican triathlete. He competed in the men's event at the 2016 Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2021, he competed in the men's triathlon at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.
See also
List of people from Morelos, Mexico
References
External links
1986 births
Living people
Mexican male triathletes
Olympic triathletes for Mexico
Triathletes at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Triathletes at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Pan American Games medalists in triathlon
Pan American Games bronze medalists for Mexico
Triathletes at the 2015 Pan American Games
Triathletes at the 2019 Pan American Games
Sportspeople from Morelos
Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games
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Schulstad
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Schulstad is a Danish food manufacturer, known for its bakery products; it is the main manufacturer of Danish pastry in the UK.
History
The company was founded in 1880 in Denmark.
The company became part of a larger cooperative in 2003.
Structure
The company is headquartered in Denmark.
United Kingdom
In the UK, the company has its main site in north Buckinghamshire.
Products
It produces the three top-selling Danish pastry product types in the UK.
The Danish pastry industry is worth about £60m in the UK, around 69 million Danish pastries.
See also
Aryzta
References
External links
Schulstad Bakery Solutions
Bakeries of Denmark
Companies based in Milton Keynes
Food manufacturers of Denmark
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The Symphony No. 5 is the fifth symphony by the American composer George Rochberg. It was commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which first performed the piece under the direction of Georg Solti on March 13, 1986. The symphony has a duration of approximately 28 minutes and is cast a single continuous movement. It was a finalist for the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Music.
Reception
The symphony has been largely praised by music critics. Reviewing a recording of the piece, Andrew Farach-Colton of Gramophone called it "a gripping, emotionally expansive work – cast in a single movement of almost half an hour's duration – whose gestures are defiantly traditional." He added, "Rochberg alludes here to Mahler, Wagner and Shostakovich, among others, though he somehow manages to create a unified, utterly individual style." Anthony Burton of BBC Music Magazine was slightly more critical, however, remarking, "The Fifth Symphony, unheard since its premiere by the Chicago Symphony and Solti in 1986, is in a single large movement, alternating between anguished near-atonality and much more consonant slow episodes, largely in the accents of Mahler; as it progresses it settles increasingly into the slower music, a shift which feels suspiciously like a capitulation to easy listening rather than a genuine resolution of conflict."
References
Compositions by George Rochberg
1984 compositions
Rochberg 5
Music commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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M. Butterfly is a play by David Henry Hwang. The story, while entwined with that of the opera Madama Butterfly, is based most directly on the relationship between French diplomat Bernard Boursicot and Shi Pei Pu, a Peking opera singer. The play premiered on Broadway in 1988 and won the 1988 Tony Award for Best Play. In addition to this, it was a Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist in 1989.
Productions
M. Butterfly premiered at the National Theatre, Washington, DC, on February 10, 1988.
The play opened on Broadway at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on March 20, 1988, and closed after 777 performances on January 27, 1990. It was produced by Stuart Ostrow and directed by John Dexter; it starred John Lithgow as Gallimard and BD Wong as Song Liling. David Dukes, Anthony Hopkins, Tony Randall, and John Rubinstein played Gallimard at various times during the original run.
The play was a 1989 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
A highly unusual abstract staging, featuring Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly intermixed with French pop music, had Kazakh countertenor Erik Kurmangaliev star as Song; he also sang two of Butterfly's arias live during the show. This production was directed by Roman Viktyuk in Moscow, Russia and ran from 1990 to 1992.
It is published by Plume and in an acting edition by Dramatists Play Service. An audio recording of the play was produced by L.A. Theatre Works, with Lithgow and Wong reprising their Broadway roles along with Margaret Cho.
A Broadway revival opened on October 26, 2017, at the Cort Theatre, with previews beginning on October 7. Starring Clive Owen and Jin Ha, the production was directed by Julie Taymor. David Henry Hwang made changes to the original text for the revival, mostly centering on the issue of intersectional identities, but also for clarifications.
Plot
The first act introduces the main character, René Gallimard, a civil servant attached to the French embassy in China. In a prison, Gallimard is serving a sentence for treason. Through a series of flashbacks and imagined conversations, Gallimard tells an audience his story about a woman that he loved and lost. He falls in love with a beautiful Chinese opera singer, Song Liling. Gallimard is unaware that all female roles in traditional Beijing opera were actually played by men, as women were banned from the stage. The first act ends with Gallimard returning to France in shame and living alone after he asks his wife, Helga, for a divorce, admitting to her that he's had a mistress.
It is revealed in act 2 that Song had been acting as a spy for the Chinese government, and she is actually a man who has disguised himself as a woman to seduce Gallimard and extract information from him. They stay together for 20 years until the truth is revealed, and Gallimard is convicted of treason and imprisoned. Unable to face the fact that his "perfect woman" is a man, he retreats deep within himself and his memories. The action of the play is depicted as his disordered, distorted recollection of the events surrounding their affair.
In act three, Song reveals himself to the audience as a man, without makeup and dressed in men's clothing. Gallimard claims he only loved the idea of Butterfly, never Song himself. Gallimard throws Song and his clothing off the stage, but holds onto Butterfly's kimono. In scene three, the setting returns to Gallimard's prison cell, as he puts on makeup and Butterfly's wig and kimono. Then he stabs himself, committing suicide just as Butterfly does in the opera.
2017 Broadway Revival
M. Butterfly returned to Broadway in 2017. For this Julie Taymor-directed revival, Hwang revisited the text to incorporate further information that had emerged about the Boursicot case, and address intersectional identities. Taymor and Hwang wanted their new approach to consider “present public discussion and awareness of nonbinary genders, the growth of China as a superpower, and details about the true story. . . which were not available to Hwang when he wrote the first version.” Clive Owen and Jin Ha played the leads.
Changes include:
Song Liling initially presents as male to Gallimard, only to claim to be physically female but made to dress up as a man by her parents.
Hwang noted in an interview that the surprise reveal that Song Liling is actually a man no longer carried the shock value it did in 1988, especially after The Crying Game used the same tactic only a few years later.
The play is changed to a two-act structure.
Act 1 ends with Song telling Gallimard that she is pregnant (this moment originally occurred during Act 2).
Further information on how Song Liling managed to mislead Gallimard even while they were intimate.
One reviewer said “in this incarnation, we’re not being seduced, but preached at.” Another said it “was neither a critical nor a popular success…[but] an important, timely, and productive reconsideration of the play and its story in light of new acceptances of gender fluidity and the changing balance of power between Asia and the West.”
The 2019 production at South Coast Repertory used the 2017 revival as its source material. Directed by Desdemona Chiang, Lucas Verbrugghe and Jake Manabat performed as leads. One reviewer said the story “has taken on new resonance in an era shaped by the MeToo movement, China’s geopolitical might and a more widespread understanding of gender identity issues.” Regarding the long-debated questions of Song and Gallimard’s intimate relations, another reviewer said “Song’s defiant explanation to an over-curious French judge struck me as Hwang wanting to put an end to the prying once and for all.”
Film adaptation
Hwang adapted the play for a 1993 film directed by David Cronenberg with Jeremy Irons and John Lone in the leading roles.
Opera adaptation
In July 2022, an opera adaptation ran at the Santa Fe Opera House after being delayed for two years by the COVID-19 pandemic. It was directed by James Robinson and composed by Huang Ruo, with a libretto by Hwang. The leads were played by Mark Stone and Kangmin Justin Kim. One reviewer expressed mixed feelings about the performance, questioning the longevity and adaptability of M. Butterfly in a world of continuously evolving attitudes.
Reception
Subhash Kak describes the interplay between the 1904 Madame Butterfly and 1988 M. Butterfly saying that Gallimard "falls in love, not with a person, but an imagined stereotype. His Chinese lover, Song Liling, encourages this stereotype, playing the role of the Oriental woman as demure and submissive. Gallimard, who had thought of himself as the macho Pinkerton, husband of the beautiful and fragile Butterfly." KBPS described the latter as an inversion of the former: "here, it is the Occidental man who becomes the Butterfly: submissive, easily trapped, and ultimately destroyed."
John Gross called it "a mess, intellectually speaking" but also "very well worth seeing".
Relevance to the LGBT community
In an interview with David Henry Hwang, the playwright states: “The lines between gay and straight become very blurred in this play, but I think he knows he's having an affair with a man. Therefore, on some level he is gay.”
In a 2014 review for the Windy City Times, Jonathan Abarbanel states that Song Liling “may be gay but it's a secondary point raised only as a way by which Chinese government agents can control him. As an exploration of sexuality, it's about the Divine Androgyne who Song Liling may recognize and exploit, and which Gallimard certainly recognizes and embraces in the play's closing moments.”
The Washington Blade refers to Gallimard as “a gay man who couldn’t be himself. He had to mask behind male bravado, cultural and religious dicta, and diplomatic constraints. But he was willing to overlook and deny everything in pursuit of love.”
Hwang talked to several people with nonconforming gender identities to get better insight into the character of Song, but he ultimately stressed that the character is not transgender. “He recognized how Song might be differently received by a modern audience more savvy about the wide spectrum of gender identity.”
Ilka Saal writes: “The playwright uses the figure of the transvestite to lay bare the construction and performativity of gender and culture. Yet he stops short of questioning compulsory heterosexuality at its base, and thereby fails to use queer desire in order to open up interstices, categories of 'thirdness,' in this tight homophobic structure.”
In an article for Pride Source, Pruett and Beer state: “Gallimard is a man who thinks he is heterosexual, but is in fact a practicing homosexual for 20 years. Song takes on the role of a woman, but always self-identifies as a gay man, not a transgendered person.”
Christian Lewis, when writing about the 2017 revival, wrote in the Huffington post that “this production does not explore any foray into non-binary or transgender identities, which is perhaps its one major flaw.”
Awards and nominations
Original Broadway production
References
External links
1988 plays
Broadway plays
Plays by David Henry Hwang
Drama Desk Award-winning plays
Plays about race and ethnicity
LGBT-related plays
Tony Award-winning plays
Plays set in China
Cross-dressing in literature
Plays adapted into operas
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Godaszewice
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Godaszewice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Tomaszów Mazowiecki, within Tomaszów Mazowiecki County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately west of Tomaszów Mazowiecki and south-east of the regional capital Łódź.
References
Godaszewice
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Laila Davidsen
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Laila Davidsen (born 28 January 1974) is a Norwegian politician for the Progress and Conservative parties.
She served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Finnmark during the terms 2009–2013 and 2013–2017. In December 2016 she moved up to full representative, covering for Frank Bakke-Jensen who was named to Solberg's Cabinet. She is a member of the Standing Committee on Business and Industry.
Locally she elected to Alta municipal council in 2007. In 2010 she changed party from Progress to Conservative. From 2011 to 2015 she served as the mayor of Alta, and also a member of Finnmark county council.
References
1974 births
Living people
People from Alta, Norway
Members of the Storting
Conservative Party (Norway) politicians
Progress Party (Norway) politicians
Mayors of places in Finnmark
Women mayors of places in Norway
Women members of the Storting
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagos%2C%20Portugal
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Vagos, Portugal
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Vagos is a town (vila) in Portugal. It is located in Vagos Municipality, Aveiro District.
Towns in Portugal
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Aurélie Gagnet
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Aurélie Gagnet (born 30 December 1994) is a French footballer who plays as a full-back for FC Nantes.
International career
Gagnet has represented France at youth level.
References
1994 births
Living people
People from Dreux
Women's association football fullbacks
Division 2 Féminine players
French women's footballers
Montpellier HSC (women) players
FC Nantes (women) players
Le Havre AC (women) players
France women's youth international footballers
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Sidon District
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The Sidon District () is a district within the South Governorate of Lebanon.
Cities and towns
Aadloun
Ansariye
Ghaziyeh
Maghdouché
Majdelyoun
Miye ou Miye
Qinarit
Salhieh
Sarepta
Sidon - capital
Tabbaya
Zrarieh
Kawthariyat al-Sayyad
Villages
Ain El Delb
Anqoun
Darb Es Sim
Hajjeh
Kfar Chellal
Kfar Hatta
Qraiye
Tanbourit
Zaita
Zaghdraiya
Oil and petroleum
Sidon serves as the Mediterranean terminus of the Trans-Arabian Pipeline, a long oil pipeline that pumps oil from the fields near Abqaiq in Saudi Arabia. The pipeline played an important role in the global trade of petroleum—helping with the economic development of Lebanon—as well as American and Middle Eastern political relations. At the time it was built in 1947, the project was considered ground-breaking and innovative with a maximum capacity of about . After the 1967 Six-Day War and due to constant bickering between Saudi Arabia and Syria and Lebanon over transit fees, the emergence of oil supertankers and pipeline breakdowns, the section of the line beyond Jordan ceased operation in 1976.
The city of Sidon is the site of a large-scale oil facility constituting oil-storage tanks, an oil refinery, a thermal power plant and a fuel port. During the Lebanese civil war and the Israeli invasions, the site was bombarded several times either by Israeli war-planes or by Palestinian militia groups which lead eventually to the closure of the site. The oil tank and the refinery are in severe conditions but are now undergoing a massive rehabilitation plan put down by the Ministry of Power and Water Resources, as well as those in Tripoli in the north, to store Lebanon's future oil and natural gas supplies recently discovered offshore. For now, the facilities that still work on the site are the thermal power plant and the fuel port, which the state began to use to import oil after the pipeline ceased work in the 1970s.
Demographics
According to voter registration data, voters in the district are mostly Muslim (83%).
Voters in the city of Saida (61237) are 94% Muslim:
84% are Sunni
9% are Shia
6% are Christian (mixed between Maronite, Greek Melkite Catholic, and Armenian Orthodox).
Voters in the rest of the district (112372, called the Zahrani constituency in the 2018 electoral law) are predominantly Shia and 77% Muslim:
74% are Shia
3% are Sunni
12% are Greek Melkite Catholic
10% are Maronite
Thus, there is a bigger percentage of Christian voters in the district of Saida (17%) than in Tyre (6.3%), but much less than in Jezzine (75%).
References
Districts of Lebanon
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Ripples Foundation
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Ripples Foundation (also known as Ripples In Africa) is a US based non-governmental organization that works primarily with women in the countries of Nigeria, Madagascar, and Ghana to alleviate extreme poverty in Africa. The organization often partners with other organizations in order to meet its goals of "supporting women in distress, promoting inclusion and community cohesion, and working to raise levels of tolerance through education, art, sports, and culture."
History
Ripples Foundation was founded in the UK in 2005 by Anne Phillips under the name BME Concern.
BME Concern partnered with Ripples in Africa in 2011 to deliver women's empowerment projects in West Africa, and, after four years working together, BME Concern and Ripples In Africa merged and changed its name to Ripples Foundation in 2014.
In 2015, Ripples Foundation was granted 501(c)(3) status by the Internal Revenue Service in the United States (under EIN No. 47-3722946).
Activities
Empowering Women
Ripples Foundation's Village Women's Enterprise Programme provides resources for village women groups to start and manage their own enterprises, so they can provide food and generate income to sustain their families.
Through its past collaboration with Promasidor, Ripples in Africa won a 2013 SERA award for its "commitment to supporting and collaborating for the empowerment of women." Andrew Enaharo, Head of Legal and Public Relations at Promasidor, said of their partnership with Ripples Foundation: “Our unique partnership with BME Concern (known as Ripples in Africa) reinforces our commitment to creating measurable and quality impact in our communities through our support and collaboration on youth projects, empowering minority/village women, community cohesion, supporting development, village enterprises, education, cottage health services, child poverty, and hunger.”
In September 2015, the CEO Anne Toba attended the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development's forum to address the issues that women living in Kano State, Nigeria experience, and to discuss the options for empowerment programs to be delivered in the region.
Today the organisation continues its work in Africa by creating alliances with different partners. Their current projects include training in embroidery, media, animal rearing and farming projects. By delivering training and business financing the organization tries to reach its goal to improve economic outcomes for whole households.
Youth Development
Ripples Foundation has run several youth projects in Gravesend with local schools to encourage community cohesion through cultural awareness. Ripples has furthermore, in partnership with Promasidor, provided materials needed for playing sports to Cowbell Football Academy in Nigeria. The items, which include leather balls, jerseys, boots, keeper gloves, water bottles, and sports pumps, were presented to the Academy at the Main Bowl of the National Stadium SurulereLinagos on Saturday, February 21, 2015. Twenty-four secondary schools of over 500 students benefited from the donation, supporting children who were interested in the game but could not afford equipment, and keeping them off the streets by engaging them in a meaningful sporting activity with the potential to develop their character. The organization has also provided materials for education and health care for children in communities in Nigeria.
Ripples Foundation currently runs training Programmes for young people in Africa to improve their media skills and their embroidery skills to become more employable.
Community Development
Ripples Foundation's programs tackle issues that are faced by African women and their children every day, such as hunger and lack of medical care, and works to improve their living conditions and alleviate poverty in their community. Ripples Foundation also runs a yearly event in the sponsored villages to provide medical equipment and medicines for the community.
Akomi brand
In 2015, Ripples Foundation established Ripples Trading and the Akomi brand in order to protect African village women's businesses and make sure that the products, made thanks to the Women's Enterprise Programme, can get a fair price within the global market. Indeed, all Akomi products are grown and processed by women living in small African villages. Proceeds from the sales of Akomi products are given directly to the women who produce them and will be invested back into their enterprises, or used to provide their children and communities with essential medical care and food. Women are producing and selling natural products such as shea butter, moringa oil, dry fish, cocoa butter or black soap.
In May 2016, Ripples Foundation started to launch the Akomi products on the United Kingdom market.
References
Charities based in Missouri
Foreign charities operating in Nigeria
Foreign charities operating in Madagascar
Foreign charities operating in Ghana
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Josefa Segovia, also known as Juanita or Josefa Loaiza, was a Mexican-American woman who was executed by hanging in Downieville, California, on July 5, 1851. She was found guilty of murdering a local miner, Frederick Cannon. She is known to be the first and only woman to be hanged in California.
Early life and controversy about her name
Not much is known about the early life of Josefa Segovia. The date of her birth is unknown. Josefa's actual name has been a topic of debate among historians and scholars. Before the Chicano Civil Rights Movement, most scholars stated that Josefa had no recorded last name. In Gordon Young's Days of 49, he says that her name was "Juanita". Hubert Bancroft, in his account of the events at Downieville, refers to Segovia as either "The Mexican" or "the little woman" but used "Juanita" during his description of her trial. Historian Rodolpho F. Acuna stated her name was Juana Loaiza citing an 1877 Schedule of Mexican Claims Against the United States that listed a Jose Maria Loiza as claiming damages for the lynching of his wife. However, the name does not show up in the 1850 census, which suggests that the claim may have been fraudulent. In 1976, Martha Cotera, an influential activist of both the Chicano Movement and Chicana Feminist Movement, informed Chicano scholars that her last name was Segovia.
Adult life
Family
Irene I. Blea's book U.S. Chicanas and Latinas in a Historical Context claims that Josefa was a Sonoran and of good character. She was about 26 years old at the time of her death. Kerry Segrave recounts Josefa Segovia's life in Downieville, California, also known as "The Forks" for its location at the north fork of the Yuba River. She lived with a Mexican gambler, José, in a small house on the main street of town. It is not completely clear if they were married or not.
Reputation in Downieville
Josefa was probably not married to José, but she did live with him. Therefore, she received a bad reputation. According to one account, Juanita (read Josefa) was slender and barely tall. The same account states that Josefa was beautiful, vivacious and intelligent. Some say that she was not at all disliked in the mining camp in Downieville.
Downie relates the story in the following fashion. Juanita had accompanied her partner to Downieville from Mexico and both lived in an adobe house. Downie states, "Whether she was his wife or not makes no difference in this story." He further describes her figure as "richly developed and in strict proportions." Only her temper was "not well balanced." Celebrating the Fourth of July, Cannon and companions were returning from the dram shop at a late hour, with Cannon staggering from the influence of liquor. Along the way, he stumbled through the door of the adobe hut. His friends quickly pulled him back outside and they proceeded home. Mortified the next morning of his embarrassing blunder, he proceeded to the hut to offer an apology in Spanish. This did not go well with the Mexican couple, and Juanita grew angry. In a rage, she drew a knife and stabbed Cannon. Soon a "mob of infuriated men" gathered, ready to invoke the "miner's law" of a "life for life". Only Mr. Thayer came to her defense, but to no avail as she was quickly tried and found guilty. A scaffold was erected and the "howling blood-thirsty mob...cried for vengeance" according to Downie. Downie states Juanita retold the story of the "unfortunate incident", how she had been "provoked" and if done so again would "repeat her act." She then took the rope, placed the noose around her neck, said "¡Adiós, señores!" and "leaped from the scaffold into eternity." Downie concludes by stating "it was one of those blots that stained the early history of California."
Social and racial environment for Mexicans in California
In 1835, Andrew Jackson tried to buy California for $3.5 million (~$ in ), but Mexico refused the offer. Ten years later, James K. Polk suggested annexing Texas, but also put California as a high priority on his list of territory to acquire. The U.S. and Mexico went to war on May 13, 1846. On February 2, 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed. What neither the U.S. nor Mexico realized was that nine days earlier, gold had been found in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. It is estimated that between 1848 and 1852, as many as 25,000 Mexicans migrated to California to mine. In the fall of 1848, as many as 3,000 Mexicans migrated to the mining regions. Often, they traveled as entire families. After hearing of the gold, thousands of American men borrowed money, mortgaged their homes, or spent their life savings to travel to California and take advantage of the opportunity to find gold. Because society at the time was based on a waged labor, the idea that a person could obtain wealth by finding gold became irresistible. By 1849, the population of non-native Californians grew to over 100,000. Two-thirds of this non-native population were Americans. Despite the fact that the work of mining was the hardest kind of labor, the promise of gold drew miners west every year.
In 1848, when the California Gold Rush began, the population of the state was a Mexican majority. However, this Mexican population fell to 15% by 1850 and to 4% by 1870. Northern California, where Downieville is located, received the majority of the Anglo migration during the beginning of the Gold Rush. The Mexican majority in 1848 allowed for many successes for early racial relations. For example, all state laws and regulations were to be translated into Spanish.
Trial
The American mining population in Downieville was enraged by Cannon's death. Josefa was put on trial the next day, and the jury consisted of Cannon's friends and companions while the rest of Downieville waited for the results. Supposedly, a physician, Dr. Cyrus D. Aiken, testified that Josefa was not in a fit condition to be hanged. Protests immediately followed the doctor's testimony and he was forced from the stand and from the town. Moments later, Josefa was found guilty of the murder of Cannon. Also, Mr. Thayer, a lawyer from Nevada attempted to testify against the execution of Juanita but was beaten off the stand. Reportedly, he asked for a fair trial for Juanita to see if a murder had really been committed.
Execution
For the lynching, a scaffold was constructed on the bridge over the Yuba River. The town came to stand on the banks of the river and watch her execution. It was an important event to lessen the anger of the townspeople over Cannon's death. Josefa was hanged immediately following the trial, and some accounts say that her last words before she was executed were "Adiós Señores". She is widely known to be the first woman to be executed by hanging in California Mr. Manly wrote, "Juanita went calmly to her death. She wore a Panama hat, and after mounting the platform she removed it, tossed it to a friend in the crowd, whose nickname was 'Oregon,' with the remark, 'Adios, amigo.' Then she adjusted the noose to her own neck, raising her long, loose tresses carefully in order to fix the rope firmly in its place; and then, with a smile and wave of her hand to the bloodthirsty crowd present, she stepped calmly from the plank into eternity. Singularly enough, her body rests side by side, in the cemetery on the hill, with that of the man whose life she had taken." Mr. Manly's book is generally a first person account of his experiences migrating to California to mine for gold. Although he did mine for gold near Downieville in 1851, he, by his own account, was not in Downieville on the dates in question. He does not cite the source for his version of the events though it seems conceivable he heard eyewitness accounts.
Some witnesses recalled Josefa saying before she died: "'I would do the same again if I was so provoked.'". This is one of many characteristics pointed out by some who are of the opinion that she must have been an aggressive woman. This has been used to advance the idea that those who lynched her may have been right that she had murdered Joe the miner when he was not actually threatening her safety. Another fact brought up to support this idea is that the townsfolk noted that she was quick to anger. Due to conflicting witness statements and vague details some modern commentators believe that Juanita did not murder Frederick Cannon.
Legacy
Segovia and the events leading to her death are a major plot point in Girls of the Golden West, a 2017 opera by John Adams based on the letters of Dame Shirley.
References
People of Mexican California
People of the California Gold Rush
Lynching deaths in California
1820s births
1851 deaths
People from Downieville, California
History of Sierra County, California
1850s in California
Racially motivated violence against Hispanic and Latino Americans
Deaths by hanging
Women lynching victims in the United States
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XSM-73 Goose
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The Fairchild SM-73 (originally Bull Goose) was a planned sub-sonic, jet-powered, long-range, ground-launched decoy cruise missile. XSM-73 was the designation for the development version. Development began in 1952 with conceptual studies and ended when the program was canceled in 1958 after 15 test flights but before any operational deployment. The operational concept was to base squadrons of XM-73s at various locations in the United States and if necessary launch the aircraft as part of a strategic bomber attack. The aircraft would fly autonomously under inertial guidance towards the target area, using radar reflectors and electronic countermeasures to imitate American bombers and thus confuse and saturate enemy air defenses. The program was cancelled because the missile was not able to simulate a B-52 bomber on radar.
Development
Starting in December 1952, Fairchild began concept studies for a ground-launched long range decoy missile that could simulate strategic bombers on radar.
In March 1953, the United States Air Force released General Operational Requirement (GOR) 16 which called for a long range decoy missile to increase the effectiveness of Strategic Air Command bombers by confusing and saturating an air defense system.
Multiple SM-73 missiles would be ground-launched from Strategic Air Command bases located in the continental United States. The requirement was that fifty percent of the deployed SM-73 missiles could be launched within the first hour after a launch order and the remaining missiles could be launched within one more hour. The requirement called for 85 percent of the decoy missiles to arrive at the target area within 115 nm (185 km). The SM-73 was to fly 4,000 nm (7,408 km) at speed of at least Mach 0.85 at an operating altitude of 50,000 ft (15,240 m) with a payload of 500 lb (227 kg). After flying 2,500 nm (4,650 km), the SM-73' would simulate the performance of the B-47 Stratojet or B-52 Stratofortress over the final 1,500 nm (2,780 km) of flight.
Study contracts were awarded to Convair and Fairchild in July 1954 by the United States Air Force under the project designation MX-2223.
The Fairchild MX-2223 design called for a non-metallic fuselage with swept wings and a v-tail. Radar reflectors were located in the fuselage and on pods positioned on the wing tips to simulate the radar return of a bomber.
Design
In December 1955, Fairchild was awarded a contract to develop Weapon System 123A which included the SM-73 missile. American Machine and Foundry Company was responsible for the ground equipment, Ramo-Woodridge Corporation was responsible for electronic equipment, and Paul Omohundro Co who was responsible for airframe elements.
Two engine contracts were awarded by the USAF in November 1954 to minimize development risk.
Each engine was in the 2,450 lbf (10.9 kN) thrust class with a thrust to weight ratio goal of 10:1. General Electric was awarded a contract for the development of the General Electric J85 and Fairchild was awarded a contract for the a competing engine the Fairchild J83. Fairchild proposed a lightweight engine of conventional design.
The proposed General Electric engine had a more advanced design, involving more risk, but having a higher thrust to weight ratio. The XSM-73 was powered by the Fairchild J83 on all test flights but was also capable of using the General Electric J85. The Fairchild J83 was operating by early 1957.
Like the MX-2223 design, the SM-73 utilized a non-metallic fiberglass fuselage. The swept wing of the MX-2223 design evolved to a fiberglass 52°delta wing. A Thiokol solid-propellant rocket booster was used to launch the SM-73 to a speed of 300 knots (345 mph).
Cruise speed for the SM-73 was 488 knots (562 mph). The SM-73 had a fuel capacity of 803 gal (3,040 L) of JP-4. This fuel was stored in 10 fuselage and six wing tanks.
An autopilot used a Rate integrating gyroscope for directional control. The rate integrating gyroscope could be pre-programmed to turn the SM-73. Pitch and roll control were provided by elevons either operating in phase or asymmetrically. Yaw control was provided by a rudder. The control system positioned flight controls by sending electrical signals to hydraulic actuators located at each flight control.
The SM-73 was designed to carry radar reflectors and active electronic countermeasures operating in S-band, L-band, and lower frequencies. The SM-73 was not armed.
Funding issues and problems with the fiberglass wing, the booster rocket, and the Fairchild J83 engine delayed testing.
Test and evaluation began in February 1957 with rocket sled tests at Holloman Air Force Base. A B-57 Canberra was modified and used as a flying engine testbed for the Fairchild J83. Testing of the SM-73 then transitioned to Patrick Air Force Base in June 1957. At Patrick Air Force Base, launch complexes 21 and 22 were constructed near the Cape Canaveral Light to support SM-73 testing. Five dummy booster launches and fifteen test flights were flown between March 1957 and December 1958.
The United States Air Force planned to purchase 2,328 operational missiles and 53 missiles for test and evaluation. This would have provided enough missiles for 10 squadrons. Deployment was planned to start in 1961 and be completed by October 1963. Bull Goose bases were initially planned at Duluth Municipal Airport, Minnesota and Ethan Allen Air Force Base, Vermont. Construction of Bull Goose missile sites began in August 1958.
In December 1958 the program was canceled because the missile was not able to simulate a B-52 on radar. The Fairchild J83 engine program was also canceled in November 1958. Total program cost at cancellation was $136.5 million USD.
The SD-5 Osprey reconnaissance drone was developed with the Goose as a basis.
Variants
B-73
Original designation in Bomber sequence
XSM-73
Test and Evaluation prototypes.
SM-73
Production Missile designation.
Gander
Proposed surface-to-surface version capable of carrying a 1 Mt warhead .
Operator
United States Air Force
Survivors
XSM-73 located in the Hagerstown Aviation Museum, Hagerstown, Maryland, United States.
XSM-73 located in the Air Force Space & Missile Museum, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, United States
XSM-73 located in the Research & Development Gallery in the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio
XSM-73 awaiting restoration at the New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, Connecticut
See also
References
Citations
Bibliography
Evolution of the Cruise Missile, Kenneth P. Warrell, Air University Press USAF, 1985.
IDEAS, CONCEPTS, DOCTRINE, Basic Thinking of the United States Air Force 1907-1960, Vol 1, Robert Frank Futrell, Air University Press, 1989
Interavia, International Aeronautic Federation, 1992.
SM-73 Bull Goose, Web Page of Global Security.org
Technology and the Air Force A retrospective Assessment Air Force History and Museums Program, United States Air Force, 1997
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rockets and Missiles, Bill Gunston, Salamander Books Ltd, 1979
Further reading
Decoy missiles of the United States
Unmanned aerial vehicles of the United States
Cold War weapons of the United States
SM-73
Cruise missiles of the Cold War
Cancelled military aircraft projects of the United States
Cruise missiles of the United States
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The Abilene Reds were a minor league baseball team based in Abilene, Kansas. Abilene teams played the 1909 and 1910 seasons as members of the Class D level Central Kansas League. The Reds followed the 1909 Abilene "Red Sox," as Abilene hosted minor league home games at the Abilene Ball Park, which is known today as Eisenhower Park and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
History
The 1909 Abilene Red Sox first hosted minor league baseball in Abilene, Kansas. The Red Sox began play as members of the 1909 Class D level Central Kansas League, as the league expanded from six teams to eight teams, adding Abilene. Other league members in 1909 were the Beloit team, Clay Center Cubs, Ellsworth Blues, Junction City Soldiers, Manhattan Maroons, Minneapolis Minnies and Salina Trade Winners.
In their first season of play, the Abilene Red Sox placed third in the Central Kansas League. Abilene ended the 1909 season with a record of 37–30, as F.D. Parent and Affie Wilson served as managers. Abilene finished 7.0 games behind the first place Ellsworth Blues in the standings. The final standings were led by Ellsworth (44–23), followed by the Salina Trade Winners (40–28), Abilene (37–30), Minneapolis Minnies (36–32), Junction City Soldiers (34–32), Beloit (33–36), Clay Center Colts (32–37) and Manhattan Maroons (16–54). Abilene pitcher Ora Williams led the Central Kansas League with 19 wins, 178 strikeouts and a winning percentage of .826, with a 19–4 record. Abilene played home games at the Abilene Ball Park and moved the start times from 3:45 PM to night games beginning at 6:00 PM.
In their final season of play, the 1910 Abilene Reds continued play in the 1910 Central Kansas League, finishing in third place for the second consecutive season. The Reds ended the regular season with a record 44–33, to place third under, playing the season under returning manager Affie Wilson. Abilene finished 7.0 games behind the first place Ellsworth Blues in the eight-team league. A.B. Conley of Abilene led the league in batting average with an average of.348. Abilene player Mugsy Monroe led the league with 110 total hits. Abilene permanently folded following the 1910 season, as the Central Kansas reduced to four teams in 1911.
Abilene, Kansas was without professional baseball until the 1995 Abilene Prairie Dogs began play members of the Independent level Texas–Louisiana League.
The ballpark
The 1909 and 1910 Abilene teams played home minor league games at the Abilene Ball Park. The ballpark had a capacity of 1,000 and was located at the fairgrounds on NW Third Street. Today, the site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The public park is now named Eisenhower Park and is adjacent to the fairgrounds hosting the Central Kansas Free Fair. The location of Eisenhower Park is 500 Pine Street, Abilene, Kansas.
Timeline
Year–by–year records
Notable alumni
Gil Britton (1909–1910)
Joe Riggert (1909)
Charlie Wheatley (1910)
See also
Abilene Red Sox playersAbilene Reds players
References
External links
Abilene - Baseball Reference
Defunct minor league baseball teams
Professional baseball teams in Kansas
Baseball teams established in 1910
Baseball teams disestablished in 1910
Defunct baseball teams in Kansas
Dickinson County, Kansas
Central Kansas League teams
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Elite Squad (, ) is a 2007 Brazilian crime film based on the novel Elite da Tropa by Luiz Eduardo Soares, André Batista, and Rodrigo Pimentel. Directed by José Padilha from a screenplay by Padilha, Bráulio Mantovani, and Pimentel, the film stars Wagner Moura, Caio Junqueira, and André Ramiro. In Elite Squad, Roberto Nascimento (Moura), a Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais (BOPE) captain, leads a crackdown on a series of Rio de Janeiro neighbourhoods to prepare for the 1997 state visit of Pope John Paul II.
Inspired by the Military Police and their related arms, Elite Squad is the second feature and first film by Padilha, after the documentary Bus 174 (2002).
Elite Squad was an overwhelming critical and commercial success, and became a cultural phenomenon in Brazil. The film won the Golden Bear at the 2008 Berlin Film Festival. Its sequel, Elite Squad: The Enemy Within, released in Brazil on October 8, 2010, holds industry records in the country for ticket sales and gross revenue.
Plot
Roberto Nascimento, a BOPE captain, leads an operation to secure the Turano neighbourhood before Pope John Paul II's overnight visit at the Archbishop's home near the favela. With his wife Rosane pregnant, Roberto searches for a successor at the unit before switching to a desk job.
Rookie PMERJ officers and best friends André Matias and Neto Gouveia handle menial work as instructed to them by their corrupt seniors: Neto supervises the police auto mechanic shop, whilst Matias is responsible for registering and filing police complaints in a small archive office. André also attends law school, where he begins a relationship with Maria, and meets her friends Roberta and Edu; all three are members of a NGO that operates in an area ruled by drug lord Baiano. Baiano provides marijuana to Matias' friends, who sell it on campus. André also befriends Romerito, a boy who, like himself, suffers from myopia.
Neto applies to another department, but his transfer is denied. Disgusted by corruption and led by fellow officer Fábio, Neto and André steal the police's bribe money to fix as many police cars as possible. Their superior, Captain Oliveira, finds out and demotes them to kitchen work as punishment and orders Fábio—whom he believes stole from him—to meet drug traffickers at a community funk party in Morro da Babilônia to enquire about payment.
Fábio realizes this is a set-up to kill him and discreetly warns Neto and André, who rush to a vantage point at the party. They use a sniper rifle telescope to watch Oliveira and other policemen but Neto accidentally shoots, causing a deadly gunfight between the officers and traffickers; as André and Neto attempt to flee the scene, Roberto and his men rescue all the officers. After the shootout, André is photographed by the press. André and Neto apply for BOPE, motivated by their honesty and devotion, and eagerness for action. At the NGO office, Baiano confronts Maria and her friends with a newspaper featuring André's picture and threatens to kill them if they bring policemen inside his territory.
BOPE training proves to be gruesome, with many candidates quitting the program, including Fábio (who applied as a way to avoid Oliveira), but both Neto and André pass; Neto celebrates by getting a BOPE tattoo on his arm. André's relationship with Maria ends and he confronts Edu, ordering him to arrange a meet with Romerito the next day to give him a pair of glasses. Edu reveals André's plan to Baiano, who sets an ambush to kill him. Neto informs André of a job interview at a law firm that will conflict with meeting Romerito, and volunteers to deliver the glasses in his place: this results in Neto being mortally wounded. When Baiano prepares to execute him, he notices his BOPE tattoo and goes into hiding for fear of retaliation.
After Neto's funeral, André, Roberto, and the men make daily incursions into Baiano's slum, torturing several dealers into revealing his whereabouts. After one of them reveals Edu tipped Baiano, Matias storms into a peace walk, beats Edu, and insults Maria and the others. BOPE locate and corner Baiano: Roberto orders André to shoot Baiano in the face with a shotgun, as revenge for Neto's death and his final test for BOPE. As Baiano pleads, André cocks the gun and the screen cuts to black as a shot is heard.
Cast
Wagner Moura as Roberto Nascimento - A captain in the BOPE squad, who is awaiting a promotion that will make his job safer and enable him to spend time with his wife and newborn son. In order to move into his new position he needs to find a worthy successor.
Caio Junqueira as Aspirant Neto Gouveia - He is a rookie police officer and Matias' best friend. Nascimento describes Neto as being similar to himself when he was younger. He is a tough man, but has a fierce temper as well, and never gives up on his mission. He later joined BOPE to seek out justice and was groomed for Nascimento's spot.
André Ramiro as Aspirant André Matias - Another rookie police officer, he is also a law student, who wants to specialize in criminal law. He is a resourceful and calculating tactician. He joins BOPE along with Neto Gouveia.
Maria Ribeiro as Rosane Nascimento - Nascimento's wife. They are expecting their first child. She dislikes Nascimento's frequent absence from home and the dangers associated with his job.
Milhem Cortaz as Capitão Fábio Barbosa - One of the captains where Matias and Neto work he develops a sort-of friendship with the two. A former pimp in Copacabana he also runs a protection racket scheme. After Matias and Neto stole the drug payoff he feared that Oliveira would blame him and have him killed.
Fernanda Machado as Maria - A law student and founding member of the NGO, she is also a marijuana user. She befriends Matias and falls in love with him, but when Baiano finds out that he is a cop, she abandons him for lying to her and because she fears Baiano's retribution. She later helps Matias by giving him the name of Baiano's girlfriend. In the end, Matias insults her and her friends and walks away, ending their relationship.
André Di Mauro as Pedro Rodrigues - A student who works in the favela's NGO and dates Roberta. As a punishment for bringing a cop into the drug dealer's circle of friends, Rodrigues is necklaced.
Paulo Vilela as Edu - Nicknamed "Playboy", he is the main university drug dealer and is close to Baiano, although he is afraid of him. He despises Matias for his defense of police officers.
Fábio Lago as Baiano - He is a ruthless drug lord who sells marijuana and heroin throughout the university using several students. Unlike many other drug lords, he hates all cops, even the corrupted ones, and avoids having business with them. Edu is his main seller on the university. He has a small auxiliary that protects the NGO.
Marcelo Valle as Capitão Oliveira - He is Fabio's rival and superior in the police force, taking over his territory for protection rackets and later allegedly setting him up to be killed.
Fernanda de Freitas as Roberta Alunde
Alex Avellar, as 02
Ricardo Pagotto Piai, as 08
Guilherme Aguilar, as 07
Pedro Bonfim, as PM Robson
Inspiration
The movie is based on Elite da Tropa, a book by two BOPE policemen (Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais - Rio de Janeiro military police squads for special actions), André Batista and Rodrigo Pimentel, together with sociologist & anthropologist Luiz Eduardo Soares, which provided a semi-fictional account of the daily routine of the BOPE as well as some historical events, based on the experiences of the two BOPE policemen. The book was controversial at the time of release, in its description of the BOPE as a "killing machine", as well as the detailed allegation of an aborted assassination attempt on then left-wing governor of Rio de Janeiro, Leonel Brizola, and reportedly resulted in Batista being reprimanded and censured by the Military Police. The writing contained some discrepancies, however Soares did not retract his novel. The novel had a unique reception when it was translated in 2010. There were many fans of the original novel and film who felt that the Portuguese-English translation was poor and did not follow the film and vice versa. Ultimately the novel (before translation) was more like the film than the novel in English.
Production leak
In August 2007, prior to the movie's release to theaters, a preliminary cut of the film was leaked and made available for download on the Internet. The cut, which included English title cards but no subtitles, was leaked from the company responsible for subtitling the film, resulting in one person being fired and a criminal investigation. It was estimated that about 11.5 million people had seen the leaked version of the movie in 2007.
Reception
Popularity and box office
Tropa de Elite became one of the most popular Brazilian movies in history. According to Datafolha, 77% of São Paulo residents knew about the movie. The word of mouth was also important for the disclosure of the film, with 80% of the people rating the movie as "excellent" or "good", according to the same poll.
The movie was released in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo on October 5, 2007 (with the intention of being considered by the Ministry of Culture to compete as the Brazilian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar). It was released nationwide on October 12, 2007. By January 2008, 2.5 million people had seen it in theaters. In Rio and São Paulo, with no promotion other than billboards, 180,000 people saw the movie during its opening weekend.
The movie was also the cover issue for the two Brazil's most important weekly magazines, Veja and Época. In the beginning of 2008 it was confirmed that Rede Globo would produce a TV series based on the movie. In 2011 Rockstar Games recommended Elite Squad to fans of its video game Max Payne 3, which is set in Brazil and depicts battles between special police units and favela gangs.
Outside Brazil reviews of the film were initially mixed, but after time the film was received more positively. Based on 34 reviews, the film received a 53% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with its critics' consensus calling it a "brutal, action-heavy Brazilian cop film with a pointless voiceover. Lacks flair, overdoes the violence and is never quite sure where its morals lie".
Criticism
When the first version of the film leaked, it caused a major controversy for its portrayal of Captain Nascimento's unpunished police brutality in slums (favelas); some saw it as glamourizing police violence. After its exhibition in Berlin Film Festival, critic Jay Weissberg, in a Variety article, called the movie "a one-note celebration of violence-for-good that plays like a recruitment film for fascist thugs". Michel Misse, a researcher of urban violence in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, in an article by Carta Capital, tried to explain why some people cheered at Captain Nascimento's actions: "as the judiciary system cannot keep up with the demand for punishment, some may think civil rights leads to unpunishment. And then, they want illegal solutions. That's why Captain Nascimento is called".
Awards
On February 16, 2008, Elite Squad won the Best Movie award of the Berlin International Film Festival, the Golden Bear.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack of the film was a collection of popular hits, but even the soundtrack would not escape controversy as the Brazilian authorities demanded the removal of MC Leonardo's "Rap das Armas" from the film, because of alleged promotion of violence like use of illegal arms and drugs. The filmmakers complied two weeks after the official release.
"Rap das Armas" - Bateria da Rocinha, MC Junior & MC Leonardo
"Tropa de Elite" - Tihuana
"Rap da Felicidade" - MC Cidinho, MC Doca
"Passa Que é Teu" - Pedro Bromfman
"Brilhar a Minha Estrela" - Sangue da Cidade
"Kátia Flávia, a Godiva do Irajá" - Fausto Fawcett
"Teatro de Bonecos" - Guilherme Flarys, Pedro Guedes
"Polícia" - Titãs
"Invasão do BOPE" - Pedro Bromfman
"Lado B Lado A" - O Rappa
"Andando Pela África" - Barbatuques
"Nossa Bandeira" - Bateria da Rocinha, MC Leonard
"Rap das Armas [Funk]" - MC Leonard
Sequel
A sequel, named Tropa de Elite 2: O Inimigo Agora É Outro, was released in Brazil on October 8, 2010, and in the U.S. on November 11, 2011.
See also
Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais
Bus 174
City of God
References
External links
Official trailer with English subtitles
2007 crime drama films
2007 films
Brazilian crime drama films
Films about the illegal drug trade
Films directed by José Padilha
Films set in 1997
Films set in Rio de Janeiro (city)
Films shot in Rio de Janeiro (city)
Golden Bear winners
2000s Portuguese-language films
Squatting in film
Works about organized crime in Brazil
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Queens Cemetery, Puisieux
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Queens Cemetery (originally known as Queens V Corps Cemetery No 4) is a cemetery near the French commune of Puisieux, Pas-de-Calais, managed by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
It is located near to the Sheffield Memorial Park and a number of other small military cemeteries including the Luke Copse British Cemetery, Railway Hollow Cemetery and Serre Road Cemetery, No.3. It was designed Noel Ackroyd Rew.
The cemetery is located on what was the front line of the British forces during July 1916 at the Battle of the Somme. In early to mid 1917, the Somme and Ancre battlefields were cleared by V Corps and a number of new cemeteries were made including Queens Cemetery.
The First World War graves date from July 1916 through to February 1917 and are from the 31st, 3rd and 19th Divisions. There are 311 burials, with 181 having been identified as being from the United Kingdom and 130 are unidentified.
References
Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in France
1916 establishments in France
Cemeteries in Pas-de-Calais
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Chow Kwai Lam
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Chow Kwai Lam (26 August 1942 – 16 July 2018) was a Malaysian football player and coach.
Playing career
Chow played for Negeri Sembilan FA and Selangor FA in his playing career, winning 3 Malaysia Cups with Selangor, and runners-up in the inaugural 1967 Asian Club Championship also with Selangor, losing to Israel's Hapoel Tel Aviv in the final. He represented Malaysia from 1965 to 1971, being made captain of the 1965 Merdeka Tournament squad, before becoming the national team head coach in 1978.
Coaching career
After the 1978 Malaysia coaching stint, Chow coached his former team Selangor FA from 1979 to 1983, before moving to coach Sarawak FA in 1984. He coached Kuala Lumpur FA in 1989, 1992, 1995, and 1996. In between his Kuala Lumpur stint, he also coached the Malaysia U-23 squad in their unsuccessful mission to qualify for the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. He briefly coached Perak FA in 1999, before coaching in Singapore, first for Tampines Rovers in 2002 until 2003. He later coached Paya Lebar Punggol from December 2004 to June 2005, during which time he was accused of attempted bribery and fined RM114,000, at a court sentence in 2007. He maintains his innocence, as per reported in an interview with Malaysian newspaper Malay Mail in 2014. Until his death, this is the last known club Chow has coached in his career.
He won 6 more Malaysia Cups as coach (3 with Selangor and 3 in a row with Kuala Lumpur) in addition of 1 Charity Shield and 1 League championship, both also with Kuala Lumpur. He also won the 2002 Singapore Cup with Tampines Rovers in Singapore.
He was known in his coaching days as a 'firebrand' and 'fierce coach'.
Match-fixing scandal
Chow was fined $50,000 and received a lifetime ban from football in Singapore and Malaysia for attempting to bribe his player, Zulkifli Zainolabidin who is a goalkeeper, to let the opposition score two or three goals in a 2005 S.League match. Zulkifli Zainolabidin is a former police officer and said that it had been a mistake to attempt to bribe him.
Death and legacy
Chow died on 16 July 2018 in Ampang Hospital, Ampang, Selangor, at the age of 75.
References
1942 births
2018 deaths
Malaysian men's footballers
Malaysian people of Cantonese descent
Malaysian sportspeople of Chinese descent
Malaysia men's international footballers
Malaysia national football team managers
Selangor F.C. players
Malaysian football managers
Malaysian expatriate football managers
Malaysian expatriate sportspeople in Singapore
Expatriate football managers in Singapore
Negeri Sembilan FC players
Sarawak FA managers
Perak F.C. managers
Kuala Lumpur City F.C. managers
Tampines Rovers FC managers
Men's association football midfielders
Footballers from Negeri Sembilan
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Hierodula modesta
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Hierodula modesta is a species of praying mantis in the family Mantidae.
Subspecies
These two subspecies belong to the species Hierodula modesta:
Hierodula modesta dentata Beier, 1942
Hierodula modesta modesta Brunner v.W., 1898
References
modesta
Articles created by Qbugbot
Insects described in 1898
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Mimi of Nachtigal
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Mimi of Nachtigal, or Mimi-N, is a language of Chad that is attested only in a word list labelled "Mimi" that was collected ca. 1870 by Gustav Nachtigal. Nachtigal's data was subsequently published by Lukas & Voelckers (1938).
Classification
Joseph Greenberg (1960) classified it as a Maban language, though a distant one. Subsequent researchers have supported a remote relationship, though there is little data to go on.
Basic vocabulary
The more stable of Mimi-N and Mimi-D's attested vocabulary is as follows:
See also
Mimi of Decorse
Mimi of Nachtigal word list (Wiktionary)
References
Maban languages
Languages of Chad
Languages attested from the 1870s
Extinct languages of Africa
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Pedro
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Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for Peter. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter.
The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meaning "son of Peter" (compare with the English surname Peterson) is Pérez in Spanish, and Peres in Galician and Portuguese, Pires also in Portuguese, and Peiris in coastal area of Sri Lanka (where it originated from the Portuguese version), with all ultimately meaning "son of Pêro".
The name Pedro is derived via the Latin word "petra", from the Greek word "η πέτρα" meaning "stone, rock".
The name Peter itself is a translation of the Aramaic Kephas or Cephas meaning "stone".
An alternate archaic spelling is Pêro.
Pedro may refer to:
Notable people
Monarchs, mononymously
Pedro I of Portugal
Pedro II of Portugal
Pedro III of Portugal
Pedro IV of Portugal, also Pedro I of Brazil
Pedro V of Portugal
Pedro II of Brazil
Pedro of Castile
Peter I of Aragon and Navarre, also known as Pedro I
Peter II of Aragon
Peter III of Aragon
Peter IV of Aragon
Peter V of Aragon, also Pedro IV of Barcelona
In sports, mononymously
Pedro (footballer, born 1978), Pedro Hernández Martínez, Spanish football player, right-back
Pedro (footballer, born 1984), Pedro Santa Cecilia García, Spanish football player, midfielder
Pedro (footballer, born 1986), Pedro Antonio Sánchez Moñino, Spanish footballer, forward
Pedro (footballer, born 1987), Pedro Eliezer Rodríguez Ledesma, Spanish footballer, forward/winger
Pedro (footballer, born 1997), Pedro Guilherme Abreu dos Santos, Brazilian football player, forward
Pedro (footballer, born 1999), Pedro Augusto Cabral Carvalho, Brazilian football player, forward
Pedro (footballer, born 2006), Pedro Henrique Silva dos Santos, Brazilian football player, forward
In sports
Pedri, Pedro González López, Spanish footballer
Pedró, José Pedro Azevedo Ferreira, Portuguese football player
Pedro Acosta, 2021 Moto3 World Champion
Pedro Acosta, Venezuelan football player
Pedro Aroche, Mexican race walker
Pedro Casado (1937–2021), Spanish footballer
Pedro Chirivella, Spanish football player
Pedro Collins, West Indian cricketer
Pedro de la Rosa, Spanish racing driver
Pedro Diniz, Brazilian racing driver
Pedro Gil, Spanish Roller hockey player
Pedro Gusmão, Brazilian football player
Pedro Iznaga, Cuban volleyball player
Pedro Jirón, Nicaraguan footballer
Pedro Lamy, Portuguese Grand Prix driver
Pedro Lima (swimmer) (born 1971), former Olympic swimmer from Angola
Pedro Lima (boxer) (born 1983), Brazilian boxer
Pedro Martínez, Dominican baseball player
Pedro Miguel Pauleta, Portuguese football player
Pedro Morales, Puerto Rican professional wrestler
Pedro Pérez, Cuban triple jumper
Pedro Pineda, Mexican football player
Pedro Rodríguez (disambiguation), multiple people
Pedro Senatore Ramos, Ecuadorian football referee
Pedro da Silva (decathlete), Brazilian decathlete
Pedro Botelho (footballer, born 1989), Brazilian footballer
Pedro Zabála, Bolivian footballer
Politicians and leaders
Pedro, Marshal of Navarre, 15th- and 16th-century nobleman
Pedro Aguirre Cerda, Chilean political figure
Pedro Atacho, Curaçaoan politician
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, President of Argentina from 1955 to 1958
Pedro Lascuráin, President of Mexico
Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez, Colombian general and political figure
Pedro Pablo Ramírez, President of Argentina from 1943 to 1944
Pedro Rosselló, Governor of Puerto Rico from 1993 to 2001
Pedro I. "Pete" Saenz, American politician
José Pedro Pérez-Llorca, Spanish politician
Pedro Sánchez, Prime Minister of Spain since 2018
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, President of Peru from 2016 to 2018
Explorers
Pedro Álvares Cabral, Portuguese navigator and explorer
Pedro Escobar, Portuguese explorer who discovered São Tomé and Príncipe
Pedro Teixeira, Portuguese explorer
Criminals
Pedro Castillo, one of two murderers of a 4 year-old girl
Pedro Costa de Oliveira, Brazilian serial killer
Pedro Padilla Flores, Mexican serial killer
Pedro Hernandez, convicted in the Disappearance of Etan Patz
Pedro López (serial killer), Colombian serial killer
Pedro Medina, Cuban murderer
Pedro Pablo Nakada Ludeña, Peruvian serial killer
Pedro Rodrigues Filho, Brazilian serial killer
Pedro Rosa da Conceição, Brazilian mass murderer
Other
Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish filmmaker
Pedro de Ayala, Spanish diplomat
Pedro Calungsod, Filipino saint
Pedro de San José de Betancur, Spanish saint and missionary in Guatemala.
Pedro Alcantara de Souza (died 2010), Brazilian land reform activist
Pedro Dimas, Mexican musician
Pedro Duro, Spanish businessman
Pedro Gomez (dance instructor), Cuban Salsa dance instructor
Pedro Gomez (journalist), American television reporter
Pedro X. Molina (born 1976), Nicaraguan caricaturist
Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician
Pedro Páez, Spanish Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia
Pedro Pascal, Chilean-American actor
Perucho Figueredo, Cuban poet
Pedro Reyes (comedian), Spanish comedian
Pedro Rodriguez (scientist), Puerto Rican scientist and inventor
Pedro Sousa, Portuguese comedian
Pedro Rodríguez (soldier), Puerto Rican Korean War hero
Pedro Trebbau, German-born, Venezuelan zoologist
Pedro Yap, former Philippine Chief Justice
Pedro Zamora, cast member on The Real World
Pêro Vaz de Caminha, Portuguese knight
Fictional characters
Pedro, from The Power of Five novel series by Anthony Horowitz
Pedro, a character from the One Piece manga series
Pedro, a character from the Excel Saga manga series
Don Pedro, a character from Much Ado About Nothing, a comedy by William Shakespeare
Don Pedro, a character from the Philippine story Ibong Adarna
Pedro the Mail Burro, a mascot of the Boy Scouting magazine Boys' Life
Pedro Sanchez, character from the film Napoleon Dynamite
Pedro, another name of Panama Joe, a character from Montezuma's Revenge (video game)
Pedro, in the Sam & Max Season Two video game series
Pedro, a mascot of South of the Border roadside attraction
Pedro, a Red-crested Cardinal from Rio
Pedro Penduko, a Filipino comic book character
Pedro Plane, protagonist in the Saludos Amigos segment Pedro
Pedro Pony, a character from the animated TV series Peppa Pig
Both the name of the gardener and the game itself released in 1984 by Imagine Software
See also
Pedro (disambiguation)
Pérez
References
Spanish masculine given names
Masculine given names
Portuguese masculine given names
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio%20Vento
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Sergio Vento
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Sergio Vento (born May 30, 1938) is an Italian diplomat, former Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations and Italian Ambassador to the United States.
Career
Sergio Vento was born in Rome.
He studied Political Sciences at the State University of Rome.
After having served in various positions in The Hague, Buenos Aires and Ankara, he had been a diplomatic councillor to the following Italian Prime Ministers: Giuliano Amato, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Silvio Berlusconi, Lamberto Dini. He served as Italian Ambassador to Yugoslavia, France, United Nations, United States of America. He retired from the career and become active in the following fields: law consulting, banking, infrastructures, and University teaching. A significant number of his relatives are American of Italian descent.
Honours
Order of Merit of the Italian Republic 1st Class / Knight Grand Cross – June 2, 1994
1999, Commandeur of the Légion d'honneur, France.
2003, honorary Doctorate of Law, St. John's University in New York.
See also
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Italy)
Foreign relations of Italy
References
Living people
1938 births
Permanent Representatives of Italy to the United Nations
Ambassadors of Italy to the United States
Ambassadors of Italy to Yugoslavia
Ambassadors of Italy to France
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptodon%20snyderae
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Coptodon snyderae
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Coptodon snyderae is a critically endangered species of fish in the cichlid family. It is endemic to Lake Bermin in Cameroon. It is threatened by pollution and sedimentation from human activities, and potentially also by large emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the lake's bottom (compare Lake Nyos), although Bermin is too shallow to contain very high amounts of this gas. The specific name of this cichlid honours Alexandra Snyder (b. 1953), a museum collection manager, whose assistance in the field contributed to the success of Wallace J. Dominey's 1985 expedition to Lake Bermin, Cameroon.
References
snyderae
Freshwater fish of Cameroon
Endemic fauna of Cameroon
Lake fish of Africa
Fish described in 1992
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricia%20Stumpf
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Tricia Stumpf
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Tricia Stumpf (born 1970) is an American skeleton racer who competed in the early 2000s. She won two bronze medals in the women's skeleton event at the FIBT World Championships, earning them in 2000 and 2001.
Tricia was the Women's National Skeleton Champion in 2000 and 2001 on the Olympic track in Park City, Utah. In 2000, she also won gold in the North American Championships in Calgary, Canada. On the world stage Tricia earned two additional World Cup medals during the 2000–2001 season. She earned a bronze medal in Igls, Austria and a silver medal in La Plagne, France.
In the off-season, Tricia won three consecutive summer Push Championships in 1999, 2000 (Lake Placid, New York) and 2001 (Calgary, Canada).
An injury prevented Tricia from competing in the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Park City, Utah. However, Tricia was selected to carry the Olympic flame in her home town of Park City, Utah, during the Olympic torch relay.
The University of Utah alumni worked as a marketing director in Park City, Utah, prior to the 2002 games. Tricia is married to two-time Olympic biathlete Joan Guetschow.
References
External links
Skeletonsport.com profile
Women's skeleton world championship medalists since 2000
1970 births
American female skeleton racers
Living people
People from Park City, Utah
Sportspeople from the Salt Lake City metropolitan area
University of Utah alumni
American LGBT sportspeople
Lesbian sportswomen
LGBT skeleton racers
21st-century American women
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Dawson%20%28Lost%29
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Michael Dawson (Lost)
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Michael Dawson is a fictional character played by Harold Perrineau on the ABC television series Lost. Michael is one of the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 who crashes on the show's mysterious island. After losing a custody battle with Susan Lloyd (Tamara Taylor), Michael does not see his son Walt (Malcolm David Kelley) for almost ten years. They reunite when she dies, but on their journey home, their plane crashes on a mysterious island in the South Pacific. Here Walt is kidnapped by the Island's previous inhabitants, the Others, and Michael spends his time trying to retrieve him. He is eventually successful, and they leave the Island together, but the guilt over the murders he had to commit to achieve this leads him to an estrangement with his son and a suicide attempt. He returns to the Island on a freighter, but is killed when a bomb on it explodes. Michael reappears as a ghost, and apologizes to Hurley for killing Libby (Cynthia Watros).
Although initially skeptical about the role, Perrineau took it after Lost creator J. J. Abrams told him more about it. Much of the first season arc for Michael was rewritten; he was originally going to be part of a love triangle with Korean couple Sun (Yunjin Kim) and Jin (Daniel Dae Kim), but positive fan reaction to the couple meant this storyline was dropped. After Michael leaves the Island in season two, Perrineau knew he would return to Lost at some point; he felt there was more to tell of Michael's story. Reception for the character has been mixed, but Perrineau's acting was largely praised.
While credited for the entire season, Perrineau's character does not return until his cameo in the fourth season episode "Ji Yeon". While Perrineau signed a multi-season return deal, the character was killed off after five further appearances in the season. Perrineau described the storyline as a "weird stereotype" of a Black father abandoning his son that he deemed uninteresting. He admitted to being hesitant about signing on had he known the storyline would have panned out the way it did. In retrospect, Lindelof later expressed regret about the direction of the character's arc in a 2020 podcast interview, defining Michael solely as Walt's father, and how a lack of diversity in the writer's room affected the direction of the character.
Arc
Much of Michael's life before the plane crash is shown in flashbacks during "Special". Susan Lloyd leaves Michael after their son Walt is born, and travels to Amsterdam with Walt. Later, Susan tells him that she intends to get married. Michael becomes enraged, and is hit by a car, leaving him hospitalized for months. Susan tracks him down at the hospital and tries to convince him to give up his parental rights, so that her new husband can adopt Walt. Michael refuses, but in the resulting custody battle Susan convinces him that it is the best decision for Walt. Several years later, Susan dies, and her husband asks Michael to take custody of Walt, who is now living in Australia. Michael agrees, but just before the return flight, calls his mother and asks if she can take Walt instead.
Their plane crashes on an island in the South Pacific; Michael, Walt and Walt's Labrador Vincent are among the survivors. After Vincent runs into the jungle, Michael searches for him, but to no avail; it is later that Locke (Terry O'Quinn) returns Vincent to Michael. Despite this gesture, Michael is skeptical about Locke, and does not want Walt spending time with him. After Michael is attacked by a Korean survivor, Jin, over a gold watch Michael has started wearing, Jin's wife Sun approaches him to explain that it is her father's watch, and in doing so reveals that she speaks English. Michael begins constructing a raft, in hope that he and Walt can escape the Island. After witnessing his completed raft burned down, Michael blames Jin, but later Walt confesses that it was him. Although Walt did not want to leave the Island, he has now changed his mind. Michael and Jin bond after Sun reveals her ability to speak English, and the two men begin work on a second raft. They offer the final space on board to Sawyer (Josh Holloway). In the season finale "Exodus", Michael sets sail with Jin, Sawyer and Walt, and not far from the Island, they encounter a small fishing boat. The occupants of the fishing boat are the Others, who have long inhabited the Island. They kidnap Walt and destroy the raft.
At the beginning of season two, Michael and Sawyer are stranded in the middle of the ocean, with Jin missing. They wash ashore and discover Jin, then are knocked unconscious by one of the survivors from the tail section of the plane. After convincing the tail section survivors that they were on the same plane, they all return to the beach camp of the fuselage survivors. Later, Michael offers to take a shift in the hatch that the survivors have found. Here, he begins receiving computer messages from someone who he thinks is Walt, who gives him directions to where he is being held. Michael ventures off in search of him, but moments after leaving the camp, two of the Others kidnap him and hold him hostage. Michael is told to retrieve their leader, who is held captive in the hatch, then bring Sawyer, Kate (Evangeline Lilly), Jack (Matthew Fox) and Hurley (Jorge Garcia) to them, and they will return Walt and let them leave the Island. In order to free their leader, Ben (Michael Emerson), Michael convinces Ana Lucia (Michelle Rodriguez), who is guarding Ben, that he will kill Ben on her behalf, but instead kills her when she hands over the gun and the combination to the armory. When Libby (Cynthia Watros) walks in on them, a startled Michael shoots her twice. He succeeds in bringing the four requested survivors to the Others, so Ben reunites him with Walt. Michael and Walt are given a boat and coordinates to freedom, and they sail away from the Island.
A flashback during "Meet Kevin Johnson" reveals that they manage to return to New York City, where Michael hands Walt over to Walt's grandmother. Michael then attempts suicide, unable to cope with the guilt of his murders. Tom (M. C. Gainey), one of the Others, arrives, and tells Michael he can redeem himself by saving the other survivors from an imminent threat. Tom gives Michael a passport with the new name of "Kevin Johnson" in order to infiltrate a freighter that is trying to find the Island. On the freighter he receives a call from Ben, who instructs him to send him information on all the crew, then to sabotage the radio room and the boat engines. In his first season four appearance, Michael meets Sayid (Naveen Andrews) and Desmond (Henry Ian Cusick), who have managed to get from the Island to the freighter. They tell the freighter's captain of Michael's true identity, who orders him to repair the engines. During the season finale, Michael and Jin attempt to disarm a bomb planted on the freighter. Michael slows the bomb's detonation with liquid nitrogen, then tells Jin to leave, when he is almost out of nitrogen. When the supply of nitrogen runs out, Christian Shephard (John Terry) appears to Michael and tells him he can go now. The bomb detonates, and Michael is killed in the explosion, having achieved the redemption he had been seeking. Michael reappears halfway through the sixth season as a ghost that only Hurley can see. He explains that the whispers on the island are the voices of those who have died on the island. As Hurley turns to depart, Michael stops him and apologizes for the pain he caused for both him and Libby.
Characteristics
During season two, Perrineau stated "[Michael]'s nicer than I expected him to be. Or, he is nicer so far than I expected him to be ... I try to take characters that I think are challenging and a little complicated and hopefully really smart and thoughtful and compassionate. I think Michael is all those things. He seems to have a lot of bad luck." He defends Michael's behavior in season two, saying "[Michael] keeps stepping into more trouble than he actually asked for". Cynthia Littleton of Variety described Michael as "one of the most interesting of the Oceanic 815-ers: flawed, tortured, hard to read, volatile, fighting his innate talents, his own worst enemy, at times, and at others, a totally stand-up guy." IGN's Chris Carabott calls Michael a "natural" father. Michael is known for frequently shouting "Walt!", "Where's my son!" and "Have you seen my boy?".
Development
When the producers were auditioning actors for roles in Lost, Harold Perrineau was in the area. The producers called it a "natural move" to have him audition. Although initially skeptical about the show, he took the role when Lost creator J. J. Abrams explained more about it. Perrineau was attracted to the role because "[Michael]'s a guy that's in a lot of conflict and we're not exactly sure why". In season one, Michael was going to be part of a love triangle with Sun and Jin, however this was dropped after positive fan reaction to Sun and Jin's relationship. The storyline is revisited in the Missing Pieces mobisode "Buried Secrets", which shows Michael and Sun almost kissing. Michael and Jin were going to be enemies throughout all of the season, but the producers felt Perrineau and Daniel Dae Kim had good chemistry, so the storyline was changed to them becoming friends. Perrineau called filming the first season "one of [his] best years as a working actor".
Lost writer Elizabeth Sarnoff explained that Michael's storyline in season two is about "what a father will do to save his son"; she noted "there's nothing worse than what he does". The second episode of season two was originally going to be Sawyer centric, however this was rewritten "at the proverbial last minute" and changed to a Michael centric episode. Perrineau received swimming lessons in preparation for this episode. Perrineau was unaware that his character had been captured by the Others until he was told Michael was going to kill Ana Lucia and Libby. Perrineau described shooting the scenes in "Two for the Road" where Michael murders Ana Lucia and Libby as a "tough day". The last scene shot of season two was Michael and Walt sailing away from the Island. As it was a long camera shot, Perrineau had to sail the boat so far from the pier, that by the time he returned, all the equipment had already been packed away. He said, "It felt fitting, actually. Like; that's it". Perrineau knew he would be back one day, but as the producers did not reveal any details to him, he did not know when. He was the first actor that left the show as "part of a grander design to come back", and the only one until Emilie de Ravin.
After leaving the Island in the second-season finale "Live Together, Die Alone", Michael was supposed to return in the season three finale, but Perrineau was filming the pilot of Demons, so was unable to return. Instead he returned in the seventh episode of season four, "Ji Yeon". His return was meant to be announced during Losts slot at the 2007 Comic-Con International, however there were complaints at the Television Critics Association Press Tour when ABC's President of Entertainment Stephen McPherson commented that "some big announcements" would be made at the Lost panel. Some journalists felt that any announcements should be made to them at the press meeting, rather than at a fan convention. After numerous reporters asked about what would be announced, Lost producer Damon Lindelof was contacted, and he gave permission for McPherson to say Harold Perrineau would be returning to Lost. At Comic-Con, Lindelof confirmed Perrineau would be back as a cast member, not just for a flashback. Lost producer Carlton Cuse said "Michael's story is for us one of the most becoming storylines on the show because here's a character who ... undertook some very extreme actions in order to basically get his son off the Island, and then when he sailed off in that boat I think everyone was very curious about what happened to him, what is his fate ... we really feel that Michael's story will be a really compelling part of the season." Perrineau was disappointed that he was brought back to the show only to be killed, and that Michael does not get a chance to reunite with his son, Walt, saying, "there are all these questions about how [the writers] respond to black people on the show ... Walt just winds up being another fatherless child. It plays into a really big, weird stereotype and, being a black person myself, that wasn't so interesting." Cuse responded "We pride ourselves on having a very racially diverse cast. It's painful when any actor's storyline ends on the show. Harold is a fantastic actor whose presence added enormously to Lost". Perrineau later said he should have thought before making a racial comment, and although he felt like that, he never discussed the matter with the producers. Perrineau said that although he would be happy to return to Lost, he would have to know what the storyline would be.
Reception
Michael's first centric episode, "Special", was well received by critics. Chris Carabott of IGN said "Michael's flashback is a heart wrenching look at the relationship, or lack-there-of, between him and his son Walt." He added "As Michael's life crumble around him, it's Harold Perrineau's brilliant performance that really shines through." Kirthana Ramisetti from Entertainment Weekly called it the best episode since "Walkabout" because of Michael's character development. She said "One of my favorite scenes of the entire season ... was Michael and Walt bonding over the letters and the drawing of the sunburned penguin. It was moving to see these two finally relating to each other as father and son after everything they've been through."
Michael's first centric episode in season two was less well received. Mac Slocum of Filmfodder.com said "it wasn't all that interesting". Entertainment Weekly's Jeff Jensen called the flashbacks "among the poorest and most clumsily integrated flashbacks we've seen so far", as he felt nothing new was learned. He did not like Michael's on-Island storyline either, noting he "got the sense that the actors and directors weren't quite sure what to make of these scenes". Three episodes later, Jensen thought Michael's "whiny dad act" became "increasingly tedious". When Michael murdered Ana Lucia and Libby in "Two for the Road", Slocum called it the "single biggest shocker in Lost history". C. K. Sample of AOL's TV Squad wrote that although he suspected that Ana Lucia and Libby were going to die, he thought what "was amazing was who shot them". Zap2it's Amy Amatangelo described the double murder as "a brilliant move", because "one of their own [became] one of them". She added it was "one of [the second] season's most jaw-dropping moments". According to Perrineau, it made fans "pissed off" with Michael. Jensen praised Perrineau's acting, saying "Michael's bloody betrayal is hard to swallow, but Harold Perrineau sells it". Many reviewers joked about how frequently Michael shouts "Walt!", such as Alan Sepinwall of The Star-Ledger, Erin Martell of AOL's TV Squad, and Joshua Rich of Entertainment Weekly. Perrineau co-won the 2005 Screen Actors Guild Award for "Best Ensemble – Drama Series.
Joshua Rich from Entertainment Weekly had mixed views on the prospect of Michael returning in season four, because although Perrineau was one of his "favorite" actors, he liked how peaceful the series had become without Michael constantly screaming "Walt!". IGN's Chris Carabott called Michael's return "the worst kept secret in Lost history", but still found his reveal "exciting". Alan Sepinwall of The Star-Ledger found "a fine performance from Mr. Perrineau" in "Meet Kevin Johnson". Sepinwall wrote that Michael's "struggle to deal with the guilt from his Faustian bargain to save Walt was another moving example of how the writers this season are really trying to build on the emotional impact of everything that's happened before." Cynthia Littleton of Variety was "really happy" to see Michael again, and wrote "Perrineau plays it just right most of the time—no hysterics or scenery-chewing, just a man trying to do the right thing, most of the time." Digital Spy's Ben Rawson-Jones commented that "[Michael's] suicidal plight was well conveyed and there were plenty of shocks and thrills along the way". Before the fourth season finale aired, Entertainment Weekly's Jeff Jensen ranked Michael being unable to commit suicide as the thirteenth best moment of the season, but did add "This story line didn't match the hype". Oscar Dahl from BuddyTV called Michael's death "the culmination of a fairly lackluster story arc".
References
Lost (2004 TV series) characters
Fictional African-American people
Fictional construction workers
Fictional characters from New York City
Fictional murderers
Male characters in television
Television characters introduced in 2004
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List of White Collar episodes
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White Collar is a crime/mystery television series that premiered on October 23, 2009, on the USA Network. The series stars Matt Bomer as Neal Caffrey, a former conman, forger and thief, and Tim DeKay as FBI Special Agent Peter Burke. The pair form an unlikely partnership as they work together to apprehend white collar criminals. The series also stars Willie Garson as Mozzie, an old friend of Neal's who occasionally aids the FBI in their investigations; Tiffani Thiessen as Elizabeth Burke, Peter's wife; and Marsha Thomason and Sharif Atkins as agents Diana Berrigan and Clinton Jones, respectively. Natalie Morales appeared in the first season as agent Lauren Cruz. Hilarie Burton was introduced in the second season as Sara Ellis, a love interest for Neal. She joined the main cast at the beginning of the third season.
White Collar aired its first season of 14 episodes in two parts, which premiered in 2009 and 2010. This was followed by a second season, comprising 16 episodes. The first group of nine episodes aired in summer 2010, while the remaining seven aired in spring 2011. The third season began airing in 2011 and ended in 2012. The first 10 episodes of the season aired in summer 2011, while the remaining six began airing in winter 2012. The series was renewed for a fourth season comprising 16 episodes, which began airing in July 2012. A fifth season which was renewed for 16 episodes, later reduced to 13, started airing in October 2013. In March 2014, the series was renewed for a sixth season, which was confirmed to be its final season the following September. The season premiered on November 6, 2014. On December 18, after the airing of the last episode of the sixth season, White Collar ended its run. The first three seasons are available on DVD in regions 1, 2, and 4, while the first season is also available on Blu-ray. In Australia, Region 4, Season 4 was released on 2 July 2014, Season 5 on 10 December 2014, Season 6 and The Complete Series on the 6 May 2015.
Series overview
Episode list
Season 1 (2009–10)
Season 2 (2010–11)
White Collar was renewed for a second season scheduled to begin July 13, 2010 on USA Network, with Marsha Thomason joining the cast as a series regular and Hilarie Burton appearing in a six-episode arc as insurance investigator Sara Ellis. The nine-episode summer season ran through September 7, 2010 and concluded with a seven-episode winter season that began on January 18, 2011.
Season 3 (2011–12)
On September 27, 2010, White Collar was renewed for a 16 episode third season, which began June 7, 2011. Hilarie Burton joined the cast as a series regular. Diahann Carroll appeared as June, and Denise Vasi, who appeared in the pilot episode as June's granddaughter Cindy, returned as well. The first half of the season also saw guest appearances by Dana Ashbrook, Beau Bridges, Eliza Dushku, Nathen Garson, Lena Headey, Ernie Hudson, Olek Krupa, Al Sapienza, and the return of Matthew Keller (Ross McCall). Series star Tim DeKay directed one episode. Series creator and executive producer Jeff Eastin tweeted that Andrew McCarthy, who played Vincent Adler, would also direct an episode. Another flashback episode, "The Dentist of Detroit", revealed much of Mozzie's childhood. The first half of the season, consisting of 10 episodes, concluded on August 9, 2011, while the remaining six episodes began airing on January 17, 2012.
Season 4 (2012–13)
White Collar was renewed for a fourth season of sixteen episodes on August 25, 2011. Treat Williams appeared throughout the season as Sam, an undercover agent from Washington whose past overlaps with Neal's. Mekhi Phifer appeared in the first two episodes as Kyle Collins, a manhunter working for the federal government. Gregg Henry recurred as a man who helps Neal and Mozzie hide while in the Cape Verde Islands, while Mia Maestro appeared as Maya, a woman with whom Neal becomes involved while on the run. Laura Vandervoort appeared in one episode as a wealthy socialite who becomes another love interest for Neal. Michael Weston appeared in one episode as a criminal mastermind, alongside Laurie Williams. Rebecca Mader appeared in one episode as Abigail, a woman who forces Neal to take part in a heist. Perrey Reeves appeared in one episode as a dedicated fixer. Gloria Votsis returned as Alex Hunter in the eighth episode of the season. Victor Webster made an appearance in the ninth episode of the season as Eric Dunham, a trader on Wall Street who is being investigated for insider trading. Titus Welliver guest starred as Senator Terrence Pratt, a man who may be linked to Neal's father. Reed Diamond made an appearance as Cole Edwards, a construction mogul with links to the government. Sprague Grayden appeared as a younger Ellen Parker, while Judith Ivey continued playing the older version of the character. Hilarie Burton reprised her role as insurance investigator and Neal's love interest Sara Ellis; she appeared in four episodes altogether. The remaining six episodes of season four began airing in January 2013.
Season 5 (2013–14)
On September 25, 2012, USA Network renewed the series for a 16-episode fifth season, but this was later reduced to 13. It premiered on October 17, 2013. Marsha Thomason was pregnant during the filming of season five and did not appear for the majority of the season.
Season 6 (2014)
Home video releases
References
External links
Lists of American crime drama television series episodes
White Collar (TV series) episodes
2009 American television seasons
2010 American television seasons
2011 American television seasons
2012 American television seasons
2013 American television seasons
2014 American television seasons
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is a Chinese-style Japanese dish consisting of chilled Chinese noodles with various toppings served in the summer. It is also called in Kansai region and in Hokkaido. Toppings are usually colorful cold ingredients and a tare sauce.
Popular toppings are meat (ham, boiled chicken or barbecued pork (char siu)), strips of tamagoyaki (egg omelette), summer vegetables like cucumber and tomatoes, menma (fermented bamboo shoots), and beni shōga (pickled ginger) as a condiment. Toppings are cut thin, to mix well with the noodles and the sauce. The tare sauce is usually made with a base of either soy sauce and rice vinegar, or sesame seeds and mayonnaise ().
See also
Jungguk-naengmyeon
List of ramen dishes
Notes
External links
The Spruce Eats article about Hiyashi chūka
Japanese cuisine
Ramen dishes
Cold noodles
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Michael Jagosz
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Michael Theodore Jagosz (December 13, 1965 – March 9, 2014) was an American singer and musician and one of the founding members of L.A. Guns.
Early years
Jagosz was born on December 13, 1965, in Los Angeles, California. While attending high school at Fairfax High, he met future L.A. Guns co-founder Robert Gardner. Gardner (alongside Tracy Ulrich) recruited Jagosz for their band, at the time were between 17–18 years old. Originally in a band together called Pyrrhus alongside bassist Dani Tull, they would officially form L.A. Guns after bassist Ole Beich joined the band.
Jagosz lists his vocal inspirations as Ronnie James Dio, Ian Gillan, and Rob Halford.
L.A. Guns (1983–1985)
L.A. Guns was first formed in 1983 by Jagosz along with guitarist Tracii Guns, bassist Ole Beich and drummer Rob Gardner. Jagosz was replaced briefly by William Bailey (aka Axl Rose), after Jagosz was arrested following a bar fight. Bailey had fronted Rapidfire with Kevin Lawrence and Hollywood Rose with Izzy Stradlin and Chris Weber. Jagosz returned to replace Rose with the group recording the only material by this original incarnation of L.A. Guns, "Collector's Edition #1." Originally released on manager Raz Cue's independent label "Raz Records. The material would be re-released as a bonus disc, titled Collector's Edition No. 1, with the compilation album Hollywood Raw: The Original Sessions in 2004. The band folded after merging with Hollywood Rose in March 1985, with Guns, Beich and Gardner joining the new group. Jagosz quit immediately after the new band's formation. When L.A. Guns reformed later in 1985, Jagosz was replaced by Paul Black.
Other bands and death
After leaving L.A. Guns, Jagosz played in several bands, including Abbatoir, Eden, and Stoneheart, as well as a band with Kurt James.
Jagosz died on March 9, 2014, from aortic valvuolopathy. His private memorial was held on April 1, 2014.
Discography
with L.A. Guns
Collector's Edition No. 1 (1985)
References
20th-century American singer-songwriters
American heavy metal singers
American male singer-songwriters
Singers from Los Angeles
L.A. Guns members
1965 births
2014 deaths
20th-century American male singers
Singer-songwriters from California
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David Dorward
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David Cameron Dorward (born January 22, 1952) is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Edmonton-Gold Bar in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 2012 to 2015. He has lived in Alberta since the mid 1950s and currently resides in Edmonton.
Dorward is the approved United Conservative Party candidate for the electoral riding of Edmonton-Gold Bar for the 2019 Alberta provincial election.
Background
Dorward served in the Alberta cabinet with Premier Jim Prentice. He is a graduate of the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology and the University of Alberta. David Cameron DORWARD, FCPA, FCA is registered as a member of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Alberta (CPA Alberta).
Dorward has contributed to the community through various volunteer and community works including sitting on various local and provincial boards. This includes coaching youth basketball and organizing basketball programs for communities within the electoral division of Edmonton-Gold Bar. Dorward received the Top 50 Alumni award, chosen for the differences he made within our communities.
In 2005, Dorward led and founded the initiative that raised $38M for the building of the Saville Community Sports Centre (GO Centre), a 195,000-square-foot GO Centre located at the University of Alberta south campus area. The center was opened for use in September 2011.
Dorward is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Political career
Dorward ran for mayor of Edmonton in the 2010 Edmonton municipal election. He finished in second place and was defeated by Stephen Mandel.
Two years later Dorward ran for a seat to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the electoral district of Edmonton-Gold Bar as a Progressive Conservative candidate. He defeated five other candidates to win the seat for his party, before being defeated by the NDP's Marlin Schmidt.
As an MLA for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Dorward held various roles including:
Associate Minister of Aboriginal Relations (Reporting to the Premier)
Deputy Government House Whip
Member of the Treasury Board.
Deputy Chair of the Select Special Conflicts of Interest Act Review Committee
Deputy Chair of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts
Member of the Special Standing Committee on Members’ Services
Member of the Standing Committee on Alberta’s Economic Future
Member of the Standing Committee on the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund
In 2017, the United Conservative Party was formed under Jason Kenney in a historic merger of the Progressive Conservative Party and the Wildrose Party, with 95% approval.
In March 2019, leading up to the Alberta provincial election, transphobic comments made on social media by Dorward in 2016 surfaced. Dorward responded to these comments in a short online apology, stating that “while [he] was not alone in sharing this belief at the time, [he is] relieved that such fears have not been validated in the following three years.” To be specific, these comments involved him stating his concerns that transgender bathroom laws would permit young men to walk into girl's restrooms whenever they were so inclined.
Electoral record
2019 general election
2015 general election
2012 general election
References
1952 births
Living people
Members of the Executive Council of Alberta
Politicians from Edmonton
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLAs
21st-century Canadian politicians
Canadian Latter Day Saints
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Japa (disambiguation)
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Japa is a spiritual discipline.
Japa may also refer to:
People
Japa (footballer, born 1986), Jonas Augusto Bouvie, Brazilian football forward
Japa (footballer, born 1990), Endheu Kléber Nesiyama, Brazilian football forward
Japa (footballer, born 2004), João Wellington Gadelha Melo de Oliveira, Brazilian football midfielder
Caio Japa (born 1983), Brazilian futsal player
Erick Japa (born 1999), Dominican football player
Theo Japa (born 1995), Japanese-Greek football player
Other
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
Journal of the American Planning Association
Japa, a nickname for Nigerian brain drain
Japa (slang), a Nigerian slang term for fleeing away quickly or escaping
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1947–48 Syracuse Nationals season
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The 1947–48 Syracuse Nationals season was the second season of the franchise in the National Basketball League.
Roster
Regular season
Eastern Division standings
Western Division standings
Playoffs
Lost Opening Round (Anderson Packers) 3–0
References
Philadelphia 76ers seasons
Syracuse
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Guadua
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Guadua is a Neotropical genus of thorny, clumping bamboo in the grass family, ranging from moderate to very large species.
Physically, Guadua angustifolia is noted for being the largest Neotropical bamboo. The genus is similar to Bambusa and is sometimes included in that genus. Several animals are, to a various extent, associated with stands of Guadua bamboo, for example several species of seedeaters, and the Amazon and Atlantic Bamboo Rats.
Distribution and habitats
The genus can be found in a wide range from northern Mexico and Trinidad to Uruguay, but most of the species are concentrated in the Amazon basin and the Orinoco basin. They usually grow at low altitudes (below 1,500 m), but has been found up to 2,500 m. Its habitats include lowland tropical and lower-montane forest, savannas, Cerrados, gallery forest, and disturbed inter-Andean valley vegetation.
Human use
From a utilitarian perspective, Guadua is the most important American bamboo. Due to its quality, the genus has been widely used for house construction along the inter-Andean rivers of Colombia and in coastal Ecuador.
Guadua angustifolia, endemic to Tropical America, is slowly becoming well known once again as a building material. Highly appreciated by Simon Bolivar for its watershed protection and praised by Alexander von Humboldt for its wide variety of uses, it is being used in construction today in South America.
Technical studies of bamboo's mechanical properties ("vegetable steel") have increased interest in its use. Although bamboo culms used for building can be harvested in natural forests, over-exploitation leads to the depletion of natural resources. For large-scale use of Guadua angustifolia, the management of sustainable bamboo forests and groves, as well as the establishment of new nurseries and plantations, is a priority.
Tropical bamboo can be propagated with cuttings or by covering complete culms with soil. The next year, new plants will sprout. Or, many Guadua species can be propagated more rapidly by the chusquin method. Under this method, culms are cut at ground level when harvesting causing many small shoots and new plants to grow around the original plant. This method is suitable for large-scale forests or farm cooperatives. Since bamboo is a grass, harvesting it down to the soil induces more new shoots to emerge, just like turf grass. This is a phenomenon not known in tropical hardwood forests.
Even more rapid methods have been recently developed through the use of tissue culture. Bamboo propagated in a laboratory in the space of one square meter will be sufficient to establish one hectare of new forest. These plants can also be readily transported in a one-half-cubic-meter box. Harvesting can begin six years after planting, making bamboo a potential source of tropical biomass production for industry (e.g., biofuels). For architectural purposes, Guadua angustifolia is the preferred bamboo species. Its diameter is constant for the first 15 meters and then tapers at the top. These features have attracted the attention of civil engineers, architects, academics, designers, and artists.
Environmentally, Guadua ângustifolia is effective at removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere due to its fast growth; ongoing studies in Colombia have now been coordinated by the Environmental Bamboo Foundation.
German Fire Authorities tested Guadua angustifolia and, guided by the European Building Code, approved bamboo as a building material for the Guadua Pavilion at Expo 2000 in Hanover. Bamboo construction is also reported to be earthquake-resistant. This concept has been studied in Ecuador by the International Bamboo and Rattan Organization and the Ecuadorian government. Costa Rica reported similar experiences in earlier earthquakes there.
Species
Accepted species
Formerly included
see Arthrostylidium Aulonemia Bambusa Chusquea Eremocaulon Sphaerobambos
Gallery
References
External links
International Network for Bamboo and Rattan
Fundeguadua
Torre Mirador (Sightseeing Tower). Tower made of Guadua, Coffee National Park, Colombia.
Bambusoideae genera
Taxa named by Carl Sigismund Kunth
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Caught Inside (film)
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Caught Inside is a 2010 Australian thriller directed by Adam Blaiklock and produced by Paul S. Friedmann. The film stars Ben Oxenbould, Daisy Betts, Harry Cook (actor), & Peter Phelps; Damien Wyvill as the cinematographer. Caught Inside was also produced under the names Locked In and The Hedonist.
Premise
Surfing charters are meant to be a trip to Paradise... With 7 male surfers stuck on a boat, there's bound to be some friction – but when two of the boys are replaced at the last minute with two gorgeous girls – the heat is turned way up! The one 'single girl' on board – SAM – enjoys the attention. She soon has them all wrapped around her finger, as she challenges surf legend "BULL" in being 'the Alpha Male' on board. But The Bull decides to make a forceful move on Sam. Archie's loyalty is torn – between Bull and the group, as the others beat and abandon Bull on an island, but soon the ever-determined Bull returns..! It's soon a life-and-death struggle on board the yacht, as the five imprisoned friends – Archie, Sam, Toobs, Rob and Alex – must survive the fury of the psycho at the helm. When everything goes horribly wrong – their "dream trip" turns into a nightmare battle of wits, love and survival.
Cast
Ben Oxenbould as Bull
Daisy Betts as Sam
Sam Lyndon as Rob
Simon Lyndon as Toobs
Peter Phelps as Skipper Joe
Harry Cook as Archie Cox
Leeanna Walsman as Alex
Critical reception
The movie was praised by critics, holding an 86% fresh rating from Rotten Tomatoes.
References
External links
2010 films
2010 action thriller films
Australian action adventure films
2010s English-language films
2010s Australian films
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Conference of the Birds (Om album)
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Conference of the Birds is an album by American rock band Om. It was released on April 17, 2006, on CD and on May 15, 2006, on vinyl, both through Holy Mountain. The album was pressed on black (2000 pressings), clear orange (500), and clear green vinyl (500). It was released on CD in Japan by Leaf Hound Records and includes a bonus track, "Bedouin's Vigil," which was originally released on the split 7-inch with Six Organs of Admittance.
Track listing
Written and arranged by Om. Copyright Om Music (ASCAP).
Personnel
Al Cisneros – bass, vocals
Chris Hakius – drums, percussion
Production
Produced by Om and Billy Anderson
Recorded, engineered and mixed by Billy Anderson and Kevin Lemon
See also
The Conference of the Birds
References
External links
MP3.com album main page
"Conference of the Birds" at discogs
2006 albums
Om (band) albums
Albums produced by Billy Anderson (producer)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillai%20Kaniyamudhu
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Pillai Kaniyamudhu
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Pillai Kaniyamudhu is a 1958 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by M. A. Thirumugam. The film stars S. S. Rajendran and E. V. Saroja. It was released on 30 May 1958.
Plot
Satchidhanandam is a rich man who is outwardly a benevolent person, but in reality a very selfish man. He eyes Muthamma, daughter of his servant Muniyan. Muthamma is in love with Murugan, the gardener in the same household. They dream together of their married life and they both agree that their first child should be named Babu. Satchidhanandam chairs a dance performance by Mohana. After the program, he invites her to stay at his guest house. She agrees. Murugan is appointed to attend to her needs. One day, Satchidhanandam sends a fake message to Muthamma that her father Muniyan has fainted. Muthamma comes to his house. He tries to molest her, but she is rescued by Satchidhanandam's wife Gunavathi. When she comes out of the house, Murugan sees her and suspects her conduct. Another day, Mohana was chased by a leopard and when she faints, Murugan holds her. On seeing this, Muthamma becomes suspicious of Mohana. Mohana observes Murugan is morose and tries to enliven him by singing and dancing. Satchidhanandam did not like this. Mohana and Murugan run away from him and get married. Satchidhanandam sends some persons to abduct and bring Muthamma. Due to circumstances, he himself had to go and Muniyan dies at his hands. Satchidhanandam implicates his manager Marudasalam and sends him to jail on the murder charge. Muthamma is orphaned. She goes to live with Marudasalam's wife. Murugan and Mohana beget a baby boy. Murugan names him Babu. Differences crop up between the couple. During a scuffle between the two, Mohana tries to shoot Murugan, but the shot lands on her and she dies. Murugan takes his son with him and goes in search of Muthamma. He loses his eyesight in a car accident. He starts begging for a living. One day he sends Babu alone for begging. Muthamma meets him and learn his story. Babu brings Muthamma to his father. How everything is solved forms the rest of the story.
Cast
The following list was adapted from the database of Film News Anandan.
S. S. Rajendran
P. S. Veerappa
K. Balaji
T. S. Balaiah
S. V. Ranga Rao
Sayeeram
E. V. Saroja
M. N. Rajam
Sandhya
Muthulakshmi
Production
P. S. Veerappa who was an actor of repute formed his own film producing company under the banner P. S. V. Pictures. This film is the company's maiden production.
Soundtrack
Music was composed by K. V. Mahadevan, while the lyrics were penned by A. Maruthakasi and Pattukkottai Kalyanasundaram.
References
External links
1950s Tamil-language films
1958 drama films
1958 films
Films directed by M. A. Thirumugam
Films scored by K. V. Mahadevan
Indian drama films
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Maxillaria donaldeedodii
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Maxillaria donaldeedodii, synonym Ornithidium donaldeedodii, is a species of orchid native to Haiti. It was "discovered" in April 2010 when DNA analysis showed that a wrongly labeled orchid at the University of California Botanical Garden in Berkeley, California, was actually a distinct new species. The "new" orchid, which had been mislabeled as Maxillaria croceorubens since the 1990s, was named after orchidologist Donald D. Dod (1912–2008), who collected the specimen in the 1980s in Haiti. The new orchid was officially described in Lankesteriana, an international journal on orchidology, by authors James Ackerman of the University of Puerto Rico and W. Mark Whitten of the Florida Museum of Natural History, as Ornithidium donaldeedodii. It was transferred to Maxillaria in 2011.
Maxillaria donaldeedodii is closely related to Maxillaria coccinea, based on morphology and molecular sequencing. The flowers of M. donaldeedodii flowers are campanulate, bright red to red-orange, from long, similar to its close relative in color and form. It is distinguished from M. coccineum by its shorter apical leaves, globose pseudobulbs, and longer sepals. M. donaldeedodii was collected in Pic Macaya National Park in the Massif de la Hotte range in south-western Haiti.
The plant was part of Dod's personal collection until he donated it to the UC Botanical Garden. Ackerman had suspected for many years that it was a unique species, but it had never flowered, and he was "unwilling to describe it as new without the flowers." Suddenly, in May 2009, the orchid burst into bloom for the first time.
Dod was a Protestant missionary in the Caribbean who discovered many new species, including several inconspicuous pleurothallid orchids, during his seventeen years there. Numerous orchids have been named for Dod over the years.
References
Orchids of Haiti
Plants described in 2010
donaldeedodii
Endemic flora of Haiti
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Dave Warnock
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David Carslaw Warnock (25 December 1910 – 19 March 1976) was a Scottish footballer who played as an outside right. His main spell as a professional was at Aberdeen where he featured regularly, though not always a first choice, between 1931 and 1939 when he moved on to Dundee; however, the outbreak of World War II meant he never made an official competitive appearance for the Dens Park club.
Career statistics
Club
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
*Games played before league season was suspended
References
1910 births
1976 deaths
Scottish men's footballers
Footballers from East Renfrewshire
Footballers from Aberdeen
Men's association football outside forwards
Scottish Football League players
Scottish Junior Football Association players
Banks O' Dee F.C. players
Dundee F.C. players
Aberdeen F.C. players
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Leucania roseilinea
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Leucania roseilinea, the grain army worm, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Francis Walker in 1862. It is found in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sundaland, the Philippines to New Guinea.
Forewings brownish with a pale spot at the discal end. Brown mark on forewing below the postmedial costa. Indistinct dark brown marks on the veins on hindwing margin. Larval host plant is Oryza.
References
Moths of Asia
Moths described in 1862
Hadeninae
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Karl Geary
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Karl John Geary (born 31 May 1972) is an Irish-born American actor and author.
Early life
Geary was born in Dublin. In 1987, at the age of 15, he moved to the United States; he later obtained a green card in a visa lottery for undocumented Irish immigrants, and ultimately became a naturalized citizen.
Career
Geary appeared in Madonna's Sex book. His acting roles include Sex and the City, Hysteria – The Def Leppard Story, and Hamlet (2000). He wrote and appeared in Coney Island Baby (2003). He appeared as Coffey in the 2008 horror film The Burrowers. He owns a bar in downtown Manhattan called the Scratcher, and previously co-owned another club, the original tiny Cafe Sin-é on St. Mark's Place in the East Village, where he waited on tables alongside Jeff Buckley.
Personal life
Geary has seven siblings. In 2003, he married Scottish actress Laura Fraser. They have one daughter, Lila, and live in Glasgow, Scotland. Geary also has a son, Billy from a previous relationship.
Filmography
Film
Television
Publications
Montpelier Parade 2017
References
External links
1972 births
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
American male film actors
American male screenwriters
American male stage actors
American male television actors
Irish emigrants to the United States
Living people
Male actors from Dublin (city)
Naturalized citizens of the United States
Undocumented immigrants to the United States
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Chandu Chekavar
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Chandu Chekavar (Chathiyan Chanthu, also known as Chandu Panicker), was a sixteenth-century warrior of the Chekavar family from the Hindu Thiyyar caste, mentioned in the folk songs of Northern Kerala called Vadakkan Pattukal.
Popular culture
In Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha, a Malayalam film released in 1989, Chandu is portrayed by Mammootty, which won him the National Award for Best Actor.
Devan played Chathiyan Chandhu Chekkavar in 2002 Malayalam flim Puthooramputhri Unniyarcha.
Kunal Kapoor portrayed Chandu in the 2016 Malayalam film Veeram.
See also
Kalarippayattu
References
Indian warriors
Malayali people
16th-century Indian people
Kalarippayattu practitioners
Indian male martial artists
Martial artists from Kerala
Military personnel from Kerala
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Iliili is a village in the southwest of Tutuila Island, American Samoa. It is located seven miles inland, southwest of Pago Pago, between the villages of Futiga and Vaitogi. It is in Tuālāuta County.
Iliili is home to American Samoa's only golf course, which is an 18-hole golf course maintained by the Department of Parks and Recreation. It is 120 acres.
Demographics
Notable residents
Savali Talavou Ale – Speaker of the American Samoa House of Representatives (since 2007)
Pita Elisara – American football offensive lineman
A. P. Lutali – former Governor of American Samoa (1985–1989, 1993–1997)
Tuia'ana T. Letuli - representative (1952 - 57) and police chief (1957 - 1967)
Susana Leiato Lutali – former First Lady of American Samoa (1985–1989, 1993–1997)
References
Villages in American Samoa
Tutuila
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Kristen Bowditch
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Kristen Robert Bowditch (born 14 January 1975) is a British former long-distance runner. He competed in the men's 5000 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He represented England in the 5,000 metres event, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
References
External links
1975 births
Living people
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
British male long-distance runners
Olympic athletes for Great Britain
Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games competitors for England
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Spanish Air and Space Force Anthem
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When the Spanish Air Force was created in 1940, an anthem was created, but was changed in 1967 to what is currently sung today. It was created by José María Pemán and Ricardo Dorado and was chosen among 198 other works presented to a competition call by the Spanish Air Ministry.
See also
Spanish Air and Space Force
External links
Spanish Air Force Anthem (Unofficial site)
MP3 file
1967 compositions
Spanish military marches
Spanish Air and Space Force
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LANCL2
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LanC-like protein 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the LANCL2 gene. It is a protein broadly expressed in the plasma a nuclear membranes of immune, epithelial and muscle cells and a potential therapeutic target for chronic inflammatory, metabolic and immune-mediated diseases such as Crohn’s disease and diabetes.
Function
The natural ligand of LANCL2, abscisic acid (ABA), has been identified as a new endogenous mammalian hormone implicated in glycemic control. The mammalian ABA receptor has been identified as LANCL2 on the basis of (1) modeling predictions, (2) direct and specific ABA binding to the purified recombinant protein, and (3) abrogation of the functional effects of ABA by silencing of LANCL2 expression in ABA-sensitive cells.
Selective binding between LANCL2 and ABA or other ligands such as the benzimidazole NSC61610 and piperazine BT-11, lead to elevation of intracellular cAMP, activation of PKA and suppression of inflammation in macrophages. In hepatocytes, LANCL2 regulates cell survival by phosphorylation of Akt through its interaction with the Akt kinase mTORC2. Active mTORC2 causes translocation of GLUT4 to the plasma membrane and stimulates glucose uptake. LANCL2 expression in immune cells, adipose tissue, skeletal muscle and pancreas, and the potential to manipulate LANCL2 signaling and GLUT4 translocation with ABA make this G protein-coupled receptor a novel therapeutic target for glycemic control. In humans, ABA release was detected with increasing glycemia, although this mechanism failed in people suffering from type 2 and gestational diabetes. Also, plasma ABA concentrations increase after oral glucose load (OGTT) in healthy subjects. ABA stimulates glucose-dependent insulin release from human and rodent pancreatic β-cells. At a low dose (micrograms/Kg body weight) oral ABA significantly reduces both glycemia and insulinemia in rats and in humans undergoing an OGTT indicating that ABA reduces the amount of insulin required to control hyperglycemia. This insulin-sparing effect suggests that LANCL2 can be used as a therapeutic target for the treatment of inflammatory and metabolic diseases such as metabolic syndrome, prediabetes and diabetes.
Novel LANCL2 ligands such as BT-11 significantly decrease disease activity in the Dextran Sodium Sulfate (DSS)-induced model of acute colitis and the IL-10-/- mice and CD4+ T cell transfer-induced chronic colitis models. BT-11 treatment decreased leukocytic infiltration, mucosal thickening and epithelial erosion in the colon, decreased Th1 and Th17 CD4+ T cells and TNFα while increasing regulatory T cells, LANCL2 and IL-10 expression.
References
Further reading
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New Party (Latvia)
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The New Party (, JP) was a centrist political party in Latvia. Formed by composer Raimonds Pauls, the party won eight seats in the Saeima at the 1998 election on the back of Pauls's popularity. After the election, the JP entered into a minority government with Latvian Way and For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK.
In the June 1999 presidential election, the party nominated Pauls for the presidency, and Pauls came first after five ballots, but withdrew his candidacy, as he still couldn't receive more than a third of the votes. The party dropped out of the governing coalition the following month, when it was replaced by the People's Party under new PM Andris Šķēle. In May 2000, it entered the centre-right governing coalition. However, Pauls left the party to become an independent MP in August 2000, leading to its influence declining. The party dissolved after Pauls's departure, with a third of its MPs joining the new Latvia's First Party.
Citations and references
Cited sources
Centrist parties in Latvia
Defunct political parties in Latvia
Political parties established in 1998
Political parties disestablished in 2001
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Neuropolis
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Neuropolis is a theatre festival in Berlin, Germany.
Theatre festivals in Berlin
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Fernandocrambus imperfecta
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Fernandocrambus imperfecta is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by John Frederick Gates Clarke in 1965. It is found in Chile.
References
Crambini
Moths described in 1965
Moths of South America
Endemic fauna of Chile
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Kemp, Texas
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Kemp is a city in Kaufman County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,129 in 2020.
History
The community was named for Sara Kemp, mother of Levi Noble, the first postmaster, and was officially established when the post office opened in 1851. The original townsite was located on present-day County Road 4023, south of present-day Texas State Highway 274. It grew slowly during its first thirty years. A Presbyterian congregation was organized in 1854, and the Kemp Academy of Learning began operation in 1867. After the Civil War, an increasing number of settlers moved to the community. In 1870, Dr. A. J. Still, hoping to profit from this growth and the possible construction of a railroad through the area, bought land just north of the community (where the current city sits) and after surveying, dividing the tract into lots, and platting it, persuaded the directors of the Southern Pacific Railroad to lay tracks across his property by offering the company a number of lots. Another early settler, Sam Parmalee, followed suit and offered the rail company right-of-way through his property. The mid-1880s witnessed the completion of the rail line through the community, the construction of a depot there, and the designation of Kemp as a terminus on the line.
The railroad attracted settlers to Kemp. Prospering with the surrounding cattle ranches and cotton farms, the community developed as a trade center for the lower part of the county. By the early twentieth century, the population had reached 513, and the Methodist and Baptist congregations had established churches. Kemp also supported a local newspaper, the Kemp News. The paper was owned and edited by Mike S. Boggess. In 1926, the town had a population of 1,200, sixty businesses, and two banks. By 1936, 46 businesses operated in Kemp. The population declined from 1,000 to 816 between the end of World War II and the mid-1960s. Businesses declined from 41 to 33. In 1965, Cedar Creek Reservoir was completed just south of the community. Kemp had a population of 1,184 and 75 businesses in 1990. Much of the land around town was still devoted to cattle production, and many residents commuted to jobs in the Dallas area. In 2000, the population was 1,133.
During the summer of 2011, the city received national attention due to its aging water utility system and complications resulting from the severe Texas drought of 2011.
Geography
Kemp is located in southeastern Kaufman County. U.S. Route 175 runs along the northeast side of the city, leading northwest to Kaufman, the county seat, and southeast to Athens.
According to the United States Census Bureau, Kemp has a total area of , of which are land and , or 4.18%, are water. It is at the northern end of Cedar Creek Lake.
Demographics
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 1,129 people, 368 households, and 232 families residing in the city.
Government
The city of Kemp is a Type A general law municipality with a mayor-council form of government. The mayor is the chief executive officer of the city and oversees the day-to-day operations of the city government. The mayor is elected at-large and serves a two-year term. The city council consists of five members and the mayor. Council members are elected at-large by place, and serve for two-year terms. The mayor is the presiding officer of the city council. One council member is elected annually by the other members to serve as Mayor Pro-Tem in the absence of the mayor.
The city operates a public works department including water and wastewater utilities, and the Kemp Municipal Court. The city employs a city secretary, a small administrative staff, a municipal judge/court clerk, a public works director, a small public works staff, a chief of police, a police sergeant/K9 unit, and several full-time and reserve officers. On May 9, 2012, the city council voted to disband the Kemp Police Department in favor of outsourcing to the Kaufman County Sheriff due to budget constraints. It was subsequently restored. The chief is being sued for civil rights violations. The lawsuit is on hold, while minor criminal charges against the plaintiff remain pending.
The city has chartered the Kemp Housing Authority, which operates two public housing apartment campuses, and is governed by a board of commissioners appointed by the mayor. It employs an executive director, a clerical assistant and a small maintenance staff.
The city has chartered the Kemp Economic Development Corporation, a type 4B EDC. It is funded by a $.005 sales tax for economic development purposes. The Kemp EDC has a board of directors appointed by the Kemp City Council.
The city is served by the Kemp Municipal Development District, which includes the city of Kemp and its extraterritorial jurisdiction. The Kemp MDD was created by election in May 2010 and began operations October 1, 2010. The district levies a $.0025 sales tax for economic and municipal development purposes. The Kemp City Council serves as the Kemp Municipal Development District board of directors.
Education
The city is served by the Kemp Independent School District and the Trinity Valley Community College District.
Notes
References
Bibliography
Robert Richard Butler, History of Kaufman County, Texas (M.A. thesis, University of Texas, 1940).
Kaufman County Historical Commission, History of Kaufman County (Dallas: Taylor, 1978).
External links
Official website
Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex
Cities in Kaufman County, Texas
Cities in Texas
Populated places established in 1922
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Seán Cannon
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Seán Cannon (born 29 November 1940) is an Irish musician. Since 1982 he has been a guitarist for The Dubliners and their follow-up-band The Dublin Legends.
Early life
Seán Cannon was born in Galway, Ireland. He travelled around Europe at an early age, rambling in England, Germany, Switzerland and Spain. It was during these trips that Cannon learned to speak several languages. He moved to England and became a renowned solo artist, playing in almost every folk club in Britain.
Family
Cannon married Pamela Blick and has two sons, James and Robert Cannon. They later divorced. Seán Cannon lives in Coventry, United Kingdom.
His father, Jim Cannon, was born in Donegal, but moved to Galway City and married Kathleen Byrne, who came from Ballinue, Aughrim, Co Galway. Family still living in Ireland: cousin Martin Byrne, living in Banagher Co Offaly, Seamus Byrne Florencecourt Enniskillen Co Fermanagh, cousin Tom Forde living in Ballinasloe, Co Galway.
Career
By 1969, Cannon had joined an England-based folk group called "The Gaels". The Gaels consisted of three Irishmen and a Scotsman. They released an album. Cannon also released three solo albums in the 1970s.
Seán Cannon had known The Dubliners for years and, like Eamonn Campbell, joined them on stage on numerous occasions. When lead singer Luke Kelly became ill in 1980, he stepped in, and became a full-time Dubliner in 1983 when Kelly departed. Cannon is known for singing songs in the Irish language ("Peggy Lettermore", "Fáinne Gael an Lae", "Cill Chais") and humorous a cappella songs like "The Waterford Boys", "The Pool Song" or "The Sick Note".
When The Dubliners announced their retirement in 2012 after finishing their 50th Anniversary Tour, Seán Cannon decided to keep on touring with former band members Patsy Watchorn and Eamonn Campbell and Banjo player Gerry O'Connor under the name of "The Dublin Legends".
Cannon still manages to do some solo work in between the touring. He played gigs with Irish songwriter Pat Cooksey and more recently with his sons, James and Robert Cannon. They call themselves "The Cannons" and perform traditional Irish folk music as well as songs by Shane MacGowan, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash and Hank Williams.
Discography
The Gaels
The Gaels (Midland Sound, 1969)
As a solo artist
Woes of War (Mount Recording Studio, 1974)
The Roving Journeyman (Cottage Records, 1977)
Erin the Green (Ogham Records, 1979)
The Dubliners
All albums from 1983 to 2012—see The Dubliners discography
The Dublin Legends
An Evening with The Dublin Legends: Live in Vienna (2014)
The Cannons
The Cannons (2011)
Live in Salzgitter, Germany 2015 (double CD, 2016)
Trivia
Cannon is immortalised in the Christy Moore song "Lisdoonvarna". The line "Seán Cannon Doing Back Stage Cooking" is a direct reference to when Seán travelled to all the music festivals in the late 1970s with a converted caravan and sold curry.
References
1940 births
Living people
Irish male singers
Irish male guitarists
Irish folk musicians
Musicians from County Galway
People from Galway (city)
The Dubliners members
20th-century Irish guitarists
21st-century Irish guitarists
20th-century Irish male musicians
21st-century Irish male musicians
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Zeigler Coal Company
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Zeigler Coal Company was a coal mining company founded by Joseph Leiter along with its company town of Zeigler, Illinois in 1903.
It was controlled by the Zeigler Coal Holding Company, which, in 1998, was purchased by AEI Resources. The company produced steam-grade coal, which it primarily sold to electric utilities.
Railroad Operations
The company had registered a reporting mark, ZCCX, with the AAR. At least one piece of rolling stock, originally their NW2 switcher #2-22, remains in full Zeigler Coal Company Paint.
Notes
Coal companies of the United States
Defunct companies based in Illinois
Defunct Illinois railroads
Coal in Illinois
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is a Japanese drum which has been selected as part of Wajima City’s cultural heritage (1961) and an Ishikawa Prefecture’s intangible cultural heritage (1963).
Playing gojinjo-daiko is strictly restricted to residents of Nafune, a small village in Wajima City, where only 250 people live, making it very rare to see a live drum performance.
Origin
The origin of the gojinjo-daiko dates back to 1577 when the warlord Uesugi Kenshin invaded Noto Province. As the local people were unarmed, they resisted by beating war drums and wore ferocious looking devil masks with seaweed and bark on their heads in a bid to scare off their enemies. The low sound of drums associated with the rumbling of the earth and caused Uesugi Kenshin and his soldiers to retreat.
References
External links
Drums
Japanese musical instruments
Performing arts in Japan
Wajima, Ishikawa
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Prison Break: The Final Break
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Prison Break: The Final Break is a 2009 television film of the Prison Break franchise. The movie covers the events which occurred in between the downfall of The Company, and the revelation of Michael Scofield's (Wentworth Miller) death. It details the manipulated arrest and incarceration of Sara Tancredi (Sarah Wayne Callies) for the murder of Christina Scofield, the final escape plan which Michael devises for Sara, and the details surrounding Michael's death. It also reveals the ultimate fate of Gretchen Morgan (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe). This was the initial ending for Prison Break, until the release of season 5.
Plot
Sara is arrested for the murder of Christina (Scofield) Hampton. She is held in the Miami-Dade State Penitentiary, where overcrowding necessitates that the female prison and jail inmates are housed in the same building. Prisoner Gretchen Morgan watches from a distance. Across the yard, Krantz and T-Bag are being held in the men's facility.
The General offers a $100,000 bounty for Sara's death. Sara is poisoned, but is saved by the prison doctor, who informs her that her baby will be taken away shortly after its birth.
Michael asks Warden Simms to protect Sara, but she refuses. Michael decides that he must break Sara out, enlisting Lincoln Burrows and Fernando Sucre's help. Gretchen sees Lincoln and Sucre scoping out the prison, and demands Sara include her in any escape.
Michael discovers a blind spot in the security cameras. Alexander Mahone, offered reinstatement with the FBI if he finds evidence incriminating Michael, offers to help Michael. FBI Agent Todd Wheatley breaks into Michael's apartment and sees the prison diagrams. When Michael returns, he says he was looking for weaknesses to report to Simms in the hopes that she grants him visitation.
Sara's attorney secures a court order allowing Michael to visit. Leaving the prison, he sees the cameras being adjusted to eliminate the blind spot.
Sara joins the "Family" of inmate Daddy, who gets her work in the motor pool, making Wife and other Family members suspicious.
Michael devises a new plan based on parachuting into the prison. Lincoln offer T-Bag $5,000 to help by setting off a fire alarm. T-Bag demands $100,000, suggesting they rob the bounty money from the General's agent, Joe Daniels. Lincoln and Sucre carry out the theft.
Gretchen kills a Family member who is attacking Sara. Gretchen again demands Sara include her in the escape because she wishes to see her daughter, Emily, and give her a gift. Daddy becomes infuriated when she hears what Sara and Gretchen have done.
It is revealed that Mahone has informed Wheatley about Michael's parachute plot. Michael continues to trust Mahone, giving him material to pass to Sara in the event of his death. Michael visits Sara and cryptically tells her the new plan; she must get to the chapel, which Michael has discovered has an emergency escape tunnel.
Just before the escape begins, Gretchen distracts a guard, and Sara confronts Daddy. Sara pushes Daddy into inmate Skittlez, instigating a larger altercation. Gretchen grabs the guard's keys, then hides in the kitchen with Sara.
Having been tipped off, Wheatley orders all lights shut off and positions armed officers near Michael's planned landing site. They shoot the parachutist, which turns out to be a dummy, while Michael sneaks out from under Wheatley's car.
Gretchen is spotted by guards, but she stalls them and covers Sara's presence, who makes it into the chapel. The guards take Gretchen away, and Sara retrieves the necklace that Gretchen made for Emily.
Michael reaches Sara, and they wait for T-Bag to get confirmation of the $100,000 and trip the fire alarm. Sucre reaches the money transfer store to find it closed; when T-Bag finds out that the money wasn't deposited, he reveals the plot to Simms. Wheatley responds by turning off the fire alarm and other systems that could cover escape noises.
Michael had predicted T-Bag's double-cross. With the alarms off, he burns through a locked door with a blowtorch. When the electronic lock on the next door stymies him, he instructs Sara to proceed as he goes elsewhere to short circuit the door. Sara refuses, but Michael emphasizes that this allows her to keep their baby. Michael is electrocuted while causing the short circuit. Sara escapes to a waiting Lincoln, Sucre, and Mahone. Mahone reveals he was part of Michael's true plan, and that Michael knew it required the deadly short circuit.
When Lincoln and Sara board a boat to the Dominican Republic, Sucre gives Sara the $100,000. Mahone gives Sara and Lincoln the material from Michael. On the boat, the two watch Michael's video, where he tells then that his terminal brain tumor had returned. He asks Lincoln to always be there for the child, and he asks Sara to watch out for Lincoln.
Cast
Starring
Guest starring
Release
In the United States and Canada, the movie was first released on DVD and Blu-ray on July 21, 2009. It aired on May 27 in the United Kingdom on Sky1 and aired also on May 24 in Israel on Yes.
Reception
Kevin Carr gave it 3.5 out of a possible 5 stars. Carr praises Sarah Wayne Callies for her role, but calls Lori Petty the scene stealer and "the most memorable character in the film."
References
External links
2009 television films
2009 films
Films directed by Kevin Hooks
Films directed by Brad Turner
Films set in Florida
Prison Break episodes
Films scored by Ramin Djawadi
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2000 Chilean telethon
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The 2000 Chilean telethon was the 16th Teletón solidarity campaign held in Chile, taking place on 1–2 December 2000. The theme for 2000 was "A Challenge to all Chileans." The goal was met and exceeded with a final collection of CL$6,772,445,028. The poster boy for the event was Ignacio Soto.
This version was performed 2 years after the previous because in December 1999, because the presidential elections took place. This was the first telethon to be held during the government of Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, making 2000 the first year the telethon was held under the leadership of Ricardo Lagos Escobar.
The Magic Number
An idea was made to hold a contest called "El Número Mágico Teletón", or The Magic Number Telethon, which consisted of a lottery-style promotional raffle. In order to participate in the raffle, consumers would have to buy products or services from the preferred sponsors of Teletón. This was in reason of the low amount of sponsors Teleton 2000 had, which was the lowest in its history. The prize consisted of 1 million Chilean pesos worth of groceries and services from the sponsors ($1,907 from 2000, adjusted for $131,712.56 as of 2023). The system worked from 0 to 999, with one chosen randomly and announced on the news channels of Chile, including:
•Teletrece (Canal 13 - the only channel where the result was shown on the air with an act signed before a notary)
•24 Horas(Televisión Nacional de Chile)
•Meganoticias (Megavisión)
•Chilevisión noticias (Chilevisión)
•Telediario (Red Televisión)
•Página Uno (UCV Televisión)
Ripley, Banco De Chile, and Johnson's were the only sponsors to not participate in the promotion.
Performances
At 10:00 pm on Friday, December 1, the 2000 Telethon kicked off with a musical number performed by entertainer Antonio Vodanovic alongside all of the poster boys and girls from the previous crusades from 1978 to 1998 on the façade of the Teatro Teletón, where each performer (Álvaro Véliz, José Alfredo Fuentes, Cecilia Echenique, Rachel and Mala Junta) sang the end of their year's song. Don Francisco gave his traditional speech of encouragement and the best moments of past telethons were projected on a giant screen.
Among others, Pedro Fernández, Lucero, and Myriam Hernández performed. The emotional highpoint of the telethon came when Millaray Viera, the daughter of the deceased Uruguayan singer Gervasio, performed a tribute both to her father and to all those who had died and supported the charity event during the 22 years it had been running.
At midnight, a group of sports professionals led by Eliseo Salazar and including such sports luminaries as Mario Mauriziano, Gert Weil, Carlos Caszely, Rocío Ravest, and Fernando González performed an original musical number. The second section began with a set of cumbias broadcast from the Teatro Monumental and performed by Daniel Fuensalida, Miguel Piñera, Luis 'Chichón' Hernández, and Gloria Aros. Other participants included Tropical Sound, Antonio Ríos, Alegría, and Organización X.
In the early hours of the morning, the comedians took the stage with celebrity performances by Checho Hirane and Cristián García-Huidobro. Memo Bunke, Millennium Show, Dinamita Show, Melón and Melame, Dino Gordillo and Daniel Alcaíno as Peter Veneno also performed. Then, the much anticipated "Vedetón arrived, presented by Leo Caprile and with the participation of Marcos 'Charola' Pizarro, where the cabaret stars Beatriz Alegret, Tatiana Merino, Marcia Saenz and Anoika Wade arrived dressed as prisoners. Those responsible for freeing them were members of the popular and controversial theatre group 'Los Sin Vergüenzas'.
At dawn, the female section began with Kike Morandé and the new comedy persona Charly Badulaque, a character of Claudio Reyes. Some of the other participants were Nicolás Massú, Jorge Zabaleta, Pedro Lladser and Fernando González, who finished as the section winner.
In the morning there was a large drop-off in donations which was followed by an electrical failure that affected the whole theatre. Mario Kreutzberger asked Chilectra about the possibility of a generator. Following this was a segment of La Nueva Ola with the presenter from Radio Pudahuel, Pablo Aguilera. The children's section was then broadcast from the Central Court of the Chile National Stadium.
In the afternoon Disfruta, Lider, and Santa Isabel performed. The reduction of donations was becoming worrying, leading to an improvised appearance of the Venezuelan artist José Luis Rodríguez, 'El Puma', who made a passionate speech to the Chileans to get up and take part, along with singing "El Pavo Real". Donations increased greatly after his performance.
Before going to the newscasts from the separate television channels, Lider announced that they had collected $250,387,198 in total. Following the broadcasts, the latest total of $3,524,679,023 was read out in the theatre.
At 10 p.m. on Saturday, 2 December the final section began in the Chile National Stadium with the winner of "Nace una Estrella" (A Star is Born) singing the Ode To Joy. Artists such as Alberto Plaza, Lucero, Pedro Fernández, Fulanito, Gondwana, Douglas, Azul Azul, and Elvis Crespo were onstage.
The final total of $6,450,614,205 was given and Don Francisco thanked all those who had taken part in this solidarity campaign. The entertainers and artists boarded the Tren de la Felicidad (The Happiness Train) for an Olympic circuit, becoming a symbol of the campaign. In addition, over the scoreboard, written in fireworks was the phrase "Gracias Chile" (Thank you Chile), as had happened in 1995, 1996, and 1998.
Telethon lottery
The Telethon company put on a contest for the campaign despite the few sponsors involved that year. It was called "El Numero Magico" (The Magic Number) and consisted of a lottery. To qualify for the draw, you had to show a preference for products and services available on that Telethon. The prize was a total of $1,000,000 in products associated with the 16th solidarity campaign.
The winning number selected was announced in the news broadcasts (Teletrece (Canal 13), 24 Horas (TVN), Meganoticias (Megavisión), Chilevisión Noticias (Chilevisión), Telediario (Red Televisión), and Página Uno (UCV TV)).
Related events
Distinguishing itself from previous years, Telethon 2000 also created several events to help large companies collect significant donations.
Lomitón: Continuously throughout the entire course of the program, all Lomitón restaurants were open from Iquique to Puerto Montt, with the aim of selling 270,000 sandwiches in about 20 hours. This goal was achieved, allowing the restaurant chain to donate CL$84,599,000 to Telethon.
Líder: From the start of the event at the Teatro Teleton, a huge sand hourglass was run through five times (for the five letters of the word LIDER that lit up, one by one, every time the last grain of sand fell). Upon the opening of all Líder's mega-markets on December 2, the campaign would levy 100% of the purchases of all products that were on Telethon. When the last letter lit up the cost of all of the purchases in the next hour and a half throughout Chile was donated by Líder, totaling CL$250,387,198.
Disfruta: During the afternoon at the Central Tennis Court of the National Stadium, Disfruta challenged 2,000 people to arrive wearing the Chilean colours (white, blue, and red) and a guitar. Totaling 5,000, the crowd sang first a well known song "Si vas para Chile" (If you're for Chile) and then a popular advertising jingle about the Disfruta effervescent salts of that time. In return, Disfruta donated CL$120 million for an advanced assisted walking system for disabled children.
Santa Isabel ("Besotón" (Big Kiss)): Also that day, but in the Playa El Sol de Viña del Mar, 1,000 couples (men and women), each carrying a bag from Santa Isabel supermarkets, simultaneously kissed for one minute. As a result, the supermarket company gave Telethon a donation of CL$25 million.
Donation totals
Sponsors
Artists
National singers
Alberto Plaza
Mala Junta
Douglas
Cecilia Echeñique
Millaray Viera
Gondwana
Álvaro Véliz
La Sonora de Tommy Rey
Lucybell
Chancho en Piedra
La Sociedad
Joe Vasconcellos
Tropical Sound
René de la Vega
Alegría
International singers
Lucero
Pedro Fernández
Antonio Ríos
Luis Fonsi
Sólo para Mujeres
María Jean Marie
Nancy Guerrero
Edo Antonio
Lynda Thomas
La Mosca Tsé-Tsé
Cuentos de la Cripta
Azul Azul
Elvis Crespo
José Luis Rodríguez "El Puma"
Organización X
Fulanito
Comedians
Álvaro Salas
Peter Veneno
Dinamita Show
Los Indolatinos
Memo Bunke
Millennium Show
Dino Gordillo
Melón y Melame
Charly Badulaque
Coco Rallado
Luciano Bello
Children's section
Profesor Rossa
Cachureos
Zoolo TV
Adult's section
Tatiana Merino
Marcia Sáenz
Beatriz Alegret
Anoika Wade
Trivia
Plans were made to hold a Telethon in 1999, taking place on November 26 and November 27 of that year, but ended before completion. This was due to the proximity to the presidential election and on the severe economic crisis in Chile.
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External links
Telethon
Chilean telethons
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Kirby Star Allies
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Kirby Star Allies is a 2018 platform video game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. It is the twelfth mainline installment in the Kirby series, the player controls Kirby in his quest to prevent a priest named Hyness from reviving a dark force to destroy the universe. Kirby must complete each level by jumping, inhaling enemies, and using his array of abilities to progress.
Development of the game began during the 25th anniversary of the Kirby series. The developers later added additional content for the game for the sake of adding more references from past games in the franchise. The game also features more emphasis on higher definition graphics by making the screen more spread out.
Star Allies initially received mixed reviews, with praise directed towards the game's graphics, mechanics and soundtrack, but criticism directed toward its lack of depth and low level of difficulty. However, general reception was later re-evaluated as positive after free additional content was later added, being praised for adding a new layer of difficulty. The game was a commercial success, selling 4.38 million copies as of December 31, 2022, making it one of the best-selling games on the Switch.
Gameplay
Kirby Star Allies is a 2.5D platform game played from a side-on perspective. Players control the series' titular protagonist Kirby who can be accompanied by up to three companions. Kirby can throw hearts at enemies to turn them into allies. The game can be played alone with the game's AI controlling companions or cooperatively with other players controlling companions. When Kirby has companions, new special attacks become available which allow Kirby to combine his abilities with those of his allies', a feature not seen since Kirby: Squeak Squad. The elemental fusions last for as long as the power is held or until a new element is introduced over it, while some of the combinations are single-use moves that bear more of a resemblance to the combinations found in Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards. When Kirby has three allies, they can perform "Friend Actions" on specific stages, like "Friend Train" and "Friend Star." Players start with a certain number of lives and can earn more lives by getting extra lives or by collecting 100 stars. Kirby will lose a life if he falls into a bottomless pit or his health bar is depleted. The game ends when the player runs out of lives, although the player can continue the game from the most recent save point by selecting "Continue".
The game also introduces the "Dream Friend" system, which allows the player to call upon characters from past Kirby games as special allies with expanded movesets. Bandana Waddle Dee, King Dedede, and Meta Knight can all be unlocked as Dream Friends through progression in Story Mode. Additional Dream Friends have been added via software updates.
Plot
On the Jambandra space station far away from Kirby's home Planet Popstar, a dark crystal heart explodes due to an imperfection in a mysterious ritual, sending its numerous fragments, Jamba Hearts, hurtling into deep space. Many characters, including King Dedede and Meta Knight, are possessed while investigating the dark hearts that land on Popstar. A pink heart hits Kirby, but it instead gives him the ability to befriend enemies by throwing hearts. Kirby notices many Waddle Dees bringing food to Castle Dedede and decides to investigate. After Kirby defeats Meta Knight and King Dedede and frees them from the Jamba Heart's influence, a large fortress known as Jambastion lands on Popstar. After defeating three generals of ice, fire, and electricity, Francisca, Flamberge, and Zan Partizanne, respectively, Kirby and his friends fly to the far reaches of space.
Kirby and his friends connect a path to Jambandra Base and breach its defensive barrier. They battle Zan once again before meeting Hyness, an evil cleric who is planning to restore a dark force, Void Termina, to full power using the Jamba Hearts. After being defeated, Hyness sacrifices the generals and himself to subsequently revive Void Termina. Kirby and his friends use a Friend Pedestal to summon the Friend Star but it transforms into the Star Allies Sparkler via the power of the four Heart Spears that were stuck in the prison of Void Termina. After overcoming its humanoid body, also regurgitating Hyness, Francisca, Flamberge, and Zan Partizanne in the process, and defeating its bird form, it is revealed that its true form is a purplish pink cluster with three dark eye-like spots that can arrange themselves to resemble Kirby's face. Kirby then destroys Void Termina with the Star Allies Sparkler, summoning friends in the process. The Sparkler is destroyed by the resulting explosion, but Kirby uses a Warp Star to return himself and his friends safely home.
Through a series of pause screens in various boss fights, it is explained that Void Termina, Kirby, and various bosses from previous games are likely reincarnations of the godlike being known as Void. When they come in contact with high concentrations of energy, they reincarnate into a new form, with this being's personality determined by whether this energy is positive or negative. During the battle against Void Termina, as well as the non-canon Void Soul fight in the Ultimate Choice on Soul Melter difficulty, several attacks are reused from past Kirby bosses, suggesting that the bosses mimicked are also forms of Void. After the release of the extra content, a new "Soul Melter EX" difficulty of the True Arena was added, which replaced the Void Soul battle with a battle against Void themself. Once Void is defeated, they seem to smile, as they are finally free to reincarnate into a new, happier form.
Development and release
Kirby Star Allies was developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo. The game is thought to be based upon the first incarnation of the cancelled Kirby game for the GameCube, the trailer for which shows Kirby making multiple helpers, akin to the fundamental element of Star Allies. Development of the game began during the 25th anniversary of the Kirby franchise. The game was initially teased under the tentative title Kirby during E3 2017. In September 2017, the game's official title was announced during a Nintendo Direct presentation. The game was released for the Nintendo Switch game console on 16 March 2018. On 3 March 2018, a free demo of the game was released on the Nintendo eShop showcasing two of the game's stages.
HAL Laboratory developer Shinya Kumazaki went over the world map concept, and the ability of creating more open, higher resolution imagery with the Nintendo Switch console. They swayed to making the screen more spread out in contrast to Kirby, as they could make Kirby smaller but still retain shape, while being able to present more of the background at one time. The more extended background helped the player from getting lost, as they could see more on screen at one time.
The idea for the downloadable content was to help give attention to past Kirby games, and the series as a whole. The developers, rather than focus on an existing narrative, wanted to create a new experience for the characters. Kumazaki noted how if they were to rather focus on an intricate story, it would ruin the fun of the adventure. When discussing the lack of other popular characters from the franchise, he said that there were certain characters he wanted to appear, such as Galacta Knight from Kirby Super Star Ultra. They created a development rule, where they would only select one character from each game to represent the main series.
After the game released, Super Kirby Clash and Kirby Fighters 2 were released, in 2019 and 2020 respectively, using the same engine.
Reception
Kirby Star Allies received a "mixed or average" rating according to video game review aggregator Metacritic, based on 83 critic reviews. The game was nominated for "Family Game of the Year" at the 22nd Annual D.I.C.E. Awards.
The game was praised for its visual appearance and strategic elements. Mitch Vogel from Nintendo Life called the visuals "top notch", but yearned for a more distinctive design. Destructoid reviewer Chris Carter praised the "gorgeous rendered backgrounds", and stated how recruiting enemies to your team "goes beyond an adorable gimmick." EGM appreciated the friend concept, and said it kept puzzles and game elements fresh throughout gameplay. Brendan Graeber from IGN liked the layer of strategy and the concept of re-arranging the friends for different puzzle solutions. He stated how puzzles were intriguing and unique, as they always had the player re-arranging their team. Critics also appreciated the accompanying soundtrack, calling it catchy and praising its gradual change. Peter Brown from GameSpot praised the visuals, and called the aesthetic "perfectly executed". He liked how the soundtrack would "ample motivation and entertainment", and enjoyed the gimmick of teaming up with enemies.
Critics complained of a lack of difficulty, which they felt induced a sense of being uninvolved. Polygon reviewer Jeremy Parrish called the game predictable and familiar, and wrote how the game "plays things incredibly safe", compared to recent titles such as Kirby: Planet Robobot. Kyle Hilliard from Game Informer summarized his review by noting that the game was forgettable, and how the difficulty made him feel as if he was barely playing the game at all.
Post-launch
At the release of the game's final post-launch content, some critics reevaluated the game, finding that the additional content resulted in an improved experience. Stephen Totilo of Kotaku commented that, while the main game was "a cakewalk", the additional Heroes in Another Dimension mode was "a head-scratcher and a reflex-tester", stating that Star Allies was "one of the most-improved Nintendo games on the Switch roster."
Sales
Upon the game's launch, Kirby Star Allies became the fastest selling Kirby game in the United Kingdom. The game sold 222,031 copies within its first week on sale in Japan, which placed it at number one on the all format sales chart. By the end of March, it had sold over a million copies. As of March 2019, Kirby Star Allies has sold 2.56 million copies. The 2023 CESA Games White Papers revealed that Kirby Star Allies has sold 4.38 million copies, as of December 31, 2022.
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2018 video games
HAL Laboratory games
Kirby (series) platform games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Nintendo Switch games
Nintendo Switch-only games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games that use Amiibo figurines
Video games with 2.5D graphics
Video games about magic
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Video games scored by Jun Ishikawa
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Tribal guarachero
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Tribal guarachero, also known as trival, is a music genre that fuses electronic dance music with cumbia or certain rhythms from regional Mexican music genres.
Tribal guarachero is sometimes referred to as "3ball". Despite the similarity between the letter "b" and "v" in Spanish, it should not be confused with tribal house or tecnocumbia music.
History
The style originated from the lower and middle-class neighborhoods of Mexico City in 2000 and 2001. It then moved to Monterrey, Nuevo León, in 2007, before expanding to the United States in 2008. The genre's popularity peaked in Mexico and in parts of the United States with large Mexican and Mexican-American populations in the early 2010s. One of the precursors and most popular of tribal guarachero producers is 3Ball MTY from Monterrey.
Characteristics
Tribal guarachero music is a fusion of genres such as regional Mexican music, including technobanda, and EDM genres such as techno, electro house and club music. With a 4/4 time signature, the genre is often made up of cascading triplets and a BPM of 140 to 280. The rhythm employs Afro-Cuban rhythms and Latin synths.
During the 10s and 20s the style became popular in Colombia with emerging DJs and musicians like Victor Cardenas, Deyvi, DJ Travesura and others. Some reggaetoneros mixed the style and created very popular songs like Farruko's "Pepas".
Usage
As a dance and EDM music style, tribal guarachero music can be used in solo dances with a unique dance movement, or in dance troupes to compete in danceoffs. Mexican pointy boots are often associated with tribal guarachero music and are worn in these danceoffs.
See also
List of Mexican tribal guarachero artists and bands
Séga
References
Cumbia music genres
Mexican styles of music
Electronic dance music genres
2020s in Latin music
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Tiger Express is a steel wild mouse roller coaster located at La Mer de Sable in France. From 2000 until late 2010, the roller coaster was located in Walibi Holland in the Netherlands under the name Flying Dutchman Gold Mine.
See also
2011 in amusement parks
References
Roller coasters in France
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Grim Building
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The Grim Building is an office building and former medical clinic located in Kirksville, Missouri. Constructed in the Jacobethan Revival style in 1905, it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in June, 1979.
History
Brothers Ezra and Edward Grim, both physicians, had a desire to consolidate their medical practices under one roof. In 1904 they contracted with the St. Louis, Missouri architectural firm of Weber and Groves for a building large enough to house offices, examination rooms and operating suites. Local contractor Albert L. Holmes was chosen for the construction, which was finished in October, 1905 for a final cost of $11,248. This was considered only slightly higher than a similar size building of more utilitarian design, surprising considering the ornate details often associated with a Jacobethan Revival building.
The exterior is of red brick with white accent stones and trim around the windows. Great detail was given to the main entrance, a hooded limestone basket-handle arch with considerable ornamentation. An adjacent carriage house still remains from the original construction, though it has been heavily renovated over the years to provide more office and retail space. The Grims spared little expense on the interior either, with plentiful high-quality oak woodwork throughout and Tennessee marble in the main first floor hallway. Several fireplaces in the building feature ornate metal screens and green glazed tile in the immediate floor area.
The Grim brothers used the eastern half of the first floor for outpatient surgery and treatment rooms until they established the Grim Brothers Hospital in 1910. A new hospital building was completed for them just south of the First District Normal School; however, Edward Grim continued to use the original building for his office until his death in 1936.
The brothers' partnership went on hiatus for a time beginning in 1917 when Ezra Grim joined the U.S. Army Medical Corps, serving in France during World War I. They would continue in partnership with the hospital until their retirement while also maintaining ownership of the original building, renting out office space to other businesses. The ownership of the building remained within the extended Grim family until 1970 when a grandnephew sold it to outside investors.
Plans were put forth in the 1980s to demolish the building and replace it with more parking for downtown businesses, despite the buildings' very good condition. However, public outcry, and new ownership of the building, prevented the demolition from happening. Renovation and restoration returned the Grim Building to an appearance much like it did when first constructed, save for modern lighting, heating and cooling, and some carpeted areas of individual offices.
Although not a museum by intent, the interior decor of the building features many items and photos that chronicle the medical history of Kirksville, from osteopaths like Andrew Taylor Still to medical doctors such as the Grim brothers.
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References
Buildings and structures in Adair County, Missouri
Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri
Jacobethan architecture
Commercial buildings completed in 1905
National Register of Historic Places in Adair County, Missouri
1905 establishments in Missouri
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arafat%20%28journal%29
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Arafat (journal)
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Arafat: A Monthly Critique of Muslim Thought was a monthly periodical founded by Muhammad Asad in Kashmir in 1946.
It was named after the plain of Arafat, the level area before the gates of Mecca where pilgrims spend the ninth day of Dhu al-Hijjah in huge camps as part of Hajj. Asad was the editor, publisher and the sole contributor of the periodical. In the words of Asad: "Arafat was a kind of 'journalistic monologue' meant to clarify - as much as might be possible for a single man - the great confusion prevailing in the Muslim community as to the scope and the practical implications of Islamic Law."
Arafat was primarily a vehicle for Asad’s ideas and a clarion-call at the critical time of Pakistan Movement, aiming at a fundamental reconstruction of an ordinary Pakistani Muslim's approach to the problem of Shariah. Three months before the partition, he wrote an article under the title “What do we mean by Pakistan?” in which he emphasized the real purpose underlying the future establishment of Pakistan. In another issue, published less than a month before the Independence Day, he penned an essay titled “Towards an Islamic Constitution” which was the first attempt ever made to outline the principles which must be incorporated in the constitution of any state that claims to be ‘Islamic’.
Essays that appeared in Arafat
"This Law of Ours" is a section of the book This Law of Ours and Other Essays which contains Asad's thesis on Islamic Law. The thesis is based on the following essays published in Arafat between September 1946 and February 1947.
A Time of Change
Talking of Muslim Revival
Whose is The Fault?
A New Approach
The Basis of our Civilization
Islamic Civilization and Islamic Law
Discussing a Proposition
The Companions and the Law
A New Development
Imitation of Thought
Creative Acceptance
"What do we mean by Pakistan", another section of the book This Law of Ours and Other Essays, is an essay that first appeared in Arafat in May 1947 (three months before the creation of Pakistan).
Other Essays
The Outline of a Problem (September 1946)
Why Arafat (September 1946)
Bragging About Our Past (September 1946)
Is Religion a Thing of the Past? (October 1946)
Notes and Comments (May 1947)
Towards an Islamic Constitution (July 1947)
Arafat—Quarterly Journal of Islamic Reconstruction (March 1948)
See also
Muhammad Asad Bibliography
This Law of Ours and Other Essays
Timeline of Muhammad Asad's life
References
External links
Asad's original Arafat article re-published by Islamic Studies
Criterion Quarterly
Ikram Chughtai's piece
Defunct magazines published in Pakistan
Islamic magazines
Magazines established in 1946
Magazines disestablished in 1947
Muhammad Asad
Magazines published in Pakistan
Monthly magazines published in Pakistan
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Ounet
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Ounet is a town and arrondissement in the Alibori Department of northern Benin. It is an administrative division under the jurisdiction of the commune of Banikoara. According to the population census conducted by the Institut National de la Statistique Benin on February 15, 2002, the arrondissement had a total population of 3,790.
References
Populated places in the Alibori Department
Arrondissements of Benin
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List of football clubs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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The following is an incomplete list of association football clubs based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.For a complete list see :Category:Football clubs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Clubs
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AC Sodigraf (Kinshasa)
AC Mbilingos (Kindu)
AC Nkoy (Kindu)
AS Aigle Rouge (Isiro)
AS Bantous (Mbuji-Mayi)
AS Dauphins Noirs (Goma)
AS Dragons (Kinshasa)
AS Kabasha (Goma)
AS Kalamu (Kinshasa)
AS Lokole (Bumba)
AS Mabela a Bana (Mwene-Ditu)
AS Maïka (Uvira)
AS Makinku (Mwene-Ditu)
AS Maniema Union (Kindu)
AS Momekano (Bandundu)
AS Ndoki a Ndombe (Boma)
AS New Soger (Lubumbashi)
AS Nika (Kisangani)
AS Nyuki (Butembo)
AS Paulino (Kinshasa)
AS Saint-Luc (Kananga)
AS Sucrière (Kwilu Ngongo)
AS Veti (Matadi)
AS Vita Club (Kinshasa)
AS Vutuka (Kikwit)
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Bakolo Mboka (Tshikapa)
Blessing FC
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CS Don Bosco (Lubumbashi)
CS Imana (Matadi)
CS Makiso (Kisangani)
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FC Lumière (Mbandaka)
FC Lupopo (Kikwit)
FC Mwangaza (Beni)
FC Renaissance du Congo (Kinshasa)
FC Saint Eloi Lupopo (Lubumbashi)
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JS Groupe Bazano (Lubumbashi)
JS Kinshasa
JS Likasi (Likasi)
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KFA (Lubumbashi)
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Lubumbashi Sport (Lubumbashi)
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OC Dynamique du Kindu (Kindu)
OC Muungano (Bukavu)
OC Mbongo Sport (Mbuji-Mayi)
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Racing Club de Kinshasa (Kinshasa)
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SC Cilu (Lukala)
Shark XI FC (Kinshasa)
SM Sanga Balende (Mbuji-Mayi)
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TC Elima (Matadi)
TP Mazembe (Lubumbashi)
TP Molunge (Mbandaka)
TS Malekesa (Kisangani)
TV Tshipepele (Kananga)
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US Bilombe (Bilombe)
US Kenya (Lubumbashi)
US Tshinkunku (Kananga)
Democratic Republic of the Congo sport-related lists
Congo, Democratic Republic
Lists of organisations based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Richard Porter
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Richard Porter may refer to:
Richard Porter (radio), on Heart Kent
Richard Porter (MP) for Midhurst (UK Parliament constituency)
Richard Kalan Porter, Canadian singer/songwriter
Dick Porter, former Major League Baseball outfielder
Ricky Porter, former American football running back
Richard Thomas Porter founding partner in the firm of Aveling and Porter.
Richard Porter, writer on Petrolheads and Sniff Petrol
Richard Porter, namesake of Porterville, Illinois
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porphyridium%20cruentum
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Porphyridium cruentum
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Porphyridium cruentum is a species of red algae in the family Porphyridiophyceae.
The microalga Porphyridium sp. is a potential source for several products like fatty acids, lipids, cell-wall polysaccharides and pigments . The polysaccharides of this species are sulphated and their structure gives rise to some unique properties that could lead to a broad range of industrial and pharmaceutical applications. Additionally, P. cruentum biomass contains carbohydrates of up to 57% have been reported. Thus, the combined amount of carbohydrates in biomass and exopolysaccharides of this microalga could potentially provide the source for bio-fuel and pharmaceutical. This algae contains phycoerythrin that can be extracted by lyse and chromatography.
The genus Porphyridium has been classified among blue-green, red, and green algae.
References
External links
Porphyridiophyceae
Algaculture
Algae biofuels
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Tambja diaphana
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Tambja diaphana is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Polyceridae.
Distribution
This species was originally described from Aibukit. It is considered to be unrecognisable.
References
Polyceridae
Gastropods described in 1877
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Fabio Ferraresi
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Fabio Ferraresi (born 24 May 1979) is an Italian footballer
Career
In the late 1990s he was signed by Aston Villa and appeared in several pre-season friendlies. It was noted during this time that he was notable for his ungentlemanly play-acting and gesticulative behaviour. He failed to make an impression on the Villa management.
In July 2009, he was signed by Valle del Giovenco.
References
External links
AIC profile
1979 births
Living people
Footballers from the Province of Pesaro and Urbino
Italian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Expatriate men's footballers in England
Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland
Italian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Italian expatriate sportspeople in England
Italian expatriate men's footballers
Aston Villa F.C. players
AC ChievoVerona players
Calcio Lecco 1912 players
US Avellino 1912 players
FC Chiasso players
ASD Martina Calcio 1947 players
Delfino Pescara 1936 players
Sportspeople from Fano
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Megachile rotundata
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Megachile rotundata, the alfalfa leafcutting bee, is a European bee that has been introduced to various regions around the world. As a solitary bee species, it does not build colonies or store honey, but is a very efficient pollinator of alfalfa, carrots, other vegetables, and some fruits. Because of this, farmers often use M. rotundata as a pollination aid by distributing M. rotundata prepupae around their crops. Each female constructs and provisions her own nest, which is built in old trees or log tunnels. Being a leafcutter bee, these nests are lined with cut leaves. These bees feed on pollen and nectar and display sexual dimorphism. This species has been known to bite and sting, but it poses no overall danger unless it is threatened or harmed, and its sting has been described as half as painful as a honey bee's.
Taxonomy and phylogeny
Megachile rotundata is a member of the subfamily Megachilinae, which includes more than 4,000 bee species; this currently makes this family the second-largest among all bee families. This subfamily is one of four other subfamilies of Megachilidae, the other three being the Fideliinae, Pararhophitinae, and Lithurginae. Phylogenetic studies suggest that this subfamily is monophyletic. More specifically, it belongs to the genus Megachile, which contains 52 subgenera and 1,478 species. The genus Megachile consists of bees that cut leaf pieces to line their nests.
Description and identification
Megachile rotundata is a European leaf-cutting bee placed in the subgenus Eutricharia, the "small leaf-cutting bees"; they are in length. They are partially bivoltine, meaning that under the right conditions they can produce two generations per year. These bees present a sexual dimorphism, in which the males are smaller than the females and differently marked. Megachile rotundata bees are a dark grey color. Females have white hairs all over their bodies, including on their scopae. In contrast, males have white and yellow spots on their abdomens.
Distribution and habitat
Megachile rotundata is currently found on all continents except Antarctica. In North America, the species was deliberately imported to assist in the pollination of food crops, but has now become feral and widespread. In New Zealand and Australia, M. rotundata was also introduced to assist in the pollination of alfalfa (known locally as lucerne), in 1971 in New Zealand, and 1987 in Australia.
Nest construction
Females construct tubular nests in a variety of sites, including rotting wood, flower stems, reeds, and soda straws. In the wild, females also create nests in small holes in the ground or in available cracks/crevices in trees or buildings. The nests are composed of a string of individual cells, as many as the space will allow. When managed for pollination, the females are induced to nest in paper cylinders similar to drinking straws or drilled blocks of wood.
Each cell is made from circular disks cut from plant leaves using the bee's mandibles, hence the name "leafcutter". Females use about 15 leaves per cell, called a concave bottom, overlapping the leaves to produce the thimble-shaped cell. While the bees do not store honey, females do collect pollen and nectar which they store in the cells of their nests. Specifically, females first regurgitate the nectar they have provisioned into the cell and then transfer the pollen that is attached to their scopa on top of the nectar. Each cell contains one pollen and nectar ball, and one egg with each cell containing a 2:1 nectar-to-pollen ratio. The completion of one cell in the nest requires between 15 and 20 provisioning trips. After the female lays her eggs, she seals the cell with circular leaf pieces.
Nest dimensions and sex ratio
Studies reveal that positioning of male and female progeny in the nest is strategic and that cell size plays a major role in the size of progeny, independent of the mother's size. Females have been observed to lay female eggs in the inner cells and male eggs in the outer cells. With respect to sex ratios, larger cell provisions are correlated with a greater production of female offspring. Two explanations exist for these behaviors in terms of mother's foraging behaviors: 1) The mother brings more provisions to the inner cells because she expects that female progeny will be produced there and 2) the mother chooses to fertilize her egg, and therefore promotes the production of female progeny, because she has to bring larger provision proportions to a larger cell. The sex ratio changes depending on nest size, length, and nesting material. This ratio is controlled by the female. These observations have been made for females that make their nests in tunnels. For example, a 5.5 mm tunnel, diameter is associated with a 3:1 ratio and a 6.0 mm tunnel diameter is associated with a 2:1 ratio of males to females. Shorter tunnels, those that are below 5.0 cm long, are less favorable.
Nest recognition
During nest construction, females transfer olfactory cues onto their nests to facilitate nest recognition. Specifically, they transfer these hormones by running their abdomens along the nest or excreting liquid from the tip of the abdomen. The olfactory cues are especially concentrated around the nest entrance. When these olfactory cues were experimentally removed, females of M. rotundata were unable to identify their own nests, revealing the importance of these chemicals. The chemical composition of these olfactory cues includes hydrocarbons, wax esters, fatty aldehydes, and fatty alcohol acetate esters.
Life cycle
As a member of the Hymenoptera order, the alfalfa leafcutter bee is haplodiploid. Adults emerge by the end of the summer through one of two developmental pathways: larvae will develop by the end of one summer and proceed through the a prepupal diapause phase until the next summer; or larvae, known as "second-generation" bees, skip this phase and emerge as adults in the same summer.
The larva transitions through four instar stages before emerging as an adult. During its development, which occurs rapidly, the larva consumes the pollen ball and enters diapause when the pollen is fully consumed. In its progression into the diapause phase, the larva defecates pellets in a ring formation and then spins its cocoon out of silk threads. The next spring, the mature larva pupates, a process that lasts 3–4 weeks, and completes its development. Once the bee is developed, it cuts its way out from the nest by chewing itself out of its cocoon.
Upon emergence, females mate immediately and begin constructing their nests after a week.
Progeny released via the two alternative pathways for emergence display different sex ratios and sizes. Among adults that emerge during the summer of the same year, the sex ratio is biased towards males. Among the "second-generation bees", however, the sex ratio is female biased. Further, spring-emergent adults weigh more than summer-emergent ("second-generation") adults. These differences have been proposed to be attributed to the chances of survival to mating of the two sexes and the metabolic costs involved in development. Bees that undergo diapause and emerge in the spring must endure the long winter, so require more food stores. As a result, they will be larger when they mature. Another explanation has been that smaller bees mature faster, thus are able to mate more quickly when they emerge in the summer to avoid the cold, harsh conditions of the winter.
The sex ratio of the offspring also depends on the distance between nesting and foraging sites. Females have been observed and determined to bias their offspring sex ratio to males at larger flight distances from the nest.
Kin recognition and fratricide
Research on second-generation bees illustrates that kin recognition of nest mates is not a genetically based behavior. Further, fratricide has been hypothesized to be a nondiscriminatory behavior; emerging individuals treat developing siblings and non-siblings similarly. When developing in cells behind diapausing bees, inner-nesting bees either bypass the nest in front of them, retreat back to their nests until diapausing individuals emerge, or chew through the nesting cells in front of them, killing the diapausing bees. These decisions are contingent on the extent of development of delay of nestmates. For example, emerging individuals would remain in their cells when they were delayed from emerging for a relatively short period of time. When delayed for longer periods of times, however, emerging individuals would use their mandibles to destroy the cells of their nest mates. With respect to sex differences, males have been observed to bypass nests more frequently than females due to the small size of males.
Sexual behavior
Mating
Megachile rotundata has been found to be a monandrous bee species. During the mating season, males attempt to obtain mates by positioning themselves at sites where female are likely to be, including foraging sites and nests. While females can mate several times, they resist male advances by restricting their mating to one sexual interaction and fleeing from these males. This behavior is attributed to female productivity during the construction of her nest and egg-laying. When harassed, females are unable to build their nests efficiently, making less foraging trips and spending a longer time overall in nest construction. Fleeing allows females to avoid being mounted. In the process of fleeing, however, females may lose their nesting materials, such as leaves and must then make an additional trip to make up for the lost materials.
Sexual pheromones
Sexual pheromones in epicuticular waxes are released by females to assist in attracting males as mates. Studies of the emissions from these waxes reveal that alkenes are the primary compound detected by males. Further, females of different ages emit different pheromones, containing different alkene compositions. In young females, substances that classify as either 7-pentacosene or 9-pentacosene are present in the highest concentrations and, in older females, 5-monoene compounds predominate. During mating season, males are able to detect these pheromones and preferentially select young females to copulate with.
Interaction with other species
Diet
Megachile rotundata can feed on nectar and pollen from a variety of plants but prefer Medicago sativa. Females will immediately begin feeding after emergence during the maturation period of their eggs. During feeding, the bee will insert its proboscis into the keel of the plant. In the process, pollen is brushed onto its scopa.
Predators
Currently, 28 species are known to prey on M. rotundata, all of which have unique ways of invading and destroying their host nests. Some species include Trogoderma glabrum, Trogoderma variabile, Tribolium audax, Tribolium brevicornis, and Trichodes ornatus. T. ornatus is the most formidable predator, with females laying their eggs in cracks between leaf pieces. During development, T. ornatus larvae kill host bee larvae and consume pollen from nest provisions. When it reaches the third stage of development, it burrows into adjacent cells and consumes host larvae irrespective of host larval instar stage. In another case, female T. glabrum females lay eggs in cracks between cells at the back of the nest. As they develop, the larvae begin to consume host larvae, moving towards the front of the nest and eating females first. In a third case, T. variabile attacks M. rotundata when it is in its cocoon or the pupal stage.
Parasites
Various families of wasps are the primary parasites of M. rotundata. Some species include Pteromalus venustus, Monodontomerus obscurus, Melittobia chalybii, Diachys confusus, and Sapyga pumila. The most formidable predator of this species is P. venustus, a parasitoid wasp in which the female uses her ovipositor to sting a developing M. rotundata larvae or pupae. After stinging to paralyze its host, the female lays her eggs on the host's surface and the development of the parasite offspring takes place. After about 15–20 weeks, adults of P. venustus emerge.
Other parasites include several species of Coelioxys and Nemognatha lutea. Coelioxys spp. take advantage of instances when females of M. rotundata are away from the nest, such as during foraging, to lay their egg in the host nest cells. Once a Coelioxys reaches the larval stage, it will kill the developing, host larva and consume all of the provisions that the host female placed in the nest. N. lutea, in contrast, initiate parasitism of hosts at foraging sites. Specifically, female N. lutea will lay their eggs on flowers and, when a bee arrives at this flower during provisioning, will secure itself, as a triungulin stage, to the bee. The triungulin will then, upon the host bee's arrival to its nest, remove itself from the bee, entering a cell and consuming all the provisions gathered by the host female.
Mating
Males of the species may, presumably by mistake, attempt to mate with other bee species that are using the same foraging areas as female leaf cutters. They follow several inches behind their intended partner, whether a leaf cutter or bumble bee, which is moving around a plant seeking a flower; then when the target does alight, the male leaf cutter darts rapidly onto the target's back. This causes bumble bees and nonreceptive female leaf cutters to move to another flower and in the process shed the male leaf cutter. The male may then move right to the next prospect, or may first stop for a sip of nectar.
Disease
Chalkbrood disease in M. rotundata, specifically larvae, was discovered in 1974 in Nevada. This disease occurs from exposure of M. rotundata to Ascosphaera aggregata, which is introduced into the nest cells through nectar and pollen provisions that females bring back from foraging visits. Signs of chalkbrood infection have been observed to occur in the fifth-instar larvae, leading to the milky appearance of the larval hemolymph and development of a pink, tan, or gray cast in their head or abdominal regions. These changes are accompanied by the spread of pink, tan, or gray color throughout the body of the larvae, and dark-colored, fungal cysts appear under the cuticle.
A variety of microorganisms have been isolated from the alimentary canals and frass of M. rotundata. Bacteria include Bacillus firmus, B. licheniformis, B. megaterium, B. pumilus, and Streptomyces spp., and fungi include Trichosporonoides megachiliensis. With respect to the development of chalkbrood, the bacteria and fungi may promote the inhabitation of A. aggregata. This is supported by observations in chalkbrood-diseased larvae, which contain higher levels of bacteria and fungi in their guts than in healthy larvae.
In controlling chalkbrood, such methods as decontamination of nest cells and materials and shelters was initially achieved using household bleach. Current methods include paraformaldehyde fumigation.
Defense
Female alfalfa leafcutter bees have stingers, but both sexes usually use their mandibles as a defensive mechanism, usually only defending themselves when squeezed or antagonized. So, bee suits, such as those required with honey bees, are not necessary when dealing with these bees. When these bees do sting, however, they do not lose their stingers or die after stinging.
Human importance
Human assistance in pest control
In managing M. rotundata for pollination, such methods as dichlorvos pest strips and ultraviolet lamps placed above liquid traps are effective in killing parasitoids, but not harming M. rotundata. Other methods of preventing parasitoid invasion include physical barriers. For example, the presence of thick artificial cavities separating the exterior from the nest and application of a felt cloth sealing to the back of the nesting board prevents parasitoid access to the nest. Another way that pest are controlled is by opening up the nesting material and cleaning the cocoons.
Pollination
Megachile rotundata was accidentally introduced into the United States during the 1940s, and its management as a pollinator leads to increases in seed production of some crops in the U.S. It has been shown to pollinate these plant species:
Medicago sativa
Brassica napus
Trifolium spp.
Legumes
Vaccinium angustifolium
Such behaviors as gregarious nesting, use of leaves and nesting materials that have been mass-produced by humans, efficient pollination of M. sativa, and synchronous emergence of adult bees during alfalfa blooming period provide positive benefits for the use of these bees in agricultural development.
When these bees are supplied to farmers for pollinating crops, they are usually supplied in a dormant state called prepupal, and kept in such state by a constant temperature of about . At a time that is appropriate for the crop's flowers, the farmer puts the prepupal form in an incubating environment, a constant temperature around The adult bees emerge from the pupal form after about 25 days at that temperature. Then, the farmer brings the bees to the field.
See also
List of Megachile species
References
External links
Effectiveness of the Alfalfa Leafcutter Bee as a pollinator of legume forage crops (ISHS membership required)
How to Manage Alfalfa Leafcutting Bees for Wild Blueberry Pollination
rotundata
Insects described in 1787
Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius
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Nancy H. Nielsen is an American physician. She is the senior associate dean for health policy in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. In 2009, Nielsen was recognized with an election to the Institute of Medicine (now called the National Academy of Medicine) for her medical advocacy work.
Early life and education
Nielsen was born in West Virginia, USA, and was raised a Baptist. Once she enrolled at West Virginia University for her undergraduate degree, Nielsen converted to Catholicism. Upon graduating, she enrolled at Catholic University of America for her PhD in microbiology and her medical degree at Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. In between Catholic University and medical school, Nielsen served as Chair of the biology department at D'Youville University.
Career
Following medical school, Nielsen established and worked at a private practice for over a decade while simultaneously serving as an Assistant Dean for Adademic and Student Affairs at the University at Buffalo. Beyond this, she was also appointed Chief Medical Officer of Western Regional Offices for the New York State Department of Health. In 2007, Nielsen became the second woman to be named president-elect of the American Medical Association (AMA) after serving in various leadership roles with the organization since 2000. The following year, Neilsen was named the recipient of the 2008 UB Distinguished Medical Alumnus Award and was selected to present the inaugural Oliver P. "O.P." Jones, M.D., '56, Endowed Lectureship in Medical Education. In 2009, Nielsen was recognized with an election to the Institute of Medicine (now called the National Academy of Medicine) for her medical advocacy work.
In 2011, Nielsen was appointed to a one-year role as a health senior advisor for stakeholder engagement at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Her health policy efforts were recognized with the Henry I. Fineberg Award for Distinguished Service from the Medical Society of the State of New York. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Nielsen participated in weekly interviews on WBFO about events surrounding the pandemic.
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Living people
Physicians from West Virginia
Date of birth missing (living people)
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Women Are No Angels () is a 1943 German comedy film directed by Willi Forst and starring Marte Harell, Axel von Ambesser and Margot Hielscher. The film was made by Wien-Film in German-occupied Austria.
Cast
Marte Harell as Helga
Axel von Ambesser as Richard Anden
Margot Hielscher as Lola
Curd Jürgens as Bandini
Richard Romanowsky as Alfred Bolt
Hedwig Bleibtreu as Frau Orla
Alfred Neugebauer as Charles
Petra Trautmann as Kitty
Gretl Heinz as Bianca
Angelo Ferrari
Camilla Gerzhofer
References
Bibliography
Hake, Sabine. Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. University of Texas Press, 2001.
External links
1943 films
1943 comedy films
German comedy films
Films of Nazi Germany
1940s German-language films
Films directed by Willi Forst
German black-and-white films
Films set on ships
Films about film directors and producers
1940s German films
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This a list of members of the second Free State Provincial Legislature as elected in the election of 2 June 1999. In that election, the African National Congress (ANC) consolidated its majority in the legislature, winning 25 of 30 seats. The Democratic Party (DP), with two seats, was represented in the legislature for the first time. Also with two seats, the New National Party (NNP) had halved its minority, as had the Freedom Front (FF), which retained only one seat.
The ANC's Winkie Direko was elected as the third Premier of the Free State. She was a newcomer to the provincial legislature, as were 18 of the other 24 members of the ANC's caucus. The caucus was reshuffled in June 2001, with some ANC members swopping seats with national legislators.
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Members
The table below lists the Members of the Free State Provincial Legislature as elected on 2 June 1999. It does not take into account changes in the composition of the legislature after the election.
Reference list
Government of the Free State (province)
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The Sogdian warriors were cavalry in Achaemenid army. The Sogdiana provided contingents of soldiers to the Achaemenid kings. And would later also be used by the Sasanian Empire as a infantry and cavalry unit.
See also
Clibanarii
Military of the Sasanian Empire
Cataphract
References
Military units and formations of the Achaemenid Empire
Iranian warfare
Sogdians
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Siobhan Thompson (born 29 July, 1984) is a British sketch comedian and comedy writer. She is known for her work on the CollegeHumor Originals web series and has appeared in other programs such as Adam Ruins Everything and Broad City. She was also a staff writer for Adult Swim's Rick and Morty.
Biography
Thompson originally came from England to the United States to be an archaeologist, but soon found herself drawn to comedy. She began taking classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade in 2010, and is a member of their Maude team Alamo. She is also the former host of the BBC America web series "Anglophenia", the co-host of the sketch comedy podcast Left Handed Radio, and has appeared in multiple television shows.
She first appeared in a CollegeHumor sketch in May 2015, and left the company at the end of 2016, before returning in late 2017.
In June 2018, it was announced that Joss Whedon would produce a comedy TV series created by Thompson and Rebecca Drysdale to air on Freeform.
Thompson is also a player on Dimension 20, a Dungeons and Dragons actual-play show which premiered September 2018 on Dropout, CollegeHumor's streaming service. Her characters include Adaine Abernant (Fantasy High, Fantasy High: Sophomore Year), Misty Moore/Rowan Berry (Unsleeping City), Princess Ruby Rocks (A Crown of Candy), Iga Lisowski (The Unsleeping City: Chapter II), Riva (A Starstruck Odyssey), Princess Rosamund Du Prix (Neverafter), and Imelda Pulse (Mentopolis). In addition, she guested on Not Another D&D Podcast as Apple Scrumper, and the Rotating Heroes Podcast as Astrid Starborn.
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External links
1984 births
Actual play performers
British sketch comedians
British women television writers
CollegeHumor people
English comedy writers
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English television writers
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Albavilla (Brianzöö: ) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located about north of Milan and about east of Como.
References
External links
Some pictures and information about Albavilla
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Mwananchi Communications Ltd is a company based in Tanzania. Mwananchi Communications Ltd, engages in the print media and digital media, and is the publisher of Tanzania's leading daily newspaper, Mwananchi (in Swahili), and others such as The Citizen, Sunday Citizen, Mwananchi Jumapili, Mwananchi Scoop and Mwanaspoti.
The executive editor is Victor Mushi and the Mwananchi daily managing editor is Joseph Nyabukika. Michael Momburi heads Mwanaspoti in Tanzania and Kenya. Mpoki Thomson is the Managing Editor of The Citizen Daily and Sunday Citizen. Upon his appointment to the Managing Editor role in January 2021, he became the youngest editor to hold such a position at 28 years old.
Bakari Machumu, the Managing Director of the company.
Mwananchi Communications Limited was established in May 1999 by Ambassador Ferdinand Ruhinda as Media Communications Ltd. But in April 2001, a new company was formed—Mwananchi Communications Ltd. In the very same year Mwananchi Communications Ltd was acquired by the Nation Media Group (NMG), which is based in Nairobi, Kenya.
Location
It is headquartered at Plot No. 34/35 Tabata Relini on Mandela Road, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It is part of the Nation Media Group, a publicly listed company, quoted on the Nairobi Stock Exchange.
History
Mwananchi Communications Ltd. was founded in 1999 when Hon. Ferdinand Ruhinda started a communications company known as Media Communications Ltd, which saw an important need to introduce a daily Swahili paper Mwananchi registered on April 20, 2000. On May 27, 2000, the first copy of Mwananchi was launched. It was a 12-page newspaper retailing at Sh150. The market at the time was not as fragmented as it is now, as there were only three mainstream daily Swahili newspapers in the market as opposed to the eight mainstream daily Swahili papers today. This paper has since had continuous improvement for format and presentation that has seen its leadership position in the market sustained.
Shortly after the launch of Mwananchi, a biweekly sports newspaper Mwanaspoti was launched on February 12, 2001. It was a 12-page sports paper retailing at Sh100.
In April 2001, two and a half years after launching the products, the role of publishing was handed over from Media Communications to a newly registered publishing company, Mwananchi Communications Ltd. In December 2002, Nation Media Group of Kenya purchased controlling interests in the company.
Having registered The Citizen with Tanzania Information Services (Maelezo) on March 2, 2001, the paper was only fully launched and published on September 16, 2004, to become the fifth English daily newspaper in the market.
The Company's publications were printed by contract until 2005, when it acquired a secondhand printing press from Australia.
In 2020 it was ordered by the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority to suspend the online publication of Mwananchi for six months and pay a fine of 5 million shilling for publishing "misleading information that caused confusion in the community". Two of its employees were arrested and charged accused of breaching the cybercrimes act of 2015.
Newspapers
English language newspapers
The Citizen – An independent English newspaper in Tanzania
The Citizen on Sunday – The Sunday edition of The Citizen
Swahili-language newspapers
Mwananchi – Leading daily newspaper in Tanzania
Mwanaspoti – A biweekly sports and entertainment newspaper
Mwanaspoti Kenya - Kenya’s first and leading Kiswahili sports newspaper
Mwananchi Jumapili – The Sunday edition of Mwananchi newspaper
Mwananchi Scoop - Swanglish digital magazine for youth that covers stories on entertainment and sports, stories, gossip, career and skills, technology, health, fashion and money management
Magazines
English language magazines
Your Health – a health magazine published every Monday and carried in The Citizen
Political Platform – a political review magazine published every Wednesday and carried in The Citizen
Success – an education review magazine published every Monday and carried in The Citizen
The Beat – a magazine focusing on entertainment and showbiz issues published every Friday and carried in The Citizen
Business Week – a business magazine published every Thursday and carried in The Citizen
Woman – a woman's magazine published every Saturday and carried in The Citizen
Sound Living - A family magazine that features uplifting stories that happen in society
Swahili-language magazines
SpotiMikiki – a sports magazine published every Monday and carried in Mwananchi
Siasa – focuses on analysis of the recent political events and investigative stories; a pullout published every Tuesday and carried in Mwananchi
Maarifa – a platform for sharing among students and teachers. It is a pullout published every Wednesday and carried in Mwananchi
Uchumi – a magazine that focuses on business news, events, and economic matters, it is published every Thursday and carried in Mwananchi
Jungukuu – a society issues magazine published every Friday and carried in Mwananchi
Starehe – a sports magazine published every Saturday and carried in Mwananchi
Johari – a special pull-out magazine targeted at the female reader, with articles on fashion, decor, beauty, short stories, parenting advice etc., published every Sunday and carried in Mwananchi Jumapili
References
Mass media companies of Tanzania
Nation Media Group
Companies established in 1999
1999 establishments in Tanzania
Mass media in Dar es Salaam
Newspapers published in Tanzania
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Mukesh Gadhvi (1 January 1963 – 1 March 2013) was an Indian politician and a senior member of Indian National Congress. He was a one-time Member of Parliament (MP) from Banaskantha and three-time Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Danta. He was born in Jhanker Village Sirohi, Rajasthan, he was son of Congress leader B.K. Gadhvi, three time MP from the Banaskantha seat, and remained Union Minister of State for Finance during the Rajiv Gandhi ministry and had remained the President of Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC).
Death
He died on 1 March 2013 at age 50, after suffering a brain stroke, a few days earlier. He is survived by his wife, one son and two daughters.
References
1963 births
2013 deaths
Indian National Congress politicians
Lok Sabha members from Gujarat
People from Banaskantha district
India MPs 2009–2014
Gujarat MLAs 1998–2002
Gujarat MLAs 2002–2007
Gujarat MLAs 2007–2012
Gadhavi (surname)
Indian National Congress politicians from Gujarat
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María Vijande Alonso (born 14 October 1995) is a Spanish badminton player and pharmacist (University of Salamanca, 2018). She is currently a clinical research associate trainee in GEICAM (Spanish Breast Cancer Group) and writer in Mejor con Salud, Spanish blog on health.
Achievements
BWF International Challenge/Series
Mixed doubles
BWF International Challenge tournament
BWF International Series tournament
BWF Future Series tournament
References
External links
Living people
1995 births
Spanish female badminton players
21st-century Spanish women
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Jean-Paul Beaulieu (January 22, 1902 – November 14, 1976) was a Canadian and Québécois politician and chartered accountant.
Background
He was born on January 22, 1902, in Saint-Paul-de-l'Île-aux-Noix, Montérégie. He studied at the Université de Montréal and McGill University. He obtained a license degree in commercial sciences from McGill. He has received honorary doctorates from Université Laval and Université de Montréal
Member of the legislature
Beaulieu won a by-election in 1941 and became the Union Nationale Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for the provincial electoral district of Saint-Jean–Napierville. He was re-elected in the district of Saint-Jean in the 1944, 1948, 1952 and 1956 elections.
He was appointed to the Cabinet in 1944 and served as Minister of Trade and Commerce, until his defeated in the 1960 election. He was defeated again in the 1962 election.
Federal politics
He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Member of the Progressive Conservative Party to represent the riding of Saint-Jean—Iberville—Napierville in the 1965 federal election. He lost in the 1968 election.
Death
Beaulieu died on November 14, 1976.
References
1902 births
1976 deaths
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs
Union Nationale (Quebec) MNAs
McGill University alumni
Université de Montréal alumni
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