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Krobielowice () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kąty Wrocławskie, within Wrocław County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Kąty Wrocławskie and south-west of the regional capital Wrocław.
The town was founded in 1321. As Krieblowitz in the Prussian Province of Silesia, it was one of the residences of renowned Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, co-victor with Wellington over Napoleon at Waterloo, who died here in 1819. It was incorporated into the new German Empire in 1871. From 1937–45 under the Nazis Krieblowitz was renamed Blüchersruh ("Blücher's resting place"), partly to honour the Field Marshal, and partly because the authorities thought the original name sounded "too foreign".
The town remained part of Germany until the end of the Second World War. Blücher's mausoleum was vandalized by Soviet troops in 1945. The area was transferred to Poland later that same year. Blücher's empty tomb remains.
In 1990s, the palace was renovated. It houses now a hotel and a restaurant. The area around the hotel was turned into a golf course.
References
Krobielowice
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Uralskiy Dixieland is an oldest traditional jazz bands in Russia. The band was formed in Chelyabinsk in 1969 under the aegis of the regional Philharmonic under the leadership of jazz musician and trumpeter Igor Bourco. Over the years, the band has performed throughout Russia, former USSR, and most European countries. Uralskiy Dixieland is the winner of the All-Union Contest of Variety Artists (Moscow, 1979) and international jazz festivals in Tbilisi (1978), Moscow (1984), Baku (1985), etc.
International tours
In 1984, after their performance in the German Democratic Republic, Uralskiy Dixieland entered the international arena and was well received by the audience. The band took part in an international TV music program in Potsdam — Rund – and was the winner of the International Dixieland Festival in Dresden. The band was highly acclaimed by GDR magazine: “Following the brilliant success of Leningrad Dixieland in 1979, 1980, and 1985, another jazz band from the Soviet Union — Uralskiy Dixieland from Chelyabinsk — became a major crowd-puller at the XVI International Dixieland Festival in Dresden.”
In 1986, an LP with select records of the performances at the XV and XVI International Dixieland Festivals in Dresden was released in the German Democratic Republic. Along with the bands from Scotland, Switzerland, the GDR, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Italy, Yugoslavia, and Denmark, the LP included two Soviet bands — Leningrad Dixieland and Uralskiy Dixieland.
Subsequently, Uralskiy Dixieland was also the winner and a participant of the international jazz festivals in Dresden (1984, 1990, 1999) and such prestigious western jazz forums as North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands, Brecon Jazz Festival in the United Kingdom, and others. The tour map of the band from 1989 to 2005 covered virtually the entire Europe, including the Netherlands, Belgium, France, (Germany), Sweden, England, Ireland, Denmark, Scotland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, the Isle of Man and Israel.
In 2017, the band has performed with great success at the International dixieland festival in Dresden again and became the only Russian delegate of 36 participating bands from Germany, Denmark, the UK, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and Hungary. Chelyabinsk jazzmen gave thirteen concerts on the most festival stages: street and club scenes, concert halls and at official receptions. All concerts in Dresden were held in full house. The German audience was cheering, shouting Bravo, danced, and invariably demanded to play an encore, «Zu gabe!»
In 2018 Uralskiy Dixieland performed at prestigious festivals: "Russian stars of world jazz" in Moscow, World Jazz Festival in Latvia, International jazz festival in Bansko, Bulgaria, Nišville International Jazz Festival in Serbia, Super Jazz Ashdod in Israel, etc.
The list of jazz artists that have co-performed with Uralskiy Dixieland is extensive. In Western Europe, the band played together with such legendary British singers as Nat Gonella and Beryl Bryden. In Russia, Uralskiy Dixieland gave several concerts together with American singer Denise Perrier, British singer John Downes, Spanish singer Big Mama Montse and others. The band expanded their creative horizons thanks to real-life contacts at various venues with such stars as Dizzy Gillespie, Art Farmer, Scott Hamilton, Chris Barber, Anatoly Kroll, Georgy Garanian, David Goloschekin, Igor Butman, Daniel Kramer, Alexander Oseychuk, Larisa Dolina, etc.
The experts often remark the authentic New Orleans style of Uralskiy Dixieland referring to their faithfulness to the traditions of this branch of early jazz. The musicians are real showmen – they are fond of signing, playing, and even marching.
In 2019, in honor of his 50th anniversary, band gave a big concert at the Chelyabinsk Philharmonic. Among the guests of the festive show were jazz musicians from Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Yekaterinburg: David Goloschekin, Maxim Piganov, Alexey Podymkin, Konstantin Gevondyan, Peter Vostokov, Lev Orlov, and the "Kickin' Jass Orchestra" ensemble.
During the quarantine due to pandemic of coronavirus the participants in Uralskiy Dixieland Valery Sundarev and Natalia Rikker conducted an online discussion of "What is jazz improvisation? Myths and truth". Director of the Jamey Aebersold Jazz Studies Program at the University of Louisville School of Music in Louisville, Kentucky, Professor Michael Tracy, Consul for culture of the US Consulate General in Yekaterinburg Matthew Thompson, jazz saxophonist and teacher Samir Kambarov became their interlocutors. With the help of the latest video conferencing system provided by the Ministry of information technology of the Chelyabinsk region, jazz musicians from Russia and the United States managed not only to meet and talk, but even to play music together! In the history of the Chelyabinsk jazz, an experiment with simultaneous playing online was conducted for the first time ever.
Band members
Valery Sundarev – bandleader, guitar, banjo, vocals
Victor Rikker – drums, percussion
Stanislav Bernshteyn – double bass, bass guitar
Nail Zagidullin – trombone, vocals
Aleksei Chudinov – trombone
Dmitry Perminov – saxophone, clarinet
Sergey Penkov – saxophone, clarinet
Ivan Pona – trumpet, flugelhorn
Konstantin Scheglov – piano, accordion, pianica
Kristina Ryzhkovskaya – vocals
Natalia Rikker – director, compere
Discography
Internationales Dixieland Festival – Dresden 1985/86 (GDR, LP, 1986)
Vernis domoy, Bill Bailey (Come Home Bill Bailey) (USSR, LP, 1987)
With Jazz From Russia (Netherlands, CD, 1991)
Russian Roulette (Netherlands, CD, 1993)
Russia Meets America (Netherlands, CD, 1995)
America Meets Russia (Netherlands, CD, 1995)
Igor Bourco's Uralsky Jazzmen featuring Beryl Bryden & Nat Gonella. Oh Mo’nah! (Netherlands, CD, 1997)
Veise Jazz’2003 (Russia, CD 1, 2)
Internationales Dixieland Festival Dresden. The best sound of the festival 2017 (Germany, CD, 2017)
Favorites (Russia, CD, 2018)
From Moscow to Rio (Russia, 2LP, 2020)
Uralskiy Dixieland feat. Oleg Akkuratov. Merry Christmas! Счастливого Рождества! (Russia, 2LP, 2021)
From Duke To Beatles. Tribute To John Pizzarelli (Russia, 2LP, 2022)
References
External links
Uralskiy Dixieland – Chelyabinsk Philarmonic website
Uralskiy Dixieland – All About Jazz
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Ulick Richardson Evans (31 March 1889 – 3 April 1980) was a British chemist who specialised in metal corrosion.
Life
He was born in Wimbledon, London and educated at Marlborough College (1902–1907) and King's College, Cambridge (1907–1911). He carried out research on electrochemistry at Wiesbaden and London until interrupted by the First World War, during which he served in the Army.
After the war he returned to Cambridge, where he carried out research on metal corrosion and oxidation for the rest of his working life, helping to develop quantitative and scientific laws of corrosion and writing over 200 scientific papers in the process, as well as several books.
Elected to the Royal Society in 1949, his citation stated that he was "one of the leading authorities on metallic corrosion. He has published a number of papers on this subject as well as books which have been translated into several foreign languages. In experimental technique he was the first to separate oxide films from corroding surfaces and to devise experiments to test the electrochemical theory of corrosion by differential aeration."
He retired in 1954 and died in Cambridge in 1980.
Honours and awards
1930: won first Beilby Medal and Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry
1949: elected Fellow of the Royal Society
1955: awarded the Palladium Medal by the Electrochemical Society.
1973: invested CBE
Publications
Metals and Metallic Compounds, 1923
Corrosion of Metals, 1924
Metallic Corrosion Passivity and Protection, 1937
An Introduction to Metal Corrosion, 1948
See also
Michael Faraday
Mars G Fontana
Herbert H. Uhlig
Marcel Pourbaix
Melvin Romanoff
References
1889 births
1980 deaths
People from Wimbledon, London
People educated at Marlborough College
Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Fellows of the Royal Society
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The JW Marriott Edmonton Ice District & Residences is a mixed-use skyscraper in Edmonton, Alberta as part of the downtown Ice District. It is a combination of a JW Marriott hotel in the lower section, with residential condos named Legends Private Residences in the upper section. Construction began in November 2014 and the hotel opened on 1 August 2019. The tower became the tallest building in Edmonton on 3 November 2017 and held that status until it was surpassed by the Stantec Tower in May 2018, en route to topping out its 56th floor at its final height of on 20 March 2018.
The hotel is located on the 1st through 22nd floors, and has 346 rooms, of conference hall space and a ballroom. Located from the 23rd through 54th floors is the Legends Private Residences, with high-end condominiums to buy or rent. The building has a total of 55 floors, at a height of . The tower topped out in March 2018 and reached its final design height on May 8, 2018. Originally the hotel was going to be a Delta hotel, but Marriott closed the purchase deadline first. It is the third JW Marriott hotel in Canada, after the JW Marriott The Rosseau Muskoka Resort & Spa in the District Municipality of Muskoka in Ontario, and the JW Marriott Parq in Vancouver, British Columbia.
See also
List of tallest buildings in Edmonton
References
External links
Ice District - JW Marriott
JW Marriott Hotel & Legends Private Residences (Emporis)
Ice District Hotel & Residences (Skyscraperpage)
Skyscraper hotels in Canada
Skyscrapers in Edmonton
Hotels in Edmonton
Ice District
JW Marriott Hotels
Residential skyscrapers in Canada
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Dodie McGuinness (born 1950) is an Irish Republican politician.
Born Anne Harkin, McGuinness worked at Altnagelvin Hospital before becoming involved in the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, then joining Sinn Féin in 1972. She was present at the events of Bloody Sunday.
Harkin married the brother of Martin McGuinness, becoming known as Dodie McGuinness. In 1985, she was elected to Derry City Council as a Sinn Féin member, holding the seat until 1993.
McGuinness stood as one of three Sinn Féin candidates in the European election in 1994, but was unsuccessful. By that year, she was a member of the Sinn Féin Ard Chomhairle. In 1996, she was elected to the Northern Ireland Forum as one of four Sinn Féin members in Belfast West.
McGuinness did not stand for the Northern Ireland Assembly, and by 2003, she was the head of the Sinn Féin Bureau in England. , she remains a member of the Ard Chomhairle, representing Derry. She is distantly related to the author Clive Cussler.
References
1950 births
Living people
Members of the Northern Ireland Forum
Women councillors in Northern Ireland
Sinn Féin politicians
21st-century politicians from Northern Ireland
20th-century politicians from Northern Ireland
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Nick Edwards (born February 24, 1984) is an Australian-born American former rugby union player. He played for the USA Eagles sevens team and made his debut in 2009.
Career
In 2013, Edwards along with 16 other players signed residency contracts with USA Rugby. He was in the New York Sevens squad that played at the 2013 World Club 7s that was held at the Twickenham Stadium. He was included in the squad for the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Moscow. He was later named in the squad for the 2013 Gold Coast and Dubai Sevens.
Edwards captained the Eagles at the 2014 USA Sevens in Las Vegas. He played at the 2014 Gold Coast Sevens at the beginning of the 2014–15 Sevens World Series but missed out on selection for the 2014 Dubai and South African Sevens before earning his way back into the squad for the 2015 Wellington Sevens.
At the 2015 Hong Kong Sevens the US sevens team drew with England to win their pool. Their loss to Samoa in the Cup quarter-finals saw them into the Plate semis, they beat Argentina but lost to Australia in the finals. Edwards and the Eagles won the Bowl finals at the Japan Sevens.
References
External links
USA Eagles Profile
1984 births
Living people
American rugby union players
Male rugby sevens players
United States international rugby sevens players
United States international rugby union players
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The Logan Institute of Religion is the largest institute of religion in the world, and the oldest in Utah. This facility is operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It is located in Logan, Utah, adjacent to the campus of Utah State University (USU). The institute provides religion classes to young adults aged 18-30, serves as a meetinghouse for local congregations, and sponsors activities for young adults.
History
Building construction
The Logan Institute was first opened in 1929, and has since been expanded with five additions. This has led to the building-block feel as different sections were added over time.
List of Additions
1929 - When the institute opened, the structure contained a single chapel, lounge, library, and classrooms.
1938 - Addition introduced a ballroom, game room, and two kitchens. An apartment was also added to house the institute director and his family. The director's residence has now been repurposed for use as office space.
1960 - The institute was doubled in size with a second chapel, six more classrooms, a cultural hall, and offices.
1977 - A larger library, student lounge, and instructors' offices were all added.
1990 - The southeast section of the building was added with six classrooms and offices for local church leaders.
1994 - The most recent addition added a full-size gymnasium used for sports, social events, and weekly devotionals.
2023 - The original building was torn down during March 2023 in preparation for constructing a new building over the next 2 years
2023 new construction
In March 2023, the existing structure was demolished. A new 100,000 square feet two-story building will be constructed in its place over the next 18 to 28 months. The building will be u-shaped with a central courtyard accessible from Darwin Ave, and a parking structure underneath will accommodate 170 cars.
The front of the building (facing the Taggart Student Center) will be mostly glass covering 51% of the ground floor area.
Other history
Construction on the Logan Institute began in 1928 as the first institute of religion in the state of Utah. When the building was completed, it was dedicated by LDS Church president Heber J. Grant on Easter Sunday, 31 March 1929. When it opened, there was a total enrollment of 114 students and offered two classes: Bible Literature and Moral Philosophy. The institute's first class graduated on 26 May 1935 and had 21 students. Thomas C. Romney was the first institute director and the only instructor until Milton R. Hunter was hired in 1936.
On 25 January 2012, the building suffered from a minor fire that started in the second floor kitchen. The fire began when a box of apples was left on a stove burner, causing $18,000 in damages. This prompted upgrades to the structure, including adding a sprinkler system to the building's upper level.
Features
Organs
The institute's west chapel contains a hybrid organ built by Anderson Organ Works with twenty-nine stops. Twenty-one of the stops are voiced by six ranks of pipes, with the remaining eight voices provided by speakers located within the swell box. The swell box also houses a rank of chimes, although the chimes are not playable from the current organ console.
The institute has an additional three electronic organs: one in the east chapel; one in the gym used for weekly devotionals; and one that travels with the institute choirs. Throughout the building there are also five grand pianos, and various upright pianos located in classrooms.
Art and Artifacts
The Joseph Smith Student Lounge has a 10' x 26' mural of the sacred grove painted by Kent Wallis. The west chapel previously had a stained glass window, but after renovations the window is now only visible from the attic area. The library is the largest in the state for an institute of religion and contains several items of historic value, including an original copy of the Book of Mormon and a 1906 sacrament set from the Mendon ward.
Student Involvement
Student Council
Student activities and events at the institute are organized by the local chapter of the Latter-day Saint Student Association (LDSSA). According to the Encyclopedia of Mormonism, LDSSA is "an organization which sponsors social, religious, and recreational activities for LDS college students and their friends." It was organized in 1966, with Richard Eyre serving as its first president.
LDSSA is led by the Logan Institute Student Council. The student council consists of seven presidencies who each lead a different LDSSA committee.
As of the 2022, the Logan LDSSA consists of the following committees:
Multimedia
Recreation
Just Serve
Publicity
Proclaim the Gospel
Feed My Sheep
Dance
Campus Relations
Ambassadors
Choirs
The Logan Institute's first choir, the Delta Phi Chorus, was organized in 1957 to serve as "ambassadors of good will for the institute." Today, the institute has two different choirs: the Logan Institute Choir and the Logan Institute Singers (formally the Latter-day Voices). The Logan Institute Choir is open for all students to join, and typically has 200-300 members. The Logan Institute Singers is by audition only, and will travel to perform in other venues, such as in seminaries.
The two choirs often combine to perform for special events such as semiannual concerts, the Joseph Smith Memorial Devotional, and for events held on Temple Square in Salt Lake City. The combined choir has performed for several worldwide young adult devotionals held in the Salt Lake Tabernacle when church general authorities have spoken, such as Lynn G. Robbins (2015) and Carl B. Cook (May 2019). A choir from the Logan Institute also performed in the church's general conference in April 2016 and April 2023.
Devotionals
Religion in Life
Religion in Life devotionals are held weekly in the gymnasium. Often, speakers are local church leaders or other influential figures. Other members of the community have also spoken such as when USU president Noelle E. Cockett spoke in September 2017.
Joseph Smith Memorial Devotional
The Joseph Smith Memorial devotional series is held annually in honor of Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. It is scheduled as close as possible to 23 December, Smith's birthday, and is usually held in USU's Smith Spectrum. The first devotional was held in 1944, and past speakers have included all who have served as church presidents since that time.
References
Seminaries and theological colleges in Utah
Universities and colleges affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Ziman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
John Ziman (1925–2005), British-born New Zealand physicist and humanist
Richard Ziman (born 1942), American real estate investor, philanthropist, and political donor
See also
Zisman
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Philippine television drama, also known as teledrama, Filipino telenovelas or P-drama, is a form of melodramatic, serialized, televised fiction in the Philippines. Teledrama is derived from two Filipino words: "tele", short for "telebisyón" (television) and "drama" (drama series).
Teledramas share characteristics with and have roots similar to soap operas and telenovelas. They have evolved into a genre with unique characteristics, however, and often reflect Filipino social reality. Teledramas are aired in the afternoon and prime time, five days a week. Their audience crosses age and gender lines, and they have the highest advertising rates in the Philippine television industry. Series last from three months to a year or longer, depending on ratings.
Philippine TV dramas also include serials and anthologies, usually shown weekly. These dramas have a finite number of episodes and usually last one season, again depending on ratings.
History
1940s-1980s
Soap operas in the Philippines began with Gulong ng Palad (Wheel of Fortune) on radio in 1949, and the genre expanded into television during the early 1960s. The first Philippine TV soap opera was Hiwaga sa Bahay na Bato (Mystery at the Stone House) in 1963, produced by ABS-CBN. Larawan ng Pag-ibig (Picture of Love), Prinsipe Amante (Prince Amante), and a number of others followed.
Gulong ng Palad, co-written by Loida Virina, was the longest-running radio serial and ran until the mid-1980s. Its TV version starred Marianne Dela Riva and Ronald Corveau and introduced young actors, including Romnick Sarmenta. Veteran actress Caridad Sanchez enhanced the series' popularity.
The government closed several networks (including ABS-CBN) during the 1972–1986 martial-law period, leaving RPN and GMA the country's only two commercial television networks. The lack of a diverse media base aided the emergence of nationwide satellite broadcasting, and competition between the two networks spurred afternoon and prime-time sitcoms and serials. Philippine TV schedules resembled those in the U.S., with networks scheduling shows in daily time blocks instead of separate weekday and weekend programming.
RPN produced María Flordeluna, starring Janice de Belén. Its cast also included Dindo Fernando and actress-director Laurice Guillen. GMA produced Anna Liza, starring Julie Vega. Before the introduction of a TV ratings system in the Philippines during the 1990s, the shows were rivals. Anna Liza, canceled in 1985 after Vega's death, had an unfinished storyline and a two-hour special in 1986.
1990s
Until the late 1980s, Philippine television dramas were broadcast during the afternoon. ABS-CBN resumed operations after the end of the Marcos dictatorship in 1986, and regained its audience lead by the end of the decade. During the early and mid-1990s, local sitcoms dominated Philippine television with the rise of ABS-CBN's Palibhasa Lalake, Home Along Da Riles, Oki Doki Doc and the political satire Abangan Ang Susunod Na Kabanata and GMA Network's Bubble Gang. International television swept the Philippines, beginning with Mexican telenovelas.
The decade is considered the golden age of Philippine television drama. Most, such as Agila, Anna Luna, Valiente and Mara Clara, were aired on ABS-CBN.
The most popular was the Las Tres Marias trilogy, produced by Televisa and starring Thalía. Marimar and Maria la del Barrio were broadcast in prime time on RPN, and Maria Mercedes was broadcast on ABS-CBN). Major networks began to reschedule Filipino telenovelas in prime time to attract increased advertising revenue. By the mid-1990s, teledramas surpassed sitcoms in Filipino prime-time television.
One of the country's best-known TV series was Mara Clara, which aired from 1992 to 1997. The longest-running teledrama in the post-martial-law era, it had frequent time-slot changes before settling into the standard 7-8:00 pm prime-time block by late 1995. In mid-1997, Mula sa Puso (another ABS-CBN series) saw the rise of Claudine Barretto. Barretto played the heiress Via in the two-year soap; Rico Yan and Diether Ocampo were her leading men, and Princess Punzalan played Selina (the series' most influential character). Mula Sa Puso was the country's first middle-class primetime series, differing from the telenovelas with protagonists from the lower socioeconomic classes.
GMA retained and popularized its afternoon dramas, such as 1995–1997's Villa Quintana (with Donna Cruz, Keempee de Leon and Isabel Rivas); it was followed by 1997–1998's Ikaw na Sana, with Angelu de Leon and Bobby Andrews. Both were moved to prime time.
2000s
Philippine television dramas evolved into teleserye, a portmanteau of the Filipino words telebisyon ("television") and serye ("series"). The term originated with the ABS-CBN drama Pangako Sa 'Yo, airing from 2000 to 2002 and starring Jericho Rosales and Kristine Hermosa, and the rivalry between actresses Eula Valdez and Jean Garcia. Pangako Sa'Yo, the Philippines' first teleserye, was considered a turning point in Philippine television because of its production and fast-paced, multiple-arc plotlines which distinguished it from telenovelas. Broadcast in the Americas, Africa and Asia, it remains the most successful Philippine television series worldwide. At the end of its run in 2002, Pangako Sa 'Yo had the highest-rated series-finale episode of a Philippine show. Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay, which ended in 2003, was the Philippines' first series which was a finalist in the Best Drama Series category of the 2003 International Emmy Awards.
ABS-CBN's 2004's Marina popularized the fantasy of most Filipino teleseryes. GMA Network's political drama Kung Mawawala Ka examined corruption, starring Eddie Garcia; it ran from 2001 to 2002, and received an award from the Philippine Movie Press Club (PMPC).
Sana'y Wala Nang Wakas, aired between 2003 and 2004, was the world's first drama series to allow viewers to choose a story's ending by texting. A contemporary ABS-CBN teleserye, Basta't Kasama Kita, starred Judy Ann Santos and Robin Padilla; notable for its depiction of the National Bureau of Investigation, it was the first Filipino series to broadcast a live series-finale episode in 2004. In 2004, GMA Network overtook ABS-CBN in popularity when it introduced an all-fantaserye prime-time lineup featuring female-lead shows such as Encantadia and Mulawin. GMA gained a ratings foothold with Darna, starring Angel Locsin.
The Philippines emerged as one of the world's largest television-drama-producing nations in the middle of the decade. International hits included ABS-CBN's 2006 Gulong ng Palad, starring Kristine Hermosa and TJ Trinidad, which was carried on TFC. A 2007 remake of Maria Flordeluna, which had aired on RPN-9 during the 1970s and 1980s, starred Eliza Pineda; the 93-episode series received the 2008 PMPC Star Award for Best Television Series.
TV adaptations of films included ABS-CBN's Panday (starring Jericho Rosales and Heart Evangelista), Mga Anghel na Walang Langit and Kampanerang Kuba, starring Anne Curtis. The "sineserye" genre was introduced with Bituing Walang Ningning, starring Sarah Geronimo and Angelika de la Cruz.
2005 marked the start of domination of religious-oriented teleseryes, and trend of airing family-oriented drama series produced by ABS-CBN's Dreamscape Entertainment on series based on Fernando Poe Jr.'s movies with Mga Anghel na Walang Langit which lasted for 210 episodes from May 9, 2005, to February 2006. Religious teleseryes continued to dominate on the following years and decades.
Late in the decade, GMA-7 and ABS-CBN became rivals. GMA aired its 2007 remake of the international telenovela MariMar. Three ABS-CBN series became popular: the remake of the 1977–1985 soap opera Gulong ng Palad, the teleserye Sa Piling Mo and the series Maging Sino Ka Man—the most popular teleserye internationally after Pangako Sa'Yo.
ABS-CBN produced its most expensive series, Lobo, in 2008; it starred Piolo Pascual and Angel Locsin—the first Filipino nominated for an International Emmy for a lead role. I Love Betty La Fea, a Filipino remake of the Colombian telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea, was broadcast that same year; it was the most successful Philippine remake of a Latin telenovela since GMA Network's Marimar remake the year before.
2010s
ABS-CBN and GMA Network both claimed to be the Philippines' most popular network. GMA Network began appealing to viewers in Mega Manila during the mid-2000s; ABS-CBN's prime-time shows attracted viewers in other parts of the country, particularly Visayas and Mindanao. Philippine media experts attributed the trend to ABS-CBN's return to Filipino programming.
The 2010s featured two successful teleseryes (Dahil May Isang Ikaw and May Bukas Pa). Dahil May Isang Ikaw began during the previous decade and ended on January 15, 2010. Religious teleseryes continued dominating television from the late 2000s since the premiere of Mga Anghel na Walang Langit on May 9, 2005. Among these religious teleseryes aired during the 2010s include May Bukas Pa, 100 Days to Heaven, Oh My G!, and Nathaniel, all of which were aired on ABS-CBN.
With the earlier success of the 2007 remake of Maria Flordeluna and the 2010 remake of Mara Clara (which introduced Julia Montes and Kathryn Bernardo), ABS-CBN popularized the revival of teen-themed telenovelas. Mara Clara success inspired a remake of 1997's Mula sa Puso. In 2011, a number of actors moved between ABS-CBN and GMA Network. Both networks' hold on prime-time television was challenged by TV5's teleserye Babaeng Hampaslupa.
Teleseryes began to include storylines reflecting contemporary Philippine controversy. ABS-CBN's 2012 Walang Hanggan addressed adultery, while the network's 2012–2013 series Ina, Kapatid, Anak explored surrogate motherhood.
GMA Network premiered the big-budget historical drama series Amaya, starring Marian Rivera; Rivera also appeared in Temptation Of Wife, the Filipino version of a popular Korean series, with Dennis Trillo. Trillo later appeared in the 2013 teleserye My Husband's Lover, the Philippines' first gay-themed prime-time series.
ABS-CBN's 2014 series, The Legal Wife, was followed by the 2015 remake of Pangako Sa'Yo, starring Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla. The 2015 teleseryes Bridges of Love was broadcast as Puentes de Amor; the first Philippine drama aired in Latin America, it premiered on April 25, 2016, on Panamericana Televisión in Peru. The 2017–2018 series Wildflower was the first Philippine prime-time teleserye to explore nepotism, human rights abuses and mental illness.
The decade marked the renewed popularity of long-running dramas after the early 2000s. May Bukas Pa, which premiered in the previous 2000s decade on February 2, 2009 and ended in the 2010s decade on February 5, 2010, ran for 1 year and 3 days. Be Careful With My Heart aired for 2 years from 2012 to 2014. from 2014 to 2016, GMA broadcast The Half Sisters. ABS-CBN's afternoon teleserye Doble Kara ran between 2015 and 2017. Ang Probinsyano, starred by Coco Martin, attracted national attention for depicting the Philippine Drug War and the Philippine National Police despite renewed MTRCB censorship, ran for 7 years from September 28, 2015 and ended in the 2020s decade on August 12, 2022, and currently holds the title for being the country's longest-running drama series since June 26, 2020 which surpassed the five-year run 1992–1997's Mara Clara. GMA Network dominated the late afternoon between 2016 and 2018 with its teleserye Ika-6 na Utos. Kadenang Ginto, also aired on ABS-CBN, premiered on October 8, 2018, and ended in the next decade on February 7, 2020.
Live teleserye finales returned for the first time since GMA's 2007 remake of Marimar. ABS-CBN's On the Wings of Love starred James Reid and Nadine Lustre. Born for You was the first musical teleserye since ABS-CBN's 2006 TV version of Bituing Walang Ningning.
ABS-CBN's series 2019 military drama The General's Daughter was replaced by The Killer Bride, which has been praised for depicting the Duterte administration.
2020s
Teleserye production was suspended In 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Interest in boys' love series developed after the Thai series 2gether: The series aired on ABS-CBN's Kapamilya Channel and blocktime agreement with ZOE Broadcasting Network through A2Z.
On June 26, 2020, the action drama series Ang Probinsyano surpassed the 1992–1997 series Mara Clara upon airing its 1,166th episode, with the former now the longest-running drama series on Philippine television since the said date.
Domination of religious-oriented drama series continued throughout the 2020s decade, with teleseryes belonging to this genre that aired in the 2020s are Huwag Kang Mangamba topbilled by The Gold Squad (Andrea Brillantes, Seth Fedelin, Kyle Echarri, and Francine Diaz), Maria Clara at Ibarra, and FPJ's Batang Quiapo.
After 7 years of airing, Ang Probinsyano ended on August 12, 2022, with 1,696 episodes and was replaced with the 2022 version of Darna, marking the change in ABS-CBN's primetime slot after its news program TV Patrol that was not seen since the start of airing of the said action drama series on September 28, 2015.
Impact
Philippine TV drama became popular during the early 2000s in Asia, Africa and Filipino communities in North America. Teleseryes have evolved from the telenovelas on which they were based. Philippine teleseryes have also attracted audiences in Indonesia, Malaysia and China. Often dubbed into local languages, they are sometimes shown with English and other foreign subtitles.
ABS-CBN and GMA were among the first Asian television producers to export dramas with a universal message, reflecting the reality of Filipino and other Asian societies. Pangako Sa 'Yo is the Philippines' most successful TV series worldwide. Before leading the Chinese television ratings during the mid-2000s, the series was seen by over one billion viewers in Southeast Asia and Africa. ABS-CBN introduced its International Sales website, providing access to its shows. The network shows Sana Maulit Muli (Taiwan), Lobo (dubbed as She-Wolf: The Last Sentinel), Tayong Dalawa, Dahil May Isang Ikaw, Kahit Isang Saglit, Katorse, Mara Clara, Magkaribal, Be Careful With My Heart (Vietnam) and Walang Hanggan were exported. They were followed by Ina, Kapatid, Anak, May Bukas Pa, Forevermore, Till I Met You, Wildflower and Ang Probinsyano.
GMA Network has the highest-rated pilot episodes with Darna and Encantadia in 2005, and made fantaserye a popular genre. The network produced Boys Next Door, a teen melodrama which was the first Philippine television series aired in South Korea. The 2007 Philippine adaptation of MariMar, GMA's most successful domestic television series, was also aired in Thailand, Malaysia, China, Singapore, Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya and Hawaii. Other GMA shows, such as Habang Kapiling Ka, Kahit Kailan, Bakekang, Muli, Impostora, Mga Mata ni Anghelita, Dyesebel and Encantadia, are still broadcast elsewhere in Asia and Africa.
Ang Probinsyano has had a wide-ranging effect on Philippine pop culture and society. Called the Pambansang Teleserye, the series has been nominated for and received a number of awards The show is widely regarded for tackling timely issues, and has generated controversy for its negative portrayal of the government and its agencies. It was defended, with viewers saying that the government should take heed. The series has been considered a kingmaker, with a high endorsement value in the 2019 midterm elections, and is a desirable platform for actors wishing to run for public office. A party list with the show's name, endorsed by series leads Coco Martin and Yassi Pressman, finished fifth in 2019 and won a seat in the House of Representatives. The series' lead character, Cardo Dalisay, has been called "steadfast and incorruptible". Ang Probinsyano is popular, and has been credited with reviving the action genre in film and television. Netflix streams the show under its international title, Brothers.
Adaptations
Philippine television dramas have spawned adaptations in other Asian countries:
Impostora (GMA): Impostors, Cambodia, 2012
Pangako Sa 'Yo (ABS-CBN): The Promise (សន្យាស្នេហ៍), Cambodia, 2013
Sana'y Wala Nang Wakas (ABS-CBN): Cinta Tiada Ganti, Malaysia, 2018
Kadenang Ginto (ABS-CBN): Putri Mahkota, Indonesia, 2020
Love Thy Woman (ABS-CBN): Belenggu Dua Hati, Indonesia, 2020
Sino ang Maysala?: Mea Culpa (ABS-CBN): Bukan Salah Cinta, Indonesia, 2020
Tayong Dalawa (ABS-CBN): Angkara Cinta, Malaysia, 2020
Hanggang Saan (ABS-CBN): Bir Annenin Günahı, Turkey, 2020
Forevermore (ABS-CBN): Vermem Seni Ellere, Turkey, 2023
See also
Television in the Philippines
List of Philippine drama series
List of ABS-CBN drama series
List of programs aired by TV5 (Philippine TV network)
List of GMA Network original drama series
References
Soap operas
Television drama
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Mullum Mullum Creek is a creek in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is the main watercourse of the Mullum Mullum Valley, a tributary of the Yarra River and Yarra Valley. For tens of thousands of years it was used as a food and tool source sustainably by the Wurundjeri people, Indigenous Australians of the Kulin nation, who spoke variations of the Woiwurrung language group.
It is one of the only watercourses lying within urban metropolitan Melbourne that is surrounded by native and regenerated bushland for almost its entire length, and is a significant remnant ecosystem in Melbourne. Around 80,000 people live in the creek's catchment area. The remnant bushland across its length provides habitat for significant species such as platypus, rakali, koalas, powerful owl, nankeen night heron, white-winged chough and yellow-tailed black cockatoo.
In recent decades the creek and valley have been central in many of the issues in Melbourne's eastern suburbs, such as; residential housing estates, regeneration of native vegetation and most recently, Tollway construction. The Eastlink Tollway passes underneath the valley through 1.5-km of tunnels to avoid disturbing the remnant ecosystem through the Mullum Mullum Gorge, however through Ringwood, it crosses the creek above ground, resulting in the relocation of the creek through this area.
Etymology
Mullum Mullum is adapted from Woiwurrung language and is thought to mean "place of many big birds" and led many historians to conclude that it meant "Place of Eagles". Many other interpretations have been suggested including; "place of many big swifts" or "place of many big owls" perhaps in reference to the powerful owls of the valley. Some historians suspect Mullum Mullum to be a mistranslation of another Wurundjeri expression Ballum Ballum meaning "place of many butterflies". Around the higher grassy woodlands there are large numbers of butterfly and moth species breeding in the grasslands, many of which have not yet been documented.
Geography and ecology
The creek flows for through the Mullum Mullum Valley travelling west and then north where it flows into the Yarra River. It passes through many of Melbourne's eastern suburbs including; Croydon, Ringwood, Mitcham, Donvale, East Doncaster, western Warrandyte and Templestowe. It is most often a slight green/brown colour due to the riverbed silt, during heavy rainfall it appears light brown. Its geography is generally divided up into 4 sections; The High Plateau Tract, The Mullum Mullum Gorge, The Valley Tract and The Plains Tract.
High Plateau Tract
Through: Croydon, Ringwood
A ring of high forested hills that separates the Dandenong Valley from the Yarra Valley is the source of the Mullum Mullum Creek. The high plateau is formed by the Wicklow Ridge to Reagh's Hill in the east, Bedford Road and Maroondah Highway in the south, and the Loughnan's Hill, Wonga Road ridge to the west. Commencing in Croydon south of Birt's Hill behind the Yarra Valley School, the Mullum Mullum Creek flows south downstream passing remnant orchards, bushland and parks through Ringwood and past Eastland Shopping Centre. Native hyacinth orchids and small grass trees are present in these remnant forests.
The otter-like rakali feeds in the stream here. Grassy, sedgy woodlands here are home to many undocumented species of butterflies as well as birds and possums. Drier mixed species forests gradually give way to swamp gums and manna gums as the creek heads south. Near New Street, the creek once turned and flowed south of Maroondah Highway down the now dry bed of the upper Heatherdale Creek and into the Dandenong Creek and Port Philip Bay, but a natural 'river capture' has now taken the waters of the creek and diverted them through a narrow gap in the hills to the north and the Yarra River.
Mullum Mullum Gorge
Through: Ringwood, Mitcham, Park Orchards, Donvale
With the extra captured water, the Mullum Mullum Creek has carved a steep "V" shaped gorge with rocky cascades. Here in the damp shadows, tall old growth riparian forests provide habitat for koalas and native birds species. Maidenhair ferns and tree ferns thrive. The drier hillsides are home to native orchids and echidnas. Passing under the steep bushland escarpment below Poynton Avenue in Ringwood, the rocky cascades and fern covered banks of the Mullum Mullum gorge become apparent. Tall manna gum woodlands, some with treefern understorey, are home to tawny frogmouths and sugar gliders. Near Schwerkolt Cottage, the rocky cascades are bordered by drier open grassy woodlands, rare Valley Heathy Forest rich with native orchids, particularly near Antonio Park, Yarran Dheran, the Hillcrest area at Mitcham, and the Chaim Court bushland and pipe-track at Donvale.
The tall ancient manna gum forests near Whitefriars College are home to ducks (who nest on the tops of old stags) crimson rosellas, galahs and other parrots (who nest in old hollows), rare large powerful owls and rainbow lorikeets. Pied cormorants and night herons cruise the creek pools. Rakali and the occasional platypus, fish for galaxias, gudgeon and yabbies. There are signs of wombat diggings on the hill face but they are rarely seen. The occasional swamp wallaby and eastern grey kangaroo visit the gorge. In warm weather skinks, blue tongue lizards and copperhead snakes can be seen. Other rarely seen species include marbled geckos and white-lipped snakes.
Valley Tract
Through: Donvale, Doncaster East, Warrandyte
At Park Road in Park Orchards the valley begins to open up. Here many small tributaries join the Mullum Mullum Creek. Loughnan's Creek connects to Loughie's Bushland and B.J. Hubbard Bushland Reserves in Ringwood North, and many green corridors and urban pathways link to the Mullum Mullum Creek bushland parks on the west. Pockets of good bushland such as the girl guides camp in McGowans Road provide refuge to koalas and tawny frogmouths. Rare yellow box open woodlands with kangaroo grass understorey to the east help protect the resident kangaroos and the breeding white-winged choughs. The higher ground in Park Orchards provides views to the dividing ranges and Mount Macedon and glimpses of the Yarra Valley to the north. Old gold mines in this area are home to bat colonies.
The rural areas of Park Orchards, the bushland from Tindalls Road to Reynolds Road, the Currawong Bush Park, the regenerated bushland near Larnoo Drive at Donvale all provide wonderful bushland habitat and a very significant linear open space. Small tributaries with wetlands, ferns and growling grass frogs link to the Mullum at Currawong Bush Park. Kangaroos, koalas and echidnas are permanent residents in the area, and platypus live in the Creek. The last major tributary, that forms the valley of the Green Gully Linear Park, joins the Mullum Mullum Creek, near Tikalara Park, just opposite the new parklands within the subdivision as the end of Blackburn Road.
Plains Tract
Through: Doncaster East, Templestowe
North of the Heidelberg-Warrandyte Road the creek slowly winds its way towards the Yarra River in Templestowe. Where the Mullum Mullum meets the Yarra, is also where Wurundjeri and European Cultures meet. Tikalara Park, the next stage of the Yarra Valley Metropolitan Park upstream from Petty's Orchard, is particularly a place of significance for the Wurundjeri. Here ancient scar trees and scatter sites provide physical evidence to support the documented evidence that this area was a clan meeting place of the Wurundjeri.
Pontville homestead on the Mullum Mullum Creek near the Yarra River is a site of state historic significance for its associations with early European settlement, and it is a known site of conflict between European and Wurundjeri cultures. The plains where the Mullum Mullum flows into the Yarra are home to kangaroos, wallabies, wombats and is a known platypus breeding ground. The Australian Platypus Conservancy has been studying the significant population of platypus in this area, and their research has confirmed that the Mullum Mullum Creek provides habitat for the highest density of platypus in the whole of the Yarra River catchment.
Settlements
Approximately 70–80,000 people live in the creek's catchment area. The settlements located along its course are listed below, from downstream to upstream;
Eastern Templestowe - 4,000
Western Warrandyte - 6,800
Doncaster East - 26,700
Park Orchards - 3,500
Donvale - 11,600
Eastern Mitcham - 8,000
Ringwood - 15,200
Croydon - 22,000
Croydon Hills - 5,400
History
The creek and valley is hypothesised to have been used by Indigenous Australians as a route from modern day Melbourne to Warrandyte. Early European settlement occupied well watered open grassy woodlands on either side of the ridge lines, along the main roads and railway lines, and the more open valleys. Orchards were established on the higher plateaus of Ringwood, Croydon, Park Orchards, and Templestowe.
The natural significance of the valley was recognised early by Naturalists who made excursions to Mitcham to see the remarkable bushlands and rich wildflower displays. In the 1920s and the 1930s it was proposed that the Mullum Mullum Valley should become protected bush parkland, but the remnant bushlands were not threatened by development, the scenery was not spectacular and society at the time had other priorities. After World War II, more people made excursions and day trips to Mitcham, and to Loughnan's Hill and Louhnan's Lake in Ringwood North to enjoy the views and the wonderful bushlands.
By 1946, local town planning schemes again proposed protection of this bushland as parkland, but local planning schemes were being brought together under the MMBW Metropolitan Planning Scheme.
In 1954, this scheme first proposed a series of "parkway" roads along our creek valleys, which were made obsolete in the 1969 Melbourne transport plan. Many local residents who chose, in the 1930s and 1940s, to establish their residences next to these bushland, have been fighting for more than 50 years to protect these bushlands from development.
Parklands and recreation
Parks Victoria operate several areas of designated parkland adjoining the Mullum Mullum Creek. Much of this parkland, particularly in the Open Valley Tract was replanted and regenerated, whilst other areas are remnant native bushland. The Mullum Mullum Creek Trail runs through much of this parkland giving cyclists through access to the entire valley. Below is a list of parks adjoining the creek in order from its origin to where it flows into the Yarra River. Adjoining geographic features are shown in bold.
Douglas Maggs Reserve (playground)
Peter Vergers Reserve (tennis)
Mullum Mullum Reserve Ringwood (football, cricket, playground)
Ringwood Lake
Schwerkolt Cottage (local museum & gardens)
Yarran Dheran
Hillcrest Reserve
Walert Creek
Buck Reserve (pony club & horse trails)
Mullum Mullum Creek Linear Park - upper section
Mullum Mullum Reserve Donvale (hockey, bowls, tennis)
Currawong Bush Park (wildlife enclosure, education centre)
Mullum Mullum Creek Linear Park - lower section
Mullum Mullum Wetlands
Deep Creek Reserve (baseball)
Domain Wetlands
Tikalara Park
Yarra River
Most of these parklands contain paths or trails, many of which are shared use (pedestrian/cycling). The Mullum Mullum Creek Linear Park follows the course of the creek in the Open Valley Tract between Doncaster East and Donvale, this is where the Mullum Mullum Creek Trail runs beside the creek. Bicycle trails upstream include the Mullum Mullum Valley Path through the gorge and a trail through Ringwood into Croydon beside the creek.
Crossings
There are many crossings of the Mullum Mullum Creek including around 15 footbridges, many of which are not included in this list as they are only small local pedestrian bridges:
The Parkway - local single lane bridge
Manna Gum Bridge - main road and footbridge
Reynolds Road - main road
Donvale Pony Club Footbridge
Tindals Road - secondary road
Park Road - secondary road and footbridge
Heads Road - local street (single lane)
EastLink - tollway tunnel
Quarry Road - local street (single lane)
Yarran Dheran footbridges
Deep Creek Road - secondary road
EastLink - tollway bridges (Ringwood Interchange)
Ringwood Bypass - main road
Oliver Street - local street
Oban Road - secondary road
Kalinda Road - local street
Tollway tunnels
From 2006 to 2008 Eastlink was built, a major tollway servicing Melbourne's eastern and south-eastern suburbs. Eastlink crosses the Mullum Mullum Creek and Valley in Ringwood and Donvale. During the planning stages several proposals were considered for how this crossing would be made, some of which included a 3 km tunnel to go under the entire valley and a surface freeway requiring the destruction of the natural environment. The state government decided on a compromise and two 1.5-km tunnels were subsequently built under the creek and valley. The eastbound tunnel was named after the creek, the other being named after Dame Nellie Melba.
The irony of the situation was that the primary reason this section of the creek was in so natural a state was that it had been protected from other development through the land having been reserved for the section of the proposed F35 Scoresby Freeway (Renamed Eastlink) to join the end of the Eastern Freeway under the 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan.
Pollution
The Mullum Mullum Creek suffers from many of the problems inherent in the development of urban environments and pollution in and around the creek is unfortunately quite prominent. Two of the most significant problems affecting the creek is sewage spills after heavy rain and leakage of septic tank effluent from residential properties into watercourses and subsequently, the creek itself. This is a problem that extends to the Yarra River and has become a major issue affecting the ecology of central Victoria and state politics.
In 2005, three kayakers contracted leptospirosis and suffered bouts of delusion and lung haemorrhaging after swallowing Yarra river water. Tests were conducted in the Yarra River and the Mullum Mullum Creek and the levels of many pathogens were found to have breached local and international standards for recreational water. This is documented in a 2007 report by EPA Victoria in which levels of Human faecal matter and E. coli were recorded and documented. Other major pollutants entering the creek via stormwater drains and surface runoff include dog feces, cigarette butts, packaging and other post-consumer waste.
Solid pollution
In terms of hard pollution, plastics like bags and packaging are most common, they catch in the trees at the high-water mark on the creek banks, tires are also particularly common as well as other car parts such as batteries and pieces of metal. Large pieces of concrete somehow find their way into the creek at various locations and sit amongst the rocks almost blending in if it weren't for the exposed aggregate. Clothing is also common, particularly synthetic items such as gloves, shoes and bags, while clothing such as shirts made from organic materials break down into the environment.
Other information
Many surrounding features, structures and parks borrow their names from the creek:
Parks
Mullum Mullum Creek Linear Park
Mullum Mullum Reserve Ringwood
Mullum Mullum Reserve Donvale
Trails & Pathways
Mullum Mullum Creek Trail
Mullum Mullum Valley Path
Roads
Mullum Mullum Tunnel
Mullum Place
Geographic
Mullum Mullum Wetlands
References
External links
Melbourne Water - Mullum Mullum Creek
Maps of significant bushland in the valley
Diagrams of the river capture and gorge
Riverbasin.org
Melbourne Water catchment
Rivers of Greater Melbourne (region)
Tributaries of the Yarra River
Remnant urban bushland
City of Maroondah
City of Manningham
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Malecón Lighthouse (, also known simply as "El Faro") is a defunct lighthouse along the Malecón in Centro, Puerto Vallarta, in the Mexican state of Jalisco.
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External links
1932 establishments in Mexico
1970 disestablishments in Mexico
Buildings and structures completed in 1932
Centro, Puerto Vallarta
Lighthouses in Mexico
Tourist attractions in Mexico
Buildings and structures in Puerto Vallarta
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Huguccio (Hugh of Pisa, Uguccio) (c. 1140- died 1210) was an Italian canon lawyer.
Biography
Huguccio studied at Bologna, probably under Gandolphus, and taught canon law in the same city, perhaps in the school connected with the monastery of SS. Nabore e Felice. He is believed to have become Bishop of Ferrara in 1190.
Among his supposed pupils was Lotario de' Conti, afterwards Pope Innocent III, who held him in high esteem as is shown by the important cases which the pontiff submitted to him, traces of which still remain in the "Corpus Juris" (c. Coram, 34, X, I, 29). Two letters addressed by Innocent III to Huguccio were inserted in the Decretals of Gregory IX (c. Quanto, 7, X, IV, 19; c. In quadam, 8, X,III,41). However, Innocent probably was not well acquainted with Huguccio's ideas on the Eucharist when he issued the decretal Cum Marthae (X 3.41.16).
He wrote a "Summa" on the "Decretum" of Gratian, concluded according to some in 1187, according to others after 1190, the most extensive and perhaps the most authoritative commentary of that time. He omits, however, in the commentary the second part of the Causae of the Decretum of Gratian, Causae xxiii-xxvi, a gap which was filled by Johannes de Deo.
Huguccio argued, in a widely known opinion, that a pope who fell into heresy automatically lost his see, without the necessity of a formal judgment.
Along with Gratian's Decretum, Huguccio's Summa contains opinions (i.e. Causa 27, quaestio 1, chapter 23, ad v; Distinction 23, chapter 25; Causa 33, quaestio 5, chapter 13) about deaconesses, women, and hermaphrodites.
Huguccio the grammarian
Huguccio the canon lawyer has traditionally been identified with the grammarian Huguccio Pisanus (Hugh of Pisa; Italian Uguccione da Pisa). The grammarian's principal work was the Magnae Derivationes or Liber derivationum, which dealt with etymologies, and was based on the earlier Derivationes of Osbernus of Gloucester. This identification of the two Huguccios as the same man dates back to a short biography compiled by the Italian historian Mauro Sarti, published posthumously in 1769. However, it has been challenged by Wolfgang Müller. While there is too little biographical evidence to be certain either way, Müller argues that the canon lawyer who went on to become Bishop of Ferrara is to be distinguished from the grammarian who was born in Pisa.
Further reading
Charles de Miramon, “Innocent III, Huguccio de Ferrare et Hubert de Pirovano: Droit canonique, théologie et philosophie à Bologne dans les années 1180,” in Medieval Church Law and the Origins of the Western Legal Tradition. A Tribute to Kenneth Pennington, ed. Wolfgang P. Müller and Mary E. Sommar, Washington, D. C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2006, 320-346.
Wilfried Hartmann and Kenneth Pennington, The history of medieval canon law in the classical period, 1140-1234, Washington, D. C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2008.
References
External links
1210 deaths
Canon law jurists
Bishops of Ferrara
12th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops
13th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops
Year of birth unknown
12th-century Italian jurists
12th-century Italian writers
12th-century Latin writers
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Javier Pérez may refer to:
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (1920–2020), Peruvian politician
Javier Perez-Capdevila (born 1963), Cuban scientist
Javier Pérez (baseball) (1902–?), Cuban baseball player
Javier Pérez (basketball) (born 1970), Spanish basketball player
Javier Pérez (taekwondo), Spanish taekwondo athlete
Javier Pérez-Ramírez (born 1974), Spanish chemistry professor
Javier Pérez (soccer coach) (born 1977), Spanish soccer coach
Xavi Pérez (born 1984), Spanish football defender
Javi Pérez (footballer, born 1986), Spanish football midfielder
Javi Pérez (footballer, born 1995), Spanish football midfielder
Javi Pérez (footballer, born 1996), Spanish football midfielder
Javier Pérez (taekwondo) (born 1996), Spanish taekwondo athlete
Javier Perez-Tenessa, Mexican entrepreneur
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In the Law of England and Wales, best interest decisions are decisions made on behalf of people who do not have mental capacity to make them for themselves at the time the decision needs to be taken. Someone who has the capacity to make a decision is said to be "capacitous". Since 2007, there has been a dedicated court with jurisdiction over mental capacity: the Court of Protection, although it mostly deals with adults. Most applications to make decisions on behalf of a child are still dealt with by the Family Court.
In a medical emergency, the patient may be obviously incapable of making a decision because they are unconscious and treatment cannot be put off. In that case an attempt to give treatment will be lawful if the person giving the treatment believes it is in the patient's best interest.
Where there is doubt about someone's capacity to make a decision but their capacity may improve later, the decision should be deferred if possible. People who experience delirium or altered states of consciousness, such as during a urinary tract infection, can temporarily lose capacity. If the person's capacity is unlikely to improve in future—such as people who have relatively severe dementia, certain kinds of brain injury, or a serious learning disability—a mental capacity assessment should be conducted. Mental capacity assessments are specific to each decision, so if a different decision is needed, the person's capacity may need to be assessed again. For example, a person might be able to make a decision about their care or treatment but lack capacity to make a financial decision.
Outside an emergency situation, the decision maker should normally take reasonable steps to consult other relevant people (such as the person's next of kin, other relatives, friends or associates) before making a decision on their behalf. If the decision is complex or fraught and will have reasonably serious consequences, an independent advocate should be appointed.
Mental capacity
Key principles
As of 2023, the main legal framework governing mental capacity in adults is set out in the Mental Capacity Act 2005. The key principles are:-
Mental capacity assessments
A diagnosis of (for example) dementia, or a learning difficulty, does not necessarily mean the person lacks capacity. A mental capacity assessment should take place when there is an impairment of, or disturbance in the functioning of a person's mind or brain and a decision that needs to be made. The mental capacity assessment checks whether a person can:-
Understand the information they are given;
Retain that information for long enough to make a decision;
Weigh up the information; and
Communicate their decision.
This assessment is made on the balance of probabilities. The person has capacity if they can do all four of these things, and lacks capacity if they cannot do at least one of them. A mental capacity assessment in respect of a lower-level day-to-day decision may be made by a carer or relative and need not be formally recorded, but capacity assessments about decisions that are complex or have important ramifications for the person are made by social workers, doctors or multi-disciplinary teams on behalf of local authorities and clinical commissioning groups, who have a lead role in implementing the Mental Capacity Act and are required to keep formal records.
Best interest decisions
The decision made in a person's best interests should be the best decision for them. Best interest decisions should promote the person's welfare while respecting their rights, their wishes and feelings, and their freedom. Where there is more than one option that could potentially be in the person's best interests, the decision maker should choose the one that least constrains their liberty ("least restrictive option"). Best interest decisions should not be for the convenience of the person's carers or the decision-maker.
The law assumes that carers and relatives will be able to make lower-level, day-to-day best interest decisions for a person lacking capacity. Generally speaking, a decision would need to involve a social worker or doctor if there is potential disagreement about capacity or what is in the person's best interest, if potentially life-affecting medical treatment is being considered, if abuse or crime is suspected, if significant amounts of money are involved, or if other people might be at risk.
Deputies
In some circumstances the Court of Protection can grant a deputyship. Deputies may be trusts or people, and if people must be aged 18 or over. They must consent to act as deputy. Once appointed they can make decisions on behalf of the person without capacity, should be consulted on decisions they do not make, and must report to the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG).
Advance decisions
An advance decision is made when a capacitous adult gives directions about future decisions that might need to be taken when they are not capacitous. If the advance decision is to refuse a particular treatment, then for the most part that treatment may not be given to them. Advance decisions may be withdrawn at any time while the person has capacity. Unless the person specifies otherwise, their advance decision overrules any decision made by someone with lasting power of attorney.
Advance decisions can only be used to refuse a life-sustaining treatment if the decision is in writing, signed and witnessed, and specifically says it relates to life-sustaining treatments.
Life-sustaining treatment
Best interests typically, but not always, require that the person is given the best life-sustaining treatment available.
Do not resuscitate
Do not resuscitate (DNR) orders, which are also known as "Do not attempt resuscitation (DNAR)" or "Do not attempt CPR", are decisions made by doctors in a patient's best interests. They are used when the likelihood of success is low and the likelihood of harm is substantial; when CPR might prolong or increase suffering; or if a capacitous patient decides that CPR should not be attempted. There is a presumption that CPR will be attempted unless a DNR is in force.
Power of Attorney
A power of attorney is created when a person appoints someone else as their attorney to make decisions on their behalf. The person making the appointment is called the "donor" and the person receiving it is called the "attorney".
An ordinary power of attorney is made by a person who is capacitous, and only lasts while they continue to have capacity. More usually, a power of attorney can be made when the person is capacitous that continues after they lose capacity. The current form is called a lasting power of attorney. It replaces the former enduring power of attorney. (No new enduring powers of attorney can be created, but those that were created before 1 October 2007 can still be registered.)
Enduring power of attorney only applies to the person's finances. The more modern and robust lasting power of attorney can apply either to financial decisions, or health and welfare decisions, or both, depending on what the donor chooses when they set it up.
Health & Welfare
Someone with lasting power of attorney for health and welfare can make decisions about where the donor should live (e.g. in their own home or in a care home of the attorney's choice), what medical care the donor should receive, what activities they should take part in, and with which people they can have social contact.
Finances
Someone with lasting power of attorney for finances, or someone with enduring power of attorney, can make decisions about the donor's money such as paying bills on the person's behalf, investing their money, or buying and selling property. The attorney needs to keep accounts of the donor's money separately from their own household accounts.
Registration and revocation
Powers of attorney can be registered via a solicitor or directly with the Office of the Public Guardian. There is an application fee. If someone already has power of attorney, but the donor wants to change it, then the donor needs to contact the OPG.
Children
Gillick competence
Children are said to be Gillick competent when they are capable of making some kinds of independent decision. The terminology comes from Gillick v West Norfolk AHA [1985] UKHL 7.
Fraser guidelines
The Fraser guidelines come from Lord Fraser's remarks in the same case. They apply specifically to a doctor giving contraceptive advice and medicine to a girl under 16. A doctor can do so:-
Children Act 1989
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
General resource here
European Court of Human Rights decision in R v Bournewood Community and Mental Health NHS Trust and HL v United Kingdom (2004) 40 EHRR 761: UK law at that time was in breach of article 5(1) of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
Outcome was Mental Health Act 2007 and invention of DoLS
Children
D (A Child ; deprivation of liberty), Re [2015] EWHC 922 (Fam)
overruled by
In the matter of D (A Child), [2019 UKSC 42
Cheshire West
Supreme Court decision the literature calls Cheshire West: An individual is deprived of their liberty if all three of the following are met:-
Lack the capacity to consent to their care/treatment arrangements
Are under continuous supervision and control
Are not free to leave
These are true irrespective of whether the person is compliant, i.e. they do not need to object—DoLS still applies to people who seem happy to be deprived of their liberty.
This decision caused considerable dismay among the local authorities and NHS trusts as it implies much more bureaucracy and much higher costs than the previous understanding of the law.
Future
Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill 2019, which passed into law in May 2019 and will replace the DoLS with a new Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) system. The ultimate aim is to streamline the process. The LPS will apply to those 16 and above unlike the DoLS which was specifically for 18+. The initial plan was for implementation in October 2020. It was announced by Helen Whately, Minister for Care in July 2020 that the implementation would be delayed, with full implementation expected by April 2022. Some of this delay was due to the Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. During this period a draft Code of practice will be produced which will go out to Public consultation. On 4 April 23 a further delay was announced by the government stating any implementation is likely to be beyond the life of this Parliament.
History
Madhouses Act 1774
Lunacy Act 1845
Idiots Act 1886
Mental Deficiency Act 1913
Mental Deficiency Act 1927
Mental Treatment Act 1930
Mental Health Act 1959
Mental Health Act 1983
In re F (Mental Patient: Sterilisation) (1990) 2 AC 1 (here), paragraph 1:- "... no court now has jurisdiction either by statute or derived from the Crown as parens patriae to give or withhold consent to such an operation in the case of an adult as it would in wardship proceedings in the case of a minor."
Notes
Footnotes
Sources
Mental health law in the United Kingdom
Capacity (law)
Power of attorney
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Esenler is a village in Tarsus district of Mersin Province, Turkey. It is situated in Çukurova (Cilicia of the antiquity) plains to the south of Turkish state highway D.400. It is almost merged to Yenice municipality. The distance to Tarsus is and the distance to Mersin is . The population of Esenler was 486 as of 2012.
References
Villages in Tarsus District
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The 2019 Mackay Cutters season was the 12th in the club's history. Coached by Steve Sheppard and captained by Cooper Bambling, they competed in the QRL's Intrust Super Cup. The club missed the finals for the sixth consecutive season, finishing in 11th place.
Season summary
After another last place finish in 2018, the Cutters underwent another roster overhaul, losing both starting front rowers, Nick Brown and Jordan Grant, to the Redcliffe Dolphins and key outside backs Nicho Hynes and Nathan Saumalu to the Sunshine Coast Falcons. In turn, they recruited former Super League players Alex Gerrard and Lloyd White from the Widnes Vikings, Sam Cook from the New Zealand Warriors, and Ross Bella, Paul Byrnes, Jordan Kenworthy and David Munro from the Townsville Blackhawks.
The club endured another tough season on the field, winning just three of their first 10 games. Four wins from their final 13 games followed and the club finished the year in 11th spot, three places higher than in 2018. Following the last game of the season, the club announced that head coach Steve Sheppard would leave the club, after three years in charge of the side.
New recruit Jordan Kenworthy was awarded the club's Player of the Year and Players' Player awards.
Squad List
2019 squad
Squad movement
Gains
Losses
Fixtures
Regular season
Statistics
Honours
Club
Player of the Year: Jordan Kenworthy
Players' Player: Jordan Kenworthy
Rookie of the Year: Reuben Cotter
Club Person of the Year: Ronan Curtis
References
2019 in Australian rugby league
2019 in rugby league by club
Mackay Cutters
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Guy Davis may refer to:
Guy Davis (comics) (born 1966), American comic book artist
Guy Davis (musician) (born 1952), American blues guitarist, actor, and musician
Guy Davis (drummer) (born 1983), drummer in the British rock band Reuben
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John Trimble (February 7, 1812 – February 23, 1884) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for Tennessee's 5th congressional district from 1867 to 1869.
Biography
Trimble was born in Roane County, Tennessee son of James and Leticia B. Trimble, Trimble pursued classical studies under a private tutor and at the University of Nashville. He studied law and was admitted to the bar.
Career
After beginning his practice in Nashville, Tennessee, he became Tennessee Attorney General in 1836, and served until 1842. He served as member of the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1843 and 1844, and in the Tennessee Senate in 1845 and 1846, and in 1859 and 1861. A Southern Unionist, he resigned when the state seceded. He served as a United States Attorney from April 1862 until August 1864, when he resigned. He again served in the state senate from 1865 to 1867.
Elected as a Republican to the Fortieth Congress, he served from March 4, 1867 to March 3, 1869.
Death
Trimble died in Nashville, Tennessee, on February 23, 1884 (age about 72 years). The location at which he is interred is Mount Olivet Cemetery.
References
External links
1812 births
1884 deaths
Tennessee Attorneys General
Republican Party members of the Tennessee House of Representatives
Republican Party Tennessee state senators
Southern Unionists in the American Civil War
People from Roane County, Tennessee
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee
19th-century American politicians
United States Attorneys for the Middle District of Tennessee
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The Ham bank murder occurred on 10 November 1976, at a branch of Barclays Bank in the Ham section of London, resulting in the murder of a bank teller working at the branch. The victim was Angela Mary Woolliscroft, fatally wounded by a shotgun.
Background
In 1976, Angela Mary Woolliscroft (1956–1976), who was born in Surrey and lived in Chessington, was working as a teller at the Barclays Bank branch at Ham Parade, Upper Ham Road, Richmond when she was fatally wounded by a shotgun during a robbery; she died on the way to hospital. After a major police operation, Michael Hart was arrested, put on trial, and in November 1977 sentenced to life imprisonment. Hart was released in 2002.
Robbery
On 10 November 1976 at 12:30pm Angela Woolliscroft was working as a cashier at the Barclays Bank at Ham, Richmond. A heavily disguised man threatened her with a sawn-off shotgun and told her to "Give me some money". She passed him some money under the screen. The man then fired the shotgun, destroying the safety glass screen and blowing her backwards. She died on the way to hospital. The gunman had made off with about £2,500 (£18,402.29 in 2020).
The gunman had left behind a woman's yellow raincoat that had been used to hide the shotgun. The coat had belonged to a Miss Marshall, and it was her car that had been used for the robbery. Her Austin A40 had been taken from the car park of Bentalls in Kingston and then returned. Also found was a large pale orange plastic bag that had contained fertiliser that had been taken from Parkleys estate opposite the bank.
Barclays Bank offered a reward of £50,000 for information leading to the arrest of the gunman.
Hunt
The hunt for the killer was led by Detective Chief Superintendent James Sewell of Scotland Yard. Hart was interviewed after a tip-off but had an alibi; he had signed on at the police station in Basingstoke where he was on bail for other crimes in the morning and again in the afternoon. However, on 22 November he was stopped after a traffic accident and police found a Hendal .22 automatic. A search of his house found a box of Eley No 7 trap shooting cartridges. Both the pistol and ammunition had been stolen in Reading on 4 November; also stolen was a double-barrelled Reilly shotgun. At first, the ammunition appeared to not match that used to kill Angela, which had been gameshot. However, they found that the ammunition had been incorrectly labelled.
Trial
Hart was arrested and charged with murder on 20 January 1977. Hart (aged 38) pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty of manslaughter. He maintained that he cocked the gun only to frighten, and that it went off by accident when he tapped the glass screen. He was found guilty of murder on 3 November 1977 and sentenced to life imprisonment, with a recommendation that he should serve at least twenty-five years. He was released in 2002.
Memorials
Angela Woolliscroft was buried at Surbiton cemetery on 29 March 1977. The funeral service was held at St Catherine of Siena Roman Catholic Church, Chessington, and was attended by members of the murder squad, the local MP, the deputy mayor of Kingston, members of staff from Barclays and pupils from Holy Cross convent, New Malden; the coffin was escorted by members of Barclays Bank international hockey team.
A memorial plaque was placed inside the bank building at Ham with the wording "In fond memory of Angela Woolliscroft who died on 10th November 1976. A member of staff of this branch who will always be remembered by her colleagues." The bank closed in 2014 and the plaque was moved to the branch in George Street, Richmond. There is also a memorial bench outside the former bank building in Ham (now a Sainsbury's store) and three more were placed round Ham Common. A crystal vase was filled with red roses on the anniversary of her death.
References
1976 in London
1976 murders in the United Kingdom
November 1976 events in the United Kingdom
1970s murders in London
Bank robberies
Barclays
Ham, London
History of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
History of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames
Monuments and memorials in London
Murder in London
Robberies in England
Violence against women in London
Female murder victims
Deaths by firearm in London
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The Puiseaux is a small river in the Loiret department, central France, left tributary of the Loing. It is long. Its source is in the commune of Les Choux. It flows north to Montargis, where it empties into the Loing. It is unrelated to the commune of Puiseaux.
References
Puiseaux
Rivers of Centre-Val de Loire
Rivers of Loiret
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The Sanctuary Lamp is a play by Irish playwright Tom Murphy written in 1975 but revised for subsequent productions. When premiered at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin its anti-Catholic stance caused enormous controversy with its author denounced in pulpits up and down the country. Defenders included the then President of Ireland who argued that the play was, along with The Playboy of the Western World and Juno and the Paycock, one of the greatest of Irish dramas.
The trauma of the play's rejection caused Murphy to withdraw from playwriting altogether for a few years. When it was revived in a substantially rewritten version at the Abbey in 2001 and then at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester in 2003 it was re-evaluated as one of Murphy's best plays and was enormously successful with audiences. A production of The Sanctuary Lamp received its London premiere at the Arcola Theatre in Dalston, between 10 March - 3 April 2010 in a production directed by Tom Murphy himself.
The Play - 1975 and post-1975 versions
The Sanctuary Lamp centres on four central characters - Harry Stone, a Jewish strongman who, having been sacked from the circus, has gone freelance, Francisco, the Irish juggler who was sacked with him, Maudie, a young girl and the Monsignor who presides over the Church in which Harry takes refuge.
In the original 1975 version the play unfolds over three acts. The first begins outside the Monsignor's church with Harry begging before hiding inside when Francisco appears, searching for him. As Harry finds himself listening to the Monsignor's sermon, Francisco makes an exhibition of himself, hurling abuse at the Catholic faith. After he is ejected, Harry and the Monsignor meet and, in an act of kindness towards a man in need, the Monsignor offers Harry the job of caretaker in the church. This Act is almost entirely omitted in the post-1975 version which begins with Harry's meeting with the Monsignor.
Both versions share the action of the remaining two acts. As Harry shelters in the church it emerges he has not only been sacked from the circus but has walked out on his troupe of freelancers which includes Francisco, Olga, his wife and a dwarf called Samuel. Harry has rejected them because of an affair Francisco has had with Olga.
In the church Harry befriends a waif-like young girl, Maudie, who is also sheltering in the church in the belief that somehow she will find forgiveness for some of the terrible things that have happened to her. Harry undertakes to protect Maudie - largely because she reminds him of his own daughter, Teresa, who died of consumption. Their plans are ruined when Francisco appears in search of his old friend. As the two men confront each other lies and self-deceits are stripped away and all go through their own dark night of the soul. But, having purged themselves of the past, the three resolve to go back into the world the next day, somehow reconciled and able to find their own private visions of redemption.
Themes
The Sanctuary Lamp explores major themes of redemption, love, guilt, spirituality and the existence - or non-existence - of God. Its portrait of the struggle of down-and-outs looking to find some kind of meaning to their lives is reminiscent of Maxim Gorki's The Lower Depths. In common with much of Murphy's work the play deals with the battle against nihilism and finds a form of redemption and hope in mankind's ability to show compassion, love and find an individual spirituality. The Lamp itself becomes an image of the light of the human soul unattached to dogma or religion.
Also in common with Murphy's other plays it mixes realism with an elegiac lyricism, the stark reality of the characters' suffering and destitution contrasting with the poetic aspiration of their souls. A twenty-minute speech delivered by Harry alone to the Lamp where he thinks God resides is a particularly masterful example of this.
See also
Tom Murphy
Catholicism
Christianity
Judaism
External links
The Sanctuary Lamp at The Irish Times Culture news.
‘The Sanctuary Lamp’ Outrages at the Abbey 1975 - Interview with Murphy about his play at RTÉ Archives.
The Sanctuary Lamp review at The Guardian Culture section.
The Sanctuary Lamp at the Abbey Theatre Archives.
1975 plays
Plays by Tom Murphy
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The Battle of Beaufort, also known as the Battle of Port Royal Island, was fought on February 3, 1779, near Beaufort, South Carolina, during the American Revolutionary War. The battle took place not long after British forces consolidated control around Savannah, Georgia, which they had captured in December 1778.
Brigadier General Augustine Prevost sent 200 British regulars to seize Port Royal Island at the mouth of the Broad River in South Carolina in late January 1779. Major General Benjamin Lincoln, the American commander in the south, sent South Carolina Brigadier General William Moultrie from Purrysburg, South Carolina with a mixed force composed mainly of militia, but with a few Continental Army men, to meet the British advance. The battle was inconclusive, but the British withdrew first and suffered heavier casualties than the Americans.
Background
The British began their "southern strategy" by sending expeditions from New York City and Saint Augustine, East Florida to capture Savannah, Georgia late in 1778. The New York expedition, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell, arrived first, and successfully captured the town on December 29, 1778. Remnants of Savannah's defenders combined with South Carolina militia under Major General Benjamin Lincoln at an encampment at Purrysburg, South Carolina to oppose the British.
When Brigadier General Augustine Prevost arrived from Saint Augustine in mid-January 1779, he assumed command of the garrison there, and on the 22nd sent a force under Campbell to take control of Augusta and raise Loyalist militia companies. Prevost decided thereafter to send a force to occupy Port Royal Island just up the coast in South Carolina, where he had been led to believe that Loyalist sentiment was strong. On January 29 , an unseaworthy ship of the line that had been converted to a floating battery, was towed by Royal Navy crews in longboats through the channel separating Hilton Head Island from the mainland. She was accompanied by a flotilla of smaller ships that carried 200 infantry from the 16th and 60th Regiments under Major William Gardner, who had orders to take control of Beaufort, the island's main settlement.
The only major defense establishment on Port Royal Island was Fort Lyttelton, which was garrisoned by a company of Continental Army troops under Captain John DeTreville. When he learned that a comparatively large British force was moving in his direction, he spiked the fort's cannons and blew up its main bastion in order to deny their use to the superior force. When General Lincoln learned that communications with Port Royal Island had been cut off by the British advance, he sent South Carolina Brigadier General William Moultrie, who had distinguished himself in the 1776 Battle of Sullivan's Island, and 300 men to counter the move. Moultrie's force was composed mostly of South Carolina militia from the Beaufort area, but it was accompanied by a few Continental Army regulars, and two companies of artillery from Charleston, which were headed by former Congressmen Edward Rutledge and Thomas Heyward, Jr. This force arrived at the main Port Royal ferry on the 31st, not long after DeTreville had finished destroying the fort. They crossed over to the island on February 1 and occupied Beaufort.
Battle
Gardner's men landed on Port Royal Island at the plantation of Andrew Deveaux (present-day Laurel Bay), a Loyalist who may have guided them, on February 2. Gardner sent a detachment to secure the island side of the ferry. These men retreated when they encountered Patriot troops, and Gardner began to move his main force toward Beaufort to face the Americans. Early on February 3 General Moultrie was alerted to the British presence, and moved his forces out of town. The two forces met near the highest ground on Port Royal Island, a rise called Gray's Hill that was about south of the ferry and in the middle of the island.
Gardner lined his men up at the edge of some woods near the top of the hill and advanced with bayonets fixed. The Americans approached and lined up in an open field outside musket range. General Moultrie positioned two six-pound field cannons in the center of his line, with a smaller two-pounder on the right. The Americans then advanced on the British, Moultrie observing that the action was "reversed from the usual way of fighting between British and Americans; they taking the bushes and we taking the open ground." The Americans opened fire first with the artillery, and then with musket volleys. The battle continued for about 45 minutes, at which point the Americans were running low on ammunition. Moultrie had begun a withdrawal when the British were also observed to retreat, leaving the field to the Americans. A company of light horse militia chased after the British, very nearly cutting them off from their boats. They captured 26 men, but were unable to hold all of them due to their small numbers.
Aftermath
In addition to the prisoners taken (sources cite either seven or twelve were retained), the British reportedly suffered 40 killed or wounded, although deserters reported that nearly half of Gardner's men had been hit by American fire. The Americans, in contrast, suffered only 8 killed and 22 wounded.
Gardner was criticized by Prevost for the mauling his detachment received because he strayed too far from his boats. It was not Gardner's fault, however, that he had no Loyalist support. The victory of a largely militia force over British regulars was a boost to the Americans' morale. However, severe losses incurred in early March at Brier Creek delayed American plans to move against Prevost's forces in Georgia. When Lincoln began moving troops toward Augusta in April, Prevost moved in force toward Charleston, but was able to do little more than briefly blockade the city before retreating back to Savannah. Port Royal Island was again occupied by the British during this campaign.
The battle is commemorated by a highway marker on U. S. Route 21 near the battle site. Fort Lyttelton's remains are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. As of mid-2023, the American Battlefield Trust and its partners have preserved more than 12 acres of the battlefield.
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References
Conflicts in 1779
Battles involving the United States
Battles involving Great Britain
Beaufort
Beaufort County, South Carolina
Beaufort
Battle of Beaufort
Beaufort, South Carolina
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The Lincolns are a Canadian rhythm and blues band, fronted by Prakash John and based in Toronto, Ontario. The band performs music in the style of the 1960s and 1970s.
History
In 1979, after leaving the Alice Cooper tours, Prakash John returned to Toronto and founded an R&B band, The Lincolns. He recruited musicians from previous tours. The Lincolns performed locally in Toronto and also toured around Ontario. In August, 1987 they appeared in the CBC television special "Live at the Astrolabe,".
The band has released two albums, Take One on Attic Records and the independently released Funky Funky Funky, originally commissioned by the CBC.
With various personnel changes, the Lincolns continue to play around Canada, performing R&B music in the style of the 1960s and 70s. In 2016 the band performed as part of the musical production Simply the Best.
References
External links
The Lincolns official website
Musical groups established in 1979
Musical groups from Toronto
Canadian rhythm and blues music groups
Attic Records (Canada) artists
1979 establishments in Ontario
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Prathidhawani is a 1971 Indian Malayalam-language film, directed by Vipin Das and produced by Upasana. The film stars Raghavan, Radhamani, Rani Chandra and Syamkumar. The film's score was composed by M. L. Srikanth.
Cast
Raghavan
Radhamani
Rani Chandra
Syamkumar
Usha Saraswathi
Usharani
Vasu Pradeep
Aarathi
References
External links
1971 films
1970s Malayalam-language films
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Two Upbuilding Discourses (1844) is a book by Søren Kierkegaard.
History
Kierkegaard wrote the Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses during the years of 1843–1844. These discourses were translated from Danish to English in the 1940s, and from Danish to German in the 1950s, and then to English again in 1990. These Discourses were published along with Kierkegaard's pseudonymous works.
Scholars generally say that "Kierkegaard's books were of two kinds. There was a series of books ascribed to pseudonyms, which Kierkegaard described as "aesthetic" in character. In Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, and Repetition, Kierkegaard explores the nature of human passions in a variety of forms, often presenting his own experiences in a poetically disguised narrative". The pseudonymous books as well as his discourses are understood to be directed to the love of his life, Regine Olsen. "He hoped to reveal himself at last to Regine in this "indirect" manner. At the same time that these aesthetic writings were being published, Kierkegaard wrote a series of edifying, sermon like essays, although he was careful to insist that they were not sermons, in part because he had not been ordained and therefore lacked "authority." Through these he communicated his underlying religious commitments in a more "direct" fashion. Kierkegaard continued to write these "edifying discourses" throughout his life, but as he grew older they focused on more distinctively Christian themes and took on a decidedly sharper tone."
Kierkegaard says individuals are "squeezed into the forms of actuality" but that they have a choice as to what form they will put on. He says "the transition made in Either/Or is substantially that from a poet-existence to an ethical existence.
He "held out Either/Or to the world in his left hand, and in his right he held the Two Edifying Discourses; but all, or as good as all, grasped with their right what he held in his left hand. Kierkegaard wrote in 1848, “I had made up my mind before God what I should do: I staked my case on the Two Edifying Discourses; but I understood perfectly that only very few understood them. And here for the first time comes in the category ‘that individual' who with joy and gratitude I call my reader.’ A stereo typed formula which was repeated in the Preface to every collection of Edifying Discourses. Now he holds out these two discourses of 1844 with his right hand and hopes for better results. He says in his dedication to "that single individual', Although this little book (which is called “discourses’, not sermons, because its author does not have authority to preach; “upbuilding discourses,” not discourses for upbuilding, because the speaker by no means claims to be a teacher) has left out something, it nevertheless has forgotten nothing; although it is not without hope in the world, it nevertheless totally renounces all hope in the uncertain or of the uncertain. Tempted, perhaps, as the earlier ones were not, it takes no delight in “going to the house of feasting,” desires as little as they “that its visit might be in vain” (I Thessalonians 2:1); even though a person was not without education insofar as he learned from what he suffered, it still would never be very pleasant if he needed to suffer much in order to learn little. Its desire is to give thanks if on the word of authority it were to win the tacit permission of the multitude to dare to go its way unnoticed in order to find what it seeks: that single individual whom I with joy and gratitude call my reader, who with the right hand accepts what is offered with the right hand; that single individual who at the opportune time takes out what he received and hides what he took out until he takes it out again and thus by his good will, his wisdom, invests the humble gift to the benefit and joy of one who continually desires only to be as one absent on a journey. S.K. Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses, Hong Preface p. 179
How can we learn from what we suffer? Kierkegaard said, "it is Governance that has educated me." This would mean Divine Governance since he capitalized the word. His works lead a person from being governed by everything that happens to him to one who can choose how he is going to govern himself. Kierkegaard wrote in Works of Love "You have to do only with what you do unto others, or how you take what others do unto you. The direction is inward; essentially you have to do only with yourself before God. This world of inwardness, this rendition of what other people call actuality, this is actuality. The Christian like for like belongs to this world of inwardness." We can learn through the application of patience.
Every individual is equal because every individual has a choice, an eternal soul, expectations of faith and love and patience. All of these inner goods are "good and perfect gifts from God". And the knowledge that you need God is the all important gift from God according to Kierkegaard. These two discourses deal with patience. Kierkegaard says each person must be involved in forming his own personality. The individual must be patient in her expectations.
Structure
These two discourses are the only discourses of his eighteen discourses that lack a dedication to his father. Perhaps it was dedicated to his mother Ane since it deals with keeping expectation alive even when suffering loss and Ane lost five of her seven children.
Luke 2:33-40 "And his father and his mother marveled at what was said about him; and Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, "Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is spoken against (and a sword will pierce through your own soul also), that thoughts out of many hearts may be revealed." And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phan'u-el, of the tribe of Asher; she was of a great age, having lived with her husband seven years from her virginity, and as a widow till she was eighty-four."Would you rather," She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day. And coming up at that very hour she gave thanks to God, and spoke of him to all who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem. And when they had performed everything according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth. And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom; and the favor of God was upon him." The Bible (RSV)
His Two Upbuilding Discourses of 1844:
To Preserve One's Soul in Patience, Luke 21.19, "By your endurance you will gain your lives." The Bible (RSV)
Patience in Expectation, Luke 2:33-40
To Preserve One's Soul in Patience
Kierkegaard stressed the value of patience in expectancy when facing life situations in these two short essays.
He says to the single individual, "You may have heard how someone who had thoughtlessly frittered away his life and never understood anything but wasted the power of his soul in vanities, how he lay on his sick bed and the frightfulness of disease encompassed him and the singularly fearful battle began, how he then for the first time in his life understood something, understood that it was death he struggled with, and how he then pulled himself together in a purpose that was powerful enough to move the world, how he attained marvelous collectedness for wrenching himself out of the sufferings in order to use the last moment to catch up on some of what he had neglected, to bring order to some of the chaos he had caused during a long life, to contrive something for those he would leave behind. You may have heard it from those who were there with him, who with sadness, but also deeply moved, had to confess that in those few hours he had lived more than in all the rest of his life, more than is lived in years and days as people ordinarily live."
He provides examples of how different people react to danger and anxiety. He regards the single individual very highly and says, "Let us praise what is truly praiseworthy, the glory of human nature; let us give thanks that it was granted also to us to be human beings."
Kierkegaard provides three examples of people reacting to anxiety and despair, all of them as praiseworthy as the physical endurance to defeat an external enemy. Both have been important factors since the publication of Either/Or. he writes,
One person "surveyed everything and the horrifying situation, how quickly presence of mind assuredly chose the right thing as if it were the fruit of the most mature reflection, how the will, even the eyes, defied the threatening terrors, how the body did not even feel the exertion, the agonizing suffering, how the arms lightly carried the burden that far exceeded human strength, how the feet stood firm where others did not dare to look down because they saw the abyss!"
While another "person discovered a danger while all speak of peace and security, if he discerned the horror and after having used the healthiest power of his soul to make himself fully aware of it, again with the horror before his eyes, now developed and preserved the same strength of soul as the one who fought in peril of his life, the same inwardness as the one who fought with death-yes, then we shall praise him."
Another "with troubled imagination conjured up anxieties he was unable to surmount, while he still could not leave off staring at them, evoking them ever more alarmingly, pondering them ever more fearfully, then we shall not praise him, even though we praise the wonderful glory of human nature. But if he brought out the horror and detected the mortal danger, without any thought of providing people, by pointless talk, with subject matter for pointless pondering, but grasped that the danger had to do with himself-if, then, with this in mind, he won the strength of soul that horror gives, this would in truth be praiseworthy, would in truth be wondrously wonderful."
This act of self-discovery is the essence of what Kierkegaard wrote about. He says, "People are prone to pay attention to earthly dangers but these are external dangers. Kierkegaard says, we need to preserve something internal; our souls." He explains himself, Just as there is only one means for preserving it, so is this means necessary even in order to understand that it must be preserved, and if this were not the case, the means would not be the only means. This means is patience. A person does not first gain his soul and then have the need for patience to preserve it, but he gains it in no other way than by preserving it, and therefore patience is the first and patience is the last, precisely because patience is just as active as it is passive and just as passive as it is active. Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses, Hong p. 187
There are two paths people take in life. The path of patience or the path of impatience. Kierkegaard puts it so well,
Does not patience perceive that the greatest danger is that the elucidating understanding’s fears prove not to be the case, for then not even patience could comfort anymore? Now it can, if only the sick one so desires, since the danger is whether the sick one is to be allowed to emancipate himself from the eternal, to wither away in commonsensicality, to expire in callousness, to be desouled in spiritlessness. And against this danger there is still a resource. He who, believing, continues to aspire to the eternal never becomes satiated in such a way that he does not continue blessedly to hunger; he who hopefully looks to the future can never be petrified at some moment by the past, because he always turns his back to it; he who loves God and human beings still continually has enough to do, even when need is the greatest and despair is most imminent. Before he lies down to die, he asks once again: Do I love God just as much as before, and do I love the common concerns of human beings? If he dares to answer in the affirmative, then he does not die or he dies saved; if he dare not, then he certainly has enough to do. Then in love and for the sake of his love he must deliberate whether it is not possible to see, to glimpse, to presage the joy and comfort that still must hide in the sadness, since this must still truly serve him for good. Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses p. 198-199
Patience in Expectation
Kierkegaard's intention in the preceding discourse was to speak as if patience were outside a person. He says, "we are well aware that this is not so. And nevertheless I ask you, you who know better how to praise it than I, know better how to accomplish the good, how to commend it to people, since you have known it better, more inwardly and for a longer time-was it nevertheless not so at times, when concern and your laboring thoughts piled up deliberations that were of no benefit except to give birth to new deliberations, that then the plain, simple, but nevertheless forgotten words of patience prodded you from another direction, was it not as if patience stool on the outside? We have made it appear as if patience were outside, and we have let it speak, as it were, for itself."
Now he brings out a real person, just as he did in Either/Or (A and B), in Fear and Trembling (Abraham), and in Repetition (the Young Man and Constantin Constanius). He brings out Anna and focuses primarily on her and her expectancy. What he drives home is that God is the constant that remains the same, whereas everything else changes. What he exhorts us to is to love God in such a way that our nature might be like his, that we might gain God in constancy and rescue our soul in patience.
What is it about expectancy that it either blesses or curses the single individual? Kierkegaard says, "How often it is said that no one is to be considered happy until he is dead, but how seldom is a troubled person heard to say that one should not give up as long as one is living, that there is hope as long as there is life-and consequently there is always hope for the immortal who expect an eternity." His advice to the person who believes that their past life has destroyed all expectancy is to: “Forget the past once again, quit all this calculating in which you trap yourself, do not stop the prompting of your heart, do not extinguish the spirit in useless quarreling about who waited the longest and suffered the most-once again cast all your sorrow upon the Lord and throw yourself upon his love. Up out of this sea, expectancy rises reborn again and sees heaven open-reborn, no newborn, for this heavenly expectancy begins precisely when the earthly expectancy sinks down powerless and in despair.”
But the expectant person should always remember that "every time he catches his soul not expecting victory, he knows he does not have faith." Anna had a choice, the same as everyone has, and used it. Kierkegaard says,
Criticism
These upbuilding discourses were translated edifying discourses by David F. Swenson when he translated them in the mid-1940s. He wrote the following in his preface to this discourse. "The discourses appearing in the present volume constitute the fourth and fifth groups in the series of eighteen devotional addresses, and both groups were published in 1844. It may be of some interest to consider more particularly than has hitherto been done, the plan and purpose of these productions, paralleling as they do in time of publication the publication of the esthetic works. Unlike the latter, these addresses were published under Kierkegaard's own name, because as religious works he assumed personal responsibility for the views expressed, since their purpose was to indicate that from the beginning his writing had a religious motivation and plan, of which the esthetic works were also a part."
Swenson is echoing Kierkegaard's own thoughts here. He wrote the following in Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, That Either/Or ends precisely with the upbuilding truth (yet without so much as italicizing the words, to say nothing of didacticizing) was remarkable to me. I could wish to see it emphasized more definitely in order that each particular point on the way to existing Christian-religiously could become clear. The Christian truth as inwardness is also upbuilding, but this by no means implies that every upbuilding truth is Christian; the upbuilding is a wider category. I now concentrated again on this point, but what happened? Just as I intended to begin, Two Upbuilding Discourses by Magister Kierkegaard, 1843, was published. Then came three upbuilding discourses, and the preface repeated that they were not sermons, which I, if no one else, would indeed have unconditionally protested against, since they use only ethical categories of immanence, not the doubly reflected religious categories in the paradox. If a confusion of language is to be averted, the sermon must be reserved for religious-Christian existence. p. 256
And again in The Point of View of My Work as an Author,“The first group of writings represents aesthetic productivity, the last group is exclusively religious: between them, as the turning-point, lies, the Concluding Postscript. This work concerns itself with and sets ‘the Problem’, which is the problem of the whole authorship, how to become a Christian. So it takes cognizance of the pseudonymous work, and of the eighteen edifying discourses as well, showing that all of this serves to illuminate the Problem-without, however, affirming that this was the aim of the foregoing production, which indeed could not have been affirmed by a pseudonym, a third person, incapable of knowing anything about the aim of a work that was not his own. The Concluding Postscript is not an aesthetic work, but neither is it in the strictest sense religious. Hence it is by a pseudonym, though I add my name as editor-a thing I did not do in the case of any purely aesthetic work.” p. 13
David J. Gouwens, Professor of Theology at Brite Divinity School, reminds the reader that Kierkegaard was always more interested in the "how" than in the "why". He says, because the “how” is central to Kierkegaard, we must attend closely not only to the pseudonymous literature that has received the bulk of scholarly attention, but also to the series of upbuilding and edifying discourses published currently with the pseudonymous literature. Robert L. Perkins has helpfully termed Kierkegaard’s “second authorship,” with respect to the straightforward religious literature published (with some exceptions) under Kierkegaard’s own name after Concluding Unscientific Postscript (1846). It was the edifying discourses in his right hand and his pseudonymous writing in his left, and the public accepted with its right hand the pseudonymous literature in his left, and in its left hand the edifying discourses literature in his right. Although there have been a number of fine studies in recent years that attend to the second literature, there is room for further reflection on the inner logic and character of the upbuilding and “second literature.” This study is an attempt to contribute to that reflection. What lies behind this is a conviction that finally, the audience Kierkegaard’s literature addresses consist of not simply, or even first of all, philosophers or literati (whether of 19th-century Denmark or today) but persons attempting to be human beings and, perhaps Christians.
Mankind has many different conceptions of what the soul is but one thing they all agree on is that every single individual has a soul and Kierkegaard's view of the matter is that since everyone has a soul all are equal. Is the Russian soul different from the Greek soul or from Hegel's soul or W. E. B. Du Bois's or is the soul equivalent to the mind or to the world?
Everyone wants to think about it but Keirkegaard wanted to act on a presupposition that there is a soul living inside himself and his job was to preserve it. He says, Impatience is an evil spirit that can be expelled only by prayer and much fasting. … the hunger of impatience is not easy to satisfy-how, then, through fasting? The demands of impatience certainly use many words and long speeches, but in prayer it is very sparing with words. Temporal patience has provisions on hand for a long time, doggedly perseveres, seldom rests, never prays, but Anna continued night and day. Even though impatience says that it is no art to pray-oh, just to collect one’s mind in prayer at a specific time and to pray inwardly, even though for only a moment, is more difficult than to occupy a city, to say nothing of persevering night and day and persevering in prayer in inwardness of heart and the presence of mind and the quietness of thought and the sanction of the whole soul, without being scattered, without being disturbed, without repenting one’s devotion, without anguishing about its being a prinked-up deception, without becoming sick of all one’s praying-but Anna, serving the Lord with prayer and fasting night and day, did not leave the temple. Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses p. 223
Kierkegaard wrote the following in an earlier discourse,
He explained the problem people have in loving human beings in his Journals,
In Either/Or he says,
Howard V. Hong says in the introduction to his translation of the discourses, "According to the usual ways of reckoning the impact of a book-reviews and sales-the six small volumes of upbuilding discourses were scarcely a smashing success. ... The sales of the six volumes matched the paucity and brevity of the reviews of the discourses. ... when [Kierkegaard] ran out of the first two discourses, he bound the sixteen discourses in a volume under the common title Sexten opyggelige Taler (Sixteen Upbuilding Discourses). ... 78 copies of the two discourses (1843 and 61 copies of the three discourses (1843) were remaindered, a copy of Sexten opyggelige Taler must be the rarest Kierkegaard book in existence. ... they and later discourses were obliged to wait a hundred years for the acclaim given to them by Martin Heidegger.
Swenson wrote in 1941, "While Kierkegaard has long been recognized in continental Europe as one of the world's foremost thinkers, it is only recently that he is coming to be known by the English-reading public. His first work to be translated into English, the Philosophical Fragments, appeared only five years ago. Since then some eight or ten of his more important books have been published in English, with a prospect for more in the future. As a result of this tardy recognition, English interpretations of Kierkegaard's thought and commentaries concerning it, have been practically non-existent, a condition which is bound to alter rapidly as he becomes better known, since his ideas are not only thought-provoking but frequently controversial in content.
Notes
References
Sources
Primary sources
Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses, by Søren Kierkegaard, Princeton University Press. Hong, 1990
Edifying Discourses, by Søren Kierkegaard, Vol. III, Translated from the Danish by David F. Swenson and Lillian Marvin Swenson, Augsburg Publishing House, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1945
Søren Kierkegaard: Papers and Journals, translated with and introduction and notes by Alistair Hannay, 1996, Penguin Books
Either/Or Volume I Edited by Victor Eremita, February 20, 1843, translated by David F. Swenson and Lillian Marvin Swenson Princeton University Press 1971
Either/Or. Part II Translated by Howard and Edna Hong. Princeton, 1988,
Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments Volume I, by Johannes Climacus, edited by Søren Kierkegaard, Copyright 1846 – Edited and Translated by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong 1992 Princeton University Press
The Point of View of My Work as An Author: A Report to History, by Søren Kierkegaard, written in 1848, published in 1859 by his brother Peter Kierkegaard Translated with introduction and notes by Walter Lowrie, 1962 Harper Torchbooks
Secondary sources
Something about Kierkegaard, By David F. Swenson, Mercer University Press, 2000, originally published 1941 and 1945, Augsburg Publishing House
Kierkegaard as religious thinker By David J. Gouwens, Cambridge University Press, 1996
Books by Søren Kierkegaard
1844 books
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The New Brunswick Tankard is the New Brunswick provincial championship for men's curling. It was formerly called the Papa John's Pizza Tankard, Pepsi Tankard, Molson Canadian Men's Provincial Curling Championship, Alexander Keith's Tankard, the Labatt Tankard and Ganong Cup. The tournament is run by the New Brunswick Curling Association. The winner represents Team New Brunswick at the Tim Hortons Brier.
Qualification
The eight teams that play in the provincial are selected from either the preliminary round or the wild card round.
Winners
References
New Brunswick Men's Champions - John Murphy's Curling Page
The Brier provincial tournaments
Curling competitions in New Brunswick
1920s establishments in New Brunswick
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Dasychela is a genus of biting horseflies of the family Tabanidae. There are 8 species with a neotropical distribution, with one—D. badia—found in Central America.
Species
Dasychela badia (Kröber, 1931)
Dasychela inca (Philip, 1960)
Dasychela ocellus (Walker, 1848)
Dasychela peruviana (Bigot, 1892)
Dasychela macintyrei (Bequaert, 1937)
Dasychela biramula Fairchild, 1958
Dasychela limbativena Enderlein, 1922
References
Tabanidae
Insects of Central America
Diptera of North America
Diptera of South America
Taxa named by Günther Enderlein
Brachycera genera
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The women's team pursuit event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 2 and 3 August 2021 at the Izu Velodrome. 32 cyclists (8 teams of 4) from 8 nations competed.
Background
This will be the 3rd appearance of the event, which has been held at every Summer Olympics since its introduction in 2012.
The reigning Olympic champions are Katie Archibald, Laura Kenny, Elinor Barker, and Joanna Rowsell Shand of Great Britain; Great Britain has won both prior Olympic events (with Kenny and Rowsell Shand on both teams). The reigning (2020) World Champions are Jennifer Valente, Chloé Dygert, Emma White, and Lily Williams of the United States. Barker and Archibald were on the British 2020 World Championships silver medal team; Dygert and Valente were on the American 2016 Olympic silver medal team.
Russia, Germany, China, Great Britain, Australia, and the Netherlands are traditionally strong track cycling nations.
Qualification
A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter up to 1 team of 4 cyclists in the team pursuit. Quota places are allocated to the NOC, which selects the cyclists. Qualification is entirely through the 2018–20 UCI nation rankings. The eight top nations in the rankings qualify for the team pursuit event. These nations also automatically qualified a team in the Madison. Because qualification was complete by the end of the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships on 1 March 2020 (the last event that contributed to the 2018–20 rankings), qualification was unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Competition format
A team pursuit race involves two teams of four cyclists. Each team starts at opposite sides of the track. There are two ways to win: finish 16 laps (4 km) before the other team does or catch the other team. The time for each team is determined by the third cyclist to cross the finish line; the fourth cyclist does not need to finish.
The tournament consists of three rounds:
Qualifying round: Each team does a time trial for seeding. Only the top 4 teams are able to compete for the gold medal; the 5th place and lower teams can do no better than bronze.
First round: Four heats of 2 teams each. The top 4 teams are seeded against each other (1 vs. 4, 2 vs. 3) while the bottom 4 teams are seeded against each other (5 vs. 8, 6 vs. 7). The winners of the top bracket advance to the gold medal final. The other 6 teams are ranked by time and advance to finals based on those rankings.
Finals: Four finals, each with 2 teams. There is a gold medal final (gold and silver medals), a bronze medal final (bronze medal and 4th place), and 5th/6th and 7th/8th classification finals.
Schedule
All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)
Results
Qualifying
First round
Finals
References
Women's team pursuit
Cycling at the Summer Olympics – Women's team pursuit
Women's events at the 2020 Summer Olympics
2021 in women's cycle racing
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Roleystone is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia in the south eastern corridor.
History
In 1830, several grants of land were given to British colonists along the upper Canning River, with Stephen Henty acquiring 5,000 acres and Captain Charles Blisset Churchman obtaining 107 acres. These land grants encompassed what is now Araluen and Roleystone, the name of the latter being derived from "Rolleston", the title Churchman gave his property. The land remained untended with Churchman dying in 1833 and Henty surrendering his land grant in 1841. It was purchased by Thomas Buckingham in 1858, who referred to it as "Rollingstone". The area was also referred to as "The Rolling Stone" and "Rowley Stone" in early police reports.
In 1865, Buckingham built a sawmill, which was located at Sparrow's Place, later known as Butcher's, on the Roleystone Road, about 6.5 kilometres from Kelmscott. The area was subdivided into farmlets in 1902, and was subsequently developed as orchards and market gardens. Buckingham's homestead still stands along with a brick and mortar sheep plunge dip on the property of Araluen Golf Resort. In 1905, Roleystone was opened up for closer settlement, with property brochures extolling the virtues of the scenery and fertile valley soils.
Roleystone is now an area of large residential "R5" zoned properties—with 2000m² minimum block sizes—surrounded by larger rural properties of native bushland and fruit orchards. The residential gardens, and surrounding council and regional reserves are home to a variety of native wildlife with bandicoots, brushtail possums, shingleback lizards and Children's pythons in relative abundance. Large numbers of western grey kangaroos are found in bush surrounding the suburb.
Facilities
The main suburban residential area to the west of Roleystone is served by a neighbourhood shopping centre, with Stargate Kelmscott and Armadale Shopping City providing other commercial services. The suburb originally contained a primary school (K-5; 1905) and Roleystone District High School (6-10; 1983). The two schools were amalgamated into Roleystone Community College (K-10) after a community consultation process held in 2009, using new and existing buildings on the site of the existing Roleystone District High School, with state government and federal (Building the Education Revolution) funding. The majority of Year 11 and 12 students travel to schools in nearby suburbs, including Kelmscott Senior High School, Lesmurdie Senior High School, Mazenod College and St Brigid's College.
The Araluen Botanic Park and the Araluen Golf Resort are located in the south of the suburb off Croyden Road and are popular picnic and wedding locations, especially during "Springtime at Araluen" when all the flowers are in bloom. Araluen is also known for the Araluen Chilli Festival, which was held in the park each year until 2009. In 2010, the festival was relocated to the Fremantle Esplanade and renamed Araluen's Fremantle Chilli Festival, and since then has continued to be operated by—and to provide funding for—the Araluen Park.
Brookton Highway (State Route 40) runs through Roleystone.
The suburb is served by a number of school bus services and by Transperth bus route 241, which runs every hour during the day, connecting the suburb to Kelmscott railway station and Stargate Kelmscott shopping centre. All services are provided by the Public Transport Authority.
Local sporting clubs
Roleystone is home to an Australian rules football club, The Roleystone Tigers. There is both a junior football club (established in 1973) and a senior football club, with the latter having amateur league team.
The Roleystone-Karragullen Cricket Club was established in 1950 and currently fields five senior men's and two senior women's teams along with nine junior sides.
The Roleystone Country Club is located on Wygonda Road and has views down the Brookton valley.
Local music and arts
Roleystone is home to the Roleystone Musicians Club. The club was established in March 2007.
Kevin Peek, a guitarist and member of the band Sky, named a Sky song after Roleystone, his home town.
Roleystone is also the home of the Roleystone Theatre - both the venue and the group. The group was formed in 1933 as the Roleystone Choral and Dramatic society, with a name change in the 1970s to the Roleystone Theatre Group. The Group is a community theatre presenting plays and musicals throughout each year.
The Roleystone Theatre (venue), first built by Roleystone and Karragullen residents in 1922 and now owned by the City of Armadale, is currently closed for remedial building works (2018 to 2022). The Roleystone Theatre Group was utilising the Roleystone Hall as their temporary home until early 2022, however until the theatre is re-built and re-opened they do not have a performance venue. It is hoped the revitalised theatre building will open in 2023.
Local news media
There is one local newspapers/magazine: the Roleystone Courier. This monthly magazine is owned and created by a local resident.
There is also a community website called RoleystoneNet (or RoleyNet) that contains a local forum, local events calendar and an online flea market called Eflea.
Bushfire 2011
On 6 February 2011, a declared total fire ban day, a bushfire occurred on private property adjacent to the Brookton Highway in the Roleystone/Kelmscott area. There were a total of 72 homes destroyed and 37 homes damaged. This is the second biggest house loss in Western Australia to a single bushfire event behind the 2016 Waroona-Yarloop bushfire.
References
External links
Roleystone Community College
Roleystone Courier
Valley Reporter
Roleystone Karagullen Cricket Club
Araluen Botanic Park
RoleystoneNet
Roleystone Musicians Club
Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia
Darling Range
Suburbs in the City of Armadale
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Olli Ilmari Mäenpää (born 2 November 1950 in Perniö, Finland) has been Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Helsinki since 1992 and previously held the same position at the University of Turku (1982–1992). He was a judge at the Supreme Administrative Court of Finland in 1994 and 2006 and from 1999 to 2003 was chair of the Council for Mass Media in Finland. He graduated from Helsinki University with a Master of Laws degree in 1974.
Published works
"Openness and Access to Information in Finland", The World’s First Freedom of Information Act. Editor: Juha Mustonen. Publisher: Anders Chydenius Foundation
"Local Government in Finland", Local Government in the Member States of the European Union: A Comparative Legal Perspective, Chapter 8. INAP 2012
References
Academic staff of the University of Helsinki
Finnish legal scholars
1950 births
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Turku
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The 2017 Sporting Kansas City season was the twenty-second season of the team's existence in Major League Soccer and the seventh year played under the Sporting Kansas City moniker.
Current roster
Player Movement
In
Per Major League Soccer and club policies terms of the deals do not get disclosed.
Out
Loans
Per Major League Soccer and club policies terms of the deals do not get disclosed.
In
Competitions
Match results
Preseason
Kickoff times are in CST (UTC-06) unless shown otherwise
Desert Diamond Cup
Regular season
Kickoff times are in CDT (UTC-05) unless shown otherwise
MLS Cup Playoffs
Kickoff times are in CDT (UTC-05) unless shown otherwise
U.S. Open Cup
Kickoff times are in CDT (UTC-05) unless shown otherwise
Player statistics
Top scorers
As of October 26, 2017
Disciplinary record
As of October 26, 2017.
References
Sporting Kansas City seasons
2017 Major League Soccer season
Sporting Kansas City
2017
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Nasser Asphalt (Wet Asphalt) is a 1958 West German thriller starring Horst Buchholz and featuring Gert Fröbe, written by Will Tremper and directed by Frank Wisbar.
Plot
The young journalist Bachmann (Horst Buchholz) is released from prison by the intervention of Cesar Boyd (Martin Held), a respected and prosperous journalist who hires him as his assistant. Bachmann had been in jail for his attempt to interview war criminals at Spandau prison. Bachmann works for Boyd who acts as his mentor, however, Bachmann’s stories are published under Boyd’s name. Bettina (Maria Perschy), the daughter of a friend comes to study in Berlin and will stay at Boyd. Both Bachmann who picks her up at the airport and Boyd develop an interest in the young woman. In the commotion, a story that has to go out to a Paris newspaper is not prepared, and Boyd, after listening to a tale from his chauffeur Jupp (Gert Fröbe), in the last minute makes up a story of five German soldiers who have lived in a supply bunker in Poland for six years where they had gotten trapped when it was exploded at the end of the war. There is one survivor, now blind, who was brought to a hospital. The story becomes an international sensation and people want to know more. Journalists are sent to Poland to investigate. The Russians suspect the story to be a ruse to send spies. Pressure is put on the Polish government to release the blind soldier. In Germany, widows believe the blind soldier may be their missing husband. Bachmann who initially thought that Boyd had reliable sources for his story, soon recognizes that it is all a big lie. He breaks with his mentor, and tries to warn the public about the hoax. He convinces Bettina of Boyd’s lies, and both of them leave him to start a new beginning.
Cast
Horst Buchholz as Greg Bachmann
Martin Held as Cesar Boyd
Maria Perschy as Bettina
Gert Fröbe as Jupp
Heinz Reincke as Der Blinde
Inge Meysel as Gustl
Peter Capell as Donnagan
Renate Schacht as Wanda
Richard Münch as Dr. Wolf
Comments
The black-and-white movie features Horst Buchholz who was already a star at this time and dubbed the German James Dean. Gert Fröbe has a supporting role. It also brought wider attention to Maria Perschy, and all three actors would soon move on to go to a Hollywood career before they would return to Europe. In contrast Frank Wisbar had come from Hollywood and Nasser Asphalt was one of several films he made in post-war Germany to deal with the lessons of the war and Germany's recent history. The film is set in war-scarred Berlin.
While the DVD version of the film is marketed as a film noir, it lacks the characteristic of the film noir genre.
In the English-dubbed version the site of the exploded bunker is given implausibly as Göttingen as a place near Danzig (Gdansk) in Poland; the German version has it as Gdingen (Gdynia).
Awards
1958 Film Award in Silver for "Outstanding Individual Achievement: Music", awarded to Hans-Martin Majewski.
References
External links
German black-and-white films
1958 films
West German films
Films set in Berlin
Films directed by Frank Wisbar
Films about journalists
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The Bravery Council of Australia Meeting 82 Honours List was announced by the Governor General of Australia on 30 March 2015.
Awards were announced for
the Star of Courage,
the Bravery Medal,
Commendation for Brave Conduct and
Group Bravery Citation.
Star of Courage (SC)
Angela Edith Ferullo - Western Australia.
Christina Jane King - Trinity Beach, Queensland.
Bravery Medal (BM)
Margaret Alexander-Kew - Como, Western Australia.
Sergeant Peter John Anderson-Barr - Queensland Police Service
Anne Doreen Cantwell - Abbotsford, Victoria.
Nicholas Hugh Costello - St Kilda East, Victoria.
Michael Olaf Doll - Mount Gambier, South Australia.
Graham George Drage - Warracknabeal, Victoria.
Jicenta-Leigh Fullerton - Quorn, South Australia.
Kurtis Terry Gillan - New South Wales.
Senior Constable Mark Robert Gray - Queensland Police Service.
Graeme Roy Guelfi - Junee, New South Wales.
Master Calyn John Hoad - Beenleigh, Queensland.
Robert J. T. Horgan - Doncaster, Victoria.
Lindsey Matthew Isaac-Davies - Port Macquarie, New South Wales.
Tom Fairbridge Koch-Emmery - Queensland.
Saliya Jimmy Kulasekera - Perth, Western Australia.
Senior Constable Leanne Magarry - Queensland Police Service.
Eric James Mahony - Werribee, Victoria.
Luke James Pulford - Mount Gambier, South Australia.
Jordan Lucas Rice - Robina, Queensland.
Shayden Bray Schrader - Port Macquarie, New South Wales.
Rod Shearer - Huntly, Victoria.
Jeffrey Ryan Smyth - Toorak, Victoria.
Tony Stephenson - Quilpie, Queensland.
Alan Kennedy Turkington - Mudgeeraba, Queensland.
Andrew Phillip Willsmore - Underbool, Victoria.
Senior Constable Thomas William Wilson - Queensland Police Service.
Commendation for Brave Conduct
Tony Anatole Bondarenko - Omeo, Victoria.
Bruce David Boreham - Lapstone, New South Wales.
Derek Lawrence Bowers - Darlington, Western Australia.
Jonathan Cawood - Eltham, Victoria.
Leading Senior Constable Colin Richard Cooper - Victoria Police.
Sergeant David Thomas Cooper - Victoria Police.
Benjamin Terrence Dingle - Lowmead, Queensland.
Gary Reginald Dingle - Lowmead, Queensland.
Joel Michael Donkin - Rainbow Flat, New South Wales.
David James Ferris - Cooroy, Queensland.
Murray John Frean - Ellenbrook, Western Australia.
Rodney Mervyn Free - Mundubbera, Queensland.
Brock Ashley Grazotis - Tewantin, Queensland.
Leslie John Green - Northern Territory.
Pilot Officer Kenrick Robert Horgan - Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.
Kimberley Helene Kermode - Southport, Queensland.
Peter John Krogh - Gin Gin, Queensland.
James Laughton - Eden Hills, South Australia.
Gavin Lloyd Lawrence - Wollongong, New South Wales.
Brett Anthony Leach - Mackay, Queensland
Christopher James Leach - Malua Bay, New South Wales.
Quinn James Matthews - Apollo Bay, Victoria.
Sergeant Jason Joseph Mercer - Western Australia Police.
Benjamin Alan Nelson - Karana Downs, Queensland.
Terrence William O'Brien - Red Hill, Australian Capital Territory.
Lyle John Opperman - Tinana, Queensland
Rhys William Roccamante - Wynnum West, Queensland.
Steven Scott - Bathurst, New South Wales.
Mitchell Brian Stephen - Victoria.
Alicia Aqua Summer.
Cody Sunderland - Windaroo, Queensland.
Detective Sergeant Anissa Maree Terry - Queensland Police Service.
Detective Senior Sergeant Glenn Victor Terry - Queensland Police Service.
Luke Anthony Walters - Queensland.
Gary John Wasson - Helidon, Queensland.
John Hermann Windshuttle - New South Wales.
Group Bravery Citation
Awardees are members of the public who intervened and chased an armed man who was attempting a car-jacking at Griffith, Australian Capital Territory on 12 August 2011.
Brenton John Bilston - Griffith, Australian Capital Territory.
Aron John Crowhurst - Applecross, Western Australia.
Brian Edward Gillett - Perth, Western Australia.
James Douglas Gray - Western Australia.
Mark Raymond Kelly - Queanbeyan, New South Wales.
Jared Michael Millest - Perth, Western Australia.
Darren Victor Sawyer - South Melbourne, Victoria.
Awardees are members of the public who attempted to rescue a man trapped in a burning vehicle at Milltown, Victoria on 14 October 2012.
Peter Hayes Atkinson - Thornbury, Victoria.
Brenton Anthony Bailey - Portland, Victoria.
Eddin Basic - Portland, Victoria.
Rebecca Kate Trinnick - Horsham, Victoria.
Awardees are three students and a teacher who went to the rescue of a woman trapped in floodwater at Tuggerah, New South Wales on 8 June 2007.
Gregory William De Bono - Killarney Vale, New South Wales
Kalgan John Dewhurst - Dudley, New South Wales.
Leonard John Swain - Earlwood, New South Wales.
Samson Timothy Underwood - East Gosford, New South Wales.
Awardees are members of the Northern Territory Fire and Rescue Service who rescued a woman trapped in floodwater at Alice Springs, Northern Territory on 9 January 2010.
Mark Raymond Charteris - Darwin, Northern Territory
Leslie John Green - Northern Territory.
Awardees are members of the Queensland Fire and Rescue Service, a Police Officer and a community volunteer who went to the rescue of several people trapped in rising floodwater at O’Bil Bil, Queensland on 27 January 2013.
Ashley Maeyke - Mundubbera, Queensland.
Senior Constable Cameron John Mosley - Queensland Police Service.
Grant Andrew Nagle - Eidsvold, Queensland.
John O'Gorman - Eidsvold, Queensland.
Ralph James Pointon - Eidsvold, Queensland.
Andrew Peter Roth - Eidsvold, Queensland.
Awardees are members of the Queensland Fire and Rescue Service and the Moore Park and Bundaberg Surf Life Saving Clubs went to the rescue of three people who were trapped on a roof in floodwater at Booyan, Queensland on 27 January 2013.
Martin Ashton Cole - Bundaberg, Queensland.
John Davis - Moore Park Beach, Queensland.
Julie Maree Davis - Moore Park Beach, Queensland.
Trevor James Farraway - Bundaberg West, Queensland.
Andrew William Smith - Bundaberg East, Queensland.
Joanna Francis Tolvanen - Moore Park Beach, Queensland.
Reid Linton Tucker - Moore Park Beach, Queensland.
Awardees are the crew of Ballina Marine Rescue BA30 who went to the rescue of several people after their boat capsized at Ballina, New South Wales on 15 April 2013.
Elton Anzac Cummings - Ballina, New South Wales.
Ben Redman - North Woodburn, New South Wales.
Ross Maxwell Trease - Ballina, New South Wales.
Awardees are the crew of Ballina Jet Boat Surf Rescue 40 who went to the rescue of several people after their boats capsized at Ballina, New South Wales on 15 April 2013.
Bradley James Heard - Ballina, New South Wales.
Gary John Murphy - Ballina, New South Wales.
Mark Anthony Puglisi - East Ballina, New South Wales.
Awardees are three family members who were caught in the Queensland floods on 10 January 2011.
Blake Jackson Rice
Donna Maree Rice
Jordan Lucas Rice
Awardees are members of the Brisbane Australian Volunteer Coastguard who went to the rescue of a man from a stricken vessel during a storm at Moreton Bay, Queensland on 27 January 2013.
Steven James Creevey - Wynnum West, Queensland.
Steven Bruce Flemming - Rochedale, Queensland.
Allen Penman - Wynnum North, Queensland.
Awardees are members of the Local State Emergency Service and a Police Officer who went to the rescue of a woman trapped in a vehicle in floodwater at Bonville, New South Wales on 31 March 2009.
Athol George Dorrington - New South Wales
Ian Douglas Gill - Coffs Harbour, New South Wales.
Senior Constable Bradley Paul Jackson - New South Wales Police Force
David John O'Brien - Coffs Harbour, New South Wales.
Awardees are members of the public who rescued a man from a car sinking in floodwater at Bexhill, New South Wales on 20 January 2006.
Dale William Batchelor - South East Queensland.
Jack Francis Burke - Lismore, New South Wales.
Simon Patrick Cleaver - Bexhill, New South Wales.
Robert Warren McInerney - Bexhill, New South Wales.
Awardees are members of the public who went to the rescue of two children trapped in a vehicle submerged in the Numeralla River near Cooma on 4 September 1972.
Gavin Staney Scott - Beenleigh, Queensland.
Henry Drury Skelton - Fullerton Cove, New South Wales.
John Herman Windshuttle - New South Wales.
The following recipients are added to the Group Bravery Citation gazetted on 27 August 2012.
Awardees are members of the public who rescued three people from a burning vehicle at Wagga Wagga, New South Wales on 5 February 2007.
John Dennis Gentle - Junee, New South Wales.
Graeme Roy Guelfi - Junee, New South Wales
The following recipients are added to the Group Bravery Citation gazetted on 18 August 2014.
Awardees are members of the public who went to the rescue of a colleague trapped in flood water at Marlborough, Queensland on 2 March 2011.
Ross Leigh Dunn - Gulliver, Queensland.
Peter John Krogh - Gin Gin, Queensland.
References
Orders, decorations, and medals of Australia
2015 awards
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Philippe Bühler (born 29 November 1981) a.k.a. Philippe Heithier (named after his mother's birth name) is a German singer, songwriter, dancer, record producer and manager. He came to fame as a contestant on the second season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar, the German version of Pop Idol. Bühler was eliminated in the top 3 after receiving 29.12 percent of the vote.
Discography
Albums
2008: TBA
Singles
"Warum" (Why) (2005)
"Ich kann Dich lieben" (I can love you) (2006)
Performances
Top 50: "I'll Be There" (Jackson 5)
Wildcards: "Senorita" (Justin Timberlake)
Top 13: "Cosmic Girl" (Jamiroquai)
Top 11: "You Are Not Alone" (Michael Jackson)
Top 10: "Tainted Love" (Soft Cell)
Top 9: "Winter Wonderland"
Top 8: "I'm Still Standing" (Elton John)
Top 7: "For Once in My Life" (Stevie Wonder)
Top 6: "September" (Earth,Wind, and Fire)
Top 5: "Sie sieht mich nicht (She does not see me)" (Xavier Naidoo)
Top 4: "Walking Away" (Craig David)
Top 4: "Maria Maria" (Santana)
Top 3: "A Whiter Shade of Pale" (Procol Harum)
Top 3: "Respect" (Aretha Franklin) – Eliminado
References
1981 births
Living people
People from Friedrichshafen
21st-century German male singers
Deutschland sucht den Superstar participants
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Jago is a British company which used to produce a range of kit cars principally Jeep styled between 1965 and 1997. The company is still based in Chichester, West Sussex and now manufactures for a number of industries including, concealment work for councils and telecommunications, theming and the arts.
Geoff Jago founded a company called Geoff Jago Custom Automotive in 1965 making Street Rod type vehicles. In 1971 he made the vehicle for which the company became most famous, the Geep. This used glass fibre panels moulded off an original World War II Willys Jeep and fitted to a chassis with Ford Anglia 105E mechanical parts. An alternative version using Morris Minor parts was added in 1974 and a Ford Escort version in 1976.
The company name was changed to Jago Automotive in 1979 and is now Jago Developments Ltd
The Ford Escort-based Samuri, a four-seat, beach buggy type vehicle costing £795 plus tax for the kit was announced in 1983.
The Geep name changed to Sandero in 1991 to avoid any copyright issues. The last Sandero kits were made around 1997. The Sandero 4x4 kit is still available from Belfield 4x4 Engineering; this version is based around a Land Rover Defender.
External links
Jago Developments website
Jago Geep (& others, but mostly Geep) Owners Facebook Group, active group as of 2021, including buy & sell
Jago Owner's club (Jago Owners Club, old website)
Jago Owners Club new website (2008 to 2012)
Belfield 4x4 engineering
References
Kit car manufacturers
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of England
Companies based in Sussex
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Mírzá Músá (; d. 1887) was the only full brother of Baháʼu'lláh, meaning that they shared the same mother and father. He was later named by Shoghi Effendi as one of the nineteen Apostles of Baháʼu'lláh.
The life of Mírzá Músá was so bound up with that of Baháʼu'lláh himself, that his life and background mirror the life and travels of Baháʼu'lláh. He was an integral part of correspondence between Baháʼu'lláh and the Baháʼís. He experienced the same imprisonment, exile, assaults, and degrading circumstances that were given to the small band of family members associated with Baháʼu'lláh and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá. Mírzá Músá remained a loyal and faithful follower until he died.
Baháʼu'lláh used Mírzá Músá as an example to show his respect for the law. When an official expressed hesitation to inflict punishment on one of the followers of Baháʼu'lláh who had committed a crime, he replied:
"Tell him, no one in this world can claim any relationship to Me except those who, in all their deeds and in their conduct, follow My example, in such wise that all the peoples of the earth would be powerless to prevent them from doing and saying that which is meet and seemly... This brother of Mine, this Mirza Musa, who is from the same mother and father as Myself, and who from his earliest childhood has kept Me company, should he perpetrate an act contrary to the interests of either the state or religion, and his guilt be established in your sight, I would be pleased and appreciate your action were you to bind his hands and cast him into the river to drown, and refuse to consider the intercession of any one on his behalf."
He also went by the title of Kalím (), Áqáy-i-Kalím (Chief Kalím), or Jináb-i-Kalím (Excellent Kalím).
Family
Mírzá Músá's son, Mirza Majdi'd-Din for a time transcribed the Tablets of Baháʼu'lláh. He was the one who read the Kitáb-i-'Ahd in front of the family upon the passing of Baháʼu'lláh, but later became "the most redoubtable adversary of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá" by supporting Mírzá Muhammad ʻAlí.
Notes
References
External links
Mírzá Músá Aqay-i-Kalim
Apostles of Baháʼu'lláh
1887 deaths
Year of birth missing
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Brian Auld is an American professional baseball executive. He is currently the co-president, along with Matthew Silverman, of the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball (MLB).
Career
Auld received his bachelor's degree in economics and master's degree in education from Stanford University. He obtained his MBA from Harvard Business School. He became the lead teacher and director of development at East Palo Alto Charter School in East Palo Alto, California.
Auld joined the Rays as their director of planning and development in June 2005, reporting into Matthew Silverman, the team's president. He was later promoted to senior vice president of business operations. When Andrew Friedman, the general manager of the Rays, left the team to become president of the Los Angeles Dodgers after the 2014 season, Silverman became the team's new general manager, with Auld being promoted to team president.
Personal life
Auld grew up in Berkeley, California; Scarsdale, New York; Tokyo, Japan; and Dallas, Texas. He graduated from the St. Mark's School of Texas. At Stanford, he was captain of the varsity lacrosse team. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida. He and his wife, Molly, have three children.
See also
Notable alumni of St. Mark's School of Texas
References
External links
Living people
Sportspeople from Berkeley, California
Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences alumni
Harvard Business School alumni
Tampa Bay Rays executives
Major League Baseball team presidents
Year of birth missing (living people)
Stanford Graduate School of Education alumni
St. Mark's School (Texas) alumni
Tampa Bay Rowdies executives
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The South Shore Regional Centre for Education (SSRCE) is the public school board responsible for the administration of elementary, junior high, and high school education in Lunenburg County and Queens County in Nova Scotia, Canada.
The South Shore Regional Centre for Education was established on August 1, 2004 by an Act of the provincial legislature.
Enrollments
As of 2020 the school board had an enrollment of over 12,886 students enrolled in elementary, junior and senior schools.
Controversies
Religious discrimination
On May 3, 2012, the Board drew attention to itself in the Canadian media for allowing a student from Forest Heights Community School to be suspended by the school's principal for wearing a T-shirt that had the words, "Life is wasted without Jesus" on it, drawing criticism that it was discriminating against Christians and violating the boy's Charter rights to freedom of expression and religion. The T-shirt was an expression of the scriptural passage from the St. Paul's Letter to the Philippians 3:8, which says, "More than that, I even consider everything as a loss because of the supreme good of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have accepted the loss of all things and I consider them so much rubbish, that I may gain Christ....".
On May 4, 2012, the South Shore Regional School Board decided to allow the boy to return to school on the following Monday and gave him permission to wear the shirt at school. They also hired a facilitator to deal with the issue; however, reports by CTV News indicated that the boy was not sure he wanted to return to school, feeling both discriminated against by administrators and bullied.
Verbal attack on hearing impaired student
In 2018 Fred Forsyth, a teacher of the Bayview Community School, repeatedly verbally attacked Amy Bennett, a hearing impaired student of the same school, after she went to the bathroom for a prolonged time. Accusing her of skipping classes, he yelled at her for a couple of minutes. The parents of Amy Bennett claimed that the incident caused permanent damage to her ears due to the fact that her hearing aid magnifies certain noises and caused a permanent tinnitus. The incident escalated up to Education Minister Zach Churchill, who made a public statement condemning the teacher for his behavior while denying to meet neither the student nor her parents. Despite a nine month long investigation of the accident, there was no public statement made regarding the disciplinary actions against the teacher to protect the privacy of the teacher.
Schools
Lunenburg County
Aspotogan Elementary, pr. to 5, Mill Cove
Bayview Community School, pr. to 9, Mahone Bay
Big Tancook Elementary, pr. to 5, Tancook Island
Bluenose Academy, pr. to 9 Lunenburg
Bridgewater Elementary, pr. to 6, Bridgewater
Bridgewater Junior High, 7 to 9, Bridgewater
Centre Consolidated, pr. to 9, Lunenburg (closed 2012)
Chester Area Middle School (CAMS), 6 to 8, Chester
Chester District Elementary, pr. to 5, Chester
Forest Heights Community School, 9 to 12, Chester Basin
Gold River-Western Shore Elementary, pr. to 5, Western Shore (closed in 2013)
Hebbville Academy, pr. to 9, Hebbville
New Germany Elementary, pr. to 6, New Germany
New Germany Rural High School, 7 to 12, New Germany
New Ross Consolidated, pr. to 8, New Ross
Newcombville Elementary, pr. to 4, Newcombville
Park View Education Centre, 10 to 12, Bridgewater
Pentz Elementary, pr. to 6, Pentz
Petite Rivière Elementary, pr. to 6, Petite Rivière
Riverport District Elementary, pr. to 6, Riverport (closed September 2011)
West Northfield Elementary, pr. to 6, Bridgewater
Adult & Alternative Education Programs
Bridgewater Adult High School, (NSCC Lunenburg Campus), Bridgewater
Queens County Adult Program, (Rossignol Centre), Bridgewater
Mahone Bay Centre (Junior/Senior Alternate Programs), Mahone Bay
Queens County
Dr. John C. Wickwire Academy, pr. to 5, Liverpool
Greenfield Elementary, pr. to 6, Caledonia
Liverpool Regional High School, 9 to 12, Liverpool
Mill Village Elementary, pr. to 6, Mill Village - (closed)
Milton Centennial, pr. to 2, Milton - (closed)
North Queens Elementary, pr. to 6, Caledonia (Destroyed by fire September 14, 2006 - re-opened 2008)
North Queens High, 7 to 12, Caledonia
South Queens Junior High, 6 to 8, Liverpool
See also
List of Nova Scotia schools
Education in Canada
References
External links
South Shore Regional School Board website
Bridgewater, Nova Scotia
School districts in Nova Scotia
Education in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia
Education in the Region of Queens Municipality
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Childs Glacier () is a glacier in the Neptune Range of the Pensacola Mountains, draining westward from Roderick Valley to enter Foundation Ice Stream. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from U.S. Navy air photos, 1956–66, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for John H. Childs, a builder at Ellsworth Station, winter 1958.
See also
List of glaciers in the Antarctic
Glaciology
References
Glaciers of Queen Elizabeth Land
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Kamewal is a village in Kapurthala district of Punjab State, India. It is located from Kapurthala, which is both district and sub-district headquarters of Kamewal. The village is administrated by a Sarpanch who is an elected representative.
Demography
According to the report published by Census India in 2011, Kamewal has 26 houses with the total population of 132 persons of which 64 are male and 68 females. Literacy rate of Kamewal is 63.96%, lower than the state average of 75.84%. The population of children in the age group 0–6 years is 21 which is 15.91% of the total population. Child sex ratio is approximately 1100, higher than the state average of 846.
Population data
References
External links
Villages in Kapurthala
Kapurthala Villages List
Villages in Kapurthala district
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The Union of Socialist Groups and Clubs (, UGCS) was a socialist club in France led by Jean Poperen after he was expelled from the Unified Socialist Party. The UGCS joined the Federation of the Democratic and Socialist Left before merging into the new PS at the Issy-les-Moulineaux Congress.
Political parties of the French Fifth Republic
Political parties established in 1967
Political parties disestablished in 1969
Socialist Party (France)
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The Track of Sand (orig. Italian La pista di sabbia) is a 2007 novel by Andrea Camilleri, translated into English in 2010 by Stephen Sartarelli. It is the twelfth novel in the internationally popular Inspector Montalbano series.
The Sicilian inspector looks out his window and sees the carcass of a horse on the beach. The animal, he discovers, has been bludgeoned to death. As he turns his back to phone in the crime, the horse vanishes, leaving a track in the sand. Was the horse slaughtered for its meat by illegal immigrants? Is someone trying to send a message to the owner? Or is the Mafia edging its way into the racing industry? The repeated vandalizing of Montalbano's home and a Mafia thug's murder complicate the investigation.
2007 Italian novels
Inspector Montalbano novels
Italian crime novels
Italian mystery novels
Novels set in Sicily
de:Die Passion des stillen Rächers
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Muraenesox is a small genus of eels found throughout the Indo-Pacific. It currently has two described species as most species have been moved to other genera. Members are found in the Indo-West Pacific.
Species
Muraenesox bagio (F. Hamilton, 1822) (Common Pike Conger)
Muraenesox cinereus (Forsskål, 1775) (Daggertooth Pike Conger)
References
Van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357–374
Muraenesocidae
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Maghrebi Unity Stadium () is a multi-use stadium in Béjaïa, Algeria. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of JSM Béjaïa, MO Béjaïa and Olympique Akbou. The stadium holds 18,000 people.
Algeria national football team matches
The Stade de l'Unité Maghrébine has hosted one game of the Algeria national football team, against Morocco in 1989.
References
External links
Stadium file - goalzz.com
Football venues in Algeria
Buildings and structures in Béjaïa Province
JSM Béjaïa
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The Ed Edmondson United States Courthouse, previously called the Muskogee Federal Building- United States Courthouse, is a historic government building in Muskogee, Oklahoma. It was built in 1915 as a post office and federal courthouse. Although it is no longer used as a post office, it is currently in use by several government offices, including the U.S. Marshals and U.S. Probation Office as well as the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000 as the United States Post Office and Courthouse. It was named in honor of former U.S. Congressman Ed Edmondson in 2003.
History
The federal building was constructed on a site that was occupied by five simple wood-frame houses on the western edge of the center of town adjacent to several churches and hotels of quality architecture. The building was constructed (completed in 1915) shortly after the statehood in 1907 and prior to the construction of the U.S. Post Office and Federal Building in nearby Tulsa. When the building opened (public opening November 26, 1915), it was ". . . the most noted architectural achievement in the state." The construction cost $500,000 and the interior furnishings another $250,000. The building was designed as a United States Post Office and Courthouse (original name) and functioned as a complete federal center for the region. This included, in addition to the post office and court operations, general offices for the Internal Revenue, the Union Indian Agency, and Royalty among others. Judge Ralph E. Campbell presided over the first court session.
Architectural description
Site
The building occupies the entire block between West Broadway and West Okmulgee Avenues and is bounded by Fifth Street on the front and an alley on the west. The building is set back with granolithic paving, granite steps, grass and shrubs fifteen feet from the sidewalk on three sides. The west (alley) side is developed for loading and vehicular access. The landscaping and steps are contained by a low concrete wall that connects stone pedestals which support cast iron lamps. In plan the original building was proportioned approximately 100 feel by 200 feet. The first level lobby was "C" shaped and surrounded the post office workroom (since modified). Upper levels are organized around a loop corridor that circle an open lightwell.
Exterior
The facades of the building are composed with elements of both the Second Renaissance Revival and Neo Classical styles and were designed to be symmetrical about both axes. All four facades are clad with rectangular, buff colored Indiana Limestone. The building has a distinct Neo-Classic styling and composition unlike other federal buildings under James K. Taylor's supervision at the time, which were typically Second Renaissance or Beaux Arts styling. The first story is elevated on a base and approached by ceremonial steps in a classican manner on the three entry sides. The front elevation (east) is organized around a central three story decastyle of engaged (pseudo-peripteral) Corinthian columns which rise from the building base. Entry doors occupied the central three bays. The central column bays are flanked on each end by two pilasters which are in turn flanked by a narrow pavilion which is only slightly recessed. The columns and pillasters support a full terra cotta entablature and the fourth story which is topped by a cornice, also of terra cotta. Window and door openings are rectangular with classical ornamentation. A low sloping (not visible from the adjacent street corners) hipped roof (designed as a standing seam copper roof) rises to a peak at the interior lightwell. The brick lightwell is simply detailed with a corresponding cornice and belt cornice above the fifth story windows, and a plain capstone at the roof peak. The end elevations are designed similar to the front but are organized around five bays defined by pilasters rather that the engaged fluted columns. The original rear elevation was designed similar to the end elevations. Portions remain visible (part of the first floor, and fifth floor) and according to construction photographs (1937) much of the former wall may remain intact within the building. All the windows were rectangular wood casements and were typically paired and included transoms. The second and third floor windows within the central column bays on the north and the east are surrounded by a cast grillwork. There are carved stone panels bearing governmental seals above the entryways and on the flanking bays of the front facade at the fourth floor.
Interior
The interior spaces of prime historical significance are the grand marble lobby and stairways, the original courtroom (south side at second floor), and the 1937 courtroom (west side at second floor). The lobby as it currently exists has been severely compromised by the removal of much of the original, and ornate high quality material, and the infill of average office space at the north and south ends. The lobby is organized by the structural bays with the structural columns articulated as marble clad pilasters with ornamental plaster capitals. Beams are clad with ornamental plaster and define the bays of the coffered ornamental plaster ceiling and pendent lighting all of shuch is composed in the classic style. The center entry is flanked by two marble stairways with heavy carved wood balustrades that extend to the forth floor. The 1915 courtroom is a well proportioned two story room in very original condition. The Second Renaissance Revial design contraststo the lobby's classic styling having groin arched bays at the walls where the ornamental plaster is continued onto the design of the detailed ceiling. The courtroom features stained wood wainscot, built-in court furnishings, and cast bronze wall sconces. The 1937 courtroom, also two story, does not have the rich ornamental plaster but rather a longitudinal barrel vault. This courtroom has similar rich wood detailing and entries. Of secondary importance but of intrinsic historic value are the original corridors at levels 2–4, and public toilet rooms. The corridors have terrazzo flooring that is bordered with marble, plaster walls with marble base and ornamental plaster cornice moulding. Office entries from the corridor make extensive use of the relights use of relights with art glass, transoms, and stained wood moulding. Of the lightwell and corridor relight design the local newspaper lauded that "This will give ample light to every room, in fact each room in the building will have light both from the street and the inside of the corridors". The restrooms are finished similarly with marble partitions, wainscot, and stained wood partition doors. These spaces are largely intact except for the lowered acoustical ceilings.
1937 addition
In 1937 the U.S. Treasury, with Louis A. Simon as supervising architect, designed the primary addition to the west side of the building. The addition provided covered loading and parking for the post office, added a courtroom on the second floor, and expanded the office space on each floor including the fifth, which was previously a storage area. The addition extended the building 32 feet to the west, changed the symmetry of the building, and reconfigured the west leg of the loop corridor to be double loaded rather than aligned with the lightwell. However, the original design was well respected by the use of the original details and high quality materials and has achieved historical significance in its own right. The original design was an important early use of steel frame construction. The frame was supported by brick and stone exterior walls and was entirely fireproofed with concrete which was also used for the floors and footings. Clay tiles were used as furring behind marble and ornamental plaster and for interior partitions.
Currently the building is utilized as a federal building and courthouse. The post office moved to an adjacent new one story building in 1965. There are now three courtrooms (the third was added by GSA in 1982), court and district attorney offices, FBI, U.S. Marshals, BIA, and related offices.
See also
List of United States federal courthouses in Oklahoma
References
Neoclassical architecture in Oklahoma
Government buildings completed in 1915
Buildings and structures in Muskogee, Oklahoma
Post office buildings in Oklahoma
Courthouses in Oklahoma
Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma
Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma
National Register of Historic Places in Muskogee County, Oklahoma
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The Missouri Pacific Railroad , commonly abbreviated as MoPac, was one of the first railroads in the United States west of the Mississippi River. MoPac was a Class I railroad growing from dozens of predecessors and mergers. In 1967, the railroad operated 9,041 miles of road and 13,318 miles of track, not including DK&S, NO&LC, T&P, and its subsidiaries C&EI and Missouri-Illinois.
Union Pacific Corporation, the parent company of the Union Pacific Railroad, agreed to buy the Missouri Pacific Railroad on January 8, 1980. Lawsuits filed by competing railroads delayed approval of the merger until September 13, 1982. After the Supreme Court denied a trial to the Southern Pacific, the merger took effect on December 22, 1982. However, due to outstanding bonds of the Missouri Pacific, its full merger into the Union Pacific Railroad did not become official until January 1, 1997.
History
On July 4, 1851, ground was broken at St. Louis on the Pacific Railroad, the predecessor of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The first section of track was completed in 1852; in 1865, it was the first railroad in Kansas City, after construction was interrupted by the American Civil War. In 1872, the Pacific Railroad was reorganized as the Missouri Pacific Railway by new investors after a railroad debt crisis. Because of corporate ties extending back to the Pacific Railroad, Missouri Pacific at one time advertised itself as being "The First Railroad West of the Mississippi".
Other predecessors included the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway (SLIMS), Texas and Pacific Railway (TP), Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad (C&EI), St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway (SLBM), Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway (KO&G), Midland Valley Railroad (MV), San Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf Railroad (SAU&G), Gulf Coast Lines (GC), International-Great Northern Railroad (IGN), Kansas, Nebraska & Dakota Railroad, New Orleans, Texas and Mexico Railway (NOTM), Missouri-Illinois Railroad (MI), as well as the small Central Branch Railway (an early predecessor of MP in Kansas and south-central Nebraska), and joint ventures such as the Alton and Southern Railroad (AS).
Missouri Pacific was under the control of New York financier Jay Gould from 1879 until his death in 1892. Gould developed a system extending through Colorado, Nebraska, Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana. His son George Gould inherited control upon his father's death, but lost control of the company after it declared bankruptcy in 1915. The line was merged with the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway (SLIMS) and reorganized as the Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1917. Missouri Pacific later acquired or gained a controlling interest in other lines in Texas, including the Gulf Coast Lines, International-Great Northern Railroad, and the Texas and Pacific Railway.
MoPac declared bankruptcy again in 1933, during the Great Depression, and entered into trusteeship. The company was reorganized and the trusteeship ended in 1956.
By the 1980s, the system owned 11,469 miles of rail line over 11 states bounded by Chicago to the east, Pueblo, Colorado, in the west, north to Omaha, south to the U.S.-Mexico border in Laredo, Texas, and southeast along the Gulf seaports of Louisiana and Texas. MoPac operated a fleet of more than 1,500 diesel locomotives, almost all purchased within the previous 10 years. Under the leadership of Downing B. Jenks, who became president and chief executive in 1961, the company became a pioneer in the early days of computer-guided rail technology. It was a major hauler of coal, grain, ore, autos, dry goods and shipping containers. At the time of its mega-merger in 1982, the MoPac owned more and newer locomotives and operated more track than partner Union Pacific Railroad.
On December 22, 1982, the Missouri Pacific was purchased by the Union Pacific Corporation and combined with the Western Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad to form one large railroad system. The new entity was called Pacific Rail Systems; though part of the Union Pacific Corporation, all three railroads maintained their own corporate and commercial identity. On December 1, 1989, the Missouri Kansas Texas and the Galveston, Houston & Henderson were merged into the Missouri Pacific after having been acquired by the Union Pacific Corporation in 1988.
By 1994, all motive power of the Missouri Pacific was repainted and on January 1, 1997, the Missouri Pacific was officially merged into the Union Pacific Railroad by the Union Pacific Corporation. UP continued to use the MoPac headquarters building at 210 N. 13th St. in downtown St. Louis for its customer service center until February 15, 2005. The former MoPac building has undergone rehab as apartments and is now known as Park Pacific.
In this table, "MP" includes New Orleans Texas & Mexico and all its subsidiary railroads (Beaumont Sour Lake & Western, I-GN, StLB&M, etc.) that officially merged into MP in 1956. Ton-miles for C&EI in 1970 presumably don't include the L&N portion.
By that same definition, MP operated 10,431 route-miles at the end of 1929, after A&G, SAS and Sugar Land had come under NOT&M; NO&LC operated 60 and DK&S (not subsidiary until 1931) operated 6. At the end of 1960, MP operated 9,362 route-miles, NO&LC and DK&S were the same, and M-I operated 172 miles.
"T&P" includes its subsidiary roads (A&S, D&PS, T-NM etc.); operated route-miles totaled 2,259 at the end of 1929 (after C≠, PVS and TSL had become subsidiaries) and 2,033 at the end of 1960.
Passenger train service
In the early years of the 20th century, most Missouri Pacific and St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern passenger trains were designated by number only, with little emphasis on premier name trains. This changed in May, 1915, with the inauguration of the Scenic Limited between St. Louis, Kansas City, and San Francisco. Between Pueblo, Colorado and Salt Lake City, the Scenic Limited operated through the Royal Gorge over the tracks of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. From Salt Lake City to San Francisco, the Scenic Limited operated over the Western Pacific Railroad. A second premier train, the Sunshine Special began operating on December 5, 1915, between St. Louis and San Antonio via Little Rock and Austin. Another named train, the Rainbow Special, was placed in service in July 1921 between Kansas City and Little Rock. The Sunshine Special soon eclipsed the other trains in travel volume, becoming the signature train of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. An advertising slogan in 1933 proclaimed: "It's 70-degrees in the Sunshine when it's 100-degrees in the shade," referring to the fact that the Sunshine Special was one of the first air-conditioned trains in the southwest. When new streamlined trains were delivered, the Scenic Limited and Rainbow Special names faded, but the Sunshine Special had sufficient name recognition to co-exist along with the new streamliners into the late 1950s.
In the streamliner era, the Missouri Pacific's premier passenger trains were collectively known as the Eagles. A variety of Eagle trains were operated, with the first such train inaugurated in 1940. These routes included the Missouri River Eagle (St. Louis-Kansas City-Omaha), the Delta Eagle (Memphis, Tennessee-Tallulah, Louisiana), the Colorado Eagle (St. Louis-Pueblo-Denver), the Texas Eagle (St. Louis to Texas), and the Valley Eagle (Houston-Corpus Christi-Brownsville, Texas).
Other notable MoPac trains operated included:
the Houstonian (between New Orleans and Houston);
Missourian (between St. Louis and Kansas City);
Orleanean (between Houston and New Orleans);
Ozarker (between St. Louis and Little Rock);
Pioneer (between Houston and Brownsville);
Southerner (service from Kansas City and St. Louis to New Orleans, via Little Rock);
Southern Scenic (between Kansas City and Memphis);
Sunflower (between St. Louis and Wichita); and
the Texan (between St. Louis and Fort Worth).
Missouri Pacific gained a reputation for aggressively discontinuing passenger trains after the mid-1960s. When the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) assumed passenger train operations on May 1, 1971, the only Missouri Pacific route included as part of Amtrak's basic system was its main line from St. Louis to Kansas City. This route is now served by Amtrak's Missouri River Runner (named for the fact that it runs mostly parallel to the Missouri River). On March 13, 1974, Amtrak restored passenger train service over segments of Missouri Pacific-Texas and Pacific's original Texas Eagle route between St. Louis, Little Rock, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, and Laredo with the Inter-American. This train was renamed the Texas Eagle in 1981, resurrecting the name of the famous MoPac train. The Amtrak version runs over former MoPac and T&P trackage for much of its route.
Honorary tribute
On July 30, 2005, UP unveiled a brand new EMD SD70ACe locomotive, Union Pacific 1982, with Missouri Pacific paint and logos, as part of a new heritage program.
References
Trainweb/Screaming Eagles. "About Missouri Pacific: A Brief Overview." Accessed 2009-12-18.
Goen, Steve Allen (1997). Texas & Pacific Color Pictorial, Four Ways West Publications, La Mirada, CA.
Stout, Greg (1995). Route of the Eagles, Missouri Pacific in the Streamlined Era, White River Productions, Bucklin, MO.
Further reading
External links
Screaming Eagles
Missouri Pacific Historical Society
Sunshine Special
Union Pacific Diesel Locomotive Paint Schemes
Brief history of the Missouri Pacific
Handbook of Texas: Missouri Pacific System
Oklahoma Digital Maps: Digital Collections of Oklahoma and Indian Territory
Companies based in St. Louis
Predecessors of the Union Pacific Railroad
Former Class I railroads in the United States
Defunct Arkansas railroads
Defunct Colorado railroads
Defunct Illinois railroads
Defunct Kansas railroads
Defunct Louisiana railroads
Defunct Mississippi railroads
Defunct Missouri railroads
Defunct Nebraska railroads
Defunct New Mexico railroads
Defunct Oklahoma railroads
Defunct Tennessee railroads
Defunct Texas railroads
Railroads in the Chicago metropolitan area
Standard gauge railways in the United States
Railway companies established in 1872
Railway companies disestablished in 1982
Former components in the Dow Jones Transportation Average
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Edward Zouche or Zouch may refer to:
Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche (1556–1625)
Edward Zouch (died 1634) of Woking
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The Samsung Galaxy J1 Nxt (also called J1 mini) is an Android powered smartphone developed by Samsung Electronics and was released in February 2016.
Specifications
Hardware
The J1 Nxt has a Spreadtrum SC9830 SoC consisting of a quad-core 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex-A7 CPU and a Mali-400MP2 GPU. It has either 768 MB (J1 mini) or 1GB (J1 Nxt) of RAM and 8 GB of internal storage. A microSD card can be inserted for up to an additional 128GB. The rear camera's resolution is 5 MP and has an LED flashlight. The video resolution is 720p at 30fps.
Software
The J1 Nxt is shipped with Android 5.1.1 "Lollipop" and Samsung's TouchWiz user interface.
See also
Samsung Galaxy
Samsung Galaxy J series
References
Samsung Galaxy
Mobile phones introduced in 2016
Android (operating system) devices
Samsung mobile phones
Mobile phones with user-replaceable battery
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Kevin Myers (born 30 March 1947) is an English-born Irish journalist and writer. He has contributed to the Irish Independent, the Irish edition of The Sunday Times, and The Irish Timess column "An Irishman's Diary".
Myers is known for his controversial views on a number of topics, including single mothers, aid for Africa, the Holocaust and Irish nationalism. In July 2017, The Sunday Times announced that Myers would no longer be writing for them following an article he wrote on the BBC gender pay gap, for which he was accused of antisemitism and misogyny, although the chair of the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland stated, "Branding Kevin Myers as either an antisemite or a Holocaust denier is an absolute distortion of the facts."
Biography
Early life
Myers was born in Leicester, and grew up in England. His father, an Irish GP, died when Myers was 15 and away at Ratcliffe College, a Catholic boarding school. His father's early death created financial difficulties, though Myers managed to stay at the school with the help of both the school and the Local Education Authority.
Myers moved to Ireland to go to university, and graduated from University College Dublin (UCD) in 1969.
Journalism
He subsequently worked as a journalist for Irish broadcaster RTÉ, and reported from Northern Ireland during the height of the Troubles. He later worked for three of Ireland's major newspapers, The Irish Times, the Irish Independent, and the Irish edition of The Sunday Times.
In 2000, a collection of his An Irishman's Diary columns was published, with a second volume following in 2007.
Other work
Myers was presenter of the Challenging Times television quiz show on RTÉ during the 1990s.
In 2001, he published Banks of Green Willow, a novel, which was met with negative reviews. In 2006, he published Watching the Door (), about his time as a journalist in Northern Ireland during the 1970s. The book received positive reviews in The Times, The Guardian, and the New Statesman, while The Independent published a more mixed review that wondered whether there was "an element of hyperbole" in Myers' account.
Myers was a regular contributor to radio programmes on Newstalk 106, particularly Lunchtime with Eamon Keane and The Right Hook. He regularly appeared on The Last Word on Today FM.
Myers was also a member of the Film Classification Appeals Board (formerly known as the Censorship Board).
Views
Irish republicanism
Myers has been a fervent critic of physical force Irish republicanism. In 2008, he wrote a column condemning the anniversary commemorations of the 1916 Easter Rising, asking, "What is there to celebrate about the cold-blooded slaughter of innocent people in the streets of Dublin? And who gave the insurgents the right to kill their unarmed fellow Irishmen and women?".
Speaking on Newstalk's Talking History radio show in 2010, Myers said, "The awful thing about Irish freedom, and that's what it is, it was achieved at the cost of the lives of so many Irishmen... Irish independence movements have always been civil wars of one kind or another. You are taking up arms against your brother... It was always against fellow Irishmen. In 1798 or 1848 or 1871 or 1916 or 1919... In all insurrections, they involve consuming the lives of Irishmen. The vast majority of the people killed in the last Troubles in Ireland – up to 4,000 dead – the vast majority were Irish."
Unionism and loyalism
Myers has described the Larne gun-running by Ulster Volunteers in 1914 as "high treason, done in collaboration with senior figures in the British army and the Conservative Party."
Myers has also written that it is a "myth" to say, when discussing Irish republicanism and Ulster loyalism, that "one side is as bad as the other... There is no republican equivalent to the Romper Rooms of the UDA, wherein men were routinely beaten to a pulp by loyalist thugs... And then there was Lenny Murphy and his merry gang, the Shankill Butchers, who for years in the mid-1970s abducted, tortured and murdered Catholics — usually by cutting their victims' throats. This culture did not emerge simply as a response to IRA violence. It was there already."
Controversies
"Bastards" controversy
In 2005, he attracted considerable criticism for his column, "An Irishman's Diary", in which he referred to children of unmarried mothers as "bastards":
Former Minister of State Nuala Fennell described the column as "particularly sad." She said the word "bastard" was an example of pejorative language that was totally unacceptable. Myers issued an unconditional apology two days later, "entirely at [his] own initiative". Then Irish Times editor, Geraldine Kennedy, also apologised for having agreed to publish the article.
Aid to Africa
In July 2008, Myers wrote an article arguing that providing aid to Africa only results in increasing its population, and its problems. This produced strong reactions, with the Immigrant Council of Ireland making an official complaint to the Garda Síochána alleging incitement to hatred.
Hans Zomer of Dóchas, an association of NGOs, and another complainant, took a complaint to the Press Council on the grounds that it breached four principles of the council's Code of Practice: 1) Accuracy, 3) Fairness and Honesty, 4) Respect for Rights, and 8) Incitement to Hatred. In their case details the Press Council said:
Alleged antisemitism and misogyny
At the end of July 2017, Myers contributed an article entitled "Sorry, ladies - equal pay has to be earned" to the Irish edition of The Sunday Times about the BBC gender pay gap controversy. He speculated: "Is it because men are more charismatic performers? Because they work harder? Because they are more driven? Possibly a bit of each" and that men might be paid more because they "work harder, get sick less frequently and seldom get pregnant".
Myers further alleged that Claudia Winkleman and Vanessa Feltz are higher paid than other female presenters because they are Jewish. He wrote: "Jews are not generally noted for their insistence on selling their talent for the lowest possible price, which is the most useful measure there is of inveterate, lost-with-all-hands stupidity". The editor of the Irish edition, Frank Fitzgibbon, issued a statement saying in part "This newspaper abhors anti-Semitism and did not intend to cause offence to Jewish people". Martin Ivens, editor of The Sunday Times, said the article should not have been published. Ivens and Fitzgibbon apologised for publishing it. After complaints from readers and the Campaign Against Antisemitism, the article was removed from the website. It has been announced by the newspaper that Myers will not write for The Sunday Times again.
Myers was defended by the chair of the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland, Maurice Cohen, who said that Myers was not antisemitic, but had rather "inadvertently stumbled into an antisemitic trope. … Branding Kevin Myers as either an antisemite or a Holocaust denier is an absolute distortion of the facts." Myers apologised for this article on radio, saying that "it is over for me professionally as far as I can see", and that "I think they [Jewish people] are the most gifted people who have ever existed on this planet and civilisation owes an enormous debt to them – I am very, very sorry that I should have so offended them."
Vanessa Feltz describe the column as "horrifying racism". She also said "When someone alerted me to it… I couldn’t believe such a thing had been printed. It is absolutely gratuitous, not cleverly done, it’s blatant racism. When you see it like that it’s very horrifying".
Media reporting the 2017 controversy drew attention to a 2009 column in the Sunday Independent and Belfast Telegraph opposing laws against Holocaust denial. Despite accepting that "the Nazis planned the extermination of the Jewish people" and that "millions of Jews were murdered", Myers wrote "I'm a holocaust denier" by making hair-splitting objections to statements about the Holocaust: namely that the figure of six million Jews killed was false in that it was approximate, not exact; and that the label "holocaust" was etymologically inaccurate in that, unlike a sacrificial holocaust, most victims were "not burnt in the ovens in Auschwitz" but died by gunshot, overwork, or starvation. The column was subsequently removed from the Sunday Independent and Belfast Telegraph websites. The Observer referred to "Holocaust denier Kevin Myers", later adding a footnote "Kevin Myers says he is not a Holocaust denier. He is not, in the usual sense of that term."
In February 2018, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland by majority decision upheld an objection to the RTÉ radio programme Morning Ireland presenter Audrey Carville's description of Myers as a Holocaust denier: "While noting that Mr. Myers had described himself as a 'Holocaust denier' in a typically provocative newspaper article that he had written, it was evident from the article as a whole that his description did not in fact amount to a statement denying the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of the Nazi regime. Rather, the article was a comment on how language is used and the criminalisation of individuals or groups who engage in Holocaust denial." Myers won a defamation lawsuit against RTÉ in 2019 as a result of Carville's accusation.
Personal life
Myers is married to Rachel Nolan and lives in County Kildare. He is the brother-in-law of TV presenter, producer and UK Big Brother housemate Anna Nolan.
Bibliography
Kevin Myers: From the Irish Times Column 'An Irishman's Diary''' (2000).
Banks of Green Willow (2001).
Watching the Door: A Memoir, 1971–1978 (2006).
More Myers: An Irishman's Diary, 1997–2006 (2007).
A Single Headstrong Heart (2013).
Ireland's Great War (2014).
Burning Heresies: A Memoir of a Life in Conflict, 1979-2020 (2020).
References
External links
Kevin Myers at the Irish Independent Myers signs lucrative deal with Independent Newspapers — The Sunday Business Post, 30 April 2006
Ireland: The dark before the dawn — Interview with Myers in The Sunday Times, 29 October 2006
extract from 'Watching the Door' by Kevin Myers, published in The Independent'', 8 March 2008
"Lies, damned lies, and the wickedness of Wikipedia", a sample column from Kevin Myers, dated 27 May 2008
1947 births
Living people
20th-century Irish people
21st-century Irish people
21st-century English novelists
Alumni of University College Dublin
English columnists
English male journalists
People from Leicester
Irish columnists
Irish journalists
Irish novelists
Irish male writers
People educated at Ratcliffe College
RTÉ television presenters
The Daily Telegraph people
Irish Independent people
The Irish Times people
English male novelists
Revisionism (Ireland)
Writers from County Kildare
Broadcasters from County Kildare
Belfast Telegraph people
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Gunhild Rosén (7 December 1855 - 1928) was a Swedish ballerina, choreographer and a ballet master of the Royal Swedish Ballet in Stockholm.
Gunhild Rosén was born in Norrköping, and was a student of Anders Selinder. She became a figurant dancer at the Ballet of the Royal Swedish Opera in 1872, second dancer in 1875 and premier dancer in 1881; she was a vice ballet master in 1894, and ballet master from 1922 to 1926.
She composed the ballet "I Ungern" ("In Hungary") and the balett part for the opera "Brudköpet" ("Bride purchase"). She performed in Copenhagen in 1878, 1879 and 1890 and in Oslo in 1880, 1881 and 1890. Her most famous parts was Valse brillante and Svanilda in "Coppelia" as well as parts in "Aufforderung z. Tanz", "Skugg-balett" and "Blomsterfesten i Genzano".
References
Svenskt porträttgalleri vol. XXI: Tonkonstnärer och sceniska artister (Stockholm 1897)
Nationalencyklopedien (online edition)
Further reading
Ballet choreographers
1855 births
Swedish ballerinas
Ballet masters
1928 deaths
Royal Swedish Ballet dancers
19th-century Swedish ballet dancers
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Danville West Market Street Historic District is a national historic district located in Danville, Montour County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses 42 contributing buildings in a residential area of Danville. The buildings date from about 1800 to 1925. The houses are mostly of brick and frame construction, with some log and stone dwellings, and in a variety of architectural styles including Italianate, Federal, Queen Anne and Second Empire.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. In 1994, it was incorporated into the Danville Historic District.
References
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
Buildings and structures in Montour County, Pennsylvania
National Register of Historic Places in Montour County, Pennsylvania
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Holy Diver may refer to:
Holy Diver, the debut album of heavy metal band Dio, released in 1983
"Holy Diver" (song), the first single off the album
Holy Diver (video game), a video game released in Japan in 1989
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The 2004 version of the Legion of Super-Heroes is a fictional superhero team in the 31st century of the . The team is the third incarnation of the Legion of Super-Heroes after the 1958 and 1994 versions. It first appears in Teen Titans/Legion Special (November 2004) and was created by Mark Waid and Barry Kitson.
Publication history
Following a crossover with the Teen Titans in Teen Titans (vol. 3) #16 and the Teen Titans/Legion Special, a new Legion of Super-Heroes series was launched, written by Mark Waid (who had previously rebooted the title following the events of Zero Hour) and penciled by Barry Kitson. This new series recreated the team from the beginning and used the Boy/Lad/Girl/Lass/Kid codenames which the end of the original continuity and the prior reboot continuity had moved away from using.
Initial issues of this series reintroduced the characters and provided new and divergent origins for them. Most characters resembled their previous counterparts in costume and powers, with the most notable exceptions including Chameleon Boy, now called simply Chameleon and depicted as an androgynous creature, Star Boy, who in this version of the Legion is black, Colossal Boy, who is now a giant who shrinks to human size, and Phantom Girl, who exists in two universes at once and has conversations with people in her own dimension while talking to Legionnaires at the same time.
The future universe of this Legion is an emotionally and mentally repressive society which involves human sexuality and contact being kept at arms' length as well as Orwellian surveillance of minors. The Legion's main goal is social reform as well as protecting people and inspiring them with the legends of superheroes of old, even though the team isn't appreciated by various government authorities.
The Legion is worshiped by thousands of young people on various different worlds who worship the group in a cult-like manner, collectively known as the "Legionnaires". The Legionnaires based on Earth keep a constant vigil outside Legion headquarters.
Beginning with issue #16, The Legion of Super-Heroes (vol. 5) was retitled Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes with Supergirl traveling to the future and joining the Legion. With issue #31, Tony Bedard replaced Waid as writer. The title reverted to The Legion of Super-Heroes with issue #37 and Jim Shooter became writer. The series ended with issue #50, in which the script was credited to "Justin Thyme", a pseudonym previously used by uncredited comic book artists.
Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds
This version of the Legion also appeared in the 2008–09 Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds limited series, written by Geoff Johns and drawn by George Pérez. The mini-series features this version of the Legion teaming up with the 1994 and post-Infinite Crisis incarnations of the Legion and Superman to fight the Time Trapper and a new incarnation of the Legion of Super-Villains (led by Superboy-Prime). It is revealed at the end of the mini-series that this version of the team inhabits Earth-Prime, the home of Superboy-Prime.
Members
See also
Legion of Super-Heroes
Legion of Super-Heroes (1958 team)
Legion of Super-Heroes (1994 team)
List of Legion of Super-Heroes members
List of Legion of Super-Heroes publications
References
External links
The Legion of Super-Heroes Reference File
DC Comics superhero teams
DC Comics titles
Characters created by Mark Waid
Reboot comics
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The Kwannon of Okadera (German: Die Kwannon von Okadera) is a 1920 German silent film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Lil Dagover and Werner Krauss. Produced by Erich Pommer of Decla-Bioscop it was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin and premiered in the city's Marmorhaus.
Cast
In alphabetical order
Max Adalbert
Albert Bennefeld
Lil Dagover as Kwannon
Robert Forster-Larrinaga as Georg, Harlanders Sohn
Hanna Gath
Ernst Gronau
Leonhard Haskel
Hans Junkermann
Werner Krauss as Harlander, Grossindustrieller
Margarete Kupfer
Alexander Köckert
Nils Landberg
Marija Leiko as Ingele von Geortz
Paul Morgan
Alice Reppert
Karl Römer
Lillibel Schroth
Walter Supper
Otto Treptow
Alina von Mielewska
Elsa Wagner
Emmy Wyda
References
Bibliography
Hardt, Ursula. From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's life in the International Film Wars. Berghahn Books, 1996.
External links
1920 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
Films directed by Carl Froelich
German silent feature films
German black-and-white films
Films shot at Babelsberg Studios
Silent German drama films
1920 drama films
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Black Star International film festival (BSIFF) is a non-profit festival in Ghana founded by Juliet Asante in 2015. It is a festival celebrated annually to bridge the gap between African movie cinema and the global community of movie makers and focuses on the business aspect of film making.
Activities
The festival is celebrated for a week and it coupled with several activities which are Workshop, Panel Session, African Film Market, A music concert, Awards night and daily film screenings. During these activities participant or industry players network do business and also celebrate Africans for their works over the year.
Themes
List of theme from the year of inception to date
References
Film festivals in Ghana
Non-profit organisations based in Ghana
International organizations based in Africa
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A closed-cycle gas turbine is a turbine that uses a gas (e.g. air, nitrogen, helium, argon, etc.) for the working fluid as part of a closed thermodynamic system. Heat is supplied from an external source. Such recirculating turbines follow the Brayton cycle.
Background
The initial patent for a closed-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) was issued in 1935 and they were first used commercially in 1939. Seven CCGT units were built in Switzerland and Germany by 1978. Historically, CCGTs found most use as external combustion engines "with fuels such as bituminous coal, brown coal and blast furnace gas" but were superseded by open cycle gas turbines using cleaner-burning fuels (e.g. "gas or light oil"), especially in highly efficient combined cycle systems. Air-based CCGT systems have demonstrated very high availability and reliability. The most notable helium-based system thus far was Oberhausen 2, a 50 megawatt cogeneration plant that operated from 1975 to 1987 in Germany. Compared to Europe where the technology was originally developed, CCGT is not well known in the US.
Nuclear power
Gas-cooled reactors powering helium-based closed-cycle gas turbines were suggested in 1945. The experimental ML-1 nuclear reactor in the early-1960s used a nitrogen-based CCGT operating at 0.9 MPa. The cancelled pebble bed modular reactor was intended to be coupled with a helium CCGT. Future nuclear (Generation IV reactors) may employ CCGT for power generation, e.g. Flibe Energy intends to produce a liquid fluoride thorium reactor coupled with a CCGT.
Development
Closed-cycle gas turbines hold promise for use with future high temperature solar power and fusion power generation.
They have also been proposed as a technology for use in long-term space exploration.
Supercritical carbon dioxide closed-cycle gas turbines are under development; "The main advantage of the supercritical CO2 cycle is comparable efficiency with the helium Brayton cycle at significantly lower temperature" (550 °C vs. 850 °C), but with the disadvantage of higher pressure (20 MPa vs. 8 MPa). Sandia National Laboratories has a goal of developing a 10 MWe supercritical CO2 demonstration CCGT by 2019.
See also
Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion
Stirling engine
References
http://www.appliedthermalfluids.com/home/brands-manufacturers/exxonmobil-aviation-jet-oils/mobil-jet-oils/
External links
US Patent 5309492 "Control for a closed cycle gas turbine system"
Industrial Closed-cycle Gas Turbines for Conventional and Nuclear Fuel (1967)
(at Sandia National Laboratories, 2014)
"Aviation Jet Oils"
Gas turbines
External combustion engines
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Pe'at Sadeh (, lit. Mouth Field) was an Israeli settlement, in the Gaza Strip until 2005.
History
Pe'at Sadeh was originally established in 1989 by a group of families on the 'Slav' Israel Defense Forces base in the southern end of Gush Katif and moved to its later site on an adjacent hill in 1993. It was one of the few 'mixed' settlements in Gush Katif settlement bloc which was predominantly Orthodox.
Its name is a reference to Pe'a (Hebrew: פאה), a form of Jewish charity in which the corner of a field, vineyard or orchard is left unharvested for the poor to come and take what they need. Sadeh is Hebrew for field.
Unilateral disengagement
The 20 families, including at least 117 people, of Pe'at Sadeh were forcibly evicted from their homes by the IDF and Israeli Police as part of the Israel's unilateral disengagement plan in August 2005. Their houses and other structures were destroyed and the area was abandoned.
Former Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip
Populated places established in 1989
Villages depopulated during the Arab–Israeli conflict
1993 establishments in the Palestinian territories
2005 disestablishments in the Palestinian territories
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The 1959–60 British Home Championship football tournament was played by the British Home Nations throughout the 1959–60 season and was shared between three of the competing teams at the expense of Ireland. Football at the United Kingdom was at a low point in 1959 and 1960, following the failure of the national sides (except Wales and Ireland), to perform well in the 1958 FIFA World Cup two years before. A part of the problem involved the deaths of senior members of all four national sides at the Munich air disaster in early 1958. England had also suffered a further loss of confidence following poor form in a pre-season tour of the Americas, losing three games in a row to Brazil, Peru 4–1 and Mexico. An 8–1 victory over a weak United States in the final match did little to raise their spirits.
The title was shared between three teams who were unable to beat each other but all managed a victory over the hapless Irish. The Scots started well, with a 4–0 drubbing of their opponents in Belfast whilst the English and Welsh played out a tame draw. This set the tone for the tournament, with the Irish losing their subsequent matches with more respectable scorelines but still unable to gain a point. The Scots could not capitalise on their good start and were held by England and Wales in their subsequent matches whilst the Welsh took their draws and narrowly beat Ireland in their last match to claim their own third share of the title. Goal difference was not at this stage used to differentiate between the teams. if it had been, Scotland would have won with Wales and England again tied for second.
Table
Results
References
1959-60
1959–60 in Northern Ireland association football
1959–60 in English football
1959–60 in Scottish football
1959–60 in Welsh football
1960 in British sport
1959 in British sport
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The Exoskeletal Model in linguistics, or XSM, is a generative framework in morphology and morphosyntax, introduced in the work of Hagit Borer, professor of linguistics at the Queen Mary University of London and previously professor of linguistics at University of Southern California. The main idea of the Exoskeletal Model is that Lexical items do not have a syntactic category. Rather, they take on whatever syntactic category is imposed on them by their syntactic context.
The framework is detailed in Borer's two 2005 books In Name Only and The Normal Course of Events, part of a trilogy entitled Structuring Sense, and a number of her and others' papers in morphosyntax.
The main idea of the Exoskeletal Model is a divorce between the structure and the lexicon, but a strong correspondence between structure and meaning. Words in isolation have no syntactic category, it is only when they appear in a structure that they acquire these categories. More specifically, words in and of themselves are not nouns or verbs, nouns are not themselves mass or count, and verbs are not themselves telic or atelic. Rather it is the noun phrase (DP) as a whole that is mass or count, and the verb phrase (VP) that is telic or atelic. The framework is implemented so that it avoids type-shifting and lexical ambiguity.
Selected bibliography
Borer, H. (2005a). In Name Only. Structuring Sense, Volume I. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Borer, H. (2005b). The Normal Course of Events. Structuring Sense, Volume II. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Borer, H. 2003. "Exo-skeletal vs. Endo-skeletal Explanations: Syntactic Projections and the Lexicon," M. Polinsky and J. Moore (eds.) The Nature of Explanation. Chicago: Chicago University Press
De Belder, M. (2008). Size matters: Towards a syntactic decomposition of countability. In Abner, Natasha & Jason Bishop (eds.) Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville
Bale, A. and H. Khanjian (2009). Classifiers and number marking. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) XVIII.
Park, S.Y. (2009). Functional Categories: the syntax of DP and DegP, VDM
Linguistic morphology
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Military Regional Command I/Bukit Barisan () is an Indonesian Army Regional Military Command that covers the Sumatran provinces of North Sumatra, West Sumatra, Riau and Riau Islands. The command takes its name from the Barisan Mountains.
Its Command Day is marked annually on 20 June, the date of the reformation of the basis of the command, the 1st Territorial Army Bukit Barisan (), whose origins date to a Chief of Staff of the Army decision dated 13 December 1949.
Territorial Units
Kodim 0201/Medan (self-supporting), based in Medan
Korem 022/Pantai Timur, based in Pematangsiantar
Kodim 0203/Langkat
Kodim 0204/Deli Serdang
Kodim 0207/Simalungun
Kodim 0208/Asahan
Kodim 0209/Labuhan Batu
Korem 023/Kawal Samudra, based in Sibolga
Kodim 0205/Tanah Karo
Kodim 0206/Dairi
Kodim 0210/North Tapanuli
Kodim 0211/Central Tapanuli
Kodim 0212/South Tapanuli
Kodim 0213/Nias
Korem 031/Wirabima, based in Pekanbaru
Kodim 0301/Pekanbaru
Kodim 0302/Indragiri Hulu
Kodim 0313/Kampar
Kodim 0214/Indragiri Hilir
Korem 032/Wirabraja, based in Padang
Kodim 0304/Agam
Kodim 0305/Pasama
Kodim 0306/Limapuluh Kota
Kodim 0307/Tanah Datar
Kodim 0308/Pariaman
Kodim 0309/Solok
Kodim 0310/Sijunjung
Kodim 0311/South Coast
Kodim 0312/Padang
Kodim 0319/Mentawai
Kodim 0320/Bukittinggi
Kodim 0321/West Paraman
Korem 033/Wira Pratama, based in Tanjungpinang
Kodim 0315/Riau Islands
Kodim 0316/Batam
Kodim 0317/Karimun
Kodim 0318/Natuna
1st Regional Training Regiment (Rindam I/Bukit Barisan)
Regiment HQ
NCO School
Basic Combat Training Center
National Defense Training Command
Specialist Training School
Enlisted Personnel Training Unit
Combat Units & Combat Support Units
Combat Units
7th Infantry Brigade/Rimba Raya
Brigade HQ
122nd Infantry Battalion/Tombak Sakti
125th Infantry Battalion/Simbisa
126th Infantry Battalion/Kala Cakti
100th Raider Infantry Battalion/Prajurit Setia
121st Mechanized Infantry Battalion/Macan Kumbang
123rd Infantry Battalion/Rajawali, under the command of Korem 023/Kawal Samudra
131st Infantry Battalion/Braja Sakti, under the command of Korem 032/Wirabraja
132nd infantry Battalion/Bima Sakti, under the command of Korem 031/Wira Bima
133rd Infantry Battalion/Yudha Sakti, under the command of Korem 032/Wirabraja
134th Special Raider Infantry Battalion/Tuah Sakti, under the command of Korem 033/Wira Pratama
1st Composite (Infantry) Battalion/Gardapati
Combat Support Units
2nd Field Artillery Battalion/Towed 105/Kilap Sumagan
2nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment/Sisingamangaraja
Regiment HQ and HQ Battery
11th Air Defense Artillery Battalion/Wira Bhuana Yudha
13th Air Defense Artillery Battalion/Parigha Bhuana Yudha
004th Air Defense Missile Artillery Detachment/Dumai
6th Cavalry Battalion/Naga Karimata
6th Cavalry Company/Rajawali Bhakti Tama
1st Combat Engineering Battalion/Dhira Dharma
2nd Combat Engineering Detachment/Prasada Sakti
Support Units
Construction Engineer detachment (Zidam I/BB)
Military Police detachment (Pomdam I/BB)
Supply and Transport detachment (Bekangdam I/BB)
Communication detachment (Hubdam I/BB)
Ordnance detachment (Paldam I/BB)
Intelligence detachment (Inteldam I/BB)
Information detachment (Pendam I/BB)
Adjutant General's detachment (Anjendam I/BB)
Physical Training detachment (Jasdam I/BB)
Medical detachment (Kesdam I/BB)
Topography detachment (Topdam I/BB)
Chaplain detachment (Bintaldam I/BB)
Finance detachment (Kudam I/BB)
Judge Advocate General detachment (Kumdam I/BB)
References
Military regional commands of Indonesia
Sumatra
Military units and formations established in 1950
Indonesian Army
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Zapin Api (lit: "Zapin of Fire"; Jawi: زاڤين اڤي) is a firedance technique of the classical Malay Zapin founded in Pulau Rupat Utara, Bengkalis, Riau, Indonesia. The identifying characteristic of Zapin Api is the incorporation of fire and strong focus on the mystical elements. The dance form was historically dormant and extinct for nearly 40 years before its revival in 2013.
Origin
The legends of Tari Api
The dance traced its origin from the precursor Tari Api ritual performed by the people of Pulau Rupat. The area was settled by the Malay refugees who fled from the turmoil in Malacca, after the fall of the kingdom to the Portuguese hands in 1511.
The legend attested that Pulau Rupat was cursed under a series of catastrophes in the 1500s and a harmonious balance between all of the elements should be called for in order to restore peace in the area. This led the islanders under the leadership of Panglima Sage Dagendang, a representative from the Malaccan courts to seek the assistance from the four Pawang Besar (Great Mystique) of four natural elements: earth, fire, wind and water. The mystique agreed upon their request and summoned the jins (spirits) from the each respective elements for reconciliation.
All of the jins accepted the invitation to meet with the mystique, except the fire spirit. He demanded that he only would arrive in the entourage with a condition, that a special celebration would be held for him. The mystique agrees and he asked the spectators to take of their clothes and usher the arrival of the fire jin.
The jin arrives and the mystique became his intermediate between the real world and the spiritual underworld. Thus, commencing the reconciliation process between the two entities. The fire spirit sets the rules and regulations for the performance, together with the condition that the elements of fire should be used in the dance and added mantra that the mortals should abide during the performance, thus signifying birth of the Tari Api.
Zapin Api
The arrival of the Arab-Acehnese Islamic missionaries transformed the ideals of the classical Tari Api. The traditional paganistic mantras and rituals were complemented with religious prayers and worshiping. The dance emulated the fusion and the cultural accumulation between the traditional Arab Zaffa with the Zapin form of the Malays. In contrast to the predominantly Sufi-infused Arabic Zaffa, the strong element of the cultural mysticism of the Malay was present in the performance.
The dance form was widely staged by the Bengkalis Malay community, especially during the major festival and celebrations in the area including in the wedding receptions, circumcision ceremony and the ritualistic Safar Bath. However, the meteoric rise of the new form of entertainments in the area resulted the gradual death of Zapin, superseded by the modern-karaoke and Dangdut celebrations by the locals. By the 1980s, the fatal blow was hit and the Zapin Api performance was declared extinct in the area.
Resurrection
By 2013, by the initiative of Pak Edwar, the head of the Bengkalis Tourism Department requested Pak Abdullah, the ringmaster of the traditional Zapin Api for a revival of the traditional dance art in the area. He enthusiastically began to recruit young men and nurture them about the Malay art form. Thus, commencing his journey on resurrecting the once extinct zapin api. Not long after, the dance is once again staged in the island.
Performance
Philosophy
Based on the observation by Tom Ibnur, a Zapin-enthusiast, he observed that Zapin Zapi was a true fusion between the Arabic Zaffa which was orchestrated as a form of religious entertainment by the Islamic missionaries with the indigenous Malay firedance. The element of Zapin can be witnessed in the form of the rhythms and the coordinations, while the native pre-Islamic elements can clearly observed when the performers was in an unconscious hallucinations and hypnotic euphoria during the climax of the dance.
The dance
There are several strict rituals that must be adhered to by the ringleader, players and even the spectators. All the dancers, musicians and the instruments are required be bathed in sacred water and smoked by mantras a few days before the performance. While during the Zapin, it is strongly prohibited for the spectators to light up any fires nor call the players name.
The performance begins when the participants reciting prayers with the burning incense. The court was then set with Bonfire made from burning coconut shell, as a preparation of the dance. The leader recite his mantras and commencing the Malay orchestra in the background to summon the spirits. He intensifies his mantras as the music plays along.
The players dance along with the orchestra, slowly one by one succumbed into a spellbinded position and drawn directly into the fire. They continued to dance erratically while playing with the fiery coconut shell. Some would collapse in ecstasy during the performance.
When the music is set, the stage is alight and the zapin commenced, the performers usually recalled that the staged was suddenly transformed into a beautiful orchard and they were accompanied by a nymph who had suddenly emerged and leading them to dance. The performance may last several hours long, drawing many of the performers became unconscious after induced in a cataleptic affair.
The Zapin would only ends based on the discretion of the ringleader. Ironically, there was no sign of burning on the skins of the performers, despite spending hours of dwelling in the blazing fire.
Contemporary development
The dance slowly gained wide recognition and interest following its revival from the stage of Bengkalis since 2013. The government of Riau Province also hailed the dance as among the components of the local tourist industry, drawing local and international crowds alike to witness its mystical performance.
See also
Zapin
Malay Indonesian
Randai
Bibliography
References
Malay culture
Malay dances
Indonesian culture
Partial squatting position
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Regan Farquhar (born February 12, 1978), better known by his stage name Busdriver (sometimes stylized in All caps) is an American rapper and producer from Los Angeles, California. He has collaborated with rappers such as Myka 9, R.A.P. Ferreira, Nocando, Open Mike Eagle, 2Mex, Aesop Rock and Radioinactive. His primary producers have been Daedelus, Boom Bip, Daddy Kev, Loden, Paris Zax, Omid, Kenny Segal, and Nobody. He has also worked with D-Styles on two albums.
Biography
Regan Farquhar was born on February 12, 1978, in Los Angeles, California. He was introduced to hip hop at an early age; his father, Ralph Farquhar, wrote the 1985 film Krush Groove. Farquhar began rapping at age nine. By age 13, he was part of the group 4/29, which was inspired by the 1992 Los Angeles riots. At 16, he joined the Project Blowed scene.
In 2002, Busdriver released his solo album, Temporary Forever. In 2004, he released Cosmic Cleavage on Big Dada.
In 2007, Busdriver released RoadKillOvercoat on Epitaph Records. Another solo album, Jhelli Beam, was released on Anti- in 2009. He is the executive producer of Thirsty Fish's 2009 album, Watergate.
In 2010, Busdriver released a free mixtape, Computer Cooties. In that year, he also started a band Physical Forms with Jeff Byron, who is a former member of The Mae Shi. Physical Forms released a split 7-inch single, Hoofdriver, with Deerhoof on Polyvinyl Records. Another of Busdriver's projects is Flash Bang Grenada, a collaboration with the rapper Nocando. The duo released the debut album, 10 Haters, on Hellfyre Club in 2011.
Busdriver released his solo album, Beaus$Eros, on Fake Four Inc. in 2012. Later that year, he released a free EP, Arguments with Dreams. In 2014, he released Perfect Hair on Big Dada.
In 2017, Busdriver appeared on Flying Lotus' directorial debut feature film, Kuso. In 2018, he released a studio album, Electricity Is on Our Side, on Temporary Whatever.
Discography
Studio albums
Memoirs of the Elephant Man (1999)
Temporary Forever (2002)
The Weather (2003)
Cosmic Cleavage (2004)
Fear of a Black Tangent (2005)
RoadKillOvercoat (2007)
Jhelli Beam (2009)
Beaus$Eros (2012)
Perfect Hair (2014)
Electricity Is on Our Side (2018)
MADE IN LOVE (2023)
Mixtapes
Computer Cooties (2010)
Vidal Folder (2015)
Thumbs (2015)
Compilation albums
This Machine Kills Fashion Tips (2002)
Heavy Items Such as Books, Record Albums, Tools (2003)
Taxed Jumper Mix (2006)
Live albums
Live Airplane Food (2003)
Live Radio Concert (2004)
Audiobooks
I Don't Write Rhymes, I Write Code (2020)
EPs
Arguments with Dreams (2012)
Singles
"Walking Dead" (2000)
"Get on the Bus" / "Everybody's Stylin'" (2001)
"Party Pooper" / "Buy One Style, Get Second Style Free" (2002)
"Imaginary Places" (2002)
"Touch Type" / "Winthorp & Winthorp" (2003)
"Smart Buyer" (2004)
"Avantcore" (2005)
"Viacom Puppeteer" (2006)
"Kill Your Employer" (2006)
"Sun Shower" (2007)
"Ellen Disingenuous" (2008)
"Me-Time (With the Pulmonary Palimpsest)" (2009)
"I Did Crimes Behind Your Eyelids" / "On the Brink" (2010)
"Leaf House" (2011)
"ATM" (2011)
"Superhands' Mantra" (2012)
"The Big Think" (2020)
Guest appearances
Fat Jack - "Life or Death" and "Drive Safe" from Cater to the DJ (1999)
The Mind Clouders - "Upside Down 6" from Fake It Until You Make It (1999)
Daddy Kev - "Blowed Anthem" from Lost Angels (2001)
2Mex - "Making Money Off God" from B-Boys in Occupied Mexico (2001)
Daedelus - "Quiet Now" from Invention (2002)
Omid - "Shock and Awe" from Monolith (2003)
Daedelus - "Girls" from The Quiet Party (2003)
Haiku d'Etat - "Transitions and Eras" from Coup de Theatre (2004)
TTC - "Latest Dance Craze" from Batards Sensibles (2004)
Daedelus - "Something Bells" from Something Bells (2004)
Shape Shifters - "American Idle" from Was Here (2004)
Mums the Word - "They Wanna Rap" from Constant Evolution (2005)
Onry Ozzborn - "Educated Guess" from In Between (2005)
SonGodSuns - "Minors into Fire" from Over the Counter Culture (2005)
Ellay Khule - "Dandylions" from Califormula (2005)
Subtitle - "Cray Crazy" from Young Dangerous Heart (2005)
Z-Trip - "Take Two Copies" from Shifting Gears (2005)
Islands - "Where There's a Will There's a Whalebone" from Return to the Sea (2006)
Antimc - "Bellies Full of Rain" from It's Free, but It's Not Cheap (2006)
Scream Club - "Intoxicating" from Life of a Heartbreaker (2006)
Toca - "Hearts and Gold" from Toca (2007)
Rob Sonic - "Spy Hunter" from Sabotage Gigante (2007)
Edit - "Crunk De Gaulle" from Certified Air Raid Material (2007)
Reefer - "Crony Island" from Reefer (2008)
K-the-I??? - "Sabbath Faster" from Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow (2008)
Moderat - "Beats Way Sick" from Moderat (2009)
Themselves - "Party Rap Sucks" from The Free Houdini (2009)
Myka 9 - "Chopper" from 1969 (2009)
Loden - "Self-Aware Wolf" (2010)
2Mex - "Career Suicide for Dummies" and "AFC West" from My Fanbase Will Destroy You (2010)
Open Mike Eagle - "Original Butterscotch Confection" from Unapologetic Art Rap (2010)
Nocando - "Two Track Mind" from Jimmy the Lock (2010)
Modeselektor - "Pretentious Friends" from Monkeytown (2011)
Thirsty Fish - "Grind It Out" from Watergate (2011)
Daedelus - "What Can You Do?" from Bespoke (2011)
Sole - "We Stay Eatin'" from Nuclear Winter Volume 2: Death Panel (2011)
Eligh & AmpLive - "L.A. Dreamers" from Therapy at 3 (2011)
Radioinactive - "Gypsy Shoe" from The Akashic Record (2012)
Dark Time Sunshine - "Look at What the Cat Did" from Anx (2012)
P.O.S - "Oh, Ouch" from We Don't Even Live Here (2012)
Myka 9 - "Enter the Slayer" from Gramophone (2012)
Abstract Rude - "The Media" from Dear Abbey (2012)
Kool A.D. - "Question Jam Answer" from 63 (2013)
Milo - "The Gus Haynes Cribbage League" from Things That Happen at Night (2013)
Lapalux - "Forlorn" (2013)
Open Mike Eagle - "Degrassi Picture Day (Hellfyre Jackets)" from Sir Rockabye (2013)
Milo - "Red Oleanders" from Cavalcade (2013)
Loden - "About Busdriver with Colors" from The Star-Eyed Condition (2013)
Latyrx - "Close Your Eyes" from The Second Album (2013)
Armand Hammer - "New Museum" from Race Music (2013)
Son Lux - "Easy (Remix)" (2013)
Ceschi - "Forgotten Forever" from Forgotten Forever (2014)
Shawn Lee - "Christophe" from Golden Age Against the Machine (2014)
Milo - "Argyle Sox" from A Toothpaste Suburb (2014)
MC Frontalot - "Chisel Down" from Question Bedtime (2014)
Memory Man - "Live from Death Row" from Broadcast One (2015)
Prefuse 73 - "140 Jabs Interlude" from Rivington Não Rio (2015)
Abstract Rude - "Relay" from Keep the Feel: A Legacy of Hip Hop Soul (2015)
Eligh - "Get Like Me" from 80 Hrtz (2015)
Cavanaugh - "Typecast" from Time and Materials (2015)
Elos - "Not the Best" from Limit Break (2016)
The Kleenrz - "Man Overboard" from Season 2 (2016)
Daedelus - "In Your Hands" from Labyrinths (2016)
Lorde Fredd33 - "Trap Jazz" from Dead Man's View (2016)
P.O.S - "Pieces/Ruins" from Chill, Dummy (2017)
Milo - "Rapper" from Who Told You to Think??!!?!?!?! (2017)
Jeremiah Jae - "In da Zone" from Daffi (2018)
Blu & Fat Jack - "Low End Theory" from Underground Makes the World Go Round (2019)
Productions
2Mex - "My Intro Won't Destroy You", "Bluetooth Cyborg", "Career Suicide for Dummies", and "Jolly Rancher" from My Fanbase Will Destroy You (2010)
Open Mike Eagle - "Nightmares (Busdriver Remix)" and "Four Days" from Extended Nightmares Getdown: The Dark Blue Door (2011)
Sole - "The Inferno" from A Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing (2012)
Tera Melos - "Snake Lake (Busdriver Remix)" from X'ed Out Remixes (2013)
Open Mike Eagle - "Deathmate Black" from Dark Comedy (2014)
Billy Woods - "U-Boats" from Today, I Wrote Nothing (2015)
References
External links
1978 births
Living people
African-American male rappers
American male rappers
Rappers from Los Angeles
Record producers from California
American hip hop record producers
Progressive rap musicians
West Coast hip hop musicians
21st-century American rappers
21st-century American male musicians
Epitaph Records artists
Project Blowed
21st-century African-American musicians
20th-century African-American people
Anti- (record label) artists
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The 1933 Michigan Tech Huskies football team represented Michigan Technological University in the 1933 college football season. The Huskies completed the season with a 2–2 record. They played one game against themselves.
Schedule
References
Michigan Tech
Michigan Tech Huskies football seasons
Michigan Tech Huskies football
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Jae-hui or Jae-hee is a Korean unisex given name. Its meaning depends on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 20 hanja with the reading "jae" and 24 hanja with the reading "hui" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.
People with this name include:
Lee Jae-hee (born 1959), South Korean male football defender
Chung Jae-hee (born 1979), South Korean female badminton player
Song Jae-hee (born 1979), South Korean actor
Jae Hee (born Lee Hyun-kyun, 1980), South Korean actor
Jeong Jae-hee (born 1994), South Korean male football midfielder (K-League Challenge)
Fictional characters with this name include:
Yoo Jae-hee, in 1995–2005 South Korean manhwa series Let Dai
Han Jae-hee, in 2010 South Korean television series Athena: Goddess of War
Goo Jae-hee, in 2012 South Korean television series To the Beautiful You
Han Jae-hee, in 2012 South Korean television series The Innocent Man
Lee Jae-hee, in 2013 South Korean television series When a Man Falls in Love
Song Jae-hee, in 2014 South Korean television series Doctor Stranger
Kwon Jae-hee, in 2015 South Korean television series The Girl Who Sees Smells
Jaehee Kang, in 2016 South Korean mobile video game Mystic Messenger
See also
List of Korean given names
References
Korean unisex given names
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This is a table of all gold medalists in the Badminton World Championships. Since 1983, the event has been held every two years, with it changing to an annual event since 2005 but taking a break during Olympic years.
Results
World Championships of the WBF
References
BWF World Championships
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Xu Zechen (; born in 1978 in Donghai County, Jiangsu) is a Chinese author of literary fiction. He currently works as an editor at People's Literature Magazine. In 2009 he was a writer in residence at Creighton University and in 2010 he attended the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.
Awards
2019 - Awarded the 10th Mao Dun Literature Prize for "Northward"
2016 - Awarded the 1st Cross-Strait Young Writers Prize for "Jerusalem"
2015 - Nominated for the 9th Mao Dun Literature Prize for "Jerusalem"
2014 - Awarded the Lao She Literary Award for "Jerusalem"
2014 - Awarded the Short Story Award of the 7th Lu Xun Literary Prize for If A Snowstorm Seals the Door
Works
Representative works include the following (translated titles are approximate):
Novels and Novellas
《耶路撒冷》 (Jerusalem)
《跑步穿过中关村》 Running Through Beijing (tr. by Eric Abrahamsen)
《午夜之门》 (Midnight's Door)
《夜火车》(Night Train)
《天上人间》(Heaven on Earth)
《北上》(Northward)
《苍声》Voice Change (tr. by Charles Laughlin)
《啊，北京》
《西夏》(Western Xia/Tangut)
《人间烟火》
《逆时针》
《居延》(Juyan)
《小城市》(Small Town)
Short stories
《花街》(Flower street)
《最后一个猎人》(The last hunter)
《伞兵与卖油郎》(The parachuter and the oil seller)
《纸马》(Paper horses)
《我们的老海》(Our old sea)
《这些年我一直在路上》(I've been on the road a few years)
《如果大雪封门》 If a Snowstorm Seals the Door (tr. by Jeremy Tiang)
《时间简史》 A Brief History of Time (tr. by Eric Abrahamsen]
《露天电影》 Outdoor Film (tr. by Eric Abrahamsen]
《轮子是圆的》 Wheels are round (tr. by Eric Abrahamsen]
《雪夜访戴》 Visiting Dai on a Snowy Evening (tr. by Eric Abrahamsen]
《狗叫了一天》 The Dog's Been Barking All Day, July 2017 (tr. by Eric Abrahamsen]
《奔马》 Galloping Horses (tr. by Helen Wang)
《弃婴》 Throwing Out the Baby (tr. by Nicky Harman)
《镜与刀》 (Mirror and Knife)
《九年》 (Nine Years)
《忆秦娥》 Remembering Qin E (tr. by Jeremy Tiang)
External links
Xu Zechen profile on Paper Republic
Xu Zechen profile on Words Without Borders
Xu Zechen profile on MCLC
Xu Zechen profile on mychinesebooks
Xu Zechen on chinese-shortstories (in French)
References
1978 births
Living people
Writers from Lianyungang
Chinese male novelists
People's Republic of China novelists
Mao Dun Literature Prize laureates
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Approach angle is the maximum angle of a ramp onto which a vehicle can climb from a horizontal plane without interference. It is defined as the angle between the ground and the line drawn between the front tire and the lowest-hanging part of the vehicle at the front overhang. Departure angle is its counterpart at the rear of the vehicle – the maximum ramp angle from which the car can descend without damage. Approach and departure angles are also referred to as ramp angles.
Approach and departure angles are indicators of off-road ability of the vehicle: they indicate how steep obstacles, such as rocks or logs, the vehicle can negotiate according to its body shape alone.
See also
Breakover angle
Overhang (automotive)
Ride height
References
External links
Approach and Departure Angles at Why High End?
Automotive engineering
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Aghabeyim agha Javanshir (; 1780–1832) was an Azerbaijani poet, daughter of the second khan of Karabakh Ibrahim Khalil Khan, a wife of Iranian shah Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, and aunt of poet Khurshidbanu Natavan. She wrote under the alias Aghabaji.
Early life
In her younger years, Aghabeyim agha fell in love with her cousin Muhammad bey when she was young. Muhammad bey was in charge of her father the khan's army. Returning to Shusha to Ibrahim Khalil khan for the settlement of the marriage issue, Muhammad bey had to go on a trip on that day. Aghabeyim agha wrote on this occasion:
After Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar's homicide in Karabakh, in 1797, Ibrahim Khalil Khan married his daughter Aghabeyim agha to new the shah, Agha Mohammad Khan's nephew Fath-Ali Shah Qajar to ensure the normalization of political relations and sent her to Tehran.
Life as a royal consort
Fath-Ali Shah's wives had a right to choose any dress from the shah's rich salon when they entered into harem. Aghabeyim agha knew that the shah's mother's dress was also there. Therefore, when she was brought to the salon she directed her steps to that dress and put it on. Seeing Aghabeyim agha in his mother's dress, Fath-Ali Shah was surprised and never touched her.
Due to her intellect, Aghabeyim agha was liked by the shah, and he appointed her as harem's head wife and granted her gorgeous dresses with pearls.
Aghabeyim agha was homesick and expressed her anguish in her poems-bayati (quatrains):
Aghabeyim agha died in 1832, in Tehran and was buried in Qom.
Aghabeyim agha in art
In 2008, a film Sovereign's Fortune was shot about the history of Karabakh khanate during Ibrahim Khalil Khan's reign. The role of Aghabeyim agha was played by Gunash Aliyeva.
References
1780 births
1832 deaths
Azerbaijani-language women poets
Writers from Shusha
Qajar royal consorts
18th-century Iranian poets
19th-century Iranian women writers
18th-century Iranian women
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Rachel Charlotte Biggs (1763-1827), was an English author, letter writer and spy.
She was in France during the French revolution in 1792–1795, and wrote a political narrative about her stay there.
Between 1802 and 1816, she appears to have been or repeatedly visited France and Napoleon controlled Europe. She corresponded with the British politicians William Windham (1750-1810) and Nicholas Vansittart (1766-1851) and reported her observations about military strength, industry and agriculture and political state, asking for British government funds for further travels.
A biography has been published about her.
References
1827 deaths
1763 births
Spies of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
19th-century British writers
18th-century British writers
18th-century letter writers
19th-century letter writers
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Henry Carr (November 27, 1941 – May 29, 2015) was an American track and field athlete who won two gold medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
Early life
Born in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1941, Carr moved with his family to Detroit, Michigan when he was young.
Prior to bringing his athletic talents to Arizona State University (ASU), Carr was a state champion sprinter for Northwestern High School in Detroit having posted a 100-yard time of 9.3 seconds. While competing for the ASU Sun Devils, he won three national titles; along the way setting world records at 220 yards and as a member of the Sun Devil 4 x 440 yard relay team.
Henry Carr won the 1963 NCAA title at 200 meters in 20.5; the same year he ran 20.69 to tie Paul Drayton for the USA title. Twice that season Carr ran world records; a non-ratified 20.4 for 220 yards and, three days later in a college triangular meet, a 20.3 for 220 yards. Henry Carr ran even faster in 1964; setting a world record of 20.2 for 220 yards. He also defeated Drayton into second place to win the national title.
Olympics
It was at the 1964 Olympics where Carr would achieve his greatest fame; Carr won the 200 meters (in an Olympic Record time) and anchored the winning 4 x 400 meter relay team to a world record 3:00.7 (with Ollan Cassell, Mike Larrabee and Ulis Williams).
Carr had a fright in his qualification for the Olympics. He had won the semi-final trials held in New York in July and only had to prove his fitness at the final trials in September in Los Angeles. However, he was well beaten into fourth place in the final there and with only 3 to qualify he could have been eliminated. His earlier win was enough though to convince the selectors that he should go to the Olympics.
Professional football career
Following the Olympics, Carr played American football in the National Football League. He was drafted in the fourth round of the 1965 NFL Draft by the New York Giants and played three seasons as a safety and cornerback with the Giants. In his last year with them he was hampered by a knee injury.
In 1969, he had a try-out with the Detroit Lions but quit their training camp.
Personal life
After he left the NFL he found difficulty in adjusting and finding work. He found new purpose in 1973 when he became a Jehovah's Witness. In the mid-1970s he was described as living a simple life with his family outside Atlanta, Georgia. In later life, Carr became a Jehovah's Witness elder, and was reported to have done contracting work and owned a restaurant. He died of cancer on May 29, 2015, in Griffin, Georgia.
Accolades and awards
Carr was a 1975 Charter inductee in the Arizona State Sun Devils Athletics Hall of Fame. In 1997, he was inducted into the USA Track and Field Hall of Fame.
World records
Carr set the following world records during his track career:
220 y of 20.3 s at Tempe, Arizona on March 23, 1963, in a tri Meet ASU-Utah-USC;
4×440 y of 3:04.5 at Walnut, California on April 27, 1963, at the Mt. SAC Relays for the ASU;
220 y of 20.2 s at Tempe, Arizona on April 4, 1964, in a dual meet ASU-SC Striders;
4 × 400 m of 3:00.7 at Tokyo, Japan on October 21, 1964, in the Olympic final.
Note: he also ran a 20.4 s for 220 y on March 19, 1963, that was never ratified as a world record.
World rankings
Carr was ranked among the best in the US and the world in the 100, 200 and 400 m sprint events in the period 1962-64, according to the votes of the experts of Track and Field News.
References
External links
Henry Carr: Detroit Northwestern High School 1961, Michtrack
Whether at ASU, the Olympics or NFL, Carr could motor. Arizona Daily Star, July 16 2011.
1942 births
2015 deaths
African-American male track and field athletes
African-American players of American football
American football safeties
American male sprinters
Arizona State Sun Devils men's track and field athletes
Athletes (track and field) at the 1964 Summer Olympics
World record setters in athletics (track and field)
Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
New York Giants players
Olympic gold medalists for the United States in track and field
Players of American football from Detroit
Northwestern High School (Michigan) alumni
Track and field athletes from Detroit
20th-century African-American sportspeople
21st-century African-American people
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Odd Carl Arthur Borg (May 26, 1931 – November 13, 1965) was a Norwegian actor and singer. He was engaged with the Central Theater from 1953 to 1960, and with the National Theater from 1960 until his death. Borg was found dead behind the Amphitheater Stage () after the premiere of the play Hva skal vi gjøre? by Klaus Rifbjerg and Jesper Jensen.
As a singer, he recorded the song "Jeg plystrer mens jeg går" (I Whistle While I Walk) on a gramophone record in 1957. It was a Norwegian version of the American hit "Just Walkin' in the Rain." As an actor, he is remembered for roles such as the intolerable daddy's boy and shipowner Rieber-Larsen Jr. in Operasjon Løvsprett, as a naval commander in Operasjon Sjøsprøyt, and the male lead role in Støv på hjernen. The same year he died, he starred in the next to last Stompa film, Stompa forelsker seg.
Odd Borg was married to the dancer Anne Borg. Borg was a cousin of the Olsen Gang director Knut Bohwim.
Filmography
1955: Bedre enn sitt rykte
1956: Kvinnens plass
1956: Gylne ungdom
1956: Ektemann alene
1957: Peter van Heeren
1957: Selv om de er små
1959: 5 loddrett
1959: Støv på hjernen
1961: Line
1961: Sønner av Norge
1962: Operasjon løvsprett
1964: Operasjon sjøsprøyt
1964: Nydelige nelliker
1965: To på topp
1965: Stompa forelsker seg
References
External links
Odd Borg at the Swedish Film Database
Odd Borg at Filmfront
Odd Borg at the National Theatre
1931 births
1965 deaths
20th-century Norwegian male actors
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Herbert Ernst Groh (27 May 190528 July 1982) was a Swiss tenor.
Groh was born in Lucerne and subsequently studied in Zurich and Milan. One of his teachers was Carl Beines, who also taught Richard Tauber.
He began his operatic singing career in Darmstadt in 1926, with engagements following in Frankfurt and Cologne and a successful tour of Italy in 1927, where he also began to make his first recordings using the name of Ernesto Groh. He then started to appear on German radio and devoted himself to developing a career as a recording artist - also making films, but soon giving up the stage - a career that lasted well into the LP era of the 1950s.
He died in 1982 at Norderstedt, near Hamburg.
Critical appreciation
Like Marcel Wittrisch, Groh is inevitably compared to his contemporary Richard Tauber. According to Alan Blyth: "Groh . . . is fonder yet than Tauber of unwritten touches of quite exceptional delicacy, and surpasses his older coeval in sheer technical control."
Recordings
A selection of Groh's recordings were released in 1990 by Pavilion Records on Pearl (GEMM CD 9419).
Films
References
Blyth, Alan (1990), 'Herbert Ernst Groh' (liner notes) for Pavilion Records Limited
1905 births
1982 deaths
People from Lucerne
Swiss operatic tenors
20th-century Swiss male opera singers
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Fratricelli, a diminutive of the Latin Fratri "brothers", can refer to:
the Fraticelli, a series of heretical groups
the Franciscan mendicant order
fr:Fraticelli
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Happy Eater was a chain of restaurants in England and Wales. Founded by Sir Michael Pickard in 1973, the chain wanted to compete against the British roadside restaurant category killer at the time, Little Chef, who would end up absorbing it in 1997.
History
In 1973, a former managing director of the hotel group Trust House Forte, Michael Pickard, founded a family-orientated roadside restaurant, aimed at competing with the established pre-eminent chain in the industry, Little Chef. The company's first major move was converting Welcome Break restaurants into Happy Eater locations in the 1970s. The restaurants offered similar fare to Little Chef, such as offering English breakfasts and fish and chips. A distinctive difference to customers between the two chains was that Happy Eater provided outdoor animal-themed playground equipment for children. Outlets were mostly located in the Midlands and the South East of England, with many locations situated along the A1 road corridor.
In 1980, the brand further expanded when its 21 locations were sold to the Imperial Group. Not long after this, a partnership with Esso garages was formed, which saw a rapid increase of new roadside locations throughout the 1980s. Imperial Group would expand the chain to 75 restaurants, before selling the chain in 1986 to Trust House Forte, who owned the Little Chef chain. Trust House Forte continued to expand the Happy Eater chain alongside Little Chef. The chain notably received media attention in 1991 when Prime Minister John Major stopped at a Happy Eater outlet for a fried breakfast on his way to a Young Conservatives conference.
Decline
In 1996, Granada purchased Forte, as it had become known, and began to streamline their business by converting the Happy Eater locations to the Little Chef brand. By the end of 1997, all Happy Eater restaurants were either converted or closed, helping Little Chef reach its peak of 439 restaurants. This would prove challenging for Little Chef, as some Happy Eater locations were originally built to compete with Little Chef, meaning now the restaurants were competing with themselves; this ultimately meant Little Chef would close locations throughout the 2000s as a result of falling profits. Little Chef's financial difficulties caused it to eventually cease in January 2018. The defunct Happy Eater brand is currently owned by Kuwaiti firm Kout Food Group, who were the last organisation to operate Little Chef. The group left the United Kingdom in 2020, meaning the Happy Eater trademark is now registered in Kuwait.
Legacy
The 1986 film, Mona Lisa, features a scene filmed in a Happy Eater. The 1989 video game Fast Food, was originally intended as a promotional tool for Happy Eater. The 2007 film Rise of the Footsoldier uses a location depicting the former Basildon branch of Happy Eater, set in the late 1980s. The 2020 Amazon series Truth Seekers features an abandoned Happy Eater restaurant in its fifth episode. The Curse (2022) recreates a Happy Eater for a scene in its last episode.
In November 2022, Loungers announced they were launching Brightside Roadside to fill the gap in the market created by the demise of Little Chef and Happy Eater.
See also
Little Chef
Brightside Roadside
References
External links
Defunct restaurants in the United Kingdom
Defunct restaurant chains
Restaurants established in 1973
British companies established in 1973
British companies disestablished in 1997
1997 disestablishments in England
1973 establishments in England
Restaurants disestablished in 1997
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The Battle of Lacolle was fought on November 7, 1838, between Loyal Lower Canada volunteer forces under Major John Scriver and Patriote rebels under Colonel Ferdinand-Alphonse Oklowski. On November 6, on their way to Lacolle, the Patriote rebels had won a first skirmish, but they lost in the final confrontation the next day. The battle lasted half an hour.
References
"Bataille de Lacolle - 6 et 7 novembre 1838. (Bataille)" in La Mémoire du Québec
Lacolle 1838
Lacolle, Battle of
Lacolle
1838 in Lower Canada
November 1838 events
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Fouqué is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué (1698–1774), Prussian general
Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1777–1843), Prussian writer
Ferdinand André Fouqué (1828–1904), French geologist and petrologist
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Majikat is a CD and DVD live album by British singer-songwriter Cat Stevens. It was recorded during the US leg of Stevens' Earth Tour 1976, but was not released until 2004, by which time the artist was known as Yusuf Islam.
Track listing
All songs written by Cat Stevens, except where noted.
DVD
"The Doves" (Majikat Tour Theme)" (DVD Only)
"The Wind"
"Moonshadow"
"Where Do the Children Play?"
"Another Saturday Night" (Sam Cooke) – 2:35
"Hard Headed Woman"
"Miles From Nowhere" (DVD Only)
"King of Trees"
"C79"
"Lady D'Arbanville"
"Banapple Gas"
"Majik of Majiks"
"Tuesday's Dead"
"Oh Very Young"
"The Hurt"
"Sad Lisa"
"Two Fine People"
"Fill My Eyes"
"Father and Son"
"Ruins" (DVD Only)
"Peace Train"
The concert first encore, "Wild World", appears on the DVD as a bonus feature along with other archive material i.e. the three live tracks:
"If I Laugh" from BBC 'Old Grey Whistle Test' 1971;
"Maybe You're Right" from BBC 'In Concert' 1971;
"Tuesday's Dead" from Granada 'Out Front' 1971.
CD
"Wild World" – 3:03
"The Wind" – 1:38
"Moonshadow" – 2:43
"Where Do the Children Play?" – 3:20
"Another Saturday Night" (Sam Cooke) – 2:35
"Hard Headed Woman" – 3:54
"King of Trees" – 3:28
"C79" – 3:08
"Lady D'Arbanville" – 3:47
"Banapple Gas" – 3:08
"Majik of Majiks" – 4:27
"Tuesday's Dead" – 4:06
"Oh Very Young" – 2:24
"How Can I Tell You" – 4:10 (CD Only)
"The Hurt" – 4:54
"Sad Lisa" – 3:26
"Two Fine People" – 3:47
"Fill My Eyes" – 3:01
"Father and Son" – 4:10
"Peace Train" – 3:58
Concert setlist
Source:
Set 1
"The Doves (Instrumental Intro)"
"The Wind"
"Moonshadow"
"Where Do the Children Play?"
"Another Saturday Night" (Sam Cooke)
"Hard Headed Woman"
"Sitting"
"Whistlestar"
"King of Trees"
"Sun/C79"
"Lady D'Arbanville"
"Banapple Gas"
Set 2
"Majik of Majiks"
"Tuesday's Dead"
"Oh Very Young"
"How Can I Tell You"
"The Hurt"
"Miles From Nowhere"
"Sad Lisa"
"Two Fine People"
"Fill My Eyes"
"Father and Son"
"Ruins"
"Peace Train"
Encore
"Wild World"
"Jzero"
Personnel
Cat Stevens – guitars, piano, vocals
Alun Davies – guitars, vocals
Mark Warner – guitars, bouzouki
Bruce Lynch – bass guitar
Jean Roussel – Hammond organ, clavinet, electric piano, synthesizer
Gerry Conway – drums, percussion
Chico Batera – percussion
Larry Steele – percussion, flute, acoustic guitar, bass guitar
Kimberley Carlson – backing vocals
Angela Howell – backing vocals
Suzanne Lynch – backing vocals
Certifications and sales
References
External links
2004 live albums
Cat Stevens live albums
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Jamnagar & Dwaraka Railway was a metre gauge in the Nawanagar State in Gujarat during 19th century.
History
After the death of Vibhoji Ranmalji in 1895 Jashwantsinhji Vibhoji who came on to throne on 28 April 1895 started the first section of what came to be called the Jamnagar Railway. The railway line from Jamnagar (then called Nawanagar) to Rajkot was opened for traffic in 1897 with Bhavnagar-Gondal-Junagad-Porbandar railway line. Until 1905 the railway line length was . Ranjitsinhji Vibhoji who was the ruler of Nawanagar State worked with Bhavnagar-Gondal-Junagad-Porbandar Railway system until 1911. Later he worked with Dwarka Railway. As the line was extended westwards towards Dwarka and Okha Port on the Gulf of Kutch. Hence the system was renamed as Jamnagar & Dwarka Railway. During 1942 the railway lines increased to . Later during the regime of Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji, the Jamnagar & Dwaraka Railway was merged into Saurashtra Railway in April 1948.
Rolling stock
In 1936, the company owned 17 locomotives, 3 railcars, 75 coaches and 607 goods wagons.
Classification
It was labeled as a Class II railway according to Indian Railway Classification System of 1926.
Conversion to broad gauge
The railway lines were converted to broad gauge in 1984.
References
Metre gauge railways in India
Defunct railway companies of India
History of rail transport in Gujarat
Jamnagar district
Transport in Jamnagar
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The Artillery Park (also known as the Churchyard Cemetery and Historical Cemetery 2) is a historic cemetery at North Road and Narragansett Avenue in Jamestown, Rhode Island. It is located at a high point on the southern part of Conanicut Island. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
History
It was originally laid out in 1656 as a burying ground and militia training ground, but appears to have been used as a burying ground only since the 1740s. When British forces occupied the island in 1776, there was a brief skirmish there, and the British afterward used the area as a military staging ground.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
List of cemeteries in Rhode Island
References
External links
Jamestown Philomenian Library – Historic and Architectural Resources of Jamestown, Rhode Island
Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
1656 establishments in Rhode Island
Jamestown, Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Newport County, Rhode Island
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Gymnosporangium kernianum is a fungal plant pathogen.
References
External links
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Fungi described in 1911
Pucciniales
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Joshua Alexandre Bergasse (born March 6, 1973) is an American choreographer and dancer. He has won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography for his work on the TV show, Smash. He has choreographed a number of Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the 2014 revival of On the Town, and the Off-Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hart’s I Married an Angel.
Early life
Joshua Bergasse was born on March 6, 1973, and grew up in Farmington Hills, Michigan. He attended his mother's dance studio, Annette and Company School of Dance, during his childhood. Around age 15–16, Bergasse started teaching at his mother's studio and his passion ignited. His choreographic inspirations came from the movie musicals he used to watch. His idols included Bob Fosse, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Hermes Pan, and Michael Kidd. He notes that these influences are important to the development of his choreographic style.
Career
At age 22, Bergasse went to an audition for the national tour of West Side Story during a vacation to New York City to see shows and take classes. He was offered the role of Baby John and was a member of the tour for two years. After the tour ended, he stayed in New York to continue working as a dancer. Bergasse started to choreograph more and more in New York until he became known as a choreographer.
In 2012, Bergasse became a choreographer for the TV show, Smash for its two-season run. He got the job offer after the director, Michael Mayer, saw some of Bergasse's work at a New York University benefit and asked for his reel. They originally met during the out of town tryout of Thoroughly Modern Millie. Meyer was the director of the production and Bergasse was a dance captain. They reconnected through Smash. Bergasse was responsible for the choreography of the big dance numbers in the show. This also included any type of dancing in the background of shots. During the filming of the second season, Bergasse was able to choreograph for both of the hypothetical musicals: Bombshell and Hit List. He starts the choreography process for each dance number immediately after the composers finish the song. He will first set the piece on stand-ins for the leads, and then he will teach it to the principals after the executive producers approve the number. The amount of prep time available to get the dance numbers ready ranged from two days to a week. In 2012, Bergasse won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography for his work on Smash.
In 2014, Bergasse choreographed the Broadway revival of On the Town. He found working on the musical incredibly enjoyable because dance is used as a major form of storytelling in this specific piece. His work on On the Town earned him an Astaire Award and a Tony Award Nomination for Best Choreography.
Bergasse has choreographed the Broadway revival of Gigi in 2015 as well as the Off-Broadway productions of Sweet Charity, Bomb-Itty of Errors, Captain Louie, and Cagney. He earned a Drama Desk, an Astaire, and an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for his choreography in Cagney. His other choreographic credits include West Side Story at the Stratford Festival, Little Me at City Center Encores!, 'It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman' at City Center Encores!, Pirates of Penzance at Barrington Stage Co., Guys and Dolls at Carnegie Hall, and The Sound of Music at Carnegie Hall.
Bergasse choreographed the Broadway musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 2017. He spent over a year working on ‘Charlie’ before rehearsals began. Once the dancers were in the room, he had six weeks in the studio to set his choreography on them. He encouraged his dancers to contribute to the piece, so it feels like their own as well as his work. Bergasse used different dance styles for different characters. For Veruca Salt, she had a ballet number involved pointe shoes. He choreographed a pas de deux where the partners couldn't touch each other for Charlie's mother and her deceased husband. He even choreographed a dance number for the bed-ridden grandfather.
In 2019, Bergasse directed and choreographed a revival of the Rodgers and Hart musical I Married an Angel for the New York City Encores! series. This production starred his wife, Sara Mearns. Bergasse and Mearns were approached to take on this project by Jack Viertel. This is because of the history of George Balanchine choreographing this specific musical with his then significant other, Vera Zorina, as the leading lady. It was thought to be a cute parallel for the pair to revive this musical around eighty years later. The musical contained a significant amount of dancing, including two ten-minute ballet sequences to choreograph.
Personal life
In November 2012, Joshua Bergasse met Sara Mearns when she was auditioning for a featured dancing role on Smash. The dance number she was being considered for was inevitably cut, but Bergasse and Mearns hit it off and started dating a few months later. After five years of dating, they got engaged on Valentine's Day. They were married on November 3, 2018, in Sunset Beach, North Carolina. Because Mearns is also a dancer, they collaborate on each other's projects. They have also worked on projects together since their marriage such as Rodgers and Hart's I Married an Angel and a dance piece starring Mearns at the Fire Island Dance Festival.
References
Living people
1973 births
American dancers
American choreographers
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Joop Wille (16 September 1920 – 16 January 2009) was a Dutch international footballer who played club football for EDO. Born in Haarlem, Wille died on 16 January 2009, at the age of 88.
References
External links
Player profile at VoetbalStats.nl
Player profile at Weltfußball.de
1920 births
2009 deaths
Dutch men's footballers
Netherlands men's international footballers
Footballers from Haarlem
HFC EDO players
Men's association football goalkeepers
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The Craft–Clausen House is a historic stone house located at 170 Fairmont Road in Washington Township, Morris County, New Jersey. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 1, 1992, for its significance in architecture. The house is part of the Stone Houses and Outbuildings in Washington Township Multiple Property Submission (MPS).
History
John Craft bought the property here in 1848 and likely built the house soon after. The property was then sold to William Clausen in 1869. The next owner was Walter Parley in 1924.
Description
The house is a -story stone building with a gable roof and Victorian architecture details. It was enlarged in 1924 with a small frame addition. The property also includes two outbuildings: a wagon house and a chicken coop.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Morris County, New Jersey
References
External links
Washington Township, Morris County, New Jersey
National Register of Historic Places in Morris County, New Jersey
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey
New Jersey Register of Historic Places
Houses in Morris County, New Jersey
Stone houses in New Jersey
Mid 19th Century Revival architecture in the United States
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Bizionia algoritergicola is a bacterium from the genus of Bizionia which has been isolated from a copepod salin pond.
References
External links
Type strain of Bizionia algoritergicola at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Flavobacteria
Bacteria described in 2005
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Kashmiri Hindus are ethnic Kashmiris who practice Hinduism and are native to the Kashmir Valley of India. With respect to their contributions to Indian philosophy, Kashmiri Hindus developed the tradition of Kashmiri Shaivism. After their exodus from the Kashmir Valley in the wake of the Kashmir insurgency in the 1990s, most Kashmiri Hindus are now settled in the Jammu division of Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of the country. The largest group of Kashmiri Hindus are the Kashmiri Pandits.
History
Ancient
During the reign of Ashoka (304–232 BCE), Kashmir became a part of the Maurya Empire and Buddhism was introduced in Kashmir. During this period, many stupas, some shrines dedicated to Shiva, and the city of Srinagari (Srinagar) were built. Kanishka (127–151 CE), an emperor of the Kushan Empire, conquered Kashmir and established the new city of Kanishkapur.
Medieval
The Karkota dynasty (625–855 CE) ruled over the Kashmir and parts of northern Indian subcontinent and their rule saw political expansion, economic prosperity and emergence of Kashmir as a centre of culture and scholarship. Lalitaditya Muktapida (724–760 CE) was a powerful ruler of the Karkota dynasty of Kashmir region in the Indian subcontinent. After the seventh century, significant developments took place in Kashmiri Hinduism. In the centuries that followed, Kashmir produced many poets, philosophers, and artists who contributed to Sanskrit literature and Hindu religion. Among notable scholars of this period was Vasugupta () who wrote the Shiva Sutras which laid the foundation for a monistic Shaiva system called Kashmir Shaivism.
After the dawn of the Lohara dynasty, Islam had penetrated into countries outside Kashmir and in the absence of support from Hindus, who were in the majority, Rinchana needed the support of the Kashmiri Muslims. Shah Mir's coup on Rinchana's successor secured Muslim rule and the rule of his dynasty in Kashmir.
Demography
The largest community within the Kashmiri Hindus are the Kashmiri Pandits (Kashmiri Brahmins), who are divided into several gotras, such as the priests (gor or bhasha Bhatta), astrologers (Zutshi), and workers (Karkun).
The Wani are historically Banias, with subcastes, such as the Kesarwani. During the Mughal era, many Kesarwanis migrated to other parts of India such as Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
According to officials, 98,600 Kashmiri Hindus were issued domicile certificates of Jammu and Kashmir up to the end of June 2021. They further state, "90,430 domicile certificates were issued to displaced Kashmiri Pandits, while 2,340 families of displaced Kashmiri Pandits were registered as fresh migrants. Of these, 8,170 individuals received the domicile certificate."
On 16 May 2020, Order 52 was issued by the Jammu and Kashmir Department of Disaster Management, Relief, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction (JK DMRRR) which states that: "Bonafide migrants and bonafide displaced persons who are not yet registered with the relief and rehabilitation commissioner (migrant), Jammu and Kashmir, can apply before the competent authority for registration for purpose of issuance of a domicile certificate only." This is as long as one of the necessary documents is provided. The timeframe for registration (and claiming domicile) of Kashmiri migrants and displaced persons was later extended for the final time up to 15 May 2022.
Persecution
Under the rule of Sultan Sikander Butshikan in the 14th century CE, many Kashmiri Hindus were forcibly converted to Islam. They began to leave the valley in much greater numbers in the 1990s during the eruption of militancy following large scale militarization of Valley.
Notable people
This is a list of notable Kashmiri Hindus.
Anupam Kher, Indian actor
Bhai Almast, Udasi saint
Bhai Balu Hasna, Udasi saint
Kunal Khemu, Indian actor
R N Kao, one of the founders and First Secretary of R&AW
Krsna (rapper), Indian rapper
Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of India
Mohit Raina, Indian actor
Samay Raina, standup comedian and chess enthusiast
Bhasha Sumbli, Indian actress
Tika Lal Taploo, lawyer
Motilal Nehru, lawyer and leader of Indian National Congress
Indira Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India
P. N. Haksar, bureaucrat and diplomat
Tej Bahadur Sapru, freedom fighter, lawyer, and politician
Tapishwar Narain Raina, ninth Chief of the Army Staff of Indian Army
Sanjiv Bhatt, Indian Police Service officer of the Gujarat-cadre
Ram Chandra Kak, Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir (1945-1947)
Mohan Lal Zutshi, traveler, diplomat, and author, and an important player in the Great Game.
See also
Dogra Rajput
Kashmiri diaspora
Bibliography
The Hindu History of Kashmir by Horace Hayman Wilson
Kashmir Hindu Religious Culture By Chaman Lal Gadoo
Hindus of Kashmir - A Genocide Forgotten by Bansi Pandit
The Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Ancient Kashmir and Its Influences By John Siudmak
Kashmir: Its Aborigines and Their Exodusby Colonel Tej K Tikoo
Kasheer - A Diabolical Betrayal of Kashmiri Hindus By Sahana Vijayakumar
Genocide of Hindus in Kashmir by Suruchi Prakashan
The Infidel Next Door By Rajat Kanti Mitra
The Odyssey Of Kashmiri Pandits Destination-Homeland-Panun Kashmir by Dr M. L. Bhat
References
External links
Kashmiri people
Kashmiri Hindus
Hinduism in Jammu and Kashmir
Hindu ethnic groups
Social groups of Jammu and Kashmir
Social groups of India
Kashmiri tribes
Hindu communities
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The Beattie Gold Mine is an abandoned gold mine in Duparquet, Quebec, Canada that began operating in 1933 and led to the founding of the town it is located in. Due to accidents claiming in total 26 lives and pollution, the installations were permanently closed in 1956. The mining concession is still active and there is talks into converting it into an open pit mine and demolish the remnants of the Beattie mine.
Discovery and prospection
The credit for the discovery of the Beattie deposit belongs to Mr. John Beattie, who has been interested in the district since 1910. He found gold in small veins in basalts on Beattie island, near the outlet of Duparquet lake, and did a considerable amount of work there, but the showings did not seem to warrant large-scale development. He then turned his attention to the mainland east of the lake, where a body of feldspar porphyry was discovered near the lake and values in gold were obtained. The first zone opened-up at the north was thoroughly drilled by the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company, but did not prove sufficiently attractive, so their option lapsed. Further work westward, towards the west end of the porphyry' body, opened-up a wider zone in a similar position, and the assays were attractive enough to warrant a new option, which was finally taken over by Ventures Limited.
Ventures drilled this new area and obtained indications of a large tonnage of material with values considered to be commercial. The Nipissing Mining Company became associated with Ventures for a 40 per cent interest in the undertaking, and in 1932 a prospect shaft was sunk in the ore to a depth of 220 feet. The results were so encouraging that a major development was at once undertaken for an initial production of about 600 tons per day, with planned gradual expansion to 5,000 tons per day.
References
Gold mines in Canada
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Daniel James Metzger (born March 9, 1993) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder.
Career
Early career
Metzger was a member of the Players Development Academy for two years before joining the New York Red Bulls Academy in 2010. He also spent four years at the University of Maryland between 2011 and 2014. In his four years with the Terrapins he made 88 appearances and scored 8 goals and provided 4 assists. While at college, Metzger appeared for USL PDL club Austin Aztex during the 2013 season.
Professional
Metzger was selected with the 42nd overall pick in the 2015 MLS SuperDraft by D.C. United. He was released by the club during the preseason.
Metzger was signed by New York Red Bulls II for the 2015 season and made his debut for the club on April 4, 2015, in a 4–1 victory over Toronto FC II, the first victory in club history. On June 23, 2015, Metzger was named USL Player of the Week for his performance for NYRBII in a 2–0 victory over Louisville City FC. On April 22, 2016, Metzger scored his first goal as a professional, helping New York to a 1–0 victory over Wilmington Hammerheads FC. On August 2, 2016, Metzger recorded a goal and an assist for New York in a 5–0 rout over Harrisburg City Islanders. On October 23, 2016, Metzger helped the club to a 5–1 victory over Swope Park Rangers in the 2016 USL Cup Final.
On July 5, 2017, Metzger made his MLS debut as a late game substitute in a 3–2 victory over New England Revolution.
On February 13, 2018, Metzger joined the Penn FC of the United Soccer League.
Metzger played two seasons with USL Championship side Memphis 901 FC before leaving the club in April 2021.
International
Metzger has represented the United States at the U18, U20 and U23 level. He helped the United States to a third-place finish at the 2015 Toulon Tournament.
Career statistics
Honors
Club
New York Red Bulls II
USL Cup (1): 2016
References
External links
Red Bull Academy player profile
Maryland player profile
ussoccer.com profile
1993 births
Living people
American men's soccer players
Maryland Terrapins men's soccer players
Austin Aztex players
New York Red Bulls II players
New York Red Bulls players
Penn FC players
Men's association football midfielders
People from Holmdel Township, New Jersey
Soccer players from Monmouth County, New Jersey
D.C. United draft picks
USL League Two players
USL Championship players
United States men's youth international soccer players
United States men's under-20 international soccer players
United States men's under-23 international soccer players
Memphis 901 FC players
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Golden Age or Golden era are terms used in Nigerian film history to designate the motion picture industry of Nigeria from the late 1950s to the late 1980s. It captures the mode of visual and sound production, as well as the method of distribution employed during this period. This period began with the formal recognition of the Nigerian Film Unit as a sector in 1954, with the first film entirely copyrighted to this unit being Fincho (1957) by Sam Zebba.
After Nigeria's independence in 1960, the cinema business rapidly expanded, with new cinema houses being established. As a result, Nigerian content in theatres increased in the late 1960s into the 1970s, especially productions from Western Nigeria, owing to former theatre practitioners such as Hubert Ogunde and Moses Olaiya transitioning into the big screen. In 1972, the Indigenization Decree was issued by Yakubu Gowon, which demanded the transfer of ownership of about a total of 300 film theatres from their foreign owners to Nigerians, which resulted in more Nigerians playing active roles in the cinema and film.
The oil boom of 1973 through 1978 also contributed immensely to the spontaneous boost of the cinema culture in Nigeria, as the increased purchasing power in Nigeria made a wide range of citizens to have disposable income to spend on cinema going and on home television sets. After several moderately successful films, Papa Ajasco (1984) by Wale Adenuga became one of the first Nigerian Blockbusters, reportedly grossing about ₦61,000 (approx. 2015 ₦21.5 million) in three days. A year later, Mosebolatan (1985) by Moses Olaiya also grossed ₦107,000 (approx. 2015 ₦44.2 million) in five days. The 1980s was also the period of major boom in the television industry, with several books from notable authors being adapted into television series. Many of these television productions were later released on video and as a result, a small scale informal video trade developed, which led to the emergence of the Video boom in the 1990s.
The Golden Age began to face a major gradual decline in the late 1980s; This decline has been attributed to several factors, including the reduction in the value of Naira, lack of finance and marketing support, lack of standard film studios and production equipment, frequent Government structural adjustment programmes due to military dictatorships, as well as inexperience on the part of practitioners. It is also generally believed by stakeholders that the decline in this era was due to negligence as a result of the oil boom, which affected other sectors of the Nigerian economy as well. It has also been noted to be as a result of increase in the ownership of television sets across the country; the films produced during this era usually screened over a single weekend and are released on video the following week, it no longer made sense anymore to visit the theatres and most families preferred to wait a few days to get their hands on the VHS copies. In the early 1990s, only a few of the once vibrant cinema houses were still in operation, and all had collapsed before 1999. However, as at 2009, there's an emerging movement in the film industry, which is rapidly reviving the cinema culture of Nigerians once again.
History
Pre-Independence
In 1954, before Nigeria's independence, the Nigerian film industry became formally recognized as a sector and was grouped as a unit in the information department of the then Ministry of Information. This unit was a re-organized local unit, which united the broader term 'Nigerian Film Unit' which had been established in 1949; the function of this film unit was to produce documentary films and newsreels on local events of great importance, leading to the dominance of educative films in Nigerian theatres in the late 1950s As at 1954, mobile cinema vans played to at least 3.5 million people in Nigeria, and films being produced by the Nigerian Film Unit were screened for free at the 44 available cinemas. The first film entirely copyrighted to this unit is Fincho (1957) by Sam Zebba; Fincho is also known as the first Nigerian film to be shot in colour.
Post-Independence
After Nigeria gained independence in 1960, the cinema business rapidly expanded, with new cinema houses being established. However, there came a significant influx of American, Indian, Chinese and Japanese films; posters of films from these countries were all over theatre halls and actors from these industries became very popular in Nigeria. It was reported that Nigerian kids began to know more on "travails of American Indians than they did about the Wole Soyinka-led Mbari Mbayo cultural group, or the socio-cultural history of Nigeria". However, in the late 1960s and into the 1970s, Nigerian productions in theatres increased gradually, especially productions from Western Nigeria; this was basically due to former theatre practitioners such as Hubert Ogunde, Moses Olaiya, Jab Adu, Isola Ogunsola, Ladi Ladebo, Sanya Dosumu and Sadiq Balewa amongst others, who transitioned into the big screen. Latola Films, which started the production of motion pictures since 1962, has often been noted as the earliest Nigerian indigenous film production company. Television broadcasting in Nigeria also began in the 1960s and received much government support in its early years.
Indigenization Decree and the 1970s boom
In 1972, concerned about the influx of foreign culture into Nigeria, the Indigenization Decree was issued by the then head of state Yakubu Gowon; which demands the transfer of ownership of about a total of 300 film theatres in the country from their foreign owners to Nigerians. Also, more Nigerians started playing active roles in cinema establishment; notable examples of this include: Metro cinema and Rivoli Cinema, which was owned by Chief Lisabi, and Danjuma Cinema by Alhaji Danjuma. This transfer also resulted in the emergence of Nigerian playwrights, screenwriters and film producers; popular literature and theatre works were adapted into motion picture. One of the most popular film people in this new wave was Hubert Ogunde, mainly because he promoted indigenous Nigerian language, arts and culture through his works.
The oil boom of 1973 through 1978 contributed immensely to the spontaneous boost of the cinema culture in Nigeria. The presence of foreign investments led to the erection of several cinema complexes. In 1976, The 5000-capacity National Arts Theatre, Iganmu was constructed in Lagos. The theatre was incorporated with two cinemas, each having a capacity of over 700 people. At this time cinema business had become a notable employer of many people and also served as an important social function, as Nigerians visited cinemas for relaxation and entertainment purposes. The increased purchasing power in Nigeria also made a wide range of citizens to have extra money to spend on cinema going and on home television sets.
Some foreign producers and directors also worked in Nigeria to make films in Nigeria, as a result of this boom, including people like Ossie Davis who directed Kongi's Harvest, a film based on the novel of the same name by Wole Soyinka, which was released in 1970. The film was adapted to screen by Soyinka, produced by Francis Oladele under the Calpenny Nigeria ltd production company. However, Ola Balogun's post-Civil War film, Amadi (1975) was one of the first notable Nigerian historical films on celluloid, which reflected on the Nigerian pre-Civil War days when Nigerians were very united. Balogun subsequently directed Ajani Ogun in 1976, a film which grew to become very popular, and is widely regarded as the first "commercial" Nigerian film, due to its success. Another film released after Ajani Ogun was Bisi – Daughter of the River (1977), which reflected Nigerian culture on film. Other popular films released in this era include: Bull Frog in the Sun (1974), Dinner with the Devil (1975); directed by the duo Sanya Dosunmu and Wole Amele, Ogunde's Aiye (1979), Jaiyesimi (1980), Cry Freedom (1981), and Eddie Ugbomah's The Great Attempt (1989); which was censored upon release, amongst others.
Mosebolatan (1985) by Moses Olaiya has been reported as the first Nigerian blockbuster, grossing approximately ₦107,000 (approx. 2015 ₦44.2 million) in five days. Before then, Papa Ajasco (1984) by Wale Adenuga was reported to have made about ₦61,000 (approx. 2015 ₦21.5 million) in three days. The success of films has been attributed to the fact that the faces of actors were already known from the once popular travelling theatre groups and the audiences were already familiar with the stories; Adesanya states that the "involvement of the Yoruba travelling theatre practitioners in motion picture production was perhaps the most auspicious single factor in the evolution of an indigenous cinema in Nigeria" Much later, Hubert Ogunde featured in Bruce Beresford's Mister Johnson (1990). It was the first American film shot on location in Nigeria and was criticized for its ridiculous perception of Africans and dark skinned people as a whole; a perception prevalent with several other western films at the time.
This boost was however not limited to only films, as this era was generally a period when Nigerian entertainment experienced major boost all round; Nigerian music also became popular and prolific during this period. The Nigerian nightlife scene came alive and highlife music was predominant. Musicians who reigned in this era include: Koola Lobitos, The Oriental Brothers, I. K. Dairo, Rex Jim Lawson, E. T. Mensah, and Victor Olaiya. In 1979, the Nigerian Government recognized the importance of film and its relationship to the Nigerian cultural identity; as a result, the Nigerian Film Corporation (NFC) was established; the corporation was created under Shehu Shagari's military regime, as a standalone government agency to help develop the film industry. The agency had the primary responsibility of regulating exhibitions of films, and censoring films shown at the cinemas - a responsibility later transferred to the National Films and Video Censor Board.
Emergence of Television industry in the 1980s
The emergence of television in Nigeria was a significant development in the Nigerian film industry. The Western Nigeria Television Service (WNTV), Nigeria's first television station, began operation in the then Western Region in October 1959. The other two regions of the country soon followed suit; with the establishment of the Eastern Nigeria Television Service (ENTV) in Enugu, in 1960, and the Radio Television Kaduna (RKTV) in Kaduna, in March 1962. Also in 1962, The Federal Government established a fourth station, the Nigerian Television Service, in the then capital, Lagos. The numbers grew rapidly and in the mid-1980s, every State in Nigeria had its own broadcasting station.
Laws were made by regulating bodies to limit foreign contents on television, with the National Commission recommending a minimum of 60 percent local programming content for all broadcasting stations. This led to television producers to begin the broadcast of local popular theatre productions. Chinua Achebe's novel, Things Fall Apart was adapted as a television series on National Television in 1987 and became very successful. At this time, Another very successful television adaptation was the adaptation of D.O. Fagunwa's 1949's novel, Igbo Olodumare. The television series, which is of the same title witnessed a tremendous success, especially in South western states, where it was reported that the show constantly left streets deserted during its broadcast on Sunday evenings. Other television successes witnessed in the 1980s include series such as: Adio Family, The Village Headmaster, Cock's Crow at Dawn, The Masquerade, Mirror in the Sun, Checkmate, Sura The Tailor, Second Chance and Awada Kerikeri. Hausa comedy soap operas such as Karkuzu and Karambana were also quite popular in this period. Many of these television productions were later released on video and as a result, a small scale informal video trade developed.
Decline
As of late 1980s, the cinema culture was beginning to face a major decline, and most Nigerian film producers had transitioned to television productions. The gradual decline of the Golden era of Nigerian cinema has been attributed to several factors, including the reduction in the value of Naira, lack of finance and marketing support, lack of standard film studios and production equipment, frequent Government structural adjustment programmes due to military dictatorships, as well as inexperience on the part of practitioners. It is also generally believed by stakeholders that the decline in this era was due to negligence as a result of the oil boom, which affected other sectors of the Nigerian economy as well.
Some researchers have also noted the decline to be as a result of increase in the ownership of television sets across the country. A survey conducted in 1974 reported that over 87 percent of Nigerians viewed about two hours of television programmes daily, across the country. However, by 1984, the television programming in the western region, which is the major area these cinemas serve, had improved tremendously and more television stations were established in the region as well, leading to a significant decline in the Nigerian cinema culture and embrace of television viewing. As at 1987, there were reportedly over 5 million registered television sets in the country, which is estimated to be much higher when unregistered sets are considered. "The oil boom [in this era] made every other household in the city centres affluent enough to own not only a television set but also a home video player." Jide Kosoko, one of the veteran actors of this era noted that when television sets and VHS players became a feature in most Nigerian homes, films produced during this era normally screen over a single weekend and are released on video the following week. He stated that it no longer made sense to view at the theatres anymore and most families would therefore rather wait a few days and get their hands on the VHS copies.
The re-emergence of the cinema culture in New Wave era has also led to another deduction that the demise of the Nigerian cinema culture was probably also due to the unfashionable appearance of most cinemas of the Golden era, as the cinema chains launched in the New Wave era were all modern with additional entertainment features apart from movie viewing.
The drastic decline in cinema culture resulted in some of the existing cinema houses being acquired by religious bodies and turned to churches; others were simply just closed down. In the early 1990s, only a few of the once vibrant cinema houses were still in operation, and all had collapsed before 1999. This development accelerated the glory days of the home video entertainment era.
2000s resurgence of cinemas
Since the early 2000s, several discussions and conferences have been held, based on how to revamp the Nigerian film industry and bring about more professionalism like it used to be in the golden era. During this time, some other filmmakers, such as Tunde Kelani and Tade Ogidan tried to make "break away" films, which were quite different from the norm. The now defunct Amstel Malta Box Office production company also made several films with the aim of making a difference. However, all of these films were also produced in the same video format that the other filmmakers used, albeit with quality stories and better directions.
Few years into the 2000s, Nigeria began to experience the growth of cinemas, which were initially structured for the middle and upper class. The Silverbird Group is the first company to launch a series of modern cinema houses across major cities in Nigeria, mostly situated in affluent areas and districts. It launched its cinema chains in 2004, starting with the Silverbird Galleria in Victoria Island, Lagos. Not long after the establishment of Silverbird cinemas, Genesis Deluxe Cinemas and Ozone Cinemas were also launched creating a competition in the cinema business. Much later, in the 2010s, FilmHouse cinemas also came into the picture, leading to a wider availability of cinemas in the country, and most importantly, availability outside the affluent neighbourhoods.
Since 2006, there have been several "Project Nollywood" funds by the Nigerian Government, provided to Nigerian filmmakers for aiding the production of high quality films, as well as to aid proper distribution infrastructure across the country. The grants have also been used to help more Nigerian filmmakers in training, funding, and also help in creating necessary infrastructure for the industry.
Nigerian filmmakers from Golden Era
Hubert Ogunde
Moses Olaiya
Duro Ladipo
Ola Balogun
Wole Amele
Eddie Ugbomah
Tunde Kelani
Adeyemi Afolayan
Ladi Ladebo
Moses Adejumo
Afolabi Adesanya
U.S.A Galadima
Isola Ogunsola
Awada Kerikeri Organisation
Sadiq Balewa
Sanya Dosunmu
Tunde Alabi-Hudeyin
Femi Aloba
Francis Oladele
John Ifoghale Amata
Jab Adu
Kola Ogunmola
Notable Nigerian actors from Golden Era
Jide Kosoko
Duro Ladipo
Ishola Ogunmola
Lere Paimo
Oyin Adejobi
Olu Jacobs
Joke Silva
Adebayo Salami
Adebayo Faleti
See also
Cinema of Nigeria
Media in Nigeria
References
Bibliography
20th century in Nigeria
Cinema of Nigeria
Nigerian cinema
History of film
History of Nigerian cinema
New Wave in cinema
1950s in film
1960s in film
1970s in film
1980s in film
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Das Haus der Krokodile (roughly translated as House of Crocodiles) is a 1976 German children's television miniseries based on the 1971 mystery novel by Helmut Ballot. Directed by Wilhelm ten Haaf, and starring Tommi Ohrner, the six-part miniseries premiered on the ARD on February 22, 1976.
Synopsis
Playing alone one night while his parents are on vacation, twelve-year-old Victor Laroche (Tommi Ohrner) glimpses a mysterious masked man behind him in the mirror and soon begins to uncover a mystery surrounding the death of a girl named Cecilia who fell over a stair railing in the house 20 years earlier. Although not entirely convinced of his story, Victor's sisters Cora (Carolin Ohrner) and Louise (Evelyn Palek) agree to help him investigate the girl's mysterious death. With the help of an elderly uncle who was Cecilia's father (Oskar Schwab) and an old friend of Cecilia's (Robert Naegele), the Laroche children piece together the mystery of the death of their cousin, the unknown man in the mirror, and a little leather crocodile they find with strange gleaming eyes.
Cast
Tommi Ohrner: Victor Laroche
Carolin Ohrner: Cora Laroche
Evelyn Palek: Louise Laroche
Robert Naegele: Friedrich Mörlin
Oskar von Schwab: Onkel
Erik Jelde: Herr Opitz
Nora Minor: Frau Debisch
Matthias Eysen: Herr von Strichninsky
Episodes
1. Der Mann im Spiegel (The Man in the Mirror)
2. Der nächtliche Besucher (The Nocturnal Visitor)
3. Die Geburtstagsfeier (The Birthday Celebration)
4. Eine neue Entdeckung (A New Discovery)
5. Gewitter in der Nacht (Storm in the Night)
6. Ein unerwartetes Geständnis (An Unexpected Confession)
Feature film
In October 2011 it was announced that a feature film adaptation of the story was being filmed. The film was released on March 21, 2012 and starred Kristo Ferkic as Victor and his real-life siblings Joanna and Vijessna Ferkic as Cora and Louise. Tommi Ohrner, who played Victor in the original series, also appeared in the film, this time in a cameo role as Victor's father.
References
External links
1976 German television series debuts
1976 German television series endings
German children's television series
Television shows based on children's books
Television shows based on German novels
German-language television shows
Das Erste original programming
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Brachymonas petroleovorans is a Gram-negative, aerobic bacterium from the genus Brachymonas and family Comamonadaceae, which was isolated from a wastewater plant of a petroleum refinery. B. petroleovorans has the ability to degrade cyclohexane and aromatic compounds such as toluene and m-cresol.
References
Comamonadaceae
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Brand New-U (also known as Identicals in the United States) is a 2015 science fiction, thriller film written and directed by Simon Pummell and produced by Janine Marmot. It stars Lachlan Nieboer and Nora-Jane Noone.
Cast
Lachlan Nieboer as Slater
Nora-Jane Noone as Nadia
Nick Blood as Johan
Tony Way as Gun Dealer / Santa
Robert Wilfort as Surgeon Two 'Peter'
Jacinta Mulcahy as Abigail
Tim Ahern as The Founder
Anthony Cozens as Friend One
Andrew Buckley as Friend Two
Tim Faraday as Finder (voice)
Sukie Smith as Waitress 'Sarah'
Clare Monnelly as Worker
Phelim Kelly as Shopper
Martin Richardson as Santa 2 / Slater's Body Double
Michelle Asante as Manager
David Michael Scott as Brand New-U Raider Driver
Jamael Westman as Brand New-U Hood Kemal
Production
Pre-production
Brand New-U is bankrolled by the BFI Film Fund, Irish Film Board, Netherlands Film Fund and Finite Films. The film made the official selection for the Rotterdam Lab and is a multi platform, transmedia project featuring urban projection, geo- specific augmented reality, and online media.
Casting
In March 2013, Lachlan Nieboer and Nora-Jane Noone were cast as the two leads playing Slater and Nadia respectively.
Filming
Principal photography started on 1 April 2013 for four weeks in London, England and Dublin, Ireland.
Marketing
Two pictures were released on 10 May 2013 via Total Film.
References
External links
Official site
2015 action thriller films
English films
English-language Irish films
English-language Dutch films
Films shot in England
Films shot in London
Irish science fiction films
Dutch science fiction films
Films shot in the Republic of Ireland
2015 films
2010s English-language films
British science fiction films
2010s British films
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There is little remaining of Doon Castle (), situated on a hill in the townland of the same name, in the parish of Aughagower approximately four miles from Westport in County Mayo.
In 1133, Cormac MacCarthy and Conor O'Brien invaded Connaught and plundered much of the country, destroying Dún Mughdhord (Doon Castle) and Dunmore.
The Norman Castle of Doon appears to have been built on the site of the old Irish Dún Mughdhord. The castle has almost disappeared. The castle is in the townland of Dooncastle. According to local accounts, the stones of the castle were used by Lord Sligo in the building of Westport House. The castle is on a hill 150 feet in height and gave excellent views to the northeast to Islandeady and Aille, where the other McPhilpin castles were. The space on the hill is in the shape of an ellipse 40-60 yards x 20 yards. The castle was rectangular and measured about 40 feet x 27 feet. The space between the main castle and the outer fortifications was not great.
According to Knox, the MacPhilbins held the castles of Ayle and Aghle and Doon in the Barony of Burrishoole and Bellabourke and the New Castle near Castlebar in the Barony of Carra.
References
Castles in County Mayo
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Arch Street, The Greenwich Teen Center is the longest-running, privately funded teen center in the USA. It was established in 1981, and is located in Greenwich, Connecticut. The Executive Director of the teen center is Kyle Silver. Age starts at 12.
Notable alumni
Evan Ross The American Actor and Musician. Son of Diana Ross.
Pete Francis Heimbold Attended the Greenwich Teen Center and played his first shows with Dispatch.
References
Arch Street's About Page
External links
Greenwich, Connecticut
Non-profit organizations based in Connecticut
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Learning to Breathe is the fourth album by the American country music singer Larry Stewart. The final solo album of his career, it was released in 1999 on Windham Hill Records. "Still in Love", the only single, failed to chart. "Summer in the City" is a cover of a single originally recorded by The Lovin' Spoonful. After the album's release, Stewart rejoined Restless Heart in 2003, and has been a member since.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine rated the album three stars out of five in Allmusic, saying that he considered it to have a more adult contemporary radio-format sound than a country sound, but referring to Stewart's voice as "smooth [and] robust."
Track listing
"Take This Heart" (Larry Stewart, John Bettis, R.C. Bannon) – 4:55
"Anything Else but You" (Stewart, Michael Omartian, Bruce Sudano) – 3:45
"Learning to Breathe Again" (Omartian, Sudano) – 3:46
"In My Dreams Tonight" (Stewart, Jill Colucci, Stewart Harris) – 4:08
"Prodigal Daughter" (Stewart, Omartian) – 4:45
"Still in Love" (Stewart, Tommy Lee James) – 3:57
"Fantasy" (Stewart, Bannon) – 6:34
"Gotta Tell Somebody" (Stewart, Phillip Moore) – 4:29
"Compared to Goodbye" (Stewart, Moore) – 4:01
duet with Tabitha Fair
"Takin' My Time" (Stewart, Moore) – 5:07
"A Reason to Believe" (Stewart, Robert Ellis Orrall, Robert Hart) – 3:47
"Summer in the City" (Mark Sebastian, Steve Boone) – 4:13
intro: "In the Hall of the Mountain King" by Edvard Grieg
Personnel
As listed in liner notes.
Mike Brignardello – bass guitar
Mark Douthit – saxophone
Tabitha Fair – background vocals
Billy Gaines – background vocals
Vince Gill – electric guitar
John Hammond – drums
Tom Hemby – electric guitar
B. James Lowry – acoustic guitar
Michael McDonald – background vocals
Chris McHugh – drums
Jerry McPherson – electric guitar
Michael Mellett – background vocals
Gene Miller – background vocals
Michael Omartian – piano, organ, synthesizer, accordion, programming
Tiffany Palmer – background vocals
Chris Rodriguez – background vocals, electric guitar
Nicol Smith – background vocals
Jimmie Lee Sloas – bass guitar
Micah Wilshire – background vocals
Strings performed by the Nashville String Machine, contracted by Carl Gorodetzky and arranged by Michael Omartian.
References
1999 albums
Albums produced by Michael Omartian
Windham Hill Records albums
Larry Stewart (singer) albums
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The U.S. Pharmacist is a monthly magazine for pharmacists and health professionals. It is published by Jobson Publishing. In 2018 the company was acquired by WebMD. The magazine is based in Riverton, New Jersey. As of 2013 Harold Cohen was the editor-in-chief of U.S. Pharmacist.
References
External links
Monthly magazines published in the United States
Health magazines
Magazines with year of establishment missing
Magazines published in New Jersey
Professional and trade magazines
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HCF may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Halt and Catch Fire (TV series)
Hot Club de France, a French jazz group
Half Circle Forward, a common move in fighting game special moves, popularized by Street Fighter II
Buildings in the United States
Honolulu Control Facility, an air traffic control complex
Hutchinson Correctional Facility, Kansas
Hawaii Correctional Facility
Businesses
Hard Candy Fitness, an American fitness center chain
HCF Health Insurance, an Australian insurer
Non-profit organizations
Hispanic College Fund
Historic Charleston Foundation, in South Carolina, United States
Hamilton Community Foundation, in Ontario, Canada
Sports teams and bodies
Hellenic Cricket Federation
Hellenic Cycling Federation
Hércules CF, a Spanish football team
Hungarian Chess Federation
Science, technology and mathematics
Halt and Catch Fire (computing), a semi-mythical machine code mnemonic
High-cycle fatigue
Highest common factor
Host cell factor C1
Hundred cubic feet, a unit of volume
Hybrid coordination function
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Parkerization can refer to:
Parkerization (metallurgy), a method of protecting a steel surface from corrosion and increasing its resistance to wear
Parkerization (oenology), the widespread stylization of wines to please the taste of influential wine critic Robert M. Parker, Jr.
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Félix et Ciboulette was a French language children's television show filmed in Quebec City, Quebec. It aired from 1985 to 1989. It was an educational series that aired from Monday to Friday on Télévision de Radio-Canada. Each segment lasted fifteen minutes and revolved around handyman Félix (played by Jean-François Gaudet) and his female cat Ciboulette (a puppet voiced by Diane Garneau). During each episode, Félix would teach Ciboulette about various things, ranging from history to science to agriculture. Although the show targeted children, the depth of educational content was beneficial to the adult viewers as well.
Other characters that sometimes appeared were the neighbour's black dog Noiraud Picard (a puppet voiced by Ginette Guay), a rural friend Raymond (played by Denis Bernard) and his cousin, Ève (played by Céline Bonnier).
Apart from its educational content, Félix et Ciboulette promoted neighbourly behaviour, as well as understanding and tolerance for everyone. Both Félix and Ciboulette enjoyed dressing up to play tricks on each other, making the show pleasant as well as educational.
In between segments played various short cartoons.
External links
Television shows filmed in Quebec City
1980s Canadian children's television series
Ici Radio-Canada Télé original programming
Canadian television shows featuring puppetry
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Keough may refer to:
Keough (surname)
Fictional characters
Joe Keough, in a novel by Robert J. Randisi
Keough, in film Dark_Blue
Keough/Haze, in anime Ragnarok the Animation
"Robby" Keough, in film Outbreak
Other
Bishop Keough Regional High School
Keough Award
Keough Hall, Notre Dame
Seton Keough High School
See also
Kehoe (disambiguation)
Keogh (disambiguation)
Keoghan (surname)
Keohane (disambiguation)
McKeogh
McKeough (disambiguation)
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Beonyeong-ro() is road name in South Korea.
Beonyeong-ro (Busan)
Beonyeong-ro (Gunsan~Jeonju)
Beonyeong-ro (Ansan~Siheung)
Beonyeong-ro (Gunpo)
Beonyeong-ro (Paju)
Beonyeong-ro (Sokcho)
Beonyeong-ro (Taebaek)
Beonyeong-ro (Hongcheon)
Beonyeong-ro (Nonsan)
Beonyeong-ro (Boryeong)
Beonyeong-ro (Asan)
Beonyeong-ro (Cheonan)
Beonyeong-ro (Gyeryong)
Beonyeong-ro (Buan)
Beonyeong-ro (Mokpo)
Beonyeong-ro (Yeongju)
Beonyeong-ro (Yangsan)
Beonyeong-ro (Jeju)
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