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Kalligudi
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Kalligudi is a small town in Kalligudi (taluk), Madurai district, Tamil Nadu State, India.
Kalligudi Chattram is located on National Highway 7
(Jammu Kashmir to Kanyakumari Highway) from 35 km, south of Madurai and 15 km, south of Tirumangalam. Kalligudi village which was the original habitation is interior located approximately 2 km from the Highway. Over time due to the highway Kalligudi chattram became more populous.
Total population of Kalligudi panchayath is 3560.
Amenities
There is one Govt. Hr. Sec. School and one Govt. Primary School. There are seven temples, two mosques and two churches. There is a police station, fire service, 24 h service Govt. Hospital and a railway station. There are three banks; Canara Bank, Tamil Nadu Mercantile Bank and MDCC Bank.
NGO Sitthar koodam runs a destitute children's homes Numkulandaigal illam.
Politics
It is part of the Virudhunagar (Lok Sabha constituency) and Thirumangalam (State Assembly Constituency).
Festivals
The festival is Puratasi pongal, which is celebrated in the month of October. This festival is celebrated by the people of Agathapatti, Kalligudi, Alangarapuram and Pallapacherry. Another festival is "Muniyandi Swamy Annathana Pooja" which is celebrated at Vadakkampatti village on January.
"Mariyamman, Kaliyamman, Muthalamman kovil Pooja" are other festivals.
Adjacent communities
Vadakkampatti, Alangarapuram, Agathapatti, Lalapuram, Pottalpatti and Pallapacherry are the villages which comes under Kalligudi panchayath.
Surrounding villages are Vellakulam, Solampatti, Vadakampatti,Lalapuram (4 km), Agathapatti (2 km), Odaipatti (2 km), sennampatti (5 km), Karisalkalampatti (5 km), Sengapadai (3 km), Sivarakkottai (7 km), Rayapalayam (4 km), Puliampatty (5 km), T. Pudupatty (6 km) are the nearby villages to Kalligudi.
References
Cities and towns in Madurai district
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Stealth Records
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Stealth Records is an independent record label that specializes in electronic dance music, specifically house. DJ/producer Roger Sanchez founded Stealth in 2002.
In 2005, Stealth expanded into running its own events with a series called Stealth Live!. The events have grown into a recurring series of club parties in major electronic music markets such as the Netherlands, Germany, England, Spain and the U.S.
Releases
Stealth has released music by the following artists:
Add2Basket
Agent Greg
Alex Gomez
Applescal
Audiopunch
Austin Leeds
Avicii
Axwell
Baggi Begovic
Belocca
Benny Royal
Blacktron
Buset
Carl Kennedy
Carlos Silva
Charles H. Brown
Chris Moody
Chus & Ceballos
D. Ramirez
D.O.N.S.
Da Hool
Daley Padley
Danila
Dario Nunez
David Vendetta
David Vio
David West
Dean Coleman
DJ Colorblind
DJ Dove
DJ Kieth
DJ Madskillz
DJ Nick Corline
Eddie Amador
Eddie Thoneick
Elio Riso
Eric Kupper
Filthy Rich
Funkerman
Gabi Newman
Gabriel & Castellon
Gregor Salto
Greg Stainer
Hardwell
Interplay
James Fitch
Jason Chance
Jeremy Sylvester
Jerry Ropero
Jesse Garcia
Joeski
Juice String
Kid Massive
Laidback Luke
Le Knight Club
Lex Da Funk
Ludaphunk
Marcoradi
Mark Knight
Martijn Ten Velden
Martin Accorsi
Medina
Mephisto
Michael Simon
Michelle Weeks
Midnite Sleaze
Miguel Picasso
Mitiska
MLA
Marcelo Oleas
Muzikjunki
Muzzaik
Myu Myu
Nari & Milani
Nick Terranova
Nicola Fasano
Noir
Pan-Pot
Per QX
Peter Gelderblom
Phunk Investigation
Pier Bucci
Pillbox
Pornocult
Prok & Fitch
Raffunk
Rene Amesz
Roger Sanchez / S-Man
Sebastian Ingrosso
SMOKINGROOVE
Soneec
Stefano Noferini
Steve Angello
Sueno Soul
The Cube Guys
The Nightcrawlers
The Transatlatins
Tiko’s Groove
Tim Berg
Tom de Neef
Tom Stephan
Tuccillo
TV Rock
Vibe Residents
See also
List of record labels
References
External links
American independent record labels
Record labels established in 2002
Electronic dance music record labels
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National Comprehensive Cancer Network
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National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) is an alliance of 33 cancer centers in the United States, most of which are designated by the National Cancer Institute (one of the U.S. National Institutes of Health) as comprehensive cancer centers. It is a non-profit organization with offices in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. John W. Sweetenham, MD, FRCP, FACP, FASCO, from UT Southwestern Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, is chairman of the NCCN Board of Directors. It publishes the peer-reviewed medical journal Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.
NCCN Member Institutions
Experts from the 33 NCCN Member Institutions are recognized for dealing with complex, aggressive, or rare cancers.
The 33 NCCN Member Institutions are:
Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania
Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center/University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center and Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute
City of Hope National Medical Center
Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center | Mass General Cancer Center
Duke Cancer Institute
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah
Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center
Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Moffitt Cancer Center
O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of Alabama at Birmingham
Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital/The University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Stanford Cancer Institute
The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
The UChicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center
UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center
UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of Colorado Cancer Center
University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center
University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
Yale Cancer Center/Smilow Cancer Hospital
See also
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network
American Cancer Society Center
Canadian Cancer Society
National Cancer Institute
Oncology
Programme of Action for Cancer Therapy
References
"New developments from National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) outlined recently" Physician Law Weekly August 1, 2007
"New Guidelines Updates from National Comprehensive Cancer Network" Cancerwatch Online (March 2004) 13(3)
"NCCN and ACS Team Up to Provide Easy to Understand Information on Cancer Treatment Options"
External links
National Comprehensive Cancer Network - Physician Website
National Comprehensive Cancer Network - Patient Website
Cancer organizations based in the United States
Medical and health organizations based in Pennsylvania
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Elbert Bertram Haltom Jr. (December 26, 1922 – October 12, 2003) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.
Education and career
Born in Florence, Alabama, Haltom was in the United States Army Air Corps as a Sergeant and Air Crew Gunner during World War II, from 1943 to 1945. He received a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1948. He was in private practice in Florence from 1948 to 1980. He was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives from 1954 to 1958, and of the Alabama Senate from 1958 to 1962.
Federal judicial service
On January 10, 1980, Haltom was nominated by President Jimmy Carter to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama created by 92 Stat. 1629. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 29, 1980, and received his commission on May 30, 1980. He assumed senior status on December 31, 1991, serving in that capacity until his death on October 12, 2003, in Florence.
References
Sources
1922 births
2003 deaths
People from Florence, Alabama
Judges of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
United States district court judges appointed by Jimmy Carter
20th-century American judges
United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II
University of Alabama School of Law alumni
Members of the Alabama House of Representatives
Alabama state senators
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Philip G. Bowker Overpass is a steel beam bridge with a suspended deck carrying The Charlesgate over Commonwealth Avenue, Beacon Street, and Interstate 90. It connects Boylston Street to Storrow Drive. It runs parallel to the Muddy River. In 2011, there was talk about tearing down the bridge and widening local streets as some consider the bridge to be an eyesore, as well as the fact that it bisects a portion of the Emerald Necklace.
Major intersections
The entire route is in Boston, Suffolk County.
References
External links
Bridges in Boston
Bridges completed in 1965
Road bridges in Massachusetts
1965 establishments in Massachusetts
Steel bridges in the United States
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Mason Township is a township in Murray County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 284 at the 2000 census.
Mason Township was originally called Okcheeda Township, and under the latter name was organized in 1872. The present name, adopted in 1879, is for Milo D. Mason, an early settler.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 35.9 square miles (93.1 km2), of which 34.7 square miles (89.7 km2) is land and 1.3 square miles (3.3 km2) (3.59%) is water.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 284 people, 115 households, and 96 families residing in the township. The population density was . There were 194 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the township was 99.30% White, and 0.70% from two or more races.
There were 115 households, out of which 27.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 77.4% were married couples living together, 2.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 16.5% were non-families. 14.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 5.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.47 and the average family size was 2.72.
In the township the population was spread out, with 23.6% under the age of 18, 3.9% from 18 to 24, 21.1% from 25 to 44, 31.7% from 45 to 64, and 19.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 46 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 102.8 males.
The median income for a household in the township was $40,250, and the median income for a family was $42,000. Males had a median income of $28,750 versus $21,250 for females. The per capita income for the township was $19,186. About 7.0% of families and 7.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 6.2% of those under the age of eighteen and none of those 65 or over.
Politics
Mason Township is located in Minnesota's 1st congressional district, represented by Mankato educator Tim Walz, a Democrat. At the state level, Mason Township is located in Senate District 22, represented by Republican Doug Magnus, and in House District 22A, represented by Republican Joe Schomacker.
References
Townships in Murray County, Minnesota
Townships in Minnesota
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Mardol (street)
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Mardol is an historic street in Shrewsbury, Shropshire with a variety of architectural styles, ranging from Tudor timber-framed buildings to more modern constructs. It runs from the site of the St George's Bridge (a crossing of the Severn, replaced by the nearby Welsh Bridge, at a place called Mardol Quay) up to the town centre, a place called Mardol Head.
The origin of the name of the street is not clear. One possibility is "the mard wall" meaning boundary wall, another is "the Devil's End".
Shuts and passages leading from the street include the King's Head Passage, Phoenix Place, Mardol Gardens, Carnarvon Lane, Hill's Lane and Roushill Bank. At the top of Mardol stands a public artwork, Darwin Gate, created in 2004, whilst at the foot is The Quantum Leap, another large outdoor artwork created in 2009.
See also
History of Shrewsbury
Notes and references
History of Shropshire
Buildings and structures in Shrewsbury
Streets in England
Roads in Shropshire
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Tepic Cathedral
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The Immaculate Conception Cathedral (), also known as Tepic Cathedral, is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tepic in Mexico. It is located on the main square, in the center of the city. It is famous for its Neo-Gothic style architecture.
The first building, smaller in size than the current structure, was built around 1750.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, it was decided to construct a larger cathedral. Construction was completed in the year 1885. The church was designated as a cathedral by Pope Leo XIII, on June 23, 1891, with its first bishop Ignacio Díaz y Macedo.
The current facade was designed by Gabriel Luna y Rodriguez, who continued the previous facade work in a Neo-Gothic style, different from the neoclassical taste that prevailed at the time. The last tower was completed in 1896.
The interior was modified in the 19th century, replacing the main altar with a large cross.
See also
Roman Catholicism in Mexico
Immaculate Conception Cathedral
References
Roman Catholic cathedrals in Mexico
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1885
19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Mexico
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Kirill Kolesnichenko
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Kirill Aleksandrovich Kolesnichenko (; born 31 January 2000) is a Russian football player who plays as a left winger or left-back for Leningradets Leningrad Oblast on loan from Rodina Moscow.
Club career
Kolesnichenko made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for Chertanovo Moscow on 30 May 2016 in a game against Lokomotiv Liski.
Kolesnichenko made his Russian Premier League debut for SKA-Khabarovsk on 17 March 2018 in a game against Ural Yekaterinburg.
On 26 March 2020, Kairat announced the signing of Kolesnichenko on a three-year contract.
On 3 September 2020, he joined Rotor Volgograd on loan. On 20 January 2021, Rotor and SKA-Khabarovsk reached a "sub-loan" agreement, according to which Kolesnichenko re-joined SKA until the end of the 2020–21 season.
On 17 June 2021, he signed a long-term contract with Ural Yekaterinburg. On 18 August 2022, Kolesnichenko's contract with Ural was terminated by mutual consent.
Career statistics
References
External links
2000 births
People from Kamyshin
Sportspeople from Volgograd Oblast
Living people
Russian people of Ukrainian descent
Russian men's footballers
Russia men's youth international footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Men's association football defenders
FC Chertanovo Moscow players
FC SKA-Khabarovsk players
FC Kairat players
FC Rotor Volgograd players
FC Ural Yekaterinburg players
FC Rodina Moscow players
FC Leningradets Leningrad Oblast players
Russian Premier League players
Russian First League players
Russian Second League players
Russian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Kazakhstan
Russian expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan
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René Dupuy
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René Dupuy (17 May 1920 – 1 August 2009) was a French actor, theater director and theater manager.
A student at the Conservatoire national d'art dramatique in Paris, René Dupuy was later theater manager of:
the Théâtre Gramont from 1954 to 1973,
the Théâtre de l'Athénée from 1966 to 1972,
the Théâtre Fontaine from 1972 to 1985.
He was professor of dramatic art at the .
Theatre
Comedian
1950: Henri IV by William Shakespeare, directed by Jean Vilar, Festival d'Avignon
1950: Le Cid by Corneille, directed by Jean Vilar, Festival d'Avignon
1950: Le Bal des voleurs by Jean Anouilh, directed by André Barsacq, Théâtre des Arts
1951: The Prince of Homburg by Heinrich von Kleist, directed by Jean Vilar, Festival d'Avignon
1956: Irma la douce by Marguerite Monnot, directed by René Dupuy, Théâtre Gramont
1958: Édition de midi by Mihail Sebastian, directed by René Dupuy, Théâtre Gramont
1963: You never can tell by George Bernard Shaw, directed by René Dupuy, Théâtre Gramont
1965: Pantagleize by Michel de Ghelderode, directed by René Dupuy, Théâtre Gramont
1966: La Convention de Belzébir by Marcel Aymé, directed by René Dupuy, Théâtre de l'Athénée
1966: Exit the King by Eugène Ionesco, directed by Jacques Mauclair, Théâtre de l'Athénée
1970: Exit the King by Eugène Ionesco, directed by Jacques Mauclair, Théâtre de l'Athénée
1977: : Les Petits Oiseaux d'Eugène Labiche, directed by René Dupuy, TV director Pierre Sabbagh, Théâtre Marigny
1984: Au théâtre ce soir : La Pomme by Louis Verneuil and Georges Berr, directed by René Dupuy, TV director Pierre Sabbagh, Théâtre Marigny
Theatre director
1948: La Vengeance d'une orpheline russe by Henri Rousseau, Théâtre de l'Œuvre
1949: La Vengeance d'une orpheline russe by Henri Rousseau, Studio des Champs-Élysées
1951: La calandria by Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena, Festival d'Avignon
1954: Le Héros et le soldat by George Bernard Shaw, Théâtre Gramont
1955: Le Quai Conti by , Théâtre Gramont
1956: À la monnaie du Pape by Louis Velle, Théâtre Gramont
1956: Irma la douce by Alexandre Breffort and Marguerite Monnot, Théâtre Gramont
1956: The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge, Théâtre Gramont
1957: Pericles, Prince of Tyre by William Shakespeare, Théâtre de l'Ambigu
1958: Édition de midi by Mihail Sebastian, Théâtre Gramont
1959: La Double Vie de Théophraste Longuet by Jean Rougeul after Gaston Leroux, Théâtre Gramont
1960: La Petite Datcha by Vasiliei Vasil'evitch Chkvarkin, Théâtre Daunou
1961: Visa pour l'amour by Raymond Vinci and Francis Lopez, Gaîté lyrique
1961: Un certain monsieur Blot by Robert Rocca after Pierre Daninos, Théâtre Gramont
1962: À notre âge on a besoin d'amour and La Cloison by Jean Savy, Théâtre de l'Alliance française
1962: Le Timide au palais by Tirso de Molina, Théâtre Gramont
1963: You never can tell by George Bernard Shaw, Théâtre Gramont
1964: Les Fausses Confidences de Marivaux, Théâtre de l'Ambigu
1965: Pantagleize by Michel de Ghelderode, Théâtre Gramont
1965: Du vent dans les branches de sassafras by René de Obaldia, Théâtre Gramont
1966: La Convention de Belzébir by Marcel Aymé, Théâtre de l'Athénée-Louis-Jouvet
1967: A Report to an Academy by Franz Kafka, Théâtre Gramont
1968: After the Rain by John Griffith Bowen, Théâtre de l'Athénée-Louis-Jouvet
1969: Les Grosses Têtes by Jean Poiret and Michel Serrault, directed by and with Jean Poiret, Théâtre de l'Athénée-Louis-Jouvet
1969: Popaul et Juliette by André Maheux and Mireille Hartuch, Théâtre Gramont
1971: Fortune and Men's Eyes by John Herbert, Théâtre de l'Athénée
1972: Le Roi des cons by Georges Wolinski, Théâtre Fontaine
1973: Chante, Papa, chante by Marcel Moussy, Théâtre des Nouveautés
1974: : Le Vison à cinq pattes by Constance Coline after Peter Coke, TV director Jean Royer, Théâtre Marigny
1977: Au théâtre ce soir: Les Petits Oiseaux by Eugène Labiche, TV director Pierre Sabbagh, Théâtre Marigny
1979: Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare, Théâtre Fontaine
1982: Lili Lamont by Arthur Whithney, Théâtre Fontaine
1984: Au théâtre ce soir: La Pomme by Louis Verneuil and Georges Berr, TV director Pierre Sabbagh, Théâtre Marigny
1988: Exit the King by Eugène Ionesco
External links
French male actors
French theatre directors
French theatre managers and producers
Male actors from New York City
1920 births
2009 deaths
American emigrants to France
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilpancingo%20de%20los%20Bravo%20%28municipality%29
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Chilpancingo de los Bravo (municipality)
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Chilpancingo de los Bravo is one of the 81 municipalities of Guerrero, in south-western Mexico. The municipal seat is Chilpancingo de los Bravo.
Geography
The municipality is within the Sierra Madre del Sur mountain range. It covers an area of .
As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 214,219.
Towns and villages
The municipality has 114 localities. The largest are as follows:
Administration
References
Municipalities of Guerrero
Chilpancingo
Sierra Madre del Sur
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%20BWF%20World%20Championships
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2018 BWF World Championships
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The 2018 BWF World Championships was a badminton tournament which was held from 30 July to 5 August at Nanjing Youth Olympic Games Sports Park Arena in Nanjing, China.
Host city selection
Nanjing was the only bidder for 2018 edition of championships. The bid was approved by Badminton World Federation during council meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Schedule
Five events were held.
All times are local (UTC+8).
Players
357 players from 48 countries in total participate in this game.
(2)
(1)
(1)
(3)
(1)
(8)
(7)
(25)
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(2)
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(29)
(3)
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(3)
(25)
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Medal summary
Medal table
Medalists
International broadcasters
References
External links
Official website
BWF website
2018
World Championships
BWF World Championships
World Championships
BWF World Championships
BWF World Championships
Sport in Nanjing
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Rooms to Let
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Rooms to Let (German: Ruhiges Heim mit Küchenbenutzung) is a 1930 German silent comedy film directed by Carl Wilhelm and starring Lucie Englisch, Elisabeth Pinajeff and Kurt Vespermann. The film's art direction was by Max Heilbronner and Erich Zander. Its fully translated title is Rooms to Let in a Quiet Home, with Use of a Kitchen. A domestic comedy, it was a late silent film just as the transition to sound was taking place.
Cast
Lucie Englisch as Lotte
Elisabeth Pinajeff as Bella Donna
Kurt Vespermann as Dr. Hans Weber
Ida Wüst as Gattin
Luise Bonn as Lola
Henry Bender as Theodor Kannebach
Johanna Ewald as Frau Piefke
Heinrich Gotho as Herr Piefke
Ellinor Gynt as Amalie Wasserstoff
Ida Perry as Frau Amberg
Fritz Schulz as Fritz Blitz
Emmy Wyda as Fräulein Schmitz
References
Bibliography
Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933. Berghahn Books, 2005.
External links
1930 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
1930 drama films
German silent feature films
German drama films
Films directed by Carl Wilhelm
Films scored by Paul Dessau
German black-and-white films
Silent drama films
1930s German films
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Allan Gorringe
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Allan Lindsay Gorringe (20 January 1884 – 22 November 1918) was an English cricketer. Gorringe's batting style is unknown. He was born at Eastbourne, Sussex.
Gorringe made his first-class debut for Sussex against Middlesex. He made three further first-class appearances for Sussex in 1905, the last of which came against Lancashire. In his four first-class matches, he scored a total of 46 runs at an average of 7.66, with a high score of 16. He later played a single Minor Counties Championship match for Cambridgeshire against Norfolk at Fenner's in 1914.
He died at Repton, Derbyshire on 22 November 1918.
References
External links
Allan Gorringe at ESPNcricinfo
Allan Gorringe at CricketArchive
1884 births
1918 deaths
Cricketers from Eastbourne
English cricketers
Sussex cricketers
Cambridgeshire cricketers
People from Repton
Cricketers from Derbyshire
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staurellina
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Staurellina
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Staurellina is a genus of tephritids or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.The only species from this genus are:
Staurellina trypetopsis
References
Phytalmiinae
Tephritidae genera
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Helpmann Award for Best Male Performer in an Opera
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The Helpmann Award for Best Male Performer in an Opera is an award presented by Live Performance Australia (LPA) (the trade name for the Australian Entertainment Industry Association (AEIA)), an employers' organisation which serves as the peak body in the live entertainment and performing arts industries in Australia. The accolade is handed out at the annual Helpmann Awards, which celebrates achievements in musical theatre, contemporary music, comedy, opera, classical music, theatre, dance and physical theatre.
Winners and nominees
In the following list winners are listed first and marked in gold, in boldface, and the nominees are listed below with no highlight.
Source:
References
External links
Official Helpmann Awards website
O
Awards for male actors
Opera-related lists
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John A. Svahn
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John A. Svahn (born May 13, 1943 in New London, Connecticut) is an American former Republican politician. He served as Commissioner of the Social Security Administration from 1981, as Under Secretary of Health and Human Services from March to September 1983, and as Assistant to the President for Policy Development from September 1983 in the administration of President Ronald Reagan.
References
1943 births
Commissioners of the Social Security Administration
Living people
Politicians from New London, Connecticut
Reagan administration personnel
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Thomas Spitzer (author)
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Thomas Eduard Spitzer (born 29 September 1988, in Freiburg im Breisgau) is a German author, comedian and online producer.
Early life
Spitzer is the son of the German professor and publicist Manfred Spitzer. He grew up in Hofsgrund in Oberried, Baden-Württemberg, Boston, Massachusetts, Eugene, Oregon, and Ulm. He studied math, economics and philosophy at the University of Regensburg from 2008 to 2012 and graduated with a Bachelor of Science. He has six siblings. In October 2020, he and Swiss comedian Hazel Brugger announced that they are expecting a child. They have been married since 2020.
Career
In 2009 Spitzer had his first gig at a poetry slam. By now he has won over 200 poetry slams in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein and Switzerland. In 2012 he reached the semi-finals of the German championships in Heidelberg. In 2015 he scored third in the Bavarian championships in Ingolstadt.
He has also starred in the NDR Comedy Contest. In the fall of 2016 he won the Nightwash Talent Award, which is an important award for young comedians in Germany. After that he appeared in comedy formats more often than poetry slams.
In the summer of 2014 he published his first book, Wir sind glücklich, unsere Mundwinkel zeigen in die Sternennacht wie bei Angela Merkel, wenn sie einen Handstand macht which translates to "We are happy, the corners of our mouths point to the starry night like Angela Merkel‘s when she performs a handstand". In 2014, the online community Was liest Du? ("What are you reading?") awarded the book "Most unusual book title" at the Leipzig Book Fair.
In fall 2018 Spitzer started writing for the ZDF heute-show.
Projects
In 2013 Spitzer started organizing the German poetry slam championships for people below the age of 20, together with event organizer Ko Bylanzky. This led to the competition "Master of the Uni-Vers" which has been held ever since in Regensburg which attracted 1500 visitors. It is now held semi-annually, so far it was always sold out and it has seen many famous participants and guests such as Hazel Brugger, Felix Lobrecht and Vincent Pfäfflin.
In the summer of 2017, Thomas launched the comedy podcast "Comedy Gold" together with comedian Thomas Schmidt and it quickly advanced to one of the most popular humorous podcasts in Germany. It is broadcast every Monday and hasn't seen a single interruption since its launch. The podcast inspired Felix Lobrecht and Tommi Schmitt to start their now highly successful podcast "Gemischtes Hack" and they recorded their first episode with Spitzer's equipment.
Spitzer has been managing the YouTube channel Hazel and Thomas since 2019 together with Hazel Brugger. Together they produce a series called Deutschland was geht? ("What's up Germany?") in which they visit interesting and weird places in Germany often with famous friends and guests.
Published work
Wir sind glücklich, unsere Mundwinkel zeigen in die Sternennacht wie bei Angela Merkel, wenn sie einen Handstand macht. Includes a CD. Periplaneta, Berlin 2014, .
Die Omadialoge. Unsichtbar-Verlag, Diedorf 2014, .
(together with Kaleb Erdmann and David Friedrich) Bunt und kühl. ConBrio, Regensburg 2013, .
Goethe, Schiller, Chinakohl – Als Humorbotschafter im Land des Lächelns. Bastei Lübbe, Köln 2016, .
References
External links
Official website (in German)
German male writers
1988 births
Living people
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Simon Greenish
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Simon Greenish is a British Chartered Civil Engineer and museum director.
Greenish studied Engineering at Durham University, graduating with a third in 1971.
In 1995, Greenish joined the Royal Air Force Museum as project manager under its Director General, , who was embarking on a £30 million development. In 2005, he became Director of Collections at the museum. In 2006, he was appointed Director of Bletchley Park when it was in financial
difficulties. He led the initiative to make the Bletchley Park Trust financially secure and raise the awareness of the importance of the site as part of Britain's heritage. He helped to raise £10 million to restore the Bletchley Park site and retired from his post in 2012, to be succeeded by Iain Standen. In 2017, he contributed a chapter to The Turing Guide on recent developments at Bletchley Park.
Greenish was appointed to an MBE in 2013 for services to English Heritage. He also has an honorary degree from the University of Bedfordshire. He currently resides in Felmersham, Bedfordshire.
References
External links
Simon Greenish, Bletchley Park Trust CEO talk on Vimeo, 2009
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Alumni of Grey College, Durham
Directors of museums in the United Kingdom
Bletchley Park people
English civil engineers
Members of the Order of the British Empire
People associated with the University of Bedfordshire
People from Felmersham
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Universal Mortar UB M52
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The Universal Mortar UB M52 is a 120 mm (4.75 inch) mortar that was developed by Military Technical Institute, in former Yugoslavia. It is long-range heavy mortar developed from the Soviet M1938 mortar but with integral wheels carriage.
Design overview
First development versions prior UB M52 are known under designation BB-3, brdski bacač 3 (). The Universal Mortar UB M52 is developed from 1948 to 1951 and fires fin-stabilized ammunition from a smoothbore barrel. It is first mortar with capabilities to fire with wheels mounted. It has hydraulic muzzle attached to barrel to reduce pressure. M52 because of its weight require trucks or other vehicle to move them to battlefield, but compared to field artillery it is lighter. It can be deployed on battlefield in less than a minute.
Variants
M52 has 4 variants:
basic variant M52
improved variant M52A1 - reduced weight with some smaller parts, used rubber instead of skin for parts, new hydraulic fluid.
improved variant M52A2 - has one cylinder less with improved muzzle
improved variant M52A3 - new hydraulic fluid with included fluid level indicator
Deployment
Universal Mortar UB M52 was in service with the Yugoslav People's Army since 1952. After dissolution of Yugoslavia it is passed on successor states. It is exported to numerous countries and produced in few thousand pieces.
The M52 was transported with horses, TAM-4500, Pinzgauer 710M and many or other vehicles capable to attach trailer.
Specifications
The M52 is capable of firing the following munitions:
High explosive shells
HE mortar shell M62P8
HE mortar shell Mk12P1
HE mortar shell Mk12P1-L
Illumination shells
Illumination mortar shell M87P1
Illumination mortar shell M01
Smoke shells
Smoke mortar shell M64P2
Smoke mortar shell M64P3
Smoke mortar shell Mk12
Smoke mortar shell M89
Practice shells
Practice mortar shell M63P2
and other shells in 120mm in accordance with barrel pressure.
Operators
: 95 as of 2020.
: In reserve.
: 25 UBM-52 in service. Received from Yugoslavia in 1971.
: In reserve, some in museum.
: In reserve.
Former operators
: Sold or in museums.
: Indonesian Marine Corps
: Offered for sale.
See also
M1938 mortar
Soltam M-65
References
Military Technical Institute Belgrade
Mortars of Yugoslavia
120mm mortars
Military equipment introduced in the 1950s
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Monte Carlo (yacht)
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Monte Carlo is a motor yacht in the superyacht category. She was named after the Monte Carlo quarter of Monaco.
History
Monte Carlo was built by Amels in their Hakvoort shipyard in The Netherlands and launched in 1988. She was designed by Diana Yacht Design BV. She underwent an extensive refit in 1999 (including an interior refit designed by Dee Robinson), and lesser refits in 2004 and 2006.
Monte Carlo currently cruises the Mediterranean Sea in the Summer cruising season, and the Caribbean in the Winter cruising season, crossing the Atlantic Ocean twice each year.
The vessel is powered by twin 1,550hp MTU engines, and has a range of 4000 nautical miles at 10.8 knots.
Notable passengers
Pierce Brosnan, actor
Mariah Carey, pop and R&B singer
References
Boat International Publications Authors, The Superyachts, Volume Eighteen. Kingston upon Thames, Boat International Publications (2004)
Cayman Islands Shipping Registry, Certificate of British Registry, Official Number: 731192
Individual yachts
1988 ships
Ships built in the Netherlands
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Frantz Gumbs
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Frantz Gumbs (born 21 January 1954) is a French Saint Martinois politician from La République En Marche! and Saint-Martinois Rally. He is Member of Parliament for Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin's 1st constituency after defeating Republicans MP Claire Guion-Firmin in the 2022 French legislative election.
References
See also
List of deputies of the 16th National Assembly of France
Living people
1954 births
Members of Parliament for Saint Barthélemy and Saint Martin
Deputies of the 16th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Presidents of the Territorial Council of Saint Martin
21st-century French politicians
Renaissance (French political party) politicians
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archery%20at%20the%201988%20Summer%20Paralympics
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Archery at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
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Archery at the 1988 Summer Paralympics consisted of nine events.
Medal table
Participating nations
Medal summary
References
1988 Summer Paralympics events
1988
Paralympics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olho%20d%27%C3%81gua%20das%20Flores
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Olho d'Água das Flores
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Olho d'Água das Flores is a municipality located in the western of the Brazilian state of Alagoas. Its population is 21,738 (2020) and its area is 183 km².
References
Municipalities in Alagoas
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Sobreda
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Sobreda is a former civil parish in the municipality of Almada, Lisbon metropolitan area, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Charneca de Caparica e Sobreda. The population in 2011 was 15,166, in an area of 6.16 km2.
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Former parishes of Almada
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellwood%20M.%20Rabenold
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Ellwood M. Rabenold
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Ellwood Milton Rabenold (November 21, 1884 – July 6, 1970) was an American lawyer and politician.
Life
Rabenold was born on November 21, 1884 in Chapmans, Leigh County, Pennsylvania, the son of Milton Rabenold and Rosa Caroline Folk.
Rabenold began attending Harvard College in 1900. He received a B.A. from there in 1904, an M.A. in 1905, and an LL.B. in 1908. He then moved to New York City, New York, where he initially worked as a managing clerk for Hyman & Campbell at 25 Broad St, and then junior assistant counsel of the Public Service Commission. He then became a member of the law firm Powers, Kaplan & Rabenold, which practiced at 154 Nassau St. In 1911, he began practicing law on his own, first in 25 Broad St. and then at 63 Wall St. He also worked as assistant Transfer Tax Attorney for the State Comptroller since 1911. In 1916, he became a member of the law firm Capbell, Rabenold & Scribner. He then was a member of the law firm Rabenold & Scribner in 1917, with an office at 61 Broadway. During World War I, he served as counsel for the War Emergency Committee of the Baking Industry in New York and vicinity, and was a member of the Mayor's Committee on National Defense and the Legal Advisory Board.
In 1922, Rabenold was elected to the New York State Senate as a Democrat, representing New York's 13th State Senate district. He served in the Senate in 1923 and 1924.
In September 1939, Rabenold was indicted of committing banking fraud by accepting nearly $100,000 in gratuities while serving as chairman of the directors and counsel of the Clinton Trust Company. In March 1940, he was found guilty for misappropriation of bank funds, forgery, and conspiracy. after an eight hour jury deliberation. A month later, he was sentenced to two concurrent terms of two and a half to seven years each in Sing Sing. His prison sentence was stayed while his lawyer, Charles H. Tuttle, sought an appeal, and he was released on bail from the Tombs during his appeal. He was disbarred in May due to his conviction. In May 1941, the Appellate Division unanimously upheld the conviction. He tried to appeal his case to the New York Court of Appeals, but in March 1942 the appeal failed and Judge Jonah J. Goldstein ordered him to begin his sentence in Sing Sing.
Rabenold later moved to Breinigsville, Pennsylvania, where he lived for 26 years.
Rabenold was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Harvard Club of New York, the New York City Bar Association, and the New York County Lawyers' Association. In 1913, he married Elizabeth Elvira Kushnast. Their children were Ruth, Ellwood Milton Jr., Richard Folk, John K., Charles F., Jane, Susan, and Beth. He was a member of the Advent Lutheran Church of Breinigsville.
Rabenold died in Shillington on July 6, 1970. He was buried in Charles Evans Cemetery in Reading.
References
External links
The Political Graveyard
Ellwood M. Rabenold at Find a Grave
1884 births
1970 deaths
People from Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
Harvard College alumni
Harvard Law School alumni
20th-century American lawyers
Lawyers from New York City
Disbarred New York (state) lawyers
20th-century American politicians
Politicians from Manhattan
Democratic Party New York (state) state senators
Inmates of Sing Sing
American Lutherans
Burials at Charles Evans Cemetery
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Australian Whale Sanctuary
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The Australian Whale Sanctuary was established in 1999 to protect dolphins and whales from hunting in waters within the Australian government's jurisdiction.
The sanctuary includes the whole of the Australian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), which is the area surrounding the continent of Australia and its external dependencies such as Christmas Island (in the Indian Ocean), Cocos (Keeling) Island, Norfolk Island, Macquarie Island and Heard Island and McDonald Islands, and including the EEZ adjoining the coastline of the Australian Antarctic Territory which is only recognised by the United Kingdom, New Zealand, France and Norway.
The sanctuary is the scene of an ongoing controversy between Australia and Japan over whaling. In 2008 the Federal Court of Australia ruled it was illegal under Australian law for the Japanese whaling fleet to kill whales in the Sanctuary. In 2015 Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha Ltd was found guilty of wilful contempt of court and fined A$1,000,000.
See also
Whale watching in Australia
Whaling controversy
References
External links
Official webpage
PDF map of the sanctuary
Marine protected areas of Australia
Whale sanctuaries
Cetacean research and conservation
1999 establishments in Australia
Exclusive economic zone of Australia
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Walter Lehmann (gymnast)
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Walter Lehmann (13 January 1919 – 23 September 2017) was a Swiss gymnast, world champion and Olympic medalist. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London where he received silver medals in individual allround, horizontal bar and team combined exercises. He became world champion in individual all round in 1950.
References
External links
1919 births
2017 deaths
Swiss male artistic gymnasts
Gymnasts at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Olympic gymnasts for Switzerland
Olympic silver medalists for Switzerland
Olympic medalists in gymnastics
Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
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I'm So Blessed
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"I'm So Blessed" is a song performed by American Christian country band Cain. The song impacted Christian radio in the United States on July 15, 2022, as the fourth single from their debut studio album, Rise Up (2021). The song was written by Jonathan Smith, Logan Cain, Madison Cain, Matthew West, and Taylor Cain. The production of the single was handled by David Leonard, Brad King, and Seth Talley.
"I'm So Blessed" peaked at number three on the US Hot Christian Songs chart.
Background
Cain released "I'm So Blessed" to Christian radio in the United States on July 15, 2022. Being the fourth single from their debut album Rise Up (2021), "I'm So Blessed" follows previously released singles "Rise Up (Lazarus)," "Yes He Can," and "The Commission." On September 9, 2022, Cain released a new version of "I'm So Blessed" featuring rapper Aaron Cole. On October 13, 2022, the band released "I'm So Blessed (Best Day Remix)." On December 9, 2022, the band released I’m So Blessed (Child Of God Collection), an EP containing six versions of the song.
Composition
"I'm So Blessed" is composed in the key of D with a tempo of 79 beats per minute and a musical time signature of .
Critical reception
Timothy Yap of JubileeCast opined that the song is "a little too self-absorbed lyrically," while ultimately being "saved by its infectious pop-centric chorus." 365 Days of Inspiring Media's Joshua Andre gave a positive review of the song, saying it is "a gospel infused worship anthem that basically recounts that our providence over us from God is because of who He is and not due to anything that we have done or will ever do."
Commercial performance
"I'm So Blessed" made its debut at number 49 on the US Christian Airplay chart dated July 30, 2022.
"I'm So Blessed" debuted at number 13 on the US Hot Christian Songs chart dated January 7, 2023, being the highest ranking debut that week.
Music videos
The official audio video of "I'm So Blessed" was published on Cain's YouTube channel on May 7, 2021. The official music video for "I'm So Blessed" premiered on Cain's YouTube channel on July 15, 2022. The music video was filmed on location in Sherman Oaks, California.
Cain released the "I'm So Blessed (Best Day Remix)" performance video filmed at K-Love on November 4, 2022, on YouTube. On December 15, 2022, Cain issued the official live performance video of the song via YouTube. The Song Session video of the song was availed by Essential Worship on January 27, 2023, to YouTube.
Track listing
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Release history
References
External links
2020 songs
2022 singles
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%20Bol%20Open%20%E2%80%93%20Doubles
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2016 Bol Open – Doubles
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This was the first edition of the tournament as a 125K event. Petra Mandula and Patricia Wartusch were the champions when it was last held as a Tier III event in 2003, but both have since retired from the sport.
Xenia Knoll and Petra Martić won the title, defeating Raluca Olaru and İpek Soylu in the final, 6–3, 6–2.
Seeds
All seeds received a bye into the quarterfinals.
Draw
External links
Main Draw
Bol Open - Women's Doubles
Croatian Bol Ladies Open
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Farha Mather
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Farha Mather (born 17 September 1996) is an Indian female badminton player.
Achievements
BWF International Challenge/Series
Women's Doubles
BWF International Challenge tournament
BWF International Series tournament
BWF Future Series tournament
References
External links
Living people
1996 births
Indian female badminton players
21st-century Indian women
21st-century Indian people
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Scott Pinckney
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Scott Pinckney (born March 13, 1989) is an American professional golfer who has played on the European Tour, Challenge Tour, Web.com Tour, and PGA Tour.
Amateur career
Pinckney was born in Orem, Utah. He attended Boulder Creek High School in Anthem, Arizona and then Arizona State University from 2008 to 2011. He won the 2010 Trans-Mississippi Amateur Championships at Denver Country Club after scoring a 6-under par 204 (69-66-66) and then beating Kevin Tway on the second playoff hole.
As an amateur he played in the 2011 U.S. Open after tying for top spot in sectional qualifying. He scored 79 and 75 and missed the cut.
Professional career
Pinckney turned professional in July 2011. In the remainder of 2011 he played in a number of Challenge Tour events. He also played in the Nordea Masters where he finished tied for 35th and the Irish Open where he missed the cut. He finished tied for 24th in the European Tour Qualifying School and earned his card for the 2012 season. He only just made the cut after the 4th round but a last round 65 lifted him from 66th after round 5 to a final 24th.
His best result in the 2012 season was tied for 19th in the Sicilian Open. He qualified for the 2012 Open Championship through Local Final Qualifying at West Lancashire where he had a final round of 64 that included two chip-ins on his way to a 7-under par back nine. He then had to go through a playoff to secure his spot in The Open. Pinckney fired a 2-under 68 in the first round but followed up with a 7-over 77 and missed the cut.
Pinckney played on the Web.com Tour in 2014 after earning his tour card through qualifying school. He finished 13th (excluding the regular-season Top 25) in the 2014 Web.com Tour Finals to earn his PGA Tour card for the 2014–15 season.
At the 2015 AT&T Byron Nelson, Pinckney put four under-par rounds together which culminated in a final round 66 and a tied for second place in the tournament.
Personal life
Pinckney is a friend of Rory McIlroy, the two having met as eight-year-olds during the Doral Junior Publix, a junior tournament held annually in Miami, Florida. Four years later Rory McIlroy stayed with the Pinckney family in Utah for three months, playing various junior events.
Pinckney is managed by International Sports Management.
Playoff record
Web.com Tour playoff record (0–1)
Results in major championships
CUT = missed the half-way cut
See also
2011 European Tour Qualifying School graduates
2014 Web.com Tour Finals graduates
References
External links
Profile on International Sports Management's official site
American male golfers
Arizona State Sun Devils men's golfers
European Tour golfers
PGA Tour golfers
Korn Ferry Tour graduates
Golfers from Utah
Sportspeople from Orem, Utah
1989 births
Living people
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Hieronyma crassistipula is a species of plant in the family Phyllanthaceae, which was recently separated from the Euphorbiaceae. It is endemic to Cuba.
References
Flora of Cuba
crassistipula
Critically endangered plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN
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Vardin, Varzaqan
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Vardin (, also Romanized as Vardīn and Verdin; also known as Dardīn) is a village in Sina Rural District, in the Central District of Varzaqan County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 496, in 98 families.
References
Towns and villages in Varzaqan County
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"Es Por Ti" (English: Because of You) is a song written and performed by Colombian singer-songwriter Juanes. It's the second radio single from his sophomore studio album Un Día Normal (2002). It was released on 23 September 2002 (see 2002 in music).
The single earned him two Latin Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Record of the Year. The song is a slow-rock pop ballad that revolves around love towards a romantic partner.
Chart performance
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
References
2002 singles
2002 songs
Juanes songs
Number-one singles in Spain
Song recordings produced by Gustavo Santaolalla
Songs written by Juanes
Spanish-language songs
Universal Music Latino singles
2000s ballads
Rock ballads
Latin Grammy Award for Record of the Year
Latin Grammy Award for Song of the Year
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otway%20Cuffe%2C%201st%20Earl%20of%20Desart
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Otway Cuffe, 1st Earl of Desart
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Otway Cuffe, 1st Earl of Desart (25 November 1737 – 9 August 1804) was an Anglo-Irish peer and lawyer.
Biography
Desart was the second son of John Cuffe, 1st Baron Desart by his second wife, Dorothea Gorges. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. He was a barrister and became a member of the Inner Temple in 1756. On 25 November 1767 he succeeded his elder brother, John Cuffe, 2nd Baron Desart, in his title, and assumed his seat in the Irish House of Lords. Desart served as Mayor of Kilkenny between 1771 and 1772 and again between 1779 and 1780. On 6 January 1781 he was created Viscount Desart, of Desart in the County of Kilkenny, in the Peerage of Ireland. He was further honoured when he was made Earl of Desart and Viscount Castlecuffe, also titles in the Peerage of Ireland, on 4 December 1793. Following the implementation of the Acts of Union 1800, Desart was elected as one of the original 28 Irish representative peers, and attended the House of Lords until his death four years later.
He married Lady Anne Browne, daughter of Peter Browne, 2nd Earl of Altamont and Elizabeth Kelly, on 18 August 1785. Together they had three children. He was succeeded by his eldest son, John Otway Cuffe.
References
1737 births
1804 deaths
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
18th-century Anglo-Irish people
Earls of Desart
Members of the Irish House of Lords
Irish representative peers
Mayors of Kilkenny
Members of the Inner Temple
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsters%21%20Monsters%21
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Monsters! Monsters!
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Monsters! Monsters! is a role-playing game first published by Metagaming Concepts in 1976.
Description
Monsters! Monsters! is a fantasy system in which the player characters are monsters who prey on adventurers and the civilized world. The game's rules systems are essentially compatible with Tunnels & Trolls.
Publication history
Monsters! Monsters! was designed by Ken St. Andre with Jim "Bear" Peters, with art by Liz Danforth, and was published in 1976 by Metagaming Concepts as a 40-page square-bound book. Monsters! Monsters!, St. Andre's third game, was developed by Steve Jackson based on a design by St. Andre related to his Tunnels & Trolls role-playing game. Metagaming Concepts released a second printing in 1976, which was saddle-stitched. Howard M. Thompson provided illustrations for Monsters! Monsters!
Flying Buffalo got the rights to reprint the first edition of Monsters! Monsters! in 1979.
In 2020 Ken St. Andre with Steve Crompton, Created and published an all-new 2nd edition of Monsters! Monsters! which was financed via a successful Kickstarter and published through Trollhalla Press Unlimited (). That release also included a new 26 page gm adventure specially written for monster characters and the release of a new edition of The Toughest Dungeon in the World, a solitaire adventure also written especially for Monster characters.
Reception
Ronald Pehr reviewed Monsters! Monsters! in The Space Gamer No. 34. Pehr commented that "Monsters! Monsters! is a good game for beginners, or anyone who wants to be a troll, but experienced gamers who enjoy complex campaign games offering more than bloodlust won't find anything they want here."
John ONeill of Black Gate commented that "The game is well written, with plenty of delightful Liz Danforth art, and my games library is no longer missing an important piece of gaming history."
Reviews
The Playboy Winner's Guide to Board Games
References
Fantasy role-playing games
Flying Buffalo games
Metagaming Concepts games
Role-playing games introduced in 1976
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992%20Tokyo%20Indoor%20%E2%80%93%20Singles
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1992 Tokyo Indoor – Singles
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Stefan Edberg was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals this year.
Ivan Lendl won the title, defeating Henrik Holm in the final, 7–6(9–7), 6–4.
Seeds
Draw
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Bottom half
Section 3
Section 4
References
Main Draw
1992 ATP Tour
Tokyo Indoor
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shivala%20Ghat
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Shivala Ghat
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Shivala ghat is one of the largest ghats in Varanasi, India. It was built by King Balwant Singh in honour of Hindu god Shiva. A 19th century palace constructed by Nepalese king Sanjay Vikram Shah lies near the ghat. Shivala ghat is inhabited by south Indian Hindus. The building along the ghat and palaces of Chet Singh were confiscated after the British suppressed the rebellion in which King of Varanasi also took part.
See also
Ghats in Varanasi
References
Ghats in Varanasi
Culture of Varanasi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifelines%20%28I%20Prevail%20album%29
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Lifelines (I Prevail album)
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Lifelines is the debut studio album by American rock band I Prevail. It was released on October 21, 2016 via Fearless Records. "Scars" was released as their first single from the album.
The album charted at number 15 on the Billboard 200, selling 19,500 copies in its first week. It had sold about 93,000 copies in the US alone as of September 2017. It is their only album to receive a certification award, being certified gold by Music Canada in September 2021.
"Come and Get It" was the official theme song for NXT TakeOver: Orlando in 2017 and All Elite Wrestling's All Out in 2019. "Lifelines" was used in a video package for The Young Bucks vs. Lucha Brothers match, at All Out.
Track listing
Personnel
I Prevail
Brian Burkheiser – clean vocals
Eric Vanlerberghe – unclean vocals, clean vocals on "Lifelines"
Dylan Bowman – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Steve Menoian – lead guitar
Tony Camposeo – bass guitar
Lee Runestad – drums
Production
BJ Perry – production, additional clean mixing
John Pregler – production
Drew Fulk – additional production
David Bendeth – mixing
Ted Jensen – mastering at Sterling Sound, New York, NY
Jesse Josefsson – additional programming
Management
Rick Smith and Dana Haddad for Wildjustice Music
Justin Hirschman – worldwide booking for Artist Group International
Bob Becker and Chris Foitle – A&R
Kristin Biskup – project management
Artwork
Dan Mumford – illustrations
Sage LaMonica – album design
Charts
Certifications
References
External links
2016 debut albums
I Prevail albums
Fearless Records albums
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Pop punk albums by American artists
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State Highway RC-18 (Puducherry)
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RC-18 or Villianur-Bahour Road starts from Villianur and ends at Bahour Junction.
It passes through the following villages:
Karikalampakkam
Seliyamedu
References
External links
Official website of Public Works Department, Puducherry UT
State highways in Puducherry
Transport in Puducherry
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasioglossum%20ephialtum
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Lasioglossum ephialtum
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Lasioglossum ephialtum is a species of sweat bee in the family Halictidae. A common name is nightmare sweat bee.
References
Further reading
ephialtum
Insects described in 2010
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VZV%20immune%20globulin
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VZV immune globulin
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VZV (varicella zoster virus) globulin or VZV antibodies is an immune system medication that is used mostly for immunosuppressed patients who have been or may be exposed to the varicella zoster virus. It shortens the course of cutaneous disease and may protect against its dissemination. Varicella zoster virus is a human herpes virus that causes chickenpox, shingles, Ramsay Hunt syndrome type II, and postherpetic neuralgia. Unlike a Zoster vaccine which provides durable immunity, the protection is passive and short term; it may need to be readministered every 2-4 weeks as necessary. This medication is not recommended for administration to immune-competent persons for the treatment of active disease.
The immunoglobulin is prepared from the plasma of healthy donors with high titers of antibodies to VZV. A study was published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases that showed outdated blood from blood banks may have antibody concentrations that were equivalent to those in plasma of donors recovering from recent VZV infection that resulted in elevated levels of zoster immune globulin.
Another study published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases proved that varicella zoster immune globulin (VZIG) can be administered to children with suppressed immune systems to protect them against severe chicken pox.
A study also published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases found that immunocompetent subjects exposed to VZV resulting in an increased level of VZV antibodies suggests that subclinical reinfection occurs.
See also
Gamma globulin
Immunoglobulin
Aciclovir, an antiviral medication also used to treat Zoster
References
External links
A Practical Method for Preparation of Varicella-Zoster Immune Globulin Journal of Infectious Diseases. Oxford Journals, Sep 1977. Web. 20 Mar 2013
Immunologic Evidence of Reinfection with Varicella-Zoster Virus Journal of Infectious Diseases. Oxford Journals, Dec 1982. Web. 20 Mar 2013
Antibodies and small molecules competitive antigens
Medical treatments
Chickenpox
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Color Line (ferry operator)
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Color Line AS is the largest cruiseferry line operating on routes to and from Norway. The company is also one of the leading operators in Europe. Color Line provides transportation for people and cargo, hotel accommodation, shopping, restaurants and entertainment. The company currently employs 3500 people in four countries.
Color Line's main office is in Oslo, but the company also has Norwegian offices in Kristiansand, Sandefjord and Larvik, in addition to international offices in Kiel, Hirtshals and Strömstad.
History
Color Line has roots in the ferry business that go back more than 100 years. The company was established in 1990 when two Norwegian shipping companies, Jahre Line and Norway Line merged. Jahre Line had operated ferries between Oslo and Kiel since 1961, while Norway Line had operated ferries between Bergen and Newcastle since 1986. During 1990 Color Line also took over the Fred. Olsen Lines cruiseferry operations, thereby expanding the traffic area of the new company to Norway–Denmark routes.
During the first half of the 1990s Color Line expanded its tonnage by lengthening its existing ships or by acquisition of larger second-hand ships. The company began operating fast ferries between Norway and Denmark during the summer of 1996. Initially the operations were in collaboration with SeaContainers, but were run without them from 1997 onwards. In October of the same year Color Line took over the operations of Larvik Line, its competitor in the Norway—Denmark traffic. In September 1998 Color Line acquired both the Color Hotel Skagen and Scandi Line, which operated two ferries on the short routes connecting Norway and Sweden. In the end of 1998 the Norway–United Kingdom operations were sold to Fjord Line. For the 1999 summer season the (former) Scandi Line ships received new Color Scandi Line liveries. They were fully incorporated into the Color Line fleet in 2001.
During the 2000s Color Line begun investing heavily in new tonnage, with , , and supplanting much of the older tonnage between 2004 and 2008. In April 2008 the company announced the closure of the Oslo—Hirtshals service from 6 May 2008 onwards.
In January 2017, Color Line announced that it had signed a letter of intent with the Ulstein Verft shipyard to build a new ferry with a hybrid drivetrain for the Sandefjord–Strömstad route, with delivery expected in 2019. The keel was laid in April 2018 in Poland and the ship was launched in November 2018.
In November 2022, Color Line announced that Color Carrier and Color Viking will end operations.
Ships and routes
Former ships
References
External links
Color Line official website
Ferry companies of Agder
Ferry companies of Oslo
Ferry companies of Vestfold og Telemark
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Sunshine in the Courtroom Act
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The Sunshine in the Courtroom Act is a bill to allow the broadcasting of U.S. District Court and U.S. Court of Appeals proceedings. The name of the bill is an apparent reference to Louis Brandeis' remark that "sunshine is the best disinfectant" for ill-doings. The proposed act relates to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 53, which states, "Except as otherwise provided by a statute or these rules, the court must not permit the taking of photographs in the courtroom during judicial proceedings or the broadcasting of judicial proceedings from the courtroom."
The bill was introduced in 2005 (), 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2019. The 2009 bill was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Senate version is S. 657, and the House version is H.R.3054. In 2009, the Judicial Council of the 9th Circuit expressed interest in televising certain proceedings.
In Congressional testimony, Ted Poe stated: When I was Assistant District Attorney, I spent my career trying criminal cases, and based on my experiences, I actually feel the cameras in the courtroom benefit a defendant. A public trial ensures fairness. That is the purpose of a public trial. It ensures professionalism by the lawyers and the judge, and a camera in the courtroom protects the defendant’s right to a public trial. Poe also opined that lawyers play to the jury, not to the camera, and that jurors stated they liked the camera inside the courtroom because they wanted the public to know what they heard "instead of waiting to hear a 30-second sound bite from a newscaster who may or may not have the facts correct." Judge John R. Tunheim opposed the bill, stating that it could deny some defendants a fair trial; e.g. a defendant corporation might forgo its right to a trial because it does not want its president to be cross-examined on television. He also expressed concern that televising trials could increase the incidence of threats against federal judges.
See also
Courtroom photography and broadcasting
Supreme Court of the United States, televised
References
Proposed legislation of the 109th United States Congress
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Great snipe
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The great snipe (Gallinago media) is a small stocky wader in the genus Gallinago. This bird's breeding habitat is marshes and wet meadows with short vegetation in north-eastern Europe, including north-western Russia. Great snipes are migratory, wintering in Africa. The European breeding population is in steep decline.
Taxonomy
The great snipe was described by the English naturalist John Latham in 1787 with the binomial name Scolopax media. The name of the current genus Gallinago is Neo-Latin for a woodcock or snipe from Latin gallina, "hen" and the suffix -ago, "resembling". The specific media is Latin for "intermediate", because this species is intermediate in size between the woodcock and the common snipe.
Description
At in length and a wingspan, adults are only slightly larger, but much bulkier, than the common snipe and have a shorter bill. The body is mottled brown on top and barred underneath. They have a dark stripe through the eye. The wings are broad, and a pale wingbar is visible in flight.
The voice is described as a faint yeah. Mating display calls of groups can be heard at long distances (more than ) and sound like a mixture of firecracker wind-up xylophone sounds.
Behaviour and ecology
The birds are noted for their fast, non-stop flying capabilities over huge distances. They can fly up to , with researchers finding little evidence of wind assistance. Some have been recorded to fly non-stop for 84 hours over at altitudes up to 8700 metres. Their wings are not especially aerodynamic, lacking pointed tips, and they typically do not stop to feed despite having opportunities. The birds instead rely on stores of fat.
At dusk during the breeding season, the males display at a lek (arena), standing erect with chest puffed and tail fanned out. They may jump into the air, and will produce a variety of rattles, clicks, buzzes and whistles while displaying. Three to four eggs are laid in a well-hidden nest on the ground.
These birds forage in soft mud, probing or picking up food by sight. They mainly eat insects and earthworms, and occasional plant material. They are difficult to see, being well camouflaged in their habitat. When flushed from cover, they fly straight for a considerable distance before dropping back into vegetation.
Migration
In their seasonal migrations between Sweden and sub-Saharan Africa, great snipes make non-stop flights of 4,000–7,000 km, lasting 60–90 h. During these flights, great snipes repeatedly changed altitudes around dawn and dusk, between average cruising heights about 2,000 m (above sea level) at night and around 4,000 m during daytime. Most birds regularly flew at 6,000 m and one bird reached 8,700 m, possibly the highest altitude ever recorded for a migrating bird.
Fossils
Fossils of the great snipe have been uncovered in North Carolina, dating back to about 4.465 Ma ±0.865M. This suggests that the bird must have at some point relocated across the Atlantic Ocean.
Status
In 2012, there were estimated to be between 15,000 and 40,000 great snipe in Scandinavia and between 450,000 and 1,000,000 in western Siberia and northeastern Europe. The species is experiencing a population decline, owing primarily to habitat loss, as well as to hunting in eastern Europe and in its African wintering range. The species is classified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as "Near Threatened". The great snipe is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.
References
Further reading
External links
Great snipe at Handbook of Birds of the World
Gallinago
Wading birds
Birds of Europe
Birds of Scandinavia
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Hydrorybina
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Hydrorybina is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.
Species
Hydrorybina fulvescens Munroe, 1977
Hydrorybina polusalis (Walker, 1859)
Hydrorybina pryeri (Butler, 1881)
Hydrorybina violascens (Hampson, 1917)
References
Odontiinae
Crambidae genera
Taxa named by George Hampson
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G 1/83, G 5/83 and G 6/83 are landmark decisions issued on 5 December 1984 by the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO) on the patentability of second or further medical use of a known substance or composition. They deal with patent claims directed to such second or subsequent medical use, and, as explained in reason 22 of decision G 5/83, the Enlarged Board held that patent claims directed to such substances or compositions were allowable under the European Patent Convention (EPC) when worded as purpose-limited product claims, which are also referred to as "Swiss-type use claims". These decisions are the first decisions issued by the Enlarged Board of Appeal.
Background
The European Patent Convention (EPC) is a multilateral treaty instituting the legal system according to which European patents are granted. Its version applicable before December 13, 2007 contained a provision, namely , reading as follows:
The EPC also contains provisions regarding novelty, with providing that "[a]n invention shall be considered to be new if it does not form part of the state of the art." Article 54(2) to (4) EPC 1973 also define what the state of the art comprises. Further, provided the following exception:
In other words, "Article 54(5) EPC [1973] exempts from the operation of the earlier paragraphs of that Article any substance or composition comprised in the state of the art for use in a method according to Article 52(4) EPC [1973]." Thus, besides the general concept of novelty, Article 54(5) EPC 1973 (now corresponding to ) "introduces, in respect of substances and compounds used in surgical and therapeutic treatment and in diagnostic processes carried out on humans and animals, a special concept of novelty unknown in other technical fields (T 128/82, OJ 1984, 164)".
The question then arose as to whether use claims would have to be treated any differently from method claims when it comes to Article 52(4) EPC 1973, i.e. when it comes to a claimed method or claimed use "for treatment of the human or animal body by surgery or therapy and diagnostic methods practised on the human or animal body". Another question also arose as to "the possibility of protecting second (and subsequent) medical indications by means of a claim directed to the use of a substance or composition for the manufacture of a medicament for a specified (new) therapeutic application", as Article 54(5) EPC 1973 appears to literally deal only with first medical indications.
Questions referred to the Enlarged Board of Appeal
The referrals to the Enlarged Board of Appeal lie from interlocutory decisions T 17/81, T 92/82, and T 24/82 from Technical Board of Appeal 3.3.1 (the sole Technical Board of Appeal for Chemistry at that time).
The question asked in decision T 17/81 and leading to decision G 1/83 is:
The question asked in decision T 92/82 and leading to decision G 5/83 is:
The question asked in decision T 24/82 and leading to decision G 6/83 is:
In other words, "[t]he question of law referred to the Enlarged Board relate[d] to therapeutic use claims for substances and compositions in general". The Enlarged Board also considered that "the problem of the protection of inventions of the so-called "second medical indication"" was the central question in these cases, and therefore chose "to examine all aspects of that problem".
Answers to the referred questions
The Enlarged Board of Appeal answered the question asked in decision T 17/81 as follows:
The Enlarged Board of Appeal answered the question asked in decision T 92/82 as follows:
The Enlarged Board of Appeal answered the question asked in decision T 24/82 as follows:
In summary, the Enlarged Board of Appeal held that use claims and method claims must be treated in the same manner if the purpose of the claimed use or method, respectively, is the "treatment of the human or animal body by surgery or therapy and diagnostic methods practised on the human or animal body". There is no difference in substance, these method claims and use claims are not patentable under , and no patents can be granted for those. Further, the Enlarged Board also held that novelty of a substance or composition for the manufacture of a medicament for a specified new and inventive therapeutic application was to be acknowledged by virtue of "the new therapeutic use of the medicament" regardless of whether the new therapeutic use is the first pharmaceutical use of the medicament or a second (or further) pharmaceutical use of the medicament. The Enlarged Board's decisions were thus a response to a gap, i.e. a lacuna, in the law.
Application of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
In its decision, the Enlarged Board also held that the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties was not in force at the time of conclusion of the European Patent Convention (EPC). Consequently, the Vienna Convention does not apply to the EPC by operation of law (ex lege). The Enlarged Board still held that due to a number of convincing precedents, the EPO should apply the rules of the Vienna Convention. More specifically, it held that Articles 31 and 32 of the Vienna Convention are each relevant to the interpretation of the EPC.
Analysis
The type of claim referred to in the answers provided by the Enlarged Board of Appeal in G 1/83, G 5/83 and G 6/83 is called a "Swiss-type claim" or "Swiss-type use claim". The EPC 2000 removed the need for Swiss-type claims. According to decision G 2/08, a claim deriving its novelty from a new therapeutic use shall no longer come as a Swiss-type claim.
Notes
References
External links
Decisions G 1/83, G 5/83 and G 6/83 of the Enlarged Board of Appeal of 5 December 1984 (OJ EPO, 1985, p. 60)
Decision G 2/83 of the Enlarged Board of Appeal of 5 December 1984
Decision G 3/83 of the Enlarged Board of Appeal of 5 December 1984
Decision G 4/83 of the Enlarged Board of Appeal of 5 December 1984
Decision G 7/83 of the Enlarged Board of Appeal of 5 December 1984
Decision T 17/81 (Nimodipin) of 30 May 1983 (referring decision)
Decision T 92/82 of 20 June 1983 (referring decision)
Decision T 24/82 of 20 June 1983 (referring decision)
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Artemisia absinthium
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Artemisia absinthium, otherwise known as common wormwood, is a species of Artemisia native to North Africa and temperate regions of Eurasia, and widely naturalized in Canada and the northern United States. It is grown as an ornamental plant and is used as an ingredient in the spirit absinthe and some other alcoholic beverages.
Etymology
Wormwood's relative mugwort was traditionally used as a remedy for a variety of complaints, especially those of a gynaecological nature, and so the wormwood genus bears the name of the Greek goddess of childbirth, Artemis. The specific name derives from apsínthion, the Greek term for the plant.
"Wormwood" itself is an alteration of Old English wermod, which is of obscure origin. The German cognate Wermut is the source of the term vermouth, used in French and English to describe a kind of wine traditionally flavoured with wormwood.
Description
A. absinthium is a herbaceous perennial plant with fibrous roots. The stems are straight, growing to (and rarely over ) tall, grooved, branched, and silvery-green.
Leaves are spirally arranged, greenish-grey colored above, white below, covered with silky silvery-white trichomes, and bearing minute oil-producing glands. The basal leaves are up to long, bi- to tripinnate with long petioles, with the cauline leaves (those on the stem) smaller, long, less divided, and with short petioles. The uppermost leaves can be both simple and sessile (without a petiole).
Flowers are pale yellow, tubular, and clustered in spherical bent-down heads (capitula), which are in turn clustered in leafy and branched panicles. Flowering occurs from early summer to early autumn; pollination is anemophilous. The fruit is a small achene. Seed dispersal occurs by gravity.
A. absinthium grows naturally on uncultivated arid ground, on rocky slopes, and at the edge of footpaths and fields. Although once relatively common, it is becoming increasingly rare in Britain, where it has recently been suggested to be an archaeophyte rather than a true native.
Cultivation
The plant can easily be cultivated in dry soil. It should be planted under bright exposure in fertile, midweight soil. It prefers soil rich in nitrogen, and can be propagated by ripened cuttings taken in spring or autumn in temperate climates, or by seeds in nursery beds. Growing the plant with others tends to stunt their growth; accordingly, it is not considered to be a good companion plant. A. absinthium also self-seeds generously. It is naturalised in some areas away from its native range, including much of North America and Kashmir Valley of India.
This plant, and its cultivars "Lambrook Mist" and "Lambrook Silver" have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. These two short cultivars are very similar and more silver than typical British absinthium material and probably derive from southern Europe. "Lambrook Silver" is the earliest of these cultivars, having been selected in the late 1950s by Margery Fish, who developed the garden at East Lambrook Manor. "Lambrook Mist" was selected about 30 years later by Andrew Norton, a subsequent owner of the garden. Both gained their Awards of Garden Merit during the RHS Artemisia Trial 1991–3.
Cultivar "Silver Ghost" is a taller, silver plant, which flowers much later (August–September) than typical absinthium (June–July) in Britain, so holds its silver appearance for longer. This and a more feathery-leaved cultivar "Persian Lace" were selected by National Collection Holder John Twibell in the 1990s.
Constituents
Wormwood herb contains bitter substances from the group of sesquiterpene lactones; absinthin, at 0.20 to 0.28%, is the main component of these bitter substances. Essential oils make up 0.2 to 0.8% and contain (-) - thujone, (+) - isothujone, thujyl alcohol and its esters, chamazulene and other mono- and sesquiterpenes. In Bailen et al 2013 and Gonzalez-Coloma et al 2013 the Gonzalez-Coloma group discovered a chemotype that does not produce β-thujone but does contain terpenoids not seen elsewhere.
Uses
Artemisia absinthium is claimed to have antifungal, neuroprotective, insecticidal, antimicrobial, anthelmintic, acaricidal, antimalarial, antidepressant, and hepatoprotective properties.
It is an ingredient in the spirit absinthe, and is used for flavouring in some other spirits and wines, including bitters, bäsk, vermouth, and pelinkovac. As medicine, it is used for dyspepsia, as a bitter to counteract poor appetite, for various infectious diseases, Crohn's disease, and IgA nephropathy.
In the Middle Ages, wormwood was used to spice mead, and in Morocco, where it is called shība (), it is used as a complement or substitute for mint in Moroccan tea.
Wormwood was traditionally relatively common as a bittering spice in farmhouse brewing in Denmark, and to some extent Estonia. In 18th-century England, wormwood was sometimes used instead of hops in beer.
Wormwood clippings and cuttings are added to chicken nesting boxes to repel lice, mites, and fleas. Bailen et al. 2013 and Gonzalez-Coloma et al. 2013 find the unique terpenoids of the Gonzalez-Coloma chemotype make this strain especially promising for insect control. a company named EcoflorAgro is investing heavily into increasing the planted area of this strain, hoping to commercialize it to a degree attempted but never achieved due to unreliable supply for other botanical insecticides before.
Toxicity
Most chemotypes of A. absinthium contain (−)-α- and/or (+)-β-thujone, though some do not. (−)-α-Thujone by itself is a GABA receptor antagonist that can cause convulsions and death when administered in large amounts to animals and humans. However, there is only one case of documented toxicity of wormwood involving a 31-year-old man who drank 10 mL of steam-distilled volatile oil of wormwood, wrongly believing it was absinthe liqueur. Medicinal extracts of wormwood have not been shown to cause seizure or other adverse effects at usual doses. Thujones have not been shown to be the cause of excessive doses' toxicity for any kind of wormwood extracts, including absinthe.
Cultural history
In the Bible, the Book of Revelation tells of a star named Wormwood that plummets to Earth and turns a third of the rivers and fountains of waters bitter.
Nicholas Culpeper insisted that wormwood was the key to understanding his 1651 book The English Physitian. Richard Mabey describes Culpeper's entry on this bitter-tasting plant as "stream-of-consciousness" and "unlike anything else in the herbal", and states that it reads "like the ramblings of a drunk". Culpeper biographer Benjamin Woolley suggests the piece may be an allegory about bitterness, as Culpeper had spent his life fighting the Establishment, and had been imprisoned and seriously wounded in battle as a result.
William Shakespeare referred to wormwood in Romeo and Juliet: Act 1, Scene 3. Juliet's childhood nurse said, "For I had then laid wormwood to my dug" meaning that the nurse had weaned Juliet, then aged three, by using the bitter taste of wormwood on her nipple.
John Locke, in his 1689 book titled An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, used wormwood as an example of bitterness, writing, "For a child knows as certainly before it can speak the difference between the ideas of sweet and bitter (i.e. that sweet is not bitter), as it knows afterwards (when it comes to speak) that wormwood and sugarplums are not the same thing."
Edwin Arlington Robinson relates in a poem how Cliff Klingenhagen gave a guest a glass of wine while drinking a glass of wormwood himself. He concludes, "I have spent / Long time a-wondering when I shall be / As happy as Cliff Klingenhagen is."
References
External links
Biodiversity Heritage Library bibliography for Artemisia absinthium
Erowid Wormwood Vault- information on the use and preparation of wormwood, along with user experiences.
European Medicines Agency (4 March 2020). European Union herbal monograph on Artemisia absinthium L., herba, Amsterdam
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Sakon Nakhon Rajabhat University Stadium
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Sakon Nakhon Rajabhat University Stadium () is a multi-purpose stadium in Sakon Nakhon province, Thailand. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Sakon Nakhon F.C.
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Multi-purpose stadiums in Thailand
Buildings and structures in Sakon Nakhon province
Sport in Sakon Nakhon province
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Slobodan Jovanović was a Croatian rower. He competed in the men's eight event at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
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Year of birth missing
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Olympic rowers for Yugoslavia
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Legg Mason was an American investment management and asset management firm headquartered in Baltimore, founded in 1899 and acquired by Franklin Templeton Investments as of July 2020. As of December 31, 2019, the company had $730.8 billion in assets under management, including $161.2 billion in equity assets, $420.2 billion in fixed income assets, $74.3 billion in alternative assets, and $75.1 billion in liquidity assets.
History
In 1899, George Mackubin & Co., predecessor to Legg & Co., was founded in Baltimore, Maryland. It got its start selling stocks out of a back office in the Baltimore Stock Exchange in 1899. In 1970, it had offices in San Francisco, New York, as well as several in Maryland, with over 400 employees. It was best known for its expertise in the life and casualty insurance industry.
In 1949, after the departure of Mackubin, John C. Legg, Jr. named the company after himself.
In 1962, Mason & Co., a stockbrokerage, was founded by Raymond A. “Chip” Mason in Newport News, Virginia.
In 1967, Mason & Co., with over 80 employees in 4 offices, became one of the largest Virginia-based stockbrokerages.
In 1970, Mason & Co. was acquired by Legg & Co., forming Legg Mason & Co., Inc., with headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland.
In 1975, Raymond A. Mason became chairman and CEO, adding to his existing role as president.
In 1982, Legg Mason Fund Adviser, Inc. was established to manage the company’s flagship fund, Legg Mason Value Trust.
In 1983, the company became a public company via an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange, raising $14 million.
In 1997, the company moved its headquarters to 100 Light Street in Baltimore.
In July 2002, the company sold its stockbrokerage subsidiary to Raymond James Financial.
In 2005, the company transferred its Private Client and Capital Markets business to Citigroup in exchange for Citigroup’s asset management business in a $3.7 billion transaction, turning Legg Mason into the 5th largest money management firm in the U.S.
In 2006, fund manager Bill Miller's streak of beating the S&P 500 15 years in a row ended.
In January 2008, Mark R. Fetting became CEO of the company, succeeding Raymond A. "Chip" Mason.
In May 2008, during the financial crisis of 2007-2008, the company reported its first quarterly loss as a public company.
In July 2009, the company moved its headquarters to Inner Harbor East, Baltimore.
In October 2009, Nelson Peltz joined the board of directors of the company after acquiring a stake.
In May 2010, the company announced layoffs of as many as 350 people.
In February 2013, Joseph A. Sullivan became CEO of the company.
In 2016, the company acquired real estate investment firm Clarion Partners, combined its hedge fund platform Permal with New York independent hedge fund investor EnTrust and purchased a minority stake in New Jersey-based Precidian Investments to boost its exchange traded funds.
In April 2019, the company ended all sports sponsorships to cut costs.
In July 2020, Franklin Templeton Investments acquired Legg Mason for $4.5 billion.
Investment affiliates
Brandywine Global
Year Founded: 1986
Year Acquired: 1997
Location: Headquartered in Philadelphia; offices in Chicago, San Francisco, Singapore, and London
Clarion Partners
Year Founded: 1982
Year Acquired: 2016
Location: Headquartered in New York City; offices in Baltimore, Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, London, Los Angeles, São Paulo, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.
ClearBridge Investments
Year Founded: 2005 (predecessor firms date to 1962)
Year Acquired: 2005 (as Citigroup's asset management business)
Location: Headquartered in New York City; offices in Baltimore, San Francisco, and Wilmington
EnTrust Global
Year Founded: 2016 (predecessor firms date back to 1997 and 1973)
Year Acquired: 2005 (as The Permal Group)
Location: Headquartered in New York; offices in Beijing, Boston, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Paris, Singapore, and Washington, D.C.
Martin Currie
Year Founded: 1881
Year Acquired: 2014
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
QS Investors
Year Founded: 1999
Year Acquired: 2014
Location: New York City
RARE Infrastructure
Year Founded: 2006
Year Acquired: 2015
Location: Sydney, Australia; office in Stamford, Connecticut
Royce Investment Partners
Year Founded: 1972
Year Acquired: 2001
Location: New York
Western Asset Management Company
Year Founded: 1971
Year Acquired: 1986
Location: Headquartered in Pasadena, California; offices in New York City, London, Hong Kong, Melbourne, São Paulo, Singapore, Dubai, and Tokyo
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Fruzsina Schildkraut (born 30 March 1998) is a Hungarian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Viktória and the Hungary women's national team.
Career
Schildkraut is a member of the Hungary senior national team. She made her debut for the team on 17 September 2020 against Sweden, coming on as a substitute for Dóra Süle. The goalkeeper that started the match, Barbara Bíró, was sent off.
Personal life
Her father, Krisztián Schildkraut, was a volleyball player at international level.
References
1998 births
Living people
Women's association football goalkeepers
Hungarian women's footballers
Hungary women's youth international footballers
Hungary women's international footballers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laghetto%20delle%20Conche
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Laghetto delle Conche
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Laghetto delle Conche is a lake on the island of Elba, Italy. The island is part of the Province of Livorno, Tuscany.
Lakes of Tuscany
Elba
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination%20Bliss
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Termination Bliss
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Termination Bliss is the second album by the Swedish metal band Deathstars. It was released in 2006 on Nuclear Blast records.
Track listing
Personnel
Whiplasher Bernadotte – vocals
Nightmare Industries – guitars, keyboards, electronics
Skinny Disco – bass
Bone W Machine – drums
Guest performer:
Ann Ekberg – female vocals (on "Tongues" and "Greatest Fight on Earth")
Production
Produced by Nightmare Industries.
Recorded by Nightmare Industries and Skinny at BlackSyndicate Studios, Stockholm
Mixed by Stefan Glaumann at ToyTown Studios, Stockholm
Mastered by Håkan Åkesson at Cutting Room, Stockholm
2006 albums
Deathstars albums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karthick%20Ramakrishnan
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Karthick Ramakrishnan
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Subramanian Karthick Ramakrishnan, typically published as S. Karthick Ramakrishnan or Karthick Ramakrishnan, is an American political scientist, currently a professor of public policy at the University of California, Riverside. He is also a founder of AAPI Data and the UC Riverside Center for Social Innovation, and has been the Associate Dean of the School of Public Policy. He studies the political behavior and engagement of immigrants to the United States, and manages projects to gather data about minority groups in America.
Career
Ramakrishnan has a BA in international relations from Brown University, and a PhD in politics from Princeton University.
Ramakrishnan has written or edited seven books, including Citizenship Reimagined: A New Framework for State Rights in the United States (2020). He was the solo author of Democracy in Immigrant America: Changing Demographics and Political Participation (2005), which Pei-te Lien called "an unprecedented effort systematically to study political participation by immigrants and their offspring, across generations and major racial and national-origin groups". He has also published articles on topics like the integration of immigrants into American political society and public opinion regarding immigration in venues like Perspectives on Politics and the International Migration Review.
Ramakrishnan has founded and directed multiple projects related to data acquisition on minority groups in the US, including the National Asian American Survey, the AAPI Data project to collect information about Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the US, and the Inland Empire 2020 Census Complete Count Committee, an effort in San Bernardino County and Riverside County to raise awareness and conduct outreach to hard-to-count populations by the US Census. Ramakrishnan was also the founding editor of the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics.
Ramakrishnan's work has regularly been quoted, or had his work cited, in news outlets like NBC, Vox, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. He has also published articles in The Washington Post and CNN. In 2018, Ramakrishnan was named a member of the Frederick Douglass 200, a project by American University and the Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives to select "200 living individuals who best embody the work and spirit of Douglass".
Selected works
"Immigrant Incorporation and Political Participation in the United States", International Migration Review, with Thomas J. Espenshade (2001)
Democracy in Immigrant America: Changing Demographics and Political Participation (2005)
“Second‐Generation Immigrants? The “2.5 Generation” in the United States,” Social Science Quarterly (2004)
Asian American Political Participation: Emerging Constituents and Their Political Identities, with Janelle Wong, Taeku Lee, and Jane Junn (2011)
The New Immigration Federalism, with Pratheepan Gulasekaram (2015)
Framing Immigrants: News Coverage, Public Opinion, and Policy, with Chris Haynes and Jennifer Merolla (2016)
Citizenship Reimagined: A New Framework for State Rights in the United States, with Allan Colbern (2020).
Selected awards
Frederick Douglass 200 (2018)
References
Living people
American political scientists
Brown University alumni
Princeton University alumni
University of California, Riverside faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
American academics of Indian descent
American male writers of Indian descent
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabene%2C%20Ghana
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Diabene, Ghana
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Diabene is a town in the Western region of Ghana. It is 15 kilometres from the centre Takoradi the Western regional capital. The serves as a dormitory town for workers who work in and around the Takoradi metropolis.
Boundaries
The town is bordered on Mpintsin on the East, Fijai on the North and Sekondi on the south.
Notable place
The town has a secondary technical school - The Diabene Secondary Technical School. It is a unisex secondary institution that offers course mostly in Metal work, wood work etc.
References
Populated places in the Western Region (Ghana)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20New%20Century%20Hymnal
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The New Century Hymnal
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The New Century Hymnal is a comprehensive hymnal and worship book published in 1995 for the United Church of Christ. The hymnal contains a wide-variety of traditional Christian hymns and worship songs, many contemporary hymns and songs, and a substantial selection of "world music" selections (hymns and worship songs from non-European-American) origin, a full lectionary-based Psalter, service music selections, and a selection of liturgies from the UCC Book of Worship (1986). Generally speaking, the hymnal is theologically within the mainline Protestant tradition, with a slant toward liturgical forms.
History
The hymnal project was initiated by action of the UCC General Synod in 1977, only three years after the denomination released its first-ever hymnal as a unified body (the eventually unpopular Hymnal of the United Church of Christ). Prior to that time, congregations used the hymnals from their predecessor traditions: the Pilgrim Hymnal of the Congregational Christian Churches or The Hymnal of the Evangelical and Reformed Church. Because of financial struggles and other issues of greater concern to the denomination, however, work on the project by the denomination's Board for Homeland Ministires (now known as the Local Church Ministries division) did not begin until 1989. The hymnal committee was chaired by James W. Crawford, then pastor of Boston's prestigious Old South Church, and the book was edited by Arthur Clyde.
In addition to the standard UCC edition, the hymnal is available in an "ecumenical" edition (for independent congregations, or those from other denominations) that lacks the United Church of Christ symbol imprint on the cover and some of the liturgical material in the "Orders for Worship" section.
While it is currently the only "official" hymnal of the UCC, some local UCC congregations have officially adopted a variety of other hymnals (including the earlier ones) that are used for reasons outlined below, including the local church's own traditions as well as dissatisfaction with language revisions. The UCC does not exert authority over its member churches on matters of worship and congregational life, so congregations are free to use whatever hymnal they choose. No comprehensive figures are available as to the exact percentage of UCC congregations that use the NCH; however, among congregations that responded to the 2004-05 denomination-wide survey of worship practices, "A majority (58%) use The New Century Hymnal, with 39% using it all or nearly all of the time." (from Worshipping Into God's Future: Summary and Strategies 2005, available at .)
Theological Guidelines
According to "The Making of The New Century Hymnal" by James Crawford and Daniel Johnson, the hymnal committee was guided by the following theological guidelines:
"The 1995 hymnal of the United Church of Christ enables praise of the One, Sovereign, Triune God, who in infinite mystery is always more than doctrine can describe and whose being calls forth awe, worship, love, faith, and service (Isa. 6:1-8)."
"We affirm that people of all ages, tongues, races, abilities, and genders are created in the image and likeness of God (Gen. 1:26, 5:1-2; United Church of Christ Statement of Faith)."
"We testify to God's call to stewardship of the earth; we are not entitled to hoard, waste or destroy what God has made, but we are called to glorify God with the earth's resources."
"We rejoice in providing a rich variety of metaphors for singing of God and inclusive words for singing of people—words that all people can sing."
Inclusive Language and The New Century Hymnal
The New Century Hymnal is perhaps most famous both in and outside the United Church of Christ for its approach to using "inclusive language". Arthur Clyde, hymnal editor, writes "The New Century Hymnal is not the first hymnal to deal with the issue of inclusive language. It does, however, represent the most even and consistent approach to language of any hymnal yet published. Rather than choosing to present only new hymns in inclusive language, those responsible for the language of this hymnal took the General Synod request for an inclusive hymnal quite literally. Thus hymns of other ages are presented in ways that seek to maintain the theology and beauty of the original but without some of the biases of the time in which they were written."
Clyde identifies a number of approaches and concerns implemented in considering hymn text language, which include:
Translation: Some hymns that were written in languages other than English were retranslated to avoid the linguistic biases of the older translation.
Archaic Language: Avoiding "thee", "thine", "thou", "ebenezer", "betide", etc. since such language is no longer commonplace in English and is losing its intelligibility to new generations.
Gender of God: Seeking to reduce the solely-masculine use of language for God, and/or balancing masculine images with feminine and non-gendered images (A few Trinitarian references to God "The Father" were retained). The United Church of Christ describes the New Century Hymnal as "the only hymnal released by a Christian church that honors in equal measure both male and female images of God."
Gender of Christ: Retaining masculine language for Jesus when the context is his historical, earthly life, but attempting to avoid masculine language in reference to "the resurrected Jesus, the Christ, who is our Sovereign."
Sensitivity to the use of the word "Lord": Recognizing that "Lord" implies authority/sovereignty, but also a gender (male), the hymnal retains many references to Jesus as "Lord" (particularly in well-known 'memorized' hymns), removes them from non-English texts where Lord was introduced in translation, and changed language in certain other cases. Furthermore, "Lord" is not employed as a name for God (only Jesus Christ). "The overall result of the entire revision process is that the word 'Lord' appears with less frequency than in many other hymnals".
Kings, Kingdoms, and Masters: Noting its gendered status, "King" as a reference for God was avoided as much as possible. Similarly, "Master" is not only masculine, but also evokes the oppressive imagery of master-and-slave. In both cases, various alternatives were implemented, including the use of "Sovereign" as implying the same sovereignty metaphor as king. Similarly, in many places the gendered "Kingdom" was avoided by using words such as "realm" or "dominion."
Militaristic Language: As Clyde writes, "It is certain that some will lament the loss of [the militaristic] metaphors, but others cannot sing language of such strong military tendency in a world where violence abounds." In many cases, the message of struggle, conflict, and fight was retained, but with 'toned-down' militarism. For example, in "For All the Saints", "O may thy soldiers, faithful, true, and bold, fight as the saints who nobly fought of old, and win with them the victor's crown of gold" becomes "Still may your people, faithful, true and bold, live as the saints who nobly fought of old, and share with them a glorious crown of gold."
Trinitarian Language: "The hymnal committee developed a statement concerning the trinitarian formula: 'Where a hymn is clearly trinitarian, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit language may be used, but we will consult poets, theologians, and others in order to search for new ways of expressing the Triune God within the orthodox parameters.'"
Gender inclusivity with regard to humanity: Language that does not employ male gender-marked words referring to people has been used throughout.
Use of the Word "Dark": Recognizing the racial implications of many traditional uses where "dark" was meant as negative, bad, or evil, the hymnal has sought to find different language to indicate the contrast or show the absence of light ("shadows" instead of "darkness", or "drive the storms of doubt away" instead of "drive the dark of doubt away", as examples)
Language about people's abilities: "If the hymn indicates that one must walk or see in this life to participate in the faith, then a change is warranted. If the hymn indicates that walking or seeing or hearing are things that happen when one is utterly overwhelmed by finding oneself in the presence of God in the hereafter, then a change is not necessary."
The language revisions made necessary by these principles became very controversial upon the hymnal's release. Some congregations, mainly from more liberal backgrounds , found the changes liberating, while other ones, typically of moderate-to-conservative theological or social bent , have refused to adopt the new hymnal because they feel the changes were too "radical". Most often, however, complaints about the changes are not theological, but rather because the updated language is seen as un-poetic or as conflicting against the congregation's stored memory (these complaints are particularly made in relation to Christmas carols and American songs, such as America the Beautiful). Similarly, the printing of this hymnal left stanzas disappearing into the binding (instead of leaving enough margin for a binding), and musical lines of text and notes that are poorly typeset on the page. Finally, the omission of certain bass notes in the melodies seem to place an emphasis on singing only the melody and not the harmony in a particular hymn. The 1995 issues of Prism (the theological journal of the UCC) contain critiques and criticisms of the new hymnal.
Hymnal Contents
Orders for Worship
Service of Word and Sacrament I
Service of Word and Sacrament II
Service of the Word I
Service of the Word II
Service of the Word III
Order for Baptism
Order for Confirmation: Affirmation of Baptism
Order for Reception of Members: Affirmation of Baptism
Order for Thanksgiving for One Who Has Died
Morning Prayer
Evening Prayer
Hymns
Hymns of Praise
The Holy Trinity
God
Jesus Christ
Holy Spirit
Opening of Worship
Close of Worship
Morning
Evening
Hymns for the Christian Year
Advent
Christmas
Epiphany
Baptism of Jesus
Transfiguration
Lent
Ash Wednesday
Palm/Passion Sunday
Holy Week
Easter
Easter Season
Ascension
Pentecost
Trinity Sunday
Hymns of the Spirit
All Saints Day
Reign of Christ
Hymns for the Faith and Order of the Church
The Church
The Bible
Ministry, Sacraments, and Rites
Holy Baptism
Holy Communion
Confirmation
Commissioning, Ordination, and Installation
Marriage
Burial and Memorial
Anniversaries and Dedications
Communion of Saints
Christian Unity
Faith
Seasons
Thanksgiving
Festival of the Christian Home
Changing Seasons
Hymns for the Life and Work of the Church
Pilgrimage
Struggle and Conflict
Consecration
Nurture
Comfort and Assurance
Discipleship
Prayer
Mission
Witness
Service
Healing and Forgiveness
Stewardship and Creation
Justice and Peace
Citizenship
Hymns of Christian Hope
Eternal Life
Realm of God
Psalms and Canticles
Introduction and Psalm Tones
Psalms
Canticles and Ancient Songs
Service Music
Call to Worship
Prayer for Mercy (Trisagion and Kyrie)
Song of Praise (Gloria)
Scripture Response
Alleluia
Prayer Response, Meditation
Doxology
Offertory
Invitation to Communion
Holy, Holy, Holy (Sanctus, Seraphic Hymn)
Memorial Acclamation
Lamb of God (Agnus Dei)
Blessing, Song of Simeon (Nunc Dimittis)
Amens
Worship Resources
Prayers Before Worship
Opening Words
Invocations
Confessions, Words of Assurance
Offertory Sentences and Prayers
Prayers
Prayers for Home Use
Prayers of Benediction
Litanies
Creeds, Affirmations of Faith
Indexes and Acknowledgements
Copyright Acknowledgements
Author, Composer, and Source Index
Metrical Index
Tune Index
Scriptural Index
Lectionary Index
Topical Index
First Line Index
Descant Index
See also
List of English-language hymnals by denomination
References
Arthur G. Clyde, "The Language of The New Century Hymnal" in The New Century Hymnal Companion: A Guide to the Hymns, ed. Kristen L. Forman (Cleveland, OH: The Pilgrim Press, 1998), pp. 15–56.
James W. Crawford and Daniel L. Johnson, "The Making of The New Century Hymnal" in The New Century Hymnal Companion: A Guide to the Hymns, ed. Kristen L. Forman (Cleveland, OH: The Pilgrim Press, 1998), pp. 3–14.
Protestant hymnals
United Church of Christ
1995 books
1995 in Christianity
1995 in music
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscophus%20americanus
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Miscophus americanus
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Miscophus americanus is a species of square-headed wasp in the family Crabronidae. It is found in North America.
References
Crabronidae
Articles created by Qbugbot
Insects described in 1890
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raedersdorf
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Raedersdorf
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Raedersdorf () is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.
Geography
Raedersdorf is located in the south of the so-called Alsatian jura, a community of communes. French-speaking Switzerland (Lucelle) and German-speaking Switzerland (Rodersdorf) are very close.
Population
In 2020, the commune had 504 inhabitants, the same as in 2014.
See also
Communes of the Haut-Rhin department
References
Communes of Haut-Rhin
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Métis National Council
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The Métis National Council () is the representative body of the Métis people of northwestern Canada. The MNC represents the Métis Nation both nationally and internationally, receiving direction from the elected leadership of the Métis Nation's provincial-level governments. The goal of the MNC is to "secure a healthy space for the Métis Nation's on-going existence within the Canadian federation".
History
The National Council was formed in 1983 to support the recognition of the Métis as a distinct ethnicity who identify separately from other aboriginal groups, share Métis Nation ancestry (e.g. the Northwest and Red River, Manitoba settlements) and form recognized communities. This Council was formed to advocate at the federal level in Canada, which became particularly important with Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982. It is a recognized voice of the Métis people in five Canadian provinces to the Government of Canada, and represents these Métis people on the international stage. The National Council is governed by a Board of Governors made up of the presidents of the provincial Métis organizations and the national president. A former national president of the Council is Yvon Dumont, who went on to become the Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba. The current president of the Métis National Council is Cassidy Caron
Indigenous Affairs Canada, the relevant federal ministry, deals with the MNC; on April 13, 2017 the two parties signed the Canada-Metis Nation Accord, with the goal of working with the Metis Nation, as represented by the Metis National Council on a Nation to Nation basis.
Metis re-organization of 2020s
Six Métis communities in Northern Alberta broke away from the Metis Nation of Alberta (MNA) in early 2020, just as the same that the MNA was in a dispute with the Metis National Council (MNC). The confluence of the two conflicts created a major restructuring of Metis organizations in Western Canada.
At issue are such fundamentals as who is Metis and which organizations should have the democratic mandate to speak for the Metis to the federal and provincial governments.
Disputes between provincial Metis organizations
Definitions of who is Metis
One source of tension in the dispute between provincial organizations is a disagreement over who is considered Métis.
The Manitoba Metis Federation (MMF)’s official position adopted in 2019, is that membership in Metis organizations must only be open to people with ancestors within the Metis "homeland"': consisting of the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, as well as parts of north-eastern British Columbia, the southern Northwest Territories, and northern halves of the U.S. States of Montana, and North Dakota, and a small part of Minnesota.
In September 2021 the MMF left the Métis National Council (MNC) over membership issues involving the Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO). "We view this not as MMF leaving MNC," wrote MMF President David Chartrand, "rather it is the MNC that has abandoned the MMF and the true Métis Nation." Chartrand further stated the MMF had passed a resolution that the MMF should withdraw from the MNC "should MNO continue to be allowed a seat at the governance table while they – by their own admission – have nearly 80 per cent non-Métis Nation Citizens in their registry." The Métis National Council has stated that they reject the idea of new Ontario Métis communities.
The National Council suspended the membership of the Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) in 2020, due to concerns that 90% of the purported Métis who have registered with the Ontario group did not fulfill the requirements of citizenship put in place by the National Council in 2002, notably the requirement for an ancestral link to the Métis homelands and the Red River area specifically. The Ontario group granted memberships to people from four disputed communities: Mattawa, Georgian Bay, Killarney, and Temiskaming, claiming these groups consist of Métis people, and not simply regions inhabited by First Nations individuals and some settlers, but without cultural ties to the recognized Métis communities.
Agreements between the federal government and provincial organizations
The Metis Nation of Alberta, Metis Nation – Saskatchewan, and Metis Nation of Ontario signed self-government agreements with the government of Canada in 2017 or 2018, whereas the Manitoba Metis Federation and Métis Nation British Columbia did not. The three provincial organizations formed a "tri-council" and asked that the federal government deal directly with them and not with the MNC and met with Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennet in January 2020.
Interim president and lack of board meetings
In November 2019 MNC’s president, Clément Chartier, announced he would reduce his duties and allow MMF president David Chartrand to become the "national spokesperson" for MNC until a new president could be elected in April. However, Chartrand was never officially made interim president, and no board meeting was convened to sanction the change.
Ultimately, the general assembly scheduled for April was cancelled due to COVID-19, so the situation was not resolved.
Fort McKay Metis and the creation of the Alberta Métis Federation
In 2019 the Fort McKay Metis Community Association (whose membership was largely the same as the region's Metis Nation of Alberta "local") voted to secede from the Metis Nation of Alberta. This prompted other community associations in Alberta to likewise secede. The separatist bodies then united in 2021 under a loose umbrella group called the Alberta Metis Federation. This group was recognized by the Manitoba Metis Federation despite protests from the Metis Nation of Alberta.
Current structure
The MNC is composed of several provincial Métis organizations, the number of which has varied over time. They are:
Métis Nation British Columbia
Métis Nation of Alberta
Métis Nation - Saskatchewan
Métis Nation of Ontario
Note that the Manitoba Metis Federation (MMF) withdrew from the MNC in September 2021.
Within each provincial organization are regional councils.
Presidents
Yvon Dumont (1988–1993)
Gerald Morin (1993–2003)
Audrey Poitras (January 12, 2003 interim President and National spokesperson),
Clément Chartier (2003–2021)
Cassidy Caron (2021-)
References
Barkwell, Lawrence J. The History of the Manitoba Metis Federation. Winnipeg: Louis Riel Institute, 2018.
Barkwell, Lawrence J., Leah Dorion, and Audreen Hourie. Metis legacy Michif culture, heritage, and folkways. Métis legacy series, v. 2. Saskatoon: Gabriel Dumont Institute, 2006.
Barkwell, Lawrence J., Leah Dorion and Darren Prefontaine. "Metis Legacy: A Historiography and Annotated Bibliography". Winnipeg: Pemmican Publications Inc. and Saskatoon: Gabriel Dumont Institute, 2001.
Ens, Gerhard J. and Joe Sawchuk. From New Peoples to New Nations: Aspects of Metis History and Identity from the Eighteenth to Twenty-First Centuries. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016.
External links
Métis organizations
Indigenous rights organizations in Canada
Métis in Canada
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Silvana Asturias
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Silvana Asturias (born 27 August 1953) is a former Guatemalan swimmer. She competed in four events at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
References
1953 births
Living people
Guatemalan female swimmers
Olympic swimmers for Guatemala
Swimmers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Guatemala City
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razan
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Razan
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Razan () is a city in the Central District of Razan County, Hamadan province, Iran, serving as both capital of the district and of the county. It also serves as the administrative center for Razan Rural District.
At the 2006 National Census, its population was 11,390 in 2,871 households. The following census in 2011 counted 13,711 people in 3,650 households. The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 14,275 people in 4,082 households.
Language
Linguistic composition of the city.
References
Razan County
Cities in Hamadan Province
Populated places in Hamadan Province
Populated places in Razan County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajji%20Yar
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Hajji Yar
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Hajji Yar (, also Romanized as Ḩājjī Yār) is a village in Pain Velayat Rural District, in the Central District of Torbat-e Heydarieh County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 540, in 129 families.
References
Populated places in Torbat-e Heydarieh County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%20Lamar%20Lady%20Cardinals%20softball%20team
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2021 Lamar Lady Cardinals softball team
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The 2021 Lamar Lady Cardinals softball team represented Lamar University during the 2021 NCAA Division I softball season. The Lady Cardinals played their home games at Lamar Softball Complex and were led by third-year head coach Amy Hooks. They were members of the Southland Conference. Home game attendance for the 2021 season was limited to 119 per game due to COVID19 precautions.
Preseason
Southland Conference Coaches Poll
The Southland Conference Coaches Poll was released on February 5, 2021. Lamar was picked to finish eighth in the Southland Conference with 86 votes.
Preseason All-Southland team
No player from Lamar was chosen to the All-Southland Team
National Softball Signing Day
Roster
Coaching staff
Schedule and results
Schedule Source:
*Rankings are based on the team's current ranking in the NFCA/USA Softball poll.
References
Lamar
Lamar Lady Cardinals softball
Lamar Lady Cardinals softball
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20Miralles
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Marc Miralles
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Marc Miralles Portillo (born 14 November 1997) is a Spanish field hockey player who plays as a midfielder for Dutch Hoofdklasse club Bloemendaal and the Spain national team.
Club career
In the Spanish División de Honor, Miralles played for CD Terrassa until 2020. In June 2020 it was announced he would move to Real Club de Polo in Barcelona. After three years at Polo he left Spain to play for Bloemendaal in the Netherlands, where he signed a two-year contract.
International career
Under–21
In 2017, Miralles was a member of the Spanish under-21 team at the EuroHockey Junior Championship in Valencia. Spain finished in equal third place at the tournament, after sickness among the Spanish team forced the cancellation of the bronze medal match.
Senior national team
Miralles made his debut for Los Redsticks in 2018, during a test series against Wales in Terrassa. In 2021, Miralles made his first appearance at a major tournament, representing the team at the EuroHockey Championships in Amsterdam. Miralles was named as a co-captain of the team in 2022, when the squad for season three of the FIH Pro League was announced. He made his World Cup debut at the 2023 Men's FIH Hockey World Cup.
References
External links
1997 births
Living people
Male field hockey midfielders
Spanish male field hockey players
División de Honor de Hockey Hierba players
Real Club de Polo de Barcelona players
2023 Men's FIH Hockey World Cup players
HC Bloemendaal players
Men's Hoofdklasse Hockey players
21st-century Spanish people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Spanish expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
Expatriate field hockey players
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Central Batesville Historic District
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Central Batesville Historic District is a national historic district located at Batesville, Ripley County, Indiana. The district encompasses 44 contributing buildings and 3 contributing structures in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Batesville. The district developed between about 1852 and 1960 and includes notable examples of Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Classical Revival, and Streamline Moderne style architecture. Notable buildings include the a gas station (c. 1960), Hillenbrand Buildings (c. 1879–1940), Batesville Bank (c. 1895, 1910, 1922), Gibson Theatre (1921), Sherman House (1852), Batesville Memorial Building (1922-1923), German Methodist Church (1889), Boehringer Hall (1856), St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church (1897-1898), Baas-Nolte Building and House (1880), Batesville Post Office (1936-1937), and Batesville Telephone Building (c. 1955).
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.
References
External links
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana
Colonial Revival architecture in Indiana
Tudor Revival architecture in Indiana
Italianate architecture in Indiana
Queen Anne architecture in Indiana
Neoclassical architecture in Indiana
National Register of Historic Places in Ripley County, Indiana
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market%20in%20Honey%20Lane
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Market in Honey Lane
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Market in Honey Lane was an ATV British television weekly series, which switched to a twice weekly soap opera format (shown at varying times around the ITV regions) after the first year. It was broadcast between April 1967 and March 1969.
This cockney drama was set in an East London street market and covered the traders and customers. It was created by Louis Marks. According to www.lostshows.com 13 of the original 91 episodes are missing from the archives.
The main cast included:
John Bennett as Billy Bush
Michael Golden as Sam English
Ray Lonnen as Dave Sampson
Peter Birrel as Jacko Bennet
Brian Rawlinson as Danny Jessel
Pat Nye as Polly Jessel
Basil Henson as Seymour Darcy
Anna Wing also appeared. She would later find fame in the BBC soap EastEnders, which was also set in the East End of London. Market in Honey Lane was recorded at ATV Elstree, the same studio complex that is now home to EastEnders. Ray Lonnen would go on to star in another ATV soap, Crossroads, but in the Carlton Television produced Crossroads of 2001.
References
External links
British television soap operas
1967 British television series debuts
1969 British television series endings
1960s British television soap operas
Television shows set in London
ITV soap operas
Television series by ITV Studios
English-language television shows
Television shows produced by Associated Television (ATV)
Black-and-white British television shows
Television shows shot at ATV Elstree Studios
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Aloe reynoldsii
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Aloe reynoldsii is a species of plant in the Asphodelaceae family.
Description
Aloe reynoldsii is a succulent without a stem or with very short stems, with leaves gathered in a rosette. The leaves are bluish-green, elongated, fleshy, with a waxy texture, longitudinal lines and with numerous pale green spots and tiny whitish teeth on the margins. The inflorescences show numerous yellow tubular flowers, slightly swollen at the base. The flowering period occurs during September.
Aloe reynoldsii is often confused with its close relative, Aloe striata (the coral aloe), and they do look very similar. However Aloe reynoldsii has waxy, toothed leaf margins and yellow flowers, while the coral aloe has smooth leaf margins and red flowers.
Distribution and habitat
This species is endemic to South Africa. Here it is found naturally in the far east of the Eastern Cape Province, where it occurs on cliffs near the mouth of the Bashee River, in areas with a high humidity factor. It is listed as a vulnerable species.
See also
Asphodeloideae
Succulent plants
References
External links
Succulents
World Checklist of Selected Plant Families.
Flora africana
reynoldsii
Endemic flora of the Cape Provinces
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The Čertovy hlavy (English: The Devil Heads) are a pair of 9 metre high rock sculptures in the municipality of Želízy in the Central Bohemian Region of Czech Republic.
History and description
Čertovy hlavy were created by Václav Levý in 1841–1846. In terms of dimensions, it is a unique work in the Czech Republic. They are the second largest carved heads in the world, after the carvings of Mount Rushmore in the United States.
The sculptures have been damaged by time and weather. In 2011, the private owner had the surrounding pine forest cut down, allowing the heads to be seen from the I/9 road. Further sandstone reliefs can be found near the Čertovy hlavy, known as Harfenice ('Harpist') and Had ('Snake') reliefs.
Gallery
See also
Klácelka, a man-made cave near Čertovy hlavy
List of colossal sculptures in situ
References
Rock formations of the Czech Republic
Landmarks in the Czech Republic
Mělník District
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, also known as Love for Venus, is a shōjo manga by . The series revolves around the lives of a group of students at Koutou University in Hyōgo Prefecture and primarily around the relationships of the main characters, Suzuna Ashihara and Eichi Uozumi. The manga is published in English in Singapore by Chuang Yi as Love For Venus and in North America by CMX Manga as Venus in Love.
Characters
Names are in Western order, with the surname after the given name.
Major characters
Suzuna Ashihara
Suzuna is an 18-year-old freshman at Koutou University. She lives in apartment 206 of Apartment Shugesou, next door to Eichi Uozumi. She quickly becomes friends with Eichi and they become very close. Suzuna immediately develops a huge crush on Fukami after meeting him but this soon fades as her feelings for Eichi grow. Her birthday is September 10th.
Eichi Uozumi
Eichi lives next door to Suzuna, in apartment 207. He is the best friend of Fukami and has been since they met in high school. It is revealed late in the first volume that he has a crush on Fukami and thus becomes Suzuna's love rival. This doesn't seem to dampen their friendship in the least and his feelings for her gradually change into something more romantic. He plans to become an Archaeologist. His birthday is March 31st.
Yuki Ikeuchi
Yuki lives next door to both Suzuna and Eichi in apartment 205. He makes his first appearance towards the end of Vol. 3. His Green eyes give away his half Greek descent, which he uses when he models part-time. He quickly falls for Eichi which creates a bit of a competition between Suzuna and himself, until he realises that it is no longer Eichi he likes but Suzuna. His birthday is April 3rd.
Shinya Fukami
Fukami is the initial love interest for Suzuna and Eichi, as well as most of the female population, although he seems to be oblivious to this. He also attends Koutou University and is a first year majoring in English Literature. His birthday is June 19th.
Hinako Kaji
Hinako is the friend of Suzuna as well as Fukami and Eichi, whom she has known since high school when she had a crush on him, although her advance was flatly rejected. She is in love with Mr. Hokari, her Greek professor. Her birthday is August 5th.
Honoka Kashiwagi
Honoka is a second year student majoring in fashion design. She and Fukami meet on the train and run into each other several times after that, always in situations which are embarrassing for Fukami (usually involving him being drunk). After a few of these run ins they agree to go out and start a relationship. Her birthday is June 15th.
Minor characters
Satoru Ashihara
Satoru is the younger brother of Suzuna. He is 16.
Tomoki Uozumi
Tomoki is the younger brother of Eichi, who he resembles a great deal - even to the extent that upon first meeting with Suzuna she mistook him for Eichi and thought he dyed his hair black. Tomoki attends Koto Junior High and later gets accepted into a Beauty School. His birthday is May 5th.
Shizuka Uozumi
Shizuka is the older sister of Eichi and Tomoki. She was killed in an accident whilst on holiday in Hawaii. The nature of the accident is not explained in the manga. Her birthday is October 4th.
Kohei Kawauchi
Kohei is Suzuna's first neighbor on the right, in apartment 205. He is a huge fan of Miracle Mako, an anime character, whom he believes Suzuna resembles.
Manga
Published by Hakusensha in 1999, the series was translated into English by Chuang Yi as Love for Venus for Madman Entertainment and later by DC Comics under its CMX imprint.
References
Further reading
External links
1999 manga
Hakusensha manga
Shōjo manga
Romance anime and manga
CMX (comics) titles
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogate%20alcohol
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Surrogate alcohol
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Surrogate alcohol is a term for any substance containing ethanol that is intentionally consumed by humans but is not meant for human consumption. Some definitions of the term also extend to illegally produced alcoholic beverages.
Consumption of such substances carries extreme health risks, both from the ethanol content and other more toxic substances that may be present. Users risk both acute poisoning from substances such as methanol, and chronic poisoning from substances such as lead.
Most people turn to these as a last resort either out of desperation, being underaged or being unable to afford consumable alcoholic beverages (with homeless alcoholics) or due to lack of access to drinking ethanol (for example with prison inmates and individuals in psychiatric wards).
Common surrogate alcohols
Many alcoholic liquids contain alcohol but are not meant to be ingested in the same way as alcoholic beverages. Typical surrogate alcohols include:
Hand sanitizer
Mouthwash
Aftershave or cologne
Cooking wine
Cleaning fluids such as Windex
Extracts
Charcoal lighter fluid
Rubbing alcohol
Windshield washer fluid
Antifreeze
Denatured alcohol – ethanol rendered unfit to drink by mixing with methanol or bittering agents
Sterno
Moonshine and other homemade alcohols, including two or more of the above mixed together
Disinfectants
Liquid soap
Paint
Ethanol fuel
Dangers to health
Most surrogate alcohols have very high alcoholic levels, some as high as 95%, and thus can lead to alcohol poisoning, along with other symptoms of alcohol intoxication such as vertigo, impaired coordination, balance and judgment, nausea, vomiting, blurred vision, and even long-term effects such as heart failure, stroke, and death.
Besides alcohol, there are many other toxic substances in surrogate alcohol such as hydrogen peroxide, antiseptics, ketones, as well as alcohols other than ethanol (drinking alcohol) such as isopropanol and methanol. Methanol, and to a far lesser extent isopropanol, is poisonous. The effect of other chemicals on health has not been adequately studied, and so the health risks are unclear. However, observations in countries with high consumption of surrogate alcohols, such as Russia, indicate that the impurities in the consumed drink lead to high mortality rates.
In December 2016, 78 people died from drinking surrogate alcohol in the Russian city of Irkutsk.
See also
Harm reduction#Alcohol
Inhalant (marginalized individuals may also inhale gasoline or glue fumes)
List of methanol poisoning incidents
References
External links
Bio-medicine.org
Boozenews.ca
Alcohol and health
Imitation foods
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildur%20Sigur%C3%B0ard%C3%B3ttir
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Hildur Sigurðardóttir
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Hildur Sigurðardóttir (born 15 October 1981) is an Icelandic basketball coach and player. She is the former head coach of Úrvalsdeild kvenna club Breiðablik and an assistant coach to the Icelandic women's national basketball team. As a player she won the Icelandic championship five times and the Icelandic Basketball Cup three times. She was named the Úrvalsdeild Domestic Player of the Year four times and is the leagues all-time leader in assists She was the third player to reach 4000 points in the Úrvalsdeild kvenna. and remains second all-time in total rebounds in the league.
Playing career
Club career
After coming up through the junior ranks of Snæfell, Hildur started her senior career with ÍR in the Úrvalsdeild kvenna.
After the 2003-2004 season, Hildur was named the Domestic Player of the Year, the Defensive Player of the Year and to the Domestic All-First Team.
She played with Jämtland Basket during the 2004-2005 Damligan season.
After one season in Sweden, Hildur returned to the Úrvalsdeild and signed with Grindavík.
In 2011, Hildur rejoined her hometown team of Snæfell and helped propel them to the top of the league. She was named the Úrvalsdeild's best domestic player in both 2014 and 2015.
Hildur retired after the 2014-2015 season and a year later, in June 2016, she was hired as the head coach of Breiðablik. Due to rash of injuries on her Breiðablik squad, Hildur donned a uniform on 21 March 2018, against Njarðvík. In six minutes, she had two points and 4 assists in a 59-77 loss.
In 2022, Hildur returned to Snæfell, now in the second-tier 1. deild kvenna, in a limited role due to injuries on the squad. She appeared in two league games and one cup game.
National team career
Hildur is the most capped player in Icelandic women's national basketball team history, playing 79 games between 1999 and 2014.
Coaching career
Hildur was hired as the head coach of Breiðablik's women's team in June 2016. In her first season, she led the team to promotion to Úrvalsdeild kvenna.
In October 2017, Hildur was hired as an assistant coach to the Icelandic women's national basketball team.
In April 2018, Hildur resigned as the head coach of Breiðablik.
Personal life
Hildur is married to Bjarni Már Magnússon, a professor of law at Reykjavík University and former basketball player.
Awards, titles and accomplishments
Individual awards
Úrvalsdeild Domestic Player of the Year (4): 2003, 2004, 2014, 2015
Úrvalsdeild Domestic All-First Team (13): 2001-2004, 2006-2010, 2012–2015
Úrvalsdeild Playoffs MVP: 2014
Úrvalsdeild Defensive Player of the Year : 2004
Úrvalsdeild Young Player of the Year : 1999
Titles
Icelandic champion (5): 2001, 2002, 2010, 2014, 2015
Icelandic Basketball Cup (3): 2001, 2002, 2009
Icelandic Supercup (4): 1999, 2009, 2010, 2014
Icelandic Company Cup (3): 2000, 2009, 2012
Accomplishments
Úrvalsdeild assists leader (4): 2008, 2010, 2014, 2015
Úrvalsdeild all-time career assists leader
References
External links
Icelandic statistics 2008-present
1981 births
Living people
Hildur Sigurdardottir
Hildur Sigurdardottir
Hildur Sigurdardottir
Hildur Sigurdardottir
Hildur Sigurdardottir
Hildur Sigurdardottir
Hildur Sigurdardottir
Hildur Sigurdardottir
Hildur Sigurdardottir
Hildur Sigurdardottir
Hildur Sigurdardottir
Hildur Sigurdardottir
Point guards
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right%20of%20Option
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Right of Option
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In Catholic canon law, Right of Option is a way of obtaining a benefice or a title, by the choice of the new titulary himself.
History
Many chapters enjoyed this right formerly and it is still the privilege of some: the canon, who has held his office for the longest time may, in conformity with the statutory regulation, resign the prebend he enjoys to accept another that has become vacant.
A second right of option existed in France before 1789: by virtue of a custom a prebendary, who was appointed to and had entered into possession of a benefice incompatible with one he already held, was entitled to select whichever of the two he preferred, when, according to the common law, he had already lost the incompatible benefice which he had previously held. The right of option still exists with regard to cardinalitial titles.
Derivations in public law
In this way the Catholic canon law first established an "incompatibility", giving life to the prohibition of the simultaneous possession of two ecclesiastical benefices. Since this sanction forward, also public law enshrined the same solution in order to prevent the conflict of interests (for example between electoral mandates or different public offices) in a way less drastic than an ineligibility or a disfranchisement.
References
Attribution
History of the Catholic Church
Legal ethics
Conflict of interest
Conflict of interest mitigation
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Gold Guns Girls
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"Gold Guns Girls" is the fourth single from Canadian rock group Metric's fourth studio album Fantasies. The lyrics were inspired by the 1983 movie, Scarface. The song was released in the UK and US for radio airplay in December 2009 and as a download single in the UK on April 25, 2010. Metric also released an acoustic version of the song on their EP Plug In Plug Out.
Background
Singer Emily Haines said, "When Jimmy sent me this song as a rough sketch I listened to it over and over while watching Scarface, dreaming up ideas. The lyrics I wrote look at greed in all its forms, and the fact that we seem programmed to be insatiable. If we could do a million dollar video for this song it would be a remake of that montage scene from Scarface - including the tiger!"
Reception
The single was met with positive reviews. David Renshaw of Drowned in Sound said the song "is a ferocious battle anthem which sees rapid fire vocals interspersed with a machine gun like guitar which strikes through the song like a knife through butter." Tim Sendra of AllMusic called the song "laser beam-tight" and said it "should be blasting out of car radios on summer streets".
Promotion and release
The song was the opening and ending theme for the 2009 animated feature film Totally Spies! The Movie, the 2009 live-action film Zombieland and the 2023 animated feature film Nimona. It was also featured in the football video game by EA Sports, FIFA 10 and Test Drive Unlimited 2.
A remix by Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park appears on the Download to Donate for Haiti album, and was included in the Expanded Edition of Fantasies.
A single was released in the UK with the B-side listed as "Sick Muse" (Adam Freeland Remix), however, the song presented was "Gimme Sympathy".
A live version was recorded at KCRW radio station in 2009 featuring a guitar solo by guitarist James Shaw. Preferred by fans, this is the rendition most commonly performed live in concert.
Music video
The music video for "Gold Guns Girls" was shot by Eady Bros and Metric. It is presented in black-and-white film, and features the band racing around snowy New York City streets. Every so often, a band member will stop at an instrument on the sidewalk and play it (Haines would stop at a mic and sing).
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
External links
2009 singles
Metric (band) songs
Songs written by Emily Haines
Song recordings produced by Gavin Brown (musician)
2009 songs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap%20Confronting%20Conflict
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Leap Confronting Conflict
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Established in 1987 by British Quaker Alec Davison,[1] Leap Confronting Conflict is a UK-Based charity delivering training to young people aged 11–25, and the professionals working with them, to manage the conflict they experience in their lives and reduce violence in our communities.
History
LEAP Confronting Conflict originally started in 1985 as a theatre project by The Leaveners, a Quaker arts charity, before developing into an independent organisation in 1999. LEAP ('Leaveners Experiments in Arts for Peace') initiated work with unemployed and homeless young people to help them deal with conflict through theatre projects in schools and prisons. In 1987 LEAP received support of the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and the Quaker Peace Committee; in the following year the charity received three years of funding from the Department for Education and Science. Published in 1992, Leap’s first training manual entitled “Playing with Fire” sold out and was subsequently published by the New Society Press in the United States of America. This was followed by a handbook for young people entitled Fireworks! in 1993
In 1999, Leap Confronting Conflict became an independent registered charity and launched the Young Mediators Network (YMN) whilst Leap’s Quarrel Shop became the first Leap project to gain formal OCN accreditation. 2002 saw Leap expand their outreach to Glasgow as they launched their first gang project in the city. The organisation’s conference “Gangs! What Gangs?” delivered in 2003 was marked by a major piece in The Guardian.
The Institute for Public Policy Research recommended Leap’s work in educational institutions in 2006 as Leap published it manual, “Working with Gangs and Young People”. The following year saw the charities expansion as Leap recruited regional staff in Yorkshire and the South West following which the Department for Children, School and families awarded the charity Pathfinder status
At the 2009 Charity Awards, Leap had the honour of being the Overall winner as well as winning the Children and Youth Category.
In 2012 Leap won a National Partners Award from the National Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS) for involving young people in the planning and decision making processes of their work.
In 2013 Leap launched the first Lighting the Fire – The Leap Annual Excellence awards to recognise the achievements of young people and professionals managing conflict in our communities. Leap were also runners up for Britain's Most Innovative Charity in the Third Sector Britain's Most Admired Charity Awards.
Activities and Programs
Leap has innovated many programs in conflict resolution which include Peerlink, a national peer mediation and youth conflict resolution network and support project; Quarrel Shop, a training course for 16- to 21-year-olds in peer mediation and conflict resolution and Working with Gangs, a course based on training and research in the area of gangs and territorialism in communities around the UK.
Leap has developed programmes as part of partnerships with domestic abuse charity SafeLives and the Addressing Sexual Bullying Across Europe (ASBAE) project around sexual violence and sexual bullying.
References
External links
Leap Confronting Conflict web site
BBC - Lifeline Documentary
Youth charities based in the United Kingdom
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Sound of Love
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Sound of Love is a live album by jazz drummer Paul Motian recorded at the Village Vanguard in 1995 and on the Winter & Winter label in 1997. It features Motian in his longtime trio with guitarist Bill Frisell and tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano.
Reception
The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected this album as part of its suggested Core Collection.
The AllMusic review by Stephen Cook awarded the album 4½ stars, calling it "a stellar set of jazz covers and Motian originals" and stating: "As the premium sound quality of the recording makes clear, this trio had an almost telepathic rapport on stage, inspiring each other in both ensemble playing and solo flights. This kind of hand-in-glove chemistry is certainly due in part to the group's many stints on the road, but also comes from the individual player's styles".
Track listing
All compositions by Paul Motian except as indicated
"Misterioso" (Thelonious Monk) - 13:24
"Duke Ellington's Sound of Love" (Charles Mingus) - 9:09
"Mumbo Jumbo" - 7:29
"Once Around the Park" - 6:48
"Good Morning Heartache" (Irene Higginbotham, Ervin Drake, Dan Fisher) - 8:48
"Epistrophy" (Kenny Clarke, Monk) - 7:10
"Play" - 6:08
Recorded at the Village Vanguard in New York City on June 7–10, 1995
Personnel
Paul Motian - drums
Bill Frisell - electric guitar
Joe Lovano - tenor saxophone
References
1997 live albums
Paul Motian live albums
Winter & Winter Records albums
Albums recorded at the Village Vanguard
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OneMK
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OneMK (formerly MK News) was a local weekly free newspaper and online news service, based in Milton Keynes.
MK News launched in August 2002 and was delivered to homes across the Milton Keynes urban area and to commuters at Milton Keynes Central railway station.
It re-branded itself to OneMK in early 2016 before its owners, Trinity Mirror, closed the publication in October 2016.
The paper was delivered on Wednesdays (competing with the Milton Keynes Citizen, which is distributed free on Thursdays). The newspaper claimed an audited adult readership of 130,000.
OneMK online
OneMK.co.uk (formerly MKWeb) was the website counterpart to OneMK, the newspaper. Articles that appeared in the paper also appeared online at onemk.co.uk, along with extra daily news reports that may not have featured in the weekly newspapers.
Ownership
OneMK was 'published and originated by a division of Local World.
In 2012, Local World acquired MK News owner Iliffe News and Media from Yattendon Group.
In November 2016, Local World became part of Trinity Mirror.
References
Newspapers published in Buckinghamshire
Milton Keynes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skoku%C4%87e
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Skokuće
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Skokuće is a village in the municipality of Prijepolje, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 105 people.
References
Populated places in Zlatibor District
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1765%20Rochester%20by-election
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1765 Rochester by-election
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The 1765 Rochester by-election was a parliamentary by-election held in England on 23 December 1765 for the House of Commons constituency of Rochester in Kent. It was caused by the death of sitting MP Admiral Isaac Townsend and won by the Tory candidate Grey Cooper.
John Calcraft stood on the independent interest but was narrowly defeated by the government candidate Grey Cooper; Rochester was generally considered to be a safe government borough, and a less wealthy candidate would have had no chance. At the next General Election Calcraft secured government support for his second candidacy at Rochester, where he was duly elected.
References
By-elections in England
By-elections to the Parliament of Great Britain
Elections in Kent
1765 in England
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency%20Management%20Queensland
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Emergency Management Queensland
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Emergency Management Queensland was the emergency division of the Department of Community Safety. The Queensland Fire and Rescue Service also belonged to the department. It aimed to plan and prepare for disasters as well as rescue and protect persons, property and the environment from disaster and emergency. Jack Dempsey, Minister for Police and Community Safety was responsible for the division.
Functions
Emergency Management Queensland was responsible for disaster preparedness, disaster awareness and the coordination of various rescue, response and recovery services in the state. The division provided support to the State Emergency Service in Queensland, worked closely with the Bureau of Meteorology and coordinated volunteers for disaster clean-up operations. It also provided an air ambulance service called EMQ Helicopter Rescue.
The division had two Bell 412 utility helicopters and three AW139 twin-engined helicopters with one each based in Cairns, Townsville and Brisbane. All three AW139s were grounded after the same model aircraft crashed in China and Brazil in August 2011. Prior to this grounding the helicopters experienced tail and rotor problems and were the subject of criticism over their expense from supporters of other rescue helicopters, which means two of EMQs Bell 412s were used for medivacs during the AW139 grounding. The other rescue helicopters operating in Queensland are RACQ LifeFlight with 14 government funded helicopters, RACQ CQ Rescue, RACQ Capricorn Helicopter Rescue, RACQ NQ Rescue and the Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter Service.
Operations
Emergency Management Queensland may assist communities experiencing threats from floods, cyclones, storm surge, severe storms, landslides, heatwaves and bushfires and to a lesser extent earthquakes and tsunamis.
EMQ managed Operation Yasi Assist, a multi-service activity by the Australian Defence Force as a contribution to the response to Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi. The EMQ together with Surf Life Saving Queensland established rescue coordination centres in Brisbane to provide emergency assistance to residents who were affected by the 2010–11 Queensland floods.
See also
AFCOM
Emergency medical services in Australia
Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council
References
External links
Emergency services in Queensland
Defunct government agencies of Queensland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%20Asian%20Shotgun%20Championships
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2017 Asian Shotgun Championships
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The 2017 Asian Shotgun Championships were held in Astana, Kazakhstan between August 3 and 14, 2017.
Medal summary
Men
Women
Mixed
Medal table
References
ISSF Results Overview
Complete Results
External links
Asian Shooting Federation
Asian Shooting Championships
Asian
Shooting
Sport in Astana
2017 in Kazakhstani sport
August 2017 sports events in Kazakhstan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callawapore
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Callawapore
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Callawapore was a type of calico manufactured in Madras, India. It was produced in blue and white colors. Piece goods of various qualities and dimensions were produced in and around Madras. Callawapore was one of the materials exported to England in the nineteenth century.
See also
Punjum
Salampore
References
Woven fabrics
Textile arts of India
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain%20Bluff%20Township%2C%20Jackson%20County%2C%20Illinois
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Fountain Bluff Township, Jackson County, Illinois
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Fountain Bluff Township is one of sixteen townships in Jackson County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 208 and it contained 110 housing units.
Geography
According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of which (or 96.21%) is land and (or 3.79%) is water.
Unincorporated towns
Jacob at
Neunert at
Raddle at
(This list is based on USGS data and may include former settlements.)
Adjacent townships
Kinkaid Township (north)
Levan Township (northeast)
Sand Ridge Township (east)
Grand Tower Township (southeast)
Degognia Township (northwest)
Gorham
Cemeteries
The township contains
Neunert Cemetery.
Goodbread Cemetery.
Boone Cemetery.
Major highways
Illinois Route 3
Demographics
School districts
Murphysboro Community Unit School District 186
Trico Community Unit School District 176
Political districts
Illinois' 12th congressional district
State House District 115
State Senate District 58
References
United States Census Bureau 2007 TIGER/Line Shapefiles
United States National Atlas
External links
City-Data.com
Illinois State Archives
Townships in Jackson County, Illinois
Townships in Illinois
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jezreel%20Valley%20railway
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Jezreel Valley railway
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The Jezreel Valley railway, or the Valley Train (, Rakevet HaEmek ; ) was a railroad that existed in Ottoman and British Palestine, reconstituted as a modern railway in Israel in the 21st century. It runs from the Mediterranean coast inland along the length of the Jezreel Valley. The historical line was a segment of the longer Haifa–Dera'a Line, which was itself a branch of the larger Hejaz railway.
The historical Haifa–Dera'a line was built at the beginning of the 20th century and connected the Port of Haifa with the main part of the Hejaz railway, the Damascus–Medina line. Like the entire Hejaz railway, it was a narrow gauge line. The last stop of the Haifa–Dera'a line within the Mandate Palestine borders was at al-Hamma, today Hamat Gader. Planning and construction took four years. The railway was inaugurated on October 15, 1905, and regular services operated on it until 1948.
Despite several renewal attempts, the line lay dismantled for decades until 2011 when construction started on a large-scale project to build a new railway from Haifa to Beit She'an along roughly the same route as the historic valley railway. Israel Railways began passenger service on the new valley railway on October 16, 2016.
Historic railway
History
Early plans
In the 1860s the deputy British consul in Haifa, Thomas B. Sandwit, proposed the construction of a railway from the city to Baghdad, through the Jezreel Valley, with a possible extension to Damascus. Sandwit sought to create a continuous railway link between British India and Palestine in order to increase British influence in the area, which was under Ottoman rule.
In 1865, Dr. Charles Franz Zimfel, a German-American doctor, engineer, follower of John Wroe and Zionist, proposed the creation of a railway from Jaffa to Jerusalem, which would continue to Jericho and end in Damascus, with an extension to Haifa through the Jezreel Valley (see Jezreel Valley railway). Zimfel surveyed the territory and became one of the first railway planners in Palestine.
Claude R. Conder, in his extensive Survey of Western Palestine, proposed the construction of a railway from Haifa to the Fertile Crescent. His plans constituted the basis for the actual construction years later.
Sir Laurence Oliphant of Britain, who hoped to facilitate Jewish settlement in the Gilead, proposed the creation of a railway from Haifa to that region, which would then branch out to Aqaba in the south, and Damascus in the north. From Aqaba, he hoped to further extend the railway to the Suez Canal. In his visit to Palestine in 1883, Oliphant changed his plans to what later became the valley railway.
Financing
In 1882, a group headed by the aristocratic Sursock family attained a permit for the construction of a railway in the Jezreel Valley. The family sought to build a railway there to raise land value around the line, which was mostly family-owned, and to enable the cheap transport of goods from the Hauran, also owned by the family, to the Mediterranean Sea for export.
On May 16, 1883, Sir Laurence Oliphant wrote in the New York Sun that he had met with Mr. Sursock regarding the construction of a railway in the Jezreel Valley, and claimed that he could see surveying work as he wrote, from his home in Daliyat al-Karmel. Oliphant founded a company along with Gottlieb Schumacher, one of the founders of the German Colony of Haifa, and Georg Agger of Jaffa, which would find investors for attaining a construction permit from the Sursock family, and the construction itself.
On June 13, 1883, early surveying work was completed and Oliphant began to look for investors, both in Britain and Germany. In a letter he wrote to the Duke of Sutherland, Oliphant claimed that the construction of the line was extremely important both politically and economically, that it would eventually serve as the connection between Asia Minor, the Fertile Crescent, and Egypt, and expressed fear that the line would be under sole German ownership. Oliphant and his peers advertised the line as extremely profitable for investors, estimating the gain at 34%, and promising additional permits to construct additional extensions, a modern port in Haifa or Acre, and a shipping company. For that purpose, Oliphant purchased additional lands on Haifa's coast, and in the Megiddo area.
Despite these efforts, the plans failed—the British government, the only one interested in the project, sent the Duke of Sutherland to inspect it, who refused to help sponsor the project. The Lebanese families headed by Sursock, who wished to build the railway for their personal needs, also failed to raise the necessary funds. At the end of 1884, the Sursocks' permit expired, and the 50,000 francs deposited by Oliphant's company to the Sultan Abdul Hamid II were also lost.
Syria Ottoman Railway Company
On May 13, 1890, the Ottoman authorities gave a permit to build a railway line from Haifa to Damascus to the public servant Shukri Bey and a Christian Lebanese engineer and effendi named Yusuf Elias, both of whom worked for the Ottoman government. The line was meant to go from Acre to Damascus with spurs to Haifa and Bosra. Elias did not have the ability to gather the funds necessary for such a project, and it was agreed that he would buy out Shukri's share and sell the rights to John Robert Pilling, a British entrepreneur. Pilling quickly founded an investment company, which was listed in the London Stock Exchange as the S.O.R. Ltd.—Syria Ottoman Railway Limited.
The S.O.R. based its plans on the original surveying work done in the area, and after a financial re-evaluation, the planned terminus was changed to Haifa, which had a modern deep-water seaport, compared to Acre's old shallow one. The planned length of the line, from Haifa to Damascus via the Golan Heights, with two extensions, was . Twenty-seven stations were planned. On December 12, 1892, the contractor George Pauling started work on the line, after an inaugural ceremony.
Work on the line was opposed by the Chémin de Fer Damas–Hama et Prolongements (DHP), a standard gauge railway that carried freight between Damascus and Hama. The DHP did everything in its power to prevent the construction of the line in order to avoid competition. At the same time, the DHP petitioned the Ottoman government for its own permit to build a railway from Beirut to the Hauran via Damascus, eventually attaining it.
The French began building their line quickly, and finished construction in 1895, while the British worked slowly. At the time of the Beirut–Damascus line's inception, Pilling's company only managed to build a special port in Haifa to aid in the line's construction. Eight kilometers of standard gauge railroad were laid, between Haifa and Yagur, and a 20 km dike was created for the next stage of construction. Due to the competition from the French railway in Beirut, the port of Haifa became less attractive to international traders and that, coupled with strife within the Syria Ottoman Railway Company, caused Pilling to go bankrupt and lose the permit for the railway.
The construction permits were given to another British company, and another ceremony was held announcing the resumption of works in March 1895. The new British contractor, Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, restored the Jezreel dike and construction resumed. However, in 1900, the Ottomans began building the Hejaz railway, and saw the opportunity to convert the future Haifa–Damascus line to an extension thereof. In addition, because of financial disputes between the Ottoman authorities and DHP, and DHP's delaying of transporting construction materials for the Haifa line through their own railways, the Ottomans wanted to have their own railway line to the Mediterranean. In 1902, the Ottoman authorities revoked S.O.R.'s permit for a compensation of 155,000 Turkish lira.
While Sultan Abdul Hamid II's original plans for the Hejaz railway did not include an extension to Haifa, the construction of such an extension was logical in order to assert Ottoman control over the section between the Hauran and the Mediterranean Sea, and to compete against the French-owned Beirut–Damascus railway. German engineer Heinrich August Meissner who oversaw the construction of the Hejaz railway, considered the planned section immediately south of Damascus (Damascus–Muzeirib) to be useless, because of the French railway using the same route. After failing to acquire the French railway lines, Meissner signed a deal with the French that would allow a 45% discount in transporting equipment from Damascus to Muzeirib necessary to continue building the Ottoman Hejaz railway to the south.
Despite this, the French constituted a monopoly on the railway lines of the area, and canceled the discount. Their trains were also not equipped to cross the sections of railway covered by snow in Lebanon. Several months later, Meissner reconsidered, and decided to construct his own railway line between Damascus and the Hauran, close to the French line. On September 1, 1902, the Damascus–Daraa line was completed, and turned the Hauran from a remote near-inaccessible location into a transportation center with two railway connections.
Upon the initiation of the Damascus–Daraa line, Meissner realized that it was still very difficult to transport raw materials to Daraa for the construction of the rest of the Hejaz railway, as most of the materials came with ships via the Mediterranean. Meissner decided in 1902 that there was no choice but to build an extension connecting the new railway to a Mediterranean port nearby. Haifa was chosen for its already developed port, and because surveying, planning and some construction work for a railroad had already been done on the proposed route.
Construction
Construction plans for the valley train were based on the earlier British plans. Originally, the line was meant to climb the Golan Heights next to the Samakh Stream, although later it was decided that the Yarmouk River would make a better route. In 1902, the Ottomans revoked the construction permit of the British company S.O.R., compensated them, and immediately started construction. The first phase was to narrow the gauge to the Ottoman standard in the 9 km already built by S.O.R.
In 1903, track laying began between Haifa and Daraa. The biggest challenge was the construction east of Samakh (Samakh–Daraa). The length of this section was 73 km and the height difference was 529 m. Eight tunnels were dug for the section, totalling a length of 1,100 m and 329 bridges and aqueducts. These difficulties raised the price of the Haifa extension by tens of percents. A meter on the Damascus–Daraa section had an average cost of 2,070 Turkish liras, while a meter on the Daraa–Haifa line cost 3,480 liras.
The line was finally opened with 5 stations in January 1904, between Haifa and Beysan. On October 15, 1905, the entire Haifa–Daraa section opened, with 8 stations within Ottoman Palestine. On the opening ceremony, when the first train left Haifa for Damascus, a monument for Abdul Hamid II was unveiled in Haifa, which stands to this day. The monument was built in Turkey at least two years before this ceremony, and was brought to Palestine by sea.
Under Ottoman rule
With the construction of the valley train, it served mainly for delivering construction materials from the Haifa port for the continuing work on the main Hejaz railway line. The Hejaz railway was built for ideological, religious, and to a lesser extent military needs, and the Ottoman authorities initially underutilized its potential as a commercial venue. Over the years however, the potential was realized and the Jezreel valley line quickly became a major competitor to the French Beirut-Damascus line for transferring products from the Hauran to the Mediterranean.
Prices dropped quickly both for passenger tickets and freight transfer. However, the Ottomans were able to lower the prices more because they did not have to pay dividends and did not require as high a profit. This caused the valley line to become favorite among exporters in the Hauran, to the point that many of them preferred to send their goods through the valley line to Haifa and ship them to Beirut, rather than send them directly to Beirut over the French railway.
The valley line quickly became the most profitable section of the Hejaz railway, and passenger traffic consequently increased as well. More trains were put into service on the line, and new technologies were utilized to shorten travel times. The railway was able to connect those locations to Haifa that were physically close, but had no road connection. The only usable roads at the time for horse-drawn carriages were Haifa–Nazareth, Haifa–Akka and Nazareth–Afula–Jenin, which left out places with high growth potential like Beisan and Tiberias.
Tiberias, which was previously completely isolated in terms of transportation, being several days' travel from Haifa, was now served by the Samakh station, which employed an ad hoc ferry that travelled a short distance in the Sea of Galilee. After World War I, a road connection was also made between Samakh and Tiberias, cutting travel time from Haifa to a few hours.
The railway also had tourist potential. In 1906, Thomas Cook & Son travel agency advertised trips to the Holy Land utilizing the valley line. A notable package was a trip using the valley line from Haifa to Samakh, where the tourists would take a steam boat to Tiberias via the Sea of Galilee and explore the Christian holy sites around the lake. When the line became popular with tourists, the travel conditions were improved in order to make a good first impression to dignitaries and aristocrats from all over Europe. In 1912, first and second class cars were introduced.
The increase in train frequency and lack of proper inspection led to numerous railway disasters. On July 7, 1909, for example, a train leaving Haifa crashed into a train travelling from Damascus due to an error on the telegraphist's part. The driver of the Haifa–Tiberias train was killed.
Following the Haifa extension's crucial success and high demand, 12 stations were added to the line's 8 original in the first few years. In addition, Meissner began planning and construction additional extensions in Palestine and outside of it. The first was completed in 1912 and travelled from Daraa to Bosra in Syria, on a new 33 km route. In the end of 1912, an extension to Acre was completed from the Balad al-Sheikh station, totalling 17.8 km.
The most important extension was a connection between Afula and Jerusalem. Its construction started in 1912, and the first 17 km section was completed at the beginning of 1913, connecting Afula with Jenin. Meissner's full plan never bore fruit however, because of the French government's extreme pressure on the Ottoman government to cancel the project, which would compete with the French-owned Jaffa–Jerusalem railway. By 1914, only 40 km were built from Afula, and the line terminated near the village Silat ad-Dhahr (Sileh). During World War I, the southward connection became essential for supplying the troops in the Sinai Peninsula, so from January 1915, the construction continued, reaching Nablus in the spring of 1915. At this point, the original plan for a southward line to Jerusalem was no longer relevant, and instead, from a junction at Mas'udiya near Sebastia the construction continued westward to Tulkarm and from there southward, reaching Lydda in the summer of 1915, and Beersheba in October 1915. In the same year, the existing railway between Lydda and Jerusalem was converted from metre gauge to 1,050 mm gauge, to enable interoperation with the new Afula–Beersheba railway. Its section between Tulkarm and Lydda became known as the Eastern Railway and remained in active use until 1969, even though the rest of the Afula–Nablus–Tulkarm branch line ceased operation in the 1930s.
Many more minor extensions were built, both under Ottoman and British rule, mostly close to Haifa, and served mainly industrial and military needs.
World War I
Due to the severe lack of modern infrastructure in the Middle East during the war, the few railways in the region were of vital strategic importance to the Ottomans. The valley train, as well as the entire Hejaz line, was quickly taken over by the army and civilian use was reduced to a bare minimum. The Hejaz railway's headquarters were moved to Haifa, closer to the front, and military engineers were placed in command of each of the 3 main Hejaz sections:
Daraa–Medina—a German engineer named Cooper
Samakh–Daraa–Damascus—a Jewish engineer named Y. Musheli
Haifa–Samakh—a Jewish engineer named Baruch Katinka
Britain's forces besieged the Ottoman Empire's Mediterranean ports, which led to a lack of basic provisions and maintenance supplies needed to keep the railway working. The lack of coal rendered most steam locomotives inoperable. Attempts were made to mine coal in Lebanon, but the inferior coal there caused damage to the trains. Eventually it was decided to use charcoal, and extensive logging operations were set up by the Ottomans to keep up the demand. More extensions to the line were built as a result, for the efficient transport of wood—one from Tulkarm to the forest of Hadera, and another to the Menashe Heights on the slopes of Mount Carmel near Umm al-Fahm. As these operations went on, the number of natural forests in Palestine dwindled, and the authorities ordered the cutting down of every tenth fruit-bearing tree to support the war effort.
In the late Ottoman period a railway station was established near Iraq al-Manshiyya, however, this station was destroyed in World War I.
In spring 1918, the tide was turned against the Ottomans when British forces were able to take control of some key points on the railway along the Yarmouk River, and cut off the Haifa extension from the rest of the Hejaz railway. When defeated in September 1918, the Turks quickly destroyed any railway infrastructure and rolling stock they could, so that it would not fall into British hands. By the end of the war, the British controlled all of the Jezreel Valley railway.
British Mandate
On October 1, 1920, the British company Palestine Railways (P.R.) was founded, which oversaw all the railways within the British Mandate of Palestine. It was a commercial company, but answered to the British High Commissioner in the mandate. The Hejaz railway's ownership was transferred by the Turks to the Waqf, out of fear of a French takeover (the French petitioned the International Court of Justice for this purpose).
After the division of the Ottoman Empire into League of Nations mandates, causing the Hejaz railway to be split between British and French rule, it was agreed that the Samakh/Tzemah station would denote the railway border between the British and French mandates, even though the more isolated al-Hamma station was physically also under British control.
The rolling stock left by the Ottomans was divided between the British and French, who had no intention of producing new rolling stock fit for the Ottoman narrow gauge railways. The only trains produced by the British for this railway were two multiple units from Sentinel Waggon Works and Cammell Laird, imported in 1929.
The frequency of trains increased again during British rule, to two daily trains from Haifa to Samakh (one of which continued to Damascus), three daily trains on the Acre extension (Balad al-Sheikh–Acre), and one weekly train from Haifa to Nablus, via Afula. During World War II, the frequency reached its peak, at 6 daily trains from Haifa to Samakh and back. The tourist packages were also improved, now also including flights on Imperial Airways aircraft, which could land in the Sea of Galilee.
Post-World War II
After the perceived British betrayal of Jewish interests after World War II, leaders of various Jewish underground organizations in Mandate Palestine founded The Jewish Resistance Movement. One of the resistance's first operations was the Night of the Trains (November 1, 1945), in which 153 points along various railways were damaged. The main damage to the valley line at a railway switch near the Afula station. Rehavam Ze'evi participated in this bombing. In June 1946, as part of the Night of the Bridges, the Palmach blew up one of the main bridges on the valley line, between Samakh and al-Hamma, which was 130 meters in length. As a result, the Jezreel Valley railway was cut off from the rest of the Hejaz line.
Closure
On March 2, 1948, Haganah forces carried out bombing raids on railways in Mandate Palestine to disable them and prevent the quick transport of supplies and personnel by the Arab armies about to invade the Yishuv. The raid on a bridge near Geva, on the 44th km of the line, shut it down completely.
The next major hit came on the eve of the Israeli declaration of independence, May 14, 1948, when Jewish forces destroyed a bridge on the Jordan River, next to Gesher. The original plan was to destroy two road bridges but the soldiers spotted the railway bridge and decided to blow it up as well.
The railroad was thus rendered inoperable, and what remained of it was transferred to Israel Railways upon the company's founding. The company made minor repairs along the line, which allowed trains to travel between Haifa and Afula. Service on the new shortened line was terminated in 1949. Two main reasons were the lack of financial feasibility, and the non-standard narrow gauge of the railway. In 1950-51, the line was used occasionally for tourism. Its last use was registered in September 1951, for training exercises by the Israel Defense Forces. In 1954, the rolling stock was dismantled and sold. An old steam locomotive and a single train car were the only remains, and are displayed at the Israel Railway Museum. A short section of the railway from the Haifa East rail yard to Nesher continued operating past 1951, having been converted by the British in the 1920s to dual gauge in order to allow standard gauge equipment to reach the Nesher cement factory, although this section too was eventually abandoned in the 1990s.
Freight service on the branch line between Tulkarm and Nablus, stopped during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, recommenced in November 1944, the principal traffic being cereals from the ports to the mills at Nablus; the service was ultimately cancelled in July 1946 due to lack of demand. Following the Jordanian annexation of the West Bank in 1948, the branch line got severed from both the Eastern Railway and the Jezreel Valley railway main line, so it could no longer be operated and was dismantled. After dismantling, two segments of the branch line were paved, and remain in use as rural roads: between Bizzariya and Ramin, and from Shavei Shomron passing north of Zawata to a junction with road 5715. The disused railway station in Jenin was demolished during Operation Defensive Shield in 2002.
The remains of the railway station at Mas'udiya, originally the three-way junction on the Afula–Nablus–Tulkarm branch line, was the location chosen by Gush Emunim for the first Israeli settlement in Samaria. Evicted from Mas'udiya by the Israel Defense Forces several times between July 1974 and December 1975, and each time reassembling at the former railway station, the activists were eventually allowed to settle 8 km to the south of it, establishing Kedumim.
Impact
The Jezreel Valley railway was highly profitable and became the most worthwhile project of the Hejaz railway. Previously isolated localities such as Afula, Tiberias and Beit She'an began to develop and tourism increased in Tiberias, the Jordan River, and the rest of the Sea of Galilee area. The railway also connected the Hauran to the Mediterranean Sea, turning it into a major export hub.
The British Mandatory authorities took a different approach to the railway system in their first years of rule. They were mainly interested in assets that helped strengthen their colonial hold on the region. Few funds were allocated for proper maintenance, and unlike other railroads in Palestine, the valley railway was not converted to standard gauge. It therefore slowly became underserviced and obsolete. Nevertheless, due to the use of coal, which was imported from Britain, certain British companies supported the line's continued operation.
In the 1920s, the railway's main purpose became the transport of raw materials for construction. The first power station in Palestine, a hydroplant built in Naharayim by Pinhas Rutenberg, was mainly built from materials transported by trains using the valley railway. For that purpose, a minor extension was constructed from the main route to the construction site. In 1932, the railway was used to transport the concrete needed to build the Mosul-Haifa oil pipeline—38,000 tons of concrete were transported and laid on a 200 km route.
The Jewish sector in Mandate Palestine was the other main user of the railway, which allowed it to build new villages in relatively remote areas in the Jezreel Valley. The Jewish Tower and stockade organization extensively used the line to quickly bring vast amounts of construction materials to various sites to quickly establish new homes. This prompted the quick growth of the Jewish population in the area, which also used the railway as a passenger line.
The kibbutzim in the area also used the railway to their economic advantage. In 1922, Deganya asked for a special wagon to transport its dairy products to Haifa in the late night hours. Permission was granted, and gave Deganya and other kibbutzim access to other parts of the country and the world for export.
Security
As the Jezreel Valley railway became more important, it became a lucrative target for criminal and terrorist gangs in the area. Initially, attacks were mostly limited to raids by Bedouin gangs, and were comparatively a minor nuisance. However, with the outbreak of the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, organized attacks and bombings began taking place, severely disrupting operations on the valley line, as well as other lines in Mandate Palestine.
A few months after the outbreak of hostilities, the Notrim police organization was founded, and hundreds of Jewish youth were recruited. In 1938, a regiment of the organization was diverted to protecting the railways of Palestine, known as the P.P.R.D. (Palestine Police Railway Department), or simply the Railway Guard (Mishmar HaRakevet)/Railway Corps (Heil HaRakevet) in Hebrew. The guard consisted of over 700 Jewish policemen who underwent special training in the Haganah.
The first line protected by the guard was the Lod–Haifa line, which suffered the most, although other lines were integrated later, including the valley line. The policemen erected watchtowers and conducted frequent patrols in search of the guerillas. Two designated armored train cars were built for the guard by the Ford Motor Company, which could move faster than conventional trains, and in both directions. The Railway Guard sometimes took with them prominent Arab leaders on the patrols, in order to insure that the policemen were not harmed by the Arab gangs.
The Railway Guard's success prompted their stationing in other strategic locations, such as the Haifa Port. They continued serving in that capacity even during World War II, when the valley railway was fully operational and supported the British war effort.
Historical stations
There were 8 stations in the original line and numerous stations were added later. The stations are listed from west to east.
Haifa Station
The first Haifa Railway Station was the western terminus of the line. The cornerstone for its construction was laid on July 16, 1905, just one day before the inception of the new railroad. The main building was inaugurated in 1908; its architectural style was similar to that of railway stations in southern Germany at the time, including also some Ottoman elements. It used to be regarded as the most impressive building of pre-World War I Haifa. Next to it a monument to Sultan Abdul Hamid II was erected, designed by the sultan's chief palace architect, the Italian Raimondo Tommaso D'Aronco. The Haifa station was the only railway station in the world serving the lines of 3 continents—Africa and Europe (by the coastal railway), and Asia (by the Hejaz railway). This station lost some of its importance in 1937 when, under the British Mandate, a new one was built closer to what was then the main hub of the city—its port. The Ottoman station was renamed Haifa East, while the new one was and still is known as Haifa Center.
On September 20, 1946, the Haifa East station was bombed by the Irgun. The main part of the building was destroyed. The surviving section is used today as an office building by Israel Railways, while the station does not serve as a stop for passenger trains anymore. However, the former locomotive shed ("engine house" in American English) and freight depot nearby house the Israel Railway Museum.
The British-built Haifa Center, while still operating today, has lost much of its importance too due to geographical shifts in population and business centers in the Haifa region, and was superseded first by a new railway station in Bat Galim in the 1970s, and then by Hof HaCarmel station in the city's southern outskirts in the 2000s. It is situated on the main North-South coastal line of Israel Railways and serves both intercity and suburban trains. The station is located within walking distance from the Port of Haifa's passenger terminal and from the Carmelit subway line.
Balad al-Sheikh Station
Distance from Haifa: 4.5 km
The Balad al-Sheikh Railway Station, also known as Shumariyyah (Şumariye in Turkish) and later as Tel Hanan, was built in 1904 as the second station in the original valley line, and named after Balad al-Sheikh, the Arab village next to it.
In 1913, the Ottomans built an extension of the valley line to Acre, with this station serving as terminus. When the Haganah attacked the village of Balad al-Sheikh on the night of December 31, 1947 – January 1, 1948, an attacker named Hanan Zelinger was killed in the operation. A Jewish village, Tel Hanan (now part of the town of Nesher), was built there in his name.
Nesher Station
The Nesher Railway Station was founded in 1925, the same year as the city Nesher, which stands on the location today. Originally, the station was freight-only and served the Nesher cement factory in the town. The freight cars were pulled from the station into the factory using a system of cables and pulleys.
The station was opened after the British converted the Haifa–Nesher part of the valley railway to dual gauge, allowing both standard and narrow gauge rolling stock to reach the station and allowing it to connect it to the rest of the nationwide rail network, much of which (except for the Jezreel Valley railway) was by then converted to or built as standard gauge. This also allowed Israel Railways to continue operating trains to Nesher until the early 1990s, the only section of the valley railway that remained in service past the early 1950s.
Yagur Station
This station was built in the 1920s to serve the residents of Yagur, a kibbutz. The station's single stone structure stands to this day and is used for storage.
Elro'i Station
This station, also called Al Roy in English, was built next to the Kishon River (a wadi) to serve residents of moshav Elro'i, today part of Kiryat Tiv'on. Originally, it was a simple wooden construction, similar to a bus stop. Later, it was converted into a small brick shed. The shed was later renovated by the residents of Elro'i. A small museum commemorating the Valley Railway now exists at the site.
Kiryat Haroshet Station
Similar to the Elro'i station, Kiryat Haroshet was a small shed meant only to protect passengers from rough weather conditions. It was built by the British upon request from the residents of the area, even though the distance between it and the Elro'i station is less than 1 km. Today, Kiryat Haroshet is also part of the town Kiryat Tiv'on.
Kfar Yehoshu'a Station
Distance from Haifa: 21.8 km
The Kfar Yehoshu'a railway station, initially Tel al-Shamam, was the 3rd original station of the line. The station was built in an empty area, at the time filled with swampland, and served as a service station for locomotives. The station consisted of 8 buildings in the German style, which stand to this day.
In 2005, as part of the 100-year celebration of the Jezreel Valley railway, the station underwent a renovation, and 1950s wooden cars were placed in it. There are plans to open a railway museum on its grounds, and renovate old train cars used on the railway.
A new Kfar Yehoshu'a Railway Station along the renewed Valley railway's route was opened in October 2016 approximately 2.5 km east of the historic Kfar Yehoshu'a station.
Kfar Baruch Station
This station was built in 1926 for the residents of the moshav Kfar Baruch, to the north of the village. It was a simple shack for awaiting passengers and had neither a ticket booth, nor tickets printed for the station. Therefore, the residents had to haggle with the train conductor on the train in hopes of being let in. Today, there are no remnants left of the station.
In October 2016, a new Kfar Baruch Railway Station along the renewed Valley railway's route was opened approximately 1 km southwest of the historic Kfar Baruch station location.
Afula Station
Distance from Haifa: 36.4
The Afula (Afule during Ottoman period) railway station was the fourth original station in the valley line. It was named after the Arab village there, al-Fuleh, until the Jewish town Afula was founded there in 1925. The station was an important crossroads and served as a terminus for the Afula–Nablus extension of the valley line, which started operations to Jenin in 1913.
The station prompted the quick growth of al-Puleh/Afula, and various civilian and military installation were built in its vicinity, including a regional post office that served the entire Jezreel Valley built in 1922.
On November 1, 1945, the station was destroyed as part of the Night of the Trains by the Jewish Resistance Movement, and has not been used since. A museum was built on the grounds of the station, commemorating the history of the Jezreel Valley railway.
As part of the renewed Jezreel Valley railway a new Afula Railway Station was built along the new railway's route, approximately 1.5 km north of the historic station's location.
Ein Harod Station
Ein Harod was the first kibbutz founded in the Jezreel Valley (1921), and with it the small railway station. The station was called Ein Harod even after the workers of the kibbutz copied all their residences to a nearby hill in 1927. Only many years later, after a new station was created for Ein Harod (see Tel Yosef Station), the station was renamed. Initially, it was renamed to Yehezkeliya for the nearby moshav Kfar Yehezkel, but due to pressure from kibbutz Geva, the station eventually took on the kibbutz's name.
Tel Yosef Station
This station was a small shed, built for the residents of the new Ein Harod, and for Tel Yosef. It was located next to the road junction leading to the kibbutzim. Today, nothing remains of the station.
Shata Station
This station served the residents of Beit HaShita (It was known as Şatta during Ottoman rule), and named after the Arab name for the location. Several stone structures were built for the station, and the largest of them can be found today within the Shata Prison.
During the British Mandate period, a Tegart fort encompassing the entire station was built, and later converted into the Shata Prison by the Israel Prison Service.
In 2003, the station's structures were renovated by the prisoners in Shata. These renovations were not according to the original architectural design, but no major damage was done to the station. Until then, the station served as the prison's carpentry, but since the refurbishment, it is used for offices and storage.
HaSade Station
This station served the residents of Sde Nahum (originally called Kibbutz HaSade). The station was created in 1934 for the residents of the village, who feared using the Arab Beisan station during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine. This 'station' consisted only of a trilingual sign, without any structures.
Beit She'an Station
Distance from Haifa: 59.3 km
The Beit She'an Railway Station (originally Beisan also known as Bisan) was the fifth original station and specifically ordered by the Turkish sultan, in hopes of raising property value in the area and hence tax value. However, only upon Jewish settlement in the area, did it finally see the desired growth.
A new railway terminal was built at the site as part of the reconstruction of the Valley line that opened in the fall of 2016. The new station complex includes both passenger and freight rail terminals. The construction effort also involved renovating some of the original station's abandoned structures that are located nearby the new station's buildings. Of all the new stations on the renewed Valley Railway, the Beit She'an station is the only one constructed in its original historical location.
Beit Yosef Station
This station was built in 1937 for the residents of the moshav Beit Yosef. After it fell into disuse with the closure of the line, any structures on the station's grounds were razed and the exact location is unknown today.
Gesher Station
The Gesher Railway Station (also Gesher Nehalim) was the 6th station in the original line, and served mainly the residents of Gesher and Menahemiya. It was located next to the Mujami Bridge (Jisr Majami in Arabic, Cisr'ul Mecami in Turkish), which when intact was the lowest railway bridge in the world at 257.5 m below sea level.
Today, the remnants of the bridge, destroyed on May 14, 1948, as well as two wooden train cars can be seen from the Gesher kibbutz, beyond the border fence although technically on Israeli territory.
Naharayim Station
The Naharayim station was constructed near the Naharayim Power Station built by Pinhas Rutenberg in the Bauhaus architectural style. After the 1949 Armistice Agreements, the area of Naharayim was ceded to Jordan and today, the remnants of the station are located on the Peace Island within the borders of Jordan.
al-Dalhamiyya Station
This station was created to serve the Arab village of al-Dalhamiyya. With the founding of kibbutz Ashdot Ya'akov in 1935, it began also serving the residents of the kibbutz. Like the HaSade station, this 'station' was merely a trilingual sign where trains stopped.
Arlosorow Halt Station
The Arlosorow Halt Station was named after the prominent Zionist Haim Arlosoroff. It was built in 1937 and served the kibbutzim Masada and Sha'ar HaGolan, which were also founded in memory of Arlosoroff. This station replaced the temporary Jordan Valley Station, and a tin shack was created to protect passengers from harsh weather conditions. Today, nothing remains of this station.
Jordan Valley Station
This was a temporary station created in 1936 in light of the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, to allow the Jewish residents of the Jordan Valley to travel safely without going through the Arab Samakh (Tzemah) station. The station, which was funded by the Jews in the area, sported a single small sign. It was cancelled following the inception of the Arlosorow Halt.
Tzemah Station
Distance from Haifa: 86.9 km
The Tzemah Railway Station (originally Samakh) was the seventh of the eight original stations on the valley line. It served the village of Samakh, inhabited mostly by settled Bedouins. The station facilitated the growth of the village, which reached an Arab population of 3,460. A quay was built near the station, on the Sea of Galilee, for moving freight from the railway to Tiberias.
The station was damaged during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, in the Battles of the Kinarot Valley. Starting in 2011, the station is undergoing extensive restoration work.
al-Hamma Station
Distance from Haifa: 95.3 km
The al-Hamma (now Hamat Gader, El Hüsame in Ottoman Turkish) Station was the eighth and last of the original station on the valley line. While located within the borders of what was then defined as Palestine, it was relatively isolated, and could not serve as a major transportation hub and gateway to Syria, a function that was performed by the Tzemah Station.
The station was built near the Roman bath houses of al-Hamma, and included several stone structures. These also served as the residence for the founder of kibbutz Mevo Hama, who renovated the bath houses.
Today, the station is located in Israel, near the Syrian border, and its structures are used for a fish farm. A tin sign can still be seen bearing the name of the station.
Modern railway
The Jezreel Valley railway fell into disrepair after the founding of the State of Israel, and as the years progressed, the chances of renovating the line diminished even further. The fact that the line was the only narrow gauge line in Israel meant that its rolling stock was incompatible with the rest of Israel Railways' network, a fact that greatly contributed to the line's demise. The significant cost to convert the line to standard gauge was considered too prohibitive for the conversion to be carried out in the early days of the state. Over the subsequent decades there were several proposals to rebuild the railway along approximately the same route. None of them came to fruition, however, until 2011, when construction finally began on a renewed valley line in standard gauge from Haifa to Beit She'an, which opened in 2016.
Early renewal attempts
The first attempts to renew the historic valley line were made in the 1950s, when the possibility of converting the railway to standard gauge was examined. On June 13, 1962, talks were held between the CEO of Israel Railways Menachem Savidor and head of the Afula local council Yoash Dubnov. Savidor declared that if Afula and its suburbs could guarantee a concentration of 400–500,000 tons of freight to be moved on the railway, the project would be financially viable, and Israel Railways would support it. The plan failed. However, the land was owned by Israel Railways and not approved for building. Some municipalities turned the area of the railway lines into public parks with a billboard or monument commemorating the Jezreel Valley railway. In spite of this, the Ramat David Airbase was expanded onto a major portion of the historical line's alignment.
Later renewal attempts
In 1988, a decision was passed to renew the Jezreel Valley railway, and plans were made to alter the historical route to conform to new realities on the ground in several points on the route. However, it was not until ten years later, in 1998, that a survey of the land was made to inspect its suitability for a modern railway line, which was also not immediately used. Several years later, major foreign investment began flowing into the country following the worldwide early 2000s recession, which prompted resuming discussions about renewing the valley railway, which has regional importance for transporting goods to and from parts of Israel and Jordan via rail links for export/import through Israeli seaports on the Mediterranean sea.
On October 28, 2002, the Transportation Ministry of Israel and the minister Ephraim Sneh announced in a press release that Israel Railways started extensive planning of the valley line's renovation, at a cost of NIS 40 million for the planning stage, and an additional NIS 1 billion to be appropriated later for the construction itself. The railway would connect Haifa with the Sheikh Hussein Bridge on the Jordan River, on a 74 km route. It would later be extended by Jordan to Irbid. The original planned completion date was the second half of 2007.
In 2003, the new Minister of Transportation Avigdor Lieberman announced that in July 2005, work would start on the renewal of the line. Plans for a national infrastructure project were presented that would further alter the rail route, due to changes on the ground since the 1988 plans. These changes included relocating the Afula section to a partially underground route between Afula and Afula Illit, instead of its previous location in the very center of the city. By the end of 2005, many of the plans were approved by the Construction and Planning Committees, which called for the completion of the line by 2010. Five stations were approved: Haifa East, Nesher, Kfar Yehoshua (in a different location from the historical one), Afula and Beit She'an. Israel Railways also proposed a completely new route to connect the Beit She'an station to Jordan, via the Sheikh Hussein bridge, as well as a future revival of the historical extension to Jenin to serve the Palestinian Authority.
However, work did not start in 2003. In November 2005, there was still no progress to be seen, and the extensive planning was not fully completed. In a press release on November 30, 2005, Transportation Minister Meir Sheetrit announced that he was considering connecting Nazareth and Migdal HaEmek to the planned valley railway, and that the railway would be completed in 2008–09 (starting construction in 2006). The original plans to build a full dual-track railway in the initial phase were scrapped in favor of single-track for most of the route (between Nesher and Beit She'an). On February 22, 2006, Israel Railways and the Nature and Parks Authority transferred 1,500 endangered geophytes from the route of the railway.
Reconstruction and reopening
Although the atmosphere remained optimistic over the years as proposals for the railway's revival were raised, and some Israeli railway maps even labeled the line as 'under construction', actual work did not commence on the valley railway (besides preliminary design work and right-of-way purchases). Then on February 24, 2010, the Israeli government voted to appropriate the sum of NIS 3.5 billion (later raised to 4.1 billion, equivalent to about US$1.15 billion in 2011 dollars) for the detailed design and construction of the railway between Haifa and Beit Shea'an beginning in 2011. On March 7, 2011, the National Roads Authority, which was in charge of managing the project, published a design-build tender for a 6.5 km section of the line near Afula. This was the first of a dozen tenders that the authority published through mid-2012 for the railway and five stations with overall completion of construction expected in 2016. The railway was constructed as single-track but with significant provisioning for double-tracking and electrification in a future follow-up project.
The renewed Valley Railway opened for passenger service on October 16, 2016, following several years of extensive construction activities.
Route description and differences from original alignment
When originally built in the beginning of the 20th century, the Ottomans had the advantage of constructing the railway in what was then a relatively sparsely-populated area and as such had the benefit of being able to lay the railway on the most topographically convenient route between Haifa and Beit She'an. The renewed railway's route however had to contend with the significant population that settled in the area since, a complex set of existing infrastructure built up over the years, strict environmental considerations, and the wish to preserve as much open space as possible along the route. Therefore, the new route was in places considerably more difficult to construct and in some spots is also less direct than the original alignment.
The modern railway splits from the Coastal Railway several kilometers east of the Haifa East Railway Station and curves to the north on its way towards Nesher atop one of the longest railway bridges in Israel, roughly paralleling Highway 75 and spanning over Highway 4 in the "Checkpost" area of east Haifa. The historical alignment in this area however passed to the south, in a straight, ground-level path from Haifa East station to Nesher while the new alignment and 2.2 km bridge curve to the north in order to provide access to the HaMifrats Central railway station and its adjacent public transportation hub. From Nesher the railway continues southeast next to Highway 75 along the historical route until Hamakim Junction (where Highway 70 splits off from Highway 75). Between the road junction and Kiryat Haroshet at the entrance to the Jezreel valley the railway lies just west of Highway 70 along the foothill of the Carmel mountains while the original alignment in this section passed east of Highway 70 and was situated near the east bank of the Kishon River. In the western part of the valley, from Kiryat Haroshet to near Kfar Yehoshua the railway passes over a long, curving bridge over Highway 70 and the Kishon River, then joins the original route until it begins to bend south, then north towards Kfar Baruch and from there continues along the center of the valley to near Afula. The historical alignment in the western part of the valley was a straight line. The "bulge" to the south in the renewed line between Kfar Baruch and Kfar Yehosuha was necessary due to the expansion of the Ramat David Airbase onto the original line's route. From west of Afula the line again leaves the original alignment and instead of bisecting historical Afula in a straight line at ground level as the original line did, it curves around the center of the city to the north. This section includes a long bridge over Highway 60 as well as traversing through a set of tunnels nearly a kilometer in length in the area between Afula and Afula Ilit and under Highway 65 until it reaches Kibbutz Merhavia just east of Afula. From there, in the eastern part of the valley from Merhavia to Beit She'an, the railway passes just south of Highway 71, situated on or very near the historical alignment.
Usage statistics
The railway was used by 1.34 million passengers in 2018, and 1.1 million in 2017.
Future
It is planned that in the future, the railway will be extended from Beit She'an to the Jordan River border crossing at the Sheikh Hussein bridge. This extension will require significant tunneling and bridging in order to overcome the steep elevation changes of the Jordan Rift Valley, costing an estimated NIS 2 billion for the proposed 15 km route. The Israeli Ministry of Transportation has proposed allocating NIS 15 million for the extension's detailed design in the 2019 transportation budget.
Additional long-term plans exist to connect the Valley railway directly to the Eastern Railway along a route incorporating a long tunnel beneath Menashe Heights, therefore providing a full eastern rail corridor connecting northern and central Israel, supplementing the Coastal Railway as well as enabling freight trains from central Israel to reach Haifa Bay or the Jordanian border without passing through downtown Haifa.
References
External links
Israel Railways Official Website (english)
Aerial video of the line under construction (2015)
Aerial video of tunneling, bridging and station works near Afula (August 2015)
Train driver's view – Fast motion video of the line taken in summer 2016, approximately two months before the start of passenger service
Rail transport in Mandatory Palestine
Rail transport in the Ottoman Empire
Railway lines opened in 1905
1050 mm gauge railways in Israel
Hejaz railway
Standard gauge railways in Israel
1050 mm gauge railways in Mandatory Palestine
1905 establishments in the Ottoman Empire
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Saskatchewan Amateur Men's Golf Championship
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The Saskatchewan Amateur Men's Golf Championship is an annual men's provincial golf championship sanctioned by Golf Saskatchewan.
The championship has been held since 1908. The annual champion is awarded the James Balfour Trophy, named after the former mayor of Regina, James Balfour. The top three competitors earn the opportunity to represent Saskatchewan in the Willingdon Cup team championship, while competing at the Canadian Amateur Championship.
Winners
Most wins
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References
Golf tournaments in Saskatchewan
Amateur golf tournaments in Canada
Recurring sporting events established in 1908
1908 establishments in Saskatchewan
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Tüp () is a district of Issyk-Kul Region in north-eastern Kyrgyzstan. The seat lies at Tüp. Its area is , and its resident population was 65,169 in 2021. It borders Issyk-Kul District to the west, Ak-Suu District to the east and south-east, Kazakhstan to the north, and Issyk Kul to the south.
Geography
The district is located between Küngöy Ala-Too Range and Issyk-Kul lake. The topography varies from multiple-folded medium-altitude mountains featuring in erosional dissection to alluvial - proluvial planes with river fans, and lakeside planes of Issyk-Kul lake area. Approximately 48% of the district is occupied by mountains, and 48% - by valleys. The hydrological conditions are dominated by Tüp river that rises on north slopes of Teskey Ala-Too Range.
Climate
An average temperature in January is -6°C in valleys, and -14°C in mountains. In July, an average temperature varies from +18°C in valleys, to +9°C in mountains. An absolute recorded temperature maximum is +35°. Average maximum temperatures are +30°C in valleys, and +15°C in mountains. Average yearly precipitation is 350-400 mm in valleys, and 500-600 mm in mountains. An average snow cover is up to 30 cm. The Eastern wind called Santash reaches 20-30 m/s.
Population
Populated places
In total, Tüp District includes 37 settlements in 13 rural communities (). Each rural community may include one or several villages. The rural communities and settlements in the Tüp District are:
Ak-Bulak (seat: Ak-Bulak)
Ak-Bulung (seat: Ak-Bulung; incl. Belovodskoye and Frunzenskoe)
Aral (seat: Ming-Bulak; incl. Aral, Dolon, Kosh-Döbö and Sary-Döbö)
Chong-Tash (seat: Chong-Tash; incl. Jyluu-Bulak)
Karasaev (seat: Tasma; incl. Toktoyan and Chong-Toguz-Bay)
Kuturgu (seat: Kuturgu; incl. Kichi-Örüktü, Oy-Bulak and Oy-Tal)
Mikhaylovka (seat: Mikhaylovka)
San-Tash (seat: Bayzak; incl. Karkyra, Keng-Suu, San-Tash and Sary-Tologoy)
Sary-Bulak (seat: Balbay; incl. Kürmöntü)
Taldy-Suu (seat: Taldy-Suu; incl. Ichke-Suu, Kööchü and Korumdu)
Toguz-Bulak (seat: Toguz-Bulak; incl. Sary-Bulung)
Tüp (seat: Tüp; incl. Birlik and Shaty)
Ysyk-Köl (seat - village: Ysyk-Köl; incl. Yntymak)
References
Districts of Issyk-Kul Region
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Konstantin "Samokovetsa" Dimitrov
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Konstantin "Samokovetsa" Dimitrov () (November 21, 1970 – December 6, 2003) was a famous Bulgarian mobster.
Background
Konstantin Dimitrov was born in Samokov, Bulgaria. He was married with Angelina Dimitrova. They had one son together, Konstantin Dimitrov Jr.
Career
At 16, he was employed as a security guard at Rila hotel in Borovets, Bulgaria. He graduated with a degree in Public Administration from the National and World Economy University. According to his interviews in Bulgarian media, he dealt with trade, consultancy, import, restaurants, and farming. He also owned several firms, and properties in Great Britain . He owned a hotel, several apartments and houses in the Bulgarian resorts of Borovets and Bistritsa. He was one of the most influential businessman in the Balkans. In 1997, he was a consultant for VIS, and in 2003 he was a consultant for Bulgarian and Cypriot companies trading with Turkey.
Death
On December 6, 2003 Dimitrov was shot dead on Dam Square in Amsterdam.
References
Official business of Konstantin Dimitrov
Grigor Lilov,Secrets of big players
Bulgarian Underworld Boss Shot dead in Amsterdam
External links
Bulgarian Boss Shot Dead (Italian)
Gangsters at war?
Russian Mafia
1970 births
2003 deaths
Bulgarian gangsters
People from Samokov
Murdered Bulgarian gangsters
Bulgarian people murdered abroad
People murdered in the Netherlands
Filmed assassinations
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Lorraine Bowles
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Lorraine Anne Bowles (born c. 1950) (in marriage also known as Lorraine Ambrosio) is a Canadian curler.
She is a and two-time (, ).
In 2006, she was inducted into the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame together with all of the 1979 Lindsay Sparkes team.
Teams
References
External links
Living people
Canadian women curlers
Curlers from British Columbia
Canadian women's curling champions
1950s births
20th-century Canadian women
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Lucien, Oklahoma
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Lucien is a census-designated place (CDP) and unincorporated community in Noble County, Oklahoma, United States. Its population was 88 as of the 2010 census.
Demographics
References
Census-designated places in Noble County, Oklahoma
Census-designated places in Oklahoma
Unincorporated communities in Oklahoma
Unincorporated communities in Noble County, Oklahoma
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Matt Bragga
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Matthew A. Bragga (born July 20, 1972) is an American baseball coach and former Utility player, who is the current head baseball coach of the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles. He played college baseball at Kentucky for coach Keith Madison from 1991 to 1994. He then served as the head coach of the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles (2004–2018) and the Rice Owls (2019–2021).
Playing career
Bragga was a 4-year letter winner for the Kentucky Wildcats baseball team from 1991 through 1994. He signed as a free agent with the Cincinnati Reds organization and played two years of minor league baseball for the Butte Copper Kings and the Charleston AlleyCats.
Coaching career
In 1996, Bragga began his coaching career as an assistant at Tuscaloosa County High School in Northport, Alabama. The following season, he accepted the head coaching position at Bevill State Community College. In 2001, Bragga accepted a position as an assistant coach at Birmingham–Southern College. The 2001, Birmingham–Southern finished 55–11 and won the NAIA World Series.
On December 5, 2003, Bragga accepted the position of head baseball coach at Tennessee Tech university. He spent 15 seasons as the head coach at Tennessee Tech. After Bragga's first 3 seasons, Tennessee Tech had compiled a record of 46-109 (.297), but in his last 12 years as head coach he accumulated 400 wins and 283 losses (.585). He compiled 6 conference championships in his last 10 years at TTU, culminating with a 53-win campaign in 2018 when his Golden Eagles were 1 win away from reaching the college World Series in Omaha Nebraska.
On June 15, 2018, Bragga was announced as the new head coach of the Rice Owls baseball program.
On May 23, 2021, Bragga was fired after compiling a record of 51–76–1 in 3 seasons.
On November 8, 2021, Tennessee Tech announced that Bragga would return to Tennessee Tech as the 16th coach in program history (he was also the 13th) starting November 11, 2021.
Head coaching record
References
1972 births
Living people
Baseball first basemen
Baseball catchers
Baseball third basemen
Baseball outfielders
Kentucky Wildcats baseball players
Bevill State Bears baseball coaches
Birmingham–Southern Panthers baseball coaches
Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles baseball coaches
Butte Copper Kings players
Charleston AlleyCats players
Rice Owls baseball coaches
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Namig Abdullayev
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Namig Yadulla Abdullayev (, born 4 January 1971) is a retired Azerbaijani freestyle wrestler, who won a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics, as well as three gold medals at European championships and three silver medals at world championships.
A three-time Olympian, Abdullayev won the silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in the 52 kg category and the gold in the 55 kg weight class at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He also competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics, but was eliminated early.
Abdullayev retired in 2009.
He was one of the four winners of Young Lions of Azerbaijan 2022, and represented the country at the 2022 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
Personal life
Abdullayev is married and lives in Baku. He is the brother of world champion wrestler Arif Abdullayev.
References
External links
Namig Abdullayev's profile
1971 births
Living people
Olympic wrestlers for Azerbaijan
Wrestlers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Wrestlers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Azerbaijani male sport wrestlers
Wrestlers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Azerbaijan
Olympic silver medalists for Azerbaijan
Sportspeople from Baku
Olympic medalists in wrestling
World Wrestling Championships medalists
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
European Wrestling Champions
20th-century Azerbaijani people
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Boston Typewriter Orchestra
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The Boston Typewriter Orchestra (BTO) is an American collective percussion ensemble for typewriter and voice, based in the Boston area. It was founded in 2004.
Formation
One night in 2004, Boston-area artist Tim Devin was presented with the gift of a child's typewriter at a bar. His typing eventually annoyed the waitress who asked him to stop, whereupon he responded "It's OK, ma'am. I'm the conductor of the Boston Typewriter Orchestra." Thinking there was something to the idea, he assembled a group of interested performers on the night of October 20th, 2004 in Somerville, Massachusetts.
An office setting was quickly decided upon as an overarching theme for live performances. The members (usually numbering between four and eight people) perform wearing white shirts and neckties, engage in typical workplace banter and write office-themed lyrics to satirical or comedic effect. The typewriters are utilized in a rhythmic fashion while melodic elements are supplied by the vocalists. The group uses several varieties of manual typewriters from such manufacturers as Underwood, Smith Corona, Hermes, Remington and Royal.
The Boston Typewriter Orchestra began performing at house parties, eventually expanding venues to clubs, arts festivals, and museums. Local and national media appearances soon followed. The group appears in the documentary California Typewriter, and their song "Entropy Begins at the Office" has been used in promotional ads for the film The Post.
Notable performances and appearances
November 27, 2006 – Paradise Rock Club with Amanda Palmer
February 4, 2007 – Weekend Today, NBC
October 9, 2008 – Boston Orchestra Makes Typewriters Sing, NPR
June, 21 2011 – America's Got Talent, NBC
January 31, 2015 – Langston Hughes Google Doodle
September 2, 2016 – California Typewriter (documentary film)
April 5, 2017 – Playing Against Type, Great Big Story (CNN)
September 27, 2017 – Outlook, BBC World Service
December 30, 2017 – The Post (promotional video)
February 9, 2020 - The Blunderwood Portable
August 17, 2020 - The Kelly Clarkson Show, NBCUniversal Television Distribution
July 22, 2022 - WBZ-TV, CBS Boston
Discography
The Revolution Will Be Typewritten! (2006)
Overtime at the Piano Factory – Live (2008)
Termination Without Prejudice, Volume 1 (2017)
Workstation to Workstation (2020)
Delegation: The Remixes (2021)
References
Musical groups established in 2004
Musical groups from Boston
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The Bride of the Regiment (French: La mariée du régiment) is a 1936 French comedy film directed by Maurice Cammage and starring Pierre Larquey, Suzanne Dehelly and Gaby Basset. It was based on a play by Étienne Arnaud and André Heuzé. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Saurin.
Synopsis
Private Mamert is the heir to a very large sum of money. His fellow soldiers all pretend to be him to make their conquests amongst the local woman. This leads to several complaints to the Colonel about his misbehaviour and failure to honour his promises of marriage.
Cast
Pierre Larquey
Suzanne Dehelly
Gaby Basset
Lyne Clevers
Jean Dunot
André Roanne
André Berley
References
Bibliography
Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: encyclopédie des films, Volume 2. Pygmalion, 1986.
Crisp, Colin. Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939. Indiana University Press, 2002.
Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
External links
1936 films
French comedy films
1936 comedy films
1930s French-language films
French black-and-white films
1930s French films
Films directed by Maurice Cammage
French films based on plays
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Anne Charlotte Robertson
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Anne Charlotte Robertson (1949–2012) was an American filmmaker who pioneered personal documentary-style filmmaking in the mid-1970s.
Anne Charlotte Robertson was born on March 27, 1949, in Columbus, Ohio. When she was 11 she started keeping a diary. Her written diaries evolved into filmed diaries. Robertson began creating films while an undergraduate at the University of Massachusetts Boston and received her MFA at the Massachusetts College of Art in 1985. Robertson made over thirty short films from 1981 to 1997. Her films covered everyday life, births, deaths and her struggles with mental illness. In 2001 she won a Guggenheim Fellowship in Filmmaking.
Robertson's film, Five Year Diary (1981–1997), was filmed over 15 years and has a runtime of 36 hours. The project takes up 83 Super-8 reels and chronicles everyday events, births, deaths, and her mental health. Robertson wanted a multi-media viewing experience of the film with audience members viewing in a "rec-room" setting while also reading her diary, and listening to audio recordings she made.
Robertson died of lung cancer in 2012. The Harvard Film Archive (HFA) acquired Robertson's films after her death.
Filmography
Pixelation (1976)
Spirit of '76 (1976)
Subways (1976)
Magazine Mouth (1983)
Depression Focus Please (1984)
Talking to Myself (1985)
Apologies (1990)
Melon Patches, or Reasons to Go On Living (1994)
Five Year Diary (1981-1997)
References
External links
American filmmakers
University of Massachusetts Boston alumni
Massachusetts College of Art and Design alumni
1949 births
2012 deaths
Mass media people from Columbus, Ohio
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Dolça Catalunya (equivalent in English as 'Sweet Catalonia'), is an online blog of opinion and essay linked to the Spanish far-right. It is written in a deliberately macaronic amalgam of Catalan and Spanish and deals with the events, language and politics that involve the linguistical domain of the Catalan Countries. Founded in October 2013 mainly by Guillem Elizalde Monroset, its articles promote the territorial unity of Spain and the language secessionism of Catalan with fake news and the incitement of diverse social discriminations and racism, especially Catalan phobia.
Even though the website is announced under the slogan Seny de catalanes bajo el nacionalismo ('Maturity of the Catalans subdued by nationalism') and described as a blog written by anonymous citizens, it is directed and edited by members associated with extreme conservatism, the Spanish far-right, the fundamentalist Catholicism from the Opus Dei prelature and the academic and governing staff of the private Abat Oliba CEU University.
Discourse and scope
Dolça Catalunya's writings, which alternate Catalan and Spanish languages (often within the same sentences) and that are never signed by their authors, aim to create a discourse against what they define as Catalan nationalism and separatism through the use of topical manipulation and a wide range of anti-Catalanist, antigypsyist, islamophobic and other racist and homophobic discriminations. They have also openly published essays against sexual freedom and abortion rights. In fact, it has been described as one of the most Catalanophobic far-right propaganda websites among the existing ones in Spain, given its harsh criticism of Catalan language normalization policies but omitting Catalans as a cultural group in their publications.
The anonymity of Dolça Catalunya is used to employ a tone that, while claiming itself as satiric and fresh, abuses of explicit insults, humiliation and mockery of civilians and political opponents -which is considered a common communication strategy from the contemporary European far right. By using a speech that advocates for the historical revisionism applied to the Hispanic Catalanism (a trend that moves away from the past Spanish colonialism to consider the only senseful existence of Catalonia as an indivisible part of Spain), Dolça Catalunya has contributed to promotes campaigns of gerrymandering and post-truths politics such as the fictional region of Tabarnia. Besides, it has also participated in public calls for neo-fascist protests in Barcelona.
One of the most used examples by the website is the figure of the theologist Francesc Canals Vidal, a key ideologist of the Hispanic Catalanism who during the 70s participated in a Catholic movement to promote the vote against the Spanish Constitution after the end of Francoism. Regarding linguistics, the website actively supports language secessionism of Catalan, Valencian and the Balearic Catalan, which has also led to attacks and mockery towards projects like the Catalan Wikipedia and its editing community, describing them as "fanatics", "propaganda" or "uncountably subsidized".
Dolça Catalunya is considered to be a clickbait portal with a blog structure that does not meet the ethical criteria of journalism. Its content is framed within the populism, the sensationalism and the dissemination of fake news with a misrepresentation of the real, current events. One of its online marketing strategies, apart from successful social media accounts on Facebook and YouTube, is the self-citing and the cross-linking with similar ultraconservative, pro-Spain's unity and anti-immigration websites. This technique allows it to become more visible for the search engine optimization (SEO) of browsers such as Google.
Founders and contributors
Since its creation, Dolça Catalunya has maintained a strong hermeticism and secrecy with regard to its editorial board and its editors. However, it is known that its founder was the columnist Guillermo Elizalde Monroset and that the first article of the portal was published on October 11, 2013, a day before Columbus Day. Elizalde Monroset, president of the Spanish Burke Foundation (considered as part of Spanish Catholic fundamentalism) unveiled his own name as one of the creators of the blog in some of the internal documents that helped to create the so-called constitutionalist organization Societat Civil Catalana (SCC) in 2014. Another organizer of the website was the economist and analyst Jorge Soley Climent, one of the closest political allies of Elizalde Monroset that also acted as vice president at the Burke Foundation, cofounder of SCC, counselor of Reial Club Deportiu Espanyol and was part of the academic and governing body of the Abat Oliba CEU University.
Other pieces of evidence that explain the links between Dolça Catalunya and Societat Civil Catalana, at least during its early years, are that another of the founders of SCC, Jorge Buxadé Villalba (a lawyer educated at the Abat Oliba University who was part of the State Lawyers Corps and run for election with the falangist party Falange Española de las JONS and for the far-right Vox) was the first follower of the Dolça Catalunya account on Twitter. Likewise, the ultraconservative philosopher of the Abat Oliba University, Javier Barraycoa Martínez, who claimed to be another co-founder of SCC and also president of the unionist platform Somatemps, which aims for "the Hispanic identity of Catalonia", has been a contributor to the web since its beginning.
Another contributor that has been related to Dolça Catalunya after journal investigations on the Spanish far-right is the publicist Alejandro del Rosal Valls-Taberner: he acts as the legal owner of the online store of Dolça Catalunya, has worked as communication's staff for the Spanish Episcopal Conference, as an editor for a sports journal about RCD Espanyol, as well as a publisher for Barraycoa Martínez and as a section head for the religious affairs in the conservative header La Razón. Additionally, Joan López Alegre is directly linked as an editor of the blog: he has acted as a professor at the Abat Oliba University, as an MP for the Parliament of Catalonia representing the People's Party and as a European consultant of the liberal party Citizens, as well as an indirect promoter of SCC in its early days. The case of López Alegre slightly differs from the other editors involved, as he has also explicitly got involved in YouTube's direct streaming of Dolça Catalunya, which receives the name of L'hora dolça ('The sweet hour'). In this streamed debate the presence of the cyberologist Miguel Martínez Velasco, an ideologue and spokesperson of the Tabarnia supporting platform, is also common.
Finally, the last two people depicted as usual collaborators with the blog are the playwright Pau Guix, who led the presentations of the book about the web published in 2019, and the ultra-Catholic journalist and activist Jaume Vives i Vives, who participates in the advocacy group Hazte Oír and has been involved in several controversies due to his homophobic and islamophobic public statements.
Among Dolça Catalunya'''s closest connections, there are multiple mentions and cross-linked articles with the so-called "Christian-neofascist" Germinans Germinabit. This is one of the highlighted blogs from the ultra catholicism in Catalonia that lobby against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Barcelona, defends the "purity of Christian values" and advocates against sexual and women's rights, which was involved in episcopals and legal controversies throughout the 2010s.
Published works
In 2019, two of the collaborators of Dolça Catalunya'', Javier Barraycoa Martínez and Pau Guix, participated as the leading figures in the promotion throughout Spain of the book on the website, which was also published without any specific authorship and which aims to offer solutions against the Catalan "nationalist yoke" (understood as the Catalan independence movement), coming from the "most read blog in Spain". Several prominent politicians and MPs of the parties Citizens, Vox and the People's Party attended the book presentations and praised its content and ideological discourse as very needed for Catalonia.
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2013 NACRA Rugby Championship
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The 2013 NACRA Rugby Championship is a rugby union championship for Tier 3 North American and Caribbean teams, and took place between January and June, 2013.
The top four teams from the second round of 2012 NACRA Championship qualified for the second round of the 2013 championship, while the third place team from the north and south pools of the 2012 championship qualified for the final games of the first round.
The championship is split between north and south, with the winner of each division playing in a final game.
This was the first game in the NACRA Championship for Curaçao and Turks and Caicos Islands.
Round 1
Round 1a - North
Winner qualifies for Round 1b - North
Semi-finals
Final
Round 1a - South
Winner qualifies for Round 1b - South
Semi-final
Final
Round 1b - North
The Bahamas hosted a game against the winner of Round 1a - North (USA South). The winner progressed to Round 2 - North to take on Bermuda and Cayman Islands.
Round 1b - South
Barbados hosted game against the winner of Round 1a - South (Curaçao). The winner progressed to Round 2 - South to take on Guyana and Trinidad & Tobago.
Round 2
Round 2 was played in regional single round robin (2 games for each team). The top team from the North pool and South pool progressed to the NACRA Championship final.
Round 2 - North
Round 2 - South
Round 3
The winning team from Round 2 - North played off against the winning team from Round 2 South for the championship.
USA South is the winner of the 2013 NACRA Rugby Championship. Matt Upton presumably won the MVP.
Related Page
NACRA Rugby Championship
External links
Details
References
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2013 rugby union tournaments for national teams
2013 in North American rugby union
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The Sleep of Reason (Snow novel)
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The Sleep of Reason is the tenth book in C. P. Snow's Strangers and Brothers series.
Plot synopsis
Lewis Eliot returns to his home town during the trial of two young women for murder. Eliot and his generation strive to understand the society of the 1960s.
Reception
In a 1968 book review in Kirkus Reviews summarized the book as; "Snow's approach is as massively ceremonious as ever. Each character is introduced by an organ chord of commentary: thoughts are as long as life; characters from other books are prodded into being. But there is a certain dogged majesty in this far exit as Snow lumbers down the halls of power."
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1968 British novels
English novels
Novels by C. P. Snow
British political novels
Macmillan Publishers books
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Glenea despecta
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Glenea despecta is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe in 1858. It is known from Sumatra, Borneo and Vietnam.
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Beetles described in 1858
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1985–86 Xavier Musketeers men's basketball team
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The 1985–86 Xavier Musketeers men's basketball team represented Xavier University from Cincinnati, Ohio in the 1985–86 season. Led by head coach Pete Gillen, the Musketeers finished with a 25–5 record (10–2 MCC), and won MCC regular season and MCC tournament titles to receive an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. In the NCAA tournament, the Musketeers lost to No. 5 seed Alabama in the opening round.
Roster
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!colspan=9 style=| Midwestern Collegiate Conference tournament
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!colspan=9 style=| NCAA Tournament
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Xavier
Xavier Musketeers men's basketball seasons
Xavier
Xavier Musketeers men's basketball
Xavier Musketeers men's basketball
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